Design and analysis of a slider-level piezoelectric sensor array for head-disk contact detection by Yuan, Yanhui, Du, Hejun, Chow, Kun Shyong, Zhang, Mingsheng, Yu, Shengkai, Liu, Bo

“…To realize higher areal densities towards 10 Tbit/in2, the ever decreasing flying height of the slider approaches the near-contact regime. It is essential to monitor head-disk interactions to prevent instability and damage to the head-disk interface. …”
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Electrically pumped mid-infrared random lasers by Liang, Hou Kun, Meng, Bo, Liang, Guozhen, Tao, Jin, Chong, Yidong, Wang, Qi Jie, Zhang, Ying

“…Electrically pumped random lasers, operating in the mid-infrared regime at λ ≈ 10 μm, are realized for the first time. …”
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The strategy of coercive isolation U.S. security policy by Timonthy W. Crawford

“…Finally, we examine the role and utility of coercive isolation in three problem areas of U.S. security policy—humanitarian intervention, counter-proliferation, and regime change.…”
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Civil military fusion : a cross-national assessment between Indonesia & Singapore from the 1990s to the 2010s by Yang, Ryan Xianzhe

“…Although Singapore and Indonesia have experienced very different forms of civil-military development in the past two decades, cross-national assessments between different regime-types remain uncommon and should be acknowledged as valuable in the examination of civil-military relations within the region. …”
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Interfacial phenomena and biological recognition of mammalian cells on biomimetic materials by Chan, Vincent.

“…Most biological processes leading to cellular functions and physiological regulations are driven by molecular interactions at the nano-scale regime. A good example is the specific recognition between protein and proteoglycan receptors embedded in cell membrane matrix and other biomolecules immobilized on extracellular matrix that trigger the signal transduction cascades of cells and tissues. …”
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Resolving the third Korean nuclear crisis : lessons from diplomatic engagement. by Koh, Swee Lean.

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The structure of coal market in China : pricing mechanism and market efficiency by Goh, Emilyn Shi Min, Chong, Phoi Yee, Tan, Jessica Shi Han

“…This study explores the market competitiveness and the pricing regime of the coal market structure in China by adopting quantitative research methods, namely the Herfindahl-Hirschman Index (HHI) and the Marginal Cost-Pricing. …”
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Open water disposal of barged sediment by Er, Jenn Wei

“…The last part of the study investigated the formation of a new regime, within which sediments descend through the water column as sediment clumps.…”
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Shi'ism, politics, and identity in Bahrain by Tan, Feng Qin

“…A 'naive' view of identity sees it as straightforwardly and deterministically causative, but if so the 2011 Pearl Uprising in Bahrain appears a paradox - a primarily secular episode of political contestation in a country with a Shi'a majority, against a Sunni dominated regime, in a political realm with a Shi'a Islamist-dominated opposition. …”
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Disciplining the state: virtue, violence, and state-making in modern China by Thornton, P

“…Thornton offers a historical reading of the state-making process as a contest between central and local regimes of bureaucratic and discursive practice.…”

A comparison of methods for forecasting value at risk and expected shortfall of cryptocurrencies by Trucíos, C, Taylor, JW

“…Among them, long-memory processes, procedures taking into account the presence of extreme observations, procedures that include more than a single regime, and quantile regression-based models have performed substantially better than standard methods in terms of forecasting risk measures. …”

Weaning of Macrobrachium rosenbergii (de Man) larvae from Artemia to Moina micrura (Kurz) by Alam, M.J., Ang, K.J., Cheah, S.H.

“…M. rosenbergii larvae were gradually weaned from Artemia to Moina at their different stages. The feeding regime in which larvae were weaned on to Moina at stage X (AM10M) resulted in the highest (P<0.05) yield of 19.21 ± 1.54 PL/l with a corresponding survival of 64.02 ± 5.14%. …”
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The effect of selenium supplement on anti-oxidant status and ast concentration in beef cattle by Hashim, Zharif Atiq

“…It is concluded that supplementation regime of Se used may not be effective in abating the oxidative stress and improving muscle integrity in beef cattle.…”
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Mechanism of traffic jams at speed bottlenecks by Quek, Wei Liang, Chew, Lock Yue

“…In this paper, the interactions between traffic flow and road topology will be studied, particularly the relationship between a sharp bend in a road segment and traffic jams. As suggested by Sugiyama[1], when car density exceeds a critical density, the fluctuations in the speed of each car will lead to greater fluctuations in speed of the cars behind it. …”
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Characterization of single amino acid substitutions in the β2 integrin subunit of patients with leukocyte adhesion deficiency (LAD)-1 by Guan, Siyu, Tan, Suet-Mien, Li, Yan, Torres, Jaume, Uzel, Gulbu, Xiang, Liming, Law, S.K. Alex

“…Integrins with the β2-G150D mutation fail to bind ligands, possibly due to the failure of the α1 segment of the βI domain to assume an α-helical structure. …”
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Area-time efficient streaming architecture for FAST and BRIEF detector by Lam, Siew-Kei, Jiang, Guiyuan, Wu, Meiqing, Cao, Bin

“…The combination of features from an accelerated segment test (FAST) corners and binary robust independent elementary feature (BRIEF) descriptors provide highly robust image features. …”
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A feasibility study on computational prediction on the death domain superfamily protein oligomers by Zhang, Jiawen

“…We successfully resolved the structure of the filamentous CARD8-CARD complex with a resolution of 3.7Å(central segment). With the structure at near-atomic resolution, we managed to demonstrate the mechanism of CARD8-CARD crosstalk to upstream or downstream CARDs.…”
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Forest warrior : a virtual reality application to enhance climate change awareness by Sankar, Ahkshara

“…The last part of the application is the game segment which involves users to slash paper. While the slashing of paper is a key to entice the students and keep them engrossed in the game, the idea of it runs much deeper. …”
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Robust RGB-D SLAM in dynamic environments for autonomous vehicles by Ji, Tete, Yuan, Shenghai, Xie, Lihua

“…Specifically, for each new RGB-D image pair, we first segment the depth image into a few regions using the KMeans algorithm, and then identify the dynamic regions via their reprojection errors. …”
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Synthesis and characterization of novel biodegradable thermoplastic elastomers by Widjaja, Leonardus Kresna

“…Retaining the same basic middle-block of PCL/PTMC copolymer, the PLLA end-segment crystallinity was disrupted to examine its effect on elastomeric behavior. …”
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