Mechanical properties of the superficial biofilm layer determine the architecture of biofilms by Kundukad, Binu, Seviour, Thomas, Liang, Yang, Rice, Scott A., Kjelleberg, Staffan, Doyle, Patrick S.

“…In this study we describe the application of atomic force microscopy and confocal imaging to probe in situ the mechanical properties of these interfacial regions and to elucidate how key matrix components can contribute to the physical sensing by the cells. …”
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Mechanical design and performance evaluation of active thermosiphon beam terminal units by Ji, Ke, Cai, Wenjian, Wu, Bingjie, Ou, Xianhua

“…The active chilled beam (ACB) system has evolved for more than twenty years, but its limitations in chilled water temperature control, initial cost and condensation stand as the major obstacles for applications especially in tropical regions. Therefore, a novel air-water configuration active thermosiphon beam (ATB) terminal unit, which combines air entrainment effect and thermosiphon effect, is proposed in this study. …”
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Motion context network for weakly supervised object detection in videos by Jin, Ruibing, Lin, Guosheng, Wen, Changyun, Wang, Jianliang

“…Ourmethod generatesmotion context features by exploiting neighborhood motion correlation information on moving regions. These motion context features are then incorporated with image information to improve the detection accuracy. …”
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Post-processing of cold sprayed CoNiCrAlY coatings on Inconel 718 by rapid induction heating by Yang, Yongjing, Aprilia, Aprilia, Wu, Kaiqiang, Tan, Sung Chyn, Zhou, Wei

“…This is attributed to the preferential Joule heating at pore regions, which results in pore closures within the coatings. …”
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Calculation & simulation of electric-based fractionation methods for separation of airborne particles by Lee, Jun Hong

“…The microfluidic device utilizes a combination of FFF and an electric field to selectively move particles of different sizes to specific regions, allowing for the efficient separation of particles based on their size. …”
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Incorporating a guanidine-modified cytosine base into triplex-forming PNAs for the recognition of a C-G pyrimidine–purine inversion site of an RNA duplex by Toh, Desiree-Faye Kaixin, Devi, Gitali, Patil, Kiran M., Qu, Qiuyu, Maraswami, Manikantha, Xiao, Yunyun, Loh, Teck Peng, Zhao, Yanli, Chen, Gang

“…RNA duplex regions are often involved in tertiary interactions and protein binding and thus there is great potential in developing ligands that sequence-specifically bind to RNA duplexes. …”
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Cylinder-wall interference effects on finite-length wavy cylinders at subcritical Reynolds number flows by New, T. H., Shi, Shengxian., Liu, Yingzheng.

“…This is due to the persistent formation of recirculating regions close to the end-walls under certain wavy cylinder configurations, which affect the distributions of spanwise flows and vortex formation lengths. …”
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An Efficient EAP-Based Pre-Authentication for Inter-WRAN Handover in TV White Space by Wang, Cong, Ma, Maode, Zhang, Lei

“…The IEEE 802.22 standard regulates wireless regional area network (WRAN) operating at the very high frequency and ultrahigh frequency television white space (TVWS) bands. …”
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Toward a collaborative, collective and integrative international CBRN security education [workshop report] by Shang, Lijun

“…This section is divided into five sub-categories, emphasising the current efforts in biosecurity education from the London Metropolitan University Biological Security Research Centre, other ongoing initiatives, efforts from International Organisations and the approaches of regional actors. It also raises the challenges faced by these actors in implementing biosecurity education. …”
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Examining the relationships of destination image, memorable tourism experience and tourists' behavioral intentions in ancient towns by Xue, Zhou, Siew, Imm Ng, Jo, Ann Ho

“…It verifies the varying degrees of influence of destination motivator and hygiene image factors on memorable tourism experiences and behavioral intention, with implications for future research and destination marketing and management in culturally similar regions.…”
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The Usage of Islamic Financial Services in Zanzibar: The Influence of Accessibility, Relevancy and Expected Benefits by Moh’d Khamis, Fauz, Isa, Mohamad Yazid, Yusuff, Noraini

“…A multistage sampling process was used to obtain questionnaire responses across all five regions of Zanzibar. A total of 400 questionnaires were used for the analysis. …”
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The Usage of Islamic Financial Services in Zanzibar: The Influence of Accessibility, Relevancy and Expected Benefits by Khamis, Fauz Moh’d, Isa, Mohamad Yazid, Yusuff, Noraini

“…A multistage sampling process was used to obtain questionnaire responses across all five regions of Zanzibar. A total of 400 questionnaires were used for the analysis. …”
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Robust and efficient deep learning methods for vision-based action recognition by Xu, Yuecong

“…It extends the original non-local block by incorporating regional feature correlations at multiple scales. PNL upscales the effectiveness of the original non-local block by additionally addressing the spatiotemporal correlations between different regions, while improving the efficiency of the original non-local block with a significant decrease in computation cost. …”
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Embedding engineering intuition into computational design through interactive topology optimization by Schiffer, Gillian

“…This work presents two interactive approaches: HiTop 2.0 which empowers users to selectively enforce minimum and/or maximum solid and/or void feature size controls, and interactive infill topology optimization which incorporates user drawn infill patterns into regions of the optimized design. The interactive methods are demonstrated on numerical 2D examples, HiTop 2.0 is extended to a numerical 3D example, and interactive infill is experimentally validated with 2.5D additively manufactured test beams.…”
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Systems Engineering for Carbon Capture and Storage by Zhang, Tiantian

“…The Gulf Coast and Permian & Midcontinent regions show better performance due to existing infrastructure and storage capacity. …”
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Towards a translation policy in Singapore : illuminations by community translation & interpretation by Li, Xulin

“…A bolder contribution is proposing that the concept of CTI may, in the local and regional context, tap on the nation’s educational and technological capability to sprint towards a cross-boundary and crowdsourcing solution to facilitate policy compliance and society inclusivity of empowering minority language communities in the spirit of humanism.…”
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Model-driven web-based decision support system design for airport terminal by Hu, Jin Peng.

“…It helps the airport operators to plan and take preventive actions to avoid the negative consequences, such as over crowded, extra-ordinary long waiting time, and etc. With the intensive regional competition among airports, the evaluation of service level is critical to airports. …”
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Time-lapse study of fos expression in pre-mammillary nucleus of hypothalamus. by Yolanda Aphrilia Setiagani.

“…Statistical analyses on the differences of level activation in these regions indicated that they were hardly significant. …”
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The correlation between CEO remuneration and company performance : a Singapore-Hong Kong comparison. by Chui, Vanessa Jie Yi., Luo, Yijie., Low, Jeanne Yi Jun.

“…Based on a sample of 143 Singapore and Hong Kong companies in the financial year ended 2012, we examined and compared the correlation between CEO remuneration and company performance for the two countries/regions. Our findings indicate that Hong Kong companies generally demonstrate a moderately strong pay-performance correlation while Singapore companies demonstrate a weak, at best, pay-performance correlation. …”
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Identification of microRNA targets for the alternative splicing isoforms of CD46. by Teo, Zhi Lin.

“…Statistical analysis of the luciferase ratios showed that several regions within the 3’UTR of CD46 may contain miRNA target sites. …”
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