Popular safe haven assets, do they really exist for stock markets? Analysis on gold, Japanese yen and Swiss franc. by Liu, Chang., Ho, Pauline., Xu, Qiong.

“…After further classifying the stock market data into bull and bear periods, then by looking at the days of extreme negative returns in each situation, we realize that the safe haven effect in these assets tends to be stronger in bearish stock markets. …”
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Material extrusion-based printing optimization of recycled HDPE filaments made from used milk jugs by Teng, Phillis Soek Po, Tee, Chor Hiong, Tan, Hwee Boon, Leong, Kah Fai

“…Fused deposition modeling printing is a material extrusion (MEX) process that has gained popularity over the years due to its increased affordability and greater versatility. …”
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Safety analysis of active mobility mode by Ho, Siu Joon

“…Logistical regression model was chosen as it can be used as future predictor for near misses or crashes at a particular location. …”
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Studies of wafer level electromigration test for ULSI by Sum, Heng Keong.

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Design of insulated gate bipolar transistor using novel structure by Zhang, Guowei

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Investigations into high resolution imaging and contouring for diagnostic bio-applications by Valiyambath, Krishnan Mohankumar

“…The capability of the system was demonstrated using micron-sized fluorescent polystyrene beads and cells mounted on a microscope slide. Besides providing imaging capability, the imaging fibre can double up as a light conduit to illuminate the target tissue, which would be in synergy with the first two modalities, namely, the RGB and the dynamic speckle analyses. …”
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On-chip droplet characterisation using impedance-based measurement by Low, Jerome Fang Yao

“…On the contrary, low concentrations of surfactant resulted in the instability of the droplets where the droplets break up and merge if two droplets are too close to each other. Both 31 µm beads and Jurkat cells were used for the encapsulation within droplets. …”
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Easing the “second-shift” burden : grandparental childcare and the subjective wellbeing of working mothers in Singapore by Cheo, Rachel Ka Yang

“…However, it is still common for working mothers to bear the brunt of both domestic and paid work. In the present study, I explored the role of grandparents as providers of childcare for their grandchildren in contemporary Singapore. …”
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An innovative stiffened I-shaped damper to improve the behavior of the concentrically braced frames by Hasan Nayel, Israa, Khaleel Nayel, Waleed, Ghamari, Ali, Putra Jaya, Ramadhansyah

“…Accordingly, an I-shaped shear damper (stiffened diagonally by stiffeners) directly attached to the diagonal member of the CBF is proposed and studied parametrically and numerically. …”
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Performance of asphalt mixtures modified with nano-eggshell powder by Zghair Chfat, Alattafi Hadi, Haryati, Yaacob, Nurul Hidayah, Mohd Kamaruddin, Al-Saffar, Zaid Hazim, Putra Jaya, Ramadhansyah

“…To achieve this, asphalt mixtures containing 0% (control), 5%, and 9% NESP were developed, and their mechanical properties were investigated through various tests such as moisture damage, Marshall immersion stability, resilient modulus, dynamic creep, double-punch shear, water immersion, and wheel tracking. The results showed that NESP reduced the moisture susceptibility of the mixtures by increasing their tensile strength ratio. …”
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The rheology of saltwater taffy by Chan, San To, Haward, Simon J., Fried, Eliot, McKinley, Gareth H.

“…We use a small amplitude oscillatory shear test to probe the linear viscoelastic properties of commercial taffy. …”
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Polymeric composites for powder-based additive manufacturing : materials and applications by Yuan, Shangqin, Shen, Fei, Chua, Chee Kai, Zhou, Kun

“…Discussion is then made on the processes for manufacturing such polymeric composites into powder form, which include shear pulverization, solution-based methods and melt compounding methods, with a focus on their advantages, limitations and challenges in terms of their productivity and processibility as well as powder printability. …”
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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.

“…The Young's modulus of the periphery of the biofilm colony was however independent of the hydrodynamic shear. The morphology of the microcolonies also influenced interfacial or peripheral stiffness. …”
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Mechanical disorder of sticky-sphere glasses. II. Thermomechanical inannealability by González-López, Karina, Shivam, Mahajan, Zheng, Yuanjian, Ciamarra, Massimo Pica, Lerner, Edan

“…We find that in stickier glasses the stiffening of the shear modulus with thermal annealing is strongly suppressed, while the thermal-annealing-induced softening of the bulk modulus is enhanced. …”
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Plastic Instability in Co-Cr-Ni-Mo alloy wires drawn with different drawing practices by GVK, Sai Srikanth, Tan, Ming Jen, Liu, Zhenyun

“…Plastic strain localization because of shear band formation was noticed in the FDD 95% CW wires, which contributed to lowered ductility and increased instability in the wire due to reduced γ and m. …”
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Dumbbell-shaped block copolymers for the fabrication of anisotropic soft actuators by Pan, Houwen Matthew, Chan, Jonathan Kai Bin, Sarkar, Jit, Goto, Atsushi

“…Anisotropic swelling was programmed in single-layer actuators through shear-induced alignment (x-y axis) and phase separation (z-axis) of dumbbell-shaped BCPs without any additional patterning steps. …”
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Debonding of bonded composite joints with TEP modified epoxy adhesives by Caglar, Hasan, Sridhar, Idapalapati, Sharma, Mohit, Chian, Kerm Sin

“…This work highlights the impact of thermally expanded particles (TEPs) on bulk adhesive properties and the lap shear strength of adhesively bonded GFRP joints. …”
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Numerical simulation of titanium fibre metallic laminates under various impact loading by Selvadurai Shanmugasundram

“…In low impact velocity impact, the front and back panels failed in a petaling shape mode but when the impact velocity is increased to the ballistic level of 400m/s shear plugging was observed. The experimental setup is replicated in the FE model and analyzed for the same velocity and energy levels for both low and high velocity impacts models. …”
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Nanoscale vibration characterization of multi-layered graphene sheets embedded in an elastic medium by Lin, R. M.

“…Effects of Winkler modulus KW, the shear layer modulus Gb, different boundary conditions, aspect ratio β and the number L of graphene layers on nanoscale vibration properties have been examined in detail. …”
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Binder and micro-filler characterization and properties of palm oil fuel ash polymer concrete by Abd. Khalid, Nur Hafizah

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