The role of Holocene relative sea-level change in preserving records of subduction zone earthquakes by Dura, Tina, Engelhart, Simon E., Vacchi, Matteo, Horton, Benjamin Peter, Kopp, Robert E., Peltier, William Richard, Bradley, Sarah

“…The length and completeness of prehistoric earthquake records is intrinsically linked to the accommodation space provided by gradually rising (<3 mm/year) Holocene RSL. In near-field regions that were located beneath northern hemisphere ice sheets (e.g., western Vancouver Island), RSL fall from a mid-Holocene highstand has limited prehistoric earthquake records to the last 1 ka. …”
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Controlling hot electrons via plasmon coupling to enhance catalytic reactions in plasmonic Au@SiO2-Pt structures by Yuan, Xu

“…Mechanism analysis shows that the higher photocatalytic ability of Au@SiO2-Pt is owing to the Pt-generated hot electrons induced by plasmon coupling enhanced electric field near Pt nanoparticles. Second, by depositing Au@SiO2-Pt nanostructure onto substrate with intention, the interparticle distance between plasmonic Au cores were significantly reduced. …”
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Physically tailoring ion fluxes by introducing foamlike structures into polymeric membranes of solid contact ion-selective electrodes by Cheong, Yi Heng, Lisak, Grzegorz

“…In this work, foamlike structures were intentionally introduced into a potassium-sensitive plasticized poly(vinyl chloride) ion-selective membrane (ISM) near the membrane|solid contact interface by controlling the temperature during membrane deposition. …”
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Interval job scheduling with machine launch cost by Ren, Runtian, Zhu, Yuqing, Li, Chuanyou, Tang, Xueyan

“…In the non-clairvoyant online setting, we design a O(μ)-competitive Modified First-Fit algorithm which is near optimal (μ is the max/min job processing length ratio). …”
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Visualization of robust two-dimensional bulk states with suppressed surface state on epitaxial PdCoO₂ thin films with bipolar surfaces by Kawamoto, Tomoki, Krishnadas, Anjana, Hsu, Chia-Hsiu, Pardo-Almanza, Markel, Fujisawa, Yuita, Chang, Guoqing, Harada, Takayuki, Okada, Yoshinori

“…Additionally, the predominantly two-dimensional bulk electronic state with the Fermi group velocity parallel to the plane of PdCoO2 is expected to make the near-surface bulklike state less sensitive to the scattering by longer length scale random bipolar surface potentials. …”
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Asymmetric prefrontal cortex activation associated with mutual gaze of mothers and children during shared play by Azhari, Atiqah, Bizzego, Andrea, Balagtas, Jan Paolo Macapinlac, Leng, Kelly Sng Hwee, Esposito, Gianluca

“…This study used functional Near-infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS) hyperscanning on 22 pairs of mothers and their preschool-aged children as they engaged in a 10-min free-play session together. …”
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Patch repair technology with sacrificial zinc anodes in RC slabs with corroded steel bars by Christian, Alvin

“…Furthermore, the highest amount of macrocell corrosion can be encountered at steel segments near the patch repair area. Compared with each sample, it was discovered that zinc sacrificial anodes installed within areas with high level of chloride contamination provided the best protection for the steel reinforcement against corrosion damage.…”
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Cooperative collision avoidance in multirobot systems using fuzzy rules and velocity obstacles by Tang, Wenbing, Zhou, Yuan, Zhang, Tianwei, Liu, Yang, Liu, Jing, Ding, Zuohua

“…Moreover, they cannot deal with uncertain sensing data and linguistic requirements (e.g., the speed of a robot should not be large when it is near to other robots). Hence, to guarantee real-time collision avoidance and deal with linguistic requirements, a distributed and hybrid motion planning method, named Fuzzy-VO, is proposed for multirobot systems. …”
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Inferring origin-destination distribution of agent transfer in a complex network using deep gated recurrent units by Saw, Vee-Liem, Vismara, Luca, Suryadi, Yang, Bo, Johansson, Mikael, Chew, Lock Yue

“…By comparing against methods that give exact results, we demonstrate the near-optimal performance of our DNNGRU, which we found to consistently outperform existing methods and alternative neural network architectures, under diverse data generation scenarios.…”
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Rapid controllable synthesis of branched Au superparticles: formation mechanism of toggling the growth mode and their applications in optical broadband absorption by Zhong, Shichuan, Hang, Lifeng, Wen, Lulu, Zhang, Tao, Cao, An, Zeng, Pan, Zhang, Hanlin, Liu, Dilong, Cai, Weiping, Li, Yue

“…Such Au superparticles demonstrate broadband absorption from visible to near-infrared regions due to their multiple plasmonic coupling and hence they have important applications in sensors, photothermal conversion and therapy, etc. …”
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Simulation of wind field in a building complex for evaluation of the wind effect along UAS flight path by Nathanael, Joshua Christian, Wang, John Chung-Hung, Low, Kin Huat

“…The wind simulation was done using various inlet wind speeds and directions based on the measurements from a weather station near the building complex. After obtaining the velocity field for the whole area, the wind effect on UAS along a given flight path was inferred from the local wind velocity magnitude and direction along the path. …”
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Flow-through electrochemically assisted reverse-osmosis: a new process towards low-chemical desalination by Long, Wei, Koo, Jing Wee, Yuan, Ziwen, She, Qianhong

“…Upon applying an extremely low-energy (< 0.005 kWh/m3) electrical field, the FT-EARO module could (1) produce a permeate with pH >10 with no alkali dosage, ensuring sufficient boron removal in the second-pass RO, and (2) generate protons and low-concentration free chlorine near the membrane surface, potentially discouraging membrane scaling and biofouling while maintaining satisfactory desalination performance. …”
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Corrosion damage detection in reinforced concrete using Rayleigh wave-based method by Cheng, Weixia, Sun, Hai-Han, Wan, Li Soon, Fan, Zheng, Tan, Kang Hai

“…Ultrasonic Rayleigh waves have been employed to detect near-surface cracks in concrete based on their transmission coefficient in frequency domain or their time-of-flight information. …”
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Influence of banded ε-martensite and deformation twin on cryogenic toughness of Fe–Mn–xAl–C steel by Li, Leilei, Niu, Gang, Gong, Na, Liu, Hongfei, Wang, Xuelin, Shang, Chengjia, Wang, Yong, Wu, Huibin

“…The plastic deformation is dominated by deformation bands which are dominated by deformation twins (DTs) and ε-martensite at x = 0 and DTs at x = 3 and 5%, respectively. The DTs near fracture the notch-tip area increased in the order of the 0Al, 3Al, and 5Al steel. …”
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Small but prospective: development of enzyme-responsive small molecule fluorescent probes for specific bacterial imaging by Yan, Evelias Hui Xin

“…In chapter 2, we explore the specific proteolytic activity of an outer membrane bacterial protease that is present in all wild-type Escherichia coli (E. coli) and another bacterial protease located in the periplasmic region of E. coli to synthesize a near infrared fluorescence probe for the real-time imaging of urinary tract bacterial infection in vitro and in vivo. …”
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Multi-scale CuS-rGO pyramidal photothermal structure for highly efficient solar-driven water evaporation and thermoelectric power generation by Zeng, Long, Deng, Daxiang, Zhu, Linye, Zhang, Zhenkun, Gu, Xin, Wang, Huiming, Jiang, Yujie

“…They combined the merits of efficient multiple refraction and absorption of light, broad-spectrum absorption capabilities of rGO and high near-infrared extinction coefficient of CuS, as well as fast water transportation by gradient porous matrix. …”
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Molecular and biochemical characterisation of human casein kinase I alpha splice variants by Yong, Thomas Joon Kin.

“…Here, I report on the isolation of near full length cDNAs coding for human CKIas and human CKIaL derived from the 4.2 kb mRNA transcripts. …”
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Numerical modeling of motion and deformation of cells in microscale hydrodynamic and electric fields by Ye, Ting

“…The Morse potential model is employed to describe the interaction between the two cells, identified by the intercellular interaction force behaving as a weak attractive force at far distance but a strong repulsive force at near distance. As the first academic achievement made in this thesis, the two novel numerical methods are developed to efficiently treat the two-fluid model, namely the modified particle binary level set (MPBLS) method for tracking the cell membrane, and the modified semi-implicit method for pressure linked equations-revised (modified SIMPLER). • The MPBLS method employs the binary level set function to distinguish different materials, and further scatters a number of Lagrangian particles on the interface to correct the interface and provide the interface information. …”
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X-ray and ultrasonic testing techniques for defect inspection in composite by Zhou, David Yutian.

“…This is crucial as the body of the aircraft must be able to withstand adverse conditions while in operation (e.g. overheating near the engine, lightning strikes). Such conditions could alter the integrity of the material in the long run. …”
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Functional characterization of plasmodium falciparum reticulocyte binding like protein homologue 1 (PfRH1) by Yap, Sally Shu Lin

“…Merozoite surface exposure of PfNBR occurs when merozoites are in close contact to erythrocytes, suggesting that PfRH1 could act as an ATP sensor to detect near-membrane environmental ATP released from a deforming erythrocyte during invasion. …”
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