A simulation tool for concentrated solar power based on micro gas turbine engines by Mazzoni, Stefano, Cerri, Giovanni, Chennaoui, Leila

“…The adoption of cheap, reliable and widely available engines, such as micro gas turbines is a promising solution for substituting Stirling engines since it ensures constant performance over time. …”
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以日本视角论述钓鱼群岛（尖阁诸岛）的主权归属 = The sovereignty of Diaoyu (Senkaku) Islands : the Japanese perspective by 刘志强 Liu, Zhiqiang

“…Why are the Japanese laying claims to the Diaoyu Islands when the islands have been a part of the Chinese territory since ancient times? What principles of the International Law are the Japanese using to justify their sovereignty over the Diaoyu Islands? …”
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Design of IIR filters by optimization techniques by Wang, Zhe.

“…Through simulation examples and comparisons between SCLS-SM and SM-based Direct Minimization Methods (Direct-SM), it was found that SCLS-SM has a higher possibility to obtain better results in our three examples’ case (High-Pass, Low-Pass and Band-Stop Filters), since SCLS-SM turning the non-convex optimization problem into a convex problem through combining Steiglitz-McBride (SM) Strategy. …”
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Enhanced stress and changes to regional seismicity due to the 2015 Mw 7.8 Gorkha, Nepal, earthquake on the neighbouring segments of the Main Himalayan Thrust by Chan, Chung-Han, Wang, Yu, Almeida, Rafael, Yadav, R.B.S.

“…The long elapsed time since the last megathrust event and the mainshock coseismic stress increase on the Main Himalayan Thrust suggest high seismic potential in the Lalitpur and Lamjung areas along the fault system. …”
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US exceptionalism? International trends in midlife mortality by Dowd, JB, Doniec, K, Zhang, L, Tilstra, A

“…Deaths due to homicide, transport accidents and cardiovascular diseases have declined since 1990 but saw recent increases or stalling of improvements. …”

Droplet wetting and evaporation on hydrophilic and hydrophobic surfaces by Phonkrit, Boonchuaysream

“…The droplets also experience contact line pinning-depinning during the CCA and mixed modes on patterned substrates. …”
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Radiometer Calibration Using Colocated GPS Radio Occultation Measurements by Cahoy, K. L., Blackwell, W. J., Bishop, R., Cohen, B., Crail, C., Cucurull, L., Dave, P., DiLiberto, M., Erickson, N., Fish, C., Ho, S. P., Leslie, R. V., Milstein, A. B., Osaretin, I. A.

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Creating a Solar-Powered Drip Irrigation Optimal Performance model (SDrOP) to lower the cost of drip irrigation systems for smallholder farmers by Grant, Fiona, Sheline, Carolyn, Sokol, Julia, Amrose, Susan, Brownell, Elizabeth, Nangia, Vinay, Winter, Amos G.

“…The simulated performance of an SDrOP optimal design was benchmarked against operational data from an existing field site, and was shown to be capable of operating 92% of the recorded irrigation events. …”
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Analysis of Poly(ethylene terephthalate) degradation kinetics of evolved IsPETase variants using a surface crowding model by Zhong-Johnson, En Ze Linda, Dong, Ziyue, Canova, Christopher T, Destro, Francesco, Cañellas, Marina, Hoffman, Mikaila C, Maréchal, Jeanne, Johnson, Timothy M, Zheng, Maya, Schlau-Cohen, Gabriela S, Lucas, Maria Fátima, Braatz, Richard D, Sprenger, Kayla G, Voigt, Christopher A, Sinskey, Anthony J

“…Molecular dynamics simulations of IsPETase variants reveal a decrease in active site flexibility in free enzymes and reduced probability of productive active site formation in substrate-bound enzymes under crowding. …”
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Dynamic restructuring of Cu-doped SnS2 nanoflowers for highly selective electrochemical CO2 reduction to formate by Chen, Mengxin, Wan, Shipeng, Zhong, Lixiang, Liu, Daobin, Yang, Hongbin, Li, Chengcheng, Huang, Zhiqi, Liu, Chuntai, Chen, Jian, Pan, Hongge, Li, Dong-Sheng, Li, Shuzhou, Yan, Qingyu, Liu, Bin

“…Our findings provide a rational strategy for electronic modulation of metal active site(s) for the design of active and selective electrocatalysts towards CO2 RR.…”
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Structural analysis and insights into the glycon specificity of the rice GH1 Os7BGlu26 β-D-mannosidase by Robinson, Robert Charles, Tankrathok, Anupong, Iglesias-Fernández, Javier, Luang, Sukanya, Kimura, Atsuo, Rovira, Carme, Hrmova, Maria, Ketudat Cairns, James R.

“…Docking of the 1S3, 1S5, 2SO and 3S1 pyranose-ring conformations of 4NPMan and 4NPGlc substrates into the active site of Os7BGlu26 indicated that the lowest energies were in the 1S5 and 1S3 skew-boat conformations. …”
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Multiple introductions of NRCS-A Staphylococcus capitis to the neonatal intensive care unit drive neonatal bloodstream infections: a case-control and environmental genomic survey by Lees, EA, Gentry, J, Webster, H, Sanderson, N, Eyre, D, Wilson, D, Lipworth, S, Crook, D, Wong, THN, Mark, A, Jeffery, K, Paulus, S, Young, BC

“…</strong> Demographic and clinical data for 45 neonates with S. capitis and 90 with other coagulase-negative staphylococci (CoNS) isolated from sterile sites were reviewed, and clinical significance was determined. …”

Viral and immune dynamics of genital human papillomavirus infections in young women with high temporal resolution by Tessandier, N, Elie, B, Boué, V, Selinger, C, Rahmoun, M, Bernat, C, Grasset, S, Groc, S, Bedin, A, Beneteau, T, Bonneau, M, Graf, C, Jacobs, N, Kamiya, T, Kerioui, M, Lajoie, J, Melki, I, Prétet, J, Reyné, B, Schlecht-Louf, G, Sofonea, MT, Supplisson, O, Wymant, C, Foulongne, V

“…We performed 974 on-site visits for a total of 1,619 months of follow-up. …”

Investigation of soil-structure interaction for deep excavations by Hensman, P

“…The monitoring scheme provided the site team with real-time feedback to inform construction decisions and promote a proactive approach to risk mitigation. …”

Brand- and price-based usage pattern analysis on peer-to-peer car-sharing platform by Tan, Xuan Yi

“…The Sharing Economy has greatly improved people’s lives by bringing convenience of sharing daily necessities from portable chargers to vehicles such as bicycles and cars with lower cost. …”
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A model green city? : the history of conservation discourse in Singapore 1965 to the present by Tan, Yee Ting

“…Promoting herself as the “City in a Garden”, it’s difficult to ascertain the boundaries between humans and nature. Along these lines of thought, is the problem of conservation. …”
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The elusiveness of 'interdependent obligations' and the invocation of responsibility for their breach by Urs, P

“…Since the adoption in 2001 of the International Law Commission’s ‘Articles on the Responsibility of States for Internationally Wrongful Acts’, attention has been increasingly drawn to the enforcement by states individually of multilateral obligations. …”

Deep transcriptome profiling reveals limited conservation of A-to-I RNA editing in Xenopus by Nguyen, Tram Anh, Heng, Joel Jia Wei, Ng, Yan Ting, Sun, Rui, Fisher, Shira, Oguz, Gokce, Kaewsapsak, Pornchai, Xue, Shifeng, Reversade, Bruno, Ramasamy, Adaikalavan, Eisenberg, Eli, Tan, Meng How

“…In protein-coding regions, only a small subset of sites that are found mostly in the brain are well conserved between frogs and mammals. …”
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Development of a fiber optic gradient hydrophone by Mei, Suo Hai.

“…Fiber optic hydrophones have been under development since 1970s, and have been proven to have many advantages over their traditional counterparts, such as PZT hydrophones. …”
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Attendance or Response Ware System using Raspberry Pi by Leow, Hui Si

“…Response Ware System (RWS) is created for Lectures, Student and Guests for them to communicate better and to encourage student or guest to speak up and ask question by allowing them to post question anomalously. In additional, since RWS is a web application, it is portable and can be easily access by any devices…”
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