Subwavelength metrology of Al wire grating employing finite difference time domain method and Mueller matrix polarimeter by Adhikari, Achyut, Dev, Kapil, Asundi, Anand

“…Wire grid polarizers (WGP), are sub-wavelength gratings with applications in display projection system due to their compact size, wide field of view and long-term stability. Measurement and testing of these structures are important to optimize their use. …”
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The Islamic opposition in Malaysia : new trajectories and directions? by Ahmad Fauzi Abdul Hamid

“…This paper contends that any structural transformation in PAS will necessarily take a long time. As such, it will not be able to overcome these developing internal fissures by the next general elections, which are just around the corner.…”
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System crash as dynamics of complex networks by Yu, Yi, Xiao, Gaoxi, Zhou, Jie, Wang, Yubo, Wang, Zhen, Kurths, Jürgen, Schellnhuber, Hans Joachim

“…It remains rather puzzling why some systems, appearing to be doomed to fail, manage to survive for a long time whereas some other systems, which seem to be too big or too strong to fail, crash rapidly. …”
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Electrospun TiO2/SnO2 nanofibers with innovative structure and chemical properties for highly efficient photocatalytic H2 generation by Lee, Siew Siang, Bai, Hongwei, Liu, Zhaoyang, Sun, Darren Delai

“…The enhanced efficiency of the TiO2/SnO2 nanofibers was attributed to its excellent synergistic properties: (1) its good mesoporosity; (2) the red-shift of absorbance spectra to enhance light absorbance capability; (3) its long nanofibrous structure and (4) anatase TiO2 – rutile TiO2 – rutile SnO2 ternary junctions favorable for the separation of electrons and holes. …”
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Superfluid fountain effect in a Bose-Einstein condensate by Karpiuk, Tomasz, Grémaud, Benoît, Miniatura, Christian, Gajda, Mariusz

“…We show that the superfluid component can easily flow from the colder vessel to the hotter one while the normal component is practically blocked in the latter. In the long-time limit, the superfluid component exhibits periodic oscillations reminiscent of the ac Josephson effect obtained in superfluid weak-link experiments.…”
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Cylindrical surfaces enable wavelength-selective extinction and sub-0.2 nm linewidth in 250 μm-gap silicon Fabry–Pérot cavities by Malak, Maurine, Marty, Frédéric, Pavy, Nicolas, Peter, Yves-Alain, Liu, Ai Qun, Bourouina, Tarik

“…This approach outperforms the first design in terms of Q-factor, of nearly 9000 for around 250 μm-long cavity, which suggests its potential use for biochemical sensing and analysis as well as cavity enhancement applications requiring high Q.L values.…”
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Soft computing based controllers for automotive air conditioning system with variable speed compressor. by Ng, Boon Chiang.

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Addressing the biological security educational gap by Shang, Lijun, Dando, Malcolm, Zhang, Weiwen

“…While biosecurity education has long been recognized as a key strategy to address this issue, its effective implementation remains crucial. …”
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A decision support system for sustainable supplier selection problem: evidence from a radiator manufacturing industry by Jefroudi, Mahmuod Torabi, Avakh Darestani, Soroush

“…Results of the fuzzy BWM showed that the customer satisfaction was the criterion of highest priority, followed by long-term relationship, and then pollution control, among the total of 13 criteria considered in this work. …”
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The social construction of professional counselling practice in UK embedded higher education counselling services: a Foucauldian discourse analysis of practitioner perspectives by Oliver, James Robert

“…However, a wealth of theory based clinical literature belies a long-standing deficiency of empirical research within the UK student counselling sector. …”
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Zanthoxylum bungeanum essential oil induces apoptosis of HaCaT human keratinocytes by Li, K, Zhou, R, Wang Jia, W, Li, Z, Li, J, Zhang, P, Xiao, T

“…Ethnopharmacological relevance: Zanthoxylum bungeanum (ZB), a Chinese herb medicine, has been shown to possess a wide range of biological activities including anti-tumor, anti-inflammatory, and anti-microbial activity and has long been used to treat a variety of skin diseases including psoriasis. …”

‘You could start a new country, but you would need to discover new land’: exploring understandings of statehood with primary school pupils in England by Saddington, L, McConnell, FR

“…While scholarship within political geography has long sought to challenge the ‘territorial trap’ which underpins these approaches, and there is increasing awareness and prominence of children's political geography within the subdiscipline, little attention has focused on how children themselves conceptualise and think about the state. …”

Time to speed up scientific deliveries in fibrotic interstitial lung disease: innovative clinical trial design to improve patient care by Kawano-Dourado, L, Kulkarni, T, Ryerson, CJ, Richards, DB

“…The drug development pipeline is long and there is an urgent need to accelerate this process. …”

West African labour and the development of mechanised mining in southwest Ghana, c.1870s to 1910 by Mark-Thiesen, C

“…Starting in the 1870s, mine management found that the most effective way of recruiting long-term wage earners was through headmen; African authorities who established temporary patronage relationships with a group of labourers by offering them credit. …”

Strategic and operational issues in sustaining community-based dementia support groups: the Get Real with Meeting Centres realist evaluation part 2 by Morton, T, Evans, SB, Swift, R, Bray, J, Frost, F, Russell, C, Brooker, D, Wong, G, Hullah, N

“…<p><strong>Objectives:</strong> Support for people with dementia in their communities is neither robust nor consistent in the UK, often bolstered by third sector/grass-roots initiatives facing formidable challenges in sustaining long-term. The Get Real with Meeting Centres project explored factors involved in sustaining one such form of community-based support. …”

Sonic hedgehog medulloblastoma cells in co-culture with cerebellar organoids converge towards in vivo malignant cell states by Van Essen, M, Nicheperovich, A, Schuster-Böckler, B, Becker, E, Jacob, J

“…Tumour spheroids were generated from two distinct, long-established SHH-MB cell lines which were co-cultured with cerebellar organoids. …”

Do built environment factors have different effects on ridesourcing usage before and after the COVID-19 pandemic? by Jin, T, Cheng, L, Wang, S, Cao, J, Schwanen, T, Witlox, F

“…It seems that COVID-19 is having long-term effects on ridesourcing usage, at least in Chicago. …”

Assessment reform in Chile: a contested discursive space by Flórez Petour, M

“…The thesis makes a case for situating the study of assessment reforms in the context of three broader dimensions, namely the historical dimension, that incorporates the diachronic dimension of assessment reforms both in the short and the long term; the systemic dimension, related to the processes of production, circulation and consumption of discourses around assessment in a complex web of systems, beliefs, interactions and (power) relationships between their actors, and the ideological dimension. …”

The role of circulating tumor DNA in melanomas of the uveal tract by Zameer, MZ, Jou, E, Middleton, M

“…The high risk for metastatic disease with a variable and often long latency period is thought to be due to early spread of cancer cells disseminating into organs such as the liver, followed by a period of dormancy, before the eventual emergence of radiologically measurable disease. …”

Transcriptional brain networks and their key regulators across the human lifespan by Wehrspaun, CC

“…I extended the analysis to differentiate between brain regions and additional regulatory RNA elements, namely long noncoding (lnc) RNAs. I found that genes in the hypothalamus express a region-specific network to which are also associated co-expressed lncRNAs. …”