Multiscale approach to nematic liquid crystals via statistical field theory by Lu, Bing-Sui

“…We find that the predictions of (i) are in reasonably good agreement with known results of Monte Carlo simulation.…”
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Lifshitz interaction can promote ice growth at water-silica interfaces by Boström, Mathias, Malyi, Oleksandr I., Parashar, Prachi, Shajesh, K. V., Thiyam, Priyadarshini, Milton, Kimball A., Persson, Clas, Parsons, Drew F., Brevik, Iver

“…At air-water interfaces, the Lifshitz interaction by itself does not promote ice growth. On the contrary, we find that the Lifshitz force promotes the growth of an ice film, up to 1–8 nm thickness, near silica-water interfaces at the triple point of water. …”
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Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking in a Polariton and Photon Laser by Ohadi, H., Kammann, E., Liew, Timothy Chi Hin, Lagoudakis, K. G., Kavokin, A. V., Lagoudakis, P. G.

“…In both polariton and photon lasing regimes, the stochastic polarization buildup is accompanied by the buildup of spatial coherence. We find that the Landau criterion of spontaneous symmetry breaking and Penrose-Onsager criterion of long-range order for Bose-Einstein condensation are met in both polariton and photon lasing regimes.…”
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Hybrid Federalization in India, Sri Lanka and Nepal by Allison-Reumann, Laura, He, Baogang

“…For more than 60 years Nepal has struggled to find appropriate solutions to problems of development, democracy, peace and equality (Von Einsiedel, Malone and Pradhan, 2012) and its new constitution has proffered a new direction for Nepal, albeit with continued contestation and disagreement.…”
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Theoretical investigation of injection-locked high modulation bandwidth quantum cascade lasers by Meng, Bo, Wang, Qi Jie

“…By applying the injection locking scheme, we find that the modulation bandwidths of up to ~30 GHz and ~70 GHz can be achieved for QCLs at 4.6 μm and 9 μm, respectively, with an injection ratio of 5 dB. …”
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Strategy and regeneration in the seventeenth and twenty-first centuries by Parr, A

“…For Culpeper, agriculture is one manifestation of the way in which humanity can benefit by working with the laws of nature. …”

Leadership-as-spiritual practice: a practical pneumatology of leadership in the Church of England by Bennet, HJ

“…Through content analysis, I find the person of the Spirit is under-represented as subject in leadership texts.…”

Network analysis and data science for finance: from traditional markets to decentralised exchanges by Miori, D

“…The latter are labelled as such either for their origin (i.e. being alternative data), or for their extensiveness (e.g. spanning multiple asset classes). …”

Do the ‘big four’ orders of insects comprise evolutionarily significant higher taxa with coherent patterns of selection on protein-coding genes? by Février, PJ, Barraclough, T

“…Analysing orthologous genes from whole genome sequence data for multiple species per order, we find that, in most genes, selection on roughly one fifth of codons is conserved within each order but differs significantly among orders. …”

Another world is possible: reconceptualizing the “safe space”metaphor at a feminist safer space in New York City by Dlugatch, R

“…I argue that Pocketbooks act as a feminist counterpublic whereby people of subordinated and sociospatially-excluded populations can find community and self-expression, acquire skills to reduce the extent of their marginalization elsewhere, develop language to articulate their identities and experiences, and even unlearn violent habitus. …”

Mucosal signatures of pathogenic T cells in HLA-B*27+ anterior uveitis and axial spondyloarthritis by Paley, MA, Yang, X, Hassman, LM, Penkava, F, Garner, LI, Paley, GL, Linskey, N, Agnew, R, Arantes de Faria, PH, Feng, A, Li, SY, Simone, D, Roberson, EDO, Ruzycki, PA, Esaulova, E, Laurent, J, Feigl-Lenzen, L, Springer, LE, Liu, C, Gillespie, GM, Bowness, P, Garcia, KC, Yokoyama, WM

“…HLA-B*27 was one of the first HLA alleles associated with an autoimmune disease, i.e., axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA) and acute anterior uveitis (B27AAU), which cause joint and eye inflammation, respectively. …”

Going ‘meta’: a systematic review of metacognition and functional neurological disorder by Sadnicka, A, Strudwick, A, Grogan, JP, Manohar, S, Nielsen, G

“…However, since most studies find equivalent metacognition to controls, we also discuss whether metacognition could be intact and how this could inform mechanistic models of FND and have potential clinical utility. …”

Hong Kong’s media representations of China amid COVID-19: a corpus-assisted critical discourse analysis by Hu, Xiaolin, Kasimon, Diyana Nawar, Wan Abas, Wan Anita

“…However, when observing these research results, one will find that more research results are about the Western media, and there are few reports about the Chinese media on the COVID-19 pandemic. …”
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High-speed and high-photocurrent InP-based uni-traveling-carrier photodiode by Meng, Qianqian

“…Compared to conventional PIN-PD, UTC-PD has a unique mode of operation where only faster electrons serve as the active carriers, which can reduce the space charge effect and lead to much higher current, and higher speed operations. …”
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THE MAYFLY / by Hazel, James, author 656313

“…When his attacker is found murdered the next day, Priest becomes a suspect and the only way to clear his name is to find out about the mysterious House of Mayfly - a secret society that people will kill for. …”

Smallest job completion time heuristics for yard crane dispatching in container terminals by Ching, Yu Xin.

“…Indeed, the computational results show that the proposed heuristic can find effective solutions for the scheduling problem.…”
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Implementation of Dijkstra's shortest path algorithm for vehicle routing by Pang, Jacquelyn Jiaqi

“…Services like Uber and Grab, have been finding the most optimum way to make their services less costly so as the increase their profit margin. …”
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Dynamics of a self-interacting sheet in shear flow by Funkenbusch, William T., Silmore, Kevin S., Doyle, Patrick S.

“…We explore this conformational space and classify sheets as flat, tumbling, 1D folded, or 2D folded based on their conformational properties. …”
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Open-hole tensile behavior of bamboo fiber-reinforced polymer composites by Syakir Ariffin Bin Amran

“…However, there is a shift in the industry to find an alternative material to combat the environmental problems caused by the manufacturing and disposal of synthetic fiber-reinforced composites. …”
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Simplified hybrid control strategy for stand-alone DC microgrid with photovoltaic system to extend battery lifespan by Yan, Hein Wai, Farivar, Glen G., Tafti, Hossein Dehghani, Ceballos, Salvador, Pou, Josep

“…However, conventional control schemes deploy multiple voltage controllers to regulate the dc-link voltage, causing mode transitions during the transients and complicating the controller design. …”
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