Thermoplastic polymer nanocomposites based on polydopamine-coated clay : preparation, structures and properties by Phua, Si Lei

“…The results showed drastic improvement in UV resistance and thermal stability of PP/D-clay owing to the effective radical scavenging ability of melanin-like PDA layer on clays. Meanwhile, the excellent UV resistance of PP/D-clay nanocomposites can be attributed to the masking effect imposed by PDA coating. …”
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Dynamic drug combination methods for suppressing bacterial antibiotics resistance adaptation by Bhone, Myint Kyaw

“…This is particularly important because developing new drugs for the prevention of resistance adaptation of multi-drug resistant bacteria like MRSA is extremely time consuming, expensive and comes with a high failure rate.…”
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Carbon nanotube fence-wall for radio frequency isolation by Tan, Dunlin

“…Carbon nanotubes have potential to be utilized in such a way due to its exemplary electrical, mechanical and thermal properties supported by both simulations and experimental data. However, like many emerging materials, there are existential issues that have to be addressed before its potential can be realized. …”
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Posture control and balance for quality of walking in rehabilitation by Li, Lei

“…The motion of the lower-limb robotic exoskeleton will only be triggered when a safe threshold of the XcoM is reached. A human-like trajectory generation method is developed to control the movements of the robotic exoskeleton. …”
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The relations between Van Der Waals and covalent forces in layered crystals by Chaturvedi, Apoorva

“…In addition, the alloy ReSSe is both isostructural and anisotropic like ReS2 besides being direct bad gap. This paves the way for band gap engineering of rhenium dichalcogenides alloys and present them as viable alternative for optoelectronic low cost devices. …”
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Investigation of operational characteristics of vanadium redox flow batteries by Rajagopalan Badrinarayanan

“…The optimization was done in real-time to include flexibility of control due to external factors like temperature, humidity, etc., which can be added as a parameter based on the operator requirement. …”
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From node embedding to community embedding on graphs by Cavallari, Sandro

“…In robotics, it is possible to achieve more a “human-like” movement of an artificial skeleton if we represent the interaction of each major joint rather than adopting an independent approach. …”
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In2Se3-based two-dimensional photocatalysts for water-splitting by Wong, CCY

“…Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and atomic force microscopy (AFM) confirmed the thin-sheet like morphology with around 10-50 layers of In₂Se₃. …”

Chronic neuropsychiatric sequelae of SARS-CoV-2: protocol and methods from the Alzheimer's Association Global Consortium by de Erausquin, GA, Snyder, H, Brugha, TS, Newton, C

“…Our specific hypothesis is that SARS-CoV-2 triggers ADRD-like pathology following the extended olfactory cortical network (EOCN) in older individuals with specific genetic susceptibility.…”

Green logistics practices in Malaysian food-based manufacturing industry by Hussin, Hilda

“…All the benefits are apparent into three perspectives as well like what have motivated them to practice green. …”
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Self-learning shape recognition in medical images by Ma, Jingting

“…As training data is often corrupted by many factors like inherent noise/artifacts and non-ideal delineations in this thesis, many efforts have been devoted to developing SSMs that are robust to data corruption. …”
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Managing oil palm plantations more sustainably : large-scale experiments within the Biodiversity and Ecosystem Function in Tropical Agriculture (BEFTA) Programme by Luke, Sarah H., Advento, Andreas Dwi, Aryawan, Anak Agung Ketut, Adhy, Dwi Nugroho, Ashton-Butt, Adham, Barclay, Holly, Dewi, Jassica Prajna, Drewer, Julia, Dumbrell, Alex J., Edi, Eycott, Amy E., Harianja, Martina F., Hinsch, Julie K., Hood, Amelia S. C., Kurniawan, Candra, Kurz, David J., Mann, Darren J., Matthews Nicholass, Kirsty J., Naim, Mohammad, Pashkevich, Michael D., Prescott, Graham W., Ps, Sudharto, Pujianto, Purnomo, Dedi, Purwoko, Rizky Rajabillah, Putra, Syafrisar, Rambe, T. Dzulfikar S., Soeprapto, Spear, Dakota M., Suhardi, Tan, David J. X., Tao, Hsiao-Hang, Tarigan, Ribka Sionita, Wahyuningsih, Resti, Waters, Helen S., Widodo, Rudi Harto, Whendy, Woodham, Christopher R., Caliman, Jean-Pierre, Slade, Eleanor M., Snaddon, Jake L., Foster, William A., Turner, Edgar C.

“…—one of the most widespread and important tropical crops—offers substantial potential for developing wildlife-friendly management strategies because of its long rotation cycles and tree-like structure. Although there is awareness of the need to increase sustainability, practical options for how best to manage oil palm plantations, for benefits to both the environment and crop productivity, have received little research attention. …”
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On poisson vector graphics : displacement mapping, vectorization and color transfer by Fu, Qian

“…Our future direction is to explore more significative applications of PVG, associated with state-to-art technologies like deep-learning techniques.…”
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Enhancement of photoacoustic imaging systems for biomedical applications by Sharma, Arunima

“…Due to its advantages like good resolution, high contrast, label-free imaging, deep imaging depth, and the ability to perform multiscale structural and functional imaging, PAI has grown exponentially in the last two decades. …”
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Localized structural and bulk effects in hybrid organic-inoraginc perovskites by Wong, Walter Pei De

“…Additionally, a better understanding of the material’s structure – property relationship would be valuable to the respective material’s application, like photovoltaics or efficient lighting application which are of increasing importance towards sustainability efforts. …”
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Synthesizing photorealistic images with deep generative learning by Zheng, Chuanxia

“…Part 3 combines recognitive learning and the latest generative modeling into a holistic scene decomposition and completion framework, where a network is trained to decompose a scene into individual objects, infer their underlying occlusion relationships, and moreover imagine what the originally occluded objects may look like, while using only a single image as input. In Chapter 6, the aim is to derive a higher-level structural decomposition of a scene, automatically recognizing objects and generating intact shapes as well as photorealistic appearances for occluded regions, without requiring manual masking as in Part 2. …”
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Evaluating the socio-environmental impacts of monoculture cashew expansion in the Northern Western Ghats, India by Anushka Rege

“…There is an urgent need to pay research attention to crops like cashew that are grown by smallholders and contribute to apparently small-scale yet consistent forest loss.…”
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Mitofusins Mfn1 and Mfn2 are required to preserve glucose- but not incretin-stimulated β-cell connectivity and insulin secretion by Georgiadou, Eleni, Muralidharan, Charanya, Martinez, Michelle, Chabosseau, Pauline, Akalestou, Elina, Tomas, Alejandra, Yong, Fiona Su Wern, Stylianides, Theodoros, Wretlind, Asger, Legido-Quigley, Cristina, Jones, Ben, Lopez-Noriega, Livia, Xu, Yanwen, Gu, Guoqiang, Alsabeeh, Nour, Cruciani-Guglielmacci, Céline, Magnan, Christophe, Ibberson, Mark, Leclerc, Isabelle, Ali, Yusuf, Soleimanpour, Scott A., Linnemann, Amelia K., Rodriguez, Tristan A., Rutter, Guy A.

“…In contrast, oral glucose tolerance was more modestly affected in βMfn1/2-dKO mice, and glucagon-like peptide 1 or glucose-dependent insulinotropic peptide receptor agonists largely corrected defective glucose-stimulated insulin secretion through enhanced EPAC-dependent signaling. …”
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Short-wave infrared cavity resonances in a single GeSn nanowire by Kim, Youngmin, Assali, Simone, Joo, Hyo-Jun, Koelling, Sebastian, Chen, Melvina, Luo, Lu, Shi, Xuncheng, Burt, Daniel, Ikonic, Zoran, Nam, Donguk, Moutanabbir, Oussama

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Scaling up parametric human recovery by Cai, Zhongang

“…HuMMan’s features include: 1) multimodal data and annotations, 2) integration of popular mobile devices in the sensor suite, 3) a comprehensive set of 500 actions, and 4) support for various tasks like action recognition, pose estimation, and especially parametric human recovery. …”
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