Anti-fouling thin film composite (TFC) polyamide reverse osmosis (RO) membranes based on piezoelectric polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) substrates by Fu, Jia Shen

“…It was found the effectiveness of electrical poling in piezoelectric property (d33) enhancement for such substrate was insignificant (d33 value improvement was less than 5%). Besides, it was confirmed piezoelectric property was able to be induced during NIPS. …”
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Spatiotemporal signatures of elastoinertial turbulence in viscoelastic planar jets by Yamani, Sami, Raj, Yashasvi, Zaki, Tamer A., McKinley, Gareth H., Bischofberger, Irmgard

“…Finally, our LDV measurements reveal a frequency spectrum characterized by a −3 power-law exponent, different from the well-known −5/3 power-law exponent characteristic of Newtonian turbulence.…”
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Deformation and its surface expression in stressed planetary materials by Seltzer, Cassandra

“…The final chapter (Chapter 5) investigates crustal processes on Titan, Saturn’s largest moon. …”
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Compact Capabilities: Developing and Evaluating a Field-Portable Neutron Resonance Capture Analysis System by Rahon, Jill M.

“…This work presents an experimental evaluation of a portable Neutron Resonance Capture Analysis (NRCA) system sensitive to isotopes with neutron capture resonances in the epithermal range (1-100 eV). NRCA is a technique traditionally used for nuclear data collection and nondestructive assay of archaeological materials, typically conducted at large accelerator facilities with beamlines in excess of ten meters. …”
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Tectonics of the semi-permanent: Reassembling fit-out architecture by Schnitzler, Jenna

“…The uneven wearing that Bolton wrote about in 1911, appears again in the iconic shearing layers diagram from Frank Duffy and Stewart Brand, who make a very similar economic argument, demonstrating that the economically fast-wearing interior layer accumulates the most investment over time, rebuilt on a cycle of every 5-10 years. We are facing a turning point in building; as of 2020, over 35% of total construction activity is renovation work, and we are making increasingly rapid changes to building function. …”
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Structure and dynamics of the proton-selective histidine and the gating tryptophan in an inward rectifying hybrid influenza B and A virus M2 proton channel by Pankratova, Yanina, McKay, Matthew J, Ma, Chunlong, Tan, Haozhou, Wang, Jun, Hong, Mei

“…Moreover, 19F NMR spectra of 5-19F-labeled W23 resolve three peaks at acidic pH, suggesting three tryptophan sidechain conformations. …”
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Advanced Reconstruction Techniques for CUORE: Searching Beyond the Standard Model with Cryogenic Calorimeters by Mayer, Daniel W.

“…We report on a search for FCPs using the first tonne-year of CUORE’s exposure, finding no excess of FCP track candidates over background, and setting leading limits at 90% C.L. on the possible underground flux of FCPs with charges between 1/24 − 1/5 that of an electron. Lastly, we introduce differentiable programming methods for the end-to-end training of neural ordinary differential equations to model thermal pulse dynamics within CUORE calorimeter channels. …”
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Photocatalysis in a New Light: A Biohybrid Approach for Improved Reactivity with Tunable, Low-Energy Light Excitation by Cesana, Paul T.

“…Chapter 4 highlights spectroscopic exploration into emerging molecular catalyst species. Finally, Chapter 5 provides an outlook to the future possibilities of the topics presented herein.…”
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Empathy Toward Artificial Intelligence Versus Human Experiences and the Role of Transparency in Mental Health and Social Support Chatbot Design: Comparative Study by Shen, Jocelyn, DiPaola, Daniella, Ali, Safinah, Sap, Maarten, Park, Hae Won, Breazeal, Cynthia

“…We also found that participants reported greater willingness to empathize with AI-written stories when there was transparency about the story author (t494=–5.49, P<.001, Cohen d=0.36). Conclusions: Our work sheds light on how empathy toward AI or human narrators is tied to the way the text is presented, thus informing ethical considerations of empathetic artificial social support or mental health chatbots.…”
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Single-phase convective heat transfer in a cold plate with wavy channels by Low, Jing Peng

“…The numerical simulations were conducted with the flowrates ranging from 1.67 x 10-6 m³/s to 1.503 x 10-5 m³/s for the microchannel and pressure drops ranging from 717 Pa to 7856 Pa for the microgap. …”
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Functional analysis of germline RAD51C missense variants highlight the role of RAD51C in replication fork protection by Kolinjivadi, Arun Mouli, Chong, Siao Ting, Choudhary, Ramveer, Sankar, Haresh, Chew, Ee Ling, Yeo, Claresta, Chan, Sock Hoai, Ngeow, Joanne

“…In RAD51C deficient chinese hamster CL-V4B cells, expression of RAD51C F164S, A87E, L134S and E49K variants heightened sensitivity to mitomycin C (MMC), etoposide and PARP inhibition. …”
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Transferring a deep learning model from healthy subjects to stroke patients in a motor imagery brain-computer interface by Nagarajan, Aarthy, Robinson, Neethu, Ang, Kai Keng, Chua, Karen Sui Geok, Chew, Effie, Guan, Cuntai

“…Additionally, the proposed transfer learning method outperforms the subject-specific results achieved by Deep ConvNet and FBCSP, with significant enhancements of 7.64% (p < 0.001) and 5.55% (p < 0.001) in performance, respectively. …”
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The association of sleep duration with the risk of chronic kidney disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Koh, Jin Hean, Yeo, Brian Sheng Yep, Tan, Timothy Wei En, See, Mark Yong Siang, Ng, Adele Chin Wei, Loh, Shaun Ray Han, Gooley, Joshua, Tan, Chieh Suai, Toh, Song Tar

“…Compared with a reference range of 7 to 8 hours of sleep, short sleep durations of ≤4 hours (RR 1.41, 95% CI: 1.16 to 1.71, P < 0.01), ≤5 hours (RR 1.46, 95% CI: 1.22 to 1.76, P < 0.01), ≤6 hours (RR 1.18, 95% CI: 1.09 to 1.29, P < 0.01), and ≤7 hours (RR 1.19, 95% CI: 1.12 to 1.28, P < 0.01) were significantly associated with an increased risk of incident chronic kidney disease. …”
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Synthesis and properties of amino- and guanidino-peptoid peptide nucleic acids by Lu, Xiao Wei

“…The AP-PNA monomers of different side chain length (2, 3, 4, 5 or 6 carbon) were synthesized with the exocyclic amines of their four natural nucleobases protected by an acyl or Bhoc protecting group. …”
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Removal of redundant gabor features using genetic algorithm by Dang, Ngoc Minh

“…From Matlab simulation, we find out that, using 40 Gabor filters from 80 Gabor filters of 8 frequencies x 10 orientations is better than using 40 Gabor filters of 5 frequencies x 8 orientations.…”
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A parametric study of Proton Electrolyte Membrane (PEM) fuel cell performances by Lim, Adrian Eu Chun

“…For the stoichiometric flow ratio of 5.0 and above, the improvement in the fuel cell performance is negligible. …”
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Combined effects of meal frequency and exercise on postprandial lipaemia by Mok, Alexander

“…On day-2 mornings, venous blood triacylglycerol concentrations were measured fasting and 7-hours postprandially, after consuming 1-large or 2-smaller high-fat meals (1.21 g fat, 0.62 g carbohydrate, 0.29 g protein and 14.5 kcal/kg/bodymass). We hypothesised PPL will be lowest with EX-2 < EX-1 < CON-2 < CON-1. …”
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Biochemical characterisation of NS2B-NS3 protease from flaviviruses by Nah, Jojo Qian Hui

“…The virus genome encodes for seven non-structural (NS) proteins (NS1, NS2A, NS2B, NS3, NS4A, NS4B and NS5) and three structural proteins (envelope (E), capsid (C), membrane (M). …”
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An experimental and simulation study of chip transportation behaviour in gundrilling by Tnay, Guan Leong

“…The experiments were conducted in vertical square tube filled with the water-glycerine solutions which have properties similar to the coolant properties with concentration of 85 % oil to 5 % oil. From the experiments, terminal velocities of typical gun drill chips at different range of particle Reynolds number were determined to construct the unique drag curve. …”
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Aerodynamics modelling of floating offshore wind turbines by Singapore Wala, Abdulqadir Aziz

“…Different unsteady aerodynamic phenomena associated with FOWTs are analysed, with corrective models developed for an accurate analysis of FOWT aerodynamics. The NREL 5MW virtual wind turbine was studied in axial flow and sinusoidal surge motions at different frequencies and amplitudes, usingfull-3D computational fluid dynamics simulations. …”
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