Decentralized online social network primitives by Rajesh Sharma

“…Despite their success, a prominent concern about such centralized systems is privacy [2] [3] from the service providers themselves. In order to address these shortcomings, researchers have proposed decentralized architectures for social networks. …”
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Design of slender concrete column using chinese design code GB50010-2010 by Chen, Qiaofen

“…This project is on the study of slender concrete columns subjected to sustained short-term axial load and uniaxial bending with eccentricities at the ends, focus will be on the design approaches proposed in Chinese design code GB50010-2010. In order to make a better evaluation of this code, 2 design codes, i.e. …”
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Novel drug-eluting stent to reduce fibrosis-induced ureteral stricture by Fong, Timothy Ren Zhong

“…Ureteral stents are often used by urologists in treating patients with urinary tract obstruction. …”
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Partially collaborative storage codes for distributed storage systems by Liu, Shiqiu

“…Failures of storage nodes keep happening, and the lost data must be rebuilt, to guarantee resiliency over time. This process is often called maintenance, or repair. Over the past years, there has been a vibrant research activity around the problem of designing good storage erasure codes, amenable to repair. …”
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‘On-demand’ soft tissue adhesives by Mogal, Vishal Tukaram

“…Shear adhesion was 5-fold higher than L-3,4-dihydroxyphenylalanine-based mussel adhesives tested on similar biomaterials. …”
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Active nematics for mechanobiology: patterning and flows in living matter by Bhattacharyya, S

“…Biological tissues composed of anisotropic and active cells can develop long-range orientational order with nematic symmetry. The constant injection of energy at the cellular level leads to intricate collective flows within the tissue. …”

After neonatal care, what next? A qualitative study of mothers’ post-discharge experiences after premature birth in Kenya by Maluni, J, Oluoch, D, Molyneux, S, Boga, M, Jones, C, Murila, F, English, M, Ziebland, S, Hinton, L

“…Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and Asia account for more than half of the global preterm deliveries. Prominent healthcare structural and socio-economic factors in SSA, for example poverty and weak health systems, amplify vulnerabilities for mothers and premature babies; often leading to poor outcomes. …”

Respiratory quality indices for automated monitoring of respiration from sensor data by Birrenkott, D

“…<p>Abnormal respiratory rate (RR) is known to be one of the most clinically effective predictors of catastrophic decline. Despite this, RR is often the least monitored and most inaccurately measured vital sign. …”

Fermented bed flooring systems enhance profitability in smallholder native pig production by Sivilai, Bounlerth, Vongpaserth, Thonglai, Liang, Juan Boo, Bush, Russell

“…Pigs kept in FB flooring had higher DM and nutrient (crude protein, crude fibre, ether extract and organic matter) intakes than did their counterparts raised in the CS, but the differences were not significant when adjusted to bodyweight basis. …”

Anti-ageing properties of edible bird's nest ascertained by in vitro and in vivo studies in animal model by Hou, Zhiping

“…Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) has been used to restore postmenopausal hormonal levels in order to relieve menopausal problems, but its associated side effects including development of cancers and cardiovascular diseases have necessitated the search for other alternatives such as natural food supplementation. …”
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Effects of temperature and velocity on chlorine dispersion in an indoor storage system using computational fluid dynamics simulation by Safakar, Mohsen

“…Nowadays, the indoor release of hazardous chemical gases which are heavier than the air is one of the risks that require an in-depth scrutiny. …”
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Optical potential-well array for high-selectivity, massive trapping and sorting at nanoscale by Shi, Yuzhi, Zhao, Haitao, Chin, Lip Ket, Zhang, Yi, Yap, Peng Huat, Ser, Wee, Qiu, Cheng-Wei, Liu, Ai Qun

“…Optical tweezers are versatile tools capable of sorting microparticles, yet formidable challenges are present in the separation of nanoparticles smaller than 200 nm. The difficulties arise from the controversy on the requirement of a tightly focused light spot in order to create strong optical forces while a large area is kept for the sorting. …”
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Three dimensional acoustic tweezers with vortex streaming by Li, Junfei, Crivoi, Alexandru, Peng, Xiuyuan, Shen, Lu, Pu, Yunjiao, Fan, Zheng, Cummer, Steven A.

“…The idea is demonstrated in both simulation and experiments operating at 500 kHz, and the achieved levitation force reaches three orders of magnitude larger than for previous 3D trapping. …”
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Narrow bandgap oxide nanoparticles coupled with graphene for high performance mid-infrared photodetection by Hu, Xiaonan, Zhang, Daliang, Tao, Ye, Yu, Xuechao, Li, Yangyang, Liu, Zhixiong, He, Yongmin, Md. Azimul Haque, Liu, Zheng, Wu, Tom, Wang, Qi Jie

“…The obtained responsivity is about two orders of magnitude higher than that of the commercial mid-infrared photodetectors. …”
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Bipolar conduction and giant positive magnetoresistance in doped metallic titanium oxide heterostructures by Huang, Ke, Wang, Tao, Jin, Mengjia, Wu, Liang, Wang, Floria Junyao, Li, Shengyao, Qi, Dong-Chen, Cheng, Shuying, Li, Yangyang, Chen, Jingsheng, He, Xiaozhong, Li, Changjian, Pennycook, Stephen J., Wang, Renshaw Xiao

“…Intriguingly, while the electron mobility of the TiOxDy increases by an order of magnitude larger after doping, the emergent holes also exhibit high mobility. …”
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Bond and electronic relaxation dynamics of graphene, gold clusters, and water ice by Zhang, Xi

“…Three springs model was proposed to build up the fundamental physical model of ‘‘O2- : H+/p–O2-” bond, in order to explain the complicated and anomalous behavior of water and ice. …”
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On the privacy protection of fingerprint templates by Li, Sheng.

“…The experimental results show that this scheme has more than sufficient capacity for hiding common personal data. …”
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Mesh quality improvement by re-triangulation surface meshes on 3-dimensional CAD model of a human wrist joint by Leong, Mun Teik

“…Thus, mesh quality is very crucial especially in finite element analysis in order to produce high accuracy results. Re-triangulation surface method is employed to improve the mesh quality of the model with certain parameters. …”
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Monitoring and control of AC power distribution board through sound card-based SCADA system by Jabir, Muhammad

“…Sound card is the most cheapest and easily integrate to computer as data acquisition device rather than other acquisition cards which are expensive as well as demand separate software and software license in order to integrate hardware to computer software. …”
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Probabilistic verification beyond context-freeness by Li, G

“…Furthermore, rPTSA and PAHORS are shown to be strictly more expressive than order-1 PHORS and incomparable to order-2 PHORS, and they hence offer a balance between expressiveness and decidability.…”