Dual‐stoichiometry copper sulphide nanoparticles by laser ablation in DMSO: synthesis and biomedical applications for enhanced photothermal therapy and photoacoustic imaging by Taylan, U, Akçimen, S, Eş, I, Küçük, BN, Tekgül, EK, Çelebi, Ç, Kumru, Y, Köymen, H, Inci, F, Ortaç, B

“…These nanoparticles have double stoichiometry (CuS and Cu_1.8S) and crystalline structures, sizes under 30 nm, and they present substantial absorbance in the second near-infrared window and photoluminescence in the visible region. …”

A lead(II) ion selective electrode via a metal complex of poly(hydroxamic acid) by Anuar, K., Hamdan, S.

“…A new lead(II) electrode has been constructed with poly(hydroxamic acid) (PHXA) as the active material and silicone rubber as the supporting material. The electrode gave near Nerstian response over the concentration range 4 × 10-5-1 × 10-2M lead(II). …”
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Accounting for Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Sustainability Goal: Developing an Integrated Reporting Model Through Integrated Thinking Among Malaysian Corporations (S/O 13596) by Abdul Hamid, Fathilatul Zakimi, Othman, Zaleha

“…Furthermore, 5 companies plan to adopt in near term. Most of the earlier adopters are GLC''s, as encouraged by the Prime Minister, during the launching the IR Practice by Malaysian Public Companies. …”
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Energy optimization of air distribution and chilled water systems by Zhang, Ling

“…Currently, the most popular HVAC systems in large commercial buildings are chilled water systems, and the primary-secondary pumping chilled water loop is a tool that the HVAC engineers have been using for nearly 50 years. In this dissertation, we will only discuss the energy optimization for air distribution and chilled water systems of large HVAC systems.…”
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US exceptionalism? International trends in midlife mortality by Dowd, JB, Doniec, K, Zhang, L, Tilstra, A

“…Midlife mortality also increased in the UK for people aged 45–54 year and in Canada, Poland and Sweden among for those aged 25–44 years.…”

The state of health in the European Union (EU-27) in 2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease study 2019 by Santos, JV, Padron-Monedero, A, Bikbov, B, Grad, DA, Plass, D, Mechili, EA, Gazzelloni, F, Fischer, F, Sulo, G, Ngwa, CH, Noguer-Zambrano, I, Peñalvo, JL, Haagsma, JA, Kissimova-Skarbek, K, Monasta, L, Ghith, N, Sarmiento-Suarez, R, Hrzic, R, Haneef, R, O’Caoimh, R, Cuschieri, S, Mondello, S, Kabir, Z, GBD 2019 EU State of Health Collaborators, Freitas, A, Devleesschauwer, B

“…</p> <br> <p><strong>Methods:</strong> We used the Global Burden of Disease 2019 study estimates and 95% uncertainty intervals for the whole EU and each country to evaluate age-standardised death, years of life lost (YLLs), years lived with disability (YLDs) and disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) rates for Level 2 causes, as well as life expectancy and healthy life expectancy (HALE).…”

Alcohol Use and Its Relation with Demographic, Environmental, and Psychological Factors among Adolescents in Nabawan, Sabah by Jaimon, Selly, Deligannu, Pravina, Robinson, Fredie

“…Analysis revealed that older age adolescents 18 years and 19 years, respectively (adjusted odds ratio [aOR], 3.93; P=0.021; aOR, 5.38; P=0.003), having parents (aOR, 4.11; P=0.001) and peers (aOR, 11.57; P<0.001) who consume alcohol were significantly associated with alcohol use. …”
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Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 79 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks in 188 countries, 1990–2013:... by Forouzanfar, M, Alexander, L, Anderson, H, Ali, R, Beardsley, J, Bennett, D, Briggs, A, Chen, Z, Gething, P, Jha, V, Moschandreas, J, Newton, C, Rahimi, K, Scarborough, P

“…<p><strong>Methods</strong></p> Attributable deaths, years of life lost, years lived with disability, and disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs) have been estimated for 79 risks or clusters of risks using the GBD 2010 methods. …”

Memory-efficient and rapidly-converging path planner by Immanuel, Ivan

“…The planner employed by UTM must be able to return optimal, or at least near optimal path, to avoid convolutions and reduce energy consumption of each UAV. …”
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Influence of thermal sintering protocol on materials properties of tungsten carbide alloy (WC-17%Co) components by binder jet printing by Low, Tammy Chien-Yu

“…Binder jet is a type of 3D printing technique that operates at low temperature and print objects to its near net shape. It enables subsequent post shaping process to be omitted, possibly cutting down on processing steps and cost. …”
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Property study of phase change materials for nanopatterning by Khoo, Chee Ying.

“…By utilizing the idea of Super Resolution Near Field (Super-RENS) structure, the introduction of a mask layer is able to further reduce the dimensions formed on the laser thermal lithography (LTL) structure. …”
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Design of differentially-driven chip antenna by Tan, Heng Chuan.

“…When the driving points are located near to each other ξ/λ_0 <0.1, there will be no resonance.…”
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Recovery of Herschel-Bulkley Fluid Parameters from Video via Differentiable Simulations by Eastman, John M.

“…Our approach aims to accurately recover physical parameters and achieve high-fidelity 3D reconstructions from single-view videos of fluids, even those with complex rheological behaviors like shear thinning and thickening. In this study, we apply our method to a Herschel-Bulkley fluid, namely ketchup, under two different real-world conditions: a 50mm column collapse and being squeezed from a bottle. …”
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Atherogenesis and plaque rupture, surface/interface-related phenomena by Siegel, G., Berkholz, J., Klüßendorf, D., Knosalla, C., Zakrzewicz, A., Ermilov, E., Malmsten, M., Lindman, Bjorn

“…TGFβ furthers also calcification, so that fibrous cap tensile strength and resistance to shear stress are imparted. This way, a plaque rupture may possibly be averted.…”
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Self-organized canals enable long-range directed material transport in bacterial communities by Li, Ye, Liu, Shiqi, Zhang, Yingdan, Seng, Zi Jing, Xu, Haoran, Yang, Liang, Wu, Yilin

“…Using Pseudomonas aeruginosa colonies as a model system, we discover that a large-scale and temporally evolving open-channel system spontaneously develops in the colony via shear-induced banding. Fluid flows in the open channels support high-speed (up to 450 µm/s) transport of cells and outer membrane vesicles over centimeters, and help to eradicate colonies of a competing species Staphylococcus aureus. …”
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A molecular dynamics simulation to shed light on the mechanical alloying of an Al-Zr alloy induced by severe plastic deformation by Morkina, Alina Y., Babicheva, Rita I., Korznikova, Elena A., Enikeev, Nariman A., Edalati, Kaveh, Dmitriev, Sergey V.

“…It is revealed that orientation of the grain boundary with segregation normal to the shear direction promotes more efficient mixing of alloy components compared to its parallel arrangement. …”
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Net section fracture of aluminium alloy angle-to-plate connections: testing, modelling and design by Jiang, Ke, Li, Shuai, Guo, Tong, Liang, Yating, Zhao, Ou

“…The test setup, procedures and key obtained results, including failure loads, load–elongation curves, failure modes and strain distributions at failure cross-sections were reported. The shear lag effect and influences of the out-of-plane eccentricity, in-plane eccentricity, connection length and type of the connected leg on the net section efficiency were discussed. …”
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Micro-engineered perfusable 3D vasculatures for cardiovascular diseases by Menon, Nishanth Venugopal, Tay, Hui Min, Wee, Soon Nan, Li, King Ho Holden, Hou, Han Wei

“…Whole blood was perfused (1-10 dyne cm-2) into the microdevices and distinct platelet and leukocyte adherence patterns were observed due to increased shear stresses at the constriction, and an additional convective flow through the collagen. …”
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A network-based approach to interpreting pore blockage and cake filtration during membrane fouling by Han, Qi, Li, Weiyi, Trinh, Thien An, Liu, Xin, Chew, Jia Wei

“…Although limited fouling cases were examined in the current study, it is expected that the network model developed here can be readily applied to study more complex phenomena involved in a membrane filtration process (e.g., shear-induced diffusion), and the associated insights would be significantly enhanced when coupled with more advanced fouling characterization techniques (e.g., Optical Coherence Tomography).…”
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Remarkably enhanced thermal transport based on a flexible horizontally-aligned carbon nanotube array film by Qiu, Lin, Wang, Xiaotian, Su, Guoping, Tang, Dawei, Zheng, Xinghua, Zhu, Jie, Wang, Zhiguo, Norris, Pamela M., Bradford, Philip D., Zhu, Yuntian

“…Here we report a simultaneous sevenfold increase in in-plane thermal conductivity and a fourfold reduction in the thermal contact resistance at the flexible CNT-SiO2 coated heat sink interface by coupling the CNTs with orderly physical overlapping along the horizontal direction through an engineering approach (shear pressing). The removal of empty space rapidly increases the density of transport channels, and the replacement of the fine CNT tips with their cylindrical surface insures intimate contact at CNT-SiO2 interface. …”
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