An Ultra-Wideband Antenna with Triple Band-Notched Characteristics for Wearable Application by Rashid, M. A. A, Shah, S. M, Majid, H. A, Musa, U, Suriani, N. S

“…Nevertheless, the antenna is able to reject the WiMAX and C-band as well as the WLAN band. The simulated specific absorption rate (SAR) results show that the antenna complies with the SAR limit Federal Communication Commission (FCC) and International Commission of Non-Ionizing Radiation Protections (ICNIRP) standards for 1 mW input power. …”
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Cerium oxide for L-band Q-switched pulse laser generation by Mansor, M., Zainol Abidin, N.H., Ng, E.K., Garg, A.K., Liew, J.Y.C., Alresheedi, M.T., Mahdi, M.A.

“…In this work, CeO2 is employed as a saturable absorber (CeO2-SA) in the generation of an L-band Q-switched erbium-doped fiber laser. Q-switching was attained at 33.33 mW pump power threshold with a central wavelength of 1600.512 nm. …”
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Slowdown: the end of the great acceleration—and why it's good for the planet, the economy, and our lives by Dorling, D

“…<br> Perhaps most surprising of all is the fact that even as new technologies frequently reshape our everyday lives and are widely believed to be propelling our civilization into new and uncharted waters, the rate of technological progress is also rapidly dropping. …”

Arts in the lives of Singapore's seniors: Perceived benefits, barriers, and strategies of arts participation by Toh, Wee Peng

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Hydrogen-bond memory and water-skin supersolidity resolving the Mpemba paradox by Zhang, Xi, Huang, Yongli, Ma, Zengsheng, Zhou, Yichun, Zhou, Ji, Zheng, Weitao, Jiang, Qing, Sun, Changqing

“…Analysis of experimental database reveals that the hydrogen bond (O:H–O) possesses memory to emit energy at a rate depending on its initial storage. …”
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Design of an oil-immersed pulse modulator for X-band 50-MW klystron by Liu, Yong-Fang, Matsumoto, Hiroshi, Gu, Ming, Li, Guo-Qiang, Li, Sheying

“…This article presents a compact high-voltage pulse modulator used for a 50-MW X -band pulsed klystron (11.4 GHz) at Shanghai Advanced Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences (SARI, CAS). …”
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Family standards of living over the long run, England 1280–1850 by Horrell, S, Humphries, J, Weisdorf, J

“…It asks whether this family could achieve a standard of living historically defined as ‘respectable’. It extracts information from primary and secondary sources to make adjustments for the participation rates of women and children, the varying number of days worked over time, the changing involvement of married women in paid work, and the evolving occupational structure. …”

QoS provisioning by power control for video communication via satellite links by Ma, Ting, Lee, Yee Hui, Winkler, Stefan, Ma, Maode

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Analysis of CDMA-based land mobile satellite communication systems over fading channels by Zhang, Wei

“…In this thesis, by means of analytical and numerical methods, the average bit error rate of a wideband DS-CDMA land mobile LEO satellite communication sys-tem with an equal-gain RAKE receiver is derived. …”
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Chemical methods in dewatering clayey slurry for land reclamation (GE27AB/ISP) by Andi

“…Land reclamation is a process of creating new land from river, lake, or sea by dumping landfill material into it. …”
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Exploring the freshwater cladocera (Pleuroxus spp.) as new potential live feed in aquaculture by Amirah Yuslan, Hidayu Suhaimi, Nizalmie Azani, Wong, Wey-Lim, Nadiah W. Rasdi

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Ensuring sustainable water security through sustainable land management: Research evidences for policy by Dagnachew, M, Gebrehiwot, SG, Bewket, W, Alamirew, T, Charles, K, Zeleke, G

“…Sustainable land management (SLM) practices is a key to reducing rates of land degradation and has proven to ensure water security by increasing soil moisture availability, decreasing surface runoff, decreasing soil erosion, increasing infiltration, and decreasing flood discharge. …”

Chemical composition and dynamics of biofilm matrix in hydrated, live Shewanella oneidensis biofilms by Ding, Yuanzhao

“…SALVI-TOF-SIMS was demonstrated to be a promising molecular imaging approach to probing chemical dynamics of in situ hydrated, live biofilms.…”
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Electrical tunable topological valley photonic crystals for on-chip optical communications in the telecom band by Qi, Zhipeng, Hu, Guohua, Deng, Chunyu, Sun, Hao, Sun, Yaohui, Li, Ying, Liu, Bo, Bai, Yu, Chen, Shuaidong, Cui, Yiping

“…On-chip optical communications are in increasingly demand for low-loss, small-footprint and power-efficient waveguiding solutions in the telecom band. However, most integrated optical circuits suffer from high propagation loss and low integration degree. …”
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Flip chip joint-in-via architecture on flexible substrates with Au-Sn interdiffusion bonding by Lee, Teck Kheng

“…A new joint-in-via architecture has been developed with an instantaneous fluxless bonding know as SLICF (solid-liquid interdiffusion bonding by compressive force) for fine pitch microelectronic packaging. …”
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Behaviour of motorists during changeover of rates of the electronic road pricing system by Tan, Kelvin Yik Keong

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Robust linear output feedback controller for autonomous landing of a quadrotor on a ship deck by Tan, Chun Kiat, Wang, Jian Liang, Paw, Yew Chai, Liao, Fang

“…Ship deck landing control of a quadrotor requires certain robustness with respect to ship heave motion. …”
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New use of global warming potentials to compare cumulative and short-lived climate pollutants by Allen, MR, Fuglestvedt, JS, Shine, KP, Reisinger, A, Pierrehumbert, R, Forster, PM

“…Metric choice can affect the relative emphasis placed on reductions of ‘cumulative climate pollutants’ such as carbon dioxide versus ‘short-lived climate pollutants’ (SLCPs), including methane and black carbon2, 3, 4, 5, 6. …”

Estimating global demand for land-based transportation services using the shared socioeconomic pathways scenario framework by Nkiriki, J, Jaramillo, P, Williams, N, Davis, A, Armanios, DE

“…The global average annual land-based passenger demand growth rate ranges between 1.3% and 4.1%, while the annual growth rate for land-based freight demand ranges between 3.1% and 3.6% across the 30 years between 2020 and 2050. …”

The role of free volume, hydrogen bonding, and crosslinks on physical aging in polymers of intrinsic microporosity (PIMs) by Joo, Taigyu, Rodriguez, Katherine Mizrahi, Lee, Hyunhee, Acharya, Durga, Doherty, Cara M., Smith, Zachary P.

“…The results suggest that higher initial fractional free volume is the primary factor contributing to higher rates of physical aging and that the introduction of hydrogen bonds and crosslinks reduces the initial free volume of PIM-1. …”
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