Nonlinear dynamic analysis of a piezoelectric energy harvester with mechanical plucking mechanism by Noh, Jinhong, Bae, Sungryong, Yoon, Yong-Jin, Kim, Pilkee

“…On the other hand, increasing the plucking speed tends to amplify the magnitude of the contact force while reducing the duration of the contact phase. …”
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Emergent semantic segmentation: training-free dense-label-free extraction from vision-language models by Luo, Jiayun

“…However, cross-attention alone tends to over-segment, whereas cross-attention plus GradCAM tend to under-segment. …”
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Effect of the shapes of foundation soil on the seismic response of dikes by Loo, Zhi Yung

“…This was due to the refraction and reflection of internal SH waves converging towards the center of the basin, resulting in longer duration of shaking and increase in acceleration amplitudes, as well as generated surface Rayleigh waves from basin edge. However, the PGA tends to decrease with the increase of basin width, given a fixed bedrock slope angle and depth. …”
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A generative model for evaluating missing data methods in large epidemiological cohorts by Radosavljević, L, Smith, SM, Nichols, TE

“…For example, in the UK Biobank missing data tends to appear in blocks, because non-participation in one of the sub-studies leads to missingness for all sub-study variables. …”

Transport phenomena of immiscible fluids in microchannels by Yin, Shuai

“…Due to the prevalence of miniaturization in the past two decades, microdroplets have been widely applied to the fields of chemistry, biology, and material science. …”
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Growth of vanadium oxides nanostructures by chemical vapour deposition by Sim, Dao Hao

“…The formation of V2O5 nanosheets have been challenging because V2O5 tends to grow into 1- D structure because of its preference to grow in [010] direction. …”
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Micro electro mechanical systems (MEMS) enabled digital pen by Tan, Joel Qi Zhi

“…Keyboards have been the key human-to-computer input device since they were first introduced to the commercial world in the 1970s. …”
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Role of Water Solvation on the Key Intermediates Catalyzing Oxygen Evolution on RuO2 by Di Liberto, Giovanni, Pacchioni, Gianfranco, Shao-Horn, Yang, Giordano, Livia

“…This study provides further mechanistic insights on the role of the oxide surface chemistry in the OER mechanism and highlights the importance of explicitly treating the catalyst/water interfaces including dynamical aspects to assess the stability and the interconversion mechanism of key surface species, since the adoption of static solvation approaches tends to overestimate the energetic difference between −OOH and −OO–H reaction intermediates.…”
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Seismic performance of reinforced concrete columns with plain longitudinal reinforcing bars by Pham, Thanh Phuong, Li, Bing

“…Further comparisons with the existing model for evaluation of existing structures revealed that the ASCE/SEI 41-06 provision tends to overestimate initial stiffness and shear strength, but substantially underestimates drift capacities of columns with plain reinforcing bars. …”
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Why did China seldom claim? : Overseas investment and bilateral investment treaties by Chen, Jiaxin

“…The research finds that, instead of solving the dispute settlement issues, the China-EU BIT tends to play its role in market liberalization. …”
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Characterizing correlation within multipartite quantum systems via local randomized measurements by Liu, Zhenhuan, Zeng, Pei, Zhou, You, Gu, Mile

“…Yet, the experimental access of this quantity remains challenging as it tends to be nonlinear, and hence often requires tomography which becomes quickly intractable as dimensions of relevant quantum systems scale. …”
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Electroosmotic flow hysteresis for fluids with dissimilar pH and ionic species by Lim, An Eng, Lam, Yee Cheong

“…However, complete displacement tends to be achieved by lowering the NaCl concentration, i.e., increasing its zeta potential. …”
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Intelligent agent design for persuading the elderly to adopt a healthy lifestyle by Yu, Xinjia

“…Extensive user studies (n=62) have been conducted in this thesis to support the effectiveness of our proposed model and agent design in both communication engagement and persuasion effectiveness. …”
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Quantifying thermophysical properties, characterization, and thermal cycle testing of nano-enhanced organic eutectic phase change materials for thermal energy storage applications by Jacob, Jeeja, Kumar Pandey, Adarsh Kumar, Nasrudin, Abd Rahim, Selvaraj, Jeyraj, Paul Nadakkal, John, Samykano, Mahendran, Saidur, Rahman Md

“…Dispersion of highly conductive nanoparticles in Phase Change Materials (PCMs) tends to improve the thermophysical properties of nanocomposites. …”
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The intransitive dice kernel: $$\frac{\mathbbm {1}_{x\ge y}-\mathbbm {1}_{x\le y}}{4} - \frac{3(x-y)(1+xy)}{8}$$ by Sah, Ashwin, Sawhney, Mehtaab

“…Answering a pair of questions of Conrey, Gabbard, Grant, Liu, and Morrison, we prove that a triplet of dice drawn from the multiset model are intransitive with probability $$1/4+o(1)$$ 1 / 4 + o ( 1 ) and the probability a random pair of dice tie tends toward $$\alpha n^{-1}$$ α n - 1 for an explicitly defined constant $$\alpha $$ α . …”
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Memory and fluctuations in chemical dynamics by Farahvash, Ardavan

“…Using these methods, I show that the local coordination number around a CO molecule plays a crucial role in the transition states of the adsorption/desorption process, and that CO tends to increase its coordination number before desorbing. …”
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The potential roles of granular activated carbon in anaerobic fluidized membrane bioreactors : effect on membrane fouling and membrane integrity by Wu, Bing, Wong, Philip Chuen Yung, Fane, Anthony Gordon

“…GAC can exhibit two major beneficial roles in reducing membrane fouling, namely, (1) GAC scours the membranes to limit the cake layer formation and facilitate cake layer removal; (2) GAC tends to absorb potential foulants to reduce the interaction of foulants with the membranes. …”
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Analyticity, regularity, and generalized polynomial chaos approximation of stochastic, parametric parabolic two-scale partial differential equations by Hoang, Viet Ha

“…Passing to the limit when the microscale tends to zero, using two-scale homogenization, we obtain the parametric two-scale homogenized problem. …”
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Cluster-based information fusion for probabilistic risk analysis in complex projects under uncertainty by Zhang, Limao, Wang, Ying, Wu, Xianguo

“…This paper proposes a hybrid soft computing approach that integrates the Dempster–Shafer (D–S) evidence theory and cluster analysis for probabilistic risk analysis in complex projects under uncertainty. The fusion model tends to solve multi-criteria decision-making problems with a focus on the information content reflected from evidence. …”
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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.

“…This happens because in the second case, grain boundary sliding is the main deformation mechanism, and Zr tends to remain within the interfaces. In contrast, the involvement of dislocations in the case of normal orientation of grain boundaries with Zr segregation significantly contributes to deformation and facilitates better dissolution of Zr in the Al matrix. …”
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