Tantalum based amorphous thin films as copper diffusion barrier by Yan, Hua

“…The diffusion profile of Cu in and failure mechanisms of the binary alloy barriers have also been investigated in order to reveal the insights behind the barrier performance of the Ta-Ni barrier. …”
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A cross-layer payload-dropping scheme for improving CSMA/CA throughput in interference-limited co-channel cells by Jayabal, Raymond J.

“…To mitigate this problem, many schemes have been proposed, of which schemes combining carrier sensing threshold (CST) and transmit power control (TPC) stand out in terms of practicality. …”
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Thermoplastic polymer nanocomposites based on polydopamine-coated clay : preparation, structures and properties by Phua, Si Lei

“…Polymer/clay nanocomposites have been widely investigated over past three decades due to the dramatic boost in properties at low filler content. …”
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Electrochemical DNA biosensor based on nanoporous alumina membrane by Deng, Jiajia

“…It was further applied to detect the genomic DNA sequence derived from Legionella pneumophila which has been found to contaminate around 4% of drinking water and induces serious form of pneumonia known as Legionellosis or Legionnaires’ disease. …”
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Analysis and design of audio class D amplifiers by Guo, Linfei

“…Interestingly, this phenomenon has not been analytically investigated/reported in literature, and the means for its mitigation are largely empirical. …”
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话语标记 “可是” 在马来西亚华语会话中的语用功能 = Pragmatic functions of discourse marker “Keshi” in conversational Malaysian Mandarin by 胡文绮 Woo, Wen Qi

“…总的来说，“可是”在口语交际的过程中延伸出了多种语用功能，成为说话者用以引导听话者领受其言外之意的话语标记。“Keshi” has been used frequently in Malaysian Mandarin daily conversations. …”
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Investigating the charge separation and transport in iron based photoanodes for solar-driven water splitting by Bassi, Prince Saurabh

“…After that, efforts have been made to employ cheap, abundant and non-toxic semiconducting materials as photoanodes and to improve overall efficiency and performance of PEC devices. …”
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Posture control and balance for quality of walking in rehabilitation by Li, Lei

“…Tests on healthy subjects have been successfully conducted to prove the concept of the proposed research work. …”
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Improving the productivity of high-level synthesis by advancing reuseability and verifiability by Yang, Liwei

“…The productivity of designing in manual RTL has been growing more slowly than the size and complexity of the designs, emphasizing the need for enhancements in the design flow. …”
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EEG-based attention recognition using machine learning by Sun, Haoqi

“…Attention-related behavior, such as driving distraction, has been reported as a major reason in traffic accidents. …”
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Study of a dry fixed-vane revolving compressor by Toh, Shaun Jia Hui

“…These changes in mathematical expression have been made into the models to produce predicted power friction losses of the compressor. …”
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Optimized GPU algorithms for sparse data problems by Pham, Nguyen Quang Anh

“…Graphics processing units (GPUs) have been successfully used in recent years to solve many big data problems. …”
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语言接触与新加坡华语被动式的欧化现象 ：基于语料库的考察研究 = Europeanisation of passive constructions in Singapore Mandarin Chinese : a corpus-based study... by 孙梦漪 Sun, Mengyi

“…Furthermore, the results show that SMC has been influenced by English to a greater degree than MMC, and the difference is even more distinctive when the spoken forms are compared between the two varieties. …”
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Aqueous-only exfoliation of pristine graphite to graphene : towards sustainable, multifunctional polymer nanocomposites by Seyed Ismail Seyed Shahabadi

“…Water is the most desirable medium for LPE but graphene needs stabilization with surfactants or stabilizers because of the huge mismatch between the surface energies of water and graphene. There have been a myriad of synthetic surfactants and stabilizers studied for this purpose, but natural surfactants have seen less attention. …”
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四面楚歌下的同志再现：李碧华和陈凯歌对《霸王别姬》的改写 = Representations of the besieged “Comrade” : Li Bihua's and Chen Kaige's adaptations of the Peking Opera “Farewell My Concubine”... by 許维贤 Hee, Wai Siam

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Investigating the role of astrocytes in Parkinson's disease pathogenesis in GBA- N370S iPSC-derived neural cultures by Ibarra Aizpurua, N

“…However, the research available indicates that other cells found in the midbrain, such as astrocytes, are also involved in the disease pathogenesis, although their role has not been fully elucidated yet. Moreover, it is still to be determined whether the neuroinflammation found in PD patients has a causative effect in disease onset or is in turn a consequence of neurodegeneration. …”

Understanding sudden larch death – from epidemiology to host resistance by Dun, H

“…By 2019 at least 20,700 hectares of larch had been killed due to P. ramorum infection or felled in efforts to contain the pathogen. …”

Using machine learning to discover candidate localised transcripts from microscopy and genome-wide bioinformatics data by Kiourlappou, M

“…Proper mRNA localisation is vital for the correct functioning of the entirety of a glial cell and dysregulation of mRNA localisation in glial cells has been implicated in neurodegenerative and neurological diseases and some types of cancer. …”

Investigating the health and care needs of pregnant women with multiple long-term conditions by D'Arcy, R

“…MLTC was observed to be a common health concern among pregnant women, and is likely to become increasingly prevalent in the future. MLTC has been shown to be an important component of inequitable maternal and perinatal outcomes, even up to one year after birth. …”

Landless in God’s own country: development and perpetual struggles in Kerala by Ramapurath Chemmencheri, S

“…Illustrating seven different sectors from which livelihood expulsions are underway in the lives of landless Adivasis in Kerala, the thesis argues that their position in the local growth trajectory can be understood as an “in-between” one, wherein their wage labour is becoming less and less relevant to the local growth path, although they remain embedded in capitalist relations. Meanwhile, they have been dissuaded from turning into labourers in constant migration by virtue of welfare provisions and political mobilisation. …”