Design of a Four-Bar Latch Mechanism and a Shear-Based Rotary Viscous Damper for Single-Axis Prosthetic Knees by Arelekatti, VN Murthy, Petelina, Nina T, Johnson, W Brett, Major, Matthew J, Winter V, Amos G

“…The stability module enabled smooth transition from stance to swing with timely initiation of knee flexion. The dampers also performed satisfactorily, as the increase in the damping coefficient was found to decrease the peak knee flexion angle during swing. …”
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The Rise of Build to Rent in the UK / by Kilpatrick, Brendan, author 656149

“…The book examines the background of traditional UK home-owning and renting from which this new sector emerged, and charts BTR's momentum swing in 2016 and on-going expansion to the present day, describing the potential of the BTR model in terms of both economic and climate sustainability and evaluating the key ingredients to success. …”
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Design, fabrication and characterization of a tunnel FET by Chen, Zhixian.

“…With Si P+-i-n+ tunneling junction, the TFET with a gate length of ~200 nm exhibits good subthreshold swing of ~70 mV/dec, superior DIBL of ~17 mV/V, and excellent Ion/Ioff ratio of 7 orders with a low Ioff (~7pA/um). …”
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Development of an air conditioning compressor for a 2-in-1 electric motor for electric vehicles by N. Satheesh Kumar

“…Mathematical models of the conventional swing vane compressor and the new fixed vane compressor design are quantitatively assessed. …”
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Nickel-silicided Schottky junction CMOS transistors with gate-all-around nanowire channels by Tang, L. J., Ho, C. K. F., Tan, Eu Jin, Pey, Kin Leong, Singh, Navab, Lo, Guo-Qiang, Chi, Dong Zhi, Chin, Yoke King, Lee, Pooi See

“…The transistors exhibit good Ion/Ioff characteristics, along with fully controlled shortchannel effects revealed by low drain-induced barrier lowering (~10 mV/V) and near-ideal subthreshold swing (~60 mV/dec). …”
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Design and construct a perpetual motion device by Chan, Ren Wei.

“…Since there are many types of perpetual motion concept circulating in the internet, the author attempts on build on the idea of using the centrifugal force of a pendulum to create a mechanical feedback loop system and exert on the pendulum’s swing. Perpetual motion will occur when the pendulum is able to sustain by its own centrifugal force by recovering its frictional losses. …”
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Low power ALU design by Jin, Yuhao

“…Several techniques have been used for low power design in this dissertation, which are passtransistor logic(PTL), modified circuits based on PTL, non-full-swing circuits, powergating, multiple supply voltages and algorithms including Wallace Tree and the calculation of optimal multiple supply voltage. …”
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Structure-behaviour correlations between two genetically closely related snail species by Le Ferrand, Hortense, Morii, Yuta

“…When under attack from a beetle, K. editha snails retract into their shells whereas K. gainesi snails swing their shells. In this paper, we looked at the microstructure, composition, morphology and mechanics of the shells of these two species and discuss potential relationships between material structure and the snails’ defence behaviours. …”
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Develop a browsing system for tagged images by Liu, Yao

“…The interface of the application has been implemented with Java Swing component and open source APIs TouchGraph. …”
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Post-combustion CO2 capture by adsorption processes by Haghpanah, Reza

“…In this work, we systematically analyze most known pressure vacuum swing adsorption (PVSA)/vacuum swing adsorption (VSA) cycles with zeolite 13X and carbon molecular sieve as the adsorbent to capture CO2 from dry, post-combustion flue gas containing 15% CO2 in N2. …”
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A novel approach to designing a guitar distortion effects pedal by Zheng, Luka

“…This was first done by overdriving the tube amplifier beyond its linear region, creating a harmonic distortion characteristic that is dominant in the 2nd harmonics, and changing to odd harmonic distortion as the output voltage swing is limited by the rail voltage. Guitar distortion pedals today seek to recreate the same sound effect of an overdriven tube amplifier with the use of nonlinear I-V characteristics of diodes. …”
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Failure of plastic structures due to drop impact by Yuen, Shuqin.

“…One test specimen type is made of two acrylic face skins bonded to a Nomex honeycomb core in the middle. …”
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A Highly Linear Ultra-Low-Area-and-Power CMOS Voltage-Controlled Oscillator for Autonomous Microsystems by Pacheco, Javier de Mena, Palacios, Tomas, Hempel, Marek, Vallejo, Marisa Lopez

“…It is designed to minimize leakage, limit high peak currents and provide an output whose frequency variation is linear with the input voltage, while allowing rail-to-rail input range swing. The oscillator occupies 592 μm2 , operates in a frequency range from 43 to 53 Hz and consumes a maximum average power of 210 pW at a supply voltage of 1 V and 4 pW at 0.3 V. …”
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Integration of InGaAs MOSFETs and GaAs/ AlGaAs lasers on Si Substrate for advanced opto-electronic integrated circuits (OEICs) by Kumar, Annie, Lee, Shuh-Ying, Yadav, Sachin, Tan, Kian Hua, Loke, Wan Khai, Dong, Yuan, Lee, Kwang Hong, Wicaksono, Satrio, Liang, Gengchiau, Yoon, Soon-Fatt, Antoniadis, Dimitri, Yeo, Yee-Chia, Gong, Xiao

“…InGaAs n-FETs with an ION/IOFF ratio of more than 106 with very low off-state leakage and a low subthreshold swing with a minimum of 82 mV/decade were realized. …”
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Self healable neuromorphic memtransistor elements for decentralized sensory signal processing in robotics by John, Rohit Abraham, Tiwari, Naveen, Muhammad Iszaki Patdillah, Kulkarni, Mohit Rameshchandra, Tiwari, Nidhi, Basu, Joydeep, Bose, Sumon Kumar, Ankit, Yu, Chan Jun, Nirmal, Amoolya, Vishwanath, Sujaya Kumar, Bartolozzi, Chiara, Basu, Arindam, Mathews, Nripan

“…Sensory information processing in robot skins currently rely on a centralized approach where signal transduction (on the body) is separated from centralized computation and decision-making, requiring the transfer of large amounts of data from periphery to central processors, at the cost of wiring, latency, fault tolerance and robustness. …”
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Atomic transistors beyond Moore's law by Li, Haifeng

“…The scope of the study is limited to reducing contact resistance, and future work may include optimizing parameters such as subthreshold swing. Overall, this study demonstrates the development of high-performance BP-based FETs and opens up new opportunities for their applications in the fields of electronics and optoelectronics.…”
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Room-temperature fabricated thin-film transistors based on compounds with lanthanum and main family element boron by Xiao, Peng, Huang, Junhua, Dong, Ting, Xie, Jianing, Yuan, Jian, Luo, Dongxiang, Liu, Baiquan

“…LaBx-TFT without any intentionally annealing steps exhibited a saturation mobility of 0.44 cm2·V−1·s−1, which is a subthreshold swing (SS) of 0.26 V/decade and a Ion/Ioff ratio larger than 104. …”
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Investigation on the braking characteristics of tractor-trailer on jackknifing by Gan, Zhilong

“…The results show that when the wheels remains in rolling motion, the brake input needs to be sufficient enough so as to inhibit the translational motion of the vehicle as well as work against the trailer swing motion or tractor spin-out. On the other hand, when the wheels are in sliding motion, the effective braking force exerted on the wheels is reduced and therefore increases the chance of jackknifing again. …”
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A 180 nm technology new 2.5 Gbps burst-mode optical receiver design with automatic gain control and feed-forward created reset by Siek, Liter, Duan, Lian, Lim, Wei Meng

“…A single-ended output reaches a 300 mV swing with input current ranging from 25 μA p–p to 1600 μA p–p . …”
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Design of a supply- and temperature-invariant capacitive sensor interface for low power applications by Arup Kocheethra George

“…The proposed oscillator employs a swing-boosting technique to increase the swing of the timing capacitance voltage to twice the supply voltage level. …”
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