Low power ALU design by Jin, Yuhao

“…In addition, the circuits in this dissertation use TSMC’s 40nm technology and have been designed in static logic style.…”
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Partnerships with principles: putting relationships at the heart of public contracts for better social outcomes by Ball, N, Gibson, M

“…Fortunately, an alternative – relational contracting – has been well-researched and applied in the private sector. …”

Understanding the conceptual framework of pad structural modification for disc brake squeal noise suppression based on system’s dynamic response. by Sulaiman, M. S., Abu Husain, N., Abu Bakar, A.R., Abdul Hamid, M. K., Ismail, N. H., Zakaria, K.

“…Brake squeal noise solutions have been an essential subject in the automotive industry. …”
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Investigation on virtual reality applications by Jiang, Yuan

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Design of robot integrated restaurant by Santhosh Pandiaraj

“…Hence, this projects works towards analysing how significant the drop in cost and the time taken has been and analyses how successful the integration of robots in restaurant has been.…”
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3D multi-scale characterization and modelling of damage in ceramic matrix composites by Zhao, S

“…<p>The SiC/SiC composite has been proposed as a candidate material for the fuel cladding component in advanced nuclear reactors. …”

Dependency, privilege, and counter-insurgency: a case study of the industrial elite of Hebron in the occupied West Bank by Arafeh, N

“…<p>A central but understudied aspect of the period following the Oslo peace process in 1993 is the rise of a native Palestinian business elite, which have been playing an important role in the political, economic, and social spheres in the West Bank. …”

Developing a digital phenotype to subdivide adult immunosuppressed COVID-19 outcomes within the English Primary Care Sentinel Network by Leston, M, Kar, D, Forbes, A, Jamie, G, Wimalaratna, R, Jiwani, G, Ordóñez-Mena, JM, Stewart, DE, Whitaker, H, Joy, M, Lee, LYW, Hobbs, FDR, de Lusignan, S

“…Background: Adults classified as immunosuppressed have been disproportionately affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. …”

A Sustainable Higher Education Ecosystem: A Development of Malaysian Transport Demand Management Framework (S/O 14195) by Abdul Hanan, Suhaila, Zainuddin, Nizamuddin, A. Jalil, Emy Ezura, Ahmad Mahyadin @ Mahidin, Fariza, Zakaria, Izatul Husna

“…Finally, the research's limitations have been outlined, and recommendations for strategies have been described further in this report.…”
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Computational modeling of selective laser melting process by Le, Kim Quy

“…Discrete element method (DEM), which is a finite-difference method widely used for simulating granular systems, has been applied to describe the Newtonian interactions of the particles (or powders) in SLM, while computational fluid dynamics (CFD) has been adopted to model the thermodynamics of the melting process. …”
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Novel frequency selective structures based on a two-dimensional periodic array of vertical microstrip lines by Amir Khurrum Rashid

“…A novel frequency selective structure (FSS) consisting of a two-dimensional (2-D) periodic array of vertical microstrip lines has been proposed. Under plane wave incidence whose polarization is perpendicular to the strips, this array supports two quasi-TEM modes. …”
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Fragmented and fitful: India’s energy diplomacy by Chaudhuri, PP

“…Attempts at energy diplomacy have been moved forward in fits and starts and are easily trumped by domestic political considerations.…”

Graphene based-coating effective ways of preventing corrosion by Siti Maznah, Kabeb, Azman, Hassan, Zurina, Mohamad

“…This book is the culmination of nearly four years of work I have done on epoxy-based nanocomposite coatings. …”
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Expediting treatments in the 21st century: orphan drugs and accelerated approvals by Domike, Reuben, Raju, G. K., Sullivan, Jamie, Kennedy, Annie

“…Similar to the use of orphan drug designation, oncological disease therapies have been the largest utilizers of AA. Many therapies targeting these diseases address unmet medical need and can leverage surrogate markers that have previously been used in similar trials. …”
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Structural analysis of the novel influenza A (H7N9) viral Neuraminidase interactions with current approved neuraminidase inhibitors Oseltamivir, Zanamivir, and Peramivir in the pre... by Tran-To Su, Chinh, Ouyang, Xuchang, Zheng, Jie, Kwoh, Chee Keong

“…To-date, there have been more than 100 infections with 23 deaths. It is more worrying as this viral strain has never been detected in humans and only been found to be of low-pathogenicity. …”
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Highly selective upcycling of plastic mixture waste by microwave-assisted catalysis over Zn/b-ZnO by Zhao, J, Liu, B, Xiong, L, Liu, W, Wang, D, Ma, W, Jiang, L, Yang, J, Wang, P, Xiao, T, Zhao, S, Edwards, PP, Tang, J

“…Moreover, the catalyst can tolerate high contaminates, even the landfilled plastics can still be converted to lubricant base oil precursors, which has never been reported before.…”

Block-encoding dense and full-rank kernels using hierarchical matrices: applications in quantum numerical linear algebra by Nguyen, Quynh T., Kiani, Bobak T., Lloyd, Seth

“…When applied to many physical kernel matrices, our method can improve the runtime of solving quantum linear systems of dimension <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><mml:mi>N</mml:mi></mml:math> to <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><mml:mi>O</mml:mi><mml:mo stretchy="false">(</mml:mo><mml:mi>&amp;#x03BA;</mml:mi><mml:mi>polylog</mml:mi><mml:mo>&amp;#x2061;</mml:mo><mml:mo stretchy="false">(</mml:mo><mml:mfrac><mml:mi>N</mml:mi><mml:mi>&amp;#x03B5;</mml:mi></mml:mfrac><mml:mo stretchy="false">)</mml:mo><mml:mo stretchy="false">)</mml:mo></mml:math>, where <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><mml:mi>&amp;#x03BA;</mml:mi></mml:math> and <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><mml:mi>&amp;#x03B5;</mml:mi></mml:math> are the condition number and error bound of the matrix operation. This runtime is near-optimal and, in terms of <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><mml:mi>N</mml:mi></mml:math>, exponentially improves over prior quantum linear systems algorithms in the case of dense and full-rank kernel matrices. …”
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Relating local structure to thermoelectric properties in Pb1-xGexBi2Te4 by Dong, Jinfeng, Liu, Yukun, Liu, Jue, Hu, Lei, Jiang, Yilin, Tan, Xian Yi, Shi, Yuansheng, Yang, Dongwang, Saglik, Kivanc, Suwardi, Ady, Li, Qian, Li, Jing-Feng, Dravid, Vinayak P., Yan, Qingyu, Kanatzidis, Mercouri G.

“…A high ZT of 1.0 is also predicted for pristine PbBi2Te4 at 473 K, demonstrating its potential as a near-room-temperature thermoelectric system.…”
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Experimental investigation of pile-supported/floating breakwaters integrated with oscillating-water-column converters by He, Fang

“…Since wave energy mainly concentrates near the water surface, and exponentially decreases with increasing distance from the water surface, pile-supported breakwaters and floating breakwaters may be good alternatives to traditional breakwaters. …”
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Essays on multi-echelon inventory control by Wan, Guangyu

“…However, finding warehouse stock allocation policies that are optimal or near-optimal and easy to implement is of practical importance. …”
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