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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Electronic structures of topological materials studied by angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy by He, S

“…Surface states are composed of electronic states that localize near the surface and decay exponentially into the bulk, which exhibit low-dimensional band dispersions different from the bulk states. …”

On efficient solution of large-size wire-grid structures in a complex environment by Lee, Yee Hui.

“…In this study, four numerical techniques (1) wavelet transform method (WTM) (2) modified fast multipole method (MFMM) (3) adaptive segmentation method (ASM) (4) weak coupling suppression method (WCSM) for the efficient solution of large-size electromagnetic (EM) problems have been studied. These techniques have been implemented onto a popular simulation software - Numerical Electro-magnetic Code (NEC), which uses the method of moment (MoM) for the solution of EM problems in a complex environment. …”
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Understanding college students’ motivation to gamble and to continue gambling. by Lin, Dao Rong., Tan, Khia Hwee., Tan, Seok Hui.

“…The prevalence of the adult gambling has been given much attention. However, little has been done to examine youth gambling. …”
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Milk and mothercraft : infant feeding trends in Singapore from 1900 to the 1970s by Lum, Jasmine Syn Mun

“…The most prominent discourse in infant feeding has been the conflict between breastfeeding and bottle-feeding. …”
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Design of an end-to-end taxi transport claims system – part 3 by Fu, Joel Zhicheng.

“…The submission of claims has been identified as a laborious undertaking and since the necessary infrastructure which captures the data for claim submission is already in place, a project has been proposed to look into the feasibility of automation. …”
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Modulation classification for CPM signals by Goh, Mao Jun.

“…However, CPM signals have not been widely used so far because of receiver complexity and synchronization problems. …”
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Adaptive motion video coding for low bit rate video conferencing by Das Sanjib Kumar

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The application of prospect theory in travel choice behavioral analysis by Hariharan Subramaniam.

“…This could be clearly shown from browsing through the various research articles and journals which have been published. Several principles and models, based on theories have been used to understand the travel choice behaviour in complex contexts. …”
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Image processing algorithms for medical applications by Naseef Abdul Kareem

“…Among them, resting state fMRI has been gaining more momentum. Several observation and default mode network in the ‘task absent’ has caught the attention of scientists. …”
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Study of SiNWs / hybrid solar cell by Zhang, Siyuan

“…For example, nanostructure has been intensively investigated for light trapping to improve the device performance and has been applied to increase the cell efficiency. …”
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SMARTEYE - for human posture and activity monitoring Part 2 by Lim, Jay Boon Kiat

“…After testing the implemented system, a detection accuracy of 90% has been achieved for human detection and an accuracy of 93% has been achieved for standing posture detection. …”
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