Small bamboo shelter by Vimalatulasi Vetrivel

“…This report will be providing methodology and data analysis on parameters such as bending and bearing strength of the bamboo. In addition to that, the methodology of joint connection and bamboo truss calculation for the bamboo shelter will be discussed as well. …”
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Mobile app for battery prognostic by Li, Zhengfan

“…However, safety risks and aging challenge their reliability and durability, often leaving end-users lacking expertise to bear these risks. This study introduces an intelligent battery management system (BMS) integrated into a mobile application to provide intuitive decision-making support. …”
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Popular safe haven assets, do they really exist for stock markets? Analysis on gold, Japanese yen and Swiss franc. by Liu, Chang., Ho, Pauline., Xu, Qiong.

“…After further classifying the stock market data into bull and bear periods, then by looking at the days of extreme negative returns in each situation, we realize that the safe haven effect in these assets tends to be stronger in bearish stock markets. …”
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A study of tidal turbine array by Yong, Heng Wei.

“…The torque sensor will be measured by mounting on a DC motor, fixing ball bearings to a housing hub. By doing so, it will prevent its rotation by the deflection of a strain-gauge-instrumented plate. …”
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Identification of FGF receptor-binding peptides for cancer gene therapy by Maruta, F, Parker, AL, Fisher, KD, Hallissey, MT, Ismail, T, Rowlands, DC, Chandler, LA, Kerr, DJ, Seymour, LW

“…The consensus motif MXXP was iterated after four to five rounds and the peptide MQLPLAT was studied in depth. Phage bearing MQLPLAT showed high levels of binding to FGF receptor positive cells, with over 90% of phage bound being eluted competitively by adding free FGF2. …”

Scenes of misrecognition (Koltès, Duras) by Killeen, M-C

“…What is most fascinating about these works is the curious way in which they appear to bear all the markings of confessions yet pointedly refuse to behave like them, thwarting the desire for revelation, catharsis, and closure at every turn. …”

Secure and secret cooperation in robotic swarms by Castelló Ferrer, Eduardo, Hardjono, Thomas, Pentland, Alex 'Sandy', Dorigo, Marco

“…We propose a system where robots in a swarm, to cooperate towards mission completion, have to "prove" their integrity to their peers by exchanging cryptographic proofs. We show the implications of this approach for two different swarm robotics missions: foraging and maze formation. …”
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Secure and secret cooperation in robot swarms by Castelló Ferrer, Eduardo, Hardjono, Thomas, Pentland, Alex, Dorigo, Marco

“…We propose a system where robots in a swarm, to cooperate toward mission completion, have to “prove” their integrity to their peers by exchanging cryptographic proofs. We show the implications of this approach for two different swarm robotics missions: foraging and maze formation. …”
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The Importance of Bystanders in Threat Assessment and Management by Borum, Randy, Rowe, Mary

“…Numerous studies of targeted violence (e.g., mass shootings and school shootings), have demonstrated that peers and bystanders often have knowledge of an attacker’s intentions, concerning communication, and troubling behavior before the attack occurs. …”
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Comparison of Machine Learning-Based Methods for Narrowband Blind Adaptive Beamforming by Shonkwiler, Lara

“…Traditional blind source separation methods such as CMA, SOBI, JADE, and FastICA tend to be highly effective at beamforming datasets with moderate to large sample supports, but they do not perform well when they only have access to a limited number of data samples. They also bear the disadvantage that the appropriate algorithm must be selected based on the properties of the expected signal. …”
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Long contraction scour by Koh, Chun Wei

“…These scour holes will affect the structure stability and its lateral bearing capacity, which eventually leads to the collapse of the bridge. …”
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Easing the “second-shift” burden : grandparental childcare and the subjective wellbeing of working mothers in Singapore by Cheo, Rachel Ka Yang

“…However, it is still common for working mothers to bear the brunt of both domestic and paid work. In the present study, I explored the role of grandparents as providers of childcare for their grandchildren in contemporary Singapore. …”
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Vinyl sulfone functionalized injectable thermogels for facile peptide coupling by Oei, John Xin Jian

“…Divinyl sulfone (DVS) is a promising candidate to link the polymer and an adhesion ligand containing the thiol bearing peptide cysteine via thiol-Michael addition due its efficiency and mild reaction conditions. …”
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Creation of a sensor to measure strain of highly deformable solids by Serjouei, Ahmad

“…On most helicopters and fixed wing airplanes, there are other flight critical components that are not made of metal and composites, but made of rubber such as rubber bearings, rubber lead-lag dampers and rubber engine mounts which also require stress monitoring. …”
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The other side of the Elbe River: interventions in art, modernity, and coloniality in Poland by Michalska, DJ

“…<p>The artistic practices of Zofia Stryjeńska (1891-1976), Władysław Hasior, (1928-1999), Teresa Murak (1949-) and Roman Stańczak (1969-) all bear testimony – in their own distinct ways – to the ‘shock of the new’, the massive rupture brought by modernisation and capitalism in twentieth-century Poland. …”

Polyfluorinated crosslinker-based solid polymer electrolytes for long-cycling 4.5 V lithium metal batteries by Tang, Lingfei, Chen, Bowen, Zhang, Zhonghan, Ma, Changqi, Chen, Junchao, Huang, Yage, Zhang, Fengrui, Dong, Qingyu, Xue, Guoyong, Chen, Daiqian, Hu, Chenji, Li, Shuzhou, Liu, Zheng, Shen, Yanbin, Chen, Qi, Chen, Liwei

“…However, typical SPEs with easily oxidized oxygen-bearing polar groups exhibit narrow electrochemical stability window (ESW), making it impractical to increase specific capacity and energy density of SPE based LMBs with charging cut-off voltage of 4.5 V or higher. …”
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Magical realism and representations of the cold war in Southeast Asia by Lye, Kit Ying

“…However, while there are acknowledgements by scholars that religious myths and pre-existing animistic beliefs continue to influence the way that the indigenous people understand their worlds, Southeast Asian authors (unlike many of their postcolonial peers), do not actively employ magical realism in their exploration of history and civil unrest in their writings, and when they do, are not employed to the same degree as postcolonial authors in other regions. …”
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Ideas of intelligence across development : a look into children's implicit attitudes of the male = brilliant stereotype by Ng, Sara Hui Xin

“…These results prompt for further exploration of other possible factors such as cultural influences and other socialising agents such as teachers and peers that could have a greater influence on children’s development of this gender stereotype.…”
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Behave The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst / by Sapolsky, Robert M., author 656050, Penguin Random House (Online service) 655978

“…Sapolsky's storytelling concept is delightful but it also has a powerful intrinsic logic: he starts by looking at the factors that bear on a person's reaction in the precise moment a behavior occurs, and then hops back in time from there, in stages, ultimately ending up at the deep history of our species and its evolutionary legacy. …”
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Balanced callose and cellulose biosynthesis in Arabidopsis quorum-sensing signaling and pattern-triggered immunity by Liu, Xiaolin, Ma, Zhiming, Tran, Tuan Minh, Rautengarten, Carsten, Cheng, Yingying, Yang, Liang, Ebert, Berit, Persson, Staffan, Miao, Yansong

“…Notably, callose and cellulose biosynthesis share an initial substrate, UDP-glucose, which is the main load-bearing component of the CW. However, how these 2 critical biosynthetic processes are balanced during plant-pathogen interactions remains unclear. …”
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