Study of the thermal decomposition of PFPEs lubricants on a thin DLC film using finitely extensible nonlinear elastic potential based molecular dynamics simulation by Deb Nath, S. K., Wong, C. H.

“…We study the effect of breaking of bonds of nonfunctional lubricant PFPE Z, functional lubricants such as PFPE Zdol and PFPE Ztetrao, and multidented functional lubricants such as ARJ-DS, ARJ-DD, and OHJ-DS on a DLC substrate with the increase of temperature when heating of all of the lubricants on a DLC substrate is carried out isothermally using the coarse-grained bead spring model by molecular dynamics simulations and suitable lubricant is selected which is suitable on a DLC substrate at high temperature.…”
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SemFunSim : a new method for measuring disease similarity by integrating semantic and gene functional association by Cheng, Liang, Li, Jie, Ju, Peng, Peng, Jiajie, Wang, Yadong

“…Results The high average AUC (area under the receiver operating characteristic curve) (96.37%) shows that SemFunSim achieves a high true positive rate and a low false positive rate. 79 of the top 100 pairs of similar diseases identified by SemFunSim are annotated in the Comparative Toxicogenomics Database (CTD) as being targeted by the same therapeutic compounds, while other methods we compared could identify 35 or less such pairs among the top 100. Moreover, when using our method on diseases without annotated compounds in CTD, we could confirm many of our predicted candidate compounds from literature. …”
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3D carbon/cobalt-nickel mixed-oxide hybrid nanostructured arrays for asymmetric supercapacitors by Zhu, Jianhui, Jiang, Jian, Sun, Zhipeng, Luo, Jingshan, Fan, Zhanxi, Huang, Xintang, Zhang, Hua, Yu, Ting

“…Thanks to their interconnected three-dimensionally arrayed architecture and mesoporous nature, the C/CoNi3O4 NA electrode exhibits a large specific capacitance of 1299 F/g and a superior rate performance, demonstrating 78% capacity retention even when the discharge current jumps by 100 times. An optimized asymmetric supercapacitor with the C/CoNi3O4 NAs as the positive electrode is fabricated. …”
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Vertical distribution of heavy metals in seawater column during IBA construction in land reclamation – re-exploration of a large-scale field trial experiment by Yin, Ke, Chan, Wei-Ping, Dou, Xiaomin, Lisak, Grzegorz, Chang, Victor Wei-Chung

“…Metal re-adsorption occurred within half an hour after IBA dumping, which however was significantly alleviated when a chute was applied. It may be ascribed to various degrees of contact with seawater of IBA, seawater movements and particle resuspension. …”
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Mechanism of charge transfer and its impacts on Fermi-level pinning for gas molecules adsorbed on monolayer WS2 by Zhou, Changjie, Yang, Weihuang, Zhu, Huili

“…Band structure calculations showed that the valence and conduction bands of monolayer WS2 are not significantly altered upon adsorption of H2, H2O, NH3, and CO, whereas the lowest unoccupied molecular orbitals of O2, NO, and NO2 are pinned around the Fermi-level when these molecules are adsorbed on monolayer WS2. …”
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The application of nitric oxide to control biofouling of membrane bioreactors by Rice, Scott A., Luo, Jinxue, Zhang, Jinsong, Barnes, Robert J., Tan, Xiaohui, McDougald, Diane, Fane, Anthony G., Zhuang, Guoqiang, Kjelleberg, Staffan, Cohen, Yehuda

“…A novel strategy to control membrane bioreactor (MBR) biofouling using the nitric oxide (NO) donor compound PROLI NONOate was examined. When the biofilm was pre-established on membranes at transmembrane pressure (TMP) of 88–90 kPa, backwashing of the membrane module with 80 μM PROLI NONOate for 45 min once daily for 37 days reduced the fouling resistance (Rf) by 56%. …”
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Acetic acid inhibition on methanogens in a two-phase anaerobic process by Ng, Wun Jern, Guo, Chenghong, Zhou, Yan, Wang, J. Y., Maspolim, Yogananda, Xiao, Keke

“…At pH 6.00, acetic acid inhibition on methanogenic phase methanogens was observed when acetic acid concentration was higher than 1619.47 mg HAc/L although there was no obvious inhibition on acidogenic phase methanogens in the range of 1646.47–2781.19 mg HAc/L. …”
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Dynamic prediction of the incident duration using adaptive feature set by Ghosh, Banishree, Muhammad Tayyab Asif, Dauwels, Justin, Fastenrath, Ulrich, Guo, Hongliang

“…In this paper, we propose an adaptive ensemble model that can provide reasonable forecasts even when a limited amount of information is available and further improves the prediction accuracy as more information becomes available during the course of the incidents. …”
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A study of air molecular contamination (AMC) and volatile organic compounds (VOC) in new AMC/VOC controlled cleanroom by Wong, Chee Kong

“…Monitoring of AMC is becoming essential when it comes to managing cleanroom for the present production of semiconductor devices as it advances into DUV and EUV range of manufacturing processes. …”
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Three essays on corporate finance and research methodology by Li, Wei

“…In addition, firms in gambling-prone regions hold more cash only when they are financially constrained, and they invest cash in risky projects such as research & development, which leads to more volatile cash flows. …”
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Enhanced energy dissipated foams for bicycle helmets by Zheng, John Yizhe

“…For Experiment set 1, it can be concluded that CF samples of group C density range exhibit the best results in energy absorption when compared to PF samples while being approximately 30g/L less dense. …”
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Immediate test or delayed test : evidence of primary Mathematics learning by Arunachalam Thannimalai

“…Overall, usage of worked examples facilitated novice primary 2 students’ learning and this benefit became much less significant when learner expertise level grew as seen in the case of primary 4 student participants. …”
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A zero-dimensional mixed-anion hybrid halogenobismuthate(III) semiconductor : structural, optical, and photovoltaic properties by Hoefler, Sebastian Franz, Rath, Thomas, Fischer, Roland, Latal, Christine, Hippler, Dorothee, Koliogiorgos, Athanasios, Galanakis, Iosif, Bruno, Annalisa, Fian, Alexander, Dimopoulos, Theodoros, Trimmel, Gregor

“…Despite the zero-dimensional structure of MBIC, a maximum power conversion efficiency of 0.18% and a high fill factor of almost 60% were obtained with this material as absorber layer. When stored under inert conditions, these solar cells show an excellent long-term stability over the investigated period of more than 700 days.…”
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Design and in vitro release study of siRNA loaded Layer by Layer nanoparticles with sustained gene silencing effect by Tan, Yang Fei, Lee, Ying Shi, Seet, Li-Fong, Ng, Kee Woei, Wong, Tina T., Venkatraman, Subbu

“…Objectives: Clinical translation of siRNA therapeutics has been severely limited due to the lack of stable and sustained siRNA delivery systems. Furthermore, when nanocarrier systems with siRNA are administered systemically to treat diseases, insufficient doses reach the target tissue. …”
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Spatter transport by inert gas flow in selective laser melting : a simulation study by Ahmad Bin Anwar, Ibrahim, Imran Halimi, Pham, Quang-Cuong

“…It was also shown that the trajectories of the spatter particles were governed mainly by their initial momentum when the inert gas flow velocity was increased. While complete removal of the spatter particles from the powder bed was not achieved, the presence of the inert gas flow aided in the transport of a majority of the particles further downstream giving a more even mass distribution. …”
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A constrained instantaneous learning approach for aerial package delivery robots : onboard implementation and experimental results by Mehndiratta, Mohit, Kayacan, Erdal

“…Three case scenarios are considered: payload mass variations on an aerial robot for a package delivery problem, ground effect when the aerial robot is hovering/flying close to the ground, and wind-gust disturbances encountered in the outdoor environment. …”
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Gaussian message passing for overloaded massive MIMO-NOMA by Liu, Lei, Yuen, Chau, Guan, Yong Liang, Li, Ying, Huang, Chongwen

“…Second, the means of the traditional GMP will fail to converge when Nu/Ns (2-1-25.83. Therefore, we propose and derive a new convergent GMP called scale-and-add GMP (SA-GMP), which always converges to the LMMSE multi-user detection performance for any Nu/Ns>1, and show that it has a faster convergence speed than the traditional GMP with the same complexity. …”
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Ultra-thin bulk silicon thinning of advanced microprocessors & graphics processors fabricated in Sub-20 nm technology by Teo, Wee Siang

“…With existing contour milling techniques limited by its precision when ultra-thinning silicon, experiments were then conducted to understand key challenges in terms of the sample behaviour during thinning. …”
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An ultrastable lithium metal anode enabled by designed metal fluoride spansules by Yuan, Huadong, Nai, Jianwei, Tian, He, Ju, Zhijin, Zhang, Wenkui, Liu, Yujing, Tao, Xinyong, Lou, David Xiong Wen

“…As a result, the spansule-modified anode affords a high Coulombic efficiency of 98% for over 1000 cycles at a current density of 2 mA cm−2, which is the most stable LMA reported so far. When coupling this anode with the Li[Ni0.8Co0.1Mn0.1]O2 cathode, the practical full cell further exhibits highly improved capacity retention after 500 cycles.…”
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Pedestrian heading estimation based on spatial transformer networks and hierarchical LSTM by Wang, Qu, Luo, Haiyong, Ye, Langlang, Men, Aidong, Zhao, Fang, Huang, Yan, Ou, Changhai

“…The experimental results on real-world demonstrated that deepheading outperformed the compared heading estimation algorithms and achieved promising estimation accuracy with a median heading error of 4.52°, mean heading error of 6.07° and heading error of 9.18° at the confidence of 80% when a pedestrian is walking in indoor environments with magnetic field disturbances. …”
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