Response to Comment on “Unique in the shopping mall: On the reidentifiability of credit card metadata” by de Montjoye, Yves-Alexandre, Pentland, Alex

“…The synthetic data set that they “successfully anonymize” bears no resemblance to modern high-dimensional data sets on which their methods fail. …”
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Enhancing fouling mitigation of submerged flat-sheet membranes by vibrating 3D-spacers by Tan, Yong Zen, Mao, Ziming, Zhang, Yanjun, Tan, Wen See, Chong, Tzyy Haur, Wu, Bing, Chew, Jia Wei

“…Unsteady-state shear is acknowledged to be more energy-efficient in the mitigation of membrane fouling. …”
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Topography-incorporated adjoint-state surface wave Traveltime tomography: method and a case study in Hawaii by Hao, Shijie, Chen, Jing, Xu, Mijian, Tong, Ping

“…The sensitivity kernel of the traveltime objective function with respect to shear wave velocity is derived using the adjoint-state method. …”
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Fault slip and GPS velocities across the Shan Plateau define a curved southwestward crustal motion around the Eastern Himalayan syntaxis by Shi, Xuhua, Wang, Yu, Sieh, Kerry, Weldon, Ray, Feng, Lujia, Chan, Chung-Han, Liu-Zeng, Jing

“…Relative to the Sunda plate, GPS velocities across the Shan Plateau define a broad arcuate tongue‐like crustal motion with a progressively northwestward increase in sinistral shear over a distance of ~700 km followed by a decrease over the final ~100 km to the syntaxis. …”
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Lubrication mechanisms in offshore wind turbines by Gadgil, Abhiruchi

“…Lubricant interaction with the bearing and gears has been studied extensively to improve design parameters. …”
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Compressive strength of cemented sand by Chong, Ying Jie.

“…Also known as Sandcrete, this material is widely used as a principal load-bearing and non-load bearing material in African countries due to its affordability, simple constructability and adaptability in tropical countries. …”
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Design and development of a web-based platform for EEE MSc student orientation by Soo, Serena Keng Shuang

“…The main aim of the web application is for students to have cultural exchanges, to explore Singapore, and to engage in school life by forming interest groups with like-minded peers.…”
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Long-term durability of unidirectional glass-carbon/epoxy hybrid composites by Shan, Ying.

“…Based on a 2D shear lag model, a computer simulation program has been developed to model the tensile fracture, static and cyclic fatigue process of unidirectional hybrid composites. …”
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Use of incineration bottom ash in geotechnical applications by G. Hayshagen

“…Unconfined Compression (UC) test was conducted to obtain the unconfined compression strength of IBA-OPC-MC matrix. Direct Shear Test was conducted to obtain the shear strength together with friction angle and cohesion. …”
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Average velocity of grains moving over a channel bed by Song, Chengwei

“…In the past century, there were many excellent and precise experiments around the relationship between shear velocity and grain velocity. The linearity in the relationship has been revealed in different approaches. …”
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‘On-demand’ soft tissue adhesives by Mogal, Vishal Tukaram

“…When compared to non-treated polyester thin films, plasma intensity could give rise to a ~ 6-fold (for 100 W, 5 min.) increase in shear adhesion strength (157 ± 24 mN/cm2). Shear adhesion was 5-fold higher than L-3,4-dihydroxyphenylalanine-based mussel adhesives tested on similar biomaterials. …”
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Mild and efficient C2-alkenylation of indoles with alkynes catalyzed by a cobalt complex by Ding, Zhenhua, Yoshikai, Naohiko

“…Direct alkenylation of the C2-position of indoles bearing an easily removable N-pyrimidyl group with alkynes has been achieved by using a cobalt catalyst complexed with a phosphine–pyridine bidentate ligand. …”
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Flux boundary conditions for geotechnical problems by Rahardjo, Harianto

“…The effects of infiltration on shear strength, slope stability and soil deformation were studied through the use of laboratory tests, field instrumentation and numerical analyses.…”
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Flexible single-mode delivery of a high-power 2  μm pulsed laser using an antiresonant hollow-core fiber by Lee, Elizabeth, Luo, Jiaqi, Sun, Biao, Ramalingam, Vincent, Zhang, Ying, Wang, Qijie, Yu, Fei, Yu, Xia

“…The effect of bending on the fiber output power and beam profile is also investigated. The Gaussian-like output beam profile is maintained up to a 7.5 cm bending radius. …”
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Localized transverse flow measurement with dynamic light scattering line-scan OCT by Han, Le, Tan, Bingyao, Schmetterer, Leopold, Bizheva, Kostadinka

“…The new approach allows for separation of the flow velocity component along the line-illumination direction of the imaging beam from other orthogonal velocity components, from particle diffusion motion, and from noise-induced distortion in the OCT signal's temporal autocorrelation. …”
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Dynamic measurement by multi-point laser Doppler vibrometer by Chang, Haoming.

“…A vibration measurement of a cantilever beam using a multi-point laser Doppler vibrometer (LDV) with single detector is conducted in this dissertation. …”
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Graphene metamaterials for intense, tunable, and compact extreme ultraviolet and X-ray sources by Pizzi, Andrea, Rosolen, Gilles, Wong, Liang Jie, Ischebeck, Rasmus, Soljačić, Marin, Feurer, Thomas, Kaminer, Ido

“…For 5 MeV electrons, a metamaterial of 50 layers and length 50 µm, and a beam current of 1.7 µA, it is, for instance, possible to generate X-rays of intensity 1.5 × 107 photons sr-1 s-1 1%BW, 580 times more than for a single-layer design. …”
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Novel on-demand bioadhesion to soft tissue in wet environments by Steele, Terry W. J., Mogal, Vishal, Papper, Vladislav, Chaurasia, Alok, Feng, Gao, Marks, Robert

“…The present work is focused on the chemistry, grafting, and lap shear strength of the alkyl diazirine-modified PLGA bioadhesive films.…”
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Assisted heat transfer enhancement in non-Newtonian dielectric fluids based on ion conduction phenomena by Chen, Di-Lin, Luo, Kang, Yang, Chun, Yi, Hong-Liang

“…The coupled multiphysics field model is built using the finite volume method, and two configurations (depending upon the orientation of the electric field and gravity) are investigated for different shear-thinning properties and polymer elasticities. …”
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Integrated photonic devices for realizing photonic quantum computing: part 1: FDTD (quantum devices) by Muhammad Faris Zikri Bin Zainal

“…To advance photonic quantum computing, this report focuses on the usage of integrated photonic devices, namely beam splitters functioning as directional couplers. …”
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