Thermodynamic study of isosteric heat at zero coverage : applications to adsorption cooling and desalination by Fan, Wu

“…The model is first applied to the graphite surface, in which the electrostatic and induction potentials are obtained to be very small compared to the LJ potential. The maximum isosteric heat is found in the super micro-pore regions. …”
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Germanium-on-insulator for group IV laser and III-V integration on silicon by Bao, Shuyu

“…Germanium (Ge) laser on Ge-on-insulator (GOI) shows great promises as the light source in photonic integrated circuits (PICs) for future data communication and sensing applications. In addition, small lattice mismatch between GaAs and Ge also enables hybrid integration of III-V photonics on silicon (Si) platform via a GOI substrate. …”
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The influence of pregnancy complications on fetal and neonatal cardiovascular development by Aye, C

“…Offspring exposed to maternal hypertension and those born small for gestational age did not demonstrate any difference in heart rate variability at birth compared to controls.…”

Dietary pattern trajectories in early childhood and their associations with patterns of maternal feeding practices in a multi-ethnic Asian cohort by Appannah, Geeta, Toh, Jia Ying, Lai, Jun Shi, Yong, Heng Yaw, Shariff, Zalilah Mohd, Tint, Mya Thway, Yuan, Wen Lun, Pang, Wei Wei, Godfrey, Keith M., Tan, Kok Hian, Yap, Fabian, Lee, Yung Seng, Eriksson, Johan G., Chong, Mary F. F.

“…Children whose mothers showed high adherence to the structured with autonomy support feeding practices at age 5 years were significantly more likely to be associated with the higher but decreasing ‘healthy’ DP trajectory group [OR = 3.62 (95% CI: 1.64, 7.99)]. Conclusions: A small number of children in this multi-ethnic study showed high adherence to the ‘healthy’ or ‘less healthy’ DP trajectory groups, respectively, while the majority showed average adherence to either of these trajectories. …”
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Investigating the impact of dietary guidelines transition on cardiometabolic risk profile: a forensic analysis using diet quality metrics by Sualeheen, Ayesha, Khor, Ban Hock, Lim, Jun Hao, Balasubramanian, Gaiyal Viliy, Chuah, Khun Aik, Yeak, Zu Wei, Chinna, Karuthan, Narayanan, Sreelakshmi Sankara, Sundram, Kalyana, Mat Daud, Zulfitri Azuan, Karupaiah, Tilakavati

“…Both metrics shared similar correlations with CMR markers, with MHEI2020 exhibiting stronger correlations with WC, BF%, TG, insulin, HOMA2-IR, and smallLDL than MHEI2010, primarily attributed to reduced refined grain serving. …”
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Isotopes as a Tool for Exploring Exoplanet Atmospheres by Glidden, Ana

“…I find that in the best-case scenario, we may see hints of CO₂ and CH₄ within our data, though this is unlikely due to the strong chance that the atmosphere has a small scale height and that the atmospheric signal will be entangled with stellar noise from the M dwarf host star. …”
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Performance enhancement and size reduction of near-eye display by Cheng, Qijia

“…The trend of developing high-resolution NED with small form-factor is with no doubt. During the last several decades, attempts were made to improve the resolution of NED. …”
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The influence of soil age on ecosystem structure and function across biomes by Delgado-Baquerizo, Manuel, Reich, Peter B., Bardgett, Richard D., Eldridge, David J., Lambers, Hans, Wardle, David A., Reed, Sasha C., Plaza, César, Png, Kenny Guochen, Neuhauser, Sigrid, Berhe, Asmeret Asefaw, Hart, Stephen C., Hu, Hang-Wei, He, Ji-Zheng, Bastida, Felipe, Abades, Sebastián, Alfaro, Fernando D., Cutler, Nick A., Gallardo, Antonio, García-Velázquez, Laura, Hayes, Patrick E., Hseu, Zeng-Yei, Pérez, Cecilia A., Santos, Fernanda, Siebe, Christina, Trivedi, Pankaj, Sullivan, Benjamin W., Weber-Grullon, Luis, Williams, Mark A., Fierer, Noah

“…By combining a cross-biome global field survey, including data for 32 soil, plant, and microbial properties in 16 soil chronosequences, with a global meta-analysis, we show that soil age is a significant ecosystem driver, but only accounts for a relatively small proportion of the cross-biome variation in multiple ecosystem properties. …”
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Measuring social desirability bias in a multi-ethnic cohort sample: its relationship with self-reported physical activity, dietary habits, and factor structure by Teh, Wen Lin, Abdin, Edimansyah, P. V., Asharani, Siva Kumar, Fiona Devi, Roystonn, Kumarasan, Wang, Peizhi, Shafie, Saleha, Chang, Sherilyn, Jeyagurunathan, Anitha, Vaingankar, Janhavi Ajit, Sum, Chee Fang, Lee, Eng Sing, van Dam, Rob M., Subramaniam, Mythily

“…Conclusion: The construct of social desirability bias was fundamentally different in a multicultural context than previously understood. Only a small proportion of variance of self-report lifestyle scores was explained by social desirability, thus providing support for data integrity.…”
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Tunable metasurfaces for active nanophotonics by Omar Abdelrahman Mohamed Abdelraouf

“…Metasurfaces consist of small unit cells called meta-atoms, where each meta-atom can impose different light scattering properties based on its dimensions or orientations. …”
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Construction of complex nanostructures in solution phase by Xu, Jun

“…Importantly, we found that the fused nanorings had single-crystalline dominant structure, and a few crystal defects presented within small range. Further studies revealed that single crystal parts of nanoring had the same lattice orientation with as-synthesized Au nanorings. …”
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九条桥新芭拿督坛 ：多元种族与城市发展环境中的庙宇 = Jiutiaoqiao Xinba Nadutan : a temple in Singapore’s multiracialism and urbanization context by 蔡美薇 Chua, Mei Wei

“…It resulted in the demolition of many small village temples, and prompted the merger of some into United Temples. …”
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Perfect- and quasi- complementary sequences by Liu, Zilong

“…By exploiting the correlation property of a PCSS, we have proposed a fractional-delay-resilient receiver with interference-free achievability in strong interference case. Thirdly, the small set size (denoted by K) problem of PCSSs which limits the number of supportable CDMA users, is studied. …”
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The role of filamentous phage in the development of Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms by Manisha Mukherjee

“…Pf4, a filamentous phage of Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1, has been shown to contribute significantly to the biofilm life-cycle, including the formation of small colony variants, biofilm cell death, biofilm stability and virulence in a mouse model. …”
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Micro electro mechanical systems (MEMS) enabled digital pen by Tan, Joel Qi Zhi

“…The aim of this project is to introduce a new generation of digital pen which incorporates Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS) technology. As MEMS tends to be small, it can be easily incorporated within the pen to compute its written path. …”
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Photonic engineering of terahertz quantum cascade lasers by Liang, Guozhen

“…However, traditional THz modulators suffer from either slow modulation speed (mechanical optical chopper) or small modulation depth (electro-optical devices). …”
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New algorithms for hardware-efficient implementation of sign detection and magnitude comparison in residue number systems by Sachin Kumar

“…Upon detecting the signs of the operands and their difference, the relation is inferred with a small fraction of logic gates. Synthesis results in 65 nm CMOS technology show that the proposed design is 36.9% smaller, 7.6% faster and 45.5% more energy-efficient than the best CRT-II based magnitude comparator and at least 12.9% smaller, 7.3% faster and 20.8% more energy-efficient than the best reverse-conversion based implementation of signed integer comparator for the same five-moduli set.…”
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Large-scale capacitive touch panels : sensor pattern design, sampling and interpolation by Akhtar, Humza

“…The second question deals with the transformation of small-scale touch panel to a large-scale one. We look at the sampling circuit of a traditional capacitive touch panel and identify that for large panels, efficient sampling is required in order to avoid latency. …”
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Effective and efficient topic mining and exploration from geo-textual data by Zhao, Kaiqi

“…Second, to allow efficient training of geographical topic models, we propose a distributed solution that supports learning large geographical topic models with millions of parameters from tens of gigabytes of geo-textual documents within 20 hours on a small cluster of 20 machines.…”
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Offline eLearning for undergraduates in health professions : a systematic review of the impact on knowledge, skills, attitudes and satisfaction by Wark, Petra A., Rasmussen, Kristine, Belisario, José Marcano, Molina, Joseph Antonio, Loong, Stewart Lee, Cotic, Ziva, Papachristou, Nikos, Riboli–Sasco, Eva, Car, Lorainne Tudor, Musulanov, Eve Marie, Zhang, Yanfeng, Kunz, Holger, George, Pradeep Paul, Heng, Bee Hoon, Wheeler, Erica Lynette, Al Shorbaji, Najeeb, Svab, Igor, Atun, Rifat, Majeed, Azeem, Car, Josip

“…Most of the studies were small and subject to several biases. Conclusions: Our results suggest that offline eLearning is equivalent and possibly superior to traditional learning regarding knowledge, skills, attitudes and satisfaction. …”
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