The tribological performance of nano-activated carbon as solid additives in modified calophyllum inophyllum based-metalworking fluid by Zubaidah, Zamri, Amiril Sahab, Abdul Sani, Radhiyah, Abd Aziz, Ainaa Mardhiah, Sabri, Norfazillah, Talib

“…The coefficient of friction for the balls and their wear diameter are evaluated and compared. …”
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Variational models in martensitic phase transformations with applications to steels by Muehlemann, A

“…</p> <p>In Chapter 2, we review the Ball-James model and related concepts. We present some simplification of existing results.…”

To assess the impact of physical factors on velocity, speed, and accuracy of tennis serve by Ma, Xudong, Yaacob, Azhar, Tengku Kamalden, Tengku Fadilah, Ng, Yee Guan

“…Objective: This study investigates the coordination of racquet and ball speed, examining how physical attributes and training impact serve performance. …”
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Multicarrier communications for underwater wireless channels by Leong, Chen Ming.

“…Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex (OFDM) is a multicarrier transmission technology which was first described by R. W. Chang in 1966 at Bell Labs. The first patent was granted in 1970. …”
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Lead-free PCB assembly and effect of solder joint profile on the reliability of PCB assembly by Periannan Arulvanan.

“…PCBs were designed and fabricated with daisy chain loops connected to land pads of daisy chained Ball Grid Array (BGA) components with pad dimensions of 0.56 and 0.66mm NiAu finish. …”
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Process development for flip chip BGA packages by Camenforte, Raymundo M.

“…As the trend towards high performance electronic packaging continues, the introduction of a flip chip ball grid array (FC-BGA) package becomes more attractive to the electronic industry, due to its high packaging density, thermal and electrical performance. …”
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Uncovering wear mechanism of a Fe2Ni2CrAl multi-principal elements alloy by Qiao, Ling, Ramanujan, Raju V., Zhu, Jingchuan

“…By performing reciprocating ball-on-flat friction tests, the Fe2Ni2CrAl MPEA shows good wear resistance, with a wear rate of 8.72 × 10−5 mm3/(Nm) and average friction coefficient of ~ 0.54. …”
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Missing links in The China Model by Li, Chenyang

“…Daniel A. Bell's recent book The China Model: Political Meritocracy and the Limits of Democracy makes a significant contribution to political theory, political philosophy, and China studies. …”
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Time-frequency analysis of simulated binary pulsar signals by Nandhini Ganesan

“…With its discovery by Jocelyn Bell Burnell and Antony Hewish, who received Nobel Prize in 1974, it got the attention of many astrophysicists. …”
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SPICES: spectro-polarimetric imaging and characterization of exoplanetary systems. by Boccaletti, Anthony, Schneider, Jean, Traub, Wes, Lagage, Pierre-Olivier, Stam, Daphne, Gratton, Raffaele, Trauger, John, Cahoy, Kerri, Snik, Frans, Baudoz, Pierre, Galicher, Raphael, Reess, Jean-Michel, Mawet, Dimitri, Augereau, Jean-Charles, Patience, Jenny, Kuchner, Marc, Wyatt, Mark, Pantin, Eric, Maire, Anne-Lise, Vérinaud, Christophe

“…SPICES (Spectro-Polarimetric Imaging and Characterization of Exoplanetary Systems) is a five-year M-class mission proposed to ESA Cosmic Vision. Its purpose is to image and characterize long-period extrasolar planets and circumstellar disks in the visible (450-900 nm) at a spectral resolution of about 40 using both spectroscopy and polarimetry. …”
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Tribological properties of Cr- and Ti-doped MoS2 composite coatings under different humidity atmosphere by Ding, Xing-zhao., Zeng, X. T., He, X. Y., Chen, Z.

“…The tribological properties of the coatings were evaluated against an alumina ball under different relative humidity atmosphere using a ball-on-disc tribometer. …”
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Investigating the EM performance of building materials for mid-band 5G in urban built environment: an exploratory study by Ng, Sean Jake Peng

“…The thesis is concluded with the investigation of material loading on an evolved antecedent hexagonal-stubbed complementary split-ring resonator (CSRR)-loaded electrically small antenna (ESA) designed to cover the 3.5 GHz 5G frequency band. …”
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Asymptotic improvement of GV bound by Yip, Jose Zheng Ho

“…We also show that for the RLL(0,1) constrained system, we can achieve rates $2\log \phi - \log \tau$, where $\tau$ is the asymptotic of the total ball size for the RLL(0,1) constrained system…”
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The Singapore brand by Ju, Xinhang, Loh, Elicia Qi Yu, Goh, Mavis Pei Jie, Xin, Karen Qian Hui

“…Now, as Singapore moves towards the new era, it realises that it is has entered a different ball game. The fight now is for global creative talent who are believed to be able to give the economy an edge over others. …”
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Processing-properties relationship of nanostructured Ni-Fe-Mo magnetic materials by Shen, Yanping

“…The results showed that even after 100 h of high energy ball milling, the only detected phase was FeNi3. …”
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Experimental study on sediment clump by Yang, Yang

“…The behavior of sediment clump was found to follow a probabilistic model and the disintegration depth of a sediment clump followed a one-sided bell-shaped curve. It was also observed that clump fragmentation would greatly affect the sediment clump behaviors.…”
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Two for tau: automated model discovery reveals two-stage tau aggregation dynamics in Alzheimer’s disease by Stockman, CA, Goriely, A, Kuhl, E, Jerusalem, A, Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative

“…We propose an innovative approach that uses constitutive neural networks to autonomously discover bell-shaped aggregation functions with multiple peaks from clinical positron emission tomography (PET) data of misfolded tau protein. …”

Fabrication and characterization of graphene and carbon nanotube reinforced bioceramic nanocomposites by Hu, Huanlong

“…Regarding mixing methods, all the ultrasonication mixed and ball milled 1 wt% rGO reinforced HA composites were almost fully densified. …”
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Matters of Illuminance - Transforming Light into Material Artifacts by Callender III, Dexter

“…The artwork I produced as part of this research was exhibited at the Wiesner Gallery at MIT and aims to exist in a fine arts setting, contributing to the lineage of Light & Space artists such as Larry Bell and Robert Irwin.…”
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Investigation of the effect of trypsin on cell-detachment using quantitative phase interferometry (QPI) method by Law, Shawn Siang Wei

“…Results from QPI inspection, displayed that the cell shrank from its elongated profile to tall bell shape structure indicating detachment from substrate. …”
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