Effect of polyvinylpyrrolidone additive in the substrate of thin-film composite forward osmosis polyvinylidene fluoride membrane on neodymium rejection by Yeoh, Yuan Xin, Mazrul Nizam, Abu Seman, Mohd Yusri, Mohd Yunus, Abdul Wahab, Mohammad, Nurul Ain, Ismail

“…Green technology innovations, especially green energy require a strong permanent magnet that utilizes rare earth elements (REE) such as neodymium (Nd) as raw materials. Direct mining of REE from primary sources and downstream recycling process from secondary resources are infeasible due to the pollution caused by strong acid used in the cracking and leaching process. …”
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Automating Design Requirement Extraction From Text With Deep Learning by Akay, Haluk, Yang, Maria, Kim, Sang-Gook

“…<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>Nearly every artifact of the modern engineering design process is digitally recorded and stored, resulting in an overwhelming amount of raw data detailing past designs. Analyzing this design knowledge and extracting functional information from sets of digital documents is a difficult and time-consuming task for human designers. …”
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Empirical estimation of metal powder bed fusion technological improvement rate by Alves de Campos, António, Torres Ferreira, Bruna, Gonçalves, Afonso, Leite, Marco, Ribeiro, Inês, L. Magee, Christopher, Henriques, Elsa

“…PBF's continuous long-term adoption growth is driven by its ability to enhance manufacturing efficiency in terms of time and raw material use, as well as its capability to produce high-quality, high-strength, complex-shaped parts. …”
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Targeted removal of aluminium and copper in Li-ion battery waste solutions by selective precipitation as valuable porous materials by Cognet, Marine, Cambedouzou, Julien, Madhavi, Srinivasan, Carboni, Michaël, Meyer, Daniel

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Self-healing characterizations of polyurea/polyurethane coating & its formulation optimization by Sim, Celine (Shen Silin)

“…In midst of the global rising cost of corrosion, solutions such as application of protective coating and employing regular maintenance work have been put in place. All these efforts made primarily to aim for the lifetime extension of what is being protected. …”
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A data-driven bottom-up approach for spatial and temporal electric load forecasting by Ye, Chengjin, Ding, Yi, Wang, Peng, Lin, Zhenzhi

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Bacteriological studies for Kranji catchment by Lee, Li Jun.

“…Peng Siang sub-catchment had the highest E. coli counts among all the sub-catchment where the farm and agricultural areas show a range of E. coli from 0 to 50x106 CFU/100ml and residential area show E. coli count of not exceeding 50x103 CFU/100ml. …”
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Microwave hydrothermal synthesis of tobermorite for the solidification of iron by Luo, Shuqiong, Jiang, Zhuangzhuang, Zhao, Minghui, Yang, Lei, Castro-Gomes, João, Wei, Shihua, Mi, Tangwei

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The role of hydrodynamic conditions and pH on algal-rich water fouling of ultrafiltration by Zhang, Yan., Tang, Chuyang Y., Li, Guibai.

“…As another important parameter considered in the study, the pH value of the raw water changed the physical and chemical reaction between the membrane and foulants or themselves. …”
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Effects of fermented products on performance, faecal pH, Enterobacteriaceae and lactic acid bacteria counts and interrelationships, and plasma cholesterol concentration in rats by Loh, T., Foo, H., Tan, S., Goh, Y., Shukriyah, M., Kufli, C.

“…Fermented products (FP), a mixed product of raw fish, sea weed, rice bran, sugar cane juice, were obtained in a process of fermentation using combination of cultures of lactic acid bacteria (LAB). …”
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Ultrasound application and its effect on quality attributes of marinated goat meat by Kumar, P., Ahmed, M. A., Hayat, M. N., Abubakar, A. A., Rahman, M. M., Ismail Fitry, M. R., Kaka, U., Sazili, A. Q.

“…Flavour and tenderness scores were highest in T2 (4.71±0.03 and 4.71±0.04) among all samples. Thus, ultrasound-assisted marination for 30 min (T2) was observed to improve the flavour and tenderness of goat meat.…”

Mitigating marine megafauna captures in fisheries by Arlidge, W

“…</p> <p>Throughout the fishery case study, I draw on established decision-making processes to better understand the conservation issue at hand and to develop an understanding of what is necessary to empirically calculate net outcomes in data-poor fishing systems using the proposed framework. …”

The unintended consequences of improving police recording of rape in England and Wales by Lovett, Jo, Kelly, Liz, Vera-Gray, Fiona

“…A strong focus in recent policy and media coverage has been the increase in reporting of rape coupled with an associated fall in the charge rate, often attributed to victim withdrawal. …”
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Childhood bullying and mental health: understanding risk, resilience, and the role of anti-bullying interventions by Guzman Holst, C

“…The best approaches to study causal effects are natural experiments, longitudinal data, and randomised controlled trials of interventions. This thesis combines all these approaches to examine the relationship between bullying and mental health across different contexts.…”

Environmental perspectives of recycling various combustion ashes in cement production – a review by Yin, Ke, Ahamed, Ashiq, Lisak, Grzegorz

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Visual hull based 3D reconstruction of shocks in under-expanded supersonic bevelled jets by Lim, Desmond Haoxiang, New, Tze How, Mariani, Raffaello, Cui, Y. D.

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Microbial lipid production from food waste saccharified liquid and the effects of compositions by Ma, Xiaoyu, Gao, Zhen, Gao, Ming, Ma, Yingqun, Ma, Hongzhi, Zhang, Min, Liu, Yu, Wang, Qunhui

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Survival of an emerging foodborne pathogen : Group B Streptococcus (GBS) serotype III sequence type (ST) 283—under simulated partial cooking and gastric fluid conditions by Zwe, Ye Htut, Goh, Esther Zhu Hui, Chau, Man Ling, Aung, Kyaw Thu, Yuk, Hyun-Gyun

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Carbon dioxide capture from biomass pyrolysis gas as an enabling step of biogenic carbon nanotube synthesis and hydrogen recovery by Veksha, Andrei, Lu, Jintao, Tsakadze, Zviad, Lisak, Grzegorz

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Regional-privacy-preserving operation of networked microgrids: edge-cloud cooperative learning with differentiated policies by Xia, Qinqin, Wang, Yu, Zou, Yao, Yan, Ziming, Zhou, Niancheng, Chi, Yuan, Wang, Qianggang

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