Breakup of ultra-thin liquid films on vertical fiber enhanced by Marangoni effect by Ding, Zijing, Liu, Zhou, Liu, Rong, Yang, Chun

“…The spatial-temporal stability analysis shows that the instability is absolute when A + M > 0.17 (A is a composite Hamaker number accounting for the strength of van der Waals attractions and M is the Marangoni number). …”
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Realization of exact tracking control for nonlinear systems via a nonrecursive dynamic design by Zhang, Chuanlin, Yang, Jun, Wen, Changyun, Wang, Lei, Li, Shihua

“…Taking consideration of the case when system is subject to mismatched disturbances, a unified design and stability analysis framework shows that the practical tracking result can also be realized. …”
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Are narcissists more creative? Only if we believe it: how narcissism can relate to creativity by Ji, Yueting, Liu, Haiyang, Liu, Shengming, Xu, Minya, Lin, Zixiang

“…Moreover, personal reputation mediated this curvilinear relationship and this relationship was significant only when narcissists were low in political skill. Theoretical and practical implications, limitations and future directions have also been discussed.…”
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Resolution enhancement for interrogating fiber Bragg grating sensor network using dilated U-Net by Li, Baocheng, Tan, Zhi-Wei, Zhang, Hailiang, Shum, Perry Ping, Hu, Dora Juanjuan, Wong, Liang Jie

“…In addition, the multi-peak signals from the FBG sensor network are often overlapped; this increases the complexity of the resolution enhancement task, especially when the signals have a low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). …”
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Physics informed neural network-based high-frequency modeling of induction motors by Zhao, Zhenyu, Fan, Fei, Sun, Quqin, Jie, Huamin, Shu, Zhou, Wang, Wensong, See, Kye Yak

“…This symmetry enables the proposed model to be applicable for both star- and delta-connected induction motors without having to recalculate the circuit element values when changing the motor connection from star to delta and vice versa. …”
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Molecular dynamics simulation: effect of sulfation on the structure of curdlan triple helix in aqueous solution by Gao, Yufu, Feng, Xuan, Zhang, Ran, Xiao, Jie, Huang, Qingrong, Li, Jiawei, Shi, Tongfei

“…The substitution at the O2 site directly disrupts the hydrogen bonding network between the triple helix chains, significantly destroying the triple helix conformation. When substitutions occur at both the O4 and O6 sites simultaneously (O4,6), the electrostatic repulsion between numerous sulfate groups introduces considerable energy perturbation to the triple helix, leading to alterations in the glucan chain conformation and consequent destabilization of the triple helix structure. …”
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Importance of population support in counterinsurgency : a case of the Taiping rebellion by Ha, Yu Xin

“…The Taiping Rebellion was one of the most devastating insurgencies in China and the world in the nineteenth century, yet it has not been studied extensively in insurgency and counterinsurgency (COIN) research. …”
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Political championship: understanding African state effectiveness and Sino-African infrastructure development by Wang, Y

“…I argue that perceived threats from electoral competition generate strong political commitment from the state’s leadership, i.e. a political champion. When a political champion has high authority, their intervention in project implementation generates motivations for bureaucrats and tempers resistance, leading to higher project functionality. …”

Impact of psychological capital on job satisfaction: moderating role of perceived organizational support and emotional intelligence by Yao, Guannan, Dato’mansor, Zuraina, Ghazali, Hazrina, Yan, Zhen

“…Data was collected from cross border e-commerce industry employees operating in China. A total of 483 responses were obtained from technology staff, and senior managers. …”
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Great enhancement effect of 20-40 nm Ag NPs on solar-blind UV response of the mixed-phase MgZnO detector by Han, Shun, Xia, Hao, Lu, Youming, Hu, Sirong, Zhang, Dao Hua, Xu, Wangying, Fang, Ming, Liu, Wenjun, Cao, Peijiang, Zhu, Deliang

“…Ag NPs with different sizes could modulate the peak response position of the mixed-phase MgZnO detector from near UV range (350 nm) to deep UV range (235 nm), and the enhancement effect of the Ag NPs on the UV response differs much with the crystal structure and the basic UV response of the MgZnO thin film. When high density 20-40 nm Ag NPs is induced, the deep UV (235 nm) response of the mixed-phase MgZnO detector is increased by 226 times, the I uv/I dark ratio of the modified device is increased by 17.5 times. …”
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An extremum seeking-based approach for Nash equilibrium seeking in N-cluster noncooperative games by Ye, Maojiao, Hu, Guoqiang, Xu, Shengyuan

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Explainable data-driven optimization for complex systems with non-preferential multiple outputs using belief rule base by Chang, Leilei, Zhang, Limao

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On the robustness of average losses for partial-label learning by Lv, Jiaqi, Liu, Biao, Feng, Lei, Xu, Ning, Xu, Miao, An, Bo, Niu, Gang, Geng, Xin, Sugiyama, Masashi

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Access to axially chiral aryl aldehydes via carbene-catalyzed nitrile formation and desymmetrization reaction by Cai, Yuanlin, Lv, Ya, Shu, Liangzhen, Jin, Zhichao, Chi, Robin Yonggui, Li, Tingting

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Design of a battery-operated portable DC power supply. Part 1 : voltage output control by Saw, Khai Guan

“…Batteries are a main source of DC power supply when it comes to delivering constant DC voltage to these electronic devices. …”
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Dielectric property and molecular structure of grafted epoxy resin by Wong, Yen Wen

“…Furthermore, epoxy grafted with MA demonstrates a significant enhancement in resistivity by 17 times and dielectric breakdown strength by 17%, when compared to pure epoxy. Overall, grafted epoxy resin displayed superior dielectric properties compared to pure epoxy which indicates a promising avenue for enhancing electrical insulation materials.…”
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An inexact non-interior continuation method for variational inequalities and differential properties of euclidean projection onto power cone by Khanh Hien, Le Thi

“…In the first part of this thesis, using barrier based smoothing approximation, we extend the non-interior continuation method proposed in [B. Chen and N. Xiu, SIAM J. Optim. 9(1999), 605--623] for complementarity problem over non-negative orthant to an inexact non-interior continuation method for variational inequalities over general closed convex sets. …”
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Evaluating the effectiveness of the trajectory prediction aids on air traffic controller in the context of workload and situation awareness by Chua, Jia Yun

“…Thus, this experiment was conducted to evaluate the usefulness of trajectory prediction aids on ATCOs in the context of workload and situation awareness, when they were given the freedom of choice. As such, they would have the autonomy to choose the particular aid that would be useful to them in better managing the air traffic. …”
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Age-related differences in functional connectivity during scene encoding by Leow, Dayton Wei Yang

“…Past neuroimaging studies have found both the parahippocampus in the MTL and inferior frontal gyrus (IFG) in the PFC to be activated for scene encoding.3 In addition, when scenes are encoded based on its meaningfulness (i.e. relational encoding), the hippocampus will be activated for relational binding of the stimuli.4. …”
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Acidic corrosion behaviour of niobium-added welding overlays fabricated by self-shielded metal-cored wires by Liu, Dashuang, Wu, Yucheng, Long, Weimin, Wei, Ping, Wang, Rui, Zhou, Wei

“….% niobium addition, and at the lowest when the niobium addition is 10.8 wt.%. The corrosion of welding overlay occurs in the matrix of microstructure. …”
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