1D to 3D hierarchical iron selenide hollow nanocubes assembled from FeSe2@C core-shell nanorods for advanced sodium ion batteries by Fan, Haosen, Yu, Hong, Zhang, Yufei, Guo, Jing, Wang, Zhen, Wang, Hao, Zhao, Ning, Zheng, Yun, Du, Chengfeng, Dai, Zhengfei, Yan, Qingyu, Xu, Jian

“…Such novel nanorods-based FeSe2@C hollow structures exhibit high conductivity and special structural property which provide good charge transport kinetics by facilitating the charge transfer into the inner of FeSe2 nanorods. When used as anode materials for sodium ion batteries, the hierarchically hollow nanocubes showed excellent rate performance and ultra-stable long-term cycling stability at a high current density of 10 A g−1, suggesting a good sodium-ion storage material. …”
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Imaging and processing of tree trunk by Hong, Yuan Ming

“…It is a non-invasive method that uses electromagnetic waves (EM waves) in the microwave band as the propagation method. When the EM waves passes through a boundary of different permittivity level, part of the wave is reflected and received by the antenna. …”
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Boosting oxygen reaction activity by coupling sulfides for high-performance rechargeable metal – air battery by Zhou, Daojin, Jia, Yin, Yang, Hongbin, Xu, Wenwen, Sun, Kai, Zhang, Junming, Wang, Shiyuan, Kuang, Yun, Liu, Bin, Sun, Xiaoming

“…RHE), giving an overvoltage difference as low as 0.73 V. When assembled in a rechargeable Zn–air battery, the battery with NiFeS2/S-GO air electrode exhibits a steady charging potential (1.98 V) with very little decay in discharging potential (from 1.20 to 1.17 V) for 180 charging–discharging cycles at 10 mA cm−2. …”
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Deformable pose traversal convolution for 3D action and gesture recognition by Weng, Junwu, Liu, Mengyuan, Jiang, Xudong, Yuan, Junsong

“…Instead of fixing the receptive field when performing traversal convolution, it optimizes the convolution kernel for each joint, by considering contextual joints with various weights. …”
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Selective laser melting of 316L stainless steel/ TiC metal matrix composite by Ho, Zi Liang

“…Microhardness testing was analysed to determine the mechanical properties of the build product and is found that the 316L-1TiC and 316L-3TiC has a 15.2% and 30.9% increase in microhardness value when compared to 316L by SLM…”
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Design of system for parking and repositioning of bikes in a public bike-sharing system by Siong, Jun Wei

“…Also, the model provides information of the quantity of bikes to reallocate and when to reallocate to incur the least cost. Furthermore, the analysis of the model is carried out on an hourly basis, which is critical as the demand for bikes are highly time-dependent, thus, allowing a more representative analysis.…”
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Few-layer NiPS3 nanosheets as bifunctional materials for Li-ion storage and oxygen evolution reaction by Dangol, Raksha, Dai, Zhengfei, Chaturvedi, Apoorva, Zheng, Yun, Zhang, Yu, Dinh, Khang Ngoc, Li, Bing, Zong, Yun, Yan, Qingyu

“…In this study, ultrathin few-layer NiPS3 nanosheets are obtained and systematically investigated by high-yield liquid phase exfoliation from their bulk layered crystals, and are exploited as anodes for lithium ion batteries (LIBs) and electrocatalysts for oxygen evolution reaction (OER). When evaluated as an anode for LIBs, NiPS3 nanosheets show excellent electrochemical properties in terms of stable cycling performance and rate capabilities. …”
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Interactive rendering of translucent materials under area lights using voxels and Poisson disk samples by Koa, Ming Di, Johan, Henry, Sourin, Alexei

“…We can achieve similar effects, such as low-frequency scattered light illumination from translucent materials, when compared to offline renderers without precomputations.…”
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Deep visual saliency on stereoscopic images by Nguyen, Anh-Duc, Kim, Jongyoo, Oh, Heeseok, Kim, Haksub, Lin, Weisi, Lee, Sanghoon

“…In addition, most algorithms specialized in detecting visual saliency on pristine images may unsurprisingly fail when facing distorted images. In this paper, we investigate a deep learning scheme named Deep Visual Saliency (DeepVS) to achieve a more accurate and reliable saliency predictor even in the presence of distortions. …”
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Modeling of formation and breaking of lubricant bridge in the head–disk interface by molecular dynamic simulation by Dai, Xiangyu, Li, Hui, Lei, Xiao, Shen, Shengnan, Wu, Shijing, Liu, Sen, Du, Hejun

“…It has been found that the amount of transferring atoms sharply increased when the lubricant temperature was above 700 K. The loss rate of lubricant layer decreased gradually during the heating process and it took about 2.2 ns for the remaining lubricant to reach stability. …”
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The new "rare metal age" : new challenges and implications of critical raw materials supply security in the 21st century by Umbach, Frank

“…When Beijing threatened to restrict China’s export of rare earths (widely used in numerous important civilian and military technologies) to the United States at the end of May 2019, the world was reminded of China’s rare earths export disruption in the autumn of 2010 amid a maritime territorial conflict between China and Japan. …”
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Impact of cellular interference on uplink UAV communications by Tan, Ernest Zheng Hui, Madhukumar, A. S., Sirigina, Rajendra Prasad, Krishna, Anoop Kumar

“…Thus, interference mitigation techniques may have to be considered when multi-UAV networks are operating at low altitudes in areas with cellular networks.…”
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Choice as an engine of independence : implications for employee voice and managerial decision making by Nanakdewa, Kevin

“…Research on the choice mindset found that even when people engaged in the same behaviors, the extent to which they construed their actions as choices varied greatly. …”
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Data analysis of local scour around abutment in compound channel by Zhang, Ruixin

“…When building bridge structures in natural rivers, intricate local water flows, and the geological evolution of river beds will have a tremendous adverse impact on the safety of the bridge. …”
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A thesis of stillness : a study of Edmund Yeo’s Aqérat by Lee, Cheryl Julia

“…The modern valorisation of mobility is a means of envisioning a future in a time when a future cannot be inferred – a means which, as recent mobility studies have highlighted, is accessible only to a privileged few. …”
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Spatial and temporal localization of cell wall associated pili in Enterococcus Faecalis by Choo, Pei Yi

“…In addition, the older hemisphere of mid-division cells was completely saturated with Ebp, while at the newer hemisphere, Ebp appeared as two foci directly adjacent to the newly synthesized PG. When cell wall synthesis was inhibited by ramoplanin, an antibiotic that inhibits lipid II, new Ebp was still deposited at the cell surface. …”
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Influence of presumed influence on thinness as a beauty ideal for girls. by Soh, Wai Siong.

“…It was interesting that when it comes to the influence on the desire to be thin, we could only see that the “influence of self” has an impact on the desire to be thin. …”
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The imagination of eco-disaster : post-disaster rebuilding in Asian cinema by Chu, Kiu-Wai

“…To contemporary film viewers, the ‘psychic numbing’ effect is apparent, and it does not apply merely to our perception of numbers, statistics, the big data. It can also be seen when we are bombarded with similar kinds of images over and over again; in this case, the large-scale tsunami, the hurricanes, the earthquake and all the exaggerated destruction scenes in recent disaster movies have become clichés no matter how realistic and intense the shots are made. …”
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Semi-CNN architecture for effective spatio-temporal learning in action recognition by Leong, Mei Chee, Prasad, Dilip K., Lee, Yong Tsui, Lin, Feng

“…Our semi-CNN architecture achieved an average of 16-30% boost in the top-1 accuracy when evaluated on an input video of 16 frames.…”
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Ratio-of-distance rigidity theory with application to similar formation control by Cao, Kun, Han, Zhimin, Li, Xiuxian, Xie, Lihua

“…This paper develops a ratio-of-distance (RoD) rigidity theory to study when a framework can be uniquely determined by a set of RoD constraints up to similar transformations (translation, rotation, scaling, and reflection). …”
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