Fouling behavior of isolated dissolved organic fractions from seawater in reverse osmosis (RO) desalination process by Yin, Wenqiang, Li, Xin, Suwarno, Stanislaus Raditya, Cornelissen, Emile R., Chong, Tzyy Haur

“…Results showed that initial fouling (i.e., foulant-membrane interaction) was the main driver in SWRO organic fouling with biopolymer fraction as the major contributor followed by low molecular weight fraction. …”
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Three-dimensional structure of Megabalanus rosa cement protein 20 revealed by multi-dimensional NMR and molecular dynamics simulations by Mohanram, Harini, Kumar, Akshita, Verma, Chandra Shekhar, Pervushin, Konstantin, Miserez, Ali

“…Our NMR results show that rMrCP20 contains three main folded domain regions intervened by two dynamic loops, resulting in multiple protein conformations that exist in equilibrium. …”
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The Ayeyarwady River (Myanmar) : washload transport and its global role among rivers in the Anthropocene by Latrubesse, Edgardo M., Park, Edward, Kästner, Karl

“…The Ayeyarwady is the lifeline of Myanmar which concentrates the majority of the population and GDP of the country. It is the main way of transport, a source of fluvial aggregates for development projects, hydropower, and the basin plays a major role in food supply and irrigation. …”
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Mxene titanium carbide-based biosensor : strong dependence of exfoliation method on performance by Chia, Hui Ling, Mayorga-Martinez, Carmen C., Antonatos, Nikolas, Sofer, Zdeněk, Gonzalez-Julian, Jesus J., Webster, Richard David, Pumera, Martin

“…Transition metal carbides, known as MXenes, are generated via the selective etching of "A" layers from their layered, ternary parent compounds, MAX phases, where M corresponds to early d-transition metal, A being a main group sp-element from either Group 13 or 14 and carbon or nitrogen being denoted by X. …”
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A new methodology to calculate process rates in a kinetic Monte Carlo model of PAH growth by Leon, Gustavo, Eaves, Nick, Akroyd, Jethro, Mosbach, Sebastian, Kraft, Markus

“…The resulting rates are only a function of temperature and the main gas-phase species present in the flame environment. …”
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Server-aided revocable predicate encryption : formalization and lattice-based instantiation by Ling, San, Nguyen, Khoa, Wang, Huaxiong, Zhang, Juanyang

“…The scheme employs the PE scheme of Agrawal et al. (2011, ASIACRYPT) and the complete subtree method of Naor et al. (2001, CRYPTO) as the two main ingredients, which work smoothly together thanks to a few additional techniques. …”
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Use of magnesium-silicate-hydrate (M-S-H) cement mixes in 3D printing applications by Panda, Biranchi, Sonat, Cem, Yang, En-Hua, Tan, Ming Jen, Unluer, Cise

“…The final product contained brucite and M-S-H as hydration products, which were the main contributor to mechanical performance and microstructural densification.…”
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Living wishes : a communication campaign encouraging Singapore residents aged 35 to 59 to initiate Advance Care Planning discussions with their elderly parents by Chong, Charlotte Wen Wei, Gouw, Emily Shu Hui, Lee, Phyllis Zhi Ning, Tan, Raelynn Zhi Xuan

“…The campaign was split into two main phases: it first focused on raising awareness and understanding of ACP among the TA. …”
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Gait recognition by dynamic vision sensor and deep neural network by Ng, Noah Winston

“…Moreover, the deep learning approach, specifically the convolutional neural network has been proven successful in the image recognition task. The main objective of this project is to build and evaluate the performance of a gait recognition task by a Deep Neural Network (DNN) using event-based data collected from DVS. …”
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An experimental investigation of fractional flow reserve of human coronary artery by Lui, Jeremy Ming Yuan

“…It was estimated that 17.9 million people died in the year 2019 due to cardiovascular diseases. The main cause of it came from people suffering from coronary artery disease, where their coronary arteries became narrower until blood could not reach the vital organs and the heart, eventually killing them. …”
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Predicative adjectives in Thai: diachronic changes in the past century by Jaratjarungkiat, Sureenate, Park, Kyung-Eun, Tan, Samuel Yuan Han

“…The present study has two main aims. The first is to categorize predicative adjectives in Thai in order to bring to light a rarely-mentioned group of adjectives that differ from prototypical adjectives. …”
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A self-assembled plasmonic substrate for enhanced fluorescence resonance energy transfer by Hou, Shuai, Chen, Yonghao, Lu, Derong, Xiong, Qirong, Lim, Yun, Duan, Hongwei

“…However, the potential of plasmonic nanostructures to enable tailored FRET enhancement on planar substrates remains largely unrealized, which are of considerable interest for high-performance on-surface bioassays and photovoltaics. The main challenge lies in the necessitated concurrent control over the spectral properties of plasmonic substrates to match that of fluorophores and the fluorophore-substrate spacing. …”
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Tensile split Hopkinson bar laboratory tests with imperfect dimension by Goh, Sean Shun Hui

“…The tensile SHPB is used to obtain the dynamic stress and strain response under tension, subjected to high strain rates which ranges from 102 to 104 S-1. The main theory is based along the elastic bars, where there is an occurrence of propagation of longitudinal stress waves. …”
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Impact of bioconvection and chemical reaction on MHD nanofluid flow due to exponential stretching sheet by Asjad, Muhammad Imran, Sarwar, Noman, Ali, Bagh, Hussain, Sajjad, Sitthiwirattham, Thanin, Reunsumrit, Jiraporn

“…The fluid moves through a porous matrix in the presence of a magnetic field that is perpendicular to the flow direction. To achieve the main objective of efficient thermal transportation with increased thermal conductivity, the possible settling of nano entities is avoided with the bioconvection of microorganisms. …”
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Low-power flip-flop circuits for high-performance systems by Tang, Pey Chyi.

“…The main purpose of this project was to design low power and high performance flip-flop. …”
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Experimental study for synthesization and characterization of porous adsorbents for cooling and gas storage applications by Soh, Michael Wai Kit

“…The adsorption bed consisting of finned-tube heat exchanger and porous adsorbents, is the main component of an adsorption device. The efficacy factor of an adsorption bed is determined by the adsorbate loadings on the porous adsorbents. …”
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Remote sensing applications of machine learning processes: satellite imagery road extraction using few shot segmentation by Ong, Grace Hui Lee

“…Hence, in this project, two main models: i) U-Net, a popular model for binary segmentation, and ii) PFENet, a state-of-the-art few-shot segmentation model, are trained to learn a classifier to segment roads from non-roads, and tested on a set of data from unseen classes. …”
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Development of metric system to measure an innovation district by Poh, Jin An

“…Therefore, a metric system is proposed in this paper to measure the level of success of an innovation district in a quantitative manner by obtaining an overall performance score. There are five main key performance indicators selected to be used in the metric system. …”
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Tropical savanna conversion to exotic pastures negatively affects taxonomic and functional diversity of dung beetle assemblages, but not dung removal by Maciel, Rafaella, Braga, Rodrigo Fagundes, Carvalho, Raquel L. L., Louzada, Julio, Slade, Eleanor M.

“…The replacement of natural systems with agricultural lands is the main factor resulting in land use change in tropical regions. …”
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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

“…One popular method was to introduce the heavy metal ions into the raw material for the synthesis of tobermorite, as the main cement component. However, the conventional hydrothermal synthesis was time and intense energy consuming. …”
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