Drag reduction in fish-like locomotion by Barrett, D.S., Triantafyllou, M.S., Yue, D.K.P., Grosenbaugh, M.A., Wolfgang, M.J.

“…We present experimental force and power measurements demonstrating that the power required to propel an actively swimming, streamlined, fish-like body is significantly smaller than the power needed to tow the body straight and rigid at the same speed U. The data have been obtained through accurate force and motion measurements on a laboratory fish-like robotic mechanism, 1:2m long, covered with a flexible skin and equipped with a tail fin, at Reynolds numbers up to 10^6, with turbulence stimulation. …”
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Induced-charge electro-osmosis by Squires, Todd M., Bazant, Martin Z.

“…Similar flows around metallic colloids with fixed total charge have been described in the Russian literature (largely unnoticed in the West). …”
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21A.225J / SP.621J / WGS.621J Violence, Human Rights, and Justice, Fall 2004 by James, Erica

“…This course examines the contemporary problem of political violence and the way that human rights have been conceived as a means to protect and promote freedom, peace and justice for citizens against the abuses of the state.…”
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A model for wet-casting polymeric membranes incorporating nonequilibrium interfacial dynamics, vitrification and convection by Lee, Hanyong., Krantz, William B., Hwang, Sun-Tak.

“…Properly describing the evolution of the interface concentrations enables this new model to predict vitrification, which has been observed experimentally but not predicted heretofore. …”
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Electrochemical biosensor based on graphene oxide–Au nanoclusters composites for l-cysteine analysis by Ge, Shenguang, Yan, Mei, Lu, Juanjuan, Zhang, Meng, Yu, Feng, Yu, Jinghua, Song, Xianrang, Yu, Shilin

“…The direct determination of free reduced and total CySH in human urine samples has been successfully carried out without the assistance of any separation techniques.…”
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Cytotoxic triosmium carbonyl clusters : a structure-activity relationship study by Top, Siden, Vessières, Anne, Leong, Weng Kee, Lee, Shirley Hui Zhi

“…Additionally, biochemical assays conducted with the cationic cluster show that it induces apoptosis, although a biological target has not yet been identified. Further research to establish the molecular targets of these compounds and to develop improved organometallic clusters as potential breast cancer therapeutics is underway.…”
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A highly sustainable and versatile granulation method of nanodrugs via their electrostatic adsorption onto chitosan microparticles as the granulation substrates by Yang, Yue, Hadinoto, Kunn

“…Granules having 25% (w/w) nanodrug loading at 50% (w/w) recovery with good flowability have been successfully prepared.…”
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Cross feedforward cascode compensation for low-power three-stage amplifier with large capacitive load by Chong, Sau Siong, Chan, Pak Kwong

“…The proposed technique has been implemented and fabricated in a UMC 65-nm CMOS process and it achieves a 2-MHz gain-bandwidth product (GBW) when driving a 500-pF capacitive load by consuming only 20.4 μW at a 1.2-V supply. …”
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“Gone too soon” : did Twitter grieve for Michael Jackson? by Lee, Chei Sian, Goh, Dion Hoe-Lian

“…Originality/value – There has been little work done in examining microblogs as platforms for grieving in general, and more specifically, for providing social support during bereavement. …”
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CRLBs for pilot-aided channel estimation in OFDM system under Gaussian and non-Gaussian mixed noise by Huang, Jiyan, Shen, Xiaofeng, Wang, Peng

“…Several CRLBs on channel estimation have been derived for Gaussian noise. However, a practical channel is affected by not only Gaussian background noise but also non-Gaussian noise such as impulsive interference. …”
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Analysis and mitigation of voltage measurement errors for three-phase parallel voltage source inverters by Qi, Yang, Liu, Jiazhe, Tang, Yi, Kaushik, Rajashekara

“…In islanded microgrids, distributed generations (DGs) have been increasingly employed through voltage source inverters (VSIs). …”
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Formation of nickel sulfide nanoframes from metal-organic frameworks with enhanced pseudocapacitive and electrocatalytic properties by Yu, Xin-Yao, Yu, Le, Wu, Hao Bin, Lou, David Xiong Wen

“…However, metal sulfides with frame-like nanostructures have been rarely reported. Starting from metal–organic frameworks (MOFs), we demonstrate a novel structure-induced anisotropic chemical etching/anion exchange method to transform Ni-Co Prussian blue analogue (PBA) nanocubes into NiS nanoframes with tunable size. …”
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Vanadium pentoxide-based cathode materials for lithium-ion batteries : morphology control, carbon hybridization, and cation doping by Huang, Xin, Rui, Xianhong, Hng, Huey Hoon, Yan, Qingyu

“…In the past decades, progressive accomplishments have been achieved that rely on the synthesis of nanostructured materials, carbon hybridization, and cation doping. …”
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Influences of carbon fillers on electrical conductivity and crystallinity of polyethylene terephthalate by Xin, Fei, Li, Lin, Chan, Siew Hwa, Zhao, Jianhong

“…The mechanisms for the effects of carbon fillers on electrical conductivity and cystallinity of PET have been proposed and discussed.…”
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A new method for evaluating kinesthetic acuity during haptic interaction by Casadio, Maura, Squeri, V., De Santis, D., Zenzeri, J., Masia, L., Morasso, P.

“…The proposed technique, based on a pulsed assistance paradigm, has been evaluated on a group of healthy subjects.…”
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Low temperature sintered cordierite ceramics from MgO-Al2O3-SiO2 glass powder by Xiao, Zhuohao, Dong, Xiaofeng, Li, Xiuying, Luo, Wenyan, Liang, Huayin, Kong, Ling Bing

“…The effects of sintering temperature on phase composition and microstructure of the ceramics were elaborated, while the relationships among sintering temperature, CTE, mechanical strength and density were comprehensively discussed. It has been shown that the MgO-Al2O3-SiO2 glass powder can be well sintered into cordierite ceramics at temperatures in the range of 1050-1150°C, which are much lower than the commonly reported sintering temperatures that are over 1400°C. …”
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Nature grasping by a cable-driven under-actuated anthropomorphic robotic hand by Tian, Li, Magnenat-Thalman, Nadia, Thalmann, Daniel, Zheng, Jianmin

“…Many prior researches had been done in virtual and real for simulation the human grasping. …”
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Robustness to training disturbances in SpikeProp Learning by Shrestha, Sumit Bam, Song, Qing

“…The performance of learning using this scheme has been compared with the prevailing methods for different benchmark data sets and the results show that this method has stable learning reflected by minimal surges during learning, higher success in training instances, and faster learning as well.…”
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Simulation of Organic Rankine Cycle - quasi-steady state vs dynamic approach for optimal economic performance by Pili, Roberto, Romagnoli, Alessandro, Jiménez-Arreola, Manuel, Spliethoff, Hartmut, Wieland, Christoph

“…Computer-based simulations of Organic Rankine Cycles (ORC) have been extensively used in the last two decades to predict the behaviour of existing plants or already in the design phase. …”
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Novel fiber bragg grating sensing method based on the sidelobe modulation for ultrasound detection by Liang, Sheng, Tjin, Swee Chuan, Lin, Bo, Sheng, Xinzhi, Lou, Shuqin, Zhang, Yongxin, Wang, Xin

“…In order to find out an effective sensing method, in this case, a novel sidelobe modulation has been proposed and investigated. When grating length is much longer than the ultrasonic wavelength, the Bragg wavelength is not shifted; however, the reflectivity of sidelobe is modulated by ultrasound, periodically, which can be utilized as an effective ultrasound sensing method. …”
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