0.94(K0.5Na0.5)NbO3–0.06LiNbO3 piezoelectric ceramics prepared from the solid state reaction modified with polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP) of different molecular weights by Tan, Chee Kiang Ivan, Yao, Kui, Goh, Phoi Chin, Ma, Jan

“…The effects of PVP for suppressing the loss of alkali ions, promoting the perovskite phase formation, and improving the piezoelectric properties were characterized and discussed. …”
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Conducting Psychological Assessment : A Guide for Practitioners / by Wright, A. Jordan, author 513562, John Wiley & Sons (Online service) 647106

“…All readers of this book will benefit from: 1.A primer on the overall process of psychological assessment. 2.An explanation of how to integrate the data from the administration, scoring, and interpretation phases into a fully conceptualized report. 3.Actual case examples and sample assessment cases that span the entire process. 4.Perfect for people in training programs in health service psychology, including clinical, counseling, school, and forensic programs, Conducting Psychological Assessment also belongs on the bookshelves of anyone conducting assessments of human functioning.…”
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Spoofing speech detection using temporal convolutional neural network by Xiao, Xiong, Li, Haizhou, Tian, Xiaohai, Chng, Eng Siong

“…Although multiple frames or dynamic features are used to form a super-vector to represent the temporal information, the time span covered by these features are not sufficient. …”
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Skyrmion-driven topological Hall effect in a Shastry-Sutherland magnet by Swain, N., Shahzad, M., Paradezhenko, G. V., Pervishko, A. A., Yudin, D., Sengupta, Pinaki

“…The magnetic properties are modeled with competing symmetric Heisenberg and asymmetric Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya exchange interactions, while a coupling between the spins of the itinerant electrons and the localized moments describes the magnetotransport behavior. …”
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Converting sewage sludge into bio-fertiliser by Neo, Suat Leng.

“…The conversion is to stabilise the sewage sludge which may contain heavy metals and inorganic ions, volatiles and toxic organic compounds, and pathogen micro-organisms.…”
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Effects of inorganic salts on the phase separation of partially miscible solutes by Zhao, Dong-Yu, Ding, Bin, Zhu, Chuan-Yong, Gong, Liang, Duan, Fei

“…The phase separation behavior under different inorganic salt systems shows a similar trend. However, calcium ions and Fe3+ ions in the solutions can greatly decrease the rate of droplet coalescence and result in an increase in phase separation. …”
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Revisiting metal electrodeposition in porous anodic alumina: toward tailored preparation of metal nanotube arrays by Zhang, Aiqin, Zhou, Jiajing, Das, Paramita, Xiao, Yuanhua, Gong, Feilong, Li, Feng, Wang, Lizhen, Zhang, Linsen, Wang, Lixia, Cao, Yang, Duan, Hongwei

“…Metal electrodeposition in porous anodic aluminum oxide (AAO) is a complicated and multi-step process, consisting of diffusion of metal ions in the pores, reduction of metal ions and crystallization of metal atoms. …”
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Multi-mass imaging in chemical reaction dynamics by Kockert, H

“…Evidence for the fragmentation of doubly and triply charged ions is also found, with these processes apparently proceeding via a two-body Coulomb explosion followed by further fragmentation of the molecular product ion.…”

Suitability of pressmud as an adsorption material in wastewater treatment and as a booster in soil fertility and productivity by Mohamad, Maheera, Osman, Nor Hasni, Abdul Rahim, Mohd Kamarul Irwan

“…Based on the removal efficiency test, pressmud successfully removed the metal ions at the highest value such as Zinc (Zn) at 99.7%. …”
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Dynamic O(Arboricity) Coloring in Polylogarithmic Worst-Case Time by Ghaffari, Mohsen, Grunau, Christoph

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Monitoring of singlet fission via two-dimensional photon-echo and transient-absorption spectroscopy : simulations by multiple Davydov trial states by Sun, Kewei, Huang, Zhongkai, Gelin, Maxim F., Chen, Lipeng, Zhao, Yang

“…The anticorrelated oscillations of cross peaks located at symmetric positions with respect to the main diagonal are clearly identified after the stimulated-emission contribution quenches. …”
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Removal of copper from solution using moss by Lee, C.K., Low, K.S.

“…The results show that the moss is an efficient sorbent for copper removal and the mechanism is mainly an ion‐exchange process.…”

The genome sequence of the Ash-bark Knot-horn, Euzophera pinguis (Haworth, 1811) by Boyes, D, Holland, PWH

“…The genome sequence is 464.7 megabases in span. Most of the assembly is scaffolded into 30 chromosomal pseudomolecules, including the Z sex chromosome. …”

The genome sequence of the Heart and Club moth, Agrotis clavis (Hufnagel, 1766) by Wawman, D

“…The genome sequence is 751.1 megabases in span. Most of the assembly is scaffolded into 31 chromosomal pseudomolecules, including the Z sex chromosome. …”

The genome sequence of the Fan-foot, Herminia tarsipennalis (Treitschke, 1835) by Boyes, D, Holland, PWH

“…The genome sequence is 788.4 megabases in span. Most of the assembly is scaffolded into 30 chromosomal pseudomolecules, including the Z sex chromosome. …”

Sustainable structural design optimization - prestressed concrete beams by Ng, Kok Hang

“…Subsequently, a case study was carried out to determine the optimum beam span length for an expressway bridge that will result in the lowest overall EC for the bridge system. …”
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Emergence, Formation and Dynamics of Hot QCD Matter by Scheihing Hitschfeld, Bruno Sebastian

“…Understanding the dynamics of Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) in quantitative detail is one of the main frontiers in particle physics. While the last century gave us the formulation of the theory of nuclear interactions, QCD, as well as that of the rest of visible matter encoded in the Standard Model of Particle Physics, much remains to be understood. …”
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Effects of hydrogen flowrate on carbon nanotube production at low temperature via floating catalyst chemical vapor deposition method by Zadeh, Elmira Habashi

“…The hydrogen flow rate was varied from 150 ml/min to 450 ml/min with increment of 50 ml/min. The preheating temperature was set at 200 and 300 0c. …”
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Development of high efficiency power electronics converter for medium voltage drive by Sapkota Rajesh

“…Excellent speed control of the motor and the reduction of the energy loss in the system are the main attraction of these drives. These MV converters are widely used in industries for driving pumps, fans and propulsion system on ships. …”
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Positive mood and working memory in young preschool children. by Tang, Mavis Yi Wen.

“…However, positive mood did not significantly affect children’s working memory span. These findings suggested that positive mood elicits an additional load on underlying executive processes (inhibition) in the service of working memory, decreasing cognitive resource capacity to devote to the task at hand.…”
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