Designing novel multilayered nanocomposites for high-performance coating materials with online strain monitoring capability by Anwar Ali, Hashina Parveen, Radchenko, Ihor, Zhou, Jiahui, Qing, Liu, Budiman, Arief

“…A linear trend of resistivity with respect to true strain for strains in excess of 3.5% was observed and suggests a significant regime for use for strain sensor/detection/monitoring capability.…”
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Cake formation of bidisperse suspensions in dead-end microfiltration by Han, Qi, Trinh, Thien An, Chew, Jia Wei

“…The foulant particles were latex of two different sizes (namely, 3 and 5 µm) and the membrane was polycarbonate track-etched with nominal diameter of 2 µm. …”
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Comparison of the efficacy between normal acupuncture and electro-acupuncture for adhesive capsulitis by Hong, Stefanie Kaixin

“…It was also calculated that electro-acupuncture had an efficacy rate of 90.5%, compared to normal acupuncture's 57.10%. Thus, other than providing support for the effectiveness of normal acupuncture, this study also showed that electro-acupuncture had a higher rate of efficacy.…”
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In-band RCS reduction and isolation enhancement of a 24 GHz radar antenna using metamaterial absorber for sensing and automotive radar applications by Sharma, A., Dwari, S., Kanaujia, B.K., Gangwar, D., Kumar, S., Singh, Satya P., Lay-Ekuakille, A.

“…The -10 dB impedance bandwidths of the triple-band sensor antenna are 20.8 to 21.24 GHz, 23.94 to 24.55 GHz, and 27.18 to 27.5 GHz. The proposed sensor antenna achieves isolation of 34 dB between the transmit and receive ports, and peak RCS reduction of 11 dB, as compared to the reference antenna. …”
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Dark current analysis of InasSb-based hetero-p-i-n mid-infrared photodiode by Suo, Fei, Tong, Jinchao, Zhang, Dao Hua

“…For the typical square mesa with 350 μm side length, at the bias of -0.4 V, the dark current density is 1.78 A/cm2 for T=293 K, and reduces to 0.4 A/cm2 for T=77 K, where the room-temperature value is lower than or comparable with that of the state-of-the-art mid-infrared photodetectors. …”
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Analysis of cybersecurity of cyber physical systems by Qi, Junda

“…Recent years have witnessed the rapid development of cyber-physical systems (CPS) due to advances in the information and communication technology (ICT), in particular, the recent 5G-based Internet of things (IoT) technologies. …”
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Impact on car platoon simulations: headway distance vs stopping distance by Lim, Jia Le

“…Today, autonomous driving and intelligent transportation systems have attracted significant attention by virtue of the advanced management and monitoring systems with smart sensors and excellent information transformation based on Vehicle-to-X (or V2X) technology. Such emerging techniques provide a wealth of knowledge of the traffic conditions for all vehicles driving on an urban road network, which may reduce traffic congestion, fuel consumption, environmental footprints, and enhance safety. …”
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Electrochemical DNA-nano biosensor for the detection of cervical cancer-causing HPV-16 using ultrasmall Fe₃O₄-Au core-shell nanoparticles by Rasouli, Elisa, Basirun, Wan Jefrey, Johan, Mohd Rafie, Rezayi, Majid, Mahmoudian, Mohammad Reza, Poenar, Daniel Puiu

“…The best performance of our HPV biosensor was obtained for probe DNA concentration of 5 μM, for which the limit of detection and sensitivity of our developed sensor resulted to be 0.1 nM and 2.4 μA/nM, respectively.…”
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Mechano-responsive hydrogel for direct stem cell manufacturing to therapy by Shou, Yufeng, Liu, Ling, Liu, Qimin, Le, Zhicheng, Lee, Khang Leng, Li, Hua, Li, Xianlei, Koh, Dion Zhanyun, Wang, Yuwen, Liu, Tong Ming, Yang, Zheng, Lim, Chwee Teck, Cheung, Christine, Tay, Andy

“…Conventional cell expansion methods using 2D tissue culture plates and 2.5D microcarriers in bioreactors can generate large cell numbers, but they compromise stem cell potency and lack mechanical preconditioning to prepare MSC for physiological loading expected in vivo. …”
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A novel CCHP system based on a closed PEMEC-PEMFC loop with water self-supply by Zhao, Junjie, Luo, Xiaobing, Tu, Zhengkai, Chan, Siew Hwa

“…After one day of operation in summer and winter, there are 19.1 kWh and 45.5 kWh electricity surplus, 7.27 × 106 kJ and 1.97 × 106 kJ heat surplus, 1200 mol and 300 mol hydrogen surplus, respectively. …”
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Optimizing fundamental design of soft magnetic layer to improve the energy conversion efficiency of airport pavement induction heating by Chen, Feng, Li, Yue, Gu, Gonghui, Han, Chengjia, Ma, Tao

“…It was found that provided the embedment depth of soft magnetic layer is no more than 8 cm, the critical pavement tensile stress can be controlled within 4.5 MPa that ensures the structural safety.…”
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An analytic end-to-end collaborative learning algorithm by Li, Sitan, Cheah, Chien Chern

“…Then an online kinematics control task of a UR5e robot arm was performed to illustrate the regression approximation and online updating ability of our algorithm.…”
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Recent seismicity and slab gap beneath Toba caldera (Sumatra) revealed using hypocenter relocation methodology by Simanjuntak, Andrean, Muksin, Umar, Asnawi, Yusran, Rizal, Syamsul, Wei, Shengji

“…The results show a significant change in hypocenter quality which is around 90% of total hypocenters with RMS < 1.0s, while 60% of total hypocenters have RMS < 0.5s following an oblique angle of ~65° beneath Toba. …”
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Analysis of wettability effects on thermal performance of vapor chamber with a hybrid lattice Boltzmann method by Ji, Ruiyang, Qin, Siyu, Liu, Yijia, Jin, Liwen, Yang, Chun, Meng, Xiangzhao

“…For low heat fluxes, the VC with a hydrophobic boiling surface (CA=115.5°) results in the highest BHTC by 260.34% compared with the neutral one. …”
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Contrastive graph pooling for explainable classification of brain networks by Xu, Jiaxing, Bian, Qingtian, Li, Xinhang, Zhang, Aihu, Ke, Yiping, Qiao, Miao, Zhang, Wei, Sim, Jeremy Wei Khang, Gulyás, Balázs

“…We apply our method to 5 resting-state fMRI brain network datasets of 3 diseases and demonstrate its superiority over state-of-the-art baselines. …”
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High-efficiency magnetophoretic labelling of adoptively-transferred T cells for longitudinal in vivo magnetic particle imaging by Tay, Rong En, Lokamitra, P., Pang, Shun Toll, Low, Kay En, Tay, Hui Chien, Ho, Charmaine Min, Malleret, Benoit, Rötzschke, Olaf, Olivo, Malini, Tay, Zhi Wei

“…Results: Labelling efficiency was improved more than 10-fold over prior studies enabling longer-term tracking for at least two weeks in vivo of the labelled immune cells and their biodistribution relative to the tumour. The new imager showed 5-fold improved throughput enabling much larger density of data (up to 20 mice per experiment). …”
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Ultrahigh plateau-capacity sodium storage by plugging open pores by Peng, Jiao, Wang, Huanwen, Shi, Xiaojun, Fan, Hong Jin

“…In particular, a large portion of the capacity (490 mAh g-1) lies below the plateau of 0.25 V, which originates from the pore-filling mechanism as revealed by in situ Raman. …”
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Electrical characterization of Si Nanowire based devices – transistors and SONOS memory by Xiong, Tian Zhong.

“…A vertical gate-all-around (GAA) non-volatile memory (NVM) SONOS and PMOS vertical gate-all-around (GAA) Silicon Nanowire with the height of 150nm and diameter of ~20nm for the memory and height of 600~700nm and diameter of ~5nm is being study. In this work, the main aim is to find out the electrical characteristic of both devices. …”
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A comparison between cannulated and non-cannulated cancellous screws used in the fixation of simulated femoral neck fracture by Tan, Daren Teng Yeow.

“…The repeatability was confirmed by a coefficient of variations data which range from 5% to 13%. Experiments were conducted to test for differences in the maximum load to failure, maximum displacement at failure and stiffness for both types of screw fixation. …”
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Are sovereign wealth fund investments destabilizing? by Pang, Andy Shang Yuan, Lin, Rachelle Wei Xuan, Mok, Shayna Chien Ru

“…Jen [2007] estimated that should these investors decide to invest a significant part of their current holding of US$5.6 trillion worth of assets, it could raise the global P/E ratio by up to 10%. …”
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