Synthesis of silica coated plasmonic metal nanostructures by Oi, Sok Yee

“…With a greater amount of Ag @ Au used (5mL), the final nanostructures of Ag @ Au @ SiO2 have a resulting silica shell thickness approximately 1.8nm. …”
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Understanding the effect of chlorobenzene and isopropanol anti-solvent treatments on the recombination and interfacial charge accumulation in efficient planar perovskite solar cell... by Prochowicz, Daniel, Mohammad Mahdi Tavakoli, Solanki, Ankur, Goh, Teck Wee, Pandey, Kavita, Sum, Tze Chien, Saliba, Michael, Yadav, Pankaj

“…Despite the improved morphology and solar cell performance the devices with IPA treated perovskites suffer from higher hysteresis during current density–voltage (J–V) scans. We found that this enhanced hysteresis stems mainly from higher charge accumulation at the TiO2/perovskite interface under illumination that could also lead to formation of excess electrostatic potential contributing to an increased open circuit voltage (Voc). …”
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Investigation of effects of surface texture on ice formation by Wang, Qiuping

“…From the experimental result, a test plate etched with 4M HCL for 5 minutes would obtain an optimal contact angle of 160.57°. …”
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Microbial lipid production from food waste saccharified liquid and the effects of compositions by Ma, Xiaoyu, Gao, Zhen, Gao, Ming, Ma, Yingqun, Ma, Hongzhi, Zhang, Min, Liu, Yu, Wang, Qunhui

“…Furthermore, lipid concentration decreased slightly when single lactic acid or single acetic acid concentration was below 5 g/L or 1 g/L in the culture media. Metal elements that were present in the medium had considerable synergistic effects on lipid production. …”
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Are there advantages to believing in fate? the belief in negotiating with fate when faced with constraints by Au, Evelyn W. M., Savani, Krishna

“…Subsequent studies found that after recalling a constraining event, exposure to the belief in negotiating with fate (but not exposure to fatalism) decreased repetitive thoughts (Experiment 3), increased the conviction that personal actions contributed to the event (Experiment 4), increased acceptance and positive reinterpretation of the event (Experiment 5), and increased how meaningful the event was (Experiment 6). …”
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Nanomaterials for urban farming by Putra, Ann Edmonda Tommy

“…We intended to examine further about the physiological response, phytotoxicity and water uptake by cultivating mung beans with CD, CuCD from 0.3 gr copper chloride, and CuCD from 0.5 gr copper chloride with concentration ranging from 0.1 mg/ml to 1 mg/ml. …”
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Liner shipping operation under emission reduction measures by Hu, Xinyue

“…From January 1 2020 onwards, for any fuel used onboard, the global sulfur must be reduced to 0.5%. There are three options for vessels: to continue to operate on high sulfur fuel oil but install sulfur scrubbers, to switch to marine gas oil (MGO) or to consider alternative fuel types such as methanol. …”
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Seismic attenuation tomography from 2018 Lombok earthquakes, Indonesia by Priyono, Awali, Nugraha, Andri Dian, Muzli, Muzli, Ardianto, Ardianto, Atin Nur Aulia, Prabowo, Billy Sugiartono, Zulfakriza, Zulfakriza, Shindy Rosalia, Sasmi, Annisa T., Afif, Haunan, Sahara, David P., Widiyantoro, Sri, Wei, Shengji, Husni, Yayan M., Sarjan, Achmad Fajar Narotama

“…The significant earthquake that happened on August 5, 2018, took place in a region with moderate Qp, close to the contrast of high and low-Qp and high Vp, which suggests that the earthquake started in a strong material before triggering the shallower aftershocks occurring in an area affected by fluid content. …”
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Does testing order affect performance and outcome during physical fitness tests? by Low, Seow Ting

“…In Singapore, students must complete a bi-annual National Physical Fitness Award Scheme (NAPFA) test, consisting of 6 health-related components of fitness in which 5 are often completed back-to-back on the same day. …”
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In vitro protein (BSA) delivery studies in mesostructured bioceramics by Aw, Siew Sim

“…3D mesoporous bioactive glasses (MBGs), SiO2-CaO-P2O5, with four different chemical compositions and three different synthesis temperatures during synthesis had been successfully prepared by F127 surfactant as templates using evaporation-induced self-assembly (EISA) process. …”
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Late-life depressive symptomatology, motoric cognitive risk syndrome, and incident dementia: the "Nuage" study results by Beauchet, Olivier, Sekhon, Harmehr, Launay, Cyrille P., Gaudreau, Pierrette, Morais, José A., Allali, Gilles

“…At baseline, MCR was defined by the association of subjective cognitive complaint with slow walking speed, and late-life depressive symptomatology with a 30-item Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS) score >5/30. Incident dementia, defined as a Modified Mini-Mental State score ≤79/100 test and Instrumental Activity Daily Living score <4/4, was assessed at each annual visit. …”
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Machine translation of English relative clauses to Chinese in commercial contracts -- a contrastive evaluation of the outputs by SYSTRAN translate, Baidu translate and Google trans... by Li, Yidi

“…Then, 10 professional translators were invited to rate the translation quality of the target text (TT) sentences (both generated by human and machine) with a score ranging from 1 to 5. Meanwhile, the automatic evaluation metric BLEU (Bilingual Evaluation Understudy) was applied for scoring the MT outputs. …”
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Great enhancement effect of 20-40 nm Ag NPs on solar-blind UV response of the mixed-phase MgZnO detector by Han, Shun, Xia, Hao, Lu, Youming, Hu, Sirong, Zhang, Dao Hua, Xu, Wangying, Fang, Ming, Liu, Wenjun, Cao, Peijiang, Zhu, Deliang

“…When high density 20-40 nm Ag NPs is induced, the deep UV (235 nm) response of the mixed-phase MgZnO detector is increased by 226 times, the I uv/I dark ratio of the modified device is increased by 17.5 times. The slight enhancement in UV light intensity from 20 to 40 nm Ag NPs induces multiple tunnel breakdown phenomena within the mixed-phase MgZnO thin film, which is the main reason for the abnormal great enhancement effect on deep UV response of the device, so the recovery speed of the modified device is not influenced. …”
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Chemical characteristics and trends of Indian summer monsoon rainfall: a review by Majumdar, Aditi, Samanta, Dhrubajyoti, Das, Reshmi

“…Average rainwater pH ranged from 5.31 to 6.70 in these six regions. The incidence of acidic rain events at three separate locations in the Peninsular region suggests a significant impact of anthropogenic emissions. …”
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The effects of gradient running on lower limb skeletal muscle function parameters measured using TMG100 tensiomyography system by Sek, Qin Rui

“…Mean RF Td values decreased by 2.05ms from Baseline (27.39 ±4.68) to UHR (25.34 ±3.10), and decreased by 3.00ms and 4.35ms from LR (29.69±7.27) to DHR (26.69±5.54) and UHR (25.34±3.10) respectively. Conover’s post hoc pairwise comparisons found significant differences between RF Td between LR, DHR and UHR. …”
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MCI-frcnn: a deep learning method for topological micro-domain boundary detection by Tian, Simon Zhongyuan, Yin, Pengfei, Jing, Kai, Yang, Yang, Xu, Yewen, Huang, Guangyu, Ning, Duo, Fullwood, Melissa Jane, Zheng, Meizhen

“…Using this well-trained MCI-frcnn, we detected micro-RAID boundaries for the input new images, with a fast speed (5.26 fps), high recognition accuracy (AUROC = 0.85, mAP = 0.69), and high boundary region quantification (genomic IoU = 76%). …”
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An in-depth study of software library upgrade dependency issues by Teo, Dave Hwa Tao

“…We will be analyzing 6 different libraries, with 5 projects under each library. In this study, it has further acknowledged the findings in the previous study that there is a high level of third-party library dependency. …”
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Numerical investigations on vortex-ring collisions with heated sphere by Hoong, Jun Fong

“…Numerical study was also investigated for normal collision of vortex ring upon heated sphere with sphere-to-ring diameter ratios of 0.5. For this case, the tertiary vortex ring formed eventually break apart and did not wrap themselves around the primary vortex ring. …”
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The role of expectation: attention in cognitive performance lab study by Wong, Cheryl Qi Yin

“…Expected distractors were defined by a click sound occurring 1.5 seconds before each distractor tone. Cognitive performance was measured using reaction time and error rate on a response inhibition task. …”
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Phenotypic, physiological, and molecular response of Loropetalum chinense var. rubrum under different light quality treatments based on leaf color changes by Zhang, Yifan, Liu, Yang, Ling, Lin, Huo, Wenwen, Li, Yang, Xu, Lu, Xiang, Lili, Yang, Yujie, Xiong, Xingyao, Zhang, Donglin, Yu, Xiaoying, Li, Yanlin

“…Moreover, we also found that the CRY-like gene, HY5-like gene, BBX-like gene, MYB-like gene, CHS-like gene, DFR-like gene, ANS-like gene, and UFGT-like gene were significantly upregulated. …”
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