A ternary Fe₁₋ₓS@Porous carbon nanowires/reduced graphene oxide hybrid film electrode with superior volumetric and gravimetric capacities for flexible sodium ion batteries by Liu, Yang, Fang, Yongjin, Zhao, Zhiwei, Yuan, Changzhou, Lou, David Xiong Wen

“…The multidimensional paper architecture possesses several advantages, including rendering an efficient electron/ion transport network, buffering the volume expansion of Fe₁₋ₓS nanoparticles, mitigating the dissolution of polysulfides, and enabling superior kinetics toward efficient sodium storage. When evaluated as a self-supporting anode for SIBs, the Fe₁₋ₓS@PCNWs/rGO paper electrode exhibits remarkable reversible capacities of 573–89 mAh g⁻¹ over 100 consecutive cycles at 0.1 A g⁻¹ with areal mass loadings of 0.9–11.2 mg cm⁻² and high volumetric capacities of 424–180 mAh cm⁻³ in the current density range of 0.2–5 A g⁻¹. …”
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A review on propeller noise reduction techniques by Lim, Wei Cheng

“…Turbulence flow encountered by airfoil also contribute to high level of far-field noise when kinetic energy produced within turbulence boundary layers scatter as it moves towards the trailing edge into wake. …”
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Graphene oxide nanoplatelets potentiate anticancer effect of cisplatin in human lung cancer cells by Nur Farhanah Rosli, Fojtů, Michaela, Fisher, Adrian C., Pumera, Martin

“…Herein, we have uniquely prepared graphene oxide nanoplatelets (GONPs) from well-defined stacked graphite nanofibers (SGNF) with a base of 50 × 50 nm2 for toxicity and drug potentiation studies when coadministered with the chemotherapeutic drug cisplatin (CP) in human lung cancer cells, A549 cells. …”
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Inorganic salt modified paper substrates utilized in paper based microfluidic sampling for potentiometric determination of heavy metals by Ding, Ruiyu, Krikstolaityte, Vida, Lisak, Grzegorz

“…The application of inorganic salt modified paper substrates was found advantageous when the cation of the salt in the conditioning solution was the same as the primary cations of the ion-selective electrodes (ISEs). …”
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Characteristics of unsaturated soil slope covered with capillary barrier system and deep-rooted grass under different rainfall patterns by Li, Yangyang, Satyanaga, Alfrendo, Rahardjo, Harianto

“…In addition, both numerical analyses and field measurements showed that under the delayed and normal rainfall patterns, when antecedent rainwater infiltration could increase the soil moisture, the capillary barrier system performed much better compared to Vetiver grass in maintaining soil matric suctions and slope stability.…”
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Trap type affects dung beetle taxonomic and functional diversity in Bornean tropical forests by Ong, Xin Rui, David, Hemprich-Bennett, Gray, Claudia, Kemp, Victoria, Chung, Arthur Y. C., Slade, Eleanor M.

“…Our results also highlight that it is important to consider how trap type affects the trait composition of communities when relating dung beetle communities and functional traits to ecological functioning. …”
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Predicting traffic congestion evolution : a deep meta learning approach by Sun, Yidan, Jiang, Guiyuan, Lam, Siew-Kei, He, Peilan

“…Compared to all state-of-the art methods, our framework achieves significantly better prediction performance on two congestion evolution behaviors (propagation and decay) when evaluated using real-world dataset.…”
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Image noise removal and detection by Edirachcharige Sahan Ruchira Jinadasa

“…These two entities were tested on de-noising corrupted digital images as well as its limitations when enhancing underexposed images. Lastly research was done on the niche area of underwater imagery. …”
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Cultural self-awareness and outgroup attitudes : a moderated mediation model of social dominance orientation and information seeking by Teng, Shi Ying

“…Additionally, social dominance orientation was found to moderate the relationship between cultural self-awareness and outgroup attitudes when it is high, rather than low, as predicted. Cultural self-awareness is thus suggested to be a protective factor for individuals with high social dominance orientation. …”
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Skeleton-based online action prediction using scale selection network by Liu, Jun, Shahroudy, Amir, Wang, Gang, Duan, Ling-Yu, Kot, Alex C.

“…Action prediction is to recognize the class label of an ongoing activity when only a part of it is observed. In this paper, we focus on online action prediction in streaming 3D skeleton sequences. …”
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Incorporating silica-coated graphene in bioceramic nanocomposites to simultaneously enhance mechanical and biological performance by Li, Zhong, Zhu, Wenyu, Bi, Shuguang, Li, Ruitao, Hu, Huanlong, Lin, Hang, Tuan, Rocky S., Khor, Khiam Aik

“…In the representative HA-based bioceramic systems prepared by spark plasma sintering, S-rGO incorporation was found to be more effective for increasing the Young's modulus, hardness, and fracture toughness than the incorporation of uncoated reduced GO (rGO). Furthermore, when assessed with osteoblast-like MG-63 cells, such novel materials led to faster cell proliferation and higher cell viability and alkaline phosphatase activity than are generally observed with pure HA; additionally, cells demonstrate stronger affinity to S-rGO/HA than to rGO/HA composites. …”
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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

“…This brings about significant issues, such as the loss of patient autonomy and increased burden on one’s family members when it comes to making important decisions about one’s EOL care. …”
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Encapsulation of probiotics for food and beverage applications by Ang, Kai Lin

“…Findings from this study have also found that the viability of probiotics is more well maintained when stored in refrigerated conditions than in room temperature conditions over 14 days. …”
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Cluster analysis on dynamic graphs by Lee, Cecilia Si Si

“…It will find a method that does not require re-clustering of the graph when it is modified as well as maintain the accuracy of the clustering of the dynamic graphs. …”
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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

“…BLEU scores were correlated to the human scores for the three MT outputs. When generating relative clauses, the MT tools tended to prepose attributes regardless of their lengths, generate wrong identifications of the headwords, neglect relative clauses, and choose expressions with inaccurate meanings and overlong premodifiers. …”
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Gait recognition by dynamic vision sensor and deep neural network by Ng, Noah Winston

“…Instead of capturing an image as a frame by RGB camera, DVS captures gait movement as asynchronous events when there are changes in intensity. DVS offers several benefits compared to RGB sensors such as the ability to capture movement in microseconds, lower consumption in resources, and larger dynamic range. …”
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An experimental investigation of fractional flow reserve of human coronary artery by Lui, Jeremy Ming Yuan

“…However, there are times when a doctor will need to perform an FFR analysis on the patient as the image from the computed tomography coronary angiography might not be enough. …”
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Development of a 3D vehicle driving simulator (cross platform simulation of CAV) by Feng, Zhen

“…The technique has shown promise in terms of enhancing traffic flow stability, safety, and fuel efficiency. Even when only 5% of vehicles are autonomous, previous studies have shown a 40% improvement in traffic flow efficiency and up to a 28% reduction in fuel usage. …”
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Comparison between CaO- and MgO-activated ground granulated blast-furnace slag (GGBS) for stabilization/solidification of Zn-contaminated clay slurry by Zhang, Yunhui, Ong, Yi Jie, Yi, Yaolin

“…X-ray diffraction (XRD) and thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) results showed that a retarder, calcium zinc hydroxide, formed in the immobilization process when adding the CaO-GGBS binder, hindering the GGBS hydration and further leading to inferior strength and higher Zn leachability. …”
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Increasing antibiotic activity by rapid bioorthogonal conjugation of drug to resistant bacteria using an upconverted light-activated photocatalyst by Du, Quanchao, Wu, Xiangyang, Bi, Wuguo, Xing, Bengang, Yeow, Edwin Kok Lee

“…A Nd³⁺-sensitized upconversion nanocrystal (UCNC) decorated with toluidine blue O (TB) on its surface undergoes upconverted energy transfer from the UCNC to TB when excited by 808 nm light. The photoexcited TB then catalyses the conversion of the dihydrotetrazine (dHTz) moiety in a Van-dHTz conjugate system to tetrazine which undergoes an efficient inverse electron demand Diels-Alder reaction with prior attached norbornene molecules on bacterial cell walls. …”
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