Glorious autarky? Foreign resources and the British fiscal-military state, 1688-1815 by Graham, A

“…Easy access to these resources enabled ministers to retain a bare-bones military and naval establishments in peacetime and then, in wartime, to ‘surge’ the state by using off- the-shelf foreign military labour to hold the line while British forces were recruited. Relying upon cheap foreign money enabled the British state to hold down taxation and expensive borrowing. …”

Sustainable performance measurement through digital transformation within the sustainable development framework: the mediating effect of supply chain concentration by Sun, Le, Ong, Tze San, Teh, Boon Heng, Di Vaio, Assunta

“…By examining a sample of 3947 listed Chinese firms, this study's results highlight a noteworthy link between digital transformation and enhanced sustainable performance, assessed through the triple bottom line framework, thus helping to achieve sustainable development goals (SDGs), such as the eighth and ninth SDGs. …”

Trichostrongylus colubriformis extract upregulates TNF-α receptor expression and enhances TNF-α sensitivity of L929 cells by Riffkin, M.C., Seow, H.-F., Wood, P.R., Brown, L.E.

“…Results in the present paper demonstrate that soluble T. colubriformis factors promote proliferation of the TNF-susceptible mouse fibrosarcoma cell line L929, while inhibiting proliferation of all other cell types tested. …”
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Short-Term Shoreline Evolution Mapping by using UAV by Siddig, Mohammad lkhmal, Kaamin, Masiri, Daucla, Mohd Effendi, Mokhtar, Mardiha, Sabri, Muhamad Syamil, Ariffinm, Effi Helmy

“…The "Pix4D Capture" application has been programmed with the flight planning route, and the drone takes pictures along the entire grid line provided. The data on shoreline evolutions were processed using the Pix4d Mapper and Global Mapper tools. …”
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Determination of had kifayah zakat among pre-graduate students at Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia (USIM) by Ismail, Abdul Manan, Hasbullah, Mushaddad, Zakaria, Mohamad Zaharuddin, Salleh, Ahmad Zaki, Abdul Majid, Mohd. Nasir, Abdullah Thaidi, Hussein'Azeemi, Ab. Jalil, Mohd. Afiq, Rosman, Arieff Salleh, Khan, Aqeel

“…Through a survey that covers aspects of student spending and income, the average of spending method has been used as per agreed with all team members to determine the Had Kifayah, in line with the method used by the state Islamic religious council as a reference. …”

Oil palm smallholder's income and sustainable development goals (SDGs) achievement in Peninsular Malaysia by Applanaidu, Shri Devi, Abidin, Norhaslinda Zainal, Mustapha, Mukhtar, Abdullahi Baba, Mohammed, Joseph, Viandrito

“…The analysis showed that all the oil palm smallholders in Peninsular Malaysia have a daily average income far above the poverty line. Johor has the highest daily average income in Peninsular Malaysia, therefore, it is easy for the oil palm smallholders in Johor to achieve SDG 1, SDG 2, SDG 3, SDG 5 and SDG 8 faster than the rest of the oil palm smallholders in Pahang, Selangor and Kelantan with lower average daily incomes…”
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Nodal reliability and nodal price in deregulated power markets by Yi, Ding

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Impact of renewable power penetration on power market operation by Zhao, Qian

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Model predictive control for converters in hybrid AC/DC microgrid part II by Loh, Zheng Yang

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Research on basic mechanical properties of different modulus alkaline excited ECC by Che, Jialing, Yang, Renze, Wang, Jun, Liu, Haifeng, Hu, Yun xiang, Doh, Shu Ing

“…The effect of the alkali activator modulus on the mechanical properties and microstructure of two types of fiber-reinforced engineering cementitious composites (alkali-excited ECC) with desert sand as fine aggregate was studied. The alkali activator was prepared by a certain proportion of NaOH and sodium silicate mixture, and the mechanical performance indexes were used for analysis, including compressive/tensile/flexural strength, Poisson's ratio and elastic modulus, flexural toughness ratio and energy performance index (PSH). …”
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Optimizing crystal size distribution based on different cooling strategies in batch crystallization process by Siti Zubaidah, Adnan, Noor Asma Fazli, Abdul Samad

“…Furthermore, the number of fine crystals was among the lowest at a volume distribution of 0.00071 m3/m compared to the linear profile at 0.00191 m3/m. …”
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Morphology‐Directed Light Emission from Fluorescent Janus Colloids for Programmable Chemical‐To‐Optical Signal Transduction by Frank, Bradley D., Nagelberg, Sara, Baryzewska, Agata W., Simón Marqués, Pablo, Antonietti, Markus, Kolle, Mathias, Zeininger, Lukas

“…Informed by experimental observations of morphology‐dependent optical confinement of internally emitted light within the higher refractive index phases, ray‐tracing is used to predict and fine‐tune the droplets’ optical properties and their ability to concentrate light. …”
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0-1 Knapsack in Nearly Quadratic Time by Jin, Ce

“…Our algorithm combines and extends several recent structural results and algorithmic techniques from the literature on knapsacktype problems: (1) We generalize the “fine-grained proximity” technique of Chen, Lian, Mao, and Zhang (2023) derived from the additivecombinatorial results of Bringmann and Wellnitz (2021) on dense subset sums. …”
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User satisfaction and service quality improvement priority of bus rapid transit in Belo Horizonte, Brazil by Zheng, Yunhan, Kong, Hui, Petzhold, Guillermo, Barcelos, Mariana M, Zegras, Christopher P, Zhao, Jinhua

“…These findings can help policymakers fine-tune improvement strategies targeted at different types of services.…”
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Accurate and Fast Approximate Graph Mining at Scale by Arpaci-Dusseau, Anna

“…Hybrid sampling further improves performance by automatically choosing the better scheme between fine-grained and coarse-grained sampling schemes. …”
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What the visual system can learn from the non-dominant hand: The effect of graphomotor engagement on visual discrimination by Ben-Ami, Shlomit, Buaron, Batel, Yaron, Ori, Keane, Kyle, Sun, Virginia H., Phillips, Flip, Friedman, Jason, Sinha, Pawan, Mukamel, Roy

“…However, existing studies have emphasized the dominant hand, which is superiorly dexterous in fine-motor movements. This near-exclusive focus prompts the inquiry of whether the observed perceptual facilitation is a general characteristic of the motor system, or specific to pathways controlling the skilled over-trained dominant hand. …”
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A model for cis-regulation of transcriptional condensates and gene expression by proximal lncRNAs by Natarajan, Pradeep, Shrinivas, Krishna, Chakraborty, Arup K

“…Finally, our model predicts that lncRNA transcription can fine-tune transcription from neighboring condensate-controlled genes, repressing transcription from highly expressed genes and enhancing transcription of genes expressed at a low level. …”
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Towards Spatially Varying Gloss Reproduction for 3D Printing by Piovarci, Michal, Foshey, Michael, Babaei, Vahid, Rusinkiewicz, Szymon, Matusik, Wojciech, Didyk, Piotr

“…The main difficulty in automating this process lies in the physical properties of the varnishes which owe their appearance to a high concentration of large particles and as such, they cannot be easily deposited with current 3D color printers. As a result, fine-grained control of gloss properties using today's 3D printing technologies is limited in terms of both spatial resolution and the range of achievable gloss. …”
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EasyPDP: an efficient parallel dynamic programming runtime system for computational biology by Tang, Shanjiang, Yu, Ce, Sun, Jizhou, Lee, Bu-Sung, Zhang, Tao, Xu, Zhen, Wu, Huabei

“…The experimental results illustrate that EasyPDP system is fine and provides an efficient infrastructure for dynamic programming algorithms.…”
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Defects in β-cell Ca2+ dynamics in age-induced diabetes by Li, Luosheng, Trifunovic, Aleksandra, Köhler, Martin, Wang, Yixin, Petrovic Berglund, Jelena, Illies, Christopher, Juntti-Berggren, Lisa, Larsson, Nils-Göran, Berggren, Per-Olof

“…Our data suggest that aging is associated with a progressive decline in β-cell mitochondrial function that negatively impacts on the fine tuning of Ca2+ dynamics. This is conceptually important since it emphasizes that even relatively modest changes in β-cell signal transduction over time lead to compromised insulin release and a diabetic phenotype.…”
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