A comprehensive review on chemical route to convert waste cooking oils to renewable polymeric materials by Onn, Munirah, Jalil, Mohd. Jumain, Mohd. Yusoff, Noor Izyan Syazana, Bingak Edward, Evianie, Wahit, Mat Uzir

“…A large proportion of waste cooking oil (WCO) is currently being generated worldwide, which has led to crucial problems in its waste management due to absence of a proper disposal procedure. Most scholars mainly spotlight on the biodiesel production from WCO as alternative, despite the fact that there are other applications that require attention. …”

Formulating a Way Forward Strategy for Malaysia Cross Border Inland Port Using SWOT and TOWS Analysis by Lamsali, Hendrik, Mad Lazim, Halim, Osman, Wan Nadzri, Salleh, Mohamed Najib, Iteng, Rosman, Yiaw, Michael Tio Boon, Abdul Razak, Muhamad Badrul Shah, Ja’afar, Harlina Suzana

“…The development of adequate infrastructure, including well-connected road networks and direct rail links, should be a top priority for the government through NCIA. …”
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Fatigue behaviors of square-to-square hollow section T-joint with corner crack I : experimental studies by Chiew, Sing Ping, Ji, Hong Li, Lee, Chi King, Lie, Seng Tjhen

“…Fatigue test results and crack geometry measurements showed that under cyclic loading, cracks will be initiated at one of the four corners of the brace-chord intersection and propagate mainly in the direction parallel to the chord wall. …”
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Development of engineering tools and design guidelines for FRP strengthened RC walls subject to near field blast loading by Fung, Tat Ching, Tan, Kang Hai, Werner Riedel, Yu, Qingjun, Del Linz, Paolo, Li, Gen, Tu, Huan

“…Nevertheless, in report D5, mass runs are mainly devoted to GFRP strengthened RC walls subject to near-field blast effects and fragment loading. …”
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Experimental investigations on heat and mass transfer performances of a liquid desiccant cooling and dehumidification system by Ou, Xianhua, Cai, Wenjian, He, Xiongxiong, Zhai, Deqing

“…Therefore, a more energy efficient Liquid Desiccant Cooling and Dehumidification (LDCD) system is developed in this study, which mainly composes of a cooling coil and dehumidifier. …”
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Heuristic cues as perceptual filters : factors influencing public support for nuclear research reactor in Singapore by Ho, Shirley S., Xiong, Rui, Chuah, Agnes Soo Fei

“…Based on the data from a nationally representative door-to-door survey of 1000 adult Singaporeans, we found that the public mainly depend on heuristics, such as religiosity, benefit perception, and trust in relevant authorities, to form attitudes towards the use of a nuclear research reactor, revealing a tendency to employ mental shortcuts for decision making. …”
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Carbon–metal compound composite electrodes for capacitive deionization : synthesis, development and applications by Tang, Kexin, Hong, Terence Zhi Xiang, You, Liming, Zhou, Kun

“…This study comprehensively reviews the use of carbon–metal composites as electrodes for efficient CDI desalination, mainly with respect to their design strategies, synthesis, structural and electrochemical properties and desalination performance, and the roles that the metal compounds play in altering the structure and properties of their carbon composites. …”
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Breakup of ultra-thin liquid films on vertical fiber enhanced by Marangoni effect by Ding, Zijing, Liu, Zhou, Liu, Rong, Yang, Chun

“…Nonlinear simulation also shows that the thin heated or non-heated film mainly breaks up in the absolutely unstable regime.…”
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Do we need ramsey taxation? Our existing taxes are largely corrective by Yan, Eric, Feng, Qu, Ng, Yew-Kwang

“…Due to the importance of environmental disruption (both in production and consumption), relative competition between individuals (including conspicuous consumption and keeping up with the Joneses), the diamond effect, excessive consumerism or the materialist bias, most taxes in most countries, though mainly designed for revenue collection, are largely corrective than distortive. …”
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Self-consistent learning of neural dynamical systems from noisy time series by Wang, Zhe, Guet, Claude

“…On a chaotic time series masked by additive Gaussian noise, we demonstrate that the denoising ability and the predictive power of the proposed method are mainly due to the self-consistency, insensitive to methods used for the state space reconstruction.…”
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4D printing of butterfly scale-inspired structures for wide-angle directional liquid transport by Liu, Xiaojiang, Li, Boyuan, Gu, Zhongze, Zhou, Kun

“…However, current research mainly focuses on linear liquid transport (transport angle α = 0°), which exhibits hindered lateral liquid spreading and low unidirectional transport efficiency. …”
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The role of rhetoric in crowdfunding success: effects of logos, ethos, pathos and kairos appeals by Yew, David

“…The essays build on rhetorical appeals theory and complement the signaling lens that has been mainly adopted in the crowdfunding field. Implications of these findings for research and practice are discussed.…”
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Electronic reconstruction and surface two-dimensional electron gas in a polarized heterostructure with a hole-doped single copper-oxygen plane by Yang, Xiaoping, Su, Haibin

“…The stable antiferromagnetic insulating bulk state up to 8% doping in this disorder-free structure is remarkable; moreover, this antiferromagnetic state coexists with two-dimensional electron gas on the top surface of LaAlO3, which originates from out-of-plane charge transfer mainly between the La-d3z2−1 state at the surface and Cu-eg states in the CuO2 plane. …”
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5G System Design : An End to End Perspective / by Lei, Wan, author 643203, Soong, Anthony C. K., author 631505, Jianghua, Liu, author 643205, Yong, Wu, author 643206, Classon, Brian, author 643207, Xiao, Weimin, author 643208, Mazzarese, David, author 643209, Yang, Zhao, author 643210, Saboorian, Tony, author 643211

“…Loosely speaking, 5G Release-15 can be characterized as being optimized for the cellular carrier eMBB service while 5G Release-16 is the beginning of the optimization of 5G for the vertical industries. It mainly focused on the support of the vehicular vertical and Industrial Internet of Things. …”

Ag3XO4 (X = P, As, V)电子结构及光催化性质的第一性原理计算 = First-principles study on the electronic and photocatalytic properties of Ag3XO4 (X = P, As, V) by 李蛟 Li Jiao, 陈忠 Chen Zhong

“…In comparison to Ag3PO4, Ag3VO4 shows better photocatalytic stability, mainly due to the enhanced Ag―O bonds and improved Ag ion stability, but poorer photocatalytic activity in the visible light region mainly due to the presence of d orbital character at the conduction band minimum (CBM) and lower valence band maximum (VBM) potentials (2.335 V, vs NHE). …”
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Driving Miss Norma : AN INSPIRATIONAL STORY ABOUT WHAT REALLY MATTERS AT THE END OF LIFE / by Bauerschmidt, Tim, author 655967, Liddle,Ramie, author 655968

The Need for Desalination in Humanitarian Crises by Bessette, Jonathan T, Winter, Amos G

“…However, there is a lack of robust, deployable desalination technologies for humanitarian crises. This is mainly attributed to the highly-constrained environment which necessitate: minimization of consumables, rapid speed of deployment and simplification of operation and maintenance. …”
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Nanyang Technological University indoor map by Tsui, Chung Lok

“…Several JS libraries were used, mainly Leaflet, which served as the foundation for the indoor map. …”
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Impedance and parasitic capacitance analysis of SiC MOSFETs by Tan, Wei Jie

“…In the year 1970s, MOSFETs, which are known as Metal–Oxide–Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistors, as well as Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistors (IGBTs) in the 1980s, significantly allowed designs of compact high-efficiency systems, mainly due to the tremendously improved power gain…”
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Introducing Singapore’s kampong life through translation : a case study of Papa as a Little Boy Named Ah Khoon by Loh, XiaoJuan

“…In the past, Singapore was mainly made up of “kampongs” – a word derived from the Malay term kampung which refers to village, and the way of life of people staying in the kampongs was termed “kampong life”. …”
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