Particle self-assembly in sessile droplet on patterned substrate by Lim, Si Xian

“…All the droplets evaporated in CCR mode and exhibit an octagonal wetting area except 0.1(wt%) for both the 3μm and 10μm particles with depinning of contact line take placed. This indicates that the particle is the pinning force that prevents contact line withdrawal. …”
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Dielectric failure mechanisms in advanced Cu/low-k interconnect architecture by Tan, Tam Lyn

“…In this work, specially designed test structures i.e. line end (S1) and corner (S2) interconnect layouts were used to investigate the failure mechanisms. …”
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Mechanically robust hydrophobic bio-based epoxy coatings for anti-corrosion application by Zheng, Shunli, Bellido-Aguilar, Daniel Angel, Huang, Yinjuan, Zeng, Xianting, Zhang, Qichun, Chen, Zhong

“…In addition, the as-obtained coating shows a one-order of magnitude reduction in the corrosion current density (J corr ), a positive shift of the corrosion potential (E corr ) from −1.008 V to −0.747 V, and an inhibition efficiency of 92%.…”
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Development of trading strategies using fundamental and technical analysis in SGX by Pan, Zhijin

“…Fundamental analysis was used to filter out five stocks with strong growth potential in Food & Beverage Sector in SGX. …”
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Nonprofit managers' motivational styles: a view beyond the intrinsic-extrinsic dichotomy by Chen, Chung-An

“…Finally, the five categories vary in their relationships with their job satisfaction, job involvement, and pride working for the current organization. …”
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Leadership Personality and Social Dis-integration in Somalia by Hussein, Abdisamad Hassan, Mohd. Zain, Zawiyah, Ajis, Mohd Na'eim

“…To achieve this objective, qualitative interviews were held with 13 respondents across Somali elite in Mogadishu. Using the Big Five personality framework, the results revealed that previous Somali leadership personalities were deeply flawed due to colonial legacy and influence of clannism. …”
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Two superconducting transitions in single-crystal La 2 − x Ba x CuO 4 by Tee, Xian Yang, Ito, T., Ushiyama, T., Tomioka, Y., Martin, I., Panagopoulos, Christos

“…The effect is pronounced in the region of charge carrier doping x with strong spin-charge stripe correlations, reaching Tcs=36 K or 1.64 Tc.…”
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Live Verification in an Interactive Proof Assistant by Gruetter, Samuel, Fukala, Viktor, Chlipala, Adam

“…We present a prototype for a tool that enables programmers to verify their code as they write it in real-time. After each line of code that the programmer writes, the tool tells the programmer whether it was able to prove absence of undefined behavior so far, and displays a concise representation of the symbolic state of the program right after the added line. …”
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Signs of criticality in social explosions by Beiró, Mariano G., Chung, Ning Ning, Chew, Lock Yue, Gandica, Yérali

“…The success of an on-line movement could be defined in terms of the shift to large-scale and the later off-line massive street actions of protests. …”
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The role of SPRTN protease in colorectal cancer chemotherapy by Peron, C

“…<p>Colorectal cancer (CRC) currently represents one of the most commonly diagnosed tumors, accounting for 10% of all cancer diagnoses and cancer-related deaths. The first-line treatment of metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC) is frequently based on combination chemotherapeutic regimens, where 5-fluorouracil is either associated with irinotecan (FOLFIRI) or oxaliplatin (FOLFOX). …”

Design of a conformal end-fire array antenna by Hou, Zheyi

“…Rogers 4003 with permittivity of 3.55 and thickness of 0.5mm, 3. Feed line which is a moderated meandering microstrip line, functioning as the feed of the array. …”
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Conformable ultrasound breast patch for deep tissue scanning and imaging by Du, Wenya, Zhang, Lin, Suh, Emma, Lin, Dabin, Marcus, Colin, Ozkan, Lara, Ahuja, Avani, Fernandez, Sara, Shuvo, Ikra Iftekhar, Sadat, David, Liu, Weiguo, Li, Fei, Chandrakasan, Anantha P., Ozmen, Tolga, Dagdeviren, Canan

“…The in vitro studies and clinical trials reveal that the array using a piezoelectric crystal [Yb/Bi-Pb(In <jats:sub>1</jats:sub> <jats:sub>/2</jats:sub> Nb <jats:sub>1/2</jats:sub> )O <jats:sub>3</jats:sub> -Pb(Mg <jats:sub>1/</jats:sub> <jats:sub>3</jats:sub> Nb <jats:sub>2/3</jats:sub> )O <jats:sub>3</jats:sub> -PbTiO <jats:sub>3</jats:sub> ] (Yb/Bi-PIN-PMN-PT) exhibits a sufficient contrast resolution (~3 dB) and axial/lateral resolutions of 0.25/1.0 mm at 30 mm depth, allowing the observation of small cysts (~0.3 cm) in the breast. …”
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Piezoelectric single crystal based one-dimensional phased array for breast tissue imaging by Du, Wenya

“…In this thesis, I propose a conformable ultrasound breast patch (cUSBr-Patch) consisting of a one-dimensional (1D) phased array and a nature-inspired patch design, which offers large-area, deep tissue scanning and multi-angle, repeatable breast imaging while avoiding the drawbacks of conventional ultrasound imaging technologies. I used a Yb/Bi-doped PIN-PMN-PT single crystal as the active element due to its superior piezoelectric properties (d33 = 2,800 pC/N, εr = 7,000, k33 = 0.93). …”
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Study of semiconductor nanowires embedded in organic matrix by Raghul, Suthagar

“…The project focussed on experiments conducted using Silicon Nanowires (SiNWs) dispersed in organic polymers which were then spin-coated over substrates such as Si-Wafer and glass to form SiNWs/polymer thin films. …”
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Exchange coupling and coercivity enhancement in cuprate/manganite bilayers by Wu, Tom, Ding, J. F., Tian, Y. F., Hu, W. J., Lin, W. N.

“…The temperature dependent magnetization data indicate an interfacial spin-glass state. Furthermore, the bilayer exhibits significant enhancement of coercivity compared to the La0.70Sr0.30MnO3 single layer and reaches 705 Oe at 5 K. …”
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Synthesis, biological evaluation, and stability studies of raloxifene mono- and bis-sulfamates as dual-targeting agents by Zaraei, S-O, Dohle, W, Anbar, HS, El-Gamal, R, Leblond, B, Foster, PA, Al-Tel, TH, Potter, BVL, El-Gamal, MI

“…Compound 7 also showed good antiproliferative potency in the NCI-60 cell line panel with a GI50 of 1.34 µM against MDA-MB-231 breast cancer cells. …”

Detection of microscope-excited surface plasmon polaritons with Rayleigh scattering from metal nanoparticles by Du, Luping, Tang, Dingyuan, Yuan, Xiaocong

“…We also use this method to reveal the conversion of spin angular momentum of light to the orbital angular momentum of SPPs under tight-focusing conditions.…”
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Perovskite light emitting transistors by Cheng, Bryan Wei Hao

“…In this work, we realized spin coated and thermally evaporated methylammonium lead iodide (MAPbI3) perovskite light-emitting transistors operated by a pulsed gate bias voltage. …”
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Fabrication and characterisation of NiFe nanoparticles and nanowires. by Renuka Prasobhan.

“…On the other hand, out-of-plane magnetic field on 100nm thick nanodisks was found to have vortex chirality, meaning that the spin direction changes from top to bottom of the disk. …”
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Synthetic shuttlecock dynamics by Muhammad Afiq Abdul Hamid

“…Using the data from the experiment, the flight trajectory was plotted, and velocities as well as spin rates were recorded. This data was then compared to that of feather and synthetic shuttlecocks. …”
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