Topological phase transition in quasi-one-dimensional bismuth iodide Bi 4 I 4 by Zhao, WX, Yang, M, Du, X, Li, YD, Zhai, KY, Hu, YQ, Han, JF, Huang, Y, Liu, ZK, Yao, YG, Zhuang, JC, Du, Y, Zhou, JJ, Chen, YL, Yang, LX

“…By tracking the temperature evolution of the (100) surface states, we unveil a thermal hysteresis of the surface gap in line with the α-β structural phase transition. Our findings directly evidence a temperature-induced topological phase transition from WTI to HOTI in Bi4I4, which paves the way to its potential applications at room temperature.…”

Single view metrology by Criminisi, A, Reid, I, Zisserman, A

“…This minimal information is typically the vanishing line of a reference plane, and a vanishing point for a direction not parallel to the plane. …”

Supporting organizational professional culture with collaborative technology during design phase in industrialized project delivery in Malaysia by R., Ibrahim, Abdul Ghafar, M.

“…The purpose of this case study research is to distinguish the base line communication preferences that could aid policy makers and building professionals to prepare themselves to deliver the smart city implementation. …”

Role of Macroeconomic Factors, Institutional Quality and Digitalization Towards Performance of Islamic Microfinance Institutions by Ahmed, Mushtaq, Isa, Mohamad Yazid

“…The success of microfinance institutions is uneven in achieving both objectives, some achieve one objective, either financial or social, while some fail to achieve any objective altogether. In this line, study uses panel data of 35 Islamic microfinance institutions of OIC countries to investigate the impact of macroeconomic, macro institutional factors and digitalization on the financial and social performance of microfinance institutions in OIC countries from 2008 to 2019. …”
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Enhancing Performance of Private Higher Education Institution through Strategic Excellence Model (S/O 13617) by Abdullah, Haim Hilman

“…In the context of Malaysia, education has been earmarked as one of the important national agenda in line with the 11th Malaysia. Plan that is designed to make the country a knowledge-based economy. …”
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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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Effect of heat treatment on repetitively scanned SLM NiTi shape memory alloy by An, Jia, Liu, Yong, Khoo, Zhong Xun, Chua, Chee Kai, Shen, Yu Fang, Kuo, Che Nan

“…The results showed an improvement when the samples were heat treated at a temperature of 400 °C for a period of 5 min. The enhancement in the shape memory behavior of the repetitively scanned samples was mainly attributed to the formation of fine Ni4Ti3 metastable precipitates.…”
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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

“…We show that these changes are likely to be accounted for by impaired mitochondrial function and to involve phospholipase C/inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate–mediated Ca2+ mobilization from intracellular stores as well as decreased β-cell Ca2+ influx over the plasma membrane. …”
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ContrastSense: domain-invariant contrastive learning for in-the-wild wearable sensing by Dai, Gaole, Xu, Huatao, Yoon, Hyungjun, Li, Mo, Tan, Rui, Lee, Sung-Ju

“…In addition, ContrastSense designs a parameter-wise penalty to preserve domaininvariant knowledge during fine-tuning to further maintain model robustness. …”
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Monitoring membrane biofouling via ultrasonic time-domain reflectometry enhanced by silica dosing by Sim, S. T. V., Suwarno, S. R., Chong, T. H., Krantz, William B., Fane, Anthony Gordon

“…The UTDR response correlates with the transmembrane pressure and off-line measurements of the biofilm thickness via confocal laser scanning microscopy, the bacterial count, and extra-polymeric cellular substances (EPS). …”
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Coupled Néel domain wall motion in sandwiched perpendicular magnetic anisotropy nanowires by Purnama, Indra, Kerk, Inn Seng, Lim, Gerard Joseph, Lew, Wen Siang

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Characterization of the junction leakage of Ti-capped Ni-silicided junctions by Lee, Pooi See, Pey, Kin Leong, Toledo, N. G.

“…Ti-capped Ni-silicided devices rapid thermal annealed (RTA) at 400 °C exhibit high sheet resistances and suffer from narrow line effect, which leads to the suspicion that the total phase transformation of NiSi has not yet been achieved. …”
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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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Towards Spatially Varying Gloss Reproduction for 3D Printing by Piovarci, Michal, Foshey, Michael, Babaei, Vahid, Rusinkiewicz, Szymon, Matusik, Wojciech, Didyk, Piotr

“…Based on the new hardware setup, we present the complete pipeline for controlling the gloss of a given 2.5 D object, from printer calibration, through material selection, to the manufacturing of models with spatially-varying reflectance. …”
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Measuring the hole-state anisotropy in MgB2 by electron energy-loss spectroscopy by Klie, Robert F., Su, Haibin, Zhu, Yimei, Davenport, James W., Idrobo, Juan-Carlos, Browning, Nigel D., Nellist, Peter D.

“…In particular, we have studied two different crystal orientations, [110] and [001], with respect to the incident electron beam direction, and found significant changes in the near-edge fine structure of the B K-edge. Density-functional theory suggests that the pre-peak of the B K-edge core loss is composed of a mixture of pxy- and pz-hole states and we will show that these contributions can be distinguished only with an experimental energy resolution better than 0.5 eV. …”
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0-1 Knapsack in Nearly Quadratic Time by Jin, Ce

“…On the upper bound side, currently the fastest algorithm runs in 𝑂e(𝑛 + 𝑤 12/5 max ) time (Chen, Lian, Mao, and Zhang 2023), improving the earlier 𝑂(𝑛 + 𝑤 3 max)-time algorithm by Polak, Rohwedder, and Węgrzycki (2021). …”
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Population genomics and transcriptomics of Plasmodium falciparum in Cambodia and Vietnam uncover key components of the artemisinin resistance genetic background by Nayak, S, Peto, TJ, Kucharski, M, Tripura, R, Callery, JJ, Quang Huy, DT, Gendrot, M, Lek, D, Nghia, HDT, van der Pluijm, RW, Dong, N, Long, LT, Vongpromek, R, Rekol, H, Hoang Chau, N, Miotto, O, Mukaka, M, Dhorda, M, von Seidlein, L, Imwong, M, Roca, X, Day, NPJ, White, NJ, Dondorp, AM

“…The emergence of Plasmodium falciparum parasites resistant to artemisinins compromises the efficacy of Artemisinin Combination Therapies (ACTs), the global first-line malaria treatment. Artemisinin resistance is a complex genetic trait in which nonsynonymous SNPs in PfK13 cooperate with other genetic variations. …”

In vitro bioactivity and biocompatibility assessment of PCL/PLA–scaffolded mesoporous silicate bioactive glass: role of boron activation by Md. Zain, Siti Khalijah, Sazali, Ezza Syuhada, Ghoshal, Sib Krishna, Hisam, Rosdiyana

“…Four samples of the form xB2O3 – (80–x) SiO2 – 15CaO – 5P2O5 with x is 0, 5, 10, and 15 mol% were prepared using a unified sol-gel/evaporation induced self-assembly (SG-EISA) process. …”

Tuning the shear thickening of suspensions through surface roughness and physico-chemical interactions by Bourrianne, Philippe, Niggel, Vincent, Polly, Gatien, Divoux, Thibaut, McKinley, Gareth H.

“…Finally, we demonstrate how mixtures of particles with opposing surface chemistry make it possible to finely tune the shear-thickening response of the suspension at a fixed volume fraction, paving the way for a fine control of the shear-thickening transition in engineering applications.…”
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Stability of internal gravity wave modes: from triad resonance to broadband instability by Akylas, T.R., Kakoutas, Christos

“…For short-scale perturbations such that 𝜇 ≪ 1 but 𝛼 = 𝜇/𝜖 ≫ 1, this triad resonance instability reduces to the familiar parametric subharmonic instability (PSI), where triads comprise fine-scale perturbations with half the basic-wave frequency. …”
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