“Is delulu the solulu?”: Understanding parasocial relationships and fan participatory behaviour in K-pop by Yeo, Jocelin Zhi Ling

“…The unique structures in place within K-pop fan practices, both implemented by the industry and created by fans have resulted in various fan activities that span both the gaining of practical skills and to satisfy gratifications. …”
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Cobalt-catalyzed regio- and diastereoselective formal [3 + 2] cycloaddition between cyclopropanols and allenes by Yang, Junfeng, Sun, Qiao, Yoshikai, Naohiko

“…A cobalt-diphosphine catalyst has been found to promote a formal [3 + 2] cycloaddition reaction between a cyclopropanol and an allene via cyclopropanol ring opening, which affords a 3-alkylidenecyclopentanol derivative with high regio- and diastereoselectivities. …”
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Diastereoselective hydroalkylation of aryl alkenes enabled by remote hydride transfer by Gandamana, Dhika Aditya, Gagosz, Fabien, Chiba, Shunsuke

“…The transformation is triggered by electrophilic alkylation of aryl alkenes with in-situ generated carbocations, that is followed by diastereoselective 1,5-hydride shift to the resulting benzylic carbocation through a rigid 6-membered ring chair-like transition state.…”
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Modeling of microfluid droplet resonator based on whisper gallery mode by Dong, Bin

“…Currently most of the optical ring/sphere resonator based on whisper gallery mode is fabricated by wafer fabrication technology, which is high in cost and cannot be achieved on-chip. …”
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Thismia perlisensis (Thismiaceae), a new red-annulus Thismia species from Peninsular Malaysia by Besi, Edward Entalai, Mad Jabar, Qistina Anis, Abd Rahman, Syamil, Saad, Mohd Zulkifly, Ag Ahmadni, Ag Shaffie, Go, Rusea

“…The new species is easily distinguished from the similar species, T. arachnites, T. javanica, T. tentaculata, and T. kenyirensis by the prominent reddish dome-shaped annulus instead of ring-like with rim, deeply trilobed stigma with bifid and subulate lobes, and claviform apices of the inner tepals.…”
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Kinetics and mechanism of the alkaline hydrolysis of securinine by Lajis, Nordin H., Khan, Mohammad Niyaz, M. Noor, Hamdan

“…The hydroxide ion‐catalyzed hydrolysis of securinine involves the ring opening of the lactone moiety. The rate of hydrolysis is insensitive to the ionic strength. …”

Fabrication of heat sinks by Selective Laser Melting for convective heat transfer applications by Wong, Kin Keong, Ho, Jin Yao, Leong, Kai Choong, Wong, Teck Neng

“…Three heat sinks comprising pin fins of circular, rectangular-rounded and aerofoil geometries were fabricated by SLM from aluminium alloy AlSi10Mg powder. …”
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A Novel MIMO antenna integrated with a solar panel and employing AI-equalization for 5G wireless communication networks by Hussein, Humam, Elmunim, Nouf Abd, Atasoy, Ferhat, Virdee, Bal Singh, Elwi, Taha A., Rashid, Nasr, Jayanthi, Renu Karthick Rajaguru, Alibakhshikenari, Mohammad, Limiti, Ernesto

“…We demonstrate that the directivity of this antenna array can be precisely electronically reconfigured using PIN diode switches. Additionally, we show the feasibility of integrating solar panels with the proposed MIMO antenna array. …”
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Structural mimicry of the dengue virus envelope glycoprotein revealed by the crystallographic study of an idiotype–anti-idiotype Fab complex by Wong, Yee Hwa, Goh, Boon Chong, Lim, She Yah, Teo, En Wei, Lim, Angeline P. C., Dedon, Pete C., Hanson, Brendon J., MacAry, Paul A., Lescar, Julien

“…The crystal structure at a resolution of 2.5 Å of a complex between the Fab fragments of E1 and HM14c10 provides the first detailed molecular comparison of an anti-idiotype paratope specific for a human antibody with its analogous epitope, a discontinuous quaternary structure located at the surface of the viral particle that spans adjacent envelope (E) proteins. This comparison reveals that the footprints left by E1 and E on HM14c10 largely overlap, explaining why the formation of binary complexes is mutually exclusive. …”
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Discrete and fine wavelength tunable thermo-optic WSS for low power consumption C+L band tunability by Prabhathan, Patinharekandy, Murukeshan, Vadakke Matham, Zhang, Huijuan, Chen, Shiyi, Zhang, Jing

“…With the observed discrete tunability (7.3 mW/FSR) and fine tunability (5 mW/nm) of the WSS, the power requirement for full band tuning can be reduced to 32.7% of that of a single ring tuning.…”
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Commutative algebra and algebraic varieties by Tan, Zhi Hong

“…Lastly, we explored the Hilbert Series of the quotient of the polynomial ring by the rank varieties. It turns out that the Hilbert Series depends on the degree of the homogeneous polynomial associated to the rank variety.…”
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2H-azirines as potential bifunctional chemical linkers of cysteine residues in bioconjugate technology by Chen, Yang, Yang, Wenjie, Wu, Jiamin, Sun, Wangbin, Loh, Teck-Peng, Jiang, Yaojia

“…The cleavage of a C-N double bond of 2H-azirine furnishes an amino amide functional group in situ through a thiol addition and ring-opening process. It works with a broad scope of thiols and 2H-azirines in the absence of any catalysts at room temperature. …”
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Gaussian integer solutions of the diophantine equation x4 + y4 = z3 for for x ≠ y by Ismail, Shahrina, Atan, Kamel Ariffin Mohd, Sejas-Viscarra, Diego, Yow, Kai Siong

“…The investigation of determining solutions for the Diophantine equation x4 + y4 = z3 over the Gaussian integer ring for the specific case of x ≠ y is discussed. …”
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Mode-locked fiber laser and its application in microwave photonics by Li, Nanxi.

“…In the first part, the performance of a passively mode-locked fiber ring laser has been optimized. By systematically investigating the performance of the laser which incorporates saturation absorber, the trade-off between the long resonance cavity and pulse energy is understood. …”
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Synthesis of curvulone B and allahabadolactone, and the development of a diastereoselective Tsuji-Trost cyclisation by Wang, Kongchen

“…The first chapter describes the synthesis of curvulone B featuring a strategy of cross metathesis and oxa-Michael addition in the construction of the desired cis-THP ring. This strategy is one of the most effective tools in the synthesis of THP rings containing natural products. o-Chlorobenzyl ether was developed as a new protecting group for alcohols and proved to be a reliable protecting group under Lewis acidic condition. …”
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Channelized coinShuffle++ : practical unlinkability in the ethereum blockchain by Xiong, Luoyuan

“…Even though some recently proposed protocols that utilize Ring Signatures [1] or Zero Knowledge Proof [2] have effectively mitigated those attacks, the computational overhead and monetary cost that comes along with those fancy cryptographic primitives render them less usable, which arguably contribute to their poor adoption. …”
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Magneto-optical response in bimetallic metamaterials by Atmatzakis, Evangelos, Papasimakis, Nikitas, Fedotov, Vassili, Vienne, Guillaume, Zheludev, Nikolay I.

“…We demonstrate resonant Faraday polarization rotation in plasmonic arrays of bimetallic nano-ring resonators consisting of Au and Ni sections. …”
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Performance study and assessment of phase noise suppression by incoherent addition in a mode-locked fiber laser system by Xue, Jin, Li, Nanxi, Wu, Kan, Wong, Jia Haur, Ouyang, Chunmei, Aditya, Sheel, Shum, Perry Ping

“…Two different types of interferometers, Mach–Zehnder and ring, are investigated experimentally for different background phase noise levels. …”
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An on-chip opto-mechanical accelerometer by Dong, Bin, Kwong, Dim Lee, Cai, H., Tsai, J. M., Liu, A. Q.

“…In this paper, a novel in-plane opto-mechanical accelerometer is demonstrated, which employs Whisper Gallery Mode (WGM) ring resonator (RR) as a displacement sensor that monolithically integrated with a nano-tethered proof mass with high mechanical Q-factor. …”
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Asynchronous wood formation in young Acacia mangium planted in Malaysia by Ogata, Yoshiyuki, Nobuchi, Tadashi, Fujita, Minoru, Sahri, Mohammed Hamami

“…In general, tropical trees have less-distinct growth rings. Even if the trees have some concentric structures, there is little information on the timing of their formation. …”
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