Machining of 2D materials by ultrasonic embossing by Er, Kenwealth Quan Sheng

“…By shrinking the size of 2D materials toward nanoscale, it will allow us to access their properties in quantum regime. Herein, the author explores a novel ultrasonic embossing method that has the capability to imprint graphene nanostructures on silver and copper substrates. …”
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Non-Hermitian extension of the Haldane model induced by non-reciprocal hopping by Law, Yi Khing

“…The complexities of the non-Hermitian regime and the new degrees of freedom it introduces in band topology are then delved into. …”
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Predictors of weight loss in overweight Singaporean males in the Singapore Adult Metabolism Study (SAMS). by Tay, Yu Juan.

“…The intervention comprised of diet modification through meal replacements, group and individual nutritional education and counselling sessions, as well as prescribed and supervised exercise regime. After intervention, there was a significant reduction in mean body weight (-7.95 ± 3.45 kg), Skinfold fat composition (-3.24 ± 3.357 %) and DEXA fat composition (-2.93 ± 2.93 %). …”
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The physics of ultrafast saturable absorption in graphene by Xing, Guichuan, Guo, Hencheng, Zhang, Xinhai, Sum, Tze Chien, Huan, Alfred Cheng Hon

“…The ultrafast saturable absorption in graphene is experimentally and theoretically investigated in the femtosecond (fs) time regime. This phenomenon is well-modeled with valence band depletion, conduction band filling and ultrafast intraband carrier thermalization. …”
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Anomalous high-magnetic field electronic state of the nematic superconductors FeSe 1 − x S x by Bristow, M, Reiss, P, Haghighirad, A, Zajicek, Z, Singh, S, Wolf, T, Graf, D, Knafo, W, McCollam, A, Coldea, A

“…Near the nematic end point, we find an extended temperature regime with ∼ T 1.5 resistivity, different from the behavior found near an antiferromagnetic critical point. …”

The radial spreading of volcanic umbrella clouds deduced from satellite measurements by Prata, F, Prata, A, Tanner, R, Grainger, RG, Borgas, M, Aubry, TJ

“…At the onset of neutral buoyancy, the radial spreading is better explained by a stronger dependence on time of A ⇠ C, rather than C 2/3, C 3/4 or C 2/9. This flow regime exists on the order of minutes and has not been observed previously in satellite data. …”

Statistical theory of the broadband two-plasmon decay instability by Rusko, RT, Bingham, R, Silva, LO, Harper, M, Aboushelbaya, R, Myatt, JF, Norreys, PA

“…The intermediate bandwidth regime is explored numerically – the growth rate is reduced to half its monochromatic value for laser intensities of 1015 W/cm2 and relatively modest bandwidths of 5 THz. …”

Visualising human life in volumetric cities: city digital twins and other disasters by Rose, G

“…Many critical accounts of this visual and volumetric regime are attentive to the forms of corporealised human life that emerge in relation to the picturing of various volumes. …”

Using algorithms to improve knowledge work by Amaya, J, Holweg, M

“…We also find that the ability to sustain any improvement depends on the adjustment of the knowledge regime—the practices and structures that sanction knowledge. …”

Research on Guqin composition in Mainland China in the 1950s and 1960s: some works of Yu Shaoze [ 喻绍泽] by He, Zeng, Chiat, Loo Fung

“…Under the guidance of the cultural policies advocated by the new regime, they created a considerable number of new guqin compositions that reflected the characteristics of the times. …”
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Electricity sector deregulation and consumer protection: assessing the imperatives of a competition: Assessing the imperatives of a competition law and competition regulatory autho... by Usman, Dahiru Jafaru, Yaacob, Nurli, A. Rahman, Aspalella

“…Literature abounds on the high risk of the electricity sector deregulation and the susceptibility of the deregulated electricity markets to manipulations and abuse by the electricity service providers.For better and fair market operations and the protection of consumers’ interest, the paper adopts the doctrinal research approach and assesses the imperatives of competition law and competition structures in the deregulated Nigerian electricity market.The paper found that the Nigerian experiment took off without the necessary consumer protection structures such as a competition law and competition regulatory agency leaving the electricity consumers at the mercy of the electricity service providers.The paper concludes that the country urgently needs a comprehensive competition regime to guarantee consumer benefits and to prevent substituting public monopoly with a private monopoly in the new Nigerian electricity market.…”
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Predictive and Prescriptive Trees for Optimization and Control Problems by Kim, Cheol Woo

“…We prove that a piecewise constant optimal policy exists for MFQNET control problems, with segments separated by hyperplanes passing through the origin. …”
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Design of a Precision Needle for Injection of Fluid into the Suprachoroidal Space of the Eye for the Treatment of Retinal Detachment by Rutherford, Emma

“…This work presents a device developed to minimally invasively reach posterior segments of the eye, deploy an injection needle in-situ with high resolution, sense when the needle tip has passed into the suprachoroidal space (SCS), and inject a viscous fluid. …”
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PTFE-assisted immobilization of Pluronic F127 in PVDF hollow fiber membranes with enhanced hydrophilicity through nonsolvent-thermally induced phase separation method by Zhao, Jie, Chong, Jeng Yi, Shi, Lei, Wang, Rong

“…The results suggest that the hydrophobic segment of F127 could adsorb firmly onto PTFE with the hydrophilic segments protruding outwards. …”
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HopPER : an adaptive model for probability estimation of influenza reassortment through host prediction by Yin, Rui, Zhou, Xinrui, Rashid, Shamima, Kwoh, Chee Keong

“…Background: Influenza reassortment, a mechanism where influenza viruses exchange their RNA segments by co-infecting a single cell, has been implicated in several major pandemics since 19th century. …”
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Anomalous floquet non-Hermitian skin effect in a ring resonator lattice by Gao, He, Xue, Haoran, Gu, Zhongming, Li, Linhu, Zhu, Weiwei, Su, Zhongqing, Zhu, Jie, Zhang, Baile, Chong, Y. D.

“…Unlike existing approaches to achieving the NHSE by engineering gain and loss on different ring segments, our design uses fixed on-site gain or loss in each ring. …”
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Patch repair technology with sacrificial zinc anodes in RC slabs with corroded steel bars by Christian, Alvin

“…Furthermore, the highest amount of macrocell corrosion can be encountered at steel segments near the patch repair area. Compared with each sample, it was discovered that zinc sacrificial anodes installed within areas with high level of chloride contamination provided the best protection for the steel reinforcement against corrosion damage.…”
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Triggered slip along the San Andreas fault after the 8 July 1986 North Palm Springs earthquake by Williams, Patrick L., McGill, Sally Fagerson, Sieh, Kerry, Allen, Clarence R., Louie, John N.

“…In addition to minor surface cracks in the region of the 8 July 1986 North Palm Springs earthquake, minor aseismic surficial rupture occurred along three segments of the San Andreas fault, 44 to 86 km southeast of the epicenter. …”
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Pragmatic and discourse markers used by Malay and Arab postgraduates students during classroom oral presentations by Alkhawaja, Hussein Walid Hussein

“…These markers are, in fact, valuable tools in the hands of learners to structure and organize the segments of their speech, make the content of the presentation comprehensible and meaningful, and help their audiences follow the sequence of ideas. …”
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One-Step Replica Symmetry Breaking of Random Regular NAE-SAT II by Nam, Danny, Sly, Allan, Sohn, Youngtak

“…(One-step replica symmetry breaking of random regular NAE-SAT I, <jats:ext-link xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://arxiv.org/abs/2011.14270">arXiv:2011.14270</jats:ext-link>, 2020), we study the random regular <jats:italic>k</jats:italic>-<jats:sc>nae-sat</jats:sc> model in the condensation regime. In Nam et al. (2020), the (1<jats:sc>rsb</jats:sc>) properties of the model were established with positive probability. …”
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