East Kalimantan : a new front for regional maritime security? by Sciascia, Alban, Frecon, Eric

“…Like the Riau Archipelago and for the same reasons, East Kalimantan is emerging as a ‘hub’ for illegal maritime activities. …”
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Opening of Arctic sea routes : turning threat into opportunity by Ho, Joshua

“…The opening of Arctic sea routes caused by global warming could present challenges to existing hub ports like Singapore. Traversing the Northern Sea Route would cut transit time and reduce operational costs. …”
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A network aggregation model for amyloid-β dynamics and treatment of Alzheimer’s diseases at the brain scale by Brennan, GS, Goriely, A

“…Here, we use spatially-extended nucleation-aggregation-fragmentation models for the dynamics of prion-like neurodegenerative protein-spreading in the brain to study the effect of different drugs on whole-brain Alzheimer’s disease progression.…”

A Tensor Compiler with Automatic Data Packing for Simple and Efficient Fully Homomorphic Encryption by Krastev, Aleksandar, Samardzic, Nikola, Langowski, Simon, Devadas, Srinivas, Sanchez, Daniel

“…As a result, translating large applications, like neural networks, into efficient FHE circuits takes substantial tedious work. …”
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A Unified Approach to Learning Ising Models: Beyond Independence and Bounded Width by Gaitonde, Jason, Mossel, Elchanan

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Staphylococci of the Skin: Consequences for Host Health by Khadka, Veda D.

“…Much less is known about immune interactions with skin resident microbes like Staphylococci during barrier damage, however. …”
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Insights on the solubilization products after combined alkaline and ultrasonic pre-treatment of sewage sludge by Lin, Leonard, Ng, Wun Jern, Tian, Xinbo, Wang, Chong, Trzcinski, Antoine Prandota

“…Excitation emission matrix fluorescence spectroscopy analysis identified soluble microbial product-like and humic acid-like matters as the main solubilization products. …”
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Neutrophil‐mediated enhancement of angiogenesis and osteogenesis in a novel triple cell co‐culture model with endothelial cells and osteoblasts by Herath, Thanuja D. K., Larbi, Anis, Teoh, Swee Hin, Kirkpatrick, C. James, Goh, Bee Tin

“…Neutrophils significantly increased angiogenesis in the tissue construct, evidenced by the formation of microvessel‐like structures with an extensive lattice‐like, stable tubular network in the co‐culture model. …”
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All carbon based high energy lithium-ion capacitors from biomass : the role of crystallinity by Sennu, Palanichamy, Arun, Nagasubramanian, Madhavi, Srinivasan, Aravindan, Vanchiappan, Lee, Yun-Sung

“…The pyrolyzed carbon exhibits a few layers of graphene-like structure and tubular morphology with multiple inherent heteroatoms like N, S, and Ca. …”
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Product development of an ankle brace using 3D printing by Chew, Zhi Yuan

“…Previous work had been done to investigate the use of patented diamond-like metamaterial to restrict ankle inversion. The previous prototype, made of two different metamaterial designs (Diamond-like metamaterial and Square Grid metamaterial) was able to retain full range of motion in common sporting motions and provided ankle support at critical angles of inversion. …”
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Targeted gastrointestinal delivery of nutraceuticals with polysaccharide-based coatings by Sampathkumar, Kaarunya, Loo, Joachim Say Chye

“…Oral delivery is one of the facile methods for the administration of active ingredients (AI) like nutraceuticals and drugs. However, its intrinsic disadvantages include poor absorption and bioavailability, degradation of the AI during transit through the gastro-intestinal tract (GIT), and a lack of action specificity. …”
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Construction and utilisation of the adhesion test platform for the development of novel adaptive interfacial adhesives by Tan, Yee Yuan

“…The measured adhesion parameters, σth and Gc, provided guidelines for the design of an SMP adhesive fibril, by finding the range of fibril radii where the adhesion exhibits DMT-like behaviour with strong adhesion in the glassy state and JKR-like behaviour with weak adhesion in the rubbery state. …”
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Retarding effect of concentration of cementation solution on biocementation of soil by Lai, Han-Jiang, Cui, Ming-Juan, Wu, Shifan, Yang, Yang, Chu, Jian

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Effect of lognormal particle size distributions on particle spreading in additive manufacturing by Zhao, Ya, Chew, Jia Wei

“…This discrete element method (DEM) study focusses on the impact of particle polydispersity during the particle spreading process on parameters that affect the quality of the final product, like packing and bed surface roughness. The particle systems include four lognormal particle size distribution (PSD) widths, which are benchmarked against the monodisperse system with the same mean particle diameter. …”
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Robust polyamide-PTFE hollow fibre membranes for harsh organic solvent nanofiltration by Francis, Verona Nithya, Chong, Jeng Yi, Yang, Guoying, Che, Lei, Wang, Rong

“…Polymeric membranes have been extensively studied for organic solvent nanofiltration (OSN) but many fail to show sufficient chemical resistance in strong solvents like dimethylformamide (DMF) and dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO). …”
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Surface modification of oriented glass fibers for improving the mechanical properties and flame retardancy of polyamide 12 composites printed by powder bed fusion by Hou, Yanbei, Gao, Ming, An, Ran, Tey, Wei Shian, Li, Boyuan, Chen, Jiayao, Zhao, Lihua, Zhou, Kun

“…Meanwhile, LDH weakened the candlewick-like effect of GF and thus improved the flame retardancy of the PA12 composites. …”
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RESAC: a redundancy strategy involving approximate computing for error-tolerant applications by Balasubramanian, Padmanabhan, Maskell, Douglas Leslie, Prasad, Krishnamachar

“…This is burdensome for resource-constrained applications like space where low power and energy efficiency are important considerations. …”
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Liposomal carrier systems for encapsulation of drugs using bicellar mixtures by Lee, Bao Jun

“…Through the usage of bicellar mixture which includes long-chain molecules like DOPC and cholesterol, combined with short-chain molecules like lauric acid. …”
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3D patient specific instrumentation for high tibial osteotomy by Wong, Gina Khay Fong

“…The most time-intensive part of this project is creating the bone models as there are many alternatives to build it, with many unknown variables, like how the detection algorithm for the Hounsfield Units (HU) works, which helps to build the bone model. …”
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Strain-hardening cementitious composites ultra-thin whitetopping (SHCC-PUTW) for rapid asphalt pavement rehabilitation by NguyenDinh, Nen, Liu, Yangqing, Qiu, Jishen, Bawono, Ali Aryo, He, Shan, Lechner, Bernhard, Yang, En-Hua

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