The colouring, sealing and abrasion resistance of anodic oxide coatings by Smith, Marilyn

“…The assumption is made that Yt (25[degrees]C ) = a + bt and linear regression has been used to find b. It has been found that for batches having a range of thicknesses but a common sealing time, the linear relation is a reasonable assumption when the gradient is <+10. …”
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New approach to suppress mutual coupling between longitudinal-slotted arrays based on SIW antenna loaded with metal-fences working on VHF/UHF frequency-bands: study, investigation,... by Alibakhshikenari, Mohammad, Virdee, Bal Singh, Khalily, Mohsen, See, Chan, Abd-Alhameed, Raed, Falcone, Francisco, Limiti, Ernesto

“…The proposed structure should find application in multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) and radar systems.…”
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Determination of adjusted reference intervals of urinary biomarkers of oxidative stress in healthy adults using GAMLSS models by Chamitava, Liliya, Garcia-Larsen, Vanessa, Cazzoletti, Lucia, Degan, Paolo, Pasini, Andrea, Bellisario, Valeria, Corsico, Angelo G., Nicolis, Morena, Olivieri, Mario, Pirina, Pietro, Ferrari, Marcello, Stasinopoulos, Dimitrios, Zanolin, Maria E.

“…Generalized additive models for location, scale and shape (GAMLSS) were used to find determinants of the biomarkers among gender, age, season and distance from collection (DFC), and to predict their RI. …”
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mGlu5 receptors and cellular prion protein mediate amyloid-β-facilitated synaptic long-term depression in vivo by Hu, Neng-Wei, Nicoll, Andrew J., Zhang, Dainan, Mably, Alexandra J., O’Malley, Tiernan, Purro, Silvia A., Terry, Cassandra, Collinge, John, Walsh, Dominic M., Rowan, Michael J.

“…Blocking Aβ binding to cellular prion protein with antibodies prevents the facilitation of long-term depression. Our findings uncover an overarching role for Aβ-PrP(C)-mGlu5R interplay in mediating both LTD facilitation and LTP inhibition, encompassing NMDAR-mediated processes that were previously considered primary.…”
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China collection 2.1: Aerosol Optical Depth dataset for mainland China at 1km resolution by Xue, Yong, He, Xingwei, Xu, Hui, Guang, Jie, Guo, Jianping, Mei, Linlu

“…From those 2460 collocations, representing mutually cloud-free conditions, we find that 62% of China Collection 2.1 AOD values comparing with AERONET-observed values within an expected error envelop of 20% and 55% within an expected error envelop of 15%. …”
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Padania or Northern Italy? The invention of a national community in the words of the Lega Nord by Albertazzi, Daniele

“…The case of 'Padania' is then referred back to contemporary theories of nationalism and globalisation in order to find out what 'Padania' has to teach about identity-formation in the contemporary world. …”
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Modelling and comparing OECD countries' consumer behaviour by Stewart, Chris

“…\Ve build ECMs consistent with valid error-correction behaviour for eighteen countries and find evidence favouring asymmetric/nonlinear adjustment for twelve countries. …”
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Simulation modelling of spatial problems by Shapiro, Janet

“…The development of simulation modelling technology is examined to find reasons why there should be a reluctance to use the technique. …”
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The Viceroyalty of Lord Reading, 1921-1926: with particular reference to the political and constitutional progress of India by Turnbull, Christine Hazel

“…After a series of unbalanced budgets, India was facing severe economic problems in 1921, and Reading needed to find a solution. In foreign affairs two areas caused concern, the problems of Indians living in southern Africa, and the threat of Russian Involvement in Afghanistan. …”
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Adaptive function modal learning neural networks by Kang, Miao

“…A multi-layer approach, a Multi-layer ADFUNN (MADFUNN) is introduced to solve highly complex datasets. It aims to find a suitably restricted subset of neuron activation functions which has a good representational capacity and enables efficient learning for complex models with large datasets. …”
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SARS-Cov-2 variants: biological and mathematical considerations for nomenclature by Huang, Jie, Mi, Yi, Li, Junxi, McLean, Gary R.

“…Our aim is to define a biological and structurally defined metric that can be used to distinguish SARS-CoV-2 variants interactions with host cells. This metric could find utility with numerous human viruses and provide an additional parameter for improved naming of viruses.…”
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Application of graph-based technique to identity resolution by Kazemian, Hassan, Amirhosseini, Mohammad-Hossein, Phillips, Michael

“…This method can assist police forces in their investigation process to find criminals and those who committed a fraud. It can also be useful in other fields such as finance and banking, marketing or customer service.…”
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Rethinking jewellery for Korea: a practice-led approach to creating high-visibility wearables by Choi, Won Jeong

“…The challenge for the designer-researcher, therefore, is to find a way to neutralize that tension between the two, so that high-visibility wearables can be accepted as socially desirable. …”
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Transformational jewellery: practice-based research on the relationship between transformation and emotional attachment by Kim, Min Sun

“…The chief aims of this practice-based research are to investigate the nature of attachment between person and object in respect to transformation; to find ways in which objects (jewellery) can be transformed to engender a wearer’s emotional attachment; and to demonstrate the different ways of applying such transformations that are pertinent to jewellery. …”
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Inter-individual responses to a blueberry intervention across multiple endpoints by Wang, Yueyue, Haskell-Ramsay, Crystal, Gallegos, Jose Lara, Lodge, John K.

“…To conclude, this is the first blueberry intervention applying quartile divisions to characterise individual responses in vascular and cognitive endpoints following a specific dietary intervention; however, we did not find any consistency in the individual responses to the interventions, and we could not identify a predictive urinary metabolite as a potential biomarker for differentiation between responders and non-responders. …”
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A Broadband Out-of-Phase Gysel Power Divider Based on a Dual-Band Circuit With a Single Fixed Isolation Resistor by Mousavi, Seyed Mohammad Hadi, Rahimi, Marzieh Salar, Malakooti, Seyed-Ali, Afzali, Behnam, Virdee, Bal Singh

“…Based on the double-sided parallel-strip lines with an inserted conductor as a virtual ground, a high power divider with dual-band/broadband response and frequencyindependent 180 degree phase difference between the output ports is implemented in this paper. …”
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Multiband antenna for portable device applications by Honarvar, M. Amin, Hamidi, Naeemehsadat, Virdee, Bal Singh

“…The proposed antenna consists of a combination of E-shaped and C-shaped radiators that are excited via a common microstrip feed-line. Embedded in the ground-plane are included an open- and short-ended slots whose purpose is to enhance the antenna's impedance match and increase the number of bands in which the antenna can operate. …”
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Mutual-coupling isolation using embedded metamaterial EM bandgap decoupling slab for densely packed array antennas by Alibakhshikenari, Mohammad, Khalily, Mohsen, Virdee, Bal Singh, See, Chan, Abd-Alhameed, Raed, Limiti, Ernesto

“…The proposed MTM-EMBG structure is a cross-shaped microstrip transmission line on which are imprinted two outward facing E-shaped slits. …”
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An innovative and simpleiImpedance matching network using stacks of metasurface sheets to suppress the mismatch between antennas and RF front-end transceivers circuits by Alibakhshikenari, Mohammad, Virdee, Bal Singh, Althuwayb, Ayman Abdulhadi, Falcone, Francisco, Limiti, Ernesto

“…The MTS based impedance matching network is modeled as a transmission-line loaded with shunt and series capacitances and inductances, respectively. …”
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The way forward for the origin of life: prions and prion-like molecules first hypothesis by Jheeta, Sohan, Chatzitheodoridis, Elias, Devine, Kevin G., Block, Janice

“…This genetics-first hypothesis asserts that an “RNA-world era” came before protein-based chemical evolution and rests on a singular premise that molecules such as RNA, acetyl-CoA, and NAD are relics of a long line of chemical evolutionary processes preceding the Last Universal Common Ancestor (LUCA). …”
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