The potential of value management (VM) to improve the consideration of energy efficiency within pre-construction by Tahir, Mohamad Zamhari, Mohd Nawi, Mohd Nasrun, Rajemi, Mohamad Farizal

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Why do Chinese firms go public abroad and how do they perform? by Yuan, Mengying

“…The main finding is that overseas-listed companies do not perform better than A-share listed firms, but they are more likely to conduct M&A activities, financial investments, and bond issuance in currencies other than RMB. …”
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Effective and efficient topic mining and exploration from geo-textual data by Zhao, Kaiqi

“…Worse still, the existing methods are frequency-based (the more a topic is mentioned, the more likely a user prefers the topic), while ignoring the user’s sentiment. …”
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Operando investigation on the fast two-phase transition kinetics of LiFePO4/C composite cathodes with carbon additives for lithium-ion batteries by Shih, Jengywan, Lin, Guanyin, James Li, Ying Jeng, Hung, Tai-Feng, Jose, Rajan, Karuppiah, Chelladurai, Yang, Chun–Chen

“…The carbon additives of 0D super P, 1D VGCF and 2D or 3D porous reduced graphene oxide (PGO) nanosheets containing cathodes-based, such as bare LFP/C, LFP/C/VGCF and LFP/C/PGO, half-cells were fabricated and tested at a cut-off voltage of 2.0 – 3.8 V (vs. Li/Li+). Interestingly, the LFP/C/VGCF showed better performance than the bare LFP/C and LFP/C/PGO. …”
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Surface Compositions of Trojan Asteroids by Emery, Joshua P., Binzel, Richard P., Britt, Daniel T., Brown, Michael E., Howett, Carly J. A., Martin, Audrey C., Melita, Mario D., Souza-Feliciano, Ana Carolina, Wong, Ian

“…Trojans have uniformly low albedos, with a population average of ∼5.3%, and red spectral slopes at ultraviolet, visible, and near-infrared wavelengths. …”
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Double Diffusion, Shear Instabilities, and Heat Impacts of a Pacific Summer Water Intrusion in the Beaufort Sea by Fine, Elizabeth C., MacKinnon, Jennifer A., Alford, Matthew H., Middleton, Leo, Taylor, John, Mickett, John B., Cole, Sylvia T., Couto, Nicole, Boyer, Arnaud Le, Peacock, Thomas

“…Lateral fluxes are much larger, estimated between 1000 and 5000 W m<jats:sup>−2</jats:sup>, and set an overall decay rate for the intrusion of 1–5 years.…”
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Clinical Question-Answering over Distributed EHR Data by Jiang, Emily

“…FedRAG is implemented in Python as a federation of Flask servers using LangChain, the Qdrant vector database for retrieval, and GPT-3.5 Turbo for generation. We present a case study of three medical organizations, and find that the federation scheme results in no loss of quality against a centralized baseline. …”
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Low-Cost Masonry for the Design of Barrel-Vaulted Flooring Systems by Haile, Nebyu Samuel

“…The world's population is projected to grow rapidly in urban areas, with a projected 2.5 billion more urban dwellers by 2050 (UN-DESA, 2019). …”
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Investigating the effect of the addition of different molecular weight poly (vinyl alcohol) in chitosan beads synthesis for metal ions adsorption by Yong, Shu Fei

“…It was shown that the addition of 30% PVA in chitosan/10kPVA beads had the highest improvement in their copper ions adsorptive capability by 27.5 %, with no significant improvement from using chitosan/22kPVA. …”
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Scaffold-mediated sustained, non-viral delivery of miR-219/miR-338 promotes CNS remyelination by Milbreta, Ulla, Lin, Junquan, Pinese, Coline, Ong, William, Chin, Jiah Shin, Shirahama, Hitomi, Mi, Ruifa, Williams, Anna, Bechler, Marie E., Wang, Jun, ffrench-Constant, Charles, Hoke, Ahmet, Chew, Sing Yian

“…Using spinal cord injury as a proof-of-concept, we further demonstrate that miR-219/miR-338 could also be delivered non-virally in vivo using an aligned fiber-hydrogel scaffold to enhance remyelination after a hemi-incision injury at C5 level of Sprague-Dawley rats. Specifically, miR-219/miR-338 mimics were incorporated as complexes with the carrier, TransIT-TKO (TKO), together with neurotrophin-3 (NT-3) within hybrid scaffolds that comprised poly(caprolactone-co-ethyl ethylene phosphate) (PCLEEP)-aligned fibers and collagen hydrogel. …”
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Inter-relationship between ageing, body mass index, diabetes, systemic blood pressure and intraocular pressure in Asians : 6-year longitudinal study by Chua, Jacqueline, Chee, Miao Li, Chin, Calvin Woon Loong, Tham, Yih Chung, Tan, Nicholas, Lim, Sing Hui, Aung, Tin, Cheng, Ching-Yu, Wong, Tien Yin, Schmetterer, Leopold

“…Their average IOP was reduced (−0.5±3.1 mm Hg), except for those who developed hypertension at follow-up (0.0±3.1 mm Hg). …”
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Smart education : case study of smart pre-school by Koh, Kai Lun

“…After discussing the SMART Education framework in detail, a SMART Education System Architecture is proposed as a form of design to bring out the intended outcomes of the SMART Education framework. There are 5 key layers to the proposed architecture: Perception layer, Network layer, Edge layer, Cloud layer and Application layer. …”
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Hydrogen as marine fuel – feasibility, prospects, and challenges by Wong, Li Ming

“…The maritime industry currently accounts for at least 2.5% of the overall CO2 emissions. As the maritime industry strives to achieve decarbonisation to comply with IMO 2050, many alternative fuels are being researched and hydrogen is included. …”
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In situ synthesis of silver nanoparticles in poly(vinyl) alcohol layer coated thin film membrane for seawater desalination by Jayavardhana D/o Balaji

“…The best-performed PVA- coated membrane (MPVA1-0.2) was prepared using PVA with the lowest molecular weight of 13-23 kDa and at a concentration of 0.2 w/v%. The permeability of MPVA1-0.2 membrane reduced insignificantly by 8.4% compared to the control membrane without PVA coating layer, achieving PWP of 3.1 L/m2 .h.bar with excellent salt rejection of 99.28%. …”
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Characterization of mechanical properties of polyurea by You, Mei Yu

“…The polyureas were allowed to cure until different factors and conditions for up to 5 days. Quasi-static tensile test was conducted on the polyurea samples cut into ASTM-D638 standard. …”
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Low-power flip-flop circuits for high-performance systems by Tang, Pey Chyi.

“…The simulation results showed that CGSAFF could achieve significant power reduction at data switching activities of less than 0.5. At the maximum switching activities, its power delay product (PDP) was noted to improve by about 2.4% to 50.2% when compare to other state-of-the art flip-flops simulated in this project. …”
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You must be myths-taken: examining belief in falsehoods during the COVID-19 health crisis by Lwin, May Oo, Sheldenkar, Anita, Tng, Pei Ling

“…Results showed that 12.7% to 57.5% of the population were unable to identify various myths, such as COVID-19 was manmade, and that three of these myths persisted significantly over time (increases ranging from 3.9% to 9.8%). …”
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Development of an app for a thermoelectric cooler system by Ng, Alex Boon Chye

“…The various parameters and results are constantly recorded with sensors and uploaded onto Google excel sheets automatically in 5 seconds interval via Wifi through ESP32 and Google Apps script for data analysis. …”
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Biomarkers and cognition study, Singapore (BIOCIS): protocol, study design, and preliminary findings by Leow, Yi Jin, Wang, J. D. J., Vipin, Ashwati, Sandhu, Gurveen Kaur, Soo, See Ann, Kumar, Dilip, Mohammed, Adnan Azam, Zailan, Fatin Zahra, Lee, Faith Phemie Hui En, Ghildiyal, Smriti, Liew, Shan Yao, Dang, Chao, Tanoto, Pricilia, Tan, Isabelle Yu Zhen, Chong, Wayne Freeman Weien, Kandiah, Nagaendran

“…Design, Setting, Participants: BIOCIS is a 5-year longitudinal study where participants are assessed annually. 2500 participants aged 30 to 95 will be recruited from the community in Singapore. …”
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Simulation of solar cooling system by Goh, Dennis Kim Lai.

“…The results of the optimization process of the solar absorption refrigeration system consists of a 3.5kW absorption chiller, with a working COP of 0.67, a 35m2 evacuated tube collector inclined at 25o from the horizontal, and a 800-l thermal storage tank with auxiliary heating set to 84oC. …”
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