Applications of blockchain in business processes: a comprehensive review by Viriyasitavat, Wattana, Xu, Li Da, Niyato, Dusit, Bi, Zhuming, Hoonsopon, Danupol

“…The main conclusions of our comprehensive review are (1) the study of adopting BC in BPM has attracted a great deal of attention that has been evidenced by a rapidly growing number of relevant articles. (2) The paradigms of BPM over Internet of Things (IoT) have been shifted from persistent to transient, from static to dynamic, and from centralized to decentralized, and new enabling technologies are highly demanded to fulfill some emerging functional requirements (FRs) at the stages of design, configuration, diagnosis, and evaluation of BPs in their lifecycles. (3) BC has been intensively studied and proven as a promising solution to assure the trustiness for both of business processes and their executions in decentralized BPM. (4) Most of the reported BC applications are at their primary stages, future research efforts are needed to meet the technical challenges involved in interoperation, determination of trusted entities, confirmation of time-sensitive execution, and support of irreversibility.…”
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Computational analysis and chemical mechanical polishing for manufacturing of optical components by Nguyen, Nhu Y

“…The non-uniformity of substrates after polishing is one of the most interesting things in current trends in research. One of the reasons for the non-uniformity is a pad wear profile. …”
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A study on business development strategies and tactics in the shipping industry to improve customer satisfaction (port sector) by Lau, Benedict Yew Fei

“…With weak global economic outlook and overcapacity in the industry, container shipping organisations are facing tremendous pressure to compete in this highly competitive market. As Internet of Things (IoT) and Big data analytics are one of the top five evolving trends in the global maritime industry, it creates both new opportunities and additional uncertainties into the future of the industry. …”
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Female “Firsts” : performing in the marriage market and on the political stage in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice and Hillary Clinton’s what happened by Wan Nur Riny

“…With Clinton being the first female presidential candidate in the United States, it seems that the historically male-dominated public sphere has become more inclusive and progressive. But have things really changed? This issue involving female participation in the public sphere dates back to one of the most celebrated female novelists —Jane Austen. …”
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Symptom flares in women with chronic pelvic pain: questionnaire study within a cohort study (translational research in pelvic pain (TRiPP)) by Coxon, L, Lugt, C, Horne, AW, Evans, E, Abreu- Mendes, P, Arendt-Nielsen, L, Aziz, Q, Becker, CM, Birch, J, Charrua, A, Demetriou, L, Ferreira-Gomes, J, Hoffman, A, Hummelshoj, L, Krassowski, M, Lunde, CE, Meijlink, J, Missmer, SA, Perro, D, Zondervan, KT, Sieberg, CB, Cruz, F, Nagel, J, Vincent, K

“…Over 60% of participants reported flares as stopping them from doing things they would usually do, less than 80% reported thinking about symptoms of flares and less than 80% reported flares being bothersome.…”

Planetary health-informed health systems change: a circumpolar-based multi-methods approach by Redvers, N

“…Findings included the need for things to be done “in the right way”, and the sentiment that the Land is not just an experience but a way of life. …”

Hydrophosphination as a valuable tool to chiral diphosphines and their derivatives by Teo, Ronald Hong Xiang

“…Next, the synthesis of C-chiral diphosphines from naturally occurring curcumin and derivatives was attempted and the cytotoxicity of the diphosphine metal complexes was evaluated and compared against cisplatin and curcumin in the MKN74 and MCF7 cancer cell-lines. Lastly, the challenges associated with the generation of chiral phosphine-phosphino-chalcogenide and their complexes were discussed in detail and an example of the catalytic property of the phosphine-phosphino-chalcogenide metal complexes was illustrated.…”
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Development of biomimetic 3D cancer platform for drug testing by Ker, Sia Fong

“…Hence, future work or improvement to the 3D biomimetic culture model have to be done before we could fully understand whether EMT and MET of highly invasive tumor cell lines are critically determined by the physical and material characteristics of the microenvironment.…”
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15th-century printed Italian editions of Aesopian texts by Malaspina, M

“…</p> <p>The <em>Conclusions</em> focus on the originality of certain texts created specifically for the press, on the people who played an important role in the composition and printing of Aesopian texts, on the identification of new lines of transmission in print, on the distinction and analysis of different iconographic lines of descent in the illustrated editions, and on the discovery of noteworthy cases of provenance evidence, which suggest how the consumption of Aesopian Italian incunables transversely engaged people at different social and cultural levels.…”

Wolbachia-mosquito interactions and engineered female-specific lethality for Aedes-arbovirus control by Molloy, JC

“…No effective lines were produced but I suggest future design alterations.…”

Racism, prejudice and cultural stereotypes in British Asian fiction by Tan, Ivan Lye Hwee

“…Instead, they contain silver linings of a hope for the future that a critical reader can glean upon deeper analysis.…”
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Cryptographically Secure Shield for Security IPs Protection by Ngo, Xuan Thuy, Danger, Jean-Luc, Guilley, Sylvain, Graba, Tarik, Mathieu, Yves, Najm, Zakaria, Bhasin, Shivam

“…This shield is based on the lightweight block cipher and independent mesh lines to ensure the security against probing attacks of the hardware located behind the shield. …”
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The stomatopod dactyl club : a formidable damage-tolerant biological hammer by Weaver, James C., Milliron, Garrett W., Mershon, William J., DiMasi, Elaine, Kisailus, David, Miserez, Ali, Evans-Lutterodt, Kenneth, Herrera, Steven, Gallana, Isaias, Swanson, Brook, Zavattieri, Pablo

“…Consisting of a multiphase composite of oriented crystalline hydroxyapatite and amorphous calcium phosphate and carbonate, in conjunction with a highly expanded helicoidal organization of the fibrillar chitinous organic matrix, these structures display several effective lines of defense against catastrophic failure during repetitive high-energy loading events.…”
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Microstrip bandpass filters using triple-mode patch-loaded cross resonator by Zhang, Runqi, Zhu, Lei

“…Two prototype filters with open-ended and stub-loaded coupled-lines are designed and fabricated to verify the design principle and to further suppress the lowest harmonic passband, respectively. …”
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Innovative UWB phase shifters using groove gap-waveguide technology inspired by metasurfaces for beamforming networks operating at 100 GHz by Alibakhshikenari, Mohammad, Zidour, Ali, Virdee, Bal Singh, Kouhalvandi, Lida, Shahid, Saleem, See, Chan Hwang, Limiti, Ernesto

“…Utilizing groove gap-waveguide (GGW) technology with unequal-width, equal-length transmission lines, the design incorporates metasurface principles to achieve perfect magnetic conductor (PMC) boundary conditions. …”
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Effectiveness evaluation of Construction 4.0 technologies in improving built environment resilience by Hazwani, Shafei, Rahimi, A. Rahman, Lee, Yong Siang

“…Findings: Six Construction 4.0 technologies are critical in improving built environment resilience (in rank order): building information modeling, autonomous construction, advanced building materials, big data and predictive analytics, internet of Things and prefabrication and modular construction. …”
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A feedforward neural network based indoor-climate control framework for thermal comfort and energy saving in buildings by Chaudhuri, Tanaya, Soh, Yeng Chai, Li, Hua, Xie, Lihua

“…It exhibits the potential to achieve both occupant-comfort and energy-saving through integration with the Internet-of-Things for realizing comfort-energy balanced buildings.…”
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A BIM-data mining integrated digital twin framework for advanced project management by Pan, Yue, Zhang, Limao

“…With the focus of smart construction project management, this paper presents a closed-loop digital twin framework under the integration of Building Information Modeling (BIM), Internet of Things (IoT), and data mining (DM) techniques. To be specific, IoT connects the physical and cyber world to capture real-time data for modeling and analyzing, and data mining methods incorporated in the virtual model aim to discover hidden knowledge in collected data. …”
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Development of metal complexes for specific targeting G-quadruplexes and the application studies by He, Lei

“…In this thesis, firstly Ru and Pt complexes were developed as the binders/stabilizers to target specific GQ topology in various cancerous cell lines. The complexes express excellent anticancer potency and GQ-dependent luminescence for intracellular tracking of RNA GQ. …”
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Planning time-optimal and smooth trajectories under kinodynamic constraints by Edgar, Leonardo

“…It is compared to the state-of-the-art shortcutting method based on parabolas and straight lines. The results show that the proposed shortcutting algorithm is robust and capable of producing efficient trajectories while satisfying the robot’s kinodynamic constraints.…”
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