Rethinking the role that the “step” in the load–displacement curves can play in measurement of fracture toughness for hard coatings by Zhang, Xiaomin, Zhang, Sam

“…This paper scrutinizes the “step” and finds that the “step” is a gap artificially bridged up with a straight line and that the “step” size corresponds with the thickness of the coating in testing. …”
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A study on the sustainable financial inclusion in selected SAARC countries: a gender-based perspective by Survase, Madan, Parida, Ratri, Antony, George V.

“…The policy implications are further suggested in line with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).…”
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Fraudulent mediums and miracle-mongers: illusion, concealment and revelation in the works of Crivelli, Greenberg and Houdini by David, Karen

“…This article aims to raise questions and comparisons between illusions found in pictorial language, magical apparatus and parafictions, illustrating the fine line between illusion and material, and concealment and revelation.…”

Understanding liver transplantation outcomes through the lens of its tissue-resident immunobiome by Prosser, AC, Klenerman, P, Lucas, M

“…Tissue-resident lymphocytes (TRLs) provide a front-line immunological defense mechanism uniquely placed to detect perturbations in tissue homeostasis. …”

B-twisted Gaiotto–Witten theory and topological quantum field theory by Garner, N, Geer, N, Young, MB

“…Fundamental to our approach is the systematic incorporation of non-genuine line operators which source flat connections for the topological flavour symmetry of the theory.…”

Masdar City: ‘City of Possibilities’ by Griffiths, S

“…Partly due to the global financial crisis of 2008 and partly due to experience gained from continued assessments of the original concept, Masdar has scaled back the initial ambitions for the city’s carbon and waste targets, as well as the development approach and time-line for the entire city. This, however, may ultimately prove to be the best outcome for Masdar City if it is truly to become a model for sustainable cities of the future.…”

Recognising rotationally symmetric surfaces from their outlines by Forsyth, DA, Mundy, JL, Zisserman, A, Rothwell, CA

“…The results additionally yield techniques for identifying the line in the image plane corresponding to the axis of a rotationally symmetric surface, and for telling whether a surface is rotationally symmetric or not from its outline alone.…”

Swift: poetical repurposer by Cox, O

“…He did so ironically, however, by lifting a line from John Denham's On Mr Abraham Cowley and putting it into the mouth of a hypothetical, ignorant critic elegizing “Swift”: Denham's “what he wrote was all his own” becomes Swift's “what he writ was all his own” (1–2). …”

English medium instruction in multilingual contexts: empirical evidence from Ethiopia by Opare-Kumi, J

“…These findings are in line with the international education literature on skill development, learning and second language acquisition. …”

Single view metrology by Criminisi, A, Reid, I, Zisserman, A

“…This minimal information is typically the vanishing line of a reference plane and a vanishing point for a direction not parallel to the plane. …”

Syarikat Abdul Rahman Pandak: Embarking Business Growth Strategy and Sustainability for Nestle Product (S/O 14810) by Badlishah, Shahrizal, Ab Hamid, Kamal

“…The findings from the discussion will help the user to propose an ideal understanding of total entreprenuership style that can serve as a dividing line between successful and unsuccessful business. …”
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Improving the charge separation and collection at the buffer/absorber interface by double-layered Mn-substituted CZTS by Lie, Stener, Sandi, Mario Indra, Tay, Ying Fan, Li, Wenjie, Tan, Joel Ming Rui, Bishop, Douglas M., Gunawan, Oki, Wong, Lydia Helena

“…In this study, Cu2MnxZn1-xSnS4 (CMZTS) thin film were fabricated by a sol-gel spin coating technique to understand the effect of Mn on the device performance. …”
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Synthesis of Co-doped MoS2 monolayers with enhanced valley splitting by Zhou, Jiadong, Lin, Junhao, Sims, Hunter, Jiang, Chongyun, Cong, Chunxiao, Brehm, John A., Zhang, Zhaowei, Niu, Lin, Chen, Yu, Zhou, Yao, Wang, Yanlong, Liu, Fucai, Zhu, Chao, Yu, Ting, Suenaga, Kazu, Mishra, Rohan, Pantelides, Sokrates T., Zhu, Zhen-Gang, Gao, Weibo, Liu, Zheng, Zhou, Wu

“…Density functional theory (DFT) and model calculations reveal that the observed enhanced VZS arises from an internal magnetic field induced by the tridopant clusters, which couples to the spin, atomic orbital, and valley magnetic moment of carriers from the conduction and valence bands. …”
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Nonlinear polariton parametric emission in an atomically thin semiconductor based microcavity by Zhao, Jiaxin, Fieramosca, Antonio, Bao, Ruiqi, Du, Wei, Dini, Kevin, Su, Rui, Feng, Jiangang, Luo, Yuan, Sanvitto, Daniele, Liew, Timothy Chi Hin, Xiong, Qihua

“…Recently, two-dimensional transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) have attracted great attention in strong light–matter interactions due to robust excitonic transitions and unique spin-valley degrees of freedom. However, further progress is hindered by the lack of realizations of strong nonlinear effects in TMD polaritons. …”
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Light-matter interactions in high quality manganese-doped two-dimensional molybdenum diselenide by Liu, Sheng, Wu, Yaze, Liu, Xue, Del Águila, Andrés Granados, Xuan, Fengyuan, Chaturvedi, Apoorva, Zhang, Hua, Quek, Su Ying, Xiong, Qihua

“…First-principles calculations indicate that the spin-polarized deep level defect states are formed due to the Mn substitutional dopants in the MoSe2 lattice. …”
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Hybrid UNet transformer architecture for ischemic stoke segmentation with MRI and CT datasets by Soh, Wei Kwek, Rajapakse, Jagath Chandana

“…HUT outperforms the state-the-art network SPiN in the single-modality MRI segmentation on Anatomical Tracings of lesion After Stroke (ATLAS) dataset by 4.84% of Dice score and a large margin of 40.7% in the Hausdorff Distance score. …”
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Induction of z-conformation in ribosomal RNA by Z-DNA binding domain Zα of the human double-stranded RNA deaminase I (ADAR1) by Zhao, Jing

“…In order to provide theoretical foundations for the analysis of NMR spectral responses of ZαADAR1 to ribosomes we attempted to extend the conventional NMR relaxation theory to include a semi solid-state treatment of nuclear spin dynamics in large complexes. The main challenge to the classical NMR theory arises when one of the binding partners is so large that in the chemical shift time scale of solution NMR (milliseconds) it can be considered as practically static or solid-state-like. …”
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Effect of different lead precursors on planar perovskite solar cells by Martin

“…The hydrate water inside the lead acetate precursor has no bad effect on the perovskite formation. 3. Increasing the spin coat speed (to 3000rpm for 30 seconds) can improve the uniformity of perovskite film and further current density of solar cells. 4. …”
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Relationship between synoptic scale meteorology, aircraft parameters, and observable contrails by Barbosa, Maria Paula

“…Long-lasting or "persistent" contrails are line-shaped clouds that form when airplanes fly through cold and humid parts of the atmosphere that are ice-supersaturated. …”
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Risk prediction models to guide antibiotic prescribing : a study on adult patients with uncomplicated upper respiratory tract infections in an emergency department by Wong, Joshua Guoxian, Aung, Aung-Hein, Lian, Weixiang, Lye, David Chien, Ooi, Chee-Kheong, Chow, Angela

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