Mechanics in dehydration-induced leaf morphing behaviors by Guo, Kexin

“…For thin-sheet materials like plant leaves, uniform uniaxial stretching of the sheet leads to wrinkling, a phenomenon that has been extensively studied analytically and numerically. …”
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Effect of consumers' awareness about country of origin on purchasing decision in Klang Valley, Malaysia by Taheri, Nasim

“…It stresses the point that the COO effects could be enhanced by variables like the existence of representative products, an intervening factor as consumers look for the “made in” labelling of a product. …”
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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

“…Blood pressure (BP) was measured with an automatic BP monitor and IOP were obtained by Goldmann applanation tonometry. Main outcome was change in IOP, defined as the difference between the 6-year IOP and the baseline IOP. …”
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Enhancing the photo-electrocatalytic properties of g-C3N4 by boron doping and ZIF-8 hybridization by Atta, Mahmood Riyadh, Maizatul Shima, Shaharun, Khan, Maksudur Rahman Md, Bawadi, Abdullah, Al-Mahmodi, Akram Fadhl, Nur Diyan, Mohd Ridzuan, Munusamy, Thurga Devi, Jun Wei, Lim

“…As a result, merging these modifications noticeably enhanced the photo-electrocatalytic activity and light sensitivity of the main catalyst, which opens a wider range of applications and future research.…”
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Ceria-boosted Ni/Al2O3 catalysts for enhanced H2 production via acetic acid dry reforming by Nguyen, Anh-Tam, Ng, Kim Hoong, Kumar, Ponnusamy Senthil, Pham, Thuy-Phuong T., Herma Dina, Setiabudi, Yusuf, Mohammad, Pham, Le Kim Hoang, Thao, Bui T. Thu, Aishah, Abdul Jalil, Mahadi, Bahari, Al-Kahtany, Khaled, Vo, Dai-Viet N.

“…However, coke inhibition during ADR is the main challenge and not resolved by using suitable promoted catalysts. …”
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Tracing RNA biography: in situ transcriptome profiling by novel spatial omics technologies by Ren, Jingyi (Rena)

“…Utilizing these methods, we were able to holistically profile spatial, temporal and single-molecule information of RNA at the transcriptomic and translational levels in single cells. The main contribution of this work is that we established a specialized spatial transcriptomic toolkit specific for capturing the dynamics of mRNA in situ. …”
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Engineering Mechanical Counter Pressure Spacesuits and Compression Garments: Active Pressurization and Design for Mobility by Kothakonda, Akshay

“…Spacesuits must provide an astronaut with the conditions necessary to survive an EVA for several hours and to enable them to carry out these complex tasks. One of the main factors impeding the effectiveness of EVA operations is the stiffness of the spacesuits, which is inherent in gas pressurized suits. …”
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Sampling from convex sets with a cold start using multiscale decompositions by Narayanan, Hariharan, Rajaraman, Amit, Srivastava, Piyush

“…We show that even with a cold start, the mixing times of these chains are bounded by a polynomial in n and the aspect ratio of the body. Our main technical ingredient is an isoperimetric inequality for K for a metric that magnifies distances between points that are close to the boundary of K. …”
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Rail transit OD matrix estimation and journey time reliability metrics using automated fare data by Chan, Joanne, S.M. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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当青春成为最后的乌托邦 ：探析 "小字辈" 文本所影射的文化现象 = When youth becomes the last utopia : a study of the 'tiny texts' cultural phenomena by 王捷灵 Ong, Cerys Jie Ling

“…The paper discerns that the Youth are the main producers and consumers of these texts, which tend to endorse the mentality of seizing “tiny luck” (xiao que xing) while looking upon the "little life" (xiao ri zi) of social and political apathy as an ideal life model. …”
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Leakage-resilient secret sharing with constant share size by Tjuawinata, Ivan, Xing, Chaoping

“…The current paper has two main contributions: (i) we obtain leakage-resilient secret sharing schemes with constant share sizes and unbounded numbers of players. …”
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新加坡淡马锡经验对黑龙江省国企改革与国资监管体系建设的借鉴研究 = Studying and using the experiences of Temasek in Singapore for Heilongjiang Province state-owned enterprises reform and state-owned assets supervi... by 张学伦 Zhang, Xuelun

“…Based on various study approaches, such as meetings and interviews, questionnaire survey, quantitative and qualitative analysis of relevant references and data, the author analyses the basic features and main problems of Heilongjiang Provincial state-owned enterprises and the reform of the state-owned assets supervision administration system. …”
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Numerical and experimental investigation of thick composites manufacturing for wind turbines by Ammasai Sengodan, Ganapathi

“…Subsequently, a pressure sensing device consisting of a fiber Bragg grating (FBG) was designed which is capable of measuring in-situ resin pressure with improved sensitivity even at low pressure. The main purpose of this sensor is to validate the developed numerical simulation procedure by measuring the resin pressure at selected location. …”
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Adaptive resource optimization of three-tier web applications running on the cloud by Borhani, Amir Hossein

“…Furthermore, a CPU micro-benchmark is utilized to investigate CPU performance of cloud-based VMs in greater detail. The main objective of this study is to evaluate and compare the average response time and operational cost of three-tier web applications running on commercial cloud providers. …”
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Socioeconomic inequalities in risk of infection with SARS-CoV-2 delta and omicron variants in the UK, 2020-22: analysis of the longitudinal COVID-19 Infection Survey by Razieh, C, Shabnam, S, Dambha-Miller, H, Morris, EJA, Yates, T, Chudasama, Y, Zaccardi, F, Gillies, C, Banerjee, A, Pareek, M, Lacey, B, White, M, Khunti, K, Islam, N

“…</p> <p><strong>Participants</strong> Survey participants recruited from randomly selected households to reflect the UK population (England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland) were divided into the delta cohort (2 July 2020 to 19 December 2021) and the omicron variant (on or after 20 December 2021), the dominant variants during our study period.</p> <p><strong>Main outcome measures</strong> Incidence rate and incidence rate ratio for the presence of the delta and omicron variants by area level deprivation and occupation sector. …”

Impact of interspecific competition on African wild dogs (Lycaon pictus) in an ecosystem with artificial perennial water provision by Sandoval Serés, ME

“…In HNP, during the dry season the only water available for animals is mainly found in artificial waterholes, which makes this area ideal to perform this research. …”

Development of a national maternity early warning score: centile based score development and Delphi informed escalation pathways by Gerry, S, Bedford, J, Redfern, OC, Rutter, H, Chester-Jones, M, Kelly, T, Watkinson, PJ, Knight, M

“…</p> <br> <p><strong>Participants:</strong> Pregnant people from the 4P study, recruited before 20 weeks' gestation at three UK maternity centres (Oxford, Newcastle, and London). 841, 998, and 889 women provided data in the early antenatal, antenatal, and postnatal periods.</p> <br> <p><strong>Main outcome measures:</strong> Development of a new national MEWS, assigning numerical weights to measurements in the lower and upper extremes of distributions of individual vital signs from the 4P prospective cohort study. …”

Quantifying the energy consumption of the water use cycle by Cardenes Trujillo, I

“…</p> <p>This thesis presents variousmethodological approachesto quantify and understand energy use in water infrastructure systems, as well as how to incorporate them in decision-making processes. The main hypotheses are as follows: firstly, a detailed understanding of the use of energy in water infrastructure systems can facilitate more efficient and sustainable water infrastructure systems and, secondly, that incorporating energy into planning for water and wastewater resources can help understand the impacts of decisions and establish trade-offs between actions.…”

Stratosphere - troposphere interaction during stratospheric sudden warming events by Domeisen, Daniela I. V. (Daniela Iris Vera)

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Individual-fMRI-approaches reveal cerebellum and visual communities to be functionally connected in obsessive compulsive disorder by Kashyap, Rajan, Eng, Goi Khia, Bhattacharjee, Sagarika, Gupta, Bhanu, Ho, Roger, Ho, Cyrus S. H., Zhang, Melvyn, Mahendran, Rathi, Sim, Kang, Chen, Annabel Shen-Hsing

“…Due to our small sample size, we further validated our results by (i) accounting for head motion, (ii) applying global signal regression (GSR) in data processing, and (iii) using an alternate atlas for parcellation. While the main results were consistently observed with accounting for head motion and using another atlas, the key findings were not reproduced with GSR application. …”
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