GWTC-2.1: Deep extended catalog of compact binary coalescences observed by LIGO and Virgo during the first half of the third observing run

“…We also expand the population of binaries with significantly asymmetric mass ratios reported in GWTC-2 by an additional two events (the mass ratio is less than 0.65 and 0.44 at 90% probability for GW190403_051519 and GW190917_114630 respectively), and find that two of the eight new events have effective inspiral spins χ eff > 0 (at 90% credibility), while no binary is consistent with χ eff < 0 at the same significance. …”
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Microwave tunable dielectric properties of multilayer CNT membranes for smart applications by Liu, L., Yang, Z. H., Kong, Ling Bing, Yin, W. Y., Wang, S.

“…Multilayer multiwall carbon nanotube (MWCNT) silicone composite membranes with thickness greater than 10 μm were prepared with a spin-coating method. Dielectric permittivity and tunability of the circular membranes were measured from 0.1 to 7 GHz by using a single-port coaxial line method. …”
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Analysis of Λ b 0 → pK − μ + μ − decays by Aaij, R, Abdelmotteleb, ASW, Abellan Beteta, C, Abudinén, F, Ackernley, T, Adefisoye, AA, Adeva, B, Adinolfi, M, Adlarson, P, Agapopoulou, C, Aidala, CA, Ajaltouni, Z, Akar, S, Akiba, K, Albicocco, P, Albrecht, J, Alessio, F, Alexander, M, Aliouche, Z, Alvarez Cartelle, P, Amalric, R, Amato, S, Amey, JL, Amhis, Y, Bacher, D, Bovill, M, Cervenkov, D, Fischer, KL, Gao, R, Gilman, AL, Goncalves Abrantes, F, Harnew, N, John, M, Mackay, I, Malde, S, Martel, L, Mohammed, RA, Patoc, J, Resmi, PK, Scantlebury Smead, LG, Smallwood, JC, Stanislaus, S, Suljik, F, Tat, MD, Vico Benet, D, Wilkinson, G, Zhang, S

“…The data are consistent with receiving contributions from a mixture of Λ resonances with different spin-parity quantum numbers. The angular coefficients show a pattern of vector-axial vector interference that is a characteristic of the type of flavour-changing neutral-current transition relevant for these decays.…”

Synthesis and characterization of reduced graphene oxide-based composites by Wu, Shixin

“…The conductive rGO films are fabricated by reduction of spin-coated GO films. By varying the solution volume in the spin-coating process, the film thickness can be adjusted and hence the film transmittance and sheet resistance can be controlled. …”
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Properties of copper slag concrete by Zhang, Weide

“…This report investigated the mechanical properties of high strength concrete incorporating copper slag as fine aggregates. The rising need for alternative fine aggregates substitution of sand is essential due to its high materials cost and the emphasis on sustainable concrete. …”
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Automated teller machines in Singapore by Soh, Yong Chee, Phua, Alice Loo Huay, Tan,Yang Leng

“…Activation of ATMs can also be enhanced by substituting the present A TM card and PIN system with either voice recognition, retina recognition or thumbprints. …”
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Magnetic levitation using neodymium magnets for vertical axis wind turbine (VAWT) II by Lai, Chunji

“…This project involved the design and fabrication of a test model vertical axis wind turbine, however as this experiment was carried out indoor without any wind condition, the author used a dc motor to simulate the wind required to spin the turbine. The advantage of this motor allows the author some control over the speed of the turbine. …”
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Singlet fission in organic crystals : ultrafast spectroscopic study by Ma, Lin

“…Singlet fission (SF) is a spin-allowed process in which one singlet excited molecule shares its energy with an adjacent molecule in the ground state, both molecules forming a pair of triplet states. …”
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Neural abstractive summarization: improvements at the sequence-level by Ravaut, Mathieu

“…With enough data, pre-trained Transformer-based sequence-to-sequence models can be fine-tuned and achieve strong performance on abstractive summarization benchmarks. …”
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Leveraging linguistic knowledge to enhance low-resource NLP applications by Zhu, Zixiao

“…Specifically, 1. In the promptless fine-tuning paradigm, we first focus on fine-tuning word embeddings for task-related words, thereby enriching the conceptual knowledge available to compositional neural networks during feature learning in emotion recognition. …”
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Influence of mesh sizes and orientations on expanded aluminium sheets on tensile performances by Nik Ismail, N A, Roslan, M N, Ismail, A E, El Bakri, H M

“…According to the results of the experiment, specimens with fine mesh have higher tensile stress, which is 44.90 MPa for fine mesh specimens with a 30° orientation, compared to medium and coarse mesh sizes, which have the lowest strength, which is 7.06 MPa for coarse mesh specimens with a 60° orientation. …”
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Non-Volatile In-Memory Computing by Spintronics by Yu, Hao, Ni, Leibin, Wang, Yuhao

“…Since the main bottleneck is from memory, we aim to develop an energy-efficient in-memory computing platform in this book. First, the models of spin-transfer torque magnetic tunnel junction and racetrack memory are presented. …”
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Arsenene nanoribbon edge-resolved strong magnetism by Wang, Sanmei, Zhang, Xi, Huang, Yongli, Sun, Chang Qing

“…Consistency between bond-order-length-strength correlation (BOLS) theory and density functional theory (DFT) calculations verified that: (i) the edge bond contraction of 9.54% deepened the edge potential well of AsNR, (ii) a net charge of 0.06 e- transferred from the inner region to the edge; and (iii) the edge quantum well polarized the unpaired electron and the net spin (antiferromagnetic or ferromagnetic depending on the width) is localized at the zigzag edge. …”
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Self-Improvement for Circuit-Analysis Problems by Williams, R. Ryan

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Small-island interactions: pottery from Roman Malta by Anastasi, M

“…In the first instance, a detailed study of three complete and new ceramic assemblages, including amphorae, fine, cooking and coarse wares, was undertaken. The opportunity to quantify identifiable imports and compare them with local products—the first of its kind for fine, cooking and coarse wares—provided valuable proxy data for comparing Malta with neighbouring islands and centres, and demonstrated what proportion of ceramic vessels were locally supplied, and how these changed over time. …”

The inference-boundary model reinterpreting theme and rheme by Leong, Ping Alvin

“…The Hallidayan notions of theme and rheme pose an interesting challenge to linguists in their attempts to pin them down more specifically. This paper argues that since the thematic structure of the clause organises it as a message, a useful starting point in theme–rheme research is an understanding of how clausal messages are typically processed by language users. …”
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The effects of processing conditions on the morphology of single conjugated polymers. by Yeo, Hui Lin.

“…Drop-cast single chains were proposed to either retain its extended conformation in CHCl3 solution, or adopt an ordered structure with hair-pin loops, giving rise to two corresponding distinct types of intensity traces. …”
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Experimental and numerical study of self-locking adaptable inter connection for modular steel structures by Nadeem, Gohar, Safiee, Nor Azizi, Bakar, Nabilah Abu, Karim, Izian Abd, Mohd Nasir, Noor Azline

“…The findings indicated that the gap produced between connection and column under higher displacement was sensitive to the outer bolt and spring pin. This gap could be further reduced by increasing the number of outer bolts and by reducing tolerance between adapter and column walls.…”

Smart home control system design using internet of things based energy harvesting technology by Silalahi, Lukman Medriavin, Indrawan, Muhammad Rafi, Budiyanto, Setiyo, Hanafi, Dirman, Abdul Hamid, Abdul Hamid, Ronaldo, Davit

“…The objective of this research is to provide security for homeowners by facilitating fingerprints and PIN (Personal Identification Numbers) in entering the house, then in the event of a power outage, it activates the function of energy harvesting technology. …”
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Advancing neural text generation by Han, Simeng

“…However, these models are typically fine-tuned on hundreds of thousands of data points, an infeasible requirement when applying summarization to new, niche domains. …”
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