Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on behaviors in physical activity, sleep quality and usage of sport facilities in university students by Lim, Qing Feng

“…Sedentary (sitting) behaviour was seen to increase by an average of 90.5 min/day (p < .001). There were also a decreased in the booking frequency in sports facilities (2.1 to 1.6, p < .001) and time spent in a sports facility (127 to 51.6 min/week, p < .001). …”
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Effect of carbides on the corrosion resistance of industrial corrosion resistant alloys by Muhammad Redzuan.

“…AISI 316L weld overlay specimens were heat treated, at various temperatures, for a period of 5 hours followed by water quenching. The amount of chromium carbides precipitated was evaluated using microscopic examination and point count method. …”
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The contemporary age of square stepping exercise on cognitive and cohesion among older adults by Low, Kimmy Yi Ting

“…Methods: Seven older adults (2 males, 5 females) were recruited for the study. There were six sessions of online SSE conducted twice a week. …”
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Metallic nanowire synthesis by anodized aluminium oxide by Yong, Ching Seng.

“…The AAO template undergoes pore-widening process by using H3PO4 (5 wt%) to remove the barrier oxide layer. The AAO templates are separated into two groups: one is deposited with 200nm of titanium/gold with sputtering/E-beam technique, and attached to ITO glass slides with silver paste; another group is attached directly to ITO glass slides with silver paste. …”
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An energy-saving oriented air balancing method for demand controlled ventilation systems with branch and black-box model by Cui, Can, Zhang, Xin, Cai, Wenjian

“…In the lab, the proposed air balancing method was validated on a real DCV system of 5 zones under various design flow conditions. The experimental results verified the effectiveness of the proposed method on both the air balancing control accuracy and the energy saving ability.…”
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Monolayer tungsten disulfide in photonic environment : angle-resolved weak and strong light-matter coupling by Zhang, Xuewen, Wu, Lishu, Wang, Xu, He, Silin, Hu, Hanwei, Shi, Guangchao, Zhang, Xingwang, Shang, Jingzhi, Yu, Ting

“…By embedding 1L-WS2 into a dielectric microcavity, strong exciton-photon coupling results in the formation of lower and upper polariton branches with an appreciable Rabi splitting of 34 meV at room temperature, where the observed blueshift of the lower polariton branch is indicative of the enhanced polariton-polariton scattering. …”
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Fabrication of SiC ceramic foams with light weight and ultrahigh strength by a direct foaming method by Wee, Christian Luke Chye Hin

“….% to the weight of SiC dry powder, the sintered sample has porosities up to 67% with an average pore size of ~56 µm and a predicted compressive strength of 32.5 MPa, which brings a good balance of strength and interconnectivity of pores. …”
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Properties of copper slag concrete by Zhang, Weide

“…As such, a conclusion was made that the replacement of copper slag is beneficial up to 30% as the workability is increased significantly by 83% compared to the control mix, while keeping the compressive strength decrease to 5%. The dynamic compressive strength is also increased by 8%. …”
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Graphdiyne/graphene heterostructure: a universal 2D scaffold anchoring monodispersed transition-metal phthalocyanines for selective and durable CO₂ electroreduction by Gu, Huoliang, Zhong, Lixiang, Shi, Guoshuai, Li, Jiaqiang, Yu, Ke, Li, Jiong, Zhang, Shuo, Zhu, Chenyuan, Chen, Shaohua, Yang, Chunlei, Kong, Ya, Chen, Chen, Li, Shuzhou, Zhang, Jin, Zhang, Liming

“…The per-site turnover frequency of CoPc reaches 37 s-1 at -1.0 V vs RHE, outperforming most of the reported phthalocyanine- and porphyrin-based electrocatalysts. …”
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Comparison between CaO- and MgO-activated ground granulated blast-furnace slag (GGBS) for stabilization/solidification of Zn-contaminated clay slurry by Zhang, Yunhui, Ong, Yi Jie, Yi, Yaolin

“…The results showed that the application of the MgO-GGBS (GGBS dosage of 10 % and MgO of 0 %-3 % (of dry clay by mass)) had positive effects on the mechanical strength and Zn immobilization of the contaminated clay slurry while the CaO-GGBS affected negatively and the situation became even worse at a higher CaO dosage (0 %-1.5 % of dry clay by mass). In comparison with OPC, the application of MgO-GGBS produced higher mechanical strength and that for CaO-GGBS was the lowest. …”
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Seepage effects on settling velocity by Goh, Alvin Hanchang.

“…Uniform plastic spherical particles of varying diameters (0.630cm, 0.790cm, 0.950cm and 1.285cm) and densities under different seepage inflow rates (0 m3/s, 1X10-4 m3/s, 2X10-4 m3/s and 5X10-4 m3/s) are used. The drag coefficient is the most important property in the mechanics of particle motion and fluid dynamics because most particles in real life are employed either to overcome or to utilize the drag caused by the fluid. …”
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Efficiency boosting by thermal harvesting in InGaN/GaN light-emitting diodes by Lu, Shunpeng, Zhang, Yiping, Qiu, Ying, Liu, Xiao, Zhang, Menglong, Luo, Dongxiang

“…The underlying reason is that the wall-plug efficiency of the LED with a voltage lower than photon voltage (V < ℏω/q) is surprisingly enhanced by elevated temperature owing to the heat transmission by the LED under a high biased voltage in Group A. …”
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Interval job scheduling with machine launch cost by Ren, Runtian, Zhu, Yuqing, Li, Chuanyou, Tang, Xueyan

“…Based on this lower bound, we propose a 5-approximation algorithm in the offline setting. …”
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Realizing high and stable electrocatalytic oxygen evolution for iron-based perovskites by co-doping-induced structural and electronic modulation by She, Sixuan, Zhu, Yinlong, Wu, Xinhao, Hu, Zhiwei, Shelke, Abhijeet, Pong, Way-Faung, Chen, Yubo, Song, Yufei, Liang, Mingzhuang, Chen, Chien-Te, Wang, Huanting, Zhou, Wei, Shao, Zongping

“…Impressively, SCFN shows more than an order of magnitude enhancement in mass-specific activity compared to the SrFeO3−δ (SF) parent oxide, and delivers an attractive small overpotential of 340 mV at 10 mA cm−2, outperforming many Co/Ni-rich perovskite oxides ever reported. …”
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Integrated optimization algorithm: a metaheuristic approach for complicated optimization by Li, Chen, Chen, Guo, Liang, Gaoqi, Luo, Fengji, Zhao, Junhua, Dong, Zhao Yang

“…IOA is synthesized from 5 sub-algorithms: follower search, leader search, wanderer search, crossover search, and role learning. …”
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Use of peptide asparginyl ligases (PALs) in generating alternative non-Ig protein-drug conjugates for cancer therapy by See, Julia Jing Yi

“…We verified pH-controlled OaAEP1b orthogonal ligation between Affibody & DARPin with 5(6)-Carboxyfluorescein (FAM), generating satisfactory yield. …”
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Elongated magma plumbing system beneath the Coso volcanic field, California, constrained by seismic reflection tomography by Wang, Dongdong, Wu, Shucheng, Li, Tianjue, Tong, Ping, Gao, Yongxin

“…Our final velocity model reveals a prominent low-velocity body sitting right beneath the CVF at 5–20 km depths, which we interpret as a rhyolite magma reservoir that supplies heat flux to the hot springs and also feeds the volcanic activities at Coso. …”
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A new method to estimate slab dip direction using receiver functions and its application in revealing slab geometry and a diffuse plate boundary beneath Sumatra by Feng, Mingye, Chen, Ling, Wei, Shengji, Wang, Xin, Wang, Xu, Wu, Zimu

“…The results also show increased dip direction of the slab Moho from 47 ± 5.3° in southern Sumatra to 70 ± 10.7° in northern Sumatra, indicating a complicated slab geometry and internal deformation along strike. …”
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Acidic corrosion behaviour of niobium-added welding overlays fabricated by self-shielded metal-cored wires by Liu, Dashuang, Wu, Yucheng, Long, Weimin, Wei, Ping, Wang, Rui, Zhou, Wei

“…In order to determine the amount of ferroniobium addition in the wire to achieve the best corrosion resistance, and find out the mechanism of ferroniobium enhancing the corrosion resistance of the welding overlays, the high-Cr iron-based welding overlays with different niobium addition were fabricated by using self-made self-shielded metal-cored wires and their acidic corrosion resistance in 3.5 wt.% NaCl solution + 0.01 mol/L HCl solution were investigated by electrochemical corrosion test. …”
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Using photogrammetry to investigate coral reef erosion by clionid sea sponges by Koh, Lucas David

“…This method was trialled on 5 Cliona caribbaea colonies in the Mexican Caribbean, south of the Puerto Morelos National Reef Park. …”
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