In-situ rapid construction of aliphatic amine combined polyamide seawater reverse osmosis membrane for efficient boron removal by Li, Can, Lai, Gwo Sung, Zhao, Yali, Wang, Rong

“…Polyamide (PA) reverse osmosis membranes are commonly employed in seawater desalination owing to their effective salt rejection and water permeability; however, the elimination of small and neutral boron molecules from seawater remains a significant hurdle in energy-efficient and cost-effective desalination processes. …”
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Cationic carbon monoxide-releasing polymers as antimicrobial and antibiofilm agents by the synergetic activity by Wang, Liping, Zhong, Wenbin, Liu, Bo, Pranantyo, Dicky, Chan-Park, Mary B.

“…This CO-releasing system may retain long-time antimicrobial ability after the complete release of CO molecules owing to the cationic structure. The novel CO-releasing polymers have great potential as antimicrobial and antibiofilm agents in biomedical applications.…”
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Taliban resurgence in Afghanistan : the role of post-conflict reconstruction by Sadia Sulaiman

“…Although the political benchmarks were achieved in the designated time frame, peace remained elusive in Afghanistan owing to inefficiency and corruption in state civil and security institutions, weak governance, and shortfalls in economic reconstruction. …”
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Development of an air conditioning compressor for a 2-in-1 electric motor for electric vehicles by N. Satheesh Kumar

“…However, the market penetration of EVs is comparatively low, owing to its poor cruise range, cost and performance characteristics. …”
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Antimicrobial effects of moringa oleifera seeds on E. coli K-12 derivatives by Zhou, Lingyan

“…coli concentrations. MO seeds, owing to their coagulating and antimicrobial properties, undeniably have huge potentials and benefits at relatively low cost for water treatment, despite current knowledge limitations and practical application challenges. …”
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High-yield synthesis and optical properties of g-C3N4 by Yuan, Yanwen, Zhang, Lulu, Xing, Jun, Utama, M. Iqbal Bakti, Lu, Xin, Du, Kezhao, Li, Yongmei, Hu, Xiao, Wang, Shijie, Genç, Aziz, Dunin-Borkowski, Rafal, Arbiol, Jordi, Xiong, Qihua

“…Graphitic carbon nitride (g-C3N4), a metal-free semiconductor with a band gap of 2.7 eV, has received considerable attention owing to its fascinating photocatalytic performances under visible-light. g-C3N4 exhibits high thermal and chemical stability and non-toxicity such that it has been considered as the most promising photocatalyst for environmental improvement and energy conservation. …”
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Quantum dots-siRNA nanoplexes for gene silencing in central nervous system tumor cells by Lin, Guimiao, Chen, Ting, Zou, Jinyun, Wang, Yucheng, Wang, Xiaomei, Li, Jiefeng, Huang, Qijun, Fu, Zicai, Zhao, Yingying, Lin, Marie Chia-Mi, Xu, Gaixia, Yong, Ken-Tye

“…RNA interfering (RNAi) using short interfering RNA (siRNA) is becoming a promising approach for cancer gene therapy. However, owing to the lack of safe and efficient carriers, the application of RNAi for clinical use is still very limited. …”
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The magnificent manifestation of Nd0.7Sr0.3MnO3 ceramics: A comprehensive exploration of different wet chemical routes via sol-gel and thermal treatment methods by Hon, Xiao Tong, Lau, Lik Nguong, Lim, Kean Pah, Awang Kechik, Mohd Mustafa, Chen, Soo Kien, Shabdin, Muhammad Kashfi, Miryala, Muralidhar, Shaari, Abdul Halim

“…The mixed-valence manganite has sparked immense interest owing to its intriguing colossal magnetoresistance (CMR) effect. …”
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HCI for Cybersecurity, Privacy and Trust : Third International Conference, HCI-CPT 2021, Held as Part of the 23rd HCI International Conference, HCII 2021, Virtual Event, July 24-29... by HCI for Cybersecurity, Privacy and Trust (Conference) (3rd : 2021 : Online) 643239, Moallem, Abbas, editor 630807

Characterization of nickel-titanium based thin films crystallized by fast and ultra-fast annealing methods by Motemani Sharabiani, Yahya

“…The decrease in transformation temperature is caused by the fine nano-scale structure in Ti-Ni-Hf thin samples. …”
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Design and analysis of high torque density machines for aerospace applications by Shen, Fawen

“…Owing to the growing demands for low carbon emissions and the soaring concerns over the energy crisis, the more electric aircraft (MEA), which is regarded as the most desirable substitute for conventional aircraft, has drawn increasing interest. …”
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A generalized solution to verify authorship and detect style change in multi-authored documents by Leekha, Rohan, Vandam, Courtland

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Dual-phase microporous polymer nanofilms by interfacial polymerization for ultrafast molecular separation by Lee, Tae Hoon, Balcik, Marcel, Wu, Wan-Ni, Pinnau, Ingo, Smith, Zachary P

“…Fine-tuning microporosity in polymers with a scalable method has great potential for energy-efficient molecular separations. …”
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A multiplicative Nakagami speckle reduction algorithm for ultrasound images by Yu, Chengpu, Zheng, Cishen, Xie, Lihua

“…A 2D total variation regularized Nakagami speckle reduction algorithm is derived based on the maximum a posteriori estimation framework, which performs well in restoring piecewise-smooth reflectivity and preserving fine details of the image. The proposed algorithm is verified by a series of computer-simulated and real ultrasound image data. …”
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A communal furniture informed by the deprivation of Mauritian beach by Fok Kow, Fok-Chi-Seng

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Life and dyeing : floral escapes by Teng, Yu Qing

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Beyond the beautiful garden city by Koh, Kevin Jing Sen

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A 9-bit, 1.08ps resolution two-step time-to-digital converter in 65 nm CMOS for time-mode ADC by Kong, Junjie, Henzler, Stephan, Schmitt-Landsiedel, Doris, Siek, Liter

“…The proposed TDC uses body-biasing in the fine TDC to obtain the resolution of the entire TDC, which is simulated to be 1.08 ps. …”
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Of dreams and reality : chance on graphic design. by Chu, Tracey Shao Han.

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Hierarchical document representation for summarization by Tey, Rui Jie

“…HIWESTSUM is very light in weight with parameter size over 10 times smaller than current existing models that fine-tune BERT for summarization. Moreover, the proposed model is faster than SOTA models with shorter training and inference time. …”
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