Deposition and characterisation of a diamond/Ti/diamond multilayer structure by Mallik, Awadesh Kumar, Lloret, Fernando, Gutierrez, Marina, Rouzbahani, Rozita, Pobedinskas, Paulius, Shih, Wen-Ching, Haenen, Ken

“…The cross-sectional thickness of the titanium layer can be found to vary by as much as 0.5 µm across the length of the surface, which was caused by a subsequent hydrogen plasma etching process step of the composite film conducted after Ti sputtering. …”
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Determination of soil-water characteristics curves of sands using the evaporation method by On, Roger Zhi Wei

“…The performance of low-cost capacitive and resistive sensors was compared with the more expensive ECH2O EC 5 and the TEROS 10 moisture sensors to evaluate their performance and capabilities to obtain the SWCCs. …”
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A cost-aware utility-maximizing bidding strategy for auction-based federated learning by Tang, Xiaoli, Yu, Han

“…Through extensive experiments on six commonly adopted benchmark datasets, we show that outperforms eight state-of-the-art methods, beating the best baseline by 4.39%, 4.56%, 1.33%, and 5.43% on average in terms of the total amount of data obtained, number of data samples per unit cost, total utility, and FL model accuracy, respectively.…”
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Energy saving control of robot by Chan, Chee Siang.

“…In this research, Region reaching/tracking controller[3-5] and Slotine & Li controller[6] are implements into SONY SCARA[7] separately. …”
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Synthesis of zeolite nanoreactors by Rajendran, Arvind

“…The separation of CO2/CO gas mixture was investigated by gas chromatograph (GC) and the permselectivity of CO2/CO was 3.5±0.1 with CO2 permeance of 3.6±0.3×10−8 molm−2 s−1 Pa−1 at room temperature. …”
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Offshore renminbi market. by Peh, Derrick Chin Kiat., Heng, Zoey Peishan., Sei, Sin Yee.

“…Chapter 4 explains offshore clearing of the renminbi, and examines the reasons accounting for a different renminbi foreign exchange rate onshore (CNY) and offshore (CNH). Lastly, Chapter 5 explores the future of the offshore renminbi market and presents various risk factors together with their implications.…”
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The Greek unions and the economy : a perspective. by Goh, Qianlei., Teo, Yi Qi., Loh, Candy Shu Ying.

“…A fresh round of austerity measures includes the cut down on pensions, 150,000 public sector jobs, and government spending amounting to 1.5% of its Gross Domestic Product (GDP). What exactly led to such a large public sector and huge accumulated public debt in Greece? …”
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Longitudinal shear behaviour in composite slab with profiled steel decking by Ang, Yi Wen

“…In concurrence with past research, the design shear resistance V1,Rd of m-k method is of a lower value that the experimental shear force value Vtest,ave, while Vut,ave of Partial Interaction method is of a higher value than Vtest,ave. …”
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Study of solar powered cooling technologies for Singapore : photovoltaic vs. solar thermal using TRNSYS by Teo, Benjamin How Wei

“…Photovoltaic Vapour Compression system provides a solar fraction of 58.7% while Solar Thermal Absorption system has about 31.8%. About 37.5% of solar energy is loss in the Photovoltaic Vapour Compression system as compared to Solar Thermal Absorption system with a loss of 15%. …”
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Enhanced microscale heat transfer in macro geometries : effect of flow field by Siew, Dennis Weng Kin

“…The results concluded that the design with circular grooves attained the highest heat transfer coefficient of about 71.7 kW/m2·K in the flow channel, which is about 43.5% higher than the smooth flow channel. Besides, numerical studies on other designs also revealed that the designs with forward and backward sloping grooves are able to achieve comparably good heat transfer augmentation in the range of 10.6 to 33.1% higher. …”
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Selective laser melting of copper alloys by Muhammad Muzzammil Shaul Hamid

“…Samples age hardened for 5 hours were found to have the highest microhardness value, 65.6HV0.3. …”
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The investigation of impact induced particle resuspension by Kwa, Wilson Wei Sheng

“…In addition, the effects of the following parameters, particle size (PM2.5, PM10 and 15-30µm) and flooring material were studied as well. …”
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Preliminary study on the preparation and characterization of novel organophilic membranes used for organic extraction by Xia, Yuan

“…When the feed wastewater was of pH higher than 8, it was suggested to adjust the pH of feed stream to below 5 to ensure the majority of phenol is present in the form of phenol molecule. …”
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Sphero robot controlled by using brain computer interface offline by Sun, Yaxiong

“…There is a study shown that nearly 800,000 people in the United States have a stroke every year and stroke is the No 5 cause of death in the United States, it kills nearly 130,000 people a year. [1].If a person impact stroke, she/he will lose the ability of communication and movement ability. …”
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Human activity recognition and analysis based on FPGA microboard three-axis accelerometer by Han, Yating

“…A recognition algorithm based on standard deviation, skewness, kurtosis and correlation coefficients is also proposed to identity 5 walk pattems, i.e., standing, walking, running, going upstairs and going downstairs. …”
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Design of a compact microstrip patch antenna with a CSRR loaded substrate by Rajakumar Manoj Kumar

“…By simulating the final antenna structure, it is observed that it radiates at 2.45 GHZ with gain 5.71 dB. The fabricated antenna upon testing displays a shift in resonant frequency to 2.80 GHz with gain 3.31 dB due to the presence of air gap between the composite substrate structure.…”
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Green amorphous nanoplex as a new supersaturating drug delivery system by Cheow, Wean Sin, Hadinoto, Kunn

“…The solubility of curcumin as the least-soluble drug is magnified 9-fold upon its transformation to the nanoplex, and the supersaturated condition is maintained for 5 h.…”
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Characterization and gene expression analysis of the cir multi-gene family of plasmodium chabaudi chabaudi (AS) by Lawton, Jennifer, Brugat, Thibaut, Yan, Yam Xue, Reid, Adam James, Böhme, Ulrike, Otto, Thomas Dan, Pain, Arnab, Jackson, Andrew, Berriman, Matthew, Cunningham, Deirdre, Preiser, Peter Rainer, Langhorne, Jean

“…Despite comprising up to 5% of the genome, little is known about the functions of the proteins encoded by pir genes. …”
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Moral panic, fear, stigma, and discrimination against returnee migrants and Muslim populations in Nepal: analyses of COVID-19 media content by Aryal, Nirmal, Regmi, Pramod, Dhakal Adhikari, Shovita, Sharma, Shreeman, van Teijlingen, Edwin

“…Six themes emerged from our analyses: (i) Moral panics: stereotypical perception in the media; (ii) Societal response: stigma, fear and panic responses in the community; (iii) Inadequate and inappropriate government actions; (iv) Othering practices: discrimination, stigmatisation against returnee migrants and Muslim populations (v) Health care access and treatment of returnee migrants; and (vi) Response and resilience from the Muslim community. …”
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Precursors and correlates of transient and persistent longitudinal profiles of psychotic experiences from late childhood through early adulthood by Rammos, A, Sullivan, SA, Kounali, D, Jones, HJ, Hammerton, G, Hines, LA, Lewis, G, Jones, PB, Cannon, M, Thompson, A, Wolke, D, Heron, J, Zammit, S

“…<p><strong>Background:</strong> Psychotic experiences are reported by 5–10% of young people, although only a minority persist and develop into psychotic disorders. …”