Repulsive Casimir effect in Chern insulators by Tiang, Bi Hong

“…One useful application is that the repulsive Casimir effect can resolve the troublesome stiction issue in material science. …”
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Structural damage recognition and residual capacity prediction using computer vision for reinforced concrete members by Tang, Jun Yuen

“…The physical size of the practical columns can be approximated by keying in the scaled dimensions of the specimens into the estimation model.  …”
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The effects of bracings on progressive collapse resistance of reinforced concrete multi-story frames by Miao, Lingyu

“…The experimental results indicate that steel bracings can enhance the initial stiffness significantly, but the improvement on ultimate strength varies among different configurations of steel bracings. …”
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Nature-inspired lightweight auxetic structures for enhanced stiffness and absorption capacity by Zhang, Ee Teng

“…Bio-organisms often exhibit curved-like, graded and hierarchical structures which significantly contribute to their exceptional mechanical adaptability and performances in diverse range of environmental conditions. …”
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READY PLAYER ONE / by Cline, Ernest, author 655943

“…Famine, poverty, and disease are widespread. Like most of humanity, Wade Watts escapes this depressing reality by spending his waking hours jacked into the OASIS, a sprawling virtual utopia where you can be anything you want to be, where you can live and play and fall in love on any of ten thousand planets. …”

Words and facts: children's fast mapping, retention and extension by Holland, Amanda

“…It has been researched primarily in the field of word learning and evidence suggests that a pre-school child can link a novel word with its referent and retain this link up to 1 month later (e.g. …”
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DC fault detection and clearance in VSC-HVDC systems by Yeap, Yew Ming

“…The second method is based on time-domain, whereby the behaviour of DC-link capacitor in VSC is closely monitored. In the event of fault, the DC-link capacitor will discharge contributing to high fault current. …”
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Repeatability, reproducibility, and observer variability of body composition assessment with single-slice lumbar MRI by Nowak, M, Núñez, L, Hill, CE, Davis, T, Cardiel, LF, Schooler, GR, Mermekli, A, Salvati, R, Thomaides Brears, H, Pansini, M, Robson, MD

“…Participants were scanned using Philips 1.5 T (reference scanner) and Philips 3 T scanners. …”

Really cannot understand meh? : Is Singlish internationally unintelligible? by Ng, Jing Hui

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Fatigue analysis of steel catenary riser by Chew, Jia Han.

“…An object which is under constant cyclic loading can fail by fatigue, thus, a fatigue analysis will be done to find out the fatigue life of the SCR at the touchdown zone.…”
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Mechanics of Three-Dimensional Micro-Architected Interpenetrating Phase Composites by Chen, Andrew Y.

“…While resulting in desirable strength and stiffness properties, the laminate-based structure leads to a high degree of anisotropy and unique failure modalities like interlaminar failure, limiting the performance of these composites under complex loading conditions. …”
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Geometric optimization of double layered microchannel with grooves array for enabling nanoparticle manipulation by Zhang, Boran, Wu, Wenshuai, Zhao, Qianbin, Yan, Sheng

“…In addition to multi-physical assists like acoustic and electrical fields, optimization of a structural design is a promising way to improve the functional capability of a microchannel. …”
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Design of a head massage device by Seah, Rong Jun.

“…The next challenge would be to improve the design head massage robot to make it more intuitive to human scalp in order to deliver more pleasant experience to the end user by adding more ‘finger’ to the robot and manipulate it to move delicately like fingers massaging on the surface of the scalp.…”
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Attracting foreign direct investments into Burundi (Africa) : lessons from Singapore. by Evariste, Nduwayo., Loke, Swee Pan.

“…The objective of this study is to explore what lessons can other developing countries, Burundi in particular can learn from this success story. …”
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Investigation of conductive ink for stretchable and flexible electronics by Chua, Markus Wangren

“…Stretchable and flexible electronics can help unlock a myriad of opportunities that cannot be achieved with conventional electronics. …”
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Distributed droop schemes for standalone and interlinked AC microgrids by Inam Ullah

“…The formed microgrids can certainly be controlled by centralized management systems, but for widely dispersed DGs where communication links are not viable, autonomous droop schemes might be more appropriate. …”
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Determination of diffusion length from within a confined region with the use of EBIC by Ong, Vincent K. S., Wu, Dethau.

“…This technique uses the finite difference method and can be used on samples where the diffusion lengths are longer than the width of the region. …”
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Molybdenum disulfide (MoS_2) as a broadband saturable absorber for ultra-fast photonics by Zhang, H, Lu, S B, Zheng, J, Du, J, Wen, S C, Tang, D Y, Loh, K P

“…The nonlinear optical property of few-layered MoS2 nanoplatelets synthesized by the hydrothermal exfoliation method was investigated from the visible to the near-infrared band using lasers. Both open-aperture Z-scan and balanced-detector measurement techniques were used to demonstrate the broadband saturable absorption property of few-layered MoS2. …”
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A cluster-based distributed active current sensing circuit for hardware Trojan detection by Cao, Yuan, Chang, Chip-Hong, Chen, Shoushun

“…Based on the power gating scheme, it converts the current activity on local power grid into a timing pulse from which the timing and power-related side channel signals can be externally monitored by the existing scan test architecture. …”
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A Novel MIMO antenna integrated with a solar panel and employing AI-equalization for 5G wireless communication networks by Hussein, Humam, Elmunim, Nouf Abd, Atasoy, Ferhat, Virdee, Bal Singh, Elwi, Taha A., Rashid, Nasr, Jayanthi, Renu Karthick Rajaguru, Alibakhshikenari, Mohammad, Limiti, Ernesto

“…We demonstrate that the directivity of this antenna array can be precisely electronically reconfigured using PIN diode switches. …”
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