On the most energy-efficient input functions and the lowest input energy of passive linear circuits by Smunyahirun, Radit

“…The optimization by using calculus of variations is expanded to any first order passive circuits. It turns out that the most energy-efficient function for general first order circuits is hyperbolic family. …”
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From phosphate to refugees: the offshore refugee boom in the Republic of Nauru by Morris, J

“…After outlining my theoretical framing, I explore the many procedures and techniques that modulate to Nauru’s state-building effort as a phosphate turned refugee company town.</p> <p>Nauru has occupied a prominent place in the international news, but the landscape of refugee market production that takes place there is represented by legal critics and global media as an exception. …”

Surface plasmon resonance (SPR) enhanced biosensors by Zhang, Jinling

“…The detections operated on AuNH array using the collective effects of LSP and PSP turned out to be a promising combination in that it theoretically by simulation and experimentally revealed that the fluorescent enhancement was stronger in 2 orders of magnitude as compared with flat Au thin film substrate irradiated off-resonance. …”
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Going on from Picasso? Late modernism and the dynamics of history by Nelson, S

“…As in the various re-stagings of Picasso’s 'Demoiselles d’Avignon' (1907; itself, of course, a crossing-point for multiple traditions) carried out by Hartigan in the 1950s, Souza in the 1960s, and Robert Colescott in the 1980s, they actively diverted and reshaped these histories, turning such reflection into the material for continued painterly practice. …”

Three essays on corporate finance by Zou, Kunru

“…The connections to top political leaders (i.e., Central Committee of the Communist Party of China) make local politicians engage more in rent-seeking by selling state-owned enterprises (SOEs) at substantial discounts. …”
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Negotiating shared spaces in informal peri-urban settlements in North India: collaborative architectural making as a catalyst for civic empowerment and social change by Tang, Bo

“…The two case studies of on-going live projects provide the empirical basis for this study: (1) The Kachhpura Settlement Upgrading Project (KSUP) started in 2006 focuses on sanitation in Agra, beginning with the introduction of household toilets leading to a natural Decentralised Waste Water Treatment System (DEWATS) turning foul drain effluent into a community resource for clean water…”
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Thermal energy storage enhancement of latent heat thermal energy storage systems by Low, Zheng Hua

“…With the pressing need to decarbonize, industries are turning to renewable energy and energy saving technologies in a bid to reduce emissions. …”
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Studies of insulin transport across intestinal epithelium using nano-encapsulation for oral delivery by Zhang, Yiming

“…Great efforts have been devoted to the development of an effective alternative treatment but none of them has been turned into a solution to date. The discovery of insulin in the early 1920s brought promising hopes to pharmaceutical industries as increasing number of them have been attempting to load the drug in a capsule for the conventional oral route. …”
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Correlation between GNSS-TEC and eruption magnitude supports the use of ionospheric sensing to complement volcanic hazard assessment by Manta, Fabio, Occhipinti, Giovanni, Hill, Emma M., Perttu, Anna, Assink, Jelle, Taisne, Benoit

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Distribution and risk factors of canine heart diseases and survey for owners treatment intention by Noordin, Norhidayah

“…A total of 261 respondents who owned or had experience caring for dogs were recruited to determine their level of awareness and knowledge of canine heart disease. …”
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Advanced attack and defense techniques in machine learning systems by Zhao, Mengchen

“…Towards building secure machine learning systems, the first step is to study their vulnerability, which turns out to be very challenging due to the variety and complexity of machine learning systems. …”
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Discrete differential geometry driven methods for architectural geometry by Yao, Sidan

“…For each face with small curvature difference, we compute a stretch matrix that turns the principal directions into a pair of conjugate directions. …”
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Innovation and firm survival: the role of timing, funding, and networks by Gao, Ming

“…Therefore, researchers realized that attention should be turned to exploring heterogeneous issues or the factors that may affect the influence of innovation on firms’ survival. …”
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Transport phenomena of immiscible fluids in microchannels by Yin, Shuai

“…In addition, a universal and simple method is developed to actively generate oil in water (O/W) droplet in a Poly(dimethylsiloxane) (PDMS) based microfluidic device by using both DC and AC electric fields to cut a stable layered flow of disperse phase into dispersed droplets in a precise manner. The system owns the feature of ultra-fast response and precise control of O/W droplet generation. …”
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Physical unclonable function based solutions to unification of user, device and data authentication by Zheng, Yue

“…These solutions are typically realized using conventional techniques that require the safekeeping of a secret binary key in the non-volatile memory, or battery-backed SRAM of some device, or a token owned by the user, which have been proven to be vulnerable to various kinds of invasive, semi-invasive and side channel attacks. …”
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