Enhancing tensile and fatigue properties of additively manufactured alloys by post-processing heat treatment by Radhakrishnan, Jayaraj

“…While investment in additive manufacturing has taken significant strides in the past few years, widespread industrial adoption is still at a slow pace due to the poor mechanical properties and lack of competency against conventionally manufactured (CM) counterparts. …”
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The sensitivity of tsunami models and tsunami energy to geologically constrained fault sources and shallow bathymetry by Felix, Raquel Picar

“…The field of tsunami research has advanced significantly in the past 18 years since the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, but mismatches between source mechanisms and coastal wave heights demonstrate that important knowledge gaps remain. …”
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Developing a portable, high-speed, low-cost desktop photoacoustic tomography imaging system by Kalva, Sandeep Kumar

“…With advancement in laser technology, pulsed laser diodes have come into existence and been used effectively for PA imaging over the past few years. These PLD lasers are compact in size, light in weight and less expensive compared to the conventional Nd:YAG lasers. …”
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Blood-stage malaria vaccine candidate RH5.1/Matrix-M in healthy Tanzanian adults and children; an open-label, non-randomised, first-in-human, single-centre, phase 1b trial by Silk, SE, Kalinga, WF, Salkeld, J, Mtaka, IM, Ahmed, S, Milando, F, Diouf, A, Bundi, CK, Balige, N, Hassan, O, Mkindi, CG, Rwezaula, S, Athumani, T, Mswata, S, Lilolime, NS, Simon, B, Msami, H, Mohamed, M, David, DM, Mohammed, L, Nyaulingo, G, Mwalimu, B, Juma, O, Mwamlima, TG, Sasamalo, IA, Mkumbange, RP, Kamage, JJ, Barrett, JR, King, LDW, Hou, MM, Pulido, D, Carnrot, C, Lawrie, AM, Cowan, RE, Nugent, FL, Roberts, R, Cho, J-S, Long, CA, Nielsen, CM, Miura, K, Draper, SJ, Olotu, AI, Minassian, AM

“…We recruited healthy adults (aged 18–45 years) and children (aged 5–17 months) to receive the RH5.1/Matrix-M vaccine candidate in the following three-dose regimens: 10 μg RH5.1 at 0, 1, and 2 months (Adults 10M), and the higher dose of 50 μg RH5.1 at 0 and 1 month and 10 μg RH5.1 at 6 months (delayed-fractional third dose regimen; Adults DFx). …”

Effects of positive education approach on academic boredom, intrinsic motivation, positive emotions and thought-action repertoire among private college students in Shaanxi Province... by Jie, Zheng

“…The participants obtained through cluster random sampling and fishbowl technique were four intact classes students, totaling of 173 undergraduate freshmen (139 females and 34 males) ranging in age from 17 to 23 (M=19.18, SD=.1) years from China. After that, random assignment was used to assign two intact classes as the control group and two intact classes as the experimental group. …”
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Analysis and modelling of urban sprawl process and its spatiotemporal patterns in tripoli metropolitan area, Libya by Abdulhadi, Abubakr Albashir

“…Urban expansion is characterized and affected by the interactions of many factors in time and space at various scales; for instance, political, economic,social, and cultural. In recent years, urban development in developing countries has been faster than that in developed countries. …”
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Effects of noise exposure on occupational stress among palm oil mill workers in Malaysia by Roya, Latifi Naeini

“…Methodology: This experimental research was implemented through a cross sectional study started since 2012 and took for two years. The study was conducted at seven sections of five selected palm oil mills and 173 participants were invited through purposive sampling based on inclusive criteria. …”
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Synthesisation, characterisation and water adsorption on novel functional metal organic frameworks for heat transformation process by Han, Bo

“…Due to some striking properties such as high microporosity with structure diversity, promising isotherms and kinetics characteristics and outstanding thermal stability, metal organic frameworks (MOFs) have been identified as the potential adsorbent in recent years. This thesis aspires to develop the thermodynamic frameworks of AHT from entropy flow and generation points of view employing the experimentally confirmed isotherms and kinetics of novel functionalised metal-organic-frameworks (MOFs). …”
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Failure analysis and characterization for microelectronic packaging by Lin, Pamela

“…In the recent years, the mechanical robustness and reliability of three-dimensional (3D) integrated circuit (IC) packaging have become tremendously challenging due to its continuous reduction in size and increase in vertical integration. …”
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Development of highly efficient organic and perovskite solar cells by Li, Xianqiang

“…To reduce the PV technology price, researchers have been searching for new generations of PV technologies based on cheaper materials and low-cost manufacturing processes. In recent years, organic solar cells and perovskite solar cells using organic or organic-inorganic hybrid materials in photoactive layers have attracted lots of attentions as a new generation of PV technologies. …”
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Pnictogen-halide semiconductors for photovoltaics by Liu, P

“…<p>Indoor photovoltaic (IPV) development has garnered increasing interest in recent years because of the potential to sustainably provide energy to the billions of autonomous devices part of the Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystem. …”

Antistaphylococcal and antibiofilm activities of ethanolic extract of Piper cubeba L. by Velu, Selvi

“…Methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA) strains which were initially addressed in humans is being marked as emerging community acquired pathogen in recent years. The resistance of staphylococci towards various novel and existing antimicrobial agents has developed as a problem. …”
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Human Centered Computing : 66th International Conference, HCC 2020, Virtual Event, December 14-15, 2020 : Revised Selected Papers / by HCC (Conference : Human Centered Computing) (6th : 2020 : Online), organiser 642973, Zu, Qiaohong, editor 642970, Tang, Yong, editor 642971, Mladenović, Vladimir, editor 642972

Robust and efficient deep learning methods for vision-based action recognition by Xu, Yuecong

“…Although various image DA approaches have been proposed in recent years, there is limited research towards Video Domain Adaptation (VDA), owing to the complexity in adapting the different modalities of features in videos, which includes both temporal features and spatiotemporal correlation features. …”
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Graph representation learning by Zhang, Xinyi

“…Graph is a type of structured data which is attracting increasing attention in recent years due to its strong capability in describing multiple objects as well as their relationships. …”
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A machine-learned approach for reducing airborne delays and environmental impact in terminal manoeuvring area using extended arrival management by Lim, Zhi Jun

“…Although COVID-19 temporarily reduced delays due to decreased traffic, many large hubs have now returned to pre-pandemic levels, with strong growth expected in the coming years. Air traffic management divides the airspace into three sections: the airport control zone (taxiing, takeoff, landing), the terminal manoeuvring area (TMA, for climbs and descents), and the en-route airspace (cruise). …”
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InAlN/GaN high electron mobility transistors on Si for RF applications by Xing, Weichuan

“…To reduce the cost of GaN HEMTs, Si substrates have attracted increasing interest in recent years, not only in power electronics applications but also in RF applications. …”
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Effectiveness of cognitive behavior therapy and Reiki therapy on adolescents with depressive disorders inTehran, Iran by Charkhandeh, Mansoureh

“…The CDI is a self-rating scale modeled on the Beck depression inventory (BDI) and adapted to young people 7-17 years of age. The depressive symptoms assessed include cognitive, affective, somatic and behavioral aspects. …”
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Electronic cigarettes for smoking cessation by Lindson, N, Butler, AR, McRobbie, H, Bullen, C, Hajek, P, Begh, R, Theodoulou, A, Notley, C, Rigotti, NA, Turner, T, Livingstone-Banks, J, Morris, T, Hartmann-Boyce, J

“…We did not detect evidence of serious harm from nicotine EC, but the longest follow-up was two years and the number of studies was small. The main limitation of the evidence base remains imprecision due to the small number of RCTs, often with low event rates. …”

Preparation of low-dimensional materials for plasmonic bio-sensing by Das, Chandreyee Manas

“…During the entire research duration of two and a half years, we focused on the use of simulation methods in predicting the sensitivity of SPR structures made of hybrid multi-layer low dimensional materials. …”
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