Capping layer enabled controlled fragmentation of two-dimensional materials by cold drawing by Chen, Ming, Li, Dong, Hou, Yuxin, Gu, Mengxi, Zeng, Qingsheng, Ning, De, Li, Weimin, Zheng, Xue, Shao, Yan, Wang, Zhixun, Xia, Juan, Yang, Chunlei, Wei, Lei, Gao, Huajian

“…The capping layer is found to prevent the premature fracture of the 2D thin films during elastic deformation of the substrate, when a specific requirement proposed by the theoretical model is satisfied. …”
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牛车水的塑造：政治活动中华人的自主性和殖民管治 = The shaping of Chinatown: relationship of Chinese agency and colonial governance in political activities by 蔡晓欣 Choi, Irene Hiu Yan

“…The origin of Chinatown could be traced back to the urban planning of colonial Singapore, when the Southwest area of the Singapore River was demarcated as Chinese settlement area. …”
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Construction of complex nanostructures in solution phase by Xu, Jun

“…The obtained Au nanosprings uncoiled when the polymer shells were removed or swelled by organic solvent. …”
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A microfluidic platform to study pathogen-host interactions at single cell level by Zhang, Rui

“…Single A549 cells were isolated into the individual micro-wells by one-step vacuum driven microfluidics when cell density was pre-adjusted to less than 0.3 cell/well. …”
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Biomimetic whisker transducer for vibrissal tactile sensing by Ju, Feng

“…The texture sensing experiment showed that when the WT sweeps across a surface, the force and velocity sensed at whisker tip both have strong linear relationship with roughness (regression analysis R2 > 0.99). …”
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孟子与董仲舒论“圣人之善”的比较分析 = A comparative analysis between the "Sage's Goodness" as proposed by Mencius and Dong Zhong Shu by 范舒玲 Wan, Cassandra Sue-Lynn

“….－104 A.D.).As such, since the time of Confucius (孔子, Kongzi), Confucian thought has only managed to truly gain a place of standing during the Western Han dynasty,when Dong Zhong Shu pushed for the sole elevation of the status of Confucian thought via the rejection of “the School of a Hundred Thought” (百家思想, bai’jia si’xiang). …”
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Perfect- and quasi- complementary sequences by Liu, Zilong

“…Specifically, the “fractional-delay” problem occurs when any inter-user delay takes on a value which is a fraction (rather than an integer) of the half chip-duration. …”
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Micro electro mechanical systems (MEMS) enabled digital pen by Tan, Joel Qi Zhi

“…With keyboards, notes-taking became digitized and can be done in a much shorter time as compared to physical writing. However, when it comes to mobile note-taking, bringing a keyboard around can be a hassle; thus digital pens were invented to combine the advantages of both physical writing and keyboard input. …”
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Synthesis, assembly and applications of novel two-dimensional metal chalcogenide nanomaterials by Tan, Chaoliang

“…TEM analyses revealed that these metal sulphide nanoplates were aligned on the TiS2 with perfect epitaxial alignment effect to vertical 2D epitaxial heteronanostructures. Moreover, when used as the anode in a Li ion battery, the CuS-TiS2 heteronanostructure-based electrode exhibited good performance. …”
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Carbon nanomaterial/thermoplastic polyurethane composites for sports application : preparation, characterization and simulation by Jing, Qifei

“…The most efficient improvement of mechanical properties was achieved when 0.4 wt% FGO was added into the PU matrix. Regarding the thermal stability, PU filled with 1 wt% FGO showed the largest extent of improvement. …”
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Compact transformer based power combination techniques for millimeter-wave CMOS power amplifiers by Han, Jiangan

“…The implementation strategies of the hybrid combining transformer are acquired by investigating its coupling effect. When the combiner is connected with active devices, its nonlinear behaviors are studied. …”
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The development and application of fish scale waste for tissue engineering applications : waste-to-resource conversion of resource resilient materials by Wang, Jun Kit

“…In general, collagen with high thermal stability is required to provide the necessary thermo-mechanical strength and degradation stability when implanted in vivo. Although studies have shown that the freshwater fish-derived collagen exhibits better thermal stability as compared to seawater fish-derived collagen, to our knowledge, limited studies have been carried out to compare the fish-derived collagen from different fish species, particular those extracted from fish scales. …”
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Development of (TAML) iron complexes for photocatalytic, oxidative water treatment by Lim, Jia Hui

“…To achieve this undertaking, we hypothesized that (TAML)Fe caomplexes, which have been reported to be excellent catalysts for the degradation of persistent pollutants, can be activated photochemically, when coupled with suitable photosensitizers in the right conditions. …”
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Design and investigation of block copolymers for dispersion of carbon nanotubes in polymer matrices by Liu, Chengyin

“…As a control comparison, when only the dispersing agent is added to the epoxy resin, the overall tensile properties of the resin decreased. …”
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Multiple signatures of a disease in potential biomarker space : getting the signatures consensus and identification of novel biomarkers by Ow, Ghim Siong, Kuznetsov, Vladimir Andreevich

“…Conclusions: Our method provides a strategy that identify/predict within a tGSS of interest, gID subsets that are either SN or SC when compared to other rGSSs. Practically, our results suggest that there is a stronger association of the IGF1 signature genes with the 70 BC rGSSs, than for the obesity-associated signature. …”
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Use of Mid Upper-Arm Circumference (MUAC) as screening tool in an urban township in the Eastern Cape: rationale for testing changed cut-off values to identify malnutrition by McLaren, Shawn, Steenkamp, Liana, Venter, Danie

“…Results The current WHO MUAC cut-off values to identify MAM have a high specificity, but performed poorly when tested for sensitivity. The r-value (0.78) for the relationship between WHZ and MUAC suggests a dependent relationship between these two indicators. …”
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Event rates and incidence of post-COVID-19 condition in hospitalised SARS-CoV-2 positive children and young people and controls across different pandemic waves: exposure-stratified... by Pazukhina, E, Rumyantsev, M, Baimukhambetova, D, Bondarenko, E, Markina, N, El-Taravi, Y, Petrova, P, Ezhova, A, Andreeva, M, Iakovleva, E, Bobkova, P, Pikuza, M, Trefilova, A, Abdeeva, E, Galiautdinova, A, Filippova, Y, Bairashevskaia, A, Zolotarev, A, Bulanov, N, DunnGalvin, A, Chernyavskaya, A, Kondrikova, E, Kolotilina, A, Gadetskaya, S

“…The only significant difference between Omicron variant cohort and reference cohort was decreased school attendance. When comparing the Wuhan and Omicron variant cohorts, higher incidence of PCC and event rates of fatigue, decreased physical activity, and deterioration of relationships was observed. …”

Investigating the content and function of stress-induced extracellular vesicles in colorectal cancer by Mason, J

“…Furthermore, individuals who show a clinical response to nCRT appear to exhibit a different EV-miRNA profile when compared to non-responders, which may provide a novel method to predict response to treatment.…”

Culture of human pluripotent stem cells and neural networks in 3D using an optogenetic approach and a hydrogel model by Lee, S

“…Interestingly, ChR2-YFP expression of Axol and SY5Y cells was detectable when transferred to the 3D culture system.</p> <p>The optogenetically modified neurons were found responsive to light stimulation, showing firing patterns and calcium events typical of early developing neurons (e.g. mixed and burst waves; single and multipeak spikes). …”

Boronic acid and nitrofuranyl derivatives as potential therapeutics by Dey, AL

“…It is expected that the average reader would like to skip through the literature review of this chapter; however, at the risk of being forward and in the interests of completeness, a knowledge of its existence is thought desirable for the curious reader so that they may wish to utilise them when occasion demands. The aforementioned relatively short introduction in Chapter 2 precedes the detailed preparations of the Dynamic Combinatorial Library of benzodiazaborines and boronate esters herein. …”