Experimental study of the curling effect on connection resistance for ferritic stainless steel by Liao, Min

“…This fact is related to the greater satisfaction that these materials may offer in comparison to carbon steel, including corrosion resistance, durability, fire resistance, and increased aesthetic quality. …”
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Why has Singapore not achieved a full democratic transition, despite economic growth? A comparative case study of Singapore and Taiwan by Nur Shahira Binte Shahromey

“…I will be comparing Singapore’s political development with Taiwan’s democratisation to identify key differences in the growth of both countries. Through this comparison, I posit that Singapore has not achieved full democracy because of a mixture of factors: certain historical events influenced the leadership to impose certain ideologies, leading to a one-party hegemony that has resulted in the lack of a strong enough civil society to push for democratisation.…”
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Low-power non-binary SAR ADC with a two-mode comparator by Li, Jianni

“…A non-binary ADC with the conventional structure is also constructed for performance comparison. Both ADCs were designed and simulated using GF 40nm technology. …”
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Security protocol design against malicious attacks in neighborhood area network in smart grid by Li, Xiaochen

“…WMN not only inherits the merits from both of them, but also has its own feature, including wider coverage, broader bandwidth, better scalability, etc. …”
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Friend request accepted: fundamental features of social environments determine social affiliation decisions by Garud, S

“…Further, cortical regions like the anterior insula (aI) represented both friend- liness and density related effects. …”

Molecular genetics of Dupuytren’s contracture by Aissvarya, Shankar, Ling, King-Hwa, Arumugam, Manohar, Thilakavathy, Karuppiah

“…. • DC is a multifactorial disease, having both genetic and environmental factors contributing to the causality of the disease. • Over the years, various studies have been conducted to understand the molecular mechanism and genetic aspects of DC but there is a lack of reports on the variants found in the exonic regions. …”
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Finite element analysis of corrugated web beams under bending by Chan, C.L., Khalid, Y.A., Sahari, B.B., Hamouda, A.M.S.

“…Ordinary I-beams, with plane web, were also tested experimentally. The comparison between the results obtained from both methods, for the plane web type, shows 3.1% to 7.1% differences. …”
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Breast cancer diagnosis through an optimization-driven multispectral gamma correction (ODMGC) by Raj A, Arul Edwin, Ahmad, Nabihah, Durai S, Ananiah

“…The algorithm was successfully implemented in MATLAB 2020a, and the classifier was developed in Jupyter Notebook using Python. The subjective comparison confirmed the proposed method’s superior resolution in normal and malignant cases. …”
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An Ensemble Filter for Indoor Positioning Technology of Mobile Home Service with Agile iBeacon Deployment by Abu-AlSondos, Ibrahim A, Salameh, Anas A., Mohd Nawi, Mohd Nasrun, Deraman, Rafikullah

“…Based on this, a system for mobile home service robots was developed, and simulation tests were performed to assess the accuracy of node locating, node reception and arrival times, the best level of route planning, and navigation and path estimation errors in both absolute and comparative terms. Additionally, we go into detail about the difficulties in developing a practical IPS, the solutions that are already available, a thorough performance comparison, and some potential future IPS development trends…”
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Improved life cycle assessment for desalination : handling the choices and uncertainties by Zhou, Jin

“…To examine the impacts by the choice of predefined life cycle impact assessment method on the result of desalination LCAs, a comparison study was carried out between a generic method and a regional specific method. …”
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Relationship of sperm protamine content with bull breeding soundness evaluation and sperm DNA damage by Mohamed Abbad Alfadel, Fatima

“…Post hoc pairwise comparison showed an increased DNA damage in bulls with lower protamine values. …”
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Evaluation of keratin templates on dermal regeneration of full-thickness burns by Moay, Zi Kuang

“…A co-culture of telomerase-immortalised microvascular endothelial cells (TIME-EC) and human dermal fibroblasts (HDF) was seeded on HHK foams to better observe the angiogenic properties of the foams in a scenario comparable to that within the skin structure. The performance of both foams as dermal substitutes was also tested on full-thickness burns in a pig burn wound model and evaluated in comparison with PELNACTM (commercial collagen foam) via wound healing parameters including wound size and immunohistochemical stains of dermal markers. …”
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Multi-spectral polarimetry imaging for early gastric cancer diagnosis by Wang, Wenfeng

“…The data processing was conducted at the both macroscopic and microscopic level for different regions of interest ranging from 1×1 to 640×512. …”
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Optical properties of ultrathin metal oxide and metal films : effect of free electrons, quantum confinement and localized surface plasmon resonance by Li, Xiao Dong

“…The evolution of the dielectric function is explained as the net result of both the free electrons effect and quantum confinement effect. …”
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The magnificent manifestation of Nd0.7Sr0.3MnO3 ceramics: A comprehensive exploration of different wet chemical routes via sol-gel and thermal treatment methods by Hon, Xiao Tong, Lau, Lik Nguong, Lim, Kean Pah, Awang Kechik, Mohd Mustafa, Chen, Soo Kien, Shabdin, Muhammad Kashfi, Miryala, Muralidhar, Shaari, Abdul Halim

“…The XRD analysis revealed a single high-purity NSMO phase with insignificant alteration in Mn-O bond length and Mn-O-Mn bond angle for both samples. Nevertheless, SG exhibited larger particle size (209.3 nm) and better crystallinity in comparison to TT (178.6 nm). …”
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Self-healing framework for service level agreement monitoring and violation reacting in cloud computing by Mosallanejad, Ahmad

“…The reaction speed and the rate of SLA violation are measured in this experiment for results comparison. The response time of self-monitoring SLA is recorded to be seven times less than LoM2HiS. …”
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Membrane-induced tau amyloid fibrils by El Mammeri, Nadia, Gampp, Olivia, Duan, Pu, Hong, Mei

“…Removal of cholesterol from the SUVs abolished the fibrils, indicating that both membrane curvature and cholesterol are required for tau fibril formation. …”
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On the shear failure of incipient rock discontinuities under CNL and CNS boundary conditions : insights from DEM modelling by Shang, Junlong, Zhao, Zhiye, Ma, S.

“…Peak shear stress increased significantly (up to three times) in the CNS direct shear in comparison with that measured in the CNL direct shear under the same initially applied normal stresses. …”
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Alternative solution for pre-treatment of seawater for the desalination process by Goh, Qing Kai

“…Salt rejection, total organic compounds (TOCs) rejection and overall flux performance of the NF and UF membranes using seawater as feed served as the basis of comparison for this study. Experiments conducted showed that the rejection of both salt and TOCs of NF membranes were much better than the UF membranes and displayed better flux performance during a continuous operation using seawater as feed. …”
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EEG-based stress recognition using deep learning techniques by Syabil Kwajah

“…The accuracy obtained from the paper was 67.08% using K-Nearest Neighbour (KNN) with 2 classes. Dataset used from both paper is from a Dataset for Emotion Analysis using EEG, Physiological and video signals (DEAP). …”
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