Achieving economic and environmental sustainability with supply chain contracts by Dong, Chuanwen, Li, Dong

“…When more freight is collected in a lane, it can be shifted to a greener transport mode (e.g., from less-than-truckload to full-truckload, and further to rail transport), and costs and emissions are saved. …”
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Strength of rotator cuff repair by Leong, Jeremy Zhi Wei

“…As such, it is essential to assess the biomechanical performance of various anchor repair techniques to find the ideal repair method. The objective of this study was to find out the strength of single-lateral-row rotator cuff repair through biomechanical testing. …”
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Pregnant women admitted to hospital with covid-19 in 10 European countries: individual patient data meta-analysis of population based cohorts in International Obstetric Survey Syst... by Engjom, HM, de Bruin, O, Ramakrishnan, R, Aabakke, AJM, Äyräs, O, Deneux-Tharaux, C, Donati, S, Knight, M, Jonasdottir, E, Svanvik, T, Vercoutere, A, Vousden, N, Bleomenkamp, KWM

“…The dominant variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus was the wild-type variant in all countries during the study period (1 March 2020 to 31 December 2020).…”

Soil improvement using ground granulated blastfurnace slag (GGBS) and reactive magnesia (MgO) by Sathesh M Tamil Selven

“…In order to strengthen and reach its full activation, an alkali known as Reactive Magnesia (MgO) is needed together with GGBS. …”
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Competition in two-sided market : with heterogeneous users and negative externalities. by Chen, Hongyu.

“…Under the two-sided market model, we observe that there exists full participation for end-users and under advertisement for advertisers. …”
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The Impact of Open Development Initiatives in Lower- and Middle Income Countries: A Review of the Literature by Bentley, Caitlin Maureen, Chib, Arul

“…However, we argue that a more concentrated vision within this field is needed to exploit the full potential of digitally enabled openness for development.…”
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Highly stretchable, elastic, and ionic conductive hydrogel for artificial soft electronics by Zhou, Yang, Wan, Changjin, Yang, Yongsheng, Yang, Hui, Wang, Shancheng, Dai, Zhendong, Ji, Keju, Jiang, Hui, Chen, Xiaodong, Long, Yi

“…However, it is difficult to find a material with balanced electronic and mechanical performance. …”
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HLO : half-kernel laplacian operator for surface smoothing by Pan, Wei, Lu, Xuequan, Gong, Yuanhao, Tang, Wenming, Liu, Jun, He, Ying, Qiu, Guoping

“…Given a vertex v, HLO first finds all pairs of its neighboring vertices and divides each pair into two subsets (called half windows); then computes the uniform Laplacians of all such subsets and subsequently projects the computed Laplacians to the full-window uniform Laplacian to alleviate flipping and degeneration. …”
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Risk assessment for integration of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to aerodromes by Radhakrishnan Keerthana

“…As the applications of UAVs are spread over a vast expense, the research intends to make use of its full potential in the future by integrating it into an opportune area of development, the aerodromes. …”
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Application development on an Android smart-phone by Udit Batra

“…The alarm modules turn on a piercing alarm at full volume and can lock the phone if the owner suspects it has been stolen. …”
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Towards electrically injected colloidal semiconductor lasers by Thung, Yi Tian

“…Their advantages of excellent solution processability, large absorption cross-sections, narrow full-width-half-maximum, flexible wavelength tunability, and reduced Auger effects make them promising gain media for next-generation lasing. …”
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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

“…</p> <br> <p><strong>Findings:</strong> Between Jan 25, 2021, and April 15, 2021, we recruited 12 adults (six [50%] in the Adults 10M group and six [50%] in the Adults DFx group) and 48 children (12 each in the Children 10M, Children 10D, Children DFx, and High Children DFx groups). 57 (95%) of 60 participants completed the vaccination series and 55 (92%) completed 22 months of follow-up following the third vaccination. …”

Neural abstractive summarization: improvements at the sequence-level by Ravaut, Mathieu

“…We study this latter problem in depth, referred to as the middle-curse, on the task of abstractive summarization, and find that it affects performance sharply.…”
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Human comfort in indoor environment : a review on assessment criteria, data collection and data analysis methods by Song, Ying, Mao, Fubing, Liu, Qing

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Smart grid to energy internet : a systematic review of transitioning electricity systems by Joseph, Akhil, Balachandra, Patil

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Generalized neural closure models with interpretability by Gupta, Abhinav, Lermusiaux, Pierre F. J.

“…Our flexible modeling framework provides full autonomy for the design of the unknown closure terms such as using any linear-, shallow-, or deep-NN architectures, selecting the span of the input function libraries, and using either or both Markovian and non-Markovian closure terms, all in accord with prior knowledge. …”
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Indefinite metamaterials for optical applications by Bisht, Ankit

“…Hence, it becomes imperative to find means of performing near-field (Superlensing) and label-free real time far-field super-resolution imaging (hyperlensing) at the nanoscale. …”
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The GCSE attainment gap: assessing the influence of permanent school exclusion by Hills, Stephen, Walker, Matthew, Guinn, James, Kent, Aubrey

“…Using the National Pupil Database and a full cohort of UK pupils (N=590,092), our analysis tracked a sample of 1,490 pupils permanently excluded in year 11 of the English education system in 2018/19. …”
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The role of tumour necrosis factor alpha stimulated gene-6 on bone by Afrough, S

“…However, local delivery of full-length TSG-6 significantly enhanced mineral apposition rate in a dose-dependent manner, and <em>in vitro</em> studies found TSG-6 significantly enhanced alkaline phosphatase levels of primary bone marrow-derived human mesenchymal stem cells <em>in vitro</em>, in the presence of BMP-2.…”

Study of planning and operational aspects of tidal in-stream power generation by Mahda J. Jahromi

“…Even though harnessing marine energy through water wheels can be traced back to the early civilizations, no major step was taken to exploit this vast source of energy until the mid-70s after the first oil crisis. Ever since, many countries have begun to investigate and invest in this vast and predictable source of energy. …”
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