Chris Ryan Extreme : Night Strike / by Ryan, Chris, author 329350

“…Now he must pursue the sleeper from the ghettos of Florida to the war-torn streets of Tripoli, in a relentless hunt for the technology and the truth. Shadowed every step of the way by a ruthless CIA hitman, Bald soon finds that the lines between friend and enemy are blurred, and he'll have to call on all his warrior instincts to stay alive...…”

A new method for enhancing high- k /metal-gate stack performance and reliability for high- k last integration by Yew, K. S., Tang, L. J., Ang, Diing Shenp

“…We show that multistep deposition cum two-step annealing, comprising an ultraviolet ozone (UVO) anneal followed by a low-temperature rapid thermal anneal (RTA), can significantly improve the performance and reliability of a 7.5-Å-equivalent-oxide-thickness (EOT) HfO2/TiN gate stack, comprising a 25-Å HfO2 on ~3 Å SiOx, i.e., prepared from direct HfO2 deposition onto an HF-last Si surface. …”
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Design and simulation of simple miniature devices for differentiation of airborne particles by Mohammad Ilyas Bin Mohammad Taib

“…After which, modifications to the channel designs are made and step-by-step design and testing procedures are formulated to facilitate future works. …”
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Software development for E-learning tool by Foong, Alexander Kwok Leong

“…Experimenting of the developed app will be conducted to ensure the credibility of it. Step by step walk through will be carried out to ensure a smooth usage for new users to follow. …”
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Computational studies of mechanisms underlying the reactions of enzymatic and nonenzymatic systems by Xu, Kai

“…For CYP19A1, the substrate was found able to act as proton source in the second step and Cpd I-driven mechanisms for the third step that well explain latest experimental observations were proposed. …”
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Ultrafast laser writing of liquid crystal waveguides by Chen, B, Xie, P, Zhao, Z, Salter, PS, Li, M, Xue, L, Qiu, X, Booth, MJ, Elston, SJ, Morris, SM

“…Following the UV polymerization step and subsequent delamination of the glass substrates, we demonstrate a free-standing flexible LC waveguide, which retains waveguide functionality even when bent, making it potentially suitable for on-skin sensors and other photonic devices that could interface with the human body. …”

Fast alternating direction implicit method for efficient transient thermal simulation of integrated circuits by Heh, Ding Yu, Tan, Eng Leong, Tay, Wei Choon

“…It is shown that high efficiency gain can be achieved using the proposed FADI method through large time step size and data parallelism, while maintaining stability and good accuracy. …”
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Recent Advances in Electrochromic Smart Fenestration by Cai, Guofa, Eh, Alice Lee‐Sie, Ji, Lin, Lee, Pooi See

“…Development of a novel, simple, and economical synthesis of electrochromic materials is the first step in realizing high‐performance smart window. …”
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Mitigation of lightning-induced transient effects on a hybrid photovoltaic–wind system based on lightning protection standards by Abda, Zmnako Mohammed Khurshid, Ab Kadir, Mohd Zainal Abidin, Hizam, Hashim, Gomes, Chandima

“…It comprises a 2 MW PV farm, a 2 MW wind farm, and a backup energy storage system (ESS), which are all connected to a 132 kV grid via a step-up transformer and a transmission line. The results were obtained at critical system nodes for two standard lightning current surges, i.e., 1/10 µs and 10/350 µs, considering two lightning strike point scenarios with and without a lightning protection system (LPS). …”
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Well-designed glucose precursor carbon/g-C3N4 nanocomposite for enhanced visible light photocatalytic CO2 reduction activity by Bafaqeer, Abdullah, Saidina Amin, Nor Aishah, Ummer, Aniz Chennampilly, Ahmed, Shakeel, Al-Qathmi, Ahmed T., Usman, Jamilu, Kulal, Nagendra, Tanimu, Gazali

“…The samples were successfully synthesized via a two-step thermal treatment and tested in a fixed bed reactor under visible light. …”

Enhancing photocatalytic performance: studying the synthesis and characterization of AgI-tuned TiO2/ZnO hybrid ternary nanocomposites by Rehman, Ghani Ur, Othman, Mohd. Hafiz Dzarfan, Abdul Wahab, Roswanira, Ismail, Ahmad Fauzi, Goh, Pei Sean, Khan, Ilyas, Muhammad Irfan, Muhammad Irfan

“…Eliminating phenol and other contaminants from wastewater is an essential step in addressing environmental issues. Using tailored photocatalysts is essential for the effective degradation of phenol via photocatalysis. …”

Anatomically realistic aortic dissection simulator as a potential training tool for point-of-care ultrasound by Rahmah, Mutiah, Al-Ashwal, Rania Hussien, Mohamad Salim, Maheza Irna, Lam, Yan Tung, Hau, Yuan Wen

“…Material and methods: 3D mould simulators were created based on computed tomography images of one healthy and one DeBakey type II aortic dissection patient. In the next step, two polyvinyl alcohol-based and two silicone-based simulators were synthesised. …”
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Discovering and forecasting extreme events via active learning in neural operators by Pickering, Ethan, Guth, Stephen, Karniadakis, George Em, Sapsis, Themistoklis P

“…We show that not only does this framework outperform Gaussian processes, but that (1) shallow ensembles of just two members perform best; (2) extremes are uncovered regardless of the state of the initial data (that is, with or without extremes); (3) our method eliminates 'double-descent' phenomena; (4) the use of batches of suboptimal acquisition samples compared to step-by-step global optima does not hinder BED performance; and (5) Monte Carlo acquisition outperforms standard optimizers in high dimensions. …”
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Femtosecond laser-induced graphene for flexible electronics by Le, Truong-Son Dinh

“…However, these methods are multiple-step, time-consuming, and/or incompatible with the device fabrication on flexible and heat-sensitive substrates. …”
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An accurate imaging and doppler chirp rate estimation algorithm for airborne CSSAR-GMTI systems by Li, Yongkang, Liu, Baochang, Wang, Lei, Chen, Hongmeng, Nie, Laisen, Zeng, Lina, Bi, Guoan

“…This step enables the proposed algorithm to achieve an accurate imaging and Doppler chirp rate estimation of a ground moving target. …”
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SectionKey: 3-D semantic point cloud descriptor for place recognition in large-scale environments by Jin, Shutong

“…Then, a two-step semantic iterative closest point (ICP) algorithm is applied to acquire the 3-D pose (x, y,q) that is used to align the candidate point clouds with the query frame, and calculate the similarity score. …”
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Development of pico-satellite – solar energy based power supply system by Soon, Charlie Jing Jun.

“…The maximum achievable efficiency is 83% when both step down converter is loaded at 400mA and 77% when full load. …”
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Temperature responsive plasmonic assembles of amphiphilic nanoparticles at oil-water interfaces. by Chan, Kevin Jin Quan.

“…i This amphiphilic AuNP with multi-polymer brushes were synthesized by means of a two-step process, “grafting to” (ligand exchange) and “grafting from” (surface initiated atom transfer radical polymerization) reactions. …”
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Multiple human action recognition from video streams by Koh, Khai Huat

“…Sampled images with positive human detection are then compiled and passed to the second step. The second step involves preprocessing of compiled images, namely to extract the human subject from the image and the removal of background. …”
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Harnessing the Periplasm of Bacterial Cells To Develop Biocatalysts for the Biosynthesis of Highly Pure Chemicals by Yang, Yun, Wu, Yichao, Hu, Yidan, Wang, Hua, Guo, Lin, Fredrickson, James K., Cao, Bin

“…To address this problem, we show here a novel biosynthesis strategy, compartmentalizing the final FMN biosynthesis step in the periplasm of an engineered Escherichia coli strain. …”
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