Mechanism of charge transfer and its impacts on Fermi-level pinning for gas molecules adsorbed on monolayer WS2 by Zhou, Changjie, Yang, Weihuang, Zhu, Huili

“…Band structure calculations showed that the valence and conduction bands of monolayer WS2 are not significantly altered upon adsorption of H2, H2O, NH3, and CO, whereas the lowest unoccupied molecular orbitals of O2, NO, and NO2 are pinned around the Fermi-level when these molecules are adsorbed on monolayer WS2. …”
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Oct4 switches partnering from Sox2 to Sox17 to reinterpret the enhancer code and specify endoderm by Ng, Calista Keow Leng, Herath, Wishva, Lili, Sun, Hutchins, Andrew P, Robson, Paul, Kolatkar, Prasanna R, Stanton, Lawrence W, Aksoy, Irene, Jauch, Ralf, Chen, Jiaxuan, Dyla, Mateusz, Divakar, Ushashree, Bogu, Gireesh K, Teo, Roy

“…How regulatory information is encoded in the genome is poorly understood and poses a challenge when studying biological processes. We demonstrate here that genomic redistribution of Oct4 by alternative partnering with Sox2 and Sox17 is a fundamental regulatory event of endodermal specification. …”
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The application of nitric oxide to control biofouling of membrane bioreactors by Rice, Scott A., Luo, Jinxue, Zhang, Jinsong, Barnes, Robert J., Tan, Xiaohui, McDougald, Diane, Fane, Anthony G., Zhuang, Guoqiang, Kjelleberg, Staffan, Cohen, Yehuda

“…A novel strategy to control membrane bioreactor (MBR) biofouling using the nitric oxide (NO) donor compound PROLI NONOate was examined. When the biofilm was pre-established on membranes at transmembrane pressure (TMP) of 88–90 kPa, backwashing of the membrane module with 80 μM PROLI NONOate for 45 min once daily for 37 days reduced the fouling resistance (Rf) by 56%. …”
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Dynamic prediction of the incident duration using adaptive feature set by Ghosh, Banishree, Muhammad Tayyab Asif, Dauwels, Justin, Fastenrath, Ulrich, Guo, Hongliang

“…In this paper, we propose an adaptive ensemble model that can provide reasonable forecasts even when a limited amount of information is available and further improves the prediction accuracy as more information becomes available during the course of the incidents. …”
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A study of air molecular contamination (AMC) and volatile organic compounds (VOC) in new AMC/VOC controlled cleanroom by Wong, Chee Kong

“…Monitoring of AMC is becoming essential when it comes to managing cleanroom for the present production of semiconductor devices as it advances into DUV and EUV range of manufacturing processes. …”
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Three essays on corporate finance and research methodology by Li, Wei

“…In addition, firms in gambling-prone regions hold more cash only when they are financially constrained, and they invest cash in risky projects such as research & development, which leads to more volatile cash flows. …”
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Enhanced energy dissipated foams for bicycle helmets by Zheng, John Yizhe

“…For Experiment set 1, it can be concluded that CF samples of group C density range exhibit the best results in energy absorption when compared to PF samples while being approximately 30g/L less dense. …”
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Immediate test or delayed test : evidence of primary Mathematics learning by Arunachalam Thannimalai

“…Overall, usage of worked examples facilitated novice primary 2 students’ learning and this benefit became much less significant when learner expertise level grew as seen in the case of primary 4 student participants. …”
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A zero-dimensional mixed-anion hybrid halogenobismuthate(III) semiconductor : structural, optical, and photovoltaic properties by Hoefler, Sebastian Franz, Rath, Thomas, Fischer, Roland, Latal, Christine, Hippler, Dorothee, Koliogiorgos, Athanasios, Galanakis, Iosif, Bruno, Annalisa, Fian, Alexander, Dimopoulos, Theodoros, Trimmel, Gregor

“…Despite the zero-dimensional structure of MBIC, a maximum power conversion efficiency of 0.18% and a high fill factor of almost 60% were obtained with this material as absorber layer. When stored under inert conditions, these solar cells show an excellent long-term stability over the investigated period of more than 700 days.…”
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Design and in vitro release study of siRNA loaded Layer by Layer nanoparticles with sustained gene silencing effect by Tan, Yang Fei, Lee, Ying Shi, Seet, Li-Fong, Ng, Kee Woei, Wong, Tina T., Venkatraman, Subbu

“…Objectives: Clinical translation of siRNA therapeutics has been severely limited due to the lack of stable and sustained siRNA delivery systems. Furthermore, when nanocarrier systems with siRNA are administered systemically to treat diseases, insufficient doses reach the target tissue. …”
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Spatter transport by inert gas flow in selective laser melting : a simulation study by Ahmad Bin Anwar, Ibrahim, Imran Halimi, Pham, Quang-Cuong

“…It was also shown that the trajectories of the spatter particles were governed mainly by their initial momentum when the inert gas flow velocity was increased. While complete removal of the spatter particles from the powder bed was not achieved, the presence of the inert gas flow aided in the transport of a majority of the particles further downstream giving a more even mass distribution. …”
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Gaussian message passing for overloaded massive MIMO-NOMA by Liu, Lei, Yuen, Chau, Guan, Yong Liang, Li, Ying, Huang, Chongwen

“…Second, the means of the traditional GMP will fail to converge when Nu/Ns (2-1-25.83. Therefore, we propose and derive a new convergent GMP called scale-and-add GMP (SA-GMP), which always converges to the LMMSE multi-user detection performance for any Nu/Ns>1, and show that it has a faster convergence speed than the traditional GMP with the same complexity. …”
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Ultra-thin bulk silicon thinning of advanced microprocessors & graphics processors fabricated in Sub-20 nm technology by Teo, Wee Siang

“…With existing contour milling techniques limited by its precision when ultra-thinning silicon, experiments were then conducted to understand key challenges in terms of the sample behaviour during thinning. …”
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Flame-made calcium phosphate nanoparticles with high drug loading for delivery of biologics by Tsikourkitoudi, Vasiliki, Karlsson, Jens, Merkl, Padryk, Loh, Edmund, Henriques-Normark, Birgitta, Sotiriou, Georgios A.

“…We also demonstrate that LL-37 retains its antimicrobial activity against Escherichia coli and Streptococcus pneumoniae when loaded on nanoparticles in vitro. Therefore, we highlight the potential of nanocarriers for optimization of the therapeutic profile of existing and emerging biological drugs.…”
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An ultrastable lithium metal anode enabled by designed metal fluoride spansules by Yuan, Huadong, Nai, Jianwei, Tian, He, Ju, Zhijin, Zhang, Wenkui, Liu, Yujing, Tao, Xinyong, Lou, David Xiong Wen

“…As a result, the spansule-modified anode affords a high Coulombic efficiency of 98% for over 1000 cycles at a current density of 2 mA cm−2, which is the most stable LMA reported so far. When coupling this anode with the Li[Ni0.8Co0.1Mn0.1]O2 cathode, the practical full cell further exhibits highly improved capacity retention after 500 cycles.…”
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Pedestrian heading estimation based on spatial transformer networks and hierarchical LSTM by Wang, Qu, Luo, Haiyong, Ye, Langlang, Men, Aidong, Zhao, Fang, Huang, Yan, Ou, Changhai

“…The experimental results on real-world demonstrated that deepheading outperformed the compared heading estimation algorithms and achieved promising estimation accuracy with a median heading error of 4.52°, mean heading error of 6.07° and heading error of 9.18° at the confidence of 80% when a pedestrian is walking in indoor environments with magnetic field disturbances. …”
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Flow network models for online scheduling real-time tasks on multiprocessors by Cho, Hyeonjoong, Easwaran, Arvind

“…The optimal scheduling is here defined to ensure that all real-time tasks meet their deadlines when the total utilization demand of the given tasks does not exceed the total processing capacity. …”
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Correlating the performance of a fire-retardant coating across different scales of testing by Ng, Yan Hao, Zope, Indraneel Suhas, Dasari, Aravind, Tan, Kang Hai

“…In this regard, the pathway is not established when designing and formulating fire-retardant coatings for structural steel sections or members. …”
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Evaluation of GPM IMERG rainfall estimates in Singapore and assessing spatial sampling errors in ground reference by Mandapaka, Pradeep V., Lo, Edmond Yat-Man

“…For the gauge networks studied here, the contribution of SSE variance to IMERG daily error variance ranges from 4-24% depending on gauge spatial configuration, and is as large as 36% during inter-monsoon months when rainfall is highly convective in nature.…”
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Geographically-aware mobile application for managing events and interest group communications by Lee, Chong Yan

“…The reason is that forum is passive in nature, which means that usually people search for already available information rather than ask a question and wait for a reply as after all it requires refreshing of the page and we do not know when there will be a response. Besides, with the huge pool of information online, it would be hard for the relevant party to find this thread, let alone reply it. …”
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