Manning’s ‘n’ co-efficient for flexible emergent vegetation in tandem configuration by Noarayanan, L., Murali, K., Sundar, V.

“…A new empirical equation is proposed for evaluating the Manning’s n friction coefficient for partially submerged flow when, the depth of flow is greater than 0.8 times the undeflected plant height. …”
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Achieving faster handovers in mobile WiMAX networks by Lu, Qi, Ma, Maode

“…In such a system, to enable the mobility, the handover is supported to maintain the connectivity of the mobile station (MS) when it moves from the coverage of the serving base station (BS) to the coverage of a neighbor BS. …”
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Modeling 2-D spatial variation in slope reliability analysis using interpolated autocorrelations by Liao, H. J., Ji, Jian, Low, Bak Kong

“…Based on this study, failure probability is found significantly overestimated when spatial variation is ignored. Finally, the possible use of the method of interpolated autocorrelations in a probabilistic finite element analysis is suggested.…”
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Cardiac activity detection : a fast prototyping approach with health safety considerations by Guo, Xufeng, Ser, Wee, Ong, Marcus Eng Hock

“…The results obtained show that, the cardiac waveform can be detected clearly and the heart rates can be measured with accuracy higher than 98% when the radar system operates at 0.5 meter away from the human subject.…”
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Influenza messaging is better than no messaging at all : an experimental assessment of the effects of goal framing and affected-person framing on influenza vaccination attitudes an... by Kong, Wei Yi

“…However, framed messages were found to bolster attitudes as compared to when there is no influenza vaccine communication. …”
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Adaptive power management for data center in smart grid environment by Kaewpuang, Rakpong, Chaisiri, Sivadon, Niyato, Dusit, Lee, Bu-Sung, Wang, Ping

“…In particular, APM algorithm takes the spot power price from an electrical grid, the power supply from a renewable power source, and users' demand in terms of application workload processing into account when managing the power consumption. Therefore, an APM algorithm is considered to be the demand side management in a smart grid. …”
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Scheduling nonlinear divisible loads in a single level tree network by Suresh, Sundaram, Run, Cui, Kim, H. J., Robertazzi, T. G.

“…The problem of minimizing the processing time is investigated when the computational loads require polynomial order of processing time which is proportional to the size of load fraction. …”
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Distribution of the Högbom CLEAN algorithm using tiled images with feedback by Wright, D, Adamek, K, Armour, W

“…This new approach has been tested on a simulated dataset containing multiple point sources of known intensity. When compared to a standard Högbom deconvolution the tiled feedback version produced a reconstructed image, containing sources up to 2.1 Jy, which agreed to between -0.1 Jy and +0.04 Jy of the standard method across the whole deconvolved image at a speed up to 10.66 times faster…”

UnidecNMR: automatic peak detection for NMR spectra in 1-4 dimensions by Buchanan, C, Karunanithy, G, Tkachenko, O, Barber, M, Marty, MT, Nott, TJ, Redfield, C, Baldwin, AJ

“…Introducing additional restraints, such as a 2D peak list when analysing 3 and 4D data and incorporating reflection symmetry in NOE analysis further improves the results. …”

Nonlinear oscillations and chaos in chemical cardiorespiratory control by Kalamangalam, GP

“…Scaling and simplification of the Grodins model yields a rich variety of dynamical subsets; the thesis focusses on the dynamics obtained under the normoxic assumption (i.e., when oxygen is decoupled from the system). In general, the method of asymptotic reduction yields submodels that validate or invalidate numerous (and more heuristic) extant efforts in the literature. …”

The what, why, and how of changing cooling energy consumption in India’s urban households by Khosla, R, Agarwal, A, Sircar, N, Chatterjee, D

“…How is cooling conceptualised and what cooling strategies do households use? How, when and why are people purchasing and using their air conditioners (ACs)? …”

Jurassic fossil juvenile reveals prolonged life history in early mammals by Panciroli, E, Benson, RBJ, Fernandez, V, Fraser, NC, Humpage, M, Luo, Z-X, Newham, E, Walsh, S

“…The adult was ~7 years and the juvenile 7 to 24 months of age at death, and in the process of replacing its deciduous dentition with its final, adult generation. When analysed against a dataset of life history parameters for extant mammals4, the relative sequence of adult tooth eruption was already established in Krusatodon, and within the range observed in extant mammals, but this development was prolonged; taking place during a longer period as part of a significantly longer maximum lifespan than extant mammals of comparable adult body mass (≤156 grams). …”

STEP’s plan for understanding REBCO coated conductors in the fusion environment by Iliffe, W, Chislett-McDonald, S, Harden, F, Adams, K, Tufnail, J, Grovenor, C, Speller, S, Reilly, A, Nasr, E

“…Here, STEP’s current understanding of REBCO and how it is affected by irradiation are presented, followed by the details of experiments designed to develop our knowledge of how REBCO will fare when subjected to fusion neutron irradiation.…”

Ready meals that look hot increase consumer’s willingness to pay for plant-based options by Zhang, T, Gao, Y, Spence, C

“…Our findings reveal that plant-based ready meals are perceived as looking less tasty, and consumers exhibit a decreased WTP when compared to meat-based alternatives, despite the plant-based options being perceived as healthier. …”

Tripodal triazatruxene derivative as a face-on oriented hole-collecting monolayer for efficient and stable inverted perovskite solar cells by Truong, MA, Funasaki, T, Ueberricke, L, Nojo, W, Murdey, R, Yamada, T, Hu, S, Akatsuka, A, Sekiguchi, N, Hira, S, Xie, L, Nakamura, T, Shioya, N, Kan, D, Tsuji, Y, Iikubo, S, Yoshida, H, Shimakawa, Y, Hasegawa, T, Kanemitsu, Y, Suzuki, T, Wakamiya, A

“…Since molecules in the hole-collecting monolayer are typically composed of functionalized π-conjugated structures, hole extraction is expected to be more efficient when the π-cores are oriented face-on with respect to the adjacent surfaces. …”

Migration of magnetic microparticles through a liquid–liquid interface under an external magnetic field by Mondal, S, Abbasi, N, Tsai, SSH, Griffiths, IM

“…We consider a canonical flow configuration in which particle motion is driven by the stagnation-point flow that is generated when two different liquids flow towards one another. …”

Anatomically plausible segmentations: explicitly preserving topology through prior deformations by Wyburd, MK, Dinsdale, NK, Jenkinson, M, Namburete, AIL

“…Traditionally, topology-preserving fields are described in the continuous domain and begin to break down when working in the discrete domain. Here, we introduce additional modifications that more strictly enforce topology preservation. …”

The dynamic effect of information privacy law

“…But initial allocations matter when either of these two conditions is absent. Allocations also matter for production of goods that do not yet exist. …”

Inherently vulnerable? Ethnic geography and the intensity of violence in the Bosnian civil war by Di Salvatore, J

“…The results remain robust when accounting for the presence of the UN peacekeeping mission (UNPROFOR) and across several robustness checks.…”

Quantum oscillations probe the Fermi surface topology of the nodal-line semimetal CaAgAs by Kwan, Y, Reiss, P, Han, Y, Bristow, M, Prabhakaran, D, Graf, D, McCollam, A, Ashok Parameswaran, S, Coldea, A

“…We interpret this as a Berry phase arising from the semiclassical electronic Landau orbit which links with the nodal ring when the magnetic field lies in the mirror (ab) plane. …”