New techniques for searching differential trails in Keccak by Liu, Guozhen, Qiu, Weidong, Tu, Yi

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Three essays on corporate finance by Fu, Kangkang

“…Moreover, from the principal customers’ perspective, a higher level of environmental risk lowers a supplier firm’s probability of being selected relative to its industry peers by its potential customer. Conditional on an ongoing relationship with principal customers, supplier firms with high environmental risk have lower sales to principal customers and shorter relationship durations. …”
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Social network structure in autistic individuals: a systematic review by Lei, J, Qian, X, Kim, KM

“…Results indicate that autistic children experience greater isolation with more peripheral status and lower peer acceptance compared with their neurotypical peers. …”

Drag reduction in fish-like locomotion by Barrett, D.S., Triantafyllou, M.S., Yue, D.K.P., Grosenbaugh, M.A., Wolfgang, M.J.

“…The method employs a boundary-integral method for arbitrary flexible body geometry and motions, while the wake shed from the fish-like form is modelled by an evolving desingularized dipole sheet.…”
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Automation of soft lithography by Kim, Hyung-Jun

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Cyanographene and graphene acid : the functional group of graphene derivative determines the application in electrochemical sensing and capacitors by Cheong, Yi Heng, Muhammad Zafir Mohamad Nasir, Bakandritsos, Aristides, Pykal, Martin, Jakubec, Petr, Zbořil, Radek, Otyepka, Michal, Pumera, Martin

“…Here, we present the electrochemical properties of cyanographene (G−CN), and graphene acid (G−COOH) in order to understand the role of the covalently attached functional groups on the graphene sheet in electrochemical sensing for the detection of biomarkers. …”
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Development of organically modified montmorillonite/polypropylene composite powders for selective laser sintering by Tan, Lisa Jiaying, Zhu, Wei, Zhou, Kun

“…It was found that at low loadings, nanofillers with sheet-like structures such as OMMT could limit the increase in crystallization temperatures of the composite powder, thus ensuring their wide sintering windows for SLS.…”
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Effect of coupling in steel/aluminium laminate subjected to tensile load by Ang, Dionysius Wei Qian

“…In the second case, the results show that flexural stiffness increases as the structure is modified from a cantilever sheet to a cantilever beam and the structure shows lesser bending-extension coupling effect. …”
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Soft robotic honeycomb-velcro jamming gripper design by Chung, Yu Cheng, Chow, Wai Tuck, Nguyen, Van Pho

“…Each finger of the gripper consists of multi-layers with a honeycomb sandwich structure acting as a core wrapped by a fabric sheet and sealed by a latex membrane. This structure can transit between unjammed (flexible) and jammed (rigid) states thanks to the vacuum pressure. …”
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Improved NiSi salicide process using presilicide N2+ implant for MOSFETs by Wee, A. T. S., Chan, L., Mangelinck, D., Lee, Pooi See, Pey, Kin Leong, Ding, Jun

“…Salicided poly-Si gate and active regions of different linewidths show improved thermal stability with low sheet resistance up to a salicidation temperature of 700 and 750 °C, respectively. …”
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Continuously distributed magnetization profile for millimeter-scale elastomeric undulatory swimming by Diller, Eric, Zhuang, Jiang, Zhan Lum, Guo, Edwards, Matthew R., Sitti, Metin

“…The robot is propelled by continuous undulatory deformation, which is enabled by the distributed magnetization profile of a flexible sheet. We demonstrate control of a prototype device and measure deformation and speed as a function of magnetic field strength and frequency. …”
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Monitoring membrane biofouling via ultrasonic time-domain reflectometry enhanced by silica dosing by Sim, S. T. V., Suwarno, S. R., Chong, T. H., Krantz, William B., Fane, Anthony Gordon

“…This novel UTDR technique was applied to detect biofouling on flat sheet polyethersulfone ultrafiltration (UF) and thin film composite polyamide reverse osmosis (RO) membranes in a canary cell flow configuration. …”
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Tectono-stratigraphic evolution of the foreland fold-and-thrust belt of the United Arab Emirates by Abdelmaksoud, A, Ali, MY, Searle, MP

“…Loading of the Semail ophiolite thrust sheet and accompanying allochthonous thrust sheets resulted in uplift at ca. 95 Ma and rapid subsidence at ca. 83 Ma, indicating the transition of the Arabian margin from a rifted passive margin to a foreland basin. …”

MoiréWidgets: High-Precision, Passive Tangible Interfaces via Moiré Effect by Campos Zamora, Daniel, Dogan, Mustafa Doga, Siu, Alexa F, Koh, Eunyee, Xiao, Chang

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Humic acid-induced formation of tobermorite upon hydrothermal treatment with municipal solid waste incineration bottom ash and its application for efficient removal of Cu(II) ions by Luo, Hongwei, He, Dongqin, Zhu, Weiping, Wu, Yichao, Chen, Zhitao, Yang, En-Hua

“…After hydrothermal treatment, the morphology and microstructure of IBA remarkably changed from sheet-like to particle-like, thereby resulting in substantial increases of sorption capacity. …”
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Biomineralization in barnacle base plate in association with adhesive cement protein by Hur, Sunyoung, Méthivier, Christophe, Wilson, Axel, Salmain, Michèle, Boujday, Souhir, Miserez, Ali

“…In addition, polarization modulation infrared reflection-absorption spectroscopy of MrCP20 established that, during crystal growth, the content of β-sheet structures in MrCP20 increases, in line with the formation of amyloid-like fibrils. …”
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Performance of pulsed plasma thrusters by Loh, Kelvin Kwong Lam.

“…This work can be further improved by coupling the resistive MHD equations with the external circuit equations to include resistive effects in the plasma sheet.…”
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A low cost multi-touch surface by Chng, Eric Boon Keat.

“…An experiment to improve the sensitivity of the touch surface was then conducted by coating silicone onto a plastic sheet to create a compliant surface. The results have shown that this compliant surface did not perform well, but further research has also shown the potential of compliant surfaces, given suitable types of silicone and projection surfaces. …”
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Study of integral equation theory and human beta defensin 28 by Chen, Wenwen

“…In comparison with circular dichroism experimental data as well as stabilities of beta-sheet and alpha-helix, HBD-28 with a reliable 3D structure was found.…”
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Synthesis and applications of novel graphene-based composites by Cao, Xiehong

“…No external carbon sources like hydrocarbons or ethanol were required. In this method, GO sheet was served as the both template and carbon source for the synthesis of rGO/CNW composite. …”
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