Nanoparticles enhanced laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy for characterisation and discrimination of gemstones by Al-Juboori, Haider, Haider, Zhaib, Hang, Wei, Roslan, Sufi

“…Results have shown a significant enhancement in spectral features, i.e., the emergence of several new spectral lines of major gemstone elements in the UV-Vis regions of the NELIBS spectra, while the CLIBS spectra were devoid of any meaningful spectral information. …”
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Current evidence and future direction on evaluating the anticancer effects of curcumin, gingerols, and shogaols in cervical cancer: a systematic review by Rahim, Unwaniah Abdull, Mustapa, Marami, Mohamed Shakrin, Nik Noorul Shakira, Nurdin, Armania, Mohamad Taridi, Nursiati, Mohd Yusof, Yasmin Anum, Mad Nordin, Mariam Firdhaus, Che Roos, Nur Aishah

“…Only studies investigating the effects of curcumin, gingerol, shogaol, and/ or their combination in human cervical cancer cell lines and/or rodent animal models implanted with cervical cancer xenografts were included. …”
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Numerical simulation and topology optimization of slider air bearing by Li, Qiang

“…Although sizing and shape optimization approaches have been explored for optimal design of the slider air bearing, those previous works were mainly restricted to variation of simple geometric parameters. …”
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Cyclic deformation and lattice strain distribution of high Nb containing TiAl alloy by Ding, Jie, Shi, Shan, Dong, Zhili, Lin, Junpin, Ren, Yang, Wu, Xiaodong, Chang, Hui, Zhou, Lian

“…At room temperature, the material exhibited cyclic hardening and the fracture mode was mainly interlamellar. At 750°C and 900°C, the material showed cyclic softening and the fracture mode was translamellar. …”
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Adaptive control of unmanned quadrotor with partial actuator failure using model reference adaptive control (MRAC) with dynamic inversion by Agarwal, Anmol, Ng, Ee Meng, Low, Kin Huat

“…This paper proposes to analyze algorithm for adaptive control, mainly focused on the model reference adaptive control (MRAC) such that despite any uncertainty the plant parameters remain close to the behavior of a desired reference model along with dynamic inversion as an adaptive controller for such scenarios which helps in decoupling of the flight states for the non-linear system. …”
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A report on metal additive manufacturing materials study by Yap, Wei Hao

“…Additive Manufacturing (AM) has been gaining popularity and is constantly developing and advancing, which are mainly due to its advantages of being able to produce complex parts with high accuracy and precision. …”
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Energy and area-efficient mixed-signal-based SRAM computation-in-memory for AI edge devices by Jo, Yongjun

“…CIM is an emerging approach that integrates computation capabilities into memory units, reducing data movement and enhancing performance for memory-intensive tasks like deep neural networks (DNNs). CIM mainly deals with multiply-and-accumulate (MAC) operations which consist most of the computing burden in DNN. …”
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Bouncing dynamics of impact droplets on the convex superhydrophobic surfaces by Shen, Yizhou, Liu, Senyun, Zhu, Chunling, Tao, Jie, Chen, Zhong, Tao, Haijun, Pan, Lei, Wang, Guanyu, Wang, Tao

“…Here, we found that droplets impacting onto dome convex superhydrophobic surfaces could rapidly bounce off with a 28.5% reduction in the contact time, compared with that on flat superhydrophobic surfaces. This is mainly determined by the retracting process of impact droplets. …”
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A Review of Phosphide-Based Materials for Electrocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution by Xiao, Peng, Chen, Wei, Wang, Xin

“…In addition to sulfides, the search for non-noble metal catalysts has been mainly directed at phosphides due to the superb activity of phosphides for hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) and their low-cost considering the abundance of the non-noble constituents of phosphides. …”
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Phase-matching and peak nonlinearity enhanced third-harmonic generation in graphene plasmonic coupler by Wu, Tingting, Luo, Yu, Maier, Stefan A., Wei, Lei

“…The third-harmonic wave is mainly converted from the evanescent mode of the incident light and the THG efficiency is found to be enhanced by over 10 orders of magnitude compared with a bare monolayer graphene. …”
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Effects of phorbol ester on vesicle dynamics as revealed by total internal reflection fluorescence microscopy by Zhang, Enming, Xue, Renhao, Soo, Jianchow, Chen, Peng

“…Exocytosis of neurotransmitter or hormone-filled vesicles is a highly dynamic process regulated by various proteins and lipids. As mainly revealed indirectly by the electrophysiological methods, exocytosis is believed to involve multiple kinetic steps in which vesicles transit from one state to another. …”
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Analysis of the revolving vane (RV-0) expander, part 1 : experimental investigations by Subiantoro, Alison, Ooi, Kim Tiow

“…The isentropic efficiency was found to be up to 17.5% with the frictional losses caused mainly by the journal bearings.…”
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Security challenges in automotive hardware/software architecture design by Sagstetter, Florian, Lukasiewycz, Martin, Steinhorst, Sebastian, Wolf, Marko, Bouard, Alexandre, Peyrin, Thomas, Poschmann, Axel, Chakraborty, Samarjit, Harris, William R., Jha, Somesh.

“…Despite this increasing vulnerability, the design of automotive architectures is still mainly driven by safety and cost issues rather than security. …”
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The influence of RF sputtering power on optical and structural properties of AlN films for high power electronic applications by Hossaini, Mohammad Asef, Saniman, Siti Sarah, Syed Yaacob, Syariffah Nurathirah, Omar, Muhammad Firdaus, Mahyuddin, Azzahfeerah

“…The structural and optical properties Aluminum Nitride (AlN) thin film deposited is mainly influence by many depositions condition ie. …”
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Software/ hardware interactive learning for trigonometry by Chia, Dint

“…In today’s context of education, many institutions mainly focus on face to face teaching with students by conducting classes and lectures to teach various subjects and topics. …”
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Antenna systems for diversity in the next-generation mobile handphones by Hui, Hon Tat.

“…However, the commercial application of spatial antenna diversity in mobile phones is still very limited mainly due to the constraint of the small size of the modem handset In this project, the diversity performance of a dual helical antenna diversity system on a large ground plane and a mobile handset were investigated. …”
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Effects of turbidity on marine organisms by Leong, Bernice.

“…Water quality tests were conducted in along the shorelines of Singapore mainly East Coast and Chek Jawa. East Coast has high levels of coastal and recreational activities whilst there are still conserved marine habitats in Chek Jawa. …”
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Comparing destination images : Resorts World Sentosa and Resorts World Genting. by Low, Kah Hwee., Tang, Joo Wen., Teo, Jia Yun.

“…Deeper analyses reflected that these image differences were influenced mainly by word-of-mouth. For Resorts World Genting, weather was found to be a significant factor influencing respondent‟s motivation to visit the resort while the novelty factor was what attracted visitors to Resorts World Sentosa. …”
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Development of concentration gradient generator by Wong, Liang Chen.

“…The concentration gradient generator is a microfluidic device that was designed to generate chemical gradients of singular or dual chemical species; chemical gradient generation will be potentially useful in analyzing the spatial and temporal behavior of organisms under the influence of various concentrations of single of dual chemical species. This project mainly focused on creating a bubble-free environment to observe the diffusion of florescence (FITC). …”
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Digital video broadcasting – terrestrial receiver development by Ni, Zhengquan.

“…Our project seeks to exploit the advantages of WiFi (free and easily available) Network, develop a simple networking application, mainly specifically a video streaming application to realize the sharing of viewing free-to-air TV channels in one Pc (server) to multiple Pcs (client) at home and office Networked environments.…”
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