Dip coating of bidisperse particulate suspensions by Jeong, Deok-Hoon, Lee, Michael Ka Ho, Thiévenaz, Virgile, Bazant, Martin Z, Sauret, Alban

“…Recent studies have shown that, at first order, the thickness of the coating film for monodisperse particles can be captured by an effective capillary number based on the viscosity of the suspension, providing that the film is thicker than the particle diameter. …”
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Variational study of the two‐impurity spin–boson model with a common Ohmic bath : ground‐state phase transitions by Zhou, Nengji, Zhang, Yuyu, Lü, Zhiguo, Zhao, Yang

“…With the linear grid of the Ohmic spectral density, numerical calculations herein produce a much better description of the ground states with lower energies than other calculations employing a logarithmic grid with a discretization factor far greater than unity. …”
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Adaptive function modal learning neural networks by Kang, Miao

“…Modal learning method is a neural network learning term that refers to a single neural network which combines with more than one mode of learning. It aims to achieve more powerful learning results than a neural network combines with only one single mode of learning. …”
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Detection of ethanol level by chemical method by Aung Kyaw Thu

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Patterns of motivation, moral and civic development in young Singaporeans by Koh, Caroline

“…As regards to their motivation in Civics and Moral Education (CME), students showed a moderate degree of autonomous motivation and tended to display identified regulation to a higher degree than intrinsic motivation. There is however, a need to review the way in which Moral Education is conducted in schools in order to improve students’ motivation in the subject. …”
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Vein matching enhancement by Song, Daphne Liting

“…The skin is an essential organ and changes on the skin often serve as early warnings of hidden, more serious illnesses. …”
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Women accountants in Singapore by Tng, Lay Leng, Gwee, Shuk Hong, Lau, Catherine Yue May

“…Due to their greater family commitments, married women have to perform better than men in order to succeed in their organisations. …”
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Influence of competitive anxiety between different genders in racket sports by Woon, Yu Mei

“…Racket sports players of both genders could adopt coping techniques that lower somatic anxiety and raise self-confidence in order to perform better during competitions.…”
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Modelling futility in the setting of fertility treatment by Polyakov, A, Gyngel, C, Savulescu, J

“…This suggests IVF becomes futile when women are aged between 47 and 49 years of age. This is notable older than ages currently considered as futile in an Australian context (∼45). …”

Making the world a better place? English higher education and global public good by Marginson, S, Yang, L, Brotherhood, T

“…Potentials for the shared global public good were limited by the often methodologically nationalist and Anglo-centric terms in which cross-border relations were understood. …”

Mechanical problem solving by plush-crested jays: are tools special after all? by Lois-Milevicich, J, Rat-Fischer, L, de la Colina, MA, Gómez, RO, Reboreda, JC, Kacelnik, A

“…This association, however, is not known to be causally determinant of tool-related competence since flexibility and innovativeness are often observed in the absence of tool use and vice versa. …”

Principled asymmetric boosting approaches to rapid training and classification in face detection by Pham, Minh Tri

“…Asymmetric boosting, while acknowledged to be important to imbalanced classification problems like face detection, is often based on the trial-and-error methodology to obtain the best boosted classifier, rather than on principled methods. …”
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Missing links in The China Model by Li, Chenyang

“…There is a tendency among scholars to avoid discussing certain topics in order not to be perceived as politically motivated to help governments with a less than commendable reputation. …”
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Metal hydroxide catalyst for water splitting by Neo, Yu Chen

“…With the drive towards a hydrogen economy and environment sustainability, the need for an effective yet affordable electrocatalyst for an oxygen evolution reaction (OER) in water splitting becomes more prevalent than ever. In this report, we investigate and synthesize an ideal metal hydroxide comprising of an ideal stoichiometric ratio of cobalt and manganese components in order to give an enhanced OER performance. …”
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Postprandial glucose, insulin and incretin responses differ by test meal macronutrient ingestion sequence (pattern study) by Sun, Lijuan, Goh, Hui Jen, Govindharajulu, Priya, Leow, Melvin Khee-Shing, Henry, Christiani Jeyakumar

“…The insulin iAUC (0–60) was significant lower after V-M-R than M-VR, VMR and R-VM. V-M-R food intake sequence stimulated higher GLP-1 release than other meal sequences. …”
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Explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) for healthcare decision-making by Zeng, Zhiwei

“…Despite the rapid growth of the XAI field, three key open problems emerge from a review of the existing XAI methods. …”
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The stability of 30µm diameter water-jet for jet guided laser machining by Du, Guannan

“…Combined water-jet process and laser machining, the water-jet guided laser processing is suitable in processing thin and sensitive material with a high degree of precision required Given that the stability of water-jet has direct effects on machining quality, a numeral model of J0,1.1m water-jet, considering the number of grids and the influence of meshes, has been built with GAMBIT in order to meet the requirements of micrometer order precision machining. …”
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Labour pains: mothers and motherhood on the British left in the twentieth century by Riley, CL, Jenkins, L, Baughan, E

“…In less radical circles, it has been understood as a crucial contribution to the functioning of society, often forming the basis of women’s claims to citizenship and maternalist forms of politics. …”

A methodology for multiple domain feature mapping by Lim, Seng San

“…Feature technology provides a high level representation that is capable of capturing more engineering information than conventional solid modeling techniques, such as boundary representation (Brep) and constructive solid geometry (CSG), which are commonly available in many computer-aided design (CAD) systems. …”
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Round-Trip Time Ranging to Wi-Fi Access Points Beats GNSS Localization by Horn, Berthold K. P.

“…Determining these positions from floor plans can be time-consuming, particularly when the APs may not be accessible (as is often the case in order to prevent unauthorized access to the network). …”
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