Vlog my life: how the development of influencer-follower relationship affects effectiveness of vlog advertising by Duan, Xu

“…This dissertation, therefore, aims at examining the development of vlogger-follower relationships, and the mechanisms of how such relationships affect advertising effectiveness. …”
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Heterotopic ossification secondary to injury: insights from a novel zebrafish model by Kaliya Perumal, Arun Kumar

“…There are two such conditions, collectively referred to as non-genetic or acquired disorders of heterotopic ossification: myositis ossificans traumatica (MOT) and neurogenic heterotopic ossification (NHO). MOT can occur following musculoskeletal trauma of any form, whereas NHO occurs following spinal cord injury or traumatic brain injury. …”
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Modelling the impact, configuration and behaviour of connected and automated vehicle by Zhou, Jiazu

“…In order to have more details of the CAVs, microscopic modelling, e.g., car-following modelling are required. We then realised that there is a research gap in the current literature on accurate car following (CF) models used to capture the CAV’s behaviour at the microscopic scale. …”
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Essays on legitimacy in the information systems context by Faheem Ahmed Shaikh

“…The second essay focuses on legitimacy repair following a data breach. Legitimacy issues arise when audiences probe an organization’s behavior during crisis events. …”
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Security analysis and resilient control of discrete-event systems by Tai, Ruochen

“…In the second part, we investigate the topic of resilient feedback control against malicious adversaries (attackers and intruders) via designing defense strategies to establish a more secure and resilient system, including the following problems: 1) resilient control against covert attackers via supervisor fortification, and 2) privacy-preserving control against the external intruder via co-synthesis of privacy-preserving components and the supervisor. …”
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Machine learning methods for data-driven microscopic traffic simulation modelling and calibration by Naing, Htet

“…Third, there is also the need for integrating data-driven car-following models (CFM) into real-time simulations while being capable of learning from online data. …”
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Investigation on the effect of cation substitution in Cu2ZnSn(S,Se)4 thin film solar cell by Lie, Stener

“…These films were prepared by chemical spray pyrolysis in stoichiometric composition to investigate its intrinsic thin film properties. Following that, non-stoichiometric composition was fabricated to optimize the solar cell device performance. …”
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Three essays on corporate finance by Lee, Min Suk

“…We also find that firms that form strategic alliances following the adoption of the law have higher innovation output. …”
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Investigation of membrane fouling using molecular dynamics simulation by Ma, Yunqiao

“…This thesis is built with a structure of following: A comprehensive literature review focusing on past MD studies for membrane fouling and related foulant adsorption processes is conducted first. …”
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Essays on international transmission of monetary policy and global financial risk spillover by Liu, Jingting

“…These variables drop by 0.5% and 1.8% following a global financial risk (proxied by CBOE Volatility Index, or VIX) shock. …”
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Conceptualising objectification: examining objectification antecedents and effects on outgroup perceptions by Ho, Jack Yong

“…Guided by the stereotype content model (i.e., warmth and competence), a between-group experiment (n = 231) was conducted where, following exposure to media excerpts with stereotyped content, participants responses were examined. …”
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Inferring upper mantle rheology from numerical modeling of experimental and geodetic observations by Masuti, Sagar

“…In this thesis, I investigate the rheology of olivine using two types of data, viz., geodetic data following the 2012 Mw 8.6 Indian Ocean earthquake and data from experiments on olivine under various thermodynamic conditions. …”
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Essays on behavioral and experimental finance by Zhu, Jiahua

“…Our findings are as follows: first, we confirm the experimental findings by Bloomfield and Hales (2002) that people use the number of reversals as a proxy for the predictability. …”
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A printing quality optimization framework for non-contact ink writing techniques by Zhang, Haining

“…The results of the case studies show that the proposed framework is beneficial to balance the complex relationship between different process parameters by the identified operating process windows of AJP, hence the lines can be fabricated with better edge definition and lower overspray in a design space. Following that, based on the determined operating process windows, the conflicting relationship between different printed line morphology is further optimized by the proposed optimization framework, thus improving the overall printed line quality. …”
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Developing a zebrafish model of bisphosphonate induced osteonecrosis of jaw to define cellular and molecular mechanisms by Ethiraj, Lalith Prabha

“…Concomitant with this was an early downregulation of NF-κB signalling, followed by marked NF-κB signalling upregulation at later time points. …”
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'I' in narrative: a study on contemporary visual autobiography using photography as a significant medium in multimedia installation by Lee, Soo Jin

“…Following this, the thesis presents case studies on three visual autobiographers, Boltanski, González-Torres, and Proschak. …”
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Impact of temporal context on recommender systems along global timeline by Ji, Yitong

“…Hence, we underscore the importance of following the global timeline in both training and evaluation stages of recommendation models. …”
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Investigating the microbiology and microbial processes involved during the anaerobic degradation of high strength industrial wastewaters by Venkatakrishnan, Harish

“…Understanding the role of these communities poses a challenge mainly due to following factors: a) Limited findings which correlate process performance with community dynamics of both acidogens and methanogens, b) Differing responses of microbes to different substrates and process parameters. …”
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Development of thin film composite hollow fibre membranes for organic solvent applications by Goh, Keng Siang

“…The study can be subdivided into the following sections: i. Fabricate solvent resistant thin-film composite hollow fibre membrane for low pressure OSN processes. …”
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Random vector functional link network based shallow and deep learning by Shi, Qiushi

“…Consequently, we raise the following research question: Can we introduce a specialized variant of the edRVFL network that is specifically tailored to handle semi-supervised learning tasks? …”
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