Investigation on the regulatory roles of a second messenger cyclic diadenosine-monophosphate (C-DI-AMP) in streptococcus gallolyticus subsp. gallolyticus by Teh, Wooi Keong

“…I first provide evidence that S. gallolyticus subsp. gallolyticus biofilm development is controlled by the bacterial second messenger cyclic diadenosine-monophosphate (c-di-AMP). …”
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Development of molecular catalysts for H2 evolution and modified copper catalyst for CO2 reduction by Ho, Xian Liang

“…In Chapter 4, the effect of the second coordination sphere modification on H2 evolution activity was explored. …”
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Intercultural conflict : a multi-method study of conflict, trust repair, and conflict resolution by Barros, Vanessa

“…I then adopt, in the second study, a quantitative method to cross-validate my findings with a sample of 41 students (i.e., an additional 164 intercultural conflict episodes). …”
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Numerical treatment of certain fractional and non-fractional differential equations by Ding, Qinxu

“…In the first category, we consider two problems -- a second-order boundary value problem with discontinuous second order derivative at some breakup points; and a fractional Bagley-Torvik equation. …”
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Genuine multipath interference by Zhao, Zhuo

“…It can therefore be categorized as "second-order interference theory''. In this thesis, we wish to explore possibility of "higher-order interference'', exemplified by generalizations of Young’s double slit experiment to three and more paths. …”
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Volcanic earthquakes: their use for eruption forecast, detection, and classification by Aji, Andika Bayu

“…The results show that the onsets of the eruptions are contained within the forecasted eruption time windows. The second proposed method is related to the first standard practice, earthquake detection. …”
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Adaptive cooperative control of multi-agent systems by Zou, Ying

“…Thus, in the second part of this thesis, distance-based formation and flocking control with nonholonomic dynamics and parametric uncertainty are respectively addressed by designing two adaptive control schemes.…”
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Development of multifunctional electrochemical membrane system for seawater desalination by Long, Wei

“…For instance, caustic soda is used to raise the pH of the first-pass RO permeate (also the second-pass RO feed) to ensure adequate removal of boron in the subsequent second-pass RO by converting boric acid into borate ion with larger hydrated size and negative charge. …”
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Atomically dispersed catalysts for oxygen reduction reaction by Zhang, Jincheng

“…In the first work, guided by the theoretical calculation, a hierarchical and freestanding Co single atom electrode was design and showed excellent performance for H2O2 production in a practical device. In the second work, sulfur was introduced into the second coordination sphere of Fe single atom and a direct methanol fuel cell (DMFC) was demonstrated. …”
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Heterogeneous reduction of CO2 to CO under aqueous conditions using transition metal based molecular catalysts by Reddu, Vikas

“…Tethering to a conductive solid substrate and tuning of second sphere of coordination played an important role in their performance to achieve desired reduction product with high selectivity and activity.…”
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Automated socio-cognitive assessment of patients with schizophrenia and depression by Xu, Shihao

“…The study was conducted with 58 patients with schizophrenia and 29 healthy controls over three sessions: at week 0, week 2, and week 12. The second study was conducted between 2017 and 2019 involving 50 patients with depression, 50 patients with schizophrenia, and 50 healthy control subjects, where only one session was conducted for each participant. …”
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The dynamics of volatile fatty acids depletion in enhanced anaerobic digestion system by Xiao, Keke

“…However, instability of the second-stage reactor in the two-stage anaerobic system could occur as the first-stage reactor became more effective at hydrolysis and acidogenesis. …”
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Work extraction from information ratchet in the classical and quantum regimes by He, Lianjie

“…Through successive tape scans, cumulative work is accrued, and we prove that this finite-tape information ratchet obeys the information processing second law (IPSL). We show that our information ratchet can harness correlation through accessing multiple ratchet states to accumulate more work by having a larger time constant to reach its steady state. …”
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Enhanced spin-orbit torque (SOT) and spin accumulation quantification in perpendicularly magnetised systems by Wong, Qi Ying

“…The analytical derivations and experimental results reveal an anomalous second Hall resistance originating from the spin accumulation. …”
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Putting the leader back in leadership development : discovering different leader profiles of change by Ward, Sharon Chin-Luan

“…First, I shift the focus of research from examining the leadership training intervention to exploring the different profiles of leaders who attend training and what they gained from the training. Second, findings from my second essay show that 48% of leaders who attend training do not perceive an initial need to improve their existing practices. …”
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Design, modeling and control of a lightweight 3D printed fixed wing VTOL UAV by Govdeli, Yunus

“…The experimental results favored honeycomb structures and hence a second wing model was manufactured and compared to the conventional manufacturing model. …”
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Periods of peace between major powers in world history by McKinney, Jared Morgan

“…The first is for the parties to acknowledge the balance of power to be stable. The second is for the parties to recognize each other ‘thickly’ as equals. …”
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A holistic approach to trust and reputation management in big data by Leonit Zeynalvand

“…This mechanism substantially counteracts biases incurred by different agents and improves the accuracy of second-hand information fusion as demonstrated by our simulations. …”
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Image and video super-resolution in the wild by Chan, Kelvin Cheuk Kit

“…BasicVSR++ further enhances propagation and alignment with second-order grid propagation and flow-guided deformable alignment. …”
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Enhancing spoken language identification and diarization for multilingual speech by Liu, Hexin

“…These two methods are incorporated within the XSA-LID model, named AttSE-XSA and LBN-XSA respectively. In the second approach, a novel LID model is proposed to hierarchically incorporate phoneme and phonotactic information without requiring phoneme annotations for training. …”
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