Meeting in the middle: a multi-level analysis of Chinese HIV civil organisations by Galler, S

“…Third, HIV civil organisations engage in detached, informal, and interactive collaboration with state actors, enabling greater autonomy and innovation among civil actors and reducing risk for state actors. I trace interactions between these strategic activities at the levels of organisational activities, structures, and networks, finding that reproducing ambiguity can sustain new types of collaborations.…”

Political championship: understanding African state effectiveness and Sino-African infrastructure development by Wang, Y

“…To empirically examine the political championship theory and two competing theories: the external agency and the bureaucratic capacity arguments, I trace the process of three Chinese-funded and -constructed railway projects: the Standard Gauge Railway in Kenya, the Addis-Djibouti Railway in Ethiopia, and the Caminho de Ferro de Benguela in Angola. …”

Enrichment of benzo(a)pyrene in milk by saponification-solvent microextraction by Lim, Khai Wei, Khor, Zhi Zhong, Wan Mohd Khalik, Wan Mohd Afiq, Kamaruzaman, Sazlinda

“…Under optimal conditions, the linearity of the method was established in the range of 0.25 to 5 µg L-1 with the correlation of determination = 0.9939. The ultra-trace limit of detection and limit of quantification were obtained as 0.02 and 0.07 µg L-1, respectively. …”
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Translator's voice in translating narrative space in Chinese children's fiction Bronze and Sunflower into English by Zhao, Meijuan

“…The current study thus seeks to explore the rendering of narrative space and to trace the translator’s voice in the English translation of narrative space in Chinese children’s fiction Bronze and Sunflower. …”
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Battleground for belonging: the migration and identity formation of Qeshmis in the United Arab Emirates by Al Qassim, MH

“…With the establishment of modern nation-states in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Iran, Qeshmi individuals who resettled in the UAE faced the challenge of reconciling their (trans)national identities and adapting their social networks. …”

Envisioning Water: Sustainability and Future-Making in Dubai and Los Angeles by Christidi, Nadia

“…The following dissertation explores how the future of water is being imagined, planned and prepared for in two dryland cities – hyper-arid Dubai and semi-arid Los Angeles – as the climate changes and as they face increasing pressures to become more ‘sustainable.’ …”
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The Mapping Imaging Spectrometer for Europa (MISE) by Blaney, Diana L., Hibbitts, Karl, Diniega, Serina, Davies, Ashley G., Clark, Roger N., Green, Robert O., Hedman, Matthew, Langevin, Yves, Lunine, Jonathan, McCord, Thomas B., Murchie, Scott, Paranicas, Chris, Seelos, Frank, Soderblom, Jason M., Cable, Morgan L.

“…MISE will detect illumination from 0.8 to 5 μm with 10 nm spectral resolution, a spatial sampling of 25 m per pixel at 100 km altitude, and 300 cross-track pixels, enabling discrimination among the two principal states of water ice on Europa, identification of the main non-ice components of interest: salts, acids, and organics, and detection of trace materials as well as some thermal signatures. …”
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Understanding electrostatic interaction on strong cation-exchanger via co-ion valency effects by Essert, GM, de Souza, JP, Schwaminger, SP, Bazant, MZ, Berensmeier, S

“…While it depends on the concentration, valency, and size of the counterion, we derived that the expansion of the EDL is indicated by different valencies of the carboxylate co-ions in trace amounts. Our findings provide a self-consistent theory of the transport phenomena in a solid/fluid system with all parameters specified with the physical properties of the chromatographic process. …”
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What the visual system can learn from the non-dominant hand: The effect of graphomotor engagement on visual discrimination by Ben-Ami, Shlomit, Buaron, Batel, Yaron, Ori, Keane, Kyle, Sun, Virginia H., Phillips, Flip, Friedman, Jason, Sinha, Pawan, Mukamel, Roy

“…Moreover, graphomotor training with the non-dominant hand resulted in visual discrimination improvements comparable to those of dominant hand training, despite the inherent differences between hands in motor performance and in the amount of improvement in shape tracing throughout training. We conclude that the motor components of graphomotor activity may not be critical for visual learning of shapes through tracing activity. …”
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Electrochemical Methods for Water Purification, Ion Separations, and Energy Conversion by Alkhadra, Mohammad A, Su, Xiao, Suss, Matthew E, Tian, Huanhuan, Guyes, Eric N, Shocron, Amit N, Conforti, Kameron M, de Souza, J Pedro, Kim, Nayeong, Tedesco, Michele, Khoiruddin, Khoiruddin, Wenten, I Gede, Santiago, Juan G, Hatton, T Alan, Bazant, Martin Z

“…Perhaps the greatest advantage of electrochemical methods, however, is that they remove contaminants directly from the water, while other technologies extract the water from the contaminants, which enables efficient removal of trace pollutants. The review begins with an overview of conventional electrochemical methods, which drive chemical or physical transformations via Faradaic reactions at electrodes, and proceeds to a detailed examination of the two primary mechanisms by which contaminants are separated in nondestructive electrochemical processes, namely electrokinetics and electrosorption. …”
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Controlled synthesis of cubic and hexagonal phase lanthanide doped NaYF4 up-converters by Ho, John Chun Wan.

“…Co-precipitation using sodium fluoride (NaF) and yttrium, ytterbium and erbium nitrates in presence of disodium ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (Na2-EDTA) was deployed to synthesize cubic NaYF4:Yb,Er nanocrystals followed by annealing to enable the cubic to hexagonal phase transition at high temperature. Hexagonal with trace amounts of cubic NaYF4:Yb,Er crystals with narrow size distribution are produced. …”
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New insights into transparent exopolymer particles (TEP) formation from precursor materials at various Na+/Ca2+ ratios by Meng, Shujuan, Liu, Yu

“…Transparent exopolymer particles (TEP) are planktonic, organic microgels which play significant roles in cycling of carbon and trace elements, aggregation of particles, feeding and accommodating microbes as well as development of biofilms. …”
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Slip deficit in central Nepal: omen for a repeat of the 1344 AD earthquake? by Bollinger, L., Tapponnier, Paul, Sapkota, S. N., Klinger, Y.

“…By contrast, the 1344 or 1408 AD earthquake may have ruptured the MFT up to the surface in central Nepal between Kathmandu and Pokhara, east of the surface trace of the great 1505 AD earthquake which affected western Nepal. …”
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Petrogenesis of Permian high-Mg diorites in the northern margin of the North China Craton: Evidence of crust–mantle interaction by Li, M, Xu, X, Palin, RM

“…This paper presents zircon and titanite U–Pb and bulk −rock major element, trace element, mineral major element and Sr–Nd–Pb–Hf isotope data for newly discovered Xinhure high-Mg diorite from the northern margin of the North China Craton (NCC). …”

Joyce's Blake: troubling idealism by Harder, M

“…Quotations from and references to Blake occur across Joyce’s writing and in his early reception, but these have not received comprehensive study. I trace Blake’s role within Joyce’s shifting conceptions of artistic ambition. …”

Language and ‘postcolonial shame': the politics of policy, curriculum and classroom practices in urban India by Gupta, M

“…Overall, the thesis seeks to trace the creation of a ‘linguistic habitus’ of shame for students through their interactions with the school, the home and the world outside. …”

Performance monitoring for quantum key distribution systems by Yu, Timothy Shengrong

“…Since then, QKD over hundreds of kilometres of optical fibre and free space have been reported. Key generation rate of a few mega-hertz have also been demonstrated. …”
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The Evolution of Galaxies and Clusters at High Spatial Resolution with Advanced X-ray Imaging Satellite (AXIS) by Russell, Helen R., Lopez, Laura A., Allen, Steven W., Chartas, George, Choudhury, Prakriti Pal, Dupke, Renato A., Fabian, Andrew C., Flores, Anthony M., Garofali, Kristen, Hodges-Kluck, Edmund, Koss, Michael J., Lanz, Lauranne, Lehmer, Bret D., Li, Jiang-Tao, Maksym, W. Peter, Mantz, Adam B., McDonald, Michael, Miller, Eric D., Mushotzky, Richard F., Qiu, Yu, Reynolds, Christopher S., Tombesi, Francesco, Tozzi, Paolo, Trindade-Falcão, Anna, Walker, Stephen A., Wong, Ka-Wah, Yukita, Mihoko, Zhang, Congyao

“…AXIS will untangle the interactions of winds, radiation, jets, and supernovae with the surrounding interstellar medium across the wide range of mass scales and large volumes driving galaxy evolution and trace the establishment of feedback back to the main event at cosmic noon. …”
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Accelerating Practical Engineering Design Optimization with Computational Graph Transformations by Sharpe, Peter D.

“…Third, it presents a novel technique to automatically trace sparsity through certain external black-box functions by exploiting IEEE 754 handling of not-a-number (NaN) values. …”
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Environmental perspectives of recycling various combustion ashes in cement production – a review by Yin, Ke, Ahamed, Ashiq, Lisak, Grzegorz

“…Herein, recycling various combustion ashes, such as municipal solid waste incineration fly ashes (MSWI FA), municipal solid waste incineration bottom ashes (MSWI BA), coal fly ashes (CFA), coal bottom ashes (CBA), blast furnace slags (BFS), biomass ashes (BIOA), sewage sludge ashes (SSA) and different co-combustion ashes (CCA), were comprehensively reviewed, from environmental perspectives combined with statistical data analysis (e.g. bulk components, trace metals, leaching potential, and etc.), to quantitatively explore their feasibility during cement production. …”
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