Stochastic modeling of seafloor morphology by Goff, John Anson

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Development of alternating amphiphilic copolymers for targeted delivery applications in cancer by Brower, Kevin P. (Kevin Peter)

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Waugh revisited : destabilizing language and structure in Vile bodies, A handful of dust, and Brideshead revisited by Jabe Ziino. by Ziino, Jabe (Jabe S.)

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Construction of Pt-M (M = Co, Ni, Fe)/g-C₃N₄ composites for highly efficient photocatalytic H₂ generation by Wang, Liang, Zhu, Chenglu, Yin, Li-Sha, Huang, Wei

“…The higher degree of XRD peaks and larger binding energies for Pt 4f5/2 and Pt 4f7/2 after incorporating Co2+ ions indicated that Co was successfully introduced into the lattice of Pt and Pt-Co bimetallic alloys was attained through the solvothermal treatment. …”
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Development of resistive random access memory for next-generation embedded non-volatile memory application by Sun, Jianxun

“…RRAM cells with moderate OPT have been successfully integrated with thin film transistors (TFT) at the mini array level to demonstrate the possibility of practical application in the field of large-area electronics (LAE).…”
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Transition metal-based catalysts derived from MOF and COF for efficient electro- and photo-catalytic CO2 reduction by Wang, Haojing

“…In Chapter 5, single Cu sites were successfully anchored on a two-dimensional COF as co-catalysts for highly selective photocatalytic CO2 reduction under visible light. …”
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Improving security of autonomous cyber-physical systems against adversarial examples by Song, Qun

“…The post-deployment of dynamically generated models significantly increases the bar of successful attacks. This thesis also investigates serial data fusion with early stopping for DeepMTD to reduce the inference time by a factor of up to 5, as well as exploits hardware inference accelerators' characteristics to strike better trade-offs between inference time and power consumption. …”
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Random vector functional link network based shallow and deep learning by Shi, Qiushi

“…Deep learning has been extremely successful in recent years. However, it should be noted that neural networks utilizing back-propagation for parameter training are subject to a time-intensive drawback. …”
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Deep learning for texture recognition: from streamlined architecture to multimodal extensions by Mao, Shangbo

“…Additionally, our approach maintains competitive results on the MIT-Indoor scene recognition dataset. Although we successfully enhanced the efficiency of feature aggregation through our proposed learnable residual pooling layer, and maintained competitive performance across various datasets, there remains a limitation. …”
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Collision risk modeling and resolution path planning for uav conflict management in dynamic environments by Zhang, Na

“…Simulation results demonstrate that the developed method successfully achieves UAV autonomous global path planning and local real-time conflict resolution in complex urban low-altitude environments, thereby avoiding both static obstacles and dynamic threats. …”
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Part I : Peptide functionalized materials for gram-negative bacteria targeted PDT and LPS sensing. Part II : Small peptide and membrane lipid based self-assembled nanostructures fo... by Liu, Fang

“…Generally, Gram-negative bacterial pathogens have additional outer membranes mainly composed of highly conserved and unique lipopolysaccharide (LPS) molecules, which serve as permeability barriers to prevent the cell bodies from toxic antimicrobial molecules1-2 including many photosensitizers, which have been successfully used in photoinactivation of Gram-positive strains.3-4 Furthermore, LPS, a potent inducer to human innate immune systems, hence called endotoxin, is now primarily responsible for sepsis associated with the infections of Gram-negative pethogens.5-6 Therefore, the most promising strategy is use of LPS neutralizing peptide as the binding ligand to deliver antibacterial agents meanwhile minimize the side effects.7 The first objective of the research in part I is the design and synthesis of photosensitizer-peptide conjugates for multivalent targeted cellular imaging and photodynamic inactivation (PDI) against Gram-negative bacterial strains. …”
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Incorporation of nanoparticles in metal-organic frameworks materials for selective catalysis by Zhang, Weina

“…The results presented here successfully overcome the difficulties of NPs incorporation into thin films by existing methods and would provide valuable insights for the preparation of MOFs-based nano-devices in the future.…”
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Design and fabrication of superhydrophobic membranes by electrospinning for direct contact membrane distillation by Liao, Yuan

“…Two types of superhydrophobic PVDF nanofiber membranes, integrally-modified and surface-modified PVDF membranes, have been successfully fabricated by electrospinning followed by surface modification, which includes dopamine surface activation, silver nanoparticle deposition and hydrophobic treatment. …”
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CMOS multimodal sensor based lab-on-a-chip system for personalized bio-imaging diagnosis by Huang, Xiwei

“…And the low-noise preamplifier achieves over 60dBΩ transimpedance gain with 27.5pA/sqrt(Hz) input refereed noise current at 35MHz. A successful pulse-echo acoustic testing is also demonstrated with the developed AFE IC that integrates the CMUT sample in an oil-immersed environment. …”
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Data converters using continuous time sigma delta modulators with VCO-based integrator and quantizer for ultra low power applications by Neelakantan Narasimman

“…A test chip fabricated in 65nm CMOS technology demonstrated successful operation at 0.3 V. It consumes 510nW and occupies 0.015mm2. …”
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In-band phase noise reduction techniques for phase-locked loops in advanced CMOS technologies by Liang, Zhipeng

“…Phase-locked loops (PLLs) have been successfully used as frequency synthesizers for decades in complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor (CMOS) transceivers for wireless communications. …”
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Islam, accounting and finance: challenges and opportunities in the new decade

“…As he concluded, PPP’s successful implementation is also derived from the accountability of the whole process of implementation, other than through the normal technical and financial structure. …”
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Professional Doctorate in Health Psychology thesis portfolio (Edwards : 2019) : Obesity and uncontrolled eating from a health psychology perspective by Edwards, Sophie Kathryn

“…These have been much more successful pieces of work and although the case study in this portfolio does not outline the most positive piece of consultancy work I have been involved in, it is certainly the one from which I learned the most. …”
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Development of an Enzyme-Aided Pre-Treatment Process for Production of Pumpkin (Cucurbita Moschata L.) Powder by Shavakhi, Forough

“…Powder containing anti-caking agents showed higher Tg during 8 weeks of storage indicating that these additives acted as successful anti-caking agents. Finally, rheological characteristics of enzymaticaly-macerated pumpkin and also spray dried reconstituted powder were evaluated to determine the potential application of pumpkin powder. …”
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An integrated modelling approach to postharvest control of Aspergillus flavus growth and aflatoxin production in paddy grains and rice by Mousa, Wael

“…The polynomial logistic models that were developed were validated with data obtained from repeated experiments on paddy. The models were successfully able to predict the probabilities with concordance rates of 85.2% and 88.9% for growth and aflatoxin production, espectively, whereas all the misidentified cases were found to be false positive. …”
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