Post-combustion CO2 capture by adsorption processes by Haghpanah, Reza

“…Conventional adsorption processes have been designed and optimized for the purification of the light gas. However, in carbon capture, the challenge is to recover the heavier product, i.e., CO2 in high purity. …”
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Structural and functional studies of C-nucleoside formation enzymes by Li, W

“…This enzyme β-RFAPS synthesizes a C-nucleoside utilizing PRPP and an aromatic compound, 4-aminobenzoic acid. During purification of a modified β-RFAPS enzyme and crystal structural analysis indicated the presence of unidentified molecule at the enzyme’s active site. …”

Preparation for and performance of a Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilm experiment on board the International Space Station by Flores, Pamela, Schauer, Rylee, McBride, Samantha A., Luo, Jiaqi, Hoehn, Carla, Doraisingam, Shankini, Widhalm, Dean, Chadha, Jasmin, Selman, Leah, Mueller, Daniel Wyn, Floyd, Shannon, Rupert, Mark, Gorti, Sridahr, Reagan, Shawn, Varanasi, Kripa K., Koch, Christina, Meir, Jessica U., Muecklich, Frank, Moeller, Ralf, Stodieck, Louis, Countryman, Stefanie, Zea, Luis

“…This campaign ended with the Experiment Verification Test (EVT), from which we present example morphology and transcriptomic results. …”
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Analysis and design of curved steel beam member in elevation using Eurocode 3 by Yandarmadi, Kelvin

“…The first part is the formula derivation and verification of stress resultants for general arch and shallow arch for curved beam in elevation under uniformly gravitational distributed load. …”
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Design methodologies for complexity reduction of FIR filters by Faust, Mathias

“…First of all, a platform for design automation of FIR filters is introduced with enhanced features added onto this tool for result generation and functional verification. For research convenience and fair evaluation of MCM and SA optimization algorithms, a new benchmark suite has been established and introduced in this thesis. …”
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Non-invasive nanosensor monitoring of mRNA expression for regenerative medicine application by Wiraja, Christian

“…Conventionally, such verification is achieved through end-point, population-based methods like polymerase chain reaction (PCR; for mRNA expression) or western blotting (for protein expression). …”
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Voice conversion with parallel/non-parallel data and synthetic speech detection by Tian, Xiaohai

“…On the other hand, voice conversion also presents a threat to Automatic Speaker Verification (ASV) systems. Synthetic speech detection is a technique to discriminate between live and synthetic speech. …”
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Structural and mechanistic studies of herpes virus proteins by Patel, Vidhi Kanaiyalal

“…Herpes viral proteins have posed several challenges during trials for their expression and purification on a large scale. In this thesis, we try to outline the multi-construct approach that has been successful for human protein expression. …”
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Structure and functions of a metallo-beta-lactamase- like hypothetical protein bleg1_2437 from alkali-tolerant soil bacterium Bacillus lehensis G1 by Tan, Soo Huei

“…This recombinant plasmid was transformed into Escherichia coli Rosetta-gami (DE3) for Bleg1_2437 protein expression and purification. The optimum condition for intracellular expression of Bleg1_2437 was achieved at 20 ºC, with Isopropyl-β-D-Thiogalactopyranoside (IPTG) concentration of 0.1 mM and incubated for 18 hours. …”
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Efficient optimization of network metrics in large uncertain graphs by Saha, Arkaprava

“…The proposed solution improves the existing filtering-and-verification framework by coupling Dijkstra’s algorithm with Monte Carlo sampling to reduce the running time by some orders of magnitude, with end-to-end accuracy guarantees. …”
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Scalable multifunctional MOFs-textiles via diazonium chemistry by Li, Wulong, Yu, Zhen, Zhang, Yaoxin, Lv, Cun, He, Xiaoxiang, Wang, Shuai, Wang, Zhixun, He, Bing, Yuan, Shixing, Xin, Jiwu, Liu, Yanting, Zhou, Tianzhu, Li, Zhanxiong, Tan, Swee Ching, Wei, Lei

“…More importantly, the reported strategy is generic and applicable to other MOFs and cellulose fiber-based materials, and various large-scale multi-functional MOFs-textiles can be successfully manufactured, resulting in vast applications in wastewater purification, fragrance industry, and outdoor gears.…”
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Electrospun carbon-silica composite nanofibers for selective removal of oil and water by Tai, Ming Hang

“…There is an increasing demand for cost-effective and efficient oil spill remediation and purification technologies due to the rising public concern over the corresponding environmental impact and the increasingly stringent environmental regulations. …”
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Geometric hashing for camera based localization by Tan, Wei Chian

“…During online retrieval, the query signature is quantized and a voting mechanism is used to identify good candidates (camera pose) for further verification. Experiments show that significant speed gains have been obtained through the system, from direct search of ten minutes to removal of large pool of candidates within ten seconds in our Matlab [4] implementation. …”
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Layer-by-Layer Nanoparticles for Cytokine Delivery by Pires, Ivan S.

“…We also find that we can titrate the polymer amount used to omit time-consuming purification steps. We also find that the LbL film conformation is key to maintaining therapeutic efficacy as thicker films hinder IL-12 delivery. …”
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Online estimation of key battery states for management of vanadium redox flow battery by Wei, Zhongbao

“…The proposed peak power estimator is verified with a “two-step verification” method. The influence of prediction time horizon on the peak power is also analyzed. …”
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Advanced data analytics for future smart grid stability assessment by Ren, Chao

“…Fourthly, in order to accurately quantify the robustness of the ML-based model under adversarial perturbations on safety-critical power system stability problem, an adversarial robustness verification method for data-driven stability models is proposed. …”
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Physical unclonable function based solutions to unification of user, device and data authentication by Zheng, Yue

“…At a time of rampant public media manipulation and ease of fake image/video fabrication, verification of benign and malicious image transformations is necessary but not sufficient for fact checking of visual artefacts presented in the court of law. …”
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Clustering-based solutions for energy efficiency, adaptability and resilience in IoT networks by Shivaraman, Nitin

“…E.g. fault-resilient solutions use complex computations for verification of devices and data that inadvertently reduce the energy efficiency in a resource-constrained environment. …”
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Design and analysis of high torque density machines for aerospace applications by Shen, Fawen

“…A prototype of the UV-FSPM is fabricated and tested for verification of the investigated concepts. In Chapter 5, a novel vernier machine with Spoke-V (SV) array permanent magnet arrangement, referred to as SV-VPMM, is investigated. …”
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In-situ infrared spectroscopy studies of surface reactions over irradiated photocatalysts by Gong, Dangguo

“…Commercial material, Degussa P25 TiO2, was used mainly for system verification and fundamental studies on the state of material under bandgap excitation, especially ATR-FTIR, and as a benchmark (in pristine and metalized form) for novel visible-sensitized photocatalysts prepared in this thesis. …”
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