Precipitation trend analysis for The Langat River Basin, Selangor, Malaysia by Palizdan, Narges

“…The Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT) coupled with the Mann-Kendall (MK) test and the sequential MK analysis were utilized in order to find out which time scale are affecting the trends observed in each homogenous region. …”
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21W.747 Rhetoric, Fall 2002 by Strang, Steven M.

“…In short, rhetoric teaches us how to find the limits of our own positions, how to argue effectively against others' positions, and how to create powerful and persuasive arguments for our own beliefs. …”
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Synoptic analysis of a decade of daily measurements of SO2 emission in the troposphere from volcanoes of the global ground-based network for observation of volcanic and atmospheric... by Arellano, Santiago, Galle, Bo, Apaza, Fredy, Avard, Geoffroy, Barrington, Charlotte, Bobrowski, Nicole, Bucarey, Claudia, Burbano, Viviana, Burton, Mike, Chacón, Zoraida, Chigna, Gustavo, Clarito, Christian Joseph, Conde, Vladimir, Costa, Fidel, De Moor, Maarten, Delgado-Granados, Hugo, Di Muro, Andrea, Fernandez, Deborah, Garzón, Gustavo, Gunawan, Hendra, Haerani, Nia, Hansteen, Thor. H., Hidalgo, Silvana, Inguaggiato, Salvatore, Johansson, Mattias, Kern, Christoph, Kihlman, Manne, Kowalski, Philippe, Masias, Pablo, Montalvo, Francisco, Möller, Joakim, Platt, Ulrich, Rivera, Claudia, Saballos, Armando, Salerno, Giuseppe, Taisne, Benoit, Vásconez, Freddy, Velásquez, Gabriela, Vita, Fabio, Yalire, Mathieu

“…This inventory opens a window into the short-term emission patterns of a diverse set of volcanoes in terms of magma composition, geographical location, magnitude of emission, and style of eruptive activity. We find that passive volcanic degassing is by no means a stationary process in time and that large sub-daily variability is observed in the flux of volcanic gases, which has implications for emission budgets produced using short-term, sporadic observations. …”
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Strategies to modulate Amorphous Oxide Semiconductor properties for low temperature transparent transistors by Kulkarni, Mohit Rameshchandra

“…The principal motivation of the thesis is to find alternate post-fabrication strategies to achieve the on-demand transformation of an oxide semiconductor for flexible electronics in order to avoid high-temperature annealing. …”
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Properties and mechanism of strain and piezoelectricity of hybrid molecular ferroelectrics by Hu, Yuzhong

“…Through systematic characterization, we find Br substitution has obvious softening effect, which leads to faster switching speed, lower switchable temperature and lower coercivity (Ec). …”
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Energy-efficient hardware accelerators based on bit-serial graph and memory-centric computing architectures by Mu, Junjie

“…Conventional von Neumann computers face the challenges of huge energy consumption and high computing power in solving non-deterministic polynomial-time hardness COPs since the time consumed to find solutions grows exponentially as the number of variables increases. …”
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The evolution and fate of waste plastics in landfills subject to physical and biochemical processes — implications for microplastics by Lu, Xuhong

“…Nonetheless, a substantial volume of plastics becomes plastic waste (PW), with a significant portion finding its way to landfills. Microplastics (MPs), a recently identified group of pollutants with dimensions below 5 mm, raise apprehensions about potential toxicity and their ability to transport other contaminants like heavy metals through adsorption and dissociation mechanisms. …”
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Enhancing network access for highly mobile nodes by Xia, Yang

“…This suggests mobility based clustering can be ineffective in these models. To find an alternative solution for scenarios in which significant group mobility is absent, the author continues to investigate the effectiveness of deploying mobile relays with stable uplinks. …”
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翻译与意识形态的操控 ：以 Northanger Abbey 的两个中译本为例 = Ideological manipulation on translation : a study on two translated versions of Northanger Abbey by 尚晓萌 Shang, Xiaomeng

“…The different strategies used by the two translators proved the manipulation of ideology and dominant poetics on translation at different historical times.This thesis will compare the two Chinese versions within the framework of manipulation factors, ideology, poetics and patronage and find out how the ideology and social culture influence the choosing, rewriting and publishing of the texts.…”
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Disorder–property relationships in magnetic and pseudospin framework materials by Bulled, J

“…I have carried out INS as a function of temperature over the temperature range associated with cyanide order and find evidence for antipolar correlations over nanometer lengthscales, persisting over a large temperature range. …”

Stability improvement and control optimization of isolated two-stage AC-DC-DC converter systems by Feng, Fan

“…This can help engineers find a more stable modulation scheme of the DAB converter in practical cascaded applications. …”
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Hybrid sensor fusion for unmanned ground vehicle by Guan, Mingyang

“…Extensive experiments have been designed on several large datasets to validate that: 1) the proposed tracking framework is superior to enhance the robustness of tracking model, 2) the proposed two weight solvers can effectively find the optimal weight for each feature. As expected, the proposed two trackers indeed improve the accuracy and robustness compared to the state-of-the-art trackers. …”
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Neural combinatorial optimization: from routing to integer programming by Wu, Yaoxin

“…However, classic heuristic methods severely depend on the design of hand-crafted rules for every specific COP, which could limit their performance in practice. Also, finding effective rules in heuristics is non-trivial and often needs massive expertise and tuning work. …”
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Methods of growth and transfer of carbon nanotubes onto substrates for advanced electrical and electronic applications by Ng, Zhi Kai

“…Subsequently, the influence of various growth parameters such substrate oxide thickness, amount of water vapor and etching time on efficiency of delamination was evaluated and optimized to yield wafer-scale free-standing VACNT, without requiring any form of mechanical handling. A significant key finding of the delamination study is that the SiO2 surface plays a crucial role for large scale self-delamination of VACNT. …”
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Clustering-based solutions for energy efficiency, adaptability and resilience in IoT networks by Shivaraman, Nitin

“…We evaluate DeCoRIC on the Contiki simulation platform and compare it against state-of-the-art clustering solutions. We find that DeCoRIC improves the power efficiency of the network by at least 70% and extends its life- time by at least 42% over existing solutions while making the network adaptable and resilient to faults. …”
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Semantic scene understanding on 3D point clouds by Dong, Shichao

“…Even without having any instance-related ground-truth, we design an approach to break point clouds into raw fragments and find the most confident samples for learning instance centroids. …”
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Salient keypoint detectors and compact feature descriptors for 3D perception by Prakhya, Sai Manoj

“…The proposed keypoint detection module finds reliable keypoints that work well with nearest neighbour association and represent the scene comprehensively while working in real time, which are the key requirements of SDO. …”
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Developing a portable, high-speed, low-cost desktop photoacoustic tomography imaging system by Kalva, Sandeep Kumar

“…Hence, we proposed a calibration method to find the scanning radius of each transducer. We validated the efficacy of this method using numerical and experimental data. …”
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Pnictogen-halide semiconductors for photovoltaics by Liu, P

“…These limitations have prompted research into lead-free alternative absorbers, with the aim of finding materials that could match or approach the optoelectronic properties of LHPs but surpass them in stability and overcome their toxicity limitations. …”

Development of human enterovirus 71 nano calcium phosphate adjuvanted candidate vaccine for parenteral and mucosal delivery by Saeed Ahmed, Mohamed Ibrahim

“…In addition, an elevated post vaccination humoral immune response of a highly specific IgG and neutralizing antibodies was as shown in the in vitro inhibition of HEV71 live virus infectivity to Vero cell at the highest sample dilutions. Finally, the study finding is a key indicator for the role of nano-size adjuvant and carriers in augmenting the postvaccination immunity. …”
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