System-level design of low-carbon structures by Fang, Demi L.

“…While the design space of wild data includes a diverse variety of projects, leveraging a synthetic dataset computed from a bottom-up parametric model helps produce insights specific to the design problem at hand. The final contribution of this dissertation is to propose a computational framework that leverages synthetic data to empower decision-making in design. …”
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Optical and core-level X-ray spectroscopy of correlated two-dimensional materials by Occhialini, Connor Alexander

“…We employ Ni-L₃ edge resonant inelastic X-ray scattering (RIXS) to access a q-resolved and site-specific view into the excitation spectra. We identify the sharp excitons with spin-forbidden intra-configurational multiplets of octahedrally-coordinated Ni²⁺, which become renormalized by Ni-X charge transfer. …”
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Relationship between synoptic scale meteorology, aircraft parameters, and observable contrails by Barbosa, Maria Paula

“…Identifying and attributing observed contrails to specific individual flights is necessary to demonstrate the success of flight deviations. …”
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Exploring and Exploiting Ribonuclease 1: from Protein Biochemistry to Protein Engineering by Wralstad, Evans Christian

“…The zymogen is inactivated by steric occlusion and conformational distortion of the active site, and site-specific activation by 3CL superscript pro results in a multi-order of magnitude increase in ribonucleolytic activity. 3CL superscript pro action upon the zymogen leads to ribonucleolytic turnover of a fluorescent RNA substrate by the activated species, affording signal amplification that enables detection of nanomolar 3CLpro concentrations in a timeframe comparable to rapid antigen detection testing.…”
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Sampling from convex sets with a cold start using multiscale decompositions by Narayanan, Hariharan, Rajaraman, Amit, Srivastava, Piyush

“…Different random walks differ in aspects such as the ease of implementation of each step, or suitability for a specific class of convex bodies. Therefore, the rapid mixing of a wide variety of random walks on convex bodies has been studied. …”
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Geochemical heterogeneity in the Hawaiian plume : constraints from Hawaiian volcanoes and Emperor seamounts by Huang, Shichun

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How to learn Chinese characters? Exploring the effectiveness of different learning methods in young Singaporean children by Toh, Wendy Hwee Bin

“…In addition, the study also investigated whether children’s level of radical awareness (RA), which refers to the perception of radicals and components that make up compound characters, would mediate the effectiveness of specific learning conditions. Findings of Experiment 1 revealed that the presence of Pinyin during character learning affected character recognition (CR) accuracy by interfering with the orthographic form recognition (OR) and sound retrieval among the low RA children. …”
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High cycle fatigue characterisation and modelling of 316L stainless steel processed by laser powder bed fusion by Zhang, Meng

“…The latter approach allowed the specification of a reduction factor on fatigue life to account for the intrinsic effects of microstructure inhomogeneity, as well as the construction of a modified Basquin equation that incorporates the defect fraction parameter for predicting the effects of lack of fusion defects on the S-N properties. …”
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Phase transitions by an abundant protein in the anammox extracellular matrix mediate cell-to-cell aggregation and biofilm formation by Seviour, Thomas, Wong, Lan Li, Lu, Yang, Mugunthan, Sudarsan, Yang, Qiaohui, Chanda Segaran, Uma Shankari, Bessarab, Irina, Liebl, David, Williams, Rohan B. H., Law, Yingyu, Kjelleberg, Staffan

“…The isolated protein was stained positively by the β-sheet-specific stain thioflavin T, along with cell surface- and matrix-associated regions of the biofilm. …”
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Analysis and design of curved steel beam member in elevation using Eurocode 3 by Yandarmadi, Kelvin

“…Therefore, this paper presents analytical estimates of the behaviour existed by curved like structures such as curved steel beam under uniformly gravitational distributed load. This paper specifically focuses on analysing simply supported boundary condition curved beam member which pinned on the one end and roller that can be moved horizontally on the other end. …”
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Changes in cerebrospinal fluid balance of TNF and TNF receptors in naïve multiple sclerosis patients : early involvement in compartmentalised intrathecal inflammation by Magliozzi, Roberta, Pezzini, Francesco, Pucci, Mairi, Rossi, Stefania, Facchiano, Francesco, Marastoni, Damiano, Montagnana, Martina, Lippi, Giuseppe, Reynolds, Richard, Calabrese, Massimiliano

“…In conclusion, dysregulation of TNF and TNF-R1/2 pathways associates with specific clinical/MRI profiles and can be identified at a very early stage in MS patients, at the time of diagnosis, contributing to the prediction of the disease outcome.…”
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Electrode modification by diazonium chemistry : studies on the effect of steric bulk on film thickness, and modified activated carbon cloths for energy storage by Subrata, Arnold

“…Although ACCs have inherently lower porosity and specific surface area than other more commonly preferred carbonaceous materials for EDLCs, they were chosen for the study due to their mechanical stability and flexibility (and hence great potential for use in wearable electronics) while being electrically conductive. …”
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Biaxial strain induced OH engineer for accelerating alkaline hydrogen evolution by Zhang, Tao, Ye, Qitong, Han, Zengyu, Liu, Qingyi, Liu, Yipu, Wu, Dongshuang, Fan, Hong Jin

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Sentiment analysis and summarization of movie reviews across genres. by Tun, Thura Thet.

“…The objectives of this study are to: 1) investigate the characteristics and implications of different online genres in expressing opinions; 2) develop specific methods for sentiment analysis of review documents in different online genres; and 3) develop an effective method to combine and summarize the results of sentiment analysis across multiple genres. …”
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Competitive intrinsically motivated agents for resource allocation by Zhao, Guopeng

“…Resource Allocation maps user requirements to specific resources, and it plays an important role in enabling a ubiquitous, convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of computing resources. …”
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Mechanical behaviors of individual core-shell microspheres and their polymeric composites under different strain rates by Zhang, Xin

“…Cowper-Symonds model was employed to predict the strength of microcapsule at specific strain rate. A linear relationship between strain rate and strength was obtained for all the microcapsule modified epoxy resin. …”
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新加坡高校人才战略的理念建构和实践运作 - 以南洋理工大学为例 = Formulation and implementation of talent strategy in higher education : a case study of Nanyang Technological University in Singapore... by 刘宏 Liu Hong, 贾丽华 Jia Lihua, 范昕 Fan Xin

“…The third part examines the specific policies and procedures relating to recruitment and nurturing of faculty members at NTU. …”
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Neuronal control of cardiac excitability in pro-hypertensive states by Larsen, H

“…</p> <p><b>Chapter 1</b> provides a general overview of the field of autonomic hypertension with a specific focus on the sympathetic control of cardiac excitability. …”

Sexual violence at higher education institutions: prevalence, nature, and opportunities for prevention by Steele, B

“…Universities UK has specifically called for UK HEIs to collect adequate data on SV at HEIs to inform current and future prevention and response initiatives.…”

Impact of interspecific competition on African wild dogs (Lycaon pictus) in an ecosystem with artificial perennial water provision by Sandoval Serés, ME

“…My main results show that: a) prey conservation mainly in low waterhole density areas is crucial to decrease food resource competition between African wild dogs with large predators (Chapter 2); b) areas with too high waterhole densities increased the kleptoparasitism risk on African wild dogs and hence the risk of agonistic encounters with dominant predators through an increase on the number of dominant predators arriving at playback locations (Chapter 3); c) African wild dogs preferred temporal partitioning over spatial partitioning to avoid large predators, and African wild dogs were able to co-occur in areas (rich in prey) with high aggregation and density of dominant predators as long as there were enough permanent waterhole densities (at least ~0.01 waterholes per km²) and not too high hyaena densities (above ~14 hyaenas/100km²) (Chapter 4). Specifically to decrease the interspecific competition intensity of African wild dogs with larger predators, it is important that there are areas with enough permanent waterholes (at least ~0.01 waterholes per km²) during the late dry season, but to also limit the number of artificial waterholes created in high waterhole density areas (above ~0.03 waterholes per km²) (Chapter 5). …”