Effective and efficient topic mining and exploration from geo-textual data by Zhao, Kaiqi

“…For example, a social scientist may want to find out breaking events by submitting regions and time spans in an exploratory manner. …”
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A Learning Community of Reflective Teachers : From Whispers to Resonance / by Raghavan, Neeraja, translator 656168

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Synthesis of epoxidized poly(ester carbonate)-b-polyimide-b-poly(ester carbonate) : reactive single-walled carbon nanotube dispersants enable synergistic reinforcement around multi... by Liu, Bo, Liu, Chengyin, De Luca, Hugo G., Raman Pillai, Suresh Kumar, Anthony, David B., Li, Jianghua, Bismarck, Alexander, Shaffer, Milo S. P., Chan-Park, Mary Bee Eng

“…TB3-dispersed (2 wt%) SWNTs added to epoxy increased the tensile strength, modulus, and elongation at break of the resulting nanocomposite films by 40%, 34%, and 26% respectively, compared to the baseline epoxy resin. …”
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Experimental investigation of pile-supported/floating breakwaters integrated with oscillating-water-column converters by He, Fang

“…Most of the existing designs make use of vortex shedding, turbulence and/or wave breaking to enhance dissipation of wave energy. However, wave energy can also be used for electricity generation, and integration of a wave energy converter into a breakwater potentially can be a promising technology for waste-to-energy. …”
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Thermoplastic polymer nanocomposites based on polydopamine-coated clay : preparation, structures and properties by Phua, Si Lei

“…The results showed pronounced improvement in mechanical properties, such as stiffness, tensile strength and strain at break, at 3wt% clay loading. The remarkable improvement can be attributed to the excessive hydrogen bonds between D-clay and the hard segments (hard segments are made of diisocyanate and the short-chain diol) of PU. …”
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Landless in God’s own country: development and perpetual struggles in Kerala by Ramapurath Chemmencheri, S

“…The lens of state life brings out how the state in Kerala manages its Adivasi surplus populations that break out into agitations for land. The assumption that the close relationship Adivasis hold with land will get them out of poverty is rejected by the land recipients. …”

Effects of probiotic supplementation on calcium absorption and bone health status in ovariectomized rats by Parvaneh, Kolsoom

“…BMD, trabecular structures, percentage of bone volume/total volume (BV/TV %), and percentage of total porosity were assessed using micro CT-scan. Breaking force of the femur was analysed by three point bending test using universal testing machine. …”
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Studies on GaN based HEMT heterostructures on 100-mm silicon grown by molecular beam epitaxy by Ravikiran Lingaparthi

“…GaN based high electron mobility transistors (HEMTs) have attracted great attention over the last two decades for the high power and high frequency applications due to their advantages of polarization induced high electron density, high break down field and high saturation electron velocity. …”
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Neural abstractive summarization: improvements at the sequence-level by Ravaut, Mathieu

“…By construction, the re-ranker above is bounded by the performance of the best existing summary candidate. To break this ceiling, we propose a new paradigm: our second work named SummaFusion combines together the summary candidates to produce a new, abstractive second-stage one. …”
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Uncovering vein patterns from color skin images for personal identification in forensic investigation by Tang, Chaoying

“…Experimental results demonstrate that the approaches perform better than other methods. In this research, we break the limit of traditional vein recognition and show its potential for forensic analysis. …”
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Transport phenomena of immiscible fluids in microchannels by Yin, Shuai

“…The biggest advantage of the proposed approach is that it removes the necessity of surface treatment for O/W droplet formation in PMDS microchannels, breaking the limits brought by the surface wettability for the first time and rendering itself to be a universal method for O/W droplet active generation with outstanding controllability. …”
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Towards haptic intelligence in robots by learning from demonstration by Turlapati Sri Harsha

“…However, these kinematic-haptic correspondences vary based on the materials of surfaces in contact, their geometry, making or breaking of contact, and several other task-specific variables, which makes it hard to develop pre-programmed / feedforward robotic approaches. …”
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Efficient storage codes for non-volatile memories by Chua, Melissa Wan Jun

“…Nevertheless, the physical constraints of Flash makes additional scaling a tremendously expensive task, therefore we exploit alternative technology to break through what the Flash technology has to offer. …”
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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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Towards electrically injected colloidal semiconductor lasers by Thung, Yi Tian

“…The fabricated microlasers exhibited stable lasing at room temperature with a record-breaking quality (Q-) factor of 13000, a low lasing threshold of 27.67 μJ cm-2, and stable single-mode lasing with a Q-factor of 7340 via evanescent field coupling between an NPL-coated microsphere and a thin uncoated microfiber in a 2D-3D microcavity configuration. …”
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Studies on plasma assisted molecular beam epitaxial growth of GaN-based multilayer heterostructures on Si for photodetector application by Zheng, Yi

“…III-Nitride materials have gathered enormous attention and undergone fast development, due to superior properties such as wide band gap, high stability, high electron motilities, high break down voltage and sensitivity to ultraviolet light. …”
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Structured sparse representations for supervised and unsupervised learning by Zeng, Yijie

“…The technique is particularly important to structural inputs such as images (natural or hyper-spectral), since the convolution operator is shift-invariant and does not break the spatial configurations. This part of the thesis is particularly dedicated to exploring online methods for efficient CDL algorithms where input signals are provided in a streaming fashion to update the dictionary, because the batch mode CDL is time and memory-consuming in nature. …”
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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

“…The detection mechanism of our rational design is mainly based on the fact that the specific interactions between LPS and neutralizing peptide could break up the π-π stacking conformation of neighbouring PDI molecules on Fe3O4@SiO2 nanoparticle surfaces, and thus efficiently turn on the self-quenched fluorescence. …”
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Topochemical fluorination of some Ruddlesden-Popper phases by Zhang, R

“…The introduction of a cooperative octahedral tilt around the crystallographic z-axis leads to a local breaking of the inversion symmetry of the host lattice on fluorination, although the global inversion symmetry of the lattice is retained due to an alternation in the z-tilt direction in adjacent perovskite sheets.…”

Robust and efficient deep learning methods for vision-based action recognition by Xu, Yuecong

“…In summary, this thesis contributes to robust and efficient vision-based action recognition by introducing two algorithms for extracting robust and efficient temporal or spatiotemporal correlation features and pioneering in the research of robust vision-based action recognition in dark videos, breaking through the constraint of current vision-based action recognition research conducted on only normal illuminated videos.…”
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