Shear-flow characteristics of rock fractures and implications for injection-induced seismicity by Ji, Yinlin

“…Harvesting heat trapped in geothermal reservoirs has the potential to offer an affordable and sustainable solution for reducing the current dependence on fossil fuels. …”
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Comparison of diabetic and non-diabetic human leukocytic responses to different capsule types of klebsiella pneumoniae responsible for causing pyogenic liver abscess by Lee, I. Russel, Sng, Ethel, Lee, Kok-Onn, Molton, James S., Chan, Monica, Kalimuddin, Shirin, Izharuddin, Ezlyn, Lye, David C., Archuleta, Sophia, Gan, Yunn-Hwen

“…DNA and myeloperoxidase levels were elevated in the plasma of KLA patients compared to uninfected individuals indicating neutrophil activation, but diabetic status had no effect on these neutrophil extracellular trap (NET) biomarkers in both subject groups. Clinical hvKP isolates universally stimulated KLA patient neutrophils to produce NETs ex vivo, regardless of host diabetic status. …”
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Combating Household Bankruptcy: Developing a New Integrated Financial Education Model for Malaysian (S/O 13585) by Sawandi, Norfaiezah, Abu Bakar, Abu Sufian, Shaari, Hasnah, Amran, Noor Afza, Saad, Ram Al Jaffri

“…Meanwhile, it is observed that main factors that lead to poor financial/debts management are lack of financial knowledge and skills, lack of discipline in managing or paying debts, poor self-control, inability or not afford to pay loans/debts as the amount of payments are too much as compared to amount of income earned as well as greed which cause someone to be trapped in financial scams such as ponzi scheme. Finally, the study has developed the new integrated, holistic financial education model, which has three vital elements, that aims to create a financial literate or savvy society who are competent and able to apply knowledge, as well as have the right attitude, skills, knowledge, and habits to make effective financial decisions and are able to avoid being the victims of financial fraud or scam.…”
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Structural study of ribosome : 1) structural basis of EF-G in translocation. 2) molecular mechanism of ribosome-dependent toxin YoeB in mRNA cleavage by Chen, Yun

“…In current thesis, we present the structure of the Thermus thermophilus ribosome in complex with EF-G trapped by a GTP analogue. Binding with the ribosome and the GTP analogue facilitate the stabilization of EF-G switch I region, resulting in an ordered model of the active site. …”
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Two-dimensional transitional metal dichalcongenide heterostructures : interface optical properties by Zheng, ShouJun

“…In the hBN/TMDC/hBN heterostructure, e-beam induced e-h pairs can transfer to and be trapped in the middle TMDC layer, leading to increased recombination probability within the TMDC layer. …”
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Impact of interspecific competition on African wild dogs (Lycaon pictus) in an ecosystem with artificial perennial water provision by Sandoval Serés, ME

“…Thirdly, I evaluated if African wild dogs avoid large competing predators (leopards, lions and hyaenas) reactively or proactively in space and time at different spatial and temporal scales, using camera trap data to perform generalized linear mixed models, activity pattern overlap and time-to-event analyses (Chapter 4). …”

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

“…The crude extract of Bleg1_2437 was purified through Hi-Trap Sepharose affinity chromatography.The yield of purified recombinant Bleg1_2437 with protein tags (Trx-tag + S-tag + His-tag) was about 22 %. …”
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Solution-processed lead halide perovskite single crystal scintillators by Xie, Aozhen

“…Cations containing O and N elements (beside ammonium group) usually lead to (110)-orientated perovskites which show broad emissions in visible light range because of self-trapped excitons. We believe our conclusions in this thesis could shed light on similar scintillator design investigations. …”
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Ion doping behavior of stöber silica-nanosynthesis and application by Song, Xiaohui

“…The new breakthrough helps us to view silica as counter ions trapped inside which is critical to porosity. The elemental analysis, EDX line scan and TEM provide evidence to above hypothesis. …”
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Using machine learning to discover candidate localised transcripts from microscopy and genome-wide bioinformatics data by Kiourlappou, M

“…</p> <p>Firstly, I present a YFP protein trap microscopy screen conducted collaboratively by members of the Davis lab for 200 genes in the <em>Drosophila melanogaster</em> larval nervous system. …”

Towards electrically injected colloidal semiconductor lasers by Thung, Yi Tian

“…Addressing this gap, I explored electrical charge injection into Br--capped CdSe NPLs using an inverted p-i-n device architecture, resulting in narrow electroluminescence at 530 nm. …”
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Localized structural and bulk effects in hybrid organic-inoraginc perovskites by Wong, Walter Pei De

“…DFT simulations provided an indication that charge carriers in MAPbI3 exists as localized polarons, thus, the experimental studies seek spectroscopic evidence for the existence for these self-trapped polaronic states. Through a combination of steady state photoinduced absorption, transient absorption and transient photocurrent measurements, this chapter has confirmed the existence of theoretically predicted polaronic states in MAPbI3 which finds its origins in the ‘soft’ lead – iodide bond. …”
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Dynamics in blue emitting metal halide perovskites for light emitting diodes by Karlsson, Max

“…Successful implementation in LEDs has been attributed to efficient carrier funneling from large bandgap (donor) regions to low bandgap regions (acceptors) resulting in improved luminescence yields due to trap state filling from the locally increased carrier density. …”
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Dynamics and stability of evaporating and condensing liquid layers by Wei, Tao

“…In the (1+1)-dimensional [(1+1)D] simulation, well-defined capillary ridges can be observed on both sides of the valley under positive gravity (G > 0) and main and secondary droplets are expected to be seen under negative gravity (G < 0), while a ridge can be trapped in a large-scale drained region in both cases. …”
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Investigation of charge transport in nanofiber based solar cells by Sabba Dharani

“…Therefore one dimensional nanostructures are being explored as a replacement for nanoparticles with the aim of improving charge transport by providing a directional path for charge percolation and by reducing the surface traps and density of grain bound- aries associated with nanoparticles. …”
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Effects of microwave frying on physicochemical properties of edible oils and quality of potato chips by Elfaitouri, Taher A.Houssein

“…The oil distribution in microwaved potato chips fried under different microwave frying conditions showed that a crust developed during microwave frying. Oil was trapped only in intercellular spaces, which was strongly linked to the microstructure (not only in intercellular spaces but also over some cells). …”
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Graph representation learning by Zhang, Xinyi

“…We first focus on GNN-based methods and propose Capsule Graph Neural Network (CapsGNN), which is a novel message-passing-based architecture for graph-level representation learning. …”
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Interface engineering for organic−inorganic hybrid perovskite solar cells by Foo, Shini

“…To address these challenges, intensive developments have been made recently to interfacial engineering so as to reduce the amount of undesirable trap states in OIHP solar cells. Although significant progress has been made to improve the device performance and stability of OIHP solar cells using interfacial engineering, the preferable properties of passivation material utilized at various interfaces are often overlooked. …”
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2DEG enhancement via epilayer stress engineering in AlN/GaN/AlN heterostructure by Patwal, Shashank

“…The subsequent GaN channel layer was optimized to be grown at 720 ºC with minimal relaxation at nearly stoichiometric condition (III/V = 1.05).The AGA heterostructure was completed with an AlN barrier layer grown at near stoichiometric (III/V~1) growth condition and a 2 nm GaN cap layer. The AlN barrier and GaN channel combination of 3 nm and 43 nm thickness resulted in 2DEG density of 2.16×1013 cm-2 and carrier mobility of 528 cm2/V. s. …”
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