Electronic structure of paramagnetic transition metal complexes by Al-Ameed, K

“…In Chapter 3, we address the question of redox-dependent spin transitions in triangular iron complexes. …”

Structural and biochemical characterisation of bacterial metallo-β-lactamases by Makena, A

“…Chapter 2 of the thesis describes the identification of a novel cephalosporinbased substrates, <b>CLS405</b>, for MBL activity and inhibition assays. …”

Emotion language in context: investigating emotion words in children’s written language and word learning by Dong, Y

“…</p> <p>To complement the corpus approach, this thesis also includes two word-learning experiments, one with adults (Chapter 4) and one with children (Chapter 5). Participants read novel adjectives in short narratives that had either neutral, negative, or positive valence. …”

Metatheoretical study of Lijphart's power sharing theory by Mafakheri, Ramin

“…Accordingly, in the first chapter on the findings, the researcher discovered the theoretical pillars and boundaries of Lijphart’s theory. …”
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Small but prospective: development of enzyme-responsive small molecule fluorescent probes for specific bacterial imaging by Yan, Evelias Hui Xin

“…In chapter 2, we explore the specific proteolytic activity of an outer membrane bacterial protease that is present in all wild-type Escherichia coli (E. coli) and another bacterial protease located in the periplasmic region of E. coli to synthesize a near infrared fluorescence probe for the real-time imaging of urinary tract bacterial infection in vitro and in vivo. …”
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Development of earth-abundant copper photosensitizers for artificial photosynthesis by Ng, Yik Yie

“…However, the efficiencies obtained and discussed in Chapter 3 were lower than expectations. In Chapter 4, another group of panchromatic Ar-BIAN CuI complexes were synthesized and characterized. …”
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Development of a cloud-based road surface quality assessment system by Lim, Ka Quan, Nor Azuana, Ramli

“…The model’s processing speed, with 9.7 milliseconds per image, indicates its capability for near real-time analysis. Finally, the model is deployed on cloud infrastructure hosted by Digital Ocean to provide scalability and accessibility. …”
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A River Discharge Model for Coastal Taiwan during Typhoon Morakot by Mirabito, Christopher, Haley, Jr, Patrick J., Lermusiaux, Pierre F., Leslie, Wayne G.

“…In particular, record-breaking discharge caused by Typhoon Morakot (August 6{10 2009) was observed to signi cantly a ect near-shore temperature and salinity during the Intensive Ob- servation Period-09 (IOP09) of the Quantifying, Predicting and Exploiting Uncertainty (QPE) research initiative. …”
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Quantum Algorithm for Petz Recovery Channels and Pretty Good Measurements by Gilyén, András, Lloyd, Seth, Marvian, Iman, Quek, Yihui, Wilde, Mark M.

“…The pretty good measurement is a special case of the Petz recovery channel, and it allows for near-optimal state discrimination. A hurdle to the experimental realization of these vaunted theoretical tools is the lack of a systematic and efficient method to implement them. …”
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An in situ study of abyssal turbidity-current sediment plumes generated by a deep seabed polymetallic nodule mining preprototype collector vehicle by Muñoz-Royo, Carlos, Ouillon, Raphael, El Mousadik, Souha, Alford, Matthew H., Peacock, Thomas

“…An in situ study to investigate the dynamics of sediment plumes near the release from a deep seabed polymetallic nodule mining preprototype collector vehicle was conducted in the Clarion Clipperton Zone in the Pacific Ocean 4500-m deep. …”
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Search of the early O3 LIGO data for continuous gravitational waves from the Cassiopeia A and Vela Jr. supernova remnants by Sudhir, Vivishek

“…Estimates from simulated continuous wave signals indicate we achieve the most sensitive results to date across the explored parameter space volume, probing to strain magnitudes as low as ~$6.3\times10^{-26}$ for Cas A and ~$5.6\times10^{-26}$ for Vela Jr. at frequencies near 166 Hz at 95% efficiency.…”
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Field instrumentation for monitoring of water, heat, and gas transfers through unsaturated soils by Indrawan, I. Gde Budi, Rahardjo, Harianto, Leong, Eng Choon, Tan, Puay-Yok, Fong, Yok-King, Sim, Eng-Koon

“…Volumetric water contents of the soil layers near the ground surface fluctuated highly as compared to those of the soil layers below. …”
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Memory-efficient and rapidly-converging path planner by Immanuel, Ivan

“…The planner employed by UTM must be able to return optimal, or at least near optimal path, to avoid convolutions and reduce energy consumption of each UAV. …”
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Influence of thermal sintering protocol on materials properties of tungsten carbide alloy (WC-17%Co) components by binder jet printing by Low, Tammy Chien-Yu

“…Binder jet is a type of 3D printing technique that operates at low temperature and print objects to its near net shape. It enables subsequent post shaping process to be omitted, possibly cutting down on processing steps and cost. …”
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Water-rich sublithospheric melt channel in the equatorial Atlantic Ocean by Mehouachi, Fares, Singh, Satish C.

“…The required water concentration for melting increases with age; nevertheless, its corresponding total mass remains relatively constant, suggesting that most of the volatiles in the oceanic sublithospheric channel originate from a horizontal flux near the ridge axis.…”
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Tshangla verb inflections: a preliminary sketch by Andvik, Erik

“…However, the language described by Zhang and Sun is spoken in a cluster of communities geographically separated from Bhutan by several hundred miles, namely the region formerly known as Padma-bkod, located near the point where the Tsangpo River (Siang), crosses the McMahon Line. …”
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Design of differentially-driven chip antenna by Tan, Heng Chuan.

“…When the driving points are located near to each other ξ/λ_0 <0.1, there will be no resonance.…”
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CFD simulation of bubbly flow in a vertical pipe by Adarsh Gouda

“…It was seen that, inclusion of bubbles varies the velocity gradient of water near the wall region and also an increase in volume fraction of the bubbles causes decrease in axial velocity of the water.…”
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Protection of cyclists by Xiao, Shunyu

“…However, statistics from Singapore Traffic Police Headquarters revealed that road traffic accidents involving cyclists has increased exponentially over the years and this trend is expected to continue with a larger cyclist population in the near future. To find out the how and why such accidents occurred, data from Singapore Traffic Police Headquarters were carefully examined. …”
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Material characterization of additive manufactured metal parts for failure analysis by Seow, Mei Qi

“…SLM fabricated parts have near full density with relatively good mechanical properties. …”
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