The Ethics within Metaphysics by Impagnatiello, Michele Odissea

“…In the second part, I argue that the phenomenal theory also solves the problem of fission cases, because there are no cases of phenomenal fission. In the third and last part, I consider the objection that, on the phenomenal theory, we do not survive interruptions of consciousness such as sleep; I argue that this objection doesn’t succeed in refuting the theory. …”
Get full text

Arthroscopic Bone Block and Arthroscopic Latarjet for Anterior Shoulder Dislocation—Technical Note with Tricks and Tips for Conversion and Successful Surgery by Longo, Umile Giuseppe, Marcello, Gianmarco, Nazarian, Ara, DeAngelis, Joseph, D’Hooghe, Margaux, D’Hooghe, Pieter

“…Background: The treatment of patients affected by recurrent anterior shoulder instability has received more attention in the last ten years, focusing on the management of bone loss, which is crucial in predicting postoperative recurrence risk. …”
Get full text

Modelling the chemotactic response of escherichia coli to signalling molecule AI-2 by Tan, Pei Yen

“…It appears that the advantage of the indirect binding mechanism can be observed in nutrient-scarce conditions, as a bacterium is predicted to be able to ramp up the magnitude of chemotactic response and shift the sensitivity profile towards dilute attractant concentrations by raising the concentration of periplasmic binding protein moderately. In the third and last study presented in this thesis, we extend the indirect binding model to develop a higher-order model based on specific considerations for the AI-2 system. …”
Get full text

Fully automated differential fault analysis on software implementations of block ciphers by Hou, Xiaolu, Breier, Jakub, Zhang, Fuyuan, Liu, Yang

“…We create a tool that takes assembly code as input, analyzes the dependencies among instructions, automatically attacks vulnerable instructions using SMT solver and outputs the attack details that recover the last round key (and possibly the earlier keys). We support our design with evaluations on lightweight ciphers SIMON, SPECK, and PRIDE, and a current NIST standard, AES. …”
Get full text

Optimal locally repairable codes via elliptic curves by Li, Xudong, Ma, Liming, Xing, Chaoping

“…Constructing locally repairable codes achieving Singleton-type bound (we call them optimal codes in this paper) is a challenging task and has attracted great attention in the last few years. Tamo and Barg first gave a breakthrough result in this topic by cleverly considering subcodes of Reed-Solomon codes. …”
Get full text

Cationic glycosylated block co-β-peptide acts on the cell wall of Gram-positive bacteria as anti-biofilm agents by Zhang, Kaixi, Raju, Cheerlavancha, Zhong, Wenbin, Pethe, Kevin, Gründling, Angelika, Chan-Park, Mary B.

“…In addition to the emergence of resistance to last resort drugs, bacteria escape antibiotics killing by forming complex biofilms. …”
Get full text

Time-series representation learning via temporal and contextual contrasting by Eldele, Emadeldeen, Mohamed Ragab, Chen, Zhenghua, Wu, Min, Kwoh, Chee Keong, Li, Xiaoli, Guan, Cuntai

“…Second, we propose a novel temporal contrasting module to learn robust temporal representations by designing a tough cross-view prediction task. Last, to further learn discriminative representations, we propose a contextual contrasting module built upon the contexts from the temporal contrasting module. …”
Get full text

Fabrication of high-performance thin-film composite and nanochannel-enabled next-generation membranes for water desalination by Lim, Yu Jie

“…Water reuse and seawater desalination have evolved into alternative water sources in the last 40 years in response to the increasing freshwater scarcity. …”
Get full text

Children with type 1 diabetes in COVID-19 pandemic: difficulties and solutions by Shi, Yue, Wu, Li-Qun, Wei, Peng, Liao, Zehuan

“…T1D has been the most common type of diabetes in children and adolescents and the last decades has seen a rapid increase in the prevalence of T1D in youths worldwide, which deserves a public concern particularly in the COVID-19 pandemic. …”
Get full text

Relict and modern sediments on the continental shelf of the northern South China Sea: a reconsideration by Wang, Yuming, Chen, Xiaohong, Switzer, Adam D., Li, Linlin, Xu, Yang, Wang, Yukun, Zhang, Peizhen

“…The present isobaths of ∼−90 m in the NSSCS might be the reflective of the early Holocene coastal delta or the last glacial maximum shoreline.…”
Get full text

Organic solvent-assisted control of hydrogel structures and properties by Zhou, Quan

“…Highly porous and hollow hydrogel structures were successfully obtained by controlling the temperature under which gelation proceeded. At last, we found that introducing ethanol into hydrogel precursor solution to a certain concentration range could significantly increase the toughness of hydrogels by several folds. …”
Get full text

Three essays in finance by Qian, Shuoge

“…We document pronounced abnormal returns and trading volume on the last trading day before the effective date. Arbitrageurs can exploit this predictable pattern of stock price changes and earn sizable abnormal returns if they long the added and short the deleted stocks on the announcement date and close their positions at the end of the day before the effective date. …”
Get full text

萧红与萧军的革命意志 ：比较《生死场》与《八月的乡村》的女性身体刻画 = Revolutionary will of Xiao Hong and Xiao Jun : comparison of body portrayed between “The Field of Life and Death” and “Village in August”... by 李慧仪 Lee, Huiyi

“…Next, a comparison between the two works would be done to uncover the revolutionary will of both Xiao Hong and Xiao Jun, through the body metaphor of both works. Last but not least, an analysis will be given to explain the underlying difference of their revolutionary will. …”
Get full text

The behaviour of steel and composite structures under a middle-column-removal scenario by Yang, Bo

“…Based on this mechanical model, component-based models of bolted-angle connections have been proposed to represent the key responses of beam-column joints under a middle-column-removal scenario, including the formation of flexural action at small deformation stage, the development of catenary action at large deformation stage and fractures of the connection components at the last stage. Finally, a series of experimental tests was conducted in order to investigate the behaviour of composite beam-column joints under a middle-column-removal scenario and identify the contribution of composite slab to resist progressive collapse. …”
Get full text

二十世纪七八十年代新华女性小说作者的世界 = The worlds of Singapore Chinese female writers of fiction : a study of short stories and novellas during the seventies and eighties from a feminist perspecti... by 胡月宝 Aw, Guat Poh

“…Chapter six probes into the public sphere, where the social domain is the focus. The last chapter, the Conclusion, re-examines the textual world of Singapore Chinese female writers from a feminist perspective.…”
Get full text

Fabrication and properties of oxide semiconductor nanowires by Shen, Youde

“…We demonstrated the unprecedented growth behaviors of indium oxide (IO) nanostructures and revealed the important function of the tin dopants. At last, we report the growth of kinked single-crystalline In2O3 nanostructures consisting of nanocone base and nanowire tip connected without any twin boundaries or stacking faults. …”
Get full text

Output regulation of linear heterogeneous multi-agent systems by Adib Yaghmaie, Farnaz

“…We obtain a new H_∞ criterion which is sufficient for both the classical output regulation and the bipartite output regulation. In the last part of this thesis, we define multi-party output regulation of linear heterogeneous agents over a general graph with complex weights. …”
Get full text

Effects of physical stimuli applied via substrate/scaffold on in-vitro culture of mesenchymal stem cells and neurons by Xu, Qinwei

“…It provided a new way to build a dynamic 3D cell culture to studying cell-microenvironment interactions. The last part studied the effect of electrical stimulation (ES) applied on neurons and glial cells in the 3D-CNFs. …”
Get full text

Effect of geometry on temporal development of quasi-1D jet scour by Tan, Ian Haoyang

“…The phenomenon of jet scouring has been studied extensively over the last 50 years with numerous experiments conducted in order to achieve a deeper understanding of the 3-dimensional (3D) and 2-dimensional (2D) scouring effect. …”
Get full text

On strong semismoothness and superlinear convergence of complementarity problems over homogeneous cones by Nguyen, Hai Ha

“…Especially, for the class of symmetric cones, beside defi ning the symmetric cone via using the concept of homogeneous cone, we also introduce the closely related concepts like Euclidean Jordan algebra, Jordan frame, Pierce decomposition, etc. In the last section of this chapter, we take a glance over the main contributions, discussed in Chapers 2 and Chapter 3. …”
Get full text