Effects of positive education approach on academic boredom, intrinsic motivation, positive emotions and thought-action repertoire among private college students in Shaanxi Province... by Jie, Zheng

“…Academic boredom can be best described as a negative and deactivating academicrelated activity emotion, which is frequently reported by Chinese college students. …”
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Control and operation of DC microgrids by Adhikari, Sujan

“…Upon review, it was also found that combination of lead-acid battery and supercapacitor compensate the gap of high energy density and high power density respectively and proved to be the best solution for hybrid energy storage applications and hence used as HESS in this research. …”
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50 Years of quantum chromodynamics by Gross, Franz, Klempt, Eberhard, Brodsky, Stanley J., Buras, Andrzej J., Burkert, Volker D., Heinrich, Gudrun, Jakobs, Karl, Meyer, Curtis A., Orginos, Kostas, Strickland, Michael, Stachel, Johanna, Zanderighi, Giulia, Brambilla, Nora, Braun-Munzinger, Peter, Britzger, Daniel, Capstick, Simon, Cohen, Tom, Crede, Volker, Constantinou, Martha, Davies, Christine, Del Debbio, Luigi, Denig, Achim, DeTar, Carleton, Deur, Alexandre, Dokshitzer, Yuri, Dosch, Hans Günter, Dudek, Jozef, Dunford, Monica, Epelbaum, Evgeny, Escobedo, Miguel A., Fritzsch, Harald, Fukushima, Kenji, Gambino, Paolo, Gillberg, Dag, Gottlieb, Steven, Grafstrom, Per, Grazzini, Massimiliano, Grube, Boris, Guskov, Alexey, Iijima, Toru, Ji, Xiangdong, Karsch, Frithjof, Kluth, Stefan, Kogut, John B., Krauss, Frank, Kumano, Shunzo, Leinweber, Derek, Leutwyler, Heinrich, Li, Hai-Bo, Li, Yang, Malaescu, Bogdan, Mariotti, Chiara, Maris, Pieter, Marzani, Simone, Melnitchouk, Wally, Messchendorp, Johan, Meyer, Harvey, Mitchell, Ryan Edward, Mondal, Chandan, Nerling, Frank, Neubert, Sebastian, Pappagallo, Marco, Pastore, Saori, Peláez, José R., Puckett, Andrew, Qiu, Jianwei, Rabbertz, Klaus, Ramos, Alberto, Rossi, Patrizia, Rustamov, Anar, Schäfer, Andreas, Scherer, Stefan, Schindler, Matthias, Schramm, Steven, Shifman, Mikhail, Shuryak, Edward, Sjöstrand, Torbjörn, Sterman, George, Stewart, Iain W., Stroth, Joachim, Swanson, Eric, de Téramond, Guy F., Thoma, Ulrike, Vairo, Antonio, van Dyk, Danny, Vary, James, Virto, Javier, Vos, Marcel, Weiss, Christian, Wobisch, Markus, Wu, Sau Lan, Young, Christopher, Yuan, Feng, Zhao, Xingbo, Zhou, Xiaorong

“…This volume concludes with a description of future facilities or important upgrades of existing facilities which improve their luminosity by orders of magnitude. The best is yet to come!…”
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RES.21G-001 The User-friendly Classroom, Spring 2016 by Kemp, A. C.

“…These videos demonstrate best practices through authentic examples of successful teaching scenarios, interviews with undergraduates and advice from international teaching assistants.These videos were created for use with the following courses: 21G.232 / 21G.233 Advanced Speaking and Critical Listening (ELS)21G.217 / 21G.218 Workshop in Strategies for Effective Teaching (ELS)"Special thanks to my mentor, Jane Dunphy, for her support and advice with this project.…”
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Next generation design of floating systems for coastal solar farms by Bi, Cheng

“…It is found that the HDPE barrier with a penetration of 40% of water depth shows the best performance on the wave attenuation especially when it has a thickness of 10 cm, compared to the other two materials, with less than 40% allowable wave transmission. …”
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In-situ infrared spectroscopy studies of surface reactions over irradiated photocatalysts by Gong, Dangguo

“…These materials were also active in degradation of MO dye and ethanol photo-oxidation under visible light irradiation. The best performance for the Ag-decorated material in visible light and the pristine TiO2 under UV excitation were obtained after identical thermal treatment (450 C) thus showing the importance of the semi-conductor. …”
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Evolutionary explanations and the debunking of moral beliefs by Cofnas, N

“…According to him, the best explanation for this phenomenon is that people have come to recognize the objective correctness of liberalism. …”

Interventions for smoking cessation in hospitalised patients by Streck, JM, Rigotti, NA, Livingstone-Banks, J, Tindle, HA, Clair, C, Munafò, MR, Sterling-Maisel, C, Hartmann-Boyce, J

“…Evidence for bupropion was low‐certainty; the point estimate indicated a modest benefit at best, but CIs were wide and incorporated clinically significant harm and clinically significant benefit (RR 1.11, 95% CI 0.86 to 1.43, 4 studies, 872 participants).…”

Synthesis of biomimetic co-polypeptides with tunable degrees of phosphorylation by Lipik, Vitali, Zhang, Lihong, Miserez, Ali

“…Pc-3 is comprised of mostly Ser and tyrosine (Tyr), with up to 70% of Ser residues phosphorylated into phospho-serine (pSer) giving rise to the high net negative charge of Pc-3. …”
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Characterization of Salmonella spp. isolated from patients below 3 years old with acute diarrhoea by Shobirin, M.H. Anis, Shuhaimi, M., Abu‐Bakar, F., Ali, A.M., Ariff, A., Nur‐Atiqah, N.A., Yazid, A.M.

“…The serological test has typed them into three serovars, which were identified as Salmonella enterica ser. Akanji, Salmonella enterica ser. Hindmarch and Salmonella enterica ser. …”
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Thermal analysis on porous material by finite element method by Ma, Su Mon Soe

“…The first part of the project is to perform the thermal analysis on the air-aluminium composite bar and compare the analytical results and FEA results of the temperature distribution of aluminium composite bar. …”
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Switching-based transmit antenna / aperture selection for MISO hybrid FSO / RF system by Tan, Jerome Kwee Ann

“…Lastly, we present the simulations of average SER for a Hybrid system when the RF links are subject to outdated channel state information (CSI). …”
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Study of metal-organic framework MIL-101(Cr) for natural gas (methane) storage and compare with other MOFs (metal-organic frameworks) by Kayal, Sibnath, Sun, Baichuan, Chakraborty, Anutosh

“…At 298 K, it is observed that the total volumetric uptake of CH4 on MIL-101(Cr) MOF is about (i) 150 cm3/cm3 at 35 bar, (ii) 215 cm3/cm3 at 65 bar, and (iii) 30 cm3/cm3 at 5 bar. …”
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Development of a 14-degree of freedom prototype biped robot by Khaw, Aik Hau.

“…It possesses 14 Degrees of Freedom and is actuated by positional servomotors. Four-bar and five-bar linkages are used for the power transmission of joints actuation of the biped robot and they are further discussed in the thesis.…”
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Control of twin-lift helicopter system by Lye, Cheng Lin.

“…The simulations for the spreader bar and the non-spreader bar configurations are discussed. …”
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14-3-3 interaction with phosphodiesterase 8A sustains PKA signaling and downregulates the MAPK pathway by Mukherjee, Soumita, Roy, Somesh, Mukherjee, Shruti, Harikishore, Amaravadhi, Bhunia, Anirban, Mandal, Atin K.

“…Here, we report that PDE8A interacts with 14-3-3ζ in both yeast and mammalian system, and this interaction is enhanced upon the activation of PKA, which phosphorylates PDE8A's Ser359 residue. Biophysical characterization of phospho-Ser359 peptide with 14-3-3ζ protein further supports their interaction. …”
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Gene loops juxtapose promoters and terminators in yeast. by O'Sullivan, JM, Tan-Wong, S, Morillon, A, Lee, B, Coles, J, Mellor, J, Proudfoot, N

“…Under these conditions, the C-terminal domain of the large subunit of PolII is phosphorylated at Ser5. Notably, inactivation of Kin28p causes a loss of both Ser5 phosphorylation and the loop conformation. …”

Micro plastic injection molding by Koh, Rachel Sheng Lin

“…The settings are barrel temperature of 255°C, mold temperature of 80°C, injection pressure of 1200 bar and holding pressure of 200 bar.…”
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Study of advanced in-space propulsion technologies by Tan, De Jun

“…They are solar sails, beamed laser propulsion and electric propulsion. The discussion includes an introduction to the theory behind these systems, their properties, potential applications, limitations and advantages as well as the possibility of implementing them in the near future. …”
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Molecular engineering of biomolecule-based functional nanodots for biomedical applications by Xu Victor Hesheng

“…The resulting biodot (ie. Ser-dot, Ser-PEI biodot and Ser-Hist biodot) displayed enhanced properties which is suitable for applications including bioimaging, antibacterial therapy and biosensing respectively. …”
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