Synthesis and optical characterization of cadmium sulfide (CdS) single crystals for laser cooling effect by Zhang, Chiyuan

“…The first part of the work is to characterize the laser cooling effect of CdS commercial single crystals. CdS has been proved very promising in laser cooling effect where nanobelts of CdS can be cooled down 40 K from room temperature and 20 K from 100K if excited by certain lasers1. …”
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重新建构女性的自我认同 ： 以苏童“红粉”系列小说为例 = Re-constructing woman’s self identity : a case study of Su Tong’s “Hong Fen” series by 陈品秀 Tan, Ping Siew

“…In this thesis, three novels from “Hong Fen” series, Qi Qie Cheng Qun (Wives and Concubines), Hong Fen and Ling Yi Zhong Fu Nv Sheng Huo, have been chosen to be the focus point for text interpretation, as well as analysis how country’s social systems and power “repress” women’s identities, and how they manage to re-construct their identities, in order for survival, with achieving self-worth and self-liberation.…”
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A product conceptualization strategy based on crowd-innovation by Chang, Danni

“…In this regard, various design strategies, such as open innovation and value co-creation, have been proposed, through which the potential of utilizing the dispersed knowledge distributed among the crowd for creativity is deeply recognized. …”
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Numerical and experimental investigation of thick composites manufacturing for wind turbines by Ammasai Sengodan, Ganapathi

“…The sizes of wind turbines and the blades have been increasing gradually in order to achieve high rated power at decreased cost. …”
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Enhancing extracellular electron transfer of Shewanella to improve the performance of microbial fuel cells by Ting, Liu

“…Different strategies have been implemented to enhance extracellular electron transfer of the well-known electroactive strain, Shewanella oneidensis MR-1, to improve the performance of MFCs. …”
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Mechanical behaviors of individual core-shell microspheres and their polymeric composites under different strain rates by Zhang, Xin

“…The introduction of ultraviolet curable resin significantly improved the strength of STF capsule. Repeated loading has been applied on the STF capsules with elastic shell fabricated through a two-step method. …”
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Parallel and distributed algorithms for computational fluid flow simulations by Vu, Thanh Tung

“…Thus, distributed computing architectures have been explored to parallelize the computation scheme to speed up the simulation time for modelling. …”
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Physical layer security in emerging wireless communication systems by Wang, Wei

“…As a new design paradigm, physical layer security has been recognised as a promising solution to enhance the security of wireless links relying on the channel properties and advanced signal processing, and can act as either an alternative or a complementary solution to the conventional cryptographic methods. …”
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Adaptive resource optimization of three-tier web applications running on the cloud by Borhani, Amir Hossein

“…Cloud Computing has been envisioned as a promising approach and dominant computing model in IT infrastructures. …”
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Voice conversion with parallel/non-parallel data and synthetic speech detection by Tian, Xiaohai

“…As low-dimensional features are typically used in synthetic techniques, detailed information has been abandoned in synthetic speech. This work mainly focused on the detailed information of high-dimensional features, especially their high-frequency parts, for synthetic speech detection. …”
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Adipose tissue fatty acid composition, serum lipids, and serum alpha-tocopherol in continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis patients living on the island of Crete by Nikolakakis, N, Kounali, D, Tornaritis, M, Anastassou, A, Papadakis, E, Kassotakis, G, Kafatos, A

“…Both CAPD patients and controls had been residents of Crete for at least the last 10 years.…”

Preclinical development of antisense conjugates for the treatment of myotonic dystrophy 1 by Stoodley, J

“…However, no therapy has yet been specifically developed that aims to additionally penetrate the CNS and treat the neurological symptoms experienced by patients. …”

Acute inflammatory diseases of the central nervous system after SARS-CoV-2 vaccination by Francis, AG, Elhadd, K, Camera, V, Ferreira Dos Santos, M, Rocchi, C, Adib-Samii, P, Athwal, B, Attfield, K, Barritt, A, Craner, M, Fisniku, L, Iversen, AKN, Leach, O, Matthews, L, Redmond, I, O'Riordan, J, Scalfari, A, Tanasescu, R, Wren, D, Huda, S, Leite, MI, Fugger, L, Palace, J

“…Both MOGAD and acute disseminated encephalomyelitis (ADEM) have been reported after vaccination. Consequently, the mass SARS-CoV-2 vaccination program could result in increased rates of these conditions. …”

Developing optogenetics for use in vascular research by Rorsman, N

“…Additionally, the limitations of the current optogenetic mouse model have been identified, and iChloC was shown to resolve these limitations. …”

Going on from Picasso? Late modernism and the dynamics of history by Nelson, S

“…Even in the 1970s and later, once the high modernist consensus had been overturned, they still looked reactionary. Modernist painting was transformed over these decades. …”

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 paradigm shift is now referred to as the November revolution. It had been anticipated by the observation of scaling in deep inelastic scattering, and was followed by the discovery of gluons in three-jet events. …”
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Preparation of low-dimensional materials for plasmonic bio-sensing by Das, Chandreyee Manas

“…A lot of research has been carried out on simulation that involves proposal of multi-layered SPR structures. …”
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Rule-based meta-analysis reveals the major role of PB2 in influencing influenza A virus virulence in mice by Ivan, Fransiskus Xaverius, Kwoh, Chee Keong

“…Many individual studies have been carried out in mice to uncover the viral factors responsible for the virulence of IAV infections. …”
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Dysregulation of the Pdx1/Ovol2/Zeb2 axis in dedifferentiated β-cells triggers the induction of genes associated with epithelial-mesenchymal transition in diabetes by de Jesus, Daniel S., Mak, Tracy C. S., Wang, Yi-Fang, von Ohlen, Yorrick, Bai, Ying, Kane, Eva, Chabosseau, Pauline, Chahrour, Catherine M., Distaso, Walter, Salem, Victoria, Tomas, Alejandra, Stoffel, Markus, Rutter, Guy A., Latreille, Mathieu

“…Objective:b-cell dedifferentiation has been revealed as a pathological mechanism underlying pancreatic dysfunction in diabetes. …”
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Spatial, temporal, and demographic patterns in prevalence of smoking tobacco use and attributable disease burden in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis... by Reitsma, M. B., Kendrick, P. J., Ababneh, E., Abbafati, C., Abbasi-Kangevari, M., Abdoli, A., Abedi, A., Abhilash, E. S., Abila, D. B., Aboyans, V., Abu-Rmeileh, N. M., Adebayo, O. M., Advani, S. M., Aghaali, M., Ahinkorah, B. O., Ahmad, S., Ahmadi, K., Ahmed, H., Aji, B., Akunna, C. J., Al-Aly, Z., Alanzi, T. M., Alhabib, K. F., Ali, L., Alif, S. M., Alipour, V., Aljunid, S. M., Alla, F., Allebeck, P., Alvis-Guzman, N., Amin T. T., Amini, S., Amu, H., Amul, G. G. H., Ancuceanu, R., Anderson, J. A., Ansari-Moghaddam, A., Antonio, C. A. T., Antony, B., Anvari, D., Arabloo, J., Arian, N. D., Arora, M., Asaad, M., Ausloos, M., Awan, A. T., Ayano, G., Aynalem, G. L., Azari, S., B, D.B., Badiye, A. D., Baig, A. A., Bakhshaei, M. H., Banach, M., Banik, P.C., Barker-Collo, S. L., Bärnighausen, T. W., Barqawi, H. J., Basu, S., Bayati, M., Bazargan-Hejazi, S., Behzadifar, M., Bekuma, T. T., Bennett, D. A., Bensenor, I. M., Berfield, K. S. S., Bhagavathula, A. S., Bhardwaj, N., Bhardwaj, P., Bhattacharyya, K., Bibi, S., Bijani, A., Bintoro, B. S., Biondi, A., Birara, S., Braithwaite, D., Brenner, H., Brunoni, A. R., Burkart, K., Butt, Z. A., Caetano dos Santos, F. L., Car, Josip, Cárdenas, R., Carreras, G., Carrero, J. J., Castaldelli-Maia, J. M., Cattaruzza, M. S. S., Chang, J. C., Chen, S., Chu, D. T., Chung, S. C., Cirillo, M., Costa, V. M., Couto, R. A. S., Dadras, O., Dai, X., Damasceno, A. A. M., Damiani, G., Dandona, L.

“…Substantial progress in reducing the prevalence of smoking tobacco use has been observed in countries from all regions and at all stages of development, but a large implementation gap remains for tobacco control. …”
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