Development of sustainable clay-based binder and its' potential for 3D-printing by Liu, Yizhong

“…This report consists of five chapters. The first chapter serves as an introduction, explaining the demand for alternative cementitious materials and types due to the environmental issues associated with traditional concrete production today. …”
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Dialogism and monologism : a study of modernity and postcolonialism in Jean Marie Gustave Clézio's Oeuvre. by Kwa, Brennan Yiew Khoon.

“…The first chapter shall examine the negative effects of modernity as portrayed in the novels, before moving on to explain why these effects can be construed as monological consequences. …”
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Various factors affecting human performance in a computerised environment by Ang, Kah Eng, Neo, Aik Keong, Pang, Soh Chui

“…Chapter 6 summarises the survey findings, as well as analysing the results. …”
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Building a low cost advanced driver assistance system : human detection by Tan, Yan Ling

“…The detailed explanation on HOG and SVM would be covered in the subsequent chapters. HOG which are computed on a dense grid of uniformly spaced cells and overlapping local contrast normalisations assembles the features extracted into a histogram. …”
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Populism and foreign policy: characteristics, sources, and implications by Chryssogelos, Angelos

“…International Relations (IR) and Foreign Policy Analysis (FPA) literature is increasingly preoccupied with the effect of populism on international politics. This chapter offers an overview of key debates in this literature, with an emphasis on how the ideational approach to populism is being used by IR and FPA scholars, the insights it generates but also the challenges it poses. …”
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The ideational approach by Busby, Ethan, Chryssogelos, Angelos, Hawkins, Eliza Tanner, Hawkins, Kirk, Littvay, Levente, Wiesehomeier, Nina

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The temporality of building: European and Chinese perspectives on architecture and heritage by Gao, Yun, Temple, Nicholas, Xiao, Jing

“…Rather than examining specific buildings, the first three chapters apply three key themes (language, ritual and heritage) as cultural lenses to reveal differences and similarities between the two traditions. …”
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Motive and malice prepensed by Getzler, J

“…I remember clearly his intricate and well-attended lectures on the history of obligations, exploring ideas that were to inform the classic monograph just around the corner.[1] I prized those tightly organised, smudgily printed pages of comment on my draft chapters sent ahead of supervisions. I would open the notes arriving from Magdalen with great anticipation, looking forward to discussing the contents with David, and knowing that his lines would set me off into fresh discoveries in libraries and archives for a good few weeks or months. …”

Marino's spiritual poems in music: a study of early modern sources by Kobayashi, T

“…The rest of the main chapters explore devotional songs based on Marino’s lyrics on themes of Seven Sorrows of Mary, Crown of Thorns, lives of saints and finally, joyful events in Jesus’s life. …”

Astley's Amphitheatre and the early circus in England, 1768-1830 by Kwint, M

“…This thesis charts the formative years of the institution and its contribution to an important yet distinctly arcane popular genre whose story has hitherto chiefly been the province of specialists and dilettanti, rather than the object of systematic historical, cultural and aesthetic analysis.</p> <p>The chapters introduce the main artistic and organisational developments at Astley's and its rivalry with the neighbouring Royal Circus. …”

Interlocked host structures for anion recognition and lanthanide complexation by Li, X

“…</p> <p><b>Chapter 6</b> describes the experimental procedures used in this work, and details the characterisation of novel compounds presented in Chapters 2 4.…”

The marble statuettes from the Athenian Agora, first century BC to fourth century AD by Martens, B

“…Chapter 7 concludes the study with focus on the mobile nature of statuettes in household settings. …”

A comparative analysis of ENCODE and Cistrome in the context of TF binding signal by Perna, Stefano, Pinoli, Pietro, Ceri, Stefano, Wong, Limsoon

“…Moreover, the output format of the processing (BED narrowPeak) exposes a feature, the signalValue, which is seldom used in consistency checks, but can offer valuable insight on the quality of the data. …”
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Designing Microporous Polymers for Separations by Storme, Kayla R.

“…In Chapter 1, we investigate the influence of side-chain length and dispersity in ring-opening metathesis polymerization (ROMP) polymers with pore-generating side chains. …”
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Quantitative economics of corporate crime, punishment and solution - regbonds by Goh, Jing Rong

“…This thesis consists of three chapters, the abstract for each chapter is as follows.…”
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The curious case of nomenclatures by Tan, Ying Ying

“…These published works include monographs, edited volumes, chapters in edited volumes, and articles in major peer-reviewed journals. 85% of the 500 publications used the term Singapore English, 27% of them had Singlish, and only a mere six publications (around 1%) used the term Singaporean English. …”
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Optimization and scheduling of applications in a heterogeneous CPU-GPU environment by Karan Rajendra Shetti

“…This thesis presents the work done toward the author's post graduate study and describes the optimization of the Heterogeneous Earliest Finish Time (HEFT) algorithm in the CPU-GPU heterogeneous environment. In the initial chapters, different scheduling principles available are described and an in depth analysis of three state of the art algorithms for the chosen heterogeneous environment is presented. …”
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Synthesis of metal halide perovskites for photoredox catalysis, photoelectgric devices, and solid-state characterization of main group materials by Hong, Zonghan

“…In this thesis, three main projects have been developed and thoroughly investigated, dedicated to addressing some of these problems. The first two chapters focus on the syntheses and applications of metal halide perovskites while the third chapter reveals a different perspective of main group chemistry regarding NaH-NaI composite that promotes dehalogenation and decyanation to mitigate the environmental impact of harmful organic compounds. …”
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Expressions of Ionianness in the Roman period by Hallmannsecker, M

“…In doing so, I want to achieve a more holistic and nuanced picture, and I hope to contribute to further the understanding of Greek culture under the Roman Empire. The individual chapters are of thematic nature and focus on one aspect of Ionian identity respectively: the perception of Ionia as a cultural region, the Ionian Koinon, myths and cults, ways of time reckoning, and onomastics. …”

Modelling and characterization of membrane fouling in osmotically-driven membrane processes (ODMPs) by Lai, Li

“…Performance of neural networks bears strong relationship with learning rate, number of hidden layers and number of nodes in hidden layer. …”
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