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

“…All the three part of the work will be illustrated and explained in details in the following chapters. Moreover, a summary and future plan is clearly stated in the end of the thesis.…”
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Going on from Picasso? Late modernism and the dynamics of history by Nelson, S

“…The conditions for this kind of reorientation were historically unprecedented, grounded in the situation of the post-war United States: the advancing globalisation of the capitalist economy; the institutionalisation of modernist painting as official high culture; the political and intellectual climate of the Cold War; movements for decolonisation and advancing US neocolonialism; the demands for Civil Rights. Each of my chapters analyses a cluster of such framing factors, the legacies of which are still with us today.…”

指示代词的翻译——基于三版《爱丽丝漫游奇境记》汉译本的分析 = Demonstratives in translation – analysis based on Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by 许天惠 Xu, Tianhui

“…This paper selects the original novel and three translated versions: one by Yuen Ren Chao （赵元任） from 1922, one by Chen Fu'an （陈复庵） from 1987, and one by Huang Jian Ren（黄健人） from 2005, to conduct a statistical analysis of the frequency of demonstratives and their corresponding translations in the first three chapters of the original work. The study found that the proportion of distal demonstrative 那na relative to proximal demonstrative 这zhe significantly decreased in the translation; the correspondence between this and 这zhe is the most evident; in cases of non-equivalent translation, there are three situations: distal demonstratives translating into proximal demonstratives or vice versa, the introduction of other terms, and omission. …”
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Toxic speech and limited demand for content moderation on social media by Pradel, F, Zilinsky, J, Kosmidis, S, Theocharis, Y

“…When is speech on social media toxic enough to warrant content moderation? …”

Number and grammatical gender attraction in Spanish pronouns: evidence for a syntactic route to their features by Kandel, M, Pañeda, C, Bahmanian, N, Martinez Bruera, M, Phillips, C, Lago, S

“…When a speaker produces a pronoun, they must choose a form that carries the appropriate features. …”

Reinitiation of modern-style plate tectonics in the Early Neoproterozoic: evidence from a ∼930 Ma blueschist-facies terrane in South China by Wu, L-G, Chen, Y, Palin, RM, Li, Q-L, Zhao, L, Li, Y-B, Li, C-F, Li, Y-L, Li, X-H

“…When and how plate tectonics operated throughout Earth's history remain a matter of debate. …”

The perceptual and social components of metacognition by Pescetelli, N, Rees, G, Bahrami, B

“…When deciding whether or not to bring an umbrella to work, your confidence will be influenced by the sky outside the window (direct evidence) as well as by, for example, whether or not people walking in the street have their own umbrella (indirect or contingent evidence). …”

Placing objects in context via inpainting for out-of-distribution segmentation by De Jorge, P, Volpi, R, Dokania, PK, Torr, PHS, Rogez, G

“…When deploying a semantic segmentation model into the real world, it will inevitably encounter semantic classes that were not seen during training. …”

Organic solid-state photochromism using porous scaffolds by Mollick, S, Tan, J-C

“…When exposed to light, organic photochromic molecules undergo a fast and reversible change in their electronic structure, resulting in a shift in colour. …”

Question-Led Innovation: public priorities for enhanced weathering research in Malaysia by Cox, E, Lim, R, Spence, E, Payne, M, Beerling, D, Pidgeon, N

“…When upscaling novel techniques for Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR), public attitudes are crucial, yet there is a serious lack of social science research outside of Western nations. …”