Myanmar's political transition and educational aspirations of refugees in Thailand by Jolliffe, PM

“…Refugees’ individual educational aspirations depend on whether or not they plan to return to Myanmar in the near future.…”

Electronic and optoelectronic devices using chemical vapour deposited 2D materials by Fan, Y

“…<p>Two dimensional (2D) materials bear a lot of expectations on playing important role in next generation electronics and optoelectronics. …”

Industrial policy refraction: how corporate strategy shapes development outcomes in Brazil by Zylberberg, E

“…My findings are brought to bear on three traditionally disparate bodies of research –industrial policy, corporate strategy and institutional theory – extending each and also bringing them into fruitful communion with one another.…”

Soft law, hard stakes? State commitment to non-binding international instruments and the case of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples by Villeneuve, L

“…In this thesis, incorporating insights from public international law into rationalist IR approaches, I argue that soft law instruments can have important effects over time and bring substantial costs for states to bear. This is particularly the case for soft law instruments ‘hardening’ through domestic law, treaties or customary international law, increasing the sovereignty and implementation costs attached to commitment. …”

Unravelling giant molecular clouds by Liang, F

“…<p>Giant molecular clouds (GMCs) provide the fuel for star formation and bear various feedbacks. Thus, they are key to our understanding of galaxy evolution and the baryon cycle. …”

Radiometer Calibration Using Colocated GPS Radio Occultation Measurements by Cahoy, K. L., Blackwell, W. J., Bishop, R., Cohen, B., Crail, C., Cucurull, L., Dave, P., DiLiberto, M., Erickson, N., Fish, C., Ho, S. P., Leslie, R. V., Milstein, A. B., Osaretin, I. A.

“…The radiometer and GPSRO receiver periodically observe the same volume of atmosphere near the Earth's limb, and these overlapping measurements are used to calibrate the radiometer. …”
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Anomalous high-magnetic field electronic state of the nematic superconductors FeSe 1 − x S x by Bristow, M, Reiss, P, Haghighirad, A, Zajicek, Z, Singh, S, Wolf, T, Graf, D, Knafo, W, McCollam, A, Coldea, A

“…We find that the nematic state is dominated by a linear resistivity at low temperatures that evolves towards Fermi-liquid behavior, depending on the composition x and the impurity level. Near the nematic end point, we find an extended temperature regime with ∼ T 1.5 resistivity, different from the behavior found near an antiferromagnetic critical point. …”

Vacancy duration and wages by Bassier, I, Manning, A, Petrongolo, B

“…We estimate the elasticity of vacancy duration with respect to posted wages, using data from the near-universe of online job adverts in the United Kingdom. …”

Secondary structure predictor by Kong, Benjamin Xupeng

“…This project aims to be a corner stone for logically dividing a macromolecule into smaller pieces of secondary structures which can be then used as coarse grains for molecular dynamics (MD) simulation. …”
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A new transcription system for old and classical Tibetan by Jacques, Guillaume

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Policy complexity suppresses dopamine responses by Gershman, SJ, Lak, A

“…We show that male and female mice achieve performance on a perceptual decision task that is near-optimal given their capacity limits, as measured by policy complexity (the mutual information between states and actions). …”

Phenomenological observations of quinone-mediated zinc oxidation in an alkaline environment by Mallia, Christopher T, Brushett, Fikile R

“…The development of such systems requires knowledge of underlying reaction mechanisms, which bear similarities to the processes that underpin corrosion and semiconductor electrochemistry. …”
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2D-3D perovskite memristor with low energy consumption and high stability for neural morphology calculation by Sun, Kaixuan, Wang, Qingrui, Zhou, Long, Wang, Jingjuan, Chang, Jingjing, Guo, Rui, Tay, Beng Kang, Yan, Xiaobing

“…A defect-modulated electron tunneling mechanism is demonstrated using the p-i-n junction model, and it is proven that the conductance state of the memristive device is determined by the defect concentration in the perovskite film near the electrode sides. In addition to the good memristive properties, this 2D-3D perovskite memristor can also function well as an artificial synapse, and its internal defect movement can faithfully simulate the inflow and extrusion of Ca2+ in biological synapses. …”
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Structure of mushy layers grown from perfectly and imperfectly conducting boundaries. Part 1. Diffusive solidification by Hitchen, JR, Wells, AJ

“…Low concentration ratio leads to low porosity throughout most of the mushy layer, except for a high-porosity boundary layer localised near the mush–liquid interface. We identify scalings for the boundary-layer thickness and mush growth rate. …”

Nonthermal solid-solid phase transition in ferromagnetic iron by Azadi, S, Wark, J, Vinko, SM

“…The transition corresponds to a solid-solid BCC to FCC phase transformation and takes place at an electron temperature of 0.62 eV while the ion lattice remains near room temperature. The BCC structure initially undergoes phonon softening during the magnetic transformation, followed by a solid-solid phase transition to the FCC structure, and a subsequent hardening of phonon modes. …”

Robust and fast microwave-driven quantum logic for trapped-ion qubits by Weber, MA, Gely, MF, Hanley, RK, Harty, TP, Leu, AD, Löschnauer, CM, Nadlinger, DP, Lucas, DM

“…We implement Mølmer-Sørensen two-qubit gates on ⁴³⁢Ca⁺ hyperfine clock qubits in a cryogenic ( ≈25 K) surface trap, driven by near-field microwaves. We achieve gate durations of 154 µs [with 1.0(2)% error] and 331 µs [0.5(1)% error], which approaches the performance of typical laser-driven gates. …”

Abui stories : seven children by Chew, Grace Min Hui

“…Thriving on an oral tradition, these stories, like the traditional Abui language, bear no written form and are at risk of extinction. …”
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Detection of simultaneous structural problems using multiple structural health monitoring techniques by Yang, Lu

“…After the construction, cracks, wear and tear, fatigue, creep, etc., will appear anytime during their life span, which significantly affects the capacity of the structure to bear loads. Hence structure health monitoring (SHM) technique came into existence to detect the structural problems and increase its life span. …”
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Characterising human disparity tuning properties using population receptive field mapping by Alvarez, I, Mancari, A, Ip, IB, Parker, AJ, Bridge, H

“…Second, with binocularly correlated stimuli, we show a polynomial relationship between preferred disparity and tuning curve width, with sharply tuned disparity responses at near-zero disparities, and broader disparity tuning profiles at near or far disparities. …”

Multiscale virtual particle based elastic network model (MVP-ENM) for normal mode analysis of large-sized biomolecules by Xia, Kelin

“…With this model, large-sized biomolecular structures can be coarse-grained into virtual particles such that a balance between model accuracy and computational cost can be achieved. …”
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