PhD: The Amazing Journey - Volume 3

“…If you're reading this, you're either in the middle of a PhD project, thinking about starting one or perhaps seeking some real-life inspiration. Well, you're in the right place. …”
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Design, development and evaluation of a game-based learning application for room housekeeping by Tan, Fui Ming, Siti Normaziah, Ihsan, Nor Maizana, Mat Nawi, Mohd Razali, Nor Amira

“…The objective is to seamlessly integrate theoretical knowledge with practical application through a virtual platform that simulates real-life housekeeping scenarios. The methodology was structured into three phases: design, development, and evaluation. …”
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Metaverse in tourism and hospitality industry: Science mapping of the current and future trends by Nazim Hanis, Zainal Abidin, Muhammad Ashraf, Fauzi, Wider, Walton, Wan Muhammad Noor Sarbani, Mat Daud, Rusnifaezah, Musa

“…As an immersive technology, metaverse has penetrated various segments of human life and business activities. This digital transformation phenomenon has also penetrated tourism and hospitality in mixed reality, comprising virtual, augmented and extended reality. …”
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21A.235 American Dream: Exploring Class in the U.S., Spring 2007 by Walley, Christine

“…Considers a variety of classic frameworks for analyzing social class and uses memoirs, novels and ethnographies to gain a sense of how class is experienced in daily life and how it intersects with other forms of social difference such as race and gender.…”
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Data Refusal From Below: A Framework for Understanding, Evaluating, and Envisioning Refusal as Design by Zong, Jonathan, Matias, J Nathan

“…However, because data affects so many aspects of daily life, it can be hard to see seemingly different refusal strategies as part of the same repertoire. …”
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Doodlebot: An Educational Robot for Creativity and AI Literacy by Williams, Randi, Ali, Safinah, Alcantara, Raúl, Burghleh, Tasneem, Alghowinem, Sharifa, Breazeal, Cynthia

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Actuated tissue engineered muscle grafts restore functional mobility after volumetric muscle loss by Rousseau, Erin, Raman, Ritu, Tamir, Tigist, Bu, Angel, Srinivasan, Shriya, Lynch, Naomi, Langer, Robert, White, Forest M., Cima, Michael J.

“…Damage that affects large volumes of skeletal muscle tissue can severely impact health, mobility, and quality-of-life. Efforts to restore muscle function by implanting tissue engineered muscle grafts at the site of damage have demonstrated limited restoration of force production. …”
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Soft Robotic Pneumatic Actuators Assist Diaphragmatic Dysfunction in a Respiratory Simulator by Quevedo-Moreno, Diego, Tagoe, Jonathan, Roche, Ellen

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DEEP2: Deep Learning Powered De-scattering with Excitation Patterning (DEEP) by Wijethilake, Navodini, Anandakumar, Mithunjha, Zheng, Cheng, So, Peter T. C., Yildirim, Murat, Wadduwage, Dushan N.

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CO-CREATE FINANCIAL PLANNING SERVICES FOR AN AGING POPULATION: DESIGNERS' PERSPECTIVES by Lee, Sheng-Hung, Coughlin, Joseph F, Yang, Maria, de Weck, Olivier L, Lee, Chaiwoo, Klopfer, Eric, Ochsendorf, John

“…The study concluded with three design principles: 1) the concept of financial planning is about people's expectation management, 2) a financial planning toolkit is designed under service systems, and 3) the tailor-made and modular design features can give financial advisors more flexibility to engage with senior people and enable them to share more about their life stories and needs to recommend financial planning packages precisely according to personal preference, health conditions, and financial status.…”
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Multi-Keel Passive Prosthetic Foot Design Optimization Using the Lower Leg Trajectory Error Framework by Prost, Victor, Peterson, Heidi V, Winter V, Amos G

“…People with lower-limb amputation in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) lack access to adequate prosthetic devices that would restore their mobility and increase their quality of life. This is largely due to the cost and durability of existing devices. …”
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Microscale advection governs microbial growth and oxygen consumption in macroporous aggregates by Shen, Rachel, Borer, Benedict, Ciccarese, Davide, Salek, M. Mehdi, Babbin, Andrew R.

“…Most microbial life on Earth is found in localized microenvironments that collectively exert a crucial role in maintaining ecosystem health and influencing global biogeochemical cycles. …”
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Metamorpheus: Interactive, Affective, and Creative Dream Narration Through Metaphorical Visual Storytelling by Wan, Qian, Feng, Xin, Bei, Yining, Gao, Zhiqi, Lu, Zhicong

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Analytical and computational study of the stochastic behavior of a chromatin modification circuit by Bruno, Simone, Williams, Ruth J., Del Vecchio, Domitilla

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IDE: A System for Iterative Mislabel Detection by Deng, Yuhao, Deng, Qiyan, Chai, Chengliang, Cao, Lei, Tang, Nan, Fan, Ju, Wang, Jiayi, Yuan, Ye, Wang, Guoren

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Material Recovery Potential from Solar Photovoltaics: Predictive Modeling and Characterization to Advance the Circular Economy by Bakker, Nicole

“…In the next two decades, an exponentially growing quantity of waste will be generated as solar panels reach their end-of-life. Meanwhile, demand for new solar capacity will increase the value of key raw materials, underscoring the importance of recycling and movement toward a “circular economy”. …”
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Knowledge and the City: Redefining Islamic Urbanism, 762–1067 by Lesoon, Courtney

“…This study demonstrates that the rapid urbanization of the Islamic world in its first five centuries can be attributed in part to the development of an independent class of city administrators who ensured that urban life thrived even in the most tumultuous of political times. …”
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Centering Indigenous Voices and Resisting Colonialism In Space Exploration: An Overview Of The Ongoing Webinar Series By Space Enabled by Tavares, Frank, Harvey, Alvin Donel, Lombardo, Seamus, Reynolds-Cuéllar, Pedro, Newman, Dava, Wood, Danielle

“…Centering these issues highlights both near-term policy questions around lunar exploration as well as longer term questions about how to envision interactions with potential extraterrestrial life and sustained human communities on other worlds. …”
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The Matter of the Hold: Housing futures and the paradigm of the ship by Donovan, Inge, Pankhurst, David

“…In time, structures across the continent boasted chimneys or foundations that had begun their life in the distant granite quarries of Cornwall, and from bricks that had rounded Cape Horn - their material transience obscured by a perceived stability of form. …”
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Thermodynamics of multi-sublattice battery active materials: from an extended regular solution theory to a phase-field model of LiMnyFe1-yPO4 by Ombrini, Pierfrancesco, Bazant, Martin Z, Wagemaker, Marnix, Vasileiadis, Alexandros

“…Phase separation during the lithiation of redox-active materials is a critical factor affecting battery performance, including energy density, charging rates, and cycle life. Accurate physical descriptions of these materials are necessary for understanding underlying lithiation mechanisms, performance limitations, and optimizing energy storage devices. …”
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