《虬髯客传》的古今诠释 : 以《虬髯客传》、《虬髯翁》和《风尘三侠之红拂女》为例 = Retelling “The legend of curled beard” : examples from Tang, Ming and Contemporary... by 梁琇涵 Leong, Xiu Han

“…“The legend of the Curled Beard”(Qiu Ran Ke Zhuan) is a Tang short story which has been adapted in to different plays and dramas by writers since it’s appearance, and its characters and plots have been retold in many different ways. …”
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Development of chemical photonic crystal fiber sensor by Mak, Foo Liang

“…Advancement of the Photonic Crystal Fiber (PCF) since 1995 has increased immense enthusiasm to the research and development industry and many researches has been conducted since then. …”
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Error measurements for a quantum annealer using the one-dimensional Ising model with twisted boundaries by Chancellor, Nicholas, Crowley, Philip J. D., Durić, Tanja, Vinci, Walter, Amin, Mohammad H., Green, Andrew G., Warburton, Paul A., Aeppli, Gabriel

“…A finite length ferromagnetic chain with opposite spin polarization imposed at its two ends is one of the simplest frustrated spin models. …”
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Combinatorial algorithms for scheduling jobs to minimize server usage time by Ren, Runtian

“…This thesis is concerned with three combinatorial optimization problems for job scheduling, named the MinUsageTime Dynamic Bin Packing problem, the Energy-Efficient Job Scheduling problem and the Flexible Job Scheduling problem. …”
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Investigation on frosting and defrosting performance of superhydrophobic metal additively manufactured materials by Yew, Yun Chian

“…However, between etching time of 10 min and 15 min, there is no significant difference in the frost retardation rate of AM metal. …”
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Associations of accelerometer-measured physical activity, sedentary behaviour, and sleep with next-day cognitive performance in older adults: a micro-longitudinal study by Bloomberg, M, Brocklebank, L, Doherty, A, Hamer, M, Steptoe, A

“…Each 30-min increase in SB was associated with working memory scores 0.05 SD (0.00 to 0.09) lower (p = 0.03); adjustment for sleep characteristics on the previous night did not substantively change these results. …”

Effect of heat-producing needling technique on the local skin temperature : clinical dataset by Liao, Zehuan, Zhao, Yan

“…Within each session, the local ST36 skin temperature and basal body temperature of each participant were measured at 1 min before needle insertion, just after needle insertion and manipulation (if any), 5 min after needle insertion with needle removal immediately after temperature taking, and 5 min after needle removal. …”
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Shipping lines' perspective in container terminal investments by Xu, Jiawei

“…Since 1960s, shipping lines have shown their interests in owning and operating container terminals. …”
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Arsenene nanoribbon edge-resolved strong magnetism by Wang, Sanmei, Zhang, Xi, Huang, Yongli, Sun, Chang Qing

“…Consistency between bond-order-length-strength correlation (BOLS) theory and density functional theory (DFT) calculations verified that: (i) the edge bond contraction of 9.54% deepened the edge potential well of AsNR, (ii) a net charge of 0.06 e- transferred from the inner region to the edge; and (iii) the edge quantum well polarized the unpaired electron and the net spin (antiferromagnetic or ferromagnetic depending on the width) is localized at the zigzag edge. …”
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Advanced photovoltaic concepts for perovskite solar cells by Fong, Melvin Shao Feng

“…In this paper, PCBM, PEDOT:PSS, as well as MAPbI3 are used as materials for the fabrication processes In this thesis, various methods would be discussed and spin coating process will be focused on. The paper continues with the analysis of the connection between the number of spins for the hole transport layer (HTL) and electron transport layer (ETL) deposition process, as well as the impact on the efficiency of the PV device.…”
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Learning stock market dynamics using the kinetic ising model by Nguyen, Ai Linh

“…In this approach, the states in the time series data are represented by configurations of N spins, and the time evolution of these states in the time series data by an update rule that depends on the spin configuration {σ_i (t)}_(i=1,…,N), and the connection weights {W_ij }_(i,j=1,…N) between the spins. …”
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Detection of magnetic field effects by confocal microscopy by Déjean, V, Konowalczyk, M, Gravell, J, Golesworthy, MJ, Gunn, C, Pompe, N, vander Elst, OF, Oxborrow, M, Aarts, DGAL, Mackenzie, S, Timmel, C

“…Certain pairs of paramagnetic species generated under conservation of total spin angular momentum are known to undergo magnetosensitive processes. …”

Still here, still queer: have things changed a year after the repeal of section 377A? by Ho, Heather Yen Yuen, Cheong, Rachel Rina Wen Xiu

“…The law, which criminalises sex between two men whether in public or private, has been around since 1938. Queer people in Singapore have been fighting for this repeal since 2007, when they brought the first challenge against the law to the courts. …”
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A multi-scale attributes attention model for transport mode identification by Jiang, Guiyuan, Lam, Siew-Kei, He, Peilan, Ou, Changhai, Ai, Dihao

“…The MSAA model relies on Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) to capture the spatial correlation of different trajectory segments, and utilizes attention mechanism to select the most suitable local attributes on the different trajectory scales that can effectively characterize the various transport modes. Since the learned latent local attributes are significantly different from the global features (e.g. average/min/max travel speeds which are measurable quantities), an ensemble model based on Neural Decision Forest (NDF) is employed to fuse the heterogeneous features consisting of both measurable quantities and non-measurable elements for determining the transport mode. …”
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臺灣文學主體性中的南方軌跡 —— 以南進與新南向時期之臺灣文學為例 = The Southern trajectory in Taiwanese literary subjectivity: a study of Taiwanese literature during the Nanshin-ron and new southbound policy per... by 楊永昌 Yang, Yung Chang

“…The paper primarily discusses two periods: the Nanshin-ron discourse during the Japanese colonial period and the "New Southbound Policy" under the democratic government. Since the "Nationalist Southern Narrative" has already been extensively studied, it will not be the focal point of this analysis. …”
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A bilayer swellable drug-eluting stent for the treatment of fibrosis-induced ureteral stricture recurrence by Lim, Wei Shan

“…Secondly, plasma treatment (100W, 5 min) was found to be effective in improving the interfacial adhesion between the hydrogel and polymer, allowing the hydrogel to adhere on the stent over the 4 weeks. …”
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Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on behaviors in physical activity, sleep quality and usage of sport facilities in university students by Lim, Qing Feng

“…Sedentary (sitting) behaviour was seen to increase by an average of 90.5 min/day (p < .001). There were also a decreased in the booking frequency in sports facilities (2.1 to 1.6, p < .001) and time spent in a sports facility (127 to 51.6 min/week, p < .001). …”
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Ultrafast dynamics in quantum materials probed by time-and-momentum-resolved techniques by Su, Yifan

“…In this part of the thesis, I will introduce a new pathway for launching coherent acoustic phonons: magnetostriction, and discuss the spin-mediated shear oscillator enabled by this mechanism in van der Waals antiferromagnet. …”
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Exploring Optoelectronic Properties of Twisted and Intercalated Niobium Oxide Dihalides by Luo, Ashley

“…As a result of modifications in physical and chemical design involving 2D materials such as stacking, twisting and ion intercalation, properties such as electrical conductivity, spin diffusion length, thermal conductivity, and mechanical strength observe more degrees of freedom than in their bulk material counterpart. …”
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Analysis of Λ b 0 → pK−μ+μ− decays by Aaij, R., Abdelmotteleb, A. S. W., Abellan Beteta, C., Abudinén, F., Ackernley, T., Adefisoye, A. A., Adeva, B., Adinolfi, M., Adlarson, P., Agapopoulou, C., Aidala, C. A., Ajaltouni, Z., Akar, S., Akiba, K., Albicocco, P., Albrecht, J., The LHCb collaboration

“…The data are consistent with receiving contributions from a mixture of Λ resonances with different spin-parity quantum numbers. The angular coefficients show a pattern of vector-axial vector interference that is a characteristic of the type of flavour-changing neutral-current transition relevant for these decays.…”
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