Mechanically durable and damage resilient dielectric elastomer actuators by Tan, Matthew Wei Ming

“…By tuning hard-to-soft segment ratios and molecular weights of polydiols, carboxyl polyurethanes (PULM0) attained large mechanical toughness (96.5 MJ m-3) and puncture resistance. …”
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GPU-Oriented Algorithms for Continuous Energy Monte Carlo Neutron Transport by Ridley, Gavin

“…Through three asymptotic arguments covering different resonant behavior regimes, we show that the normal inverse Gaussian distribution is the natural choice for modeling the total neutron cross-section distribution. …”
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Ultrafast dynamics in quantum materials probed by time-and-momentum-resolved techniques by Su, Yifan

“…Coherent phonons and CDW systems are two of the richest playgrounds in the ultrafast regime. I am going to investigate various cases where an ultrafast laser pulse decodes the intertwined degrees of freedom in quantum materials. …”
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Sociospatial reframing of walking through inclusive streets and urban heritage by Wang, Yongcheng

“…The inclusive street design regime was also found to be compatible with the notion of urban heritage in a meta-narrative review to explore the potential of urban heritage being repositioned for urban and transport planning in which the promotion of walking is a high priority. …”
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Exciton polariton interactions in Van der Waals superlattices at room temperature by Zhao, Jiaxin, Fieramosca, Antonio, Dini, Kevin, Bao, Ruiqi, Du, Wei, Su, Rui, Luo, Yuan, Zhao, Weijie, Sanvitto, Daniele, Liew, Timothy Chi Hin, Xiong, Qihua

“…The integration of TMD heterostructures in planar microcavities working in strong coupling regime is particularly important to control the light-matter interactions and form robust polaritons, highly sought for room temperature applications. …”
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Dynamic fracture mechanics of FRP-concrete interface by Li, Gen

“…It was found that the two bond properties were close to those of plain concrete in the quasi-static regime and showed significant dynamic enhancing effect at a loading rate of 20 mm/s. …”
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Dimensionality-dependent type-II Weyl semimetal state in Mo₀.₂₅W₀.₇₅Te₂ by Li, Peiling, Deng, Ya, Hsu, Chuang-Han, Zhu, Chao, Cui, Jian, Yang, Xue, Zhou, Jiadong, Hung, Yi-Chun, Fan, Jie, Ji, Zhongqing, Qu, Fanming, Shen, Jie, Yang, Changli, Jing, Xiunian, Lin, Hsin, Liu, Zheng, Lu, Li, Liu, Guangtong

“…Here, by selecting a special sample with the thickness gradient across two- (2D) and three-dimensional (3D) regime, we show strong evidences that Mo$_{0.25}$W$_{0.75}$Te$_{2}$ is a type-II Weyl semimetal by observing the following two dimensionality-dependent transport features: 1) A chiral-anomaly-induced anisotropic magneto-conductivity enhancement, proportional to the square of in-plane magnetic field (B$_{in}$$^{2}$); 2) An additional quantum oscillation with thickness-dependent phase shift. …”
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四面楚歌下的同志再现：李碧华和陈凯歌对《霸王别姬》的改写 = Representations of the besieged “Comrade” : Li Bihua's and Chen Kaige's adaptations of the Peking Opera “Farewell My Concubine”... by 許维贤 Hee, Wai Siam

“…It was at the historical juncture when foreign gunboats shattered the Qing regime’s belief in China as the world’s center that the Peking Opera was picked and named as the quintessential representative of Chinese Culture. …”
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Relative deficiency in interferon-γ-secreting CD4+ T cells is strongly associated with poorer COVID-19 vaccination responses in older adults by Ho, Vanda W. T., Boon, Low Heng, Cui, Jianzhou, Juequn, Zhou, Shunmuganathan, Bhuvaneshwari, Gupta, Rashi, Tan, Nikki Y. J., Qian, Xinlei, Purushotorman, Kiren, Fong, Siew-Wai, Renia, Laurent, Ng, Lisa F. P., Angeli, Veronique, Chen, Jinmiao, Kennedy, Brian K., Ong, Catherine W. M., Macary, Paul A.

“…Although the two-dose mRNA vaccination regime provides protection against SARS-CoV-2, older adults have been shown to exhibit poorer vaccination responses. …”
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Design of a supply- and temperature-invariant capacitive sensor interface for low power applications by Arup Kocheethra George

“…Most importantly, the CDC should operate in an ultra-low power regime. Since the full-scale capacitance change of practical capacitive sensors is limited, the CDC has to achieve sensing resolutions of several femto-farads. …”
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Near-IR and mid-IR (1.55 μm – 2 μm) silicon photonics devices on silicon-on-insulator (SOI) platform by Zhang, Zecen

“…Furthermore, the mid-infrared (MIR, 2-15 μm) band is also very crucial as many gases and molecules have unique absorption fingerprints in this regime. Hence there is enormous interest in practical realization of passive and optoelectronic devices operating in the MIR range, including optical sensing and environmental monitoring, free-space communications, bio-medical and thermal imaging. …”
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Dynamics and stability of evaporating and condensing liquid layers by Wei, Tao

“…With the 1.5-sided model, a regular non-rupture stable pattern is found in the Rayleigh–Taylor unstable layer due to local evaporation and condensation in the diffusion-limited regime. This is in sharp contrast to the prediction of the one-sided model without the convective and diffusive effects of vapor, where local rupture always occurs in finite time. …”
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Tracking and detecting objects in image sequence by Wang, Li

“…Then, a so-called “split-merge” approach is proposed to over-segment a foreground region into subregions and then cluster them into a number of object regions by using the proposed boundary based similarity metric. …”
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Pnictogen-halide semiconductors for photovoltaics by Liu, P

“…Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) models were used to evaluate the density of pinholes in the scanning electron microscopy images, and the Segment Anything Model (SAM) was used to separate different regions within the images. …”

Ultrastrong exciton-plasmon couplings in WS2 multilayers synthesized with a random multi-singular metasurface at room temperature by Wu, Tingting, Wang, Chongwu, Hu, Guangwei, Wang, Zhixun, Zhao, Jiaxin, Wang, Zhe, Chaykun, Ksenia, Liu, Lin, Chen, Mengxiao, Li, Dong, Zhu, Song, Xiong, Qihua, Shen, Zexiang, Gao, Huajian, Garcia-Vidal, Francisco J., Wei, Lei, Wang, Qi Jie, Luo, Yu

“…Boosting their interaction with light is vital for practical applications, especially in the quantum regime where ultrastrong coupling is highly demanded but not yet realized. …”
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Next generation design of floating systems for coastal solar farms by Bi, Cheng

“…In the single-barrier-platform system, the barrier is installed in front of the platform, and significant reduction in platform displacement can be achieved when the barrier is in the membrane-like hydroelastic regime with relatively high rigidity and has a penetration more than 40% of water depth. …”
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中国民间故事的文化思考 ：以巧媳妇故事类型为例 = Cultural considerations in Chinese folktales : a case study of the Qiao Xi Fu story type by 蓝智欣 Lam, Zhi Xin

“…Being regarded lowly in the patriarchal clan system, women were obligated to conform to regimented rules and standards, on top of tending to family elders and fulfilling household duties. …”
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Investigations into femtosecond laser hybrid manufacturing for 3D power sources by Tham, Nicholas Cheng Yang

“…A thermally localised laser graphitisation (LLG) regime can then be identified to achieve in-situ PG integration. …”
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离散、家国、女性 ： 韩素音的中国性论述 = Diaspora, home, feminism : the Chinese-ness in Han Suyin’s works by 梁依婷 Neo, Yi Ting

“…Han Suyin had once faced difficult choices in politics and livelihood, however she eventually chose to become the connection between different countries and willingly support the Chinese regimental changes. Her acknowledgement towards China and her awkward identity as a Chinese-European, is an interesting yet complicated case within China’s history, society and literature, and is of meaningful research value. …”
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Design and development of image processing algorithms for classification of vehicles by Zhang, Chunrui

“…In this thesis a new technique is presented, which is based on motion segmentation and some other segmentation approaches such as split-merge and region growing and color image segmentation.…”
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