Force Dynamics of the Rat Lateral Gastrocnemius Muscle after Undergoing Sensory Protection by Gutierrez Arango, Samantha

“…Despite limitations, such as the small sample size, the study lays the groundwork for future research investigating the cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying the observed changes. The findings highlight the potential of Sensory Protected muscles as biological actuators in prosthetic devices, and suggest that sensory reinnervation may be a promising strategy to maintain or restore muscle function in individuals with motor impairment.…”
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Techno-economic Analysis of Deuterium-Tritium Magnetic Confinement Fusion Power Plants by Araiinejad, Layla

“…The Levelized Cost of Electricity is estimated to be between $140/MWh and $550/MWh. The findings aim to deepen the understanding of absolute and relative cost drivers in fusion energy and suggest strategies to improve its economic feasibility. …”
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NBA Sleep Tracking Data Imputation by Licht, Joseph D.

“…Furthermore, this thesis utilizes the NBA Academy's shooting and jumping datasets in conjunction with the sleep dataset to explore a relationship between sleep and athletic performance, finding a generally weak correlation between sleep and athletic performance data, regardless of the time lag. …”
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Automated Social Science: Language Models as Scientist and Subjects by Manning, Benjamin S.

“…In each case, causal relationships are both proposed and tested by the system, finding evidence for some and not others. We provide evidence that the insights from these simulations of social interactions are not available to the LLM purely through direct elicitation. …”
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The Impact of Process Substitution on Manufacturing Costs: A Comparative Analysis of Sheet Metal Forming versus Extruded Steel Cutting by Talal, Omar

“…Specifically, it evaluates substituting conventional sheet metal components with extruded steel profiles and replacing manual press brake operations with automated tube laser cutting. The findings show that tube laser adoption across a broad range of channels can reduce costs by 49% to 79%, with a payback period of under two years, even in scenarios with fluctuating raw material prices. …”
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Tailoring the angular and spectral reflectance characteristics of color-dynamic films by modifying their photonic texture and topcoat roughness by Blair, Andrew D.

“…The model is verified with data obtained by imaging the angular scattering distribution and spectroscopic analysis of four representative combinations of photonic texture and surface coat roughness. The findings presented in this thesis validate the hypothesis that controlling texture of the photonic film and roughness of its topcoat allows for tailoring the visual appearance of structurally colored materials. …”
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Sensitivity Analysis of Self-Loosening Behavior forMesoscale Bolt Assemblies Under Cyclic Lateral Loading by Martinez, Alejandro

“…A set of hypotheses were proposed as a way to facilitate new learnings about the system’s sensitivities to four different parameters. The findings from the experimental study provide valuable insights into how different geometric configurations and types of loading conditions contribute to the performance of mesoscale multi-bolted systems. …”
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Characterizing the Impact of Oligomerization on Redox Flow Cell Performance by Weiss, Trent A, Fan, Gang, Neyhouse, Bertrand J, Moore, Evan B, Furst, Ariel, Brushett, Fikile R

“…Post‐mortem analyses reveal that oligomerization does not meaningfully alter decay processes as evinced by similar capacity fade across all species. Broadly, these findings corroborate and extend upon previously developed relationships between molecular size, electrochemical properties, and flow cell performance.…”
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Effects of predictability and controllability on task performance under time constraints. by Tan, Kenley Soon Chew., Ng, Zhichao., Low, Liang Neng.

“…The results of Study 1 support the hypothesis. Our findings also reveal that subjects provided with warning in high time pressure condition perform just as well as subjects (without warning) in the low time pressure condition. …”
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Facial attractiveness in male androgyny : having both male and female physical characteristics by Lim, Grace Zhuo Yah, Lim, Nichole Jie Qi

“…Specifically, this review focuses on the attraction of neoteny, the attraction of psychological androgyny, and the effect of the environment (social environment, cultural gender roles, and natural environmental challenges) on PA mate choices. Our findings show a mixed amount of support for these reasons. …”
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I remember your name : examining the effects of individuation training on racial bias in preschoolers by Ng, Xin Ying

“…We obtained three main findings that were consistent with our hypotheses: 1) preschoolers generally display a significant implicit and explicit biases favouring their own race, 2) training preschoolers to individuate other race resulted in significantly greater reductions in implicit racial bias than compared to a filler task, and 3) training preschoolers to individuate other race did not reduce their explicit racial bias to a greater extent than a filler task. …”
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Relationships among emotion regulation, depression, anxiety, stress, and physical health-related quality of life in coronary heart disease patients by Ng, Min Geng

“…This relationship was mediated by depression, anxiety, and perceived stress. Findings highlighted the importance for healthcare workers to continuously evaluate emotion dysregulation and psychological distress variables in CHD patients over time, to enhance their physical functioning.…”
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medTrack : a medication and appointment adherence system by Tan, Felice Yu Ting

“…This includes describing the research findings, problem identification, project development, evaluation of the project, and lastly the conclusion to wrap up the content.…”
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Effect of ADC to respiratory sound classification by Lau, Benson Yong Zhi

“…Different ADC resolution, 4-bit, 8-bit, and 16-bit will be used to generate the features for classification on the trained model. From the findings obtained by the project, the author observed that both 8-bit and 16-bit resolution deviates closely similar while 4-bit resolution deviates very differently as compared to the other 2 resolution.…”
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Understanding the outcomes of enterococcus faecalis and pseudomonas aeruginosa dual-species biofilms by Ong, Qian Wei

“…Thus, we conducted a cell viability assay. Our findings showed that E. faecalis inhibited P. aeruginosa viability in PA1:EF100 ratio, which corresponded to a decrease in biofilm production. …”
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Implicit beliefs, cognitive flexibility and creativity : a correlational study comparing Normal-Technical and express stream students by Chui, Yingqi

“…Creativity was also investigated in relation to cognitive flexibility. 71 Secondary Two students – 40 NT stream students and 31 Express stream students - participated in a battery of tests to measure their implicit theories of intelligence, of non-academic abilities and of creativity, as well as reactive flexibility, spontaneous flexibility and creativity. Findings indicated some associations between the implicit theories and cognitive flexibility for the NT sample but not Express sample, supporting the abolishment of the streaming system. …”
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Temperature dependent material behaviour of Inconel steel 625 by Tan, Dillon Kheng Jin

“…Tension tests will be performed on the samples at room temperature and design temperatures and the results will be recorded for future findings and industrial applications. Tensile testing is destructive mechanical test which is commonly used to determine mechanical properties of a material such as its yield strength, ultimate tensile strength, elasticity and toughness. …”
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Factors influencing junior managers' poor decisions in new market entry by Adela, Josephine, Chen, Lionel Yingren, Yeo, Marianna Xue Na

“…We found that firms that have made the wrong decision to enter a new market (hence resulting in poor financial performance) tend to have: • Entered the market hastily without a track record of success in prior markets; • Entered the market due to competitive pressure; • Justified their market entry decisions mostly based on competitive reasons; • Sunk in substantial R&Ds expenditures without commensurate marketing expenditures when launching new products in the new market. This study’s findings offer insights into the phenomenon of poor decision making. …”
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“This Will Blow Your Mind”: examining the urge to click clickbaits by Chua, Alton Yeow Kuan, Pal, Anjan, Banerjee, Snehasish

“…Design/methodology/approach: The hypotheses in the proposed framework were tested using a between-participants experimental design (N = 204) that manipulated information richness (text-only vs. thumbnail clickbaits). Findings: Curiosity, perceived enjoyment and surveillance were significant predictors of the urge to click. …”
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“It’s complicated” : cognitive dissonance and the evolving relationship between editorial and advertising in US newsrooms by Duffy, Andrew, Cheng, Lydia

“…This study assesses what happens when senior editors encounter cognitive dissonance as they reconstruct the editorial-commercial relationship. It finds reluctance to embrace this evolving relationship, revealed in the fragmented and contradictory syntax editors use to talk about it as they are torn between the old (ethically driven) norm of how things should be, and the emerging (economically driven) norm of how things are. …”
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