Essays on oil price fluctuations, financial markets and international trade by Le, Thai Ha

“…The third essay aims to examine whether a large part of the variability of trade balances and their oil and non-oil components is associated with oil price fluctuations. The long-run causality running from oil price to overall, oil and non-oil trade balances and their short-run dynamics are investigated by applying the Toda-Yamamoto’s 1995 (TY) causality approach and generalized impulse response functions (IRFs), respectively to the monthly data spanning from January 1999 to November 2011. …”
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Computational fluid dynamics simulation of jet in crossflow by Ahmad Anwar

“…Currently, the grey water system which discharges waste water out of the commercial Airbus aircraft via the drain mast produces long streaks of reddish-brown stains on the aircraft belly. …”
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Research on lithium ion battery applications in vehicles by Huang, Ke

“…Among all kinds of batteries, lithium-ion battery (LIB) plays an essential role in marketplace due to their high capacity, high efficiency, long life and low self-discharge rate，which make LIB become the perfect power supply of the electric vehicle. …”
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Fluid velocity slip and temperature jump at a solid surface by Teo, Melvin Ji Bin

“…This thesis focuses on the discontinuous transport profiles across fluid-solid interfaces that are commonly encountered in micro and nano fluid systems. Despite the long history of the jump boundary conditions, most of the existing theoretical models for gas- solid and liquid-solid interfaces fail to provide satisfactory predictions of experimental findings. …”
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Novel drug-eluting stent to reduce fibrosis-induced ureteral stricture by Fong, Timothy Ren Zhong

“…A solution of poly(L-lactide-co-caprolactone) and MMC was spray coated on 2cm long polyurethane stents, with varied drug loading (2.5wt%, 5wt%, 7.5wt%). …”
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Optical fiber strain sensor by Tan Zhi Sheng, Dickson, Tan, Dickson Zhi Sheng

“…The results also showed that amount of the volume of the DI water infused does not affect spectra difference significantly as long as the microfiber was fully submerged in the DI water.…”
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‘On-demand’ soft tissue adhesives by Mogal, Vishal Tukaram

“…The covalent crosslinking of hydroxyethyl methacrylate polymer brushes grafted on quartz surface to wetted tissues were studied following long-range UV light activation. The potential applications of PHEMA polymer brushes through use of UV irradiation as a soft tissue adhesive in wet conditions were demonstrated for the first time. …”
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Droplet impact on superheated surfaces by Khavari, Mohammad

“…The heat flux remains increasing with temperature as long as the liquid maintains contact with the surface; it drops abruptly when excessive vapor completely covers the surface. …”
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Modeling and optimization of thermoelectric generator for waste heat recovery by Ji, Dongxu

“…Among those waste heat recovery technologies, thermoelectric generator (TEG) has its distinct advantage of directly converting heat into electricity, reliability, long lifetime, no moving parts and no gas emissions. …”
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Evaluation of road cross-section design using driving simulation by Ng, Kay Guan

“…Ninety-eight participants with valid driving licenses and sufficient driving experience took part in the one-hour long experiment. The experiment is divided into an adaptation driving phase, followed by three separate drives on the same route but with differing lane widths. …”
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Lateral offsets and revised dates of large prehistoric earthquakes at Pallett creek, Southern California by Sieh, Kerry

“…Systematicd issectiono f a 50-m-long, 15-m-wide, 5-m-deep volume of earth, centered on the fault, enables documentation in three dimensions of fault patterns, lateral offsets, and vertical deformation associated with large earthquakes of the past. …”
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R-loopDB: a database for R-loop forming sequences (RLFS) and R-loops by Jenjaroenpun, Piroon, Wongsurawat, Thidathip, Sutheeworapong, Sawannee, Kuznetsov, Vladimir A.

“…It provides a comprehensive annotation of Ensembl RLFS-positive genes including 93 454 protein coding genes, 12 480 long non-coding RNA and 7 568 small non-coding RNA genes and 7 554 pseudogenes. …”
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Theoretical study of spermatozoa sorting by dielectrophoresis or magnetophoresis with supervised learning by Koh, James Boon Yong

“…This sorting has potential to improve the probability of success for intrauterine insemination, given that pregnancy rates are similar as long as the percentage of normal cells exceed a minimum threshold, even if the initial motile sperm count is under a million. …”
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Expanding heme-protein folding space using designed multi-heme β-sheet mini-proteins by D’Souza, Areetha, Torres, Jaume, Bhattacharjya, Surajit

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Sustained Release of Cx43 Antisense Oligodeoxynucleotides from Coated Collagen Scaffolds Promotes Wound Healing by Gilmartin, Daniel J., Soon, Allyson, Thrasivoulou, Christopher, Phillips, Anthony R. J., Jayasinghe, Suwan N., Becker, David Lawrence

“…For chronic wounds that take a long time to heal, repeated dosing with the drug may be desirable but is not always compatible with conventional treatments such as the weekly changing of compression bandages on venous leg ulcers. …”
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Emergent geometric frustration of artificial magnetic skyrmion crystals by Ma, Fusheng, Reichhardt, C., Gan, Weiliang, Reichhardt, C. J. Olson, Lew, Wen Siang

“…The proposed artificial frustrated skyrmion systems can be annealed into different ice phases with an applied current-induced spin-transfer torque, including a long-range ordered ice rule obeying ground state, as-relaxed random state, biased state, and monopole state. …”
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Ball with hair: modular functionalization of highly stable G-quadruplex DNA nano-scaffolds through N2-guanine modification by Lech, Christopher Jacques, Phan, Anh Tuân

“…Various chemistries including small modifications (N2-methyl-guanine), bulky aromatic modifications (N2-benzyl-guanine), and long chain-like modifications (N2-6-amino-hexyl-guanine) are tested and are found to be generally compatible with G-quadruplex formation. …”
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A combined single crystal neutron/X-ray diffraction and solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance study of the hybrid perovskites CH3NH3PbX3 (X = I, Br and Cl) by Baikie, Tom, Barrow, Nathan S., Mhaisalkar, Subodh Gautam, White, Timothy John, Fang, Yanan, Keenan, Philip J., Slater, Peter R., Piltz, Ross O., Gutmann, Matthias

“…In addition, the differences in the anomalously long relaxation times of the protons associated with the CH3 and not the NH3 groups indicate that only the amine end of the CH3NH3+ group is interacting with the inorganic network. …”
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Efficient generation of an array of single silicon-vacancy defects in silicon carbide by Wang, Junfeng, Zhou, Yu, Zhang, Xiaoming, Liu, Fucai, Li, Yan, Li, Ke, Liu, Zheng, Wang, Guanzhong, Gao, Weibo

“…Color centers in silicon carbide have increasingly attracted attention in recent years owing to their excellent properties such as single-photon emission, good photostability, and long spin-coherence time even at room temperature. …”
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Identification of bacterial biofilm and the Staphylococcus aureus derived protease, staphopain, on the skin surface of patients with atopic dermatitis by Sonesson, Andreas, Przybyszewska, Kornelia, Eriksson, Sigrid, Mörgelin, Matthias, Kjellström, Sven, Davies, Julia, Potempa, Jan, Schmidtchen, Artur

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