Reconstruction of thiospinel to active sites and spin channels for water oxidation by Wu, Tianze, Sun, Yuanmiao, Ren, Xiao, Wang, Jiarui, Song, Jiajia, Pan, Yangdan, Mu, Yongbiao, Zhang, Jianshuo, Cheng, Qiuzhen, Xian, Guoyu, Xi, Shibo, Shen, Chengmin, Gao, Hong-Jun, Fisher, Adrian C., Sherburne, Matthew P., Du, Yonghua, Ager, Joel W., Gracia, Jose, Yang, Haitao, Zeng, Lin, Xu, Jason Zhichuan

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Robust incentive mechanisms for efficient and secure coded edge intelligence by Ng, Jer Shyuan

“…To mitigate the challenges of distributed computing, coded distributed computing (CDC), i.e., a combination of coding theoretic techniques and distributed computing, has been proposed. In particular, CDC systems reduce communication load and alleviate the straggler effects. …”
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Enhancing prosthetic control through high-fidelity myoelectric mapping with molecular anchoring technology by Pan, Liang, Wang, Hui, Huang, Pingao, Wu, Xuwei, Tang, Zihan, Jiang, Ying, Ji, Shaobo, Cao, Jinwei, Ji, Baohua, Li, Guanglin, Li, Dechang, Wang, Zhiming, Chen, Xiaodong

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Defect chemistry in 2D atomic layers for energy photocatalysis by Di, Jun, Hao, Gazi, Jiang, Wei, Liu, Zheng

“…Numerous efforts have been dedicated to the reasonable design of photocatalytic materials to improve the photocatalytic efficiency. …”
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The stalks of the motor A1A0 ATP synthase come into the focus : structural insight into subunits E, F and H by Gayen, Shovanlal

“…In order to get a detailed picture, structural characterization has been done for the central stalk subunit F and the peripheral stalk subunits H and E. …”
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Photo-driven smart polymers and their molecular self-assembly by Hu, Jinhua

“…This photo-driven vesicle is a typical example of pulsating self-assemblies reported for the first time. Other examples have been reported are pH-responsive1 and thermo-responsive2 pulsating vesicles, respectively. …”
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Content-based image retrieval with statistical machine learning. by Zhang, Lining.

“…The effectiveness of CPSL in exploiting the RF log data to improve the performance of CBIR has been demonstrated by a large number of empirical studies.…”
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Essays on the dynamics of the U.S. real exchange rate by Li, Yingzhu

“…While developed within a closed economy framework, such model has not yet been extended to the research in international macroeconomics. …”
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Synthesis and optical characterization of cadmium sulfide (CdS) single crystals for laser cooling effect by Zhang, Chiyuan

“…The first part of the work is to characterize the laser cooling effect of CdS commercial single crystals. CdS has been proved very promising in laser cooling effect where nanobelts of CdS can be cooled down 40 K from room temperature and 20 K from 100K if excited by certain lasers1. …”
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重新建构女性的自我认同 ： 以苏童“红粉”系列小说为例 = Re-constructing woman’s self identity : a case study of Su Tong’s “Hong Fen” series by 陈品秀 Tan, Ping Siew

“…In this thesis, three novels from “Hong Fen” series, Qi Qie Cheng Qun (Wives and Concubines), Hong Fen and Ling Yi Zhong Fu Nv Sheng Huo, have been chosen to be the focus point for text interpretation, as well as analysis how country’s social systems and power “repress” women’s identities, and how they manage to re-construct their identities, in order for survival, with achieving self-worth and self-liberation.…”
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Numerical and experimental investigation of thick composites manufacturing for wind turbines by Ammasai Sengodan, Ganapathi

“…The sizes of wind turbines and the blades have been increasing gradually in order to achieve high rated power at decreased cost. …”
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Enhancing extracellular electron transfer of Shewanella to improve the performance of microbial fuel cells by Ting, Liu

“…Different strategies have been implemented to enhance extracellular electron transfer of the well-known electroactive strain, Shewanella oneidensis MR-1, to improve the performance of MFCs. …”
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Mechanical behaviors of individual core-shell microspheres and their polymeric composites under different strain rates by Zhang, Xin

“…The introduction of ultraviolet curable resin significantly improved the strength of STF capsule. Repeated loading has been applied on the STF capsules with elastic shell fabricated through a two-step method. …”
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Parallel and distributed algorithms for computational fluid flow simulations by Vu, Thanh Tung

“…Thus, distributed computing architectures have been explored to parallelize the computation scheme to speed up the simulation time for modelling. …”
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Physical layer security in emerging wireless communication systems by Wang, Wei

“…As a new design paradigm, physical layer security has been recognised as a promising solution to enhance the security of wireless links relying on the channel properties and advanced signal processing, and can act as either an alternative or a complementary solution to the conventional cryptographic methods. …”
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Voice conversion with parallel/non-parallel data and synthetic speech detection by Tian, Xiaohai

“…As low-dimensional features are typically used in synthetic techniques, detailed information has been abandoned in synthetic speech. This work mainly focused on the detailed information of high-dimensional features, especially their high-frequency parts, for synthetic speech detection. …”
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Populism in foreign policy by Chryssogelos, Angelos

“…Highlighted are the breadth of critical and discursive approaches on populism that scholars of populism and foreign policy can use, particularly because they have been applied successfully to cases outside of Europe, where populists have long held political power and have influenced foreign policy in practice. …”
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Aircraft noise, overheating and poor air quality in London primary schools' classrooms by Montazami, Azadeh

“…The overall findings of this thesis have been developed to draw the attention of school designers' to the current and future potential conflicts between the comfort factors in schools' classrooms. …”
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Adipose tissue fatty acid composition, serum lipids, and serum alpha-tocopherol in continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis patients living on the island of Crete by Nikolakakis, N, Kounali, D, Tornaritis, M, Anastassou, A, Papadakis, E, Kassotakis, G, Kafatos, A

“…Both CAPD patients and controls had been residents of Crete for at least the last 10 years.…”

Acute inflammatory diseases of the central nervous system after SARS-CoV-2 vaccination by Francis, AG, Elhadd, K, Camera, V, Ferreira Dos Santos, M, Rocchi, C, Adib-Samii, P, Athwal, B, Attfield, K, Barritt, A, Craner, M, Fisniku, L, Iversen, AKN, Leach, O, Matthews, L, Redmond, I, O'Riordan, J, Scalfari, A, Tanasescu, R, Wren, D, Huda, S, Leite, MI, Fugger, L, Palace, J

“…Both MOGAD and acute disseminated encephalomyelitis (ADEM) have been reported after vaccination. Consequently, the mass SARS-CoV-2 vaccination program could result in increased rates of these conditions. …”