21W.775 Writing about Nature and Environmental Issues, Spring 2006 by Lioi, Anthony

“…Students will keep a web log as a journal. Writings are drawn from the tradition of nature writing and from contemporary forms of the environmentalist essay. …”
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Financial forecasting using meta-cognitive fuzzy neural networks by Singh Akhand Pratap

“…Some potential ways to address the above issues could be usage of synthetic data through time-series models to train the model till the test date; usage of manual inferences drawn from the indicators to make judgements about the present day; usage of multiple machine learning models and combining the results from all; usage of dynamic feature selection mechanism to make improvements to the prediction; and usage of dynamic thresholds that are dependent on the market conditions. …”
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Mitigating marine megafauna captures in fisheries by Arlidge, W

“…</p> <p>Throughout the fishery case study, I draw on established decision-making processes to better understand the conservation issue at hand and to develop an understanding of what is necessary to empirically calculate net outcomes in data-poor fishing systems using the proposed framework. …”

Maritime clusters and their development interplay with ports by Zhang Wei

“…Two case examples, namely London and Hong Kong, are drawn from these clusters, showing a port’s contribution to maritime cluster development. …”
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Practitioner, patient and public views on the acceptability of mobile stroke units in England and Wales: A mixed methods study by Moseley, L, McMeekin, P, Price, C, Shaw, L, Laws, A, Allen, M, Ford, GA, James, M, McCarthy, S, McClelland, G, Park, LJ, Pearn, K, Phillips, D, White, P, Wilson, D, Scott, J

“…Results: The study results, drawn from 25 respondents to the survey and 21 participants in qualitative workshops, found that almost all participants had positive affective attitudes to the concept of MSUs. …”

Childhood bullying and mental health: understanding risk, resilience, and the role of anti-bullying interventions by Guzman Holst, C

“…The best approaches to study causal effects are natural experiments, longitudinal data, and randomised controlled trials of interventions. This thesis combines all these approaches to examine the relationship between bullying and mental health across different contexts.…”

The Relationship between Linguistic Representations in Biological and Artificial Neural Networks by Kauf, Carina

“…This thesis work makes progress on all three questions by combining evidence from neuroimaging, behavioral research, and computational modeling. …”
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Engineering pressure retarded osmosis membrane bioreactor (PRO-MBR) for simultaneous water and energy recovery from municipal wastewater by Liu, Shuyue, Song, Weilong, Meng, Manli, Xie, Ming, She, Qianhong, Zhao, Pin, Wang, Xinhua

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Understanding mechanisms that maintain social anxiety disorder in autistic individuals through the Clark and Wells (1995) model and beyond: a systematic review by Lei, J, Mason, C, Russell, A, Hollocks, M, Leigh, E

“…Most studies used only self-report measures that may have inflated associations observed between social anxiety and mechanisms. All studies employed cross-sectional design, and no causality inferences could be drawn. …”

On the most energy-efficient input functions and the lowest input energy of passive linear circuits by Smunyahirun, Radit

“…Finally, generalization of the most energy-efficient functions and the lowest input energy for any order circuits is drawn. A dummy function is introduced which is essential for generalization. …”
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Memory Checking Requires Logarithmic Overhead by Boyle, Elette, Komargodski, Ilan, Vafa, Neekon

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Memory Checking Requires Logarithmic Overhead by Boyle, Elette, Komargodski, Ilan, Vafa, Neekon

“…The bound applies to any scheme with computational security, completeness $2/3$, and inverse polynomial in $n$ soundness (all of which make our lower bound only stronger). …”
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Timber-framed building damage from tephra fall and lahar : 2015 Calbuco eruption, Chile by Hayes, Josh L., Calderón B., Rodrigo, Deligne, Natalia I., Jenkins, Susanna F., Leonard, Graham S., McSporran, Ame M., Williams, George Thomas, Wilson, Thomas M.

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A finer-grain analysis of the leakage (non) resilience of OCB by Berti, Francesco, Bhasin, Shivam, Breier, Jakub, Hou, Xiaolu, Poussier, Romain, Standaert, François-Xavier, Udvarhelyi, Balasz

“…Thanks to this comprehensive analysis, we draw concrete requirements for side-channel resistant implementations of OCB3.…”
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Adoption of ZakaTech in the Time of COVID-19: Cross-Country and Gender Differences by Nashwan, Saeed Awadh, Ismaiel, Abdelhamid Elsayed A., Muneeza, Aishath, Isa, Mohamad Yazid

“…To validate the research model and draw significant insights, SmartPLS structural equation modeling was used. …”
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Agamemnon, a performance history by Macintosh, F, Kenward, C

“…Created by the University of Oxford’s Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama (the APGRD), the ebook draws on a unique collection of archive material and research at the APGRD and beyond; it uses images, film, bespoke interviews with creative practitioners and academics, and digital objects to tell the story of a play that has inspired countless interpretations onstage and onscreen, in dance, drama, and opera, across the globe from antiquity to the present day.…”

Tsewang Norbu NGB by Cantwell, C, Mayer, R

“…Waddell, who identified it as the most splendid and significant of all the great number of literary artifacts he procured during that expedition. …”

Tailoring the phase transition temperature to achieve high-performance cubic GeTe-based thermoelectrics by Ady Suwardi, Cao, Jing, Hu, Lei, Wei, Fengxia, Wu, Jing, Zhao, Yunshan, Lim, Su Hui, Yang, Lan, Tan, Xian Yi, Chien, Sheau Wei, Yin, Yan, Zhou, Wu-Xing, Wong, Nancy Lai Mun, Wang, Xizu, Lim, Suo Hon, Ni, Xiping, Li, Dengfeng, Yan, Qingyu, Zheng, Yun, Zhang, Gang, Xu, Jianwei

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60X3 by Wong, Chun Sing

“…60X3 is a visualisation of an informal trilogy by Hong Kong film director, Wong Kar Wai. The project draws on visual language with a focus on using information design techniques to interpret and highlight the underlying connections between the loosely linked films. …”
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Assessing the impact of a sport for development and peace intervention on the mental and physical health of adolescents in Mullaitivu, Sri Lanka by Hamilton, A

“…</p> <p><b>Results:</b></p> <p>Successive adaptations improved the intra-tester agreement for the SLIPS-C (Kilinochchi ICC = 0.701, Mullaitivu ICC = 0.878) and all variables showed a good level of reliability (ICC&amp;GT;0.75). …”