Storage and eruption of silicic magma across the transition from dominantly effusive to caldera-forming states at an arc volcano (Santorini, Greece) by Druitt, Timothy H., Fabbro, Gareth N., Costa, Fidel

“…Based on previously published phase diagrams and melt inclusion volatile barometry for the Cape Riva dacite, we infer that in each case crystallization of plagioclase rims and orthopyroxene took place centuries to years prior to eruption owing to volatile-saturated decompression (± cooling) as the dacitic melts (plus entrained plagioclase antecrystic cores) ascended from the middle crust (10–16 km) into the upper crust (4–6 km), where they resided until eruption a few years to decades later. …”
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Robust optimal operation of future power systems under uncertainties by Lahanda Purage Mohasha Isuru Sampath

“…The algorithm converges satisfying the first-order optimality conditions for the AC-OPF problem. The case studies illustrate the efficiency and computational performance of the proposed approach based on the standard IEEE and large-scale Polish systems. …”
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全球传播之窗 ：中国中央电视台中文国际频道和华人华侨关系研究 = Window to the world : the Chinese International Channel of China Central Television and it relations with Chinese diaspora... by 汤妮 Tang Ni

“…This thesis adopts methods such as date collection, comparative analysis, and case studies, and focuses on the program contents, types, and transcripts of CCTV-4. …”
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Wireless channel modeling and spectrum monitoring for interference mitigation and link reliability insurance for existing and future CBTC systems by Kalyankar Shravan Kumar

“…This technique is validated by performing signal identification on extensive measurement data collected from spectrum monitoring. In case of challenges in extracting many spectral signatures from the measured data, we proposed using GAN to generate the synthetic spectral signature. …”
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Land reclamation - from conventional vertical drain methods to a combined vacuum preloading and electro-osmosis with horizontal drainage enhanced geotextile sheets by Wong, Lung Anthony

“…The boundary conditions of this case study are the same as the Tung Chung New Town Extension Project, except that vacuum preloading of multi-layers of clay slurry instead of mechanical compaction of rockfill has been used. …”
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Learning to generalize to new tasks/domains with limited data by Peng, Danni

“…To further handle the case where tasks are from different distributions, recent developments propose to condition the global initialization with some task-specific feature-based representations. …”
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Self-healing cementitious composites by encapsulation techniques by Feng, Jianhang

“…However, manual remediation may not be practical in case of inaccessible cracks and would cause high carbon emissions and cost. …”
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Thermal energy storage enhancement of latent heat thermal energy storage systems by Low, Zheng Hua

“…The melt time of proposed designs improved by 64.2% and 4.3%, respectively, when compared to parallel and no fin case. The sections created additional pathways for liquid PCM to flow in the longitudinal direction. …”
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A cross-layer payload-dropping scheme for improving CSMA/CA throughput in interference-limited co-channel cells by Jayabal, Raymond J.

“…Although limited to the fixed frame size and fixed contention window case, these models shed light on the throughput trends of PD-CSMA/CA with respect to the contention window length, number of nodes and header to frame length ratio of transmitted frames, and demonstrates its throughput gains over normal CSMA/CA theoretically. …”
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Thermoplastic polymer nanocomposites based on polydopamine-coated clay : preparation, structures and properties by Phua, Si Lei

“…On the other hand, the effect of particle size was studied using polycaprolactone (PCL)-based PU as matrix. In this case, polydopamine-modified layered double hydroxides (D-LDHs) of different sizes were used as the fillers and the shape memory performance of the nanocomposites was evaluated. …”
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3D content recovery and complexity reduction by Tan, Cheen Hau

“…Our mocap recovery methods target two types of missing data: random missing data, where each joint in a sequence are missing at random, and block missing data, where each joint is missing for long intervals of time. For the case of random missing data, we propose to arrange the mocap data matrix into columns of short trajectories, which we call the trajectory-based representation, for matrix completion recovery. …”
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The relations between Van Der Waals and covalent forces in layered crystals by Chaturvedi, Apoorva

“…Such direct band gap atomically thin compounds could prove to be very versatile in integrated electronics, optoelectronics applications and for catalysis operations due their extreme case of surface to area ratio. It has been found the interplay of strong and weak bonds plays a very important role in the control of various properties. …”
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翻译与社会场域理论 ：以新加坡华族小吃双语名称为例 = Translation and field theory : study on bilingual names of Chinese delicacies in Singapore by 林育正 Lin, Yu Cheng

“…The application of his theory will be concluded in the last chapter as a theoretical framework in conjunction of the case studies to analyse the way how these names of delicacies serve their purpose in our society and to explain such unique translation phenomena in Singapore.…”
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Aqueous-only exfoliation of pristine graphite to graphene : towards sustainable, multifunctional polymer nanocomposites by Seyed Ismail Seyed Shahabadi

“…By adopting these strategies, organic liquid media and synthetic surfactants/stabilizers can be substituted by water and naturally-occurring lignin, or in case of the last study, lignin can be eliminated. …”
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Investigating the role of astrocytes in Parkinson's disease pathogenesis in GBA- N370S iPSC-derived neural cultures by Ibarra Aizpurua, N

“…Pre-treatment of iASTROs with TNFα+IFNγ before the co-cultures did not affect their neurosupportive capacity, whereas some of the data suggests that when treating and maintaining the co-cultures with cytokines, control and <em>GBA-N370S</em> iASTROs became neurotoxic and/or lost neurosupportive functions. In the case of co-cultures treated with TNFα+IFNγ, this neurotoxic activity was potentiated with the addition of PFFs, suggesting that PFFs modulate the reactive response of iASTROs to inflammatory cytokines.…”

Pregnant women admitted to hospital with covid-19 in 10 European countries: individual patient data meta-analysis of population based cohorts in International Obstetric Survey Syst... by Engjom, HM, de Bruin, O, Ramakrishnan, R, Aabakke, AJM, Äyräs, O, Deneux-Tharaux, C, Donati, S, Knight, M, Jonasdottir, E, Svanvik, T, Vercoutere, A, Vousden, N, Bleomenkamp, KWM

“…</p> <p><strong>Setting</strong> 10 European countries with national or regional surveillance within the International Obstetric Survey Systems (INOSS) collaboration using aligned definitions and case report forms: Belgium, France (regional), Italy, the Netherlands, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden (regional), and the UK. …”

Genetic analysis of normal human phenotypes within the people of the British Isles by Meena, D

“…Out of 3702 samples, 2,912 were genotyped on the Illumina Human 1.2M-Duo genotyping chip (approximately 1,200,000 SNPs) as part of the Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium 2 (WTCCC2) studies and the remaining samples were genotyped on Infinium OmniExpress-24 BeadChip array (approximately 750,000 SNPs) at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics (WTCHG), Oxford. …”

Diagrammatic Representation and Inference : 12th International Conference, Diagrams 2021, Virtual, September 28-30, 2021, Proceedings / by Diagrams (Conference) (12th : 2021 : Online) 643173, Basu, Amrita, 1953-, editor 643175, Stapleton, Gem, editor 643176, Linker, Sven, editor 643177, Legg, Catherine, editor 643178, Manalo, Emmanuel, editor 643179, Viana, Petrucio, editor 643180

Novel material composites for dielectric elastomer actuators by Ankit

“…Our daily lives are touched by different forms of robots around us, be it a direct interaction in form of robotic helpers at the airport or indirectly in the case of industrial arm robots assembling the electronics and machines. …”
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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

“…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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