Relating local structure to thermoelectric properties in Pb1-xGexBi2Te4 by Dong, Jinfeng, Liu, Yukun, Liu, Jue, Hu, Lei, Jiang, Yilin, Tan, Xian Yi, Shi, Yuansheng, Yang, Dongwang, Saglik, Kivanc, Suwardi, Ady, Li, Qian, Li, Jing-Feng, Dravid, Vinayak P., Yan, Qingyu, Kanatzidis, Mercouri G.

“…A high ZT of 1.0 is also predicted for pristine PbBi2Te4 at 473 K, demonstrating its potential as a near-room-temperature thermoelectric system.…”
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Spatiotemporal signatures of elastoinertial turbulence in viscoelastic planar jets by Yamani, Sami, Raj, Yashasvi, Zaki, Tamer A., McKinley, Gareth H., Bischofberger, Irmgard

“…In agreement with linear stability analyses of viscoelastic jets, an inertioelastic shear-layer instability emerges near the edge of the jet for small levels of elasticity, independent of bulk undulations in the fluid column. …”
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Quantum State Obfuscation from Classical Oracles by Bartusek, James, Brakerski, Zvika, Vaikuntanathan, Vinod

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Probabilistic and Analytic Methods in Combinatorics by Sawhney, Mehtaab

“…This chapter gives the first such algorithm for finding a low discrepancy coloring which runs in nearly input sparsity time. The seventh chapter concerns effective bounds for special cases of the polynomial Szemerédi theorem. …”
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Explorations of combined nonsolvent and thermally induced phase separation (N-TIPS) method for fabricating novel PVDF hollow fiber membranes using mixed diluents by Zhao, Jie, Chong, Jeng Yi, Shi, Lei, Wang, Rong

“…To further control the membrane formation especially near the membrane surface, an amphiphilic additive Pluronic F127 was also added as a potential pore-former and surface hydrophilicity modifier. …”
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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.

“…The 2015 subplinian eruption of Calbuco volcano, Chile, caused damage to buildings near the volcano because of tephra fall and lahars. …”
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Optical study of excitonic complexes in transition metal dichalcogenides monolayers by Bao, Di

“…In this thesis, we investigate the excitonic structures of TMDs monolayers via optical spectroscopy. With near-resonance photoluminescence excitation spectroscopy, multiple scattering processes between excitons and phonons carrying non-zero wavevector are revealed, indicating the presence of indirect excitons whose constituent electrons and holes locate at different valleys. …”
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Constructing 3D self-supporting surfaces with isotropic stress using 4D minimal hypersurfaces of revolution by Ma, Long, He, Ying, Sun, Qian, Zhou, Yuanfeng, Zhang, Caiming, Wang, Wenping

“…Our method guarantees convergence and can produce near-regular triangle meshes, thanks to a local mesh refinement strategy similar to centroidal Voronoi tessellation. …”
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Exploring the potential benefits of using metasurface for galloping energy harvesting by Wang, Junlei, Sun, Shaokang, Hu, Guobiao, Yang, Yaowen, Tang, Lihua, Li, Pan, Zhang, Guojie

“…The vortex shedding processes around the wind flow fields near the bluff bodies wrapped in metasurfaces are simulated. …”
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Development of squaraine and croconaine probes for theranostic applications by Ferdinandus

“…This unique feature enables the development of probes with absorption in the far-red or near-infrared (NIR) regions. In this thesis, we delve into the synthesis of a library of SQR and CRO probes and explore their applications in theranostics. …”
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教会华校的特色与地位 ：以新加坡公教中学为案例 = Missionary Chinese-medium school : its traits and position with Catholic high school, Singapore as case study by 卓汶德 Toh, Boon Teck

“…With a long history of nearly 80 years and holding onto the teaching ideology of focusing students to become bilingual with Chinese and English, Catholic High School has produced some of the well-known personalities in the entertainment and the political arenas in Singapore. …”
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Modelling of traffic control delays at priority junctions using artificial neural network by Mohammad Ali Sahraei

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High-spin impurities and surface acoustic waves in piezoelectric crystals for spin-lattice coupling by Magnusson, E

“…We observed a clear signal at T &amp;sime; 25 K, at a field near the expected one for a Δ<em>m</em>_s = 2 transition between the |−1〉 and |+1〉 states. …”

Spin-ice physics and phase transitions in cadmium cyanide by Coates, CS

“…</p> <p>The main result of this thesis is to demonstrate that by replacing the magnetic dipole in spin-ice with the electric dipole of the cyanide ion, cadmium cyanide displays spin-ice behaviour at temperatures nearly sixty times higher that in its magnetic analogue. …”

Government resilience in the digital age by Raieste, A, Rebane, A, Tapupere, M, McBride, K

“…<br> For many governments, the COVID-19 pandemic was a wakeup call. Nearly 30% of governments in Europe had to postpone elections, education was disrupted, and many governments struggled to ensure the availability of their public services. …”

The paradoxes of wind power by Keay, M

“…Wind is argued by its proponents to be nearly competitive with fossil sources – and fully competitive once environmental externalities like CO2 emissions are taken into account in prices. …”

Adverse health events associated with antipsychotic use: an umbrella review by Chow, RTS

“…<p>INTRODUCTION: Antipsychotic medications are prescribed in nearly 800,000 patients in England. Monitoring the adverse effects of antipsychotics is essential in the prevention of harm to patients. …”

Modelling laser-induced vapour bubbles for lithotripsy treatment of kidney stones by Abrahams, S

“…Axisymmetry gives the flexibility to introduce solid boundaries near the bubble and measure the effect this has on both the bubble and the boundary.…”

Determination of mosquitoes species diversity and molecular detection of West Nile virus in wild bird habitats in Perak and Selangor, Malaysia by Jafar Ali, Natasha

“…The aim of this study was identifying the diversity of mosquito species found near to the wild bird habitats and determining the presence of WNV RNA in the mosquitoes in the selected areas of West Coast Malaysia. …”
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Development of an integrated scheduling model for handling equipment in automated port container terminals by Sadeghian, Syed Hamidreza

“…In addition, results proved that the modified meta-heuristic algorithm is able to find near optimal solutions and on average, the solutions found by the GA algorithm are only 0.2% worse than the optimal solutions and in the worst case in the test cases this difference is 2.3% which is acceptable. …”
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