Metal sulfides for electrochemical energy storage and conversion by Wang, Jin

“…As the in-depth understanding of electrochemical reaction mechanisms is significant for advancing different energy storage and conversion devices, this thesis also performs the fundamental investigation of the lithium/sodium storage mechanisms, and the mechanisms of hydrogen evolution reaction (HER). The cause for enhanced performance has been also carefully explored. …”
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Worst-Case Mechanism Design via Bayesian Analysis by Bei, Xiaohui, Chen, Ning, Gravin, Nick, Lu, Pinyan

“…Budget feasible mechanism design is the study of procurement combinatorial auctions in which the sellers have private costs to produce items, and the buyer (auctioneer) aims to maximize her valuation function on a subset of purchased items under the budget constraint on the total payment. …”
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Human agency and instrumental rationality: applying human capital to gender inequalities and intergenerational stratification by Luo, H

“…This phenomenon is strongly influenced by traditional gender ideologies, and notably, these ideologies become reinforced when a wife's underutilization of her education aligns with a growth in family income.…”

Fictions of youth: childness in selected West African novels, 1991-2009 by Moellenberg, T

“…The child is drained of a convincing sense of an individuality and agency of his or her own.</p> <p>Chapter 3 continues to explore the figure of the child as a complex and multivalent symbol. …”

Understanding Drivers of Deforestation using Games on Spatial Networks by Seby, Jean-Baptiste

“…Firstly, we conduct equilibrium analysis of a game in which each agent decides the production levels of her coupled activities in the presence of network effects. …”
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Estrogenic post-menopausal anti-osteoporotic mechanism of Achyranthes aspera L.: Phytochemicals and network pharmacology approaches by Huq, AKM Moyeenul, Stanslas, Johnson, Nizhum, Nisarat, Uddin, Md. Nazim, Maulidiani, Maulidiani, Roney, Miah, Abas, Faridah, Jamal, Jamia Azdina

“…Molecular docking analysis of the compounds revealed potential interactions with hERα receptor for 3-O-(6′-O-(9Z,12Z-octadecadienoyl)-β-D-glucopyranosyl)-stigmast-5,22E-dien-3β-ol and kaempferol-3-O-glucoside (astragalin) (docking scores of −9.3 and −10.1 kcal/mol, respectively) as compared to 17β-estradiol (−9.3 kcal/mol). …”
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Towards sustainable socially-aware mobile crowdsensing : leveraging hierarchical game for incentive mechanisms by Nie, Jiangtian

“…For example, in health-related crowdsensing applications, a mobile user benefits from information regarding food, exercise, medicine and medical treatment collected and shared by her socially-connected friends and family members. …”
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Synthesis of metal nanomaterials with unconventional crystal phases and their applications in electrocatalysis by Liu, Jiawei

“…Besides, taking advantage of the 1D/2D hierarchical structure, the 1D/2D Rh-Au heterostructure shows promising electrocatalytic performance toward the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) in acidic media. On the other hand, phase-controlled synthesis of bimetallic Pd3Sn nanorods, including the ordered L12 phase and the disordered fcc phase, is achieved via wet-chemical methods. …”
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Waffle-inspired hydrogel-based macrodevice for spatially controlled distribution of encapsulated therapeutic microtissues and pro-angiogenic endothelial cells by Pham, Chi H. L., Zuo, Yicong, Chen, Yang, Tran, Nam M., Nguyen, Dang T., Dang, Tram T.

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Multi-colony coral skeletal Ba/Ca from Singapore’s turbid urban reefs : relationship with contemporaneous in-situ seawater parameters by Tanzil, Jani Thuaibah Isa, Goodkin, Nathalie Fairbank, Sin, T. M., Chen, Mengli, Fabbro, Gareth Nicholas, Boyle, E. A., Lee, A. C., Toh, K. B.

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Conditional prosociality in development: deconstructing social and materialistic factors that modulate early prosocial behavior by Lee, Kristy Jia Jin

“…Children witnessed the transgressor destroy the victim's tower of blocks, responded to the victim's pleas for help in rebuilding her tower, and shared resources with both actresses. …”
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VO离合词的离析现象 ： 基于普通话与新加坡华语对比研究 = A corpus-based comparative study of VO separable verbs in Mainland Mandarin and Singapore Mandarin Chinese... by 符传婧 Foo, Chuan Jing

“…本文的普通话和新加坡华语语料分别取自北京大学CCL语料库和东南亚华文媒体语料库。在前人研究（如Her (1996)，王海峰（2010）等）基础上，本文查看使用频率较高的离合词在两个汉语变体中的多方面句法表现（如体标记“了、着、过”在VO离合词中的出现位置等），从而比较其所表现的词或词组特征。…”
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Geobarrier system for use in underground structure by Leong, Eng Choon, Zhai, Qian, Tan, Sze Tiong, Wang, Chien Looi, Lim, Vincent Han, Kew, Jernice Huiling, Seow, Wei Kiong, Wong, Johnny Liang Heng, Rahardjo, Harianto, Satyanaga, Alfrendo, Gofar, Nurly, Mohamed, Haneena

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Thomas Kling: influences, contemporaries, successors. A study in poetic tradition / Thomas Kling: Einflüsse, Zeitgenossen, Nachfolger. Studie über poetische Tradition by Rakar, I

“…With the help of Eliot and Pound, it challenges Bloom’s psychoanalytic, ahistorical model of influence by suggesting instead a positive and active relation between the poet, his/her literary predecessors and contemporaries, and considering the process of reception in the historical context. …”

中国大陆文化软实力对台湾政治安全的影响 ：以偶像养成类综艺选秀节目为案例分析 = The influence of mainland China’s cultural soft power on Taiwan's political security : a case study on idol survival variety programmes... by 王凯义 Ong, Kai Yi

“…By analysing and examining the development of idol survival variety programmes in Mainland China and Taiwan, specifically “Youth With You (season 2)” and “Dancing Diamond 52” from Mainland China and Taiwan respectively, the paper posits that through the broadcasting of idol survival variety programmes, Mainland China has enhanced her national image and gained greater cultural impact alongside international influences. …”
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《虬髯客传》的古今诠释 : 以《虬髯客传》、《虬髯翁》和《风尘三侠之红拂女》为例 = Retelling “The legend of curled beard” : examples from Tang, Ming and Contemporary... by 梁琇涵 Leong, Xiu Han

“…However, the modern drama decided to change the protagonist to Red Dust, who had previously played a supporting role, as the plot focuses on the love story between Red Dust, her Husband Li Jing and Tang Emperor Li Shi Min. …”
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幽禁中之丰姿，落寞中之妖冶：《唐詩名媛集》述評 = Charming in silence and coquettish in desolate : a commentary on Tangshi Mingyuan Ji by 曲景毅 Qu, Jingyi

“…It showed Yang Zhaozhi's unique choice and taste: he places a greater importance on the integrity and moral principles of the poem's protagonist than her social status. As encapsulated in the anthology's explanatory notes, it selects ladies of ＂integrity, fidelity, and unwavering moral principles transmitting emotions＂ 志凜秋霜、心盟匪石、遞密傳悰 (zhilin qiushuang, xinmeng feishi, dimi chuancong). …”
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Holistic teaching workload allocation for research-intensive universities by Roopchandani, Arpit

“…It is based on the workload a faculty will endure to manage his/her research team consisting of researchers at all levels. …”
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Evolutionary explanations and the debunking of moral beliefs by Cofnas, N

“…I argue that Street oversold the power of her evolutionary explanations, thus leaving an opening for realists to claim that moral beliefs with less powerful evolutionary explanations can escape debunking. …”

Understanding lived experiences of bereaved parents of children with chronic life-threatening Illness : towards a culture-specific and meaning-oriented narrative E-writing interven... by Dutta, Oindrila

“…First, an international qualitative systematic review was carried out to comprehensively understand the lived experience of parents who experienced the chronic and life-threatening illness of their child and his or her subsequent death. Second, developed from the findings of the systematic review, a first-of-its kind qualitative research in the Asian context was subsequently conducted to elicit the lived experience of parents in Singapore whose children suffered and died from a chronic life-threatening illness. …”
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