Synthetic approaches to all-porphyrin nanorings by Field, J

“…We obtained evidence suggesting the successful construction of the gold-porphyrin intermediate macrocycle, but all attempts at reductive elimination from this to give our desired all-porphyrin nanoring were unsuccessful.</p> <br> <p>Lastly in Chapter 5, a new project is explored, in which we present the synthesis towards electron-rich and electron-deficient porphyrin monomers for their use in redox-gated single-molecule conductance measurements. …”

Sensorimotor control of Drosophila copulation by Herbert, MR

“…Effects on the likelihood and duration of copulation were also a common phenotype we identified in these manipulations, but we could not howeveridentify any obvious effect of the aberrant mating posture on reproductive success. </p> <p>Lastly, taking insight from our behavioural experiments, we have leveraged genetically encoded calcium indicators and the transsynaptic labelling technology; trans-Tango,to identify and visualize connections between sensory MTS neurons and upstream circuits in an attempt to establish a view of how body movement can be coordinated via communication between many independent proprioceptive organs. …”

Identification of proteins and genes as potential biomarkers in brown-marbled grouper (Epinephelus fuscoguttatus forsskal) resistance to Vibrio sp by Low, Chen Fei

“…These novel unigenes warrant further identification and characterization of its function in immune response of grouper against pathogens. Lastly, brown marbled grouper fingerlings observed for seven days after experimental infection with Vibrio parahaemolyticus determined grouper susceptible to infection, with these fish having skin lesions ≥ 5mm. …”
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A sociological analysis of Iranian popular music in the 21st century by Safideh, Mohammad Rezazadeh

“…The grounds, forms, genres and lastly contents and musical structure of popular Iranian music are also taken into consideration. …”
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Green hydrogen derived from municipal wastewater via bioconversion by attached microalgae onto various sizes of polyurethane foam cubes by Musa Ardo, Fatima, Khoo, Kuan Shiong, Min Woon, Jia, Nurul Tasnim, Sahrin, Fong Yeong, Yin, Ng, Huisuan, Sean Goh, Pei Sean, Herma Dina, Setiabudi, Kiatkittipong, Worapon, Wei Lim, Jun, Ikenaga, Kazutoshi, Ansar, Sabah

“…The hydrogen production from 1 cm cubes was also well fitted into the first order kinetics, attaining theR2 = 0.9998 and rate constant of 0.1247±0.0005h-1. Lastly, a statistical model was derived to predict the overall hydrogen yield from attached microalgae onto 1 cm polyurethane foam cubes. …”
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Relationship between synoptic scale meteorology, aircraft parameters, and observable contrails by Barbosa, Maria Paula

“…Long-lasting or "persistent" contrails are line-shaped clouds that form when airplanes fly through cold and humid parts of the atmosphere that are ice-supersaturated. …”
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Habit Formation and Political Persuasion: A Behavioral and Statistical Approach by Tohidi Kalorazi, Amir

“…Over time, these households appear to develop new habits in different stores, resulting in lasting changes in preferred brands. This suggests that the formation of shopping habits can lead to suboptimal consumer behavior. …”
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High cycle fatigue characterisation and modelling of 316L stainless steel processed by laser powder bed fusion by Zhang, Meng

“…The latter approach allowed the specification of a reduction factor on fatigue life to account for the intrinsic effects of microstructure inhomogeneity, as well as the construction of a modified Basquin equation that incorporates the defect fraction parameter for predicting the effects of lack of fusion defects on the S-N properties. Lastly, considering the numerous influencing factors arising from the process and the associated failure behaviours, a neuro-fuzzy-based machine learning method was applied to provide an effective unifying approach for high cycle fatigue life prediction. …”
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Analysis and design of curved steel beam member in elevation using Eurocode 3 by Yandarmadi, Kelvin

“…It is in accordance with the reduced design yield value rank among five different cross-sections. Lastly, the stress resultant results comparison between simply supported curved beam with two-hinged and three-hinged circular arch with similar dimension and loading layout are studied. …”
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Learning from nature : experimental observation of mimosa pudica by Zhang, Yi

“…Next, the fatigue effect of Mimosa pudica after consecutive stimulations was investigated. Lastly, Box & Whisker plot was employed for data analysis. …”
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Microtissue-encapsulating devices for hypoxia reduction of cellular therapeutics in diabetes treatment by Chen, Yang

“…Furthermore, encapsulated microtissues in a homogeneous distribution preserved high cellular viability and glucose-responsive insulin-secreting function. Lastly, we applied this novel waffle-inspired hydrogel-based macrodevice to in situ encapsulate toroid in a homogeneous distribution and investigated the effect of microtissue geometry and distribution on cellular survival and hypoxia. …”
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Natural robustness of machine learning in the open world by Wei, Hongxin

“…Training with the proposed loss, the network tends to give conservative predictions and results in strong separability of softmax confidence scores between in- and out-of-distribution inputs. Lastly, traditional machine learning algorithms only exploit information from in-distribution examples that are normally expensive and challenging to collect. …”
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论汉魏六朝挽歌与悼亡诗的生死主题 = Theme on life and death in elegy and lament poetry of Han, Wei and six dynasties by 郑慧萍 Teh, Hui Ping

“…The third chapter further explores relations between couples, sadness, isolation and sorrow that transcends seasons in laments. Lastly, it sums up comparison of elegies and laments and their literary significance.…”
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Developing optogenetics for use in vascular research by Rorsman, N

“…The main findings of this thesis are:</p> <p>1) Blue light activation of ChR2 and the ChR2 variant ChR2(H134R) led to long-lasting and non-inactivating depolarising currents. …”

Sensor-based human activity recognition via zero-shot learning by Wang, Wei

“…The experimental results show the effectiveness of our method. Lastly, we study the problem of multi-resident activity recognition including unseen classes in smart homes. …”
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论明泰昌、天启初年内臣与朝臣的关系 ：以宦官王安为例 = The relationship between eunuchs and imperial officials from Ming Tai Chang period to early Tian Qi period : a case study of eunuch Wang An... by 马爱连 Ma, Ah Lain

“…Using the three major cases in the late Ming and other incidents to illustrate the development and importance of Wang An, we can understand the importance of the partnership between him and the court officials. Lastly, Wang’s death meant the rise of Wei Zhongxian and his followers, as well as the fall of the Donglin faction due to the loss of support from the inner court.…”
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Community noise measure via crowd sourcing by Lim, Yun Jie

“…Machine, traffic, human and lastly the simulation of trees and their possible noise mitigating effects. …”
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Tunable metasurfaces for active nanophotonics by Omar Abdelrahman Mohamed Abdelraouf

“…Moreover, many thin-film structural colors have been demonstrated using the concept of intermediate states in PCMs. Lastly, we showed an all-optical fast reconfigurable phase tuning mechanism for a fast dynamic response. …”
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Mechanics in dehydration-induced leaf morphing behaviors by Guo, Kexin

“…We also systematically studied the effects of various geometric properties on the folding behavior. Lastly, we investigate the rolling of Costus spicatus leaves upon dehydration. …”
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Nonlinear regression approach for GPS multipath mitigation : from code to carrier-phase measurements by Phan, Quoc Huy

“…Multipath, where GPS signals arrive by more than one path and thereby create a range error, has remained the long-lasting major error source in GPS solutions although having been a target of the GPS research community since the day the system started operating. …”
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