Brain computer interface for post-stroke motor rehabilitation by Mane, Ravikiran Tanaji

“…Future research can use the findings presented in this thesis to design robust and more accurate BCI systems for highly personalized and holistic post-stroke rehabilitation.…”
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Enhancement of photoacoustic imaging systems for biomedical applications by Sharma, Arunima

“…Cross-sectional imaging at multiple depths was performed to show the capability of this system for finding the relative depth of different vessels and organs in a growing embryo. …”
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Localized structural and bulk effects in hybrid organic-inoraginc perovskites by Wong, Walter Pei De

“…Through a combination of steady state photoinduced absorption, transient absorption and transient photocurrent measurements, this chapter has confirmed the existence of theoretically predicted polaronic states in MAPbI3 which finds its origins in the ‘soft’ lead – iodide bond. …”
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Modelling, exploration and optimization of hardware accelerators for deep learning applications by Dutt, Arko

“…Deep learning has achieved popularity due to its improved prediction accuracy, and it finds widespread use in large data processing applications. …”
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Compositionally graded alloys fabricated using the laser powder bed fusion technique by Wei, Siyuan

“…On the basis of the findings, it is believed that such method can contribute greatly to the alloy designing and further development of AM.…”
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Scaling up parametric human recovery by Cai, Zhongang

“…This dataset is notable for its diversity in subjects, actions, and scenarios (which HuMMan lacks), obtained through gameplay with automatically annotated 3D ground truths. Our findings reveal that: 1) game-playing data is remarkably effective, 2) synthetic data provides essential supplements to real data, 3) the scale of the dataset is crucial, 4) strong supervision labels are key, and 5) synthetic data enhances the performance of larger models. …”
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Colloidal quantum dot light-emitting diode architectures for high performance by Leck, Kheng Swee

“…QD-LEDs have made great progress in terms of device performance over the years and there is room for further improvement. With all these findings and demonstrations in this thesis, we conclude that QD-LEDs hold great promise for potential applications in lighting and displays…”
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“British English is much more prestigious, everybody knows that!”: reproducing and resisting hegemonic language ideologies in Chilean English teacher education by Pérez Andrade, Gonzalo

“…Using Irvine and Gal’s (2009) framework of linguistic differentiation – iconisation, fractal recursivity and erasure – as an interpretive tool in the analysis of the interview data, I investigated the extent to which and how language ideologies regarding English operate in a group of Chilean ELT programmes. Findings from this study revealed the existence and promotion of opposing language ideologies that coexist within and across the teacher education programmes under scrutiny. …”
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Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 79 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks in 188 countries, 1990–2013:... by Forouzanfar, M, Alexander, L, Anderson, H, Ali, R, Beardsley, J, Bennett, D, Briggs, A, Chen, Z, Gething, P, Jha, V, Moschandreas, J, Newton, C, Rahimi, K, Scarborough, P

“…Attributable burden for clusters of risks and all risks combined took into account evidence on the mediation of some risks such as high body-mass index (BMI) through other risks such as high systolic blood pressure and high cholesterol. <p><strong>Findings</strong></p> All risks combined account for 57·2% (95% uncertainty interval [UI] 55·8–58·5) of deaths and 41·6% (40·1–43·0) of DALYs. …”

Two-dimensional metal-organic frameworks for gas sensing by Lister, AM

“…This method successfully generates uniform distributions of the desired MOFs in situ on glass, gold, paper and cotton substrates, and is therefore anticipated to be a significant finding in the fields of wearable electronics, chemiresistive sensors and capacitor devices.…”

The limits of liberalization: WTO entry and Chinese state-owned firms by Tan, Y, Davis, CL

“…However, where strategic goods targeted by industrial policy hold a large share of bilateral trade, lowering tariffs has no impact on SOE trade. These findings highlight the tensions between state-led economic models and global trade law premised upon market principles.…”

Normative modeling of brain morphometry in clinical high risk for psychosis by Haas, Shalaila S., Ge, Ruiyang, Agartz, Ingrid, Amminger, G. Paul, Andreassen, Ole A., Bachman, Peter, Baeza, Inmaculada, Choi, Sunah, Colibazzi, Tiziano, Cropley, Vanessa L., de la Fuente-Sandoval, Camilo, Ebdrup, Bjørn H., Fortea, Adriana, Fusar-Poli, Paolo, Glenthøj, Birte Yding, Glenthøj, Louise Birkedal, Haut, Kristen M., Hayes, Rebecca A., Heekeren, Karsten, Hooker, Christine I., Hwang, Wu Jeong, Jahanshad, Neda, Kaess, Michael, Kasai, Kiyoto, Katagiri, Naoyuki, Kim, Minah, Kindler, Jochen, Koike, Shinsuke, Kristensen, Tina D., Kwon, Jun Soo, Lawrie, Stephen M., Lebedeva, Irina, Lee, Jimmy, Lemmers-Jansen, Imke L. J., Lin, Ashleigh, Ma, Xiaoqian, Mathalon, Daniel H., McGuire, Philip, Michel, Chantal, Mizrahi, Romina, Mizuno, Masafumi, Møller, Paul, Mora-Durán, Ricardo, Nelson, Barnaby, Nemoto, Takahiro, Nordentoft, Merete, Nordholm, Dorte, Omelchenko, Maria A., Pantelis, Christos, Pariente, Jose C., Raghava, Jayachandra M., Reyes-Madrigal, Francisco, Røssberg, Jan I., Rössler, Wulf, Salisbury, Dean F., Sasabayashi, Daiki, Schall, Ulrich, Smigielski, Lukasz, Sugranyes, Gisela, Suzuki, Michio, Takahashi, Tsutomu, Tamnes, Christian K., Theodoridou, Anastasia, Thomopoulos, Sophia I., Thompson, Paul M., Tomyshev, Alexander S., Uhlhaas, Peter J., Værnes, Tor G., van Amelsvoort, Therese A. M. J., van Erp, Theo G. M., Waltz, James A., Wenneberg, Christina, Westlye, Lars T., Wood, Stephen J., Zhou, Juan H., Hernaus, Dennis, Jalbrzikowski, Maria, Kahn, René S., Corcoran, Cheryl M., Frangou, Sophia

“…Conclusions and Relevance: In this case-control study, findings suggest that macroscale neuromorphometric measures may not provide an adequate explanation of psychosis risk.…”
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Transport phenomena of immiscible fluids in microchannels by Yin, Shuai

“…The biggest advantage of the proposed approach is that it removes the necessity of surface treatment for O/W droplet formation in PMDS microchannels, breaking the limits brought by the surface wettability for the first time and rendering itself to be a universal method for O/W droplet active generation with outstanding controllability. Our findings would widen the applications of the PDMS based microchips. …”
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Light-matter interactions in atomically thin transition metal dichalcogenides by Zhao, Jiaxin

“…In addition, the dynamics of charged excitons (trions) is observed to be different from that of excitons that the radiative lifetime of trions is around 108.7 ps at low excitation densities. These findings elucidate the dynamics of excitonic quasiparticles and intricate many-body physics in the 2D semiconductors. …”
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Engineered terahertz emission from spintronic heterostructures: amplitude, phase and chirality by Agarwal, Piyush

“…This thesis aims to identify and answer a few of them by unveiling efficient spin manipulation methods. The main findings of the thesis are divided into two parts. …”
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Strong neel ordering and luminescence correlation in a two-dimensional antiferromagnet by Zhou, Yongheng, He, Kaiyue, Hu, Huamin, Ouyang, Gang, Zhu, Chao, Wang, Wei, Qin, Sichen, Tao, Ye, Chen, Runfeng, Zhang, Le, Shi, Run, Cheng, Chun, Wang, Han, Liu, Yanjun, Liu, Zheng, Wang, Taihong, Huang, Wei, Wang, Lin, Chen, Xiaolong

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Anti-fouling thin film composite (TFC) polyamide reverse osmosis (RO) membranes based on piezoelectric polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) substrates by Fu, Jia Shen

“…The fouling tests clearly demonstrated that RO membranes based on both unpoled and poled PVDF-TEP-NWF substrates exhibited fouling mitigation behavior when electric signal was applied. The findings of this study would provide the method of using hydrophobic PVDF membrane as substrate for RO membrane fabrication and come up with an innovative way to mitigate RO membrane fouling.…”
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The evolution and fate of waste plastics in landfills subject to physical and biochemical processes — implications for microplastics by Lu, Xuhong

“…Nonetheless, a substantial volume of plastics becomes plastic waste (PW), with a significant portion finding its way to landfills. Microplastics (MPs), a recently identified group of pollutants with dimensions below 5 mm, raise apprehensions about potential toxicity and their ability to transport other contaminants like heavy metals through adsorption and dissociation mechanisms. …”
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Mechanical performance and microstructural development of MgO-SiO2-H2O systems by Sonat, Cem

“…This advantageous performance of MgO-SiO2 samples was associated with the stability of hydrate phases, namely brucite (Mg(OH)2) and M-S-H, under several durability environments including carbonation, sodium chloride (NaCl), MgCl2 and MgSO4 environments. The findings of this research shed light on the enhancement of the performance of MgO-SiO2 based formulations through a detailed investigation of key parameters such as mix design, curing conditions, use of alternative materials and durability. …”
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Global, regional, and national incidence and mortality burden of non-COVID-19 lower respiratory infections and aetiologies, 1990–2021: a systematic analysis from the Global Burden... by Bender, RG, Sirota, SB, Swetschinski, LR, Berkley, JA, Eyre, DW, McManigal, B, Pollard, AJ, Roberts, T, Runghien, T, Sartorius, B

“…For aetiology estimation, we analysed multiple causes of death, vital registration, hospital discharge, microbial laboratory, and literature data using a network analysis model to produce the proportion of LRI deaths and episodes attributable to the following pathogens: Acinetobacter baumannii, Chlamydia spp, Enterobacter spp, Escherichia coli, fungi, group B streptococcus, Haemophilus influenzae, influenza viruses, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Legionella spp, Mycoplasma spp, polymicrobial infections, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), Staphylococcus aureus, Streptococcus pneumoniae, and other viruses (ie, the aggregate of all viruses studied except influenza and RSV), as well as a residual category of other bacterial pathogens. <p><b>Findings</b></p> Globally, in 2021, we estimated 344 million (95% uncertainty interval [UI] 325–364) incident episodes of LRI, or 4350 episodes (4120–4610) per 100 000 population, and 2·18 million deaths (1·98–2·36), or 27·7 deaths (25·1–29·9) per 100 000. 502 000 deaths (406 000–611 000) were in children younger than 5 years, among which 254 000 deaths (197 000–320 000) occurred in countries with a low Socio-demographic Index. …”