Nodal reliability and nodal price in deregulated power markets by Yi, Ding

“…Electric utilities are experiencing restructuring throughout the world. The main objectives of power system restructuring are to introduce competition in the power industry and to provide more choices to market participants in the way they trade electricity and ancillary services. …”
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发展环保NGO推进资源型城市污水处理 ：以黑龙江省鸡西市污水处理研究为例 = Develop environmental NGOs to enhance the treatment of polluted water in resource-based cities : a case study of Jixi city, Heilongjiang prov... by 陈青 Chen, Qing, 李培生 Li, Peisheng, 王治洋 Wang, Zhiyang, 孙连富 Sun, Lianfu

“…Jixi existing sewage treatment model in resource-based representative of the city, its very obvious shortcomings, the main problems: the lack of external pressure, the Government's emphasis on environmental issues is inadequate; the limited financial resources, the government itself can not provide the city needs Environmental public goods; Since we can not properly handle the economic development and ecological environmental protection interests, businesses and residents on waste water treatment monitoring, oversight.…”
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Rule-based patient transition in an integrated healthcare system by Ng, Yan Leng.

“…With increasing load at the outpatients’ clinics, TTSH decided to shift some load to the polyclinics. The main aim for the construction of the model is to assist healthcare professionals and healthcare providers in the decision making process to determine which is the nearest and qualified polyclinic the patient should continue receiving healthcare services from. …”
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Computation fluid dynamics on drag reduction II by Zang, Bin

“…Concentrated research activities are done on drag reduction and one of the main subjects being investigated frequently is the presence of dimple on rigid surfaces. …”
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从流传和演变角度探析民间童话故事《虎姑婆》的教育意义 = An investigation of the transmission and educational implication of the folk tale “Aunt Tiger” by 黄思蓉 Wong, Sirong

“…The story was circulated to different areas in China and Taiwan, and as time went by, the title of the story took different forms such as “Grandma Fox”, “Grandma Bear”, “Grandma Tiger”, and “Mother Tiger”. My main goal in this thesis is to compare the story patterns of the same story that appeared in China and Taiwan. …”
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Moris Mai : to be born by Cai, Yun, Har, Jiawei, Loh, Jing Ting, Toh, Yan Wei

“…The documentary highlights the main causes of the high death rates from childbirth through the voices of our interviewees, which include a Timorese man who had to deal with the painful decision of sending his wife to the hospital, despite resistance from his family, as the traditional birth attendants were unable to handle the emergency situation. …”
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Study of degradation mechanisms in SiON gate dielectric film subjected to negative bias temperature instability (NBTI) stress by Kang, Chun Wei.

“…It has been shown in our work that hydrogen transport across gate oxide is not the main mechanism for generation of bulk oxide traps. …”
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Integrated plant/control design and implementation for high track density HDD servo systems by Gao, Tingting

“…This thesis presents our research works for HDD systems. The main idea lies with exploiting the plant and controller design for the positioning accuracy improvement. …”
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Impact of renewable power penetration on power market operation by Zhao, Qian

“…New techniques need to be developed to understand and assess the behavior of renewable energy, and to quantify their impacts on power market operation. The main aim of the research project was to investigate restructured power system operation and the impacts of the renewable energy penetration on market operations. …”
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海外华人对于中国的贡献及影响 ：以闽南金三角“骑楼”为案例 = Influence of overseas Chinese in China : a study of Qilou in Xiamen, Quanzhou & Zhangzhou by 刘琦琦 Liu, Qiqi

“…When the researches on the influence of contributions by Overseas Chinese in China are in question, the main focal points are usually in the areas of spreading nationalism ideas, monetary investments, or even the starting of educational institutes etc. with the most well known example being the researches done on Tan Kah Kee. …”
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二十世纪七八十年代新华女性小说作者的世界 = The worlds of Singapore Chinese female writers of fiction : a study of short stories and novellas during the seventies and eighties from a feminist perspecti... by 胡月宝 Aw, Guat Poh

“…Chapters four to six form the main theme of the dissertation. Chapter four discusses the influences of both the diachronic and synchronic worlds on the textual world of Singapore Chinese female writers in general while chapters five and six explores into the private and public spheres of Singapore Chinese women as reflected the textual world in particular. …”
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The development of improved strategies to monitor and control biofouling of membranes in the water industry by Low, Jiun Hui

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

“…Therefore, scientific research and breakthroughs are highly desirable to address these issues and satisfy the requirements for practical use. The main aim of this thesis is to investigate MoS2-based composites with engineered nanostructures as prospective electrodes for energy storage and conversion devices with good performance, high stability, and excellent safety. …”
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Effect of geometry on temporal development of quasi-1D jet scour by Tan, Ian Haoyang

“…This development curve comprises 4 main development phases which are consistent with the conventional 2D and 3D scour development phases (initiation phase, development phase, stabilization phase & equilibrium phase). …”
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Prioritizing problems in and solutions to homecare safety of people with dementia: supporting carers, streamlining care by Car, Lorainne Tudor, El-Khatib, Mona, Perneczky, Robert, Papachristou, Nikolaos, Atun, Rifat, Rudan, Igor, Car, Josip, Vincent, Charles, Majeed, Azeem

“…We then invited 185 North-West London clinicians via an open-ended questionnaire to identify three main problems and solutions relating to homecare safety of people with dementia. 76 clinicians submitted their suggestions which were thematically synthesized into a composite list of 27 distinct problems and 30 solutions. …”
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Brazil-China Relations by Horta, Loro

“…Within the past decade, Sino-Brazilian ties have soared with trade reaching US$22 billion in 2007 and Brazil becoming China‘s main South American trading partner. In early 2009, China even surpassed the United States as Brazil's largest trading partner with two-way trade reaching a staggering US$43 billion. …”
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Second order multi-object filtering with target interaction using determinantal point processes by Teoh, Timothy Zhisheng

“…Implementation of the PHD filter using Sequential Monte Carlo (SMC) method on independent and interactive multi-target environments were explored, and the results obtained motivated the advancement to the Determinantal Point Processes (DPPs) setting. In the main contribution of this thesis, we constructed a second order PHD filter based on determinantal point processes, which are able to capture some level of interactions among configuration points in domain space. …”
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Dynamic neuro-fuzzy systems for rainfall-runoff modelling by Nawaz, Nadeem

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Broadband 3-D shared aperture high isolation nine-element antenna array for on-demand millimeter-wave 5G applications by Alibakhshikenari, Mohammad, Virdee, Bal Singh, Vadalà, Valeria, Dalarsson, Mariana, Gómez, María Elena de Cos, Alharbi, Abdullah G., Burokur, Shah Nawaz, Aïssa, Sonia, Dayoub, Iyad, Falcone, Francisco, Limiti, Ernesto

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Joint modelling of longitudinal data: a scoping review of methodology and applications for non-time to event data by Ouko, RK, Mukaka, M, Ohuma, EO

“…Therefore, this review’s main objective is to summarise the current state of joint modelling of non-time-to-event longitudinal data. …”