Efficient techniques for subgraph mining and query processing by Lin, Wenqing

“…In this thesis, we study three important problems on subgraph mining and query processing, i.e., frequent subgraph mining, network motif discovery, and generalized subgraph query processing. These problems find numerous applications in real world, whereas they are extremely challenging.% since subgraph isomorphism testing is NP-hard. …”
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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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Synthesis and optical study of lead halide perovskites for opto-electronic applications by Ha, Son Tung

“…As a physicist, my first aim is to find a way to prepare highest quality, single crystal samples for studying their intrinsic and fundamental properties. …”
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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.…”

Precipitation trend analysis for The Langat River Basin, Selangor, Malaysia by Palizdan, Narges

“…The Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT) coupled with the Mann-Kendall (MK) test and the sequential MK analysis were utilized in order to find out which time scale are affecting the trends observed in each homogenous region. …”
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Effects of nnav1.5 expression modulation on mhc I antigen processing machinery and invasion potential of breast cancer cells by Din, Ahmad Hafiz Murtadha Noor

“…Overall, the study’s current findings support the influence of nNav1.5 on the expression regulation of immune component molecules in breast cancer.…”
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21W.747 Rhetoric, Fall 2002 by Strang, Steven M.

“…In short, rhetoric teaches us how to find the limits of our own positions, how to argue effectively against others' positions, and how to create powerful and persuasive arguments for our own beliefs. …”
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Synoptic analysis of a decade of daily measurements of SO2 emission in the troposphere from volcanoes of the global ground-based network for observation of volcanic and atmospheric... by Arellano, Santiago, Galle, Bo, Apaza, Fredy, Avard, Geoffroy, Barrington, Charlotte, Bobrowski, Nicole, Bucarey, Claudia, Burbano, Viviana, Burton, Mike, Chacón, Zoraida, Chigna, Gustavo, Clarito, Christian Joseph, Conde, Vladimir, Costa, Fidel, De Moor, Maarten, Delgado-Granados, Hugo, Di Muro, Andrea, Fernandez, Deborah, Garzón, Gustavo, Gunawan, Hendra, Haerani, Nia, Hansteen, Thor. H., Hidalgo, Silvana, Inguaggiato, Salvatore, Johansson, Mattias, Kern, Christoph, Kihlman, Manne, Kowalski, Philippe, Masias, Pablo, Montalvo, Francisco, Möller, Joakim, Platt, Ulrich, Rivera, Claudia, Saballos, Armando, Salerno, Giuseppe, Taisne, Benoit, Vásconez, Freddy, Velásquez, Gabriela, Vita, Fabio, Yalire, Mathieu

“…This inventory opens a window into the short-term emission patterns of a diverse set of volcanoes in terms of magma composition, geographical location, magnitude of emission, and style of eruptive activity. We find that passive volcanic degassing is by no means a stationary process in time and that large sub-daily variability is observed in the flux of volcanic gases, which has implications for emission budgets produced using short-term, sporadic observations. …”
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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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Strategies to modulate Amorphous Oxide Semiconductor properties for low temperature transparent transistors by Kulkarni, Mohit Rameshchandra

“…The principal motivation of the thesis is to find alternate post-fabrication strategies to achieve the on-demand transformation of an oxide semiconductor for flexible electronics in order to avoid high-temperature annealing. …”
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Properties and mechanism of strain and piezoelectricity of hybrid molecular ferroelectrics by Hu, Yuzhong

“…Through systematic characterization, we find Br substitution has obvious softening effect, which leads to faster switching speed, lower switchable temperature and lower coercivity (Ec). …”
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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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Energy-efficient hardware accelerators based on bit-serial graph and memory-centric computing architectures by Mu, Junjie

“…Conventional von Neumann computers face the challenges of huge energy consumption and high computing power in solving non-deterministic polynomial-time hardness COPs since the time consumed to find solutions grows exponentially as the number of variables increases. …”
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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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