GPU-Oriented Algorithms for Continuous Energy Monte Carlo Neutron Transport by Ridley, Gavin

“…We then present a specialized root-finding algorithm that takes advantage of the structure of the problem to efficiently sample the resonance upscatter effect on GPUs. …”
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Interventions for improving patients’ trust in doctors and groups of doctors by Rolfe, Alix, Cash-Gibson, Lucinda, Car, Josip, Sheikh, Aziz, McKinstry, Brian

“…Our 2006 review found little evidence that interventions improve patients' trust in their doctor; therefore an updated search was required to find out if there is further evidence of the effects of interventions that may improve trust in doctors or groups of doctors. …”
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Interaction of TiO2 and ZnO NPs with human skin cells by Gautam, Archana

“…Therefore, the goal of this study is to assess the physiological effects of TiO2 and ZnO NPs interactions with primary human epidermal keratinocytes and dermal fibroblasts, with attention to accurate dosimetry measurements and particle solubility considerations. Since the current findings on NPs interaction with skin cells are mostly based on 2D monolayer cell culture and animal models, in this study, 3D human skin explants have also been used to better understand the effects of NPs in the skin tissue. …”
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Sociospatial reframing of walking through inclusive streets and urban heritage by Wang, Yongcheng

“…Underscored by qualitative and quantitative findings, this thesis could potentially provide urban planner and policy makers with an interdisciplinary framework of inclusive streets and urban heritage, and the integration of the two, to foster pedestrian-oriented planning practices that are responsive to community needs and sensitive to local contexts. …”
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Analysis of lava flow impacts for use in risk assessments by Meredith, Elinor Siwan

“…Along with the 2018 Kīlauea assessment, I used this compiled dataset to assess relationships between lava flow thickness as a proxy for hazard intensity and damage severity, presenting the first empirically-derived and non-linear fragility functions for lava flow structure damage, for different structure types. The findings show a recent increase in recorded impact events, and that these events occur more frequently than previously thought, with almost three impact events, to population centres, per decade in the past 100 years. …”
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Mechanics in dehydration-induced leaf morphing behaviors by Guo, Kexin

“…This thesis focuses on three shape-morphing phenomena observed in plant leaves as passive responses to the strain mismatch caused by dehydration. The research findings indicate the significant influence of mechanics on the formation of leaf shapes. …”
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Efficacy of Wolbachia-mediated sterility to reduce the incidence of dengue: a synthetic control study in Singapore by Lim, Jue Tao, Bansal, Somya, Chong, Chee Seng, Dickens, Borame, Ng, Youming, Deng, Lu, Lee, Caleb, Tan, Li Yun, Chain, Grace, Ma, Pei, Sim, Shuzhen, Tan, Cheong Huat, Cook, Alex R., Ng, Lee Ching

“…To compare interventions, we used the synthetic control method to generate appropriate counterfactuals for the intervention towns using a weighted combination of 30 control towns between EW 1, 2014 and EW 26, 2022. Findings: Our study comprised an at-risk population of 607 872 individuals living in intervention sites and 3 894 544 individuals living in control sites. …”
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Origin of a topotactic reduction effect for superconductivity in infinite-layer nickelates by Zeng, Shengwei, Tang, Chi Sin, Luo, Zhaoyang, Chow, Lin Er, Lim, Zhi Shiuh, Prakash, Saurav, Yang, Ping, Diao, Caozheng, Yu, Xiaojiang, Xing, Zhenxiang, Ji, Rong, Yin, Xinmao, Li, Changjian, Wang, Renshaw Xiao, He, Qian, Breese, Mark B. H., Ariando, A., Liu, Huajun

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Dynamics of current-driven magnetic domain walls and skyrmions by Indra Purnama

“…At present, the investigation of domain wall dynamics is mainly focused on finding additional driving mechanisms to improve its mobility. …”
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The development and application of fish scale waste for tissue engineering applications : waste-to-resource conversion of resource resilient materials by Wang, Jun Kit

“…Therefore in this thesis, fish scale-derived collagen (FSCol) and fish scale-derived HA (FSHA) were extracted from different fish species and the potential of the extracted products for various TE applications were explored. Findings from the studies demonstrated that Type I FSCol was successfully extracted using a modified acid solubilization extraction method with preserved structural quality (i.e. retention of triple helical structures) where snakehead scale-derived collagen (SHCol) exhibited significant higher (p < 0.05) thermal stability as compared to other species. …”
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Biomolecular hydration in protein-protein interaction, protein stability and aggregation and lead optimization : computational studies by Mohan Rajan Pradhan

“…Combining systematic data mining and quantification of these hydration sites using „JAL‟ a novel two water-bridge motif is identified that appears to be central to the nucleotide recognition by eIF4E. This is a novel finding and I believe will facilitate the design of specific inhibitors of eIF4E which is a therapeutic target in oncology. …”
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New algorithms for hardware-efficient implementation of sign detection and magnitude comparison in residue number systems by Sachin Kumar

“…Specifically, the following new findings and results are reported in this thesis. …”
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Hybrid lasers and modulator on silicon in the near- and mid-infrared region by Hu, Xiaonan

“…Therefore, the integration of hybrid QCL and graphene-based optical modulator may find applications in MIR SOI platform in the near future.…”
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Effective and efficient topic mining and exploration from geo-textual data by Zhao, Kaiqi

“…For example, a social scientist may want to find out breaking events by submitting regions and time spans in an exploratory manner. …”
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Evaluating the rediscovery process as a treatment programme for a range of substance use disorders by Parker, Phil

“…However, some did not find it of use and there was evidence of issues of a conflict between the concepts of this and other previously used models, which made adopting the new ideas difficult for some. …”
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Cardiac-sympathetic dysfunction in hypertension by Bardsley, E

“…Chapter seven also discussed the implications of the findings described, with an emphasis on the potential future avenues of research within the field of neurogenic hypertension.…”

Global, regional, and national burden of stroke and its risk factors, 1990–2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021 by Feigin, VL, Abate, MD, Abate, YH, Bandyopadhyay, S, Bennett, DA, Lacey, B, Newton, CRJ

“…We also calculated burden of stroke attributable to 23 risk factors and six risk clusters (air pollution, tobacco smoking, behavioural, dietary, environmental, and metabolic risks) at the global and regional levels (21 GBD regions and Socio-demographic Index [SDI] quintiles), using the standard GBD methodology. 95% uncertainty intervals (UIs) for each individual future estimate were derived from the 2·5th and 97·5th percentiles of distributions generated from propagating 500 draws through the multistage computational pipeline. <p><b>Findings</b></p> In 2021, stroke was the third most common GBD level 3 cause of death (7·3 million [95% UI 6·6–7·8] deaths; 10·7% [9·8–11·3] of all deaths) after ischaemic heart disease and COVID-19, and the fourth most common cause of DALYs (160·5 million [147·8–171·6] DALYs; 5·6% [5·0–6·1] of all DALYs). …”

Topics in Bayesian machine learning for finance by Spears, T

“…We consider the novel case where multiple view estimates, including uncertainties, are given for the same underlying subset of assets at a point in time. We find that data fusion techniques -- for combining similar information from multiple sources -- can help to synthesise a collection of views into a single investment strategy. …”

Epidemiology of endometriosis in women of Arab ancestry by Mousa, M

“…</p> <p>Conclusion</p> <p>This study provided novel findings of the clinical presentation and risk factors of endometriosis among Arab women from a combined hospital and population-based sites. …”

Electronic structures of twisted two-dimensional materials studied by angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy by Pei, D

“…We have also confirmed the existence of Umklapp scattering in the graphene/WSe2 heterostructures with 11° and 14° twist angles. Interestingly, we find that 11° could be a magic angle for the graphene/WSe2 heterostructure, which can lead to the formation of flat band via the second order Umklapp scattering.…”