Performance Characterization of High-Density Electrospray Thrusters by Corrado, Matthew N., Wangari, Charity, Finch, Michael R., Parameswaran, Lalitha, Cook, Matthew, Holihan, Eric C., Mathews, Richard, Kedzierski, Jakub, Racz, Livia M., Smith, Melissa A., Lozano, Paulo C.

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Coherent Terahertz Control and Ultrafast Spectroscopy of Layered Antiferromagnets by Ilyas, Batyr

“…These advancements not only showcase the capability of ultrafast experiments in understanding complex material properties but also demonstrate the manipulation of ordered phases at ultrafast timescales, thereby opening a laboratory for studying materials in nonequilibrium regime. This dissertation contributes to the ongoing effort of developing new ultrafast spectroscopy tools, utilizing them to probe lattice, magnetic, and electronic properties, and gaining active control over them. …”
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Two kinds of phase transition in photonic systems with application to optical isolation by Zhou, Xin

“…This reveals a correspondence between the boundary of asymptotic stability in the nonlinear regime, where gain saturation is present, and the P T - breaking transition in the underlying linear system. …”
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Dependency, privilege, and counter-insurgency: a case study of the industrial elite of Hebron in the occupied West Bank by Arafeh, N

“…I also reveal how TFPs have recently introduced a new condition for business growth by requiring beneficiary businessmen to become counter-insurgency actors, managing an ‘anti-terror’ infrastructure and a self-surveillance regime under Israel’s control.</p> <p>Overall, the case study of Hebron’s elite provides a unique prism through which to see the complex assemblage of Israel’s overt and subtle technologies of colonial management. …”

Precision holography and supersymmetric theories on curved spaces by Genolini, P

“…<p>The formulation of rigid supersymmetric field theories on curved space leads to a number of results on their strongly-interacting regime, crucial from both the mathematical and physical point of view, starting from Witten’s topological twist of four-dimensional Yang–Mills theory. …”

Treatment options to support the elimination of Hepatitis C: an open label, factorial randomised controlled trial by Cooke, G, Le Manh, H, Flower, B, McCabe, L, Vu Thu Kim, H, Vo Thi, T, Dang Trong, T, Nguyen Thanh, D, Le Thanh, P, Dao Bach, K, Nguyen Thi Chau, A, Pham Ngoc, T, Vu Thu Thu, H, Dang Thi, B, Nguyen Kim, T, Ansari, A, Le Ngoc, C, Vo Minh, Q, Nguyen Thi Ngoc, P, Le Thi, T, Nguyen Bao, T, Kestelyn, E, Kingsley, C, Van Doorn, R, Rahman, M, Pett, S, Thwaites, G, Barnes, E, Day, J, Nguyen Van Vinh, C, Walker, AS

“…No randomised trials have compared these regimens and high cure rates may be achievable with shorter durations of therapy.…”

Satellite image fusion for land cover classification by Tsan, Li Ling

“…Through the remote sensing techniques using Synthetic Aperture Radar(SAR), SAR images are pre-processed and later segmented to produce the segmentation maps which gives the land cover classification. …”
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Fracture identification in well logging images: two-stage adaptive network by Zhang, Wei, Li, Zhipeng, Wu, Tong, Yao, Zhenqiu, Qiu, Ao, Li, Yanjun, Shi, Yibing

“…Automatic fracture identification and segmentation in well logging images is increasingly critical but arduous because of extensive exploration for oil and gas. …”
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The Enggano-Dutch word list derived from Helfrich's (1916) “Nadere Bijdrage Tot de Kennis van Het Engganeesch” by Rajeg, GPW

“…This version (0.1.1) now includes the word list in a tab-separated file (.tsv) that has the following features (in the columns): (a) common/standardised transcription, also in segmented format (Columns form_common_transcription and form_common_segments); (b) phonemic transcription in segmented format (Column form_ipa_segments); (c) Indonesian translation of the English gloss using the deeplr R package (Column indonesian). …”

MCMC inversion of the transient and steady-state creep flow law parameters of dunite under dry and wet conditions by Masuti, Sagar, Barbot, Sylvain

“…For wet dunites in the grain-boundary sliding regime, the grain-size dependence is similar for transient creep and steady-state creep. …”
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Estimating evolutionary and demographic parameters via ARG-derived IBD by Huang, Z, Kelleher, J, Chan, Y, Balding, D

“…Inference of evolutionary and demographic parameters from a sample of genome sequences often proceeds by first inferring identical-by-descent (IBD) genome segments. By exploiting efficient data encoding based on the ancestral recombination graph (ARG), we obtain three major advantages over current approaches: (i) no need to impose a length threshold on IBD segments, (ii) IBD can be defined without the hard-to-verify requirement of no recombination, and (iii) computation time can be reduced with little loss of statistical efficiency using only the IBD segments from a set of sequence pairs that scales linearly with sample size. …”

Simulations of radiatively cooled magnetic reconnection driven by pulsed power by Datta, Rishabh, Crilly, Aidan, Chittenden, Jeremy P., Chowdhry, Simran, Chandler, Katherine, Chaturvedi, Nikita, Myers, Clayton E., Fox, William R., Hansen, Stephanie B., Jennings, Chris A., Ji, Hantao, Kuranz, Carolyn C., Lebedev, Sergey V., Uzdensky, Dmitri A., Hare, Jack D.

“…In this paper, we perform two- and three-dimensional simulations to model the MARZ (Magnetic Reconnection on Z) experiments, which are designed to access cooling rates in the laboratory necessary to investigate reconnection in a previously unexplored radiatively cooled regime. These simulations are performed in GORGON, an Eulerian two-temperature resistive magnetohydrodynamic code, which models the experimental geometry comprising two exploding wire arrays driven by 20 MA of current on the Z machine (Sandia National Laboratories). …”
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Exchange bias and magnetoresistance effects in Ni50Mn50-yXy (X = In, Sn) alloys by Wang, Baomin

“…The large negative magnetoresistance is observed within the transformation regime across the first-order magnetic transition, which is correlated to the magnetic-field-induced phase transformation from antiferromagnetic martensite to ferromagnetic austenite. …”
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Essays in interactional dynamics of financial markets by Chen, Zhenxi

“…Chapter 5 applies Markov-regime switching technique to show the existence of inter-market traders whose trading decision is based on the fundamental value of foreign market under a two-market framework. …”
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Taliban resurgence in Afghanistan : the role of post-conflict reconstruction by Sadia Sulaiman

“…Subsequently, the Taliban-led insurgents re-emerged as a potent force by exploiting the Afghan people’s discontent, which arose from the absence of security, especially in the South and East of Afghanistan and the failure to rebuild the country’s economy, as a result of which the weak Karzai regime lost its legitimacy. The international community’s failure to make headway in reconstructing post-Bonn Afghanistan helped the Taliban to draw material and human resources for their movement from the disgruntled population. …”
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The road to federalism : finding the middle ground in Nepal, Myanmar and Sri Lanka by Breen, Michael Gerard

“…In particular, when the secession risk is moderate, and when minority ethnic groups have a demonstrable infrastructural capacity, there are incentives for regime change agents from the dominant ethnic group to align with minority ethnic groups to pursue mutual goals of federalism and democratic reform. …”
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Inter-organizational competition in humanitarian governance by Corsini, C

“…<p>In a world where humanitarian crises are increasing in severity and frequency, the humanitarian system is often described as a ‘competitive marketplace,’ an international regime densely populated by diverse actors – UN organizations, the Red Cross/Red Crescent Movement, international and local non-governmental organizations (NGOs), private entities, governments, and civil society – all vying for scarce resources from a limited pool of fatigued donors (Weiss 2013). …”

Satellite optical and radar image fusion for land cover classification by Zhang, Guobin

“…Following that, different segmentation techniques will be applied to the filtered SAR image, such as Watersheld, Chan-Vese, Superpixel and K-Means segmentation methods. …”
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Self-Supervised Learning across the Spectrum by Shenoy, Jayanth, Zhang, Xingjian Davis, Tao, Bill, Mehrotra, Shlok, Yang, Rem, Zhao, Han, Vasisht, Deepak

“…Satellite image time series (SITS) segmentation is crucial for many applications, like environmental monitoring, land cover mapping, and agricultural crop type classification. …”
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Drug interaction between acetyltanshinone IIA and rapamycin in breast cancer cells by Wong, De Pin

“…Developing in vitro drug combination study is essential for the development of new and effective combination regimens. In this project, the objective is to investigate the synergistic potential between two anti breast cancer agent, rapamycin and acetyltanshinone IIA (ATA) in breast cancer cells. …”
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