Development of highly efficient organic and perovskite solar cells by Li, Xianqiang

“…Besides we also studied the factors that influence the performance of the polymer HTLs. …”
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The effects of atmosphere-ocean-wave coupling during tropical cyclone by Garg, Nikhil

“…During the course of this study, special attention was paid to the often inadvertently overlooked factors that can modulate the intensity of a TC. For instance, recent studies using field observations and laboratory measurements have concluded that the momentum exchange coefficient saturates at wind speed >33m/s. …”
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Pnictogen-halide semiconductors for photovoltaics by Liu, P

“…My work also showed how the morphology of spin-coated AgBiI4 thin films is dependent upon its processing conditions, but as device efficiency is still low despite pinhole free thin films, my work indicates that the performance of this material is inherently limited by the fundamental properties of the material itself, and future investigation should focus on identifying these factors, and whether they could be overcome through compositional engineering.…”

Effects of positive education approach on academic boredom, intrinsic motivation, positive emotions and thought-action repertoire among private college students in Shaanxi Province... by Jie, Zheng

“…High levels of academic boredom are associated with multiple learning factors such as intrinsic motivation. To date, however, scarce intervention studies have addressed this issue, especially among Chinese college students. …”
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Development of human enterovirus 71 nano calcium phosphate adjuvanted candidate vaccine for parenteral and mucosal delivery by Saeed Ahmed, Mohamed Ibrahim

“…In addition, polymeric carrier concentration, hydrogel swelling capacity, the nature of adjuvant-carrier interaction, are important factors for the sustained release process of CaP-adjuvant and HEV71 killed-virus on the novel created vaccine delivery model. …”
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Development of resistive random access memory for next-generation embedded non-volatile memory application by Sun, Jianxun

“…Since the noise signal is generated by switching the halogen lamp, the light factor has been investigated. Based on the results of the “dark test”, it is highly speculated that the reduction of the forming voltage is attributed to the facilitation effect of the negative voltage. …”
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Part I : Peptide functionalized materials for gram-negative bacteria targeted PDT and LPS sensing. Part II : Small peptide and membrane lipid based self-assembled nanostructures fo... by Liu, Fang

“…Moreover, our results also unequivocally indicated that ROS could serve as one non-negligible factor to overcome the endo/lysosomal barriers and to facilitate the fast translocation of caged drugs into nucleus. …”
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Power system adequacy and cost/worth assessment incorporating virtual power plants by Bagchi, Arijit

“…A variety of factors such as the emergence of novel business models in deregulated power markets, adoption of smart grid technologies, economic recession as well as climate change has led to a proliferation of distributed energy resources (DER) in low and medium voltage power networks over the last decade. …”
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Control and operation of DC microgrids by Adhikari, Sujan

“…Choice of energy storage ranging from short term to long term is a key factor to address the compensation of load peaks, transients and to provide autonomy to the microgrids. …”
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French foreign policy towards Poland (1989-1993) by Dangelmayer, AM

“…Chapters II and III examine two critical factors causing this increased mulitlateralisation: namely external and domestic constraints. …”

Global incidence, prevalence, years lived with disability (YLDs), disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs), and healthy life expectancy (HALE) for 371 diseases and injuries in 204 co... by Ferrari, AJ, Santomauro, DF, Aali, A, Lacey, BWH, Rodriguez, JAB

“…For three decades, the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) has filled that need. A global network of collaborators contributed to the production of GBD 2021 by providing, reviewing, and analysing all available data. …”

InAlN/GaN high electron mobility transistors on Si for RF applications by Xing, Weichuan

“…The major contributions of the thesis are listed as below. (1) The factors that limit the devices’ high frequency performance are investigated. …”
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Global burden of 288 causes of death and life expectancy decomposition in 204 countries and territories and 811 subnational locations, 1990–2021: a systematic analysis for the Glob... by Naghavi, M, Ong, KL, Aali, A, Almidani, O, Bandyopadhyay, S, Basnyat, B, Maude, R, Dolecek, C, Lacey, BWH

“…<p><b>Methods</b></p> The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) 2021 cause-of-death analysis estimated mortality and years of life lost (YLLs) from 288 causes of death by age-sex-location-year in 204 countries and territories and 811 subnational locations for each year from 1990 until 2021. …”

Global age-sex-specific mortality, life expectancy, and population estimates in 204 countries and territories and 811 subnational locations, 1950–2021, and the impact of the COVID-... by Schumacher, AE, Kyu, HH, Aali, A, Almidani, O, Bandyopadhyay, S, Basnyat, B, Maude, RJ, Bennett, D, Browne, AJ, Dolecek, C, Dunachie, SJ, Newton, CRJ, Rodriguez, JAB

“…The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) 2021 provides new demographic estimates for 204 countries and territories and 811 additional subnational locations from 1950 to 2021, with a particular emphasis on changes in mortality and life expectancy that occurred during the 2020–21 COVID-19 pandemic period. …”

Differences in the effectiveness of individual-level smoking cessation interventions by socioeconomic status by Theodoulou, A, Fanshawe, TR, Leavens, E, Theodoulou, E, Wu, AD, Heath, L, Stewart, C, Nollen, N, Ahluwalia, JS, Butler, AR, Hajizadeh, A, Thomas, J, Lindson, N, Hartmann-Boyce, J

“…<p><b>Background</b></p> People from lower socioeconomic groups are more likely to smoke and less likely to succeed in achieving abstinence, making tobacco smoking a leading driver of health inequalities. Contextual factors affecting subpopulations may moderate the efficacy of individual‐level smoking cessation interventions. …”

Global fertility in 204 countries and territories, 1950–2021, with forecasts to 2100: a comprehensive demographic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021 by Bhattacharjee, NV, Schumacher, AE, Aali, A, Almidani, O, Bandyopadhyay, S, Graham, SM, Lacey, BWH, Maude, RJ, Runghien, T, Rodriguez, JAB

“…The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) 2021 produced up-to-date and comprehensive demographic assessments of key fertility indicators at global, regional, and national levels from 1950 to 2021 and forecast fertility metrics to 2100 based on a reference scenario and key policy-dependent alternative scenarios. …”

Fabrication and characterization of Algan/Gan high electron mobility transistors on silicon by Tham, Wai Hoe

“…Such fabrication method reduces the parasitic inhomogeneities associated with the numerous front-end processing steps and offers more flexibility in device design with limited form factor. Hence, the demonstrated novel approach is a promising alternative in gold-free GaN-on-Si integration.…”
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Modélisation des interactions en Italie du Nord au premier âge du Fer: de la circulation de parures aux réseaux d’influences culturelles by Cicolani, V, Huet, T, Zamboni, L

“…This data set, which has recently been published and revised, has been structured on the basis of hierarchical descriptors, and its characterization (typology, context and quantification) has been completed by adding a qualitative variable, here called 'style'. The role of this factor, based on the morphostylistic study of each object, is to translate into factual terms the local tastes/adaptations of supra-regional models and types, thus making it possible to model the relationships of cultural influence between communities. …”