Should investors care where private equity managers went to school? by Fuchs, F, Füss, R, Jenkinson, T, Morkoetter, S

“…In particular, we explore three potential channels of how their educational background may influence fund performance: (i) institutional quality, (ii) individual performance, and (iii) academic variety. We find that a combination of top-tier education and work experience identifies individual performance in the management team. …”

Modern Game Testing : Learn how to test games like a pro, optimize testing effort, and skyrocket your QA career / by Finska, Nikolina, author 656259

“…This often leads to negative reviews, and in turn, you'll find that demand for your games declines. The solution lies in better quality assurance (QA) - and Modern Game Testing will show you how to achieve just that. …”
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Improving the charge separation and collection at the buffer/absorber interface by double-layered Mn-substituted CZTS by Lie, Stener, Sandi, Mario Indra, Tay, Ying Fan, Li, Wenjie, Tan, Joel Ming Rui, Bishop, Douglas M., Gunawan, Oki, Wong, Lydia Helena

“…In this study, Cu2MnxZn1-xSnS4 (CMZTS) thin film were fabricated by a sol-gel spin coating technique to understand the effect of Mn on the device performance. …”
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Synthesis of Co-doped MoS2 monolayers with enhanced valley splitting by Zhou, Jiadong, Lin, Junhao, Sims, Hunter, Jiang, Chongyun, Cong, Chunxiao, Brehm, John A., Zhang, Zhaowei, Niu, Lin, Chen, Yu, Zhou, Yao, Wang, Yanlong, Liu, Fucai, Zhu, Chao, Yu, Ting, Suenaga, Kazu, Mishra, Rohan, Pantelides, Sokrates T., Zhu, Zhen-Gang, Gao, Weibo, Liu, Zheng, Zhou, Wu

“…Density functional theory (DFT) and model calculations reveal that the observed enhanced VZS arises from an internal magnetic field induced by the tridopant clusters, which couples to the spin, atomic orbital, and valley magnetic moment of carriers from the conduction and valence bands. …”
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Nonlinear polariton parametric emission in an atomically thin semiconductor based microcavity by Zhao, Jiaxin, Fieramosca, Antonio, Bao, Ruiqi, Du, Wei, Dini, Kevin, Su, Rui, Feng, Jiangang, Luo, Yuan, Sanvitto, Daniele, Liew, Timothy Chi Hin, Xiong, Qihua

“…Recently, two-dimensional transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) have attracted great attention in strong light–matter interactions due to robust excitonic transitions and unique spin-valley degrees of freedom. However, further progress is hindered by the lack of realizations of strong nonlinear effects in TMD polaritons. …”
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Light-matter interactions in high quality manganese-doped two-dimensional molybdenum diselenide by Liu, Sheng, Wu, Yaze, Liu, Xue, Del Águila, Andrés Granados, Xuan, Fengyuan, Chaturvedi, Apoorva, Zhang, Hua, Quek, Su Ying, Xiong, Qihua

“…First-principles calculations indicate that the spin-polarized deep level defect states are formed due to the Mn substitutional dopants in the MoSe2 lattice. …”
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Hybrid UNet transformer architecture for ischemic stoke segmentation with MRI and CT datasets by Soh, Wei Kwek, Rajapakse, Jagath Chandana

“…HUT outperforms the state-the-art network SPiN in the single-modality MRI segmentation on Anatomical Tracings of lesion After Stroke (ATLAS) dataset by 4.84% of Dice score and a large margin of 40.7% in the Hausdorff Distance score. …”
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Effect of different lead precursors on planar perovskite solar cells by Martin

“…The hydrate water inside the lead acetate precursor has no bad effect on the perovskite formation. 3. Increasing the spin coat speed (to 3000rpm for 30 seconds) can improve the uniformity of perovskite film and further current density of solar cells. 4. …”
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Nuking for land : do nuclear weapons aid in coercive bargaining in territorial disputes? by Low, Jun Hong

“…Statistical analysis using the MCT dataset will be employed, followed by a case study of the Third Taiwan Straits Crisis of 1995-1996. We find that nuclear weapons do not aid in compellence generally, and in territorial conflicts.…”
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Photoswitchable and thermosensitive fluorescent liposomes by Lim, Jin Heng

“…In this study, three asymmetrical squaraine dyes were synthesized and embedded in liposomes in the efforts to find a suitable dye that can be used for bioimaging procedures involving liposomes. …”
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Behavioural finance : impact of government protests on Asian Stock Indexes. by Ng, Yvonne Chu Yan., Soon, Peiyu., Tan, Pei Ru.

“…Through the analysis of our results, we find that protest events would lead to a significant increase in the correlation coefficients of the home country and its neighbouring countries. …”
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Report on industrial attachment with KBR by Poo, Sue Xin.

“…It is hoped that the reader will find this report informative and concise.…”
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Critical analysis of the role of biodegradable polymeric scaffolds in differentiation of human embryonic stem cell into cardiomyocytes by Amritamayee Sahoo

“…Owing to the shortage of donors there has been a constant quest to find alternatives to organ transplant. Cell replacement therapy is a promising approach for the treatment of cardiac diseases, but is challenged by a limited supply of appropriate cells. …”
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Internet as an ecology : a case study on Tibetan buddhism. by Low, Yuen Wei.

“…The research seeks to find out how the Internet serves as a new environment to convey religious information and whether religious communities can be formed and sustained in cyberspace. …”
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Fatigue analysis of steel catenary riser by Chew, Jia Han.

“…An object which is under constant cyclic loading can fail by fatigue, thus, a fatigue analysis will be done to find out the fatigue life of the SCR at the touchdown zone.…”
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The visual field of blackness : identity formation through the self and the other. by Yasyeera Abdul Rahim.

“…In the darkness, you attain a level of peace and solitude. You find no wrong in being in the dark and in fact, your surrounding becomes part of who you are. …”
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Busyness and its impact on speed of work. by Soon, Yi Zhen.

“…Findings indicate that making one feel busy do indeed result in faster task completion.…”
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Visual learning : an approach to help chinese dyslexic children to overcome learning disabilities. by Huang, Yuxian.

“…Children with dyslexia find it difficult to read, write, spell, comprehend written passages and articulate their thoughts even though they are smart enough and are motivated to learn. …”
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Mobile data analytics by Lim, Bi Deng.

“…The retrieval of the advertisements will be done by the semantic ontology and hence it will find the relevant match to outputs.…”
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Spatial skill premium along the process of structural transformation by Qin, Jin, Chen, Zhuo, Zhao, Yunyi

“…We develop a tractable general equilibrium framework to quantitatively measure and predict the magnitude of these impacts over the period 2005 to 2024. We find that the simultaneous increase in both skilled worker demand and supply lead to a 38% increase in the skill premium, but 19% decrease in the social welfare.…”
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