Search of the early O3 LIGO data for continuous gravitational waves from the Cassiopeia A and Vela Jr. supernova remnants by Sudhir, Vivishek

“…We carry out the searches in the LIGO data from the first six months of the third Advanced LIGO and Virgo observing run, using the Weave semi-coherent method, which sums matched-filter detection-statistic values over many time segments spanning the observation period. No gravitational wave signal is detected in the search band of 20--976 Hz for assumed source ages greater than 300 years for Cas A and greater than 700 years for Vela Jr. …”
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Cryptanalysis of symmetric-key primitives and its application to backdoor design by Wang, Haoyang

“…This thesis focuses on the cryptanalysis of symmetric-key cryptography, one of the most important branches of modern cryptography. The research spans two aspects of cryptanalysis. Studying cryptanalysis provides better evaluation on the security of symmetric-key primitives. …”
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Designing a brain-computer interface platform for attention training by B Thirukarthik

“…In this study, we will be looking into a new platform to aid in training the attention span of the regular persons. This platform is a game application designed in Unity Engine and uses the Muse2 device as a BCI and the Tobii Eye Tracker as input method to control the player and complete minor objectives. …”
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Spatial-temporal sensor data imputation in traffic data modelling by Nie, Helei

“…The results show that RBF approach is capable of imputing missing values, especially in a short missing span. By incorporating the available dimensions of the data, RBF method can utilize the information from time and space dimensions for effective imputation with higher missing ratios. …”
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Truss-arch model for shear strength of shear-critical reinforced concrete columns by Pan, Zuanfeng., Li, Bing.

“…Significant arch action is found in columns of small shear span-to-depth ratio and high axial-load ratio under shear force. …”
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All-sky search for continuous gravitational waves from isolated neutron stars using Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo O3 data by Sudhir, Vivishek

“…We present results of an all-sky search for continuous gravitational waves which can be produced by spinning neutron stars with an asymmetry around their rotation axis, using data from the third observing run of the Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo detectors. …”
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Materials beyond monolayers: The magnetic quasi-1D semiconductor CrSBr by Klein, Julian, Ross, Frances M.

“…Long-range magnetic order offers additional tuning with the coupled lattice, spin, orbit, and charge degrees of freedom enabling magneto-correlated phenomena. …”
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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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Electronic and transport properties of TMDC planar superlattices: effective Hamiltonian approach by Hashemi, R., Shojaei, S., Liu, Zheng

“…Within governed effective Hamiltonian we derived adopted transfer matrix formalism to obtain dispersion relation and electronic band structure with wave functions, transmission probability and Fano spectrum. Surprisingly, spin orbit coupling has considerable opposite effects on valence bands shift in TMDC-PSL that is blue and red for k and k’ valleys, respectively. …”
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Skyrmion-driven topological Hall effect in a Shastry-Sutherland magnet by Swain, N., Shahzad, M., Paradezhenko, G. V., Pervishko, A. A., Yudin, D., Sengupta, Pinaki

“…The magnetic properties are modeled with competing symmetric Heisenberg and asymmetric Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya exchange interactions, while a coupling between the spins of the itinerant electrons and the localized moments describes the magnetotransport behavior. …”
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Metasurface-enabled broadband multidimensional photodetectors by Jiang, Hao, Chen, Yinzhu, Guo, Wenyu, Zhang, Yan, Zhou, Rigui, Gu, Mile, Zhong, Fan, Ni, Zhenhua, Lu, Junpeng, Qiu, Cheng-Wei, Gao, Weibo

“…Furthermore, cooperative multiport metasurfaces are adopted and boosted by machine learning techniques. It enables precise spin-wavelength differentiation over an extremely broad wavelength range (1-8 μm). …”
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Search for boosted low-mass resonances decaying into hadrons produced in association with a photon in pp collisions at s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector by Aad, G, Aakvaag, E, Abbott, B, Abdelhameed, S, Abeling, K, Abicht, NJ, Abidi, SH, Aboelela, M, Aboulhorma, A, Abramowicz, H, Abreu, H, Abulaiti, Y, Acharya, BS, Ackermann, A, Adam Bourdarios, C, Adamczyk, L, Addepalli, SV, Addison, MJ, Adelman, J, Adiguzel, A, Adye, T, Affolder, AA, Afik, Y, Agaras, MN, Barr, AJ, Bortoletto, D, Bruckler, TL, Celli, F, Chen, M, Conroy, EI, Cooper-Sarkar, AM, Dingley, T, Draguet, MA, Eberwein, GH, Frost, JA, Gallas, EJ, Grabarczyk, RP, Gwenlan, C, Haslbeck, F, Hays, CP, Hodkinson, BH, Huffman, TB, Iizawa, T, Karava, K, Koch, SF, Li, Z, Moser, B, Nagai, K, Nedic, L, Nickerson, RB, Pacey, HA, Rossi, E, Ruggiero, A, Schopf, E, Shipsey, IPJ, Sultan, DMS, Viehhauser, GHA, Weidberg, AR, Yildirim, TP

“…The observed data are found to agree with Standard Model predictions and 95% confidence level upper limits are set on the coupling of a hypothetical new spin-1 Z′ resonance with Standard Model quarks as a function of the assumed Z′-boson mass in the range between 20 and 200 GeV.…”

CFD investigation of a distributed propulsion system by Chng, Jia Yang

“…A distributed propulsion system uses a series of engines distributed span-wise across the aircraft’s wing with the aim to increase aircraft performance. …”
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Finding meaning behind immortality of Anne Rice’s vampires. by Nurhayati Zakaria.

“…Immortality plays a central role in the continuous inquiry into the vampires’ nature and existence throughout the span of many centuries. These novels follow the psychological and emotional experiences of vampiric immortality, firstly, via two first-person accounts of two separate vampires, Louis and Lestat, and later trace Rice’s interpretation of vampiric urban legend through the stories of various vampires of different walks of life. …”
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Behaviour of precast concrete joints subject to a missing column scenerio by Wee Jun Yang.

“…The sub-assemblages include two-span beams with two column stubs and a middle beam-column joint. …”
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Micropipette aspiration of a living cell by Badjo, Wenna

“…Using the viscoelastic model, it was found that PDMS 20:1 will result in higher stiffness of cell and the longer the cell is cultured on the substrate, the stiffer the cell, however this is only apply for the span of 7 days. On the other hand, no substantiate conclusion is drawn from the elastic modulus. …”
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Effect of a circular tunnel in the foundation soil on the seismic response of dikes by Yeong, Siang Phong

“…A dry sand dike of 12 m crest span, 60 m base width and 8 m height is selected as the model in this study. …”
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Futurism: performance and performativity of a movement by Scarso, Jacek Ludwig

“…Performance interventions span across the history of this movement (Goldberg, 2011): from the notorious 'serate' instigated by Marinetti, in which the audience would be purposefully scandalised, provoked and offended, to the futurist music concerts that provided an ancestral root for the aesthetics of synthesised sound in contemporary music (Rodney, 1976), not to mention the Russian counterpart of this movement, which embraced, on stage, such wide a field as to encompass theatre, opera, dance, music and scenic design. …”
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Warming alters plankton body-size distributions in a large field experiment by Albini, D, Ransome, E, Dumbrell, AJ, Pawar, S, O’Gorman, EJ, Smith, TP, Bell, T, Jackson, MC, Woodward, G

“…While substantial empirical evidence has accumulated in recent years on such changes, we still lack general insights due to a limited coverage of warming scenarios that span spatial and temporal scales of relevance to natural systems. …”

Ritual, community, and conflict: reflections on the science of the social and its practical implications by Whitehouse, H

“…Theprocess has involved various theoretical, methodological, and practical challenges and advances,discussed in this book review forum from a variety of novel angles. Contributors span a broadrange of disciplines, including cognitive and evolutionary anthropology (Atran, Burdett, Lanman,Stanford), history (Larson, Martin), philosophy (McCauley), religious studies (Wood) and compu-ter science (Lane). …”