Sliding-mediated ferroelectric phase transition in CuInP2S6 under pressure by Zhou, Zhou, Zhang, Jun-Jie, Turner, Gemma F., Moggach, Stephen A., Lekina, Yulia, Morris, Samuel, Wang, Shun, Hu, Yiqi, Li, Qiankun, Xue, Jinshuo, Feng, Zhijian, Yan, Qingyu, Weng, Yuyan, Xu, Bin, Fang, Yong, Shen, Zexiang, Fang, Liang, Dong, Shuai, You, Lu

“…The rich phase diagram of CuInP2S6, which is enabled by stacking orders, sheds light on the physics of vdW ferroelectricity and opens an alternative route to tailoring long-range order in vdW layered crystals.…”
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From cosmos to cell: constructing a paradoxical selfhood through planetary and biological bodies in the poetry of Diane Ackerman and Jane Hirshfield by Tan, Jasmine Hui Jun

“…To date, research on literature and science have favored long-form writing and this thesis seeks to remedy that by investigating the utilization of biological metaphors to construct selfhood by understudied contemporary poets Diane Ackerman and Jane Hirshfield. …”
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Sentiment analysis and summarization of movie reviews across genres. by Tun, Thura Thet.

“…However, this approach can only classify the sentiment orientation (i.e. positive or negative) of relatively long review documents. Therefore, a more sophisticated method for sentence-level sentiment analysis using a natural language processing and rule-based approach was developed. …”
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Growth and physical properties of organic semiconducting single crystals by Tan, Ke Jie

“…High defect concentrations and grain boundaries cause hindrance to the charge carrier‘s transport. Relatively long radiative decay of excitons can be achieved in high quality Light Emitting Organic Field Effect Transistors (LEOFET) built from high charge carrier mobility materials. …”
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论汉魏六朝挽歌与悼亡诗的生死主题 = Theme on life and death in elegy and lament poetry of Han, Wei and six dynasties by 郑慧萍 Teh, Hui Ping

“…Through the usage of first person narration, elegies express poets’ sighs at long duration of time, regret the loss of life and their hope for joy and pain reduction. …”
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Parallel and distributed algorithms for computational fluid flow simulations by Vu, Thanh Tung

“…Therefore, when the volume of input data increases significantly (e.g. the topographic data have higher resolutions), the excessively long simulation time becomes a major obstacle. Thus, distributed computing architectures have been explored to parallelize the computation scheme to speed up the simulation time for modelling. …”
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E2 protein nanocage as a pickering emulsifier and its applications by Sarker, Mridul

“…The rheological analysis of Pickering emulsion and gel-like structure confirmed the higher mechanical strength, long-term stability and elasticity of the gel-like structure compared to the emulsion. …”
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The effect of regularly dosed paracetamol versus no paracetamol on renal function in Plasmodium knowlesi malaria (PACKNOW) : study protocol for a randomised controlled trial by Cooper, Daniel J., Plewes, Katherine, Grigg, Matthew J., Rajahram, Giri S., Piera, Kim A., William, Timothy, Chatfield, Mark D., Yeo, Tsin Wen, Dondorp, Arjen M., Anstey, Nicholas M., Barber, Bridget E.

“…AKI of any cause can have long-term consequences, including increased risk of chronic kidney disease, adverse cardiovascular events and increased mortality. …”
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Populism in foreign policy by Chryssogelos, Angelos

“…Highlighted are the breadth of critical and discursive approaches on populism that scholars of populism and foreign policy can use, particularly because they have been applied successfully to cases outside of Europe, where populists have long held political power and have influenced foreign policy in practice. …”
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Impact of interspecific competition on African wild dogs (Lycaon pictus) in an ecosystem with artificial perennial water provision by Sandoval Serés, ME

“…My main results show that: a) prey conservation mainly in low waterhole density areas is crucial to decrease food resource competition between African wild dogs with large predators (Chapter 2); b) areas with too high waterhole densities increased the kleptoparasitism risk on African wild dogs and hence the risk of agonistic encounters with dominant predators through an increase on the number of dominant predators arriving at playback locations (Chapter 3); c) African wild dogs preferred temporal partitioning over spatial partitioning to avoid large predators, and African wild dogs were able to co-occur in areas (rich in prey) with high aggregation and density of dominant predators as long as there were enough permanent waterhole densities (at least ~0.01 waterholes per km²) and not too high hyaena densities (above ~14 hyaenas/100km²) (Chapter 4). …”

Introduction - Oxford Energy Forum – Issue, 98

“…</p> <p>Unlike the major international oil and gas industry hubs and hydrocarbon-rich regions of Russia, Africa, and the Middle East, Latin America traditionally has not been able to attract long-term capital or seen many sustained full-cycle developments in oil and gas (in contrast to the situation in mining, where activity has been stable). …”

Developing optogenetics for use in vascular research by Rorsman, N

“…The main findings of this thesis are:</p> <p>1) Blue light activation of ChR2 and the ChR2 variant ChR2(H134R) led to long-lasting and non-inactivating depolarising currents. …”

Le cinéma d’Afrique noire contemporaine: une impossible décolonisation? by Fouhba, H

“…The latter campaigned for African filmmakers to appropriate their cinema, with a view to restoring the truth about the sociocultural, political and economic realities of the black continent, long falsified by the colonial camera. Vieyra and Sembène wanted to contribute to the birth and promotion of a decolonized African cinema, in which the virtues and cultural riches of Africa are extolled. …”

Partial purification and characterization of molybdenum reducing enzyme from Escherichia coli strain K12 by Sulaiman, Mohd Haris

“…They exist in a straight rod shaped cells and about 2 μm long and 0.5 μm wide, which can grow and divide rapidly by binary fission. …”
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Urban Informatics and Future Cities / by Geertman, S. C. M., editor 642892, Pettit, Christopher, editor 310233, Goodspeed, Robert, editor 642893, Staffans, Aija, editor 642894

Investigation of Synthetic Proteins Produced via Automated Fast-Flow Peptide Synthesis by Cowfer, Amanda Elizabeth

“…With modern research requiring rapid and high-fidelity access to long polypeptide chains, an immediate need to develop peptide synthesis technology to produce single-domain protein polypeptides in a single shot will be critical. …”
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Compact x-ray source based on burst-mode inverse Compton scattering at 100 kHz by Bessuille, J., Brown, P., Carbajo, S., Dolgashev, Valery A., Lin, H., Murari, K., Resta, G., Tantawi, S., Zapata, L. E., Graves, William S., Hong, Kyung-Han, Ihloff, Ernest E., Khaykovich, Boris, Nanni, Emilio Alessandro, Kaertner, Franz X., Moncton, David E.

“…The entire accelerator is approximately 1 meter long and produces hard x rays tunable over a wide range of photon energies. …”
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Structure and phase engineering of 2D transition metal chalcogenides by Tang, Bijun

“…As an indispensable member of the two-dimensional (2D) family as well as a perfect complement to graphene, 2D transition metal chalcogenides (TMCs) have long been the center of research attention, attributed to their large spectrum of fascinating properties along with the various crystal structures. …”
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Why do Chinese firms go public abroad and how do they perform? by Yuan, Mengying

“…We find that there is a valuation discount of Chinese firms listed overseas compared with their domestically listed counterparts and this valuation discount is persistent in the long run. Then, we investigate reasons for such valuation discounts by examining the impact of policy distortions on the overseas listing. …”
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Engineering quantum control with optical transitions induced by twisted light fields by Zanon-Willette, Thomas, Impens, François, Arimondo, Ennio, Wilkowski, David, Taichenachev, Aleksei V., Yudin, Valeriy I.

“…A twisted-light focused probe beam produces strong longitudinal electric and magnetic fields along the laser propagation axis, which opens the S01→P03 doubly forbidden clock transition with a high E1M1 two-photon excitation rate. This long-lived clock transition is thus immune to nonscalar electromagnetic perturbations. …”
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