Population of Merging Compact Binaries Inferred Using Gravitational Waves through GWTC-3 by Sudhir, Vivishek

“…We also find the binary black hole mass distribution has localized over- and underdensities relative to a power-law distribution, with peaks emerging at chirp masses of 8.3 + 0.3 − 0.5 and 27.9 + 1.9 − 1.8 M ⊙ . While we continue to find that the mass distribution of a binary’s more massive component strongly decreases as a function of primary mass, we observe no evidence of a strongly suppressed merger rate above approximately 60 M ⊙ , which would indicate the presence of a upper mass gap. …”
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Association of PHACTR1 with Coronary Artery Calcium Differs by Sex and Cigarette Smoking by Voorhies, Kirsten, Young, Kendra, Hsu, Fang-Chi, Palmer, Nicholette D., McDonald, Merry-Lynn N., Lee, Sanghun, Hahn, Georg, Hecker, Julian, Prokopenko, Dmitry, Wu, Ann Chen, Regan, Elizabeth A., DeMeo, Dawn, Kinney, Greg L., Crapo, James D., Cho, Michael H., Silverman, Edwin K., Lange, Christoph, Budoff, Matthew J., Hokanson, John E., Lutz, Sharon M.

“…In addition, PHACTR1 had a stronger association with CAC among current smokers (p = 6.2 × 10−7) than former smokers (p = 7.5 × 10−3) and the SNP by smoking status interaction was marginally significant (p = 0.03). …”
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Design and analysis of an Integrated Electric Mobility Flight Vehicle of the future by Wee, Marco Johann

“…Several IMFV concepts such as TRI-V, TEAR Concept, and Holonomic Aerial Vehicle were designed. …”
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Hodge theory and its applications to molecular data analysis by Koh, Ronald Joon Wei

“…Not only have HOIPs been projected to be one of the most cost-effective options for future solar cells, its efficiency levels have risen from 5% to 25% in the last decade. Current machine learning-based perovskite designs rely heavily on the prediction of the bandgap of HOIPs. …”
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Implementation of industry-standard functional coverage in UVM testbench for SoC level verification by Zhang, Shaoyan

“…Besides, through RTL power estimation tool, the power consumption of the entire MCU chip is measured to be 20.188mw(milliwatts), including static power consumption 5.368mw and dynamic power consumption 14.868mw, providing data support for pre-RTL design and post-flow production.…”
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Bifunctional layer-by-layer metal-organic framework thin films for gas detection by Tan, Fu Lun

“…Upon pressure exertion, the sensor exhibited sensitivity values of - 7.148 x 10E-4 kPa-1 in the low-pressure range (0 – 11 kPa), and -2.751 x 10E-5 kPa-1 in the high-pressure range (11 – 80 kPa), while its cycling stability over 300 pressure cycles was also demonstrated. …”
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Induction of z-conformation in ribosomal RNA by Z-DNA binding domain Zα of the human double-stranded RNA deaminase I (ADAR1) by Zhao, Jing

“…We determined 3D solution structures of ZαADAR1 and ZαADAR1 mutant (N43A, Y47A) and compared binding modes of these two proteins to Z-DNA, short (5-32 residues) dsRNA oligonucleotides derived from rRNA and E.coli ribosomes. …”
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Bond and electronic relaxation dynamics of graphene, gold clusters, and water ice by Zhang, Xi

“…Results of transition state calculations of the carbon monoxide oxidization confirmed that smaller clusters (Au13 and cage Au12) reduced the activation energy much more than larger clusters (Au55 and cage Au42), since the significantly red shift of the valence band of ultra-lowly coordinated clusters makes the valence 5d electrons ultra-highly catalytic. The hidden force opposing H2O compression behind the repulsion between nonbonding lone pair and bonding pair of hydrogen bond was revealed by theoretical analysis and molecular dynamics (MD) and ab initio MD calculations: i) the compression shortens and strengthens the intermolecular ‘‘O2- : H+/p’’ lone-pair and stretching phonons (<400 cm-1) are thus stiffened; ii) the repulsion pushes the bonding electron pair away from the H+/p and hence elongates and weakens the ‘‘H+/p–O2-” bond, making stretching phonons (>3000 cm-1) softened upon compression. …”
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A study on mechanical properties, electrical conductivity and EMI shielding performance of syntactic foams. by Zhang, Liying.

“…Flexural strength and fracture toughness were increased with increasing CNFs content and decreased beyond 1.5 vol% of CNFs. The decreasing trend was due to agglomeration and clustering of the CNFs. …”
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Optimization of the thermal performance of building double-skin envelope by Chua, Wei Jin

“…When radiant barriers are installed, the optimum air gap height changes to the range of 9.5 cm to 10 cm. No conclusion was made for the optimum height when insulations are installed, as the efficiency continues to rise even after reaching the maximum gap height of this study. …”
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Essays in interactional dynamics of financial markets by Chen, Zhenxi

“…This kind of cluster formation is similar to the concept of coupled map lattices (CML) in other disciplines such as Physics. 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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Design of low power PLL synthesizer for 60 GHz applications by Mahalingam, Nagarajan

“…The fully integrated PLL synthesizer for the 60 GHz application operates in the K-band dissipating a power of 42 mW from 1.8 V supply voltage. The 3rd order external loop filter is used in the PLL synthesizer.…”
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Identification and characterisation of novel human dendritic cell progenitors by See, Peter Chi Ee

“…We also demonstrated that pre-cDC but not pDC were able to differentiate into cDC subsets in MS5 stromal culture supplemented with the cytokines Flt3L, SCF and GM-CSF. …”
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Effect of geometry on temporal development of quasi-1D jet scour by Tan, Ian Haoyang

“…It was discovered that quasi-1D equilibrium scour depth (dse) generally decreased when impingement height is increased, with the exception of a variation at H = 2.5 cm due to jet diffusion effect. It was also observed that both dse and time to reach equilibrium (te) increase when L was increased due to a larger erodible bed volume which facilitates better vortex formation. …”
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Cadê o Kauê? Co-design and acceptability testing of a chat-story aimed at enhancing youth participation in the promotion of mental health in Brazil by Pavarini, G, Murta, SG, Mendes, JAA, Siston, FR, Souza, RRA, Cunha, RO, Ferreira, JA, Santos, VHL, Seabra, BTR, Talk2U, Singh, I

“…In Part 3, the chat-story was user tested (<em>n</em>&thinsp;=&thinsp;32). Parts 4 and 5 assessed acceptability through a qualitative study in schools (<em>n</em>&thinsp;=&thinsp;138) and initial efficacy during an online campaign (<em>n</em>&thinsp;=&thinsp;795).…”

Transforming kernel-based learners to incorporate domain knowledge from climate science by Bouabid, S

“…This emulator, we call FaIRGP, can learn from data and outperform purely process-based emulators, while retaining the robustness from the incorporated energy balance model. In Chapter 5, we consider an applied observational challenge in climate science: obtaining global estimates of aerosol vertical profiles. …”

Role of primary and secondary care data in atrial fibrillation ascertainment: impact on risk factor associations, patient management, and mortality in UK Biobank by Camm, CF, Von Ende, A, Gajendragadkar, PR, Pessoa-Amorim, G, Mafham, M, Allen, N, Parish, S, Casadei, B, Hopewell, JC

“…HADP-only cases also had higher rates of death [PC-only: 9.3 (6.8, 12.7), PC + HADP: 23.4 (20.5, 26.6), HADP-only: 81.2 (73.8, 89.2) events per 1000 person-years, P &lt; 0.0001] compared to other groups. …”

Assessment of novel pre-erythrocytic malaria vaccines in humans by Venkatraman, N

“…High level efficacy (&amp;GT; 80%) is reported in Chapter 5 with a three-dose schedule of 10/10/10μg R21/MM given 4 weeks apart. …”

Kesan persekitaran pekerjaan terhadap penglibatan wanita dalam STEM by Nurhamizah Rashid, Norain Mod Asri, Azrina Abdullah Al-Hadi, Norshamliza Chamhuri, Hazrul Izuan Shahiri

“…Model 4 bertemakan pengalaman iaitu tempoh tempoh (bilangan tahun) pengalaman wanita telah berkhidmat dalam industri berkaitan STEM, model 5 bertemakan pengalaman iaitu tempoh (bilangan tahun) pengalaman wanita telah berkhidmat dalam syarikat berkaitan STEM dan model 6 bertemakan persaraan iaitu wanita bercadang untuk bersara lebih awal dari yang ditetapkan oleh organisasi/ kerajaan. …”
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Expert system for real time optimization of solid waste management in Malaysia by Abu Samah, Mohd Armi

“…From the sampling done, it was found that the actual waste composition generated for a month in residential, shopping and industrial area in Balakong was approximately 5,344.00 kg, 9067.90 kg,864.95 kg, respectively. …”
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