Experimental determination of dust cloud deflagration parameters of selected hydrogen storage materials: Complex metal hydrides, chemical hydrides, and adsorbents by Khalil, YF

“…These insights are also critical for designing adequate safety features such as explosion relief venting and isolation devices and for supplementing missing data in materials safety data sheets.…”

Art is an encounter : the nylon narrative. by Wong, Caroline Wan Ling.

“…This is intended as a chapter in a larger body of work entitled “Art is an Encounter”. …”
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Semantic scene understanding on 3D point clouds by Dong, Shichao

“…To address this issue, in Chapter 4, we propose a novel weakly supervised method, RWSeg, that requires labeling only one object with a single point. …”
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Mechanical properties of sandwich composite made of syntactic foam core and GFRP skins by Salleh, Zulzamri, Su, Haibin, Md Mainul Islam, Epaarachchi, Jayantha Ananda

“…In particular, the mechanical properties, such as the compressive, tensile and flexural behaviour, of sandwich composites formed from glass fibre sheets used as the skin and glass microballoon/vinyl ester as the syntactic foam core were investigated in this report. …”
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Molecular characterization of microbial interactions with labile dissolved organic matter by Halloran, Kathryn H.

“…This thesis addresses those challenges and questions. In Chapter 2, I explore the compound-specific uptake of metabolites by the copiotrophic gamma-proteobacterium Alteromonas macleodii, with a focus on metabolites derived from the cyanobacteria Prochlorococcus. …”
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Advances in Sparse and Low Rank Matrix Optimization for Machine Learning Applications by Johnson, Nicholas André G.

“…Our rigorous analysis and empirical validation aim to contribute to both the theoretical foundations of optimization and the development of practical tools for complex challenges in statistics and machine learning. Chapter 2 studies the Sparse Plus Low Rank Matrix Decomposition problem. …”
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论析《延禧攻略》中的女性团结现象 = A study of Chinese period drama series, The Story of Yanxi Palace from the perspective of women's solidarity in feminism by 钟凯乐 Chong, Claire Kaile

“…The second chapter will base on the theory of feminism and categorise the relationships between the female characters into different types of solidarities. …”
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A bin-packing based heuristic for the integrated inventory and vehicle routing problem by Yang, Yang

“…We consider the Integrated Inventory and Vehicle Routing Problem (IIVRP) for a single product distribution system consisting of one upstream central warehouse and multiple downstream retailers and additive manufacturing in a spare parts supply chain in this thesis. In Chapter 2 IIVRP without central inventory, we develop a new heuristic algorithm with a Stationary non-nested Joint Replenishment Policy with Bin-packing feature (SJRPB) to solve this problem. …”
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Near-infrared light for phototherapy : photothermal induced drug release and tumor ablation by Li, Menghuan

“…It could provide us with products at various sizes with unique physical and chemical properties. Chapter 3 describes one of my attempts to combine the specifically functionalized polymer with gold nanorods for a controllable drug delivery system. …”
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Spin-ice physics and phase transitions in cadmium cyanide by Coates, CS

“…Having confirmed the importance of spin-ice physics, chapter 6 explores the pressure and temperature dependence of the ice-like correlations. …”

Review of "A grammar of Kham" by Noonan, Michael

“…The book contains a 417 page grammar, 23 pages of tran¬scribed texts, a 14 page dictionary, two maps, and a detailed topic index. The final chapter of the grammar is devoted to a discussion of the Kham verb in historical perspective.…”
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A study on ASP awareness, intentions and experience in Singapore. by Ho, Marvin Wan Shin., Ng, David Choe Yong., Lee, Ser Chim.

“…There is a severe lack of information not only on the current market size, but also the number of ASP subscribers and providers alike, both in the global and local context. ASP Alliance Chapter (AAC) provided that in Singapore, there are 100,000 SMEs of which only a very minor proportion adopt ASP services. …”
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The philosophers versus the sponge: feeling early modern by Ibbett, K

“…This chapter considers some routes to an early modern account of affect, and examines the place of gender in those accounts. …”

Computational methods for the assessment of empathic synchrony by Bizzego, Andrea, Gabrieli, Giulio, Azhari, Atiqah, Setoh, Peipei, Esposito, Gianluca

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The MFA years by Desker, Barry

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Drafting ‘Anon’ and killing anon: Virginia Woolf and the genesis of English literary language by Phillips, J

“…Specifically, this chapter posits that through its content and its form, the drafts of ‘Anon’ dramatize the work of genetic narratology, and doubly so. …”

论阮籍诗文中的逃避主义 = Escapism in the literary works of Ruan Ji by 王岳明 Wang, Yueming

“…This will be conducted via a comparison of the literary works of both Ruan and Tao. This chapter will first discuss the similarities both possess. …”
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Discrete differential geometry driven methods for architectural geometry by Yao, Sidan

“…For models with rich geometric details, our method can save up to 50\% patches in the quad layout. In Chapter 7, we present research in contrast-enhanced high-relief modeling. …”
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Bis(imino)phenyl group 13 - 14 complexes by Seow, Celestine Su Yi

“…This thesis mainly describes the synthesis and reactivity of group 13 and group 14 complexes stabilized by bis(imino)phenyl ligands. Chapter 1 describes the synthesis and characterization of indium and thallium compounds supported by bis(imino)aryl pincer ligands with Ar* (Ar* = 4-Me-2,6-CHPh2-C6H2) and tBu substituents. …”
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Synthesis and optical study of lead halide perovskites for opto-electronic applications by Ha, Son Tung

“…In this chapter, the lasing behavior of several materials will be discussed in detail such as: layered PbI2 (i.e., precursor of perovskite), 3D perovskite nanoplatelets, and 2D perovskite flake. …”
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