Adjoint-state traveltime tomography for azimuthally anisotropic media in spherical coordinates by Chen, Jing, Chen, Guoxu, Nagaso, Masaru, Tong, Ping

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Individual differences and relationship contexts in the perception and response to criticism: an emotion and family systems perspective by Neoh, Michelle Jin Yee

“…Second, the thesis focuses on the link between relationships within the family unit and criticism. …”
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发展环保NGO推进资源型城市污水处理 ：以黑龙江省鸡西市污水处理研究为例 = Develop environmental NGOs to enhance the treatment of polluted water in resource-based cities : a case study of Jixi city, Heilongjiang prov... by 陈青 Chen, Qing, 李培生 Li, Peisheng, 王治洋 Wang, Zhiyang, 孙连富 Sun, Lianfu

“…Heilongjiang Province is a province of resources, resource-based cities are many and serious environmental pollution, especially in urban sewage treatment has an impact on economic and social development and a key link in the health of residents. Jixi existing sewage treatment model in resource-based representative of the city, its very obvious shortcomings, the main problems: the lack of external pressure, the Government's emphasis on environmental issues is inadequate; the limited financial resources, the government itself can not provide the city needs Environmental public goods; Since we can not properly handle the economic development and ecological environmental protection interests, businesses and residents on waste water treatment monitoring, oversight.…”
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Rule-based patient transition in an integrated healthcare system by Ng, Yan Leng.

“…The added advantage of the program is that it is able to link and combine with map functions to view the full route of travel. …”
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Performance monitoring for quantum key distribution systems by Yu, Timothy Shengrong

“…These limitations lead to the proposed development of a polarisation-encoded QKD system based on an adaptive polarisation state monitoring and recovery scheme that adapts the system to the existing polarisation drift condition in the transmission link to enhance its reliability and availability. …”
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Prioritizing problems in and solutions to homecare safety of people with dementia: supporting carers, streamlining care by Car, Lorainne Tudor, El-Khatib, Mona, Perneczky, Robert, Papachristou, Nikolaos, Atun, Rifat, Rudan, Igor, Car, Josip, Vincent, Charles, Majeed, Azeem

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Melatonin and health: an umbrella review of health outcomes and biological mechanisms of action by Posadzki, Pawel Przemyslaw, Bajpai, Ram, Kyaw, Bhone Myint, Roberts, Nicola J., Brzezinski, Amnon, Christopoulos, George I, Divakar, Ushashree, Bajpai, Shweta, Soljak, Michael, Dunleavy, Gerard, Jarbrink, Krister, Nang, Ei Ei Khaing, Soh, Chee Kiong, Car, Josip

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A novel method for segmenting growth of cells in sheared endothelial culture reveals the secretion of an anti-inflammatory mediator by Ghim, Mean, Pang, Kuin T., Arshad, Mehwish, Wang, Xiaomeng, Weinberg, Peter D.

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Securing reform? Post-election power sharing and security sector reform in Zimbabwe, Kenya, and Togo, 2006-2013 by Noyes, A

“…While the power-sharing model continues to be used worldwide and security reform is widely identified by scholars and practitioners as critical to durable peace, the existing literature has generally ignored the potential link between the two.</p> <p>As such, this dissertation seeks to answer the following questions: Does post-election power sharing lead to security sector reform? …”

Magnetic dynamics in iron-based superconductors probed by neutron spectroscopy by Taylor, A

“…The experiments were primarily designed to investigate the link between magnetic dynamics and superconductivity. …”

Waste palm leaves-based hydrochar support catalytic esterification of palm fatty acid distillate by Aliyu, Muhammad, Rashid, Umer, Wan Ab Karim Ghani, Wan Azlina, Mohd Salleh, Mohamad Amran, Hazmi, Balkis, Alharthi, Fahad A., Antunes, Elsa, Yu, Jianglong

Identifying erosion risk criteria for coastal city sustainability by using a Hyper-Delphi-hierarchy model: a case study of Kuala Terengganu, Malaysia by Bagheri, Milad, Ibrahim, Zelina Z., Manaf, Latifah Abd, Wolf, Isabelle D., Akhir, M.F., WIAW, Talaat

Dysfunctional cardiac energy transduction, mitochondrial oxidative stress, oncogenic and apoptotic signaling in DiNP-induced asthma in murine model by Kehinde, Samuel Abiodun, Olajide, Abosede Temitope, Fatokun, Tolulope Peter, Faroud, Dalia, Hadi, Najah R., Elgazzar, Ahmed M., James, Adewale Segun, Ashour, Mohamed H. Mazhar

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Model of motivational forces influencing academic achievement among secondary school students through the mediation of flow by Syed Mustafa, Sharifah Muzila

“…However, motivational force alone is not adequately strong to ensure students perform well in their academic tasks. There is a missing link between motivation and academic achievement which can be filled by flow, defined as an optimal state of engagement, concentration and enjoyment when doing a task. …”
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Rice bran oil as emerging green fuels: Exploration on combustion behaviours of single cylinder diesel engine (light-duty engine) by Norhafana, M., Che Ku Ihsan, ., Noor, M. M., Abdul Aziz, Hairuddin, Indra Mahlia, Teuku Meurah, Kadirgama, Kumaran, Ramasamy, Devarajan, Samykano, Mahendran, Mohd Fairusham, Ghazali, Rahman, Md Mustafizur

“…The observed decrease in peak pressure can be attributed to the decreased cetane number (CN) and oxygen concentration found in RBO00 in comparison to the mixed fuels of RBOs. This will affect the completion of combustion such as wear and tear for the cylinder and piston. …”
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Designing for Connection with Inner Processes by Mindel, Jessica Rachel

“…Making inner processes explicit and prompting revisitation of them offered both benefits and drawbacks for connection and reflection, but revealed important questions. A mixed-methods analysis across this work presents tensions in the human and machine instinct to make inferences and assumptions about others, and offers opportunities for interpersonally insightful, vulnerable, and trusting conversation when computer-mediated communication and sense-making systems produce deep content rather than deep interactions. …”
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Creative ageing in Singapore : a population study on participatory arts engagement and wellbeing among adults aged 50 and above by Ma, Stephanie Hilary Xinyi

“…This thesis presents an analysis of the quantitative data of a larger mixed-methods population research, namely, the ‘Arts for Ageing Well’ study to understand the patterns of arts engagement among Singaporean adults aged 50 and above, to investigate the relationships between participatory arts engagement and holistic wellbeing, as well as to explore the impact that specific art form engagements may have on health and wellness. …”
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Three essays on behavioral and experimental economics by Li, Yupeng

“…In a laboratory setting, subjects made a set of binary decisions on whether to participate in a mixed gamble. Borrowing from the psychological literature, we manipulated the degree of self-distancing through the use of personal pronouns. …”
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Exfoliation and alignment of h-BN for thermal application by Teo, Jing Xiang

“…Pristine Exfoliated h-BN with a mean size of 100nm was mixed with ferrofluid to create a hybrid solution capable of magnetic alignment. …”
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Efficiency enhancement and doping type inversion in Cu₂CdSnS₄ solar cells by Ag substitution by Ibrahim, Ahmad, Lie, Stener, Tan, Joel Ming Rui, Swope, Ryan, Medaille, Axel Gon, Hadke, Shreyash, Saucedo, Edgardo, Agrawal, Rakesh, Wong, Lydia Helena

“…In this work, we substitute Cu in Cu2CdSnS4 with larger Ag at various concentrations and investigate the structural, optoelectronic, and photovoltaic properties of (Cu,Ag)2CdSnS4.Higher concentrations of Ag lead to peak splitting in XRD spectra, which is attributed to mixed phases and marks the transition towards Ag2CdSnS4. …”
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