Fabrication and characterization of graphene and carbon nanotube reinforced bioceramic nanocomposites by Hu, Huanlong

“…The improvement in mechanical properties was mainly attributed to the microstructure refinement of the composites, and the crack bridging and branching mechanisms of rGO. …”
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Light-matter interactions in atomically thin transition metal dichalcogenides by Zhao, Jiaxin

“…By coherently superimposing excitons and cavity photons, the exciton-polaritons based on monolayer TMDs are stable at room temperature with considerable promise towards optoelectronic and valleytronic devices. In this thesis, I mainly focus on investigations on light-matter interactions in monolayer TMDs and microcavities. …”
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幽禁中之丰姿，落寞中之妖冶：《唐詩名媛集》述評 = Charming in silence and coquettish in desolate : a commentary on Tangshi Mingyuan Ji by 曲景毅 Qu, Jingyi

“…The mingyuan included in this volume are mainly women under four categories, namely imperial concubines, virtuous women, courtesans, and lowly concubines. …”
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Spray cooling and condensation heat transfer in a liquid cooled server system by Liu, Pengfei

“…It is found that the spray cooling performance is mainly affected by the spray nozzle flow rate. The condenser fan power and condenser cooling water flow rate strongly affect the vapour recovery speed and are therefore critical parameters for system pressure control. …”
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汉唐女性复仇叙事研究 = A study on female revenge narratives from the Han to Tang dynasties by 戴倩倩 Dai, Qianqian

“…These narratives emphasize the oppression women experienced under patriarchy and the constraints on their power. Existing literature mainly focuses on later literary studies, but it is equally important that we should revisit to the origins. …”
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Electrochemical electrodes based on graphene materials for sensing and energy applications by Wang, Xuewan

“…We attempt to contribute new understanding and concepts on the design of graphene-based electrochemical electrodes mainly in terms of synthesis of multi-dimensional graphene structures, functionalization of these distinct graphene structures (e.g. compositing with metal oxides and heteroatom doping), and study of their physiochemical and electrochemical properties. …”
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中国东北人移民新加坡后的语言变化及其社会意义 = Study of the language changes of Chinese Northeastern immigrants as a socio-linguistic Indicator in Singapore by 李思 Li, Si

“…The linguistic studies of Chinese immigrants in Singapore are mainly focuses on Malaysia, Fujian and Guangdong, as more Chinese from northern China immigrate to Singapore in recent years, the Chinese community in Singapore become more diverse. …”
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Solution processed transition metal oxides selective contacts for Si heterojunction solar cells by Lu, Chenjin

“…The slightly lower performance is mainly attributed to the slightly smaller open circuit voltage (Voc) and fill factor (FF) in the s-MoOx/Si HSCs. …”
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Control schemes of voltage source converters in more-electronics power systems by He, Jinsong

“…Existing control methods are mainly linear approaches that merely ensure the local stability of the closed-loop system relating to specific operating points. …”
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Semantic scene understanding on 3D point clouds by Dong, Shichao

“…Consequently, human effort in the production pipeline can be largely replaced by robots with visual understanding capabilities. This research mainly focuses on the task of 3D instance segmentation, which aims to predict both semantic and instance labels for each point in point clouds. …”
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Experimental, numerical study and design of concrete-encased concrete-filled steel tube columns and beam-column joints by Ma, Youxin

“…In addition, the widely used European code EN 1993-1-8 for joint design mainly address the design of steel structure and cannot be applied to the design of RCS joints. …”
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Detection of road markings for advanced driver assistance by Suchitra Sathyanarayana

“…Detection of road arrow markings is complex mainly due to varied appearances of the same marking under different scales and perspectives. …”
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Control and operation of DC microgrids by Adhikari, Sujan

“…Although many control schemes have been proposed for bipolar-type DC microgrids, they mainly focus on coupled microgrids with a centralized voltage balancer. …”
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In-situ infrared spectroscopy studies of surface reactions over irradiated photocatalysts by Gong, Dangguo

“…Commercial material, Degussa P25 TiO2, was used mainly for system verification and fundamental studies on the state of material under bandgap excitation, especially ATR-FTIR, and as a benchmark (in pristine and metalized form) for novel visible-sensitized photocatalysts prepared in this thesis. …”
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InAlN/GaN high electron mobility transistors on Si for RF applications by Xing, Weichuan

“…In fact, as the operating frequency increases into the mm-wave range by shrinking the gate length, the linearity is expected to degrade even further. This thesis mainly focuses on these two issues. Novel approaches are employed to resolve them and much improved device performance were obtained. …”
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Modélisation des interactions en Italie du Nord au premier âge du Fer: de la circulation de parures aux réseaux d’influences culturelles by Cicolani, V, Huet, T, Zamboni, L

“…The selected data set includes more than 2000 copper-based alloy objects, mainly ornaments and the waste products associated with their production, from both settlements and funerary contexts, well documented and located in southern Piedmont (indigenous communities in Inner Liguria) and western Emilia (indigenous communities in the western sector of the Po valley). …”