Cryptanalysis of symmetric-key primitives and its application to backdoor design by Wang, Haoyang

“…This thesis focuses on the cryptanalysis of symmetric-key cryptography, one of the most important branches of modern cryptography. The research spans two aspects of cryptanalysis. Studying cryptanalysis provides better evaluation on the security of symmetric-key primitives. …”
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Design of an exoskeleton for lifting by Lim, Ernest Zhen Xuan

“…Lower back injuries, caused by muscle strain around the lumber spine, are common in work involving manual labour. …”
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Redefining Ancient Epirus

“…Covering a region that today spans parts of south Albania and north-west Greece, Epirus was an important crossroad in antiquity, a meeting place of different peoples and cultures. …”

Investigation of operational characteristics of vanadium redox flow batteries by Rajagopalan Badrinarayanan

“…The concentration change of different species of vanadium ion was modelled with temperature influence for each of these vanadium ion variants. …”
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Mechanistic insights into the origin of the oxygen migration barrier by Vivona, Daniele, Gordiz, Kiarash, Meyer, Randall, Raman, Sumathy, Shao-Horn, Yang

“…Oxygen ion conductors require high temperatures to exhibit the high ion conductivity needed for practical use. …”
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Isolation and characterisation of a novel cysteine-rich peptide from momordica charantia seeds by Low, Ee Lynn

“…Trypsin and chymotrypsin digestion was done for manual de novo sequencing of the peptide via b-ions and y-ions assignment. De novo sequencing resulted in proposed sequences for two fragments of the peptide. …”
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To What Extent Do Alternative Energy Sources Displace Coal and Oil in Electricity Generation? A Mean-Group Panel Analysis by Liddle, Brantley

“…It does so by employing a first-difference model and a mean-group estimator applied to a panel that spans 1985–2019 for 27 high- and 13 middle-income countries. …”
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Wearable bio-adhesive metal detector array (BioMDA) for spinal implants

“…Accordingly, herein, we report on the development and engineering of a bio-adhesive metal detector array (BioMDA), a potential wearable solution for real-time, non-invasive positional analyses of osseous implants within the spine. The electromagnetic coupling mechanism and intimate interfacial adhesion enable the precise sensing of the metallic implants position without the use of radiation. …”
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Deep learning approach to cervical segmentation from routine CT images by Duan, Yiming

“…To address the sequential and location-dependent nature of bone segmen tation information, the dissertation proposes a pre-training model for location information, and combines 2.5D image input and labeled multi-channel coding to semantically segment 3D cervical spine CT images. This method can accu rately extract the information of bone joint location of slices and incorporate it into image features in the form of channels, which can improve the accuracy of multiple bone joint segmentation and classification. …”
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Perceptual distortion analysis for images by Dong, Li

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2023 roadmap for materials for quantum technologies by Becher, Christoph, Gao, Weibo, Kar, Swastik, Marciniak, Christian D., Monz, Thomas, Bartholomew, John G., Goldner, Philippe, Loh, Huanqian, Marcellina, Elizabeth, Goh, Johnson Kuan Eng, Koh, Teck Seng, Weber, Bent, Mu, Zhao, Tsai, Jeng-Yuan, Yan, Qimin, Huber-Loyola, Tobias, Höfling, Sven, Gyger, Samuel, Steinhauer, Stephan, Zwiller, Val

“…These include both the inherent quantum bit systems and materials playing supportive or enabling roles, and cover trapped ions, neutral atom arrays, rare earth ion systems, donors in silicon, color centers and defects in wide-band gap materials, two-dimensional materials and superconducting materials for single-photon detectors. …”
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Synthesis and reactivity of electron-deficient phosphorus(III) compounds by Dordevic, Nemanja

“…In this view, we tuned the electronic properties of phosphenium ions by increasing their overall positive charge and by varying the extent of π-donation from the neighboring substituents to the central P atom. …”
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Spin-ice physics and phase transitions in cadmium cyanide by Coates, CS

“…This thesis explores the structural ice analogue cadmium cyanide, Cd(CN)2, a cubic negative thermal expansion (NTE) material, in which the orientation of cyanide ions maps onto the spin orientation in spin-ices. …”

Electronic structure of paramagnetic transition metal complexes by Al-Ameed, K

“…The distribution of metal ions across sites of different coordination geometry is a fundamental problem in inorganic chemistry (the text-book example is the spinel family) and we show here that the ligand-field stabilisation energy available to Ni^II dominates the site distribution. …”

A comparative study of lead-acid battery against other battery types for distributed energy storage application in power systems by Norzita Sulaiman.

“…This project considered the study of lead-acid batteries in comparing with sodium sulphur (NaS) batteries, Lithium Ion (Li-ion) batteries and Flow batteries in terms of battery technologies and also the energy storage application in power systems. …”
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0.94(K0.5Na0.5)NbO3–0.06LiNbO3 piezoelectric ceramics prepared from the solid state reaction modified with polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP) of different molecular weights by Tan, Chee Kiang Ivan, Yao, Kui, Goh, Phoi Chin, Ma, Jan

“…The effects of PVP for suppressing the loss of alkali ions, promoting the perovskite phase formation, and improving the piezoelectric properties were characterized and discussed. …”
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TiN-Mediated Multi-Level Negative Photoconductance of the ZrO2 Breakdown Path by Zhou, Yu, Kawashima, Tomohito, Ang, Diing Shenp

“…A negative voltage-bias expels the Ti ions back to the electrode and restores the NPC response.…”
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Hydrated eutectic electrolyte with ligand-oriented solvation shell to boost the stability of zinc battery by Han, Mingming, Huang, Jiwu, Xie, Xuesong, Li, Tian Chen, Huang, Jiangtao, Liang, Shuquan, Zhou, Jiang, Fan, Hong Jin

“…An electrolyte cation additive strategy provides a versatile route for developing high-energy and long-life aqueous zinc-ion hybrid capacitors. However, the mechanisms of energy storage and Zn anode protection are still unclear in Zn-based systems with dual-ion electrolytes. …”
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Preparation of Nd-Fe-B/α-Fe nanocomposite by chemical reduction method by Lim, Darryl Yu Zhi.

“…Reduction of Fe2+ and Nd3+ ions were achieved by using BH4- ions followed by heat treatment to obtain the desire phase. …”
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Electrolyte Dependence of Li+ Transport Mechanisms in Small Molecule Solvents from Classical Molecular Dynamics by Crabb, Emily, Aggarwal, Abhishek, Stephens, Ryan, Shao-Horn, Yang, Leverick, Graham, Grossman, Jeffrey C.

“…As demands on Li-ion battery performance increase, the need for electrolytes with high ionic conductivity and a high Li+ transference number (tLi) becomes crucial to boost power density. …”
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