Non-newtonian fluids and droplets in microchannels by Huang, Yi

“…Challenges occur when the EO driven mechanism encounters complex rheology and vital questions such as "Can the zeta potential still be assumed to be constant when dealing with fluids with complex rheology?"…”
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Low-profile and end-fire antennas for airborne applications by Chen, Zhuozhu

“…First, the propagation characteristics of surface waves propagating on a grounded dielectric slab are theoretically analyzed. The slab is assumed to be anisotropic as a general discussion. …”
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A move by Yuan, Jiaqi

“…It includes viewpoints from an old father who has lost his authority, the eldest son who longs for power, and various female family members. …”
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Towards practical data-driven predictive maintenance: a robust and generalizable deep learning approach by Mohamed Ragab Mohamad Adam

“…Last, unlike previous domain adaptation approaches that assume access to unlabeled data from the target working condition, a novel contrastive domain generalization (CDG) is designed to generalize to unseen working conditions with no prior data available. …”
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Numerical solutions of some multiscale problems by Pang, Chen Hui

“…In the existing literature on sparse tensor product FEs for multiscale problems, the multiscale coefficient is assumed to be continuous. This excludes the important case where the coefficient is not continuous, which is observed in many applications, i.e., composites with a periodic array of inclusions whose conductivity coefficient differs from the conductivity coefficient of the matrix hosting them. …”
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Geometry guided supervised representation learning for classification by Li, Yue

“…One of the limitations of existing algorithms is the affinity matrix may not able to determine the real relationships between data points precisely, since it is learned under the assumption of a fixed and assumed prior knowledge. Also, learning affinity matrix and data representations in two separated steps may not be optimal and universal for data classification tasks. …”
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Three essays on national and organizational cultures by Kawasaki, Shota

“…Chapter 2 illustrates a novel pathway linking employees’ perceptions of organizational cultural strength to job satisfaction and organizational commitment via organizational nostalgia (i.e., one’s sentimental longing or wistful affection for past organizational events). …”
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Uncertainty quantification framework for combined statistical spatial downscaling and temporal disaggregation for climate change impact studies on hydrology by Rajendran Queen Suraajini

“…The contemporary regression based SDM assumes different distribution for precipitation amount estimation and residual fitting. …”
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几米的“寂寞文学” = Jimmy Liao's "Solitary literature" by 陈品馨 Tan, Pin Sing

“…His illustrations are done with adult readers in mind instead of children, pioneering the wave of adult illustrated books and resulting in a Jimmy Liao phenomenon.According to the book’s content, this thesis divided the theme “loneliness” into three different categories, namely “Lack of an understanding party”, “Love and longing” and “Cold and unconcerned city”. During suitable conjunctions, links will be made to Jimmy’s life experiences to display the inner connectivity between author and fictional characters. …”
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渺小的伟大 ：以电视剧《大英雄》探讨新加坡小市民的邻里关系 = Building Singapore's neighbourhood relations : a case study of drama series Hero by 林殷如 Lim, Esther Yin Ru

“…Nonetheless, they were able to understand and identify themselves with the beautiful neighbourly relations portrayed in the drama and this is something that they longed for.…”
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PostIndependentzia by Calzada, I

“…This is why the book is called PostIndependence, in reference to a future scenario, to the right to decide for this hypothetical independent territory of tomorrow and the need to prepare, research, implement and disseminate territorial strategies and policies. Implicitly, it is assumed and accepted that the independence or devolution processes (OECD, 2001) are essentially democratic processes, as shown by some of the EU cases and elsewhere around the world. …”