Three essays on gender wage differentials by Fang, Zheng

“…The objectives of the first chapter of the thesis are to expand the body of evidence, providing an international update from more than 50 countries in 5 continents and to suggest potential explanations to the stylized facts documented across countries. …”
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Cognitive information systems for context-aware decision support by Teng, Teck Hou

“…Our experimental results based on a 1-v-1 PE problem domain have reported improvement to the efficiency of RL using this approach.…”
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Realization of transistors using organic electronics by Ng, Vincent Yi Kai.

“…Using this developed printing method, the performance of the printed circuits is significantly improved – the mobility of the printed transistors (using TIPS-Pentacene as the p-type semiconductor) features a high mobility of ~1.5cm2/Vs, typically ~10x higher than reported additive printed devices of the same design. …”
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Microsoft kinect for early education by Tan, Haiwang.

“…The video can be found at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_TcBL2XpaE This report focuses on the design and development of this interactive learning assistant suite. …”
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Efficient FPGA realization of inner-products of variable vectors by Yan, Yi

“…From the analytical results in this report, it is shown that proposed structures for input word-lengths L = 8 and L = 16, respectively are nearly 5.4% and 36% faster than the reference design (conventional multiplier-based implementation) in average for different inner-product length (N = 8, 16, 32 and 64). …”
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Effect of confining pressure on hysteresis of soil-water characteristic curves by Eng, Ngee Kiang

“…In this project, river sand specimens of different fine contents (5% and 30% fines) were subjected to multi-cycles of drying and wetting at non-zero net confining pressures using the SWCC Apparatus. …”
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Public confidence in the auditing profession by Loh, Mei San, Ng, Meow Ling, Tay, Janice Su-Ting

“…Respondents indicated a more than indifference confidence level of 3.67 (on a scale of 1 to 5) in the profession. Auditors' competence in understanding the clients' businesses received a low rating among all other factors and it is rather highly correlated to public confidence. …”
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Adsorption characteristics of doped MIL-101(Cr) and methane system by Nasirudin Muhammad Tariq

“…The US Department of Energy has set challenging gravimetric target for methane storage at 0.5 g/g under ambient conditions. Synthesising the right MOF is necessary to achieve the DOE target. …”
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Transdermal Drug Delivery by Ong, Yuhui

“…Lastly, a simulation was done using a software called COMSOL 5.0 to simulate the injection. The simulation results proved that the experimental results obtained were consistent. …”
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Study on designer surface plasmon resonators by Gao, Fei

“…We then construct a vertical chain of these resonators, and find that vertical coupling enables vertical transport of subwavelength surface electromagnetic modes. Chapter 5 implement a two-dimensional electromagnetic topological structure with two-dimensional modified designer surface plasmonic resonators. …”
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Investigation of compliant fixed abrasive machining of internal surfaces using flexible tool by Vohra Moiz Sabbir

“…Average surface roughness (Ra) value was found to be in the range of 0.8 IJ.m - 1.5 IJ.m depending on tool speed, bend radius of flexible shaft, feed rate, abrasive grain size and the density of abrasive grains on the tool. …”
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Analysis and design of RSSI in the RF receiver chain by Bhaskar Yashaswini

“…The circuit is operated at 1.1V supply voltage and has the maximum power consumption of 330 µW. …”
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A yeast two-hybrid system for the screening and characterization of small-molecule inhibitors of protein–protein interactions identifies a novel putative Mdm2-binding site in p53 by Wong, Jin Huei, Alfatah, Mohammad, Sin, Mei Fang, Sim, Hong May, Verma, Chandra Shekhar, Lane, David P., Arumugam, Prakash

“…Using the p53-Mdm2 interaction to optimize the assay, we show that the p53-Mdm2 inhibitor nutlin-3 is a substrate for the yeast ATP-binding cassette (ABC) transporter Pdr5. By deleting nine ABC transporter-related genes, we generated a ABC9Δ yeast strain that is highly permeable to small molecules. …”
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Colloidal semiconductor nanocrystals for light-emitting devices : from materials to device perspectives by Shendre, Sushant

“…The novel architecture of this material offers a high level of performance in LED applications to achieve external quantum efficiency (EQE) of 5%, which is among the best achieved by the NPLs to date. …”
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Complexities of the San Andreas fault near San Gorgonio Pass : implications for large earthquakes by Yule, Doug, Sieh, Kerry

“…The pattern of crustal seismicity beneath these structures includes a 5–8 km high east-west striking step in the base of crustal seismicity, which corresponds to the downdip limit of rupture of the 1986 North Palm Springs earthquake. …”
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NALPS : a precisely dated European climate record 120–60 ka by Wang, X., Cheng, Hai, Spötl, C., Edwards, R. Lawrence, Boch, R., Häuselmann, Ph

“…The rapid and large oxygen isotope shifts of 1 to 4.5‰ occurred within decades to centuries and strongly mimic the Greenland D-O pattern. …”
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Let's move with Leon: a qualitative evaluation of a UK digital intervention to improve physical activity in people with a musculoskeletal condition by Webb, Justin, Allison, Heather, Mprah, Michael

“…A total of 128 of the 184 intervention participants (70.11%) provided at least one qualitative comment over the course of the evaluation (mean number of comments per participant = 5); in total, 674 comments were received. The thematic analysis identified three themes: (1) dipping in and out, (2) one size does not fit all and (3) monitoring and feedback. …”
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Seizure amelioration effect of omega-3 EPA and DHA fatty acid supplementation on patients with drug resistant epilepsy: a scoping review using the GOED clinical study database by Abuknesha, Nada R., Searle, Andrew J.

“…A supplementation period of 3 months or less was employed by 72.7% of RCTs. 54.5% of RCTs reported a positive outcome of at least 50% or more significant reduction in seizure frequency compared to placebo or baseline. 27.2% of RCTs reported significant seizure freedom in patients during or at the end of the supplementation period, compared to placebo. …”
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Determinants of underdiagnosis of COPD in national and international surveys by Lamprecht, B, Soriano, JB, Studnicka, M, Kaiser, B, Vanfleteren, LE, Gnatiuc, L, Burney, P, Miravitlles, M, García-Rio, F, Akbari, K, Ancochea, J, Menezes, AM, Perez-Padilla, R, Montes de Oca, M, Torres-Duque, CA, Caballero, A, González-García, M, Buist, S

“…Only 26.4% reported a previous lung function test, and only 5.0% reported a previous diagnosis of COPD, whereas 9.7% had a postbronchodilator FEV1/FVC < LLN. …”

The relationship between viral clearance rates and disease progression in early symptomatic COVID-19: a systematic review and meta-regression analysis by Singh, S, Boyd, S, Schilling, WHK, Watson, JA, Mukaka, M, White, NJ

“…Treatment benefit was defined clinically as the relative risk of hospitalization/death during follow-up (≥14 days), and virologically as the SARS-CoV-2 viral clearance rate ratio (VCRR). The VCRR is the ratio of viral clearance rates between the intervention and control arms. …”