How to learn Chinese characters? Exploring the effectiveness of different learning methods in young Singaporean children by Toh, Wendy Hwee Bin

“…Past research on early Chinese word reading and instruction has mainly focused on children in Mandarin-speaking societies or adult foreign/second language learners. …”
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Inclusions in calcite phantom crystals suggest role of clay minerals in dolomite formation by Farsang, Stefan, Pekker, Péter, Lampronti, Giulio I., Molnár, Zsombor, Milovský, Rastislav, Pósfai, Mihály, Ozdín, Daniel, Raub, Timothy D., Redfern, Simon Anthony Turner

“…Whereas the outer, colorless part of the phantom crystal is relatively homogeneous and cavity and inclusion-free, the inner terracotta-colored part contains abundant cavities, dolomite, hematite, goethite, titanite, phyllosilicates (mainly kaolinite and illite), and apatite inclusions and nanostructures that have formed on the walls of cavities. …”
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Synthesis and optical characterization of cadmium sulfide (CdS) single crystals for laser cooling effect by Zhang, Chiyuan

“…In this thesis, the author will describe what he have done in the past two years of his studentship. He will mainly focus on the topic of laser cooling of cadmium sulfur (CdS) single crystals. …”
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Occurrence, human exposure and dynamics of phthalates in ACMV indoor environments : method development and field studies by Chen, Ailu

“…In the development of sampling and extraction method, works mainly focus on testing homemade two-bed sorbent tubes with silanized glass wool and Tenax TA as sorbents for airborne phthalate sampling. …”
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Thermodynamic study of isosteric heat at zero coverage : applications to adsorption cooling and desalination by Fan, Wu

“…Vapor compression cooling and desalination systems are mainly driven by electricity, produced by burning fossil fuels, which contributes to the global warming (GW) because of the encountered direct CO2-emissions. …”
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新加坡高校人才战略的理念建构和实践运作 - 以南洋理工大学为例 = Formulation and implementation of talent strategy in higher education : a case study of Nanyang Technological University in Singapore... by 刘宏 Liu Hong, 贾丽华 Jia Lihua, 范昕 Fan Xin

“…Despite being a small country without any natural resources, Singapore has emerged as one of the richest nations in the world, thanks in no small part to the significant role of talent strategy and human resource management policy. This article is mainly concerned with the formulation and implementation of talent strategy and its role in higher education by a detailed case of Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and with the implications for China as it embarks on the process of building world-class universities. …”
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Voice conversion with parallel/non-parallel data and synthetic speech detection by Tian, Xiaohai

“…As low-dimensional features are typically used in synthetic techniques, detailed information has been abandoned in synthetic speech. This work mainly focused on the detailed information of high-dimensional features, especially their high-frequency parts, for synthetic speech detection. …”
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Design, User Experience, and Usability : UX Research and Design : 10th International Conference, DUXU 2021, Held as Part of the 23rd HCI International Conference, HCII 2021, Virtua... by DUXU (Conference) (10th : 2021 : Online), organiser 643242, Soares, Marcelo Marcio, editor 514932, Rosenzweig, Elizabeth, editor 643243, Marcus, Aaron, 1943-, editor 643244, International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (23rd : 2021 : Online) issuing body 642922

Development of selenization/sulfurization-free CuIn(S,Se)2 for thin film solar cells applications by Wang, Mengxi

“…The vulcanization process occurred between the molecular precursors, when cross-links are formed between metal acetylacetonates and sulfur/selenium powder even before annealing. …”
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Disorder–property relationships in magnetic and pseudospin framework materials by Bulled, J

“…</p> <br> <p>In this thesis, I study the spin and pseudospin disorder in four framework materials—NaMn(HCOO)₃, Tb_{1−<em>x</em>}Y_<em>x</em>(HCOO)₃, [C(NH₂)₃]Mn(_{1−<em>x</em>})Fe_{2<em>x</em>/3}(HCOO)₃, and Cd(CN)₂. I investigate the links between their disordered structures and properties— namely, the magnetocaloric effect, heat capacity, ferrimagnetism, and thermal expansion. …”

Effects of microwave frying on physicochemical properties of edible oils and quality of potato chips by Elfaitouri, Taher A.Houssein

“…Oil was trapped only in intercellular spaces, which was strongly linked to the microstructure (not only in intercellular spaces but also over some cells). …”
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Reliability analysis and data driven modelling of railway component failure by Wang, Jinlong

“…The novelty of this research mainly including: designing customized raw data processing, developing robust modelling framework, and providing implementable knowledge feedback for maintenance application. …”
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Water treatment using one-dimensional manganese oxide based materials by Zhang, Tong

“…To overcome the engineering issue, various separation techniques such as free settling, centrifugation, magnetic separation and membrane filtration, have been proposed over the years. This research topic mainly focused on the synthesis and environmental application of 1D nanostructured manganese oxide based materials in the easily separable forms including MnO2 nanowires, magnetic manganese oxide nanocomposites, micro-/nano-structured MnO2 spheres, and manganese oxide nanofibrous membrane. …”
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Dynamics of current-driven magnetic domain walls and skyrmions by Indra Purnama

“…At present, the investigation of domain wall dynamics is mainly focused on finding additional driving mechanisms to improve its mobility. …”
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Development of (TAML) iron complexes for photocatalytic, oxidative water treatment by Lim, Jia Hui

“…The current energy demand is met mainly by the combustion fossil fuels. This unsustainable energy source brings about negative environmental effects. …”
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Early adulthood BMI and cardiovascular disease: a prospective cohort study from the China Kadoorie Biobank by Chen, Y, Yu, W, Lv, J, Sun, D, Pei, P, Du, H, Yang, L, Chen, Y, Zhang, H, Chen, J, Chen, Z, Li, L, Yu, C

“…The primary outcome was the incidence of cardiovascular diseases as a group, ischaemic heart disease, haemorrhagic stroke, and ischaemic stroke, which were obtained mainly through linkage to disease registries and the national database for health insurance claims. …”

Targeting TFEB and TFE3 in iPSC-derived dopaminergic neurons to correct autophagic/lysosomal deficits in Parkinson's disease by McGuinness, W

“…</p> <p>Surprisingly, TFEB overexpression mainly upregulated genes associated with mitochondrial function and bioenergetics in iPSC-DaNs, demonstrating a novel, DaN- specific therapeutic function for TFEB activation in PD.…”

Antimicrobial susceptibility and molecular profiles of acinetobacter baumannii in Makkah hospitals, and the potential use of bacteriophage as a treatment option by Raees, Fahad

“…The aminoglycosides resistance was encoded mainly by aminoglycoside phosphor-transferase gene, aph(3′′)-Ib at 83.8% and aminoglycoside O-phosphotransferase aph(6)-Id at 70.3%. …”
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Physical unclonable function based solutions to unification of user, device and data authentication by Zheng, Yue

“…The non-repudiation assumption of these conventional techniques is being challenged by emerging artificial-intelligent assisted and malware-based attacks on independently chained weak links (factors), and their limited extension to IoT scenarios, where the sheer number of inexpensive and often insufficiently protected endpoints prevent application of standard, secret-key based techniques. …”
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Security for automotive electrical/electronic (E/E) architectures by Mundhenk, Philipp

“…The security approaches in this thesis are closely linked. Without a flexible message transmission scheme, authentication protocols cannot be implemented. …”
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