Essays on oil price fluctuations, financial markets and international trade by Le, Thai Ha

“…The third essay aims to examine whether a large part of the variability of trade balances and their oil and non-oil components is associated with oil price fluctuations. The long-run causality running from oil price to overall, oil and non-oil trade balances and their short-run dynamics are investigated by applying the Toda-Yamamoto’s 1995 (TY) causality approach and generalized impulse response functions (IRFs), respectively to the monthly data spanning from January 1999 to November 2011. …”
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Computational fluid dynamics simulation of jet in crossflow by Ahmad Anwar

“…Currently, the grey water system which discharges waste water out of the commercial Airbus aircraft via the drain mast produces long streaks of reddish-brown stains on the aircraft belly. …”
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Research on lithium ion battery applications in vehicles by Huang, Ke

“…Among all kinds of batteries, lithium-ion battery (LIB) plays an essential role in marketplace due to their high capacity, high efficiency, long life and low self-discharge rate，which make LIB become the perfect power supply of the electric vehicle. …”
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Synthesis of crystalline chalcogenide arsenates in surfactants via a low temperature route by Eashwer Umesh Athresh

“…The high cost and limited commercial availability of Ionic Liquids has been a great obstacle to the exploitation of their properties as reaction media. Surfactants have long been used to influence the structure of open frameworks. …”
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Fluid velocity slip and temperature jump at a solid surface by Teo, Melvin Ji Bin

“…This thesis focuses on the discontinuous transport profiles across fluid-solid interfaces that are commonly encountered in micro and nano fluid systems. Despite the long history of the jump boundary conditions, most of the existing theoretical models for gas- solid and liquid-solid interfaces fail to provide satisfactory predictions of experimental findings. …”
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Optical fiber strain sensor by Tan Zhi Sheng, Dickson, Tan, Dickson Zhi Sheng

“…The results also showed that amount of the volume of the DI water infused does not affect spectra difference significantly as long as the microfiber was fully submerged in the DI water.…”
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Droplet impact on superheated surfaces by Khavari, Mohammad

“…The heat flux remains increasing with temperature as long as the liquid maintains contact with the surface; it drops abruptly when excessive vapor completely covers the surface. …”
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Modeling and optimization of thermoelectric generator for waste heat recovery by Ji, Dongxu

“…Among those waste heat recovery technologies, thermoelectric generator (TEG) has its distinct advantage of directly converting heat into electricity, reliability, long lifetime, no moving parts and no gas emissions. …”
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Evaluation of road cross-section design using driving simulation by Ng, Kay Guan

“…Ninety-eight participants with valid driving licenses and sufficient driving experience took part in the one-hour long experiment. The experiment is divided into an adaptation driving phase, followed by three separate drives on the same route but with differing lane widths. …”
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Lateral offsets and revised dates of large prehistoric earthquakes at Pallett creek, Southern California by Sieh, Kerry

“…Systematicd issectiono f a 50-m-long, 15-m-wide, 5-m-deep volume of earth, centered on the fault, enables documentation in three dimensions of fault patterns, lateral offsets, and vertical deformation associated with large earthquakes of the past. …”
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R-loopDB: a database for R-loop forming sequences (RLFS) and R-loops by Jenjaroenpun, Piroon, Wongsurawat, Thidathip, Sutheeworapong, Sawannee, Kuznetsov, Vladimir A.

“…It provides a comprehensive annotation of Ensembl RLFS-positive genes including 93 454 protein coding genes, 12 480 long non-coding RNA and 7 568 small non-coding RNA genes and 7 554 pseudogenes. …”
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Deciphering the Role of a Coleopteran Steering Muscle via Free Flight Stimulation by Sato, Hirotaka, Vo Doan, Tat Thang, Kolev, Svetoslav, Huynh, Ngoc Anh, Zhang, Chao, Massey, Travis L., van Kleef, Joshua, Ikeda, Kazuo, Abbeel, Pieter, Maharbiz, Michel M.

“…The inability to stimulate in free flight has been a long-standing hurdle for insect flight studies. The miniaturization of computation and communication technologies has delivered ultra-small, radio-enabled neuromuscular recorders and stimulators for untethered insects [ 2–8 ]. …”
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Theoretical study of spermatozoa sorting by dielectrophoresis or magnetophoresis with supervised learning by Koh, James Boon Yong

“…This sorting has potential to improve the probability of success for intrauterine insemination, given that pregnancy rates are similar as long as the percentage of normal cells exceed a minimum threshold, even if the initial motile sperm count is under a million. …”
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A combined single crystal neutron/X-ray diffraction and solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance study of the hybrid perovskites CH3NH3PbX3 (X = I, Br and Cl) by Baikie, Tom, Barrow, Nathan S., Mhaisalkar, Subodh Gautam, White, Timothy John, Fang, Yanan, Keenan, Philip J., Slater, Peter R., Piltz, Ross O., Gutmann, Matthias

“…In addition, the differences in the anomalously long relaxation times of the protons associated with the CH3 and not the NH3 groups indicate that only the amine end of the CH3NH3+ group is interacting with the inorganic network. …”
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Identification of bacterial biofilm and the Staphylococcus aureus derived protease, staphopain, on the skin surface of patients with atopic dermatitis by Sonesson, Andreas, Przybyszewska, Kornelia, Eriksson, Sigrid, Mörgelin, Matthias, Kjellström, Sven, Davies, Julia, Potempa, Jan, Schmidtchen, Artur

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Bay-region functionalisation of Ar-BIAN ligands and their use within highly absorptive cationic iridium(III) dyes by Kamrul Hasan, Wang, Jingyi, Pal, Amlan K., Hierlinger, Claus, Guerchais, Véronique, Soo, Han Sen, García, Felipe, Zysman-Colman, Eli

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Function of second cladding layer in hollow core tube lattice fibers by Huang, Xiaosheng, Yoo, Seongwoo, Yong, KenTye

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Possible mechanisms of control of Fusarium wilt of cut chrysanthemum by Phanerochaete chrysosporium in continuous cropping fields : a case study by Li, Ping, Chen, Jingchao, Li, Yi, Zhang, Kun, Wang, Hailei

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Modification of the contact surfaces for improving the puncture resistance of laminar structures by Wang, Pengfei, Yang, Jinglei, Li, Xin, Liu, Mao, Zhang, Xin, Sun, Dawei, Bao, Chenlu, Gao, Guangfa, Yahya, Mohd Yazid, Xu, Songlin

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Skin dendritic cell and T cell activation associated with dengue shock syndrome by Duyen, Huynh Thi Le, Cerny, Daniela, Trung, Dinh The, Pang, Jassia, Velumani, Sumathy, Toh, Ying Xiu, Qui, Phan Tu, Hao, Nguyen Van, Simmons, Cameron, Haniffa, Muzlifah, Wills, Bridget, Fink, Katja

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