Confucian moral cultivation, longevity, and public policy by Li, Chenyang

“…By investigating the link between the Confucian ideal of longevity and moral cultivation, I argue that Confucian moral cultivation is founded on the ideal of harmony, and, in this connection, it promotes a holistic, healthy life, of which longevity is an important component. …”
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Inverted experiences. by Chong, Shari Ying Yi.

“…This thesis explores how the "roots" we plant in mass media link us to the constructs of our world and compose our perceptions of reality.…”
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Performance studies of TCP traffic on mobile ad hoc networks by Chua, Tong Siang.

“…A mobile ad hoc network (MANET) is a network that composed of mobile hosts communicating with each other through wireless link. A MANET has no fixed backbone infrastructure and is not centrally controlled. …”
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Investigation of conductive ink for stretchable and flexible electronics by Chua, Markus Wangren

“…Conductive ink serves as the link to connect the wearable electronics, and is imperative for manufacturing of flexible electronics. …”
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Financial constraints and propagation of shocks in production networks by Demir, B, Javorcik, B, Michalski, TK, Ors, E

“…Using data on almost all Turkish supplier-customer links, we exploit the heterogeneous impact of an unexpected import-tax increase for identification. …”

Search for a resonance decaying to a W boson and a photon in proton-proton collisions at √s = 13 TeV using leptonic W boson decays by Hayrapetyan, A., Tumasyan, A., Adam, W., Andrejkovic, J. W., Bergauer, T., Chatterjee, S., Damanakis, K., Dragicevic, M., Hussain, P. S., Jeitler, M., Krammer, N., Li, A., Liko, D., Mikulec, I., Schieck, J., Schöfbeck, R.

“…Particle X has electric charge ±1 and is assumed to have spin 0. The search is performed using the electron and muon decays of the W boson. …”
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Mechanically robust hydrophobic bio-based epoxy coatings for anti-corrosion application by Zheng, Shunli, Bellido-Aguilar, Daniel Angel, Huang, Yinjuan, Zeng, Xianting, Zhang, Qichun, Chen, Zhong

“…The coating was fabricated by introducing superhydrophobic SiO 2 nanoparticles, a hydrophobic curing agent, and hexadecyltrimethoxysilane into an isosorbide-based epoxy resin via a one-step spin coating process. The coating exhibits high hydrophobicity with a water contact angle (CA) of 134 ± 3°. …”
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Durable waterborne hydrophobic bio-epoxy coating with improved anti-icing and self-cleaning performance by Zheng, Shunli, Bellido-Aguilar, Daniel Angel, Wu, Xinghua, Zhan, Xuejun, Huang, Yinjuan, Zeng, Xianting, Zhang, Qichun, Chen, Zhong

“…The coatings were applied on Fe foil substrates using a one-step spin-coating method. The optimal coating with 33.3 wt % SiO 2 nanoparticles exhibits high hydrophobicity with a water contact angle (CA) of 153.0 ± 1.1° and a sliding angle (SA) of 14.3 ± 1.9°. …”
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The effect of tuning the coordination sphere of iron complexes for the oxygen reduction reaction in acidic media by Wang, Xiaojiang, Zheng, Tianlong, Tang, Yizhao, Li, Xiaoyu, Rykov, Alexandre I., Li, Xuning, Wang, Junhu, He, Qinggang, Cheng, Jun, Zhang, Xue

“…Novel activity descriptors including the charge and spin densities on the Fe site were proposed and validated by available experimental data, presenting a strategy to design highly-active nonprecious metal complex catalysts with specific supporting ligands.…”
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Light-matter interactions in high quality manganese-doped two-dimensional molybdenum diselenide by Liu, Sheng, Wu, Yaze, Liu, Xue, Del Águila, Andrés Granados, Xuan, Fengyuan, Chaturvedi, Apoorva, Zhang, Hua, Quek, Su Ying, Xiong, Qihua

“…First-principles calculations indicate that the spin-polarized deep level defect states are formed due to the Mn substitutional dopants in the MoSe2 lattice. …”
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Electrochemical microfluidic multiplexed bioanalysis by a highly active bottlebrush-like nanocarbon microelectrode by Xu, Yun, Huang, Wei, Zhang, Yan, Duan, Hongwei, Xiao, Fei

“…Our results have shown that ionic liquid-assisted wet spinning followed by tailored growth of metal-organic frameworks and pyrolysis treatment led to structural and molecular engineering of mechanically robust all-carbon microfibers for excellent electrochemical activities. …”
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Nanozymatic magnetic nanomixers for enzyme immobilization and multiplexed detection of metabolic disease biomarkers by Li, Di, Xiong, Qirong, Liu, Wylie, Liang, Li, Duan, Hongwei

“…These MNE@enzymes show synchronously rotating capability in spinning magnetic fields, which leads to an 80∼100% improvement in their overall catalytic efficiencies. …”
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The hierarchy of Davydov’s Ansätze: from guesswork to numerically “exact” many-body wave functions by Zhao, Yang

“…To demonstrate the versatility of the methodology, applications of Davydov’s Ansätze are made to the generalized Holstein Hamiltonian, variants of the spin-boson model, and systems of cavity-assisted singlet fission, yielding accurate dynamic and spectroscopic properties of the many-body systems.…”
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Petz recovery from subsystems in conformal field theory by Vardhan, Shreya, Wei, Annie Y., Zou, Yijian

“…We evaluate these universal quantities numerically using lattice simulations in critical spin chain models, and derive their analytic forms in the limit where A and C are close using the OPE expansion. …”
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Local Geometry of NAE-SAT Solutions in the Condensation Regime by Sly, Allan, Sohn, Youngtak

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Design and Development of an Accelerated Material Synthesis Platform for Automated Materials Research by Aissi, Eunice I.

“…X-ray diffraction (XRD), X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), and hyperspectral imaging measurements show equivalence between high-throughput synthesis and more traditional spin-coating methods. Results obtained through the high-throughput stability characterization method are aligned with stability trends reported in the literature and have an accuracy of 96.9% when compared to ground-truth degradation as measured by a domain expert.…”
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Local geometry of NAE-SAT solutions in the condensation regime by Sly, Allan, Sohn, Youngtak

“…Our proof is based on coupling the local neighborhoods of an infinite spin system, which encodes the structure of the clusters, to a broadcast model on trees whose channel is given by the 1rsb belief-propagation fixed point. …”
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Study on several novel topological phases in classical wave systems by Xue, Haoran

“…Topologically protected refraction of valley kink states and spin-valley controlled topological phases are experimentally demonstrated in 2D photonic crystals. …”
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Production and characterization of nanovesicles mimetics from probiotics by Neo, Hui Yi

“…The protocol utilizing spin cups in this project was found to be ineffective for the probiotic strains, whereas the pressure extruder method was able to produce bacteria- derived nanovesicles mimetics from the probiotic strains. …”
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Electrospinning of low density PCL fibers on SLS scaffold by Leong, Yew Meng.

“…In this study, PCL fibers were spun on a spinning mandrel collector and investigated to examine the effects of electrospinning parameters- acceleration voltage and feed rate on fiber diameter. …”
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