Characterizing the spectrum of slip behavior at the Sumatran subduction zone with long-term geodetic records by Tsang, Louisa Lok Hang

“…I examine a range of oceanographic and tectonic processes that can potentially explain these observations, and find that the most likely explanation is a 15-year-long slow slip event on the Banyak Islands section of the Sunda megathrust. …”
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Transdermal Drug Delivery by Ong, Yuhui

“…Through the simulation, we were able to find out that the shape of the injected liquid differs slightly in the human skin as compared to the jelly.…”
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Edge color constrained influence maximization in social networks by Chandra, Bhavya

“…In this Final Year Project, we analyze the novel problem for jointly finding the top-k seed nodes and top-r most relevant topics that maximize the influence within a given target set in a social network. …”
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Web application for community driven DIY augmented reality platform by Seah, Yunting

“…Users has been dependent on the world-wide web to find self-repair guide of a product, setup of a product or even on how to fold clothes in the fastest way. …”
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Sphero robot controlled by using brain computer interface offline by Sun, Yaxiong

“…In this project, the writer studies the BCI system and analyze the brain signal to find out the characteristic of the specific brain signal, then to control the Sphero robot off line. …”
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Investigation of solar cell carrier lifetime using photoconductance lifetime measurements by Lam, Sze Yin

“…In recent years, the amount of non-renewable sources of energy have been depleting and there is a burning need to find alternative sources to meet the world population’s needs. …”
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Exploring students' hypertext reading behaviour and social media use in their learning by Sharifah Maisharah Mohamed

“…The impetus to explore hypertext reading as part of information seeking behavior was borne out of the findings of a study which highlighted many problematic characteristics of the students’ information search process and attributed these tendencies to hypertext reading and multitasking. …”
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Computational study of power conversion and luminous efficiency performance for semiconductor quantum dot nanophosphors on light-emitting diodes by Erdem, Talha, Nizamoglu, Sedat, Demir, Hilmi Volkan

“…We present power conversion efficiency (PCE) and luminous efficiency (LE) performance levels of high photometric quality white LEDs integrated with quantum dots (QDs) achieving an averaged color rendering index of ≥90 (with R9 at least 70), a luminous efficacy of optical radiation of ≥380 lm/Wopt a correlated color temperature of ≤4000 K, and a chromaticity difference dC <0.0054. We computationally find that the device LE levels of 100, 150, and 200 lm/Welect can be achieved with QD quantum efficiency of 43%, 61%, and 80% in film, respectively, using state-of-the-art blue LED chips (81.3% PCE). …”
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Egocentric hand pose estimation and distance recovery in a single RGB image by Liang, Hui, Yuan, Junsong, Thalman, Daniel

“…We address this problem by modeling the distance as a hidden variable and use the Conditional Regression Forest to infer the pose and distance jointly. Especially, we find that the pose estimation accuracy can be further enhanced by incorporating the hand part semantics. …”
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Personnel Formalization and the Enhancement Of Teamwork: A public–private comparison by Chen, Chung-An, Rainey, Hal G.

“…The authors test this view by using variables from the National Organization Survey (NOS) data set and find strong statistical support. Therefore, personnel formalization is not necessarily equivalent to red tape and not always detrimental to the public sector. …”
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Large optical conductivity of Dirac semimetal Fermi arc surface states by Shi, Li-kun, Song, Justin Chien Wen

“…Fermi arc surface states, a hallmark of topological Dirac semimetals, can host carriers that exhibit unusual dynamics distinct from that of their parent bulk. Here we find that Fermi arc carriers in intrinsic Dirac semimetals possess a strong and anisotropic light-matter interaction. …”
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State Budget Periodicity and General Expenditure Volatility: An Empirical Analysis by Kim, Soojin, Wang, Qiushi

“…Using a large panel dataset for fifty states over the years 1960–2012, after controlling for institutional, economic, and political factors, we find general expenditure of biennial states has been significantly less volatile than that of annual states. …”
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Refractive index sensor based on θ-shaped microfiber resonator and Vernier effect by Xu, Zhilin, Luo, Yiyang, Sun, Qizhen, Shum, Perry Ping, Wu, Zhifang, Shao, Xuguang, Liu, Deming

“…The θ-shaped microfiber resonator and the proposed method of generating Vernier effect could find important applications in optical fiber sensing field.…”
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Multiscale approach to nematic liquid crystals via statistical field theory by Lu, Bing-Sui

“…In particular, for the case of a fully occupied lattice, we compute the values of the isotropic-nematic transition temperature and the order parameter discontinuity predicted by (i) a continuum approximation of the nearest-neighbor Lebwohl-Lasher model and (ii) a Lebwohl-Lasher-type model with a nematogenic interaction of finite range. We find that the predictions of (i) are in reasonably good agreement with known results of Monte Carlo simulation.…”
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Lifshitz interaction can promote ice growth at water-silica interfaces by Boström, Mathias, Malyi, Oleksandr I., Parashar, Prachi, Shajesh, K. V., Thiyam, Priyadarshini, Milton, Kimball A., Persson, Clas, Parsons, Drew F., Brevik, Iver

“…At air-water interfaces, the Lifshitz interaction by itself does not promote ice growth. On the contrary, we find that the Lifshitz force promotes the growth of an ice film, up to 1–8 nm thickness, near silica-water interfaces at the triple point of water. …”
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The grass is greener, but why? Evidence of employees’ perceived sector mismatch from the US, New Zealand, and Taiwan by Chen, Chung-An, Bozeman, Barry, Berman, Evan

“…Across all three samples, we find that, among private sector employees, the preference for a public service job is related to socio-economic disadvantage. …”
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A Preliminary Study on the Extrusion Resolution of Pluronic F127 for Bioprinting Thermo-responsive Hydrogel Constructs by Suntornnond, Ratima, An, Jia, Chua, Chee Kai

“…In this paper, the preliminary investigation on bioprinted thermo-responsive hydrogels were conducted in order to find out the correlations between size of nozzle, stage moving speed and gas pressure for achieving optimum printing resolution. …”
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Dynamic in vivo imaging of small animal brain using pulsed laser diode-based photoacoustic tomography system by Upputuri, Paul Kumar, Pramanik, Manojit

“…To examine the ability for dynamic imaging, we monitored the fast uptake and clearance process of indo-cyanine green in the rat brain. The system will find applications to study neuro-functional activities, characterization of pharmacokinetic and bio-distribution profiles in the development process of drugs or imaging agents.…”
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Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking in a Polariton and Photon Laser by Ohadi, H., Kammann, E., Liew, Timothy Chi Hin, Lagoudakis, K. G., Kavokin, A. V., Lagoudakis, P. G.

“…In both polariton and photon lasing regimes, the stochastic polarization buildup is accompanied by the buildup of spatial coherence. We find that the Landau criterion of spontaneous symmetry breaking and Penrose-Onsager criterion of long-range order for Bose-Einstein condensation are met in both polariton and photon lasing regimes.…”
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Hybrid Federalization in India, Sri Lanka and Nepal by Allison-Reumann, Laura, He, Baogang

“…For more than 60 years Nepal has struggled to find appropriate solutions to problems of development, democracy, peace and equality (Von Einsiedel, Malone and Pradhan, 2012) and its new constitution has proffered a new direction for Nepal, albeit with continued contestation and disagreement.…”
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