Gas-phase and solid-state electronic structure analysis and DFT benchmarking of HfCO by Ariyarathna, Isuru R., Cho, Yeongsu, Duan, Chenru, Kulik, Heather J.

“…We utilized the CCSD(T) benchmark values of De, excitation energy, and ionization energy (IE) values to evaluate density functional theory (DFT) errors with 23 exchange–correlation functionals spanning GGA, meta-GGA, global GGA hybrid, meta-GGA hybrid, range-separated hybrid, and double-hybrid functional families. …”
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Kazhdan-Laumon Categories and Representations by Morton-Ferguson, Calder

“…After Bezrukavnikov and Polishchuk’s counterexample to Kazhdan and Laumon’s original conjecture, Polishchuk made an alternative conjecture: though the counterexample shows that the Grothendieck group K₀(A) is not spanned by objects of finite projective dimension, he noted that a graded version of K₀(A) can be thought of as a module over Laurent polynomials and conjectured that a certain localization of this module is generated by objects of finite projective dimension. …”
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Tunable quantum cascade lasers for midinfrared spectroscopic sensing by Li, Jinghao

“…Many gases of interest exhibit strong absorptions within the Mid-infrared (Mid-IR) region, spanning from 2.5 to 25 µm. To enable high-sensitivity spectroscopy, a robust coherent source in this range is required. …”
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Essays on oil price fluctuations, financial markets and international trade by Le, Thai Ha

“…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. Three Asian economies that represent three distinct characteristics in terms of oil are chosen and examined: Malaysia as an oil exporter, Singapore as an oil refinery and Japan as an oil importer. …”
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Triggered slip along the San Andreas fault after the 8 July 1986 North Palm Springs earthquake by Williams, Patrick L., McGill, Sally Fagerson, Sieh, Kerry, Allen, Clarence R., Louie, John N.

“…On Durmid Hill, surface cracks in 1986 were localized along a 200-m-long stretch of the fault spanning the Mecca Beach creepmeter and extending about 150 m to the southeast. …”
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Laplacian embedded regression for scalable manifold regularization by Chen, Lin, Tsang, Ivor Wai-Hung, Xu, Dong

“…Inspired by kernel principal component analysis, we further propose to project the introduced decision variable into a subspace spanned by a few eigenvectors of the graph Laplacian matrix in order to better reflect the data manifold, as well as accelerate the calculation of the graph kernel, allowing our methods to efficiently and effectively cope with large scale SSL problems. …”
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Social bonding among children in joint physically active play by Jefferies, M

“…The thesis contributes to filling in gaps within the literature on play, social bonding, and physical activity, spanning evolutionary anthropology, developmental psychology, and health, and highlights the need for more controlled experimental studies among diverse populations.…”

Developing feasible and acceptable strategies for integrating the use of patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) in gender-affirming care: an implementation study by Kamran, R, Jackman, L, Laws, A, Stepney, M, Harrison, C, Jain, A, Rodrigues, J

“…<p><strong> Results</strong></p> The systematic review and qualitative study identified barriers and enablers to PROM implementation spanning all five CFIR domains, and 30 CFIR constructs. …”

Remote epitaxial interaction through graphene by Chang, Celesta S, Kim, Ki Seok, Park, Bo-In, Choi, Joonghoon, Kim, Hyunseok, Jeong, Junseok, Barone, Matthew, Parker, Nicholas, Lee, Sangho, Zhang, Xinyuan, Lu, Kuangye, Suh, Jun Min, Kim, Jekyung, Lee, Doyoon, Han, Ne Myo, Moon, Mingi, Lee, Yun Seog, Kim, Dong-Hwan, Schlom, Darrell G, Hong, Young Joon, Kim, Jeehwan

“…By observing entire nanometer-scale nuclei grown aligned to the substrate on pinhole-free graphene confirmed by high-resolution scanning transmission electron microscopy, we visually confirm that remote epitaxy is operative at the atomic scale. …”
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Preparation of electrochemical sensor based on zinc oxide nanoparticles for simultaneous determination of AA, DA, and UA by Pan, Yuanzhi, Zuo, Junli, Hou, Zhongyu, Huang, Yizhong, Huang, Cancan

“…ZnO nanoparticles (NPs) were synthesized using a hydrothermal method. Scanning electron microscope (SEM) and X-ray diffraction have been used for characterizing the synthesized ZnO NPs. …”
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Novel Pd2Se3 Two-Dimensional Phase Driven by Interlayer Fusion in Layered PdSe2 by Lin, Junhao, Zuluaga, Sebastian, Yu, Peng, Liu, Zheng, Pantelides, Sokrates T., Suenaga, Kazu

“…Here, combining atomic-scale imaging in a scanning transmission electron microscope and density functional theory, we demonstrate that the preferred monolayer form of this material amounts to a melding of two bulk monolayers accompanied by the emission of Se atoms so that the resulting stoichiometry is Pd2Se3. …”
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Experimental investigation of bedding plane orientation on the rockburst behavior of sandstone by He, M. C., Nie, W., Zhao, Z. Y., Guo, Wei

“…The microscopic characteristics of the fragments generated from the rockburst tests are observed using the scanning electron microscope (SEM) imaging technique. …”
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Extensive stimulus repetition leads older adults to show delayed functional magnetic resonance imaging adaptation by Miyakoshi, Makoto, Matsuo, Kayako, Wu, Chiao-Yi, Suzuki, Atsunobu, Nakai, Toshiharu, Chen, Annabel Shen-Hsing

“…Datasets were obtained from 26 younger and 24 older healthy adults presented with two scenes that repeated 20 times amongst other novel scenes during fMRI scanning. The average cortical responses to the first eight (Repetitions 1-7) and the last eight (Repetitions 12-19) presentations out of 20 were compared within each group. …”
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Influence of dammar gum application on the mechanical properties of pineapple leaf fiber reinforced tapioca biopolymer composites by Alias, Luqman Hakim, Jaafar, Jamiluddin, Siregar, Januar Parlaungan, Cionita, Tezara, Mat Piah, Mohd Bijarimi, Irawan, Agustinus Purna, Fitriyana, Deni Fajar, Salleh, Hamidon, Oumer, Ahmed Nurye

“…The results showed that PALF-TBP with 10% DG had the highest mechanical properties with tensile, flexural, and impact strength of 19.49 MPa, 18.53 MPa and 13.79 KJ/m2 , respectively. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) images prove the enhanced mechanical characteristics. …”
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Basel II implementation challenges and solutions by Ang, Shawn Chee Ann, Cheng, Ryan Kam Wai, Lim, Gabriel Geok Chuan

“…To review the Basel 2 Accord in order to investigate the likely impact of its implementation on the banks in Singapore.…”
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E-commerce regulation and trader compliance: a comparative and empirical inquiry by Pflücke, F

“…The ambition of the thesis is to define and measure the levels of compliance and to test four hypotheses: (H1) traders do not comply in full with their legal obligations; (H2) large traders are more likely to be compliant compared to SMEs; (H3) traders that are older are more likely to be compliant compared to companies that were incorporated more recently; (H4) traders that base their terms and conditions on pre-drafted standard contract terms are more likely to be in compliance with the selected legal obligations. …”

Three essays on family firms by Lim, So-Yeon

“…Relative to single-family founding firms, multi-family cofounding firms are more likely to force out founders and less likely to allow descendants to take control after founders retire.…”
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When money can’t buy political love: lab experiments on vote buying in Ghana and Uganda by Burbidge, D, Cheeseman, N, Panin, A

“…Participants play the roles of voters and candidates with opportunities to bribe. Voters are more likely to vote for a candidate who had the opportunity to bribe but refrained from doing so. …”

A common supersolid skin covering both water and ice by Zhang, Xi, Huang, Yongli, Ma, Zengsheng, Zhou, Yichun, Zheng, Weitao, Zhou, Ji, Sun, Changqing

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Simulation expectation by Thomas, T

“…I present a new argument that we are much more likely to be living in a computer simulation than in the ground-level of reality. …”