CATCHing CS Equity: Counselors, Administrators, and Teachers Collaborating Holistically for Systemic Change by Nnamani, Manee Ngozi M, Otero, Salome, Smith, Julie M., Sheldon, Josh, Boisvert, Deborah, Reich, Justin

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Long-term equilibrium in electricity markets with renewables and energy storage only by Tarel, Guillaume, Korpås, Magnus, Botterud, Audun

“…We show that, mathematically, an electricity price structure that depends on the period of the year (i.e. EES charging or discharging, VRE curtailment, load shedding) and on investments costs leads to cost recovery for VRE and EES. …”
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Improving air traffic control speech intelligibility by reducing speaking rate effectively by Hou, Nana, Tian, Xiaohai, Chng, Eng Siong, Ma, Bin, Li, Haizhou

“…Low intelligibility of Air Traffic Control (ATC) speech is one major cause of aircraft accidents every year. Many factors can affect speech intelligibility, among which the most prominent aspects is the high speaking rate commonly present in ATC speech. …”
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Annual dilated convolution neural network for newbuilding ship prices forecasting by Gao, Ruobin, Liu, Jiahui, Bai, Xiwen, Yuen, Kum Fai

“…The annual dilated convolution filter owns a vision across one year and integrates all variables’ temporal information. …”
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Nanoporous gold nanostructures : morphological design and their energy conversion applications by Yang, Zhe

“…Lastly, chapter 6 summarizes research works in my 4-year PhD study and provides an outlook of the potential future direction in this field.…”
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Fourier transform infrared for noninvasive optical diagnosis of oral, oropharyngeal, and laryngeal cancer by Menzies, GE, Fox, HR, Marnane, C, Pope, L, Prabhu, V, Winter, S, Derrick, AV, Lewis, PD

“…The 5-year survival rate for advanced head and neck cancers is 50%. …”

Dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 infection over two epidemic waves in Manaus, Brazil: A serological study of seven thousand blood donors by Alexander, N, Dye, C, Busch, MP, Buss, L, Prete, CA, Brady, OJ, Mee, P, Abrahim, CMM, Crispim, MAE, da Costa, AG, Salomon, T, Mayaud, P, Oikawa, MK, Faria, NR, Sabino, EC

“…The overall force of infection was 1.19 per person year (95% confidence interval 1.14–1.24) during the two main waves. …”

The molecular epidemiology and ecology of Campylobacter in the UK by Wimalarathna, H

“…This thesis examines the molecular epidemiology of clinical campylobacteriosis in Oxfordshire over a one-year period, considering the distribution of <em>Campylobacter jejuni</em> and <em>Campylobacter coli</em> clonal complexes, the relationship between clonal complex and ciprofloxacin resistance and the relationship between travel-associated campylobacteriosis and <em>Campylobacter</em> genotype.…”

Equalities in education outcomes in Korea, Sweden and Norway by Goh, HC

“…It was also found that the percentage of 15 year-olds judged “unable to solve basic reading tasks” varies from under 7 per cent in Korea to more than 20 per cent in Denmark and Norway. …”

Simple Executive Function as an endophenotype of autism-ADHD, and differing associations between simple versus complex Executive Functions and autism/ADHD traits by Hendry, A, Bedford, R, Agyapong, M, Begum Ali, J, Bazelmans, T, Ersoy, M, Goodwin, A, Mason, L, Narvekar, N, Pasco, G, Johnson, MH, Jones, EJH, Charman, T

“…In this longitudinal study, 107 children with a family history of autism and/or ADHD (FH-autism/ADHD), and 24 children with No-FH-autism/ADHD completed multiple EF tasks (5 at age 2 years, 7 at age 3 years). Parents reported on their child’s autism- (Q-CHAT at age 2, SRS-2 at age 3), and ADHD-related traits (CBCL DSM-ADHD scale, both ages). …”

Maize monoculture supported pre-Columbian urbanism in southwestern Amazonia by Lombardo, U, Hilbert, L, Bentley, M, Bronk Ramsey, C, Dudgeon, Gaitan-Roca, A, Iriarte, J, Mejía Ramón, AG, Quezada, S, Raczka, M, Watling,JG, Neves, E, Mayle, F

“…Collectively, our findings show how the Casarabe culture managed the savannah landscape for intensive year-round maize monoculture that probably sustained its relatively large population. …”

A Multi-satellite Perspective on “Hot Tower” Characteristics in the Equatorial Trough Zone by Pilewskie, J, Stephens, G, Takahashi, H, L’Ecuyer, T

“…Less than 35% of all deep cores are classified as hot towers, and we estimate that 800–1700 hot towers occur at any given time over the course of a day, with the mean maximum core and hot tower frequency occurring at the time of year when peak convective intensity and precipitation occur. …”

Development of serum alternative with fermented soybean residue (okara): towards cultured meat production application by Teng, Ting Shien

“…Excessive consumption of animal derived products has also been linked to health deterioration, rise in cancer incidence, and exposure to zoonotic diseases. …”
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Towards practical data-driven predictive maintenance: a robust and generalizable deep learning approach by Mohamed Ragab Mohamad Adam

“…Part II focuses on the fault diagnosis task and includes three pieces of work that have been developed to address the limitations of deep learning in real-world environments. …”
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Strong neel ordering and luminescence correlation in a two-dimensional antiferromagnet by Zhou, Yongheng, He, Kaiyue, Hu, Huamin, Ouyang, Gang, Zhu, Chao, Wang, Wei, Qin, Sichen, Tao, Ye, Chen, Runfeng, Zhang, Le, Shi, Run, Cheng, Chun, Wang, Han, Liu, Yanjun, Liu, Zheng, Wang, Taihong, Huang, Wei, Wang, Lin, Chen, Xiaolong

“…Magneto-optical effect has been widely used in light modulation, optical sensing, and information storage. …”
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Optimization of cognitive radio systems with energy harvesting by Pratibha

“…Recently, a lot of work has been focused on utilizing energy-harvesting techniques to achieve self-sustaining wireless networks. …”
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Study on muscle remodeling using in vivo microscopy of drosophila metamorphosis and quantitative image analysis by Kuleesha

“…In conclusion, the work in this thesis has been able to justify Drosophila melanogaster as a good model to study metamorphosis and to find new insights into the genes associated with muscle mass change. …”
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Structural and functional characterisation of the collagen binding domain of fibronectin by Millard, CJ

“…This domain has been reported to bind to both collagen and denatured collagen (gelatin), but with 10-100 times higher affinity to the latter; it can be purified to homogeneity on a gelatin affinity column. …”

Amino-functionalised β-diketiminate ligands (N-nacnacs): Synthesis and coordination chemistry with Main Group elements by Huan, D

“…Preliminary reactivity studies have then been carried out with the bulky chlorotetrelene systems (<b>1-Dipp</b>)ECl (E = Si, Ge, Sn): chloride abstraction leads to the isolation of the corresponding cationic species [(<b>1-Dipp</b>)E][Al{OC(CF₃)₃}₄].…”

Effects of double aging on inconel 718 fabricated by laser metal deposition by Tham, Nataniel Yong Syn

“…Inconel 718 fabricated using Laser Metal Deposition has been found in recent years to be a viable option to fabricate or repair components. …”
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