四面楚歌下的同志再现：李碧华和陈凯歌对《霸王别姬》的改写 = Representations of the besieged “Comrade” : Li Bihua's and Chen Kaige's adaptations of the Peking Opera “Farewell My Concubine”... by 許维贤 Hee, Wai Siam

“…It was at the historical juncture when foreign gunboats shattered the Qing regime’s belief in China as the world’s center that the Peking Opera was picked and named as the quintessential representative of Chinese Culture. …”
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Visualization of engine design, simulation and optimization by Wang, Yan Chao

“…Starting from a new distance function and neighborhood relationship between sites, we divide the space by axis-aligned segments. Then a sweepline+skyline based heuristic algorithm is proposed to allocate the partitioned spaces to form an orthogonal Voronoi diagram with orthogonal rectangles. …”
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Discrete differential geometry driven methods for architectural geometry by Yao, Sidan

“…We then trace integral curves with a rounding strategy to encourage them to go through mesh vertices, which can effectively reduce the number of short segments. Finally, we partition the triangle mesh along the integral curves to extract the quadrilateral patches. …”
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Vitamin D3 and carbamazepine protect against Clostridioides difficile infection in mice by restoring macrophage lysosome acidification by Chan, Hung, Li, Qing, Wang, Xiansong, Liu, Wing Yingzhi, Hu, Wei, Zeng, Judeng, Xie, Chuan, Kwong, Thomas Ngai Yeung, Ho, Idy Hiu Ting, Liu, Xiaodong, Chen, Huarong, Yu, Jun, Ko, Ho, Chan, Raphael Chiu Yeung, Ip, Margaret, Gin, Tony, Cheng, Alfred Sze Lok, Zhang, Lin, Chan, Matthew Tak Vai, Wong, Sunny Hei, Wu, William Ka Kei

“…In mice, gavage with TcdB-hyperproducing C. difficile or injection of TcdB into ligated colon segments caused prominent MITF downregulation in macrophages. …”
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Managing oil palm plantations more sustainably : large-scale experiments within the Biodiversity and Ecosystem Function in Tropical Agriculture (BEFTA) Programme by Luke, Sarah H., Advento, Andreas Dwi, Aryawan, Anak Agung Ketut, Adhy, Dwi Nugroho, Ashton-Butt, Adham, Barclay, Holly, Dewi, Jassica Prajna, Drewer, Julia, Dumbrell, Alex J., Edi, Eycott, Amy E., Harianja, Martina F., Hinsch, Julie K., Hood, Amelia S. C., Kurniawan, Candra, Kurz, David J., Mann, Darren J., Matthews Nicholass, Kirsty J., Naim, Mohammad, Pashkevich, Michael D., Prescott, Graham W., Ps, Sudharto, Pujianto, Purnomo, Dedi, Purwoko, Rizky Rajabillah, Putra, Syafrisar, Rambe, T. Dzulfikar S., Soeprapto, Spear, Dakota M., Suhardi, Tan, David J. X., Tao, Hsiao-Hang, Tarigan, Ribka Sionita, Wahyuningsih, Resti, Waters, Helen S., Widodo, Rudi Harto, Whendy, Woodham, Christopher R., Caliman, Jean-Pierre, Slade, Eleanor M., Snaddon, Jake L., Foster, William A., Turner, Edgar C.

“…The Programme has established four major components: (1) assessing variability within the plantation under business-as-usual conditions; (2) the BEFTA Understory Vegetation Project, which tests the effects of varying herbicide regimes; (3) the Riparian Ecosystem Restoration in Tropical Agriculture (RERTA) Project, which tests strategies for restoring riparian habitat; and (4) support for additional collaborative projects within the Programme landscape. …”
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GPU-based commonsense reasoning for real-time query answering and multimodal analysis by Tran, Ha Nguyen

“…Secondly, in order to reason and retrieve information on rule-based knowledge bases, the thesis introduces gSparql, a fast and scalable inference and querying method on mass-storage RDF data with rule-based entailment regimes. Our approach accepts different rulesets and executes the reasoning process at query time when the inferred triples are determined by the set of triple patterns defined in the query. …”
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Genetic and molecular characterisation of non-tissue culture adapted influenza B viruses detected in Singapore between 2004-2009 by Muhammad Raihan Jumat

“…Only one specimen had both these gene segments from the Yamagata lineage. This finding has resulted in us determining several vaccine mismatches over the six years in focus. …”
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Light-matter interactions in atomically thin transition metal dichalcogenides by Zhao, Jiaxin

“…The system working in the strong coupling regime exhibits a clear anti-crossing behavior with a large Rabi splitting around 37 meV. …”
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Towards electrically injected colloidal semiconductor lasers by Thung, Yi Tian

“…The NPL-VCSEL demonstrated a low lasing threshold of 21.6 W cm-2 with a single-mode Q-factor of 11800 under continuous-wave (cw) excitation, with good agreement between the cw-pumped lasing spectra and the ps pulse-pumped lasing spectra. to highlighting the NPL-VCSEL’s robustness under different optical pumping regimes, I demonstrated the NPL-VCSEL’s performance under continuous wave optical pump, affirming the suitability of the colloidal NPLs as the preferred gain medium to realize the desired electrically injected colloidal semiconductor lasers. …”
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Studies on plasma assisted molecular beam epitaxial growth of GaN-based multilayer heterostructures on Si for photodetector application by Zheng, Yi

“…Tunability of band gap and the possibility of formation of heterostructures with group III-nitride materials allow the design of complex structures to detect both UV and infra-red (IR) spectral regimes (multi band) on a single chip. By growing AlGaN/GaN multiple quantum well layers, IR detector can also be obtained, which means IR and UV detector can be achieved using the same material. …”
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Next generation design of floating systems for coastal solar farms by Bi, Cheng

“…In the single-barrier-platform system, the barrier is installed in front of the platform, and significant reduction in platform displacement can be achieved when the barrier is in the membrane-like hydroelastic regime with relatively high rigidity and has a penetration more than 40% of water depth. …”
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Exploring connections between seagrass ecosystem services and meadow hydrodynamics by Schaefer, Rachel

“…Second, field experiments were performed in three Massachusetts, USA seagrass meadows to relate spatial patterns in hydrodynamics with spatial patterns in sediment organic carbon. Lower velocities were expected to reduce sediment mobility and thus enhance the deposition and retention of sediment carbon. …”
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Mathematical modelling of subglacial drainage and erosion by Ng, FSL

“…In this thesis, we substantiate these developments by exploring a detailed model where the channel is underlain by subglacial till and the flow supports a sediment load. Attention is given to the physics of bed processes and its effect on channel morphology. …”

Injection effects on settling velocity by Le, Duc Anh

“…Settling is a process by which particulates that experience forces fall to the bottom of a liquid and form sediment at the vessel base. The terminal velocity or settling velocity of particle is an important parameter in sediment transport. …”
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Analysis of bedload transport in laminar flows by Cheng, Nian-Sheng

“…As an extreme case to reflect the viscous effect on sediment transport, sediment transport in laminar flows is considered in this paper. …”
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A generalised study of 3D confined jet at a wall by Lim, Raine Jia Ying

“…Scour, the erosion of seabed sediment by currents or flowing water, poses a significant challenge to the stability of port infrastructure. …”
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The Impact of Vegetation Morphology on Turbulence and Bedload Transport by Zhao, Tian

“…By promoting sediment deposition and retention, aquatic vegetation can contribute to river bank stabilization, biodiversity, as well as carbon sequestration. …”
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EN06 computational environmental hydraulics : pre-treatment filter modeling by Krishnan Moorthi, Pavithra

“…The headloss values have been plotted against time to analyze the impact of incorporating a particle size distribution on the time taken to reach the maximum headloss values and the trend of head loss progression in the filter. Sediment deposition profiles have also been generated to evaluate how the sediment deposition in the filter changes with a changing particle size distribution. …”
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Seepage effects on settling velocity by Goh, Alvin Hanchang.

“…This experimental project investigates the possible effect of upward seepage on the terminal or settling velocity of sediment particles as well as its influence on the different zones of sediment particle motion. …”
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Local scour downstream of a weir by Win, Yone Yone

“…The study extends the scope by examining the scour depth using two median sediment sizes of 0.77mm and 4.75mm. The latter large sediment size has not been tested so far. …”
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