Perceptions of females participating in a perceived ‘masculine sport’ : dragon boat by Vijaikumar Rangabashayam

“…Nevertheless, stereotyping of women, particularly in areas such as Sport, still exists today. Therefore, the perceptions of female athletes participating in a perceived ‘masculine’ sport - Dragon Boat, will be examined by determining the effects of gender (male vs. female) and athletic identity (athlete vs. non-athlete) on these perceptions. …”
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Land reclamation - from conventional vertical drain methods to a combined vacuum preloading and electro-osmosis with horizontal drainage enhanced geotextile sheets by Wong, Lung Anthony

“…The major challenges include the extra time required for consolidating the clay slurry and the formation of a working platform for construction, which are not necessary if sandy fill material is adopted. Consolidation analysis of drained reclamation work is a key aspect in assessing the performance of the ground improvement work conducted. …”
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Batch versus continuous feeding strategies for pharmaceutical removal by subsurface flow constructed wetland by Gersberg, Richard M., Jinadasa, K. B. S. N., Zhang, Dong Qing, Zhu, Junfei, Hua, Tao, Tan, Soon Keat

“…For all compounds tested except naproxen, values for first-order decay constants (k) for drain and fill operation were higher than that for the continuous mode of operation. …”
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“雍正西服伏虎图” 与 “雍正伴身西服图” 研究 = A study of Emperor’s Yongzheng western costume portraits by 曾琬瑜 Ching, Elis Wan Yee

“…Moreover the source of whom and when these two portrays were drawn still remains unknown. This article aims to speculate the origins of Emperor Yongzheng’s western portrays and the reason behind these paintings.…”
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InAlN/GaN high electron mobility transistors on Si for RF applications by Xing, Weichuan

“…On the other hand, there are still some critical challenges limiting the applications of GaN HEMTs. …”
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Electrical characterization of polymeric semiconductors for printed and flexible electronics by David John Antonio Daileg Maulit

“…The project involves the fabrication of simple OECTs, which consists of metallic source, drain, and gate electrodes, a polymer channel and an electrolyte layer between the channel and the gate on a normal and flexible substrate. …”
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Fabrication and characterization of Algan/Gan high electron mobility transistors on silicon by Tham, Wai Hoe

“…The HEMT test structures fabricated on SOI substrates exhibit ~20.5% higher drain saturation current and ~19.5% higher peak transconductance as compared to bulk Si. …”
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Finite element analysis of a free-standing concrete sea-wall as alternative to traditional land reclamation by Harris, Raymond

“…Now with the increasing cost of sand fill materials due to scarcity, the conventional method of land reclamation is becoming less feasible. …”
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Fictions of youth: childness in selected West African novels, 1991-2009 by Moellenberg, T

“…Yet here the thesis also considers some of the downsides to children’s instrumentalization: Jarrett-Macauley and Iweala depersonalize the child figure in their fictions, I argue. The child is drained of a convincing sense of an individuality and agency of his or her own.…”

PGMoGen: pose-guided human motion generation by Yin, Jiarui

“…However, their generalizability still heavily relies n the training dataset and will perform poorly with unseen text input. …”
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Conflict-free urban air mobility planning with an airspace-resource-centric approach by Dai, Wei

“…Firstly, we introduce the airspace-resource-centric (ARC) concept for urban airspace management. Whether assuming full implementation of the free-flight concept or adopting the air-route-based architecture will not satisfy the requirement of UAM. …”
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Biogeochemical cycling and environmental footprints of peatland-derived organic carbon in the coastal ocean in Southeast Asia by Zhou, Yongli

“…However, the extent, rates, and pathways of the biogeochemical processing of terrigenous DOC in the shelf seas are still far from clear, which hampers our understanding of how much terrigenous DOC accumulates in the ocean. …”
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