Advanced data analytics for future smart grid stability assessment by Ren, Chao

“…To solve above threats, this Ph.D. research aims to develop data-analytics methodologies from power grid measurement data to recognize the system stability, covering both pre-fault dynamic security assessment (DSA) and post-fault real-time short-term voltage stability (STVS) assessment areas under some extreme scenarios and practical issues. …”
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Study of planning and operational aspects of tidal in-stream power generation by Mahda J. Jahromi

“…Nowadays marine energy also referred to as oceanic energy has become a very generic term which spans from the kinetic energy carried by ocean tides and waves to the potential energy of tidal barrages. …”
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Mechanical performance and microstructural development of MgO-SiO2-H2O systems by Sonat, Cem

“…Although elevated temperatures (60°C) led to rapid strength development and M-S-H formation at early ages, high humidity sealed curing resulted in the best long-term mechanical performance within MgO-SiO2-H2O systems. …”
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Structural and functional characterisation of the collagen binding domain of fibronectin by Millard, CJ

“…Fibronectin is composed of an extended chain of module repeats termed Fn1, Fn2, and Fn3 that bind to a wide range of transmembrane receptors and extracellular matrix components, including collagen. …”

Interface engineering for organic−inorganic hybrid perovskite solar cells by Foo, Shini

“…It is revealed, through this paper, that the use of both AITO and SnO2 ETLs in a single device provides synergistic benefits to the overall performance, long−term stability, and reproducibility of the planar OIHP solar devices. …”
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Fabrication of hollow fiber membranes using amphiphilic block copolymers as pore-forming additives by Loh, Chun Heng

“…A stability study has been carried out on PVDF/Pluronic membranes and Pluronic is observed to be not completely stable in PVDF membrane matrix in long term. Considering this stability issue, as well as the strong pore-forming ability of Pluronic F127 and the effectiveness of Pluronic/LiCl mixed additive to form smaller surface pores as observed in the above PVDF study, the Pluronic/LiCl mixed additive consisting of a very low concentration of Pluronic has been used in further study which investigated the effects of spinning conditions on PVDF hollow fiber fabrication. …”
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Coordinated power management for islanded microgrids by Lin, Pengfeng

“…For a hybridAC/DCMGrunning for the long term, economic operations would e critically significant. …”
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Structured sparse representations for supervised and unsupervised learning by Zeng, Yijie

“…It is demonstrated that the proposed graph learning method, termed Adaptive Locality-constrained Clustering (ALC), generates more structured graph compared with predefined ones and provides better clustering performance on benchmark datasets. …”
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Novel method of probe design for characterising unclassified microbial taxa in wastewater by Tan, Shi Ming

“…Target cells were labelled with a new variant of fluorescence in situ hybridisation (FISH) probes which are termed as RiboProbes, and subsequently isolated via a highly-sensitive fluorescence-activated cell sorting (FACS) sorter. …”
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Evolutionary explanations and the debunking of moral beliefs by Cofnas, N

“…Unlike natural selection, social selection is teleological and could potentially track mind-independent moral truth by a process that I term realist social selection: early humans could have acquired moral knowledge via reason and enforced rules based on that knowledge, thereby creating selection pressures that drove the evolution of our innate moral faculty. …”

Burden of disease scenarios for 204 countries and territories, 2022-2050: a forecasting analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021 by Vollset, SE, Ababneh, HS, Abate, YH, Lacey, BWH, GBD 2021 Forecasting Collaborators

“…This information can be used for policy and long-term health investment, planning, and prioritisation. …”

Global fertility in 204 countries and territories, 1950–2021, with forecasts to 2100: a comprehensive demographic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021 by Bhattacharjee, NV, Schumacher, AE, Aali, A, Almidani, O, Bandyopadhyay, S, Graham, SM, Lacey, BWH, Maude, RJ, Runghien, T, Rodriguez, JAB

“…To capture time-series trends in CCF50 not explained by these covariates, we used a first-order autoregressive model on the residual term. CCF50 as a proportion of each 5-year ASFR was predicted using a linear mixed-effects model with fixed-effects covariates (female educational attainment and contraceptive met need) and random intercepts for geographical regions. …”

Interventions for quitting vaping by Butler, AR, Lindson, N, Livingstone-Banks, J, Notley, C, Turner, T, Rigotti, NA, Fanshawe, TR, Dawkins, L, Begh, R, Wu, AD, Brose, L, Conde, M, Simonavičius, E, Hartmann-Boyce, J

“…<p><strong>Rationale</strong></p> There is limited guidance on the best ways to stop using nicotine‐containing vapes (otherwise known as e‐cigarettes) and ensure long‐term abstinence, whilst minimising the risk of tobacco smoking and other unintended consequences. …”

Investigations into femtosecond laser hybrid manufacturing for 3D power sources by Tham, Nicholas Cheng Yang

“…Two such alternatives are femtosecond direct laser writing (fsDLW) and femtosecond laser interference lithography (fsLIL). fsDLW is an umbrella term where femtosecond (10-15 s) laser pulses are focused and scanned across a material surface to alter, deposit, or otherwise remove material through unique laser-material interaction phenomena. …”
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