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Digital Games for Vocabulary Acquisition in Learning English as a Foreign/Second Language
(2020-11-05)
English acquisition can be extremely difficult for EFL or ESL students because of the tedious experience of learning English words, which leads to less intrinsic learning motivation and poor learning outcomes. With widespread ...
The Relation Between Daytime Sleep and Cognitive Functioning in Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) Subjects
(2020-11-20)
The current thesis aimed to investigate the relationship between daytime sleep and cognitive functioning in Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) subjects and healthy older adults. To explore this, 20 MCI subjects and 16 healthy ...
Using Distributed Acoustic Sensing for Multiple-Stage Fractured Well Diagnosis
(2020-11-04)
Downhole monitoring during multistage hydraulic fracturing in horizontal wells enables analyzing the efficiency of hydraulic fracturing treatment. With the development of fiber optic technologies, distributed acoustic ...
Exploiting Genetic Variation for Heat Stress Tolerance in Tomato
(2020-11-04)
Tomato production is vulnerable to extreme heat during the spring-summer cropping season, exacerbated by a lack of superior genetic materials that can perform well in such environments. The selection of resilient varieties ...
THE APPLICATION OF DYNAMIC MODEL ON CHINESE HOUSING PROBLEM AND A DYNAMIC MATCHING PLATFORM
(2020-11-16)
In China, the soaring house prices made households form the anticipation of rising house prices. We analyzed the effect of housing policies when an expectation for the booming house market was formed. In this paper, we ...
Aerodynamic Flow Field Prediction across Geometric and Physical-Fluidic Variations using Data-Driven and Physics Informed Deep Learning Models
(2020-11-18)
A study to analyze the efficacy of two novel, state-of-the-art deep learning methods used in flow-field prediction is performed. In the analysis of each method, the emphasis is given to the retainment of physical flow field ...
Ocean Temperatures in the Late Ordovician: A Clumped Isotope Study of Brachiopods and Cements
(2020-10-26)
Throughout the Phanerozoic, δ18O of carbonate fossils displays an increasing trend of -8‰ VPDB in the Cambrian to approximately -1‰ VPDB in the modern. This trend has led to three different hypotheses: 1) sea surface ...
On the Application of Modern Portfolio Theory to Process Plant Investments
(2020-11-02)
Decision-making among process plant investments has been, and still is, commonly based on typical profitability measures like the Net Present Value (NPV) and the Return on Investment (ROI). This evaluation is done based ...
Host Nuclear Receptor Activation in the Colon: Consequences for Inflammatory Bowel Diseases and Colorectal Carcinogenesis
(2020-10-28)
Inflammatory Bowel Diseases (IBDs) and Colorectal Cancers (CRC) are a complex collection of diseases with limited and invasive treatment options. Therefore, prevention is key but effective methods of doing so are elusive. ...
Hydrocarbon Soluble Polymer Solvents and Catalysts
(2020-12-02)
Solvents are most often the major component of chemical reactions. Indeed, global solvent demand and cost are growing exponentially every year. Thus, solvent waste and efficient solvent recycling are big environmental ...