Mobile Robotic Platform for Contactless Vital Sign Monitoring by Huang, Hen-Wei, Chen, Jack, Chai, Peter R., Ehmke, Claas, Rupp, Philipp, Dadabhoy, Farah Z., Feng, Annie, Li, Canchen, Thomas, Akhil J., da Silva, Marco, Boyer, Edward W., Traverso, Giovanni

“…The system includes IR and RGB cameras for vital sign monitoring and a tablet computer for face-to-face medical interviewing. Dr. Spot is teleoperated by trained clinical staff to simultaneously measure the skin temperature, respiratory rate, and heart rate while maintaining social distancing from patients and without removing their mask. …”
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Design and development of biometric-based techniques for e-security by Tham, Eliza Li Xin

“…The result of the face recognition using the PCA algorithm shows a certain level of both success and failure rate due to certain factors. …”
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Financial assistance schemes for small & medium enterprises : an end-user perspective by Yeong, Kong, Ng, Tee Huat, Koh, Cheng Kiat

“…This research is undertaken to investigate the possible reasons for the low rate of approvals of the schemes. Broadly speaking, the low usage of the schemes may be attributed to low application rate on the part of the SMEs or high rejection rate on the part of the government agencies. …”
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Development, validation and the effects of culturally specific guided imagery and progressive muscle relaxation audio for patients with functional abdominal bloating by Shen, Vincent Tee Wei

“…Scripts were validated using psychometric (content and face validity index) and physiological parameters [(brain event-related potentials (ERP) & heart rate variability (HRV)]. 35/63 participants completed the in-depth interview. …”
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Sleep monitoring by millimeter wave radar sensor by Ma, Yuchen

“…Nowadays, elderlies who are living alone may face the potential risk of sudden heart attack, without any surveillance from their children or doctors. …”
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Extreme learning machines for feature learning by Liyanaarachchi Lekamalage, Chamara Kasun

“…The objective of facial point detection is to detect eyes, nose, mouth, and face contour in the face image. Facial point information is used to determine head pose, facial expressions and face animation. …”
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Citation analysis of Google Scholar and Scopus by Yip, Kayden Pui Tung

“…This report describes how the project created an application to extract data and compare citation count from Google Scholar and Scopus so show the error rate. The project uses several approaches and techniques to face the difficulties and problems in the process of database access and data extraction before populating the local database. …”
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Crowd monitoring and detection by Li, Xin

“…The tapping-in device has a high faulty rate and cannot recognize a certain number of smartphones. …”
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Seaweed processing: Efficiency, kinetics, and quality attributes under solar drying by Khan, Nida, Sudhakar, Kumarasamy, Rizalman, Mamat

“…Traditional open sun drying methods face issues such as weather dependence, contamination risk, inconsistent drying rates, and nutrient loss. …”
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Liquid immersion cooling with enhanced Al2O3 nanofluid for large-format prismatic battery pack: Numerical and statistical investigation by Yousefi, Elnaz, Talele, Virendra, Moralı, Uğur, Mishra, Dhananjay, D., Ramasamy, K., Kadirgama, Najafi Khaboshan, Hasan, Kanthale, Sarthak, Panchal, Satyam

“…The study compares two cooling configurations: (1) axial fluid flow (z-axis in line flow direction, front face A is the first contact) and (2) battery side axial flow (x-axis in line flow direction, face B is the first contact). …”
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Electrospun fibrous aerogels for air filtration by Tng, Zi Kang

“…However, these filters face limitations such as high pressure drop and a drop in filtration efficiency at high temperatures. …”
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Negative density dependence promotes persistence of a globally rare yet locally abundant plant species Oenothera coloradensis by Stears, AE, Heidel, B, Paniw, M, Salguero-Gómez, R, Laughlin, DC

“…Consequently, several mechanisms have been proposed to explain their persistence, including negative density dependence, demographic compensation, vital rate buffering, asynchronous responses of subpopulations to environmental heterogeneity, and fine-scale source-sink dynamics. …”

Opportunities and challenges for international environmental engineering firms in the China market by Chen, Yi Ling.

“…The solid waste generation rate will continue to increase as the population grows. …”
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Convolutional neural network for skull recognition by Badr Lahasan, Badr Lahasan, Samma, Hussein

“…The best performance was reported from the shallow CNN model with a 92% recognition rate.…”
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Visible light communication systems supporting wireless data access and indoor positioning applications by Yang, Helin

“…In order to maximize the system data rate while guaranteeing the minimum data rate and high positioning accuracy requirements, a QoS-driven optimized design with joint adaptive modulation, subcarrier allocation and weighted pre-equalization is proposed to improve the system performance. …”
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Assessing surface seals of soils on slopes by Liu, Chenying

“…Infiltrometer tests were carried out at twelve locations at the crest, the face and the toe of a residual soil slope. Quick draw tensiometer test was also performed at the same location to provide corroboration of infiltration rate. …”
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Flexible batch electrodialysis for low-cost solar-powered brackish water desalination by He, Wei, Le Henaff, Anne-Claire, Amrose, Susan, Buonassisi, Tonio, Peters, Ian Marius, Winter, Amos G

“…<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>Globally, 1.6 billion people in rural regions face water scarcity. Expanding freshwater access via brackish groundwater desalination can provide additional resources to address this challenge. …”
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Feature extraction through binary pattern of phase congruency for facial expression recognition by Shojaeilangari, Seyedehsamaneh, Yau, Wei-Yun, Li, Jun, Teoh, Eam Khwang

“…In our experiment, we achieved an overall detection rate of 93.83% for the six basic emotions. This shows the effectiveness of the proposed method.…”
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Evaluating the effectiveness of the trajectory prediction aids on air traffic controller in the context of workload and situation awareness by Chua, Jia Yun

“…Plan view, vertical view, speed view and rate of climb/descent view were the four different types of the trajectory prediction aids introduced in the experiment. …”
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Effect of consumers' awareness about country of origin on purchasing decision in Klang Valley, Malaysia by Taheri, Nasim

“…The primary data was collected using structured questionnaire via face to face interview. The accumulated information was examined with care to double check the accuracy using SPSS. …”
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