A low cost solar energy converter for isolated load and/or battery charging by Tan, Diana Soon Cheng

“…Given difference inputs can be operators by adjust parameters of the power of the electronic to achieve wanted outputs. …”
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Investigate the efficiency and effectiveness of material handling in a pharmaceutical factory by Cen, Yizhe

“…The current material handling was predicted unable to handle the movement demand beyond year 2013. The space adjustment time spent by the forklift trucks was identified as the bottleneck to the problem. …”
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Smart LED lighting by Tan, Wee Beng

“…Sensors include light dependent sensor to adjust the brightness and passive infrared sensor to turn on or off the LED lighting when it detects movement. …”
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Peak power reduction and workload balancing by space-time multiplexing based demand-supply matching for 3D thousand-core microprocessor by P. D., Sai Manoj, Kanwen Wang, Yu, Hao

“…Moreover, demand-response based task adjustment is applied to reduce peak power and to balance workload. …”
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Controllability robustness against cascading failure for complex logistic network based on dynamic cascading failure model by Wang, Shaohua, Yang, Yue, Sun, Liyue, Li, Xiaoni, Li, Yongxing, Guo, Konghui

“…It can effectively reduce the logistics cost and enhance controllability robustness against cascading failure by adjusting the network cost e and capacity parameter γ, so as to balance the controllability robustness and economy for the complex logistics network.…”
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BEACon : a boundary embedded attentional convolution network for point cloud instance segmentation by Liu, Tianrui, Cai, Yiyu, Zheng, Jianmin, Thalmann, Nadia Magnenat

“…At the core of BEACon, we introduce the attentional weight in the convolution layer to adjust the neighboring features, with the weight being adapted to the relationship between geometry and color changes. …”
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Experimental study of a single mode fiber ring laser by Lau, Zhong Yi

“…It will use two different polarization isolators, dependent and independent, to witness fundamental solitons forming when it reaches mode-locking gain saturation. With the adjustment made to the experiment setup, other findings other than solitons will be observed.…”
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Complex composite derivative and its application to edge detection by Pan, Xiang, Ye, Yongqiang, Wang, Jianhong, Gao, Xudong, He, Chun, Wang, Danwei, Jiang, Bin, Li, Lihua

“…In contrast with the classical first-order derivative, the composite derivative is order-steerable; one can adjust the orders of fractional integration and derivative to tune magnitude characteristic and reach a compromise between sensitivity to noise and detection accuracy.…”
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Microstrip bandpass filters using triple-mode patch-loaded cross resonator by Zhang, Runqi, Zhu, Lei

“…By changing the patch size and the slot length, the above three modes are appropriately adjusted. Two prototype filters with open-ended and stub-loaded coupled-lines are designed and fabricated to verify the design principle and to further suppress the lowest harmonic passband, respectively. …”
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Antibiotic therapy in the treatment of COVID-19 pneumonia: who and when? by Ng, Tat Ming, Ong, Sean W. X., Loo, Audrey Y. X., Tan, Sock Hoon, Tay, Hui Lin, Yap, Min Yi, Lye, David C., Lee, Tau Hong, Young, Barnaby Edward

“…Antibiotic treatment was not independently associated with lower 30-day (adjusted odds ratio, aOR 19.528, 95% confidence interval, CI 1.039–367.021) or in-hospital mortality (aOR 3.870, 95% CI 0.433–34.625) rates after adjusting for age, co-morbidities and severity of COVID-19 illness. …”
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Cell-free hemoglobin mediated oxidative stress is associated with acute kidney injury and renal replacement therapy in severe falciparum malaria: an observational study by Plewes, Katherine, Kingston, Hugh W.F., Ghose, Aniruddha, Maude, Richard J., Herdman, M. Trent, Leopold, Stije J., Ishioka, Haruhiko, Hasan, Md. Mahtab Uddin, Haider, Md. Shafiul, Alam, Shamsul, Piera, Kim A., Charunwatthana, Prakaykaew, Silamut, Kamolrat, Yeo, Tsin Wen, Faiz, Md. Abul, Lee, Sue J., Mukaka, Mavuto, Turner, Gareth D. H., Anstey, Nicholas M., Jackson Roberts II, L., White, Nicholas J., Day, Nicholas P. J., Hossain, Md. Amir, Dondorp, Arjen M.

“…Conclusions: Cell-free hemoglobin and lipid peroxidation are associated with acute kidney injury and disease severity in falciparum malaria, suggesting a pathophysiological role in renal tubular injury. Evaluation of adjunctive therapies targeting cell-free hemoglobin-mediated oxidative stress is warranted.…”
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Electronic cigarette use and chest pain in US adults: evidence from the PATH study by Behrooz, Leili, Xie, Wubin, Goghari, Aboli, Robertson, Rosemarie, Bhatnagar, Aruni, Stokes, Andrew, Hamburg, Naomi M.

“…In the multivariable models adjusted for relevant covariates, combustible cigarette users (adjusted odds ratio, AOR=1.77; 95% CI: 1.56–2.01) and dual users (AOR=2.22; 95% CI: 1.61–3.05) had higher odds of reporting ever having chest pain, as well as having chest pain in the past 30 days. …”
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Fluctuation control for many-to-one routing in wireless sensor networks by Jing, Gang, Jia, Lei, Xie, Li-hua, Hu, Qing-lei, Liu, Shuai

“…Finally, an adaptive maintenance mechanism is proposed to adjust the estimation of a sensor available capacity as the network environment changes. …”
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Cavity-assisted modulation instability lasing of a fiber ring laser by Shao, G. D., Hu, Xiaolei, Guo, J., Song, Yu Feng, Zhao, L. M., Shen, D. Y., Tang, D. Y.

“…Moreover, the repetition rate of the pulse train can be adjusted over a wide range from the fundamental cavity repetition frequency to hundreds of GHz by changing the cavity detuning. …”
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Reduced battery usage in a hybrid battery and photovoltaic stand-alone DC microgrid with flexible power point tracking by Hein, Wai Yan, Narang, Aditi, Tafti, Hossein Dehghani, Farivar, Glen G., Pou, Josep

“…It also employs an advanced flexible power point tracking algorithm for the PV system to further enhance the dynamic performance of the system by adaptively adjusting the PV output power according to the load profile.…”
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Crystal multi-conformational control through deformable carbon-sulfur bond for singlet-triplet emissive tuning by Wu, Hongwei, Chi, Weijie, Baryshnikov, Gleb, Wu, Bin, Gong, Yifan, Zheng, Dongxiao, Li, Xin, Zhao, Yanli, Liu, Xiaogang, Ågren, Hans, Zhu, Liangliang

“…The deformable carbon-sulphur bond essentially drove the distortion of the molecular conformation and varied the stacking mode, together with diverse non-covalent interactions, leading to the proportional adjustment of the fluorescence and phosphorescence bands. …”
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Carbon-based thin-film actuator with 1D to 2D transitional structure applied in smart clothing by Jing, Yangmin, Shi, Qiuwei, Hou, Chengyi, Zhang, Qinghong, Li, Yaogang, Wang, Hongzhi

“…The properties can be adjusted by changing the amount of either component. …”
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Development of simulation based real-time traffic light scheduling system by Wang, Xiaoman

“…In addition, COM interface of VISSIM is also taken advantage of to satisfy the demands of real-time dynamic adjustment of traffic signal timing. This thesis contains theoretical knowledge in the related transportation field, as well as experimental design and simulation results.…”
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ChromaFusionNet (CFNet): natural fusion of fine-grained color editing by Wang, Yuxi

“…While global enhancements improve the overall look, precise, localized color adjustments are challenging yet crucial for enhancing visual richness. …”
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Laboratory and field measurement of dispersion curves using surface wave methods by Tan, Roy Guan Ming.

“…Through the detection of the variation of frequency of the wave source, the depth of penetration of the surface wave can be adjusted, and the dispersion curve can be obtained. …”
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