Distributed simulation of UK national blood service by Ridon, Jap Michael Denise Ramos.

“…Distributed Simulation is achieve through Grid computing that use a High Level Architecture(HLA) framework to break the simulation to different components to be ran in different geographical locations. …”
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Flip chip joint-in-via architecture on flexible substrates with Au-Sn interdiffusion bonding by Lee, Teck Kheng

“…The SLICF bonding utilises a mechanical force to break the Sn oxide layer and allows the submerged body to interact with fresh molten solders to form bonds through solid liquid inter-diffusion. …”
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Women accountants in Singapore by Tng, Lay Leng, Gwee, Shuk Hong, Lau, Catherine Yue May

“…To reserve a pool of qualified women accountants in the profession, the organisations can provide incentives such as flexible working hours, career break schemes and parental leaves. Such incentives which are highly valued by individuals can help to retain and recruit capable women accountants in the profession. …”
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Development of carbon nanotubes-reinforced polyamide 12 composite powders for 3D printing by Woon, Kun Kuan

“…Young’s modulus, tensile stress and strength, tensile strain, and extension at break values of each test sample are obtained through the testing and the results are analysed using Design of Experiment (DOE) and Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) method.…”
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Productivity improvement for smart manufacturing systems by Sundararaman Manoj

“…Operations research is one of the ground breaking areas in manufacturing as it solves the problems by improved decision-making techniques such as mathematical optimization, queuing theory, simulation and much more. …”
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Non-bifurcation regulation of chaos in a Memristive Hopfield neural network by Zhang, X, Li, C, Moroz, I, Huang, K, Liu, Z

“…More interestingly, when symmetry breaking occurs, the neurons can be offset in different directions depending on the choice of initial values. …”

Physicochemical Properties of Films from Semirefined Carrageenan/TiO2 Integrated with Cinnamaldehyde Pickering Emulsion for Active Food Packaging by Khadijah Husna, Abd Hamid, Azilah, Ajit, Azren Aida, Asmawi, Mohd Hafiz, Arzmi, Nurul Aini, Mohd Azman

“…The integration of TNPs (3%, w/v) and 0.5% cinnamaldehyde PE revealed promising mechanical properties, with 21.86 MPa tensile strength and 34.21% of elongation at break value. The inclusion of TNPs and cinnamaldehyde PE led to enhancements in the moisture content and water solubility of the SRC films. …”
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A River Discharge Model for Coastal Taiwan during Typhoon Morakot by Mirabito, Christopher, Haley, Jr, Patrick J., Lermusiaux, Pierre F., Leslie, Wayne G.

“…In particular, record-breaking discharge caused by Typhoon Morakot (August 6{10 2009) was observed to signi cantly a ect near-shore temperature and salinity during the Intensive Ob- servation Period-09 (IOP09) of the Quantifying, Predicting and Exploiting Uncertainty (QPE) research initiative. …”
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SU(3) topological insulators in the honeycomb lattice by Bornheimer, U., Miniatura, Christian, Grémaud, B.

“…While SU ( 2 ) spin-orbit couplings always lead to time-reversal symmetric tight-binding models, and thereby to topologically trivial band structures, suitable SU ( 3 ) spin-orbit couplings can break time-reversal symmetry and lead to topologically nontrivial bulk band structures and to edge states in the strip geometry. …”
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High-efficiency all-inorganic full-colour quantum dot light-emitting diodes by Yang, Xuyong, Zhang, Zi-Hui, Ding, Tao, Wang, Ning, Chen, Guo, Dang, Cuong, Demir, Hilmi Volkan, Sun, Xiao Wei

“…Our all-inorganic full-colour QLEDs show the maximum brightness and efficiency values of 21,600 cd/m2 and 6.52%, respectively, which are record-breaking among the existing all-inorganic QLEDs. The outstanding performance is achieved by an efficient design of device architecture with solution-processed charge transport layers (CTLs). …”
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Fluorophore-doped core–multishell spherical plasmonic nanocavities : resonant energy transfer toward a loss compensation by Peng, Bo, Zhang, Qing, Liu, Xinfeng, Ji, Yun, Demir, Hilmi Volkan, Huan, Alfred Cheng Hon, Sum, Tze Chien, Xiong, Qihua

“…Plasmonics exhibits the potential to break the diffraction limit and bridge the gap between electronics and photonics by routing and manipulating light at the nanoscale. …”
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Isolation, identification, and characteristics of local yeast isolates with proteolytic capability obtained from traditional processed Indonesian duck eggs by Pratama, Andry, Gumilar, Jajang, Putranto, Wendry S., Rukayadi, Yaya

“…Yeasts naturally produce large enzymes by breaking down organic materials during growth. Yeast has a great biotechnological potential owing to its extracellular enzymatic activity. …”
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Bayesian neural network language modeling for speech recognition by Xue, Boyang, Hu, Shoukang, Xu, Junhao, Geng, Mengzhe, Liu, Xunying, Meng, Helen

“…Experiments are conducted on two tasks: AMI meeting transcription and Oxford-BBC LipReading Sentences 2 (LRS2) overlapped speech recognition using state-of-the-art LF-MMI trained factored TDNN systems featuring data augmentation, speaker adaptation and audio-visual multi-channel beamforming for overlapped speech. …”
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Audio-based approaches in tuning retrieval of gamelan ensemble by Hamdan, Sinin

“…Three approaches used in retrieving tunings of gamelan are as follows: chladni patterns experiment using fine particle (sand), acoustic excitation from speaker for non-contact sinusoidal acoustic excitation and non-contact laser detector at specific eigen frequency, electronic speckle pattern interferometry (espi) for coherent addition of speckle fields diffracted by object and reference fields and laser doppler vibrometer (LDV) captured the vibration of the eigen frequency from the gong. …”
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Fabrication and characterization of hybrid perovskite thin films for solar cell application by Dayal, Akhilesh

“…Solar cells have been around for almost 70 years. It was a ground breaking invention that allowed solar energy to be converted into electrical energy. …”
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Of dreams and reality : chance on graphic design. by Chu, Tracey Shao Han.

“…It demonstrates how to break a grid, along with the creation of new methodologies to provide ample opportunities for expression and creativity. …”
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Fabrication of flexible electrochromic devices in wearable applications by Han, Guo Kwang

“…However, to incorporate traditional ECDs in wearable applications poses an issue as the ITO glass used in traditional ECDs have high Young’s modulus values which correlate to increased brittleness which is unsatisfactory as it has to withstand constant conditions involving bending without breaking. However, the alternative ITO-PET has its own shortcomings being a trade off between flexibility and efficiency but the advantages outweigh the disadvantages. …”
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Emotional connectivity in branded entertainment and the gender divide. by Chee, Shona Ee Lin., Phang, Zhi Yuan., Low, Reuben Kok Cherng.

“…The increasing inundation of the media space with consumer messages necessitates a strong, intangible emotional link with consumers in order for brands to break through the clutter. This study examines the relationship between branded entertainment and emotional connectivity while exploring the effects of gender differences on this relationship. …”
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Brand or friend? A study on relational mobility as the mediator between stress and brand identification by Chi, Boon See

“…The present study hypothesizes that relational mobility (the potential of an individual to form and break an interpersonal tie) acts as a mediator to the relationship between stress and perceived value of the brand. …”
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Acute effect of foam rolling on rate of force development in the vertical jump by Wee, Jericho Faliang

“…Background: Foam rolling is a popular modality used by practitioners to break up fibrous adhesions in connective tissue and increase muscle length. …”
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