Fabrication and characterization of flexible-conductive nanocomposites by Lau, Jun Jie

“…The current challenge is to develop a supercapacitor that has an energy capacity comparable to traditional batteries while retaining the fast charging benefits of capacitors. The objective of this research project is to develop a novel ternary composite electrode material made up of flexible cellulose paper and metal oxide to fabricate a solid-state flexible supercapacitor. …”
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Stronger dielectric-elastomer grippers using spine-like bending structure by Heng, Kim Rui

“…The high stiffness of the structure leads to a stronger, fast-response and lightweight soft gripper, capable of producing large force. …”
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Electrical charge transport and optical properties of iron pyrite by Shukla, Sudhanshu

“…Charge carrier dynamics in nanocube thin film revealed fast carrier localization and long-lived trap states in the pure pyrite. …”
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ORB-based optimal lost robot self-recovery by Soo, Danny Hong Kit

“…This report will explore the integration of a recently-developed descriptor, ORB (Oriented Fast and Rotated Brief), and the DBoW2 hierarchical tree structure to create an algorithm which guides a lost robot back to its programmed path through visual means. …”
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Development of encrypted communication over the NTU nanosatellite by Liu, Wen Sheng

“…The AES was designed to be fast, easy to implement and light on the processor which is ideal for low powered processors used on board satellites. [2] The AES is also a popular standard that is proven to be secure and currently do not have any practical cryptanalysis. …”
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A New Collocation Scheme Using Non-polynomial Basis Functions by Zhang, Chao, Liu, Wenjie, Wang, Li-Lian

“…With a direct inverting the operator, the basis can be pre-computed in a fast and stable manner. This leads to new collocation schemes for general second-order boundary value problems with (i) the matrix corresponding to the operator LλLλ being identity; (ii) well-conditioned linear systems and (iii) exact imposition of various boundary conditions. …”
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Holographic arrays based on semiconductor microstructures by Liew, Timothy Chi Hin

“…The device allows complete 100% intensity contrast and allows for the construction of small pixel sizes with fast response times.…”
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Efficient HIK SVM learning for image classification by Wu, Jianxin

“…ICD is much faster than, and has similar accuracies to, general purpose SVM solvers and other fast HIK SVM training methods. We also extend ICD to the efficient training of a broader family of kernels. …”
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Adeno-associated virus mediated rhodopsin delivery in preventing secondary cone degeneration in rhodopsin knockout mice by Dauletbekov, D

“…The overall objective of this work was to develop an optimized gene replacement therapy, delivering the rhodopsin gene for rhodopsin- linked RP and establish whether secondary cone loss can be delayed.</p> <p>A fast-acting single mutant serotype 8 self-complementary adeno-associated virus vector was produced containing the human rhodopsin promoter and the human rhodopsin coding sequence. …”

Highly selective upcycling of plastic mixture waste by microwave-assisted catalysis over Zn/b-ZnO by Zhao, J, Liu, B, Xiong, L, Liu, W, Wang, D, Ma, W, Jiang, L, Yang, J, Wang, P, Xiao, T, Zhao, S, Edwards, PP, Tang, J

“…Here, a hybrid Zn/b-ZnO catalyst, together with the specially-designed microwave reaction system, has achieved fast plastic waste upgrading under atmospheric pressure without using H2. …”

Efficient additive kernels via explicit feature maps by Vedaldi, A, Zisserman, A

“…In particular, we: 1) provide explicit feature maps for all additive homogeneous kernels along with closed form expression for all common kernels; 2) derive corresponding approximate finite-dimensional feature maps based on a spectral analysis; and 3) quantify the error of the approximation, showing that the error is independent of the data dimension and decays exponentially fast with the approximation order for selected kernels such as χ2. …”

New derivatives of polyglutamic acid as drug carrier systems by Hoste, K, Schacht, E, Seymour, L

“…Concerning the body distribution, the PEG conjugates are not excreted very fast and are not taken up by any organ in particular. …”

Organic solid-state photochromism using porous scaffolds by Mollick, S, Tan, J-C

“…When exposed to light, organic photochromic molecules undergo a fast and reversible change in their electronic structure, resulting in a shift in colour. …”

An automatic grading model for semantic complexity of english texts using bidirectional attention-based autoencoder by Chen, Ruo Han, Ng, Boon Sim, Paramasivam, Shamala, Ren, Li

“…The experimental results show that the overall accuracy of BSETG algorithm is maintained between 70% and 90%, the response speed of BSETG algorithm is relatively fast, and the success rate of BSETG algorithm is relatively stable to a large extent.…”

The Policy, People, and Place Impacts of Mining for the Clean Energy Transition in the US by Randall, Abigail Marie

“…The first case study is of the East Boulder and Stillwater Mines. In this case, stakeholders came together to form a Good Neighbor Agreement, or a legally binding contract between the mine owner and grassroots community organizations. …”
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The Impact of Government Policies in Middle Eastern Countries on Digital Platform Startups by Ali Osman, Mohamed Mamdouh

“…Fintech startups offer a wide range of products/services, such as digital payments, Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL), crowdfunding, peer-to-peer lending, etc. Middle East and North African (MENA) countries have seen significant growth in the number of fintech startups and the total investment value in these companies. …”
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Physically tailoring ion fluxes by introducing foamlike structures into polymeric membranes of solid contact ion-selective electrodes by Cheong, Yi Heng, Lisak, Grzegorz

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Interannual coral Δ14C records of surface water exchange across the Luzon Strait by Ramos, R. D., Goodkin, N. F., Druffel, E. R. M., Fan, T. Y., Siringan, F. P.

“…The mean amount of water exchanged across the straitfrom 1970 to 1999 was 2.2 Sv, ranging from−13.4 to 16 Sv, where a positive (negative) value indicates netflow into (out of) the SCS. A weaker East Asian Winter Monsoon increases the contribution of the SCSoutflow on the Kuroshio Intrusion‐dominated LS, while the El Niño–Southern Oscillation primarily drivesthe intrusion into the SCS. …”
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Increasing Dengue Incidence in Singapore over the Past 40 Years: Population Growth, Climate and Mobility by Struchiner, Claudio Jose, Rocklöv, Joacim, Wilder-Smith, Annelies, Massad, Eduardo

“…We used multivariable Poisson regression models with the following predictors: Annual Population Size; Aedes Premises Index; Mean Annual Temperature; Minimum and Maximum Temperature Recorded in each year; Annual Precipitation and Annual Number of Air Passengers arriving from dengue-endemic South-East Asia to Singapore. The relative risk (RR) of the increase in dengue incidence due to population growth over the study period was 42.7, while the climate variables (mean and minimum temperature) together explained an RR of 7.1 (RR defined as risk at the end of the time period relative to the beginning and goodness of fit associated with the model leading to these estimates assessed by pseudo-R2 equal to 0.83). …”
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Induced transtensional earthquakes after the 1999 Chi-Chi earthquake in the compressional collision belt of western Taiwan by Lee, Timothy Ting-Yu, Chan, Chung-Han, Shyu, J. Bruce H., Wu, Yih-Min, Huang, Hsin-Hua

“…We used relocated seismicity and earthquake focal mechanisms to show that this sequence is likely occurred along a subsurface fault that strikes N10°W and dips 80° to the east, at depths greater than 5 km. A Coulomb stress change analysis also shows that this aftershock sequence were located in the area of stress increase due to the Chi-Chi earthquake. …”
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