Direct reuse of electronic plastic scraps from computer monitor and keyboard to direct stem cell growth and differentiation by Shi, Pujiang, Tan, Chiew Kei, Wu, Zhuoran, Gabriel, Jean-Christophe P., Srinivasan, Madhavi, Lee, Jong-Min, Tay, Chor Yong

“…Specifically, the E-plastics were scavenged from discarded computer components such as light diffuser plate (polyacrylates), prismatic sheet (polyethylene terephthalate), and keyboards (acrylonitrile butadiene styrene) were cleaned, sterilized, and systematically characterized to determine the identity of the plastics, chemical constituents, surface features, and leaching characteristics. …”
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Totally embedded hybrid thin films of carbon nanotubes and silver nanowires as flat homogenous flexible transparent conductors by Pillai, Suresh Kumar Raman, Wang, Jing, Wang, Yilei, Sk, Md Moniruzzaman, Prakoso, Ari Bimo, Rusli, Chan-Park, Mary Bee Eng

“…Addition of SWCNTs networks make the film resistance uniform; without SWCNTs, sheet resistance of the surface composed of just AgNWs in resin varies from 20 Ω/sq to 107 Ω/sq. …”
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Discovering NTU with augmented reality by Tey, Jun Yuan

“…As Nanyang Technological University (NTU) has many buildings, with many lecture theatres, tutorial rooms, laboratories, research centers, offices, shops and eating places spread across them, many people, especially visitors and freshmen, find themselves having difficulties navigating through the different venues in NTU. …”
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Nano-structured super-capacitor electrodes by Quah, Edwin Yi Han.

“…A nano-composite comprises of sphere-like MnO2 nanocrystals supported by reduced graphene oxide (rGO) sheets by has been synthesized through a simple chemical route in water. …”
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Chiral secondary amine catalyzed asymmetric cascade reactions by Dai, Lu

“…All the reactions showed high to excellent diastereoselectivity and enantioselectivity in multi stereogenic centers and hence constructed complicated molecules.…”
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Access to spirocyclic oxindoles via N-heterocyclic carbene-catalyzed reactions of enals and oxindole-derived α,β-unsaturated imines by Jiang, Kun, Tiwari, Bhoopendra, Chi, Robin Yonggui

“…A diastereoselective access to β-lactam fused spirocyclic oxindoles and related compounds bearing all carbon spiro centers is described. This N-heterocyclic carbene-catalyzed process employed challenging β,β-disubstituted α,β-unsaturated imines to react with enals.…”
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Online learning with kernels by Fan, Haijin

“…The sparsification method performs a role to select a compact dictionary consisting of the kernel function centers. They are developed according to different measures, such as the mutual information measure, the significance measure, the coherence measure or the cumulative coherence measure, which are used to evaluate the novelty of new training samples. …”
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Data analytics on averted and failed distribution transformers by Lim, Zhen Hao

“…Currently, transformer data are scattered among different data sheet as the samples are being taken at a different date and time. …”
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Characterization of standard biological parts. by Cui, Luchao.

“…Through this approach, complete data sheet can be obtained for all the parts, including:  Detailed mechanisms/chemical reactions,  Ordinary Differential Equations  MATLAB/SIMULINK models  Experiment results and etc. …”
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The coalescence and etching of metal nanostructures via solution approach by Tan, Rachel Lee Siew

“…For the second part, we studied how we can make use of chemically induced ripening of silver nanowire junctions to reduce the sheet resistance of silver nanowire network (Chapter 4). …”
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Deciphering Banyan tree networks by Chan, Zachary Zi Xuan

“…“Deciphering Banyan Tree Archives” centers around the Banyan tree, also known as the strangling fig. …”
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Freezing behaviour of impact droplet on cooled super-hydrophilic mesh and silicon wafer by Chang, Chern Jie

“…A brief extension of the investigation is conducted on a novel pressed-mesh substrate (stainless steel mesh pressed into sheet aluminium) and it is shown that macro-scale mesh properties such as a higher open-area-ratio leads to lesser droplet spreading and more bubble entrapment on impact. …”
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Structural and functional characterization of SARS coronavirus envelope protein E. by Parthasarathy Krupakar.

“…IR analysis indicates that most part is embedded in hydrated lipid bilayers forming N-terminal alpha helix, an anti-parallel beta sheet and C-terminal random coil regions. SARS-CoV E protein in HEK-293 cells showed sodium ions conductance indicating that it can act as ion channels.…”
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Development of LCD/SLM driver IC/FPGA by Tan, John Chin Liang

“…The platform which consist of both the USB medium and FPGA development board establishes the data link connection and it can be implemented on different type of display screens through adaptation with the given data sheet information. For ease of generating the image information to be transmitted to the display screen, a Graphical User Interface (GUI) is implemented on the personal computer and it is used to communicate to the FPGA development board via USB medium. …”
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The structure of hadrons and other potential phases of QCD by Schindler, Stella T.

“…Quantum chromodynamics (QCD) is a mathematical theory describing subatomic particles called quarks and gluons, and the strong force that binds them together into protons and neutrons. This thesis centers on two major thrusts of modern QCD research: (1) uncovering the inner quark and gluon structure of the proton, and (2) mapping out other phases of matter that quarks and gluons form as we vary pressure and temperature. …”
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Boron analogue of vinylidene dication supported by phosphines by Lu, Wei, Li, Yongxin, Ganguly, Rakesh, Kinjo, Rei

“…The reaction of 2 with ZnBr2 afforded the corresponding isolable complex 3, in which two boon centers coordinate to the Zn atom asymmetrically.…”
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A literature review on the concept of value in virtual worlds by Wen, Wen, Dong, Zilun, Tan, Junyan

“…However, existing research centers upon value to businesses, while there is a lack of such research for consumer value in virtual worlds. …”
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The treachery of authority through Banville and Atwood by Lau, Qian Yu

“…Conversely, The Handmaid’s Tale is set in the “Republic of Gilead” (33), which is a Christian theocracy, where citizens are oppressed and endure much brutality. The story centers on Offred, who has become a marginalized citizen under the new rule. …”
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Smart computers : can you tell my mood ? by Seow, Mervin Jun Jie

“…The ability for computers to understand a person’s emotions can be found in applications such as a lie detector, and call centers. The classifier is built and designed on MATLAB, based on multi-layer perceptron with back propagation as the training function. …”
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A novel photoanode with three-dimensionally, hierarchically ordered nanobushes for highly efficient photoelectrochemical cells by Karuturi, Siva Krishna, Luo, Jingshan, Cheng, Chuanwei, Liu, Lijun, Su, Liap Tat, Fan, Hong Jin, Tok, Alfred Iing Yoong

“…The photoanode structure has several favorable intrinsic characteristics, including high interface area, direct electron transport pathways, and engineered light scattering centers. Sensitization with CdS quantum dots is demonstrated, and this nanobush photoanode is expected to be advantageous also in solar cells.…”
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