Response time characterization of Organic Rankine Cycle evaporators for dynamic regime analysis with fluctuating load by Jiménez-Arreola, Manuel, Wieland, Christoph, Romagnoli, Alessandro

“…This study aims to characterize the dynamic behavior of an ORC evaporator under fluctuating load as a method for dynamic behavior optimization at the design stage. This is done by constructing response-time charts that highlight the dependence of the thermal inertia of the evaporator in three main design variables: heat exchanger geometry, heat exchanger wall material and working fluid thermal properties. …”
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Ritual speech, performativity, and modality by Frangulov, AM

“…This thesis has filled a theoretical gap by investigating the formal mechanisms that may be at play in ritual speech, performative utterances, and modality. It has done so primarily through semantic reasoning but has also made many connections to philological, philosophical, anthropological, and developmental scholarship. …”

Preferences of camp activity among secondary school students in west coast division of Sabah by Japial, Jcrechi

“…Therefore, a study in identifying the preferences of camp’s activities among the secondary school students had been done with total of 200 secondary students were conveniently selected from different schools in each district to answer the questionnaire. …”
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Knowledge and attitude towards Vaginal delivery and cesarean section Among primigravida in hospital Universiti Sains Malaysia by Hamzah, Shazwani

“…A total of 105 primigravida attending antenatal visit in teaching hospital completed selfadministered questionnaires. Sampling was done using non-probability purposive sampling technique. …”
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HIV-related knowledge and stigma towards people living with hiv among community in Tawau, Sabah by Sudarman, Abdul Halim

“…A study among community (N=190) was done in community at Tawau, Sabah. This study was conducted using self-administered questionnaire. …”
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Physical characterization of bamboo schizostachyum grande fiber treated by silane coupling agent for hydrophobic applications by Roseli, Adyla Illyana, Mat Hassana, Nik Normunira, Yahya, Nur Faezah, Atil, Aida Atiqah, Darlis, Nofrizalidris, Roslan, Mohd Nazrul, Tuan Ismail, Tuan Noor Hasanah

“…The characterization was done using techniques such as Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM), Thermogravimetric Analysis (TGA), and Fourier-Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR) analysis. …”
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Human perception towards fire safety awareness in Malaysia public hospital. by Senin, Zamri, Mohamad Yatim, Yahya, Zolkefly, Siti Asmah, Mahpot, Noor Laila, Md Isa @ Mansor, M.Ruhaifi

“…Therefore, several improvement measures need to be done by the hospital administration to add awareness value among the hospital users.…”
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Influence of psychological and personal factors on predicting individual's thermal comfort in an office building using linear estimation and machine learning model by Muhammad Nafiz, Muhammad Nafiz, Shaikh Salim, Sheikh Ahmad Zaki, Nadarajah, Pravin Diliban, Singh, Manoj Kumar

“…For ML, training and evaluation have been done for five ML models: Artificial Neural Network (ANN), Support Vector Machine (SVM), Random Forest (RF), Decision Tree (DT), and K-Nearest Neighbour (KNN). …”

Approximate Analytical Methods in Double Parametric Form Of Fuzzy Numbers for Solving Fuzzy Partial Differential Equations (S/O 14188) by Jameel, Ali Fareed, Haji Man, Noraziah

“…Validation of the convergence of the solution of the constructed methods have been done either through comparison with exact solution or through residual error. …”
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解析海峡华人领袖如何通过早期的《海峡华人杂志》塑造海峡华人独特与中间人的形象，并探讨其中的意义 = An analysis of how the Straits Chinese leaders shaped a distinct and intermediary image of Straits Chinese through the early Strai... by 朱碧瑜 Zhu, Bi Yu

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Neural networking analysis of thermally magnetized mass transfer coefficient (MTC) for Carreau fluid flow: A comparative study by Ur Rehman, Khalil, Shatanawi, Wasfi, Asghar, Zeeshan, Abdul Rahman, Mohd Kasim

“…The evaluation of the mass transfer coefficient for the Carreau fluid model is done by using an Artificial Intelligence based neural model. …”
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Analyzing instantaneous frequency characteristics of various features in water pipelines via the hilbert transform method by Nor Azinee, Said, Mohd Fairusham, Ghazali, Mohd Fadhlan, Mohd Yusof, Muhammad Aminuddin, Pi Remli, Muhammad Hanafi, Yusop

“…In order to verify the efficacy of the EMD-HT presented in this paper, laboratory experimental tests were done on pipeline systems exhibiting various features, such as leakage, elbow, and junction. …”
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Brief Report: Quantifying Speech Production Coordination from Non- and Minimally-Speaking Individuals by Talkar, Tanya, Johnson, Kristina T., Narain, Jaya, Maes, Pattie, Picard, Rosalind W., Quatieri, Thomas F.

“…To date, there has been little work done to detect and characterize the vocalizations produced by non- or minimally-speaking individuals. …”
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Search for Higgs boson pair production in the bbW+W− decay mode in proton-proton collisions at √𝑠 = 13 TeV by Hayrapetyan, A., Tumasyan, A., Adam, W., Andrejkovic, J. W., Bergauer, T., Chatterjee, S., Damanakis, K., Dragicevic, M., Escalante Del Valle, A., Hussain, P. S., Jeitler, M., Krammer, N., Liko, D., Mikulec, I., Schieck, J., Schöfbeck, R., Schwarz, D., Sonawane, M.

“…A search for Higgs boson pair (HH) production with one Higgs boson decaying to two bottom quarks and the other to two W bosons are presented. The search is done using proton-proton collisions data at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 138 fb−1 recorded by the CMS detector at the LHC from 2016 to 2018. …”
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Market Adoption of Healthy Buildings in the Office Sector: A Global Study from the Owner’s Perspective by Tan, Zhengzhen, Zheng, Siqi, Palacios, Juan, Hooks, Carl

“…In terms of health-focused building certification systems (BCSs), no empirical and quantitative research has been done on the financial performance of healthy buildings, except for theoretical models. …”
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Rain attenuation prediction model for satellite communications in tropical regions by Yeo, Jun Xiang, Lee, Yee Hui, Ong, Jin Teong

“…Therefore, in this paper, a slant path rain attenuation model suitable for the tropical region is proposed. This is done by using the complementary cumulative distributions of rain attenuation for satellite links measured in Singapore and five other tropical countries. …”
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Tripartite partnership for the transformation of the Singapore maritime industry - Part B : Industry's perspective by Tan, Xian Jun

“…The country’s maritime industry prides itself to be a one-stop solution that serves most of the maritime-related needs of the region. The country has done so through the employment of forward-looking strategies, allowing itself to stay on the forefront of the global maritime market. …”
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Development of heating and cooling materials for sports apparel by Thum, Kai Yang

“…This project investigates the dual-layer capabilities of textiles which can keep the body warm and cool, depending on the wearer’s preference. This is done by having an emissive layer coated with Carbon Black and reflective layer on the opposite side of the fabric with various additives added into the reflective layer, namely Graphene, MICA White( MICA + TiO2), MICA Red( MICA + Fe2O3) and Titanium Oxide (TiO2). …”
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Chitosan based green polymers by Chong, Wei Kai

“…However, very limited work has been done on the effect with additional of different crosslinkers (poly (ethylene glycol) diacrylate, PEGDA and glutaraldehyde) and without crosslinkers would affect the mechanical robustness of CS to its water treatment properties. …”
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Functionalizing bullfrog skin collagen for wound healing by Foo, Laura Li-En

“…Hence, further optimization of the methacrylation process needs to be done to successfully 3D print collagen for wound healing applications.…”
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