Teacher education policy making during the pandemic: shifting values underpinning change in England? by Brooks, C, McIntyre, J, Mutton, T

“…The analysis drew upon three policy drivers derived from an examination of teacher education policy (prior to the pandemic) in four “high performing” English-speaking countries (according to PISA). The three policy drivers: the economy and global competitiveness (the rationale for change); accountability and regulatory framework (the technologies for change); and the core purpose of schooling and teacher professionalism (the values underpinning change); show how the temporary policy shift soon reverted back to previous priorities. …”

Automatic test chip set by Chin, Edward Hsi Ling.

“…In this project, the fundamental functions and basic circuitry of an universal pin electronics are investigated and designed.…”
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Hand motion detection by Pan, Bentrium Jin Jian

“…The author will study into their technologies and compare both technologies and selection of it to include it into the author’s group project, Virtual Pink Dolphin. The hand motion detection should be able to identify hand motion done by the autism kids who was the main targeted market. …”
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Surface cross-linked hydrogel for forward osmosis by Lee, Tom Weiyang

“…To understand the feasibility of using surface-crosslinked semi-Interpenetrating Network (semi-IPN) hydrogel in powder form (<200 µm) containing Poly N-isopropylacrylamide (PNIPAM) matrix and linear Poly Sodium Acrylate (PSA) as a suitable draw solute. Post-synthesis surface crosslinking was conducted with Ethylene Glycol Diglycidyl Ether (EGDE) or Epichlorohydrin (EPH) to determine the optimal degree of surface crosslinking. …”
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Innovative UWB phase shifters using groove gap-waveguide technology inspired by metasurfaces for beamforming networks operating at 100 GHz by Alibakhshikenari, Mohammad, Zidour, Ali, Virdee, Bal Singh, Kouhalvandi, Lida, Shahid, Saleem, See, Chan Hwang, Limiti, Ernesto

“…The metasurface features a "bed-of-nails" structure, where metal pins are connected to a bottom layer and spaced <λ/4 from a top plate. …”
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A 1-bit 16×16 reconfigurable intelligent surfaces array for C-band by Zhang, Yucheng

“…RIS array is achieved by combining a number of basic elements together with PIN diodes which control the on and off state of RIS units. …”
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Behind every domain there is a shift: adapting distortion-aware vision transformers for panoramic semantic segmentation by Zhang, J, Yang, K, Shi, H, ReiB, S, Peng, K, Ma, C, Fu, H, Torr, PHS, Wang, K, Stiefelhagen, R

“…Third, aside from Pinhole-to-Panoramic ( Pin2Pan ) adaptation, we create a new dataset (SynPASS) with 9,080 panoramic images, facilitating Synthetic-to-Real ( Syn2Real ) adaptation scheme in 360∘&nbsp;imagery. …”

Development of interactive software (shear force and bending moment) by Wong, Jun Yan

“…The software’s capability includes the usage of pins, rollers, fixed supports, point loads, moments / torques and distributed loads. …”
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Experimental studies of melting PCM in a heat sink by Muhammad Azrin Sa'ad.

“…The heat sink design that was the focus of this study is based on the pin finned heat sink design. Experiments mainly pertaining to the characteristics of the melting PCM in the heat sinks were observed and recorded to further understand the behaviours and characteristics of the melting PCM. …”
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Design of a dual band planar inverted-F antenna for GMS/DCS mobile handset by Fang, Jun

“…This project involved the study of size miniaturization of microstrip antenna techniques: shorting pin and shorting wall, loading, shorted spiral printed antenna and stacked shorted patch antenna are fully discussed.…”
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Study on the wear characteristics of aluminium metal matrix composite with 15% Al2O3 and 20% Al2O3 by Chua, Swu Chun.

“…The objective of this dissertation was to study the wear characteristics and behaviour of aluminium metal matrix composite materials (MMCs), namely Duralcan 286 and Duralcan 284 as a pin material when mated against three types of dics materials.…”
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Psychoacoustic model compensation for robust speaker verification in environmental noise by Panda, Ashish, Srikanthan, Thambipillai

“…The first database is the TIMIT database corrupted with white and pink noise and the noise estimation is fairly easy in this case. …”
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Speech enhancement using auditory-based spectral amplitude estimators by Sekar Sathiya Narayanan.

“…The original speech signal is subjected to three types of noises, namely, white noise, pink noise and cockpit noise. The proposed estimator is applied to the noisy speech signal to obtain the enhanced speech signal and the objective measures of speech quality such as the segmental SNR (SNRseg) and the log-likelihood-ratio (LLR) are obtained. …”
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Net section fracture of aluminium alloy angle-to-plate connections: testing, modelling and design by Jiang, Ke, Li, Shuai, Guo, Tong, Liang, Yating, Zhao, Ou

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Constructing adversarial samples against deep learning-based sensing system (part II) by Lin, Beiyi

“…While previous work in defending again these malicious attacks has investigated using gradient masking to hide information of the model and audio pre-processing to reduce or distort adversarial noise, this project explores the idea of simple pink noise injection at different loudness to detect adversarial examples. …”
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Overturning of No-Tension Towers by Moir, Katherine

“…The results of the case studies indicate that the Garisenda tower in Bologna is relatively close to its theoretical critical inclination, while the Leaning Tower of Pisa is not close. Both towers are found to be very close to their predicted angle of first cracking. …”
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Comparative study of composite scarf and strap joints for equivalent repair signature under uniaxial tension by Srinivasan, Dharun Vadugappatty, Padma, S. Ravisankar, Idapalapati, Sridhar

“…Herein, different repair designs based on 8.6° scarf, thin CFRP strap (0.5 mm and 1.1 mm), 0.5 mm thin Ti-6Al-4V straps (with and without pins) are used in bonding CFRP composites, their repair strength is measured through tensile testing. …”
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Experimental and numerical investigations of hot-rolled stainless steel channel section columns susceptible to flexural buckling by Li, Shuai, Zhang, Lulu, Liang, Yating, Zhao, Ou

“…A thorough testing and numerical modelling programme has been conducted to investigate the minor-axis flexural buckling behaviour and resistances of pin-ended hot-rolled stainless steel channel section columns. …”
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Measuring membrane capacitance during a depolarizing stimulus by Chen, Peng., Gillis, Kevin., Xue, Renhao., Pui, Tze Sian.

“…It is critical to resolve the highly dynamic kinetic steps along the molecular cascade of exocytosis in order to pin down the specific actions of regulatory molecules and eventually decipher this complex and fundamental process.…”
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Developing a lightscape application (using a raspberry PI) by Ong, Wenchuan

“…The project aims to develop a web application, which will be hosted within the Raspberry Pi, for controlling the brightness of constant light source from the high power LED via the Raspberry Pi’s General Purpose Input Output (GPIO) pins and gather optimal settings for projecting images with the Light Blaster. …”
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