Preparation of carbon/transition metal dichalcogenide hybrids for water-related applications by Chen, Bo

“…Particular attentions are made to elaborate the following points in their respective chapters: how to synthesize novel carbon-based 3D architectures from biomass; how to coat ultrathin two-dimensional (2D) TMDs on the surface of 3D carbon; how to assemble of 2D nanosheets to 3D hybrid heterostructures via one-pot reaction; how to prepare flexible carbon/TMD hybrid fibers with good mechanical properties; how to use powerful techniques to characterize the as-obtained novel carbon/TMD hybrid materials; demonstrating the potential of these hybrid materials for water-related applications like water remediation and water-splitting.…”
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Productivity improvement for smart manufacturing systems by Sundararaman Manoj

“…So the pull production system applications like Kanban, CONWIP played a major role in productivity improvement. …”
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Secure code execution on cloud-based infrastructure with application containers by Chen, Fun Tat

“…However, execution of untrusted code is an issue even if the code is understandable. Nobody would like to run potentially malicious code on his or her own PC or laptop. …”
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Multi-view CNNS for hand gesture recognition by Dou, Yudi

“…In order to put this project into application, we also work on producing the real-time demo to output a string like Chinese spelling. Experiments show that the proposed approach could recognize 30 Chinese hand gestures accurately and produce demo in real-time.…”
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Theoretical study of fermi arc plasmons in Weyl semimetals by Xiong, Ying

“…Weyl semimetal is a type of crystals which host emergent quasiparticles that behave like Weyl fermions. In Weyl semimetals, the conduction band and the valence band cross at a single point in reciprocal space called the Weyl point. …”
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Experimental Investigation of the thermal performance of functional magnetic nanofluids by Lim, Wen Jing

“…This project aims to investigate the heat transfer capabilities of a novel type nanoparticles which consists chains of magnetite nanoparticles had been encased with silica shells to form a rigid rod-like structure will be suspended on the base fluid of deionised water. …”
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Responsive website for 360 virtual reality game by Ong, Sai Kiat

“…With the help of VR sensors like accelerometers, magnetometers and gyroscopes, it allows the movement of the user’s head to be measured. …”
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Real-time 3D sound system with head-tracking by Choong, Simin Evangeline

“…This project involves the knowledge of the hardware components like the micro-controller, the digital microphones and the specific type of connectors suitable for this implementation. …”
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Development of visual search services using deep learning (Facial expression classification with convolution neural networks) by Seng, Eugene Rui Hao

“…Being able to identify human emotions would provide a very strong advantage in many contexts like market research or developing social robots. …”
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Improving productivity of the food and beverage (F&B) industry using iBeacon by Wu, Siyan

“…The app will show various happenings, such as meal promotions, shopping e-voucher, discount information, health tips, and etc., to customers at different beacon regions to attract more consumers. It is something like a treasure hunt game, because the customers never know where and what kind of deal that you are going to receive. …”
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Spatio temporal traffic pediction for a large-scale road network by Krishnamoorthy, Nardana

“…In a country like Singapore, which is adapting the Smart Nation program, Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) plays a key role. …”
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Jio : a social networking app based on common interests by Wee, Teck Leng

“…‘Jio’ is the key to bringing strangers with common interests together, to enjoying activities with another like-minded new friend to bridging lifelong friendship. …”
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Achievable PID performance using sums of squares programming by Sendjaja, Antonius Yudi, Kariwala, Vinay

“…In addition to process elements like time delay, the PID structure of the controller can pose fundamental limitations on the achievable control performance. …”
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Sowing the seeds : towards reaping a harvest using social web applications in Nanyang Technological University Library by Nurhazman Abdul Aziz, Chia, Yew Boon, Loh, Hazel

“…In this paper, we share why and how Nanyang Technological University (NTU) Library has explored and implemented Web 2.0 technologies extensively to reach out to our users using a range of social web tools such as blogs, share this widget, library toolbar and RSS feeds as well as online services like Facebook, Flickr, and Google Analytics. These digital library innovations have enabled us to meet the needs of our users more effectively and resulted in a tremendous growth in online visitorship.…”
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The stomatopod dactyl club : a formidable damage-tolerant biological hammer by Weaver, James C., Milliron, Garrett W., Mershon, William J., DiMasi, Elaine, Kisailus, David, Miserez, Ali, Evans-Lutterodt, Kenneth, Herrera, Steven, Gallana, Isaias, Swanson, Brook, Zavattieri, Pablo

“…One such example is found in the hypermineralized hammer-like dactyl clubs of the stomatopods, a group of highly aggressive marine crustaceans. …”
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Magnetization plateaus in generalized Shastry-Sutherland models by Wierschem, Keola, Sengupta, Pinaki

“…We also show hysteresis-like behavior at the onset of the 1/3 plateau.…”
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'It hurts my heart': Afghan women in London negotiating family relationships and (im)mobility regimes across borders by Ryan, Louise, López, María E., Rasa, Mursal

“…We consider the role of ICTs and the limitations of poor connectivity, especially in countries like Afghanistan, and the gender power dynamics that may limit women's access to technologies.…”
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Humanising GrabCut: learning to segment humans using the Kinect by Gulshan, V, Lempitsky, V, Zisserman, A

“…These classifiers introduce top-down knowledge to obtain a crude segmentation of the human which is then refined using bottom up information from local color models in a Snap-Cut [2] like fashion. The method is quantitatively evaluated on images of humans in cluttered scenes, and a high performance obtained (88:5% overlap score). …”

Non-bifurcation regulation of chaos in a Memristive Hopfield neural network by Zhang, X, Li, C, Moroz, I, Huang, K, Liu, Z

“…<p>The construction of neural networks using memristors has been widely studied in the field of brain-like computing. However, there is a relative lack of research on the non-bifurcation regulation of chaos in memristive neural networks. …”

Zn2+-mediated catalysis for fast-charging aqueous Zn-ion batteries by Dai, Y, Lu, R, Zhang, C, Li, J, Yuan, Y, Mao, Y, Ye, C, Cai, Z, Zhu, J, Li, J, Yu, R, Cui, L, Zhao, S, An, Q, He, G, Waterhouse, GIN, Shearing, PR, Ren, Y, Lu, J, Amine, K, Wang, Z, Mai, L

“…Historically, ion-shuttling models centring on ion-migration behaviour have dominated explanations for charge/discharge processes in aqueous batteries, like classical ion insertion/extraction and pseudocapacitance mechanisms. …”