Land reclamation - from conventional vertical drain methods to a combined vacuum preloading and electro-osmosis with horizontal drainage enhanced geotextile sheets by Wong, Lung Anthony

“…Slurry of soft marine deposits dredged from the seabed has increasingly been used in various land reclamation projects in recent years. …”
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Sleep and circadian difficulties in schizophrenia: presentations, understanding, and treatment by Freeman, D, Waite, F

“…We describe key techniques and their typical order of implementation for the ten presentations. Sleep problems are an important issue for patients. …”

4.A21 Stories Without Words: Photographing the First Year, Fall 2005 by McCluskey, Keith

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Frailty research : a scoping review utilising a topic modelling approach by Wah, Alvin Chin Yang

“…Due to associations with ageing, interest in frailty has been growing. It is becoming increasingly difficult for researchers to be in sync with the growing knowledge pool. …”
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Anti-fouling thin film composite (TFC) polyamide reverse osmosis (RO) membranes based on piezoelectric polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) substrates by Fu, Jia Shen

“…It was found PVDF-TEP substrate had larger mean pore size (around 33 nm) and higher pure water permeability (254±8 LMH/bar), making it more suitable to be substrate for RO membrane fabrication. …”
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High strain rate and elevated temperature compressive properties of magnesium alloy AZ31B by Myat, Thu.

“…Cylindrical specimens with same dimension but different fabricated directions (Transverse, Angular, Rolling and Normal) are used in compressive split Hopkinson bar test. Experiments are carried out under different temperature and strain rate. …”
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Study of high-strength concrete beam-column joints with high-yield strength steel reinforcement by Abdul Naufal Abdol Jabar

“…The test revealed that using high-yield strength steel reinforcement bars together with high-strength concrete resulted in improving the load-carrying capacity of the tested specimens. …”
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Improving hydration and carbonation of reactive magnesium oxide cement by Tye, Wenkai

“…It was then used in the second half of the study, where samples were treated with sodium bicarbonate, high initial curing temperature or by introduction of nano-silica as seeds. Only seeding using nano-silica improved the compressive strength of concrete when compared to the control mix (without use of enhanced curing techniques). …”
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Crystal phase and architecture engineering of lotus thalamus-shaped Pt-Ni anisotropic superstructures for highly efficient electrochemical hydrogen evolution by Zhang, Zhicheng, Liu, Guigao, Cui, Xiaoya, Chen, Bo, Zhu, Yihan, Gong, Yue, Saleem, Faisal, Xi, Shibo, Du, Yonghua, Borgna, Armando, Lai, Zhuangchai, Zhang, Qinghua, Li, Bing, Zong, Yun, Han, Yu, Gu, Lin, Zhang, Hua

“…The Pt‐Ni ASs with Pt‐rich surface are composed of one Ni‐rich “core” with face‐centered cubic (fcc) phase, Ni‐rich “arms” with hexagonal close‐packed phase protruding from the core, and facet‐selectively grown Pt‐rich “lotus seeds” with fcc phase on the end surfaces of the “arms.” …”
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Embedded Object Detection and Mapping in Soft Materials Using Optical Tactile Sensing by Solano-Castellanos, Jose A., Do, Won Kyung, Kennedy, Monroe D.

“…We show the performance of our methodology using ten different configurations of the beads where the proposed approach is able to approximate the underlying configuration. …”
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On the stability of moral preferences: a problem with computational elicitation methods by Boerstler, K, Keswani, V, Chan, L, Schaich Borg, J, Conitzer, V, Heidari, H, Sinnott-Armstrong, W

“…We address this possibility here by asking the same survey participants the same moral questions about which patient should receive a kidney when only one is available ten times in ten different sessions over two weeks, varying only presentation order across sessions. …”

Analysis and design of RSSI in the RF receiver chain by Bhaskar Yashaswini

“…This dissertation presents the CMOS design of such a RSSI block implemented in the RF receiver chain, which is used in low-power applications such as BLE or ZigBee. IFA and rectifiers form the basic building blocks of RSSI that are constructed with much care in this design. …”
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Measurement of Base-of-Support gait parameter using UWB radios by Chow, Justina Xiu Ting.

“…The objectives of this project is to prove the reliability of the UWB system compared to other tracking devices like the motion sensor and conduct an experiment to find the Base-of-Support (BOS) distance for different walking speeds.…”
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Materials for quantum technologies: a roadmap for spin and topology by Banerjee, N, Bell, C, Ciccarelli, C, Hesjedal, T, Johnson, F, Kurebayashi, H, Moore, TA, Moutafis, C, Stern, HL, Vera-Marun, IJ, Wade, J, Barton, C, Connolly, MR, Curson, NJ, Fallon, K, Fisher, AJ, Gangloff, DA, Griggs, W, Linfield, E, Marrows, CH, Rossi, A, Schindler, F, Smith, J, Thomson, T, Kazakova, O

“…Spin and topology-based quantum technologies have several advantages over their classical, charged-based counterparts, including non-volatility, faster data processing speeds, higher integration densities and lower power consumption. …”

Analysis of photovoltaic module degradation: An experimental investigation on the correlation between partial shading, hot spots, and EVA discoloration by Islam, Md. Imamul, Mohd Shawal, Jadin, Al Mansur, Ahmed, Mohd Salmizan, Mohd Zain, Ul Haq, Mohammad Asif

“…In this current research, an experimental investigation on the degradation analysis of three 80 W monocrystalline PV modules that have been exposed for approximately ten years in a tropical environment in Malaysia as well as a correlation between partial shading, hot spots, and EVA discoloration has been conducted. …”
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Synaptic element for neuromorphic computing using a magnetic domain wall device with synthetic pinning sites by Jin, Tianli, Gan, Weiliang, Tan, Funan, Sernicola, Nicolo Roberto, Lew, Wen Siang, Piramanayagam, S. N.

“…The ability to make devices that mimic the human brain has been a subject of great interest in scientific research in recent years. …”
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21W.745 / SP.576J / WGS.576J Advanced Essay Workshop, Spring 2005 by Faery, Rebecca Blevins

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Empirical analysis on the paradoxes of loyalty programs in the Singapore hotel industry. by Guo, Meixi., Lim, Gladys Gu Yan., Tan, Siew Teng.

“…The research aims to find out the effectiveness of generating loyalty amongst customers through the implementation of Loyalty Programs, particularly across different hotel grades in Singapore by empirically analyzing ten possible paradoxes. Analysis on whether individual hotel grade hotels should invest in loyalty programs will then be evaluated.…”
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Bilayer skyrmion dynamics on a magnetic anisotropy gradient by Ang, Calvin Ching Ian, Gan, Weiliang, Lew, Wen Siang

“…Magnetic skyrmion transport has been primarily based on the use of spin torques which require high current densities and face performance deterioration associated with Joule heating. …”
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Creativity and Justice: Leveraging Creative Learning Principles to Co-Design Just Futures With and For Young People by Trapp, Jaleesa

“…This dissertation addresses the following research questions: (1) How might we cultivate and support constructionist learning environments that serve young people from communities that have been marginalized? (2) How might we use computational tools to support creative learning while developing and amplifying social justice campaigns? …”
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