Impact of BPL penalty functions and PSF models in PET/CT radial spatial resolution recovery by Si, Wang Jie

“…Additionally, different reconstruction algorithms' impact on spatial resolution within PET/CT FOV was assessed using standard deviation calculations and plotting error bars to show spreading of the data around the mean as well as to determine the significant difference between the FWHM measured using different types of reconstruction. …”
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Rational design and synthesis of degradable poly(imidazolium ester) antibiotics by Xu, Xiaofei

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Investigation of operational characteristics of vanadium redox flow batteries by Rajagopalan Badrinarayanan

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Modelling and characterization of membrane fouling in osmotically-driven membrane processes (ODMPs) by Lai, Li

“…Performance of neural networks bears strong relationship with learning rate, number of hidden layers and number of nodes in hidden layer. …”
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新加坡华人对中国的贡献 ：新加坡城市规划之父刘太格个案研究 = Contributions of Singaporean Chinese to China : a case study on Singapore’s father of city planning Liu Thai Ker... by 冯时辉 Phang, Shi Hwee

“…However, in the fields of urban planning and development which bears the origins to the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries was left unexplored by the academic circles. …”
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Space weather radiation effects on geostationary satellite solid-state power amplifiers by Lohmeyer, W. Q., Cahoy, K. L.

“…Our observations suggest that internal charging from either past elevated radiation belt fluxes or some conditions related to relativistic electron enhancements (either causally or accidentally) is most likely responsible for the SSPA anomalies. …”
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Evaluation of carob tree (Ceratonia siliqua L.) pods, through three different drying techniques, and ultrasonic assisted extraction, for presence of bioactives by Hussain, Ashiq, Arif, Muhammad Rehan, Ahmed, Adnan, Laaraj, Salah, Firdous, Nida, Ali, Muhammad Qasim, Haya Fatima, ., Yaqub, Shazia, Kauser, Samina, Nisar, Rizwan, Gorsi, Faiza Iftikhar, Ud Din, Ghulam Mueen, Elfazazi, Kaoutar

“…The purpose of this study was to determine how ethanolic extracts of carob pods from Morocco, prepared with ultrasonic assistance were affected by microwave (525 °C for 2.5 min), hot air (65 °C for 16 h), and spray drying (input and output air temperatures 180 and 90 °C, respectively, feed flow rate 2.5 mL/min and 5 bars, respectively), in terms of their physicochemical composition and biological activity. …”
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Design and investigation of block copolymers for dispersion of carbon nanotubes in polymer matrices by Liu, Chengyin

“…To further improve the tensile properties of the SWNTs/epoxy nanocomposites, we fabricated another series of PI-derived block copolymers via ring-opening polymerization initiated from hydroxyl-terminated polyimide of lactide and allyl-bearing 2-methyl-2-(allyloxycarbonyl)propylene carbonate) (MAC) to produce PLA-b-PI-b-PLA (TB1) and PMAC-b-PI-b-PMAC (TB2) which are polyester and poly(ester-carbonate)-derived, respectively. …”
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Synthesis and application of peptidoglycan oligomers as metabolic labeling agents for bacteria by He, Jingxi

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The effect of biculturalism on executive functions by Xie, Wenhan

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Hybrid free space optics/radio frequency communication for next generation wireless networks by Sharma, Shubha

“…A unifi ed performance analysis is addressed and novel expressions for average bit error rate (BER) are obtained. The theoretical results presented in the above mentioned proposed schemes have been extensively validated by Monte-carlo simulations. …”
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Analysis of the revolving vane (RV-0) expander, part 1 : experimental investigations by Subiantoro, Alison, Ooi, Kim Tiow

“…The range of operational conditions studied is of suction pressures of up to 6 bar (abs) with a constant discharge pressure of 1 bar (abs) and operational speeds of up to 900 rpm. …”
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Thermal analysis on porous material by finite element method by Ma, Su Mon Soe

“…The first part of the project is to perform the thermal analysis on the air-aluminium composite bar and compare the analytical results and FEA results of the temperature distribution of aluminium composite bar. …”
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Study of metal-organic framework MIL-101(Cr) for natural gas (methane) storage and compare with other MOFs (metal-organic frameworks) by Kayal, Sibnath, Sun, Baichuan, Chakraborty, Anutosh

“…At 298 K, it is observed that the total volumetric uptake of CH4 on MIL-101(Cr) MOF is about (i) 150 cm3/cm3 at 35 bar, (ii) 215 cm3/cm3 at 65 bar, and (iii) 30 cm3/cm3 at 5 bar. …”
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Development of a 14-degree of freedom prototype biped robot by Khaw, Aik Hau.

“…It possesses 14 Degrees of Freedom and is actuated by positional servomotors. Four-bar and five-bar linkages are used for the power transmission of joints actuation of the biped robot and they are further discussed in the thesis.…”
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Control of twin-lift helicopter system by Lye, Cheng Lin.

“…The simulations for the spreader bar and the non-spreader bar configurations are discussed. …”
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Micro plastic injection molding by Koh, Rachel Sheng Lin

“…The settings are barrel temperature of 255°C, mold temperature of 80°C, injection pressure of 1200 bar and holding pressure of 200 bar.…”
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Minimal power manoeuvring techniques in nano-satellites by Lim, Noel Wei Shen

“…The first idea focuses on moving a ball bearing in a tube while the second idea is about moving a ball bearing on a wooden board. …”
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Modeling Sandbar Effects on Nearshore Waves and Morphological Change using SWAN by Murman, Charles E.

“…Simulations were run with observed bathymetry for both the outer bar and inner shallow bathymetry, with smoothed outer bar and observed shallow bathymetry, and with digital elevation model bathymetry to determine the effects of outer bar and shallow bathymetry on wave evolution.…”
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Design of a head massage device by Seah, Rong Jun.

“…A number of essential theories and basic calculations such as Degree of Freedom (DOF) of Planar 4-bar Linkages, Working Envelope of Planar 4-bar Linkages ,Direct Kinematics ,Inverse Kinematics , Kinematics Synthesis and Finite Element Analysis (FEA),approach were applied to the final design of the head massage robot. …”
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