Studies on laser design and laser micro-machining by Chen, Yihong.

“…Since the first laser was operated in 1960, extensive research and development have been undertaken leading to a rapid growth in both laser technology and laser applications. …”
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Nanomaterials for urban farming by Putra, Ann Edmonda Tommy

“…In this experiment, CD derived from Citric Acid was synthesized by the hydrothermal process (200°C, 10 h) as it widely available, inexpensive and safe for the environment. It has been widely researched for increasing plant growth and quality by improving photosynthesis [8]. …”
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Effect of N incorporation on the characteristics of InSbN P–N diodes by Pham, H. T., Lim, Kim Peow, Yoon, Soon Fatt, Tan, Kian Hua

“…We report on the effect of N incorporation in the characteristics of the 2 μm thick InSbN photoabsorption layer of a p–n diode grown by molecular beam epitaxy using a radio-frequency plasma-assisted nitrogen source. …”
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Multi-modal piezoelectric energy harvester by Wang, Nan

“…Recent researches of energy harvester are designed as a cantilever beam with piezoelectric material. It was proven that resonant peaks can be achieved with array of harvester beams in wider bandwidth. …”
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Photonic engineering of terahertz quantum cascade lasers by Liang, Guozhen

“…Although relatively good performance of THz QCLs has been achieved, there is still sufficient room to further improve the performance of THz QCLs, for achieving arbitrary beam control, spectral emission, intensity modulation, and polarization control, so on and so forth. …”
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Binding and bonding characteristics of silica aerogels by Ong, Jingru.

“…Silica aerogel has been explored as possible filler for use in composite sandwich structure. …”
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Disposable flow cytometer with high efficiency in particle counting and sizing using an optofluidic lens by Song, Chaolong, Luong, Trung-Dung, Kong, Tian Fook, Nguyen, Nam-Trung, Asundi, Anand Krishna

“…The variations of the signal peak values are reduced, owing to the small beam width at the beam waist. The device presents an efficient and accurate performance on both the counting and sizing of particles.…”
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Alternative solution for pre-treatment of seawater for the desalination process by Goh, Qing Kai

“…The NF membranes were able to sustain its original flux performance at 2.5 bar much longer than the UF membrane could at 0.25 bar. …”
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Development of reduced graphene oxide from biowaste as an electrode material for vanadium redox flow battery by Abbas, Aumber, Eng, Xue Er, Ee, Nicholas, Saleem, Faisal, Wu, Dan, Chen, Wenqian, Handayani, Murni, Tabish, Tanver A., Wai, Nyunt, Lim, Tuti Mariana

“…As prepared rGO has been thoroughly characterised and employed to design a modified electrode for VRB. …”
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Study on mechanism and influential factors of progressive collapse resistance of base-isolated structure by Bao, Chao, Zhang, Yuhang, Lv, Dahai, Wang, Huxiang, Ma, Xiaotong, Cao, Jixing, Lim, Kar Sing

“…The isolation bearing failure position, the size of the beam of the seismic isolation layer, the type of the isolation bearing, and the horizontal stiffness of the seismic isolation layer on the capacity of the remaining structure were compared and analyzed. …”
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Explorations of combined nonsolvent and thermally induced phase separation (N-TIPS) method for fabricating novel PVDF hollow fiber membranes using mixed diluents by Zhao, Jie, Chong, Jeng Yi, Shi, Lei, Wang, Rong

“…However, previous approaches have been subjected to either the formation of macrovoids or dense layer due to the dominant NIPS effect, or required sophisticated instruments and operation skills. …”
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Fabrication of hollow fiber membranes using amphiphilic block copolymers as pore-forming additives by Loh, Chun Heng

“…When Pluronic F127 concentration was 10 wt%, the as-spun hollow fiber exhibited the highest PWP of 114 L/m2•h•bar and the lowest MWCO of 9 kDa. Due to the good performance of Pluronic F127 in PES membrane fabrication, it has been selected as the amphiphilic additive to further study the formation of poly(vinylidene fluoride) (PVDF) membranes. …”
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Dual layer composite nanofiltration hollow fiber membranes for low-pressure water softening by Setiawan, Laurentia, Shi, Lei, Wang, Rong

“…The newly developed (PAI-PAAm)-PES dual layer hollow fiber membranes show a salt water permeability of 15.8 L/m2.h.bar and high Mg2+ and Ca2+ rejections of 94.2% and 92.3%, respectively, at operating pressure of 2 bar using a 3000 ppm TDS feed solution. …”
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Response to Comment on “Unique in the shopping mall: On the reidentifiability of credit card metadata” by de Montjoye, Yves-Alexandre, Pentland, Alex

“…The synthetic data set that they “successfully anonymize” bears no resemblance to modern high-dimensional data sets on which their methods fail. …”
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Development of interactive software/app (normal stress) by Koo, Chia Wei

“…Designing a beam involves a trial and error in determining the supports available, recognizing the loads to be withstand by the beam, performing analysis and comparing stresses to the structural limits of the mechanical properties of the beam until all criteria is satisfied. …”
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Prismatic, basal, and slip strengths of commercially pure Zr by micro-cantilever tests by Wilkinson, A

“…Single-crystal cantilevers ranging from 0.5 µm to 10 µm wide, oriented for single slip, were prepared using focused ion beam (FIB) machining and deflected using a nanoindenter. …”

Pedestrian, cyclist and motorist behaviour and interactions at school zones by Wong, Zhi Hao

“…A fatal traffic accident involving two young boys near a school zone has triggered Singapore’s attempt to improve the road safety levels, and therefore the Enhanced School Zone (ESZ) scheme arose in order to further supplement the existing scheme. …”
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Fork to farm: reverse engineering a food system by Ingram, J, Barling, D, Bayes, N, Cottee, J, Dickinson, A, Hardman, C, Holub, E, Jones, K, Leadley, C, Maguire, R, Michaels, L, Midgley, G, Rajagopalan, R, Zhang, J, Zurek, M

“…Using two new common (Phaseolus) dry bean varieties developed for UK growing conditions, the BeanMeals project explored how to pursue ‘fork to farm’ systemic innovation in the food system to transform institutional catering and home-cooking towards healthier diets with lower environmental impact while also enhancing local and national enterprise. …”

Wireless measurement of elastic and plastic deformation by a metamaterial-based sensor by Ozbey, Burak, Demir, Hilmi Volkan, Kurc, Ozgur, Erturk, Vakur, Altintas, Ayhan

“…The sensor is made of a comb-like nested split ring resonator (NSRR) probe operating in the near-field of an antenna, which functions as both the transmitter and the receiver. …”
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Scene text detection using neural network by Tan, Yi Hong

“…In this project, we tend to first of all introduce some relevant ideas. we tend to describe the selective search technique used for region proposal, and also the compositions of building blocks of convolutional neural network (CNN) that embrace convolutional layer, pooling layer, corrected linear units (ReLU), fully-connected layer and loss layer. we tend to detail the method of information set preparation that consists of data assortment, information labelling and format transformation, that is taken into account as vital preparation work for coaching method.The core part of this project is that the institution of the scene text detection system from the module style to the model testing and validation.…”
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