Secure image encryption based on an ideal new nonlinear discrete dynamical system by Lin, M. Rongming, Ng, Teng Yong

“…Extensive numerical experiment results have revealed that the proposed image encryption algorithm offers advantages of unlimited key space and high-level security, since those problematic periodic windows are no longer present within the key space, and it is extremely robust against known-plain-text attack, since the chaotic sequence generated bears no correlation whatsoever due to the folding effect of modulo operation. …”
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How to grow your dinner without leaving the house / by Ratinon, Claire, author 655602

Practical fuzzing on open-source projects by Ng, Chun Kai

“…The goal of this project is to find crashes that may lead to a previously unknown vulnerability in the targeted program. The input files (seeds) contain multiple text files containing various special characters and languages. …”
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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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Functional genetics of cancer and congenital disorders by Zak, J

“…An integrative analysis of cancer genomic data revealed that <em>PPP1R13B</em>, encoding ASPP1, bears many hallmarks of a tumour suppressor gene, despite being mutated at a low absolute frequency. …”

Data-driven forward and inverse analysis of two-dimensional soil consolidation using physics-informed neural network by Wang, Yu, Shi, Chao, Shi, Jiangwei, Lu, Hu

“…Employing machine learning algorithms to forecast the behavior of nonlinear spatiotemporal systems, such as soil consolidation induced by land reclamation, has been popular in recent years. Although pure data-driven models demonstrate strong performance within their training domain, i.e., in-sample prediction, they lack interpretability and might have poor generalization outside the training domain, i.e., out-of-sample prediction, particularly when the observed geodata is limited. …”
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Tin oxide based dye sensitized solar cells by Teh, Jun Jie

“…Besides, common problem of low fill factor (FF) in tin oxide based DSSC has been solved through gallium doping. Optimum gallium doping which moderate up-shift of tin oxide band edge results in better charge injection from dye to electrode and impedes electron from recombination with electrolyte, which in turn to increase Voc and power conversion efficiency. …”
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Dual Origin of Viscoelasticity in Polymer-Carbon Black Hydrogels: A Rheometry and Electrical Spectroscopy Study by Legrand, Gauthier, Manneville, Sébastien, McKinley, Gareth H., Divoux, Thibaut

“…Here we focus on aqueous dispersions of hydrophobic colloidal soot particles, namely carbon black (CB) dispersed with a sodium salt of carboxymethylcellulose (CMC), a food additive known as cellulose gum that bears hydrophobic groups, which are liable to bind physically to CB particles. …”
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Entrapping of inclusions within carbon nanotubes during catalytic decomposition of C2H4 on a “thick” nickel film by Li, Feng Ji, Zhang, Sam, Sun, Geng Zhi, Kong, Jun Hua, Rawat, R. S., Ilyas, Usman, Li, Bo

“…It was found that pretreating of the nickel film resulted in lots of small nanoparticles extruding on the surface, among big ones, serving as seeds for the growth of tubes. The inner walls of a few tubes were sealed internally by multiple elongated “beads-like,” “bullet-shaped” or “needle-shaped” nickel inclusions. …”
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Automated breast masses segmentation in digitized mammograms by Zhang, Han, Foo, Say Wei, Thng, Choon Hua, Krishnan, Shankar M.

“…Pixels with local maximum gray levels are flagged as seeds, from which many candidate objects are grown using modified region-growing technique. …”
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Mathematical foundation of data science by Fang, Xiaowei

“…High-dimensional probability theory bears vital importance in the mathematical foundation of data science. …”
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Modelling and characterization of membrane fouling in osmotically-driven membrane processes (ODMPs) by Lai, Li

“…With intensification of water scarcity, forward osmosis has been drawing increasing attention due to its low energy requirement and power of removing pollutants in wastewater treatment and desalination processes. …”
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SINGAPORE STANDARD : Specification for clean and green urban farms – Agriculture Incorporating Amendment No. 1 /

“…Adoption of this standard will enable urban farms to enhance their business competitiveness through optimising operational efficiency in a sustainable manner and to brand their farm products for market access. Permission has also been sought from the following organisations for the reproduction of materials from their publications into this standard: ISPM 5 Glossary of phytosanitary terms by International Plant Protection Convention; Soil taxonomy, a basic system of soil classification for making and interpreting soil surveys by United States Department of Agriculture Natural Resources Conservation Service; Sustainability assessment of food and agriculture systems guidelines (version 3.0) by Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations; SS 632: 2017 Specification for organic primary produce by Enterprise Singapore. …”
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Efficient threshold function secret sharing with information-theoretic security by Luo, Jinglong, Zhang, Liang Feng, Lin, Fuchun, Lin, Changlu

“…Specifically, a (t, n)-TFSS scheme with communication complexity O(l) is designed in this paper and it is better than the existing FSS schemes with lowest communication complexity O(λl), where λ is the length of pseudo-random generator's seeds. In addition, the (t, n)-TFSS have an extra robustness property in the sense that even if up to (n - t) function shares are not available, the protocol still computes the function value at a given point correctly.…”
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3D patient specific instrumentation for high tibial osteotomy by Wong, Gina Khay Fong

“…After a vast number of experiments with 3D Slicer, “Grow from Seeds” is proven to be more time efficient and accurate along with the “Logical Operators”, especially for a thin and uneven layer like the cortical region. …”
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Intelligent database design for microgrids in low voltage distribution systems-I GUI and database design by Ng, Pei Fen

“…Climatic change can lead to consequences such as increasing cases of heat-related illness, endangering wildlife like polar bears and rising of sea level that would trigger natural disasters leading to individual losing their homes. [51] Due to extensively use of electricity in this contemporary society, there arises a need to seek for alternative energy sources, if at all possible renewable resources such as wind and solar. …”
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Ultramafic Alteration and the Cooling of Earth and Mars by Murray, Joshua

“…I hope that in trying to meaningfully constrain these processes I plant seeds of inquiry from which myself and others can one day make more concrete statements of the cause and effect between tectonics and climate.…”
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21W.730-2 Expository Writing - Food for Thought: Writing and Reading about Food and Culture, Fall 2005 by Boiko, Karen

“…"Civilization is mostly the story of how seeds, meats, and ways to cook them travel from place to place." - Adam Gopnik, "What's Cooking" "A significant part of the pleasure of eating is in one's accurate consciousness of the lives and the world from which food comes." - Wendell Berry, "The Pleasures of Eating" If you are what you eat, what are you? …”
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Crystal phase-based epitaxial growth of hybrid noble metal nanostructures on 4H/fcc Au nanowires by Lu, Qipeng, Wang, An-Liang, Gong, Yue, Hao, Wei, Cheng, Hongfei, Chen, Junze, Li, Bing, Yang, Nailiang, Niu, Wenxin, Wang, Jie, Yu, Yifu, Zhang, Xiao, Chen, Ye, Fan, Zhanxi, Wu, Xue-Jun, Chen, Jinping, Luo, Jun, Li, Shuzhou, Gu, Lin, Zhang, Hua

“…However, it remains a challenge to use these materials as seeds to construct heterometallic nanostructures with desired crystal phases and morphologies for promising applications such as catalysis. …”
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Electrode modification by diazonium chemistry : studies on the effect of steric bulk on film thickness, and modified activated carbon cloths for energy storage by Subrata, Arnold

“…One key disadvantage of grafting by diazonium chemistry is the inherent tendency of the grafted film to bear multilayers of organic molecules, which is not desired in most applications requiring modified electrodes. …”
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