Simulation and study on cooling plant efficiency in green data centres by Yeo, Keat Kee.

“…The optimum chiller configuration with the highest efficiency was then suggested for each case study. The main contribution of this study is to highlight the inefficiencies of the cooling plant under low load conditions brought about by a need for system redundancy and uncertainties in the installed capacity of the datacom equipment as opposed to the design capacity. …”
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Affective teachable agent in virtual learning environment by Borjigin, Ailiya

“…An agent-augmented educational project, Virtual Singapura, is developed as a show case to illustrate how the ATA model is implemented in a real educational system. …”
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Flood risk management of a polder terminal in Singapore by Loh, Yee

“…In order to evaluate and showcase the framework developed, a case study will be used. The area of Tuas in Singapore is chosen as the location of choice. …”
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Public-private partnership model for transport sector by Sreenath, Sreenivasan

“…For the present research, five alternatives were considered based on case studies to be evaluated under fourteen different criteria, whose values can be exact, stochastic and fuzzy. …”
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Investigation of tradeoff between switching loss and EMI issue of gate driver with ferrite bead for SiC power module by Liu, Dongjie

“…Refer to the previous researches, which suggest a proper layout of the gate driver is necessary, generally, in the direction of diminishing the parasitic inductance，the designer will place the driver as close as possible to the gate terminal, which is usually formed at the source and also at gate terminals in case of the SiC-MOSFET. Ferrite beads and RC snubbers were suggested being good ways to reduce the ringing by placing at the end of the terminal, which means putting at the gate of the MOSFET. …”
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Sensing signal conditioning circuit design and analysis for emerging pressure sensing technology by Lim, John Jia Song

“…For each of these sensor electrical models, several signal conditioning circuit case studies were designed and analyzed. Charge mode amplifier and voltage mode amplifier circuits were built for piezoelectric sensors. …”
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An advanced firewall rules matching algorithm by Elvira, Febiani

“…Using the hash function methodology, this project aims to define firewall rule matching algorithm that perform in shortest worst-case time complexity in firewall rule matching scheme, i.e. in O(1) searching time. …”
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New binders for Li-ion batteries by Peck, Steve Teck Wei

“…As a result, the selection of binders that enhance adhesion within the anode becomes extremely significant in the case of silicon. Herein, a comparison between conventional PVDF binder and new pectin binder was made in terms of cycling performance and rate capability. …”
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Natural avian inspired ornithopter UAV by Kaung, Ko Ko

“…Limitations ensues technological developments. Same as in the case of small sized drones/ Unmanned Aerial Vehicles which are mainly fixed wings drones and multi rotors drones and their visual signatures had become increasingly recognizable from the ground. …”
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Peroxytungstate anions in asymmetric ion pair catalyzed oxidations by Ye, Xinyi

“…In this thesis, two projects revealed the novel catalytic system as an excellent strategy in synthetic methodology. In each case, the essence of chemistry was studied mechanistically. …”
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Nanoscale vibration characterization of multi-layered graphene sheets embedded in an elastic medium by Lin, R. M.

“…Detailed characterizations of these modes from their derived mode shapes have been achieved for the typical case of an embedded triple-layered GSs, as well as general embedded MLGSs. …”
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Reform of the international financial architecture : how can Asia have a greater impact in the G20? by Rana, Pradumna B.

“…This paper reviews (i) recent efforts to reform the IFA and (ii) presents some thoughts on how Asia can strengthen its participation in the G20 and have a greater impact on IFA reforms. The paper makes the case for Asian countries (i) lobbying for the formalisation and regularisation of ASEAN Chair’s and ASEAN Secretary-General’s participation in the G20 Summits, (ii) holding policy dialogue meetings of an “expanded” ASEAN+3 (regular 13 members plus India, Australia and New Zealand) just prior to the G20 Summits for coordinating policies and developing common positions to support the ASEAN representatives at the G20 Summits and (iii) supporting and joining the informal Global Governance Group (3G) convened by Singapore under the auspices of the United Nations (UN) to coordinate Asian perspectives with developing countries in other regions of the world. …”
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Low-complexity video quality assessment using temporal quality variations by Narwaria, Manish, Lin, Weisi, Liu, Anmin

“…In this paper, we seek to tackle the first issue by utilizing the worst case pooling strategy and the variations of spatial quality along the temporal axis with proper analysis and justification. …”
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Modeling seasonal meteorological droughts in a data scarce arid region under climate change scenarios by Ahmed Kamal

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Agamben's understanding of time and its implications for Christology by Wright, O

“…This limited focus, what is sometimes called temporality, is not new to theology, or indeed philosophy. But in the case of Agamben’s work, the discussion of temporality finds a new form of textual presentation: Agamben seeks to orchestrate other ‘texts’ (St Paul’s letters, Franciscan Rules of Life, poetry, art) to create an experience in his reader of his understanding of time. …”

A decision-led evaluation approach for flood forecasting system developments: an application to the Global Flood Awareness System in Bangladesh by Hossain, S, Cloke, H, Ficchi, A, Gupta, Speight, L, Hassan, A, Stephens, E

“…Understanding the skill changes between different model versions is important for decision-makers; however, focused case studies such as this should also be used by model developers to guide future changes to the system to ensure that they lead to improvements in decision-making ability.…”

Legal politics in the Libyan constitution-making process by van Lier, F

“…As scholarly research in constitution-making has remained largely normative, there is still little detailed knowledge about why this is the case.</p> <p>My thesis is an in-depth empirical analysis of the Libyan constitution-making process from 2014 to 2018. …”

Mathematical models of liquid crystals and related materials by Taylor, J

“…</p> <p>Finally, we consider an extension of the Kuhn-Grün model of polymer elasticity, adapted for use in the modelling of main-chain nematic elas- tomers. This is a particular case of the generalised singular potential, where the anisotropy of the polymer network is included as a further pa- rameter in the energy. …”

Examining ‘The eye of the earth’ the Pan-Pacific idea & the British dominions, c. 1910-1940 by Phillips, SJ

“…<p>This thesis examines the emergence and influence of the ‘Pan-Pacific’ idea from the 1910s-1940s. It makes the case that to a diverse demographic globally, it proved a compelling regional geo-paradigm; the institutions it inspired, significant inter-imperial spaces for representatives from the former British Dominions to consider their society’s place in the world and the region’s globality.…”

Most of the world's largest flowers (genus Rafflesia) are now on the brink of extinction by Malabrigo Jr, P, Tobias, AB, Witono, J, Mursidawati, S, Susatya, A, Siti-Munirah, MY, Wicaksono, A, Raihandhany, R, Edwards, S, Thorogood, CJ

“…We present recent scientific discoveries and probable extinctions and highlight case studies of conservation success, with a focus on the role of local people. …”