Unveiling the future of budget hotels in Singapore by Chua, Hwee Lian, Kew, Wong Yip, Soh, Wee Li

“…These include using Porter's five forces model to define the external environment in which budget hotels operate and a SWOT analysis to function as an internal check. The findings of this study point towards a shortage of budget hotels that is likely to persist till 1995. …”
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Investigation of Ni as Zn substitute in CZTS thin film solar cell by Quek, Ka Jun

“…Energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDX) was also done to check elemental composition of CNZTS in the thin film layer. …”
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A study on the use of femtosecond laser to perform surface polishing on a selective laser melting manufactured type 316L stainless steel by Ong, Kenrick Jin Hao

“…The laser is an ultra-short pulsed Ti:Sapphire diode laser which removes material by ablation. The problem is to check the effects of femtosecond (fs) laser used on laser polishing of a SLM SS316L sample. …”
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Optimized code design for constrained DNA data storage with asymmetric errors by Md. Noor-A-Rahim, Guan, Yong Liang, Shi, Zhiping, Gunawan, Erry, Poh, Chueh Loo, Deng, Li, Wang, Yixin

“…A hybrid coding architecture consisting of modified variable-length run-length limited (VL-RLL) codes and optimized protograph low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes is proposed in order to suppress error occurrence and correct asymmetric substitution errors. …”
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Practical relay code design based on protograph codes by Noor-A-Rahim, Md., Ali, G.G.Md. Nawaz, Guan, Yong Liang

“…The low-density parity-check (LDPC) code design for three-terminal (namely, source, relay, and destination) relay network while considering decode-and-forward protocol is studied. …”
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Comparing analytical, micromagnetic and statistical channel models at 4 Tcbpsi patterned media recording by Cai, Kui, Elidrissi, Moulay Rachid, Eason, Kwaku, Chan, Kheong Sann, Goh, Wang Ling, Chua, M., Zhang, S. H., Qin, Z. L., Chai, K. S., Tan, K. P., Dong, Y., Victora, R. H.

“…In this work, we adapt the GFP model for BPMR and perform a comparison between densities predicted via the analytical and GFP models, by processing the signals from these models with the appropriate detectors and LDPC (low density parity check) decoders.…”
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Practice of CSFs for the Pre-Development Process in New Product Innovation Processes at SMEs: Questionnaire Development by Abu, Noor Hidayah, Deros, B.M., Abd Wahab, Dzuraidah, Ab Rahman, Mohd Nizam

“…After that the questionnaire was piloted at 55 food and beverage manufacturing SMEs to check its reliability by using Cronbach’s alpha value. …”
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Device and material investigations of GaN enhancement-mode transistors for Venus and harsh environments by Xie, Qingyun, Niroula, John, Rajput, Nitul S., Yuan, Mengyang, Luo, Shisong, Fu, Kai, Isamotu, Mohamed Fadil, Palash, Rafid Hassan, Sikder, Bejoy, Eisner, Savannah R., Surdi, Harshad, Belanger, Aidan J., Darmawi-Iskandar, Patrick K., Aksamija, Zlatan, Nemanich, Robert J., Goodnick, Stephen M., Senesky, Debbie G., Hunter, Gary W., Chowdhury, Nadim, Zhao, Yuji, Palacios, Tomás

“…The GaN transistor in this work was subjected to prolonged exposure (11 days) in a simulated Venus environment (460 °C, 94 bar, complete chemical environment including CO2/N2/SO2). …”
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Ultramafic Alteration and the Cooling of Earth and Mars by Murray, Joshua

“…I show that the same high-surface-area clay minerals which bury organic carbon on Earth are prevalent enough on Mars to store the bulk of its initial 1-4 bar atmosphere as adsorbed methane. I postulate that this methane was formed abiotically during hydrothermal alteration of ultramafic rocks, a process which is observed in ultramafic systems on Earth. …”
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Heteroatom-doped microporous carbon nanosheets derived from pentaerythritol-melamine for supercapacitors and CO₂ capture by Hu, Xiaochun, Luo, Yuqing, Wu, Xianyue, Niu, Jiabin, Tan, Mingwu, Sun, Zhiqiang, Liu, Wen

“…When used for CO2 capture, the HMCN synthesized by the pyrolysis of a 3:2 mixture of MEL and PER at 900 °C (3/2-HMCNs-900) affords a CO2 uptake of 5.35 mmol g−1 at 273 K and 1 bar CO2 partial pressure. Density functional theory calculations suggest that the high CO2 uptake performance of the HMCNs is associated with the chemical modification of the surface, as a result of N- and O- co-doping. …”
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Fabrication of organic solvent nanofiltration membranes with graphene oxide - enhanced covalent organic framework via interfacial polymerization by Oor, Jia Zheng, Ong, Chi Siang, Tan, Yong Zen, Chew, Jia Wei

“…The PES-COF-GO membranes exhibited optimal solvent permeance and separation efficiency at an intermediate 0.8wt% GO, which gave the highest water permeance of 16.2L/m2 h bar and a molecular weight cut-off (MWCO) of around 325 gmol-1. …”
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In-situ rapid construction of aliphatic amine combined polyamide seawater reverse osmosis membrane for efficient boron removal by Li, Can, Lai, Gwo Sung, Zhao, Yali, Wang, Rong

“…The permeability coefficient of boron decreased from 4.8 to 0.9 L m−2 h−1, and the boron rejection increased from 80.7 to 90.5% under the modification conditions with the optimal type and concentration of amines, while displaying a NaCl rejection of 99.8% and an acceptable water permeability of 0.55 L m−2 h−1 bar−1. Meanwhile, the alteration of membrane chemical compositions and structure properties was kept to a minimum. …”
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Engineering nano-nodular pattern on the substrate surface by tuning phase inversion to construct ultrapermselective ion-separation nanofiltration membrane by Zhao, Yali, Li, Can, Liao, Yuan, Yin, Yurong, Wang, Rong, Chen, Dongliang

“…The nano-nodular surface and thinner thickness exhibited a remarkable contribution to water permeability, which reached 38.3 L m−2h−1bar−1. The narrow pore size distribution made an outstanding Na2SO4 rejection of 99.1 % and Cl−/SO42− selectivity of 83 at 1000 mg/L of mixed salt solution. …”
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Deformation and failure processes of glass-microballoon epoxy syntactic foam by Naidu, Aravin Dass

“…A pulse shaped Split Hopkinson’s Pressure Bar Test (SHPB) modified for low impedance material testing was used to ensure that the samples deformed under dynamic equilibrium and at a constant strain-rate. …”
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Spin orbit torques induced magnetization reversal through asymmetric domain wall propagation in Ta/CoFeB/MgO structures by Cao, Jiangwei, Chen, Yifei, Jin, Tianli, Gan, Weiliang, Wang, Ying, Zheng, Yuqiang, Lv, Hua, Cardoso, Susana, Wei, Dan, Lew, Wen Siang

“…Kerr imaging reveals that the current-induced reversal under small and medium in-plane field was mediated by domain nucleation at the edge of the Hall bar, followed by asymmetric domain wall (DW) propagation. …”
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Isolated low temperature heat release from binary blends of iso-octane, n-heptane and ethanol in a spark ignition engine by White, SP, Leach, FCP

“…The blends were tested with inlet temperatures of 40°C to 140°C at an inlet pressure of 0.9 bar (absolute). <br> To simulate the effect of high temperature combustion residuals, a skip spark duty cycle was employed for ignition of a PRF80 blend. …”

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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Comparison of transport methodologies on near-field pollutant dispersion in urban environments using CFD by Tee, Clarence Wei Tat

“…The two methodologies are validated by simulating the dispersion phenomena for two test cases which largely bear resemblance to urban settings: a three-dimensional street canyon setup and the Mock Urban Setting Test (MUST) field experiment. …”
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Strain-Dependent Effects on Confinement of Folded Acoustic and Optical Phonons in Short-Period (XC)m/(YC)n with X,Y (≡Si, Ge, Sn) Superlattices by Talwar, Devki N., Semone, Sky, Becla, Piotr

“…We strongly feel that this study will encourage spectroscopists to perform Raman scattering measurements to check our theoretical conjectures.…”
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Atherogenesis and plaque rupture, surface/interface-related phenomena by Siegel, G., Berkholz, J., Klüßendorf, D., Knosalla, C., Zakrzewicz, A., Ermilov, E., Malmsten, M., Lindman, Bjorn

“…Since NFκB is inhibited by one reaction strand in this model and inhibits itself collagen and proteoglycan synthesis in the fibrous cap of the plaque, this double check (disinhibition) causes a stabilization of the fibrous cap through a specially strong collagen and proteoglycan production, which in addition is supported by circulating TGFβ. …”
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