Dwarf kingfisher-inspired bionic flapping wing and its aerodynamic performance at lowest flight speed by Mohd Firdaus Bin Abas, Singh, Balbir, Kamarul Arifin Ahmad, Ng, Eddie Yin Kwee, Khan, Tabrej, Sebaey, Tamer A.

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A conformal transformation approach to wide-angle illusion device and absorber by Huang, Yao, Zhang, Youming, Zhang, Jingjing, Liu, Dongjue, Wang, Qijie, Zhang, Baile, Luo, Yu

“…We theoretically investigate the illusion device designed by a conformal transformation that can render an elliptic defect behave like a flat mirror. Different from illusion devices consisting of the complementary medium and anti-object with negative permittivity and permeability, our proposed illusion device requires only isotropic positive permittivity medium. …”
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A detailed full-order discrete-time modeling and stability prediction of the single-phase dual active bridge DC-DC converter by Iqbal, Mohammad Tauquir, Maswood, Ali Iftekhar, Tariq, Mohd, Iqbal, Atif, Verma, Vimlesh, Urooj, Shabana

“…Furthermore, the critical gain for the stable region with variations in the circuit parameters like load resistance, circuit equivalent inductance, and voltage demand is extensively studied. …”
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Flexible integrated sensor with asymmetric structure for simultaneously 3D tactile and thermal sensing by Wang, Yongqing, Sun, Kun, Zhang, Qisheng, Yu, Samson Shenglong, Han, Boon Siew, Wang, Jianpeng, Zhao, Mingyan, Meng, Xianglin, Chen, Sicheng, Zheng, Yuanjin

“…The 3D tactile sensors have a flower-like asymmetric structure with 5-ports and 4 capacitive elements in pairs. …”
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Android mobile-platform-based image reconstruction for photoacoustic tomography by Hui, Xie, Rajendran, Praveenbalaji, Muhamad Ar Iskandar Zulkifli, Ling, Tong, Pramanik, Manojit

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Rapid controllable synthesis of branched Au superparticles: formation mechanism of toggling the growth mode and their applications in optical broadband absorption by Zhong, Shichuan, Hang, Lifeng, Wen, Lulu, Zhang, Tao, Cao, An, Zeng, Pan, Zhang, Hanlin, Liu, Dilong, Cai, Weiping, Li, Yue

“…We develop a tunable, ultrafast (5 seconds), and mass-producible seed-mediated synthesis method to prepare branched Au superparticles consisting of multiple small Au island-like nanoparticles by a wet chemical route. We reveal and confirm the toggling formation mechanism of Au superparticles between the Frank-van der Merwe (FM) growth mode and the Volmer-Weber (VW) growth mode. …”
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Divergent acute versus prolonged pharmacological GLP-1R responses in adult β cell-specific β-arrestin 2 knockout mice by Bitsi, Stavroula, El Eid, Liliane, Manchanda, Yusman, Oqua, Affiong I., Mohamed, Nimco, Hansen, Ben, Suba, Kinga, Rutter, Guy A., Salem, Victoria, Jones, Ben, Tomas, Alejandra

“…The glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor (GLP-1R) is a major type 2 diabetes therapeutic target. …”
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Quantum synchronization effects induced by strong nonlinearities by Shen, Yuan, Mok, Wai-Keong, Noh, Changsuk, Liu, Ai Qun, Kwek, Leong-Chuan, Fan, Weijun, Chia, Andy

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Machine-learning-assisted optimization of a single-atom coordination environment for accelerated fenton catalysis by Fu, Haoyang, Li, Ke, Zhang, Chenfei, Zhang, Jianghong, Liu, Jiyuan, Chen, Xi, Chen, Guoliang, Sun, Yongyang, Li, Shuzhou, Ling, Lan

“…Here, we broaden the use of ML to assist the construction of Fenton-like single-atom catalysts (SACs) by developing a methodology including model building, training, and prediction. …”
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Geometric optimization of double layered microchannel with grooves array for enabling nanoparticle manipulation by Zhang, Boran, Wu, Wenshuai, Zhao, Qianbin, Yan, Sheng

“…In addition to multi-physical assists like acoustic and electrical fields, optimization of a structural design is a promising way to improve the functional capability of a microchannel. …”
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On the robustness of average losses for partial-label learning by Lv, Jiaqi, Liu, Biao, Feng, Lei, Xu, Ning, Xu, Miao, An, Bo, Niu, Gang, Geng, Xin, Sugiyama, Masashi

“…In PLL, identification-based strategy (IBS) purifies each PL on the fly to select the (most likely) TL for training; average-based strategy (ABS) treats all candidate labels equally for training and let trained models be able to predict TL. …”
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Logistics implications on consumers' trust and satisfaction: consumer's repurchase intention in C2C marketplaces based in Singapore by Ting, Clara Jie Lyn

“…Overall, this study exemplifies the significance of LSPs in C2C context, specifically in a developed country like Singapore. It offers valuable perspectives for C2C marketplaces in understanding the consumers’ perspective to better accommodate their needs which enhances their competitiveness.…”
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Rapid characterization of graded alloys fabricated by 3D printing by Bella Lee Hoondal

“…In conclusion, 3D printing's capabilities empower scientists to tackle the challenges posed by materials like Cu. Achieving good density and low porosity in these alloys is the ultimate objective, and characterization plays an indispensable role in this pursuit. …”
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Improved packing for fully homomorphic encryption with reverse multiplication friendly embeddings by Sim, Jun Jie

“…It is also possible to construct other utility-based encryption schemes from lattice cryptography like fully homomorphic encryption. This thesis is motivated by the use of fully homomorphic encryption to ensure data privacy and security. …”
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Design and verification of carefree maneuvering protection for a high performance fighter aircraft by Jebakumar, S. K., Pashilkar, Abhay A., Sundararajan, Narasimhan

“…The multi-modal genetic algorithm then uses operators like cross-over and mutation on a starting population of chromosomes to evolve new inputs sequences which are then run to obtain the aircraft response. …”
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Small but prospective: development of enzyme-responsive small molecule fluorescent probes for specific bacterial imaging by Yan, Evelias Hui Xin

“…Owing to the evolving pathogenicity of bacteria, whereby more drug-resistant bacteria has been emerging and bacteria developing their own defense mechanism, traditional antimicrobial approaches like antibiotics treatment have been clinically ineffective. …”
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论新加坡方言节目的字幕翻译策略 —— 以方言剧《亲家、冤家做头家》为例 = A study of Singapore dialect subtitling strategies in “I Want To Be A Towkay!”... by 张恺芯 Teow, Kai Xin

“…Dialect programmes in Singapore are predominantly in Chinese dialects such as Hokkien, Teochew and Cantonese, with a little mix of other languages like English, Chinese and Malay. These dialect programmes are often subtitled in English and Chinese, involving both intra-linguistic translation (dialect to Chinese) and inter-linguistc translation (dialect to English). …”
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Post-quantum attacks against symmetric-key cryptography systems by Pham, Thi Minh Phuong

“…Firstly, we introduced quantum multi-collision distinguishers that enabled us to target a higher number of rounds on AES-like primitives. These distinguishers were developed by using constraint programming tools to automatically identify the related-key or single-key di erentials used in the attacks. …”
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PLATON: top-down R-tree packing with learned partition policy by Yang, Jingyi, Cong, Gao

“…The exponential growth of spatial data poses new challenges to the performance of spatial databases. Spatial indexes like R-tree greatly accelerate the query performance and can be effectively constructed through packing, i.e., loading all data into the index at once. …”
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Rational design and synthesis of degradable poly(imidazolium ester) antibiotics by Xu, Xiaofei

“…Through systematic experimentation, we established a library of degradable antimicrobial polymers possessing antibiotic-like potency and tunable degradation rates. Systematic evaluation, assessing bacterial potency and toxicity, unveiled a standout candidate, PBIE3. …”
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