Reverse osmosis concentrate: an essential link for closing loop of municipal wastewater reclamation towards urban sustainability by Zhang, Xiaoyuan, Liu, Yu

“…Thus, this article aims to look into (i) integrated biological treatment-RO processes for municipal wastewater reclamation which is an emerging source of ROC, (ii) challenges associated with ROC, (iii) post-treatment of ROC and its impacts on overall energy balance in municipal wastewater reclamation processes and (iv) an innovative integrated anaerobic nanofiltration membrane bioreactor-RO process coupled with electrodialysis reversal and ozonation lastly proposed for closing water loop which is imperative in more and more countries. …”
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Design and development of a building control system using power line and wireless communications by Lee, Edwin Jia Liang.

“…This project aims to develop various efficient and convenience control solutions / methods through the use of Short Message Service (SMS), EMail and remote access web service. Lastly, the project aims to create a mixed PLC and wireless standalone local area network within the building for remote controlled operations and feedback for mobile users. …”
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Mining big spatial data by Lee, Ming Da

“…Subsequently, a comparison study has been carried out to investigate the performance of DBSCAN and K-mean to identify road traffic accident hotspots, followed by spatial regression analysis. Lastly, a conclusion was made to identify the superior process which aid in identifying road traffic accident hotspots.…”
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Tensile split Hopkinson bar laboratory tests with imperfect dimension by Goh, Sean Shun Hui

“…Additionally, the effects of an imperfection on the mechanical properties of the specimen piece will be investigated. Lastly, a conclusion of the entire project, issues faced during the project, and recommendations will be suggested on how to further improve on the project will be included at the end of this report.…”
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Investigating novel drug delivery systems to enhance tissue regeneration in the central nervous system by Lin, Vincent Po Hen

“…Two scaffold materials, namely, polylactic acid-polycaprolactone copolymer (PLA-PCL), and dextran methacrylate (DexMA) were extensively examined. Lastly, an extensive review on injectable hydrogels was carried out to expand our therapeutic strategies in CNS diseases treatment. …”
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Crowdsourcing-based automated essay scoring framework by Bai, Huanyu

“…Note that the ILDEH approach is model-agnostic and can also be applied to other classification tasks. Lastly, this thesis proposes the Crowdsourcing-based Automated Essay Scoring (CAES) framework by integrating the GCCNN model and the ILDEH approach. …”
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Engineering study and design of net pot for optimal plant growth performance and development of intelligent, user-friendly system by Shaza Dhanea Binte Rahmat

“…To identify potential improvements to the current hydroponics system, design testing was lastly conducted. This serves to test the design's functionality while presenting potential problems for end users. …”
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Development of metric system to measure an innovation district by Poh, Jin An

“…A hybrid forecasting model has been proposed which can help improve the accuracy of representing data and predict future values. Lastly, the limitations and future work of this project is presented in this paper. …”
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Recent advances in polyaniline-based micro-supercapacitors by Chu, Xiang, Yang, Weiqing, Li, Hong

“…Afterward, MSCs based on various PANI materials including pure PANI, PANI hydrogel, and PANI composites are discussed in detail. Lastly, concluding remarks and perspectives on their future development are presented. …”
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Optimization of Sb2(S, Se)3 photoabsorbers for photoelectrochemical hydrogen evolution reaction by Lee, Kian Jie

“…Additionally, the ratio of selenium to sulphur increased when the annealing temperature increased. Lastly, PEC measurements were conducted after the device fabrication to obtain the photocurrent of the device. …”
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HFENet: hybrid feature encoder network for detecting salient objects in RGB-thermal images by Sun, Fan, Zhou, Wujie, Yan, Weiqing, Zhang, Yulai

“…This module utilizes gating to merge features by calculating the Pearson correlation coefficients of the fused features at multiple levels. Lastly, we devise an edge-aware module to precisely learn the contours of salient objects, thereby enhancing the clarity of the object boundaries. …”
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A real time speech translator application for Android by Ang, Xue Yin

“…Thirdly, this application supports 39 languages, out of the 50 languages that Google translate supports. Lastly, the time taken to perform language translation and Text to Speech translation is short.…”
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Understanding the physical and chemical properties of keratin films by Chia, Sheryl CaiYing.

“…Mechanical testing showed that the film with least glycerol has the highest strength but lowest elongation and UV-Vis Spectroscopy revealed that all the films absorb in the UV region due to melanin found in hair. Lastly, Elcometer measures the thickness of the films showing a trend of decreasing thickness from the film with highest glycerol content to the one with lowest glycerol content. …”
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Photonic crystal enhanced lasers by Oon, KaiXiang.

“…The project would touch on optical gain. Lastly, the project would touch on LabVIEW application. …”
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Elucidation of the ion transport mechanisms in CorA, a divalent cation transporter. by Nurhuda Nordin.

“…In this study, I present data showing that M1 is required mainly for protein stabilization leaving M2 acting as a divalent cation sensor. Lastly, I was able to uncover the molecular mechanisms for how Thermotoga maritima CorA selects for Co2+ over Mg2+. …”
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Unveiling the future of budget hotels in Singapore by Chua, Hwee Lian, Kew, Wong Yip, Soh, Wee Li

“…The SHA can assist by providing ample staff training support, and the STPB could ensure adequate publishing and dissemination of information concerning budget hotels. Lastly, it is up to the budget hotels themselves to embrace the focus strategy in attempting to carve out a niche in the local hotel industry.…”
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Design, implementation and evaluation of dynamic equipment exchange for the airline industry by Chua, Kah Hwee, Kek, Sei Wee, Leonardus Novianto Depari, Xiao, Xiao

“…These routes are typically characterized by large variability in weekly demands for the specific flight routes and the presence of buffer inventories at the overseas stations. Lastly, the implementation methodology on how to execute this policy is explained. …”
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EN06 computational environmental hydraulics : pre-treatment filter modeling by Krishnan Moorthi, Pavithra

“…Different particle sizes exhibit different deposit patterns at different layers in the dual media filter. Lastly, images of the total suspended solids decay in the filter had also been generated, and comparisons were made with the sediment deposition profiles to assess the correlations. …”
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Effect of pre-load on diffusion characteristics of composite material by Chew, Xin Yun

“…The composites were being subjected to 3 different environments – pre-tensile loading in salt water at room temperature, no pre-loading in salt water at room temperature and lastly, no pre-loading in 80°C salt water. This project consisted of 2 main sections and both will be discussed in this report. …”
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Evaporation of water droplets under the enhanced gas concentration surrounding by Tan, Gary Zhao Quan

“…Following that, substantial amount of time was invested into fabrication and setting up of the experimental rig. Lastly, a series of evaporation experiments were conducted by varying the pressure in the vacuum chamber or substrate temperature while maintaining the other factor constant at any one time in nitrogen filled conditions. …”
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