Modeling of outdoor natural ventilation and energy performance for buildings in an industrial park by Tan, Joel Heang Kuan.

“…In tropical countries such as Singapore, roof temperatures can get very hot during the day. In order to cool the building to comfortable temperatures, fans and air conditioning are used and they take up considerable amount of electricity. …”
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An appraisal of existing seismic vulnerability assessment methodologies by Kathotia, Vaibhav

“…Due to the large amount of variables involved (such as Damage Measure (DM), Seismic Fragility Function Methods, the actual building structure design and design of materials used and the physical environment of the building area under consideration, among other variables) during the development of a research study/paper, it can be very hard at times to get similar data points and even then, external physical factors of the model, can cause large differences to occur between results of two similar studies. …”
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A build-and-learn pedagogical framework for engineering outreach by Thng, Jing Rong

“…Thng Jing Rong U1321133H Project No: A2116-161 II The basic robotic kit for primary school age group was tested out at a workshop in Greendale Primary School and received positive feedback for it, with many of the students enjoying the hands-on portion of the workshop, which was something that they don't typically get within their school curriculum. The framework is then completed with a website documenting the required information to repeat the workshops and robotic kits in the future. …”
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Read to Me by Koh, Li Yan, Yeo, Xin Min, Yue, Si Wei, Chia, Audrey Shue Theng

“…From our primary research, we identified two key barriers towards shared reading - the inability to get a child’s attention and the lack of time. Our campaign focused on improving parents’ perceived behavioural control through a two-pronged strategy to help parents make shared reading more engaging and more frequent. …”
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Leaching characteristics, toxicity and adsorption capacities of micro-plastic beads by Yong, Rachel Jie Ying

“…Moreover, harmful organic contaminants present in the environment can be adsorbed onto plastics or polymers, which then get transported along with the plastics ingested by aquatic organisms, and eventually affecting humans as well. …”
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Localization and velocity tracking of human via 3 IMU sensors by Yuan, Qilong, Chen, I-Ming

“…Through acceleration fine tuning algorithm, the acceleration data is refined and combined with the velocity calculated from body kinematics to get a drift-free and accurate 3D velocity result. …”
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ACA-SDS : adaptive crypto acceleration for secure data storage in big data by Xiao, Chunhua, Zhang, Lei, Liu, Weichen, Bergmann, Neil, Li, Pengda

“…Our evaluation shows that ACA-SDS can get 15%-25% performance improvement for big-data blocks compared with only software or hardware accelerations. …”
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Best practices and factors to enhance transfer of training in Oman by Al Ghafri, Ahmed Mohammed Issa

“…The technique of semi-structured interviews allowed to get in-depth information on the trainers‟ opinions and, hence, to provide answers to the research questions. …”
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Predicting the carbon dioxide emissions using machine learning by Geevaretnam, Jothi Letchumy, Megat Mohd. Zainuddin, Norziha, Kamaruddin, Norshaliza, Rusli, Hazlifah, Maarop, Nurazean, Wan Hassan, Wan Azlan

“…The predictive model was developed using Random Forest, Support Vector Machine and Artificial Neural Network algorithms with different parameters to get the outcome. The predictive model's performance was evaluated based on the error measurement metric of Mean Absolute Error (MAE), Root Mean Square Error (RMSE), and Mean Absolute Percentage Error (MAPE). …”
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Mastering Voice Interfaces : Creating Great Voice Apps for Real Users / by Thymé-Gobbel, Ann, author 642940, Jankowski, Charles, author 642941

“…What we have seen though is that it's fairly easy to build a voice app, but still remarkably difficult to build a great app, one that gets the user what they need, and hopefully the user comes back for more. …”

A DEVELOPER'S GUIDE TO BUILDING RESILIENT CLOUD APPLICATIONS WITH AZURE : Deploy applications on serverless and event-driven architecture using a cloud database / by Trabelsi, Hamida Rebai 656262

“…What you will learn Understand the architecture of Azure Functions and Azure Service Fabric Explore Platform-as-a-Service options for deploying SQL Server in Azure Create and manage Azure Storage and Azure Cosmos DB resources Leverage big data storage in Azure services Select Azure services to deploy according to a specific scenario Set up CI/CD pipelines to deploy container applications on Azure DevOps Get to grips with API gateway patterns and Azure API Management Who this book is for This book is for cloud developers, software architects, system administrators, database administrators, data engineers, developers, and computer science students who want to understand the role of the software architect or developer in the cloud world. …”
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15.568B Management Information Systems: Generating Business Value from Information Technology, Spring 2003 by Weill, Peter

“…As a result, in this course we take the strategic perspective of the general manager and study how these leading firms get more value from their IT investments. The course focuses on the business value that can be achieved rather than the details of the technology. …”
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Thermal conductivity variations with composition of gelatin-silica aerogel-sodium dodecyl sulfate with functionalized multi-walled carbon nanotube doping in their composites by Mahesh, Sachithanadam, Joshi, Sunil Chandrakant

“…Silica aerogels are very light, highly porous nanomaterial with large internal surface area possessing excellent thermal insulation that may get affected when the binders and additives used in aggregation. …”
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Altmetrics : factor analysis for assessing the popularity of research articles on Twitter by Pandian, Nandhini Devi Soundara, Veeramachaneni, Bhargavi, Na, Jin-Cheon, Boothaladinni, Rashmi Vishwanath

“…In addition, articles with a greater number of authors, title length, abstract length, and citation count, and articles with research funding get more attention from Twitter users.…”
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Geographically-aware mobile application for managing events and interest group communications by Lee, Chong Yan

“…The proliferation of social media platforms, such as Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and Reddit, is attributed to humans’ need for more information to make more informed decision or to simply get together to fish out common gossips within the communities, with the likes of Reddit and Twitter. …”
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Fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET)-based ThT free sensing of beta-amyloid fibrillation by carbon dot-Ag composites by Nair, Radhika Vadakkini, Padmanabhan, Parasuraman, Gulyás, Balázs, Murukeshan, Vadakke Matham

“…Further, fluorescence quenching of carbon dots in the presence of Ag particles is found to get reduced with the increase in the incubation time of beta-amyloid fibrils. …”
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A narrowband ultrasonic ranging method for multiple moving sensor nodes by Ashhar, Karalikkadan, Md. Noor-A-Rahim, Mohammad Omar Khyam, Soh, Cheong Boon

“…In our method, a unique set of two chirp signals are used for each transmitter to get one sample reading. The simulation results show high ranging accuracy and robustness using the proposed method as the Doppler velocity increases. …”
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Take a “selfie” : examining how leaders emerge from leader self-awareness, self-leadership, and self-efficacy by Bracht, Eva M., Keng-Highberger, Fong T., Avolio, Bruce J., Huang, Yiming

“…Such knowledge could make an important contribution toward getting the most capable, rather than the most dominant or narcissistic individuals, into leadership positions. …”
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Enabling open-ended questions in team-based learning using automated marking: impact on student achievement, learning and engagement by Tan, Sophia Huey Shan, Thibault, Guillaume, Chew, Anna Chia Yin, Rajalingam, Preman

“…Results and Conclusions: Students get significantly higher MCQ scores than OEQs for the same set of questions, but the reverse is true for application exercises (AEs), which focus on higher-level application. …”
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g-C3N4/ZnO hybrid material as photocatalyst for photocatalytic CO2 reduction by Hu, Zhaoning

“…Further study could concentrate on exploring the detailed mechanism in g-C3N4 synthesizing process, finding the optimal amount of g-C3N4 in the hybrid material and trying alternative g-C3N4 synthesizing method to grow g-C3N4 on other ZnO morphologies to get better photocatalytic CO2 reduction performance.…”
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