Forest warrior : a virtual reality application to enhance climate change awareness by Sankar, Ahkshara

“…The action of slashing paper subconsciously evokes awareness about the abundant and mostly unnecessary use of paper. As the papers get slashed, the forest gets restored. The immediate change in the environment and the visual representation of the greenery blooming back to life accentuate the importance of cutting down the usage of paper. …”
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Comparative slope analysis by methods of slices and finite element analysis by Choo, Glen Ming Liang.

“…The conventional LEM which includes Ordinary Method of Slice, Bishop’s Simplified Method and Spencer Method is commonly used in geotechnical engineering when calculating FOS (Factor of Safety) in slope analysis. As technology gets more sophisticated, more advanced finite element soil analyzing programs were introduced and slowly gaining popularity in geotechnical field over the past decades. …”
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Data analystics for earthquake social tweets using clustering approach by Wang, Lanlan

“…People attach close attention to an earthquake when it just occured, but this attention fades with time and gets stronger again due to certain reasons. Governments should preach basic earthquake knowledge to public and do some earthquake preventive measure education. …”
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Online shopping sites crawler by Leong, Letitia Justina Si En

“…As every website is structured differently, the scraping process gets a little more complicated. In order for the web crawler to extract specific data from a website, it requires their XPaths to be specified. …”
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Response surface methodology for optimisation of parameter on water absorption of natural fibre hybrid composite in boat construction by Mat Jusoh, Suriani, Zulkifli, Mohammad Fakhratul Ridwan, Abdullah, Samsuri, Shafi, Ayu Rafiqah, Mohd Nasir, Mohd Fadzhel, Maulana, Ummi Nurashira, Mohd Radzi, Fathin Sakinah, Zainulabidin, Syakir Hakimi

“…The utilisation of fibreglass is costly and has a high effect on the natural biological system. It also gets over the area of ecological contamination, word-related well-being, and security concerns. …”
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Smart panels for sunlight management and energy harvesting by Wee, Samuel Xin An

“…Conductive lines are introduced to improve the current density distribution and various polymers and their polymerization are investigated to reduce the risk of leakage and flammability. Gel and solid polymer electrolytes are achieved, and the resultant REM’s Cyclic voltammetry, reflectance and transmittance are studied.…”
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Rheological characteristics of gelation by Lim, Lin Luan.

“…These three properties are selected as their variations during the gelation process are closely linked to the rheological behaviour of the gel that will greatly affect the use of hydrogels in various industries. …”
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Thermodynamic modelling of adsorption isotherms and kinetics for gas storage and cooling applications by Sun, Baichuan

“…Thirdly, the derived kinetics model is verified with the experimental data of silica gel + water systems, with respect to various size and grain layers configuration. …”
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Identification of proteins and genes as potential biomarkers in brown-marbled grouper (Epinephelus fuscoguttatus forsskal) resistance to Vibrio sp by Low, Chen Fei

“…Serum proteome profiles from two-dimensional gel electrophoresis were compared between infected grouper and control grouper after 4 hours of pathogen challenge. …”
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Purification of perna viridis (Asian green mussels) adhesive proteins by Lee, Hendrik Jie Hao

“…These processes will have to be environmentally friendly, and be competitive both economically and functionally.1 This report will cover on the steps and methods used to characterise and isolate pure adhesive proteins from the Perna viridis foot glands, which includes gel-electrophoresis (Acid-Urea), high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC), spectrometry (MALDI-TOF), and fractionation of the proteins by precipitation with different water miscible organic solvents.…”
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Design for assembly and application using Hitachi assemblability evaluation method by Mohd Naim, Zakaria

“…The “perfect” part or assembly operation gets the maximum score, usually one hundred, and each element or difficulty is assigned a penalty. …”
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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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Building fabric improvement and heat pump deployment: a set of policy conundrums by Killip, G, Topouzi, M, Fawcett, T

“…What should the balance be between mandating building fabric improvement and heat pump deployment, what are the choice criteria, and who gets a say?</p> <br> <p>The paper examines building interventions through the concept of 'trigger points.' …”

Cryogelation of human hair keratins by Chua, Huei Min

“…In this research, inhibition studies using bond disrupting agents and gel solubilisation studies revealed that both disulphide bonds and hydrophobic interactions are cooperatively vital for gel network formation and stabilization. …”
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Global monitoring of volcanic SO2 degassing with unprecedented resolution from TROPOMI onboard Sentinel-5 Precursor by Barrington, Charlotte, Taisne, Benoit, Theys, N., Hedelt, P., De Smedt, I., Lerot, C., Yu, H., Vlietinck, J., Pedergnana, M., Arellano, S., Galle, B., Fernandez, D., Carlito, C. J. M., Delgado-Granados, H., Loyola, D., Van Roozendael, M.

“…We report here the first volcanic SO2 measurements from the hyperspectral TROPOspheric Monitoring Instrument (TROPOMI) launched in October 2017 onboard the ESA’s Sentinel-5 Precursor platform. Using the operational processing algorithm, we explore the benefit of improved spatial resolution to the monitoring of global volcanic degassing. …”
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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. …”

Enhancing stable grasping of containers with dynamic center of mass using reinforcement learning by Gao, Yuan

“…Our approach involved the integration of vision-based Gelsight and GelSlim tactile sensors to capture tactile information, particularly emphasizing tactile shear forces for enhanced perception of the container. …”
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A paper-based glucose sensoring microneedle patch by Zheng, Shu

“…We have demonstrated from in vitro experiments that MN will change color gradually with time after penetration into different concentration of agarose gel, and change of color saturation with various glucose concentration after penetration for 20 minutes. …”
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Microbial degradation of phthalic acid and its esters by aerobic granules in sequencing batch reactor by Zeng, Ping

“…Also, the microbial diversity and immigration analyzed by denaturing gradient gel-electrophoresis (DGGE) show that isolate PA-02 also plays an important role in the enhancement of phthalate degradation.…”
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Structure and protein recognition of G-quadruplexes by Ngo, Khac Huy

“…In this study, different biophysical, biochemical, and structural techniques (CD, ITC, gel electrophoresis, enzymatic assay NMR spectroscopy, X-ray crystallography) and nucleic acid/protein/peptide engineering were applied to: i) expand our understanding of G4 diversity including base stacking, interlocking, and A•G•G•G•G pentad formation; ii) study the molecular basis for G4 recognition by proteins; iii) engineer G4-binding proteins/peptides for various applications including stable cyclic peptide or engineered enzyme for G4s targeting. …”
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