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.' …”

Investigation of ionic doping in all-solid-state organic electrochemical transistors by Hou, Kunqi

“…Further, we proceed to develop a universal solid polymer electrolyte based on thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU) ionic gels and showed good OECT performance with four different ion-permeable semiconductors to prove the generality of the TPU solid electrolyte. …”
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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. …”

3D patient specific instrumentation for high tibial osteotomy by Wong, Gina Khay Fong

“…As the medical industry gets more advanced with the use of patient specific instruments, patient can have tailor-made instruments which is precise and accurate while greatly improving the surgical outcome of each operation. …”
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The GCSE attainment gap: assessing the influence of permanent school exclusion by Hills, Stephen, Walker, Matthew, Guinn, James, Kent, Aubrey

“…In other words, the existing trajectory of disadvantage gets steeper following the permanent exclusion event. …”
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Laser-based 3D printing using bessel beams for tissue engineering applications by Liew, Andy Wen Loong

“…Through the characterization of endothelial cells encapsulated within hydrogel matrix, It was found that while collagen gel was capable of supporting cell viability and inducing endothelial sprouting, these self-assembled endothelial networks were only found on the 2D substrate surface and not within the 3D gel matrix. …”
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The MALINA oceanographic expedition : how do changes in ice cover, permafrost and UV radiation impact biodiversity and biogeochemical fluxes in the Arctic Ocean? by Massicotte, P., Amon, R. M. W., Antoine, D., Archambault, P., Balzano, S., Bélanger, S., Benner, R., Boeuf, D., Bricaud, A., Bruyant, F., Chaillou, G., Chami, M., Charrière, B., Chen, J., Claustre, H., Coupel, P., Delsaut, N., Doxaran, D., Ehn, J., Fichot, C., Forget, M. H., Fu, P., Gagnon, J., Garcia, N., Gasser, B., Ghiglione, J. F., Gorsky, G., Gosselin, M., Gourvil, P., Gratton, Y., Guillot, P., Heipieper, H. J., Heussner, S., Hooker, S. B., Huot, Y., Jeanthon, C., Jeffrey, W., Joux, F., Kawamura, K., Lansard, B., Leymarie, E., Link, H., Lovejoy, C., Marec, C., Marie, D., Martin, J., Martín, J., Massé, G., Matsuoka, A., McKague, V., Mignot, A., Miller, W. L., Miquel, J. C., Mucc,i A., Ono, K., Ortega-Retuerta, E., Panagiotopoulos, C., Papakyriakou, T., Picheral, M., Prieu,r L., Raimbault, P., Ras, J., Reynolds, R. A., Rochon, A., Rontani, J. F., Schmechtig, C., Schmidt, S., Sempéré, R., Shen, Y., Song, G., Stramski, D., Tachibana, E., Thirouard, A., Tolosa, I., Tremblay, J. E., Vaïtilingom, M., Vaulot, Daniel, Vaultier, F., Volkman, J. K., Xie, H., Zheng, G., Babin, M.

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Optimization of the thermal performance of building double-skin envelope by Chua, Wei Jin

“…Therefore, to slow down the rise in the mean global temperature, a double-skin roof technology was used to reduce the heat produced by the sun from getting into the building. When less heat gets into the building, thermal comfort can be achieved much easily and also reducing the usage of air-conditioner. …”
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Phase transitions by an abundant protein in the anammox extracellular matrix mediate cell-to-cell aggregation and biofilm formation by Seviour, Thomas, Wong, Lan Li, Lu, Yang, Mugunthan, Sudarsan, Yang, Qiaohui, Chanda Segaran, Uma Shankari, Bessarab, Irina, Liebl, David, Williams, Rohan B. H., Law, Yingyu, Kjelleberg, Staffan

“…Furthermore, the surface layer protein formed gels as well as ordered crystalline structures. These observations suggest that biophysical remodeling through phase transitions promotes aggregation and biofilm formation. …”
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Dynamic swimming pattern of Pseudomonas aeruginosa near a vertical wall during initial attachment stages of biofilm formation by Khong, Nicole Zi-Jia, Zeng, Yukai, Lai, Soak-Kuan, Koh, Cheng-Gee, Liang, Zhao-Xun, Chiam, Keng-Hwee, Li, Hoi-Yeung

“…We found that P. aeruginosa (PAO1) increases its speed and changes its swimming angle drastically when it gets closer to a wall. In contrast, ΔdipA mutant moves toward the wall with steady speed without changing of swimming angle. …”
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Synthesis and optical characterization of cadmium sulfide (CdS) single crystals for laser cooling effect by Zhang, Chiyuan

“…By analyzing those crystals using optical spectroscopy, the author gets the Stokes spectroscopy and anti-Stokes spectroscopy as well as its dependence relationship figure between peak densities and exciting laser power. …”
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Multi-scale and multiphase modeling of abrasive flow machining process with experimental validation by Mohamed Adel Abdelhakem Amen

“…The flexibility and nature of the AFM tool introduce considerable complexity to evaluate the abrasion action, its material removal (MR), the particle forces, and the detailed rules controlling this particle-surface interaction. The process gets more complex for irregular shapes to the workpiece surface and the abrasive particle which is the real case. …”
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Enhancement of photoacoustic imaging systems for biomedical applications by Sharma, Arunima

“…DL relies on supervised learning, i.e., the network gets trained on pre-defined dataset to solve practical problems on new data. …”
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Properties and mechanism of strain and piezoelectricity of hybrid molecular ferroelectrics by Hu, Yuzhong

“…In summary, this thesis presents the discovery of a new OIHF (PTMA)CdBr3xCl3(1-x) which gets both colossal shear strain and piezoelectric responses. …”
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The effects of atmosphere-ocean-wave coupling during tropical cyclone by Garg, Nikhil

“…Within this coupled system, it can be thought that the ocean waves generated at the sea surface are due to the momentum transfer from atmosphere, which subsequently gets transferred to ocean. This transfer of momentum (from atmosphere to ocean) is not a one-way link, i.e., there are feedback effects from ocean (both in terms of enthalpy and momentum) on the atmospheric boundary layer. …”
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Development of resistive random access memory for next-generation embedded non-volatile memory application by Sun, Jianxun

“…Besides, the variability of the forming voltage also gets improved by more than 50%. On the contrary, the inhibition effect of the negative voltage is observed for the set process, which implies that the role of the negative voltage varies with the state of the device. …”
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Measurement of isotherms and kinetics by volumetric method by Zulqarnain Abdul Halil

“…The adsorption of water vapour on silica gel, CO2 on activated charcoal and on MOFs were done on separate setups each, with more emphasis being made on the setup of water vapour adsorption to study its performance alongside adsorption capabilities of silica gel. …”
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Semiconductor oxide for gas sensing applications by Ang, Wan Chia

“…The STFx thin films and composite films were developed by using modified sol-gel spin-coating technique. STFx sol-gel solutions with varying iron content were prepared and examined prior to deposition of STFx thin films and composite films. …”
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