Implementation of enterprise resource planning for improving enterprise value chain by Chew, Jian You.

“…ERP implementation should not be mistaken as just simple installation of IT infrastructure; it involves organizational changes, business process re-engineering and even a paradigm shift for the management. Studies on past examples revealed that the uncertainties and evolving environment in an ERP project had been the main culprits of failures. …”
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Rationale management tool for software engineering by Fwu, Stanislaus Benfa.

“…A number of tools and approaches have been developed in the past to facilitate rationale management. The main approaches to rationale management are described as a prelude to examining the features of an organizational analysis prototype. …”
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Physics-guided neural network for tissue optical properties estimation by Chong, Kian Chee, Pramanik, Manojit

“…Hence, the research for more accurate and versatile optical properties estimation techniques has always been a primary interest of researchers, especially in the field of bioimaging and bio-optics. In the past, most of the prediction methods were based on physics-based models such as the pronounced diffusion approximation method. …”
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Numerical methods for finite-size key rates with different entropic bounds in quantum key distribution by Chung, Rebecca Ru Byn

“…Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) is an important branch of quantum communication in the past few decades due to its security against quantum attacks. …”
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Standalone immersion cooling for high performance servers by Liang, Wayne

“…The study employs a two-phase immersion cooling approach and by varying parameters such as CPU load and condenser temperature to investigate cooling effects. Based on past recommendations, the author uses PTFE tape to effectively delay the evaporation of the coolant in the tank which likely affected the CPU temperature obtained. …”
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Behavior of reinforced concrete slab column connections with various corroded reinforcements under cyclic loading by Yap, Jie Hui

“…This enhances the ductility and gives more versatility in design. However, in the past few decades, climate change has brought light upon challenges in the use of reinforced concrete as problems like corrosion arises. …”
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Design of blockchain applications and its impact on user behaviors by Chen, Erdong

“…Network structure is essential for understanding the interactions and overall behavior of complex systems. Over the past decade, blockchain networks have attracted over 3 trillion dollars in assets, with hundreds of millions of users worldwide. …”
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Study of the intra-variability of a person’s face from infrared images by Liao, Marc Zhi Xiong.

“…Machine recognition of human faces from still images and video images has increased their research activities extensively over the past 30 years. The face has been a main factor in researching area since traditional means of security such as Identification (ID) cards. …”
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Finite element analysis of shoulder rotator cuff by Lee, Kenneth Jun Rui.

“…This project is a continuation from past final year projects, whereby the predecessors had created 3D models of the shoulder tendons from Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scans. …”
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Online game for Chinese chess by Lee, Jia Woei.

“…With the rapid improvement in technology nowadays, board games and card games have become games of the past. Most of the board games and card games have been converted to online games for players around the world to spar online. …”
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Biomedical cellular imaging using digital holographic photothermal microscope by Hendry Renaldo.

“…As Digital Holographic Microscopy requires more efficient equipments for the same imaging resolution and offers more quantitative measurement advantages than its previous alternative techniques, the integration between these two imaging techniques has become a new interesting research field to be studied upon. Since the past few years, a breakthrough attempt in incorporating DHM into PTI has been conducted and till recently, our PTI-DHM setup has been established. …”
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Biologically-inspired evolving fuzzy ensemble by Liu, Yang

“…Existing neural networks have difficulty in learning from a dynamic data stream in the following aspects: 1) the limitation on the use of past explicit information poses difficulties in extending existing learning techniques; 2) the limited prior knowledge poses difficulties in designing a learning paradigm that can work without much prior information; 3) the sensitivity of learning methodology on the choice of the training parameters; 4) the unchangeable membership function width and 5) robustness of learning procedure against noisy or spurious data. …”
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Longitudinal shear behaviour in composite slab with profiled steel decking by Ang, Yi Wen

“…Upon going through the static, cyclic and subsequent tests for the composite slab specimens, experimental values of end slip, deflection and failure loads were recorded for further evaluation. In concurrence with past research, the design shear resistance V1,Rd of m-k method is of a lower value that the experimental shear force value Vtest,ave, while Vut,ave of Partial Interaction method is of a higher value than Vtest,ave. …”
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Comparative slope analysis by methods of slices and finite element analysis by Choo, Glen Ming Liang.

“…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. Different computer programs such as Slide 6.0, Phase2 8.0 and Plaxis 2D are used to determine FOS in different slope stability problems. …”
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A novel tuning method for implementing dynamic matrix control on a water tank system by Sudarshan, Srinivasa Ramanujam.

“…The author’s work over the past year has been in learning and implementing the Unconstrained Dynamic Matrix Control Algorithm in a Single Input-Single Output (SISO) water tank system and comparing a newly developed DMC tuning strategy (NlStar) with the exsiting Shridhar-Cooper Tuning strategy. …”
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The investigation of impact induced particle resuspension by Kwa, Wilson Wei Sheng

“…Deposited particles would get resuspended under certain conditions while airborne particles would eventually settle. Past studies have already analysed the effects of aerodynamic forces from walking and adhesion forces. …”
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Lexical stress perception : a case study on Tamil-English bilinguals by Lim, Samantha JieYing

“…Past research has shown that one’s L1 phonological system influences subsequent perception and learning of a second language, including the domain of stress. …”
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Development and application of novel proteomics methods in proteomics research by Hao, Piliang

“…The sensitivity, throughput and accuracy of proteomics have improved considerably in the past years due to the development of novel technologies. …”
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Evaluating the effectiveness of the trajectory prediction aids on air traffic controller in the context of workload and situation awareness by Chua, Jia Yun

“…They are not yet available in the current ATC workspace as more examinations are required. Past experiments are limited, as experiments have been mostly conducted with only one particular aid or as a comparison between two aids. …”
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Indoor occupancy estimation by Soh, Agnes Xiao Xi

“…In most developed countries, the large amount of energy consumption and unnecessary wastage of energy are contributing to climate changes and high energy costs, hence being energy efficient has become increasingly important. In the past, motion sensors have been invented and were widely used for the detection of occupants’ presence until today. …”
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