Triclosan transformation and impact on an elemental sulfur-driven sulfidogenic process by Zhang, Liang, Wu, Dan, Liang, Jialin, Wang, Li, Zhou, Yan

“…Results showed that TCS was removed principally via fast sorption followed by slow biodegradation. Amides, polysaccharides and hydroxyl groups in extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) provided adsorption sites. …”
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Dumbbell-shaped block copolymers for the fabrication of anisotropic soft actuators by Pan, Houwen Matthew, Chan, Jonathan Kai Bin, Sarkar, Jit, Goto, Atsushi

“…Dumbbell-shaped comb block copolymers (BCPs) with poly(dimethylsiloxane) (PDMS) side chains were crosslinked via poly(butyl acrylate) (PBA) to form actuators that exhibited reversible actuation, fast response (5 min), a high anisotropic swelling strain (51% in the x-axis and 98% in the y-axis), and bending on the z-axis in an organic solvent. …”
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Use of osmotic tensiometers in the determination of soil-water characteristic curves by Liu, Hengshuo, Rahardjo, Harianto, Satyanaga, Alfrendo, Du, Hejun

“…The temperature effect on the pressure variations of OTs was illustrated based on Flory-Huggins polymer theories and an appropriate calibration equation was proposed to eliminate the temperature effect on the accuracy of soil suction measurement using OT. The OT showed a fast response in soil suction measurement and the equilibrium can be established in 10–15 min during SWCC measurement. …”
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Fault-tolerant computation meets network coding: optimal scheduling in parallel computing by Li, Congduan, Zhang, Yiqian, Tan, Chee Wei

“…Specifically, we determine the optimal redundancy-failure rate tradeoff to incorporate redundancy into parallel computing units running multiple-precision arithmetics, like the Chinese Remainder Theorem, that are useful for applications such as asymmetric cryptography and fast integer multiplication. Inspired by network coding in distributed storage for disk failures, we propose coding matrices to strategically map partial computation to available computing units, so that the central unit can reliably reconstruct the results of any failed machine without recalculations to yield the final correct computation output. …”
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Digital skilling of working adults: a systematic review by Mendoza-Chan, Joji, Pee, Loo Geok

“…The body of research on digital skills that working professionals need to thrive in an uncertain and ever-evolving workforce is fast accumulating. Although there have been literature reviews on the nature and types of such digital skills, an integrative overview of how digital skills are acquired remains lacking. …”
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Local vs. cooperative: unraveling glass transition mechanisms with SEER by Ciamarra, Massimo Pica, Ji, Wencheng, Wyart, Matthieu

“…We also provide a measurement of the activation energy, characterizing the liquid dynamics, based on fast quenching and reheating. We use these two methods in a popular liquid model of polydisperse particles. …”
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Monitoring of heart pulse rate of non-stationary subjects using mmWave radar by Fu, Xuemei

“…To address this issue, a target separation method based on beamforming in virtual channel and fast-time dimensions was adopted. To address the issue of phase signal outliers introduced by random target jitter, an energy-based adaptive tunable Q-factor wavelet trans form (EA-TQWT) was proposed. 3. …”
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Removal of redundant gabor features using genetic algorithm by Dang, Ngoc Minh

“…In particular, Genetic Algorithm is used to provide a sub-optimal but fast selection of feature ensemble. In this project, a Mixture of Experts system is designed for face recognition problems. …”
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Computationally efficient and adaptive scalable video coding by Li, He

“…After the exhaustive search over all possible block partitions is performed at the base layer, the number of candidate modes for luma and chroma blocks in a macroblock that take part in rate distortion optimization calculation at enhancement layers could be greatly reduced based on the correlations. Finally, adaptive fast mode decision schemes for spatial, SNR and temporal scalable video coding are presented. …”
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Fabrication and characterization of micro/nano filter for isolation of waterborne pathogens by Majid Ebrahimi Warkiani

“…To address these issues, micro-fabrication techniques have been employed in this thesis work to develop novel isopore membranes, which contain pores with the same size and shape for ultra-fast filtration of waterborne pathogens from large volume of water samples. …”
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Construction of novel optical imaging probes and their applications in bioassays by Shao, Qing

“…Chapter 2 presents enzyme responsive covalent probes for imaging and fast screening of antibiotic resistant bacteria. …”
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Maximizing airport runway throughput via sequencing arrival schedule by Lin, Chuanwen

“…To study the effectiveness of SAS method, 3 case scenarios are proposed: Case 1 – Cross batch mix landing, Case 2 – Batch by batch smooth landing and Case 3- Sequencing Arrival Schedule. A fast time simulation software AirTop is used to perform three test scenarios by varying the type of aircraft used for the test, namely the medium, heavy and super heavy aircrafts, on each of the three cases proposed. …”
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Task-orientated human-robot teleoperation using wearable sensors by Teoh, Yee Seng

“…The results show that the teleoperation system has short adaptation time for inexperience operator. It has a fast response with time delay of 0.3s, high accuracy with accuracy error of 26mm, and good repeatability with repeatability error of 17mm. …”
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An experimental and simulation study of chip transportation behaviour in gundrilling by Tnay, Guan Leong

“…The material removed by the gun drill known as chips have to be evacuated from the cutting zone as fast as possible, in order to prevent the chip clogging. …”
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Adsorption characteristics of various adsorbent-adsorbate pairs by Soo, Jun Hao

“…To increase the efficiency and reduce the size of adsorption assisted system, the improvement of water adsorption with fast kinetics is essential. Hence, this report shows on improvised AQSOA-Z05 zeolite + water interaction by impregnate calcium chloride (CaCl2) ion to the zeolite material and form a composite adsorbent. …”
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Change detection and the updating of SLAM maps by Foong, Kok Leong

“…Basically, color approach makes use of color filter, whereas features detection approach makes use of template matching, Oriented FAST and Rotated BRIEF (ORB) feature detector, and Shi-Tomasi Corner Detector. …”
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Natural avian inspired ornithopter UAV by Kaung, Ko Ko

“…Studied areas cover chord and span of the wings based on different birds slow/ fast big.small flyers, flight dynamics inclusive of propulsion and lift and maneuvrability, structural designs along with material selection and on board and ground based electronics systems, and lastly the motor driven gearbox. …”
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A broadband ferromagnetic resonance dipper probe for magnetic damping measurements from 4.2 K to 300 K by He, Shikun, Panagopoulos, Christos

“…A 3-stage dipper design is adopted for fast and stable temperature control. The temperature variation due to FMR is in the milli-Kelvin range at liquid helium temperature. …”
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Temporal and Spatial Variations of the Solar Radiation Observed in Singapore by Jayaraman, Ramkumar, Maskell, Douglas Leslie

“…Meteorological phenomena, such as fast moving clouds, cause rapid changes in the terrestrial direct beam radiation. …”
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Collective Pitch Control of Wind Turbines using Stochastic Disturbance Accommodating Control by Girsang, Irving Paul, Dhupia, Jaspreet S.

“…Performance of the presented control scheme is investigated through simulations on two different wind turbine configurations under turbulent wind conditions with different mean wind speeds and turbulence intensities using FAST (Fatigue, Aerodynamics, Structures, and Turbulence) aero-elastic tool. …”
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