Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on behaviors in physical activity, sleep quality and usage of sport facilities in university students by Lim, Qing Feng

“…Sedentary (sitting) behaviour was seen to increase by an average of 90.5 min/day (p < .001). There were also a decreased in the booking frequency in sports facilities (2.1 to 1.6, p < .001) and time spent in a sports facility (127 to 51.6 min/week, p < .001). …”
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Conditional knock out of N-WASP in keratinocytes causes skin barrier defects and atopic dermatitis-like inflammation by Kalailingam, Pazhanichamy, Tan, Hui Bing, Jain, Neeraj, Sng, Ming Keat, Chan, Jeremy Soon Kiat, Tan, Nguan Soon, Thanabalu, Thirumaran

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Epithelial-mesenchymal transition of cancer cells using bioengineered hybrid scaffold composed of hydrogel/3D-fibrous framework by Pal, Mintu, Chen, Huizhi, Lee, Bae Hoon, Lee, Justin Yin Hao, Yip, Yun Sheng, Tan, Nguan Soon, Tan, Lay Poh

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Mechanical polishing of fan blade by a prototype random-orbital tool by Danaraj, Edgar Jeevan

“…The main objective of this study is to better understand the influence of water and air coolant-induced surface texturing and its characterization by a new random-orbital polishing method and prototype tool. …”
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Transfer-recursive-ensemble learning for multi-day COVID-19 prediction in India using recurrent neural networks by Chakraborty, Debasrita, Goswami, Debayan, Ghosh, Susmita, Ghosh, Ashish, Chan, Jonathan H., Wang, Lipo

“…The proposed method uses gated recurrent unit networks as the main predicting model. A study is conducted by building four models pre-trained on COVID-19 data from four different countries (United States of America, Brazil, Spain, and Bangladesh) and fine-tuned on India's data. …”
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Smart material based on magnetorheological elastomer and its 3D printing by Bastola, Anil K.

“…Two different patterned were considered in this study, namely, line-patterned and dot-patterned 3D printed MR elastomers (3DP-MREs), line-patterned samples were formed by continuous printing while dot-patterned samples were formed by discontinuous printing. …”
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Coevolving Cybersecurity Adversaries for Industrial Control Systems in Failure-Prone Environments by Wicks, Kathryn

“…In the sub-area that this thesis focuses on, power microgrids, such disturbances can come in the form of line-line faults, line-ground faults, lack of generation capacity to meet demand, and unintentional islanding, among many others. …”
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Sessile droplet evaporation on patterned surfaces by Ng, Aaron Chin Liang

“…For the patterned substrate, a 0º and 45º line of sights are used. Both offer different properties such as hydrophobicity. …”
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Computational and experimental study of a platinum thin-film based oil condition and contamination sensor by Sridhar, V, Chana, KS, Singh, D

“…The sensor is able to detect any form of contamination in oil and can be used for both off-line and on-line condition monitoring. The sensor is found to be quite sensitive and can detect extremely small concentrations of contaminants of the order 0.01 % by volume. …”

Economic Nonlinear Model Predictive Control of Continuous Viral Bioreactors by Inguva, Pavan K, Paoli, Luc T, Braatz, Richard D

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The quad's public goods approach: countering the BRI by Muhammad Faizal Bin Abdul Rahman

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Security enhancement of the communication-efficient AUTHMAC_DH protocols by Lv, Chao, Ma, Maode, Li, Hui, Ma, Jianfeng, Niu, Ben

“…In this paper, we first analyze the vulnerability of an AKD protocol under the off-line guessing attack. Then, we propose an enhanced AKD protocol to overcome the vulnerability. …”
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Long-wave-instability-induced pattern formation in an evaporating sessile or pendent liquid layer by Wei, Tao, Duan, Fei

“…In the two-dimensional simulation, we observe well-defined capillary ridges on both sides of the valley under positive gravity and main and secondary droplets under negative gravity, while a ridge can be trapped in a large-scale drained region in both cases. …”
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Report for project A1017-101on hybrid solar PV thermal (PVT) system using a tracking solar trough I by Cheung, Wai Kin.

“…The findings on the 2 above mentioned studies appeared that at this level of convergence of sunlight, the heat effects is not pronounced when applied with a cooling system running at 0.448l/min & 0.938l/min respectively. It is also witnessed that the temperature behind the cell with cooling at 0.448 l/min reached 63.7°C, while the water harnessed from the cooling system output reach 57.5°C which is comparable to water temperature in the hot spring. …”
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Combined ultrasound and photoacoustic imaging of blood clot during microbubble-assisted sonothrombolysis by Das, Dhiman, Pramanik, Manojit

“…In the first case, US and PA SNR values increased by 4.6% and reduced by 20.8%, respectively after 30 min of sonothrombolysis treatment. After 10 min of sonothrombolysis treatment of the blood clot in blood, the US and PA SNR values increased by 7.7% and 38.3%, respectively. …”
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Response of appetite and potential appetite regulators following intake of high energy nutritional supplements by Fatima, S, Gerasimidis, K, Wright, C, Tsiountsioura, M, Arvanitidou, E-I, Malkova, D

“…Appetite and metabolic rate measurements and blood collection were conducted prior to and during 240 min after the intake of the supplements. Energy intake was recorded during ad libitum buffet breakfast and lunch served 60 min and 240 min post supplementation respectively.…”

Tumor cell-intrinsic signals promoting tolerance and adaptation to oncogenic kinase inhibition by Flower, Cameron Timothy

“…Using commonly prescribed TK inhibitors (TKIs), I show that TK genetic status generally predicts whether or not a cell line will show any response to genotype-matched TKI (GM-TKI), but is insufficient to predict drug tolerance, the ability of a cell line to sustain proliferation under drug. …”
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Geometric hashing for camera based localization by Tan, Wei Chian

“…A VCLH is characterized by position of the vertical line or building corner in the image, and orientations of the neighbouring plane normal. …”
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Intelligent database design for microgrids in low voltage distribution systems-I GUI and database design by Ng, Pei Fen

“…The connection between the microgrid and the main grid will be automatically established when the main grid is back in commission. …”
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NEGOTIATE your way to RICHES / by Wink, Peter, 1966-, author 655681

“…And just as important, it will show you how to go about "convincing others to give you what you want." BOTTOM LINE: if you buy or sell anything personally or professionally, this book can make or save you a fortune!.…”