Pattern-reconfigurable water horn antenna by Ren, Zhen, Qi, Shi-Shan, Wu, Wen, Shen, Zhongxiang

“…EHmn modes are excited and can propagate along the water waveguide. The E-field and H-field distributions of the EHmn modes are similar to the TE and TM modes excited inside a metallic rectangular waveguide. …”
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Determining bus stop locations using deep learning and time filtering by Piriyataravet, Jitpinun, Kumwilaisak, Wuttipong, Chinrungrueng, Jatuporn, Piriyatharawet, Teerawat

“…It predicts the soft decisions of bus stops at all locations along the route. The time filtering technique was adopted to refine the results obtained from the LSTM net-work. …”
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Comparative study of composite scarf and strap joints for equivalent repair signature under uniaxial tension by Srinivasan, Dharun Vadugappatty, Padma, S. Ravisankar, Idapalapati, Sridhar

“…Scarf joints are preferred in aerospace composite repairs that offer better strength, flushed surface and nearly uniform shear and peel stress distribution along the bond length. However, a shallow scarf angle repair of 2° to 3° as practiced requires significant parent material removal thus increasing the repair signature and cost. …”
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Hydrological & hydrodynamic modelling of the Baliem River in Highland Papua, Indonesia by Wee, Khai Zher

“…Although this study saw limited success, it has established the foundations for further hydrology-related work along the Baliem River. Should better meteorological and ground data be accessible, there is great potential for enhancing our understanding, and appreciation, of the region’s hydrology.…”
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Interacting crack problems in 3D printed materials by Tan, Bernard Zhi Yang

“…Furthermore, the rapid melting and solidification of powders may lead to cracks along the interface or sub-interface of dissimilar metals. …”
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The effect of build orientation and testing temperature on mechanical properties of polyamide-12 printed by multi jet fusion by Muhammad Fithri Bin Sadar

“…Prior studies have revealed that MJF-manufactured parts display greater strength along the Z-axis, and polyamide-12 (PA12) parts have shown to possess higher thermal stability in extreme heat conditions. …”
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Redesigning plant specialized metabolism with supervised machine learning using publicly available reactome data by Lim, Peng Ken, Julca, Irene, Mutwil, Marek

“…With the rapid accumulation of reactome data that can be accessible on biological and chemical databases, along with recent advances in machine learning, this review sets out to outline how supervised machine learning can be used to design new compounds and pathways by exploiting the wealth of said data. …”
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Safety prompt advanced driver-assistance system by Shu, Haozhan

“…Its core components encompass an exploration of the research context, the design of the advanced driver-assistance system, the execution of experiments and subse-quent results analysis, and the formulation of conclusive remarks along with future prospects. In the section devoted to the design of the advanced driver-assistance system, an exhaustive exposition is provided concerning the target de-tection module, employing YOLOv6, the lane detection module employing CLR-Net, the depth estimation module utilizing the Monodepth2 algorithm, and the environmental perception module. …”
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Performance analysis of IRS-assisted terahertz communication system by Premanand, Rithwik, Madhukumar, A. S., Sharma, Shubha, Singh, Ranjan

“…Using derived statistical results, the closed-form solution for outage probability of THz-IRS system is reported along with its simple asymptotic expansions. The analytical results are validated using Monte-Carlo simulations. …”
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Developing a graphene Q&A chatbot using retrieval augmented generation (RAG) by Sara Johari

“…Recently, the proliferation of artificial intelligence (AI) with ever-evolving large language models (LLMs), along with the emergence of the Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) approach, has demonstrated significant abilities to produce natural responses with a vast amount of knowledge. …”
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Relationship between agreeableness and metamemory, moderated by self-esteem by Tan, Xuan Wei

“…Moving on, out of the Big-Five personality traits, agreeableness was selected as the independent variable along with self-esteem as a moderator, both for their relations to a social aspect. …”
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Photovoice study on the well-being of family caregivers with older care recipient users and non-users of long-term care services (LTCS) in Singapore by Lim, Rebecca Zhao Chu

“…As such, qualitative research was conducted using the photovoice method along with a focus group discussion to understand each caregiver’s experience. …”
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Atomistic investigation of effect of alloying on mechanical properties and microstructural evolution of ternary FeCo-X (X = V, Nb, Mo, W) by Muralles, Mario, Oh, Joo Tien, Chen, Zhong

“…An analysis of individual effects on antiphase boundary (APB) energies reveals a consistent reduction along preferred slip planes, except for Nb. Monte Carlo-molecular dynamics (MC-MD) simulations were used to explore the diffusion behavior of these solutes, highlighting their dynamic interactions and preference to migrate into the grain boundaries (GB). …”
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Electrospinning of low density PCL fibers on SLS scaffold by Leong, Yew Meng.

“…This is novel from the aspect that alternating layers of myocardial tissues and human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVEC) can be stacked together to mutually support each other along with the bimodal effects. In this study, PCL fibers were spun on a spinning mandrel collector and investigated to examine the effects of electrospinning parameters- acceleration voltage and feed rate on fiber diameter. …”
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Bio-cement and bio-cementation by Shah Rizan Shahdan.

“…This is alarming as Singapore has extensive land reclamation along its coastal areas. Currently this is done using cement columns mixed in situ at relevant sites. …”
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Stability of laminated composites with delaminations by Yap, Chun Wee

“…Various parametric studies are then conducted and they include boundary condition, type of composite materials, number of layers, ply orientation, stacking sequence, through-the-thickness location of the delamination, delamination length and along-the-span position of the delamination. For all the single-delaminated and multi-delaminated thin composite beams cases that are examined, the CLT methods 2 and 3 are able to form the desired upper and lower bounds, respectively, for the actual buckling loads. …”
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唐山工业经济结构调整的战略思考 = Strategies for structural adjustment of TangShan industry by 梁朝群 Liang, Zhaoqun

“…This is followed by the arguments developed along the two directions. Horizontally, cross-sectional data of coastal cities and heavy industrial cities in China are analyzed and compared to show the development stage of Tangshan's present industrial structure. …”
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Synthesis and characterization of novel biodegradable thermoplastic elastomers by Widjaja, Leonardus Kresna

“…Our study showed that the molar ratio of CL:TMC is the single most crucial parameter in determining the mechanical properties of the copolymers, along with the molar mass of the PLLA end-block. …”
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Low dropout linear voltage regulator by Tan, Max Chuan Hung.

“…The power supply voltage is kept as low as 1 V using a 0.18μm technology and expected to perform within the operating temperature range of 0˚C to 80 ˚C along with other specifications. The linear controller also known as series regulators, linearly regulate the conductance of the series pass switch connected between an input dc supply and the regulated output voltage. …”
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Estimation of traffic flow using sparse camera images from LTA by Ong, Justin Yang Chen.

“…Two programs were created; the first program deals with extracting the webcam images from LTA’s database and storing them into a MongoDB collection, while the second program processes the webcam images and then assign a road condition type to the images. The processed images along with its assigned road condition types are then displayed on the web browser with Google Maps. …”
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