Standalone immersion cooling for high performance servers by Liang, Wayne

“…The results gathered showsthat with the aid of the submersible pump it is able to reduce the overall temperature by about 3-5℃. Future works are proposed to enhance two-phase immersion cooling methods, including the exploration of the use of more cost-effective and efficient coolant and the possibility of an exploration of an alternate method using a multi-fluid cooling system where different coolant fluid can be used to cool a specific zone of the electronic device to achieve targeted cooling to mitigate any hot spot which may lead to newer findings for future works.…”
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Bridging the gap: fostering interactive stimming between non-speaking autistic children and their parents by Chen, Rachel S. Y.

“…Through a robust mixed-methods approach integrating video-based fieldwork and design-based research, this paper engages three non-speaking autistic children and their mothers in a 5-day empirical intervention. Results reveal significant transformations in parent-child interactions as both parents and children are acquainted with touch in a new environment. …”
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Performance of pulsed plasma thrusters by Loh, Kelvin Kwong Lam.

“…The results show that the slug model relates the best amongst the three models to the experimental data within 20% of the impulse bit at pressure levels greater than 5 mbar. This suggests that the auto-initiation PPT operates using a slug mode of operation. …”
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Study on simulation testbed development for traffic signal control application by Lin, Yulong

“…During peak hour traffic conditions, the hybrid method reduced the average delay by up to 7.5% compared to a conventional adaptive signal control scheme. …”
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Bio-cement and bio-cementation by Shah Rizan Shahdan.

“…Generally, compressive strength in all experiments increases up to 5 folds. Based on the preliminary results, the methods explored in this project are determined to be promising for cost-effective and efficient soft marine clay improvement with a wide range of potential applications. …”
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A study of crack propagation in microforming tools by Muhammad Shahid Shith.

“…XFEM is used to simulate the crack propagation. Initial crack of 0.5μm is modeled in each case with a direction perpendicular to maximum in-plane principle strain tensors at the carbide corner with the highest maximum principle strain value and into the matrix. …”
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Hybrid nanomaterials for improved photocatalytic performance by Ho, Jeffrey Weng Chye.

“…However, due to wide bandgap (3.2 eV), it could only absorb Ultraviolet (UV) light. …”
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Gold-catalyzed intramolecular animation of alcohol pro-electrophiles as novel synthetic strategies to nitrogen heterocycles by Prasath Kothandaraman

“…Chapter IV detailed the extension of this approach to include the synthesis of indole-2-carbaldehydes via 1,3-allylic alcohol isomerization (1,3-AAI) of (E)-2-iodomethylene-3-phenyl-1-tosylindolin-3-ols generated in situ from reactions of 1-(2-tosylaminophenyl)prop-2-yn-1-ols with NIS in the presence of a gold catalyst. In Chapter V, gold-catalyzed tandem ring opening/amination of secondary and tertiary 2-tosylaminophenylcyclopropyl carbinols is introduced as an efficient synthetic route to 2,3-dihydro-1H-benzo[b]azepines as well as 2-vinylindolines. …”
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Legionella pneumophila filamentous morphological form and the generation of novel spherical form upon interaction with protozoan hosts by Chan, Sock Hoai

“…Our investigation showed that filamentation cannot be neatly pegged to a single dominant factor but is promoted under a concerted influence of environmental conditions leaning towards (i) higher than ambient temperatures, at 37-42°C, (ii) static fluid movement, and (iii) with at least a minimal organic content of 5% buffered yeast extract, or equivalent. In the course of investigating interaction of the filamentous form with protozoan hosts, a spherical form was discovered. …”
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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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Competition in two-sided market : with heterogeneous users and negative externalities. by Chen, Hongyu.

“…Facebook reported annual revenue of US$5.1 billion in 2012 and boosts an active user population of more than 1 billion active users in 2012. …”
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Supercreative : unleashing creative potential. by Chee, Edison.

“…In 2012, Adobe’s State of Create study surveyed 5,000 adults across the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, France and Japan. 80% of respondents said that unlocking creativity is critical to economic growth, and two-thirds feel that creativity is valuable to society. …”
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Development of a micro flow control system by Lee, Zi Qi.

“…Various inks consisting of different concentration of tween (0%, 0.1%, 0.3% and 0.5%) were used for the testing. In additional, two different types of plates were used for the transfer. …”
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Simulation and investigation of Gradient Refractive Index Profile (GRIP) and photonic effect in micro-fluidic waveguide of different geometries by Zhang, Ruiyang

“…With the aid of professional software COMSOL’s Microfuildic model and RSoft’s beamprop module by designing liquid core and liquid cladding waveguides of different shapes including rectangle ,up-trapezoid, down-trapezoid, para-saddle and para-rhombus and injecting deionized water with refractive index of 1.335 into liquid core and 5M CaCl2 solution into liquid core at from 1ul/ min to 15 ul / min , the GRIN profiles and optical effects like chirped focusing and interference vary accordingly .The purpose of the study is to find the pattern of how the GRIN profile and optical effects change with the composition ,flow rate and shape.…”
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Sustained delivery of timolol maleate from liposomal nanocarriers by Ong, Leonard Chin Hui

“…Current treatment modality includes the use of topical daily eye drops; however this mode of administration has many shortcomings. Less than 5% of the drug actually permeates into the eye due to inherent protective mechanisms of the eye and due to various clearance mechanisms such as tear turnover and blinking of the eye. …”
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An experimental investigation on the noise emission and fuel consumption of diesel engine by Foo, Jin Yuan

“…Using synthetic engine oil, it can offer a noise reduction of 2 to 3 dB at lower engine load and speed and a reduction of 4 to 5 dB at higher engine load and speed. Fuel consumption rate is also greatly improved at higher engine speed. …”
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The impingement boiling heat transfer of liquid nitrogen onto superheated tube array by Yonathan, Gayus

“…For instance, setting velocity to 0.5m/s and it gives convective heat transfer coefficient 13.89 W/m2. …”
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A design framework for product families implemented with additive manufactured variable platforms by Yao, Xiling

“…During the development of the design framework, the following methodologies have been proposed: 1) a representative mathematical model to formulated the VP-based product family configuration; 2) a hybrid machine learning approach to select appropriate AM design features for addtive manufactured VP modules; 3) a fuzzy time-driven activity-based costing method to predict the AM production cost variation as a function of VP design adjustments, 4) a novel evaluation metric for VP-based product family designs, and 5) a multiobjective design optimization technique to identify the modular configuration and engineering design parameters of a product family. …”
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Safety assessment of autonomous vehicles using simulations by Ketki, Chaudhary

“…The work in this thesis focuses on developing a simulation methodology that can potentially evaluate the safety of highly autonomous vehicles (Level 5) in complex traffic environments. The scope of this thesis is limited to safety analysis of a scenario that involves autonomous obstacle avoidance during a lane changing and highway exit manoeuvre, in the presence of high-paced highway traffic. …”
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Experimental investigation of methane storage under ambient conditions employing adsorption technology by Chua, Bernard Zhen Cong

“…It is found that Mil101(Cr) MOF exhibits the highest uptake of 0.05 g/g at 9.5bar with respect to an operating temperature of 300K. …”
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