Elucidation of thermally induced internal porosity in zinc oxide nanorods by Handoko, Albertus D., Liew, Laura-Lynn, Lin, Ming, Sankar, Gopinathan, Du, Yonghua, Su, Haibin, Dong, Zhili, Goh, Gregory Kia Liang

“…The pore volume growth rate is proportional to the heat treatment time, indicating that the process is diffusion controlled, akin to a reverse Ostwald ripening-like process. A manageable pore growth rate of 1.4–4.4 nm3·min−1 was observed at 540 °C, suggesting that the effective control over internal porosity can be achieved by carefully controlling the heat-treatment profile. …”
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Analysis of YouTube thumbnails : a deep neural decision forest implementation by Shankkar Magandran

“…By training several machine learning algorithms to approximate the number of views, likes, dislikes and comments a video would garner based on its thumbnail image, we aim to construct a tool capable of estimating the level of interaction a video would receive based on the design of its thumbnail. …”
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Tongue imaging system for TCM practice by Lim, Kai Boon

“…With advancements in technology, there are now more mobile phones that are able to take raw photos with the ability to change its shutter speed as well as ISO like what a professional camera is able to do. On top of that, the quality of the image produced are of a quality that can be processed for further diagnosis as well. …”
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Pie crusting of ligaments by Yap, Aylsworth Kuang Sheng

“…They are the intact (0-puncture), 5-puncture and 10-puncture. Data like ultimate tensile strength, maximum load, stiffness and Young’s modulus were the parameters selected to determine differences between the 3 groups. …”
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An image processing approach to feature-preserving B-spline surface fairing by Kawasaki, Taro, Jayaraman, Pradeep Kumar, Shida, Kentaro, Zheng, Jianmin, Maekawa, Takashi

“…This is inspired by the success of many recent research works on the use of normal field for reconstructing mesh models, and makes use of the impressive simplicity and effectiveness of bilateral-like filtering for image denoising. In particular, our approach adaptively partitions the B-spline surface into a set of segments such that each segment has approximately uniform parameterization, generates an image from each segment in the parameter space whose pixel values are the normal vectors of the surface, and then applies a bilateral filter in the parameter domain to fair the normal field. …”
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Mask-less preparation of Janus particles through ultraviolet irradiation on hydrophobic particles assembled at the air-water interface by Tan, Jasmine Si Jia, Chen, Zhong

“…The method can be potentially extended to other semiconductor metal oxide particles to generate Janus-like properties.…”
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The future of nuclear security in the Asia-Pacific : expanding the role of Southeast Asia by Trajano, Julius Cesar, Caballero-Anthony, Mely

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Decentralized nonlinear model predictive control of a multimachine power system by Patil, Bhagyesh V., Sampath, Lahanda Purage Mohasha Isuru, Krishnan, Ashok, Foo, Eddy Yi Shyh

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TraceTogether : pandemic response, democracy, and technology by Stevens, Hallam, Haines, Monamie Bhadra

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Graph edit distance reward : learning to edit scene graph by Chen, Lichang, Lin, Guosheng, Wang, Shijie, Wu, Qingyao

“…Scene Graph, as a vital tool to bridge the gap between language domain and image domain, has been widely adopted in the cross-modality task like VQA. In this paper, we propose a new method to edit the scene graph according to the user instructions, which has never been explored. …”
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Generating new cross‐relaxation pathways by coating prussian blue on NaNdF4 to fabricate enhanced photothermal agents by Yu, Zhongzheng, Hu, Wenbo, Zhao, Hui, Miao, Xiaofei, Guan, Yan, Cai, Weizheng, Zeng, Zhiping, Fan, Quli, Tan, Timothy Thatt Yang

“…Herein, we coated Prussian blue (PB) on NaNdF4 nanoparticles to fabricate core-shell nanocomplexes with new cross relaxation pathways between the ladder-like energy levels of Nd3+ ions and continuous energy band of PB. …”
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Study on several novel topological phases in classical wave systems by Xue, Haoran

“…In classical wave systems like photonics and acoustics, the discoveries of topological states offer exciting playgrounds for both new theoretical studies and novel applications. …”
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The effect of object compliance on the velvet hand illusion by Pasqualotto, Achille, Chai, Cindy Jia Yin, Ohka, Masahiro, Kitada, Ryo

“…Movement of a grid of bars between the two hands creates the tactile illusion of a velvet-like material, namely, the velvet hand illusion (VHI). …”
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Fatigue investigations on steel pipeline containing 3D coplanar and non-coplanar cracks by Xiao, Zhongmin, Zhang, Wengang, Zhang, Yanmei, Fan, Mu

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Helping out-groups in times of crisis : application of the Benjamin Franklin Effect to intergroup contexts by Quek, Jing Xuan

“…It predicts that when one performs a favor for someone whom they have neutral or negative feelings for, one would increase their liking for and be more likely to do another favor for that person again. …”
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Microstructure and mechanical properties of 3D-printed EH36 high strength low carbon steel by Peh, Zhi Hao

“…The samples printed are printed in two orientations; XZ45° and XZ90°. Mechanical testing like the Tensile and Charpy Impact testing are conducted on the various printed samples in accordance to the ASTM standards and mechanical properties such as ultimate tensile strength (UTS), yield strength (YS) and ductility will be obtained for evaluation. …”
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Effective coping among dementia caregivers in Singapore : narratives through an online MCAT-DC intervention by Tan, Lynette Shun Ying

“…Methodology: The online MCAT-DC intervention is a four-week programme that covered topics like stress, self-care, grief, and meaning-making. …”
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In silico screening of sugar alcohol compounds to inhibit viral matrix protein VP40 of Ebola virus by Nagarajan, Nagasundaram, Yapp, Edward Kien Yee, Le, Nguyen Quoc Khanh, Yeh, Hui-Yuan

“…The best-screened compounds obtained drug-like property and were less toxic, which could be use as a potential lead compound to develop anti-Ebola drugs.…”
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On the design of capacity-approaching error-correction codes for multi constrained systems by Zhang, Jiayu

“…As an unsupervised learning model, mean shift algorithm has been utilised many times in several fields like descriptive statistics, audio processing, and computer vision. …”
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Chatalone : crowd chat application by How, Yi De

“…However, there is an issue of privacy. Messaging companies like WhatsApp had been under fire over privacy issues which may discourage people from using the messaging applications to ask for help worrying that their personal information and messages may be leaked via the internet. …”
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