Dynamics of time-modulated, nonlinear phononic lattices by Kim, Brian L., Chong, Christopher, Hajarolasvadi, Setare, Wang, Yifan, Daraio, Chiara

“…In the present work, the response of a one-dimensional phononic lattice with time-periodic elastic properties is studied with experimental, numerical and theoretical approaches in both linear and nonlinear regimes. The system consists of repelling magnetic masses with grounding stiffness controlled by electrical coils driven with electrical signals that vary periodically in time. …”
Get full text

High-throughput quantification of quasistatic, dynamic and spall strength of materials across 10 orders of strain rates by Eswarappa Prameela, Suhas, Walker, Christopher C, DiMarco, Christopher S, Mallick, Debjoy D, Sun, Xingsheng, Hernandez, Stephanie, Sasaki, Taisuke, Wilkerson, Justin W, Ramesh, KT, Pharr, George M, Weihs, Timothy P

“…The nanoindentation system is configured to test samples from quasistatic to dynamic strain-rate regimes. The LDMF shock system can test samples through impact loading, triggering spall failure. …”
Get full text

Mechanism of traffic jams at speed bottlenecks by Quek, Wei Liang, Chew, Lock Yue

“…In this paper, the interactions between traffic flow and road topology will be studied, particularly the relationship between a sharp bend in a road segment and traffic jams. As suggested by Sugiyama[1], when car density exceeds a critical density, the fluctuations in the speed of each car will lead to greater fluctuations in speed of the cars behind it. …”
Get full text
Get full text

Characterization of single amino acid substitutions in the β2 integrin subunit of patients with leukocyte adhesion deficiency (LAD)-1 by Guan, Siyu, Tan, Suet-Mien, Li, Yan, Torres, Jaume, Uzel, Gulbu, Xiang, Liming, Law, S.K. Alex

“…Integrins with the β2-G150D mutation fail to bind ligands, possibly due to the failure of the α1 segment of the βI domain to assume an α-helical structure. …”
Get full text
Get full text

Area-time efficient streaming architecture for FAST and BRIEF detector by Lam, Siew-Kei, Jiang, Guiyuan, Wu, Meiqing, Cao, Bin

“…The combination of features from an accelerated segment test (FAST) corners and binary robust independent elementary feature (BRIEF) descriptors provide highly robust image features. …”
Get full text

A feasibility study on computational prediction on the death domain superfamily protein oligomers by Zhang, Jiawen

“…We successfully resolved the structure of the filamentous CARD8-CARD complex with a resolution of 3.7Å(central segment). With the structure at near-atomic resolution, we managed to demonstrate the mechanism of CARD8-CARD crosstalk to upstream or downstream CARDs.…”
Get full text

Forest warrior : a virtual reality application to enhance climate change awareness by Sankar, Ahkshara

“…The last part of the application is the game segment which involves users to slash paper. While the slashing of paper is a key to entice the students and keep them engrossed in the game, the idea of it runs much deeper. …”
Get full text

Robust RGB-D SLAM in dynamic environments for autonomous vehicles by Ji, Tete, Yuan, Shenghai, Xie, Lihua

“…Specifically, for each new RGB-D image pair, we first segment the depth image into a few regions using the KMeans algorithm, and then identify the dynamic regions via their reprojection errors. …”
Get full text

Synthesis and characterization of novel biodegradable thermoplastic elastomers by Widjaja, Leonardus Kresna

“…Retaining the same basic middle-block of PCL/PTMC copolymer, the PLLA end-segment crystallinity was disrupted to examine its effect on elastomeric behavior. …”
Get full text

Career intentions of engineering undergraduates in Singapore : relationships with Generation Y’s work values & industry perceptions. by Cheong, Jervelle Weizhen., Soh, Yan Bin., Ng, Jacinda Wee Ping.

“…Generation Y is the fastest growing and upcoming segment of today’s workforce. This generation has unique characteristics and values, and thus hiring managers find it increasingly difficult to attract and retain them. …”
Get full text

Assisted child-minding based on visual activity monitoring in a home camera surveillance system by Wu, Jason Weixiang.

“…After which, background subtraction was used to segment the moving and non-moving parts of the surveillance video. …”
Get full text

Optical fiber based environmental sensors by Huang, Jieyuan

“…The joint fiber end consists of a standard single-mode fiber (SMF) and a multi-mode fiber (MMF) segment with certain length. A tunable laser and an erbium-doped fiber amplifier (EDFA) were used as a power source and CNTs were deposited at the end of the fiber due to gradient force. …”
Get full text

An optimization-driven approach for computing geodesic paths on triangle meshes by Liu, Bangquan, Chen, Shuangmin, Xin, Shi-Qing, He, Ying, Liu, Zhen, Zhao, Jieyu

“…A typical way to solve this problem is to iteratively shorten one segment of the path at a time. As local approaches, they are conceptually simple and easy to implement, but they converge slowly and have poor performance on large scale models. …”
Get full text
Get full text

The influence of rainfall on the level of two-lane highway service by Mashros, Nordiana

Get full text

Deciphering the mechanisms of cross-presentation for exogenous ROPs through their interaction with cathepsin S by Stephens, AJ

“…<p>Recombinant overlapping peptides (ROPs) are composed of short overlapping peptide sequences formed into one chain encompassing the sequence of a cancer antigen. Each overlapping segment is separated by a cathepsin S cleavage site for processing within dendritic cells to promote antigen cross-presentation and an anti-tumour response. …”

A human atlas of DNA methylation and hydroxymethylation by Inoue, M

“…</p> <br> <p>To unveil tissue-specific signatures of 5mC and 5hmC, we first segment the genome into blocks of correlated modification levels for each modification. …”

Variational model with image denoising fitting term for boundary extraction of breast ultrasound images by Badrulhisam, Nurdina, Ismail, Nurhuda, Jumaat, Abdul Kadir, Maasar, Mohd Azdi, Laham, Mohamed Faris

“…A recent selective variational model, termed the Convex Distance Selective Segmentation (CDSS) model, is effective at segmenting a specific image object. …”
Get full text

Exploring the Conceptual Definition of Islamic Financial Literacy from the Quran and Sunnah by Ab Rashid, Rosemaliza, Zainol, Zairani, Isa, Mohamad Yazid, Mohd Taib, Hasniza, Khairol Nizam, Aini Nur Hajjar

“…Since some of the elements are not compatible with the rapidly growing segment of the Islamic financial services industry, there is a pressing need to explore the concept of financial literacy from the Shariah perspective. …”
Get full text

Plan Implementation Challenges in a Shrinking City: A Conformance Evaluation of Youngstown’s (OH) Comprehensive Plan With a Subsequent Zoning Code by Ryan, Brent D., Gao, Shuqi

“…Informants attribute the weak conformance between the comprehensive plan and the Youngstown Redevelopment Code to many of the former’s ideas not being legally defensible. Changing political regimes, shifts in public opinion, and the driving need for economic investment were also cited as contributors to this weak conformance. …”
Get full text

An Optimal Tradeoff between Entanglement and Copy Complexity for State Tomography by Chen, Sitan, Li, Jerry, Liu, Allen

Get full text