Enhancing spectrum efficiency through hybrid-duplex systems for aeronautical communications by Tan, Ernest Zheng Hui

“…Through the various performance analysis, the benefits of HBD systems over half-duplex (HD) systems at low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) regimes are highlighted. The major contributions of this thesis are further elaborated below. …”
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Effects of Tip Clearance and Surface Roughness on Small-Scale Turbopump Impeller Performance by Ruecker, Kinjal A. L.

“…This lowers the effective tip clearance that separates the flow regimes. The contribution of blade tip leakage loss to total impeller loss decreases by up to 22% for surface roughness increased from an Rₐ value of 1 µm to 10 µm. …”
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Values and lifestyles of expatriates in Singapore. by Kong, Poh Li., Shariffah Kassim., Yeong, Billy Peng Hong.

“…A survey research was conducted using clustering techniques in order to segment the respondents and to examine their values and lifestyles. …”
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NTU students' traveling motivations and behaviors. by Nguyen, Dang Ngoc Duyen., Tan, Samantha Shu Yuan.

“…This paper intends to initiate research into this tourism segment in Singapore as a generating market.…”
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Design and development of bio-medical devices using rapid prototyping techniques by Phua, Kenneth Khiang Song.

“…Many drug regimes must be carefully dosed as they are either too complicated to be self –administered or face low compliance by the patients themselves. …”
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TDSF: Two-phase tamper detection in semi-fragile watermarking using two-level integer wavelet transform by Amrullah, Agit, Ernawan, Ferda, Anis Farihan, Mat Raffei, Liew, Siau-Chuin

“…The initial phase will check four segments to determine the tampered bit or not. A tampered segment is identified if it contains at least one tampered bit. …”
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Last-Meter Delivery: Solving the Unattended Delivery Challenge from Streets to Doorsteps by Xiao, Wen-Xin

“…KEYWORDS: Last-Mile Delivery, last-meter Delivery, Large Language Models (LLM), Vision Language Models (VLM), Robotics, Segment Anything Model (SAM), Open-Vocabulary Object Detection (OVD).…”
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A size and position invariant event-based human posture recognition algorithm by Chen, Shoushun, Folowosele, Fopefolu, Kim, Dongsoo, Vogelstein, R. Jacob, Etienne-Cummings, Ralph, Culurciello, Eugenio

“…The algorithm employs a simplified line segment Hausdorff distance classification and uses projection histograms to achieve size and position invariance. …”
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Task-space adaptive control of robot manipulator by Ng, Tian Seng.

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Laser-induced reduced-graphene-oxide micro-optics patterned by femtosecond laser direct writing by Low, Mun Ji, Lee, Hyub, Lim, Joel Chin Huat, Suchand Sandeep, Chandramathi Sukumaran, Murukeshan, Vadakke Matham, Kim, Seung-Woo, Kim, Young-Jin

“…By extensive parametric control of average power (10–120 mW), pulse repetition rate (1–500 kHz) and scan speed (1–100 mm/s) in FsLDW, ultra-thin micro-optics were patterned at three patterning regimes: non-thermal photoreduction regime, thermal photoreduction regime, and ablation regime. …”
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Full threshold change range of threshold changeable secret sharing by Ding, Jian, Lin, Changlu, Lin, Fuchun, Wang, Huaxiong

“…There are some known threshold change regimes that are realized by (optimal) TCSS schemes or (optimal) uTCSS schemes. …”
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Droplet impact on superheated surfaces by Khavari, Mohammad

“…The former case is commonly referred to as the contact boiling regime, while the latter one is known as the Leidenfrost regime. …”
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Our weapons, our problem: arms exports, democracy and civil society in Brazil and the UK by de Moraes, RF

“…Next, I examine why and how the governments of these two countries sought to export their practices to the rest of the world or opted to join international regimes.</p>…”

Thermoplastic polymer nanocomposites based on polydopamine-coated clay : preparation, structures and properties by Phua, Si Lei

“…This strong interfacial interaction between D-clay and hard segments not only facilitates the stress transfer across the filler and polymer matrix, but also acts as nucleating agent for hard segment crystallization, leading to higher hard segment crystallinity. …”
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Emergent Democracy by Ito, Joichi

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The changing nature of Chinese business in Africa : the case of Cape Verde by Horta, Loro

“…Chinese state companies are usually singled out for criticism in the West due to their links with despotic African regimes all for the sake of profit. The nature of Chinese business in Africa is however becoming more complex.…”
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No Shangri-La for North Korea by Samaniego, Catherine

“…Kim Jong-un should expect to see his regime’s political leverage in Northeast Asia gradually reduced, while its biggest ally, China, remains preoccupied with its own domestic concerns.…”
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Reduction of dimensionality of a cellular actuator array for driving a robotic hand by Cho, Kyu-Jin, Ph. D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Biomechanical evaluation of peripheral nerves after crush injuries by Wong, Yoke-Rung, Pang, Xin, Lim, Zeus Yiwei, Du, Hejun, Tay, Shian-Chao, McGrouther, Duncan Angus

“…The original diameters of proximal, middle and distal end of nerve segment were measured. The midst of each digital nerve was compressed by a customized mechanical system, at 1N, 3N and 5N for 30sec. …”
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Distinct Circle of Willis anatomical configurations in healthy preterm born adults: a 3D time-of-flight magnetic resonance angiography study by Greggio, J, Malamateniou, C, Baruteau, KP, Reyes-Aldasoro, CC, Huckstep, OJ, Francis, JM, Williamson, W, Leeson, P, Lewandowski, AJ, Lapidaire, W

“…In contrast, preterm females showed higher odds of a group 4a variant (circles with one or more accessory segments, without any absent segments) in comparison to their full-term counterparts (p = 0.020). …”