Low-Cost Electronic Microfluidics for Multiplexed Point-of-Care Biomarker Detection by Kikkeri, Kruthika

“…This MINX PoC platform was validated through detection of IL-6 in human plasma. Finally, Chapter 5 outlines future directions, emphasizing real-time dynamic control to enhance assay tunability. …”
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Predictive and Prescriptive Trees for Optimization and Control Problems by Kim, Cheol Woo

“…We also introduce novel methods to expedite training data generation and reduce the number of different target classes the machine learning algorithm needs to be trained on. In Chapter 5, we introduce a prescriptive machine learning approach to speed up the process of solving mixed integer convex optimization (MICO) problems. …”
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Quantifying the effects of sunlight on the fate of oil spilled at sea by Freeman, Danielle Haas

“…I found that if a spill like DwH had occurred in 5°C water rather than the exceptionally warm 30°C water of the GoM, 7x less oil could have dissolved via photo-dissolution and the viscosity of the remaining insoluble oil could have been 16x higher, resulting in lower entrainment of oil into the water column as small droplets (Chapter 3). …”
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Investigation of radiant panel cooling systems for sensible cooling in air conditioning by Teo, Nguan Teck.

“…With reference to the Predicted Mean Vote index recorded by TRNSYS, the occupants are comfortable in 80.5%, 89.3% and 90.1% of the simulated hours for the conventional and the active chilled beam systems (i.e. …”
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FPGA-based multi-rate system design : Avalon Interface vs.Globally Asynchronous Locally Synchronous approach by Zou, You.

“…It has been found that the Altera SOPC Builder approach outweighs the GALS (plausible clock) approach obviously in terms of the design efforts, throughput (29.3% higher) and area (37% smaller); however, the GALS (plausible clock) approach consumes less power by an insignificant amount (4.85% less) with a slightly smaller latency (5.7% smaller). At last, based on the comparison of the two systems, it is concluded that in spite of low design flexibility and some other limitations, SOPC Builder fits best in the circumstances of developing robust DSP systems in a short design period. …”
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Harmonic fields based surface and volume mapping by Xia, Jiazhi

“…After that, a global smoothing step is adopted to improve the continuity along the segmentation boundaries. In Chapter 5, we also develop another method to overcome the drawback of harmonic maps in parameterizing 3D facial expressions. …”
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Anodic TiO2 nanotube arrays with high surface area for dye-sensitized solar cells by Wang, Xiaoyan

“…The small diameter tubes with a length of 23 μm yield a high conversion efficiency of 5.02% in dye-sensitized solar cells.…”
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Small scale 3D jet scour by Nuramirah Suyin Zaihan

“…Dimensionless relationships between the scour hole geometry (d_se/d_o ,W_se/d_o , L_se/d_o and V_se/d_o ) and densimeric Froude number (Fo) were also determined. …”
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Vision based control for mobile robot by Siah, Clarence Jun Da

“…The integration result based on the suggested solution was promising and the error distance could be achieved approximately less than 5cm. Finally, it is evident from the findings that using bumper sensor together with monocular camera does a good performance in obstacle avoidance and object tracking. …”
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Design of slender reinforced concrete column using Indian design code and Chinese design code (dual project) by Tan, Xesman Zhong Hong

“…The 152 columns have concrete strength, fcu ranged from 16.7N/mm2 to 106.7N/mm2, steel yield strength ranged from 2067N/mm2 to 6257N/mm2, ratio of e/h from 0 to 0.75, normalised area of steel reinforcement percentage from 0.88% to 5.24% and ratio of depth L/h from 14.7 to 50. The 4 parametric studies in this research paper have shown that the column load carrying capacity increases when higher strength concrete and/or higher percentage of steel reinforcement is used. …”
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Bio-aerosol dynamics in buildings by Lee, Benedict

“…Fungal bioaerosols have a diameter of 1 to 100 μm, which is larger than bacteria which has a diameter of 0.5 to 10 μm. Thus, fungi are more easily captured by the filter in the ACMV system. …”
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Heat transfer of 3D-printed porous structure used in cold plate by Tew, Hong Boon

“…Subsequently, experiments were conducted on three porous-filled cold plates with unit cell dimensions of 7 mm, 10 mm and 13 mm, which correspond to porosity values of 64.8%, 75.8% and 95.5%, respectively. The experiments were conducted in a closed circulation loop with ReD ranging from 794 to 4796, with11 data points taken for each cold plate specimen. …”
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The iDEA architecture-focused FPGA soft processor by Cheah, Hui Yan

“…Finally, we show how a restricted forwarding scheme that uses an internal DSP block accumulation path can eliminate some of the dependency overheads in executing programs, achieving a 25% improvement in execution time, compared to an alternative forwarding path implemented in the logic fabric, which offers only a 5% improvement. We benchmark our processor with a range of representative benchmarks and analyse it at the compiler, instruction, and cycle levels.…”
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The ethics of silence : reading the lover's discourse in contemporary trauma narratives by Goh, Pei Hua

“…This is even more significant for third generation Holocaust writers like Krauss, for whom the Holocaust itself has already become “an increasingly mediated cultural memory” (Krignen 5). Therefore, literature is a particularly suitable medium for engaging with an unspeakable and inaccessible subject matter that cannot be directly approached. …”
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Experimental and numerical evaluation of the performances of electromagnetic miniature energy harvesters driven by air flow by Han, Nuomin

“…Preliminary parametric measurements are conducted to investigate the effects of 1) the blade number, 2) the geometric size, 3) the aspect ratio, 4) the types of central part, 5) end plates and 6) the orientation of the energy harvester. …”
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Structural analysis of the novel influenza A (H7N9) viral Neuraminidase interactions with current approved neuraminidase inhibitors Oseltamivir, Zanamivir, and Peramivir in the pre... by Tran-To Su, Chinh, Ouyang, Xuchang, Zheng, Jie, Kwoh, Chee Keong

“…In addition, our results of binding-affinity relationships of the 3 inhibitors with the viral neuraminidase proteins of previous pandemics (H1N1, H5N1) and the current novel H7N9 reflected the extent of binding effectiveness of the 3 inhibitors to the novel H7N9 neuraminidase. …”
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Evaluation of CareStart™ malaria HRP2/pLDH (Pf/PAN) combo rapid diagnostic test for diagnosis of Plasmodium falciparum infection in malaria co-endemic areas in association with par... by Christian, M, Ekawati, LL, Pratama, AR, Cahyaningati, S, Bere, HK, Rustam, M, Kalbuadi, I, Andini, J, Yuliana, J, Fadilah, I, Ley, B, Thriemer, K, Price, RN, Sutanto, I, Baird, JK

“…For each ten-fold increase in parasite density, the RDT had 12 times the odds of returning Pf/Pan-positive results (n = 126) compared to Pf-positive (n = 19) (OR: 12.1; 95% CI 5.18 to 34.8; p < 0.001). Conclusions: CareStart™ Pf/Pan RDT is reliable in diagnosing falciparum malaria and Pf/Pan-positive results indicate higher parasite density. …”

Preterm birth and cardiometabolic health trajectories from birth to adulthood: the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children by Clayton, GL, Howe, LD, O’Keeffe, LM, Lewandowski, A, Lawlor, DA, Fraser, A

“…By age 25, this difference in SBP began to attenuate towards the null (0.9mmHg;95%CI(-0.5,2.3)) Participants born preterm (versus term) had lower BMI between ages 7 and 18, but by age 25, there was no difference. …”

Characterising the metabolic functionality of the preterm neonatal gut microbiome prior to the onset of necrotising enterocolitis: a pilot study by Chapman, JA, Wroot, E, Brown, T, Beck, LC, Embleton, ND, Berrington, JE, Stewart, CJ

“…Results: Eight NEC infants were selected of median gestation 26.5 weeks and median day of life (DOL) of NEC onset 20, with one sample used per infant, collected within one to eight days (median four) before NEC onset. …”

Direct measurement of magnetic monopole charge and transport dynamics by Hsu, C

“…By combining Monte Carlo simulation and monopole current measurements, signatures from dynamical fractal motion are identified. Chapter 5 further investigates the monopole noise towards lower temperatures, leading to the discovery of dynamical heterogeneity of the magnetic monopole fluid in its supercooled state. …”