Lipid-polymer hybrid nanoparticles enhance the potency of ampicillin against Enterococcus faecalis in a protozoa infection model by Tan, Chuan Hao, Jiang, Lai, Li, Wenrui, Chan, Siew Herng, Baek, Jong-Suep, Ng, Noele Kai Jing, Sailov, Talgat, Kharel, Sharad, Chong, Kelvin Kian Long, Loo, Joachim Say Chye

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ESBL and AmpC β-lactamase encoding genes in E. coli from pig and pig farm workers in Vietnam and their association with mobile genetic elements by Hounmanou, Yaovi Mahuton Gildas, Bortolaia, Valeria, Dang, Son Thi Thanh, Truong, Duong, Olsen, John E., Dalsgaard, Anders

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Correlation between GNSS-TEC and eruption magnitude supports the use of ionospheric sensing to complement volcanic hazard assessment by Manta, Fabio, Occhipinti, Giovanni, Hill, Emma M., Perttu, Anna, Assink, Jelle, Taisne, Benoit

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Associations between health literacy and health care utilization and mortality in patients with coexisting diabetes and end-stage renal disease : a prospective cohort study by Griva, Konstantina, Loong, Russel K. L., Nandakumar, Mooppil, Rajeswari, Moothathamby, Khoo, Eric Y. H., Lee, Vanessa Y. W., Kang, Augustine W. C., Osborne, Richard H., Brini, Stefano, Newman, Stanton P.

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Experimental & simulation study of 16kWp photovoltaic (PV) system performance & the investigation of PV heat island effect by Devihosur, Shiddalingeshwar Channabasappa

“…The disparity in performance ratio (PR) was seen to be largely within an acceptable range of 2.77-5.22% with the exception of the Jan 2022 where the difference was 10.38%. …”
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Toward a generic federated learning platform optimized for computer vision applications by Zhuang, Weiming

“…Our evaluation demonstrates that EasyFL allows users to write less code and our distributed training optimization effectively accelerates training speed by 1.5 times. Built on EasyFL, we optimize algorithms for the following three computer vision applications: person re-identification (ReID), unsupervised person ReID, and self-supervised learning. …”
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Signalling inhibition by ponatinib disrupts productive alternative lengthening of telomeres (ALT) by Kusuma, Frances Karla, Prabhu, Aishvaryaa, Tieo, Galen, Syed Moiz Ahmed, Dakle, Pushkar, Yong, Wai Khang, Pathak, Elina, Madan, Vikas, Jiang, Yan Yi, Tam, Wai Leong, Kappei, Dennis, Dröge, Peter, Koeffler, H. Phillip, Jeitany, Maya

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Modeling perception errors in autonomous vehicles and their impact on behavior by Piazzoni, Andrea

“…Cooperative Perception is a Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) solution that enables connected vehicles to share information about their surroundings, with the goal of improving the overall perception quality. …”
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Trajectory of immune evasion and cancer progression in hepatocellular carcinoma by Nguyen, Phuong H. D., Wasser, Martin, Tan, Chong Teik, Lim, Chun Jye, Lai, Hannah L. H., Seow, Justine Jia Wen, DasGupta, Ramanuj, Phua, Cheryl Z. J., Ma, Siming, Yang, Jicheng, Sheena D/O Suthen, Tam, Wai Leong, Lim, Tony K. H., Yeong, Joe, Leow, Wei Qiang, Pang, Yin Huei, Soon, Gwyneth, Loh, Tracy Jiezhen, Wan, Wei Keat, Chan, Chung Yip, Cheow, Peng Chung, Toh, Han Chong, Kow, Alfred, Dan, Yock Young, Kam, Juinn Huar, Iyer, Shridhar, Madhavan, Krishnakumar, Chung, Alexander, Bonney, Glenn K., Goh, Brian K. P., Fu, Naiyang, Yu, Victor C., Zhai, Weiwei, Albani, Salvatore, Chow, Pierce K. H., Chew, Valerie

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Perovskite superstructures and heterostructures for enhanced optical performance by Chan, Wen Kiat

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Dynamic altruistic cooperation within breast tumors by Muhammad Sufyan Bin Masroni, Lee, Kee Wah, Lee, Victor Kwan Min, Ng, Siok Bian, Law, Chao Teng, Poon, Kok Siong, Lee, Bernett Teck Kwong, Liu, Zhehao, Tan, Yuen Peng, Chng, Wee Ling, Tucker, Steven, Ngo, Lynette Su-Mien, Yip, George Wai Cheong, Nga, Min En, Hue, Susan Swee Shan, Putti, Thomas Choudary, Bay, Boon Huat, Lin, Qingsong, Zhou, Lihan, Hartman, Mikael, Loh, Tze Ping, Lakshmanan, Manikandan, Lee, Sook Yee, Tergaonkar, Vinay, Chua, Huiwen, Lee, Adeline Voon Hui, Yeo, Eric Yew Meng, Li, Mo-Huang, Chang, Chan Fong, Kee, Zizheng, Tan, Karen Mei-Ling, Tan, Soo Yong, Koay, Evelyn Siew-Chuan, Archetti, Marco, Leong, Sai Mun

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Synergistic-potential engineering enables high-efficiency graphene photodetectors for near- to mid-infrared light by Jiang, Hao, Fu, Jintao, Wei, Jingxuan, Li, Shaojuan, Nie, Changbin, Sun, Feiying, Wu, Steve Qing Yang, Liu, Mingxiu, Dong, Zhaogang, Wei, Xingzhan, Gao, Weibo, Qiu, Cheng-Wei

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Nonequilibrium hyperuniform fluids by Lei, Yusheng

“…Our result suggests that the phase transformations in nonequilibrium systems can be fundamentally different from the ones in equilibrium. In Chapter 5, we study nonequilibrium reactive particle systems with additional short-ranged attractive interactions using molecular dynamics simulations. …”
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Thermal energy storage enhancement of latent heat thermal energy storage systems by Low, Zheng Hua

“…With respect to horizontal fins, positively inclined fins of +15º and +30º delayed the full melt time by 3.8% and 4.0%, respectively, while negatively inclined fins at -15º and -30º improved the melt fraction difference by up to 5.2%. Three fin lengths corresponding to dimensionless lengths of 0.375, 0.625 and 0.875 were numerically studied together with varying angles. …”
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Geometric hashing for camera based localization by Tan, Wei Chian

“…Next step could be looking into improvement of feature detection or more advanced speeding up techniques such as Locality Sensitive Hashing (LSH) [5] and Randomized Tree [6] or Forest [7] for better performance.…”
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Carbon-semiconductor hybrid nanostructures and their photoresponse behaviors by Zhan, Zhaoyao

“…By using an asymmetrical contact structure, the hybrid devices present significant rectification in I-V curves, and show predominant photoresponse to light illumination. …”
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Sampling-based approaches for image and video matting by Ehsan Shahrian Varnousfaderani

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

“…The results showed polyester-based PU nanocomposites with D-clay concentration above 5 wt% formed percolated clay network structure, this hindered the movement of both hard and soft segments to a certain extent. …”
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Human factors in agile software development by Lin, Jun

“…To address these three questions, we have conducted a series of experiments, simulations and data analysis, and contributed a series of solutions and insights in this research, including 1) a Goal Net based method to enhance goal and requirement management for ASD process, 2) a novel Simple Multi-Agent Real-Time (SMART) approach to enhance intelligent task allocation for ASD process, 3) a Fuzzy Cognitive Map (FCM) based method to enhance emotion and morale management for ASD process, 4) a large-scale in-depth empirical analysis of human factors in the agile development process through the continuous observation of student ASD teams, and 5) the identification of an ASD process as a human-computation system that uses humans to perform tasks that computers are not good at and computers to assist human decision making.…”
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Ion doping behavior of stöber silica-nanosynthesis and application by Song, Xiaohui

“…It is a simple, general method to synthesize Janus nanoparticles by ion doping control during the metal nanoparticle coating process. In Chapter 5, another type of core-shell structure, metal nanoparticle coated by poly(styrene)-block-poly(acrylic acid) (PSPAA) shell was studied. …”
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