An analytical model to predict spalling and breaching of concrete plates under contact detonation by Tu, Huan, Fung, Tat Ching, Tan, Kang Hai, Riedel, Werner

“…As a fast and physics-based alternative, an analytical model is proposed in Tu et al.’s work [1], to quantitively predict compressive damage forming on the impacted face. …”
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Modeling e-learning effectiveness and usability by Leong, Lock Wah.

“…For the last two decades, many organizations, junior schools, Universities and educational institutions have been investing in the information technologies to improve education and training at an increasing rate. …”
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A study of tidal turbine array by Yong, Heng Wei.

“…Since the electrical power are largely affected by the internal frictional, electric and magnetic losses. Last but not least, Calibration experiments are performed by using the dead weight method. …”
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A study on the impact of corporate social responsibility on the brand equity of McDonald’s and KFC in Singapore. by Koh, Ren Kiat., Seet, Kenneth Wenlei., Seng, Robin Swee Meng.

“…This study investigates the impact of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) on the brand equity of two fast food chains in Singapore, McDonald’s and Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC). …”
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Design of low-power analog filters in WBAN receiver front-ends for hyper/hypothyroidism patients by Wang, Xiaoying

“…Active filters are the key building blocks that ensure effective communications. With the fast developing speed of the wireless communication technology, WBAN system has raised the requirements for high performance filters. …”
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Pilot-project comparison of microbial water quality changes within continuous water supply and intermittent water supply by Khoo, Jun Sean

“…Dissimilarities in microbial community were observed with CWS-fast with IWS-fast, and occasional CWS-slow and IWS-fast conditions.. …”
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Triple boundary multiphase with predictive interleaving technique for switched capacitor DC-DC converter regulation by Xiao, Zhekai, Kok, Chiang Liang, Siek, Liter

“…Conventional hysteretic controller achieves fast regulation, but it uses N comparators or one shared comparator that operates at N times the single phase switching frequency, where N is the level of interleaving. …”
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Heteroatom modified graphenes : electronic and electrochemical applications by Pumera, Martin

“…Graphene exhibits zero band gap, very small electrical resistivity, fast heat dissipation, and fast heterogeneous electron transfer properties. …”
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Design of self-organizing fuzzy neural networks using evolutionary algorithms by Fan, Lihua

“…In this thesis, an improved fast and accurate online self-organizing scheme for parsimonious fuzzy neural networks (FAOS-PFNN) has been proposed. …”
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Real time power system simulation using Opal-RT by Shi, Donghan

“…This real time simulation can be used for further hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) simulation or fast prototype development. Key words: marine power system; real time simulation; Opal-RT…”
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Techno-economic assessment of thin lithium metal anodes for solid-state batteries by Burton, M, Narayanan, S, Jagger, B, Olbrich, LF, Dhir, S, Shibata, M, Lain, MJ, Astbury, R, Butcher, N, Copley, M, Kotaka, T, Aihara, Y, Pasta, M

Learning from nature : experimental observation of mimosa pudica by Zhang, Yi

“…Mimosa pudica is famous for its fast leaf-closing movement to defend against predators. …”
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Model Predictive Control of High Power Converters and Industrial Drives / by Geyer, Tobias, 1975-, author 656156

“…These control methods combine the fast control responses of deadbeat control with the optimal steady-state performance of optimized pulse patterns by resolving the antagonism between the two. …”
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Arbitration : a new era of dispute resolution by Ang, Eng Kiat, Chong, Siew Ann, Tay, Eddie Liang Wee

“…The paper concludes that arbitration is fast gaining ground in the last three to four years in the area of dispute resolution. …”
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Completing Your Qualitative Dissertation : A Road Map From Beginning to End / by Bloomberg, Linda Dale, author 226716, Volpe, Marie, author 373853, Sage Publications (Online service) 9618

“…Fills an important gap in qualitative research literature by specifically addressing the fast-growing practice of qualitative master's studies and doctoral dissertations in colleges and universities throughout the world. …”
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Antenna systems for diversity in the next-generation mobile handphones by Hui, Hon Tat.

“…In the cellular communications environment, short term or fast fading due to multipath has a significant impact on the overall system performance. …”
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Understanding human interaction in RGB-D videos by Shi, Yuanyuan

“…The testing results show that the algorithm is able to understand human hand gestures accurately and fast.…”
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Interference suppression for frequency-hopped multiple-access receiver by Chitra, Bhupathy

“…In this dissertation, bit error rate performance results of Binary Frequency Shift Keying (BFSK), Fast Frequency Hopped/ Binary Frequency Shift Keying (FFH/BFSK) and Fast Frequency Hopped Multiple Access (FFH/MA) under Additive White Gaussian Noise (AWGN), Rician and Rayleigh channels are studied. …”
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A scalable variational inference approach for increased mixed-model association power by Loya, H, Kalantzis, G, Cooper, F, Palamara, PF

“…We applied Quickdraws to 79 quantitative and 50 binary traits in 405,088 UK Biobank samples, identifying 4.97% and 3.25% more associations than REGENIE and 22.71% and 7.07% more than FastGWA. Quickdraws had costs comparable to REGENIE, FastGWA and SAIGE on the UK Biobank Research Analysis Platform service, while being substantially faster than BOLT-LMM. …”

Vision enhancement using artificial intelligence techniques by Yu, Xiaohan

“…Proposed papers show limitations dealing with both fast moving cameras and pretty heavy rain. In the former paper, their main idea was to create a method to achieve perfect frame alignment. …”
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