Multi-stable configurations for vibration-based energy harvester by Wileen Kristanto

“…Although this research has been around for the past few years, it has seen many drawbacks to the bandwidth of the operation for the energy harvester. …”
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Outlook for the dry bulk shipping market by Wee, Wei Ming

“…The market sentiments believe that the shipping industry is coming out of the trough period that affected the industry for the past few years. With the improving freight rates supported by growing global demand for dry bulk commodities driven by economic recovery, the market prospects for dry bulk shipping are optimistic in the near future. …”
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Automated equipment management & maintenance system (AEMS) by Quek, Teng Yeow

“…It can further consolidate past service activities and compute the cost of servicing, allowing for better decision-making. …”
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Trust management for large-scale heterogeneous wireless sensor and actuator networks (I) by Ummeaiman Najmuddin Shakir

“…Reputation is the perception that a peer creates through past actions about its intentions and norms. To reduce the significant resistance in rolling out urban sensing systems and ensuring Security, Privacy and Trust, it is vital to be able to visualize and analyse the data coming from the sensor nodes to mitigate the attacks from compromised/ captured/ dishonest nodes and misbehaviour from faulty nodes. …”
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Age-related functional compensation in novelty and relational encoding of scenes : a brain activation and functional connectivity study by Leow, Dayton Wei Yang

“…Past neuroimaging studies have demonstrated the functional involvement of bilateral inferior frontal gyrus (IFG), hippocampus and parahippocampus in novelty and relational encoding of scenes. …”
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Financial reform in the Philippines by Chua, Hwee Kian, Loo, Seow Theng, Tan, Teck Ming

“…The Philippines, being no exception, had for the past decade allowed market forces to determine interest rates, allocation of credit and the level of financial intermediation so as to improve the efficiency and stability of the financial system. …”
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ASEAN and EU in the political reform in Myanmar by Nguyen Thi Anh Thu

“…While there is still a long road ahead of Myanmar towards a more sustainable future, this dissertation is expected to give a hint on the effectiveness of the carrot and stick approaches taken by ASEAN and the EU in the past years. It may also be helpful for a continuous observation of this country's democratization in the future, especially when looking forward to its election in 2015.…”
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Cyclic compression of mesenchymal stem cells loaded scaffolds for bone tissue engineering by Guo, Fangfang

“…Cyclic mechanical loading on Mesenchymal Stem Cells (MSCs) has resulted in increased expression of early osteogenic markers as well as increased mineralized matrix deposition. In most of past studies, scaffolds were subjected to the cyclic loading immediately after seeding or a few days after static culture. …”
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The antecedents and consequences of a layered architecture of mobile handsets by Lee, Alvin Wei Ming

“…It will highlight how this concept, which has proven relevant in many past instances, permeates itself in this industry. …”
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Experimental study of flows in a porous pipe by Lin, Wanxi

“…Studies on permeable-rough bounded flows done in the past are mainly conducted in open channels, where it is subjected to the effect of surface variance. …”
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Web-based English grammar system for personalized learning by Yan, Qian Ping

“…The learning concepts defined for each section and questions in this system were gathered from the past year exam papers and assessment books. Grammar Express allows students to search for questions, learn concepts for each section, practice questions on the sections that they are weak at, and take a paper test with a time limit. …”
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Detecting facial expressions from kinect camera by Muhammad Hafiz Bin Mohd Zakee

“…In the past years, there were several advances methodology regarding face detection and tracking, features extraction methodology and techniques used for expression classification. …”
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Building a low cost advanced driver assistance system : human detection by Tan, Yan Ling

“…Advance Drive Assistance Systems (ADAS) are systems which helps driver in their driving process can enhance manufacturers’ competitiveness in the market. In the past decade, more emphasis has been placed on using such systems on driverless vehicles. …”
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Brand or friend? A study on relational mobility as the mediator between stress and brand identification by Chi, Boon See

“…This identification has been demonstrated possible to replace social identification, which is essential to an individual’s self-concept and self-worth. Review of past researches illustrates the potential of brand identification as a coping resource to overcome stressors. …”
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Improving hydration and carbonation of reactive magnesium oxide cement by Tye, Wenkai

“…However, mechanical strength advancement of RMC concrete is limited by the low hydration and carbonation of MgO in ambient conditions. Some past studies had presented the effectiveness of using hydrating agents (HA) to improve hydration of MgO while others improved the carbonation aspect via various methods. …”
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Laplacian Regularized Subspace Learning for interactive image re-ranking by Zhang, Lining., Wang, Lipo., Lin, Weisi.

“…Content-based image retrieval (CBIR) has attracted substantial attention during the past few years for its potential applications. To bridge the gap between low level visual features and high level semantic concepts, various relevance feedback (RF) or interactive re-ranking (IR) schemes have been designed to improve the performance of a CBIR system. …”
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Compressing Trajectory for Trajectory Indexing by Feng, Kaiyu, Shen, Zhiqi

“…With the availability of such trajectory data, many mining tasks have been proposed and investigated in the past decade. Since the raw trajectory data is usually very large, it is a big challenge to analyse and mine the raw data directly. …”
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Preface : two dimensional (2D) hybrid organic-inorganic perovskites by Li, Wei, Docampo, Pablo, Mohite, Aditya D., Zhang, Hua

“…2D hybrid organic-inorganic perovskites (HOIPs) have been intensively investigated over the past 30 years before the rise of photovoltaic 3D hybrid perovskites. …”
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A sustainable approach to individualized disease treatment : The engineering of a multiple use MEMS drug delivery device by Tng, Danny Jian Hang, Song, Peiyi, Hu, Rui, Lin, Guimiao, Yong, Ken-Tye

“…Individualized disease diagnosis and therapy has emerged as a new direction in the research of future medication. Over the past several years, innovative approaches based on microelectromechanical system (MEMS) technology have demonstrated promising potential in individualized therapy. …”
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Mitigating the impact of node mobility using mobile backbone for heterogeneous MANETs by Xia, Yang, Yeo, Chai Kiat

“…Routing in Mobile Ad hoc Network (MANET) has been an active research area in the past few years. It is observed that as the mobility of nodes increases, the performance of existing cluster based routing protocols tends to deteriorate rapidly. …”
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