Investigation of operational characteristics of vanadium redox flow batteries by Rajagopalan Badrinarayanan

“…This thesis focuses on the two important issues in batteries, namely capacity decay and charging methodology. The former is essential in the longevity and latter in short term efficiency and the rate of ageing. …”
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Sociospatial reframing of walking through inclusive streets and urban heritage by Wang, Yongcheng

“…The meta-narrative review identified six research traditions, namely the ecological model, the new mobilities paradigm, heritage discourse, public life, rhythmanalysis and space syntax. …”
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Light management in nanostructures for solar cell application by Du, Qingguo

“…Transparent electrodes are essential part of the solar cell device. Indium tin oxides (ITOs) are the most widely used transparent electrodes for solar cell nowadays. …”
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Development of reconstructed intestinal micronucleus cytome (RICyt) assay in 3D human gut model for genotoxicity assessment of orally ingested substances by Lim, Hui Kheng, Hughes, Christopher Owen, Lim, Michelle Jing Sin, Li, Jia'En Jasmine, Rakshit, Moumita, Yeo, Calvin, Chng, Kern Rei, Li, Angela, Chan, Joanne Sheot Harn, Ng, Kee Woei, Leavesley, David Ian, Smith, Benjamin Paul Chapman

“…The micronucleus (MN) assay is widely used as part of a battery of tests applied to evaluate the genotoxic potential of chemicals, including new food additives and novel food ingredients. …”
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Multi-scale and multiphase modeling of abrasive flow machining process with experimental validation by Mohamed Adel Abdelhakem Amen

“…Two software are employed for each scale, namely ANSYS-FLUENT for the macroscale parameters related to fluid flowing (channel shape/size) and Molecular Dynamics-LAMMPS for microscale parameters related to the abrasion action. …”
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Development of novel electrospun nanofibrous scaffold with nanomaterials for target adsorption in different applications by Lim, Huai Xun

“…To address the water crisis and tackling the shift to energy reliance, this thesis aims to amalgamate the two energy efficient technologies, namely membranes and adsorption together, to synergistically enhance the targeted removal from various systems. …”
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Posture control and balance for quality of walking in rehabilitation by Li, Lei

“…A balance filtering algorithm using whole-body Center of Gravity (CoG) Jacobian is developed to filter the unstable part of the trajectory based on the Zero Moment Point (ZMP) principle. …”
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From Research to Search: Technologies and Techniques of Legal Research, 1880-1980 by Reiss Sorokin, Alex

“…These contradictory meanings, along with the gap between promise and reality, were constantly sewn together as part of the computerized system’s development and marketing process. …”
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Ultra low power asynchronous-logic quasi-delay-insensitive circuit design by Ho, Weng Geng

“…In this thesis, there are three proposed QDI cell templates, namely low power improved Sense-Amplifier-based Pass Transistor Logic (iSAPTL), sub-threshold Autonomous Signal-Validity HalfBuffer (ASVHB) and high-speed Sense-Amplifier Half-Buffer (SAHB), which can be applied to portable/mobile/secured applications. …”
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Geometry guided supervised representation learning for classification by Li, Yue

“…Machine learning is an essential part of artificial intelligence and a useful tool for data mining. …”
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The effects of atmosphere-ocean-wave coupling during tropical cyclone by Garg, Nikhil

“…A series of simulations using different model configurations are carried out to study the effects of coupling wave model, sea spray mediated heat and momentum fluxes, sea surface temperature and ocean currents on a TC named Hurricane Arthur, that traversed through North Atlantic in 2014. …”
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Graph representation learning by Zhang, Xinyi

“…Graph representation learning has been shown to be promising in graph analysis where the graphs or part of the graphs will be converted into a lower-dimensional space while the important information (e.g., structure information and attribute information) of the graph is still well preserved. …”
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French foreign policy towards Poland (1989-1993) by Dangelmayer, AM

“…Chapters II and III examine two critical factors causing this increased mulitlateralisation: namely external and domestic constraints. Chapter II analyses the ways in which French foreign policy developed between 1989 and 1993. …”

Tsewang Norbu NGB by Cantwell, C, Mayer, R

“…</p> <p>We have taken the liberty of re-naming our collection: until now, it has been commonly known as the Waddell Manuscript, or else as the Waddell Edition of the rNying ma'i rgyud 'bum, after the British officer who brought it to the U.K. …”

Preparation of low-dimensional materials for plasmonic bio-sensing by Das, Chandreyee Manas

“…Nano-bio-photonics is a unique blend of three primary disciplines namely nanotechnology, biological sciences and optics. …”
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How Scandinavian was the early Viking Age in the Northern Isles? by Griffiths, D

“…The Northern Isles of Scotland (Orkney and Shetland) are celebrated not only as the nearest parts of the British Isles to Scandinavia, but also as their most Scandinavian in culture and heritage. …”

Converting a text mining system into a UIMA framework by Choo, Zhen Ying.

“…These parts include converting a Named Entity Recognition (NER) module and parsing the input sentences to obtain their semantic structures, as well as a Pattern Matching module to identify the relations between the named entities. …”
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Interactive image segmentation by Tsoi, Lok Yin

“…This project deals with two parts, the detection of faces within an image, as well as the segmentation of this image into two different parts, namely the foreground and the background. …”
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Sworn oaths, golden writing and decapitated heads: communication in Thomas Malory's Le Morte D’Arthur by Chwa, Yi Jie

“…Additionally, I also examine the use of oaths in the early parts of the text, namely Arthur’s coronation oath and the Pentecostal Oath, to examine how Malory sets a rudimentary framework on how we should expect Arthur and his knights to behave. …”
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Water purification chemicals for emergency application by Huang, Zi Rui.

“…Inadequacy of safe water for drinking and sanitation purposes in emergency situations has been growing into an increasingly pressing issue in the modern world as the number of disasters keeps rising in various parts of the globe and their frequency of occurrence escalating. …”
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