Analysis and design of RSSI in the RF receiver chain by Bhaskar Yashaswini

“…This dissertation presents the CMOS design of such a RSSI block implemented in the RF receiver chain, which is used in low-power applications such as BLE or ZigBee. IFA and rectifiers form the basic building blocks of RSSI that are constructed with much care in this design. …”
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Strategies of colour and lighting design in the cinematography of Christopher Doyle by Peh, Colin Jin Wei

“…The study of these 5 feature films by renowned Directors Wong Kar Wai, Zhang Yi Mou, Tan Bee Thiam and Phillip Noyce will also showcase a detailed visual analysis of various narrative styles. …”
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Mechanics of fracture and flexure in Antarctic ice sheets and ice shelves by Zhang, H

“…Sticky patches are regions with higher basal shear stress than their surroundings. By including basal shear stresses in the classical, vertical mode-I fracture model, I model basal hydrofracturing on the ice--bedrock interface near a sticky patch. …”

Health economic aspects of childhood excess weight by Onyimadu, O

“…My analyses of CPRD-HES data revealed that children living with overweight and obesity incurred significantly higher direct healthcare costs than their peers with a healthy weight. In comparison to children with healthy weight, those living with overweight generated additional costs of £133.93 and £66.32, on average, in the year preceding and following a BMI measurement, respectively, while children with obesity incurred additional costs of £115.47 and £154.51, on average, during the same periods. …”

Properties and mechanism of strain and piezoelectricity of hybrid molecular ferroelectrics by Hu, Yuzhong

“…In Chapter 4, the design strategy and discovery of the colossal shear strain in this OIHF will be presented. Materials with controllable strain is highly desirable in shape memory devices, sensors and actuators. …”
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Laboratory and field measurement of dispersion curves using surface wave methods by Tan, Roy Guan Ming.

“…The dispersion curve can be inverted to provide a shear wave velocity or stiffness profile.…”
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Stress investigation on crack tip plastic zone - part II: sub-interface crack and crack in layered materials by Poh, Xuan You.

“…The values of plastic zone size, normal stress and shear stress are pre-determined by satisfying the conditions that both Mode I and Mode II stress intensity factors vanish and the Von Mises yield criterion is met. …”
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Two-stream mixing flow with streamwise vorticity by Mao, Rong Hai

“…Flat plate (to simulate plane free shear layer) and convoluted plate (to generate normal K-H vortex without streamwise vortex) have also been tested as baselines for comparison. …”
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Low temperature Cu-Cu thermo-compression bonding with temporary passivation of self-assembled monolayer and its bond strength enhancement by Ang, X. F., Wei, J., Leong, K. C., Tan, Chuan Seng, Lim, Dau Fatt

“…This gives rise to enhancement in shear strength in the bonded Cusingle bondCu layer.…”
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Toward multivariate fragility functions for seismic damage and loss estimation of high-rise buildings by Kourehpaz, Pouria, Hutt, Carlos Molina, Lallemant, David

“…The dataset used in this study encompasses 15,000 simulations of modern high-rise reinforced concrete shear wall buildings ranging from eight to 24 stories which are subjected to ground motion records at five different intensity levels. …”
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3D spheroid-microvasculature-on-a-chip for tumor-endothelium mechanobiology interplay by Zhang, Yingqi, Jiang, Fengtao, Zhao, Charles Yunduo, Cho, Ann-Na, Fang, Guocheng, Cox, Charles D., Zreiqat, Hala, Lu, Zu Fu, Lu, Hongxu, Ju, Arnold Lining

“…Recent findings underscore the pivotal roles of blood/lymphatic flow and shear stress in this intricate tumor extravasation process. …”
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Fracture toughness assessment of a solder joint using double cantilever beam specimens by Lee, Adeline Puay Chen, Lim, Zan Xuan, Yantara, Natalia, Loo, Shane Zhi Yuan, Tee, Tong Yan, Tan, Cher Ming, Chen, Zhong

“…Conventional assessment of solder joint reliability uses either ball shear test or solder ball pull test. The test results are reported in terms of materials strength in either shear or tensile mode, and the strength values are size-dependent. …”
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Characterizing the scouring efficiency of Granular Activated Carbon (GAC) particles in membrane fouling mitigation via wavelet decomposition of accelerometer signals by Wang, Jingwei, Wu, Bing, Yang, Shiliang, Liu, Yu, Chew, Jia Wei, Fane, Anthony Gordon

“…Particle fluidization is a promising unsteady-state shear means of mitigating membrane fouling, thereby potentially lower the energy requirement in membrane-based water treatment processes. …”
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Theoretical Estimates of Mechanical Properties of the Endothelial Cell Cytoskeleton by Satcher, Robert L. Jr., Dewey, C. Forbes Jr.

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The rotator cuff tendons of the shoulder joint : anatomy and development of a model to predict and prevent tears by Khong, Chee Houe

“…The simulation results showed that the maximum von-Mises stress occurs at the inferior end of the supraspinatus tendon, and the maximum shear strain occurs at the superior end of supraspinatus tendon. …”
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Analysis of changes in composites after different level of heat exposure by Chua, HongWei

“…One of the popular extended non-destructive testing used by the aviation industry to determine heat damage in carbon fiber is the 4100 ExoScan. 4100 ExoScan’s manufacturer, the Agilent’s Technologies had published a research paper named “Composite thermal damage – correlation of short beam shear data with FTIR spectroscopy” to show the effectiveness of 4100 ExoScan to characterize the heat damage in carbon fiber. …”
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Phonological and semantic influences on auditory word perception in children with and without reading impairments using magnetoencephalography (MEG) and electroencephalography (EEG... by Wehner, Daniel T

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Academic achievement inspired machine learning methods for student grade prediction and at-risk detection by Wei, Qiu

“…To jointly consider the three important aspects\textemdash temporal dynamics of prior courses across previous semesters, short-term performance consistency, and relative performance against peers, an academic achievement inspired grade prediction (A2GP) model is proposed. …”
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Rethinking speech sound disorder (SSD) in non-syndromic cleft lip and palate: the importance of recognizing phonological and language difficulties by van Eeden, S, McKean, C, Stringer, H

“…There is growing evidence of concomitant language difficulties in children with CP ± L and of a higher prevalence of developmental speech errors in children compared with non-CP ± L peers. The impact of underlying phonological and language skills on speech production in children with CP ± L is poorly understood. …”

Haemodynamic changes in visceral hybrid repairs of type III and type V thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysms by Ong, Chi Wei, Wee, Ian J. Y., Cui, Fangsen, Xu, Xiao Yun, Richards, Arthur Mark, Leo, Hwa Liang, Choong, Andrew M. T. L.

“…Low time-averaged wall shear stress (TAWSS) and high endothelial cell action potential (ECAP) and relative residence time (RRT) associated with thrombogenic susceptibility was observed in the posterior aspect of both TAAAs preoperatively. …”
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