Variational model with image denoising fitting term for boundary extraction of breast ultrasound images by Badrulhisam, Nurdina, Ismail, Nurhuda, Jumaat, Abdul Kadir, Maasar, Mohd Azdi, Laham, Mohamed Faris

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Financial constraints of ASEAN firms: impact alleviation by ESG pillars by Ng, Yee Ling, Lau, Wei Theng, Soh, Wei Ni, Ab Razak, Nazrul Hisyam

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Mechanical behaviours and thermal stabilities of irradiated epoxidized natural rubber/polyvinyl chloride/carbon nanotubes nanocomposites by Ahmad, Mohd. Shahrulnizam, Mohamad, Zurina, Ratnam, Chantara Thevy, Othman, Norhayani, Rasit Ali, Roshafima

“…The samples were irradiated in a 2 MeV electron beam (EB) machine at a dose of 200 kGy. The dynamic mechanical properties and glass transition temperature properties of the resulting composites were investigated as a function of MWNTs contents, functionalized MWNTs, and irradiation dose. …”
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Parametric analysis of RSB sensors for concrete strength monitoring using hybrid EMI and WP techniques: Numerical investigation by Haq, Moinul, Khan, Adnan, Naqvi, Tabassum, Mohammad Yusuf, Mohammad Yusuf, Kamyab, Hesam, Chelliapan, Shreeshivadasan

“…Firstly, the PZT patch-based sensing capabilities are validated with the experimental results from literature by modelling concrete cube for EMI and beam for WP results. Then, a total of 31 finite element models of concrete cubes having different RSB configurations were taken into consideration for sensor design and optimization. …”
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Thermally induced phase separation PVDF membrane fabricated by using NaCl coagulation bath: relation of membrane surface morphology and permeation performance by Chen, Ningyuan, Zhao, Jie, Shi, Lei, Goto, Atsushi, Wang, Rong

“…As 0.5 mol L−1 NaCl was added to the coagulation bath, the membranes displayed a pure water permeability of 1073.9 L m−2 h−1 bar−1 while maintaining a narrow pore size distribution. …”
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Sentiment analysis and summarization of movie reviews across genres. by Tun, Thura Thet.

“…Graphical representation methods such as sentiment bar, sentiment meter, thumbs up/down, sentiment term cloud, sentiment treemap, sentiment time series, aspect-based sentiment summarization and sentiment link analysis graph (named SentiGraph) were implemented and evaluated. …”
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First results on a new PIAA coronagraph testbed at NASA Ames by Belikov, R., Pluzhnik, E., Connelley, M. S., Witteborn, F. C., Lynch, D. H., Cahoy, K. L., Guyon, O., Greene, T. P., McKelvey, M. E.

“…For our wavefront control we are focusing on using small Micro-Electro- Mechanical-System deformable mirrors (MEMS DMs), which promises to reduce the size of the beam and overall instrument, a consideration that becomes very important for small telescopes. …”
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Measurement of the background in the CMS muon detector in 𝑝𝑝 -collisions at √𝑠 =13 TeV by Tytgat, M., Muhammad, A., De Lentdecker, G., Jaramillo, J., Moureaux, L., Pétré, L., Yang, Y., Rendón, C., Gokbulut, G., Hong, Y., Samalan, A., Alves, G. A., Marujo da Silva, F., Alves Coelho, E., Barroso Ferreira Filho, M., Da Costa, E. M., De Jesus Damiao, D., Ferreira, B. C., Fonseca De Souza, S., Mota Amarilo, K.

“…While some backgrounds result from natural radioactivity, cosmic rays, and interactions of the circulating protons with residual gas in the beam pipe, the dominant source of background hits in the muon system arises from proton–proton interactions themselves. …”
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Digital holography to light field by Zuo, Chao, Asundi, Anand Krishna

“…Due to its non-interferometric nature, TIE relaxes the stringent beam-coherence requirements for interferometry, extending its applications to various optical fields with arbitrary spatial and temporal coherence. …”
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Multiple hollow-core anti-resonant fiber as a supermodal fiber interferometer by Huang, Xiaosheng, Zang, Jichao, Yoo, Seongwoo

“…This unique characteristic has driven emerging of new applications spanning from extreme wavelength generation to beam delivery. The successful demonstrations appear to suggest progression of the technology toward device level development and all-fiberized systems. …”
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Adhesive-based liquid metal radio-frequency microcoil for magnetic resonance relaxometry measurement by Kong, Tian Fook, Peng, Weng Kung, Luong, Trung-Dung, Nguyen, Nam-Trung, Han, Jongyoon

“…Conventionally, microcoils are fabricated by various techniques such as electroplating, microcontact printing and focused ion beam milling. These techniques require considerable fabrication efforts and incur high cost. …”
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Research into the impacts of electronic road pricing and in-vehicle unit on commercial drivers' perception and behaviour by Ang, Shang Le

“…They will end-up paying for more due to a higher mileage as compared to other private cars. The future of ERP is still uncertain and there are bound to have significant changes. …”
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Lane-aware image enhancement for lane detection in rain (part B - communications) by Tian, Zichen

“…In recent years, auto-driving is becoming a hot topic. Auto-driving cars utilize in-vehicle cameras to capture the surrounding environment images and use algorithms to extract useful information from images. …”
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Multi-bounce Returns for Specular Surface Mapping from Consumer-grade Flash LiDAR by Lin, Tsung-Han

“…Consumer-grade LiDAR multi-beam flash LiDAR is challenging with its coarse resolution, co-located sensors, and multiplexing setup. …”
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Optimizing resource allocation in large communications satellite constellations by Pachler de la Osa, Nils

“…In particular, novel methods for the Beam Shaping, User Grouping, Satellite Routing, Frequency Assignment, and Gateway Routing problems are proposed, tailored for large non-geostationary orbit constellations with satellites at multiple altitudes, referred to as hybrid systems. …”
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Study on the mechanical properties of multi jet fusion 3D printed PA12 lattice structures by Lee, Jacob Yong Jin

“…However, MJF and HSS use inkjet-dispensed agents and a heating element while SLS fuses the powder material through the use of a directed laser beam. Products manufactured by MJF feature a good surface finish, good feature resolution, and consistent mechanical properties, making them appealing to consumers. …”
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A study on the use of femtosecond laser to perform surface polishing on a selective laser melting manufactured type 316L stainless steel by Ong, Kenrick Jin Hao

“…It appeared to be the effect of more material getting ablated in the depth direction surrounding the particulate where the laser beam was directed to the surface for a longer period. …”
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Developing a portable, high-speed, low-cost desktop photoacoustic tomography imaging system by Kalva, Sandeep Kumar

“…Usually Nd:YAG-OPO laser is bulky, heavy and needs an optical table to deliver non-fluctuating laser beam and it needs external op- tics (reflectors/prisms) to direct the laser beam onto the sample (there are portable OPO lasers from OpoTek, EKSPLA, and various other companies that do not require optical table but they are more expensive than conventional Nd:YAG-OPO lasers). …”
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Spectral-domain optical coherence tomography with dual-balanced detection for auto-correlation artifacts reduction by Bo, En, Liu, Xinyu, Chen, Si, Yu, Xiaojun, Wang, Xianghong, Liu, Linbo

“…This system employed a free-space Michelson interferometer, at the refraction plane of whose beam splitter, the light reflected experienced a π/2 phase shift with respect to the light transmitted. …”
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Optimizing MC-ICP-MS with SEM protocols for determination of U and Th isotope ratios and 230Th ages in carbonates by Lin, Ke, Chiang, Hong-Wei, Lu, Yanbin, Wang, Xianfeng, Liu, Xiaokang

“…Non-linear behavior was not observed in the MasCom SEM with a retarding potential quadrupole in our MC-ICP-MS system when the beam intensity was limited to < ∼1 × 10 6 cps. We performed a series of tests to examine the influence of tuning parameters, peak shift, and operating voltage of the SEM on isotopic measurements. …”
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