Thermoelectric refrigerator by Keh, Yao Long.

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Development of load balancing technology for high power LED modules with constant current source by Zhong, Lidong

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Squeezing the Quantum Noise of LIGO below the Standard Quantum Limit by Jia, Wenxuan

“…The year 2015 marked the first detection of a gravitational wave signal from a pair of black holes located 410 megaparsecs (1.3 billion light-years) away. …”
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Object-oriented indoor navigation for delivery robot by Li, Yuanwei

“…This thesis focuses on the popular VLN tasks in recent years to solve the problem of indoor delivery navigation in unseen environments. …”
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To what extent and in what ways do communities of practice facilitate learning in the context of professional development for interpreting students and practitioners? by D'Hayer, Danielle

“…The absence of negotiation of meaning with all participants in the VCs leads to a traditional skill-based interpreting practice approach that does not spark further collaborative initiatives, thus demonstrating the importance and value of negotiation of meaning when designing for the emergence of CoPs. …”
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An autonomous ultrasonic fastener holes inspection system of an aircraft lower wing skin by Lim, Chee Wei.

“…Fasteners like rivets and bolts bear a large part of the stress and thus require frequent inspection for cracks around the fastener's holes. …”
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Mechanism of traffic jams at speed bottlenecks by Quek, Wei Liang, Chew, Lock Yue

“…As suggested by Sugiyama[1], when car density exceeds a critical density, the fluctuations in the speed of each car will lead to greater fluctuations in speed of the cars behind it. …”
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Experimental investigation into load settlement characteristics of piled rafts in sand by Leong, Hazel Xueling.

“…To improve on this, Burland et al. (1977) first proposed the concept of adding piles to rafts about 30 years ago. Studies by many notable researchers in the years to come suggest that the most effective combinations of piles and raft happens when all the initial loading can be borne with the raft’s bearing capacity alone. …”
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Is patriotism a sufficient justification for liberal democracies to coerce conscription? by Tan, Jared Yue Rong

“…Liberal democracies are legitimate when the country is able to justify their coercive actions to reasonable free and equal citizens. …”
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Quad's India problem : no different from Beijing by Gupta, Sourabh

“…Australia, Japan and the US should first get New Delhi to revise its UNCLOS-related rules and regulations, which bear far greater similarity with Beijing’s than that of its Quad partners.…”
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Up in smoke : peatland fires in Russia and Indonesia by Sofiah Jamil

“…The heatwaves behind the current Russian fires bear similarities with the Indonesian experiences in 1998 and 2006, Indonesia and ASEAN could share their experiences in addressing peatland fires with Russia.…”
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Numerical study of trapped vortex combustors characteristics in small ramjets by Chen, Song

“…Because the designed small combustor does not have bypass air directed into the cavity, injecting all the fuel directly in the optimal cavity always leads to an overly fuel-rich condition. However, when the fuel is injected in the upstream with a proper fuel/air momentum flux ratio, part of fuel goes into the cavity and the rest directly flows over it. …”
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An investigation into air traffic control communications protocols by Ang, Kenneth Patrick

“…The hand book provides both information guidelines for different transmission purposes such when providing clearances and voice protocols to be followed during the transmission. …”
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Metformin degradation with combined Ozone/UV/H2O2 process by Fujinami, Shoko Carissa

“…As it is non-biodegradable, it can lead to bioaccumulation which then leads to biomagnification when the concentration of Metformin increases along the food chain, causing harmful effects to human health and the environment. …”
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Object individuation and physical reasoning in infancy : an integrative account by Baillargeon, Renée, Stavans, Maayan, Wu, Di, Gertner, Yael, Setoh, Peipei, Kittredge, Audrey K., Bernard, Amélie

“…In their seminal work, Xu and Carey (1996) found that it is typically not until the end of the first year that infants detect a violation when a single object is revealed. …”
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Dual role of mesenchymal stem/stromal cells and their cell‐free extracellular vesicles in colorectal cancer by Saadh, Mohamed J., Mohamed, Asma'a H., Almoyad, Muhammad Ali Abdullah, Allela, Omer Qutaiba B., Amin, Ali H., Malquisto, April Ann, Wong, Tze Jin, Sârbu, Ioan, AlShamsi, Faisal, Elsaid, Fahmy Gad, Akhavan-Sigari, Reza

“…However, the surgical control of the CRC progression is difficult, and in most cases, the metastasis leads to cancer‐related mortality. Mesenchymal stem/stromal cells (MSCs) with potential translational applications in regenerative medicine have been widely researched for several years. …”

A lamb wave approach for fatigue damage prognosis with piezoelectric transducers by Lim, Say Ian

“…Fatigue is a progressive and localized damage that occurs when a material is subjected to cyclic loading. …”
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Sold To Be A Wife : ONLY A DETERMINED FOSTER CARER CAN STOP A TERRIFIED GIRL FROM BECOMING A CHILD BRIDE / by Hartley, Maggie, author 656233

“…Fourteen-year-old Shazia has been taken into care after a conversation at school leads her teacher to suspect that the teenager's family are planning to send her to Pakistan for an arranged marriage. …”

EXCELLENT SHEEP : The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life / by Deresiewicz, William, 1964-, author 655683

“…A GROUNDBREAKING MANIFESTO ABOUT THE INSIGHTS ON LEADING, THINKING, AND LIVING THAT ELITE SCHOOLS SHOULD BE-BUT AREN'T-PROVIDING. …”

THE MAYFLY / by Hazel, James, author 656313

“…A murderous plan conceived in the past. A reckoning seventy years in the making . . . When lawyer Charlie Priest is attacked in his own home by a man searching for information he claims Priest has, he is drawn into a web of corruption that has its roots in the last desperate days of World War Two. …”