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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Data Murals: Using the Arts to Build Data Literacy by Bhargava, Rahul, Kadouaki, Ricardo, Bhargava, Emily, Castro, Guilherme, D'Ignazio, Catherine

“…As a result of the project data literacy among participants increased, and the project initiated a sustained interest within the school community in using data to tell stories and create social change.…”
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Kite might by Xiong, Wei

“…Inspired by classic stories such as Aesop’s “Tortoise and the Hare” and hugely well-liked television series “Avatar: The Last Air bender”, Kite Might seeks to tell a humorous story and at the same time share simple morale lessons with its viewers.…”
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Tribological performance and mechanism of graphite, hBN and MoS2 as nano-additives in palm kernel oil-based lubricants: a comparative study by Azman, Nurul Farhanah, Samion, Syahrullail, Paiman, Zulhanafi, Abdul Hamid, Mohd. Kameil

“…To fully understand the lubricating mechanisms involved, the worn surfaces of the tested balls were characterised using various microscopic and spectroscopic methods. …”

Effect of free will on opinion formation in social system by Huang, Zheng Si

“…The existing studies on opinion formation in societies typically ignore the effects of free will. In this project, we shall study on the system/opinion co-evolution with a specific focus on the effects of free will. …”
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Design and implementation of a reconfigurable machine for massively parallel neural computation (RM-nc) by Erdogan, Sevki Serkan, Abdul Wahab, Premkumar, Annamalai Benjamin, Lee, Keok Kee, Srikantan, T., Leong, Peng Chor

“…The objective of the RM team is to provide a platform to implement a hardware version of an algorithm that is too complex to be accommodated in a single FPGA or ASIC devide. In particular we shall concentrate on neeural simulations.…”
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Sampling from convex sets with a cold start using multiscale decompositions by Narayanan, Hariharan, Rajaraman, Amit, Srivastava, Piyush

“…The requirement is that starting from a suitable initial distribution, the random walk should “mix rapidly”, i.e., after a number of steps that is polynomial in n and the aspect ratio R/r (here, K is assumed to contain a ball of radius r and to be contained within a ball of radius R), the distribution of the random walk should come close to the uniform distribution π K on K. …”
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Intelligent departure metering assistant tool (IDMAT) for airside congestion management by Ali, Hasnain, Pham, Duc-Thinh, Tran, Thanh-Nam, Alam, Sameer

“…ATCO actions (advisory accept/reject) shall also be fed-back to train the DM policy into recommending ATCO-like actions.…”
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Recent developments in chemical conjugation strategies targeting native amino acids in proteins and their applications in antibody-drug conjugates by Kang, Min Sun, Kong, Theresa Wai See, Khoo, Joycelyn Yi Xin, Loh, Teck-Peng

“…Thereafter, the review shall discuss in detail each endogenous amino acid's intrinsic reactivity and selectivity aspects, and address the research effort to construct an ADC using each conjugation method.…”
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Sparse machine learning methods for financial signal processing by Pucha Srinivasa Sai Chakravarthy

“…It employs a widely acknowledged approximation techniques of Bayesian inference like variational methods and exploits the advantages of such methods in constructing portfolios that are optimal and simple. This research shall find wide applications in financial industry from risk – management perspective. …”
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THE 17 ESSENTIAL QUALITIES OF A TEAM PLAYER : Becoming the Kind of Person Every Team Wants / by Maxwell, John C., 1947-, author 272745

“…The qualities Maxwell teaches quickly take you to the heart of teamwork.Anybody can understand them and apply them -- whether at home, on the job, at church, or on the ball field. If you learn the 17 essential qualities of a team player, you can become the kind of person every team wants. …”

AND THEREBY HANGS A TALE / by Jeffrey Archer, author 507936

“…From Germany comes Masterpiece, the tale of a priceless oil painting that has remained in the same family for over 200 years, until… To the Channel Islands, and Members Only, where a golf ball falls out of a Christmas cracker and a young man’s life will never be the same again… To Italy, where a young man trying to book a hotel room ends up in bed with the receptionist, unaware that she… To England, where, in High Heels, a woman explains to her husband why a pair of designer shoes couldn’t have gone up in flames because… Some of these stories will make you laugh. …”

The tribological performance of nano-activated carbon as solid additives in modified calophyllum inophyllum based-metalworking fluid by Zubaidah, Zamri, Amiril Sahab, Abdul Sani, Radhiyah, Abd Aziz, Ainaa Mardhiah, Sabri, Norfazillah, Talib

“…The coefficient of friction for the balls and their wear diameter are evaluated and compared. …”
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Variational models in martensitic phase transformations with applications to steels by Muehlemann, A

“…</p> <p>In Chapter 2, we review the Ball-James model and related concepts. We present some simplification of existing results.…”

To assess the impact of physical factors on velocity, speed, and accuracy of tennis serve by Ma, Xudong, Yaacob, Azhar, Tengku Kamalden, Tengku Fadilah, Ng, Yee Guan

“…Objective: This study investigates the coordination of racquet and ball speed, examining how physical attributes and training impact serve performance. …”
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Multicarrier communications for underwater wireless channels by Leong, Chen Ming.

“…Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex (OFDM) is a multicarrier transmission technology which was first described by R. W. Chang in 1966 at Bell Labs. The first patent was granted in 1970. …”
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Lead-free PCB assembly and effect of solder joint profile on the reliability of PCB assembly by Periannan Arulvanan.

“…PCBs were designed and fabricated with daisy chain loops connected to land pads of daisy chained Ball Grid Array (BGA) components with pad dimensions of 0.56 and 0.66mm NiAu finish. …”
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Process development for flip chip BGA packages by Camenforte, Raymundo M.

“…As the trend towards high performance electronic packaging continues, the introduction of a flip chip ball grid array (FC-BGA) package becomes more attractive to the electronic industry, due to its high packaging density, thermal and electrical performance. …”
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Ideal houses : a visual research case study on factors that define a house. by Loh, Li Ying.

“…This research project looks into how desires for an ideal house can potentially exemplify contemporary housing situations or tell stories about personal and/or collective identities. …”
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The soma question: interrogating the history of psychedelics with Sanskrit mantras by Moore Gerety, FM

“…Historical narratives tell us as much about the present as they do about the past—and the grand narrative of psychedelics in the ancient world is no exception. …”