Design of a low-voltage low-power WiMAX low noise amplifier by Zeng, Wei

“…The evolving 802.16 WiMAX standard offer the possibility of high data rate wireless access for home and business users as broadband wireless systems supporting data rates are always in great demand in the market due to their performance and feasibility in use. …”
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Spontaneous emission of a quantum emitter near a Chern insulator : interplay of time-reversal symmetry breaking and Van Hove singularity by Lu, Bing-Sui, Arifa, Kathee Zathul, Hong, Xing Ru

“…We consider the generic problem of a two-level quantum emitter near a two-dimensional Chern insulator in the dipole approximation, and study how the frequency-dependent response and electronic density of states of the insulator modifies the transition rate of the emitter between the ground and excited levels. …”
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Solder joint testing and failure analysis by Kang, Eng Tat.

“…In this report, 2 types of specimens, namely SAC 387 solder bonded joint specimen without pre-crack, SAC 387 solder bonded joint specimen with pre-crack would be tested at room temperature at varying angles using an Instron tensile machine with a constant strain rate of 0.01/s. …”
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Jurong Island groundwater study : yield enhancement through surface water recharge by Koh, Seow Jin.

“…It is a region where excessive groundwater abstraction could occur when the rate at which it is being abstracted is faster than the rate at which it is being recharged naturally. …”
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Laser speckle flowgraphy derived characteristics of optic nerve head perfusion in normal tension glaucoma and healthy individuals : a Pilot study by Mursch-Edlmayr, Anna Sophie, Luft, Nikolaus, Podkowinski, Dominika, Ring, Michael, Schmetterer, Leopold, Bolz, Matthias

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Investigation of the fuel consumption of a ship considering the dynamic coupling effect among resistance, propeller torque and engine power under the control of a governor by Beh, Gerald Kah Hooi

“…Through developing the model, it was found that the engine speed would accelerate at an unrealistic rate, and a slope limiter was fitted in order to control the rate of change of engine speed in line with the manufacturer’s specifications. …”
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Deisgn of a miniature pulsatile pump by Leong, Jolynn Jia Hui.

“…Each of these experimental setups, namely, the 1 pump 2mm hole stopper, 2 pumps 1mm hole stopper and the 2 pumps 2mm hole stopper are tested for their flow rate and pressure at different motor speeds. Each design involves using a reciprocating displacement pump. …”
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Attack strategies in birds of prey by Brighton, C

“…</p> <p>Proportional navigation is a feedback law whereby the bird’s line-of-sight rate is fed back, in order to command a turn-rate in proportion to the change in line-of-sight rate, with a constant of proportionality <em>N</em>. …”

Rapid process modeling of the aerosol jet printing based on gaussian process regression with latin hypercube sampling by Zhang, Haining, Moon, Seung Ki, Ngo, T. H., Tou, J., Bin Mohamed Yusoff, M. A.

“…Hence, it is necessary to develop a small data set based machine learning approach to model relationship between the process parameters and the line morphology. In this paper, we propose a rapid process modeling method for AJP process and consider sheath gas flow rate, carrier gas flow rate, stage speed as AJP process parameters, and line width and line roughness as the line morphology. …”
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Modeling and coordination control of AC/DC hybrid microgrids by Zhang, Zhe

“…With the proposed bidirectional inertia support in hybrid AC/DC microgrids, improvements in frequency nadir and rate of change of frequency (RoCoF) are expected, resulting in better overall system-level stability. …”
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Synaptic plasticity in VLSI : a floating-gate approach by Gopalakrishnan, Roshan

“…Computationally T-STDP has advantages like replicating rate based plasticity experiments and detecting third order input correlations. …”
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Outlook for the dry bulk shipping market in the next 5 years by Sam, Dave Perry, Chang, Yvonne, Yeo, Kai Hong

“…The author touches on the fundamentals that affect supply, demand and the freight rates of the dry bulk market. Through this research, a study of supply, demand for shipping services, freight rates of the dry bulk market and the global economy will be conducted. …”
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A Sufficient Condition for k-Contraction of the Series Connection of Two Systems by Ofir, Ron, Margaliot, Michael, Levron, Yoash, Slotine, Jean-Jacques

“…The flow of contracting systems contracts 1-dimensional parallelotopes, i.e., line segments, at an exponential rate. One reason for the usefulness of contracting systems is that many interconnections of contracting sub-systems yield an overall contracting system. …”
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E-DTDOA based localization for wireless sensor networks with clock drift compensation by Vashistha, Ankush, Law, Choi Look

“…To achieve low sampling rate, equivalent time sampling (ETS) technique is used at the sensor nodes. …”
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Single antenna power measurements based direction finding : an FRI solution by Zhang, Song Bai

“…In the formulation process, by taking the band limited approximation of antenna pat- tern, we shall formulate AoA nding problem into Finite Rate of Innovation (FRI) framework. …”
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Tools for Mapping the Links Between Stimuli, AffectiveStates, and Behavior through Whole-Brain Imaging inZebrafish Larvae by Zhang, Caroline Lige

“…Whole-brain imaging, on the other hand, has the capacity to significantly advance our understanding of the brain's functional architecture. …”
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A crosstalk-immune sub-THz All-surface-wave I/O transceiver in 65-nm CMOS by Liang, Yuan, Boon, Chirn Chye, Yu, Hao

“…It is further integrated into the all-surface-wave I/O with a surface-wave transmission line and matching converter. Measured results show that the proposed dual-channel I/O delivers a localized 140 GHz surface-wave signal, demonstrating crosstalk-immune on-chip transmission by supporting 13.5 Gb/s data-rate communication with 2.6 PJ/bit Power efficiency and a bit-error rate less than 10^(-12).…”
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Optimizing selenization conditions of Cu2CdSn(S,Se)4 by Wong, Jia Mian

“…Selenization has also showed that it is able to reduce band gap and by adjusting S/Se ratio band gap can be adjusted. …”
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New multi-target based therapeutics against an opportunistic superbug by Premkumar, Jayaraman.

“…Hence, there is a dearth of treatment options for community-acquired and nosocomial Pseudomonas infections due to several rapidly emerging multidrug-resistant phenotypes along with the complexity of rising resistance rates. Taken together, it is imperative to discover more potent drugs and novel therapeutic strategies to combat the infections caused by this superbug. …”
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Energetic, exergetic, and entropy generation prediction and optimization of photovoltaic thermal system integrated hexagonal boron nitride-water nanofluid by Nurhanis Sofiah, Abd Ghafar, Kumar Pandey, Adarsh Kumar, Rajamony, Reji Kumar, Samykano, Mahendran, Pasupuleti, Jagadeesh, Nur Fatin, Sulaiman, Saidur, Rahman Md

“…The research focuses on optimizing mass flow rate and irradiance to enhance electrical efficiency, thermal efficiency, electrical exergy efficiency, thermal exergy efficiency, and minimize entropy generation. …”
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