Battleground for belonging: the migration and identity formation of Qeshmis in the United Arab Emirates by Al Qassim, MH

“…This dissertation explores the complex dynamics of identity and belonging among Qeshmi Emiratis, whose ties span both coasts of the Arabian Gulf and various port cities around the Indian Ocean rim. …”

Efficiency of tuned liquid dampers in mitigating vibrations of structures with mass eccentricity by Teh, Kun Jie, Vafaei, Mohammadreza, Alih, Sophia C., Shad, Hossein

“…Method: In this study, a scaled-down one-bay 3-story structure with a 1 m span length and a total height of 2.65 m was constructed and subjected to free vibration and harmonic excitations. …”

Living with uncertainty: a whole-of-society approach to pandemics by Tan, Ming Hui

“…Singapore relies on foresight and horizon scanning to navigate emerging risks. Nevertheless, a pandemic highlights the need for such capabilities beyond the government sector and our national borders. …”
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Polarization behaviors of twisted carbon nanotube fibers by Zhang, Yongzhe, Zhou, Jinyuan, Sun, Gengzhi, Zhan, Zhaoyao, An, Jianing, Zhang, Yani, Zheng, Lianxi

“…Polarization behaviors of carbon nanotube (CNT) fibers with different twisting were reported. Scanning electron microscope and polarized Raman spectroscopy were used to investigate the prepared samples. …”
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Roughness-Controlled Self-Assembly of Mannitol/LB Agar Microparticles by Polymorphic Transformation for Pulmonary Drug Delivery by Zhang, Fengying, Ngoc, Nguyen Thi Quynh, Tay, Bao Hui, Mendyk, Aleksander, Shao, Yu-Hsuan, Lau, Raymond

“…As-prepared microparticles were characterized by Fourier transform infrared spectra (FTIR), X-ray diffraction spectra (XRD), differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), thermal gravimetric analysis (TGA), and Andersen Cascade Impactor (ACI). …”
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Surface structure formation in WE54 Mg alloy subjected to ultrafast laser texturing by Khadka, Indira, Castagne, Sylvie, Wang, Zhongke, Zheng, Hongyu

“…The surface portion containing yttrium was converted into a white crystal-like structure as observed by optical and scanning electron microscope (SEM). The white color compound of rare earth element is turned into gray, then dark, and is finally ablated from the surface with increasing scanning number and number of laser pulses. …”
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Compression dynamics and radiation emission from a deuterium plasma focus by Muhammad Shahid Rafique.

“…More importantly, an automated scanning and measurement system was also successfully developed and employed to overcome the traditional time-consuming and laborious counting and measurement of ion tracks.…”
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Automatic feature detection and terrain mapping using millimeter wave radar for autonomous land vehicle navigation by Jose, Ebi

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Nondestructive evaluation interfaces defects IC packaging by Guo, Ningqun., Ling, Shih Fu., Wong, Brian Stephen.

“…Common defects such as delamination and crack can be detected using C-mode scanning acoustic microscope with sufficient confidence. …”
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Carbene-catalyzed LUMO activation of alkyne esters for access to functional pyridines by Mou, Chengli, Wu, Jichang, Huang, Zhijian, Sun, Jun, Jin, Zhichao, Chi, Robin Yonggui

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All-fiber short-wavelength tunable mode-locked fiber laser using normal dispersion thulium-doped fiber by Chen, Shaoxiang, Chen, Yuhao, Liu, Kun, Sidharthan, Raghuraman, Li, Huizi, Chang, Chen Jian, Wang, Qi Jie, Tang, Dingyuan, Yoo, Seongwoo

“…By changing the bending diameter of the fiber, we demonstrated a tunable mode-locked Tm-doped fiber laser with a very wide tunable range of 152 nm spanning from 1740 nm to 1892 nm. Pulses at a central wavelength of 1755 nm were able to be amplified in an all-fiber configuration using the W-type NDTDF, without the use of any artificial short-pass filter or pulse stretcher. …”
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Robust Transceiver Design Based on Interference Alignment for Multi-User Multi-Cell MIMO Networks With Channel Uncertainty by Xie, Xianzhong, Yang, Helin, Vasilakos, Athanasios V.

“…Then, for the outer beamformer design, we develop an efficient conjugate gradient Grassmann manifold subspace tracking algorithm to minimize the distances between the subspace spanned by interference and the interference subspace in the time-varying channel. …”
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The Japanese economy in crises : a time series segmentation study by Cheong, Siew Ann, Fornia, Robert Paulo, Lee, Gladys Hui Ting, Kok, Jun Liang, Yim, Woei Shyr, Xu, Danny Yuan, Zhang, Yiting

“…We constructed the minimum spanning trees (MSTs) to visualize the Pearson cross correlations between Japanese industries over five macroeconomic periods: (i) 1997–1999 (Asian Financial Crisis), (ii) 2000–2002 (Technology Bubble Crisis), (iii) 2003–2006 (economic growth), (iv) 2007–2008 (Subprime Crisis), and (v) 2008–2010 (Lehman Brothers Crisis). …”
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Computational modeling of selective laser melting process by Le, Kim Quy

“…However, the properties of the printed part depend on several processing parameters including laser power, scanning speed, layer thickness, powder distribution, and hatch spacing. …”
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Investigation of remelting effects on controlling microstructure morphology in powder bed fusion by Wong, Wendell Shun Yin

“…Remelting leads to improved hardness in low energy density (ED) specimens from 216.41 ± 10.12 HV for single scan to 234.12 ± 7.43 HV for remelted specimens. …”
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Design and implementation of a 2.4 GHz energy harvester by Gan, Felix Si Zhou

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China's engagement with the liberal international order by Chua, Ze Ping

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Evaluation of isolation between two differential microstrip antennas by Liu, Huanli

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Spectral element method for the anisotropic wave equation by Tham, Joven Guo Yong

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Preparation and characterization of apatite/cathode interfaces of solid oxide fuel cells by Heah, Min An.

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