Tribological wear behavior of titanium alloy in simulated bio-fluids for Ti-to-Ti hip-joint replacement by Oen, Hui Qin

“…Although major improvements have been achieved in the design of hip-joint replacement, the main issue that remains is the excessive wear of sliding surfaces especially if titanium alloys are used. …”
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Two dimensional heat transfer between two dissimilar materials using fourier series by Lin, Yiyang.

“…Heat conduction is classified into three main types; they are conduction, convection and radiation. …”
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Impact of GST on HDB households in Singapore. by Kuek, Hsiao Feng., Ng, Sarah Pei Fong., Ong, Siew Wei.

“…Many studies have been conducted to look into GST-related issues. The main objective of this study is to explore the impact of GST on HDB households. …”
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A smart video capsule endoscope design for human gastrointestinal tract endoscopy by Du, Hong Wei.

“…In this report, the author studied these two new products - M2A & Norika3; attempted to define the main function modules by a systemic approach. Besides a system solution of product architecture, the author also proposed a new mechanical structural design to improve viewing angle of capsule endoscope, which is a major problem in these two existing products.…”
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Development of prognosis scheme for permanent magnet synchronous motor by Chia, Yee Hon

“…As such the need to operate long hours, one of the main concerns was fault-related issue. This project’s goal is to develop a prognosis scheme for PMSM that would be used to predict the condition of the machine in the event when an inter-turn fault has occurred.…”
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Report on industrial attachment with Tyco international by Lee, Vincent Yong Harn.

“…During the six months of intensive yet unperturbed of Industrial Attachment with Tyco International, I was posted to the Information Technology (IT) Audit team of the Tyco Corporate Audit Group, which consists of 2 senior auditors and headed by an IT manager. The main task was to assist the senior auditors and manager in executing audits and my job scope includes fieldwork and report writing. …”
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Design for assembly and application using Hitachi assemblability evaluation method by Mohd Naim, Zakaria

“…The score of AEM for part and product need to tabulate to give a clear view in order to achieve the main objective of this project to come out with the score. …”
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Exploring and Learning in Sparse Linear MDPs without Computationally Intractable Oracles by Golowich, Noah, Moitra, Ankur, Rohatgi, Dhruv

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Exploring the Affordances of Sequence Mining in Educational Games by Gomez, Manuel J., Ruip?rez-Valiente, Jos? A., Martinez, Pedro A., Kim, Yoon Jeon

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Heterojunction‐assisted Co3S4@Co3O4 core – shell octahedrons for supercapacitors and both oxygen and carbon dioxide reduction reactions by Yan, Yibo, Li, Kaixin, Chen, Xiaoping, Yang, Yanhui, Lee, Jong-Min

“…Expedition of electron transfer efficiency and optimization of surface reactant adsorption products desorption processes are two main challenges for developing non-noble catalysts in the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) and CO2 reduction reaction (CRR). …”
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Microalgal-bacterial granular sludge for municipal wastewater treatment under simulated natural diel cycles: performances-metabolic pathways-microbial community nexus by Ji, Bin, Wang, Shulian, Silva, Mahamalage Rochelle Udani, Zhang, Meng, Liu, Yu

“…It was further revealed that microbial assimilation by microalgae and bacteria could serve as the main mechanism for the observed removal of organics, ammonia and phosphate, while the corresponding key metabolic pathways were also elucidated. …”
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Relative importance of soil properties and functional diversity to the spatial pattern of the forest soil nitrogen by Kang, Jian, Deng, Zebang, Zhang, Zhongrui, Chen, Shuilian, Huang, Jianguo, Ding, Xiaogang

“…Surface soil nitrogen (SN) is the main source of plant nutrient uptake, and its dynamic change is related to forest productivity, ecosystem carbon and nitrogen cycles, and water conservation. …”
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Applications of blockchain in business processes: a comprehensive review by Viriyasitavat, Wattana, Xu, Li Da, Niyato, Dusit, Bi, Zhuming, Hoonsopon, Danupol

“…Blockchain (BC), as an emerging technology, is revolutionizing Business Process Management (BPM) in multiple ways. The main adoption is to serve as a trusted infrastructure to guarantee the trust of collaborations among multiple partners in trustless environments. …”
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The effect of pH on the production and composition of short- and medium-chain fatty acids from food waste in a leachate bed reactor at room temperature by Radadiya, Pooja, Latika, Ashika, Fei, Xunchang, Lee, Jangho, Mishra, Saurabh, Hussain, Abid

“…Stabilization at pH at 6.5 also resulted in a high fatty acid (FA) yield of 643 g CODFA/kg VSadded. Butyrate was the main FA at the pH of 5.5–6.5, while acetate was the main FA at the pH of 7.5–8.5. …”
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Simulation of solar cooling system by Goh, Dennis Kim Lai.

“…This model will be created using the simulation program, TRNSYS, while considering three main specific areas of work. First is to implement the computational model for the absorption refrigerant system. …”
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In silico assessment of a compliant vascular prosthesis by Wong, Yi Jean

“…With the aim to minimise the mismatch, PCL and PLC are two main materials used in the fabrication of vascular prosthesis. …”
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A novel two-degrees-of-freedom piezoelectric energy harvester by Wu, Hao, Tang, Lihua, Yang, Yaowen, Soh, Chee Kiong

“…The harvester comprises one main cantilever beam and an inner secondary cantilever beam, each of which is bonded with piezoelectric transducers. …”
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Retention in second year computing students in a London-based university during the post-Covid-19 era using learned optimism as a lens: a statistical analysis in R by Chrysikos, Alexandros, Bamford, Neal

“…The research is conducted during the post-Covid-19 era using learned optimism as a lens. The main aim is to support the university’s efforts to improve retention rate as the overall dropout has been increasing in the last few years. …”
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15th-century printed Italian editions of Aesopian texts by Malaspina, M

“…</p> <p>Chapter I introduces the main features of the manuscript transmission of those among Aesopian texts, which ended up in print in the first years after the introduction of the new medium. …”

Integrating alternative and complementary medicine in the management of epilepsy and its comorbidities in low- and middle-income settings by Kariuki, SM, Newton, CRJC

“…Traditional/alternative and complementary medicine (TCM) encompasses products, practices and practitioners that do not form part of conventional treatment and are not an integral part of the main health care systems. They are very common in the management of epilepsy and mental health conditions, particularly in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC). …”