The effect of inter-municipal cooperation on social assistance programs: evidence from housing allowances in England by Elston, T, Bel, G, Wang, H

“…For other types of local public service, like refuse collection and utilities provision, inter-municipal cooperation has proven capable of reducing the cost of subnational policy implementation, especially for smaller municipalities. …”

Developing and validating a digital literacy assessment: bridging the digital divide among adolescents in Sabah, Malaysia by Shakira Arbine, Mohamad Shukri Abdul Hamid

“…Despite growing up in a digital era, many youths in Tawau demonstrate limited skills in essential software like Microsoft Office, highlighting a significant digital divide. …”
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Self-healing materials for flexible electronic devices by Tiwari, Naveen

“…With the onset of flexible and wearable electronics, devices are now put on places like the human body and various curved surfaces which doesn’t have any regular shape and sizes. …”
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Optical study of excitonic complexes in transition metal dichalcogenides monolayers by Bao, Di

“…The Fermi edge singularity may indicate a transition from a fermion-like charged state to a boson-like particle (exciton-plasmon).Due to the inversion symmetry breaking, there are two energy-degenerate but inequivalent valleys (K and K' ). …”
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Air-cooled slag derived from municipal solid waste (MSW) and sewage sludge as coarse aggregate for sustainable construction by Tan, Jun Ying

“…This final year project explores the potential of utilizing air-cooled slag from municipal solid waste (MSW) and sewage sludge as substitutes for traditional coarse aggregates in concrete production, addressing environmental concerns like air & water pollution and solid waste generation within the construction industry. …”
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REVENGE IN VIOLENT HUES / by Nadiah Zakaria, author 655918

“…Hidden within the enchanted forests of Gemerlapan, a Reflection inside the Mirror of 1990s Alor Setar, the enemy is quick to claim the throne like moths to a flame. Amalia Maganti can communicate with ghosts ever since the mysterious death of her father six years ago. …”

User Profiling Based on Nonlinguistic Audio Data by Shen, Jiaxing, Cao, Jiannong, Lederman, Oren, Tang, Shaojie, Pentland, Alex

“…User profiling refers to inferring people’s attributes of interest (AoIs) like gender and occupation, which enables various applications ranging from personalized services to collective analyses. …”
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Empowering Community-Driven Determination of Values for Language Models by Raman, Deepika

“…Emerging technologies like Artificial Intelligence and Large Language Models are often developed in Western contexts and carry implicit values, from developer choices or underlying training data, which are not adequately representative of the diverse contexts in which they are deployed. …”
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Development of an RF positioning system by Rege, Laukik Jayesh

“…This is due to the GNSS signal being obstructed and reflected by objects like tall buildings. Similarly, GNSS does not work accurately in indoor environments like tunnels, parking garages etc. …”
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Self-assembly for supply chains by Yee, Gabriel Qi Ming

“…In a similar fashion, the real-world processes of specifying objectives, tasks, and principles are like the specifying of environmental condi-tions when designing self-assembly systems. …”
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Analysis and implementation of National Security Agency (NSA) suite B : Elliptic-Curve Diffie-Hellman (ECDH) key agreement algorithm by Tan, Vincent Soon Heng.

“…This is especially true and useful for applications like mobile devices which are typically limited in terms of their CPU processing speed, power and network connectivity. …”
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High speed AES encryption IC design by Dong, Haokun

“…Threshold implementation could enhance the performance by dividing sensitive information, like the secret key and intermediate values, into multiple shares. …”
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2D/3D staircase detection and localization by Wang, Sisong

“…This thesis introduces a novel set of PCA-based Haar-like features which extends the classical Haar-like features from local to global domain and are extremely efficient at rejecting non-object regions at the early stages of the cascade. …”
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Study of wireless body area network by Xuan, Zhi Yang.

“…However, there are some issues related to the energy of this wearable system, like inconvenience of changing battery. Therefore, developing energy efficient WBAN system is also a hot research topic. …”
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People tracking in video by Siah, Wee Kiat.

“…For example, identify potential terrorist in public places like railway stations or spotting enemies in military context to facilitate the planning of battle order. …”
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Developing of innovative and cool mobile applications on the Google’s Android powered devices 3 by Peng, Jun

“…These applications cover a lot of areas such as personalization, entertainment, lifestyle, education, etc. Some of the concepts like video streaming, peer to peer chat are with mature technology and implementation, while others like crowd sourcing, intelligent transportation still lack innovation on their applications. …”
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iOS platform development for BSTAR system by Shi, Mengjie

“…Moreover, the manipulation of these corresponding devices like air conditioning and dehumidifier is merely available in a limited distance and space. …”
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Electrical design of signal conditioning and signal processing circuit for Rogowski coil by Francis, Antony Denisha

“…Rogowski coil is mainly used for measuring alternating currents and the frequency response of the coil is higher compared to other current sensors like Current transformer, Shunt and Hall Effect sensors. …”
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End-effector camera usage investigation for dual-arm industrial robot by Gao, Chuanchao

“…It covers the key parameters for robot perception system, like camera calibration, stereo camera usage, hand camera usage, and robot motion control. …”
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Power converter design for unmanned vessel by Yeap, Mark JIe Zhi

“…Electrical power converters are the basic important parts of certain applications like unmanned vehicles, solar, motor drives, uninterruptible power supply (UPS), etc. …”
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