Multi-scale CuS-rGO pyramidal photothermal structure for highly efficient solar-driven water evaporation and thermoelectric power generation by Zeng, Long, Deng, Daxiang, Zhu, Linye, Zhang, Zhenkun, Gu, Xin, Wang, Huiming, Jiang, Yujie

“…Outdoor tests showed that an average daily water production of 12.1 kg/m2 and a maximum power generation of 5.55 W/m2 was obtained. This work provides a high-performance multi-scale CuS-rGO pyramidal photothermal structure to achieve freshwater and thermoelectric power co-generation, which provides potential opportunities for freshwater and electricity supply in remote areas.…”
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Urine osmolality assessment through the integration of urea hydrolysis and impedance measurement by Kong, Tian Fook, Shen, Xinhui, Sim, Mei Yi, Yong, Jin, Ng, Tze Kiat, Chong, Tsung Wen, Marcos

“…In this work, we validated the accuracy of the impedance-based urine osmometer by developing a proof-of-concept first prototype and an integrated urine dipstick second prototype, where both prototypes exhibit an average accuracy of 95.5 ± 2.4% and 89.9 ± 9.1%, respectively in comparison to a clinical freezing point osmometer in the hospital laboratory. …”
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The acquisition of English and Mandarin by a Singaporean child in a trilingual home by Teo, Jennifer Lay Heong.

“…Results indicate that: (1)the absence of tense and number markers in the English data was due to the variety of Singapore Colloquial English the child was exposed to in his environment; (2)the use of pragmatic particles and the lack of clear developmental pattern in the English interrogatives were linked to the Singapore Colloquial English usage in the input; (3)the English-language acquisition pattern shows a similar pattern as those in other comparable studies done in Singapore; (4)the order of the grammatical morphemes in the Mandarin data follows the similar pattern as other monolingual children reported on; (5)code-switching and code-mixing were directly affected by social factors: interlocutor, norm of the speech situation and his language dominance; (6)code-switching also occurs for many reasons related to language use; and (7)the child language development has been affected by the varying amount of input. …”
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Investigation of silicon nanowires photodetector by Foo, Kai Lin.

“…The dopant activation time was reduced from 20 s to 5 s in batch 2 samples.…”
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Identification of microRNA targets for the alternative splicing isoforms of CD46. by Teo, Zhi Lin.

“…The analysis also showed that miR-186 and miR-140-5p may target the CD46 3’UTR. These findings are preliminary and further experiments are needed to validate the results.…”
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Study on airfoil performance in gusts by Chan, Samuel Ka Seng.

“…The gust generator was proved to be successful in attaining the desired significant crosswind gust angles, further experimentation was also attempted with a 5-hole probe system to obtain more precise instantaneous readings. …”
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Unsteady flow-induced vibration of the slider in a commercial hard disk drive by Toh, Jeffrey See Ren.

“…The results had also shown that pressure fluctuations around the HGA plate were highly related with FIV, with principle peaks occurring at approximately 1.5 kHz, 2.8 kHz, 4.3 kHz. Similarly, principle peaks of velocity fluctuations occurred at the frequencies corresponding to those of pressure fluctuations. …”
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Numerical simulation and analysis of the transition to turbelence in boundary layer flows by Liu, Tianjia

“…In this context, Assoc. Prof. Vladimir V. Kulish has come up with a new model that views the velocity fluctuations during a transition from laminar to turbulent flow as a fractal time series. …”
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Over-current protection circuit design for DC-DC converter in space applications by Long, Jiru

“…On the basis of Cadence simulation, the circuit is capable of accurately sensing load current and protecting the load when latchup occurs by setting a power cycle of 5ms enough for the load recovering from latchup state. …”
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Low-power non-binary SAR ADC with a two-mode comparator by Li, Jianni

“…For implantable medical devices like artificial pacemakers, high power efficiency is demanded because they are supposed to work 5 to 10 years on a battery. ADC is one of the major blocks as the interface between analog signals and digital logic. …”
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Cloud-assisted rendering support for mobile online gaming by Teo, Lin Yan

“…The client application uses noVNC, a Virtual Networking Computing client application which is written in HTML5 and JavaScript, as the thin client to provide input to the server, while the server provide a live streaming of the gameplay back to the client browser. …”
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Various factors affecting human performance in a computerised environment by Ang, Kah Eng, Neo, Aik Keong, Pang, Soh Chui

“…This includes both the physical and social aspects of the environment. Following, chapter 5 identifies the selected research issues that are of interest in the current study. …”
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Investigating the human teashirt genes TSHZ2 and TSHZ3 in pancreatic and endocrine lineage commitment using genome modified human embryonic stem cells (hESC) by Eng, Shermaine Zi Hui

“…Two guide RNAs revealed successful editing in the 3’ end of TSHZ2 coding sequence while gRNAs tested for the 5’ end of TSHZ2 and for TSHZ3 were ineffective. …”
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Heart sound analysis by Xu, Ran

“…In total 10 NHS samples and 10 AS samples downloaded from websites [8-11] were used in this project, and with the decomposition and reconstruction using wavelet ‘db4’ at fourth level, after PCA, with the 5 most essential parameters chosen as the feature vector, the algorithm achieved an accuracy of 80% of classification for normal heart sound (NHS) and aortic stenosis (AS), where cross validation classification method was used to overcome the limited number of samples. …”
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Investigating the toxicity of ATA nanoparticles in vitro and cardioprotective effects of ATA on DOX-induced cardiotoxicity in zebrafish by Lee, Eden Hui Ling

“…The results revealed the use of 5 μM and 10 μM was able to alleviate the DOX-induced cardiac toxicity as shown from lower incidences of cardiac abnormalities and higher heart rates compared to the group treated with solely DOX.…”
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Electrocatalytic activity of LiCo1-xFexO2 (0 ≤ x ≤ 1) for oxygen evolution reaction in alkaline medium by Tan, Cherynn Xue Ying

“…Subsequently, choice temperature of 600 °C was used for the synthesis of mixed LiCo1-xFexO2 (x = 0, 0.25, 0.5, 0.75 and 1) in the investigation of the OER enhancing effect of Fe substitution. …”
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The effect of nonlinear pedagogical principles on herding behaviour in a modified football game by Lee, Wei Jie

“…Sixteen male novice participants aged 9 to 10 years, were randomly allocated to the NP and control (CON) group and tasked to play a 4v4 modified football. The NP group was subjected to two blocks of interventions underpinned by NP principles. …”
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Experimental and numerical investigation of expanding tubes by Ravindrababu Suraj

“…The results deviated by only 5%. An interesting method for predicting the forming limit curve numerically was obtained. …”
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EEG data handling using AWS cloud computing for automatic spike detection in epilepsy patients by Rajput Kalpana Bharatsingh

“…Electrophysiological data, such as EEG can be called ‘big data’ as they might have more than 50 multi-channel signals from each patient, generating more than 5 GB data. An adequate approach to store and analyse signal data is required to meet the enormous volume of EEG data. …”
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PerfSONAR data representation and analysis by Goh, Ling Yong

“…For just Google company, almost $100 million can be lost from advertisements if it stops operating for a day [5]. Computer network is an important infrastructure for commerce, defense, social networks, media and etc. …”
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