A comparative analysis of missing data imputation techniques on sedimentation data by Loh, Wing Son, Ling, Lloyd, Chin, Ren Jie, Lai, Sai Hin, Loo, Kar Kuan, Seah, Choon Sen

“…A comparative analysis on the missing fine sediment data imputation performance was made based on four different techniques, namely the k-Nearest Neighbourhood (k-NN), Support Vector Regression (SVR), Multiple Regression (MR), and Artificial Neural Network (ANN), under the single imputation (SI) and multiple imputation (MI) regimes. …”
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Sproutly : plantable packaging by Dhanusha Surendran

“…As such, the packaging germinates when planted. The main findings show that supermarkets are flooding the planet with single-use plastics to portion out products conveniently and cheaply for consumption. …”
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Development of a Mandarin learning tool for children using speech recognition model by Wang, Yilin

“…Our approach involved a systematic methodology comprising the assembly of a children audio dataset, model performance testing with a focus on children's voices, and fine-tuning to elevate the model's acuity for concise Mandarin phrases. …”
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Effects of heat treatment parameters on the microstructure and mechanical properties of laser power bed fusion (LPBF) 316L stainless steel by Sun, Yuheng

“…These conditions result in fine-grained structures with cellular structures and high density of dislocations that contribute to improved strength and ductility. …”
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Characterising human disparity tuning properties using population receptive field mapping by Alvarez, I, Mancari, A, Ip, IB, Parker, AJ, Bridge, H

“…Together, these findings point to heterogeneity of disparity processing across human visual areas, comparable to non-human primates.…”

The structural, mechanical, and biological variation of silica bioglasses obtained by different sintering temperatures by Sarmast Sh, M., Dayang Radiah, A. B., Hoey, D. A., Abdullah, N.

“…Its antibacterial efficacy against E. coli and S. aureus was also noted, and in vitro studies with MTT assay confirmed that the optimized sol-gel bioglass meets biocompatibility standards. These findings highlight the potential of fine-tuning the sintering temperature to modulate the crystallinity of bioglasses, thereby enhancing their application scope in bone tissue engineering.…”

Risk prediction models to guide antibiotic prescribing : a study on adult patients with uncomplicated upper respiratory tract infections in an emergency department by Wong, Joshua Guoxian, Aung, Aung-Hein, Lian, Weixiang, Lye, David Chien, Ooi, Chee-Kheong, Chow, Angela

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Public bus transit service modeling and optimization: from conventional to autonomous vehicles by Tian, Qingyun

“…In the first part, this thesis proposes a novel tri-level model for a transit service operation design problem that primarily determines the optimal bus line frequency setting. Unlike the existing studies, the strategy choices of passengers in presence of congested common lines are explicitly considered. …”
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Layer-by-Layer Nanoparticles for Cytokine Delivery by Pires, Ivan S.

“…We also find that the LbL film conformation is key to maintaining therapeutic efficacy as thicker films hinder IL-12 delivery. …”
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Essays on blood supply management by Senga, Juan Ramon Liboro

“…We then provide a numerical study that looks at the effect of reducing regeneration on the cost incurred. We find that because blood is considered a valuable resource, reducing regeneration can significantly reduce cost. …”
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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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“Clicking” compliant mechanism for flapping-wing micro aerial vehicle by Chin, Yao-Wei, Lau, Gih Keong

“…The clicking mechanism is integrated in a thorax-like compliant mechanism, which buckles and consequently produces a large wing stroke when driven by an electric motor. …”
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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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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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