Electron-beam radiation induced degradation of silicon nitride and its impact to semiconductor failure analysis by TEM by Liu, Binghai, Dong, Zhi Li, Hua, Younan, Fu, Chao, Li, Xiaomin, Tan, Pik Kee, Zhao, Yuzhe

“…The radiation enhanced diffusion (RED) accounted for the continuous thin-down of the nitride process layer and the formation of bubble-like defects in thick nitride spacer process layers. …”
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Synthesis of vinyl iodide chain-end polymers via organocatalyzed chain-end transformation by Chang, Jun Jie, Pan, Matthew Houwen, Goto, Atsushi

“…Exploiting the unique structure, the block-like copolymer was used as an efficient dispersant of carbon nanotubes.…”
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Identification and characterization of a wolfberry carboxypeptidase inhibitor from Lycium barbarum by Huang, Jiayi, Wong, Ka Ho, Tan, Wei Liang, Tay, Stephanie Victoria, Wang, Shujing, Tam, James P.

“…NMR spectroscopy revealed that β-lybatide displays a knottin-like structure that renders it highly resistant to thermal, chemical and enzymatic degradation, conditions important for keeping its structural integrity in gastrointestinal tract. …”
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Design and development of an online platform for peer tutorial scheme by Heng, Nadine Nyi Zheng

“…Tertiary institutions like Nanyang Technological University (NTU) were no exception. …”
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Detection of islanding and fault disturbances in microgrid using wavelet packet transform by Ray, Prakash K., Panigrahi, Basanta K., Rout, Pravat K., Mohanty, Asit, Foo, Eddy Yi Shyh, Gooi, Hoay Beng

“…Further, to validate the graphical study, performance indices (PIs) like standard deviation and entropy are calculated for the disturbance detection using suitable selection of threshold. …”
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Discrete element method study on hopper discharge behaviors of binary mixtures of nonspherical particles by Zhao, Ya, Chew, Jia Wei

“…For the monodisperse systems, particle shape is the dominant factor dictating discharge rate, compared to other factors like aspect ratio, preferential orientation, and packing. …”
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Strongly out-of-equilibrium simulations for electron Boltzmann transport equation using modal discontinuous Galerkina approach by Singh, Satyvir, Battiato, Marco

“…Ultimately, these results predict that the modal DG approach is particularly effective in treating the strongly out-of-equilibrium regimes encountered like in ultrafast transport dynamics.…”
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Intelligent departure metering assistant tool (IDMAT) for airside congestion management by Ali, Hasnain, Pham, Duc-Thinh, Tran, Thanh-Nam, Alam, Sameer

“…ATCO actions (advisory accept/reject) shall also be fed-back to train the DM policy into recommending ATCO-like actions.…”
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Multi-angle data acquisition to compensate transducer finite size in photoacoustic tomography by Hakakzadeh, Soheil, Mozaffarzadeh, Moein, Mostafavi, Seyed Masood, Kavehvash, Zahra, Rajendran, Praveenbalaji, Verweij, Martin, de Jong, Nico, Pramanik, Manojit

“…Simulations with point-like absorbers (for point-spread-function evaluation) and a vasculature phantom (for quality assessment), and experiments with ten 0.5 mm-diameter pencil leads and a leaf skeleton phantom are used for evaluation of the proposed approach. …”
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Badminton data analytics in joint angles and distances between joints: assessing the ai advantage over human expertise by Smitha Saravanan

“…Background: Video analysis in sports has grown, with markerless motion capture systems like BlazePose offering better accuracy and convenience than marker-based systems. …”
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Beyond the pause by Loke, Eden Hui Yi, Leong, Nicia Qiao Xin, Priyanka D/O Tamilarasan Thevar, See, Wenwei

“…Beyond the Pause stands as a testament to the power of targeted health communication in bridging knowledge gaps and catalysing societal change around critical health topics like perimenopause.…”
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Edge/cloud resource management for time-sensitive applications by Lim, Her Huey

“…This is rapidly changing with the advent of next-generation wireless technology like 5G. For example, such applications can be found in manufacturing (real-time robotic controls) and driving automation (localization using vehicle-to-infrastructure communication). …”
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Behavior of reinforced concrete slab column connections with various corroded reinforcements under cyclic loading by Yap, Jie Hui

“…Only one uncorroded slab and two corroded slabs of different levels of corrosion are tested in this report due to various reasons like time constraints and equipment failure in the Protective Engineering Laboratory. …”
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Virtual patient by Wong, Inge.

“…By replacing human actors to chat bot, this project aims to design, create, and develop a system which can act and function like Standardized Patients. The system is called Virtual Patient. …”
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Analysis of V2X communications by Chan, Selwyn Yao Feng

“…Due to certain limitations of the Matlab – Vissim Com interface, there are some features like the auto-generation of the road links cannot be done. …”
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Finite temperature dynamics of a Holstein polaron : the thermo-field dynamics approach by Chen, Lipeng, Zhao, Yang

“…Results on the mean square displacements show that band-like transport features dominate the diagonal coupling cases, and there exists a crossover from band-like to hopping transport with increasing temperature when including off-diagonal coupling. …”
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Investigating the effects of IGFs on immune responses in prostate cancer by Kim, J

“…<p>Prostate cancer is the second most common cancer in men. Insulin-like growth factor (IGF), a hormone necessary for normal cell growth, is correlated with prostate cancer progression and mortality and is known to have immunosuppressive actions in the tumour immune-microenvironment (TIME). …”

Metasomatism of the continental crust and its impact on surface uplift: insights from reactive‐transport modelling by Worthington, JR, Chin, EJ, Palin, RM

“…Although orogenic surface-uplift mechanisms for modern continental plateaus near known plate margins like Tibet are well-characterized, they cannot account for examples in intracontinental settings like the Colorado Plateau. …”

A simulation study showed that linear regression and Mann-Whitney test can be used to analyse the Days Alive and at Home by day 30 (DAH30) outcome in a randomized controlled trial by Cook, J

“…Mann-Whitney test in some circumstances (small effects and smaller samples sizes) provides better ability (like for like) to detect a difference between the groups.…”

Segmentation of magnetic resonance images for assessing neonatal brain maturation by Wang, S

“…This thesis thus focuses on structural segmentation and spatio-temporal modelling of the so-called myelin-like signals on T2-weighted scans for early prognostic evaluation of the preterm brain.…”