An RF energy harvester by Wang, Chao

“…In recent years, use of wireless devices is growing in many applications like mobile phones and sensor networks. For those sensor networks, they are used in various scenarios such as intelligent monitoring systems for office, medical, or military applications. …”
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Location identification of line supports using experimental modal analysis by Wu, Lei, Yang, Yaowen, Maheshwari, Muneesh

“…In many engineering applications, line supports are used to reinforce long span structures such as multi-span beams and plates. …”
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Unveiling the future of budget hotels in Singapore by Chua, Hwee Lian, Kew, Wong Yip, Soh, Wee Li

“…The latter involves the use of factors like visitor arrivals, their lengths of stay and the room-sharing ratios to anticipate the future level of demand. …”
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Plasmonic effect on visible light driven photoelectrochemical activity of semiconductor by Zhang, Huanchao

“…A maximum absorption enhancement ratio of 11.5 was obtained at wavelength of 675nm. Meanwhile, photoelectric behavior test exhibited a 43-fold increase in photocurrent density upon visible illumination for five-layer structure, suggesting an intensively improved photoelectrochemical reaction with the aid of structured gold nanoparticles. …”
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Detection of simultaneous structural problems using multiple structural health monitoring techniques by Yang, Lu

“…Civil infrastructures are built for long-term use spanning several decades. After the construction, cracks, wear and tear, fatigue, creep, etc., will appear anytime during their life span, which significantly affects the capacity of the structure to bear loads. …”
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Highlights reel creator by Loong, Dion Jian Wen

“…With applications like Adobe Premiere Pro and iMovies, content creators today are able to produce high quality videos every day to educate and entertain users. …”
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Experimental and numerical investigation on precast CECFST column-to-column connections subjected to axial and eccentric compression by Zhu, Gaoming, Tan, Kang Hai

“…In this paper, an experimental programme including five connection tests was conducted to investigate compression performance of the developed precast connection. …”
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Simple and flexible vision-based hand gesture recognition system by Lee, Chun Kiat.

“…The fundamental concept of the system is to count the number of fingers displayed in particular gesture based on the unique characteristic of human hands which normally constituted by five fingers in a circle-like palm. The developed system is capable of recognizing six gestures ranging from “zero” to “five”. …”
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China's defence budget – the trend of the ascending numbers by Jash, Amrita

“…China’s defence budget reflects the country’s increasing military might and aspirations, with the 14th Five-Year Plan seeking to modernise the People’s Liberation Army and bolster national security. …”
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Food Prices: A Double-edged Sword by Montesclaros, Jose Ma. Luis P., Caballero-Anthony, Mely

“…The recent phenomenon of food prices declining over the past five years is like a double-edged sword to food consumers globally.…”
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Fault localization of a long power cable by Guo, Guoqiang

“…Documented in Singapore Energy Statistics 2016 by EMA, the demand for electricity consumption has been increasing over the years. In a span of one year, from 2014 to 2015, energy consumption raised by 2TWh. …”
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Range expansion of a declining forest species, the Western Gray Squirrel (Sciurus griseus), into semi-arid woodland by Sultaire, SM, Montgomery, RA, Jackson, PJ, Millspaugh, JJ

“…Occupancy modeling revealed that western gray squirrels were equally likely to occur in piñon–juniper woodland compared to mature pine forest that they occupy elsewhere in their range. …”

Surface wave interaction with a vertical viscoelastic barrier by Bi, Cheng, Wu, Mao See, Law, Adrian Wing-Keung

“…The viscoelastic sheet spans over the entire water depth, and is tensioned and hinged on both ends. …”
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Forces on oscillating uniform and tapered cylinders in a crossflow by Hover, F. S., Techet, A. H., Triantafyllou, M.S.

“…Forces are measured at both ends of rigid cylinders with span 60 cm, performing transverse oscillations within an oncoming stream of water, at Reynolds number Re ~3800. …”
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Progressive collapse assessment of prestressed concrete beams by Lin, Haoran, Luo, Da, Li, Bing

“…It is observed that the span/depth ratio alters the trend of tendon ratio and influences the change rates of other variables. …”
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CMOS friendly electrode material screening for HfOx-based RRAM by Yan, Haiping

“…During this project, after reviewing the literature of RRAM device’s switching behaviour and driving mechanisms, three wafer groups of HfOx based RRAM devices with CMOS friendly electrode materials (like Ti, TiN, Al, Ni, etc) have been tested for analysis and comparisons. …”
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Development of high performance Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol for wireless ad-hoc network by Phang, Jian Kai.

“…Several surveys are done on various MAC protocols and five of them with high throughput enhancement are focused in this report. …”
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Development of an intelligent solar energy system for off-grid application by Ng, Cindy Shi Hui.

“…The growing demand for clean sources of energy has expanded dramatically in recent years as conventional energy like oil becomes scarce and more expensive. Because of this growth, it has led to demand for searching alternative source energy. …”
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Responsive website for 360 virtual reality game by Ong, Sai Kiat

“…With the help of VR sensors like accelerometers, magnetometers and gyroscopes, it allows the movement of the user’s head to be measured. …”
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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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