The Impact of Process Replacement on Sheet Metal Product Design: The Use of Steel Extrusions Versus Formed Sheet Metal by Yuan, Chenyu

“…The proposed shift not only simplifies the manufacturing process but also aligns with the broader goal of global cost reduction and process standardization, which are essential for enhancing New Product Introduction (NPI) eOiciencies. The findings demonstrate that maximizing the application of tube laser technology across a diverse range of channels and products can lead to significant cost savings, ranging from 49% to 79%, with a payback period of less than two years. …”
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Exœrcising a Haunted City by Wong, Bryan Hon Ting

“…This thesis documents, through the study of local Taoist-Buddhist practices, the choreographies of rituals as a reparative tool to resist the disap- pearance of local culture. It is linked to findings from everyday domestic offerings to ancestors, annual festive performances of traumatic cleansing, and the booming clientele businesses of precautionary rites, all of which demonstrate their spatial and temporal qualities as methods to resist modern state control. …”
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A Mixed-Methods Research Design to Advance Inclusive and Equitable Teaching by Soicher, Raechel N., Baker, Amanda R., Thomas, Ruthann C.

“…We highlight how synthesizing findings across multiple levels of analysis using a mixed methods design provides a new perspective on the perennial issue of the uptake of inclusive and equitable teaching practices in higher education. …”
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Revisiting values in evaluation: exploring the role of values in shaping evaluation practices and their influences on decision-making within English higher education providers by Kelly, Catherine

“…Alternatively, at the individual level staff values support the process and instrumental use of evaluation to inform programme improvements. The findings identify implications for how HE providers can shape their evaluation systems, and how staff choose to enact evaluation within their programme areas.…”
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Demolition after decline: Understanding and explaining demolition patterns in US and German shrinking cities by Gao, Shuqi, Jansen, Hendrik, Ryan, Brent D.

“…Dessau's demolition is financed by federal policy with explicit spatial intentions, whereas Flint's demolition is complaint-driven without substantial spatial consideration. The study findings indicate that demolition pattern is embedded in structural, historical, and national factors.…”
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Collagen-mimetic peptides for diagnosis and analysis by Borgula, Isabella M.

“…Finally, Chapter 4 examines the structural implications of threonine phosphorylation on collagen stability, showcasing the value of CMPs in studying posttranslational modifications. The findings discussed in this thesis lay a foundation for future CMP applications in targeted drug delivery and biomaterials design.…”
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Evaluating the roughness of structure–property relationships using pretrained molecular representations by Graff, David E, Pyzer-Knapp, Edward O, Jordan, Kirk E, Shakhnovich, Eugene I, Coley, Connor W

“…We show that pretrained representations do not produce smoother QSPR surfaces, in agreement with previous empirical results of model accuracy. Our findings suggest that imposing stronger assumptions of smoothness with respect to molecular structure during model pretraining could aid in the downstream generation of smoother QSPR surfaces.…”
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Thermal controls for NTU student satellite series-I (SCOOB-I) satellite by Birthi, Sanika

“…This study is then extended to conduct preliminary thermal modelling and analysis of a microsatellite named ARCADE: Atmospheric Coupling and Dynamic Explorer, which is going to be launched along with SCOOB-I. The preliminary findings showed that the components CIP_PCB and cold finger display overheating. …”
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Influence of thermal sintering protocol on materials properties of tungsten carbide alloy (WC-17%Co) components by binder jet printing by Low, Tammy Chien-Yu

“…The green samples were then sintered in vacuum at 1350°C and 1400°C for a duration of 2-3 hours. A key finding is immersing binder jet printed WC-17%Co components in a sand bed for thermal sintering enabled 3D shape control and uniform shrinkage. …”
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Liposomal encapsulation of pro-NO donor drug by Koh, Cheryl Jie Yan

“…In-vitro release study conducted using Phosphate buffered saline solution found that the drug was not fully encapsulated in the core of the liposomes, resulting in complete release of nitric oxide within a day. Nonetheless, our findings suggest that Dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine (DSPC) was the most stable and was able to mimic the desired sustained release profile, although more work still needs to be done to further finetune the experimental procedures to yield a better result.…”
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Social gating of statistical learning in infants through interpersonal neural synchrony by Teo, Kai Xin

“…Infants of 8 to 10 months old (n = 18) were recruited and results showed that there were significant effects of eye- contact on neural synchrony (within-infant, within-adult, and infant-adult), but it was only found for within-infant synchrony in the full eye-contact condition. No significant findings were found between neural synchrony and statistical language learning. …”
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Investigation of diverse cold air inlet configurations for Sun HPC data center by Liu, Zhao

“…It is suggested that further studies should include different server layouts as well as the diverse conditions of the air outlets into the research to improve the reliability of the findings.…”
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Divine intervention in decisions : an adaptive function of religious belief by Lim, Alexander Yao

“…. (-.062, -.003)]. These findings provide evidence that religiosity increases the speed of moral decisions by reducing uncertainty, pointing to a previously unexplored adaptive function of religion – increased decision speed in the moral domain.…”
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The role of surface chemistry in impedimetric aptasensing by Koh, Vanessa, Ang, Wei Li, Bonanni, Alessandra

“…GONCs reduced at −1.2 V have shown the best electroanalytical response for the impedimetric detection of OTA. These findings are anticipated to contribute to the design of novel biosensors, whereby an optimized platform is employed for the immobilization of the biorecognition element.…”
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Examining structure in scientific research articles : a study of thematic progression and thematic density by Leong, Alvin Ping, Toh, Audrey Lin Lin, Chin, Soo Fun

“…The results were consistent across the articles in the corpus, underscoring the uniform way in which the articles were thematically structured, and in turn suggesting a core thematic pattern for scientific research writing in general. Based on these findings, the authors suggest that future studies compare the thematic structure of the introduction section vis-à-vis the other sections, and investigate the possible factors resulting in such a structure.…”
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Metal hydroxide catalyst for water splitting by Neo, Yu Chen

“…To assess the OER performance of the catalyst, we performed X-ray Diffraction (XRD), Scanning Electron Microscopy with Energy Dispersive X-Ray Analysis (SEM-EDX), Cyclic Voltammetry (CV), Linear Sweep Voltammetry (LSV), Potentio Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy (PEIS) measurement and stability tests. Based on our findings, Co2.5Mn0.5 is the optimal OER catalyst in terms of its OER activity and durability. …”
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Car cabin surveillance using computer vision by Soegeng, Andrew Ivan

“…Moreover, this paper presents the findings and the results from 2 different approaches which are classic image classification-based approach, and a novel 2-stage classifier was proposed whereby the frames are passed to pose estimation and face mesh detection model that will output key points for both the face mesh and the human body which are then passed to an algorithm that will output the driver activity.…”
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The incidence of perfect moments: acoustic eloquence and narrative terroir in modern fiction by Tan, Ignatius Lu Wei

“…Where such fictions frequently exhibit moments of extraordinary musicality within the medium of language, I posit that the terroir of music production finds equivalence in the semantics of the modern novel. …”
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Effects of tenability on the modelling of fire evacuation in a multi-storey passenger ship by Chen, Sebrina Xueqi.

“…A cellular automata (CA) model which adopts the findings on tenability analysis is proposed to simulate the evacuations from a multi-storey passenger ship. …”
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Tangible figurine story composer and narrator by Choo, Jin He

“…The results show that participants with no prior stop-motion background found both versions, designed for storytelling and story composition, more engaging than users with prior experience. Furthermore, the findings underline a strong preference for Version 2, which involves camera-based composition, in terms of ease of use, engagement levels, and intuitiveness when compared to Version 1, which relies on user interfaces. …”
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