Additive manufacturing by Yeong, Wai Yee

“…Applications of AM can be multidisciplinary and span across many fields of study. The research projects featured in this primer are categorised into seven research areas: (1) Aerospace & Defence (2) Biomedical & Food Printing (3) Building & Construction (4) Marine & Offshore (5) AI in Part Design & Manufacturing (6) Novel Materials & 3D Microstructure Engineering (7) Beyond 3D Printing. …”
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Behaviour of steel and polyproylene fibers in high strength concrete subjected to elevated temperature by Khoo, Li Ying.

“…Concrete are widely used in the construction industry and with the increase in demand of high strength properties and long life span, High Strength Concrete (HSC) is more commonly used as compared to other types of concretes. …”
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Intelligent reconstruction of pipe system for BIM enabled maintenance by Xie, Hang

“…With the help of BIM, planning and design such as life span, energy cost, requirement for space and structure efficiency for construction will become much simpler. …”
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Design implementation low energy fast fourier transform/inverse fast fourier transform (FFT/IFFT) processor based on asynchronous-logic by Chong, Kwen Siong

“…The circuits designed herein span from microcells and macrocells to a complete 128-point radix-2 decimation-in-time Fast Fourier Transform/Inverse Fast Fourier Transform (FFT/IFFT) processor for energy-critical audio applications, including hearing aids. …”
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All-optical processing technologies for next generation optical networks by Wang, Dawei

“…All-optical processing technologies span many research areas, which include optical buffering, optical logic gates, optical wavelength conversion/multicasting, optical signal regeneration, ultra-fast optical switching, optical signal modulation format conversion, de-multiplexing of optical time division multiplexing (OTDM) signal, optical data exchange, and etc. …”
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Popular safe haven assets, do they really exist for stock markets? Analysis on gold, Japanese yen and Swiss franc. by Liu, Chang., Ho, Pauline., Xu, Qiong.

“…The aim of this paper is to examine the existence of the three assets’ safe haven and hedging properties for stock markets, across 13 countries over a span of 17 years (1996-2012). Employing GARCH model on daily equity return data, we establish empirically proven results on their safe haven status. …”
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Fiscal deficit and inflation: an empirical measure in view of Pakistan by Khan, Aurangzeb, Siddiqi, Masood Mashkoor, Khan, Ameerzeib, Khan, Shahbano

“…For this purpose, an Autoregressive Distributed Lag Model (ARDL) is applied to time series data time span from 1971 to 2021, collected from various national and international reports and economic issues. …”
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Opportunities for quantum computing within net-zero power system optimization by Morstyn, T, Wang, X

“…<p><i>Key conclusions: </i>In this review, we identify significant and wide-ranging opportunities for recent breakthroughs in quantum-accelerated optimization to offer value for the transition to net-zero power systems. These opportunities span a variety of problems across planning and operation, which are key for reliable and affordable decarbonization.…”

Battleground for belonging: the migration and identity formation of Qeshmis in the United Arab Emirates by Al Qassim, MH

“…This dissertation explores the complex dynamics of identity and belonging among Qeshmi Emiratis, whose ties span both coasts of the Arabian Gulf and various port cities around the Indian Ocean rim. …”

Efficiency of tuned liquid dampers in mitigating vibrations of structures with mass eccentricity by Teh, Kun Jie, Vafaei, Mohammadreza, Alih, Sophia C., Shad, Hossein

“…Method: In this study, a scaled-down one-bay 3-story structure with a 1 m span length and a total height of 2.65 m was constructed and subjected to free vibration and harmonic excitations. …”

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

“…The results of semi-structured interviews with 17 staff members spanning the organisational hierarchy of three diverse English HE providers highlight conflicts between staff values, job roles and responsibilities and espoused organisational values, and how they can influence symbolic and legitimising evaluation practices. …”
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Prehistoric human migration between Sundaland and South Asia was driven by sea-level rise by Kim, Hie Lim, Li, Tanghua, Kalsi, Namrata, Nguyen, Hung Tran The, Shaw, Timothy Adam, Ang, Khai C., Cheng, Keith C., Ratan, Aakrosh, Peltier, W. Richard, Samanta, Dhrubajyoti, Pratapneni, Mahesh, Schuster, Stephan Christoph, Horton, Benjamin Peter

“…Here, we create a paleogeographic map, focusing on sea-level changes during the period spanning the LGM to the present-day and infer the human population history in Southeast and South Asia using 763 high-coverage whole-genome sequencing datasets from 59 ethnic groups. …”
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Dynamic spectrum allocation for heterogeneous cognitive radio networks with multiple channels by Zhang, Wenjie, Sun, Yingjuan, Deng, Lei, Yeo, Chai Kiat, Yang, Liwei

“…With the objective to maximize the achievable throughput for secondary S-D, we formulate the spectrum allocation problem as a linear integer optimization problem under spectrum availability constraint, spectrum span constraint, and interference free constraint. …”
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Robust Transceiver Design Based on Interference Alignment for Multi-User Multi-Cell MIMO Networks With Channel Uncertainty by Xie, Xianzhong, Yang, Helin, Vasilakos, Athanasios V.

“…Then, for the outer beamformer design, we develop an efficient conjugate gradient Grassmann manifold subspace tracking algorithm to minimize the distances between the subspace spanned by interference and the interference subspace in the time-varying channel. …”
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The Japanese economy in crises : a time series segmentation study by Cheong, Siew Ann, Fornia, Robert Paulo, Lee, Gladys Hui Ting, Kok, Jun Liang, Yim, Woei Shyr, Xu, Danny Yuan, Zhang, Yiting

“…We constructed the minimum spanning trees (MSTs) to visualize the Pearson cross correlations between Japanese industries over five macroeconomic periods: (i) 1997–1999 (Asian Financial Crisis), (ii) 2000–2002 (Technology Bubble Crisis), (iii) 2003–2006 (economic growth), (iv) 2007–2008 (Subprime Crisis), and (v) 2008–2010 (Lehman Brothers Crisis). …”
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Measuring spatial ability: analysis of spatial ability test for Gulf State students using item response theory by Ajmi, Mohammed Al, Mustakim, Siti Salina, Roslan, Samsilah, Almehrizi, Rashid

“…The item difficulty parameters ranged from -1.541 to 1.735, discrimination parameters spanned from 0.419 to 5.252, and guessing parameters varied between 0.00 and 0.346. …”
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Particle self-assembly in sessile droplet on patterned substrate by Lim, Si Xian

“…This indicates that the particle is the pinning force that prevents contact line withdrawal. …”
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Influence of the exchange symmetry beyond the exclusion principle by Tennie, F

“…In particular, we <em>analytically</em> study the (quasi-)pinning effect which corresponds to a saturation of the GPCs and imposes structural simplifications on the <em>N</em>-fermion state. …”

Somatosensory and clinical profiles of patients with spine-related and clinical framework-based neck–arm pain by Kapitza, C, Ballenberger, N, Luedtke, K, Schmid, AB, Tampin, B

“…Symptom descriptors, such as burning (<em>P</em> &lt; 0.031), tingling (<em>P</em> &lt; 0.018), pins and needles (<em>P</em> &lt; 0.031), numbness (<em>P</em> &lt; 0.016), spontaneous pain (<em>P</em> &lt; 0.001), and electric pain/shock (<em>P</em> &lt; 0.026) were more common in the radicular/radiculopathy groups compared with the somatic/mechanosensitivity groups. …”

All you need is rotation: Construction of developable strips by Maekawa, Takashi, Scholz, Felix

“…This enables the potential of the proposed method to be used for a wide range of practical applications, spanning fields such as architectural design, industrial design, and papercraft modeling. …”
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