A stochastic thunderstorm model for dynamic response assessment by School of Civil and Environmental Engineering

“…The thunderstorm downdraught rushes down vertically and spreads out radially like a wall-jet. Highest wind speeds are registered at locations which are nearest to the storm cell centre.…”
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Experimental and numerical studies of S960 ultra-high strength steel welded I-section columns by Su, Andi, Liang, Yating, Zhao, Ou

“…A testing programme, including initial geometric imperfection measurements and ten pin-ended column tests, was conducted. The testing programme was accompanied by a numerical modelling programme, where finite element models were firstly developed and validated against the test results, and then employed to perform parametric studies to generate further numerical data. …”
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Structure-activity relationships of photo-activated soft tissue Adhesive by Wicaksono, Gautama

“…Soft tissue fixation relies on mechanical means such as sutures, pins, and screws, with potential complications such as concentrated tissue damage, perforation, and the need for secondary surgeries. …”
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Discovery of a new predominant cytosine DNA modification that is linked to gene expression in malaria parasites by Hammam, Elie, Ananda, Guruprasad, Sinha, Ameya, Scheidig-Benatar, Christine, Bohec, Mylene, Preiser, Peter Rainer, Dedon, Peter C., Scherf, Artur, Vembar, Shruthi S.

“…Here, we report the first identification of a hydroxymethylcytosine-like (5hmC-like) modification in P. falciparum asexual blood stages using a suite of biochemical methods. …”
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READY PLAYER ONE / by Cline, Ernest, author 655943

“…Famine, poverty, and disease are widespread. Like most of humanity, Wade Watts escapes this depressing reality by spending his waking hours jacked into the OASIS, a sprawling virtual utopia where you can be anything you want to be, where you can live and play and fall in love on any of ten thousand planets. …”

Hedonic and non-hedonic bias toward the future by Greene, Preston, Latham, Andrew J., Miller, Kristie, Norton, James

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The ethics of silence : reading the lover's discourse in contemporary trauma narratives by Goh, Pei Hua

“…In Testimony, Felman and Laub contend that a historical and collective trauma like the Holocaust cannot be represented, and cannot be understood, because it lacks a frame of reference. …”
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Functional characterization of orexin system by Chua, Peiling

“…Orexin, which has been known to be involved in feeding and sleep-wake cycle, might have antidepressant-like effects. Researches indicate that depression might be associated with nucleus accumbens and its dopaminergic inputs from ventral tegmental area, which make up the mesolimbic dopamine system. …”
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Sound and smoke propagation models for virtual crowd environments by Vaisagh Viswanathan Thattamparambil

“…Virtual crowd simulations are important for various applications like defense, social studies, etc. While literature exists on agent design and sensor modeling, there is still no generic model for sound and smoke propagation that can be integrated into existing virtual crowd simulation frameworks. …”
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Behavioural and biochemical abnormalities in a mouse model for Parkinson's disease. by Ten, Rachel Rui Xian.

“…In addition to motor abilities, 2 and 4 months old LRRK2R1441G mice were tested in the elevated plus-maze for anxiety-like behaviour, and in the tail suspension test and forced swim test to assess depression-like behaviour. …”
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Design and analysis of passive phase shifters using controllable defected ground structures in 65nm CMOS technology for 77-81 GHz automotive radar by Wu, Jiaqi

“…Active phase shifters like vector summing type employing active devices consume large amount of power and the phase accuracy is normally low due to the active components. …”
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Effects of ZnO nanoparticle exposure on wastewater treatment and soluble microbial products (SMPs) in an anoxic-aerobic membrane bioreactor by Zhang, Dong Qing, Eng, Chin Yee, Stuckey, David C., Zhou, Yan

“…The presence of ZnO NPs enhanced the production of amino acid-like (7.5–25.1%) and tryptophan protein-like compounds (31.7–38.1%), compared to the control (6.0–20.2% for amino acid-like compounds; and 28.5–36.7% for tryptophan protein-like compounds). …”
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Investigation of structure and particle fabrication of ferritin by Fan, Rongli

“…In this thesis, we demonstrate ferritins and ferritin-like proteins are ideal model systems to investigate protein quaternary structure and to fabricate nanomaterials. …”
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Crosslingual comparison of linguistic phenomenon in English, Japanese and Chinese by Gao, Eshley Huini

“…The remaining contribute to evidence for translation shifts, which includes direct differentiation like hyponymy relationship to less straightforward variation like translation equivalents. …”
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Development of a hybrid utility/wind/solar power supply system for energy neutral building by Chooi, Kin Fei

“…The result of the system show that the power generate from Hybrid System has a promising future and it is suitable a limited space for a country like Singapore. Ever this system had been scale down, however, the data collected from the simulator show this system is working as designed and it can be done by using simple component like, Op-Amp, Ac to Dc Convector and etc. …”
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Get a Copy Find a copy in the library Internet of Things and Connected Technologies : Conference Proceedings on 5th International Conference on Internet of Things and Connected Tec... by International Conference on Internet of Things and Connected Technologies (5th : 2020 : Patna City, India), organiser 643049, Misra, Rajiv, editor 643051, Kesswani, Nishtha, editor 643052, Rajarajan, M., editor 643053, Bharadwaj, Veeravalli, editor 643054, Patel, Ashok, editor 643055

“…This book presents the recent research adoption of a variety of enabling wireless communication technologies like RFID tags, BLE, ZigBee, etc., and embedded sensor and actuator nodes, and various protocols like CoAP, MQTT, DNS, etc., that has made Internet of things (IoT) to step out of its infancy to become smart things. …”

Trasformation from amorphous carbon to graphene by Liang, Chen

“…The characterization methods such like Raman was used to detect the appearance of graphene. …”
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Home by Pei, Qianru

“…This project is a self-exploitary journey to find out where is home for me and people like me. As a third culture kid, I have been moving around with no permant address of stay and sometimes find myself caught inbetween the two cultures. …”
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China as the next champion of globalisation? by Wu, Friedrich

“…As the US under Donald Trump and European powers like Britain and France turn their backs on globalisation, could or would China step in to be the next champion of globalisation? …”
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Target detection and estimation using a stereo vision camera for autonomous navigation by Chow, Song Qian.

“…After these images have been captured, software programs like FlyCapture® SDK and Triclops® SDK, which are provided by Point Grey Research will be used to process the raw images. …”
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