Enhancing Landsat image based aboveground biomass estimation of black locust with scale bias-corrected LiDAR AGB map and stratified sampling by Qin, Shuhong, Wang, Hong, Li, Xiuneng, Gao, Jay, Jin, Jiaxin, Li, Yongtao, Lu, Jinbo, Meng, Pengyu, Sun, Jing, Song, Zhenglin, Donev, Petar, Ma, Zhangfeng

“…The results indicated that: (1) about 68% of the biases can be corrected in the up-scale transformation; (2) compared to no stratification, a three-strata model achieved a 6.5% improvement in AGB estimation accuracy while requiring a 37.8% reduction in sample size; (3) the black locust forest had a low saturation point at 60.52 ± 4.46 Mg/ha AGB and 72.4% AGB values were underestimated and the remaining were overestimated. …”
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Investigating spatio-temporal variability of initial ²³⁰Th/²³²Th in intertidal corals by Chiang, Hong-Wei, Philibosian, Belle, Meltzner, Aron J., Wu, Chung-Che, Shen, Chuan-Chou, Edwards, R. Lawrence, Chuang, Chih-Kai, Suwargadi, Bambang W., Natawidjaja, Danny H.

“…Using the weighted mean of 4.3 ± 2.5 × 10−6 for all islands has the advantage that no data need be subjectively excluded in the calculation of reliable 230Th ages, where a local initial value is unknown. …”
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Developing intelligent chatbots powered by large language models by Ng, Kai Teck

“…By tweaking and integrating LLMs, particularly OpenAI's GPT-3.5 Turbo, with a chat web application, this research aims to enhance chatbot effectiveness and user experience. …”
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Ultra-low voltage SRAM for IoT applications by Cai, Yanru

“…The SRAM array built is capable of reading or writing 16 bit data, and operating reliably at a supply voltage down to 0.3V with leakage power of 17.3nW, read energy of 13.2fJ and write energy of 18.1fJ and maximum operating frequency of 1M Hz.…”
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Experimental and simulation analysis of energy absorption capacity of 3D printed structure design by Low, Evans Tze Sheng

“…A 15mm cubed graded closed foam model with an average density of 0.6 together with 4 other closed-foam models of densities of 0.2, 0.4, 0.6 and 0.8 will be created with the use of Computer Aided Design (CAD) software. 316 stainless steel was assigned to all 5 models for the simulation with a compression velocity of 1m/s. …”
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Behavior of reinforced concrete slab column connections with various corroded reinforcements under cyclic loading by Yap, Jie Hui

“…The slab dimensions are 2.1m by 1.175m by 0.15m and the column stump is 0.25m by 0.25m by 0.5m. This report focuses on how the corrosion level impacts the ultimate shear strength and drift ratio of the slab-column connection under seismic loadings.…”
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Design of a conformal end-fire array antenna by Hou, Zheyi

“…Rogers 4003 with permittivity of 3.55 and thickness of 0.5mm, 3. Feed line which is a moderated meandering microstrip line, functioning as the feed of the array. …”
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Metal-organic framework-based nanovaccine for relieving immunosuppressive tumors via hindering efferocytosis of macrophages and promoting pyroptosis and cuproptosis of cancer cells by Liu, Yang, Niu, Rui, Zhang, Xiaodong, Zhang, Bin, Chen, Xiaokai, Guo, Jingjing, Song, Shuyan, Wang, Yinghui, Zhang, Hongjie, Zhao, Yanli

“…To address the above limitations, we develop a 3-(2-spiroadamantyl)-4-methoxy-4-(3-phosphoryloxy)-phenyl-1,2-dioxetane (alkaline phosphatase substrate) and XMD8-92 (extracellular signal-regulated kinase 5 inhibitor)-codelivered copper-tetrahydroxybenzoquinone (Cu-THBQ/AX) nanosized metal-organic framework to in situ-generate therapeutic vaccination. …”
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Multi-scale CuS-rGO pyramidal photothermal structure for highly efficient solar-driven water evaporation and thermoelectric power generation by Zeng, Long, Deng, Daxiang, Zhu, Linye, Zhang, Zhenkun, Gu, Xin, Wang, Huiming, Jiang, Yujie

“…Outdoor tests showed that an average daily water production of 12.1 kg/m2 and a maximum power generation of 5.55 W/m2 was obtained. This work provides a high-performance multi-scale CuS-rGO pyramidal photothermal structure to achieve freshwater and thermoelectric power co-generation, which provides potential opportunities for freshwater and electricity supply in remote areas.…”
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Urine osmolality assessment through the integration of urea hydrolysis and impedance measurement by Kong, Tian Fook, Shen, Xinhui, Sim, Mei Yi, Yong, Jin, Ng, Tze Kiat, Chong, Tsung Wen, Marcos

“…In this work, we validated the accuracy of the impedance-based urine osmometer by developing a proof-of-concept first prototype and an integrated urine dipstick second prototype, where both prototypes exhibit an average accuracy of 95.5 ± 2.4% and 89.9 ± 9.1%, respectively in comparison to a clinical freezing point osmometer in the hospital laboratory. …”
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The acquisition of English and Mandarin by a Singaporean child in a trilingual home by Teo, Jennifer Lay Heong.

“…Results indicate that: (1)the absence of tense and number markers in the English data was due to the variety of Singapore Colloquial English the child was exposed to in his environment; (2)the use of pragmatic particles and the lack of clear developmental pattern in the English interrogatives were linked to the Singapore Colloquial English usage in the input; (3)the English-language acquisition pattern shows a similar pattern as those in other comparable studies done in Singapore; (4)the order of the grammatical morphemes in the Mandarin data follows the similar pattern as other monolingual children reported on; (5)code-switching and code-mixing were directly affected by social factors: interlocutor, norm of the speech situation and his language dominance; (6)code-switching also occurs for many reasons related to language use; and (7)the child language development has been affected by the varying amount of input. …”
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Investigation of silicon nanowires photodetector by Foo, Kai Lin.

“…The dopant activation time was reduced from 20 s to 5 s in batch 2 samples.…”
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Identification of microRNA targets for the alternative splicing isoforms of CD46. by Teo, Zhi Lin.

“…The analysis also showed that miR-186 and miR-140-5p may target the CD46 3’UTR. These findings are preliminary and further experiments are needed to validate the results.…”
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Study on airfoil performance in gusts by Chan, Samuel Ka Seng.

“…The gust generator was proved to be successful in attaining the desired significant crosswind gust angles, further experimentation was also attempted with a 5-hole probe system to obtain more precise instantaneous readings. …”
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Unsteady flow-induced vibration of the slider in a commercial hard disk drive by Toh, Jeffrey See Ren.

“…The results had also shown that pressure fluctuations around the HGA plate were highly related with FIV, with principle peaks occurring at approximately 1.5 kHz, 2.8 kHz, 4.3 kHz. Similarly, principle peaks of velocity fluctuations occurred at the frequencies corresponding to those of pressure fluctuations. …”
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Numerical simulation and analysis of the transition to turbelence in boundary layer flows by Liu, Tianjia

“…In this context, Assoc. Prof. Vladimir V. Kulish has come up with a new model that views the velocity fluctuations during a transition from laminar to turbulent flow as a fractal time series. …”
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Over-current protection circuit design for DC-DC converter in space applications by Long, Jiru

“…On the basis of Cadence simulation, the circuit is capable of accurately sensing load current and protecting the load when latchup occurs by setting a power cycle of 5ms enough for the load recovering from latchup state. …”
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Low-power non-binary SAR ADC with a two-mode comparator by Li, Jianni

“…For implantable medical devices like artificial pacemakers, high power efficiency is demanded because they are supposed to work 5 to 10 years on a battery. ADC is one of the major blocks as the interface between analog signals and digital logic. …”
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Cloud-assisted rendering support for mobile online gaming by Teo, Lin Yan

“…The client application uses noVNC, a Virtual Networking Computing client application which is written in HTML5 and JavaScript, as the thin client to provide input to the server, while the server provide a live streaming of the gameplay back to the client browser. …”
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Various factors affecting human performance in a computerised environment by Ang, Kah Eng, Neo, Aik Keong, Pang, Soh Chui

“…This includes both the physical and social aspects of the environment. Following, chapter 5 identifies the selected research issues that are of interest in the current study. …”
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