Control and integration of energy storage systems for electric and hybrid ships – part 1 by Lim, Joshua

“…The issue of low load management will be approached and the effects like wet stacking will be mentioned. Solutions such as using a portable load, making use of spinning reserve and peak shaving are suggested. …”
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Tissue engineering approach using fibrous scaffold with matricellular protein for wound healing by Chen, Huizhi

“…However, it was remarkably noted that the introduction of matricellular protein Angiopoietin-like 4 (ANGPTL4) was able to reverse the phenotypic alteration induced by aligned fibers. …”
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Visual perception & performance in penalty kick among soccer goalkeepers : a review by Abdul Shariff Shaik Ahmad

“…A systematic literature search using keyword like ‘visual perceptual in soccer penalty kick’ was done up till 29th March on 5 electronic databases: (1) One Search, (2) Sport Discus, (3) PubMed (4) Science Direct, and (5) Google Scholar. 13 articles were retained for systematic review, after screening and assessing for eligibility. …”
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SSVEP BCI System for personalized gaming by Ng, Kenneth Shi Ying

“…There are many applications being used in such technology like controlling of wheel chair, playing games, medical purposes and many more. …”
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Understanding fast fashion consumption : a values perspective by Liang, Aijia

“…In recent years, fast fashion has been growing in popularity, with brands like Zara and H&M proliferating markets worldwide. …”
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Speed studies in Singapore by Teo, Boon Fang

“…In a country with a dense road network system like Singapore, appropriate speeds and speed limits are issues that authorities must deal with when a new road is built, or when an existing road needs to be reviewed. …”
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3-way tug-of-war configurable arena by Kang, Leland Hoe Jae

“…Secondly, the construction of the configurable arena is also left to the student’s imagination and creativity in constructing an eco-friendly ‘maze’ like arena. Thirdly, the incorporation of the both components to form a fully functional game for robots.This report will review and analyze the enhancements and improvements of the traditional Tug-of-War game. …”
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Emergency depopulation of chicken farms during an avian influenza outbreak (Design and development of CO2 delivery system) by Chang, Wei Jun

“…Birds, like humans are susceptible to a myriad of influenza viruses. …”
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Optically controlled periodical chain of quantum rings by Hasan, M., Iorsh, I. V., Kibis, O. V., Shelykh, Ivan A.

“…Particularly, the field opens band gaps in the electron energy spectrum of the chain, generates edge electron currents, and induces the Fano-like features in the electron transport through the finite chain. …”
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Generic Object Recognition with Local Receptive Fields Based Extreme Learning Machine by Bai, Zuo, Kasun, Liyanaarachchi Lekamalage Chamara, Huang, Guang-Bin

“…Traditional methods involve plenty of pre-processing steps, like model construction, feature extraction, etc. …”
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Livelihood Strategies Amongst Indigenous Peoples in the Central Cardamom Protected Forest, Cambodia by Long, Sarou

“…The indigenous people in Thmor Doun Pov and Tatei Leu, Communes of Thmor Bang District of Koh Kong Province, like so many other small indigenous communities in Cambodia, have been having difficulty in adjusting to a series of significant changes, particularly concerning their livelihoods. …”
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“Materials Science” Challenges in the Additive Manufacturing of Industrial Parts by Hascoet, Jean-Yves, Marya, Surendar, Marya, Manuel, Singh, Virendra

“…Additive Manufacturing (AM), somewhat like fusion welding, brings into play: (1) complex and interacting physical phenomena such as heat and mass transfer, phase changes (including melting, solidification, allotropic transformations and diffusion phenomena such as epitaxial growth, grain growth), (2) a number of process variables associated to the moving heat source (e.g., its power, power distribution, relative speed, size, all affecting energy density), its paths (e.g., linear, circular, oscillatory), and added metal feed rate via powder, wire, or ribbon, all controlling deposit dimensions, aspect-ratios, and properties, including defects. …”
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The potential of cognitive neuroimaging : a way forward to the mind-machine interface by Pandarinathan, Ganesh, Mishra, Sachin, Nedumaran, Anu, Padmanabhan, Parasuraman, Gulyás, Balázs

“…Communication technology has flourished to the extent that wireless MMI applications can be designed to virtually control machines like wheelchairs, artificial limbs, etc. A cornucopia of diversified works on cognitive imaging is required to move the preliminary MMI models forward, thus engendering a technologically advanced system which can be operated directly by the brain. …”
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A study of focus and accent in Singapore Malay by Diyana Hamzah.

“…The syntactic focus-marking, like clefting, in Malay is limited to certain focus contexts. …”
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Zinc oxide nanowires and nanorods fabricated by vapour-phase transport at low temperature by Xu, Chunxiang, Sun, Xiaowei, Dong, Zhili, Yu, M. B., My, T. D., Zhang, X. H., Chua, S. J., White, Timothy John

“…The nanowires grown on gold-coated silicon showed a uniform diameter of about 40 nm, and the nanorods on copper-coated silicon grew upwards to form flower-like arrays. The x-ray diffraction and transmission electron microscopy analyses demonstrated that the nanostructural zinc oxide grew along the [0001] direction. …”
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Price-based distributed resource allocation for femtocell networks by Yuan, Pu, Liang, Ying-Chang, Bi, Guoan

“…We prove the existence and uniqueness of Nash Equilibrium (NE) and introduce fully distributed algorithm based on simultaneous iterative-water-filling (IWF) like algorithm, which adjusts the sub-carrier price iteratively and the maximum transmit power. …”
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An integrated nine-switch power conditioner for power quality enhancement and voltage sag mitigation by Zhang, Lei, Loh, Poh Chiang, Gao, Feng

“…Despite these advantages, the nine-switch converter has so far found limited applications due to its many perceived performance tradeoffs like requiring an oversized dc-link capacitor, limited amplitude sharing, and constrained phase shift between its two sets of output terminals. …”
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Biomolecular engineering of a human beta defensin model for increased salt resistance by Li, Xiang, Saravanan, Rathi, Kwak, Sang Kyu, Leong, Susanna Su Jan

“…Human beta defensins (hBDs) are natural antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) with broad spectrum antimicrobial activity. However, hBDs, like many AMPs, are easily inactivated by salt, which limits their extracellular applications as antimicrobial coating agents. …”
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"You have to know how to live with it without getting to the addiction part": British young adult experiences of smartphone over-reliance and disconnectivity by Conroy, Dom, Chadwick, Darren, Fullwood, Christopher, Lloyd, Joanne

“…A first theme – ‘It’s like an addiction’ – concerned the drift from valuing the convenience/productivity afforded by smartphones into feeling over-reliant on devices. …”
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Benefits and limitations of using data-driven approach to develop inclusivity networks for young disabled people: a case study of Assemble by the National Youth Theatre by Yu, Qicheng, Singh, Uttam, Stirbu, Diana, Nyby, Josefine

“…Inclusivity networks bridge the gap between disabled and non-disabled communities, empowering individuals. Organisations like the National Youth Theatre has run its Local Inclusivity Networks programme to promote collaboration, reduce isolation, and empower young disabled voices. …”
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