Functional food and autophagy. by Ong, Zhong Ren.

“…Autophagy clearance is essential for cellular homeostasis and its disruption is implicated in the development of neurodegenerative diseases like Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s disease. Thus, pomegranate can possibly elicit its neuroprotective effects via autophagy. …”
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Design and development of tool for transferring and drilling perpendicular pattern hole by Ng, Gaston Jian Shan

“…In recent years, more people are motivated to conduct home improvements themselves either for economic reason or the need for customization. Fixing wall mounts like paintings, photos or even TV are noted to be one of the most common home improvements done by individuals. …”
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Vibration and thermal cycling effects on solder joint reliability by Selvanathen, Daryl

“…It highlighted the proclivity of LDSA to overestimate fatigue life while IDSA had the best life prediction amongst the models. However, parameters like interaction factors, coefficients and exponents can affect precise life predictions if relationships between them with materials, vibration and temperature are not thoroughly understood.…”
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Design and development of a cost effective CanSat by Teo, Zhi Hui

“…From this project, the communications and connectivity between the microcontroller and various sensors will be a fundamental knowledge. Parameters like size, shape and weight of CanSat must also be taken into considerations as the descend rate may be affected. …”
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Face recognition in color space by Zhao, Tiansi

“…For the fast development of science and technology, and the amount applications of face recognition system like security systems, face recognition has attracted many researchers and engineers in the area of image processing, pattern recognition and computer vision. …”
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Towards numerical temporal-frequency system modelling of associations between ballistocardiogram and electrocardiogram by Aravind, Srinivasan

“…In this thesis we try to establish a statistical approach by building BCG-ECG models. Here we would like to promote the system modelling approach to BCG computing that allows to explore the underlying association between BCG and other physiological signals such as electrocardiogram (ECG). …”
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Preparation of carbon/transition metal dichalcogenide hybrids for water-related applications by Chen, Bo

“…Particular attentions are made to elaborate the following points in their respective chapters: how to synthesize novel carbon-based 3D architectures from biomass; how to coat ultrathin two-dimensional (2D) TMDs on the surface of 3D carbon; how to assemble of 2D nanosheets to 3D hybrid heterostructures via one-pot reaction; how to prepare flexible carbon/TMD hybrid fibers with good mechanical properties; how to use powerful techniques to characterize the as-obtained novel carbon/TMD hybrid materials; demonstrating the potential of these hybrid materials for water-related applications like water remediation and water-splitting.…”
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Productivity improvement for smart manufacturing systems by Sundararaman Manoj

“…So the pull production system applications like Kanban, CONWIP played a major role in productivity improvement. …”
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Secure code execution on cloud-based infrastructure with application containers by Chen, Fun Tat

“…However, execution of untrusted code is an issue even if the code is understandable. Nobody would like to run potentially malicious code on his or her own PC or laptop. …”
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Multi-view CNNS for hand gesture recognition by Dou, Yudi

“…In order to put this project into application, we also work on producing the real-time demo to output a string like Chinese spelling. Experiments show that the proposed approach could recognize 30 Chinese hand gestures accurately and produce demo in real-time.…”
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Theoretical study of fermi arc plasmons in Weyl semimetals by Xiong, Ying

“…Weyl semimetal is a type of crystals which host emergent quasiparticles that behave like Weyl fermions. In Weyl semimetals, the conduction band and the valence band cross at a single point in reciprocal space called the Weyl point. …”
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Experimental Investigation of the thermal performance of functional magnetic nanofluids by Lim, Wen Jing

“…This project aims to investigate the heat transfer capabilities of a novel type nanoparticles which consists chains of magnetite nanoparticles had been encased with silica shells to form a rigid rod-like structure will be suspended on the base fluid of deionised water. …”
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Assembling a desktop robotic arm based hydrogel extrusion system by Khadijah Mohamed Hussain

“…This high levels of precision in nano- and microfabrications can only be replicated by machines, in this case, a robotic arm which has the flexibility in movements like a human arm, an unmatched capability of a human. …”
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Real-time 3D sound system with head-tracking by Choong, Simin Evangeline

“…This project involves the knowledge of the hardware components like the micro-controller, the digital microphones and the specific type of connectors suitable for this implementation. …”
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Development of visual search services using deep learning (Facial expression classification with convolution neural networks) by Seng, Eugene Rui Hao

“…Being able to identify human emotions would provide a very strong advantage in many contexts like market research or developing social robots. …”
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Improving productivity of the food and beverage (F&B) industry using iBeacon by Wu, Siyan

“…The app will show various happenings, such as meal promotions, shopping e-voucher, discount information, health tips, and etc., to customers at different beacon regions to attract more consumers. It is something like a treasure hunt game, because the customers never know where and what kind of deal that you are going to receive. …”
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Spatio temporal traffic pediction for a large-scale road network by Krishnamoorthy, Nardana

“…In a country like Singapore, which is adapting the Smart Nation program, Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) plays a key role. …”
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Jio : a social networking app based on common interests by Wee, Teck Leng

“…‘Jio’ is the key to bringing strangers with common interests together, to enjoying activities with another like-minded new friend to bridging lifelong friendship. …”
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Achievable PID performance using sums of squares programming by Sendjaja, Antonius Yudi, Kariwala, Vinay

“…In addition to process elements like time delay, the PID structure of the controller can pose fundamental limitations on the achievable control performance. …”
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Sowing the seeds : towards reaping a harvest using social web applications in Nanyang Technological University Library by Nurhazman Abdul Aziz, Chia, Yew Boon, Loh, Hazel

“…In this paper, we share why and how Nanyang Technological University (NTU) Library has explored and implemented Web 2.0 technologies extensively to reach out to our users using a range of social web tools such as blogs, share this widget, library toolbar and RSS feeds as well as online services like Facebook, Flickr, and Google Analytics. These digital library innovations have enabled us to meet the needs of our users more effectively and resulted in a tremendous growth in online visitorship.…”
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