Liner shipping operation under emission reduction measures by Hu, Xinyue

“…From January 1 2020 onwards, for any fuel used onboard, the global sulfur must be reduced to 0.5%. There are three options for vessels: to continue to operate on high sulfur fuel oil but install sulfur scrubbers, to switch to marine gas oil (MGO) or to consider alternative fuel types such as methanol. …”
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Design of differential microstrip ring antenna by Cheong, Kai Xiang

“…In this Final Year Project, the study of a differential microstrip ring antenna operating at 5.2GHz will be conducted. The design of the differential microstrip ring antenna is based off the single-ended version. …”
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Seismic attenuation tomography from 2018 Lombok earthquakes, Indonesia by Priyono, Awali, Nugraha, Andri Dian, Muzli, Muzli, Ardianto, Ardianto, Atin Nur Aulia, Prabowo, Billy Sugiartono, Zulfakriza, Zulfakriza, Shindy Rosalia, Sasmi, Annisa T., Afif, Haunan, Sahara, David P., Widiyantoro, Sri, Wei, Shengji, Husni, Yayan M., Sarjan, Achmad Fajar Narotama

“…The significant earthquake that happened on August 5, 2018, took place in a region with moderate Qp, close to the contrast of high and low-Qp and high Vp, which suggests that the earthquake started in a strong material before triggering the shallower aftershocks occurring in an area affected by fluid content. …”
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Does testing order affect performance and outcome during physical fitness tests? by Low, Seow Ting

“…In Singapore, students must complete a bi-annual National Physical Fitness Award Scheme (NAPFA) test, consisting of 6 health-related components of fitness in which 5 are often completed back-to-back on the same day. …”
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In vitro protein (BSA) delivery studies in mesostructured bioceramics by Aw, Siew Sim

“…3D mesoporous bioactive glasses (MBGs), SiO2-CaO-P2O5, with four different chemical compositions and three different synthesis temperatures during synthesis had been successfully prepared by F127 surfactant as templates using evaporation-induced self-assembly (EISA) process. …”
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Late-life depressive symptomatology, motoric cognitive risk syndrome, and incident dementia: the "Nuage" study results by Beauchet, Olivier, Sekhon, Harmehr, Launay, Cyrille P., Gaudreau, Pierrette, Morais, José A., Allali, Gilles

“…At baseline, MCR was defined by the association of subjective cognitive complaint with slow walking speed, and late-life depressive symptomatology with a 30-item Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS) score >5/30. Incident dementia, defined as a Modified Mini-Mental State score ≤79/100 test and Instrumental Activity Daily Living score <4/4, was assessed at each annual visit. …”
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Machine translation of English relative clauses to Chinese in commercial contracts -- a contrastive evaluation of the outputs by SYSTRAN translate, Baidu translate and Google trans... by Li, Yidi

“…Then, 10 professional translators were invited to rate the translation quality of the target text (TT) sentences (both generated by human and machine) with a score ranging from 1 to 5. Meanwhile, the automatic evaluation metric BLEU (Bilingual Evaluation Understudy) was applied for scoring the MT outputs. …”
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Great enhancement effect of 20-40 nm Ag NPs on solar-blind UV response of the mixed-phase MgZnO detector by Han, Shun, Xia, Hao, Lu, Youming, Hu, Sirong, Zhang, Dao Hua, Xu, Wangying, Fang, Ming, Liu, Wenjun, Cao, Peijiang, Zhu, Deliang

“…When high density 20-40 nm Ag NPs is induced, the deep UV (235 nm) response of the mixed-phase MgZnO detector is increased by 226 times, the I uv/I dark ratio of the modified device is increased by 17.5 times. The slight enhancement in UV light intensity from 20 to 40 nm Ag NPs induces multiple tunnel breakdown phenomena within the mixed-phase MgZnO thin film, which is the main reason for the abnormal great enhancement effect on deep UV response of the device, so the recovery speed of the modified device is not influenced. …”
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Chemical characteristics and trends of Indian summer monsoon rainfall: a review by Majumdar, Aditi, Samanta, Dhrubajyoti, Das, Reshmi

“…Average rainwater pH ranged from 5.31 to 6.70 in these six regions. The incidence of acidic rain events at three separate locations in the Peninsular region suggests a significant impact of anthropogenic emissions. …”
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The effects of gradient running on lower limb skeletal muscle function parameters measured using TMG100 tensiomyography system by Sek, Qin Rui

“…Mean RF Td values decreased by 2.05ms from Baseline (27.39 ±4.68) to UHR (25.34 ±3.10), and decreased by 3.00ms and 4.35ms from LR (29.69±7.27) to DHR (26.69±5.54) and UHR (25.34±3.10) respectively. Conover’s post hoc pairwise comparisons found significant differences between RF Td between LR, DHR and UHR. …”
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An in-depth study of software library upgrade dependency issues by Teo, Dave Hwa Tao

“…We will be analyzing 6 different libraries, with 5 projects under each library. In this study, it has further acknowledged the findings in the previous study that there is a high level of third-party library dependency. …”
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Numerical investigations on vortex-ring collisions with heated sphere by Hoong, Jun Fong

“…Numerical study was also investigated for normal collision of vortex ring upon heated sphere with sphere-to-ring diameter ratios of 0.5. For this case, the tertiary vortex ring formed eventually break apart and did not wrap themselves around the primary vortex ring. …”
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The role of expectation: attention in cognitive performance lab study by Wong, Cheryl Qi Yin

“…Expected distractors were defined by a click sound occurring 1.5 seconds before each distractor tone. Cognitive performance was measured using reaction time and error rate on a response inhibition task. …”
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A new reconfigurable true random number generator and physical unclonable function unified chip with on-chip auto-calibration by Cao, Yuan, Liu, Wanyi, Zheng, Yue, Chen, Shuai, Ye, Jing, Qian, Lei, Chang, Chip Hong

“…The proposed TRNG-PUF design is prototyped with a standard 40 nm 1.1 V CMOS process. It occupies a small footprint of 24,316 µm2 . …”
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Prevalence of health-risk behaviors and mental well-being of ASEAN university students in COVID-19 pandemic by Rahman, Hanif Abdul, Amornsriwatanakul, Areekul, Abdul-Mumin, Khadizah H., Agustiningsih, Denny, Chaiyasong, Surasak, Chia, Michael, Chupradit, Supat, Huy, Le Quang, Ivanovitch, Katiya, Nurmala, Ira, Majid, Hazreen B. Abdul, Nazan, Ahmad Iqmer Nashriq Mohd, Rodjarkpai, Yuvadee, de la Cruz, Ma Henrietta Teresa O., Mahmudiono, Trias, Sriboonma, Krissachai, Sudnongbua, Supaporn, Vidiawati, Dhanasari, Wattanapisit, Apichai, Charoenwattana, Sukanya, Cahyani, Nani, Car, Josip, Ho, Ringo Moon-Ho, Rosenberg, Michael

“…Physical inactivity was estimated at 39.7% (95%CI: 38.9, 40.5). A minority (16.7%; 95%CI: 16.1, 17.3) had low mental well-being, smoked (8.9%; 95%CI: 8.4, 9.3), and drank alcohol (13.4%; 95%CI: 12.8, 13.9). …”
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Real-world effectiveness of sotrovimab and remdesivir for early treatment of high-risk hospitalized COVID-19 patients: a propensity score adjusted retrospective cohort study by Koh, Lin Pin, Chua, Siang Li, Vasoo, Shawn, Toh, Matthias Paul Han Sim, Cutter, Jeremy Nicholas, Nah, Puay Hoon, Leo, Yee Sin, Tay, Jun Xin, Young, Barnaby Edward, Lye, David C., Ong, Sean W. X.

“…We included PCR-confirmed COVID-19 patients admitted to the National Centre for Infectious Diseases who presented within the first 5 days of illness, and who were not requiring oxygen or ICU care at presentation. …”
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Speed, power and area optimized monotonic asynchronous array multipliers by Balasubramanian, Padmanabhan, Mastorakis, Nikos E.

“…Compared to the best of the existing QDI asynchronous array multipliers, the proposed monotonic asynchronous array multiplier achieves the following reductions in design metrics: (i) a 40.1% (44.3%) reduction in cycle time (which is the asynchronous equivalent of synchronous clock timing), a 37.7% (37.7%) reduction in area, and a 4% (4.5%) reduction in power for 4 × 4 multiplication corresponding to RZH (ROH), and (ii) a 58.1% (60.2%) reduction in cycle time, a 45.2% (45.2%) reduction in area, and a 10.3% (11%) reduction in power for 8 × 8 multiplication corresponding to RZH (ROH). …”
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Hybrid UNet transformer architecture for ischemic stoke segmentation with MRI and CT datasets by Soh, Wei Kwek, Rajapakse, Jagath Chandana

“…HUT also performed well on CT perfusion brain scans in the Ischemic Stroke Lesion Segmentation (ISLES2018) dataset and demonstrated an improvement over the recent state-of-the-art network USSLNet by 3.3% in the Dice score and 12.5% in the Hausdorff Distance score. With the analysis of both single and multi-modalities datasets (ATLASR12 and ISLES2018), we show that HUT can perform and generalize well on different datasets. …”
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Low-temperature specific heat capacity of water-ammonia mixtures down to the eutectic by Chua, Bing Hong, Gloesener, Elodie, Choukroun, Mathieu, Vu, Tuan H., Melwani Daswani, Mohit, Journaux, Baptiste, Styczinski, Marshall J., Vance, Steven D.

“…In support of developing new equations of state, we conducted 1 bar specific heat capacity measurements (Cp) using a differential scanning calorimeter (DSC) at low temperatures (184-314 K) and low mass fractions of ammonia (5.2-26.9 wt %) to provide novel data in the parameter space most relevant for planetary studies. …”
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CT sigma delta ADC for audio applications by Hnin, Hnin Soe.

“…The test results show that the first integrator draws less than 20µA from the 1.2 V supply voltage.…”
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