Unified assessment of mass loss behaviors in soluble, biodegradable, and internally erodible geomaterials by Guo, Yuliang, Zhao, Budi, Pi, Xiaoqing, Fei, Xunchang

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Experimental investigation of impact response of composite plates/panels by Gan, Jia Li

“…In this report, it provides a review of the author‟s results and findings on the impact response of acrylic sandwich panel. …”
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Biologically inspired visual intelligence for unmanned ground vehicles by Peyman Moghadam

“…Based on these findings, vanishing point is considered as a salient and consistent feature during most of the open driving behavior tasks regardless of type of the environments. …”
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Removal of noxious environmental pollutant using photocatalytic membrane reactor by Yeap, Ken Vin.

“…It is evident from the finding that the as synthesize membrane are reproducible. …”
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Spatial aware information retrieval for community-based Q&A (SIRCQA) by Ang, Eugene Soon Leong

“…Lastly, the concern of incorporating query expansion to add other similar or implied location terms deduced by the spatial relationship cue (term) found in queries was examined. From the findings, effective measures were thoughtfully constructed and utilized to improve the search results. …”
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Service quality gaps in the container shipping industry by Phua, Jia Hui.

“…Thereafter, a survey was conducted with shippers and container liner service providers to confirm the validity of the proposed SQ model. In the survey findings, the SQ dimensions: Outcome, Tangible and Process have been identified as top priorities for shippers with SQ attributes associated to reliability, competitive pricing and vessel slot availability being the top concerns of shippers. …”
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Establishment and optimization of induced pluripotent stem cell technologies by Amir Morshedi

“…Reprogramming of adult somatic cells into an embryonic stem cell (ESC) state by various transcription factors has been the start of a new era in the field of biomedical sciences. This finding has had tremendous impact on drug discovery and disease modeling and there is great hope for these cells to replenish body cells for therapy. …”
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Experimental studies and model development for individual-specific fall detection by Hu, Xinyao

“…The fall indicators were selected based on the experimental findings from the first study. The proposed fall detection model was individual-specific, since it was constructed using the individual historical movement data. …”
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Evaluation of context awareness algorithms for recommending mobile content by Dong, Hong Liang

“…The experiment results indicated that the location-based generalized pre-filtering algorithm has higher accuracy than weight post-filtering algorithm; and for generalized pre-filtering, accuracy of usage increases when the range of generalized location increases reasonably. The findings and the way of systematic evaluation on mobile context-aware recommender system would benefit the selection process of context-awareness recommendation algorithms for mobile content.…”
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Fluid velocity slip and temperature jump at a solid surface by Teo, Melvin Ji Bin

“…Despite the long history of the jump boundary conditions, most of the existing theoretical models for gas- solid and liquid-solid interfaces fail to provide satisfactory predictions of experimental findings. We first develop an adsorption model for fluid-solid interactions that is applicable to both gases and liquids. …”
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g-C3N4/ZnO hybrid material as photocatalyst for photocatalytic CO2 reduction by Hu, Zhaoning

“…Further study could concentrate on exploring the detailed mechanism in g-C3N4 synthesizing process, finding the optimal amount of g-C3N4 in the hybrid material and trying alternative g-C3N4 synthesizing method to grow g-C3N4 on other ZnO morphologies to get better photocatalytic CO2 reduction performance.…”
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The development of crosslinked keratin-alginate sponges as novel biomaterials by Hartrianti, Pietradewi

“…Matrices with higher keratin content were also revealed to upregulate production of tissue factor by HDF, suggesting it would be beneficial for hemostasis application. Based on these findings, crosslinked keratin-alginate matrices were shown to be a promising tunable materials for cell carriers or wound dressing purposes.…”
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Supported lipid bilayer platforms for investigating complement activation, termination and regulation by Saziye Yorulmaz Avsar

“…In the fourth study, the inhibitory action of vitronectin and clusterin against the membrane attack complex assembly was evaluated, offering insight into the different mechanisms by which these two regulatory proteins inhibit complement activation. In summary, the findings presented in this thesis significantly contribute to the fundamental understanding of complement activation occurring at lipid membrane interfaces, and offer a new platform to characterize the mechanisms of action for a wide range of complement inhibitors including small molecules, antibodies, and peptides.…”
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Droplet impact on superheated surfaces by Khavari, Mohammad

“…We show that the predicted values of the Leidenfrost temperature are consistent with the experimentally measured ones for various liquids having widely different properties, suggesting that complex entanglement between the involving hydrodynamic and thermodynamic processes of the Leidenfrost phenomenon can be understood under the newly proposed mechanism. Our findings offer a new theoretical framework to treat the Leidenfrost transition, a crucial step towards complete control of the Leidenfrost phenomenon.…”
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Modeling and optimization of thermoelectric generator for waste heat recovery by Ji, Dongxu

“…This thesis studies the effect of different types of boundary conditions on the optimization of TEM and TEG, and it is found that the optimized geometry parameter, thermoelectric elements height, and cross-section area vary significantly under different boundary condition assumption. With this finding, the TEM and HEX are optimized simultaneously by Taguchi method taking into consideration the interactive effect. …”
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Towards whom should indoor environmental quality control be sympathetic : asthmatics or non-asthmatics? by Tham, Kwok Wai, Fadeyi, Moshood Olawale

“…Data for subjects' work performances, perceptual responses, and salivary α-amylase concentration at initial and after 3-h exposures were reported in this paper. The main findings suggest that: (i) temperature settings should be sympathetic towards asthmatic subjects because of their higher sensitivity to temperatures at the lower spectrum of thermal comfort conditions; (ii) IAQ settings should be sympathetic towards non-asthmatic subjects because of their higher sensitivity to perceived air quality acceptability in the same temperature range. …”
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Increasing Dengue Incidence in Singapore over the Past 40 Years: Population Growth, Climate and Mobility by Struchiner, Claudio Jose, Rocklöv, Joacim, Wilder-Smith, Annelies, Massad, Eduardo

“…We found no correlation with incoming air passenger arrivals into Singapore from dengue endemic countries. Our findings have significant implications for predicting future trends of the dengue epidemics given the rapid urbanization with population growth in many dengue endemic countries. …”
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Simultaneous polymerization and adhesion under hypoxia in sickle cell disease by Papageorgiou, Dimitrios P., Abidi, Sabia Z., Chang, Hung-Yu, Li, Xuejin, Kato, Gregory J., Karniadakis, George E., Suresh, Subra, Dao, Ming

“…We show that (i) hypoxia significantly enhances sickle RBC adherence; (ii) HbS polymerization enhances sickle cell adherence in SRs and SMEs, but not in ISCs; (iii) SRs exhibit unique adhesion dynamics where HbS fiber projections growing outward from the cell surface create multiple sites of adhesion; and (iv) polymerization stimulates adhesion and vice versa, thereby establishing the bidirectional coupling between the two processes. These findings offer insights into possible mechanistic pathways leading to vasoocclusion crisis. …”
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Trust and distrust of tsunami vertical evacuation buildings: Extending protection motivation theory to examine choices under social influence by McCaughey, Jamie W., Mundir, Ibnu, Daly, Patrick, Mahdi, Saiful, Patt, Anthony

“…Encouragement from friends and family influences people's evacuation destinations but official information and training do not. These findings suggest that more attention to the social context is crucial for the effectiveness of TVE buildings. …”
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Experimental and computational thermal analysis of vortex flame in meso-scale combustor by Khaleghi, Mostafa

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