Hybrid nanomaterials for improved photocatalytic performance by Ho, Jeffrey Weng Chye.

“…However, due to wide bandgap (3.2 eV), it could only absorb Ultraviolet (UV) light. …”
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Gold-catalyzed intramolecular animation of alcohol pro-electrophiles as novel synthetic strategies to nitrogen heterocycles by Prasath Kothandaraman

“…Chapter IV detailed the extension of this approach to include the synthesis of indole-2-carbaldehydes via 1,3-allylic alcohol isomerization (1,3-AAI) of (E)-2-iodomethylene-3-phenyl-1-tosylindolin-3-ols generated in situ from reactions of 1-(2-tosylaminophenyl)prop-2-yn-1-ols with NIS in the presence of a gold catalyst. In Chapter V, gold-catalyzed tandem ring opening/amination of secondary and tertiary 2-tosylaminophenylcyclopropyl carbinols is introduced as an efficient synthetic route to 2,3-dihydro-1H-benzo[b]azepines as well as 2-vinylindolines. …”
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Legionella pneumophila filamentous morphological form and the generation of novel spherical form upon interaction with protozoan hosts by Chan, Sock Hoai

“…Our investigation showed that filamentation cannot be neatly pegged to a single dominant factor but is promoted under a concerted influence of environmental conditions leaning towards (i) higher than ambient temperatures, at 37-42°C, (ii) static fluid movement, and (iii) with at least a minimal organic content of 5% buffered yeast extract, or equivalent. In the course of investigating interaction of the filamentous form with protozoan hosts, a spherical form was discovered. …”
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Biologically-inspired evolving fuzzy ensemble by Liu, Yang

“…Existing neural networks have difficulty in learning from a dynamic data stream in the following aspects: 1) the limitation on the use of past explicit information poses difficulties in extending existing learning techniques; 2) the limited prior knowledge poses difficulties in designing a learning paradigm that can work without much prior information; 3) the sensitivity of learning methodology on the choice of the training parameters; 4) the unchangeable membership function width and 5) robustness of learning procedure against noisy or spurious data. …”
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Competition in two-sided market : with heterogeneous users and negative externalities. by Chen, Hongyu.

“…Facebook reported annual revenue of US$5.1 billion in 2012 and boosts an active user population of more than 1 billion active users in 2012. …”
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Supercreative : unleashing creative potential. by Chee, Edison.

“…In 2012, Adobe’s State of Create study surveyed 5,000 adults across the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, France and Japan. 80% of respondents said that unlocking creativity is critical to economic growth, and two-thirds feel that creativity is valuable to society. …”
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Development of a micro flow control system by Lee, Zi Qi.

“…Various inks consisting of different concentration of tween (0%, 0.1%, 0.3% and 0.5%) were used for the testing. In additional, two different types of plates were used for the transfer. …”
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Simulation and investigation of Gradient Refractive Index Profile (GRIP) and photonic effect in micro-fluidic waveguide of different geometries by Zhang, Ruiyang

“…With the aid of professional software COMSOL’s Microfuildic model and RSoft’s beamprop module by designing liquid core and liquid cladding waveguides of different shapes including rectangle ,up-trapezoid, down-trapezoid, para-saddle and para-rhombus and injecting deionized water with refractive index of 1.335 into liquid core and 5M CaCl2 solution into liquid core at from 1ul/ min to 15 ul / min , the GRIN profiles and optical effects like chirped focusing and interference vary accordingly .The purpose of the study is to find the pattern of how the GRIN profile and optical effects change with the composition ,flow rate and shape.…”
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Sustained delivery of timolol maleate from liposomal nanocarriers by Ong, Leonard Chin Hui

“…Current treatment modality includes the use of topical daily eye drops; however this mode of administration has many shortcomings. Less than 5% of the drug actually permeates into the eye due to inherent protective mechanisms of the eye and due to various clearance mechanisms such as tear turnover and blinking of the eye. …”
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The impingement boiling heat transfer of liquid nitrogen onto superheated tube array by Yonathan, Gayus

“…For instance, setting velocity to 0.5m/s and it gives convective heat transfer coefficient 13.89 W/m2. …”
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A design framework for product families implemented with additive manufactured variable platforms by Yao, Xiling

“…During the development of the design framework, the following methodologies have been proposed: 1) a representative mathematical model to formulated the VP-based product family configuration; 2) a hybrid machine learning approach to select appropriate AM design features for addtive manufactured VP modules; 3) a fuzzy time-driven activity-based costing method to predict the AM production cost variation as a function of VP design adjustments, 4) a novel evaluation metric for VP-based product family designs, and 5) a multiobjective design optimization technique to identify the modular configuration and engineering design parameters of a product family. …”
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Safety assessment of autonomous vehicles using simulations by Ketki, Chaudhary

“…The work in this thesis focuses on developing a simulation methodology that can potentially evaluate the safety of highly autonomous vehicles (Level 5) in complex traffic environments. The scope of this thesis is limited to safety analysis of a scenario that involves autonomous obstacle avoidance during a lane changing and highway exit manoeuvre, in the presence of high-paced highway traffic. …”
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Experimental investigation of methane storage under ambient conditions employing adsorption technology by Chua, Bernard Zhen Cong

“…It is found that Mil101(Cr) MOF exhibits the highest uptake of 0.05 g/g at 9.5bar with respect to an operating temperature of 300K. …”
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Epidemiology of injuries in street dancers by Yee, Ernest Chun Tuck

“…Most injuries occurred during training (82.8%), and the commonly injured body parts were the knee (27.5%), ankle (18.7%), and lower back (14.3%). The more prevalent types of injury sustained were muscle-tendon strains (33.0%) and ligament sprains (23.1%). …”
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Evaluation of hollow fiber-based direct contact and vacuum membrane distillation systems using aspen process simulation by Guan, Guoqiang, Yang, Xing, Wang, Rong, Field, Robert, Fane, Anthony Gordon

“…With the same module specifications and operating conditions at equivalent energy cost, the VMD system demonstrated a minimal 2.5-fold higher average vapor flux (e.g., water recovery capacity) when compared to DCMD. …”
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Roughness-Controlled Self-Assembly of Mannitol/LB Agar Microparticles by Polymorphic Transformation for Pulmonary Drug Delivery by Zhang, Fengying, Ngoc, Nguyen Thi Quynh, Tay, Bao Hui, Mendyk, Aleksander, Shao, Yu-Hsuan, Lau, Raymond

“…An FPF of 28.6 ± 2.4% was achieved by microparticles transformed from spray-dried microparticles using 2% mannitol(w/v)/LB Agar as feed solution. It is comparable to the highest FPF reported in the literature using lactose and spray-dried mannitol as carriers.…”
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Surface structure formation in WE54 Mg alloy subjected to ultrafast laser texturing by Khadka, Indira, Castagne, Sylvie, Wang, Zhongke, Zheng, Hongyu

“…A 10 W picosecond laser, having a wavelength of 1064 nm, and a 1.5 W femtosecond laser, having a wavelength of 795 nm, were used to irradiate WE54 surface to change the surface morphology. …”
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Structural mimicry of the dengue virus envelope glycoprotein revealed by the crystallographic study of an idiotype–anti-idiotype Fab complex by Wong, Yee Hwa, Goh, Boon Chong, Lim, She Yah, Teo, En Wei, Lim, Angeline P. C., Dedon, Pete C., Hanson, Brendon J., MacAry, Paul A., Lescar, Julien

“…The crystal structure at a resolution of 2.5 Å of a complex between the Fab fragments of E1 and HM14c10 provides the first detailed molecular comparison of an anti-idiotype paratope specific for a human antibody with its analogous epitope, a discontinuous quaternary structure located at the surface of the viral particle that spans adjacent envelope (E) proteins. …”
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Distribution and cycling of terrigenous dissolved organic carbon in peatland-draining rivers and coastal waters of Sarawak, Borneo by Martin, Patrick, Cherukuru, Nagur, Tan, Ashleen S. Y., Sanwlani, Nivedita, Mujahid, Aazani, Müller, Moritz

“…Photodegradation experiments revealed that riverine DOC and CDOM in Sarawak are photolabile: up to 25% of riverine DOC was lost within 5 days of exposure to natural sunlight, and the spectral slopes of photo-bleached CDOM resembled those of our marine samples. …”
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Reform of the international financial architecture : how can Asia have a greater impact in the G20? by Rana, Pradumna B.

“…The Asian financial crisis (AFC) of 1997–1998 had led to calls for the reform of the IFA—policies and practices of institutions that promote global financial stability. The V-shaped recovery from the crisis had, however, led to complacency and the proposed reform measures were quickly forgotten. …”
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