A unified approach for austenitic and ferritic stainless steel CHS beam-columns subjected to eccentric loading by Ma, You-Xin, Tan, Kang Hai

“…A high level of accuracy and consistency was achieved in predicting the strengths of both short and long stainless steel CHS beam–columns for both types of steel grade.…”
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Electrochemical supercapacitors: from mechanism understanding to multifunctional applications by Chen, Jingwei, Lee, Pooi See

“…Electrochemical supercapacitors (SC) with high power and long cycle life have been extensively studied and applied in certain areas. …”
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Triclosan transformation and impact on an elemental sulfur-driven sulfidogenic process by Zhang, Liang, Wu, Dan, Liang, Jialin, Wang, Li, Zhou, Yan

“…Thus, this study investigated the feasibility of such process to remove PPCPs and how PPCPs influence the system performance during a long-term operation. Triclosan (TCS), a typical broad-spectrum antibacterial agent and a ubiquitous emerging organic contaminant in environments was chosen as the model compound. …”
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Atomically dispersed reactive centers for electrocatalytic CO2 reduction and water splitting by Zhang, Huabin, Cheng, Weiren, Luan, Deyan, Lou, David Xiong Wen

“…The rationally designed near-range coordination environment, long-range electronic interaction and microenvironment of the coordination sphere cast huge influence on the reaction mechanism and related catalytic performance of SACs. …”
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Nanopore sequencing analysis of integron gene cassettes in sewages and soils by An, Xin-Li, Abass, Olusegun K., Zhao, Cai-Xia, Xu, Mei-Rong, Pan, Ting, Pu, Qiang, Liao, Hu, Li, Hu, Zhu, Yong-Guan, Su, Jian-Qiang

“…The results showed that class 1 integron integrase genes were the most abundant in soils and sewages compared with class 2 and class 3 integrase genes. Long-term manure application exacerbated the enrichment of total ARGs, integrase genes and antibiotic resistance-associated gene cassettes, while antibiotics and heavy metals showed no impact on the overall resistome profile. …”
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Exploring integrity of AEADs with faults: definitions and constructions by Saha, Sayandeep, Khairallah, Mustafa, Peyrin, Thomas

“…We emphasize that FAs can be fatal even in cases where the adversary does not aim to extract the long-term secret, but rather tries to violate the basic security requirements (integrity and confidentiality). …”
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The turntable tribe: a communications campaign to raise awareness about the effects of excessive fast furniture consumption and encourage environmentally sustainable shopping habit... by Tan, Gerald Zheng Jie, Low, Naomi Min Yee, Wee, Nicolette Shing Ying, Tan, Yuan En

“…With the furniture industry estimated to grow 18.35% by 2025 in Singapore, more furniture waste is being generated, posing an environmental threat in the long run. While the government implements initiatives to help furniture retailers move towards sustainable processes, it is important that consumers are also made aware of these practices and alternatives. …”
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Lane detection algorithm for autonomous vehicle using machine learning by Wu, Guan Jie

“…Spatial CNN (SCNN), the winner of 2017 TuSimple lane detection challenge, propose a special message passing mechanism for long and thin structure. Nonetheless, it can only run at about 20 frames per second (FPS) on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti GPU due to the heavy computational load of the special message passing mechanism. …”
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Development of metric system to measure an innovation district by Poh, Jin An

“…An innovation district can be seen as an innovation ecosystem that consists of economic assets, physical assets and networking assets where several factors come to play to sustain the ecosystem in the long term. Several studies have been made to analyse the importance of innovation districts in driving economic growth and enhancing the quality of our lives. …”
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Red blood cell extracellular vesicles incorporated into 3D printed scaffolds for spinal cord injury regeneration by Huang, Chongquan, Jayasinghe, Migara Kavishka, Lau, Kieran, Thi Nguyet Minh Le, Chew, Sing Yian

“…Theoretically, an ideal delivery system should be able to 1) help gene material to pass through the cell membrane and allow downstream function; 2) keep the gene material from degradation by endogenous enzymes; 3) enable long-term and sustained release of RNA to cover the process of tissue regeneration and 4) be biocompatible in physical and chemical properties to allow tissue regrowth. …”
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Experimental and numerical investigation on precast CECFST column-to-column connections subjected to axial and eccentric compression by Zhu, Gaoming, Tan, Kang Hai

“…This form of structural members has been increasingly used as columns in high-rise buildings and as piers in long-span bridges. Recently, to promote the application of CECFST columns in countries short of labour, e.g., Singapore, North America and Europe, an advanced precast CECFST column-to-column connection with rapid construction and excellent tensile performance was developed by the authors. …”
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Recent development in design a state-of-art proton exchange membrane fuel cell from stack to system: theory, integration and prospective by Fan, Lixin, Tu, Zhengkai, Chan, Siew Hwa

“…To design a high performance, long lifespan, high durability PEMFC, it's essential to comprehensively understand the coupling effect of different factors on the overall performance and durability of PEMFCs. …”
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A newly developed chemical locomotory booster for cyborg insect to sustain its activity and to enhance covering performance by Lin, Qifeng, Kai, Kazuki, Nguyen, Huu Duoc, Sato, Hirotaka

“…Terrestrial insect-machine hybrid robots have long been discussed as alternatives to artificial centimetre-scale mobile robots. …”
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Automated risk prediction of post-stroke adverse mental outcomes using artificial intelligence and machine learning by Oei, Chien Wei

“…Using a combination of DL algorithms such as Multi-Layer Perceptron (MLP) and Long Short Term Memory (LSTM), the model could ingest and make predictions using static and sequential data. …”
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Synergizing strategies: integrating fundamental, technical and news analysis for stock evaluation in energy & commodity market by Fang, Qian

“…Study five key news categories to understand their short - and long-term impact on stock prices. These categories include cooperation news, investment and expansion in new areas, environmental events, war and conflict news, and the impact of OPEC+ supply decisions. …”
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Local vs. cooperative: unraveling glass transition mechanisms with SEER by Ciamarra, Massimo Pica, Ji, Wencheng, Wyart, Matthieu

“…Which phenomenon slows down the dynamics in supercooled liquids and turns them into glasses is a long-standing question of condensed matter. Most popular theories posit that as the temperature decreases, many events must occur in a coordinated fashion on a growing length scale for relaxation to occur. …”
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Multiple antenna-based THz communication system with channel correlation by Sharma, Shubha, Vashistha, Ankush, Madhukumar, A. S.

“…The obtained asymptotic expressions enable the easy estimation of the performance especially for more number of antennas, where Monte Carlo simulation takes a long time to execute. Additionally, presented results reveal the factors that can be utilized to optimize the system performance.…”
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π-fused diazocines with controllable photoswitching properties as molecular tweezers by Yuan, Wei, Wu, Mengjiao, Qian, Cheng, Guo, Jingjing, Wu, Yinglong, He, Ting, Wei, Haipeng, Chen, Xiaokai, Wang, Dongdong, Liu, Jiawei, Zhao, Yue, Wang, Shihuai, Yang, Jie, Zhang, Zhongzheng, Chen, Yulan, Zhao, Yanli

“…This work may pave the way for designing novel photoswitches with long half-lives and lightcontrolled properties.…”
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Person-centred care for dementia patients (PEAR) back-end and front-end systems development by Rizwan Nusrath Fathima

“…One form of which is Person-Centred Care. PEAR is a long-term project and monolithic architecture, proved to be a cause of deterioration to its code base, given that the time each batch of developers spend on it is very little. …”
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Affective-cognitive design of product ecosystems for user experience by Zhou, Feng

“…Although companies have long been concerned with users in the product design and development process, the emphasis has been on the cognitive aspects to support users’ cognitive processes through human-product interactions, demonstrated as usability studies in the areas of human factors and human-computer interaction. …”
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