Understanding sudden larch death – from epidemiology to host resistance by Dun, H

“…Our field observations predict buds on fine shoots as sites of primary infection, with infection occurring between late autumn and flushing in the spring, followed by rapid lesion expansion during spring. …”

Leveraging technology to enhance global citizenship education: An online task based speaking skills module for technical and vocational education and training (TVET) learners by Mohd Khirulnizam, Musa, Azwin Arif, Abdul Rahim

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Study on process parameter optimization for electron beam melting additive manufacturing by Wang, Chengcheng

“…The samples fabricated from fine powders (nominal size ~ 20 - 63 μm) exhibit typical columnar-grain microstructure and obvious anisotropy in tensile properties, which are commonly seen in AMed metals and alloys. …”
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Contact-free motion-robust vital signs monitoring by Zheng, Tianyue

“…To improve the vital signs monitoring under full-scale body movements, this thesis proposes MoRe-Fi, which enables fine-grained monitoring of respiratory waveforms through the use of an IR-UWB radar and deep learning. …”
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Scaling up parametric human recovery by Cai, Zhongang

“…We leverage Vision Transformers to examine the scaling law of model sizes in EHPS. Additionally, our fine-tuning strategy evolves SMPLer-X into specialist models, further boosting performance and achieving state-of-the-art results on seven benchmarks such as AGORA, UBody, EgoBody, and EHF. …”
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Investigation of polyoxometalates and nanostructured carbon materials as electrode materials for energy storage applications by Chen, Han-Yi

“…In order to figure out the charge storage and transport mechanism, in-situ V K-edge X-ray absorption fine structure (XAFS) measurements and temperature dependent Chronoamperometry measurements are utilized for Na6[V10O28] LIBs. …”
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Effects of nnav1.5 expression modulation on mhc I antigen processing machinery and invasion potential of breast cancer cells by Din, Ahmad Hafiz Murtadha Noor

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Design of digital-intensive time-mode data converters based on delay correction utilising a time-to-digital converter by Kong, Junjie

“…Of the two TDCs, the Coarse-Fine TDC has a high resolution of 1.08 ps, and a sampling frequency of 278 MHz and consumes a relatively lower power of 1.8 mW. …”
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Towards haptic intelligence in robots by learning from demonstration by Turlapati Sri Harsha

“…In the first part of this thesis, we build on this latter idea of performing haptic exploration of surfaces with a focus on extracting the geometry of fine features. We propose a novel quantity, haptic mismatch that identifies and refines missing geometric features based on the discrepancy in force feedback from actual interactions with an object. …”
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Investigation on the role of Sb doping on grain growth and properties of solution-processed CuIn(S,Se)2 by Ho, John Chun Wan

“…The resultant film is dense and uniform but has very fine grains which are detrimental to carrier transport. …”
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Stability improvement and control optimization of isolated two-stage AC-DC-DC converter systems by Feng, Fan

“…The analysis results offer instructive implications to fine-tune the design rules of the DAB converters. …”
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Enhancing tensile and fatigue properties of additively manufactured alloys by post-processing heat treatment by Radhakrishnan, Jayaraj

“…LB-PBF process results in a fine hierarchical microstructure which can impart a simultaneous enhancement of strength and fracture toughness. …”
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Uncertainty quantification framework for combined statistical spatial downscaling and temporal disaggregation for climate change impact studies on hydrology by Rajendran Queen Suraajini

“…Thus, the strategies to assist future adaption planning and risk mitigation during extreme flood events need to be developed based on the predicted future climate conditions. Fine spatial and temporal resolutions in climate data are needed to simulate the change in future flood events and to study the climate change impact on hydrology. …”
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Energy storage management for renewable energy systems by Feng, Xue

“…The device models including the dynamic battery model proposed are incorporated in the system simulations. A fine-grained intelligent control strategy with multiple operation modes is designed to distribute the power demand between the batteries and the ultracapacitors considering the real time power mismatches. …”
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CFD investigation of a distributed propulsion system by Chng, Jia Yang

“…Numerical simulation using computational fluid dynamics is used in this paper to determine the lift and drag forces, and subsequently the aerodynamic efficiency of a 3-D finite wing in ANSYS Fluent. The computational domain utilized an overset mesh with the component consisting of the finite wing and equally spaced momentum sources representing propellers mounted on the wing. …”
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Dragonfly (Sympetrum flaveolum) flight : kinematic measurement and modelling by Chen, Y. H., Martin, Skote., Zhao, Y., Huang, W. M.

“…Such arrangement also eases the difficulties in rotating the wing during pronation by bending the leading edge forward and flattening the wing. …”
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Optimization of transition maneuvers through aerodynamic vectoring by Maqsood, Adnan., Go, Tiauw Hiong.

“…Compared to the fixed-wing aircraft case, the angle of incidence of the wing provides an additional independent control variable in the optimization problem formulation. …”
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Butterfly-like micro air vehicle by Yang, Xiaobin

“…Butterfly cannot hover, but it has unique aerodynamic characteristics such as undulating body motion and low wing loading. Development of flapping wing micro air vehicle is mainly focus on the hovering birds and inserts. …”
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Design of a pneumatic launcher and glider by Pang, Shiuh Woon.

“…The size of this glider is about 150mm for the wing span and 200mm for the fuselage. The whole system of this design was based on the pneumatic power and the aerodynamics of a fixed wing. …”
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To determine the effect of peening on residual stresses by Chan, Yiu Wing., Fok, Wing Chau.

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