Behaviour of reinforced welded tubular joints by Wong, Looi Kian.

“…In the offshore industry, a common operation problem is the last minute change of barge scheduled for transporting an offshore jacket to the designated location for installation while fabrication of the jacket is almost complete. …”
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Emergence, Formation and Dynamics of Hot QCD Matter by Scheihing Hitschfeld, Bruno Sebastian

“…Understanding the dynamics of Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) in quantitative detail is one of the main frontiers in particle physics. While the last century gave us the formulation of the theory of nuclear interactions, QCD, as well as that of the rest of visible matter encoded in the Standard Model of Particle Physics, much remains to be understood. …”
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Modelling the chemotactic response of escherichia coli to signalling molecule AI-2 by Tan, Pei Yen

“…The predicted chemotactic response from our model is first compared with experimental reports of maltose chemotactic response as the maltose response is well-studied and there exists a wealth of data in the past literature. Our model achieves good agreement with experimental data for maltose at various levels of periplasmic binding protein concentration as well as extracellular attractant concentration. …”
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Fabrication and properties of oxide semiconductor nanowires by Shen, Youde

“…Semiconductor nanowires have been intensively studied because of their novel properties in the past two decades. Lots of interesting nanostructures have been demonstrated via the famous vapor-liquid-solid (VLS) mechanism. …”
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Effect of geometry on temporal development of quasi-1D jet scour by Tan, Ian Haoyang

“…The phenomenon of jet scouring has been studied extensively over the last 50 years with numerous experiments conducted in order to achieve a deeper understanding of the 3-dimensional (3D) and 2-dimensional (2D) scouring effect. …”
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Interface energetics and dynamics in organic-inorganic hybrid perovskites by Goh, Teck Wee

“…Organic-inorganic lead halide perovskites have gained a lot of attention over the past six years as a desirable class of materials for various devices which has been shown to possess desirable properties such as long diffusion lengths, large carrier mobility, low trap states. …”
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100 news @ wall projection by Sun, Zhongyinan

“…Lastly, a Web based user interface was written in PHP to present the hourly generated textual and imagery results though a dynamic and interactive experience. …”
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Unexpected anthropogenic emission decreases explain recent atmospheric mercury concentration declines by Feinberg, Aryeh, Selin, Noelle E., Braban, Christine F., Chang, Kai-Lan, Custódio, Danilo, Jaffe, Daniel A., Kyllönen, Katriina, Landis, Matthew S., Leeson, Sarah R., Luke, Winston, Molepo, Koketso M., Murovec, Marijana, Nerentorp Mastromonaco, Michelle G., Aspmo Pfaffhuber, Katrine, Rüdiger, Julian, Sheu, Guey-Rong, St. Louis, Vincent L.

“…Global anthropogenic emission inventories report increases in Northern Hemispheric (NH) Hg emissions during the last three decades, in contradiction with the observed decline in atmospheric Hg concentrations at NH measurement stations. …”
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Data-driven approach to spatiotemporal dynamic risk assessment of urban flooding based on shared socio-economic pathways by Wang, Mo, Chen, Furong, Zhang, Dongqing, Chen, Zijing, Su, Jin, Zhou, Shiqi, Li, Jianjun, Chen, Jintang, Li, Jiaying, Tan, Soon Keat

“…Driven by the change in intense land use and land cover (LULC) due to fast urbanization, urban flooding events have become the most frequent and influential hazards over the last few decades. …”
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Cognitive enhancement in video game training: two separate routes of transfer? by Oei, Chie Ming

“…There has been considerable interest in the last decade on action video games’ effects on human perception and cognition, with many studies showing a positive effect of video game play on a variety of cognitive and perceptual measures. …”
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Impact resistance of reinforced concrete members by Low, Kun Sheng

“…As building structures became modernized, there is an increased need to understand the behaviour of concrete structures against extreme loading conditions such as impact, blast and earthquakes. In this paper, we will focus on the impact resistance of reinforced concrete members. …”
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Heat of hydration, bleeding, viscosity, setting of Ca(OH)<inf>2</inf>-GGBS and MgO-GGBS grouts by Yu, Hua, Yi, Yaolin, Unluer, Cise

“…Hydrated lime (Ca(OH)2)- and reactive magnesia (MgO)-activated ground granulated blast-furnace slag (GGBS) have shown advantages in geotechnical applications compared with Portland cement (PC). …”
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Quantifying the internal and external drivers of Southeast Asian rainfall extremes on decadal timescales by Wang, Shouyi, Ummenhofer, Caroline C., Murty, Sujata A., Nguyen, Hung T. T., Buckley, Brendan M.

“…Historical records and paleoclimate archives that span the last millennium reveal extreme multi-year rainfall variations that significantly affected the societies of mainland Southeast Asia. …”
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Image compression using wavelet transform by Yong, Choon Fon.

“…Wavelet, an elegant mathematical tool, is fast gaining the interest of professionals and researchers in many related fields of signal processing. …”
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Speeding up deep neural network training with decoupled and analytic learning by Zhuang, Huiping

“…The analytic learning trains neural networks in an exceedingly fast fashion as the training is completed within one single epoch. …”
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Beyond-the-Ice: Designing Games for Facilitating Deeper Conversations by Lee, Cassandra

“…In this age of constant communication, we’ve never been more connected, yet all of our numerous, fast, and convenient connections lack the depth and intimacy we truly crave. …”
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Drawing memories. by Chang, Jerly Wei Kiang.

“…The film tells a simple and heart wrenching story about a little boy who is brought back to the last reminiscence of his mother. It illustrates a little boy's pain and sorrow of not being able to let go of the death of his mother and how he eventually was able to pick up the courage to move on after given the opportunity to see his mother for the very last time. …”
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A brief on Saudi Arabia’s Energy Efficiency Program (SEEP) by Bin Salman Al-Saud, A

“…The Kingdom has witnessed unprecedented economic and industrial development in the last decades, which has led to an increase in the Kingdom’s domestic energy consumption. …”

Investigation of effects of supercavitation on flow by Yeo, Chee Siang

“…Lastly, the results obtained in this project also show that the drag coefficient is affected by the cavitation condition and cavitator angles. …”
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Adipose tissue fatty acid composition, serum lipids, and serum alpha-tocopherol in continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis patients living on the island of Crete by Nikolakakis, N, Kounali, D, Tornaritis, M, Anastassou, A, Papadakis, E, Kassotakis, G, Kafatos, A

“…Both CAPD patients and controls had been residents of Crete for at least the last 10 years.</p> <br> <p><strong>Main Outcome Measures:</strong> Adipose tissue was aspirated, and a 12-hour fasting blood sample was collected for determination of serum lipid parameters and serum α-tocopherol levels; dietary data from a 3-day recall were recorded.…”