Thermal properties of PCM microcapsules modified polymer coatings by Tan, Carine.

“…Microencapsulated phase change material (microPCM) has been widely used as a thermal energy storage, waste heat utilization and space heating and cooling. …”
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Microsoft kinect for early education by Tan, Haiwang.

“…A lot of new human machine interaction devices have been developed by various companies in the market. …”
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A novel tuning method for implementing dynamic matrix control on a water tank system by Sudarshan, Srinivasa Ramanujam.

“…The author’s work over the past year has been in learning and implementing the Unconstrained Dynamic Matrix Control Algorithm in a Single Input-Single Output (SISO) water tank system and comparing a newly developed DMC tuning strategy (NlStar) with the exsiting Shridhar-Cooper Tuning strategy. …”
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The impact of the solar energy on the load profile of the building by Zhang, Jun

“…This paper aims to obtain an overview of an analysis of the impact of the solar energy on the load profile of a building such as HDB in varies circumstances in order to demonstrate the value and future usefulness of the solar energy as a primary green energy resources. The research has been carefully tailored in order to use the data to illustrate the impact to Singapore power grid by harvesting and utilizing the solar energy.…”
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Variable selection in parametric and semiparametric models by Lin, Bingqing

“…Since the proposal of the least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (LASSO) (Tibshirani, 1996) and the smoothly clipped absolute deviation (SCAD) method (Fan and Li, 2001), there have been extensive developments on model selection based on penalized log-likelihood and the computational issues of solving these problems in linear models. …”
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Ultra wideBand indoor position localizaiton by Xu, Jun

“…In this thesis, a time-difference-of-arrival (TDOA) positioning scheme which is based on maximum likelihood estimation is proposed, and its theoretical and practical performance have been evaluated for both LOS and NLOS propagation channels. …”
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Modeling of functional materials : perovskite solar cells by Aruj Shukla

“…Dye sensitized solar cells (DSSC) which employ TiO2 nanoparticles in complex sandwich structure had been touted as the next alternative, but they are hamstrung by the same issues of commercial viability. …”
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Multiple human action recognition from video streams by Koh, Khai Huat

“…In recent times, the focus of researchers has been on understanding the human behavior under different circumstances. …”
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Effect of confining pressure on hysteresis of soil-water characteristic curves by Eng, Ngee Kiang

“…For decades, experimental researches have been conducted on drying SWCC due to simplicity of its measurement. …”
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An experimental investigation on the noise emission and fuel consumption of diesel engine by Foo, Jin Yuan

“…Road traffic has always been a source of noise pollution owing to the rapid advancement in technology and growing population. …”
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HVAC visualization system by Pee, See Er

“…The issue of thermal comfort has been attracting increased attention around the world as people are more concerned with a comfortable indoor environment. …”
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Heck reaction of alkyl halides and α-selective heck reaction of styrenes by Zou, Yinjun

“…My graduate study has been focused on the development of transition metal-catalyzed reactions, especially Pd-catalyzed coupling reactions. …”
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Lexical stress perception : a case study on Tamil-English bilinguals by Lim, Samantha JieYing

“…Interestingly, this difficulty has been shown to persist in some cases with bilinguals where one of the native languages contained stress (Doupoux et al., 2010). …”
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Green bonds : an introduction to a new market based approach in solving the regional haze crisis by Chew, John Han Hui, Chin, Yin Chai, Han, Kai Jie

“…However, the extent of success of these measures has been limited as evidenced from the recurrence of the haze problem over the years; most recently in 2013. …”
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Computer-aided-diagnosis of liver fibrosis using non-linear optics microscopy by Xu, Shuoyu

“…The role of liver biopsy as the gold standard for liver fibrosis assessment has recently been challenged due to inter- and intra-observer variation and sampling error. …”
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Preliminary study on the preparation and characterization of novel organophilic membranes used for organic extraction by Xia, Yuan

“…Hence, thin film composite (TFC) membrane has been proposed for the membrane extraction process due to its improved mass transfer efficiency. …”
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Analysis of V2X communications by Chan, Selwyn Yao Feng

“…Traffic Congestion and Safety have always been one of the serious problems faced in Singapore. …”
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Wave propagation in coastal waters by Koh, Rachel

“…Discussions of the experiments have been divided into two parts, namely those subjected to constant oscillatory motion and during decay of waves. …”
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Load tests and moments evaluation of aircraft pylon using refurbished test assembly by Subas Chandrabose Satheesh Kumar

“…The pylon, which has been the specimen of this experimental stud y, is equipped with st rain gauge bridges to monitor the loads transferred between the fuel tank and the pylon structure. …”
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Aqueous phase synthesis and functionalization of semiconductor quantum dots for biomedical applications by Wang, Yucheng

“…In this thesis, efforts have been made to investigate and optimize the aqueous synthesis route in order to prepare high quality QDs. …”
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