Red blood cell adhesion can be reduced by non-reactive macromolecules by Zhang, Zhengwen, Meiselman, Herbert J., Neu, Björn

“…However, polymer depletion at the red cell surface has been shown to play a significant role. Interestingly, most previous studies have focused on the adhesion-promoting effects of one type of large polymer or plasma protein. …”
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Detecting adversarial samples for deep neural networks through mutation testing by Tan, Kye Yen

“…This method of defence has been a topic for scrutiny to achieve not only high accuracy but also being real-time. …”
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FTP-SC : fuzzy topology preserving stroke correspondence by Yang, Wenwu, Seah, Hock-Soon, Chen, Quan, Liew, Hong-Ze, Sýkora, Daniel

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Membrane reconstitution of monoamine oxidase enzymes on supported lipid bilayers by Wang, Liulin, Kabir H. Biswas, Yoon, Bo Kyeong, Kawakami, Lisa M., Park, Soohyun, Groves, Jay T., Li, Lin, Huang, Wei, Cho, Nam-Joon

“…Monoamine oxidase A and B (MAO-A and B) are mitochondrial outer membrane enzymes that are implicated in a number of human diseases, and the pharmacological inhibition of these enzymes is a promising therapeutic strategy to alleviate disease symptoms. It has been suggested that optimal levels of enzymatic activity occur in the membrane-associated state, although details of the membrane association process remain to be understood. …”
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Multiproblem surrogates : transfer evolutionary multiobjective optimization of computationally expensive problems by Tan, Alan Wei Ming, Ong, Yew-Soon, Gupta, Abhishek, Goh, Chi-Keong

“…Consequently, there exists knowledge from distinct (but possibly related) design exercises, which have either been previously completed or are currently in-progress, that may be leveraged to enhance the optimization performance of a particular target optimization task of interest. …”
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Machine health monitoring using local feature-based gated recurrent unit networks by Zhao, Rui, Wang, Dongzhe, Yan, Ruqiang, Mao, Kezhi, Shen, Fei, Wang, Jinjiang

“…In modern industries, machine health monitoring systems (MHMS) have been applied wildly with the goal of realizing predictive maintenance including failures tracking, downtime reduction, and assets preservation. …”
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Utilization of CSR to build organizations’ corporate image in Asia : need for an integrative approach by Pang, Augustine, Lwin, May Oo, Ng, Chrystal Shu-Min, Ong, Ying-Kai, Chau, Shannon Rose Wing-Ching, Yeow, Kristle Poh-Sim

“…Corporate social responsibility (CSR) has been found to be a strong predictor of a favorable corporate image [Gray, 1986. …”
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Perovskite nanoparticles : synthesis, properties, and novel applications in photovoltaics and LEDs by Kulkarni, Sneha Avinash, Mhaisalkar, Subodh Gautam, Mathews, Nripan, Boix, Pablo P.

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Investigation of effects of surface texture on ice formation by Wang, Qiuping

“…In order to determine the icephobic properties of the test plates at different contact angles, test rig has been set up to allow the icing experiment to be conducted under dynamic airflow conditions. …”
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Experimental study of single- and two-phase heat transfer of fractal-like structures by Mak, Joel Tse Hoi

“…Flow boiling in microchannels has been shown to be a viable option for the use of thermal management. …”
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Polydopamine nano-hybrids : interfacial and photoactive role in epoxy nanocomposites and polymerization by Subramanian, Alamelu Suriya

“…A novel strategy involving dual role nanophotoinitiator/ sensitizers in the photoinitiating system resulting in synergy for faster cure of epoxy has been proposed and evaluated.…”
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Polymeric nonviral gene delivery systems for cancer immunotherapy by Ke, Lingjie, Cai, Pingqiang, Wu, Yun‐Long, Chen, Xiaodong

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Pie crusting of ligaments by Yap, Aylsworth Kuang Sheng

“…However, doing pie-crusting on the MCL have not been proven to be safe currently. There are suspicions of mechanical weakening in the MCL ligament integrity after pie-crusting. …”
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Object tracking using surveillance camera by She, Hanqing

“…In recent years, due to the wide demand for multi-object tracking applications, many effective multi-object tracking methods have been produced. The whole process of multi-object tracking can be divided into two parts: one is object detection and the other is object tracking. …”
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Effect of alkali cation type on strength endurance of fly ash geopolymers subject to high temperature exposure by Lahoti, Mukund, Wong, Keng Khang, Tan, Kang Hai, Yang, En-Hua

“…However, the influence of alkali cation type on strength endurance of geopolymers subject to high temperature exposure and the underlying governing mechanisms have not been studied. This study investigated the effects of alkali cation type on high temperature response of fly ash geopolymers aiming towards structural applications. …”
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Looting the LUTs : FPGA optimization of AES and AES-like ciphers for authenticated encryption by Khairallah, Mustafa, Chattopadhyay, Anupam, Peyrin, Thomas

“…While this feature has already been used to increase the throughput/performance of hardware implementations, it is usually overlooked while comparing different ciphers. …”
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Platinum-osmium heterometallic clusters containing N-heterocyclic carbene ligands and an electron-deficient tetraosmium by-product by Liu, Yu, Ganguly, Rakesh, Huynh, Han Vinh, Leong, Weng Kee

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Mechanically robust hydrophobic bio-based epoxy coatings for anti-corrosion application by Zheng, Shunli, Bellido-Aguilar, Daniel Angel, Huang, Yinjuan, Zeng, Xianting, Zhang, Qichun, Chen, Zhong

“…As a common method for corrosion protection, epoxy resin has been widely used as the coating material due to its easy processability and excellent properties. …”
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Machine learning in additive manufacturing : state-of-the-art and perspectives by Wang, Chengcheng, Tan, Xipeng, Tor, Shu Beng, Lim, C.S.

“…On the production of AM, ML is able to assist practitioners in pre-manufacturing planning, and product quality assessment and control. Moreover, there has been an increasing concern about data security in AM as data breaches could occur with the aid of ML techniques. …”
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Congestion estimation and turning ratio prediction based on machine learning with applications in urban traffic light control by Chen, Qixing

“…In the meantime, a lot of data-driven traffic network optimization algorithms have also been developed and applied widely. However, the performance of some optimization algorithms can be improved with some pre-works added. …”
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