Tailoring engineered cementitious composites for impact resistance by Yang, En-Hua., Li, Victor C.

“…Low speed drop weight tower test on ECC panels and beams was also conducted. Damage characteristics, load and energy dissipation capacities, and response to repeated impacts, were studied.…”
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Singapore General Election 2015: Opposition’s Need to Re-Strategise by Saleena Saleem

“…The PAP’s nearly 10 percent point increase in popular vote from the 2011 general election is as much a reflection of the electorate’s rousing endorsement of the existing government as it is of the opposition’s continued failure to speak to the majority of the people.…”
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British Muslim youth and religious fundamentalism: a quantitative investigation by Kashyap, R, Lewis, VA

“…We use new survey data to empirically examine how Muslim youth differ from older Muslims and non-Muslim British peers on religiosity, Islam-specific and broader social attitudes. …”

Theory of Quantum Anomalous Hall Phases in Pentalayer Rhombohedral Graphene Moiré Structures by Dong, Zhihuan, Patri, Adarsh S., Senthil, Todadri

“…We also study the four- and six-layer analogs and identify parameters where a nearly flat isolated Chern-1 band emerges which may be suitable to host FQAH physics.…”
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Nitrogen-doped graphene-supported transition-metals carbide electrocatalysts for oxygen reduction reaction by Chen, Minghua, Liu, Jilei, Zhou, Weijiang, Lin, Jianyi, Shen, Zexiang

“…The as-synthesized FeMo carbide -NG catalysts exhibit excellent electrocatalytic activities for ORR in alkaline solution, with high onset potential (−0.09 V vs. saturated KCl Ag/AgCl), nearly four electron transfer number (nearly 4) and high kinetic-limiting current density (up to 3.5 mA cm−2 at −0.8 V vs. …”
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Dataset on genetic and physiological adults׳ responses to social distress by Bonassi, Andrea, Ghilardi, Tommaso, Truzzi, Anna, Cataldo, Ilaria, Azhari, Atiqah, Setoh, Peipei, Shinohara, Kazuyuki, Esposito, Gianluca

“…Self-reported questionnaires were used to evaluate participants’ interactional patterns towards peers (Attachment Style Questionnaire, Feeney et al., 1994[1]), and the quality of bond with intimate partners (Experiences in Close Relationships Scale, Fraley et al., 2000 [2]). …”
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Content routing and lookup schemes using global bloom filter for content-delivery-as-a-service by Jin, Yichao, Wen, Yonggang

“…The global CCBF adds our system with the capability to early check the existence of any specific content among all the peering surrogates, before any local checking on each cache node. …”
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US federal resource allocations are inconsistent with concentrations of energy poverty by Batlle, Carlos, Heller, Peter, Knittel, Christopher, Schittekatte, Tim

“…Recent data from the US Energy Information Administration reveals that nearly one in three households in the United States report experiencing energy poverty, and this number is only expected to rise. …”
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Gram-scale mechanochemical synthesis of atom-layer MoS₂ semiconductor electrocatalyst via functionalized graphene quantum dots for efficient hydrogen evolution by Hu, Bingjie, Wu, Yao, Wang, Kang, Guo, Huazhang, Lei, Zhendong, Liu, Zheng, Wang, Liang

“…Moreover, the ALMS catalyst showcases exceptional long-term durability, maintaining stable performance for nearly 200 h, underscoring its potential as a highly efficient and durable electrocatalyst. …”
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Liquid crystal spiral phase plate : design, fabrication and characterization by Wang, Qin

“…Moreover, SPP have found applications in edge contrast enhancement in microscopy, optical vortex coronagraph and generating radially polarized beams etc. Among various kinds of SPP, Liquid crystal spiral phase plates (LC SPP) have the potential advantages of dynamic switching between optical vortices with different topological charge, adaptability to any visible wavelength and capability to realize high slice number etc. …”
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A microstrip grid array antenna for 60-GHz applications by Zhang, Bing, Zhang, Yue Ping

“…Measured results show that the impedance bandwidth (BW) of the GAA is 57.5-62 GHz (or 7.5% at 60 GHz), the 3-dB gain BW is 57.5-65 GHz (or 12.5 %) with the maximum gain 16.5 dBi at 60.7 GHz, vertical beams appear in broadside direction from 57 to 64 GHz, which agree well with simulated ones.…”
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Highly stretchable, integrated supercapacitors based on single-walled carbon nanotube films with continuous reticulate architecture by Niu, Zhiqiang, Dong, Haibo, Zhu, Bowen, Li, Jinzhu, Hng, Huey Hoon, Zhou, Weiya, Chen, Xiaodong, Xie, Sishen

“…The performance of the prepared stretchable supercapacitors remains nearly unchanged even during the stretching process under 120% strain.…”
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Economic analysis of membrane-based separation of biocatalyst: mode of operation and stage configuration by Kapavarapu, MSR Sridhar, Ma, Yunqiao, Vasudevan, Suraj V., Chew, Jia Wei

“…The results indicate that a capital expenditure of $1.35 million and an annual operating expenditure of $85.6 thousand are needed to install a new ultrafiltration unit for a yearly permeation of 0.64 billion liters. While capital cost depends heavily on membrane area, operating cost depends on TMP and fluid flow across the unit.…”
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An autonomous ultrasonic fastener holes inspection system of an aircraft lower wing skin by Lim, Chee Wei.

“…These cracks are unique in that it radial from the fastener's hole which made radiography nearly impossible in picking it up.…”
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Dye-sensitized Pt@TiO2 core–shell nanostructures for the efficient photocatalytic generation of hydrogen by Cao, Shao-Wen, Fang, Jun, Yin, Lisha, Liao, Yusen, Xue, Can

“…When the dyes and TiO2 were co-excited through the combination of two irradiation beams with different wavelengths, a synergic effect was observed, which led to a greatly enhanced H2 generation yield. …”
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Electrical and photoresponse properties of Co3O4 nanowires by Mukherjee, Bablu, Varghese, Binni, Karthik, K. R. G., Jinesh, K. B., Mhaisalkar, Subodh Gautam, Tok, Eng Soon, Sow, Chorng Haur

“…Photoresponses of individual nanowires were obtained by global irradiation of laser beams with photon energies above band gap and at sub-band gap of the nanowires. …”
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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

“…Under SSP585, the areas with high flooding risk will be expected to increase significantly, accounting for 26% of the total areas, and nearly half of the built-up areas are exposed to flooding risk by 2050. …”
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Secure and secret cooperation in robotic swarms by Castelló Ferrer, Eduardo, Hardjono, Thomas, Pentland, Alex 'Sandy', Dorigo, Marco

“…We propose a system where robots in a swarm, to cooperate towards mission completion, have to "prove" their integrity to their peers by exchanging cryptographic proofs. We show the implications of this approach for two different swarm robotics missions: foraging and maze formation. …”
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Secure and secret cooperation in robot swarms by Castelló Ferrer, Eduardo, Hardjono, Thomas, Pentland, Alex, Dorigo, Marco

“…We propose a system where robots in a swarm, to cooperate toward mission completion, have to “prove” their integrity to their peers by exchanging cryptographic proofs. We show the implications of this approach for two different swarm robotics missions: foraging and maze formation. …”
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Mobile app-aided design thinking approach to promote upcycling in Singapore by Shan, Xin, Neo, Vienna Zhi Yu, Yang, En-Hua, Jin, Mingzhou

“…The yearly amount of waste getting disposed of in Singapore is rising, which poses a waste management issue to be tackled and overcome. …”
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