Simulating the transport and dispersal of volcanic ash clouds with initial conditions created by a 3D plume model by Cao, Zhixuan, Bursik, Marcus, Yang, Qingyuan, Patra, Abani

“…Such modeling may therefore provide a path to better forecasts lessening the need for user intervention, or attempts to observe details of an eruption that are beyond the resolution of any potential satellite or ground-based technique, or a posteriori creating a history of ash emission height via inversion.…”
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Surface plasmon resonance (SPR) enhanced biosensors by Zhang, Jinling

“…The fabrication steps of the arrays were composed of electron-beam lithography and nano-imprint lithography. In comparison with the PAuNH array, the AuNH array offered higher field enhancement for fluorescence when only LSP was excited. …”
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Uncertainty-Inclusive Contrastive Learning for Leveraging Synthetic Images by Cai, Fiona X.

“…We evaluate the effectiveness of UniCon-learned representations against traditional supervised contrastive learning, both with and without synthetic images. Across three different finegrained classification datasets, we find that the learned representation space generated by the UniCon loss function leads to significantly improved downstream classification performance in comparison to supervised contrastive learning baselines.…”
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Effect of coupling in steel/aluminium laminate subjected to tensile load and bending load by Pak, Jun Wei

“…It was found that for both types of load, by increasing the number of plies, the structural stiffness of the laminate increases.…”
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Mechanical characterization of an endoprosthesis. by Tan, Xue Yu.

“…The implant on reconstructed mandibles was subjected to minimal stress and the resected region of the reconstructed mandibles experienced a significant higher stress during the in vitro experimental tests. Comparison of FEM and in vitro strain measurement also demonstrated a consistency in both quantitative and qualitative data with only a deviation of 8.76 % in the stress recorded.…”
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Diffusion of polyethylene oxide in montmorillonite : single molecule study of polymer nanocomposite by Jefri Sanusi Teguh

“…PEO moved faster in the amorphous region but it moved slowly near the crystal as reflected by the comparison of diffusion coefficient in both regions. …”
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Study of islet amyloid polypeptide aggregation and its inhibition mechanisms. by Wei, Lei.

“…The insulin binding region is composed of the same amino acids in amyloidogenic human IAPP and soluble rat IAPP (with the sole exception of His/Arg-18), implying the same binding mode for both hormones. This His/Arg-18 mutation results in reduced affinity binding of human IAPP to insulin in comparison to rat IAPP as it is detected by surface plasmon resonance biosensor analysis.…”
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Characterization of harbor seal whisker by MAHESWARI BALAN.

“…However, the decrease was insignificant. The comparison between the theoretical and experimental values showed that there was a disagreement between both values, which was believed to have been caused by non-ideal conditions in the experiments and the reductive assumptions made for the theoretical model. …”
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Aerodynamics of marine vessels by Muhammad Al-Muzakkir Kamsani.

“…The existence and location of a circulation phenomenon was observed both in ANSYS FLUENT analysis and water tunnel test. …”
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Small-scale wind energy harvesting using piezoelectric materials by Zhao, Liya

“…Wind energy is ubiquitous in both outdoor and indoor environments, yet small-scale energy harvesting aimed to harness power from wind with low speed (<10m/s) has received only limited attention. …”
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Implementation and experimental tests of illumination normalization using local variance in logarithmic domain by Lin, Meijia

“…This report present the implementation and experimental test of illumination normalization using local variance in logarithmic domain and comparison with other approach. The result of experiments on both CMU-PIE and Yale B will indicate the quality of the illumination Normalization method in this project, which help researcher to improve illumination normalization on facial detection area in future.…”
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Performance and optimization of nanofiltration membrane bioreactor (nf-mbr) for treatment of municipal wastewater by Gunawan, Albert Ardy

“…The increasing threats to water resources has highlighted the potential of wastewater reclamation processes to supplement both domestic and industrial demands. Conventional wastewater treatments, which have traditionally involved the use of activated sludge process, are limited by the large tank volume and the limit in separating suspended solids. …”
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Efficient cyclic routing of unmanned aerial vehicles by Ong, Chao Jian

“…This report shall illustrate both the algorithm design and how it works, and at the same time, gather data for comparison between the new algorithm and the one proposed by Lim to show how the new algorithm improves the efficiency of the planned cyclic route.…”
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Calibration of the basic reinforced concrete design provision (Calibration of bond stress-slip models for unconfined reinforced concrete) by Cheah, Yi Ning

“…This project aims to provide a comprehensive comparison among the seven deterministic bond stress-slip models developed in the past researches, and thus, further enhance their applicability by establishing the bond-slip statistical cloud models. …”
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Modelling of Solitary Wave Run-up on an Onshore Coastal Cliff by Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics Method by Jian, Wei, Sim, Shawn Yisheng, Huang, Zhenhua, Lo, Edmond Yat-Man

“…A composite topography made of a steep slope, a gentle beach and a steep coastal cliff was used in the experimental and numerical studies to represent real life scenarios. Comparison with laboratory measurements shows that the SPH model is able to capture the evolution and run-up of solitary waves for both non-breaking and slight breaking cases with reasonable accuracy.…”
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Performance analysis of stator structure in divided teeth outer rotor embedded permanent magnet synchronous motor: salient pole stator vs segmented stator by Hairulnizam, Hairul F., Misron, Norhisam, Ibrahim, Nur A., Muhammad, Ezwan, Vaithilingam, Chockalingam A.

“…Next, the finite element technique (FEM) is used to model the suggested motor and the salient pole stator, both of which have the same size. Next, a comparison is made between the simulation findings and the static torque, PM demagnetization, flux linkage, magnetic flux density distribution, and average and maximum torque. …”
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Intelligent agent design for persuading the elderly to adopt a healthy lifestyle by Yu, Xinjia

“…Extensive user studies (n=62) have been conducted in this thesis to support the effectiveness of our proposed model and agent design in both communication engagement and persuasion effectiveness. …”
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A conserved MTMR lipid phosphatase increasingly suppresses autophagy in brain neurons during aging by Kovács, Tibor, Szinyákovics, Janka, Billes, Viktor, Murányi, Gábor, Varga, Virginia B., Bjelik, Annamária, Légrádi, Ádám, Szabó, Melinda, Sándor, Sára, Kubinyi, Enikő, Szekeres-Paracky, Cecília, Szocsics, Péter, Lőke, János, Mulder, Jun, Gulyás, Balázs, Renner, Éva, Palkovits, Miklós, Gulya, Károly, Maglóczky, Zsófia, Vellai, Tibor

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Development of kinetics model for torrefaction of empty fruit bunch from palm oil waste by Nur Hazirah Huda, Mohd Harun, Noor Asma Fazli, Abdul Samad, Suriyati, Saleh

“…The result shows that AWL estimation using kinetic parameters predicted from both models are in a good agreement with the experimental result and thus applicable to represent AWL of EFB torrefaction. …”
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Study of a 1 eV GaNAsSb photovoltaic cell grown on a silicon substrate by Tan, K. H., Loke, W. K., Wicaksono, S., Li, D., Leong, Y. R., Yoon, S. F., Sharma, P., Milakovich, T., Bulsara, M. T., Fitzgerald, E. A.

“…Both devices were in situ annealed at 700 °C for 5 min, and a significant performance improvement over our previous result was observed. …”
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