A review on the role of materials science in solar cells by Alghoul, M. A., Zaidi, Saleem H., Asim, Nilofar, Sopian, Kamaruzzaman, Ahmadi, Shideh, Saeedfar, Kasra, Saadatian, Omidreza

“…The desire for environmental-friendly alternative energy resources with the least dependency on fossil fuels is growing. Solar energy is an important technology for many reasons and is worthy of urgent attention. …”
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The geopolitical crisis may trigger changes in energy strategies by Weafer, C

“…But the events of the last few months do at least seem to have injected a greater sense of urgency to ‘get on with it’. …”

Design of a localization and navigation system for multi-mobile robot coordination by Tan, Jiue Lin

“…With the fast-paced development of the technology, robots like unmanned aerial vehicle or automated guided vehicle are made more human-like to reduce human labour. …”
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Mobile apps development for NTU canteens by Chua, Joy Yun Hui

“…Nearly two-fifths of all mobile phone users—close to one-quarter of the worldwide population—will use a Smartphone at least monthly in 2014. EMarketer speculates Smartphone adoption to continue on a fast-paced trajectory through 2017. …”
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Recent study on biodegradable hydrogels for agriculture application: A review by Wan Amirah Najwa, Wan Anuar, Ros Azlinawati, Ramli, El-Sayed, Marwa M., Warkar, Sudhir G.

“…However, using it alone results in poor mechanical properties and very fast degradation. Therefore, combining it with other materials as a composite is necessary. …”
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Multiplexed model predictive control by Wu, Bing Fang

“…During the last two decades, Model Predictive Control (MPC) has established itself as an important form of advanced control due to its ability to deal with constraints. …”
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Rule Britannia: Brexit and the end of empire by Dorling, D, Tomlinson, S

“…In <i>Rule Britannia</i>, Danny Dorling and Sally Tomlinson argue that the vote to leave the EU was the last gasp of the old empire working its way out of the British psyche. …”

Elucidating the mechanism of mRNA transport using novel imaging technologies by Stoychev, D

“…There is considerable evidence that at least some of this peripheral activity is regulated by the transport and local translation of mRNA molecules at the distant cytoplasm of neurons. …”

Solving the modern marriage puzzle : the problems of creating value in marriage by Ang, Claudia Hui Lin

“…This paper argues that marriage should be disestablished, or at the very least, reformed. Marriage lacks intrinsic value, and if socioeconomic purposes that necessitated marriage in the past are no longer valid now, then there remains no good justification for marriage. …”
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China and Southeast Asia in the 2000s : tension management in the maritime space by Zha, Daojiong, Lina, Gong

“…We conclude by postulating that, at least in the maritime space, tension management rather than conflict resolution is more likely to be the continuing feature into the future.…”
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Mode-locked fiber laser and its application in microwave photonics by Li, Nanxi.

“…By implementing a user controlled spectral filter, generation of Gaussian-shaped waveforms at 2.3 GHz, 4.6 GHz and 8 GHz, with sinusoidal amplitude modulation with periods 2.5 nm, 1.25 nm and 0.75 nm, respectively, is shown. Last but not the least, the conclusion and the possible future work of the whole project are mentioned.…”
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Segmental reporting in Singapore by Goh, Eddie Guan Chua, Jong, Voon Hoo, Kwong, Choong Kuen

“…We have also suggested for the mandatory disclosure of the basis of joint cost allocation to improve the disclosure requirement. Last but not least, we have found that the matrix form of presenting segmental reports (as shown in Chapter Six) can be used to enhance decision making and thus improve the disclosure requirement of SAS 23. …”
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Segmental reporting in Singapore by Goh, Eddie Guan Chua, Jong, Voon Hoo, Kwong, Choong Kuen

“…We have also suggested for the mandatory disclosure of the basis of joint cost allocation to improve the disclosure requirement. Last but not least, we have found that the matrix form of presenting segmental reports (as shown in Chapter Six) can be used to enhance decision making and thus improve the disclosure requirement of SAS 23. …”
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Genes for carnivory : a comparative study on the local duplication of papain-like cysteine proteases in carnivorous plants by Tan, Qiao Wen

“…A Droseraceae-specific expansion of PAP/SAG12 genes including 4 previously identified trap proteins suggests that the adoption of PLCPs for carnivory may have occurred in the last common ancestor of D. capensis and D. regia or earlier. …”
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An exploratory study on the development of a sensory wheel affiliated with the emotional lexicon for chrysanthemum infusion by Xia, Y, Hou, J, Chen, J, Spence, C, Qian, J, Zhao, F, Dong, G, Zhong, F

“…Chrysanthemum infusion has gained popularity outside of the East Asian market in recent years. However, despite the growing international demand, standardized methods to evaluate the sensory attributes of chrysanthemum tea, which are essential for guiding consumers and ensuring quality control, remain underdeveloped. …”

Patent information aggregation and analysis by Chen, YanHua

“…With the fast advancement of technology, innovation ideas and creations need to be protected as a form of encouragement for research and development. …”
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Oxford-IIIT TRECVID 2010 – notebook paper by Juneja, M, Chandra, S, Parkhi, OM, Jawahar, CV, Vedaldi, A, Marszalek, M, Zisserman, A

“…Instead, annotations were carried out internally for all the ten features to control quality and keyframe extraction, and to obtain region-of-interest annotations to train the object detectors. Compared to last year, the image-level classifier was significantly faster due to the use of a fast dense SIFT feature extractor and of an explicit feature map to approximate the χ² kernel SVM. …”

Enhancing security in generic e-Commerce systems by Mak, Foo Keong.

“…e-Commerce has seen a huge growth in revenue for the past decade and with the increasing advancement of today’s technology, e-Commerce system has been prone to a lot of attacks from all over the world. …”
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Unique composition and evolutionary histories of large low velocity provinces by Panton, J, Davies, JH, Koelemeijer, P, Myhill, R, Ritsema, J

“…Our models suggest the Pacific LLVP stores up to 53% more SOC produced in the last 1.2 Gyr than the African LLVP, potentially making the Pacific domain denser and less buoyant.…”

Rule Britannia: Brexit and the end of empire by Dorling, D, Tomlinson, S

“…In <i>Rule Britannia</i>, Danny Dorling and Sally Tomlinson argue that the vote to leave the EU was the last gasp of the old empire working its way out of the British psyche. …”