Illusory occlusion affects stereoscopic depth perception by Chen, Zhimin, Denison, Rachel N., Whitney, David, Maus, Gerrit W.

“…When the monocular bar was perceived as filled in through the blind spot, it was perceived as occluding the binocular bar, generating illusory occlusion. …”
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Modeling Sandbar Effects on Nearshore Waves and Morphological Change using SWAN by Murman, Charles E.

“…Simulations were run with observed bathymetry for both the outer bar and inner shallow bathymetry, with smoothed outer bar and observed shallow bathymetry, and with digital elevation model bathymetry to determine the effects of outer bar and shallow bathymetry on wave evolution.…”
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Design of a head massage device by Seah, Rong Jun.

“…A number of essential theories and basic calculations such as Degree of Freedom (DOF) of Planar 4-bar Linkages, Working Envelope of Planar 4-bar Linkages ,Direct Kinematics ,Inverse Kinematics , Kinematics Synthesis and Finite Element Analysis (FEA),approach were applied to the final design of the head massage robot. …”
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Alternative solution for pre-treatment of seawater for the desalination process by Goh, Qing Kai

“…The NF membranes were able to sustain its original flux performance at 2.5 bar much longer than the UF membrane could at 0.25 bar. …”
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TORCH — an innovative high-precision time-of-flight PID detector for the LHCb upgrade by Föhl, K, Brook, N, García, LC, Cowie, EN, Cussans, D, Forty, R, Frei, C, Gao, R, Gys, T, Harnew, N, Piedigrossi, D, van Dijk, M

“…Optical design studies have been performed for using one of the available bar boxes of the BaBar DIRC detector containing assembled quartz radiator bars in a future test beam experiment.…”

Analysis of the revolving vane (RV-0) expander, part 1 : experimental investigations by Subiantoro, Alison, Ooi, Kim Tiow

“…The range of operational conditions studied is of suction pressures of up to 6 bar (abs) with a constant discharge pressure of 1 bar (abs) and operational speeds of up to 900 rpm. …”
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Enhancing the Permselectivity of Thin-Film Composite Membranes Interlayered with MoS₂ Nanosheets via Precise Thickness Control by Cao, Siyu, Deshmukh, Akshay, Wang, Li, Han, Qi, Shu, Yufei, Ng, How Yong, Wang, Zhongying, Lienhard, John H

“…The optimized MoS2-interlayered TFC membrane (0.3-inter) had a 96.8% Na2SO4 rejection combined with an excellent permeability of 15.9 L m-2 38 h-1 bar-1 39 (LMH/bar), approximately 2.4 times that of the control membrane (6.6 LMH/bar). …”
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In situ synthesis of silver nanoparticles in poly(vinyl) alcohol layer coated thin film membrane for seawater desalination by Jayavardhana D/o Balaji

“…A control TFC membrane with pure water permeability (PWP) of 3.47 L/m2 .h.bar and salt rejection of 98.33% in treating 35,000 ppm NaCl solution under operating pressure of 50 bar and crossflow velocity of 0.1 m/s was established. …”
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Application of response surface methodology (RSM) for optimization of hydrogen sulphide adsorption using coconut shell activated carbon xerogel: effect of adsorption pressure and h... by Saleh, Ali Mohammed, Mahdi, Hadi Hamdi, Alias, Azil Bahari, Ali, Obed M., Wan Ab Karim Ghani, Wan Azlina, Abdulwahhab Shihab, Thaer, Syed Hasan, Syed Shatir A., Ahmed, Omer Khalil, Mohammed Saleh, Noah

“…Our findings showed that the optimum conditions for H2S removal were at 1 bar and 100 L/hr for 25 ppm of H2S and 1 bar and 100.3830 L/hr for 50 ppm of H2S. …”
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Finite Element Method (FEM) simulation of static and dynamic compression test of materials by Ong, Dalton Ke Yuan

“…The Static compression test and the Split Hopkinson Pressure Bar test are the most commonly used method to determine the material properties of the specimen, in this case, Aluminum T6061. …”
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A tight polyethersulfone ultrafiltration membrane fabricated via polyion complex assisted phase inversion for dye desalination by Zhao, Yali, Liao, Yuan, Lai, Gwo Sung, Yin, Yurong, Wang, Rong

“…This resultant membrane exhibited a high pure water permeance of 94 LMH/bar. When it was utilized to separate a dye/salt mixture of 100 ppm Congo red (CR) and 2 g/L Na2SO4 at 1 bar, the rejection of CR could reach 99.7%, alongside a very low Na2SO4 rejection of 8.4%, while the water permeance of dye solution maintained 61 LMH/bar. …”
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Performance of pulsed plasma thrusters by Loh, Kelvin Kwong Lam.

“…The results show that the slug model relates the best amongst the three models to the experimental data within 20% of the impulse bit at pressure levels greater than 5 mbar. This suggests that the auto-initiation PPT operates using a slug mode of operation. …”
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Impact of low molecular weight acid and moisture on the thermal ageing properties of palm oil by Mustam, Muhammad Muzamil, Azis, Norhafiz, Jasni, Jasronita, Halis, Rasmina, Talib, Mohd. Aizam, Mohamad, Nur Aqilah, Yaakub, Zaini

“…The oil was initially subjected to 0.2 g of LMA and 20 mbar of oxygen pressure. The thermal ageing experiment was performed at 120 °C and 140 °C for 28 days. …”
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Transition metal oxide-based resistive switching memory for high density non-volatile memory by Ng, Hui Ting.

“…With regards to RRAM self-rectifying I-V characteristics, the unnecessary cross-bar architecture current path is avoided which in term allows scaling in device size via cross-bar formation. …”
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A cup of coffee by Yong, Kai Ting

“…By exploring the possibilities of injecting simple mathematical concepts as a form of design aesthetics within a brand identity, this project aims to provide a new perspective – through the use of equations, formulas, and bar graphs/bar models to visualize information and create a visual language. …”
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Influence of different CH4/N2 ratios on structural and mechanical properties of a-CNx : H film synthesized using plasma focus by Umar, Z. A., Ahmad, R., Rawat, R. S., Hussnain, A., Khalid, N., Chen, Z., Shen, L., Zhang, Z., Hussain, T.

“…The pressure and axial distance from anode tip were kept constant at 3 mbar and 8 cm respectively. Raman and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) techniques were used to observe the effect of CH4/N2 ratio on carbon nitride bonding. …”
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Fine-tuning selective layer architecture of hydrogel membrane towards high separation performances for engineered osmosis by Qin, Detao, Liu, Zhaoyang, Bai, Hongwei, Song, Xiaoxiao, Li, Zhengtao, Sun, Darren Delai

“…Analysis of reverse osmosis (RO) experimental results reveals hydrogel layer resistance to water permeation is linearly reduced by 1.40 × 1013 m−1 as the layer is tailored thinner per 10 nm, which leads to the remarkable enhancement of water permeability by ~10 times from 0.49 L m−2 h−1 bar−1 of 500 nm thickness to 4.75 L m−2 h−1 bar−1 of 30 nm thickness. …”
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Preliminary study on the characteristics of FO/PRO hollow fiber membranes by Chen, Yunfeng.

“…The substrate is mechanically tough and has large pure water permeability (PWP) of 462.4 L m-2 h-1 bar-1. After interfacial polymerization, the TFC HF membrane has PWP of 2.01 L m-2 h-1 bar-1 and solute permeability of 0.525 L m-2 h-1. …”
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Application of finite Gaussian process distribution of relaxation times on SOFC electrodes by Williams, Nicholas J, Osborne, Conor, Seymour, Ieuan D, Bazant, Martin Z, Skinner, Stephen J

“…In this work, we use finite GP regression under inequality constraints (fGP) to analysed EIS data generated by a (Ni/CGO|CGO|YSZ|Reference Cathode) solid-oxide fuel cell in a gas mixture of 0.5 bar H2/0.5 bar H2O and at a temperature of 600 ◦C. …”
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Dual layer composite nanofiltration hollow fiber membranes for low-pressure water softening by Setiawan, Laurentia, Shi, Lei, Wang, Rong

“…The newly developed (PAI-PAAm)-PES dual layer hollow fiber membranes show a salt water permeability of 15.8 L/m2.h.bar and high Mg2+ and Ca2+ rejections of 94.2% and 92.3%, respectively, at operating pressure of 2 bar using a 3000 ppm TDS feed solution. …”
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