Use of hardening soil model for excavation in residual soil by Sherly

“…The decrease is more gradual when the SPT N value of the residual soil is greater than 15. …”
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Noble metal and enzymatic catalysts for plating and biofuel cell by Tan, Desmond Chun Long

“…The fabricated bioelectrodes were able to display substantial power density in environment similar to physiological condition; low glucose content, low oxygen content and close to neutral pH condition and also when implanted in grape. This signifies the potential of these bioelectrodes to function in other in vivo system.…”
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Customising an instrumented footrest to measure lower-body push forces in competitive kayaking by Ho, Benjamin Guan Meng

“…It is important to be able to quantify the forces applied on the footrest of the kayak and observe how it changes during paddling to obtain a holistic view of the technical ability of a kayaker, This project focused on the design and development of an instrument that is capable of measuring the amount of force a kayaker applies on the footrest of a kayak ergometer; an equipment that kayakers often train on when training on land. A prototype was produced and tested to determine its performance characteristics based on a standard set of performance criteria for sensor devices. …”
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An experiment study on submersible unmanned aerial vehicle by Tan, Wee Kiat

“…For this project, the plunge-diving method is proposed as it has passive hydrodynamic stability when diving into the water and the vehicle does not need to know its height from the water surface. …”
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Redesign of the DAB converter with considerations of its stability issue by Zhang, Shuying

“…However, there are still many problems to be solved in actual use. When the DAB converter operates individually, the control method may influence the stability. …”
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Copula-based pairs trading in local markets by Zou, Xi

“…Subsequently, long/short positions are constructed when the stock prices are undervalued/overvalued relative to their counterparty. …”
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Getting from here to there : stitching together goods agreements in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement by Elms, Deborah

“…The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) talks are a good test case for examining what happens when sweeping, grand rhetoric meets political and economic realities. …”
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Fabricate Wavy Micro/Nano Fiber via Auxiliary Electrodes by Zhu, Ziming, Chen, Xindu, Zheng, Junwei, Liang, Feng, Li, Minghao, Wang, Han

“…Auxiliary electrodes were developed to control the morphology of the wavy fibers in this paper, when a 4 wt% Poly(ethylene oxide)(PEO) solution was electrospun at 1KV applied voltage in near-field electrospinning, and the collector at relatively low speed, AC current power supplied to auxiliary electrodes, and the amplitude of wavy was increased as increasing the AC current power voltage supplied to the auxiliary electrodes, and the frequencies of the wavy fibers was the same as the frequencies of the AC current power. …”
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A hamming distance and spearman correlation based star identification algorithm by Samirbhai, Mehta Deval, Chen, Shoushun, Low, Kay Soon

“…The Spearman-correlation approach provides reliable recognition even when the captured images are swayed and biased from the onboard star pattern database. …”
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Ultra-low power SRAM and SRAM based PUF design by Lu, Lu

“…Meanwhile, static-random-access-memory (SRAM) designs are also facing some challenges when it comes for voltage scaling. In conventional 6T SRAMs, the minimum operating voltage is limited by the conflicting requirements from the ability to write and read stably. …”
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One-pot encapsulation of luminescent quantum dots synthesized in aqueous solution by amphiphilic polymers by Yuwen, Lihui, Bao, Biqing, Liu, Ge, Tian, Jing, Lu, Haoting, Luo, Zhimin, Zhu, Xingrong, Boey, Freddy Yin Chiang, Zhang, Hua, Wang, Lianhui

“…The micelles of amphiphilic polymers, such as octadecylamine-modified poly(acrylic acid), capture and encapsulate the QDs when the original hydrophilic ligands, namely 3-mercaptopropionic acid (MPA), capped on the CdTe/CdS core/shell QDs are partially or fully exchanged by the hydrophobic ligands, 1-dodecanethiol. …”
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An energy efficient solution : integrating plug-in hybrid electric vehicle in smart grid with renewable energy by Li, Yifan, Kaewpuang, Rakpong, Wang, Ping, Niyato, Dusit, Han, Zhu

“…Through proper charging and discharging processes, the PHEV fleet can act as energy storage when there is excess renewable energy, while in case of energy shortage, the energy can be properly returned to the grid. …”
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Manning’s ‘n’ co-efficient for flexible emergent vegetation in tandem configuration by Noarayanan, L., Murali, K., Sundar, V.

“…A new empirical equation is proposed for evaluating the Manning’s n friction coefficient for partially submerged flow when, the depth of flow is greater than 0.8 times the undeflected plant height. …”
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Achieving faster handovers in mobile WiMAX networks by Lu, Qi, Ma, Maode

“…In such a system, to enable the mobility, the handover is supported to maintain the connectivity of the mobile station (MS) when it moves from the coverage of the serving base station (BS) to the coverage of a neighbor BS. …”
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Modeling 2-D spatial variation in slope reliability analysis using interpolated autocorrelations by Liao, H. J., Ji, Jian, Low, Bak Kong

“…Based on this study, failure probability is found significantly overestimated when spatial variation is ignored. Finally, the possible use of the method of interpolated autocorrelations in a probabilistic finite element analysis is suggested.…”
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Cardiac activity detection : a fast prototyping approach with health safety considerations by Guo, Xufeng, Ser, Wee, Ong, Marcus Eng Hock

“…The results obtained show that, the cardiac waveform can be detected clearly and the heart rates can be measured with accuracy higher than 98% when the radar system operates at 0.5 meter away from the human subject.…”
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Influenza messaging is better than no messaging at all : an experimental assessment of the effects of goal framing and affected-person framing on influenza vaccination attitudes an... by Kong, Wei Yi

“…However, framed messages were found to bolster attitudes as compared to when there is no influenza vaccine communication. …”
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Adaptive power management for data center in smart grid environment by Kaewpuang, Rakpong, Chaisiri, Sivadon, Niyato, Dusit, Lee, Bu-Sung, Wang, Ping

“…In particular, APM algorithm takes the spot power price from an electrical grid, the power supply from a renewable power source, and users' demand in terms of application workload processing into account when managing the power consumption. Therefore, an APM algorithm is considered to be the demand side management in a smart grid. …”
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Scheduling nonlinear divisible loads in a single level tree network by Suresh, Sundaram, Run, Cui, Kim, H. J., Robertazzi, T. G.

“…The problem of minimizing the processing time is investigated when the computational loads require polynomial order of processing time which is proportional to the size of load fraction. …”
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Distribution of the Högbom CLEAN algorithm using tiled images with feedback by Wright, D, Adamek, K, Armour, W

“…This new approach has been tested on a simulated dataset containing multiple point sources of known intensity. When compared to a standard Högbom deconvolution the tiled feedback version produced a reconstructed image, containing sources up to 2.1 Jy, which agreed to between -0.1 Jy and +0.04 Jy of the standard method across the whole deconvolved image at a speed up to 10.66 times faster…”