Ship detection using optical satellite imagery by Hu, Jing

“…Traditionally, synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) satellite imagery is used due to its being “All Weather, All Day” and its prominent target reflections that make ship detection fast and robust. However, optical satellite imagery has its edge over the SAR counterpart in the choices of bands, resolutions and revisit rates, let alone the costs. …”
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Design of wireless charging systems for electric vehicles by Yang, Weng Chiun

“…This project poses a few challenges. 1. Fast varying mutual inductance between the supply’s transmitting plate and vehicle’s receiving plate. 2 The distance between the transmitting plate and receiving plate for effective power transfer.…”
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Linear controller for the NXT ballbot with parameter variations using linear matrix inequalities by Wang, Yu

“…Robotics, a classical but still burgeoning field buttressed by the fast innovating computer science and hardware industries revolution is still at the top area of the engineering academia. …”
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Study of advanced in-space propulsion technologies by Tan, De Jun

“…The main obstacle in achieving fast transit between earth and deep space destinations is not the launch, but travelling through space itself. …”
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Dynamic response of senegal mahogany in the transverse direction under wind loading by Yiek, Mildred Feng Yee

“…The laboratory tests include the measurement of tree trunk transverse displacement and results analysis was conducted using the Fast Fourier Transform Function in Matlab. Results show that there is certain correlation between the dynamic response of trees in the transverse direction and wind loading. …”
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An impedance based microfluidic biosensor for white blood cell counting by Lim, Cheryl Shu Ching

“…The concept of an integrated microfluidic chip is novel because of the unprecedented convenience it offers to its users within the biomedical sector; based on the principles of inertial microfluidics and impedance cytometry, it enables particles of different sizes to be sorted and counted fast without the need for full laboratory facilities. …”
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Thin-walled graphitic nanocages as a unique platform for amperometric glucose biosensor by Guo, Chun Xian, Zhao, Min Sheng, Shen, Yiqiang, Dong, Zhili, Li, Chang Ming

“…A thin-walled graphitic nanocages material with well-developed graphitic structure, large specific surface area and pronounced mesoporosity was synthesized and used to construct a sensing interface for an amperometric glucose biosensor, showing a high and reproducible sensitivity of 13.3 μA mM−1 cm−2, linear dynamic range of 0.02−6.2 mM, and fast response time of 5 s. It was successfully used to accurately detect glucose in human serum with effective discrimination to common interference species such as dopamine, ascorbic acid, acetaminophen, and uric acid.…”
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Recent advances in pharmaceutical separations with supercritical fluid chromatography using chiral stationary phases by Wang, Ren-Qi, Ong, Teng-Teng, Tang, Weihua, Ng, Siu-Choon

“…The merits of SFC (e.g., fast analysis speed, wide polarity compatibility, lower cost of the mobile phase and higher column efficiency) would in many cases make it a better choice than high-performance liquid chromatography in drug discovery for the pharmaceutical industry. …”
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GPU accelerated molecular docking with parallel genetic algorithm by Ouyang, Xuchang, Kwoh, Chee Keong

“…The hardware-enabled texture interpolation is employed for fast energy evaluation. Two types of parallel genetic algorithms are mapped to the CUDA computing architecture and used for the search of optimal docking result. …”
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Evidence of rapid hydrogen chloride uptake on water ice in the atmosphere of Mars by Luginin, M, Trokhimovskiy, A, Taysum, B, Fedorova, AA, Korablev, O, Olsen, KS, Montmessin, F, Lefèvre, F

“…From these particular examples we conclude that the heterogeneous uptake of HCl onto water ice operates on Mars and is a fast mechanism regulating the HCl abundance in the atmosphere of Mars.…”

Strike a pose: tracking people by finding stylized poses by Ramanan, D, Forsyth, DA, Zisserman, A

“…We find that we can quite accurately automatically find and track multiple people interacting with each other while performing fast and unusual motions.…”

Understanding the environmental and social risks from the international trade in ornamental plants by Hinsley, A, Hughes, AC, van Valkenburg, J, Stark, T, van Delft, J, Sutherland, W, Petrovan, SO

“…Despite risk mitigation efforts, the interception data showed considerable volumes of contaminants in ornamental plant shipments, but taxonomic identification was not always possible, highlighting uncertainties in assessing biosecurity risks. With high-volume and fast-moving transit of ornamental plants around the world, it is essential that production standards are improved and that data on specific risks from trade are collected and shared to allow for mitigation.…”

Comparison product optimization performance of fed-batch fermentation processes for penicillin G production by Noor Asma Fazli, Abdul Samad, Arshad, Ahmad

“…To provide on-line estimates of the difficult to measure penicillin concentration, Partial Least Squares model was employed. These estimates were then used in the control loop and successful control of the product concentration was established. …”
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Triadic resonant instability in confined and unconfined axisymmetric geometries by Boury, S., Maurer, P., Joubaud, S., Peacock, T., Odier, P.

“…In both the confined and unconfined cases, we show that sub-harmonics can be spontaneously generated from a primary wave field if they satisfy at least a resonance condition on their frequencies of the form ω0 = ±ω1 ± ω2. …”
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Noise cancellation algorithm for respiratory sound classification by Soh, Marianne Hui Ying

“…The objective of this project is to design an adaptive noise cancellation algorithm based on least mean square (LMS) filtering on MATLAB to improve the clarity of respiratory signals. …”
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Pragmatic encroachment on knowledge? by Wong, Don Wei Wen

“…Much debate has centred around the contentious idea that having knowledge is a matter that is at least partly dependent on some non-truth connected factors, as in our non-epistemic, practical reasons or aims. …”
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Gaining historical perspective on political fact-checking : the experience of the United States by Cortada, James W., Aspray, William

“…All six factors were in effect, at least in an incipient form, by the end of the nineteenth century.…”
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The paradox of technology innovativeness and risk perceptions – a profile of Asian smartphone users by Wang, Xiaohui, Lee, Kwan Min

“…A total of 9086 participants were recruited through online surveys from ten Asian countries. Ordinary least squares regression analyses revealed the effects of technology innovativeness, information security, privacy concern, and their interactions on smartphone use and dependence. …”
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Direction of arrival estimation via power measurement approach by Loo, Bernard Weixiong

“…This system formulates the estimation problem as a linear model and utilizes the non-negative least squares algorithm to estimate the direction of the transmitting signal. …”
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The inhibition effect: privacy concerns disrupt the positive effects of social media use on online political participation by Saifuddin Ahmed, Lee, Sangwon

“…Moreover, moderation analyses suggest that those with more significant privacy concerns are least likely to engage in online political participation, even at higher social media news use levels. …”
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