Proteomics of hair: effects of pH on the hair shaft by Wu, Alicia Rosabee Yu Ling

“…There has been little investigation into the characterisation of hair shaft proteins and the effect pH exposure has on them. Past research has shown, however, that there is no advised range of shampoo pH. …”
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Forgery localization in images by Nur Dilah Binte Zaini

“…Forgeries in images over the past years have been evolved to deep fakes. To combat the creation of deep fakes, many deep fake detections have been implemented to determine the authenticity of the image. …”
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Study of efforts made by government and E-commerce companies into countering fraud by Mok, Bin Hua

“…With the rising usage of E-commerce over the past few years, C2C E-commerce has provided an excellent platform for individuals to generate profit, especially via selling second-hand fashion product. …”
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Financial sentiment analysis: techniques and applications by Du, Kelvin, Xing, Frank, Mao, Rui, Cambria, Erik

“…Financial Sentiment Analysis (FSA) is an important domain application of sentiment analysis that has gained increasing attention in the past decade. FSA research falls into two main streams. …”
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Investigation on PBCA drug carrier system with the application of dissipative particle dynamics by How, Hock Seng.

“…Its usage is important in particular for the delivery of vulnerable biotechnologically-derived therapeutic substances into human body. Over the past few decades, a lot of experiments have been conducted to investigate the properties and structures of drug carrier systems, which aim to improve their performance. …”
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New hope group : the growth of a Chinese giant. by Leow, Kar Gea., Lim, Nigel Cyril Wing Yeung., Yeo, Shao Wei.

“…However, what set it apart was the way it enacted upon these long term goals, leading to the eventual expansion of the company past China’s shores and to the rest of the world. …”
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Using particle swarm optimization techniques for solving multi-mode resource-constrained project scheduling problem by Chandrasekaran, Hari Haran.

“…MRCPSP is an NP-Hard problem and has received increasing attention for the past few years.In this research project, we focus on studying hybrid metaheuristic methods of Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) for solving Multi-Mode Resource- Constrained Project Scheduling Problems (MMRCPSP). …”
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Design, synthesis, characterization and property study of topological structures of DNA by Li, Dawei

“…It has been recognized in the past that alteration of writhe of DNA in prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells is maneuvered solely by histone proteins and topological enzymes such as gyrase, reverse gyrase, topo I and topo II. …”
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Kalman filter implementation in matlab environment by Yeo, Kelvin.

“…The capabilities of the algorithm is not limited to just producing estimation from a noisy source, it is also able to estimate the past and future state given the current state. [1] This method comprises of 2 parts in the iteration, namely the prediction step and the update step. …”
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Android application for independent real time locating system and its academic application by Sharma, Ritika.

“…Indoor positioning has been researched and developed significantly in the past few years because the applications used for tracking person or object in the indoor environment are increasing in importance and purposes. …”
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Perceptions of females participating in a perceived ‘masculine sport’ : dragon boat by Vijaikumar Rangabashayam

“…Over the past several decades, the role of females in modern society has expanded and changed considerably. …”
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Android smartphone-based participatory sensing by Agustian, Robert

“…Tourism industry has been booming since the past decades. People around the world are increasingly engaging in traveling activities due to the more affordable price of tourism. …”
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Recurrent correlation associative memories by Teo, Mei Ping

“…The underlying principle is to store past information to be recalled later for application in the current context. …”
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Outlook for the dry bulk shipping market by Wee, Wei Ming

“…The market sentiments believe that the shipping industry is coming out of the trough period that affected the industry for the past few years. With the improving freight rates supported by growing global demand for dry bulk commodities driven by economic recovery, the market prospects for dry bulk shipping are optimistic in the near future. …”
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Automated equipment management & maintenance system (AEMS) by Quek, Teng Yeow

“…It can further consolidate past service activities and compute the cost of servicing, allowing for better decision-making. …”
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Trust management for large-scale heterogeneous wireless sensor and actuator networks (I) by Ummeaiman Najmuddin Shakir

“…Reputation is the perception that a peer creates through past actions about its intentions and norms. To reduce the significant resistance in rolling out urban sensing systems and ensuring Security, Privacy and Trust, it is vital to be able to visualize and analyse the data coming from the sensor nodes to mitigate the attacks from compromised/ captured/ dishonest nodes and misbehaviour from faulty nodes. …”
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Age-related functional compensation in novelty and relational encoding of scenes : a brain activation and functional connectivity study by Leow, Dayton Wei Yang

“…Past neuroimaging studies have demonstrated the functional involvement of bilateral inferior frontal gyrus (IFG), hippocampus and parahippocampus in novelty and relational encoding of scenes. …”
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Financial reform in the Philippines by Chua, Hwee Kian, Loo, Seow Theng, Tan, Teck Ming

“…The Philippines, being no exception, had for the past decade allowed market forces to determine interest rates, allocation of credit and the level of financial intermediation so as to improve the efficiency and stability of the financial system. …”
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ASEAN and EU in the political reform in Myanmar by Nguyen Thi Anh Thu

“…While there is still a long road ahead of Myanmar towards a more sustainable future, this dissertation is expected to give a hint on the effectiveness of the carrot and stick approaches taken by ASEAN and the EU in the past years. It may also be helpful for a continuous observation of this country's democratization in the future, especially when looking forward to its election in 2015.…”
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Cyclic compression of mesenchymal stem cells loaded scaffolds for bone tissue engineering by Guo, Fangfang

“…Cyclic mechanical loading on Mesenchymal Stem Cells (MSCs) has resulted in increased expression of early osteogenic markers as well as increased mineralized matrix deposition. In most of past studies, scaffolds were subjected to the cyclic loading immediately after seeding or a few days after static culture. …”
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