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Holocene relative sea-level records from coral microatolls in Western Borneo, South China Sea
(2018)The spatial variability of Holocene relative sea level (RSL) in the South China Sea is unknown, with data restricted to Thailand, the Malay Peninsula, and a few other isolated sites. In this study, we present new continuous ... -
Polyvinylidene fluoride membrane modification via oxidant-induced dopamine polymerization for sustainable direct-contact membrane distillation
(2018)Porous hydrophobic polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) membranes have been extensively used in direct-contact membrane distillation (DCMD) processes. However, these PVDF membranes are vulnerable to membrane fouling and pore ... -
Development of high performance nanofibrous composite membranes by optimizing polydimethylsiloxane architectures for phenol transport
(2017)Phenol removal and recovery from wastewaters are highly demanded in industries due to its high toxicity and industrial importance. It can transport through the silicon-based rubber polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) via the ... -
Development of low mass-transfer-resistance fluorinated TiO2-SiO2/PVDF composite hollow fiber membrane used for biogas upgrading in gas-liquid membrane contactor
(2018)An inorganic-organic fluorinated titania-silica (fTiO2-SiO2)/polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) composite membrane was fabricated, via facile in-situ vapor-induced hydrolyzation method followed by hydrophobic modification. ... -
Development of robust fluorinated TiO2/PVDF composite hollow fiber membrane for CO2 capture in gas-liquid membrane contactor
(2017)Gas-liquid membrane contactor (GLMC) is a promising method to attain high efficiency for CO2 capture from flue gas, biogas and natural gas. However, membranes used in GLMC are prone to pore wetting due to insufficient ... -
3D convolutional neural networks for efficient and robust hand pose estimation from single depth images
(2017)We propose a simple, yet effective approach for real-time hand pose estimation from single depth images using three-dimensional Convolutional Neural Networks (3D CNNs). Image based features extracted by 2D CNNs are not ... -
Structures of Zika virus NS2B-NS3 protease in complex with peptidomimetic inhibitors
(2018)Zika virus NS2B-NS3 protease plays an essential role in viral replication by processing the viral polyprotein into individual proteins. The viral protease is therefore considered as an ideal antiviral drug target. To ... -
Coupling effect of active and reactive power controls on synchronous stability of VSGs
(2019)The virtual synchronous generator (VSG) is emerging as a promising candidate for replacing synchronous generators in more-electronics power systems. Its fundamental objective lies in the regulation of active and reactive ... -
State of advance care planning research : a descriptive overview of systematic reviews
(2019)Objective. To provide an overview of the current state of research of advance care planning (ACP), highlighting most studied topics, publication time, quality of studies and reported outcomes, and to identify gaps to ... -
Enhancing moisture tolerance in efficient hybrid 3D/2D perovskite photovoltaics
(2018)Surface imperfections in perovskite films upon crystallization may trigger trap-assisted non-radiative recombination which is a dominant recombination mechanism that potentially restricts the performance of solar devices. ... -
Perovskite templating via a bathophenanthroline additive for efficient light-emitting devices
(2018)Identified as emerging light absorbers due to their plethora of unique optoelectronic properties, perovskites have also been touted as a promising candidate for light emission. However, despite the effortless transition ... -
Module scale-up and performance evaluation of thin film composite hollow fiber membranes for pressure retarded osmosis
(2017)Pressure retarded osmosis (PRO) demonstrates great potential in energy harvesting when combining with seawater reverse osmosis. However, the lack of suitable membrane modules and the issue caused by the membrane fouling ... -
Development of highly-efficient ZIF-8@PDMS/PVDF nanofibrous composite membrane for phenol removal in aqueous-aqueous membrane extractive process
(2018)A highly-efficient zeolitic imidazolate framework-8 (ZIF-8) embedded polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) mixed matrix membrane (MMM) supported by a polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) nanofibrous substrate was developed for phenol ... -
Alkali-treated incineration bottom ash as supplementary cementitious materials
(2018)Municipal solid waste incineration bottom ash (IBA) contains metallic aluminum which generates gas when in contact with cement paste. To increase the utilization potential of IBA, alkali treatment for removal of metallic ... -
RNA secondary structure-based design of antisense peptide nucleic acids for modulating disease-associated aberrant tau pre-mRNA alternative splicing
(2019)Alternative splicing of tau pre-mRNA is regulated by a 5' splice site (5'ss) hairpin present at the exon 10–intron 10 junction. Single mutations within the hairpin sequence alter hairpin structural stability and/or the ... -
Exploiting spatial-temporal relationships for 3D pose estimation via graph convolutional networks
(2019)Despite great progress in 3D pose estimation from single-view images or videos, it remains a challenging task due to the substantial depth ambiguity and severe selfocclusions. Motivated by the effectiveness of ... -
Biotransformation of Soluble Microbial Products (SMPs) in an Anaerobic Baffled Reactor (ABR)
(2019)The change in SMP composition of an ABR operating at 24-hour HRT treating synthetic wastewater of medium-strength glucose feed was analysed using SPE-GC-MS. The results showed that alkanes and alkenes generally saw an ... -
Porcine hepatocytes culture on biofunctionalized 3D inverted colloidal crystal scaffolds as an in vitro model for predicting drug hepatotoxicity
(2019)As drug-induced hepatotoxicity represents one of the most common causes of drug failure, three-dimensional (3D) in vitro liver platforms represent a fantastic toolbox to predict drug toxicity and thus reduce in vivo animal ... -
Comparing dead reckoning algorithms for distributed car simulations
(2018)Dead reckoning is an important technique used in distributed virtual environments (DVEs) to mitigate the bandwidth consumption of frequent state updates and the negative effects of network latency. This paper proposes a ... -
RIT2FIS : a recurrent interval type 2 Fuzzy Inference System and its rule base estimation
(2019)Two of the major challenges associated with time series modelling are handling uncertainty present in the data and tracing its dynamical behaviour. A Recurrent Interval Type 2 Fuzzy Inference System or RIT2FIS is presented ...
