Irc-Set 2018: Proceedings of the 4th IRC Conference on Science, Engineering and Technology

ISBN-13: 9789813298279 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 427 str.

Huaqun Guo; Hongliang Ren; Aishwarya Bandla

Spis treści

1: Green Synthesis of Nanoparticles Using Dried Fruit Peel Extract

2:Enhancing and Determining the rate of polystyrene composting process through the use of Mealworms

3:Nutrients for the Elderly

4:Novel Encapsulation of Cadmium Orthostannate Nanoparticles with 3-(mercaptopropyl) trimethoxysilane: Synthesis, Characterisation, and Application

5:Enhancing Children’s Concentrating Abilities Through A Laser Firing Game Approach

6:Investigating the Effectiveness of Wind Tunneling at Reducing the Urban Heat Island Effect

7:Colloidal Flows Through Polymer Brush-Coated Nanochannel

8:Application of Artificial Neural Networks on UAV Airfoil Performance Prediction

9:Study of Bird Feathers to Improve Design of Absorbent Pads for Greater Efficiency  of Oil Spill Removal

10:Identifying Phishing Sites through the Inspection of SSL Certificates

11:​Gesture Recognition for Gaming using Myo Through Various Machine Learning Networks

12:Design of Faceted Reflectarray Antenna

13:Design of Smart Antimicrobial Materials Based On Silver-Silica Nanocapsules

14:Characterization of a novel "mitocan" for clinical utility in the treatment of Triple-Negative Breast Cancer

15:Investigation of low cost eye tracker and EEG for objectively assessing vigilance level

16:Efficient Communication Protocols with Wireless Power Transfer (WPT) for Biomedical Implanted Devices in Patients

17:Analog-to-Digital Converter Gene Circuits for Gene Therapy

18:Human Attribute Classification for Re-identification across Non-overlapping Cameras

19:The Power of the Micro-tide

20:The Application of Markov Chains in Multiplayer Online Battle Arena (MOBA) Games

21: Highly-Efficient Membrane with Nano-pits to separate Oil-water Emulsions

22: Optimisation of Metallization Firing Process to Reduce Void Formation in High Efficiency Multicrystalline Silicon PERC Solar Cells

23: Ultrasound As The Main Algorithm For Self-Driving Vehicles

24: FAT10 Haplotypes as a Potential Biomarker for Cancer

25: A Robust and Practical Assay for Simultaneous Molecular Diagnosis of Fragile XE Syndrome and Fragile X Syndrome

26: Investigating the Air Quality in Bus Stops using IoT-enabled Devices

27: Novel Method to Reconstruct a Surface Grid Using Linear Regression Modelling

28: Development of a single-tube molecular screen for five common spinocerebellar ataxias

29: Demonstration of Switching Plasmonic Chirality via Geometric Transformations for Biosensing Applications

30: Photoconductors Based on Two-Dimensional Semiconductors

31: Microbial Fuel Cells: Food Waste as a Sugar Source

32: Absorbance/Fluorescence Spectrophotometer

33: Using R-Limonene as a fuel additive

34: Interaction between Vitamins B2 and B6 and Compact Fluorescent Light in UV-Induced DNA Damage

35: A Study of Chitosan Films as a Feasible Material for Wound Dressing

36: Demonstration Kit for Battery-less RF Energy Harvesting Device

37: Performance Analysis of TV White Space and LoRa Wireless Communication Technologies for Internet of Things (IoT) Applications

38: A novel approach to desalination using modified bio-wastes as adsorbents

39: Dye-Sensitised Solar Cells Using Flora Extracts

40: Genes Associated with Disease-Free Survival Prognosis of Renal Cancers

41: Regeneration of α-Cellulose Nanofibres derived from Vegetable Pulp Waste to intercept airborne microparticulates

42:  Zinc Content in Metal Alloys and its Relationship to the Antimicrobial Efficacy in Decontaminating Polluted Water

43: Investigating the Anti-cancer Properties of Ruthenium Arene Compounds

44:Optimization of C–C bond formation through bis(oxy)enamine–organometallic compound reactions

45: Biofabrication of Organotypic Full-Thickness Skin Constructs

46: Comparison of Reflectarray Antennae with Different Lattices using Elements with Two-axial Symmetry

47: Initiation of Projectile by Fragments

48: Resolving the Diagnostic Odyssey of a Patient with an Undefined Neuromuscular Disorder Using Massively Parallel Sequencing Approaches

49: 4D-Printing with Solvent-Activated Two-Way Shape-Changing Polymers

50: Investigating the Aerodynamic Performance of Biomimetic Gliders for Use in Future Transportation

O autorze

Dr. Huaqun Guo is currently a Senior Scientist and Head of the Industrial IoT Security Programme at the Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), Agency for Science Technology and Research (A*STAR), President of the International Researchers Club, and Chair of the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society Singapore Chapter. Dr. Guo received her B.Eng. and M.Eng. from Tianjin University, and her M.Eng. and Ph.D. from the National University of Singapore (NUS) respectively. She was a senior engineer at Kent Ridge Digital Labs (KRDL) from October 2000 to May 2001, and served as a senior research staff member at the NUS from June 2001 to March 2003. She was Chairperson of the IEEE Singapore Women In Engineering (WIE) Affinity Group in 2011 and 2012, of the IEEE Broadcast Technology Society Singapore Chapter in 2013 and 2014, and of the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society Singapore Chapter in 2015 and 2016. She has published more than 50 papers in the international journals, conference proceedings and books, and has edited one book: Automotive Informatics and Communicative Systems: Principles in Vehicular Networks and Data Exchange. Her research areas include Network and Communication Security, Cyber-Physical System Security, Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) Security, Multicast, Vehicular Networks, and Communication Systems.

Dr. Hongliang Ren is currently an Assistant Professor and leading a research group on medical mechatronics at the Biomedical Engineering Department, National University of Singapore (NUS). He is an affiliated Principal Investigator for the Singapore Institute of Neurotechnology (SINAPSE), NUS (Suzhou) Research Institute, and Advanced Robotics Center at the NUS. Dr. Ren received his Ph.D. in Electronic Engineering (specialized in Biomedical Engineering) from the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) in 2008. Prior to joining the NUS, he worked as a Research Fellow at Johns Hopkins University, Children’s Hospital Boston & Harvard Medical School, and Children’s National Medical Center, USA. His main areas of interest include Biorobotics & Intelligent Control, Medical Mechatronics, Computer-Integrated Surgery, and Multisensor Data Fusion in Surgical Robotics. Dr. Ren is an IEEE Senior Member and recipient of the IAMBE Early Career Award (2018).

Dr. Aishwarya Bandla is a Research Fellow at the Singapore Institute for Neurotechnology (SINAPSE), where she leads the Neurophotonics research group under the guidance of Prof. Nitish Thakor. Dr. Bandla holds a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from the National University of Singapore (NUS). Her research focuses on multimodal imaging and novel therapeutic interventions for neurological disorders based on a clinical translational “bench-to-bedside” approach. She has authored several peer-reviewed articles and won over 15 international conference awards. She represented the NUS at the Global Young Scientist’s Summit 2018 and was selected as a “Future-Ready Leader” by the NUS Centre for Future-Ready Graduates. Dr. Bandla currently serves as the secretary of the IEEE Singapore Women In Engineering (WIE) affinity group and of the Engineering in Medicine and Biology (EMBS) Singapore Chapter.

Blurb

This book highlights cutting-edge research in multidisciplinary areas of Engineering, Physics, Medicine and Healthcare presented at the 4th IRC Conference on Science, Engineering and Technology (IRC-SET 2018), which was held at the Agency for Science Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore. The book also contains excerpts of the speeches made by eminent personalities who attended the occasion, thereby providing a written documentation of the event.​