A portable low-power blood pressure monitor for smartphones by Poh, Jacqqie Chao Yan

“…There is a need for automated blood pressure monitors that are portable and convenient to use to entice users to take blood pressure readings regularly whenever and wherever. In this project, a personal automated blood pressure monitor (PABM) prototype is realized. …”
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ELM embedded discriminative dictionary learning for image classification by Zeng, Yijie, Li, Yue, Chen, Jichao, Jia, Xiaofan, Huang, Guang-Bin

“…We show that such regularization is robust, discriminative and easy to optimize. …”
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Exploring gunshot residue detection in fingerprints by functionalized particle-coupled matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization mass spectrometry by Adav, Sunil S., Tan, Crystal Yan Wen, Low, Choon Teck, Loo, Song Wei, Ridhwan Yusoff, Gautam, Archana, Yong, Yuk Lin, Yang, Chiew Yung, Lim, Chin Chin, Ng, Kee Woei

“…Donor shooters' fingerprints, both GSR-containing and regular, were analyzed using these functionalized particles coupled with MALDI-ToFMS. …”
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Understanding the motives and intention of blood donation during the pandemic. by Yusof, Junaidah, Ab Rahim, Sakinah, Mohd. Noor, Sabariah, Panatik, Siti Aisyah, Wan Husin, Wan Nurul Izza, Bungsu, Mohd. Sharial

“…The informants are classified into four groups, which are non, first-time, regular, and lapsed (repeated/occasional) blood donors. …”
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Nasalization in Lhasa Tibetan by Hogan, Lee C.

“…One of the basic tenets of the Neogrammarians was the Regularity Principle: All sound changes, as mechanical processes, take place according to laws that admit no exceptions (ausnahmslose Lautgesetze) within the same dialect, and the same sound will in the same environment always develop in the same way.... !…”
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Variable selection for high-dimensional generalized varying-coefficient models by Lian, Heng

“…To automatically choose the regularization parameters, we use the extended Bayesian information criterion (eBIC) that effectively controls the number of false positives. …”
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Image-based rendering using image-based priors by Fitzgibbon, A, Wexler, Y, Zisserman, A

“…On the other hand, regularization is still needed in order to generate high-quality images. …”

A New Variational Method for Bias Correction and Its Applications to Rodent Brain Extraction by Chang, Huibin, Huang, Weimin, Wu, Chunlin, Huang, Su, Guan, Cuntai, Sekar, Sakthivel, Bhakoo, Kishore Kumar, Duan, Yuping

“…The model is composed of a data fitting term, a piecewise constant regularization and a smooth regularization, which is constructed on a 3-D formulation for medical images with anisotropic voxel sizes. …”
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Restoration and segmentation of old Jawi manuscripts using variational image inpainting and active contour models by Laham, Mohamed Faris, Jumaat, Abdul Kadir, Badarul Azam, Amisha Balkis, Maasar, M. A, Badarul Azam, A. S., Mohammad Sabri, Nur Afiqah Sabirah, Yahaya, Amiratul Munirah, Ismail, Ahmad Thaqif, Abdul Razak, Muhammad Anas

“…The methodology begins with the incorporation of the Mumford-Shah and Bertalmio inpainting models into the GRS model as new fitting terms, resulting in the Modified Gaussian Regularization Segmentation Mumford-Shah (MGRSM) model and the Modified Gaussian Regularization Segmentation Bertalmio (MGRSB) model, respectively. …”
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Restoration and Segmentation of Old Jawi Manuscripts using Variational Image Inpainting and Active Contour Models by Badarul Azam, Akmal Shafiq, Jumaat, Abdul Kadir, Badarul Azam, Amisha Balkis, Mohammad Sabri, Nur Afiqah Sabirah, Yahaya, Amiratul Munirah, Ismail, Ahmad Thaqif, Abdul Razak, Muhammad Anas, Maasar, Mohd Azdi, Laham, Mohamed Faris

“…The methodology begins with the incorporation of the Mumford-Shah and Bertalmio inpainting models into the GRS model as new fitting terms, resulting in the Modified Gaussian Regularization Segmentation Mumford-Shah (MGRSM) model and the Modified Gaussian Regularization Segmentation Bertalmio (MGRSB) model, respectively. …”
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Freedom of Navigation Operations: Better Quiet Resolve by Chong, Ja Ian

“…A more preferable approach may be consistent, regular, but quiet FONOPs by the US to avoid a premature raising of stakes.…”
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Self-healing characterizations of polyurea/polyurethane coating & its formulation optimization by Sim, Celine (Shen Silin)

“…To further reduce need for regular maintenance, the area of self-healing materials is explored. …”
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Phase-field modeling of interfacial debonding in multi-phase materials via an adaptive isogeometric-meshfree approach by Li, Weidong, Nguyen-Thanh, Nhon, Zhou, Kun

“…In this modeling, the crack and interface phase fields are introduced for the regularized representations of crack surfaces and interfaces, respectively, and a convenient approach is proposed for implementing the regularized energy related to both crack surfaces and interfaces without requiring the line integration along them. …”
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Unsupervised generative variational continual learning by Liu, Guimeng

“…There are mainly three categories in this field: replay methods, regularization-based methods, and parameter isolation methods. …”
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Image-based rendering using image-based priors by Fitzgibbon, A, Wexler, Y, Zisserman, A

“…<br> On the other hand, regularization is still needed in order to generate high-quality images. …”

Sparse identification of nonlocal interaction kernels in nonlinear gradient flow equations via partial inversion by Carrillo de la Plata, J, Estrada-Rodriguez, G, Mikolás, L, Tang, S

“…Our approach involves formulating and solving a regularized variational problem, which requires minimizing a quadratic error functional across a set of hypothesis functions, further augmented by a sparsity-enhancing regularizer. …”

Application of COLD-PCR for improved detection of EGFR mutations in clinical samples. by Zhang, Zhi Xuan.

“…Thus, based on current data, there is no comparable advantage when using COLD-PCR over regular PCR for mutation detection in routine clinical applications.…”
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The Architectural Layout of Long-Term Care Units: Relationships between Support for Residents’ Well-Being and for Caregivers’ Burnout and Resilience by Rom, Yifat, Morag, Ido, Palgi, Yuval, Isaacson, Michal

“…Supporting residents&rsquo; physical well-being was correlated with increased caregiver resilience in dementia units, and with increased burnout and decreased resilience in regular nursing units. Layouts supporting social well-being showed inconsistent correlations with caregivers&rsquo; resilience indexes in dementia units, and with burnout and resilience indexes in regular nursing units. …”
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Optimal Slicing and Scheduling with Service Guarantees in Multi-Hop Wireless Networks by Jones, Nicholas, Modiano, Eytan

“…Motivated by this, we design a polynomial-time algorithm that returns an (almost) regular schedule, optimized to meet service guarantees for all flows.…”
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Visual attention guided pixel-wise just noticeable difference model by Zeng, Zhipeng, Zeng, Huanqiang, Chen, Jing, Zhu, Jianqing, Zhang, Yun, Ma, Kai-Kuang

“…However, in existing pixel-wise JND models, CM is not evaluated appropriately since they overestimate the masking effect of regular oriented texture regions and neglect the visual attention characteristic of human eyes for the real image. …”
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