Sri Lanka's civil war : end of an era? by Nadeeka Withana

“…The manner in which the government steers through these challenges would set the tone for the country's future.…”
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Barefoot doctors and the provision of rural health care by Fang, Xiaoping

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Aquatic and benthic bacteria responses to feed and fertiliser application in trials with the freshwater prawn, Macrobrachium rosenbergii (de Man) by MacLean, M.H., Ang, K.J., Brown, J.H., Jauncey, K.

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Performance analysis of linear and non-linear diversity combining techniques of FFH/BFSK communication systems by Tan, Nyit San.

“…The closed-form bit-error rate (BER) expressions for a uncoded fast frequency-hopped binary frequency-shift keying (FFH/BFSK) system using various diversity combining techniques in the presence of multi-tone jamming (MTJ) and additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) conditions over a non-fading channel are obtained.…”
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Sino-Tibetan *tongue and *lick by Bauer, Robert S.

“…In Chart N, Tibeto-Burman Languages - Chin (Zo) Group, Tone Pattern I (Luce 1985:70-71), the following forms for 'tongue' (item *19) appears.…”
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Poisson vector graphics (PVG) by Hou, Fei, Sun, Qian, Fang, Zheng, Liu, Yong-Jin, Hu, Shi-Min, Qin, Hong, Hao, Aimin, He, Ying

“…Within the PVG framework, the users specify color as the Dirichlet boundary condition of diffusion curves and control tone by offsetting the Laplacian of colors, where both controls are simply done by mouse click and slider dragging. …”
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Understanding value and the value of understanding in AI medical decision support systems by Brown, RCH

Topics in Marma (မာရမာ) by Marma, Rani Ukhengching (ဦး ချမ်း စိန် မာရမာ)

“…At the end of this paper, through instrumental analysis, we proposed three tones in Marma (i.High and creaky, ii. low, and iii. falling). …”
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Subtitling strategies of Singlish particles and their effects on foreign audiences' comprehension: Ah Boys to Men series as a case study by Chia, Li Fang

“…The survey found that most of the participants were able to accurately interpret their implied meanings and were reported to have relied mostly on the speaker’s tone, body language and facial expressions as cues. …”
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An acoustic remote sensing method for high-precision propeller rotation and speed estimation of unmanned underwater vehicles by Railey, Kristen, DiBiaso, Dino, Schmidt, Henrik

“…First, causes of high frequency tones were determined through direct measurements of two micro-UUVs and an isolated thruster at a range of speeds. …”
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Starting from scratch by Koh, Bernice Jia Hong, Goh Shun Jie, Tan, Benjamin, Tan, Joanne Li Ling

“…Based on research findings, the problem statement was identified, which helped hone the campaign’s strategy, tactics and goals. …”
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The role of expectation: attention in cognitive performance lab study by Wong, Cheryl Qi Yin

“…Distractors were defined by random 80 dB tones lasting 3 seconds. Expected distractors were defined by a click sound occurring 1.5 seconds before each distractor tone. …”
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Protozoan parasite toxoplasma gondii manipulates mate choice in rats by enhancing attractiveness of males by Sapolsky, Robert M., Dass, Shantala Arundathi Hari, Vasudevan, Anand, Dutta, Deborah, Soh, Linda Jing Ting, Vyas, Ajai

“…We report that Toxoplasma gondii, a sexually transmitted infection of brown rats, enhances sexual attractiveness of infected males. …”
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Toxicity of aluminium to black pepper (piper nigrum L.) in Sarawak by De Waard, P.W.F., Sutton, C.D.

“…Individual leaves first show symptoms of a speckled necrosis mostly along the main veins, each brown spot having a surrounding yellow halo. Afterwards the necrotic areas spread and become more serious so that finally the leaves fall. …”

Principles for Internet Congestion Management by Brown, Lloyd, Alcoz, Albert Gran, Cangialosi, Frank, Narayan, Akshay, Alizadeh, Mohammad, Balakrishnan, Hari, Friedman, Eric, Katz-Bassett, Ethan, Krishnamurthy, Arvind, Schapira, Michael, Shenker, Scott

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Self-consistent polaron states in the presence of simultaneous local and nonlocal exciton-phonon coupling by Brown, David W., Zhao, Yang, Lindenberg, Katja

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Developing optogenetics for use in vascular research by Rorsman, N

“…Fine control of artery tone was attained by varying the intensity of the blue light stimulus. …”

Stakeholders’ perceptions of and willingness to pay for circular economy in the construction sector by Berglund-Brown, Juliana, Pandey, Akrisht, Duarte, Fabio, Ganitsky, Raquel, Kirchain, Randy, Zheng, Siqi

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Trichostrongylus colubriformis extract upregulates TNF-α receptor expression and enhances TNF-α sensitivity of L929 cells by Riffkin, M.C., Seow, H.-F., Wood, P.R., Brown, L.E.

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The working class in Schrader’s Blue Collar (1978) by Wheeler, Mark

“…Within this rust-belt drama, two of the men are black --- the thirty year-old Ezekiel ‘Zeke’ Brown (Richard Pryor) and the two-time ‘loser’ ex-convict thirty-five-year-old Sam ‘Smokey’ James (Yaphet Kotto) --- and one is white --- the thirty two year old Polish American Jerry Bartowski (Harvey Keitel). …”
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