System design and development of human-robot interaction control scheme for assistive robotic Arm extender by Yang, Sibo

“…Notably, the ARAE system significantly reduces muscle activity, offering particular benefits to patients with low muscle tone. However, challenges persist for those with high spasticity due to complex interactions and increased resistance from muscle tone. …”
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Developing hydroxyapatite CAPS coatings on metallic implants for tissue replacement by Montserrat Espanol Pons.

“…Hydroxyapatite (HA) is an appropriate ceramic for artificial teeth or bones due to its excellent biocompatibility and bioactivity. …”
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Comparison of a simplified skin pointer device compared with a skeletal marker for knee rotation laxity : a cadaveric study using a rotation-meter by Puah, Ken Lee, Yew, Andy Khye Soon, Chou, Siaw Meng, Lie, Denny Tijauw Tjoen

“…One Kirscher wire was driven into the tibial tubercle as a bone marker and a skin pointer was attached. Rotational forces of 3, 6 and 9 nm applied at 0°, 30°, 45°, 60° and 90° of knee flexion were analysed using the Pearson correlation coefficient and paired t-test. …”
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Short-term facial skin simulation system by Zhong, Yunjie

“…However, it is difficult for customers to see the actual product's effect how skin pore or skin tone are improved through the text description, numerical information, and advertisement that may be overly glorified. …”
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The first person pronoun in archaic Chinese, with a note on duplex characters by Benedict, Paul K.

“…Tibeto-Burman (TB) *nga (tone *A) `first person pronoun' and the topic marker (TM) *ga - ka play a strange "cat and mouse" game as they romp about the family. …”
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The contemporary approach to a low cost carrier’s business model : through a value network. by Chong, Sue Lin., Ong, Jia Yun., Tan, Kenneth Wei Jie.

“…The growing trend of the Low Cost Carrier business model has set the tone for what is to come in the near future in the aviation scene. …”
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Translator’s visibility in mediating confrontational responses of “challenge” strategy at China’s diplomatic press conferences by Yang, Wei, Mansor, Nor Shahila, Ang, Lay Hoon, Yang, Mingxing

“…In maintaining the confrontational tone, the main strategies involve modulation in syntax and reduction in lexicon. …”
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BMPR1A promotes ID2–ZEB1 interaction to suppress excessive endothelial to mesenchymal transition by Lee, Heon-Woo, Adachi, Takaomi, Pak, Boryeong, Park, Saejeong, Hu, Xiaoyue, Choi, Woosoung, Kowalski, Piotr S, Chang, C Hong, Clapham, Katharine R, Lee, Aram, Papangeli, Irinna, Kim, Jongmin, Han, Orjin, Park, Jihwan, Anderson, Daniel G, Simons, Michael, Jin, Suk-Won, Chun, Hyung J

“…Components of bone morphogenetic protein (BMP) signalling have been implicated in both pathogenesis of pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) and endothelial-mesenchymal transition (EndoMT). …”
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Segmentation of liver tumor from CT images by La, Cam Chung

“…Finally, a new semi-automatic method is proposed to improve liver tumor segmentation by finding out the ribcage curves on every CT slice, using the rib bone traces. One can use the rib curve as a post-processing step to fine tune the segmentation.…”
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Topic extraction and sentiment analysis of subreddit - /r/Singapore by Lim, Shaun Wei Min

“…To detect subjective information such as attitudes, opinions, tone, expression etc, sentiment analysis is used to analyze these data. …”
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An experimental investigation on relation of stress with occurrence of tinnitus by Ng, Chee Seng.

“…Noise exposure stress experiment aims to find out the stress response of subject when exposed to high frequency pure tone noise which resembles the noise produced by tinnitus. …”
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AudiCeive : mobile application to recognize unique audio frequencies using acoustic fingerprinting by Saraswathi Karuppiah

“…For this reason, the outcome of applying the Shazam fingerprinting algorithm onto a couple of externally generated single sine tones, having frequencies above 20,000hz will be reflected mainly in this paper.…”
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Telomere biology disorders by Kam, Michelle L. W., Nguyen, Trang T. T., Ngeow, Joanne Yuen Yie

“…Telomeres are DNA-protein structures at chromosome ends that maintain chromosome stability; their length affects cell replicative potential and senescence. A constellation of bone marrow failure, pulmonary fibrosis, liver cirrhosis and premature greying is suggestive, however incomplete penetrance results in highly variable manifestations, with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis as the most common presentation. …”
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Biocompatible materials for orbital wall reconstruction - an overview by Vasile, Victor A., Istrate, Sinziana, Iancu, Raluca C., Piticescu, Roxana M., Cursaru, Laura M., Schmetterer, Leopold, Garhöfer, Gerhard, Cherecheanu, Alina Popa

“…The reconstruction materials can be divided into autografts (bone or cartilage tissue) or allografts (metals, ceramics, or plastic materials, and combinations of these materials). …”
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The Distance Between Us: Exploring the COVID-19 Intensive Care Unit Through the Soundscape of Biometric Monitoring by Lecamwasam, Kimaya

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Study of LIDAR mapping technology by Liu, Jing.

“…If LIDAR datasets are needed to be converted into either a regular or a square, grayscale grid image in terms of elevation, objects will be classified by the change of gray tone. Morphological filter (MF) and progressive morphological filter (PMF) have a task which is to extract the wanted points from LIDAR measurements. …”
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Developing a CO2 Emission Trading Scheme for Malaysian Cement Industry (S/O: 13251) by Bakhtyar, Bardia, Ibrahim, Yusnidah, Ahmad, Siti Aznor, Islam, Rabiul

“…The electricity consumption of modem cement plant is 110---120 kWh for the manufacturing of one tone cement. It also has been reported that cement industry shifting to dry process that use less energy as compare to wet process. …”
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Improving detection of chromosomal abnormalities in multiple myeloma using fluorescence in situ hybridization by Naw, Wah Wah

“…D13S319/LAMP1 and IGH@/MAF, interphase FISH probes for del13q14 and t(14;16)(q32;q23) respectively, are used in this study to detect multiple myeloma cells in bone marrow aspirate of 20 patients. While CC could not detect del13q14 and t(14;16)(q32;q23) in any of the 20 patients, interphase FISH detected these chromosomal abnormalities in half (10/20) of the patients. …”
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Automated detection and segmentation of vertebral bodies in volumetric abdominal magnetic resonance images by Lin, Dehui.

“…Detection and segmentation of the column of vertebral bodies are intermediate steps required to identify the bone marrow which is considered as the wrongly labeled visceral adipose tissue in the assessment of abdominal obesity. …”
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Optimization of culture conditions in HS5 stroma suppported hematopoietic culture. by Goh, Carlye Qian Ling.

“…Stroma cells play an essential role in the bone marrow niche, the environment where hematopoietic cells and progenitors self-renew and differentiate into multiple lineage. …”
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