Effect of fruit maturity on the quality and acceptability of guava purée by Yusof, Salmah, Mohamed, Suhaila, Abu Bakar, Abdullah

“…Colours of purées from stage 4 onwards seemed to be less susceptible to browning and were, in fact, improved after addition of sugar. …”
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Lancing drug reservoirs into subcutaneous fat to combat obesity and associated metabolic diseases by Than, Aung, Duong, Phan Khanh, Zan, Ping, Liu, Junjie, Leow, Melvin Khee-Shing, Chen, Peng

“…The outstanding therapeutic effects are attributable to highly localized and biphasic drug release, as well as combination therapy based on browning transformation of white fat and enhanced insulin sensitivity.…”
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Color and flavor development of roasted jackfruit (Artocarpus hetrophyllus L.) seeds by Azeez, Shakirah Omotoke

“…The effect of roasting conditions on the color development (L*, a*, b* and browning intensity) and fracturability (measured using Universal Texture Analyzer) using a three factor central composite rotatable design (CCRD) gave R square of 0.81, 0.96, 0.93, 0.92, and 0.74, respectively. …”
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Effects of combination of linguistic and musical pitch experience on subcortical pitch encoding by Maggu, Akshay Raj, Wong, Patrick C. M., Antoniou, Mark, Bones, Oliver, Liu, Hanjun, Wong, Francis C. K.

“…We compared musicians and non-musicians who were native speakers of a tone language on subcortical encoding of linguistic and musical pitch. …”
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Violence-related skeletal trauma in the Epi-Jomon period: a case study from the Koboro cave site in Hokkaido, Japan by Braddick, I, Kubo, D, Matsumura, H, Schulting, RJ

“…In addition to macroscopic observations, computed tomography (CT) and 3D scanning were conducted on the postcranial injuries to estimate the directions of penetration of the stone projectile points in the bones. The position of the projectile lodged in the rib suggests that Koboro 8 was shot in the chest from diagonally right anteriorly, the arrowhead likely puncturing both lungs (or liver and left lung) and possibly piercing the heart. …”

The 'Clisurean' finds from Climente II cave, Iron Gates, Romania by Bonsall, C, Boroneanţ, A, Evatt, A, Soficaru, A, Nica, C, Bartosiewicz, L, Cook, G, Higham, TFG, Pickard, C

“…Human remains were recovered from contexts identified as ‘Clisurean’ (Final Epigravettian), along with ca 6000 chipped stone artifacts, bone tools including awls, arrowheads and a fragment of a harpoon, and shell and animal tooth ornaments. …”

Causal inference in health and disease: a review of the principles and applications of Mendelian randomization by Lovegrove, CE, Howles, SA, Furniss, D, Holmes, MV

“…Using the example of serum phosphate concentrations on liability to kidney stone disease we illustrate how MR estimates may be visualized and, finally, we contextualize MR in bone and mineral research including exemplifying how this technique could be employed to inform clinical studies and future guidelines concerning BMD and fracture risk. …”

探 = In search of harmony by Ng, Woon Lam

“…The colors were either earthy toned (browns) or low in chroma, and materials with greater color intensity were rare and costly to work with. …”
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Bubble dynamics in laser lithotripsy by Mohammadzadeh, Milad, Mercado, Julian Martinez, Ohl, Claus-Dieter

“…Laser lithotripsy is a medical procedure for fragmentation of urinary stones with a fiber guided laser pulse of several hundred microseconds long. …”
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Matched pair analysis of wide versus narrow focus during shockwave lithotripsy for urolithiasis by Sharp, AJ, Lovegrove, CE, Sreekumar, R, Spencer, M, Turney, BW, Howles, SA

“…<p><strong>Purpose:</strong> To compared stone clearance and complications between a &lsquo;wide&rsquo; (9x50mm) and &lsquo;narrow&rsquo; shockwave focus (6x28mm) when undertaking shockwave lithotripsy (SWL) in patients with renal or ureteric stones.…”

Demystifying the diagnostic potentials of air-conducted ocular and cervical vestibular evoked myogenic potential test elicited by a custom-built chirp stimulus among patients with... by Abdallatif, Athar Mazen Rasmi

“…VEMP is typically recorded with the 500 Hz tone burst, however, a chirp stimulus, initially designed for auditory brainstem responses, is being used to explore VEMP's diagnostic potential. …”
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Audio-based approaches in tuning retrieval of gamelan ensemble by Hamdan, Sinin

“…When listening to its tones in a musical environment, individual harmonics of a complex tone and partial identification may be nearly impossible to discern by the human ear. …”
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"Bartleby" in the evolution of the Gothic tradition. by Goh, Evan Yu Fan.

“…Herman Melville’s “Bartleby, The Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street” was first published in 1853, nearly a century after Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto, and sixty years after Brown’s Wieland. The Gothic Tradition, as it begun, was not received well by literary critics of the time. …”
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The impact of environmental disclosure on initial public offering underpricing: sustainable development in Singapore by Kang, Eugene, Lam, Nguyen Bao

“…We provide new evidence that linguistic features, that is, tone and authenticity, interact to influence a key IPO outcome. …”
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Whose Death Matters? A Quantitative Analysis of Media Attention to Deaths of Black Americans in Police Confrontations, 2013–2016 by Zuckerman, Ethan, Matias, J. Nathan, Bhargava, Rahul, Bermejo, Fernando, Ko, Allan

“…Media coverage of deaths of unarmed people of color at the hands of police sharply increased after the high-profile death of Michael Brown. We analyze a novel set of media data to understand reasons for this rise and to postulate a shift in reporting that treats these deaths as part of a larger pattern, crystallized around the “key event” of Michael Brown’s death rather than as unconnected incidents. …”
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Detection of osteoporosis using mechanical vibration by Lim, Chu Sing.

“…This report aims to investigate the feasibility of using a mechanical vibration test system as a possible in-vitro test unit for bone densitometry. The report reviews some major measurement techniques of bone densitometry and vibration analysis. …”
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The effect of secreted factors from breast tumour cells on osteogenic potential of mesenchymal cells by Toh, Gui Qin

“…As the breast cells metastasize to the bone, there are many interactions of the breast tumour cells with the bone. …”
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Effect of auxins on growth enhancement of cell suspension culture of Tongkat Ali Hitam (Polyalthia bullata) by Nurul Farhana Farezol, Munirah Adibah Kamarul Zaman, Azzreena Mohamad Azzeme

“…Although the ½ MSO yielded the highest biomass, the cell suspension cultures supplemented with 30 μM NAA showed promising results, achieving higher biomass compared to other auxin treatments and exhibiting a light yellowish-brown cell. This suggests that 30 μM NAA is a more efficient auxin utilization in reducing the occurrence of dark brown cells. …”
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涂涂写写 = Alchemy of color and brushwork by Ng, Woon Lam

“…As brushwork strengthens the form, the three attributes of colors (namely tone, hue and chroma) are fine-tuned to either work with or against the results of the brushwork. …”
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Synergistic effect of ultrasound and reinforced electrical environment by bioinspired periosteum for enhanced osteogenesis via immunomodulation of macrophage polarization through P... by Jiang, Ting, Yu, Fei, Zhou, Yuqi, Li, Ruomei, Zheng, Mengting, Jiang, Yangyang, Li, Zhenxia, Pan, Jun, Ouyang, Ningjuan

“…The periosteum plays a vital role in repairing bone defects. Researchers have demonstrated the existence of electrical potential in the periosteum and native bone, indicating that electrical signals are essential for functional bone regeneration. …”
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