Dense/porous bioceramic composites by Hu, Yifei

“…These new types of porous materials were prepared for bone replacement and reconstruction. The pores were designed for bone ingrowth, whereas the graded pores and the dense cores were introduced for load bearing capability. …”
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Pandemic Marine Risks Assessment for Marine Spatial Planning (MSP): A Case Study of Northport, Malaysia by Parmen, Ayati, Mohamad, Nazirah, Ismail, Badrul Hisham, Opaluwa, Yusuf Drisu

“…According to the findings, the Vehicle's Terminal zone had the highest score of 17.72, indicating it to be the most severely impacted zone, followed by the Passenger's Terminal zone (15.88), Distribution Centre zone (14.62), Bulk zone (14.52), Dangerous Good zone (14.13), Free Zone (14.10), Ancillary Service zone (13.65), and Container zone (13.39). …”

3D patient specific instrumentation for high tibial osteotomy by Wong, Gina Khay Fong

“…The most time-intensive part of this project is creating the bone models as there are many alternatives to build it, with many unknown variables, like how the detection algorithm for the Hounsfield Units (HU) works, which helps to build the bone model. …”
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BER analysis of FFH/FSK system with self-normalzing receiver over intentional and unintentional interference channels by Toh, Yew Ber.

“…By mean of a numerical search, we obtain the worst-case number of jamming tone, Q, which results in a worst-case BER performance.…”
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A Novel Approach to Open Reduction and Internal Fixation of Distal Radius Fractures Utilizing a Multi-Degree-of-Freedom Traction and Stabilization Device by Oeding, Jacob F., Bockman, Sam, Chiu, Harriet, Hua, Cheyenne, Connor, James, Slocum, Alexander

“…Reduction is achieved by the surgeon pulling and manipulating the hand while looking at real-time X-rays, and frequently requires large forces to distract impacted fragments from the proximal bone. This study presents the design and preliminary testing of a multi-degree-of-freedom (DOF) device capable of performing both distraction and reduction of fractured bone fragments using a traction splint mechanism with locking ball joints. …”
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15.280 Communication for Managers, Fall 2008 by Hartman, Neal

“…Students may also enroll in 15.277 Special Seminar in Communication: Leadership and Personal Effectiveness Coaching. 15.280 is offered for 6 units and 15.277 provides an additional 3 units for a total of 9 units in Managerial Communication. 15.277 acts as a lab component to 15.280 and provides students additional opportunities to hone their communication skills through a variety of in-class exercises.…”
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Analysing social presence in Whatsapp application using LIWC analysis by Siti Norzaimalina, Abd Majid, Abdul Rahim, Salam

“…However, they used a distanced form of discourse in their messages (authentic). The conversational tone was upbeat style and positive (tone). The first pronoun ‘we’ was used more than “I”. …”
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Investigation into ion channel- and nitric oxide-mediated vasodilation in resistance arteries by Wallis, LE

“…<p>Effective regulation of resistance artery tone is essential in maintaining adequate tissue perfusion across the body. …”

Living with fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva: radiological images of a patient with extensive heterotopic ossification by Mohammed Mostafa Kotb, Omar, Usama Farghaly, Kaliya-Perumal, Arun-Kumar

“…A large mass of heterotopic bone was observed, corresponding to the location of the paraspinal muscles in the lumbar region, branching upwards and fusing with the scapulae on both sides. …”
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Translating oral histories: a podcast by Wong, Melissa Xin Yu

“…The project identifies the main challenge as maintaining the casual and informal tone of conversation in a textual form. This is done with a number of approaches: retaining the shorter clauses and sentences of the Chinese source text; translating oral features and other pieces of non-verbal communication; keeping and inserting discourse participles from both Chinese and Singlish to modulate the tone and build consensus; and editorial insertions. …”
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Phonetic development of Tibetan by LaPolla, Randy J.

“…This exercise explores the historical relationship between tone, aspiration, prefixes and stem initial consonants in Tibetan. …”
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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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Cellular reporter for inflammation. by Yuhanis Abdullah Sunny.

“…We had found that our reporter could clearly show GFP expression well when the transduced bone marrow cells were induced to undergo inflammation. …”
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Toward intelligent multizone thermal control with multiagent deep reinforcement learning by Li, Jie, Zhang, Wei, Gao, Guanyu, Wen, Yonggang, Jin, Guangyu, Christopoulos, Georgios

“…In this paper, we investigate the multi-zone thermal control with optimized energy usage and canonical thermal comfort modeling. …”
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Rethinking the efficacy of the SEANWFZ treaty by Chew, Alvin

“…The Southeast Asia Nuclear Weapons-Free Zone is the only nuclear weapons-free zone treaty with a protocol yet to be ratified by the Nuclear Weapons States. …”
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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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Knee joint measurement using CT scans for knee joint implant selection by Jing, Mei

“…With the help of the cutting guide, the surgeon cuts several pieces of bone from the end of the femur in order to match the implant shape, that’s called shaping the distal femoral bone. …”
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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

“…Single-entity 14C dating of human bone and humanly modified animal bones suggests the Clisurean occupation occurred during the Bølling–Allerød warm period. …”

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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Neutrophil‐mediated enhancement of angiogenesis and osteogenesis in a novel triple cell co‐culture model with endothelial cells and osteoblasts by Herath, Thanuja D. K., Larbi, Anis, Teoh, Swee Hin, Kirkpatrick, C. James, Goh, Bee Tin

“…Repair and regeneration of critical‐sized bone defects remain a major challenge in orthopaedic and craniomaxillofacial surgery. …”
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