Cell charactetization in differnet regions of the native annulus fibrous in a porcine intervetebral disc model through cell sorting and molecular analysis by Teo, Tong

“…The factors that lead to low back pain are complex, there has been more evidence that shows that intervertebral disc degeneration serves as a major contributor leading to the destabilization of the spinal motion segment hence resulting in pain and disability. …”
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Age-related bone loss is associated with FGF21 but not IGFBP1 in healthy adults by Lee, Shuen Yee, Fam, Kai Deng, Chia, Kar Ling, Yap, Margaret M. C., Goh, Jorming, Yeo, Kwee Poo, Yap, Eric Peng Huat, Chotirmall, Sanjay Haresh, Lim, Chin Leong

“…The IGFBP1 concentration was not correlated with BMD at the hip or spine (all P > 0.05). In humans, FGF21 might be involved in the age-associated decline in BMD, especially at the spine, through increased bone turnover. …”
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A Self-Polymerizing Mesh of Nano-Tethers for the Mechanical Constraint of Degraded Intervertebral Discs—A Review of 25 Years of Pre-Clinical and Early Clinical Research by Hedman, Thomas, Rogers, Adam, Beall, Douglas

“…It is intended that this review of a novel nano-scale material-based solution for mechanical deficiencies in biologically limited tissues may provide a helpful example for other innovations in spinal diseases and similarly challenging musculoskeletal disorders.…”
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Improved lower bounds on book crossing numbers of complete graphs by Salazar, G., Pasechnik, Dmitrii V., De Klerk, Etienne.

“…A book with k pages consists of a straight line (the spine) and k half-planes (the pages), such that the boundary of each page is the spine. …”
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Evolutionary origin of the chordate nervous system revealed by amphioxus developmental trajectories by Dai, Y, Zhong, Y, Liu, H, Pan, R, Yuan, L, Du, J, Li, M, Wang, X, Shi, C, Liu, G, Zhu, P, Shimeld, S, Zhou, X, Li, G

“…We characterized cell specification at the mechanistic level and generated mutant lines to examine the function of five key transcription factors involved in neural specification. …”

Effect of adding global postural re-education to Kendall exercises for treating asymptomatic forward head posture: a single-blinded randomized controlled trial by Abu-Taleb, Walaa, Yamany, Abeer Abdelrahman, Aneis, Yasser M., Abu El Kasem, Shimaa T.

“…Conclusions: The added effect GPR technique to Kendall exercises significantly improved CVA, CROM, NDI, chest expansion, and spinal mobility in subjects with FHP.…”
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Pinkcapsule.com : the digital agora. by Choong, Hon Shien., Kwek, David Swee Hong., Ng, Sor Luan., Yeo, Vivan Pih Hwee.

“…Build as a Web Portal, PinkCapsule.com aims to be the common destination for Web surfers to interact in a virtual marketplace or agora setting.…”
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Evaluating Fairness of Artificial Intelligence Models for Radiology Image Classification by Sandadi, Varsha

“…Our findings indicate that cervical spine fracture detection models exhibit overall fairness, while abdominal trauma detection models demonstrate some unfairness in specific injury regions, possibly due to limited sample size. …”
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Motion control (brushless DC motor) of a lower limb robotic orthosis for rehabilitation of stroke and incomplete SCI patients by Lim, Zhenhui

“…Strokes and spinal cord injuries (SCI) can cause motor malfunction to the patients resulting in the loss of the ability to walk. …”
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Immunotherapy-responsive neuropathic pain and allodynia in a patient with glycine receptor autoantibodies: a case report by Soleimani, B, Board, C, Yu, T, Tracey, I, Irani, SR, Foley, P

“…Glycine receptors are known to play a key role in inhibitory neurotransmission in the spinal dorsal horn and have therefore been considered as targets for analgesic development. …”

Distinct movement disorders in contactin-associated-protein-like-2 antibody-associated autoimmune encephalitis by Gövert, F, Abrante, L, Becktepe, J, Balint, B, Ganos, C, Hofstadt-van Oy, U, Krogias, C, Varley, J, Irani, SR, Paneva, S, Titulaer, MJ, de Vries, JM, Boon, AJW, Schreurs, MWJ, Joubert, B, Honnorat, J, Vogrig, A, Ariño, H, Sabater, L, Dalmau, J, Scotton, S, Jacob, S, Melzer, N, Bien, CG, Geis, C, Lewerenz, J, Prüss, H, Wandinger, K-P, Deuschl, G, Leypoldt, F

“…Further distinct movement disorders include isolated and combined segmental spinal myoclonus and autoimmune episodic ataxia.</p>…”

Modelling familiarity : towards age-friendly exergame design by Zhang, Hao

“…The interview results show that Escape Room exergame is highly familiar to the participants and all the five sub-constructs were involved in the exergame design. …”
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Stress faced by executives in Singapore. by Par, Hwee Fong., Tan, Chin Ying., Thong, Hwei Ling.

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Challenges faced by women in the corporate world by Ang, Hui Jia, Sim, Jasmine Mei Yao, Yeo, Siew Hong

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Novel fiber design for photon triplets generation by Zhang, Meng

“…Based on the theoretical research and software simulation, five kinds of fiber structures have been designed that successfully fulfill the phase matching condition. …”
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Robust text-independent speaker verification in environmental noise by Panda, Ashish

“…Experimental evaluations of the proposed psychoacoustic model compensation technique conclusively demonstrate that it provides superior performance in both white and pink noise conditions, outperforming parallel model combination by 36% and max function based model compensation by 24%. …”
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Comparative study of accounting standards between Singapore and the Peoples' Republic of China by Neo, Karn Nee, Siew, May San, Swi, Li Li

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Flexural buckling behaviour and residual strengths of S700 high strength steel circular hollow section columns after exposure to fire by Koh, Alicia

“…The experimental study which includes the furnace tests, material tests, initial global imperfection measurements, and pin-ended column tests was conducted and reported. …”
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A two-dimensional co-rotational Timoshenko beam element with XFEM formulation by Xu, Jin, Lee, Chi King, Tan, Kang Hai

“…Pin connections and plastic hinges produce non-smooth displacement fields in beam structures. …”
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Hearing loss and risk of major osteoporotic fracture: a population-based cohort study in the United Kingdom by Khalid, S, Alhambra, DP, Hasheminasab, SA, Vinogradova, Y, Qureshi, N, Ratzinger, M, Brunetti, V, Salas, A, Canals, L

“…Compared with those without HL, individuals with HL had greater frailty (severe electronic frailty index, 5.9% vs. 2.7%), higher incidence of prior falls (14.1% vs. 10.6%), longer mean follow-up with higher incidence of MOF and hip fractures (5.1 vs. 4.4 years, 20.1 and 5.32 vs. 16.58 and 4.54 per 1000 person-years, respectively) and higher risk of MOF and hip fracture (adjusted HR, 1.10 and 1.08, respectively). …”