A medical image-based computer-aided diagnosis system for musculoskeletal disease and disorder. by Chuah, Tong Kuan

“…A linear relationship between percentage of damaged cartilage and the metric studied was found. As part of the advancement to classifying subjects with BML, the thesis investigated textural parameters as potential biomarker in separating between bone marrow with and without bone marrow lesion. …”
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When mobile phone use becomes problematic : the influence of self, parents and peers on adolescents' mobile phone behavior in Singapore and Malaysia by Chuah, Soo Fei

“…This dissertation comprises three parts. Using samples from Singapore and Malaysia, the first part of this dissertation validates the measurement of parental mediation and parenting styles. …”
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Essays on social responsibility in the marketplace : an experimental economic analysis by Wang, Yan

“…Apart from the driving forces of governments, the society can also take part in the stimulation of social responsibility. …”
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Fiona Patrick - Thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the degree of Doctor of Clinical Psychology (DClinPsych) by Patrick, F

“…Buckinghamshire Community Learning Disability Health Team (Buckinghamshire CLDHT) wished to understand potential impact of introducing a baseline assessment as part of their dementia pathway through identifying: what approach other local services are using, potential impact on staffing requirements, the number of individuals in Buckinghamshire who would be eligible for baseline assessments, an audit of the current dementia pathway used by the service, and staff thoughts on introducing baseline assessments in this population. …”

Student teachers learning to use Assessment for Learning in schools by Tan Chia Chun, D

“…Consequently, the implications for the design of teacher education programmes are a key part of the discussion stimulated by the findings.…”

Attack strategies in birds of prey by Brighton, C

“…However, these geometric rules are only part of the picture as they only consider the outcome of the commanded changes in flight kinematics, and not the underlying guidance laws (dynamics) which generate these commands. …”

From phosphate to refugees: the offshore refugee boom in the Republic of Nauru by Morris, J

“…After the wealth it derived from phosphate extraction was depleted in the 1990s, the country resurged on the back of the refugee industry by importing Australia’s prospective maritime refugee populations.</p> <p>In the first part of the dissertation, I put together my theoretical framework, detailing the global industrial assemblage that has led the refugee to become so heavily saturated within daily life. …”

Metabolic maturation of induced pluripotent stem cells derived cardiomyocytes by Lopez, C

“…This promises valuable insights into the biology of human CMs, however it is hindered by the fact that induced pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes (iPSC-CMs) have a very immature phenotype and do not recapitulate the properties of adult CMs. iPSC-CMs are immature in several ways including but not limited to morphologically, mitochondrial and sarcromeric structure, electrophysiological properties as well as their metabolism. iPSC-CMs reflect more of a foetal CM metabolism relying on glucose as their primary energy substrate, while an adult CM has more of an oxidative metabolism. This may, in part, be due to the fact that the iPSC-CMs are frequently grown as a monolayer in high glucose media and do not have the need to generate large amounts of energy for contraction and are metabolising non-physiologically relevant concentrations of nutrients. …”

Les sanctions coutumières comme gage de la paix et de la sécurité chez les traditionnalistes moundang du Nord-Cameroun by Dekane, E

“…It is based on various written sources, as well as on oral information gathered during field visits as part of our academic work. The hypothesis underlying this research is that the traditionalists Moundang of North Cameroon would may have developed harsh sanctions to guarantee peace and security before the arrival of sanctions under positive law. …”

Infusing epistemic perspectives on scientific practices in science teacher education by Erduran, S, Saribas, D, Kaya, E

“…Scientific practices are defined as being part of nature of science and are drawn from the account of the Family Resemblance Approach (FRA) developed by Erduran & Dagher (2014a). …”

Climate change: crop performance and potential by Ramlan, Mohd Fauzi

“…The use of organic fertiliser for an environmental friendly condition is also highlighted Since it has been a part of the governmental policy for beautifications, the floriculture and ornamental industry has received special attentions. …”
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Effects of lumbar support to reduce discomfort during prolonged riding among motocyclists by Mohd Shafiei, Umi Kalsom

“…The results showed lower back part experienced greatest discomfort compared to other body parts. …”
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Functional and effective connectivity study of the human brain topology using a novel unifying framework by Rashid, Muhammad Hakimi Mohd

“…Both network measures were compared with the network measures derived using established connectivity measures: amplitude envelope correlation (AEC) and imaginary part of coherency (ICOH). Additionally, a cross-over study investigating the effects of 8 different auditory stimuli on emotion-processing network topology in 30 healthy subjects was conducted. …”
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Synthesis and characterization of silver nanoprism-based nanostructures by Mohammad Mehdi Shahjamali

“…The challenge is to deposit gold atoms selectively on all facets of silver nanoprism to create a gold nanocage following by removing of silver part in the next stage and refilling the hole inside the created nanocage to make a perfect nanobox. …”
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Posture control and balance for quality of walking in rehabilitation by Li, Lei

“…A balance filtering algorithm using whole-body Center of Gravity (CoG) Jacobian is developed to filter the unstable part of the trajectory based on the Zero Moment Point (ZMP) principle. …”
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Tsewang Norbu NGB by Cantwell, C, Mayer, R

“…Sometimes, after the end of the last chapter and before the colophon(s), there will be some further text which completes the narrative but which is not classified as belonging to a chapter. …”

Transport phenomena of immiscible fluids in microchannels by Yin, Shuai

“…Due to the prevalence of miniaturization in the past two decades, microdroplets have been widely applied to the fields of chemistry, biology, and material science. …”
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Explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) for healthcare decision-making by Zeng, Zhiwei

“…The renewed understanding then affects the extent to which the desiderata are satisfied. Over the past decade, a plethora of explainability approaches have been proposed, ranging from ante-hoc methods that seek to build explainability features into a model itself to post-hoc methods that use techniques to improve the explainability of an already developed model. …”
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Dynamic games for resource allocation in metaverse services and architectures by Han, Yue

“…The memory features can reflect EIPs' economic-aware nature, i.e., leveraging past decision information in future decision-making. …”
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Energy-efficient hardware accelerators based on bit-serial graph and memory-centric computing architectures by Mu, Junjie

“…As semiconductor process technology nodes have shrunk over the past few decades, the complexity of application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) has grown significantly. …”
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