Turbulence-induced secondary flows in straight open channel with imposed transverse bed non-uniformities by Wang, Zhiqian

“…This study also discusses effects of cellular secondary flows on the concentration distribution of suspended sediment.…”
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The changing nature of Chinese business in Africa : the case of Cape Verde by Horta, Loro

“…Chinese state companies are usually singled out for criticism in the West due to their links with despotic African regimes all for the sake of profit. The nature of Chinese business in Africa is however becoming more complex.…”
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Design and development of bio-medical devices using rapid prototyping techniques by Phua, Kenneth Khiang Song.

“…Many drug regimes must be carefully dosed as they are either too complicated to be self –administered or face low compliance by the patients themselves. …”
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The prevention and management of chronic kidney disease among patients with metabolic syndrome by Zhu, D, Judge, PK, Wanner, C, Haynes, R, Herrington, WG

“…In addition, statin-based regimens lower low-density lipoprotein cholesterol and reduce the risk of atherosclerotic disease (with no clinically meaningful effect on kidney outcomes). …”

Somatic gene mutation patterns and burden influence outcomes with enasidenib in relapsed/refractory IDH2-mutated AML by Risueño, A, See, WL, Bluemmert, I, de Botton, S, DiNardo, CD, Fathi, AT, Schuh, AC, Montesinos, P, Vyas, P, Prebet, T, Gandhi, A, Hasan, M

“…We recently reported results from the phase 3 IDHENTIFY trial (NCT02577406) showing improved response rates and event-free survival with enasidenib monotherapy compared with conventional care regimens (CCR) in heavily pretreated, older patients with late-stage R/R AML bearing IDH2 mutations. …”

Smooth object retrieval using a bag of boundaries by Arandjelović, R, Zisserman, A

“…The descriptors are tolerant to scale changes, segmentation failures, and limited viewpoint changes. …”

A hidden lethal effect of long microplastic fibres on the coastal copepod Acartia erythraea by Takahashi, Kazutaka, Teh, Jun Chin

“…In laboratory, starved copepods were observed to take in a piece of fibrous microplastic sedimented on the bottom. While no individual ingested the entire fibre, the tip of the ingested fibre reached deep into the gut of the copepods. …”
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Semantic scene understanding on 3D point clouds by Dong, Shichao

“…Using regional purity can simultaneously prevent under-segmentation and over-segmentation problems during clustering. …”
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Image processing using neural network for auto-scoring system by Ruan, Zhendui.

“…Image processing comprises of image retrieval, segmentation and features extraction as well as classical statistical and modern classification techniques. …”
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What Singapore investors want in a financial adviser by Chen, Carolyn Meijun, Fang, Mindy Liwei, Lim, Karen Lee Mei

“…This will provide an insight to the criteria financial advisers should focus on as well as the market segment that emerging independent financial advisers should target.…”
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Exposing digital image forgeries by detecting discrepancies in motion blur by Kakar, Pravin, Ser, Wee, Sudha, N.

“…Experimental results show that our technique provides good segmentation of regions with inconsistent motion blur. …”
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Singapore airlines : the business of flying by Tan, Sung Cheng, Tan, Ting Szu, Tie, Hwee Ling

“…Due to the possible extend of scope, the study is focused on the segment of business air travellers.…”
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Employee turnover : bad attitude or poor management? by Khadijah Abdul Rahman., Norfarhana Supaat., Norhayati Haron.

“…The variables for the turnover are segmented into three categories - controllable, uncontrollable and demographics.…”
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Strongly out-of-equilibrium simulations for electron Boltzmann transport equation using modal discontinuous Galerkina approach by Singh, Satyvir, Battiato, Marco

“…Ultimately, these results predict that the modal DG approach is particularly effective in treating the strongly out-of-equilibrium regimes encountered like in ultrafast transport dynamics.…”
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Dynamic friction model for tendon-sheath actuated surgical robots : modelling and stability analysis by Tjahjowidodo, Tegoeh, Lau, Michael Wai Shing, Phee, Soo Jay, Do, T. N.

“…In addition, transition between two regimes is guaranteed to be smooth without using any switching functions and it permits an arbitrary configuration of sheath, i.e. helical and spatial shape. …”
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Automatic cardiac ventricular boundary detection by Cheng, Jierong

“…The final segmentation to find the actual LV boundary in long-axis echocardiographic images is carried out using a Markovian level set method. …”
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The truth about cats and dogs by Parkhi, O, Vedaldi, A, Jawahar, C, Zisserman, A

“…In these cases we propose to use the template-based model to detect a distinctive part for the class, followed by detecting the rest of the object via segmentation on image specific information learnt from that part. …”

Unsupervised discovery of visual object class hierarchies by Sivic, J, Russell, BC, Zisserman, A, Freeman, WT, Efros, AA

“…Employing the multiple segmentation framework of Russell et al. [22], we show that meaningful object hierarchies, together with object segmentations, can be automatically learned from unlabeled and unsegmented image collections without supervision. …”

Psychosocial predictors of self-reported medical adherence in patients with heart failure over 6 months : an examination of the influences of depression, self-efficacy, social supp... by Shen, Biing-Jiun, Maeda, Uta

“…Background Poor adherence to medical regimens is a serious problem that interferes with heart failure (HF) patients’ disease management and contributes to poor clinical outcomes. …”
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Clostridium difficile bacteriophage finding under normal and iron-limited conditions for the isolation of potential siderophore receptor-specific phages by Lim, Edsel Yong Xun

“…Phage therapy, known for its specificity of action, has emerged as a promising candidate for combating CDI, offering the potential to circumvent gut microbiome dysbiosis associated with conventional antibiotic regimens. However, research on Clostridium difficile (C. difficile) phage hunting has been relatively limited. …”
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