Behaviour of joints in tunnel linings by Alevey, Niall Mac, Ashraf Mohamed Hefny

“…Precast concrete tunnel segments are used extensively to construct tunnel linings. …”
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Distinct Circle of Willis anatomical configurations in healthy preterm born adults: a 3D time-of-flight magnetic resonance angiography study by Greggio, J, Malamateniou, C, Baruteau, KP, Reyes-Aldasoro, CC, Huckstep, OJ, Francis, JM, Williamson, W, Leeson, P, Lewandowski, AJ, Lapidaire, W

“…Results: We identified 164 participants with variant CoW configurations. Unilateral segment hypoplasia (30%) and unilateral segment absence (29%) were the most common variations, with over 50% related to the posterior communicating artery (PComA). …”

Estimating evolutionary and demographic parameters via ARG-derived IBD by Huang, Z, Kelleher, J, Chan, Y, Balding, D

“…Inference of evolutionary and demographic parameters from a sample of genome sequences often proceeds by first inferring identical-by-descent (IBD) genome segments. By exploiting efficient data encoding based on the ancestral recombination graph (ARG), we obtain three major advantages over current approaches: (i) no need to impose a length threshold on IBD segments, (ii) IBD can be defined without the hard-to-verify requirement of no recombination, and (iii) computation time can be reduced with little loss of statistical efficiency using only the IBD segments from a set of sequence pairs that scales linearly with sample size. …”

The impact of evolving SARS-CoV-2 mutations and variants on COVID-19 vaccines by McLean, Gary R., Kamil, Jeremy, Lee, Benhur, Moore, Penny, Schulz, Thomas F., Muik, Alexander, Sahin, Ugur, Tureci, Ozlem, Pather, Shanti

“…Although data on the effectiveness of the primary regimen against omicron (B.1.1.529) are limited, booster programs using mRNA vaccines have been shown to restore protection against infection and symptomatic disease (regardless of the vaccine used for the primary regimen) and maintain high effectiveness against hospitalization. …”
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Variational mesh decomposition by Zhang, Juyong, Zheng, Jianmin, Wu, Chunlin, Cai, Jianfei

“…The problem of decomposing a 3D mesh into meaningful segments (or parts) is of great practical importance in computer graphics. …”
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Association of nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors with adverse perinatal outcomes in pregnant women living with HIV: systematic review and meta-analysis by Cowdell, I, Beck, K, Hey, M, Portwood, C, Sexton, H, Kumarendran, M, Brandon, Z, Kirtley, S, Hemelaar, J

“…</p> <br> <p><strong>Interventions:</strong> ART regimes containing different NRTI drugs.</p> <br> <p><strong>Assessment of risk of bias:</strong> Newcastle-Ottawa Scale and GRADE.…”

Determining targets for antiretroviral drug concentrations: a causal framework illustrated with pediatric efavirenz data from the CHAPAS-3 trial by Schomaker, M, Denti, P, Bienczak, A, Burger, D, Díaz, I, Gibb, DM, Walker, AS, McIlleron, H

“…<p><strong>Background:&nbsp;</strong>Determining a therapeutic window for maintaining antiretroviral drug concentrations within an appropriate range is required for identifying effective dosing regimens. The limits of this window are typically calculated using predictive models. …”

Spatio temporal traffic pediction for a large-scale road network by Krishnamoorthy, Nardana

“…The road segments belonging to one of these clusters were then tested. …”
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Thermoplastic polymer nanocomposites based on polydopamine-coated clay : preparation, structures and properties by Phua, Si Lei

“…This strong interfacial interaction between D-clay and hard segments not only facilitates the stress transfer across the filler and polymer matrix, but also acts as nucleating agent for hard segment crystallization, leading to higher hard segment crystallinity. …”
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Reduction of dimensionality of a cellular actuator array for driving a robotic hand by Cho, Kyu-Jin, Ph. D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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A model of intonational phonology of Singapore Malay by Diyana Hamzah

“…Taking into consideration the influence of segmental structure and information structure on the intonational contour, this study aims to develop a more comprehensive model of the intonational phonology of Singapore Malay within the Autosegmental-Metrical framework. …”
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Maximizing the performance of badminton athletes through core strength training: Unlocking their full potential using machine learning (ML) modeling by Ma, Shuzhen, Geok Soh, Kim, Japar, Salimah, Xu, Simao, Zhicheng, Guo

“…Incorporating core strength training into regular regimens can improve athletes' overall strength, endurance, balance, control, and prevent injuries. …”
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Speech enhancement using auditory-based spectral amplitude estimators by Sekar Sathiya Narayanan.

“…The proposed estimator is applied to the noisy speech signal to obtain the enhanced speech signal and the objective measures of speech quality such as the segmental SNR (SNRseg) and the log-likelihood-ratio (LLR) are obtained. …”
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Slip along the San Andreas fault associated with the great 1857 earthquake by Sieh, Kerry

“…It is relatively uniform along each of several long segments, but changes rather abruptly in value between these segments. …”
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Modelling the rheology of living cell cytoplasm: poroviscoelasticity and fluid-to-solid transition by Thekkethil, Namshad, Köry, Jakub, Guo, Ming, Stewart, Peter S., Hill, Nicholas A., Luo, Xiaoyu

“…Baseline simulations (neglecting the viscosity of the cytosol) indicate that the system exhibits seven different regimes across the parameter space spanned by the viscoelastic relaxation timescale of the cytoskeleton and the poroelastic diffusion timescale; these regimes agree qualitatively with experimental measurements. …”
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Audio watermarking by Ho, Shuet Mun, Ng, Ling Mei

“…This non-blind watermarking algorithm is based on both time and frequency base modulation. Segments of the file are compressed or expanded by adding or removing samples in the frequency domain. …”
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What does sounding Singaporean mean? by Tan, Charmaine Li Min

“…While there is no single prototype for sounding Singaporean, it is clear that our local accent differs from other Englishes from the segmental level.…”
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An investigation of friction-based tendon sheath model appropriate for control purposes by Tjahjowidodo, Tegoeh, Lau, Michael Wai Shing, Phee, Soo Jay, Do, T. N.

“…A new dynamic friction model that allows accurate description of friction lag and hysteresis behavior in two regimes, i.e. presliding and sliding regimes, for a sheath in arbitrary configuration such as helical and spatial shape has been developed. …”
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Treatment options to support the elimination of Hepatitis C: an open label, factorial randomised controlled trial by Cooke, G, Le Manh, H, Flower, B, McCabe, L, Vu Thu Kim, H, Vo Thi, T, Dang Trong, T, Nguyen Thanh, D, Le Thanh, P, Dao Bach, K, Nguyen Thi Chau, A, Pham Ngoc, T, Vu Thu Thu, H, Dang Thi, B, Nguyen Kim, T, Ansari, A, Le Ngoc, C, Vo Minh, Q, Nguyen Thi Ngoc, P, Le Thi, T, Nguyen Bao, T, Kestelyn, E, Kingsley, C, Van Doorn, R, Rahman, M, Pett, S, Thwaites, G, Barnes, E, Day, J, Nguyen Van Vinh, C, Walker, AS

“…No randomised trials have compared these regimens and high cure rates may be achievable with shorter durations of therapy.…”

The Enggano-Dutch word list derived from Helfrich's (1916) “Nadere Bijdrage Tot de Kennis van Het Engganeesch” by Rajeg, GPW

“…This version (0.1.1) now includes the word list in a tab-separated file (.tsv) that has the following features (in the columns): (a) common/standardised transcription, also in segmented format (Columns form_common_transcription and form_common_segments); (b) phonemic transcription in segmented format (Column form_ipa_segments); (c) Indonesian translation of the English gloss using the deeplr R package (Column indonesian). …”