Exploring gunshot residue detection in fingerprints by functionalized particle-coupled matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization mass spectrometry by Adav, Sunil S., Tan, Crystal Yan Wen, Low, Choon Teck, Loo, Song Wei, Ridhwan Yusoff, Gautam, Archana, Yong, Yuk Lin, Yang, Chiew Yung, Lim, Chin Chin, Ng, Kee Woei

“…Donor shooters' fingerprints, both GSR-containing and regular, were analyzed using these functionalized particles coupled with MALDI-ToFMS. …”
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Understanding the motives and intention of blood donation during the pandemic. by Yusof, Junaidah, Ab Rahim, Sakinah, Mohd. Noor, Sabariah, Panatik, Siti Aisyah, Wan Husin, Wan Nurul Izza, Bungsu, Mohd. Sharial

“…INTRODUCTION: In every country, an adequate and reliable blood supply can be assured by a stable base of regular, voluntary, and unpaid blood donors. However, with the strike of COVID-19 around the world, fewer donors have come forward to donate blood since the government's movement control order. …”
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Nasalization in Lhasa Tibetan by Hogan, Lee C.

“…One of the basic tenets of the Neogrammarians was the Regularity Principle: All sound changes, as mechanical processes, take place according to laws that admit no exceptions (ausnahmslose Lautgesetze) within the same dialect, and the same sound will in the same environment always develop in the same way.... !…”
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Computational analysis for infectious diseases surveillance and host-pathogen interactions (in the context of Influenza A viruses) by Beyene, Biruhalem Taye

“…The functional annotations (pathways) and the highly expressed cell-specific signatures indicated that IAVs up-regulated host factors could induce virus infectivity (e.g. …”
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Variable selection for high-dimensional generalized varying-coefficient models by Lian, Heng

“…To automatically choose the regularization parameters, we use the extended Bayesian information criterion (eBIC) that effectively controls the number of false positives. …”
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A New Variational Method for Bias Correction and Its Applications to Rodent Brain Extraction by Chang, Huibin, Huang, Weimin, Wu, Chunlin, Huang, Su, Guan, Cuntai, Sekar, Sakthivel, Bhakoo, Kishore Kumar, Duan, Yuping

“…The model is composed of a data fitting term, a piecewise constant regularization and a smooth regularization, which is constructed on a 3-D formulation for medical images with anisotropic voxel sizes. …”
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Restoration and segmentation of old Jawi manuscripts using variational image inpainting and active contour models by Laham, Mohamed Faris, Jumaat, Abdul Kadir, Badarul Azam, Amisha Balkis, Maasar, M. A, Badarul Azam, A. S., Mohammad Sabri, Nur Afiqah Sabirah, Yahaya, Amiratul Munirah, Ismail, Ahmad Thaqif, Abdul Razak, Muhammad Anas

“…Recently, the Gaussian Regularization Segmentation (GRS) model has shown effectiveness in intensity inhomogeneity grayscale image segmentation, though it was not designed for corrupted OJM images. …”
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Restoration and Segmentation of Old Jawi Manuscripts using Variational Image Inpainting and Active Contour Models by Badarul Azam, Akmal Shafiq, Jumaat, Abdul Kadir, Badarul Azam, Amisha Balkis, Mohammad Sabri, Nur Afiqah Sabirah, Yahaya, Amiratul Munirah, Ismail, Ahmad Thaqif, Abdul Razak, Muhammad Anas, Maasar, Mohd Azdi, Laham, Mohamed Faris

“…Recently, the Gaussian Regularization Segmentation (GRS) model has shown effectiveness in intensity inhomogeneity grayscale image segmentation, though it was not designed for corrupted OJM images. …”
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Freedom of Navigation Operations: Better Quiet Resolve by Chong, Ja Ian

“…A more preferable approach may be consistent, regular, but quiet FONOPs by the US to avoid a premature raising of stakes.…”
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Self-healing characterizations of polyurea/polyurethane coating & its formulation optimization by Sim, Celine (Shen Silin)

“…In midst of the global rising cost of corrosion, solutions such as application of protective coating and employing regular maintenance work have been put in place. All these efforts made primarily to aim for the lifetime extension of what is being protected. …”
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Phase-field modeling of interfacial debonding in multi-phase materials via an adaptive isogeometric-meshfree approach by Li, Weidong, Nguyen-Thanh, Nhon, Zhou, Kun

“…In this modeling, the crack and interface phase fields are introduced for the regularized representations of crack surfaces and interfaces, respectively, and a convenient approach is proposed for implementing the regularized energy related to both crack surfaces and interfaces without requiring the line integration along them. …”
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Unsupervised generative variational continual learning by Liu, Guimeng

“…There are mainly three categories in this field: replay methods, regularization-based methods, and parameter isolation methods. …”
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Sparse identification of nonlocal interaction kernels in nonlinear gradient flow equations via partial inversion by Carrillo de la Plata, J, Estrada-Rodriguez, G, Mikolás, L, Tang, S

“…Our approach involves formulating and solving a regularized variational problem, which requires minimizing a quadratic error functional across a set of hypothesis functions, further augmented by a sparsity-enhancing regularizer. …”

Application of COLD-PCR for improved detection of EGFR mutations in clinical samples. by Zhang, Zhi Xuan.

“…Thus, based on current data, there is no comparable advantage when using COLD-PCR over regular PCR for mutation detection in routine clinical applications.…”
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The Architectural Layout of Long-Term Care Units: Relationships between Support for Residents’ Well-Being and for Caregivers’ Burnout and Resilience by Rom, Yifat, Morag, Ido, Palgi, Yuval, Isaacson, Michal

“…Supporting residents’ physical well-being was correlated with increased caregiver resilience in dementia units, and with increased burnout and decreased resilience in regular nursing units. Layouts supporting social well-being showed inconsistent correlations with caregivers’ resilience indexes in dementia units, and with burnout and resilience indexes in regular nursing units. …”
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Optimal Slicing and Scheduling with Service Guarantees in Multi-Hop Wireless Networks by Jones, Nicholas, Modiano, Eytan

“…Motivated by this, we design a polynomial-time algorithm that returns an (almost) regular schedule, optimized to meet service guarantees for all flows.…”
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Visual attention guided pixel-wise just noticeable difference model by Zeng, Zhipeng, Zeng, Huanqiang, Chen, Jing, Zhu, Jianqing, Zhang, Yun, Ma, Kai-Kuang

“…However, in existing pixel-wise JND models, CM is not evaluated appropriately since they overestimate the masking effect of regular oriented texture regions and neglect the visual attention characteristic of human eyes for the real image. …”
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Solubility studies of a viral proteins by Singh, Parvinder.

“…An X protein (HBx) is produced during the virus replication and in order to study its role in the progression of the virus, a regular continuous supply of pure bioactive HBx proteins is required. …”
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Collective effect of self-learning and social learning on language dynamics: a naming game approach in social networks by Wen, T, Chen, Y-W, Lambiotte, R

“…However, there are always irregular exceptions to regular rules, with one of the most notable being the past tense of verbs in English. …”

Exploiting irregular parallelism to accelerate FPGA routing by Zhu, Alan Y.

“…We show that despite the lack of regular parallelism, routing still exhibits significant irregular parallelism. …”
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