Principles : Life and Work / by Dalio, Ray, author 656003, Simon & Schuster (Online service) 656004

“…Forty years later, Bridgewater has made more money for its clients than any other hedge fund in history and grown into the fifth most important private company in the United States, according to Fortune magazine. …”
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Taking eService-Learning to the Next Level / by Strait, Jean R., 1965-, editor 656157, Shumer, Robert D., 1947-, editor 656160, Nordyke, Katherine J., editor 656159, IAP Books (Online service) 656161

“…The chapters in this book provide an excellent story of the growth of e-learning and eService-learning over the past many years. …”
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Nonverbal communication cues of bank CEOs and long term performance during financial crisis. by Goh, Le Min., Liang, Sihui., Lim, Shi Bin.

“…Standardised earnings surprise, amount of TARP money borrowed, duration of TARP money borrowed, as well as probability of getting into TARP, are used as long term performance measures to determine the predictability effect of each non-verbal observation on the financial performance of each company. …”
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Detection of osteoporosis using mechanical vibration by Lim, Chu Sing.

“…This report aims to investigate the feasibility of using a mechanical vibration test system as a possible in-vitro test unit for bone densitometry. The report reviews some major measurement techniques of bone densitometry and vibration analysis. …”
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The effect of secreted factors from breast tumour cells on osteogenic potential of mesenchymal cells by Toh, Gui Qin

“…As the breast cells metastasize to the bone, there are many interactions of the breast tumour cells with the bone. …”
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Optimising high porosity 3D scaffold by wet electrospinning by Ong, Su Ming

“…Recently, there has been a significant increase of bone tissue engineering research for elderly as they are more prone to bone defects and damages. …”
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Biomimetic nanocomposites to control osteogenic differentiation of human mesenchymal stem cells by Liao, Susan, Nguyen, Luong T. H., Ngiam, Michelle, Wang, Charlene, Cheng, Ziyuan, Chan, Casey K., Ramakrishna, Seeram

“…Here, the production of materials based on nano-hydroxyapatite composites in scaffolds with nanofibrous and nanoporous topographies, designed to mimic the native bone matrix for applications in bone tissue engineering, is reported. …”
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A study of inflation in China by Hu, Xiaoli, Xu, Jiajia, Yang, Wanyu

“…We remark that in the long run, the primary source of inflation in China is growth of money supply or bank loans. In the short run, we conclude that while both growth of money supply or bank loans and inflationary expectations influence China’s inflation, inflationary expectations play a more important role.…”
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Portable mobile surveillance and detection by Tan, Weishen

“…With the increasing number of people using smart phone, old smart phone can be use as a surveillance camera. …”
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Glorious autarky? Foreign resources and the British fiscal-military state, 1688-1815 by Graham, A

“…Relying upon cheap foreign money enabled the British state to hold down taxation and expensive borrowing. …”

Synergistic effect of ultrasound and reinforced electrical environment by bioinspired periosteum for enhanced osteogenesis via immunomodulation of macrophage polarization through P... by Jiang, Ting, Yu, Fei, Zhou, Yuqi, Li, Ruomei, Zheng, Mengting, Jiang, Yangyang, Li, Zhenxia, Pan, Jun, Ouyang, Ningjuan

“…The periosteum plays a vital role in repairing bone defects. Researchers have demonstrated the existence of electrical potential in the periosteum and native bone, indicating that electrical signals are essential for functional bone regeneration. …”
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Deep learning approach to cervical segmentation from routine CT images by Duan, Yiming

“…This method can accu rately extract the information of bone joint location of slices and incorporate it into image features in the form of channels, which can improve the accuracy of multiple bone joint segmentation and classification. …”
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Comparative studies on the cost of funds in various leading financial centres by Chooi, Chee Seng, Ng, Carolyn Wai Mun, Phan, Siew Leong

“…Having examined the foreign and local market conditions, the study discusses further the local interbank money market and the problems faced by the local money market desk in their costing of funds computation. …”
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Impact of alginate encapsulation on myeloid leukemia cells. by Kyaw Htay.

“…Leukemia is a type of blood cancer characterized by a neoplastic proliferative expansion of hematopoietic stem cells, which grow in the bone marrow. Current leukemia studies using 2D culture flasks and in vivo animal models have not explained clearly yet how the interactions of cellular components in the bone marrow and their niches promote the growth of leukemic stem cells and thwart the chemotherapy. …”
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A review of emotion sensing: categorization models and algorithms by Wang, Zhaoxia, Ho, Seng-Beng, Cambria, Erik

“…Sentiment analysis consists in the identification of the sentiment polarity associated with a target object, such as a book, a movie or a phone. Sentiments reflect feelings and attitudes, while emotions provide a finer characterization of the sentiments involved. …”
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Dense/porous bioceramic composites by Hu, Yifei

“…These new types of porous materials were prepared for bone replacement and reconstruction. The pores were designed for bone ingrowth, whereas the graded pores and the dense cores were introduced for load bearing capability. …”
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Inhibition of endoplasmic reticulum stress using 4-phenyl butyrate mitigates osteoporosis in a mouse model of hindlimb suspension by Al-Daghestani, Hiba Saad Subhi

“…Osteoporosis (OP) characterized by micro-architectural deterioration of bone tissue is a common skeletal disease in the elderly and may lead to fragility fractures. …”
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Development of mobile location based service in university campus by Cheong, Ming Lee

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3D patient specific instrumentation for high tibial osteotomy by Wong, Gina Khay Fong

“…The most time-intensive part of this project is creating the bone models as there are many alternatives to build it, with many unknown variables, like how the detection algorithm for the Hounsfield Units (HU) works, which helps to build the bone model. …”
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A Novel Approach to Open Reduction and Internal Fixation of Distal Radius Fractures Utilizing a Multi-Degree-of-Freedom Traction and Stabilization Device by Oeding, Jacob F., Bockman, Sam, Chiu, Harriet, Hua, Cheyenne, Connor, James, Slocum, Alexander

“…Open reduction and internal fixation (ORIF) is a surgical procedure performed with the objectives of restoring normal alignment and providing stability to broken bone fragments after a fracture. This procedure is increasingly used to treat fractures of the distal end of the radius. …”
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