Development and investigation of bileaflet heart valve prostheses by Ramesh Veerappan

“…They seem to be gaining ever increasing popularity though they are prone to have problems such as thrombosis and haemolysis. …”
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Anatomy, Stretching & Training for Golfers : A Step-by-Step Guide to Getting the Most from Your Golf Workout / by Striano, Philip, Dr., author 575932

“…A strong, fluid golf swing uses muscles in the legs, hips, lower back, and shoulders-all areas prone to serious, painful injury. That's why every golfer needs to read Anatomy, Stretching & Training for Golfers, which offers expert advice on how to maximize your game without the risk of getting hurt. …”

TCR affinity biases Th cell differentiation by regulating CD25, Eef1e1, and Gbp2 by Kotov, Dmitri I., Mitchell, Jason S., Pengo, Thomas, Ruedl, Christiane, Way, Sing Sing, Langlois, Ryan A., Fife, Brian T., Jenkins, Marc K.

“…We found no evidence, however, of preferential interactions between Th1 cell–prone, high-affinity T cells and XCR1+ DCs or Tfh cell–prone, low-affinity T cells and SIRP⍺+ DCs postinfection with bacteria expressing the peptide of interest. …”
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Three essays on corporate finance and research methodology by Li, Wei

“…Overall, the results suggest that more cash holding enables gambling-prone firms to take more risks while staying away from financial distress.…”
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Mining on-line user reviews by Bin, Shi

“…For testing purposes, we extract reviews from the Chinese cell phone on-line community.…”
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Design and develop a network collaborative drawing application based on iPad by Song, Qiaoqi.

“…The popularity of mobile devices such as smart phone and touch screen tablets marked the start of the ‘Post-PC’ era. …”
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Risk modeling & vulnerability assessment of infrastructure systems due to catastrophes by Goh, Danny Xiang Hui.

“…As such, damage assessment and mitigation tools to deal with such tragedies have become more essential for areas that are prone to such events, and even more so for those living in poverty.…”
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Improving Disaster Response: Role of Knowledge Sharing by Chen, Christopher

“…The Asia-Pacific region is the world’s most disaster-prone region; a more efficient, coordinated disaster management system has never been needed more. …”
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Sold To Be A Wife : ONLY A DETERMINED FOSTER CARER CAN STOP A TERRIFIED GIRL FROM BECOMING A CHILD BRIDE / by Hartley, Maggie, author 656233

“…But a few weeks later, Maggie is woken up in the middle of the night by a phone call from a terrified Shazia, who has managed to escape the family home through a window. …”

Visual analytics Usiug artificial intelligence (image recognition for fauna species in Singapore : front-end development) by Goh, Jin Wei

“…The main objective of the project is to identify and classify fauna species in Singapore by performing fine-grained image classification on a mobile phone. In the first stage of the project, a hundred thousand fauna species images are crawled from Flickr and they are classified into seven categories, which are birds, butterfly, dragonfly, mammal, reptile, amphibian, and freshwater fish. …”
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Mobile health (mHealth) interventions for health promotion during the perinatal period in India: a scoping review by Small, Z, Thompson, SE, Sharma, A, Majumdar, S, Thout, SR, Praveen, D, Hirst, JE

“…Reported barriers included household responsibilities, technical difficulties, difficulty accessing a phone and difficulty understanding, or misinterpreting messages. …”

Signature sequence for DS-CDMA cellular system by Chen, Jie.

“…The direct-sequence CDMA (DS-CDMA) scheme is the method currently being used by commercial cellular mobile phone systems. Every user in each user group is assigned its own code, that user codes are approximately orthogonal so that the cross-correlation of any two different codes tends to be zeros. …”
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Hardware implementation of optimum channel codes by Sunish Bharathan.

“…One important aspect of signal processing that contributed to such luxuries is the channel coding, which is evident in our daily usage, ranging from mobile phone to satellite communications. Recently, a special class of block codes, known as Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) codes, has piqued interest upon many researchers for its capacity approaching performance as well as the speed of its decoding algorithm that transcends most existing channel codes.…”
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Collision analysis of top tensioned riser by Cao Quoc Dung

“…The deeper the water is, the more the oil risers are prone to collision. The main motivation of this final year project report is to present explicit results and analysis on the impact of two top tensioned risers under collision. …”
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Creative accounting "Are accountants in Singapore doing it?" by Yap, Kian Seng, Lim, Han Leng, Lee, Hock Lean

“…The scope of the project covers companies listed in the Stock Exchange of Singapore, which are generally more prone to creative accounting activities. …”
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Asset exposure of Asian cities to natural hazards - Bangkok by Aw, Yun Jia

“…Asia is the most disaster prone region in the world. Over the last century, natural disasters in Asia have caused huge economic losses. …”
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Unbiased metabolomics of volatile secondary metabolites in essential oils originated from Myrtaceae species by Manickavasagam, Ganapaty, San, Priscilla Wong Chie, Gorji, Sara Ghorbani, Sungthong, Bunleu, Yong, Yoke Keong, Fitzgerald, Melissa, Dewi, Firli Rahmah Primula, Lim, Vuanghao

“…In this study, an untargeted metabolomic approach was applied to analyze volatile secondary metabolites in five different essential oils (i.e., anise myrtle oil, honey myrtle oil, lemon myrtle oil, lemon-scented tea tree oil, and peppermint gum oil) from the Myrtaceae family, originating from the Australian bush plants. …”
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Punching shear strength of reinforced concrete slabs without shear reinforcement by Jin, Ling

“…However, this kind of structure is prone to fail around the column due to concentric loading around the slab-column connection or unbalanced moment caused by unsymmetrical loading. …”
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Assessing the effect of predator control on black-footed cat survival in central South Africa by Lai, S, Rodrigues, CW, O'Donnell, H, Küsters, M, Herrick, J, Lawrenz, A, Lamberski, N, Schroeder, M, Wilson, B, Sliwa, A

“…The black-footed cat, a small felid endemic to southern Africa, is particularly vulnerable to killing by larger carnivores while also being prone to developing renal diseases. Here, we investigated the effect of predator control on black-footed cat populations by comparing adult annual survival between two sites, a nature reserve with little predator management and a sheep and game farm where jackals and caracals were lethally controlled. …”

Quantum information processing, sensing, and communications: their myths, realities, and futures by Hazno, L, Babar, Z, Cai, Z, Chandra, D, Djordjevic, IB, Koczor, B, Xin Ng, S, Razavi, M, Simone, O

“…Since the operation of quantum systems is prone to the deleterious effects of decoherence, which manifests itself in terms of bitflips, phase-flips, or both, the pivotal subject of quantum error mitigation is reviewed both in the presence and absence of quantum coding. …”