Study of the characteristics of a total knee replacement prosthesis by Chua, Chee Kai., Khoo, Li Pheng.

“…This report describes the work that leads to the establishment of a set of major parameters for the design of symmetrical prosthetic implants for the Asian population. …”
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The unintended consequences of improving police recording of rape in England and Wales by Lovett, Jo, Kelly, Liz, Vera-Gray, Fiona

“…A strong focus in recent policy and media coverage has been the increase in reporting of rape coupled with an associated fall in the charge rate, often attributed to victim withdrawal. …”
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Perspectives and Considerations on the Evolution of Smart Systems / by Habib, Maki K., 1955-, editor 632023, IGI Global Scientific Publishing (Online service) 655412

“…Smart systems based on available data should have the ability to predict and be adaptive, which leads to performing reliable, smart actions. Smartness and learning capabilities are essential characteristics describing smart systems besides connectivity and digital virtual cloudification technologies. …”
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Engineering the frontier orbitals of a diazadiborinine for facile activation of H2, NH3, and an isonitrile by Su, Yuanting, Li, Yongxin, Ganguly, Rakesh, Kinjo, Rei

“…An annulated 1,3,2,5‐diazadiborinine with 14 π electrons has been synthesized and fully characterized. Experimental and computational studies revealed that this compound features a rather small HOMO–LUMO gap, which leads to enhanced reactivity towards small molecules. …”
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The evolution of signalling and monitoring in plant-fungal networks by Scott, T, Kiers, ET, West, SA

“…Indeed, selection is often more likely to push plant behavior in the opposite direction—with plants signaling dishonestly about an attack that has not occurred, or suppressing a cue that they have been attacked. Instead, we show that there are two viable alternatives that could explain the empirical data: 1) the process of being attacked leads to a cue (information about the attack) which is too costly for the attacked plant to fully suppress; 2) mycorrhizal fungi monitor their host plants, detect when they are attacked, and then the fungi signal this information to warn other plants in their network. …”

Longitudinal and lateral control for an outdoor AGV by Kandhasamy Nalliyappan.

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Longitudinal effects of physical discipline on specific dimensions of childhood anxiety by Leow, Jerron

“… • Physical discipline has been linked to many negative developmental outcomes, including anxiety (e.g., Gershoff et al., 2010; Lansford et al., 2010; Liu, 2015)…”
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Multigrid computation of high-speed turbulent flows in ducts by Ding, Zhongman

“…Different grids of various refinement are tested in the computation and the grids used have been proved to be sufficiently refined.…”
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Fear and attraction : two sides of the same coin? by Muhammad Hidayat Isnin.

“…These shifts have been observed in the animal kingdom, adding strength that the fear and attractive pathways are not completely segregated. …”
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Dual role of mesenchymal stem/stromal cells and their cell‐free extracellular vesicles in colorectal cancer by Saadh, Mohamed J., Mohamed, Asma'a H., Almoyad, Muhammad Ali Abdullah, Allela, Omer Qutaiba B., Amin, Ali H., Malquisto, April Ann, Wong, Tze Jin, Sârbu, Ioan, AlShamsi, Faisal, Elsaid, Fahmy Gad, Akhavan-Sigari, Reza

“…However, the surgical control of the CRC progression is difficult, and in most cases, the metastasis leads to cancer‐related mortality. Mesenchymal stem/stromal cells (MSCs) with potential translational applications in regenerative medicine have been widely researched for several years. …”

Fluorophore-doped core–multishell spherical plasmonic nanocavities : resonant energy transfer toward a loss compensation by Peng, Bo, Zhang, Qing, Liu, Xinfeng, Ji, Yun, Demir, Hilmi Volkan, Huan, Alfred Cheng Hon, Sum, Tze Chien, Xiong, Qihua

“…The interplay of these factors leads to a non-monotonous photoluminescence dependence as a function of the silica spacer shell thickness. …”
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General circulation models simulate negative liquid water path–droplet number correlations, but anthropogenic aerosols still increase simulated liquid water path by Mülmenstädt, J, Gryspeerdt, E, Dipu, S, Quaas, J, Ackerman, AS, Fridlind, AM, Tornow, F, Bauer, SE, Gettelman, A, Ming, Y, Zheng, Y, Ma, P-L, Wang, H, Zhang, K, Christensen, MW, Varble, AC, Leung, LR, Liu, X, Neubauer, D, Partridge, DG, Stier, P, Takemura, T

“…The discrepancy is thought to stem in part from GCMs' inability to represent the turbulence–microphysics interactions in cloud-top entrainment, a mechanism that leads to a reduction in liquid water in response to an anthropogenic increase in aerosols. …”

To what extent and in what ways do communities of practice facilitate learning in the context of professional development for interpreting students and practitioners? by D'Hayer, Danielle

“…This lonely experience in this no man’s land induces an identity crisis and a need for further professional development that has not yet been investigated. This study explores whether the concept of Communities of Practice (CoP) within a Social Learning framework offers a collaborative approach to support the transformative trajectory of interpreting students to becoming professional interpreters engaged in the market, and to potentially bring the interpreting profession to value, nurture and care for newcomers. …”
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Variational model with image denoising fitting term for boundary extraction of breast ultrasound images by Badrulhisam, Nurdina, Ismail, Nurhuda, Jumaat, Abdul Kadir, Maasar, Mohd Azdi, Laham, Mohamed Faris

“…Unavoidable noise in BUS pictures leads to poor segmentation, as is widely recognized. …”
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Loneliness, self-efficacy, academic achievement, life satisfaction and depression among Iranian undergraduates at a Malaysian Private University by Molooki, Mahshid

“…It shows that the increase of loneliness and academic achievement leads to increase of depression among the students and the increase of self-efficacy and life satisfaction leads to decrease of depression among the students. …”
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Computational modeling of selective laser melting process by Le, Kim Quy

“…Discrete element method (DEM), which is a finite-difference method widely used for simulating granular systems, has been applied to describe the Newtonian interactions of the particles (or powders) in SLM, while computational fluid dynamics (CFD) has been adopted to model the thermodynamics of the melting process. …”
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Influence of presumed influence on thinness as a beauty ideal for girls. by Soh, Wai Siong.

“…On the other hand, if the “influence on significant others or female peers” exerts an impact on “influence on self”, it will result in desire to be thin.…”
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Mechanics in dehydration-induced leaf morphing behaviors by Guo, Kexin

“…For thin-sheet materials like plant leaves, uniform uniaxial stretching of the sheet leads to wrinkling, a phenomenon that has been extensively studied analytically and numerically. …”
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Scheduling around bottleneck resources : a scheduling approach for flexible flow lines (software system development) by Sundaramoorthy Ravikumar.

“…The “scheduling around bottleneck” approach aims to utilize the bottleneck machines to the maximum and leads to higher output.…”
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Development of techniques for making hot-wire probes and a portable hot-wire calibration device by Chua, Leok Poh, Liu, Chang Yu

“…A technqique in making the hot-wire/cold wire probe in-house is presented. The techniques leads to a great saving in cost and more importantly a great advances in turbulent research in NTU for both velocity and temperature measurements.…”
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