Causal inference in health and disease: a review of the principles and applications of Mendelian randomization by Lovegrove, CE, Howles, SA, Furniss, D, Holmes, MV

“…This review provides a framework to enhance understanding of how MR may be used to triangulate evidence and progress research in bone and mineral metabolism as we strive to infer causal effects in health and disease.…”

Mobile apps development for NTU canteens by Chua, Joy Yun Hui

“…Nearly two-fifths of all mobile phone users—close to one-quarter of the worldwide population—will use a Smartphone at least monthly in 2014. …”
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Mobile visual product search by Yang, Zhongxiu

“…With the rapid development of mobile visual search technology, image recognition becomes a hot topic for development and research. Nowadays, mobile phone is an indispensable gadget in people’s life. …”
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Performance of photogrammetry-based makeshift 3D scanning system for geometrical object in reverse engineering by Muhammad Nur Farhan, Saniman, Hariz Syahmi, Zulkifli, Muhammad Izhar, Ishak, Khairul Anuar, Abd Wahid, Amzari, Zhahir, Wan Mansor, Wan Muhamad

“…Thus, this research aims to investigate the feasibility of a low-cost makeshift 3D scanner using a mobile phone and the photogrammetry method in reconstructing digital 3D models of geometrical objects. …”
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Task oriented feature extraction for complex human activity recognition by Mohammed Mobark Salem Wahdeen

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Exploring the dynamics of gene drive mosquitoes within wild populations using an agent-based simulation by Wickramasooriya, S, Mahmood, I, Calinescu, A, Wooldridge, M, Lanzaro, G

“…Gene drive technology is emerging as a potentially powerful tool in combating vector-borne diseases – notably malaria. This study introduces an agent-based model (ABM) focused on the deployment of genetically engineered mosquitoes with gene drive (GEM) in Príncipe Island, Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe, an island nation in the Gulf of Guinea, West Africa. …”

Unraveling the association between socioeconomic diversity and consumer price index in a tourism country by Leng, Yan, Babwany, Nakash Ali, Pentland, Alex

“…In this paper, we explore the relationship between diversity measures extracted from large-scale and high-resolution mobile phone data, and the CPIs in different sectors in a tourism country. …”
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Wi-Fi based occupancy estimation in indoor environment by Lee, Seng Ngee

“…Due to the growth of mobile phone usage and the technological advancement of Wi-Fi, all age groups have since stated to use their mobile phone more often to surf the internet compared to a decade ago. …”
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Virtual piano by Tan, Alan Lai Chian

“…Smartphones are small but powerful devices, providing humans with countless uses, from making phone calls and taking photos, to accessing the Internet from almost anywhere. …”
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A generic micropatterning platform to direct human mesenchymal stem cells from different origins towards myogenic differentiation by Tan, Lay Poh, Yu, Ting, Chua, Chee Kai, Tay, Chor Yong, Wen, Feng, Yu, Haiyang, Chan, Jerry Kok Yen, Chong, Mark Seow Khoon, Leong, David Tai Wei

“…Recent work shows that cell shape manipulation via micropatterning can modulate the differentiation of bone-marrow-derived MSCs. Herein, the effect of micropatterning on the myogenesis of MSCs isolated from three different sources (bone marrow, fetal tissue, and adipose) is reported. …”
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Specific inhibition of PI3K p110δ inhibits CSF‐1‐induced macrophage spreading and invasive capacity by Mouchemore, KA, Sampaio, N, Murrey, MW, Stanley, ER, Lannutti, BJ, Pixley, FJ

“…Here we show that pY721‐based signaling is necessary for CSF‐1‐stimulated PtdIns(3,4,5)P production. While primary bone marrow‐derived macrophages and the immortalized bone marrow‐derived macrophage cell line M−/−.WT express all three class IA PI3K isoforms, p110δ predominates in the cell line. …”

Infectious diseases acquired by international travellers visiting the USA by Stoney, Rhett J, Esposito, Douglas H., Kozarsky, Phyllis, Hamer, Davidson H., Grobusch, Martin P., Gkrania-Klotsas, Effrossyni, Libman, Michael, Gautret, Philippe, Lim, Poh Lian, Leder, Karin, Schwartz, Eli, Sotir, Mark J., Licitra, Carmelo

“…Lyme disease was the most frequently reported arthropod-borne disease after travel (42, 4%). Nonspecific respiratory, gastrointestinal and systemic infections were also among the most frequently reported diagnoses overall. …”
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A comparative study of multi-rotor unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with spectral sensors for real-time turbidity monitoring in the coastal environment by Trinh, Ha Linh, Kieu, Hieu Trung, Pak, Hui Ying, Pang, Dawn Sok Cheng, Tham, Wai Wah, Khoo, Eugene, Law, Adrian Wing-Keung

“…This study investigates the logistics for the concurrent deployment of the UAV-borne spectral sensors and a sampling vessel for water quality measurements and the effects on the turbidity predictions due to the time delay between these two operations. …”
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Encrypted smartphone with advanced encryption standard 256 by Tan, Alvin Chee Munn.

“…Today, mobile users have the opportunity to make use of the short message service (SMS) when on the go. Almost every mobile phone produced over the last few decades has the SMS function built into the handset. …”
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Development of a point-of-care (POC) diagnostic system by Lee, Shinhan.

“…Different modules including the microfluidic testing cartridge, portable POC mechanical casing, optical interface, micro-fluidic interface, electronic interface and user interface on the iPhone for the POC system were design and developed and finally assembled to build up the first prototype system for evaluation.…”
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Development framework of mobile web apps and app plan tracker by Trung, Nguyen Thanh.

“…The project implementation focus on the technology of HTML5, jQuery Mobile, and Phone Gap. The advantage of these framework will be demonstrated as well as its constraints. …”
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AudiCeive : mobile application to recognize unique audio frequencies using acoustic fingerprinting by Saraswathi Karuppiah

“…However if we place a phone in their hand together with a movie clip playing and let them see the phone returning a few details about the place they just saw on screen, things take a different angle. …”
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Industrial attachment report with Motorola Electronics Pte Ltd by Chan, Weng Cheong.

“…This report provides details of the design and simulation of a hybrid handphone prototype that incorporates phone, pager and Personal Digital Assistant features. …”
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The medium-term results of arthroscopic hip surgery compared with physiotherapy and activity modification for the treatment of femoroacetabular impingement syndrome: a multicentre... by Palmer, A, Fernquest, S, Logishetty, K, Rombach, I, Harin, A, Mansour, R, Dijkstra, P, Andrade, T, Dutton, S, Glyn-Jones, S

A Digital Phenotypic Assessment in Neuro-Oncology (DANO): A Pilot Study on Sociability Changes in Patients Undergoing Treatment for Brain Malignancies by Siddi, Francesca, Emedom-Nnamdi, Patrick, Catalino, Michael P., Rana, Aakanksha, Boaro, Alessandro, Dawood, Hassan Y., Sala, Francesco, Onnela, Jukka-Pekka, Smith, Timothy R.

“…Results: In brain tumor patients, phone-based communication appears to deteriorate with time, as evident in the trend for total outgoing minutes, total outgoing calls, and call out-degree. …”
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