Cell charactetization in differnet regions of the native annulus fibrous in a porcine intervetebral disc model through cell sorting and molecular analysis by Teo, Tong

“…The factors that lead to low back pain are complex, there has been more evidence that shows that intervertebral disc degeneration serves as a major contributor leading to the destabilization of the spinal motion segment hence resulting in pain and disability. Current treatments include conservative ones such as the use of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) for short term relief and surgical ones such as spinal fusion to alleviate pain caused by IVD degeneration. …”
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Theoretical study of fermi arc plasmons in Weyl semimetals by Xiong, Ying

“…On the exposed surface of Weyl semimetals, there exist exotic surface states which form an open segment (the Fermi arc) joining a pair of Weyl points with opposite chirality which are gapped in bulk. …”
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Analysis of air traffic controllers' mental workload and visual search efficiency to assess new air traffic control procedures by Ko, Kelvin Chi Kin

“…While this study highlights some of the concerns regarding dual orientation systems, it raises an area of focus for future research, where dual orientation systems could be leveraged on with the segmentation of tasks…”
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Cats and dogs by Parkhi, OM, Vedaldi, A, Zisserman, A, lawahar, CV

“…Fitting the model involves automatically segmenting the animal in the image. Second, we compare two classification approaches: a hierarchical one, in which a pet is first assigned to the cat or dog family and then to a breed, and a flat one, in which the breed is obtained directly. …”

Automated location matching in movies by Schaffalitzky, F, Zisserman, A

“…The local spatial support of the features means that segmentation of the frame (e.g., into foreground/background) is not required, and partial occlusion is tolerated. …”

Structural characterization of the full-length Hantaan virus polymerase by Keown, JR, Carrique, L, Nilsson-Payant, BE, Fodor, E, Grimes, JM

“…Hantaviridae are a family of segmented negative-sense RNA viruses that contain important human and animal pathogens. …”

Effects of maze appearance on maze solving by Semizer, Yelda, Yu, Dian, Wan, Qianqian, Balas, Benjamin, Rosenholtz, Ruth

“…Our findings imply a role of both crowding and figure/ground segmentation in mental maze solving and suggest reformulating the growth cone models.…”
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Digital Anatomy : Applications of Virtual, Mixed and Augmented Reality / by Uhl, Jean-François, editor 643187, Jorge, J. A. (Joaquim Armando), editor 643188, Lopes, Daniel Simões, editor 643190, Campos, Pedro F., editor 643191

RISC-V processor FPGA implementation by Tey, Jing Kai

“…In addition to the RV32I processor, essential modules such as universal asynchronous receiver/transmitter (UART Tx and Rx), seven-segment display, and other device modules were developed. …”
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Performance evaluation of SAFIS for benchmark problems by Sinara Vijayan.

“…Using two classification benchmark problems Image Segmentation and DNA, the selection of the optimal algorithm parameters is done and the performace of SAFIS for the classification problems is also studied with other algorithms. …”
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iNEMO : a multi-sensor real-time human activity monitoring system by Mi, Ding.

“…The real-time indoor human behavior monitoring application performs above expectation. The image segmentation, objects detection, tracking and recognition process are successfully working on multiple objects application within certain effective range. …”
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Deepsea imaging by Quah, Sherman Kah Hou

“…Moving on, the 3 steps to understanding the transformation of histogram from normalization to equalization and lastly the segmentation. Putting the Gaussian or Normal distribution rule into place with mean and standard deviation to ensure everything is in place. …”
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Phenotyping the Halal Entrepreneur Exploring the Malaise Involvement of Bumiputera Entrepreneurs in Halal Business (S/O 13812 by Ismail, Noor Azizi, Mohamed Ismail, Risyawati, Mustafar, Mastora, Othman, Siti Norezam

“…This research investigated the problems faced by Bumiputera halal entrepreneurs, which has caused alarm due to low involvement in the business segment. Only 30% of halal entrepreneurs are Bumiputera, raising concern among all stakeholders. …”
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From private entrepreneurship to state monopoly: contracting Swiss soldiers for Dutch Service under Ancien Régime Fiscal- Military Practices (1693–1829) by Depreter, M

“…This contribution examines Dutch contracting practices to hire Swiss troops during the Ancien Régime, from the first contracts directly negotiated in the Protestant cantons by Petrus Valckenier (1693-1694) during the Nine Years’ War, seizing opportunities arisen from Louis XIV’s revocation of the Edict of Nantes (1685) after a period during which the Dutch seem to have relied on uncertain access to Swiss manpower through French intercession, up to the end of a short-lived revival of Swiss foreign regiments in the newly-instated Kingdom of the Netherlands (1814-1829). …”

Mechanism of traffic jams at speed bottlenecks by Quek, Wei Liang, Chew, Lock Yue

“…In this paper, the interactions between traffic flow and road topology will be studied, particularly the relationship between a sharp bend in a road segment and traffic jams. As suggested by Sugiyama[1], when car density exceeds a critical density, the fluctuations in the speed of each car will lead to greater fluctuations in speed of the cars behind it. …”
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Robust RGB-D SLAM in dynamic environments for autonomous vehicles by Ji, Tete, Yuan, Shenghai, Xie, Lihua

“…Specifically, for each new RGB-D image pair, we first segment the depth image into a few regions using the KMeans algorithm, and then identify the dynamic regions via their reprojection errors. …”
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3D scene graph generation from synthesis 3D indoor scene by Qin, Huaiyuan

“…Existing 3D indoor datasets focus mainly on object instance class and segmentation labels, making it difficult to be utilized to scene graph related tasks. …”
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Traffic monitoring and analysis via street footage by Chew, Darren Wen Cong

“…This project implements the use of computer vision and machine learning technologies such as object detection and object segmentation. This component has been developed and designed to handle multiple challenges such as nighttime images, poor lighting, various camera angles, blurring due to car speeds and imbalanced data set. …”
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Simulated training on interventional diagnostic device by Chiang, Patricia Wei Yin.

“…Catheter-heart-wall interaction is modeled through geometrical intersections between heart-wall plane and catheter segment and iterative adjustments progressing from the pivot to the catheter tip. …”
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Human face recognition using line edge information by Gao, Yong Sheng.

“…LEM and the proposed generic Line Segment Hausdorff Distance measure provide a new way for face coding and recognition.…”
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