Purification of perna viridis (Asian green mussels) adhesive proteins by Lee, Hendrik Jie Hao

“…Asian green mussels, Perna viridis, are commonly found in the coastal waters of the Indo-Pacific regions. These mussels are infamous for adhering to ships’ hull, marine equipment and damaging submerged structures (biofouling). …”
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Proximal tibial strains following unicompartmental knee arthroplasty (UKA) : a finite element study by Xiao, Xiao

“…From the results obtained, it was found that the model with shortest pinhole depth of 18 mm has the lowest stress at the regions in the pinholes. It is also found that the highest level of stress was found at the bottom edge of the web cut directly in contact with the implants. …”
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Real-time facial expression recognition system by Xu, Meng Yao

“…The real-time recognition system could locate face regions, extract facial features and recognise basic human expressions that could be considered as an important study or exploration for the future driving safety enhancement.…”
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Incorporation of aquaporins into polymeric membranes for water purification by Shen, Wenming

“…Many regions of the world are facing the water shortages as urgent and major challenge. …”
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Impact of China's OBOR strategy : the impact of China's belt and road initiative - key challenges on ports in Asia by Tan, Siang Ying

“…China’s Belt and Road initiative (BRI), previously termed as the “One Belt One Road” (OBOR), is aimed at the growth of China, with the growth of the economy and regions around China. The recent slowdown in China’s growth is due to slowing consumption, leaving China with excess capacity and a declining manufacturing sector. …”
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What do people want? Views on platforms and the digital public sphere in eight countries by Ejaz, W, Fletcher, R, Nielsen, RK, McGregor, S

“…The study highlights variations in platform use, trust, and societal impact across demographics and regions, revealing that younger, tech-savvy individuals generally express greater optimism towards different platforms. …”

Efficient retrieval of deformable shape classes using local self-similarities by Chatfield, K, Philbin, J, Zisserman, A

“…In order to use the self-similarity descriptor for efficient retrieval we make three contributions: (i) we sparsify the descriptor points by locating discriminative regions within each image, thus reducing the computational expense of shape matching; (ii) we extend to enable matching despite changes in scale; and (iii) we show that vector quantizing the descriptor does not inhibit performance, thus providing the basis of a large-scale shape-based retrieval system using a bag-of-visual-words approach. …”

Contributions of age groups and causes of death to the sex gap in lifespan variation in Europe by Zazueta-Borboa, J-D, Aburto, JM, Permanyer, I, Zarulli, V, Janssen, F

“…We examined the contributions of age groups and causes of death to the sex gap in lifespan variation for 28 European countries, grouped into five European regions. In 2010–15, males in Europe displayed a 6.8-year-lower life expectancy and a 2.3-year-higher standard deviation in lifespan than females, with clear regional differences. …”

Sequential phreatomagmatic eruptions during the lateral propagation of giant dyke swarms by Pryce, E, Cartwright, J, Kirkham, C, Phillips, D

“…However, the lack of preservation of the upper regions of most terrestrial dykes is a barrier to fully explaining the reasons for this upward arrest below ground level. …”

The Global Multidimensional Poverty Index 2021: harmonised level estimates and their changes over time by Alkire, S, Kanagaratnam, U, Suppa, N

“…</p> <p>The Database covers estimates for 84 countries and 793 subnational regions. 28 of the 84 countries have trends for three points in time; while poverty trends in 56 countries are based on two points in time. …”

Surface-tension-driven buckling of a thin viscous sheet by Ryan, NPJ, Breward, CJW, Griffiths, IM, Howell, PD

“…We show that small thickness perturbations about a flat base state can lead to regions of compression, where one or both of the principal tensions in the sheet becomes negative, and thus drive transient buckling of the sheet centre surface. …”

The king of fruits by Thorogood, CJ, Ghazalli, MN, Siti‐Munirah, MY, Nikong, D, Kusuma, YWC, Sudarmono, S, Witono, JR

“…Finally we suggest greater attention should be given to the potential threat to biodiversity posed by illegal durian plantations in one of the most biodiverse regions of the planet.</p>…”

Image classification using random forests and ferns by Bosch, A, Zisserman, A, Munoz, X

“…To this end we combine three ingredients: (i) shape and appearance representations that support spatial pyramid matching over a region of interest. This generalizes the representation of Lazebnik et al., (2006) from an image to a region of interest (ROI), and from appearance (visual words) alone to appearance and local shape (edge distributions); (ii) automatic selection of the regions of interest in training. …”

Unequal health: the scandal of our times by Dorling, D

“…Most people’s health is much better now than then, but the gaps in life expectancy between regions, between cities, and between neighbourhoods within cities now surpass the worst measures over the last hundred years. …”

Image-based rendering using image-based priors by Fitzgibbon, A, Wexler, Y, Zisserman, A

“…This retains the benefits of geometric constraints, but projects out the ambiguities in depth estimation which occur in textureless regions. <br> On the other hand, regularization is still needed in order to generate high-quality images. …”

Object level grouping for video shots by Sivic, J, Schaffalitzky, F, Zisserman, A

“…</p> <p>There are two areas of innovation: first, affine invariant regions are used to repair short gaps in individual tracks and also to join sets of tracks across occlusions (where many tracks are lost simultaneously); second, a robust affine factorization method is developed which is able to cope with motion degeneracy. …”

A function-based mapping of sensory integration along the cortical hierarchy by Wei, W, Benn, RA, Scholz, R, Shevchenko, V, Klatzmann, U, Alberti, F, Chiou, R, Wassermann, D, Vanderwal, T, Smallwood, J, Margulies, DS

“…Sensory information mainly travels along a hierarchy spanning unimodal to transmodal regions, forming multisensory integrative representations crucial for higher-order cognitive functions. …”

Gene loops juxtapose promoters and terminators in yeast. by O'Sullivan, JM, Tan-Wong, S, Morillon, A, Lee, B, Coles, J, Mellor, J, Proudfoot, N

“…Here we show that two long genes of Saccharomyces cerevisiae, FMP27 and SEN1, exist in a looped conformation, effectively bringing together their promoter and terminator regions. We also show that PolII is located at both ends of FMP27 when this gene is transcribed from a GAL1 promoter under induced and noninduced conditions. …”

SNeS: learning probably symmetric neural surfaces from incomplete data by Insafutdinov, E, Campbell, D, Henriques, JF, Vedaldi, A

“…We show that it can reconstruct unobserved regions with high fidelity and render high-quality novel view images. …”

Active control of wakes and vortex-induced vibration of a circular cylinder at Re = 100 by Wang, Chenglei

“…Four different lock-on regimes are identified, i.e., the primary, secondary, tertiary and subharmonic lock-on. …”
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