Biomechanical evaluation of peripheral nerves after crush injuries by Wong, Yoke-Rung, Pang, Xin, Lim, Zeus Yiwei, Du, Hejun, Tay, Shian-Chao, McGrouther, Duncan Angus

“…The original diameters of proximal, middle and distal end of nerve segment were measured. The midst of each digital nerve was compressed by a customized mechanical system, at 1N, 3N and 5N for 30sec. …”
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Distinct Circle of Willis anatomical configurations in healthy preterm born adults: a 3D time-of-flight magnetic resonance angiography study by Greggio, J, Malamateniou, C, Baruteau, KP, Reyes-Aldasoro, CC, Huckstep, OJ, Francis, JM, Williamson, W, Leeson, P, Lewandowski, AJ, Lapidaire, W

“…In contrast, preterm females showed higher odds of a group 4a variant (circles with one or more accessory segments, without any absent segments) in comparison to their full-term counterparts (p = 0.020). …”

1-in-3 vs. not-all-equal: dichotomy of a broken promise by Ciardo, L, Kozik, M, Krokhin, A, Nakajima, T-V, Živný, S

“…In the present work, we investigate this constraint satisfaction problem in a regime where the promise is weakened from either side by a rainbow-free structure, and establish a complexity dichotomy for the resulting class of computational problems.…”

Exploring the therapeutic potential of 5-fluorouracil-loaded calcium carbonate nanoparticles combined with natural compound thymoquinone for colon cancer treatment by Deng, Xi, Yang, Zhongming, Chan, Kim Wei, Abu Bakar, Md Zuki

“…These results provide evidence for 5FU-CaCO3np as a novel regimen against colon cancer. Combining 5FU-CaCO3np and TQ may offer a new perspective for colon cancer therapy.…”
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Effects of resonant tunneling on intrinsic linewidth of quantum cascade lasers by Liu, T., Wang, Q. J.

“…The quantum Langevin analysis for QCLs show that coupling strength and dephasing rate strongly affect the linewidth of THz QCLs in incoherent resonant-tunneling transport regime, but induce insignificant influence for mid-infrared QCLs due to strong coupling.…”
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Libya and the UN : whose responsibility to protect? by Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury, Yang Razali Kassim

“…As the blood-letting in Libya continues, and the hapless protesters battle a repressive regime that has shown no qualms to slaughter its own people, the eyes of the world are focused on the United Nations. …”
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Hoteliers' perception of corporate crisis and crisis management in the Singapore hotel industry. by Chen, Jian Hao., Lee, Wei Lin., Ng, Yvonne Pei Ling.

“…This report looks at the perceptions of corporate crisis of four local hoteliers belonging to the 5-star, luxury hotel segment in the local industry, and their hotels’ crisis management plans. …”
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A spatial-focal error concealment scheme for corrupted focal stack video by Wu, Kejun, Wang, Yi, Liu, Wenyang, Yap, Kim-Hui, Chau, Lap-Pui

“…The spatial adjacent regions around an error region are employed to reveal the prediction relations between error frame and focal adjacent frames. …”
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Demand for energy & energy market integration in Asean by Chua, Jing Yi, Lee, Justin Cheng Han

“…Our results shows three main findings in a 50% open power trade regime amongst ASEAN nations. First, introducing locational marginal pricing of transmission losses in an open trade scenario reduces trade for developed ASEAN countries. …”
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Effective and efficient topic mining and exploration from geo-textual data by Zhao, Kaiqi

“…Secondly, the existing studies on learning topics of regions only allow users to explore the topics in predefined regions and time spans. …”
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Cavity-length optimization for high energy pulse generation in a long cavity passively mode-locked all-fiber ring laser by Shum, Perry Ping, Wu, Kan, Wong, Jia Haur, Aditya, Sheel, Li, Nanxi, Xue, Jin, Ouyang, Chunmei

“…However, a long cavity operating in the anomalous dispersion regime also leads to pulse broadening, which reduces the average pulse power. …”
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Natural resources and income inequality in Africa. by Charasz, Pawel.

“…However, the overall effect is dependent upon the political regime and level of population heterogeneity. Whereas natural resources themselves were on average contributing positively to income inequality, greater degree of democracy reduces this effect and greater level of population heterogeneity increases this effect.…”
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Aceh peace process : an anatomy of failure and success. by Chng, Belinda Hui Kheng.

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The struggle for Syria : Iran-Qatar ties come under stress by James M. Dorsey

“…The struggle by Syrian opposition forces to topple the Assad regime is sharpening tensions between Iran and Qatar and threatens sectarian fault lines elsewhere in North Africa and Middle East. …”
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Location-aware spatial keyword search for spatial web objects by Wang, Chun An

“…Given the use of 3G mobile devices is rapidly taking over the current mobile phone market and with the increase in the usage of GPS systems on vehicles around the word, a lot of applications that uses the spatial database have quickly emerged as a new segment for software industry in mobile applications. …”
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No Shangri-La for North Korea by Samaniego, Catherine

“…Kim Jong-un should expect to see his regime’s political leverage in Northeast Asia gradually reduced, while its biggest ally, China, remains preoccupied with its own domestic concerns.…”
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Study of inertial hydrodynamic focusing in sheath-driven flows for lab-on-a-chip flow cytometry by Panwar, Nishtha, Song, Peiyi, Yong, Ken-Tye, Tjin, Swee Chuan

“…Most models predict the width of the focused sample stream based on hydrodynamic focusing in the low Reynolds number regime (Re << 1), where the viscous forces dominate the inertial forces. …”
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A Unified Approach to Learning Ising Models: Beyond Independence and Bounded Width by Gaitonde, Jason, Mossel, Elchanan

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Acceleration by Stepsize Hedging: Multi-Step Descent and the Silver Stepsize Schedule by Altschuler, Jason, Parrilo, Pablo

“…This leads to a phase transition in the convergence rate: initially super-exponential (acceleration regime), then exponential (saturation regime). The core algorithmic intuition is hedging between individually suboptimal strategiesÐshort steps and long stepsÐsince bad cases for the former are good cases for the latter, and vice versa. …”
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A study of air molecular contamination (AMC) and volatile organic compounds (VOC) in new AMC/VOC controlled cleanroom by Wong, Chee Kong

“…Test results from 5 to 8 are to suggest a maintenance regime that will be essential to keep required VOC within the required specifications in the cleanroom production area. …”
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