Knee joint measurement using CT scans for knee joint implant selection by Jing, Mei

“…With the help of the cutting guide, the surgeon cuts several pieces of bone from the end of the femur in order to match the implant shape, that’s called shaping the distal femoral bone. …”
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Anatomy of gloom. by Lim, Gwen Yuan Wen.

“…The Puppet wakes up in a gloomy world. Like a new born baby, she is amused her existence. A spider crawls out of her heart and hynotises the puppet, shows her an perplexing illusion of a woman trapped inside a massive flower. …”
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Bacterial type VI secretion system helps prevent cheating in microbial communities by Filloux, Alain

“…In their paper, “Trojan horse-like T6SS effector TepC mediates both interference competition and exploitative competition”, Song and colleagues (2024) remind us of an important societal principle that everyone contributes to benefit the collective population [1]. …”
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The impact of natural climate variability on the global distribution of Aedes aegypti: a mathematical modelling study by Kaye, AR, Obolski, U, Sun, L, Hart, WS, Hurrell, JW, Tildesley, MJ, Thompson, RN

“…Some regions could experience vector-borne disease outbreaks earlier than expected under climate change alone. …”

Neutrophil‐mediated enhancement of angiogenesis and osteogenesis in a novel triple cell co‐culture model with endothelial cells and osteoblasts by Herath, Thanuja D. K., Larbi, Anis, Teoh, Swee Hin, Kirkpatrick, C. James, Goh, Bee Tin

“…Repair and regeneration of critical‐sized bone defects remain a major challenge in orthopaedic and craniomaxillofacial surgery. …”
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Experimental investigation into load settlement characteristics of piled rafts in sand by Leong, Hazel Xueling.

“…Studies by many notable researchers in the years to come suggest that the most effective combinations of piles and raft happens when all the initial loading can be borne with the raft’s bearing capacity alone. The role of the piles was solely to reduce the excessive settlement experienced by the plain raft.…”
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New method for automatic generation of patient specific finite element models of the distal femur by Lek, Cheah Wen.

“…For model validation, the cortical bone was model with four-node shell elements while eight-node hexahedral elements and six-node wedge elements were used to model the cancellous bone. …”
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Numerical model and experimental investigation on the optical trapping of microsphere sample by Muhammad Haer Jam Hari.

“…With the increasing emphasis put on research and development in the industry, more sophisticated technology were born. The biomedical engineering field is no stranger to tremendous research and development efforts in the recent years. …”
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Feel to hear by Ummi Kaltsum Mohamed Bakri

“…Feel to Hear is a project inspired by hearing loss and the curiousity of the ways children born with profound deafness learn about sounds without the use of hearing aids. …”
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Elite sports and national identity : a case study of Singapore's participation in the Olympics by Deepan Kaleselvan

“…Likewise, Singapore is also engaged in recruiting elite foreign-born athletes. This is done in the hope of rallying the masses behind the victories of the athletes and boosting their national pride. …”
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Creative Schools / by Robinson, Ken, author 509031, Aronica, Lou, author 621386

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. …”

Inequality and the 1% by Dorling, D

“…Even before birth, being born outside the 1% will have dramatic impact on the rest of your life: it will reduce your life expectancy, educational and work prospects, as well as your mental health. …”

The life and works of Fu Maoji 傅懋勣的生平和学术活动 by Xu, Lin

“…His sobriquet was Zijia. He was born on May 16, 1911, and passed away in Beijing after an illness on September 13, 1988, at the age of 77. …”
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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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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 medical image-based computer-aided diagnosis system for musculoskeletal disease and disorder. by Chuah, Tong Kuan

“…As part of the advancement to classifying subjects with BML, the thesis investigated textural parameters as potential biomarker in separating between bone marrow with and without bone marrow lesion. …”
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The hollow fiber bioreactor as a stroma-supported, serum-free ex vivo expansion platform for human umbilical cord blood cells by Xue, Cao, Kwek, Kenneth Y. C., Chan, Jerry Kok Yen, Chen, Qingfeng, Lim, Mayasari

“…The bone marrow microenvironment plays an integral role in the regulation of hematopoiesis. …”
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From the Andes to the coast: human mobility and diet in the Atacama desert during the late intermediate period (ad 900-1450) by Santana Sagredo, F

“…Human remains were analysed for tooth enamel, bone collagen, bone apatite, and hair-keratin. A second aim of the thesis was to provide new analysis of archaeological plants and animals of the area. …”

“Why do people kill each other?” (Tolstoy and empire) by Zorin, A

“…Tolstoy always believed that the resistance to invaders and the defence of land where humans were born, by which products they are fed and where they are going to life after death is natural, but considered this instinct as pre-moral and pre-Christian contradicting the personal moral conscience that unconditionally rejects all sorts of violence.…”