Regulation of coronavirus gene expression by the 5'-untranslated region. by Guo, Huiling.

“…The regulatory properties of the 5’-untranslated region (5’-UTR) of the avian infectious bronchitis virus (IBV) were investigated through designing of plasmids which contained different mutations within the 5’-UTR: full-length (pUTR-wt), 362- nucleotides (nts) deleted (pUTR-362del) and stem-loop 1 (SL1) disrupted (pSL1- dsmut). …”
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Region-based shape control for multi-robot systems by Hou, Paul Saing.

“…Using this region control concept, a shape control for the robots can be done at a higher level in term of inequality functions without having to define the specific positions for all the robots in the systems. …”
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A study on the impacts caused by developments in the arctic region by Yeo, Melisa Hui Mei

“…The focus of this report lies on the current, on-going and potential developments in the Arctic region. This study aims to assess the economic, environmental and technological impacts caused by the developments in Arctic. …”
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Katibah Nusantara and its threat to the Southeast Asian region by Lim, Jacinta Yinfang

“…Governments and law entorcement agencies in Southeast Asia recogmse that Katibah Nusantara, the Malay Archipelago unit for ISIS, is a threat to the region. There is an urgent and essential need to understand more about this unit. …”
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Climate change and regional defence forces : is there a connection? by Evan A. Laksmana.

“…A spate of natural disasters in Southeast Asia has underscored how vulnerable the region is to climate change. While regional militaries are often called on to address the security ramifications, few pay attention to the impacts of climate change at the strategic, institutional and operational levels.…”
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Indonesia's regional diplomacy : imperative to maintain Asean cohesion by Sebastian, Leonard C

“…Indonesia’s more aggressive stance in regional diplomacy following ASEAN’s failure to reach a consensus at last week’s ASEAN Ministerial Meeting (AMM) is motivated by its desire to maintain regional cohesion and autonomy. …”
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Yemen conflict and Arab uprising : regional fissures and repercussions by James M. Dorsey

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Introduction: Diffusionism, migration, and the archaeology of the Chinese border region by Hein, A

Observations on baboons, Papio anubis, in an arid region in Ethiopia by Aldrich-Blake, FP, Bunn, TK, Dunbar, RI, Headley, PM

A study on Stevedoring companies and their operations in Singapore : break bulk shipping segment by Ng, Donovan Chun Hong

“…The Port of Singapore is positioned as a premium global hub port in the Southeast Asia region. Besides its core involvement in container transhipment, Singapore also has a leading multipurpose port, handling break bulk and project cargos that were and will continue to be essential for the ever growing and changing industry in the nation. …”
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Optimum transmitter current distribution for dynamic wireless power transfer with segmented array by Jayathurathnage, Prasad Kumara Sampath, Alphones, Arokiaswami, Vilathgamuwa, D. Mahinda, Ong, Andrew

“…The misalignment problem is a major challenge in dynamic wireless power transfer systems with a segmented transmitter (Tx) array. Tx coils farther away from receiver (Rx) experience higher currents as compared to Tx coils nearer to Rx coil leading to higher losses and lower performances. …”
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Dual attention deep learning network for automatic steel surface defect segmentation by Pan, Yue, Zhang, Limao

“…Experimental results show that, compared with other deep learning models, DAN-DeepLabv3+ based on the Xception backbone exhibits the best segmentation performance under the mean intersection over union (IoU) of 89.95% and the frequency-weighted IoU of 97.34%. …”
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Hybrid UNet transformer architecture for ischemic stoke segmentation with MRI and CT datasets by Soh, Wei Kwek, Rajapakse, Jagath Chandana

“…HUT achieves higher Dice scores and reduced Hausdorff Distance scores in single-modality and multi-modality lesion segmentation. HUT outperforms the state-the-art network SPiN in the single-modality MRI segmentation on Anatomical Tracings of lesion After Stroke (ATLAS) dataset by 4.84% of Dice score and a large margin of 40.7% in the Hausdorff Distance score. …”
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Automated detection and segmentation of vertebral bodies in volumetric abdominal magnetic resonance images by Lin, Dehui.

“…Detection and segmentation of the column of vertebral bodies are intermediate steps required to identify the bone marrow which is considered as the wrongly labeled visceral adipose tissue in the assessment of abdominal obesity. …”
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Automatic segmentation of the choroid in enhanced depth imaging optical coherence tomography images by Tian, Jing, Marziliano, Pina, Baskaran, Mani, Tun, Tin Aung, Aung, Tin

“…This labeling process is tedious and subjective of inter-observer differences, hence, automatic segmentation of the choroid layer is highly desirable. …”
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Fast and accurate detection of Identical-By-Descent segment sharing in large genomic datasets by Saada, J

“…We introduce the basics of coalescent theory to understand IBD segments detection and then pro- vide an overview of a state-of-the art methods for detecting IBD segments, comparing the most commonly used and recent existing methods. …”

Rethinking semi-supervised medical image segmentation: a variance-reduction perspective by You, C, Dai, W, Min, Y, Liu, F, Clifton, DA, Zhou, SK, Staib, L, Duncan, JS

“…For medical image segmentation, contrastive learning is the dominant practice to improve the quality of visual representations by contrasting semantically similar and dissimilar pairs of samples. …”

OpenOFM: an open-source implementation of the multi-segment Oxford Foot Model by Dixon, P, Drew, E, McBride, S, Harrington, M, Stebbins, J, Zavatsky, A

“…Evaluation was conducted using the normalised root mean square error (NRMSE) between the inter-segment angles and arch heights of both implementations. …”

BiCoS: a bi-level co-segmentation method for image classification by Chai, Y, Lempitsky, V, Zisserman, A

“…The objective of this paper is the unsupervised segmentation of image training sets into foreground and background in order to improve image classification performance. …”

Is there a role for traction forces exerted at the polar regions in the cytokinesis of adherent cells? by Foo, Jasmine Mao Shan.

“…I found that cells that adhered firmly to substrates could produce opposite traction forces at polar regions during cell division, leading to a slight delay in cytokinesis. …”
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