Epistemic oppression and the concept of coercion in psychiatry by Faissner, M, Braun, E, Hempeler, C

“…Qualitative research indicates, however, that patients and psychiatric staff have different understandings of what they mean by ‘coercion’. Psychiatric staff primarily employ the concept as referring to instances of formal coercion regulated by law, such as involuntary hospital admission or treatment. …”

Childhood language development and alexithymia in adolescence: an eight-year longitudinal study by Lee, K-S, Catmur, C, Bird, G

“…Leveraging data from the Surrey Communication and Language in Education cohort (N = 229, mean age at timepoint 1 = 5.32 years, SD = 0.29, 51.1% female), we investigated the prospective link between childhood language development and alexithymic traits in adolescence. …”

Seminal characteristics of genetically improved farmed Tilapia (GIFT) strain induced with different doses of spawning agent by Abdul Aziz, Nur Syafiqah

“…Treatment group 0.5 ml/kg has the highest mean for sperm density, motility and viability, which made it as the optimum dose for Ovaprim®. …”
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Biomarkers and cognition study, Singapore (BIOCIS): protocol, study design, and preliminary findings by Leow, Yi Jin, Wang, J. D. J., Vipin, Ashwati, Sandhu, Gurveen Kaur, Soo, See Ann, Kumar, Dilip, Mohammed, Adnan Azam, Zailan, Fatin Zahra, Lee, Faith Phemie Hui En, Ghildiyal, Smriti, Liew, Shan Yao, Dang, Chao, Tanoto, Pricilia, Tan, Isabelle Yu Zhen, Chong, Wayne Freeman Weien, Kandiah, Nagaendran

“…The prevalence of cerebral small vessel disease is 90.2% with a mean modified Fazekas white matter hyperintensity score of 4.1. …”
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Investigation of fluorescence lifetime imaging for quantitative cervical cancer screening and diagnosis by Gu, Jun

“…Lifetime calculated from fluorescence emission decay in cervical epithelium region was used to correlate with tissue pathology. Mean and standard deviation of the characteristic fluorescence lifetime were used as feature vectors to feed into a neural network extreme learning machine (ELM) classifier for discrimination. …”
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GP-OSMOTIC trial protocol : an individually randomised controlled trial to determine the effect of retrospective continuous glucose monitoring (r-CGM) on HbA1c in adults with type... by Furler, John, O’Neal, David Norman, Speight, Jane, Blackberry, Irene, Manski-Nankervis, Jo-Anne, Thuraisingam, Sharmala, de La Rue, Katie, Ginnivan, Louise, Browne, Jessica Lea, Holmes-Truscott, Elizabeth, Khunti, Kamlesh, Dalziel, Kim, Chiang, Jason, Audehm, Ralph, Kennedy, Mark, Clark, Malcolm, Jenkins, Alicia Josephine, Liew, Danny, Clarke, Philip, Best, James

“…Primary outcome: Absolute difference in mean HbA1c at 12 months follow-up between intervention and control arms. …”
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Winning Models for Grade Point Average, Grit, and Layoff in the Fragile Families Challenge by Rigobon, Daniel E., Jahani, Eaman, Suhara, Yoshihiko, AlGhoneim, Khaled, Alghunaim, Abdulaziz, Pentland, Alex, Almaatouq, Abdullah

“…However, predictions were at most 20 percent better than a baseline that predicted the mean value of the training data for each outcome.…”
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NBA Sleep Tracking Data Imputation by Licht, Joseph D.

“…Each technique is applied and evaluated on key sleep metrics such as sleep duration, rMSSD (Root Mean Square of the Successive Differences between Heartbeats), and average heart rate. …”
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A simplified formulation to estimate influence of gearbox parameters on the rattle noise by Zhang, Jidong, Sui, Wentao, Dhupia, Jaspreet

“…To develop such understanding at the gearbox design stage, this paper analytically evaluates the gear parameters’ effect on the root mean square of the wheel gear acceleration under idling condition, which is known to be linearly correlated to the rattling noise level. …”
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Comfort living analysis in smart living environment by Lee, Sean Jian Hui

“…Thermal comfort is commonly assessed by the computation of the Predicted Mean Vote (PMV). Throughout the years, research has discussed the relationship between thermal comfort and productivity. …”
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Application of reusable PZT sensors for monitoring intial hydration of concrete by Lim, Parry Weixiong.

“…The experiment will study the applicability of employing the EMI sensing technique to monitor early age concrete monitoring by analyzing the vertical and horizontal shifts in resonant peaks of EM signatures and using the Root Mean Square Deviation (RMSD) statistical method to show correlation of strength gain for curing from the signatures. …”
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Multicarrier communications for underwater wireless channels by Leong, Chen Ming.

“…While OFDM transmission over mobile communications channels can alleviate problem of multipath propagation, recent research efforts have focused on solving a set of inherent difficulties regarding OFDM, namely the peak-to-mean power ratio, time and frequency synchronization, and on mitigating the effects of the frequency selective fading channel. …”
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Audio based sensing of wheeze in respiratory signals by Seah, Meng Shi.

“…The features selected for this case study are Kurtosis, Renyi Entropy, Mean Crossing Irregularity and f50/f90 ratio. They are selected for their distinct characteristics that allow the evaluation on the behavior of the wheeze signals in both time and frequency domain. …”
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Portfolio insurance strategies : a comparison of OBPI versus CPPI by Chen, Xinyi, Zhang, Jenny Bi Zhen, Liu, Xinyi

“…Apart from traditional mean-variance performance measures such as Sharpe and Sortino ratio, we consider the Value-at-Risk and Expected Shortfall of the strategies, which are more appropriate in a portfolio insurance context. …”
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Frequency domain coherent backscattering for depth : sensitive tissue measurement. by Wong, Junn Munn.

“…A sharp peak intensity cone which is created through photon self-interference effect in CBS provides us the optical properties such as transport mean-free-path length (ℓ*) of the medium. However, utilization of CBS in biological media faced some limitations in probing multi-layered stratified biological tissue. …”
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Predictors of weight loss in overweight Singaporean males in the Singapore Adult Metabolism Study (SAMS). by Tay, Yu Juan.

“…After intervention, there was a significant reduction in mean body weight (-7.95 ± 3.45 kg), Skinfold fat composition (-3.24 ± 3.357 %) and DEXA fat composition (-2.93 ± 2.93 %). …”
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Image processing and analysis of muscle of frail elderly using MRI by Lip, Kenny Kang Ming

“…To this end, texture parameters such as mean, variance, kurtosis, skewness, entropy, and grey level non-uniformity were derived and analysed. …”
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Deepsea imaging by Quah, Sherman Kah Hou

“…Putting the Gaussian or Normal distribution rule into place with mean and standard deviation to ensure everything is in place. …”
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Copula-based pairs trading in local markets by Zou, Xi

“…The profitability of this trading strategy depends on the assumption of mean-reverting property, which states that stock prices will eventually return to their equilibrium positions if they deviate from each other. …”
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In the presence of god : does acceptance by god increase prosocial behavior? by Woo, Yue Ting

“…Though the “anthropomorphism of God” has usually been taken to mean the ascribing of human traits and qualities to God, this paper puts forth the perspective that the way people think about their own relationship with God is also guided by social judgement. …”
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