Search Results - "Yau, W.Y"

Global Prevalence and Major Risk Factors of Diabetic Retinopathy by Yau, Joanne W.Y, Rogers, Sophie L, Kawasaki, Ryo, Lamoureux, Ecosse L, Kowalski, Jonathan W, Bek, Toke, Chen, Shih-Jen, Dekker, Jacqueline M, Fletcher, Astrid, Grauslund, Jakob, Haffner, Steven, Hamman, Richard F, Ikram, M. Kamran, Kayama, Takamasa, Klein, Barbara E.K, Klein, Ronald, Krishnaiah, Sannapaneni, Mayurasakorn, Korapat, O’Hare, Joseph P, Orchard, Trevor J, Porta, Massimo, Rema, Mohan, Roy, Monique S, Sharma, Tarun, Shaw, Jonathan, Taylor, Hugh, Tielsch, James M, Varma, Rohit, Wang, Jie Jin, Wang, Ningli, West, Sheila, Xu, Liang, Yasuda, Miho, Zhang, Xinzhi, Mitchell, Paul, Wong, Tien Y

“…OBJECTIVE: To examine the global prevalence and major risk factors for diabetic retinopathy (DR) and vision-threatening diabetic retinopathy (VTDR) among…”
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Which dietary and lifestyle behaviours may be important in the aetiology (and prevention) of stroke? by Yau, W.Y, Hankey, Graeme J

“…Abstract Prevention of stroke requires optimal control of causal risk factors. However, only three-quarters of all strokes can be attributable to known causal…”
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Preliminary study on biodegradation of phenanthrene by bacteria isolated from mangrove sediments in Hong Kong by Tam, N.F.Y, Guo, C.L, Yau, W.Y, Wong, Y.S

“…Elevated concentrations of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) have been found in mangrove sediments due to anthropogenic pollution, and microbial…”
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Fingerprint image quality analysis by Chen, T.P., Jiang, X., Yau, W.Y.

“…Fingerprint image quality analysis is crucial in eliminating poor fingerprint images, which will affect the performance of the automatic fingerprint…”
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Retinal vein occlusion: an approach to diagnosis, systemic risk factors and management by Yau, J. W. Y., Lee, P., Wong, T. Y., Best, J., Jenkins, A.

“…Retinal vein occlusion (RVO) is the second most common retinal vascular disease after diabetic retinopathy and is a common cause of visual morbidity and…”
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CD10 marks non-canonical PPARγ-independent adipocyte maturation and browning potential of adipose-derived stem cells by Chakraborty, Smarajit, Ong, Wee Kiat, Yau, Winifred W Y, Zhou, Zhihong, Bhanu Prakash, K N, Toh, Sue-Anne, Han, Weiping, Yen, Paul M, Sugii, Shigeki

“…Effective stem cell therapy is dependent on the stem cell quality that is determined by their differentiation potential, impairment of which leads to poor…”
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Fingerprint orientation analysis with topological modeling by Hou, Z., Li, J., Lam, H.K., Chen, L., Wang, H.L., Yau, W.Y.

“…This paper proposes to characterize the fingerprint orientation using a novel topological representation, which transforms the orientation field into a map…”
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Natural attenuation, biostimulation and bioaugmentation on biodegradation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in mangrove sediments by Yu, K.S.H., Wong, A.H.Y., Yau, K.W.Y., Wong, Y.S., Tam, N.F.Y.

“…The biodegradability of a mixture of PAHs, namely fluorene (Fl), phenanthrene (Phe) and pyrene (Pyr), in mangrove sediment slurry was investigated. At the end…”
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Retinal fractal dimension is increased in persons with diabetes but not impaired glucose metabolism: the Australian Diabetes, Obesity and Lifestyle (AusDiab) study by Yau, J. W. Y, Kawasaki, R, Islam, F. M. A, Shaw, J, Zimmet, P, Wang, J. J, Wong, T. Y

“…Aims/hypothesis The fractal dimension (D f) of the retinal vasculature is a global measure of its branching pattern complexity. We examined the relationship of…”
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Prosthetic valve endocarditis: what is the evidence for anticoagulant therapy? by Yau, J. W. Y., Lee, P., Wilson, A., Jenkins, A. J.

“…The use of anticoagulant therapy in prosthetic valve endocarditis is a controversial management issue. Some authorities believe that anticoagulation increases…”
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Cardiogenol C can induce Mouse Hair Bulge Progenitor Cells to Transdifferentiate into Cardiomyocyte-like Cells by Yau, Winifred Wy, Tang, Mei Kuen, Chen, Elve, Yaoyao, Wong, Ivan Wc, Lee, Henry Ss, Lee, Kenneth Kh

“…Hair bulge progenitor cells (HBPCs) are multipotent stem cells derived from the bulge region of mice vibrissal hairs. The purified HBPCs express CD34, K15 and…”
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A systematic topological method for fingerprint singular point detection by Lam, H.K., Hou, Z., Yau, W.Y., Chen, T.P., Li, J.

“…Singular point detection is an important issue in fingerprint image analysis. General methods like Poincare index method can detect singular points in non-arch…”
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Fingerprint pre-alignment for hybrid match-on-card system by Lam, H.K., Yau, W.Y., Chen, T.P., Hou, Z., Wang, H.L.

“…Smartcard has limited memory and processing resources. If we can perform some generic and time consuming algorithm in the host PC that captures the query…”
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A topological model for fingerprint image analysis by Hou, Z., Lam, H.K., Li, J., Wang, H.L., Chen, L.T.P., Yau, W.Y.

“…Many problems in fingerprint recognition are closely related to a branch of mathematics, the topology. This paper presents a topological model for fingerprint…”
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