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"abstract": "Recently, a new wave of predominantly left-wing political parties has emerged across Europe. These parties seek to challenge the hegemony of dominant discourses by introducing novel procedures for active participation, democratic deliberation, and bottom-up decision-making. One particle in this wave is... | {
"abstract": "Populism raises awkward question about modern forms of democracy. It often represents the ugly face of the people. It is neither the highest form of democracy nor its enemy. It is, rather, a mirror in which democracy may contemplate itself, warts and all, in a discovery of itself and what it lacks. Thi... | {
"abstract": "Our analysis of tweets from @narendramodi demonstrates how the Indian prime minister used political irony, enacted through sarcasm and wordplay, to refashion his political style and practice into a more broadly appealing populist ethic. We deconstruct confrontational Twitter messages laced with innuend... |
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"abstract": "When creating line drawings, artists frequently depict intended curves using multiple, tightly clustered, or overdrawn, strokes. Given such sketches, human observers can readily envision these intended, aggregate, curves, and mentally assemble the artist's envisioned 2D imagery. Algorithmic stroke cons... | {
"abstract": "Clothoid splines are gaining popularity as a curve representation due to their intrinsically pleasing curvature, which varies piecewise linearly over arc length. However, constructing them from hand-drawn strokes remains difficult. Building on recent results, we describe a novel algorithm for approxima... | {
"abstract": "This paper describes a natural language-based CASE tool called CM-Builder which aims at supporting the analysis stage of software development in an object-oriented framework. CM-Builder uses robust natural language processing techniques to analyse software requirements texts written in English and buil... |
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"abstract": "This paper explores the relationship between economic development (in the form of GDP/c) and environmental pollution (in the form of sulphur emissions) by using a dynamic panel data for 97 countries for the time period 1950-2003. Various panel data econometric techniques are applied to a sample includi... | {
"abstract": "Abstract The authors examine the policy options which are available for the control of sulphur dioxide emissions from conventional thermal power stations. Knowledge of these options, their costs of implementation, their probable effectiveness, and the dates when they can be implemented, is necessary fo... | {
"abstract": "HEALTH OFFICIALS and other workers concerned with air pollution have for some time been aware that intense concentrations of air pollution are associated with increased numbers of deaths among the exposed popula¬ tion groups (1). Three episodes which have frequently been cited in the literature support... |
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"abstract": "To make a difference among the energy intensive process industries, this dissertation addresses production planning and supply chain planning problems related to industrial energy management issues ...",
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"title": "Planning production and supply chain in energy intensive proc... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Precise production–inventory planning and control (PIPC) is an essential ingredient for a successful company and is the bridge that connects, marketing/sales, manufacturing, and purchasing activities. In this paper, we discuss the development of a PIPC system in a process industry. The process... | {
"abstract": "Understanding the demands and satisfaction levels of zoo visitors becomes indispensable to sustain a flow of visitors in the increasingly competitive tourism market. This research assessed the importance and performance of the service and facilities attributes in order to measure visitor satisfaction u... |
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"abstract": "Background Pain is one of the main complaints of many patients in intensive care units. However, most nurses and physicians are unable to properly monitor and relieve pain in these patients. Factors such as patients' inability to describe their pain and insufficient knowledge of nurses and physicians h... | {
"abstract": "AIM\nTo evaluate the impact of video education on critical care nurses' knowledge and skills in using a behavioural pain assessment tool for intensive care patients and to explore the nurses' experiences with video education.\n\n\nMETHODS\nForty-eight nurses in one intensive care unit watched an educat... | {
"abstract": "PURPOSE\nThe significantly improved temporal and spatial resolution of Multidetector-Row CT opens up new possibilities for cardiac imaging. A method with retrospectively ECG-gated spiral acquisition is presented.\n\n\nMATERIALS AND METHODS\nA total of 10 patients underwent cardiac CT on a fast multi-sl... |
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"abstract": "Orbital cellulitis is a condition that can require surgery if severe symptoms progress to an undesirable state. Therefore, it is important for physicians to utilize anesthetics during these procedures to cause minimal harm to the patient. This review will analyze the consequences that the current appli... | {
"abstract": "OBJECTIVE\nTo estimate the frequency and major risk factors of preseptal and orbital cellulitis.\n\n\nSTUDY DESIGN\nA cross-sectional analytical study.\n\n\nPLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY\nThe Khyber Institute of Ophthalmic Medical Sciences, Hayatabad Medical Complex, Peshawar from July 2003 to December 2... | {
"abstract": "AIM Preseptal and orbital cellulitis are rare presenting features of intraocular retinoblastoma. The objectives of this study were to determine the frequency of retinoblastoma associated cellulitis, as well as to review its clinical and histopathological features. METHODS The medical records of 292 ret... |
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"abstract": "Investigators have con-structed dsDNA molecules with several different base modifications and have characterized their bending and twisting flexibilities using atomic force microscopy, DNA ring closure, and single-molecule force spectroscopy with optical tweezers. The three methods provide persistence le... | {
"abstract": "The molecular structure of the DNA double helix has been known for 60 years, but we remain surprisingly ignorant of the balance of forces that determine its mechanical properties. The DNA double helix is among the stiffest of all biopolymers, but neither theory nor experiment has provided a coherent un... | {
"abstract": "Plants growing in their native environment face several types of abiotic stresses that intentionally affect their yields at significant levels. Plant reactions toward stress are complicated and involve various cellular, physio-biochemical, and molecular adaptations. Several recent studies show that und... |
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"abstract": "For delivering the nanoscaled extraordinary characteristics in macroscopical bulk, it is essential to integrate two ‐ dimensional nanosheets into three ‐ dimensional (3D) porous monoliths, alternatively called as 3D architectures, 3D networks, or aerogels. The intersupported structure of porous monolit... | {
"abstract": "A facile and scalable in situ chemical vapor deposition (CVD) technique using metal precursors as a catalyst and a three-dimensional (3D) self-assembly of NaCl particles as a template is developed for one-step fabrication of 3D porous graphene networks anchored with Sn nanoparticles (5-30 nm) encapsula... | {
"abstract": "Aim: This cross‐sectional study aimed to examine the association between the prevalence of atopic dermatitis in Korean adults and their health‐related quality of life and mental health. Methods: Data from a nationally representative sample of 11,913 adults who participated in the Korea National Health ... |
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"abstract": "Carbon neutrality in the transport sector is a key challenge for the growing bioeconomy as the share of biofuels has stagnated over the past decade. This can be attributed to basic economics and a lack of a robust market for these technologies. Consequently, more sustainable biomass supply concepts are... | {
"abstract": "Ecosystem services research has become a major academic field, drawing in various academic disciplines, perspectives, and research approaches. The multifaceted concept of “ecosystem services” includes a normative component, which has strong implicit links to the notion of sustainability. Yet, how ecosy... | {
"abstract": "The Jinghuiqu irrigation district is located in the semi‐arid regions of northwestern China, where groundwater is the most important natural source for local industry, agriculture and residents. The present work was conducted in the Jinghuiqu irrigation district to characterize the groundwater aquifer,... |
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"abstract": "The purpose of this paper is to review the most representative studies of the last decade (2006-2015) which deal with the combination of technology and music and concern individuals with Generic learning disabilities. Particularly, the areas of needs in this paper are divided to the following categorie... | {
"abstract": "V-Sense is a vibrotactile interface that encourages children with severe or profound cognitive, sensory and physical impairments to move. The interface makes use of touch, in particular vibrations, as a supportive function to motivate users' actions. Specifically, we propose a vibrotactile interface on... | {
"abstract": "Handheld devices are now much more than just personal information management devices. With the ability to view and edit documents, send and receive email, run presentations, serve as clients to backend applications, and access the Internet, they have evolved into powerful business tools. Agent Technolo... |
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"abstract": "The bustling urban environment of Kathmandu Valley is characterized by unprecedented traffic congestion. Due to its bowel-shaped geography, gusty winds rarely remove vehicular emissions from the urban atmosphere, making Kathmandu one of Asia’s most polluted cities, 100th city in global pollution index.... | {
"abstract": "Passenger cars are the primary means of transportation in Europe. Over the past decade, a great deal of attention has therefore been paid to reducing their emissions. This has resulted in notable technical progress, leading to unprecedentedly low exhaust emissions. In the meantime, emissions from motor... | {
"abstract": "Ett PC-program benamnt EMV har utvecklats for beskrivning av totala avgasutslapp fran vagtrafiken pa nationell eller regional niva. Modellen anvands bl.a. av Naturvardsverket och Vagverket for redo ...",
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"abstract": "MOTS CLÉS Endophtalmie ; Antibioprophylaxie ; Injection intravitréenne ; Incidence ; Infection ; Antibiotique Résumé Introduction. — L’endophtalmie est la complication la plus redoutée dans les suites des injections intravitréennes. L’essor des antiangiogéniques ne fait qu’augmenter leur nombre chaque ... | {
"abstract": "Simunovic et al have published an interesting article regarding endophthalmitis following intravitreal injections (IVI) and following cataract surgery.1 Its clinical relevance will increase in the future as cataract surgery is the most common eye operation and IVI are gaining popularity. However, there... | {
"abstract": "Aging is the greatest risk factor for glaucoma, implying that intrinsic age-related changes to retinal ganglion cells, their supporting tissue or both make retinal ganglion cells susceptible to injury. Changes to the ocular vasculature, connective tissue of the optic nerve head and mitochondria, which ... |
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"abstract": "Since the Internet is an aggregation of multiple ASes (Autonomous Systems), congestion control and utilization are not globally optimized. For example, it is not uncommon that a direct shortest route with low latency delivers less bandwidth than an alternative, long and roundabout route. Previous resea... | {
"abstract": "Overlay networking and ISP-assisted tunneling are effective solutions to overcome problematic BGP routes and bypass troublesome autonomous systems. Despite their demonstrated effectiveness, overlay support is not broadly available. In this paper, we propose Cloud-Routed Overlay Networks (CRONets), wher... | {
"abstract": "An increasing number of Internet of Things (IoT) devices are connecting to the Internet, yet many of these devices are fundamentally insecure, exposing the Internet to a variety of attacks. Botnets such as Mirai have used insecure consumer IoT devices to conduct distributed denial of service (DDoS) att... |
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"abstract": "CONTEXT\nVisfatin (also known as pre-B cell colony-enhancing factor or PBEF) is a cytokine that is highly expressed in visceral fat and whose blood levels correlate with obesity. Originally isolated as a secreted factor that promotes the growth of B cell precursors and recently found to act as an insul... | {
"abstract": "At a symposium titled “Adipose Tissue as a Secretory Organ” at the American Diabetes Association (ADA), San Francisco, June 2002, Jeffrey Flier (Boston, MA) discussed the effects of visceral obesity. While reviewing the differing components of the metabolic syndrome, which to large extent are driven by... | {
"abstract": "Drugs of abuse cause changes in the prefrontal cortex (PFC) and associated regions that impair inhibitory control over drug-seeking. Breaking the contingencies between drug-associated cues and the delivery of the reward during extinction learning reduces rates of relapse. Here we used vagus nerve stimu... |
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"abstract": "Although transcriptomic profiling has become the standard approach for exploring molecular differences in the primate brain, very little is known about how the expression levels of gene transcripts relate to downstream protein abundance. Moreover, it is unknown whether the relationship changes dependin... | {
"abstract": "PURPOSE OF THE REVIEW ::: A reduced dosage of the transcription factor FOXP2 leads to speech and language impairments probably owing to deficits in cortical and subcortical neural circuits. Based on evolutionary sequence analysis it has been proposed that the two amino acid substitutions that occurred ... | {
"abstract": "The FOXP2 gene is mutated in a severe monogenic form of speech and language deficits, but no study on the influence of genetic variations within FOXP2 in neurological disorders characterized by language impairment is available yet. In the present study, we investigated the impact of common FOXP2 polymo... |
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"abstract": "Recent years have seen the development of optically reconfigurable gate arrays, which can be reconfigured using light at high speeds that cannot be implemented with electrical wiring. However, optically reconfigurable gate arrays have reconfiguration speeds of 16 to 20 µs, which is fast compared to FPG... | {
"abstract": "A new optically differential reconfigurable gate array (ODRGA) is proposed to reduce configuration power consumption. The ODRGA has a simple architecture that adds a small circuit to conventional optically reconfigurable gate arrays (ORGAs) and uses differential configuration data stored in an optical ... | {
"abstract": "A field programmable smart pixel (FP-SP) is a smart pixel capable of having its electronic processing circuitry dynamically programmed in the field. We describe the design and implementation of a 3/spl times/4 FP-SP array.",
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"abstract": "The efficiency of various PFC topologies is studied based on its classification. Three types of PFC topology classification are proposed namely the full-bridge with 2 DC/DC converters, full-bridge with 1 DC/DC converter and a Bridgeless converter. PFC circuit with low power application is the main conc... | {
"abstract": "A single-stage single-switch power factor correction (PFC) flyback converter with a synchronous rectifier (SR) is proposed for improving power factor and efficiency. Using a variable switching-frequency controller, this converter is continuously operated with a reduced turn-on switching loss at the bou... | {
"abstract": "This paper presents an efficient single-switch boost-dual-input flyback power factor correction (PFC) converter. To achieve a high power factor, a boost PFC cell operating in discontinuous conduction mode is presented. A dual-input flyback dc–dc module, which consists of parallel primary windings and s... |
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"abstract": "Face a la diversification des domaines d'application en optoelectronique, les emetteurs lasers, dont les VCSELs, evoluent rapidement vers une plus grande capacite d'integration, ainsi qu'un accroissement de leurs fonctionnalites. Ceci a pour consequence une sophistication des structures et des geometri... | {
"abstract": "We have fabricated refractive microlenses using selective oxidation of composition-graded digital alloy AlGaAs. The chirped short period superlattice of GaAs-AlAs was used to grade the composition of AlGaAs along the growth direction for a reproducible and controllable composition and oxidation profile... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Using digital-alloy InGaAlAs, 1.55 μm InGaAs/InGaAlAs multi-quantum wells were fabricated. It was found that the linewidth of 10 K-photoluminescence (PL) (5.7 meV) is narrower than that of conventional InGaAs/In(Ga)AlAs multi-quantum wells grown using present state-of-the-art growth methods. T... |
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"abstract": "Summary: During the past several years, substantial progress has been made in the identification of genetic variants that predispose to rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and other autoimmune disorders. Progress in this area has been facilitated by the availability of new technology that allows for a much more... | {
"abstract": "Genomewide association studies have uncovered many genetic variants that confer susceptibility to disease. This article describes the genomewide association study and new approaches that may address some of its limitations.",
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"abstract": "Colloidal carriers injected intravenously are normally removed rapidly and efficiently by the liver and this represents a major barrier to drug targeting. By coating model microspheres and emulsions with a block co-polymer (poloxamine) it has been possible to keep the carrier circulating in the vascula... |
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"abstract": "The terahertz (THz) lies between electronics and optics frequency range, and THz frequencies are the lowest frequencies in which free space conventional optics can still be used before microwave components take over. The development of Terahertz technology systems led to focus of researchers on this te... | {
"abstract": "We present a novel type of highly sensitive and selective detection method for residual pesticide molecules including, e.g., methomyl using nanoscale metamaterials based terahertz (THz) time-domain spectroscopy (TDS) system. Nanoscale slot-antenna-based metamaterials were designed for the strong THz re... | {
"abstract": "We examine the robustness of ultrashort optical vortices propagating freely in the atmosphere. We first approximate the stability regions of femtosecond spinning pulses as a function of their topological charge. Next, we numerically demonstrate that atmospheric optical vortices are capable of conveying... |
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"abstract": "Variable-rate data transmission is one of the key techniques to effectively reduce the mutual interference and as a result increase the link capacity in direct sequence code division multiple access (DS-CDMA) systems. To avoid frame overhead, a blind rate detection scheme that does not explicitly trans... | {
"abstract": "In a cdma2000 system, typically a radio-link protocol (RLP) is defined below a TCP/IP application to account for variations in the wireless channel that normally cannot be handled by TCP. RLP runs in a non-transparent mode all times, implying that delay-sensitive applications utilizing RLP may suffer d... | {
"abstract": "The primary goal of cellular radio systems is to provide communications services to a large number of mobile users. Due to the dramatic increase in number ofusers and their demand for more advanced services, the available resources haveto be utilized efficiently. Closed-loop power control is considered... |
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"abstract": "This study investigated the impact of different flour-batter types on protein rich food in regard to people’s overall liking and sensory preferences (saltiness, flavor, texture, moisture, and color). In addition, all battered fried chicken, fish, shrimp, pork, and beef were analyzed for fat, calories, ... | {
"abstract": "OBJECTIVE: Food choices are often made mindlessly, when individuals are not able or willing to exert self-control. Under low self-control, individuals have difficulties to resist palatable but unhealthy food products. In contrast to previous research aiming to foster healthy choices by promoting high s... | {
"abstract": "This research explores some factors affecting purchase and repurchase intentions towards online auctions. An experiment, in the context of PChome & eBay and Yahoo Auction online auctions websites, was conducted to simulate an environment manipulating branding, seller evaluation, volume of information, ... |
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"title": "Elucidating mechanisms of innate and acquired resistance to PI3Ka inhibition in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma"
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"abstract": "The regulation of cell proliferation is central to tissue morphogenesis during the development of multicellular organisms. Furthermore, loss of control of cell proliferation underlies the pathology of diseases like cancer. As such there is great need to be able to investigate cell proliferation and qua... | {
"abstract": "Introducing cell-selectivity in antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) without compromising the antimicrobial and anti-endotoxin properties is a crucial step towards the development of new antimicrobial agents. A peptide designed on phenylalanine heptad repeat possesses significant cytotoxicity along with desir... |
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"abstract": "This paper provides evidence in terms of the incentives which lead managers from emerging European countries to manage earnings. In particular, we focused on four Eastern European countries: the Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary and Slovakia, as the majority of studies on earnings management in developin... | {
"abstract": "Abstract We investigated 249 Korean seasoned equity offering (SEO) firms during the period 1995–1997 to determine if the SEO firms manage earnings in the year before a planned issue of seasoned equity stocks. Using three test methods (accrual difference, correlation, and sign-change), we found that the... | {
"abstract": "Electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) issues are increasingly important to the automotive industry. Potential EMC problems arise from the growing use of electronic systems on the one hand and the lack of flexibility in placement or design of electronic modules on the other hand. In this paper we present ... |
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"abstract": "The survival of a business is undeniably pertinent to its success. A key factor contributing to its continuity depends on its customers. The surge of location-based social networks such as Yelp, Diangping, and Foursquare has paved the way for leveraging user-generated content on these platforms to pred... | {
"abstract": "For shopkeepers, one of their biggest common concerns is whether their business will thrive or fail in the future. With the development of new ways to collect business data, it is possible to leverage multiple domains' knowledge to build an intelligent model for business assessment. In this paper, we d... | {
"abstract": "Many machine learning algorithms require the input to be represented as a fixed-length feature vector. When it comes to texts, one of the most common fixed-length features is bag-of-words. Despite their popularity, bag-of-words features have two major weaknesses: they lose the ordering of the words and... |
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"abstract": "The specificity of protein-protein interactions in cellular signaling cascades is dependent on the sequence and intramolecular location of distinct amino acid motifs. We used the two-hybrid interaction trap to identify proteins that can associate with the PDZ motif-rich segment in the protein tyrosine ... | {
"abstract": "Recently, one of the PDZ domains in the cytosolic protein-tyrosine phosphatase Fas-associated phosphatase-1 (FAP-1)/protein-tyrosine phosphatase-BAS (PTP-BAS) was shown to interact with the carboxyl-terminal tS-L-V peptide of the human Fas receptor (Sato, T., Irie, S., Kitada, S., and Reed, J. C. (1995... | {
"abstract": "Protein tyrosine phosphatase, PTPL1, (also known as PTPN13, FAP-1, PTP-BAS, PTP1E) is a non-receptor type PTP and, at 270 kDa, is the largest phosphatase within this group. In addition to the well-conserved PTP domain, PTPL1 contains at least 7 putative macromolecular interaction domains. This structur... |
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"abstract": "The centriole is a minute cylindrical organelle present in a wide range of eukaryotic species. Most centrioles have a signature 9-fold radial symmetry of microtubules that is imparted onto the axoneme of the cilia and flagella they template, with 9 centriolar microtubule doublets growing into 9 axonema... | {
"abstract": "The male gamete of the Gregarine Lecudina tuzetae has been studied with transmission electron microscopy and microcinematography. It is characterized by a flagellar axoneme of 6 + 0 pattern, a reduction of the chondriome, and the abundance of storage polysaccharide or lipid bodies. The movements of the... | {
"abstract": "Huntington disease (HD), an autosomal dominant neurodegenerative disorder caused by an abnormal expansion of CAG trinucleotide repeat in the Huntingtin (HTT) gene, is characterized by extensive neurodegeneration of striatum and cortex and severe diffuse atrophy at MRI. The expression of genes involved ... |
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"abstract": "It is now more than 15 years since the molecular structures of the major prostanoid receptors were elucidated. Since then, substantial progress has been achieved with respect to distribution and function, signal transduction mechanisms, and the design of agonists and antagonists (http://www.iuphar-db.o... | {
"abstract": "BackgroundIn addition to their proliferative and differentiating effects, several growth factors are capable of inducing a sustained airway smooth muscle (ASM) contraction. These contractile effects were previously found to be dependent on Rho-kinase and have also been associated with the production of... | {
"abstract": "The high-resolution direct numerical simulations (DNSs) of incompressible turbulence with numbers of grid points up to 40963 have been executed on the Earth Simulator (ES). The DNSs are based on the Fourier spectral method, so that the equation for mass conservation is accurately solved. In DNS based o... |
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"abstract": "The role of the insulin-receptor compartment in the pharmacokinetics of intravenously injected insulin in rats was studied. Since streptozotocin-diabetes in rats results in increased insulin binding to tissues in vitro, insulin pharmacokinetics in streptozotocin-diabetic rats were compared to controls,... | {
"abstract": "Based on studies of the interaction of insulin with its receptors in vitro, we calculated that a receptor compartment should be measurable directly in vivo. For this purpose, rabbits were injected intravenously with a labeled insulin that has low affinity for receptors in combination with a radioiodina... | {
"abstract": "The first step in the action of polypeptide hormones and many neurotransmitters is binding to receptor sites on the plasma membrane of the cell. These receptors are usually complex, high molecular weight proteins. Using a variety of receptor preparations and radioactively labeled hormones, radiorecepto... |
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"abstract": "ABSTRACT This study used an in vivo mouse model to analyze the response of dendritic cells (DCs) in Peyer's patches (PPs) within the first 48 h of infection with the wild-type murine rotavirus EDIM (EDIMwt). After the infection, the absolute number of DCs was increased by 2-fold in the PPs without a mo... | {
"abstract": "The F4/80 monoclonal antibody has been used widely as a marker for mouse macrophages. The antigen (Ag) recognized by the antibody has been characterized as a member of the epidermal growth factor (EGF)-transmembrane 7 (TM7) family, although the function of the molecule has remained elusive. A recent st... | {
"abstract": "Abstract This paper considers a class of stochastic complementarity problems (SCP). Different from the classical complementarity problems, the SCP contains a mathematical expectation, which may not be evaluated in an explicit form in general. We combine an interior-point algorithm for deterministic cas... |
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"abstract": "We investigated hematologic characteristics of healthy Akita dogs. All were found to contain glucose transporters, GLUT1 and GLUT4, in erythrocyte membrane, whereas Beagle and any other Western dogs have only GLUT4. Of 47 Akitas, ten showed high K and low Na concentrations with elevated glutathione (GS... | {
"abstract": "Three families of Shiba dogs were investigated for GLUT1 erythrocyte inheritance. Of 22 adult dogs, 14 contained both GLUT1 and GLUT4 (GLUT1 type) while others had only GLUT4 (normal). Erythrocytes with GLUT1 showed greater capacity for ascorbic acid (AA) recycling than those with only GLUT4. Puppies a... | {
"abstract": "Time to liquid culture positivity (TTP) is a technically accessible and widely available measure of viable mycobacterial load in sputum samples. We describe the ability of TTP to predict colony forming unit counts of Mycobacterium tuberculosis from sputum samples collected before or during the first 14... |
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"abstract": "The transcriptional repressor Hairy Enhancer of Split 1 (HES1) plays an essential role in the development of many organs by promoting the maintenance of stem/progenitor cells, controlling the reversibility of cellular quiescence, and regulating both cell fate decisions. Deletion of Hes1 in mice results... | {
"abstract": "Mice mutant for the bHLH gene Hes1, which is known to keep cells in a proliferative state, mostly lack thymus. Transfer of Hes1-null fetal liver cells into RAG2-null host mice normally reconstitutes B cells but fails to generate mature T cells in the thymus. In the reconstituted thymus, T cell differen... | {
"abstract": "Members of the Achaete-scute family of basic helix-loop-helix transcription factors are involved in cell fate specification in vertebrates and invertebrates. We have isolated and characterized a cnidarian achaete-scute homolog, CnASH, from Hydra vulgaris, a representative of an evolutionarily ancient b... |
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"abstract": "Epidemiologists play a number of roles in the study of disease; the functions of these specialists include case definition, description of disease patterns, identification of risk factors, and analysis of clinical trials. However, as noted in the Introduction to this symposium [1], in the study of a co... | {
"abstract": "The invitation to speak at this international conference on the chronic fatigue syndrome came as an all but forgotten echo of the past. Epidemic neuromyasthenia-the candidate name which Alexis Shelokov and I proposed for the syndromes we had studied [I ]-was a recurrent preoccupation for us both over a... | {
"abstract": "IN THE LATE SUMMER OF 1950 a widespread epidemic appears to have taken place throughout the whole of New York State, particularly in its northern areas, but also spreading into neighboring states to the south and east. Very little spread took place across the St. Lawrence River into Canada. The diagnos... |
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"abstract": "Antiviral peptides (AVPs) have exhibited huge potential in inhibiting viruses by targeting various stages of their life cycle. Therefore, we have developed AVPdb, available online at http://crdd.osdd.net/servers/avpdb, to provide a dedicated resource of experimentally verified AVPs targeting over 60 me... | {
"abstract": "Background Besides antiretroviral drugs, peptides have also demonstrated potential to inhibit the Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). For example, T20 has been discovered to effectively block the HIV entry and was approved by the FDA as a novel anti-HIV peptide (AHP). We have collated all experimental ... | {
"abstract": "Nature Reviews Drug Discovery 11, 37–51 (2012) 10.1038/nrd3591 The page numbers of reference 180 in this article are incorrect; these should be 10686–10689. This has been corrected in the online version of the article.",
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"abstract": "Introduction The perennial challenge facing school systems worldwide is how to improve student-learning outcomes. In the pursuit of improvements, educators introduce various innovations. Today, most of these innovations are being introduced in the eld of educational management to encourage decentraliza... | {
"abstract": "An account of how the current pressures for change in education can be harnessed to improve the quality of schooling. It argues that the school needs to take greater ownership over the changes it pursues, and that the infrastructure for managing change needs to be created first.",
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"abstract": "This study focuses on how sports attitudes and participation relate to physical aggression outside sport for college athletes. Data were derived from a survey of nearly 200 male and female athletes at a medium-size (11,500-student) comprehensive university. Physical aggression was measured by an item c... |
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"abstract": "Abstract The EU Marine Strategy Framework Directive 2008/56/EC (MSFD) defines a framework for Community actions in the field of marine environmental policy in order to achieve and/or maintain the Good Environmental Status (GES) of the European seas by 2020. Microbial assemblages (from viruses to microb... | {
"abstract": "Deep-sea ecosystems represent the largest biome of the global biosphere, but knowledge of their biodiversity is still scant. The Mediterranean basin has been proposed as a hot spot of terrestrial and coastal marine biodiversity but has been supposed to be impoverished of deep-sea species richness. We s... | {
"abstract": "Rhus javanica L. (Anacardiaceae), a dioecious tree with both sexual reproduction and clonal growth, is widely distributed in warm temperate, subtropical, and tropical regions in east Asia. We used allozyme loci and spatial autocorrelation statistics to examine clonal structure and the spatial distribut... |
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"abstract": "Studies of biological properties of newborn larvae of Trichinella spiralis and immune responses against newborn larvae in the host are reviewed. The biological properties of newborn larvae examined are the natural production, migration, surface antigens and their maturity and effects on the host. Vario... | {
"abstract": "The route by which Trichinella spiralis newborn larvae migrate from the small intestine to striated muscle was studied in inbred AO and random-bred Sprague-Dawley rats. Newborn larvae were quantitatively recovered from the thoracic duct lymph, peritoneal cavity, and hepatic portal vein blood during the... | {
"abstract": "Trichinella spiralis infection results in the transformation of muscle cells into a new, non-muscular cell called the nurse cell, and the nurse cell-muscle larva complex is finally created. To investigate whether T. spiralis infectivity is NBL age-dependent, five groups of synchronous newborn larvae (s... |
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"abstract": "Warthin’s tumor (WT) is a salivary gland neoplasm, which is also called as papillary cyst adenoma lymphomatosis. Herein, we present an uncommon coexistence of WT in an 80-year-old patient with PET/CT positive cervical lymph nodes, during the diagnostic workup of a pulmonary mass lesion. Histopathologic... | {
"abstract": "Warthin's tumors (WT) are frequently encountered in clinical practice and can be easily mis-identified. To date, there has been no proven association between WT and lung cancer. A retrospective chart review was conducted of records from 2008 to 2013 in the University of Pennsylvania Health System. Nine... | {
"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nPatients diagnosed with cancer do not have sufficient clinical data for the management of incidental parotid lesions. We aimed to reveal the importance of randomized parotid lesions encountered during oncologic F-18 fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography (FDG PET/CT) imaging in our... |
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"abstract": "The electronic MEdical Records and GEnomics (eMERGE) network brings together DNA biobanks linked to electronic health records (EHRs) from multiple institutions. Approximately 51,000 DNA samples from distinct individuals have been genotyped using genome-wide SNP arrays across the nine sites of the netwo... | {
"abstract": "Genotype imputation is now an essential tool in the analysis of genome-wide association scans. This technique allows geneticists to accurately evaluate the evidence for association at genetic markers that are not directly genotyped. Genotype imputation is particularly useful for combining results acros... | {
"abstract": "Sawdust and coconut coir dust are agro-wastes/by-products which are suitable for use as raw materials to manufacture unfired clay blocks due to their excellent physical and mechanical properties. A limited number of studies have been conducted on the utilisation of these agro-wastes in clay block produ... |
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"abstract": "Software organizations use several applications to support their software processes. To properly support the software processes, applications should be integrated at different layers (data, service, and process). Moreover, the integration should cover semantic aspects. Therefore, an approach that provi... | {
"abstract": "Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) plays an important role by linking heterogeneous applications to support business processes within and across organizations. Semantic conflicts often arise in this context and have to be addressed to a successful interoperation. Besides, to properly support busi... | {
"abstract": "It is human nature to search for \"magic bullets\" that promise to improve performance without painstaking effort - but choice plans, charter school programs, and school-based management initiatives are not magic bullets, Messrs. Murnane and Levy warn. These approaches will contribute to better schooli... |
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"abstract": "The purpose of this study was to determine the total nitrogen (TN) and total phosphorus (TP) balance during intensive tilapia farming in excavated ponds. To quantify TN and TP released into the environment, the supply water, effluents at the harvest time, fish composition, feed, and sediment were analy... | {
"abstract": "We aimed in this study utilize environmental indicators as a quantitative method to evaluate and discuss the nitrogen (TN) and phosphorus (TP) flux by a production stage grow-out (termination) of Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) in fishpond. The TN and TP load, the mass balance, the input of TN and... | {
"abstract": "The objective of this study was to investigate the possible effects of caffeine on the performance of juveniles of Nile tilapia. One hundred and forty four (144) juveniles of Nile Tilapia with mass, total length and initial mean height of 2.94 ± 0.16 g, 5.19 ± 0.14 cm and 1.49 ± 0.04 cm, respectively, ... |
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"abstract": "| This paper reports the first nearly complete genome sequence of a Malaysian Porcine bocavirus (PBoV) detected in Malaysia from a porcine organ sample. In Malaysia, both Human bocavirus (HBoV) and PBoV have been reported, at prevalence of 5.6% and 90.9% respectively. Most recently, in 2018, PBoV emerg... | {
"abstract": "Several strains of porcine bocaviruses have been reported worldwide since their first detection in Sweden in 2009. Subsequently, the virus has been reported to be associated with gastrointestinal and respiratory signs in weaner and grower pigs. Although Malaysia is host to a self-sufficient swine lives... | {
"abstract": "An outbreak situation of human listeriosis requires a fast and accurate protocol for typing Listeria monocytogenes. Existing techniques are either characterized by low discriminatory power or are laborious and require several days to give a final result. Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) coupled with hig... |
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"abstract": "Background Nonylphenol (NP), a chemical compound widely used in industry, is the result of the nonylphenol ethoxylate decomposition and it is known as an estrogen-like compound. Numerous studies and researches have shown that it has many destructive functions of various organs such as the brain. This t... | {
"abstract": "Ongoing studies evidence cellular senescence in undifferentiated and specialized cells from tissues of all ages. Although it is believed that senescence plays a wider role in several stress responses in the mature age, its participation in certain physiological and pathological processes throughout lif... | {
"abstract": "PURPOSE\nTo report a case of coexistent Chlamydia conjunctivitis and central retinal vein occlusion (CRVO) in which both problems improved significantly after oral doxycyline.\n\n\nDESIGN\nInterventional case report.\n\n\nMETHODS\nA healthy 39-year-old man presented with follicular and papillary conjun... |
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"abstract": "Undoubtedly the world is rapidly changing under the growing influence of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), but whether for better or worse is the subject of much debate and controversy. Some argue that we will become an information society with the potential to substitute information a... | {
"abstract": "The concept of sustainable product-service systems has emerged recently, and is distinct from the ideas of cleaner production, eco-design and design for the environment. The concept goes beyond the environmental optimisation of products and processes and requires radical and creative thinking to reduce... | {
"abstract": "A sectoral analysis of comparative labor productivity levels over the period 1870 to 1990 suggests mechanisms of catching-up and forging ahead that are rather different from those found in the conventional literature. Both Germany and the United States caught up with and overtook Britain in terms of ag... |
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"abstract": "Collagen induced arthritis (CIA) is a mouse model of autoimmunity that \nclosely resembles human rheumatoid arthritis (RA), a debilitating disease with no cure. This study has been undertaken to generate antigen-specific tolerance to an \nautoantigen implicated in RA and immunodominant in animal models... | {
"abstract": "Herpes simples virus thymidine kinase (HSV-TK) expression plasmid DNA was injected into the joint space of rabbits with antigen-induced arthritis (AIA). Purified plasmid DNA was able to mediate transfection of synovial lining cells and transient overexpression of HSV-TK in the context of active synovia... | {
"abstract": "Tumor cells transduced with a retroviral vector expressing a herpes virus thymidine kinase (HSV tk) gene are rendered sensitive to the antiherpetic drug, ganciclovir. The bystander effect refers to the observation that not all cells need be transduced to eradicate the cell population by treatment with ... |
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"abstract": "It is shown that bisimulation equivalence is decidable for the processes generated by (nondeterministic) pushdown automata where the pushdown behaves like a counter. Also niteness up to bisimilarity is shown to be decidable for the mentioned processes. 3",
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"abstract": "As a service to our readers, SIGACT News has an agreement with Computing Reviews to reprint reviews of books and articles of interest to the theoretical computer science community. Computing Reviews is a monthly journal that publishes critical reviews on a broad range of computing subjects, including m... | {
"abstract": "The objective of this study was to demonstrate the capability of the high-energy in-line phase contrast imaging in detecting the breast tumors which are undetectable by conventional x-ray imaging but detectable by ultrasound. Experimentally, a CIRS multipurpose breast phantom with heterogeneous 50% gla... |
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"abstract": "The measurement of soil moisture in agriculture is currently dominated by a small number of sensors, the use of which is greatly limited by their small sampling volume, high cost, need for close soil–sensor contact, and poor performance in saline, vertic and stony soils. This review was undertaken to e... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Soil spatial variability is a key point for the sustainable water management in agriculture. Fractal techniques provide proper tools to analyze soil spatial variability searching for statistical self-similarity patterns among different scales. Although they have been extensively applied to stu... | {
"abstract": "Phalaenopsis is an orchid genus of great economic value in world floriculture. In vitro clonal propagation is the only large-scale feasible method for Phalaenopsis propagation, but it is difficult because of the low multiplication rate. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of types and conc... |
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"abstract": "Abstract: Modern forestry is gradually moving towards man-made forests on a large scale. Plantations with advanced forestry system have been introduced with the goal of sustainable forestry development and to enhance social, ecological, and economic benefits. Forest plantations with native and exotic s... | {
"abstract": "Planted forests are seen as a means to meet increasing demand for timber and environmental services and thus to achieve sustainable forest development. In this paper, we use the Faustmann–Hartman silvicultural investment model to demonstrate how policy instruments influence planted forest development a... | {
"abstract": "This paper develops a real options framework to analyze the behavior of stock returns in mergers and acquisitions. In this framework, the timing and terms of takeovers are endogenous and result from value-maximizing decisions. The implications of the model for abnormal announcement returns are consiste... |
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"abstract": "ABSTRACT Gut homeostasis involves interrelated biological networks that include the immune system, specialized cells of the epithelium, such as Paneth and goblet cells, as well as triggers derived from the microbiota. Disruption of these homeostatic interactions may lead to the pathogenesis of inflamma... | {
"abstract": "Crohn’s disease (CD) is a systemic chronic inflammatory condition mainly characterized by discontinuous transmural pathology of the gastrointestinal tract and frequent extraintestinal manifestations with intermittent episodes of remission and relapse. Genome-wide association studies identified a number... | {
"abstract": "The cerato-mandibular (c-md) ligament is a synapomorphy within Pomacentridae that creates a tight link between the lower jaws and the hyoid bars. However, this morphological trait has been secondarily lost in multiple lineages during evolution. A previous study revealed that the loss of this trait acte... |
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"abstract": "Although automated unit test generation techniques can in principle generate test suites that achieve high code coverage, in practice this is often inhibited by the dependence of the code under test on external resources. In particular, a common problem in modern programming languages is posed by code ... | {
"abstract": "Automated test generation for object-oriented software typically consists of producing sequences of calls aiming at high code coverage. In practice, the success of this process may be inhibited when classes interact with their environment, such as the file system, network, user-interactions, etc. This ... | {
"abstract": "Augmenting people's senses with computational support can improve the ability to perceive information and perform tasks. However, the impact of such augmentation may fluctuate according to user context, thereby impacting the quality of a user experience. In this paper, we present two systems that asses... |
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"abstract": "Mutations in PIK3CA, the gene encoding the p110α catalytic subunit of phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K), have been shown to transform mammary epithelial cells (MEC). Studies suggest this transforming activity requires binding of mutant p110α via p85 to phosphorylated YXXM motifs in activated receptor ty... | {
"abstract": "The ErbB receptor family member ErbB3 has been implicated in breast cancer growth, but it has yet to be determined whether its disruption is therapeutically valuable. In a mouse model of mammary carcinoma driven by the polyomavirus middle T (PyVmT) oncogene, the ErbB2 tyrosine kinase inhibitor lapatini... | {
"abstract": "Testing for antimitochondrial antibodies is the most useful laboratory procedure in the diagnosis of primary biliary cirrhosis; nevertheless, 5–10% of patients with typical features of primary biliary cirrhosis do not have detectable antimitochondrial antibodies, their condition being referred to as an... |
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"abstract": "Predicting traffic conditions has been recently explored as a way to relieve traffic congestion. Several pioneering approaches have been proposed based on traffic observations of the target location as well as its adjacent regions, but they obtain somewhat limited accuracy due to lack of mining road to... | {
"abstract": "Accurate and timely traffic flow information is important for the successful deployment of intelligent transportation systems. Over the last few years, traffic data have been exploding, and we have truly entered the era of big data for transportation. Existing traffic flow prediction methods mainly use... | {
"abstract": "Stock market prediction has attracted much attention from academia as well as business. However, it is a challenging research topic, in which many advanced computational methods have been proposed, but not yet attained a desirable and reliable performance. This study proposes a new method for stock mar... |
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"abstract": "Tithonia diversifolia (Hemsl) A. Gray, commonly known as “Mexican Sunflower”, is a perennial herbaceous plant of the Asteraceae family, native to Mexico and Central America. At present, however, this species is widely found in many countries outside of these areas, including Brazil. It has been the sub... | {
"abstract": "Essential oils of eight plants, selected after an ethnobotanical survey conducted in Bukusu community in Bungoma County, western Kenya (Tagetes minuta, Tithonia diversifolia, Juniperus procera, Solanecio mannii, Senna didymobotrya, Lantana camara, Securidaca longepedunculata, and Hoslundia opposita), w... | {
"abstract": "LSD1-related proteins have been found to regulate programmed cell death (PCD) and disease related signaling in the plants. Rice LSD1-like (OsLOL1) gene was involved in regulation of cell death and OsLOL2 (rice zinc-finger gene) has been reported to regulate plant growth and disease resistance in plants... |
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"abstract": "Every year, natural hazards affect millions of people around the world, causing significant economic and life losses. The rapid progress of technology and advances in understanding of the highly complex physical phenomena related to various natural hazards have promoted the development of new disaster-... | {
"abstract": "The real‐time earthquake information system (REIS) of the Japanese seismic network is developed for automatically determining earthquake parameters within a few seconds after the P‐waves arrive at the closest stations using both the P‐wave arrival times and the timing data that P‐waves have not yet arr... | {
"abstract": "\n This article reports efforts toward using real-time earthquake monitoring by the Taiwan Central Weather Bureau to meet the needs of seismic early warning. Twenty-three sets of strong-motion data from moderate earthquakes (ML > 5.0) in the Taiwan area are used to demonstrate the feasibility of this g... |
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"abstract": "BACKGROUND: As the cardiovascular device, biomaterials applied under the blood-contact conditions should have anti-thrombotic, anti-biodegradable and anti-infective properties. OBJECTIVE: To develop novel polymer materials for implantation and intervention in cardiovascular tissue engineering and to ex... | {
"abstract": "The blood-contacting properties of polyethylene coated with a lubricious hydrophilic coating; an uncoated polyethylene; or a photoheparin-treated polyethylene-negative control sample were compared by measuring fibrinogen adsorption, antifibrinogen binding, and platelet attachment from human plasma. The... | {
"abstract": "The cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) used in heart surgery has a deleterious effect on hemostasis. The aim of our study was to assess by means of standard laboratory and point-of-care methods changes induced by CPB in coagulation parameters, particularly in platelet function, and to determine whether these... |
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"abstract": "Allgayer H. Der interessante Fall. Rehabilitation 2019; 58: 12–14 Einleitung Die Lebertransplantation (LTx) ist ein seit vielen Jahren bestehendes und bewährtes Verfahren bei chronischen Leberkrankungen im Endstadium. In den USA erfolgten 2016 über 30 000 LTx, in Deutschland waren es im vergangenen Jah... | {
"abstract": "BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Introducing the calcineurin inhibitors cyclosporin (CsA) and tacrolimus (Tac) has improved the outcome of organ transplants, but complications such as new onset diabetes mellitus after transplantation (NODAT) decrease survival rates.",
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"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nThe objectives of the present study were to investigate the possible adverse effects of ciclosporin A (CsA, Sandimmun Neoral) on insulin secretion and insulin sensitivity (IS) in man.\n\n\nMETHODS\nA total of 11 Caucasian non-diabetic haemodialysis (HD) patients were recruited from the Norw... |
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"abstract": "The active form of vitamin D has immunomodulatory and anti‐inflammatory effect. Vitamin D is implicated in pathogenesis of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and its deficiency leads to increased inflammation. Moreover, its production is dependent on concentration of calcium, phosphorus, and parathyroid hormone... | {
"abstract": "Background: Vitamin D is believed to have an immunomodulatory and anti-inflammatory action, and its deficiency has been linked with several autoimmune disorders, including rheumatoid arthritis (RA). The relationship between the severity of RA and serum levels of Vitamin D is a subject of immense intere... | {
"abstract": "OBJECTIVE\nThis aim of this study was at compare the fibroblast cytotoxicicty of four restorative materials--a conventional glass ionomer cement (GC Fuji Type II GIC), a ceramic reinforced glass ionomer cement (Amalgomer), a giomer (Beautifl II) and a resin composite (Filtek Z350) at three different ti... |
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"abstract": "An increasingly common requirement of computer systems is to extract information regarding the people present in an environment. In this article, we provide a comprehensive, multi-disciplinary survey of the existing literature, focusing mainly on the extraction of five commonly needed spatiotemporal pr... | {
"abstract": "In this paper we use multiple microphone arrays to fuse the location estimate from each microphone array which yields an improved estimate of the positions and velocities of multiple, simultaneously active, moving speakers based on time delay of arrivals (TDOAs). Our approach: 1) incorporates kinematic... | {
"abstract": "The relative time delay associated with a speech signal received at a pair of spatially separated microphones is a key component in talker localization and microphone array beamforming procedures. The traditional method for estimating this parameter utilizes the generalized cross correlation (GCC), the... |
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"abstract": "The Internet of Things (IoT) is a next generation of Internet connected devices and sensors embedded within information and communication technology (ICT) systems in a digitally-enabled environment. It supports supply chain process integration by capturing and transferring key information in real-time.... | {
"abstract": "Abstract This paper is a formal overview of standards and patents for Internet of Things (IoT) as a key enabler for the next generation advanced manufacturing, referred as Industry 4.0 (I 4.0). IoT at the fundamental level is a means of connecting physical objects to the Internet as a ubiquitous networ... | {
"abstract": "We are living in the era of the fourth industrial revolution, namely Industry 4.0. This paper presents the main aspects related to Industry 4.0, the technologies that will enable this revolution, and the main application domains that will be affected by it. The effects that the introduction of Internet... |
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"abstract": "OWEN, MICHAEL PARKER. Hydrodynamics of Mass Transfer and Accretion in Close Binary Systems With Compact Objects. (Under the direction of John M. Blondin) Most stars are formed in binary or multiple systems. Many of these stars will undergo some period of mass transfer at some point during their lifetim... | {
"abstract": "We present Keck II spectroscopy of an optical mHz quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) in the lightcurve of the X-ray pulsar binary Hercules X-1. In the power spec- trum it appears as 'peaked noise', with a coherency �2, a central frequency of 35 mHz and a peak-to-peak amplitude of 5%. However, the dynam... | {
"abstract": "The highly variable X-ray luminosity of LMC X-3 is found to be strongly modulated with a period of about 198 (or possibly about 99) days. Observations from satellites show this periodic variation. For energies of less than 13 keV, the X-ray intensity and hardness are positively correlated; for higher e... |
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"abstract": "In this paper, we present a precise comprehensive analysis of the aggregate interference I generated from an underlay network of cognitive radio (CR) nodes employing several transmit power control and receiver association schemes. Importantly, we consider spatial randomness by modeling CR transmitter n... | {
"abstract": "This paper investigates the aggregate interference on a primary user caused by a random number of cognitive radio transmitters distributed in a finite ring. A composite model involving path loss, Rayleigh fading, and shadowing is considered. The exact closed-form moment generating function and an accur... | {
"abstract": "We investigate the importance of diffusion and jumps in a new model for asset returns. In contrast to standard models, we allow for jump components displaying finite or infinite activity and variation. Empirical investigations of time series indicate that index dynamics are devoid of a diffusion compon... |
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"abstract": "The use of voltage source multilevel inverters (VS-MLIs) has grown enormously over the last decade, and it is expected that these inverters will be deployed in future power grids (smart grids), especially for medium voltage–high power applications. This paper investigates the application of passive pow... | {
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"title": "LCL filter design for photovoltaic grid connected systems"
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"abstract": "Objective. We describe a novel human–machine interface for the control of a two-dimensional (2D) computer cursor using four inertial measurement units (IMUs) placed on the user's upper-body. Approach. A calibration paradigm where human subjects follow a cursor with their body as if they were controllin... |
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"abstract": "Method forms the basis of scientific research, enabling criticism, selection and extension of current knowledge. However, methods are usually confined to the literature, where they are often difficult to find, understand, compare, or repeat. Bioinformatics and computational biology provide a rich oppor... | {
"abstract": "The Bioinformatics Links Directory is an online community resource that contains a directory of freely available tools, databases, and resources for bioinformatics and molecular biology research. The listing of the servers published in this and previous issues of Nucleic Acids Research together with ot... | {
"abstract": "The immediate-early gene Arc is rapidly expressed in response to neuronal activity and is thought to be involved in mechanisms of synaptic plasticity. The function of Arc in these processes remains unknown. The present study demonstrates that during an in vitro neural correlate of eyeblink classical co... |
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"abstract": "Insect gut microbes have been shown to provide nutrients such as essential amino acids (EAAs) to their hosts. How this symbiotic nutrient provisioning tracks with the host’s demand is not well understood. In this study, we investigated microbial essential amino acid (EAA) provisioning in omnivorous Ame... | {
"abstract": "Cockroaches are insects that can accommodate diets of different composition, including lignocellulosic materials. Digestion of these compounds is achieved by the insect’s own enzymes and also by enzymes produced by gut symbionts. The presence of different and modular bacterial phyla on the cockroach gu... | {
"abstract": "The quinone profiles of microbial biomass samples from wastewater and natural aquatic environments were studied. A soil sample was also analyzed for comparison. Attempts were made to perform numerical analyses on these profiles by using three parameters, the microbial divergence index (MDq), the bioene... |
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"abstract": "Normal and simian virus 40-transformed human embryonic lung fibroblasts in culture were exposed to 3.5 microM coformycin (CF). This treatment resulted in almost complete inhibition of adenosine deaminase activity in both cell lines and retarded the progress of the fibroblasts through the cell cycle, as... | {
"abstract": "Deamination of many analogs of adenine nucleosides results in the loss of their chemotherapeutic efficacy. Two approaches have been used in this study to overcome this problem. First, some adenine nucleotides, which are resistant to mammalian adenosine deaminase, are more toxic to animal cells than are... | {
"abstract": "Cells transformed by the oncogenic virus SV40 are known to contain viral DNA integrated into cellular DNA and to produce virus-specific RNA. It has been shown that nuclear molecules containing virus-specific sequences are considerably longer than presumed virus-specific mRNA molecules from cytoplasmic ... |
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"abstract": "Original article can be found at : http://www.aanda.org/ Copyright The European Southern Observatory",
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"title": "The VMC survey II : A multi-wavelength study of LMC planetary nebulae and their mimics"
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"abstract": "The recent on-line availability of large-scale, wide-field surveys of the Galaxy and Magellanic Clouds in several optical and near/mid-infrared passbands has provided unprecedented opportunities to refine selection techniques and eliminate contaminants in PN surveys. This has been coupled with new surv... | {
"abstract": "The “Catalogue of Galactic Planetary Nebulae (Version 2000)” appears in Abhandlungen aus der Hamburger Sternwarte, Band XII in the year 2001. It is a continuation of CGPN(1967) and contains 1510 objects classified as galactic PNe up to the end of 1999. The lists of possible pre-PNe and possible post-PN... |
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"abstract": "Previous unsupervised domain adaptation methods did not handle the cross-domain problem from the perspective of frequency for computer vision. The images or feature maps of different domains can be decomposed into the low-frequency component and high-frequency component. This paper pro-poses the assump... | {
"abstract": "We present the 2017 Visual Domain Adaptation (VisDA) dataset and challenge, a large-scale testbed for unsupervised domain adaptation across visual domains. Unsupervised domain adaptation aims to solve the real-world problem of domain shift, where machine learning models trained on one domain must be tr... | {
"abstract": "Variational Auto-Encoders enforce their learned intermediate latent-space data distribution to be a simple distribution, such as an isotropic Gaussian. However, this causes the posterior collapse problem and loses manifold structure which can be important for datasets such as facial images. A GAN can t... |
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"abstract": "Currently, there is a high concern from consumers regarding food quality, with emphasis on the origin of food sources. We here review the current situation of beans (Phaseolus spp.) and cowpea (Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp.) landraces in the South of Europe focusing on morpho-agronomic and genetic diver... | {
"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nCowpea fresh pods are consumed as green vegetables in many countries in Southern Europe. Among cowpea cultivated material, a relatively large number of landraces can be found, maintaining species genetic diversity. To assess the value of these landraces in breeding programs, the characteriz... | {
"abstract": "A compilation was made of 307 studies using nuclear DNA markers for evaluating among‐ and within‐population diversity in wild angiosperms and gymnosperms. Estimates derived by the dominantly inherited markers (RAPD, AFLP, ISSR) are very similar and may be directly comparable. STMS analysis yields almos... |
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"abstract": "In this paper we study the α-stable continuous-state branching processes (for α ∈ (1, 2]) and the α-stable continuous-state branching processes conditioned never to become extinct in the light of positive self-similarity. Understanding the interaction of the Lamperti transformation for continuous-state... | {
"abstract": "We consider continuous-state branching (CB) processes which become extinct (i.e., hit 0) with positive probability. We characterize all the quasi-stationary distributions (QSD) for the CB-process as a stochastically monotone family indexed by a real number. We prove that the minimal element of this fam... | {
"abstract": "In this note we give a new separation between sensitivity and block sensitivity of Boolean functions: $bs(f)=(2/3)s(f)^2-(1/3)s(f)$.",
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"abstract": "Digital pathology is not only one of the most promising fields of diagnostic medicine, but at the same time a hot topic for fundamental research. Digital pathology is not just the transfer of histopathological slides into digital representations. The combination of different data sources (images, patie... | {
"abstract": "A grand goal of future medicine is in modelling the complexity of patients to tailor medical decisions, health practices and therapies to the individual patient. This trend towards personalized medicine produces unprecedented amounts of data, and even though the fact that human experts are excellent at... | {
"abstract": "Malicious web pages that use drive-by download attacks or social engineering techniques to install unwanted software on a user's computer have become the main avenue for the propagation of malicious code. To search for malicious web pages, the first step is typically to use a crawler to collect URLs th... |
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"abstract": "Les recherches effectuees dans le domaine de la reconnaissance automatique de la parole (RAP) permettent d'envisager un eventail toujours plus large d'applications industrielles ou grand public. Cependant, la comprehension des mecanismes de production et de reconnaissance de la parole par l'Homme ne su... | {
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"title": "Time series prediction by using a connectionist network with internal delay lines"
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"abstract": "Preface. 1. Introduction. A Bit of History. The Java Virtual Machine. Summary of Chapters. Notation. 2. Java Programming Language Concepts. Unicode. Identifiers. Literals. Types and Values. Primitive Types and Values. Operators on Integral Values. Floating-Point Types, Value Sets, and Values. Operators... |
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"abstract": "TECHNICAL EFFICIENCY AND ELASTICITY OF INPUT SUBSTITUTION IN THE CANADIAN FOOD MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY Aditya Singh Co-Advisors: University of Guelph, 2019 Dr John Cranfield Dr Getu Hailu The purpose of this study is to estimate technical efficiency and the elasticity of input substitution between facto... | {
"abstract": "This study examines the differential effects of relative prices and sweetener-related health information on the substitutability between sweeteners in the U.S. food processing sector. Results suggest that cane and corn sugar are gross complements, Allen complements, but Morishima substitutes. Furthermo... | {
"abstract": "We examine the relationships between glycemic carbohydrate and its effects on short-term satiety and food intake. Both high- and low-glycemic carbohydrates have an impact on satiety, but their effects have different time courses. High-glycemic carbohydrates are associated with a reduction in appetite a... |
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"abstract": "Atherogenesis, the formation of atherosclerotic plaques, is a complex process that involves several mechanisms, including endothelial dysfunction, neovascularization, vascular proliferation, apoptosis, matrix degradation, inflammation, and thrombosis. The pathogenesis and progression of atherosclerosis... | {
"abstract": "BackgroundOxidized LDL (oxLDL) is involved in the development of atherosclerotic heart disease through a mechanism that is not fully understood. In this study, we examined the role of malondialdehyde (MDA), an important oxidative stress epitope of oxLDL, in mediating coronary endothelial cytotoxicity.R... | {
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"abstract": "The bulk of currently available research in identity deception focuses on understanding the psychological motive behind persons lying about their identity. However, apart from understanding the psychological aspects of such a mindset, it is also important to consider identity deception in the context o... | {
"abstract": "Online social network analysis has attracted great attention with a vast number of users sharing information and availability of APIs that help to crawl online social network data. In this paper, we study the research studies that are helpful for user characterization as online users may not always rev... | {
"abstract": "Spam is one of the main problems of the WWW. ::: Many studies exist about characterising and detecting several ::: types of Spam (mainly Web Spam, Email Spam, Forum/Blob ::: Spam and Social Networking Spam). Nevertheless, to the best of ::: our knowledge, there are no studies about the detection of Spa... |
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"abstract": "Herpes simplex virus (HSV) is a leading cause of blindness and viral encephalitis in the developed world. Upon reactivation from sensory neurons, HSV returns via axonal transport to peripheral tissues where it causes, e.g., severe, potentially blinding ocular diseases. In the present study we investiga... | {
"abstract": "ABSTRACT The ability of antibodies to interfere with anterograde transmission of herpes simplex virus (HSV) from neuronal axons to the epidermis was investigated in an in vitro model consisting of human fetal dorsal root ganglia innervating autologous skin explants in a dual-chamber tissue culture syst... | {
"abstract": "In mice the immune response to HSV-1 includes a brisk Tc response that is intimately associated with the control of infection. This report evaluated the Tc response to gC, one of the envelope glycoproteins of HSV-1. This protein was recognized as a target antigen for Tc from HSV-1 immune mice only if t... |
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"abstract": "ABSTRACT Introduction: Patients with inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) require life-long medications, which even if effective have the potential to cause adverse effects as additional morbidity factors. In pediatric patients, drug therapy has more serious limitations, including impaired physical and me... | {
"abstract": "Active ulcerative colitis (UC) is associated with elevated granulocytes and monocytes/macrophages (GM) which show activation behavior and increased survival time. Further, fecal calprotectin (a stable neutrophil protein) level parallels intestinal inflammation and can predict UC relapse. Since GM are m... | {
"abstract": "Background—Concentrations of pro-inflammatory cytokines are increased in the intestinal mucosa of patients with active inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Polymorphonuclear neutrophil granulocytes (PMN) are the most abundant cell type in intestinal lesions in IBD. Interleukin 10 (IL-10) is an important c... |
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"abstract": "At the control of raw ewe's milk (REM) quality is a major microbiological criterion to the total bacterial count (TBC). The aim of our work was to determine the incidence of technologically important species of microorganisms in REM in Slovak Republic. At the monitored 28 ewe´s farms, we took bulk milk... | {
"abstract": "A survey on ovine dairy farms directly transforming own-produced milk, in the Italian Marche region, was carried out to assess flock and milking practices that may influence milk hygienic-sanitary conditions. A census survey established that 24 dairy farms were located in this region. Bulk milk samples... | {
"abstract": "At the control of raw ewe's milk (REM) quality is a major microbiological criterion to the total bacterial count (TBC). The aim of our work was to determine the incidence of technologically important species of microorganisms in REM in Slovak Republic. At the monitored 28 ewe´s farms, we took bulk milk... |
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"abstract": "ABSTRACT A number of fungal proteins are capable of adopting multiple alternative, self-perpetuating prion conformations. These prion variants are associated with functional alterations of the prion-forming protein and thus the generation of new, heritable traits that can be detrimental or beneficial. ... | {
"abstract": "The yeast Sup35 protein is a subunit of the translation termination factor, and its conversion to the [PSI+] prion state leads to more translational read-through. Although extensive studies have been done on [PSI+], changes at the proteomic level have not been performed exhaustively. We therefore used ... | {
"abstract": "A central tenet of molecular biology is that heritable information is stored in nucleic acids. However, this paradigm has been overturned by a group of proteins called \"prions.\" Prion proteins, many of which are intrinsically disordered, can adopt multiple conformations, at least one of which has the... |
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"abstract": "Significance Uncontrolled cell proliferation and abnormal blood vessel formation result in regions of breast cancers that are hypoxic (deprived of oxygen). Hypoxia-inducible factors (HIFs) stimulate the expression of genes that enable cancer cells to invade and metastasize, leading to patient mortality... | {
"abstract": "Hypoxia-inducible factor 1α (HIF-1α) expression is a hallmark of intratumoral hypoxia that is associated with breast cancer metastasis and patient mortality. Previously, we demonstrated that HIF-1 stimulates the expression and activity of TAZ, which is a transcriptional effector of the Hippo signaling ... | {
"abstract": "Hypoxia-inducible factor-1alpha (HIF1alpha) is a central regulator of the cellular response to hypoxia. Prolyl-hydroxylation of HIF1alpha by PHD enzymes is prerequisite for HIF1alpha degradation. Here, we demonstrate that the abundance of PHD1 and PHD3 are regulated via their targeting for proteasome-d... |
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"abstract": "It is important to study the neural connectivities and functions in primates. For this purpose, it is critical to be able to transfer genes to certain neurons in the primate brain so that we can image the neuronal signals and analyze the function of the transferred gene. Toward this end, our team has b... | {
"abstract": "Application of recombinant adeno-associated virus (rAAV) in gene therapy has been limited by its packaging capacity. Recent studies suggested that rAAV could achieve persistent transgene expression beyond 4.7-kb packaging limit. To clarify the mechanism leading to transgene expression from oversized rA... | {
"abstract": "Abstract 1,3-Propanediol, a monomer for synthesis of polytrimethylene terephthalate, polyethers, polyurethanes, and heterocyclic compounds, has attracted worldwide attention. It can be produced from renewable resources using microorganisms, which focus mainly on the ecologically friendly process, indus... |
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"abstract": "For a perturbed nonlinear dynamic system of second or higher order, the maximum admissible norm of state variables is derived. The uncertainty in a rectangular box is approximated by an analytic structure with high accuracy.",
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"title": "STABILITY REGION ROBUSTNESS"
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"abstract": "The stability region improvement for nonlinear dynamic systems based on the Lyapunov method is addressed. Emphasis is put on gradients for increasing the radial distance of the point on the stability boundary closest to the origin. Arbitrary analytic complexity in a given structure is admissible for th... | {
"abstract": "The Lie series recursive algorithm for Zubov's partial differential equation is used to generate two sets of points, where one represents the exact asymptotic stability boundary of an equilibrium state of the nonlinear system under consideration and the other is interior to it. Based on these two sets ... |
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"abstract": "Objective: Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreaticography (ERCP)‐guided brushing has been the standard of practice for surveillance and detection of carcinoma in the biliary tree. Few studies have evaluated the role of endoscopic ultrasound‐guided fine needle aspiration (EUS‐FNA) in diagnosing clini... | {
"abstract": "Primary carcinoma of the gallbladder is a rare neoplasm that is frequently difficult to diagnose preoperatively. The obstacles to diagnosis include vague symptoms and the relative inaccessibility of the gallbladder and cystic duct to biopsy. Cytological descriptions of gallbladder carcinoma are sparse ... | {
"abstract": "Background: Carcinoma of the gallbladder (CaGB) is common in India and its prognosis depends primarily on the extent of the disease and histological type. We aim to study the role of guided fine needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) for diagnosis of CaGB and to evaluate the feasibility of applying world he... |
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"title": "Ecological benefits of brachiaria grasses in integrated crop-livestock production systems in Rwanda."
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"abstract": "Farmers in mixed crop-livestock systems produce about half of the world’s food. In small holdings around the world, livestock are reared mostly on grass, browse, and nonfood biomass from maize, millet, rice, and sorghum crops and in their turn supply manure and traction for future crops. Animals act as... | {
"abstract": "The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA) introduced a new framework for analyzing social–ecological systems that has had wide influence in the policy and scientific communities. Studies after the MA are taking up new challenges in the basic science needed to assess, project, and manage flows of ecosyst... |
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"abstract": "Background Inflammatory markers have been shown to play an important role in bone remodeling. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship among serum C-reactive protein (CRP), adiponectin, tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-α) and bone health in healthy adults. Methods We measured serum... | {
"abstract": "Abstract. Cytokines such as interleukin-1 (IL-1β), interleukin-6 (IL-6) and tumor necrosis factor (TNF-α) can influence both bone resorption and bone formation. The objective of this cross-sectional study was to examine the relationship between cytokine production by peripheral blood mononuclear cells ... | {
"abstract": "It was reported earlier that IL‐1 production by cultured monocytes and the ratio of helper (CD4) to suppressor (CD8) lymphocytes in peripheral blood are different in osteoporotic compared to nonosteoporotic subjects. We examined these and several other parameters related to the biosynthetic activity an... |
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"abstract": "With the advent of Internet, various online attacks were increased among them and the most well-known is a spoofing attack. Web spoofing is a type of spoofing in which fake and spoofing websites made by means of fraudsters to duplicate real websites. Spoofing websites represent legitimate websites whic... | {
"abstract": "Identity theft is one of the most profitable crimes committed by felons. In the cyber space, this is commonly achieved using phishing. We propose here robust server side methodology to detect phishing attacks, called phishGILLNET, which incorporates the power of natural language processing and machine ... | {
"abstract": "Security toolbars in a web browser show security-related information about a website to help users detect phishing attacks. Because the toolbars are designed for humans to use, they should be evaluated for usability -- that is, whether these toolbars really prevent users from being tricked into providi... |
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"abstract": "This thesis covers several topics including studies on the accuracy of continuous glucose measurement (CGM) devices in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). In addition, it is investigated whether an electronic nose (eNose) can be used to predict blood glucose levels in mechanically ventilated ICU patients. T... | {
"abstract": "In otorhinolaryngologist’s experience the nasal out-breath of people affected by chronic nasal or paranasal infections may be characterized by peculiar odours. In a previous study we showed that an electronic nose (EN), examining nasal out breath was able to distinguish subjects affected by chronic rhi... | {
"abstract": "Allergic aspergillar sinusitis is a very controversial clinical feature. We present results of a prospective study aimed at evaluating the reality of allergic aspergillar sinusitis in a nosologic and clinical point of vue. During a 5 months period, 31 patients underwent surgery: 21 sino-nasal polyposis... |
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"abstract": "After meiosis, during the final stages of spermatogenesis, the haploid male genome undergoes major structural changes, resulting in a shift from a nucleosome-based genome organization to the sperm-specific, highly compacted nucleoprotamine structure. Recent data support the idea that region-specific pr... | {
"abstract": "Dispersion of nuclear fibers of the spermatozoa of dogfish, man, and bull is made possible after treatment with a reducing and alkylating reagent coupled with an anionic detergent; the same detergent used at a low ionic strength dissociates the nuclear content of the rainbow trout sperm. Electron micro... | {
"abstract": "THE common Norway rat is a wild, fierce, aggressive animal which fights with other rats or other animals, large or small, at apparently slight provocation. When captured and brought into the laboratory such rats show no diminution of their aggressive tendencies even after months or years of the compara... |
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"abstract": "Abstract: The etiology and pathogenesis of endometriosis are hotspots in the field of obstetrics and gynecology today.With the rapid development of experimental studies of endometriosis, the establishment of in vitro histological models is increasingly important.The establishment and application of in ... | {
"abstract": "OBJECTIVE\nTo determine the role of peritoneal mesothelial cells (PMCs) in the process of endometrial invasion into the peritoneum and to evaluate gene expression after endometrial-PMC co-culture.\n\n\nDESIGN\nIn vitro study.\n\n\nSETTING\nUniversity laboratory.\n\n\nPATIENT(S)\nReproductive-age women ... | {
"abstract": "OBJECTIVE\nTo investigate the role(s) of colony-stimulating factor 1 (CSF-1) on the development of early endometriosis in a murine model by comparing rate of lesion formation in mice [1] homozygous for a CSF-1 mutation versus syngeneic controls and [2] after treatment with imatinib, a commercially avai... |
{
"abstract": "This paper describes two approaches to scaling in cloud environments - semi-automatic (also called by request) and automatic (also called on demand) - and explains why the latter is to prefer. Semi-automatic scaling is illustrated with an example of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, whereas automatic scali... | {
"abstract": "Cloud computing is a buzz-word in todays information technology (IT) that nobody can escape. But what is really behind it? There are many interpretations of this term, but no standardized or even uniform definition. Instead, as a result of the multi-faceted viewpoints and the diverse interests expresse... | {
"abstract": "Nowadays, many influential facts are reported multiple times by different sources and in different languages. This paper presents the results of an experiment on deploying cross-lingual information fusion techniques for refining the results of a large-scale multilingual news event extraction system. An... |
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"abstract": "Our previous studies showed that bladder hypertrophy shifts the muscarinic receptor subtype mediating contraction from M3 towards M2 along with increased M2 and decreased M3 protein concentration. We quantified mRNA for M1 through M5 receptors to determine whether the changes in M2 and M3 protein level... | {
"abstract": "In vitro bladder contractions in response to cumulative carbachol doses were measured in the presence of selective muscarinic antagonists from rats that had their major pelvic ganglion bilaterally removed. Denervation induced both hypertrophy and a supersensitivity of the bladders to agonist. The affin... | {
"abstract": "Normal rat bladder contractions are mediated by the M3 muscarinic receptor subtype. The M2 receptor subtype mediates contractions of the denervated, hypertrophied bladder. This study determined signal transduction mechanisms mediating contraction of the denervated rat bladder. Denervated bladder muscle... |
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"abstract": "The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of training and the Alka competition upon the activity/ concentrations of antioxidative and muscle enzymes and metabolic parameters, as well as their correlations, in the serum of Thoroughbred (TH) and Croatian Warmblood (CWH) horses. The experiment ... | {
"abstract": "Continuous high intensity training may induce alterations to enzyme activities related to glucose and lipid metabolism in horses. In our study, five Thoroughbred race horses (3 male and 2 female, avg age = 5 yrs old) were compared against five riding horses (1 male, 1 female, 3 gelding, avg age = 13 yr... | {
"abstract": "Objectives—To determine effects of dietary antioxidant supplementation on plasma concentrations of antioxidants, exercise-induced oxidative damage, and resistance to oxidative damage during exercise in Alaskan sled dogs. Animals—62 Alaskan sled dogs. Procedure—Dogs were matched for age, sex, and abilit... |
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"abstract": "We study the existence of traveling wave solutions to a unidirectional shallow water model, which incorporates the full linear dispersion relation for both gravitational and capillary restoring forces. Using functional analytic techniques, we show that for small surface tension (corresponding to Bond n... | {
"abstract": "Multilump gravity-capillary solitary waves propagating in a fluid of infinite depth are computed numerically. The study is based on a weakly nonlinear and dispersive partial differential equation (PDE) with weak variations in the spanwise direction, a model derived by Akers and Milewski [Stud. Appl. Ma... | {
"abstract": "Two-dimensional (plane) solitary waves on the surface of water are known to bifurcate from linear sinusoidal wavetrains at specific wavenumbers $k\\,{=}\\,k_{0}$ where the phase speed $c(k)$ attains an extremum $(\\left. \\hbox{d}c/\\hbox{d}k \\right |_{0}\\,{=}\\,0)$ and equals the group speed. In par... |
{
"abstract": "Container terminals are crucial elements in the global trade of goods, however they are also responsible for massive greenhouse gases emissions. One of the key elements in a terminal is the Rubber Tyred Gantry (RTG) crane, which is used to stack containers in the yard. The energy efficiency of this mac... | {
"abstract": "Powering a robot is one of the biggest challenges in robot design, which is one of new technologies that will positively impact robotics. Flywheel is a kind of device for energy conversion and storage, which is known as electro-mechanical battery. In this paper, a kinetic energy recovery system (KERS) ... | {
"abstract": "This paper describes the present status of flywheel energy storage technology, or mechanical batteries, and discusses realistic future projections that are possible based on stronger composite materials and advancing technology. The origins and use of flywheel technology for mechanical energy storage b... |
{
"abstract": "ABSTRACT How ecological interactions vary across spatial and environmental gradients has received increasing attention in recent years, contributing to the revelation of the drivers of biodiversity. However, it is still unclear how the structure of ecological interactions varies across large spatial sc... | {
"abstract": "Species-rich tropical communities are expected to be more specialized than their temperate counterparts. Several studies have reported increasing biotic specialization toward the tropics, whereas others have not found latitudinal trends once accounting for sampling bias or differences in plant diversit... | {
"abstract": "The purpose of this study was to produce aspirin-impregnated microspheres of chitosan/poly(acrylic acid) copolymer in order to evaluate the release characteristics as a function of pH, simulating the fluids in the gastrointestinal tract. Chitosan microspheres were obtained by the coacervation-phase sep... |
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"abstract": "We investigated the reactivity of different substituted nitrylimine-type three atom components (TACs) in [3+2] cycloaddition (32CAs) reactions with electrophilically activated nitroethenes within molecular electron density theory (MEDT). In parallel research, the molecular mechanism of the considered t... | {
"abstract": "Theoretical reactivity indices based on the conceptual Density Functional Theory (DFT) have become a powerful tool for the semiquantitative study of organic reactivity. A large number of reactivity indices have been proposed in the literature. Herein, global quantities like the electronic chemical pote... | {
"abstract": "The mosquito Aedes aegypti (Diptera, Culicidae) is the vector of yellow and dengue fever. In this study, chemometric tools, such as, Principal Component Analysis (PCA), Consensus PCA (CPCA), and Partial Least Squares Regression (PLS), were applied to a set of fifty five active compounds against Ae. aeg... |
{
"abstract": "A fast-paced energy transition needs a higher penetration of renewables, of heating and cooling in the worldwide energy mix. With three novelties 1-of using shallow high-pressure LRC (Lined Rock Cavern) excavated close to storage needs, 2-of using a slow-moving CO2 piston applying steady pressure on th... | {
"abstract": "Compressed air energy storage (CAES) systems represent a new technology for storing very large amount of energy. A peculiarity of the systems is that gas must be stored under a high pressure (p = 10–30 MPa). A lined rock cavern (LRC) in the form of a tunnel or shaft can be used within this pressure ran... | {
"abstract": "The application of capillary HPLC/continuous-flow liquid secondary ion mass spectrometry (CF-LSIMS) as part of an integrated approach for characterizing discovery stage in vitro metabolites, using a specific inhibitor for 5-lipoxygenase as a model compound, was investigated. CF-LSIMS demonstrated excel... |
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"abstract": "Ionic liquids are a special category of molten salts with melting points near ambient temperatures or by convention below 100 C. Owing to their numerous valuable physicochemical properties as bulk liquids, solvents, at surfaces and in confined environments, ILs have attracted increasing attention in bo... | {
"abstract": "Room temperature ionic liquids (IL) composed of organic cations and inorganic anions are already being utilized for wide-ranging applications in chemistry. Complementary to experiments, computational modelling has provided reliable details into the nature of their interactions. The intra- and intermole... | {
"abstract": "CdSe quantum dot (QD)-phthalocyanine (Pc) conjugates were prepared as energy transfer donor-acceptor pairs, and the efficiency of the energy transfer process in this system was investigated as a function of QD size and under different surface chemistry conditions. The kinetics and efficiency of the ene... |
{
"abstract": "Newly synthesized small GTPases in the Ras and Rho families are prenylated by cytosolic prenyltransferases and then escorted by chaperones to membranes, the nucleus, and other sites where the GTPases participate in a variety of signaling cascades. Understanding how prenylation and trafficking are regul... | {
"abstract": "ABSTRACT Post/co-translational modifications by the addition of lipids take place in a vast number of proteins. Rab and Rho are small G proteins which are prenylated and targeted to membranes in complex with solubilizing factors called guanosine dissociation inhibitors (GDIs). The release of Rab and Rh... | {
"abstract": "Prediction of hurricane wind speeds using a simulation approach is the most universally accepted methodology for estimating design wind speeds in hurricane-prone regions of the world. An updated hu...",
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"score": -1,
"title": "Prediction of hurricane wind speeds in the Unit... |
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"abstract": "We train an evaluation function for a multi-player Chess variant board game called Duchess, which is played between two teams of two or three players, and is similar to Chess but with extra pieces, larger board size and significantly greater branching factor. Leaf positions in the alpha-beta search tre... | {
"abstract": "In this paper we present TDLeaf(lambda), a variation on the TD(lambda) algorithm that enables it to be used in conjunction with game-tree search. We present some experiments in which our chess program ``KnightCap'' used TDLeaf(lambda) to learn its evaluation function while playing on the Free Internet ... | {
"abstract": "Two different tri‐band microstrip patch antenna designs are presented. Antennas are designed and simulated using the commercial simulation Sonnet Suites [(Sonnet Software, version: 12.56 www.sonnetsoftware.com (2009)] and simulated results are compared against measurements in detail. Target application... |
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"abstract": "This paper presents a modified Social Force Model (SFM) for navigation control of a soccer robot application. We modified the way of determining the parameter value of the gain factor, , of the SFM using the Fuzzy Inference System (FIS), so that the value of the gain factor, , is adaptive. The purpose ... | {
"abstract": "Robots accompanying humans is one of the core capacities every service robot deployed in urban settings should have. We present a novel robot companion approach based on the so-called Social Force Model (SFM). A new model of robot-person interaction is obtained using the SFM which is suited for our rob... | {
"abstract": "This paper explores the problem of embodied interaction between a service robot and a person in a hallway setting. For operation in environments with people that have limited experience with robots, a behaviour that signals awareness of the persons and safety of motion is essential. A control strategy ... |
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