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"abstract": "Prevention of soil salinization is key to agriculture in arid and semiarid regions. Because of the desert climate and extensive demand for irrigation, mulched drip irrigation (MDI) has been practised across Xinjiang, the largest cotton‐planting region in China, since the early 1990s, reaching 2 × 106 h... | {
"abstract": "Using saline water for. irrigation increases water productivity by freeing up fresh water that can be allocated to domestic or other uses. Drip irrigation is widely regarded as the most promising ...",
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"title": "Low-cost drip irrigation—A suitable technology for southern Afr... | {
"abstract": "A vector matrix real time backpropagation algorithm for recurrent neural networks that approximate multi-valued periodic functions,\" Received Unlike feedforward neural networks (FFNN) which can act as universal function ap-proximators, recursive, or recurrent, neural networks can act as universal appr... |
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"abstract": "Due to the extensive role of social networks in social media, it is easy for people to share the news, and it spreads faster than ever before. These platforms also have been exploited to share the rumor or fake information, which is a threat to society. One method to reduce the impact of fake informati... | {
"abstract": "The emergence of online social networks has revolutionized the way people seek and share information. Nowadays, popular online social sites as Twitter, Facebook and Google+ are among the major news sources as well as the most effective channels for viral marketing. However, these networks also became t... | {
"abstract": "A theory of analogical mapping between source and target analogs based upon interacting structural, semantic, and pragmatic constraints is proposed here. The structural constraint of isomorphism encourages mappings that maximize the consistency of relational corresondences between the elements of the t... |
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"abstract": "Angiogenesis during reactive and pathologic processes is characteristically associated with inflammation. Inflammatory cells participate in angiogenesis by secreting different molecules that affect endothelial cell functions. We had previously shown that induced tissue factor (TF) expression in activat... | {
"abstract": "Monocytes and endothelial cells interact at sites of vascular injury during inflammatory response, thrombosis, and development of atherosclerotic lesions. Such interactions result in modulation of several biological functions of the two cell types. Because both cells, on appropriate stimulation, synthe... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Sustainable socio-economic development depends upon a well-trained and healthy workforce. Family health also influences worker stability. Access to healthcare in both rural and urban settings is a world-wide challenge: No nation can afford to replicate comprehensive health care resources in ev... |
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"abstract": "Tobacco use is one of the most preventable sources of death and disease, and yet it remains a worldwide problem, with ever-increasing spread into lowand middle-income countries. With the rising costs of healthcare, the focus of efforts to control them has honed in on lifestyles and behaviors that contr... | {
"abstract": "The Nursing Global Health Professions Student Survey (GHPSS) has been conducted in schools in 39 countries and the Gaza Strip/West Bank (identified as “sites” for the remainder of this paper). In half the sites, over 20% of the students currently smoked cigarettes, with males having higher rates than f... | {
"abstract": "Abstract We exhibit a functor Γ from lattice-ordered abelian groups with strong unit (L. Fuchs, “Partially Ordered Algebraic Systems,” Pergamon, New York, 1963) to C. C. Chang's MV algebras (Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 88 (1958), 467–490) , in such a way that every MV algebra is the image of at most one su... |
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"abstract": "This article reviews the physiological principles underlying the use of the pulmonary artery (PA) catheter. The procedure for PA catheter insertion, PA pressure monitoring, PA catheter removal and complications associated with the PA catheter are discussed, as are nursing management of the catheter and... | {
"abstract": "Since its introduction nearly 30 yr ago, the pulmonary artery catheter (PAC) has become part of everyday management in cardiology, anaesthesia and intensive care but remains controversial. 37 78 136 164 The apparent failure to demonstrate improvements in patient outcome 66 68 192 and the risks associat... | {
"abstract": "Pulmonary edema fluid and serum samples were obtained from 20 patients with cardiac and noncardiac pulmonary edema, and total protein, albumin, and globulin concentrations were measured. The mean edema fluid to serum protein ratio in patients with pure cardiogenic pulmonary edema was 0.37 +/- 0.09. In ... |
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"abstract": "Active Shape Models (ASM) have been widely used in the literature for the extraction of the tibial and the femoral bones from MRI. These methods use Statistical Shape Models (SSM) to drive the deformation and make the segmentation more robust. One crucial step for building such SSM is the shape corresp... | {
"abstract": "This paper presents an automated segmentation approach for MR images of the knee bones. The bones are the first stage of a segmentation system for the knee, primarily aimed at the automated segmentation of the cartilages. The segmentation is performed using 3D active shape models (ASM), which are initi... | {
"abstract": "Degeneration and loss of articular cartilage in osteoarthritis (OA) is difficult to measure, because changes are small and localised. We present a method that uses statistical shape models of the knee bones to define an anatomically consistent frame of reference across a population, providing sensitive... |
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"abstract": "Introduction Type 2 diabetes (T2D) has reached epidemic proportions in North America. Recent evidence suggests that prebiotics can modulate the gut microbiome, which then plays an important role in regulating lipid metabolism, blood glucose, and insulin sensitivity. As such, prebiotics are appealing po... | {
"abstract": "Abnormal microbial-host metabolic interactions underlying disease provide new targets for therapeutic intervention. The complex metabolic relationships between the host and its microbiota change throughout life and vary extensively between individuals, affecting disease risk factors and therapeutic res... | {
"abstract": "Summary. In a previous study, daily injections of glucose, 100 and 250 mg/kg i.p., in Sprague-Dawley rats failed to either facilitate acquisition or to ameliorate scopolamine- or morphine-induced deficits on a water maze alternation task (Means, et al., 1996). The present study demonstrates that daily ... |
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"abstract": "ABSTRACT High Brightness Light Emitting Diodes (HBLEDs) replace conventional lamps due to energy savings. LC3 parallel resonance principle is used to reduce the total harmonic distortion (THD) for passive LED drivers. The Valley fill concept is applied to reduce the output voltage ripple of LED driver.... | {
"abstract": "In this paper, we present a practical comparison on a range of circuit topologies suitable for passive LED drivers. These circuits consist of passive components and do not require any semiconductor controlled switches, auxiliary power supply and control integrated circuits. The power loss components, t... | {
"abstract": "In a rectification system with unity power factor, the input power consists of a dc and a double-line frequency power component. Traditionally, an electrolytic capacitor (E-Cap) is used to buffer the double-line frequency power such that the dc output presents a small voltage ripple. The use of E-Cap s... |
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"abstract": "The aim of this study was to present our results of the sonographic measurement of the fetal iliac angle during the first and second trimesters of pregnancy.",
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"title": "Prenatal ultrasonographic measurement of the fetal iliac angle during the first and second trimester of pr... | {
"abstract": "Objective To evaluate the fetal iliac wing angle in detecting trisomy 21 in the second trimester of pregnancy. Methods Using an axial view of the fetal pelvis, the angle between the right and left iliac wings (iliac wing angle) was measured ultrasonographically at the time of the secondtrimester ultras... | {
"abstract": "OBJECTIVE\nOur aim was to evaluate the utility of ultrasonographic humeral length measurements for detection of fetuses with Down syndrome in the midtrimester of gestation.\n\n\nSTUDY DESIGN\nUltrasonographic biometry data obtained before genetic amniocenteses on 43 fetuses with Down syndrome and 204 r... |
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"abstract": "Cancer consists of a group of diseases with the salient properties of an uncontrolled cell cycle, metastasis, and evasion of the immune response, mainly driven by the genomic instability of somatic cells and the physicochemical environment. Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) are defined as noncoding RNAs wi... | {
"abstract": "Targeting EGFR is a validated approach in the treatment of squamous-cell cancers (SCCs), although there are no established biomarkers for predicting response. We have identified a synonymous mutation in EGFR, c.2361G>A (encoding p.Gln787Gln), in two patients with head and neck SCC (HNSCC) who were exce... | {
"abstract": "Purpose: An objective response rate of 11% was reported in patients with recurrent and/or metastatic squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck (SCCHN) treated with 500 mg daily gefitinib although the recommended dose in lung cancer is 250 mg. This study evaluated the efficacy and toxicity of 250 mg ... |
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"abstract": "Social network sites (SNS), as web-based services, allow users to make open or semiopen profiles within the systems they are part of, to see lists of other people in the group, and to see the relationships of people within different groups. As the development of Internet applications has matured, devel... | {
"abstract": "Abstract In order to have an effective command of the relationship between customers and products, we have constructed a personalized recommender system which incorporates content-based, collaborative filtering, and data mining techniques. We have also introduced a new scoring approach to determine cus... | {
"abstract": "During the past decade, there have been a variety of significant developments in data mining techniques. Some of these developments are implemented in customized service to develop customer relationship. Customized service is actually crucial in retail markets. Marketing managers can develop long-term ... |
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"abstract": "Abstract Context: The Ryukyu Islands stretch across a southwestern area of the Japanese Archipelago. Because of their unique geographical and historical backgrounds, Ryukyuans have their own genetic and phenotypic characteristics, which have been disclosed in previous anthropological and biomedical stu... | {
"abstract": "Shovel shape of upper incisors is a common characteristic in Asian and Native American populations but is rare or absent in African and European populations. Like other common dental traits, genetic polymorphisms involved in the tooth shoveling have not yet been clarified. In ectodysplasin A receptor (... | {
"abstract": "With the top 15 freight forwarders (out of 5,000) controlling some 60% of international air freight, it is difficult for less established freight destinations to attract business away from the current system of gateways. One way to attract business is to lessen restrictions on noise for the night fligh... |
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"abstract": "Bone metastases, an unfortunate and frequent occurrence in cancer, can result in skeletal related events, including pain, pathologic fractures, and hypercalcemia. Treatment strategies, such as surgery and/or radiation therapy, can be limited by invasiveness, maximum dose levels, and radio-resistivity. ... | {
"abstract": "PURPOSE\nTo test the hypothesis that transcatheter arterial embolization (TAE) induces expression of hypoxia-inducible factor-1alpha (HIF-1alpha) within the same rabbit VX2 liver tumor.\n\n\nMATERIALS AND METHODS\nSeven VX2 tumors were grown in the livers of five New Zealand white rabbits. Ultrasonogra... | {
"abstract": "The Cooperative Study Group conducted a study to assess the therapeutic effects of chemoembolization in patients with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) using either epirubicin hydrochloride (FARM) or doxorubicin hydrochloride (ADR). A total of 77 patients were enrolled in this study and randomize... |
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"abstract": "Purpose: Mannan-binding lectin-associated serine protease 2 (MASP-2) is a plasma protein involved in inflammatory processes. MASP-2 circulates in complex with the protein mannan-binding lectin (MBL) or ficolins, and is activated to recruit the complement system when MBL binds to its targets. The level ... | {
"abstract": "Purpose: Deficiency of the mannan-binding lectin (MBL) pathway of innate immunity is associated with increased susceptibility to infections. In patients with colorectal cancer (CRC), postoperative infection is associated with poor prognosis. The aim of the present study was to evaluate (1) the relation... | {
"abstract": "Abstract. The mannan-binding lectin (MBL) is a serum protein, which is involved in the immune defence against viruses, bacteria and parasites. Children who have mutations in the MBL gene that lead to a MBL deficiency are more susceptible to infectious diseases and are more likely to suffer from severe ... |
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"abstract": "The soybean genome duplicated ∼14 and 45 million years ago and has many paralogous genes, including those in urease activation (emplacement of Ni and CO2 in the active site). Activation requires the UreD and UreF proteins, each encoded by two paralogues. UreG, a third essential activation protein, is e... | {
"abstract": "Urease is a nickel-containing urea hydrolase involved in nitrogen recycling from ureide, purine, and arginine catabolism in plants. The process of urease activation by incorporation of nickel into the active site is a prime example of chaperone-mediated metal transfer to an enzyme. Four urease accessor... | {
"abstract": "The original `Companion' by Percy Scholes remains a favourite for its friendly unpompous helpfulness and portraits of the composers by `Batt'.",
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"title": "The Oxford Companion to Music"
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"abstract": "Merkel cell carcinoma (MCC) is a rare and aggressive primary neuroendocrine tumor of the skin, with a high propensity for local, regional and distant spread1 . However, distant metastasis of MCC to the pancreas are rarely seen. EUS-FNA is an effective tool in the evaluation and differential diagnosis o... | {
"abstract": "Merkel cell carcinoma (MCC) is an aggressive skin tumor with a high tendency for metastases. We report a case of MCC initially presenting as axillary and pancreatic metastases. A 33‐year‐old HIV‐positive Hispanic male presented with a history of a rapidly growing axillary mass. A needle core biopsy dem... | {
"abstract": "MCC: Merkel cell carcinoma MCC-KP: MCC with known primary tumor MCC-UP: MCC with unknown primary tumor MCPyV: Merkel cell polyomavirus UV: ultraviolet radiation INTRODUCTION Merkel cell carcinoma (MCC) is a rare, aggressive cutaneous neuroendocrine carcinoma characterized by an increasing incidence. MC... |
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"abstract": "Abstract. Human activities are drastically altering water and material flows in river\nsystems across Asia. These anthropogenic perturbations have rarely been\nlinked to the carbon (C) fluxes of Asian rivers that may account for up to\n40–50 % of the global fluxes. This review aims to provide a concept... | {
"abstract": "The uncontrolled release of sewage, industrial wastes, and agricultural run-off continue to affect Asia. Although many Asian countries are getting closer to meeting the improved sanitation targets, much of the waste remains untreated. Comprehensive databases are rarely available and national data indic... | {
"abstract": "Nonpoint source pollution in the upstream areas of a water basin has become a serious threat to urban drinking water safety in China. Payment for environmental services (PES) is seen as a promising instrument to address the problem, for which one key information is the willingness to pay (WTP) of urban... |
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"abstract": "In the past few years, online impulse purchase has garnered attention from researchers in various fields, especially noted in the relatively new field of social commerce (S-commerce). This interactive envronment is a full of impulse buying stimulators. However, no previous studies have been conducted t... | {
"abstract": "In just one decade, social media have revolutionized the life of many people and thus attracted much attention, not only from industry, but also academia. To understand how researchers have adopted theories, used research constructs, and developed conceptual frameworks in their studies, a systematic an... | {
"abstract": "The article explores how a notorious case of Second World War atrocities in Ukraine – the Babi Yar massacres of 1941-1943 – is represented and interpreted on Wikipedia. Using qualitative content analysis, it examines what frames and content features are used in different language versions of Wikipedia ... |
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"abstract": "We present a (unique?) possibility of de Sitter solution in the framework of N=2 supersymmetry (hypersymmetry). We show that a model with a vector and a charged hypermultiplet has a hybrid inflation type potential. It leads to a slow-roll regime in de Sitter type background with all supersymmetries bro... | {
"abstract": "We explore constraints on the spectral index $n$ of density fluctuations and the neutrino energy density fraction $\\Omega_{HDM}$, employing data from a variety of large scale observations. The best fits occur for $n\\approx 1$ and $\\Omega_{HDM} \\approx 0.15 - 0.30$, over a range of Hubble constants ... | {
"abstract": "Heterogeneity in the structural brain abnormalities associated with schizophrenia has made identification of reliable neuroanatomical markers of the disease difficult. The use of more homogenous clinical phenotypes may improve the accuracy of predicting psychotic disorder/s on the basis of observable b... |
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"abstract": "We show that a closed, connected and orientable Riemannian manifold of dimension $d$ that admits a quasiregular mapping from $\\mathbb R^d$ must have bounded cohomological dimension independent of the distortion of the map. The dimension of the degree $l$ de Rham cohomology of $M$ is bounded above by $... | {
"abstract": "We obtain a quantitative cohomological boundedness theorem for closed manifolds receiving entire mappings of bounded mean distortion and finite lower order. We also prove an equidistribution theorem for mappings of finite distortion.",
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"title": "Mappings of Bounded Mean Distor... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Since its launch in December 1999, the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) instrument has been observing over 1300 of the world's volcanoes during the day and night and at different times of the year. At the onset of an eruption, the temporal frequency of the... |
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"abstract": "This study examines the properties of novel guanidines, designed and synthesized as histamine H3R antagonists/inverse agonists with additional pharmacological targets. We evaluated their potential against two targets viz., inhibition of MDA-MB-231, and MCF-7 breast cancer cells viability and inhibition... | {
"abstract": "S-Alkyl-N-alkylisothiourea compounds containing various cyclic amines were synthesized in the search for novel nonimidazole histamine H3 receptor (H3R) antagonists. Among them, four N-alkyl S-[3-(piperidin-1-yl)propyl]isothioureas 18, 19, 22, and 23 were found to exhibit potent and selective H3R antago... | {
"abstract": "Abstract A method has been developed for the immuno-titration of rodent liver uroporphyrinogen decarboxylase (porphyrinogen carboxy-lyase, EC 4.1.1.37) and used to show that two porphyrogenic polyhalogenated aromatic hydrocarbons, 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo- p -dioxin and hexachlorobenzene, cause porph... |
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"abstract": "Introduction: Up to 50% of all individuals with migraines experience vertigo. The purpose of this systematic review was to evaluate the effectiveness of vestibular rehabilitation at managing individuals who experience vertigo associated with their migraine headaches. Methods: The CINAHL Complete, ProQu... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Vestibular rehabilitation programs do appear to play a beneficial role in the treatment of dizziness in patients with vestibular migraine. Anecdotally, however, patients with vestibular migraine may report persistent significant symptoms at the end of a standard treatment period where other no... | {
"abstract": "To assess the handicapping effect of dizziness related to posture and balance, the Dizziness Handicap Inventory (DHI) and Computerized Dynamic Posturography (CDP) were used to assess 101 consecutive patients referred for neurotologic evaluation of dizziness. Most patients, regardless of diagnosis, rela... |
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"abstract": "The reliability of flip chip bumps remains a concern even after underfilling the gap between the chip and package substrate. A number of factors influence this reliability and it is desirable to evaluate the effect of these factors through simulations. However, underfilling introduces new material and ... | {
"abstract": "Flip Chip (FC) technology has now become mainstream solution for high-performance packages. From commercial gaming machines to high-reliability servers, FC package is gaining more market share over traditional packaging technologies, such as wire bond. Extensive research has been carried out in FC tech... | {
"abstract": "This paper presents a new instantaneous current control to obtain an instantaneously flat torque waveform with smaller torque ripples of switched reluctance motors (SRMs). The proposed current control is based on table lookup. By geometric insights for the machine and finite element method based analys... |
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"abstract": "In patients with multiple myeloma (MM), once-weekly intravenous injection or twice-weekly subcutaneous injection (SC) of bortezomib has been proven to offer non-inferior efficacy to standard twice-weekly intravenous administration, with an improved safety profile. However, whether once-weekly SC bortez... | {
"abstract": "INTRODUCTION\nBortezomib is administered for a finite course; thus, patients might remain sensitive to bortezomib-based therapy at relapse. We report a meta-analysis of bortezomib-based retreatment in relapsed/refractory myeloma.\n\n\nPATIENTS AND METHODS\nA systematic literature review identified stud... | {
"abstract": "Apelin, as the endogenous ligand for the APJ, regulates many biological functions, including blood pressure, neuroendocrine, drinking behavior, food intake and colonic motility. The present study was designed to investigate the effect of central apelin-13 on gastric emptying and gastrointestinal transi... |
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"abstract": "A 10-Gb/s phase-locked clock and data recovery circuit incorporates an interpolating voltage-controlled oscillator and a half-rate phase detector. The phase detector provides a linear characteristic while retiming and demultiplexing the data with no systematic phase offset. Fabricated in a 0.18-/spl mu... | {
"abstract": "This paper describes design techniques for multigigahertz digital bipolar circuits with supply voltages as low as 1.5 V. Examples include a 2/1 multiplexer operating at 1 Gb/s with 1.2 mW power dissipation, a D-latch achieving a maximum speed of 2.2 GHz while dissipating 1.4 mW, two exclusive-OR gates ... | {
"abstract": "As data rates in wireline transmitters approach 80-100 Gb/s, phase-locked loops emerge as a serious bottleneck, requiring co-design of the clock and data paths. This paper describes speed, skew, and jitter issues at these rates and formulates the corruption due to effects such as the reference phase no... |
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"abstract": "Among different types of poly unsaturated fatty acids, omega‐3 fatty acids (FA) play a substantial role in brain development and functioning. This review was designed to evaluate and synthesize available evidence regarding omega‐3 FAs and functional outcome in the ultra‐high‐risk (UHR) population.",
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"abstract": "Previous efforts in the prospective evaluation of individuals who experience attenuated psychotic symptoms have attempted to isolate mechanisms underlying the onset of full-threshold psychotic illness. In contrast, there has been little research investigating specific predictors of positive outcomes. I... | {
"abstract": "The principal biological role of alpha-linolenic acid (alphaLNA; 18:3n-3) appears to be as a precursor for the synthesis of longer chain n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA). Increasing alphaLNA intake for a period of weeks to months results in an increase in the proportion of eicosapentaenoic acid (... |
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"abstract": "The paper discusses simple functional constraint networks and a value propagation method for program construction. Structural synthesis of programs is described as an example of deductive approach to program construction. An inductive method for program synthesis utilizing stochastic optimization algor... | {
"abstract": "This paper discusses value propagation on functional constraint networks. We first focus on conventional “first-order” networks, and then show how the technique generalizes for what we call higher-order networks. Value propagation is attractive because of its simplicity and efficiency. Although it cann... | {
"abstract": "Strategies of the structural synthesis of programs (SSP) of a deductive program synthesis method which is suited for compositional programming in large and is in practical use in a number of programming environments are outlined. SSP is based on a decidable logical calculus where complexity of the proo... |
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"abstract": "Cross-lingual Entity Linking (XEL), the problem of grounding mentions of entities in a foreign language text into an English knowledge base such as Wikipedia, has seen a lot of research in recent years, with a range of promising techniques. However, current techniques do not rise to the challenges intr... | {
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"title": "Cross-lingual Wikification Using Multilingual Embeddings"
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"abstract": "We propose a novel deep learning model for joint document-level entity disambiguation, which leverages learned neural representations. Key components are entity embeddings, a neural attention mechanism over local context windows, and a differentiable joint inference stage for disambiguation. Our approa... |
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"abstract": "Phase retrieval (PR) algorithms have become an important component in many modern computational imaging systems. For instance, in the context of ptychography and speckle correlation imaging PR algorithms enable imaging past the diffraction limit and through scattering media, respectively. Unfortunately... | {
"abstract": "Fourier ptychography is an imaging technique that overcomes the diffraction limit of conventional cameras with applications in microscopy and long range imaging. Diffraction blur causes resolution loss in both cases. In Fourier ptychography, a coherent light source illuminates an object, which is then ... | {
"abstract": "X-ray ptychography, a scanning coherent diffraction imaging method, was used to reconstruct images of a “Siemens star” test pattern with amplitude and phase contrast. While studying how the use of illumination with an increased bandwidth results in clear improvements in the quality of image reconstruct... |
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"abstract": "The National Certificate of Educational Achievement (NCEA) is New Zealand’s main national qualification for senior secondary school students. A key feature of NCEA is that it allows for more than half of students’ final NCEA grades to be assessed by teachers during the school year through school-based ... | {
"abstract": "Assessment, in whatever form it takes, is widely recognised as one of the main determinants of educational practice. Over the past few years, new approaches to assessment have emerged in a number of countries. This chapter addresses the issues for teaching and learning that emerge when school-based ass... | {
"abstract": "Research over the past fifty years into predictors of programming performance has yielded little improvement in the identification of at-risk students. This is possibly because research to date is based upon using static tests, which fail to reflect changes in a student's learning progress over time. I... |
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"abstract": "This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by the Theses and Dissertations at Loyola eCommons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Dissertations by an authorized administrator of Loyola eCommons. For more information, please contact ecommons@luc.edu. ACKNOWLEDJEMENTS The author wish... | {
"abstract": "The structure of lens fibers has been reinvestigated utilizing electron microscopy and the freeze-etch technique. Interest was focused particularly on the nature of cellular interfaces in relation to the paucity of extracellular space. While cortical fibers exhibit regular, parallel interfaces with fre... | {
"abstract": "Background: The role of ErbB3 Binding Protein 1 (EBP1) in Hepatocellular Carcinoma (HCC) prognosis was inconsistent. Therefore, we performed this study to determine the effect of EBP1 in HCC prognosis. \nMethods: 146 patients underwent resection of HCC were collected between 2010 and 2015. Overall Surv... |
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"abstract": "The article summarises the results of more than 30 years of research on palmitoylation (S‐acylation) of viral proteins, the post‐translational attachment of fatty acids to cysteine residues of integral and peripheral membrane proteins. Analysing viral proteins is not only important to characterise the ... | {
"abstract": "ABSTRACT The coronavirus assembly process encloses a ribonucleoprotein genome into vesicles containing the lipid-embedded proteins S (spike), E (envelope), and M (membrane). This process depends on interactions with membranes that may involve palmitoylation, a common posttranslational lipidation of cys... | {
"abstract": "The biochemistry of an uncomplicated deficiency of copper is studied. A moderate to advanced depletion of copper does not affect the activity or level of the following: liver-slice respiration, tricarboxylic acid cycle, fatty-acid oxidation, amino-acid oxidation, oxidative phosphorylation, anaerobic gl... |
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"abstract": "Voltage-controlled oscillators (VCOs) are essential components of frequency synthesizers used in space-based applications. Radiation in harsh space environments can cause SEEs (single-event effects) when a charged particle hits the silicon substrate and induces a transient current within the circuit th... | {
"abstract": "This paper presents a radiation tolerant phase-locked loop CMOS application-specified integrated circuit with an optimized voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) for single-event upsets (SEUs). The circuit is designed for high-energy particle physics experiments for low-jitter clock generation and clock r... | {
"abstract": "The effect of contour bumps on transonic drag reducing at off-design conditions of a supercritical airfoil have been examined in the paper. Research focuses on two-dimensional flow condition with Mach number of 0.78 and chord Reynolds number of 2.5 million. Different contour bump airfoil configurations... |
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"abstract": "Abstract A rhizomatous Dioscorea crop ‘Edo-dokoro’ was described in old records of Japan, but its botanical identity has not been characterized. We found that Edo-dokoro is still produced by four farmers in Tohoku-machi of the Aomori prefecture, Japan. The rhizomes of Edo-dokoro are a delicacy to the l... | {
"abstract": "SummaryA physical map of chloroplast DNA (ctDNA) of aerial yam, Dioscorea bulbifera L. was constructed using three restriction endonucleases, PstI, SalI, and SmaI. In addition, a clone bank of the BamHI-digested fragments were generated, and the locations of most BamHI fragments on the map were also de... | {
"abstract": "Hexamine cobalt chloride (HCC) increases the efficiency of blunt end ligation by T4 DNA ligase about 50 fold. Maximum stimulation occurs when standard buffers for ligation are supplemented with 1 mM HCC. All the ligation events are intermolecular regardless of the initial DNA concentration. In the pres... |
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"abstract": "A total of ninety seven pre-pubertal Bunaji (BJ) and Friesian-Bunaji (FR x BJ) heifers were allotted randomly to two treatments groups for a period of 15 months. The treatment groups consisted of the followings: Mature Bull Exposure (MBE) and No Bull Exposure (NBE). Heifers were body condition scored a... | {
"abstract": "Two experiments were conducted to test the following hypotheses: 1) exposure of beef heifers to sterile bulls increases the proportion of heifers attaining puberty by 14 mo of age and 2) rate of growth interacts with bull exposure to influence age at puberty in beef heifers. In Exp. I, heifers were ass... | {
"abstract": "The present paper deals with a novel telemetric device combined with a carbon amperometric sensor system to determine postharvest changes of ascorbic acid (AA) in fresh-cut fruits, without displacing products out of the storage rooms. The investigation was performed on kiwi, pineapple and melon, subjec... |
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"abstract": "Open hedged bisimulation was proposed as a generalisation to the spi calculus of the pi calculus'open bisimulation. In this paper, we extend previous work on open hedged bisimulation. We show that open hedged bisimilarity is closed under respectful substitutions and give a symbolic characterisation of ... | {
"abstract": "In the context of the @p-calculus, open bisimulation is prominent and popular due to its congruence properties and its easy implementability. Motivated by the attempt to generalise it to the spi-calculus, we offer a new, more refined definition and show how far it coincides with the original one.",
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"abstract": "Observational equivalences can be used to reason about the correctness of security protocols described in the spi-calculus. Unlike in CCS or in ?-calculus, these equivalences do not enjoy a simple formulation in spi-calculus. The present paper aims at enriching the set of tools for reasoning on process... |
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"abstract": "Background: The leg press is one of the most typical exercises for strengthening the lower limbs. The objectives of this study were to compare 5 inclined leg press exercise conditions, varying the feet width stance (100% or 150% hip width), the feet rotation (0° or 45° external rotation) on the footpla... | {
"abstract": "The purpose of this study was to quantify the inter-session reliability of force–velocity–power profiling and estimated maximal strength in youth. Thirty-six males (11–15 years old) performed a ballistic supine leg press test at five randomized loads (80%, 100%, 120%, 140%, and 160% body mass) on three... | {
"abstract": "SIGNIFICANCE\nThe positive association between intraocular pressure (IOP) and relative maximum force may have relevance for exercise recommendations when IOP is a concern.\n\n\nPURPOSE\nThe relationship between exercise and IOP has been approached in several studies. However, the influence of muscle fu... |
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"abstract": "Mobile devices like smart phones empower their users to download, install, and execute a spectrum of attractive applications from both service providers and third parties. Consequently, users are increasingly relying on such devices not only for storing personal data but also for enabling purchases, ma... | {
"abstract": "Mechanisms now exist that detect tampering of a database, through the use of cryptographically-strong hash functions. This paper addresses the next problem, that of determining who, when, and what, by providing a systematic means of performing forensic analysis after such tampering has been uncovered. ... | {
"abstract": "Previous work on Recursive Neural Networks (RNNs) shows that these models can produce compositional feature vectors for accurately representing and classifying sentences or images. However, the sentence vectors of previous models cannot accurately represent visually grounded meaning. We introduce the D... |
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"abstract": "Abstract Conductive hydrogels with excellent electronic and mechanical properties are promising materials for flexible sensors. Herein we present a facile method to prepare reduced graphene oxide (rGO)-containing composite hydrogels with suitable electronic and mechanical properties. Poly(acrylic acid)... | {
"abstract": "In this paper, we developed a green and facile approach to the synthesis of chemically converted graphene nanosheets (GNS) based on reducing sugars, such as glucose, fructose and sucrose using exfoliated graphite oxide (GO) as precursor. The obtained GNS is characterized with atomic force microscopy, U... | {
"abstract": "Prior work on computing semantic relatedness of words focused on representing their meaning in isolation, effectively disregarding inter-word affinities. We propose a large-scale data mining approach to learning word-word relatedness, where known pairs of related words impose constraints on the learnin... |
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"abstract": "Practical implementations in distributed model based control face a fundamental trade-off between model complexity and the number of modeled nodes. For linear systems, higher order models better capture the behavior of the system at higher frequencies, but the effective operating frequency range is lim... | {
"abstract": "When a control system is implemented in a distributed fashion, with multiple processors communicating over a network, both the communication delays associated with the network and the computation delays associated with the processing time can degrade the system's performance. In this case, the performa... | {
"abstract": "Abstract This paper presents a review of the recent advances in microcomputer-based motion control systems. At first, the trends in microcomputers and systems are described. As a result, it is shown that multiple-microcomputer systems are suitable for motion control. Rolling mill main drives and robots... |
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"abstract": "Introduccion: El angiofibroma nasal se conoce mas comunmente en la literatura como fibroangioma nasofaringeo juvenil. Este es un tumor vascular benigno que se presenta en pacientes adolecentes de sexo masculino, con un cuadro de epistaxis y obstruccion nasal. Objetivo: Describir dos casos atipicos de a... | {
"abstract": "Figure. A: The mass shows collagenized fibrous stroma with abundant irregular vascular spaces. B: The stromal spindlecellsarepositivefor vimentin (immunohistochemical stain). Juvenile nasopharyngeal angiofibromas ONAs) are benign vascular tumors that account for less than 0.5% of all head and neck tumo... | {
"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nOpen surgery is the mainstay treatment for juvenile angiofibromas (JAF). Midfacial degloving approach provides good exposure to the target area with excellent cosmoses. Endoscopic techniques have been used for the removal of some small JAF.\n\n\nOBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS\nTo evaluate the effica... |
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"abstract": "We performed large-scale mRNA expression profiling using an Affymetrix GeneChip to study Arabidopsis responses to the bacterial pathogen Pseudomonas syringae. The interactions were compatible (virulent bacteria) or incompatible (avirulent bacteria), including a nonhost interaction and interactions medi... | {
"abstract": "Plant disease resistance (R) genes mediate specific pathogen recognition, leading to a successful immune response. Downstream responses include ion fluxes, an oxidative burst, transcriptional reprogramming, and, in many cases, hypersensitive cell death at the infection site. We used a transgenic Arabid... | {
"abstract": "In this article, we summarize Arabidopsis genes encoding ubiquitin, ubiquitin-activating enzyme (E1), ubiquitin-conjugating enzymes (E2s) and an additional selected set of proteins related to ubiquitylation. We emphasize comparisons to components from Saccharomyces cerevisiae, with occasional reference... |
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"abstract": "Musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) can be characterized from their occupational etiology and their occurrence; their chronicity generates negative repercussions for the health of workers, especially of artisanal fishing. To investigate the prevalence of generalized musculoskeletal disorders by body regio... | {
"abstract": "BackgroundFishermen work in a physically challenging work environment. The aim of this analysis was to estimate the prevalence and predictors of musculoskeletal pain among Danish fishermen.MethodA cross-sectional survey in a random sample of Danish fishermen was done with application of the Nordic ques... | {
"abstract": "Crohn's disease of the terminal ileum recurs in a predictable sequence proximal to the ileocolonic anastomosis after surgical resection. To confirm the suspicion that the duration of recurrent ileitis correlates with the extent of presurgical disease, this study investigated 23 consecutive patients wit... |
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"abstract": "Esophageal atresia patients are predisposed to gastroesophageal reflux as a result of the altered esophageal anatomy and motility. These patients experience significant morbidity from gastroesophageal reflux. As a result, an effective way to diagnose and monitor for reflux is crucial. pH-metry is able ... | {
"abstract": "The Auerbach plexus of the upper gastrointestinal tract of five patients with esophageal atresia and tracheoesophageal fistula (EA-TEF) who had not had surgical reconstruction of the esophagus was studied by a microdissection technique to investigate the etiology of dysphagia, gastroesophageal reflux, ... | {
"abstract": "AIM\nThe aim of this study was to investigate the motor activity in the stomach of infants with repaired esophageal atresia (EA).\n\n\nMETHOD\nGastric myoelectrical activity was investigated by cutaneous electrogastrography in 15 infants after the surgical correction of EA. Ten infants with no gastroin... |
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"abstract": "The human genome encodes nine different adrenoceptor genes. These are grouped into three families, namely, the α1-, α2-, and β-adrenoceptors, with three family members each. Adrenoceptors are expressed by most cell types of the human body and are primary targets of the catecholamines epinephrine and no... | {
"abstract": "Objectives &agr;2-Adrenoreceptors restrain sympathetic nervous outflows and inhibit release of noradrenaline from sympathetic nerves. In-frame deletion of the &agr;2C-adrenoreceptor subtype (&agr;2CDel322–325) increases the risk of congestive heart failure. Increased delivery of catecholamines to cardi... | {
"abstract": "OBJECTIVES\nThe aim of this study was to determine whether cocaine's sympathomimetic actions can be reversed by a potent centrally acting alpha2 adrenergic receptor (AR) agonist (dexmedetomidine).\n\n\nBACKGROUND\nWe recently showed that cocaine stimulates the human cardiovascular system primarily by a... |
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"abstract": "PurposeThis paper aims to contribute to the scientific debate concerning the impact of equity crowdfunding on the performance of crowdfunded firms after campaigning. To this aim, the purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between the characteristics of the campaign and the subsequent ... | {
"abstract": "Purpose – This paper is concerned with the management and organization of product innovation processes, and how innovation performance relates to business performance. The underlying rationale is that encouraging firms to innovate will lead to a better business performance. Design/methodology/approach ... | {
"abstract": "Building on the work of Bernard and Thomas 1990, we develop a model to infer the degree to which the information in an earnings announcement is incorporated into investors' expectations for the subsequent earnings announcement at any point in time between the two announcements. We are unable to reject ... |
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"abstract": "The present study was conducted to examine the response of amoeboid microglial cells in the postnatal rat brain to colchicine administration. One-day-old postnatal rats were given intraperitoneal injections of colchicine and sacrificed at 7, 14 and 21 days of age. In rats killed at 7 days age, the numb... | {
"abstract": "An electron microscope study of the corpus callosum in postnatal rats of various ages was carried out to elucidate the fate of the amoeboid microglial cells. The cells present in the corpus callosum of younger rats (3-5 days) were round and showed an eccentric nucleus with marginal chromatin. They disp... | {
"abstract": "Autosomal dominant congenital cataracts (ADCC) are clinically and genetically heterogeneous diseases. The present study recruited two Chinese families with bilateral nuclear cataract or zonular pulverulent phenotype. Direct sequencing of candidate genes identified two novel missense mutations of Cx50, ... |
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"abstract": "Article history: Received 28 July 2016 Received in revised form 8 September 2016 Accepted 1 October 2016 In particular, the inappropriate/inevitably discharge of dye-containing effluents is undesirable because of their color, resistant to the biological treatment systems, toxic, and their carcinogenic ... | {
"abstract": "The AgBr loaded TiO2 catalyst was prepared by a feasible approach with AgBr and tetraisopropyl orthotitanate and characterized by BET surface area measurement, diffuse reflectance spectra (DRS), scanning electron microscope (SEM), energy dispersive spectra (EDS), X-ray diffraction (XRD), transmission e... | {
"abstract": "Mineral structures formed by bacterial and microalgal biofilms growing on the archaeological surface in Maltese hypogea were studied using Energy Dispersive X-Ray Spectroscopy (EDS) coupled to Environmental Scanning Electron Microscopy (ESEM), X-ray micro-diffraction (XRD) and X-ray fluorescence (XRF).... |
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"abstract": "An introduction to boundary conformal eld theory is given with particular emphasis on applications to the construction of D-branes in string theory.",
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"abstract": "We show that all supersymmetric Type IIA D-branes can be constructed as bound states of a certain number of unstable non-supersymmetric Type IIA D9-branes. This string-theoretical construction demonstrates that D-brane charges in Type IIA theory on spacetime manifold X are classified by the higher K-th... | {
"abstract": "Why are policies not implemented as planned? Why are classroom practices so hard to change? The “implementation problem” was discovered in the early 1970’s as policy analysts took a look at the school level consequences of the Great Society’s sweeping education reforms. The 1965 passage of the Elementa... |
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"abstract": "We describe refactoring for Erlang programs, and work in progress to build two tools to give machine support for refactoring systems written in Erlang. We comment on some of the peculiarities of refactoring Erlang programs, and describe in some detail a number of refac-torings characteristic of Erlang.... | {
"abstract": "Cobalt based alloy containing 5% to 30% Ni; 18% to 25% Cr; 5% to 17% of at least one of W, Ta and Mo; 0.10% to 0.30% C; 50 ppm to 200 ppm B; 0 to 0.3% Fe; 0 to 2% Mn; 0 to 1% HF; 0 to 1% La; 0 to 1% Y; 0.5% to 2% in total of Ti and/or Nb, the balance being Co; and a heat treatment for such alloy compri... | {
"abstract": "This paper presents the model, the design principles and the prototype of a refactoring toolset for Erlang programs. With this toolset one can incrementally carry out programmer-guided meaning-preserving program transformations. Erlang is a mostly dynamically typed language, and many of its semantical ... |
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"abstract": "Class imbalance is a challenging problem in many classification tasks. It induces biased classification results for minority classes that contain less training samples than others. Most existing approaches aim to remedy the imbalanced number of instances among categories by resampling the majority and ... | {
"abstract": "Class imbalance is a common problem in the case of real-world object detection and classification tasks. Data of some classes is abundant making them an over-represented majority, and data of other classes is scarce, making them an under-represented minority. This imbalance makes it challenging for a c... | {
"abstract": "We introduce a novel loss max-pooling concept for handling imbalanced training data distributions, applicable as alternative loss layer in the context of deep neural networks for semantic image segmentation. Most real-world semantic segmentation datasets exhibit long tail distributions with few object ... |
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"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nTraumatic brain injury (TBI) is a risk factor for Alzheimer disease (AD), a neurocognitive disorder with similar cellular abnormalities. We recently discovered a small molecule (Peptide 6) corresponding to an active region of human ciliary neurotrophic factor, with neurogenic and neurotroph... | {
"abstract": "Abstract.Using the terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase-mediated biotinylated deoxyuridine triphosphate nick-end labelling (TUNEL) histochemical technique, evidence for DNA fragmentation was sought in the hippocampus, cingulate gyrus and insula from 18 patients who survived for up to 12 months after h... | {
"abstract": "Approximately 40% of gerbils subjected to one hour of unilateral carotid artery occlusion displayed neurological abnormalities during that time. Most such animals were subsequently found to have ischaemic neuronal alterations within the territory of the ipsilateral middle cerebral artery. In contrast, ... |
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"abstract": "The objective of this research was to develop microsphere-based once-daily modified release tablet formulations of diltiazem hydrochloride (DH), a potent calcium channel blocker used in angina pectoris. For this purpose, DH-loaded microspheres were prepared by the solvent evaporation technique using Eu... | {
"abstract": "In a previous paper the preparation has been described, by three different techniques, of microparticles made of Eudragit RS 100 and RL 100 containing a NSAI agent, Tolmetin. Freely flowing microparticles failed to affect significantly the in vitro drug release, which displayed a similar dissolution pr... | {
"abstract": "A 2×2 factorial experiment was conducted to investigate the effects of dietary lecithin and l-carnitine on fatty acid composition and lipid-metabolic genes expression in subcutaneous fat and longissimus thoracis of growing-finishing pigs. 160 barrows were assigned to 4 treatments consisting of 8 replic... |
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"abstract": "The destruction of β-cells of the pancreas leads to either insulin shortage or the complete absence of insulin, which in turn causes diabetes Mellitus. For treating diabetes, many trials have been conducted since the 19th century until now. In ancient times, insulin from an animal’s extract was taken t... | {
"abstract": "The pattern of endogenous insulin secretion over a 24-h period, which included three mixed meals, was evaluated in 14 normal volunteers and 15 obese subjects. Insulin secretory rates were calculated from plasma C-peptide levels using individually derived C-peptide kinetic parameters and a validated ope... | {
"abstract": "We compared the ability of closed-loop intravenous insulin infusion (i.e., an artificial \"pancreas\"), open-loop continuous subcutaneous insulin infusion, and intensified conventional insulin therapy (preprandial injections of regular insulin, with injection of long-acting zinc-suspension insulin befo... |
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"abstract": "The peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-γ coactivator-1α (PGC-1α) is a well-known transcriptional coactivator involved in mitochondrial biogenesis. PGC-1α is implicated in the pathophysiology of many neurodegenerative disorders; therefore, a deep understanding of its functioning in the nervous s... | {
"abstract": "The peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor γ coactivator 1 (PGC-1) proteins are key regulators of cellular bioenergetics and are accordingly expressed in tissues with a high energetic demand. For example, PGC-1α and PGC-1β control organ function of brown adipose tissue, heart, brain, liver and skel... | {
"abstract": "These experiments were done to investigate the effects of light and darkness on the oxygenation of the retina in anesthetized cats. Measurements were made with double-barreled oxygen microelectrodes capable of recording both oxygen tension (PO2) and local voltages. Diffuse white illumination presented ... |
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"abstract": "Since antiquity, the sense of smell (olfaction) is considered as a distance sense, just like sight and hearing. Conversely, the sense of taste (gustation) is thought to operate by direct contact, similarly to touch. With the progress of natural sciences, information at molecular, anatomical, and neurob... | {
"abstract": "The usual definition of smell and taste as distance and contact forms of chemoreception, respectively, has resulted in the belief that, during the shift from aquatic to terrestrial life, odorant receptors (ORs) were selected mainly to recognize airborne hydrophobic ligands, instead of the hydrophilic m... | {
"abstract": "When elephant densities exceed approximately 0.5 per km[2], savanna woodlands are generally converted to shrub-lands or grasslands. The impact of such elephant-mediated habitat change on biodiversity in African game reserves has seldom been measured. We examined species richness of woody plants, birds,... |
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"abstract": "27 Vulvo-vaginal Candidiasis (VVC) is the most common fungal infection in women of reproductive age. Data related to distribution and risk factors are very limited in India. This study was designed to observe the prevalence of VVC among women of reproductive age group, find the species of Candida causi... | {
"abstract": "Background: Vulvovaginal candidiasis (VVC) is most common accounting for 17 to 39% of symptomatic women. Both Candida albicans and non albicans Candida species are involved in VVC. Amongst various virulence factors proposed for Candida, extracellular phospholipases is one of the virulence factor implic... | {
"abstract": "Template-prepared graphene/Pt and graphene/Au tubular microengines, with extremely high electrocatalytic activity and propulsion efficiency, are described. The new bubble-propelled graphene/metal micromotors are synthesized rapidly and inexpensively by the direct electrodeposition of graphene oxide (GO... |
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"title": "Development and laboratory characterization of a sampling system for airborne measurements of peroxy radicals using chemical amplification"
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"abstract": "REACTIONS of free radicals are the driving force for most chemical processes in the atmosphere. Although hydroxyl (OH) and nitrate (NO3) radicals are the most reactive, peroxy radicals such as HO2 and CH3O2 have an important role as intermediates in tropospheric ozone generation and as precursors to OH... | {
"abstract": "Field measurements of hydrocarbon emissions from biomass burning in the cerrado (grasslands) and selva (tropical forest) regions of Brazil in 1979 and 1980 are characterized and quantified here. Regional consequences of burning activities include increased background mixing ratios of carbon monoxide an... |
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"abstract": "resulting in an average accuracy of 74.4%. The model also demonstrates consistency, in that the results exhibit very similar performance patterns for all trials as well as across all data partitions.",
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"abstract": "Abstract We predict mortgage default by applying convolutional neural networks to consumer transaction data. For each consumer we have the balances of the checking account, savings account, and the credit card, in addition to the daily number of transactions on the checking account, and amount transfer... | {
"abstract": "Understanding why a model made a certain prediction is crucial in many data science fields. Interpretable predictions engender appropriate trust and provide insight into how the model may be improved. However, with large modern datasets the best accuracy is often achieved by complex models even experts... |
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"abstract": "Minimally invasive interventional radiological procedures, such as balloon angioplasty, stent placement or coiling of aneurysms, play an increasingly important role in the treatment of patients suffering from vascular disease. The non-destructive nature of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), its ability ... | {
"abstract": "During both interstitial laser ablation therapy and cryoablation therapy for liver tumors, real‐time monitoring is necessary for assessment of ongoing thermal effects in tissue. With single‐section images obtained every 30 seconds with a T1‐weighted RARE (rapid acquisition with relaxation enhancement) ... |
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"abstract": "We provide an expressive framework that allows analyzing and generating provably secure, state-of-the-art Byzantine fault-tolerant (BFT) protocols over graph of nodes, a notion formalized in the HotStuff protocol. Our framework is hierarchical, including three layers. The top layer is used to model the... | {
"abstract": "In this note, we observe a safety violation in Zyzzyva and a liveness violation in FaB. To demonstrate these issues, we require relatively simple scenarios, involving only four replicas, and one or two view changes. In all of them, the problem is manifested already in the first log slot.",
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"abstract": "This paper presents a new Byzantine consensus algorithm targeting consortium blockchains. To this end, it first revisits the consensus validity property by requiring that the decided value satisfies a predefined predicate, which does not systematically exclude a value proposed only by Byzantine process... |
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"abstract": "Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays (ELISA) and immunoblots using either whole-cell lysates of Borrelia burgdorferi or an antigenic region of flagellin (41-G) as the antigen were performed, and the abilities of the two assays to detect antibodies to this spirochete in dog, cottontail rabbit, and horse s... | {
"abstract": "An enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay was developed to detect antibodies to Borrelia burgdorferi in cottontail rabbits captured in Millbrook, N.Y., and New York, N.Y. Five antigenically variable strains of B. burgdorferi were analyzed to determine the variability of serologic test results. In analyses o... | {
"abstract": "Relapsing fever was known to the physicians of ancient Greece and possibly to those of an earlier civilization in Egypt (92, 180). Extensive epidemics of louse-borne relapsing fever occurred in the ensuing centuries, including the 20th (55). Like plague and cholera, the disease has affected human socie... |
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"abstract": "How does private consumption react to an exogenous increase in government expenditure? Standard structural vector autoregressions (SVARs) usually report a positive GDP as well as consumption response, while event studies report a negative consumption response. We investigate in a SVAR whether anticipat... | {
"abstract": "This paper characterizes the dynamic effects of net tax and government spending shocks on prices, interest rate, GDP and its private components in four OECD countries using a structural VAR approach. For the first time in this literature, I propose a structural decomposition of total net taxes into fou... |
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"abstract": "The inclusion of physical information in machine learning frameworks has revolutionized many application areas. This involves enhancing the learning process by incorporating physical constraints and adhering to physical laws. In this work we explore their utility for reinforcement learning applications... | {
"abstract": "In this paper, we present a robotic model-based reinforcement learning method that combines ideas from model identification and model predictive control. We use a feature-based representation of the dynamics that allows the dynamics model to be fitted with a simple least squares procedure, and the feat... | {
"abstract": "We present an algorithm for rapidly learning controllers for robotics systems. The algorithm follows the model-based reinforcement learning paradigm, and improves upon existing algorithms; namely Probabilistic learning in Control (PILCO) and a sample-based version of PILCO with neural network dynamics ... |
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"abstract": "Malaysia has been overwhelmed with the issues involving adolescent and drug abuse activity nowadays. The purpose of this paper is to conduct Pearson correlation analysis to see the relationship between seven variables in this data set. This current study involves 2894 data from some secondary school st... | {
"abstract": "ABSTRACT In early adolescence, Hispanics self-report higher drug use rates compared to White and African American peers. Among adolescent users, heavy users have more negative behavioral and health consequences. The purpose of this cross-sectional study is to examine whether psychiatric symptoms, paren... | {
"abstract": "Interpersonal rejection and intergroup exclusion in childhood reflect different, but complementary, aspects of child development. Interpersonal rejection focuses on individual differences in personality traits, such as wariness and being fearful, to explain bully-victim relationships. In contrast, inte... |
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"abstract": "Colorectal cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in Australia. Nutrition, particularly intake of vegetables and certain plant components, has been reported to have a major role in cancer risk reduction. Recently, there has been a growing research interest in rosemary, a common household pl... | {
"abstract": "Commercially available ground rosemary powder was examined for its ability to modify the in vivo binding of 7,12-dimethylbenz(a)anthracene (DMBA) metabolites to mammary cell DNA in 55-d-old rats fed diets containing varying quantities and types of lipids. Supplementing a casein-based diet containing 20... | {
"abstract": "A Y‐linked gene (R‐gene) in the flea beetle Phyllotreta nemorum L. (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Alticinae) confer the ability of larvae to survive on types of the plant Barbarea vulgaris R.Br. (Brassicaceae) which are immune to attack by susceptible conspecifics. Two near‐isogenic flea beetle lines were... |
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"abstract": "Objectives: Women at the middle and late reproductive years are at high risk of developing fibroids. It is the most common benign tumor in females. So, the objective of this study is to assess the awareness of Saudi women about uterine fibroid and to assess its prevalence and symptomatic burden among t... | {
"abstract": "Purpose To estimate the prevalence of women diagnosed with uterine fibroids and the associated symptom burden in the US. Patients and methods Responses of women aged 18–54 years, who completed an online survey, were analyzed. Data were weighted based on age, education, race, geographic region, income, ... | {
"abstract": "Plasma NEFA (non-esterified fatty acid) concentrations are elevated in patients with obesity. In the present study we first aimed to provide an integral haemodynamic profile of elevated plasma NEFAs by the simultaneous assessment of blood pressure, pulse wave velocity, FBF (forearm blood flow) and symp... |
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"abstract": "The IEEE 802.11aa amendment standardised the Group Addressed Transmission Service (GATS), which extends 802.11 WLANs with a novel set of MAC mechanisms to support an effective and efficient multicast video service. The key challenge with GATS is the selection of the best scheme and its configuration fo... | {
"abstract": "Legacy IEEE 802.11 does not efficiently support multicast transmissions. In order to cope with the increasing demand for multicast, mainly required to deliver multimedia traffic, the IEEE 802.11aa Task Group has recently standardized new mechanisms to allow efficient and robust transmission of multicas... | {
"abstract": "Rate adaptation (RA) has been traditionally used to achieve high goodput. In this work, we design RA for 802.11n NICs from an energy-efficiency perspective. We show that current MIMO RA algorithms are not energy efficient for NICs despite ensuring high throughput. The fundamental problem is that, the h... |
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"abstract": "The field of speech recognition is in the midst of a paradigm shift: end-to-end neural networks are challenging the dominance of hidden Markov models as a core technology. Using an attention mechanism in a recurrent encoder-decoder architecture solves the dynamic time alignment problem, allowing joint ... | {
"abstract": "We present Listen, Attend and Spell (LAS), a neural speech recognizer that transcribes speech utterances directly to characters without pronunciation models, HMMs or other components of traditional speech recognizers. In LAS, the neural network architecture subsumes the acoustic, pronunciation and lang... | {
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"abstract": "This paper presents a method for improving capability of a Hybrid Energy Storage System (HESS) comprised of a battery and supercapacitor (SC), for smoothing power fluctuations of renewable energy sources by adaptively controlling the state of charge (SOC) allocation range using automatic SOC management... | {
"abstract": "This paper presents the use of battery energy storage system for power smoothing in generation systems in which power flow variations can occur. These variations are the norm in wind energy generation. A simulation model for a battery energy storage system and a wind farm using squirrel cage induction ... | {
"abstract": "Increasing levels of wind-turbine generation in modern power systems is initiating a need for accurate wind-generation transient stability models. Because many wind generators are often grouped together in wind parks, equivalence modeling of several wind generators is especially critical. In this paper... |
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"abstract": "ARM TrustZone offers trusted execution environment (TEE) embedded into the processor cores. ARM TrustZone has become widely used in ARM processor devices such as Smartphones, IoT devices and Embedded devices. Due to the increase of security awareness ARM implements the TrustZone mechanism which enables... | {
"abstract": "Hard disk encryption is known to be vulnerable to a number of attacks that aim to directly extract cryptographic key material from system memory. Several approaches to preventing this class of attacks have been proposed, including Tresor [18] and LoopAmnesia [25]. The common goal of these systems is to... | {
"abstract": "Defending computers from unauthorized physical access, malicious hardware devices, or other low-level attacks has proven extremely challenging. The risks from these attacks are exacerbated in cloud-computing environments, where users lack physical control over servers executing their workloads. This pa... |
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"abstract": "User generated contents (UGCs) from various social media sites give analysts the opportunity to obtain a comprehensive and dynamic view of any topic from multiple heterogeneous information sources. Summarization provides a promising means of distilling the overview of the targeted topic by aggregating ... | {
"abstract": "We present an exploration of generative probabilistic models for multi-document summarization. Beginning with a simple word frequency based model (Nenkova and Vanderwende, 2005), we construct a sequence of models each injecting more structure into the representation of document set content and exhibiti... | {
"abstract": "Update summarization is a form of multidocument summarization where a document set must be summarized in the context of other documents assumed to be known. Efficient update summarization must focus on identifying new information and avoiding repetition of known information. In Query-focused summarizat... |
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"abstract": "Platelets induce chronic inflammation which is a key step in atherosclerosis and may be involved in the progression of neurodegenerative diseases (NDD). We aimed to measure the mean platelet volume (MPV) and platelet count (PLC) in NDD patients. The present study was designed to investigate the platele... | {
"abstract": "Background and Purpose— Increased mean platelet volume (MPV), indicating higher platelet reactivity, is associated with an increased risk of myocardial infarction. Higher levels of MPV have been found in patients with acute ischemic stroke than in control subjects. Data from smaller studies regarding a... | {
"abstract": "Determining the role of rumen microbes and their enzymes in plant polysaccharide breakdown is fundamental to understanding digestion and maximising productivity in ruminant animals. Butyrivibrio proteoclasticus B316T is a Gram-positive, butyrate-forming rumen bacterium with a key role in plant polysacc... |
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"abstract": "For M-theory on the G2 holonomy manifold given by the cone on S3 × S3 we consider the superpotential generated by membrane instantons and study its transformations properties, especially under monodromy transformations and triality symmetry. We find that the latter symmetry is, essentially, even a symm... | {
"abstract": "The membrane instanton superpotential for M-theory on the G2 holonomy manifold given by the cone on S3×S3 is given by the dilogarithm and has Heisenberg monodromy group in the quantum moduli space. We compare this to a Heisenberg group action on the type IIA hypermultiplet moduli space for the universa... | {
"abstract": "For M-theory on the G2 holonomy manifold given by the cone on S3 × S3 we consider the superpotential generated by membrane instantons and study its transformations properties, especially under monodromy transformations and triality symmetry. We find that the latter symmetry is, essentially, even a symm... |
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"abstract": "Early response to chemotherapy has a major prognostic impact in acute myeloid leukemia patients treated with a double induction strategy. Less is known about patients treated with standard-dose cytarabine and anthracycline. We designed a risk-adapted remission induction regimen in which a second course... | {
"abstract": "BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES\nIn adult acute myeloid leukemia (AML), a variety of clinical and biological parameters have been examined for their potential value in predicting treatment response. Early response to induction therapy could be an important prognostic factor in this disease.\n\n\nDESIGN AND M... | {
"abstract": "Objectives To describe the clinical characteristics of infants admitted to a pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) with respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infection, including the prevalence of indications for RSV passive antibody prophylaxis (as currently recommended by the American Academy of Pediatric... |
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"abstract": "The rapid research progress in tin-based binary sulfides (SnxSy = o-SnS, c-SnS, SnS2, and Sn2S3) by the solution process has opened a new path not only for photovoltaics to generate clean energy at ultra-low costs but also for photocatalytic and thermoelectric applications. Fascinated by their prospero... | {
"abstract": "Using chemical bath deposition (CBD) technique SnS thin films have been deposited at room temperature with different deposition times. The deposited films have been investigated through X- ray diffraction measurements to determine structural properties. The deposited SnS films found amorphous and polyc... | {
"abstract": "CdS thin films of high quality with good reproducibility can be prepared on large-area substrates from aqueous baths, icontaining triethanolamine complex of Cd2+ ions and thiourea. Depending on the deposition para-meters, a combination of optoelectronic cha-racteristics are obtainable: optical transmi-... |
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"abstract": "Research and industrial studies have indicated that small size, low cost, high precision, and ease of integration are vital features that characterize microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) inertial sensors for mass production and diverse applications. In recent times, sensors like MEMS accelerometers a... | {
"abstract": "MEMS (micro-electro-mechanical system)-based inertial sensors, i.e., accelerometers and angular rate sensors, are commonly used as a cost-effective solution for the purposes of navigation in a broad spectrum of terrestrial and aerospace applications. These tri-axial inertial sensors form an inertial me... | {
"abstract": "Abstract This paper compares patterns and properties of financial analysts' forecasts (FAFs) of earnings between the UK and the US. Using 299 UK and 400 US firms from the same data source—Institutional Brokers Estimate System tapes—the accuracy of forecasts is examined and the sources of errors analyse... |
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"abstract": "We derive machine learning algorithms from discretized Euclidean field theories, making inference and learning possible within dynamics described by quantum field theory. Specifically, we demonstrate that the ${\\ensuremath{\\phi}}^{4}$ scalar field theory satisfies the Hammersley-Clifford theorem, the... | {
"abstract": "Deep belief networks (DBNs) can approximate any distribution over fixed-length binary vectors. However, DBNs are frequently applied to model real-valued data, and so far little is known about their representational power in this case. We analyze the approximation properties of DBNs with two layers of b... | {
"abstract": "Computer vision has grown tremendously in the past two decades. Despite all efforts, existing attempts at matching parts of the human visual system's extraordinary ability to understand visual scenes lack either scope or power. By combining the advantages of general low-level generative models and powe... |
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"abstract": "X-linked hypophosphatemia (XLH) is the most common hereditary form of rickets and deficiency of renal tubular phosphate transport in humans. XLH is caused by the inactivation of mutations within the phosphate-regulating endopeptidase homolog X-linked (PHEX) gene and follows an X-dominant transmission. ... | {
"abstract": "CONTEXT\nAnimal studies suggest that hypophosphatemic rickets (HPR) is associated with muscle function deficits, but it is unknown whether humans with HPR have a muscle disorder.\n\n\nOBJECTIVE\nOur objective was to assess calf muscle size and density (an indicator of muscle quality) and lower extremit... | {
"abstract": "CONTEXT\nOsteogenesis imperfecta (OI) type I is a heritable bone fragility disorder that is caused by mutations affecting collagen type I. We recently showed that patients with OI type I frequently have muscle weakness. As muscle force and bone mass are usually closely related, we hypothesized that mus... |
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"abstract": "The resonance scattering phenomena of an object buried below a dielectric halfspace has been studied with potential applications such as unexploded ordnance detection and breast tumor screening. These studies adopted a theoretical approach where the resonant frequencies are numerically determined via a... | {
"abstract": "Resonance based radar target detection has been applied to ground penetrating radar (GPR) applications for the detection and recognition of landmines. Target detection is achieved by searching for certain target dependent complex natural resonances (CNRs), which could be considered as a feature set for... | {
"abstract": "Reliable radar target recognition has long been the holy grail of electromagnetic sensors. Target recognition based on the singularity expansion method (SEM) uses a time-domain electromagnetic signature and has been well studied over the last few decades. The SEM describes the late time period of the t... |
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"abstract": "The purpose of this article is to model and forecast the seasonal variation, the fluctuations in tourist numbers from season to season in Australian inbound holiday tourism, using climate variables such as maximum temperature, humidity, and hours of sunshine. For estimation purposes this study uses qua... | {
"abstract": "We propose a model selection strategy for time series with increasing seasonal variation. This strategy amounts to a selection of the most appropriate differencing filter to obtain a stationary time series without using a Box-Cox transformation. Hence, it is based on a sequence of tests for nonseasonal... | {
"abstract": "BackgroundCardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of death in China and worldwide. Whole grain oats can reduce risk of CVD by reducing total and LDL-cholesterol, major risk factors for CVD. While this association has been established in many populations, data from Asian populations is limited... |
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"abstract": "Continuous technology scaling has made aging mechanisms, such as negative bias temperature instability and electromigration primary concerns in network-on-chip (NoC) designs. In this paper, we extensively analyze the effects of these aging mechanisms on NoC routers and links. We observe a critical need... | {
"abstract": "With the continuing scaling of CMOS technologies, process variation is becoming a key factor highly impacting system-level power and temperature. Traditional methods of assuming a uniform temperature and no process variation can lead to gross inaccuracies even for system-level design, thus it is critic... | {
"abstract": "In this paper, we propose a novel approach based on Linear Dynamic Systems (LDSs) for action recognition. Our main contributions are two-fold. First, we introduce LDSs to action recognition. LDSs describe the dynamic texture which exhibits certain stationarity properties in time. They are adopted to mo... |
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"abstract": "Helle F, Hultström M, Skogstrand T, Palm F, Iversen BM. Angiotensin II-induced contraction is attenuated by nitric oxide in afferent arterioles from the nonclipped kidney in 2K1C. Am J Physiol Renal Physiol 296: F78–F86, 2009. First published October 22, 2008; doi:10.1152/ajprenal.90518.2008.—Two-kidne... | {
"abstract": "The aim of this study was to investigate ANG II-induced Ca2+ signaling in freshly isolated afferent arterioles (AA) from two-kidney, one-clip hypertensive (2K1C) rats, which have an elevated plasma and renal ANG II level, and different perfusion pressure and vascular tone in the clipped and nonclipped ... | {
"abstract": "Objectives The putative protective effects of resveratrol against oxidative injury in the heart, kidney and brain tissues of rats induced with the two‐kidney, one‐clip (2K1C) hypertension model were investigated.",
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"abstract": "This review aims to assess and sum up the proposed pathomechanisms underlying the Coexistence of Hydrocephalus (HC) with spinal cord tumors. The PubMed database search identified 119 publications, of which 23 were eligible for this study. Hydrocephalus was mostly described in the presence of spinal epe... | {
"abstract": "SummaryThe authors report on a 43-year-old male with apparent myelomeningeal encephalitis. The most important clinical symptoms included severe lymphocytosis of the CSF, cranial nerve palsies, obstructive hydrocephalus, progressive coma, and presence of an intramedullary mass causing paraplegia. Neithe... | {
"abstract": "SummaryWe report a case of diffuse leptomeningeal gliomatosis which spread from the cervical to the sacral spine. A 60-year-old man was admitted with visual disturbance due to papilledema. Magnetic resonance imaging revealed holocord leptomeningeal gliomatosis without a definite intraparenchymal lesion... |
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"abstract": "ABSTRACT The present study aims to reveal whether gender, age, personality traits, chronotypes, and smartphone screen-time predict smartphone addiction. This study used the composite scale of morningness, big five inventory, and smartphone addiction scale for collecting data. Females showed higher leve... | {
"abstract": "BackgroundMobile phones are an important part of adolescents’ life. In this study, the relationships among smartphone addiction, age, gender, and chronotype of German adolescents were examined.Materials and methodsTwo studies focused on two different measures of smartphone addiction. The Smartphone Add... | {
"abstract": "OBJECTIVE:: To evaluate the associations between problematic Internet use (PIU) and physical and psychological symptoms among Chinese adolescents, and to investigate the possible role of sleep quality in this association. METHODS:: A cross-sectional school-based study was conducted in 4 cities in China... |
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"abstract": "The transcriptional coactivator and phosphatase eyes absent (Eya) is dynamically compartmentalized between the nucleus and cytoplasm. Although the nuclear transcriptional circuits within which Eya operates have been extensively characterized, understanding of its cytoplasmic functions and interactions ... | {
"abstract": "Eyes absent (Eya) is an evolutionarily conserved transcriptional coactivator and protein phosphatase that regulates multiple developmental processes throughout the metazoans. Drosophila eya is necessary for survival as well as for the formation of the adult eye. Eya contains a tyrosine phosphatase doma... | {
"abstract": "The chromokinesin KIF22 generates forces that contribute to mitotic chromosome congression and alignment. Mutations in the α2 helix of the motor domain of KIF22 have been identified in patients with abnormal skeletal development, and we report the identification of a patient with a novel mutation in th... |
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"abstract": "This report critically evaluates the methods used to evaluate traffic congestion costs and the benefits of various congestion reduction strategies. It describes various biases in current congestion evaluation practices. It develops a more comprehensive evaluation framework which is applied to four cong... | {
"abstract": "Abstract In this paper a new approach for transit congestion relief measurement in urban areas is described. The paper reviews relevant transport data sources and describes how a comparable international transport database has been selected for this study. The elements affecting the congestion relief i... | {
"abstract": "This report critically evaluates the methods used to evaluate traffic congestion costs and the benefits of various congestion reduction strategies. It describes various biases in current congestion evaluation practices. It develops a more comprehensive evaluation framework which is applied to four cong... |
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"abstract": "We address the problem of discovering communication links between applications in the popular Android mobile operating system, an important problem for security and privacy in Android. Any scalable static analysis in this complex setting is bound to produce an excessive amount of false-positives, rende... | {
"abstract": "Many program analyses require statically inferring the possible values of composite types. However, current approaches either do not account for correlations between object fields or do so in an ad hoc manner. In this paper, we introduce the problem of composite constant propagation. We develop the fir... | {
"abstract": "Situational-awareness provided by navigation and multitarget tracking (MTT) will change services and applications for modern convenience, public safety, and the military. This paper presents a Bayesian method for joint navigation and MTT in mobile agent networks, where the joint inference is performed ... |
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"abstract": "The production and consumption of information about Bitcoin and other digital-, or 'crypto'-, currencies have grown together with their market capitalisation. However, a systematic investigation of the relationship between online attention and market dynamics, across multiple digital currencies, is sti... | {
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"title": "Algorithmic Trading of Cryptocurrency Based on Twitter Sentiment Analysis"
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"abstract": "Current tools that facilitate the extract-transform-load (ETL) process focus on ETL workflow, not on generating meaningful semantic relationships to integrate data from multiple, heterogeneous sources. A proposed semantic ETL framework applies semantics to various data fields and so allows richer data ... |
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"abstract": "Wilms Tumor (WT), or nephroblastoma, is the most common pediatric kidney cancer. Most WTs display a “favorable” triphasic histology, in which the tumor is comprised of blastemal, stromal, and epithelial cell types. Blastemal predominance after neoadjuvant chemotherapy or diffuse anaplasia (“unfavorable... | {
"abstract": "Summary Understanding the mechanisms responsible for nephrogenic stem cell preservation and commitment is fundamental to harnessing the potential of the metanephric mesenchyme (MM) for nephron regeneration. Accordingly, we established a culture model that preferentially expands the MM SIX2+ progenitor ... | {
"abstract": "Bagre marinus has a diploid complement of 54 chromosomes composed of 12 metacentrics, 8 submetacentrics, and the remainder with terminal or near-terminal centromeres. Karyotypes for three species of ariid catfishes (Arius dussumieri, A. felis, andBagre marinus) indicate the same diploid number, but eac... |
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"abstract": "Code generation for in-memory query processing is now commonplace. While existing approaches use a wide range of techniques (e.g., inline expansion, pipelining, SIMD vectorization, prefetching) to reduce processing effort, we argue that generating code with better data access patterns is often more imp... | {
"abstract": "In-memory databases require careful tuning and many engineering tricks to achieve good performance. Such database performance engineering is hard: a plethora of data and hardware-dependent optimization techniques form a design space that is difficult to navigate for a skilled engineer --- even more so ... | {
"abstract": "F-measures are popular performance metrics, particularly for tasks with imbalanced data sets. Algorithms for learning to maximize F-measures follow two approaches: the empirical utility maximization (EUM) approach learns a classifier having optimal performance on training data, while the decision-theor... |
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"abstract": "Objects making up complex porous systems in Nature usually span a range of sizes. These size distributions play fundamental roles in defining the physicochemical, biophysical and physiological properties of a wide variety of systems – ranging from advanced catalytic materials to Central Nervous System ... | {
"abstract": "Noninvasive measurements of microstructure in materials, cells, and in biological tissues, constitute a unique capability of gradient-assisted NMR. Diffusion-diffraction MR approaches pioneered by Callaghan demonstrated this ability; Oscillating-Gradient Spin-Echo (OGSE) methodologies tackle the demand... | {
"abstract": "Wave-mechanical calculations are reported for the sulphur atom in varying degrees of ionization. The Dirac vector model is used to set up the self-consistent-field equations appropriate to (1) spectroscopic states involving one or more electrons in d orbitals; (2) valence-states with one or more d elec... |
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"abstract": "In Kenya, smallholder farmers have been observed growing castor with maize and beans under an intercropping system amidst little knowledge that such a system could have on the performance of these crops. The objective of this study was to investigate the effect of intercropping castor with maize and be... | {
"abstract": "Different mix-proportions and planting patterns of maize (Zea mays L.) and cowpea (Vigna unguiculata L.) were compared with the sole cropping of each crop during 2010 and 2011 growing seasons under the southern Guinea savanna conditions in Nigeria. The experiment comprised of 6 treatments: sole maize (... | {
"abstract": "Two corn (Zea mays L.) hybrids were grown in mixtures with three sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) cultivars at Ottawa for forage. The species appeared compatible in mixtures but yields of forage dry matter were higher for corn alone at several plant densities than for any mixture. Dry matter content at... |
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"abstract": "In this paper, we introduce a technique to enhance the computational efficiency of solution algorithms for high-dimensional discrete simulation-based optimization problems. The technique is based on innovative adaptive partitioning strategies that partition the feasible region using solutions that has ... | {
"abstract": "We introduce a new method for discrete-decision-variable optimization via simulation that combines the stochastic branch-and-bound method and the nested partitions method in the sense that we take advantage of the partitioning structure of stochastic branch and bound, but estimate the bounds based on t... | {
"abstract": "The optimal allocation of indivisible resources is formalized as a stochastic optimization problem involving discrete decision variables. A general stochastic search procedure is proposed, which develops the concept of the branch-and-bound method. The main idea is to process large collections of possib... |
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"abstract": "In this thesis we investigate the experimental guided spherical harmonics based Head-Related Transfer Function (HRTF) modeling where HRTFs are parameterized as frequency and source location. We focus on efficiently representing the HRTF variations in sufficient detail by mathematical modeling and the e... | {
"abstract": "Reproduction of auditory scenes is important for many applications. We describe several contributions to the capture and recreation of spatial audio that have been made over the past few years by the authors.",
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"title": "CAPTURING AND RECREATING AUDITORY VIRTUAL REALITY"
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"abstract": "In this thesis we investigate the experimental guided spherical harmonics based Head-Related Transfer Function (HRTF) modeling where HRTFs are parameterized as frequency and source location. We focus on efficiently representing the HRTF variations in sufficient detail by mathematical modeling and the e... |
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"abstract": "We present the first complete implementation of a randomness and privacy amplification protocol based on Bell tests. This allows the building of device-independent random number generators which output provably unbiased and private numbers, even if using an uncharacterised quantum device potentially bu... | {
"abstract": "We explicitly construct random hash functions for privacy amplification (extractors) that require smaller random seed lengths than the previous literature, and still allow efficient implementations with complexity O(n log n) for input length n. Firstly, we construct two types of hash functions by using... | {
"abstract": "We have developed a continuous-variable quantum key distribution (CV-QKD) system that employs discrete quadrature-amplitude modulation and homodyne detection of coherent states of light. We experimentally demonstrated automated secure key generation with a rate of 50 kbps when a quantum channel is a 10... |
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"abstract": "Objective This study examines health behaviors of breast cancer survivors with hypertension and compares them with those of non-cancer individuals with hypertension. Methods In this cross-sectional study, a total of 10,996 hypertensive adults (≥ 19 years) who participated in the 2005-2012 Korean Nation... | {
"abstract": "PurposeCancer survivors have been reported to receive less care for other conditions than the general population; however, it is not clear whether patients’ behavior also contribute to this. The present study was performed to examine cancer survivors’ adherence to antihypertensive medication and factor... | {
"abstract": "Background: According to several recent research results [1]-[4], obesity can increase the risk of many diseases such as diabetes, chronic kidney disease, metabolic disease, cardiovascular disease, etc. To prevent and treat the obesity efficiently and effectively, diet monitoring is an important factor... |
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"abstract": "Abstract This paper attempts to develop a theoretical base for the understanding of knowledge management concepts that can be used by property management companies in Malaysia. The strategy, which is a conceptual model, is formulated from various literature surveys on knowledge management. A case study... | {
"abstract": "Purpose – This paper seeks to critically review the conceptual frameworks that have been developed for assessing the impact of information and communications technology (ICT) on real estate.Design/methodology/approach – The research is based on a critical review of existing literature and draws from ex... | {
"abstract": "The TSP deals with finding a shortest path through a number of cities. This seemingly simple problem is hard to solve because of the amount of possible solutions. Which is why methods that give a good suboptimal solution in a reasonable time are generally used. In this paper three methods were compared... |
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"abstract": "Plant pathogens and herbivores frequently co-occur on the same host plants. Despite this, little is known about the impact of their interactions on the structure of plant-based ecological communities. Here, we synthesize evidence that indicates that plant pathogens may profoundly impact arthropod perfo... | {
"abstract": "IT has been shown that robust green leaves which have ceased growth and not yet entered upon senescence are unsuitable, by comparison with growing or senescing leaves, for colonization by Aphis fabæ Scopoli and Myzus persicæ (Sulzer)1–3. Abnormally extended growth or premature senescence-like changes, ... | {
"abstract": "Plant pathogens and herbivores frequently co-occur on the same host plants. Despite this, little is known about the impact of their interactions on the structure of plant-based ecological communities. Here, we synthesize evidence that indicates that plant pathogens may profoundly impact arthropod perfo... |
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"abstract": "Abstract Women with pelvic floor complaints experience restrictions and distress in their daily, social, and sexual functioning, and their intimate relationships. We interviewed forty-eight women to unravel differences between women receiving and not receiving pelvic physical therapy and between pregna... | {
"abstract": "Vulvovaginal pain problems are major health concerns in women of childbearing age. Controlled studies have shown that vulvovaginal pain can adversely affect women and their partners' general psychological well-being, relationship adjustment, and overall quality of life. These women have significantly l... | {
"abstract": "To evaluate ampicillin (Amp) and chloramphenicol (Cm) alone and in combination against Haemophilus influenzae type b, we examined the viability of 5 log10 colony-forming units (CFU) of early-log-phase organisms per ml after 4 and 8 h of incubation with the drug(s). Nine Amp-susceptible (Amps) and five ... |
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