query dict | pos dict | neg dict |
|---|---|---|
{
"abstract": "MicroRNA (miRNA) plays a key role in development and specific biological processes, such as cell proliferation, differentiation, and apoptosis. Extensive studies of mammary miRNAs have been performed in different species and tissues. However, little is known about porcine mammary gland miRNAs. In this ... | {
"abstract": "The mammary gland undergoes extensive remodeling between the beginning of pregnancy and lactation; this involves cellular processes including cell proliferation, differentiation, and apoptosis, all of which are under the control of numerous regulators. To unravel the role played by miRNA, we describe h... | {
"abstract": "&NA; The aim of this study was to develop an osteo‐inductive resorbable layer allowing the controlled elution of antibiotics to be used as a bone/implant bioactive interface particularly in the case of prosthetic joint infections, or as a preventative procedure with respect to primary joint replacement... |
{
"abstract": "Noninducibility by High‐Dose Isoproterenol. Objective: To determine the relative clinical value of noninducibility of atrial fibrillation (AF) by isoproterenol (ISO) and by rapid atrial pacing (RAP) in patients with paroxysmal AF (PAF).",
"corpus_id": 205742294,
"title": "Clinical Value of Noninduc... | {
"abstract": "Background—The modification of atrial fibrillation cycle length (AFCL) during catheter ablation in humans has not been evaluated. Methods and Results—Seventy patients undergoing ablation of prolonged episodes of AF were randomized to pulmonary vein (PV) isolation or additional ablation of the mitral is... | {
"abstract": "Atrial fibrillation (AF), which is the main cause of stroke, is the most common sustained arrhythmia afflicting about 2.3 million Americans. Clinical treatment and management of AF would benefit from a non-invasive and global assessment of the arrhythmia; however that avenue seems currently limited in ... |
{
"abstract": "The solar wind provides a fascinating laboratory for the investigation of a wide range of plasma physical nonlinear processes, such as, e.g., turbulence, intermittency, magnetic reconnection and plasma heating. One of the key aspects for a deep understanding of these phenomena is the plasma behaviour a... | {
"abstract": "We present in situ measurements in a space plasma showing that thin current sheets the size of an ion inertial length exist and are abundant in strong and intermittent plasma turbulence. Many of these current sheets exhibit the microphysical signatures of reconnection. The spatial scale where intermitt... | {
"abstract": "Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence has been employed as a physical model for a wide range of applications in astrophysical and space plasma physics. This Colloquium reviews fundamental aspects of MHD turbulence, including spectral energy transfer, nonlocality, and anisotropy, each of which is related... |
{
"abstract": "Abstract In this paper, we present a new approach to recognizing hand signs. In this approach, motion recognition (the hand movement) is tightly coupled with spatial recognition (hand shape). The system uses multiclass, multidimensional discriminant analysis to automatically select the most discriminat... | {
"abstract": "This paper presents a prediction-and-verification segmentation scheme wing attention images from multiple fixations. A major advantage of this scheme is that it can handle a large number of different deformable objects presented in complex backgrounds. The scheme is also relatively efficient since the ... | {
"abstract": "People’s decisions and judgments are disproportionately swayed by improbable but extreme eventualities, such as terrorism, that come to mind easily. This article explores whether such availability biases can be reconciled with rational information processing by taking into account the fact that decisio... |
{
"abstract": "The inner ear is one of the most morphologically elaborate tissues in vertebrates, containing a group of mechanosensitive sensory organs that mediate hearing and balance. These organs are arranged precisely in space and contain intricately patterned sensory epithelia. Here, we review recent studies of ... | {
"abstract": "Vertebrate hearing and balance are based in complex asymmetries of inner ear structure. Here, we identify retinoic acid (RA) as an extrinsic signal that acts directly on the ear rudiment to affect its compartmentalization along the anterior-posterior axis. A rostrocaudal wave of RA activity, generated ... | {
"abstract": "Croatian political leaders have adopted a state-building agenda fundamentally at odds with the process of democratization. Their strategy is derived largely from traditional Croatian ultranationalism and is legitimized through appropriating the symbols of the extremist strand of the Croat national move... |
{
"abstract": "This case study addresses the attitudes and perceptions of faculty and professional advisors at a public comprehensive liberal arts institution. Based on a survey administered to full-time faculty and professional advisors in Fall 2009, the results showed a quantitative difference in levels of satisfac... | {
"abstract": "This study examines faculty advisor perspectives on faculty-student advising interactions. A survey questionnaire and two focus groups tapped faculty concerns about a variety of advising issues tha...",
"corpus_id": 154985401,
"title": "Faculty as Part of the Advising Equation: An Inquiry into Facu... | {
"abstract": "DOCUMENT RESUME",
"corpus_id": 57766433,
"score": -1,
"title": "From the Managing Editor"
} |
{
"abstract": "Background: Integrity of functional brain networks is closely associated with maintained cognitive performance at old age. Consistently, both carrier status of Apolipoprotein E ε4 allele (APOE4), and age-related aggregation of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) pathology result in altered brain network connectiv... | {
"abstract": "Background ::: The incidence of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) strongly relates to advanced age and progressive deposition of cerebral amyloid-beta (Aβ), hyperphosphorylated tau, and iron. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between cerebral dynamic functional connectivity and varia... | {
"abstract": "This paper focuses on the problem of vision-based obstacle detection and tracking for unmanned aerial vehicle navigation. A real-time object localization and tracking strategy from monocular image sequences is developed by effectively integrating the object detection and tracking into a dynamic Kalman ... |
{
"abstract": "During its brief twenty-five-year history, and under the close management of the central government, the postdoctoral training system in China has grown rapidly into a permanent element of the Chinese science and technology research system. Although designed to be attractive to elite Chinese Ph.D. tale... | {
"abstract": "Gender disparities in science and engineering majors in Chinese universities have received increasing attention from researchers and educators in China in recent years. Using data from a national survey of college students who graduated in 2005, this study documents gender disparities in enrollment and... | {
"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nActive case finding (ACF) in household contacts of tuberculosis (TB) patients is now recommended for National TB Programs (NTP) in low- and middle-income countries. However, evidence supporting these recommendations remains limited. This study evaluates the effectiveness and cost-effectiven... |
{
"abstract": "This systematic review and meta-analysis examined the associations between obesity and puberty timing based on scientific evidence. Eight electronic databases were searched up to February 2017 for eligible studies, and two reviewers screened the articles and extracted the data independently. A total of... | {
"abstract": "OBJECTIVE:The objective of the study was to verify the hypothesis that obesity is associated with pubertal timing, as both factors interact to predict psychosocial adjustment problems in girls.SUBJECTS:We selected 811 girls who had participated in a longitudinal study on a representative sample of Fren... | {
"abstract": "Glucocorticoids (GCs) and stress modulate specific phases of information processing. The modulatory affects of GCs on hippocampal function are thought to be mediated by the mineralocorticoid receptor (MR) and the glucocorticoid receptor (GR). The GR plays a critical role in mediating the impairing effe... |
{
"abstract": "this paper, we propose a modified switching bilateral filter to remove impulse noise and enhance the image details in an image. The proposed filter consists of noise detection stage and noise reduction stage. The noise detection is based on the gray level [Lmin, Lmax]. The noise reduction is based on t... | {
"abstract": "In this paper, we propose a switching bilateral filter (SBF) with a texture and noise detector for universal noise removal. Operation was carried out in two stages: detection followed by filtering. For detection, we propose the sorted quadrant median vector (SQMV) scheme, which includes important featu... | {
"abstract": "This article is devoted to shadow detection and removal algorithm for very high resolution satellite images. The shadows were identified by shadow detection index calculation and thresholding. In this work the Otsu method is applied to determine the optimal threshold of binarization. After obtaining a ... |
{
"abstract": "The purpose of this study was to interview and observe the principals selected to participate in the inaugural cohort of the North Carolina Distinguished Leadership in Practice (NCDLP) program to understand what leadership practices they applied within their schools that positively impacted teaching an... | {
"abstract": "ALISA R. MCLEAN: A Comparative Study of the State of the Principalship in North Carolina from the Principals’ Executive Program Surveys of 2003 and 2008 (Under the direction of Dr. Fenwick English) This study was designed to identify salient characteristics and feat ures that can be added to the curren... | {
"abstract": "In market-driven software product development, requirements that can potentially go into a product or a product release represent different kinds of investments. Requirements differ in the type of value that they provide and level of risk associated to investing in them. In this paper we investigate ho... |
{
"abstract": "During embryogenesis the heart forms as a linear tube that then undergoes multiple simultaneous morphogenetic events to obtain its mature shape. To understand the gene regulatory networks (GRNs) driving this phase of heart development, during which many congenital heart disease malformations likely ari... | {
"abstract": "BackgroundThe expression of gene batteries, genomic units of functionally linked genes which are activated by similar sets of cis- and trans-acting regulators, has been proposed as a major determinant of cell specialization in metazoans. We developed a predictive procedure to screen the mouse and human... | {
"abstract": "An important concern in the attempt of understanding the functional code of eukaryotic genes is to elucidate the control structures for regulating gene activation and suppression. One objective in the attempt to understand mechanisms of gene regulation is the elucidation of the regulatory network struc... |
{
"abstract": "The objective of this study was to evaluate the mechanism of action through which conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) beneficially affects reproduction. Lactating Holstein cows (n = 45, 20 +/- 1 DIM) were assigned to 1 of 3 treatments: 70 g/d of Ca salts of tallow (control); 63 g/d of lipid-encapsulated CLA... | {
"abstract": "CLA is a potent inhibitor of milk fat synthesis, as shown by investigations using mixtures of CLA isomers in FFA form. However, methyl esters of CLA can be initially formed in commercial synthesis, and their use in a supplement has certain manufacturing and cost advantages. Our objective was to compare... | {
"abstract": "A general method for the incorporation of unnatural amino acids into ion channels and membrane receptors using a Xenopus oocyte expression system has been described. A large number of unnatural amino acids have been incorporated into the nAChR, GIRK, and Shaker K+ channels. Continuing efforts focus on ... |
{
"abstract": "Magnetospirillum gryphiswaldense MSRI is one of a number of species to have a genetic system enabling the biomineralisation of iron in c. 40 linearly arranged organdies within its cell. These organelles are popularly known as magnetosomes and are believed to be selectively advantageous to cells as a bi... | {
"abstract": "Several species of aquatic bacteria which orient in the Earth's magnetic field and swim along magnetic field lines in a preferred direction (magnetotaxis) have been observed in marine and freshwater sediments of the Northern Hemisphere1,2. Their orientation is due to one or more intracytoplasmic chains... | {
"abstract": "The ultrastructure of a magnetotactic bacterium (strain MS-1) was examined by transmission, scanning, and scanning-transmission electron microscopy. The organism resembled other spirilla in general cell morphology, although some differences were detected at the ultrastructural level. Electron-dense par... |
{
"abstract": "We examine the designs produced by different types of difference families. Difference families have long been known to produce designs with well behaved automorphism groups. These designs provide the elegant solutions desired for applications. In this work, we explore the following question: Does every... | {
"abstract": ". . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vi CHAPTER 1. A GENERAL OVERVIEW AND INTRODUCTION . . . . 1 CHAPTER 2. PRELIMINARIES: COMMUTATIVE ASSOCIATION SCHEMES AND THEIR TERWILLIGER ALGEBRAS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 2.1 The Bose-Mesner Algebra . . . . . . . ... | {
"abstract": "The present study was designed to investigate the invitro acaricidal effects of seven ethnoveterinary plants, zinc acetate and green synthesized zinc oxide nanoparticles against the Southern cattle tick, Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus. The selected ethnoveterinary plants were extracted using ethan... |
{
"abstract": "Carbon storage and sequestration are widely regarded as one of the most important physical benefits provided by urban trees, and have been fairly widely studied, especially in the US. Both are usually determined by combining surveys of the numbers and trunk diameters of trees with allometric equations ... | {
"abstract": "Urbanization is widely presumed to degrade ecosystem services, but empirical evidence is now challenging these assumptions. We report the first city-wide organic carbon (OC) budget for vegetation and soils, including under impervious surfaces. Urban soil OC storage was significantly greater than in reg... | {
"abstract": "Microorganisms in oil sands fluid fine tailings (FFT) are critical to biogeochemical elemental cycling as well as to the degradation of residual hydrocarbon constituents and subsequent methane and CO2 production. Microbial activity enhances particulate matter sedimentation rates and the dewatering of F... |
{
"abstract": "Recovering the missing objects energy efficiently in sensor networks have been widely discussed in recent years. Most of the existing methods simplified the recovering problem and assumed that the deployment region is a plane. In practical sensor networks, however, the deployment is not fully planar bu... | {
"abstract": "Advances in wireless communication and microelectronic devices technologies have achieved the success production of low-power micro-sensors, enabling the large scale deployment of wireless sensor networks (WSNs). In order to track objects energy efficiently in OTSNs, many methods have been proposed but... | {
"abstract": "An algorithm to enumerate all the elementary circuits of a directed graph is presented. The algorithm uses back-tracking with lookahead to avoid unnecessary work, and it has a time bound of $O ((V+E)(C+1))$ when applied to a graph with $V$ vertices, $E$ edges, and $C$ elementary circuits. Keywords: Alg... |
{
"abstract": "This review is the sixth update of the original article published in 1999 on the application of MALDI mass spectrometry to the analysis of carbohydrates and glycoconjugates and brings coverage of the literature to the end of 2010. General aspects such as theory of the MALDI process, matrices, derivatiz... | {
"abstract": "Herein, I describe pyridylamination for versatile analysis of sugar chains. The reducing ends of the sugar chains are tagged with 2-aminopyridine and the resultant chemically stable fluorescent derivatives are used for structural/functional analysis. Pyridylamination is an effective “operating system” ... | {
"abstract": "Dramatic growth in the Japanese economy in the postwar period – and its meltdown in the \n1990s – has attracted sustained interest in the power dynamics underlying the management \nof Japan’s administrative state. For a long time, scholars and commentators have debated \nabout who wields power in Japan... |
{
"abstract": "SUMMARY Sparse modeling is one of the most active research areas in engineering and science. The technique provides solutions from far fewer samples exploiting sparsity, that is, the majority of the data are zero. This paper reviews sparse modeling in radio techniques. The first half of this paper intro... | {
"abstract": "SUMMARY This survey provides a brief introduction to compressed sensing as well as several major algorithms to solve it and its various applications to communications systems. We firstly review linear simultaneous equations as ill-posed inverse problems, since the idea of compressed sensing could be be... | {
"abstract": "One of the major drawbacks of photovoltaic (PV) systems is represented by the effect of module mismatching and of partial shading of the PV field. Distributed maximum power point tracking (DMPPT) is a very promising technique that allows the increase of efficiency and reliability of such systems. Model... |
{
"abstract": "Aristolochic acid (AA) is a potent human nephrotoxin and carcinogen. We previously reported that AA treatment resulted in DNA damage and mutation in the kidney and liver of rats. In this study, we have determined the DNA adducts and mutations induced by AA in rat spleen. Big Blue® transgenic rats were ... | {
"abstract": "The plant extract aristolochic acid, which consists mainly of aristolochic acid I (AAI) and aristolochic acid II (AAII), induces tumors in rats and mice. Thin-tissue sections of rat tumors induced by AAI and of mouse tumors induced by aristolochic acid, were analyzed for c-Ha-ras mutations in codon 61.... | {
"abstract": "3-Methylthymine was synthesized into DNA copolymers and deoxynucleoside triphosphate to study its effect on DNA synthesis by the Klenow fragment of Escherichia coli polymerase I and avian myeloblastosis virus reverse transcriptase. Both polymerases were greatly inhibited by template 3-methylthymine. In... |
{
"abstract": "Cette these de doctorat est consacree a l'analyse de quelques problemes de minimisation impliquant des fonctionnelles non locales. Nous nous interessons principalement au perimetre s-fractionnaire et a ses minimiseurs, les ensembles s-minimaux. Nous etudions le comportement des ensembles ayant perimetr... | {
"abstract": "We consider surfaces which minimize a nonlocal perimeter functional and we discuss their interior regularity and rigidity properties, in a quantitative and qualitative way, and their (perhaps rather surprising) boundary behavior. We present at least a sketch of the proofs of these results, in a way tha... | {
"abstract": "We consider the action of Proportional-Derivative Feedback and Pure Proportional Feedback groups on the set of all singular systems. Both actions are characterized by complete lists of orbital invariants giving rise to canonical forms. Dynamic interpretations of these invariants are given.",
"corpus_... |
{
"abstract": "Image synthesis techniques are present in a wide range of applications as they leverage the amount of information required for creating realistic visualizations. For fast hardware rendering they usually employ a triangle-based representation describing the geometry of the scene. In this paper, we intro... | {
"abstract": "We present a flexible GPU kernel for adaptive on‐the‐fly refinement of meshes with arbitrary topology. By simply reserving a small amount of GPU memory to store a set of adaptive refinement patterns, on‐the‐fly refinement is performed by the GPU, without any preprocessing nor additional topology data s... | {
"abstract": "We examine an algorithm for the visualization of domain-coloured Riemann surfaces of plane algebraic curves. The approach faithfully reproduces the topology and the holomorphic structure of the Riemann surface. We discuss how the algorithm can be implemented efficiently in OpenGL with geometry shaders,... |
{
"abstract": "La variabilite intraspecifique fait partie integrante de la reponse a court et a long terme des organismes vivants aux fluctuations environnementales. Cette variabilite, exprimee au travers de differents traits des individus, peut potentiellement influencer la sensibilite des especes a une contaminatio... | {
"abstract": "Duckweed, with rapid growth rate and high starch content, is a new alternate feedstock for bioethanol production. The genetic diversity among 27 duckweed populations of seven species in genus Lemna and Spirodela from China and Vietnam was analyzed by ISSR-PCR. Eight ISSR primers generating a reproducib... | {
"abstract": "The oleaginous yeast Yarrowia lipolytica has become a recognized system for expression/secretion of heterologous proteins. This non-conventional yeast is currently being developed as a workhorse for biotechnology by several research groups throughout the world, especially for single-cell oil production... |
{
"abstract": "The paper presents a methodology for the simulation of massive number of device-level transient faults. Fault injection locations and the gate around those locations are extracted and evaluated with SPICE. The extracted sub-circuits are exercised exhaustively while fault-injections are performed. Fault... | {
"abstract": "The placement algorithm, called the hierarchical clustering with min-cut exchange (HCME), is effective at avoiding being trapped in local optimum solutions. The global routing algorithm does not route the nets one by one and therefore the results are independent of the net order and channel order. In t... | {
"abstract": "Typically 3-D MR and CT scans have a relatively high resolution in the scanning X-Y plane, but much lower resolution in the axial Z direction. This non-uniform sampling of an object can miss small or thin structures. One way to address this problem is to scan the same object from multiple directions. I... |
{
"abstract": "Satellite networks often use Performance Enhancing Proxies (PEPs) in order to overcome the inherent high latencies that are detrimental to TCP throughputs. Measurements of TCP performance over Satellite PEPs are lacking, both for actual PEP benefits and for interactions between PEPs and TCP congestion ... | {
"abstract": "Given the impact of YouTube on Internet services and social networks, a healthy quantity of research has been conducted over the past few years. The majority of studies on traffic capture and evaluation were carried out prior to Google's acquisition of YouTube in 2007. Since then, there have been some ... | {
"abstract": "Due to the ubiquitous availability of smartphones and digital cameras, the number of photos/videos online has increased rapidly. Therefore, it is challenging to efficiently browse multimedia content and obtain a summary of an event from a large collection of photos/videos aggregated in social media sha... |
{
"abstract": "Aims. We have studied the mechanisms which govern the degree of ionization of the gas in molecular clouds and prestellar cores, with a view to interpreting the relative abundances of the carbon-chain species C n H and their negative ions, C n H - . Methods. We followed the chemical evolution of a mediu... | {
"abstract": "Aims. We have studied the chemistry of nitrogen-bearing species during the initial stages of protostellar collapse, with a view to explaining the observed longevity of N 2 H + and NH 3 and the high levels of deuteration of these species. Methods. We followed the chemical evolution of a medium comprisin... | {
"abstract": "The high-sensitivity of the IRAM 30-m ASAI unbiased spectral survey in the mm-window allows us to detect NO emission towards both the Class I object SVS13-A and the protostellar outflow shock L1157-B1. We detect the hyperfine components of the $^2\\Pi_{\\rm 1/2}$ $J$ = 3/2 $\\to$ 1/2 (at 151 GHz) and t... |
{
"abstract": "Hemangioma of the rib is a rare benign tumor that is often difficult to distinguish from malignant bone tumors. Rib hemangioma often shows bony disruption with a slight cortical disruption, extraosseous lesion, and expanded bone on computed tomography (CT). We report the case of a 68-year-old man with ... | {
"abstract": "Bone hemangiomas are extremely rare in the ribs, with only a handful of cases reported in the literature. A case of a rib hemangioma is presented in which the pre-resection diagnosis was an aggressive chest wall tumor. The plain film, CT, MRI and bone scan features of the lesion were reviewed with the ... | {
"abstract": "Hemangioma is a benign vascular tumor, which may occur in any bone of the body. The most common locations are the spine and craniofacial bone; however, occurrence is extremely rare in the scapula. The current study presented the case of a 58-year-old female, with scapula hemangioma in the left shoulder... |
{
"abstract": "An adaptive generalized predictive control (GPC) scheme for an industrial process is designed based on a neuron adaptive splitting and merging radial basis function neural network (NASM-RBFNN) in this paper. The NASM-RBFNN is developed to identify the dynamic behaviors of the industrial process. In ord... | {
"abstract": "The thermal treatment of aluminum alloy workpieces requires strict temperature uniformity in large-scale vertical quench furnaces. To achieve the desired temperature uniformity in a large-scale spatial setting, a temperature uniformity control strategy combining workpiece temperature compensation and i... | {
"abstract": "The possibility of surface hardening on AISI 4140 steel treated with concentrated solar energy in solar installations for electricity production has been studied. The samples were slides from a 35 mm diameter steel bar and their height was 35 mm. The quenching was made in water but also was considered ... |
{
"abstract": "OPTIMAL TIMING OF LIVING-DONOR LIVER TRANSPLANTATION UNDER RISK-AVERSION Ümit Emre Köse M.S. in Industrial Engineering Advisor: Özlem Çavuş İyigün July 2016 Liver transplantation, which can be performed from either living-donors or cadavers, is the only viable treatment for end-stage liver diseases. In... | {
"abstract": "The total cost problem for discrete-time controlled transient Markov models is considered. The objective functional is a Markov dynamic risk measure of the total cost. Two solution methods, value and policy iteration, are proposed, and their convergence is analyzed. In the policy iteration method, we p... | {
"abstract": "When a matrix is represented as a product of \"elementary\" matrices, the matrix, its transpose, its inverse and inverse transpose are readily available for vector multiplication. By an \"elementary matrix\" is meant one formed from the identity matrix by replacing one column ; thus an elementary matri... |
{
"abstract": "We present a system that builds 3D models of non-rigidly moving surfaces from scratch in real time using a single RGB-D stream. Our solution is based on the variational level set method, thus it copes with arbitrary geometry, including topological changes. It warps a given truncated signed distance fie... | {
"abstract": "We propose BodyFusion, a novel real-time geometry fusion method that can track and reconstruct non-rigid surface motion of a human performance using a single consumer-grade depth camera. To reduce the ambiguities of the non-rigid deformation parameterization on the surface graph nodes, we take advantag... | {
"abstract": "Manipulation of complex deformable semi-solids such as food objects is an important skill for personal robots to have. In this work, our goal is to model and learn the physical properties of such objects. We design actions involving use of tools such as forks and knives that obtain haptic data containi... |
{
"abstract": "Ontology serves as a central technique in the semantic web to elucidate domain knowledge. The challenge of dealing with the heterogeneity introduced by diverse domain ontologies necessitates ontology matching, a process designed to identify semantically interconnected entities within these ontologies. ... | {
"abstract": "Achieving automatic interoperability among systems with diverse data structures and languages expressing different viewpoints is a goal that has been difficult to accomplish. This paper describes S-Match, an open source semantic matching framework that tackles the semantic interoperability problem by t... | {
"abstract": "Word sense disambiguation (WSD) systems based on supervised learning achieved the best performance in SensEval and SemEval workshops. However, there are few publicly available open source WSD systems. This limits the use of WSD in other applications, especially for researchers whose research interests ... |
{
"abstract": "\n \n \nContext: Model-based testing is one of the most studied approaches by secondary studies in the area of software testing. Aggregating knowledge from secondary studies on model- based testing can be useful for both academia and industry. Objective: The goal of this study is to characterize second... | {
"abstract": "The unified modeling language (UML) designs come in a variety of different notations. UML designs can be quite large and interactions between various notations and the models they define can be difficult to assess. During the design phase, and between successive releases of systems, designs change. The... | {
"abstract": "File inclusion, conditional compilation and macro processing has made the C/C++ preprocessor a powerful tool for programmers. However, program code with lots of directives often causes difficulties in program understanding and maintenance. The main source of the problem is the difference between the co... |
{
"abstract": "This paper presents path following control for fully actuated rigid body systems in 3-D space. Transverse feedback linearization and a parallel transport frame are used to design a path following controller that is suitable for paths that are parametrized as regular threefold continuously differentiabl... | {
"abstract": "Path following controllers make the output of a control system approach and traverse a prespecified path with no a priori time-parametrization. In this paper, we present a method for path following control design applicable to framed curves generated by splines in the workspace of kinematically redunda... | {
"abstract": "A model-referenced adaptive control strategy combined with cross-coupled control of axial motion that is intended to improve contouring performance of multi-axis computer numerically controlled machine tools is discussed. A feedback control loop is established between the desired input feedrate and the... |
{
"abstract": "Magnesium (Mg) status has recently drawn close attention in chronic kidney disease and in kidney transplant recipients. This review aims to evaluate the body of evidence linking hypomagnesemia to clinical consequences in these specific populations. After a brief summary of the main mechanisms involved ... | {
"abstract": "BackgroundMagnesium blocks many of the physiological actions of calcium. Nevertheless, the impact of magnesium supplementation on endothelial function and exercise tolerance in stable coronary artery disease (CAD) patients has not been assessed. Methods and ResultsIn a randomized, double-blind, placebo... | {
"abstract": "Key discoveries in the past decade have revealed that the vascular endothelium is an important regulatory organ that is involved in maintaining cardiovascular homeostasis in health and contributes significantly to the pathomechanism of several cardiovascular diseases. Occupying a strategically importan... |
{
"abstract": "In this paper, an implementation of a simulated grounded inductor (SGI) based on a recently developed active building block called second‐generation voltage conveyor (VCII) is proposed. The proposed SGI employs two VCIIs, two resistors, and one grounded capacitor, which is preferred when integration is... | {
"abstract": "A new canonic active RC circuit for realizing an ideal grounded inductor using a single second generation current conveyor as the active building block is described. The circuit may be considered as a novel active-gyrator circuit realized using only a single current conveyor.",
"corpus_id": 349886,
... | {
"abstract": "The Distributed Differential Evolution (dDE) algorithm is a natural extension of the Differential Evolution (DE) algorithm, which is a recent addition to the Evolutionary Algorithms (EAs) pool, in the Evolutionary Computing (EC) field of computer science. The algorithmic novelty of the dDE algorithm is... |
{
"abstract": "Resilience is a social and cultural learning process that is practiced and achieved by individuals. Positioning resilience as part of individuals’ interactions with people in their community and the use of tools available in their environment allows researchers to identify different possibilities for i... | {
"abstract": "This article draws on ethnographic research to explore the impacts of the current economic crisis on Mexican migrant families in rural Montana. It looks specifically at the ways rural families negotiate gender roles and expectations as they devise survival strategies in response to major economic shift... | {
"abstract": "In her pathbreaking book, Abortion and Woman's Choice, Rosalind Pollack Petchesky astutely observed that, in many societies, control over the methods and goals of reproduction is a critical site of contest, particularly between women and men. Yet the circumstances under which reproductive relations wil... |
{
"abstract": "Kindlin-2 is a FERM and PH domain-containing integrin-binding protein that is emerging as an important regulator of integrin activation. How kindlin-2 functions in integrin activation, however, is not known. We report here that kindlin-2 interacts with multiple phosphoinositides, preferentially with ph... | {
"abstract": "The kindlins represent a class of focal adhesion proteins implicated in integrin activation. They comprise three evolutionarily conserved members, kindlin-1, kindlin-2 and kindlin-3, that share considerable sequence and structural similarities. The kindlins have a bipartite FERM (four point one protein... | {
"abstract": "Colorectal cancer is the third most prevalent form of cancer worldwide and fourth-leading cause of cancer-related mortality, leading to ~600,000 deaths annually, predominantly affecting the developed world. Lysyl oxidase is a secreted, extracellular matrix-modifying enzyme previously suggested to act a... |
{
"abstract": "Chloride redistribution during type A gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA(A)) currents (I(GABA)) has been investigated in cultured frog pituitary melanotrophs with imposed intracellular chloride concentration ([Cl(-)](i)) in the whole cell configuration or with unaltered [Cl(-)](i) using the gramicidin-perfo... | {
"abstract": "1 In frog pituitary melanotrophs, GABA induces a transient stimulation followed by prolonged inhibition of hormone secretion. This biphasic effect is inconsistent with the elevation of cytosolic calcium and the inhibition of electrical activity also provoked by GABA in single melanotrophs. In the prese... | {
"abstract": "The mechanisms that induce Alzheimer's disease (AD) are largely unknown thereby deterring the development of disease-modifying therapies. One working hypothesis of AD is that Aβ excess disrupts membranes causing pore formation leading to alterations in ionic homeostasis. However, it is largely unknown ... |
{
"abstract": "Makino and Berz introduced the Taylor model approach for validated integration of initial value problems (IVPs) for ordinary differential equations (ODEs). Especially, they invented preconditioning of Taylor models for stabilizing the integration and proposed the following different types: parallelepip... | {
"abstract": "Verified methods for the integration of initial value problems (IVPs) for in ordinary differential equations (ODEs) aim at computing guaranteed error bounds for the flow of an ODE while maintaining a low level of overestimation. This paper is concerned with one of the sources of overestimation: a matri... | {
"abstract": "Makino and Berz introduced the Taylor model approach for validated integration of initial value problems (IVPs) for ordinary differential equations (ODEs). Especially, they invented preconditioning of Taylor models for stabilizing the integration and proposed the following different types: parallelepip... |
{
"abstract": "Since the development of X‐ray computed tomography as a medical diagnostic tool, it was adapted and extended for many scientific applications, including plant structure research. As for many biological studies, sample preparation is of major importance to obtain good‐quality images. Therefore, we prese... | {
"abstract": "High-resolution X-ray computed tomography (HRCT) is a non-invasive approach to 3D visualization and quantification of biological structure. The data, based on differential X-ray attenuation, are analogous to those otherwise obtainable only by serial sectioning. Requiring no fixing, sectioning or staini... | {
"abstract": "Abstract An integrated process of the acetone-butanol batch fermentation coupled with in situ toxic products removal was developed. It was found that the in situ adsorption process using polyvinylpyridine as the adsorbent enhanced the fermentation rates and the reactor productivity by Clostridium aceto... |
{
"abstract": "Cystic fibrosis (CF) is the most life-limiting autosomal recessive disorder in Caucasians. CF is characterized by abnormal viscous secretions that impair the function of several tissues, with chronic bacterial airway infections representing the major cause of early decease of these patients. Pseudomona... | {
"abstract": "ABSTRACT Pseudomonas aeruginosa is an opportunistic pathogen that requires iron to cause infection, but it also must regulate the uptake of iron to avoid iron toxicity. The iron-responsive PrrF1 and PrrF2 small regulatory RNAs (sRNAs) are part of P. aeruginosa's iron regulatory network and affect the e... | {
"abstract": "Guided tissue/bone regeneration (GTR/GBR) is currently the main treatment for alveolar bone regeneration. The commonly used barrier membranes in GTR/GBR are collagen membranes from mammals such as porcine or cattle. Fish collagen is being explored as a potential substitute for mammalian collagen due to... |
{
"abstract": "In a perfectly competitive market with a possibility of technological innovation we contrast guaranteed feed-in tariffs for electricity from renewables and tradable green certificates from a dynamic efficiency and social welfare point of view. Specifically, we model decisions about the technological in... | {
"abstract": "The search for economically efficient policy instruments designed to promote the diffusion of renewable energy technologies in liberalized markets has led to the introduction of quota-based tradable 'green' certificate (TGC) schemes for renewable electricity. However, there is a debate about the pros a... | {
"abstract": "study is to inject a novel approach to fossil fuel procurement, and to determine to what extent the utility industry has been an efficient utilizer of scarce resources. The implications of this study have relevance to the managers of the utility industry, to the public regulatory commissions and to stu... |
{
"abstract": "Acute pyelonephritis (APN), which is mainly caused by uropathogenic Escherichia coli (UPEC), is the most common bacterial complication in renal transplant recipients receiving immunosuppressive treatment. However, it remains unclear how immunosuppressive drugs, such as the calcineurin inhibitor cyclosp... | {
"abstract": "BACKGROUND & AIMS\nA more complete understanding of the mechanisms involved in pathogen-associated molecular pattern signaling is crucial in the setting of liver injury. In intestinal diseases, nucleotide-binding oligomerization domain 1 (NOD1), a receptor for bacteria, appears to regulate cross-talk b... | {
"abstract": "Neutrophils must follow both endogenous and bacterial chemoattractant signals out of the vasculature and through the interstitium to arrive at a site of infection. By necessity, in the setting of multiple chemoattractants, the neutrophils must prioritize, favoring end target chemoattractants (e.g., fML... |
{
"abstract": "The spatiotemporal regulation of gene expression plays an essential role in many biological processes. Recently, several imaging-based RNA labeling and detection methods, both in fixed and live cells, were developed and now enable the study of transcript abundance, localization and dynamics. Here, we r... | {
"abstract": "Significance Transcription is one of the most fundamental processes for life. In eukaryotic cells, transcriptional activity is regulated to a large degree by chromosome packaging. In bacteria, despite the absence of a nuclear envelope and many of the DNA-packaging proteins of eukaryotes, the chromosome... | {
"abstract": "The combination of a candidate gene approach, column chromatography, and mass spectrometry identifies several fibroblast-derived proteins essential for endothelial cell sprouting and lumen formation. Furthermore, proteins responsible for EC lumen formation increase matrix stiffness, which correlates wi... |
{
"abstract": "Plastid-nucleus retrograde signaling (PNRS) play essential roles in regulating nuclear gene expression during plant growth and development. Excessive reactive oxygen species can trigger PNRS. We previously reported that in apple (Malus domestica Borkh.) seedlings, the expression of microRNA156 (miR156)... | {
"abstract": "The change from juvenile to adult phase is a universal phenomenon in perennial plants such as apple. To validate the changes in hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) levels and scavenging during ontogenesis in apple seedlings, the H2O2 contents, its scavenging capacity, and the expression of related genes, as well ... | {
"abstract": "Abstract: Melatonin, a derivative of an essential amino acid, tryptophan, was first identified in bovine pineal tissue and subsequently it has been portrayed exclusively as a hormone. Recently accumulated evidence has challenged this concept. Melatonin is present in the earliest life forms and is found... |
{
"abstract": "In this paper, the influence of longitudinal ventilation and water mist on the heat transfer of tunnel fire is carried out in the reduced‐scale model tunnel, and the results show that: Radiation heat flux dominates the heat transfer of the tunnel ceiling in the downstream of fire source, and the propor... | {
"abstract": "Abstract A new numerical simulation model of boiling heat transfer is proposed based on a numerical macrolayer model [S. Maruyama, M. Shoji, S. Shimizu, A numerical simulation of transition boiling heat transfer, in: Proceedings of the Second JSME–KSME Thermal Engineering Conference, pp. 3-345-3-348, 1... | {
"abstract": "In the present paper, the characteristic atmospheric pool boiling curve is qualitatively reproduced for water on a temperature controlled thin copper strip having comparable length and breadth by the coupled map lattice (CML) method using a three-dimensional boiling field model. The basic objective of ... |
{
"abstract": "Abstract. The residual stress field of fused silica induced by continuous wave CO2 laser irradiation is investigated with specific photoelastic methods. Both hoop stress and axial stress in the irradiated zone are measured quantitatively. For the hoop stress along the radial direction, the maximum phas... | {
"abstract": "Laser damage mitigation' is a process developed to prevent the growth of nanosecond laser-initiated damage sites under successive irradiation. It consists of re-fusing the damage area with a CO2 laser. In this paper we investigate the stress field created around mitigated sites which could have an infl... | {
"abstract": "A self-consistent approach is proposed to determine the temperature dependent thermal conductivity k(T) of fused silica, for a range of temperatures up to material evaporation using a CO2 laser irradiation. Calculation of the temperature of silica using a two-dimensional axi-symmetric code was linked s... |
{
"abstract": "One of essential parts of mobile applications using Wi-Fi is an energy-efficient Wi-Fi sensing. Lately, there have been many studies on Wi-Fi sensing algorithms using surrounding informations (e.g., bluetooth ID [1], cell ID [2] and speed [3], etc). Based on the correlation between such informations an... | {
"abstract": "Mobile devices are increasingly equipped with multiple network interfaces with complementary characteristics. In particular, the Wi-Fi interface has high throughput and transfer power efficiency, but its idle power consumption is prohibitive. In this paper we present, Blue-Fi, a sytem that predicts the... | {
"abstract": "Sensor networks have the potential to greatly impact many aspects of medical care. By outfitting patients with wireless, wearable vital sign sensors, collecting detailed real-time data on physiological status can be greatly simplified. However, there is a significant gap between existing sensor network... |
{
"abstract": "The basal ganglia (BG) contribute to reinforcement learning (RL) and decision making, 8 but unlike artificial RL agents, it relies on complex circuitry and dynamic dopamine modulaton of 9 opponent striatal pathways to do so. We develop the OpAL* model to assess the normative 10 advantages of this circu... | {
"abstract": "L-DOPA has been the gold standard for symptomatic treatment of Parkinson's disease. However, its efficacy wanes over time as motor complications develop. Very little is known about how L-DOPA therapy affects the dynamics of fluctuating dopamine concentrations in the striatum on a rapid time scale (seco... | {
"abstract": "It has been well established that the volume of secretory vesicles can be modulated. However, we present the first data demonstrating that the amount of transmitter in a vesicle can regulate its volume. Amperometry and transmission electron microscopy have been used to determine that l-3,4-dihydroxyphe... |
{
"abstract": "Abstract The present study describes the time-loss injuries among female and male athletes of the Spanish rink hockey league during the 2021/22 season. We performed a retrospective cohort study on time-loss injuries, whereby the athlete is prevented from participating in a training session or game beca... | {
"abstract": "Background Futsal started being played in 1930 and the number of futsal players has increased all over the world ever since. Nonetheless, despite the fact that Spain is one of the most relevant national teams worldwide, information on the incidence of injuries and their anthropometric characteristics i... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Watershed management in rainfed agricultural areas of arid and semi-arid regions aims at alleviating agricultural drought by employing water conservation measures. Water conservation measures serve as mechanisms for recharging groundwater, and also for surface storage. While the benefits deriv... |
{
"abstract": "Objectives To summarize the effectiveness of community, workplace, and health care system–based programs and policies aimed at supporting and promoting breastfeeding and determine the association between breastfeeding and maternal health. Data sources We searched PubMed®/MEDLINE®, the Cochrane Library,... | {
"abstract": "In December of 2007, the Federal Register published an Interim Rule establishing revised food packages for participants in the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC) that was implemented by states in 2009. We analyze changes in breastfeeding among WIC participants ... | {
"abstract": "Single-cell-laden microgels effectively act as the engineered counterpart of the smallest living building block of life: a cell within its pericellular matrix. Recent breakthroughs have enabled the encapsulation of single cells in sub-100-μm microgels to provide physiologically relevant microniches wit... |
{
"abstract": "Codec Avatars are a recent class of learned, photorealistic face models that accurately represent the geometry and texture of a person in 3D (i.e., for virtual reality), and are almost indistinguishable from video [28]. In this paper we describe the first approach to animate these parametric models in ... | {
"abstract": "We introduce a simple and effective deep learning approach to automatically generate natural looking speech animation that synchronizes to input speech. Our approach uses a sliding window predictor that learns arbitrary nonlinear mappings from phoneme label input sequences to mouth movements in a way t... | {
"abstract": "Gaussian mixture models are currently the dominant technique for modeling the emission distribution of hidden Markov models for speech recognition. We show that better phone recognition on the TIMIT dataset can be achieved by replacing Gaussian mixture models by deep neural networks that contain many l... |
{
"abstract": "Introduction: Herbal hepatotoxicity represents a poorly understood, neglected and multifaceted disease with numerous confounding variables and missing established causality in the majority of cases. This review discusses overt shortcomings in its clinical and causality assessment and suggests improveme... | {
"abstract": "Background and objectives In 21 published case reports, the use of the herb Greater Celandine (GC) (Chelidonium majus L.) has been causally related to liver injury, but a variety of confounding variables were evident that might have offset causality. This study reanalyses causality levels in these case... | {
"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nRacemic albuterol (RAC) is an equal mixture of (R)-albuterol and (S)-albuterol. Only the (R)-isomer, levalbuterol (LEV), is therapeutically active. Lower doses of LEV, devoid of (S)-albuterol, have demonstrated efficacy comparable to that of higher doses of the (R)-isomer administered as a ... |
{
"abstract": "Objective(s): We investigated the influence of genetic variation of the transforming growth-factor alpha (TGFA) locus on the relationship between smoking and oral clefts. Materials and Methods: In this study 105 Iranian infants with non-syndromic cleft lip/palate and 218 controls with non-cleft birth d... | {
"abstract": "Background: Cleft lip with or without cleft palate (CL/P) is one of the most common congenital anomalies and the etiology of orofacial clefts is multifactorial. Transforming growth factor alpha (TGFA) is expressed at the medial edge epithelium of fusing palatal shelves during craniofacial development. ... | {
"abstract": "Remodeling in the arteriovenous fistulas (AVFs) is believed to be a hemodynamic‐driven process, which results in extreme changes in the diameter and intima‐media thickening (IMT) of vessels over time. This study aims to describe the successful development of techniques that enabled correlation of chang... |
{
"abstract": "Bitcoin as the current leader in cryptocurrencies is a new asset class receiving significant attention in the financial and investment community and presents an interesting time series prediction problem. In this paper, some forecasting models based on classical like ARIMA and machine learning approach... | {
"abstract": "As financial time series are inherently noisy and non-stationary, it is regarded as one of the most challenging applications of time series forecasting. Due to the advantages of generalization capability in obtaining a unique solution, support vector regression (SVR) has also been successfully applied ... | {
"abstract": "Forecasting the movements of stock prices is one the most challenging problems in financial markets analysis. In this paper, we use Machine Learning (ML) algorithms for the prediction of future price movements using limit order book data. Two different sets of features are combined and evaluated: handc... |
{
"abstract": "Understanding and analyzing cascading failures in power grids have been the focus of many researchers for years. However, the complex interactions among the large number of components in these systems and their contributions to cascading failures are not yet completely understood. Therefore, various te... | {
"abstract": "Abstract The stability and reliability of electrical power grids are indispensable to the continuous operation of modern cities and critical for preparedness, response, recovery and mitigation in emergence management. Because present power grids in China are often running near their critical operation ... | {
"abstract": "The exploitation of wavelet theory in a control structure of a Brushless DC (BLDC) motor integrated in a Fuel Cell Electric Vehicle is proposed. The controlling structure, consisted of two interrelated multiresolution PID (MRPID) controllers, regulates: a) BLDC motor torque through DC current and b) ro... |
{
"abstract": "An important manifestation of the background or coseismic deformation surrounding megathrust earthquakes is the offshore microseismicity, which are difficult to be directly detected by land‐based seismic instruments. Here, we improve the capability of detecting offshore events by combining two popular ... | {
"abstract": "Aftershock deficiency in large-slip zones of major subduction zone earthquake ruptures indicates below-critical shear stress. Fault slip during plate boundary earthquakes releases a portion of the shear stress accumulated due to frictional resistance to relative plate motions. Investigation of 101 larg... | {
"abstract": "Detailed microtextural observations and bulk chemical analysis were undertaken on a garnet‐pyroxenite nodule within retrograde eclogites from the NE Sulu ultrahigh‐pressure metamorphic (UHPM) terrane. The results suggest that the protolith was a cumulate from a gabbroic body. The nodule consists primar... |
{
"abstract": "There is a growing interest in the use of video sensor networks in surveillance applications in order to detect intruders with low cost. The essential concern of such networks is whether or not a specified target can pass or intrude the monitored region without being detected. This concern forms a seri... | {
"abstract": "In this paper, a new chaotic pseudo-random number generator (PRNG) is proposed. It combines the well-known ISAAC and XORshift generators with chaotic iterations. This PRNG possesses important properties of topological chaos and can successfully pass NIST and TestU01 batteries of tests. This makes our g... | {
"abstract": "Digital Signature Algorithm (DSA) is an underlying algorithm to form a signature in the Digital Signature Standard (DSS). DSA uses a new random number (or nonce) each time a signature is generated for a message. In this paper, we present a Linear Congruential Generator (LCG) based approach to generate ... |
{
"abstract": "This review informs on current literature on patents for biomarkers for asthma from 2009 to 2011. Variable air- flow obstruction in asthma is generally triggered by gene-environment interactions that can lead to key symptoms of cough, shortness of breath, chest tightness, and wheezing. The episodic and... | {
"abstract": "A biological marker (biomarker) is a physical sign or laboratory measurement that can serve as an indicator of biological or pathophysiological processes or as a response to a therapeutic intervention. An applicable biomarker possesses the characteristics of clinical relevance (sensitivity and specific... | {
"abstract": "Using a stepwise logistic regression analysis, we investigated clinical data, allergologic findings, spirometric data, and the cellular and humoral immune system in order to gain new insights into the role these parameters play in bronchial hyperresponsiveness to methacholine in children and to create ... |
{
"abstract": "Wireless sensor nodes are devices that perform measurements (of parameters such as temperature or vibration) and communicate over a wireless medium. A key benefit is that they can operate autonomously. Nodes are commonly battery-powered so that they can be deployed rapidly without the need to install a... | {
"abstract": "Sensornets are becoming more widely adopted for commercial and scientific use and, in settings where battery replacement or recharging is difficult, it is important that sensornets have long and predictable lifetimes. We thus expect energy management to play an increasingly important role in meeting us... | {
"abstract": "Because battery-powered nodes are required in wireless sensor networks and energy consumption represents an important design consideration, alternate energy sources are needed to provide more effective and optimal function. The main goal of this work is to present an energy harvesting wireless sensor n... |
{
"abstract": "Faun tail nevus is a congenital, posterior midline cutaneous defect, characterized by a circumscribed, hypertrichotic area on the lumbosacral region. It may be a cutaneous marker of underlying spine and spinal cord anomaly. Although, patients with this condition present to us mostly for cosmetic disfig... | {
"abstract": "Faun-tail presents as an abnormal lumbosacral hypertrischosis and may be associated with spinal dysrasphism. In addition to the problems due to spinal anomalies, patient's physico-social life may also be affected. Here, we report a case of 13 years old female patient with Faun-tail in association with ... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Various endogenous opioid peptides and some of their analogs were used in this study to test their effects on the membrane activities of hypothalamic arcuate neurons in brain slices. Both ovariectomized and diestrous rats were used in the study, and freshly prepared brain slices from these ani... |
{
"abstract": "The nasopalatine canal is a long slender structure present in the midline of the anterior maxilla that connects the palate to the floor of the nasal cavity. The nasopalatine canal contains the nasopalatine nerve, the terminal branch of the nasopalatine artery, fibrous connective tissue, adipose tissue,... | {
"abstract": "Introduction The maxillary incisive canal connects the roof of the oral cavity with the floor of nasal cavity and has the incisive and nasal foramina respectively at its two opposite ends. Its close proximity with the anterior incisors affects one’s ability to place immediate implants in ideal position... | {
"abstract": "Objectives\nThere is only little knowledge on topographical predispositions of the nasopalatine canal as a limiting factor for insertion of mid-palatal temporary anchorage devices (TAD). The purpose of the study was to assess the course of the nasopalatine canal, the adjacent vertical bone quantity, an... |
{
"abstract": "We examine what determines executive compensation in privately held firms. Our study is motivated by the fact that most studies in this area rely on data from publicly traded firms. Further, the few studies that are based on data from privately held firms only examine a limited number of determinants o... | {
"abstract": "In this study we examine the long‐run effects of unexpected firm performance on CEO compensation. We find that unexpectedly good accounting performance is initially associated with increases in CEO pay. However, this initial effect soon reverses, and is followed by lower CEO pay in later years. Overall... | {
"abstract": "Part 1 Telecommunications and the City: parallel transformations telecommunications and urban transformations the urban \"impacts\" of telecommunications the neglect of telecommunications in urban studies the need for more sophisticated approaches to city-telecommunications relations the transformation... |
{
"abstract": "Gene silencing is an important tool in the study of gene function. Virus-induced gene silencing (VIGS) and hairpin RNA interference (hpRNAi), both of which rely on small interfering RNAs, together with artificial microRNAs (amiRNA), are amongst the most popular methods for reduction of gene activity in... | {
"abstract": "Comprehensive analysis of gene function requires the detailed examination of mutant alleles. In Arabidopsis thaliana, large collections of sequence-indexed insertion and chemical mutants provide potential loss-of-function alleles for most annotated genes. However, limitations for phenotypic analysis in... | {
"abstract": "Abstract. Wound repair/regeneration is a complex process consisting of three stages: inflammation, tissue regrowth, and remodeling, which together involve the action of hundreds of genes. In order to i) identify and analyze the genes that are expressed at the inflammatory stage of repair (i.e., 24 h af... |
{
"abstract": "The absence of good agricultural and manufacturing practices in the production and postharvest handling of fresh produce, such as green asparagus or green onions increase the contamination risk by biological hazards like Salmonella. The objective of this work was to investigate the efficacy of chlorine... | {
"abstract": "Survival of Escherichia coli O157:H7 was studied on strawberry, a fruit that is not usually washed during production, harvest, or postharvest handling. Two strains of the bacteria were tested separately on the fruit surface or injected into the fruit. Both strains of E. coli O157:H7 survived externally... | {
"abstract": "Cut or intact surfaces of fresh strawberries were spot inoculated with a five-strain cocktail of nalidixic-acid resistant Listeria monocytogenes (10(6) (low inoculum) and 10(8) (high inoculum) CFU per three-berry sample). Inoculated strawberries were dried for 1 h at 24 degrees C and were stored in loo... |
{
"abstract": "Keyword search over relational databases has been widely studied for the exploration of structured data in a userfriendly way. However, users typically have limited domain knowledge or are unable to precisely specify their search intention. Existing methods find the minimal units that contain all the q... | {
"abstract": "In this demo, we present NaLIR, a generic interactive natural language interface for querying relational databases. NaLIR can accept a logically complex English language sentence as query input. This query is first translated into a SQL query, which may include aggregation, nesting, and various types o... | {
"abstract": null,
"corpus_id": 44054680,
"score": -1,
"title": "1 SQLizer : Query Synthesis from Natural Language"
} |
{
"abstract": "This paper describes a novel hierarchical reinforcement learning (HRL) algorithm for training an autonomous agent to play a dungeon crawler game. As opposed to most previous HRL frameworks, the proposed HRL system does not contain complex actions that take multiple time steps. Instead there is a hierar... | {
"abstract": "This paper presents a new approach to hierarchical reinforcement learning based on decomposing the target Markov decision process (MDP) into a hierarchy of smaller MDPs and decomposing the value function of the target MDP into an additive combination of the value functions of the smaller MDPs. The deco... | {
"abstract": "Many successful models for scene or object recognition transform low-level descriptors (such as Gabor filter responses, or SIFT descriptors) into richer representations of intermediate complexity. This process can often be broken down into two steps: (1) a coding step, which performs a pointwise transf... |
{
"abstract": "Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the literature pertaining to occupational health disparities experienced by Latino immigrant workers in the USA and to advance a general framework based on systems science to inform epidemiological and intervention research. Design/method... | {
"abstract": "Latino immigrant day laborers, also termed jornaleros or contingent workers, compose a significant segment of the millions of undocumented, temporary workers in our urban centers. These laborers largely work without benefit of health insurance in occupations that are unmonitored, unprotected, and often... | {
"abstract": "Latino day laborers (LDLs) are at elevated risks for disease and injury because of the environments in which they work. Despite this recognition, a comprehensive examination of factors related to LDLs’ health service use remains unexamined. Using the Andersen model, the current exploratory study examin... |
{
"abstract": "Microvascular invasion (MVI) diagnosis is of vital importance in the curative treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma patients due to its close relationship with prognostic analysis. Currently, MVI detection often bases on surgical specimen, which is invasive for patients. This study, we extracted textur... | {
"abstract": "To investigate the performance of texture analysis in characterizing malignancy of hepatocellular carcinomas (HCCs) based on contrast‐enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).",
"corpus_id": 2919696,
"title": "Malignancy characterization of hepatocellular carcinomas based on texture analysis of co... | {
"abstract": "Malignancy of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is significant to establish a therapeutic strategy preoperatively for liver cancer and is one of critical issues that influence recurrence and patient survival. Recently, quantitative texture feature of HCC in arterial phase of Contrast-enhanced MR has been ... |
{
"abstract": "Collusion attacks on watermarked media copies are commonly countered by probabilistically generated fingerprinting codes and appropriate tracing algorithms. The latter calculates accusation scores representing the suspiciousness of the fingerprints. In a 'detect many' scenario a threshold decides which... | {
"abstract": "We propose a blind iterative single Tardos decoder for traitor tracing designed to catch as many colluders as possible while controlling the probability of accusing an innocent. The key idea is that users accused in the previous iterations are used as side-information to build a more discriminative tes... | {
"abstract": "Background: Although the pathophysiology remains unknown, most nondemented patients with PD have difficulty with frontal tasks, including trial-and-error sequence learning. If given time, they can perform cognitive tasks of moderate difficulty as well as controls. However, it is not known how brain fun... |
{
"abstract": "We present an algorithmic approach to discover, study, and design multistable elastic knots. Elastic knots are physical realizations of closed curves embedded in 3-space. When endowed with the material thickness and bending resistance of a physical wire, these knots settle into equilibrium states that ... | {
"abstract": "We present a continuum-based discrete model for thin threads of viscous fluid by drawing upon the Rayleigh analogy to elastic rods, demonstrating canonical coiling, folding, and breakup in dynamic simulations. Our derivation emphasizes space-time symmetry, which sheds light on the role of time-parallel... | {
"abstract": "A Class-AB microwave-photonic link is presented as a means to reduce noise associated with DC-bias. By operating with two complementary, approximately half-wave-rectified, optical sources and generating the difference in a balanced detector, linear modulation with high modulation efficiency is achieved... |
{
"abstract": "OBJECTIVE\nTo examine autonomy-promoting parenting and independent problem-solving in children with food allergy.\n\n\nMETHODS\n66 children with food allergy, aged 3-6 years, and 67 age-matched healthy peers and their mothers were videotaped while completing easy and difficult puzzles. Coders recorded ... | {
"abstract": "Attachment security may predict the development of competence by influencing how preschoolers solicit and receive help from their mothers during shared problem solving. Based on attachment and help-seeking literatures, we expected that preschoolers with lower security would request help more quickly an... | {
"abstract": "Publisher Summary Several of the key ideas on which it is based have been in the developmental literature for a while, such as a sociocultural perspective, the Vygotskian approach, and collaborative learning. This chapter is an effort to use these ideas in conjunction with research findings in one area... |
{
"abstract": "ABSTRACT Little is known about how young children in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) experience violence in their homes, and how different types of household violence may affect child development. This study reports on levels of exposure to household violence and associations with child behavi... | {
"abstract": "Little research demonstrates the impact of IPV on children in lower to middle income countries. This analysis explores the association of caregiver IPV on child behavior in South Africa. BACKGROUND: Research in high-income countries has repeatedly demonstrated that intimate partner violence (IPV) exper... | {
"abstract": "* Foreword to the New Edition: The Crisis of the Globalist Project and the New Economics of George W. Bush * The crisis of the globalist project * Three moments of the crisis of globalization * The New Economics of George W. Bush * The economics and politics of over-extension * 1. Introduction: The Mul... |
{
"abstract": ".............................................................................................................................. 5 Introduction ......................................................................................................................... 7 Problem Description .................... | {
"abstract": "To identify predictors of hospital inpatient admission of older Medicare beneficiaries after discharge from the emergency department (ED).",
"corpus_id": 1571471,
"title": "Predictors of Admission After Emergency Department Discharge in Older Adults"
} | {
"abstract": "We wished to test the hypothesis that elderly people with impaired cognitive function were heavier users of both outpatient and inpatient hospital services. In a retrospective cohort study, 144 elderly people aged 75-97 years (50 men and 94 women) identified from a prevalence survey of dementia were tr... |
{
"abstract": "Individuation is widely considered a fundamental developmental task of adolescence. It is a process through which the adolescent seeks to define new boundaries between his or her self and others, and the failure to do so has been shown to have serious consequences. Given its importance for understandin... | {
"abstract": "Two studies are described that attempt to determine if standard-scale-reduction techniques could yield a construct-valid diagnostic screen of pathology of separation-individuation for use in nonclinical university settings. In Study 1 (N = 210), a measure of pathology of separation-individuation (PATHS... | {
"abstract": "The extent and function of the parent-child bond, conceptualized according to Ainsworth's (M.D.S. Ainsworth, M. C. Blehar, E. Walters, and S. Wally [1978],Patterns of Attachment: A Psychological Study of the Strange Situation, Erlbaum Associates, Hillsdale, NJ) model of attachment, was explored for a g... |
{
"abstract": "Mobility within Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) has been widely considered for data collection tasks, where mobile robots physically collect the data from the sensors and return to the base station. Although this approach has proven to be useful in prolonging the lifetime of these networks, it cannot m... | {
"abstract": "Teams of mobile robots have been recently proposed as effective means of completing complex missions involving multiple tasks spatially distributed over a large area. A central problem in such domains is multi-robot routing, namely the problem of coordinating a team of robots in terms of the locations ... | {
"abstract": "We present direct observations of nonmigrating diurnal tides in the 90–270 km range inferred from the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS) wind imaging interferometer (WINDII). A prominent zonal wavenumber 4 appears in daytime zonal winds, extending to 180 km. We interpret this signature as an ea... |
{
"abstract": "Cancers have a clonal origin, yet their chromosomes and genes are non‐clonal or heterogeneous due to an inherent genomic instability. However, the cause of this genomic instability is still debated. One theory postulates that mutations in genes that are involved in DNA repair and in chromosome segregat... | {
"abstract": "Summary Ten sublines of the KB cell line obtained from a number of different laboratories were reexamined with respect to chromosome number and heterotransplantability to the Syrian hamster cheek pouch. Twelve clonal cultures derived from 2 of these sublines were similarly examined. These sublines diff... | {
"abstract": "Summary 1. A strain of Sarcoma 180 maintained by routine trocar implant passage in CFW mice has been isolated and serially propagated in vitro from biopsy specimens in a medium containing only the growth factors demonstrably essential for the HeLa cell and the L strain of mouse fibroblasts. The generat... |
{
"abstract": "For the conversion of plant biomass into various bioproducts, a significant bottleneck is enzymatic hydrolysis of lignocelluloses to soluble sugars. These sugars are then metabolized through various natural or engineered pathways toward products of interest. The success of projected biorefinery process... | {
"abstract": "To isolate, identify and characterize new thermophilic cellulolytic bacterial strains from a compost sample.",
"corpus_id": 320927,
"title": "Isolation and characterization of two thermophilic cellulolytic strains of Clostridium thermocellum from a compost sample"
} | {
"abstract": "In this paper, the effect of overload truck on asphalt pavement in respect of the life span、the deflection、the stress of pavement structure and the thickness of pavement structure was analyzed quantitatively through example. The destructive function of overload truck to asphalt pavement structure was d... |
{
"abstract": "Introduction Dementia affects cognitive functions and has a direct impact on the ability to perform activities of daily living. Studies have focused on the impact of cognition-focused interventions on cognitive functions, but less on the daily functionality of people with dementia. The aim of this stud... | {
"abstract": "Background/Aims: Many studies have shown that not only pharmacological treatment but also cognitive stimulation in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease (AD) improves language processing and (other) cognitive functions, stabilizes Activities of Daily Living (ADL) and Instrumental Activities of Daily ... | {
"abstract": "The assessment of activities of daily living is a central procedure in the diagnosis of dementia. Few instruments in the field allow for early detection of functional decline because the items they use refer mainly to basic activities of daily living (BADL), which do not become compromised until later ... |
{
"abstract": "Lip reading is typically regarded as visually interpreting the speaker’s lip movements during the speaking. This is a task of decoding the text from the speaker’s mouth movement. This paper proposes a lip-reading model that helps deaf people and persons with hearing problems to understand a speaker by ... | {
"abstract": "Lipreading is the process of interpreting spoken word by observing lip movement. It plays a vital role in human communication and speech understanding, especially for hearing-impaired individuals. Automated lipreading approaches have recently been used in such applications as biometric identification, ... | {
"abstract": "In order to realize the full potential of dependency-based syntactic parsing, it is desirable to allow non-projective dependency structures. We show how a data-driven deterministic dependency parser, in itself restricted to projective structures, can be combined with graph transformation techniques to ... |
{
"abstract": "Skeletal muscle protein and function decline with advancing age but the underlying pathophysiology is poorly understood. To test the hypothesis that the catabolic cytokine tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF‐α) contributes to this process, we studied the effects of aging and resistance exercise on TNF‐α e... | {
"abstract": "Previous studies have indicated that endotoxin and other bacterial and protozoal products can stimulate macrophages to produce a factor that can suppress the activity of the enzyme lipoprotein lipase (LPL), in vivo and in vitro. In the present report we describe the purification of this factor, cachect... | {
"abstract": "Efficient intracavity and external-cavity KGd(WO4)2 Raman lasers are reported. For an intracavity Raman laser with intracavity frequency-doubling, we obtained 1.7 W at 579 nm and 0.84 W at 588 nm. Using an external-cavity Raman resonator pumped by a 1 W 532 nm laser, we obtained output at more than 8 w... |
{
"abstract": "Background: The visually impaired represents a fairly numerous group in Spain although no data on their nutritional status has previously been published. Aim: This work aims to assess the nutritional state of a sample of visually impaired children and the quality of their diet. Subjects and methods: Th... | {
"abstract": "BACKGROUND: Few data exist on the energy cost of specific activities in children. The influence of body weight on the energy cost of activity when expressed as metabolic equivalents (METs) has not been vigorously explored.OBJECTIVE: To provide MET data on five specific activities in 12-y-old girls and ... | {
"abstract": "Body mass index (BMI) and triceps skinfold thickness (TSF) are commonly used measures of adiposity in clinical and epidemiologic studies. The 85th and 95th percentiles of BMI and TSF are often used operationally to define obesity and superobesity, respectively. Race-specific and population-based 85th a... |
{
"abstract": "Inflammation has been reported to be intimately linked to the development or worsening of several non-infectious diseases. A number of chronic conditions such as cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular disorders, autoimmune diseases, and neurodegenerative disorders emerge as a result of tissue injury and geno... | {
"abstract": "Nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) is a progressive liver disease related to the metabolic syndrome, obesity and diabetes. The rising prevalence of NASH and the lack of efficient treatments have led to the exploration of different therapeutic approaches. Milk thistle (Silibum marianum) is a medicinal ... | {
"abstract": "Anosognosia or reduced awareness of cognitive and functional problems is a known clinical phenomenon in patients experiencing cognitive decline. It is common even in mild dementia syndromes and is often reported to increase with clinical disease progression (Aalten et al., 2006). More recently it also ... |
{
"abstract": "We present a biologically-motivated system for the recognition of actions from video sequences. The approach builds on recent work on object recognition based on hierarchical feedforward architectures [25, 16, 20] and extends a neurobiological model of motion processing in the visual cortex [10]. The s... | {
"abstract": "Cells in the dorsal medial superior temporal cortex (MSTd) process optic flow generated by self-motion during visually guided navigation. A neural model shows how interactions between well-known neural mechanisms (log polar cortical magnification, Gaussian motion-sensitive receptive fields, spatial poo... | {
"abstract": "Abstract While the anterior visual and geniculocalcarine pathways deliver the elemental visual data from the eyes to striate cortex, the higher cortical visual (or association) areas perform the more complex interpretation of this visual information. Deficits caused by damage to these areas are charact... |
{
"abstract": "Humans rely on the sense of touch in almost every aspect of daily life, whether to tie shoelaces, place fingertips on a computer keyboard or find keys inside a bag. With robots moving into human-centered environment, tactile exploration becomes more and more important as vision may be occluded easily b... | {
"abstract": "Haptic exploration has received a great deal of attention of late thanks to the variety of commercially available tactile sensors. While the majority of previous works consider control of a single contact point at a time, we tackle simultaneous control of multiple contact points on several links. In ad... | {
"abstract": "Precision grasp synthesis has received a lot of attention in past few last years. However, real mechanical hands can hardly assure that the fingers will precisely touch the object at the computed contact points. The concept of independent contact regions (ICRs) was introduced to provide robustness to f... |
{
"abstract": "The calcium/calmodulin-gated KCa3.1 channel regulates normal and abnormal mitogenesis by controlling K+-efflux, cell volume, and membrane hyperpolarization-driven calcium-entry. Recent studies suggest modulation of KCa3.1 by omega-3 fatty acids as negative modulators and impaired KCa3.1 functions in th... | {
"abstract": "Fabry disease is an X-linked lysosomal storage disorder that is caused by a deficiency of α-galactosidase A. The disease ultimately manifests as multiple organ dysfunctions owing to excessive accumulation of globotriaosylceramide (Gb3). Among the several complications of Fabry disease, ascending thorac... | {
"abstract": "The first symptom arising in many Fabry patients is neuropathic pain due to changes in small myelinated and unmyelinated fibers in the periphery, which is subsequently followed by a loss of sensory perception. Here we studied changes in the peripheral nervous system of Fabry patients and a Fabry mouse ... |
{
"abstract": "This document reviews the current state of the art in the linear machine technology. First, the recent advancements in linear induction, switched reluctance and permanent magnet machines are presented. The ladder slit secondary configuration is identified as an interesting configuration for linear indu... | {
"abstract": "A linear doubly salient permanent magnet (LDSPM) motor is particularly suitable for long stator applications due to its simple and low cost stator, which consists of only iron. This paper proposes a new LDSPM motor design with complementary and modular structure. The key of this structure is that the p... | {
"abstract": "A simple analytical method is developed to compare the combinations of stator and rotor pole numbers in flux-switching permanent magnet (PM) machines in terms of back electromotive force (EMF) and electromagnetic torque. The winding connections and winding factors of machines having all poles and alter... |
{
"abstract": "Abstract Nutrition has a coadjuvant role in the management of children with acute diseases. We aimed to examine nutritional status, macronutrient requirements and actual macronutrient delivery in bronchiolitis. The nutritional status was classified according to WHO criteria and resting energy expenditu... | {
"abstract": "An understanding of energy expenditure in hospitalized patients is necessary to determine optimal energy supply in the care of individuals who require nutritional support. A review was conducted of 19 studies in which resting energy expenditure (REE) had been measured using indirect calorimetry and com... | {
"abstract": "This paper studies the implications of critical rationalism for planning and planning methodology. Centreing on planning as decision-making, a Popperian approach to decision-making in planning is formulated, with a view to throwing light on an old planning problem: the meaning of rationality.",
"corp... |
{
"abstract": "Abstract Mortality threats are among the strongest psychological threats that an individual can encounter. Previous research shows that mortality threats lead people to engage in unhealthy compensatory consumption (i.e., overeating), as a maladaptive coping response to threat. In this paper, we propose... | {
"abstract": "The meaning maintenance model (MMM) proposes that people have a needfor meaning; that is, a need to perceive events through a prism of mental representations of expected relations that organizes their perceptions of the world. When people's sense of meaning is threatened, they reaffirm alternative repr... | {
"abstract": "We asked subjects to recall memories of events that evoked feelings of anger, sadness, fear, and embarrassment. These memories evoked patterns of dominant and nondominant emotions. The dominant emotions evoked by the recalled events were no less intense for repressors than nonrepressors, but repressors... |
{
"abstract": "Low-dropout regulators (LDOs) are widely adopted in power management integrated circuits (PMICs) and serve as a bridge between the switching regulators and individual on-chip modules to provide a smooth, regulated output voltage. Compared to digital LDOs (DLDOs), analog LDOs (ALDOs) lead in the advanta... | {
"abstract": "In this work, the design of a dual loop flipped voltage follower (FVF) based low-dropout regulator (LDO) to achieve fast transient response is proposed for all-digital phase locked loop (ADPLL) in the RFID application. With the help of an additional reference generation loop in FVF LDO and the cascaded... | {
"abstract": "This paper describes a mixed-mode delay-locked loop (DLL) for wide-range operation and multiphase outputs with just one clock cycle. The architecture of the proposed DLL uses the time-to-digital converter (TDC) scheme for phase range selector to offer the faster locking time, and the multi-controlled d... |
{
"abstract": "Prion diseases are fatal, chronic, and incurable neurodegenerative diseases caused by pathogenic forms of prion protein (PrPSc) derived from endogenous forms of prion protein (PrPC). Several case–control and genome-wide association studies have reported that the M129V polymorphism of the human prion pr... | {
"abstract": "Two normally occurring polymorphisms of the human PRNP gene, methionine (M)/valine (V) at codon 129 and glutamic acid (E)/lysine (K) at codon 219, can affect the susceptibility to prion diseases. It has long been recognized that 129M/M homozygotes are overrepresented in sporadic Creutzfeldt–Jakob disea... | {
"abstract": "Background: The interaction of environmental factors and genetic factors may contribute to the risk of type 2 diabetes (T2D). We aimed to investigate whether age, gender, body mass index (BMI) and lifestyle factors have an effect on the association between the CDKAL1 polymorphisms and T2D. Methods: Eig... |
{
"abstract": "Rats cotreated with lipopolysaccharide (LPS) and ranitidine (RAN) but not LPS and famotidine (FAM) develop hepatocellular injury in an animal model of idiosyncratic drug reactions. Evaluation of liver gene expression in rats given LPS and/or RAN led to confirmation that the hemostatic system, hypoxia, ... | {
"abstract": "The ability to sense and respond to changes in oxygen availability is critical for many developmental, physiological, and pathological processes, including angiogenesis, control of blood pressure, and cerebral and myocardial ischemia. Hypoxia-inducible factor-1alpha (HIF-1alpha) is a basic-helix-loop-h... | {
"abstract": "Hypoxia induces a group of physiologically important genes such as erythropoietin and vascular endothelial growth factor. These genes are transcriptionally up-regulated by hypoxia-inducible factor 1 (HIF-1), a global regulator that belongs to the basic helix-loop-helix PAS family. Although HIF-1 is a h... |
{
"abstract": "We consider repeated zero-sum games with incomplete information on the side of Player 2 with the total payoff given by the non-normalized sum of stage gains. In the classical examples the value $$V_N$$VN of such an N-stage game is of the order of N or $$\\sqrt{N}$$N as $$N\\rightarrow \\infty $$N→∞. Ou... | {
"abstract": "Approachability has become a central tool in the analysis of repeated games and online learning. A player plays a repeated vector-valued game against Nature and her objective is to have her long-term average reward inside some target set. The celebrated results of Blackwell provide a 1= p n convergence... | {
"abstract": "for all i, j . Thus in the (two-person, zero-sum) game with matrix Λf, player I has a strategy insuring an expected gain of at least v, and player II has a strategy insuring an expected loss of at most v. An alternative statement, which follows from the von Neumann theorem and an appropriate law of lar... |
{
"abstract": "PURPOSE\nTo review different aspects of the bladder involvement in Behcet's disease as a rare complication.\n\n\nMATERIALS AND METHODS\nWe searched PubMed, Ovid, and Google Scholar for Behcet's and neuro-Behcet's disease and neurogenic and neuropathic bladder, bladder involvement, voiding dysfunction, ... | {
"abstract": "We report on a 16-year old patient with a neuropathic bladder secondary to Behcet's disease, which is an uncommon vasculitis usually involving venules. The genitourinary manifestations of this disease are discussed, a neuropathic bladder being a rare complication of the involvement of the nervous syste... | {
"abstract": "OBJECTIVE\nTo analyze cumulated data about renal involvement in Behçet's disease (BD) and to report on 6 patients with BD and renal problems.\n\n\nMETHODS\nWe found reports of 159 patients (including our patients) with BD and specific renal disease (amyloidosis 69, glomerulonephritis [GN] 51, renal vas... |
{
"abstract": "The protein CHD1 is a member of the family of ATPase-dependent chromatin remodeling factors. CHD1, which recognizes trimethylated histone H3 lysine 4, has been implicated in transcriptional activation in organisms ranging from yeast to humans. It is required for pre-mRNA maturation, maintenance of mous... | {
"abstract": "INTRODUCTION Three cell lineages with distinct developmental potentials are formed during mammalian pre-implantation development: the trophectoderm (TE), the epiblast (EPI) and the primitive endoderm (PE) (Cockburn and Rossant, 2010; Rossant and Tam, 2009; Wang and Dey, 2006; Zernicka-Goetz et al., 200... | {
"abstract": "Half embryos produced from 8-cell or compacted stages were cultured in vitro for 1-2 days and transferred to oviducts or uteri of recipients at different stages of pseudopregnancy. The proportion of live fetuses was low (8-12%), except for one group (27%) in which half embryos were cultured in vitro fo... |
{
"abstract": "This study aimed to examine the inactivation efficacy of plasma‐activated acetic acid (PAAA) against Salmonella Typhimurium cells and biofilm and elucidate underlying chemical inactivation pathway.",
"corpus_id": 251254138,
"title": "The inactivation efficacy of plasma‐activated acetic acid against... | {
"abstract": "This study investigated the effect of atmospheric pressure plasma (APP) treatment on nitrite content and functionality of plant extracts. Ethanolic extracts of Perilla frutescens (EEP) were prepared and treated with APP for 60min. Nitrite content increased from 0 to 45.8mg/l in EEP after APP treatment ... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Understanding carcinogenesis is critical for development of rational approaches to cancer prevention. This paper uses N-nitrosamine carcinogenesis as an example. N-Nitrosamines are a large group of potent carcinogens. Approximately 300 different N-nitrosamines are carcinogenic. At least 30 ani... |
{
"abstract": "The ability to generate and control assembling structures built over many orders of magnitude is an unsolved challenge of engineering and science. Many of the presumed transformational benefits of nanotechnology and robotics are based directly on this capability. There are still significant theoretical... | {
"abstract": "A key difficulty in the design of multi-agent robotic systems is the size and complexity of the space of possible designs. In order to make principled design decisions, an understanding of the many possible system configurations is essential. To this end, we present a taxonomy that classifies multi-age... | {
"abstract": "Emergencies in industrial warehouses are a major concern for re ghters. The large dimensions together with the development of dense smoke that drastically reduces visibility, represent major challenges. The Guardians robot swarm is designed to assist re ghters in searching a large warehouse. In this pa... |
{
"abstract": "In a circuit with multiple independent scan chains, it is possible to operate groups of scan chains independently in functional or shift mode. This design-for-testability approach can be used to increase the quality of a test set. This article describes an N-detection test generation procedure for incr... | {
"abstract": "This paper presents a new method to design digital circuits for low pattern counts, one of the key factors shaping cost-effective VLSI test schemes. The method identifies the largest conflicts between internal signals that prevent efficient test compaction in ATPG. These locations are modified by inser... | {
"abstract": "Multicycle tests support test compaction by including several functional capture cycles in every test. However, even highly compacted multicycle test sets typically contain single-cycle or two-cycle tests for faults that cannot be detected using tests with larger numbers of clock cycles. An analysis of... |
{
"abstract": "Despite the speed up of PC technology over the years, real-ti me performance of video processing in medical X-ray procedures co ntinues to be an issue as the size and number of concurrent data streams is incre asing steadily. Since the computing evolves quicker than memory technology, ther e is an incr... | {
"abstract": "In this paper, we present a Haskell Transactional Memory benchmark to provide a comprehensive application suite for the use of Software Transactional Memory (STM) researchers. We develop a framework to profile the execution of the benchmark applications and to collect detailed runtime data on their tra... | {
"abstract": "We introduce a new algorithm for an unbounded concurrent double-ended queue (deque). Like the bounded deque of Herlihy, Luchangco, and Moir on which it is based, the new algorithm is simple and obstruction free, has no pathological long-latency scenarios, avoids interference between operations at oppos... |
{
"abstract": "The purpose of this dissertation is to study students' competencies in generating scientific explanations within the domain of complex systems, an interdisciplinary area in which students tend to have difficulties. While considering students' developing explanations of how complex systems work, I inves... | {
"abstract": "Part 1 Foundations: introduction the era of decentralization. Part 2 Constructions: constructionism LEGO/logo StarLogo objects and parallelism. Part 3 Explorations: simulations and stimulations slime mould artificial ants traffic jams termites turtles and frogs turtle ecology new turtle geometry forest... | {
"abstract": "As soon as we stop talking aloud, we seem to experience a kind of 'inner voice', a steady stream of verbal fragments expressing ongoing thoughts. What kind of information processing structures are required to explain such a phenomenon? Why would an 'inner voice' be useful? How could it have arisen? Thi... |
Subsets and Splits
No community queries yet
The top public SQL queries from the community will appear here once available.