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"abstract": "Prediction of traffic crowd movement is one of the most important component in many applications ’ domains ranging from urban management to transportation schedule. The key challenge of citywide crowd flows prediction is how to model spatial and dynamic temporal correlation. However, in recent years se... | {
"abstract": "Forecasting the flow of crowds is of great importance to traffic management and public safety, yet a very challenging task affected by many complex factors, such as inter-region traffic, events and weather. In this paper, we propose a deep-learning-based approach, called ST-ResNet, to collectively fore... | {
"abstract": "Traffic problems have seriously affected people's life quality and urban development, and forecasting the short-term traffic congestion is of great importance to both individuals and governments. However, understanding and modeling the traffic conditions can be extremely difficult, and our observations... |
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"abstract": "IoT based Smart Transport Systems are receiving a huge attention among public. Owing to ever growing vehicle rate, a momentous growth in the number of accidents is also increasing. Vehicles implanted with huge number of sensors permit the people to monitor the present state of the vehicle and its envir... | {
"abstract": "Every day around the world, a large percentage of people die from traffic accident injuries. An influential indicator of survival rates after detecting the accident is the time between the occurrence of the accident and the arrival of emergency responders to the scene. Reductions in this time, in turn,... | {
"abstract": "This research proposes an accurate vehicular positioning system which can achieve lane-level performance in urban canyons. Multiple passive sensors, which include Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) receivers, onboard cameras and inertial sensors, are integrated in the proposed system. As the mai... |
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"abstract": "Abstract Studies over the past two decades have provided relevant data on the relationship between music and reading abilities although they fundamentally refer to aspects of the first language reading process of young children. The foreign language reading acquisition process of adult learners has, in... | {
"abstract": "The association between music and language, in particular, the overlap in their processing results in the possibility to use one domain for the enhancement of the other. Especially in the preschool years music may be a valuable tool to train language abilities (e.g., precursors of reading). Therefore, ... | {
"abstract": "Adult musician's brains show structural enlargements, but it is not known whether these are inborn or a consequence of long-term training. In addition, music training in childhood has been shown to have positive effects on visual-spatial and verbal outcomes. However, it is not known whether pre-existin... |
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"abstract": "IntroductionNonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) are considered as one of the most administrated groups of medications worldwide. Due to the role of NSAIDs in inducing gastric ulceration, their clinical applications are still challenging. Nigella sativa seed is widely used as herbal medication... | {
"abstract": "The aim of this study was to assess the effects of hypothyroidism on the development of acute cold restraint stress gastritis in rats and protective effect of Nigella sativa at the beginning of the acute cold restraint stress. 60 rats were randomly divided into six groups; the control (groups I), surgi... | {
"abstract": "Purpose of reviewAnorexia nervosa remains a disease of unknown etiology. This situation explains the failure to develop effective therapy and emphasizes the fact that the neurobiological mechanisms of appetite and emotion are still incompletely understood. The present review is the first summary of rec... |
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"abstract": "In recent years, cancer immunotherapy has undergone great advances because of our understanding of the immune response and the mechanisms through which tumor cells evade it. A century after the first immunotherapy attempt based on bacterial products described by William Coley, the use of live attenuate... | {
"abstract": "BackgroundBacterial targeting of tumours is an important anti-cancer strategy. We previously showed that strain SL7838 of Salmonella typhimurium targets and kills cancer cells. Whether NO generation by the bacteria has a role in SL7838 lethality to cancer cells is explored. This bacterium has the mecha... | {
"abstract": "Nitric oxide (NO) is synthesized by inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) and plays an important role in tumor growth and angiogenesis. NO generation by iNOS also influences the cytotoxicity of macrophages and tumor‐induced immunosuppression. Before now, the expression of iNOS in prostate carcinoma ti... |
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"abstract": "The bank vole is a rodent susceptible to different prion strains from humans and various animal species. We analyzed the transmission features of different prions in a panel of seven rodent species which showed various degrees of phylogenetic affinity and specific prion protein (PrP) sequence divergenc... | {
"abstract": "Cerebral formation of the pathological isoform of the prion protein (PrP) is a crucial molecular event in prion diseases. The bank vole (Clethrionomys glareolus) is a rodent species highly susceptible to natural scrapie. The PrP gene of bank vole is polymorphic (Met/Ile) at codon 109. Here we show that... | {
"abstract": "A collaborative study of human transmissible spongiform encephalopathies has been carried out from 1993 to 2000 and includes data from 10 national registries, the majority in Western Europe. In this study, we present analyses of predictors of survival in sporadic (n = 2304), iatrogenic (n = 106) and va... |
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"abstract": "The regulation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) levels in plants is ensured by mechanisms preventing their over accumulation, and by diverse antioxidants, including enzymes and nonenzymatic compounds. These are affected by redox conditions, posttranslational modifications, transcriptional and posttrans... | {
"abstract": "Oxidative signalling by ROS has been demonstrated to play a role in seed dormancy alleviation, but the detailed molecular mechanisms underlying this process remain largely unknown. Here, we show dynamic differences in redox‐sensitive proteome upon wheat seed dormancy release. Using thiol‐specific fluor... | {
"abstract": "Genetically modified (GM) crops may contain newly expressed proteins that are described as \"intractable\". Safety assessment of these proteins may require some adaptations to the current assessment procedures. Intractable proteins are defined here as those proteins with properties that make it extreme... |
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"abstract": "We present high-time-resolution photometry and phase-resolved spectroscopy of the short-period (Porb=80.52min) cataclysmic variable SDSS J123813.73–033933.0, observed with the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), the Kepler/K2 mission, and the Very Large Telescope (VLT). We also report observations of the f... | {
"abstract": "We show that the combination of a weak magnetic propeller and accretion disc resonances can effectively halt accretion in short-period cataclysmic variables (CVs) for large fractions of their lifetimes. This may help to explain the discrepancy between the observed and predicted orbital period distribut... | {
"abstract": "We report the results of a worldwide campaign to observe WZ Sagittae during its 2001 superoutburst. After a 23 yr slumber at V = 15.5, the star rose within 2 days to a peak brightness of 8.2, and showed a main eruption lasting 25 days. The return to quiescence was punctuated by 12 small eruptions, of ∼... |
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"abstract": "Abstract. In the last 25 years, optical coherence tomography (OCT) has advanced to be one of the most innovative and most successful translational optical imaging techniques, achieving substantial economic impact as well as clinical acceptance. This is largely owing to the resolution improvements by a ... | {
"abstract": "We present a new interferometric technique for measuring Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Scattering (CARS) and Second Harmonic Generation (SHG) signals. Heterodyne detection is employed to increase the sensitivity in both CARS and SHG signal detection, which can also be extended to different coherent proces... | {
"abstract": "We demonstrate coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (CARS) heterodyne spectral interferometry for retrieval of the real and imaginary components of the third-order nonlinear susceptibility (chi(3)) of molecular vibrations. Extraction of the imaginary component of chi(3) allows a straightforward recons... |
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"abstract": "Spectrum sharing is one of the promising solutions to meet the spectrum demand in 5G networks that results from the emerging services like machine to machine and vehicle to infrastructure communication. The idea is to allow a set of entities access the spectrum whenever and wherever it is unused by the... | {
"abstract": "Dynamic spectrum access (DSA) can effectively improve the spectrum efficiency and alleviate the spectrum scarcity, by allowing unlicensed secondary users (SUs) to access the licensed spectrum of primary users (PUs) opportunistically. Cooperative spectrum sharing is a new promising paradigm to provide n... | {
"abstract": "In this work, xanthan gum-cl-poly acrylic acid (XG-cl-pAA) hydrogel and xanthan gum-cl-poly acrylic acid/oxidized MWCNTs (XG-cl-pAA/o-MWCNTs) hydrogel nanocomposite was successfully surface modify by microwave assisted copolymerization, in which N, N'-methylenebisacrylamide (MBA) was used as a cross-li... |
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"abstract": "CZP1, a locus for autosomal dominant \"zonular pulverulent\" cataract, previously had been linked with the Duffy blood-group-antigen locus on chromosome 1q. Here we report genetic refinement of the CZP1 locus and show that the underlying mutation is present in GJA8, the gene for connexin50. To map the ... | {
"abstract": "Ophthalmological geneticists are already accustomed to being in the lead. Colour blindness was one of the first human conditions to be studied genetically, and the linkages of the colour blindness and haemophilia loci that were studied by Bell and Haldane (1937) were the first human linkages to be reco... | {
"abstract": "One hundred and sixty‐one engaged white couples, resident in the eastern United States, were blood grouped and, after about 18 years, supplied detailed information on their reproductive history. After classifying the couples by ABO mating type, the possible effect of blood groups on (1) number of pregn... |
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"abstract": "\n Background The Devils Hole Pupfish ( Cyprinodon diabolis ) frequently enters paradoxical anaerobism in response to endogenously produced or exogenously supplied ethanol in a dose-dependent manner. To decipher the role of the gut microbiota in ethanol-associated paradoxical anaerobism, gut microbial ... | {
"abstract": "Devils Hole is the sole natural habitat of the critically endangered Devils Hole pupfish (Cyprinodon diabolis). To establish a backup population, the Ash Meadows Fish Conservation Facility (AMFCF), a full-scale replica of the uppermost 6.7 m of Devils Hole, was constructed by management agencies in the... | {
"abstract": "The power output of hydrogen fuel cells quickly decreases to zero if the fuel supply is interrupted. We demonstrate thin film solid oxide fuel cells with nanostructured vanadium oxide anodes that generate power for significantly longer time than reference porous platinum anode thin film solid oxide fue... |
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"abstract": "In accordance with the standard scientific protocol, i will use the personal pronoun \" we \" to indicate the reader and the writer or my scientific collaborators and myself. vi I would like to dedicate this thesis to my loving parents, my wife Gülüzar and my son Nabi Adem. Acknowledgements During the ... | {
"abstract": "BackgroundCombining clinical and molecular data types may potentially improve prediction accuracy of a classifier. However, currently there is a shortage of effective and efficient statistical and bioinformatic tools for true integrative data analysis. Existing integrative classifiers have two main dis... | {
"abstract": "The universal dynamic control law recently advocated by this author is applied to a class of nonlinear systems with delays and hysteresis. The theory is straightforwardly extended to cover these complications without difficulty. Numerical simulations are presented to demonstrate the performance of the ... |
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"abstract": "Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is characterized by upper airway collapse and obstruction during sleep. It is estimated to affect nearly 5% of the general female population. Obesity is often associated with OSA. The physiological changes associated with pregnancy may increase the severity of OSA with a h... | {
"abstract": "About one half of patients who have essential hypertension have obstructive sleep apnea, and about one half of patients who have obstructive sleep apnea have essential hypertension. A growing body of evidence suggests that obstructive sleep apnea is a major contributing factor in the development of ess... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Objectives: To determine the prevalence of snoring, breathing pauses during sleep, and obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome and determine the relation between these events and sociodemographic variables, other health problems, driving accidents, and consumption of healthcare resources. Design: Te... |
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"abstract": "ABSTRACT This study aimed to investigate the effect of whole grape pomace (GP), grape seed (GS) and grape pomace polyphenolic extract (GPEP) on growth performance, total antioxidant status (TAS) and complete blood count (CBC) of 40-day-old chicks (hybrid Cobb 500). A total of 432 unsexed one-day-old ch... | {
"abstract": "Grape pomace (GP) is a source of polyphenols with powerful antioxidant capacity. An experiment was conducted to investigate the effect of inclusion of GP at levels of 5, 15, and 30 g/kg and alpha-tocopheryl acetate (200 mg/kg) in a corn-soybean basal diet on growth performance, protein and amino acid d... | {
"abstract": "Most soils used for agriculture in south-western Australia are sandy and are now deficient in both potassium (K) and nitrogen (N) for cereal and canola (oilseed rape; Brassica napus L.) grain production. However, the effect of applying different levels of both fertiliser K and N on grain yields of thes... |
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"abstract": "In the present paper, we develop an electrostatic-thermodynamic-kinetic (ELTHEKI) model for studying the behavior of the specific Ni / NiO / H 2 O system, encountered in the pressurized water reactor (PWR) core. The ELTHEKI model proposes a coupled approach to describe the growth and dissolution/precip... | {
"abstract": "In this paper, we design numerical methods for a PDE system arising in corrosion modeling. This system describes the evolution of a dense oxide layer. It is based on a drift-diffusion system and includes moving boundary equations. The choice of the numerical methods is justified by a stability analysis... | {
"abstract": "PDE examples by type Linear problems...An introduction Nonlinear stationary problems Nonlinear evolution problems Accretive operators and nonlinear Cauchy problems Appendix Bibliography Index.",
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"title": "Monotone operators in Banach space and nonlinear partia... |
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"abstract": "Our investigation is specially motivated by the stochastic version of a common model of potential spread in a dendritic tree. We do not assume the noise in the junction points to be Markovian. In fact, we allow for long-range dependence in time of the stochastic perturbation. This leads to an abstract ... | {
"abstract": "We consider a diffusion problem on a network on whose nodes we impose Dirichlet and generalized, non-local Kirchhoff-type conditions. We prove well-posedness of the associated initial value problem, and we exploit the theory of sub-Markovian and ultracontractive semigroups in order to obtain upper Gaus... | {
"abstract": "Bayesian learning, widely used in many applied data-modeling problems, is often accomplished with approximation schemes because it requires intractable computation of the posterior distributions. In this study, we focus on two approximation methods, variational Bayes and local variational approximation... |
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"abstract": "Analyzing authorship of online texts is an important analysis task in security-related areas such as cybercrime investigation and counter-terrorism, and in any field of endeavor in which authorship may be uncertain or obfuscated. This paper presents an automated approach for authorship analysis using m... | {
"abstract": "In recent years, there have been numerous studies from a variety of perspectives analyzing the Internet presence of hate and extremist groups. Yet the websites and forums of extremist and terrorist groups have long remained an underutilized resource for terrorism researchers due to their ephemeral natu... | {
"abstract": "Cyberspace is an attractive medium for computer-savvy generation of terrorists due to its anonymity, psychological impact and also it's potential to inflict massive damage. There have been numerous studies by researchers in Europe, the Middle East and North America in analyzing the illicit activities a... |
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"abstract": "1) Center for Infectious Medicine, Department of Medicine Huddinge, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden 2) Clinical Research Center, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden 3) Division of Immuno-Virology, Institute of Emerging Diseases and Innovative Therapies, ... | {
"abstract": "Liver transplantation activates the innate immune system by toll-like receptors (TLRs), potentially leading to allograft rejection and graft failure. The aim of this study was to evaluate the possible association of different single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in several TLR genes with the incidenc... | {
"abstract": "Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is a single stranded RNA virus. It affects millions of people worldwide and is considered as a leading cause of liver diseases including cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma. A recent study reported that TLR4 gene polymorphisms are good prognostic predictors and are associated... |
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"abstract": "Sequences of generalized Lagrangian duals and their SOS (sums of squares of polynomials) relaxations for a POP (polynomial optimization problem) are introduced. Sparsity of polynomials in the POP is used to reduce the sizes of the Lagrangian duals and their SOS relaxations. It is proved that the optima... | {
"abstract": "The class of POPs (Polynomial Optimization Problems) over cones covers a wide range of optimization problems such as 0-1 integer linear and quadratic programs, nonconvex quadratic programs and bilinear matrix inequalities. This paper presents a new framework for convex relaxation of POPs over cones in ... | {
"abstract": "This paper is concerned with a class of ellipsoidal sets (ellipsoids and elliptic cylinders) in $${\\mathbb{R}^m}$$ which are determined by a freely chosen m × m positive semidefinite matrix. All ellipsoidal sets in this class are similar to each other through a parallel transformation and a scaling ar... |
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"abstract": "The spatial distribution of the transverse nuclear spin magnetization, appearing in a single compartment with impermeable boundaries in a Stejskal‐Tanner gradient pulse MR experiment, is analyzed in detail. At short diffusion times the presence of diffusion‐restrictive barriers (membranes) reduces effe... | {
"abstract": "Evaluation of water diffusion in the brain has revealed both fast‐ and slow‐diffusing water populations. It has been suggested that these populations represent extra‐ and intracellular water, respectively. We have identified and characterized both populations in the intracellular space of the Xenopus o... | {
"abstract": "When somatic cell nuclei are injected into enucleated unfertilized eggs they very soon cease RNA synthesis (Gurdon & Brown, 1965; Gurdon. 1967 a ), and commence DNA synthesis (Graham, Arms & Gurdon, 1966). By means of such experiments it has been shown (i) that components of living egg cytoplasm can su... |
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"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).",
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"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": "To investigate the effects of atmospheric CO2 enrichment on physiology and autumnal leaf phenology, we exposed 3-year-old sugar maple (Acer saccharum Marsh.) seedlings to 800 (A8), 600 (A6), and 400 μL(CO2) L–1 (AA) in nine continuous stirred tank reactor (CSTR) chambers during the growing season of 20... |
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"abstract": "Although the knowledge of ATP-binding cassette of lipid transport had grown substantially over the last few years, the detailed molecular mechanisms and the exact functions of these transporters were still awaiting clarification. In this thesis, analysis of the actions of human steroid and non-steroid ... | {
"abstract": "By lowering high density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol, testosterone contributes to the gender difference in HDL cholesterol and has been accused to be pro-atherogenic. The mechanism by which testosterone influences HDL cholesterol is little understood. We therefore investigated the effect of testoster... | {
"abstract": "This study investigates the feasibility of using an adipose-derived mesenchymal stem cell (ASC)-seeded acellular dermal matrix (ADM) along with low-level laser therapy (LLLT) to repair bone defect in athymic nude mice. Critical-sized calvarial defects were treated either with ADM, ADM/LLLT, ADM/ASCs, o... |
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"abstract": "T1 relaxation times of the 14 T1 phantom spheres that make up the standard International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM)/National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) system phantom are reported at 7 T. T1 values of six of the 14 T1 spheres at 7 T (with T1 > 270 ms) have been... | {
"abstract": "To determine the in vitro accuracy, test‐retest repeatability, and interplatform reproducibility of T1 quantification protocols used for dynamic contrast‐enhanced MRI at 1.5 and 3 T.",
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"title": "Accuracy, repeatability, and interplatform reproducibility of T1 quantification me... | {
"abstract": "The aim of the present study was to investigate the renoprotective effects of isorhamnetin (ISO) in type 2 diabetic rats and its effects on the nuclear factor-κB (NF-κB) signaling pathway, which is associated with diabetic nephropathy. The type 2 diabetic rat model was established by a high-fat diet pl... |
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"abstract": "Feature attribution methods identify “relevant” features as an explanation of a complex machine learning model. Several feature attribution methods have been proposed; however, only a few studies have attempted to define the “relevance” of each feature mathematically. In this study, we formalize the fe... | {
"abstract": "As machine learning algorithms are increasingly applied to high impact yet high risk tasks, such as medical diagnosis or autonomous driving, it is critical that researchers can explain how such algorithms arrived at their predictions. In recent years, a number of image saliency methods have been develo... | {
"abstract": "Dealing with uncertainty is essential for efficient reinforcement learning. There is a growing literature on uncertainty estimation for deep learning from fixed datasets, but many of the most popular approaches are poorly-suited to sequential decision problems. Other methods, such as bootstrap sampling... |
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"abstract": "Aim To characterise the pharmacokinetics of triamcinolone acetonide (TA) in various ocular tissues following a single sub-Tenon injection. Methods Twenty-one Chinchilla adult pigmented rabbits received sub-Tenon injection of TA (40 mg in 0.4 ml) in their right eyes. Three animals were killed at each de... | {
"abstract": "BackgroundTo assess the efficacy of the intravitreal (IVT) injection of Triamcinolone Acetonide (TA) as compared to posterior subtenon (SBT) capsule injection for the treatment of cystoid diabetic macular edema.MethodsFourteen patients with type II diabetes mellitus and on insulin treatment, presenting... | {
"abstract": "Background The purpose of this retrospective chart review was to evaluate factors associated with improvement of visual acuity after a single sub-Tenon injection of triamcinolone acetonide in patients with diabetic macular edema. Methods We reviewed the medical records for 63 consecutive eyes with diab... |
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"abstract": "This paper considers model-based fault detection of large-scale (possibly rank-deficient) dynamic systems. Assuming only global (and not local) observability over a sensor network, we introduce a single time-scale networked estimator/observer. Sensors take local outputs/measurements of system states wi... | {
"abstract": "In this paper, a networked estimation framework for a team of relative sensing multiagent systems is proposed. This framework is constructed based on the developed notion of subobservers (SOs). Within a group of SOs, each SO is estimating certain team states that are conditioned on a given input, outpu... | {
"abstract": "This brief is concerned with the design of distributed formation recovery control laws for nonlinear heterogeneous multiagent Euler-Lagrange (EL) systems that are simultaneously subject to: 1) diagnostic information imperfections and unreliabilities; 2) parametric uncertainties and external disturbance... |
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"abstract": "Background The public health approach to antiretroviral treatment management encourages the public private partnership in resource limited countries like Ethiopia. As a result, some private health facilities are accredited to provide antiretroviral treatment free services. Evidence on magnitude and pre... | {
"abstract": "Background In resource-limited settings where viral load (VL) monitoring is scarce or unavailable, clinicians must use immunological and clinical criteria to define HIV virological treatment failure. This study examined the performance of World Health Organization (WHO) clinical and immunological failu... | {
"abstract": "Outsourcing local services necessitates collaborative relationships, yet we know little about local service delivery mechanism choices that formalize these relationships. Alternatives to in-house production include contracts with for-profit organizations, provision by local authorities, and intergovern... |
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"abstract": "Securing and managing large, complex enterprise network infrastructure requires capturing and analyzing network traffic traces in real-time. An accurate passive Operating System (OS) fingerprinting plays a critical role in effective network management and cybersecurity protection. Passive fingerprintin... | {
"abstract": "Many applications in the Internet use the reliable end-to-end Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) as a transport protocol due to practical considerations. There are many different TCP variants in use, and each variant uses a specific end-to-end congestion control algorithm to avoid congestion, while al... | {
"abstract": "In this work, we propose a method to discriminate backscatter caused by DDoS attacks from normal traffic. Since DDoS attacks are imminent threats which could give serious economic damages to private companies and public organizations, it is quite important to detect DDoS backscatter as early as possibl... |
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"abstract": "Machine learning has been applied on datasets that consist of source codes to perform programming language classification. However, there has been no study that directly investigates the impact of applying various preprocessing methods. This paper aims to analyze the impact of different preprocessing m... | {
"abstract": "Preprocessing is one of the key components in a typical text classification framework. This paper aims to extensively examine the impact of preprocessing on text classification in terms of various aspects such as classification accuracy, text domain, text language, and dimension reduction. For this pur... | {
"abstract": "In this paper, we present a wireless photostimulator providing high output power from small 1.5-V Zinc-Air coin battery to stimulate light sensitized neurons. To overcome the limits of such a small energy source e.g. discharging current and voltage, the proposed photostimulator is based on a DC/DC conv... |
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"abstract": "The effects of slip condition and particles concentration are investigated on the peristaltic flow of a Newtonian suspended fluid flows through a channel under different parameters. The walls of the channel are assumed flexible with an external uniform magnetic field applied perpendicular to the walls.... | {
"abstract": "Peristaltic pumping induced by a sinusoidal traveling wave in the walls of a two-dimensional channel filled with a viscous incompressible fluid mixed with rigid spherical particles is investigated theoretically taking the slip effect on the wall into account. A perturbation solution is obtained which s... | {
"abstract": "A new physical theory of erythrocyte sedimentation is proposed. Various assumptions underlying Stokes' formula are first criticized. An explicit formula is proposed, taking into account some of the results of recent experimental investigations including the effect of upward flow of plasma and the time ... |
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"abstract": "Phonemes are the standard audio unit of speech. They are the smallest segment of sound which, if replaced with another, can change the meaning of the word. In visual speech recognition, visemes have commonly been used as the basic visual unit of speech. There is a many-to-one mapping from phonemes to v... | {
"abstract": "In this paper, we introduce profile view (PV) lip reading, a scheme for speaker-dependent isolated word speech recognition. We provide historic motivation for PV from the importance of profile images in facial animation for lip reading, and we present feature extraction schemes for PV as well as for th... | {
"abstract": "This experimental study investigated the impact of interface agent appearance (age, gender, \"coolness\") on enhancing undergraduate females' attitudes toward engineering. Results revealed that participants reported more positive stereotypes of engineers after interacting with a female agent. In contra... |
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"abstract": "The sugar alcohol sorbitol plays an important signaling role in fruit trees. Here, we found that sorbitol significantly increased during flower bud differentiation (FBD) in loquat (Eriobotrya japonica Lindl.) from the physiological FBD stage (EjS1) to the morphological FBD stage (EjS2), and it then dec... | {
"abstract": "Sugars produced by photosynthesis not only fuel plant growth and development, but may also act as signals to regulate plant growth and development. This work focuses on the role of sorbitol, a sugar alcohol, in flower development and pollen tube growth of apple (Malus domestica). Transgenic 'Greensleev... | {
"abstract": "Little is known to what extent soil biota, in particular, the mycorrhizae are altered through different fallow durations/types in tropical soils. We found that soil-N, -C, -Al, -K and -Ca contents significantly differed due to the fallow durations/types. Subsequently, the effects of fallow types and so... |
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"abstract": "In this paper, we present a computer tool for verification of distributed systems. As an example, we establish the correctness of Lamport's Fast Mutual Exclusion Algorithm. The tool implements the method of occurrence graphs with symmetries (OS-graphs) for Colored Petri Nets (CP-nets). The basic idea i... | {
"abstract": "A new solution to the mutual exclusion problem is presented that, in the absence of contention, requires only seven memory accesses. It assumes atomic reads and atomic writes to shared registers.",
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"title": "A fast mutual exclusion algorithm"
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"abstract": "StarOS is a message-based, object-oriented, multiprocessor operating system, specifically designed to support task forces, large collections of concurrently executing processes that cooperate to accomplish a single purpose. StarOS has been implemented at Carnegie-Mellon University for the 50 processor ... |
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"abstract": "There is proposed a very simple and computationally effective method for filtering the block artefacts that appear usually under sufficient magnification on the images restored from the normal JPEG. It differs from many others by the property not to reduce (as a rule), but, in contrary, to improve the ... | {
"abstract": "Existing state-of-the-art switching-based median filters are commonly found to be nonadaptive to noise density variations and prone to misclassifying pixel characteristics at high noise density interference. This reveals the critical need of having a sophisticated switching scheme and an adaptive weigh... | {
"abstract": "Abstract In this paper, we propose a new video Super-Resolution (SR) method by jointly modeling intra-frame redundancy and inter-frame motion context in a unified deep network. Different from conventional methods, the proposed Spatial-Temporal Recurrent Residual Network (STR-ResNet) investigates both s... |
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"abstract": "The Self-Organizing Map (SOM) algorithm has attracted a great deal of interest among researches and practitioners in a wide variety of fields. The SOM has been analyzed extensively, a number of variants have been developed and, perhaps most notably, it has been applied extensively within fields ranging... | {
"abstract": "Abstract A new bottom-up method is described that clusters the content of a mixed type document into text or non-text areas. The proposed approach is based on a new set of features combined with a self-organized neural network classifier. The set of features corresponds to the contents and the relation... | {
"abstract": "We propose a new texture-based language-free page segmentation algorithm which automatically extracts the text, halftone, and line-drawing regions from input greyscale document images. This approach utilizes a neural network to train a set of masks which is optimal for discriminating the three main tex... |
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"abstract": "Donor-doped strontium titanate (SrTiO3) is one of the most promising n-type oxide thermoelectric materials. Routine doping of La at Sr site can change the charge scattering mechanism, and meanwhile can significantly increase the power factor in the temperature range of 423–773 K. In addition, the intro... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Phase relation and microstructure evolution in the pressure-less sintered TiB2‒TiC ceramics preceded with mechanical alloying were systematically studied by a combination of SEM analysis. WC debris from milling balls promotes sintering by dissolving into the TiC phase to achieve dense microstr... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Chemical vapor deposition was employed for the growth of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) on titanium boride (TiB2), with nickel (Ni) as the catalyst and methane (CH4) as the carbon precursor. The effects of the Ni catalyst and the CH4 supply on the growth of CNTs were evaluated. The crystallinity and ... |
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"abstract": "Recently, microliter-scale microbial fuel cells (μMFCs) have garnered significant interest as effective energy harvesters for low power biological and electronic systems. Although researchers have attained high current densities and columbic efficiencies from such fuel cells, low power outputs and work... | {
"abstract": "μL-scale microbial fuel cell (μMFC) technology has the potential to serve as an efficient renewable energy harvester for a variety of applications ranging from, on chip devices to autonomous sensors in remote locations. However, low voltage and power outputs have restricted such microbial fuel cells (M... | {
"abstract": "Novel solutions for sulfide-mine tailings remediation were evaluated in field-scale experiments on a former tailings repository in northern Sweden. Uncovered sulfide-tailings were compared to sewage-sludge biosolid amended tailings over 2 years. An application of a 0.2m single-layer sewage-sludge amend... |
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"abstract": "Ischemic stroke is a leading cause of death and disability in the United States. It is known that males and females respond differently to stroke. Depending on age, the incidence, prevalence, mortality rate, and disability outcome of stroke differ between the sexes. Females generally have strokes at ol... | {
"abstract": "Transmigration of peripheral leukocytes to the brain is a major contributor to cerebral ischemic cell death mechanisms. Humanized partial major histocompatibility complex class II constructs (pMHC), covalently linked to myelin peptides, are effective for treating experimental stroke in males, but new e... | {
"abstract": "It is now well established that students can hold differing, but readily identifiable, conceptions of learning. This study attempted to discover whether parallel conceptions of teaching can be identified and, if so, whether they are related to student learning outcomes. Initial investigation was throug... |
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"abstract": "We study the problem of efficiently refuting the k-colorability of a graph, or equivalently certifying a lower bound on its chromatic number. We give formal evidence of average-case computational hardness for this problem in sparse random regular graphs, showing optimality of a simple spectral certific... | {
"abstract": "Graph partitioning problems emerge in a wide variety of complex systems, ranging from biology to finance, but can be rigorously analyzed and solved only for a few graph ensembles. Here, an ensemble of equitable graphs, i.e., random graphs with a block-regular structure, is studied, for which analytical... | {
"abstract": "The correlation network, typically formed by computing pairwise correlations between variables, has recently become a competitive paradigm to discover insights in various application domains, such as climate prediction, financial marketing, and bioinformatics. In this study, we adopt this paradigm to d... |
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"abstract": "This paper presents a novel suboptimal policy for the Dynamic Traveling Repairperson Problem (m-DTRP), a problem requiring dynamic planning for a team of vehicles. The suggested policy is adaptive, locally distributed, computationally efficient, and independent of traffic load intensities. It is shown ... | {
"abstract": "In this paper we present decentralized algorithms for motion coordination of a group of autonomous vehicles, aimed at minimizing the expected waiting time to service stochastically-generated targets. The vehicles move within a convex environment with bounded velocity, and target generation is modeled b... | {
"abstract": "We show that the cost (length) of the shortest traveling salesman tour through n points in the unit square is, in the worst case, $\\alpha _{{\\text{opt}}}^{{\\text{tsp}}} \\sqrt n + o(\\sqrt n )$, where $1.075 \\leqq \\alpha _{{\\text{opt}}}^{{\\text{tsp}}}\\leqq 1.414$. The cost of the minimum matchi... |
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"abstract": "Despite their compelling theoretical properties, Bayesian neural networks (BNNs) tend to perform worse than frequentist methods in classification-based uncertainty quantification (UQ) tasks such as out-of-distribution (OOD) detection. In this paper, based on empirical findings in prior works, we hypoth... | {
"abstract": "\n \n This paper shows that simply prescribing \"none of the above\" labels to unlabeled data has a beneficial regularization effect to supervised learning. We call it universum prescription by the fact that the prescribed labels cannot be one of the supervised labels. In spite of its simplicity, unive... | {
"abstract": "In visual relationship detection, human-notated relationships can be regarded as determinate relationships. However, there are still large amount of unlabeled data, such as object pairs with less significant relationships or even with no relationships. We refer to these unlabeled but potentially useful... |
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"abstract": "Various indexing methods of spatial data have come out after rigorous efforts put by many researchers for fast processing of spatial queries. Parallelizing spatial index building and query processing have become very popular for improving efficiency. The MapReduce framework provides a modern way of par... | {
"abstract": "In this work, we leverage Cloud computing technologies in scaling out data management in geographical databases. In particular, we tackle the issue of data indexing in parallel. First, spatial data is partitioned and indexed in a Hadoop MapReduce cluster. Two main partitioning strategies are evaluated:... | {
"abstract": "In this tutorial, we present the recent work in the database community for handling Big Spatial Data. This topic became very hot due to the recent explosion in the amount of spatial data generated by smart phones, satellites and medical devices, among others. This tutorial goes beyond the use of existi... |
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"abstract": "Since the first half of the 1980s, burnout in teachers has been the object of particular attention by many international authors. Teachers are subject, more than other professions, to numerous and heavy pressures, covering the peculiarity of the profession. The objectives of the present research are to... | {
"abstract": "Abstract This study analyzes the role of Perceived Emotional Intelligence (PEI) on sources of job stress and mental health in 250 elementary school teachers from Jaén (Spain). The aim of the study was two-fold: (1) to analyze the associations between Perceived Emotional Intelligence (PEI), sources of o... | {
"abstract": "Abstract The author examined the relationship between the components of emotional intelligence (perception of emotion, affect regulation, and emotional knowledge) and personality factors associated with adaptation, represented by the hierarchical model of defense mechanisms (M. Bond, S. Gardner, J. Chr... |
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"abstract": "This paper presents a new control method for merging task at highway junction by using the model predictive control in which the decision entropy of the drivers on the main lane is explicitly considered as the cost function. Authors have already proposed the evaluation measure for the acceptance of the... | {
"abstract": "This paper presents the modeling and analysis of acceptability for merging vehicle at highway junction. A decision making for acceptance by the driver running on the main car lane is analyzed and modeled by using a logistic regression model based on the observation of the driving data on driving simula... | {
"abstract": "A new logic simulator called THEMIS (TM) Logic Simulator for the design of LSI, VLSI and PCBs is described. THEMIS supports design verification and test development from initial specification in behavioral and RTL languages to analysis of the final layout at the gate and switch level. To allow the simu... |
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"abstract": "The protein-only hypothesis posits that the infectious agent causing transmissible spongiform encephalopathies consists of protein and lacks any informational nucleic acids. This agent, termed prion by Stanley Prusiner, is thought to consist partly of PrP(Sc), a conformational isoform of a normal cellu... | {
"abstract": "PrPSc forms micrometer long amyloidic strings that can congregate in clusters and webs at the surface of living cells.",
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"abstract": "La biomecánica es la ciencia que estudia la relación entre las fuerzas y los movimientos del cuerpo humano con el objetivo de realizar análisis cinemáticos. En el estudio cinemático enfocado al deporte, los entrenadores se apoyan en el análisis de video para estudiar el movimiento y mejorar el rendimie... | {
"abstract": "The purpose of this study was to investigate if tracking of kinematical parameters (longitudinal acceleration, velocity and pitch angle) in swimming sport is feasible using data acquired with inertial sensors: accelerometer and gyroscope. Video data analysis combined “video + inertial sensor” and “iner... | {
"abstract": "During early plant embryogenesis, precursors for all major tissues and stem cells are formed. While several components of the regulatory framework are known, how cell fates are instructed by genome-wide transcriptional activity remains unanswered—in part because of difficulties in capturing transcripto... |
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"abstract": "This research aimed to identify objects from a real-time video (30 Hz) stream transmitted from a low-altitude long-endurance (LALE) fixed-wing hybrid vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) designed for asset monitoring. Illumination, rotation, and scale variations complicate ... | {
"abstract": "There are numerous applications of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in the management of civil infrastructure assets. A few examples include routine bridge inspections, disaster management, power line surveillance and traffic surveying. As UAV applications become widespread, increased levels of autonomy... | {
"abstract": "A low cost pulse transceiver has been developed for measuring the electrical properties of materials. The transceiver generates an ultra wide band (UWB) pulse as well as samples the received pulse. The pulse generator has been designed using a silicon-germanium (SiGe) analog comparator which is a possi... |
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"abstract": "The study of language and identity from the perspective of linguistic ethnography (LE) has received increasing attention during the last decade. Resting upon the social and discursive turns in the social sciences, LE has ontological and epistemological consequences for the way researchers approach lang... | {
"abstract": "Languages have always played a central role in the construction of modern national identities through the one language / one culture / one nation paradigm. Nation-states have always felt the need to create and protect a national speech community as a social base and to ensure that the national language... | {
"abstract": "Preface The New World The Super-Rich Game The Rest of Us Super-Rich Capitalism: An Audit A World Without Politics A World Without Democracy Brave New World The Hope of Europe Index",
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"abstract": "In order to solve the problem regarding steel wire defect detection, a gradient vector flow calculation method based on extended neighborhood is proposed in this article and applied to the steel wire defect detection. The new method is used to analyze the gradient vector flow model from the angle of ma... | {
"abstract": "This is the preprint version of our paper on 3rd International Workshop on Virtual and Augmented Assistive Technology (VAAT) at IEEE Virtual Reality 2015 (VR2015). An assistive training tool for rehabilitation of dysphonic patients is designed and developed according to the practical clinical needs. Th... | {
"abstract": "Augmented Reality (AR) can extend digital world to real world. Augmented Reality not just developed; it had been around there for many years. Actual term of AR came around in 1990's. AR experienced by using headset or mobiles. AR has many applications in military, medical field, entertainment (games) a... |
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"abstract": "OBJECTIVE\nTo compare visual and visual-information processing skills between children with and without mild reading and academic problems and examine the incidence of visual deficits among them.\n\n\nMETHOD\nSeventy-one seventh graders classified as proficient (n = 46) and nonproficient (n = 25) reade... | {
"abstract": "The purpose of school vision screenings is to detect those children with vision problems that may impede normal development (eg, amblyopia, refractive error, strabismus, suppression). In a double-blind investigation, 483 schoolchildren, ranging in age from 5 to 13 years, had their vision screened using... | {
"abstract": "Sixty nursery-school children (ages 39--76 months) were screened with a modified-clinical method (visual acuity, retinoscopy, cover test, NPC) and with a relatively new vectographic test for stereopsis--the Random Dot E. Screening outcomes indicate that the RDE was as effective in identifying children ... |
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"abstract": "This paper presents an efficient iterative method to obtain a nontrivial symmetric solution of the Yang-Baxter-like matrix equation AXA = XAX. Necessary conditions for the convergence of the propounded iterative method are derived. Finally, three numerical examples to illustrate the efficiency of the p... | {
"abstract": "Let u and v be two n -dimensional vectors in the complex field such that v T u ź 0 , and let A = I - u v T . We find all the solutions of the quadratic matrix equation A X A = X A X in various situations, with the help of a spectral perturbation result for rank-one updated matrices. Two numerical examp... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Assume thatSis a semigroup generated by {x1,…,xn}, and let U be the multiplicative free commutative semigroup generated by {u1,…,un}. We say thatSis ofI-typeif there is a bijectivev : U → Ssuch that for alla ∈ U , {v(u1a),…,v(una)} = {x1v(a),…,xnv(a)}. This condition appeared naturally in t... |
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"abstract": "High morbidity and mortality due to community‐acquired pneumonia (CAP) is seen in children under 5 years of age in India. Besides identified risk factors for CAP, there may be a phenotype‐genotype association with cytokines, resulting in enhanced inflammatory response resulting in the adverse outcome (... | {
"abstract": "More than any other cytokine family, the IL-1 family of ligands and receptors is primarily associated with acute and chronic inflammation. The cytosolic segment of each IL-1 receptor family member contains the Toll-IL-1-receptor domain. This domain is also present in each Toll-like receptor, the recept... | {
"abstract": "A hyperinflammatory response during severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection cru-cially worsens clinical evolution of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). The interaction between SARS-CoV-2 and angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) triggers the activation of the NACHT, leu... |
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"abstract": "Reelin is an extracellular matrix protein involved in brain development, synaptic plasticity, and long-term potentiation. The specific mechanisms by which Reelin regulates these processes is currently unclear. Previous strategies to upregulate Reln and other genes relied on genetic manipulations such a... | {
"abstract": "Reelin plays an important role in the development and function of the brain and has been linked to different neuropsychiatric diseases. To further clarify the connection between reelin and psychiatric disorders, we studied the factors that influence the expression of reelin gene (RELN) and its differen... | {
"abstract": "Imaging genetics provides an enormous amount of functional-structural data on gene effects in living brain, but the sheer quantity of potential phenotypes raises concerns about false discovery. Here, we provide the first empirical results on false positive rates in imaging genetics. We analyzed 720 fre... |
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"abstract": "Intonational contours are overloaded, conveying different meanings in different contexts. In this paper we examine two potential uses of the downstepped contours in Standard American English, in the Boston Directions Corpus of read and spontaneous speech. We investigate speakers’ use of these contours ... | {
"abstract": "Spoken dialogue systems promise efficient and natural access to information services from any phone. Recently, spoken dialogue systems for widely used applications such as email, travel information, and customer care have moved from research labs into commercial use. These applications can receive mill... | {
"abstract": "Direct (i.e., short-term) effects of elevated CO(2) on nocturnal in situ leaf respiration rate were measured in nine deciduous tree species (seven genera) in 20 3.5-4.0-h experiments. During the experiments, CO(2) concentration was alternated between 400 and 800 ppm (approximately 40 and 80 Pa of CO(2)... |
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"abstract": "An autonomous indoor aerial vehicle requires reliable simul- taneous localization and mapping (SLAM), accurate flight control, and robust path planning for navigation. This paper presents a system level combination of these existing technologies for 2D navigation. An Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) calle... | {
"abstract": "This paper presents a platform for airborne sensor applications using low-cost, open-source components carried by an easy-to-fly unmanned aircraft vehicle (UAV). The system, available in open-source , is designed for researchers, students and makers for a broad range of exploration and data-collection ... | {
"abstract": "Abstract An inventory is presented of researches concerning the use of remote sensing for landslide studies and hazard zonation as mainly carried out in the countries belonging to the European Community. An overview is given of the applicability of remote sensing in the following phases of landslide st... |
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"abstract": "Globally, aquaculture contributes to sustainable food and nutritional stability. However, stress conditions constitute a major threat affecting farmed-fish welfare and fish farms’ performances. In this regard, the present study was aimed at measuring and comparing in-situ (offshore) the physiological s... | {
"abstract": "The aim of the present study was to examine the species-specific stress response for seven Mediterranean fishes in culture. Also, to evaluate the method of measuring free cortisol concentration in the rearing water as a non-invasive and reliable indicator of stress in marine species, of aquaculture imp... | {
"abstract": "The empirical rules relating metabolic rate and body size are described in terms of (i) a scaling exponent, which refers to the ratio of the fractional change in metabolic rate to a change in body size, (ii) a proportionality constant, which describes the rate of energy expenditure in an organism of un... |
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"abstract": "Imitating living object mechanically is the current trend in the frontier of robotics. A better imitation is assured if the material used for the joints is a biological equivalent. Polyisoprene (Natural Rubber) has some physical properties that is close to muscle material and is thus presented in this ... | {
"abstract": "We aim at developing autonomous micro-flyers capable of navigating within houses or small built environments. The severe weight and energy constraints of indoor flying platforms led us to take inspiration from flying insects for the selection of sensors, signal processing, and behaviors. This paper pre... | {
"abstract": "Nap-of-the-Earth (NOE) flight and the development of advanced Unmanned Air Vehicles (UAV) require further integration of environmental sensors and onboard processing equipment. Flying insects feature a panoramic eye which relies on Optical Flow for guidance and obstacle avoidance. Furthermore, flies be... |
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"abstract": "Eastern subterranean termites, Reticulitermes flavipes (Kollar), workers were introduced into arenas containing low, moderate, and high compaction builderÕs sand (1.05 g/cm, 1.18 g/cm, or 1.35 g/cm bulk densities, respectively), and they immediately began tunneling. Termites built the tunnel network si... | {
"abstract": "Tunneling behavior of laboratory-maintained cultures of Reticulitermes flavipes (Kollar) and R. virginicus (Banks) was examined to determine (1) if the termites build tunnels along preexisting wires or tunnels, and (2) whether tunnels are arranged to optimize search efficiency. Tunnel patterns were con... | {
"abstract": "Commercial lipase from Thermomyces lanuginosus has been immobilized on glutaraldehyde-activated rice husk particles via covalent attachment. It was reached maximum immobilized protein concentration of 27.5 ± 1.8 mg g−1 of dry support using the initial protein loading of 40 mg g−1 of support. The immobi... |
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"abstract": "The self‐calibrating Palmer drought severity index (scPDSI) was computed based on the four atmospheric reanalysis data sets combined with observational data over China during 1980–2015. The discrepancies of scPDSI among the four reanalysis data sets show the necessity of integrating multiple data sets.... | {
"abstract": "The Standardized Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index (SPEI) was computed based on the monthly precipitation and air temperature values at 609 locations over China during the period 1951–2010.Various characteristics of drought across China were examined including: long‐term trends, percentage of area... | {
"abstract": "Drought is the most pressing problem caused by climate change. It receives too little attention, says Joseph Romm.",
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"abstract": "La violencia comunitaria forma parte de la vida cotidiana de cada vez mas ninos y jovenes, particularmente en las grandes ciudades. La exposicion a este tipo de violencia ha sido asociada con el desarrollo de varios problemas conductuales y emocionales, tales como conductas agresivas y delincuentes, an... | {
"abstract": "The effects of witnessing community violence on aggressive cognitions and behavior were investigated in an ethnically diverse sample of 4,458 children living in urban neighborhoods. Prior violence exposure had a significant effect in increasing aggression, normative beliefs about aggression, and aggres... | {
"abstract": "Relationships between short- and long-term exposure to violent video games and desensitization, as measured through components of moral evaluation, were examined. Sixty-six children aged 5–12 years old completed questionnaires assessing video game experience and preferences and empathy and attitudes to... |
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"abstract": "Contrary to neutral markers, the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) can reflect the fitness and adaptive potential of a given species due to its association with the immune system. For this reason, the use of MHC in endangered wildlife management has increased greatly in recent years. Here, we isol... | {
"abstract": "Eld's deer (Cervus eldi) is a highly endangered cervid, distributed historically throughout much of South Asia and Indochina. We analysed variation in the mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) control region for representatives of all three Eld's deer subspecies to gain a better understanding of the genetic popula... | {
"abstract": "Wild animals are an integral component of the ecosystem. Their decimation due to abrupt natural calamities or due to gradual human intervention would be disastrous to the ecosystem and would alter the balance in nature between various biotic components. Such an imbalance could have an adverse effect on... |
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"abstract": "Mo-doped vanadium dioxide particles were produced by simple solution-based, rapid microwave assisted, and calcination in an inert gas method respectively. The precursors and the heat-treated final powders were characterized by X-ray diffractometer (XRD), differential scanning calorimeter (DSC), scannin... | {
"abstract": "The microwave assisted synthesis nowadays attracts a great deal of attention. Monoclinic phase VO2 (M) was prepared from NH4VO3 and H2C2O4 · 2H2O by a rapid microwave assisted technique. The synthesis parameters, microwave irradiation time, microwave power, and calcinations temperature were systematica... | {
"abstract": "Vanadium dioxide (VO2) undergoes a reversible metal–insulator transition, normally at ∼68 °C. While the properties of continuous semi-transparent coatings of VO2 are well known, there is far less information available concerning the potential use of discrete VO2 nanoparticles as a thermochromic pigment... |
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"abstract": "Abstract Perioperative outcomes research has gained widespread interest and is viewed as increasingly important among different specialties, including anesthesiology. Outcomes research studies serve to help in the adjustment of risk, allocation of resources, and formulation of hypotheses to guide futur... | {
"abstract": "Regional anaesthesia is a fundamental aspect of anaesthesia practice. Structured Fellowships in regional anaesthesia facilitate the development of expert clinicians, scholars and future leaders. The Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists accredits training sites for the final year of Fello... |
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"abstract": "Due to the uncertainty of diseases, traditional approaches of drug procurement planning in hospitals often cause drug overstocking or understocking, which can have strong negative effects on healthcare services. This paper proposes a big-data driven approach, which uses a deep neural network to predict... | {
"abstract": "Nature-inspired computing has been a hot topic in scientific and engineering fields in recent years. Inspired by the shallow water wave theory, the paper presents a novel metaheuristic method, named water wave optimization (WWO), for global optimization problems. We show how the beautiful phenomena of ... | {
"abstract": "A novel knowledge discovery technique using neural networks is presented. A neural network is trained to learn the correlations and relationships that exist in a dataset. The neural network is then pruned and modified to generalize the correlations and relationships. Finally, the neural network is used... |
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"abstract": "This paper studies how prior experiences with fraud exposure affects individuals’ precautionary behavior in credit markets. Using the 2017 Equifax data breach, we show that individuals previously exposed to fraud are more likely to freeze their credit reports and close credit card accounts than individu... | {
"abstract": "In the United States, identity theft resulted in corporate and consumer losses of $56 billion dollars in 2005, with up to 35 percent of known identity thefts caused by corporate data breaches. Many states have responded by adopting data breach disclosure laws that require firms to notify consumers if t... | {
"abstract": "Classification of time series has been attracting great interest over the past decade. While dozens of techniques have been introduced, recent empirical evidence has strongly suggested that the simple nearest neighbor algorithm is very difficult to beat for most time series problems, especially for lar... |
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"abstract": "This study develops the seismic hazard maps for city of Tehran, the capital of Iran. The city is located in a seismically active region and a few historical catastrophic earthquakes have occurred around the region. According to a number of studies, there are several major fault systems in and around th... | {
"abstract": "Abstract. In the last years a research project aimed at the assessment of the landslide hazard and susceptibility in the high Cordevole river basin (Eastern Dolomites, Italy) have been carried out. The hazard map was made adopting the Swiss Confederation semi-deterministic approach that takes into acco... | {
"abstract": "Subduction-accretion complexes can be approximated as wedge-shaped continua with a rigid buttress behind and a subducting litho-spheric slab beneath. Thick wedges undergoing prograde metamorphism have a negligible long-term yield strength and are likely to exhibit a complex nonlinear viscous rheology. ... |
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"abstract": "Activity of cytochrome c oxidase and citrate synthase in rat heart homogenates was determined in 5-, 15-, 28- and 60-day-old rats. The activity of both enzymes increased during postnatal development but their changes followed different kinetics. The membrane-bound cytochrome c oxidase reached its adult... | {
"abstract": "The purpose of the present study was to compare the ontogenetic development of the activity of myocardial energy-supplying enzymes in two mammalian species, differing significantly in their level of maturation at birth. The animals were investigated during the late prenatal period and 2, 7, 14, 21, 25,... | {
"abstract": "The specific activities of succinic dehydrogenase (SD) and cytochrome oxidase (COX) were determined for mitochondria of chick liver, heart, and skeletal muscle from the seventh day of incubation through the time of hatching. The levels of activity of both enzymes at hatching and the rate and course of ... |
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"abstract": "For millions of high schoolers across the United States, an important precursor for attending a four-year college or university is completing the SAT or ACT. This test score is used in admission decisions to determine how prepared that student is for post-secondary education. This literature review exa... | {
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"abstract": "A tremendous amount of compiler research effort over the past ten years has been devoted to compensating for the deficiencies in hardware cache memory hierarchy. In this thesis, we propose a refocus of these energies towards compilation for memory hierarchy which is exposed to the compiler. With softwa... | {
"abstract": "To reduce conflict misses, this technique, the data layout in a cache is adjusted by copying array files into temporary arrays that exhibit better cache behavior. This approach incurs a cost proportional to the amount of data being copied. To date, there has been no discussion regarding either this tra... | {
"abstract": "We propose an optical security method for object authentication using photon-counting encryption implemented with phase encoded QR codes. By combining the full phase double-random-phase encryption with photon-counting imaging method and applying an iterative Huffman coding technique, we are able to enc... |
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"abstract": "Chitosan, which is derived from a deacetylation reaction of chitin, has attractive antimicrobial activity. However, chitosan applications as a biocide are only effective in acidic medium due to its low solubility in neutral and basic conditions. Also, the positive charges carried by the protonated amin... | {
"abstract": "The 9 quaternary ammonium chitosans containing monosaccharides or disaccharides moieties were successfully synthesized by reductive N-alkylation then quaternized by N-(3-chloro-2-hydroxypropyl) trimethylammonium chloride (Quat-188). The chemical structures of quaternary ammonium chitosan derivatives we... | {
"abstract": "1,2,3-Triazolium-functionalized starch derivative was obtained by straightforward quaternization of the synthesized starch derivative bearing 1,2,3-triazole with benzyl bromide by combining the robust attributes of cuprous-catalyzed azide-alkyne cycloaddition. These novel starch derivatives were charac... |
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"abstract": "Information Security (IS) is one of the biggest concerns for many organizations. This concern has led many to focus a huge effort into studying different IS areas. One of these critical areas is the human aspect, where investigation of employees' behaviors has emerged as an important topic. In this pap... | {
"abstract": "Information security policy compliance (ISP) is one of the key concerns that face organizations today. Although technical and procedural measures help improve information security, there is an increased need to accommodate human, social and organizational factors. Despite the plethora of studies that a... | {
"abstract": "The emergence of the internet as a global, borderless communication platform afforded a wide range ofsocial and economic opportunities to people throughout theworld. Criminals have exploited the ability to communicateinstantaneously around the globe to facilitate crossjurisdictionalcyber-fraud and subs... |
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"abstract": "This thesis is concerned with the theory of Diophantine approximation, simultaneous Diophantine approximation and the geometry numbers and its application to problems in signal processing involving periodic pulse trains. The contributions of the thesis are in computational mathematics and algorithms fo... | {
"abstract": "A higher dimensional continued fraction algorithm (CFA) that produces diophantine approximations of more than linear goodness is given. The algorithm is also ideally convergent and detects integer relations.<<ETX>>",
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"abstract": "We call a vector x/spl isin/R/sup n/ highly regular if it satisfies =0 for some short, non-zero integer vector m where <...> is the inner product. We present an algorithm which given x/spl isin/R/sup n/ and /spl alpha//spl isin/N finds a highly regular nearby point x' and a short integer relation m for... |
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"abstract": "There is growing evidence that the innate immune system participates in the host response to organ transplantation (1). Dendritic cells (DCs), macrophages and natural killer cells are cellular components of the innate system that have been implicated in allograft rejection (2). These cells express inna... | {
"abstract": "The spatial assessment of water quality for irrigation is of great importance for agricultural issues. Assessing the suitability of groundwater for irrigation is carried out for the first time in the High Mekerra watershed. Groundwater samples were collected during the wet season (March 2013) and the d... |
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"abstract": "The family Pentatomidae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) includes several invasive stink bug species capable to attack a large number of wild and cultivated plants, causing several damages to different crops. Pentatomids rely on obligate symbiotic associations with bacteria of the family Enterobacteriaceae, ma... | {
"abstract": "Many members of suborder Heteroptra harbor heritable symbiotic bacteria. Here we characterize the gut symbiotic bacterium in Graphosoma lineatum (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae) by using molecular phylogeny, real-time PCR analysis as well as light and electron microscopy observations. The microscopy observati... | {
"abstract": "The authors consider the instanton solutions of the O(3) sigma -model in two Euclidean dimensions as static solitons of the same model in (2+1) dimensions, and study their stability. Most of the work is numerical, based on two very different numerical procedures. On an infinite plane they find that suc... |
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"abstract": "Objectives The cluster randomised trial of the Data-driven Quality Improvement in Primary Care (DQIP) intervention showed that education, informatics and financial incentives for general medical practices to review patients with ongoing high-risk prescribing of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Objectives To determine the number of independent variables that can be included in a linear regression model. Study Design and Setting We used a series of Monte Carlo simulations to examine the impact of the number of subjects per variable (SPV) on the accuracy of estimated regression coeffic... | {
"abstract": "Permission is granted to distribute this article for nonprofit, educational purposes if it is copied in its entirety and the journal is credited. PARE has the right to authorize third party reproduction of this article in print, electronic and database forms. Volume 18, Number 11, September 2013 ISSN 1... |
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"abstract": "The aim of the present study was to investigate the protective effects of miconazole on myelin sheaths following cerebral white matter damage (WMD) in premature infant rats. Sprague Dawley rats (3-days-old) were randomly divided into four groups (n=30 each) as follows: Sham surgery group, WMD model gro... | {
"abstract": "The development and maturation of the oligodendrocyte requires a series of highly orchestrated events that coordinate the proliferation and differentiation of the oligodendrocyte precursor cell (OPC) as well as the spatiotemporal regulation of myelination. In recent years, widespread interest has been ... | {
"abstract": "Sodium dynamics are essential for regulating functional processes in glial cells. Indeed, glial Na+ signaling influences and regulates important glial activities, and plays a role in neuron‐glia interaction under physiological conditions or in response to injury of the central nervous system (CNS). Eme... |
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"abstract": "A field experiment was conducted to assess the impact of cow manure and its vermicompost on the improvement of rice grain yield and quality in Rasht, Iran in 2015 and 2016. The experimental factors were devoted to cow manure (0, 10 and 20 t ha –1 ) and vermicompost (0, 5 and 10 t ha –1 ). The results r... | {
"abstract": "Double cropping is an essential strategy for increasing crop productivity, promoting employment, satisfying food demands, and enhancing sustainability of production. However, much of the evidence on which farmers double crop (and if so, how often) is anecdotal. Factors affecting the adoption of double ... | {
"abstract": "ABSTRACT Ligand-dependent nuclear receptor compressor-like (LCORL) encodes a transcription factor, and its polymorphisms are associated with measures of skeletal frame size and adult height in several species. Recently, the single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) BIEC2-808543 located upstream of LCORL was... |
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"abstract": "This work studies the performance and scalability characteristics of hybrid' parallel programming and execution as applied to raycasting volume rendering -- a staple visualization algorithm -- on a large, multi-core platform. Historically, the Message Passing Interface (MPI) has become the de-facto sta... | {
"abstract": "In addition to their role as simulation engines, modern supercomputers can be harnessed for scientific visualization. Their extensive concurrency, parallel storage systems, and high-performance interconnects can mitigate the expanding size and complexity of scientific datasets and prepare for in situ v... | {
"abstract": "The paper presents aspects concerning the tuning of two-degree-of-freedom (2-DOF) fuzzy controllers focused on 2-DOF PI-fuzzy controllers and 2-DOF PID- fuzzy controllers. 2-DOF Mamdani and Takagi-Sugeno fuzzy control system structures are offered. The tuning is based on mapping the parameters of the l... |
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"abstract": "International teaching assistants (ITAs) in North American English-medium universities often work with an accent. In one sense, to work with an accent entails doing one’s work while having an aural stigma. This is due to the increased likelihood that students and other university stakeholders perceive ... | {
"abstract": "How language is conceptualized as labor is a function of the economy within which profits are made and businesses are structured. Under capitalist regimes, language practices have been conceptualized as apart from labor, as part of the means of production, and as the product. Under neoliberal regimes a... | {
"abstract": "Within the news media and literature, alike, people experiencing homelessness are often categorised into various stereotypes revolving around their lack of abode. In such a practice a ‘homeless identity’ becomes the defining feature of a person’s character. Very few theoretical studies have critically ... |
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"abstract": "Svozil developed a regularization method for quantum field theory on fractal spacetime (1987). Such a method can be applied to the low-order perturbative renormalization of quantum electrodynamics but will depend on a conjectural integral formula on non-integer-dimensional topological spaces. The main ... | {
"abstract": "Spacetime is modelled as a fractal subset of Rn. Analysis on homogeneous sets with non-integer Hausdorff dimensions is applied to the low-order perturbative renormalisation of quantum electrodynamics. This new regularisation method implements the Dirac matrices and tensors in R4 without difficulties, i... | {
"abstract": "Silicon, being one of the most abundant elements in nature, attracts wide-ranging scientific and technological interest. Specifically, in its elemental form, crystals of remarkable purity can be produced. One may assume that this would lead to silicon being well understood, and indeed, this is the case... |
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"abstract": "Diabetes and obesity are growing problems worldwide and are associated with a range of acute and chronic complications, including acute myocardial infarction (AMI) and stroke. Novel anti-diabetic medications designed to treat T2DM, such as glucagonlike peptide-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1RAs) and sodium-... | {
"abstract": "Luseogliflozin [Lusefi® (Japan)] is an orally active second-generation sodium-glucose co-transporter 2 (SGLT2) inhibitor developed by Taisho Pharmaceutical for the treatment of patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). The drug has received its first global approval for this indication in Japan, e... | {
"abstract": "Type 2 diabetes (T2D) generally requires a combination of several pharmacological approaches to control hyperglycaemia. Combining a sodium-glucose cotransporter type 2 inhibitor (SGLT2I, also known as gliflozin) and a dipeptidyl peptidase-4 inhibitor (DPP-4I, also known as gliptin) appears to be an att... |
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"abstract": "Physical activity is inversely associated with risk of some cancers. The relation with cancer‐specific death remains uncertain. Mainly, studies on relationships between physical activity and cancer are based on self‐reported physical activity (SPA). Hereby, we examined whether measured cardiorespirator... | {
"abstract": "SUMMARY Among 2014 presumably healthy males aged 40-59 years coronary heart disease (CHD) was suggested in 115 in the presence of one or more of the following criteria: 1) a WHOquestionnaire on angina pectoris positive on interview, 2) typical angina during a near maximal bicycle exercise test, 3) a po... | {
"abstract": "The degree and effectiveness of compensatory changes in the distal coronary vascular bed during progressive proximal coronary stenosis have not been described. In this study, coronary vascular bed resistance and pressure gradient-flow relationships were determined for 157 different stenoses in nine ope... |
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"abstract": "In this article, we present and evaluate a system, which allows a mobile robot to autonomously detect, model, and re-recognize objects in everyday environments. While other systems have demonstrated one of these elements, to our knowledge, we present the first system, which is capable of doing all of t... | {
"abstract": "Recognizing and manipulating objects is an important task for mobile robots performing useful services in everyday environments. In this paper, we develop a system that enables a robot to grasp an object and to move it in front of its depth camera so as to build a 3D surface model of the object. We der... | {
"abstract": "The term ‘Image Reconstruction’ refers to the retrieval of the original image (or a general signal) from its given awful version, such as an image that is corrupted by noise, blurred by atmospheric turbulence (as in certain astronomic observations), or that has certain scratched regions. The previous i... |
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"abstract": "This note extends the result of HS02 [2] in order to use the inductive approach to study models with critical dimension other than 4. The results are applied in Hthesis [3] to study sufficiently spread-out lattice trees in dimensions d > 8 and may also be applicable to percolation in dimensions d > 6."... | {
"abstract": "Abstract. The lace expansion is a powerful tool for analysing the critical behaviour of self-avoiding walks and percolation. It gives rise to a recursion relation which we abstract and study using an adaptation of the inductive method introduced by den Hollander and the authors. We give conditions unde... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Let p = (p(i): i ≥ 0) be a sequence of numbers satisfying 0 ≤ p(i) < 1 for i = 0,1,2,…, and let G be a random graph with vertex set ℤ = {…, — 1, 0, 1,…} and with edge set defined as follows: for each pair i, j of vertices, where i ≤ j, there is an edge joining i and j with probability p(j — i)... |
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"abstract": "Morphogenesis of craniopharyngeal derivatives of the neurohypophysis found in 14 Fischer 344 (F344) rats was studied. The incidence of the craniopharyngeal derivatives was 0.17% in male (7 out of 4,200) and 0.16% in female (7 out of 4,450) F344 rats. Neither a sex-related difference in their incidence ... | {
"abstract": "Aberrant craniopharyngeal structures within the neurohypophysis were analyzed in 17 rats, originating from four different colonies of Sprague-Dawley- and Wistar-derived strains, which were used for toxicity studies in five different laboratories. Males were more frequently affected than females. The in... | {
"abstract": "Craniopharyngiomas are extremely rare epithelial tumors of the sellar region in human beings and domestic and laboratory animals. A craniopharyngioma, 0.6 cm in diameter, was observed grossly in the sellar and parasellar regions of an untreated 23-month-old male Wistar-derived rat sacrificed moribund. ... |
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"abstract": "Based on Michel Foucault’s description of how knowledge is created and Stephen Toulmin’s philosophy of human understanding, this essay uncovers what it means for a branch of knowledge to be a discipline. This deconstruction explains certain disciplinary misconceptions existing within the IS field and a... | {
"abstract": "The short history of Information Systems suggests persistent anxiety about the field's purported lack of academic legitimacy. A common refrain in the anxiety discourse is that legitimacy can be obtained only by creating a strong theoretic core for the field. This essay takes exception with this view, a... | {
"abstract": "As the Montessori method of education bursts into the public education sector, public school district administrators are finding themselves leading Montessori programs without any Montessori training. Through surveys and individual meetings, this action research project examines traditionally trained a... |
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"abstract": "We propose a model for word-of-mouth (WoM) management where a firm has two tools at hand: offering referral rewards and offering a free contract. Current customers’ incentives to engage in WoM can affect the contracting problem of a firm in the presence of positive externalities of users. Formally, we ... | {
"abstract": "Recent advances in information technology have allowed firms to gather vast amounts of data regarding consumers’ preferences and the structure and intensity of their social interactions. This paper examines a game-theoretic model of competition between firms that can target their marketing budgets to i... | {
"abstract": "Abstract The success of Internet social networking sites depends on the number and activity levels of their user members. Although users typically have numerous connections to other site members (i.e., “friends”), only a fraction of those so-called friends may actually influence a member's site usage. ... |
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"abstract": "Transthyretin (TTR) amyloidoses are systemic diseases associated with TTR aggregation and extracellular deposition in tissues as amyloid. The most frequent and severe forms of the disease are hereditary and associated with amino acid substitutions in the protein due to single point mutations in the TTR... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Background: A recent 2-year randomized controlled trial indicated that the transthyretin (TTR) tetramer stabilizer, diflunisal, inhibits polyneuropathy progression and preserves quality of life in hereditary ATTR amyloidosis. However, its long-term outcomes are unknown. Here, we report toleran... | {
"abstract": "OBJECTIVE\nThe objective of this study was to develop a novel amino acid modified zinc/calcium polycarboxylate cement system, formulate the cements, and evaluate their mechanical strengths.\n\n\nMATERIALS AND METHODS\nAcrylate and methacrylate derivatives of four amino acids were synthesized and charac... |
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"abstract": "Recently, various types of wireless sensor network systems have been developed. Their price has also been reduced, and we can easily use such systems to monitor human states and behaviors in a house. Furthermore, such kind of information is useful for elderly care and nursing care by robot partners. Ho... | {
"abstract": "Recently, various types of wireless sensor network systems have been developed to realize daily care for elderly people living alone. Furthermore, visualization methods of life logs have been presented. However, it is important to integrate different types of data measured by each sensor node to estima... | {
"abstract": "This paper deals with environment reconstruction in informationally structured space used for pocket robot partners. The environmental information is measured through the sensor network, and is stored in the remote host computer. The pocket robot partner accesses the environment information through wir... |
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"abstract": "Observations with the Rossi X-Ray Timing Explorer (RXTE), the Advanced Satellite for Astrophysics and Cosmology, and ROSAT have been used to search for X-ray emission produced by the inverse Compton process in the Abell 1367 galaxy cluster. The three data sets provide a high-quality spectrum which exte... | {
"abstract": "Lower limits to the intracluster magnetic field are derived from modeling broad band X-ray spectra of 6 galaxy clusters with radio halos (A401, A754, A1367, Coma = A1656, A2256, and A2319). The 0.710 keV spectra for all clusters were obtained with the Advanced Satellite for Cosmology and Astrophysics (... | {
"abstract": "Zusammenfassung Fur electrochemische Messungen an Einkristallen wird eine einfache Anordung verwandt, bei der aufgrund der Oberflachenspannung des Electrolyten nur die orientierte Flache benetzt wird. Der Ausschluss von Randeffekten wird anhand der Adsorptionssysteme Ag/Pb 2+ und Au/Cu 2+ gezeigt. Pote... |
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"abstract": "The prevalence of HCI research carried out with nonprofit organizations has increased dramatically over the past 35 years. Despite this history and our accumulating understanding of social sector organizations and their diverse stakeholders’ use of technology, there have not yet been any systematic rev... | {
"abstract": "In this paper, we examine the stories about philanthropic IT that circulate via product websites, marketing materials, and third-party news articles. Through a series of product-centered case studies, we surface these texts' implicit and explicit visions about the (near) future of philanthropy. We deta... | {
"abstract": "Hardware manufacturers are increasingly outsourcing their IC fabrication work overseas due to their much lower cost structure. This poses a significant security risk for ICs used for critical military and business applications. Attackers can exploit this loss of control to substitute Trojan ICs for gen... |
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"abstract": "Linear time-invariant systems with matched perturbations are exactly stabilised in finite time by means of dynamic output-feedback control under the assumptions of a permanent complete vector relative degree and bounded perturbations. The approach makes use of non-homogeneous high-order sliding-mode co... | {
"abstract": "A systematic approach to the chattering analysis in systems with second-order sliding modes is developed. The neglected actuator dynamics is considered to be the main cause of chattering in real systems. The magnitude of oscillations in nonlinear systems with unmodeled fast nonlinear actuators driven b... | {
"abstract": "We consider robustness properties of second-order methods for the sliding mode control of nonlinear ordinary differential equations. A new approach is presented based on the theory of well-posed optimization problems. It is shown that the convergence of the real states of the control system to the idea... |
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"abstract": "Salmonellae that cause paratyphoid infection, mainly the Salmonella Enteritidis (SE), are among the main causes of foodborne diseases in humans, representing great loss for the poultry industry. The search for a unique and decisive control means has been frustrated due to the bacterial characteristics ... | {
"abstract": "Recent studies have indicated that crop contamination increases during preslaughter feed withdrawal and that contaminated crop contents may serve as an important source of Salmonella entry into poultry processing plants. During the present study, we evaluated the effect of preslaughter feed withdrawal ... | {
"abstract": "The aim of this study is to determine the factors affecting the cafe and restaurant preferences of consumers. In the study, it was planned to apply a questionnaire to the consumers who come to the cafes and restaurants in Ortahisar district of Trabzon. However, since some of these venues do not allow s... |
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"abstract": "Many times the most effective way to develop and test a new engine application is to install the engine into the real vehicle or machine, however depending on the complexity and number of systems to be tested then the required effort and investment can be very high that in some cases such approach coul... | {
"abstract": "This paper proposes a closed loop multivariable VGT/EGR control system for a turbocharged diesel engine. The control system is synthesized based on quantitative feedback theory to maintain robust stability and performance in the presence of model variations via sequential MIMO loop-shaping. Simulation ... | {
"abstract": "In diesel engines, exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) is an efficient method for reducing NO/sub x/. EGR rates are commonly set according to the expected engine behavior, without considering the actual composition of the exhaust gases. In this paper, a new control system for EGR in passenger cars is prese... |
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"abstract": "The effects of induced differentiation on telomerase activity were examined in human acute promyelocytic leukemic (NB4) and human embryonal carcinoma (NTERA-2) cells exposed to all-trans-retinoic acid or hexamethylene bisacetamide. Retinoic acid treatment of NB4 and NTERA-2 cells, and hexamethylene bis... | {
"abstract": "The multipotent human teratocarcinoma (TC) cell NTera-2 clone D1 (abbreviated NT2/D1) differentiates into a neuronal lineage after retinoic acid (RA) treatment and a distinct phenotype after hexamethylene bisacetamide (HMBA) treatment. We previously reported that RA treatment of NT2/D1 cells reduces ce... | {
"abstract": "Acetylation has been shown to delay fungal decay, but the underlying mechanisms are poorly understood. Brown-rot fungi, such as Rhodonia placenta (Fr.) Niemela, K.H. Larss. & Schigel, degrade wood in two steps, i.e., oxidative depolymerization followed by secretion of hydrolytic enzymes. Since separati... |
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"abstract": "The integration of photovoltaic (PV) modules into dc microgrids relies on the capabilities of maximum power point (MPP) tracking and output voltage regulation (OVR). Under partial shading or mismatches between PV submodules, accurate global MPP tracking and efficient OVR are challenging processes. For ... | {
"abstract": "The strive for efficient and cost-effective photovoltaic (PV) systems motivated the power electronic design developed here. The work resulted in a dc–dc converter for module integration and distributed maximum power point tracking (MPPT) with a novel adaptive control scheme. The latter is essential for... | {
"abstract": "In a solar photovoltaic array, it is possible that shadow may fall over some of its cells. Under partial shading conditions the PV characteristic gets more complex with multiple peaks. The purpose of this paper is to illustrate, by analyzing different shading situations, the effects that partial shadin... |
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"abstract": "In recent years, reversible computing has established itself as a promising research area and emerging technology. This is motivated by a widely supported prediction that conventional computer hardware technologies will reach their limits in the near future. This thesis focuses on three important areas... | {
"abstract": "This paper proposes templates for positive and negative control Toffoli gates for post synthesis optimization of reversible circuits. Templates 1 − 5 can be applied to two adjacent Toffoli gates T 1(C 1,t 1) and T 2(C 2,t 2) where C i is the set of controls, |C 1| = |C 2|, and |t 1| = |t 2|. Templates ... | {
"abstract": "Urban green infrastructure (UGI) and nature-based solutions (NBS) are increasingly recognized as strategies to address urban sustainability challenges. These solutions are attracting key scientific and marketing attention thanks to their capability to improve indoor and outdoor thermal comfort and envi... |
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"abstract": "Opposed to centralized search where Websites are crawled and indexed, Distributed Information Retrieval (DIR), also known as Federated Search, is a powerful way to comprehensively search multiple databases in real-time simultaneously. DIR is preferred to centralized search environments in a number of w... | {
"abstract": "Leveraging clickthrough data has become a popular approach for evaluating and optimizing information retrieval systems. Although data is plentiful, one must take care when interpreting clicks, since user behavior can be affected by various sources of presentation bias. While the issue of position bias ... | {
"abstract": "In web search, information about times between user actions has been shown to be a good indicator of users' satisfaction with the search results. Existing work uses the mean values of the observed times, or fits probability distributions to the observed times. This implies a context-independence assump... |
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"abstract": "Institutions can affect the degree to which public opinion influences policy by determining the clarity of responsibility in decision-making. The sharing of power between national and devolved levels of government makes it difficult for the public to attribute responsibility for decisions. In the UK, t... | {
"abstract": "Devolution provides large scope for Scotland to make its own policy. Primary legislation is one measure of this. Scottish legislation before devolution tended to replicate measures for the rest of the United Kingdom, with differences of style. Scottish legislation in the first four-year term of the Par... | {
"abstract": "The paper describes institutional development of the Estonian Parliament after the first elections in March 1990. A peak of institutional changes occurred during the first few months after the elections, often through painful learning from errors but often simply by copying institutions of developed de... |
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