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"abstract": "This study determined the mitochondrial genome structure of the blue swimming crab (Portunus pelagicus), and elucidated its phylogenetic relationships among the species within the order Decapoda. The complete mitochondrial genome was 16,155 bp long, and contained 13 protein-coding genes, 22 transfer RN... | {
"abstract": "Genetic diversity and population differentiation of the blue swimming crab, Portunus pelagicus, in Thailand were analyzed by RAPD analysis. One hundred and twelve RAPD fragments were generated from 109 individuals of P. pelagicus using OPA02, OPA14, OPB10, UBC122, and UBC158 primers. The percentage of ... | {
"abstract": "In this paper, after summarizing and reviewing the methods of computing damages for wrongful death or injury in the law and economics literature, we present the way in which damages should be compensated for according to the mainstream Greek tort law theory. We then examine the actual calculation of da... |
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"abstract": "In the United States, people are more likely to have poor oral health if they are low-income, uninsured, and/or members of racial/ethnic minority, immigrant, or rural populations who have suboptimal access to quality oral health care. As a result, poor oral health serves as the national symbol of socia... | {
"abstract": "Introduction While the US health care system has the capability to provide amazing treatment of a wide array of conditions, this care is not uniformly available to all population groups. Oral health care is one of the dimensions of the US health care delivery system in which striking disparities exist.... | {
"abstract": "In the United States, people are more likely to have poor oral health if they are low-income, uninsured, and/or members of racial/ethnic minority, immigrant, or rural populations who have suboptimal access to quality oral health care. As a result, poor oral health serves as the national symbol of socia... |
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"abstract": "In this work we aim to predict the driver's focus of attention. The goal is to estimate what a person would pay attention to while driving, and which part of the scene around the vehicle is more critical for the task. To this end we propose a new computer vision model based on a multi-branch deep archi... | {
"abstract": "Driving a car in an urban setting is an extremely difficult problem, incorporating a large number of complex visual tasks; however, this problem is solved daily by most adults with little apparent effort. This paper proposes a novel vision-based approach to autonomous driving that can predict and even ... | {
"abstract": "Current road safety initiatives are approaching the limit of their effectiveness in developed countries. A paradigm shift is needed to address the preventable deaths of thousands on our roads. Previous systems have focused on one or two aspects of driving: environmental sensing, vehicle dynamics or dri... |
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"abstract": "OBJECTIVE\nTo compare the periodontal health of maxillary and mandibular anterior teeth retained with two types of fixed retainers.\n\n\nMATERIALS AND METHODS\nA fixed straight retainer (SR) group had 39 subjects, and a fixed wave retainer (WR) group had 35 subjects. Subjects were between the ages of 1... | {
"abstract": "OBJECTIVE\nTo evaluate whether biomarkers of inflammation and periodontal remodeling are differentially expressed in the gingival crevicular fluid (GCF) of patients wearing different types of orthodontic retainers.\n\n\nMATERIALS AND METHODS\nThirty-one adult subjects (17 men and 14 women with an age r... | {
"abstract": "Introduction: The stability of treatment results is a major concern in orthodontics. Numerous retention regimens to maintain stability have been introduced. The objectives of this study were to evaluate the effects of vacuum‐formed retainers (VFRs) on periodontal tissues and the retention efficiency of... |
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"abstract": "Neuroprotection by citicoline (CDP‐choline) in transient cerebral ischemia has been demonstrated previously. Citicoline has undergone several Phase III clinical trials for stroke, and is being evaluated for treatment of Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases. Phospholipid degradation and generation of re... | {
"abstract": "CDP‐choline is a rate‐limiting intermediate in the biosynthesis of phosphatidylcholine (PtdCho), an important component of the neural cell membrane. The ability of CDP‐choline to alter phospholipid metabolism is an important function in the treatment of ischemic injury. Exogenous treatment with CDP‐cho... | {
"abstract": "The concentrations of the arachidonlc add metabolites, PGD2, PGF2α, and 6-keto-PGF1α, were measured in the cerebral hemispheres of gerbils subjected to unilateral carotid occlusion. Approximately 37 percent of the animals with occlusion had symptoms of cerebral ischemia. In those animals PGD2, and PGF2... |
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"abstract": "Airborne laser scanning (ALS) allows a very detailed sampling of the landscape within a more or less automated recording procedure. For the representation of the models computed on the basis of the acquired irregular distributed point cloud mostly raster resp. grid models or triangulated irregular netw... | {
"abstract": "In this paper we describe a simulation system and investigations for analysis of recorded laser pulses. A simulation setup that considers simulated signals of synthetic objects was developed for exploring the capabilities of recognizing urban objects using a laser system. The temporal waveform of each ... | {
"abstract": "Current pulsed laser radar systems for ranging purposes are based on time-of-flight techniques. Nowadays first pulse as well as last pulse exploitation is used for different application, e.g. urban planning, forestry surveying. Besides this technique of time measurement the complete signal form over th... |
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"abstract": "State-of-the-art methods in the image-to-image translation are capable of learning a mapping from a source domain to a target domain with unpaired image data. Though the existing methods have achieved promising results, they still produce visual artifacts, being able to translate low-level information ... | {
"abstract": "Image translation between two domains is a class of problems aiming to learn mapping from an input image in the source domain to an output image in the target domain. It has been applied to numerous applications, such as data augmentation, domain adaptation, and unsupervised training. When paired train... | {
"abstract": "Recognition of grocery products in store shelves poses peculiar challenges. Firstly, the task mandates the recognition of an extremely high number of different items, in the order of several thousands for medium-small shops, with many of them featuring small inter and intra class variability. Then, ava... |
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"abstract": "Nowadays simulation training technology is a priority method of maritime specialists’ practical training in the world. The main purpose of using VR simulators within an educational process is to simulate work on real equipment in order to form professional competencies of seafarers. The article describ... | {
"abstract": "Today, virtual reality and immersive environments are lines of research which can be applied to numerous scientific and educational domains. Immersive digital media needs new approaches regarding its interactive and immersive features, which means the design of new narratives and relationships with use... | {
"abstract": "The main focus of relational learning for knowledge graph completion (KGC) lies in exploiting rich contextual information for facts. Many state-of-the-art models incorporate fact sequences, entity types, and even textual information. Unfortunately, most of them do not fully take advantage of rich struc... |
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"abstract": "Zeros (i.e. events that do not happen) are the source of two common phenomena in count data: overdispersion and zero‐inflation. Zeros have multiple origins in a dataset: false zeros occur due to errors in the experimental design or the observer; structural zeros are related to the ecological or evoluti... | {
"abstract": "Native herbivores can establish novel interactions with alien plants after invasion. Nevertheless, it is unclear whether these new associations are quantitatively significant compared to the assemblages with native flora under natural conditions. Herbivores associated with two exotic plants, namely Sen... | {
"abstract": "Invasive plants disrupt both floral and faunal communities of the invaded regions. Influence of invasive plants on ecosystem functioning and dynamics in the invaded region can be understood by taking into consideration complex interactions between native insects and non-native plants. This review attem... |
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"abstract": "Probability models are emerging as a promising framework to account for “intelligent” behavior. In this article, probability propagation is discussed to model agent's motion in potentially complex grids that include goals and obstacles. Tensor messages in the state-action space (due to grid structure, ... | {
"abstract": "This paper presents and demonstrates a new approach to the problem of planning under uncertainty. Actions are treated as hidden variables, with their own prior distributions, in a probabilistic generative model involving actions and states. Planning is done by computing the posterior distribution over ... | {
"abstract": "The Partially Observable Markov Decision Process (POMDP) framework has proven useful in planning domains where agents must balance actions that provide knowledge and actions that provide reward. Unfortunately, most POMDPs are complex structures with a large number of parameters. In many real-world prob... |
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"abstract": "In recent years, organic/inorganic hybrid materials have attracted much attention in the field of multilayer antireflection films because of their excellent optical properties. In this paper, the organic/inorganic nanocomposite was prepared from polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) and titanium (IV) isopropoxide (T... | {
"abstract": "In this paper, we present a low cost approach to produce large-area polymer sheets with sub-wavelength nanostructures. The fabricated polymer films would have great potentials to attach to optical or solar-cell-related consumer products when anti-reflection/anti-glaring is mandatory. We employed a spec... | {
"abstract": "Electron field emission was measured from carbon and silicon thin films comprised of a porous, pillar microstructure fabricated by the glancing angle deposition technique. This single step glancing angle deposition technique leads to a high areal density of pillars with nanometer-scale diameters. A com... |
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"abstract": "A Large scale dam named as Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) is currently under construction on the Blue Nile River in Ethiopia. The final report of the International Panel of Experts (IPoE) on the GERD project which was submitted to the governments of Ethiopia, Sudan and if the first impounding o... | {
"abstract": "It would be greatly helpful to neophytes if knowledge-based system technology incorporating the existing heuristic knowledge about model manipulation can be integrated into the hydrological system. This paper delineates the development and implementation of a prototype knowledge-based system for model ... | {
"abstract": "We frequently use the standard correlation coefficient to quantify linear relation between two given variables of interest in crisp industrial data. On the other hand, in many real world applications involving the opinions of experts, the domain of a variable of interest, e.g. the rating of the innovat... |
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"abstract": "This paper proposes signal processing methods to extend a stationary part of an audio signal endlessly. A frequent occasion is that there is not enough audio material to build a synthesizer, but an example sound must be extended or modified for more variability. Filtering of a white noise signal with a... | {
"abstract": "While linear prediction (LP) has become immensely popular in speech modeling, it does not seem to provide a good approach for modeling audio signals. This is somewhat surprising, since a tonal signal consisting of a number of sinusoids can be perfectly predicted based on an (all-pole) LP model with a m... | {
"abstract": "This paper uses data from the Scottish Young People's Cohort Study to investigate the factors affecting participation in post-compulsory education in Scotland. These surveys are a unique source of information on routes through school and on entry to higher education. The major aim of the paper is to es... |
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"abstract": "This paper presents an information systems design theory (ISDT) intended to guide the design, development and maintenance of an information system to support e-learning. The ISDT draws on a number of kernel theories to specify an information system that supports the level of variety and change inherent... | {
"abstract": "An Information Systems Design Theory (ISDT) is a prescriptive theory that offers theory-based principles that can guide practitioners in the design of effective Information Systems and set an agenda for on-going research. This paper introduces the origins of the ISDT concept and describes one ISDT for ... | {
"abstract": "This essay extends Simon's arguments in the Sciences of the Artificial to a critical examination of how theorizing in Information Technology disciplines should occur. The essay is framed around a number of fundamental questions that relate theorizing in the artificial sciences to the traditions of the ... |
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"abstract": "Predictive biomarkers may be beneficial for detecting, diagnosing, and assessing the risk of restenosis and vascular injury. We utilized proteomic profiling to identify protein markers in the blood following vascular injury, and corroborated the differential protein expression with immunological approa... | {
"abstract": "The emergence of novel technologies allows researchers to facilitate the comprehensive analyses of genomes, transcriptomes, and proteomes in health and disease. The information that is expected from such technologies may soon exert a dramatic change in the pace of cancer research and impact dramaticall... | {
"abstract": "In our previous work, the limitation of standard type I and II power saving in IEEE 802.16e was discussed, and the idea of load-based power saving LBPS was proposed for better power-saving efficiency. LBPS measures traffic load and adaptively generates proper sleep schedule for the current load. Three ... |
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"abstract": "Summary Dual antiplatelet therapy consisting of one of the P2Y12 receptor inhibitors in conjunction with aspirin is the mainstay of treatment for patients with acute coronary syndromes (ACS) and those undergoing percutaneous coronary interventions (PCI). In recent years, multiple extra-platelet feature... | {
"abstract": "Background—Prasugrel and ticagrelor provide a superior anti-ischemic action than clopidogrel, with some of ticagrelor’s benefits possibly attributed to adenosine-mediated mechanisms. We aimed to compare the effect of maintenance dose of ticagrelor versus prasugrel on coronary blood flow velocity (CBFV)... | {
"abstract": "Background and Purpose In patients with myocardial infarction, ticagrelor reduces cardiovascular and sepsis-related mortality, and can cause dyspnea. It is suggested that this is caused by adenosine receptor stimulation, because in preclinical studies, ticagrelor blocks the nucleoside transporter and i... |
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"abstract": "Pedestrian detection is one of the key problems in the emerging self-driving car industry. In addition, the Histogram of Gradients (HOG) algorithm proved to provide good accuracy for pedestrian detection. Many research works focused on accelerating HOG algorithm on FPGA (Field-Programmable Gate Array) ... | {
"abstract": "Advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) are the key to enable autonomous cars in the near future. One important task for autonomous cars is to detect pedestrians reliably in real-time. The HOG algorithm is one of the best algorithms for this task; however it is very compute intensive. To fulfill the ... | {
"abstract": "Microcrystalline cellulose (Avicel PH102) and Brewers’ spent grain (BSG) were subjected to Detente Instantanee Controlee (DIC) thermomechanical pre-treatment before exposure to cellulases (Celluclast 1.5 L). In a first part, we showed that the addition of β-glucosidase (Novozym-188) increased the hydro... |
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"abstract": "The aim of this PhD research project is to investigate the aqueous behaviours of phosphate species and the structure of bioactive phosphate glasses via \ncomputational modelling. Density functional theory has been employed as the core \nmethodology throughout the project. The molecular structures of bi... | {
"abstract": "We compare results for water obtained with the AM05 exchange-correlation density functional ( Armiento, R.; Mattsson, A. E. Phys. Rev. B 2005, 72, 085108 ) with those obtained with five other pure functionals: LDA, PBE, PBEsol, RPBE, and BLYP. For liquid water, AM05 yields an O-O pair correlation funct... | {
"abstract": "Kohn-Sham density functional theory (DFT) has become established as an indispensable tool for investigating aqueous systems of all kinds, including those important in chemistry, surface science, biology, and the earth sciences. Nevertheless, many widely used approximations for the exchange-correlation ... |
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"abstract": "Autonomous crop monitoring is a difficult task due to the complex structure of plants. Occlusions from leaves can make it impossible to obtain complete views about all fruits of, e.g., pepper plants. Therefore, accurately estimating the shape and volume of fruits from partial information is crucial to ... | {
"abstract": "This paper presents a method for estimating the ::: 6DOF pose of sweet-pepper (capsicum) crops for autonomous ::: harvesting via a robotic manipulator. The method uses the ::: Kinect Fusion algorithm to robustly fuse RGB-D data from ::: an eye-in-hand camera combined with a colour segmentation ::: and ... | {
"abstract": "In our post-genomic world, where we are deluged with genetic information, the bottleneck to scientific progress is often phenotyping, i.e. measuring the observable characteristics of living organisms, such as counting the number of fruits on a plant. Image analysis is one route to automation. In this p... |
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"abstract": "D‐dimer (DD) is a fibrin degradation product present in negligible amounts in healthy individuals, but in thrombotic/fibrinolytic conditions substantially increases in plasma. Over the last two decades numerous studies have explored whether DD measurements would help stroke clinicians. An easy, reliabl... | {
"abstract": "Background and Purpose There is no in-depth information available on the changes in hemostatic systems in patients in the acute phase of spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH). This study was conducted to assess the relationships between the changes in hemostatic systems and clinical parameters in ... | {
"abstract": "MRI is becoming the imaging modality of choice in patients with ischemic cerebrovascular disease although CT is still the test of choice to exclude acute hemorrhagic stroke. We have briefly reviewed characteristic features of ischemic and hemorrhagic cerebrovascular disease as well as vascular anomalie... |
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"abstract": "SystemML aims at declarative, large-scale machine learning (ML) on top of MapReduce, where high-level ML scripts with R-like syntax are compiled to programs of MR jobs. The declarative specification of ML algorithms enables---in contrast to existing large-scale machine learning libraries---automatic op... | {
"abstract": "With the exponential growth in the amount of data that is being generated in recent years, there is a pressing need for applying machine learning algorithms to large data sets. SystemML is a framework that employs a declarative approach for large scale data analytics. In SystemML, machine learning algo... | {
"abstract": "Correlations between neuronal spike trains affect network dynamics and population coding. Overlapping afferent populations and correlations between presynaptic spike trains introduce correlations between the inputs to downstream cells. To understand network activity and population coding, it is therefo... |
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"abstract": "Changes of DNA methylation in gastric mucosae after eradication of Helicobacter pylori have not been clarified yet. From this background, we investigated time course of DNA methylation following H. pylori eradication in 221 successfully H. pylori eradicated subjects with endoscopic follow‐up at least f... | {
"abstract": "Objective: Whether gastric atrophy (GA) and intestinal metaplasia (IM) are reversible after the eradication of Helicobacter pylori remains controversial. The purpose of this meta-analysis was to systematically review histological alterations in GA and IM by comparing histological scores before and afte... | {
"abstract": "Exit is an important part of the entrepreneurial lifecycle. In contrast to numerous previous studies on entry, however, little attention has been paid to entrepreneurial exit, and much less on exit modes thus far. Using a recent original survey data on small business owners in New Zealand, where a larg... |
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"abstract": "This toxicological profile is prepared in accordance with guidelines developed by the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The original guidelines were published in the Federal Register on April 17, 1987. Each profile will be revised an... | {
"abstract": "Background Environmental lead exposure has been found to be associated with an increased risk of hypertension. Individuals vary greatly in susceptibility to lead toxicity, and genetic susceptibility has often been cited as the probable cause for such variation. Objective The main objective is to determ... | {
"abstract": "notes 425 Absorbeut-stone, the, by Capt. W. F. Reichwald, RH.A. ... 431 Acclimatization in the Tropics, observatlOns on the physiology of, current literature 343 Africa, South, paratyphoid fevers in, by Major J. G. l\\lcNaught ... 505 Africa, West, note upon yellow fever, bilious remittent, and remitte... |
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"abstract": "Background The transportation of camp firewood infested by non-native forest pests such as Asian long-horned beetle (ALB) and emerald ash borer (EAB) has severe impacts on North American forests. Once invasive forest pests are established, it can be difficult to eradicate them. Hence, preventing the lo... | {
"abstract": "Long-distance dispersal pathways, which frequently relate to human activities, facilitate the spread of alien species. One pathway of concern in North America is the possible spread of forest pests in firewood carried by visitors to campgrounds or recreational facilities. We present a network model dep... | {
"abstract": "The possibility that night-flying insects may use naturally polarized light as a cue for flight, dispersal, migratory activities and for orientation during movements (at night) has rarely been considered. The reason for this neglect may well be the belief that the amounts of polarized light that are av... |
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"abstract": "Global climate change measures, such as emissions-reduction schemes, operate over many areas long occupied by indigenous peoples and local communities in Southeast Asia and Australasia. REDD+ emissions-reduction schemes seek to realize both environmental protection and co-benefits, including the retent... | {
"abstract": "Swidden cultivation was observed to be under pressure but still persisting in many areas in Sarawak, Malaysia around 2000–2003. Since then rapid development of smallholder oil palm and rubber, continuing urbanization and rural to urban migration appear to have considerably reduced the area under swidde... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Shifting cultivation is practiced by millions of farmers in the tropics and has been accused of causing deforestation and keeping farmers in poverty. The assumed positive relationship between fallow length and crop yields has long shaped such negative opinions on the sustainability and environ... |
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"abstract": "Research of cereal glycoproteins is important for understanding of their functional properties, their role during technological processing of cereals and it can serve as a valuable tool for the detection of cereal allergens. The main intention of this study was the screening of profile of water-soluble... | {
"abstract": "Protein glycosylation is involved in a broad range of biological processes that regulate protein function and control cell fate. As aberrant glycosylation has been found to be implicated in numerous diseases, the study and large‐scale characterization of protein glycosylation is of great interest not o... | {
"abstract": "Five doses of two dihydropyridine calcium antagonists, FR 34235 and nifedipine, were given intravenously to anesthetized dogs to determine effects on hemodynamics and myocardial oxygen balance. Both agents produced dose-related decreases in mean arterial blood pressure and tension time index with littl... |
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"abstract": "The ABA-INSENSITIVE 4 transcription factor is key for the regulation of diverse aspects of plant development and environmental responses, including proper perception of hormonal and nutritional signals. ABI4 activity is highly regulated at the transcriptional and post-transcriptional levels leading to ... | {
"abstract": "A set of genes expressed during Arabidopsis embryo development are directly controlled by the transcription factor FUSCA3. FUSCA3 (FUS3) is a B3 domain transcription factor that is a member of the LEAFY COTYLEDON (LEC) group of genes. The LEC genes encode proteins that also include LEC2, a B3 domain fa... | {
"abstract": "research with a bifurcation analysis of a stochastic predator-prey system. The P-bifurcation (Phenomenological bifurcation) and the D-bifurcation (Dynamical bifurcation) are major analytical methods for the stochastic bifurcation. The P-bifurcation studies a stationary measure corresponding to the one-... |
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"abstract": "A novel proof of principle prototype for a quantum heat engine is proposed, based on the quasi-static tuning of an external magnetic field, in combination with controlled mechanical strain applied to a single graphene flake. The \"working fluid\" of this engine is composed by a statistical ensemble of ... | {
"abstract": "In order to describe quantum heat engines, here we systematically study isothermal and isochoric processes for quantum thermodynamic cycles. Based on these results the quantum versions of both the Carnot heat engine and the Otto heat engine are defined without ambiguities. We also study the properties ... | {
"abstract": "In phenomenological thermodynamics, the canonical coordinates of a physical system split in pairs, with each pair consisting of an extensive quantity and an intensive one. In the present paper, the quasithermodynamic fluctuation theory of a model system of a large number of oscillators is extended to s... |
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"abstract": "In this paper, concepts of fractional-order (FO) derivatives are reviewed and discussed with regard to element models applied in the circuit theory. The properties of FO derivatives required for the circuit-level modeling are formulated. Potential problems related to the generalization of transmission-... | {
"abstract": "A causal and compact fractional-order model is developed for complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) on-chip transmission line (T-line) at Terahertz (THz) frequencies. With consideration of the loss from frequency-dependent dispersion and nonquasi-static effects at THz, good agreement of charact... | {
"abstract": "Purpose. Employee wellness programs aim to assist in controlling employer costs by improving the health status and fitness of employees, potentially increasing productivity, decreasing absenteeism, and reducing medical claims. Most such programs offer no disincentive for nonparticipation. We evaluated ... |
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"abstract": "The US Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts over 8 million job openings in IT and computing, including 1 million cybersecurity postings, over the current five-year period. This paper presents lessons learned in preparing middle-school students in rural Georgia for future careers in computer science/ IT ... | {
"abstract": "Spurred by evidence that students' future studies are highly influenced during middle school, recent efforts have seen a growing emphasis on introducing computer science to middle school learners. This paper reports on the in-progress development of a new middle school curricular module for Big Data, s... | {
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"abstract": "Lung cancer, as well as lung metastases from distal primary tumors, could benefit from aerosol treatment. Unfortunately, because of lung physiology, clearance of nebulized drugs is fast, paralleled by unwanted systemic exposure. Here we report that nebulized AvidinOX can act as an artificial receptor f... | {
"abstract": "Cetuximab, an IgG1 monoclonal antibody against the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR), is widely used for the treatment of metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC). One of the mechanisms of action is considered to be antibody-dependent cell-mediated cytotoxicity (ADCC) triggered by Fcγ-R on natural kil... | {
"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nThe randomized phase II OPUS (Oxaliplatin and Cetuximab in First-Line Treatment of Metastatic Colorectal Cancer) study showed that tumor KRAS mutation status was predictive for outcome in patients receiving cetuximab plus FOLFOX-4 (oxaliplatin/5-fluorouracil/folinic acid) as first-line ther... |
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"abstract": "With the rapid growth of the use of social media websites, obtaining the users' feedback automatically became a crucial task to evaluate their tendencies and behaviors online. Despite this great availability of information, and the increasing number of Arabic users only few research has managed to trea... | {
"abstract": "The computational treatment of subjectivity and sentiment in natural language is usually significantly improved by applying features exploiting lexical resources where entries are tagged with semantic orientation (e.g., positive, negative values). In spite of the fair amount of work on Arabic sentiment... | {
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"title": "A Dataset of Hindi-English Code-Mixed Social Media Text for Hate Speech Detection"
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"abstract": "This paper presents an area- and energy-efficient readout for capacitive touch sensors. An analog front end (AFE) with current conveyor mitigates the requirements of front-end opamp and provides a differential current from adjacent channels, removing sensor’s baseline and interferences. The sensing cur... | {
"abstract": "This paper presents a readout method and circuit for large, capacitive-type touch-screen panels (TSPs). Despite the considerable amount of RC time delay of large-area TSPs, the proposed readout method with a receiver (Rx) input series-capacitor improves the settling speed of signals transferred from th... | {
"abstract": "In this paper, a polar coordinate-based touch data extraction (PCTDE) algorithm is proposed to enhance the linearity and accuracy of touch coordinates for large-sized capacitive touch screen panels (TSPs) with a wide electrode pitch. The proposed PCTDE algorithm accurately extracts the touch coordinate... |
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"abstract": "Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, Baylor College of Medicine (E.M.A., B.W.O.), Houston, Texas 77030; Department of Pharmacology, University of Louisville (D.Z.), Louisville, Kentucky 40292; Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, The John Hopkins University (M.R.), Baltimore, Maryland 21218; and D... | {
"abstract": "Sex steroids exert profound influence on neural development and function through activation of intranuclear receptors. However, during sexual differentiation and at onset of puberty, intracerebral estrogen (E) availability is subsequent to these effects. The potent mitogen epidermal growth factor (EGF)... | {
"abstract": "Gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) neurons are the final common pathway for the central control of reproduction. The coordinated and timely activation of these hypothalamic neurons, which determines sexual development and adult reproductive function, lies under the tight control of a complex array o... |
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"abstract": "In this paper we propose a portfolio selection procedure specifically designed to protect investments during financial crisis periods. To this aim, we focus attention on the lower tails of the returns distributions and use a combination of statistical tools able to take into account the joint behavior ... | {
"abstract": "In this paper we propose a clustering procedure aimed at grouping time series with an association between extremely low values, measured by the lower tail dependence coefficient. Firstly, we estimate the coefficient using an Archimedean copula function. Then, we propose a dissimilarity measure based on... | {
"abstract": "Time series data are common in a variety of fields ranging from economics to medicine and manufacturing. As a result, time series analysis and modeling has become an active research area in statistics and data mining. In this paper, we focus on a type of change we call contextual time series change (CT... |
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"abstract": "Steganography is a technique in which a person hides information in digital media. The message sent by this technique is so secret that other people cannot even imagine the information’s existence. This article entails developing a mechanism for communicating one-on-one with individuals by concealing i... | {
"abstract": "The steganography is the art of hidden; its main aim is to pass unnoticed data in another data. There are many types of data that used in steganography, such as message, image, and video. In this work, we are interested in hiding a message inside an image. Our work focuses on the study of three approac... | {
"abstract": "In this paper, we propose a modification for security authentication systems in mobile devices. Our enhancement is designed to secure information transformation over the internet by combining hash, cryptography and steganography mechanisms. We used the combination for authentication, to secure mobile c... |
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"abstract": "Background Actinic keratosis (AK) and cheilitis (AC) are lesions that develop on photodamaged skin and may progress to form invasive squamous cell carcinomas (SCCs). Objective To provide guidance to Canadian health care practitioners regarding management of AKs and ACs. Methods Literature searches and ... | {
"abstract": "BACKGROUND Photodynamic therapy (PDT) has been developed into a widely used method to treat actinic keratoses and basal cell carcinoma. OBJECTIVE The objective was to assess the efficacy of PDT in the treatment of actinic cheilitis of the lower lip. METHODS In this prospective, uncontrolled study at a ... | {
"abstract": "Purpose:To investigate the relationship between sociodemographic factors and nonpersistence with topical glaucoma medication. Design:This was a retrospective, observational cohort study. Patients and Methods:We invited glaucoma patients on medical therapy from a general ophthalmology practice to comple... |
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"abstract": "Owing to high device density, scalability and non-volatility, Magnetic Tunnel Junction-based crossbars have garnered significant interest for implementing the weights of an artificial neural network. The existence of only two stable states in MTJs implies a high overhead of obtaining optimal binary wei... | {
"abstract": "Spin-transfer torque magnetic memory (STT-MRAM) is currently under intense academic and industrial development, since it features non-volatility, high write and read speed and high endurance. In this work, we show that when used in a non-conventional regime, it can additionally act as a stochastic memr... | {
"abstract": "Deep 'Analog Artificial Neural Networks' (ANNs) perform complex classification problems with remarkably high accuracy. However, they rely on humongous amount of power to perform the calculations, veiling the accuracy benefits. The biological brain on the other hand is significantly more powerful than s... |
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"abstract": "This paper presents a novel method for the compensation of unequal phase velocities of coupled line structures in inhomogeneous media. By means of a rigorous scattering parameter analysis, ideal values for compensating impedances, connected in series to one or several ports of the coupler, are found. I... | {
"abstract": "A simple method using lumped inductors to compensate unequal even- and odd-mode phase velocities in parallel coupled microstrip lines is presented. The singly and doubly compensated cases are analyzed to enable the optimum inductor values and the electrical lengths of the compensated coupled lines to b... | {
"abstract": "This letter demonstrates a series-inductive loading method for the directivity enhancement of microstrip coupled-line couplers. The method has an extreme structural simplicity that is based on two pairs of mutually coupled inductors. Furthermore, it shows little, if any, compromise in the performance, ... |
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"abstract": "The WARC file format is widely used by web archives to preserve collected web content for future use. With the rapid growth of web archives and the increasing interest to reuse these archives as big data sources for statistical and analytical research, the speed to turn these data into insights becomes... | {
"abstract": "Web archives are a valuable resource for researchers of various disciplines. However, to use them as a scholarly source, researchers require a tool that provides efficient access to Web archive data for extraction and derivation of smaller datasets. Besides efficient access we identify five other objec... | {
"abstract": "Kinneyia is the commonly-used term to describe a class of trace fossil that is strongly associated with microbial mats. The appearance of Kinneyia (or wrinkle-structures) in the fossil record has recently led to a number of possible mechanisms being proposed to explain its formation. Here we outline, a... |
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"abstract": "As an efficient, effective and moderately inexpensive modality, mammography has been implemented as a cancer screening tool and in diagnostic management. However, appropriate breast compression is necessary for optimal outcomes. Current key measures of compression force are subjective and variable, giv... | {
"abstract": "BackgroundIn mammography, breast compression is applied to reduce the thickness of the breast. While it is widely accepted that firm breast compression is needed to ensure acceptable image quality, guidelines remain vague about how much compression should be applied during mammogram acquisition. A quan... | {
"abstract": "Mental confusion is a relatively common feature of ill ness in old people. The consequent domestic upheaval and the ensuing medical, nursing, and social problems are well known. This review of the aetiological factors of confusion in 242 elderly confused patients is designed to call attention to the hi... |
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"abstract": "Hedera nepalensis is a ground-creeping evergreen woody plant growing mainly in the Himalayas and Kashmir. This plant is frequently used in folk medicines for the treatment of various ailments. The present research focused on the pharmacological evaluation and phytochemical analysis of crude methanolic ... | {
"abstract": "This paper is based on an ethnobotanical project, carried out in the remote Hindu Kush mountain region of District Swat, Pakistan. The prime objectives of the project were to explore the conservation status, folk medicinal knowledge and traditional pre and post harvesting techniques of some economicall... | {
"abstract": "Hedera nepalensis is a ground-creeping evergreen woody plant growing mainly in the Himalayas and Kashmir. This plant is frequently used in folk medicines for the treatment of various ailments. The present research focused on the pharmacological evaluation and phytochemical analysis of crude methanolic ... |
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"abstract": "– Photovoltaic (PV) systems used in DC Nanogrids present prominent advantages associated with low maintenance need and operation costs. Owing to the low output voltage of the PV module, highly efficient high-voltage gain DC-DC converters are required for connection with the DC nanogrid. This work prese... | {
"abstract": "DC microgrids are popular due to the integration of renewable energy sources such as solar photovoltaics and fuel cells. Owing to the low output voltage of these dc power generators, high efficient high gain dc–dc converters are in need to connect the dc microgrid. In this paper, a nonisolated high gai... | {
"abstract": "With the increasing demand for renewable energy, distributed power included in fuel cells have been studied and developed as a future energy source. For this system, a power conversion circuit is necessary to interface the generated power to the utility. In many cases, a high step-up DC/DC converter is... |
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"abstract": "Various deep learning applications on smartphones have been rapidly rising, but training deep neural networks (DNNs) has too large computational burden to be executed on a single smartphone. A portable cluster, which connects smartphones with a wireless network and supports parallel computation using t... | {
"abstract": "Neural networks hold a critical domain in machine learning algorithms because of their self-adaptiveness and state-of-the-art performance. Before the testing (inference) phases in practical use, sophisticated training (learning) phases are required, calling for efficient training methods with higher ac... | {
"abstract": "We develop a scalable and extendable training framework that can utilize GPUs across nodes in a cluster and accelerate the training of deep learning models based on data parallelism. Both synchronous and asynchronous training are implemented in our framework, where parameter exchange among GPUs is base... |
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"abstract": "Purpose The aim of the paper was to study the role of gender in the progression of myopia among Polish schoolchildren. Materials and Methods 4875 children from elementary schools and high schools were examined (2470 boys, aged 6–16 years, mean age 11.0, SD = 2.6 and 2405 girls, aged 6–16 years, mean ag... | {
"abstract": "ABSTRACT Purpose: Myopia is a complex condition leading to visual impairment and blindness. This study assessed the prevalence of and risk factors for myopia among schoolchildren in urban and rural areas of Armenia. Methods: A cross-sectional interviewer-administered survey together with eye screenings... | {
"abstract": "AIM AND OBJECTIVES\nTo analyse and synthesise the structure, content, types of outcome variables and advantages of nurse-led follow-up of adult patients after discharge from intensive care units.\n\n\nBACKGROUND\nFollow-up service after discharge from the intensive care unit has been suggested as a way... |
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"abstract": "Canine Hepatic Slices as a Model for Studying Drug Toxicity and Metabolism. (May 2005) Maya Millicent Scott, B.S., University of Arkansas; D.V.M., Oklahoma State University Co-Chairs of Advisory Committee: Dr. Dawn M. Boothe Dr. Stephen H. Safe Tissue slices can be made from organs, such as liver, kidn... | {
"abstract": "Precision-cut liver slices have been developed as an in vitro tool for assessing liver viability and function and for examining hepatotoxicants. Liver slices from a variety of species (including human) are prepared using mechanical slicers that produce reproducible slices of a uniform thickness, which ... | {
"abstract": "Purpose: Molecular targeted therapy is an important approach for advanced hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Hepatitis B virus–related HCC (HBV-HCC) accounts for approximately 50% of all HCC cases. Bortezomib, a proteasome inhibitor (PI), is used extensively for the treatment of hematologic malignancies, ... |
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"abstract": "COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS (CE) research refers to studies that compare “the benefits and harms of different interventions and strategies to prevent, diagnose, treat, and monitor health conditions.” In contrast to research on novel interventions and strategies, CE studies help physicians use existing tr... | {
"abstract": "CONTEXT\nPrevious studies indicate that industry-sponsored trials tend to draw proindustry conclusions.\n\n\nOBJECTIVE\nTo explore whether the association between funding and conclusions in randomized drug trials reflects treatment effects or adverse events.\n\n\nDESIGN\nObservational study of 370 rand... | {
"abstract": "Although it is well established that funding source influences the publication of clinical trials, relatively little is known about how funding influences trial design. We examined a public trial registry to determine how funding source shapes trial design among trials involving antihyperlipidemics. We... |
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"abstract": "In the manufacturing industry, cross-enterprise resource sharing has emerged among micro-and-small-scale manufacturing enterprises (called social manufacturing nodes, SMNs) with similar manufacturing resources. In this context, social manufacturing is proposed to promote resource sharing among SMNs thr... | {
"abstract": "Studies of community structure and evolution in large social networks require a fast and accurate algorithm for community detection. As the size of analyzed communities grows, complexity of the community detection algorithm needs to be kept close to linear. The Label Propagation Algorithm (LPA) has the... | {
"abstract": "Detection of non-overlapping and overlapping communities are essentially the same problem. However, current algorithms focus either on finding overlapping or non-overlapping communities. We present a generalized framework that can identify both non-overlapping and overlapping communities, without any p... |
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"abstract": "Drogue pose estimation is one of the key problems of autonomous aerial refueling (AAR) during the docking phase. A novel pose estimation method is proposed to remedy the failure of current methods due to the deformation of the flexible drogue. First, the key to flexible drogue pose estimation is sugges... | {
"abstract": "In this work, we present an algebraic solution to the classical perspective-3-point (P3P) problem for determining the position and attitude of a camera from observations of three known reference points. In contrast to previous approaches, we first directly determine the cameras attitude by employing th... | {
"abstract": "Preface.- The Language of Physics.- A Trip Down Linear Lane: Vector Spaces and Matrices.- Inner Products.- Crystallography and the Cobasis.- Finding Areas and Volumes: The Use of Determinants.- Diagonalisation and Similar Matrices: Changing Spaces.- Dirac's Bracket Notation.- Brackets and Hermitian Ope... |
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"abstract": "Abstract The aim of the present study was to investigate the relationship between maximal fat oxidation rate (MFO) measured during a progressive exercise test on a cycle ergometer and ultra-endurance performance. 61 male ironman athletes (age: 35±1 yrs. [23–47 yrs.], with a BMI of 23.6±0.3 kg/m2 [20.0–... | {
"abstract": "Abstract. The purpose of this study was, firstly, to investigate the intensity of exercise performanceof highly trained ultra-endurance triathletes during the cycling portion of an Ironman triathlon, and, secondly, to examine the anaerobic threshold and its relationship to this performance. Following a... | {
"abstract": "This paper reviews the current literature on social accountability as a means to achieve good governance and increased public participation for improved public service delivery. After a brief discussion on concept and tools of social accountability, this paper illustrates that such innovations have led... |
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"abstract": "1PhD Student, MD, Faculty of Dental Medicine Porto, Portugal 2Assistant Professor, INEGI, Labiomep, Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, Portugal 3Post-graduation student, Faculty of Dental Medicine Porto, Portugal 4Assistant Professor, Department of Temporomandibular Disorders, Faculty of Dent... | {
"abstract": "a committee of musicrans and physicians to determine which questions we needed to ask in order to have data about ourselves that would be of use to the medical field. We have used our own official newsletter, Senza Sordino, to publicizeour concerns and to inform our constituency about conferences that ... | {
"abstract": "It's coming again, the new collection that this site has. To complete your curiosity, we offer the favorite drug induced blood disorders book as the choice today. This is a book that will show you even new to old thing. Forget it; it will be right for you. Well, when you are really dying of drug induce... |
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"abstract": "Objective: This study aims to evaluate the accuracy of three-dimensional root canal length measurements performed by dentists with different experience levels using a special software based on cone beam com-puted tomography (CBCT). Methods: A CBCT scan of an artificial resin maxillary molar was used to... | {
"abstract": "INTRODUCTION\nThe distance between a coronal reference point and the major apical foramen is important for working length determination. The aim of this in vitro study was to determine the accuracy of root canal length measurements performed with cone-beam computed tomographic (CBCT) scans using a gold... | {
"abstract": "A wireless network is realized by mobile devices which communicate over radio channels. Since, experiments of real life problem with real devices are very difficult, simulation is used very often. Among many other important properties that have to be defined for simulative experiments, the mobility mod... |
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"abstract": "Action recognition and human pose estimation are closely related but both problems are generally handled as distinct tasks in the literature. In this work, we propose a multitask framework for jointly 2D and 3D pose estimation from still images and human action recognition from video sequences. We show... | {
"abstract": "We address human action recognition from multi-modal video data involving articulated pose and RGB frames and propose a two-stream approach. The pose stream is processed with a convolutional model taking as input a 3D tensor holding data from a sub-sequence. A specific joint ordering, which respects th... | {
"abstract": "Sequence-based view invariant transform can effectively cope with view variations.Enhanced skeleton visualization method encodes spatio-temporal skeletons as visual and motion enhanced color images in a compact yet distinctive manner.Multi-stream convolutional neural networks fusion model is able to ex... |
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"abstract": "We consider a long-range growth dynamics on the two-dimensional integer lattice, initialized by a finite set of occupied points. Subsequently, a site $x$ becomes occupied if the pair consisting of the counts of occupied sites along the entire horizontal and vertical lines through $x$ lies outside a fix... | {
"abstract": "We initiate the study of general neighborhood growth dynamics on two dimensional Hamming graphs. The decision to add a point is made by counting the currently occupied points on the horizontal and the vertical line through it, and checking whether the pair of counts lies outside a fixed Young diagram. ... | {
"abstract": "Bootstrap percolation on a graph is a deterministic process that iteratively enlarges a set of occupied sites by adjoining points with at least $\\theta$ occupied neighbors. The initially occupied set is random, given by a uniform product measure with a low density $p$. Our main focus is on this proces... |
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"abstract": "A Internet das Coisas (IoT) traz uma grande mudanca para a vida diaria e o bem-estar das pessoas. Sensores e plataformas conectados a Internet transformam a rotina dos usuarios de forma transparente e gradual. Este trabalho propoe um sistema inteligente de monitoramento do consumo de agua, associado a ... | {
"abstract": "Unexpected shortage of water supply is common phenomena especially in dense population such as in hotels. Water supply at the students; hostel is usually drawn from tank at the roof top of the building. Apparently there is no early warning system to monitor the tank water level when it has reached the ... | {
"abstract": "Home automation system achieved great popularity in the last decades and it increases the comfort and quality of life. In this paper an overview of current and emerging home automation systems is discussed. Nowadays most home automation systems consist of a smartphone and microcontroller. A smart phone... |
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"abstract": "The current boom of forest biomass is making mobile chippers increasingly popular among forest operators. This motivates concern about the potential exposure of chipper operators to noxious chemicals derived from diesel fuel combustion. The objective of this study was to determine operator exposure to ... | {
"abstract": "There is currently no OEL for diesel fumes in the UK. This study reports parallel measurements of airborne levels of diesel fume pollutants in nine distribution depots where diesel powered fork-lift trucks (FLTs) were in use. Correlations between individual pollutants are assessed as well as their spat... | {
"abstract": "Eurypterids are a group of extinct chelicerates that ranged for over 200 Myr from the Ordovician to the Permian. Gigantism is common in the group; about 50% of families include taxa over 0.8 m in length. Among these were the pterygotids (Pterygotidae), which reached lengths of over 2 m and were the lar... |
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"abstract": "Various problems of different levels in the ultrasonic testing standards of bearing bush of power station take place at present, which has certain influence on the actual defect judgment. According to the theoretical analysis and practical test results, the technology in this paper has the advantages a... | {
"abstract": "For decades, bearing factory quality evaluation has been a key problem and the methods used are always static tests. This paper investigates the use of piezoelectric ultrasonic transducers (PUT) as dynamic diagnostic tools and a relevant signal classification technique, wavelet packet entropy (WPEntrop... | {
"abstract": "The aim of this preliminary study is to investigate the capabilities of a non-destructive evaluation (NDE) sensor in detecting bearing faults. An air-coupled ultrasound sensor is used for this purpose. An accelerometer, which is the standard sensor used in industry, is also used in order to compare the... |
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"abstract": "Epoxyeicosatrienoic acids (EETs) are released from endothelial cells and potently dilate small arteries by hyperpolarizing vascular myocytes. In the present study, we investigated the structural specificity of EETs in dilating canine and porcine coronary microvessels (50-140 microm ID) and activating l... | {
"abstract": "Epoxyeicosatrienoic acids (EETs), normally present in brain and blood, appear to be released from atherosclerotic vessels in large amounts. Once intravascular, EETs can constrict renal arteries in vivo and dilate cerebral and coronary arteries in vitro. Whether EETs in blood will alter cerebral blood f... | {
"abstract": "This paper introduces the special issue of this Journal dedicated to the “International Workshop on Molten Carbonates and Related Topics”, IWMC2011. Molten carbonates are mostly known as electrolytes in molten carbonate fuel cells (MCFCs). Many advances have been reached in the last decade on the devel... |
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"abstract": "With the explosive growth of data in cloud storage systems, Erasure Codes (ECs) have become a typical data redundancy technology because of its low storage cost and high reliability. However, due to a large amount of complex computations and transmissions among massive data and parities, the recovery o... | {
"abstract": "Windows Azure Storage (WAS) is a cloud storage system that provides customers the ability to store seemingly limitless amounts of data for any duration of time. WAS customers have access to their data from anywhere, at any time, and only pay for what they use and store. To provide durability for that d... | {
"abstract": "Most existing collaborative filtering models only consider the use of user feedback (e.g., ratings) and meta data (e.g., content, demographics). However, in most real world recommender systems, context information, such as time and social networks, are also very important factors that could be consider... |
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"abstract": "The main proposition behind this work is that current technology and recent results allow us to create new Sensory Substitution Devices which can break the barriers limiting their practical adoption, significantly increase the accessibility of computerized information and graphical virtual environments... | {
"abstract": "Visual-to-auditory Sensory Substitution Devices (SSDs) are non-invasive sensory aids that provide visual information to the blind via their functioning senses, such as audition. For years SSDs have been confined to laboratory settings, but we believe the time has come to use them also for their origina... | {
"abstract": "This paper introduces a new re-programmable interface concept, the Intelligent Glasses (IG): an association of physiological human inspired machine vision and tactile stimulation for 3D (static and dynamic) world representation. The IG interface concept is used to design a wearable system to facilitate... |
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"abstract": "Abstract Everolimus is a mechanistic target of rapamycin inhibitor used for the treatment of various cancers and prevention of allograft rejection in solid organ transplantation. We present a case of a lung transplant recipient on everolimus who was admitted with generalized weakness, hypoxia and new o... | {
"abstract": "Interstitial lung disease (ILD) has been reported with the use of mammalian target of rapamycin inhibitors (mTORi). The clinical and safety databases of three Phase III trials of everolimus in de novo kidney (A2309), heart (A2310), and liver (H2304) transplant recipients (TxR) were searched using a sta... | {
"abstract": "The mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) is a serine/threonine kinase that plays a pivotal role in mediating cell size and mass, proliferation, and survival. mTOR has also emerged as an important modulator of several forms of renal disease. mTOR is activated after acute kidney injury and contributes to... |
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"abstract": "Innocuous mechanical stimuli, such as rubbing or stroking the skin, relieve itch through the activation of low-threshold mechanoreceptors. However, the mechanisms behind this inhibition remain unknown. We presently investigated whether stroking the skin reduces the responses of superficial dorsal horn ... | {
"abstract": "We recently showed that C low-threshold mechanoreceptors (CLTMRs) contribute to touch-evoked pain (allodynia) during experimental muscle pain. Conversely, in absence of ongoing pain, the activation of CLTMRs has been shown to correlate with a diffuse sensation of pleasant touch. In this study, we evalu... | {
"abstract": "In a between-subject comparison of two memantine administration schedules we observed that treatment with the NMDA receptor antagonist memantine before testing sessions reduced ingestion of a 10% sucrose solution in rats, due to reduced licking burst size, thus suggesting a blunted hedonic response. Co... |
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"abstract": "This article deals with morphological tagging for low-resource languages. For this purpose, five Indic languages are taken as reference. In addition, two severely resource-poor languages, Coptic and Kurmanji, are also considered. The task entails prediction of the morphological tag (case, degree, gende... | {
"abstract": "The paper describes a Sanskrit morphological analyzer that identifies and analyzes inflected noun-forms and verb-forms in any given sandhi-free text. The system which has been developed as java servlet RDBMS can be tested at http://sanskrit.jnu.ac.in (Language Processing Tools > Sanskrit Tinanta Analyz... | {
"abstract": "We analyze both experimentally (where possible) and theoretically from first-principles the dielectric tensor components and crystal structure of five classes of Pbnm perovskites. All of these materials are believed to be stable on silicon and are therefore promising candidates for high-K dielectrics. ... |
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"abstract": "Eljack SM, Mustafa M. Learning–based stacking and caching for improving network lifetime in wireless sensor networks, International Journal of Communication Systems 2020, (https://doi.org/10.1002/dac.4707). The above article published online on 25 December 2020 in Wiley Online Library (wileyonlinelibra... | {
"abstract": "Energy efficiency is the main objective in the design of a wireless sensor network (WSN). In many applications, sensing data must be transmitted from sources to a sink in a timely manner. This paper describes an investigation of the trade-off between two objectives in WSN design: minimizing energy cons... | {
"abstract": "The Internet of things (IoT) is hailed as the next big phase in the evolution of the Internet. IoT devices are rapidly proliferating, owing to widespread adoption by industries in various sectors. Unlike security and privacy concerns, the energy consumption of the IoT and its applications has received ... |
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"abstract": "Ion Current Rectification in Nano/Micro-Fluidic Interfaces and Pulsed Glow Discharge Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometric Chemical Speciation",
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"title": "Ion Current Rectification in Nano/Micro-Fluidic Interfaces and Pulsed Glow Discharge Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometric Chemic... | {
"abstract": "Glow discharge mass spectrometry (GDMS) is a mature, versatile technique for the direct determination of trace elements in a variety of materials. The technique is an extension of the earliest forms of mass spectrometry. Processes inherent to the glow discharge, namely cathodic sputtering coupled with ... | {
"abstract": "The design and construction of a 13‐stage electron multiplier tube are discussed. Electrodes formed from BeCu alloy sheet are used and the method of activating these surfaces is described. The over‐all multiplication of this type of tube is about 107. The efficiency of the tube as an electron counter i... |
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"abstract": "In this paper a new PCA-based positioning sensor and localization system for mobile robots to operate in unstructured environments (e.g. industry, services, domestic...) is proposed and experimentally validated. The inexpensive positioning system resorts to principal component analysis (PCA) of images ... | {
"abstract": "The integration of a feature based positioning sensor, rooted on principal component analysis, with a multi-model adaptive estimator is proposed and discussed in detail as the solution to terrain reference navigation systems for underwater vehicles. The adequacy on the use of the proposed feature based... | {
"abstract": "Flight operations dependent on digitized terrain elevation data for navigational reference or trajectory generation are constrained in minimum flight altitude, due to airborne navigation errors and inaccuracies of the reference terrain elevation data. This limitation is not restrictive in traditional m... |
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"abstract": "Cornus officinalis and Dioscorea opposita are two traditional Chinese medicines widely used in China for treating diabetes mellitus and its complications, such as diabetic cardiomyopathy. Morroniside (Mor) of Cornus officinalis and diosgenin (Dio) of Dioscorea opposita formed an innovative formula name... | {
"abstract": "Background. Lichen planus (LP) is a chronic inflammatory disease of probable immune‐based aetiology. The pathogenesis of LP is unclear, but apoptotic changes in epidermal (epithelial) cells have been reported.",
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"title": "Increased caspase‐3 and altered expression of apoptosis... | {
"abstract": "Previous studies have documented that early adversity increases young adults’ risk for diabetes resulting in morbidity and comorbidity with adverse health conditions. However, less is known about how inter-related physiological (e.g., body mass index [BMI]), psychological (e.g., depressive symptoms), a... |
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"abstract": "The paradigm of pervasive computing aims to integrate the computing technologies in a graceful and transparent manner, and make computing solutions available anywhere and at any time. Different asp ...",
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"title": "Context reasoning, context prediction and proactive adaptation... | {
"abstract": "In this paper we take a look at the state of the art in smart environments research. The survey is motivated by the recent dramatic increase of activity in the field, and summarizes work in a variety of supporting disciplines. We also discuss the application of smart environments research to health mon... | {
"abstract": "This paper reports about a research project aimed to the development of an agent-based software architecture for a Distributed Measurement System (DMS) as a Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) part. Agents are used because they naturally support the modeling of the interaction between the measurement nodes an... |
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"abstract": "We analyze the phase equilibria of systems of polydisperse hydrocarbons by means of the recently introduced moment method. Hydrocarbons are modelled with the Soave-Redlick-Kwong and Peng-Robinson equations of states. Numerical results show no particular qualitative difference between the two equations ... | {
"abstract": "We study the phase behavior of the Zwanzig model of suspensions of hard rods, allowing for polydispersity in the lengths of the rods. In spite of the simplified nature of the model (rods are restricted to lie along one of three orthogonal axes), the results agree qualitatively with experimental observa... | {
"abstract": "Owing to their high energy density and power density, supercapacitors exhibit great potential as high-performance energy sources for advanced technologies. Recently, carbon nanomaterials (especially, carbon nanotubes and graphene) have been widely investigated as effective electrodes in supercapacitors... |
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"abstract": "Pet ownership, the most common human–animal interaction, is believed to bestow positive health benefits onto pet owners. However, there is limited research on substantiating these assertions. The aim of this review was to systematically identify, evaluate, and summarize primary research on the relation... | {
"abstract": "Objectives: To assess the association of pet ownership and all-cause and cardiovascular mortality over a long-term follow-up among elderly treated hypertensive participants. Methods: Pet-ownership data from a subcohort of the Second Australian National Blood Pressure study were used. Participants were ... | {
"abstract": "Objective This prospective clinical trial was performed to compare the safety and efficiency of intra-articular lidocaine (IAL) versus intravenous sedative and analgesic (IVSA) in reduction of anterior shoulder dislocation. Materials and methods Patients with anterior shoulder dislocation were randomly... |
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"abstract": "Tuberculosis (TB) cases worldwide have declined over the last 10 years, but strong barriers to detection and treatment of TB still exist, especially among 2 special subgroups of low-income populations, immigrants and the homeless, where the incidence of TB can be up to 20 times higher than the general ... | {
"abstract": "We conducted a retrospective study to examine trends in latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) and TB disease rates among homeless persons in shelters in New York, NY, 1992–2006. Although TB case rates fell from 1,502/100,000 population to 0, a 31% LTBI rate in 2006 shows the value of identifying and tre... | {
"abstract": "BackgroundHomelessness increases the risk of tuberculosis (TB) disease and latent TB infection (LTBI), but persons experiencing homelessness often lack access to testing and treatment. We assessed the yield of TB testing and linkage to care for programs targeting homeless populations in the United Stat... |
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"abstract": "Interacting with virtual objects with haptic feedback directly using the user's hand (hand-based haptic interaction) has attracted increasing attention. Due to the high degrees of freedom of the hand, compared with tool-based interactive simulation using a pen-like haptic proxy, hand-based haptic simul... | {
"abstract": "Six degree-of-freedom (DoF) haptic rendering of multi-region contacts between a moving hand avatar and varied-shaped components of a music instrument is fundamental to realizing interactive simulation of music playing. There are two aspects of computational challenges: first, some components have signi... | {
"abstract": "The use of physics is a way to improve realism in Virtual Reality. In order to calculate virtual objects movement in a real-time physically based simulation, you have to solve ODE (Ordinary Differential Equations) relative to time. This solution has to be fast enough to display the scene at an interact... |
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"abstract": "Hox and ParaHox genes (HPHGs) are key developmental genes that pattern regional identity along the anterior–posterior body axis of most animals. Here, we identified HPHGs in tadpole shrimps (Pancrustacea, Branchiopoda, Notostraca), an iconic example of the so-called “living fossils” and performed a com... | {
"abstract": "We report the complete sequence analysis of the entire complement of eight typical homeobox (Hox) genes (Lab, Pb, Dfd, Scr, Antp, Ubx, Abd-A, and Abd-B) and two other genes (Hox3 and Ftz) in a 324.6-kb region in the water flea Daphnia magna. In the cluster of D. magna Hox genes, we found one long inter... | {
"abstract": "A sequential multiprobe fluorescence in situ hybridization technique was developed to study the 13, 18, 21, X and Y chromatid segregation in human lymphocytes anaphases cultures without antimitotic treatment. This method was used to know if exist any different chromosomes segregation in lymphocytes fro... |
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"abstract": "In the development of advanced driver assistance systems, computer vision problems need to be optimized to run efficiently on embedded platforms. Convolutional neural network (CNN) accelerators have proven to be very efficient for embedded camera platforms, such as the ones used for automotive vision s... | {
"abstract": "Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have recently broken many performance records in image recognition and object detection problems. The success of CNNs, to a great extent, is enabled by the fast scaling-up of the networks that learn from a huge volume of data. The deployment of big CNN models can be... | {
"abstract": "The ‘default network’ is defined as a set of areas, encompassing posterior-cingulate/precuneus, anterior cingulate/mesiofrontal cortex and temporo-parietal junctions, that show more activity at rest than during attention-demanding tasks. Recent studies have shown that it is possible to reliably identif... |
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"abstract": "A 2-year-old Hispanic girl, born at term by cesarean section, was referred for evaluation of a congenital mass on her nasal bridge. The lesion was initially small and had enlarged rapidly over a period of 9 months prior to presentation. The child complained of occasional nasal pain, with no associated ... | {
"abstract": "Congenital midline nasal masses (CMNMs) are rare lesions most commonly caused by dermoids, hemangiomas, nasal gliomas or encephaloceles. We report a case of nasal glioma and discuss the embryologic development, evaluation, and management of such CMNMs.",
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"abstract": "Encephaloceles may occur as isolated malformations or together with other anomalies making up various syndromes or associations. With the possible exception of the aberrant tissue band syndrome and the Meckel syndrome, little attention has been paid to syndromes with encephaloceles as a group. This pap... |
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"abstract": "Classical computer science (CCS) based on the universal Turing machine has given us tools to decipher the mysteries of physical, chemical, and biological systems in nature. Symbolic computing and sub-symbolic computing have allowed us to model and analyze various observations (including both mental and... | {
"abstract": "Computation and its Limits is an innovative cross-disciplinary investigation of the relationship between computing and physical reality. It begins by exploring the mystery of why mathematics is so effective in science and seeks to explain this in terms of the modelling of one part of physical reality b... | {
"abstract": "Abstract The material described as “mineral matter” in coal encompasses dissolved salts in the pore water and inorganic elements associated with the organic compounds, as well as discrete crystalline and non-crystalline mineral particles. A range of technologies, including but not restricted to low-tem... |
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"abstract": "Formal identification is a prerequisite for development in the modern world. The inability to authenticate oneself when interacting with the state—or with private entities such as banks—inhibits access to basic rights and services, including education, formal employment, financial services, voting, soc... | {
"abstract": "Cash transfers are often a good way for developing countries to address economic and social problems. They are less expensive than directly providing goods and services and allow recipients the flexibility to spend on what they need the most, but for many developing countries, the technical requirement... | {
"abstract": "L abor markets have imperfections in the form of inadequate information, uneven bargaining power, limited ability to enforce long-term commitments, and insufficient insurance mechanisms against employment-related risks. Imperfections like these create gaps between the individual and the social value of... |
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"abstract": "This article reports on the findings of a study that explored older lesbian and bisexual women’s access to publicly funded home care in Ontario. Recent health reforms have increasingly shifted the bulk of care of individuals from health care institutions to private homes and communities. Although these... | {
"abstract": "This paper examines how the health care perspective which dominates home care obscures the broader processes of social exclusion that play out in this arena of public policy. A study of elderly women and women with disabilities receiving home care in Ontario reveals how managed community care generates... | {
"abstract": "This paper describes the design and implementation of a wearable monitoring device for performing a continuous inspection on the cardiorespiratory system based on the Heart Rates (HR) and Respiration Rates (RR). The HR and RR are the two vital signs as relevant indicators to show the functionality and ... |
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"abstract": "We present a novel partial reduction algorithm to aggregate sparsely distributed intermediate results that are generated by data-parallel analysis and visualization algorithms. Applications of partial reduction include flow trajectory analysis, big data online analytical processing, and volume renderin... | {
"abstract": "MPI allows applications to treat processes as a logical collection of integer ranks for each MPI communicator, while internally translating these logical ranks into actual network addresses. In current MPI implementations the management and lookup of such network addresses use memory sizes that are pro... | {
"abstract": "Sensor-based obstacle avoidance and Autonomous vehicle parking have been immensely researched in recent times. An integration of both will increase the usability of autonomous parking systems in dynamic and uncertain environments. The fuzzy logic theory is widely used to learn expert human skills for m... |
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"abstract": "Mueller Polarimetric Imaging (MPI) showed promising results in biomedical applications, especially for early detection of precancerous lesions on biological tissues. This technique is label-free, non-invasive and can be implemented with a large field of view (up to several cm2) to image wide areas of b... | {
"abstract": "Healthy human colon samples were analyzed ex vivo with a multispectral imaging Mueller polarimeter operating from 500 to 700 nm in a backscattering configuration with diffuse light illumination impinging on the innermost tissue layer, the mucosa. The intensity and polarimetric responses were taken on w... | {
"abstract": "Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Whittaker College of Health Sciences and Technology, 1990.",
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"title": "Fluorescence spectroscopy as a technique for diagnosis of pathologic conditions in human arterial, urinary bladder, and gastro-intesti... |
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"abstract": "To describe clinical, epidemiological and management information on cases of acute Chagas disease (ACD) by oral transmission in the state of Amazonas in western Amazon.",
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"title": "Acute Chagas disease associated with ingestion of contaminated food in Brazilian western Amazo... | {
"abstract": "The kinetoplastid Protozoa are responsible for devastating diseases. In the Americas, Trypanosoma cruzi is the agent of Chagas' disease—a widespread disease transmissible from animals to humans (zoonosis)—which is transmitted by exposure to infected faeces of blood-sucking triatomine bugs. The presence... | {
"abstract": "BackgroundThe three trypanosomatids pathogenic to men, Trypanosoma cruzi, Trypanosoma brucei and Leishmania major, are etiological agents of Chagas disease, African sleeping sickness and cutaneous leishmaniasis, respectively. The complete sequencing of these trypanosomatid genomes represented a breakth... |
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"abstract": "Many reports regarding online fraud in varieties media create skepticism for conducting transactions online, especially through an open network such as the Internet, which offers no security whatsoever. Therefore, encryption technology is vitally important to support secure e-commerce on the Internet. ... | {
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"title": "ZipML: Training Linear Models with End-to-End Low Precision, and a Little Bit of Deep Learning"
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"abstract": "Background: One of the important criteria in patients receiving artificial respiration is the time of weaning from the mechanical ventilator. As physician’s decision might be somehow subjective, several tools have been suggested for prediction of the time of weaning more objectively. This study aimed t... | {
"abstract": "Background: Mechanical ventilation is one of the major supportive interventions in intensive care units. Weaning the patients from mechanical ventilation and its related criteria are of great importance due to the related complications. As there is no comprehensive standard to allocate the time of wean... | {
"abstract": "PURPOSE\nTo develop and evaluate a super-resolution approach to reconstruct time-resolved 4-dimensional magnetic resonance imaging (TR-4DMRI) with a high spatiotemporal resolution for multi-breathing cycle motion assessment.\n\n\nMETHODS AND MATERIALS\nA super-resolution approach was developed to combi... |
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"abstract": "1 Infectious diseases and Immunology Division, Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, 4, Raja 7 S.C. Mullick Road, Kolkata-700 032, 2 College of Life Sciences, University of Dundee, 8 Dundee, DD1 5EH, UK 9 10 @ First two authors should be considered as joint first authors 11 12 Running title: Sialic aci... | {
"abstract": "ABSTRACT siglecs are a family of sialic-acid binding immunoglobulin-like lectins mostly expressed by cells of the immune system that have the potential to interact with sialylated glycans expressed not only on host cells but also on certain pathogens. Campylobacter jejuni is a common pathogen of humans... | {
"abstract": "The CD1 molecules have been shown to present non-protein antigens, such as complex lipids to Mycobacteria, and may be important in presenting glycolipids which are involved in inflammatory neuropathies. To study the expression of CD1 molecules in peripheral nerve, we examined nerve biopsies from two pa... |
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"abstract": "Music genres allow to categorize musical items that share common characteristics. Although these categories are not mutually exclusive, most related research is traditionally focused on classifying tracks into a single class. Furthermore, these categories (e.g., Pop, Rock) tend to be too broad for cert... | {
"abstract": "The 17th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR 2016), New York City, United States of America, 7-11 August 2016",
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"title": "Exploring Customer Reviews for Music Genre Classification and Evolutionary Studies"
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"abstract": "Machine learning is used to describe how bullying is represented on social media.More than 9million posts referred to bullying episodes on Twitter over two years.Using social media data allows for an examination of all bullying role-players.Investigating real-time posts provides timely, dynamic data ab... |
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"abstract": "This research employed a Participatory Action Research methodology to work with minority inter-provincial students and unearth their lived experiences at the University of Danang in Vietnam. It focused on examining the undervaluation of inter-provincial students’ voices in the university’s policies – a... | {
"abstract": "Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine corruption in Vietnam's higher education system and offer a number of suggestions to address the issue.Design/methodology/approach – The first section gives an introduction to the current higher education system in Vietnam and examines the factors that ... | {
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"abstract": "Actuator fault might occur during quadrotor helicopter’s flight. It is a demand to detect actuator fault in real-time. An actuator fault detection method based on extreme learning machine is proposed. An extreme learning machine network is used to approximate the dynamic of the actuator, which is train... | {
"abstract": "This paper presents the development of a nonlinear quadrotor simulation framework together with a nonlinear controller. The quadrotor stabilization and navigation problems are tackled using a nested loops control architecture. A nonlinear Backstepping controller is implemented for the inner stabilizati... | {
"abstract": "We propose a new cooperative fusion approach between stereovision and laser scanner in order to take advantage of the best features and cope with the drawbacks of these two sensors to perform robust, accurate and real time-detection of multi-obstacles in the automotive context. The proposed system is a... |
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"abstract": "ABSTRACT The aim of this study is to examine resilience in patients with traumatic brain injury and patients who suffered from stroke. As traumatic brain injury and stroke both have a recovery potential, we investigate cognitive recovery in this context. Given the involvement of resilience in physiolog... | {
"abstract": "This prospective longitudinal study reports recovery from mild traumatic brain injury (MTBI) across multiple domains in a carefully selected consecutive sample of 74 previously healthy adults. The patients with MTBI and 40 orthopedic controls (i.e., ankle injuries) completed assessments at 1, 6, and 12... | {
"abstract": "Background: In South Korea, the number of workers suffering from mental illnesses, such as depression, has rapidly increased. There is growing concern about depressive symptoms being associated with both working conditions and psychosocial environmental factors. Objectives: To investigate potential psy... |
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"abstract": "The colorization of grayscale images is an ill-posed problem, with multiple correct solutions. In this paper, we propose an adversarial learning colorization approach coupled with semantic information. A generative network is used to infer the chromaticity of a given grayscale image conditioned to sema... | {
"abstract": "Given a grayscale photograph as input, this paper attacks the problem of hallucinating a plausible color version of the photograph. This problem is clearly underconstrained, so previous approaches have either relied on significant user interaction or resulted in desaturated colorizations. We propose a ... | {
"abstract": "A residual networks family with hundreds or even thousands of layers dominates major image recognition tasks, but building a network by simply stacking residual blocks inevitably limits its optimization ability. This paper proposes a novel residual network architecture, residual networks of residual ne... |
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"abstract": "Background: Acinetobacter baumannii is responsible for nosocomial infections which are related to biofilm formation of this pathogen. Biofilm formation helps the bacteria in surviving stressed environmental conditions and bacteria growing in biofilms are resistant to most of the commonly used antibioti... | {
"abstract": "Critically ill patients admitted in intensive care units (ICU) are always at a higher risk of developing infections with various antibiotic resistant organisms. The objective of this study was to know the antibiotic resistance pattern of the common isolates from blood, urine, respiratory secretions and... | {
"abstract": "OBJECTIVES This study was undertaken to determine incidence, clinical features, microbiological flora and prognosis of patients with nosocomial pneumonia (NP) in medical intensive care unit (ICU). Also to study impact of comorbid illnesses, intubation and mechanical ventilation on outcome. METHODS In t... |
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"abstract": "Background Metabolic syndrome is diagnosed using clinical and laboratory data. Electro interstitial scan (EIS) is a rapid and noninvasive screening. It measures and calculates the parameters to reflect hypertension, sympathetic activity, stiffness of the arteries, body fat composition, leptin and insul... | {
"abstract": "Background Ten years of research and development have allowed an understanding of how the electro interstitial scan (EIS) works and what its clinical applications may be. Materials and methods The EIS is a galvanic skin response device. The measurements are performed by electrical stimulation of the po... | {
"abstract": "Extension de la theorie du mouvement brownien de translation et de rotation au cas d'une particule ellipsoidale quelconque. Application a l'etude de la dispersion dielectrique pour des molecules polaires ellipsoidales en milieu liquide. I. - Connaissant les coefficients de frottement de translation (f1... |
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"abstract": "DOI: 10.21276/sjhss.2018.3.8.6 Abstract: This study aims to analyze the positive and significant influence of social media instagram on the intention of purchasing online partially, the effect of Quality of Products / Services on the intention of buying online partially, the price positively and signif... | {
"abstract": "Increasing attention on the role played by product quality on desirable customer behavioural outcomes has been empirically examined over the past decades. Nevertheless, there are significant issues yet to be addressed and resolved, one of which relates to the influences of the quality of electronic gad... | {
"abstract": "Abstract During recent years, the addition of game mechanisms to non-game services has gained a relatively large amount of attention. Popular discussion connects gamification to successful marketing and increased profitability through higher customer engagement, however, there is a dearth of empirical ... |
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"abstract": "Lithium-Ion batteries and super capacitors traditional energy storage systems(ESSs) need a voltages balancing circuit to remove voltage imbalance and one bidirectional dc-dc converter to control the charge process. Since these two separated circuits need several sensors, switches, inductors and multi w... | {
"abstract": "In conventional energy storage systems using series-connected energy storage cells such as lithium-ion battery cells and supercapacitors (SCs), an interface bidirectional converter and cell voltage equalizer are separately required to manage charging/discharging and ensure years of safe operation. In t... | {
"abstract": "Homes are rich with information about people's energy consumption, medical health, and personal or family functions. In this paper, we present our experiences deploying large-scale residential sensing systems in over 20 homes. Deploying small-scale systems in homes can be deceptively easy, but in our d... |
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"abstract": "Abstract Useful parameters that can predict return of spontaneous circulation (ROSC) in patients with cardiopulmonary arrest (CPA) have not been established. We previously reported the usefulness of anion gap (AG) and albumin-corrected anion gap (ACAG) calculated from a blood sample obtained on arrival... | {
"abstract": "PURPOSE\nThe reliable parameter, which can be obtained easily and quickly, is necessary to predict the return of spontaneous circulation (ROSC) of patients with cardiopulmonary arrest (CPA) in the emergency situation. In this study, we evaluated the significance of albumin corrected anion gap (ACAG) fo... | {
"abstract": "Background More and more HIV therapeutic vaccines will enter clinical trials; however, little is known about the willingness to participate (WTP) in HIV therapeutic vaccine trials among HIV-positive individuals. Objective To investigate the WTP in HIV therapeutic vaccine trials among Chinese HIV-infect... |
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"abstract": "Topic modelling is important for tackling several data mining tasks in information retrieval. While seminal topic modelling techniques such as Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) have been proposed, the ubiquity of social media and the brevity of its texts pose unique challenges for such traditional topi... | {
"abstract": "Uncovering the topics within short texts, such as tweets and instant messages, has become an important task for many content analysis applications. However, directly applying conventional topic models (e.g. LDA and PLSA) on such short texts may not work well. The fundamental reason lies in that convent... | {
"abstract": "Topic models based on latent Dirichlet allocation and related methods are used in a range of user-focused tasks including document navigation and trend analysis, but evaluation of the intrinsic quality of the topic model and topics remains an open research area. In this work, we explore the two tasks o... |
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"abstract": "Bufalin has been shown to be effective against a variety of cancer cells, but its role in lung cancer has never been studied in an animal model. In this study, we evaluated bufalin effects in a human lung cancer cell line NCI‐H460 both in vitro and in vivo. Bufalin caused significant cytotoxicity in NC... | {
"abstract": "Leukemia, one of the causes of cancer-related death in humans, is an aggressive malignancy via the rapid growth of abnormal white blood cells. The aim of this study was to determine the anti-leukemia effect of glycyrrhizic acid (GA) on a mouse leukemia cell line, WEH... | {
"abstract": "PurposeTraditional Chinese cervical manipulation (TCCM) has been claimed as an effective treatment for diseases of the cervical spine, but its biomechanical effects on the vertebral body and intervertebral discs remain unclear. The aim of this study was to develop and validate a detailed finite element... |
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"abstract": "We present a general technique for garbage collecting old versions for multiversion concurrency control that simultaneously achieves good time and space complexity. Our technique takes only $O(1)$ time on average to reclaim each version and maintains only a constant factor more versions than needed (pl... | {
"abstract": "While multi-version concurrency control (MVCC) supports fast and robust performance in in-memory, relational databases, it has the potential problem of a growing number of versions over time due to obsolete versions. Although a few TB of main memory is available for enterprise machines, the memory reso... | {
"abstract": "Political communication researchers have devoted a great deal of attention to the role of political advertising, the Internet, and political discussion in civic and political life. In this article, we integrate and extend this research by developing a campaign communication mediation model of civic and... |
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"abstract": "Abstract Background Knowledge about the motivations for crack cocaine use and the long-term effects among people who inject heroin is limited. This study aims to understand motivations associated with this co-use drug pattern among aging men entrenched in established intergenerational heroin subculture... | {
"abstract": "A typical approach to categorizing substance users for epidemiologic purposes or to identify substance use problems at treatment admission is by indicating the primary substance used and/or for which treatment is sought. But does such singular focus on the primary drug limit the validity of conclusions... | {
"abstract": "ABSTRACT People who inject drugs (PWID) in Tijuana, Mexico, use heroin and/or methamphetamine. While polydrug use is associated with HIV risk behavior, less is known about the stability of polydrug use patterns over time and how polydrug use is related to perceived treatment need. Within a cohort of PW... |
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"abstract": "This article investigates the relative importance and variability of the country-of-origin effect in employee relations approaches of US subsidiaries within the context of diversity of employee relations patterns in home- and host-country business systems and the influence of important industry forces.... | {
"abstract": "Pressures stemming from the country of origin are seen increasingly as the single most important influence on multinational companies, and American managements are famed particularly for their marked preferences for non-unionism and for pay systems linked to performance. The dramatic inflow of American... | {
"abstract": "The study builds on existing research in management control (MC) and innovation management. The purpose of this study is to identify patterns in the application of MC instruments which contribute to successful innovation. The application of MC instruments can reduce potential risks and make the new pro... |
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"abstract": "Introduction: Gliomas are considered the most malignant form of brain tumors, and ranked among the most aggressive human cancers. Despite advance standard therapy the prognosis for patients with gliomas remains poor. Chemotherapy has played an important role as an adjuvant in treating gliomas. The effi... | {
"abstract": "A clonogenic cell assay was developed for the chemically induced rat glioma RG2 that allows in vivo, in vitro, and in vivo to in vitro studies of cell survival after experimental therapy. RG2 monolayer cells were resistant to BCNU up to high concentrations. The radiation survival curves were characteri... | {
"abstract": "Abstract New drug delivery systems are highly needed in research and clinical area to effectively treat gliomas by reaching a high antineoplastic drug concentration at the target site without damaging healthy tissues. Intranasal (IN) administration, an alternative route for non‐invasive drug delivery t... |
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