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"abstract": "Open source licensing determines how open source systems are reused, distributed, and modified from a legal perspective. While it facilitates rapid development, it can present di culty for developers in understanding due to the legal language of these licenses. Because of misunderstandings, systems can... | {
"abstract": "The focus of existing open source software (OSS) research has been on how and why individuals and firms add to the commons of public OSS code - that is, on the “giving” side of this open innovation process. In contrast, research on the corresponding “receiving” side of the innovation process is scarce.... | {
"abstract": "The expectation-confirmation model (ECM) of IT continuance is a model for investigating continued information technology (IT) usage behavior. This paper reports on a study that attempts to expand the set of post-adoption beliefs in the ECM, in order to extend the application of the ECM beyond an instru... |
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"abstract": "Awareness of the possible impacts associated with artificial intelligence has risen in proportion to progress in the field. While there are tremendous benefits to society, many argue that there are just as many, if not more, concerns related to advanced forms of artificial intelligence. Accordingly, re... | {
"abstract": "The development of artificial general intelligence is considered by many to be inevitable. What such intelligence does after becoming aware is not so certain. To that end, research suggests that the likelihood of artificial general intelligence becoming hostile to humans is significant enough to warran... | {
"abstract": "Recent statistics show that in 2015 more than 140 millions new malware samples have been found. Among these, a large portion is due to ransomware, the class of malware whose specific goal is to render the victim's system unusable, in particular by encrypting important files, and then ask the user to pa... |
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"abstract": "The aim of this experiment was to assess the effects of four different feeding programs designed to include tallow, a saturated fat at 0, 8, 12, and 28 d prior to slaughter on female broiler performance and the deposition, fatty acid profile, and melting point of abdominal fat. The following treatment ... | {
"abstract": "A total of 600 1-d-old Hybro N broiler chicks were randomly distributed into 24 litter pens and fed from 21 to 52 d of age isocaloric and isonitrogenous diets containing 8% of three different fat sources (tallow, lard or sunflower oil). Dietary treatment produced a significant effect (P < 0.05) in fatt... | {
"abstract": "Leaf pigments, such as chlorophyll and carotenoids, are essential plant molecules. They provide carbohydrates and energy during all plant life. Leaf pigments are also important parameters of decorative plants, such as floriculture items, cut foliage and flowers. Leaf yellowing is a form of senescence c... |
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"abstract": "Glaucoma represents the main cause of irreversible blindness in the world and for this consideration, the interest in a quick and precise diagnosis and progression of the disease, prior to the appearance of irreversible damage, has been continuously rising. Glaucoma risk factors are already well known,... | {
"abstract": "Background: To investigate the association between corneal biomechanics and optic nerve head morphology in newly diagnosed primary open‐angle glaucoma patients.",
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"title": "Association between corneal biomechanical properties and optic nerve head morphology in newly diagnosed... | {
"abstract": "Purpose: To evaluate whether changes in optic nerve head topography and visual field in patients with primary open-angle (POAG) are related to central corneal thickness (CCT). Materials and Methods: Eighty eyes of 50 patients with POAG underwent ophthalmic examination; optic nerve head imaging with the... |
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"abstract": "A dissertation submitted to the Faculty of Health Sciences, University of \nthe Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, in partial fulfillment of the \nrequirements for the degree of Master of Medicine in Plastic and \nReconstructive Surgery. \nJohannesburg, 2018",
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"title": "Patient sa... | {
"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nPatient-reported data, including effects on patient satisfaction and quality of life, have not been rigorously studied in women treated with mastopexy and augmentation/mastopexy. This prospective outcome study evaluates and compares mastopexy (n=36), augmentation/mastopexy (n=47), and reduc... | {
"abstract": "Background\nResearch regarding quality of life (QoL) among women who have undergone breast aesthetic surgery is expanding. A comparative, anonymous study between the two main breast aesthetic procedures is needed.\n\n\nObjectives\nThe authors compared patient characteristics and aspects of QoL among wo... |
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"abstract": "To test whether wearable textile electromyography (EMG) recording systems may detect differences in muscle activity levels during daily activities between children with cerebral palsy (CP) and age‐matched typically developing children.",
"corpus_id": 210933441,
"title": "Wearable electromyography r... | {
"abstract": "Novel textile electrodes that can be embedded into sports clothing to measure averaged rectified electromyography (EMG) have been developed for easy use in field tests and in clinical settings. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the validity, reliability and feasibility of this new product to me... | {
"abstract": "Abstract We present a record-high solar-to-hydrogen conversion efficiency (STH) for monolithic all-silicon multi-junction solar devices. The device is based on an interdigitated back-contact silicon solar cell, in which the p- and n-regions are connected in a combination of series and parallel contacts... |
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"abstract": "Background Individuals who identify as sexual and gender minorities often experience high rates of adverse childhood experiences and encounter discrimination and stigma in their interactions with healthcare providers, leading to low utilization of healthcare services. However, the relationship between ... | {
"abstract": "ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to explore prevalent health issues, perceived barriers to seeking health care, and utilization of health care among lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) populations in New Jersey. A cross-sectional online survey was administered to 438 self-identified LG... | {
"abstract": "OBJECTIVES\nWe examined the association between pediatricians' attitudes about race and treatment recommendations by patients' race.\n\n\nMETHODS\nWe conducted an online survey of academic pediatricians (n = 86). We used 3 Implicit Association Tests to measure implicit attitudes and stereotypes about r... |
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"abstract": "Deduplication has become essential in disk-based backup systems, but there have been few long-term studies of backup workloads. Most past studies either were of a small static snapshot or covered only a short period that was not representative of how a backup system evolves over time. For this article,... | {
"abstract": "Data-protection class workloads, including backup and long-term retention of data, have seen a strong industry shift from tape-based platforms to disk-based systems. But the latter are traditionally designed to serve as primary storage and there has been little published analysis of the characteristics... | {
"abstract": "Adolescence is a developmental period when physical and cognitive abilities are optimized, when social skills are consolidated, and when sexuality, adolescent behaviors, and frontal cortical functions mature to adult levels. Adolescents also have unique responses to alcohol compared with adults, being ... |
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"abstract": "We introduce novel results for approximate inference on planar graphical models using the loop calculus framework. The loop calculus (Chertkov and Chernyak, 2006b) allows to express the exact partition function Z of a graphical model as a finite sum of terms that can be evaluated once the belief propag... | {
"abstract": "Bounds on the log partition function are important in a variety of contexts, including approximate inference, model fitting, decision theory, and large deviations analysis. We introduce a new class of upper bounds on the log partition function, based on convex combinations of distributions in the expon... | {
"abstract": "Despite tremendous progress achieved in temporal action localization, state-of-the-art methods still struggle to train accurate models when annotated data is scarce. In this paper, we introduce a novel active learning framework for temporal localization that aims to mitigate this data dependency issue.... |
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"abstract": "The American Academy of",
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"title": "Policy on Prevention of Sports-related Orofacial Injuries."
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"abstract": "From the introduction of a protective mouthpiece in the sport of boxing, the evidence for the importance of this piece of athletic equipment in injury prevention has grown. Yet, despite this knowledge, only five amateur sports and one professional sport have regulations requiring the use of mouthguards... | {
"abstract": "There has been a lot of debate among researchers on intercultural activities of crossborder \nmobility (Dervin, 2011, Henze and Zhu, 2012, Machart and Lim, 2013). Since \nthe word ‘culture’ is used to put people in different categories and create culturally \ndifferent Others, the question arises wheth... |
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"abstract": "Background: Endonuclease III is responsible for base excision repair of oxidized or reduced pyrimidine bases. Results: Stopped-flow kinetics analysis of endonuclease III interaction with DNA was performed. Conclusion: Endonuclease III uses a multistep mechanism of damage recognition, which likely invol... | {
"abstract": "Formamidopyrimidine-DNA glycosylase, Fpg protein from Escherichia coli, initiates base excision repair in DNA by removing a wide variety of oxidized lesions. In this study, we perform thermodynamic analysis of the multi-stage interaction of Fpg with specific DNA-substrates containing 7,8-dihydro-8-oxog... | {
"abstract": "The chemical synthesis of a fully protected ribonucleoside phosphoramidite, containing 2-aminopurine as the base component, and its incorporation into short oligoribonucleotides as substrates for an engineered ribozyme from Tetrahymena is described.",
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"abstract": "Although urbanization has significant effects on the landscape around the rivers, there are few studies on the fluorescence characteristics of dissolved organic matter (DOM) in watersheds under different landscape models. Therefore, in this study the optical properties of DOM in the same river under di... | {
"abstract": "In recent years, the Chinese government has strengthened its efforts in surface water protection and restoration through strict policies and heavy investments. A clear understanding of the impacts of land use on water quality is necessary in order to ensure an effective and efficient implementation of ... | {
"abstract": "Environmental, socio-cultural and economic variations supplied by natural ecosystems in the Himalayas have led to the evolution of traditional agro-ecosystems mainly in areas of Pakistan, India, Nepal, Bhutan and China. A multitude of natural resources aids traditional mountain farming societies to sus... |
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"abstract": "Electrically conductive protein nanowires appear to be widespread in the microbial world and are a revolutionary “green” material for the fabrication of electronic devices. Electrically conductive pili (e-pili) assembled from type IV pilin monomers have independently evolved multiple times in microbial... | {
"abstract": "ABSTRACT The growing ubiquity of electronic devices is increasingly consuming substantial energy and rare resources for materials fabrication, as well as creating expansive volumes of toxic waste. This is not sustainable. Electronic biological materials (e-biologics) that are produced with microbes, or... | {
"abstract": "Les cristaux piezoelectriques recouverts avec un film de polymeres basiques solubles dans l'eau ont ete utilises comme systeme activant pour detecter les acides carboxyliques et les phenols dissous dans des solutions d'hydrocarbures neutres. L'application de ces dispositifs comme detecteur selectif en ... |
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"abstract": "Hepatitis E virus (HEV) is a viral pathogen transmitted primarily via fecal-oral route. In humans, HEV mainly causes acute hepatitis and is responsible for large outbreaks of hepatitis across the world. The case fatality rate of HEV-induced hepatitis ranges from 0.5 to 3% in young adults and up to 30% ... | {
"abstract": "ABSTRACT We developed an efficient cell culture system for genotype 4 hepatitis E virus using the HE-JF5/15F strain recovered from a fulminant hepatitis patient. The sixth-passage virus in the culture supernatant reached 1.5 × 108 copies/ml at 10 days postinoculation and possessed 10 nucleotide mutatio... | {
"abstract": "Aim To investigate the prevalence of derepressed/partly derepressed/inducible and ESBL/AmpC-producing Enterobacter cloacae isolates and treatment options for infections associated with those isolates. Methods Antibiotic susceptibility was determined by disc diffusion and broth microdilution according t... |
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"abstract": "As can be seen from its website, and reiterated in numerous editorials (e.g., Anderson, 2017; Nimon, 2017; Reio & Werner, 2017), Human Resource Development Quarterly (HRDQ) provides a central focus on human resource development (HRD) issues as well as the means for disseminating empirical research acro... | {
"abstract": "Knowledge of the timing and sequence of start-up teams' delegation of business functions in growing entrepreneurial ventures has significant implications for understanding those ventures' need for human resource development (HRD) interventions at different stages of their development. As a first step i... | {
"abstract": "Creating an adequate supply of the requisite skills and competitive capabilities is a fundamental objective of strategy. Managing this process in an effective and systematic manner is difficult. Employing the strategic staircase is a proven way of overcoming this difficulty. The framework enables manag... |
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"abstract": "Mania causes symptoms of hyperactivity, impulsivity, elevated mood, reduced anxiety and decreased need for sleep, which suggests that the dysfunction of the striatum, a critical component of the brain motor and reward system, can be causally associated with mania. However, detailed molecular pathophysi... | {
"abstract": "Genetic variants in GPR85 (SREB2: rs56080411 and rs56039557) have been associated with risk for schizophrenia. Here, we test the hypothesis that these variants impact on brain function in normal subjects, measured with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) paradigms that target regions with grea... | {
"abstract": "SREB2/GPR85, a member of the super‐conserved receptor expressed in brain (SREB) family, is the most conserved G‐protein‐coupled receptor in vertebrate evolution. Previous human and mouse genetic studies have indicated a possible link between SREB2 and schizophrenia. SREB2 is robustly expressed in the h... |
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"abstract": "Amplification methods for detection of Chlamydia trachomatis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae in genitourinary specimens have changed the way in which routine Clinical Microbiology laboratories fulfill requests for recovery of these two common agents of sexually transmitted disease. PCR, strand displacement a... | {
"abstract": "We compared the Gen-Probe transcription-mediated amplification assay (AMP CT), the Abbott LCx assay, and the Roche COBAS AMPLICOR assay for the detection of Chlamydia trachomatis in a mixed population in urine samples. First-void urine, urethral specimens, and cervical specimens in females were obtaine... | {
"abstract": "With a mean age of 21 years 197 women at risk for an infection with Chlamydia trachomatis (CT) had a urinary sample (20 ml first-void urine, minimum 4 hours from prior mictuation) analysed with an enzyme immunoassay (IDEIA-III) for the detection of CT. They also had samples taken from both cervix and u... |
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"abstract": "We present a new supervised framework that learns to estimate automatic Pyramid scores and uses them for optimization-based extractive multi-document summarization. For learning automatic Pyramid scores, we developed a method for automatic training data generation which is based on a genetic algorithm ... | {
"abstract": "How good are automatic content metrics for news summary evaluation? Here we provide a detailed answer to this question, with a particular focus on assessing the ability of automatic evaluations to identify statistically significant differences present in manual evaluation of content. Using four years o... | {
"abstract": "A useful feature to facilitate critical literacy would alert users when they are reading a controversial web page. This requires solving a binary classification problem: does a given web page discuss a controversial topic? We explore the feasibility of solving the problem by treating it as supervised k... |
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"abstract": "Our evolutionary history has endowed us with biological systems for identifying those elements of the environment that contribute to our biological fitness and for modifying our behaviors to allow us to acquire them. Theoretical propositions suggest that the ability to detect changes in the statistics ... | {
"abstract": "The dorsal striatum plays a key role in the learning and expression of instrumental reward associations that are acquired through direct experience. However, not all learning about instrumental actions require direct experience. Instead, humans and other animals are also capable of acquiring instrument... | {
"abstract": "People with brain injuries involving the amygdala are often poor at recognizing facial expressions of fear, but the extent to which this impairment compromises other signals of the emotion of fear has not been clearly established. We investigated N.M., a person with bilateral amygdala damage and a left... |
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"abstract": "Risk management in distributed software development (DSD) is a well-researched area, providing different methods for assessing risks and suggesting control strategies. However, some of these methods are narrow in scope, only considering few risks, and are too complex to be used in practice whereas othe... | {
"abstract": "Context There is extensive interest in global software development (GSD) which has led to a large number of papers reporting on GSD. A number of systematic literature reviews (SLRs) have attempted to aggregate information from individual studies. Objective: We wish to investigate GSD SLR research with ... | {
"abstract": "Globally-distributed projects are rapidly becoming the norm for large software systems, even as it becomes clear that global distribution of a project seriously impairs critical coordination mechanisms. In this paper, I describe a desired future for global development and the problems that stand in the... |
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"abstract": "As Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are rapidly adopted in various domains, many test adequacy metrics for DNN inputs have been introduced to help evaluating, and validating, trained DNN models. Surprise Adequacy (SA) is one such metric that aims to quantitatively measure how surprising a new input is with ... | {
"abstract": "Deep Learning (DL) systems are rapidly being adopted in safety and security critical domains, urgently calling for ways to test their correctness and robustness. Testing of DL systems has traditionally relied on manual collection and labelling of data. Recently, a number of coverage criteria based on n... | {
"abstract": "Deep learning (DL) defines a data-driven programming paradigm that automatically composes the system decision logic from the training data. In company with the data explosion and hardware acceleration during the past decade, DL achieves tremendous success in many cutting-edge applications. However, eve... |
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"abstract": "To determine the therapeutic effects of adrenomedullin (ADM) on vascular calcification and related molecular mechanism in fructose‐induced insulin resistance rats.",
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"title": "Adrenomedullin attenuates vascular calcification in fructose‐induced insulin resistance rats"
} | {
"abstract": "Lanthanum, a rare earth element, has been used to decrease serum phosphorus level in patients with chronic renal disease and hyperphosphatemia. We aimed to observe the effect and mechanism of two doses of lanthanum acetate (375 and 750 mg/kg/day) on vascular calcification induced by vitamin D3 plus nic... | {
"abstract": "The Protein Information Resource (PIR) produces the largest, most comprehensive, annotated protein sequence database in the public domain, the PIR-International Protein Sequence Database, in collaboration with the Munich Information Center for Protein Sequences (MIPS) and the Japan International Protei... |
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"abstract": "Photochemical carbosilylation of Lu3N@Ih-C80 was performed using siliranes (silacyclopropanes) to afford the corresponding [5,6]- and [6,6]-adducts. Electrochemical studies indicated that the redox potentials of the carbosilylated derivatives were shifted cathodically in comparison with those of the [5... | {
"abstract": "Trimetallic nitride endohedral fullerenes have emerged as the most extensively studied compounds among endohedral metallic fullerenes (EMFs) in recent years. Within this family, endohedrals with an Ih-C80 cage have attracted most attention because of their exceptionally high yields and potential for a ... | {
"abstract": "Force-induced structural transitions both in relatively random and in designed single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) chains are studied theoretically. At high salt conditions, ssDNA forms compacted hairpin patterns stabilized by base pairing and base-pair stacking interactions, and a threshold external force is ... |
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"abstract": "The embryonic–abembryonic (Em–Ab) axis of the mouse blastocyst has been found in several studies to align orthogonal to the first cleavage plane, raising the possibility that a developmental prepattern already exists at the two‐cell stage. However, it is also possible that such alignment is not due to ... | {
"abstract": "Blastomeres of the early mouse embryo are thought to be equivalent in their developmental properties at least until the eight-cell stage. However, the experiments that have led to this conclusion could not have taken into account either the spatial origin of individual blastomeres or the spatial alloca... | {
"abstract": "The Society for Developmental Biology 64th annual meeting took place by the beautiful San Francisco Bay from July 27th to August 1st, 2005. Organized under the leadership of Judith Kimble (SDB President, U. Wisconsin-Madison), the meeting attracted over one thousand developmental biologists from all ov... |
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"abstract": "Collaborative ltering automatically retrieves and lters documents by considering the recommendations or feedback given by other users to the documents. In this paper we describe the webCobra recommendation system for automatically recommending high-quality web documents to users with similar interests ... | {
"abstract": "The rapidly growing volume of electronic information available in distributed heterogeneous environments, such as the World Wide Web, has made it increasingly difficult and time-consuming to search for and locate relevant documents (in textual, visual or audio format). To refieve users of the burden of... | {
"abstract": "The present study explored the predictive ability of parental involvement on students’ school engagement and to identify the levels of both variables in term of gender and the grade among a sample of 929 Jordanian primary students. To achieve the aim of the study, two scales were to measure parental in... |
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"abstract": "This paper describes cross-task flexible transition models (CTF-TMs) and demonstrates their effectiveness for Arabic natural language processing (NLP). NLP pipelines often suffer from error propagation, as errors committed in lower-level tasks cascade through the remainder of the processing pipeline. B... | {
"abstract": "Treebanking a large corpus of relatively structured speech transcribed from various Arabic Broadcast News (BN) sources has allowed us to begin to address the many challenges of annotating and parsing a speech corpus in Arabic. The now completed Arabic Treebank BN corpus consists of 432,976 source token... | {
"abstract": "Abstract We give a triangulation of the 6-cube into 308 simplices; this is the smallest number in any triangulation of I 6 presented so far.",
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"title": "A triangulation of the 6-cube with 308 simplices"
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"abstract": "ABSTRACT This paper reports a novel system of catalytic ozonation coupling with activated carbon adsorption for removing the organic compounds treating in the RO concentrate from coal gasification wastewater. The effect of ozone dosage, catalyst dosage, reaction time, influence pH, and temperature on o... | {
"abstract": "A combined process consisting of a powdered activated carbon technology (PACT) and short-cut biological nitrogen removal reactor (SBNR) was developed to enhance the removal efficiency of the total nitrogen (TN) from the effluent of an upflow anaerobic sludge bed (UASB) reactor, which was used to treat ... | {
"abstract": "Abstract In an ozone-containing water a suspension of a few milligrams per liter of activated carbon (AQ or carbon black (CB) initiates a radical-type chain reaction that then proceeds in the aqueous phase and accelerates the transformation of O3 into secondary radicals, such as hydroxyl radicals (°OH)... |
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"abstract": "Due to the complex visual environment, such as lighting variations, shadows, and limitations of vision, the accuracy of vacant parking slot detection for the park assist system (PAS) with a standalone around view monitor (AVM) needs to be improved. To address this problem, we propose a vacant parking s... | {
"abstract": "For the domain of self-driving and automatic parking, perception is a basic and critical technique, moreover, the detection of lane markings and parking slots is an important part of visual perception. Compared with front sight images, panoramic images(PI) can capture more comprehensive pavement inform... | {
"abstract": "This paper studies the problems of vehicle make&model classification. Some of the main challenges are reaching high classification accuracy and reducing the annotation time of the images. To address these problems, we have created a fine-grained database using online vehicle marketplaces of Turkey. A p... |
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"abstract": "IncHI2 plasmids, possessing high flexibility and genetic plasticity, play a vital role in the acquisition and transmission of resistance determinants. Polymorphic mobile genetic elements (MGEs) generated by a chromosomally integrated IncHI2 plasmid in an individual Salmonella isolate have not yet been ... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Integrative and conjugative elements (ICEs) are widespread mobile DNA that transmit both vertically, in a host-integrated state, and horizontally, through excision and transfer to new recipients. Different families of ICEs have been discovered with more or less restricted host ranges, which op... | {
"abstract": "The distribution of calcium and magnesium has been studied in the acinar cells of the pancreas of the guinea pig. Most of the magnesium was found to be associated with the rough microsomes (probably bound to the ribosomes) and with the postmicrosomal supernate. In contrast, calcium was distributed amon... |
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"abstract": "The paper presents a survey and analysis on the current status and concerns of Internet of things (IoT) security. The IoT framework aspires to connect anyone with anything at anywhere. IoT typically has a three layers architecture consisting of Perception, Network, and Application layers. A number of s... | {
"abstract": "In the last few years the Internet of Things (IoT) has seen widespread application and can be found in each field. Authentication and access control are important and critical functionalities in the context of IoT to enable secure communication between devices. Mobility, dynamic network topology and we... | {
"abstract": "Electromagnetic energy harvesting holds a promising future for energizing low power electronic devices in wireless communication circuits. This article presents an RF energy harvesting system that can harvest energy from the ambient surroundings at the downlink radio frequency range of GSM-900 band. Th... |
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"abstract": "In visual question answering (VQA), recent advances have well advocated the use of attention mechanism to precisely link the question to the potential answer areas. As the difficulty of the question increases, more VQA models adopt multiple attention layers to capture the deeper visual-linguistic corre... | {
"abstract": "A number of recent works have proposed attention models for Visual Question Answering (VQA) that generate spatial maps highlighting image regions relevant to answering the question. In this paper, we argue that in addition to modeling \"where to look\" or visual attention, it is equally important to mo... | {
"abstract": "Visual Question and Answering (VQA) problems are attracting increasing interest from multiple research disciplines. Solving VQA problems requires techniques from both computer vision for understanding the visual contents of a presented image or video, as well as the ones from natural language processin... |
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"abstract": "Multilevel inverters with a high device count, low boosting and DC voltage imbalance are all common problems exists in the traditional topologies. In this article, a new single-phase asymmetrical multilevel inverter (MLI) that can generate 33 levels at the output with fewer components and lower total s... | {
"abstract": "A novel topology of a modular uninterruptible power supply (UPS) system, based on switched capacitor circuit and wideband gap (WBG) devices, is proposed. This paper deals with the development of a multilevel, multiport, single-phase, transformerless online UPS with universal input/output voltage rating... | {
"abstract": "The paper presents a new transformer-less step-up multilevel inverter structure with a single DC source. The concept was based on cascaded connection of bipolar T-type 5-level modules. Proper charging and discharging of capacitors across the load in prearranged time durations would make a nearly sinuso... |
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"abstract": "Fukazawa K, Poliac LC, Pretto EA. Rapid assessment and safe management of severe pulmonary hypertension with milrinone during orthotopic liver transplantation.
Clin Transplant 2010: 24: 515–519.
© 2009 John Wiley & Sons A/S.",
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"title": "Rapid assessment and safe management of... | {
"abstract": "T he perioperative mortality associated with liver transplantation is very low and is usually the result of a complication from an associated medical problem. One such medical condition is pulmonary hypertension, usually associated with portal hypertension. When liver transplantation is undertaken in a... | {
"abstract": "Portopulmonary hypertension (POPH) is a not infrequent but serious complication of liver cirrhosis. Continuous intravenous epoprostenol infusion is a treatment option for this condition. Progressive splenomegaly with pancytopenia (hypersplenism) is associated with epoprostenol use in POPH. After recogn... |
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"abstract": "Cardiac conduction is mediated by gap junction channels that are formed by connexin (Cx) protein subunits. The connexin family of proteins consists of more than 20 members varying in their biophysical properties and ability to combine with other connexins into heteromeric gap junction channels. The mam... | {
"abstract": "Background—Heterogeneous remodeling of gap junctions is observed in many forms of heart disease. The consequent loss of synchronous ventricular activation has been hypothesized to result in diminished cardiac performance. To directly test this hypothesis, we designed a murine model of heterogeneous gap... | {
"abstract": "The properties of a new class of electromechanical resonators based on GaN are presented. By using the two-dimensional electron gas (2-DEG) present at the AlGaN/GaN interface and the piezoelectric properties of this heterostructure, we use the R-HEMT (Resonant High Electron Mobility Transistor) as an a... |
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"abstract": "Background and aims: Mental health problems are not uncommon among children of the immigrants. Recently, the immigrants' toll has increased in most developed nations. The children of immigrant parents are frequently susceptible to mental illnesses like attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). T... | {
"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nInformation about psychiatric disorders among those with immigrant parents is important for early detection and service development. The aim of this study is to examine the association between parental immigration and the diagnosis of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in offsp... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Background Probands with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are at increased risk for several psychiatric and neurodevelopmental disorders. The risk of these disorders among the siblings of probands has not been thoroughly assessed in a population-based cohort. Methods Every child... |
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"abstract": "skip this line The XUV light obtained from the new free electron lasers and high harmonic generation (HHG) sources have opened up the possibility of observation, initiation and control of the fastest intra molecular processes. Upon exposure to XUV light, atoms and molecules often ejects valence or even... | {
"abstract": "We study theoretically and experimentally the electronic relaxation of NO(2) molecules excited by absorption of one ∼400 nm pump photon. Semiclassical simulations based on trajectory surface hopping calculations are performed. They predict fast oscillations of the electronic character around the inters... | {
"abstract": "We report the sequential assembly of proteins via the alternating physical adsorption of human serum albumin (HSA) and chemical grafting with isobutyramide (IBAM) or bromoisobutyramide (BrIBAM) groups. This approach, performed on silica template particles, leads to the formation of noncovalent protein ... |
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"abstract": "American cutaneous leishmaniasis (ACL) is a zoonosis caused by Leishmania, a protozoan. Common antigens occur in the strains found in America, which allow antigenic cross-reactivity. Therefore, multivalent vaccines can be used for this pathogen. In this study, we investigated the efficacy of two differ... | {
"abstract": "The antibody response against an amastigote-specific protein (A2) from Leishmania donovani was investigated. Sera from patients with trypanosomiasis and various forms of leishmaniasis were screened for anti-A2 antibodies. Sera from patients infected only with L. donovani or Leishmania mexicana specific... | {
"abstract": "AIM\nTo investigate the serum erythropoietin (Epo) levels in patients with chronic liver diseases and to compare to subjects with iron-deficiency anaemia and healthy controls.\n\n\nMETHODS\nWe examined 31 anaemic (ALC) and 22 non-anaemic (NALC) cirrhotic patients, 21 non- anaemic subjects with chronic ... |
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"abstract": "Multiagent systems (MAS), long studied in artificial intelligence, have recently become popular in mainstream IS research. This resurgence in MAS research can be attributed to two phenomena: the spread of concurrent and distributed computing with the advent of the web; and a deeper integration of compu... | {
"abstract": "Intelligent interaction in multi-agent domains frequently requires an agent to track other agents' mental states: their current goals, beliefs and intentions. Accuracy in thisagent-trackingtask is critically dependent on the accuracy of the tracker's (tracking agent's) model of the trackee (tracked age... | {
"abstract": "In complex, dynamic and uncertain environments extending from disaster rescue missions, to future battlefields, to monitoring and surveillance tasks, to virtual training environments, to future robotic space missions, intelligent agents will play a key role in information gathering and filtering, as we... |
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"abstract": "Sequential reactive systems are computer programs or hardware devices which process the ows of input data or control signals and output the streams of instructions or responses. When designing such systems one needs formal specication languages capable of expressing the relationships between the inpu... | {
"abstract": "In this paper we consider the Computation Tree Logic (CTL) proposed in [CE] which extends the Unified Branching Time Logic (UB) of [BMP] by adding an until operator. We establish that CTL has the small property by showing that any satisfiable CTL formulae is satisfiable in a small finite model obtained... | {
"abstract": "Abstract. The temperature measurements of the rotational Raman lidar of the University of Hohenheim (UHOH RRL) during the High Definition of Clouds and Precipitation for advancing Climate Prediction (HD(CP)2) Observation Prototype Experiment (HOPE) in April and May 2013 are discussed. The lidar consist... |
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"abstract": "This survey paper examines the current state of single sign-on solutions for the web. Results from a security analysis of three commonly found SSO solutions: Microsoft Passport/Live ID, OpenID 2.0 and SAML 2.0 will be discussed with a detailed outline of their authentication process as well as highligh... | {
"abstract": "This paper concerns the problem of identity management in modern Web-2.0-based mashup applications. Identity management supports convenient access to information when mashups are used in sensitive environments, such an banking, investment and online shopping, by providing services such as single sign-o... | {
"abstract": "Cloud computing is a new generation of technology which is designed to provide the commercial necessities, solve the IT management issues as well as running the appropriate applications. Another entry on the list of functions which has been handled internally is Identity Access Management (IAM). Compan... |
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"abstract": "Most countries with economies in transition in Central and Eastern Europe and the New Independent States of the former Soviet Union use earmarked, environmental funds to channel subsidised finance for environmental protection. In some Central and Eastern European countries in particular, the funds are ... | {
"abstract": "The paper offers a perspective on environmental predicament of economies in transition. Emphasis is put on how these economies finance their environmental needs. It is observed that the demand for environmental financing can be affected both by environmental policy measures (such as internalization of ... | {
"abstract": "A contingent valuation survey about a reduction of the eutrophication of the Baltic Sea provided data about respondents' motives for their answers to the willingness to pay question. A categorization of the motives allowed an identification of protesters against the valuation scenario. The categorizati... |
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"abstract": "The Impact of Cues and User Interaction on the Memorability of System-assigned Random Passwords Mahdi Nasrullah Al-Ameen, Ph.D. The University of Texas at Arlington, Supervising Professor: Matthew Wright Given the choice, users produce passwords reflecting common strategies and patterns that ease recal... | {
"abstract": "Text passwords have been used in authentication systems for many decades. Users must recall the textual strings selected during registration to pass authentication. However, there are some serious problems with text passwords---recollection and security. Hence, various graphical-password authentication... | {
"abstract": "Detecting malicious code with exact match on collected datasets is becoming a large-scale identification problem due to the existence of new malware variants. Being able to promptly and accurately identify new attacks enables security experts to respond effectively. My proposal is to develop an automat... |
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"abstract": "Cellulose and other plant fibre polymers are fermented in the rumen by a cellulolytic biofilm containing a complex mixture of microbial species. Polymer hydrolysis and fermentation are accompanied by the release of plant secondary “defence” chemicals such as tannins, saponins and coumarins. The release... | {
"abstract": "The presence of methanogens Methanobacterium arboriphilus, Methanobacterium bryantii, or Methanobrevibacter smithii increased the level of cellulose fermentation by 5 to 10% in cultures of several genera of anaerobic fungi. When Neocallimastix sp. strain L2 was grown in coculture with methanogens the r... | {
"abstract": "Learning based on reward prediction error (RPE) was originally proposed in the context of nondeclarative memory. We postulate that RPE may support declarative memory as well. Indeed, recent years have witnessed a number of independent empirical studies reporting effects of RPE on declarative memory. We... |
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"abstract": "Transient response of a miniaturized silicon piezoresistive sensor is simulated here for the first time when a pressure shock wave propagates along the sensor’s surface, or equivalently, for side-on pressure shock wave in air. These mechanical simulations show that it is possible to reduce the sensor’s... | {
"abstract": "Available commercial piezoelectric pressure sensors are not able to accurately reproduce the ultra-fast transient pressure occurring during an air blast experiment. In this communication a new pressure sensor prototype based on a miniature silicon membrane and piezoresistive gauges is reported for sign... | {
"abstract": "Small size, high bandwidth pressure sensors are required for instrumentation of probes and test models in aerodynamic studies of complex unsteady flows. Optical-fiber pressure sensors promise potential advantages of small size and low cost in comparison with their electrical counterparts. We describe m... |
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"abstract": "We synthesized (trans,trans)-1-bromo-2,5-bis-(3-hydroxycarbonyl-4-hydroxy)styrylbenzene (BSB) and used this compound to detect amyloid fibrils in autopsy and biopsy samples from patients with localized amyloidosis, such as familial prion disease, and systemic amyloidosis, such as familial amyloidotic p... | {
"abstract": "Abstract. Familial amyloidotic polyneuropathy (FAP) caused by amyloidogenic transthyretin (ATTR) mutations is the most common form of hereditary amyloidosis. We investigated the diagnostic value of the bone scanning agent technetium-99m 3,3-diphosphono-1,2-propanodicarboxylic acid (99mTc-DPD) in this d... | {
"abstract": "Transthyretin‐Met 30 (TTR‐Met 30) is a variant of transthyretin and is usually associated with familial amyloid polyneuropathy. It is rare that patients with TTR‐Met 30 will primarily develop amyloid cardiomyopathy. This report presents a patient with late‐onset TTR‐Met 30 who primarily developed amylo... |
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"abstract": "The growth of epitaxial Ge nanowires is investigated on (100), (111) B and (110) GaAs substrates in the growth temperature range from 300 to 380 °C. Unlike epitaxial Ge nanowires on Ge or Si substrates, Ge nanowires on GaAs substrates grow predominantly along the direction. Using this unique property, ... | {
"abstract": "Systematic studies of the heteroepitaxial growth of germanium nanowires on silicon substrates were performed. These studies included the effect of sample preparation, substrate orientation, preanneal, growth temperature, and germane partial pressure on the growth of epitaxial germanium nanowires. Scann... |
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"abstract": "RNA localization is of critical importance in many fundamental cell biological and developmental processes by regulating the spatial control of gene expression. To investigate how spindle-localized RNAs might influence mitosis, we comprehensively surveyed all messenger RNAs (mRNAs) that bound to microt... | {
"abstract": "To elucidate the mechanism underlying suppression of N-nitrosobis(2-oxopropyl)amine (BOP)-induced hamster pancreatic carcinogenesis by cigarette smoke (CS), hepatic levels of microsomal cytochrome P450 (CYP) enzymes, mutagenic activation of environmental carcinogens and three types of uridine diphospha... |
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"abstract": "Modifications to neural circuits of the paraventricular hypothalamic nucleus (PVN) have been implicated in sympathoexcitation and systemic cardiovascular dysfunction. However, to date, the role of insulin‐like growth factor 1 receptor (IGF‐1R) expression on PVN pathophysiology is unknown. Using confoca... | {
"abstract": "Background and Purpose— Inflammatory injury plays a critical role in intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH)–induced secondary brain injury. Recently, dopamine D2 receptor (DRD2) is identified as an important component controlling innate immunity and inflammatory response in central nervous system, and &agr;B-c... | {
"abstract": "10.30699/jogcr.7.4.323 Background & Objective: The effect of storage time and temperature on the prepared semen sample was evaluated, but the optimal condition is unclear. The aim of this study was to assess the effect of long-term incubation of prepared sperm at testicular temperature versus room temp... |
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"abstract": "Motivated by the addition of gyroscopes to a large number of new smart phones, we study the effects of combining accelerometer and gyroscope data on the recognition rate of motion gesture recognizers with dimensionality constraints. Using a large data set of motion gestures we analyze results for the f... | {
"abstract": "The proliferation of mobile computing devices and local-area wireless networks has fostered a growing interest in location-aware systems and services. In this paper we present RADAR, a radio-frequency (RF)-based system for locating and tracking users inside buildings. RADAR operates by recording and pr... |
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"abstract": "For argumentation useful, the means must be found overcome the knowledge acquisition bottleneck between the source material and the translation into and out of an argumentation formalism. As source material is often expressed and understood in natural language, we should consider how to translate natur... | {
"abstract": "In AI approaches to argumentation, different senses of argument are often conflated. We propose a three-level distinction between arguments, cases, and debates. This allows us to modularise issues into separate levels and identify systematic relations between levels. Arguments, comprised of rules, fact... | {
"abstract": "The starting point of this article is the claim that logics for defeasible argumentation provide the means to logically characterise the difference between several kinds of proof burdens, but only if they are embedded in a dynamic setting that captures the various stages of a legal proceeding. It is al... |
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"abstract": "The usefulness of virtual chromoendoscopy (VC) in capsule endoscopy (CE) isa controversial issue, with conflicting studies regarding its efficacy. FICE and a blue filter were embedded in the PillCamTM software, with the aim to assist readers in identifying the source of obscure gastrointestinal (GI) bl... | {
"abstract": "Background and study aims: The clinical utility of computed virtual chromoendoscopy with flexible spectral imaging color enhancement (FICE) in capsule endoscopy (CE) remains controversial. To clarify the clinical utility of FICE-enhanced CE in evaluating small bowel lesions, we quantitatively assessed ... | {
"abstract": "This investigation was conducted in rat brain tissues to elucidate the free radical induced cellular and subcellular membrane injuries in two different depth of global ischemia. Global moderate (penumbral) ischemia was performed on rat brains by bilateral vertebral arteries cauterization and temporary ... |
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"abstract": "In a recent interview, Whitfield Diffie argued that “the whole point of cloud computing is economy” and while it is possible in principle for “computation to be d one on encrypted data, [...] current techniques would more than undo the economy gained by the outsour cing and show little sign of becoming... | {
"abstract": "A polyether imide resin composition is proposed which has improved ductility and is less harmful to mating parts during sliding and thus can be used as the material for parts requiring rub resistance and abrasion resistance. It comprises 50-99.5 percent by weight of a polyether imide and 50-0.5 percent... | {
"abstract": "Two-party protocols have been considered for a long time. Currently, there is a renewed effort to revisit specific protocols to gain efficiency. As an example, one may quote the breakthrough of [BF97], bringing a new solution to the problem of secretly generating RSA keys, which itself goes back to the... |
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"abstract": "To validate an appropriate spleen size measurement technique for the prediction of high‐risk esophagogastric varices.",
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"title": "Measurement of multiple spleen lengths is not necessary for non‐invasive prediction of high‐risk esophagogastric varices"
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"abstract": "PurposeThe aim of the study was to find which linear measurements, field and volume coefficients correlate the best with real volume of the spleen and can be further used for identification of splenomegaly.MethodsAbdominal computed tomography (CT) examinations of 264 patients were retrospectively analy... | {
"abstract": "Delayed neutrophil engraftment (NE) has been reported in cord blood transplantation (CBT) as compared with other stem cell transplantation methods. The number of total nucleated cells (TNCs), CD34+ cells (generally ≥ 1 × 105/kg), and colony-forming units of granulocyte/macrophage (CFU-GM) significantly... |
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"abstract": "The economic and political change in today’s organizations is the norm and the social and technological change is highly accelerating posing extremely complex task and uncertainty to those responsible for strategic planning. Therefore, in executing various decisions there is need for managers to achiev... | {
"abstract": "ABSTRACTThe business world today is getting more competitive and many companies are looking for ways to survive in the market competition especially Small Medium Enterprises (SMEs). This research was aimed at investigating whether formal strategic planning is relevant to SMEs and whether the strategic ... | {
"abstract": "Managing small and Medium-sized Enterprises: The Malaysian Perspective provides an insight into managing small businesses more effectively in the Malaysian context. The book not only offers a comprehensive overview of the Malaysian SMEs but also highlights the problems faced by these firms. In addition... |
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"abstract": "Abstract : The purpose of this research was to develop an efficient, accurate and integrated approach for the assessment of ecosystem risk and recovery at sites where contaminated sediments exist, or previously existed. The work addressed the two high priority needs identified in SERDP ERSON-07-01: (1)... | {
"abstract": "Abstract : This report reviews the advantages and limitations of in situ estuarine and marine toxicity testing strategies. Case studies that detail cage designs, testing strategies, and appropriateness of various species from different taxonomic groups are followed by recommendations on a strategy to a... | {
"abstract": "A comprehensive, weight-of-evidence based ecological risk assessment approach integrating laboratory and in situ bioaccumulation and toxicity testing, passive sampler devices, hydrological characterization tools, continuous water quality sensing, and multi-phase chemical analyses was evaluated. The tes... |
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"abstract": "Abstract Embodied cognition (EC) refers to the interplay occurring in thinking among individual’s sensorimotor capacities (i.e., the ability of the body to respond to its senses with movement), the body itself, and the environment. The aim of the present narrative review is to provide an overall unders... | {
"abstract": "Embodied and grounded cognition theories have assumed that the sensorimotor system is causally involved in processing motor-related language content. Although a causal proof on a single-cell basis is ethically not possible today, the present fMRI study provides confirmation of this longstanding specula... | {
"abstract": "Cognitive theory has decomposed human mental abilities into cognitive (sub) systems, and cognitive neuroscience succeeded in disclosing a host of relationships between cognitive systems and specific structures of the human brain. However, an explanation of why specific functions are located in specific... |
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"abstract": "Foster Care Workers’ Roles in Developing Resiliency in Foster Children by Linda A. Lopez MS, Southern University at New Orleans, 2005 BS, University of Southwestern Louisiana, 1997 Project Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Social Work",
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"abstract": "The goal of this three-wave longitudinal study was to analyze foster parent stress and foster children’s internalizing and externalizing behaviors in a transactional framework. Participants in this study were 237 children in foster care in the Netherlands with, mostly, long placement durations (M = 56.... | {
"abstract": "Despite decades of research, the question of whether the rapid eye movements (REMs) of paradoxical sleep (PS) are equivalent to waking saccades and whether their direction is congruent with visual spatial events in the dream scene is still very controversial. We gained an insight into these questions t... |
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"title": "Racial integration : a social intervention on a South African university campus"
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"abstract": "The extended contact hypothesis proposes that knowledge that an in-group member has a close relationship with an out-group member can lead to more positive intergroup attitudes. Proposed mechanisms are the in-group or out-group member serving as positive exemplars and the inclusion of the out-group mem... | {
"abstract": "E-learning systems are changing education and organizational training considerably. With the advancement of online-based learning systems, learner control of the instructional process has emerged as a decisive factor inherent to technology-based learning. However, the conceptual work on the role of lea... |
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"abstract": "Copyright © and Moral Rights are retained by the author. A copy can be downloaded for personal non-commercial research or study, without prior permission or charge. This item cannot be reproduced or quoted extensively from without first obtaining permission in writing from the copyright holder(s). The ... | {
"abstract": "A novel broadband horizontally polarized (HP) omnidi- rectional planar antenna is developed for mobile communications. The proposed antenna consists of four printed arc dipoles that form a cir- cular loop for HP omnidirectional radiation. A broadband feeding net- work which includes four broadband balu... | {
"abstract": "We compare policy differences across institutions by embedding representations of the entire legal corpus of each institution and the vocabulary shared across all corpora into a continuous vector space. We apply our method, Gov2Vec, to Supreme Court opinions, Presidential actions, and official summarie... |
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"abstract": "One of the identifiability assumptions of causal effects defined by marginal structural model (MSM) parameters is the experimental treatment assignment (ETA) assumption. Practical violations of this assumption frequently occur in data analysis when certain exposures are rarely observed within some stra... | {
"abstract": "Background Asthma is the most important chronic disease of childhood. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has concluded that children with asthma continue to be susceptible to ozone-associated adverse effects on their disease. Objectives This study was designed to evaluate time trends in associati... | {
"abstract": "BackgroundThe District of Columbia (DC) Department of Health, under a grant from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, established an Environmental Public Health Tracking Program. As part of this program, the goals of this contextual pilot study are to quantify short-term associations betw... |
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"abstract": "Climate change (CC) and land use and land cover change (LULCC) threaten Mediterranean forests and the ecosystem services (ES) they provide. In complex socio-ecological systems and under high uncertainties, the resilience of ES has become the target objective for adaptive management strategies driven by... | {
"abstract": "Purpose - The aim of this paper is to demonstrate that the application of standard environmental accounting practices for estimating long-term discount rates is likely to lead to the rejection of biodiversity-sensitive projects that are in the greater societal good. Design/methodology/approach - The au... | {
"abstract": "There are notable costs in maintaining a wildlife trapping program, primarily labor and travel costs associated with frequently and regularly checking large numbers of traps. Wireless sensor networks have the potential to significantly decrease operational costs of terrestrial wildlife trapping and mon... |
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"abstract": "Objective: Adolescents who engage in regular marijuana use may have a higher propensity to take unsafe risks despite the possible negative consequences. We compared adolescents with a history of regular marijuana use to non-using teens on a behavioral measure of risk-taking. Given the involvement of th... | {
"abstract": "In adults, studies examining the long-lasting cognitive effects of marijuana use demonstrate subtle deficits in attention, executive function, and memory. Because neuromaturation continues through adolescence, these results cannot necessarily generalize to adolescent marijuana users. The goal of this s... | {
"abstract": "Rationale: Although some aspects of memory functions are known to be acutely impaired by Delta(9)-tetrahydrocannabinol (Delta(9)-THC; the main active constituent of marijuana), effects on other aspects of memory are not known and the time course of functional impairments is unclear. Objective: The pres... |
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"abstract": "This paper proposes a method for tackling the problem of scalable object instance detection in the presence of clutter and occlusions. It gathers together advantages in respect of the state-of-the-art object detection approaches, being at the same time able to scale favorably with the number of models,... | {
"abstract": "We present a unified occlusion model for object instance detection under arbitrary viewpoint. Whereas previous approaches primarily modeled local coherency of occlusions or attempted to learn the structure of occlusions from data, we propose to explicitly model occlusions by reasoning about 3D interact... | {
"abstract": "Rendering symbolic music notation is a common component of many MIR applications, and many tools are available for this task. There is, however, a need for a tool that can natively render the Music Encoding Initiative (MEI) notation encodings that are increasingly used in music research projects. In th... |
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"abstract": "Freshness is one of main attributes affecting the overall quality of fish. Quality Index Method can be applied to evaluate the freshness of seafood raw materials and final products. Cuba imports pollock fillets without skin from Iceland. The aim of the study was to develop and evaluate a new Quality In... | {
"abstract": "The shelf life of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) portions produced for retail distribution is examined and the dominant aerobic spoilage organism is identified. Characterization of the harvesting and processing operations allow the development of a stochastic mathematical model, a process risk model (PR... | {
"abstract": "Based on a 1988-89 cooperative project by 15 industrial researchers from Denmark, Iceland, Norway, and the Faeroe Islands, explores how computer vision and image processing can be applied to such aspects of the fishing industry as the quality inspection of fish and fish products for defects; the mea",
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"abstract": "To tackle the growing energy resources consumption, Europe has come up with an ambitious strategy for reducing CO2 emissions through the 2020 Climate and Energy Package, as well as the Covenant of Mayors. This work aims to understand the determinant factors impacting the evolution of energy consumption... | {
"abstract": "This paper analyses the factors affecting greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in Greece, (i.e. the drivers of pressures on climate change), using environmental indicators related to energy, demographics and economic growth. The analysis is based on the data of 2008 and considers types of fuel and sectors. T... | {
"abstract": "Author(s): Nakicenovic, N.; Alcamo, J.; Davis, G.; Vries, B. de; Fenhann, J.; Gaffin, S.; Gregory, K.; Grubler, A.; Jung, T.Y.; Kram, T.; Rovere, E.L. La; Michaelis, L.; Mori, S.; Morita, T.; Pepper, W.; Pitcher, H.; Price, L.; Riahi, K.; Roehrl, A.; Rogner, H-H.; Sankovski, A.; Schlesinger, M.; Shukla... |
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"abstract": "Appl Cognit Psychol. 2018;32:401–410. Summary Teaching educational materials to others enhances the teacher's own learning of those to‐be‐taught materials, although the underlying mechanisms remain largely unknown. Here, we show that the learning‐by‐teaching benefit is possibly a retrieval benefit. Lea... | {
"abstract": "We investigated the testing effect in Coursera video-based learning. One hundred and twenty-three participants either (a) studied an instructional video-recorded lecture four times, (b) studied the lecture three times and took one recall test, or (c) studied the lecture once and took three tests. They ... | {
"abstract": "Engaging the Online Learners includes an innovative framework--the Phases of Engagement--that helps instructors become more involved as knowledge generators and cofacilitators of a course. The book also provides specific ideas for tested activities (collected from experienced online instructors across ... |
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"abstract": "The research area of Distributed Artificial Intelligence aims at building intelligent agent systems. Multi-Agent Systems have been applied successfully in many domains, from an intermodal planning domain to cascading security thread simulations. But still, agents struggle with the meaning of concepts u... | {
"abstract": "Computing the degree of semantic relatedness of words is a key functionality of many language applications such as search, clustering, and disambiguation. Previous approaches to computing semantic relatedness mostly used static language resources, while essentially ignoring their temporal aspects. We b... | {
"abstract": "It is widely thought that news organizations exhibit ideological bias, but rigorously quantifying such slant has proven methodologically challenging. Through a combination of machine learning and crowdsourcing techniques, we investigate the selection and framing of political issues in 15 major U.S. new... |
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"abstract": "............................................................................................... V ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ......................................................................... VII TABLE OF CONTENTS ..............................................................................IX LIST OF PUB... | {
"abstract": "Since there are several applications of Electrical Bioimpedance (EBI) that use the Cole parameters as base of the analysis, to fit EBI measured data onto the Cole equation is a very common practice within Multifrequency-EBI and spectroscopy. The aim of this paper is to compare different fitting methods... | {
"abstract": "Fat-free mass and total and percentage body fat were determined by dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) and total-body and segmental impedance measures were taken at 16 frequencies from 5 to 1300 kHz in a sample of white men and women aged 18-30 y. Plots of total-body and segmental impedance against ... |
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"abstract": "ABSTRACT Rapid developments in building information modeling (BIM) are escalating the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry toward digital transformation. However, the lack of skilled BIM professionals is a critical issue slowing this transformation. Currently, few educational inst... | {
"abstract": "SUMMARY: Building Information Modelling (BIM) is a thriving technology and approach for the Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) Industry which facilitates, among others, the functions of planning, design, construction and operation of the project lifecycle. BIM is gradually replacing the 2... | {
"abstract": "Five high school students with ASD (autistic spectrum disorder) participating in the Excel/Autism study were able to demonstrate mastery of a set of Excel topics. The Excel curriculum covered approximately the same topics as are covered in the Excel portion of Computer Business Applications, a class fo... |
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"abstract": "The IEEE 802.16 Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMAX) standard is widely used for fixed and mobile Internet access. WiMAX provides maximum data rate of 75 Mbps and high-speed Internet access to a wide range of devices used by clients over the last mile. Asymmetric Digital Subscriber L... | {
"abstract": "WiMAX (Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access) embodies the IEEE 802.16 family of standards that provision wireless broadband access. With the IEEE 802.16e-2005 mobility amendment, WiMAX promises to address the ever-increasing demand for mobile high speed wireless data in fourth-generation (4G... | {
"abstract": "Simulation of VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) traffic through UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunication System) and WiFi (IEEE 802.11x) alone and together are analysed for Quality of Service (QoS) performance. The average jitter of VoIP transiting the WiFi-UMTS network has been found to be lower tha... |
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"abstract": "Abstract:Cross-sectional studies among African men who have sex with men (MSM) populations demonstrate high HIV prevalence, but few incidence estimates exist. The Mpumalanga Men's Study in Gert Sibande, Mpumalanga province, South Africa, involved 3 serial cross-sectional surveys of MSM recruited throug... | {
"abstract": "The Mpumalanga Men's Study (MPMS) is the assessment of the Project Boithato HIV prevention intervention for South African MSM. Boithato aims to increase consistent condom use, regular testing for HIV-negative MSM, and linkage to care for HIV-positive MSM. The MPMS baseline examined HIV prevalence and a... | {
"abstract": "We studied the effects of theanine, a component of green tea leaves, on the antitumor activity of adriamycin (ADR) from the biochemical modulation view point. In vitro, theanine inhibited the ADR efflux from Ehrlich ascites carcinoma cells and maintained the ADR concentration in tumor cells. Theanine e... |
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"abstract": "ECCE sector. Further research is recommended in the ECCE sector.",
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"title": "Early Childhood Care and Education teachers’ experiences of integrating the activities of the national curriculum framework into themes"
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"abstract": "This article highlights the challenge of engaging critically with dominant discourses of \"readiness\" in early childhood education. Drawing on the current context of early childhood education in England, this paper argues that dominant discourses of \"readiness\" are reliant on an underlying logic of ... | {
"abstract": "........................................................................................................................... ix Chapter 1: Investigating the Experiences of Kindergarten Teachers in Alberta who Have Administered the Early Development Instrument (EDI) .................................... 1... |
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"abstract": "Background: Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is the most aggressive primary nervous system brain tumor. There is still a lack of effective methods to control its progression and recurrence in clinical treatment. It is clinically found that Xiaoliu Decoction (XLD) has the effect of treating brain tumors an... | {
"abstract": "Different computational approaches have been examined and compared for inferring network relationships from time-series genomic data on human disease mechanisms under the recent Dialogue on Reverse Engineering Assessment and Methods (DREAM) challenge. Many of these approaches infer all possible relatio... | {
"abstract": "We propose a new model for RR interval records based on the empirical finding that the amplitude of RR records is negatively correlated with its regularity. We develop the mathematics needed to define rigorously this model, as well as the statistical tools necessary for estimating the parameters of the... |
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"abstract": "In this paper we introduce a new software platform for the realization of intelligent video-surveillance applications and, more generally, of real-time video stream processing systems. The platform is implemented as a middleware, providing general purpose services, and a collection of dynamically loade... | {
"abstract": "An increasing number of computer vision applications require on-line processing of data streams, preferably in real-time. This trend is fueled by the mainstream availability of low cost imaging devices, and the steady increase in computing power. To meet these requirements, applications should manipula... | {
"abstract": "Response evaluation criteria in solid tumors (RECIST) is the standard measurement for tumor extent to evaluate treatment responses in cancer patients. As such, RECIST annotations must be accurate. However, RECIST annotations manually labeled by radiologists require professional knowledge and are time-c... |
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"abstract": "This study aimed to determine whether the use of prosodically varied speech within a traditional language therapy framework had any effect on the listening skills, pragmatic skills and social interaction behaviour of three children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). A single participant multiple base... | {
"abstract": "Children with autism spectrum disorders can have varying degrees of difficulty acquiring spoken and written language, but symptoms of communication impairment associated with social impairment are uniformly present, distinguishing autism spectrum disorders from other neurodevelopmental disabilities. Ea... | {
"abstract": "Methane hydrate is thought to have been the dominant methane-containing phase in the nebula from which Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and their major moons formed. It accordingly plays an important role in formation models of Titan, Saturn's largest moon. Current understanding assumes that methane hydrate dis... |
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"abstract": "Primary adrenal leiomyosarcoma is a rare form of adrenal mesenchymal tumors. Immunohistochemistry (IHC) together with histology takes a major role in determining the tumor type and predicting their biological behavior and differentiating them from adrenal cortical carcinoma. Appropriate radiological in... | {
"abstract": "Summary The case presented here illustrates a 75 year old female patient who underwent surgical resection of a right adrenal mass of uncertain nature. The final histological diagnosis was consistent with leiomyosarcoma arising from the adrenal anatomic site. Primary leiomyosarcoma of the adrenal gland ... | {
"abstract": "This paper reviews methods used to estimate bird population index numbers and proposes a new method. An index number for a year is defined as the ratio of the population size in the year to the population size in the base year. In the context of waterbird populations, the major problem with generating ... |
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"abstract": "For realizing neural networks with binary memristor crossbars, memristors should be programmed by high-resistance state (HRS) and low-resistance state (LRS), according to the training algorithms like backpropagation. Unfortunately, it takes a very long time and consumes a large amount of power in train... | {
"abstract": "Resistive random-access memory (RRAM) technology has been gaining importance due to scalability, low power, non-volatility, and the ability to perform in-memory computing. The RRAM sensing applications have also emerged to enable single RRAM technology platforms which include sensing, data storage, and... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Since the second third of the 20th century, it has been clearly established in the hydrological science that an increase of the forest cover in a catchment determines a decrease in water resources from this catchment. Nevertheless, the application of this paradigm for catchment management has ... |
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"abstract": "Myogenic vasoconstriction is an autoregulatory function of small arteries. Recently, G-protein-coupled receptors have been involved in myogenic vasoconstriction, but the downstream signalling mechanisms and the in-vivo-function of this myogenic autoregulation are poorly understood. Here, we show that s... | {
"abstract": "Despite the central physiological function of the myogenic response, the underlying signalling pathways and the identity of mechanosensors in vascular smooth muscle (VSM) are still elusive. In contrast to present thinking, we show that membrane stretch does not primarily gate mechanosensitive transient... | {
"abstract": "The mechanism by which vascular smooth muscle (VSM) cells modulate their contractility in response to structural cues from extracellular matrix remains poorly understood. When pulmonary VSM cells were cultured on increasing densities of immobilized fibronectin (FN), cell spreading, myosin light chain (... |
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"abstract": "Cladding light strippers (CLSs) are vital and one of the critical components for high-power fiber laser applications. In this study, we show the first studies of the formation mechanisms and optimum conditions of a CLS device using a buffered oxide etchant by a combined method of stain (wet) etching an... | {
"abstract": "We demonstrate efficient cladding light extracting through cascaded strippers for high-power fiber lasers and amplifiers. A selected part of the fiber is divided into five segments, and the fluoroacrylate jackets of three interval segments are gradually removed and replaced with different higher index ... | {
"abstract": "Dynamic nuclear polarization (DNP) is a powerful way to overcome the sensitivity limitation of magic-angle-spinning (MAS) NMR experiments. However, the resolution of the DNP NMR spectra of proteins is compromised by severe line broadening associated with the necessity to perform experiments at cryogeni... |
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"abstract": "Objective. Compare levels of biochemical and functional markers of cardiovascular risk in the molecular-genetic and autoimmune forms of premature ovarian insufficiency (POI). Materials and methods. The study included 68 women with POI, 49 of them - with molecular-genetic form (a subgroup IA), 16 women ... | {
"abstract": "PurposeTo identify the role of both genetic (number of CGG repeats in the FMR1 gene) and autoimmune factors (anti-ovarian antibodies) in premature ovarian failure (POF).MethodsIn cross-sectional study, 78 women with POF were divided into 3 groups by the number of CGG repeats (less than 28, 28–36, more ... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Numerous seismic studies reveal the presence of two large, low velocity anomalies beneath Africa and the central Pacific. Efforts to characterize these anomalies have yielded a variety of interpretations over the years, both isochemical and thermochemical. Previous interpretations have include... |
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"abstract": "Nadler SF, Feinberg JH, Reisman S, Stitik TP, DePrince ML, Hengehold D, Weingand K: Effect of topical heat on electromyographic power density spectrum in subjects with myofascial pain and normal controls: a pilot study. Am J Phys Med Rehabil 2001;80:809–815. ObjectiveTo investigate the influence of sup... | {
"abstract": "Eleven subjects performed isometric knee extensor contractions at maximum voluntary contraction (MVC), and at 70% of MVC preceding and following a fatigue test. The fatigue test consisted of a continuous isometric knee extensor contraction at 70% of MVC. The purpose of this study was to describe and co... | {
"abstract": "Some essential elements of a mathematical model describing the power spectrum of myoelectric signals are presented. The influences of electrode cofiguration and of biological parameters such as muscle-fiber radius, action-potential conduction velocity, spread of synapses over the innervation zone, numb... |
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"abstract": "In kidney transplantations, the evaluation of the vascular structures and stromal areas is crucial for determining kidney acceptance, which is currently based on the pathologist’s visual evaluation. In this context, an accurate assessment of the vascular and stromal injury is fundamental to assessing t... | {
"abstract": "Segmentation of histological images is one of the most crucial tasks for many biomedical analyses involving quantification of certain tissue types, such as fibrosis via Masson's trichrome staining. However, challenges are posed by the high variability and complexity of structural features in such image... | {
"abstract": "The success of deep convolutional neural networks on image classification and recognition tasks has led to new applications in very diversified contexts, including the field of medical imaging. In this paper we investigate and propose neural network architectures for automated multi-class segmentation ... |
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"abstract": "An enhanced musculoskeletal biomechanical model of the wrist joint is presented in this article. The developed computational model features the two forearm bones radius and ulna, the eight wrist bones, the five metacarpal bones, and a soft tissue apparatus. Validation of the model was based on informat... | {
"abstract": "The wrist is the most complex joint for virtual three-dimensional simulations, and the complexity is even more pronounced when dealing with skeletal disorders of the joint such, as rheumatoid arthritis (RA). In order to analyse the biomechanical difference between healthy and diseased joints, three-dim... | {
"abstract": "An enhanced musculoskeletal biomechanical model of the wrist joint is presented in this article. The developed computational model features the two forearm bones radius and ulna, the eight wrist bones, the five metacarpal bones, and a soft tissue apparatus. Validation of the model was based on informat... |
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"abstract": "A recurrent deep-neural network (DNN) surrogate model capable of modeling the unsteady aerodynamic response and dynamic stall behavior of wind turbine blades has been developed and validated for use in engineering design codes. The model is trained using a subset of the oscillating airfoil experiments ... | {
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"title": "Sherpa: Hyperparameter Optimization for Machine Learning Models"
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"abstract": "Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) are capable of learning features and long term dependencies from sequential and time-series data. The RNNs have a stack of non-linear units where at least one connection between units forms a directed cycle. A well-trained RNN can model any dynamical system; however, tr... |
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"abstract": "An abundance of literature sheds light on which factors determine teacher turnover, but it has yet to consider the role that local labor market conditions may play in teachers’ turnover decisions and how these labor market conditions may influence the quality of teachers who might be retained. The effe... | {
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"title": "Can Good Principals Keep Teachers in Disadvantaged Schools? Linking Principal Effectiveness to Teacher Satisfaction and Turnover in Hard-to-Staff Environments"
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"abstract": "High correlation in failure of information systems due to worms and viruses has been cited as major impediment to cyber-insurance. However, of the many cyber-risk classes that influence failure of information systems, not all exhibit similar correlation properties. In this paper, we introduce a new cla... |
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"abstract": "Mangiferin, a bioactive compound derived primarily from Anacardiaceae and Gentianaceae families and found in mangoes and honeybush tea, has been extensively studied for its therapeutic properties. Mangiferin has shown promising chemotherapeutic and chemopreventative potential. This review focuses on th... | {
"abstract": "Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a chronic and relapsing inflammatory disorder of the gastrointestinal (GI) tract, and currently no curative treatment is available. Mangiferin, a natural glucosylxanthone mainly from the fruit, leaves and stem bark of a mango tree, has a strong anti-inflammatory acti... | {
"abstract": "Membrane-bound ATPase was found in membranes of the archaebacterium Methanosarcina barkeri. The ATPase activity required divalent cations, Mg2+ or Mn2+, and maximum activity was obtained at pH 5.2. The activity was specifically stimulated by HSO3- with a shift of optimal pH to 5.8, and N,N'-dicyclohexy... |
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"abstract": "This systematic review reports on the association of the client-provider relationship with service outcomes across 3 service sectors: substance abuse, child welfare, and mental health. The review includes 60 research reports meeting inclusion criteria: 25 in substance abuse, 7 in child welfare, and 28 ... | {
"abstract": "The strength of the treatment alliance between patients and their clinicians may play a unique role in the management of bipolar disorder. However, few empirical studies have examined the alliance in bipolar disorder or its effects on patient outcomes. This study investigates variables associated with ... | {
"abstract": "The authors studied 44 outpatients with unipolar depression to determine the association among social support systems, life events, social adjustment, and depressive symptoms. Social support had a reasonably high correlation with outcome measures. Patients with high social support had significantly bet... |
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"abstract": "Shaping natural killer (NK) cell functions in human immunity and reproduction are diverse killer cell immunoglobulin‐like receptors (KIRs) that recognize polymorphic MHC class I determinants. A survey of placental mammals suggests that KIRs serve as variable NK cell receptors only in certain primates a... | {
"abstract": "The vast majority of new human HLA class I alleles are formed by conversions between existing alleles of the same locus. A notable exception to this rule is HLA-B*4601 formed by replacement of residues 66-76 of the alpha 1 helix of B*1501 by the homologous segment of Cw*0102. This inter-locus recombina... | {
"abstract": "Approximately 20 to 50% individuals in every race are untypable by human alloantisera for at least one allele of HLA-C locus and the surface expression of HLA-C locus Ag in such an individual (HLA-C blank Ag) remains unknown. To investigate the structure and the surface expression of HLA-C blank Ag, tw... |
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"abstract": "We test the Cohen & Klepper cost-spreading process share hypotheses using unique data from two national innovation surveys (2009 and 2012). To our knowledge, no other study has the same combination as our dataset, in terms of robust data from a mandatory survey, large sample size, diverse measures for ... | {
"abstract": "This paper provides an empirical test of the particular product life-cycle hypothesis which postulates that the firm size elasticity of process R&D exceeds the firm size elasticity of product R&D. Panel data on German manufacturing firms is used which is affected by attrition and sample selection. An i... | {
"abstract": "Minimum discriminant information adjustment has primarily been used in the analysis of multinomial data; however, no such restriction is necessary. Let P be a distribution on Ra, and let . be a convex set of distributions on Ra. Let Xi, 1 c i c n, be independent and identically distributed observations... |
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"abstract": "Software systems can be modeled as complex networks in which software components are abstract nodes and their interactions are abstract edges. This paper attempts to characterize the structural quality of complex software networks. We propose to use a novel statistical measure, called average propagati... | {
"abstract": "Software systems emerge from mere keystrokes to form intricate functional networks connecting many collaborating modules, objects, classes, methods, and subroutines. Building on recent advances in the study of complex networks, I have examined software collaboration graphs contained within several open... | {
"abstract": "We present a complete method of implicitization for general rational parametric equations. We also present a method to decide whether the parameters of a set of parametric equations are independent, and if not, reparameterize the parametric equations so that the new parametric equations have independen... |
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"abstract": "While convolutional neural network (CNN) has achieved overwhelming success in various vision tasks, its heavy computational cost and storage overhead limit the practical use on mobile or embedded devices. Recently, compressing CNN models has attracted considerable attention, where pruning CNN filters, ... | {
"abstract": "We present a filter correlation based model compression approach for deep convolutional neural networks. Our approach iteratively identifies pairs of filters with the largest pairwise correlations and drops one of the filters from each such pair. However, instead of discarding one of the filters from e... | {
"abstract": "Deep convolutional neural networks have liberated its extraordinary power on various tasks. However, it is still very challenging to deploy state-of-the-art models into real-world applications due to their high computational complexity. How can we design a compact and effective network without massive ... |
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"abstract": "In an Urban Search and Rescue situation, under extreme time pressure, rescue workers have to locate and extract the trapped people in collapsed structures. Due to the lack of medical treatment, food, and water, the victim's mortality rate dramatically increases over time. Rescue operations for both res... | {
"abstract": "Recently there has been increasing research on the development of autonomous flying vehicles.Whereas most of the proposed approaches are suitable for outdoor operation, only a few techniques have been designed for indoor environments. In this paper we present a general system consisting of sensors and ... | {
"abstract": "This paper presents an investigation of 20% difference between the measured and calculated slip torque of a Motor Integrated Permanent Magnet Gear (MIPMG) prototype. The High Speed (HS) side of the Magnetic Gear (MG) was fixed by loading the motor when conducting the slip torque measurement. Suspicion ... |
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"abstract": "To the Editor, Pleuropulmonary blastoma (PPB) is a type of primary lung malignancy in childhood and is thought to arise from primitive interstitial mesenchyme of the lung. Because PPB is often associated with congenital pulmonary airway malformation (CPAM) type 4, there is debate as to whether they are... | {
"abstract": "BackgroundType I pleuropulmonary blastoma (PPB) and congenital cystic adenomatoid malformation of the lung (CCAM) are cystic lung diseases of childhood. Their clinical and radiological presentations are often similar, and pathologic discrimination remains difficult in many cases. As a consequence, type... | {
"abstract": "Escherichia coli strains isolated 1985–1988 in Spain from patients with diarrhoea were examined; 1170 strains were isolated from 582 sporadic cases of diarrhoea in children, and seven strains were associated with seven outbreaks of diarrhoea. Strains positive for STa enterotoxin production in the infan... |
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"abstract": "This paper sets a model where savings as a ratio of capital depend upon negatively on the share of wages in national income and positively on the rate of interest. The ratio of investment to capital depend upon negatively on both the share of wages the rate of interest. An increase in the share of wage... | {
"abstract": "The distinctiof between predetermined and non-predetermined variables is a crucial one in rational expectations models. I consider and reject two definitions, one proposed by Blanchard and Kahn and one by Chow. Both definitions lead to possible misc1assifications. Instead I propose the following defin)... | {
"abstract": "The quality of one's social network significantly affects his economic success. Even after the skill acquisition period, the social network influences economic success through various routes such as mentoring, job searching, business connections, or information channeling. In this paper I propose that ... |
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"abstract": "Background: Burnout and chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) are two fatigue syndromes which have developed largely independently from each other, yet whose similarities in symptoms can be a source of confusion. We aim to explore the phenomenology of burnout and CFS in a historical context as this may provid... | {
"abstract": "In the light of social change and a transformation in the work situation, interest in the problem of burnout has grown over the past decade. There is a conspicuous discrepancy, however, between what is regarded as certain knowledge and what is published opinion. To date, there is no generally accepted ... | {
"abstract": "ABSTRACT The current study examines the longitudinal relationship between anxiety disorders in general, specific phobia in particular, and subsequent-onset alcohol use disorders in an adult population-based sample. In addition, the authors explore whether the hypothesized associations vary by gender. A... |
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"abstract": "Functional decay of a transcription factor retained after whole-genome duplication suggests that duplicate gene loss is a prolonged process occurring over tens of millions of years. Functional divergence between duplicate transcription factors (TFs) has been linked to critical events in the evolution o... | {
"abstract": "Protein-binding microarray (PBM) technology provides a rapid, high-throughput means of characterizing the in vitro DNA-binding specificities of transcription factors (TFs). Using high-density, custom-designed microarrays containing all 10-mer sequence variants, one can obtain comprehensive binding-site... | {
"abstract": "Transportation and air quality are areas of public policy in which there is a tradition of thinking, planning, and acting regionally, and we may well ask whether this tradition offers any lessons for public policy makers that go beyond the realms of transportation and air quality. While it is clear tha... |
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"abstract": "FcγRIIb is the only inhibitory Fc receptor and controls many aspects of immune and inflammatory responses. The observation 19 years ago that FcγRIIb−/− mice generated by gene targeting in 129 derived ES cells developed severe lupus like disease when backcrossed more than 7 generations into C57BL/6 back... | {
"abstract": "BackgroundThe significance of a unique inhibitory Fc receptor for IgG, FcγRIIB (RIIB), in the prevention of spontaneous production of autoantibodies remains controversial, due mainly to the fact that the RIIB locus is adjacent to the autoimmune-related SLAM locus harboring the genes coding for signalin... | {
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"title": "EXPLORING OF IMMUNE INHIBITORY RECEPTORS THAT CHARACTERIZE PATHOGENIC PLASMA CELLS IN SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS."
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"abstract": "OBJECTIVE The presence of a sellar macroadenoma with a concomitant tuberculum sellae meningioma typically requires a craniotomy for extirpation of the meningioma. We describe a single endoscopic approach for resection of both lesions. PRESENTATION A 52-year-old woman with complaints of continuous heada... | {
"abstract": "SummaryBackground. Current literature on tuberculum sellae meningiomas is very heterogenous due to wide variation in nomenclature, diagnostic and operative techniques. The aim of this study is specifically to analyze the results of pterional craniotomy for tuberculum sellae meningiomas. A homogenous co... | {
"abstract": "performance after vestibular stimulation (t = 4 8, df = 4, p = 0-009). On repetition of the imagery task the day after vestibular stimulation performance was comparable to that at baseline. One interpretation of the behavioural effect of vestibular stimulation on unilateral neglect is that it produces ... |
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"abstract": "Cloud datacenters are important for the digital society, serving stakeholders across industry, government, and academia. Simulation is a critical part of exploring datacenter technologies, enabling scalable experimentation with millions of jobs and hundreds of thousands of machines, and what-if analysi... | {
"abstract": null,
"corpus_id": 4650090,
"title": "Performance Characterization of State-Of-The-Art Deep Learning Workloads on an IBM \"Minsky\" Platform"
} | {
"abstract": "In this paper, hybrid brain-computer interface (hBCI) technologies for improving classification accuracy and increasing the number of commands are reviewed. Hybridization combining more than two modalities is a new trend in brain imaging and prosthesis control. Electroencephalography (EEG), due to its ... |
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"abstract": "Intracranial arteriovenous malformation (AVM) has a very complex shape, so it is very difficult to decide the targeted region accurately. Intracranial AVM causes convulsion and cerebral hemorrhage, and is therefore a deadly disease. At the present time, as a treatment for AVM, stereotactic radiosurgery... | {
"abstract": "This paper proposes a new iterative reconstruction algorithm for transmission tomography and compares this algorithm with several other methods. The new algorithm is simple and resembles the emission ML-EM algorithm in form. Due to its simplicity, it is easy to implement and fast to compute a new updat... | {
"abstract": "Alternative food networks (AFNs) are exemplified by organic, fair trade and local foods, and promote forms of food provisioning that are ‘corrective’ to conventional agriculture and food (agrifood) systems. Despite enthusiasm for AFNs, scholars have increasingly interrogated whether inequalities are pe... |
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