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"abstract": "The current study aimed at evaluating the reproductive toxic effect of AlCl3 and the possible ameliorative role of saffron extract in albino rats by using histological, immunohistochemical and biochemical studies. Male albino rats were divided into four groups. The first group served as control. The se... | {
"abstract": "The present study investigated the cytogenetic and testicular damage induced by the antiepileptic drug, sodium valporate (SVP) in albino rats and the effect of saffron aqueous extracts. Treating rats with SVP caused a significant increase in the chromosomal aberrations either structural or numerical an... | {
"abstract": "In conclusion, it is clear that the experimental animal literature has been extremely beneficial in validating the teratogenicity of selected anticonvulsant drugs such as phenytoin and valproic acid, and in providing much needed information on pharmacokinetic parameters that are involved in altering no... |
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"abstract": "After decades of research, constructing call graphs for modern C-based software remains either imprecise or inefficient when scaling up to the ever-growing complexity. The main culprit is the difficulty of resolving function pointers, as precise pointer analyses are cubic in nature and become exponenti... | {
"abstract": "We propose a framework for improving both the scalability as well as the accuracy of pointer alias analysis, irrespective of its flow or context-sensitivities, by leveraging a three-pronged strategy that effectively combines divide and conquer, parallelization and function summarization. A key step in ... | {
"abstract": "This paper poses a strategy for how Philadelphia can re-think its physical industrial history. The strategy calls for new, publicly accessible uses in old buildings that celebrate the city's almost forgotten industrial past. A case study focuses on the Lower Schuylkill River where many vacant industria... |
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"abstract": "This study explored the impact of self-regulated learning behavior of university students on their academic achievement in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The main objective was to examine the impact of Self-Regulated Learning on the academic achievement of students. The study was quantitative in nature and a surv... | {
"abstract": "With the rapid growth in online programs come concerns about how best to support student learning in this segment of the university population. The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of effort regulation, a self-regulatory skill, and intrinsic motivation on online graduate students’ le... | {
"abstract": "Uncertainty accompanies our life processes and covers almost all fields of scientific studies. Two general categories of uncertainty, namely, aleatory uncertainty and epistemic uncertainty, exist in the world. While aleatory uncertainty refers to the inherent randomness in nature, derived from natural ... |
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"abstract": "We summarize the economic importance, biology, and management of soft scales, focusing on pests of agricultural, horticultural, and silvicultural crops in outdoor production systems and urban landscapes. We also provide summaries on voltinism, crawler emergence timing, and predictive models for crawler... | {
"abstract": "ABSTRACT \n Phytochemicals may modify the food quality, reduce a plant's palatability to insects, or defend against pests. This work aimed to study 1) relationships between the nitrogen and potassium levels given to plants in nutritive solutions and the foliar phytochemical concentrations, 2) the effec... | {
"abstract": "Xylosandrus compactus is a polyphagus pest that cultivates a symbiotic fungus Fusarium solani in tunnels of host plants for food and is a major threat to coffee production in East Africa. We hypothesized that the female X. compactus, which is the only sex capable of flying to attack its hosts, is attra... |
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"abstract": "Objectives This study was undertaken to determine the mean peak filter resistance to airflow (Rfilter) encountered by subjects while wearing prototype filtering facepiece respirators (PRs) with low Rfilter during nasal and oral breathing at sedentary and low-moderate work rates. Material and Methods In... | {
"abstract": "Exhalation valves (EVs) are touted as useful in dissipating humidity, heat, and carbon dioxide from the dead space of N95 filtering facepiece respirators and decreasing exhalation resistance, thereby making the respirator more comfortable and less physiologically demanding. Despite decades of use, ther... | {
"abstract": "Abstract A survey of the performance of expiratory valves used in air-purifying respirators is presented. Valves chosen for the study represented the four major valve design types in use in this country. Operating pressure, resistance to flow, and dynamic leakage were evaluated. The study of leakage in... |
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"abstract": "Forward-looking staring spotlight synthetic aperture radar (FSS-SAR) offers operational advantages over conventional squinted SAR counterparts. However, due to its complex observation configuration, pixel anomalies occur when processing raw data. For instance, in the forward-looking geometry, symmetric... | {
"abstract": "In this letter, a new 3-D imaging algorithm is proposed for forward-looking synthetic aperture radar based on the imaging geometry and the characteristic of the echo signal. The key point of the proposed algorithm is the introduction of the nonlinear frequency modulation scaling in along-track processi... | {
"abstract": "Linear array SAR (LASAR) has been attracting more and more attention for its capability of obtaining three dimensional (3D) resolutions. However, the low resolution in cross track (CT) direction limited by the length of its linear antenna array has become the bottleneck of its practical applications. T... |
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"abstract": "This research began a journey towards improved maturity around data quality management in New Zealand health care, where total data quality management is ‘business as usual’, institutionalised into the daily practices of all those who work in health care. The increasingly information intensive nature o... | {
"abstract": "Data Quality Information (DQI) is metadata that can be included with data to provide the user with information regarding the quality of that data. As users are increasingly removed from any personal experience with data, knowledge that would be beneficial in judging the appropriateness of the data for ... | {
"abstract": "An experiment was carried out in order to evaluate the effects of time pressure and of training on the utilization of compensatory multi-attribute (MAU) decision processes. Sixty subjects made buying decisions with and without training in the process of compensatory MAU decision-making. This was repeat... |
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"abstract": "Purpose – Seeks to investigate whether the financial characteristics of leveraged buy-out (LBO) targets differ from those of firms that have not undergone an LBO before the deal. Specifically, to examine the free cash flows (FCFs), income taxes, capital intensity, business risk, profitability, financia... | {
"abstract": "In this paper, we study to what extent French LBOs investment policy and operations can explain their overperformance discrepancy. Our empirical study has been carried out on 132 French LBOs between 1989 and 1994. The results show that the abnormal falling of their economic return cannot be explained n... | {
"abstract": "La presente these etudie l'apprentissage organisationnel dans les acquisitions d'entreprises. Nous avons cherche a mesurer l'impact de l'accumulation d'experience des acquisitions d'entreprises et la probabilite de desinvestissement future des dites acquisitions au cours du temps. Notre questionnement ... |
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"abstract": "We increasingly spend a vast amount of time on the Web and much of that time is spent reading. One of the main differences between reading non-Web based text and reading on the Web is the presence of hyperlinks within the text, linking various related Web content and webpages together. Some researchers... | {
"abstract": "The present study examined how proofreading and reading-for-comprehension instructions influence eye movements during reading. Thirty-seven participants silently read sentences containing compound words as target words while their eye movements were being recorded. We manipulated word length and freque... | {
"abstract": "Understanding Jane left early for the birthday party, She spent an hour shopping at the mall requires detecting that the first statement motivates the second. The validation model states that before accepting this bridging inference, the reader validates it with reference to relevant knowledge. In part... |
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"abstract": "A liquid-metal RF shunt switch is presented that combines a dielectric spacer over the RF path with electrolyte-filled capillary troughs to facilitate low-power electrical actuation. The switch demonstrates between 20- and 30-dB isolation in the dc to 5-GHz range, and greater than 10-dB isolation from ... | {
"abstract": "An electrically actuated direct-contact RF shunt switch implemented with the nontoxic liquid metal Galinstan is presented. The Galinstan is actuated with a 5-VDC signal that induces electrocapillary action. Local surface-energy wells facilitate metastable locking of the Galinstan, thus achieving ON/OFF... | {
"abstract": "Signal vias are often used to move a signal from one PCB layer to another. As a result, these vias can penetrate power/ground plane pair and cause noise coupling (crosstalk) between signal and power/ground nets. This paper studies the noise coupling mechanism using a segmentation approach combined with... |
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"abstract": "Significance Malaria parasites require certain host nutrients for growth and survival. In this project, we examined the role of the human vitamin biotin in all stages of the malaria life cycle. We cultured blood- and liver-stage malaria parasites in the absence of biotin and found that, whereas blood-s... | {
"abstract": "The successful navigation of malaria parasites through their life cycle, which alternates between vertebrate hosts and mosquito vectors, requires a complex interplay of metabolite synthesis and salvage pathways. Using the rodent parasite Plasmodium berghei, we have explored the synthesis and scavenging... | {
"abstract": "Glucocorticoids influence vagal parasympathetic output to the viscera via mechanisms that include modulation of neural circuitry in the dorsal vagal complex, a principal autonomic regulatory center. Glucocorticoids can modulate synaptic neurotransmitter release elsewhere in the brain by inducing releas... |
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"abstract": "Computerized lip reading is the science of translating visemes and oral lip reading into written text, where visemes are lip movement without sound. Video processing is applied for the recognition of those visemes. Previous research developed automated systems to for computerized lip reading recognitio... | {
"abstract": "Introducing features that better represent the visual information of speakers during the speech production is still an open issue that highly affects the quality of the lip-reading and Audio Visual Speech Recognition (AVSR) tasks. In this paper, three different types of visual features from both the im... | {
"abstract": "This paper proposes a learnt data-driven approach to the accurate, real-time tracking of lip shapes using only intensity information i.e. grey-scale images. This has the advantage that constraints such as a-priori shape models or temporal models for dynamics are not required or used. Tracking the lip s... |
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"abstract": "In this paper, we propose two new opportunistic interference alignment (IA) schemes to mitigate interference in the K-cell uplink interference channel. Unlike the existing schemes that basically rely on the channel randomness to achieve asymptotical IA for all cells, the proposed schemes employ an acti... | {
"abstract": "This paper utilizes a new strategy to accomplish the general uplink opportunistic interference alignment (OIA) in cellular network. K cooperative cells are considered, each user and base station (BS) own N transmit antennas and M receive antennas respectively. The leakage interference is newly defined.... | {
"abstract": "The interference alignment (IA) is a promising technique to effectively mitigate interferences in wireless communication systems. To show the potential benefits of such an IA scheme, this letter focuses on a two-cell multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) Gaussian interfering broadcast channels (MIMO-IF... |
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"abstract": "Entomopathogenic fungi of Metarhizium spp., are one of the candidates for eco‐friendly pest control instead of chemical control agents. But the development involved in producing a wide range of mycoinsecticides and application of biotechnology widely is restricted, usually due to the defect of slow act... | {
"abstract": "BackgroundMetarhizium anisopliae, a soil-borne entomopathogen found worldwide, is an interesting fungus for biological control. However, its efficacy in the fields is significantly affected by environmental conditions, particularly moisture. To overcome the weakness of Metarhizium and determine its iso... | {
"abstract": "One of the best alternatives to reduce the amount of chemical insecticides released into the environment is biological agents. Metarhizium anisopliae (Metschn.) Sorokin 1883 (Hypocreales: Clavicipitaceae) is an entomopathogenic fungus with great potential as a biological pesticide to biologically contr... |
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"abstract": "Although the conflicting relationship between heritage and tourism has been debated at length in the Western academic literature, interest in the relationship is now becoming increasingly pronounced across the developing world with particular interest noted in China. To examine this phenomenon further,... | {
"abstract": "This paper addresses the notion of interests and interest-based participation in processes addressing conflict in environmentally sensitive tourism destinations. The dynamic and paradoxical character of the participatory space is illustrated through a micro-level, interpretive study of the Banff Bow Va... | {
"abstract": "The preliminary stages of a large scale culture-led urban regeneration project initiated by the Korean government in Gwangju were studied. Stakeholders’ perceptions of culture’s contribution to urban regeneration and their views on collaborative partnerships were explored. Qualitative data were gathere... |
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"abstract": "The increasing use of electrical technologies within on-board (aircraft, road vehicle, train and ship) power systems is resulting in complex and highly dynamic networks in which energy storage devices have an important role to play, for example to resolve the instantaneous mismatch between load demand ... | {
"abstract": "The local DC power distribution system of More Electric Aircraft is one of the cores of the electric power transmission. Because the mechanical source (turbine engine) is unidirectional, the system is not totally reversible. Some storage and dissipation systems are necessary to store or/and dissipate t... | {
"abstract": "Video streaming has established itself as the main method to consume multimedia content on the Internet. The most widespread technique is HTTP Adaptive Streaming which is used by large video service platforms such as YouTube and Netflix. In order to guarantee a high QoE, different adaptation strategies... |
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"abstract": "Film drainage between two drops with viscosity equal to that of the matrix fluid is studied using a numerical method that can capture both the external problem of two touching drops and the inner problem of pressure-driven local film drainage, without assumptions about the dimensions of the film or the... | {
"abstract": "Based on recently proposed non-singular contour-integral representations of single and double layer potentials for 3D surfaces, formulas in the axisymmetric case are derived. They express explicitly the singular layer potentials in terms of elliptic integrals. The presented expressions are non-singular... | {
"abstract": "A method for generating hydrogen bubbles electrolytically in the lower reaches of a body of water which is normally highly saturated with hydrogen; controlling the bubble size of the hydrogen bubbles within a range of from 100 to 600 microns so the hydrogen bubbles function as a vehicle to raise the ox... |
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"abstract": "In-situ monitoring of oil reservoirs is crucial for determining the sweet spot of oil and natural gas reserves. Wireless sensor nodes are a promising technology to collect data from oil reservoirs in real time, such nodes are not sufficient for transmitting the required data within a power budget becau... | {
"abstract": "Wireless underground sensor networks (WUSNs) enable many applications such as underground pipeline monitoring, power grid maintenance, mine disaster prevention, and oil upstream monitoring among many others. While the classical electromagnetic waves do not work well in WUSNs, the magnetic induction (MI... | {
"abstract": "Magnetic Induction (MI) is a promising solution for wireless communications in complex environments, such as oil reservoir, underground, indoor, and underwater. Due to the inherent electrically small size and simple structure of the magnetic coil antenna, it suffers from low radiation efficiency, extre... |
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"abstract": "Digital camcorders commonly have an in-built capability to export entire video files or a single image to storage media such as a digital versatile disc (DVD). In the event that a DVD is not properly finalised, its contents might not be easily readable. It is generally accepted that recovering video ev... | {
"abstract": "Detecting impending failure of hard disks is an important prediction task which might help computer systems to prevent loss of data and performance degradation. Currently most of the hard drive vendors support self-monitoring, analysis and reporting technology (SMART) which are often considered unrelia... | {
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"title": "Context Driven Technique for Document Classification"
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"abstract": "This study compares how different cow genotyping strategies increase the accuracy of genomic estimated breeding values (EBV) in dairy cattle breeds with low numbers. In these breeds, few sires have progeny records, and genotyping cows can improve the accuracy of genomic EBV. The Guernsey breed is a sma... | {
"abstract": "BackgroundThe risk of long-term unequal contribution of mating pairs to the gene pool is that deleterious recessive genes can be expressed. Such consequences could be alleviated by appropriately designing and optimizing breeding schemes i.e. by improving selection and mating procedures.MethodsWe studie... | {
"abstract": "Equations to approximate the effective size (Ne) of populations under continued selection are obtained that include the possibility of partial full-sib mating and other systems such as assortative mating. The general equation for the case of equal number of sexes and constant number of breeding individ... |
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"abstract": "Government departments are under increasing pressure to demonstrate technology effectiveness. One approach that government departments can use to be perceived as more technology effective is to understand the Management Information Systems (MIS) maturity issues that affect their departments. There are ... | {
"abstract": "Many organisations are currently involved in implementing Sustainable Supply Chain Management (SSCM) initiatives to address societal expectations and government regulations. Implementation of these initiatives has in turn created complexity due to the involvement of collection, management, control, and... | {
"abstract": "We discuss the challenges of implementing an Internet-based platform for creating collaborative supply chains using a case study in the retail sector. The case presents how an Internet-based collaboration platform was implemented to address the strategic issue of increasing shelf availability and custo... |
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"abstract": "Let F be a finite set of graphs. In the F-DELETION problem, we are given an n-vertex graph G and an integer k as input, and asked whether at most k vertices can be deleted from G such that the resulting graph does not contain a graph from F as a minor. F-DELETION is a generic problem and by selecting d... | {
"abstract": "In this paper, it is shown that the Feedback Vertex Set problem on unweighted, undirected graphs has a kernel of cubic size. I.e., a polynomial time algorithm is described, that, when given a graph G and an integer k, finds a graph H and integer k′ ≤ k, such that H has a feedback vertex set with at mos... | {
"abstract": "AbstractThe Planar Feedback Vertex Set problem asks whether an n-vertex planar graph contains at most k vertices meeting all its cycles. The Face Cover problem asks whether all vertices of a plane graph G lie on the boundary of at most k faces of G. Standard techniques from parameterized algorithm desi... |
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"abstract": "In most cases authors are permitted to post their version of the article (e.g. in Word or Tex form) to their personal website or institutional repository. Authors requiring further information regarding Elsevier's archiving and manuscript policies are encouraged to visit: • We propose a novel biologica... | {
"abstract": "In this paper we describe the problem of Visual Place Categorization (VPC) for mobile robotics, which involves predicting the semantic category of a place from image measurements acquired from an autonomous platform. For example, a robot in an unfamiliar home environment should be able to recognize the... | {
"abstract": "Mobile robot localization is the problem of determining a robot’s pose from sensor data. This article presents a family of probabilistic localization algorithms known as Monte Carlo Localization (MCL). MCL algorithms represent a robot’s belief by a set of weighted hypotheses (samples), which approximat... |
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"title": "How CIOs Engage Boards on Digitisation: The Case of Financial Services Companies in South Africa"
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"abstract": "Developments in digitisation, software and processing power and the accompanying data explosion create significant alterations, dilemmas and possibilities for enterprises and their finance function. The article discusses a model for understanding data, information and knowledge relationships. We apply ... | {
"abstract": "This paper describes experiments in applying inductive learning to the task of acquiring a complex motor skill by observing human subjects. A flight simulation program has been modified to log the actions of a human subject as he or she flies an aircraft. The log file is used to create the input to an ... |
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"abstract": "There has been an increasing interest in transformerless inverter for grid-tied photovoltaic (PV) system due to low cost, high efficiency, less weight, etc. Therefore, many transformerless topologies have been proposed and verified with real power injection only. Recently, almost every international re... | {
"abstract": "There is a strong trend in the photovoltaic inverter technology to use transformerless topologies in order to acquire higher efficiencies combining with very low ground leakage current. In this paper, a new topology, based on the H-bridge with a new ac bypass circuit consisting of a diode rectifier and... | {
"abstract": "In the photovoltaic branch, transformerless inverters are nowadays the majority of the systems installed in Europe, mainly because of the higher level of efficiency and reduced cost and weight when compared with their counterparts with transformer, whether this concerns low- frequency or high-frequency... |
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"abstract": "Broilers production has been employed various additives, including antioxidants that have played an important role in it. Within these products, alpha lipoic acid (ALA) has distinguished; its addition in the diet provides different benefits to the animals. Therefore, the objective of this study was to ... | {
"abstract": "This study was designed to investigate the effect of alpha lipoic acid (ALA) and alpha tocopherol acetate (ATA) on the antioxidant potential, lipid stability and the quality of the broiler breast meat and meat products. The treatment plan was as (T1 = control feed, T2 = 200 mg ATA + 25 mg ALA/kg feed, ... | {
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"abstract": "In this paper, we investigate on-demand data services for high-speed trains via a cellular/infostation integrated network. Service requests and acknowledgements are sent through the cellular network to a content server, while data delivery is achieved via trackside infostations. The optimal resource al... | {
"abstract": "In this paper, we propose a link layer design for mobile hotspots. We design a novel system architecture that enables high-speed Internet access in railway systems. The proposed design uses a number of repeaters placed along the track and multiple antennas installed on the roof of a vehicle. Each packe... | {
"abstract": "In cellular communications, the amount of total available resources (frequency-time plane) and the QoS requirements jointly determine the capacity per cell. And, the transmit power (especially in the reverse-link) and the propagation conditions determine the cell size. If the demand per cell happens to... |
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"abstract": "Hairpin windings are a promising option to manufacture armature windings of electric machines while assuring the manufacturing process' repeatability and scalability often demanded by the automotive industry. This type of winding presents the advantages of a high slot fill factor, leading to a low DC-r... | {
"abstract": "This paper presents the innovative design of an air cooled permanent magnet assisted synchronous reluctance machine (PMaSyRM) for automotive traction application. Key design features include low cost ferrite magnets in an optimized rotor geometry with high saliency ratio, low weight and sufficient mech... | {
"abstract": "Permanent-magnet (PM) synchronous motor (PMSM) with rare-earth PMs is most popular for automotive applications because of its excellent performance such as high power density, high torque density, and high efficiency. However, the rare-earth PMs have problems such as high cost and limited supply of rar... |
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"abstract": "Human African Trypanosomiasis (HAT) is one of 17 neglected tropical disease prioritized by the World Health Organization (WHO). Neglected tropical diseases are diseases which affect poor or developing countries and which do not get as much as attention as the ‘big three’: malaria, tuberculosis and HIV/... | {
"abstract": "ABSTRACT The success of nifurtimox-eflornithine combination therapy (NECT) for the treatment of human African trypanosomiasis (HAT) has renewed interest in the potential of nitro drugs as chemotherapeutics. In order to study the implications of the more widespread use of nitro drugs against these paras... | {
"abstract": "To investigate the mechanism of sudden death as a result of stress-induced damage to heart tissue and myocardial cells and to investigate the cardioprotective role of Hsp70 during heat stress, the distribution and expression of Hsp70 was evaluated in the heart cells of heat-stressed rats in vivo and he... |
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"abstract": "In 2015, the EPA (USA) announced its intention to strengthen farmworker protections against pesticide exposure to include information on the hazards of pesticide exposure during pregnancy and how to reduce take-home exposure. While the new Worker Protection Standard is a laudable and long-overdue effor... | {
"abstract": "Occupational pesticide exposure may be hazardous to pregnant farmworkers, yet few studies have focused on the health of female farmworkers distinct from their male counterparts or on the impact of agricultural work tasks on pregnancy outcomes. In the current community-based participatory research study... | {
"abstract": "Methods were developed to collect and isolate volatile chemicals produced by aStaphylococcus bacterium in tryptic soy culture that are attractive to protein-hungry adult Mexican fruit flies. Centrifugation of bacteria culture yielded a slightly attractive pellet containing most of the bacteria cells an... |
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"abstract": "Reliability demonstration test (RDT) is a critical and necessary step before the acceptance of an industrial system. Generally, a RDT focuses on designing a test plan through which one can judge whether the system reliability indices meet specific requirements. There are many established RDT plans, but... | {
"abstract": "For products with high reliability and long lifetime, accelerated degradation testing (ADT) may be adopted during product development phase to verify whether its reliability satisfies the predetermined level within feasible test duration. The actual degradation from engineering is usually a strictly mo... | {
"abstract": "This study describes an approach to design degradation validation test plan using the Wiener process. This approach allows to link accelerated test results and field reliability without acceleration laws but using a global severity factor when the component to test is not an innovation and an old versi... |
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"abstract": "A complete small‐signal model of dual‐gate HEMT is proposed, considering the parasitic element effects. To extract the intrinsic elements accurately, the parasitic elements are eliminated by using a new method in this paper. It is realized by constructing two simple three‐port matrices and eliminating ... | {
"abstract": "This paper presents an extension of a three step de-embedding (Pad-Open-Short) method to a 3-port device for accurate on wafer MMIC S-parameters measurements. In the proposed method, an equivalent circuit-model using lumped elements is established according to the test-fixture. Furthermore, classical P... | {
"abstract": "In this paper, a fast Kalman-like iterative OFIR algorithm is proposed for discrete-time filtering of linear time-varying dynamic systems. The batch OFIR filter is re-derived in an alternative way to show that this filter is unique for such systems. A computationally efficient fast iterative form is fo... |
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"abstract": "INTRODUCTION\nPeyronie's disease (PD) has frequently been associated with erectile dysfunction (ED) and may further compromise coitus.\n\n\nAIM\nTo investigate the efficacy of intratunical injection of genetically modified rat adipose tissue-derived stem cells (ADSCs) expressing human interferon α-2b (... | {
"abstract": "While the exact mechanism of Peyronie's disease (PD) remains an enigma, the pathophysiology of PD is considered to be multifactorial, with interactions of genetic predisposition, trauma, tissue inflammation and aberrant wound healing. A non-systematic review of the existing English language literature ... | {
"abstract": "The pathophysiology of LaPeyronie's disease (PD) is considered to be multifactorial, involving genetic predisposition, trauma, inflammation and altered wound healing. However, these factors have not yet been validated using animal models. In this study, we have presented a new model obtained by tunica ... |
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"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nAlcohol use disorder can lead to serious illness and early death. The lifetime prevalence rate among the Norwegian population is estimated at 7-10 %. Many patients are never admitted to any kind of treatment programme, and it is assumed that few of those who are treated receive medicinal tr... | {
"abstract": "BackgroundThe tradition of consuming alcohol has long been a part of Italian culture and is responsible for a large health burden. This burden may be reduced with effective interventions, one of the more important of which is treatment for Alcohol Dependence (AD). The aim of this article is to estimate... | {
"abstract": "Alcohol consumption in Spain has traditionally followed the Mediterranean drinking pattern, featuring daily drinking with meals, beer as the preferred beverage, and comparatively little drinking to intoxication. Alcohol dependence (AD), one of the most detrimental disorders caused by alcohol, was preva... |
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"abstract": "Root Cause Analysis (RCA) plays an indispensable role in distributed data system maintenance and operations, as it bridges the gap between fault detection and system recovery. Existing works mainly study multidimensional localization or graph-based root cause localization. This paper opens up the possi... | {
"abstract": "Advertising (ad) revenue plays a vital role in supporting free websites. When the revenue dips or increases sharply, ad system operators must find and fix the root-cause if actionable, for example, by optimizing infrastructure performance. Such revenue debugging is analogous to diagnosis and root-cause... | {
"abstract": "Sparsity driven signal processing has gained tremendous popularity in the last decade. At its core, the assumption is that the signal of interest is sparse with respect to either a fixed transformation or a signal dependent dictionary. To better capture the data characteristics, various dictionary lear... |
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"abstract": "<italic>Background:</italic> Logging practices provide the ability to record valuable runtime information of software systems to support operations tasks such as service monitoring and troubleshooting. However, current logging practices face common challenges. On the one hand, although the importance o... | {
"abstract": "Background: Logging practice is a critical activity in software development, which aims to offer significant information to understand the runtime behavior of software systems and support better software maintenance. There have been many relevant studies dedicated to logging practice in software engine... | {
"abstract": "This paper presents a formal, general model of program dependencies. Two generalizations of control and data dependence, called weak and strong syntactic dependence, are presented. Some of the practical implications of program dependencies are determined by relating weak and strong syntactic dependence... |
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"abstract": "We generated mutant alleles of Drosophila melanogaster in which expression of the linker histone H1 can be down-regulated over a wide range by RNAi. When the H1 protein level is reduced to approximately 20% of the level in wild-type larvae, lethality occurs in the late larval - pupal stages of developm... | {
"abstract": "nautilus is the only MyoD-related gene in Drosophila. Nautilus expression begins around stage 9 at full germ-band extension in a subset of mesodermal cells organized in a stereotypic pattern in each hemisegment. The muscle founder cell marker Duf-LacZ, produced by the enhancer trap line rP298LacZ, is c... | {
"abstract": "AbstractMain conclusionMedicinal plant research is growing significantly in faith to discover new and more biologically compatible phytomedicines. Deposition of huge genome/trancriptome sequence data assisted by NGS technologies has revealed the new possibilities for producing upgraded bioactive molecu... |
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"abstract": "Background: Stickleback fishes are an outstanding model for understanding evolution and ecology. Celebrating successes and identifying new questions, the Seventh International Conference on Stickleback Behaviour and Evolution was held 29 July to 3 August 2012 near Seattle, Washington, USA. Questions: H... | {
"abstract": "Organisms alter the biotic and abiotic conditions of ecosystems. They can modulate the availability of resources to other species (ecosystem engineering) and shape selection pressures on other organisms (niche construction). Very little is known about how the engineering effects of organisms vary among... | {
"abstract": "Natural systems harbor complex interactions that are fundamental parts of ecology and evolution. These interactions challenge our inclinations and training to seek the simplest explanations of patterns in nature. Not least is the likelihood that some complex processes might be missed when their pattern... |
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"abstract": "Major research on photosynthesis has been carried out under steady light. However, in the natural environment, steady light is rare, and light intensity is always changing. Changing light affects (usually reduces) photosynthetic carbon assimilation and causes decreases in biomass and yield. Ecologists ... | {
"abstract": "Irradiance continuously fluctuates during the day in the field. The speed of the induction response of photosynthesis in high light affects the cumulative carbon gain of the plant and could impact growth and yield. The photosynthetic induction response and its relationship with the photosynthetic capac... | {
"abstract": "Abstract. The regulation by light of the composition of the photosynthetic apparatus was investigated in photomorphogenic mutants of Arabidopsis thaliana (L.) Heynh. cv. Landsberg erecta. Leaf chlorophyll, photosynthesis, photosystem II function, and ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase-oxygenase and ... |
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"abstract": "The increasing incidence of squamous cell carcinoma of the oropharynx (SCCOP) is majorly attributed to the human papillomavirus (HPV) infection. Both HPV and MDM4 play a critical role in inhibition of p53 activity, thus affecting HPV tumor status of SCCOP. Three polymorphisms in MDM4 were genotyped fro... | {
"abstract": "The p53 pathway plays a critical role in maintaining genomic stability and preventing tumor formation. Given the roles of both MDM4 and HPV16 E6 oncoproteins in inhibition of p53 activity, we tested the hypothesis that MDM4 polymorphisms are associated with the risk of HPV16‐associated squamous cell ca... | {
"abstract": "To investigate the effect of a fall of intrathoracic pressure on left ventricular (LV) hemodynamics and relaxation, simultaneous micromanometric recordings of LV and aortic pressures were performed at rest and during two graded Mueller maneuvers in 16 patients undergoing cardiac catheterization for aor... |
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"abstract": "ABSTRACT The question of the capacity of artificial intelligence to make moral decisions has been a key focus of investigation in robotics for decades. This question has now become pertinent to automated vehicle technologies, as a question of understanding the capacity of artificial driving intelligenc... | {
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"title": "Ethics in the Design of Automated Vehicles: The AVEthics project"
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"abstract": "Although an Internet-of-Things-based smart home solution can provide an improved and better approach to healthcare management, yet its end user adoption is very low. With elderly people as the main target, these conservative users pose a serious challenge to the successful implementation of smart home ... |
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"abstract": "This study aims to analyze the effect of prices and product reviews simultaneously on online shopping decisions. Then also analyze the effect of price partially on online shopping decisions and analyze the effect of product reviews partially on online shopping decisions. The population in this study ar... | {
"abstract": "Product reviews and ratings are popular tools to support buying decisions of consumers. These tools are also valuable for online retailers, who use rating systems in order to build trust and reputation in the online market. Many online shops oer quantitative ratings, textual reviews or a combination of... | {
"abstract": "The effectiveness of existing top-N recommendation methods decreases as the sparsity of the datasets increases. To alleviate this problem, we present an item-based method for generating top-N recommendations that learns the item-item similarity matrix as the product of two low dimensional latent factor... |
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"abstract": "It is shown that the universal Newton time may be introduced in the classical electrodynam-ics. The statement results from an existence of the generalized symmetry of Maxwell equations with respect to Galilei transformations. In the case of the extended Galilei transformations the postulate of invarian... | {
"abstract": "The X-ray properties of 111 catalogued quasars have been examined with the imaging proportional counter on board the Einstein Observatory. Thirty-five of the objects, of redshift between 0.064 and 3.53, were detected as X-ray sources. The 0.5–4.5-ke V X-ray properties of these quasars are correlated wi... | {
"abstract": "The cervix functions as a barrier to spermatozoa. Vaginal artificial insemination in cats is, therefore, likely to be successful only at the period of estrus when the cervix is open. This study aimed to define the period of cervical patency in cats in both non-ovulatory and ovulatory estrus cycles. A t... |
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"abstract": "Rice paddies in central Thailand are flooded either by irrigation (irrigated rice) or by rain (rain-fed rice). The paddy soils and their microbial communities thus experience permanent or arbitrary submergence, respectively. Since methane production depends on anaerobic conditions, we hypothesized that... | {
"abstract": "This paper examines how to obtain species biplots in unconstrained or constrained ordination without resorting to the Euclidean distance [used in principal-component analysis (PCA) and redundancy analysis (RDA)] or the chi-square distance [preserved in correspondence analysis (CA) and canonical corresp... | {
"abstract": "SummaryWe propose a new measure of similarity, the normalized expected species shared or NESS. The measure is based on the expected number of species shared between random samples of size, m, drawn from a population. The NESS measure is shown to be a generalization of Morisita's similarity and is demon... |
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"abstract": "A cryogenic radiometer-based system was constructed at the National Institute of Standards and Technology for absolute radiometric measurements to improve detector spectral power responsivity scales in the wavelength range from 900 nm to 1800 nm. In addition to the liquid-helium-cooled cryogenic radiom... | {
"abstract": "We describe how the National Institute of Standards and Technology obtains a scale of absolute spectral response from 406 nm to 920 nm. This scale of absolute spectral response is based solely on detector measurements traceable to the NIST High Accuracy Cryogenic Radiometer (HACR). Silicon photodiode l... | {
"abstract": "Although technology and tattoo removal methods continue to evolve, yellow pigment clearance continues to be challenging and usually unsuccessful. We describe a case series of six tattoos containing yellow ink, successfully treated with a frequency‐doubled Nd:YAG 532‐nm picosecond laser.",
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"abstract": "Inevitably, the time has come that necessitates software systems to have long lasting social impact and environmental friendliness. Although sustainability related to environmental and social aspects have been well versed in the literature, software sustainability, for the way of development and as fin... | {
"abstract": "The energy consumption of information and communication technology (ICT) is still increasing. Since several concepts regarding hardware solutions for Green IT exist, the contribution of software to Green IT is still not well investigated. This comprises the production and the usage impact of software o... | {
"abstract": "Rather than striving to be “perfectly agile, ” some organizations desire to be more agile than their competition and/or the industry. The Comparative Agility™ (CA) assessment tool can be used to aid organizations in determining their relative agility compared with other teams who responded to CA. The r... |
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"abstract": "I develop social evolution theory to study the evolution of cooperation as follows: (1) Many organisms undergo a dispersal phase prior to breeding; I demonstrate that knowing ones dispersal status aids the evolution of helping (by non-dispersers) and harming (by dispersers). (2) Policing driven by grou... | {
"abstract": "In a recent paper, Traulsen and Nowak use a multilevel selection model to show that cooperation can be favored by group selection in finite populations [Traulsen A, Nowak M (2006) Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 103:10952–10955]. The authors challenge the view that kin selection may be an appropriate interpreta... | {
"abstract": "The energy requirements for the production of PV modules and BOS components are analyzed in order to evaluate the energy pay-back time and the CO2 emissions of grid-connected PV systems. Both c-Si and thin film module technologies are investigated. Assuming an irradiation of 1700 kWh/m2/yr the energy p... |
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"abstract": "Kepler has detected numerous exoplanet transits by measuring stellar light in a single visible-wavelength band. In addition to detection, the precise photometry provides phase curves of exoplanets, which can be used to study the dynamic processes on these planets. However, the interpretation of these o... | {
"abstract": "We examine the properties of the atmospheres of extrasolar giant planets at orbital distances smaller than 0.1 AU from their stars. We show that these \\51 Peg b-like\" planets are rapidly synchronized by tidal in- teractions, but that small departures from synchronous rotation can occur because of flu... | {
"abstract": "Stripe domains are studied in perpendicular magnetic anisotropy films nanostructured with a periodic thickness modulation that induces the lateral modulation of both stripe periods and in-plane magnetization. The resulting system is the 2D equivalent of a strained superlattice with properties controlle... |
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"abstract": "Polar marine regions are dominated by sea ice, where large gradients in temperature, salinity, nutrients and light occur. Despite this, a rich community exists within the sea ice, consisting of prokaryotic organisms, several algal groups and small zooplankton. Prokaryotes are present in the largest abu... | {
"abstract": "The aim of the study was to investigate the capacity of microalgae from the extremely low light habitat of bottom ice to acclimate to different light conditions. During austral spring 1997 the bottom layer of land-fast ice in Terra Nova Bay displayed high values of microalgal biomass up to 2,400 μg Chl... | {
"abstract": "The paper focuses on the influence of the day length on larval and pupal development of the dark spectacle Abrostola triplasia (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae: Plusiinae, Abrostolini) in the central European Russia (50°N, 36°E). The long-day qualitative photoperiodic response of diapause induction controls for... |
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"abstract": "In today’s competitive business environment, many organisations are adopting e-learning systems in the workplace as a means for knowledge sharing and knowledge acquisition. E-learning is about cost effectiveness and delivery according to Macpherson, Elliot, Harris and Homan (2004), while other organisa... | {
"abstract": "The process whereby new recruits are brought into the firm is an important element of human resource management practice. If done well, it can help to retain the new employee and reduce staff turnover. Shows that a cross‐section of firms in the sector now have some form of staff induction programme in ... | {
"abstract": "Examines the behaviour of hotel employees who, even when they say they are “satisfied”, move from job to job for reasons unrelated to that “satisfaction”. Suggests that an important reason for leaving jobs is that such movement may represent an important way to “get ahead”. Reports on a study which is ... |
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"abstract": "We present a novel content-driven memory pressure balancing and video memory power management scheme for parallel High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC). The key is to leverage the application-specific knowledge to balance the (instant) access pressure on Scratchpad-based Video Memories (SVMs) for paralle... | {
"abstract": "This work presents an energy-efficient memory hierarchy for Motion and Disparity Estimation on Multiview Video Coding employing a Reference Frames-Centered Data Reuse (RCDR) scheme. In RCDR the reference search window becomes the center of the motion/disparity estimation processing flow and calls for p... | {
"abstract": "An SRAM macro, implemented in a 65nm CMOS process, uses a dual supply to maximize density while enabling the use of low voltage for the processor core. Measurements of a 256kb block show 4.2GHz operation using 29mW from 1.2V at 85degC, with core logic operating down to 0.7V and a sleep biasing scheme t... |
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"abstract": "Abstract Let χ(t) = a0tn – a1tn−1 + ⋯ + (−1)rartn−r be the chromatic polynomial of a graph, the characteristic polynomial of a matroid, or the characteristic polynomial of an arrangement of hyperplanes. For any integer k = 0, 1, …, r and real number x ⩾ k − r − 1, we obtain a linear bound of the coeffi... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Let M be a matroid on E, representable over a field of characteristic zero. We show that h-vectors of the following simplicial complexes are log-concave: 1. The matroid complex of independent subsets of E. 2. The broken circuit complex of M relative to an ordering of E. The first implies a con... | {
"abstract": "The quasiclassical asymptotics of the Knizhnik-Zamolodchikov equation with values in the tensor product of sl(2)- representations are considered. The first term of asymptotics is an eigenvector of a system of commuting operators. We show that the norm of this vector with respect to the Shapovalov form ... |
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"abstract": "Approximate linear programs (ALPs) are well-known models for computing value function approximations (VFAs) for high dimensional Markov decision processes (MDPs) arising in business applications. VFAs from ALPs have desirable theoretical properties, define an operating policy, and provide a lower bound... | {
"abstract": "We provide a practical methodology for solving the generalized joint replenishment (GJR) problem, based on a mathematical programming approach to approximate dynamic programming. We show how to automatically generate a value function approximation basis built upon piecewise-linear ridge functions by de... | {
"abstract": "Obtaining information about foreseeing terrain is an important technique for mobile robot navigation in unstructured terrain. There are several methods proposed in the literature which try to extract the geometrical models of ground surfaces efficiently. This paper categorizes the conventional ground a... |
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"abstract": "One expectation of community-based participatory research (CBPR) is participant access to study results. However, reporting experimental data produced by studies involving biological measurements in the absence of clinical relevance can be challenging to scientists and participants. We applied best pra... | {
"abstract": "ABSTRACT The article provides an overview of methods that can be used to develop exposure scenarios for unique tribal natural resource usage patterns. Exposure scenarios are used to evaluate the degree of environmental contact experienced by people with different patterns of lifestyle activities, such ... | {
"abstract": "consider the following hypothetical study submitted to an Institutional Review Board (IRB). An investigator proposes to compare the effectiveness of two commercially available kits that test for the presence of cockroach allergens in the home. Exposure to cockroach allergens can exacerbate asthma and c... |
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"abstract": "Les elements Alu sont les retrotransposons les plus prolifiques chez l’humain avec plus d’1 million de copies occupant plus de 10% du genome. Afin de contrecarrer l’expansion des retro-elements, les organismes ont developpes differents mecanismes pour preserver l’integrite de leurs genomes. Le plus pro... | {
"abstract": "Adenosine deaminases that acts on RNA (ADARs) are RNA-editing enzymes that convert adenosine to inosine in double-stranded RNA. This chapter provides a detailed protocol for identifying inosine-containing RNAs. Candidate ADAR substrates are identified by cleaving poly (A)+ RNA specifically after inosin... | {
"abstract": "Curcumin is a component of turmeric and is isolated from the rhizomes of the plant Curcuma longa. Curcumin was reported to have therapeutic effects on prostate cancer. Yet the molecular mechanism of curcumin remains unclear. In this study, mouse prostate cancer xenograft model was established and subje... |
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"abstract": "Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is one of the most frequent organic diseases of the nervous system, with a prevalence of 30-60 per 100,000 inhabitans. It is charcterized by an inflammatory destruction of the myelin sheaths in the white matter of the central nervous system, which may lead to severe disability a... | {
"abstract": "The authors investigated the frequency and quantity of intrathecal antibody synthesis against Chlamydia pneumoniae and the presence of C pneumoniae antigen in 25 children with MS. C pneumoniae genome was present in two children. In seven children an intrathecal synthesis of C pneumoniae antibodies was ... | {
"abstract": "Our identification of Chlamydia pneumoniae in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) of a patient with multiple sclerosis (MS) led us to examine the incidence of this organism in the CSF from 17 patients with relapsing–remitting MS, 20 patients with progressive MS, and 27 patients with other neurological diseas... |
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"abstract": "In recent years, several researchers have applied machine learning techniques to several knowledge areas achieving acceptable results. Thus, a considerable number of deep learning models are focused on a wide range of software processes. This systematic review investigates the software processes suppor... | {
"abstract": "Duplicate Bug Detection is the problem of identifying whether a newly reported bug is a duplicate of an existing bug in the system and retrieving the original or similar bugs from the past. This is required to avoid costly rediscovery and redundant work. In typical software projects, the number of dupl... | {
"abstract": "A framework is proposed to study requirements-driven collaboration among agile teams.Also, it finds the impact of their collaboration patterns on the iteration performance.Collaboration is translated in terms of communication and awareness.Two case studies were conducted to implement the framework.The ... |
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"abstract": "Metallic biomaterials are engineered systems designed to provide internal support to biological tissues and they are being used largely in joint replacements, dental implants, orthopaedic fixations and stents. Higher biomaterial usage is associated with an increased incidence of implant-related complic... | {
"abstract": "Designing the new microstructure is an effective way to accelerate the biomedical application of magnesium (Mg) alloys. In this study, a novel Mg–8Er–1Zn alloy with profuse nano-spaced basal plane stacking faults (SFs) was prepared by combined processes of direct-chill semi-continuous casting, heat-tre... | {
"abstract": "Magnesium is the second most abundant cation within the cell after potassium and plays an important role in numerous biological functions. Several pieces of experimental evidence indicate that mammalian cells tightly regulate Mg(2+) content by precise control mechanisms operating at the level of Mg(2+)... |
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"abstract": "Recommender systems are a class of algorithms that help customers to overcome their choice problem by recommending products that they are likely to be interested in. Most recommender systems are developed for datasets where users explicitly provide feedback in the form of ratings. In practice, such dat... | {
"abstract": "Most recommender systems focus on the areas of leisure activities. As the Web evolves into omnipresent utility, recommender systems penetrate more serious applications such as those in online scientific communities. In this paper, we investigate the task of recommendation in online scientific communiti... | {
"abstract": "We address unsupervised optical flow estimation for ego-centric motion. We argue that optical flow can be cast as a geometrical warping between two successive video frames and devise a deep architecture to estimate such transformation in two stages. First, a dense pixel-level flow is computed with a ge... |
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"abstract": "Alteration in gene expression levels underlies many of the phenotypic differences across species. Because of their highly mutable nature, proximity to the +1 transcription start site (TSS), and the emerging evidence of functional impact on gene expression, core promoter short tandem repeats (STRs) may ... | {
"abstract": "Short tandem repeats (STRs) are variable elements that play a significant role in genome evolution by creating and maintaining quantitative genetic variation. Because of their proximity to the +1 transcription start site (TSS) and polymorphic nature, core promoter STRs may be considered a novel source ... | {
"abstract": "Human plasma low-density lipoproteins (LDL), a risk factor for cardiovascular disease, transfer cholesterol from plasma to liver cells via the LDL receptor (LDLr). Here, we report the structures of LDL and its complex with the LDL receptor extracellular domain (LDL·LDLr) at extracellular pH determined ... |
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"abstract": "Maverick buying, the off-contract buying of goods and services for which an established procurement process is in place based on pre-negotiated contracts with selected suppliers, is common in organizations using central frame agreements. Maverick buying can hinder organizations from gaining the benefit... | {
"abstract": "Many organisations, both public and private, have established framework agreements with selected suppliers to benefit from purchasing synergies. Compliance to such contracts throughout the organisation is crucial to achieve the expected benefits. Yet, in most organisations, the purchasing of goods and ... | {
"abstract": "The implementation of socially sustainable practices in suppliers situated in challenging institutional contexts is examined using institutional theory, both in terms of how institutional pressures affect implementation and what explains the decoupling of practices from the day-to-day reality. A multi-... |
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"abstract": "In this paper, we describe our recent experiences in adding a number of object-relational extensions to the DB2 Universal Database (UDB) system as part of a research and development project at the IBM Almaden Research Center. In particular, we have enhanced DB2 UDB with support for structured types and... | {
"abstract": "This paper presents a simple approach for extending the relational system INGRES into one supporting a semantic data model it describe a DBMS consisting of (i) a user-friendly front-end, supporting the GEM semantic data model and query language under the UNIX time-sharing system, and (ii) a dedicated b... | {
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"abstract": "The economic dispatch problem is considered for unbalanced three-phase power distribution networks entailing both non-deferrable and elastic loads, and distributed generation (DG) units. The objective is to minimize the costs of power drawn from the main grid and supplied by the DG units over a given t... | {
"abstract": "This paper presents a generic and comprehensive distribution optimal power flow (DOPF) model that can be used by local distribution companies (LDCs) to integrate their distribution system feeders into a Smart Grid. The proposed three-phase DOPF framework incorporates detailed modeling of distribution s... | {
"abstract": "In the last few years distribution networks have been integrating grid-connected photovoltaic (PV) systems, which can actively participate to help flatten the feeders voltage profile by injecting reactive power. However the contemporaneous operation of the PV systems may cause problems in voltage regul... |
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"abstract": "Person search is a challenging task that requires to address pedestrian detection and person re- identification simultaneously. Though significant progress has been made in detection and re-identification respectively, the similar appearances of persons, pedestrian misdetections and false alarms still ... | {
"abstract": "Existing person re-identification (re-id) benchmarks and algorithms mainly focus on matching cropped pedestrian images between queries and candidates. However, it is different from real-world scenarios where the annotations of pedestrian bounding boxes are unavailable and the target person needs to be ... | {
"abstract": "The unsupervised image-to-image translation aims at finding a mapping between the source ( A ) and target ( B ) image domains, where in many applications aligned image pairs are not available at training. This is an ill-posed learning problem since it requires inferring the joint probability distributi... |
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"abstract": "We investigated salt toxicity effects and related physiological as well as anatomical changes for adaptation in Cynodon dactylon. Eleven ecotypes from different areas of Pakistan were examined for their survival capacity in a controlled environment. The experiment was designed in a two factor Completel... | {
"abstract": "The study was conducted to characterize seven wheat (Triticum aestivum L. and T. durum L.) accessions from the arid and semi-arid areas of Oman using morpho-anatomical characteristics. Omani wheat germplasm had a great magnitude of variation in qualitative and quantitative morphological characteristics... | {
"abstract": "Black soil region of northeast China is one of areas that modern soil erosion is severest.Remote sensing investigation and monitoring of soil erosion,as well as quantitative remote sensing monitoring of soil erosion based on empirical model were reviewed and summarized.Problems existed in the research ... |
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"abstract": "INTRODUCTION A ccording to 2007 data from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, 23.6 million people—7.8% of the US population have diabetes (1). Also, diabetes incurred an estimated expenditure of $174 billion in direct and indirect costs in 2007 (1). Part of this cost (... | {
"abstract": "Objective:A double-blind, multicenter, randomized trial was conducted to compare the side effects and efficacy of domperidone and metoclopramide in symptomatic diabetic gastroparesis.Methods:Ninety-three insulin-dependent diabetes patients with a ≥ 3-month history of gastroparesis symptoms were recruit... | {
"abstract": "The objective was to explore the hypothesis that the proximal stomach has a major role in gastric emptying of liquids and the distal stomach a major role in gastric emptying of solids. The results of experiments on the intact stomach and on the stomach after selective resections, denervations, and duri... |
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"abstract": "Fabrication of scaffolds with hierarchical structures exhibiting the blood vessel topological and biochemical features of the native extracellular matrix that maintain long-term patency remains a major challenge. Within this context, scaffold assembly using biodegradable synthetic polymers (BSPs) via e... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Electrospinning of hybrid polymer has gained widespread interest by taking advantages of the biological property of the natural polymer and the mechanical property of the synthetic polymer. However, the effect of the blend ratio on the above two properties has been less reported despite the im... | {
"abstract": "OBJECTIVES Prediction, Explanation, Elimination or What? How Many Variables in the Prediction Formula? Alternatives to Using Subsets 'Black Box' Use of Best-Subsets Techniques LEAST-SQUARES COMPUTATIONS Using Sums of Squares and Products Matrices Orthogonal Reduction Methods Gauss-Jordan v. Orthogonal ... |
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"abstract": "Millions of people participate in online communities, exchange expertise and ideas, and collaborate to produce complex artifacts, such as Linux and Wikipedia. They engage in a variety of roles, which strongly influence the amount and types of work they do, and how they coordinate their activities. Bett... | {
"abstract": "Social network users may wish to preserve their anonymity online by masking their identity and not using language associated with any particular demographics or personality. However, they have no control over the language in incoming communications. We show that linguistic cues in public comments direc... | {
"abstract": "A syringe infusion or other patient health care fluid delivery arrangement or system having a substantially constant force syringe holder/driver for a fluid-dispensing syringe to which an on-off valve and effectively bendably flexible tube connecting set are connected for delivery of a health care flui... |
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"abstract": "Alzheimer’s disease pathology first appears in the medial temporal lobe (MTL): in particular, in the anterolateral region of the entorhinal cortex (alERC). However, the scientific community has only recently begun to appreciate the importance of the subdivision of the human entorhinal cortex, and as su... | {
"abstract": "The roles of the perirhinal, parahippocampal and retrosplenial cortices in memory are not well understood. Reviewing studies in rodents, monkeys and humans, Ranganath and Ritchey suggest that these areas are core components of two cortical networks that support different types of memory and different a... | {
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"abstract": "This Research Paper aimed to investigate donkey welfare in dairy husbandry systems and to identify the potential factors affecting it at animal level. In 2015, twelve dairy donkey farms (19–170 donkeys per farm, mean = 55 ± 48), distributed throughout Italy, were visited. On each farm, the Animal Welfa... | {
"abstract": "Simple Summary This paper aims to present the first outcomes of data collected using the AWIN welfare assessment protocol for donkeys in 20 EU donkey facilities. Three assessors evaluated 278 donkeys. The authors found recurrent issues: tendency to obesity, lack of hoof care and irregular positive inte... | {
"abstract": "Stereotypies are invariant and repetitive behaviour patterns that seemingly have no function, which tend to develop in captive animals faced with insoluble problems and may be indicative of reduced welfare. A 4 year prospective study of the factors influencing the development of stereotypic and redirec... |
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"abstract": "Effort devoted to exploring a theology of disability sport is not only misdirected but counterproductive to the interests of athletes with a disability. A theology of sport, in a generic sense, has emerged in the context of theologies addressing areas of specific interest and it is this expansive proce... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Linking the concepts of intellectual disability and spiritual development creates a challenging mixture of sociological and theological issues. Formal definitions of the concepts can be less than conclusive but it remains a fundamental issue to consider if there may be some minimal level of in... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Let T be the unit circle, f be an α-Holder continuous function on T , α > 1 / 2 , and A be the algebra of continuous function in the closed unit disk D ¯ that are holomorphic in D . Then f extends to a meromorphic function in D with at most m poles if and only if the winding number of f + h on... |
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"abstract": "Behavioral synthesis involves compiling an Electronic System-Level (ESL) design into its Register-Transfer Level (RTL) implementation. Loop pipelining is one of the most critical and complex transformations employed in behavioral synthesis. Certifying the loop pipelining algorithm is challenging becaus... | {
"abstract": "We have verified the FM9801, a microprocessor design whose features include speculative execution, out-of-order issue and completion of instructions using Tomasulo's algorithm, and precise exceptions and interrupts. As a correctness criterion, we used a commutative diagram that compares the result of t... | {
"abstract": "The Army/Navy Computer Family Architecture Committee has developed an approach for quantifying the relative performance of alternative computer architectures.",
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"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nPatients with coronary artery disease (CAD) are prone to depression, and its presence is associated with poor adverse cardiac outcomes. Although lifestyle modification (LSM) has been shown to be beneficial in managing depression in patients with CAD, it is not known whether the mode of card... | {
"abstract": "OBJECTIVE\nTo examine the long-term association between physical activity (PA) and psychosocial functioning following completion of cardiac rehabilitation (CR) among participants in the ENHANCED study.\n\n\nMETHOD\nENHANCED was a 3-month clinical trial examining standard CR with and without stress mana... | {
"abstract": "Although under-emphasized, substantial evidence indicates that psychological distress, especially depression, hostility, and anxiety, are risk factors for coronary heart disease (CHD) and affect recovery following major coronary heart disease events. We review several major studies from Ochsner Medical... |
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"abstract": "This study included isolation and identification of E. sakazakii from 51 different samples of powdered infant formula milk involved (Dialak 1 & 2, Celia 1 & 2, Primalac, Biomil 1 & 2, Similac, Nictalia 1 & 2, MAMi, Novolac (AD), Novolac (AR), Novolac (Allernova), S-26 AR, Nursoy, S-26 PDF gold. The res... | {
"abstract": "An agar dilution method was used to measure the MICs of 29 antimicrobial agents against Enterobacter sakazakii, E. cloacae, E. aerogenes, E. agglomerans, E. amnigenus, E. gergoviae, E. intermedium, and E. taylorae (formerly Enteric Group 19). E. sakazakii was the most susceptible species. Results showi... | {
"abstract": "The in vitro susceptibility of 237 clinical isolates of Enterobacter spp. (E. aerogenes, E. agglomerans and E. cloacae; 41, 64 and 132 respectively) to 16 different antibiotics is described. Four quinolones (ciprofloxacin, lomefloxacin, norfloxacin and ofloxacin), two new cephalosporins (cefpirome and ... |
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"abstract": "We study the QCD corrections to neutrino deep-inelastic scattering on a nucleus, and analytically estimate their size. For an isoscalar target, we show that the dominant QCD corrections to the ratio of the neutral- to charged-current events are suppressed by ${\\mathrm{sin}}^{4}{\\ensuremath{\\theta}}_... | {
"abstract": "We discuss whether the NuTeV anomaly can be explained, compatibly with all other data, by QCD efiects (maybe, if the strange sea is asymmetric, or there is a tiny violation of isospin), new physics in propagators or couplings of the vector bosons (not really), loops of supersymmetric particles (no), di... | {
"abstract": "We present a calculation of the complete $O(\\alpha)$ electroweak radiative corrections to the Moller scattering process e^-e^- -> e^-e^-, including hard bremsstrahlung contributions. We study the effects of these corrections on both the total cross section and polarization asymmetry measured in low en... |
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"abstract": "In this letter, the problem of head movement prediction for virtual reality videos is studied. In the considered model, a deep learning network is introduced to leverage position data as well as video frame content to predict future head movement. For optimizing data input into this neural network, dat... | {
"abstract": "360 degree video compression and streaming is one of the key components of Virtual Reality (VR) applications. In 360 video streaming, a user may freely navigate through the captured 3D environment by changing her desired viewing direction. Only a small portion of the entire 360 degree video is watched ... | {
"abstract": "Enabled by the rapid development of virtual reality hardware and software, 360-degree video content has proliferated. From the network perspective, 360-degree video transmission imposes significant challenges because it consumes 4 6χ the bandwidth of a regular video with the same resolution. To address... |
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"abstract": "Protecting confidential data in today's computing environments is an important problem. Information flow control can help to avoid information leakage and violations introduced by executing the software applications. In software development cycle, it is important to handle security related issues from ... | {
"abstract": "This paper investigates the problem of preserving information flow security in Event-B specification models and during the process of refining an abstract specification to be more concrete. A typed Event-B model is presented to enforce information flow security.We then present an approach to the proble... | {
"abstract": "While there exist efficient algorithms to slice sequential programs precisely, there are only two algorithms for precise slicing of concurrent interprocedural programs with recursive procedures (Krinke in Proc. ESEC/FSE’03, pp. 178–187, 2003; Nanda and Ramesh in ACM Toplas. 28(6):1088–1144, 2006). We p... |
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"abstract": "We propose to identify the main sources of ionization of the plasma in the coma of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko at different locations in the coma and to quantify their relative importance, for ...",
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"title": "Ionospheric plasma of comet 67P probed byRosettaat 3 au from th... | {
"abstract": "Little is known about the noble gas abundances in comets. These highly volatile atoms are possible tracers of the history of cometary matter including the thermal evolution. They can help quantify the contribution of cometary impacts to terrestrial oceans and help elucidate on the formation history of ... | {
"abstract": "Laboratory experiments suggest that the molecular oxygen, detected in the coma of comet 67P, is produced in part by abstraction reactions of cometary water ions at exposed surfaces on the nucleus and on the spacecraft. While production rates are likely small relative to water, O2 formation on the space... |
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"abstract": "COVID-19 has caused unprecedented societal turmoil, triggering a rapid, still ongoing, transformation of healthcare provision on a global level. In this new landscape, it is highly important to acknowledge the challenges this pandemic poses on the care of the particularly vulnerable cancer patients and... | {
"abstract": "Background: Hand hygiene (HH) is the most effective way to prevent health care-associated infections and the spread of antimicrobial-resistant pathogens. The aim of our study was to assess the existing HH resources and current HH practices at 2 hospitals in Athens, Greece. Methods: Observational HH dat... | {
"abstract": "Objective\nOur goal for this study was to quantify healthcare provider compliance with hand hygiene protocols and develop a conceptual framework for increasing hand hygiene compliance in a low-resource neonatal intensive care unit.\n\n\nMaterials and Methods\nWe developed a 3-phase intervention that in... |
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"abstract": "INTRODUCTION\nThe surgical management of symptomatic giant hiatus hernia (GHH) aims to improve quality of life (QoL) and reduce the risk of life threatening complications. Previous reports are predominantly those with small sample sizes and short follow-up periods. The present study sought to assess a ... | {
"abstract": "OBJECTIVE\nThe purpose of this report is to evaluate and compare the long-term objective and subjective outcome after laparoscopic paraesophageal hernia repair (LPHR).\n\n\nBACKGROUND\nShort-term symptomatic results of LPHR are often excellent. However, a high recurrence rate is detected at objective r... | {
"abstract": "Whilst laparoscopic repair is the most common surgical procedure for the treatment of large hiatal hernias, knowledge of long‐term outcomes (>10 years) is scarce. The aim of this study was to evaluate the long‐term results following this approach, in particular the hernia recurrence rate and the impact... |
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"abstract": "Games are consists of rules with the scenario as well as audio-visual interest for the purpose to entertain users. With the development of mobile devices, the game also appeared on mobile devices. The quality of a mobile game can be seen from the aspect that is measured and tested according to the qual... | {
"abstract": "Mobile devices and applications provide significant advantages to their users, in terms of portability, location awareness, and accessibility. A number of studies have examined usability challenges in the mobile context, and proposed definitions of mobile application usability and methods to evaluate i... | {
"abstract": "In this work we propose to use Twitter to find companies with a good growth potential that could be good investment options. In order to achieve this we built a sentiment model using the text content of tweets. We make use of hashtags to collect Twitter posts from a broad range of emotions so that our ... |
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"abstract": "Neural network pruning can be an effective method for creating more efficient networks without incurring a significant penalty in accuracy. It has been shown that the topology induced by pruning after training can be used to re-train a network from scratch on the same data set, with comparable or bette... | {
"abstract": "Extensive studies have demonstrated that the representations of convolutional neural networks (CNN), which are learned from a large-scale data set in the source domain, can be effectively transferred to a new target domain. However, compared to the source domain, the target domain often has limited dat... | {
"abstract": "Neural networks rely on convolutions to aggregate spatial information. However, spatial convolutions are expensive in terms of model size and computation, both of which grow quadratically with respect to kernel size. In this paper, we present a parameter-free, FLOP-free \"shift\" operation as an altern... |
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"abstract": "See Sun et al. (doi:10.1093/aww306) for a scientific commentary on this article. About 20% of patients with ischaemic stroke have a preceding transient ischaemic attack, which is clinically defined as focal neurological symptoms of ischaemic origin resolving spontaneously. Failure to diagnose transient... | {
"abstract": "We have developed a magnetic resonance molecular imaging method using a novel iron-oxide contrast agent targeted towards P-selectin - MNP-PBP (magnetic nanoparticle-P-selectin binding peptide) - to image endothelial activation following cerebral ischemia/reperfusion. MNP-PBP consists of approximately 1... | {
"abstract": "Polysulfonated macromolecules are known to bind selectins, adhesion membrane proteins which are broadly implicated in inflammation. Commercially available branched polyethylenimine (PEI) was reacted with chlorosulfonic acid to generate sulfonated PEI with varying degrees of sulfonation. Remaining unrea... |
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"abstract": "Background:CD8 T lymphocytes from chronically infected HIV-positive patients degenerate into a preapoptotic state and exhibit impaired functionality. Particularly in viremic patients, this was associated with an increased proportion of interleukin-7 receptor-α low-expressing (IL-7Rαlow) effector-like C... | {
"abstract": "By destroying CD4+ T cells, human immunodeficiency virus-1 (HIV-1) infection results in immunodeficiency and the inability of the immune system to contain the virus in most individuals. Although treatment of HIV-1 infection with potent antiretroviral medications has resulted in enormous clinical benefi... | {
"abstract": "While it is clear that a building will deteriorate quite rapidly if no maintenance is provided, there appears to be some question in the housing literature as to whether a building will provide the same quantity of service over time under normal circumstances, if \"normal\" or reasonable maintenance is... |
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"abstract": "To explore the biological role of carbohydrate chains in the process of nerve cell differentiation, we carried out a characterization of the carbohydrate structure of glycoproteins by comparing conventional PC12 cells with variant cells (PC12D). In vitro metabolic labeling of cells with either [(3)H] g... | {
"abstract": "We have identified a new subline of PC12 pheochromocytoma cells (PC12D cells) in which neurites are extended within 24 hr in response to cAMP‐enhancing reagents as well as in response to nerve growth factor (NGF), but not in response to epidermal growth factor or phorbol diester. Anti‐NGF antiserum did... | {
"abstract": "The epithelial cell adhesion molecule (EpCAM) is a membrane glycoprotein overexpressed in epithelial-derived neoplasms and therefore is a highly interesting target for antibody therapy in a wide range of carcinomas. Single chain variable fragment (ScFv) antibodies, generated by the association of the v... |
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"abstract": "IR64 is one of the world’s most popular rice cultivars. To collect genetic factors involved in controlling its heading date, we developed 70 reciprocal advanced-backcross populations with a total of 6284 individuals at the BC4F2 generation from crosses between Koshihikari and IR64. We detected 29 QTLs ... | {
"abstract": "BackgroundHeading date, a crucial factor determining regional and seasonal adaptation in rice (Oryza sativa L.), has been a major selection target in breeding programs. Although considerable progress has been made in our understanding of the molecular regulation of heading date in rice during last two ... | {
"abstract": "Flowering time is a key target trait for extending the vegetative phase to increase biomass in bioenergy crops such as perennial C4 grasses. Molecular genetic studies allow the identification of genes involved in the control of flowering in different species. Some regulatory factors of the Arabidopsis ... |
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"abstract": "Background: Establishment of experimental cystic echinococcosis (CE) in laboratory mice is required for the study of CE. Experimental CE may be established in primary or secondary forms; however, the primary form is more reliable for the study of CE. Aims: The aim of the study was to assess the possibi... | {
"abstract": "The infectivity to CF1 white mice of Echinococcus granulosus isolated from Argentine sheep and cyst growth and development was studied following oral exposure with embryophores. Sixty-six per cent of mice became infected at doses of 250 eggs and nearly all mice became infected when exposed to 500 or mo... | {
"abstract": "Core–dual‐shell‐type hybridized nanoparticles (NPs) having Au‐core/dye‐doped silica inner shell/Au outer shell are successfully fabricated by developing a biphasic process that is a kind of so‐called “one‐pot” method. The resulting hybridized NPs exhibit evidently about 20‐fold enhancement of fluoresce... |
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"abstract": "Drug repurposing has been proved to be an effective strategy to meet the urgent need for novel anticancer agents for multiple myeloma (MM) treatment. In this work, we aimed to investigate the anticancer effect and mechanism of tricyclic antidepressant nortriptyline (NTP) on the U266 MM cell line. The i... | {
"abstract": "Two decades ago, it was hypothesized that antidepressants could alter the course of neoplastic diseases. However, contradictory findings indicated that antidepressants could either have carcinogenic properties or improve the disease outcome. Intriguingly, controversial results were reported on the acti... | {
"abstract": "Reciprocity is one of the mechanisms that have been proposed to explain the exchange of social behaviors, such as grooming, in animals. Reciprocity assumes that individuals act as the donor and recipient of grooming and switch roles over time to balance the benefits and costs of this behavior. Three ma... |
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"abstract": "The emerging nonvolatile memory (NVM) technologies have demonstrated great potentials in revolutionizing modern memory hierarchy because of their many promising properties: nanosecond read/write time, small cell area, non-volatility, and easy CMOS integration. It is also found that NVM devices can be l... | {
"abstract": "Memristor, the fourth basic circuit element, demonstrates obvious stochastic behaviors in both the static resistance states and the dynamic switching. In this work, a novel memristor-based true random number generator (MTRNG) is presented which leverages the stochastic property when switching a device ... | {
"abstract": "Neuromorphic systems recently gained increasing attention for their high computation efficiency. Many designs have been proposed and realized with traditional CMOS technology or emerging devices. In this work, we proposed a spiking neuromorphic design built on resistive crossbar structures and implemen... |
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"abstract": "Microwave imaging of the breast is of interest for monitoring breast health, and approaches to active microwave imaging include tomography and radar-based methods. While the literature contains a growing body of work related to microwave breast imaging, there are only a few prototype systems that have ... | {
"abstract": "In this paper a complete UWB Microwave Tomographic system for encircling geometries applied to Breast Tumor Detection is presented. The detection capability of the tomographic algorithm is proved through numerical simulations and measurements applied to canonical as well as to realistic breast phantoms... | {
"abstract": "Microwave imaging of the breast is of interest for monitoring breast health, and approaches to active microwave imaging include tomography and radar-based methods. While the literature contains a growing body of work related to microwave breast imaging, there are only a few prototype systems that have ... |
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"abstract": "Abstract. Fires affect the composition of the atmosphere and Earth's\nradiation balance by emitting a suite of reactive gases and particles. An\ninteractive fire module in an Earth system model (ESM) allows us to study\nthe natural and anthropogenic drivers, feedbacks, and interactions of open\nfires. ... | {
"abstract": "Abstract. Non-deforestation fire – i.e., fire that is typically followed by the recovery of natural vegetation – is arguably the most influential disturbance in terrestrial ecosystems, thereby playing a major role in carbon exchanges and affecting many climatic processes. The radiative effect from a gi... | {
"abstract": "Savanna fires produce significant emissions globally, but if managed effectively could provide an important mitigation opportunity, particularly in African least developed countries. Here we show global opportunities for emissions reductions through early dry season burning for 37 countries including: ... |
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"abstract": "Abstract Climate models used to produce global warming scenarios exhibit widely diverging responses of the thermohaline circulation (THC). To investigate the mechanisms responsible for this variability, a regional Atlantic Ocean model driven with forcing diagnosed from two coupled greenhouse gas simula... | {
"abstract": "The overflow and descent of cold, dense water from the sills of the Denmark Strait and the Faroe–Shetland channel into the North Atlantic Ocean is the principal means of ventilating the deep oceans, and is therefore a key element of the global thermohaline circulation. Most computer simulations of the ... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Heat waves increase electric demand from buildings which can cause power outages. Modeling can help planners quantify the risk of such events. This study shows how Building Energy Modeling (BEM), meter data, and climate projections can estimate heat wave effect on energy consumption and electr... |
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"abstract": "Pedestrian tracking systems implemented in regular smartphones may provide a convenient mechanism for wayfinding and backtracking for people who are blind. However, virtually all existing studies only considered sighted participants, whose gait pattern may be different from that of blind walkers using ... | {
"abstract": "We introduce WeAllWalk, a data set of inertial sensor time series collected from blind walkers using a long cane or a guide dog. Blind participants walked through fairly long and complex indoor routes that included obstacles to be avoided and doors to be opened. Inertial data was recorded by two iPhone... | {
"abstract": "The aim of this paper is to investigate the development of a navigation aid for blind and visually impaired people. It is based on a microcontroller with synthetic speech output. This aid is portable and gives information to the user about urban walking routes to point out what decisions to make. On th... |
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"abstract": "When renal failure develops, uraemic retention solutes are retained which are normally excreted by the healthy kidneys. If these retention solutes exert biochemicalu biological activity, they are called uraemic toxins. According to their physico-chemical characteristics, they can be subdivided into [1]... | {
"abstract": "Levels of 15 guanidino compounds and urea were determined in serum and urine of nondialyzed patients with chronic renal insufficiency subdivided according to etiology and creatinine clearances. No significantly different guanidino compound levels in serum and urine were found for the interstitial nephr... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Solid phase epitaxy formation in Au: Ge/Ni, Ag/In/Ge, and In/Au:Ge contacts to GaAs has been identified utilizing micro-spot Auger spectroscopy and selected area electron channeling. It is shown that the lateral extent of solid phase formation directly controls the value of the specific contac... |
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"abstract": "Digital games have become a part of daily life for people in recent years. they have the capacity of making game users set playing games as top priority in daily life. In this sense, playing digital games can break the balance between the virtual and the reality and it is possible that some people may ... | {
"abstract": "The collecting of things for pleasure is an almost universal human experience. Psychological studies tell us that it is deeply connected to the development of the self and of relations with the world and other people. This article explores collecting as serious leisure, reviews explanations of collecti... | {
"abstract": "This study reports an analysis of referral URL data by the Cornell University IP address from the American Chemical Society servers. The goal of this work is to better understand the tools used and pathways taken when scientists connect to electronic journals. While various methods of referral were ide... |
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"abstract": "Delivered into plant cells by type III secretion from pathogenic Xanthomonas species, TAL (transcription activator-like) effectors are nuclear-localized, DNA-binding proteins that directly activate specific host genes. Targets include genes important for disease, genes that confer resistance, and genes... | {
"abstract": "AvrBs3, the founding member of the Xanthomonas transcription-activator-like effectors (TALEs), is translocated into the plant cell where it localizes to the nucleus and acts as transcription factor. The DNA-binding domain of AvrBs3 consists of 17.5 nearly-identical 34 amino acid-repeats. Each repeat sp... | {
"abstract": "The ability to predict and characterize free energy differences associated with conformational equilibria or the binding of biomolecules is vital to understanding the molecular basis of many important biological functions. As biological studies focus on larger molecular complexes and properties of the ... |
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"abstract": "Spatio-temporal action recognition and localization are crucial in several computer vision applications including video surveillance, video captioning to name a few. However, most of the existing action recognition and localization approaches are for offline use, perform well only on trimmed action cli... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Multiple instance learning (MIL) is a form of weakly supervised learning where training instances are arranged in sets, called bags, and a label is provided for the entire bag. This formulation is gaining interest because it naturally fits various problems and allows to leverage weakly labeled... | {
"abstract": "Automatically identifying the research areas of academic/ industry researchers is an important task for building expertise organizations or search systems. In general, this task can be viewed as text classification that generates a set of research areas given the expertise of a researcher like document... |
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"abstract": "Development and general organization of the nervous system is comparable between insects and vertebrates. Our current knowledge on the formation of neurogenic anlagen and the generation of neural stem cells is deeply influenced by work done in invertebrate model organisms such as Drosophila and Caenorh... | {
"abstract": "In the Drosophila embryonic CNS several subtypes of glial cells develop, which arrange themselves at characteristic positions and presumably fulfil specific functions. The mechanisms leading to the specification and differentiation of glial subtypes are largely unknown. By DiI labelling in glia-specifi... | {
"abstract": "Simple Summary The replacement of fishmeal by environmentally sustainable alternative meals has been one of the targets in aquaculture in recent decades. A number of factors support the use of insect meals, as a group of products characterized by high crude protein and crude fat content, in fish nutrit... |
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"abstract": "Rice tungro virus disease is one of the most destructive diseases that cause extensive damage to the rice crop. To elucidate the multiplication behaviour of Rice tungro bacilliform virus (RTBV), real-time Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) experiments were performed on rice and insect vector green leafhop... | {
"abstract": "Rice tungro disease is caused by a combination of two viruses: Rice tungro spherical virus and Rice tungro bacilliform virus (RTBV). This study was performed with the objective to decipher the molecular variability and evolution of RTBV isolates present in the tungro-affected states of Indian subcontin... | {
"abstract": "The research on rice tungro bacilliform virus, the only species in the genus Tungrovirus (family Caulimoviridae), has a long history in India because of the association of the virus with rice tungro disease, an important rice disease prevalent in the eastern coastal rice growing regions. This research ... |
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"abstract": "The recent financial crisis has caused increased unemployment throughout the world. We focus on the implications for future labor market performance and on a reform proposal for Europe. The consequences of the present crisis for Europe depend on whether today’s higher unemployment reflects a temporary ... | {
"abstract": "The European unemployment experience during the last 50 years can be divided into a period with low unemployment in the 1950s until the mid-1970s and thereafter a large increase with persistently high unemployment since the 1980s. The challenge to rationalize this experience in terms of labour market i... | {
"abstract": "Inequality in the unconditional distribution of observed wage rates in the U.S. rose substantially during the 1980s, mostly in the lower tail of the distribution. The causes of this rising wage inequality are obscured by the fact that concurrent decreases in the federal minimum wage tend to increase ob... |
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