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"abstract": "Rehabilitation robots, by necessity, have direct physical interaction with humans. Physical interaction affects the controlled variables and may even cause system instability. Thus, human-robot interaction control design is critical in rehabilitation robotics research. This paper presents an interactio... | {
"abstract": "In wearable robotics applications, actuators are required to satisfy strict constraints in terms of safety and controllability. The introduction of intrinsic compliance can help to meet both these requirements. However, the high torque and power necessary for robotic systems for gait assistance require... | {
"abstract": "A new multiband planar antenna with a compact size is designed and developed for mobile devices. The proposed antenna consists of a two-strip monopole and a meandered strip antenna which occupy a compact area of only 15 mm × 42 mm. This planar antenna has a bandwidth of ~ 42% at the 900 MHz band and ~ ... |
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"abstract": "La dematerialisation des donnees de sante a permis depuis plusieurs annees de constituer un veritable gisement de donnees provenant de tous les domaines de la sante. Ces donnees ont pour caracteristiques d’etre tres heterogenes et d’etre produites a differentes echelles et dans differents domaines. Leu... | {
"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nInfluenza is a major cause of illness, disruption to daily life, and work absenteeism among healthy working adults aged between 18 and 64 years. This group is not included among the traditional priority groups for annual vaccination. Immunization rates remain low.\n\n\nOBJECTIVE\nTo assess ... | {
"abstract": "This report updates the 2000 recommendations by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) on the use of influenza vaccine and antiviral agents (MMWR 2000;49[No. RR-3]:1-38). The 2001 recommendations include new or updated information regarding a) the cost-effectiveness of influenza vaccin... |
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"abstract": "Although kinematic earthquake source inversions show dominantly pulse-like subshear rupture behavior, seismological observations, laboratory experiments and theoretical models indicate that earthquakes can operate with different rupture styles: either as pulses or cracks, that propagate at subshear or ... | {
"abstract": "[1] A general theory for transitions between sub-Rayleigh and intersonic rupture speeds is developed for faults governed by slip-weakening friction. The transition occurs when stresses moving at intersonic speeds ahead of expanding or accelerating sub-Rayleigh ruptures exceed the peak strength of the f... | {
"abstract": "It was found that hyaluronic acid is the most abundant glycosaminoglycan (GAG) both in the umbilical cord arteries and in the umbilical cord veins. Chromatographic and as well as electrophoretic studies demonstrated that EPH-gestosis (Edema-Proteinuria-Hypertension), the most common pathological syndro... |
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"abstract": "In a variety of applications, e.g., psychoacoustic experiments, virtual sound propagation demonstration, or synthesized noise production, noise samples are played back in laboratories. To simulate realistic scenes or to mask unwanted background sounds, it is sometimes preferable to add background ambie... | {
"abstract": "Recent studies show that introducing sound from water features in urban open spaces may reduce the loudness of road traffic noise, but it is not clear in which situations this measure also improves overall soundscape quality. This work describes a listening experiment on loudness, pleasantness, and eve... | {
"abstract": "Recently, new perspectives upon healthy urban open spaces propose that open spaces can be regarded as urban green or blue spaces. However, there has so far been very little research into blue environments and their benefits for mental well-being. Our article focuses on the effects of water in cities, \... |
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"abstract": "Recent years have witnessed great progress on building emotional chatbots. Tremendous methods have been proposed for chatbots to generate responses with given emotions. However, the emotion changes of the user during the conversation has not been fully explored. In this work, we study the problem of po... | {
"abstract": "While there have been many attempts to estimate the emotion of an addresser from her/his utterance, few studies have explored how her/his utterance affects the emotion of the addressee. This has motivated us to investigate two novel tasks: predicting the emotion of the addressee and generating a respon... | {
"abstract": "Open-domain social dialogue is one of the long-standing goals of Artificial Intelligence. This year, the Amazon Alexa Prize challenge was announced for the first time, where real customers get to rate systems developed by leading universities worldwide. The aim of the challenge is to converse \"coheren... |
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"abstract": "Recent data have demonstrated that mutations in the receptor for neurokinin B (NKB), the NK-3 receptor (NK3R), produce hypogonadotropic hypogonadism in humans. These data, together with reports that NKB expression increases after ovariectomy and in postmenopausal women, have led to the hypothesis that ... | {
"abstract": "Considerable evidence suggests that dynorphin and neurokinin B (NKB) neurons in the hypothalamic arcuate nucleus participate in the sex‐steroid regulation of reproduction. In the present study, we used dual‐label immunofluorescence to explore the distribution of prodynorphin and proNKB immunoreactivity... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Neurons in the arcuate nucleus (ARC) that concomitantly express kisspeptin, neurokinin B (NKB) and dynorphin A are termed KNDy neurons and are likely candidates for the intrinsic gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) pulse generator. Our hypothesis is that KNDy neurons are functionally and ana... |
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"abstract": "African trypanosomes cause human African trypanosomiasis and animal African trypanosomiasis. They are transmitted by tsetse flies in sub-Saharan Africa. Although most famous for their mechanisms of immune evasion by antigenic variation, there have been recent important studies that illuminate important... | {
"abstract": "Trypanosomes reveal tricky tricks in vivo The sleeping sickness parasite, Trypanosoma brucei, is covered with variant surface glyco proteins (VSGs) recognized by the host's immune system. The parasite uses a repertoire of 2000 VSG genes to switch between different surface variants, continually evading ... | {
"abstract": "SUMMARY This study had 2 objectives: first, to investigate how the processes of slender form replication, of differentiation from dividing slender to non-dividing stumpy forms, and of stumpy mortality, combine to determine the initial (acute-phase) growth rate of Trypanosoma brucei populations; second,... |
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"abstract": "Caenorhabditis hybridizations reveal cytoplasmic-nuclear incompatibilities and asexual reproduction",
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"title": "Caenorhabditis hybridizations reveal cytoplasmic-nuclear incompatibilities and asexual reproduction"
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"abstract": "Understanding how new phenotypes evolve is challenging because intermediate stages in transitions from ancestral to derived phenotypes often remain elusive. Here we describe and evaluate a new mechanism facilitating the transition from sexual reproduction to parthenogenesis. In many sexually reproducin... | {
"abstract": "BackgroundNorwegian production of rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) has been without any outbreaks of VHS for many years until the disease emerged in a farm in western Norway in November 2007. The fish were, in addition to VHS virus, positive for gill chlamydia-like bacteria, Flavobacterium psychroph... |
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"abstract": "Blepharocheilodontic (BCD) syndrome is a rare condition characterized by bilateral cleft lip and palate (BCLP), eyelid abnormalities, and oligodontia. Despite orofacial clefting and oligodontia being central features of the condition, detailed reports of dental and craniofacial characteristics are scar... | {
"abstract": "Blepharocheilodontic (BCD) syndrome is a rare autosomal‐dominant condition that is characterized by lower eyelid ectropion, upper eyelid distichiasis, euryblepharon, bilateral cleft lip and palate, and conical teeth. It exhibits considerable phenotypic variability among affected individuals. An additio... | {
"abstract": "A patient with the unusual coexistence of distichiasis and cleft palate is described. Distichiasis is a rare congenital eyelid anomaly in which accessory eyelashes are present in the meibomian gland orifices. Its association with other systemic abnormalities is reviewed; the distinctions among distichi... |
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"abstract": "Objectives: The aim of this study is to evaluate the safety and efficacy of natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery-assisted vaginal hysterectomy (NOTES-AVH) compared with total laparoscopic hysterectomy (TLH). Materials and Methods: The population was a cohort of women who underwent NOTES-AVH ... | {
"abstract": "Natural Orifice Transluminal Endoscopic Surgery (NOTES) is an emerging field in minimally invasive surgery. NOTES can be performed via a variety of approaches, including through the stomach, esophagus, bladder, and rectum, but the majority of cases have been performed transvaginally. Potential advantag... | {
"abstract": "Precise localization of eloquent cortex is a clinical necessity prior to surgical resections adjacent to speech or motor cortex. In the intraoperative setting, this traditionally requires inducing temporary lesions by direct electrocortical stimulation (DECS). In an attempt to increase efficiency and p... |
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"abstract": "Previous investigators have shown that the Sharpe measure of the performance of a managed portfolio may be flawed when the portfolio manager has market timing ability. We develop the exact conditions under which the Sharpe measure will completely and correctly order market timers according to ability. ... | {
"abstract": "The model proposed by Merton(1981) to determine the value of forecasting ability is adapted to investigate whether money market fund managers successfully anticipate changes in the yield curve by adjusting the average maturity of their portfolios in the right direction. The potential economic value of ... | {
"abstract": "Although many central banks in the 21st century have become more transparent, Chinese monetary policy communications have been relatively opaque, making it more difficult for financial market participants to make decisions that depend on the future path of interest rates. We conduct a novel systematic ... |
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"abstract": "Author’s address: Marta Agostinelli, SLU, Department of Southern Swedish Forest Research Centre, P.O. Box 49, 230 53 Alnarp, Sweden E-mail: marta.agostinelli@slu.se",
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"title": "Fungal assemblages in forest trees Influence of internal and external conditions"
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"abstract": "The genus Populus is currently the main model system for genetic, genomic, and physiological research in trees. Phenotypic variation in aspen (Populustremula) populations growing in different environments across Sweden is expected to reflect genetic variation that is important for local adaptation. To ... | {
"abstract": "The crystal growth rate of CaSO3 · 1/2H2O was measured by a pH-stat method in aqueous solution with pH 3.5 to 6.5, 1 to 25 mM dissolved sulfite, 0.01 to 0.3 M Ca++, and 0 to 25 mM sulfate. The growth rate was a strong function of relative supersaturation and was strongly inhibited by dissolved sulfate.... |
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"abstract": "Author(s): Hodgkinson, Luqman | Advisor(s): Karp, Richard M. | Abstract: Modularity is a defining feature of biological systems. This dissertation presents our work on the development of algorithms to detect modularity in protein interaction networks and techniques of analysis for interpreting the resu... | {
"abstract": "We study the design of local algorithms for massive graphs. A local algorithm is one that finds a solution containing or near a given vertex without looking at the whole graph. We present a local clustering algorithm. Our algorithm finds a good cluster--a subset of vertices whose internal connections a... | {
"abstract": "Large graphs arise in a number of contexts and understanding their structure and extracting information from them is an important research area. Early algorithms on mining communities have focused on the global structure, and often run in time functional to the size of the entire graph. Nowadays, as we... |
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"abstract": "In this paper, we explore the nature of several key drivers of change in food systems, and examine a number possible entry points for policy intervention, in order to determine their effect on food prices and other marketdriven outcomes. Among the drivers of change that we discuss are those of policy-d... | {
"abstract": "T his chapter provides a conceptual and empirical context for the case studies in Chapters 3 through 12. First, we briefly discuss the nature of market failures in agricultural research—both among firms within a country, and among nations—and the roles for government intervention in general. Next, we c... | {
"abstract": "This article examines the interactions between land quality, crop choice, and technological change using a framework that integrates cross-sectional and intertemporal aspects of diffusion. The empirical results indicate that (a) the acreages allocated to different crops vary significantly over land qua... |
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"abstract": "Oil prices and exchange rates against the dollar have both experienced long swings over the recent decade. Regardless of the great amount of research, some issues are still open to debate. In this vein, this paper focuses on the evolution of the relationship between oil prices and dollar exchange rates... | {
"abstract": "Forecasting portfolio risk requires both, estimation of marginal return distributions for individual assets and the dependence structure of returns as well. In this paper, we concentrate on Value at Risk as a popular risk measure and combine elliptical copulas with time varying Dynamic Conditional Corr... | {
"abstract": "Forecasting Value-at-Risk (VaR) for financial portfolios is a crucial task in applied financial risk management. In this paper, we compare VaR forecasts based on different models for return interdependencies: volatility spillover (Engle & Kroner, 1995), dynamic conditional correlations (Engle, 2002, 20... |
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"abstract": "Evidence from human clinical, epidemiological, and experimental animal models has clearly highlighted a link between the early life environment and an increased risk for a range of cardiometabolic disorders in later life. In particular, altered maternal nutrition, including both undernutrition and over... | {
"abstract": "The insulin‐like growth factor axis is highly responsive to nutritional status and may be involved as one of the underlying mechanisms through which caloric restriction could affect cancer risk. High levels of circulating insulin‐like growth factor (IGF)‐I, or IGF‐I relative to IGF binding protein (IGF... | {
"abstract": "The purposes of this study were to investigate use patterns of nutrition information service of 50-and-older adults and analyze the differences in use patterns of nutrition information service according to their socio-demographic variables. The survey was conducted with 500 adults aged 50-and-over livi... |
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"abstract": "detailed personal data is regularly collected and sharing in very huge amount. All of these data are useful for data mining application. These all data include shopping habits, criminal records, medical history, credit records etc. On one side such information is a very useful resource for business ass... | {
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"title": "Survey on Privacy Preserving Data Mining"
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"title": "Novel Approaches for Privacy Preserving Data Mining in K-Anonymity Model P"
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"abstract": "To automatically produce a brief yet expressive summary of a long video, an automatic algorithm should start by resembling the human process of summary generation. Prior work proposed supervised and unsupervised algorithms to train models for learning the underlying behavior of humans by increasing mod... | {
"abstract": "This paper develops a self-gated recurrent neural network (SGRNN), and applies it to human activity recognition (HAR), using time-series signals collected from embedded sensors of wearable devices. Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) are very powerful for time-series signal analysis. Especially, by integr... | {
"abstract": "Two experiments compared performance traits, feather loss, and nervousness of hens kept in contrasting homogeneous and heterogeneous body weight groupings. In addition, 15-day periods of daily uterine palpating vs nonpalpating for an egg in the uterus were compared for effects on egg production. Eighte... |
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"abstract": "Two structurally divergent endo-beta-1,4-glucanase (EGase) cDNAs were cloned from tomato. Although both cDNAs (Cel1 and Cel2) encode potentially glycosylated, basic proteins of 51 to 53 kD and possess multiple amino acid domains conserved in both plant and microbial EGases, Cel1 and Cel2 exhibit only 5... | {
"abstract": "The physiology and anatomy of abscission has been studied in considerable detail; however, information on the regulation of gene expression in abscission has been limited because of a lack of probes for specific genes. We have identified and sequenced a 595 nucleotide bean (Phaseolus vulgaris cv Red Ki... | {
"abstract": "Among the various electrically conducting polymers, polyaniline (PANI) has gained attentions due to its unique properties and doping chemistry. A number of electrically conducting biodegradable polymers has been synthesized by incorporating a biodegradable content of cellulose, chitin, chitosan, etc. i... |
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"abstract": "Reactive oxygen species lead to cellular damage and in plants exposed to drought stress, an increasing expressions of genes encoding antioxidant enzymes play important protective roles. The aim of this study was to evaluate response of drought tolerant ('Arg' and 'Roshan') and drought sensitive ('Arta'... | {
"abstract": "When comparing the responses of two wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) genotypes, the drought-tolerant Plainsman V and the drought-sensitive Cappelle Desprez, to reduced amounts of irrigation water, we found differences in ascorbate metabolism: both ascorbate oxidation and transcription levels of enzymes pro... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Soil microorganisms play an important role in regulating subsurface ecological processes. Planted woodland and natural grass vegetation are the main vegetation restoration strategies for preventing soil erosion on the Loess Plateau of China. However, the response of soil microbial community an... |
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"abstract": "Embedded computer vision based smart systems raise challenging issues in many research fields, including real-time vision processing, communication protocols or distributed algorithms. The amount of data generated by cameras using high resolution image sensors requires powerful computing systems to be ... | {
"abstract": "DreamCam is a modular smart camera constructed with the use of an FPGA like main processing board. The core of the camera is an Altera Cyclone-III associated with a CMOS imager and six private Ram blocks. The main novel feature of our work consists in proposing a new smart camera architecture and sever... | {
"abstract": "The ability to track vehicles is useful in many applications including security of personal vehicles, public transportation systems, fleet management and others. Furthermore, the number of vehicles on the road globally is also expected to increase rapidly. Therefore, the development of vehicle tracking... |
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"abstract": "Emerging multifrequency atomic force microscopy (MF-AFM) methods rely on coherent demodulation of the cantilever deflection signal at multiple frequencies. These measurements are needed in order to close the z-axis feedback loop and to acquire complementary information on the tip-sample interaction. Wh... | {
"abstract": "A fundamental challenge in dynamic mode atomic force microscopy (AFM) is the estimation of the cantilever oscillation amplitude from the deflection signal, which might be distorted by noise and/or high-frequency components. When the cantilever is excited at resonance, its deflection is typically obtain... | {
"abstract": "The fabrication of smart biocomposites from sustainable resources that could replace today’s petroleum-derived polymer materials is a growing field of research. Here, we report preparation of novel biocomposites using nanocellulose networks extracted from food residue (onion skin) and a vegetable oil-b... |
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"abstract": "In this paper we explore how income inequality affects growth in a dynastic family model with bequests (physical capital) and investment in human capital for children. For tractability, we abstract from factor markets and focus on household production, which is prevalent in developing countries. We exp... | {
"abstract": "Optimal public investments in human capital through subsidizing private education or providing public education are considered in an endogenous growth model with externalities. Subsidizing private education stimulates growth, improves welfare, and has no distributional effect. While reducing income ine... | {
"abstract": "Sustained decreases in crude oil prices appear to affect the U.S. economy differently than sustained increases. This paper shows that a significant part of the observed asymmetry is due to adjustments within the energy sector and not within the rest of the economy. In particular, sustained decreases in... |
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"abstract": "Pseudo-dc-link inverters are promising due to the single-stage configuration. The inverters can be isolated by high-frequency transformers, which also provide the freedom of step-up/down through winding turns ratio. Conventionally, a pseudo-dc-link inverter is based upon a pulsewidth modulation convert... | {
"abstract": "Synchronous rectification technique can reduce secondary-side conduction loss of the LLC resonant converter. Typically, the control of synchronous rectifier (SR) relies on either voltage or current information; however, the detection circuit is sensitive to parasitic effects and high frequency noises. ... | {
"abstract": "Skin fibroblasts from three patients with Hurler's syndrome were grown in tissue culture and shown to contain metachromatic granules when stained for mucopolysaccharides with toluidine blue O. Similar inclusions were observed in cultures of fibroblasts from other members of the families, who appeared t... |
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"abstract": "Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are increasingly adopted in agriculture to monitor environmental variables to predict the presence of pests. Differently from these approaches, this paper introduces aWSN to detect the presence of snails in the field. The network can be used to both trigger an alarm of e... | {
"abstract": "Pests due to terrestrial mollusks cause serious damage, both economic and ecological, in various types of agricultural plantations. In this paper we develop a low cost capacitive sensor that wirelessly communicates with the base, to monitor the activity of land snails. Once implemented physically, it h... | {
"abstract": "Nitrates are nutrients important to commercial, residential, and agricultural applications. However, nitrate loss from these applications, and animal manures, is a major source of water pollution, leading to algae blooms and hypoxic dead zones in coastal waterways. Low-cost nitrate sensors would aid in... |
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"abstract": "This study investigated and compared instructors’ and students’ characteristics that determine student learning strategies. Specifically, the study filled a key gap in the literature by examining the relationship between teacher career motivation and student learning effectiveness. Students and instruc... | {
"abstract": "Abstract. Student motivation as an academic enabler for school success is discussed. Contrary to many views, however, the authors conceive of student motivation as a multifaceted construct with different components. Accordingly, the article includes a discussion of four key components of student motiva... | {
"abstract": "This paper describes the MyCS curriculum, which aims to encourage middle-years students, i.e., grades 4-10, to engage not only as consumers of CS, but as composers of computational artifacts. MyCS draws from many successful online tools and curricula, including Exploring Computer Science (ECS) and Scra... |
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"abstract": "A potential correlation between joint kinetics and power output exists during the power clean. This study investigated correlations between lower extremity (hip, knee, and ankle) net joint torques (NJT) and whole body power (WBP) during the power clean. Ten weightlifters (five males and five females) p... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Suchomel, TJ, Wright, GA, Kernozek, TW, and Kline, DE. Kinetic comparison of the power development between power clean variations. J Strength Cond Res 28(2): 350–360, 2014—The purpose of this study was to compare the power production of the hang clean (HC), jump shrug (JS), and high pull (HP) ... | {
"abstract": "The primary purpose of this study was to investigate whether the athlete who has high performance in hang power clean, a common weightlifting exercise, has high performances in sprinting, jumping, and changing of direction (COD). As the secondary purpose, relationships between hang power clean performa... |
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"abstract": "Establishing a predictive ab initio method for solid systems is one of the fundamental goals in condensed matter physics and computational materials science. We demonstrate that artificial neural networks can simulate first-principles calculations of extended periodic materials. The stochastic optimiza... | {
"abstract": "We present the results of Gaussian-based ground-state and excited-state equation-of-motion coupled-cluster theory with single and double excitations for three-dimensional solids. We focus on diamond and silicon, which are paradigmatic covalent semiconductors. In addition to ground-state properties (the... | {
"abstract": "An eight-degree-of-freedom (8DOF) time-dependent wave-packet approach has been developed to study the H(2)+C(2)H-->H+C(2)H(2) reaction system. The 8DOF model is obtained by fixing one of the Jacobi torsion angle in the nine-degree-of-freedom AB+CDE reaction system. This study is an extension of the pre... |
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"abstract": "Providing robots with the capability of sensing their surrounding environment is an important feature that would lead to a more intuitive and safe physical human-robot interaction. This paper proposes a new design of homogeneous flexible and stretchable robot skin based on carbon-black-filled (CBF) sil... | {
"abstract": "The paper discusses resistance relaxation phenomenon of carbon black/silicone rubber system under constant temperature and the mechanism of relaxation phenomenon and microstructure analysis. Through the analysis of piezoresistive properties, resistance relaxation properties under static constant pressu... | {
"abstract": "Experimental observations of dislocation decoration with self-interstitial atom (SIA) clusters and of SIA cluster rafts are analysed to establish the mechanisms controlling these phenomena in bcc metals. The elastic interaction between SIA clusters, and between clusters and dislocations is included in ... |
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"abstract": "Microbial electrosynthesis is a new approach to converting C1 carbon (CO2) to more complex carbon-based products. In the present study, CO2, a potential greenhouse gas, was used as a sole carbon source and reduced to value-added chemicals (acetate, ethanol) with the help of bioelectrochemical reduction... | {
"abstract": "Biocathodes in bioelectrochemical systems (BESs) can be used to convert CO2 into diverse organic compounds through a process called microbial electrosynthesis. Unfortunately, start-up of anaerobic biocathodes in BESs is a difficult and time consuming process. Here, a pre-enrichment method was developed... | {
"abstract": "Two- and four-probe electrical measurements on individual conjugated polymer nanowires with different diameters ranging from 20 to 190 nm have been performed to study their conductivity and nanocontact resistance. The two-probe results reveal that all the measured polymer nanowires with different diame... |
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"abstract": "This paper focuses on research related to the difficulties introduced by academic re-sources management in institutions of Higher Education and specifically in the Fundación Universitaria de Popayán, a private university, where the planning of aca-demic scenarios is performed manually at the beginning ... | {
"abstract": "The demand for Corporate Environmental Management Information System (CEMIS) and sustainable development in general requires that decision-makers in all organizational forms are able to take data heterogeneity into account. In this sense, software complexity and integration are considered as important ... | {
"abstract": "In the last decade, the Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) market has been enormously raised, and the major vendors are trying to adapt their software to suit it. One important factor to be taken into consideration in such context is the support of internal and external business process integration. Se... |
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"abstract": "As modern supercomputing systems reach the peta-flop performance range, they grow in both size and complexity. This makes them increasingly vulnerable to failures from a variety of causes. Checkpointing is a popular technique for tolerating such failures, enabling applications to periodically save thei... | {
"abstract": "Summary form only given. In the near future large-scale parallel computers will feature hundreds of thousands of processing nodes. In such systems, fault tolerance is critical as failures will occur very often. Checkpointing and rollback recovery has been extensively studied as an attempt to provide fa... | {
"abstract": "A theory of communication between autonomous agents should make testable predictions about which communicative behaviors are collaborative, and provide a framework for determining the features of a communicative situation that affect whether a behavior is collaborative. The results presented here are d... |
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"abstract": "SUMMARY In this research, we propose a two-level control strategy for simultaneous gait generation and stable control of planar walking of the Assume The Robot Is A Sphere (ATRIAS) biped robot with unlocked torso, utilizing active spring-loaded inverted pendulum (ASLIP) as reference models. The upper l... | {
"abstract": "Many control policies developed for legged robots are based on control of an underlying, simplified version of the dynamics of the robot. A good example is the Linear Inverted Pendulum Model (LIPM) which has become the standard control template for ZMP-based rigid robots. For compliant robots, this red... | {
"abstract": "Two new types of layered structures were found in binary mixtures of n-alkanes ranging from C122H246 to C294H590. At high temperatures a semicrystalline form is the stable phase, having a regular structure of alternating crystalline and amorphous layers. The two long-chain compounds are mixed in the cr... |
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"abstract": "Visual Analytics is one effective way to improve the understanding of large and complex datasets through the systematic combination of interactive visualizations and automated analysis techniques. Time-oriented data are highly relevant to many application fields of Visual Analytics but time and time-or... | {
"abstract": "Model selection in time series analysis is a challenging task for domain experts in many application areas such as epidemiology, economy, or environmental sciences. The methodology used for this task demands a close combination of human judgement and automated computation. However, statistical software... | {
"abstract": "To be successful, a software architect-or a software architecture team, collectively-must strike a delicate balance between an external focus-both outwards: Listening to customers, users, watching technology, developing a long-term vision, and inwards: driving the development teams-and an internal, ref... |
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"abstract": "Analysis of problem search spaces is crucial if we are to use artificial evolutionary techniques to produce good solutions to difficult problems. In this paper, we apply the concept of evolvability in order to highlight the differences between two non-trivial search spaces, for which significant differ... | {
"abstract": "The properties of multi-peaked “fitness landscapes” have attracted attention in a wide variety of fields, including evolutionary biology. However, relaively little attention has been paid to the properties of the landscapes themselves. Herein, we suggest a framework for the mathematical treatment of su... | {
"abstract": "The commonly observed fact that the principal biologic groups appear early in an adaptive radiation is shown to be an artifact of the geometry of the evolutionary tree. For marine invertebrates of the Phanerozoic, total diversity and species turnover rates combine to make early origins of major groups ... |
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"abstract": "Objectives To report the preliminary data of voice and quality‐of‐life improvement after micronized AlloDerm injection laryngoplasty in patients with unilateral vocal cord paralysis.",
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"title": "A Preliminary Report on Micronized AlloDerm Injection Laryngoplasty"
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"abstract": "OBJECTIVES\nTo evaluate the histological and clinical properties of (1) subdermally implanted acellular dermal graft (AlloDerm) sheets vs intradermal bovine collagen and (2) subdermally or intradermally injected micronized AlloDerm vs type I bovine collagen cross-linked with glutaraldehyde (Zyplast).\n... | {
"abstract": "Prophylactic extended lymphadenectomy with gastrectomy may prolong survival in patients with early gastric carcinoma without lymph node metastasis. However, the therapeutic value of extensive lymphadenectomy in patients with early gastric carcinoma remains controversial.",
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"abstract": "Torrent connection blocking inside institutional networks can be bypassed using VPN and proxies, allowing Bit-Torrent applications to tunnel connections to a remote server. Consequently it has become extremely challenging to classify application traffic without resorting to stateful deep flow or deep p... | {
"abstract": "The emergence of new Internet paradigms has changed the common properties of network data, increasing the bandwidth consumption and balancing traffic in both directions. These facts raise important challenges, making it necessary to devise effective solutions for managing network traffic. Since traditi... | {
"abstract": "A flow meter generates flow data - which contains information about each connection observed on a network - from a stream of observed packets. Flow meters can be implemented in standalone measurement devices or inline on packet forwarding devices, such as routers. YAF (Yet Another Flowmeter) was create... |
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"abstract": "This article provides a theoretical analysis of the asymptotic performance of a regression or classification task performed by a simple random neural network. This result is obtained by leveraging a new framework at the crossroads between random matrix theory and the concentration of measure theory. Th... | {
"abstract": "This article proposes an original approach to the performance understanding of large dimensional neural networks. In this preliminary study, we study a single hidden layer feed-forward network with random input connections (also called extreme learning machine) which performs a simple regression task. ... | {
"abstract": "Random matrix theory is a wide and growing field with a variety of concepts, results, and techniques and a vast range of applications in mathematics and the related sciences. The book, written by well-known experts, offers beginners a fairly balanced collection of basic facts and methods (Part 1 on cla... |
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"abstract": "It is well known that progesterone (i.p.) have a potent anticonvulsant effect in human and animal. This study was designed to evaluate the involvement of opioid receptors in this effect of progesterone in ovariectomized mice. Methods: All animal received intraperitoneal injection of drugs (progesterone... | {
"abstract": "Significant potentiation of analgesic effects of opioids can be achieved through selective blockade of their stimulatory effects on intracellular signaling pathways by ultra-low doses of opioid receptor antagonists. However, the generality and specificity of this interaction is not well understood. The... | {
"abstract": "Opioids are well known to exert potent central analgesic actions. In recent years, the numerous studies have unfolded the critical role of opioids in the pathophysiology of various diseases as well as in biological phenomenon of therapeutic interest. The endogenous ligands of opioid receptors are deriv... |
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"abstract": "Brain injury induced by acute simian (or human) immunodeficiency virus infection may persist or spontaneously resolve in different brain regions. Identifying the host factor(s) that promotes spontaneous recovery from such injury may reveal targets for therapeutic drug strategies for promoting recovery ... | {
"abstract": "Heme oxygenase-1 (HO-1) is an inducible, detoxifying enzyme that is critical for limiting oxidative stress, inflammation, and cellular injury within the CNS and other tissues. Here, we demonstrate a deficiency of HO-1 expression in the brains of HIV-infected individuals. This HO-1 deficiency correlated... | {
"abstract": "Several lines of evidence have demonstrated the potential biomedical applications of fumaric acid (FA) and its ester derivatives against many human disease conditions. Fumaric acid esters (FAEs) have been licensed for the systemic treatment of the immune-mediated disease psoriasis. Biogen Idec Inc. ann... |
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"abstract": "In this paper, we propose an improved shunt-capacitance-aided composite right/left-handed (CRLH) leaky wave antenna (LWA) with large beam-scanning-range (BSR)/bandwidth ratio based on substrate integrated waveguide (SIW) structure. The CRLH LWA is constructed by etching interdigital capacitor on the wa... | {
"abstract": "Composite right/left-handed (CRLH) substrate integrated waveguide (SIW) and half mode substrate integrated waveguide (HMSIW) leaky-wave structures for antenna applications are proposed and investigated. Their propagation properties and radiation characteristics are studied extensively. Their backfire-t... | {
"abstract": "This paper aims to evaluate the security and accuracy of Multi-Factor Biometric Authentication (MFBA) schemes that are based on applying UserBased Transformations (UBTs) on biometric features. Typically, UBTs employ transformation keys generated from passwords/PINs or retrieved from tokens. In this pap... |
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"abstract": "Ant Swarm Optimization refers to the hybridization of Particle Swarm Optimization PSO and Ant Colony Optimization ACO algorithms to enhance optimization performance. It is used in rough reducts calculation for identifying optimally significant attributes set. This paper proposes a hybrid ant swarm opti... | {
"abstract": "As Electronic Commerce become more and more prevalent to people, this paper discusses application of rough set theory in Electronic Commerce (EC) data mining. The EC sites collect large data every day. The data includes valuable information about customers, products and so on. The large amount of data ... | {
"abstract": "ABSTRACT According to Intergroup Threat Theory (Stephan, Ybarra, & Rios, 2015), perceived threats from outgroups can be categorised into realistic threats (to the ingroup’s power, resources, or well-being) and symbolic threats (to the ingroup’s values, identity, or way of life). Although many studies h... |
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"abstract": ": The effect of high hydrostatic pressure (HHP) treatments on chemical composition, proteolysis, rheological properties, total free amino acids and organoleptic properties for Cheddar cheese during ripening at 8-10 o C up to 120 days were evaluated. Application of HHP-treated Cheddar cheese at three le... | {
"abstract": "The effect of high-pressure (HP) treatment (300 MPa, 10 min) on the volatile profile of semihard ewe milk cheeses was investigated. The HP treatment was applied at two different stages of ripening (1 and 15 days; 3P1 and 3P15) and microbiota, proteolysis indexes (soluble nitrogen and total free amino a... | {
"abstract": "Lactic streptococci, classically regarded as homolactic fermenters of glucose and lactose, became heterolactic when grown with limiting carbohydrate concentrations in a chemostat. At high dilution rates (D) with excess glucose present, about 95% of the fermented sugar was converted to l-lactate. Howeve... |
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"abstract": "Improving the Single Event Effect Response of Triple Modular Redundancy on SRAM FPGAs Through Placement and Routing Matthew Joel Cannon Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, BYU Doctor of Philosophy Triple modular redundancy (TMR) with repair is commonly used to improve the reliability of ... | {
"abstract": "Processors are an essential component in most satellite payload electronics and handle a variety of functions including command handling and data processing. There is growing interest in implementing soft processors on commercial FPGAs within satellites. Commercial FPGAs offer reconfigurability, large ... | {
"abstract": "In this paper, we have developed a radiation-hardened non-volatile lookup table (LUT) circuit utilizing spin Hall effect (SHE)-magnetic random access memory (MRAM) devices. The design is motivated by modeling the effect of radiation particles striking hybrid complementary metal oxide semiconductor/spin... |
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"abstract": "We present ez-Segway, a decentralized mechanism to consistently and quickly update the network state while preventing forwarding anomalies (loops and black-holes) and avoiding link congestion. In our design, the centralized SDN controller only pre-computes information needed by the switches during the ... | {
"abstract": "Computer networks have become a critical infrastructure. Designing dependable computer networks however is challenging, as such networks should not only meet strict requirements in terms of correctness, availability, and performance, but they should also be flexible enough to support fast updates, e.g.... | {
"abstract": "In the design, the MCU AT89C52 is the core of the system. The system can send and receive the DTMF signal, which can identify the city telephone number or the long-distance telephone number. According the number, it can billing and show call duration and call cost. It can realize automatically the conv... |
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"abstract": "Introduction: Elite youth soccer players suffer increasing numbers of injuries owing to constantly increasing physical demands. Deficits in neuromuscular performance may increase the risk of injury. Injury risk factors need to be identified and practical cut-off scores defined. Therefore, the purpose o... | {
"abstract": "There is an inherent risk of injury in male youth football; however, pertinent risk factors for injury have yet to be examined. This study used a prospective cohort design with 357 elite male youth football players (aged 10‐18 years) assessed during the preseason period and then monitored during the se... | {
"abstract": "A survey of patients with Turner's syndrome and their parents documents the incidence, features, and prognosis of lymphedema in surviving children.",
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"abstract": "In the red imported fire ant, Solenopsis invicta Buren, the neuronal and molecular mechanisms related to worker division of labor are poorly understood. Workers from different subcastes (major, medium and minors) perform different tasks, which are loosely associated with their size. We hypothesized tha... | {
"abstract": "BackgroundInsect neuropeptides are involved in diverse physiological functions and can be released as neurotransmitters or neuromodulators acting within the central nervous system, and as circulating neurohormones in insect hemolymph. The insect short neuropeptide F (sNPF) peptides, related to the vert... | {
"abstract": "The structures of membrane receptors mediating rapid, nongenomic actions of steroids have not been identified. We describe the cloning of a cDNA from spotted seatrout ovaries encoding a protein that satisfies the following seven criteria for its designation as a steroid membrane receptor: plausible str... |
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"abstract": "ABSTRACT In this study, we examine key psychological dimensions in the manifestos authored by the perpetrators of the Christchurch and Utøya massacres, the right-wing extremists Brenton Tarrant and Anders Breivik, and the ISIS propaganda magazine Rumiyah. All texts were authored and disseminated virtua... | {
"abstract": "We have developed a system that automatically detects online jihadist hate speech with over 80% accuracy, by using techniques from Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning. The system is trained on a corpus of 45,000 subversive Twitter messages collected from October 2014 to December 2016. We p... | {
"abstract": "Purpose – The video-sharing website YouTube encourages interaction between its users via the provision of a user comments facility. This was originally envisaged as a way for viewers to provide information about and reactions to videos, but is employed for other communicative purposes including sharing... |
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"abstract": "Two major gaseous byproducts of microbial transformation during aerobic biodegradation of solid waste are carbon dioxide (CO2) and ammonia (NH3). As is well known that CO2 is the greenhouse gas and NH3 is a noxious, toxic gas. It is important to find ways to efficiently control and remove these gases f... | {
"abstract": "Abstract We report the advances in the principal structural and experimental factors that might influence the carbon dioxide (CO2) adsorption on natural and synthetic zeolites. The CO2 adsorption is principally govern by the inclusion of exchangeable cations (countercations) within the cavities of zeol... | {
"abstract": "Abstract The ability of natural zeolites (ZAPS, ZNT and ZN-19) to adsorb pure CO 2 , CH 4 and N 2 was studied experimentally. The volume of CO 2 adsorption in the monolayer (Langmuir) was found to be close to the micropore volume estimated by the Dubinin–Astakhov model (N 2 , 77 K) for all three zeolit... |
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"abstract": "Continuous respiratory monitoring is an important tool for clinical monitoring. Associated with the development of biomedical technology, it has become more and more important, especially in the measuring of gas flow and CO2 concentration, which can reflect the status of the patient. In this paper, a n... | {
"abstract": "Continuous health status monitoring of infants is achieved with the development and fusion of wearable sensing technologies, wireless communication techniques and a low energy-consumption microprocessor with high performance data processing algorithms. As a clinical tool applied in the constant monitor... | {
"abstract": "Goal: To evaluate a novel kind of textile electrodes based on woven fabrics treated with PEDOT:PSS, through an easy fabrication process, testing these electrodes for biopotential recordings. Methods: Fabrication is based on raw fabric soaking in PEDOT:PSS using a second dopant, squeezing and annealing.... |
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"abstract": "Many important decisions are increasingly being made with the help of information systems that use artificial intelligence and machine learning models. These computational models are designed to discover useful patterns from large amounts of data, which augment human capabilities to make decisions in v... | {
"abstract": "In this paper we study the problem of classifier learning where the input data contains unjustified dependencies between some data attributes and the class label. Such cases arise for example when the training data is collected from different sources with different labeling criteria or when the data is... | {
"abstract": "Who is likely to view materials online maligning groups based on race, nationality, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender, political views, immigration status, or religion? We use an online survey (Nź=ź1034) of youth and young adults recruited from a demographically balanced sample of Americans to addr... |
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"abstract": "We present HuddleLamp, a desk lamp with an integrated RGB-D camera that precisely tracks the movements and positions of mobile displays and hands on a table. This enables a new breed of spatially-aware multi-user and multi-device applications for around-the-table collaboration without an interactive ta... | {
"abstract": "We present a framework which enables the combination of different mobile devices into one multi-display such that visual content can be shown on a larger area consisting, e.g., of several mobile phones placed arbitrarily on the table. Our system allows the user to perform multi-touch interaction metaph... | {
"abstract": "Despite the wide utility of ferrite nanoparticles (FP), a methodology to conjugate heterologous molecules to FP is still limited and characterization of small molecule-conjugated FP is not well known. Here, we describe what kinds of proteins and amino acids are selectively immobilized onto FP when FP i... |
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"abstract": "This paper builds on trajectories in PD that attend to designers' situatedness within the broader systemic contexts in which they work. It proposes (re)considering infrastructuring, understood as a range of approaches to designing socio-material systems, through attention to designers' locations, as on... | {
"abstract": "This paper reviews literature and reflects on infrastructuring in Participatory Design (PD) with a conceptual interest. It starts with the notion of information infrastructure introduced to the PD community in the mid-1990s by Star and collaborators. It traces how the notion has been adapted, appended,... | {
"abstract": "In this paper, a deep learning inspired solution is proposed and developed to enable timeliness and practicality of the pre-existing ground stereo vision guidance system for flxed-wing UAVs' safe landing. Since the ground guidance prototype was restricted within applications due to its untimeliness, ev... |
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"abstract": "We have traced the developmental origins of various CNS neurons and glial cells of a leech to 10 clonally related groups of cells, the bilaterally paired M, N, O, P, and Q kinship groups. Each kinship group is descended from one of 10 identifiable blastomeres of the early embryo, the teloblasts. Of the... | {
"abstract": "To ascertain the embryonic origins of the cells in various tissues of the leech Helobdella triserialis, horseradish peroxidase (HRP) was injected as a cell lineage tracer into all identified blastomeres of the early embryo in turn, except for a few of the micromeres, and the resulting distribution of H... | {
"abstract": "The teloblasts of the embryo of the leech Theromyzon rude contain two distinct cytoplasmic domains. One, the vitelloplasm, consists mainly of yolk platelets; it makes up more than half of the total teloblast volume. The other, the teloplasm, resides at the teloplasmic pole, surrounds the cell nucleus, ... |
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"abstract": "Different theoretical accounts of second language (L2) acquisition differ with respect to whether or not advanced learners are predicted to show native-like processing for features not instantiated in the native language (L1). We examined how native speakers of English, a language with number but not g... | {
"abstract": "We used event-related brain potentials (ERPs) to investigate the contributions of explicit and implicit processes during second language (L2) sentence comprehension. We used a L2 grammaticality judgment task (GJT) to test 20 native English speakers enrolled in the first four semesters of Spanish while ... | {
"abstract": "Farside Explorer is a proposed Cosmic Vision medium-size mission to the farside of the Moon consisting of two landers and an instrumented relay satellite. The farside of the Moon is a unique scientific platform in that it is shielded from terrestrial radio-frequency interference, it recorded the primar... |
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"abstract": "The data of 22 patients with solitary fibrous tumors of the pleura subjected to surgical treatment are presented. A special attention is paid to the problem of surgical approach for removal of the tumor. In 5 patients tumors were removed by video-assisted thoracoscopy. Thoracotomy was performed in 12 p... | {
"abstract": "Fibrous tumors of the pleura are rare, accounting for <5% of all pleural neoplasms. Although over 80% of pleural fibrous tumors have a benign course, local recurrence postsurgery and occasional malignant transformation have been reported; complete excision of the tumor together with postsurgery follow-... | {
"abstract": "Respiratory insufficiency is a major cause of neonatal mortality and long-term morbidity, especially in very low birth weight infants. Today, non-invasive and mechanical ventilation are commonly accepted procedures to provide respiratory support to newborns, but they can reach their limit of efficacy. ... |
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"abstract": "How to provide users a positive experience during interaction with information (i.e., the “Information eXperience” (IX)) is still an open question. As a starting point, this work investigates how the emotion of interest can be influenced by modifying the complexity of the information presented to users... | {
"abstract": "Repetition and semantic-associative priming effects have been demonstrated for words in nonstructured contexts (i.e., word pairs or lists of words) in numerous behavioral and electrophysio-logical studies. The processing of a word has thus been shown to benefit from the prior presentation of an identic... | {
"abstract": "While recent deep monocular depth estimation approaches based on supervised regression have achieved remarkable performance, costly ground truth annotations are required during training. To cope with this issue, in this paper we present a novel unsupervised deep learning approach for predicting depth m... |
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"abstract": "We study the resilience of MPLS flows over an agile all-photonic star WDM network (AAPN). On the basis of our previous inter-area optimal routing architecture, we propose and develop a dynamic inter-area shared segment-based protection (SSP) framework. We consider the dynamic protection for optimal int... | {
"abstract": "In this paper, we study how MPLS flows are routed in an Internet that contains a centrally-controlled agile allphotonic star WDM network (AAPN). Two scenarios are considered, namely deploying AAPN within one OSPF (Open Shortest Path First) area and within several OSPF areas. Since the AAPN provides an ... | {
"abstract": "This paper presents an overview of recent and current work being conducted in the “Agile All-Photonic Networks”, AAPN, Research Network. An AAPN is a wavelength division multiplexed network that consists of several overlaid stars formed by edge nodes that aggregate traffic, interconnected by bufferless... |
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"abstract": "In recent years there has been an increased interest in statistical analysis of data with multiple types of relations among a set of entities. Such multi-relational data can be represented as multi-layer graphs where the set of vertices represents the entities and multiple types of edges represent the ... | {
"abstract": "We study clustering on graphs with multiple edge types. Our main motivation is that similarities between objects can be measured in many different metrics, and so allowing graphs with multivariate edges significantly increases modeling power. In this context the clustering problem becomes more challeng... | {
"abstract": "Multi-layer networks are networks on a set of entities (nodes) with multiple types of relations (edges) among them where each type of relation/interaction is represented as a network layer. As with single layer networks, community detection is an important task in multi-layer networks. A large group of... |
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"abstract": "A pilot study was conducted to test a protocol for collecting data useful for identifying local factors affecting exposure to ultraviolet-B radiation (UV-B). A trained technician followed a prepared script through a series of microenvironments representing varying conditions of overhead shielding and g... | {
"abstract": "The provision of information to the public about current levels of the erythemally effective UV radiation is an important issue in health care. The quality of promoted values is therefore of special importance. The atmospheric parameter which affects the erythemally effective UV radiation under clear s... | {
"abstract": "Modulation of total ozone anomalies in the midlatitude Northern Hemesphere by the Arctic oscillation",
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"title": "Modulation of total ozone anomalies in the midlatitude Northern Hemesphere by the Arctic oscillation"
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"abstract": "Heuristics and biases are the result of intuitive thinking, which is shaped starting from intuitions, feelings, and impressions, which later emerge as beliefs once processed through analytical thinking. In this study, we examine beliefs that provide a foundation for heuristics and biases in financial d... | {
"abstract": "The literature on international equity holdings distinguishes between home bias (overweighting of home stocks) and foreign bias (relative underweighting for more 'distant' countries). The two biases can be integrated into one distance-based model. We define pure home bias as the excess of home bias rel... | {
"abstract": "The ongoing liberalization of the energy market makes energy providers increasingly look at premium services -- like personalized energy consulting -- as preferred methods to bind existing customers and attract new ones. Providing such services, however, requires knowledge of specific properties of the... |
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"abstract": "Steady-state visual evoked potentials (SSVEPs) based brain-computer interface (BCI) has received considerable attention due to its high information transfer rate (ITR) and available quantity of targets. However, the performance of frequency identification methods heavily hinges on the amount of user ca... | {
"abstract": "Recently, electroencephalogram-based brain?computer interfaces (BCIs) have attracted much attention in the fields of neural engineering and rehabilitation due to their noninvasiveness. However, the low communication speed of current BCI systems greatly limits their practical application. In this paper,... | {
"abstract": "We present a theoretical and computational framework for nonrigid multimodal registration. We proceed by minimization of statistical similarity criteria (global and local) in a variational framework, and use the corresponding gradients to drive a flow of diffeomorphisms allowing large deformations. Thi... |
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"abstract": "Clinical translation of optoacoustic imaging is fostered by the rapid technical advances in imaging performance as well as the growing number of clinicians recognizing the immense diagnostic potential of this technology. Clinical optoacoustic systems are available in multiple configurations, including ... | {
"abstract": "Limited-view artifacts are commonly present in optoacoustic tomography images, mainly due to practical geometrical and physical constraints imposed by the imaging systems. Herein, a new approach called dynamic particle-enhanced optoacoustic tomography (DPOT) is proposed for improving image contrast and... | {
"abstract": "Ultrasound and combined optical and ultrasonic (photoacoustic) molecular imaging have shown great promise in the visualization and monitoring of cancer through imaging of vascular and extravascular molecular targets. Contrast-enhanced ultrasound with molecularly targeted microbubbles can detect early-s... |
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"abstract": "This paper presents detailed geomorphological and sedimentological investigations of small recessional moraines at Fjallsjökull, an active temperate outlet of Öræfajökull, southeast Iceland. The moraines are characterized by striking sawtooth or hairpin planforms, which are locally superimposed, giving... | {
"abstract": "We investigate the spatial and temporal englacial and subglacial processes associated with a temperate glacier resting on a deformable bed using the unique Glacsweb wireless in situ probes (embedded in the ice and the till) combined with other techniques [including ground penetrating radar (GPR) and bo... | {
"abstract": "As part of the Greenland Ice Mapping Project (GIMP) we have produced three geospatial data sets for the entire ice sheet and periphery. These are (1) a complete, 15 m resolution image mosaic, (2) ice-covered and ice-free terrain classification masks, also posted to 15 m resolution, and (3) a complete, ... |
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"abstract": "ABSTRACT Fresh poultry meat and poultry products are highly perishable foods and high potential sources of human infection due to the presence of several foodborne pathogens. Focusing on the microbial control of poultry products, the food industry generally implements numerous preventive measures based... | {
"abstract": "Irradiation is an effective technology in eliminating Listeria monocytogenes, but it induces quality changes in meat products at or above specific radiation doses. To minimize irradiation-induced quality changes, only low irradiation doses are recommended. However, low-dose irradiation provides a chanc... | {
"abstract": "The effect of electron beam irradiation on microbial inactivation and duration of lag time of individual surviving cells of Listeria innocua, Enterococcus faecalis, Pseudomonas fluorescens and Salmonella Enteritidis has been studied. In addition, the data on variability in microbial inactivation and du... |
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"abstract": "A novel high voltage diode featuring partial n+ adjusting region embedded at the anode side is proposed and analyzed by device simulation in this paper. The low and inverted on-state carrier profile is obtained to realize the fast and soft recovery behavior. The simulations show that the proposed diode... | {
"abstract": "Abstract The current filament caused by strong dynamic avalanche during reverse recovery of a high voltage diode under extreme overstress conditions is an important factor of the device failure. The influence of carrier lifetime distribution on the current filament during reverse recovery of the high v... | {
"abstract": "Differential treatment of sons and daughters by parents is a potential explanation of the gender gap in education in developing countries. This study empirically tests this explanation for India using household survey data collected in urban Uttar Pradesh in 1995. We estimate educational enrolment func... |
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"abstract": "Abstract The aim of the study was to determine the mechanical and neuromuscular profile of knee extensor and flexor muscles in professional soccer players at the start of the pre-season, and to calculate percentages for symmetry, as well as examine differences according to the player’s positional role.... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Ardern, CL, Pizzari, T, Wollin, MR, and Webster, KE. Hamstrings strength imbalance in professional football (soccer) players in Australia. J Strength Cond Res 29(4): 997–1002, 2015—The aim of this study was to describe the isokinetic thigh muscle strength profile of professional male football ... | {
"abstract": "Estimating the effects of education on health and mortality has been the subject of intense debate and competing findings and summaries. The original Lleras-Muney (2005) methods utilizing state compulsory schooling laws as instrumental variables for completed education and US data to establish effects ... |
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"abstract": "Bleeding tendency is a well-known complication associated with cirrhosis. This disorder of haemostasis has been related to a complex coagulation defect due to impaired platelet function (Kelly and Summerfi eld 1987). Platelets promote haemostasis by adhering to the sites of vascular injury, releasing c... | {
"abstract": "A standardized, reproducible Ivy bleeding time technic has been described which permits one to obtain accurate bleeding time data in man. The technic was used to standardize an aspirin tolerance test in which 60 normal males had a control bleeding time; were given, on a double blind basis, either place... | {
"abstract": "AIM\nTo evaluate gastric motility using electrical bio-impedance (EBI) and gastric changes as a result of stress induced by psychological tests.\n\n\nMETHODS\nA group of 57 healthy women, aged 40-60 years, was recruited, and a clinical history and physical examination were performed. The women were fre... |
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"abstract": "Essential design requirements for a sense amplifier (SA) used in the resistance monitoring write termination (RM-WT) scheme are suggested to reduce the write energy of spin-transfer-torque random access memory (STT-RAM) while achieving a write pass yield comparable to that of a conventional write opera... | {
"abstract": "This paper presents a spin-orbit torque magnetic random access memory (SOT-MRAM) using perpendicular-anisotropy magnetic tunnel junction (p-MTJ). In spite of conventional p-MTJ based SOT-MRAMs which need an external magnetic field to achieve a deterministic switching, the proposed cell uses a spin-torq... | {
"abstract": "By converting waste heat into electricity and improving the efficiency of refrigeration systems, thermoelectric devices could play a significant role in solving today's energy problems. Increasing the thermoelectric efficiency (as measured by the thermoelectric material's figure-of-merit, zT) is critic... |
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"abstract": "1 Substituting uridine triphosphate (UTP) for ATP as a substrate for rabbit skeletal myosin and actin at 4°C slowed the dissociation of myosin‐S1 from actin by threefold, and hydrolysis of the nucleotide by sevenfold, without a decrease in the rates of phosphate or uridine diphosphate dissociation from... | {
"abstract": "The force-velocity relations of single glycerinated rabbit psoas muscle fibers at 5 degrees C were studied at maximum and half-maximum activation in the presence of 0 (control) and 39-145 g/liter dextran T- 70. Resting fiber diameter decreased progressively to approximately 70% of the nondextran contro... | {
"abstract": "A new image-analysis-based method is described for assessing sarcomere heterogeneity in skinned rabbit psoas muscle fiber segments. This method consists of off-line, two-dimensional Fourier spectral analysis of video-taped muscle images. Local sarcomere length is assessed by partitioning the muscle ima... |
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"abstract": "Chemical synapses provide a vital foundation for neuron-neuron communication and overall brain function. By tethering closely apposed molecular machinery for presynaptic neurotransmitter release and postsynaptic signal transduction, circuit- and context- specific synaptic properties can drive neuronal ... | {
"abstract": "The neuroligins are a family of proteins that are thought to mediate cell to cell interactions between neurons. During the sequencing at an Xq13 locus associated with a mental retardation syndrome in some studies, we discovered a portion of the human orthologue of the rat neuroligin-3 gene. We now repo... | {
"abstract": "Cognition is one of the important and ubiquitous manifestations of human mind. Cognition is a subject of cognitive science which spans cognitive psychology, neurobiology and computational intelligence of engineering sciences. In this work the computational cognition is the subject-matter for investigat... |
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"abstract": "The placing of novel or new-in-the-context proteins on the market, appearing in genetically modified foods, certain bio-pharmaceuticals and some household products leads to human exposure to proteins that may elicit allergic responses. Accurate methods to detect allergens are therefore necessary to ens... | {
"abstract": "Key issues in protein science and computational biology are design and evaluation of algorithms aimed at detection of proteins that belong to a specific family, as defined by structural, evolutionary, or functional criteria. In this context, several validation techniques are often used to compare diffe... | {
"abstract": "BackgroundWe present a C++ class library for Monte Carlo simulation of molecular systems, including proteins in solution. The design is generic and highly modular, enabling multiple developers to easily implement additional features. The statistical mechanical methods are documented by extensive use of... |
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"abstract": "ABSTRACT Objectives: This paper studies the institutional inequality that exists in the prevalence of diabetes and hypertension, as well as their diagnosis and medication management, between urban and rural residency status (hukou) holders in China. Methods: Exploiting the Chinese Health and Nutrition ... | {
"abstract": "BELL, A. COLIN, KEYOU GE, AND BARRY M. POPKIN. The road to obesity or the path to prevention: motorized transportation and obesity in China. Obes Res. 2002;10:277–283. Objective: Dependence on motorized forms of transportation may contribute to the worldwide obesity epidemic. Shifts in transportation p... | {
"abstract": "Traditional method of test paper generation is time-consuming, low efficient and low success. In order to improve the success rate of test paper, the paper puts forward an ant colony algorithm of automatic sets method. First, a mathematical model of constraint is built according to the requires of pape... |
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"abstract": "Two-point topological charge correlation functions of several types of geometric singularity in Gaussian random fields are calculated explicitly, using a general scheme: zeros of n-dimensional random vectors, signed by the sign of their Jacobian determinant; critical points (gradient zeros) of real sca... | {
"abstract": "We consider the signed density of the extremal points of (two-dimensional) scalar fields with a Gaussian distribution. We assign a positive unit charge to the maxima and minima of the function and a negative one to its saddles. At first, we compute the average density for a field in half-space with Dir... | {
"abstract": "Segments of two given curves can be blended to produce a segment of a new curve. Blending can provide a smooth transition from one curve to another and can give various degrees of smoothness at the endpoints of the blend, where the smoothness is measured analogously to parametric continuity C^(^n^) and... |
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"abstract": "In this study, medium-chain fatty acid (MCFA) liposomes were prepared by the film ultrasonic dispersion, modified ethanol injection, and reverse-phase evaporate methods. The results indicated that the liposomes prepared by the thin-film ultrasonic dispersion method had a high entrapment efficiency of 8... | {
"abstract": "The effects of the acyl chain composition of phosphatidylcholines (PCs) on the stability of small unilamellar vesicles during freeze-drying and rehydration in the presence of maltose were studied by monitoring the retention of a trapped marker, calcein, in the internal liposome compartment. In dipalmit... | {
"abstract": "Two fluorescent, m-nitrophenol-substituted difluoroboron dipyrromethene dyes have been designed by nucleophilic substitution reaction of 3,5-dichloro-4,4-difluoro-4-bora-3a,4a-diaza-s-indacene (BODIPY). Nonsymmetric and symmetric probes, that is. BODIPY 1 (with one nitrophenol group at the position 3) ... |
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"abstract": "This study examined effect of a dietary synbiotic supplement on the concentrations of plasma thyroid hormones, expressions of heat shock protein 70 (HSP70), and intestinal histomorphology in broiler chickens exposed to cyclic heat stress (HS). Three hundred and sixty day old male Ross 708 broiler chick... | {
"abstract": "ABSTRACT This study examined the effects of a dietary synbiotic supplement on the behavioral patterns and growth performance of broiler chickens exposed to heat stress (HS). Three hundred sixty 1‐day‐old male Ross 708 broiler chicks were distributed among 24 floor pens (15 chicks per pen); each pen was... | {
"abstract": "Abstract The effects of rumen-protected lysine (RPLys) supplementation on growth performance, plasma amino acid (AA) concentrations and blood biochemical indices were investigated in a 84-d growth trial using 56 Limousin × Fuzhou F1 crossbred bulls (13 mo of age, average initial BW = 372.9 ± 22.4 kg) f... |
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"abstract": "Activity modulation of drug metabolism enzymes can change the biotransformation of chemotherapeutics and cellular responses induced by them. As a result, drug-drug interactions can be modified. Acridinone derivatives, represented here by C-1305 and C-1311, are potent anticancer drugs. Previous studies ... | {
"abstract": "CYP3A4 expression in breast cancer correlates with decreased overall survival, but the mechanisms are unknown. Cytochrome P450 gene profiling by RNAi silencing demonstrates that CYP3A or 2C8 gene expression is specifically required for growth of the breast cancer lines MCF7, T47D, and MDA-MB-231. CYP3A... | {
"abstract": "Remaking Chinese Urban Form: Modernity, Scarcity and Space, 1949-2005, by Duanfang Lu. London: Routledge, 2006. xii + 204 pp. £65.00/US$115.00 (hardcover). The fundamental merit of this book is the emphasis on the renegotiation and increasing fluidity of rural-urban boundaries. In the opening chapter, ... |
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"abstract": "Simple Summary In recent years, therapeutic options for patients with metastatic prostate cancer have improved significantly. However, the efficacy of current immunotherapy strategies in metastatic prostate cancer patients is limited. The prostate cancer tumor microenvironment, which includes immunosup... | {
"abstract": "Heterogeneity and high versatility are the characteristic features of the cells of monocyte-macrophage lineage. The mononuclear phagocyte system, derived from the bone marrow progenitor cells, is primarily composed of monocytes, macrophages, and dendritic cells. In regenerative tissues, a central role ... | {
"abstract": "Due to enormous progress in the areas of auto-stereoscopic 3D displays, digital video broadcast and computer vision algorithms, 3D television (3DTV) has reached a high technical maturity and many people now believe in its readiness for marketing. Experimental prototypes of entire 3DTV processing chains... |
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"abstract": "ABSTRACT Vertebrate proteins that fulfill multiple and seemingly disparate functions are increasingly recognized as vital solutions to maintaining homeostasis in the face of the complex cell and tissue physiology of higher metazoans. However, the molecular adaptations that underpin this increased funct... | {
"abstract": "Nuclear factor kappa B (NF-κB) promotes cell survival in response to genotoxic stress by inducing the expression of anti-apoptotic proteins including Bcl-xL, which protects mitochondria from stress-induced mitochondrial outer membrane permeabilization (MOMP). Here we show that the multifunctional sorti... | {
"abstract": "Alzheimer’s disease (AD), the most frequent type of dementia, is featured by Aβ pathology, neural degeneration and cognitive decline. To date, there is no cure for this disease. Neural stem cell (NSC) transplantation provides new promise for treating AD. Many studies report that intra-hippocampal trans... |
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"abstract": "Oxidative stress-induced damage of the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) and chronic inflammation have been suggested as major contributors to a range of retinal diseases. Here, we examined the effects of oxidative stress on endogenous complement components and proinflammatory and angiogenic responses i... | {
"abstract": "The complement system is reemerging in the last few years not only as key element of innate immunity against pathogens, but also as a main regulator of local adaptive responses, affecting dendritic cells as well as T and B lymphocytes. We review data showing that leucocytes are capable of significant a... | {
"abstract": "STUDY QUESTION\nDoes women's age affect the DNA methylation (DNAm) profile differently in mural granulosa cells (MGCs) from other somatic cells?\n\n\nSUMMARY ANSWER\nAccumulation of epimutations by age and a higher number of age-related differentially methylated regions (DMR) in MGCs were found compare... |
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"abstract": "We performed a systematic review of the clinical, molecular, and biochemical features of polymerase gamma (POLG)–related epilepsy and current evidence on seizure management. Patients were identified from a combined electronic search of articles using Ovid Medline and Scopus databases, published from Ja... | {
"abstract": "Abstract We have identified compound heterozygous missense mutations in POLG1, encoding the mitochondrial DNA polymerase gamma (Pol &ggr;), in 7 children with progressive encephalopathy from 5 unrelated families. The clinical features in 6 of the children included psychomotor regression, refractory sei... | {
"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nParkinson disease (PD) is a degenerative neurological disorder for which no treatment has been shown to slow the progression.\n\n\nOBJECTIVE\nTo determine whether a range of dosages of coenzyme Q10 is safe and well tolerated and could slow the functional decline in PD.\n\n\nDESIGN\nMulticen... |
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"abstract": "Abstract. Temporal variations in the amount of radionuclides released into the atmosphere during the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (FNPS1) accident and their atmospheric and marine dispersion are essential to evaluate the environmental impacts and resultant radiological doses to the public. I... | {
"abstract": "The atmospheric release of (131)I and (137)Cs in the early phase of the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant (FNPP1) accident from March 12 to 14, 2011 was estimated by combining environmental data with atmospheric dispersion simulations under the assumption of a unit release rate (1 Bq h(-1)). For t... | {
"abstract": "FOREWORD Several years after the Three Mile Island accident, in the United States, the Chernobyl accident completely changed the public's perception of nuclear risk. While the first accident provided the impetus to develop new research programmes on nuclear safety, the second, with its human death toll... |
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"abstract": "Emotional reactions and transmissions are crucial to host-tourist interaction yet lacking in research, particularly from the host viewpoint. To deepen understanding of host-tourist interaction, this study took a host perspective to examine emotional contagion from tourists to hosts. By adopting video-v... | {
"abstract": "Emotion recognition has been an active research area with both wide applications and big challenges. This paper presents our effort for the Audio/Visual Emotion Challenge (AVEC2015), whose goal is to explore utilizing audio, visual and physiological signals to continuously predict the value of the emot... | {
"abstract": "PageRank has been the signature unsupervised ranking model for ranking node importance in a graph. One potential drawback of PageRank is that its computation depends only on input graph structures, not considering external information such as the attributes of nodes. This work proposes AttriRank, an un... |
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"abstract": "Vascular Brachytherapy using beta and gamma radiation is the standard care for patients with in-stent restenosis (ISR). The reported incidence of ISR varies from 7-37% of patients who undergo bare metal stent implantation and is dependent on patient characteristics, lesion morphology, and procedural te... | {
"abstract": "Despite the use of new technology and adjunctive pharmacological therapy, in-stent restenosis continues to hamper the outcome of approximately 150,000 patients who undergo stented coronary angioplasty in the US annually. While coronary stenting eliminates elastic recoil and vessel contracture by acting... | {
"abstract": "The spin structure of head-to-head domain walls in Ni80Fe20 structures is studied using high-resolution photoemission electron microscopy. The quantitative phase diagram is extracted from these measurements and found to exhibit two phase boundaries between vortex and transverse domain walls. The result... |
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"abstract": "The accessory soleus muscle (ASM) has been an unusual anatomical variant since its first recordings in Guy's Hospital Reports of the early nineteenth century. Individuals with an ASM may present with symptoms of pain and/or swelling and were often misdiagnosed as soft‐tissue tumors such as hemangioma, ... | {
"abstract": "A case of histologically proven accessory soleus muscle simulating a soft tissue tumour in a young male is reported. The radiological features are demonstrated and reviewed.",
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"title": "The accessory soleus muscle: a case report and review of the literature."
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"abstract": "The incidence of an accessory soleus muscle, according to autopsy studies, ranged from 0.5 to 6.0% of the population. \n \nThe typical presentation is a soft mass in the posteromedial distal third of the leg, which increases in size with physical activity, especially plantar flexion. It is accompanied ... |
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"abstract": "Background: Clinical supervision has been widely used as a tool to improve nurses’ job satisfaction and competence through shared experiences and reflection. This study, which examined job satisfaction before and after a clinical supervision intervention in Primary Health Care (PHC) organisations in Sa... | {
"abstract": "Clinical supervision: a concept analysis Clinical supervision is a commonly discussed concept within nursing. There appears to be a common belief that it is a good thing for nursing. Many practitioners, however, are still unsure what clinical supervision is and what is expected of them. A number of def... | {
"abstract": "Stimulation of epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) by ligand(s) leads to activation of signaling molecules including Stat1 and Stat3, two members of the signal transducers and activators of transcription (STAT) protein family. Activation of Stat1 and Stat3 was constitutive in transformed squamous e... |
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"abstract": "On large problems, reinforcement learning systems must use parame-terized function approximators such as neural networks in order to generalize between similar situations and actions. In these cases there are no strong theoretical results on the accuracy of convergence, and computational results have b... | {
"abstract": "Publisher Summary This chapter discusses reinforcement learning for planning and control. Reinforcement learning is complicated by the fact that the reinforcement, which is in the form of rewards and punishments, is often intermittent and delayed. The controller may perform a long sequence of actions b... | {
"abstract": "Most “weak― learning algorithms, including reinforcement learning methods, have been applied on tasks with single goals. The effort to build more sophisticated learning systems that operate in complex environments will require the ability to handle multiple goals. Methods that allow transfer of learnin... |
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"abstract": "We compare the Nash bargaining solution in a reinsurance syndicate to the competitive equilibrium allocation, focusing on uncertainty and risk aversion. Restricting attention to proportional reinsurance treaties, we find that, although these solution concepts are very different, one may just appear as ... | {
"abstract": "Optimal risk sharing is considered from the perspective of the risk sharing model introduced by Karl Borch in the late 50's. First we introduce, in a modern setting, the main concepts from this theory. These we apply on the risk sharing problem between an insurer and an insurance customer. We motivate ... | {
"abstract": "In various branches of applied mathematics the problem arises of making decisions to reconcile conflicting criteria. One example is the classical statistical problem, where a type 1 error cannot be arbitrarily reduced without increasing the probability for a type 2 error. Another example, quite familia... |
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"abstract": "The Roma population is the largest transnational ethnic minority in Europe, characterized by a linguistic, cultural and historical heterogeneity. Comparative linguistics and genetic studies have placed the origin of European Roma in the Northwest of India. After their migration across Persia, they ente... | {
"abstract": "The Roma people, living throughout Europe and West Asia, are a diverse population linked by the Romani language and culture. Previous linguistic and genetic studies have suggested that the Roma migrated into Europe from South Asia about 1,000–1,500 years ago. Genetic inferences about Roma history have ... | {
"abstract": "Cochin Jews form a small and unique community on the Malabar coast in southwest India. While the arrival time of any putative Jewish ancestors of the community has been speculated to have taken place as far back as biblical times (King Solomon’s era), a Jewish community in the Malabar coast has been do... |
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"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nPrenatal alcohol exposure (PAE) causes neurodevelopmental disability. Clinical and animal studies show gestational iron deficiency (ID) exacerbates PAE's behavioral and growth deficits. In rat, PAE manifests an inability to establish iron homeostasis, increasing hepcidin (maternal and fetal... | {
"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nPrenatal alcohol exposure (PAE) causes neurodevelopmental disabilities, and gestational iron deficiency (ID) selectively worsens learning and neuroanatomical and growth impairments in PAE. It is unknown why ID worsens outcomes in alcohol-exposed offspring.\n\n\nOBJECTIVE\nWe hypothesized th... | {
"abstract": "Prenatal alcohol exposure can cause a range of physical and behavioral alterations; however, the outcome among children exposed to alcohol during pregnancy varies widely. Some of this variation may be due to nutritional factors. Indeed, higher rates of fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD) are observ... |
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"abstract": "resumen El virus de Epstein Barr (VEB) infecta a cerca del 90 % de las personas en la primera década de vida y, como los demás herpes virus, se mantiene en estado de latencia con riesgo de reactivaciones posteriores. La infección por VEB puede tener un curso asintomático o causar mononucleosis infeccio... | {
"abstract": "No agent is implicated in most central nervous system (CNS) infections. To investigate cerebrospinal fluid samples from patients with CNS infections of unknown cause in 1 hospital in Taiwan, we used a staged molecular approach, incorporating techniques including multiplex MassTag PCR, 16S rRNA PCR, DNA... | {
"abstract": "Summary Background Viral meningitis is increasingly recognised, but little is known about the frequency with which it occurs, or the causes and outcomes in the UK. We aimed to determine the incidence, causes, and sequelae in UK adults to improve the management of patients and assist in health service p... |
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"abstract": "Software Requirements Changes is a typical phenomenon in any software development project. Restricting incoming changes might cause user dissatisfaction and allowing too many changes might cause delay in project delivery. Moreover, the acceptance or rejection of the change requests become challenging f... | {
"abstract": "Several factors make empirical research in software engineering particularly challenging as it requires studying not only technology but its stakeholders' activities while drawing concepts and theories from social science. Researchers, in general, agree that selecting a research design in empirical sof... | {
"abstract": "Software datasets play a crucial role in advancing automated software traceability research. They can be used by researchers in different ways to develop or validate new automated approaches. The diversity and quality of the datasets within a research community have a significant impact on the accuracy... |
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"abstract": "Due to the high directionality and short wavelength of laser transmission in space, satellite laser communication can achieve high speed, wide bandwidth, high precision, and high security with no electromagnetic spectrum constraints. It has become a promising direction to construct the laser space netw... | {
"abstract": "Free Space Optical (FSO) communication is the system of transmission of data using a wireless medium, which uses modulated near infrared light beams as carrier wave. Free-space optical communication has gained a lot of popularity as an alternative to radio frequency (RF) communication over the last two... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Magnetic refrigeration (MR) based on the magnetocaloric effect (MCE) is a prime candidate for the next generation of cooling systems. The essential components of magnetic refrigeration are the magnetic field generator and the magnetocaloric material. Although, several permanent magnet systems ... |
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"abstract": "Gate diffusion input (GDI) technique provides the possibility of low power logic gates design with lower number of transistors in a simple structure. In this paper, first the modified GDI (m-GDI) cell is presented by employing carbon nano tube field effect transistor (CNTFET). Then a new configuration ... | {
"abstract": "A new implementation of efficient D-Flip-Flop (DFF) using Gate-Diffusion-Input (GDI) technique is presented. This DFF design allows reducing power-delay product and area of the circuit, while maintaining low complexity of logic design. Performance comparison with other DFF design techniques is presente... | {
"abstract": "Scaling down to deep submicrometer (DSM) technology has made noise a metric of equal importance as compared to power, speed, and area. Smaller feature size, lower supply voltage, and higher frequency are some of the characteristics for DSM circuits that make them more vulnerable to noise. New designs a... |
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"abstract": "In today's technological world the Internet plays a significant role. Internet of Things (IoT) consists of a large number of wireless sensors and wearable sensors known as Things. These sensors are connected devices in a network and generate a vast amount of data. These sensors have limited storage and... | {
"abstract": "Internet of Things (IoT) and its relevant technologies have been attracting the attention of researchers from academia, industry, and government in recent years. However, since the requirements of the IoT are quite different from what the Internet today can offer, several innovative techniques have bee... | {
"abstract": "Vehicle travel time estimation or estimated time of arrival (ETA) is one of the most important location-based services (LBS). It is becoming increasingly important and has been widely used as a basic service in navigation systems and intelligent transportation systems. This paper presents a novel machi... |
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"abstract": "The importance of early fault detection in electric motors has attracted the attention of research groups, as the detection of incipient faults can prevent damage spreading and increase the lifetime of the motor. At present, studies have focused their attention on optimization procedures used for fault... | {
"abstract": "Double frequency tests are used for evaluating stator windings and analyzing the temperature. Likewise, signal injection on induction machines is used on sensorless motor control fields to find out the rotor position. Motor Current Signature Analysis (MCSA), which focuses on the spectral analysis of st... | {
"abstract": "The paper presents a application of wireless sensor network used to diagnose the efficiency of AC electrical machines. It explains the functions of the cell and the constraints which makes it a real tool for industry. The key point of the energy diagnosis consists in determining the electromagnetic tor... |
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"abstract": "Maternal lactation proves crucial for mammals’ nutrition during their early development, influencing the development of adult physiological mechanisms. Its premature termination has been associated with several disorders, but these have been primarily documented in males, when they are most prevalent i... | {
"abstract": "Maternal malnutrition during lactation programmes for overweight and central leptin resistance in adulthood. The inhibition of lactation by maternal treatment with bromocriptine (a prolactin inhibitor) programmes for obesity, hyperleptinaemia and leptin resistance. Here, we evaluated the short- and lon... | {
"abstract": "Single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNPs) in microRNA (miRNA)-binding sites may modulate the posttranscriptional regulation of gene expression and explain individual sensitivity to platinum agents. This study aimed to investigate the impact of SNPs located at 3′-untranslated region (UTR) of MDM4 gene, on c... |
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"abstract": "Background Preterm birth-related complications are the leading cause of death in newborns and children under 5. Health outcomes of preterm newborns can be improved with appropriate use of antenatal corticosteroids (ACSs) to promote fetal lung maturity, tocolytics to delay birth, magnesium sulphate for ... | {
"abstract": "Magnesium sulphate has been demonstrated to be an effective neuroprotectant for babies delivered prematurely (under 37 weeks’ gestational age). Antenatal administration reduces infant mortality and cerebral palsy (CP); however, uptake in the UK has been significantly lower than other countries. A quali... | {
"abstract": "Our goal was to assess whether quantitative fetal fibronectin (qfFN) is associated with spontaneous preterm birth (sPTB) after laser surgery for twin-twin transfusion syndrome (TTTS). qfFN was collected within 24 hours before and after laser surgery. Aims were: (1) To determine if qfFN changed with ope... |
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"abstract": "Language identification at the document level has been considered an almost solved problem in some application areas, but language detectors fail in the social media context due to phenomena such as utterance internal code-switching, lexical borrowings, and phonetic typing; all implying that language i... | {
"abstract": "Recent computational work on Arabic dialect identification has focused primarily on building and annotating corpora written in Arabic script. Arabic dialects however also appear written in Roman script, especially in social media. This paper describes our recent work developing tweet corpora and a toke... | {
"abstract": "Adverse drug reactions (ADRs) induced from high-order drug-drug interactions (DDIs) due to polypharmacy - simultaneous use of multiple drugs - represent a significant public health problem. Unfortunately, computational effects to facilitate future polypharmacy, particularly to assist safe multi-drug pr... |
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"abstract": "Este estudio tuvo como objetivo determinar la tasa de aplicacion y material organico para la eliminacion de nitrogeno y fosforo en los biofiltros operando con las aguas residuales domesticas. Con este fin, un sistema experimental montado consta de 27 biofiltros en el area experimental de la Universidad... | {
"abstract": "Reduction and stabilization of sewage sludge during the clarification of municipal wastewater was synchronously shown to be improved significantly in a pilot-scale vermifiltration using an epigeic earthworm Eisenia fetida. The present study aimed to select a better filter media suited to vermifiltratio... | {
"abstract": "Earthworms feed readily upon sludge components, rapidly converting them into vermicompost, reduce the pathogens to safe levels and ingest the heavy metals. Volume is significantly reduced from 1 m3 of wet sludge (80% moisture) to 0.5 m3 of vermicompost (30% moisture). Earthworms have real potential bot... |
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