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"abstract": "This thesis explores the complex ecological and evolutionary interactions between beak and feather disease virus and one of its hosts the crimson rosella. The work identifies several factors that predict viral infection in wild birds and determines how host population structure influences viral evoluti... | {
"abstract": "Inverse correlations between genetic variability and parasitism are important concerns for conservation biologists. We examined correlations between neutral genetic variability and the presence of antibodies to canine distemper virus (CDV) and feline parvovirus (FPV) in a free-ranging population of rac... | {
"abstract": "Human glycolate oxidase (GO) catalyzes the FMN-dependent oxidation of glycolate to glyoxylate and glyoxylate to oxalate, a key metabolite in kidney stone formation. We report herein the structures of recombinant GO complexed with sulfate, glyoxylate, and an inhibitor, 4-carboxy-5-dodecylsulfanyl-1,2,3-... |
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"abstract": "Abstract. Traditional learning-based boundary extraction algorithms classify each pixel edge separately and then get boundaries from the local decisions of a classifier. However, we propose a supervised learning method for boundary extraction by using edgelets as boundary elements. First, we extract ed... | {
"abstract": "A reliable motion estimation algorithm must function under a wide range of conditions. One regime, which we consider here, is the case of moving objects with contours but no visible texture. Tracking distinctive features such as corners can disambiguate the motion of contours, but spurious features suc... | {
"abstract": "Conformational restriction of previously disclosed acyclic (diphenylethyl)diphenylacetamides led to the discovery of several potent inhibitors of acyl CoA:cholesterol acyltransferase (ACAT). cis-[2-(4-Hydroxyphenyl)-1-indanyl]diphenylacetamide (4a) was the most potent ACAT inhibitor identified (IC50 = ... |
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"abstract": "Mosquito borne diseases are major health burden both in tropical and subtropical regions. The enormous use of insecticides to control mosquitoes causes biomagnification of chemicals in environment and mosquitoes have developed resistance to insecticides. The inefficiency of insecticides to combat mosqu... | {
"abstract": "We present a new computational method of docking pairs of proteins by using spherical polar Fourier correlations to accelerate the search for candidate low‐energy conformations. Interaction energies are estimated using a hydrophobic excluded volume model derived from the notion of “overlapping surface ... | {
"abstract": "Glioblastoma (GBM) is the most commonly diagnosed solid tumor outside the central nervous system. However, genetic factors underlying GBM remain largely unclear. Previous studies indicated that Glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) might play an important role in the aggressiveness of GBM and also con... |
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"abstract": "This study investigates the presence of the Gibson paradox in the transitional countries. The Gibson law has been a source of widespread academic discussion on the dynamics of long-term interest rates and the price level. Today the Gibson law re-emerges on the economic science stage since historically ... | {
"abstract": "This paper uses recent developments in the theory of nonstationary regressors to investigate empirical relationships previously taken to support the Gibson paradox, using quarterly data over the 1957:1-1994:4 period on nominal interest rates and prices for eight European Union countries--Belgium, Denma... | {
"abstract": "The UK textile industry was very prosperous in the past but in the 1970s Britain started to import textile materials from abroad. Since 1990, half of its textile materials have been imported from the EEA (European Economic Area), ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) and North America countrie... |
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"abstract": ": Image-based 3D reconstruction has been a hot topic in computer vision research. Since 3D face model can convey more information, it possesses expansive application prospects in comparison with the 2D face image, such as more precise identity information recognition signs, more accurate emotional expr... | {
"abstract": "3D face reconstruction is a fundamental Computer Vision problem of extraordinary difficulty. Current systems often assume the availability of multiple facial images (sometimes from the same subject) as input, and must address a number of methodological challenges such as establishing dense corresponden... | {
"abstract": "Several factors contribute to the appearance of an object in a visual scene, including pose, illumination, and deformation, among others. Each factor accounts for a source of variability in the data, while the multiplicative interactions of these factors emulate the entangled variability, giving rise t... |
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"abstract": "Significance: The essential roles of thiol compounds as redox signaling mediators and protectors have been established. Recently, the roles of persulfides and polysulfides as mediators involved in numerous physiological processes have been revealed. Recent Advances: Recently, it became possible to dete... | {
"abstract": "Free radical damage of DNA is a well-known process affecting biological tissue under conditions of oxidative stress. Though carbohydrate-derived radicals are generally \"repaired\" by hydrogen transfer from thiols, the reverse possibility, namely hydrogen abstraction by thiyl radicals from carbohydrate... | {
"abstract": "Physical activity impacts functional recovery following stroke in humans, however its effects in experimental animals submitted to chronic cerebral hypoperfusion have not been investigated. The aim of this study was to evaluate the therapeutic potential of exercise, as assessed by cognitive activity in... |
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"abstract": "Abstract A growing number of studies have reported a link between vascular damage and glaucoma based on optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA) imaging. This multitude of studies focused on different regions of interest (ROIs) which offers the possibility to draw conclusions on the most discrim... | {
"abstract": "PurposeTo evaluate the correlation between flow density, as measured by optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA), and structural and functional parameters in patients with open-angle glaucoma.MethodsThirty-four eyes of 34 patients with open-angle glaucoma and 35 eyes of 35 healthy subjects were ... | {
"abstract": "PURPOSE\nTo demonstrate that video-rate spectral domain optical coherence tomography (SDOCT) can qualitatively and quantitatively evaluate optic nerve head (ONH) and retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL) glaucomatous structural changes. To correlate quantitative SDOCT parameters with disc photography and vi... |
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"abstract": "Little is known about the brain mechanisms involved in word learning during infancy and in second language acquisition and about the way these new words become stable representations that sustain language processing. In several studies we have adopted the human simulation perspective, studying the effe... | {
"abstract": "We examined the effects of difficulty of sentential integration on blood oxygenation level-dependent contrast changes. Difficulty of integration was operationalized as the degree to which sentence-final nouns matched the expectations generated by preceding context. Nine young adults read short sentence... | {
"abstract": "Hemisphere differences in lexical processing may be due to asymmetry in the organization of lexical information, in procedures used to access the lexicon, or both. Six lateralized lexical decision experiments employed various types of priming to distinguish among these possibilities. In three controlle... |
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"abstract": "Community ecologists have made great advances in understanding how natural communities can be both diverse and stable by studying communities as interaction networks. However, focus has been on interaction networks aggregated over time, neglecting the consequences of the seasonal organization of intera... | {
"abstract": "A key question of theoretical ecology is which properties of ecosystems favour their stability and help maintaining biodiversity. This question recently reconsidered mutualistic systems, generating intense controversy about the role of mutualistic interactions and their network architecture. Here we sh... | {
"abstract": "Studies of shallow-water hydrothermal vents have been lagging behind their deep-sea counterparts. Hence, the importance of these systems and their contribution to the local and regional diversity and biogeochemistry is unclear. This study analyzes the bacterial community along a transect at the shallow... |
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"abstract": "Abstract An indirect immunofluorescence technique was used to determine the intracellular distribution of regulatory subunits of type I (R I ) and type II (R II ) of cyclic adenosine 3′:5′-monophosphate-dependent protein kinases during different phases of growth of MCF-7 human breast cancer cells. Spec... | {
"abstract": "Publisher Summary This chapter discusses the radioimmunoassay of the regulatory subunit of type I adenosine 3',5'-monophosphate (cAMP) dependent protein kinase. Much evidence has accumulated, suggesting that the mechanisms of action of cAMP in mammalian tissues are mediated by cAMP-dependent protein ki... | {
"abstract": "Correctly assessing a scientist's past research impact and potential for future impact is key in recruitment decisions and other evaluation processes. While a candidate's future impact is the main concern for these decisions, most measures only quantify the impact of previous work. Recently, it has bee... |
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"abstract": "Abstract Azoxystrobin (strobilurin fungicide) and imidacloprid (neonicotinoid insecticide) have been detected in surface waters near treated agricultural, urban, and mixed landscapes. The hazards of pesticide runoff can be prevented through best management practices, including the establishment of dive... | {
"abstract": "Azoxystrobin is a broad-spectrum, systemic and soil-applied fungicide used for crop protection against the four major classes of pathogenic fungi. The use of azoxystrobin use has induced water pollution and ecotoxicological effects upon aquatic organisms, long half-life in soils, as well as heath issue... | {
"abstract": "A method was developed for determining azoxystrobin in banana and cultivation soil using gas chromatography. The dissipation and residue of azoxystrobin in banana fields at GAP conditions were investigated. The average recoveries ranged from 80.3 to 96.0 % with relative standard deviations of 2.9 to 7.... |
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"abstract": "CNS tuberculosis (CNS-TB) is the most deadly form of tuberculous disease accounting for 10% of clinical cases. CNS-TB is characterized by extensive tissue destruction, in which matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) may play a critical role. We investigated the hypothesis that Mycobacterium tuberculosis acti... | {
"abstract": "To investigate the role of the transcription factor nuclear factor kappaB (NFkappaB) in tumor metastasis, we generated a murine lung alveolar carcinoma cell line (Line 1) defective in NFkappaB-signaling by retroviral delivery of a dominant negative inhibitor of NFkappaB. The NFkappaB signal blockade re... | {
"abstract": "In vitro production of erythrocytes in physiologic numbers from human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs) holds great promise for improved transfusion medicine and novel cell therapies. We report here, for the first time, a strategy for scalable and xeno-free differentiation of hematopoietic stem/p... |
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"abstract": "PRKN encodes an E3-ubiquitin-ligase involved in multiple cell processes including mitochondrial homeostasis and autophagy. Previous studies reported alterations of mitochondrial function in fibroblasts from patients with PRKN mutation-associated Parkinson’s disease (PRKN-PD) but have been only conducte... | {
"abstract": "Parkin is a unique, multifunctional ubiquitin ligase whose various roles in the cell, particularly in neurons, are widely thought to be protective. The pivotal role that Parkin plays in maintaining neuronal survival is underscored by our current recognition that Parkin dysfunction represents not only a... | {
"abstract": "Mutations in Parkin (a ubiquitin protein ligase) are involved in autosomal recessive juvenile parkinsonism, but it is not known how they cause nigral cell death. We examined the effect of Parkin overexpression on cellular levels of oxidative damage, antioxidant defenses, nitric oxide production, and pr... |
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"abstract": "Rapid, reliable quantification of MR relaxation parameters T1 and T2 is desirable for many clinical applications. Steady-state sequences such as Spoiled Gradient-Recalled Echo (SPGR) and Dual-Echo Steady-State (DESS) are fast and wellsuited for relaxometry because the signals they produce are quite sen... | {
"abstract": "Rapid, reliable quantification of MR relaxation parameters <inline-formula> <tex-math notation=\"LaTeX\">$\\textit{T}_{1}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> and <inline-formula> <tex-math notation=\"LaTeX\">$\\textit{T}_{2}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> is desirable for many clinical applications. Steady-st... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Ingestion of tellurium (Te), a toxic element, produces paralysis of the hind limbs in weanling rats that is due to temporary, segmental demyelination of the sciatic nerves bilaterally. Weanling rats were fed a 1.1% elemental Te diet and sacrificed at various time points for histological and m... |
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"abstract": "Continuing research efforts in robot-assisted rehabilitation demand more adaptable and inherently soft wearable devices. A wearable rehabilitative device is required to follow the motion of the body and to provide assistive or corrective motions to restore natural movements. Providing the required leve... | {
"abstract": "We have been developing the Robot Mask with shape memory alloy based actuators that follows an approach of manipulating the skin through a minimally obtrusive wires, transparent strips and tapes based pulling mechanism to enhance the expressiveness of the face. For achieving natural looking facial expr... | {
"abstract": "� Abstract—A method for estimating pulse wave velocity (PWV) using circulatory waveform signals derived from multiple photoplethysmograph (PPG) sensors is described. The method employs two wearable in-line PPG sensors placed at a known distance from one another at the ulnar and digital artery. A techni... |
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"abstract": "In mature information societies, sharing data is increasingly recognized as a crucial means to foster their development. However, competing tensions on data control and ownership, limited technical understanding, and the lack of an adequate governance framework pose serious challenges to attempts to sh... | {
"abstract": "The phenomenon of distributed knowledge is well-known in epistemic logic. In this paper, a similar phenomenon in ethics, somewhat neglected so far, is investigated, namely distributed morality. The article explains the nature of distributed morality, as a feature of moral agency, and explores the impli... | {
"abstract": "In this paper we examine the case of Tay, the Microsoft AI chatbot that was launched in March, 2016. After less than 24 hours, Microsoft shut down the experiment because the chatbot was generating tweets that were judged to be inappropriate since they included racist, sexist, and anti-Semitic language.... |
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"abstract": "Many of the virtual reality (VR) interaction devices available to the general public rely on the use of controllers. However, theses ones generate some usability constraints. Current availability of new gestural devices provides a more \"natural\" way to interact in VR, i.e. minimizing cognitive load. ... | {
"abstract": "In this paper, we present a double hand-gesture interaction (DHGI) method for walk-through in VR environment with an Oculus Rift headset and Leap Motion function. The user can control the avatar (first-person view) to move (walk/run) forward or backward by turning the user's left palm upward or downwar... | {
"abstract": "Much has been written on creating personas --- both what they are good for, and how to create them. A common problem with personas is that they are not based on real customer data, and if they are, the data set is not of a sample size that can be considered statistically significant. In this paper, we ... |
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"abstract": "Abstract. The retreat of ice shelves and glaciers over the last century provides unequivocal evidence of recent global warming. Glacierets (miniature glaciers) and ice patches are important components of the cryosphere that highlight the global retreat of glaciers, but knowledge of their behaviour prio... | {
"abstract": "AROUND Mt Castleguard, Banff National Park in the Rocky Mountains of Canada, we have found extensive deposits of a calcite precipitate which show striking morphological characteristics and which undoubtedly have formed at the soles of glaciers. They are analogous to travertine crusts in limestone caver... | {
"abstract": "The simple and effective cross-talk isolation structure consists of an isolator and a collector, and is placed in the epitaxial layer between the CMOS structure and the power device. Results show that, with the use of the isolation structure, operating current of the body diode of the LDMOST can be imp... |
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"abstract": "The presence of pharmaceutically active compounds (PACs) in the environment and their associated hazards is a major global health concern; however, data on these compounds are scarce in developing nations. In the present study, the existence of 39 non‐antimicrobial PACs and six of their metabolites in ... | {
"abstract": "Concentrations and percent loadings of pharmaceutically active compounds (PhACs) and other emerging contaminants released from healthcare facilities (2 hospitals and a long‐term care facility) to a sewage treatment plant (STP) in a large urban sewershed were evaluated. An additional hospital outside th... | {
"abstract": "It is generally accepted that the main route for human pharmaceuticals to the aquatic environment is via sewage treatment plants receiving wastewater from households and hospitals. We have analysed pharmaceuticals in the effluent from a wastewater treatment plant serving about 90 bulk drug manufacturer... |
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"abstract": "Conventional imaging, also known as Low Dynamic Range (LDR), is not capable of delivering the real world’s range of colours and intensities. High dynamic range (HDR) imaging overcomes such limitations allowing the capture, storage and delivery of information that can match and indeed exceed the dynamic... | {
"abstract": "From moonlight to bright sun shine, real world visual scenes contain a very wide range of luminance; they are said to be High Dynamic Range (HDR). Our visual system is well adapted to explore and analyze such a variable visual content. It is now possible to acquire such HDR contents with digital camera... | {
"abstract": "Niskanen's economic model of bureaucratic behavior assumes that bureaucratic agenda control allows the bureau to impose upon a passive legislature its most preferred alternative from among the set of alternatives that dominate the status quo. But does a monopoly on the agenda give bureaus this degree o... |
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"abstract": "Repair processing plays an important role in spoken language processing systems. This paper proposes a method for correcting Chinese repetition repairs and demonstrates the effects of repair processing in Chinese homophone disambiguation. The experimental results show that the precision rate of 93.87% ... | {
"abstract": "Various strategies are proposed to identify and classify three types of proper nouns in Chinese texts. Clues from character, sentence and paragraph levels are employed to resolve Chinese personal names. Character, Syllable and Frequency Conditions are presented to treat transliterated personal names. T... | {
"abstract": "A systematic review was performed with the aim of describing the landscape and evolution of cost-effectiveness studies in health in Brazil. The search for articles on cost-effectiveness was performed in the main electronic health databases. The review identified 83 cost-effectiveness studies conducted ... |
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"abstract": "Mutation may impose a substantial load on populations, which varies according to the reproductive mode of organisms. Over the past years, various authors used adaptive landscape models to predict the long‐term effect of mutation on mean fitness; however, many of these studies assumed very weak mutation... | {
"abstract": "One of the assumptions underlying many theoretical predictions in evolutionary biology concerns the distribution of the fitness effect of mutations. Approximations to this distribution have been derived using various theoretical approaches, of which Fisher's geometrical model is among the most popular ... | {
"abstract": "The CYCLOIDEA (CYC) and DICHOTOMA (DICH) genes encode related TCP transcription factors that control floral asymmetry in Antirrhinum majus. Analysis of sequences from relatives of Antirrhinum suggested that CYC and DICH arose from a gene duplication in an ancestor of the tribe Antirrhineae and have sub... |
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"abstract": "Understanding neural models is a major topic of interest in the deep learning community. In this paper, we propose to interpret a general neural model comparatively. Specifically, we study the sequence-to-sequence (Seq2Seq) model in the contexts of two mainstream NLP tasks–machine translation and dialo... | {
"abstract": "While neural networks have been successfully applied to many NLP tasks the resulting vector-based models are very difficult to interpret. For example it's not clear how they achieve {\\em compositionality}, building sentence meaning from the meanings of words and phrases. In this paper we describe four... | {
"abstract": "Recent years have produced great advances in training large, deep neural networks (DNNs), including notable successes in training convolutional neural networks (convnets) to recognize natural images. However, our understanding of how these models work, especially what computations they perform at inter... |
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"abstract": "To exceed the capacity limitation of the surface-recording method of current optical data storage, the third dimension is introduced with photorefractive materials. Photorefractive materials are suitable for three-dimensional data storage in conjunction with nonlinear optical systems such as the two-ph... | {
"abstract": "We describe the use of two-photon absorption in a photorefractive crystal for recording bit data in multilayered optical memory. A short-pulse near-infrared laser is used for generating the photorefractive effect by two-photon absorption. We succeeded in recording and reading seven layers of data in a ... | {
"abstract": "We demonstrate a novel method for providing a capped sharp probe for a scanning probe microscope based on the extraction of the inner shell of the multiwall nanotube using a combination of well-controlled electrical breakdown and manipulation processes inside the scanning electron microscope. The measu... |
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"abstract": "Scalable Routing for Networks of Dynamic Substrates Boris Drazic Master of Applied Science Graduate Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Toronto 2014 The ever-increasing number of devices capable of, not only connecting to existing communication networks, but also, independen... | {
"abstract": "Should researchers focus on designing new network architectures or improving the current Internet?",
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"abstract": "Real-time file sharing is important to improve the quality of cloud services. Current cloud systems however fail to efficiently offer cost-effective data analytics due to slow response and energy inefficiency. In order to support real-time processing and improve energy efficiency in the cloud, this pap... |
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"abstract": "\n \n Real-Time Strategy games have become a popular test-bed for modern AI system due to their real-time computational constraints, complex multi-unit control problems, and imperfect information. One of the most important aspects of any RTS AI system is the efficient control of units in complex combat... | {
"abstract": "We consider scenarios from the real-time strategy game StarCraft as new benchmarks for reinforcement learning algorithms. We propose micromanagement tasks, which present the problem of the short-term, low-level control of army members during a battle. From a reinforcement learning point of view, these ... | {
"abstract": "In this paper, the comparison between simulation and experimental results of a fuel cell that is powered a DC motor by using Proportional, Integral, and Derivative (PID) controller has been studied and tested. The experimental set-up is done at Memorial University Laboratory to compare and validate the... |
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"abstract": "Musk is one of the most important and often used group of fragrances in perfumery. Due to the high cost and uncertainty of supply of the original natural musk, this has been replaced many decades ago by synthetic musks with fragrance and other properties similar to those of the natural substances. The ... | {
"abstract": "Bioaccumulation of polycyclic musks (HHCB, AHTN) and nitro musks (musk xylene, musk ketone, and their amino metabolites) in aquatic biota was investigated by analyzing 18 fish samples (rudd, tench, crucian carp, eel) and 1 pooled zebra mussel sample from the pond of a municipal sewage treatment plant. ... | {
"abstract": "Polycyclic musks, 1,3,4,6,7,8-hexahydro-4,6,6,7,8,8-hexamethylcyclopenta[g]-2-benzopyran (HHCB) and 7-acetyl-1,1,3,4,4,6-hexamethyl-1,2,3,4-tetrahydronaphthalene (AHTN), are used as fragrance ingredients in numerous consumer products such as cleaning agents and personal care products. Studies have repo... |
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"abstract": "The authors would like to thank Conselleria de Educacion (Spain) for ACIF/2010/172 Predoctoral Research Training Grant.",
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"title": "Monitoring the oxidative stability and volatiles in blanched, roasted and fried almonds under normal and accelerated storage conditions by DSC, ... | {
"abstract": "Aflatoxigenic aspergilli inflict major economic damage to the tree nut industry of California, with the highest negative impact to almonds. Aspergilli and fungi in general are known to emit volatiles in varying quantity and composition dependent upon their growth media. The goal of the study was to det... | {
"abstract": "Consumption of edible oils derived from conventional crop plants is increasing because they are generally regarded as healthier alternatives to animal-based fats and oils. More recently, there has been increased interest in the use of alternative specialty plant-derived oils, including those from tree ... |
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"abstract": " People infected with HIV who are unaware of their HIV status may be driving the epidemic in high-risk populations.(1) Interventions that promote the uptake of HIV testing among men who have sex with men and members of other groups at high risk have the potential to increase early diagnoses, thereby g... | {
"abstract": "Latinos in the United States are disproportionately impacted by HIV/AIDS. They accounted for 20.4% of the AIDS cases reported in 2003, despite the fact that they represent 13.3% of the civilian non-institutional population of the United States. Thus it is important to identify ways to increase HIV test... | {
"abstract": "CONTEXT\nThe efficacy of counseling to prevent infection with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and other sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) has not been definitively shown.\n\n\nOBJECTIVE\nTo compare the effects of 2 interactive HIV/STD counseling interventions with didactic prevention messages... |
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"abstract": "Single-phase dual-buck ac–ac (DBAC) converters are gaining attention due to their intrinsic protection from shoot-through and open-circuit problems of conventional ac–ac converters. However, research works on DBAC converters are mainly concentrated around unipolar topologies. In a few developed bipolar... | {
"abstract": "This paper proposes a high-performance transformerless single-stage high step-up ac-dc matrix converter based on Cockcroft-Walton (CW) voltage multiplier. Deploying a four-bidirectional-switch matrix converter between the ac source and CW circuit, the proposed converter provides high quality of line co... | {
"abstract": "We explore how computational ontologies can be impactful vis-a-vis the developing discipline of \"data science.\" We posit an approach wherein management theories are represented as formal axioms, and then applied to draw inferences about data that reside in corporate databases. That is, management the... |
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"abstract": "Social media popularity and importance is on the increase, due to people using it for various types of social interaction across multiple channels. This social interaction by online users includes submission of feedback, opinions and recommendations about various individuals, entities, topics, and even... | {
"abstract": "We present an approach to brand-related Twitter sentiment analysis using feature engineering and the Dynamic Architecture for Artificial Neural Networks (DAN2). The approach addresses challenges associated with the unique characteristics of the Twitter language, and the recall of mild sentiment express... | {
"abstract": "With the advent of Big Data technologies, organizations can efficiently store and analyze more data than ever before. However, extracting maximal value from this data can be challenging for many reasons. For example, datasets are often not stored using human-understandable terms, making it difficult fo... |
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"abstract": "The X-ray signal from hydrogen-rich supernovae (SNe II) in the first tens to hundreds of days after the shock breakout encodes important information about the circumstellar material (CSM) surrounding their progenitors before explosion. In this study, we describe a way to generate SN II X-ray light curv... | {
"abstract": "We present the SuperNova Explosion Code (SNEC), an open-source Lagrangian code for the hydrodynamics and equilibrium-diffusion radiation transport in the expanding envelopes of supernovae. Given a model of a progenitor star, an explosion energy, and an amount and distribution of radioactive nickel, SNE... | {
"abstract": "BackgroundAlternative splicing (AS) is a post-transcriptional regulatory mechanism for gene expression regulation. Splicing decisions are affected by the combinatorial behavior of different splicing factors that bind to multiple binding sites in exons and introns. These binding sites are called splicin... |
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"abstract": "Abstract Purpose Although Kinesio Taping has been extensively used, evidence about the effect of Kinesio Taping is still insufficient. The aim is to determine the effect of Kinesio Taping on elbow joint torque and muscle activity in time and frequency domains. Materials and Methods Thirty-eight healthy... | {
"abstract": "INTRODUCTION\nKinesio taping consists of the attachment of a thin elastic tape over specific muscles, the thickness of which is similar to that of the epidermis.\n\n\nOBJECTIVE\nThe aim of the present study was to compare the effect of Kinesio taping and placebo taping on muscle torque, muscle activity... | {
"abstract": "Anterior knee pain syndrome (AKPS) represents a significant challenge for the sports medicine clinician. One proposed etiological factor for AKPS is poor vastus medialis obliquus (VMO) control, resulting in lateral glide of the patella. Patella taping has been advocated to increase VMO control. The pur... |
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"abstract": "In the brain, mutual spatial alignment across different sensory representations can be shaped and maintained through plasticity. Here, we use a Hebbian model to account for the synaptic plasticity that results from a displacement of the space representation for one input channel relative to that of ano... | {
"abstract": "In the midbrain auditory localization pathway of the barn owl, a map of auditory space is relayed from the external nucleus of the inferior colliculus (ICX) to the deep and intermediate layers of the optic tectum (OT) and from these layers to the superficial layers. Within the OT, the auditory space ma... | {
"abstract": "We have studied the mechanism of contour perception by recording from neurons in the visual cortex of alert rhesus monkeys. We used stimuli in which human observers perceive anomalous contours: A moving pair of notches in 2 bright rectangles mimicked an overlaying dark bar. For control, the notches wer... |
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"abstract": "In this work, a methodology to address the low-frequency stability issues common to electric-field integral equation (EFIE)-based 3-D full-wave electromagnetic solvers is presented. The proposed formulation uses a separated potential integral equation (SPIE) approach which appends scaled electric scala... | {
"abstract": "The partial element equivalent circuit (PEEC) formulation is an integral equation based approach for the solution of combined electromagnetic and circuit (EM-CKT) problems. In this paper, the low-frequency behavior of the PEEC matrix is investigated. Traditional EM solution methods, like the method of ... | {
"abstract": "This article presents new developments in the method of moments (MOM). IT describes some variants of this method which deal with general bodies composed of metallic and dielectric structures. Some procedures are presented which combine the method of moments with analytical methods in order to solve add... |
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"abstract": "ABSTRACT What is being sustained in education for sustainable development (ESD)? Drawing on biopolitical theory, this article puts forth the hypothesis that it is in fact the very life-chance gulf that separates wealthy ‘sustainable’ mass consumers from poor ‘sustainable’ subsistence-level populations.... | {
"abstract": "This article explores biopolitical effects of water governance. Based on narrative interviews with water users in eThekwini municipality, South Africa the article inquires into how water service delivery matters in terms of people’s lives. What we learn by paying close attention to the water users’ nar... | {
"abstract": "The success of Wikipedia and the relative high quality of its articles seem to contradict conventional wisdom. Recent studies have begun shedding light on the processes contributing to Wikipedia's success, highlighting the role of coordination and contribution inequality. In this study, we expand on th... |
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"abstract": "Birkedal et al. have recently designed a logical relation for showing the correctness of program transformations for a concurrent language with higher-order functions as well as dynamic memory allocation. In particular a Parallelization Theorem is proved, expressing when running two expressions in para... | {
"abstract": "We present a logical relation for showing the correctness of program \ntransformations based on a new type-and-effect system for a concurrent \nextension of an ML-like language with higher-order functions, \nhigher-order store and dynamic memory allocation. \n \nWe show how to use our model to verify a... | {
"abstract": "We give a semantics to a polymorphic effect analysis that tracks possibly-thrown exceptions and possible non-termination for a higher-order language. The semantics is defined using partial equivalence relations over a standard monadic, domain-theoretic model of the original language and establishes the... |
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"abstract": "Early designs of mobile ad-hoc networks (MANETs) assumed they could be scaled to very large topologically flat networks where every node in the network has equal capability and access to the wireless channel. This assumption was called into question in 2000 by Gupta and Kumar [1] who established an asy... | {
"abstract": "Simulation and emulation are valuable techniques for the evaluation of algorithms and protocols used in mobile ad-hoc networks. However, these techniques always require the simplification of real-world properties such as radio characteristics or node mobility. It has been shown that this may lead to re... | {
"abstract": "Academic research in the field of recommender systems mainly focuses on the problem of maximizing the users' utility by trying to identify the most relevant items for each user. However, such items are not necessarily the ones that maximize the utility of the service provider (e.g., an online retailer)... |
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"abstract": "Traditional object recognition algorithms are based on a common close-set hypothesis where the robot has complete knowledge during the training stage. However, in reality, we only have incomplete knowledge in the training dataset. This paper deals with one case of incomplete knowledge where new object ... | {
"abstract": "Often, when dealing with real-world recognition problems, we do not need, and often cannot have, knowledge of the entire set of possible classes that might appear during operational testing. In such cases, we need to think of robust classification methods able to deal with the\"unknown\"and properly re... | {
"abstract": "Paper describes an investigation of simplified neocognitron neural network model as a tool for practical recognition of handwritten mark images. Simplification of neocognitron structure from only two stages and fixed number of feature-extraction planes is proposed, the overall stages of solving practic... |
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"abstract": "Background The ability to identify high risk head and neck cancer (HNC) patients with disseminated disease prior to presenting with clinically detectable metastases holds remarkable potential. A fraction of circulating tumour cells (CTCs) are invasive cancer cells which mediate metastasis by intravasat... | {
"abstract": "Head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) is the sixth most common cancer with 650,000 new cases p/a worldwide. HNSCC causes high morbidity with a 5‐year survival rate of less than 60%, which has not improved due to the lack of early detection (Bozec et al. Eur Arch Otorhinolaryngol. 2013;270: 2745... | {
"abstract": "To provide a device releasing 5‐fluorouracil in a controlled manner and injectable into the brain by stereotaxy, biodegradable poly ((±)‐lactide‐co‐glycolide) (PLAGA) microparticles were prepared by an emulsion‐extraction process.",
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"abstract": "In this paper, the detection and tracking of face, mouth, hands and medication bottles in the context of medication intake monitoring with a camera is presented. This is aimed at recognizing medication intake for elderly in their home setting to avoid an inappropriate use. Background subtraction is use... | {
"abstract": "Skin color has proven to be a useful and robust cue for face detection, localization and tracking. Image content filtering, content-aware video compression and image color balancing applications can also benefit from automatic detection of skin in images. Numerous techniques for skin color modelling an... | {
"abstract": "Human face detection has become an area of interest in various biometric applications such as crowd surveillance, human–computer interaction, and many security related areas. It is a major field of current research because there is no deterministic algorithm to find the face(s) in a given image. Face d... |
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"abstract": "The Robert A. Millikan Library is a reinforced concrete building with a basement level and nine stories above the ground. Located on the campus of California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena California, it is among the most densely instrumented buildings in the U.S. From the early dates of... | {
"abstract": "A previously explored method for one‐dimensional structural system identification and earthquake damage detection in buildings, based on measuring wave travel time through the structure and its changes, is formalized, and its spatial resolution and accuracy are analyzed. The method identifies the veloc... | {
"abstract": "Abstract High-performance Cu(InGa)Se 2 (CIGS) thin-film absorbers with an intentionally graded band-gap structure have been fabricated by a simple two-stage method using In/Cu–Ga/Mo stacked precursors and H 2 Se gas. Additional sulfurization step to form a thin Cu(InGa)(SeS) 2 (CIGSS) surface layer on ... |
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"abstract": "We present a novel model of grass, which fully integrates shoot morphogenesis and the metabolism of carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) at organ scale, within a 3D representation of plant architecture. Plant morphogenesis is seen as a self-regulated system driven by two main mechanisms. First, the rate of orga... | {
"abstract": "Background and Aims\nIndividual-based models (IBMs) are promising tools to disentangle plant interactions in multi-species grasslands and foster innovative species mixtures. This study describes an IBM dealing with the morphogenesis, growth and C-N acquisition of forage legumes that integrates plastic ... | {
"abstract": "Altitude-related climatic factors, especially temperature, are important factors that affect tree growth in mountain forest ecosystems. The aims of this study were to estimate the intra-annual radial growth differences of Larix principis-rupprechtii (L. principis-rupprechtii) between its upper and lowe... |
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"abstract": "Due to their open and anonymous nature, online social networks are particularly vulnerable to Sybil attacks. In recent years, there has been a rising interest in leveraging social network topological structures to combat Sybil attacks. Unfortunately, due to their strong dependency on unrealistic assump... | {
"abstract": "In this paper, on the one hand, we aim to give a review on literature dealing with the problem of supervised learning aided by additional unlabeled data. On the other hand, being a part of the author's first year PhD report, the paper serves as a frame to bundle related work by the author as well as nu... | {
"abstract": "The nearest neighbor decision rule assigns to an unclassified sample point the classification of the nearest of a set of previously classified points. This rule is independent of the underlying joint distribution on the sample points and their classifications, and hence the probability of error R of su... |
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"abstract": "Let t(n,s) and t(n,k,s), respectively, be the number of partitions of n with s different sizes, and the number of partitions of n with exactly k parts and s different sizes. In this article, an asymptotic estimate for t(n,k,s) is presented for the following two cases: (i) s = k − 1 and (ii) when k is a... | {
"abstract": "A partition of a non-negative integer n is a way of writing n as a sum of a nondecreasing sequence of parts. The present paper provides the number of partitions of an integer n into parts of a specified number of different sizes. We establish new formulas for such partitions with particular interest to... | {
"abstract": "Let t(n,s) and t(n,k,s), respectively, be the number of partitions of n with s different sizes, and the number of partitions of n with exactly k parts and s different sizes. In this article, an asymptotic estimate for t(n,k,s) is presented for the following two cases: (i) s = k − 1 and (ii) when k is a... |
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"abstract": "The influence of sedative doses of propofol or nitrous oxide on the electroencephalogram was studied in 11 mentally handicapped patients with treated epilepsy undergoing dental procedures. At one session, propofol was titrated to achieve conscious sedation. The mean (+/- SD) dose requirements were 5.5 ... | {
"abstract": "Propofol by continuous intravenous infusion was used as an alternative to nitrous oxide/oxygen for conscious sedation in 19 patients undergoing out-patient dental treatment. Patients were either extremely anxious or mentally and/or physically handicapped. Propofol was administered by a syringe pump at ... | {
"abstract": "&NA; PFS, MPS and TMPDS can be identified using positive diagnostic criteria among patients presenting with chronic pain. A directed rather than exhaustive search for organic diseases known to coexist with these syndromes is usually all that is necessary. Criteria are presently empirical but do identif... |
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"abstract": "Map matching is a fundamental operation in many applications such as traffic analysis and location-aware services, the killer apps for ubiquitous computing. In past, several map matching approaches have been proposed. Roughly, they can be categorized into four groups: geometric, topological, probabilis... | {
"abstract": "Graph matching is a classical problem in pattern recognition with many applications, particularly when the graphs are embedded in Euclidean spaces, as is often the case for computer vision. There are several variants of the matching problem, concerned with isometries, isomorphisms, homeo-morphisms, and... | {
"abstract": "Abstract We propose that, for the task of object recognition, the visual system decomposes shapes into parts, that it does so using a rule defining part boundaries rather than part shapes, that the rule exploits a uniformity of nature—transversality, and that parts with their descriptions and spatial r... |
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"abstract": "Zusammenfassung Einleitung Eine optimale Zytoreduktion ist der wichtigste Prognosefaktor beim fortgeschrittenen Ovarialkarzinom. Obwohl Stadieneinteilung und Einschätzung der Operabilität durch Explorativ-Operation erfolgen, gilt die präoperative Computertomografie (CT) des Abdomens als Standard. Ziel ... | {
"abstract": "Objective Postoperative residual tumor is the major prognostic factor in ovarian cancer. The feasibility of complete cytoreductive surgery is assessed by laparoscopy. Our goal was to develop a predictive score prior to laparoscopy to evaluate the feasibility of complete cytoreductive surgery in patient... | {
"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nThe relevance of laparoscopy-based score in identifying patients with advanced ovarian cancer for optimal cytoreductive surgery has been evaluated.\n\n\nMETHODS\n55 patients with stage III-IV ovarian cancer, having undergone both laparoscopy and laparotomy for cytoreductive surgery, were re... |
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"abstract": "Abstract: Species of Ribeiroia use planorbid snails as intermediate host. Since there is little information about these digenean parasites in South America, we aimed to assess whether Ribeiroia cercariae from 3 north Argentina locations belonged to the same species and differed from Ribeiroia cercaria... | {
"abstract": "Genetic differentiation between two synonymous echinostomes species, Artyfechinostomum malayanum and Artyfechinostomum sufrartyfex was determined by using the first and second internal transcribed spacers (ITS1 and ITS2), the non-coding region of rDNA as genetic makers. Of the 699 bp of combined ITS1 a... | {
"abstract": "Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) transcriptional transactivator (Tat) recruits the positive transcription elongation factor b (P-TEFb) to the viral promoter. Consisting of cyclin dependent kinase 9 (Cdk9) and cyclin T1, P-TEFb phosphorylates RNA polymerase II and the negative transcription e... |
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"abstract": "DNA mutations are the cause of many human diseases and they are the reason for natural differences among individuals by affecting the structure, function, interactions, and other properties of DNA and expressed proteins. The ability to predict whether a given mutation is disease-causing or harmless is ... | {
"abstract": "Protein destabilization is a common mechanism by which amino acid substitutions cause human diseases. In this study, a new machine learning method has been developed for sequence-based prediction of protein stability changes upon single amino acid substitutions. Support vector machines were trained wit... | {
"abstract": "Alasdair MacIntyre′s book After Virtue is used as the basis to reflect on possibilities for virtue in accounting and some problems in its realisation. MacIntyre advances a neo‐Aristotelean account of virtue that is grounded in practice and which focuses on the unique internal rewards of a practice. Acc... |
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"abstract": "Background Patients with lung cancer are at increased risk for the development of cardiovascular diseases. Molecular markers for early diagnosis of cardiac ischemia are of great significance for the early prevention of cardiovascular events in patients with lung cancer. By evaluating the relationship b... | {
"abstract": "Adrenomedullin (AM) is a vasodilatory peptide originally discovered in human pheochromocytoma tissue. Although AM is highly expressed in the adrenal glands, heart, lungs, and kidneys, vascular endothelium and smooth muscle are thought to be the main source of plasma AM. The AM precursor is processed to... | {
"abstract": "Adrenomedullin (ADM) has beneficial effects on Leydig cells under pathological conditions, including lipopolysaccharide (LPS)‐induced orchitis. Our previous studies demonstrated that ADM exerts a restorative effect on steroidogenesis in LPS‐treated primary rat Leydig cells by attenuating oxidative stre... |
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"abstract": "Subspace techniques such as Krylov subspace methods have been well known and extensively used in 7 numerical linear algebra. They are also ubiquitous and becoming indispensable tools in nonlinear opti8 mization due to their ability to handle large scale problems. There are generally two types of princi... | {
"abstract": "The power of density functional theory is often limited by the high computational demand in solving an eigenvalue problem at each self-consistent-field (SCF) iteration. The method presented in this paper replaces the explicit eigenvalue calculations by an approximation of the wanted invariant subspace,... | {
"abstract": "Protein adsorption on biomaterial surfaces is clinically applied to increase therapeutic effects; however, this adsorption is possibly accompanied by conformational changes and results in loss of protein bioactivity or adverse reactions. In this research, a transforming growth factor β1 (TGF-β1) affini... |
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"abstract": "When civil wars are resolved via negotiated settlement, peace-agreement provisions like power-sharing agreements and third-party security guarantees often are advocated for their purported benefits of ensuring a long-lasting and durable peace. Although scholars have explored the effects of peace-agreem... | {
"abstract": "This article focuses on the role that power-sharing arrangements play in making it possible for some countries to make the transition to democracy successfully after civil war. The authors hypothesize that the adoption of multiple forms of power sharing, measures constructed to end particularly difficu... | {
"abstract": "Usually, great challenges lie ahead of any postconflict government, especially in states that have historically been under dictatorship, like Libya. It has been six years since the violent regime change that took place in Libya in 2011, yet no signs of improvement is foreseen in public service delivery... |
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"abstract": "SCOPE\nOxidative imbalance plays a key role in cancer induction and cardiovascular diseases (CVD) in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). The aim of this study is to find out if gallic acid (GA) prevents oxidative stress in diabetic patients. Therefore, we investigate its impact on oxidation ... | {
"abstract": "Because of the intimate association of obesity with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), during the last two decades, extensive research work is being conducted to find out whether the coexistence of the two is a simple association or there is a positive correlating link between the two. In this article, a... | {
"abstract": "SCOPE\nOxidative imbalance plays a key role in cancer induction and cardiovascular diseases (CVD) in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). The aim of this study is to find out if gallic acid (GA) prevents oxidative stress in diabetic patients. Therefore, we investigate its impact on oxidation ... |
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"abstract": "Strategies for Growing and Sustaining Successful Small Businesses by Patrick Modilim MBA, University of Lagos, 1996 BS, University of Lagos, 1988 Doctoral Study Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Business Administration Walden University December 2016 Abstr... | {
"abstract": "This study sets out to investigate the impact of technological, infrastructure and financial supports on the performance of small and medium scale enterprises (SMEs) in Nigeria. Because of the largeness of the number of SMEs in different sectors of Nigeria, the coverage of the research work is narrowed... | {
"abstract": "Traditional economic models typically treat private information, or signals, as generated from some underlying state. Recent work has explicated alternative models, where signals correspond to interpretations of available information. We show that the difference between these formulations can be sharpl... |
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"abstract": "Ten years ago, higher education boasted about its prosperity and success while at the same time focusing on the problems of the times: changes in the demographics of the college population, the competition, the economy, and our social and political attitudes. The specifics of today's problems may be ve... | {
"abstract": "At Washington State University's College of Business and Economics (CBE) a strategic planning program was introduced using a focus on the student as the .7.,roduct and the potential employers as the customers of the product. Using this approach the focus of planning is redirected with future employers ... | {
"abstract": "With the dismantling of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the implosion of the USSR in 1991, the Cold War era has ended. Immediately, a new economic struggle begins. Three economic superpowers emerge, each playing the game of capitalism in a strikingly different manner. And, for the first time, the United St... |
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"abstract": "This paper deals with the controversial indirect land use changes of the European biodiesel policy. Two studies sponsored by the European Commission finds significant, but contrasted, land use effects for the different vegetable oils used for biodiesel production. The first study uses an aggregate comp... | {
"abstract": "Parameters that characterize markets for livestock feed ingredients and inform an increasing array of policies motivated by a range of environmental, market, and animal disease issues are largely absent from the literature, which necessitates the use of often misleading assumptions in analyses of propo... | {
"abstract": "With an increase in the US focus on biorenewable energy, more forces are competing for agricultural land. This structural change in the agricultural economy warrants re-examination of the relationships between agricultural production decisions and the factors which influence those decisions. However, r... |
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"abstract": "The unmanned tilt-wing cargo aircraft using distributed propulsors is an emerging aircraft significantly different from traditional types. This paper proposes an aerodynamic, propulsion, noise, weight integrated optimization design method for this new aircraft. The method consists of several functional... | {
"abstract": "This paper deals with the design of a Model Predictive Control (MPC) approach for the altitude and attitude stabilization and tracking of a Quad Tilt Wing (QTW) type of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). This Vertical Take-Off and Landing (VTOL) aircraft can take-off and landing vertically such as helico... | {
"abstract": "The aim of this research survey note is to provide a comprehensive overview of Smart Home Environments with a focus on their architectures and application areas, as well as utilized technologies, infrastructures, and standards. The main source of information was provided by past and existing research a... |
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"abstract": "ABSTRACT As with sharks and horseshoe crabs, some designs of nature need only minor evolutionary adjustments during the millennia to remain superbly adapted. Such is the case at the molecular level for the nuclear receptors (NRs), which seem to have originated concomitantly with the earliest metazoan l... | {
"abstract": "The orphan nuclear receptor estrogen-related receptor-γ (ERRγ) is a constitutively active transcription factor regulating genes involved in several important cellular processes, including hepatic glucose metabolism, alcohol metabolism, and the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress response. cAMP responsive... | {
"abstract": "LEM domain (LEM-D) proteins are conserved components of the nuclear lamina (NL) that contribute to stem cell maintenance through poorly understood mechanisms. The Drosophila emerin homolog Otefin (Ote) is required for maintenance of germline stem cells (GSCs) and gametogenesis. Here, we show that ote m... |
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"abstract": "For Poisson-Delaunay triangulations in <inline-formula> <tex-math notation=\"LaTeX\">$d$ </tex-math></inline-formula>-dimensional Euclidean space <inline-formula> <tex-math notation=\"LaTeX\">$\\mathbb {R}^{d}$ </tex-math></inline-formula>, a structured and computationally efficient form of the probabi... | {
"abstract": "In this letter, we focus on the performance of a worst-case mobile user (MU) in the downlink cellular network. We derive the coverage probability and the spectral efficiency of the worst-case MU using stochastic geometry. Through analytical and numerical results, we draw out interesting insights that t... | {
"abstract": "It is well known that symbol timing offsets larger than the cyclic prefix as well as carrier frequency offsets between transmitter and receiver stations destroy the orthogonality among OFDM subcarriers and induce additional interference. In conjunction with MIMO transmission on frequency selective fadi... |
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"abstract": "Previously, five putative quantitative trait loci (QTLs) for low-temperature germination (LTG) have been detected using 96 BC3F8 lines derived from an interspecific cross between the Korean japonica cultivar “Hwaseong” and Oryza rufipogon. In the present study, two introgression lines, CR1517 and CR151... | {
"abstract": "Low temperature stress will lower the germination rate of rice, reduce its growth, and delay the emergence of rice seedlings from paddy water surface, resulting in decreased seedling and mortality. Here, we conducted QTL analysis for geminated rice embryo to identify QTLs with 160 RILs developed from a... | {
"abstract": "A quantitative trait locus (QTL) for cold tolerance at the booting stage of a cold-tolerant rice breeding line, Hokkai-PL9, was analyzed. A total of 487 simple sequence repeat (SSR) markers distributed throughout the genome were used to survey for polymorphism between Hokkai-PL9 and a cold-sensitive br... |
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"abstract": "Abstract Because of high competition from Chinese apple juice processors, the United States imposed an antidumping duty on apple juice imports from China to protect the domestic processors. This trade policy benefited U.S. processors but negatively impacted Chinese processors as well as consumers in th... | {
"abstract": "Although this paper focuses on apple juice, a restricted version of source differentiated Almost Ideal Demand System (RSDAIDS) was used to examine U.S. import demand for fresh apple, apple juice and other processed apple. Apple imports were differentiated by type and source of origin and the RSDAIDS mo... | {
"abstract": "Econometric analyses of demand for butter in a number of countries have produced results which appeared to conflict with expectations. Specifically the sign of the co-efficient for margarine price was negative rather than the positive sign expected with a presumed substitute product. \n \nGollnick (195... |
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"abstract": "Migrant and Seasonal Farm Workers (MSFWs) in the United States live and work within ever changing contexts, which require researchers to take into account multiple environmental and psychosocial stressors influencing mental health. The current study examined factors of social support and social isolati... | {
"abstract": "Among women of Mexican descent, increased acculturation in the US has been associated with poorer health behaviors during pregnancy. This study examined a population of low-income women of Mexican descent in an agricultural community to determine: whether social support patterns were associated with ag... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Six groups of women rated various events and circumstances in terms of the amount of difficulty they would create for adjustment to pregnancy. Agreement was generally high among the six groups regarding the relative stressfulness of the various events for pregnancy, and appeared to be somewhat... |
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"abstract": "Plants are one of the best sources to obtain a variety of natural surfactants in the field of green synthesizing material. Sambucus ebulus, which has unique natural properties, has been considered a promising material in traditional Asian medicine. In this context, zinc oxide nanoparticles (ZnO NPs) we... | {
"abstract": "The present work reports the green synthesis of Zinc Oxide Nanoparticles (ZnO NPs) using aqueous Tabernaemontana divaricata green leaf extract. ZnO NPs have been characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD), Ultra Violet-Visible (UV-Vis) studies, Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM), Transmission Electron Mi... | {
"abstract": "OBJECTIVES\nThe purpose of this study was to investigate whether mechanisms of azole resistance in Candida albicans contribute to reduced micafungin activity in vitro.\n\n\nMETHODS\nMICs were determined for a collection of strains with well-characterized mechanisms of azole resistance obtained from sys... |
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"abstract": "Ataxia is a neurodegenerative syndrome, which can emerge as a major element of a disease or represent a symptom of more complex multisystemic disorders. It comprises several forms with a highly variegated etiology, mainly united by motor, balance, and speech impairments and, at the tissue level, by cer... | {
"abstract": "BackgroundNeuroinflammation is associated with a wide range of neurodegenerative disorders, however the specific contribution to individual disease pathogenesis and selective neuronal cell death is not well understood. Inflammatory cerebellar ataxias are neurodegenerative diseases occurring in various ... | {
"abstract": "BackgroundMost neurodegenerative diseases associated with protein aggregation are hallmarked by activation of astrocytes. However, how astrocytes are activated or which signaling pathways in astrocytes contribute to pathogenesis is not clear. One long-standing question is whether the responses in astro... |
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"abstract": "The effectiveness of neoadjuvant therapy (NAT) remains controversial in the treatment of pancreatic cancer (PC). Therefore, this meta-analysis aimed to investigate the clinical differences between NAT and upfront surgery (US) in resectable pancreatic cancer (RPC). Eligible studies were retrieved from P... | {
"abstract": "Introduction Although the only curative strategy for pancreatic cancer is surgical resection, up to 85% of patients relapse after surgery. The efficacy of neoadjuvant treatment in resectable pancreatic cancer (RPC) remains unclear and there is no systematic review focusing fully on this issue. Recently... | {
"abstract": "In “Approximation Algorithms for Product Framing and Pricing,” G. Gallego, A. Li, V.A. Truong, and X. Wang propose one of the first models of “product framing” and pricing. Product framing refers t...",
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"abstract": "This thesis describes experiments investigating the influence of the brain on cardiovascular adaptations to haemorrhage and excess sodium in conscious chronically prepared sheep. A continuous reduction in blood volume eventually activates a reflex that causes a fall in vascular resistance and heart rat... | {
"abstract": "The lamina terminalis is situated in the anterior wall of the third ventricle and plays a major role in fluid and electrolyte homeostasis and cardiovascular regulation. The present study examined whether the effects of intracerebroventricular infusion of hypertonic saline and ANG II on renal sympatheti... | {
"abstract": "When water is given under specified conditions to the living dog, there is a lag of 15 min. between the peak of the animal’s water load and the maximum rate of water excretion by the kidney. The diuresis is inhibited by emotional stress, the inhibition being of post-pituitary origin and itself suppress... |
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"abstract": "Irregular Shaped Voltage Islands (ISVI) can achieve much better power savings in multiple supply voltage (MSV) technology. This paper proposes a simulated annealing (SA) based floorplanning method with ISVI generation using a Hazard and Heal strategy. In each perturbation of SA, a randomly chosen block... | {
"abstract": "In the nanometer era of VLSI design, high power consumption is considered to be a “show-stopper” for many applications. Voltage Island design has emerged as a popular method for addressing this issue. This technique requires multiple supply voltages on the same chip with blocks assigned to different su... | {
"abstract": "A set of programs written in C language with the GL library and under UNIX has been developed for generating compact, pleasant and non-overlapping displays of secondary structures of ribonucleic acids. The first program, rnasearch, implements a new search procedure that dynamically rearranges overlappi... |
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"abstract": "The Indian Energy grid is growing rapidly and there is a large simulation to improve not only the grid reliability, but also provide power for all by 2027. To this aim the Government of India has launched the Restructured Accelerated Power Development Program (RAPDRP). In India, residential loads contr... | {
"abstract": "Buildings across the world contribute significantly to the overall energy consumption and are thus stakeholders in grid operations. Towards the development of a smart grid, utilities and governments across the world are encouraging smart meter deployments. High resolution (often at every 15 minutes) da... | {
"abstract": "Understanding building usage patterns and resource consumption, particularly for existing buildings, requires a sensing infrastructure for the building. Often, deploying these sensors and obtaining real-time information is hindered by installation and maintenance difficulties resulting from scaling dow... |
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"abstract": "The goal of diabetes treatment is to maintain good glycemic control, prevent the development and progression of diabetic complications, and ensure the same quality of life and life expectancy as healthy people. Hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) is used as an index of glycemic control, but strict glycemic control ... | {
"abstract": "A prospective meta‐analysis of phase 3 trials showed lower rates of nocturnal hypoglycaemia with insulin degludec vs. insulin glargine. We investigated the consistency of the results across different definitions of hypoglycaemia.",
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"abstract": "PurposeTo describe the characteristics of patients who die in emergency departments and the decisions to withhold or withdraw life support.MethodsWe undertook a 4-month prospective survey in 174 emergency departments in France and Belgium to describe patients who died and the decisions to limit life-su... |
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"abstract": "We provide an easy method to identify purchases and sales initiated by retail investors using recent, widely available U.S. equity transactions data. Individual stocks with net buying by retail investors outperform stocks with negative imbalances by approximately 10 basis points over the following week... | {
"abstract": "This paper investigates a unique dataset that enables us to determine the aggregate buy and sell volume of individual investors for a large cross-section of NYSE stocks. We find that individuals trade as if they are contrarians, and that the stocks that individuals buy exhibit positive excess returns i... | {
"abstract": "Union decline has reached crisis proportions for the American labour movement. To be sure, union membership among private sector employees is now lower than at any point since the Great Depression (Hirsch and Macpherson 2007). The number of union elections held through the NLRB — still a key link in th... |
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"abstract": "Sweating plays a vital role for humans. However, excessive sweating, also called hyperhidrosis, is a condition resulting in sweating beyond what is physiologically necessary. The increased rate of sweating is not caused by external stimuli or temperature fluctuations, as with an individual without hype... | {
"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nThere are conflicting data about the correlation between hyperhidrosis (HH) and anxiety and depression.\n\n\nOBJECTIVE\nWe sought to determine the prevalence of anxiety and depression in patients with or without HH.\n\n\nMETHODS\nWe examined 2017 consecutive dermatology outpatients from Van... | {
"abstract": "PURPOSE\nExcessive sweating (hyperhidrosis) is an overlooked and potentially disabling symptom, which is often seen in social anxiety disorder (SAD). We conducted a retrospective review of data acquired in patients with SAD who had participated in placebo-controlled clinical trials of fluoxetine, cogni... |
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"abstract": "RESUME. Nous proposons, dans cet article, la definition d'un framework generique de web service permettant l'adaptativite iterative d'un artefact plate-forme de formation aux differents styles (visuel, auditif, kinesthesique) d'interaction des apprenants. Nous rendons compte des experimentations que no... | {
"abstract": "Delivering e-learning services and content according to learner profiles is the main requirement towards developing context-adaptive e-learning systems. The work presented in this paper is part of an ongoing effort towards personalisation of e-learning services and content based on learner attributes s... | {
"abstract": "The key difference between a senior clinical student and a pre-registration house officer (PRHO) is the requirement for the latter to take responsibility for the application of knowledge and use of skills in the care of patients. Experiential learning is therefore at the centre of the education of the ... |
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"abstract": "Several researchers have analyzed the collocation of infraorbital foramen, but no study has so far considered the possible influence of cranial size.Three measurements (distances from anterior nasal spine, inferior orbital rim, angle at the intersection between the line from anterior nasal spine and th... | {
"abstract": "With limited downtime and immediate results, facial filler injections are becoming an ever more popular alternative to surgical rejuvenation of the face. The results, and the complications, can be impressive. To maximize safety during injections, the authors have outlined general injection principles f... | {
"abstract": "Recent studies have suggested that stress may be a precipitating factor in the etiology of anorexia nervosa. The present paper examines the possible mechanisms involved in stress-induced anorexia and suggests how stress-induced changes in opiate systems, the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis and sero... |
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"abstract": "PF-184298 ((S)-2,3-dichloro-N-isobutyl-N-pyrrolidin-3-ylbenzamide) and PF-4776548 ((3-(4-fluoro-2-methoxy-benzyl)-7-hydroxy-8,9-dihydro-3H,7H-pyrrolo[2,3-c][1,7]naphthyridin-6-one)) are novel compounds which were selected to progress to human studies. Discordant human pharmacokinetic predictions arose ... | {
"abstract": "The structure-activity relationship and the synthesis of novel N-[(3S)-pyrrolidin-3-yl]benzamides as dual serotonin and noradrenaline monoamine reuptake inhibitors (SNRI) is described. Preferred compound 9 aka PF-184,298 is a potent SNRI with good selectivity over dopamine reuptake inhibition (DRI), go... | {
"abstract": "Whooping cough is caused by Bordetella pertussis and still constitutes one of the top five causes of death in young children, particularly in developing countries. The calmodulin-activated adenylyl cyclase (AC) toxin CyaA substantially contributes to disease development. Thus, potent and selective CyaA... |
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"abstract": "—Amphibian species of the family Hylidae exhibit a high degree of endemism in Mexico. To better understand ongoing declines of many amphibian populations, especially for endemic species that are particularly vulnerable to extinction, information on diverse aspects of their biological makeup is required... | {
"abstract": "Traditionally, biodiversity conservation gap analyses have been focused on governmental protected areas (PAs). However, an increasing number of social initiatives in conservation (SICs) are promoting a new perspective for analysis. SICs include all of the efforts that society implements to conserve bio... | {
"abstract": "In this paper, we aim to analyse the learning by exporting hypothesis in the Mozambican context. Due to the presence of the born-global phenomenon among exporters, we address the endogeneity introduced by self-selection by combining a generalized BO approach with results from traditional matching techn... |
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"abstract": "One principled approach for provably efficient exploration is incorporating the upper confidence bound (UCB) into the value function as a bonus. However, UCB is specified to deal with linear and tabular settings and is incompatible with Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL). In this paper, we propose a pri... | {
"abstract": "We propose Episodic Backward Update (EBU) - a novel deep reinforcement learning algorithm with a direct value propagation. In contrast to the conventional use of the experience replay with uniform random sampling, our agent samples a whole episode and successively propagates the value of a state to its... | {
"abstract": "End-to-end autonomous driving system has obtained great progress recently. In this paper, we will introduce our open source dataset: Baidu Driving Dataset(BDD), and our end-to-end reactive control model trained on BDD. The BDD comes from Baidu street view project, which generates millions of kilometers... |
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"abstract": "Little is known about the potential consequences of pancreatic tissue sampling in dogs. The goal of the present study was to evaluate changes in serum trypsin–like immunoreactivity and canine-specific pancreatic lipase after pancreatic fine-needle aspiration and surgical biopsy in 27 clinically healthy... | {
"abstract": "Histologic grading schemes for canine inflammatory conditions are sparse, and in the case of the canine pancreas, have not been previously described. In a previous study, we determined that histologic lesions of the exocrine pancreas occurred much more frequently than gross lesions. The intention of th... | {
"abstract": "CAERULEIN, the active decapeptide of the Australian amphib-ian Hyla caerulea, has been shown to possess a striling stimulant action on exocrine pancreatic secretion of the dog.13 This activity was observed after a single intravenous or intramuscular injection of the peptide or after continuous intraven... |
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"abstract": "thrombosis (as determined by computed tomography) in about 10% of TAVR patients has generated a lot of recent interest (5). Of note, dual antiplatelet therapy does not seem to protect patients from this phenomenon (5), and the question is therefore whether systemic anticoagulation rather than single an... | {
"abstract": "OBJECTIVES\nUsing intravascular ultrasound (IVUS), the authors compared outcomes by observed wire position (intraplaque vs. subintimal) achieved during successful chronic total occlusion (CTO) lesion treatment.\n\n\nBACKGROUND\nRecent successes in CTO percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) have used ... | {
"abstract": "Decomposing a polygon into simple shapes is a basic problem in computational geometry, with applications in pattern recognition and integrated circuit manufacture. Here we examine the special case of covering a rectilinear polygon (or polyomino) with the minimum number of rectangles, with overlapping a... |
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"abstract": "Current interferometric wide area ground motion services require the estimation of the coherence magnitude as accurately and computationally effectively as possible. However, a precise and at the same time computationally efficient method is missing. Therefore, the objective of this article is to impro... | {
"abstract": "Interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) correlation, a measure of the similarity of two radar echoes, provides a quantitative measure of surface and subsurface scattering properties and hence surface composition and structure. Correlation is observed by comparing the radar return across severa... | {
"abstract": "Speechreading or lipreading is the technique of understanding and getting phonetic features from a speaker's visual features such as movement of lips, face, teeth and tongue. It has a wide range of multimedia applications such as in surveillance, Internet telephony, and as an aid to a person with heari... |
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"abstract": "Monogynous males in various species actively limit themselves to mating with a single female in their lifetime. Whereas previous models have considered monogyny as an obligate mating strategy, here we explore the potential of monogyny to evolve as a context-specific (conditional) behavior. Using a stat... | {
"abstract": "IntroductionMale monogyny in the absence of paternal investment is arguably one of the most puzzling mating systems. Recent evidence suggests that males of monogynous species adjust their life-history and their mating decision to shifting spatial and temporal selection regimes. In the cannibalistic was... | {
"abstract": "Three fundamental patterns of phenotypic expression exist for alternative mating strategies. These patterns include Mendelian strategies, developmental strategies, and behavioral strategies. Each pattern of expression is revealed by hormonal and neurological factors that regulate the timing and degree ... |
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"abstract": "A subgroup of the AAA+ proteins that reside in the endoplasmic reticulum and the nuclear envelope including human torsinA, a protein mutated in hereditary dystonia, is called the torsin family of AAA+ proteins. A multiple-sequence alignment of this family with Hsp100 proteins of known structure reveals... | {
"abstract": "Publisher Summary The chapter describes general methods for rapidly blocking thiol-disulfide exchange and for analyzing cell extracts in ways allowing for the distinction among the oxidized and reduced forms of proteins. A sample labeling protocol specifically designed to detect defects in disulfide bo... | {
"abstract": "Abstract The feasibility of a LiTaO 3 pyroelectric crystal for pulsed neutron detection has been studied. The detector consists of a slice of electroded Z-cut LiTaO 3 pyroelectric crystal, and no additional neutron converter is required owing to the Li contained in the crystal. The slight temperature i... |
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"abstract": "Many real-world optimization problems can be solved by using the data-driven approach only, simply because no analytic objective functions are available for evaluating candidate solutions. In this paper, we address a class of expensive data-driven constrained multiobjective combinatorial optimization p... | {
"abstract": "Although mixed-integer evolution strategies MIES have been successfully applied to optimization of mixed-integer problems, they may encounter challenges when fitness evaluations are time consuming. In this paper, we propose to use a radial-basis-function network RBFN trained based on the rank correlati... | {
"abstract": "The optimization of chemical engineering plants is still a challenging task. Economical evaluations of a process flowsheet using rigorous simulation models are very time consuming. Furthermore, many different types of parameters can be involved into the optimization procedure, resulting in highly restr... |
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"abstract": "Email: saberikn@yahoo.com ABSTRACT Background: Efficacy of minimal acute Normovolemic Hemodilution (ANH) in avoiding homologous blood transfusion during cardiovascular surgery remains controversial. Postoperative bleeding and transfusion remain a source of morbidity and cost after open heart operations... | {
"abstract": "BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVE\nEfficacy of minimal acute normovolemic hemodilution (ANH) in avoiding homologous blood transfusion during cardiovascular surgery remains controversial. Postoperative bleeding and transfusion remain a source of morbidity and cost after open heart operations. Our objective was to ... | {
"abstract": "The immediate post-operative course was investigated in 70 patients who had undergone coronary artery bypass grafting under normovolaemic moderate and subsequent extreme haemodilution, and in 70 control patients who underwent a similar operation with a haemic prime in the heart-lung machine. Altogether... |
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"abstract": "The growing availability of biomarker panels for molecular diagnostics is leading to an increasing need for fast and sensitive biosensing technologies that are applicable to point-of-care testing. In that regard, homogeneous measurement principles are especially relevant as they usually do not require ... | {
"abstract": "Reliable measurement of DNA concentration is essential for a broad range of applications in biology and molecular biology, and for many of these, quantifying the nucleic acid content is inextricably linked to obtaining optimal results. In its most simplistic form, quantitative analysis of nucleic acids... | {
"abstract": "Although the vast majority of minority candidates run under the Democratic label and minority voters are more supportive of the Democratic Party, in recent years a nontrivial number of minority candidates have won Republican Party nominations in high-profile elections (i.e., governor and US Senate). In... |
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"abstract": "Streams are infinite sequences over a given data type. A stream \nspecification is a set of equations intended to define a stream. \nIn this paper we focus on equality of streams, more precisely, \nfor a given set of equations two stream terms are said to be \nequal if they are equal in every model sat... | {
"abstract": "Coinduction is a major technique employed to prove behavioral properties of systems, such as behavioral equivalence. Its automation is highly desirable, despite the fact that most behavioral problems are Π20-complete. Circular coinduction, which is at the core of the CIRC prover, automates coinduction ... | {
"abstract": "We present a method using an extended logical system for obtaining programs from specifications written in a sublanguage of CASL. These programs are “correct” in the sense that they satisfy their specifications. The technique we use is to extract programs from proofs in formal logic by techniques due t... |
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"abstract": "ABSTRACT As a result of the association of autism with speech and language difficulties, autistic school children can be subject to interventions ostensibly intended to remedy these problems. However, my study, based in five mainstream primary schools in England, which incorporated the views and experi... | {
"abstract": "Much of the research evidence relating to the physical learning environment of schools is inconclusive, contradictory or incomplete. Nevertheless, within this confusing area, research from a number of disciplines, using a range of methodologies, points to the negative impact of noise on students’ learn... | {
"abstract": "The percent of students reading below grade level from 1972 to 1976 was regressed on racial, socioeconomic, educational, and noise level variables for all elementary schools in Brooklyn and Queens, New York. Schools were assigned noise exposure scores based on Noise Exposure Forecast contours for New Y... |
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"abstract": "Recently transformer-based ranking models have been shown to deliver high relevance for document search and the relevance-efficiency tradeoff becomes important for fast query response times. This paper presents BECR (BERT-based Composite Re-Ranking), a lightweight composite re-ranking scheme that combi... | {
"abstract": "Interaction-based neural ranking has been shown to be effective for document search using distributed word representations. However the time or space required is very expensive for online query processing with neural ranking. This paper investigates fast approximation of three interaction-based neural ... | {
"abstract": "Historically, SSD or correlation-based visual tracking algorithms have been sensitive to changes in illumination and shading across the target region. This paper describes methods for implementing SSD tracking that is both insensitive to illumination variations and computationally efficient. We first d... |
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"abstract": "--Renewable energy sources, especially wind turbine generators, are considered as important generation alternatives in electric power systems because they have no exhausted nature and not harmful environmental effects. Permanent magnet generator has a good prospect in small scale wind turbine applicati... | {
"abstract": "Permanent magnet synchronous generators (PMSGs) have a bright prospect in the small wind turbine (WT) applications; PMSGs co mpared to the conventional electrically excitated generators have many advantages, that's why they have attracted many and a strong interest of research. In this paper, a co mpar... | {
"abstract": "This paper deals with investigation on non purely sinusoidal input supply analysis of line-start PMM using finite element analysis (FEA), in the present times a greater awareness is generated by the problems of harmonic voltages and currents produced by non-linear loads like the power electronic conver... |
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"abstract": "Complex video event detection without visual examples is a very challenging issue in multimedia retrieval. We present a state-of-the-art framework for event search without any need of exemplar videos and textual metadata in search corpus. To perform event search given only query words, the core of our ... | {
"abstract": "This paper addresses the fundamental question -- How do humans recognize complex events in videos? Normally, humans view videos in a sequential manner. We hypothesize that humans can make high-level inference such as an event is present or not in a video, by looking at a very small number of frames not... | {
"abstract": "Training higher-order conditional random fields is prohibitive for huge tag sets. We present an approximated conditional random field using coarse-to-fine decoding and early updating. We show that our implementation yields fast and accurate morphological taggers across six languages with different morp... |
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"abstract": "Whilst the periodontal ligament (PDL) acts as an attachment tissue between bone and tooth, hypotheses regarding the role of the PDL as a hydrodynamic damping mechanism during intraoral food processing have highlighted its potential importance in finite element (FE) analysis. Although experimental and c... | {
"abstract": "Abstract The state of stress in both a homogeneous and non-homogeneous human tooth is investigated using the finite element method. Stress and displacement fields resulting from a single concentrated force are presented. The stress field in a homogeneous model is compared with that of a more realistic ... | {
"abstract": "SummaryThe depth distributions of rates of net nitrogen mineralization and nitrification were measured in a series of field and laboratory incubations. Field studies suggested that the highest rates of mineralization and nitrification occurred in the surface 2.5 cm such that forty to sixty percent of t... |
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"abstract": "The article focuses on the level and dynamics of innovation financing in Azerbaijan and Ukraine compared to the world level and the places of Azerbaijan and Ukraine in the Global Innovation Index and trends in their positioning in the dynamics. The analysis reveals negative dynamics in both countries i... | {
"abstract": "In the run-up to the 'follow-up international conference on financing for development' to be held in Doha from November 28 to December 2, 2008, it seems particularly timely to collect in one book writings on the various market-based innovative methods of raising development finance. Although developing... | {
"abstract": "Foreword - Hidehiko Sazanami Implementing Decentralization Policies - Dennis A Rondinelli and G Shabbir Cheema An Introduction Decentralized Development in Asia - Harry J Friedman Local Political Alternatives Administrative Decentralization in Asia - Kuldeep Mathur Decentralization of Development Admin... |
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"abstract": "Helminth parasites induce a strong Th2 response, characterized by high levels of IgE and elevated signature cytokines such as IL‐5. As many global deworming programmes are underway, there is concern that this might lead to emergence of Th1‐mediated pathologies when the counterbalancing helminth‐induced... | {
"abstract": "Background Helminth infections are proposed to have immunomodulatory activities affecting health outcomes either detrimentally or beneficially. We evaluated the effects of albendazole treatment, every three months for 21 months, on STH, malarial parasitemia and allergy. Methods and Findings A household... | {
"abstract": "Background\nOsteoarthritis is a chronic disorder and the most common form of arthritis. The joints most commonly affected are the hip and knee. The progression of osteoarthritis results in the breakdown of tissues and cartilage and the loss of joint function, causing symptoms such as pain, stiffness, r... |
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"abstract": "Dynamic Job shop scheduling (DJSS) is a complex and hard problem in real-world manufacturing systems. In practice, the parameters of a job shop like processing times, due dates, etc. are uncertain. But most of the current research on scheduling consider only deterministic scenarios. In a typical dynami... | {
"abstract": "Uncertainty is a very important concern in production scheduling since it can cause infeasibilities and production disturbances. Thus scheduling under uncertainty has received a lot of attention in the open literature in recent years from chemical engineering and operations research communities. The pu... | {
"abstract": "Do men value physical attractiveness in a mate more than women? Scientists in numerous disciplines believe that they do, but recent research using speed-dating paradigms suggests that males and females are equally influenced by physical attractiveness when choosing potential mates. Nevertheless, the pr... |
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"abstract": "Numerical simulation results are presented which suggest that a class of non-adiabatic rapid passage sweeps first realized experimentally in 1991 should be capable of implementing a universal set of quantum gates Gu that operate with high fidelity. The gates constituting Gu are the Hadamard and NOT gat... | {
"abstract": "Numerical simulation results are presented which suggest that a class of nonadiabatic rapid passage sweeps first realized experimentally in 1991 should be capable of implementing a set of quantum gates that is universal for one-qubit unitary operations and whose elements operate with error probabilitie... | {
"abstract": "Twisted rapid passage is a type of non-adiabatic rapid passage that generates controllable quantum interference effects that were first observed experimentally in 2003. It is shown that twisted rapid passage sweeps can be used to implement a universal set of quantum gates GU that operate with high-fide... |
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"abstract": "The weekly liveweight gain, growing and stress parameters of quails bred using two different types of lighting for 6 weeks following hatching were examined in this study. The first type of lighting was 23 L: 1 D, continuous lighting (CL), widely used in the commercial system and the second was a self-p... | {
"abstract": "The addition of two 3-h periods of very dim light, one before and one after a normal 8-h photoperiod, advances sexual maturity in pullets by about a week. This trial tested the hypothesis that dim light given before a short day of normal intensity is linked to form a more stimulatory day length and tha... | {
"abstract": "In attempting to aid firms in their exporting efforts, various segmentation approaches have been developed by government agencies and research groups. Each of these segmentation schemes aims at the identification of specific export needs within different groups of firms. The four major approaches sugge... |
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"abstract": "The investigation of the interaction between the supernova remnants (SNRs) and interstellar gas is not only necessary to improve our knowledge of SNRs, but also to understand the nature of the progenitor systems. As a part of the Milky Way Imaging Scroll Painting CO line survey (MWISP), we study the in... | {
"abstract": "Tycho's supernova remnant (SNR), as one of the few historical SNRs, has been widely studied in various wave bands. Observations show evidence that Tycho is expanding in a medium with density gradient and possibly interacting with a dense ambient medium toward the northeast direction. From the FCRAO CO ... | {
"abstract": "Low health literacy is a major challenge confronting American and international health organizations. Research in the past decade has documented the prevalence of limited literacy and limited health literacy skills among adults worldwide. This creates a major policy challenge: how to create text-based ... |
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"abstract": "Objective The present study was conducted to examine the gas production, fermentation characteristics, nutrient degradation, and methanogenic community composition of a rumen fluid culture with Broussonetia papyrifera (B. papyrifera) subjected to ensiling or steam explosion (SE) pretreatment. Methods F... | {
"abstract": "The purpose of this study was to evaluate steam explosion as a pretreatment to enhance degradation of corn stover by ruminal microbiome. The steam explosion conditions were first optimized, and then the efficacy of steam explosion was evaluated both in vitro and in vivo. Steam explosion altered the phy... | {
"abstract": "Lignocellulosic biomass (LCB) is the most abundantly available bioresource amounting to about a global yield of up to 1.3 billion tons per year. The hydrolysis of LCB results in the release of various reducing sugars which are highly valued in the production of biofuels such as bioethanol and biogas, v... |
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"abstract": "With about 3.6 million adults in the United States having visual impairment or blind- ness, assistive technology is essential to give these people grocery shopping independance. This thesis presents a new method to detect and localize nutrition facts tables (NFTs) on mobile devices more quickly and fro... | {
"abstract": "A new Hough-based algorithm termed segment Hough transform (SHT) is proposed to detect the curve in the binary image. The segment-transform, which is the main idea of the novel approach, makes the curve detection very efficient. Thanks to the chain code termed angle chain code (ACC) as well as the modi... | {
"abstract": "In modern industries, machine health monitoring systems (MHMS) have been applied wildly with the goal of realizing predictive maintenance including failures tracking, downtime reduction, and assets preservation. In the era of big machinery data, data-driven MHMS have achieved remarkable results in the ... |
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"abstract": "Sexual exploitation is considered as one of the worst forms of violence against children and women. Whilst a combination of factors have been advanced for involvement in sex work, including poverty and unemployment, lack of schooling, Violence against children and gender- based violence as well as the ... | {
"abstract": "The way individuals perceive their risk to certain threats influences their adoption of preventive behaviour. This study explored sex workers perception of risk of HIV infection within the context of other serious threats. The study was carried out in Kampala Uganda using peer ethnography. Sex workers ... | {
"abstract": "BackgroundIn response to the high burden of disease among sex workers and their position as a population heavily affected by the HIV epidemic, there has been a growing body of literature investigating the prevalence and risk factors associated with HIV risk among sex workers. To contextualize and summa... |
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