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"abstract": "Networks are a useful representation for data on connections between units of interests, but the observed connections are often noisy and/or include missing values. One common approach to network analysis is to treat the network as a realization from a random graph model, and estimate the underlying ed... | {
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"title": "Exploration of Large Networks via Fast and Universal Latent Space Model Fitting"
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"abstract": "In a Stackelberg Security Game, a defender commits to a randomized deployment of security resources, and an attacker best-responds by attacking a target that maximizes his utility. While algorithms for computing an optimal strategy for the defender to commit to have had a striking real-world impact, de... |
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"abstract": "Symbolic techniques based on Satisfiability Modulo Theory (SMT) solvers have been proposed for analyzing and verifying neural network properties, but their usage has been fairly limited owing to their poor scalability with larger networks. In this work, we propose a technique for combining gradient-bas... | {
"abstract": "Most online reviews consist of plain-text feedback together with a single numeric score. However, understanding the multiple `aspects' that contribute to users' ratings may help us to better understand their individual preferences. For example, a user's impression of an audio book presumably depends on... | {
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"title": "Explicit Document Modeling through Weighted Multiple-Instance Learning"
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"abstract": "This study investigated the association between sediment contamination, PCB accumulation in adult nesting males and the occurrence of embryonic abnormalities in the damselfish, Abudefduf sordidus, from two sites with high PCB contamination and three “reference” sites (contaminants very low or not measu... | {
"abstract": "Abstract This study establishes baseline information on the biological effects of contaminants in the tropical marine environment of Australia, using as indicators the incidence of embryonic malformation and chromosomal aberration in developing fish eggs. Eighteen sites were examined, including nearsho... | {
"abstract": "In this paper, we reveal the importance and benefits of introducing second-order operations into deep neural networks. We propose a novel approach named Second-Order Response Transform (SORT), which appends element-wise product transform to the linear sum of a two-branch network module. A direct advant... |
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"abstract": "Monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) and tyrosine kinase inhibitors targeting the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR), which is often pathogenetically overexpressed or mutated in epithelial malignancies and glioma, have been modestly successful, with some approved for human use. MAb 806 was raised against ... | {
"abstract": "Monoclonal antibody (mAb) 806 is a novel epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) antibody with significant antitumor activity that recognizes a mutant EGFR commonly expressed in glioma known as delta2-7 EGFR (de2-7 EGFR or EGFRvIII) and a subset of the wild-type (wt) EGFR found in cells that overexpres... | {
"abstract": "In this study the construction and in vivo testing of antibiotic-loaded polyhydroxyalkanoate rods were planned for use in the treatment of implant-related osteomyelitis. The rods were constructed of poly(3-hydroxybutyrate-co-3-hydroxyvalerate) and poly(3-hydroxybutyrate-co-4-hydroxybutyrate), carrying ... |
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"abstract": "The classical view of mitochondria as housekeeping organelles acting in the background to simply maintain cellular energy demands has been challenged by mounting evidence of their direct and active participation in synaptic plasticity in neurons. Time‐lapse imaging has revealed that mitochondria are mo... | {
"abstract": "Induction of apoptosis in tumor cells by direct activation of the Bcl-2-regulated apoptosis pathway by small molecule drugs carries high hopes to overcome the shortcomings of current anticancer therapies. This novel therapy concept builds on emerging insights into how Bcl-2-like molecules maintain mito... | {
"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nMany patients with non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) who achieve radiographic responses to treatment with the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) tyrosine kinase inhibitors gefitinib and erlotinib have somatic mutations in the EGFR tyrosine kinase domain. However, little is known about... |
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"abstract": "In household outbreaks of pertussis, children <5 years of age who received at least 3 doses of vaccine had 12% less clinical disease; vaccinated cases were 63% less culture-confirmed and transmitted infection to 62% fewer contacts. Three doses of pertussis vaccine are likely to decrease circulation of ... | {
"abstract": "Cytoreduction for hyperleukocytosis before the initiation of primary therapy may reduce morbidity and mortality from blast cell lysis in children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) and from leukostasis in children with acute nonlymphoblastic leukemia (ANLL) or chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML). T... | {
"abstract": "We assessed the frequency and outcome of complications associated with hyperleukocytosis in children who had received remission induction therapy for either acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) or acute nonlymphoblastic leukemia (ANLL). Among 234 consecutive patients with a leukocyte count of 100 X 10(9)... |
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"abstract": "Hydrate-based technologies (HBTs) have high potential in many fields. The industrial application of HBTs is limited by the low conversion rate of the water into hydrate (RWH), and sodium lignin sulfonate (SLS) has the potential to solve the above problem. In order to make the HBTs in the presence of SL... | {
"abstract": "The interfacial tensions between ethylene and an aqueous solution of SDS were measured using the pendant-drop method at 274.2 and 278.2 K and in the pressure range from 0.1 to 3.1 MPa, including hydrate formation points. The concentrations of sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) aqueous solution were 0, 100, 3... | {
"abstract": "Interfacial tension data of (CH4 + N2) + H2O and (CO2 + N2) + H2O systems were measured using a pendant-drop method. The temperature and pressure ranges were 298−373 K and 1−30 MPa, respectively. The effects of gas composition, temperature, and pressure on the interfacial tension of the systems studied... |
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"abstract": "The ability to control and manipulate the motion of particles or bio-cells from a complex mixture has been the center of attention since the beginning of microfluidics. The microfluidics community has always strived to develop miniaturized ‘lab on chip’ devices to achieve fastest and most accurate size... | {
"abstract": "Microparticle separation and concentration based on size has become indispensable in many biomedical and environmental applications. In this paper we describe a passive microfluidic device with spiral microchannel geometry for complete separation of particles. The design takes advantage of the inertial... | {
"abstract": "A method to separate suspended particles from their medium in a continuous mode at microchip level is described. The method combines an ultrasonic standing wave field with the extreme laminar flow properties obtained in a silicon micro channel. The channel was 750 microm wide and 250 microm deep with v... |
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"abstract": "Cette these est l'un des volets d'un projet nomme GINSENG. Ce projet s'inscrit dans le cadre d'un developpement experimental d'une infrastructure de grille legere pour l'e-sante. Il a pour but de federer des bases de donnees medicales existantes, et de mettre a disposition ces informations aupres des s... | {
"abstract": "Centralized management of patient data is no more a viable solution. In many countries, patient identification restrictions due to privacy laws implies developing thorough mechanism to avoid duplicates and information loss. In this paper we present a work in progress dealing with a grid distributed med... | {
"abstract": "In this paper, we present a data acquisition and analysis framework for materials-to-devices processes, named 4CeeD, that focuses on the immense potential of capturing, accurately curating, correlating, and coordinating materials-to-devices digital data in a real-time and trusted manner before fully ar... |
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"abstract": "Background: Intestinal helminthic infections are common among children especially in sub Saharan Africa where they may co-infect with malaria. In co-infections synergistic effects affects severity. Therefore, there is need to understand immune dynamics and modulations in dual infections. Materials and ... | {
"abstract": "Effective Plasmodium falciparum immunity requires a precisely timed and balanced response of inflammatory and anti-inflammatory immune regulators. These responses begin with innate immune effectors and are modulated over the course of an infection and between episodes to limit inflammation. To date, th... | {
"abstract": "The precise determination of the influence of an electric field strength E on the resolution of DNA molecules during a pulsed-field gel electrophoresis shows that the maximal molecular size Nmax of still resolved DNA molecules is described by the equation Nmax = k tau E alpha, where k is a coefficient,... |
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"abstract": "Due to the discovery of grave scientific misconduct [1, 2] by Prof. Dr J. Boldt, the co-author of the Cross-Sectional Guidelines for Therapy with Blood Components and Plasma Derivatives [3], the Scientific Advisory Board has decided to terminate its collaboration with this author with immediate effect.... | {
"abstract": "Summary. To establish the pharmacokinetic profile of activated recombinant coagulation factor VII (rFVIIa; NovoSeven®) in children with haemophilia A, and to compare it with the pharmacokinetic profile in adults with haemophilia A.",
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"title": "Pharmacokinetics of activated re... | {
"abstract": "OBJECTIVE: To explore the safety, efficacy, and biomarkers of bevacizumab with gemcitabine and oxaliplatin in women with recurrent platinum-sensitive ovarian carcinoma. METHODS: The patients received bevacizumab (10 mg/kg), gemcitabine (1000 mg/m(2)), and oxaliplatin (65 mg/m(2)) on days 1 and 15 in 28... |
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"abstract": "TinyOS is a major platform broadly used to carry out experiments related to Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). A number of researchers claim that cryptographic mechanisms demand plenty of resources from sensors. In this context, an important issue is to develop lightweight encryption mechanisms capable o... | {
"abstract": "We consider the problem of secret key distribution in a sensor network with multiple scattered sensor nodes and a mobile device that can be used to bootstrap the network. Our main contribution is a set of secure protocols that rely on simple network coding operations to provide a robust and low-complex... | {
"abstract": "Within the software industry software piracy is a great concern. In this article we address this issue through a prevention technique called software watermarking. Depending on how a software watermark is applied it can be used to discourage piracy; as proof of authorship or purchase; or to track the s... |
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"abstract": "We present an analysis of the molecular and atomic gas emission in the rest-frame far-infrared and submillimetre from the lensedz = 2.3 submillimetre galaxy SMM J2135−0102. We obtain very high signal-to-noise ratio detections of 11 transitions from three species and limits on a further 20 transitions f... | {
"abstract": "Using the IRAM 30 m telescope, we report the detection of the CO(3–2), CO(4–3), CO(5–4) and CO(6–5) lines in the gravitational lensed submm galaxy SMM J16359+6612 at $z=2.5$. The CO lines have a double peak profile in all transitions. From a Gaussian decomposition of the spectra we show that the CO lin... | {
"abstract": "We use Monte Carlo simulations to estimate the number of extrasolar planets that are directly detectable in the solar neighborhood using current and forthcoming high-contrast imaging instruments. Our calculations take into consideration the important factors that govern the likelihood for imaging a pla... |
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"abstract": "The Black-White racial employment disparity and its link to mortality have demonstrated the health benefits obtained from employment. Further, racial/ethnic mortality disparities existing among men with different employment statuses have been previously documented. The purpose of this study was to exam... | {
"abstract": "We examine racial disparities in key labor market outcomes for men and women over the past four decades, with a special emphasis on their evolution over the business cycle. Blacks have substantially higher and more cyclical unemployment rates than whites, and observable characteristics can explain very... | {
"abstract": "Weitzman's price-quantity analysis framework has been widely used, and in the field of climate economy it is applied to choose proper emissions reduction instruments for best welfare under uncertainty. This article summarizes the principle and method of selecting carbon emission reduction instruments b... |
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"abstract": "Methylthioadenosine phosphorylase (MTAP), a key enzyme in the adenine and methionine salvage pathways, catalyzes the hydrolysis of methylthioadenosine (MTA), a compound suggested to affect pivotal cellular processes in part through the regulation of protein methylation. MTAP is expressed in a wide rang... | {
"abstract": "Herpesvirus type 1 (HSV-1) based oncolytic vectors arise as a promising therapeutic alternative for neoplastic diseases including hepatocellular carcinoma. However, the mechanisms mediating the host cell response to such treatments are not completely known. It is well established that HSV-1 infection i... | {
"abstract": "Vascular calcification remains one of the main factors associated to morbidity and mortality in both ageing and chronic kidney disease. Both hyperphosphataemia, a well-known promoter of vascular calcification, and abnormal processing defects of lamin A/C have been associated to ageing. The main aim of ... |
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"abstract": "Methyl donor supplementation has been reported to prevent obesity-induced liver fat accumulation in adult rats. We hypothesized that this protection could be mediated by perinatal nutrition. For this purpose, we assessed the response to an obesogenic diet (high-fat-sucrose, HFS) during adulthood depend... | {
"abstract": "Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is one of the first hepatic manifestations of metabolic syndrome, whose progression can lead to cirrhosis and hepatic carcinoma. Interestingly, methyl donor supplementation could improve obesogenic diet-induced hepatic triglyceride accumulation. The aim of this... | {
"abstract": "We describe the development and application of a sensitive high-resolution fluorescence alkaline phosphatase (APase)-Fast Red immunocytochemical (ICC) staining method in combination with fluorescence in situ hybridization (ISH) and bromodeoxyuridine (BrdU) detection. The high fluorescence intensity, ac... |
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"abstract": "Primary motor cortex (M1) excitability is modulated following a single session of cycling exercise. Specifically, short‐interval intracortical inhibition and intracortical facilitation are altered following a session of cycling, suggesting that exercise affects the excitability of varied cortical circu... | {
"abstract": "Motor preparatory and execution activity is enhanced after a single session of bimanual visuomotor training (BMT). Recently, we have shown that increased primary motor cortex (M1) excitability occurs when BMT involves simultaneous activation of homologous muscles and these effects are enhanced when BMT... | {
"abstract": "Within the past two decades a wide range of transcranial stimulation protocols have been introduced to induce plasticity in the human primary motor cortex (M1) (Siebner and Rothwell, 2003; Thickbroom, 2007; Ziemann et al., 2008). Two stimulation techniques are currently available which have different m... |
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"abstract": "Background: In some parts of the world, breast milk is seen as a potential source of child diarrhoea. While this belief has been explored in African and Southeast Asian countries, it remains vastly understudied in Latin American contexts. We investigate cultural factors contributing to breastfeeding ce... | {
"abstract": "Research was conducted in rural Northeast Thailand to understand how mothers perceive children's acute illness episodes, and their resulting illness management strategies. Although diarrheal disease is one of the leading causes of illness among young children in Thailand, interviews revealed that mothe... | {
"abstract": "Background: Maternal perception of decreased fetal movements is a specific indicator of fetal compromise, notably in the context of poor fetal growth. There is currently no agreed numerical definition of decreased fetal movements, with subjective perception of a decrease on the part of the mother being... |
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"abstract": "Herzerkrankungen sind weltweit die Hauptursache fur einen vorzeitigen Tod. Sowohl Gentransfer als auch zellulare Therapien werden derzeit als neue Behandlungsmoglichkeiten fur diese Erkrankungen entwickelt. Im ersten Teil dieser Arbeit sollte der AAV-vermittelte Gentransfer von Transgenen ins Herzgeweb... | {
"abstract": "Recombinant adeno-associated virus 2 (AAV) virions were constructed containing a gene for resistance to neomycin (neoR), under the control of either the herpesvirus thymidine kinase (TK) gene promoter (vTK- Neo), or the human parvovirus B19 p6 promoter (vB19-Neo), as well as those containing an upstrea... | {
"abstract": "Viral and cellular factors responsible for parvovirus target cell specificity have been examined for two serologically indistinguishable strains of the minute virus of mice which infect mouse cells of dissimilar differentiated phenotype. Both the prototype strain and the immunosuppressive strain grow i... |
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"abstract": "Bitter taste perception influences human nutrition and health, and the genetic variation underlying this trait may play a role in disease susceptibility. To better understand the genetic architecture and patterns of phenotypic variability of bitter taste perception, we sequenced a 996 bp region, encomp... | {
"abstract": "In mammals, bitter taste is mediated by TAS2R genes, which belong to the large family of seven transmembrane G protein-coupled receptors. Because TAS2Rs are directly involved in the interaction between mammals and their dietary sources, it is likely that these genes evolved to reflect species-specific ... | {
"abstract": "From Relativity to Gravitational Collapse; and from the Consequences of Collapse to the Principle that Nature Conserves Nothing",
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"title": "From Relativity to Mutability"
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"title": "Information Content of Revised Earnings Forecasts, Market Learning, and Analyst Behavior"
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"abstract": "Rendleman Jones and Latane (1987) and Bernard and Thomas (1990) report evidence supporting their hypothesis that investors use a \"naive\" seasonal random walk model in forming expectations of quarterly earnings. Using the Bernard and Thomas (1990) data we show that the market acts as if it: (1) does n... | {
"abstract": "This paper examines investors’ expectations of loss persistence. I develop a model to forecast loss firms’ future earnings based on Joos and Plesko, The Accounting Review 80: 847–870, (2005). This model produces smaller forecast errors than two random walk models and a model that assumes losses are tra... |
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"abstract": "Scrum, the most popular agile method and project management framework, is widely reported to be used, adapted, misused, and abused in practice. However, not much is known about how Scrum actually works in practice, and critically, where, when, how and why it diverges from Scrum by the book. Through a G... | {
"abstract": "It has long been acknowledged that software methods should be tailored if they are to achieve optimum effect. However comparatively little research has been carried out to date on this topic in general, and more notably, on agile methods in particular. This dearth of evidence in the case of agile metho... | {
"abstract": "Context: Agile methodologies (AM) emerged as a popular alternative to formalized methods, and have gained widespread acceptance in both the academic and industrial contexts. While most research has focused on their early stages of adoption and use, there is little evidence that agile methodologies have... |
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"abstract": "In the area of formal analyzing of security protocols, more and more attention has been given to analyzing properties of fair exchange protocols such as non-repudiation and fairness. On the basis of analyzing the limitations of existing methods, this paper presents a new method to analyze fairness and ... | {
"abstract": "Non-repudiation protocols have an important role in many areas where secured transactions with proofs of participation are necessary. Formal methods are clever and without error, therefore using them for verifying such protocols is crucial. In this purpose, we show how to partially represent non-repudi... | {
"abstract": "In this paper we present a new method for the robust estimation of the trifocal tensor, from a series of medical images, using finite-multiple evolutionary agents. Each agent denotes a subset of matching points for parameter estimation, and the dataset of correspondences is considered as the environmen... |
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"abstract": "This paper presents a ThinICA-CSP1 algorithm for discrimination of multiclass motor imagery (MI) movements for Brain Computer Interfacing (BCI) applications. This algorithm performs a joint approximate diagonalization of the second and higher order statistics of the observations with the aim of identif... | {
"abstract": "Noninvasive electroencephalogram (EEG) recordings provide for easy and safe access to human neocortical processes which can be exploited for a brain-computer interface (BCI). At present, however, the use of BCIs is severely limited by low bit-transfer rates. We systematically analyze and develop two re... | {
"abstract": "Sentiment analysis in low-resource languages suffers from a lack of annotated corpora to estimate high-performing models. Machine translation and bilingual word embeddings provide some relief through cross-lingual sentiment approaches. However, they either require large amounts of parallel data or do n... |
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"abstract": "Intestinal phages are abundant and important components of gut microbiota, yet the isolated and characterized representatives that infect abundant gut bacteria are sparse. Here we describe the isolation of human intestinal phages infecting Bacteroides uniformis. Bacteroides is one of the most common ba... | {
"abstract": "Diversity-generating retroelements (DGRs) are a unique family of retroelements that confer selective advantages to their hosts by accelerating the evolution of target genes through a specialized, error-prone, reverse transcription process. First identified in a Bordetella phage (BPP-1), which mediates ... | {
"abstract": "Diversity-generating retroelements (DGRs) are genetic cassettes that can produce massive protein sequence variation in prokaryotes. Presumably DGRs confer selective advantages to their hosts (bacteria or viruses) by generating variants of target genes—typically resulting in target proteins with altered... |
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"abstract": "ABSTRACT Globally, the number and proportion of people aged 60 years and older is growing fast. As people age, health needs become more complex, and the health system’s responsiveness to older people’s needs requires evidence-informed policies. Hence, this study explores the factors affecting the healt... | {
"abstract": "This study is the first author’s PhD Thesis, which has been supported by Iran University of Medical Sciences (IUMS_SHMIS: 65/2014). The authors would like to make special thanks to all participants for their kind contributions to this project and are also grateful to Dr. Mohammad Azmal and Dr. Hesam Se... | {
"abstract": "Dementia has been identified as a national health priority in Australia. National programs in the areas of research, education and training have been established. The Dementia Care Skills for Aged Care Workers program is a three-year project that commenced in 2006. It has the goal of providing training... |
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"abstract": "Despite lots of research studies on the effect of corporate social responsibility on financial performance, the results are still inconclusive. The manufacturing industry is involved with environmental, social and ethical debates due to the nature of its business activity. Using theoretical argument of... | {
"abstract": "Whether the corporate social performance affects the financial performance is still unclear in many manufacturing companies. We commonly expect, on one side, that profitable corporations have stronger incentives to reveal information on the social performance in order to improve their publicity; on the... | {
"abstract": "Background Although there are controversial issues (the “American view” and the “European view”) regarding the construct and definition of agoraphobia (AG), this syndrome is well recognized and it is a burden in the lives of millions of people worldwide. To better clarify the role of drug therapy in AG... |
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"abstract": "In this paper, we study unitary Gaussian processes with independent increments with which the unitary equivalence to a Hudson-Parthasarathy evolution systems is proved. This gives a generalization of results in [16] and [17] in the absence of the stationarity condition.",
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"abstract": "This is a continuation of the earlier work (Publ. Res. Inst. Math. Sci. 45 (2009) 745-785) to characterize unitary stationary independent increment Gaussian processes. The earlier assumption of uniform continuity is replaced by weak continuity and with technical assumptions on the domain of the generat... | {
"abstract": "In this paper, we study unitary Gaussian processes with independent in- crements with which the unitary equivalence to a Hudson-Parthasarathy evolution systems is proved. This gives a generalization of results in (16) and (17) in the absence of the stationarity condition.",
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"abstract": "Computing a Nash equilibrium in zero-sum games, or more generally saddle point optimization, is a fundamental problem in game theory and machine learning, with applications spanning across a wide variety of domains, from generative modeling and computer vision to super-human AI in imperfect information... | {
"abstract": "We introduce a general class of learning algorithms, regret-matching algorithms, and a regret-based framework for analyzing their performance in online decision problems. Our analytic framework is based on a set Φ of transformations over the set of actions. Specifically, we calculate a Φ-regret vector ... | {
"abstract": "\n \n Regret matching is a widely-used algorithm for learning how to act. We begin by proving that regrets on actions in one setting (game) can be transferred to warm start the regrets for solving a different setting with same structure but different payoffs that can be written as a function of paramet... |
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"abstract": "GNSS shadow matching is a new technique that uses 3D mapping to improve positioning accuracy in dense urban areas from tens of meters to within five meters, potentially less. This paper presents the first comprehensive review of shadow matching’s error sources and proposes a program of research and dev... | {
"abstract": "This paper addresses the problem of calculating the accurate position of a GNSS device operating in an urban canyon, where lines of sight (LOS) with navigation satellites are too few for accurate trilateration calculation. We introduce a post-processing renement algorithm, which makes use of a 3D map o... | {
"abstract": "Today, GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) systems made their entrance in the transport field through applications such as monitoring of containers or fleet management. These applications do not necessarily request a high availability, integrity and accuracy of the positioning system. For safety ... |
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"abstract": "This paper presents a distributed application named AERIAL which allows coordination and control of multiple Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) engaged in temporally constrained missions. This application combines multiagent paradigm and trajectory planning techniques and relies on a coordination model ta... | {
"abstract": "Many social insects coordinate without direct communication or complex reasoning. They deposit and sense chemicals (\"pheromones\") in a shared physical environment that participates actively in the system's dynamics, yielding robust adaptive coordination. Seeking such characteristics in engineered sys... | {
"abstract": "This study was performed to evaluate the potential drug–herb interaction between the conventional anti-cancer drug, gefitinib, and the herbal medication, Angelica gigas (AG) extract. One group of rats received a single intravenous (IV) dose of gefitinib (10 mg/kg) to determine its basic pharmacokinetic... |
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"abstract": "PurposeThis paper explores how localized (organization-level) actors of policy initiatives that are inspired by neoliberal ideologies use management accounting and control practices. Specifically, it addresses the operational stages of a case study Private Finance Initiative (PFI) contract within the U... | {
"abstract": "Sustainable development policy is explored through the national sustainable development strategies of two countries, Scotland and New Zealand, over the period 2003-2007. Since governance of issues starts with formulation of strategic direction, texts that purport to address sustainable development stra... | {
"abstract": "Decision making is an important task for entrepreneurs, and proper performance of purchasing has a direct effect on decreasing costs, increasing profitability, and survival of an entrepreneur. Also, entrepreneurs must follow formal rational decision processes as much as possible with fewer costs. To do... |
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"abstract": "Nearly every popular programming language comes with one or more open source software packaging ecosystem(s), containing a large collection of interdependent software packages developed in that programming language. Such packaging ecosystems are extremely useful for their respective software developmen... | {
"abstract": "This paper explores the ecosystem of software packages for R, one of the most popular environments for statistical computing today. We empirically study how R packages are developed and distributed on different repositories: CRAN, BioConductor, R-Forge and GitHub. We also explore the role and size of e... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Despite its rising position as a first-class research object, scientific software remains a marginal object in studies of scholarly communication. This study aims to fill the gap by examining the co-mention network of R packages across all Public Library of Science (PLoS) journals. To that end... |
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"abstract": "OF DISSERTATION INVESTIGATIONS INTO THE HOME LAWN CARBON BALANCE AND IMPROVING THE EFFICACY OF T-PHYLLOPLANINS FOR COMBATING TURFGRASS DISEASES Over the past couple of decades, there has been an increased interest in evaluating the environmental impacts of some turfgrass management practices. Two indep... | {
"abstract": "In plants, defensive proteins secreted to leaf aerial surfaces have not previously been considered to be a strategy of pathogen resistance, and the general occurrence of leaf surface proteins is not generally recognized. We found that leaf water washes (LWW) of the experimental plant Nicotiana tabacum ... | {
"abstract": "A kinetic model analysis has been proposed to assess absorbed dose to an arbitrary tissue in [¹⁸F]-fluorodeoxyglucose ([¹⁸F]-FDG) positron emission tomography (PET) imaging, whose efficiency is demonstrated in physiological brain, by comparing calculated estimates with human literature data. First, an ... |
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"abstract": "The pathogenesis of many tumors, including brain tumors, has been associated with hypoxia, which induces the transcriptional activity of hypoxia-inducible Factor-1α (HIF-1α). HIF-1α is normally degradated by the von Hippel-Lindau protein (pVHL) but, in hypoxia, pVHL/HIF-1α interaction is inhibited resu... | {
"abstract": "Purpose Εnhanced expression of transcription factor hypoxia inducible factor HIF-1α is known to play a critical role in the modulation of cell metabolism and survival pathways as well as having stem-cell–like properties. Furthermore, accumulated data reveal the existence of cross-regulation between the... | {
"abstract": "PURPOSE\nTo study the in vitro angiogenic activity of human conjunctival and limbal epithelial cells and conjunctival, limbal, and corneal fibroblasts in a three-cell-type coculture model.\n\n\nMETHODS\nHuman umbilical vein endothelial cells (EC) were cocultured with epithelial cells, fibroblasts, or e... |
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"abstract": "Logging entails work in remote areas with multiple hazards and consistently ranks among the most fatal occupations in the United States. Location-sharing (LS) devices that enable users to communicate geographic positions to others have been suggested as a technological approach to improving workplace s... | {
"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nThe logging industry is recognized as one of the most dangerous professions in the U.S., but little is known about safety management practices on remote logging sites.\n\n\nMETHODS\nA total of six focus group sessions were held among logging supervisors and front line crew members in Arkans... | {
"abstract": "Part 1 The purpose of qualitative research: the role of theory levels of theory types of theory evaluating theory qualitative research quantitative research selecting an approach methodological threats to validity thinking qualitatively the power of qualitative inquiry. Part 2 An overview of qualitativ... |
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"abstract": "This paper provides empirical evidence on the total factor productivity (TFP) of the Thai rice sector. It measures growth rates of TFP for the main and second crops and investigates the factors influencing the growth. The study employs pooled cross-section and time-series data covering four regions (No... | {
"abstract": "This paper studies total factor productivity (TFP) in Thai agriculture to provide better empirical evidence on the TFP measure and the factors influencing it. It employs time-series data at an aggregate level over the period 1970-2006 for both crops and livestock,individually, using the conventional gr... | {
"abstract": "DomansKa, K., T. KijeK and a. nowaK, 2014. agricultural total factor productivity change and its determinants in european Union countries. Bulg. J. Agric. Sci., 20: 1273-1280 The present study concerns the measurement of changes in agricultural total factor productivity in 27 european Union (eU) countr... |
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"abstract": "This research investigates the impact of Building heights and unified building form over the microclimate variables within a residential community located in Dubai . The research begins by conducting a literature review to establish a profound base in which this research can develop by analyzing and un... | {
"abstract": "Rapid growth of urban population and urban area during the past 30 years in Bandar Abbas city with hot and \nhumid climate has been regarded as the major concern of urban designers and planners. In modern fabric climate \nresponse urban design has been ignored. This paper investigates the microclimate ... | {
"abstract": "This cross-cultural research is an inaugural attempt to investigate the outdoor thermal comfort and the effect of cultural and social differences in hot arid climates. Case studies were carefully selected in two different parts of the world (Marrakech in North Africa and Phoenix, Arizona, in North Amer... |
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"abstract": "Many crucial scientific computing applications, ranging from national security to medical advances, rely on high-performance linear algebra algorithms and technologies, underscoring their importance and broad impact. Here we present the state-of-the-art design and implementation practices for the accel... | {
"abstract": "This paper introduces a novel implementation in reducing a symmetric dense matrix to tridiagonal form, which is the preprocessing step toward solving symmetric eigenvalue problems. Based on tile algorithms, the reduction follows a two-stage approach, where the tile matrix is first reduced to symmetric ... | {
"abstract": "As multicore systems continue to gain ground in the high‐performance computing world, linear algebra algorithms have to be reformulated or new algorithms have to be developed in order to take advantage of the architectural features on these new processors. Fine‐grain parallelism becomes a major require... |
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"abstract": "A 45‐year‐old woman developed pulmonary veno‐occlusive disease (PVOD) following treatment with cyclophosphamide for nodular lymphocyte predominant Hodgkin lymphoma. The woman, who had nodular lymphocyte predominant Hodgkin lymphoma, was treated with RCHOP regimen consisting of cycloph... | {
"abstract": "BACKGROUND/AIMS\nWe aimed to analyze the clinical characteristics, pathologic features, treatment approaches, and prognostic factors of primary hepatic neuroendocrine tumor.\n\n\nMATERIALS AND METHODS\nWe retrospectively analyzed the clinical characteristics, pathologic features, treatment approaches, ... | {
"abstract": "How we interpret concepts from suffering to survival has been historically debated in the field of anthropology, transcultural psychiatry, and global mental health. These debates have centered on the notion that such concepts are cross-culturally reproducible, although scholars who work the boundaries ... |
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"abstract": "The marketing research in services sector has got importance during the last two decades because services sector has dominated by adding profits to service provider businesses and companies and by adding huge income to the economy of almost all countries. This research aims to study the importance of r... | {
"abstract": "Given that e-tailing service failure is inevitable, a better understanding of how service failure and recovery affect customer loyalty represents an important topic for academics and practitioners. This study explores the relationship of service failure severity, service recovery justice (i.e., interac... | {
"abstract": "ABSTRACT Managing customer trust, satisfaction, and loyalty attitudes of e-commerce services is very important for the long-term growth of many businesses. Previous research has shown that e-retailers experience difficulty maintaining customer loyalty despite the recent rapid growth in Business to Cust... |
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"abstract": "Thesis (M.Sc. Med.) (Epidemiology and Biostatistics))--University of the Witwatersrand, Faculty of Health Sciences, 2014.",
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"title": "Factors associated with ano-genital warts among human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infected patients at a Hillbrow clinic in Gauteng South Afr... | {
"abstract": "BackgroundHuman papillomaviruses are the most common sexually transmitted infections, and genital warts, caused by HPV-6 and 11, entail considerable morbidity and cost. The natural history of genital warts in relation to HIV-1 infection has not been described in African women. We examined risk factors ... | {
"abstract": "Smart manufacturing networks describe a production chain as a marketplace that delivers products on demand. In this chain, partners collaborate in product work routings that connect dispersed service-enabled systems with resources, materials, human expertise, and operation-equipment combinations. Resea... |
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"abstract": "Background Urinary tract infections (UTIs) are one the most common infections. The rapid and accurate identification of uropathogens, and the determination of antimicrobial susceptibility, are essential aspects of the management of UTIs. However, existing detection methods are associated with certain l... | {
"abstract": "ABSTRACT Objectives The increase in HIV transmissibility in non-ulcerative sexually transmitted infection is already well-established. It is estimated that symptomatic carriers of N. gonorrhoeae and C. trachomatis have a relative risk of 4.8-fold and 3.6-fold, respectively, for the sexual acquisition o... | {
"abstract": "Transclival meningoceles and primary spontaneous cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) leaks at the clivus are extremely rare lesions and only few of them have been reported in the literature. We report here six cases of transclival primary spontaneous CSF leaks through the clivus. A retrospective case study was p... |
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"abstract": "In this paper, we present a novel learning-based algorithm to super-resolve multiple partially occluded CCTV lowresolution face images. By integrating hierarchical patchwise alignment and inter-frame constraints into a Bayesian framework, we can probabilistically align multiple input images at differen... | {
"abstract": "In this paper, we consider the problem of super-resolving a human face video by a very high (/spl times/ 16) zoom factor. Inspired by the literature on hallucination and example-based learning, we formulate this task using a graphical model that encodes, (1) spatio-temporal consistencies, and (2) image... | {
"abstract": "This paper proposes a face hallucination method for the reconstruction of high-resolution facial images from single-frame, low-resolution facial images. The proposed method has been derived from example-based hallucination methods and morphable face models. First, we propose a recursive error back-proj... |
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"abstract": "Sue Whitesides University of Victoria 14.",
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"abstract": "We define the geometric thickness of a graph to be the smallest number of layers such that we can draw the graph in the plane with straight-line edges and assign each edge to a layer so that no two edges on the same layer cross. The geometric thickness lies between two previously studied quantities, th... | {
"abstract": "In this article, we examine a novel generic network cost minimization problem, in which every node has a local decision vector to optimize. Each node incurs a cost associated with its decision vector, while each link incurs a cost related to the decision vectors of its two end nodes. All nodes collabor... |
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"abstract": "Denoising diffusion probabilistic models (DDPM) are a class of generative models which have recently been shown to produce excellent samples. We show that with a few simple modifications, DDPMs can also achieve competitive log-likelihoods while maintaining high sample quality. Additionally, we find tha... | {
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"title": "PixelSNAIL: An Improved Autoregressive Generative Model"
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"abstract": "Most ethical work is done at a low level of formality. This makes practical moral questions inaccessible to formal and natural sciences and can lead to misunderstandings in ethical discussion. In this paper, we use Bayesian inference to introduce a formalization of preference utilitarianism in physical... |
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"abstract": "Left ventricular hypertrophy and impaired systolic and diastolic function are commonly seen in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD), but relationships between the disorders and cardiovascular outcomes are not well established among the patients.",
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"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nPatients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) are associated with increased cardiovascular (CV) morbidity and mortality. Echocardiographic measures of heart structure and function have been reported to predict adverse CV outcomes in various pathologic conditions. The aim of this study is to as... | {
"abstract": "Despite the recent enormous advances in medicine, high mortality and morbidity rates among the chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients remain an important but unresolved issue. Cardiovascular disease is a major cause of mortality and morbidity in patients with CKD. Abnormal left ventricular geometry and ... |
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"abstract": "Conceptual knowledge about objects is essential for humans, as well as for animals, to interact with their environment. On this basis, the objects can be understood as tools, a selection process can be implemented and their usage can be planned in order to achieve a specific goal. The conceptual knowle... | {
"abstract": "In this paper a Non-Monotonic Knowledge-Base (KB) for practical applications in service robots is presented. The KB is defined as a conceptual hierarchy with inheritance that supports the expression of defaults and exceptions. All classes and individuals, with their properties and relations, can be upd... | {
"abstract": "BACKGROUND ::: All species live in complex ecosystems. The structure and complexity of a microbial community reflects not only diversity and function, but also the environment in which it occurs. However, traditional ecological methods can only be applied on a small scale and for relatively well-unders... |
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"abstract": "Near real-time event streams are becoming a key feature of many popular web applications. Many web sites allow users to create a personalized feed by selecting one or more event streams they wish to follow. Examples include Twitter and Facebook, which a user to follow other users' activity, and iGoogle... | {
"abstract": "Early access to partial query results is highly desirable during exploration of massive data sets. However, it is challenging to provide transactionally consistent, immediate partial results without significantly increasing queries' execution time. To address this problem, this paper proposes a partial... | {
"abstract": "As data collections become larger and larger, users are faced with increasing bottlenecks in their data analysis. More data means more time to prepare the data, to load the data into the database and to execute the desired queries. Many applications already avoid using traditional database systems, e.g... |
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"abstract": "Power monitoring is needed in most electrical systems, and is crucial for ensuring reliability in everything from industrial and telecom applications, to automotive and consumer electronics. Power monitoring of integrated circuits (ICs) is also essential, as today ICs exist in most electrical and elect... | {
"abstract": "MIT Center for Materials Science and Engineering, a Materials Research Science and Engineering Center funded by the National Science Foundation under award number DMR 02-13282.",
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"title": "A Hands-On Approach to Advanced Undergraduate Instruction in Control and Circuitry in Po... | {
"abstract": "Power monitoring is needed in most electrical systems, and is crucial for ensuring reliability in everything from industrial and telecom applications, to automotive and consumer electronics. Power monitoring of integrated circuits (ICs) is also essential, as today ICs exist in most electrical and elect... |
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"abstract": "Hox gene products are key players in establishing positional identity along the anteroposterior (AP) axis. In vertebrates, gain or loss of Hox expression along the AP axis often leads to inappropriate morphogenesis, typically manifesting as homeotic transformations that affect the vertebrae and/or hind... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Exogenous retinoic acid (RA) can evoke vertebral homeosis when administered during late gastrulation. These vertebral transformations correlate with alterations of the rostral limit of Hox gene expression in the prevertebrae, suggesting that retinoid signaling regulates the combinatorial expre... | {
"abstract": "Four experiments were conducted with White Leghorn laying hens to estimate their requirement for tryptophan for optimal egg production and other parameters. In the first two experiments, the hens were fed a 14.5% protein diet supplemented with 0, .025, .05 and .075% L-tryptophan. The first experiment w... |
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"abstract": "Hypertrophic scarring after burns is an unsolved problem and remains as devastating today as it was in the 40s and it may be that the main reason for this is the lack of an accepted, useful animal model. The female, red Duroc pig was described as a model of hypertrophic scarring nearly 30 years ago but... | {
"abstract": "The hypertrophic scar occurs in healed skin from deep burns or equivalent injury in humans. It is erythematous, elevated, hard to the touch, and can produce severe contractures. This scar is characterized by marked increases in collagen and chondroitin-4-sulfate. Transmission electron microscopy, inclu... | {
"abstract": "We consider both the minimisation of a class of nonlocal interaction energies over non-negative measures with unit mass and a class of singular integral equations of the first kind of Fredholm type. Our setting covers applications to dislocation pile-ups, contact problems, fracture mechanics and random... |
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"abstract": "There are two independent molecules in the asymmetric unit of the title compound, C12H9ClN2O4S, in which the dihedral angles between the planes of the benzene rings are 46.90 (14) and 44.50 (14)°. In the crystal, N—H⋯O hydrogen bonds link the molecules into zigzag chains parallel to the a axis.",
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"abstract": "In the title compound, C12H9ClN2O4S, the dihedral angle between the aromatic rings is 73.65 (7)°. The amide H atom shows bifurcated hydrogen bonding, generating an intramolecular S(7) and an intermolecular C(4) motif.",
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"title": "N-(3-Chlorophenyl)-2-nitrobenzenesulfonamide"
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"abstract": "A series of solid-liquid phase change materials, thiourea derivatives, were prepared via condensation of thiourea with the respective carboxyl chlorides (lauroyl chloride, myristoyl chloride, and palmitoyl chloride) and were then characterized by using FT-IR, 1H-NMR, differential scanning calorimetry (... |
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"abstract": "We report the results of our systematic survey for Galactic 6.7 GHz Class II CH3OH maser emission toward a sample of young stellar objects. The survey was conducted with the Shanghai Tianma Radio Telescope (TMRT). The sample consists of 3348 sources selected from the all-sky Wide-field Infrared Survey ... | {
"abstract": "The primary reflector of the Tianma Radio Telescope (TMRT) distorts due to gravity, which dramatically reduces the aperture efficiency of high-frequency observations. A technique known as out-of-focus holography (OOF) has been developed to measure gravitational deformation. However, the TMRT has a shap... | {
"abstract": "This study explored the influence of social identity and social context on achievement in a counterstereotypical domain. A group of 114 inner-city African American and Mexican American 12-year-old students completed Kuhn and McPartland's (1954) 20-statement ‘Who Am I’ questionnaire and Rosenberg's (196... |
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"abstract": "Previous studies on home energy efficiency have traditionally focused on either the technical savings or on social aspects such as behavioural change. These studies have typically excluded the role of motivation, a key component in the implementation of energy efficiency refurbishment in owneroccupied ... | {
"abstract": "This article examines the discourse that the idea of efficiency is built upon according to different actors trying to influence households' energy behaviour in Sweden. The focus is on information from authorities as well as from interest organisations and energy companies. Information directed to house... | {
"abstract": "This paper presents a dual closed-loop impedance control scheme for a nonholonomic wheeled mobile manipulator in trajectory tracking with nonlinear contact disturbance. The kinematics and dynamics models of the mobile platform and n-links manipulator are established based on the Euler-Lagrangian approa... |
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"abstract": "Mafia-type criminal groups belonging to, or originated from, the Calabrian ‘ndrangheta from Southern Italy, have been object of recent academic research and media attention in Australia. The Australian ‘ndrangheta, as qualified form of organised crime, poses new challenges for law enforcement in the co... | {
"abstract": "With threats from diverse criminal organizations on the increase and current state approaches being of variable effectiveness, legislatures now need to take a more systematic and deliberative approach to framing policy and legal responses to criminal groups. This article proposes a typology of legislat... | {
"abstract": "Mafia-type criminal groups belonging to, or originated from, the Calabrian ‘ndrangheta from Southern Italy, have been object of recent academic research and media attention in Australia. The Australian ‘ndrangheta, as qualified form of organised crime, poses new challenges for law enforcement in the co... |
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"abstract": "Parents who experience stillbirth or infant death often struggle with postpartum guilt. This may be an adaptive response or can become chronic and maladaptive. We surveyed bereaved mothers in Michigan with perinatal death 15 months after loss to evaluate guilt, blame, and potential covariates. Self-rep... | {
"abstract": "This is the first systematic review of the evidence on the prevalence of self-blame, guilt, and shame in bereaved parents. A search of PsychINFO, MEDLINE, Embase, CINAHL, PubMed, and Science Direct resulted in 18 studies for the period 1975 to 2013 which the authors have appraised. Self-blame, guilt, a... | {
"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nA significant burn can severely impact the lives of survivors and their carers. This systematic review sought to incorporate the experiences of guilt, blame and shame across the lifespan for burn survivors, their families as well as the experiences of the parents of burned children.\n\n\nME... |
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"abstract": "The Survivable Software framework (SSW), developed under award AFOSR FA955009-1-0481, uses a synergistic combination of (1) compiler-assisted, aspect-oriented program instrumentation, (2) software monitoring with overhead control, (3) runtime verification with state estimation, and (4) adaptive runtime... | {
"abstract": "We present Adaptive Runtime Verification (ARV), a new approach to runtime verification in which overhead control, runtime verification with state estimation, and predictive analysis are synergistically combined. Overhead control maintains the overhead of runtime verification at a specified target level... | {
"abstract": "Autonomic communication and autonomic computing can solve many problems in managing complex network and computer systems, as well as network applications, where computing and networking coexist. Autonomic applications must be able to diagnose and repair their own faults automatically. In particular, th... |
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"abstract": "Dental caries is a biofilm-dependent disease that largely relies on the ability of Streptococcus mutans to synthesize exopolysaccharides. Although the rnc gene is suggested to be involved in virulence mechanisms in many other bacteria, the information regarding it in S. mutans is very limited. Here, us... | {
"abstract": "Campylobacter jejuni is a foodborne bacterial pathogen, which is now considered as a leading cause of human bacterial gastroenteritis. The information regarding ribonucleases in C. jejuni is very scarce but there are hints that they can be instrumental in virulence mechanisms. Namely, PNPase (polynucle... | {
"abstract": "Developing peripherally active cannabinoid 1 (CB1) receptor antagonists is a novel therapeutic approach for the management of obesity. An unusual phenothiazine scaffold containing CB1R antagonizing hit was identified by adopting virtual screening work flow. The hit so identified was further modified by... |
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"abstract": "Benzoates (naturally occurring plant toxins) produce pesticidal effects on various pest insects and mites, but their effects on non-target insects are poorly understood. In this study, we evaluate the lethal and sublethal toxicity of methyl benzoate (MB) to adults of the generalist predatory bug Nesidi... | {
"abstract": "Kaolin particle films and copper-based products can be considered as possible alternatives to traditional agrochemicals used for controlling the dominant pest of olive grove areas of the Mediterranean Basin, the olive fruit fly, Bactrocera oleae (Rossi) (Dip. Tephritidae), to which this pest has alread... | {
"abstract": "This paper presents a structure of the Wilkinson power divider that can suppress the nth harmonic output. The power divider consists of two /spl lambda//4n open stubs, which are located at the center of /spl lambda//4 branches and a parallel connection of a resistor and an inductor, which shunts the ou... |
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"abstract": "\n Future Square Kilometre Array (SKA) surveys are expected to generate huge data sets of 21 cm maps on cosmological scales from the Epoch of Reionization. We assess the viability of exploiting machine learning techniques, namely, convolutional neural networks (CNNs), to simultaneously estimate the ast... | {
"abstract": "Weak lensing maps contain information beyond two-point statistics on small scales. Much recent work has tried to extract this information through a range of different observables or via nonlinear transformations of the lensing field. Here we train and apply a two-dimensional convolutional neural networ... | {
"abstract": "We present a fully covariant and gauge-invariant calculation of the evolution of anisotropies in the cosmic microwave background radiation. We use the physically appealing covariant approach to cosmological perturbations, which ensures that all variables are gauge-invariant and have a clear physical in... |
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"abstract": "Fuzzy Cognitive Map (FCM) has gradually emerged as a powerful paradigm for knowledge representation and a simulation mechanism applicable to numerous research and application fields. However since efficient methods to determine the states of investigated system and to quantify causalities which are the... | {
"abstract": "Radiation therapy decision-making is a complex process that has to take into consideration a variety of interrelated functions. Many fuzzy factors that must be considered in the calculation of the appropriate dose increase the complexity of the decision-making problem. A novel approach introduces fuzzy... | {
"abstract": "Conventional geometrical camera calibration algorithms are usually based on running some iterative algorithms on test images obtained carefully from reference objects with precisely known pattern. Providing these test images and running the iterative algorithms are often time-consuming and sometimes co... |
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"abstract": "AbstractPellagra is a deficiency of niacin or its amino acid precursor, tryptophan, which presents with the classic four Ds: the characteristic dermatitis, diarrhea, dementia, and eventually death if left untreated. The incidence of pellagra is quite rare presently because of increased awareness and st... | {
"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nOutbreaks of pellagra were documented during the civil war in Angola, but no contemporary data on the incidence of pellagra or the prevalence of niacin deficiency were available.\n\n\nOBJECTIVE\nThe objective was to investigate the incidence of pellagra and the prevalence of niacin deficien... | {
"abstract": "\n This is an extension of work recently reported by Rose regarding young women using a combination of progesterone and estrogen for ovulation control. The 10 subjects studied had an abnormal xanthurenic acid excretion after a loading dose of tryptophan. After treatment with 2.5 mg norethynodrel and .1... |
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"abstract": "Algorithms based on the genetic algorithm (GA) and the particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm were designed for focusing inverse synthetic aperture radar (ISAR) images that suffered from degradation due to Doppler smearing. These algorithms optimized the adaptive joint-time frequency (AJTF) algori... | {
"abstract": "Abstract : When target motion is confined to a two-dimensional plane during coherent processing intervals, the adaptive joint time-frequency algorithms is shown to be an effective method for achieving rotational motion compensation in ISAR imaging. We illustrate the algorithm using both simulated and m... | {
"abstract": "Improved supply of farnesyl diphosphate (FPP) is often considered as a typical strategy for engineering Saccharomyces cerevisiae towards efficient terpenoid production. However, in the engineered strains with enhanced precursor supply, the production of the target metabolite is often impeded by insuffi... |
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"abstract": "Many magnetoencephalography (MEG) forward and inverse simulation models employ spheres, a singular shape which does not require consideration of volume currents. With more realistic, inhomogeneous, anisotropic, non-spherical head models, volume currents cannot be ignored. We verify the accuracy of the ... | {
"abstract": "This technical report has been submitted for review and possible publication in a journal. Because changes may be made before publication, this document is made available with the understanding that any journal version supersedes this document. Until such journal publication occurs, please cite this wo... | {
"abstract": "The co-design practice aims to involve city users in the (re)design of products and services of a territory meeting the real people needs. Although its application gives clear advantages to the territories, many problems of this practice prevent a real, effective, and continuous active participation of... |
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"abstract": "An uncommon side effect of cyclosporine A (CsA) use is posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome (PRES). PRES usually develops because of disturbed capacity of posterior cerebral blood flow to autoregulate an acute rise in blood pressure. We present the case of a 10-year-old girl who was previously ... | {
"abstract": "The histologic features of idiopathic forms of focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (FSGS) were first described by Theodor Fahr in the Handbuch der speziellen pathologischen Anatomie und Histologie in 1925 [1]. Over the subsequent eight decades much has been written about the histologic features and clin... | {
"abstract": "Context: A political science literature has emerged on the policy feedback effects of alternative health care coverage expansions, focusing on whether programs like Medicare, Medicaid, and the Affordable Care Act can generate robust public constituencies. Yet, scholars have mainly examined direct gover... |
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"abstract": "This paper presents a novel variable inductor consisting of a triple transformer, pMOSFET switches and a level shift circuit in 0.13 μm CMOS technology. The structure of the variable inductor is designed and analyzed by using Ansoft HFSS. The inductance varies from 0.678 nH to 1.055 nH with changing a ... | {
"abstract": "A novel resonant circuit consisting of transformer-based variable inductors and MOS varactors is proposed to implement an ultra-wideband voltage-controlled-oscillator (VCO). The VCO is designed and fabricated using 0.13 µm CMOS, and fully evaluated on wafer. The VCO IC exhibits a frequency tuning range... | {
"abstract": "Results from studies on the commissioning of the Global Calorimeter Trigger (GCT) of the CMS experiment are presented. Event-by-event comparisons of the hardware with a bit-level software emulation are used to achieve 100% agreement for all trigger quantities. In addition, a missing energy trigger base... |
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"abstract": "α- and β-chitosan with molecular weight of 190,000 and 800,000 respectively, were depolymerized by e-beam irradiation with various doses. The radiation yield of scission (Gs) and degradation rate of the chitosans were identified. The synergistic chemical degradation in the presence of hydrogen peroxide... | {
"abstract": "A fucoidan extracted from Sargassum fulvellum, was degraded by ultrasound (US) or electron beam (EB) irradiation in the presence of hydrogen peroxide aqueous solution. From the energetic point of view, the most effective method for the fucoidan degradation was found to be EB radiation method in H2O2 wi... | {
"abstract": "Fucoidan is a marine sulfated polysaccharide with a wide variety of biological activities. Recently, it has been reported that low molecular weight fucoidan has the enhanced antioxidant and anticoagulative activities. However, degradation techniques such as enzymolysis and acid hydrolysis for obtaining... |
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"abstract": "Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) is the second commonest nosocomial infection in paediatric intensive care units. New definitions about VAP have been proposed recently for better epidemiological study and clinical trials. Management approach is mainly based on adult recommendation because of scant... | {
"abstract": "ObjectiveTo compare the causative pathogens of early-onset and late-onset ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) diagnosed by bronchoalveolar lavage quantitative cultures. Most previous reports have been based on endotracheal aspirate cultures and gave uncertain findings.DesignProspective evaluation of ... | {
"abstract": "Nosocomial infections are a common complication of hospital care. Hospital-acquired (HAP) pneumonia is one of the most common nosocomial infections and it is the most dangerous in terms of mortality. The problem is mainly selected hospital bacterial strains with rising antibiotic resistance. Diagnosis ... |
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"abstract": "In 1980 Albertson and Berman introduced partial coloring and then in 2000, Albertson, Grossman, and Haas introduced partial list coloring. Here we initiate the study of partial coloring for DP-coloring (aka, correspondence coloring), a recent insightful generalization of list coloring introduced in 201... | {
"abstract": "Abstract DP-coloring is a generalization of list coloring introduced recently by Dvořak and Postle (2015). We prove that for every n -vertex graph G whose chromatic number χ ( G ) is “close” to n , the DP-chromatic number of G equals χ ( G ) . “Close” here means χ ( G ) ≥ n − O ( n ) , and we also sho... | {
"abstract": "Given a Tonelli Hamiltonian H:T*M → ℝ of class Ck, with k ≥ 2, we prove the following results: (1) Assume there exist a recurrent point of the projected Aubry set x¯ and a critical viscosity subsolution u such that u is a C1 critical solution in an open neighborhood of the positive orbit of x¯ . Suppos... |
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"abstract": "Highly directive antennas with beam steering capabilities are needed to overcome high path-loss, mitigate against interference from unwanted signals and to ensure network connectivity for the next generation 5G millimetre wave communication systems. Phased arrays using phase shifters are the convention... | {
"abstract": "Beamforming is central to the processing function of all phased arrays and becomes particularly challenging with a large number of antenna element (e.g. >100,000). The ability to beamform efficiently with reasonable power requirements is discussed in this paper. Whilst the most appropriate beamforming ... | {
"abstract": "Aperture arrays are widely used in beamforming applications where element signals are steered to a particular direction of interest and a single beam is formed. Multi-beamforming is an extension of single beamforming which is desired in the fields where sources located in multiple directions are of int... |
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"abstract": "Variations in the operative situation for complex head and neck defect reconstructions resulting from mechanisms such as trauma, oncologic resection, and prior radiation exposure can result in situations of a vessel‐depleted neck. This requires an awareness of alternate, innovative options for use in r... | {
"abstract": "PURPOSE\nThe purposes of this study were to delineate the maxillary artery and its branching arteries and to develop a classification of the various branching patterns by means of serial cadaver dissections of the pterygopalatine fossa region.\n\n\nMATERIALS AND METHODS\nFifteen Korean adult cadavers w... | {
"abstract": "Objective:To examine the effect of barley flour (barley cultivar, Hordeum Vulgare var Himalaya 292) incorporated into breakfast and lunch compared with otherwise identical meals containing white wheat flour on the thermic effect of food (TEF), subsequent food intake and metabolic parameters.Design:Rand... |
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"abstract": "ABSTRACT Although artificial intelligence (AI) has been adopted in sharing economy platforms, few studies have investigated this phenomenon in this context. Consequently, there is no thorough overview of how AI has been used in the sharing economy. To address this research gap, a systematic literature ... | {
"abstract": "Advances in computer science prompt the creation of new economic models. One of them in urban life is Sharing Economy. This new economic model receives high attentions and has been applied to a wide range of fields in recent years. We argue that sharing economy, and its applications, may be taken as a ... | {
"abstract": "Purpose – The purpose of this research is to examine the effect of flow experience on mobile social networking service (SNS) users' loyalty.Design/methodology/approach – Based on 305 valid responses collected from a survey questionnaire, structural equation modeling (SEM) technology was employed to exa... |
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"abstract": "This paper proposes two direct torque control (DTC) strategies to reduce the common-mode voltage (CMV) in the five-phase induction motor driven by three-level five-phase inverter. In each technique, 31 voltage vectors consisting of 30 nonzero voltage vectors, and a zero voltage vector are selected out ... | {
"abstract": "Exploiting the rich switching redundancies of the dual inverter, new hybrid pulsewidth-modulation (PWM) switching methods are proposed in this paper using the degree of freedom of operating the individual inverters independently, in addition to exercising the degree of freedom of controlling the switch... | {
"abstract": "In this paper the well-known voltage and current DC-link converter systems, used to implement an AC/AC converter, are initially presented. Using this knowledge and their space vector modulation methods we show their connection to the family of indirect matrix converters and then finally the connection ... |
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"abstract": "Estrone (E1), 17β-estradiol (E2), and estrone-sulfate (E1-3S) are released into the environment in significant amounts. They are known to adversely affect the endocrine systems of aquatic organisms. Although previous studies clearly demonstrate that free hormones sorb strongly to soil and degrade quick... | {
"abstract": "The suitability of sites for culture fisheries depends on the soil. There is therefore the need to have proper background on the nature and properties of soils. The pond oils, soil functions in fish pond, soil characterization, components and soil mineral constituents, oil profile soil classification, ... |
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"abstract": "laban movement analysis, specifically effort-shape analysis, is offered as a system to study musicians' bodily expression. It proposes others' intentions are manifest in expressive bodily activity and understood through shared embodied processes. The present investigation evaluates whether the basic co... | {
"abstract": "Abramovic, Marina and Pijnappel, Johan 1995. Marina Abramovic: cleaning the house. London: Academy Editions. Anderson, P. 2010. So much wasted: hunger, performance, and the morbidity of resistance. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press. Anderson, P. and Menon, J. 2009. Violence performed: local roots and... | {
"abstract": "Musicians' expressive bodily movements can influence observers' perception of performance. Furthermore, individual differences in observers' music and motor expertise can shape how they perceive and respond to music performance. However, few studies have investigated the bodily movements that different... |
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"abstract": "Template matching is the process of accurately extracting the interesting regions in a source image according to reference templates. In this paper, the gravitational search algorithm (GSA) is employed as a novel search strategy for template matching. However, the basic GSA is easily trapped in a local... | {
"abstract": "Gravitational search algorithm (GSA) is based on the feature of reciprocal acceleration tendency of objects with masses. The total force, which is formed as an influence of other agents, is an important variable in the calculation of agent velocity. It has been determined that the total force and, thus... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Particle swarm optimization (PSO) has been widely applied in solving optimization problems because of its simple execution with fast convergence and high solution quality as known. Previous research has observed the effect of PSO parameters on a particle’s movement and the solution performance... |
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"abstract": "We read with interest the article on the paradoxical association between high-molecular-weight (HMW) adiponectin and cardiovascular mortality in men with type 2 diabetes mellitus from the HPFS (Health Professional Follow-Up Study).1 These data resemble those we have previously reported2 in men with typ... | {
"abstract": "Objective—To examine select adipokines, including fatty acid–binding protein 4, retinol-binding protein 4, and high-molecular-weight (HMW) adiponectin in relation to cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality among patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus. Approach and Results—Plasma levels of fatty acid–bin... | {
"abstract": "CONTEXT\nLow adiponectin concentrations are associated with the presence of an adverse cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk profile.\n\n\nOBJECTIVE\nWe studied the predictive value of adiponectin levels for all-cause and CVD mortality and CVD morbidity.\n\n\nDESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS\nThis was a p... |
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"abstract": "Colin Dixon holds a Ph.D. in Learning & Mind Sciences from the University of California, Davis. He researches the development of STEM practices and agency among young people creating things to use and share with the world. He writes about equity and identity in making and engineering, the role of commu... | {
"abstract": "We present FoldMecha, a computational tool to help non-experts design and build paper mechanical toys. By customizing templates a user can experiment with basic mechanisms, design their own model, print and cut out a folding net to construct the toy. We used the tool to build two kinds of paper automat... | {
"abstract": "WordPress is a powerful and extensible platform for web-based information publishing and management. While the WordPress core is targeted to the publication of chronologically ordered textual articles typical of blogs, users have developed plugins as well as themes to support the data management requir... |
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"abstract": "Self‐reference is impaired in psychotic disorders such as schizophrenia, associated with disability, and closely related to characteristic patterns of aberrant brain connectivity. However, at present, it is unclear whether self‐reference is impacted in pathogenesis of the disorder. Alterations in conne... | {
"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nImpaired awareness of the self and others (i.e., metacognitive evaluations) are seen in schizophrenia. We compared patterns of activation in schizophrenia (SZ) and nonclinical subjects during a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) task of metacognitive evaluations that has been demo... | {
"abstract": "Synopsis Seventeen patients with anorexia nervosa were examined by computed tomography (CT) and psychometry and compared with ten normal control subjects. The patients were found to have enlarged external cerebrospinal fluid spaces compared to controls. No differences were found in ventricular size and... |
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"abstract": "OBJECTIVE\nTo determine whether the ocular anterior segment (aqueous humor and cornea) actively inhibits dendritic cell (DC) maturation.\n\n\nMETHODS\nDendritic cells were injected into syngeneic corneas or conjunctivae, and their surface major histocompatibility complex class II expression in response... | {
"abstract": "Studies from several laboratories on lung tissue samples from human and experimental animals have identified Ia+ cells with characteristic pleiomorphic (dendritic) morphology in the epithelium and underlying connective tissue, in both the conducting airways and in the distal lung. These dendritic cells... | {
"abstract": "Solar UVA, but not UVC, reaches the earth's surface and therefore is an important etiological factor for the induction of human skin cancer. ATM kinase is an important regulator of cell survival and cell cycle checkpoints. Here, we observe that UVA, unlike UVC, triggers ATM kinase activity, and the act... |
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"abstract": "Patients with psoriasis are at an increased risk for depression. Despite this risk, many dermatology care providers do not screen for depression in practice, including providers at the target practice for this project. This evidence-based practice pilot project was purposed to increase dermatology prov... | {
"abstract": "Background: Psoriasis is a chronic inflammatory disease of the skin that may affect the visible areas of body. Hence, the quality of life, self-esteem, and body image can be affected in psoriasis patients. Objectives: We aimed in the present study to assess the effects of psoriasis on the quality of li... | {
"abstract": "Background The aim of this study was to test the linguistic validation of the Turkish version of the Dermatology Life Quality Index (DLQI) for Turkish speaking dermatology patients.",
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"title": "Cross validation of the Turkish version of dermatology life qualit... |
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"abstract": "Active learning is a learning paradigm that actively acquires extra information with an \"effort\" for a certain \"gain\" when building learning models. This paper unifies the effort and gain by studying active learning in the cost-sensitive framework. The major advantage of studying active cost-sensit... | {
"abstract": "For many classification tasks a large number of instances available for training are unlabeled and the cost associated with the labeling process varies over the input space. Meanwhile, virtually all these problems require classifiers that minimize a nonuniform loss function associated with the classifi... | {
"abstract": "Active learning can actively select or construct examples to label to reduce the number of labeled examples needed for building accurate classifiers. However, previous works of active learning can only ask specific queries. For example, to predict osteoarthritis from a patient dataset with 30 attribute... |
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"abstract": "Objective: To observe the characteristics and evaluate the efficacy and safety of the chronic total rhegmatogenous retinal detachment (RRD) treatment by the 23-gauge pars plana vitrectomy (PPV) in young adults and to analyze the related factors. Methods: A retrospective chart review was performed for t... | {
"abstract": "Purpose To study the anatomical and visual outcomes and prognostic factors that may predict the outcomes of rhegmatogenous retinal detachment (RRD) in children. Methods A retrospective chart review was performed for patients 16 years of age or younger who underwent retinal reattachment surgery for RRD ... | {
"abstract": "Deterrence will often fail because it falls into the 'deterrence trap' - penalties are either not large enough or so large they exceed the capacity to pay. Responsive regulation, by contrast, builds commitment to compliance through moral suasion backed up by tough enforcement action. Empirical evidence... |
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"abstract": "The possibility of using the compositions of BaSO4-KPO3-Na2B4O7 system as a glass-solder (frit) material was shown. A glass formation region has been established in BaSO4-KPO3-Na2B4O7 system which is located in the borate-phosphate part of the concentration triangle and occupies ~41% of the triangle ar... | {
"abstract": "Ceramics bonding is becoming an important technology and has found wide applications in different engineering and electronic industries. In this paper, furnace bonding of ceramics using solder glass frit was investigated with emphasis on the effects of surface treatment and bonding conditions on bondin... | {
"abstract": "Preface 1. Background to ceramics 2. Elastic behaviour 3. Fundamentals of fracture chemicals 4. Geometrical aspects of dislocations 5. The flow stress and plastic flow 6. The fracture strength of ceramics 7. Impact resistance and toughness 8. Thermal stresses and fracture in ceramics 9. Engineering des... |
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"abstract": "Turbulent flows laden with finite-size solid particles are found in a variety of natural and engineering processes. However, the overall understanding of how the flow properties, such as turbulent intensity and flow drag, are modified by the addition of the particles is still limited. So far, the only ... | {
"abstract": "Direct numerical simulation of three-dimensional (3D) viscous flow in a wavy pipe is performed using the lattice Boltzmann approach, to study 3D flow features in a curved pipe with nonuniform curvature. We first validate the lattice Boltzmann approach by simulating a transient flow in a straight pipe. ... | {
"abstract": "In the present paper, the development of a high-resolution PIV-PLIF combined system for the simultaneous measurements of velocity and passive scalar concentration fields is described. The high-resolution PIV-PLIF combined system is used to perform the simultaneous whole-field measurements of velocity a... |
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"abstract": "Background-—Class IIa histone deacetylase (HDAC) isoforms such as HDAC5 are critical signal-responsive repressors of maladaptive cardiomyocyte hypertrophy, through nuclear interactions with transcription factors including myocyte enhancer factor-2. b-Adrenoceptor (b-AR) stimulation, a signal of fundame... | {
"abstract": "Background: Nucleocytoplasmic trafficking of class IIa histone deacetylases is crucial for various biological processes. Results: cAMP induces dephosphorylation at an SP motif conserved in HDAC4, HDAC5, and HDAC9 but not in HDAC7. Conclusion: Dephosphorylation at the SP motif governs cAMP sensitivity a... | {
"abstract": "Background/Aims: Multidrug resistance (MDR) triggered by ATP binding cassette (ABC) transporters, such as ABCB1, ABCC1, and ABCG2, is a key obstacle for successful cancer chemotherapy. There is currently no FDA-approved MDR modulator that can be used in clinic. Ceritinib, a selective ALK inhibitor, has... |
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"abstract": "Knowledge embedded within artificial neural networks (ANNs) is distributed over the connections and weights of neurons. So, the user considers ANN as a black box system. There are many researches investigating the area of rule extraction by ANNs. In this paper, a dynamic cell structure (DCS) neural net... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Multilayer perceptrons adjust their internal parameters performing vector mappings from the input to the output space. Although they may achieve high classification accuracy, the knowledge acquired by such neural networks is usually incomprehensible for humans. This fact is a major obstacle in... | {
"abstract": "We propose a supervised term weighting scheme for sentiment analysis.This scheme use ITD and ITS to measure the importance of a term in sentiment analysis.Experiment results on three real datasets show that our scheme outperforms state-of-the-art unsupervised approaches. Term weighting is a strategy th... |
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"abstract": "The battery equalizer using a multi winding transformer has the advantages of easy isolation and fast balancing, but is very difficult to be applied to a large battery string with large numbers of cells connected in series due to the serious mismatching of multiple windings, the high voltage stress on ... | {
"abstract": "This paper proposes a modularized global architecture using multi-winding transformers for battery cell balancing. The global balancing for a series-connected battery string is achieved based on forward conversion in each battery module and based on flyback conversion among modules. The demagnetization... | {
"abstract": "The relationship between hate group activity and hate crime is theoretically ambiguous. Hate groups may incite criminal behavior in support of their beliefs. On the other hand, hate groups may reduce hate crime by serving as a forum for members to verbally vent their frustrations or as protection from ... |
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"abstract": "A rapidly developing extratropical cyclone named Tini brought strong winds to Ireland and the United Kingdom on 12 February 2014. A mesoscale‐model simulation is used to analyze the development of the strong winds through the terms in the horizontal momentum equation. The maximum of near‐surface wind s... | {
"abstract": "The warm conveyor belt (WCB) of an extratropical cyclone generally splits into two branches. One branch (WCB1) turns anticyclonically into the downstream upper‐level tropospheric ridge, while the second branch (WCB2) wraps cyclonically around the cyclone centre. Here, the WCB split in a typical North A... | {
"abstract": "The parametrization of diabatic processes in numerical models is critical for the accuracy of weather forecasts and for climate projections. A novel approach to the evaluation of these processes in models is introduced in this contribution. The approach combines a suite of on‐line tracer diagnostics wi... |
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"abstract": "There is no better place for a plastic surgeon to donate time than in a third world country. There is a large demand for our services and little care available for deformed children. Many of these children are born with severe cleft lip/palate deformities that take stages to repair. The author presents... | {
"abstract": "The details of surgical techniques for primary correction of the unilateral cleft lip nose and their results for 45 cases are reported. The technique employed an infracartilaginous incision on the affected side, thus allowing direct suturing of the alar cartilage onto the lateral cartilage. For the pos... | {
"abstract": "New principles are introduced for the primary repair of the maxilla in congenital cleft deformities, founded on the assumption that periosteum and bone bordering the cleft possesses normal growth potential. By periosteum to periosteum apposition all around the cleft new bone was formed. In complete cle... |
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"abstract": "\n Stability is among the most important concepts in dynamical systems. Local stability is well-studied, whereas determining the ‘global stability’ of a nonlinear system is very challenging. Over the last few decades, many different ideas have been developed to address this issue, primarily driven by c... | {
"abstract": "Shifting ecosystem disturbance patterns due to climate change (for example, storms, droughts and wildfires) or direct human interference (for example, harvests and nutrient loading) highlight the importance of quantifying and strengthening the resilience of desired ecological regimes. Although existing... | {
"abstract": "Ecological resilience refers to the ability of a system to retain its state when subject to state variables perturbations or parameter changes. While understanding and quantifying resilience is crucial to anticipate the possible regime shifts, characterizing the influence of the system parameters on re... |
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"abstract": "Abstract Using a longitudinal study design, a group of 94 adolescents participated in a visual search task and a visuospatial ability task yearly for four consecutive years. We analyzed the association between changes in visuospatial ability and changes in visual search performance and behavior and est... | {
"abstract": "ABSTRACT Cognitive functions mature at different points in time between birth and adulthood. Of these functions, visuospatial skills, such as spatial memory and part-to-whole organization, have often been tested in children and adults but have been less frequently evaluated during adolescence. We studi... | {
"abstract": "OBJECTIVE\nThe objective of this study was to investigate the effects of aging on the strategic control of attention and the extent to which this relationship is mediated by working memory capacity (WMC). This study also sought to investigate boundary conditions wherein age differences in selectivity m... |
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"abstract": "Market available fermented indigo powders of Indian origin (FI1, FI2), Chinese origin (FC1, FC2), and raw indigo powders of Indian origin (R1, R2) were examined using TLC and HPLC analyses to investigate their pigment contents. TLC analysis gave values of 0.81 and 0.72 for blue and red pigments, respec... | {
"abstract": "Pigments are among the most important components of historical paintings and textiles and their nature provides the unique character of color. They can be divided into two main groups: inorganic and organic, extracted from plants or animals. Their identification is a necessary stage in the conservation... | {
"abstract": "3D magnetic porous carbon (MPCK) was prepared using the metal-organic framework (MOF) MIL-100(Fe) as the carbon precursor by carbonisation and KOH activation strategies. Carbonisation and activation ensured that MPCK possessed excellent structural and thermal stability, strong magnetic responsiveness a... |
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"abstract": "ABSTRACT Background: A patient presenting with fever and purpura after a stay in the tropics tempts a physician to make a differential diagnosis mainly focusing on imported diseases. Although the importance of considering a tropical disease is obvious, the fact that cosmopolitan infections account for ... | {
"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nToxic shock syndrome (TSS) is a severe, toxin-mediated illness that can mimic several other diseases and is lethal if not recognized and treated appropriately.\n\n\nOBJECTIVE\nThis review provides an emergency medicine evidence-based summary of the current evaluation and treatment of TSS.\n... | {
"abstract": "Blood cultures were performed on 141 newborn infants who had clinical features or laboratory data indicative of sepsis between January 1993 and April 1995. Clinical features included respiratory deterioration, poor activity, abdominal distension and apnea. Abnormal laboratory data included leukocytosis... |
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"abstract": "The recent Omnidirectional MediA Format (OMAF) standard, which specifies the delivery of 360° video content, supports only equirectangular projection (ERP) and cubemap projection and their region-wise packing with a limitation on video decoding capability to the maximum resolution of 4K (e.g., 4,096 × ... | {
"abstract": "The recent Omnidirectional MediA Format (OMAF) standard specifies delivery of 360° video content. OMAF supports only equirectangular (ERP) and cubemap projections and their region-wise packing with a limitation on video decoding capability to the maximum resolution of 4K (e.g., 4096x2048). Streaming of... | {
"abstract": "Cinematic virtual reality provides an immersive visual experience by presenting omnidirectional videos of real-world scenes. A key challenge is to develop efficient representations of omnidirectional videos in order to maximize coding efficiency under resource constraints, specifically, number of sampl... |
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"abstract": "We have examined prospectively whether the combined approach of establishing tolerance intervals for the circadian variability of blood pressure (BP) as a function of gestational age, and then determining the so-called hyperbaric index (area of BP excess above the upper limit of the tolerance interval)... | {
"abstract": "The evaluation of predictable variability in blood pressure by the use of ambulatory devices, and the proper processing of the time series thus obtained, can be useful for the early assessment of hypertensive complications in pregnancy. We have used this approach to quantify a predictable pattern of bl... | {
"abstract": "Whereas conventional time-unspecified single measurements of blood pressure and heart rate may mislead, influenced as they are, among other factors, by the individual's emotional state, position, diet and external stimuli generally, the chronobiologic evaluation of predictable variability in these phys... |
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"abstract": "Hemolytic uremic syndrome (eHUS) is a severe complication of human infections with Shiga toxins (Stxs)‐producing Escherichia coli. A key step in the pathogenesis of eHUS is the interaction of Stxs with blood components before the targeting of renal endothelial cells. Here, we show that a single proteol... | {
"abstract": "Shiga toxins (Stx) have a definite role in the development of hemolytic uremic syndrome in children with hemorrhagic colitis caused by pathogenic Stx-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) strains. The dramatic effects of these toxins on the microvasculature of different organs, particularly of the kidney, ... | {
"abstract": "The aim of this study is to use texture analysis as a non-destructive test for hard gelatin capsules filled with liquid formulations to investigate mechanical changes upon storage. A suitable amount of water in the formulations is determined to obtain the best possible compatibility with the gelatin sh... |
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"abstract": "Internet of Things (IoT) facilitates the integration between objects and different sensors to provide communication among them without human intervention. However, the extensive demand for IoT and its various applications has continued to grow, coupled with the need to achieve foolproof security requir... | {
"abstract": "Malware authors are increasingly using specialized toolkits and obfuscation techniques to modify existing malware and avoid detection by traditional antivirus software. The resulting proliferation of obfuscated malware variants poses a challenge to antivirus vendors, who must create signatures to detec... | {
"abstract": "To handle the large number of malware samples appearing in the wild each day, security analysts and vendors employ automated tools to detect, classify and analyze malicious code. Because malware is typically resistant to static analysis, automated dynamic analysis is widely used for this purpose. Execu... |
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"abstract": "Objective: The first cause of death worldwide is cardiovascular disease (CVD). CVD covers a wide array of disorders, including diseases of the cardiac muscle and of the vascular system supplying the heart, brain, and other vital organs. This research aims to the comprehensive impact that a series of li... | {
"abstract": "To estimate the direct cost of coronary heart disease (CHD) to the Iranian oil industry, we calculated the cost of essential services for 1253 CHD patients admitted to the National Iranian Oil Corporation (NIOC) Central Hospital. The direct cost of CHD at the Hospital was 10940 million rials (US$ 1 = 8... | {
"abstract": "A computer simulation model was developed to project the future mortality, morbidity, and cost of coronary heart disease (CHD) in the United States population. The model contains a demographic-epidemiologic (DE) submodel, which stimulates the distribution of coronary risk factors and the conditional in... |
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