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"abstract": "Vertebrate vision relies on the daily phagocytosis and lysosomal degradation of photoreceptor outer segments (POS) within the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE). However, how these events are controlled by light is largely unknown. Here, we show that the light‐responsive miR‐211 controls lysosomal biogen... | {
"abstract": "Ezrin is a member of the ERM (ezrin/radixin/moesin) family of proteins that links cortical cytoskeleton to the plasma membrane. High expression of ezrin correlates with poor prognosis and metastasis in osteosarcoma. In this study, to uncover specific cellular responses evoked by ezrin inhibition that c... | {
"abstract": "This edition has been revised and updated to take account of the substantial statutory developments in the law relating to housing associations, particularly the Housing Act 1988 and the Local Government and Housing Act 1988. New material is incorporated on tenants' rights, housing association finance,... |
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"abstract": ". Annual wintertime water-level drawdowns are a common management strategy in recreational lakes; however, few studies have estimated their relative impact on lake littoral habitat among a set of typically co-occurring anthropogenic stressors including lakeshore development and herbicide application. W... | {
"abstract": "The submerged aquatic vegetation of 17 Norwegian lakes is described and related to the environmental impacts that result from hydro-electric power (HEP) use of these lakes. Largely based upon physiognomical features, three main community types are discerned. These are denoted as (a) shallow-water, (b) ... | {
"abstract": "AbstractThere is growing evidence that species are able to coexist in communities through niche separation, and that consistent community structuring can take place at the biogeographical scale, as the same biotic interactions can determine species’ fate at large scales. In this study, we document nich... |
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"abstract": "Epileptic events elicit a large focal increase in cerebral blood flow (CBF) to perfuse metabolically active neurons in the focus. Conflicting data exists, however, on whether hemoglobin saturation increases or decreases in the focus and surrounding cortex, and whether CBF increases globally or is decre... | {
"abstract": "Abstract— The objective of the present experiments was to study metabolic correlates to the localization of neuronal lesions during sustained seizures. To that end, status epilepticus was induced by i.v. administration of bicuculline in immobilized and artificially ventilated rats, since this model is ... | {
"abstract": "The purpose of this study was to investigate the informative value of single photon emission tomography (SPECT) in relation to the pathophysiological functioning of the brain during absence seizures and the origin of ictal discharges in idiopathic generalized epilepsies (IGEs). Six patients with childh... |
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"abstract": "Background: The increasing incidence of people affected by overweight or obesity is a significant health problem. The knowledge of the factors which influences the inappropriate eating behaviors causing excessive body fat is an essential goal for the research. Overweight and obesity are significant ris... | {
"abstract": "Two primary factors that contribute to obesity are unhealthy eating and sedentary behavior. These behaviors are particularly difficult to change in the long-term because they are often enacted habitually. Cognitive Remediation Therapy has been modified and applied to the treatment of obesity (CRT-O) wi... | {
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"title": "Twitter as a Corpus for Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining"
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"abstract": "Cooperative multi-agent planning (MAP) is a relatively recent research field that combines technologies, algorithms, and techniques developed by the Artificial Intelligence Planning and Multi-Agent Systems communities. While planning has been generally treated as a single-agent task, MAP generalizes th... | {
"abstract": "Multi-agent planning (MAP) approaches are typically oriented at solving loosely coupled problems, being ineffective to deal with more complex, strongly related problems. In most cases, agents work under complete information, building complete knowledge bases. The present article introduces a general-pu... | {
"abstract": "This paper reports the outcome of the third in the series of biennial international planning competitions, held in association with the International Conference on AI Planning and Scheduling (AIPS) in 2002. In addition to describing the domains, the planners and the objectives of the competition, the p... |
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"abstract": "Background The continuing decline in AIDS-related deaths in the African region is largely driven by the steady scale-up of antiretroviral therapy. However, there are challenges to retaining people living with HIV on treatment. Call for Life Uganda (CFLU) is an interactive voice response tool using simp... | {
"abstract": "Purpose: The study investigated the level of adherence and factors affecting adherence to antiretroviral treatment (ART). Methods: The study sample consisted of 300 HIV-infected patients who received ART in the Antiretroviral Clinic of Central Hospital, Agbor, Delta State, Nigeria. Self-reported adhere... | {
"abstract": "In modern times crossbow - a ranged weapon diffused during Middle Ages - is increasing its popularity in recreational hunting and sports; crossbow bolts have a great penetration capacity, despite their low initial velocity. Great concerns emerge when considering that notwithstanding crossbow is a poten... |
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"abstract": "The human visual system contains a hierarchical sequence of modules that take part in visual perception at different levels of abstraction, i.e., superordinate, basic, and subordinate levels. One important question is to identify the “entry” level at which the visual representation is commenced in the ... | {
"abstract": "Earlier studies suggested that the visual system processes information at the basic level (e.g., dog) faster than at the subordinate (e.g., Dalmatian) or superordinate (e.g., animals) levels. However, the advantage of the basic category over the superordinate category in object recognition has been cha... | {
"abstract": "The aim of this article was to perform a systematic review on the role of melatonin in the prevention of cancer tumorigenesis—in vivo and in vitro—as well as in the management of cancer correlates, such as sleep-wake and mood disturbances. The International Agency for Research on Cancer recently classi... |
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"abstract": "In this paper an information theoretic approach is provided for resolving border ambiguity under partial occlusion. The proposed framework allows structural interpretation of images prior to the application of domain specific knowledge. The central idea behind MDL based figure-ground grouping is mergin... | {
"abstract": "We use cluster analysis as a unifying principle for problems from low, middle and high level vision. The clustering problem is viewed as graph partitioning, where nodes represent data elements and the weights of the edges represent pairwise similarities. Our algorithm generates samples of cuts in this ... | {
"abstract": "Network-centric computing involves fundamental changes at many levels that amount to a substantial paradigm shift in computing. Creative approaches and competent strategies to manage the network-centric environment at both the instructional design and user levels need to be established and understood i... |
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"title": "Deciphering the oncogenic network of PRC-2 loss guided leukemogenesis"
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"abstract": "Deletion of Ezh2 results in transcriptional repression of developmental regulator genes, derepression of oncogenic polycomb targets, and induction of MDS/MPN-like disease in mice that is exacerbated by concurrent deletion of Tet2.",
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"title": "Concurrent loss of Ezh2 and Tet2 coo... | {
"abstract": "In embryonic stem (ES) cells, bivalent chromatin domains with overlapping repressive (H3 lysine 27 tri-methylation) and activating (H3 lysine 4 tri-methylation) histone modifications mark the promoters of more than 2,000 genes. To gain insight into the structure and function of bivalent domains, we map... |
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"abstract": "The efficiency of common subexpression identification is critical to the performance of multiple-query processing. In this paper, we develop a multigraph for representing and facilitating the processing of multiple queries. In addition to the traditional multiple-query processing approaches in exploiti... | {
"abstract": "An approach for adding a new component without radically changing an existing single-query optimizer (SQO) is proposed. A new way of organizing the strategy space of a set of queries being optimized is proposed for developing a multiple-query optimizer (MQO) architecture. The architecture relies on the... | {
"abstract": "New techniques allow for more efficient boundary integral algorithms to compute the Dirichlet-Neumann map for Laplace's equation in two-dimensional exterior domains. Novelties include a new post-processor which reduces the need for discretization points with 50%, a new integral equation which reduces t... |
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"abstract": "Real estate appraisal practice stresses the three traditional approaches to valuation (cost, sales comparison, and income approaches) to value contaminated properties. This paper discusses the possibility and usefulness of a fourth approach to real estate valuation – the contingent valuation method (CV... | {
"abstract": "This study presents evidence of strategic behaviour in faculty/staff members' reports of willingness-to-pay at a public university. The results suggest that (1) students have a higher mean willingness-to-pay than faculty/staff and that (2) faculty/staff reject clear gains because they expect a revision... | {
"abstract": "The Next Generation Science Standards call for the infusion of engineering content and practices within elementary science curriculum. This mixed methods study explored elementary teachers’ perceptions about incorporating engineering within K-5 classrooms as well as the barriers they perceive to doing ... |
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"abstract": "We tested agriculturally and chemically degraded Brunic Arenosol and Abruptic Luvisol of contrasting textures to establish the early response of soil quality to two different mineral fertilizers (Polifoska and urea) amended with microbes applied in optimal and reduced doses. The soil samples were colle... | {
"abstract": "Abstract The aim of this study was to investigate the response of soil microbial parameters to nutrient management practices involving organic amendments, farmyard manure (FYM), vermicompost (VC), crop residues (CR) and biofertilizers (BF) in rice–wheat and rice–wheat–mung bean cropping system of the I... | {
"abstract": "ABSTRACT Soil quality degradation associated with resources scarcity is the major concern for the sustainability of conventional rice-wheat system in South Asia. Replacement of conventional management practices with conservation agriculture (CA) is required to improve soil quality. A field experiment w... |
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"abstract": "Declustering techniques are widely used in distributed environments to reduce query response time through parallel I/O by splitting large files into several small blocks and then distributing those blocks among multiple storage nodes. Unfortunately, however, many small geospatial image data files canno... | {
"abstract": "While aggregating the throughput of existing disks on cluster nodes is a cost-effective approach to alleviate the I/O bottleneck in cluster computing, this approach suffers from potential performance degradations due to contentions for shared resources on the same node between storage data processing a... | {
"abstract": "Declustering techniques are widely used in distributed environments to reduce query response time through parallel I/O by splitting large files into several small blocks and then distributing those blocks among multiple storage nodes. Unfortunately, however, many small geospatial image data files canno... |
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"abstract": "As one of the nonessential amino acids (NEAAs), serine is involved in the anabolism of multiple macromolecular substances by participating in one-carbon unit metabolism. Thus, rapidly proliferating cells such as tumor cells and activated immune cells are highly dependent on serine. Serine supports the ... | {
"abstract": "The mammalian target of rapamycin complex 1 (mTORC1) is a key regulator of cellular metabolism and also has fundamental roles in controlling immune responses. Emerging evidence suggests that these two functions of mTORC1 are integrally linked. However, little is known regarding mTORC1 function in contr... | {
"abstract": "A \"switch\" from oxidative phosphorylation (OXPHOS) to aerobic glycolysis is a hallmark of T cell activation and is thought to be required to meet the metabolic demands of proliferation. However, why proliferating cells adopt this less efficient metabolism, especially in an oxygen-replete environment,... |
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"abstract": "A very fast technique to design prototype filters for modulated filter banks without using time-consuming multivariable optimization is introduced. In the proposed method, the prototype filter is optimized by using the windowing technique, with the novelty of exploiting spline functions in the transiti... | {
"abstract": "The authors propose the use of transition bands and transition functions in the ideal amplitude frequency response to allow the analytical design of optimal least-squared-error FIR digital filters with an explicit control of the transition band edges. Design formulas are derived for approximations to i... | {
"abstract": "In this study, strain BAPb.1 was isolated from lead mining area and used as an adsorbent to remove lead(II) ions from aqueous solution. The physicochemical characteristics, heavy metal resistance and antibiotic sensitivity of strain BAPb.1 were investigated. Biosorption capacity was evaluated by batch ... |
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"abstract": "Objetivo: Explorar los conocimientos y las habilidades que tienen los profesionales del area maternoinfantil de los centros sanitarios de Melilla sobre mutilacion genital femenina (MGF). \n \nMaterial y metodos: Estudio transversal descriptivo, realizado en Melilla, basado en una encuesta autoadministr... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Objective To strengthen the national framework for care of adolescents and women affected by female genital cutting (FGC) in Canada by providing health care professionals with: (1) information intended to strengthen their knowledge and understanding of the practice; (2) directions with regard ... | {
"abstract": "Summary Background Women who have undergone female genital mutilation rarely have access to the reconstructive surgery that is now available. Our objective was to assess the immediate and long-term outcomes of this surgery. Methods Between 1998 and 2009, we included consecutive patients with female gen... |
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"abstract": "Interruption of plant operation can be avoided if non destructive testing inspections are performed on-line at operating temperatures, which may be up to several hundred degrees Celsius in a petrochemical or electric power generating plant. However, there are operational temperature limits of the phase... | {
"abstract": "This paper presents a review of the methods by which phased-array formed beams can be analysed for steering and resolution limitations. In-house methods have been developed by several users and an ASTM Standard Guide has also been produced that provides some options. However, the concepts of beam chara... | {
"abstract": "Morphology evolution of the multicomponent metallic glass film obtained by radio frequency (RF) magnetron sputtering was investigated in the present work. Two modes of metallic glass sputtering were distinguished: smooth film mode and clustered film mode. The sputtering parameters, which have the most ... |
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"abstract": "In this paper, we discuss various techniques for the efficient organization of a coherency preserving dynamic data dissemination network. The network consists of sources of dynamically changing data, repositories to serve this data, and clients. Given the coherency properties of the data available at v... | {
"abstract": "Many web users monitor dynamic data such as stock prices, real-time sensor data and traffic data for making on-line decisions. Instances of such data can be viewed as data streams. In this paper, we consider techniques for creating a resilient and efficient content distribution network for such dynamic... | {
"abstract": "Content distribution network (CDN) is a technique deployed to push content from the origin server to geographically distributed replicas, usually located at the edge of the network where the clients are attached. One of the important problems in CDNs is how to manage the consistency of content at repli... |
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"abstract": "Early dislocation is a very common common complication after total hip arthroplasty. The incidence of early dislocation is approximately 3-5% but numbers as high as 15% have been reported. The Hip Dislocation Preventer is designed to prevent these early dislocations by constricting the extreme movement... | {
"abstract": "Total hip arthroplasty (THA) is one of the most reliable procedures that can provide shortterm high clinical success rates and long-term durable outcome. The surgery has been developed for more than 40 years and most of the clinical practices are standardized for the patient care. In the past, THA had ... | {
"abstract": "Electroluminescence has taken a new turn with the combination of organic light-emitting diodes and inorganic quantum dots. The efficiency of light emission is much higher in the latest easy-to-make device.",
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"title": "Applied physics: A light-emitting sandwich f... |
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"abstract": "Planar Gunn diodes have been scaled vertically through combining multiple active epilayer stacks present in previously successful GaAs/AlGaAs devices. Comparison of results from fabricated devices with those simulated using a Monte Carlo approach suggest that while current and power output rises in suc... | {
"abstract": "We show the experimental realisation of fundamental mode operation of planar Gunn diode structures fabricated in GaAs/AlGaAs quantum wells. The electron density in the active channel is enhanced by positioning double delta-doping layers on either side. Small signal measurement shows that a typical devi... | {
"abstract": "Efficient second-harmonic power extraction was demonstrated recently with GaAs tunnel injection transit-time (TUNNETT) diodes up to 235 GHz and with InP Gunn devices up to 325 GHz. This paper discusses the latest theoretical and experimental results from second-harmonic power extraction at submillimete... |
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"abstract": "Cada vez son más complejos los retos que las empres as afrontan para garantizar su sostenibilidad. Son mayores las expectativas de los clientes en un mercado globaliz ado, donde el acceso a productos de la competencia o soluciones sustitutas es cada vez más fácil; compromiso por re ducir y reparar los ... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Technology Roadmapping (TRM) is a growing technique widely used for strategy planning and aligning technology with overall business objectives. Technology roadmaps are extensively used in many diverse fields at product, technology, industry, company and national levels. An increasing number of... | {
"abstract": "When RCN president Sylvia Denton launched the college's general election manifesto at the annual meeting and autumn con- ference in Belfast, she told nurses they can be the powerhouse for change. The reality is that they can, and never more so than around the issue of methicillin-resistant Staphylococc... |
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"abstract": "Reading the news is a favorite hobby for many people anywhere in the world. With the popularity of the Internet and social media, users are constantly provided, or even bombarded, with the latest news around the world. With numerous sources of news, it has become a real challenge for users to follow th... | {
"abstract": "Generally web search engines are built to serve all users, independent of the individual needs of any user. Personalization of web search is to carry out retrieval for each user incorporating their interest. This has become an important factor in daily usage as it improves the retrieval effectiveness o... | {
"abstract": "Generation and detection of millimeter-wave carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM) have been of growing interest. In this paper, we evaluate patch antenna arrays with different arrangements as OAM generators and receivers by simulation. We compare beam evolution processes and steering performance for ... |
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"abstract": "Monitoring and prediction of within-field crop variability can support farmers to make the right decisions in different situations. The current advances in remote sensing and the availability of high resolution, high frequency, and free Sentinel-2 images improve the implementation of Precision Agricult... | {
"abstract": "article i nfo Accurate assessment of temporal changes in gross primary production (GPP) is important for carbon budget assessments and evaluating the impact of climate change on crop productivity. The objective of this study was to devise a simple remote sensing-based GPP model to quantify daily GPP of... | {
"abstract": "Abstract It will be many years before the recently deployed network of fine particulate matter with an aerodynamic diameter less than 2.5 [H9262]m (PM2.5) Federal Reference Method (FRM) samplers produces information on nonattainment areas, trends, and source impacts. However, data on PM2.5 and its majo... |
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"abstract": "There are many methodological approaches within ecological economics. Modifications to the neoclassical paradigm represents one of the principal modes of analysis. This paper examines the parallels between the ideas of some ecological economists concerning production and consumption, when viewed from a... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Two of the most basic considerations in collective choice are the Pareto principle and some minimal protection of individual rights. In his Impossibility Theorem, Sen (1970) shows that there is a potential inconsistency between preference sovereignty (as expressed by the Pareto condition) and ... | {
"abstract": "type=\"main\" xml:lang=\"en\"> This paper analyses the effects of executive compensation and ownership structure on loan quality of banks. The study uses a panel data on 26 Ghanaian banks over the period, 2003–2011. Using a dynamic panel model, estimations are made using the Generalized Method of Momen... |
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"abstract": "Can North Korea implement Chinese-style reform and opening-up policies? This is an important question, directly relevant to the policy debate on North Korea’s nuclear challenges. Through comparative historical analysis, I argue that Pyongyang has failed to adopt the Chinese-style reform and opening-up ... | {
"abstract": "Self-sustainability is a crucial step for modern sensor networks. Here, we offer an original and comprehensive framework for autonomous sensor networks powered by renewable energy sources. We decompose our design into two nested optimization steps: the inner step characterizes the optimal network opera... | {
"abstract": "This article focuses on a new type of wireless devices in the domain between RFIDs and sensor networks—Energy-Harvesting Active Networked Tags (EnHANTs). Future EnHANTs will be small, flexible, and self-powered devices that can be attached to objects that are traditionally not networked (e.g., books, f... |
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"abstract": "Zusammenfassung Insuffizienzfrakturen des Os sacrum werden in letzter Zeit immer häufiger detektiert, wobei aufgrund der steigenden Lebenserwartung die Inzidenz weiter zunehmen wird. Ein Teil der Patienten ist, bedingt durch die starken Frakturschmerzen, invalidisiert und lässt sich durch eine konserva... | {
"abstract": "Context and Objective: Pain-related immobility because of insufficiency fractures may result in serious complications and a high mortality rate in senile patients with preexisting comorbidities. This study aimed to evaluate the efficacy of teriparatide in patients with sacral insufficiency fractures. D... | {
"abstract": "Since FDA approval in 2002, teriparatide has gained popularity as an anabolic therapy for the treatment of osteoporosis. Animal studies have suggested a role for teriparatide in spine surgery. Several recent studies have demonstrated adjunctive use of teriparatide in osteoporotic patients undergoing sp... |
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"abstract": "Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is a genetically heterogeneous cardiac muscle disorder with a diverse natural history, characterized by unexplained left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH), with histopathological hallmarks including myocyte enlargement, myocyte disarray and myocardial fibrosis. Although th... | {
"abstract": "Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is a common inherited heart disease with serious adverse outcomes, including heart failure, arrhythmias, and sudden cardiac death. The discovery that mutations in sarcomere protein genes cause HCM has enabled the development of mouse models that recapitulate clinical m... | {
"abstract": "Prolonged 4-APP administration to dexamethasone/ACTH-treated rats was found to lower both plasma and intra-adrenal gland cholesterol concentrations. Morphological examination showed that zona fasciculata cells underwent a severe lipid droplet depletion, and a conspicuous increase of agranular endoplasm... |
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"abstract": "Up to the present day, studies on the therapeutic properties of camel (Camelus spp.) urine and the detailed characterization of its metabolomic profile are scarce and often unrelated. Information on inter individual variability is noticeably limited, and there is a wide divergence across studies regard... | {
"abstract": "Recent studies from the author’s laboratory indicated that camel urine possesses antiplatelet activity and anti-cancer activity which is not present in bovine urine. The objective of this study is to compare the volatile and elemental components of bovine and camel urine using GC–MS and ICP–MS analysis... | {
"abstract": "Abstract. Lipo-chitooligosaccharides (LCOs), or Nod factors, are host-specific bacteria-to-plant signal molecules essential for the establishment of a successful N2-fixing legume–rhizobia symbiosis. At submicromolar concentrations Nod factors induce physiological changes in host and non-host plants. He... |
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"abstract": "ASSESSMENT OF NANOCOMPOSITES VS. AMORPHOUS SOLID DISPERSIONS FOR DISSOLUTION ENHANCEMENT OF BCS CLASS II DRUGS",
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"title": "Assessment of nanocomposites vs. amorphous solid dispersions for dissolution enhancement of bcs class ii drugs"
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"abstract": "In this paper the stability of the arsenic sulfide (As4S4) nanosuspension prepared by wet milling in a circulation mill in the environment of copolymer Poloxamer 407 was studied. The obtained As4S4 particles in nanosuspension were of ∼ 100 nm in size. The influence of temperature and UV irradiation on ... | {
"abstract": "ABSTRACTPurposeTo investigate anti-solvent crystallization and growth mechanism of nitrendipine spherical crystals in an aqueous solution containing polymeric additives.MethodsSize and shape of crystals were investigated using laser diffractometry, optical microscopy and scanning electron microscopy (S... |
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"abstract": "The topic of insider threat detection is getting an increased concern from academia, industry, and governments due to the growing number of malicious insider incidents. A malicious insider threat is devised of a set of anomalous behaviours attributed to an insider who exploit their privileges with the ... | {
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"title": "Insider Threat Detection in PRODIGAL"
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"title": "Enterprise data breach: causes, challenges, prevention, and future directions"
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"abstract": "To what extent meditation techniques (which incorporate practices to regulate attention, construct individual values, or deconstruct self-related assumptions), are more or less effective than relaxation therapy in the treatment of anxiety, is not clear. The aim of this study was to examine the effectiv... | {
"abstract": "Meditation can be conceptualized as a family of complex emotional and attentional regulatory training regimes developed for various ends, including the cultivation of well-being and emotional balance. Among these various practices, there are two styles that are commonly studied. One style, focused atte... | {
"abstract": "In this work, we present a methodology for spike enhancement in electroencephalographic (EEG) recordings. Our approach takes advantage of the non-stationarity nature of the EEG signal using a time-varying autoregressive model. The time-varying coefficients of autoregressive model are estimated using th... |
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"abstract": "Background: Chronic kidney disease (CKD) and uremic syndrome cause malfunction in most of organs including skin. Objectives: This study was designed to investigate the effects of omega-3 supplement on uremic pruritus in chronic hemodialysis patients. Patients and Methods: In this double-blind randomize... | {
"abstract": "Background Uremic pruritus is a common and bothersome complaint among end-stage renal disease which affect between 25% and 60% of this population .But there is no decisive cure for treatment of it. In this study, the effects of omega-3 for treatment of pruritus were investigated in hemodialysis patient... | {
"abstract": "Background: Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGBP) has received a lot of attention with the prevalence of obesity. However, some patients report more weight loss and more malnutrition, which is thought to be due to differences in common Limb length (CLL) in patients. Surgeons reported alimentary limb length ... |
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"abstract": "Highly functionalized fullerenes can be efficiently constructed by various techniques. However, the challenge is to synthesize highly symmetrical fullerenes. Recently, a number of X-ray structures have been disclosed showing the high symmetry of substituted fullerenes. By reviewing the major types of m... | {
"abstract": "Polyplexes prepared from DNA and globular compact polycationic derivatives constructed around a fullerene hexakis-adduct core have shown remarkable gene delivery capabilities.",
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"title": "Gene delivery with polycationic fullerene hexakis-adducts."
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"abstract": "Multidrug-resistant microorganisms (MDRMOs) are progressively becoming an unavoidable challenge to worldwide health. Conventional antibiotics pressure resulted in increased bacterial efflux pumps lessening drug concentrations, up-regulated enzymes modifying/inactivating antibiotic compounds, or elevate... |
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"abstract": "Pseudorabies has been controlled efficiently in China for many years by vaccination. However, it suddenly broke out in many pig farms in 2012-2013 in southern China. In this study, a systematic investigation that included virus isolation, genetic and pathological studies, and immunogenicity analysis wa... | {
"abstract": "In the United States of America, Aujeszky's disease (pseudorabies) has been eradicated from all domestic swine. Some re-emergence of infection occurred as vaccine use diminished. Sporadic outbreaks have also occurred because of the reservoir of infection in feral swine that have spread across the south... | {
"abstract": "In late 2011, severe pseudorabies (PR) outbreaks occurred among swine herds vaccinated with the Bartha-K61 vaccine in many provinces of China, causing enormous economic losses for the pork industry. To understand the epidemic profile and genetic characteristics of the pseudorabies virus (PRV), a total ... |
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"abstract": "The 1992 M7.3 Landers earthquake may have played a role in triggering the 1999 M7.1 1 Hector Mine earthquake as suggested by their close spatial (∼20 km) proximity. Current investigations of triggering by static stress changes produce differing conclusions when small variations in parameter values are ... | {
"abstract": "THE magnitude 7.5 Landers earthquake of 28 June 1992 was the largest earthquake to strike California in 40 years. The slip that occurs in such an earthquake would be expected to induce large changes in the static stress on neighbouring faults; these changes in stress should in turn affect the likelihoo... | {
"abstract": "\n A complete set of closed analytical expressions is presented in a unified manner for the internal displacements and strains due to shear and tensile faults in a half-space for both point and finite rectangular sources. These expressions are particularly compact and systematically composed of terms r... |
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"abstract": "The thermal conductivity of high-quality narrow-bandgap (0.77eV) InN grown on GaN on sapphire substrate by pulsed- MOVPE method was measured and analyzed. To accurately extract the thermal conductivities of GaN and InN films grown on sapphire substrate, 2D multilayer thermal diffusion model and extende... | {
"abstract": "a b s t r a c t In this study, we report on the pulsed metalorganic vapor phase epitaxy (MOVPE) of InN as well as the optical and electronic properties of the films as a function of V/III ratio and growth temperatures. The growth of InN films was conducted utilizing a vertical reactor with TMIn and NH ... | {
"abstract": "The effect of an AlN buffer layer on the epitaxial growth of InN by molecular-beam epitaxy (MBE) is studied. Using an AlN buffer layer can significantly improve the structural and electrical properties of InN. With increasing thickness of the AlN buffer layer, the Hall mobility of InN will monotonicall... |
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"abstract": "The polypeptide hormone calcitonin is well known clinically for its ability to relieve osteoporotic back pain and neuropathic pain such as spinal canal stenosis, diabetic neuropathy, chemotherapy-induced neuropathy, and complex regional pain syndrome. Because the analgesic effects of calcitonin have a ... | {
"abstract": "BackgroundCalcitonin is used as a treatment to reduce the blood calcium concentration in hypercalcemia and to improve bone mass in osteoporosis. An analgesic effect of calcitonin has been observed and reported in clinical situations. Ovariectomaized (OVX) rats exhibit the same hormonal changes as obser... | {
"abstract": "Metabolic oscillations are characterized by alternating phases of high and low respiratory activity, associated with transcription of genes involved in biosynthetic pathways and growth, and in catabolism and stress response. However, the functional consequences of transcriptome oscillations remain uncl... |
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"abstract": "Social scientists have shown evidence that visual perceptions of urban attributes, such as safe, wealthy, and beautiful perspectives of the given cities, are highly correlated to the residents’ behaviors and quality of life. Despite their significance, measuring visual perceptions of urban attributes i... | {
"abstract": "Computer vision methods that quantify the perception of urban environment are increasingly being used to study the relationship between a city’s physical appearance and the behavior and health of its residents. Yet, the throughput of current methods is too limited to quantify the perception of cities a... | {
"abstract": "Each corner of the inhabited world is imaged from multiple viewpoints with increasing frequency. Online map services like Google Maps or Here Maps provide direct access to huge amounts of densely sampled, georeferenced images from street view and aerial perspective. There is an opportunity to design co... |
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"abstract": "Follow this and additional works at: https://aquila.usm.edu/dissertations Part of the Animal Studies Commons, Behavior and Ethology Commons, Biological Psychology Commons, Cognition and Perception Commons, Environmental Studies Commons, Experimental Analysis of Behavior Commons, Marine Biology Commons,... | {
"abstract": "Beaked whales have mass stranded during some naval sonar exercises, but the cause is unknown. They are difficult to sight but can reliably be detected by listening for echolocation clicks produced during deep foraging dives. Listening for these clicks, we documented Blainville's beaked whales, Mesoplod... | {
"abstract": "In this minireview, we report on our year-long EPR work, such as electron–nuclear double resonance (ENDOR), pulse electron double resonance (PELDOR) and ELDOR-detected NMR (EDNMR) at X-band and W-band microwave frequencies and magnetic fields. This report is dedicated to James S. Hyde and honors his pi... |
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"abstract": "Service robots are expected to provide assistance to users by performing useful tasks, such as handing over objects upon request. Most robot-human handover studies implicitly assume that the handover action being executed is the same every time. We postulate that for real scenarios, however, a robot sh... | {
"abstract": "Spatial affordance can be defined as the functionality a space, or place, lends to human activity. Different places afford different activity possibilities - sleeping is mostly done in the bedroom, and cooking is mostly done in the kitchen. Semantic place labels like kitchen and bedroom, therefore, pro... | {
"abstract": "Having a machine learning algorithm that can correctly classify malicious software has become a necessity as old methods of detection based on hashes and hand written heuristics tend to fail when dealing with the intensive flow of new malware. However, in order to be practical, the machine learning cla... |
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"abstract": "This paper proposes a method to construct a force control law for industrial robots by using the normalized cross-correlation (NCC) of human demonstration data. Conventionally there are two solutions where one is based on human demonstration data, and the other is based on numerical optimization. The f... | {
"abstract": "Learning to perform tasks like pulling a door handle or pushing a button, inherently easy for a human, can be surprisingly difficult for a robot. A crucial problem in these kinds of in-contact tasks is the context specificity of pose and force requirements. In this paper, a robot learns in-contact task... | {
"abstract": "This article reviews the algorithms and data structures required to index 400 terabytes of Web page text and deliver high-quality results in response to hundreds of millions of queries each day",
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"abstract": "Relevance ranking models based on additive ensembles of regression trees have shown quite good effectiveness in web search engines. In the era of big data, tree ensemble models grow large in both tree depth and ensemble size to provide even better search relevance and user experience. However, the comp... | {
"abstract": "In this paper we present gradient boosted decision tables (BDTs). A d-dimensional decision table is essentially a mapping from a sequence of d boolean tests to a real value in {R}. We propose novel algorithms to fit decision tables. Our thorough empirical study suggests that decision tables are better ... | {
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"abstract": "We define a framework for objective function estimation and maximization of arbitrary computational problems in gatemodel quantum computers. The method significantly reduces the costs of the objective function estimation and provides an estimate of the new state of the quantum computer. The framework i... | {
"abstract": "This paper presents a Bayesian nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) approach to extract singing voice from background music accompaniment. Using this approach, the likelihood function based on NMF is represented by a Poisson distribution and the NMF parameters, consisting of basis and weight matrices... | {
"abstract": "It is well known that the addition of noise to the input data of a neural network during training can, in some circumstances, lead to significant improvements in generalization performance. Previous work has shown that such training with noise is equivalent to a form of regularization in which an extra... |
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"abstract": "\n A pervasive challenge in neuroscience is testing whether neuronal connectivity changes over time due to specific causes, such as stimuli, events, or clinical interventions. Recent hardware innovations and falling data storage costs enable longer, more naturalistic neuronal recordings. The implicit o... | {
"abstract": "Electroencephalography (EEG) allows recording of cortical activity at high temporal resolution. EEG recordings can be summarised along different dimensions using network-level quantitative measures, e.g. channel-to-channel correlation, or band power distributions across channels. These reveal network p... | {
"abstract": "This study is focused on getting a deeper understanding of the access unaccompanied refugee youth have to integration. Thesis will examine what fosters and what hinders minors’ integration. Researc ...",
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"abstract": "Text entry for smartwatches is a useful service for many applications like sending text messages and replying emails. Traditional touchscreen-based approaches are two-handed text entry methods, that could be cumbersome when the user is performing other tasks with one hand. Therefore, we propose AirText... | {
"abstract": "Wearable computing is one of the fastest growing technologies today. Smart watches are poised to take over at least of half the wearable devices market in the near future. Smart watch screen size, however, is a limiting factor for growth, as it restricts practical text input. On the other hand, wearabl... | {
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"abstract": "Scarce energy budget of battery-powered wireless sensor nodes calls for cautious power management not to compromise performance of the system. To reduce both energy consumption and delay in energy-hungry wireless sensor networks for latency-restricted surveillance scenarios, this paper proposes a multi... | {
"abstract": "Energy-efficient communication is one of the main concerns of wireless sensor networks nowadays. A commonly employed approach for achieving energy efficiency has been the use of duty-cycled operation of the radio, where the node’s transceiver is turned off and on regularly, listening to the radio chann... | {
"abstract": "Sensor nodes often have to work for a long time with a single battery. A change of the power source is sometimes not possible or involves effort and costs. If the node needs to be accessible for communication at any point of time it must have a radio in permanent receive state. This depletes the batter... |
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"abstract": "Genetically-encoded calcium ion (Ca2+) indicators (GECIs) are indispensable tools for measuring Ca2+ dynamics and neuronal activities in vitro and in vivo. Red fluorescent protein (RFP)-based GECIs enable multicolor visualization with blue or cyan-excitable fluorophores and combined use with blue or cy... | {
"abstract": "Calmodulin (CaM) is a ubiquitous calcium (Ca(2+)) sensor which binds and regulates protein serine/threonine kinases along with many other proteins in a Ca(2+)-dependent manner. For this multi-functionality, conformational plasticity is essential; however, the nature and magnitude of CaM's plasticity st... | {
"abstract": "Most in vitro tests regarding the cellular toxicology of nanoparticulate metals compare particle to associated metal ion exposure. However, it is also a fact, that for example silver ions are reduced by sugars or transformed to silver chloride by chloride salts which are abundant components of cell cul... |
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"abstract": ": Cyberattacks have become a serious global concern, effecting enormous losses to different sectors. In the shipping business, major companies report violations to their operations’ integrity and security, and losing great amounts of money. While the International Maritime Organization (IMO), through t... | {
"abstract": "This chapter draws on current research and best practice into teaching in cybersecurity in higher education. The chapter provides a theoretical and pedagogical foundation for helping tutors make decisions about what topics to include and approaches to teaching and assessing the cybersecurity curriculum... | {
"abstract": "This Innovative Practice Full Paper explores the diversity of challenges relating to the teaching of cybersecurity in UK higher education degree programmes, through the lens of national policy, to the impact on pedagogy and practice.There is a serious demand for cybersecurity specialists, both in the U... |
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"abstract": "Background Heart rate variability (HRV) provides information about the activity of the autonomic nervous system. Because of the small amount of data collected, the importance of HRV has not yet been proven in clinical practice. To collect population-level data, smartphone applications leveraging photop... | {
"abstract": "Heart rate variability (HRV) is a useful clinical tool for autonomic function assessment and cardiovascular diseases diagnosis. It is traditionally calculated from a dedicated medical electrocardiograph (ECG). In this paper, we demonstrate that HRV can also be extracted from photoplethysmograms (PPG) o... | {
"abstract": "Automated anomaly detection in surveillance system demands to address various problems of real-time monitoring. Due to these challenges, the researchers from computer vision community focused on automation of the surveillance system. The research carried out in this domain has been proposed many datase... |
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"abstract": "Cytogenetic changes are common in breast cancer and have also been described in fibroadenomas and fibrocystic disease, but not in histologically normal breast tissue. Cytogenetic analysis was performed on nonmalignant breast tissue from benign breast lumps (n = 8), reduction mammoplasties (n = 31), and... | {
"abstract": "A cytogenetic study on short-term cell cultures from 10 fibroadenomas of the breast is reported. Clonal chromosomal alterations were observed in all cases analyzed, involving preferentially chromosomes X, 12, 14, 20, and 22. Normal karyotypes were found in 34.9% of the cells. The present findings are d... | {
"abstract": "Cytogenetic changes are common in breast cancer and have also been described in fibroadenomas and fibrocystic disease, but not in histologically normal breast tissue. Cytogenetic analysis was performed on nonmalignant breast tissue from benign breast lumps (n = 8), reduction mammoplasties (n = 31), and... |
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"abstract": "Plasma and tissue sulfur amino acid (SAA) availability are crucial for intracellular methylation reactions and cellular antioxidant defense, which are important processes during exercise and in recovery. In this randomized, controlled crossover trial among eight elite male cyclists, we explored the eff... | {
"abstract": "Intake of protein immediately after exercise stimulates protein synthesis but improved recovery of performance is not consistently observed. The primary aim of the present study was to compare performance 18 h after exhaustive cycling in a randomized diet-controlled study (175 kJ·kg-1 during 18 h) when... | {
"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nProtein induces an increase in insulin concentrations when ingested in combination with carbohydrate. Increases in plasma insulin concentrations have been observed after the infusion of free amino acids. However, the insulinotropic properties of different amino acids or protein (hydrolysate... |
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"abstract": "Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are a growing issue for computer networks security and have become a serious network security problem. Environments based on Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV) offers the ability to program a network and allows dynami... | {
"abstract": "This poster proposes the creation of actuating triggers to deal with UDP flood attacks. We focus on improving responsiveness to such attacks by adopting the actuating triggers technique proposed by Shin et al [1]. We propose two types of UDP triggers: a traffic percentage trigger, and an amplification ... | {
"abstract": "We create BEADS, a framework to automatically generate test scenarios and find attacks in SDN systems. The scenarios capture attacks caused by malicious switches that do not obey the OpenFlow protocol and malicious hosts that do not obey the ARP protocol. We generated and tested almost 19,000 scenarios... |
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"abstract": "Objectives: The aims of this study were to in vitro evaluate the degree of conversion and the microhardness properties of five bulk fill resin composites; in addition, the performance of two curing lamps, used for composites polymerization, was also analyzed. Materials and Methods: The following five r... | {
"abstract": "This study analyzed the relationship between the degree of conversion (DC), solubility, and salivary sorption of a hybrid (Filtek P 60) and a nanofilled resin composite (Filtek Supreme), and evaluated the influence of the light-activation mode on these properties. Two light-activation modes were used: ... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Surface degradation by water and thermal cycling was evaluated from brush abrasion curves, values of dissolution and surface roughness, and observations of the subsurface on a set of composite resins with a range of microstructures. Water and thermal cycling affected the materials differently ... |
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"abstract": "Measurements of the properties of gas-sensitive materials are a subject of constant research, including continuous developments and improvements of measurement methods and, consequently, measurement set-ups. Preparation of the test set-up is a key aspect of research, and it has a significant impact on ... | {
"abstract": "The mechanistic description of gas sensing on inorganic, organic, and polymeric materials is of great scientific and technological interest. The understanding of surface and bulk reactions responsible for gas-sensing effects will lead to increased selectivity and sensitivity in the chemical determinati... | {
"abstract": "Materials science and device studies have, when implemented jointly as “operando” studies, better revealed the causal link between the properties of the device's materials and its operation, with applications ranging from gas sensing to information and energy technologies. Here, as a further step that ... |
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"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nAdult patients with diabetes or newly recognized hyperglycemia account for over 30% of noncritically ill hospitalized patients. These patients are at increased risk for adverse clinical outcomes in the absence of defined approaches to glycemic management.\n\n\nOBJECTIVE\nTo review and updat... | {
"abstract": "Prednisolone causes hyperglycaemia predominantly between midday and midnight. Consequently, glargine‐based basal‐bolus insulin regimens may under treat daytime hyperglycaemia and cause nocturnal hypoglycaemia. We investigated whether an isophane‐based insulin regimen is safer and more effective than a ... | {
"abstract": "Corpus‐predominant gastritis index (CGI) is an early histological marker to identify Helicobacter pylori‐infected gastric cancer relatives at risk of cancer. This study validated whether CGI is more prevalent in H. pylori‐infected nonulcer dyspepsia (NUD) subjects than in duodenal ulcer (DU) controls a... |
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"abstract": "Average cerebral blood flow determinations were performed 26 times comparing argon desaturation curves measured by mass spectrometry to the krypton 85 desaturation technique of McHenry.1 During 17 of these studies krypton 85 and argon desaturations were performed simultaneously. Mean cerebral blood flo... | {
"abstract": "A VARIETY of new methods for the study of total l--11 and regional12-17 cerebral circulation have been developed in the last ten years. When compared with the original method of Kety and Schmidt,18 most newer techniques either are not applicable to human study,12J3 do not give specific quantitative dat... | {
"abstract": "The uptake of radiopotassium by the human hand was studied as a function of time after the single intravenous injection of K42Cl. After a smooth rise, the percentage of uptake stabilized at 0.25% of the injected dose in normal hands; this indicates a hand blood flow 0.25% of the cardiac output and is e... |
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"abstract": "— The danger posed by pathogenic bacteria that are resistant to antibiotics has become a global issue and developing strategies for restoring treatment options against them is inevitable. This research aimed at determining the “Antibiogram profile of bacteria isolated from different clinical specimens ... | {
"abstract": "Background: The increased use of antibiotics in recent times has resulted in the development of resistance to antibiotics. The significant clinical implication of resistance has led to heightened interest in the study of bacterial resistance. Purpose: This study was carried out to evaluate the effects ... | {
"abstract": "An estimated seven million children with disabilities worldwide are affected by disasters annually. This significant figure emphasises the particular vulnerability of these children in facing natural hazards. However, their needs as well as their capacity and role in disaster risk reduction have largel... |
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"abstract": "Marfan syndrome (MFS) is a clinically heterogeneous hereditary connective tissue disorder. Severe cardiovascular manifestations (i.e., aortic aneurysm and dissection) are the most life‐threatening complications. Most of the cases are caused by mutations, a minor group of which are copy number variation... | {
"abstract": "Loeys-Dietz syndrome (LDS; OMIM:609192) is an autosomal dominant disorder characterized by hypertelorism, bifid uvula or cleft palate, and arterial tortuosity with widespread vascular aneurysms and a high risk of aortic dissection at an early age. LDS results from mutations in the transforming growth f... | {
"abstract": "Embryology finds itself jostling for precious space in the crowded medical curriculum, yet remains important for helping students understand birth defects. It has been suggested that teaching embryology through clinical scenarios can increase its relevance and interest. The aim of this research was to ... |
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"abstract": "Starch accumulation and sucrose synthesis and export were measured in leaves of sugar beet (Beta vulgaris L.) during a period of prolonged irradiance in which illumination was extended beyond the usual 14-hour day period. During much of the 14-hour day period, approximately 50% of the newly fixed carbo... | {
"abstract": "Sucrose synthesis rate in an exporting sugar beet (Beta vulgaris L.) leaf was calculated from simultaneous measurements of export and changes in leaf sucrose level. The amount of recently fixed carbon exported was determined from net carbon assimilated minus the tracer carbon accumulated in the leaf. T... | {
"abstract": "Estimates of the rate of translocation of carbon, T, from sugar beet leaves were made from simultaneous determinations of CO2 exchange and dry weight change. For an illuminated leaf in a constant environment, T increased to a maximum during the first 2 h and was constant for the next 10 h. On darkening... |
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"abstract": "There are many cases when both Digital-to-Analog Converter (DAC) and Analog-to-Digital Converter (ADC) are present in the integrated systems, which could be of great advantage to use both together to test the characteristics of the ADC and DAC without any extra test stimulus or instruments. Conventiona... | {
"abstract": "Data converters are among the most widely used components in modern integrated devices and systems. A major challenge is to characterize their performances accurately and cost effectively. The analog-to-digital converter (ADC) standard test requires the input sinusoidal signal to be 3–4 b better than t... | {
"abstract": "As data acquisition systems' performance continues to increase, so does the need for a test and characterization solution to have an input test signal with purity that exceeds what is currently available in state of the art instruments. This paper presents a new method for generating ultra-pure sine wa... |
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"abstract": "Cryptococcus albidus is a saprophytic yeast linked to just 26 reports of human infection in the world literature. Here, we report the first case of C. albidus peritonitis, in a patient with end-stage renal disease and hepatitis C-associated cirrhosis who is on peritoneal dialysis. The patient was treat... | {
"abstract": "Abstract: Immune‐modulating medications, such as the tumor necrosis factor‐α inhibitors, are establishing a niche in the dermatologic therapeutic armamentarium as novel, effective, and relatively safe alternatives in the treatment of numerous inflammatory dermatoses. The benefits of anti‐tumor necrosi... | {
"abstract": "Abstract. The discovery and cloning of the cytokine tumor necrosis factor α (TNF) gave rise to new hopes for a significant victory in the war against cancer. Preclinical in vitro studies in cell cultures and in vivo studies in animal models demonstrated the antitumor capacities of TNF. Although clinica... |
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"abstract": "Article history: st 2014 Immunity-related GTPase family M (IRGM) protein, discovered for the first time in 1990, belongs to IRG family of proteins and is divided into five subfamilies (IRGA, IRGB, IRGC, IRGD and IRGM). These are responsive to interferon- and play a pivotal role in immune response to p... | {
"abstract": "BackgroundChikungunya Virus (ChikV) surprised by a massive re-emerging outbreak in Indian Ocean in 2006, reaching Europe in 2007 and exhibited exceptional severe physiopathology in infants and elderly patients. In this context, it is important to analyze the innate immune host responses triggered again... | {
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"abstract": "Embedding learning of categorical features (e.g. user/item IDs) is at the core of various recommendation models. The standard approach creates an embedding table where each row represents a dedicated embedding vector for every unique feature value. However, this method fails to efficiently handle high-... | {
"abstract": "Recommendation algorithms that incorporate techniques from deep learning are becoming increasingly popular. Due to the structure of the data coming from recommendation domains (i.e., one-hot-encoded vectors of item preferences), these algorithms tend to have large input and output dimensionalities that... | {
"abstract": "Automated Guided Vehicle (AGV) is a common handling equipment in modern logistics. The application of traditional AGV in warehouse requires designated infrastructure with readily available map which demands large amount of investment and warehouse conversion. Researches in AGV localization and mapping ... |
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"abstract": "La theorie des matrices aleatoires presente un ensemble d'outils mathematiques efficaces pour l'etude de performances des systemes de communications numeriques. L'objectif de cette these est de developper des resultats analytiques bases sur la theorie des matrices aleatoires pour etudier les fluctuatio... | {
"abstract": "Consider a $N\\times n$ random matrix $Y_n=(Y_{ij}^{n})$ where the entries are given by $$ Y_{ij}^{n}=\\frac{\\sigma_{ij}(n)}{\\sqrt{n}} X_{ij}^{n}\\ , $$ the $X_{ij}^{n}$ being centered, independent and identically distributed random variables with unit variance and $(\\sigma_{ij}(n); 1\\le i\\le N, 1... | {
"abstract": "Abstract We obtain large deviation upper bounds and central limit theorems for non-commutative functionals of large Gaussian band matrices and deterministic diagonal matrices with converging spectral measure. As a consequence, we derive such type of results for the spectral measure of Gaussian band mat... |
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"abstract": "Purpose: To review published studies reporting the posterior chamber intraocular lens tilt and decentration after surgically uneventful implantation. Potential influences of normally occurring misalignment of modern designs of IOL on the optical performances are discussed. Materials and methods: Publis... | {
"abstract": "PURPOSE\nTo report a patient with a significant amount of ocular coma-like aberration that was caused by the tilting of an intraocular lens (IOL) who was treated successfully by IOL repositioning surgical procedure.\n\n\nDESIGN\nInterventional case report.\n\n\nMETHODS\nAt the Department of Ophthalmolo... | {
"abstract": "ASBESTOS has been used in industry for centuries. It would seem that the pathologic action of this dust in the lungs would have been recognized before 1900, when Murray, in England, performed an autopsy on such a case. This autopsy was performed on a man, the last of 11 men who had begun work together ... |
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"abstract": "Following the coordinated vulnerability disclosure model, a vulnerability in open source software (OSS) is sug-gested to be fixed \"silently\", without disclosing the fix until the vulnerability is disclosed. Yet, it is crucial for OSS users to be aware of vulnerability fixes as early as possible, as o... | {
"abstract": "Given how the \"patching treadmill\" plays a central role for enabling sites to counter emergent security concerns, it behooves the security community to understand the patch development process and characteristics of the resulting fixes. Illumination of the nature of security patch development can inf... | {
"abstract": "In this paper, we describe $\\mathrm {a}4 \\times 4$ microstrip patch array antenna with a high gain and low side lobe level (SLL) using a parallel and series combination feed network with different power distribution ratios. Several quarter-wavelength impedance transformers are connected, and the powe... |
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"abstract": "ABSTRACT Trypanosoma cruzi proteinases are involved in host cell invasion in human patients and in mouse models. In mice, murine α2-macroglobulin (MAM) and murinoglobulin are circulating plasma proteinase inhibitors that also have important roles in inflammation and immune modulation. To define their r... | {
"abstract": "Expression of mouse A2M (MAM), murinoglobulin (MUG), the A2M receptor or LDL-Receptor related protein (A2MR/LRP) and the Receptor Associated Protein (RAP) were measured by northern blotting of mRNA isolated from liver, heart and peritoneal macrophages from C3H/HeJ and C57BL/6J (B6) mice. Marked differe... | {
"abstract": "Abstract We have previously described alterations in the cytoskeletal organization of heart muscle cells (HMC) infected with Trypanosoma cruzi in vitro. Our aim was to investigate whether these changes also affect the regulation of the actin mRNAs during HMC differentiation. Northern blot analysis reve... |
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"abstract": "Background: Diabetic nephropathy is the most common cause of end stage renal disease (ESRD) that is associated with high rates of morbidity and mortality. osteopontin (OPN) is a secreted phosphorylated glycoprotein that mediates diverse biological functions. Objective: The study aimed to determine the ... | {
"abstract": "Upon aging, hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) undergo changes in function and structure, including skewing to myeloid lineages, lower reconstitution potential and loss of protein polarity. While stem cell intrinsic mechanisms are known to contribute to HSC aging, little is known on whether age‐related ch... | {
"abstract": "The reggies/flotillins—proteins upregulated during axon regeneration in retinal ganglion cells (RGCs)—are scaffolding proteins of microdomains and involved in neuronal differentiation. Here, we show that reggies regulate axon regeneration in zebrafish (ZF) after optic nerve section (ONS) in vivo as wel... |
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"abstract": "Experiments with cold and ultracold neutrons have reached a level of precision such that problems far beyond the scale of the present standard model of particle physics become accessible to experimental investigation. Because of the close links between particle physics and cosmology, these studies also... | {
"abstract": "A clock comparison experiment, analyzing the ratio of spin precession frequencies of stored ultracold neutrons and 199Hg atoms, is reported. No daily variation of this ratio could be found, from which is set an upper limit on the Lorentz invariance violating cosmic anisotropy field b perpendicular < 2 ... | {
"abstract": "The development of tourism and particularly public administration have had to adapt to new trends and the demands of the tourist market (Fayos-Sola, 2004) especially in Spain, thus generating some of the most remarkable and structural changes which constitute the emergence of new touristic dynamics (Lo... |
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"abstract": "ABSTRACT This article explores the politics of decentralization and state–peasant encounters in rural Oromiya, Ethiopia. Breaking with a centralized past, the incumbent government of the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) committed itself to a decentralization policy in the early... | {
"abstract": "Policy discourses urging environmental rehabilitation, and rapid agricultural intensification for food self-sufficiency are firmly entrenched in Ethiopia. This paper examines the actor-networks and key policy spaces associated with the establishment of these discourses, taking natural resource manageme... | {
"abstract": "This article explores links between nationalism and immigrant exclusionism in Spain's 17 Comunidades Autónomas. Drawing from social identity and marginality theories and using Análisis Sociológicos, Económicos y Políticos (ASEP), 1991–2000 data results show that strong national–regional identification ... |
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"abstract": "Diabetes is a serious chronic disease. The importance of clinical decision support systems (CDSSs) to diagnose diabetes has led to extensive research efforts to improve the accuracy, applicability, interpretability, and interoperability of these systems. However, this problem continues to require optim... | {
"abstract": "BackgroundThe diagnosis of many diseases can be often formulated as a decision problem; uncertainty affects these problems so that many computerized Diagnostic Decision Support Systems (in the following, DDSSs) have been developed to aid the physician in interpreting clinical data and thus to improve t... | {
"abstract": "Abstract The main objective of this study was to investigate whether the personality dimension of conformism/nonconformism was a predictor of stress coping styles in athletes training combat sports, and to present the characteristics of this personality dimension in the context of the competitors’ adap... |
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"abstract": "The generation of complex movement patterns, in particular, in cases where one needs to smoothly and accurately join trajectories in a dynamic way, is an important problem in robotics. This paper presents a novel joining method that is based on the modification of the original dynamic movement primitiv... | {
"abstract": "We introduce a simple framework for learning aggressive maneuvers in flight control of UAVs. Having inspired from biological environment, dynamic movement primitives are analyzed and extended using nonlinear contraction theory. Accordingly, primitives of an observed movement are stably combined and con... | {
"abstract": "A belt grinding machine which is equipped with an elastically flexible load beam extending over the entire operative length of an endless grinding belt for applying the necessary grinding pressure to the belt. The effective pressure-applying surface of said beam is suspended for elevational control fro... |
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"abstract": "High quality single crystalline VO2(A) nanowires were synthesized by a facile hydro- thermal method using oxalic acid as reducing agent and polyethylene glycol 6000 as surfactant. It was found that polyethylene glycol 6000 can effectively accelerate the transformation from V2O5 pre- cursor to VO2(B), a... | {
"abstract": "High quality single crystalline metastable phase VO(2) (A) ultra-long nanobelts were synthesized by hydrothermal method using inorganic V(2)O(5) sol as precursor and polyethylene glycol (PEG) as both surfactant and reducing agent. It was found that the oriented attach growth mechanism is responsible fo... | {
"abstract": "In view of the ever increasing recurrence and severity of renewal waves coupled with the need to understand the processes of (socio) technological ‘gestation’, over the years, the construct ‘emerging technologies’ is slowly filling in an important theoretical niche within the Technology and Innovation ... |
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"abstract": "Cheese whey wastewater (CWW) is the major by-product of the dairy industry. CWW is produced in large quantities, has varied characteristics and is usually disposed of. The disposal of CWW causes a negative impact on the environment of different agroindustrial areas due to the physic-chemical compositio... | {
"abstract": "The coffee processing agro-industry generates large quantities of wastewater requiring systematic treatment prior to disposal. For this reason, the aim of this study was to evaluate the hydraulic retention times (HRT) in treatment of coffee processing wastewater (CPWW) using a laboratory scale Expanded... | {
"abstract": "Scientific approaches to crop nutrient management are based on data obtained by analyzing soil and plant tissue samples. Careful sampling techniques will ensure a representative sample. Precise analytical methods will ensure reliable data. However, the most carefully collected sample and the most preci... |
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"abstract": "Convex or concave sequences of $n$ positive terms, viewed as vectors in $n$-space, constitute convex cones with $2n-2$ and $n$ extreme rays, respectively. Explicit description is given of vectors spanning these extreme rays, as well as of non-singular linear transformations between the positive orthant... | {
"abstract": "The Lovasz extension of a pseudo-Boolean function f:{0,1}^n->R is defined on each simplex of the standard triangulation of [0,1]^n as the unique affine function f@^:[0,1]^n->R that interpolates f at the n+1 vertices of the simplex. Its degree is that of the unique multilinear polynomial that expresses ... | {
"abstract": "The intepretation of aggregation functions in multicriteria decision making is often based on indices such as importance indices that measure the importance of one criterion. For instance, for the Choquet integral, the importance index is the so-called Shapley value. The use of an index must always be ... |
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"abstract": "A modular wheeled mobile robot is composed of autonomous wheeled modules capable of selfassembling to form up a modular mobile robot. The robot can change the number of its modules by having the modules detach themselves from the main body and move independently. In this paper, we propose a docking sys... | {
"abstract": "Six DOF offset sensing between two plates is important for automatic docking mechanisms. This paper presents an easy and inexpensive implementation of such a system using four commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) infrared (IR) light emitting diode (LED) emitters and two COTS IR receivers on each of two dock... | {
"abstract": "This paper describes a new docking system, called Compliant-And-Self-Tightening (CAST), developed as an effective and efficient connector for joining and releasing modules of self-reconfigurable or metamorphic robotic systems. CAST has been successfully implemented in CONRO where its highly compliant a... |
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"abstract": "OF DOCTORAL DISSERTATION AALTO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY P.O. BOX 11000, FI-00076 AALTO http://www.aalto.fi Author Zlatko Kolondzovski Name of the dissertation Thermal and mechanical analyses of high-speed permanent-magnet electrical machines Manuscript submitted 19.11.2009 Manuscript... | {
"abstract": "Computational fluid-dynamics modeling has been used to investigate the cooling of the end region of a two-pole strip-wound totally enclosed fan-cooled induction motor. The modeling is validated by experimental measurements. The changes in airflow and heat transfer that each configuration gives are disc... | {
"abstract": "Rotating detonation combustors (RDC) offer a significant prospective increase in stagnation pressure across it owing to the presence of one or more rotating detonation waves spinning inside the combustor at the kilohertz regime. Naturally, considerable research impetus has been directed towards this te... |
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"abstract": "Visual Question Answering (VQA) is fundamentally compositional in nature, and many questions are simply answered by decomposing them into modular sub-problems. The recent proposed Neural Module Network (NMN) employ this strategy to question answering, whereas heavily rest with off-the-shelf layout pars... | {
"abstract": "Top-down visual attention mechanisms have been used extensively in image captioning and visual question answering (VQA) to enable deeper image understanding through fine-grained analysis and even multiple steps of reasoning. In this work, we propose a combined bottom-up and top-down attention mechanism... | {
"abstract": "Most traditional object detection approaches have a deficiency of features, slow detection speed, and high false-alarm rate. To solve these problems, we propose a multi-perspective convolutional neural network (Multi-PerNet) to extract remote sensing imagery features. Regions with CNN features (R-CNN) ... |
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"abstract": "Abstract Histone modification is a key epigenetic mechanism for regulation of chromatin dynamics and gene expression. Deleted in breast cancer 1 (DBC1) has been shown to act as a negative regulator of epigenetic modifiers and as a co-activator for nuclear receptors and other transcription factors. Howe... | {
"abstract": "Deleted in Breast Cancer 1 (DBC1), a negative regulator of deacetylase SIRT1, has been shown to act as an estrogen receptor α (ER) coactivator that has a key role in ER transcription complex assembly and estrogen-dependent breast cancer cell proliferation. However, little is known about its physiologic... | {
"abstract": "Narcolepsy with cataplexy is a disabling sleep disorder affecting 0.02% of adults worldwide. It is characterised by severe, irresistible daytime sleepiness and sudden loss of muscle tone (cataplexy), and can be associated with sleep-onset or sleep-offset paralysis and hallucinations, frequent movement ... |
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"abstract": "The IoT is a network of electronic devices, which are collecting and sharing information using the Internet or lightweight protocols, mostly building upon the Internet communication stack. Most devices in the IoT are wireless sensors, which form so called WSNs and they are widely used in the context of... | {
"abstract": "By the virtue of blooming automation industry and wireless connectivity, all the devices within the home can be connected. This improves the comfort, energy efficiency, indoor security, cost savings of the home. Small and constrained embedded devices are used to remotely monitor the conditions within h... | {
"abstract": "In recent years, wireless sensor networks have been widely used in healthcare applications, such as hospital and home patient monitoring. Wireless medical sensor networks are more vulnerable to eavesdropping, modification, impersonation and replaying attacks than the wired networks. A lot of work has b... |
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"abstract": "Room-temperature continuous-wave operation is demonstrated for the first time in a GaInNAs-GaAs laser grown by metal-organic chemical vapor deposition. A low-threshold current density of 660 A/cm/sup 2/ and a high characteristic temperature of 113 K emitting at 1.245 /spl mu/m is achieved. Emitting at ... | {
"abstract": "We present the first room-temperature continuous-wave operation of high-performance 1.06-/spl mu/m selectively oxidized vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSEL's). The lasers contain strain-compensated InGaAs-GaAsP quantum wells (QW's) in the active region grown by metalorganic vapor phase epita... | {
"abstract": "In these experiments impurity-induced layer disordering (IILD) utilizing chemical reduction of SiO2 by Al (from Al0.8Ga0.2As) is employed to generate Si and O to effect layer disordering. The SiO2-Al0.8Ga0.2As reaction is studied with respect to annealing ambient. By controlling the extent of disorderi... |
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"abstract": "Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) is crucial for proper mitochondrial function in part because it encodes for 13 subunits of the electron transport chain (ETC). mtDNA is replicated exclusively by DNA polymerase gamma (Polg), which has an exonuclease proof-reading domain critical for maintaining mtDNA replicati... | {
"abstract": "The accumulation of mitochondrial DNA mutations has been proposed as a potential mechanism in the physiological processes of ageing and age-related disease. Although mitochondria have long been anticipated as a perpetrator of ageing, there was little experimental evidence to link these changes directly... | {
"abstract": "Statistical models have been used to assess the influence of clinical and demographic factors on hospital charge and length of stay (LOS). Hospital costs constitute a significant proportion of overall expenditure in health care. With escalating costs, knowing the correlates of LOS and in-hospital cost ... |
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"abstract": "T cells serve an important role in the destruction of tumor cells and clearing of foreign pathogens. Previous studies have suggested that the T cell immune response of tumor-bearing patients is significantly lower than that of healthy people, and the principal reason for this is lymphocytopenia, which ... | {
"abstract": "Lung infections can be severe consequences of chemotherapy-induced immune defects. Aetiological causes of infection include bacteria (most commonly Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Stenotrophomonas maltophilia, and Nocardia species), viruses (eg, respiratory syncytial virus, parainfluenza virus, influenza virus... | {
"abstract": "In this study, we have demonstrated that Korean Panax ginseng (KG) significantly enhances myelopoiesis in vitro and reconstitutes bone marrow after 5-flurouracil-induced (5FU) myelosuppression in mice. KG promoted total white blood cell, lymphocyte, neutrophil and platelet counts and improved body weig... |
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"abstract": "Abstract Vine, CA, Coakley, SL, Blacker, SD, Doherty, J, Hale, B, Walker, EF, Rue, CA, Lee, BJ, Flood, TR, Knapik, JJ, Jackson, S, Greeves, JP, and Myers, SD. Accuracy of metabolic cost predictive equations during military load carriage. J Strength Cond Res 36(5): 1297–1303, 2022—To quantify the accura... | {
"abstract": "Accurate prediction of the metabolic energy that walking requires can inform numerous health, bodily status, and fitness outcomes. We adopted a two-step approach to identifying a concise, generalized equation for predicting level human walking metabolism. Using literature-aggregated values we compared ... | {
"abstract": "MEN have always wanted to fly by their own power, like birds. But man is five times heavier than the heaviest flying creature of this or any other epoch. This creates difficulties; for as birds increase in size, their wing area diminishes in relation to their weight, since geometrical configuration and... |
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"abstract": "Although water availability strongly controls gross primary production (GPP), the impact of soil moisture content (SMC) (wilting point) is poorly quantified on regional and global scales. In this study, we used 10 years of observations of solar‐induced chlorophyll fluorescence (SIF) from the Greenhouse... | {
"abstract": "Solar Induced chlorophyll Fluorescence (SIF) denotes reemitted light in the 650–850 nm range from the chlorophyll-a pigment, and this process is linked to initial steps in photosynthesis. While measurements of chlorophyll-a fluorescence have been successfully used for decades in photosynthesis research... | {
"abstract": "1. We hypothesized that a large collection of reasonably standardized data for natural algal assemblages would reveal the influence of environmental factors on the fraction of recently produced photosynthate allocated to lipid. \n \n \n \n2. Our analysis of photosynthate allocation in fresh- and saltwa... |
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"abstract": "Fine-needle aspiration biopsy (FNA) is usually applied to distinguish benign from malignant thyroid nodules. However, cytological analysis cannot always allow a proper diagnosis. We believe that the improvement of the diagnostic capability of pre-surgical FNA could avoid unnecessary thyroidectomy. In a... | {
"abstract": "CONTEXT\nFine-needle aspiration biopsy (FNAB) is the most sensitive and specific tool for the differential diagnosis of thyroid malignancy. Some limitations of FNAB can be overcome by the molecular analysis of FNAB. This review analyzes the current state and problems of the molecular analysis of FNAB a... | {
"abstract": "Background Macrophages are a heterogeneous cell population which in response to the cytokine milieu polarize in either classically activated macrophages (M1) or alternatively activated macrophages (M2). This plasticity makes macrophages essential in regulating inflammation, immune response and tissue r... |
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"abstract": "PROHIBITIN HOMOLOGY DOMAIN PROTEINS IN CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS John Ernest Kratz III The PHB-d protein family is an evolutionarily ancient family of integral membrane proteins with members in all taxa that are involved in a wide variety of biological process but share several common molecular properties... | {
"abstract": "A reverse genetics approach was utilized to discover new proteins that interact with the mitochondrial fusion mediator mitofusin 2 (Mfn2) and that may participate in mitochondrial fusion. In particular, in vivo formaldehyde cross-linking of whole HeLa cells and immunoprecipitation with purified Mfn2 an... | {
"abstract": "T cell activation through the Ag receptor (TCR) requires sustained signaling from signalosomes within lipid raft microdomains in the plasma membrane. In a proteomic analysis of lipid rafts from human T cells, we identified stomatin-like protein (SLP)-2 as a candidate molecule involved in T cell activati... |
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"abstract": "US demographers predict that women, people of color and ethnic minorities will represent over 50 percent of all new entrants to the US workforce by 2008. This shift in demographics plus the pressure from a growing competitive global marketplace are forcing organizations to rethink models of business su... | {
"abstract": "The phylogeographic studies of unrelated species that share overlapping distributions lead to new perspectives. Indeed, if different species with similar distributions shared the same phylogeographic pattern, then a common extrinsic cause could be proposed, involving some important issues for species c... |
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"abstract": "The H⁺-coupled transporter peptide transporter 1 (PepT1) is found primarily in the intestine and is capable of transporting dietary di- and tripeptides as well as peptides produced by bacteria. However, little is known about the ontogeny of PepT1 in the piglet. The first part of this thesis describes t... | {
"abstract": "To validate a system to study acute regulation of protein synthesis in intestinal mucosa by luminal nutrients, we compared the fractional rate of protein synthesis (Ks) in jejunal mucosa using the intravenous flooding dose technique with the administration of a comparable concentration and specific act... | {
"abstract": "One important advantage of animal models is that they permit invasive approaches and can be especially valuable when evaluating tissue and specific features of metabolism in situ. The focus of this presentation is current models, which are providing insights into the pivotal importance of the gastroint... |
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"abstract": "Copper losses in magnetic coils depend on several geometrical parameters, as well as on frequency, in a way that makes their analytical modeling a quite difficult task. In this paper, we describe how we use a finite-element-analysis software to investigate a series of issues critical to the accurate de... | {
"abstract": "We provide a new closed-form formula that instantly calculates the 2D high-frequency ohmic losses (skin and proximity effects) in round wire windings. It has been obtained by overwriting the classical definition (shown to be erroneous) of the layer copper factor introduced in 1D analytical theories. Co... | {
"abstract": "Copper losses in magnetic coils depend on several geometrical parameters, as well as on frequency, in a way that makes their analytical modeling a quite difficult task. In this paper, we describe how we use a finite-element-analysis software to investigate a series of issues critical to the accurate de... |
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"abstract": "In the physical sciences and engineering domains, music has traditionally been considered an acoustic phenomenon. From a perceptual viewpoint, music is naturally associated with hearing, i.e., the audio modality. Moreover, for a long time, the majority of music recordings were distributed through “audi... | {
"abstract": "We propose a semi-automatic annotation system for large symphonic orchestras videos.We leverage video redundancy, image clustering, and human annotation.Our method successfully deals with several intra-class variability issues.Human annotation effort reduced while maintaining high level of output quali... | {
"abstract": "Mo dern digital multimedia and internet technology have radically changed the ways people find entertainment and discovernew interests online, seeminglywithout anyphysical or social barriers. Such new access paradigms are in sharp contrast with the traditional means of entertainment. An illustrative ex... |
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"abstract": "In this article, we discuss important aspects of the perceived problematic relationship between self-management and standardization. The article presents data from three case studies conducted within manufacturing companies in Sweden, where the popularity of lean production has led to a renaissance for... | {
"abstract": "Abstract During the period from 1990 to 1995, a large fund for support to development in working life existed in Sweden: the Work Life Fund. Established as a temporary organization, it distributed about 10 billion Swedish crowns for development purposes. By the end of this period, close to 25 000 proje... | {
"abstract": "Many decisions made by individuals and groups inside and outside organizations have the common characteristic of being initiated by some type of crisis situation. The people involved often act under a condition of frustration. This applies as much to decisions with long-range effects (e.g., policy chan... |
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"abstract": "Application of soft computing hybrid models have been concentrated to cope with uncertainty in the medical expert systems, recently. Heart disease is one of the mortal diseases that can be controlled in early stages. In this paper a hybrid Fuzzy-GA model for the Heart Disease Prediction (HDP) problem h... | {
"abstract": "Coronary artery disease (CAD) affects millions of people all over the world including a major portion in India every year. Although much progress has been done in medical science, but the early detection of this disease is still a challenge for prevention. The objective of this paper is to describe dev... | {
"abstract": "The diagnosis of diseases is a crucial and difficult job in medicine. The recognition of heart disease from diverse features or signs is a multi-layered problem that is not free from false assumptions and is frequently accompanied by hasty effects (1). Thus an attempt to exploit knowledge and experienc... |
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"abstract": "Introduction The King’s Brief Interstitial Lung Disease (KBILD) is a 15-item validated health-related quality of life (HRQOL) questionnaire. The method of scoring the KBILD has recently changed to incorporate a logit-scale transformation from one that used raw item responses, as this is potentially a m... | {
"abstract": "The incremental shuttle walk (ISW) is well validated in COPD but limited psychometric data restrict its use in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF). Study 1: 50 patients performed the ISW and 6 min walk test (6MWT). Study 2: 72 patients completed the ISW before and after pulmonary rehabilitation (PR). T... | {
"abstract": "It is important for clinicians and researchers to understand the effects of treatments on their patients, both at an individual and group level. In clinical studies, treatment effects are often reported as a change in the outcome measure supported by a measure of variability; for example, the mean chan... |
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"abstract": "Excessive exposures to airborne crystalline silica have been known for over 100 years to pose a serious health hazard. Work practices and regulatory standards advanced as the knowledge of the hazards of crystalline silica evolved. This article presents a comprehensive historical examination of the lite... | {
"abstract": "The relationship between crystalline silica and lung cancer has been the subject of many recent publications, conferences, and regulatory considerations. An influential, international body has determined that there was sufficient evidence to conclude that quartz and cristobalite are carcinogenic in hum... | {
"abstract": "Type II cell hyperplasia and hypertrophy were quantitated in the lungs of rats exposed to silica by using intratracheal injection. Hypertrophic type II cells were separated from normal type II cells by means of centrifugal elutriation of cells dispersed from the lungs by using protease. Type II cell hy... |
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"abstract": "Abstract. The aim of our study was to find suitable molecular markers for genetic studies of the population of Montagu's harrier Circus pygargus. We used the crossspecies amplification strategy to test the usefulness of 24 primer pairs, amplifying the microsatellite loci of several other members of Acc... | {
"abstract": "BackgroundEnvironmental preferences and past climatic changes may determine the length of time during which a species range has contracted or expanded from refugia, thereby influencing levels of genetic diversification. Connectivity among populations of steppe-associated taxa might have been maximal du... | {
"abstract": "Various methodological approaches using molecular sequence data have been developed and applied across several fields, including phylogeography, conservation biology, virology and human evolution. The aim of these approaches is to obtain predictive estimates of population history from DNA sequence data... |
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"abstract": "Subaerial cyanobacteria are microorganisms inhabiting environments that can be considered extreme, they are generally in direct contact with air and their access to water is highly dependent on the weather of a certain location, because of that they are more prone to desiccation, they can be under dire... | {
"abstract": "The present study describes cyanobacterial species composition and their dominance in biological crusts from barks of different trees, roof top of building and soil of agricultural field. An attempt was also made to explore the presence of photoprotective compounds such as mycosporine-like amino acids ... | {
"abstract": "A database on UV-absorbing mycosporines and mycosporine-like amino acids (MAAs) has been constructed that provides information on various mycosporines and MAAs reported in fungi, cyanobacteria, macroalgae, phytoplankton and animals from aquatic and terrestrial habitats. It also contains information on ... |
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"abstract": "This paper investigates the equilibrium exchange rate of the Czech koruna using the reduced form equation of the stock-ow approach advocated, for instance, by Faruqee (1995) and Alberola and others (1999). We investigate whether or not the observed real exchange rate of the Czech koruna is close to its... | {
"abstract": "Abstract In the paper, we calculate real equilibrium exchange rates (EER) for EU accession countries and compare these with the actual exchange rate movements since the mid-1990s. The real equilibrium exchange rates are derived from models of macroeconomic balance and tested for econometrically. It is ... | {
"abstract": "OBJECTIVES\nThe purpose of this study was to estimate the annual incidence, the mortality, and the direct and indirect costs associated with occupational injuries and illnesses in California in 1992. To achieve this, we performed aggregation and analysis of national and California data sets collected b... |
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"abstract": "Embedded devices using highly integrated chips must cope with conflicting constraints, while executing computationally demanding applications under limited energy storage. Automatic control and feedback loops appear to be an e ective solution to simultaneously accommodate for performance uncertainties ... | {
"abstract": "Video processing in software is often characterized by highly fluctuating, content-dependent processing times, and a limited tolerance for deadline misses. We present an approach that allows close-to-average-case resource allocation to a single video processing task, based on asynchronous, scalable pro... | {
"abstract": "We consider the problem of power-aware Quality of Service (QoS) control for soft real-time embedded systems. Applications can have time-varying and scarcely known resource requirements, and can be activated and terminated at any time. However, they have the capability to switch among a discrete set of ... |
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"abstract": "This article establishes an economic framework to identify the conditions under which an optimizing agent may seek (or not seek) to engage in costly dissonance reduction. We set up a dynamic model of decision-making in which the individual’s mind is composed of a coordinating principal and 2 conflictin... | {
"abstract": "Cognitive dissonance or cognitive consistency theory, as we understand it, does not presume irrational behavior although it is inconsistent with normative rationality. Previous discussions have overlooked that cognitive dissonance implied dynamic uncertainty. Once this dimension of choice is restored, ... | {
"abstract": "A patient with isolated autobiographical episodic memory is presented. The patient (male; 64 years old) was admitted to hospital suffering from double images and headache. CT examination revealed an arachnoid cyst at the anterior part of the left temporal lobe. In neuropsychological examination, a clea... |
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