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"abstract": "Previous work has provided evidence for involvement of store-operated channels (SOCs) in [Ca2+]i signalling of human sperm, including a contribution to the transient [Ca2+]i elevation that occurs upon activation of CatSper, a sperm-specific cation channel localized to the flagellum, by progesterone. To... | {
"abstract": "Fluorescence microscopy of cells loaded with fluorescent, Ca2+-sensitive dyes is used for measurement of spatial and temporal aspects of Ca2+ signaling in live cells. Here we describe the method used in our laboratories for loading suspensions of human sperm with Ca2+-reporting dyes and measuring the f... | {
"abstract": "Sperm respond to multiple cues during guidance to the egg including chemical attractants, temperature, and fluid flow. Of these, sperm chemotaxis has been studied most extensively—over 100 years—but only recently has it started to be understood at the molecular level. The long gestation in this underst... |
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"abstract": "This paper presents an improvement of the capacitive emulation (CE) method to reduce the line current distortion caused by grid-tied LCL-filtered converters. In these cases, the grid voltage is applied to the LCL’s capacitor, which generates a distorted capacitor current that pollutes the line. The CE ... | {
"abstract": "This paper proposes an effective capacitive emulation (CE) technique to reduce the grid current distortion when the converter currents are controlled (converter current feedback (CCF)) in grid-connected converters with an LCL filter. Although the CCF scheme is preferable to the grid current feedback (G... | {
"abstract": "Multiporous polymer micro-spheres with interconnected cavities have been prepared by a simple modified emulsion polymerization of acrylate monomers and polymerizable emulsifier. The morphology of micro-spheres was characterized by a scanning electron micrographs (SEM) and the sound absorption behavior ... |
{
"abstract": "There is an arms race in the data management industry to support statistical analytics. Feature selection, the process of selecting a feature set that will be used to build a statistical model, is widely regarded as the most critical step of statistical analytics. Thus, we argue that managing the featu... | {
"abstract": "The increasing use of statistical data analysis in enterprise applications has created an arms race among database vendors to offer ever more sophisticated in-database analytics. One challenge in this race is that each new statistical technique must be implemented from scratch in the RDBMS, which leads... | {
"abstract": "Algorithmic decision making systems are ubiquitous across a wide variety of online as well as offline services. These systems rely on complex learning methods and vast amounts of data to optimize the service functionality, satisfaction of the end user and profitability. However, there is a growing conc... |
{
"abstract": "ABSTRACT The aim of this study was to examine the content validity, construct validity and reliability of the newly developed Basketball Jump Shooting Accuracy Test (BJSAT). Basketball athletes from different playing levels (State Basketball League [SBL], n = 30, age: 22.7 ± 6.1 yr; SBL Division I, n =... | {
"abstract": "Kılınç, F. An intensive combined training program modulates physical, physiological, biomotoric, and technical parameters in basketball player women. J Strength Cond Res 22(6): 1769-1778, 2008-The purpose of this study was the investigation of the effects of an intensive combined training program based... | {
"abstract": "Assessment practices, both at the classroom level and for the award of certificates, have traditionally followed norm‐referenced principles, although in recent years there has been an increasing interest in criterion‐referenced assessment. In the first part of this article, another approach (referred t... |
{
"abstract": "A novel productive framework for point‐based feature matching of oblique aircraft and UAV imagery is presented. The proposed framework makes use of the powerful AKAZE descriptor for feature extraction and an iterative scheme is developed to construct as many tentative matches as possible. During the it... | {
"abstract": "With millions of users and billions of photos, web-scale face recognition is a challenging task that demands speed, accuracy, and scalability. Most current approaches do not address and do not scale well to Internet-sized scenarios such as tagging friends or finding celebrities. Focusing on web-scale f... | {
"abstract": "Visual Multiple Object Tracking (VMOT) is an important computer vision task which has gained increasing attention due to its academic and commercial potential. There are many different approaches have been proposed to solve the problem. Compared with single object tracking which focuses on appearance m... |
{
"abstract": "Posttraumatic stress related to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks and general psychological distress were examined in six cohorts of college students (N=5,412) enrolled at an American public university between Spring 2000 and Fall 2002 some 2,500 miles from New York. Consistent with data from Sc... | {
"abstract": "The current study examined stress reactions to the events of September 11, 2001 among African-American college students not directly exposed to the attacks. Within 3 days of September 11, 219 undergraduates (78.3% women) completed self-report measures assessing stress symptoms and other reactions to th... | {
"abstract": "In this study, subjects had four learning trials to master a list of paired associates. The experimental instruc tions were phrased so that subjects would either attribute their learning rate to internal or external factors. After each trial on which they made errors, subjects were \"punished\" by a co... |
{
"abstract": "Context: Deep-seated arteriovenous fistula (AVF) poses a problem for cannulation. Sine-wave technique is described as a superficialization technique. A mini review of techniques of superficialization is presented. Aims: The aim of the study was to describe a technique of superficialization for deep-sea... | {
"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nUp to 50% of AV fistulas fail to mature, primarily because of problems with fistula cannulation. Fistula elevation procedure (FEP) is a simple superficialization procedure where the fistula is surgically exposed, mobilized, and elevated into a more superficial position for the purpose of fa... | {
"abstract": "Introduction: Some hemodialysis patients with a brachial arteriovenous fistula (AVF) have an unsuitable upper arm needle access segment (NAS) necessitating basilic vein transposition (BVT). It was frequently observed that a portion of these patients spontaneously experienced a warmer and less painful d... |
{
"abstract": "In requirements elicitation methods, it is not unusual that conflicts between software requirements or between software goals and requirements can be detected. It is efficient to deal with those conflicts before further costs are invested to implement a solution that includes insufficient software feat... | {
"abstract": "Online dating is an increasingly thriving business which boasts billion-dollar revenues and attracts users in the tens of millions. Notwithstanding its popularity, online dating is not impervious to worrisome trust and privacy concerns raised by the disclosure of potentially sensitive data as well as t... | {
"abstract": "Increasingly, Internet users trade privacy for service. Facebook, Google, and others mine personal information to target advertising. This paper presents a preliminary and partial answer to the general question \"Can users retain their privacy while still benefiting from these web services?\". We propo... |
{
"abstract": "Treatment with the selective β(3)-adrenoceptor agonist BRL 37344 increased circulating levels of alanine transaminase (ALT) and aspartate transaminase (AST) in mice without causing hepatocellular injury. To clarify whether this was a β(3)-adrenoceptor-mediated effect, the inhibitory effect of the selec... | {
"abstract": "In a recent study in rats, alanine aminotransferase (ALT), the preferred plasma biomarker of hepatocellular injury in rats, was ineffective at detecting marked hepatic necrosis produced by acetaminophen (Human and Experimental Toxicology 19, 277-83, 2000). In contrast, glutamate dehydrogenase (GLDH) wa... | {
"abstract": "Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) are promising for use in regenerative medicine. Low-level light irradiation (LLLI) has been shown to modulate various processes in different biological systems. The aim of our study was to investigate the effect of red light emitted from a light-emitting diode (LED) on bon... |
{
"abstract": "Although genetic variants in autophagy pathway genes were associated with the risk of oral cancers and early development in embryos, their associations with non-syndromic cleft lip with or without cleft palate (NSCL/P) risk remained unclear. A two-stage case-control study (2,027 NSCL/P cases and 1,843 ... | {
"abstract": "Forward genetic screens represent powerful, unbiased approaches to uncover novel components in any biological process. Such screens suffer from a major bottleneck, however, namely the cloning of corresponding genes causing the phenotypic variation. Reverse genetic screens have been employed as a way to... | {
"abstract": "In an effort to identify rare alleles associated with SLE, we have performed whole exome sequencing of the most distantly related affected individuals from two large Icelandic multicase SLE families followed by Ta targeted genotyping of additional relatives. We identified multiple rare likely pathogeni... |
{
"abstract": "Purpose To evaluate the safety and diagnostic performance of pulmonary nodule biopsies using cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) guidance compared with conventional CT (CCT) guidance. Material and methods Patients who had pulmonary nodules and underwent a transthoracic needle biopsy at the interventio... | {
"abstract": "OBJECTIVE\nThe purpose of this study was to evaluate the diagnostic accuracy and safety of performing transthoracic needle biopsy (TNB) under combined fluoroscopy and CT guidance using a C-arm cone-beam CT (CBCT) system.\n\n\nMETHODS\nWe evaluated the diagnostic accuracy and safety of performing TNB us... | {
"abstract": "Successful performance of transthoracic needle biopsy of pulmonary nodules under computed tomographic (CT) guidance requires both accurate placement of the needle tip within the nodule and withdrawal of an adequate sample from the lesion. Failure to complete the biopsy procedure or to establish a defin... |
{
"abstract": "Using data from two palaeontological databases, MIOMAP and FAUNMAP (now linked as NEOMAP), we explore how late Quaternary species loss compared in large and small mammals by determining palaeospecies-area relationships (PSARs) at 19 temporal intervals ranging from c. 30 million to 500 years ago in 10 d... | {
"abstract": "Abstract The Miocene Mammal Mapping Project (MIOMAP), a relational database of all published mammalian vertebrate localities between 30 and 5 million years old from the western United States, is now online for use by the paleontological community. The database is housed at the University of California ... | {
"abstract": "The wolverine (Gulo gulo) is the largest living terrestrial member of the Mustelidae; a versatile predator formerly distributed throughout boreal regions of North America and Eurasia. Though commonly recovered from Pleistocene sites across their range, pre-Pleistocene records of the genus are exceeding... |
{
"abstract": "Lawsonia intracellularis is the etiological agent of proliferative enteropathy, which is globally considered an important enteric disease in pigs and horses. Experimental studies suggest that the organism spreads by subclinical infection of many animals, including rabbits. Despite the importance of rab... | {
"abstract": "BackgroundLawsonia intracellularis is the etiologic agent of proliferative enteropathy, which causes diarrhea in several animal species, including swine. Serology can be used both to determine the prevalence of antibodies against a specific pathogen in a herd and to obtain the serological profile, whic... | {
"abstract": "1993). The semi-wild life of the affected deer gave the tumour a long period for growth (as indicated by the long hoof of the affected leg) and for the invasion and destruction of the adjacent bones. However, metastases to the other organs were not found. This is in accordance with the behaviour of mal... |
{
"abstract": "This paper explores the impact of international diversification on the decision to hold conference calls. In addition, we examine the mitigating roles of legal environment and agency problems in holding conference calls. Using a sample drawn from Taiwan, we find that greater corporate internationalizat... | {
"abstract": "This paper uses the quarterly conference call as a disclosure metric to examine whether firms with less informative financial statements are more likely to respond by providing additional voluntary disclosure. After controlling for other characteristics of a firm's information environment, I find a sig... | {
"abstract": "Expansive development of the globalisation of markets has caused a variety of feelings of hostility and/or friendship among consumers toward products of certain countries. By identifying these different feelings, the concept of consumer animosity emerges as a significant variable which impacts on the i... |
{
"abstract": "Periodontitis is an irreversible oral disease causing the destruction of tooth-supporting tissues. In addition to scaling and root planing (SRP) procedures, patients should achieve a correct domiciliary oral hygiene in order to maintain a healthy status. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the... | {
"abstract": "It is reputed that periodontal indices remain unchanged over a 24-hour period, with great clinical significance. This preliminary study analyzes daily index changes. In 56 selected patients, full-mouth plaque score (FMPS), full-mouth bleeding score (FMBS), periodontal screening and recording (PSR) indi... | {
"abstract": "One of the recent trends in Analytical Chemistry is the development of economic, quick and easy hyphenated methods to be used in a field that includes analytes of different classes and physicochemical properties. In this work a multi-residue method was developed for the simultaneous determination of 28... |
{
"abstract": "We are developing a passive power assist supporter called Smart Suit Lite. Smart Suit Lite is a compact and lightweight power assist device that utilizes the elastic force of elastic belts. To design the Smart Suit Lite, we developed a motion-based assist method and an extended musculoskeletal model. T... | {
"abstract": null,
"corpus_id": 16791965,
"title": "Intention-based walking support for paraplegia patients with Robot Suit HAL"
} | {
"abstract": "Marker-based and marker-less optical skeletal motion-capture methods use an outside-in arrangement of cameras placed around a scene, with viewpoints converging on the center. They often create discomfort by possibly needed marker suits, and their recording volume is severely restricted and often constr... |
{
"abstract": "Abstract Climate change is driving the thinning and retreat of many glaciers globally. Reductions of ice-melt inputs to mountain rivers are changing their physicochemical characteristics and, in turn, aquatic communities. Glacier-fed rivers can serve as model systems for investigations of climate-chang... | {
"abstract": "Global climate change is causing a wastage of glaciers and threatening biodiversity in glacier-fed ecosystems. The high turbidity typically found in those ecosystems, which is caused by inorganic particles and result of the erosive activity of glaciers is a key environmental factor influencing temperat... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Amundson, S. A., Bittner, M., Meltzer, P., Trent, J. and Fornace, A. J., Jr. Induction of Gene Expression as a Monitor of Exposure to Ionizing Radiation. Radiat. Res. 156, 657–661 (2001). The complex molecular responses to genotoxic stress are mediated by a variety of regulatory pathways. The ... |
{
"abstract": "Background The clinical decision-making process in pressure ulcer management is complex, and its quality depends on both the nurse's experience and the availability of scientific knowledge. This process should follow evidence-based practices incorporating health information technologies to assist healt... | {
"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nComputerized decision support systems (CDSSs) have been shown to help health care professionals to avoid errors and improve clinical practice and efficiency in health care. Little is known about its influence on nursing practice and outcomes for residents in nursing homes.\n\n\nAIM\nThe aim... | {
"abstract": "Objective: To measure the number of submissions to Acta Pyschiatrica Scandinavica from low‐ and middle‐income countries (LIC/MIC) compared with submissions from high income countries (HIC), to compare the way through the peer review process for the three groups respectively, as well as how they do as ... |
{
"abstract": "The fast growth of e-commerce business in several previous years has attracted attention of many researchers. There are numerous research investigate about purchase behavior. Despite of that, only a few study conducted to determine segmentation of online buyers. Market segmentation is the most fundamen... | {
"abstract": "We performed a study to determine the influence that site quality has on repurchase intention of Internet shopping through customer satisfaction, customer trust, and customer commitment. Appropriate measures were developed and tested on 230 university students of Gyeongnam province in South Korea with ... | {
"abstract": "Facial expression recognition aims to classify facial expression as one of seven basic emotions including “neutral”. This is a difficult problem due to the complexity and subtlety of human facial expressions, but the technique is needed in important applications such as social interaction research. Dee... |
{
"abstract": "A metasurface is an artificial nanostructured interface that has subwavelength thickness and that manipulates light by spatially arranged meta-atoms—fundamental building blocks of the metasurface. Those meta-atoms, usually consisting of plasmonic or dielectric nanoantennas, can directly change light pr... | {
"abstract": "From spins to spirals The polarization state of light can be used in imaging applications and optical communications. Light can also be structured into vortices that carry optical angular momentum, which can be used for micromanipulation and enhancing the capacity of optical communication channels. Dev... | {
"abstract": "Magnetic structure of a multiferroic Y-type hexaferrite ${\\text{Ba}}_{2}{\\text{Mg}}_{2}{\\text{Fe}}_{12}{\\text{O}}_{22}$ with helical-spin structures propagating along [001] below 195 K has been extensively studied, using polarized and unpolarized neutron diffractions under transverse magnetic field... |
{
"abstract": "bled in Norway. After a request from The Norwegian Directorate of Health we performed a Health Technology Assessment comparing effi cacy, safety and costeffectiveness of different dialysis modalities. Clinical fi ndings: •No signifi cant differences in mortality, in quality of life or in infections. •S... | {
"abstract": "BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES\nNocturnal home hemodialysis provides excellent biochemical and metabolic control of uremia; however, extensive training is necessary and technical barriers exist for intensive home hemodialysis compared with the relative simplicity of peritoneal dialysis. It was hypothesized ... | {
"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nThe protein equivalent of total nitrogen appearance (PNA) is assumed to be a reliable estimate of dietary protein intake in haemodialysis patients. Protein requirements are related to body size. In order to standardize PNA to individual differences in body size, PNA is normalized to various... |
{
"abstract": "Abstract Courses in Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM) for doctors have consistently demonstrated short-term improvements in knowledge. However, there is no strong evidence linking EBM training to changes in clinical practice or patient outcomes. This systematic review investigates whether EBM training lead... | {
"abstract": "OBJECTIVE\nTo assess the effect of evidence based medicine (EBM) workshop on knowledge and skills of physicians towards EBM use in the near future, as well as in the long run.\n\n\nMETHODS\nThis is a randomized controlled trial conducted in the primary health care administration center in Dammam, Saudi... | {
"abstract": "QFEVER has been found to occur in Los Angeles County, California, in an apparently endemic fashion, and this paper describes certain characteristics of the disease in that area. Two naturally occurring outbreaks of Q fever are known to have taken place in the United States. The first appeared in Amaril... |
{
"abstract": "CD44 has been studied in a wide variety of cell types, in a diverse array of cell behaviors and in a diverse range of signaling pathways. We now document a role for CD44 in mediating fibroblast behaviors via regulation of N‐cadherin, extracellular matrix expression, Survivin and the Hippo pathway. Here... | {
"abstract": "Vascular integrity is a critical parameter in normal growth and development. Loss of appropriate vascular barrier function is present in various immune- and injury-mediated pathological conditions. CD44 is an adhesion molecule expressed by multiple cell types, including endothelial cells (EC). The goal... | {
"abstract": "Adhesive intercellular junctions between endothelial cells are formed by tight junctions and adherens junctions. In addition to promoting cell-to-cell adhesion, these structures regulate paracellular permeability, contact inhibition of endothelial cell growth, cell survival, and maintenance of cell pol... |
{
"abstract": "Detecting emotions from user-generated videos, such as \"anger\" and \"sadness\", has attracted widespread interest recently. The problem is challenging as effectively representing video data with multi-view information (e.g., audio, video or text) is not trivial. In contrast to the existing works that... | {
"abstract": "User-generated video collections are expanding rapidly in recent years, and systems for automatic analysis of these collections are in high demands. While extensive research efforts have been devoted to recognizing semantics like \"birthday party\" and \"skiing\", little attempts have been made to unde... | {
"abstract": "An assistive system for persons with vocal impairment due to dysarthria converts dysarthric speech to normal speech or text. Because of the articulatory deficits, dysarthric speech recognition needs a robust learning technique. Representation learning is significant for complex tasks such as dysarthric... |
{
"abstract": "This article reviews clitoral structures, their functions and how they are activated during the stages of female life. The paradox that occurs is that different procedures of activation are claimed by some to favor ‘noxious outcomes’ to the physical and psychic health of women who use it to achieve sex... | {
"abstract": "INTRODUCTION ::: Evidence was recently provided for vaginal orgasm, orgasm triggered purely by penile-vaginal intercourse (PVI), being associated with better psychological functioning. Common sex education and sexual medicine approaches might undermine vaginal orgasm benefits. ::: ::: ::: AIMS ::: To e... | {
"abstract": "Recommender systems increasingly use contextual and demographical data as a basis for recommendations. Users, however, often feel uncomfortable providing such information. In a privacy-minded design of recommenders, users are free to decide for themselves what data they want to disclose about themselve... |
{
"abstract": "In this survey we present different approaches that allow an intelligent agent to explore autonomous its environment to gather information and learn multiple tasks. Different communities proposed different solutions, that are in many cases, similar and/or complementary. These solutions include active l... | {
"abstract": "This paper addresses the problem of learning a task from demonstration. We adopt the framework of inverse reinforcement learning, where tasks are represented in the form of a reward function. Our contribution is a novel active learning algorithm that enables the learning agent to query the expert for m... | {
"abstract": "We consider the problem of protecting a set of animals such as rhinos and elephants in a game park using $D$ drones and $R$ ranger patrols (on the ground) with $R\\geq D$ . Using two years of data about animal movements in a game park, we propose the probabilistic spatio-temporal graph (pSTG) model of ... |
{
"abstract": "Due to the limited field of view (FOV), the probe-based confocal laser endomicroscopy (pCLE) imaging system remains challenging to be widely used in clinic. Existing video mosaicking approaches are usually troubled by poor real-time capability and sensitivity to tissue deformations and intensity fluctu... | {
"abstract": "Recent advances in optical imaging have led to the development of miniature microscopes that can be brought to the patient for visualizing tissue structures in vivo. These devices have the potential to revolutionize health care by replacing tissue biopsy with in vivo pathology. One of the primary limit... | {
"abstract": "Background: A hooked-type acromion has been suspected to correlate with higher rotator cuff tear or impingement syndrome. However, correlation of acromial shape after acromioplasty with the rotator cuff retears and clinical results has not been studied before. Purpose: To assess the shape of the acromi... |
{
"abstract": "Among the fungi, Candida albicans is the most common microorganism to pose a possible risk factor for the malignant transformation (MT) in oral potentially malignant disorders (OPMDs). The presence of candidal infection may increase the risk of a OPMDs malignant potential. Histologically diagnosed fung... | {
"abstract": "Follow-up studies of 520 patients with leukoplakia during a 25-year period showed changes in the clinical type in 66 cases, i.e. 12.7%. Regressive changes occurred in 9%, progressive changes in 3.7%. The highest frequency of change in the clinical type was found in the group of erosive leukoplakias. Th... | {
"abstract": "At oral examinations of 70-year old men (186) and women (199) in Goteborg (H-70-study) it was concluded that the degrees of dental invalidity and the frequencies of oral red, white and hyperplastic lesions were high in spite of the rather good physical conditions of the elderly. Variations in the gener... |
{
"abstract": "Evetovich, TK, Cain, RM, Hinnerichs, KR, Engebretsen, BJ, and Conley, DS. Interpreting normalized and nonnormalized data after acute static stretching in athletes and nonathletes. J Strength Cond Res 24(8): 1988-1994, 2010-The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of acute static stretching... | {
"abstract": "The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of dynamic activity and dynamic activity/static stretching of the gastrocnemius muscle on vertical jump (VJ) performance. Additionally, muscle activity was recorded using electromyography. Thirteen healthy adults (7 men and 6 women) with a mean a... | {
"abstract": "Bacterial vaginosis (BV) is the most common disease which causes preterm birth and other adverse pregnancy outcomes linked with reproductive tract infection. Here, we report development of active fiber-based materials for early self-detection detection of BV. The proposed approach relies on the visual ... |
{
"abstract": "Zusammenfassung In der neuen Klassifikation der Krankheiten (ICD-11) der Weltgesundheitsorganisation wurde das FMS – ohne Absprache mit rheumatologischen Fachgesellschaften – aus dem Kapitel „Erkrankungen des muskuloskelettalen System und des Bindegewebes“ entfernt und in ein neu geschaffenes Kapitel „... | {
"abstract": "Objective. The polysymptomatic distress (PSD) scale is derived from variables used in the 2010 American College of Rheumatology (ACR) fibromyalgia (FM) criteria modified for survey and clinical research. The scale is useful in measuring the effect of PSD over the full range of pain-related clinical sym... | {
"abstract": "Current orthopedic implants have functional lifetimes of only 10–15 years due to a variety of reasons including infection, extensive inflammation, and overall poor osseointegration (or a lack of prolonged bonding of the implant to juxtaposed bone). To improve properties of titanium for orthopedic appli... |
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"abstract": "................................................................................................................................................... ii Acknowledgments .................................................................................................................................... iv ... | {
"abstract": "Sports and research into sports journalism features in only a tiny minority of international articles and conference papers at the academic end of the profession. This article looks at sport’s place in the research literature, its importance among journalistic practitioners and their audiences, and the... | {
"abstract": "Sports journalism is an important part of contemporary media, but it is a sector that has not received the detailed analysis of other areas of the industry. Utilising Bourdieu’s field theory, this study locates sports journalism in the journalistic field before mapping the sports journalism field in th... |
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"abstract": "The effects of irrigation water salinity (12 dS m−1 ), imposed at maximum tillering (35−40 days after sowing, DAS) or booting (50−60 DAS) or grain filling (75−85 DAS) stage of wheat, on growth and yield of the crop was demonstrated. The experiment comprised four treatments – I1: irrigation by fresh wat... | {
"abstract": "This paper presents an overview of SALTMED, a project whose goal was to increase productivity and sustainability of irrigated cropping of tomato on salt-prone land. The tomato variety Floradade, identified as having good salt tolerance, was grown in Egypt and Syria over 3 years with either drip or furr... | {
"abstract": "The effects of irrigation water salinity (12 dS m−1 ), imposed at maximum tillering (35−40 days after sowing, DAS) or booting (50−60 DAS) or grain filling (75−85 DAS) stage of wheat, on growth and yield of the crop was demonstrated. The experiment comprised four treatments – I1: irrigation by fresh wat... |
{
"abstract": "Nitrate-rich food increases nitric oxide (NO) production and may have beneficial effects on vascular, metabolic, and brain function. This pilot study tested the effects of prolonged consumption of a range of doses of dietary nitrate (NO3−), provided as beetroot juice, on cognitive function and cerebral... | {
"abstract": "Advancing age is associated with reductions in nitric oxide bioavailability and changes in metabolic activity, which are implicated in declines in motor and cognitive function. In preclinical models, sodium nitrite supplementation (SN) increases plasma nitrite and improves motor function, whereas other... | {
"abstract": "Purpose of reviewTo reveal the mechanisms of nitric oxide (NO) production in humans and how lifestyle, drug therapy, and hygienic practices can decrease NO production. Furthermore, to show how functional nitric oxide nutrition can overcome these limitations to restore endogenous NO production and comba... |
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"abstract": "Large flows like videos consume significant bandwidth. Some ISPs actively manage these high volume flows with techniques like policing, which enforces a flow rate by dropping excess traffic. While the existence of policing is well known, our contribution is an Internet-wide study quantifying its preval... | {
"abstract": "A modern AQM is just one piece of the solution to bufferbloat.",
"corpus_id": 381738,
"title": "Controlling queue delay"
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"abstract": "The major traffic in today’s internet is entirely filled with video data with increased use of Video on-Demand systems. Quality Of internet video has a great impact on user engagement. Video encoding and streaming over wireless networks become a big concern. Real time video service requires low end-to-... |
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"abstract": "Oligonychus coffeae (Acari: Tetranychidae), popularly known as red spider mite (RSM) is one of the major pests of commercial tea (Camellia sinensis (L.) O. Kuntze) plantation world over. Many attempts have been made in the past to control this devastating pest using a variety of microbial bioagents, ho... | {
"abstract": "This study evaluated the pathogenicity of indigenous soil isolate of Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) strains, applied without and along with 1.0% MgCl2 salt, to Helicoverpa armigera Hübner (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae). Toxicity and effect of Bt isolate on larval development (weight) were assessed using in vitr... | {
"abstract": "1. Comparisons have been made between electrophoretic mobilities of the cattle haemoglobins, HbA, HbB, HbC, HbD and HbF, at pH8.9. The fastest was HbB, then came in decreasing order HbF, HbC, HbA and HbD. 2. Globins were prepared from the main fractions of the five haemoglobins by CM-cellulose chromato... |
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"abstract": "Abstract This paper proposes a classification of economic models into three types: historical, axiomatic and conditional. Historical or empirical models utilize the historical-deductive method, and are generalizations from the economic regularities and tendencies that we find in the real world. Axiomat... | {
"abstract": "In this paper I argue that, in developing countries, sufficient aggregate demand is not enough to motivate investment and achieve full employment. Besides, according to the Keynesian developmental macroeconomics under construction, competent business enterprises must have access to that demand –access ... | {
"abstract": "We provide a unified treatment of the two approaches pioneered by Atkinson and Bourguignon (1982, 1987) [3,4] by resorting to compensation principles in the bivariate case. We treat the attributes of individual utility asymmetrically by assuming that one attribute can be used to compensate another. Our... |
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"abstract": "AbstractThis study has proposed and empirically tested two Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Inference System (ANFIS) models for the first time for predicting Australia's domestic low cost carriers’ demand, as measured by enplaned passengers (PAX Model) and revenue passenger kilometres performed (RPKs Model). In th... | {
"abstract": "Air transport demand forecasting is receiving increasing attention, especially because of intrinsic difficulties and practical applications. Total passengers are used as a proxy for air transport demand. However, the air passenger time series usually has a complex behavior due to their irregularity, hi... | {
"abstract": "Modeling user behavior and latent preference implied in rating data are the basis of personalized information services. In this paper, we adopt a latent variable to describe user preference and Bayesian network (BN) with a latent variable as the framework for representing the relationships among the ob... |
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"abstract": "We study how to appropriately match users for two-user cooperative-diversity (CD) systems deploying an optimal-power-allocation (OPA) strategy, considering both the amplify and forward and the regenerate and forward CD schemes. The OPA strategies, which can minimize the total energy consumption for the... | {
"abstract": "We propose here an analytical framework to quantify the impact of cooperative diversity on the energy consumption and lifetime of sensor networks. It is well accepted that cooperative diversity increases energy efficiency in fading environments. However, previous works have not analyzed, from a theoret... | {
"abstract": "Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are formed by a large collection of power-conscious wireless-capable sensors without the support of pre-existing infrastructure, possibly by unplanned deployment. With a sheer number of sensor nodes, their unattended deployment and hostile environment very often preclude... |
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"abstract": "It is well known that sparse code is effective for feature extraction of face recognition, especially sparse mode can be learned in the kernel space, and obtain better performance. Some recent algorithms made use of single kernel in the sparse mode, but this didn’t make full use of the kernel informati... | {
"abstract": "Active learning is a machine learning technique that selects the most informative samples for labeling and uses them as training data. It has been widely explored in multimedia research community for its capability of reducing human annotation effort. In this article, we provide a survey on the efforts... | {
"abstract": "Most methods for learning object categories require large amounts of labeled training data. However, obtaining such data can be a difficult and time-consuming endeavor. We have developed a novel, entropy-based ldquoactive learningrdquo approach which makes significant progress towards this problem. The... |
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"abstract": "Two novel strains, HW T2.11T and HW T5.17T, were isolated from decaying wood (forest of Champenoux, France). Study of the 16S rRNA sequence similarity indicated that the novel strains belong to the genus Acidisoma. The sequence similarity of the 16S rRNA gene of HW T2.11T with the corresponding sequenc... | {
"abstract": "AbstractA library of microorganisms \noriginating from various marine environments in French Polynesia was screened for polyhydroxyalkanoate producing bacteria. No significant connection was found between the geo-ecological source of bacteria and their ability to produce polyhydroxyalkanoate. A bacteri... | {
"abstract": "The article examines main models of public administration and regulation of health care systems, assessed with an account for their organizational and financial characteristics: predominantly state, predominantly social and insurance, predominantly private models. The predominantly state model characte... |
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"abstract": "The physical interaction of proteins is subject to intense investigation that has revealed that proteins are assembled into large densely connected networks. In this review, we will examine how signaling pathways can be combined to form higher order protein interaction networks. By using network graph ... | {
"abstract": "Transient receptor potential (TRP) channels are a large family of non-selective cation channels that mediate numerous physiological and pathophysiological processes; however, still largely unknown are the underlying molecular mechanisms. With data generated on an unprecedented scale, network-based appr... |
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"abstract": "Autopsy studies have shown that approximately 56% of patients on long-term continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD) develop various pancreatic abnormalities, such as acute and chronic pancreatitis, fibrosis, and acinar dilatation. This prevalence of anatomical abnormalities is similar to that o... | {
"abstract": "Acute pancreatitis is infrequently described in patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) who have not undergone transplantation. We observed 35 attacks of acute pancreatitis in 23 of 1001 patients with ESRD and one additional patient with irreversible acute renal failure, during a ten-year period. ... | {
"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nAlthough MRI can discriminate the lipid core from the collagenous cap of atherosclerotic lesions in vitro with T2 contrast, it has not yet produced detailed in vivo images of these human plaque components.\n\n\nMETHODS AND RESULTS\nWe imaged seven lesions from six patients who required surg... |
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"abstract": "Locating the expertise necessary to solve difficult problems is a nuanced social and collaborative problem. In organizations, some people assist others in locating expertise by making referrals. People who make referrals fill key organizational roles that have been identified by CSCW and affiliated res... | {
"abstract": "Software bugs affect system reliability. When a bug is exposed in the field, developers need to fix them. Unfortunately, the bug-fixing process can also introduce errors, which leads to buggy patches that further aggravate the damage to end users and erode software vendors' reputation. This paper prese... |
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"abstract": "The relation between psychiatry and epilepsy remains one of the topics that have been continuously attracting attention in medical literature since the time of Hippocrates. Forced normalization was later conceptualized when biological treatment for psychiatric disorders was developed. Recently, several... | {
"abstract": "Background Psychiatric manifestations after occurrence of epilepsy have often been noted. However, the association between newly diagnosed epilepsy and psychiatric disorders afterward is not completely understood. We conducted two longitudinal cohorts for patients with and without epilepsy to investiga... | {
"abstract": "AbstractPurpose\nInterest is growing in a possible link between epilepsy and bipolar disorder (BPD). We used two large datasets of hospital admission data to determine whether epilepsy and BPD occur together in the same individuals more commonly than expected.MethodsWe undertook retrospective cohort st... |
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"abstract": "Web 2.0 tools and emerging technologies offer learners an abundance of information and resources. This brings more flexibility and choices for learners to better control their learning and benefit from the various available learning materials in different forms. This has resulted in new learning practi... | {
"abstract": "Share everything. Play fair. Don't hit people. Put things back where you found them. Clean up your own mess. Don't take things that aren't yours. Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody. Wash your hands before you eat. Flush. Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you. Live a balanced life - learn som... | {
"abstract": "Microblogging is one of the latest Web 2.0 technologies. The key elements are online communication using 140 characters and the fact that it involves ''following'' anyone. There has been a great deal of excitement about this in recent months. This paper reports on a research study that was carried out ... |
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"abstract": "Emotion perception is fundamental to affective and cognitive development and is thought to involve distributed brain circuits. Efforts to chart neurodevelopmental changes in emotion have been severely hampered by narrowly focused approaches centered on activation of individual brain regions and small s... | {
"abstract": "Functional abnormalities in fear circuitry are likely to underlie the pathophysiology of pediatric posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), but the few studies to date have yielded conflicting findings. Furthermore, network level functional connectivity and age-related disruptions in fear circuitry have n... | {
"abstract": "a Curium-LUMC, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands b YOEP (Yulius Onderwijs zorg Expertise Partners), Warmond, The Netherlands c Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition (LIBC), Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands d Department ... |
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"abstract": "Comment evaluer l’efficacite d’un systeme d’information (SI) ? Il faut evaluer differemment l’efficacite d’un SI destine a une situation normale de gestion, d’un SI destine a une situation extreme. Cela s’explique par le role peripherique des SI destines aux situations normales et, a contrario, par le ... | {
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"title": "Design Science Research Contributions: Finding a Balance between Artifact and Theory"
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"abstract": "Prior research has identified the similarity of Action Research (AR) and Design Science Research (DSR). This paper analyses AR and DSR from several perspectives, including paradigmatic assumptions of ontology, epistemology, methodology, and ethics, their research interests, and activities. We identify ... |
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"abstract": "In this thesis the potential of photo-crosslinked polymer networks for intraocular drug delivery is described. Patients with diseases of the back of the eye would benefit considerably from the development of drug delivery systems that can provide sustained intraocular delivery for months to years. Due ... | {
"abstract": "Injectable delivery systems are attractive as vehicles for localized delivery of therapeutics especially in the context of regenerative medicine. In this study, the potential of photocrosslinked polyanhydride (PA) networks as an encapsulation matrix for long-term delivery of macromolecules was studied.... | {
"abstract": "Chemotherapy for brain tumours has been limited because of difficulty in achieving adequate exposure to the tumour without systemic toxicity. We have developed a method for local sustained release of chemotherapeutic agents by their incorporation into biodegradable polymers. Implantation of the drug-im... |
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"abstract": "The regulatory process in Drosophila melanogaster is thoroughly studied for understanding several principles in systems biology. Since transcriptional regulation of the Drosophila depends on spatiotemporal interactions between mRNA expressions and gap-gene proteins, proper physically-inspired stochasti... | {
"abstract": "In the embryo development problem for the Drosophila melanogaster, a set of molecules known as mor-phogens are responsible for the embryo segmentation. These morphogens are encoded by different genes, including the GAP genes, maternal coordination genes and pair-rule genes. One of the maternal coordina... | {
"abstract": "A fundamental problem in functional genomics is to determine the structure and dynamics of genetic networks based on expression data. We describe a new strategy for solving this problem and apply it to recently published data on early Drosophila melanogaster development. Our method is orders of magnitu... |
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"abstract": "The primary somatosensory cortex (SI) exhibits a detailed topographic organization of the hand and fingers, which has been found to undergo plastic changes following modifications of the sensory input. Although the spatial properties of these changes have been extensively investigated, little is known ... | {
"abstract": "The mature mammalian nervous system alters its functional organization in a use-dependent manner. Enhanced stimulation of a body part enlarges its cortical representational zones and may change its topographic order. Little is known about the perceptual and behavioral relevance of these plastic alterat... | {
"abstract": "High-performance supramolecular polyimide systems were synthesized via a simple and innovative approach using two types of azo-chromophores, leading to concomitant special properties: high thermostability, the ability to be processed in the form of films with high flexibility, adequate morphological fe... |
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"abstract": "Staphylococcus aureus is responsible for a broad variety of chronic infections. Most S. aureus clinical isolates show the capacity to adhere to abiotic surfaces and to develop biofilms. Because S. aureus growing in a biofilm is highly refractory to treatment, inhibition of biofilm formation represents ... | {
"abstract": "The effect of hypobaric oxygen, with oleic acid in the nutrient substrate, on respiration and slime production by a pulmonary isolate ofStaphylococcus aureuswas investigated. Under hypobaric, but not normal oxygen pressure, the addition of oleic acid to the nutrient broth caused the bacteria to drastic... | {
"abstract": "A novel chip-based enantioselective open-tubular capillary electrochromatography (OT-CEC) was developed employing bovine serum albumin (BSA) conjugated polydopamine-graphene oxide (PDA/GO) nanocomposites (PDA/GO/BSA) as stationary phase. After the poly(dimethylsiloxane) (PDMS) microfluidic chip was fil... |
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"abstract": "Only two species of biting louse, Heterodoxus spiniger (Enderlein) (43.27%) and Trichodectes canis (De Geer) (13.47%) have been recorded from 245 dogs examined in twelve different localities in Jaunpur district during 2009 to 2011. Female dogs were found most prevalent in comparison to the male in both... | {
"abstract": "Several arthropods that live as ectoparasites on domestic dogs can cause severe dermatitis or act as vectors of pathogenic agents, resulting in serious diseases not only in dogs, but also in humans. We studied ectoparasites found on Canis familiaris sampled in five areas in Buenos Aires province, Argen... | {
"abstract": "Introduction biology and pathophysiology of skin disorders presenting in the skin and mucous membranes dermatology and internal medicine diseases due to microbial agents therapeutics paediatric and geriatric dermatology.",
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"abstract": "Un nombre croissant d’entreprises internationales ont adopte les systemes d'information centres-processus pour profiter des avantages de l'utilisation de processus rationalises bases sur des modeles predefinis, egalement appeles modeles de processus metier. Cependant, l'environnement commercial dynamiq... | {
"abstract": "In order to facilitate the development of IoT-aware business processes that adapt to real-world context information, we present a novel modeling approach that reflects IoT quality information inherent in physical resources and maps them to the higher layers of enterprise information systems. Quality in... | {
"abstract": "In this paper we aim at bringing together the Web of Things (WoT) domain with the domain of enterprise business process modeling in order to work towards a Future Internet that includes all layers of networked technology stacks. We suggest introducing new notation concepts to the current business proce... |
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"abstract": "Trichoderma reesei endoglucanases (EGs) have limited industrial applications due to its low thermostability and activity. Here, we aimed to improve the thermostability of EGs from T. reesei without reducing its activity counteracting the activity–stability trade‐off. A cross‐strategy combination of mac... | {
"abstract": "For proteins that denature irreversibly, the denaturation is typically triggered by a partial unfolding, followed by a permanent change (e.g., aggregation). The regions that initiate the partial unfolding are named \"weak spots\". In this work, a molecular dynamics (MD) simulation and data analysis pro... | {
"abstract": "A full-scale project of thermal-alkaline pretreatment and alkaline fermentation of sewage sludge was built to produce volatile fatty acids (VFAs) which was then used as external carbon source for improving biological nitrogen and phosphorus removals (BNPR) in wastewater plant. Results showed this proje... |
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"abstract": "As a new type of single element direct-bandgap semiconductor, black phosphorus (BP) shows many excellent characteristics due to its unique two-dimensional (2D) structure, which has great potential in the fields of optoelectronics, biology, sensing, information, and so on. In recent years, a series of p... | {
"abstract": "Significance Black phosphorus (BP) nanosheet is a “hot” class of 2D material having wide applications in optoelectronics, catalysis, biomedicine, etc. However, facile synthesis of BP nanosheets is not achieved by far. Currently, BP nanosheets are mainly prepared via solution-based exfoliation of bulk c... | {
"abstract": "As a new type of single element direct-bandgap semiconductor, black phosphorus (BP) shows many excellent characteristics due to its unique two-dimensional (2D) structure, which has great potential in the fields of optoelectronics, biology, sensing, information, and so on. In recent years, a series of p... |
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"abstract": "Emotion elicitation in virtual reality is a pertinent field of study for exposure therapy in psychology. Virtual environments (VEs) often use multiple scripted visual, audio or tactile cues to induce emotions during these experiments. Interaction plays a large role in modern VR technology, and it is su... | {
"abstract": "Stereoscopy increases presence and fear in virtual reality exposure.Presence was found to predict fear during initial exposures.At later stages of exposure, presence and fear were mutually interdependent.The relationship between presence and fear thus appears dynamic. Virtual reality (VR) is increasing... | {
"abstract": "The concept of ‘breaks in presence’ (BIPs) was introduced in Slater and Steed (2000). The idea was that rather than only use a post-experience questionnaire to assess ‘presence’, it could be assessed during the experience itself. The hypothesis was that during immersion in a Virtual Environment (VE) a ... |
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"abstract": "The classification of data traffic in a firewall using parameters such as port number, IP address, and MAC address is not sufficient. For example, currently, many applications can be used without a port number meaning they can easily circumvent a firewall. Firewalls inspecting up to only layer four could al... | {
"abstract": "Network traffic analysis was traditionally limited to packet header, because the transport protocol and application ports were usually sufficient to identify the application protocol. With the advent of port-independent, peer-to-peer, and encrypted protocols, the task of identifying application protoco... | {
"abstract": "The ability to accurately identify the network trafc associated with different P2P applications is important to a broad range of network operations including application-specic trafc engineering, capacity planning, provisioning, service differentiation, etc. However, traditional trafc to higher-level a... |
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"abstract": "Rewriting composite expressions based on eliminating intermediate results generated by redundant expressions is a traditional optimization technique (known as fusion) in both programming languages community and database community. In XQuery, composite expressions for node creation are typical in practi... | {
"abstract": "Classical logical optimization techniques rely on a logical semantics of the query language. The adaptation of these techniques to XQuery is precluded by its definition as a functional language with operational semantics. We introduce Nested XML Tableaux which enable a logical foundation for XQuery sem... | {
"abstract": "STUDY OBJECTIVES\nPoor sleep quality, particularly insomnia, has been identified as a frequent problem among individuals with mental health difficulties. Comorbid sleep difficulties adversely affect quality of life and functioning, and have been associated with the causation and maintenance of a number... |
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"abstract": "Among the causality assessment methods used for the diagnosis of drug-induced liver injury (DILI), Roussel Uclaf Causality Assessment Method (RUCAM) remains the most widely used not only for individual cases but also for prospective and retrospective studies worldwide. This first place is justified by ... | {
"abstract": "The diagnosis of drug-induced liver injury (DILI) is largely a diagnosis of exclusion because, with the possible exception of protein:drug adducts in paracetamol overdose, there are no laboratory, biopsy or imaging tests that alone are capable of establishing an unequivocal diagnosis of DILI. However, ... | {
"abstract": "BACKGROUND & AIMS\nDrug-induced liver injury (DILI), especially from antimicrobial agents, is an important cause of serious liver disease. Amoxicillin-clavulanate (AC) is a leading cause of idiosyncratic DILI, but little is understood about genetic susceptibility to this adverse reaction.\n\n\nMETHODS\... |
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"abstract": "Incremental computation strives for efficient successive runs of applications by reexecuting only those parts of the computation that are affected by a given input change instead of recomputing everything from scratch. To realize the benefits of incremental computation, researchers and practitioners ar... | {
"abstract": "We present an overview of our ongoing work on parallelizing self-adjusting-computation techniques. In self-adjusting computation, programs can respond to changes to their data (e.g., inputs, outcomes of comparisons) automatically by running a change-propagation algorithm. This ability is important in a... | {
"abstract": "Self-adjusting computation offers a language-based approach to writing programs that automatically respond to dynamically changing data. Recent work made significant progress in developing sound semantics and associated implementations of self-adjusting computation for high-level, functional languages.... |
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"abstract": "This paper presents an intelligent control strategy that uses a feedforward artificial neural network in order to improve the performance of the MPPT (Maximum Power Point Tracker) MPPT photovoltaic (PV) power system based on a modified Cuk converter. The proposed neural network control (NNC) strategy i... | {
"abstract": "The perturb and observe (P&O) best operation conditions are investigated in order to identify the edge efficiency performances of this most popular maximum power point tracking (MPPT) technique for photovoltaic (PV) applications. It is shown that P&O may guarantee top-level efficiency, provided that a ... | {
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"abstract": "Abstract Point-of-care testing (POCT) has had rapid technological development and their use is widespread in clinical laboratories to assure reduction of turn-around-time and rapid patient management in some clinical settings where it is important to make quick decisions. Until now the papers published... | {
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"title": "Use of a quantitative point‐of‐care test for the detection of serum cardiac troponin T in patients with suspected acute coronary syndromes"
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"abstract": "Background Point-of-care testing has been developed to provide rapid test results. Most published studies focus on analytical performance, neglecting its impact on patient outcomes. Objective To review the analytical performance and accuracy of point-of-care testing specifically planned for immunoassay... |
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"abstract": "Abstract Background Previous studies have demonstrated elevated levels of the S100B protein (located in glial cells) in major depressive disorder (MDD) as compared to healthy controls. However, studies reporting correlation between S100B levels and depression severity have been conflicting. Methods We ... | {
"abstract": "S100B is a calcium-binding protein secreted in central nervous system from astrocytes and other glia cells. High blood S100B levels have been linked to brain damage and psychiatric disorders. S100B levels have been reported to be higher in schizophrenics than healthy controls. To quantify the relations... | {
"abstract": "ABSTRACT There are day/night and seasonal changes in biological markers such as melatonin and cortisol. Controversial changes in serum S100B protein levels have been described in schizophrenia. We aim studying whether serum S100B levels present day/night variations in schizophrenia patients and whether... |
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"abstract": "Despite diagnostic and therapeutic advancements, mortality and morbidity rates in the patients diagnosed with oral cancer remain static. Hence, an understanding of the factors that predict the progression of oral cancer appears to be useful in deciding on the most appropriate therapy, thereby improving... | {
"abstract": "INTRODUCTION\nApproximately 3% of malignant tumors originate in the oral cavity. The majority are squamous cell carcinomas, and a small percentage, malignant tumors of the salivary glands, lymphoreticular diseases, bone tumors, melanomas, sarcomas, malignant odontogenic tumors and metastases of tumors ... | {
"abstract": "In the United States, cancers of the oral cavity and oropharynx represent approximately three percent of all malignancies in men and two percent of all malignancies in women. The American Cancer Society estimates that 28,900 new cases of oral cancer will be diagnosed in 2002, and nearly 7,400 people wi... |
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"abstract": "In this study, we aimed to find the frequency of agger nasi cells (ANC) and their correlation with other anatomical anomalies in dacryocystorhinostomy (DCR) candidates, compared with a control group. The study was conducted on 42 patients with nasolacrimal duct obstruction who underwent DCR surgery. Al... | {
"abstract": "Purpose To evaluate intranasal endoscopic findings in patients with unilateral primary acquired nasolacrimal duct obstruction and compare them with the normal cohort. Methods A prospective case-control study with 50 unilateral primary acquired nasolacrimal duct obstruction (PANDO) and 50 healthy contro... | {
"abstract": "The concrete industry consumes millions of tons of aggregate comprising of natural sands and gravels, each year. In recent years there has been an increasing trend towards using recycled aggregate to save natural resources and to produce lightweight concrete. This study investigates the possibility of ... |
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"abstract": "Title of Document: TEEN COURT: DOES IT REDUCE RECIDIVISM? Wendy Povitsky, Master of Arts, 2005 Directed By: Professor Denise Gottfredson, Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice Teen Court is a diversion program designed to intercept the process of sending firsttime misdemeanor juvenile offender... | {
"abstract": "The main objective of this Guide is to equip juvenile justice agencies with baseline information that will aid them in developing, implementing, and enhancing teen court programs as a viable alternative for juvenile offenders in their communities. Teen courts nationwide share many of the same fundament... | {
"abstract": "Participant observation and interview methods were used to study the record-keeping behavior of parole officers employed in urban branch offices of a state parole agency. The data show that routine career contingencies reward parole officers for underreporting deviant behavior. Ceteris paribus , parole... |
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"abstract": "In this era, the big data has brought us massive information as well as challenges in example annotation. Since label noise is commonly seen in dataset, weakly supervised learning is becoming more and more popular. In this paper, we discussed the issue of estimating noise rate matrix with small proport... | {
"abstract": "Boosting is known to be sensitive to label noise. We studied two approaches to improve AdaBoost's robustness against labelling errors. One is to employ a label-noise robust classifier as a base learner, while the other is to modify the AdaBoost algorithm to be more robust. Empirical evaluation shows th... | {
"abstract": "For companies with large sales forces whose sellers approach business clients in teams, the problem of allocating sales teams to sales opportunities is a critical management task for maximizing the revenue and profit of the company. We approach this problem via predictive and prescriptive analytics, wh... |
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"abstract": "As humans age, their immune systems undergo a process known as immunosenescence. This global aging of the immune system is associated with increased susceptibility to infectious diseases and cancer, reduced effectiveness of vaccination, increased autoimmune phenomena, and tissue damage due to dysregula... | {
"abstract": "Progress in the fight against the HIV/AIDS epidemic is hindered by our failure to elucidate the precise reasons for the onset of immunodeficiency in HIV-1 infection. Increasing evidence suggests that elevated immune activation is associated with poor outcome in HIV-1 pathogenesis. However, the basis of... | {
"abstract": "The majority of untreated human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) type 1-infected individuals ultimately develop uncontrolled viremia and progressive disease. Cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTLs) are known to play an important role in controlling HIV-1 replication, which has led to an increasing interest in augme... |
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"abstract": "Conventional techniques of designing distortion-invariant filters for optical correlators presuppose the use of complex-valued filters. Synthetic-discriminant-functions (SDFs),\" lock-and-tumble filters,\" and circular harmonic filters5 are examples of these methods. However, since programmable, comple... | {
"abstract": "A most attractive approach to distortion-invariant pattern recognition uses a synthetic discriminant function (SDF) as the matched spatial filter in a correlator. In this paper, we (1) provide a general basis function and hyperspace description of SDFs, (2) advance a derivation showing the generality o... | {
"abstract": "A coherent optical method capable of performing arbitrary two-dimensional linear transformations has recently been studied, in which transform coefficients are given by two-dimensional inner products of the input image and a set of basis functions. Since the inner product of two functions is equal to t... |
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"abstract": "Allergic diseases are known to vary in the severity of their symptoms throughout the day/night cycle. This rhythmicity is also observed in mast cell function and responsiveness. Mast cells are key effector cells of allergic reactions and release cytokines, chemokines, and important inflammatory mediato... | {
"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nThe circadian clock temporally gates signaling through the high-affinity IgE receptor (FcεRI) in mast cells, thereby generating a marked day/night variation in allergic reactions. Thus manipulation of the molecular clock in mast cells might have therapeutic potential for IgE-mediated allerg... | {
"abstract": "Circadian rhythms regulate changes in physiology, allowing organisms to respond to predictable environmental demands varying over a 24 h period. A growing body of evidence supports a key role for the circadian clock in the regulation of immune functions and inflammatory responses, which influence the u... |
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"abstract": "We explore techniques to reverse-engineer DRAM embedded memory controllers (MCs), including page policies, address mapping, and command arbitration. There are several benefits to knowing this information: They allow tightening worst-case bounds of embedded systems and platform-aware optimizations at th... | {
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"abstract": "We present MARSS, an open source, fast, full system simulation tool built on QEMU to support cycle-accurate simulation of superscalar homogeneous and heterogeneous multicore x86 processors. MARSS includes detailed models of coherent caches, interconnections, chipsets, memory and IO devices. MARSS simul... |
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"abstract": "The direct antiglobulin test (DAT; sometimes referred to as the \"Coombs\" test) continues to be one of the most widely used assays in laboratory medicine. First described about 70 years ago, it is elegantly simple in design, yet it is widely complex in its applications and interpretations, and it is p... | {
"abstract": "It appears that delayed hemolytic transfusion reactions may occur several days after the administration of donor red cells is true even though they have been shown to be compatible in cross match tests by the antiglobulin technique. A specific case was observed in our center, which confirms the fact. T... | {
"abstract": "Thirty‐five examples of anti‐dl, autoantibodies initially reacting with all red blood cells against which they were tested, were examined prior to, and following adsorption with Jk(a‐b‐) red blood cells. None of them was found to contain autoanti‐Jk3. One example of auto‐anti‐Jka was identified in an a... |
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"abstract": "Objectives: Increased sympathetic outflow, renin–angiotensin system (RAS) activity, and oxidative stress are critical mechanisms underlying the adverse cardiovascular effects of dietary salt excess. Nebivolol is a third-generation, highly selective &bgr;1-receptor blocker with RAS-reducing effects and ... | {
"abstract": "Background: We investigated renal effects of nebivolol, a selective β1-receptor blocker with additional antioxidative ability, in spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) where increased salt intake induces oxidative stress and worsens renal function as a result of further activation of the renin-angioten... | {
"abstract": "The author has previously presented work concerned with the automatic control of industrial-type robots [1, 2]. The quite formidable problems of cross coupling of dynamics, extensive nonlinearities, unknown parameter changes and modelling errors were overcome by a technique of model reference adaptive ... |
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"abstract": "This study experimentally investigates that tracking control performance of an unscented-Kalman-filter(UKF)-based position control system for a McKibben pneumatic artificial muscle (PAM), using only a pressure sensor. Because nonlinearities in the PAM cause a mismatch in the PAM's length and inner pres... | {
"abstract": "This study applies the unscented Kalman filter (UKF) and the ensemble Kalman filter (EnKF) to estimate a contraction ratio of the McKibben pneumatic artificial muscle (PAM) and to present that the UKF is more effective than the EnKF in estimating the PAM length. Both filters were applied for a commerci... | {
"abstract": "This study experimentally investigates that tracking control performance of an unscented-Kalman-filter(UKF)-based position control system for a McKibben pneumatic artificial muscle (PAM), using only a pressure sensor. Because nonlinearities in the PAM cause a mismatch in the PAM's length and inner pres... |
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"abstract": "We investigate a general framework of multiplicative multitask feature learning which decomposes each task's model parameters into a multiplication of two components. One of the components is used across all tasks and the other component is task-specific. Several previous methods have been proposed as ... | {
"abstract": "We present a method for learning a low-dimensional representation which is shared across a set of multiple related tasks. The method builds upon the well-known 1-norm regularization problem using a new regularizer which controls the number of learned features common for all the tasks. We show that this... | {
"abstract": "Human action recognition in 3D skeleton sequences has attracted a lot of research attention. Recently, long short-term memory (LSTM) networks have shown promising performance in this task due to their strengths in modeling the dependencies and dynamics in sequential data. As not all skeletal joints are... |
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"abstract": "This experiment was conducted to determine the effect of crop processing and amino acid supplementation on dairy cow performance. Corn silage processed (PCS) or unprocessed (UCS) was used as the main forage (45% of dry matter, DM) in a total mixed ration (TMR). Each TMR was either supplemented (AA) or ... | {
"abstract": "Effects of corn silage crop processing and chop length on intake, digestion, and milk production were evaluated. Corn silage treatments were harvested at one-half milkline stage of maturity (65% whole-plant moisture content) and at 0.95-cm theoretical length of cut without processing (control) or 0.95-... | {
"abstract": "An algorithm is given to fmd maxtmum two-commodity flow m an undirected graph The algorithm is an improvement on Hu's two-commodity flow algorithm using the methods of Dmlc's single-commodity flow algorithm Karzanov's Improvement of Dmlc's algorithm can be applied to yield an O(I V ) 3) algorithm. It i... |
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"abstract": "Introduction : La pratique du depistage neonatal des atresies de l’œsophage ne fait pas l’objet d’un consensus actuellement. L’objectif de cette etude est d’evaluer si les sages-femmes d’Ile-de-France realisent un depistage systematique ou cible. \nMethode : L’etude realisee est transversale descriptiv... | {
"abstract": "OBJECTIVE\nTo test the hypothesis that noxious stimulation at birth may increase the long-term risk for developing psychosomatic or functional disorders during later life.\n\n\nSTUDY DESIGN\nMatched case-control study using sibling controls. The birth records were retrieved for the offspring of 494 mot... | {
"abstract": "BACKGROUND & AIMS\nA history of early adverse life events (EALs) is associated with a poorer outcome and higher levels of distress in adult patients with functional gastrointestinal disorders. An EAL is thought to predispose individuals to develop a range of chronic illnesses by inducing persistent cha... |
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"abstract": "Background Anthropometric measurements are simple and reachable tools for self-evaluating and screening patients with a high risk of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). However, the accumulated relationship of obesity on the anthropometric characteristics of OSA is not well understood. The aim of the study ... | {
"abstract": "Objectives: Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) has been identified as one of the significant risk factors for motor vehicle crashes (MVCs). In the interest of public safety, this study was conducted to determine the prevalence of OSA and its associated factors among express bus drivers in Malaysia. Identify... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) disruption is a common injury in human and veterinary medicine. Currently used surgical implants do not possess the same tensile properties as intact ACL. Nitinol, a superelastic alloy of nickel and titanium, could be a suitable intra-articular prosthesis. Howe... |
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"abstract": "Magnetic racetrack memory has frequently been complicated by the pinning of domain wall bits on the one hand and the need to engineer precise synchronization and inter-track repulsion between skyrmionic bits on the other. Such proposals, however, do not capitalize on the complex 2-D motion of skyrmions... | {
"abstract": "Research efforts to develop a novel memory technology that combines the desired traits of non-volatility, high endurance, high speed and low power have resulted in the emergence of Spin Torque Transfer-RAM (STTRAM) as a promising next generation universal memory. However, the prospect of developing a n... | {
"abstract": "Entropy and relative entropy measures play a crucial role in mathematical information theory. The relative entropies are also widely used in statistics under the name of divergence measures which link these two fields of science through the minimum divergence principle. Divergence measures are popular ... |
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"abstract": "The state-of-the-art automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems utilize a statistical pattern recognition framework called HMM/GMM (Hidden Markov Model / Gaussian Mixture Model) with short time spectral features such as Mel Frequency Cesptral Coefficients (MFCC) or Perceptual Linear Prediction (PLP). A... | {
"abstract": "In this paper, the states in the speech production process are defined by a number of categorical articulatory features. We describe a detector that outputs a stream (sequence of classes) for each articulatory feature given the Mel frequency cepstral coefficient (MFCC) representation of the input speec... | {
"abstract": "In this paper we develop a method of representing the speech waveform in terms of a set of abstract, linguistic distinctions in order to derive a set of discriminative features for use in a speech recognizer. By combining the distinctive feature representation with our original waveform representation ... |
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"abstract": "Biomedical named entity recognition (Bio-NER) is an important preliminary step for many biomedical text mining tasks. The current mainstream methods for NER are based on the neural networks to avoid the complex hand-designed features derived from various linguistic analyses. However, these methods igno... | {
"abstract": "Biomedical Named Entity Recognition (BNER), which extracts important entities such as genes and proteins, is a crucial step of natural language processing in the biomedical domain. Various machine learning-based approaches have been applied to BNER tasks and showed good performance. In this paper, we s... | {
"abstract": "An extensive benchmark in financial time series forecasting is performed.Best machine learning(ML) methods out-perform best econometric methods.The ML methodology employed significantly affects forecasting accuracy.Market maturity, forecast horizon & model-assessment method affect forecast accuracy.Evi... |
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"abstract": "Résumé Les systèmes de workflows ont largement contribué à améliorer la reproductibilité des expériences scientifiques. Ce-pendant, relativement peu de travaux ont porté sur la réutilisation des données produites au cours de l’exécution. l’hypothèse données intermédiaires doivent être considérées objets ... | {
"abstract": "PROV has been adopted by a number of workflow systems for encoding the traces of workflow executions. Exploiting these provenance traces is hampered by two main impediments. Firstly, workflow systems extend PROV differently to cater for system-specific constructs. The difference between the adopted PRO... | {
"abstract": "Résumé Les systèmes de workflows ont largement contribué à améliorer la reproductibilité des expériences scientifiques. Ce-pendant, relativement peu de travaux ont porté sur la réutilisation des données produites au cours de l’exécution. l’hypothèse données intermédiaires doivent être considérées objets ... |
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"abstract": "Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have not been able to completely elucidate the genetic background of complex diseases. Part of it could lie in repetitive sequences not studied in the GWAS, as those corresponding to Human Endogenous Retroviruses (HERVs). In the present work, we aim to review the ... | {
"abstract": "BackgroundWe previously showed that the envelope (env) sequence of a human endogenous retrovirus (HERV)-W locus on chromosome Xq22.3 is transcribed in human peripheral blood mononuclear cells. The env open reading frame (ORF) of this locus is interrupted by a premature stop at codon 39, but otherwise h... | {
"abstract": "Human Endogenous Retroviruses (HERVs) are ancient infection relics constituting ~8% of our DNA. While HERVs’ genomic characterization is still ongoing, impressive amounts of data have been obtained regarding their general expression across tissues. Among HERVs, one of the most studied is the W group, w... |
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"abstract": "Oximeters are commonly used in abbreviated cardiorespiratory studies (ACS) to monitor blood oxygen saturation and heart rate using the photoplethysmography (PPG) signal. These data are prone to movement artifacts, especially in infants who move or need to be handled often. Therefore segments of PPG dat... | {
"abstract": "Corruption of photopleythysmograms (PPGs) by motion artifacts has been a serious obstacle to the reliable use of pulse oximeters for real-time, continuous state-of-health monitoring. In this paper, we propose an automated, two-stage PPG data processing method to minimize the effects of motion artifacts... | {
"abstract": "Most of the intensive care units (ICU) are equipped with commercial pulse oximeters for monitoring arterial blood oxygen saturation (SpO2) and pulse rate (PR). Photoplethysmographic (PPG) data recorded from pulse oximeters usually corrupted by motion artifacts (MA), resulting in unreliable and inaccura... |
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"abstract": "Adaptive laboratory evolution (ALE) is an evolutionary engineering approach in artificial conditions that improves organisms through the imitation of natural evolution. Due to the development of multi-level omics technologies in recent decades, ALE can be performed for various purposes at the laborator... | {
"abstract": "Evolutionary approaches are often undirected and mutagen-based yielding numerous mutations, which need elaborate screenings to identify relevant targets. We here apply Metabolic engineering to Guide Evolution (MGE), an evolutionary approach evolving and identifying new targets to improve microbial prod... | {
"abstract": "Abstractl-Valine is one of the three branched-chain amino acids (valine, leucine, and isoleucine) essential for animal health and important in metabolism; therefore, it is widely added in the products of food, medicine, and feed. l-Valine is predominantly produced through microbial fermentation, and th... |
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"abstract": "Many researchers have tried to predict the accuracies of extrinsic evaluation by using intrinsic evaluation to evaluate word embedding. The relationship between intrinsic and extrinsic evaluation, however, has only been studied with simple correlation analysis, which has difficulty capturing complex ca... | {
"abstract": "The authors analyze three critical components in training word embeddings: model, corpus, and training parameters. They systematize existing neural-network-based word embedding methods and experimentally compare them using the same corpus. They then evaluate each word embedding in three ways: analyzing... | {
"abstract": "In this paper, we study topic-specific retweet count ranking problem in Weibo. Two challenges make this task nontrivial. Firstly, traditional methods cannot derive effective feature for tweets, because in topic-specific setting, tweets usually have too many shared contents to distinguish them. We propo... |
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"abstract": "Steroid hormones, such as estrogens, were once thought to be exclusively synthesized in the ovaries and enact transcriptional changes through intracellular nuclear receptors over the course of hours to days. However, estrogens are also locally synthesized within neural circuits, wherein they rapidly (w... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Language as a computational cognitive mechanism appears to be unique to the human species. However, there are remarkable behavioral similarities between song learning in songbirds and speech acquisition in human infants that are absent in non-human primates. Here we review important neural par... | {
"abstract": "Brain activity recorded noninvasively is sufficient to control a mobile robot if advanced robotics is used in combination with asynchronous electroencephalogram (EEG) analysis and machine learning techniques. Until now brain-actuated control has mainly relied on implanted electrodes, since EEG-based sy... |
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"abstract": "High speed trains (HST) have gradually become an essential means of transportation, where given our digital world, it is expected that passengers will be connected all the time. More specifically, the on-board passengers require fast mobile connections, which cannot be provided by the currently impleme... | {
"abstract": "An all-optical processing aided multifunctional wireless multiple-input multiple-output architecture is designed, where both diversity and beamforming gains can be attained. Explicitly, we propose an architecture, where the twin-antenna Alamouti space-time block coded symbols are transmitted using a si... | {
"abstract": "In this paper, we present the design and the experimental demonstration of a radio over fiber (RoF) network relying on state-of-the-art spatial modulation (SM), that activates one out of multiple antennas. We propose a novel RoF-aided SM encoding scheme, where the optical single side-band signal genera... |
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"abstract": "The amount of goods produced and transported around the world each year increases and heavy-duty trucks are an important link in the logistic chain. To guarantee reliable delivery a high degree of ...",
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"title": "Machine Learning Models for Predictive Maintenance"
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"abstract": "Differences in electrochemical characteristics among Li-ion batteries result in erroneous state-of-charge (SOC)/capacity estimation and state-of-health (SOH) prediction when using the existing dual extended Kalman filter (DEKF) algorithm. This paper presents a complementary cooperation algorithm based ... | {
"abstract": "Low power dissipation and maximum battery runtime are crucial in portable electronics. With accurate and efficient circuit and battery models in hand, circuit designers can predict and optimize battery runtime and circuit performance. In this paper, an accurate, intuitive, and comprehensive electrical ... |
{
"abstract": ": A literature review is described on cerebrum (brain) tumor diagnosis. The aim of this survey is to provide an outline for those who are new to the field of image processing, and also to provide a reference for those searching for literature in these applications. Tumor is because of an abnormal devel... | {
"abstract": "The accurate diagnosis of human brain tumours is a sensitive medical task, for which radiology experts often must rely on indirect signal measurements. There is thus a need for developing computer-based decision support tools to assist doctors in their diagnostic task. The experiments in this brief pap... | {
"abstract": "Stereotactic biopsies from deep-seated brain tumors were carried out in 302 patients. There were more men (58 percent) than women. Peak of prevalence was in the second to fourth decade; the youngest patient was 18 months old. The tumors were deep-seated hemispheric in 36 percent, in the basal ganglia i... |
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"abstract": "En el estudio del cancer es fundamental conocer las interacciones entre las distintas subpoblaciones \ncelulares que componen el tumor. Para ello, son determinantes los modelos de \nprogresion tumoral, gracias a los cuales podemos entender y explorar los factores relevantes \nen la evolucion de una pob... | {
"abstract": "In this work we present a flexible tool for tumor progression, which simulates the evolutionary dynamics of cancer. Tumor progression implements a multi-type branching process where the key parameters are the fitness landscape, the mutation rate, and the average time of cell division. The fitness of a ... | {
"abstract": "In this paper, we derive analytic solutions of stochastic mutation-selection networks that describe early events of cancer formation. A main assumption is that cancer is initiated in tissue compartments, where only a relatively small number of cells are at risk of mutating into cells that escape from h... |
{
"abstract": "Employer-related pensions are a common and extremely important component of the compensation paid to workers in both the public and private sectors of developed economies. Many private pensions are insufficiently funded, exposing workers to the risk of a loss should their employer cease operations and ... | {
"abstract": "ON its face, the pension contract is tenuous. In exchange for lower cash wages, the firm promises workers pension payments many years in the future. Yet it can either terminate the plan at any time or fire workers prior to vesting; in either case, the firm can impose large capital losses on workers. Be... | {
"abstract": "This investigation seeks to ascertain the relevance between firm profitability and innovation. This paper regard granted patent as the indicator of innovation. Next, we further explore how the company size, export ratio and research and development ratios (R&D ratios), patent infringement lawsuits affe... |
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"abstract": "As little information about the effect of ultra high dilutions of glucocorticoid in reproduction is available in the literature, pregnant female Wistar rats (N = 12) were blindly subcutaneously treated during all gestational and lactation period with: dexamethasone 4 mg/kg diluted into dexamethasone 15... | {
"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nAt the beginning of this series of experiments we were looking for a model based on the use of purified commercially available compounds based on a fully described and accepted pharmacological model to study of the biological effect of high dilutions. Negative feedback induced by histamine,... | {
"abstract": "Sensorimotor control is greatly affected by two factors—the time it takes for an animal to sense and respond to stimuli (responsiveness), and the ability of an animal to distinguish between sensory stimuli and generate graded muscle forces (resolution). Here, we demonstrate that anatomical limitations ... |
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"abstract": "High-resolution sediment archives from small alpine lakes in the Alaskan Arctic and tropical Andes were used to investigate Holocene climate change in these climatically sensitive and important regions. Varved minerogenic sediments from glacial-fed Blue Lake, Brooks Range Alaska (1275 m asl), were used... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Analyses of sediment cores from Marcella Lake, a small, hydrologically closed lake in the semi-arid southwest Yukon, provides effective moisture information for the last ∼4500 years at century-scale resolution. Water chemistry and oxygen isotope analyses from lakes and precipitation in the reg... | {
"abstract": "Multiple paleoclimate proxies are required for robust assessment of past hydroclimatic conditions. Currently, estimates of drought variability over the past several thousand years are based largely on tree-ring records. We produced a 1,500-y record of winter precipitation in the Pacific Northwest using... |
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"abstract": "We address the joint problem of learning and scheduling in multi-hop wireless network without a prior knowledge on link rates. Previous scheduling algorithms need the link rate information, and learning algorithms often require a centralized entity and polynomial complexity. These become a major obstac... | {
"abstract": "In Cognitive Radio Networks (CRNs), dynamic spectrum access allows (unlicensed) users to identify and access unused channels opportunistically, thus improves spectrum utility. In this paper, we address the user-channel allocation problem in multi-user multi-channel CRNs without a prior knowledge of cha... | {
"abstract": "MapReduce and Spark are two very popular open source cluster computing frameworks for large scale data analytics. These frameworks hide the complexity of task parallelism and fault-tolerance, by exposing a simple programming API to users. In this paper, we evaluate the major architectural components in... |
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"abstract": "While the Canadian Language Benchmarks (CLB) document has been a milestone in supporting the teaching of English as an additional language to adults in Canada, few studies examined practitioners’ experiences with the language standard. The expectation of ongoing use of the CLB by teachers in the Langua... | {
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"abstract": "Portfolios and other open-ended assessments are increasingly incorporated into evaluations and testing programs. However, questions about the reliability of such assessments continue to be raised. After reviewing forces that may be leading to increased interest in and use of portfolio assessment, we in... |
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"abstract": "Friction is scientifically interesting and technologically important. We can characterize friction well, but even the friction force between macroscopic surfaces of known chemistry and topography under known loading conditions cannot yet be predicted from the bottom up. A major obstacle to predicting f... | {
"abstract": "We investigate the evolution of heterogeneous stress states along frictional interfaces. Using finite-element simulations, we model the occurrence of precursory slip sequences on a deformable-deformable as well as a deformable–rigid interface between two solids. Every interface rupture creates a stress... | {
"abstract": "Local contact behavior and its interaction with the global dynamics of the system are at the origin of innumerable contact issues concerning several different disciplines like tribology, geophysics, vibration mechanics or fracture mechanics. When two elastic media are in relative motion with a friction... |
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"abstract": "We demonstrate an asymmetrical single-pole double-throw (SPDT) switch with low insertion loss (IL) and high isolation and power linearity for 28-GHz 5G new radio. In the transmit (TX) path, a series equivalent quarter-wavelength ( $\\lambda $ /4) transmission line (TL) (consisting of $\\lambda $ /9 TL ... | {
"abstract": "This paper presents circuit techniques to achieve high linearity and good isolation for CMOS transmit/receive (T/R) switches above 20 GHz. A comparison between the conventional symmetrical and the proposed asymmetrical switch topology is presented with an emphasis on the linearity performance. The subs... | {
"abstract": "A compact CMOS SPDT switch fabricated in 0.18 mum BiCMOS technology has been successfully demonstrated at X-Ku-band. The fully integrated chip exhibits a low insertion loss of 1.9 dB and an isolation of 22.5 dB at 17 GHz. By reverse biasing the source/drain (S/D) diode junctions, the switch achieves a ... |
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"abstract": "Abstract—The global energy consumption is increasing persistently and need for distributed power generation through renewable energy is essential. To meet the power requirements for consumers without any voltage fluctuations and losses, modeling and design of multilevel inverter with Flexible AC Transm... | {
"abstract": "Application of renewable energy systems has become very popular. Since most utilities do not track the end points of their distribution lines carefully, where most of the wind turbines are connected to the grid, increasing the application of renewable energies in utilities can result in problems for th... | {
"abstract": "In this paper, harmonic elimination problem in multilevel inverters with any number of levels is redrafted as an optimization task. A new method based on particle swarm optimization is proposed to identify the best switching angles with the dual objectives of harmonic suppression and output voltage reg... |
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"abstract": "LAM, PETER GAIFUN. Integration of Ferroelectric Thin Films in Tunable Microwave Devices. (Under the direction of Jon-Paul Maria). Recent growth in wireless communication industry has led to a growing search for alternative technologies that can provide higher flexibility and efficiency in the handling ... | {
"abstract": "BaxSr1−xTiO3 is ideally suited as a tunable medium for radio frequency passive component. In this context we have studied the effect of biaxial strain on the dielectric and ferroelectric properties of Ba0.5Sr0.5TiO3 thin films grown epitaxially on SrTiO3 (001) substrates. The lattice parameters of the ... | {
"abstract": "Abstract (Pb 0.5 Ba 0.5 )ZrO 3 (PBZ) and 1 mol% Mn-doped (Pb 0.5 Ba 0.5 )ZrO 3 (Mn-PBZ) sol were successfully fabricated, and corresponding thin films were deposited on Pt(1 1 1)/TiO 2 /SiO 2 /Si(1 0 0) substrates by spin-coating method. Effects of Mn doping on the microstructure and electrical propert... |
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