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"abstract": "Abstract A rapid and simple analytical method based on liquid chromatography – ultraviolet detection has been developed and validated for the simultaneous determination of two high added-value cosmetic ingredients, honokiol and magnolol, in commercial cosmetic samples. These compounds from the Magnolia... | {
"abstract": "A method for the separation and determination of honokiol and magnolol in Magnolia officinalis and its medicinal preparation is developed by capillary zone electrophoresis and response surface methodology. The concentration of borate, content of organic modifier, and applied voltage are selected as var... | {
"abstract": "The usefulness of comprehensive two-dimensional gas chromatography (GC×GC) was demonstrated for the selective separation of fluorinated compounds from organic mixtures, such as kerosene/perfluorokerosene mixtures, pyrolysis products derived from polyethylene/ethylene-tetrafluoroethylene alternating cop... |
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"abstract": "Prostaglandins are a group of lipids that produce diverse physiological and pathological effects. Among them, prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) stands out for the wide variety of functions in which it participates. To date, there is little information about the influence of PGE2 on gap junctional intercellular c... | {
"abstract": "• Under control conditions only one of ∼128 connexin (Cx)36 gap junction channels assembled in junctional plaques are open at a given time. This ratio was increased several times by short carbon chain n‐alkanols and BSA, and reduced by long carbon chain n‐alkanols. • Bovine serum albumin (BSA) increa... | {
"abstract": "Incorrectness of the amino acid sequence of bovine serum albumin (BSA) was suggested from the observed molecular weight of BSA obtained by electrospray ionization mass spectrometry (ESIMS). Lack of a tyrosine residue in the position of 156th was found rapidly, by the combination of frit-fast atom bomba... |
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"abstract": "Several logical attacks against Java based smart card have been published recently. Most of them are based on the hypothesis that the type verification was not performed, thus allowing to obtain dynamically a type confusion. To mitigate such attacks, typed stack have been introduced on recent smart car... | {
"abstract": "This paper presents a method to inject a mutable Java Card applet into a smart card. This code can on demand parse the memory in order to search for a given pattern and eliminate it. One of these key features is to bypass security checks or retrieve secret data from other applets. We evaluate the count... | {
"abstract": "Can you guarantee secrecy even if an adversary can eavesdrop on your brain? We consider the problem of protecting privacy in circuits, when faced with an adversary that can access a bounded number of wires in the circuit. This question is motivated by side channel attacks, which allow an adversary to g... |
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"abstract": "Vitamin D (VD) reduces the risk of breast cancer and improves disease prognoses. Potential VD analogs are being developed as therapeutic agents for breast cancer treatments. The large-conductance Ca2+-activated K+ channel KCa1.1 regulates intracellular Ca2+ signaling pathways and is associated with hig... | {
"abstract": "The Ca2+-activated Cl− channel transmembrane proteins with unknown function 16 A (TMEM16A; also known as anoctamin 1 or discovered on gastrointestinal stromal tumor 1) plays an important role in facilitating the cell growth and metastasis of TMEM16A-expressing cancer cells. Histone deacetylase (HDAC) i... | {
"abstract": "TMEM16A, a calcium-activated chloride channel (CaCC), is highly amplified and expressed in human cancers and is involved in the growth and metastasis of some malignancies. Inhibition of TMEM16A represents a novel pharmaceutical approach for the treatment of cancers and metastases. The purpose of this s... |
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"abstract": "The prevalence of allergic diseases is increasing globally, most particularly in middle- to low-income countries. This article examines the burden of allergic rhinitis and chronic urticaria in the Asia-Pacific region, unmet clinical needs, and the potential role of bilastine in the management of these ... | {
"abstract": "This article reviews the molecular biology of the interaction of histamine with its H1-receptor and describes the concept that H1-antihistamines are not receptor antagonists but are inverse agonists i.e. they produce the opposite effect on the receptor to histamine. It then discourages the use of first... | {
"abstract": "This is the first U.S.-based study to compare efficacy and safety of desloratadine with fexofenadine in subjects with symptomatic seasonal allergic rhinitis (SAR). In this double-blind study, subjects were randomized to desloratadine, 5 mg (n = 290),fexofenadine, 180 mg (n = 288), or placebo (n = 144) ... |
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"abstract": "The goal of this thesis is to provide researchers and practitioners with guidance in designing data glyphs for temporal and multi-dimensional data. Therefore, the term ”glyph” in the context of information visualization has to be introduced and defined first, to establish a common understanding of the ... | {
"abstract": "Chernoff faces have been proposed as a tool for scientific and information visualization. However, the effectiveness of this form of visualization is still open to speculation. Chernoff faces, it is suggested, make use of humans' apparently inherent ability to recognize faces and small changes in facia... | {
"abstract": "As data increases in dimensionality or complexity, it becomes difficult to graphically represent data items or series in a straightforward way. Chernoff faces encode data values as features of a human face, but afford only a handful of dimensions, and can be difficult to decode. In this paper, we exten... |
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"abstract": "Abstract Over the past decade or so, there have been major advances in the development of 3D printing technology to create innovative food products, including for printing foods in homes, restaurants, schools, hospitals, and even space flight missions. 3D food printing has the potential to customize fo... | {
"abstract": "This paper demonstrates the significant utility of deploying non-traditional biological techniques to harness available volatiles and waste resources on manned missions to explore the Moon and Mars. Compared with anticipated non-biological approaches, it is determined that for 916 day Martian missions:... | {
"abstract": "We present BacPack for New Frontiers, an interactive museum exhibit that introduces core synthetic biology concepts to visitors through tangible, multi-touch, and physical interaction. The exhibit engages users in the design and engineering of bacteria, which are helpful in extreme environments like Ma... |
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"abstract": "Since the introduction of effective antiretroviral therapy (ART), HIV-infected individuals are travelling more frequently and international travel has become much safer. Specific concerns include the safety of ART during travel, drug adherence and interaction considerations, and effects of immunosuppre... | {
"abstract": "We examined the effects of travel on the health of a group of HIV-infected adults (n=89) cared for in a public hospital HIV clinic. In a period of 2 years, 45% travelled to a median of 3 US destinations for at least one week and 20% travelled to at least one international destination for a mean duratio... | {
"abstract": "PURPOSE\nTo describe the clinical, radiographic, and laboratory features of sinus disease in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected individuals.\n\n\nPATIENTS\nSeventy-two patients with a history of sinusitis identified from 1,461 consecutive admissions (667 patients) to the HIV ward at The Johns ... |
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"abstract": "Online crowdsourcing enables the distribution of work to a global labor force as small and often repetitive tasks. Recently, situated crowdsourcing has emerged as a complementary enabler to elicit labor in specific locations and from specific crowds. Teamwork in online crowdsourcing has been recently s... | {
"abstract": "While Decision Support Systems (DSS) have a long history, their usefulness for non-experts outside specific organisations has not lived up to the promise. A key reason for this is the high cost associated with populating the underlying knowledge bases. In this article, we describe how DSSs can leverage... | {
"abstract": "AIM\nThe purpose of this prospective study was to determine the possible association among vaginal fluid pH, cervicovaginitis and cervical length in singleton pregnancies at 16-22 weeks of gestation.\n\n\nMETHODS\nA total of 240 asymptomatic singleton pregnancies at 16-22 weeks of gestation were includ... |
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"abstract": "ABSTRACT The existing data support Portugal as the western European country with the highest HIV-1 subtype diversity. However, detailed phylogenetic studies of Portuguese HIV-1 epidemics are still scarce. Thus, our main goal was to analyze the phylodynamics of a local HIV-1 infection in the Portuguese ... | {
"abstract": "Objective:To determine whether heterosexual transmission of HIV differs according to HIV-1 subtype. Design:A retrospective observational cohort. Methods:HIV-1 subtype effects on heterosexual HIV-1 transmission were determined among 268 HIV-discordant couples retrospectively identified from a population... | {
"abstract": "In Australia, as in many other countries, economic evaluation is increasingly seen by health care policy makers as a useful aid to priority setting and resource allocation. In Australia, economic evaluation is now a requirement for new drugs to be listed on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme which prov... |
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"abstract": "The max-relative entropy together with its smoothed version is a basic tool in quantum information theory. In this paper, we derive the exact exponent for the asymptotic decay of the small modification of the quantum state in smoothing the max-relative entropy based on purified distance. We then apply ... | {
"abstract": "We treat secret key extraction when the eavesdropper has correlated quantum states. We propose quantum privacy amplification theorems different from Renner’s, which are based on quantum conditional Rényi entropy of order 1 + s. Using those theorems, we derive an exponential rate of decrease for leaked ... | {
"abstract": "Simulation of soft tissue cutting is a problem. For proposing an effective simulation method, a surgery simulation system is put forward, and a double thread software system which contains graphics thread and equipment thread is built in the research. And ball-spring model is used as the internal physi... |
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"abstract": "The growth of oil exploration and transport in marine environments brings concern over potential environmental disasters caused by oil spills. Thus, various materials are being developed and studied in order to minimize environmental impacts caused by these oil spills. Among these materials, the use of... | {
"abstract": "Sugarcane bagasse was partially acetylated to enhance its oil-wicking ability in saturated environments while holding moisture for hydrocarbon biodegradation. The water sorption capacity of raw bagasse was reduced fourfold after treatment, which indicated considerably increased hydrophobicity but not a... | {
"abstract": "Mathematical modeling has been carried out for the hydrodynamic behavior of iron ore particles in a circulating fluidized bed reduction system. The hydrodynamic model incorporates gas-solid, solid-solid, gas-wall, and solid-wall interactions. The model predictions were compared with experimental data t... |
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"abstract": "Glyphosate is the active ingredient in a range of widely used herbicides. The aim of this work is to evaluate the effects of two commercial herbicides, Roundup and Avans, on the motility, velocity, and gravitactic orientation of the aquatic flagellate Euglena gracilis. An early warning system, called E... | {
"abstract": "OBJECTIVE\nTo analyze the impact of a rheumatologist reviewing each newly referred patient's medical records prior to scheduling an appointment (pre-appointment management).\n\n\nMETHODS\nAll 279 new patients who were referred in the 6 months after initiating pre-appointment management were studied. Th... |
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"abstract": "Random access channel (RACH) procedures in modern wireless communications are generally based on multi-channel slotted-ALOHA, which can be optimized by flexibly organizing devices' transmission and retransmission. However, due to the lack of information about the traffic generation statistics and the o... | {
"abstract": "Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communication is now playing a market-changing role in a wide range of business world. However, in event-driven M2M communications, a large number of devices activate within a short period of time, which in turn causes high radio congestions and severe access delay. To address ... | {
"abstract": "Machine-to-Machine(M2M) communication is expected to be one of major communication methods in the future 5th generation wireless communications. In M2M communications, there are important requirements: extremely low power consumption of devices and mass device transmission. In order to meet the require... |
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"abstract": "ABSTRACT Conservation of agrobiodiversity is an important component of sustainable agriculture and is important internationally. Ex situ conservation in genebanks has been the dominant strategy. Recently, in situ conservation has been advocated as a complementary strategy. This review (1) defines the c... | {
"abstract": "Plant diversity sustains all animal life, and the genetic diversity within plants underpins global food security. This text provides a practical and theoretical introduction to the strategies and actions to adopt for conserving plant genetic variation, as well as explaining how humans can exploit this ... | {
"abstract": "Soy protein isolate (SPI) films plasticized with different contents of short and linear glycerol (G) and hyperbranched dendritic polyglycerol (DPG) in the presence of water were prepared for the first time with kneading and compression molding; these were analyzed in relation to their visual, morpholog... |
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"abstract": "Background: Acalypha godseffiana is an important plant used as an ornamental and herbs; its leaves are used in the management of diseases like diabetes in Eastern Nigeria. Aim: The study aims at linking the hypoglycemic activity extracts of leaves of A. godseffiana to their polyphenolic contents. S... | {
"abstract": "Felicia muricata is a medicinal plant used for the management of different human and livestock diseases in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa. The antioxidant potential of the leaves from this herb was investigated using its water, methanol, acetone and ethanol extracts. All the extracts were ri... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Food is one of the most fundamental materials for the survival of living beings. Our ancestors probably endeavored to eat foods derived from plants and animals in their journey for sustenance and may have perceived that there were both beneficial and harmful effects linked with the utilization... |
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"abstract": "In this paper, we proposed a novel current cycle feedback (CCF) iterative learning control (ILC) approach to achieve high-speed imaging on atomic force microscope (AFM). AFM imaging requires precision positioning of the AFM probe relative to the sample in 3-D (x- y-z). It has been demonstrated that, wi... | {
"abstract": "This paper revisits a well-known synthesis problem in iterative learning control, where the objective is to optimize a performance criterion over a class of causal iterations. The approach taken here adopts an infinite-time setting and looks at limit behavior. The first part of the paper considers iter... | {
"abstract": "The paper describes the design of an advanced control system for a machine used in the flexible manufacture of colliery roadway supports. Computer-aided design techniques were used extensively in the development of the system. Simulation, in particular, was important for efficiently establishing approp... |
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"abstract": "Positron emission tomography (PET) is a preclinical and clinical imaging technique extensively used to study and visualize biological and physiological processes in vivo. Fluorine-18 (18F) is the most frequently used positron emitter for PET imaging due to its convenient 109.8 min half-life, high yield... | {
"abstract": "Trifluoromethylthiolation by sulfuration of difluorocarbene with elemental sulfur is described for the first time, which overrides long-standing trifluoromethyl anion-based theory. Mechanistic elucidation reveals an unprecedented chemical process for the formation of thiocarbonyl fluoride and also enab... | {
"abstract": "An unprecedent reaction of indoline-2,3-diones and (triphenylphosphonio)difluoroacetate (PDFA) afforded novel 3-fluoroalkenyl-3-trifluoromethyl-2-oxindoles in moderate to excellent yields. These products could be transformed into other trifluoromethylated oxindole derivatives.",
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"abstract": "Nations with a predominantly ethno-cultural self-perception and citizenship based on jus sanguinis are under pressure today to adopt more civic-territorial ideas of nationhood, including elements of jus soli. Two nations experiencing these trends in Europe but have rarely been juxtaposed are Greece and... | {
"abstract": "Abstract This article takes issue with two assumptions associated with the permanent return migration of ethnic Greeks and ethnic Germans from the former Soviet Union. It suggests that their return has turned out to be less ethnically motivated than policy makers have assumed and that many returnees, i... | {
"abstract": "Previously we have reported about human nuclear matrix proteins (hNMPs) with increased reassembling and potential filament-forming capability [C. Gerner et al., 1999, J. Cell. Biochem. 74, 145-151]. Here, we cloned the cDNA of one of these proteins, hNMP 200, following partial amino acid sequencing of ... |
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"abstract": "ABSTRACT Industry 4.0 (I4.0) brings a set of challenges that need to be settled to enable the expected industrial revolution. Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) and Autonomous Robots are two of mainstream I4.0 technologies and can be combined with other Enabling Technologies to overcome main I4.0 challenges.... | {
"abstract": "Robotic automation is being increasingly proselytized in the industrial and manufacturing sectors to increase production efficiency. Typically, complex industrial tasks cannot be satisfied by individual robots, rather coordination and information sharing is required. Centralized robotic control and coo... | {
"abstract": "To effectively control complex dynamical systems, accurate nonlinear models are typically needed. However, these models are not always known. In this paper, we present a data-driven approach based on Gaussian processes that learns models of quadrotors operating in partially unknown environments. What m... |
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"abstract": "Machine learning based classifiers used quite often for predicting forest cover types, are the Naïve Bayes classifier, the k-Nearest Neighbors classifier, and the Random forest classifier. This paper is directed towards examining all of these classifiers coupled with feature selection and attribute der... | {
"abstract": "Epilepsy is one of the most common brain disorders, but the dynamical transitions to neurological dysfunctions of epilepsy are not well understood in current neuroscience research. Uncontrolled epilepsy poses a significant burden to society due to associated healthcare cost to treat and control the unp... | {
"abstract": "Ischemic Heart Disease (IHD) and stroke are statistically the leading causes of death world-wide. Both diseases deal with various types of cardiac arrhythmias, e.g. premature ventricular contractions (PVCs), ventricular and supra-ventricular tachycardia, atrial fibrillation. For monitoring and detectin... |
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"abstract": "Current out-of-cone logic locking methodologies provide resilience against the satisfiability (SAT) attack with minimal corruption of the outputs when comparing an activated and locked integrated circuit (IC). In addition, the structure of the modifications to the original logic leaks functional inform... | {
"abstract": "Logic locking is a solution that mitigates hardware security threats, such as Trojan insertion, piracy and counterfeiting. Research in this area has led to, in an iterative fashion, a series of logic locking defenses as well as attacks that circumvent these defenses by extracting the logic locking key.... | {
"abstract": "Atrioventricular septal defect (AVSD) is a clinically significant subtype of congenital heart disease (CHD) that severely influences the health of babies during birth and is associated with Down syndrome (DS). Thus, exploring the differences in functional genes in DS samples with and without AVSD is a ... |
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"abstract": "Avian sperm are stored in the sperm storage tubules (SSTs) of the hen oviduct for a prolonged period. The impact of avidin-related protein-2 (AVRP2) and carbonic anhydrase II (CA II) in sperm viability in the SSTs has been suggested. The aim of the present study was to investigate the effect of oral ad... | {
"abstract": "The objective was to determine whether expression of estrogen receptor (ER) mRNA in the utero-vaginal junction (UVJ) of laying hens was altered after repeated artificial insemination (AI). Semi-quantitative RT-PCR was used to determine the expression of mRNA of the two types of receptor, ERalpha and ER... | {
"abstract": "First, I appreciate the attention of Alexei Yu. Kostygov et al. to our article. I would like to begin by describing the history of detecting Crithidia in our study. This will answer some questions in researchers’ minds. Crithidia spp were identified in patients with cutaneous leishmaniasis who were res... |
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"abstract": "Dropout prediction in MOOCs is a well-researched problem where we classify which students are likely to persist or drop out of a course. Most research into creating models which can predict outcomes is based on student engagement data. Why these students might be dropping out has only been studied thro... | {
"abstract": "In this work, we explore video lecture interaction in Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), which is central to student learning experience on these educational platforms. As a research contribution, we operationalize video lecture clickstreams of students into cognitively plausible higher level behavio... | {
"abstract": "With the advancement of image acquisition and analysis methods in recent decades, unique opportunities have emerged to study the neuroanatomical correlates of intelligence. Traditional approaches examining global measures have been complemented by insights from more regional analyses based on pre-defin... |
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"abstract": "Longstanding discordances and enigmas persist as to the specificities and other properties of antibodies (Abs) most effective in preventing or limiting many viral infections in mammals; in turn, failure to decipher key complexities has added to headwinds for both Ab-based therapeutic approaches and rat... | {
"abstract": "As the 2014–15 Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa evolved from emergency to lesson, developers of both vaccines and therapeutic antibodies were left with the puzzlement of what kinds of anti-Ebola antibodies are predictably desirable in treating the afflicted, and what antibodies might account for the... | {
"abstract": "A new method for the determination of the herbicide diuron, using a flow injection manifold and photoinduced chemiluminescence detection, is presented. The pesticide, in basic medium, was irradiated on-line with UV light (254 nm) for 53 s. A short discussion about the possible irradiation products is i... |
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"abstract": "Proanthocyanidins, also called condensed tannins, are oligomers and polymers of monomeric flavans linked through specific single (B linkages) and double (A linkages) bonds. These secondary plant metabolites have substantial antioxidant activity. They are prevalent in some foods and dietary supplements ... | {
"abstract": "Proanthocyanidins, extracted from grape seeds, are widely used mainly as nutritional supplements. However, there has not been a systematic report to investigate toxicological studies on proanthocyanidins, especially in oral administration. In our studies, proanthocyanidin-rich extract from grape seeds ... | {
"abstract": "Introduction. The work includes the results of clinical and microbiological studies that determine the feasibility of using the herbal preparation EPS® 7630 for the treatment of rhinopharyngitis (RF) in children. The introduction provides a brief review of the literature data on the role of the microbi... |
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"abstract": "Ruminal fibre degradation is mediated by a complex community of rumen microbes, and its efficiency is crucial for optimal dairy productivity. Enzymes produced by rumen microbes are primarily responsible for degrading the complex structural polysaccharides that comprise fibre in the plant cell walls of ... | {
"abstract": "BackgroundIn silico, secretome proteins can be predicted from completely sequenced genomes using various available algorithms that identify membrane-targeting sequences. For metasecretome (collection of surface, secreted and transmembrane proteins from environmental microbial communities) this approach... | {
"abstract": "Expert curated annotation remains one of the critical steps in achieving a reliable biological relevant annotation. Here we announce the release of GAMOLA2, a user friendly and comprehensive software package to process, annotate and curate draft and complete bacterial, archaeal, and viral genomes. GAMO... |
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"abstract": "The protein encoded by the selenoprotein S gene is considered to be an anti‐inflammatory and antioxidant protein and is involved in a variety of diseases. Therefore, we want to study the distribution characteristics of this gene in Chinese diabetic population.",
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"abstract": "BackgroundSelenoprotein S (SelS) is a transmembrane protein that is expressed in the liver, skeletal muscle, adipose tissue, pancreatic islets, kidney, and blood vessels. In addition to its transmembrane localization, SelS is also secreted from hepatoma HepG2 cells (but not L6 skeletal muscle cells, 3T... | {
"abstract": "Chronic metabolic stress leads to cellular dysfunction, characterized by excessive reactive oxygen species, endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress and inflammation, which has been implicated in the pathogenesis of obesity, type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease. The ER is gaining recognition as a key or... |
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"abstract": "Background Whilst malaria is a prominent aetiology associated with acute kidney injury (AKI) in many parts of Africa, a shift in the traditional AKI aetiologies has been witnessed in sections of the continent. Additionally, limited access to dialysis worsens patient outcomes in these low-resource setti... | {
"abstract": "While emerging evidence indicates that the incidence of both acute kidney injury (AKI) and chronic kidney disease (CKD) in children is rising, and the etiologies are dramatically changing, relatively little is currently known regarding the potential for transition from AKI to CKD. In both situations, e... | {
"abstract": "Despite the presence of hyper-mobile migrant workers in the European Union, there is very little research on transnational union organizing efforts.i This paper examines the European Migrant Workers Union (EMWU), which signalled a shift by the German union Industriegewerkschaft Bauen-Agrar-Umwelt (IG B... |
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"abstract": "This paper investigates iterative learning control based on passivity for two-degree-of-freedom (2DOF) robot manipulators with antagonistic bi-articular muscles. Firstly, a brief summary of dynamics of 2DOF robot manipulators with antagonistic bi-articular muscles is given. Next, an error dynamics of t... | {
"abstract": "This paper investigates open-loop control, which does not need the joint angles and velocities, for two degree of freedom(2DOF) robot manipulators with antagonistic bi-articular muscles which are passing over adjacent two joints and acting the both joints simultaneously. The manipulator dynamics of thr... | {
"abstract": "This paper investigates bilateral control of nonlinear teleoperation with time varying communication delays for two-degree-of-freedom (2DOF) robot manipulators with antagonistic bi-articular muscles. First, a brief summary of dynamics of a 2DOF robot manipulator with antagonistic bi-articular muscles i... |
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"abstract": "Testing and screening of plant-derived molecules on normal human cells in vitro is a widely used approach for discovering their eventual health beneficial effects for human ageing and longevity. As little is known about age-associated differential effects of such molecules, here we report that young (<... | {
"abstract": "Mild stress-induced activation of stress response (SR) pathways, such as autophagy, heat shock response, oxidative SR, DNA damage response, and inflammatory response, can be potentially health beneficial. Using the model system of cellular ageing and replicative senescence in vitro, we have studied the... | {
"abstract": "The mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR), a phosphoinositide 3-kinase-related protein kinase, controls cell growth in response to nutrients and growth factors and is frequently deregulated in cancer. Here we report co-crystal structures of a complex of truncated mTOR and mammalian lethal with SEC13 pro... |
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"abstract": "We study dynamic matching in a service platform represented by a multi-class, multi-server queueing system with Bernoulli rewards based on job-server assignments. However, the service platform lacks knowledge of job-server-specific mean rewards. Our objective is to minimize regret, defined as the diffe... | {
"abstract": "Motivated by extreme-value engineering in service systems, we develop and evaluate simple approximations for the distributions of maximum values of queueing processes over large time intervals. We provide approximations for several different processes, such as the waiting times of successive customers,... | {
"abstract": "Sufficient conditions for stability of closed-loop systems with a saturating actuator are derived from the viewpoint of time domain. The Bellman-Gronwall inequality is used to investigate the stability of these systems. Three kinds of controllers are considered to treat this constrained control problem... |
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"abstract": "This study evaluates the impact of the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI) on children's health outcomes in developing countries. Using a difference-in-differences identification strategy, we find that GAVI has reduced neonatal, infant and under-five mortality rates. The impact of GAVI... | {
"abstract": "This paper examines the efficient allocation of international health aid. We built a simple macroeconomic model which considers an endogenous allocation of aid mixed between the public and the private channels. We derive a non-cooperative interaction-game involving the private sector, the donor and the... | {
"abstract": "Conventional treatments of fungibility, such as in Assessing Aid, are concerned with evidence that aid recipients do not increase sufficiently (that is, by the amount of aid) expenditure on specific areas favoured by donors. In other words, fungibility implies that recipients divert aid to expenditure ... |
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"abstract": "The linear Piece In Hand (PH, for short) matrix method with random variables was proposed in our previous work [S. Tsujii, K. Tadaki, and R. Fujita, IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals, E90-A, No.5, pp.992–999, 2007]. It is a general prescription which can be applicable to any type of multivariate publi... | {
"abstract": "Quartz is a signature scheme based on an HFEv- trapdoor function published at Eurocrypt 1996. In this paper we study \"inversion\" attacks for Quartz, i.e. attacks that solve the system of multivariate equations used in Quartz. We do not cover some special attacks that forge signatures without inversio... | {
"abstract": "Soft errors due to single event upsets (SEUs) are the main challenge to the reliability of SRAM-based FPGA designs. To calculate the soft error rate, the XDL information, such as the sensitive configuration bits, signal propagation, is needed to be acquired. In this paper, an XDL analysis method for SR... |
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"abstract": "Background No previous study has investigated the adherence rate of North-African pulmonologists to the 2017-GOLD PTGs. Aims To investigate the adherence rate of Tunisian pulmonologists to the 2017-GOLD PTGs and to identify the barriers to their adherence. Methods This was a cohort study involving clin... | {
"abstract": "Background The diagnosis of COPD is not always consistent with the Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD) strategy in daily clinical practice, especially in primary care. This study aimed to estimate the overall COPD prevalence and severity, to identify differences between newly ... | {
"abstract": "Systemic inflammation may be the “missing link” between airway dysfunction and the extrapulmonary manifestations of COPD",
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"title": "Skeletal muscle weakness, reduced exercise tolerance, and COPD: is systemic inflammation the missing link?"
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"abstract": "Electronic Control Units (ECUs) have been increasingly used in modern vehicles to control the operations of the vehicle, improve driving comfort, and safety. For the operation of the vehicle, these ECUs communicate using a Controller Area Network (CAN) protocol that has many security vulnerabilities. A... | {
"abstract": "With the increasing amount of interconnections between vehicles, the attack surface of internal vehicle networks is rising steeply. Although these networks are shielded against external attacks, they often do not have any internal security to protect against malicious components or adversaries who can ... | {
"abstract": "In this article, we address both security and safety requirements and solve security-aware design problems for the controller area network (CAN) protocol and time division multiple access (TDMA)-based protocols. To provide insights and guidelines for other similar security problems with limited resourc... |
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"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nDirect cost comparisons between minimally invasive spine surgeries and the open options are rare.\n\n\nOBJECTIVE\nTo compare healthcare costs associated with open transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion (TLIF) and minimally invasive lateral lumbar interbody fusion (LLIF) by calculating the i... | {
"abstract": "BACKGROUND Minimum clinical important difference (MCID) has been adopted as the smallest improvement in patient-reported outcome needed to achieve a level of improvement thought to be meaningful to patients. OBJECTIVE To use a common MCID calculation method with a cost-utility threshold anchor to intro... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Objective To determine whether, from a health provider and patient perspective, surgical stabilisation of the spine is cost effective when compared with an intensive programme of rehabilitation in patients with chronic low back pain. Design Economic evaluation alongside a pragmatic randomised ... |
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"abstract": "ABSTRACT Background: With increasing utilization of cannabis in the United States (US), clinicians may encounter more cases of Gastroparesis (GP) in coming years. Objective: The primary outcome was inpatient mortality for GP with cannabis use. Secondary outcomes included system-based complications and ... | {
"abstract": "Background and Aims: Gastroparesis, a chronic gastrointestinal disorder defined by delayed stomach emptying in the absence of obstruction, is often associated with frequent and costly visits to the emergency department (ED). The aim of this study was to analyze trends in gastroparesis-related ED visits... | {
"abstract": "Objective: For patients with gastroparesis, temporary pyloric disruption has been shown to improve symptoms and gastric emptying. Per-oral pyloromyotomy (POP) is an innovative endoscopic procedure to divide the pylorus from within a submucosal tunnel, as a corollary to surgical pyloromyotomy. Here we e... |
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"abstract": "This review evaluates the epidemiological and clinical evidence linking low‐level and prolonged exposures to organophosphorus esters, used as insecticides or nerve agents, to peripheral nerve dysfunction. The clinical effects of large doses of these chemicals—including the cholinergic syndrome, the int... | {
"abstract": "In human populations, serum paraoxonase (PON1) exhibits a substrate dependent polymorphism. The Arg192 isoform hydrolyzes paraoxon rapidly but diazoxon, soman and especially sarin slowly. On the other hand, the Gln192 isoform hydrolyzes paraoxon slowly, but diazoxon, soman and sarin more rapidly than t... | {
"abstract": "Developing mammals are markedly more sensitive to acute toxicity from exposure to a variety of organophosphorus (OP) pesticides. The present study examined dose-related inhibition of both brain and plasma cholinesterase activity in neonatal and adult rats exposed to sublethal doses of one of three comm... |
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"abstract": "Defecation disorders (constipation and fecal incontinence) are widely prevalent functional gastrointestinal disorders in children. Although the pathophysiology of constipation is not known to the precision, there seems to be association with a significant number or socio-cultural factors. Epidemiologic... | {
"abstract": "OBJECTIVES. Previous studies, based on clinic samples, report that childhood soiling is associated with behavior problems and reduced self-esteem. This population-based study investigates the prevalence of psychological problems associated with childhood soiling. METHODS. A total of 8242 children aged ... | {
"abstract": "The hydrogen breath test was performed by ingestion of 20 g lactulose and analysis of end-expiratory air. Eighteen patients undergoing colonoscopy, 17 receiving antibiotics, 12 prepared for colon surgery, and 15 controls were examined. The test was repeated under control conditions in the treated patie... |
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"abstract": "Certain problems associated with knowledge acquisition are identified and examined in this paper. We review a variety of methodologies and tools designed to address these problems and then argue that there is a strong case for a preliminary knowledge analysis or domain phase of KBS development. This ph... | {
"abstract": "A hybrid system for automatic knowledge acquisition for expert systems is presented. The system integrates artificial intelligence and cognitive science methods to construct knowledge bases employing different knowledge representation formalisms. For the elicitation of human declarative knowledge, the ... | {
"abstract": "HLA-based simulation systems are prone to load imbalances due to lack management of shared resources in distributed environments. Such imbalances lead these simulations to exhibit performance loss in terms of execution time. As a result, many dynamic load balancing systems have been introduced to manag... |
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"abstract": "We prove that there are 3-CNF formulas over n variables that can be refuted in resolution in width w but require resolution proofs of size nΩ(w). This shows that the simple counting argument that any formula refutable in width w must have a proof in size nO(w) is essentially tight. Moreover, our lower ... | {
"abstract": "We describe a family of CNF formulas in n variables, with small initial width, which have polynomial length resolution refutations. By a result of Ben-Sasson and Wigderson it follows that they must also have narrow resolution refutations, of width O( √ n logn). We show that, for our formulas, this decr... | {
"abstract": "We show that the Player-Adversary game of Pudlak and Impagliazzo [A lower bound for DLL algorithms for k-SAT, in: Proc. 11th Annual ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms, 2000, pp. 128-136] played over CNF propositional formulas gives an exact characterization of the space needed in treelike resolu... |
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"abstract": "Purpose CpG oligodeoxynucleotide (CpG-ODN), a TLR9 agonist, activates innate immunity and induces Th1 response. Although the immune modulatory effect of CpG-ODN has been extensively studied, its function in cockroach extract-induced allergic asthma has not been studied. Here, we investigated the inhibi... | {
"abstract": "Asthma is a complex heritable inflammatory disorder of the airways in which the development of clinical disease depends on environmental exposure. It has been well established that T helper type 2 (TH2) lymphocytes and their cytokines have an important role in allergic asthma. Interleukin (IL)-9, a mem... |
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"abstract": "At present, surgical septal myectomy is regarded as the \"gold standard\" treatment for most patients with obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) and drug-refractory symptoms. However, the best results are obtained by those surgeons who have extensive experience with this operation at a small nu... | {
"abstract": "From the HCM Institute, Division of Cardiology, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, Mass; Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn; New York University Langone Medical Center, New York, NY; Toronto General Hospital, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio; and Po... | {
"abstract": "Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is the most common genetic cardiovascular disorder and is associated with symptoms of heart failure and increased risk of sudden cardiac death. The most common condition is obstruction of the left ventricular outflow tract. Surgical septal myectomy and alcohol septal ablatio... |
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"abstract": "Machaerium, in the family Fabaceae, predominantly is a genus of a Neotropical distribution of trees, shrubs, and lianas occurring from southern Mexico to Brazil and northern Argentina and as far as South America. Several Machaerium species are widely used in traditional medicine and are considered to h... | {
"abstract": "Leaves and branches of Machaerium hirtum Vell. (Fabaceae), native to South America, were subjected to phytopharmacological investigation in order to identify its major chemical constituents and evaluate its extracts, fractions and isolated compounds in assays for anti-inflammatory activities. These wer... | {
"abstract": "Methods for the determination of total sulfur and chlorine in used oil were evaluated and compared using actual waste oil samples. Oxygen bomb combustion was followed by either ion chromatographic determination of sulfate and chloride or determination of sulfur by inductively coupled plasma (ICP) optic... |
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"abstract": "Left ventricular (LV) twist is defined as the wringing motion of the LV around its long-axis during systole generated by rotation of the LV apex in a counterclockwise direction, as viewed from the apex, while the LV base moves in a clockwise direction. In several cases, the LV apex and base move in the... | {
"abstract": "Acromegaly is a rare, chronic, disfiguring, and debilitating disease caused, in 90% of cases, by a benign monoclonal growth hormone–secreting pituitary adenoma. The present study aimed to assess left ventricular (LV) rotational and twist mechanics in acromegalic patients and to compare their results to... | {
"abstract": "Prognostic models are used to predict outcome in stroke patients and to stratify treatment groups in clinical trials. No one has previously attempted to use such models in stroke recovery studies in animals. We have now shown the predictive value of assigning stroke severity ratings, based on behaviour... |
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"abstract": "he present study was devoted to assess the potentiality of ascorbic acid (vit.C) catalytic with copper sulphate as inactivator for Infectious Bovine Rhinotracheitis Virus (IBRV) and Bovine Viral Diarrhea Virus (BVDV) compared with the conventional inactivants Binary Ethylene Imine (BEI). Stock viruses ... | {
"abstract": "The effect of D-isoascorbic acid, an epimer of L-ascorbic acid, on viruses was investigated using a wide variety of bacterial viruses (phages) as model systems. D-isoascorbic acid exerted an inactivating effect on all phages examined. The reaction mechanism of virus inactivation by D-isoascorbic acid w... | {
"abstract": "Any bacterial strain can be infected by virulent phages or harbour one or more prophages. Therefore, bacteria-phage interactions are to be regarded as fundamental properties of bacteria. In current industrial fermentation processes phages can be advantageously employed for the identification of bacteri... |
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"abstract": "A prominent hypothesis in the diversification of placental mammals after the Cretaceous–Palaeogene (K/Pg) boundary suggests that the extinction of non‐avian dinosaurs resulted in the ecological release of mammals, which were previously constrained to small body sizes and limited species richness. This ... | {
"abstract": "Variation in the geographic spread of fossil localities strongly biases inferences about the evolution of biodiversity, due to the ubiquitous scaling of species richness with area. This obscures answers to key questions, such as how tetrapods attained their tremendous extant diversity. Here, we address... | {
"abstract": "The Carboniferous and early Permian were critical intervals in the diversification of early four-limbed vertebrates (tetrapods), yet the major patterns of diversity and biogeography during this time remain unresolved. Previous estimates suggest that global tetrapod diversity rose continuously across th... |
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"abstract": "Summary Objectives To document the use of and to estimate the accuracy of magnetic resonance (MR) imaging for detection of late meniscal tears in dogs with cranial cruciate ligament injury treated with tibial tuberosity advancement (TTA). Methods Medical records of dogs that had TTA followed by stifle ... | {
"abstract": "To determine the effect of surgical implants on the depiction of canine stifle anatomy in magnetic resonance (MR) images, three canine cadaver limbs were imaged at 1.5 T before and after tibial plateau leveling osteotomy (TPLO), tibial tuberosity advancement (TTA), and extra-capsular stabilization (ECS... | {
"abstract": "Low-field magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) was performed on the stifle joints of four normal adult mongrel dogs using a 0.064 Tesla scanner. Markers were placed on each stifle joint to serve as reference points for comparing gross sections with the images. A T1-weighted sequence was used to image one s... |
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"abstract": "Fitting models with Bayesian likelihood-based parameter inference is becoming increasingly important in infectious disease epidemiology. Detailed datasets present the opportunity to identify subsets of these data that capture important characteristics of the underlying epidemiology. One such dataset de... | {
"abstract": "SUMMARY Due to its substantially lower prevalence of bovine tuberculosis (bTB) relative to other areas of Great Britain, Scotland was designated as an officially (bovine) TB-free region in 2009. This paper investigates resultant possibilities for reducing surveillance by developing risk-based alternati... | {
"abstract": "Bovine TB (bTB) is endemic in Irish cattle and has eluded eradication despite considerable expenditure, amid debate over the relative roles of badgers and cattle in disease transmission. Using a comprehensive dataset from Northern Ireland (>10,000 km2; 29,513 cattle herds), we investigated interactions... |
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"abstract": "Programming language documentation refers to the set of technical documents that provide application developers with a description of the high-level concepts of a language (e.g., manuals, tutorials, and API references). Such documentation is essential to support application developers in effectively us... | {
"abstract": "Modern software systems are becoming increasingly complex, relying on a lot of third-party library support. Library behaviors are hence an integral part of software behaviors. Analyzing them is as important as analyzing the software itself. However, analyzing libraries is highly challenging due to the ... | {
"abstract": "In the United States, identity theft resulted in corporate and consumer losses of $56 billion dollars in 2005, with up to 35 percent of known identity thefts caused by corporate data breaches. Many states have responded by adopting data breach disclosure laws that require firms to notify consumers if t... |
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"abstract": "This article represents the update of the European Stroke Initiative Recommendations for Stroke Management. These guidelines cover both ischaemic stroke and transient ischaemic attacks, which are now considered to be a single entity. The article covers referral and emergency management, Stroke Unit ser... | {
"abstract": "Background: Patients with ischaemic stroke due to occlusion of the basilar or vertebral arteries may develop a rapid deterioration in neurological status leading to coma and often to death. While intra-arterial thrombolysis may be used in this context, no randomised controlled data exist to support its... | {
"abstract": "Diffusion magnetic resonance imaging provides an early marker of acute cerebral ischemic injury. Thrombolytic reversal of diffusion abnormalities has not previously been demonstrated in humans. Serial diffusion and perfusion imaging studies were acquired in patients experiencing acute hemispheric cereb... |
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"abstract": "Umami is considered to be the fifth basic taste quality and is elicited by glutamate. The mouse is an ideal rodent model for the study of this taste quality because of evidence that suggests that this species, like humans, may sense umami-tasting compounds as unique from other basic taste qualities. We... | {
"abstract": "The nucleus of the solitary tract (NST) and the parabrachial nuclei (PbN) are the first and second central relays for the taste pathway, respectively. Taste neurons in the NST project to the PbN, which further transmits taste information to the rostral taste centers. Nevertheless, details of the neural... | {
"abstract": "Previous studies have shown a modulatory influence of forebrain gustatory areas, such as the gustatory cortex and lateral hypothalamus, on the activity of taste-responsive cells in the nucleus of the solitary tract (NST). The central nucleus of the amygdala (CeA), which receives gustatory afferent info... |
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"abstract": "Abstract The Bystander Intervention Model (BIM) is applied to explore how bystanders to workplace bullying assess situations and choose responses based on the (female) target’s sexual orientation. We investigate how attitudes of homophobia and amnestic heterosexism (AH) affect these responses. Vignette... | {
"abstract": "Despite the growing number of meta-analyses published on the subject of workplace mistreatment and the expectation that women and racial minorities are mistreated more frequently than men and Whites, the degree of subgroup differences in perceived workplace mistreatment is unknown. To address this gap ... | {
"abstract": "We examined cyber incivility in the workplace of Singapore and also examined its impact on employee job satisfaction, organizational commitment, quit intention, and workplace deviance. Data were collected from 192 employees. Results of the survey showed that male supervisors engaged in active forms of ... |
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"abstract": "Pathology to the proximal biceps tendon has the potential to be a major source of pain in the shoulder, secondary to complex superior labrum from anterior to posterior (SLAP) lesions, partial biceps tears, and subluxations. In order to restore function and improve the patient’s quality of life, repair ... | {
"abstract": "Arthroscopic biceps tenodesis is a good choice for treating proximal lesions of the biceps tendon. However, there are few descriptions of the surgical approach. We introduce a technique for proximal biceps tenodesis using positioning portals and placing suture anchors. Our patients had a minimum of 12 ... | {
"abstract": "Assessing the time and factors influencing return to work after any procedure is very important. It helps in both preoperative counseling of patients and gives them a clear picture of the time needed to get back to work. Very few studies have commented on return to work after shoulder biceps tenodesis.... |
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"abstract": "Although chemotherapy has improved the treatment of metastatic bladder cancer, resection and continual surveillance remain the modalities used for treatment of organ-confined disease. More targeted therapies are needed to address the shortcomings of existing treatments. The authors recently became awar... | {
"abstract": "Activation of the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) and downstream signaling pathways, such as phosphatidylinositol-3 kinase/Akt and Ras/mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK), have been implicated in causing resistance to EGFR-targeted therapy in solid tumors, including the urogenital tumors. T... | {
"abstract": "Formulations of the Image Decomposition Problem [18] as a Multicut Problem (MP) w.r.t. a superpixel graph have received considerable attention. In contrast, instances of the MP w.r.t. a pixel grid graph have received little attention, firstly, because the MP is NP-hard and instances w.r.t. a pixel grid... |
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"abstract": "We consider peer-to-peer (P2P) networks, where multiple peers are interested in sharing multimedia content. In such P2P networks, the shared resources are the peers' contributed content and their upload bandwidth. While sharing resources, autonomous and self-interested peers need to make decisions on t... | {
"abstract": "Peer-to-peer protocols play an increasingly instrumental role in Internet content distribution. It is therefore important to gain a complete understanding of how these protocols behave in practice and how their operating parameters affect overall system performance. This paper presents the first detail... | {
"abstract": "This paper presents a seminal work in preparing lecture notes in epistemology of computer science and computer ethics through an open source personal wiki system engine. Our course of epistemology of computer science and computer ethics aims at making graduate students think about the fundamentals of t... |
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"abstract": "Nitric oxide (NO) is a major chemical byproduct of many photochemically active nitrogen-containing compounds. As a prototypical free radical with a very well characterized high-resolution spectrum, NO provides a standard spectroscopic fingerprint for indirect quantitative analysis and detection of a nu... | {
"abstract": "The electronic excitation energies and excited-state potential energy surfaces of nitrobenzene, 2,4,6-trinitroaniline (TNA), and 2,4,6-trinitrotoluene (TNT) are calculated using time-dependent density functional theory and multiconfigurational ab initio methods. We describe the geometrical and energeti... | {
"abstract": "New imidazole-based energetic molecules (1,4-dinitroimidazole, 2,4-dinitroimidazole, 1-methyl-2,4-dinitroimidazole, and 1-methyl-2,4,5-trinitroimidazole) are studied both experimentally and theoretically. The NO molecule is observed as a main decomposition product from the above nitroimidazole energeti... |
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"abstract": "ABSTRACT The organized array of smooth muscle cells (SMCs) and fibroblasts in the walls of visceral tubular organs arises by patterning and differentiation of mesenchymal progenitors surrounding the epithelial lumen. Here, we show that the TBX2 and TBX3 transcription factors have novel and required rol... | {
"abstract": "We have identified Xenopus Id4, a member of the Id (inhibitor of differentiation/DNA binding) class of helix-loop-helix proteins. Id factors dimerize with general bHLH factors, preventing their interaction with tissue-specific bHLH factors, to inhibit premature differentiation. The presence of several ... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Measurement of the streaming potential over an affinity column is used as a means of following affinity binding of proteins to immobilized ligands. The system designed operates with one sample column and one reference column and the differential signal is a good measure of the amount of affini... |
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"abstract": "This paper analyzes a Digital Signal Processor (DSP) based One Cycle Control (OCC) strategy for a Power Factor Corrector (PFC) rectifier with Common-mode Voltage (CMV) immunity. It is proposed a strategy that utilizes an emulated-resistance-controller in closed-loop configuration to set the dc-link vol... | {
"abstract": "Grid-connected unity-power-factor converters based on one-cycle control (OCC) do not require the service of phase-locked loop or any other synchronization circuits for interfacing with the utility. As a result, these schemes are becoming increasingly popular. However, as the power handled by the conver... | {
"abstract": "This master thesis aims at developing the methodology to form dynamic PTDF families, for the implementation into the market model. The main procedures to create a dynamic PTDF family are developed and presented with a study case (See Chapter 4). By fitting data from the market model into the data minin... |
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"abstract": "With the recent advances in deep learning, the gaze estimation models reached new levels, in terms of predictive accuracy, that could not be achieved with older techniques. Nevertheless, deep learning consists of computationally and memory expensive algorithms that do not allow their integration for em... | {
"abstract": "Deep Neural nets (NNs) with millions of parameters are at the heart of many state-of-the-art computer vision systems today. However, recent works have shown that much smaller models can achieve similar levels of performance. In this work, we address the problem of pruning parameters in a trained NN mod... | {
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"title": "Mini-Bot : a Patrol Robot with Multi Mechanical Joint and Swap Algorithm Arul"
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"abstract": "In this paper, we propose a low-altitude aerial platform (LAP) based relaying system, where two LAPs serve as relays. More specifically, the air-to-ground links are assumed to be radio frequency (RF) channels experiencing large-scale path loss and small-scale fading, while the link between the two rela... | {
"abstract": "We present several analytical models to calculate the intersection surface of a spherical cap with a solid cone where either one of them is experiencing perturbations in its attitude. These models are developed to quantitatively analyze the mutual alignment, and thus performance, of mobile free-space o... | {
"abstract": "Recently, the use of multi-rotor (MR) unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has emerged as a promising solution for establishing flexible free-space optical communication links. We address, in this paper, the accurate channel modeling to assess the benefits of MR UAV-based deployment for such links. In parti... |
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"abstract": "The current study explored the usage of various categories of words within the Montclair Map Task Corpus (MMTC) to determine if any relationships between the use of a certain category of words and task performance existed. The MMTC utilized a collaborative map task to explore the relationship between v... | {
"abstract": "Using a large social media dataset and open-vocabulary methods from computational linguistics, we explored differences in language use across gender, affiliation, and assertiveness. In Study 1, we analyzed topics (groups of semantically similar words) across 10 million messages from over 52,000 Faceboo... | {
"abstract": "Language is increasingly being used to define rich visual recognition problems with supporting image collections sourced from the web. Structured prediction models are used in these tasks to take advantage of correlations between co-occurring labels and visual input but risk inadvertently encoding soci... |
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"abstract": "Lead chalcogenide nanoplatelets (NPLs) have emerged as a promising material for devices operating in the near IR and IR spectrum region. Here, we first apply the cation exchange method to PbSe/PbS core/shell NPL synthesis. The shell growth enhances NPL colloidal and environmental stability, and passiva... | {
"abstract": "In this work, we report a colloidal synthesis of atomically flat PbSe nanoplatelets (NPLs) of different thicknesses from 3 to 6 monolayers via cation exchange from the corresponding CdSe NPLs. In o...",
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"title": "Colloidal PbSe Nanoplatelets of Varied Thickness with Tunable ... | {
"abstract": "Abstract In Y/Fe and Tb/Fe multilayers sputter-deposited on glass substrates, the crystallographic structure and the magnetic properties have been investigated as a function of Fe layer thickness, dFe. The saturation magnetization, Ms, becomes smaller with decreasing dFe until the critical thickness, d... |
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"abstract": "The parametric resonance of the axial vibrations of a cantilever pipe conveying harmonically perturbed two-phase flow is investigated using the method of multiple scale perturbation. The nonlinear coupled and uncoupled planar dynamics of the pipe are examined for a scenario when the axial vibration is ... | {
"abstract": "This paper studied the nonlinear vibrations of top-tensioned cantilevered pipes conveying pressurized steady two-phase flow under thermal loading. The coupled axial and transverse governing partial differential equations of motion of the system were derived based on Hamilton’s mechanics, with the cente... | {
"abstract": "This paper presents a complete 0.13 mum SiGe BiCMOS technology fully dedicated to millimeter-wave applications, including a high-speed (230/280GHz fT/fMAX) and medium voltage SiGe HBT, thick-copper back-end designed for high performance transmission lines and inductors, 2fF/mum2 high-linearity MIM capa... |
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"abstract": "This paper proposes an alternative position self-sensing method of surface permanent magnet (SPM) machines at low speed using high frequency (HF) signal injection. SPM machines traditionally do not have enough spatial saliency signals because their symmetric rotors result in near zero inductance variat... | {
"abstract": "This paper presents the results of an investigation focused on the rotor core eddy-current losses of interior permanent magnet (IPM) synchronous machines. First, analytical insight into the rotor core eddy-current losses of IPM machines is developed. Next, major design parameters that have the most sig... | {
"abstract": "The sensorless control technique based on the superimposition of a high-frequency rotating voltage vector is commonly used to detect the rotor position of a synchronous interior permanent magnet (IPM) motor. This technique is effective at zero and low motor speed, where back E.M.F. is null or extremely... |
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"abstract": "Symbiotic dinitrogen fixation of legume nodules is fuelled by phloem-imported carbohydrates. These have to pass several cell layers to reach cells infected with Rhizobium bacteroids. It is unclear whether apoplastic steps are involved in carbohyd-rate translocation within the nodule. Protoplasts were i... | {
"abstract": "Streptanthus tortuosus Kell. suspension cells will grow in a medium with sucrose as carbohydrate source. It was investigated whether the cells are able to take up sucrose or whether sucrose has to be hydrolyzed to glucose and fructose which eventually are taken up. The detailed quantitative analysis of... | {
"abstract": "The permeability to water and deuterium oxide of bimolecular lipid membranes has been measured by an osmotic flow method. Sodium chloride, sucrose and urea have been used as the solutes, in various concentrations and concentration differences. Under these conditions the lipid bimolecular films appeared... |
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"abstract": "Objetivo: Explorar los conocimientos y las habilidades que tienen los profesionales del area maternoinfantil de los centros sanitarios de Melilla sobre mutilacion genital femenina (MGF). \n \nMaterial y metodos: Estudio transversal descriptivo, realizado en Melilla, basado en una encuesta autoadministr... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Objective To strengthen the national framework for care of adolescents and women affected by female genital cutting (FGC) in Canada by providing health care professionals with: (1) information intended to strengthen their knowledge and understanding of the practice; (2) directions with regard ... | {
"abstract": "Orgasm is a “goal” of much sexual activity, and a source of potentially intense pleasure and fulfillment, yet can be fraught with difficulty or distress. Relatively little social science research has explored people's experiences around, and their meanings related to, orgasm, and indeed other sexual pl... |
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"abstract": "Nonprofit Human Services Organizations (NPO) are normally considered to do all they can to work toward providing clients with optimal services (Bowman, 2011). What has not been considered is the possibility that NPOs sometimes allocate more revenue toward accumulating profit than toward generating serv... | {
"abstract": "This study examines the determinants and implications of nonprofit cash holdings. Based on agency theory and traditional literature of cash holdings, the author develop and test a number of predictions about nonprofit cash holdings. Several important findings can be highlighted. Nonprofit cash holdings... | {
"abstract": "Abstract We present a model of nonprofit governance built on two assumptions: (1) organizations wish to hold precautionary savings in order to smooth expenditures; and (2) it is relatively easy for managers to divert these funds for personal use. Hence, donors face a trade off between expenditure smoot... |
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"abstract": "Multispectral and multimodal images are of important usage in the field of multi-source visual information fusion. Due to the alternation or movement of image devices, the acquired multispectral and multimodal images are usually misaligned, and hence image registration is pre-requisite. Different from ... | {
"abstract": "Steerable properties dominate the design of traditional filters, e.g., Gabor filters, and endow features the capability of dealing with spatial transformations. However, such excellent properties have not been well explored in the popular deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs). In this paper, we pr... | {
"abstract": "Deep convolutional neural networks (CNN) brought revolution without any doubt to various challenging tasks, mainly in computer vision. However, their model designing still requires attention to reduce number of learnable parameters, with no meaningful reduction in performance. In this paper we investig... |
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"abstract": "The recent emphasis placed on the property-led regeneration of inner urban areas has been particularly apparent in the waterfront areas of port cities. Such cities have frequently used their obsolescent waterfront areas as catalysts for the regeneration of a larger urban area, with varying degrees of s... | {
"abstract": "List of figures. List of tables. Acknowledgements. Preface. Part 1. The Basis to Retail and Commercial Planning 1. The System to be Planned. The Process of Distribution. Specific Elements for Control. Spatial Patterns of Activity. Conclusion 2. Pressures for Change. The Background to Behavioural Change... |
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"abstract": "The population of the world is rapidly aging and there is presently an increasing demand for residential care facilities to provide care for older adults [1]. Understimulation can be a major concern in such facilities due to high resident-to-staff ratios and a decreasing number of healthcare staff to f... | {
"abstract": "Currently the 2 percent growth rate for the world's older population exceeds the 1.2 rate for the world's population as a whole. By 2050, the number of individuals over the age 85 is projected to be three times more than there is today. Most of these individuals will need physical, emotional, and cogni... | {
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"abstract": "This thesis examines and compares the effectiveness of direct and indirect types of contact in leading to short- or longer-term prejudice-reducing outcomes in Cyprus. Chapter 1 provides a background to the relations between Greek and Turkish Cypriots and Chapter 2 provides a theoretical introduction to... | {
"abstract": "Although intergroup contact is one of the most prominent interventions to reduce prejudice, the generalization of contact effects is still a contentious issue. This research further examined the rarely studied secondary transfer effect (STE; Pettigrew, 2009), by which contact with a primary outgroup re... | {
"abstract": "The effects of membership in ethnic organizations and fraternities and sororities on intergroup attitudes were examined using a 5-wave panel study at a major, multiethnic university. The results showed that these effects were similar for both minority and White students. Membership in ethnic student or... |
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"abstract": "The increased complexity of construction projects requires the involvement of a wide range of organizations throughout the project lifecycle – from conceptual planning to decommissioning. Construction project teams, therefore, differ from teams in other industries as they comprise individuals who are e... | {
"abstract": "Many industries are facing rapid growth in the complexity of the systems they develop. In the automotive domain, vehicles are essentially becoming high performance computing platforms, comprised of dozens of electronic control systems (ECUs) that process over 100 million of lines of software code. In a... | {
"abstract": "Models are good at expressing information about software but not as good at expressing modelers' uncertainty about it. The highly incremental and iterative nature of software development nonetheless requires the ability to express uncertainty and reason with models containing it. In this paper, we buil... |
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"abstract": "Early risk detection of mental illnesses has a massive positive impact upon the well-being of people. The eRisk workshop has been at the forefront of enabling interdisciplinary research in developing computational methods to automatically estimate early risk factors for mental issues such as depression... | {
"abstract": "Depression is ranked as the largest contributor to global disability and is also a major reason for suicide. Still, many individuals suffering from forms of depression are not treated for various reasons. Previous studies have shown that depression also has an effect on language usage and that many dep... | {
"abstract": "This paper describes a discriminatively trained, multiscale, deformable part model for object detection. Our system achieves a two-fold improvement in average precision over the best performance in the 2006 PASCAL person detection challenge. It also outperforms the best results in the 2007 challenge in... |
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"abstract": "Germination of radish (Raphanus sativus cv Eterna) seeds can be inhibited by far-red light (high-irradiance reaction of phytochrome) or abscisic acid (ABA). Gibberellic acid (GA3) restores full germination under far-red light. This experimental system was used to investigate the release of reactive oxy... | {
"abstract": "DURING recent years a number of methods for the estimation of hydrogen peroxide which utilize the principle of coupled oxidation have been published. Catalase or peroxidase combines with hydrogen peroxide as it is liberated, and the complex thus formed then brings about the oxidation of such substances... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Studies on the possible use in neutron activation analysis of serum of solvent extraction before irradiation, are presented. Various chelating solvent extraction systems were studied with and without prior ashing or acid digestion of the serum sample. Solvent extraction eliminates most of the ... |
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"abstract": "Ovarian cancer is one of the most serious challenges in modern gynaecological oncology. Due to its non-specific symptoms and the lack of an effective screening procedure to detect the disease at an early stage, ovarian cancer is still marked by a high mortality rate among women. For this reason, a grea... | {
"abstract": "Purpose To determine the most powerful cancer antigen 125 (CA125)-related prognostic factor for advanced epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) and to identify cut-off values that distinguish patients with a poor prognosis from those with a good prognosis. Materials and Methods We included 223 patients who re... | {
"abstract": "OBJECTIVE\nA combination of carboplatin (CBDCA) and paclitaxel (TAX) is the standard treatment in advanced ovarian cancer (AOC) patients. Epidoxorubicin (EDX) is an active treatment in AOC and exhibits nonoverlapping toxicities with CBDCA and TAX; moreover, when added to platinum-based chemotherapy, it... |
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"abstract": ": Lettuce ( Lactuca sativa L.) has a nutritional contribution comparable to other vegetables. It is produced in soil and hydroponics systems, outdoors or indoors, and in some cases, with the management of radiation. UVB radiation exposure can influence the functional quality of vegetables and is becomi... | {
"abstract": "Only a few environmental factors have such a pronounced effect on plant growth and development as ultraviolet light (UV). Concerns have arisen due to increased UV-B radiation reaching the Earth’s surface as a result of stratospheric ozone depletion. Ecologically relevant low to moderate UV-B doses (0.3... | {
"abstract": "OBJECTIVE AND SUBJECTS\nThe effects of a high-fat, monounsaturated-fat enriched (Mono) diet and a reduced-fat, polyunsaturated-fat enriched (Poly) diet on lipid and glucose metabolism were compared in 31 subjects with impaired glucose tolerance.\n\n\nDESIGN AND INTERVENTIONS\nAfter 3 weeks on a Run-in ... |
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"abstract": "The metabolism of polyunsaturated fatty acids through the lipoxygenase-catalyzed step and subsequent reactions is referred to as the lipoxygenase (LOX) pathway. The components of this system, such as jasmonates, are involved in growth, development and defense reactions of plants. In this report, we foc... | {
"abstract": "The TIFY family is a novel plant-specific protein family, and is characterized by a conserved TIFY motif (TIFF/YXG). Our previous studies indicated the potential roles of TIFY10/11 proteins in plant responses to alkaline stress. In the current study, we focused on the regulatory roles and possible phys... | {
"abstract": "We observe that the facts pertaining to the acceptability of negative polarity items (henceforth, NPIs) in interrogative environments complex than previously noted. Since Klima [Klima, E. (1964). In J. Fodor & J. Katz (Eds.), The structure of language. Prentice-Hall], it has been typically assumed that... |
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"abstract": "The use of social media to support emergency operators in the first hours of the response phases can improve the quality of the information available and awareness on ongoing emergency events. Social media contain both textual and visual information, in the form of pictures and videos. The problem rela... | {
"abstract": "Social media platforms now allow users to share images alongside their textual posts. These image tweets make up a fast-growing percentage of tweets, but have not been studied in depth unlike their text-only counterparts. We study a large corpus of image tweets in order to uncover what people post abou... | {
"abstract": "We propose to use the visual denotations of linguistic expressions (i.e. the set of images they describe) to define novel denotational similarity metrics , which we show to be at least as beneficial as distributional similarities for two tasks that require semantic inference. To compute these denotatio... |
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"abstract": "Rapid advances in the Internet‐of‐Things (IoT) domain have led to the development of several useful and interesting devices that have enhanced the quality of home living and industrial automation. The vulnerabilities in the IoT devices have rendered them susceptible to compromise and forgery. The probl... | {
"abstract": "We propose a simple active method for discovering facts about the chipset, the firmware or the driver of an 802.11 wireless device by observing its responses (or lack thereof) to a series of crafted non-standard or malformed 802.11 frames. We demonstrate that such responses can differ significantly eno... | {
"abstract": "As the cost of IEEE 802.11 hardware continues to fall, the appeal of inserting unauthorized wireless access into enterprise networks grows. These rogue access points (AP) expose the enterprise network to a barrage of security vulnerabilities in that they are typically connected to a network port behind... |
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"abstract": "In Priority Flow Control (PFC) enabled datacenter networks (DCNs), PFC is inevitably triggered due to bursty traffic even with end-to-end congestion control. Load balancing as a complementary mechanism to transport protocols can make rerouting decisions in time to alleviate PFC’s head-of-line (HoL) blo... | {
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"title": "Multi-Path Transport for RDMA in Datacenters"
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"abstract": "This paper introduces FGVC-Aircraft, a new dataset containing 10,000 images of aircraft spanning 100 aircraft models, organised in a three-level hierarchy. At the finer level, differences between models are often subtle but always visually measurable, making visual recognition challenging but possible.... |
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"abstract": "In recent years, with the spread of smartphones and IoT devices, the demand for indoor localization is increasing. GPS is not suitable for indoor localization, so radio signal strength indicator (RSSI) such as Wi-Fi or BLE is frequently used. On the other hand, indoor localization based on RSSI require... | {
"abstract": "RSSI-based indoor localization is getting much attention. Thanks to a number of researchers, the localization accuracy has already reached a sufficient level. However, it is still not easy-to-use technology because of its heavy installation cost. When an indoor localization system is installed, it need... | {
"abstract": "We present Walkie-Markie - an indoor pathway mapping system that can automatically reconstruct internal pathway maps of buildings without any a-priori knowledge about the building, such as the floor plan or access point locations. Central to Walkie-Markie is a novel exploitation of the WiFi infrastruct... |
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"abstract": "Unlike globular proteins, mutational effects on the function of Intrinsically Disordered Proteins (IDPs) are not well-studied. Deep Mutational Scanning of a yeast surface displayed mutant library yields insights into sequence-function relationships in the CcdA IDP. The approach enables facile predictio... | {
"abstract": "Understanding how mutations affect protein activity and organismal fitness is a major challenge. We used saturation mutagenesis combined with deep sequencing to determine mutational sensitivity scores for 1,664 single-site mutants of the 101 residue Escherichia coli cytotoxin, CcdB at seven different e... | {
"abstract": "Currently available valve and conduit artery substitutes have one or more significant disadvantages including limited durability, thrombogenicity, susceptibility to infection, and a lack of growth potential. Prior attempts to use autologous tissues in the construction of valve or arterial substitutes t... |
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"abstract": "On the basis of explicit expression for the transmission function of PSA (polarizer-specimen-analyzer) system main geometrical parameters of equiintensity ellipses were calculated on basis of HAUP-maps. Quantitative results, using high-accuracy polarimeter for non-dichroic birefringent crystals, and al... | {
"abstract": "Here, we review the history, theory, measurement technique and experimental results on gyrotropic phenomena including optical rotation (optical activity), electrogyration, the Faraday effect and magneto-electrogyration in transparent crystals, including examples of structural phase transitions. Relatio... | {
"abstract": "Significance When conduction electrons in a solid are completely spin polarized, the single-spin transport results in great promise in spintronic (i.e., spin electronic) applications. Realizing high-efficiency spintronic devices based on 2D van der Waals (vdW) materials would tremendously impact nanosc... |
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"abstract": "Family based dispatching rules seek to lower set-up frequencies by grouping (batching) similar types of jobs for joint processing. Hence shop flow times may be improved, as less time is spent on set-ups. Motivated by an industrial project we study the control of machines with batch availability, i.e. a... | {
"abstract": "The performance of cellular manufacturing (CM) systems has been rigorously investigated during the last two decades. The findings from these studies need to be systematically tabulated, given that they span a wide range of systems and experimental conditions. Some of the findings have also not been in ... | {
"abstract": "The cellular layout has been compared to the traditional functional layout in numerous studies. Most of them are based on simulation modelling. Nevertheless, they generally suffer from the lack of detail in describing their simulation models. The exclusion or the lack of information of key parameters c... |
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"abstract": "We present infrared spectra of the binary XX Oph obtained with the Infrared Spectrograph on the Spitzer Space Telescope. The data show some evidence for the presence of solid C60 – the first detection of C60 in the solid phase – together with the well-known ‘unidentified infrared’ emission features. We... | {
"abstract": "We present new optical, near‐infrared, and archival ultraviolet observations of XX Ophiuchi and AS 325, two proposed “iron” stars. These unusual stars have optical spectra dominated by emission lines arising from hydrogen, as well as ionized metals such as iron, chromium, and titanium. Both stars have ... | {
"abstract": "Aims. With available Virtual Observatory tools, we looked for new M dwarfs in the solar neighbourhood and M giants with high tangential velocities. Methods. From an all-sky cross-match between the optical Tycho-2 and the near-infrared 2MASS catalogues, we selected objects with proper motions μ> 50 mas ... |
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"abstract": "As the Indonesian construction industry is now promising to become the engine of national economic development, achieving quality and higher performance, not only domestically but also in the international market, are becoming crucial issues. Implementing quality management systems (QMSs) based on ISO ... | {
"abstract": "Purpose – Limited research has been conducted on quality management practices in the US homebuilding industry. The purpose of this paper is to establish which practices are actually applied, to what extent and to discuss how quality management can be best advanced in the industry.Design/methodology/app... | {
"abstract": "The goal of this paper is to test the effectiveness of some lean construction tools, in particular, those tools that can be applied in medium size construction firms. Due to the success of the lean production system in manufacturing, the construction industry has adapted lean techniques to eliminate wa... |
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"abstract": "The topic of this thesis are compactifications in string theory and supergravity. We study dimensional reductions of type II theories on backgrounds with fluxes, using the techniques of Hitchin's generalized geometry. We start with an introduction of the needed mathematical tools, focusing on SU(3)xSU(... | {
"abstract": "We study loop corrections to the universal dilaton supermultiplet for type IIA strings compactified on Calabi-Yau threefolds. We show that the corresponding quaternionic kinetic terms receive non-trivial one-loop contributions proportional to the Euler number of the Calabi-Yau manifold, while the highe... | {
"abstract": "Quantum corrections in the hypermultiplet moduli space of type IIA string theories compactified on Calabi-Yau threefolds are investigated.",
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"title": "Quantum corrections in the hypermultiplet moduli space"
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"abstract": "Ku80 is involved in DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) repair. Ku80 is overexpressed in lung cancer tissues, yet, molecular mechanisms have not been examined. We identified that miRNA, hsa-miR-526b, is bound to the 3′-UTR of Ku80 mRNA, thus decreasing Ku80 expression in NSCLC cells. Hsa-miR-526b was downr... | {
"abstract": "BackgroundKu80 is crucially implicated in DNA repair, apoptosis, and chemoresistance. In this study, we aimed to assess the expression of Ku80 in clinical lung adenocarcinoma specimens, and investigate its role in the regulation of cisplatin sensitivity in cisplatin resistant human lung adenocarcinoma ... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Observers detected two briefly pulsed sine-wave gratings presented sequentially to the same or different eyes. Gratings were separated by a range of interstimulus intervals and were related in phase by 0°, 90° or 180°. Temporal summation was found for 0° phase gratings viewed either monoptical... |
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"abstract": "This article investigates the price discovery and volatility transmission between currency spot and futures markets in India. Daily closing currency spot and futures prices of United States dollar/Indian Rupee (USD/INR), Japanese Yen/Indian Rupee (JPY/INR), Great Britain Pound/Indian Rupee (GBP/INR) an... | {
"abstract": "In this article, we investigate possible lead and lag relationship in returns and volatilities between cash and futures markets in Korea. Utilizing intraday data from the newly established futures market in Korea, we find that the futures market leads the cash market by as long as 30 minutes. This resu... | {
"abstract": "In this paper, the dynamic change of water surface area in Honghu Lake in recent 40 years based on remote sensing technique is introduced by using the multi-temporal remote sensing imagery including Landsat MSS, TM, ETM and HJ-1 CCD since 1970s. Meanwhile, the daily precipitation and evaporation data o... |
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"abstract": "The current paper presents the state-of-the-art of strategic management accounting (SMA) information usage among organisations. Despite SMA claimed importance to organisations operating in today’s competitive environment, little is known about its current achievement. In Malaysia in particular, the sub... | {
"abstract": "SUMMARY \nRecent diagnoses of a debilitating crisis within management accounting have quickly given way to the development and dissemination of many new techniques intended to restore the lost relevance of the discipline. Some of these techniques promise to have significant consequences for the future ... | {
"abstract": "Like most employer-employee relationships, the relationship between sport coaches and their employers is governed by legal work contracts which clearly spell out the rights and obligations of the two parties (the employer and the employee). However, formal contracts do not reflect all the exchanges bet... |
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"abstract": "The demand for healthcare services for an increasing population of older adults is faced with the shortage of skilled caregivers and a constant increase in healthcare costs. In addition, the strong preference of the elderly to live independently has been driving much research on \"ambient-assisted livi... | {
"abstract": "Video surveillance is an omnipresent topic when it comes to enhancing security and safety in the intelligent home environments. In this paper, we propose a novel method to detect various posture-based events in a typical elderly monitoring application in a home surveillance scenario. These events inclu... | {
"abstract": "Falls are a major cause of injuries and hospital admissions among elderly people. Thus, the caregiving process and the quality of life of older adults can be improved by adopting systems for the automatic detection of falls. This paper presents a smartphone-based fall detection system that monitors the... |
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"abstract": "Abstract. This paper provides a unified stochastic operator framework to analyze the convergence of iterative optimization algorithms for both static problems and online optimization and learning. In particular, the framework is well suited for algorithms that are implemented in an inexact or stochasti... | {
"abstract": "Based on the idea of randomized coordinate descent of $\\alpha$ -averaged operators, a randomized primal-dual optimization algorithm is introduced, where a random subset of coordinates is updated at each iteration. The algorithm builds upon a variant of a recent (deterministic) algorithm proposed by Vũ... | {
"abstract": "Inspired by the morphology characteristics of the earthworms and the excellent deformability of origami structures, this research creates a novel earthworm-like locomotion robot through exploiting the origami techniques. In this innovation, appropriate actuation mechanisms are incorporated with origami... |
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"abstract": "We consider the possibility of using the DTW metric for shape recognition of graphic objects with incomplete group of affine transformations, including shift, scaling and rotation. A DTW-based algorithm is proposed that allows the identification of the object shape invariant with respect to such affine... | {
"abstract": "There are several algorithms for curve partitioning using the arc-chord distance formulation, where a chord whose associated arc spans k pixels is moved along the curve and the distance from each border pixel to the chord is computed. The scale of the corners detected by these algorithms depends on the... | {
"abstract": "Abstract We present a method for piecewise linear approximation of digitized planar curves which can compress the amount of data, without loss of perceptual information for human approximation. This method consists of two stages, the uniform process and the recovering process. The method has the follow... |
{
"abstract": "The integration of battery energy storage (BES) with photovoltaic (PV) systems is becoming economically attractive for residential customers. The conventional approach for the interconnection of PV and battery systems requires at least two separate power converters that results in multistage power conv... | {
"abstract": "In this paper, an interleaved half-bridge (IHB) three-port converter (TPC) is proposed for a renewable power system. The IHB-TPC is used to interface three power ports: 1) one source port; 2) one battery port; and 3) one isolated load port. The proposed IHB-TPC is derived by integrating two half-bridge... | {
"abstract": "This paper gives an overview of various collector topologies for offshore wind farms. A comparative analysis of different DC and AC collector system topologies for offshore wind power plant are presented. The advantages and disadvantages of collector system topologies in terms of cost, reliability and ... |
{
"abstract": "Background: Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is of clinical and public health importance, affecting up to one in fi ve women of reproductive age. It has signifi cant and diverse clinical implications including reproductive, metabolic, and psychological features. Aim: The study was to investigate the ef... | {
"abstract": "It is estimated that 6%–7% of women of reproductive age have polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS). Women with this condition exhibit an adverse cardiovascular risk profile, characteristic of the cardiometabolic syndrome and given the high prevalence of PCOS in the female population, this condition may co... | {
"abstract": "INTRODUCTION\nPolycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is associated with higher risk of developing cardiovascular diseases including higher incidence of hypertension later in life. Absence of circadian blood pressure fluctuations is considered as a marker of pre-hypertensive state and correlates highly with t... |
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"abstract": "Many different biomarkers can be used to evaluate ethanol intake. Ethyl glucuronide (EtG) is a direct phase II and minor metabolite of ethanol formed through the UDP‐glucuronosyl transferase‐catalyzed conjugation of ethanol with glucuronic acid. Its investigation is of interest in both clinical and for... | {
"abstract": "Toxicological investigations of postmortem specimens of a 26-year-old man were performed with the use of LC/APCI/MS. They revealed in the blood of the deceased clomipramine (9.49 microg/g) and its main metabolite norclomipramine (1.10 microg/g) at concentrations explaining the fatal outcome. The presen... | {
"abstract": "A compilation of postmortem femoral blood concentrations of drugs is presented. The samples are collected from cases in which the cause of death was: A) certified intoxication by one substance alone, B) certified intoxication by more than one substance and/or alcohol, and C) certified other cause of de... |
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"abstract": "Poly(NIPAAm-co-hydroxyethylmethacarylate (HEMA)) acrylate and poly(NIPAAm-co-cysteine ethyl ester (CysOEt)) were synthesized and characterized by GPC(gel permeation chromatography), rheology, NMR (nuclear magnetic resonance), and Ellman’s method. Upon mixing of these materials in aqueous solution, they... | {
"abstract": "The aim of this work was to develop a simultaneous physically and chemically gelling system using NIPAAm co-polymers. The in situ polymer gel was obtained by synthesizing poly(NIPAAm-co-HEMAacrylate) and poly(NIPAAm-co-cysteamine) through free radical polymerization and further nucleophilic substitutio... | {
"abstract": "A novel injectable thermosensitive in situ gelling hydrogel has been developed. The system, which falls under the BST-Gel platform technology developed at Biosyntech Inc. (Laval, QC, Canada), consists of a chitosan solution (C) neutralized with beta-glycerophosphate (GP) that is liquid at room temperat... |
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"abstract": "Weiser’s seminal vision of ubiquitous computing had calm information presentation at its heart and identified an important challenge in providing pervasive yet unobtrusive information display while avoiding problems of information overload. Since this vision was first articulated, a range of approaches... | {
"abstract": "Recent research in 3D user interfaces pushes towards immersive graphics and actuated shape displays. Our work explores the hybrid of these directions, and we introduce sublimation and deposition, as metaphors for the transitions between physical and virtual states. We discuss how digital models, handle... | {
"abstract": "We define the concept of Dynamic Passive Haptic Feedback (DPHF) for virtual reality by introducing the weight-shifting physical DPHF proxy object Shifty . This concept combines actuators known from active haptics and physical proxies known from passive haptics to construct proxies that automatically ad... |
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