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"abstract": "and incorporate the Creative Commons Attribution – Non Commercial (unported, v3.0) License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/). By accessing the work you hereby accept the Terms. Non-commercial uses of the work are permitted without any further permission from Dove Medical Press Limited, p... | {
"abstract": "Urticaria and angioedema lasting more than 6 weeks have been designated as chronic urticaria (CU). It encompasses two major subtypes: chronic spontaneous urticaria (CSU) (previously known as chronic idiopathic urticaria) (CIU) and chronic inducible urticaria. CSU has been defined as wheals and/or angio... | {
"abstract": "and the Veterans Administration Medical Center, Iowa City, Iowa. E-mail: janet-fairley@uiowa.edu. J.A.F. is supported by a Merit Review Award from the Veterans Administration and the Institute for Clinical and Translational Science at the University of Iowa (1UL1RR024979). K.A.N.M. is supported in part... |
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"abstract": "The Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) is a widely-used efficient cryptographic algorithm. Although AES is fast both in software and hardware, it is time-consuming to do data encryption especially for large amount of data. Therefore, it is a lasting effort to accelerate AES algorithms. This paper prese... | {
"abstract": "With the rapid development of information technology, the security of massive amounts of digital data has attracted huge attention in recent years. In this paper, we provide an efficient parallel implementation of the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) algorithm, a widely used symmetrical block encrypt... | {
"abstract": "Now a days, the number of Internet and wireless communications users has rapidly grown and that increases demand for security measures to protect user data transmitted over openchannels. Cryptographic algorithms are very essential for security of the systems worldwide. In December 2001, the National In... |
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"abstract": "The growth cone is a unique structure capable of guiding axons to their proper destinations. Within the growth cone, extracellular guidance cues are interpreted and then transduced into physical changes in the actin filament (F‐actin) and microtubule cytoskeletons, providing direction and movement. Whi... | {
"abstract": "The Abelson (Abl) non‐receptor tyrosine kinase regulates the cytoskeleton during multiple stages of neural development, from neurulation, to the articulation of axons and dendrites, to synapse formation and maintenance. We previously showed that Abl is genetically linked to the microtubule (MT) plus en... | {
"abstract": "The constraint on the Wiatr-Pospieszalski (WP) parameter Θ<sub>WP</sub> = 4 NT<sub>o</sub>/T<sub>m</sub> ≤ 2, where N is the Lange invariant and T<sub>m</sub> the minimum equivalent noise temperature and T<sub>o</sub>=290 ( K ), has been suggested as a validation tool for the characterization of active... |
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"abstract": "Making recommendations in the presence of sparsity is known to present one of the most challenging problems faced by collaborative filtering methods. In this work we tackle this problem by exploiting the innately hierarchical structure of the item space following an approach inspired by the theory of D... | {
"abstract": "Recommender systems are an emerging technology that helps consumers to find interesting products. A recommender system makes personalized product suggestions by extracting knowledge from the previous users interactions. In this paper, we present \"ItemRank\", a random-walk based scoring algorithm, whic... | {
"abstract": "Capsicum is a lightweight operating system capability and sandbox framework planned for inclusion in FreeBSD 9. Capsicum extends, rather than replaces, UNIX APIs, providing new kernel primitives (sandboxed capability mode and capabilities) and a userspace sandbox API. These tools support compartmentali... |
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"abstract": "Directed dispersal by animal vectors has been found to have large effects on the structure and dynamics of plant populations adapted to frugivory. Yet, empirical data are lacking on the potential of directed dispersal by rotational grazing of domestic animals to mediate gene flow across the landscape. ... | {
"abstract": "Abstract.\nA set of 11 sequence-tagged microsatellite markers for carnation (Dianthus caryophyllus) was developed using a DNA library enriched for microsatellites. Supplemented with three markers derived from sequence database entries, these were used to genotype carnation varieties using a semi-automa... | {
"abstract": "Lentil ( Lens culinaris Medikus subsp. culinaris ) is an important dietary source of protein and other essential nutrients in South and West Asia, North and East Africa. Lentil crops are vulnerable to a number of diseases caused by fungi, viruses, nematodes, insect pests, parasitic plants and abiotic s... |
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"abstract": "Facial expressions are essential communication tools in our daily life. In this paper, the uniform local binary pattern is employed to extract features from the face. However, this feature representation is very high in dimensionality. The high dimensionality would not only affect the recognition accur... | {
"abstract": "Facial expression recognition has many potential applications which has attracted the attention of researchers in the last decade. Feature extraction is one important step in expression analysis which contributes toward fast and accurate expression recognition. This paper represents an approach of comb... | {
"abstract": "Advances in artificial intelligence and machine learning - in particular neural networks - have given rise to a new generation of virtual assistants and chatbots. Within this work, we describe the motivation and architecture of NADiA - Neurally Animated Dialog Agent - which leverages both the user's ve... |
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"abstract": "Due to the rapid development of the Internet, the data generated by people in life is growing at an exponential rate, and Short Message Service (SMS) data is one of the social media products of mobile phone users. The main discussion direction of this article is how to distinguish spam messages and obt... | {
"abstract": "The compositionality of meaning extends beyond the single sentence. Just as words combine to form the meaning of sentences, so do sentences combine to form the meaning of paragraphs, dialogues and general discourse. We introduce both a sentence model and a discourse model corresponding to the two level... | {
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"abstract": "Post-SOX (Sarbanes–Oxley Act) academic research on internal control focuses on the characteristics of publicly listed companies disclosing material control weaknesses or the consequences experienced by these companies. However, to date, limited research has empirically examined whether these new disclo... | {
"abstract": "In this paper we study the impact of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) on the valuation weights of earnings and earnings components. The analysis seeks evidence that SOX is associated with changes in investors' perception of earnings and accruals quality. Of particular interest in the analysis is the effect... | {
"abstract": "One of the goals of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (hereafter SOX) was to restore confidence in financial reporting by providing incentive for firms to report financial results that reflect the underlying economic performance. Early findings are inconclusive on the success of the Act. Cohen, Dey, and Lys (2005... |
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"abstract": "We present a new short-period brown dwarf (BD) candidate around the star TYC 1240-00945-1. This candidate was discovered in the first year of the Multi-object APO Radial Velocity Exoplanets Large-area Survey (MARVELS), which is part of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) III, and we designate the BD as... | {
"abstract": "We report the detection of a brown dwarf candidate orbiting the metal-rich K dwarf HD 91669, based on radial-velocity data from the McDonald Observatory Planet Search. HD 91669b is a substellar object in an eccentric orbit (e = 0.45) at a separation of 1.2 AU. The minimum mass of 30.6MJup places this o... | {
"abstract": "Cassini's last look at Saturn's rings During the final stages of the Cassini mission, the spacecraft flew between the planet and its rings, providing a new view on this spectacular system (see the Perspective by Ida). Setting the scene, Spilker reviews the numerous discoveries made using Cassini during... |
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"abstract": "Since 2011, Myanmar has progressively liberalized its trade and investment policies, resulting in both opportunities and challenges. The rising inequality between urban and non-urban areas has become a growing concern for policy makers, in addition to the existing pervasive poverty issue. This research... | {
"abstract": "We describe the progress of computable general equilibrium (CGE) modeling software since the 1980s and contrast the main systems used today: GAMS, MPSGE, and GEMPACK. The development of these general-purpose modeling systems has underpinned rapid growth in the use of CGE models and allowed models to be... | {
"abstract": "We present a system to measure the distance between two parties that allows only trusted people to access the result. The security of the protocol is guaranteed by the complementarity principle in quantum mechanics. The protocol can be realized with available technology, at least as a proof of principl... |
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"abstract": "Quadrotors have become very popular, both commercially and as research platforms. Numerous studies have been carried out on these aerial vehicles, covering different aspects of their dynamics and control. Many of the interesting applications of quadrotors arise when they are used as part of a cooperati... | {
"abstract": "The latest technological progress in sensors, actuators and energy storage devices enables the developments of miniature VTOL systems. In this paper we present the results of two nonlinear control techniques applied to an autonomous micro helicopter called Quadrotor. A backstepping and a sliding-mode t... | {
"abstract": "In this paper we present two methods, the nonholonomic method and the \nvakonomic method, for deriving equations of motion for a \nmechanical system with constraints. The resulting equations are compared. \nResults are also presented from an experiment for a model system: a ball \nrolling without slidi... |
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"abstract": "Free and hindered-rotation of helium excimers in liquid helium via a bulk experiment Luis Guillermo Mendoza Luna Superfluidity is a many-body quantum effect observed for the first time in liquid helium. In the context of modern nanoscience, a natural question is whether superfluidity exists at the nano... | {
"abstract": "These notes aim to give a somewhat basic introduction to the hows (and occasionally whys) of cryogenics. Cryogenics is not a very well defined term; here I have taken it to mean systems that operate at temperatures of 77 K and below, with the emphasis on systems operating below 4.2 K and above 1 K. The... | {
"abstract": "A thorough knowledge of the behavior of materials at cryogenic temperatures is critical for the design of successful cryogenic systems. Over the past 50 years, a tremendous amount of material properties at cryogenic temperatures have been measured and published. This guide lists resources for finding t... |
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"abstract": "In this project we used a combination of electrophysiology and fluorescent imaging to monitor synaptic transmission and calcium signalling in synaptic terminals. The study as a whole intended to examine how presynaptic calcium contributes to normal synaptic transmission within different hippocampal neu... | {
"abstract": "Abstract: At the synapse, neurotransmitters are released via Ca2+-triggered exocytotic fusion of synaptic vesicles with the presynaptic plasma membrane. Synaptic vesicle exocytosis seems to share many basic principles and homologous proteins with other membrane fusion events. Conserved components of th... | {
"abstract": "Long-standing diabetes can result in the development of a cardiomyopathy, which can be accompanied by myocardial fibrosis. Whereas exposure of cultured kidney and skin fibroblasts to high glucose (HG) is known to increase collagen synthesis, little is known about cardiac fibroblasts (CF). Therefore, we... |
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"abstract": "Un interet recent pour les valeurs de l’ergotherapie et celles des ergotherapeutes s’observe dans les ecrits, notamment parce qu’elles sont au cœur de l’identite professionnelle. Or, des etudes rapportent que plusieurs ergotherapeutes ont une identite professionnelle ambigue et une grande diversite est... | {
"abstract": "BACKGROUND/AIM\nThere has been limited research into the values of the Australian occupational therapy profession and as such, the values have not been made explicit. Explicit values provide insight into what professionalism means to a profession. They can be used by practitioners for self-reflection p... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Objective Recent literature shows growing interest in the values displayed by occupational therapists. Yet, none of these writings has so far examined the factors that contribute to the development of occupational therapists’ professional values. These factors are important, since values play ... |
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"abstract": "—This paper presents an idea-phase introduction of a tactical level communication system (battalion and below), which enables utilizing different waveforms and frequencies when communicating by using Software Defined Radio. The discussed idea-stage solution relies on using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles as h... | {
"abstract": "Currently, most Software Defined Radio (SDR) related products and researches focus on analog communication and voice transmission. In this paper, we propose a SDR platform with digital data communication capability. This platform consists of Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) based radio hardware and... | {
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"abstract": "Shallot (Allium cepa var. Aggregatum) is an economically important nutritive vegetable and medicinal plant. Given their low seed production, shallots are vegetatively propagated by using bulb material. Flowering is essential for transferring important traits, such as resistance to Fusarium oxysporum an... | {
"abstract": "Cassava is a tropical storage-root crop that serves as a worldwide source of staple food for over 800 million people. Flowering is one of the most important breeding challenges in cassava because in most lines flowering is late and non-synchronized, and flower production is sparse. The FLOWERING LOCUS ... | {
"abstract": "Protein, fat content, and beany odor affect consumers' choice of soy foods. Our objective was to characterize protein, lipid, and lipoxygenase activities and fatty acid compositions in food soybeans and to determine how chemical composition and enzyme activities related to the generation of beany odor ... |
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"abstract": "Der Fokus dieser Arbeit liegt auf drei Nutzpflanzen, welche seit jeher grosen kulturellen, \nmedizinischen und okonomischen Wert besitzen: Theobroma cacao, Nelumbo nucifera and \nVitis vinifera. Kakaobohnen (T. cacao) sind der Grundstoff fur Schokoladeproduktion. \nLotussamen (N. nucifera) werden in As... | {
"abstract": "Next-generation sequencing provides technologies which sequence whole prokaryotic and eukaryotic genomes in days, perform genome-wide association studies, chromatin immunoprecipitation followed by sequencing and RNA sequencing for transcriptome studies. An exponentially growing volume of sequence data ... | {
"abstract": "Impaired glucose tolerance (IGT) which precedes overt type 2 diabetes (T2DM) for decades is associated with multiple metabolic alterations in insulin sensitive tissues. In an UPLC-qTOF-mass spectrometry-driven non-targeted metabonomics approach we investigated plasma as well as spot urine of 51 non-dia... |
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"abstract": "Data from the Fermi-LAT reveal two large gamma-ray bubbles, extending 50° above and below the Galactic center (GC), with a width of about 40° in longitude. The gamma-ray emission associated with these bubbles has a significantly harder spectrum (dN/dE ∼ E−2) than the inverse Compton emission from elect... | {
"abstract": "Attempts are being made to establish the origin of cosmic rays using the γ-ray method, that is, by dividing γ-ray intensity by gas-column density to chart the cosmic-ray intensity. Here we present evidence from satellite data on γ rays and from new results on the distribution of gas in the interstellar... | {
"abstract": "The problem of the origin and distribution of cosmic rays in the Galaxy is introduced by summarizing the literature on the radio and γ-ray studies of the Galaxy, discussing the propagation of cosmic rays in the interstellar medium, and listing the observed properties of cosmic rays. The localization of... |
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"abstract": "Abstract. An application of digital speckle pattern interferometry (DSPI) for the measurement of deformations and strain-field distributions developed in cortical bone around orthodontic miniscrew implants inserted into the human maxilla is presented. The purpose of this study is to measure and compare... | {
"abstract": "The aims of this study were to analyse the stress distribution developing around an orthodontic miniscrew (OM) inserted into the maxilla and to determine the stress field changes for different screw lengths and for different levels of osseointegration occurring at the bone/screw interface. An integrate... | {
"abstract": "The biomechanical influences of primary factors on titanium mini-implant, which is used as an anchorage for orthodontic tooth movement, were quantified using the three-dimensional finite element method. Six types of finite element models were designed to show various thread pitches from 0.5 to 1.5 mm. ... |
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"abstract": "Venous thromboembolism (VTE) is a frequent complication in cancer patients and represents an important cause of morbidity and mortality. Especially in patients who have a poor life expectancy, preventing death from pulmonary embolism is the mainstay of treatment. Critically ill patients should promptly... | {
"abstract": "PURPOSE\nInitial heparinization followed by vitamin K antagonists is the treatment of choice for patients with venous thromboembolism. There is controversy whether known malignancy is a risk factor for recurrences and bleeding complications during this treatment. Furthermore, the incidence of such even... | {
"abstract": "The increased risk of thrombosis seen in patients with malignancy also was recently confirmed in breast cancer patients undergoing hormonal or chemotherapeutic treatment. Besides changes within the coagulation system, alterations of hemorheologic variables have been implicated in the genesis of thrombo... |
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"abstract": "1 Denervated fast extensor digitorum longus (EDL) muscles of adult rats were stimulated electrically for up to 4 months with a ‘slow’ pattern resembling the activity in soleus (Sol) motor units and examined with antibodies against myosin heavy chains (MHCs). 2 The normal EDL contained, on average, 45 %... | {
"abstract": "These experiments explore the relationship between patterned impulse activity and contractile properties of skeletal muscles. Soleus (SOL) and extensor digitorum longus (EDL) muscles of adult rats were denervated and stimulated directly from 4 to 15 weeks with the same number of pulse trains at differe... | {
"abstract": "The tissues of a multicellular animal are composed of diverse cell types arranged in a precisely organized pattern. Features unique to muscle allow an analysis of pattern formation and maintenance in mammals. The progeny of single cells can be taken full cycle from the animal to the culture dish and ba... |
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"abstract": "Construction projects and cities account for over 50% of carbon emissions and energy consumption. Industry 4.0 and digital transformation may increase productivity and reduce energy consumption. A digital twin (DT) is a key enabler in implementing Industry 4.0 in the areas of construction and smart cit... | {
"abstract": "Educational activity is increasingly moving online and course contents are becoming available in digital format. This enables data collection and the use of data for analyzing learning process. For the 4th Revolution in Education, an active and interactive presence of students contributes to a higher l... | {
"abstract": "Due to the rapidly rising popularity of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), there is a growing demand for scalable automated support technologies for student learning. Transferring traditional educational resources to online contexts has become an increasingly relevant problem in recent years. For lea... |
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"abstract": "A new compression method called difference-Huffman coding (DHC) is introduced in this paper. It is verified empirically that DHC results in a smaller multidimensional physical representation than those for other previously published techniques (single count header compression, logical position compress... | {
"abstract": "The multidimensional databases often use compression techniques in order to decrease the size of the database. This paper introduces a new method called difference sequence compression. Under some conditions, this new technique is able to create a smaller size multidimensional database than others like... | {
"abstract": "We consider the parallel time complexity of logic programs without function symbols, called logical query programs, or Datalog programs. We give a PRAM algorithm for computing the minimum model of a logical query program, and show that for programs with the “polynomial fringe property,” this algorithm ... |
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"abstract": "SUMMARY The use of and search for drugs and dietary supplements derived from plants have accelerated in recent years. Ethnopharmacologists, botanists, microbiologists, and natural-products chemists are combing the Earth for phytochemicals and “leads” which could be developed for treatment of infectious... | {
"abstract": "Therapeutic efficacy of an Indian Ayurvedic medicinal preparation, Ashwagandha [Withania somnifera L. Dunal (Solanceae; root)] was evaluated against experimental aspergillosis in Balb/c mice. Ashwagandha given orally once daily for 7 consecutive days in a dose of 100 mg/kg after intravenous infection o... | {
"abstract": "Abstract There is a growing feeling that biomolecular structure is not sufficient to determine biological activity which is also governed by large amplitude dynamics of the molecules. The transcription of DNA or its thermal denaturation are typical examples. Traditional approaches use Ising models to d... |
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"abstract": "Spectral-spatial classification of hyperspectral images has been the subject of many studies in recent years. When there are only a few labeled pixels for training and a skewed class label distribution, this task becomes very challenging because of the increased risk of overfitting when training a clas... | {
"abstract": "With the rapid development of spectral imaging techniques, classification of hyperspectral images (HSIs) has attracted great attention in various applications such as land survey and resource monitoring in the field of remote sensing. A key challenge in HSI classification is how to explore effective ap... | {
"abstract": "The 2013 Data Fusion Contest organized by the Data Fusion Technical Committee (DFTC) of the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society aimed at investigating the synergistic use of hyperspectral and Light Detection And Ranging (LiDAR) data. The data sets distributed to the participants during the Conte... |
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"abstract": "Abstract : Heating augmentations and temperature increases resulting from boundary layer/shear layer transition during hypersonic flight through the atmosphere of Earth or other planets impose critical constraints on the design of vehicle thermal protection systems and are well documented in the litera... | {
"abstract": "Abstract : A review of the experimental and computational studies performed at NASA Langley Research Center (LaRC) to support the optimization and benchmarking of the hypersonic aerodynamic and aerothermodynamic databases for the X-33 vehicle is presented. A synoptic of the testing, computational, and ... | {
"abstract": "A multiblock, laminar heating analysis for the shuttle orbiter at three trajectory points ranging from Mach 24.3 to Mach 12.86 on re-entry is described. The analysis is performed using the Langley Aerothermodynamic Upwind Relaxation Algorithm (LAURA) with both a seven species chemical nonequilibrium mo... |
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"abstract": "Modelling long-range dependencies is critical for scene understanding tasks in computer vision. Although convolution neural networks (CNNs) have excelled in many vision tasks, they are still limited in capturing long-range structured relationships as they typically consist of layers of local kernels. A... | {
"abstract": "Supervised learning on molecules has incredible potential to be useful in chemistry, drug discovery, and materials science. Luckily, several promising and closely related neural network models invariant to molecular symmetries have already been described in the literature. These models learn a message ... | {
"abstract": "In this work, we study the use of logistic regression in manufacturing failures detection. As a data set for the analysis, we used the data from Kaggle competition “Bosch Production Line Performance”. We considered the use of machine learning, linear and Bayesian models. For machine learning approach, ... |
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"abstract": "Abstract Objective Understanding the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on mental health and the psychological factors associated can help inform subsequent interventions to protect psychological health. In particular, psychological flexibility has been shown to be an important target for intervention. Th... | {
"abstract": "Interest has been growing in the mental health benefits of self-compassion. Whereas, most research on this topic has been conducted with the 26-item Self-Compassion Scale (SCS), a briefer 12-item version of the instrument, the Self-Compassion Scale-Short Form (SCS-SF), also exists. The SCS-SF has demon... | {
"abstract": "Android packing services provide significant benefits in code protection by hiding original executable code, which help app developers to protect their code against reverse engineering. However, adversaries take the advantage of packers to hide their malicious code. A number of unpacking approaches hav... |
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"abstract": "For mapping purposes, autonomous robots have to be capable to register 3D range images taken by 3D laser sensors into a common coordinate system. One approach is the Iterative Closest Point (ICP) algorithm. Due to its high computational costs, the ICP algorithm is not suitable for registering 3D range ... | {
"abstract": "In the past many solutions for simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) have been presented. Recently these solutions have been extended to map large environments with six degrees of freedom (DoF) poses. To demonstrate the capabilities of these SLAM algorithms it is common practice to present the g... | {
"abstract": "A mobile robot exploring an unknown environment has no absolute frame of reference for its position, other than features it detects through its sensors. Using distinguishable landmarks is one possible approach, but it requires solving the object recognition problem. In particular, when the robot uses t... |
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"abstract": "Human-Swarm Interaction: Effects on Operator Workload, Scale, and Swarm Topology Brian Pendleton Department of Computer Science, BYU Master of Science Robots, including UAVs, have found increasing use in helping humans with dangerous and difficult tasks [61]. The number of robots in use is increasing a... | {
"abstract": "This review paper sets out to explore the question of how future complex engineered systems based upon the swarm intelligence paradigm could be assured for dependability. The paper introduces the new concept of ‘swarm engineering': a fusion of dependable systems engineering and swarm intelligence. The ... | {
"abstract": "This dissertation addresses the problem of achieving fault tolerant cooperation within small- to medium-sized teams of heterogeneous mobile robots. I describe a software architecture I have developed, called ALLIANCE, that facilitates robust, fault tolerant cooperative control, and examine numerous iss... |
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"abstract": "This paper reviews the existing literature on modelling the macroeconomic consequences of the transition to a circular economy. It provides insights into the current state of the art on modelling policies to improve resource efficiency and the transition to a circular economy by examining 24 modelling-... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Based on some theoretical considerations, this paper defines minimum conditions for sustainable development. It presents and compares two models suitable for simulating sustainability strategies. One (PANTA RHEI) is a highly sophisticated econometric model for the German economy. The other one... | {
"abstract": "Similarities and differences between energy analysis and EMERGY analysis are discussed and highlighted using the two approaches to analyze the same systems. With particular emphasis on accounting schemes, parallel quantitative analyses of several simple model systems are performed. For the first time i... |
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"abstract": "Forensic hair analysis can be used as alternative evidence next to body fluids, and to obtain retrospective timeline information of an individual’s drug exposure. Chapter 1 describes the general concepts of drug incorporation into hair, external contamination, and the current status and limitations of ... | {
"abstract": "Segmental hair analysis has been used for monitoring changes of consumption habit of drugs. Contamination from the environment or sweat might cause interpretative problems. For this reason, hair analysis results were compared in hair samples taken 24 h and 30 days after a single tilidine dose. The 24-h... | {
"abstract": "Hair testing is a powerful tool routinely used for the detection of drugs of abuse. The analysis of hair is highly advantageous as it can provide prolonged drug detectability versus that in biological fluids and chronological information about drug intake based on the average growth of hair. However, c... |
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"abstract": "The field of interaction design is littered with examples of artefacts, which seemingly do not adhere to well-known physical causalities and our innate expectations of how artefacts should behave in the world, thereby creating the impression of a magic reality; where things can float in mid-air, the us... | {
"abstract": "Magicians have been designing and presenting illusions for 5000 years. They have developed principles, techniques and ethical positions for their craft that this paper argues are applicable to the design of human/computer interfaces. The author presents a number of specific examples from magic and disc... | {
"abstract": "Four subjects solved problems on line with the Lincoln Laboratory Reckoner. Controlled delays were interposed between output commands and the resulting outputs, which were via typewriter, cathoderay tube (CRT), or line printer; other commands were executed promptly and without reply. The mean delay was... |
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"abstract": "The history of infectious diseases raised the plague as one of the most devastating for human beings. Far too often considered an ancient disease, the frequent resurgence of the plague has led to consider it as a reemerging disease in Madagascar, Algeria, Libya, and Congo. The genetic factors associate... | {
"abstract": "Activation and/or recruitment of the host plasmin, a fibrinolytic enzyme also active on extracellular matrix components, is a common invasive strategy of bacterial pathogens. Yersinia pestis, the bubonic plague agent, expresses the multifunctional surface protease Pla, which activates plasmin and inact... | {
"abstract": "The genetic basis of bacterial adaptation to a natural environment has been investigated in a highly successful Pseudomonas aeruginosa lineage (DK2) that evolved within the airways of patients with cystic fibrosis (CF) for more than 35 y. During evolution in the CF airways, the DK2 lineage underwent su... |
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"abstract": "ABSTRACT Orthogonal frequency division multiple access technique has attracted much attention for broadband wireless access in the fourth generation and fifth generation wireless communication systems. To achieve a high data rate, communication systems require proper resource allocation and subcarrier ... | {
"abstract": "In this paper, the rate adaptive optimization (RA) problem, which maximizes the sum of user data rates subject to total power constraint and individual guaranteed rates, is considered. Two tasks are commonly examined: bandwidth allocation and specific subcarrier assignment. A mechanism to provide a deg... | {
"abstract": "This paper investigates the adaptive subcarrier and bit allocation algorithm for OFDMA systems. To minimize overall transmit power, we propose a novel adaptive subcarrier and bit allocation algorithm based on channel state information, Moreover, the block-wise method is considered based on channel vari... |
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"abstract": "Abstract The freshwater prawn Macrobrachium lanchesteri is one of the most economically important and widely distributed species in Northeastern Thailand. However, few studies have investigated the genetic variation of these crustaceans. Water quality, morphometrics and genetic variation were determine... | {
"abstract": "The genus Macrobrachium includes prawns, which are widely distributed in lakes, floodplains, and rivers in tropical and subtropical regions of South America. This genus presents nearly 210 known species with great ecological and economic importance. However, few studies are related to the biology of th... | {
"abstract": "We present a comparative analysis of select insect mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) representing four insect orders (Diptera, Hymenoptera, Orthoptera and Coleoptera) consisting of 12 different species in an effort to study a common set of genes and to understand the evolution of mitochondrial genome. A functi... |
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"abstract": "The purpose of this study was to evaluate clinical performance, survival, and complications of indirect composite inlays, onlays, and overlays on posterior teeth. Digital records of 282 patients treated between 2014 and 2018 were accessed and analyzed retrospectively. The included patients received 469... | {
"abstract": "ObjectivesThe purpose of this study was to evaluate the clinical performance of indirect composite onlays–overlays bonded with a light-cured composite on vital molars.Materials and methodsForty-one patients were restored with 79 indirect composite restorations. The restorations were studied for an obse... | {
"abstract": "Objective: Microleakage is a main cause of restorative treatment failure. In this study, we compared occlusal and cervical microleakage of two self-adhesive cements after 24 hours and two months. Materials and Methods: In this in-vitro experimental study, class II inlay cavities were prepared on 60 sou... |
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"abstract": "The proline catabolic enzymes catalyze the 4-electron oxidation of proline to glutamate. The reaction involves two enzymes, proline dehydrogenase (PRODH) and Δ1-pyrroline -5-carboxylate dehydrogenase (P5CDH). Some bacterial organisms have both of these enzymes fused together, and the fused bifunctional... | {
"abstract": "ABSTRACT The biotin-binding tetrameric proteins, streptavidin from Streptomyces avidinii and chicken egg white avidin, are excellent models for the study of subunit-subunit interactions of a multimeric protein. Efforts are thus being made to prepare mutated forms of streptavidin and avidin, which would... | {
"abstract": "We have found that a protein from the purple sea urchin has a carboxyl‐terminal domain with striking sequence similarity to chicken avidin and bacterial streptavidin. All our evidence supports the homology of these sequences. Tetramers of avidin and streptavidin bind biotin strongly; the biotin binding... |
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"abstract": "How have the CEOs of Fortune 100 companies worked their way to the top position? Are there several paths to the top, or have most present-day CEOs moved up the ranks in a similar fashion? We examine the employment trajectories of all of the current Fortune 100 CEOs across their entire working careers t... | {
"abstract": "This paper introduces optimal matching analysis (OMA) to the field of top management research. With this method, we develop six career patterns of top management team (TMT) members from five countries based on their international experience, organizational tenure and professional experience. The result... | {
"abstract": "Note.--This number of the Journal of Political Economy is given over to the leading papers and discussions of the first meeting of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Business which was held at Harvard University, November 13, 14, and 15, 1919. It is a matter of regret that illness prevented Dean ... |
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"abstract": "Objective: To review the pharmacology, efficacy, and safety of lesinurad and determine its role relative to other agents in the management of chronic gout. Data Sources: A PubMed search (1946 to February 2018) using the terms lesinurad and RDEA594 was conducted to identify relevant articles. Study Sele... | {
"abstract": "Objective\nTo investigate the efficacy and safety of lesinurad, a selective uric acid reabsorption inhibitor, in a 6 month, phase 3 clinical trial and extension study.\n\n\nMethods\nPatients with gout who cannot take a xanthine oxidase inhibitor (XOI) and have serum uric acid (sUA) ⩾6.5 mg/dl were rand... | {
"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nThe quality of cereal protein has been little studied in humans despite its quantitative importance in the diet, particularly in developing countries.\n\n\nOBJECTIVE\nThe objective of this study was to determine the nutritional value of wheat protein in humans as assessed by the measurement... |
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"abstract": "This paper presents a CMOS transconductor linearization by connecting square-rooter to a source couple pair circuit. A novel square-rooting circuit is proposed for low voltage operation. The proposed transconductance circuit is compact and consumes lower quiescent power, compared with the existing tran... | {
"abstract": "In this paper, a compact MOS linear voltage to current converter is proposed. The proposed transconductor is realized by connecting a simple MOS differential pair to the newly proposed square-root circuits. The resulting circuit is compact, can be operated under low supply voltage and has high current ... | {
"abstract": "A design for a compound FET using depletion-mode gallium arsenide MESFETs and diodes is presented. The compound FET exhibits a linearised relationship between the drain and source currents and the applied gate-source voltage. Simulations confirm good linearity and frequency characteristics for the comp... |
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"abstract": "Significance We identified truncation of tooth development during postnatal ontogeny in two theropod dinosaurs, a caenagnathid oviraptorosaur and the Early Cretaceous bird Sapeornis. Developmental and paleontological evidence each suggests dental reduction and beak evolution are coupled, and a sequence... | {
"abstract": "Ontogenetic variation is documented within many dinosaur species, but extreme ontogenetic changes are rare among dinosaurs, particularly among theropods. Here, we analyze 19 specimens of the Jurassic ceratosaurian theropod Limusaurus inextricabilis, representing six ontogenetic stages based on body siz... | {
"abstract": "Ontogenetic niche shifts, the phenomenon whereby animals change their resource use with growth, were probably widespread in dinosaurs, but most studies of duck-billed dinosaur ontogeny have so far focused mainly on the development of the cranial ornamentation. Here, we quantify allometry of 13 ecomorph... |
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"abstract": "The current research was conducted to understand how HR managers at MNC subsidiaries in Egypt approach integration and local context as well as the experience of line managers implementing HR practices. Multinational Corporations (MNCs) are seen as important actors in the transfer of management know ho... | {
"abstract": "As multinational corporations operate in multiple countries, headquarters must take into account differences in local settings when seeking the means to coordinate and control subsidiaries. The local system of industrial relations sets the framework for what kind of human resource management a multinat... | {
"abstract": "A strategy of slightly deeper water, no draining, and lower grass herbicide rates can help rice growers maintain weed control and sustain high yields while lowering the economic and runoff costs of herbicides.",
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"abstract": "Reconfigurable devices, such as Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs), are very popular in today’s embedded systems design due to their low-cost, high-performance and flexibility. Partially Runtime-Reconfigurable (PRTR) FPGAs allow hardware tasks to be placed and removed dynamically at runtime. A nove... | {
"abstract": "Whenever a resource allocation fails although enough free capacity being available, fragmentation is easily spotted as cause. But how the fragmentation in a system requiring continuous allocations like time schedules or memory can be quantified is hardly analyzed. A Grid environment using advance reser... | {
"abstract": "Cognitive radio (CR) bands following an interference‐free opportunistic manner. However, introduction of CR networks creates new challenges that are highly related to the fluctuation of TVWS, as they vary over time and location, as well as issues related to diverse Quality of Service requirements. In t... |
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"abstract": "Perimeter protection aims to detect intrusions: these intrusions may range from agricultural fields to army base camps. The main problem concerning perimeter protection is edge or boundary detection. In this paper, two boundary detection algorithms have been proposed that use convex hull techniques to ... | {
"abstract": "Perimeter protection aims at identifying intrusions across the temporary base established by army in critical regions. Convex-hull algorithm is used to determine the boundary nodes among a set of nodes in the network. To study the effectiveness of such algorithm, we opted three variations, such as dist... | {
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"title": "Classifying Human Walking Patterns using Accelerometer Data from Smartphone"
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"abstract": "&NA;Moral distress is a pervasive problem in the nursing profession. An inability to act in alignment with one's moral values is detrimental not only to the nurse's well-being but also to patient care and clinical practice as a whole. Moral distress has typically been seen as characterized by powerless... | {
"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nMoral distress is a pervasive reality of palliative care practice. An existing framework for understanding it has been proposed as a way to begin to address moral distress's detrimental effects on clinicians.\n\n\nOBJECTIVE\nThe objective was to illustrate the application of this adapted co... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Using a stochastic version of the POLYSYS modeling framework, an examination of projected variability in agricultural prices, supply, demand, stocks, and incomes is conducted for corn, wheat, soybeans, and cotton during the 1998–2006 period. Increased planting flexibility introduced in the 199... |
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"abstract": "The main objective of this work is to make a systematic review of the literature on the prediction of the academic performance of university students by applying data mining techniques. For this purpose, an exhaustive search was carried out and after the analysis of the documentation collected, aspects... | {
"abstract": "The students' English proficiency has become an important requirement for job seeking after graduation. The universities in non-native English speaking countries find their challenges in improving their students' English language skills. Loei Rajabhat University has dealt with this issue for a long tim... | {
"abstract": "Since distance education creates new opportunities for learners, the enrollment in online courses has been sharply increasing in higher education. However, the higher attrition rate is one of the more significant concerns in this field. Educational researchers have found that meaningful interactions pl... |
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"abstract": "The Tactical Driver Behavior modeling problem requires understanding of driver actions in complicated urban scenarios from a rich multi modal signals including video, LiDAR and CAN bus data streams. However, the majority of deep learning research is focused either on learning the vehicle/environment st... | {
"abstract": "In recent years, Deep Learning has been successfully applied to multimodal learning problems, with the aim of learning useful joint representations in data fusion applications. When the available modalities consist of time series data such as video, audio and sensor signals, it becomes imperative to co... | {
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"abstract": "Avocado (Persea Americana Mill) is a subtropical fruit and is highly recommended for its nutritional value. Avocado is known for its sensitivity to biotic and a biotic stress. One way to overcome this problem is to graft on tolerance rootstocks that are mainly obtained via seeds that are subjected to ... | {
"abstract": "A tissue culture procedure was developed for the regeneration of somatic embryos from callus cultures of the avocado,Persea americana. Immature zygotic embryos, 0.6–0.8 mm long, were used as original explants. Addition of 0.1 mg/l picloram (4-amino-3,5,6-trichloropicolinic acid) to culture medium appea... | {
"abstract": "The development of symptomless shoots from pearl millet plants that show typical systemic symptoms of downy mildew (DM) disease is reported. This phenomenon, referred to here as “recovery,” and the trait as “recovery resistance,” was detected in 28 of the 33 pearl millet genotypes studied. These repres... |
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"abstract": "Objective. To compare the direct mental health care costs between individuals with Seasonal Affective Disorder randomized to either fluoxetine or light therapy. Methods. Data from the CANSAD study was used. CANSAD was an 8-week multicentre double-blind study that randomized participants to receive eith... | {
"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nThere is a lack of published information about the consultation patterns of patients with seasonal affective disorder (SAD) in primary care, when compared with non-seasonal controls (NSCs).\n\n\nMETHODS\nInterview-confirmed SAD cases (n=90) were age- and sex-matched to two controls without ... | {
"abstract": "Using data collected for a study of the process of care in a large urban area, the opportunity was taken to examine seasonal variations in consultation patterns. While overall numbers of consultations varied month by month, no seasonal pattern was found. The ratio between patient and doctor-initiated c... |
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"abstract": "Canines and humans have lived together for many thousands of years, to our mutual benefit. In addition to providing companionship, dogs can perform critical roles, such as assisting humans with medical concerns, searching for lost individuals, and detecting substances by scent. Researching how technolog... | {
"abstract": "Working dogs have improved the lives of thousands of people. However, communication between human and canine partners is currently limited. The main goal of the FIDO project is to research fundamental aspects of wearable technologies to support communication between working dogs and their handlers. In ... | {
"abstract": "Wearable devices have emerging in last years with diverse applications for provide user convenience. Health care, sports, safety are some examples of areas in which wearable devices have been applied. This paper describes an overview about wearable architectures found in the literature and presents a n... |
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"abstract": "A variety of algorithms in both computer vision and graphics use datasets of an object or scene captured with fixed camera but varying illumination. Evaluating these algorithms is frequently challenging because of the lack of ground truth on the one hand, and insufficiently realistic and varied synthet... | {
"abstract": "We propose a novel algorithm for uncalibrated photometric stereo. While most of previous methods rely on various assumptions on scene properties, we exploit constraints in lighting configurations. We first derive an ambiguous reconstruction by requiring lights to lie on a view centered cone. This recon... | {
"abstract": "Mosaics have been commonly used as visual maps for undersea exploration and navigation. The position and orientation of an underwater vehicle can be calculated by integrating the apparent motion of the images which form the mosaic. A feature-based mosaicking method is proposed in this paper. The creati... |
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"abstract": "One of the factors that influence purchase decisions is information about buying experiences and products that obtained from customer-to-customer (C2C) communication in online communities. Advances in information technology have had a major influence on customer-to-customer communication. Today, consum... | {
"abstract": "We test the impact of C2C communication on purchase decision in online communities.The theoretical model is developed based on information adoption model.Argument quality, source credibility and tie strength are important predictors.The three predictors affect purchase decision through product usefulne... | {
"abstract": "BACKGROUND ::: Wearable technology has shown the potential of improving healthcare efficiency and reducing healthcare cost. Different from pioneering studies on healthcare wearable devices from technical perspective, this paper explores the predictors of individuals' adoption of healthcare wearable dev... |
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"abstract": "Multiple hippocampal transection (MHT) is a surgical procedure developed to avoid postoperative memory decline. Its efficacy has been documented in only a few small series with relatively short observation periods. We prospectively evaluated the long‐term seizure and cognitive outcomes of MHT combined ... | {
"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nSurgery is increasingly used as treatment for refractory focal epilepsy; however, few rigorous reports of long-term outcome exist. We did this study to identify long-term outcome of epilepsy surgery in adults by establishing patterns of seizure remission and relapse after surgery.\n\n\nMETH... | {
"abstract": "Epilepsy surgery is an accepted treatment option in patients with medically refractory focal epilepsy. Despite various advances in recording and localization noninvasive and invasive techniques (including electroencephalography (EEG), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), positron emission tomography (PET)... |
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"abstract": "The epigenetic regulation of gene transcription underlies the diversity between species and within organisms. Novel implementation of existing methods and the development of original technologies continue to contribute to the elucidation of chromatin complexity. Here, we present strategies to understan... | {
"abstract": "THE bmi-1 proto-oncogene can be activated by Moloney murine leukaemia proviral insertions in Eµ-myc transgenic mice1,2. It encodes a highly conserved nuclear protein of 324 amino acids which belongs to a family of proteins containing a putative new zinc-finger. Another closely related member of this fa... | {
"abstract": "Dramatic successes in identifying vertebrate homeobox genes closely related to their insect relatives have led to the recognition of classes within the homeodomain superfamily. To what extent are the homeodomain protein classes dedicated to specific functions during development? Although information on... |
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"abstract": "In this thesis the Double Pendulum Inverted on a Cart (DPIC) system is modeled using the Euler-Lagrange equation for the chosen Lagrangian, giving a second-order nonlinear system. This system can be approximated by a linear first-order system in which linear control theory can be used. The important de... | {
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"abstract": "We introduce a dynamical spatio-temporal model formalized as a recurrent neural network for forecasting time series of spatial processes, i.e. series of observations sharing temporal and spatial dependencies. The model learns these dependencies through a structured latent dynamical component, while a d... |
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"abstract": "ABSTRACT A multiple methods study was conducted over three academic terms during the 2015 fiscal year at Santa Clara University Library to assess the impact and value of overnight library hours. A survey was conducted after midnight during times the Library was open 24 hours, five days a week (24/5), t... | {
"abstract": "This study connects library user surveys, a common library assessment technique, to institutional data to demonstrate the value an academic library brings to student learning and student outcomes. Using regression techniques, the study identifies multiple significant correlations, both positive and neg... | {
"abstract": "This study incorporated institutional characteristics (e.g., Carnegie type, selectivity) and resource allocations (e.g., instructional expenditures, student affairs expenditures) into a statistical model to predict undergraduate graduation rates. Instructional expenditures, library expenditures, and a ... |
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"abstract": "Objective: Distinguished authors in the field have repeatedly alerted psychiatrists of the alarming trends in the treatment of bipolar disorders: decline of lithium use, paralleled by the increase of prescribing anticonvulsants and second-generation antipsychotic drugs. Research has been conducted in o... | {
"abstract": "With two recent systematic reviews and meta-analyses on the efficacy of lithium compared to placebo and other treatment options, it can now be concluded that lithium is the only drug that has been shown efficacious in the prevention of any mood episodes, manic episodes and depressive episodes in random... | {
"abstract": "Increased attention to gastrointestinal (GI) symptoms and disease‐specific contexts may play an important role in the enhanced perception of visceral stimuli frequently reported in patients with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). In this study, we test the hypothesis that altered attentional mechanisms un... |
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"abstract": "OBJECTIVE\nTo evaluated the efficacy of auriculotherapy for improving quality of life and reducing stress in nursing staff.\n\n\nMETHOD\nSingle-blind radomizad clinical trail envolving 175 subjects randomized in: Control (G1), Protocol Group (G2) and without Protocol Group (G3). They were evaluated by ... | {
"abstract": "This clinical randomized trial was performed with the objective to evaluate the stress levels of the nursing staff of a hospital and analyze the effectiveness of auriculotherapy with needles and seeds. The 75 participants with mean (44/58.7%) and high (31/41.3%) scores according to the Stress Symptoms ... | {
"abstract": "We review many of the recent findings concerning mechanisms and pathways for pain and its modulation, emphasizing sensitization and the modulation of nociceptors and of dorsal horn nociceptive neurons. We describe the organization of several ascending nociceptive pathways, including the spinothalamic, ... |
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"abstract": "Current methods do not allow a quantitative description of Ca2+ movements across the tubular (t‐) system membrane without isolating the membranes from their native skeletal muscle fibre. Here we present a fluorescence‐based method that allows determination of the t‐system [Ca2+] transients and derivati... | {
"abstract": "Skeletal muscle is highly specialized for the rapid delivery of Ca(2+) to the contractile apparatus during excitation-contraction coupling (EC coupling). Previous studies have shown the presence of a relatively fast-activated store-operated Ca(2+) entry (SOCE) mechanism (<1s) to be present in skeletal ... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Conventional nanofiltration (NF) membranes had a relatively low flux. In this paper, two mesogenic compounds were grafted to chitosan in order to change the structure, hence the performance of the NF membrane. A series of novel composite NF membranes were prepared by over-coating the polysulfo... |
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"abstract": "The main aim of this thesis is to explore what members of volunteer sporting organisations understand as governance for their organisations and how and why they implement particular governance structures and to use the findings to begin the development of a theoretical explanation of governance in thes... | {
"abstract": "This study investigates whether nonprofit organizational effectiveness is judged consistently by differing constituencies and whether changes in board effectiveness and overall organizational effectiveness (judged by differing constituencies) are the result of changes in the use of practices regarded a... | {
"abstract": "AbstractThis paper contributes to the scarce literature on the relationship between human capital and innovation at the firm-level. In this paper we examine whether human capital endowments, such as the general level of schooling within a firm, and practices of firms, such as formal training and employ... |
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"abstract": "An enhanced faceted browsing system has been developed to support users' exploration of large multi-tagged document collections. It provides summary measures of document result sets at each step of navigation through a set of representative terms and a diverse set of documents. These summaries are deri... | {
"abstract": "We describe a system that monitors social and mainstream media to determine shifts in what people are thinking about a product or company. We process over 100,000 news articles, blog posts, review sites, and tweets a day for mentions of items (e.g., products) of interest, extract phrases that are menti... | {
"abstract": "In this paper, we study a highly generic version of influence maximization (IM), one of optimizing influence campaigns by sequentially selecting \"spread seeds\" from a set of candidates, a small subset of the node population, under the hypothesis that, in a given campaign, previously activated nodes r... |
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"abstract": "The influenza A virus contains a small protein M2 in its envelope that is involved in viral replication. M2 functions as a proton channel during two stages in the virus life cycle; initially on the surface membrane of the virion, where it allows protons to flow from the low pH environment of the endoso... | {
"abstract": "Amantadine treatment of cells infected with H7 strains of influenza A viruses causes an M2 protein-mediated conversion of hemagglutinin (HA) from its native to its low pH conformation. Immunofluorescence and electron microscopic observations showed that the structural alteration and hence drug action o... | {
"abstract": "Streptococcus pneumoniae is the most common cause of community-acquired pneumonia. However, it can also asymptomatically colonize the upper respiratory tract. Because of the need to distinguish between S. pneumoniae that is simply colonizing the upper respiratory tract and S. pneumoniae that is causing... |
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"abstract": "To solve the problems of data sparseness and knowledge acquisition in translation disambiguation and WSD (word sense disambiguation), this paper introduces a fully unsupervised method, which is based on Web mining and Web indirect association of bilingual words. It provides new knowledge of translation... | {
"abstract": "We have participated in the Multilingual Chinese-English Lexical Sample Task of SemEval-2007. Our system disambiguates senses of Chinese words and finds the correct translation in English by using the web as WSD knowledge source. Since all the statistic data is obtained from search engine, the method i... | {
"abstract": "This paper introduces normalized Google distance into the study of word sense disambiguation and presents a novel unsupervised method of word sense disambiguation. The normalized Google distance is a theory of similarity between words and phrases, based on information distance and Kolmogorov complexity... |
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"abstract": "A variety of treatments have been historically used to alleviate phantom limb pain (PLP) with varying efficacy. Recently, virtual reality (VR) has been employed as a more sophisticated mirror therapy. Despite the advantages of VR over a conventional mirror, this approach has retained the use of the con... | {
"abstract": "Virtual Reality (VR) provides a unique medium suited to the achievement of several requirements for effective rehabilitation intervention. Specifically, therapy can be provided within a functional, purposeful and motivating context. Many VR applications present opportunities for individuals to particip... | {
"abstract": "Posture has traditionally been examined by isolating individual control pathways to determine their specific contributions. However, if these pathways are responsive to functional contexts, then their responses may differ when the system is receiving simultaneous inputs from multiple pathways. Thus, we... |
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"abstract": "In this study, we examined the inhibitory effects of enzyme-treated Ecklonia cava (EEc) extract on the adipogenesis of 3T3-L1 adipocytes. The components of Ecklonia cava (E. cava) were first separated and purified using the digestive enzymes pectinase (Rapidase® X-Press L) and cellulase (Rohament® CL).... | {
"abstract": "Seafoods and seaweeds represent some of the most important reservoirs of new therapeutic compounds for humans. Seaweed has been shown to have several biological activities, including anticancer activity. This review focuses on colorectal and breast cancers, which are major causes of cancer-related mort... | {
"abstract": "ABSTRACT During oogenesis, hundreds of maternal RNAs are selectively localized to the animal or vegetal pole, including determinants of somatic and germline fates. Although microarray analysis has identified localized determinants, it is not comprehensive and is limited to known transcripts. Here, we u... |
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"abstract": "Game Theory (GT) has been used with excellent results to model and optimize the operation of a huge number of real-world systems, including in communications and networking. Using a tutorial style, this paper surveys and updates the literature contributions that have applied a diverse set of theoretica... | {
"abstract": "We present a study of using game theory for protecting wireless sensor networks (WSNs) from selfish behavior or malicious nodes. Due to scalability, low complexity and disseminated nature of WSNs, malicious attacks can be modeled effectively using game theory. In this study, we survey the different gam... | {
"abstract": "Efficient energy usage is a major design challenge in wireless sensor networks. In this paper, an efficient power control scheme that mitigates interference and reduces the energy usage of the sensor nodes in a wireless sensor network is presented using the game theory. A non-cooperative game was formu... |
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"abstract": "Powerful computational tools are becoming available to represent the behavior of complex systems. Agent-based modeling, in particular, facilitates an examination of the system-level outcomes of the heterogeneous actions of a set of heterogeneous agents: for example, patterns of land-use and land-cover ... | {
"abstract": "Abstract In this study, stepwise discriminant analysis was applied to a mailed questionnaire sample of 1,738 Hamilton County (Cincinnati, Ohio) homebuyers to identify characteristics that are most important in predicting city and suburban choices. The results confirmed the continued importance of famil... | {
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"abstract": "The purpose of the present study was to clarify roles of cytosolic chloride ion (Cl−) in regulation of lysosomal acidification [intra‐lysosomal pH (pHlys)] and autophagy function in human gastric cancer cell line (MKN28). The MKN28 cells cultured under a low Cl− condition elevated pHlys and reduced the... | {
"abstract": "Background/Aims: Tumor cells produce a large amount of acidic metabolites due to their high metabolic condition. However, cytosolic pH (pH<sub>c</sub>) of tumor cells is identical to or even slightly higher than that of normal cells. To maintain pH<sub>c</sub> at a normal or higher level, tumor cells w... | {
"abstract": "Simulated annealing is a powerful optimization technique based on the annealing phenomenon in crystallization. In this paper we propose a simulated sintering technique which is analogous to the sintering process in material processing. In sintering one improves the quality of a processed material by he... |
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"abstract": "In recent years there has been a wide-spread evolution of support tools that help users to accomplish a range of computer-mediated tasks. In this context, recommender systems have emerged as powerful user-support tools which provide assistance to users by facilitating access to relevant items. Neverthe... | {
"abstract": "In recent years we have witnessed the wide-spread evolution of support tools that operate in association with the user to accomplish a range of computer-mediated tasks. Two examples of these tools are critics and recommenders. Critics are cooperative tools that observe the user interacting with a compu... | {
"abstract": "In spite of extensive resources committed to bilingual education for programmatic implementation in the United States over the last decade, very little basic research has focused on fundamental questions relating to an understanding of the bilingual child. From the psycholinguistic viewpoint, cognitive... |
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"abstract": "Linear alkanes CnH2n+2 in vacuum isolation are finite models for an infinite polyethylene chain. Using spontaneous Raman scattering in supersonic jet expansions for n = 13-21 in different spectral ranges, we determine the minimal chain length nh for the cohesion-driven folding of the preferred extended... | {
"abstract": "Mother of all folding: cold isolated linear alkanes C(n)H(2n+2) prefer an extended all-trans conformation before cohesive forces between the chain ends induce a folded hairpin structure for longer chains. It is shown by Raman spectroscopy at 100-150 K that the folded structure becomes more stable beyon... | {
"abstract": "Knowledge of the solubilities of hydrocarbon components of natural gas in pure water and aqueous electrolyte solutions is important in terms of engineering designs and environmental aspects. In the current work, six machine-learning algorithms, namely Random Forest, Extra Tree, adaptive boosting suppor... |
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"abstract": "Tele-health care applications have gained much attention in the field of ubiquitous computing. With availability of affordable wearable sensors, it is possible to recognize human activities. Activity detection has many applications such as security and health care applications. In this paper, the focus... | {
"abstract": "Recognizing human activities from sensor readings has recently attracted much research interest in pervasive computing due to its potential in many applications, such as assistive living and healthcare. This task is particularly challenging because human activities are often performed in not only a sim... | {
"abstract": "Indoor localization or zonification in disaster affected settings is a challenging research problem. Existing studies encompass localization and tracking of first-responders or fire fighters using wireless sensor networks. In addition to that, fast evacuation, routing, and planning have also been propo... |
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"abstract": "Physical Gig Economy (PGE) in Indonesia has rapid growth in the last few years. Unfortunately, a large gap among PGE services occurred. Compared with ride-hailing services with highly frequent transactions, cleaning and mechanical services have had few transactions. This study aims to identify and anal... | {
"abstract": "Purpose This study aimed at examining the effects of inhibiting, motivating, and technological factors on users’ intention to participate in the sharing economy. Design/methodology/approach A self-reported online survey was conducted among Uber users in Hong Kong. A total of 295 valid responses were co... | {
"abstract": "The aim of this research essay is to examine the structural nature of theory in Information Systems. Despite the importance of theory, questions relating to its form and structure are neglected in comparison with questions relating to epistemology. The essay addresses issues of causality, explanation, ... |
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"abstract": "The majority of published work has studied the impact of wood chips on red wine composition by conducting analyses during wood chip contact or immediately after the removal of chips from wine. Less attention has been directed at the potential influence of prior chip-wine contact on the further phenolic... | {
"abstract": "Sixteen commercial red wines, selected to cover a different range of color and total polyphenols index (TPI), were stored at 25°C during 6months under controlled and different oxygen additions (0, 1.1, 3.1, 10.6 and 30.4mgL(-1)) during the bottling process. Changes in color and the anthocyanic composit... | {
"abstract": "Fruits and vegetables contain naturally occurring polyphenolic compounds that can undergo enzyme-catalyzed oxidation during food preparation. Many of these compounds contain catechol (1,2-dihydroxybenzene) moieties that may be transformed into o-quinone derivatives by polyphenoloxidases and molecular o... |
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"abstract": "Rotational motions play important roles within biological processes. These motions can drive energy production as with the F1-ATP synthase or accompany domain motions during a conformational change such as the relative rotation of the large and small ribosomal subunits during protein synthesis. Studyin... | {
"abstract": "We report the synthesis of CdSe/CdS rod in rod core/shell heterostructures. These rods, synthesized using a seeded-growth approach, show narrow distributions of rod diameters and lengths and exhibit high emission quantum efficiencies and highly polarized emission. The degree of polarization is controll... | {
"abstract": "Abstract AlN films doped with 1.2–7.9 at% Mg were deposited by magnetron sputtering. Ferromagnetism is observed in the film with T c over 380 K, and it strongly depends on the Mg concentration. The observed magnetic anisotropy and exclusion of ferromagnetic contamination enforce the assumption for the ... |
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"abstract": "OBJECTIVE\nEllipticine is a potent antineoplastic agent exhibiting multiple mechanisms of action. This anticancer agent should be considered a pro-drug, whose pharmacological efficiency and/or genotoxic side effects are dependent on its cytochrome P450 (CYP)- and/or peroxidase-mediated activation to sp... | {
"abstract": "Ellipticine is an antineoplastic agent whose mode of action is based mainly on DNA intercalation, inhibition of topoisomerase II, and formation of covalent DNA adducts mediated by cytochromes P450 (P450s) and peroxidases. Here, this drug was found to induce CYP1A1 and/or 1A2 enzymes and their enzymatic... | {
"abstract": "Human colorectal and pulmonary carcinomas have been shown to contain high levels of opioid peptides and their corresponding membrane-bound receptors. Therefore possible targeted drugs, consisting of modified enkephalins linked to cytotoxic drugs, were designed. Such conjugates were expected to be speci... |
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"abstract": "Abstract Of the many Indigenous ceremonies that have a spiritual component, few are as immediate and powerful in restoring a balance of spiritual, emotional, mental and physical well-being as the sweat lodge. Sweat lodges are often incorporated into healing programs that serve Aboriginal people, and ar... | {
"abstract": "Most physicians are willing to admit that extraordinary improvements sometimes occur in patients' conditions, despite expectations to the contrary. Few will refuse to accept the occasional disappearance of tumors, patients who are expected to die imminently yet outlive their physicians, and other medic... | {
"abstract": "Differentiation of dermatofibroma (DF) from dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans (DFSP) can be difficult. CD34 and Factor XIIIa have been used to differentiate DF from DFSP. However, there is overlap and lack of specificity of their expression. Tenascin is an extracellular matrix glycoprotein that is involv... |
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"abstract": "Previously, the controllability problem of a linear time-invariant dynamical system was mapped to the maximum matching (MM) problem on the bipartite representation of the underlying directed graph, and the sizes of MMs on random bipartite graphs were calculated analytically with the cavity method at ze... | {
"abstract": "A large body of work has been devoted to defining and identifying clusters or communities in social and information networks. We explore from a novel perspective several questions related to identifying meaningful communities in large social and information networks, and we come to several striking con... | {
"abstract": "Existing partial geo-replication systems do not always provide optimal cost or latency, because their replication decisions are based on statically established data access popularity metrics, regardless of the application types. We demonstrate that additional reduction in cost and latency can be achiev... |
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"abstract": "We report deep ALMA observations complemented by associated Hubble Space Telescope (HST) imaging for a luminous (mUV = 25) galaxy, “Himiko,” at a redshift of z = 6.595. The galaxy is remarkable for its high star formation rate, 100 M☉ yr−1, which has been securely estimated from our deep HST and Spitze... | {
"abstract": "We report the detection of the $^2\\rm P_{3/2} \\rightarrow {^2P_{1/2}}$ fine-structure line of $\\rm C^+$ at 157.74 $\\rm \\mu m$ in SDSS J114816.64+525150.3 (hereafter J1148+5251), the most distant known quasar, at $z=6.42$, using the IRAM 30-m telescope. This is the first detection of the [Cii] line... | {
"abstract": "Abstract We investigate p-dopant incorporation and the influence of p-doping on the gain and damping behaviour in GaAs-based strained multiple quantum well lasers. By adding 5 × 10 18 –2 × 10 19 cm –3 beryllium doping to the active region of In 0.35 Ga 0.65 As/GaAs strained multiple quantum well lasers... |
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"abstract": "Characterization of directly transformed weedy Brassica rapa and introgressed B. rapa with Bt cry1Ac and gfp genes Abstract Crop to weed transgene flow, which could result in more competitive weed populations, is an agricultural biosafety concern. Crop Brassica napus to weedy Brassica rapa hybridizatio... | {
"abstract": "Once a biological novelty known for their role in bioluminescence, fluorescent proteins (FPs) from marine invertebrates have revolutionized the life sciences. Organisms from all kingdoms have been transformed with the Aequorea victoria green fluorescent protein (GFP), and biotechnology has been advance... | {
"abstract": "The investigation of biological systems highly depends on the possibilities that allow scientists to visualize and quantify biomolecules and their related activities in real-time and non-invasively. G-protein coupled receptors represent a family of very dynamic and highly regulated transmembrane protei... |
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"abstract": "New types of small RNAs distinct from microRNAs (miRNAs) are progressively being discovered in various organisms. In order to discover such novel small RNAs, a library of 17- to 26-base-long RNAs was created from prostate cancer cell lines and sequenced by ultra-high-throughput sequencing. A significan... | {
"abstract": "In plants, the vascular tissue contains the enucleated sieve tubes facilitating long-distance transport of nutrients, hormones, and proteins. In addition, several mRNAs and small interfering RNAs/microRNAs were shown to be delivered via sieve tubes whose content is embodied by the phloem sap (PS). A nu... | {
"abstract": "The divergence of land plants followed by vascular plants has entirely changed the terrestrial ecology. The vascular system is a prerequisite for this evolutionary event, providing upright stature and communication for sink demand-source capacity and facilitating the development of plants and colonizat... |
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"abstract": "Recently, there is a surge of interests on heterogeneous information network analysis. As a newly emerging network model, heterogeneous information networks have many unique features (e.g., complex structure and rich semantics) and a number of interesting data mining tasks have been exploited in this k... | {
"abstract": "Real-world, multiple-typed objects are often interconnected, forming heterogeneous information networks. A major challenge for link-based clustering in such networks is its potential to generate many different results, carrying rather diverse semantic meanings. In order to generate desired clustering, ... | {
"abstract": "Online social networks offering various services have become ubiquitous in our daily life. Meanwhile, users nowadays are usually involved in multiple online social networks simultaneously to enjoy specific services provided by different networks. Formally, social networks that share some common users a... |
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"abstract": "H2H Strategies Associated with Reduced Heart Failure Readmission Rates in Georgia Hospitals by Carisa Antoinette Sellers MSW, Clark Atlanta University, 2000 BS, Xavier University of Louisiana, 1998 Dissertation Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy ... | {
"abstract": "Abstract—End-stage renal disease patients experience a high incidence of sudden cardiac death. We performed a 5-year prospective study in 230 end-stage renal disease patients, aiming to determine the role of echocardiography and the additional value of serum biomarkers in predicting sudden cardiac deat... | {
"abstract": "The term \"related services\" is defined in Public Law 94-142, the Education for All Handicapped Children Act of 1975, as follows:\n . . . related services means transportation, and such developmental, corrective and other supportive services (including speech pathology and audiology, psychological ser... |
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"abstract": "One of the fundamental problems in the theory of social choice is aggregating the rankings of a set of agents (or voters) into a consensus ranking. Rank aggregation has found application in a variety of computational contexts. However, the goal of constructing a consensus ranking rather than, say, a si... | {
"abstract": "Many known planning tasks have inherent constraints concerning the best order in which to achieve the goals. A number of research efiorts have been made to detect such constraints and to use them for guiding search, in the hope of speeding up the planning process. \n \nWe go beyond the previous approac... | {
"abstract": "The effects of appropriability on invention have been well studied, but there has been little analysis of the effect of appropriability on the commercialization of existing inventions. Exploiting a database of 805 attempts by private firms to commercialize inventions licensed from the Massachusetts Ins... |
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"abstract": "ABSTRACT \n This study evaluated infection by vector-borne agents in 58 crab-eating fox (Cerdocyon thous L.) that were road-killed in an Atlantic rainforest reserve in the state of Espírito Santo, southeastern Brazil. Spleen, lung, or blood samples collected from the foxes were tested in the laboratory... | {
"abstract": "Abstract The prevalence of Hepatozoon parasites in 460 lizards from North Africa was studied by amplification and sequencing of the 18S rRNA gene. The phylogenetic analysis of the 18S rRNA gene provides new insights into the phylogeny of these parasites with multiple genetically distinct lineages recov... | {
"abstract": "Prostate cancer continues to be a major cause of morbidity and mortality in men around the world. The field of prostate cancer research continues to be hindered by the lack of relevant preclinical models to study tumorigenesis and to further development of effective prevention and therapeutic strategie... |
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"abstract": "Market access is increasingly relying on ICTs that are adopted haphazardly yet less is known about available ICTs; technology, potential users, and characteristics of both entities hence the study assessed adoption of ICTs in market services by smallholders determining; components, factors influencing ... | {
"abstract": "This short country report, a result of \n larger Information for Development Program \n (infoDev)-supported survey of the Information and \n Communication Technologies (ICT) in education in Africa, \n provides a general overview of current activities and issues \n related to ICT use in education in the... | {
"abstract": "L A Wilson Professor of Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Mbarara University of Science and Technology, Mbarara, Uganda; tonywislon@gmail.com T he intern is presenting the history of an ‘‘elderly man’’ who has lost the use of his legs over the past three days. And while he talks, I worry that ... |
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"abstract": "Statistical analysis is the tool of choice to turn data into information and then information into empirical knowledge. However, the process that goes from data to knowledge is long, uncertain, and riddled with pitfalls. To be valid, it should be supported by detailed, rigorous guidelines that help fer... | {
"abstract": "What is the effect of programming languages on software quality? This question has been a topic of much debate for a very long time. In this study, we gather a very large data set from GitHub (728 projects, 63 million SLOC, 29,000 authors, 1.5 million commits, in 17 languages) in an attempt to shed som... | {
"abstract": "Welding is a very complex process in which the final weld quality can be affected by many process parameters. In order to inspect the weld quality and detect the presence of various weld defects, different methods and systems are studied and developed. In this paper, a laser-based vision system is deve... |
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"abstract": "The damage of equipment manufactured with ferromagnetic materials in service can be effectively detected by Metal Magnetic Memory Testing (MMMT) technology, which has received extensive attention in various industry fields. The effect of stress or strain on Magnetic Flux Leakage (MFL) signals of ferrom... | {
"abstract": "This paper presents a non-destructive test method for steel corrosion in reinforced concrete bridges by using a 3-dimensional digital micro-magnetic sensor to detect and analyze the self-magnetic field leakage from corroded reinforced concrete. The setup of the magnetic scanning device and the measurem... | {
"abstract": "Amyloid or similar protein aggregates are the hallmarks of many disorders, including Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, Huntington's diseases and amyloidoses. The inhibition of the formation of these aberrant species by small molecules is a promising strategy for disease treatment. However, at present, all such... |
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"abstract": "The control of gaseous exchange between the leaf and bulk atmosphere by stomata governs CO2 uptake for photosynthesis and transpiration, determining plant productivity and water use efficiency. The balance between these two processes depends on stomatal responses to environmental and internal cues and ... | {
"abstract": "Increasing photosynthesis in C3 species has been identified as an approach to increase the yield of crop plants. Most of our knowledge of photosynthetic performance has come from studies in which plants were grown in controlled growth conditions but plants in natural environments have to cope with unpr... | {
"abstract": "Photorespiration has been a target for crop improvement ever since the energy losses associated with this pathway were identified in the 1970s. However, recent research highlights the importance of photorespiration as a recycling pathway for the products of ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate (RuBP) oxygenation ... |
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"abstract": "We address the problem of segmenting and retrieving word images in collections of historical manuscripts given a text query. This is commonly referred to as \"word spotting\". To this end, we first p ...",
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"title": "Neural Word Search in Historical Manuscript Collections"
} | {
"abstract": "The current trend in object detection and localization is to learn predictions with high capacity deep neural networks trained on a very large amount of annotated data and using a high amount of processing power. In this work, we particularly target the detection of text in document images and we propo... | {
"abstract": "Hardware acceleration is an enabler for ubiquitous and efficient deep learning. With hardware accelerators being introduced in datacenter and edge devices, it is time to acknowledge that hardware specialization is central to the deep learning system stack. This technical report presents the Versatile T... |
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"abstract": "The 5G (fifth Generation) wireless technology is still under investigation and needs more research stages. Researches are currently exploring different architectures to imply main concepts of this new technology. SDN has been proposed as a promising technique for these networks, which will be a key com... | {
"abstract": "Today 4G mobile systems are evolving to provide IP connectivity for diverse applications and services up to 1Gbps. They are designed to optimize the network performance, improve cost efficiency and facilitate the uptake of mass market IP-based services. Nevertheless, the growing demand and the diverse ... | {
"abstract": "Security has become a primary concern in order to provide protected communication between mobile nodes in a hostile environment. Unlike the wireline networks, the unique characteristics of mobile ad hoc networks pose a number of nontrivial challenges to security design, such as open peer-to-peer networ... |
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"abstract": "When doing finite element analysis upon the structure of Saab’s aeroplanes a coarse global model of mainly shell elements is used to determine the load distribution for sizing the structure. At som ...",
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"title": "Method Evaluation of Global-Local Finite Element Analysis"
} | {
"abstract": "Finite element methods are based on the variational formulation of partial differential equations which only need to compute the gradient of a function. Although unknowns are still associated to nodes, the function composed by piece-wise polynomials on each element and thus the gradient can be computed... | {
"abstract": "Isogeometric analysis (IGA) represents a recently developed technology in computational mechanics that offers the possibility of integrating methods for analysis and Computer Aided Design (CAD) into a single, unified process. The implications to practical engineering design scenarios are profound, sinc... |
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"abstract": "This thesis contributes to bridging the gap between music information retrieval (MIR) and musicology. We present several automated methods for music analysis, which are motivated by concrete application scenarios being of central importance in musicology. In this context, the automated music analysis i... | {
"abstract": "We present MATCH, a toolkit for aligning audio recordings of different renditions of the same piece of music, based on an efficient implementation of a dynamic time warping algorithm. A forward path estimation algorithm constrains the alignment path so that dynamic time warping can be performed with ti... | {
"abstract": "This paper is a report of ongoing research on the computational modeling of beat induction which aims at achieving a better understanding of the perceptual processes involved by ordering and reformulating existing models. One family of rule-based beat induction models is described (Longuet-Higgins and ... |
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"abstract": "L-Glutamate is the predominant excitatory neurotransmitter in the mammalian central nervous system and plays important roles in a wide variety of brain functions, but it is also a key player in the pathogenesis of many neurological disorders. The control of glutamate concentrations is critical to the n... | {
"abstract": "Glu (glutamate), the excitatory transmitter at the main signalling pathway in the retina, is critically involved in changes in the protein repertoire through the activation of signalling cascades, which regulate protein synthesis at transcriptional and translational levels. Activity-dependent different... | {
"abstract": "Measurements of carbon dioxide (CO2) flux at the soil surface of oil palm (Elaeis guineensis Jacq.) plantations on peatlands typically exhibit considerable temporal and spatial variation, which challenges the derivation of emission factors required in land use discussions. We tested 20 cm surface soil ... |
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"abstract": "Osteoarthritis (OA) is an extremely prevalent age-related condition. The economic and societal burden due to the cost of symptomatic treatment, inability to work, joint replacement, and rehabilitation is huge and increasing. Currently, there are no effective medical therapies that delay or reverse the ... | {
"abstract": "Introduction Recent evidence suggests that GSK3 activity is chondroprotective in osteoarthritis (OA), but at the same time, its inactivation has been proposed as an anti-inflammatory therapeutic option. Here we evaluated the extent of GSK3β inactivation in vivo in OA knee cartilage and the molecular ev... | {
"abstract": "This article discusses the role of information in the export development process and identifies some recent findings regarding the utilisation of export information sources. Propositions regarding patterns of information acquisition and the perceived utility of the input are then examined using data fr... |
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"abstract": "The lay of the policy land for addressing and managing environmental risk includes the hillock of the precautionary principle, the mountain of the practice and ethics of monetary valuation, and the tectonic plates of real-world innovations in markets and trading exchanges for nonmarketed environmental ... | {
"abstract": "Everyone in California knows that it is just a matter of time before a part of the state is hit by a severe earthquake. The Loma Prieta earthquake, which interrupted the World Series of 1989 and caused approximately $10 billion in property losses in the San Francisco Bay area, was a grim reminder of th... | {
"abstract": "Optimal Loss Reduction and Increases in Risk Aversion ABSTRACT The impact of increases in risk aversion on the optimal level of loss reduction is analyzed in models in which the magnitude of the prospective loss is uncertain. The results are sensitive to the specification of the source of the uncertain... |
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"abstract": "Cloud computing is a recent trend of technology that aims to provide on-demand services following a pay-peruse model. In the cloud, the service user has some guarantees, such as performance and availability. These guarantees of quality of service are defined between the service provider and user and ar... | {
"abstract": "Transaction processing systems lie at the core of modern e-commerce applications such as on-line retail stores, banks and airline reservation systems. The economic success of these applications depends on the ability to achieve high user satisfaction, since a single mouse-click is all that it takes a f... | {
"abstract": "One of the most difficult tasks in the design of information systems is how to control the behaviour of the back-end storage engine, usually a relational database. As the load on the database increases, the longer issued transactions will take to execute, mainly because the presence of a high number of... |
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"abstract": "Damage confirmed Early studies of the impacts of neonicotinoid insecticides on insect pollinators indicated considerable harm. However, lingering criticism was that the studies did not represent field-realistic levels of the chemicals or prevailing environmental conditions. Two studies, conducted on di... | {
"abstract": "Understanding the effects of neonicotinoid insecticides on bees is vital because of reported declines in bee diversity and distribution and the crucial role bees have as pollinators in ecosystems and agriculture. Neonicotinoids are suspected to pose an unacceptable risk to bees, partly because of their... | {
"abstract": "David C. Pryde,* Deepak Dalvie, Qiyue Hu, Peter Jones, R. Scott Obach, ) and Thien-Duc Tran WorldWide Medicinal Chemistry, Pfizer Global Research and Development, Sandwich, Kent, CT13 9NJ, England, Pharmacokinetics, Dynamics andMetabolism, Pfizer Global Research andDevelopment, 10628 ScienceCenterDrive... |
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"abstract": "The report has considered potential accidents related to the Russian nuclear submarines K-27 and K-159. The radiological assessment is based on a wide set of radionuclides. Referanse Iosjpe M., Amundsen I., Brown J., Dowdall M., Hosseini A, Strand P. Radioecological Assessment after Potential Accidents... | {
"abstract": "State-of-the art dispersion models were applied to simulate (137)Cs dispersion from Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster fallout in the Baltic Sea and from Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant releases in the Pacific Ocean after the 2011 tsunami. Models were of different nature, from box to full three-dim... | {
"abstract": "The compartment model POSEIDON-R with an embedded food web model was used to assess 137Cs distributions in the Baltic and Black seas and off the Pacific coast of Japan during 1945-2020 due to the weapon testing and accidents at the Chernobyl and Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plants. The results of s... |
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"abstract": "We present observational constraints on the nature of the different core-collapse supernova (SN) types through an investigation of the association of their explosion sites with recent star formation (SF), as traced by Hα+[N ii] line emission. We discuss results on the analysed data of the positions of ... | {
"abstract": "We present a monitoring study of SN 2004A and probable discovery of a progenitor star in pre-explosion Hubble Space Telescope (HST) images. The photometric and spectroscopic monitoring of SN 2004A show that it was a normal Type II-P which was discovered in NGC 6207 about two weeks after explosion. We c... | {
"abstract": "We present archival Hubble Space Telescope (HST) images of the nuclear regions of 43 of the 46 Seyfert galaxies found in the volume-limited, spectroscopically complete CfA Redshift Survey sample. Using an improved method of image contrast enhancement, we create detailed high-quality \"structure maps\" ... |
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