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"abstract": "Abstract Infections with Bovine viral diarrhea virus (BVDV) are not limited to cattle, but may be detected in various species in the mammalian order Artiodactyla. Despite epidemiological evidence of BVDV infections in species other than cattle, current knowledge regarding the impact of BVDV on heterolo... | {
"abstract": "Bovine viral diarrhea virus (BVDV) is a significant viral pathogen of domestic cattle. Worldwide, there is evidence of BVDV exposure and infection in wild ungulates; however, the frequency and significance of such events are unknown. To determine the prevalence and distribution of Colorado deer, elk, a... | {
"abstract": "A monoclonal antibody (mAb)-based immunoperoxidase monolayer assay (IPMA) for detection of bovine viral diarrhea virus (BVDV) was developed and compared with an existing bovine polyclonal antibody (pAb)-based IPMA. A pool of 5 mAbs, 4 mAbs produced to a type 1 BVDV and 1 mAb produced to a type 2 BVDV, ... |
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"abstract": "Cardiac conduction is mediated by gap junction channels that are formed by connexin (Cx) protein subunits. The connexin family of proteins consists of more than 20 members varying in their biophysical properties and ability to combine with other connexins into heteromeric gap junction channels. The mam... | {
"abstract": "The gap junction protein connexin-45 (Cx45) is expressed in the conduction system of the heart and in certain neurons of the retina and brain. General and cardiomyocyte-directed deficiencies of Cx45 in mice lead to lethality on embryonic day 10.5 as a result of cardiovascular defects. Neuron-directed d... | {
"abstract": "In the formed heart, it is convention to distinguish working myocardium (the primary function of which is contraction) from the conduction system (the primary function of which is the generation and conduction of the electrical impulse). The conduction system comprises separate components with distinct... |
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"abstract": "PURPOSE\nThe present treatments for amblyopia are predominantly monocular aiming to improve the vision in the amblyopic eye through either patching of the fellow fixing eye or visual training of the amblyopic eye. This approach is problematic, not least of which because it rarely results in establishme... | {
"abstract": "PURPOSE\nStrabismic amblyopia is typically associated with several visual deficits, including loss of contrast sensitivity in the amblyopic eye and abnormal binocular vision. Binocular summation ratios (BSRs) are usually assessed by comparing contrast sensitivity for binocular stimuli (sens(BIN)) with ... | {
"abstract": "OBJECTIVE\nThis study examines whether autonomic nerve autoantibodies (ANabs) are associated with development of autonomic neuropathy using a prospective study design.\n\n\nRESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS\nA group of type 1 diabetic patients were followed prospectively with regard to autonomic nerve functi... |
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"abstract": "The benefits of cognitive interventions for elderly individuals suffering from cognitive impairments are widely accepted. In this field, Virtual Reality (VR) occupies a prominent place among other advanced technologies since it offers specific advantages for implementing successful trainings. However, ... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Purpose: Behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD) is a non-Alzheimer dementia characterized by difficulty in documenting social-emotional changes. Few investigations have used virtual reality (VR) for documentation and rehabilitation of non-Alzheimer dementias. Methods: Five bvFTD pa... | {
"abstract": "Social skills training programmes are among the treatments of choice in schizophrenia. Virtual reality (VR) can improve the results obtained with traditional social skills programmes by helping to generalize the acquired responses to patients' daily lives. We present the results of a case study involvi... |
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"abstract": "P-glycoprotein (P-gp) overexpression is the most frequently observed cause of multidrug resistance in neoplastic cells. In our experiments, P-gp was expressed in L1210 mice leukemia cells (S cells) by selection with vincristine (R cells) or transfection with the gene encoding human P-gp (T cells). Remo... | {
"abstract": "P-glycoprotein (P-gp), also known as ABCB1, is a member of the ABC transporter family of proteins. P-gp is an ATP-dependent drug efflux pump that is localized to the plasma membrane of mammalian cells and confers multidrug resistance in neoplastic cells. P-gp is a 140-kDa polypeptide that is glycosylat... | {
"abstract": "In this article, we hypothesize that some of the structural properties of paradigmatic graphs of the hierarchical small world type are to be found in all natural languages. Within this hypothesis of the universal structure of paradigmatic graphs, we explore a method for the automatic analysis of semant... |
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"abstract": "This research presents a numerical simulation of an unsteady two-dimensional channel flow of Newtonian, and some non-Newtonian fluids using the finite volume method. The walls of the geometry oscillate sinusoidally with time. We have used the Cartesian curvilinear coordinates to handle complex geometri... | {
"abstract": "Instantaneous velocities in the field distal to contoured axisymmetric stenoses were measured with a laser Doppler anemometer. Upstream flow conditions were steady and spanned a range of Reynolds numbers from 500 to 2000. Autocorrelation functions and spectra of the velocity were employed to describe t... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Experimental results from a laboratory model of aortic stenosis are presented. Valves were represented by a number of nozzles, using three area ratios for varying degrees of stenosis severity, and including non-symmetrical shapes. Steady flow tests were run for a range of Reynolds numbers (Re)... |
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"abstract": "Recently, CNN-based models have achieved remarkable success in image-based salient object detection (SOD). In these models, a key issue is to find a proper network architecture that best fits for the task of SOD. Toward this end, this paper proposes two-stream fixation-semantic CNNs, whose architecture... | {
"abstract": "Existing computational models for salient object detection primarily rely on hand-crafted features, which are only able to capture low-level contrast information. In this paper, we learn the hierarchical contrast features by formulating salient object detection as a binary labeling problem using deep l... | {
"abstract": "Carry Select Adder (CSLA) is one of the fastest adders used in many data-processing processors to perform fast arithmetic functions. From the structure of the CSLA, it is clear that there is scope for reducing the area and power consumption in the CSLA. This work uses a simple and efficient gate-level ... |
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"abstract": "Aim: The effect of activin A on tubulointerstitial fibrosis in diabetic nephropathy (DN) using streptozotocin (STZ)‐induced diabetic rats and high glucose‐cultured HK‐2 cells was investigated.",
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"title": "Effect of activin A on tubulointerstitial fibrosis in diabetic nephropa... | {
"abstract": "Diabetic nephropathy is characterized by excessive deposition of extracellular matrix proteins in the mesangium and basement membrane of the glomerulus and in the renal tubulointerstitium. This review summarizes the main changes in protein composition of the glomerular mesangium and basement membrane a... | {
"abstract": "Thermal denaturation of Escherichia coli maltodextrin glucosidase was studied by differential scanning calorimetry, circular dichroism (230 nm), and UV-absorption measurements (340 nm), which were respectively used to monitor heat absorption, conformational unfolding, and the production of solution tur... |
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"abstract": "Bio: I am a first year PhD student in the Computer Science Department at UC Berkeley. I am advised by James Demmel and Armando Fox. My research interests include numerical linear algebra, high performance computing, and programming languages and tools. Application areas of interest include computationa... | {
"abstract": "Preventing and controlling outbreaks of infectious diseases such as pandemic influenza is a top public health priority. We describe EpiSimdemics - a scalable parallel algorithm to simulate the spread of contagion in large, realistic social contact networks using individual-based models. EpiSimdemics is... | {
"abstract": "We devote a special issue of the Journal of Infectious Diseases to review the recent advances of big data in strengthening disease surveillance, monitoring medical adverse events, informing transmission models, and tracking patient sentiments and mobility. We consider a broad definition of big data for... |
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"abstract": "Telomeres are essential nucleoprotein structures at the ends of eukaryotic chromosomes. They play several essential roles preserving genome stability and function, including distinguish‐ ing chromosome ends from DNA double stranded breaks (DSBs) and maintenance of chromo‐ some length. Due to the inabil... | {
"abstract": "Dinoflagellates are eukaryotic microalgae with distinct chromosomes throughout the cell cycle which lack histones and nucleosomes. The molecular organization of these chromosomes is still poorly understood. We have analysed the presence of telomeres in two evolutionarily distant and heterogeneous dinof... | {
"abstract": "Liquid crystalline phases of DNA and nucleosome core particles can be formed in vitro, indicating the crucial roles of these phases in the maintenance and compaction of genomes in vivo. In the present study, sequential levels of liquid crystalline decompaction were identified in highly purified nuclei ... |
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"abstract": "The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is often presented as a concept that is significantly changing industry, yet continuous improvements in the identification and automation of objects are still required. Such improvements are related to communication speed, security, and reliability, critical att... | {
"abstract": "One of the challenges of Industry 4.0 is the creation of vertical networks that connect smart production systems with design teams, suppliers, and the front office. To achieve such a vision, information has to be collected from machines and products throughout a smart factory. Smart factories are defin... | {
"abstract": "We present two optimization strategies to improve connected-component labeling algorithms. Taking together, they form an efficient two-pass labeling algorithm that is fast and theoretically optimal. The first optimization strategy reduces the number of neighboring pixels accessed through the use of a d... |
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"abstract": "The European Union Reference Laboratory for Genetically Modified Food and Feed (EU-RL GMFF), accredited under ISO 17043, organised a comparative testing (CT) round for National Reference Laboratories (NRLs) nominated under Regulation (EC) No 882/2004, with voluntary participation of other official cont... | {
"abstract": "The real-time PCR methods recommended in the European Union for the quantitation of genetically modified (GM) maize events NK603, GA21, and MON 863 measure the number of copies of the GM event in relation to those of the maize-specific adh1 reference gene. The study reported here revealed that the targ... | {
"abstract": "Although PCR technology has obvious limitations, the potentially high degree of sensitivity and specificity explains why it has been the first choice of most analytical laboratories interested in detection of genetically modified (GM) organisms (GMOs) and derived materials. Because the products that la... |
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"abstract": "In recent years, deep neural networks have been successfully used for machine failure diagnosis. However, changes in data distribution related to variations in diverse working environments adversely impact the troubleshooting performance. Consequently, cross-domain adaptation, which minimizes inconsist... | {
"abstract": "In recent years, machine learning techniques have been widely used to solve many problems for fault diagnosis. However, in many real-world fault diagnosis applications, the distribution of the source domain data (on which the model is trained) is different from the distribution of the target domain dat... | {
"abstract": "Gearboxes are crucial transmission components in mechanical systems. Fault diagnosis is an important tool to maintain gearboxes in healthy conditions. It is challenging to recognize fault existences and, if any, failure patterns in such transmission elements due to their complicated configurations. Thi... |
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"abstract": "Seamless outdoor–indoor positioning plays a critical role in many emerging applications, e.g., large-coverage user navigation in cities, smart buildings, and analytics of user spatial location big data. It is still challenging to construct a large-scale seamless outdoor–indoor positioning system due to... | {
"abstract": "While location is one of the most important context information in mobile and ubiquitous computing, large-scale deployment of indoor localization system remains elusive. In this work, we propose PiLoc, an indoor localization system that utilizes opportunistically sensed data contributed by users. Our s... | {
"abstract": "Iris recognition is a promising method by which to accurately identify a person. During the iris recognition stage, the features of the iris are extracted, including the unique, individual texture of the iris. The ability to extract the texture of the iris in non-cooperative environments from eye image... |
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"abstract": "Superconducting fault current limiters (SCFCLs) are expected to improve the reliability of power systems. An SCFCL of a transformer type with adjustable trigger current level was proposed. Three SCFCLs of this type for 3-phase AC power source were designed and made. The trigger current level of each tr... | {
"abstract": "Fault analyses of power systems including superconducting fault current limiters (SCFCLs) point out that accuracy of the trigger current level of an SCFCL should be in a few tens of percents. An SCFCL with an adjustable trigger current level is proposed. A trial SCFCL of this type was designed and made... | {
"abstract": "The present paper reviews the concept of a new superconducting fault current limiter with NbTi AC superconducting wire for the suppression of short-circuit currents. This fault current limiter takes full advantage of the quenching feature in the superconductor. On the assumption that the fault current ... |
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"abstract": "Wayfinding refers to the process people use to find where to go and how to get there. For that, they need information on the presence and location of landmarks in their environment to be able to navigate through their surroundings. Furthermore, spatial awareness is also crucial in the process. The pres... | {
"abstract": "The spatial relation of support has been regarded as universally privileged in nonlinguistic cognition and immune to the influence of language. English, but not Korean, obligatorily distinguishes support from nonsupport via basic spatial terms. Despite this linguistic difference, previous research sugg... | {
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"abstract": "Central inverters are usually employed in large photovoltaic farms because they offer a good compromise between costs and efficiency. However, inverters based on a single power stage have poor efficiency in the low power range, when the irradiation conditions are low. For that reason, an extended solut... | {
"abstract": "Parallel inverters are often used for the interconnection of Renewable Energy Generation Systems (REGSs); however, the output efficiency using the conventional current-sharing control scheme is low at light loads. Therefore, an intelligent control scheme for output efficiency enhancement of parallel in... | {
"abstract": "An improved coronary sinus catheter has been developed whose enhanced flexibility facilitates catheterization of the great cardiac vein. It allows simultaneous thermodilution measurement of blood flow in the great cardiac vein and proximal coronary sinus, easy withdrawal of blood from both sites and bi... |
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"abstract": "Nuclear pre-mRNA splicing necessitates specific recognition of the pre-mRNA splice sites. It is known that 5' splice site selection requires base pairing of U6 snRNA with intron positions 4-6. However, no factor recognizing the highly conserved 5' splice site GU has yet been identified. We have tested ... | {
"abstract": "It has previously been shown that a mutation of yeast 5' splice junctions at position 5 (GUAUGU) causes aberrant pre-mRNA cleavages near the correct 5' splice site. We show here that the addition of exon mutations to an aberrant cleavage site region transforms it into a functional 5' splice site both i... | {
"abstract": "Evolutionary adaptation can be viewed as two separate processes. The first process is the origin of new beneficial mutations. The second process is the fixation of some of those beneficial mutations by natural selection. Instead of statistical descriptions of adaptive changes, evolutionary theory is no... |
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"abstract": "Recent theoretical models suggest that motor learning includes at least two processes: error minimization and memory decay. While learning a novel movement, a motor memory of the movement is gradually formed to minimize the movement error between the desired and actual movements in each training trial,... | {
"abstract": "Recent theoretical studies have proposed that the redundant motor system in humans achieves well-organized stereotypical movements by minimizing motor effort cost and motor error. However, it is unclear how this optimization process is implemented in the brain, presumably because conventional schemes h... | {
"abstract": "BackgroundA prevailing paradigm of physical rehabilitation following neurologic injury is to \"assist-as-needed\" in completing desired movements. Several research groups are attempting to automate this principle with robotic movement training devices and patient cooperative algorithms that encourage v... |
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"abstract": "In recent years, the use of electroporation process has attracted much attention, due to its application in various industrial and medical fields. Electroporation is a microbiology technique which creates tiny holes in the cell membrane by the applied electric field. The electroporation process needs h... | {
"abstract": "Repetitive Pulsed Electric Field (PEF) is a common technique for disinfecting liquids. By applying adequate PEF across germ cell membranes, an irreversible electroporation process, and cell destruction can be achieved. The PEF can be generated by applying a repetitive pulsed voltage using a high-voltag... | {
"abstract": "High energy physics, particle accelerators, and commercial semiconductor and metal treatment processes require reliable, high power, variable pulsewidth, flat top, high voltage pulses at high power. New processes for food sterilization, waste treatment, pollution control, and medical diagnostics and tr... |
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"abstract": "Human gait recognition is a challenging task in computer vision community. In order to represent the gait, the most common feature is a gait template. Many efficient templates have been developed recently, however, the effectiveness of the proposed motion models is still under investigation. A novel te... | {
"abstract": "Traditional image representations are not suited to conventional classification methods such as the linear discriminant analysis (LDA) because of the undersample problem (USP): the dimensionality of the feature space is much higher than the number of training samples. Motivated by the successes of the ... | {
"abstract": "Measurements show that the IGBT is able to clamp the collector-emitter voltage to a certain value at short-circuit turn-off despite a very low gate turn-off resistor in combination with a high parasitic inductance is applied. The IGBT itself reduces the turn-off diC/dt by avalanche injection. However, ... |
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"abstract": "This paper describes a new database with detailed information on standardization procedures at the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP). 3GPP is the most relevant standard‐setting organization (SSO) in the field of mobile telecommunications. Empirical research on technology standards and SSOs has ... | {
"abstract": "This paper assesses the effect of standardization on competition in the US cable modem market. The standardization process in this market has involved two competing standardization groups, a commercial consortium (Multimedia Cable Network System Partners Ltd) and an official organization (the Institute... | {
"abstract": "The significance of global environmental issues have been further propelled to the forefront, with the current public awareness highlighted by the 2007 United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Al Gore's global warming statements and the Stern review. As the most populous nation on eart... |
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"abstract": "Smart home technology, an application of Internet of Things (IoT), provides householders with e.g., comfort, control and convenience. The technology has been around for sometimes, but its prevalence is not yet widespread, and thus the potentials have largely been underestimated. This paper aims to expl... | {
"abstract": "The world population is growing at a rapid pace. Towns and cities are accommodating half of the world's population thereby creating tremendous pressure on every aspect of urban living. Cities are known to have large concentration of resources and facilities. Such environments attract people from rural ... | {
"abstract": "Companies are encouraged by the big data trend to experiment with advanced analytics and many turn to specialist consultancies to help them get started where they lack the necessary competences. We investigate the program of one such consultancy, Advectas - in particular the advanced analytics Jumpstar... |
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"abstract": "This paper presents a depth upsampling method that produces a high-fidelity dense depth map using a high-resolution RGB image and LiDAR sensor data. Our proposed method explicitly handles depth outliers and computes a depth upsampling with confidence information. Our key idea is the self-learning frame... | {
"abstract": "This paper presents a vision system and a depth processing algorithm for DRC-HUBO+, the winner of the DRC finals 2015. Our system is designed to reliably capture 3D information of a scene and objects robust to challenging environment conditions. We also propose a depth-map upsampling method that produc... | {
"abstract": "The 2015 ACL Workshop on Computational Linguistics and Clinical Psychology included a shared task focusing on classification of a sample of Twitter users according to three mental health categories: users who have self-reported a diagnosis of depression, users who have self-reported a diagnosis of post... |
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"abstract": "There has been a great deal of interest in the computation of distances and shortest paths problem in graphs which is one of the central, and most studied, problems in (algorithmic) graph theory. In this paper, we survey the exact results of the static version of the all-pairs shortest paths problem an... | {
"abstract": "For a graph G with weight function w on the vertices, the total distance of G is the sum over all unordered pairs of vertices x and y of w(x)w(y) times the distance between x and y. A MAD tree of G is a spanning tree with minimum total distance. We develop a linear-time algorithm to find a MAD tree of ... | {
"abstract": "Distance-hereditary graphs have been introduced by Howorka and studied in the literature with respect to their metric properties. In this paper several equivalent characterizations of these graphs are given: in terms of existence of particular kinds of vertices (isolated, leaves, twins) and in terms of... |
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"abstract": "Optimal control under uncertainty is a prevailing challenge in control, due to the difficulty in producing tractable solutions for the stochastic optimization problem. By framing the control problem as one of input estimation, advanced approximate inference techniques can be used to handle the statisti... | {
"abstract": "We present SaDDP, a sampled version of the widely used differential dynamic programming (DDP) control algorithm. We contribute through establishing a novel connection between two major branches of robotics control research, that is, gradient-based methods such as DDP, and Monte Carlo methods such as pa... | {
"abstract": "We present a technique for automatically synthesizing walking and running controllers for physically-simulated 3D humanoid characters. The sagittal hip, knee, and ankle degrees-of-freedom are actuated using a set of eight Hill-type musculotendon models in each leg, with biologically-motivated control l... |
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"abstract": "Orexin signaling is essential for normal regulation of arousal and behavioral state control and represents an attractive target for therapeutics combating insomnia. Alternatively termed hypocretins, these neuropeptides were named to reflect sequence similarity to incretins and their potential to promot... | {
"abstract": "STUDY OBJECTIVES\nThe hypocretin system enhances signaling in the mesolimbic pathways regulating reward processing and addiction. Because individuals with narcolepsy with cataplexy have low hypocretin levels, we hypothesized that they may be less prone to risk- and reward-seeking behaviors, including s... | {
"abstract": "OBJECTIVE\nTo investigate the effect of psychostimulants on impulsivity, depressive symptoms, addiction, pathological gambling, and risk-taking using objective sensitivity tests in narcolepsy with cataplexy (NC). Drug-free patients with NC present alterations in reward processing, but changes with psyc... |
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"abstract": "Cerebral edema (CE) is a potentially devastating complication of diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) that almost exclusively occurs in children. Since its first description in 1936, numerous risk factors have been identified; however, there continues to be uncertainty concerning the mechanisms that lead to its... | {
"abstract": "Objective: Diabetic ketoacidosis in children is associated with vasogenic cerebral edema, possibly due to the release of destructive polymorphonuclear neutrophil azurophilic enzymes. Our objectives were to measure plasma azurophilic enzyme levels in children with diabetic ketoacidosis, to correlate pla... | {
"abstract": "Cerebral oedema remains the leading cause of death and morbidity in children with Type 1 diabetes mellitus. Around seven per thousand episodes of diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) are complicated by cerebral oedema, and one‐quarter of those children will die from it. The cause or causes of cerebral oedema ar... |
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"abstract": "The integrity of the gastrointestinal tract structure and function is seriously compromised by two pathological conditions sharing, at least in part, several pathogenetic mechanisms: inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) and coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by the severe acute respiratory syndro... | {
"abstract": "Objectives: Endoscopy remains mandatory in the diagnostic work-up of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), but is a costly and invasive procedure. Identification of novel, noninvasive, diagnostic biomarkers remains a priority. The aim of the present study was to explore the potential of fecal amino acid co... | {
"abstract": "Die Labordiagnostik hat sowohl im empfohlenen initialen „work up“ bei Verdacht auf eine chronisch entzündliche Darmerkrankung (CED) wie auch für das Monitoring des Krankheitsverlaufs und des Therapieansprechens einen klar umrissenen Stellenwert: Mithilfe der „Basislaborparameter“ wie z. B. Blutkörperch... |
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"abstract": "This white paper presents the HUMANE typology and method, intended to support the analysis and design for human-machine networks (HMN). The typology serves to characterise HMNs on dimensions pertaining to the actors of the network, the relations between the actors, network extent and network structure.... | {
"abstract": "In the current hyperconnected era, modern Information and Communication Technology (ICT) systems form sophisticated networks where not only do people interact with other people, but also machines take an increasingly visible and participatory role. Such Human-Machine Networks (HMNs) are embedded in the... | {
"abstract": "Crowdsourcing is an emerging business model where tasks are accomplished by the general public; the crowd. Crowdsourcing has been used in a variety of disciplines, ::: including information systems development, marketing and ::: operationalization. It has been shown to be a successful model in recommen... |
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"abstract": "Araldi RP. Isolation and identification of Bovine papillomavirus in experimental group of cattle in order to obtain a virus bank. [dissertation (Masters thesis in Biotechnology)]. Sao Paulo: Instituto de Ciencias Biomedicas, Universidade de Sao Paulo; 2014. The bovine papillomavirus (BPV) is the etiolo... | {
"abstract": "A simple method is described for the isolation of bovine papilloma virus and its deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA). As found with other representatives of this virus group, this DNA preparation contains two components, I and II, as shown by sedimentation and electron microscopic studies. Component I is a fas... | {
"abstract": "This communication presents a new method of carrying out sedimentation velocity experiments. A thin lamella of a solution of macromolecules is layered onto a denser miscible liquid in a rotating ultracentrifuge cell. The macromolecules then sediment through the liquid in a narrow concentration distribu... |
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"abstract": "According to the Snowball Earth hypothesis, Earth has experienced periods of low‐latitude glaciation in its deep past. Prior studies have used general circulation models (GCMs) to examine the effects such an extreme climate state might have on the structure and dynamics of Earth's troposphere, but the ... | {
"abstract": "A large perturbation in atmospheric CO2 and O2 or bioproductivity will result in a drastic pulse of 17O change in atmospheric O2, as seen in the Marinoan Oxygen-17 Depletion (MOSD) event in the immediate aftermath of a global deglaciation 635 Mya. The exact nature of the perturbation, however, is debat... | {
"abstract": "The aim of the study was to assess differences in cerebrovascular reactivity in healthy subjects during orthostasis. Twenty healthy volunteers (11 men and 9 women) with no atherosclerotic risk factors were evaluated by use of transcranial Doppler. The breath holding index (BHI) was obtained in supine a... |
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"abstract": "Power Quality has become one of the main measures of distribution network operation evaluation. Utilities and customers monitor the different PQ aspects for benchmarking and compatibility check. This is a second part of a paper that investigates a long term PQ measurement campaign. In this part, global... | {
"abstract": "Power Quality is one of the critical issues when operating contemporary distribution networks. The increased interest in PQ is due to the increased employment of sensitive equipment loads and renewable generation technologies. Currently, the evaluation of PQ network performance is based on evaluating d... | {
"abstract": "With the increase of renewable energy in electricity generation and increased engagement from demand sides, distribution network planning and operation face great challenges in the provision of stable, secure and dedicated service under a high level of uncertainty in network behaviors. Distribution net... |
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"abstract": "Binding affinity prediction by means of computer simulation has been increasingly incorporated in drug discovery projects. Its wide application, however, is limited by the prediction accuracy of the free energy calculations. The main error sources are force fields used to describe molecular interactions a... | {
"abstract": "Molecular simulations intended to compute equilibrium properties are often initiated from configurations that are highly atypical of equilibrium samples, a practice which can generate a distinct initial transient in mechanical observables computed from the simulation trajectory. Traditional practice in... | {
"abstract": "The AM Canum Venaticorum (AM CVn) binaries are a rare group of ultrashort period, mass-transferring white dwarf binaries, some of which may be Type Ia supernova progenitors. More than a third of the total known population of AM CVn binaries have been discovered via the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). ... |
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"abstract": "The proliferation of advanced analytics and artificial intelligence has been driven by huge volumes of data that are mostly generated at the edge. Simultaneously, there is a rising demand to perform analytics on edge platforms (i.e., near-sensor data analytics). However, conventional architectures of s... | {
"abstract": "This paper presents a low-offset comparator based on n-type amorphous indium gallium zinc oxide thin-film transistors (TFTs). An a-Si:H TFT model was adapted to fit the electrical characterization data obtained for these devices. The proposed comparator comprises three pre-amplification stages, a posit... | {
"abstract": "The flexibility of software-based fault tolerant approaches in providing the required level of reliability Commer-cial-Off-The Shelf (COTS) devices made them the first choice in designing safety-critical systems. In this paper, we propose a reliability improvement method for COTS-based systems, so-call... |
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"abstract": "Physical and cognitive limitations often accompany aging, increasing the importance of a safe and supportive environment to help older adults maintain mobility. Neighborhood design and maintenance must be evaluated to promote physical activity, mobility, and safety. Audit tools, geographic information ... | {
"abstract": "Understanding the role of the built environment on physical activity behavior among older adults is an important public health goal, but evaluating these relationships remains complicated due to the difficulty of measuring specific attributes of the environment. As a result, there is conflicting eviden... | {
"abstract": "Older adults living in high-deprivation areas walk less than those living in low-deprivation areas. Previous research has shown that older adults’ outdoor walking levels are related to the neighbourhood built environment. This study examines inequalities in perceived built environment attributes (i.e.,... |
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"abstract": "Summary A national survey was conducted of 3150 notified cases of whooping cough in order to determine age-specific pertussis vaccine efficacy by the ‘screening’ method. The cases were collected over two periods, one just prior to the start and one at the first peak of the whooping cough epidemic of 19... | {
"abstract": "An outbreak of pertussis in primary school-children in the St David's area of Pembrokeshire provided the opportunity to estimate pertussis vaccine efficacy. The estimate of efficacy was 88% when notified cases were used, but this fell to 68% when all children with bouts of coughing for two or more week... | {
"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nThe evaluation of the effectiveness of antimalarial drugs and bed net use in pregnant women is an important aspect of monitoring and surveillance of malaria control in pregnancy. In principle the screening method for assessing vaccine efficacy can be applied in non-vaccine settings for asse... |
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"abstract": "The introduced brushtail possum (Trichosurus vulpecula) is the most important wildlife host of bovine tuberculosis in New Zealand and is considered to be a major environmental and agricultural pest. Dry grassland ecosystems in New Zealand include some of the least protected and most threatened native b... | {
"abstract": "The podocarp/mixed hardwood forests on Mt Bryan O'Lynn, Central Westland, are described from 304 plots surveyed during 1975-77. Eight major plant associations are identified, using patterns of forest structure, physionomie dominance, diversity and distribution. Each association possesses distinct physi... | {
"abstract": "Abstract AIM: To identify broadscale habitat factors influencing the prevalence of macroscopic Mycobacterium bovis infection in brushtail possums (Trichosurus vulpecula) at a site in Westland, New Zealand. METHODS: During 1973/74, 1989/90 and 1997, we undertook repeated cross-sectional surveys of M. bo... |
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"abstract": "Introduccion: En la supervivencia del corazon trasplantado son de importancia el empleo de los anticuerpos contra el sistema principal de histocompatibilidad (anticuerpos anti-HLA). Hace seis anos se introdujo en Cuba el porcentaje de anticuerpos anti-HLA frente a panel (PRA) por metodo de ensayo de in... | {
"abstract": "Heart transplantation has become standard of care for end-stage heart failure. Challenges include the limited supply of donor organs and the increased complexity of heart transplant candidates who are at higher risk for poor outcomes. Recent advances may address these challenges, including proposed cha... | {
"abstract": "Global Culture(s) - Mike Featherstone An Introduction Mapping the Global Condition - Roland Robertson Culture as the Ideological Background of the Modern World-System - Immanuel Wallerstein Culture and the World-System - Roy Boyne Culture as the World-System - Immanuel Wallerstein A Reply to Roy Boyne ... |
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"abstract": "Simple Summary Nanomaterials are one of the most promising discoveries of this millennium. Thanks to the widest range of applications, this field has spread to all scientific disciplines. As well, interest has significantly increased in the medical sector. Although there are many different families of ... | {
"abstract": "The treatment of brain cancer like glioblastoma multiforme often uses chemotherapeutic drugs like temozolomide, procarbazine, carmustine, and lomustine. Fullerene loaded with these drugs help to cross the blood brain barriers. The adsorptions of the four drug molecules on the surface of the fullerene a... | {
"abstract": "A systematic analysis of the molecular structure, energetics, electronic (hyper)polarizabilities and their interaction-induced counterparts of C60 with a series of molecular graphene (MG) models, CmHn, where m = 24, 84, 114, 222, 366, 546 and n = 12, 24, 30, 42, 54, 66, was performed. All the reported ... |
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"abstract": "Effective Strategies for Managing the Outsourcing of Information Technology by Marsha Hopwood MBA, University of Minnesota, 2004 BS, Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University, 1995 Doctoral Study Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Business Administrati... | {
"abstract": "Purpose – Nearly all legal firms and in‐house counsels will have to consider the opportunities and risks afforded by the rapidly changing legal process outsourcing (LPO) market, estimated to be worth $2.4bn globally, and growing rapidly. The purpose of this Industry Insight is to assess the current LPO... | {
"abstract": "Nowadays, the business environment is characterized by great uncertainty and variability. In this environment, information technology (IT) has proved to be an important strategic ingredient for the creation of competitive advantage. This role of IT has been widely accepted during the past few years [Fe... |
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"abstract": "Purpose: The objective of this study was to evaluate the impact of operation duration on short- and long-term outcomes of colorectal cancer patients following surgical resection. Methods: 6224 consecutive patients who underwent radical colorectal surgery were retrospectively assessed and were divided i... | {
"abstract": "Background and Objectives: Combining laparoscopy and enhanced recovery provides benefit to short-term outcomes after colorectal surgery. Advances in training and techniques have allowed surgeons to operate on cases that are technically challenging and associated with prolonged operative time. Laparosco... | {
"abstract": "Background: Radical cystectomy (RC) is associated with high risk of early and late perioperative complications, and readmissions. The Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) protocol has been applied to RC showing decreased hospital stay without increased morbidity. Objective: To evaluate the specific c... |
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"abstract": "Spermidine, N-(3-aminopropyl) butane-1,4-diamine, is a low-molecular-mass organic base (C7H19N3, CAS 124-20-9) and belongs to the polyamine family which includes spermine and putrescine, the direct precursor of spermidine (Figure 1). At ambient temperature (22-25 °C) spermidine is a colorless liquid or... | {
"abstract": "ABSTRACT Loss of cardiac macroautophagy/autophagy impairs heart function, and evidence accumulates that an increased autophagic flux may protect against cardiovascular disease. We therefore tested the protective capacity of the natural autophagy inducer spermidine in animal models of aging and hyperten... | {
"abstract": "From the conditions of energy and momentum conservation it is shown that all four interaction coefficients of the elementary quadruple interactions discussed in Part I of this paper are equal. A further conservative quantity is then found which can be interpreted as the number density of the gravity-wa... |
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"abstract": "In this study, a computer vision system was developed for the identification of paddy varieties based on the morphological features. Artificial neural networks and linear discriminant analysis methods were utilized for identification of the paddy seeds. Seven varieties of paddy (Tarom Hashemi, Tarom Mo... | {
"abstract": "Golpour I., Parian J.A., Chayjan R.A. (2014): Identification and classification of bulk paddy, brown, and white rice cultivars with colour features extraction using image analysis and neural network. Czech J. Food Sci., 32: 280–287. We identify five rice cultivars by mean of developing an image process... | {
"abstract": "Visual cortex inspired features mimic what we know of the brain's visual cortex, which is still the best existing object detection system regarding speed and accuracy. For this paper we benchmarked two prominent implementations of these features, Mutch and Lowe's SLF-HMAX and Pinto et al.'s V1-like, ag... |
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"abstract": "developed to create software artifacts efficiently and effectively. Patterns are represented using UML notations and formal models. Unfortunately these do not always suffice to analyze behavior. There are various problems related to visualization, abstracting, mapping the design to the implementation, ... | {
"abstract": "The Unified Modeling Language (UML) currently proposes a mechanism to model recurrent design structures: the parameterized collaborations. The main goal of this mechanism is to model the structure of Design Patterns. This is an interesting feature because it can help designers to point out pattern appl... | {
"abstract": "Design Patterns are now widely accepted as a useful concept for guiding and documenting the design of object-oriented software systems. Still the UML is ill-equipped for precisely representing design patterns. It is true that some graphical annotations related to parameterized collaborations can be dra... |
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"abstract": "3D reconstruction is a longstanding ill-posed problem, which has been explored for decades by the computer vision, computer graphics, and machine learning communities. Since 2015, image-based 3D reconstruction using convolutional neural networks (CNN) has attracted increasing interest and demonstrated ... | {
"abstract": "We present a data-driven approach to reconstructing high-resolution and detailed volumetric representations of 3D shapes. Although well studied, algorithms for volumetric fusion from multi-view depth scans are still prone to scanning noise and occlusions, making it hard to obtain high-fidelity 3D recon... | {
"abstract": "Heavy smokers undergoing screening with low-dose chest CT are affected by cardiovascular disease as much as by lung cancer. Low-dose chest CT scans acquired in screening enable quantification of atherosclerotic calcifications and thus enable identification of subjects at increased cardiovascular risk. ... |
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"abstract": "Adenoviruses target their double‐stranded DNA genome and its associated core proteins to the interphase nucleus; this core structure then enters through the nuclear pore complex. We have used digitonin permeabilized cell import assays to study the cellular import factors involved in nuclear entry of vi... | {
"abstract": "Adenovirus, a respiratory virus with a double-stranded DNA genome, replicates in the nuclei of mammalian cells. We have developed a cytosol-dependent in vitro assay utilizing adenovirus nucleocapsids to examine the requirements for adenovirus docking to the nuclear pore complex and for DNA import into ... | {
"abstract": "In this chapter we have presented the most recent methods for the preparation of cell extracts and recombinant protein factors for the reconstitution of nuclear protein and snRNP import in vitro. In addition, we have discussed methods available for the quantitation of the level of import into nuclei. A... |
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"abstract": "Tissue engineering and regenerative medicine involve many different artificial and biologic materials, frequently integrated in composite scaffolds, which can be repopulated with various cell types. One of the most promising scaffolds is decellularized allogeneic extracellular matrix (ECM) then recellu... | {
"abstract": "[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0177416.].",
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"abstract": "Efficient osteogenic differentiation and bone formation from mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) should have clinical applications in treating nonunion fracture healing. MSCs are adherent bone marrow stromal cells that can self‐renew and differentiate into osteogenic, chondrogenic, adipogenic, and myogenic l... |
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"abstract": "Block-based programming languages can support novice programmers through features such as simplified code syntax and user-friendly libraries. However, most block-based programming languages are highly visual, which makes them inaccessible to blind and visually impaired students. To address the inaccess... | {
"abstract": "\"Digital fluency\" should mean designing, creating, and remixing, not just browsing, chatting, and interacting.",
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"abstract": "This paper presents a pipelined CPU design project with a field programmable gate array (FPGA) system in a computer architecture course. The class project is a five-stage pipelined 32-bit MIPS design with experiments on the Altera DE2 board. For proper scheduling, milestones were set every one or two w... |
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"abstract": "This paper proposed a design of a modern FPGA-based Traffic Light Control (TLC) System to manage the road traffic. The approach is by controlling the access to areas shared among multiple intersections and allocating effective time between various users; during peak and off-peak hours. The implementati... | {
"abstract": "According to the different branches of city’s intersections and the traffic flow at different times, the program of intelligent traffic light controller based on VHDL is given and simulated by Quartus¿ by using hierarchical design thought. The simulation results show that the intelligent traffic light ... | {
"abstract": "The paper is dealing with a fuzzy control approach to urban road traffic lights. Starting with a brief review on some of the publications on this topic, the problem of controlling an intersection with 12 main direction traffic flows is tackled. Depending on traffic situations the fuzzy rule set decides... |
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"abstract": "Data clustering is a recognized data analysis method in data mining whereas K-Means is the well known partitional clustering method, possessing pleasant features. We observed that, K-Means and other partitional clustering techniques suffer from several limitations such as initial cluster centre selecti... | {
"abstract": "Data clustering is the most popular data analysis method in data mining. It is the method that parts the data object to meaningful groups. It has been applied into many areas such as image processing, pattern recognition and machine learning where the data sets are of many shapes and sizes. The most po... | {
"abstract": "Functional Digital Mock-up (FDMU) and Functional Mock-up Interface (FMI) are two keywords arising in the last years in simulation technology. In this paper, we would like to show that both principles, aiming at a comprehensive investigation of heterogeneous systems, e.g. from mechatronics, are not nece... |
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"abstract": "A branch and bound algorithm for computing globally optimal solutions to non-convex nonlinear programs in continuous variables is presented. The algorithm is directly suitable for a wide class of problems arising in chemical engineering design. It can solve problems defined using algebraic functions an... | {
"abstract": "The global minimization of a large-scale linearly constrained concave quadratic problem is considered. The concave quadratic part of the objective function is given in terms of the nonlinear variablesx ∈Rn, while the linear part is in terms ofy ∈Rk. For large-scale problems we may havek much larger tha... | {
"abstract": "We propose a deterministic global optimization approach, whose novel contributions are rooted in the edge-concave and piecewise-linear underestimators, to address nonconvex mixed-integer quadratically-constrained quadratic programs (MIQCQP) to $${\\epsilon}$$ -global optimality. The facets of low-dimen... |
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"abstract": "Moving route prediction offers important benefits for many emerging location-aware applications such as target advertising and urban traffic management. A common approach to route prediction is to match similar trace recordings from a larger volume of historical trajectories, and return the targeted re... | {
"abstract": "Destination prediction is an essential task for many emerging location-based applications such as recommending sightseeing places and targeted advertising according to destinations. A common approach to destination prediction is to derive the probability of a location being the destination based on his... | {
"abstract": "Rapid advance of location acquisition technologies boosts the generation of trajectory data, which track the traces of moving objects. A trajectory is typically represented by a sequence of timestamped geographical locations. A wide spectrum of applications can benefit from the trajectory data mining. ... |
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"abstract": "The value or harm associated with an increase in speech coding quality depends on the type of the increase as well as the temporal location of the increase in an utterance. For example, some increases in speech coding bandwidth can be perceived as impairments. The higher quality associated with the wid... | {
"abstract": "This paper introduces Silk, CELT, and BroadVoice that are available in the internet as open source voice codecs. Their voice quality is evaluated with a subjective listening test. AMR, AMR-WB, G.718, G.718B, and G.722.1C were used as standardized references. In addition Skype’s Silk codec’s peculiar ba... | {
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"title": "Automatic scraper of celebrity images from heterogeneous websites based on face recognition and sorting for profiling"
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"abstract": "Different programs designed to develop rural areas in Europe grant significant funds to support several economic activities. In particular, rural lodging establishments have been key recipients of many development investments. Therefore, identifying the determinants of business success for these establ... | {
"abstract": "Abstract This paper examines how an entrepreneur's background relates to the performance of a new venture during the early stages, which has been a controversial issue in entrepreneurship research. This research is based on the data collected from 48 new start-up firms in Korea. The results of the anal... | {
"abstract": "Only recently have academicians and practitioners realized the importance of a systematic analysis of business failures. The authors develop a failure process model that can help managers to understand and predict failure. Causes and symptoms of failure are reviewed briefly as methods of analyzing fail... |
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"abstract": "Speech synthesis is the method to convert text in to speech waveform. Current state-of-the-art text-to-speech systems for Indian language produce intelligible speech but lack the prosody of natural utterances using concatenation speech synthesis. It can be useful for various application, car navigation... | {
"abstract": "In this paper, we discuss a consortium effort on building text to speech (TTS) systems for 13 Indian languages. There are about 1652 Indian languages. A unified framework is therefore attempted required for building TTSes for Indian languages. As Indian languages are syllable-timed, a syllable-based fr... | {
"abstract": "The CMU Arctic databases designed for the purpose of speech synthesis research. These single speaker speech databases have been carefully recorded under studio conditions and consist of approximately 1200 phonetically balanced English utterances. In addition to wavefiles, the databases provide complete... |
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"abstract": "Molecular hydrogen emission is commonly observed in planetary nebulae. Images taken in infrared H2 emission lines show that at least part of the molecular emission is produced inside the ionized region. In the best studied case, the Helix nebula, the H2 emission is produced inside cometary knots (CKs),... | {
"abstract": "This paper presents an analysis of the concentration of hydrogen molecules inside the ionized region of planetary nebulae (PNs). The equations corresponding to the ionization and chemical equilibria of H, H+, H-, H2, H, and H are coupled with the equations of ionization and thermal balance for a photoi... | {
"abstract": "We first present a simple circuit design method for obtaining a non-autonomous chaotic oscillator circuit from any given second-order sinusoidal oscillator with two capacitors. The proposed method relies on applying a periodic pulse train as the excitation source and an addition of signum-type nonlinea... |
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"abstract": "We give an overview of how the CADENCE architecture ad- dresses the problem of turn-taking in embodied interaction",
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"abstract": "Turn-taking is ubiquitous in human communication, yet turn-taking between humans and robots continues to be stilted and awkward for human users. The goal of our work is to build autonomous robot controllers for successfully engaging in human-like turn-taking interactions. Towards this end, we present C... | {
"abstract": "Human beings subconsciously adapt their behaviors to a communication partner in order to make interactions run smoothly. In human-robot interactions, not only the human but also the robot is expected to adapt to its partner. Thus, to facilitate human-robot interactions, a robot should be able to read s... |
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"abstract": "Peridynamics is motivated in aid of modeling the problems from continuum mechanics which involve the spontaneous discontinuity forms in the motion of a material system. By replacing differentiation with integration, peridynamic equations remain equally valid both on and off the points where a discontin... | {
"abstract": "This paper studies the Cauchy problem for a one-dimensional nonlinear peridynamic model describing the dynamic response of an infinitely long elastic bar. The issues of local well-posedness and smoothness of the solutions are discussed. The existence of a global solution is proved first in the sublinea... | {
"abstract": "\n In a thin layer of liquid crystal the configuration of the director field depends on the interaction between the elastic properties of the material, the thickness $d$ of the layer, the boundary conditions and the external fields that may have been applied. Suitable combinations of these factors can ... |
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"abstract": "Plant products have been employed in medicine for centuries. As the world becomes more health-conscious, there is a growing interest in natural and minimally processed products for oral health care. This has led to an increase in research into the bioactive compounds found in plant products, particular... | {
"abstract": "Fungal diseases kill more than 1.5 million and affect over a billion people. However, they are still a neglected topic by public health authorities even though most deaths from fungal diseases are avoidable. Serious fungal infections occur as a consequence of other health problems including asthma, AID... | {
"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nCytomegalovirus (CMV) infection remains a major complication after kidney transplantation. Baseline CMV risk is typically determined by the serological presence of preformed CMV-specific immunoglobulin (Ig) G antibodies, even though T-cell responses to major viral antigens are crucial when ... |
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"abstract": "Farmers usually plan the cultivation process based on their previous experiences. Due to the lack of precise knowledge about cultivation, they end up cultivating undesirable crops. To help the farmers take decisions that can make their farming more efficient and profitable, the research tries to establ... | {
"abstract": "crop price analysis, Data mining is emerging as an important research field. In this paper, we will discuss about the applications and techniques of Data mining in agriculture. There are various data mining techniques such as K-Means, K-Nearest Neighbor (KNN), Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) and Suppo... | {
"abstract": "With the formidable growth of various booming wireless communication services that require ever increasing data throughputs, the conventional microwave band below 10 GHz, which is currently used by almost all mobile communication systems, is going to reach its saturation point within just a few years. ... |
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"abstract": "Subgraph queries also known as subgraph isomorphism search is a fundamental problem in querying graph-like structured data. It consists to enumerate the subgraphs of a data graph that match a query graph. This problem arises in many real-world applications related to query processing or pattern recogni... | {
"abstract": "Querying graph data is a fundamental problem that witnesses an increasing interest especially for massive graph databases which come as a promising alternative to relational databases for big data modeling. In this paper, we study the problem of subgraph isomorphism search which consists to enumerate t... | {
"abstract": "Value Iteration is an inefficient algorithm for Markov decision processes (MDPs) because it puts the majority of its effort into backing up the entire state space, which turns out to be unnecessary in many cases. In order to overcome this problem, many approaches have been proposed. Among them, LAO, LR... |
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"abstract": "This paper addresses the problem of matching images and captions in a joint latent space learnt with deep canonical correlation analysis (DCCA). The image and caption data are represented by the outputs of the vision and text based deep neural networks. The high dimensionality of the features presents ... | {
"abstract": "We introduce a model for bidirectional retrieval of images and sentences through a deep, multi-modal embedding of visual and natural language data. Unlike previous models that directly map images or sentences into a common embedding space, our model works on a finer level and embeds fragments of images... | {
"abstract": "Semantic parsing of large-scale 3D point clouds is an important research topic in computer vision and remote sensing fields. Most existing approaches utilize hand-crafted features for each modality independently and combine them in a heuristic manner. They often fail to consider the consistency and com... |
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"abstract": "Background Smoking and passive smoking are collectively the biggest preventable cause of death in Bangladesh, with major public health burden of morbidity, disability, mortality and community costs. The available studies of tobacco use in Bangladesh, however, do not necessarily employ nationally repres... | {
"abstract": "Objectives: To determine the extent of all forms of tobacco usage in adult Bangladeshis in relation to gender and locality. Methods: Three annual urban and rural cross-sectional surveys were carried out between 2001 and 2003 involving a total of 35 446 adults, of whom 54.3% were female and 51.0% were r... | {
"abstract": "One hundred three first-time myocardial infarction (MI) patients were randomly assigned to either an experimental or a control condition. Patients completed a cardiac rehabilitation program during hospitalization ad were interviewed to assess intentions to follow regimen prescriptions, attitudes toward... |
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"abstract": "Both imagery and execution of motor controls consist of interactions within a neuronal network, including frontal motor-related regions and posterior parietal regions. To reveal neural representation in the frontoparietal motor network, two approaches have been proposed thus far: one is decoding of act... | {
"abstract": "Performing a complex sequential finger movement requires the temporally well-ordered organization of individual finger movements. Previous behavioural studies have suggested that the brain prepares a whole sequence of movements as a single set, rather than the movements of individual fingers. However, ... | {
"abstract": "We present an agnostic active learning algorithm for any hypothesis class of bounded VC dimension under arbitrary data distributions. Most previous work on active learning either makes strong distributional assumptions, or else is computationally prohibitive. Our algorithm extends the simple scheme of ... |
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"abstract": "Adenovirus (AdV) capsid organization is considerably complex, not only because of its large size (~950 Å) and triangulation number (pseudo T = 25), but also because it contains four types of minor proteins in specialized locations modulating the quasi-equivalent icosahedral interactions. Up until 2009,... | {
"abstract": "ABSTRACT Human α-defensins are evolutionarily conserved effectors of the innate immune response with broadly acting antibacterial activity. Their role in antiviral immunity is less well understood. We previously showed that these antimicrobial peptides are potent inhibitors of human adenovirus infectio... | {
"abstract": "A problem of synchronizing two nonlinear multidimensional systems with unknown parameters is considered. Two general procedures for adaptive synchronization law design based on speed-gradient method are proposed. Conditions ensuring the synchronization are given. The second procedure is based on passif... |
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"abstract": "The cooling air in a rotating machine is subject to windage as it passes over the rotor surface, particularly for cases where nonaxisymmetric features such as boltheads are encountered. The ability to accurately predict windage can help reduce the quantity of cooling air required, resulting in increase... | {
"abstract": "Abstract This article presents experimental data and an associated correlation for the windage resulting from a disc rotating in air, characteristic of gas turbine engines and relevant to some electrical machine applications. A test rig has been developed that uses an electric motor to drive a smooth b... | {
"abstract": "Experimental data from various sources for the frictional torque of a rotating disk in a stationary housing under the influence of a superimposed radial outflow were correlated.Existing correlations were found to overpredict the frictional torque when the superimposed flow exceeds the pumped flow of th... |
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"abstract": "Abstract Conservation has the potential to negatively impact nearby communities through readily measurable losses, like economic livelihoods, and those less tangible, like cultural identity and a sense of place-based heritage. In this paper, I analyze interviews with residents living in the border zone... | {
"abstract": "Like conservation-induced displacement, human-wildlife conflict (HWC) has potentially negative implications for communities in and around protected areas. While the ways in which displacement emerges from the creation of 'wilderness' conservation landscapes are well documented, how the production of 'w... | {
"abstract": "Semi-structured focus group interviews were employed to examine factors that affect the likelihood that resource managers in southern Africa will use information on vegetation fires provided by two satellite-derived products: an active fire product and a burned area product. The two products are update... |
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"abstract": "UV and ambient light-induced modifications and related degradation of therapeutic proteins are observed during manufacturing and storage. Therefore, to ensure product quality, protein formulations need to be analyzed with respect to photo-degradation processes and eventually protected from light exposu... | {
"abstract": "PurposeLight is known to induce histidine (His) oxidation and His-His crosslinking in proteins. The crosslinking is resulted from the nucleophilic attack of a His to a photooxidized His from another protein. The goal of this work is to understand if covalent buffer adducts on His residues can be genera... | {
"abstract": "In the accompanying paper [Ferraiolo, B. L., Onady, G. M., & Mieyal, J. J. (1984) Biochemistry (preceding paper in this issue)] we reported different aniline hydroxylase activities for ferrihemoglobin, its isolated subunits, and the converse pair of valency hybrids alpha 3+2(beta 2+-CO)2 and (alpha 2+-... |
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"abstract": "What information do people use to categorize scenes? Computational scene classification models have proposed that unlocalized amplitude information, the distribution of spatial frequencies and orientations, is useful for categorizing scenes. Previous research has provided conflicting results regarding ... | {
"abstract": "People can recognize the meaning or gist of a scene from a single glance, and a few recent studies have begun to examine the sorts of information that contribute to scene gist recognition. The authors of the present study used visual masking coupled with image manipulations (randomizing phase while mai... | {
"abstract": "Rigorous solutions are presented of the problem of diffraction of plane electromagnetic waves by an infinitely thin, perfectly conducting infinitely long ribbon and by an infinitely long slit in a plane conducting screen, where the plane of incidence is perpendicular to the edge of the ribbon or slit b... |
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"abstract": "A field experiment was conducted during rabi season of 2006 to 2007 and 2007 to 2008 to study the effect of sowing dates and integrated nutrient management on growth, yield and quality of winter maize. The trial was laid out in split plot design with three replications, assigning total 27 treatment com... | {
"abstract": "Knowledge of crop production in suboptimal environmental conditions not only helps to sustain crop production but also aids in the design of low-input systems. The objective of this study was to evaluate the effects of water stress imposed at low-sensitive growth stages (vegetative, reproductive, and b... | {
"abstract": "BackgroundThe number grain per panicle of rice is an important phenotypic trait and a significant index for variety screening and cultivation management. The methods that are currently used to count the number of grains per panicle are manually conducted, making them labor intensive and time consuming.... |
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"abstract": "\"Functional foods\" as a marketing term was initiated in Japan in the late 1980s and is used to describe foods fortified with ingredients capable of producing health benefits. This concept is becoming increasingly popular with consumers because of a heightened awareness of the link between health, nut... | {
"abstract": "Abstract. The spatial heterogeneity of land surfaces affects energy, moisture, and greenhouse gas exchanges with the atmosphere. However, representing the heterogeneity of terrestrial hydrological and biogeochemical processes in Earth system models (ESMs) remains a critical scientific challenge. We rep... |
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"abstract": "11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 RNA based stable isotope probing (SIP) facilitates the detection and identification of active members of microbial populations that are involved in the assimilation of an isotopically labeled compound. N-RNA-SIP is a new method that has bee... | {
"abstract": "A diazotroph capable of accumulating significant amounts of polyhydroxyalkanoate was isolated in New Zealand from a bioreactor treating nitrogen-deficient pulp and paper-mill effluent. Strain Y88T is Gram-negative, rod-shaped and positive for catalase, nitrate reductase and urease activities. The compl... | {
"abstract": "Lambdoid bacteriophages serve as useful models in microbiological and molecular studies on basic biological process. Moreover, this family of viruses plays an important role in pathogenesis of enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC) strains, as they are carriers of genes coding for Shiga toxins. Effi... |
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"abstract": "People in Sweden have more and more dogs in their care, and several of these dogs are kept in kennels in back yards for various reasons. According to Swedish animal welfare legislations the need for social contact for dogs has to be met. However, there are few details presented on how to meet the need ... | {
"abstract": "a b s t r a c t We have constructed a questionnaire to investigate the separation behavior in a sample of family dogs (Canis familiaris) (N = 45) and in parallel we have observed dogs’ separationrelated behavior in a simple behavioral test (Separation and greeting test, S&G). We recorded the dogs’ beha... | {
"abstract": "Sixty-seven dogs that showed signs of distress when separated from their owners (destructiveness, excessive vocalisation and house soiling) and hyperattachment were used in a randomised, blind trial to assess the potential value of a dog-appeasing pheromone in reducing the unacceptable behaviours. For ... |
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"abstract": "The thesis addresses the following challenging problems of detecting and tracking humans in the presence of occlusions in typical surveillance videos: (1) adaptation of semantic-part-based human detectors to new surveillance video sequence when trained detectors using other video data not performing we... | {
"abstract": "We introduce an online learning approach for multitarget tracking. Detection responses are gradually associated into tracklets in multiple levels to produce final tracks. Unlike most previous approaches which only focus on producing discriminative motion and appearance models for all targets, we furthe... | {
"abstract": "The task of tracking multiple targets is often addressed with the so-called tracking-by-detection paradigm, where the first step is to obtain a set of target hypotheses for each frame independently. Tracking can then be regarded as solving two separate, but tightly coupled problems. The first is to car... |
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"abstract": "Chitosan is used in different forms and with varied objectives, among which the applicability in hydrogel form has been brought out, for treatment of joint and bone diseases and traumas, with or without cell loading...",
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"abstract": "The ability to discover regulatory sequences that control bone-related genes during development has been greatly improved by massively parallel sequencing methodologies. To expand our understanding of cis-regulatory regions critical to the control of gene expression during osteoblastogenesis, we probed... | {
"abstract": "Based on behavioral evidence, the domestic dog has emerged as a promising comparative model of human self-control. However, while research on human inhibition has probed heterogeneity and neuropathology through an integration of neural and behavioral evidence, there are no parallel data exploring the b... |
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"abstract": "In nanooptics, the field of metamaterials (MMs) is emerging. Its focus lies on the effective optical properties of resonant subwavelength metal nanoparticles, which allow for a variety of artificial effects, such as negative refraction, nanofocusing of light or sensing and imaging. This thesis investig... | {
"abstract": "To fully deploy the potential of semiconductor nanocrystal films as low-cost electronic materials, a better understanding of the amount of dopants required to make their conductivity metallic is needed. In bulk semiconductors, the critical concentration of electrons at the metal-insulator transition is... | {
"abstract": "The synthesis of self-assembled semiconductor nanocrystal (NC) superlattices using oriented attachment recently became a flourishing research topic. This technique already produced remarkable forms of NC superlattices, such as linear chains, mono and multilayer square lattices, and silicene-like honeyc... |
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"abstract": "Amylin is a pancreatic β-cell hormone that produces effects in several different organ systems. Here, we review the literature in rodents and in humans on amylin research since its discovery as a hormone about 25 years ago. Amylin is a 37-amino-acid peptide that activates its specific receptors, which ... | {
"abstract": "Peripheral coadministration of amylin and leptin produces enhanced suppression of food intake and body weight, but the central nuclei mediating these effects remain unclear. Because each of these peptides controls feeding via actions at the ventral tegmental area (VTA), we tested the hypothesis that th... | {
"abstract": "Copy number variation is known to be an important component of structural variation in the human genome. Greater than 1 kb in size, these gains and losses of genetic material are known to confer risk to many human diseases, both Mendelian and complex. Therefore, the technologies used to detect copy num... |
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"abstract": "Speech is characterized by phonemes and prosody. Neurocognitive evidence supports the separate processing of each type of information. Therefore, one might suggest individual development of both pathways. In this study, we examine literacy acquisition in middle childhood. Children become aware of the p... | {
"abstract": "It has been demonstrated that written and spoken language processing are tightly linked. Here we focus on the development of this relationship at the time children start reading and writing. We hypothesize that the newly acquired knowledge about graphemes shapes lexical access in neural spoken word rec... | {
"abstract": "Learning and memory formation are essential physiological functions. While quiescent neurons have long been the focus of investigations into the mechanisms of memory formation, there is increasing evidence that spontaneously active neurons also play key roles in this process and possess distinct rules ... |
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"abstract": "Aims: The aim of this study is to present our initial experience with intracorporeal pneumatic ureterolithotripsy highlighting the pattern of patients' clinical presentation, techniques, and limitation of the procedure. Materials and Methods: This is a retrospective study of cases of ureteric stones ma... | {
"abstract": "PURPOSE\nTo compare efficacy and safety of holmium:YAG laser and pneumatic lithotripter in the management of ureteral stones.\n\n\nMATERIALS AND METHODS\nOne hundred and twelve patients with 1 to 2 cm ureteral calculi were selected for pneumatic or holmium:YAG laser transurethral ureterolithotripsy (56... | {
"abstract": "From May 1992 to October 1993, 150 ureteral stones, impervious to piezoelectric extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy (ESWL) with ultrasound localization (EDAP LT.01), were treated with the Lithoclast. The maximum dimensions varied from 5 to 25 mm with a mean of 11 mm. 46 calculi were situated in the p... |
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"abstract": "Objectives: Several studies have demonstrated better speech perception performance in children using two rather than one cochlear implant (CI). The extent to which bilaterally implanted children benefit from binaural cues to segregate speech and noise in a spatial configuration is less clear. Although ... | {
"abstract": "We present sound localization results from 30 children with bilateral cochlear implants. All children received their implants sequentially, at ages from 6 months to 9 years for the first implant and 1.5–12 years for the second implant, with delays of 10 months to 9 years. Localization was measured in t... | {
"abstract": "Objective This study investigated factors contributing to the comprehension and production of English language by children with prelingual deafness after 4 to 7 yr of multichannel cochlear implant use. The analysis controlled for the effects of child and family characteristics so that educational facto... |
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"abstract": "The management of thyroid nodules with indeterminate cytology is challenging. Recently, molecular testing on fine‐needle aspirates (FNAs) has been advocated to determine whether clinical follow‐up or surgery is warranted for patients. Three different testing platforms were performed on aspirates from o... | {
"abstract": "BackgroundOncogenic mutations are common in thyroid cancers. While the frequently detected RAS-oncogene mutations have been studied for diagnostic use in cytologically indeterminate thyroid nodules, no investigation has studied such mutations in an unselected population of thyroid nodules. No long-term... | {
"abstract": "This study outlines the diagnosis stage of 201 Municipal Pharmaceutical Assistance Plans sent to the Directorate of Pharmaceutical Assistance of the State Secretariat for Health of Santa Catarina (DIAF-SES/SC) between November 12, 2005 and July 6, 2006. Multiple Correspondence Analysis was used in conj... |
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"abstract": "In a seminal paper on finding large matchings in sparse random graphs, Karp and Sipser proposed two algorithms for this task. The second algorithm has been intensely studied, but due to technical difficulties, the first algorithm has received less attention. Empirical results by Karp and Sipser suggest... | {
"abstract": "Let Δ ≥ 3 be an integer. Given a fixed z ∈ +Δ such that zΔ > 0, we consider a graph Gz drawn uniformly at random from the collection of graphs with zin vertices of degree i for i = 1,. . .,Δ. We study the performance of the Karp–Sipser algorithm when applied to Gz. If there is an index δ > 1 such that ... | {
"abstract": "The technique of approximating the mean path of Markov chains by differential equations has proved to be a useful tool in analyzing the performance of heuristics on random graph instances. However, only a small family of algorithms can currently be analyzed by this method, due to the need to maintain u... |
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"abstract": "Cucurbit crops, such as pumpkins (Cucurbita pepo) are attacked by a pest complex that threatens production via direct feeding and disease transmission. My goal was to determine if predation and parasitism services of these pests in pumpkins were affected by local habitat management, in the form of flor... | {
"abstract": "ABSTRACT Conservation plantings of native wildflowers were established adjacent to highbush blueberry (Vaccinium corymbosum L.) fields to test the hypothesis that provision of resources for natural enemies increases their abundance in adjacent crop fields without increasing the abundance of pest insect... | {
"abstract": "STUDY OBJECTIVES\nModafinil may promote wakefulness by increasing cerebral dopaminergic neurotransmission, which importantly depends on activity of catechol-O-methyltransferase (COMT) in prefrontal cortex. The effects of modafinil on sleep homeostasis in humans are unknown. Employing a novel sleep-phar... |
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"abstract": "The Internet of Things (IoT) refers to the interconnection of smart devices to collect data and make intelligent decisions. However, a lack of intrinsic security measures makes IoT vulnerable to privacy and security threats. With its “security by design,” Blockchain (BC) can help in addressing major se... | {
"abstract": "Internet of Things (IoT) security and privacy remain a major challenge, mainly due to the massive scale and distributed nature of IoT networks. Blockchain-based approaches provide decentralized security and privacy, yet they involve significant energy, delay, and computational overhead that is not suit... | {
"abstract": "In order to save the memory, we propose a miniaturization method for neural network to reduce the parameter quantity existed in remote sensing (RS) image semantic segmentation model. The compact convolution optimization method is first used for standard U-Net to reduce the weights quantity. With the pu... |
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"abstract": "In this paper, we propose a simple analog network coding (ANC) scheme for asynchronous two-way relay networks where two sources exchange information through the relay nodes. In our proposed scheme, we consider a wireless scenario with frequency selective fading channels. Orthogonal frequency-division m... | {
"abstract": "In this letter we apply the general orthogonal space-time block codes (OSTBC) to MIMO-OFDM systems over frequency-selective fading channels and aim to exploit the potential multipath diversity. By replacing the scalar entry of an OSTBC matrix with the vector of repeated symbols, we obtain a new OSTBC w... | {
"abstract": "This article studies the influences of three different strategies of distributor price promotion, i.e. award-type price promotion, threat-type price promotion and rebate, on manufacturer’s sales performance by empirical research, and analyzes the regulatory effect of promotion strength in the influence... |
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"abstract": "The goal of this thesis is threefold: first, to provide a general semantic setting for reasoning about incremental computation. Second, to establish and clarify the connection between derivatives in the incremental sense and derivatives in the analytic sense, that is to say, to provide a common definit... | {
"abstract": "We define an extension of λ-calculus with linear combinations, endowing the set of terms with a structure of R-module, where R is a fixed set of scalars. Terms are moreover subject to identities similar to usual pointwise definition of linear combinations of functions with values in a vector space. We ... | {
"abstract": "This paper presents a novel lab-on-a-chip type bio-sensing system that is comprised of magnetoelastic (ME) biosensor, planar coil, and microfluidic system. The novelty of this system is to integrate planar coil to wirelessly actuate and detect the ME biosensor. Compared with solenoid coil that is tradi... |
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"abstract": "The purpose of this study was to assess messages posted by mothers of children with type 1 diabetes in the Italian Facebook group “Mamme e diabete” using computerized text analysis. The data suggest that these mothers use online discussion boards as a place to seek and provide information to better man... | {
"abstract": "Adults (n = 25) completed online free text boxes about their self-harming behaviour. Thematic analysis identified three dominant themes: ‘managing the private self’, ‘managing the public self’ and ‘moving on’. Transcending these themes was the notion of thresholds of change. Self-harm enables people to... | {
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"abstract": "In this study, the novel tin-based catalysts (Sn(II)/PN@AC) were prepared using the phosphorus and nitrogen dual-modified activated carbon as support and SnCl2 as active compounds, as well as then evaluated in acetylene hydrochlorination. Under the reaction temperature of 180 °C and an acetylene gas ho... | {
"abstract": "The high cost and scarcity of noble metal catalysts, such as Pt, have hindered the hydrogen production from electrochemical water splitting, the oxygen reduction in fuel cells and batteries. Herein, we developed a simple template-free approach to three-dimensional porous carbon networks codoped with ni... | {
"abstract": "The ability to rapidly detect localised fractures of cortical and/or trabecular bone sustained by the vertebral body would enhance the analysis of vertebral fracture initiation and propagation during dynamic loading. In this study, high rate axial compression tests were performed on twenty sets of thre... |
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"abstract": "Due to the exponential growth of NoSQL databases and in addition the circumstance of perusing humongous volumes of information, maximum applications switch RDBMS to NoSQL and pick it as information stockpiling framework. But we all know that RDBMS have several advantages which make it a popular platfor... | {
"abstract": "With the increasing maturity of NoSQL databases as well as the situation of reading more than writing on large volumes of data, many applications turn to NoSQL and pick it as data storage system. Migrating from SQL database to NoSQL and providing efficient query become growing imperative. However, join... | {
"abstract": "Apache Cassandra is a leading distributed database of choice when it comes to big data management with zero downtime, linear scalability, and seamless multiple data center deployment. With increasingly wider adoption of Cassandra for online transaction processing by hundreds of Web-scale companies, the... |
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"abstract": "There have been many microfluid technologies combined with hanging-drop for cell culture gotten developed in the past decade. A common problem within these devices is that the cell suspension introduced at the central inlet could cause a number of cells in each microwell to not regularize. Also, the in... | {
"abstract": "Background Mesenchymal stromal cells (MSCs) are useful for cell therapy because of their potential for multilineage differentiation. However, MSCs that are expanded in traditional two-dimensional (2D) culture systems eventually lose their differentiation abilities. Therefore, we investigated whether az... | {
"abstract": "OBJECTIVE\nTissue stem cells in dental pulp are assumed to possess differentiation potentials similar to mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs). The aim of this in vitro study is to examine the differentiation potentials of mouse dental pulp stem cells (DPSCs) and develop the appropriate differentiation assay s... |
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"abstract": "A new integrated navigation system designed for small size Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) is presented. The proposed system is based on a number of low-cost avionics sensors, including Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS), Micro-Electro-Mechanical System (MEMS) based Inertial Measurement Unit (I... | {
"abstract": "This paper presents a Fuzzy Control application for a landing task of an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, using the 3D-position estimation based on visual tracking of piecewise planar objects. This application allows the UAV to land on scenarios in which it is only possible to use visual information to obtain ... | {
"abstract": "3 A deterministic construction of the Kalman filter 7 3.1 The quadratic criterion to be minimized in the absence of process control noise and the corresponding solution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 3.2 Iterative expression of the solution . . . . . . . . . .... |
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"abstract": "Calcium can ameliorate Na+ toxicity in plants by decreasing Na+ influx through nonselective cation channels. Here, we show that elevated external [Ca2+] also inhibits Na+-induced K+ efflux through outwardly directed, K+-permeable channels. Noninvasive ion flux measuring and patch-clamp techniques were ... | {
"abstract": "The SOS signal-transduction pathway is known to be important for ion homeostasis and salt tolerance in plants. However, there is a lack of in planta electrophysiological data about how the changes in signalling and ion transport activity are integrated at the cellular and tissue level. In this study, u... | {
"abstract": "Emerging evidence suggests that nicotine may enhance short-term memory. Some of this evidence comes from nonhuman primate research using a procedure called delayed matching-to-sample, wherein the monkey is trained to select a comparison stimulus that matches some physical property of a previously prese... |
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"abstract": "Collusion-free (CF) and collusion-preserving (CP) protocols enrich the standard security offered by multi-party computation (MPC), to tackle settings where subliminal communication is undesirable. However, all existing solutions make arguably unrealistic assumptions on setups, such as physical presence... | {
"abstract": "Existing work on \"rational cryptographic protocols\" treats each party (or coalition of parties) running the protocol as a selfish agent trying to maximize its utility. In this work we propose a fundamentally different approach that is better suited to modeling a protocol under attack from an external... | {
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"score": -1,
"title": "Blockchain Multiparty Computation Markets at Scale"
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"abstract": "Sunlight exposed sterilised aqueous mixture of some inorganic and organic substances showed the photochemical formation of self-sustaining, supramolecular assemblies ‘Jeewanu’. The microscopic observation (Optical, SCM and TEM) showed that they possess an ordered structural configuration. They are capa... | {
"abstract": "Summary The problem of the origin of life was investigated. The precursors of the present-day cells and probable evolutions were considered and procedures used described.",
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"title": "Photochemical formation of self-sustaining coacervates."
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"abstract": "THE role of light in the synthesis of amino-acids and proteins in plants is still not very clear1. Previously it was believed that, in higher plants, synthesis of proteins is confined to the leaves2 and might depend on light. It has been known that proteins are formed in leaves when there is an adequat... |
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"abstract": "Open data initiatives are critical to open government policies which promote transparency, citizen engagement and collaboration. However, they face challenges in realizing their potential benefits through citizens’ active engagement. Despite the sharp rise of social media use by governments or quasi-go... | {
"abstract": "This paper presents a preliminary exploration on the status of open government data worldwide as well as in-depth evaluation of selected open government data portals. Using web content analysis of the open government data portals from 35 countries, this study outlines the progress of open government da... | {
"abstract": "Information Security (IS) is one of the biggest concerns for many organizations. This concern has led many to focus a huge effort into studying different IS areas. One of these critical areas is the human aspect, where investigation of employees' behaviors has emerged as an important topic. In this pap... |
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"abstract": "The separation of benoxacor enantiomers on six commercial chiral columns was investigated by high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) under normal-phase and reversed-phase conditions. The mobile phases included hexane/ethanol, hexane/isopropanol, acetonitrile/water, and methanol/water. The effects... | {
"abstract": "The enantiomeric separation of type I (bifenthrin, BF) and type II (lambda-cyhalothrin, LCT) pyrethroid insecticides on Lux Cellulose-1, Lux Cellulose-3, and Chiralpak IC chiral columns was investigated by reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatography. Methanol/water or acetonitrile/water was u... | {
"abstract": "There is concern that insecticides are able to mimic the action of 17beta-estradiol by interaction with the human estrogen receptor. Pyrethroids are commonly used insecticides and several have been assessed for potential endocrine disrupting activity by various methods. It has been noted that some meta... |
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"abstract": "The study by Leffier, Saul, iuid Cohen' in this issue of the joumal demonstrates how, by iui analysis of spontaneous variability in RR and PR intervals, it is possible to elucidate noninvasively the dual influences of rate-dependent recovery and autonomic activity in AV nodal conduction time. The stati... | {
"abstract": "Atrioventricular Conduction Variability. Introduction: Atrioventricular AV) conduction time varies on a beat‐by‐beat basis in response to the influences of cardiac efferent autonomic activity and rate‐dependent electrical recovery processes. The goals of this study were to distinguish these effects on ... | {
"abstract": "Although prognosis of Takotsubo cardiomyopathy (TTC) is generally thought to be favorable, the initial presentation can be accompanied by various complications, including life-threatening arrhythmias. Previously, the prevalence of ventricular tachycardia (VT), ventricular fibrillation (VF), or",
"cor... |
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"abstract": "Cervical ectopic pregnancy (CEP) is a rare but fatal early pregnancy complication. A rare case of cervical ectopic gestation with rupture of the posterior cervical lip is reported due to the rarity of this presentation and the need to consider it in patients presenting with miscarriages. We present a 1... | {
"abstract": "Cervical ectopic pregnancy (CP) is a rare condition with an incidence of less than 0.1% of all ectopic pregnancies. It is associated with a high morbidity and mortality potential. Timely intervention is required to preserve fertility and avoid the need for a hysterectomy. A case of CP is reported and t... | {
"abstract": "Cervical pregnancy is a rare condition characterized by implantation of a fertilized ovum in the endocervical canal below the internal os level; its incidence is less than 0.1% of all ectopic pregnancies. Although predisposing factors have been described, the cause of cervical pregnancy remains unknown... |
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"abstract": "Two new hetero-trinuclear 3d-4f complexes [Zn2(L)Ho(μ2-OAc)2(OAc)(MeOH)]·CH2Cl2 (1) and [Zn2(L)Er(μ2-OAc)2]OAc (2), derived from a bis(salamo)-based ligand H4L, were synthesized and characterized via elemental analyses, IR, UV–Vis, fluorescence spectra and X-ray crystallography. The X-ray crystal struc... | {
"abstract": "Heterotrinuclear 3d-4f complexes with a naphthalenediol-based acyclic bis(salamo)-type ligand have been synthesized and structurally characterized. Spectral titrations clearly show that the heterotrinuclear complexes [Zn2(L)La(OAc)3] (1), [Zn2(L)Ce(OAc)3] (2) and [Zn2(L)Dy(OAc)3(CH3OH)]·CH2Cl2 (3) are ... | {
"abstract": "A novel, simple, highly selective, and sensitive fluorescence chemosensor for detecting Cd2+ that was constructed from a bis(salamo)-type compound (H4L) with two N2O2 chelating moieties as ionophore was successfully developed. Sensor H4L could show fluorescence turn-on response rapidly and significant ... |
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