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"abstract": "We study the anomalous transport of the cuprate strange metals by exploring a new black hole solution in AdS spacetime with a hyperscaling violating factor via the gauge/gravity duality. We show that both the linear T-dependence resistivity and the quadratic T-dependence inverse Hall angle can be natur... | {
"abstract": "A quantum critical point (QCP) arises when a continuous transition between competing phases occurs at zero temperature. Collective excitations at magnetic QCPs give rise to metallic properties that strongly deviate from the expectations of Landau’s Fermi-liquid description, which is the standard theory... | {
"abstract": "Growth hormone releasing hormone receptor (GHRH-R) mRNA and protein was first localized to the anterior pituitary gland, consequent with the action of its ligand on GH synthesis and release. Subsequent studies found GHRH-R also expressed in the hypothalamus and in systemic tissues including those of th... |
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"abstract": "Hypertension is one of the major risk factors of cardiovascular diseases, but despite a century of clinical and basic research, the discrete etiology of this disease is still not fully understood. The same is true for obesity, which is recognized as a major global epidemic health problem nowadays. Obes... | {
"abstract": "Genetic studies in humans and rodent models should help to identify altered genes important in the development of cardiovascular diseases, such as hypertension. Despite the considerable research effort, it is still difficult to identify all of the genes involved in altered blood pressure regulation the... | {
"abstract": "Qualitative research dominates political science. In the field of international relations (IR), for example, about 70% of scholars primarily employ qualitative methods, compared to 21% favoring formal or quantitative analysis (Jordan et al. 2009). Since nearly all of the latter make secondary use of te... |
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"abstract": "Previous research indicates that social support is beneficial to cancer patients in adjusting to the stress of the disease. Drawing on a qualitative content analysis of 36 semi-structured interviews, this article explores sources and types of social support in Arab-Palestinian women with breast cancer.... | {
"abstract": "Introduction: The populations who survive from breast cancer are growing; nevertheless, they mostly encounter with many cancer related problems in their life, especially after early diagnosis and have to deal with these problems. Except for the disease entity, several socio-cultural factors may affect ... | {
"abstract": "Background: Transvaginal ultrasound is one of the most common means to examine endometrial cavity lesions although its negative results are more valuable. Saline sonohysterography can reduce the number of false negative rates of endometrial lesions diagnoses in Tamoxifen consumers. The Objective of thi... |
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"abstract": "There remains a substantial unmet medical need in the treatment of ocular surface inflammatory disorders, such as moderate to severe dry eye disease (DED) and allergic conjunctivitis (AC). Topical ocular IL-1 inhibition has the potential to treat the signs and symptoms of DED and treat other ocular sur... | {
"abstract": "IMPORTANCE\nThe immunopathogenic mechanisms of dry eye disease (DED), one of the most common ophthalmic conditions, is incompletely understood. Data from this prospective, double-masked, randomized trial demonstrate that targeting interleukin 1 (IL-1) by topical application of an IL-1 antagonist is eff... | {
"abstract": "The pressure on healthcare budgets including laboratory medicine is relentless and the focus on activities and costs remains the dominant funding model of laboratory medicine everywhere. The limitations of this model are well documented and for a decade or more laboratory professions worldwide have sta... |
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"abstract": "Arion vulgaris (syn. A. lusitanicus) is the most destructive pest slug in Europe. The species has been regarded a classic case of an ongoing biological invasion with negative economic and ecological impact in many European countries, but this status has recently been contested. In this study, we assess... | {
"abstract": "Seed dispersal is one of the most important mechanisms shaping biodiversity, and animals are one of the key dispersal vectors. Animal seed dispersal can directly or indirectly be altered by invasive organisms through the establishment of new or the disruption of existing seed dispersal interactions. So... | {
"abstract": "A prompt and accurate assessment of buildings' damage is critical for disaster management and emergency response. With the development of high-resolution synthetic aperture radar (SAR) and deep-learning methods, more efficient damage assessment techniques based on building-units are possible. This pape... |
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"abstract": "\n \n Vast quantities of videos are now being captured at astonishing rates, but the majority of these are not labelled. To cope with such data, we consider the task of content-based activity recognition in videos without any manually labelled examples, also known as zero-shot video recognition. To ach... | {
"abstract": "Automatically recognizing a large number of action categories from videos is of significant importance for video understanding. Most existing works focused on the design of more discriminative feature representation, and have achieved promising results when the positive samples are enough. However, ver... | {
"abstract": "In this paper we consider a version of the zero-shot learning problem where seen class source and target domain data are provided. The goal during test-time is to accurately predict the class label of an unseen target domain instance based on revealed source domain side information (\\eg attributes) fo... |
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"abstract": "Abstract The aim was to compare granulosa cell's (GCs) apoptosis rate with (group A) or without (group B) luteinising hormone (LH) supplementation in poor ovarian responders (PORs) during controlled ovarian stimulation (COS). After oocyte retrieval, the follicular fluid was analysed by cytoflowmetry. P... | {
"abstract": "OBJECTIVE\nTo investigate the presence of programmed cell death in unfertilized oocytes after intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI), assuming that previous apoptotic events could be correlated with the fertilization failure.\n\n\nDESIGN\nComparison of the rate of DNA fragmentation in human oocytes at... | {
"abstract": "BackgroundSome studies have suggested that the suppression of endogenous LH secretion does not seem to affect the majority of patients who are undergoing assisted reproduction and stimulation with recombinant FSH (r-FSH). Other studies have indicated that a group of normogonadotrophic women down-regula... |
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"abstract": "Inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD), comprising Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis (UC), are chronic conditions attributed to an aberrant immune response to luminal triggers. Recently, published work suggests a pathogenic role for bile acids in this context.",
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"abstract": "Background Toll like receptors (TLRs) sense the intestinal microbiota and regulate the innate immune response. A dysregulation of TLRs function participates into intestinal inflammation. Farnesoid X Receptor (FXR) is a nuclear receptor and bile acid sensor highly expressed in entero-hepatic tissues. FX... | {
"abstract": "Background: Bile acids (BAs) are steroid molecules that are synthesized in the liver. In addition to their important role as a surfactant in solubilizing lipids and promoting the absorption of lipids in the gastrointestinal tract, they act as inflammagens. The role of BAs and their receptor farnesoid X... |
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"abstract": "The main principles of the previously constructed photon quantum mechanics allowing one to calculate the probability density of detection of the photon using the its wave function in the coordinate representation both in classical experiments and in experiments with single photons are presented. The th... | {
"abstract": "The main principles of photon quantum mechanics describing its single-particle states by means of the wave function (wave packet) in the coordinate representation are given. The results of modeling of the propagation in space-time of wave packet with a Gaussian distribution of the momentum of a photon ... | {
"abstract": "The method developed in previous works for building the photon wave function in configuration representation is briefly described. The simulation of such function (wave packet) appropriate to femtosecond laser radiation, using the distribution of Gauss of photon momenta in the state of a single laser i... |
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"abstract": "A great deal of experimental evidence suggests that ligands can stabilize different receptor active states that go on to interact with cellular signaling proteins to form a range of different complexes in varying quantities. In pleiotropically linked receptor systems, this leads to selective activation... | {
"abstract": "Morphine is a potent analgesic, yet, like most opioid narcotics, it exerts unwanted side effects such as constipation and respiratory suppression, thereby limiting its clinical utility. Pharmacological approaches taken to preserve the analgesic properties, while eliminating the unwanted side effects, h... | {
"abstract": "Regulators of G protein signaling (RGS) are a family of proteins known to accelerate termination of effector stimulation after G protein receptor activation. RGS9-2, a brain-specific splice variant of the RGS9 gene, is highly enriched in striatum and also expressed at much lower levels in periaqueducta... |
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"abstract": "Extracellular and transmembrane proteins are important for the binding of bacteria to intestinal surfaces and for their interaction with the host. The aim of this study was to identify genes encoding extracellular and transmembrane proteins from the probiotic bacterium Lactobacillus reuteri by construc... | {
"abstract": "We have cloned and sequenced a gene from Lactobacillus reuteri that encodes a 56 kDa protein, which mediates autoaggregation of the bacteria. Using an antiserum raised against extracellular proteins from the pig intestinal isolate L. reuteri 1063, we screened a genomic λ library derived from the same s... | {
"abstract": "The crystal structure of the CooA protein yields potential insight into the general mechanism of allostery within the CAP family of transcriptional regulators.",
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"abstract": "Herbivory can influence ecosystem processes, partly through long-term changes of the plant community compositions, but also more rapidly through the herbivores’ digestive alteration of the organic matter that is cycled through the soil and back to the primary producers. In the Subarctic mountain birch ... | {
"abstract": "Tree mortality from insect infestations can significantly reduce carbon storage in forest soils. In subarctic birch forests ( Betula pubescens ), ecosystem C cycling is largely affected by recurrent outbreaks of defoliating geometrid moths ( Epirrita autumnata , Operophtera brumata) . Here, we show tha... | {
"abstract": "Herbivory can have contrasted impacts on soil microbes and nutrient cycling, which has stimulated the development of conceptual frameworks exploring the links between below- and aboveground processes. The “productivity model” predicts that herbivores stimulate microbial activities and accelerate nutrie... |
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"abstract": "The pyridoxal 5′‐phosphate‐dependent enzymes tyrosine phenol‐lyase and tryptophan indole‐lyase were encapsulated in wet nanoporous silica gels, a powerful method to selectively stabilize tertiary and quaternary protein conformations and to develop bioreactors and biosensors. A comparison of the enzyme ... | {
"abstract": "An efficient method for purification of recombinant tryptophanase from Proteus vulgaris was developed. Catalytic properties of the enzyme in reactions with L-tryptophan and some other substrates as well as competitive inhibition by various amino acids in the reaction with S-o-nitrophenyl-L-cysteine wer... | {
"abstract": "After Chief Justice William Rehnquist failed in his efforts to persuade Congress to reform habeas corpus procedures, a majority of justices on the Rehnquist Court used judicial decisions to reshape habeas procedures in a manner that made it more difficult for convicted offenders to have their cases suc... |
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"abstract": "The prevalence of counterfeit and substandard medicines has been growing rapidly over the past decade, and fast, non-destructive techniques for their detection are urgently needed to counter this trend. In this thesis, both energy-dispersive X-ray diffraction (EDXRD) and pixelated diffraction (“PixD”) ... | {
"abstract": "X-ray powder diffractometric and Raman spectrometric methods were developed for quantitative measurement of the polymorphic forms of famotidine in their mixtures. This study aims to deduce some useful conclusions regarding quantitative polymorph analysis, which could also be utilized in industrial prac... | {
"abstract": "The flocculation kinetics of colloids (fines) on polymer-coated collectors (fibers) was quantified. The variables of interest include shear rate, salt concentration, and polymer chemistry. After an initial deposition on the collector surface, the colloids slowly detach to form a stable suspension. This... |
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"abstract": "A key event in Alzheimer's disease (AD) is age-dependent, brain accumulation of amyloid beta-protein (Abeta) leading to Abeta self-association into neurotoxic oligomers. Previously, we showed that Abeta oligomerization and neurotoxicity could be inhibited by C-terminal fragments (CTFs) of Abeta42. Beca... | {
"abstract": "Some biotechnological inventions involve expensive, sophisticated machines. Others are relatively simple innovations that nevertheless address, and solve difficult problems. Synthesis and purification of highly hydrophobic peptides can be a difficult and challenging task, particularly when these peptid... | {
"abstract": "Alzheimer disease is characterized by the abnormal aggregation of amyloid β peptide into extracellular fibrillar deposits known as amyloid plaques. Soluble oligomers have been observed at early time points preceding fibril formation, and these oligomers have been implicated as the primary pathological ... |
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"abstract": "Use of sutureless bioprostheses for aortic valve replacement has increased in recent years as compared to conventional prostheses, though with the potential issue of paravalvular leak, which requires close follow‐up. We present this case report describing the successful treatment of paravalvular leak i... | {
"abstract": "OBJECTIVES\nAortic valve replacement (AVR) via minimally invasive surgery (MIS) may provide clinical benefits in patients with aortic valve disease. A new class of bioprosthetic valves that enable rapid deployment AVR (RDAVR) may facilitate MIS. We here report the 1-year results of a randomized, multic... | {
"abstract": "OBJECTIVES\nRapid-deployment aortic valve replacement (RD-AVR) potentially reduces procedure times providing excellent haemodynamic results compared to standard tissue aortic valve replacement. However, concerns have been raised regarding higher rates of postoperative pacemaker (PPM) requirement compar... |
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"abstract": "Automatic classification of blog entries is generally treated as a semi-supervised machine learning task, in which the blog entries are automatically assigned to one of a set of pre-defined classes based on the features extracted from their textual content. This paper attempts automatic classification ... | {
"abstract": "Text representation, which is a fundamental and necessary process for text-based intelligent information processing, includes the tasks of determining the index terms for documents and producing the numeric vectors corresponding to the documents. In this paper, multi-word, which is regarded as containi... | {
"abstract": "The mass shooting at Sandy Hook elementary school on December 14, 2012 catalyzed a year of active debate and legislation on gun control in the United States. Social media hosted an active public discussion where people expressed their support and opposition to a variety of issues surrounding gun legisl... |
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"abstract": "Application of hybrid recommendation enables overcoming disadvantages of the basic recommendation methods: demographic, collaborative and content -based. In this paper the two consensus-based hybrid recommendation methods are presented. Then some examples of their implementations to different web-based... | {
"abstract": "An important ingredient in agent-mediated Electronic Commerce is the presence of intelligent mediating agents that assist Electronic Commerce participants (e.g., individual users, other agents, organisations). These mediating agents are in principle autonomous agents that will interact with their envir... | {
"abstract": "The recommendati on systems are wi del y used to support the users to handle the ever increasing data over the internet efficientl y. Recommendation systems appl y machine learning and data mi ning techni ques for filtering unseen information and can predict whether a user woul d like a gi ven resource... |
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"abstract": "The “psychic tonus” model or PTM [1] of hemispheric specialization states that the left hemisphere is a psychic and behavioral activator and that the right hemisphere is an inhibitor. The PTM predicts that the tonus of visual representation ought to manifest hemispheric specialization in the occipital ... | {
"abstract": "Visual pseudohallucinations are reported on in a patient with a left lower quadrantanopia due to a right parietotemporal surgical defect after tumour removal. Besides metamorphopsia, he hallucinated the lower half of human figures which were limited to within the borders of the anopic defect and appear... | {
"abstract": "In this paper, using supply chain operational reference, the reliability evaluation of available relationships in supply chain is investigated. For this purpose, in the first step, the chain under investigation is divided into several stages including first and second suppliers, initial and final custo... |
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"abstract": "Earthworms locomote using traveling waves of segment contraction and expansion, which when symmetric result in straight-line locomotion and when biased result in turning. The mechanics of the soft body permit a large range of possible body shapes which both comply with the environment and contribute to... | {
"abstract": "In order to mimic and better understand the way an earthworm uses its many segments to navigate diverse terrain, this paper describes the design, performance, and sensing capabilities of a new modular soft robotic worm. The robot, Compliant Modular Mesh Worm CMMWorm, utilizes a compliant mesh actuated ... | {
"abstract": "It is a general assumption that pneumatic muscle-type actuators will play an important role in the development of an assistive rehabilitation robotics system. In the last decade, the development of a pneumatic muscle actuated lower-limb leg orthosis has been rather slow compared to other types of actua... |
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"abstract": "Strong changes in the light-dark regime negatively affect the circadian clock, causing circadian stress, which leads to jasmonic acid-dependent cell death in cytokinin-deficient Arabidopsis plants. The circadian clock helps plants measure daylength and adapt to changes in the day-night rhythm. We found... | {
"abstract": "The morning-acting clock factor TIME FOR COFFEE (TIC) was found to work in the jasmonate (JA) hormone pathway through a protein-depletion role at the positive JA regulator MYC2. The Arabidopsis thaliana circadian clock thus allows JA hormone responses to be phased in the morning. Plants are confronted ... | {
"abstract": "With drug resistance threatening our first line antimalarial treatments, novel chemotherapeutics need to be developed. Ionophores have garnered interest as novel antimalarials due to their theorized ability to target unique systems found in the Plasmodium-infected erythrocyte. In this study, during the... |
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"abstract": "Traditionally, pose estimation is considered as a two step problem. First, feature correspondences are determined by direct comparison of image patches, or by associating feature descriptors. In a second step, the relative pose and the coordinates of corresponding points are estimated, most often by mi... | {
"abstract": "For evaluating or training different kinds of vision algorithms, a large amount of precise and reliable data is needed. In this paper we present a system to create extended synthetic sequences of traffic environment scenarios, associated with several types of ground truth data. By integrating vehicle d... | {
"abstract": "Window-based matching such as normalized cross-correlation (NCC) can reliably estimate depth even when the constant brightness assumption is violated in stereo due to imaging noise or different camera gains. However, fixed window methods tend to have poor performance at depth discontinuities and in low... |
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"abstract": "In this paper, a way to build a nanostructured coating on the inner surface of a hollow core fiber (HCF) is presented. This coated HCF is subsequently spliced to two standard multimode fibers (MMF) obtaining an encapsulated all fiber structure that protects the nanocoating from the environment. Using q... | {
"abstract": "Two types of CdTe quantum dots of different sizes (4 and 5 nm) were successfully deposited on optical fibers using the layer-by-layer electrostatic self-assembly method. The sensors showed a linear and reversible variation of the emission wavelength for a temperature range from 30 degC to 100 degC, wit... | {
"abstract": "Bi/Bi2MoO6 composite was prepared via a facile one-step hydrothermal reduction method and its photoelectric property was investigated. During the solvent-controlled reaction process, lysine performed as the reductant to in situ reduce Bi3+ to metallic Bi. XRD, SEM, TEM, HRTEM, XPS and FT-IR were used t... |
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"abstract": "Infrared (IR) sensors are extremely important in missile defense as well as in satellite-based infrared detection systems. Long-range ballistic missile defense for incoming missile acquisition, tracking, and discrimination requires space-based infrared technology. Hence long wavelength and very long wa... | {
"abstract": "The authors report on investigation of type-II InAs/GaSb and InAs/InxGa1−xSb strained layer superlattices (SLSs) for long-wave infrared detection. Growth conditions were optimized to obtain nearly lattice matched (Δa/a∼0.03%) 13 ML InAs/7 ML GaSb SLS nBn detector structure with cutoff wavelength of ∼8.... | {
"abstract": "We demonstrate a promising type of microfabricated accelerometer that is based on the optical interferometer. The interferometer consists of surface-micromachined interdigital fingers that are alternately attached to a proof mass and support substrate. Illuminating the fingers with coherent light gener... |
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"abstract": "The system outage probability induced by polarization mode dispersion (PMD) and polarization dependent loss (PDL) is studied by Monte Carlo simulations using a new waveplate model. The previous waveplate model gives zero PMD and PDL probability densities when PMD and PDL exceed certain values, while ou... | {
"abstract": "The impact of chromatic dispersion on the system limitation due to polarization mode dispersion (PMD) is investigated through Monte Carlo simulations. The waveplate model is used to realistically simulate the variation of PMD with frequency. It is shown that the effects of higher order PMD are compound... | {
"abstract": "We study the domain structure in ferroelectric thin films with a \"passive\" (nonferroelectric) layer at the interface between the film and electrodes. An abrupt transition from a monodomain to a polydomain state has been found with the increase of the passive layer thickness d. The domain width change... |
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"abstract": "Objective. To characterize the ultrasound (US) pattern of joint involvement in primary Sjögren's syndrome (pSS). Methods. Seventeen patients with pSS, 18 with secondary Sjögren's syndrome (sSS), and 17 healthy controls underwent US examinations of various articular regions. Synovitis (synovial hypertro... | {
"abstract": "Objectives. To assess interreader agreements and a learning curve between three (senior, junior, and beginner) different experienced musculoskeletal ultrasonographers. Senior served as the imaging “gold standard”. Methods. Clinically dominant joints (finger, shoulder, knee, tibiotalar, and talonavicula... | {
"abstract": "Shoulder-related symptoms are very common in rheumatic diseases. For the evaluation of the diagnosis as well as for therapy and prognosis, an anatomic assignment is essential. Clinical investigations alone are often not capable to do this. Ultrasonography is a method to delineate bony surfaces as well ... |
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"abstract": "This study examines the expansion process of women's magazines in China, particularly over the past few decades. From 1921 to 1976 only a few women's magazines were available in China and all were owned and published by the government. However, since the late 1980s, there has been a proliferation of wo... | {
"abstract": "Prior to 1979, China was relatively isolated from the world. Since then, political and economic developments in China have been profound. Limited experiments in free market reforms catapulted China from the position as one of the world's poorest nations in 1978 to the world's 10th largest economy today... | {
"abstract": "Content analysis was used to examine cultural values that were manifested in advertising in Taiwan from 1981 to 1990. During this period, the study shows, time perspectives, Western orientation and hard-sell appeals became increasingly emphasized in Taiwan's advertisements. The study also reveals a sha... |
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"abstract": "Physically based modeling is a novel theory for 3D printing, it can use a single material to control the physical properties, such as center of mass, total mass and moment of inertia. In this paper, we present a density variable shape modeling method to meet the required strength of 3D printed objects.... | {
"abstract": "We propose a novel cross-sectional structural analysis technique that efficiently detects critical stress inside a 3D object. We slice the object into cross-sections and compute stress based on bending momentum equilibrium. Unlike traditional approaches based on finite element methods, our method does ... | {
"abstract": "We present a computational tool for fabrication-oriented design of flexible rod meshes. Given a deformable surface and a set of deformed poses as input, our method automatically computes a printable rod mesh that, once manufactured, closely matches the input poses under the same boundary conditions. Th... |
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"abstract": "The measurement of minimal residual disease (MRD) in pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) has become the most important prognostic tool of, and the backbone to, upfront risk stratification. While MRD assessment is the standard of care for assessing response and predicting outcomes for pediatric... | {
"abstract": "Purpose: High-throughput sequencing (HTS) of immunoglobulin heavy-chain genes (IGH) in unselected clinical samples for minimal residual disease (MRD) in B lymphoblastic leukemia (B-ALL) has not been tested. As current MRD-detecting methods such as flow cytometry or patient-specific qPCR are complex or ... | {
"abstract": "Summary: Purpose: Epilepsy is one of the main features of Menkes disease (MD), although it is not described in depth. To determine the spectrum of epilepsy, we studied its main characteristics.",
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"title": "Epilepsy in Menkes Disease: Analysis of Clinical Stage... |
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"abstract": "Asthma is a dynamic disorder of airway inflammation and airway remodeling with an imbalance in T helper type 1 (Th(1))/Th(2) immune response. Increased Th(2) cytokines such as IL-4 and IL-13 induce arginase either directly or indirectly through transforming growth factor-beta(1) (TGF-beta(1)) and lead ... | {
"abstract": "We investigated the functional effects of epidermal growth factor (EGF) on guinea pig airways in vitro. EGF (3 ng/ml to 1 microgram/ml) induced a concentration-dependent contraction in epithelium-denuded strips. The average maximal contraction was 0.64 +/- 0.1 g (mean +/- S.E., for n = 27), which was 7... | {
"abstract": "The paper describes the intrinsic UV fluorescence of bacteriorhodopsin in some detail and determines the changes during the rapid cyclic reaction following light flashes. The results suggest that several tryptophan residues are affected in the protein, among them one or more exposed to aqueous medium. ... |
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"abstract": "The response surface methodology (RSM) involving central composite design (CCD) was employed to optimize the fermentation medium for the cell growth and schizophllan production by Schizophyllum commune CGMCC 5.113 in submerged culture at pH 6.5 and 26°C. The four variables involved in this study were g... | {
"abstract": "Schizophyllum commune strain ATCC 38548 grew well on a medium containing alkaline H2O2-pretreated corn fiber as a sole carbon source, and clarified the culture medium within 7 days. The strain preferentially utilized the starch component of corn fiber for growth and production of schizophyllan. Culture... | {
"abstract": "In this study Schizophyllum commune ISTL04 was grown on Leucaena leucocephala wood (LLW) for secretome analysis and schizophyllan production. There is no report on extracellular protein profile and schizophyllan production on woody biomass by this fungus under submerged fermentation conditions. Leucaen... |
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"abstract": "A novel labeling strategy is applied to cholera toxin subunit A1 in the context of a pre-assembled holotoxin allowing tracking of its intracellular trafficking pathway and identification of host proteins involved in cell intoxication.",
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"title": "Identification of host cell f... | {
"abstract": "Vibrio cholerae and Escherichia coli heat labile toxins (CT and LT) elicit a secretory response from intestinal epithelia by binding apical receptors (ganglioside GM1) and subsequently activating basolateral effectors (adenylate cyclase). We have recently proposed that signal transduction in polarized ... | {
"abstract": "In the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the carboxyl terminal sequence His-Asp-Glu-Leu (HDEL) has been shown to function as an ER retention sequence (Pelham, H. R. B., K. G. Hardwick, and M. J. Lewis. 1988. EMBO (Eur. Mol. Biol. Organ.) J. 7:1757-1762). To examine the mechanism of retention of soluble E... |
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"abstract": "Increased adaptability of RNN language models leads to improved predictions that benefit many applications. However, current methods do not take full advantage of the RNN structure. We show that the most widely-used approach to adaptation (concatenating the context with the word embedding at the input ... | {
"abstract": "This paper studied generating natural languages at particular contexts or situations. We proposed two novel approaches which encode the contexts into a continuous semantic representation and then decode the semantic representation into text sequences with recurrent neural networks. During decoding, the... | {
"abstract": "Photography has been striving to capture an ever increasing amount of visual information in a single image. Digital sensors, however, are limited to recording a small subset of the desired information at each pixel. A common approach to overcoming the limitations of sensing hardware is the optical mult... |
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"abstract": "The purpose of this article is to focus on an additional counselling tool that complements the genogram and that will enable counsellors to successfully utilise the time spent during a counselling session. The article sets forth the thoughts of socialisation as well as various social components that in... | {
"abstract": "Bakhtin's (1973) polyphonic novel serves as a metaphor for a dialogical conception of the self. In line with this metaphor, it is argued that a narrative approach leads to a multivoiced conception of the self, in which the poles of a personal construct are related as opposing characters positioned in a... | {
"abstract": "Introducing a new hobby for other people may inspire them to join with you. Reading, as one of mutual hobby, is considered as the very easy hobby to do. But, many people are not interested in this hobby. Why? Boring is the reason of why. However, this feel actually can deal with the book and time of yo... |
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"abstract": "Innervation zone (IZ) has been identified as the origin of action potential propagation in isometric contraction. However, IZ shifts with changes in muscle length during muscle activity. The IZ shift has been estimated using raw EMG signals. This study aimed to investigate the movement of IZ location d... | {
"abstract": "Summary Background As reported in our previous studies, the complexity of physiologic time series is a sensitive measure of muscle fatigability. This study compared the differences between 2 different analyses following 4 weeks of core stability exercises (CSE) in subjects with and without chronic low ... | {
"abstract": "During the summer, 1976, all parents whose babies were admitted to intensive care nurseries in Vermont or New Hampshire between January 1, 1975, and June 30, 1976, were mailed questionnaires. The instrument was designed to obtain opinions about care that their child received under a regional perinatal ... |
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"abstract": "Thyroid cancer (TC) is the most common endocrine malignancy. Recent progress in thyroid cancer biology revealed a certain degree of intratumoral heterogeneity, highlighting the coexistence of cellular subpopulations with distinct proliferative capacities and differentiation abilities. Among those subpo... | {
"abstract": "BackgroundThe differential diagnosis of follicular thyroid carcinoma (FTC) and follicular adenoma (FA) before surgery is a clinical challenge. Many efforts have been made but most focusing on tumor cells, while the roles of tumor associated macrophages (TAMs) remained unclear in FTC. Here we analyzed t... | {
"abstract": "Background: Date‐palm (Phoenix dactylifera L.) fruits are eaten daily by most inhabitants of the Middle East and the neighboring countries. Recent reports have indicated that dates are allergenic. This study aimed to investigate the antigenic and allergenic potential of date fruits.",
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"abstract": "Prior Publication History 3rd Edition: November 2005 Revision/Update, Addiction Treatment Forum Special Report, see ATForum.com. Researcher/Writer: Stewart B. Leavitt, PhD, Editor, Addiction Treatment Forum Medical Reviewers: R. Douglas Bruce, MD, MA; Yale AIDS Program, Yale University School of Medici... | {
"abstract": "Human immunodeficiency virus 1 (HIV-1) protease inhibitors have dramatically reduced the morbidity and mortality due to HIV-1 infection. However, most of these antiretrovirals are also potent inhibitors (and occasionally inducers) of hepatic and intestinal cytochrome P450 systems and, therefore, have t... | {
"abstract": "The conventional chemotherapeutics could not be traced in vivo and provide timely feedback on the clinical effectiveness of drugs. In this study, poly(L-γ-glutamyl-glutamine)-paclitaxel (PGG-PTX), as a model polymer, was chemically conjugated with Gd-DTPA (Gd-diethylenetriaminepentaacetic acid), a T1-c... |
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"abstract": "We study the policy evaluation problem in multiagent reinforcement learning. In this problem, a group of agents work cooperatively to evaluate the value function for the global discounted accumulative reward problem, which is composed of local rewards observed by the agents. Over a series of time steps... | {
"abstract": "We propose a variant of temporal-difference learning that approximates average and differential costs of an irreducible aperiodic Markov chain. Approximations are comprised of linear combinations of fixed basis functions whose weights are incrementally updated during a single endless trajectory of the ... | {
"abstract": "Omnidirectional wireless power transfer (WPT) system has been studied recently due to its better user experience compared with directional WPT system. And this paper focus on resonant converter topologies study in omnidirectional WPT system. At first, three challenges of resonant converter design are i... |
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"abstract": "Kun-Rok Jeon,1,2,* Chiara Ciccarelli,2 Hidekazu Kurebayashi,3 Jöerg Wunderlich,4,5 Lesley F. Cohen,6 Sachio Komori,1 Jason W. A. Robinson,1 and Mark G. Blamire1 1Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge, 27 Charles Babbage Road, Cambridge CB3 0FS, United Kingdom 2Cavendis... | {
"abstract": "In some materials the competition between superconductivity and magnetism brings about a variety of unique phenomena such as the coexistence of superconductivity and magnetism in heavy-fermion superconductors or spin-triplet supercurrent in ferromagnetic Josephson junctions. Recent observations of spin... | {
"abstract": "1. Introduction: Gender is a Development Issue 2. Demography and Migration 3. Reproduction 4. Gender, Health and Violence 5. Gender and Environment 6. Gender in Rural Areas 7. Gender and Urbanization 8. Globalization and Changing Patterns of Economic Activity 9. How Far Have We Come?",
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"abstract": "International commodity agreements (ICAs) fit uneasily in a world in which markets are becoming globalized and increasingly competitive. Development policy - both as preached by international agencies and as practiced by typically democratically elected and nonsocialist governments in the major produci... | {
"abstract": "Abstract International collaboration between tin producers has existed for over 20 years. Although normally considered moderately successful, there is some evidence that these agreements have lasted largely because of their relative ineffectiveness. The author looks at the ecpnomic basis of the tin agr... | {
"abstract": "Proponents of the analytic-synthetic distinction claim that we cannot give up basic analytic principles without changing the meaning of our words. This presupposes a real distinction between changing our view and only appearing to change it by changing the meaning of words used to state it. But the dis... |
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"abstract": "Lower back pain (LBP) occurs in 80% of adults in their lifetime; resulting in LBP being one of the biggest causes of disability worldwide. Chronic LBP has been linked to the degeneration of the intervertebral disc (IVD). The current treatments for chronic back pain only provide alleviation of symptoms ... | {
"abstract": "Intervertebral disc (IVD) degeneration is characterized by significant biochemical and histomorphological alterations, such as loss of extracellular matrix (ECM) integrity, by abnormal synthesis of ECM main components, resultant from altered anabolic/catabolic cell activities and cell death. Mesenchyma... | {
"abstract": "Dysfunction of cartilaginous endplates (CEP) is an important etiologic aspect of intervertebral disc degeneration (IDD) because the endplate has nutritional and biomechanical functions in maintaining proper disc health. In this study, we investigated the regulatory effects of estrogen on degenerated hu... |
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"abstract": "The extracellular matrix (ECM) guides and constrains the shape of the nervous system. In C. elegans, DIG-1 is a giant ECM component that is required for fasciculation of sensory dendrites during development and for maintenance of axon positions throughout life. We identified four novel alleles of dig-1... | {
"abstract": "Dedicated mechanisms exist to maintain the architecture of an animal's nervous system after development is completed. To date, three immunoglobulin superfamily members have been implicated in this process in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans: the secreted two-Ig domain protein ZIG-4, the FGF receptor... | {
"abstract": "Laminins are heterotrimeric (alpha/beta/gamma) glycoproteins that form a major polymer within basement membranes. Different alpha, beta and gamma subunits can assemble into various laminin isoforms that have different, but often overlapping, distributions and functions. In this study, we examine the co... |
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"abstract": "Background: Patients with second-degree lumbar osteochondrosis are observed to pay more attention to their health, have higher levels of anxiety, and a lower degree of life satisfaction. Daily wearing of therapeutic-prophylactic clothes by the subjects was applied for correction of osteochondrosis sign... | {
"abstract": "This investigation was designed to unravel gene networks in Kashin–Beck disease (KBD) and better identify target genes of KBD for gene therapy development. RNA was isolated separately from cartilage and peripheral blood samples of patients with KBD and healthy controls. Agilent 44K human whole‐genome o... | {
"abstract": "The adhesion to mesothelial monolayers of eight cultured ovarian tumour cell lines was studied in multiwell plates as a model for some of the interactions of ovarian cancer in the peritoneal cavity. When only the upper half of the conditioned medium (CM) from a confluent mesothelial cell culture was as... |
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"abstract": "\n \n Curriculum Learning (CL) mimics the cognitive process ofhumans and favors a learning algorithm to follow the logical learning sequence from simple examples to more difficult ones. Recent studies show that selecting the simplest curriculum examples from different modalities for graph-based label p... | {
"abstract": "Multi-label propagation aims to transmit the multi-label information from labeled examples to unlabeled examples based on a weighted graph. Existing methods ignore the specific propagation difficulty of different unlabeled examples and conduct the propagation in an imperfect sequence, leading to the er... | {
"abstract": "Modern embedding methods focus only on the words in the text. The word or sentence embeddings are trained to represent the semantic meaning of the raw texts. However, many quantified attributes associated with the text, such as numeric attributes associated with Yelp review text, are ignored in the vec... |
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"abstract": "This paper presents a survey of fault-masking techniques suitable for tolerating short-duration transient upsets in minimum-scale switching devices. Two types of fault masking are considered. The first type, coded dual-modular redundancy (cDMR), represents a family of parity-checking methods suitable fo... | {
"abstract": "One of the proposed techniques for meeting the severe reliability requirements inherent in certain future computer applications is described. This technique involves the use of triple-modular redundancy, which is essentially the use of the two-out-of-three votingc oncept at a low level. Effects of impe... | {
"abstract": "Flow over a bluff body has been a topic of extensive investigation, due to a variety of engineering problems such as vortex induced vibrations, unsteady forces and noise associated with the periodic flow in the wake. The effect of random and Gaussian noise forcing on the control and suppression of peri... |
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"abstract": "The Secret Unknown Cipher (SUC) concept was introduced a decade ago as a promising technique for creating pure digital clone-resistant electronic units as alternatives to the traditional non-consistent Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs). In this work, a very special unconventional cipher design is pr... | {
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"abstract": "Key storage is a well-known security issue. Usually, keys are generated and then stored in an non-volatile memory (NVM). A promising alternative are the so-called physical unclonable functions (PUFs). These functions extract key material directly from manufacturing variabilities of a device. One exampl... |
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"abstract": "Stigma—the process by which people become socially discredited because they hold a characteristic that is classified as unacceptable or undesirable—has barely been considered in biocultural analyses. Yet, it provides an acute point of articulation for evolutionary and political‐economic perspectives on... | {
"abstract": "Human psychology is characterized by a motivational system (the “behavioral immune system”) that appears to have evolved as a means of providing prophylactic protection against pathogen infection. This chapter provides an overview of research on the behavioral immune system, describing why it evolved, ... | {
"abstract": "Results from 2 experimental studies suggest that self-protection and mate-search goals lead to the perception of functionally relevant emotional expressions in goal-relevant social targets. Activating a self-protection goal led participants to perceive greater anger in Black male faces (Study 1) and Ar... |
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"abstract": "The research interest in topics related to production and supply chain planning and control in engineer-to-order (ETO) environments has grown significantly over the last three decades. One of the strategically important and challenging decision areas for planning and control in ETO environments is esti... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Due date setting is a difficult task for make-to-order companies and requires efficient capacity and lead time management. In the job-shop literature, production planning for make-to-order companies is tackled by using shop floor scheduling algorithms coupled with simulation. However, capacity... | {
"abstract": "This study addresses production planning in a multi-product, multi-machine environment. The products manufactured are high precision metal tubes. The production process consists of three major operations: pilgering, pickling/cleaning, and annealing. These three operations are repeated four to five time... |
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"abstract": "Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) have experienced major advances in the past few years. The main objective of ADAS includes keeping the vehicle in the correct road direction, and avoiding collision with other vehicles or obstacles around. In this paper, we address the problem of estimating the... | {
"abstract": "High-resolution satellite imagery has been increasingly used on remote sensing classification problems. One of the main factors is the availability of this kind of data. Despite the high availability, very little effort has been placed on the zebra crossing classification problem. In this letter, crowd... | {
"abstract": "Displacement mapping is widely recognized as a very useful technique for adding visual detail to low-resolution geometry using simple texture maps. Major investigations have been made to apply displacement maps in real-time rendering. Recently, different approaches using ray-casting on programmable gra... |
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"abstract": "Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a frequently observed, irreversible brain function disorder among elderly individuals. Resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rs-fMRI) has been introduced as an alternative approach to assessing brain functional abnormalities in AD patients. However, alteration... | {
"abstract": "Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is a neurological condition that is often the early stage of Alzheimer's disease (AD). This pilot study explores event-related multiscale entropy (MSE) measures as features for effectively discriminating between normal aging, MCI, and AD participants. Thirty two-channel ... | {
"abstract": "Although indoor air pollution (IAP) from solid fuel use in the households of the developing countries is estimated to be one of the main health risks worldwide, there is little knowledge of the actual exposure experienced by large populations. We have developed a method to estimate exposure to PM(10) f... |
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"abstract": "Air pollution is a significant contributor to cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. including intracranial hemorrhage (ICH). However, associations between air pollution, various pollutants, and ICH are complex and remain poorly understood. Limited data are available on the relationship between I... | {
"abstract": "Inconsistent results have been obtained from studies that have examined the relationship between air pollution and hospital visits for stroke. We undertook a time-stratified case-crossover study to evaluate associations between outdoor air pollution and emergency department visits for stroke among the ... | {
"abstract": "Internal cycling of chemical elements is a fundamental aspect of a Controlled Ecological Life Support System (CELSS). Mathematical models are useful tools for evaluating fluxes and reservoirs of elements associated with potential CELSS configurations. A simple mass balance model of carbon flow in CELSS... |
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"abstract": "In order to investigate the elastic behavior of knotted loops of springy wire, we minimize the classic bending energy regularized by ropelength, i.e., the quotient of length over thickness, in order to penalize self-intersection. Our main objective is to characterize the limit configurations of energy ... | {
"abstract": "Entanglement is essential to the function of many physical systems. Flexibility and length determine the extent to which the system can become entangled. Given a perfectly flexible unit-radius tube, several researchers have studied the minimum length needed to tie different types of knots. Can one obta... | {
"abstract": "As part of EPRI Project RP 1288-1 methods have been developed for applying finite element techniques in developing large generator equivalent circuit models. In earlier work, non-steady-state effects have been handled on a linearized basis, invoking the assumption of small signals. This paper describes... |
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"abstract": "Ian Steedman (Consumption Takes Time: Implications for Economic Theory, Routledge, London, 2001) has shown, among other things, that when a household chooses amounts of time to allocate to competing consumption activities subject to both a money income constraint and a time constraint, at least two con... | {
"abstract": "Gilley and Karels [1991] argue that economists should search for Giffen goods in cases where two or three goods are chosen subject to two constraints. This paper reconsiders their three-good model. With a third good added, traditional comparative statics analysis, which is absent from the simpler model... | {
"abstract": "It has long been known that the axioms of consumer theory do not rule out upward sloping demand curves so long as the secondorder conditions are expressed solely by a sign convention on the bordered Hessian determinant. Only bordered principal minors have determinate signs, so any expression involving ... |
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"abstract": "For over 60 years a suite of field tests has provided paleomagnetists with a means to evaluate the timing of magnetic remanence acquisition and subsequent remanence stability. These tests are crucial for detecting potential overprinting by secondary remanences and for assessing the fidelity of the geol... | {
"abstract": "Palaeopoles from the Keweenawan (1,200–1,000 Myr) rocks of the Lake Superior region form the western and eastern arms of the ‘Great Logan Palaeomagnetic Loop’1,5 (Fig. 1a). This is defined by both normal (N) and reversed (R) poles which are the consequence of at least two geomagnetic reversals4,6,7. Th... | {
"abstract": "The precautionary principle has provoked a spirited debate among environmentalists worldwide, but it is equally relevant to public health and shares much with primary prevention. Its central components are (1) taking preventive action in the face of uncertainty; (2) shifting the burden of proof to the ... |
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"abstract": "During the development of an individual from a single cell to prenatal stages to adolescence to adulthood and through the complete life span, humans are exposed to countless environmental and stochastic factors, including estrogenic endocrine disrupting chemicals. Brain cells and neural circuits are li... | {
"abstract": "In Alzheimer's disease (AD), synaptic alterations play a major role and are often correlated with cognitive changes. In order to better understand synaptic modifications, we compared alterations in NMDA receptors and postsynaptic protein PSD-95 expression in the entorhinal cortex (EC) and frontal corte... | {
"abstract": "The effects of N-methyl-D-aspartate NMDA receptor antagonists on scopolamine-induced amnesia and on delay-interposed short-term memory performance were investigated using an 8-arm radial maze in rats. Scopolamine, a muscarinic antagonist, deteriorated the radial maze performance, while MK-801, an NMDA ... |
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"title": "Life -history traits, pace- of-life and dispersal among and 1 within five species of Trichogramma wasps: a comparative 2 analysis"
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"abstract": "Abstract Effects of egg retention on movement and dispersal activity of Trichogramma principium (Hymenoptera, Trichogrammatidae) females were investigated under laboratory conditions. Individual females were observed during one minute in the absence of hosts. Movement activity and dispersal rate were e... | {
"abstract": "ABSTRACT. Effects of egg availability on daily ovipositional activity were determined for Coccophagus atratus Compere (Hymenoptera: Aphelinidae). Females were observed for 6 h per day for their entire adult lives. Observed ovipositional activity was analysed in relation to egg maturation before and aft... |
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"abstract": "Heart sound analysis has been a major topic of research during the past few decades. However, necessity for a large reliable and database has been a major concern in these studies. Noting that the current heart sound classification methods do not work properly for noisy signals, the PhysioNet/CinC Chal... | {
"abstract": "In the past few decades heart sound signals (i.e., phono-cardiograms or PCGs) have been widely studied. Automated heart sound segmentation and classification techniques have the potential to screen for pathologies in a variety of clinical applications. However, comparative analyses of algorithms in the... | {
"abstract": "Heart sound analysis has been a major topic of research over the past few decades. However, the necessity for a large and reliable database has been a major concern in these studies. ::: ::: ::: OBJECTIVE ::: Noting that the current heart sound classification methods do not work properly for noisy sign... |
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"abstract": "As the size and complexity of high performance computing (HPC) systems grow in line with advancements in hardware and software technology, HPC systems increasingly suffer from performance variations due to shared resource contention as well as software- and hardware-related problems. Such performance v... | {
"abstract": "With the growing complexity and scale of high performance computing (HPC) systems, application performance variation has become a significant challenge in efficient and resilient system management. Application performance variation can be caused by resource contention as well as software- and firmware-... | {
"abstract": "AbstractSpinal and bulbar muscular atrophy (SBMA), Kennedy's disease, is an adult-onset hereditary neurodegenerative disorder, associated predominantly with a lower motor neuron syndrome and eventually endocrine and sensory disturbances. In contrast to other motor neuron diseases such as amyotrophic la... |
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"abstract": "The share frequent patterns mining is more practical than the traditional frequent patternset mining because it can reflect useful knowledge such as total costs and profits of patterns. Mining share-frequent patterns becomes one of the most important research issue in the data mining. However, previous... | {
"abstract": "The value of the itemset share is one way of evaluating the magnitude of an itemset. From business perspective, itemset share values reflect more the significance of itemsets for mining association rules in a database. The Share-counted FSM (ShFSM) algorithm is one of the best algorithms which can disc... | {
"abstract": "In this demonstration, we present the MAMView framework for exploring and understanding metric trees. Users and developers of metric trees can use the MAMView framework to visually explore operations and data indexed in metric trees. Understanding how these structures operate and organize the indexed d... |
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"abstract": "An experiment consisting of five blocks was conducted to examine the effect of extra-oral facial information on audiovisual speech perception. Twenty Chinese native speakers were asked to report the syllables they perceived in different conditions: audio-only, video-only, video-only without oral part, ... | {
"abstract": "McGurk and MacDonald ( Nature 264 , 746-748, 1976) discovered that when a discrepancy is created between visual information from lip movements and speech information from the auditory channel then perceivers often report a percept that is neither the auditory or visual stimulus, an illusory response. T... | {
"abstract": "In this paper, vocal tract and orofacial motions are measured during speech production in order to demonstrate that vocal tract motion can be used to estimate its orofacial counterpart. The inversion, i.e. vocal tract behavior estimation from orofacial motion, is also possible, but to a smaller extent.... |
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"abstract": "LIU, XIN. Extraction and Anti-Bacterial Effects of Edible Brown Algae Extracts. (Under the direction of Dr. Wenqiao Yuan). The desire to obtain natural phytochemicals with promising bioactivity and few or no side effects has been the motivation for investigating extraction processes for plants. These b... | {
"abstract": "To prevent the postharvest disease of Chinese cabbage and lettuce, hexanal was used as a control measure to inhibit N-acyl homoserine lactone (AHL) production and extracellular enzymes regulated by quorum-sensing (QS) in their main spoilage strains of Erwinia carotovora and Pseudomonas fluorescens. Fir... | {
"abstract": "Quorum sensing (QS) is a population-dependent mechanism for bacteria to synchronize social behaviors such as secretion of virulence factors. The enzymatic interruption of QS, termed quorum quenching (QQ), has been suggested as a promising alternative anti-virulence approach. In order to efficiently ide... |
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"abstract": "In vertebrate hosts, malaria parasites face a tradeoff between replicating and the production of transmission stages that can be passed onto mosquitoes. This tradeoff is analogous to growth‐reproduction tradeoffs in multicellular organisms. We use a mathematical model tailored to the life cycle and dyn... | {
"abstract": "For vector-borne parasites such as malaria, how withinand between-host processes interact to shape transmission is poorly understood. In the host, malaria parasites replicate asexually but for transmission to occur, specialized sexual stages (gametocytes) must be produced. Despite the central role that... | {
"abstract": "Summary Sleeping sickness is characterized by waves of the extracellular parasite Trypanosoma brucei in host blood, with infections continuing for months or years until inevitable host death. These waves reflect the dynamic conflict between the outgrowth of a succession of parasite antigenic variants a... |
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"abstract": "MicroRNAs are powerful regulators of gene expression in physiological and pathological conditions. We previously showed that the dysregulation of miR-384 resulted in a T helper cell 17 (Th17) imbalance and contributed to the pathogenesis of experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis, an animal model of ... | {
"abstract": "Specific miRNAs are involved in the pathogenesis of multiple sclerosis (MS), during which IL-17-producing CD4+ T helper (Th17) cells accumulate in the central nervous system (CNS). In this study, we identified levels of miR-384 as significantly increased in mice with experimental autoimmune encephalomy... | {
"abstract": "Molecular mechanisms regulating transforming growth factor-β (TGF-β) induction of Foxp3 (forkhead box P3) expression and thus induction of induced regulatory T cells (Tregs) have been the focus of a great deal of study in recent years. It has become clear that this process is influenced by a number of ... |
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"abstract": "Aalto University, P.O. Box 11000, FI-00076 Aalto www.aalto.fi Author Sirpa Riihiaho Name of the doctoral dissertation Experiences with usability testing: Effects of thinking aloud and moderator presence Publisher School of Science Unit Department of Computer Science Series Aalto University publication ... | {
"abstract": "Research problem: The study explored think-aloud methods usage within usability testing by examining the following questions: How, and why is the think-aloud method used? What is the gap between theory and practice? Where does this gap occur? Literature review: The review informed the survey design. Us... | {
"abstract": "Whether you are a professional new to the user-centered design field, or an experienced designer who needs to learn the fundamentals of user interface design and evaluation, this book can lead the way. ::: What will you get from this book? Based on a course from the Open University, UK which has been t... |
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"abstract": "\n Background: Since the launch of mobile phones three decade ago, the latter have been used to support healthcare systems through various mobile health (m-health) applications. In recent years, multiple mobile phone-based health projects and applications have emerged. Despite the great enthusiasm arou... | {
"abstract": "After three decades of mobile phone diffusion, thousands of mobile-phone-based health projects worldwide (“mHealth”), and hundreds of thousands of smartphone health applications, fundamental questions about the effect of phone diffusion on people’s healthcare behavior continue to remain unanswered. Thi... | {
"abstract": "The purpose of this paper is to develop a conceptual framework as an integrated approach to Electronic Government project design and evaluation in developing countries. Innovations In information and Communication Technologies (ICT) have resulted in a radical transformation of business models, opening ... |
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"abstract": "Aims: To synthesize the empirical evidence on the effectiveness of shared decision making (SDM) compared to usual care for prostate cancer (PC) treatment. Methods and results: A systematic review of academic (MEDLINE, EMBASE, Cochrane Library, CINHAL, PsychINFO, and Scopus) and grey (clinicaltrials.gov... | {
"abstract": "INTRODUCTION\nMen facing prostate cancer screening and treatment need to make critical and highly preference-sensitive decisions that involve a variety of potential benefits and risks. Shared decision-making (SDM) is considered fundamental for \"preference-sensitive\" medical decisions and it is guidel... | {
"abstract": "Abstract In addition to the crucial need for energy balance, the metabolically-intense hummingbirds must maintain osmotic homeostasis by regulating salt and fluid balance. Hypothetically, flowers which have coevolved with pollination by hummingbirds could provide both energy and water balance simultane... |
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"abstract": "The mechanisms underlying white matter changes in psychiatric disease are not known. We aimed to characterise the differential protein expression in deep white matter from the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex from 35 schizophrenia, 35 bipolar disorder, and 35 control subjects, from the Stanley Array Coll... | {
"abstract": "Abnormalities within the corpus callosum (CC) have been identified in schizophrenia brains and are thought to affect inter‐hemispheric communication, which in‐turn is postulated to underlie some schizophrenia symptoms. Furthermore, hemisphere asymmetry of fractional anisotropy, detected by diffusion te... | {
"abstract": "Clathrin-mediated endocytosis (CME) is the best-characterized mechanism governing cellular membrane and protein trafficking. In this hypothesis review, we integrate recent evidence implicating CME and related cellular trafficking mechanisms in the pathophysiology of psychotic disorders such as schizoph... |
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"abstract": "Cross-Project-Defect Prediction as a sub-topic of defect prediction in general has become a popular topic in research. In this article, we present a systematic mapping study with the focus on CPDP, for which we found 50 publications. We summarize the approaches presented by each publication and discuss... | {
"abstract": "The paper presents an analysis of 83 versions of industrial, open-source and academic projects. We have empirically evaluated whether those project types constitute separate classes of projects with regard to defect prediction. Statistical tests proved that there exist significant dierences between the... | {
"abstract": "Poly(ethylene terephthalate)(PET) and polystyrene (PS) have been studied using static secondary ion mass spectrometry (SSIMS). A triple quadrupole analyser has been employed to investigate secondary ion fragmentation and formation mechanisms. Daughter spectra and neutral loss spectra were obtained and ... |
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"abstract": "For a linear sensor array, using line spectra is a common technique for estimating directions of arrival (DOA) of single-tone sources. Yet, very few papers consider multitone sources. For the first time, we provide the optimal Bayesian inference for multi-line spectra, i.e. a superposition of line spec... | {
"abstract": "In this paper we propose a novel framework for the construction of sparsity-inducing priors. In particular, we define such priors as a mixture of exponential power distributions with a generalized inverse Gaussian density (EP-GIG). EP-GIG is a variant of generalized hyperbolic distributions, and the sp... | {
"abstract": "The concave-convex procedure (CCCP) is a majorization-minimization algorithm that solves d.c. (difference of convex functions) programs as a sequence of convex programs. In machine learning, CCCP is extensively used in many learning algorithms like sparse support vector machines (SVMs), transductive SV... |
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"abstract": "BACKGROUND AND AIM\nΝon-motor symptoms in Parkinson's disease (PD) are very common and contribute to the severity of patient's disability. We evaluated the frequency of nonmotor symptoms in patients with PD and we explored the influence of disease characteristics on the presence of these symptoms.\n\n\... | {
"abstract": "The nonmotor symptoms (NMS) of Parkinson's disease (PD) are less well recognised and can be more troublesome to patients and carers than classical motor features. NMS are frequently missed during routine consultations and such under‐recognition may have implications on quality of care given that many N... | {
"abstract": "A gain-of-function KCNJ2 D172N mutation in KCNJ2-encoded Kir2.1 channels underlies one form of short QT syndrome (SQT3), which is associated with increased susceptibility to arrhythmias and sudden death. Anti-malarial drug chloroquine was reported as an effective inhibitor of Kir2.1 channels. Using bio... |
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"abstract": "Spatial patterns in suspended sediment transport and storage along the Sacramento River were assessed by evaluating the suspended sediment budget for the main channel accounting for all tributaries and diversions. Time series analysis was employed to quantify the relationship between streamflow and sus... | {
"abstract": "Abstract A subsidence research program began in 1985 to document the extent and magnitude of land subsidence in Sacramento Valley, California, an area of about 15 600 km2, using Global Positioning System (GPS) surveying. A brief description of GPS surveying is followed by a summary of each of four surv... | {
"abstract": "The CASA UNO Global Positioning System (GPS) experiment (January-February 1988) included an extended tracking network which covered three continents in addition to the network of scientific interest in Central and South America. The repeatability of long baselines (400–1000 km) in South America is impr... |
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"abstract": "This thesis examines the role of identity on the development and trajectory of music preferences across the lifespan. The focus of interest in recent empirical research has been to predict music preferences using adolescent individual differences. It is widely recognized that adolescents use music to h... | {
"abstract": "The present paper examined the structure of Dutch adolescents' music preferences, the stability of music preferences and the relations between Big-Five personality characteristics and (changes in) music preferences. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses of music-preference data from 2334 adolesc... | {
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"abstract": "In this article, we use edge weighting functions on dominating sets to show that if we impose a regularity condition on a graph, then upper bounds on both the upper domination number and the upper total domination number can be greatly improved. More precisely, we prove that for k≥1 if G is a k‐regular... | {
"abstract": "Let β(G), Γ(G) and IR(G) be the independence number, the upper domination number and the upper irredundance number, respectively. A graph G is called Γ-perfect if β(H) = Γ(H), for every induced subgraph H of G. A graph G is called IR-perfect if Γ(H) =IR(H), for every induced subgraph H of G. In this pa... | {
"abstract": "Abstract We investigate the addition of constraints on the function image and its derivatives for the incorporation of prior knowledge in symbolic regression. The approach is called shape-constrained symbolic regression and allows us to enforce, for example, monotonicity of the function over selected i... |
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"abstract": "The metabolic syndrome (MetS) is a collection of various metabolic, hormonal and immunological risk factors that cluster together, closely related to poorly understood phenomena such a hyperinsulinaemia (insulin resistance), hyperleptinaemia (leptin resistance), a low grade, systemic and chronic inflam... | {
"abstract": "Terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase-mediated deoxyuridine triphosphate-nick end labeling or the TUNEL assay is an important technique in the assessment of DNA damage. Semen samples are routinely assessed microscopically to assess their fertilization ability. In addition to routine semen analysis, the... | {
"abstract": "Binding of the 58 kDa monomer and 44 kDa alpha beta dimer forms of terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase to double stranded DNA was demonstrated by gel retardation and tryptophan fluorescence quenching. The dissociation constants and cooperativity parameters were similar to those that have been determi... |
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"abstract": "Recent advances in digital technologies have made alteration of digital multimedia content simple and unnoticeable by human beings. Although digital multimedia content offers numerous advantages such as easy to store, easy to transmit, etc., it has made illegal replication/distribution of digital conte... | {
"abstract": "ABSTRACT \n \nDigital watermarking has been proposed as a way to claim protection. In this paper, we try to use the error-correcting code skill, the multiresolution of wavelet transformation, and the human visual system to improve the traditional watermarking. Error-correcting based watermarking will h... | {
"abstract": "We describe the systems entered by the National Research Council Canada in the SemEval-2016 Task1: Crosslingual Semantic Textual Similarity. We tried two approaches: One computes a true crosslingual similarity based on features extracted from lexical semantics and shallow semantic structures of the sou... |
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"abstract": "Synaptic connectivity is typically the most resource-demanding part of neuromorphic systems. Commonly, the architecture of these systems is chosen mainly on technical considerations. As a consequence, the potential for optimization arising from the inherent constraints of connectivity models is left un... | {
"abstract": "This paper provides a review of both Rent's rule and the placement models derived from it. It is proposed that the power-law form of Rent's rule, which predicts the number of terminals required by a group of gates for communication with the rest of the circuit, is a consequence of a statistically homog... | {
"abstract": "In this paper we study one-clock priced timed automata in which prices can grow linearly (dp/dt = k) or exponentially (dp/dt = kp), with discontinuous updates on edges. We propose EXPTIME algorithms to decide the existence of controllers that ensure existence of infinite runs or reachability of some go... |
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"abstract": "amino-terminal and 180-kDa cell-binding fibronectin fragments were used to determine which fibronectin domains support soluble gelatin interactions with macrophages. At each time measured, intact and 180-kDa fihronectm supported significantly larger quantities of cell-associated gelatin than control le... | {
"abstract": "Plasma fibronectin has been shown to increase the binding of fibrin monomer to macrophages in vitro. In the present study we began characterization of the mechanism underlying this fibronectin activity. Fragments of fibronectin containing the amino terminus enhanced macrophage fibrin binding to the sam... | {
"abstract": "Studies have established that cryoprecipitates of the plasma of tumor patients contain a biological activity enhancing morphological cell transformation (transformation-enhancing factor; TEF) in cultures of chicken embryo fibroblasts infected with temperature-sensitive mutants of Rous sarcoma virus. We... |
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"abstract": "ABSTRACT This paper presents a novel linear mathematical model for integrated cell formation and task scheduling in the cellular manufacturing system (CMS). It is suitable for the dual-resource constrained setting, such as garment process, component assembly, and electronics manufacturing. The model ca... | {
"abstract": "Integrated design of cellular manufacturing (CM) systems consist of three major decisions: cell formation (CF), cellular layout (CL) and planning issues such as cellular scheduling (CS). This article presents a mathematical model to concurrently identify the formation of cells, cellular layout and the ... | {
"abstract": "This chapter explores the approach adopted for the current study and describes each step of the questionnaire design process. In the section on questionnaire design, the author discusses the content of the questions, and also explains the sequence, layout, and production of the questionnaire. Following... |
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"abstract": "Deep neural networks (DNNs) have the advantage that they can take into account a large number of parameters, which enables them to solve complex tasks. In computer vision and speech recognition, they have a better accuracy than common algorithms, and in some tasks, they boast an even higher accuracy th... | {
"abstract": "Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) has become a successful algorithm in the region of artificial intelligence and a strong candidate for many applications. However, for embedded platforms, CNN-based solutions are still too complex to be applied if only CPU is utilized for computation. Various dedicated... | {
"abstract": "In four experiments, this research sheds light on aesthetic experiences by rigorously investigating behavioral, neural, and psychological properties of package design. We find that aesthetic packages significantly increase the reaction time of consumers' choice responses; that they are chosen over prod... |
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"abstract": "Publication in peer–reviewed journals is essential for scientific progress including: (1) advancement of knowledge, (2) societal benefits including scientifically–based decision–making, (3) evaluation of researcher productivity, and (4) obtaining and retaining a research or faculty position and facilit... | {
"abstract": "Properly assigning authorship of academic papers is often an ethical challenge. Through a hypothetical case study, the authors examine some of the potential ethical issues involved in determining who should and should not be listed as an author: the problems of honorary authorship, coerced authorship, ... | {
"abstract": "Authorship on scientific publications has become the currency of modern science and a measure of a scientist’s participation in the international community. The number of papers a scientist publishes, the journals in which they are published and the position of a scientist’s name on the list of authors... |
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"abstract": "Previous research has demonstrated an interaction between eye gaze and selected facial emotional expressions, whereby the perception of anger and happiness is impaired when the eyes are horizontally averted within a face, but the perception of fear and sadness is enhanced under the same conditions. The... | {
"abstract": "Research has largely neglected the effects of gaze direction cues on the perception of facial expressions of emotion. It was hypothesized that when gaze direction matches the underlying behavioral intent (approach-avoidance) communicated by an emotional expression, the perception of that emotion would ... | {
"abstract": "The behavior of conduct disordered (CD) children was compared with normal control (NC) children in interaction with normal peers. Dyads consisting of a) a CD child and a normal peer and b) an NC child and the same normal peer as in a) were observed. CD boys were less able than NC boys to neutralize inc... |
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"abstract": ": Spotted seals Phoca largha and bearded seals Erignathus barbatus are ice-associated seals that have overlapping range in the Beaufort, Chukchi, and Bering Seas, but have different foraging ecologies. The link between foraging behaviour and specific oceanographic variables is not well understood for t... | {
"abstract": "Understanding the links between foraging behaviour and habitat use of key species is essential to addressing fundamental questions about trophic interactions and ecosystem functioning. Eight female grey seals (Halichoerus grypus) were equipped with time-depth recorders linked to Fastloc GPS tags follow... | {
"abstract": "Since the early 1970s, the agricultural frontier of southeastern Amazon has undergone extensive land use changes. These alterations, combined with regional climate changes, have the potential to influence the hydrologic cycle at small to large scales. We evaluated a 40-year time series (1976 to 2015) o... |
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"abstract": "The transdiagnostic cognitive behavioural theory of eating disorders (Fairburn, Cooper, & Shafran, 2003) is a relatively new theory, which attempts to describe how all eating disorders, including Bulimia Nervosa (BN) and Binge Eating Disorder (BED), are maintained. The theory suggests that in certain p... | {
"abstract": "The application of Escape Theory (Heatherton & Baumeister, 1991) to binge eating was studied in a non-clinical sample of 129 women. Structural equation modelling (SEM) showed a good fit between the Escape Model and the data. Perfectionism strongly predicted aversive self-awareness which, in turn, predi... | {
"abstract": "The aim of this study was to investigate the strategies used for coping with stress in eating disorder patients. Twenty-four anorexia nervosa (AN) patients, 66 bulimia nervosa (BN) patients, and 30 female control subjects completed a revised Ways of Coping Checklist, indicating how they dealt with a se... |
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"title": "The health resource utilization and economic burden of systemic autoimmune rheumatic diseas... | {
"abstract": "Background: Active anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibody-associated vasculitis (AAV) is commonly treated with cyclophosphamide, a drug with serious side effects, and with corticosteroids. Objective: To determine the efficacy of a possible alternative drug for cyclophosphamide, oral mycophenolate mofetil... | {
"abstract": "Underwater images suffer from less visibility problem due to principal of light refraction under water environment. Therefore, this paper address the problem of enhancing the contrast of the underwater images captured under different lightning conditions and depths. This paper presenting the comparison... |
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"abstract": "...................................................................................................................... iii DEDICATION .....................................................................................................................v LIST OF TABLES ...................................... | {
"abstract": "Attending university is a particularly stressful time due to unique emergent stressors such as changes in environment, loss or diminishment of social support networks, academic pressures, developing peer relationships, and financial management. There is growing recognition that these common stressors m... | {
"abstract": "This study serves as a pilot study for a possible future study including the same variables. The purpose of the pilot study was to find a relationship in the college academic setting between academic self-efficacy, stress coping skills, and academic performance. Sixty-six undergraduate students, 17 mal... |
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"abstract": "Abstract Increasing interests of circular economy (CE) principles applied into construction projects has led to the development of assessment methods for their justification. The use of smaller quantities of construction materials, materials of higher quality and durability, and recycling of constructi... | {
"abstract": "Adaptive reuse of buildings is considered a superior alternative for new construction in terms of sustainability and a disruptive practice in the current capital project delivery model for the renewal of today’s built environment. In comparison to green-field construction projects, adaptive reuse proje... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Planning methods such as CPM and PERT cannot model the iterative details of design processes. It has been demonstrated that the Dependency Structure Matrix (DSM) is an effective method to model iterative process. However, formulating the DSM on large construction projects, using current method... |
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"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nThe validity of many measurement instruments frequently used in rhinology is unknown. This study describes clinimetric properties of well-known subjective and objective outcomes, i.e., the Glasgow Health Status Inventory, Glasgow Benefit Inventory, Peak Nasal Inspiratory Flow, and 4-Phase R... | {
"abstract": "BackgroundSeptoplasty, i.e., surgical correction of the deviated nasal septum, is the most common ear, nose and throat (ENT) operation in adults. Currently the main indication to perform septoplasty is nasal obstruction. However, the effectiveness of septoplasty for nasal obstruction in adults with a d... | {
"abstract": "NO V,R distributions are reported following photodissociation of jet‐cooled NOCl from selected vibrational levels of the T1(1 3A‘) state. By varying the photolysis wavelength while monitoring selected rovibrational levels of NO, a photofragment yield spectrum showing the same diffuse vibrational struct... |
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"abstract": "The Ricardian comparative advantage is one key cornerstone in the international trade theory. There is no shortage of textbooks supposing that Ricardo used solely labour as a factor of production. This approach originates with Haberler in the 1930s, who wrote that Ricardo’s theory of comparative advant... | {
"abstract": "Abstract The four numbers in David Ricardo’s example of comparative advantage have been traditionally interpreted as unit labor coefficients in the production of wine and cloth in UK and Portugal. A recent interpretation suggests that they represent instead the labor needed to produce the amounts of wi... | {
"abstract": "~_His paper will present a theory of long-run capital movements under I conditions of full employment and fixed exchange rates. A capital movement is a transfer of goods and services between countries, offset by an opposite movement of private titles to ownership or private-debt instruments. A country ... |
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"abstract": "Many database applications deploy hundreds or thousands of indexes to speed up query execution. Despite a plethora of prior work on index selection, designing and deploying indexes remains a difficult task for database administrators. First, real-world businesses often require online index deployment, ... | {
"abstract": "One of the key tasks of a database administrator is to optimize the set of materialized indices with respect to the current workload. To aid administrators in this challenging task, commercial DBMSs provide advisors that recommend a set of indices based on a sample workload. It is left for the administ... | {
"abstract": "| In this paper, a neural network based foreign exchange rates forecasting method is discussed. Neural networks with time series and technical indicators as inputs are built to capture the underlying \\rules\" of the movement in currency exchange rates. Before using historical data to train the neural ... |
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"abstract": "We review the paper [arXiv:1905.12783] and discuss some comments about SYK on random unicycle.",
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"title": "The Tensor Track VI: Field Theory on Random Trees and SYK on Random Unicyclic Graphs"
} | {
"abstract": "We discuss some linear algebra related to the Dirac matrix D of a finite simple graph G=(V,E).",
"corpus_id": 127391,
"title": "The Dirac operator of a graph"
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"abstract": "The main focus in most classical network optimization problems lies on performability. In these problems one usually does not consider the possibility that arcs or vertices may be removed from the given network due to failures or other reasons. However, many systems with an underlying network structure... |
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"abstract": "The objective of automated planning is to synthesise a plan that achieves a set of goals specified by the user. When achieving every goal is not feasible, the planning system must decide which ones to plan for and find the lowest cost plan. The system should take as input a description of the user's pr... | {
"abstract": "In the planning-as-SAT paradigm there have been numerous recent developments towards improving the speed and scalability of planning at the cost of finding a step-optimal parallel plan. These developments have been towards: (1) Query strategies that efficiently yield approximately optimal plans, and (2... | {
"abstract": "One of the popular methods for retrieving information by its \" n a m e \" is to store the names in a binary tree. To find if a given name is in the tree, we compare it to the name at the root, and four cases arise: 1. There is no root (the binary tree is empty): The given name is not in the tree, and ... |
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"abstract": "— The Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm advocates the massive use of sensing and communication technologies embedded in the physical world, which provides the potential to collect huge volumes of data and connect them to intelligent systems. As the number of IoT devices is increasing with geometric pro... | {
"abstract": "The Internet of Things (IoT) is split into different vertically oriented platforms for integration of all the different devices, today. Developers who aim to access those platforms and access their data need to manually adapt to the platform-specific API and data models. This presentation highlights th... | {
"abstract": "The importance and reach of sensors networks grows every year, however, there are still many challenges that must be addressed. One of them, is the standardized interchange of information that enable interoperability between different networks and applications. To answer this challenge, the Open Geospa... |
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"abstract": "STUDY QUESTION How can we study the full transcriptome of endometrial stromal and epithelial cells at the single-cell level? SUMMARY ANSWER By compiling and developing novel analytical tools for biopsy, tissue cryopreservation and disaggregation, single-cell sorting, library preparation, RNA sequencing... | {
"abstract": "We discuss the identification of features that are associated with an outcome in RNA-Sequencing (RNA-Seq) and other sequencing-based comparative genomic experiments. RNA-Seq data takes the form of counts, so models based on the normal distribution are generally unsuitable. The problem is especially cha... | {
"abstract": "Equine sarcoids are the most common neoplasms occurring in horses. Despite frequent occurrence, they are still not well described at the molecular level. Thus, in the present study, we performed a comprehensive comparative analysis of sarcoid miRNAome profile to identify aberrantly expressed microRNAs,... |
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"abstract": "Many recent studies have reported that feedback plays a very important role in students’ learning outcomes. However, currently, feedback has not been utilized by lecturers and students in the learning process effectively. This study aimed to explore the impact of feedback as a soft scaffolding in the o... | {
"abstract": "Interest in thought experiments (TEs) derives from the paradox: \"How can findings that carry conviction result from a new experiment conducted entirely within the head?\" Historical studies have established the importance of TEs in science but have proposed disparate hypotheses concerning the source o... | {
"abstract": "A stable isotope dilution assay (SIDA) for the Alternaria mycotoxin tenuazonic acid was developed. Therefore, [(13)C(6),(15)N]-tenuazonic acid was synthesized from [(13)C(6),(15)N]-isoleucine by Dieckmann intramolecular cyclization after acetoacetylation with diketene. The synthesized [(13)C(6),(15)N]-... |
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"abstract": "Introduction The objective of this systematic review with meta-analysis is to determine whether prophylactic local antibiotics prevent surgical site infections (SSIs) in instrumented spinal fusions and traumatic fracture repair. A secondary objective is to investigate the effect of vancomycin, a common... | {
"abstract": "PurposeThe purpose of this study was to determine if the use of antibiotic-impregnated fibrin sealant (AFS) was effective in preventing surgical site infections (SSI) associated with spinal instrumentation.MethodsIn a preliminary study, five pieces of vancomycin-impregnated fibrin sealant, five nuts th... | {
"abstract": "Abstract— Controlled antibiotic release films, melt‐extruded cylinders, and suspension‐extruded/coated cylinders were manufactured from biodegradable poly(d, l‐lactide) (PDLLA) and poly(d, l‐lactide‐co‐∈‐caprolactone). These devices have potential application in the treatment of osteomyelitis. The in‐v... |
{
"abstract": "Alzheimer's disease is an age-related neurodegenerative disorder with its toxicity linked to the generation of amyloid-β peptide (Aβ). Within the Aβ sequence, there is a systemic repeat of a GxxxG motif, which theoretical studies have suggested may be involved in both peptide aggregation and membrane p... | {
"abstract": "Previous studies have shown the amyloid peptides, Aβ 1‐40/42, to be exceptionally difficult to assemble by Fmoc‐solid phase peptide synthesis due to the high hydrophobicity of the C‐terminal segment and resulting on‐resin aggregation. We found that the use of the stronger and more efficient base, DBU, ... | {
"abstract": "Relations between occupational commitment (OC) and several person- and work-related variables were examined meta-analytically (76 samples; across analyses, Ns ranged 746-15,774). Major findings are as follows. First, OC was positively related to job-focused constructs such as job involvement and satisf... |
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"abstract": "A high degree of topical diversity is often considered to be an important characteristic of interesting text documents. A recent proposal for measuring topical diversity identifies three distributions for assessing the diversity of documents: distributions of words within documents, words within topics... | {
"abstract": "@inbook{Boyd-Graber:Mimno:Newman-2014, Publisher = {CRC Press}, Address = {Boca Raton, Florida}, Title = {Care and Feeding of Topic Models: Problems, Diagnostics, and Improvements}, Url = {docs/2014_book_chapter_care_and_feeding.pdf}, Series = {CRC Handbooks of Modern Statistical Methods}, Booktitle = ... | {
"abstract": "Abstract The tropical atmosphere model presented here is suitable for modeling both the annual cycle and short-term (monthly to decadal time scale) climate fluctuations in sole response to the thermal forcing from the underlying surface, especially the ocean surface. The present model consists of a wel... |
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"abstract": "Over any discrete memoryless channel, we offer error correction codes such that: for one, their block error probabilities and code rates scale like random codes’; and for two, their encoding and decoding complexities scale like polar codes’. Quantitatively, for any constants <inline-formula> <tex-math ... | {
"abstract": "We introduce a new approach to proving that a sequence of deterministic linear codes achieves capacity on an erasure channel under maximum a posteriori decoding. Rather than relying on the precise structure of the codes, our method exploits code symmetry. In particular, the technique applies to any seq... | {
"abstract": "Abstract. The amount of echo data is very large in highly squinted synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging with high resolution. To solve this problem, an imaging method for highly squinted SAR with under-sampled echo data based on compressed sensing (CS) is put forward. First, the echo signal model of ... |
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"abstract": "Listeria monocytogenes is ubiquitous in nature and a major concern for the food industry, since it is the causal agent of the serious foodborne illness listeriosis. This organism can be introduced through many routes to food-processing environments and may become established on food-processing equipmen... | {
"abstract": "ABSTRACT The surface physicochemical properties of Listeria monocytogenes LO28 under different conditions (temperature and growth phase) were determined by use of microelectrophoresis and microbial adhesion to solvents. The effect of these parameters on adhesion and biofilm formation by L. monocytogene... | {
"abstract": "Cathode catalysts and binders were examined for their effect on power densities in single chamber, air-cathode, microbial fuel cells (MFCs). Chronopotentiometry tests indicated that the cathode potential was only slightly reduced (20-40 mV) when Pt loadings were decreased from 2 to 0.1 mg cm-2, and tha... |
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"abstract": "The cardiovascular effects of centrally and peripherally administered synthetic trout urotensin (U)-I, a member of the corticotropin-releasing hormone family of neuroendocrine peptides, were investigated in unanesthetized rainbow trout Oncorhynchus mykiss. Intracerebroventricular injections of U-I (5.0... | {
"abstract": "The central and peripheral cardiovascular effects of endothelin (ET)-1 and ET-3 were investigated in conscious rainbow trout. Both intracerebroventricular and intra-arterial injections of ET-1 (6. 25-25 pmol) but not ET-3 (25 pmol) caused a dose-dependent increase in mean dorsal aortic blood pressure a... | {
"abstract": "In this review, we summarize the most significant data concerning the cardiovascular effects of centrally and peripherally administered synthetic trout corticotropin-releasing factor (CRF) and urotensin-I (U-I) in our animal model, the unanesthetized trout Oncorhynchus mykiss. Although there is more th... |
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