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"abstract": "Metabolism constitutes a fundamental property of all organisms. Metabolic rate is commonly described to scale as a power function of body size and exponentially with temperature, thereby treating the effects of body size and temperature independently. Mounting evidence shows that the scaling of metabol... | {
"abstract": "Quantitative scaling relationships among body mass, temperature and metabolic rate of organisms are still controversial, while resolution may be further complicated through the use of different and possibly inappropriate approaches to statistical analysis. We propose the application of a modelling stra... | {
"abstract": "Low diversity ecosystems are expected to be more vulnerable to global changes although they have received less attention than high diversity ecosystems. Addressing the present state of the Antarctic Dry Valley region by focusing on the potential global changes that may alter the coupling of above- and ... |
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"abstract": "Factorization Machines (FMs) are a class of popular algorithms that have been widely adopted for collaborative filtering and recommendation tasks. FMs are characterized by its usage of the inner product of factorized parameters to model pairwise feature interactions, making it highly expressive and pow... | {
"abstract": "Associative memories are conventionally used to represent data with very simple structure: sets of pairs of vectors. This paper describes a method for representing more complex compositional structure in distributed representations. The method uses circular convolution to associate items, which are rep... | {
"abstract": "Neuromorphic systems recently gained increasing attention for their high computation efficiency. Many designs have been proposed and realized with traditional CMOS technology or emerging devices. In this work, we proposed a spiking neuromorphic design built on resistive crossbar structures and implemen... |
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"abstract": "Design and development of solar cells can be substantially improved by using models which can provide accurate estimation of complex device characteristics. The artificial neural network (NN)‐based models which learn from examples is an effective modeling technique that overcomes the deficiencies of co... | {
"abstract": "In this paper, we present a computationally efficient neural network (NN) for equalization of nonlinear communication channels with 4-QAM signal constellation. The functional link NN (FLANN) for nonlinear channel equalization which we had proposed earlier, offers faster mean square error (MSE) converge... | {
"abstract": "A basic problem with complexity is that we would like to characterize all complex systems both verbally and mathematically and do so in a clear, concise and distinctive manner, as do scientists with many of the systems found in other fields. Such characterizations are necessary if we are to distinguish... |
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"abstract": "We calculate the maximal Lyapunov exponent for a bulk system of 256 Lennard-Jones particles in constant energy molecular dynamics simulations deep into the supercritical state. We find that the maximal Lyapunov exponent undergoes a crossover and that this crossover coincides with the dynamical crossove... | {
"abstract": "Molecular dynamics simulation has been used to explore the evolution, kinetics, and dynamics of a liquid–glass transition in clusters and bulk matter. We demonstrate a dynamical indicator that characterizes the onset of the glass transition in clusters and is consistent with other indicators of glass t... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Using a previously introduced quantum statistical model, analyze necessary and sufficient conditions on the density of states for coexistence of liquid and solid clusters. We conclude that clusters of N particles have sharp freezing and melting temperatures limiting the ranges of phase stabili... |
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"abstract": "Ischemic stroke is a leading cause of death and disability in the United States. It is known that males and females respond differently to stroke. Depending on age, the incidence, prevalence, mortality rate, and disability outcome of stroke differ between the sexes. Females generally have strokes at ol... | {
"abstract": "Transmigration of peripheral leukocytes to the brain is a major contributor to cerebral ischemic cell death mechanisms. Humanized partial major histocompatibility complex class II constructs (pMHC), covalently linked to myelin peptides, are effective for treating experimental stroke in males, but new e... | {
"abstract": "Tonotopic maps, obtained from single and multi‐unit recordings in the primary and surrounding areas of the auditory cortex, were related to chemoarchitecture of the supratemporal plane, as delineated by immunoreactivity for parvalbumin. Neurons in the central core were sharply tuned and formed two comp... |
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"abstract": "Kallmann syndrome (KS) is a disease clinically characterized by the association of hypogonadotrophic hypogonadism and anosmia or hyposmia. It is a neuronal migration disorder. Magnetic resonance (MR) imaging is used to visualize the olfactory tracts and to evaluate the olfactory sulci. Five patients wh... | {
"abstract": "We report the case of 3 brothers aged 34, 24, and 22 years, unmarried, who presented to our endocrinology clinic with absence of secondary sexual characters. There was no such history in other siblings, but their maternal uncle had similar complaints. On examination, all 3 had pre-pubertal appearance, ... | {
"abstract": "Modern massive transfusion protocols call for early plasma and platelets to patients presenting with hemorrhagic shock. The packed red blood cell (PRBC):plasma:platelet ratio generally ranges from 1:1:1 to 3:1:1, but the ideal ratio remains controversial. We aimed to determine the effects of different ... |
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"abstract": "Background: Cysticercosis in among the neglected tropical disease caused by eating the egg of parasite Taenia solium. In this review, we aimed to verify the prevalence of human cysticercosis in different countries of Asia using systematic review and meta-analysis approach. Methods: Based of the protoco... | {
"abstract": "We have observed the seropositive rate of Taenia solium cysticercosis in residents at Nabo Village, Tiandong County, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China by enzyme linked immunosorbent assay. The village had been found to be a relatively high endemic area of porcine cysticercosis among roaming pigs.... | {
"abstract": "Systems for monitoring population-level diet and nutritional intake have been considered insufficient across many countries. Recently, internet search query data have been used to examine spatial and temporal patterns of public behavior to inform public-health campaigns, policies, and interventions. Se... |
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"abstract": "In this PhD thesis, we describe the design and construction of an experimental apparatus capable of trapping, cooling and spatially overlapping neutral 6Li atoms and Yb+ ions. Our main goal is to reach the quantum regime in atom-ion mixtures and to investigate fundamental atom-ion scattering physics. I... | {
"abstract": "We report on a sensitive method to minimize excess micromotion of an ion in a Paul trap. The ion is placed in an ultracold cloud of neutral Rb atoms in which ionic micromotion induces atomic losses and heating. Micromotion is minimized by applying static electric offset fields such that both loss and h... | {
"abstract": "Optical trapping and ions combine unique advantages of independently striving fields of research. Light fields can form versatile potential landscapes, such as optical lattices, for neutral and charged atoms, while avoiding detrimental implications of established radiofrequency traps. Ions interact via... |
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"abstract": "The advent of Internet-of-Things (IoT) is creating an ecosystem of smart applications and services enabled by a multitude of sensors. The real value of these IoT smart applications comes from analyzing the information provided by these sensors. Information fusion improves information completeness/quali... | {
"abstract": "We propose and analyze a 3-tier cloud-cloudlet-device hierarchical trust management protocol called IoT-HiTrust for large-scale IoT systems. Our mobile cloud hierarchical trust management protocol allows an IoT device to report its service experiences and query the trustworthiness of another IoT device... | {
"abstract": "This paper proposes the Internet of Things communication framework as the main enabler for distributed worldwide health care applications. Starting from the recent availability of wireless medical sensor prototypes and the growing diffusion of electronic health care record databases, we analyze the req... |
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"abstract": "Supersaturating formulations hold great promise for delivery of poorly soluble active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs). To profit from supersaturating formulations, precipitation is hindered with precipitation inhibitors (PIs), maintaining drug concentrations for as long as possible. This review provi... | {
"abstract": "Poor aqueous solubility is a major hindrance to oral delivery of many emerging drugs. Supersaturated drug solutions can improve passive absorption across the gastrointestinal tract membrane as long as crystallization can be inhibited, enhancing the delivery of such poorly soluble therapeutics. Polymers... | {
"abstract": "The formulation study of tenoxicam, a poorly water-soluble drug, was developed by use of a ternary cosolvent system and has significantly enhanced the solubility. Additionally, the relative bioavailability of testing formulation was also evaluated by New Zealand rabbit with a single i.m. injection. The... |
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"abstract": "Optically transparent flexible tag antennas are highly desired for some applications, where unobtrusiveness and capability of mounting on curved surfaces are required. On the other hand, circular polarization minimizes signal degradation due to polarization mismatch between the reader and tag antennas,... | {
"abstract": "This paper describes a novel compact design of a planar circularly polarized (CP) tag antenna for use in a ultrahigh frequency (UHF) radio frequency identification (RFID) system. Introducing the meander strip into the right-arm of the square-ring structure enables the measured half-power bandwidth of t... | {
"abstract": "Planar periodic metallic arrays behave as artificial magnetic conductor (AMC) surfaces when placed on a grounded dielectric substrate and they introduce a zero degrees reflection phase shift to incident waves. In this paper the AMC operation of single-layer arrays without vias is studied using a resona... |
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"abstract": "In this paper, the Gaussianity and linearity of the snoring sound (SS) segments extracted from respiratory sounds are discussed. The respiratory sound signals were recorded from 30 individuals by two microphones simultaneously with full-night Polysomnography (PSG) during sleep. The first microphone was... | {
"abstract": "Snoring was described in literature even before medicine. Common definitions do not consider acoustic measurements of snoring. In this paper we discuss the main pathophysiological aspects of snoring and the snoring-sleep relationship as the generating mechanisms. Snoring can be analysed and measured by... | {
"abstract": "An output device for optimizing propagation delay and minimizing chip area is described. An optimum means of tapering the output stages to minimize propagation delay is determined. The minimum delay is a function of the capacitive load to node ratio, the number of output stages, and the interstage prop... |
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"abstract": "With the growing need for the remote caring at home and the everincreasing popularity of mobile devices, more and more applications are being developed to enable remote health monitoring. Combining cloud computing with mobile technologies has enabled the healthcare service provider to offer continuous ... | {
"abstract": "Ambient Intelligence (AmI) is a new paradigm in information technology aimed at empowering people's capabilities by the means of digital environments that are sensitive, adaptive, and responsive to human needs, habits, gestures, and emotions. This futuristic vision of daily environment will enable inno... | {
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"title": "Phone Synchronous Decoding with CTC Lattice"
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"abstract": "In quantum mechanics it is well known that observables are represented by Hermitian matrices (or operators). Uncertainty relations are represented as some kinds of trace inequalities satisfied by two observables and one density matrix (or operator). Now we try to release the Hermitian restriction on ob... | {
"abstract": "We give a trace inequality related to the uncertainty relation of Wigner-Yanase-Dyson skew information. This inequality corresponds to a generalization of the uncertainty relation derived by S. Luo for the quantum uncertainty quantity excluding the classical mixture.",
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"abstract": "A new X-ray computed tomography (CT) system is being developed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory to image laboratory mice for the purpose of rapid phenotype screening and identification. One implementation of this CT system allows simultaneous capture of several sets of sinogram data, each having a uniq... |
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"abstract": "Abstract Total quality in laboratory medicine should be defined as the guarantee that each activity throughout the total testing process is correctly performed, providing valuable medical decision-making and effective patient care. In the past decades, a 10-fold reduction in the analytical error rate h... | {
"abstract": "We evaluated the effect of sample volume and citrate concentration on results of routine coagulation assays (prothrombin time [PT] and activated partial thromboplastin time [APTT]). The study was performed on samples obtained from healthy persons and patients receiving oral anticoagulant therapy. Stand... | {
"abstract": "A reformulation of the author's original work \"Laboratory Hematology\", this book places greater emphasis on the laboratory aspects of haematology and excludes various anaemias, white cell reactions and basic haemostasis in an attempt to bridge the gap between the haematologist and the laboratory.",
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"abstract": "This article presents a 60-mode high-throughput parallel-processing memory-based fast Fourier transform (FFT) processor for fifth-generation (5G)/4G applications. The proposed architecture adopts a multi-FFT parallel-processing scheme to significantly reduce the idle computation cycles of small point F... | {
"abstract": "This paper presents the design and implementation of memory-based fast Fourier transform (FFT) processors with generalized efficient, conflict-free address schemes. We unified the conflict-free address schemes of three different FFT lengths, including the single-power points, the common nonsingle-power... | {
"abstract": "Sensitivity-based methodology is applied to optimization of performance, power and area across several levels of design abstraction for a complex wireless baseband signal processing algorithm. The design framework is based on a unified, block-based graphical description of the algorithm to avoid design... |
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"abstract": "\n BackgroundThe purpose of this study was to find out the ethnobotanical use of Fumaria indica plant from the hilly and plain areas of Haripur .MethodsThe plant samples of leaf, flowers and root were collected from two hilly areas (Srikot, Khanpur) and two plane areas (Haripur city, Tarbela) of Distri... | {
"abstract": "The study was carried out to assess the nutritional value and mineral contents of four medicinal plants viz., Aerva javanica Burm.f, Calotropis procera Ait. f, Datura alba Nees, and Nepeta suavis Stapf., which are traditionally used as medicine in the Northwest Pakistan. Proximate analysis of plant sam... | {
"abstract": "As the concentration of reducing sugars (RS) is controlled by European legislation for certain specific food and beverages, a simple and sensitive spectrophotometric method for the determination of RS in various food products is proposed. The method is based on the reduction of Cu(II) to Cu(I) with red... |
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"abstract": "The hypothesis is that the mechanical mismatch between brain tissue and microelectrodes influences the inflammatory response. Our unique, mechanically adaptive polymer nanocomposite enabled this study within the cerebral cortex of rats. The initial tensile storage modulus of 5 GPa decreases to 12 MPa w... | {
"abstract": "Summary To examine the cellular dynamics of macrophages and microglial cells in response to cerebral injury, we studied the brain adjacent to cortical stab wounds in young adult rats. Brains were obtained 30 min after intravenous infusion of bromodeoxyuridine (BrdU) on one day (day 1) to 28 days (day 2... | {
"abstract": "Although acetylcholine is known to be involved in the genesis of skeletal muscle disturbance, its effect on cardiac muscle has been scarcely studied. In the present paper, using pyridostigmine, a cholinesterase inhibitor, the possible role of acetylcholine in the genesis of cardiomyopathy was investiga... |
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"abstract": "Pulmonary fibrosis is an incurable progressive lung disease associated with the formation of scar tissue and impaired lung function. Lung fibrosis develops in a number of diseases, including interstitial lung diseases, idiopathic interstitial pneumonias, and childhood interstitial lung disease syndrome... | {
"abstract": "BackgroundNeuropeptide Y (NPY) is emerging as a modulator of communication between the brain and the immune system. However, in spite of increasing evidence that supports a role for NPY in the modulation of microglial cell responses to inflammatory conditions, there is no consistent information regardi... | {
"abstract": "Cognitive impairments severely affect the quality of life of patients who undergo brain irradiation, and there are no effective preventive strategies. In this study, we examined the therapeutic potential of electroacupuncture (EA) administered immediately after brain irradiation in rats. We detected ch... |
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"abstract": "At in vivo contacts with operational and surgical instruments, intra-abdominal organs are mechanically stressed to varying degrees. Owing to the distributed mechanical constitutive properties (such as stiffness and strength) of abdominal organs and the usage of different types of surgical instruments w... | {
"abstract": "The preservation time of a liver graft is one of the crucial factors for the success of a liver transplantation. Grafts are kept in a preservation solution to delay cell destruction and cellular edema and to maximize organ function after transplantation. However, longer preservation times are not alway... | {
"abstract": "The aim of this article is to study the mechanical properties of the pancreas. Up to now, the mechanical properties of the pancreas are not sufficiently characterized. The possibility of intraoperative mechanical testing of pathological pancreata will allow the classification of pancreatic diseases in ... |
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"abstract": "We investigated an outbreak of Q fever in a remote rural town in New South Wales, Australia. Cases identified through active and passive case finding activities, and retrospective laboratory record review were interviewed using a standard questionnaire. Two sets of case-case analyses were completed to ... | {
"abstract": "To compare acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) surveillance systems used by members of the International Network of Paediatric Surveillance Units (INoPSU) across the five AFP surveillance performance indicators recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO) for the maintenance of polio‐free certification... | {
"abstract": "The objective of this study was to investigate the incidence of acute flaccid paralysis in the pediatric population of Honduras over an 11-year period, determine what percentage of acute flaccid paralysis was Guillain-Barré syndrome, and identify the epidemiologic features of Guillain-Barré syndrome. T... |
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"abstract": "Extracting indoor scene components (i.e., the meaningful parts of indoor objects) and obtaining their spatial relationships (e.g., adjacent, in the left of, etc.) is crucial for scene reconstruction and understanding. At present, the detection of indoor scene components with complex shapes is still cha... | {
"abstract": "The field of scene understanding endeavours to extract a broad range of information from 3D scenes. Current approaches exploit one or at most a few different criteria (e.g., spatial, semantic, functional information) simultaneously for analysis. We argue that to take scene understanding to the next lev... | {
"abstract": "The existing 3D modeling studies of Chinese ancient architecture are mostly procedure driven and rely on fixed construction rules. Therefore, these methods have limited applications in virtual real...",
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"abstract": "Arsenic (As) is a toxic trace element found in groundwater due to natural and industrial processes. Exposure has been linked to cancers of the bladder, lungs, skin, kidneys, nasal passages, liver, and the prostate. Arsenic in drinking water is a problem in many countries, notably Bangladesh and Taiwan.... | {
"abstract": "A 3-month double-blind and placebo-controlled, phase IIa clinical trial was conducted in Ghana to investigate the safety, tolerance and aflatoxin-sorption efficacy of dietary NovaSil (NS). Volunteers (507 subjects) were clinically screened to evaluate their general health, pregnancy status and blood AF... | {
"abstract": "Strike-slip, thrust, and normal faulting all seem to play an active role in the tectonics of Ningxia. In the southernmost part of the region a major left-lateral strike-slip fault enters the region from the neighboring Gansu province to the west and trends about S65°E. This fault is very clear on Lands... |
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"abstract": "The detection of movement-related components of the brain activity is useful in the design of brain-machine interfaces. A common approach is to classify the brain activity into a number of templates or states. To find these templates, the neural responses are averaged over each movement task. For avera... | {
"abstract": "APPLIED BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES PNAS is publishing an Editorial Expression of Concern regarding the following article: “Use of combinatorial genetic libraries to humanize N-linked glycosylation in the yeast Pichiapastoris,” by Byung-Kwon Choi, Piotr Bobrowicz, Robert C. Davidson, Stephen R. Hamilton, David... | {
"abstract": "A comprehensive analysis of the structural and electronic properties of a novel 2D bismuthene and silicon carbide (SiC) van der Waals heterostructure is performed using first-principles calculation. The electronic structure of the proposed heterobilayer can be effectively tuned by changing the interlay... |
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"abstract": "A ce jour, six millions de francais sont atteints de troubles de l'audition. Face a ce probleme de sante publique, des outils performants d'exploration de la fonction auditive sont indispensables. La Speech ABR (Speech Auditory Brainstem Response ou Reponse du tronc cerebral auditif a la parole) est un... | {
"abstract": "Differentiating between voices is a basic social skill humans acquire early in life. The current study aimed to understand the subcortical mechanisms of voice processing by focusing on the two most important acoustical voice features: the fundamental frequency (F0) and harmonics. We measured frequency ... | {
"abstract": "We report on a novel protocol involving iridium 192 high-dose-rate brachytherapy and follow-up of up to 130 months in patients with prostatic carcinoma. Using regional anesthesia, five to seven hollow needles are placed within the prostate by perineal puncture under ultrasound guidance. A 9-Gy prostate... |
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"abstract": "Abstract The gene – environment (G × E) interaction effect is involved in severe mental disorders. However, whether the brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) Val66Met polymorphism participates in the childhood-abuse influenced schizophrenic symptoms remains unclear. We examined the interaction betwe... | {
"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nThe well-established relationship between childhood adversity and psychosis is likely to involve other factors such as genetic variants that can help us to understand why not everyone exposed to adverse events develops psychotic symptoms later in life.\n\n\nAIMS\nWe investigated the influen... | {
"abstract": "Background The reported link between psychological trauma and onset of psychosis remains controversial. Aims To examine associations between self-reported psychological trauma and psychotic symptoms as a function of prior evidence of vulnerability to psychosis (psychosis proneness). Method At baseline,... |
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"abstract": "The objective of this study was to investigate the frequency of anemia in children and their association with socioeconomic, demographic and biological variables. Between May and July 2007 mothers of infants and preschoolers aged 6 to 24 months were invited to participate in the study. Hemoglobin (Hb) ... | {
"abstract": "OBJECTIVES\nTo identify and quantify isolated and combined risk factors for anemia, providing a comprehensive view of the likelihood of its occurrence.\n\n\nMETHODS\nCross-sectional study with 482 children aged 4 to 29 months attending the nurseries of philanthropic and public daycare centers in the ci... | {
"abstract": "OBJECTIVES\nTo assess the prevalence of anemia among children attending public preschools in Ilhabela, state of São Paulo, Brazil, and their response to a treatment regimen.\n\n\nMETHODS\nBetween 2007 and 2008, the weight, height, and hemoglobin levels of 667 children were measured in the school settin... |
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"abstract": "Understanding business behavior in a city requires acquiring huge amount of data coming from diverse field studies. The growing use of mobile devices in social media provides massive data transactions that can replace such data acquired by field studies. Location‐based social networks' (LBSNs') data ca... | {
"abstract": "The focused organization theory of social ties proposes that the structure of human social networks can be arranged around extra-network foci, which can include shared physical spaces such as homes, workplaces, restaurants, and so on. Until now, this has been difficult to investigate on a large scale, ... | {
"abstract": "Ubiquitous Internet connectivity enables users to update their Online Social Network profile from any location and at any point in time. These, often geo-tagged, data can be used to provide valuable information to closely located users, both in real time and in aggregated form. However, despite the fac... |
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"abstract": "We describe an apparently new measure of multivariate goodness-of-fit between sets of quantitative results from a model (simulation, analytical, or multiple regression), paired with those observed under corresponding conditions from the system being modeled. Our approach returns a single, integrative m... | {
"abstract": "Ecophys.Fish is a deterministic STELLA® model for simulating rates of fish growth in environmental regimes that have simultaneous temporal variation in food, oxygen, temperature, pH, and salinity. The purpose of this article is to introduce Ecophys.Fish to those who might want to use it as a framework ... | {
"abstract": "Fish need oxygen for aerobic generation of energy for body maintenance, locomotion, feeding and biosynthesis. The rate of oxygen uptake of most fish is limited by diffusion through the gills, and gill surface area grows at a slower rate than body mass. We hypothesize, therefore: (1) that the maximum ra... |
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"abstract": "Objective: The objective of this study is to investigate the postoperative position of the patella and its relationship with anterior knee pain in patients operated with infrapatellar reamed tibia intramedullary nailing (IMN). Materials and methods: Patients who underwent tibia IMN between 2019 and 202... | {
"abstract": "Purpose Patella alta is a risk factor for patellofemoral pain and instability. Several measurement methods and imaging modalities are in use to measure patellar height. The first aim of this study was to determine the intra- and interrater reliability of different patellar height measurement methods on... | {
"abstract": "In a retrospective study of 90 realignment procedures for patellar instability, a high percentage of patella alta was diagnosed based upon the preoperative radiographs: 53% or 48 knees. The LP-LT index, described by Insall and Salvati, averaged 0.80 for this group of patients. Post-operative measuremen... |
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"abstract": "This article reports on a qualitative study on the dialogical approach to learning in the context of higher education. The aim was to shed light on the I-Position and multivoicedness in students’ identity building and to provide empirical substantiation for these theoretical constructs, focusing especi... | {
"abstract": "The dialogical self proposes a far-reaching decentralization of both the concept of self and the concept of culture. At the intersection between the psychology of the self in the tradition of William James and the dialogical school in the tradition of Mikhail Bakhtin, the proposed view challenges both ... | {
"abstract": "In this article, the focus is on the therapist’s self, which will be in line with Bakhtin’s thinking, viewed as a dialogical self. First, the dialogical view of the self is situated in the context of psychology’s traditional focus on the individual self. Then, leaning on Bakhtin and Volosinov, the self... |
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"abstract": "As a fundamental and profound task in remote sensing, change detection from very-high-resolution (VHR) images plays a vital role in a wide range of applications and attracts considerable attention. Current methods generally focus on the research of simultaneously modeling and discriminating the changed... | {
"abstract": "In this letter, we propose a novel supervised change detection method based on a deep siamese convolutional network for optical aerial images. We train a siamese convolutional network using the weighted contrastive loss. The novelty of the method is that the siamese network is learned to extract featur... | {
"abstract": "Very high resolution (VHR) remote sensing imagery has been used for land cover classification, and it tends to a transition from land-use classification to pixel-level semantic segmentation. Inspired by the recent success of deep learning and the filter method in computer vision, this work provides a s... |
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"abstract": "Metals are commonly found as natural constituents of proteins. Since many such metals can interact specifically with their corresponding unfolded proteins in vitro, cofactor-binding prior to polypeptide folding may be a biological path to active metalloproteins. By interacting with the unfolded polypep... | {
"abstract": "Pseudomonas aeruginosa azurin binds copper so tightly that it remains bound even upon polypeptide unfolding. Copper can be substituted with zinc without change in protein structure, and also in this complex the metal remains bound upon protein unfolding. Previous work has shown that native-state copper... | {
"abstract": "Experiments were performed to investigate the mechanisms of bicarbonate/CO2 transport in the isolated guinea pig placenta. The maximal uptake of [14C]-bicarbonate/CO2 (reference [3H]-L-glucose) was about 60 per cent on both the fetal and maternal side, using the method of paired tracer single injection... |
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"abstract": "Empirical reports of priced foreign exchange (FX) risk raise the question of whether managers should adjust their cost of equity estimates for FX risk. To study this question, we empirically compare the cost of equity estimates of several risk–return models, including some that have explicit FX risk pr... | {
"abstract": "Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to assess how much difference it makes for US firms to use the two-factor ICAPM to estimate their cost of equity instead of a single-factor CAPM. Design/methodology/approach - For a large sample of US companies, the authors compare the empirical cost of equity est... | {
"abstract": "The interaction of lanthanides and other cations with phosphatidylcholine bilayers present as single bilayer vesicles in 2H2O has been investigated in terms of stoichiometry, apparent binding constants and environmental conditions. \n \nLanthanides are shown to form 2 : 1 (molar ratio) phosphatidylchol... |
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"abstract": "In this paper, we address the project schedule control problem under an uncertain environment. We propose a new method to set the tolerance limits based on the Earned Value Management/Earned Schedule (EVM/ES) schedule performance metrics. These tolerance limits can help a project manager to identify wh... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Different statistical process control (SPC) approaches were proposed over the years for project management using earned value management/earned schedule. A detailed examination of these approaches has led us to express a need for a unified framework in which to test and compare them. The main ... | {
"abstract": "In the past few years, there has been an increasing interest in developing project control systems. The primary purpose of such systems is to indicate whether the actual performance is consistent with the baseline and to produce a signal in the case of non-compliance. Recently, researchers have shown a... |
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"abstract": "Stereology is a method for examining two‐dimensional objects as three‐dimensional objects. The aim of this study was to offer volume values for thoracic segments in ducks by means of stereological methods. This study examined the data obtained from stereological analysis of the total volume and grey an... | {
"abstract": "Review Committee Maurizio Battaglia Parodi Bruno Falcomatà José García-Arumi Michaella Goldstein Antonia Joussen The abstracts are available online, free of charge, under http://www.karger.com/ore_58_s1_2017 ESASO Villa Saroli Viale Stefano Franscini 9 6901 Lugano Switzerland Tel. +41 (0)91 921 1154 Fa... | {
"abstract": "Stereology is a method for examining two‐dimensional objects as three‐dimensional objects. The aim of this study was to offer volume values for thoracic segments in ducks by means of stereological methods. This study examined the data obtained from stereological analysis of the total volume and grey an... |
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"abstract": "Self-aligned multiple patterning (SAMP), due to its low overlay error, has emerged as the leading option for 1D gridded back-end-of-line (BEOL) in sub-14nm nodes. To form actual routing patterns from a uniform \"sea of wires\", a cut mask is needed for line-end cutting or realization of space between r... | {
"abstract": "As technology scales, wire delay due to interconnect resistance (R) and capacitance (C) is increasing. Thus, improvement of middle-of-line and back-end-of-line (BEOL) materials and process technology (e.g., to achieve reduced barrier material thickness or dielectric permittivity) has always been a key ... | {
"abstract": "This paper presents a new proposed topology of a solid-state transformer (SST) for application in hybrid power grids (ac and dc), in which the possibility of operating with various voltage levels (multilevel) in both sides is the main characteristic. At the interface with the power grid (primary side),... |
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"abstract": "Although many authors have analysed the role and the efficiency of science parks, only a few contributions have analysed national science park systems (SPSs) as a whole. Because of the lack of data, evidence regarding the performance of science parks in a nation is very limited and there is a lack of c... | {
"abstract": "The establishment of science parks is employed as a vital strategy for developing high-tech industries in many countries. Whether new technology-based firms (NTBFs) located within science parks are, in comparison to their counterparts located outside of science parks, more efficient in terms of R&D inv... | {
"abstract": "The stakeholder management has been a topic increasingly discussed in the literature about project management, though still existing, large gaps to be filled, especially in complex projects such as the implementation of science parks. Thus, in this paper is presented a case of a Brazilian Science Park ... |
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"abstract": "The effect of irradiance on leaf construction costs, chemical composition, and on the payback time of leaves was investigated. To enable more generalized conclusions, three different systems were studied: top and the most-shaded leaves of 10 adult tree species in a European mixed forest, top leaves of ... | {
"abstract": "Leaf dynamics and carbon gain were evaluated for two species of wild strawberry, Fragaria virginiana and F. vesca. Five populations on sites representing a gradient of successional regrowth near Ithaca, N.Y., U.S.A., were studied for two or three years each. A computer-based model of plant growth and C... | {
"abstract": "1. A study of the bound and free water content of several prairie grasses in four representative grassland types in western North Dakota was made during the summer seasons of 1937 and 1938. The principal grass species in each of the four types were sampled once each week during the season for determina... |
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"abstract": "Model-based reasoning is becoming increasingly common in software engineering. The process of building and analyzing models helps stakeholders to understand the ramifications of their software decisions. But complex models can confuse and overwhelm stakeholders when these models have too many candidate... | {
"abstract": "In this article we describe and evaluate optimized compact data structures for watching literals. Experiments with our SAT solver PicoSAT show that this low-level optimization not only saves memory, but also turns out to speed up the SAT solver considerably. We also discuss how to store proof traces co... | {
"abstract": "Automated deduction uses computation to perform symbolic logical reasoning. It has been a core technology for program verification from the very beginning. Satisfiability solvers for propositional and first-order logic significantly automate the task of deductive program verification. We introduce some... |
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"abstract": "Dental caries is a highly prevalent diet-related disease and is a major public health problem. A goal of modern dentistry is to manage non-cavitated caries lesions non-invasively through remineralization in an attempt to prevent disease progression and improve aesthetics, strength, and function. Remine... | {
"abstract": "Milk caseins stabilize calcium and phosphate ions and make them available to the neonate. Tryptic digestion of the caseins yields phosphopeptides from their polar N-terminal regions that contain clusters of phosphorylated seryl residues. These phosphoseryl clusters have been hypothesized to be responsi... | {
"abstract": "Caries develops when the equilibrium between de- and remineralization is unbalanced favoring demineralization. De- and remineralization occur depending on the degree of saturation of the interstitial fluids with respect to the tooth mineral. This equilibrium is positively influenced when fluoride, calc... |
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"abstract": "The diversity of many invertebrate taxa from Western Ghats of Maharashtra remains unknown due to lack of systematic studies. We studied freshwater calanoid copepods from this region, and found eleven species of diaptomid copepods in 180 samples collected from 80 sites in the study area. Most of these a... | {
"abstract": "Twenty-five sites located in five wetland zones within Doñana, south-west Spain were studied for copepod and cladoceran species richness and composition in relation to habitat characteristics from January to March 2004. The γ-diversity of copepods and cladocerans combined varied between wetland zones, ... | {
"abstract": "In temporary pond ecosystems, it is hypothesized that the two dominant structuring forces on zooplankton communities are predation and demographic constraints due to wetland drying. Both of these forces are deterministic processes that act most strongly at opposing ends of a hydroperiod gradient. Our o... |
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"abstract": "Hospitals are considered a field of logistic robotics of high commercial potential and therefore a handful of mobile robot solutions exist. However, they have failed to trigger widespread acceptance by the market. The ENDORSE system will pursue 4 innovation pillars: an infrastructure-less multi-robot n... | {
"abstract": "Teleoperated medical robotic systems allow procedures such as surgeries, treatments, and diagnoses to be conducted across short or long distances while utilizing wired and/or wireless communication networks. This study presents a systematic review of the relevant literature between the years 2004 and 2... | {
"abstract": "In this paper, we address the problem of popularity prediction of online videos shared in social media. We prove that this challenging task can be approached using recently proposed deep neural network architectures. We cast the popularity prediction problem as a classification task and we aim to solve... |
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"abstract": "We review developments in radiocarbon measuring techniques from the Libby counter through proportional gas counters and liquid scintillation spectrometers to the more recent developments of accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS), followed by a coupling of gas chromatography with AMS for compound-specific ... | {
"abstract": "RADIOCARBON produced naturally in the upper atmosphere or arti-ficially during nuclear weapons testing is the main tracer used to validate models of oceanic carbon cycling, in particular the exchange of carbon dioxide with the atmosphere1–3 and the mixing parameters within the ocean itself4–7. Here we ... | {
"abstract": "Abstract The freshwater balance in the upper layer of the Pacific and Indian Oceans is investigated by means of mass and salinity conservation arguments in simple advective box models. The model uses estimates of atmospheric freshwater input to the ocean and upwelling of deep water into the upper layer... |
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"abstract": "Background and Purpose Predicting poor outcome for stroke patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) in clinical practice is difficult. There are no tools available to use for predicting poor outcome in these patients. We aimed to construct and validate a dynamic nomogram to identify CKD–stroke patient... | {
"abstract": "Urea, a marker of uraemic retention in chronic kidney disease (CKD) and of adequacy of intradialytic solute removal, has traditionally been considered to be biologically inert. However, a number of recent experimental data suggest that urea is toxic at concentrations representative for CKD. First of al... | {
"abstract": "CONTEXT\nMorbidity and mortality rates in hemodialysis patients remain excessive. Alterations in the delivery of dialysis may lead to improved patient outcomes.\n\n\nOBJECTIVE\nTo compare the effects of frequent nocturnal hemodialysis vs conventional hemodialysis on change in left ventricular mass and ... |
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"abstract": "Rationale and Objectives: Although neuroimaging studies suggest that the cerebral ventricle is independently associated with APOE E4 cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) biomarkers, and neuropsychological scores in aging and Alzheimers disease (AD), there is no formal synthesis of these findings. We summarized th... | {
"abstract": "Aggregation of amyloid-β (Aβ) into oligomers, fibrils, and plaques is central in the molecular pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease (AD), and is the main focus of AD drug development. Biomarkers to monitor Aβ metabolism and aggregation directly in patients are important for further detailed study of the... | {
"abstract": "Summary Alzheimer's disease is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that typically manifests clinically as an isolated amnestic deficit that progresses to a characteristic dementia syndrome. Advances in neuroimaging research have enabled mapping of diverse molecular, functional, and structural aspec... |
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"abstract": "Lung cancer is the most common cancer type worldwide, with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) being the most common subtype. Non-disseminated NSCLC is mainly treated with surgical resection. The intraoperative detection of lung cancer can be challenging, since small and deeply located pulmonary nodules... | {
"abstract": "Despite the increasing lung cancer-associated death rate, its therapy has been constrained by impasse of early diagnosis. To apply non-invasive imaging for potential cancer diagnosis system, we screened human lung adenocarcinoma-specific peptides using the phage display technique. For in vivo phage-dis... | {
"abstract": "Cell targeting peptides (CTP) are small peptides which have high affinity and specificity to a cell or tissue targets. They are typically identified by using phage display and chemical synthetic peptide library methods. CTPs have attracted considerable attention as a new class of ligands to delivery sp... |
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"abstract": "This paper describes the Wellington Loop Trust which has been formed to enable a number of Wellington secondary schools to access the Internet via high speed broadband using the Citylink fibre infrastructure. The current literature is used to describe the Loop can as a two-sided market model and to ill... | {
"abstract": "The object of this paper is to discuss on-line intermediation from the perspective of two-sided markets. It builds a simple model of the intermediation activity when trading partners are involved in a commercial relationship and uses it to illustrate some of the results that emerge in the two-sided mar... | {
"abstract": "As in traditional shopping, customer acquisition and retention are critical issues in the success of an online store. Many factors impact how, and if, customers accept online shopping. Models presented in recent years, only focus on behavioral or technological aspects of online shopping. So far, a comp... |
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"abstract": "The fashion industry is on the verge of an unprecedented change. The implementation of machine learning, computer vision, and artificial intelligence (AI) in fashion applications is opening lots of new opportunities for this industry. This paper provides a comprehensive survey on this matter, categoriz... | {
"abstract": "In this paper, we present a method for instance ranking and retrieval at fine-grained level based on the global features extracted from a multi-attribute recognition model which is not dependent on landmarks information or part-based annotations. Further, we make this architecture suitable for mobile-d... | {
"abstract": "In this paper, we propose a novel scene detection algorithm which employs semantic, visual, textual, and audio cues. We also show how the hierarchical decomposition of the storytelling video structure can improve retrieval results presentation with semantically and aesthetically effective thumbnails. O... |
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"abstract": "Abstract It is well-known that in the monetary OLG models, a deviation from the Friedman rule can improve welfare because it generates intergenerational wealth transfers; however, the rule becomes optimal if the age-specific lump-sum tax policy is available. We revisit the issue using a microfounded mo... | {
"abstract": "In models of money with an infinitely-lived representative agent (ILRA models), the optimal monetary policy is almost always the Friedman rule. Overlapping generations (OG) models are different: in this paper, we study how they are different, and why. We investigate the welfare properties of monetary p... | {
"abstract": "Energy cane is a bioenergy crop with an outstanding ability to bud sprouting and increasing yield in ratoon cycles even in marginal lands. Bud fate control is key to biomass production and crop profits due to vegetative propagation and tiller dependency, as well as phenotype plasticity to withstand har... |
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"abstract": "We propose a new paradigm for reactive wall-following by a planar robot taking the form of an actively steered sensor model that augments the robot's motion dynamics. We postulate a foveated sensor capable of delivering third-order infinitesimal (range, tangent, and curvature) data at a point along a w... | {
"abstract": "We report on the design and development of X-RHex, a hexapedal robot with a single actuator per leg, intended for real-world mobile applications. X-RHex is an updated version of the RHex platform, designed to offer substantial improvements in power, run-time, payload size, durability, and terrain negot... | {
"abstract": "This paper presents a six-legged, sprawl-tuned autonomous robot (STAR). This novel robot has a variable leg sprawl angle in the transverse plane to adapt its stiffness, height, and leg-to-surface contact angle. The sprawl angle can be varied from nearly positive 60 degrees to negative 90 degrees, enabl... |
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"abstract": "Mobile robotics which presupposes interaction with humans requires new paradigms of the concept of intelligence. The robot’s ability to understand and perform tasks such as: “Robot, go to the office and bring me the pen that is on the table”, is a requirement. Most approaches to the localization and ma... | {
"abstract": "This paper proposes a method for a cleaning robot to generate a topological map from an occupancy grid-map. Virtual door is defined as the candidates of real door, and the virtual doors are detected as edges of the topological map by extracting corner features from the occupancy grid-map; using this me... | {
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"abstract": "T HE Ehlers–Danlos syndrome (EDS) is a heterogeneous group of inherited connective tissue disorders characterized by hyperextensible skin, hypermobile joints, and tissue fragility. 1 The revised classification of EDS in six major types is based on clinical and biochemical features and consists of major... | {
"abstract": "Disclaimer/Complaints regulations If you believe that digital publication of certain material infringes any of your rights or (privacy) interests, please let the Library know, stating your reasons. In case of a legitimate complaint, the Library will make the material inaccessible and/or remove it from ... | {
"abstract": "STUDY OBJECTIVE\nEhlers-Danlos syndrome (EDS) is an inherited disease characterized by defects in various collagens or their post translational modification, with an incidence estimated at 1 in 5000. Performance of peripheral nerve block in patients with EDS is controversial, due to easy bruising and h... |
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"abstract": "Objectives To assess positioning accuracy in otosurgery and to test the impact of the two-handed instrument holding technique and the instrument support technique on surgical precision. To test an otologic training model with optical tracking. Study Design In total, 14 ENT surgeons in the same departme... | {
"abstract": "Objectives To evaluate construct validity of the Voxelman TempoSurg Virtual Reality (VR) temporal bone simulator by determining whether generated objective metrics can distinguish experienced otologic surgeons from intermediate and novice surgeons. Design Prospective assessment study. Setting Two unive... | {
"abstract": "The results of recent clinical trials of medicinal cannabinoid drugs show that dizziness and vertigo are commonly reported adverse side-effects. Cannabinoid CB1 receptors were initially thought to be expressedin very low densities in the vestibular nucleus complex (VNC). Recent immunohistochemical stud... |
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"abstract": "Hopfield networks have gathered a lot of attention in computer science, as they have the ability to model many interesting phenomena that occur in brains and complex physical systems, and yet the model is nice in analysis. In this paper we investigate a simple Hopfield network organised in a two dimens... | {
"abstract": "Stochastic recurrent neural networks have been successful in many applications [Hopfield, J. J and Tank, D, 1985], [ Wilson, G. V. and Pawley, G. S., 1988], [Kuo-Sheng Cheng, et al.] and their position in the literature is now quite strong, in particular in context of networks aimed at mimicking the th... | {
"abstract": "Abstract We describe the newly written code GADGET which is suitable both for cosmological simulations of structure formation and for the simulation of interacting galaxies. GADGET evolves self-gravitating collisionless fluids with the traditional N-body approach, and a collisional gas by smoothed part... |
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"abstract": "Unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) technology benefits for intelligent transportation and automatic digital map reconstruction in smart city domain. In most urban areas, the planes are usually existed in buildings and infrastructures, which consist of massive 3D points detected by the sensors on UGV. This p... | {
"abstract": "This paper suggests a system to detect multiple planes fast and roughly based on a depth map from depth camera `Kinect'. In order to improve the speed of the plane detection process, we compute local normal vectors of points of the depth map and we classify 3D point cloud data whether it includes in th... | {
"abstract": "n this work we propose a novel Hough voting approach for the detection of free-form shapes in a 3D space, to be used for object recognition tasks in 3D scenes with a significant degree of occlusion and clutter. The proposed method relies on matching 3D features to accumulate evidence of the presence of... |
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"abstract": "This paper introduces the concept of relevance feedback for retrieving time series data. Data in medical field handles various kinds of time series data, such as EHR (electronic health record) and consumer health data. Analyzing and accessing such time series data gets to be crucial for doctors to impr... | {
"abstract": "Presents an algorithm for extracting keywords representing the asserted main point in a document, without relying on external devices such as natural-language processing tools or a document corpus. Our algorithm, KeyGraph, is based on the segmentation of a graph, representing the co-occurrence between ... | {
"abstract": "To test feasibility of cybermetric indicators for describing and ranking university activities as shown in their Web sites, a large set of 9,330 institutions worldwide was compiled and analyzed. Using search engines' advanced features, size (number of pages), visibility (number of external inlinks), an... |
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"abstract": "Graph, such as citation networks, social networks, and transportation networks, are prevalent in the real world. Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have gained widespread attention for their robust expressiveness and exceptional performance in various graph applications. However, the efficacy of GNNs is heav... | {
"abstract": "Deep convolutional neural networks have been widely used in numerous applications, but their demanding storage and computational resource requirements prevent their applications on mobile devices. Knowledge distillation aims to optimize a portable student network by taking the knowledge from a well-tra... | {
"abstract": "Vehicle detection is still a challenge in complex traffic scenes, especially for vehicles of tiny scales. Though RCNN based two-stage detectors have demonstrated considerably good performance, less attention has been paid to the quality of the first stage, where, however, tiny vehicles are very likely ... |
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"abstract": "Aim was evaluation of the effects of cosupplementation of, vitamins E and C, in preventing renal scarring in acute pyelonephritis. Animals and Treatments. Sixty rats were used, bacteria was injected through kidney. The rats were arranged randomly in 3 groups of 20 rats each. Rats in groups 1 and 2 were... | {
"abstract": "The aim of this study was to analyze the effect of vitamins C and E on malondialdehyde (MDA) content and activities of key antioxidant enzymes: superoxide dismutase (SOD), catalase (CAT), and glutathione peroxidase (GSH-Px) as well as glomerular basement membrane (GBM) thickness in streptozotocin-induc... | {
"abstract": "Recent studies have demonstrated widespread pesticide exposures in pregnant women and in children. Plasma paraoxonase 1 (PON1) plays an important role in detoxification of various organophosphates. The goals of this study were to examine in the Center for Health Assessment of Mothers and Children of Sa... |
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"abstract": "This paper presents a 3-D TCAD simulation based study of thermal noise in trigate junctionless field effect transistors (TG-JLFET). Thermal noise in JLFETs increases with channel conductivity, therefore, it is crucial to control the noise while maintaining a good conductivity of the device. This paper ... | {
"abstract": "This paper presents analytical expressions for channel noise, induced gate noise (IGN), and cross-correlation noise in a long-channel junctionless (JL) double-gate MOSFET. The analytical relationships, which have been derived from a coherent charge-based model, are validated with technology computer-ai... | {
"abstract": "Low-frequency noise in n-type junctionless multigate transistors was investigated. It can be well understood with the carrier number fluctuations whereas the conduction is mainly limited by the bulk expecting Hooge mobility fluctuations. The trapping/release of charge carriers is related not only to th... |
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"abstract": "The facile synthesis and detailed investigation of a class of highly potent protease inhibitors based on 1,4-naphthoquinones with a dipeptidic recognition motif (HN-l-Phe-l-Leu-OR) in the 2-position and an electron-withdrawing group (EWG) in the 3-position is presented. One of the compound representati... | {
"abstract": "We investigated the reactions between substituted α,β‐unsaturated carbonyl compounds (Michael systems) and thiols by computations as well as chemoassays. The results give insight into variations in the underlying mechanisms as a function of the substitution pattern. This is of interest for the mechanis... | {
"abstract": "Glutathione (GSH) is a soft nucleophile and, as such, can be used to sense the reactivity of electrophilic agents toward the thiol group and other electron-rich sites of molecular structures. A new kinetic GSH chemoassay is introduced that employs a photometric method to quantify GSH loss and enables a... |
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"abstract": "Mobility within Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) has been widely considered for data collection tasks, where mobile robots physically collect the data from the sensors and return to the base station. Although this approach has proven to be useful in prolonging the lifetime of these networks, it cannot m... | {
"abstract": "Teams of mobile robots have been recently proposed as effective means of completing complex missions involving multiple tasks spatially distributed over a large area. A central problem in such domains is multi-robot routing, namely the problem of coordinating a team of robots in terms of the locations ... | {
"abstract": "This work describes an adaptive system that uses a counterpropagation artificial neural network in decision-making. The output layer of the network is trained by a specially designed one-step reinforcement learning algorithm. This approach allows creating an agent that can quickly adapt to the surround... |
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"abstract": "Metabolic activation is considered to be a critical step for styrene-induced pulmonary toxicity. Styrene-7,8-oxide is a primary oxidative metabolite generated by vinyl epoxidation of styrene. In addition, urinary 4-vinylphenol (4-VP), a phenolic metabolite formed by aromatic hydroxylation, has been det... | {
"abstract": "4-Vinylphenol (4-VP), a minor metabolite of styrene, is a more potent hepato- and pneumotoxicant than either styrene or styrene oxide. In CD-1 mice 4-VP is metabolized primarily by cytochrome P-450 (CYP) 2E1 and CYP2F2. However, there is no difference in the rate of metabolism of 4-VP between wild-type... | {
"abstract": "The stereochemistry of the cytochrome P-450(P-450)-dependent oxidation of styrene to styrene 7,8-oxide (SO) enantiomers was evaluated with rat hepatic microsomes and with individual rat liver P-450 enzymes in reconstituted monooxygenase systems. The stereoselectivity of the monooxygenase reaction with ... |
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"abstract": "Supercritical fluid extraction (SFE) is one of the most commonly used extraction techniques in the course of analysis or preparation. It is environmentally friendly and has some advantages over other conventional extraction methods. This review covers the recent developments of SFE in the extraction of... | {
"abstract": "Supercritical carbon dioxide extraction (SC-CO(2)) of oil from desilked silkworm pupae was performed. Response surface methodology (RSM) was applied to optimize the parameters of SC-CO(2) extraction. The effects of independent variables, including pressure, temperature, CO(2) flow rate, and extraction ... | {
"abstract": "Abstract does not appear. First page follows.\n Introduction\n During an attempt to find a weed reservoir of the western celery mosaic, another virus\n affecting celery was recovered from one of the weeds tested. Poison hemlock, Conium maculatum L., a common umbelliferous weed, was often found naturall... |
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"abstract": "Radar radio source (RRS) recognition plays an important role in the fields of military electronic support systems (ESM) and civilian autonomous driving. The rapid development of machine learning technology, especially deep learning, has effectively and efficiently improved RRS intelligent recognition p... | {
"abstract": "This work investigates radar signal classification and source identification using three classification models: Neural Networks (NN), Support Vector Machines (SVM) and Random Forests (RF). The available large dataset consists of pulse train characteristics such as signal frequencies, type of modulation... | {
"abstract": "The increasing emergence of pervasive information systems requires a clearer understanding of the underlying characteristics in relation to user acceptance. Based on the integration of UTAUT2 and three pervasiveness constructs, we derived a comprehensive research model to account for pervasive informat... |
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"abstract": "Well crystalline, near-stoichiometric zinc oxide nanostructures of different morphologies are fabricated in large scale, utilizing a simple, cost effective mechanochemical synthesis in absence of solvent. Effects of ionic and nonionic surfactants along with the concentration of hydrolyzing agent on the... | {
"abstract": "ZnO nanorods decorated with gold nanoparticles of ~20 nm average size were fabricated by microwave-assisted chemical synthesis. For the surface-attached growth of metal nanoparticles, the ZnO nanostructures were first functionalized by sodium citrate and then the metal ions were reduced under microwave... | {
"abstract": "Faceted ZnO nanorods with different aspect ratios were synthesized by a solvothermal method by tuning the reaction time. Increased reaction leads to the formation of high aspect ratio ZnO nanorods largely bound by the prism planes. The high aspect ratio rods showed significantly higher visible light ph... |
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"abstract": "To address the value of qRT-PCR and IHC in accurately detecting lymph node micrometastasis in gynecological cancer, we performed a systematic approach, using a set of dual molecular tumor-specific markers such as cytokeratin 19 (CK19) and carbonic anhydrase 9 (CA9), in a series of 46 patients (19 with ... | {
"abstract": "Regional lymph node status is an important prognostic factor for vulvar cancer. The goal of our study was to elaborate a reliable test for detecting micrometastases, undetectable by traditional methods, in the lymph nodes of vulvar squamous carcinoma patients. For this purpose, carbonic anhydrase‐9 (CA... | {
"abstract": "Di(2-ethyhexyl) phthalate (DEHP) is commonly used as a plasticizer, which loosely binds to plastic materials and easily leaches out of these products and enters into the environment. Exposure to DEHP can impair pancreatic beta cells (INS-1 cells)function, which is associated with Insulin Resistance (IR... |
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"abstract": "We examine 112 Seyfert galaxies observed by the Hubble Space Telescope at 1.6 μm. We find that ~50% of the Seyfert 2.0 galaxies which are part of the Revised Shapely-Ames (RSA) Catalog or the CfA redshift sample contain unresolved continuum sources at 1.6 μm. All but a couple of the Seyfert 1.0-1.9 gal... | {
"abstract": "If active galactic nuclei (AGN) are powered by the accretion of matter onto massive black holes, how does the gas in the host galaxy lose the required angular momentum to approach the black hole? Gas easily transfers angular momentum to stars in strong bars, making them likely candidates. Although grou... | {
"abstract": "We have investigated radiation induced absorption in Al-doped, P-doped and Ge-doped optical fibres under 60Co source gamma-radiation up to a total dose of 71 kGy at two temperatures 30 and 80 °C. The Al-doped and P-doped fibres demonstrated high radiation sensitivity required for the optical fibre dosi... |
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"abstract": "We study the trade-offs between convergence rate and robustness to gradient errors in designing a first-order algorithm. We focus on gradient descent (GD) and accelerated gradient (AG) methods for minimizing strongly convex functions when the gradient has random errors in the form of additive white noi... | {
"abstract": "We show that accelerated gradient descent, averaged gradient descent and the heavy-ball method for non-strongly-convex problems may be reformulated as constant parameter second-order difference equation algorithms, where stability of the system is equivalent to convergence at rate O(1/n 2), where n is ... | {
"abstract": "Transmission Systems Theory of Adaptive Transversal (FIR) Filters Implementation Considerations Tracking the Time-Variations Adaptive Recursive (IIR) Filters The Case of Independent Input Vectors.",
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"abstract": "As Registered Nurses (RNs) are crucial to delivering care, it is important to determine the factors which contribute to a healthy work environment for nurses and positive outcomes for patients. Past research has focused on the benefits of nurse-physician collaboration including improved nurse/ patient ... | {
"abstract": "Objective: To develop and examine the reliability and validity of a new instrument, the nurse-nurse collaboration (NNC) scale. Background: Nurse-nurse collaboration (NNC) is recommended to reduce medical errors and improve patient care and nurses' job satisfaction. While instruments are available to me... | {
"abstract": "This paper describes the development of the Kuopio University Hospital Job Satisfaction Scale (KUHJSS) and the results of the survey. The scale was developed through a systematic literature review, and its validity and reliability were assessed using several psychometric properties including expert eva... |
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"abstract": "Peroxiredoxin 6 plays important and complex roles in the process of inflammation, but its role in the development of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) remains unclear. We undertook this study to investigate the roles and mechanisms of peroxiredoxin 6 in the development of collagen antibody–induced arthritis (C... | {
"abstract": "Products of Maillard reactions between aminoacids and reducing sugars are known to have anti‐inflammatory properties. Here we have assessed the anti‐arthritis effects of (E)‐2,4‐bis(p‐hydroxyphenyl)‐2‐butenal and its possible mechanisms of action.",
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"abstract": "Rationale: Signal transducer and activator of transcription-3 (STAT3) plays a pivotal role in cancer biology. Many small-molecule inhibitors that target STAT3 have been developed as potential anticancer drugs. While designing small-molecule inhibitors that target the SH2 domain of STAT3 remains the lea... |
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"abstract": "Topical photodynamic therapy (PDT) has been applied to almost all types of nonmelanoma skin cancer and numerous superficial benign skin disorders. Strategies to improve the accumulation of photosensitizer in the skin have been studied in recent years. Although the hydrophilic phthalocyanine zinc compou... | {
"abstract": "The goal of this work was to study the liquid crystalline structure of a nanodispersion delivery system intended to be used in photodynamic therapy after loading with photosensitizers (PSs) and additives such as preservatives and thickening polymers. Polarized light microscopy and light scattering were... | {
"abstract": "In this study, it was demonstrated that site-specific suppression of T-cell-mediated immune responsiveness could indeed be achieved by topical application of cyclosporine. Evidence for site-specific immune suppression was obtained from a dual skin allograft model in rats. These animals were given an in... |
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"abstract": "Arbitrage-free price bounds for convertible bonds are obtained assuming a stochastic volatility process for the common stock that lies within a band but makes few other assumptions about volatility dynamics. Equity-linked hazard rates, stochastic interest rates and different assumptions about default a... | {
"abstract": "When a company calls its convertible bonds, it typically must give the bondholders a notice period of approximately 30 days to decide whether to convert the bonds. This important institutional detail substantially affects the optimal call policy for convertible bonds. When the company calls the bonds, ... | {
"abstract": "This study examines the effects of product substitutability on disclosure redactions. Two types of product market threat to product substitutability are investigated in our study: dynamic and static. Dynamic threat captures the change of product market threat when rivals enter or exit the product marke... |
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"abstract": "ABSTRACT This study aims to evaluate the occurrence of food allergy to peanuts in atopic dermatitis (AD) patients and to analyse the sensitization to molecular components. The complete dermatological and allergological examination including the examination of the sensitization to molecular components w... | {
"abstract": "Purpose of reviewWe conducted a systematic literature search for studies investigating the link between atopic dermatitis and food sensitization or clinically significant allergy (FA) in adults, to assess the strength of the association between the two diseases in both general and selected populations.... | {
"abstract": "Food allergy can result in life-threatening anaphylaxis. Atopic dermatitis (AD) causes intense itching and impaired quality of life. Previous studies have shown that patients with classical early-onset AD tend to develop food allergy and that 10% of adults with food allergies have concomitant AD. Howev... |
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"abstract": "We address the problems of the automated temporal knowledge acquisition for development of knowledge bases in dynamic intelligent systems based on the problem-oriented methodology and AT-TECHNOLOGY workbench. We review some features of the temporal version of combined knowledge acquisition method, incl... | {
"abstract": "Managing temporal data is becoming increasingly important for many applications. Several database systems already support the time dimension, but provide only few temporal operators, which also often exhibit poor performance characteristics. On the academic side, a large number of algorithms and data s... | {
"abstract": "High-performance transaction system applications typically insert rows in a History table to provide an activity trace; at the same time the transaction system generates log records for purposes of system recovery. Both types of generated information can benefit from efficient indexing. An example in a... |
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"abstract": "This paper proposes a socially oriented scheme for user clustering and content dissemination in device-to-device (D2D) communications. The proposed scheme exploits the interplay of social interactions and user common interests to demonstrate their combined effects on D2D user clustering by considering ... | {
"abstract": "Understanding how much two individuals are alike in their interests (i.e., interest similarity) has become virtually essential for many applications and services in Online Social Networks (OSNs). Since users do not always explicitly elaborate their interests in OSNs like Facebook, how to determine user... | {
"abstract": "Many decisions require a context-dependent mapping from sensory evidence to action. The capacity for flexible information processing of this sort is thought to depend on a cognitive control system in frontoparietal cortex, but the costs and limitations of control entail that its engagement should be mi... |
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"abstract": "Electrical stimulation by means of a medical implant is used as a means of restoring the lost functionality of different physiological organs. An active implant which works on a battery or a passive implant which works on power wirelessly transferred to it, could be used for this purpose. The future de... | {
"abstract": "An advanced stimulator for neuromuscular stimulation of spinal cord injured patients has been developed. The stimulator is externally controlled and powered by a single encoded radio frequency carrier and has four independently controlled bipolar stimulation channels. It offers a wide range of reprogra... | {
"abstract": "This paper presents the use of a recently developed algorithm inspired by the hunting mechanism of ant-lions in nature, called ant lion optimizer (ALO). The ALO algorithm is used for solving the voltage instability problem in radial distribution networks. The proposed method ensures system operation wi... |
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"abstract": "The traditional view on dietary restriction has been challenged with regard to extending lifespan of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. This is because studies have shown that changing the balance of dietary components without reduction of dietary intake can increase lifespan, suggesting that nutri... | {
"abstract": "A high throughput screening assay was developed based on the yeast chronological aging model and applied in evaluating several factors that mediate lifespan, including inoculum size, cellular state in nutrient-rich medium, and calorie level. Using our assay, we confirmed the previously reported genetic... | {
"abstract": "The proton-decoupled natural abundance carbon-13 nuclear magnetic resonance spectrum of the canine sciatic nerve is virtually identical to that of canine adipose tissue and markedly similar to that of liquid triolein. No resonances assignable to cholesterol, glycolipids, or sphingolipids are detectable... |
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"abstract": "This research proposes an expanded semantic graph definition that serves as a basis for an expanded semantic graph representation and graph matching approach. This representation separates the content and context and adds a number of semantic structures that encapsulate inferred information. The expand... | {
"abstract": "This paper defines and shows the merit of measures for quantifying the degree of relatedness of information of interest and the importance of new information found within a large number of free text documents. These measures are used for identifying and sorting free text documents that are found to con... | {
"abstract": "This research presents an approach for creating semantically linked event threads originating from free text sources and for developing an information theory-based mathematical foundation for characterizing the event threads. Events are represented as components mapped into ℝN each consisting of sets o... |
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"abstract": "The Malagasy have been shown to be a genetically admixed population combining parental lineages with African and South East Asian ancestry. In the present paper, we fit the Malagasy admixture history in a highly resolved phylogeographic framework by typing a large set of mitochondrial DNA and Y DNA mar... | {
"abstract": "Male individuals from Maputo (Mozambique) were sampled and 18 Y-STRs were typed: the nine currently used to define the \"minimal haplotype\" employed in the European, American and Asian \"Y-STR Haplotype Reference Databases\", as well as the recently described DYS434, DYS437, DYS438, DYS439, DYS460, DY... | {
"abstract": "Thirty-seven children with headaches who were seen in a walk-in clinic were matched to 37 headache-free controls. Thirty percent of the headache group and 11% of the headache-free control group had a body temperature above 38°C (p < 0.05). Nonrhythmic pain was more commonly associated with fever than w... |
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"abstract": "Electrical burns of the mouth are the most common electrical injury in children and can have serious, long-term functional and aesthetic consequences. Presented is a review of the pathogenesis of the associated injury and sequelae, as well as a case report. In the presented case, a multidisciplinary ap... | {
"abstract": "Perioral burns may occur due to electrical, thermal, or chemical agents. The resultant contracture of the facial tissue during healing causes limited oral access, compromised esthetics, and other related problems. This article presents various microstomia prevention appliances used by dentists and hosp... | {
"abstract": "In spite of efforts to make electrical fittings safe, the incidence of electrical burns of the mouth at Children's Hospital Medical Center has increased. Mouthing a live female extension cord plug is the most common mechanism of injury. Bleeding occurred in 25% of the cases, some time between the first... |
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"abstract": "Abstract Background: Chronic urticaria (CU) is a common and easily recurring skin disease in the world. Many trials have shown that autologous whole-blood or autologous serum acupoint injection therapy is effective in treating CU. There is currently no systematic review of this therapy. The program aim... | {
"abstract": "Dear Editor: \n \nChronic urticaria (CU) is characterized by recurrent wheals and pruritus with surrounding erythema presenting on all or most days of the week for >6 weeks. \n \nAt least 80%~90% of patients with CU are found to have no external cause for their condition. These patients are traditional... | {
"abstract": "Summary The autologous‐serum skin test (ASST) can cause a wheal‐and‐flare response in some cases of chronic idiopathic urticaria. We subjected 102 patients affected by chronic idiopathic urticaria to this test and studied some clinical parameters to detect any significant differences between ASST‐posit... |
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"abstract": "Introduction The anatomy of the vermiform appendix shows variations in its macroscopic dimensions some of which have potential to influence the clinical aspects of the appendix. Anatomical studies on the appendix using people in Bangladesh as a sample are limited and fall short of producing any standar... | {
"abstract": "Summary The pathological changes occurring in a series of 1000 consecutive appendicectomies are reviewed. Normal appendix was diagnosed in 14% of cases, while 561 (56%) exhibited acute appendicitis; 53 (5%) had chronic inflammatory infiltrate associated with obliteration of the lumen of the tip of the ... | {
"abstract": "SummarySeven cases of primary adenocarcinoma of the appendix have been reported. None of the cases was diagnosed prior to treatment. Right hemicolectomy remains the treatment of choice even in some cases in which a carcinomatous appendix has ruptured.",
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"abstract": "En este estudio se evaluo la produccion de biomasa aerea y la viabilidad, germinacion, latencia y produccion de semilla de Melinis repens en diferentes localidades de Aguascalientes, Mexico. Se seleccionaron cuatro sitios: El Llano, Jesus Maria, San Francisco de los Romo y Calvillo, con alta poblacion ... | {
"abstract": "Invasive plants reduce the capacity of ecosystems to provide goods and services required by society, alter ecological processes, and can displace desirable species. They can reduce wildlife habitat quality, riparian area integrity, rangeland economic value, and enterprise net returns. The invasion proc... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Scavenging by the seabed and by sedimentary particles in the deep ocean may have a significant effect on the removal of artificial radionuclides released to the water column as a result of radioactive waste disposal operations. Biological activity in the upper layers of the sediment column wil... |
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"abstract": "Journal article published in the International Conference on Public Administration and Development Alternatives 04 - 06 July 2018, Stellenbosch University, Saldahna Bay, South Africa",
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"title": "Risk Management: Can it be a Panacea for State-Owned Enterprises Ills?"
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"abstract": "Business risk management, taking a variety of forms, has been a growth point in corporate management in recent years. That change in emphasis is said to stem from responses to high-profile disasters like Bhopal and Exxon Valdez, increasing legal and regulatory pressure on risk management and a search f... | {
"abstract": "The role of the mobile terminal in advertising and marketing has attached increasing attention, but the traditional advertising acceptance model does not consider how the characteristics of mobile Internet advertising affect consumer attitudes and decision-making. Based on the technology acceptance mod... |
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"abstract": "Mainstream criminologists have long maintained that delinquent peer group formation is largely a function of family—environmental variables and have ignored self-selection into peer groups because of genetic proclivities. A small number of recent studies, however, suggest that genes are implicated in d... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Empirical research has revealed a positive relationship between number of sex partners and involvement in antisocial behaviors. Most attempts to explain this association have taken an evolutionary perspective and argued that the same traits (e.g., impulsiveness, shortsightedness, and aggressiv... | {
"abstract": "Family, twin, and adoption studies have documented a strong genetic basis for ADHD/HKD, but these studies do not identify specific genes linked to the disorder. Molecular genetic studies can identify allelic variations of specific genes that are functionally associated with ADHD/HKD, and dopamine genes... |
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"abstract": "Abstract Twitter is one of the many communications means connecting groups of users with similar interests. This study analyses tweets related to halal cosmetics in order to gain insights about halal cosmetics chatter on Twitter. The researchers extracted Twitter data related to halal cosmetics (2008 t... | {
"abstract": "The development of IoT technologies and the massive admiration and acceptance of social media tools and applications, new doors of opportunity have been opened for using data analytics in gaining meaningful insights from unstructured information. The application of opinion mining and sentiment analysis... | {
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"score": -1,
"title": "2 Toward An Efficient Fingerprint Classification"
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"abstract": "Glucosinolates (GLSs) are found in Brassica vegetables. Examples of these sources include cabbage, Brussels sprouts, broccoli, cauliflower and various root vegetables (e.g. radish and turnip). A number of epidemiological studies have identified an inverse association between consumption of these vegeta... | {
"abstract": "Epidemiological and experimental evidence indicates that consumption of fried meats in conjunction with certain genotypes of phase I and II metabolism genes poses an elevated risk for colorectal cancer. Parallel to this, the consumption of cruciferous vegetables is associated with a reduced risk of col... | {
"abstract": "XPS has been used extensively to characterize the surface chemistry of materials used in bioengineering and is increasingly finding a role in biology. Its ability to characterize both the elemental and chemical structures of the surface makes it particularly useful, as it can be used to identify and im... |
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"abstract": "Although the functional role of chromatin marks at promoters in mediating cell-restricted gene expression has been well characterized, the role of intragenic chromatin marks is not well understood, especially in endothelial cell (EC) gene expression. Here, we characterized the histone H3 and H4 acetyla... | {
"abstract": "Cardiovascular diseases are commonly thought to be complex, non-Mendelian diseases that are influenced by genetic and environmental factors. A growing body of evidence suggests that epigenetic pathways play a key role in vascular biology and might be involved in defining and transducing cardiovascular ... | {
"abstract": "Calcium phosphates (CaPs) are the most widely used bone substitutes in bone tissue engineering due to their compositional similarities to bone mineral and excellent biocompatibility. In recent years, CaPs, especially hydroxyapatite and tricalcium phosphate, have attracted significant interest in simult... |
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"abstract": "Machine learning technologies are rapidly emerging in the Internet of Things (IoT) to provision smart services with intelligence. Current approaches often rely on IoT devices to collect data and send it to the cloud for further processing. While the cloud offers abundant computing resources, communicat... | {
"abstract": "With the increasing commoditization of computer vision, speech recognition and machine translation systems and the widespread deployment of learning-based back-end technologies such as digital advertising and intelligent infrastructures, AI (Artificial Intelligence) has moved from research labs to prod... | {
"abstract": "Deep learning based on artificial neural networks is a very popular approach to modeling, classifying, and recognizing complex data such as images, speech, and text. The unprecedented accuracy of deep learning methods has turned them into the foundation of new AI-based services on the Internet. Commerc... |
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"abstract": "Product Development Processes (PDPs) are essential to competitiveness and survival in several industries. The PDP comprised of multifunctional activities each one of them influenced by many internal and external factors that small changes during the process progress can lead to unexpected or even unsta... | {
"abstract": "A new method of using dynamic product development (DPD) described for hardware product development has now also been tested for software development. This project was the development of a new Intra ...",
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"title": "Dynamic product development of a new Intranet platform"
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"abstract": "Managers are increasingly undertaking action research projects in their own organizations. Action research involves opportunistic planned interventions in real time situations and a study of those interventions as they occur, which in turn informs further interventions. Insider action research has its ... |
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"abstract": "A current survey of the emerging field of networked control systems is provided. The aim is to introduce the fundamental issues involved in designing successful networked control systems, to provide a snapshot assessment of the current state of research in the field, to suggest useful future research d... | {
"abstract": "This paper discusses distributed controller design and analysis for distributed systems with arbitrary discrete symmetry groups. We show how recent results for designing controllers for spatially interconnected systems, based on semidefinite programming, are applicable to a much larger class of interco... | {
"abstract": "This paper deals with stabilization of interconnected discrete-time nonlinear systems under given, arbitrary information constraints on the controller structure. As a prominent example, the considered information constraints on the controller structure include decentralized and distributed control over... |
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"abstract": "This paper proposes a 3D quasi-static numerical model for the magnetic\n induction calculation produced by the high voltage overhead power lines by\n using the Current Simulation Technique (CST) combined with the Particle\n Swarm Optimization Algorithm (PSO), in order to determine the appropriate\n pos... | {
"abstract": "Ground level electric and magnetic fields from overhead power transmission lines are of increasingly important considerations in several research areas. Common methods for the calculation of the magnetic fields created by power transmission lines assume straight horizontal lines parallel to a flat grou... | {
"abstract": "Point localisation of subsea cables are necessary as a starting point in the search of a particular section or whole length of a cable and become a demanding and challenging task in an uncertain environment such as sea. The authors propose a novel method of using particle filters for estimating the pos... |
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"abstract": "Sleep was long considered a passive mental state. The extent to which external information is integrated in, and consciously processed during sleep remains unknown. Here, simultaneous electroencephalographic (EEG) and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data were collected from sleeping partic... | {
"abstract": "The present study aimed at identifying the neurophysiological responses associated with auditory stimulation during non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep using simultaneous electroencephalography (EEG)/functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) recordings. It was reported earlier that auditory stimuli ... | {
"abstract": "This review summarizes studies of evoked potentials (EPs) applied to the investigation of human sleep and of sleep disorders. The first part is devoted to studies dealing with the nature, mechanisms and extent of information processing during sleep. EP studies suggest that the brain's ability to detect... |
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"abstract": "SummaryGravid females of the little-known dracunculoid nematode Mexiconema liobagri Moravec et Nagasawa, 1998 (Daniconematidae), a parasite of the rare endemic catfish Liobagrus reinii Hilgendorf (Amblycipitidae), were found in the body cavity of this fish from two new localities in Japan: the Takami R... | {
"abstract": "Examinations of 29 specimens of the catfish Liobagrus reini Hilgendorf (Siluriformes: Amblycipitidae), a species endemic to Japan, collected from the Sho River, Toyama Prefecture, in central Honshu, revealed the presence of four species of helminth parasites: Plagioporus honshuensis sp. n. (Trematoda),... | {
"abstract": "A number of reports have described the production of polysialic acid (PSA), focusing on the fermentation and purification of PSA. However, little work has been done to strengthen the synthetic pathway of PSA to improve PSA production. In this study, an efficient process for enhanced production of PSA u... |
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"abstract": "In this study, a nonlinear wave simulation code is developed using a higher-order spectral (HOS) method. The HOS method is very efficient because it can determine the solution of the boundary value problem using fast Fourier transform (FFT) without matrix operation. Based on the HOS order, the vertical... | {
"abstract": "This paper generalizes previous research on embedded wave generation in Boussinesq-type of equations for multi-directional surface water waves; the generation takes place by adding a suitable source term to the equations. Accurate generation is important to prevent influx errors in simulated waves down... | {
"abstract": "Model compositions of the Moon and Earth were calculated on the assumption that these planets had experienced the same nebular fractionation processes as the chondrites. The proportions of 7 basic components (early condensate, metal, etc.) were estimated from geochemical constraints, such as K/U, bulk ... |
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"abstract": "The high comorbidity rates of posttraumatic stress disorder and chronic pain have been widely reported, but the underlying mechanisms remain unclear. Emerging evidence suggested that an excess of inflammatory immune activities in the hippocampus involved in the progression of both posttraumatic stress ... | {
"abstract": "Summary Increasing only the expression of the pleiotropic cytokine tumor necrosis factor–alpha exclusively in the hippocampus of naïve rats induces peripheral hypersensitivity to thermal and mechanical stimulation reminiscent of chronic pain behaviors. Abstract The manifestation of chronic, neuropathic... | {
"abstract": "Male and female Wistar rats were trained in a standard passive avoidance task. One-half of the subjects was shocked (S) upon entering a dark compartment, the other half was not (NS). One hour after S and NS experience subjects were tested. During testing different behavioral elements were observed in o... |
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"abstract": "Survival rates for very preterm and critically ill infants are increasing, raising complex ethical issues for health-care providers and parents who face the challenge of making end-of-life decisions for newborns. The purpose of this integrative literature review was to evaluate parental involvement in ... | {
"abstract": "The Born-Alive Infants Protection Act (BAIPA), passed by Congress in 2002, has attracted little publicity. Its purposes were, in part, “to repudiate the flawed notion that a child’s entitlement to the protections of the law is dependent on whether that child’s mother or others want him or her.” Underst... | {
"abstract": "Dr. Leroy Carhart is a Nebraska physician who performs abortions in a clinical setting. He brought this lawsuit in Federal District Court seeking a declaration that the Nebraska statute violates the Federal Constitution, and asking for an injunction forbidding its enforcement. After a trial on the meri... |
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"abstract": "Taking as its starting point a holographic interferometric\ntechnique, used to measure the static and dynamic bulk moduli\nof elastomers, this thesis describes the progression of\nresearch aimed at extending the range and nature of these\nmeasurements. The use of Electronic Speckle Pattern\nInterferome... | {
"abstract": "THE formation of optical images by wave-front reconstruction as originated by Gabor1 and more recently extended by Leith and Upatnieks2 has made it possible to perform interferometry with light reflected or scattered from an irregular three-dimensional object3. Some of the possibilities of this method ... | {
"abstract": "Holograms and high-quality reconstructions have been made by using a two-beam interferometric technique. The extraneous twin image and other interfering terms have been eliminated. Two types of objects have been used which are not suitable for the conventional wavefront reconstruction technique: object... |
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"abstract": "SUMMARY Summary During the last decades, traditional monocentric metropolitan systems are evolving to polycentric ones, characterized by externalities shared among a collection of close-by and linked cities (either with or without a main city still exerting a principal role). As a result, and partially... | {
"abstract": "Abstract In this paper, we analyze the impact of orbital motorways on intra-metropolitan accessibility, using as an example the Madrid M-40 orbital motorway. The maps of changes in accessibility show that, as one might expect, the nodes situated near the M-40 are those that most benefit from the new in... | {
"abstract": "This paper evaluates the extent that French LBO targets' investment policy and operations can account for their overperformance discrepancy. Our empirical study has been carried out on 132 French LBOs between 1989 and 1994. The results show that the abnormal plunge in economic return cannot be explaine... |
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