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{ "abstract": "Epilepsy is a common neurological disease that can cause seizures and loss of consciousness and can have a severe negative impact on long-term cognitive function. Reducing the severity of impact requires early diagnosis and treatment. Epilepsy is traditionally diagnosed using electroencephalography (EE...
{ "abstract": "A new approach based on the implementation of multiclass support vector machine (SVM) with the error correcting output codes (ECOC) is presented for classification of electroencephalogram (EEG) signals. In practical applications of pattern recognition, there are often diverse features extracted from ra...
{ "abstract": "Applications in data science, shape analysis and object classification frequently require maps between metric spaces which preserve geometry as faithfully as possible. In this paper, we combine the Monge formulation of optimal transport with the Gromov-Hausdorff distance construction to define a measur...
{ "abstract": "Abstract Purpose The intent of this article is to report the status of some of the pharmaceuticals currently in late stage development for possible use for individuals unwantedly and acutely injured as a result of radiological/nuclear exposures. The two major questions we attempt to address here are: (...
{ "abstract": "HemaMax, a recombinant human interleukin-12 (IL-12), is under development to address an unmet medical need for effective treatments against acute radiation syndrome due to radiological terrorism or accident when administered at least 24 hours after radiation exposure. This study investigated pharmacoki...
{ "abstract": "Introduction: Despite significant scientific advances over the past 60 years towards the development of a safe, nontoxic and effective radiation countermeasure for the acute radiation syndrome (ARS), no drug has been approved by the US FDA. A radiation countermeasure to protect the population at large ...
{ "abstract": "These days meta-heuristic algorithms are gaining lot of popularity. The performance of the metaheuristics depends upon the suitable selection of user dependent parameters. Finding the most suitable values for the parameters (fine tuning) is a challenging problem. This paper proposes a generalized strat...
{ "abstract": "Biogeography-based optimization (BBO) is an emerging meta-heuristic algorithm. Due to ease of implementation and very few user-dependent parameters, BBO gained popularity among researchers. The performance of BBO is highly dependent on its two operators, migration and mutation. The performance of BBO c...
{ "abstract": "Biogeography-based optimization (BBO) is a new evolutionary algorithm based on the science of biogeography. We propose two extensions to BBO. First, we propose blended migration. Second, we modify BBO to solve constrained optimization problems. The constrained BBO algorithm is compared with solutions b...
{ "abstract": "ABSTRACT Much of the debate in contemporary urban studies has surrounded the provision of affordable housing in capital and regional cities. Master planned estates (MPEs) have emerged as the dominant form of housing in Australia. Master planned estates often include private governance mechanisms to reg...
{ "abstract": "This paper focuses on the commodification processes and the aestheticization practices that shape gated communities and on the way these are connected to their segregational dimension, which is illustrated through the case of the Lisbon Metropolitan Area (LMA). First, I discuss the (increasing) aesthet...
{ "abstract": "Housing prices being one factor thought to contribute to segregation patterns, this article aims at differentiating gated communities from non-gated communities in terms of change in property values. To what extent do gated communities contribute to price filtering of residents, and do patterns of pric...
{ "abstract": "This paper deals with image reconstruction from measured multi-frequency scattering data for 2D inhomogeneous targets by using a technique combining the diagonal tensor approximation (DTA) and contrast source inversion (CSI) methods. In this algorithm, the diagonal tensor approximation is applied as a ...
{ "abstract": "We introduce a new source-dependent but diagonal scattering tensor to approximate the electromagnetic fields internal to a scatterer. The approximate analytical expressions for the three diagonal scattering components are derived. Numerical tests show that the new approximation has favorable accuracy a...
{ "abstract": "A 3-D microwave imaging system prototype and an inverse scattering algorithm are developed to demonstrate the feasibility of 3-D microwave imaging for medical applications such as breast cancer detection with measured data. In this experimental prototype, the transmitting and receiving antennas are pla...
{ "abstract": "AbstractThis study presents two support vector machine (SVM) based models for forecasting hourly precipitation during tropical cyclone (typhoon) events. The two SVM-based models are the traditional Gaussian kernel SVMs (GSVMs) and the advanced wavelet kernel SVMs (WSVMs). A comparison between the fifth...
{ "abstract": "BackgroundAutomatic variable selection methods are usually discouraged in medical research although we believe they might be valuable for studies where subject matter knowledge is limited. Bayesian model averaging may be useful for model selection but only limited attempts to compare it to stepwise reg...
{ "abstract": "BackgroundProstate-cancer diagnosis increases the risk for psychiatric morbidity and suicide. Thoughts about one’s own death could indicate need for psychiatric care among men with localized prostate cancer. We studied the prevalence and predictors of thoughts about own death among men with prostate ca...
{ "abstract": "The purpose of this study was to examine racial differences in the creation of a living will among older adults, guided by the Andersen model of healthcare utilization. Data from the 2018 National Health and Aging Trends Study were used to examine differences between Black and Hispanic older adults com...
{ "abstract": "Compared to White Americans, African-Americans are less likely to use primary care (PC) as their usual source of care. This is generally attributed to race differences in socioeconomic status and in access to primary care services. Little is known about the relationship between race differences in medi...
{ "abstract": "Synchrotron fibre diffraction studies of collagenous breast tissue have revealed clear and consistent differences in the diffraction intensity patterns between samples taken from patients with breast carcinoma and those taken from controls. These changes, prelusive to carcinoma, are related to changes ...
{ "abstract": "Visual simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) as field has been researched for ten years, but with recent advances in mobile performance visual SLAM is entering the consumer market in a completely new way. A visual SLAM system will however be sensitive to non cautious use that may result in sever...
{ "abstract": "Recent advances in the field of content-based image retrieval (CBIR) have made it possible to quickly search large image databases using photographs or video sequences as a query. With appropriately tagged images of places, this technique can be applied to the problem of visual location recognition. Wh...
{ "abstract": "In this paper we apply Conformal Prediction (CP) to the k-Nearest Neighbours Regression (k-NNR) algorithm and propose ways of extending the typical nonconformity measure used for regression so far. Unlike traditional regression methods which produce point predictions, Conformal Predictors output predic...
{ "abstract": "This study presents the perceived and projected image of Taiwan as a travel destination from perspectives from Mainland China. The perceived image of Taiwan was examined by interviewing 28 Mainland Chinese; the projected image of Taiwan was investigated by analyzing articles in China’s most popular tra...
{ "abstract": "This research investigates the salient and organic images of Taiwan as perceived by Mainland Chinese tourists. Using the method of free elicitation to ask respondents to describe freely their holistic, psychological and unique images of Taiwan, this research obtained abundant marketing information from...
{ "abstract": "A technique based on the relationship between leaf area index (LAI) and the transmittance of direct sunlight was developed for the in situ study of competition for light between plant species. Field studies were conducted in 1984 and 1985 using monocultures and mixtures of rapeseed (Brassica napus L.),...
{ "abstract": "Abstract No Free Lunch (NFL) theorems have been developed in many settings over the last two decades. Whereas NFL is known to be possible in any domain based on set-theoretic concepts, probabilistic versions of NFL are presently believed to be impossible in continuous domains. This article develops a n...
{ "abstract": "The No Free Lunch (NFL) theorems for search and optimization are reviewed and their implications for the design of metaheuristics are discussed. The theorems state that any two search or optimization algorithms are equivalent when their performance is averaged across all possible problems and even over...
{ "abstract": null, "corpus_id": 37071853, "score": -1, "title": "Towards a Theoretical Model for Human Resource Management Information Systems, Government Policy and Organizational Performance: A Research Agenda" }
{ "abstract": "We consider the problem of estimating the number of hidden states (the order) of a nonparametric hidden Markov model (HMM). We propose two different methods and prove their almost sure consistency without any prior assumption, be it on the order or on the emission distributions. This is the first time ...
{ "abstract": "In this paper, we propose a new algorithm for non-parametric estimation of hidden Markov models (HMM). The algorithm is based on a \"wavelet-shrinkage\" density estimator for the state-conditional probability density functions of the HMM's. It operates in an iterative fashion, similar to the EM re-esti...
{ "abstract": "This paper presents an algorithm to compute a binary hierarchy of nested clusters. A token browses the network and recruits nodes to its cluster. When the cluster reaches a maximal size defined by a parameter $K$ of the algorithm, it is divided (when possible) and tokens are created in both of the new ...
{ "abstract": "In the adult brain, multipotent progenitor cells have been identified in three areas: the ventricular-subventricular zone (VZ-SVZ), adjacent to the striatal wall of the lateral ventricles, the subgranular zone (SGZ), located at the dentate gyrus of the hippocampus and the subcallosal zone (SCZ), locate...
{ "abstract": "Serotonin transporter (SERT) regulates extracellular availability of serotonin and is a potential pharmacological target for gastrointestinal disorders. A decrease in SERT has been implicated in intestinal inflammatory and diarrheal disorders. However, little is known regarding regulation of SERT in th...
{ "abstract": "The regulation of gastrin gene transcription was studied in GH4 pituitary cells transfected with constructs comprised of the first exon of the human gastrin gene and various lengths of 5' regulatory sequences ligated upstream of the reporter gene chloramphenicol acetyltransferase. Gastrin reporter gene...
{ "abstract": "In many applications, source code and debugging symbols of a target program are not available, and the only thing that we can access is the program executable. A fundamental challenge with executables is that, during compilation, critical information such as variables and types is lost. Given that type...
{ "abstract": "Object-oriented programming complicates the already difficult task of reverse engineering software, and is being used increasingly by malware authors. Unlike traditional procedural-style code, reverse engineers must understand the complex interactions between object-oriented methods and the shared data...
{ "abstract": "Monitoring of service-based systems can be used to assist with the verification of the behaviour of the system, and the quality and contextual information of the services participating in a system. In this paper, we present a pattern-based approach to support monitor adaptation: adaptation of monitor r...
{ "abstract": "ABSTRACT Objective: To compare the obstetric and neonatal outcomes between primiparous and multiparous attended at home by obstetric nurses. Method: Cross sectional study, which examined 100 women attended births at home and their newborns from January 2005/December 2009, Brazil. The data collected fro...
{ "abstract": "OBJECTIVE: The purpose of our study was to compare the intrapartum and early neonatal mortality rate of planned home birth with planned hospital birth in community midwife-led deliveries after case mix adjustment. METHODS: The perinatal outcome of 679,952 low-risk women was obtained from the Netherland...
{ "abstract": "The purpose of this study is to describe the outcome in one family practice of planned home births attended by a physician and an experienced birth assistant in a self-selected, but subsequently screened, population over an 11-year period. All but 26 primigravidas were screened out, as were multiple pr...
{ "abstract": "The benefits of upgrading extremum-seeking controllers with an effective exploitation of the buffer capacity of equalization tanks have been investigated and applied to anaerobic digesters. In this respect, a Fuzzy-based supervisory module that monitors the state of the equalization tank has been desig...
{ "abstract": "This paper presents a new mathematical model for the anaerobic hybrid reactor (AHR) (a UASB reactor and an anaerobic filter in series) and its experimental calibration and verification. The model includes a biochemical part and a mass transport one, which considers the AHR as two contact reactors in se...
{ "abstract": "Dynamic changes in spatial microbial distribution in mixed-population biofilms were experimentally determined using a microslicer technique and simulated by a biofilm accumulation model (BAM). Experimental results were compared with the model simulation. The biofilms cultured in partially submerged rot...
{ "abstract": "Efficacy of nitrogen salts at 2, 4, and 8 mmhos/cm electrical conductivity (EC) on the host-pathogen relationship of root-knot nematode (Meloidogyne javanica) and cucumber (Cucumis sativus) was investigated and compared with the effects of nematicides at 2 locations. Root galling of cucumber roots caus...
{ "abstract": "Summary. During June 2011, a survey was conducted in four districts of Bingol province, Turkey, to investigate the occurrence, population abundance and spatial distribution of plant parasitic nematodes associated with forage crops. A total of 24 soil samples were collected and processed for this study....
{ "abstract": "The genus Merlinius was established by Siddiqi (1970) to accommodate those forms previously in Tylenchorhynchus that have six incisures in the lateral field, a small trough-shaped nonprotrusible gubernaculum, and stout spicules with distal ends notched and without large ventral flanges. Tarjan (1973) g...
{ "abstract": "ABSTRACT Uveal melanoma (UM) is an intractable disease with a low survival rates, despite adequate local treatment, as a result of its metastatic characteristics. Thus, new therapeutic strategies, including combinations of novel gene therapy and traditional chemotherapy, are under investigation to impr...
{ "abstract": "Uveal melanoma is the most common primary intraocular malignancy in adults; however, current therapeutic modalities, including chemotherapy, have not been successful. Oncolytic viruses serve as an emerging gene therapy tool for cancer treatment because they specifically kill tumor cells while sparing n...
{ "abstract": "Tumor cells are protected from antibody-dependent complement-mediated lysis by membrane-bound regulators of complement activation (m-RCA). m-RCA are expressed on uveal melanoma cells. We determined whether cytokine treatment affects expression of m-RCA on these cells in vitro. m-RCA expression on uveal...
{ "abstract": "This study fully addressed the modifiable areal unit problem (i.e. MAUP) that was well-known in geography but generally ignored by safety analysts. The basic issue of MAUP was introduced firstly, and then four potential strategies, i.e. using disaggregate data as possible, capturing spatial non-station...
{ "abstract": "The design of zoning systems for spatial interaction models is a major problem which affects both the interpretation and acceptability of these models. This paper demonstrates that zoning-system effects on parameter values and model performance are nontrivial, and that their magnitude is far larger tha...
{ "abstract": "Openshaw S. (1973) Insoluble problems in shopping model calibration when the trip pattern is not known, Reg. Studies 7, 367–371. Gravity models are often used in retail studies to describe or predict shopping turnovers, although few attempts have been made to either determine optimum parameter values o...
{ "abstract": "Although there are surveys summarizing the efforts toward discovering the Internet routing topology, no work has addressed how to infer the routing topology among a particular group of hosts scattered across the Internet. These two issues differ in scale, objective and solutions currently available. Ho...
{ "abstract": "To construct an efficient overlay network, the information of underlay is important. We consider using end-to-end measurement tools such as traceroute to infer the underlay topology among a group of hosts. Previously, Max-Delta has been proposed to infer a highly accurate topology with a low number of ...
{ "abstract": "This paper deal with the problem in speed controller for Indirect Field Oriented Control of Induction Motor. The problem cause decrease performance of Induction Motor where it widely used in high-performance applications. In order decrease the fault of speed induction motor, Takagi-Sugeno type Fuzzy lo...
{ "abstract": "Conics and quadrics are classic topics at Engineering Schools. Conics are usually introduced from constructive properties and their equations and classification are presented later. Meanwhile, quadrics are introduced directly from their equations. The availability of 3D dynamic geometry systems allows ...
{ "abstract": "Many (2D) Dynamic Geometry Systems (DGSs) are able to export numeric coordinates and equations with numeric coefficients to Computer Algebra Systems (CASs). Moreover, different approaches and systems that link (2D) DGSs with CASs, so that symbolic coordinates and equations with symbolic coefficients ca...
{ "abstract": "The Four Vertex Theorem, one of the earliest results in global differential geometry, says that a simple closed curve in the plane, other than a circle, must have at least four \"vertices\", that is, at least four points where the curvature has a local maximum or local minimum. In 1909 Syamadas Mukhopa...
{ "abstract": "Modern On-Line Data Intensive (OLDI) applications have evolved from monolithic systems to instead comprise numerous, distributed microservices interacting via Remote Procedure Calls (RPCs). Microservices face single-digit millisecond RPC latency goals (implying sub-ms medians)—much tighter than their m...
{ "abstract": "Managing tail latency of requests has become one of the primary challenges for large-scale Internet services. Data centers are quickly evolving and service operators frequently desire to make changes to the deployed software and production hardware configurations. Such changes demand a confident unders...
{ "abstract": "A large number of user requests execute (often concurrently) within a server system. A single request may exhibit fluctuating hardware characteristics (such as instruction completion rate and on-chip resource usage) over the course of its execution, due to inherent variations in application execution s...
{ "abstract": "IN KOREAN ·························································80", "corpus_id": 249245497, "title": "Serum uric acid and cardiovascular disease according to metabolic risk factors: the Korean Heart Study" }
{ "abstract": "BackgroundHyperuricemia may be associated with an increased risk of coronary heart disease (CHD) mortality; however, the results from prospective studies are conflicting. The objective of this study was to assess the association between hyperuricemia and risk of CHD mortality by performing a meta-analy...
{ "abstract": "BACKGROUND\nantenatal screening for fetal abnormalities is now offered to all pregnant women in many countries in Europe. Previous studies have shown that women and their partners may not make informed choices about screening.\n\n\nOBJECTIVES\nto investigate knowledge of screening in both prospective p...
{ "abstract": "A new approach to adaptive threshold selection for classification of peaks of audio spectra is presented. We here extend the previous work on classification of sinusoidal and noise peaks based on a set of spectral peak descriptors in a twofold way: on one hand we propose a compact sinusoidal model wher...
{ "abstract": "A novel approach to classification of peaks of audio spectra is presented. In extending previous work on detecting transient spectral peaks we here investigate into the classification of sinusoidal and noise peaks. The classification is based on descriptors derived from properties related to time-frequ...
{ "abstract": "Diffraction-limited infrared images of three binary stars reconstructed using speckle imaging techniques are presented. Three methods of recovering the objects' Fourier amplitudes are compared, Fourier deconvolution, projection onto convex sets, and CLEAN. The objects' Fourier phases are retrieved via ...
{ "abstract": "ABSTRACT The Kushum is a relatively new breed of horses in Kazakhstan that was established in the middle of the 20th century through a cross between mares of Kazakhstan local horses and stallions of Thoroughbred, Trotter, and Russian Don breeds to supply military horses. To reveal the genetic character...
{ "abstract": "In contrast to high genetic diversity of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), equine Y chromosome shows extremely low variability, implying limited patrilines in the domesticated horse. In this study, we applied direct sequencing and restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) methods to investigate the poly...
{ "abstract": "Studies of the Y chromosome in primates, rodents and carnivores provide compelling evidence that the male specific region of Y (MSY) contains functional genes, many of which have specialized roles in spermatogenesis and male-fertility. Little similarity, however, has been found between the gene content...
{ "abstract": "In this project, we use a vision based method to globally localize a Micro Aerial Vehicle (MAV) flying in GPS shadowed areas such as urban areas and university campuses. A large database consisted of Google Street View images with their location tags is used as the global map, where we match the MAV ca...
{ "abstract": "We tackle the problem of globally localizing a camera-equipped micro aerial vehicle flying within urban environments for which a Google Street View image database exists. To avoid the caveats of current image-search algorithms in case of severe viewpoint changes between the query and the database image...
{ "abstract": "Semantic labeling for very high resolution (VHR) images in urban areas, is of significant importance in a wide range of remote sensing applications. However, many confusing manmade objects and intricate fine-structured objects make it very difficult to obtain both coherent and accurate labeling results...
{ "abstract": "The study of homologous recombination has its historical roots in meiosis. In this context, recombination occurs as a programmed event that culminates in the formation of crossovers, which are essential for accurate chromosome segregation and create new combinations of parental alleles. Thus, meiotic r...
{ "abstract": "Comment on: Zakharyevich K, et al. Mol Cell 2010; 40:1001-15.", "corpus_id": 720571, "title": "Double duty for Exo1 during meiotic recombination" }
{ "abstract": "ABSTRACT Galbanic acid (GBA) is known a sesquiterpene coumarin to have apoptotic, anti‐hypoxic, anti‐proliferative, anti‐hepatitis, anti‐angiogenic, anti‐bacteria and anti‐thrombotic effects. Also, antitumor effect of GBA was reported in prostate, ovary, breast and lung cancers. Nevertheless, the under...
{ "abstract": "Abstract Caridean shrimps are a highly diverse group and many species form symbiotic relationships with different marine invertebrates. Periclimenes rathbunae is a brightly colored shrimp that lives predominantly in association with sea anemones. Information about the reproductive ecology of the specie...
{ "abstract": "Background Fishery management has historically been an inexact and reactionary discipline, often taking action only after a critical stock suffers overfishing or collapse. The invertebrate ornamental fishery in the State of Florida, with increasing catches over a more diverse array of species, is poise...
{ "abstract": "SynopsisSpawning aggregations of the Nassau grouper, Epinephelus striatus, occurring at the southern end of Long Island were investigated during the winters of 1987–1988 and 1988–1989. Fish aggregate at two specific sites around the time of the full moon in December and January, possibly not during Nov...
{ "abstract": "Based on extensive empirical observation of design activities that might be supported by a knowledge repository, we report conclusions from three case studies. Seeking to improve research infrastructure necessary to cultivate a \"science of design\" within human-computer interaction, we focus on identi...
{ "abstract": "We elaborate a proposal for capturing, extending, and reusing design knowledge gleaned through usability testing. The proposal is specifically targeted to address interface design for notification systems, but its themes can be generalized to any constrained and well-defined genre of interactive system...
{ "abstract": "Throughout the software design process, developers must make decisions and reify them in code. The decisions made during software architecting are particularly significant in that they have system-wide implications, especially on the quality attributes. However, architects often fail to adequately docu...
{ "abstract": "In this paper, a six-degree-of-freedom tethered rigid kite with a kite-mounted turbine is modeled using Newtonian and Lagrangian formulations supplemented with corresponding kinematic analysis and an Euler-angle representation. In addition, to capture the coupled effects of kite and tether dynamics, th...
{ "abstract": "Control of kite trajectories for a tethered undersea kite (TUSK) energy system is studied. A TUSK system consists of a rigid undersea wing (or kite) attached by a tether to a buoy on the ocean surface. A turbine is mounted on the undersea kite to harness hydrokinetic energy from an ocean current when t...
{ "abstract": "Ocean currents and tidal energy are significant renewable energy resources, and new concepts to extract this untapped energy have been studied in the last decades. Tethered undersea kite (TUSK) systems are an emerging technology which can extract ocean current energy. TUSK systems consist of a rigid-wi...
{ "abstract": "An adaptive structural learning method of restricted Boltzmann machine (RBM) and deep belief network (DBN) has been developed as one of prominent deep learning models. The neuron generation–annihilation algorithm in RBM and layer generation algorithm in DBN make an optimal network structure for given i...
{ "abstract": "Recently, deep learning is receiving renewed attention in the field of artificial intelligence. Deep belief network (DBN) has a deep network architecture that can represent multiple features of input patterns hierarchically, using pre-trained restricted Boltzmann machines (RBMs). Such deep network arch...
{ "abstract": "This paper describes an implicit segmentation-based method for recognition of strings of characters (words or numerals). In a two-stage HMM-based method, an implicit segmentation is applied to segment either words or numeral strings, and in the verification stage, foreground and background features are...
{ "abstract": "Objective: To systematically review and summarize the current available literature on prognostic variables relating to upper limb recovery following stroke. To identify which, if any variables predict upper limb recovery following stroke. Data sources: We completed searches in MEDLINE, EMBASE, AMED, CI...
{ "abstract": "The patient's arm affected by hemiplegia is a common problem following a stroke. The term hemiplegia is a limited physiological description of the effects of a stroke on a patient's limb. Any nurse involved in the care of stroke patients must possess essential knowledge on the pathophysiology of hemipl...
{ "abstract": "Objective: To determine whether strapping the shoulder in hemiplegic stroke patients: (1) prevents the development, or reduces the severity, of shoulder pain, (2) preserves range of movement in the shoulder, and (3) improves the functional outcomes for the arm and patient overall. Design: A prospective...
{ "abstract": "Congestion in Malta is now reaching epidemic levels, driven by the fact that the number of cars being registered on a daily basis has increased significantly, and there is no view that this scenario will attenuate. Due to our limited geographical landmass, and that fact that the population and the rati...
{ "abstract": "Based on the experience of transport policy and scenario planning in South‐East Queensland, this essay explores the alternative futures of transport. It does so by first exploring the weight of lock‐ins that make creating new futures nearly impossible. Next, the ways that the future can be used to tran...
{ "abstract": "Titol original: Storia Universale de teatro dramatico \n Primer volum \n Primera edicio: maig 1989", "corpus_id": 190162055, "score": -1, "title": "Història del teatre" }
{ "abstract": "Two decades of exoplanet discoveries brought the physics of planetary interiors among the topics of broad and current interests. To advance in this field, one of the key ingredient is the knowledge of the equation of states and physical properties of planetary constituents. At the extreme conditions of...
{ "abstract": "We perform density functional molecular dynamics simulations of liquid and solid MgSiO3 in the pressure range of 120−700 GPa and for temperatures up to 20000 K in order to provide new insight into the nature of the firstorder liquid-liquid phase transition that was recently predicted on the basis of de...
{ "abstract": "The replacement of methane (CH4) from its hydrate by a mixture of nitrogen (N2) and carbon dioxide (CO2) involves the dissociation of methane hydrate leading to the formation of a CH4-N2-CO2-H2O mixture that can significantly influence the subsequent steps of the replacement process. In the present wor...
{ "abstract": "Cellular assays reveal a decline in Aβ and tau pathological conformers in Alzheimer’s disease brain samples. Puncta point the way Amyloid plaques composed of Aβ peptides and neurofibrillary tangles composed of aberrant tau proteins are the key pathological hallmarks in the Alzheimer’s disease (AD) brai...
{ "abstract": "Background. The altered expression of the Lewis blood group‐related antigens during malignant transformation can be used clinically as a tumor marker or as a prognostic indicator. The Lewis Y (LeY) antigen, which is one of the Type 2 human blood group‐related antigens, also is thought to behave as an o...
{ "abstract": "One hundred women were admitted to the hospital between 7 and 18 weeks' gestation because of vaginal bleeding and threatened abortion. Serum concentration of estradiol-17 beta was determined by radioimmunoassay. Ultrasound examination using a gray-scale scanner was performed as well. The values for pre...
{ "abstract": "Air pollution has become a growing problem in megacities and large urban areas throughout the globe, and transportation is recognized as the major source of air pollution in many cities, especially in developing countries. Contribution of automobiles is reported in the range of 40 to 80% of the total a...
{ "abstract": "Ubiquitous physiological monitoring will be a key driving force in the upcoming wireless health revolution. Cardiac and brain signals in the form of ECG and EEG are two critical health indicators that directly benefit from long-term monitoring. Despite advancements in wireless technology and electronic...
{ "abstract": "Electrocardiography (ECG) is the most common and extensively used vital sign monitoring method in modern healthcare systems. Different designs of ambulatory ECG systems were developed as alternatives to the commonly used 12-lead clinical ECG systems. These designs primarily focus on portability and use...
{ "abstract": "Abstract Japanese encephalitis (JE) is a re-emerging mosquito-borne zoonotic flaviviral disease. Swine sero-convert 2–3 weeks before infection occurs in humans and thus serves as a suitable sentinel for JE surveillance and outbreak prediction in human population. The present study was conducted with th...
{ "abstract": "Among vertebrate species, pigs are a major amplifying host of Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV) and measuring their seroconversion is a reliable indicator of virus activity. Traditionally, the hemagglutination inhibition test has been used for serological testing in pigs; however, it has several limita...
{ "abstract": "This study was designed to investigate the application of indirect enzyme-linked immunoassay (ELISA) in detecting IgG against Japanese encephalitis virus in swine sera and the qualitative nature of this test. The attenuated strain SA14-14-2 of Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV) was inoculated into 9-day...
{ "abstract": "In this study, a novel (E, E)-dioxime containing a diazatetrathiadioxa macrobicyclic moieties (19E, 20E)-6,7,14,15,18,21,24,25oktahydro-13,26-(ethanothioethano-thioethano)dibenzo[14,15:8,9]-[1,4,10,13,7,16]dioxadithiadiazacyclooctadecino[2,3-g] quinoxaline-19,20,27,34-tetrone 19,20-dioxime (H2L) has be...
{ "abstract": "A novel (E,E)-dioxime,5,6:13,14-di(4′-t-butylbenzo)-2,3-bis(hydroxyimino)-8,11-dithia-1,4-diazacyclotetradecane (H2L), containing a 14-membered dithiadiaza macrocyclic unit has been synthesized by the reaction of 1,2-bis(4-t-butyl-2-aminobenzylthio)ethane (1) and cyanogendi-N-oxide (2). A mononuclear n...
{ "abstract": "Copper(II) halides, CuX2 (X = Br−, Cl−), have been combined in non-aqueous medium with various α,-β-dione dioxime (α,β-dodoH) ligands to produce new 1:1 adducts, the di-μ-halo-bis[halo(α,β-dodoH)copper(II)] dimers. These are: Di-μ-bromo-bis[bromo(ethanedialdioxime)copper(II)]; di-μ-bromo-bis[bromo(diph...
{ "abstract": "Seabirds act as natural reservoirs to Lyme borreliosis spirochetes and may play a significant role in the global circulation of these pathogens. While Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato (Bbsl) has been shown to occur in ticks collected from certain locations in the North Pacific, little is known about int...
{ "abstract": "A potential role of seabirds in spreading Lyme disease (LB) spirochetes over large spatial scales was suggested more than 10 years ago when Borrelia garinii was observed in marine birds of both hemispheres. Since then, there have been few studies examining the diversity of Borrelia spp. circulating in ...
{ "abstract": "The hard tick Ixodes uriae parasitises a wide range of seabird species in the circumpolar areas of both Northern and Southern hemispheres and has been shown to be infected with Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato, the bacterial agents of Lyme borreliosis. Although it is assumed that seabirds represent viab...
{ "abstract": "Existing blind image quality assessment (BIQA) methods are mostly opinion-aware. They learn regression models from training images with associated human subjective scores to predict the perceptual quality of test images. Such opinion-aware methods, however, require a large amount of training samples wi...
{ "abstract": "Present day no-reference/no-reference image quality assessment (NR IQA) algorithms usually assume that the distortion affecting the image is known. This is a limiting assumption for practical applications, since in a majority of cases the distortions in the image are unknown. We propose a new two-step ...
{ "abstract": "We present an interactive system enabling users to manipulate images to explore the robustness and sensitivity of deep learning image classifiers. Using modern web technologies to run in-browser inference, users can remove image features using inpainting algorithms and obtain new classifications in rea...
{ "abstract": "Parkinson’s disease (PD) is characterized by resting tremor, rigidity and bradykinesia. Dopaminergic medications such as L-dopa treat these motor symptoms, but can have complex effects on cognition. Impulse control is an essential cognitive function. Impulsivity is multifaceted in nature. Motor impulsi...
{ "abstract": "Parkinson’s disease (PD) is characterized by motor symptoms, such as resting tremor, bradykinesia and rigidity, but also features non-motor complications. PD patients taking dopaminergic therapy, such as levodopa but especially dopamine agonists (DAs), evidence an increase in impulse control disorders ...
{ "abstract": "A biocompatible and uniquely defined hydroxyapatite (HAP) adsorption membrane with a sandwich structure was developed for the removal of organic micropollutants for the first time. Both the adsorption and membrane technique were used for the removal of organic micropollutants. The hydrophilicity and hy...
{ "abstract": "A character network is a graph extracted from a narrative in which vertices represent characters and edges correspond to interactions between them. A number of narrative-related problems can be addressed automatically through the analysis of character networks, such as summarization, classification, or...
{ "abstract": "We study temporal networks of characters in literature focussing on Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) by Lewis Carroll and the anonymous La Chanson de Roland (around 1100). The former, one of the most influential pieces of nonsense literature ever written, describes the adventures of Alice in a f...
{ "abstract": "Twitter, the most famous micro-blogging service and online social network, collects millions of tweets every day. Due to the length limitation, users usually need to explore other ways to enrich the content of their tweets. Some studies have provided findings to suggest that users can benefit from adde...
{ "abstract": "In x-ray computed tomography, exact cone-beam reconstruction algorithms have been developed for various scanning trajectories. Volumes scanned by helical, saddle, and circle-plus-line trajectories can be also reconstructed exactly with these algorithms. Generally, the exact cone-beam reconstruction alg...
{ "abstract": "Recently, in the compressed sensing framework we found that a two-dimensional interior region-of-interest (ROI) can be exactly reconstructed via the total variation minimization if the ROI is piecewise constant (Yu and Wang, 2009). Here we present a general theorem charactering a minimization property ...
{ "abstract": "The importance of performing exact image reconstruction from the minimum amount of data has been recognized for a longtime. Yangbo Ye et al. has proved that the interior problem can be exactly and stably solved if a subregion in an ROI/VOI in the FOV is known from fan-beam/cone-beam projection datasets...
{ "abstract": "Gastric cancer (GC) is a malignancy with few effective treatment options after metastasis occurs. Quercetin (Qu) intake has been associated with reduced incidence and slow development of GC, probably due to its anti-proliferative and apoptotic effects, but it is unclear whether Qu can inhibit the metas...
{ "abstract": "Rapid nitric oxide (NO) production via endothelial NO synthase (eNOS) activation represents a major signaling pathway for the cardiovascular protective effects of estrogens; however, the pathways after NO biosynthesis that estrogens use to function remain largely unknown. Covalent adduction of a NO moi...
{ "abstract": "Estrogen-induced rapid, membrane-initiated activation of numerous signal transduction cascades has been shown in animal, cellular and molecular vascular studies, which support the favorable effects of estrogen on vascular structure and function. These effects are mediated by distinct forms of estrogen ...
{ "abstract": "To study the long‐term outcome of deep sclerectomy with and without mitomycin‐C (MMC) in patients with normal‐tension glaucoma (NTG).", "corpus_id": 207035682, "title": "Long‐term results of deep sclerectomy in normal‐tension glaucoma" }
{ "abstract": "Aim: To study the possibility of using intraocular pressure (IOP) in the first postoperative day after sclerectomy as a prognostic indicator. Methods: Non-randomised prospective trial involving 105 eyes of 105 patients with medically uncontrolled primary and secondary open angle glaucoma. Visual acuity...
{ "abstract": "PurposeTo compare outcomes of phaco-canaloplasty (PC) and phaco-non-penetrating deep sclerectomy (PDS) with a viscoelastic compound.MethodsThis study included 29 eyes after PC and 30 after PDS. Indications were uncontrolled primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG) and a cataract. Corrected distance visual ac...
{ "abstract": "Camouflaged object detection (COD) aims to identify the objects that conceal themselves in natural scenes. Accurate COD suffers from a number of challenges associated with low boundary contrast and the large variation of object appearances, e.g., object size and shape. To address these challenges, we p...
{ "abstract": "Abstract Camouflaged objects attempt to conceal their texture into the background and discriminating them from the background is hard even for human beings. The main objective of this paper is to explore the camouflaged object segmentation problem, namely, segmenting the camouflaged object(s) for a giv...
{ "abstract": "Salient object detection aims to detect the main objects in the given image. In this paper, we propose an approach that integrates semantic priors into the salient object detection process. The method first obtains an explicit saliency map that is refined by the explicit semantic priors learned from da...
{ "abstract": "The characterization of our Galaxy’s longest filamentary gas features has been the subject of several studies in recent years, producing not only a sizable sample of large-scale filaments, but also confusion as to whether all these features (e.g., “Bones,” “Giant Molecular Filaments”) are the same. The...
{ "abstract": "We study the properties of giant molecular clouds (GMCs) from a smoothed particle hydrodynamics \nsimulation of a portion of a spiral galaxy, modelled at high resolution, with robust \nrepresentations of the physics of the interstellar medium. We examine the global molecular gas \ncontent of clouds, an...
{ "abstract": "A high average power dense plasma focus (DPF), x-ray point source has been used to produce ∼70 nm line features in AlGaAs-based monolithic millimeter-wave integrated circuits (MMICs). The DPF source has produced up to 12 J per pulse of x-ray energy into 4π steradians at ∼1 keV effective wavelength in ∼...
{ "abstract": "Laboratory of Tumor Biology, The Second Clinical Collage of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province 510120, People’s Republic of China Abstract: Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) play crucial regulatory roles in fundamental biological processes, and deregulations of lncRNAs ...
{ "abstract": "BackgroundOvarian cancer ascites fluid (OCAF), contains malignant cells, is usually present in women with an advanced stage disease and currently has no effective therapy. Hence, we developed a new therapy strategy to target the expression of diphtheria toxin gene under the control of H19 regulatory se...
{ "abstract": "Type 2 diabetes is a complex metabolic disorder characterized by insulin resistance and pancreatic β-cell dysfunction. Deregulated glucose and lipid metabolism are the primary underlying manifestations associated with this disease and its complications. Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) are a novel class ...
{ "abstract": "Over the last decade, the cost of producing electricity from solar power has reduced substantially, yet the usage of solar power has not increased proportionately. This Note analyses the constraints in power transmission and distribution, including infrastructural constraints and demand-side factors. I...
{ "abstract": "Abstract South Asia accounts for 37% of the world's population without access to electricity. Such a situation continues to exist despite several initiatives and policies to support rural electrification efforts by the respective country governments including use of renewable energy technologies. While...
{ "abstract": "The National essential medicines policy (NEMP) is promoted by the World Health Organization for affordable medicines that can meet the basic needs of communities. Patient acceptance is essential for achieving the policy goals of the NEMP. This study aimed to assess patient satisfaction with prescribed ...
{ "abstract": "Aim: The aim of this study was to evaluate the periodontal bone defects created only mechanically and by combined mechanical and \nchemical techniques. \nMaterials and Methods: The samples comprised 24 hemi-mandibles from pigs, which were allocated into 3 groups; G1 (before acid application), G2 (after...
{ "abstract": "Perchloric acid (70%) was used to create simulated periapical lesions in tooth sockets of 15 dentate cadaver jaw specimens. Using the Trophy USA direct digital radiographic system, linear images were captured at selected time intervals after initial acid application and altered by contrast reversal, ps...
{ "abstract": "Background The prevalence of dyslipidemia in multiple regions of Venezuela is unknown. The Venezuelan Metabolic Syndrome, Obesity and Lifestyle Study (VEMSOLS) was undertaken to evaluate cardiometabolic risk factors in Venezuela. Objective To determine the prevalence of dyslipidemia in five populations...
{ "abstract": "Abstract For Australians, the $325 billion not-for-profit industry superannuation funds are a popular retirement saving option. To achieve their investment objectives, industry funds commonly apply the strategic asset allocation approach across seven diversified benchmarked asset classes. Fund managers...
{ "abstract": "Abstract This study empirically investigates the enhancement of cross-sector diversification for investment properties in a small economy, where there are only a few regional choices. It also examines the distinct effects of optional diversification strategies over different economic phases. The study ...
{ "abstract": "Annual and monthly REIT returns display statistically significant serial persistence, although the two types of persistence behavior are qualitatively different. By contrast, quarterly REIT returns do not display serial persistence. This strongly suggests that linear multifactor market models cannot de...
{ "abstract": "Asynchronous circuits offer promise in handling current and future technology scaling challenges. Unfortunately, their impact has been limited by the lack of design automation. We present A-NTUPLACE, a timing-driven placer uniquely suited to handling quasi delay-insensitive circuits. Our tool uses a ge...
{ "abstract": "Quasi Delay-Insensitive (QDI) circuits can be created through the procedure of Martin Synthesis, a series of transformations that begin with an executable specification and end in a transistor network. If these transformations are properly applied the circuits will be correct by construction, however i...
{ "abstract": "The failure to remove tetracycline (TC) in most conventional wastewater treatment systems results in the discharge and accumulation of TC in the environment, which in turn, increases the potential for developing TC-resistance in naturally occurring microorganisms. Thus, there is a need to explore other...
{ "abstract": "Many problems in robot motion planning involve collision testing a set of local paths. In this paper we propose a novel solution to this problem by exploiting the structure of paths and the outcome of previous collision tests. Our approach circumvents expensive collision tests on a given path by detect...
{ "abstract": "This paper describes the design and implementation of a path planning system for an autonomous ground vehicle. The system is designed to be flexible, allowing any planning algorithm to be used and any topology of data to be planned over. It employs a hierarchical separation of two planning modules in c...
{ "abstract": "Ethanol production sites utilizing sugarcane as feedstock are usually located in regions with high land availability and decent solar radiation. This offers the opportunity to cover parts of the process energy demand with concentrated solar power (CSP) and thereby increase the fuel production and carbo...
{ "abstract": "Acute respiratory infections are responsible for high morbi–mortality in Peruvian children. However, the etiological agents are poorly identified. This study, conducted during the pandemic outbreak of H1N1 influenza in 2009, aims to determine the main etiological agents responsible for acute respirator...
{ "abstract": "BackgroundHuman rhinoviruses (HRVs) belong to the Picornaviridae family with high similarity to human enteroviruses (HEVs). Limited data is available from Latin America regarding the clinical presentation and strains of these viruses in respiratory disease.MethodsWe collected nasopharyngeal swabs at cl...
{ "abstract": "Purpose of review This article focuses on recent research into depression, bipolar disorder and anxiety in older people. Recent findings Many physical illnesses are associated with a high prevalence of depression but overall medical burden may largely account for this. The relationship between depressi...
{ "abstract": "In 2018, Dvořák and Postle introduced a generalization of proper coloring, the so‐called DP‐coloring. For any graph G $G$ , the DP‐chromatic number χD P( G ) ${\\chi }_{DP}(G)$ of G $G$ is defined analogously with the chromatic number χ( G ) $\\chi (G)$ of G $G$ . In this article, we show that χD P(G ∨...
{ "abstract": "Abstract DP-coloring is a generalization of list coloring introduced recently by Dvořak and Postle (2015). We prove that for every n -vertex graph G whose chromatic number χ ( G ) is “close” to  n , the DP-chromatic number of G equals χ ( G ) . “Close” here means χ ( G ) ≥ n − O ( n ) , and we also sho...
{ "abstract": "The on-line choice number of a graph is a variation of the choice number defined through a two person game. It is at least as large as the choice number for all graphs and is strictly larger for some graphs. In particular, there are graphs G with |V(G)|[email protected](G)+1 whose on-line choice number...
{ "abstract": "Purpose – Viewing creativity through the theoretical lens of the resource‐based view, the paper attempts to answer a fundamental question: is design creativity a static or dynamic capability? If static, then firms need to acquire personnel who are already creative. If dynamic, then personnel's creative...
{ "abstract": "In this article we develop a theoretical framework for understanding creativity in complex social settings. We define organizational creativity as the creation of a valuable, useful new product, service, idea, procedure, or process by individuals working together in a complex social system. The startin...
{ "abstract": "The authors examined 2 ways reward might increase creativity. First, reward contingent on creativity might increase extrinsic motivation. Studies 1 and 2 found that repeatedly giving preadolescent students reward for creative performance in 1 task increased their creativity in subsequent tasks. Study 3...
{ "abstract": "Clustering algorithms have been increasingly adopted in security applications to spot dangerous or illicit activities. However, they have not been originally devised to deal with deliberate attack attempts that may aim to subvert the clustering process itself. Whether clustering can be safely adopted i...
{ "abstract": "Machine learning systems offer unparalled flexibility in dealing with evolving input in a variety of applications, such as intrusion detection systems and spam e-mail filtering. However, machine learning algorithms themselves can be a target of attack by a malicious adversary. This paper provides a fra...
{ "abstract": null, "corpus_id": 1128972, "score": -1, "title": "On Attacking Statistical Spam Filters" }
{ "abstract": "In this study, activated carbons (ACs) were synthesized and tested as CO2 sorbents. In-house ACs were prepared starting both from a traditional biomass (i.e. oak wood) and from an unconventional macroalgal seaweed (i.e. Laminaria hyperborea). In addition to this, a biomass-derived commercial AC was stu...
{ "abstract": "The utility of pyrolytic carbons is closely related to their porosity and surface area, there is a clear benefit to the development of biomass pyrolysis processes which produce highly porous carbons. The results presented in this work demonstrate that by using biomass precursors with high inorganic con...
{ "abstract": "We report 10 mW cw room‐temperature operation of an electrically pumped vertical‐cavity surface‐emitting laser diode without a heat sink. This same laser produces 19 mW cw when cooled slightly below room temperature. In addition, we present a 9 mW cw laser with a threshold voltage of 1.6 V, and series ...
{ "abstract": "Image-based food recognition pose new challenges for mainstream computer vision algorithms. Recent works in the field focused either on hand-crafted representations or on learning these by exploiting deep neural networks (DNN). Despite the success of DNN-based works, these exploit off-the-shelf deep ar...
{ "abstract": "A food recognition system exploiting a supervised committee of classifiers is proposed.The system automatically selects the optimal features for the task.The structured fusion approach is designed to achieve an optimal ranking.Evaluations have been conducted on 4 publicly available benchmark datasets.S...
{ "abstract": "This paper proposes a new approach to solve the problem of real-time vision-based hand gesture recognition with the combination of statistical and syntactic analyses. The fundamental idea is to divide the recognition problem into two levels according to the hierarchical property of hand gestures. The l...
{ "abstract": "Background: Because of its convenience and robustness, the generalized estimating equations (GEE) method has been commonly used to fit marginal models of continuous outcomes in family studies. However, unbalanced family sizes and complex pedigree structures within each family may challenge the GEE meth...
{ "abstract": "Linear mixed models have become a popular tool to analyze continuous data from family-based designs by using random effects that model the correlation of subjects from the same family. However, mixed models for family data are challenging to implement with the BUGS (Bayesian inference Using Gibbs Sampl...
{ "abstract": "We describe an iterative image restoration technique which functions as digital confocal microscopy for Raman images. We deconvolute the lateral and axial components of the microscope point spread function from a series of optical sections, to generate a stack of well-resolved Raman images which descri...
{ "abstract": "As renewable energy is becoming a critical energy source to meet the global demand, electrochemical energy storage devices become indispensable for the efficient energy storage and reliable supply. The electrode material is the key factor determining the energy storage capacity and the power delivery o...
{ "abstract": "Lithium ion capacitors possess an ability to bridge the gap between lithium ion battery and supercapacitor. The main concern of fabricating lithium ion capacitors is poor rate capability and cyclic stability of the anode material which uses sluggish faradaic reactions to store an electric charge. Herei...
{ "abstract": "In this paper, we present the development of a laser-based bonding method using a liquid crystal polymer (LCP) film for cavity-based packaging of sensors and Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) devices. LCP films possess the best properties among polymeric materials in terms of moisture resistance an...
{ "abstract": "BACKGROUND: Non-invasive measurement of oxygenation is a routine procedure in clinical practice, but transcutaneous monitoring of PCO2(PtCO2) is used much less than expected. METHODS: The aim of our study was to analyze the value of a commercially available combined SpO2/PtCO2 monitor (TOSCA-Linde Medi...
{ "abstract": "BACKGROUND\nTranscutaneous measurement of carbon dioxide (Tc(co(2))) provides a non-invasive estimation of arterial carbon dioxide (Pa(co(2))). Nasal capnography (Pe'(co(2))) is used to assess ventilation during monitored anaesthesia care (MAC) with sedation since it can readily detect apnoea. We compa...
{ "abstract": "PurposeThe aim of this study was to determine if transcutaneous CO2 monitoring (TCO2) is feasible to avoid hypercapnia during complex catheter ablation. Cumulative analgesic and anxiolytic effects during complex catheter ablation can rarely provoke hypoventilation and respiratory complications. End tid...
{ "abstract": "Background: One of the causes of dissatisfaction following total knee arthroplasty (TKA) is abnormal knee kinematics. A newly designed bi-cruciate stabilized (BCS) TKA system has been developed to produce close-to-normal kinematics because of its anatomic tibiofemoral articular geometry and cam-post me...
{ "abstract": "PurposeRestoration of correct alignment is one of the main objectives of total knee arthroplasty (TKA). However, the influence of residual malalignment on clinical and functional outcomes is currently uncertain. This study was therefore undertaken to ascertain its influence in patients undergoing TKA f...
{ "abstract": "BackgroundResearches from the developing world contribute only a limited proportion to the total research output published in leading orthopedics journals. Some of them believe that there is substantial editorial bias against their work. We assessed the composition of the editorial boards of leading or...
{ "abstract": "Memoria presentada por Carlos Zamarreno Ramos \npara optar al grado de Doctor por la Universidad de Sevilla, Departamento de electronica y Electromagnetismo.", "corpus_id": 193527387, "title": "Modular and scalable implementation of AER neuromorphic systems" }
{ "abstract": "This paper presents the design and simulation of a serial AER LVDS communication link. It converts data from classical AER parallel bus with a 4-phase handshaking protocol into a bit stream which is transmitted serially into a single LVDS wire. At the receiver side data from the LVDS cable are transfor...
{ "abstract": "Encryption is a process of hiding significant data so as to prevent unauthorized access and ensure confidentiality of data. It is widely used to transmit data across networks ensuring secure communication. This paper aims at improving the security and efficiency of image encryption by using a highly ef...
{ "abstract": "The demand for Blockchain innovation and the significance of its application has inspired ever-progressing exploration in various scientific and practical areas. Even though it is still in the initial testing stage, the blockchain is being viewed as a progressive solution to address present-day technol...
{ "abstract": "Recently, a practical public integrity auditing scheme supporting multiuser data modification (IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INFORMATION FORENSICS AND SECURITY, DOI 10.1109/TIFS.2015.2423264) was proposed. Although the protocol was claimed secure, in this paper, we show that the proposal fails to achieve soundn...
{ "abstract": "Cloud computing technology is considered to be the top most strategic technology in today's world. This is the result made in the advancement in storage technology towards cloud computing. The world of cloud computing has become more and more advanced in the recent years. It has become more and more po...
{ "abstract": "Infection has long been considered a contributor to the etiology and course of chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases (COPD) and to mortality in patients with the disease. The development of an effective pneumococcal vaccine by Robert Austrian and others has focused new attention on the specific role o...
{ "abstract": "CUTE episodes with many of the characterA istics of infection occur frequently in the course of chronic pulmonary emphysema and are a major cause of death, increased respiratory insufficiency and congestive heart failure in patients with this disease. Although the exact etiology of many of these episod...
{ "abstract": "During the past year a number of new antibiotic agents have been studied by members of this department. Some of the observations, on separate agents, have already been published (Bliss et al., 1948; Schoenbach et al., 1948; Bryer et al., 1948; Bliss and Chandler, 1948; Chandler and Bliss, 1948). In the...
{ "abstract": "We study the bisimilarity problem for probabilistic pushdown automata (pPDA) and subclasses thereof. Our definition of pPDA allows both probabilistic and non-deterministic branching, generalising the classical notion of pushdown automata (without epsilon-transitions). We first show a general characteri...
{ "abstract": "Burkart, Caucal, Steffen (1995) showed a procedure deciding bisimulation equivalence of processes in Basic Process Algebra (BPA), i.e. of sequential processes generated by context-free grammars. They improved the previous decidability result of Christensen, H\\\"uttel, Stirling (1992), since their proc...
{ "abstract": "During my fellowship training at a large academic centre in the United States, I (J.F.) remember being amused at a Nike logo sticker that had been placed on the computed tomography (CT)multiviewer that read ‘‘Just do it.’’When I asked one of the radiology residents about the logo, he informedme that, b...
{ "abstract": "Forward-looking staring spotlight synthetic aperture radar (FSS-SAR) offers operational advantages over conventional squinted SAR counterparts. However, due to its complex observation configuration, pixel anomalies occur when processing raw data. For instance, in the forward-looking geometry, symmetric...
{ "abstract": "This paper proposes the wrapped staring spotlight (WSS) SAR imaging mode, which is a new method to extend the azimuth steering capability for phased array SAR to achieve either an improved azimuth geometric or radiometric resolution. It investigates the utility of steering directions with main lobe gai...
{ "abstract": "Abstract Germanium (Ge)-based high-mobility metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs) have gained considerable attention because they perform better than common Si-based devices. Although degraded electrical property of germanium oxide (GeO 2 ) gate insulators is considered the most ...
{ "abstract": "Spitzer mid-infrared surveys enable an accurate census of young stellar objects by sampling large spatial scales, revealing very embedded protostars, and detecting low-luminosity objects. Taking advantage of these capabilities, we present a Spitzer-based census of the IC 348 nebula and embedded star cl...
{ "abstract": "Received ; accepted Abstract. The IC 348 young star cluster contains more than 300 confirmed members. It is embedded in the Perseus molecular cloud, making any clustering analysis subject to an extinction bias. In this work, we derive the extinction map of the cloud and revisit the content of IC 348 th...
{ "abstract": "We consider the problem of the apparent lack of old T Tauri stars in nearby star-forming regions in the framework of the standard model of low-mass star formation. We argue that the similarity between molecular cloud lifetimes and the ambipolar diffusion timescale implies that star formation does not t...
{ "abstract": "The computational method TraRe built on Bayesian machine learning models for investigating transcriptional network structures shows that disruption of ELK3, MXD1, and MYB signaling cascades impacts abiraterone resistance in prostate cancer.", "corpus_id": 256825349, "title": "Bayesian Machine Learn...
{ "abstract": "The availability of increasing volumes of multi-omics profiles across many cancers promises to improve our understanding of the regulatory mechanisms underlying cancer. The main challenge is to integrate these multiple levels of omics profiles and especially to analyze them across many cancers. Here we...
{ "abstract": "Defective DNA mismatch repair in human tumors leads to genome-wide instability of microsatellite repeats and a molecular phenotype referred to as microsatellite instability (MSI). MSI has been reported in a variety of cancers and is a consistent feature of tumors from patients with hereditary non-polyp...
{ "abstract": "Introduction: Frenectomy is an oral surgical procedure usually performed with a scalpel. Several authors recently reported the interest of laser, as a minimally invasive and efficient alternative tool to perform frenectomy. This study aimed to compare the perioperative management of patients requiring ...
{ "abstract": "Low (coronary) insertion of the maxillary labial frenum was often associated with gingival recession, loss of the interdentally papilla, difficulties in maintaining oral hygiene, interfering with the stability and retention of the upper mobile prosthesis, diastema mediana between the maxillary central ...
{ "abstract": "SUMMARY\nThe purpose of the present study was to elucidate the role of obesity in both early- and late-phase insulin secretion during an oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) performed with 75 g glucose in Japanese subjects. This was performed using indices of β-cell function adjusted for insulin sensitiv...
{ "abstract": "This report is devoted to preconditioning techniques for the matrix-free truncated Newton method. After a review of basic known approaches, we propose new results concerning tridiagonal and pentadiagonal preconditioners based on the standard BFGS updates and on numerical differentiation. Furthermore, w...
{ "abstract": "This paper deals with the preconditioning of truncated Newton methods for the solution of large scale nonlinear unconstrained optimization problems. We focus on preconditioners which can be naturally embedded in the framework of truncated Newton methods, i.e. which can be built without storing the Hess...
{ "abstract": "Truncated-Newton methods for nonlinear optimization compute a search direction by approximately solving the Newton equations, typically via the conjugate-gradient algorithm. The search direction is usually assessed using the norm of the residual. This note shows that the norm of the residual can be an ...
{ "abstract": "With the development of Internet technology and the expansion of social networks, online platforms have become an important way for people to obtain information. The introduction of tags facilitates information categorization and retrieval. Meanwhile, the development of tag recommendation systems not o...
{ "abstract": null, "corpus_id": 8857074, "title": "Hashtag Recommendation with Topical Attention-Based LSTM" }
{ "abstract": null, "corpus_id": 51942792, "score": -1, "title": "A Parallel Hierarchical Attention Network for Style Change Detection: Notebook for PAN at CLEF 2018" }
{ "abstract": "Background: The following paper was developed to assess maturity levels in regards to sustainable development goals. Highly unstable business environment and opportunities occurring on the market require effective and quick decision making process. It is a challenge to follow such dynamic changes withi...
{ "abstract": "Although Industrie 4.0 is currently a top priority for many companies, research centers, and universities, a generally accepted definition of the term does not exist. As a result, discussing the topic on an academic level is difficult, and so is implementing Industrie 4.0 scenarios. Based on a literatu...
{ "abstract": "This paper investigates how secure information sharing with external vendors can be achieved in an Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). It also identifies necessary security requirements for secure information sharing based on identified security challenges stated by the industry. The paper then propo...
{ "abstract": "Background Previous studies revealed there are many gaps in the awareness and knowledge regarding the diagnosis and management of drug allergy (DA) among various health-care professionals. Objective To assess the knowledge, attitudes, and practices towards DA among residents and interns of 3 university...
{ "abstract": "Adverse drug reactions affect 10% to 20% of hospitalized patients and more than 7% of the general population. It has been estimated that adverse drug reactions may constitute the sixth leading cause of death in the United States after heart disease, cancer, stroke, pulmonary disease, and accidents. Phy...
{ "abstract": "Gastro-oesophageal reflux disease (GORD) is a common, chronic disorder that can progress to erosive or ulcerative oesophagitis and other complications. Uncomplicated GORD can be defined using criteria that combine symptom assessment and the impact of symptoms on well being or quality of life. The exten...
{ "abstract": "Astrocytes contribute to the maintenance of the health and function of the central nervous system (CNS). Thus, it is not surprising that these multifunctional cells have been implicated in the onset and progression of several neurodegenerative diseases. The involvement of astrocytes in the neuropatholo...
{ "abstract": "Huntington's disease (HD) is an autosomal disease caused by a CAG repeat expansion in the huntingtin (HTT) gene. The resultant mutant HTT protein (mHTT) forms aggregates in various types of cells, including neurons and glial cells and preferentially affects brain function. We found that two HD mouse mo...
{ "abstract": "BackgroundThe Hospital Elder Life Program (HELP) has been shown to effectively prevent delirium and functional decline in older patients in acute care, but has not been examined in a rehabilitation setting. This pilot study examined potential successes and implementation factors of the HELP in a post-a...
{ "abstract": "Abstract Objective. To estimate the combined effect of educational interventions (EI) on decreased readmissions and time of hospital stay in adults with heart failure, compared with usual care. Methods. Systematic review (SR) and meta-analysis (MA) of randomized controlled trials that followed the reco...
{ "abstract": "BackgroundSelf-management programs for patients with heart failure can reduce hospitalizations and mortality. However, no programs have analyzed their usefulness for patients with low literacy. We compared the efficacy of a heart failure self-management program designed for patients with low literacy v...
{ "abstract": "Abstract EPR spectra at 4, 9 and 35 GHz of hydrogenase isolated from Chromatium vinosum have been compared. The spectra at 4 and 35 GHz confirmed our earlier conclusions, made from observations at 9 GHz (Albracht, S.P.J., Kalkman, M.L. and Slater, E.C. (1983) Biochim. Biophys. Acta 724, 309–316), that ...
{ "abstract": "ABSTRACT A Right Ear Advantage (REA) has been found during dichotic listening, but also in tasks requiring the sole imagery of auditory content, due to the left-hemispheric specialisation for language. According to the Valence Hypothesis (VH) the left (right) hemisphere would be also specialised in pro...
{ "abstract": "An advantage of the right ear (REA) in auditory processing (especially for verbal content) has been firmly established in decades of behavioral, electrophysiological and neuroimaging research. The laterality of auditory imagery, however, has received little attention, despite its potential relevance fo...
{ "abstract": "Aims : The aim of the course is twofold: (a) introducing the student to some major legal systems and to a comparative approach combining several legal traditions; (b) assisting the student in becoming acquainted with the skills required for attending lectures and presenting a written examination in a f...
{ "abstract": "Cilia length and function are dynamically regulated by modulation of intraflagellar transport (IFT). The cilia of C. elegans amphid channel neurons provide an excellent model to study this process, since they use two different kinesins for anterograde transport: kinesin-II and OSM-3 kinesin together in...
{ "abstract": "Neuropeptides are used as signaling molecules in the nervous system of most organisms, including mammals. The family of FMRFamide (Phe-Met-Arg-Phe-NH2)-like neuropeptides (FaRPs) all share an RFamide sequence at their C-termini and have been shown to have diverse functions in the central and peripheral...
{ "abstract": "Neuropeptides are known to have dramatic effects on neurons and synapses; however, despite extensive studies of the motorneurons in the parasitic nematode Ascaris suum, their peptide content had not yet been described. We determined the peptide content of single excitatory motorneurons by mass spectrom...
{ "abstract": "In many professional domains, relevant processes are documented as abstract process models, such as event-driven process chains (EPCs). EPCs are traditionally visualized as 2D graphs and their size varies with the complexity of the process. While process modeling experts are used to interpreting comple...
{ "abstract": "We present a system that complements virtual reality experiences with passive props, yet still allows modifying the virtual world at runtime. The main contribution of our system is that it does not require any actuators; instead, our system employs the user to reconfigure and actuate otherwise passive ...
{ "abstract": "The ability of reusing existing task execution plans is an important step towards autonomous behavior. Today, the reuse of sophisticated services allowing robots to act autonomous is usually limited to identical robot platforms and to very similar application scenarios. The approach presented in this p...
{ "abstract": "We consider the Cauchy-Dirichlet problem for semilinear wave equations in a three space dimensional domain exterior to a bounded and non-trapping obstacle. We obtain a detailed estimate for the lower bound of the lifespan of classical solutions when the size of initial data tends to zero, in a similar ...
{ "abstract": "The aim of this article is to establish a uniform pointwise decay estimate for the solution of the mixed problem for the linear wave equation in three space dimensions. We prove such an estimate by using the \"cut-off method\" as in the work of Shibata and Tsutsumi [23]. As an application, we treat the...
{ "abstract": "In this paper, we show global existence, in spatial dimensions greater than or equal to four, for semilinear wave equations with quadratic nonlinearities exterior to a nontrapping obstacle. This extends the previous work of Shibata-Tsutsumi and Hayashi. Shibata-Tsutsumi showed the result for spatial di...
{ "abstract": "Introduction The skin is a vital organ as the body’s largest barrier, but its function declines with aging. Therefore, research into effective regeneration treatments must continue to advance. Stem cell transplantation, a cell-based therapy, has become a popular skin-aging treatment, although it comes ...
{ "abstract": "BACKGROUND AIMS\nAdipose-derived stem cells (ASC) are known to be able to restore injured tissue via differentiation and paracrine effects. In this study, we investigated the effect of ASC on photo-aged human dermal fibroblasts (HDF) based on paracrine function. In particular, we wanted to determine a ...
{ "abstract": "Introduction: In the past decade human adipose tissue has been identified as a source of multipotent stem cells. Adipose tissue derived stem cells (ASCs) are characterised by immunosuppressive properties and low immunogenicity. Therefore, they can be used in regenerative medicine, as well as applied to...
{ "abstract": "Cryopreserved rat hepatocytes entrapped within an alginate matrix, commercially available as Liverbeads, were evaluated for their relevance as a screening tool for gene induction in vitro, using quantitative real-time reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction. They were treated with the reference...
{ "abstract": "The acceleration of drug discovery due to combinatorial chemistry and high-throughput screening methods has increased the numbers of candidate pharmaceuticals entering the drug development phase, and the capability to accurately predict whether drug candidates will induce various members of the drug-me...
{ "abstract": "We extend applications of real options theory to foreign direct investment (FDI) research regarding choice of location and choice of market entry mode under uncertainty. Our study is motivated by the regional configuration of multinational enterprises (MNEs), as well as observed deviations from the sta...
{ "abstract": "Introduction: Endometriosis is a medical condition in which there is abnormal growth of tissue resembling the endometrium outside the uterus. It can cause symptoms of pain and/or infertility. The current medical therapy focuses on reducing estradiol levels or stimulating progesterone response. One of t...
{ "abstract": "Endometriosis is a chronic disease primarily affecting women of childbearing age, in which endometriotic lesions form outside the uterus, typically leading to painful symptoms, fatigue, and infertility. The symptoms of endometriosis may cause significant impairment in quality of life and represent a su...
{ "abstract": "OBJECTIVE\nTo investigate the efficacy and safety of ethinylestradiol 20 μg/drospirenone 3 mg in a flexible extended regimen (FlexibleMIB) compared with placebo to treat endometriosis-associated pelvic pain (EAPP).\n\n\nDESIGN\nA phase 3, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, parallel-group stu...
{ "abstract": "Nowadays, Rainbow trout culturing has been developed in Kohgiloyeh-&-Boyer Ahmad province of Islamic Republic of Iran. It is a province in the southwest of Iran. There are many water resources in the province which originated from Zagross mountains so aquaculture is a lucrative profession in the provin...
{ "abstract": "We evaluated a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) method for detecting Yersinia ruckeri, the bacterial pathogen causing enteric redmouth disease (ERM), in blood of rainbow trout Oncorhynchus mykiss. Identification of the PCR product was confirmed by Southern blot hybridization with a 32P-labeled oligonucl...
{ "abstract": "The gut microbiota represent a highly complex ecosystem comprised of approximately 1000 species that forms a mutualistic relationship with the human host. A critical attribute of the microbiota is high species diversity, which provides system robustness through overlapping and redundant metabolic capab...
{ "abstract": "The respiratory gas exchange and ventilation during an incremental cycle exercise test were analysed in a group of 19 healthy, moderately fit men. Different computer algorithms were used to estimate the V̇O2 values where: (i) the rate of V̇CO2 increase just exceeds the rate of V̇O2 increase (DX, deriva...
{ "abstract": "The coefficient of repeatability (COR), expressed as 2 SD of differences, was calculated between two measurements of oxygen consumption ( ), heart rate (HR) and rating of perceived exertion (RPE) during ergometer cycling by men. The two sets of measurements were performed 5 to 6 weeks apart. Nineteen h...
{ "abstract": "This study assessed the reliability of ratings of perceived exertion (RPE) for the prescription of exercise intensity during cycling. Ten healthy men (21 to 62 years) and six women (25 to 50 years) attended the laboratory four times, 5 to 7 days apart. On the first visit each subject's maximal oxygen u...
{ "abstract": "Objective The aim of this study was to systematically review the importance of neuron-specific enolase and S100 beta for diagnosing and monitoring septic encephalopathy. Methods A PubMed database search was performed to identify studies that evaluated S100 beta and neuron-specific enolase serum levels ...
{ "abstract": "IntroductionThe pathophysiology of sepsis-associated delirium is not completely understood and the data on cerebral perfusion in sepsis are conflicting. We tested the hypothesis that cerebral perfusion and selected serum markers of inflammation and delirium differ in septic patients with and without se...
{ "abstract": "CONTEXT\nAlthough prior studies show the importance of self-reported symptom scores as predictors of cancer survival, most are based on scores recorded at a single point in time.\n\n\nOBJECTIVES\nTo show that information on repeated assessments of symptom severity improves predictions for risk of death...
{ "abstract": "This study investigated the relationship of tinnitus with mental health and health-related quality of life (QoL) in older people. Data source included 5,129 community-dwelling men and women ≥60 years old from the Korean National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. Tinnitus was categorized into thr...
{ "abstract": "BackgroundThe aim of this study was to examine factors associated with the use of mental health consultation for depressive symptoms.MethodsWe used data from the 2013 Community Health Survey, which included responses from 13,269 individuals who reported that they had experienced depressive symptoms for...
{ "abstract": "Some adolescents with cancer report distress and unmet needs. Guided by the disability‐stress‐coping model, we evaluated associations among problem‐solving skills, parent–adolescent cancer‐related communication, parent–adolescent dyadic functioning, and distress in adolescents with cancer. Thirty‐nine ...
{ "abstract": "Cloud storage provides an inexpensive and effective means for the storage and management of images, which in turn occupy a huge proportion and are usually stored in an archived mode. Considering the security and efficiency requirements of cloud images, an efficient real-time integrity audit scheme is i...
{ "abstract": "In this paper we study how to develop an efficient real-time auditing and proof of violation (POV) scheme for cloud storage systems. A POV scheme enables a user or a service provider to produce cryptographic proofs which can be used to prove either the occurrence of the violation of properties or the i...
{ "abstract": "As data mining evolves and matures more and more businesses are incorporating this technology into their business practices. However, currently data mining and decision support software is expensive and selection of the wrong tools can be costly in many ways. This paper provides direction and decision-...
{ "abstract": "The endophytic fungal community associated with the ethnomedicinal plant Echinacea purpurea was investigated as well as its potential for providing antifungal compounds against plant pathogenic fungi. A total of 233 endophytic fungal isolates were obtained and classified into 42 different taxa of 16 ge...
{ "abstract": "Echinacea (Asteraceae), a North American genus of 11 recognized taxa (McGregor 1968), is of great economic and scientific interest. Three species, E. angustifolia DC. var. angustifolia, E. pallida (Nutt.) and E. purpurea (L.) Moench, show potential pharmacological activity (Bauer et al. 1988a; Bauer an...
{ "abstract": "extracts has been widely studied with over 350 publishedstudies to date (Briskin 2000) together providing strong evidence for an immune modulating activity of theseextracts. However, little scientific research has been directed toward understanding the biosynthetic pathwaysof the several classes of com...
{ "abstract": "According to recent security analysis reports, malicious software (a.k.a. malware) is rising at an alarming rate in numbers, complexity, and harmful purposes to compromise the security of modern computer systems. Recently, malware detection based on low-level hardware features (e.g., Hardware Performan...
{ "abstract": "Time series classification has attracted much attention due to the ubiquity of time series. With the advance of technologies, the volume of available time series data becomes huge and the content is changing rapidly. This requires time series data mining methods to have low computational complexities. ...
{ "abstract": "Time series classification is an important task with many challenging applications. A nearest neighbor (NN) classifier with dynamic time warping (DTW) distance is a strong solution in this context. On the other hand, feature-based approaches have been proposed as both classifiers and to provide insight...
{ "abstract": "Collective dynamics can be observed among many animal species, and have given rise in the last decades to an active and interdisciplinary eld of study. Such behaviors are often modeled by active matter, in which each individual is self-driven and tends to update its velocity depending on the one of its...
{ "abstract": "We introduce a class of facilitated asymmetric exclusion processes in which particles are pushed by neighbors from behind. For the simplest version in which a particle can hop to its vacant right neighbor only if its left neighbor is occupied, we determine the steady-state current and the distribution ...
{ "abstract": "thomas m liggett. stochastic interacting systems contact voter and. new approach of financial volatility duration dynamics by. stochastic interacting systems contact voter and. stochastic interacting systems contact voter and core. exclusion processes springerlink. interacting particle systems thomas m...
{ "abstract": "Backlit images are from an excessive reflection of light being opposite to a capturing device. The existing image enhancement methods cannot be directly applied to the backlit images because they are not designed to enhance both broad light and dark regions simultaneously. Moreover, the techniques have...
{ "abstract": "This paper describes a computer program for calculating the contrast image on the human retina from an array of scene luminances. We used achromatic transparency targets and measured test target's luminances with meters. We used the CIE standard Glare Spread Function (GSF) to calculate the array of ret...
{ "abstract": "High Dynamic Range (HDR) imaging techniques capture greater ranges of scene information, and attempt to convey that information with HDR displays. HDR imaging can improve the rendering of most scenes. Is the improved appearance caused by the increased luminance range and increased accuracy of display l...
{ "abstract": "We propose a system that detects the scene, where a specific speaker is speaking in the video, and displays the site as a heat map in the video's timeline. This system enables users to skip to the timeline they want to hear by detecting scenes in a drama, talk show, or discussion TV program, where a sp...
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{ "abstract": "In this paper, we propose the utterance-level permutation invariant training uPIT technique. uPIT is a practically applicable, end-to-end, deep-learning-based solution for speaker independent multitalker speech separation. Specifically, uPIT extends the recently proposed permutation invariant training ...
{ "abstract": "A significant challenge for researchers analysing the Internet AS-level topology graph is how to interpret the global organization of the graph as the coexistence of its structural blocks (communities) associated with more highly interconnected parts. While a huge number of papers have already been pub...
{ "abstract": "Online social networks pose significant challenges to computer scientists, physicists, and sociologists alike, for their massive size, fast evolution, and uncharted potential for social computing. One particular problem that has interested us is community identification. Many algorithms based on variou...
{ "abstract": "The hospitality industry is one of the data-rich industries that receives huge Volumes of data streaming at high Velocity with considerably Variety, Veracity, and Variability. These properties make the data analysis in the hospitality industry a big data problem. Meeting the customers' expectations is ...
{ "abstract": "With the increasing use of entities in serving people's daily information needs, recognizing synonyms---different ways people refer to the same entity---has become a crucial task for many entity-leveraging applications. Previous works often take a \"literal\" view of the entity, i.e., its string name. ...
{ "abstract": "Entity synonyms are critical for many applications like information retrieval and named entity recognition in documents. The current trend is to automatically discover entity synonyms using statistical techniques on web data. Prior techniques suffer from several limitations like click log sparsity and ...
{ "abstract": "Purpose: To allow fast and high-quality reconstruction of clinical accelerated multi-coil MR data by learning a variational network that combines the mathematical structure of variational models with deep learning. Theory and Methods: Generalized compressed sensing reconstruction formulated as a variat...
{ "abstract": "The COVID-19 pandemic is causing many victims worldwide and has generated a serious economic crisis. Substantial changes have occurred in the food and ornamental production chains. The aim of the present review has been to summarize some of the main effects that the pandemic is having on horticulture a...
{ "abstract": "Poor indoor air quality has been linked to health problems, especially in children. Asthma has reached epidemic proportions among multiple age groups and is considered the most common chronic disease in urban-dwelling children.1 The American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology Indoor Allergen Com...
{ "abstract": "Objective Concern for children exposed to elemental mercury prompted the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to review the sources of elemental mercury exposures in children, describe the location and proportion of children affected, and m...
{ "abstract": "Non-verbal communication is a joint action defined by the use of different gestures’ types. The present research aimed to investigate the electrophysiological (EEG) correlates during the observation of affective, social and informative gestures in non-verbal communication between encoder and decoder. M...
{ "abstract": "ABSTRACT The aim of the present study was to investigate the neural bases of cooperative behaviors and social self-perception underlying the execution of joint actions by using a hyperscanning brain paradigm with functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS). We firstly found that an artificial positiv...
{ "abstract": "Evidence on the effectiveness of behavioral weight management programs often comes from uncontrolled program evaluations. These frequently make the assumption that, without intervention, people will gain weight. The aim of this study was to use data from minimal intervention control groups in randomize...
{ "abstract": "This research examines the relationship between the dimensions of McClelland’s Theory of needs (i.e., needs for power, achievement, and affiliation), felt accountability, and informal accountability for others (IAFO). This study’s aim is to enhance organizational research by demonstrating the media...
{ "abstract": "This article reviews the now extensive research literature addressing the impact of accountabilit y on a wide range of social judgments and choices. It focuses on 4 issues: (a) What impact do various accountability ground rules have on thoughts, feelings, and action? (b) Under what conditions will acco...
{ "abstract": "This literature review covers AI techniques used for real-time strategy video games, focusing specifically on StarCraft. It finds that the main areas of current academic research are in tactical and strategic decision-making, plan recognition, and learning, and it outlines the research contributions in...
{ "abstract": "Malware is one of the biggest security threats on the Internet today and deploying effective defensive solutions requires the rapid analysis of a continuously increasing number of malware samples. With the proliferation of metamorphic malware the analysis is further complicated as the efficacy of signa...
{ "abstract": "Dynamic kernel memory has been a popular target of recent kernel malware due to the difficulty of determining the status of volatile dynamic kernel objects. Some existing approaches use kernel memory mapping to identify dynamic kernel objects and check kernel integrity. The snapshot-based memory maps g...
{ "abstract": "In biology,a vaccine is a weakened strain of a virus or bacterium that is intentionally injected into the body for the purpose of stimulating antibody production.Inspired by this idea, we propose a packet vaccine mechanism that randomizes address-like strings in packet payloads to carry out fast exploi...
{ "abstract": ". Copepods play a fundamental role in aquatic ecosystems and are an important food source for fish at an early stage. However, little attention has been given to changes in copepod communities in aquaculture water. This is mainly limited by the copepod analysis method. In this study, we designed a pair...
{ "abstract": "Aquatic invertebrates contribute significantly to environmental impact assessment of contaminants in aquatic ecosystems. Much effort has been made to identify viable and ecologically relevant invertebrate test organisms to meet rigorous regulatory requirements. Copepods, which are ecologically importan...
{ "abstract": "Microplastic pollution causes a major concern in the marine environment due to their worldwide distribution, persistence, and adverse effects of these pollutants in the marine ecosystem. Despite its global presence, there is still a lack of information on the effect of microplastics on marine organisms...