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"abstract": "The treatment of hip fractures in the elderly has been under debate for decades. There is a lack of standardisation of treatment and rehabilitation and also concerning the measurements and follow-up times in studies on treatment. Two patient series with cervical hip fractures treated with Austin Moore ... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Fifty-three elderly patients with intracapsular hip fracture were hospitalized in the Department of Orthopaedics. Forty-two underwent operations: 38 hemiarthroplasty; 2 total hip replacements and 2 closed reduction interior fixation. They were followed up and assessed prospectively five times ... | {
"abstract": "Clinically diagnosed Alzheimer's disease and other dementing illnesses were assessed in a geographically defined US community. Of 3623 persons (80.8% of all community residents over 65 years of age) who had brief memory testing in their homes, a stratified sample of 467 persons underwent neurological, ... |
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"abstract": "Scientific publishing heavily relies on the assessment of quality of submitted manuscripts by peer reviewers. Assigning a set of matching reviewers to a submission is a highly complex task which can be performed only by domain experts. We introduce and deeply evaluate RevASIDE, a reviewer recommendation... | {
"abstract": "In an expert search task, the users' need is to identify people who have relevant expertise to a topic of interest. An expert search system predicts and ranks the expertise of a set of candidate persons with respect to the users' query. In this paper, we propose a novel approach for predicting and rank... | {
"abstract": "A modern radar may be designed to perform multiple functions, such as surveillance, tracking, and fire control. Each function requires the radar to execute a number of transmit-receive tasks. A radar resource management (RRM) module makes decisions on parameter selection, prioritization, and scheduling... |
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"abstract": "Abstract The synthesis of physical information on early Earth (or Mars) with recent knowledge arising from microbial genomic, proteomic and phylogenetic studies, strongly indicates that there was insufficient time (∼600 000 years) for life to arise and evolve to reach the biochemical complexity evident... | {
"abstract": "The textbooks say that oxygen-producing microorganisms evolved some 3.5 billion years ago. But as that claim and its author come under attack, the history of life on Earth may have to be rewritten. Rex Dalton investigates.",
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"title": "Microfossils: Squaring up over ancient lif... | {
"abstract": "A NE-SW elongated negative gravity anomaly of 40 x 20 km2 areal extent and –15 mgal amplitude occurs near Market Weighton. Thick sediments and salt can both be ruled out as main source of the anomaly using the known geology and depth to magnetic basement. Interpretation in terms of an underlying granit... |
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"abstract": "In the past few years, increasing interest has been directed to bioactive peptides of animal and plant origin: in particular, researchers have focused their attention on their mechanisms of action and potential role in the prevention and treatment of cancer, cardiovascular and infective diseases. We ha... | {
"abstract": "Peptides are important bioactive natural products which are present in many marine species. These marine peptides have high potential nutraceutical and medicinal values because of their broad spectra of bioactivities. Their antimicrobial, antiviral, antitumor, antioxidative, cardioprotective (antihyper... | {
"abstract": "Selected porcine myofibrillar proteins have been assessed as potential precursors of bioactive peptides based on in silico analysis. The potential of protein sequences for releasing peptides was evaluated by determining the profile of their potential biological activity and the frequency of occurrence ... |
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"abstract": "L'imagerie hyperspectrale, qui consiste a acquerir l'image d'une scene dans un grand nombre de bandes spectrales, permet de detecter des cibles la ou l'imagerie couleur classique ne permettrait pas de conclure. Les imageurs hyperspectraux a acquisition sequentielle sont inadaptes aux applications de de... | {
"abstract": "This paper reports design, fabrication and test results of a tunable pyroelectric detector with an integrated micromachined Fabry-Perot (FP) filter for gas analysis in the Mid-Wave Infrared (MWIR). The new approach is based on a bulk micromachined Fabry-Perot interferometer with an air cavity, which is... | {
"abstract": "A white-light source operated polymer-based micromachined Fabry-Perot chemo/biosensor is reported for the first time. It is a refractive-index sensitive optical sensor. The transducing signal varies upon the changes of the effective index of refraction in the sensing area, which is the Fabry-Perot cavi... |
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"abstract": "ABSTRACT This paper employs demographically representative discrete choice experiments (DCEs) with owner occupiers in Poland, Sweden, and the United Kingdom (UK) to estimate the effects of subsidies, heating cost savings, installation time (reflecting ‘hassle costs’) and warranty length on owner occupi... | {
"abstract": "The UK residential (household) sector is responsible for approximately 30% of total carbon dioxide emissions and is often seen as the most promising in terms of early reductions. As most direct household emissions come from only two fuel sources, this paper critically examines how existing emissions re... | {
"abstract": "The text in this document (excluding the Royal Arms and departmental logos) may be reproduced free of charge in any format or medium providing that it is reproduced accurately and not used in a misleading context. The material must be acknowledged as Crown copyright and the title of the document specif... |
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"abstract": "Transformer, a state-of-the-art neural network architecture, has been used successfully for different sequence-to-sequence transformation tasks. This model architecture disperses the attention distribution over entire input to learn long-term dependencies, which is important for some sequence-to-sequen... | {
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"title": "An Analysis of Encoder Representations in Transformer-Based Machine Translation"
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"abstract": "Most of the existing Neural Machine Translation (NMT) models focus on the conversion of sequential data and do not directly use syntactic information. We propose a novel end-to-end syntactic NMT model, extending a sequence-to-sequence model with the source-side phrase structure. Our model has an attent... |
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"abstract": "Sympatric ocelots (Leopardus pardalis) and bobcats (Lynx rufus) in South Texas show substantial overlap in body size, food habits, and habitat use. Consequently, we explore whether temporal niche partitioning may explain ocelot and bobcat coexistence. We investigated the influence of sun angle, lunar i... | {
"abstract": "Understanding behavioral changes of prey and predators based on lunar illumination provides insight into important life history, behavioral ecology, and survival information. The objectives of this research were to determine if bobcat movement rates differed by period of day (dark, moon, crepuscular, d... | {
"abstract": "Six carnivores and a monkey studied in the laboratory spent most of their active time treading a wheel. Some of the animals had essentially the same phasing of activity known or presumed in the wild, namely the pig-tail macaque (diurnal), ringtail (nocturnal), and bobcat (arrhythmic). The tayra and gri... |
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"abstract": "We study on how to design, debug and verify and validate (V&V) safety-critical control software running on shared-memory many-core platforms. Managing concurrency in a verifiable way is a certification requirement. The presented process barrier is a simple concurrency control mechanism that guarantees ... | {
"abstract": "This paper addresses the problem of orchestrating and scheduling parallelism at multiple levels of granularity on heterogeneous multicore processors. We present mechanisms and policies for adaptive exploitation and scheduling of layered parallelism on the Cell Broadband Engine. Our policies combine eve... | {
"abstract": "Developed for multimedia and game applications, as well as other numerically intensive workloads, the CELL processor provides support both for highly parallel codes, which have high computation and memory requirements, and for scalar codes, which require fast response time and a full-featured programmi... |
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"abstract": "In the past few years, systems biology methods have been widely used to explore the mechanism of cancer. Various signaling pathways play the important role in cancer. And a large number of computational methods are used to model the signaling pathway. Here, we reviewed many existing mechanisms and mode... | {
"abstract": "Parameter estimation is a critical problem in modeling biological pathways. It is difficult because of the large number of parameters to be estimated and the limited experimental data available. In this paper, we propose a decompositional approach to parameter estimation. It exploits the structure of a... | {
"abstract": "BackgroundProbabilistic models have gained widespread acceptance in the systems biology community as a useful way to represent complex biological systems. Such models are developed using existing knowledge of the structure and dynamics of the system, experimental observations, and inferences drawn from... |
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"abstract": "The thalamus is a key structure that controls the routing of information in the brain. Understanding modulation at the thalamic level is critical to understanding the flow of information to brain regions involved in cognitive functions, such as the neocortex, the hippocampus, and the basal ganglia. Mod... | {
"abstract": "We have carried out an ultrastructural study to determine the characteristics and distribution of glutamate-containing constituents of the anterodorsal (AD) and anteroventral (AV) thalamic nuclei in adult rats. We used a polyclonal antibody to glutamate and a postembedding immunogold detection method i... | {
"abstract": "The genotoxicity level of nickel-titanium (NiTi) was compared to that of its pure constituents, pure nickel (Ni) and pure titanium (Ti) powders, and also to 316L stainless steel (316L SS) as clinical reference material. In order to do so, a dynamic in vitro semiphysiological extraction was performed wi... |
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"abstract": "Grapevine represents a particularly interesting species as concerns phenotypic plasticity, considering that the terroir, meaning the contribution of the geography, geology, and climate of a certain place, together with the agronomical practices utilized, may deeply influence the berry phenotype at the ... | {
"abstract": "Grapevine (Vitis vinifera L.) is considered one of the most environmentally sensitive crops and is characterized by broad phenotypic plasticity, offering important advantages such as the large range of different wines that can be produced from the same cultivar, and the adaptation of existing cultivars... | {
"abstract": "Grapevine responds to increased exposure in the bunch zone by up-regulating photoprotective carotenoids in the early developmental stages and volatile terpenoids in the later ripening stages of the berries in a proposed mechanism of antioxidant homeostasis maintenance. In this study, the metabolic and ... |
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"abstract": "The Inner Tracking System (ITS) is the central barrel detector closest to the interaction point of the ALICE experiment at LHC. It is a six-layers silicon detector installed around the beam pipe and it is built using three different technologies: the first two layers are equipped with pixel detectors (... | {
"abstract": "The ALICE Silicon Pixel Detector (SPD) is the innermost detector of the ALICE experiment at LHC. It includes 1200 front-end chips, with a total of ~10 pixel channels. The pixel size is 50 x 425 μm. Each front-end chip transmits a Fast-OR signal upon registration of at least one hit in its pixel matrix.... | {
"abstract": "This paper describes the tests and measurements made during the final commissioning with beams of the ALICE Silicon Pixel Detector (SPD) in the first year of operation and the optimization of its performance. The ALICE Silicon Pixel Detector (SPD) is the innermost detector of the ALICE experiment and t... |
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"abstract": "With our diverse training, theoretical and empirical toolkits, and rich data, evolutionary and biological anthropologists (EBAs) have much to contribute to research and policy decisions about climate change and other pressing social issues. However, we remain largely absent from these critical, ongoing... | {
"abstract": "Evolutionary anthropology provides a powerful theoretical framework for understanding how both current environments and legacies of past selection shape human behavioral diversity. This integrative and pluralistic field, combining ethnographic, demographic, and sociological methods, has provided new in... | {
"abstract": "Angiosperm systematics has progressed to the point where it is now expected that multiple, independent markers be used in phylogenetic studies. Universal primers for amplifying informative regions of the chloroplast genome are readily available, but in the faster-evolving nuclear genome it is challengi... |
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"abstract": "Zusammenfassung Orbitale Erkrankungen manifestieren sich mit einer Vielzahl an Symptomen oder sind Zufallsbefunde im Rahmen der Kopf-Hals-Bildgebung. Die Bildgebung ist entscheidend, um die Befunde differenzialdiagnostisch einordnen und die Therapie planen zu können. Diese Übersichtsarbeit stellt häufi... | {
"abstract": "PurposeTo assess the benefit of combining diffusion-weighted imaging and dynamic contrast-enhanced (DCE) MR imaging in the preoperative evaluation of orbital lymphoma and other malignancies in adults.Materials and methodsThis retrospective study was institutional review board-approved and informed cons... | {
"abstract": "Orbital lymphomas constitute 50-60% of ocular adnexal lymphomas. A total of 2211 cases of orbital lymphoma with a known subtype have been reported in the last 24 years (1994-2017). The vast majority of orbital lymphomas are of B-cell origin (97%), of which extranodal marginal zone B-cell lymphoma (EMZL... |
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"abstract": "The letters published in the ‘Focus issue on high energy particles and atmospheric processes’ serve to broaden the discussion about the influence of high energy particles on the atmosphere beyond their possible effects on clouds and climate. These letters link climate and meteorological processes with ... | {
"abstract": "Charles Thomas Rees (‘CTR’) Wilson (1869–1959) received the 1927 Nobel Prize for the cloud chamber, first described in a paper published a century ago. The cloud chamber makes high energy particles visible. Wilson's principal work was in atmospheric electricity at the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, a... | {
"abstract": "Atmospheric electricity is a venerable topic of geophysical science, dating back to the 1750s when Franklin and Dalibard established the presence of electricity in thunderstorms. Subsequently, even fine conditions were observed to be electrified, with a downward vertical atmospheric electric field of m... |
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"abstract": "DeskVR allows users to experience Virtual Reality (VR) while sitting at a desk without requiring extensive movements. This makes it better suited for professional work environments where productivity over extended periods is essential. However, tasks that typically resort to mid-air gestures might not ... | {
"abstract": "In this work we describe the scenario of fully-immersive desktop VR, which serves the overall goal to seamlessly integrate with existing workflows and workplaces of data analysts and researchers, such that they can benefit from the gain in productivity when immersed in their data-spaces. Furthermore, w... | {
"abstract": "Many recent head-mounted display applications and games implement a range-restricted variant of teleportation for exploring virtual environments. This travel metaphor referred to as jumping only allows to teleport to locations in the currently visible part of the scene. In this paper, we present a form... |
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"abstract": "Background: Only a limited number of neuroimaging studies have explored the effects of ambient air pollution in adults. The prior studies have investigated only cortical volume, and they have reported mixed findings, particularly for gray matter. Furthermore, the association between nitrogen dioxide (N... | {
"abstract": "Background: Increasing evidence links higher particulate matter (PM) air pollution exposure to late-life cognitive impairment. However, few studies have considered associations between direct estimates of long-term past exposures and brain MRI findings indicative of neurodegeneration or cerebrovascular... | {
"abstract": "BackgroundIn Gondar University Teaching Hospital standardized tuberculosis prevention and control programme, incorporating Directly Observed Treatment, Short Course (DOTS) started in 2000. According to the proposal of World Health Organization (WHO), treatment outcome is an important indicator of tuber... |
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"abstract": "For safe human-robot interaction, the robots, especially exoskeletons, should be transparent for the user, in a way that the user does not feel their weight. In robot-assisted orthopedic rehabilitation, where patients are often sensitive to pain and often not able to lift affected limbs by themselves, ... | {
"abstract": "Safe actuators with controllable compliance are indispensable for assistive robots working in human environment and especially for rehabilitation devices physically interacting with patient. The paper introduces new patent pending soft fluidic actuators with rotary elastic chambers (REC), which produce... | {
"abstract": "Generating natural body gestures is one of the essential functions in human-robot interaction. Thus various approaches, such as online-planning and the motion database method, have been developed. However, these approaches cannot adapt to user interruption, that usually occurs. Therefore, we propose a ... |
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"abstract": "The presence of exposed land on the early Earth is a prerequisite for a certain type of prebiotic chemical evolution in which the oscillating activity of water, driven by short-term, day–night, and seasonal cycles, facilitates the synthesis of proto-biopolymers. Exposed land is, however, not guaranteed... | {
"abstract": "Abstract The geodynamic regime of the early Earth remains elusive, with so far proposed hypotheses ranging from stagnant lid convection to rapid plate tectonics. Available geological data are severely limited for the first two billion years of the Earth's history, and this scarcity of relevant data is ... | {
"abstract": "Alnumycin is closely related to the benzoisochromanequinone (BIQ) polyketides such as actinorhodin. Exceptional structural features include differences in aglycone tailoring that result in the unique alnumycin chromophore and the existence of an unusual 4-hydroxymethyl-5-hydroxy-1,3-dioxan moiety. Clon... |
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"abstract": "Home radon testing is a primary lung cancer prevention strategy, yet the majority of Americans have not tested their home. This descriptive, ecological study uses 54,683 observed radon values collected in Kentucky homes from 1996 to 2016 to examine the association of county-level social determinants of... | {
"abstract": "Context: Radon is the second leading cause of lung cancer, but exposure can be reduced through testing one's home and mitigating if levels are high. Objective: To determine what factors predict radon testing and to identify, through spatial analysis, areas in Illinois with lower or higher than expected... | {
"abstract": "Recent results from our group directly assist efforts to identify and control excessive concentrations of radon 222 and its decay products in residential environments. We have demonstrated directly the importance of pressure-induced flow of soil gas for transport of radon from the ground into houses. A... |
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"abstract": "Abstract Parasites interact with nearly all free‐living organisms and can impose substantial fitness costs by reducing host survival, mating success, and fecundity. Parasites may also indirectly affect host fitness by reducing growth and performance. However, experimentally characterizing these costs o... | {
"abstract": "The immunological and pathological consequences of parasite infection can be more rigorously assessed from experimental manipulation than from correlational studies of natural infections. We used anthelmintic treatment to experimentally decrease intensities of lungworm infection in captive and free-ran... | {
"abstract": "Reactive oxygen species (ROS) are considered a key factor in the heart aging process. Mitochondrial respiration is an important site of ROS generation and a potential contributor to heart functional changes with aging. We have examined the effects of aging on various parameters related to mitochondrial... |
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"abstract": "This thesis presents the work of evaluating and improving an existing module for lean and targeted coreference resolution in a system for multilingual and dynamic, social media text analytics. In order to evaluate the current method a mimicking module was developed and an evaluation corpus in three lan... | {
"abstract": "Most coreference resolution models determine if two mentions are coreferent using a single function over a set of constraints or features. This approach can lead to incorrect decisions as lower precision features often overwhelm the smaller number of high precision ones. To overcome this problem, we pr... | {
"abstract": "Classical coreference systems encode various syntactic, discourse, and semantic phenomena explicitly, using heterogenous features computed from hand-crafted heuristics. In contrast, we present a state-of-the-art coreference system that captures such phenomena implicitly, with a small number of homogene... |
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"abstract": "Hyperthyroidism can increase the renal excretion of magnesium and thus cause hypomagnesemia in various species. Anaerobically collected blood samples from 15 hyperthyroid and 40 normal, healthy cats were analyzed with an ion-selective electrode analyzer and a serum biochemical analyzer. There was no si... | {
"abstract": "Changes in magnesium metabolism, along with those in sodium, were investigated in 17 patients with Graves' disease (14 females and 3 males, mean +/- SD, 44.8 +/- 12.2 years) and their relationship to plasma levels of thyroid hormones were assessed before and after treatment. Each patient was studied in... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Muscle, erythrocyte, and bone magnesium was studied in patients with reduced, normal, and increased serum magnesium levels. Muscle magnesium content was shown to vary directly with muscle potassium levels and independently of other body magnesium stores. In contrast to the fact that serum magn... |
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"abstract": "Functional analyses of ELIC raise the intriguing possibility that this bacterial channel may represent a previously unrecognized branch of the superfamily of pentameric ligand-gated ion channels with markedly divergent pore properties.",
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"title": "The atypical cation-conductio... | {
"abstract": "Abstract. Ligand-gated ion channels contain a conserved leucine at position 9′ (L9′) in the M2 transmembrane domain. We used multiple substitutions at this position in the γ subunit of the mouse acetylcholine receptor (AChR) (γL9′) to examine the role of residue polarity at this position in the gating ... | {
"abstract": "Christopher Miller Graduate Department of Biochemistry Brandeis University Waltham, Massachusetts 02254 Introduction The central position of ion channels in the nervous system-as catalysts mediating the ionic fluxes that give rise to electrical excitation-has for many years provided a neurobiological a... |
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"abstract": "Arbitrary style transfer (AST) and domain generalization (DG) are important yet challenging visual learning tasks, which can be cast as a feature distribution matching problem. With the assumption of Gaussian feature distribution, conventional feature distribution matching methods usually match the mea... | {
"abstract": "The use of a gray level transformation which transforms a given empirical distribution function of gray level values in an image into a uniform distribution has been used as an image enhancement as well as for a normalization procedure. This transformation produces a discrete variable whose empirical d... | {
"abstract": "Unsubstituted silanethione, H(2)Si=S, has been characterized experimentally for the first time by means of rotational spectroscopy; the equilibrium structure of this fundamental molecule has been evaluated through a combination of experimental data from a total of ten isotopologues and results of high-... |
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"abstract": "Humanity is facing challenges of sustainably producing enough food for a growing population without further eroding the world’s ecosystems. Transformation of natural habitats into agriculture has r ...",
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"title": "Ecosystem services in agricultural landscapes : A study on fa... | {
"abstract": "Numerous studies underline the importance of immaterial benefits provided by ecosystems and especially by cultural landscapes, which are shaped by intimate human–nature interactions. However, due to methodological challenges, cultural ecosystem services are rarely fully considered in ecosystem services... | {
"abstract": "The advent of new sources of spatial data and associated information (e.g. Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI)) allows us to explore non-expert conceptualisations of space, where the number of participants and spatial extent coverage encompassed can be much greater than is available through tradit... |
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"abstract": "..............................................................................................1 ABBREVIATIONS......................................................................................3 CHAPTER 1: Literature Review........................................................................5 CHAP... | {
"abstract": "Patients hospitalized in a hospital with a high incidence of antibiotic-associated diarrhea due to toxin A-negative, toxin B-positive (A−/B+) Clostridium difficile were retrospectively investigated to determine the clinical manifestations and risk factors for infection. Of 77 Clostridium difficile isol... | {
"abstract": "The aim of this study was to fortify the clinical importance and representation of toxigenic and non-toxigenic Clostridium difficile isolated from stool samples of hospitalized patients. This survey included 80 hospitalized patients with diarrhea and positive findings of Clostridium difficile in stool ... |
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"abstract": "Sonia Maalej , Zouhour Yaacoub , Radhouane Fakhfekh , Sadok Yaalaoui , Ali Ben Kheder , Ikram Drira . Background: The association between asthma and obesity is becoming increasingly established but the mechanism that might explain the observed differences in asthma severity, control and quality of life... | {
"abstract": "OBJECTIVE\nElevated values of body mass index (BMI) have been associated with higher prevalence of asthma in adults. The aim of the present study is to evaluate the association between obesity and asthma severity.\n\n\nMETHODS\nMedical records of two hundred patients older than 20 years of age were eva... | {
"abstract": "To assess smoking, obesity, and other risk factors for asthma, the authors examined 17,605 subjects aged 12 years or more who participated in the National Population Health Survey in 1994-1995. Asthma was considered present if an affirmative response was given to the question, \"Do you have asthma diag... |
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"abstract": "Early detection of cancers is challenging for lack of specific biomarkers. Adiponectin is an adipokine predominantly derived from adipocytes and hypoadiponectinemia has been reported to associate with risk of many types of cancers. However, available evidence is controversial. Some studies show that in... | {
"abstract": "Circulating adiponectin levels are inversely associated with risk of various obesity‐related cancers. However, the effect of adiponectin on carcinogenesis and progression of tongue squamous cell carcinoma (TSCC) remains unknown. We measured serum adiponectin levels in 59 patients with TSCC and 50 healt... | {
"abstract": "Recent studies have demonstrated that obesity is a significant risk factor for the development of several malignancies, but the mechanisms underlying this relationship remain to be fully elucidated. Adiponectin, an adipocyte secreted endogenous insulin sensitizer, appears to play an important role not ... |
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"abstract": "In agriculture, although fungi are considered the foremost problem, infections by bacteria also cause significant economical losses. The presence of different diseases in crops often leads to a misuse of the proper therapeutic, or the combination of different diseases forces the use of more than one pe... | {
"abstract": "Blad polypeptide comprises residues 109–281 of Lupinus albus β-conglutin precursor. It occurs naturally as a major subunit of an edible, 210 kDa oligomer which accumulates to high levels, exclusively in the cotyledons of Lupinus seedlings between the 4th and 14th day after the onset of germination. Bla... | {
"abstract": "Mimicking hybrid extracellular matrix is one of the main challenges for bone tissue engineering (BTE). Biocompatible polycaprolactone/poly(α,β)-DL-aspartic acid/collagen nanofibrous scaffolds were fabricated by electrospinning and nanohydroxyapatite (n-HA) was deposited by calcium phosphate dipping met... |
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"abstract": "The use of opioid analgesics has created an opioid addiction epidemic in the United States and around the world. One of the main responsibilities of the emergency department is to address acute pain. In this paper we examine the use of low dose ketamine as a safe substitute for opioid analgesics. Types... | {
"abstract": "&NA; The United States is currently experiencing a public health crisis of opioid addiction, which has its genesis in an industry marketing effort that successfully encouraged clinicians to prescribe opioids liberally, and asserted the safety of prescribing opioids for chronic non‐cancer pain, despite ... | {
"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nPhysical activity interventions tailored to individual characteristics and delivered via print produce greater increases in activity compared with nontailored interventions and controls. Using the Internet to deliver a tailored physical activity intervention offers an alternative to print t... |
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"abstract": "Recently, many deep learning models have archived high results in question answering task with overall F1 scores above 0.88 on SQuAD datasets. However, many of these models have quite low F1 scores on why-questions. These F1 scores range from 0.57 to 0.7 on SQuAD v1.1 development set. This means these ... | {
"abstract": "Why-question answering (why-QA) is a task to retrieve answers (or answer passages) to why-questions (e.g., \"why are tsunamis generated?\") from a text archive. Several previously proposed methods for why-QA improved their performance by automatically recognizing causalities that are expressed with suc... | {
"abstract": "Sentiment analysis is treated as a classification task as it classifies the orientation of a text into either positive or negative. This paper describes experimental results that applied Support Vector Machine (SVM) on benchmark datasets to train a sentiment classifier. N-grams and different weighting ... |
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"abstract": "Pour la premiere fois, une etude par spectroscopie infrarouge a transformee de Fourrier et par microsonde ionique des mineraux majeurs de la croute inferieure et des peridotites mantelliques a ete entreprise afin de mieux caracteriser les mecanismes d’incorporation et les teneurs en eau de ces mineraux... | {
"abstract": "Foundering of mafic lower continental crust into underlying convecting mantle has been proposed as one means to explain the unusually evolved chemical composition of Earth's continental crust, yet direct evidence of this process has been scarce. Here we report that Late Jurassic high-magnesium andesite... | {
"abstract": "The XM-1 soft X-ray microscope is a user-dedicated facility located at the Advanced Light Source at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and has recently been established as a tool for high-resolution imaging of magnetic domains. It is a conventional full field transmission microscope which is able to... |
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"abstract": "This paper presents the modelling of smart indoor control for renewable air-conditioning using fuzzy logic control and proportional-integral-derivatives for improved thermal comfort. The proposed control techniques are systematically designed and tuned to achieve the system best performance without cos... | {
"abstract": "Wireless sensor network (WSN) technology has been successfully applied to energy saving applications in many places, and plays a significant role in achieving power conservation. However, previous studies do not discuss WSN costs and cost-recovery. The application of WSNs is currently limited to resear... | {
"abstract": "This paper presents fluid manipulation using multiscale spiral-type magnetic machines with magnetic wireless operations. Magnetic spiral-type or helical machines have been widely used for biomedical applications. We considered two applications in the spiral-type magnetic machine: microfluid control (mi... |
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"abstract": "Building and maintaining customer loyalty are important issues in electronic business. By providing customer services, sharing cost benefits with online customers, and rewarding the most valued customers, customer loyalty and customer equity can be improved. With conventional marketing programs, groups... | {
"abstract": "Mobile game and advertising are evolving rapidly and becoming the key of mobile contents market. More powerful mobile devices have enabled the creation of better and richer mobile games and advertising. This paper proposes a framework, called Ubitem, which addresses many of the issues that are characte... | {
"abstract": "Building and maintaining customer loyalty are important issues in electronic business. By providing customer services, sharing cost benefits with online customers, and rewarding the most valued customers, customer loyalty and customer equity can be improved. With conventional marketing programs, groups... |
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"abstract": "We present TableHop, a tabletop display that provides controlled self-actuated deformation and vibro-tactile feedback to an elastic fabric surface while retaining the ability for high-resolution visual projection. The surface is made of a highly stretchable pure spandex fabric that is electrostatically... | {
"abstract": "Actuated shape output provides novel opportunities for experiencing, creating and manipulating 3D content in the physical world. While various shape displays have been proposed, a common approach utilizes an array of linear actuators to form 2.5D surfaces. Through identifying a set of common interactio... | {
"abstract": "We present an interactive system for generating photorealistic, textured, piecewise-planar 3D models of architectural structures and urban scenes from unordered sets of photographs. To reconstruct 3D geometry in our system, the user draws outlines overlaid on 2D photographs. The 3D structure is then au... |
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"abstract": "Built-in-self-test (BIST) is a useful technique for memory testing, but the synthesis of memory BIST controllers for 3D ICs (three-dimensional ICs) has not been well studied. In this paper, we propose a two-stage approach to synthesize the memory BIST controllers of a 3D IC under power constraints: the... | {
"abstract": "A modern system-on-chip (SOC) may become one of the dies of a three-dimensional (3D) IC using through-silicon via (TSV). Built-in self-repair (BISR) techniques have been widely used to improve the yield of RAMs in a SOC. This paper proposes a memory BISR allocation scheme to allocate shared BISR circui... | {
"abstract": "Fundamental understanding of liquid flow through microchannels is important to the design and optimization of microfluidic devices. The objective of the current study is to experimentally investigate the effects of surface roughness on the flow characteristics in rectangular PDMS microchannel with a hy... |
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"abstract": "Compact slow light devices are essential components for performing data caching and signal processing in photonic integrated loops. In this article, an integrated ultra-low-dispersion slow light device with a novel method is proposed. The device consists of three parts (hexagonal resonator with ellipti... | {
"abstract": "We describe slow light propagation of a 10 Gbit/s data stream in a narrow band fiber parametric amplifier. A large tunable delay of 10 to 60 ps with very low signal distortion has been demonstrated in a 1 km long dispersion shifted fiber. The longitudinal variation of the fiber propagation parameters w... | {
"abstract": "In this work, we develop a mercury-cadmium-telluride linear array detection system that is capable of rapidly capturing (∼1-5 s) a broad spectrum of atomic and molecular laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) emissions in the long-wave infrared (LWIR) region (∼5.6-10 μm). Similar to the conventi... |
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"abstract": "It was with interest that we read the article by Yuen et al (1) who reported measurable decreases in the apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) of breast tumors following Gd contrast agent administration. The reduction was largest (34%) in lesions deemed to have particularly high vascularity. The observa... | {
"abstract": "The apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) of extravascular tissue water in rat brains was measured in response to step‐wise injections of the superparamagnetic intravascular contrast agent AMI‐227. These data were normalized and compared with measured changes in R*2 and blood magnetic susceptibility. Li... | {
"abstract": "Backgroundː Chronic kidney disease stage G5 (CKD G5) patients show an activated but impaired immune system. One function of the FOXP3+ regulatory T (Treg) cells is to preserve tolerance to self while maintaining the ability to fight infectious agents. The aim of this pilot study is to evaluate longitud... |
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"abstract": "A model that isolates the interaction between midlatitude ocean gyres and the wind stress due to atmospheric baroclinic eddies is formulated. The ocean and atmosphere are coupled through their respective heat balances and global heat and momentum conservations are enforced. The ocean flow creates a ste... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Observations of oceanic temperature in the upper 400 m reveal decadal signals that propagate in the thermocline along lines of constant potential vorticity from the ventilation region in the central North Pacific to approximately 18°N in the western Pacific. The propagation path and speed are ... | {
"abstract": "Relationships among 6 measures of temporal perspective and 9 personality variables were examined separately for male and female college students, and a factor analysis of scores was carried out. Scores (males: ns = 49 to 54; females: ns = 81 to 121) on temporal perspective instruments were significantl... |
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"abstract": "Ovarian Clear Cell Carcinoma (OCCC) is a distinctive subtype of Epithelial Ovarian Cancer (EOC). Compared with other subtypes of EOC, CCC has relatively poor in prognosis and bad outcome in current clinical management using maximal cytoreduction and platinum plus paclitaxel–based combined chemotherapy.... | {
"abstract": "Purpose: The objective of this study was to evaluate the antitumor efficacy of trabectedin in clear cell carcinoma (CCC) of the ovary, which is regarded as an aggressive, chemoresistant, histologic subtype. Experimental Design: Using 6 human ovarian cancer cell lines (3 CCC and 3 serous adenocarcinomas... | {
"abstract": "BackgroundEnhancing the antitumor activity of the DNA-damaging drugs is an attractive strategy to improve current treatment options. Trabectedin is an isoquinoline alkylating agent with a peculiar mechanism of action. It binds to minor groove of DNA inducing single- and double-strand-breaks. These kind... |
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"abstract": "Do women weather economic shocks differently than men? The evidence shows this to be the case, especially in low-income countries. The first-round impacts of economic crises on women's employment should be particularly salient in the current downturn, since women have increased their participation in t... | {
"abstract": "The benefits of financial development and globalization have come with continuing fragility in financial sectors. Periodic crises have had real but heterogeneous welfare impacts and not just for poor people; indeed, some of the conditions that foster deep and persistent poverty, such as lack of connect... | {
"abstract": "The 1997 Indonesian financial crisis resulted in severe economic dislocation and political upheaval, and the detrimental consequences for economic welfare, physical health, and child education have been established in several studies. The crisis also adversely impacted the psychological well-being of t... |
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"abstract": "Bat Algorithm (BA) is a nature-inspired swarm algorithm which has been applied to solve multiple real-world optimisation problems. Due to a lack of balance between exploitation and exploration, multiple researchers have proposed different hybrids of BA. This paper proposes Shuffled MultiPopulation Bat ... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Bat algorithm (BA) is a recent metaheuristic optimization algorithm proposed by Yang. In the present study, we have introduced chaos into BA so as to increase its global search mobility for robust global optimization. Detailed studies have been carried out on benchmark problems with different ... | {
"abstract": "Grey wolf optimizer (GWO) is one of recent metaheuristics swarm intelligence methods. It has been widely tailored for a wide variety of optimization problems due to its impressive characteristics over other swarm intelligence methods: it has very few parameters, and no derivation information is require... |
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"abstract": "Abstract Drug-drug interaction (DDI) is defined as a clinically significant change in the exposure and/or response to a drug caused by co-administration of another drug which may result in a precipitation of an adverse event or alteration of its therapeutic effects. The aim of this systematic review wa... | {
"abstract": "Methylene blue, a drug used to treat vasoplegia and methemoglobinemia, also inhibits monoamine oxidase-A. When given in combination with serotonergic medications, methylene blue can lead to serotonin excess syndrome. Given the widespread use of serotonergic medication to treat depression, anesthesia pr... | {
"abstract": "Vasoplegic syndrome is a recognized complication following cardiac surgery using cardiopulmonary bypass and is associated with increased morbidity and mortality. In several patients profound post-operative vasodilatation does not respond to conventional vasoconstrictor therapy. Methylene blue has been ... |
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"abstract": "ABSTRACT This paper proposes a methodology for using survey data to understand the composition of elites, through analysing the pool of potential members. An occupational-based measure of ‘potential power elite’ (PPE) is created and compared with other measures of occupational advantage. It is argued t... | {
"abstract": "This article uses social network data to study the integration of local elites in four Swedish municipalities. Four research questions are asked. First: How integrated are the elites? While the results modify the picture that there are two rather distinct elites in Sweden – that is, a political elite d... | {
"abstract": "The key elements of successful local Governance have been identified as participation, sustainability, social inclusion and enabling policy environment. A successful policy framework must therefore involve initiators, Legitimizers, planners and executors, which in practical parlance are not guaranteed ... |
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"abstract": "The dromedary camel (Camel dromedarius) is extremely well adapted to life in hot and arid lands. In terms of physiological adaptation to heat and water deprivation it surpasses by far every other large animal of which data have been collected. None of the adaptive mechanisms to cope with the environmen... | {
"abstract": "MAMMALS inhabiting desert regions might be expected to have similar physiology, particularly in rates of water use. Groups of ungulates in the field, however, show a wide range of water consumption. We measured, over periods of weeks, the uninhibited intake of water and food by groups of animals grazin... | {
"abstract": "The study was conducted to compare the effects of XG with AG and BM at different metabolizable energy diets on growth performance, digestive physiology and energy utilization of broilers fed with corn-SBM diet. A 2 × 4 factorial design was used with two basal diets (the positive control group, PC; nega... |
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"abstract": "Donor-specific anti-HLA antibodies (DSAs) are a major risk factor associated with renal allograft outcomes. As a trigger of B cell antibody production, T follicular helper cells (Tfhs) promote DSA appearance. Herein, we evaluated whether circulating Tfhs (cTfhs) are associated with the genesis of antib... | {
"abstract": "Visualizing and quantifying the spatial relationships between T and B cells identifies adaptive immune cell networks in human inflammation. Putting Human Inflammation on the Map B cells cannot fight infection by antigen stimulation alone—they need help from T cells. In mice, two-photon electron microsc... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Optimal cyclic photophosphorylation with reduced indophenols under anaerobic conditions was shown to require a critical redox balance. Over-reduction inhibited this phosphorylation; addition of oxidizing agents like ferricyanide, air, ferredoxin or ferredoxin plus triphosphopyridine nucleotide... |
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"abstract": "Ghost artifacts are a serious issue in single and multi‐shot echo planar imaging. Because of these coherent artifacts, it is essential to consistently suppress the ghosts. In this article, we present a phase correction algorithm that achieves excellent ghost suppression for single and multi‐shot echo p... | {
"abstract": "A residual ghost artefact in echo-planar imaging (EPI) remains after the standard correction procedure based on a 1-dimensional phase-modulation of the spectra of even or odd echoes. A better reduction of this artefact is demonstrated using a 2-dimensional phase correction. The phase correction map is ... | {
"abstract": "Characterizing the properties of black holes is one of the most important science objectives for gravitational-wave observations. Astrophysical evidence suggests that black holes that are nearly extremal (i.e., spins near the theoretical upper limit) might exist and, thus, might be among the merging bl... |
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"abstract": "The Molecular Analyzer for Complex Refractory Organic-rich Surfaces, MACROS, is a novel instrument package being developed at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. MACROS enables the in situ characterization of a sample's composition by coupling two powerful techniques into one compact instrument package: ... | {
"abstract": "Laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry (LD-TOF-MS) has been developed and used to characterize different groups of hydrous minerals. We have advanced the technique by including reversed polarity, precision ion gating, and a curved field reflectron mass analyzer. Reversed polarity ... | {
"abstract": "A novel electrochemical method using multi-wall carbon nanotube (MWNT) film-modified electrode was developed for the detection of quinoline yellow. In pH 8 phosphate buffer, an irreversible oxidation peak at 0.71V was observed for quinoline yellow. Compared with the unmodified electrode, the MWNT film-... |
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"abstract": "Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) variant pathogenicity interpretation has special considerations given unique features of the mtDNA genome, including maternal inheritance, variant heteroplasmy, threshold effect, absence of splicing, and contextual effects of haplogroups. Currently, there are insufficient stan... | {
"abstract": "Tibetan highlanders, including Tibetans, Monpas, Lhobas, Dengs and Sherpas, are considered highly adaptive to severe hypoxic environments. Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) might be important in hypoxia adaptation given its role in coding core subunits of oxidative phosphorylation. In this study, we employed 5... | {
"abstract": "The human population has increased greatly in size in the last 100,000 years, but the initial stimuli to growth, the times when expansion started, and their variation between different parts of the world are poorly understood. We have investigated male demography in East Asia, applying a Bayesian full-... |
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"abstract": "We follow the time-dependent thermal evolution of a white dwarf (WD) undergoing sudden accretion in a dwarf nova outburst, using both simulations and analytic estimates. The post-outburst light curve clearly separates into early times when the WD flux is high and late times when the flux is near the qu... | {
"abstract": "Our previous theoretical study of the impact of an accreting envelope on the thermal state of an underlying white dwarf (WD) has yielded equilibrium core temperatures, classical nova ignition masses, and thermal luminosities for WDs accreting at time-averaged rates of ⟨⟩ = 10-11 to 10-8 M☉ yr-1. These ... | {
"abstract": "The orbital-period (P orb) gap in the population of cataclysmic variables (CVs) informs the theoretical narrative of CV evolution, yet a complete understanding of the driving angular momentum loss mechanisms above and below this gap remains elusive. Here we identify, for standard CVs, a new, apparently... |
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"abstract": "\nPurpose\nIn order to address operational effectiveness in the banking sector caused by the 2008 global economic crisis, the purpose of this paper is to examine the nature of operational wastes that exist within four large Greek banks.\n\n\nDesign/methodology/approach\nA Delphi study was undertaken wi... | {
"abstract": "Information systems researchers have often turned to a variant of the Delphi survey technique to support their research of key issues in their field. Two particular weaknesses of past studies using this approach have been a lack of a definitive method for conducting the research and a lack of statistic... | {
"abstract": "Key human resource issues in information systems (IS) for the 1990s were identified by a Delphi study of IS executives and consultants. Three rounds of survey of participants were used to move opinions toward consensus. Acquiring a stronger business orientation was the top-ranked issue. Preparing a str... |
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"abstract": "In the context of formal verification in general and model checking in particular, parity games serve as a mighty vehicle: many problems are encoded as parity games, which are then solved by the seminal algorithm by Jurdzinski. In this paper we identify the essence of this workflow to be the notion of ... | {
"abstract": "In this paper, we develop an algorithm for model checking that handles the full modal mucalculus including alternating fixpoints. Our algorithm has a better worst-case complexity than the best known algorithm for this logic while performing just as well on certain sublogics as other specialized algorit... | {
"abstract": "Le systeme de verification propose permet de reduire et de comparer des systemes de transitions etiquetees en tenant compte d'une relation d'equivalence. Les relations d'equivalence considerees sont la congruence forte, l'equivalence et la congruence observationnelles et la congruence par modele d'acce... |
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"abstract": "Objectives: Converging evidence suggests that the sequelae of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) including childhood abuse (e.g., sexual, physical, emotional/verbal abuse, neglect) and other ACE (e.g., family dysfunction, parental loss, parental psychopathology, substance abuse, incarceration, and do... | {
"abstract": "Clinical risk factors have a low predictive value on suicide. This may explain the increasing interest in potential neurobiological correlates and specific heritable markers of suicide vulnerability. This review aims to present the current neurobiological findings that have been shown to be implicated ... | {
"abstract": "ABSTRACT: Suicides in Geneva in those less than 25 years old, from 1993 to 2002, were reviewed. Scenes investigations, autopsy findings, toxicology results, and psychiatric history (when available) were examined. There were 65 cases. The average annual suicide rate was 11/100,000. Seventy‐seven percent... |
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"abstract": "This paper presents a multitouch vocabulary for interacting with parallel coordinates plots on wall-sized displays. The gesture set relies on principles such as two-finger range definition, a functional distinction of background and foreground for applying the Hold-and-Move concept to wall-sized displa... | {
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"abstract": "Mitigating the impact of computer failure is possible if accurate failure predictions are provided. Resources, applications, and services can be scheduled around predicted failure and limit the impact. Such strategies are especially important for multi-computer systems, such as compute clusters, that e... |
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"abstract": "There are significant differences in the effectiveness of the various teaching tools available to an educator. While lecturing and reading yield average learning retention rates of 5% and 10% respectively, practice by doing results in an average of 75% retention of the covered material (Weber, 2009). G... | {
"abstract": "The Parade Game illustrates what impact work-flow variability has on the performance of construction trades and their successors. The game consists of simulating a construction process in which resources produced by one trade are prerequisite to starting work by the next trade. Production-level detail,... | {
"abstract": "Construction, with its uniqueness and unusual operational characteristics, faces special handicaps dealing with process planning and control. In order to study the productivity and the resource efficiency of construction operations, one has to consider the impact of a wide variety of factors. This pape... |
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"abstract": "Most man-made environments, such as urban and indoor scenes, consist of a set of parallel and orthogonal planar structures. These structures are approximated by the Manhattan world assumption, in which notion can be represented as a Manhattan frame (MF). Given a set of inputs such as surface normals or... | {
"abstract": "The projections of world parallel lines in an image intersect at a single point called the vanishing point (VP). VPs are a key ingredient for various vision tasks including rotation estimation and 3D reconstruction. Urban environments generally exhibit some dominant orthogonal VPs. Given a set of lines... | {
"abstract": "Prior approaches to line segment detection typically involve perceptual grouping in the image domain or global accumulation in the Hough domain. Here we propose a probabilistic algorithm that merges the advantages of both approaches. In a first stage lines are detected using a global probabilistic Houg... |
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"abstract": "We propose a learning-based method11https://github.com/HKUST-Aerial-Robotics/Flow-Motion-Depth that solves monocular stereo and can be extended to fuse depth information from multiple target frames. Given two unconstrained images from a monocular camera with known intrinsic calibration, our network est... | {
"abstract": "This paper introduces a neural network to solve the structure-from-motion (SfM) problem via feature bundle adjustment (BA), which explicitly enforces multi-view geometry constraints in the form of feature reprojection error. The whole pipeline is differentiable, so that the network can learn suitable f... | {
"abstract": "We propose Stereo Direct Sparse Odometry (Stereo DSO) as a novel method for highly accurate real-time visual odometry estimation of large-scale environments from stereo cameras. It jointly optimizes for all the model parameters within the active window, including the intrinsic/extrinsic camera paramete... |
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"abstract": "The objective of this clinical paper is to describe the different types of family matters that professionals deal with every day when working in rehabilitation. This paper emphasizes WHY and WHEN it is important to work with the whole family and summarizes family reactions throughout the rehabilitation... | {
"abstract": "Introduction: Severe traumatic brain injury (STBI) can cause psychological stress in proxies in the long-term. This study assessed post-traumatic stress (PTS) symptoms in proxies of survivors of STBI in the short-term and investigated stress-associated factors. Methods: Prospective cross-sectional stud... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Over the Antarctic plateau, the radiances measured by the AVHRR middle infrared (11 and 12 μm) channels are shown to depend on effective cloud temperature, emissivity, ice water path, and effective radius of the particle size distribution. The usefulness of these dependencies is limited by rad... |
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"abstract": "Structured Abstract Purpose. Research has shown that when presenting large amounts of social media information on small devices, design should consider multiple contexts which include user preferences, time, location, environment and so on. It should also take into account the purpose of use, for examp... | {
"abstract": "In this paper, we aim to realize a context and preference-aware database system, CareDB, that provides scalable personalized location-based services to users based on their preferences and current surrounding context. Unlike existing location-based database systems that answer queries based solely on p... | {
"abstract": "With the rapid growth of geospatial data and concurrent users, the state-of-the-art WebGIS cannot support massive data storage and processing due to poor scalability of underlying centralized systems (e.g., native file systems and SDBMS). In this paper, we propose a novel distributed geospatial data st... |
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"abstract": "Introduction: Smoking-related COPD is a worldwide health problem. Airway \nremodelling is defined as structural changes occurring in chronic inflammatory diseases \nof the airways. Our knowledge about airway remodelling in COPD is very limited. My \npreliminary observational study of bronchial biopsies... | {
"abstract": "Inhaled corticosteroids suppress airway inflammation and components of airway remodelling in bronchial asthma. In the tracheobronchial (airway) vasculature, these include the inhibition of inflammatory hyperperfusion, microvascular hyperpermeability, mucosal oedema formation, and the formation of new b... | {
"abstract": "AIMS\nWe aimed to identify the short-term effects of a glucocorticoid (GC) and a mineralocorticoid (MC) on non-pregnant and late pregnant rat uterine contractions to estimate their tocolytic potential.\n\n\nMETHODS\nThe in vitro contractility studies were performed with uterine tissues from non-pregnan... |
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"abstract": "Recently much progress has been made in entity disambiguation and linking systems (EDL). Given a piece of text, EDL links words and phrases to entities in a knowledge base, where each entity defines a specific concept. Although extracted entities are informative, they are often too specific to be used ... | {
"abstract": "Mining topical experts on social media is a problem that has gained significant attention due to its wide-ranging applications. Here we present the first study that combines data from four major social networks—Twitter, Facebook, Google+ and LinkedIn—along with the Wikipedia graph and Internet webpage ... | {
"abstract": "Community Question Answering (CQA) websites provide a rapidly growing source of information in many areas. This rapid growth, while offering new opportunities, puts forward new challenges. In most CQA implementations there is little effort in directing new questions to the right group of experts. This ... |
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"abstract": "This study investigates whether and how the length of an auditor-client relationship affects audit quality. Using a sample of 1,071 firm observations of large listed companies for the sample period of 2005 to 2011, the study is one of the first to empirically analyze this auditing issue for the German ... | {
"abstract": "In this study, we examine the relation between auditor tenure and the reporting of conservative earnings. Using several measures of conservatism, we document a positive association between the conservatism in reported earnings and the length of the auditor-client relationship. We further document an in... | {
"abstract": "Abstract This paper provides guidance for empiricists interested in measuring conditional conservatism and in interpreting associations of those measures with variables of interest. I begin by discussing the nature and importance of conditional conservatism and surveying the literature identifying cond... |
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"abstract": "Chagas disease is an illness caused by the protozoan parasite Trypanosoma cruzi, affecting more than 7 million people in the world. Benznidazole and nifurtimox are the only drugs available for treatment and in addition to causing several side effects, are only satisfactory in the acute phase of the dis... | {
"abstract": "Background Trypanosoma cruzi is a protozoan pathogen responsible for Chagas disease. Current therapies are inadequate because of their severe host toxicity and numerous side effects. The identification of new biotargets is essential for the development of more efficient therapeutic alternatives. Inhibi... | {
"abstract": "SUMMARY Sirtuin proteins form a family of NAD+-dependent protein deacetylases that are considered potential drug targets against parasites. Here, we present the first characterization of a sirtuin orthologue from Leishmania amazonensis, an aetiological agent of American tegumentary leishmaniasis that h... |
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"abstract": "OBJECTIVES\nThe study aims to determine a) the extent of agreement between visual-tactile caries examination (VTE) and radiographic examination (RE) in detecting presumptive caries lesions on occlusal and proximal surfaces of posterior teeth of UNC Xylitol for Adult Caries Trial participants; and b) th... | {
"abstract": "BackgroundDental caries incidence in adults is similar to that in children and adolescents, but few caries preventive agents have been evaluated for effectiveness in adults populations. In addition, dentists direct fewer preventive services to their adult patients. Xylitol, an over-the-counter sweetene... | {
"abstract": "OBJECTIVES\nAlthough a set of clinical performance measures, i.e., a report card for dental plans, has been designed for use with administrative data, most plans do not have administrative data systems containing the data needed to calculate the measures. Therefore, we evaluated the use of a set of pro... |
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"abstract": "Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an autoimmune disease that causes chronic inflammation in synovial tissues. Hyperplasia of synovial tissues leads to the formation of pannus that invades the joint cartilage and bone, resulting in joint destruction. Fas ligand (FasL), which is a member of the tumor necrosis... | {
"abstract": "TR6/DcR3 is a secreted molecule belonging to the TNFR family. Its ligands are LIGHT, Fas ligand, and TL1A, all TNF family members. TR6 is expressed in some tumors and is hypothesized to endow tumor cells with survival advantages by blocking Fas-mediated apoptosis. It can also inhibit T cell activation ... | {
"abstract": "Neovessels within human coronary atherosclerotic lesions are frequently observed, but their pathophysiological significance is still subject to debate. Also, the origin of these vessels and their pathways in the arterial wall are not well-known. In this study, we describe the transmural pathway and the... |
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"abstract": "Despite improvements in multidisciplinary treatments, survival of pancreatic cancer (PC) patients remains dismal. Studies dealing with early onset pancreatic cancer (EOPC) patients are scarce. In this review, we discuss differences between EOPC and late-onset pancreatic cancer based on findings in orig... | {
"abstract": "Background: Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) rarely affects people under 40. Objectives: To determine whether the clinical, pathomorphological and genetic features of PDAC occurring in young patients (⩽40 years) differ from those in elderly patients. Methods: Clinical and pathomorphological data... | {
"abstract": "BackgroundThe regulation of Mut L homologue 1 (MLH1) expression by microRNA (miR)-155 and its prognostic significance in pancreatic cancer (PC) remain to be elucidated. This study aimed to address the issues.MethodsMiR-155 mimics and inhibitor were transfected to PC cell lines, Panc-1 and Capan-1. Expr... |
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"abstract": "The human race through the ages has striven to locate and develop water resources. One of the main challenges in sustainable management and utilization of both surface and ground water resource is obtaining accurate hydrological, meteorological and topographic information which are essential inputs in ... | {
"abstract": "Kotychi lagoon, located at the northwestern coast of Peloponnese, Greece, is a biotope of great ecological and financial importance,protected by the Ramsar International Convention. Kotychi lagoon hasbeen severely degraded and transformed during the past 50 years, due to agricultural activities in the ... | {
"abstract": "Geographic information systems (GIS) provide a digital representation of watershed characteristics used in hydrologic modeling. This paper summarizes past efforts and current trends in using digital terrain models and GIS to perform hydrologic analyses. Three methods of geographic information storage a... |
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"abstract": "Obesity has become a global health issue, but effective therapies remain very limited. Adaptive thermogenesis promotes weight loss by dissipating energy in the form of heat, thereby representing a promising target to counteract obesity. Notably, the regulation of thermogenesis is tightly orchestrated b... | {
"abstract": "Summary Thyroid hormones (THs) act in the brain to modulate energy balance. We show that central triiodothyronine (T3) regulates de novo lipogenesis in liver and lipid oxidation in brown adipose tissue (BAT) through the parasympathetic (PSNS) and sympathetic nervous system (SNS), respectively. Central ... | {
"abstract": "Groups of male adult albino rats were administered 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaric acid (HMG) intraperitoneally along with six diets differing only in the type of carbohydrate used. Groups not treated with HMG served as controls. HMG showed a significant cholesterol- and triglyceride-lowering effect in the ... |
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"abstract": "Computer aided design of machines involves modeling and analysis of the articulated assemblies. An assembly model is created by relative positioning of parts, whereas a kinematic model is created by specifying kinematic constraints between the parts. Over 100 papers are reviewed in the areas of relativ... | {
"abstract": "The automatic generation of high-level assembly plans from geometric models makes extensive use of restraints imposed by components on one another. The geometry of contact can be used to find the nature of these restraints. In this paper, we present a method to determine restraints to translational and... | {
"abstract": "Abstract A method is developed to automatically generate an assembling procedure for an assembly. In this work, an assembly is described by its components and their relationship in an assembly, especially the mating conditions. From the mating conditions of the components, an assembling procedure is ge... |
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"abstract": "The growth of epitaxial Ge nanowires is investigated on (100), (111) B and (110) GaAs substrates in the growth temperature range from 300 to 380 °C. Unlike epitaxial Ge nanowires on Ge or Si substrates, Ge nanowires on GaAs substrates grow predominantly along the direction. Using this unique property, ... | {
"abstract": "Titanium silicide nanoparticles on silicon substrates catalyze the decomposition of a silicon-containing gas, resulting in accelerated growth of silicon in one direction to form nanowires. Under some processing conditions, however, the Ti-catalyzed growth results in tapered silicon nanowires. The taper... |
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"abstract": "This article looks into the nature of cognitive associations between verbs and argument structure constructions (ASCs). Existing research has shown that distributional and semantic factors affect speakers’ choice of verbs in ASCs. A formal account of this theory has been proposed by Ellis, N. C., O’Don... | {
"abstract": "The first verbs to participate in VO and SVO combinations, and the temporal parameters of the spread of these combinatory patterns over different verbs were investigated. The longitudinal language observations of 16 children, one acquiring English, the others Hebrew, were examined. The children were ob... | {
"abstract": "The concept of rhetorical questions and their role in conveying pragmatic meanings has been of interest to many researchers in the field of language learning as these questions form one of the pillars in language communication. The main purpose of this empirical study is to find out whether learners ar... |
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"abstract": "We compared specimens of Tripterygion tripteronotus from 52 localities of the Mediterranean Sea and adjacent waters, using four gene sequences (12S rRNA, tRNA-valine, 16S rRNA and COI) and morphological characters. Two well-differentiated clades with a mean genetic divergence of 6.89±0.73% were found w... | {
"abstract": "In order to characterize the phylogenetic relationship and deep-sea adaptation process of the deep-sea fish genus Coryphaenoides, the nucleotide sequences of the mitochondrial (mt) 12 S rRNA and COI gene sequences for seven Coryphaenoides species were analyzed. Our molecular phylogenetic tree shows a n... | {
"abstract": "I have been given a title concerning what Medawar (1967:23, 74) called ‘a comparatively humble and unexacting kind of science,’ research in ‘the parish registers of evolution.’ To avoid too much parochial detail, I will deal only with the phylogeny of the teleosts as a whole, without going into the dif... |
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"abstract": "Microbial communities at six fumarole fields on Sierra Negra and Alcedo volcanoes in the Galápagos Islands were examined to test how extreme geochemical conditions affect microbial biodiversity. The geologic substrates consist of basalt and rhyolite with varying amounts of alteration and sulfur precipi... | {
"abstract": "The species complexity of microbial communities and challenges in culturing representative isolates make it difficult to obtain assembled genomes. Here we characterize and compare the metabolic capabilities of terrestrial and marine microbial communities using largely unassembled sequence data obtained... | {
"abstract": "BackgroundThe 99% of bacteria in the environment that are recalcitrant to culturing have spurred the development of metagenomics, a culture-independent approach to sample and characterize microbial genomes. Massive datasets of metagenomic sequences have been accumulated, but analysis of these sequences... |
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"abstract": "Cancer is one of the major causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Fiveor 10-year survival rate for cancer patients is still low. There is still much room to improve the survival rate. As one of the most three common types of cancer treatment used in the clinical practice, radiation therapy includ... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Background. Carbon ion therapy may be better against cancer than the effects of a photon beam. To investigate a biological advantage of carbon ion beam over X-rays, the radioresistant cell line HeLa cells were used. Radiationinduced changes in the biological processes were investigated post-ir... | {
"abstract": "Metabolic aberrations in the form of altered flux through key metabolic pathways are primary hallmarks of many malignant tumors. Primarily the result of altered isozyme expression, these adaptations enhance the survival and proliferation of the tumor at the expense of surrounding normal tissue. Consequ... |
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"abstract": "Internet of Things (IoT) applications typically collect and analyse personal data that can be used to derive sensitive information about individuals. However, thus far, privacy concerns have not been explicitly considered in software engineering processes when designing IoT applications. In this paper,... | {
"abstract": "In this paper we define the notion of a privacy design strategy. These strategies help IT architects to support privacy by design early in the software development life cycle, during concept development and analysis. Using current data protection legislation as point of departure we derive the followin... | {
"abstract": "Privacy by Design has emerged as a proactive approach for embedding privacy into the early stages of the design of information and communication technologies, but it is no ‘silver bullet’. Challenges involved in engineering Privacy by Design include a lack of holistic and systematic methodologies that ... |
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"abstract": "Bronchial subepithelial fibrosis is an histological characteristic of asthma. Cytokines and other mediators, such as PDGF‐BB, TGF‐β1 and ET‐1 found in the asthmatic submucosa can potentially activate a repair process that leads to fibroblast proliferation and collagen synthesis. The mechanisms of modul... | {
"abstract": "IT IS well established that glucocorticoids exert catabolic effects on connective tissue and delay wound healing. They induce skin atrophy partly by decreasing the proliferative capacity of skin fibroblasts and the synthesis of the ground substance. Despite extensive investigations, the mechanisms of t... | {
"abstract": "Abnormalities of the tumor suppressor TP53 pathway are critical in the development of many cancers since it regulates cell cycle components and apoptosis. Murine double minute‐2 (MDM2) protein is a central node in the p53 pathway and a direct negative regulator of p53. The MDM2 SNP309 (rs2279744) polym... |
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"abstract": "Rare earth elements (REEs) are a group of 15 elements, the lanthanides and Yttrium and Scandium, with similar chemical and physical properties. Their use for many advanced technological applications remarkably increased in the last decades, and it was associated with an intensive extraction of such ele... | {
"abstract": "Cellular and organellar redox states, which are characterized by the balance between oxidant and antioxidant pool sizes, play signaling roles in the regulation of gene expression and protein function in a wide variety of plant physiological processes including stress acclimation. Reactive oxygen specie... | {
"abstract": "Ascorbic acid (AsA) is present at high levels in plants and is a potent antioxidant and cellular reductant. The major plant AsA biosynthetic pathway is through the intermediates D-mannose and L-galactose. Although there is ample evidence that plants respond to fluctuating environmental conditions with ... |
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"abstract": "The Sorex araneus group has a rich but understudied Eurasian fossil record that spans more than two million years and stretches geographically from Britain to China. Their fossils have been found in association with mammoths, lions, hyenas, Neanderthals and even the mysterious Denisovans, people whose ... | {
"abstract": "The development of methods to reconstruct phylogenies from karyotypic data has lagged behind what has been achieved with molecular and morphological characters. This hampers our understanding of the role of chromosomal rearrangements in speciation, which depends on knowledge of the karyotypic relations... | {
"abstract": "Chromosome races of Mus musculus domesticus are characterised by particular sets of metacentric chromosomes formed by Robertsonian fusions and whole-arm reciprocal translocations. The Atlantic island of Madeira is inhabited by six chromosome races of house mice with 6–9 pairs of metacentric chromosomes... |
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"abstract": "Summary: Purpose: To estimate the prevalence and define the clinical characteristics of epileptic disorders in the 13,431 residents of the Sicilian Aeolian archipelago, on June 1, 1999.",
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"title": "Prevalence and Characteristics of Epilepsy in the Aeolian Islands"
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"abstract": "UNLABELLED\nThe aim of this study was to determine the prevalence and clinical characteristics of epilepsy and seizure disorders in Bradford. The method used was a community-based cross-sectional study. Case ascertainment was by review of medical records identified by searching practice databases using... | {
"abstract": "Gemcitabine (GEM) is one of the first-line drugs in the treatment of gallbladder cancer (GBC), although the therapeutic effect is not sustained due to resistance to the drug over time. Maslinic acid (MA) has been shown to inhibit transcription factor nuclear factor-κB (NF-κB), resulting in the suppress... |
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"abstract": "The flow field downstream of a constriction can be laminar, turbulent, or transitional, depending strongly on the Reynolds number through the stenosis and the geometry of the stenosis. Not only laminar flow modeling but turbulent models such as the k-ε, k-ω, LES or RANS ones are appropriate for this ki... | {
"abstract": "Instantaneous velocities in the field distal to contoured axisymmetric stenoses were measured with a laser Doppler anemometer. Upstream flow conditions were steady and spanned a range of Reynolds numbers from 500 to 2000. Autocorrelation functions and spectra of the velocity were employed to describe t... | {
"abstract": "Measurements of turbulence energy diffusion and the spectral distributions of stress components in the core of turbulent pipe flow are presented. The results tend to confirm the proposal of Bradshaw (1967a, b) that an inertial subrange in the spectra can exist at quite modest laboratory Reynolds number... |
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"abstract": "The outbreak and transmission of disease-causing pathogens are contributing to the unprecedented rate of biodiversity decline. Recent advances in genomics have coalesced into powerful tools to monitor, detect, and reconstruct the role of pathogens impacting wildlife populations. Wildlife researchers ar... | {
"abstract": "Avian malaria is a worldwide mosquito‐borne disease caused by Plasmodium parasites. These parasites occur in many avian species but primarily affect passerine birds that have not evolved with the parasite. Host pathogenicity, fitness, and population impacts are poorly understood. In contrast to contine... | {
"abstract": "Sporolzoites of a lizard malaria parasite, Plasmodium mexicanum. developed in two spcies of sandfly—Lutzomyia vexatrix and Lutzomyia stewarti. Salivary g1ands were infected 11 days after the flies took an infective blood meal. This is the first report of a malaria parasite undergoing sporogonic develop... |
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"abstract": "Abstract Multimodal data occurs frequently in discrete-event simulation input analysis, typically arising when an input sample stream comes from different sources. A finite mixture distribution is a simple input model for representing such data, but fitting a mixture distribution is not straightforward... | {
"abstract": "In this paper we describe a graphical, interactive technique for modeling univariate simulation input processes with a distribution family based on Bezier curves. This family has an open-ended parameterization and is capable of accurately representing an unlimited variety of distributional shapes. Our ... | {
"abstract": "This paper tries to propose a Geographic Information System (GIS)-integrated accident management framework - how traffic accident and safety management can be implemented in a GIS based information system supported by a statistical analysis system. The basic motivation for this research stems from the ... |
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"abstract": "Zinc deficiency is associated with poor growth in children without cystic fibrosis (CF), but its impact on growth in children with CF is unknown.",
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"title": "Zinc status and growth in infants and young children with cystic fibrosis"
} | {
"abstract": "Zinc is a trace element essential to the gastrointestinal, immune, integumentary, reproductive, and central nervous systems. Zinc deficiency is prevalent in many areas of the world and is a diagnostically challenging condition. Cutaneous manifestations typically occur in moderate to severe zinc deficie... | {
"abstract": "Aim : To examine the outcome of infliximab intervention in refractory indeterminate colitis.",
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"score": -1,
"title": "Infliximab in the treatment of medically refractory indeterminate colitis"
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"abstract": "Many algorithms have been created to automatically detect community structures in social networks. These algorithms have been studied from the perspective of optimisation extensively. However, which community finding algorithm most closely matches the human notion of communities? In this paper, we cond... | {
"abstract": "Many algorithms have been proposed for revealing the community structure in complex networks. Tests under a wide range of realistic conditions must be performed in order to select the most appropriate for a particular application. Artificially generated networks are often used for this purpose. The mos... | {
"abstract": "Two approaches have predominated in research on the semantics of gradable adjectives: the Vague Predicate Analysis and the Scalar Analysis. Kennedy discusses four problems of the Vague Predicate Analysis, the two of which can be regarded as main: the Cross-Polarity Problem and the (In)commensurability ... |
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"abstract": "Phylogenomic studies using genome‐wide datasets are quickly becoming the state of the art for systematics and comparative studies, but in many cases, they result in strongly supported incongruent results. The extent to which this conflict is real depends on different sources of error potentially affect... | {
"abstract": "The phylogeny of otocephalan fishes is the subject of broad controversy based on morphological and molecular evidence. The primary unresolved issue pertaining to this lineage relates to the origin of Characiphysi, especially the paraphyly of Characiformes. The considerable uncertainty associated with t... | {
"abstract": "Although reconstruction of the phylogeny of living birds has progressed tremendously in the last decade, the evolutionary history of Neoaves—a clade that encompasses nearly all living bird species—remains the greatest unresolved challenge in dinosaur systematics. Here we investigate avian phylogeny wit... |
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"abstract": "The phase retrieval problem can be reduced to the second order partial differential equation. In order to retrieve the absolute values of the X-ray phase and to minimize the reconstruction artifacts we defined the mixed inhomogeneous boundary condition using available a priori information about the sam... | {
"abstract": "Phase retrieval in differential X-ray phase contrast imaging involves a one dimensional integration step. In the presence of noise, standard integration methods result in image blurring and streak artifacts. This work proposes a regularized integration method which takes the availability of two dimensi... | {
"abstract": "Phase contrast in X-ray imaging provides lower radiation dose, and dramatically higher contrast at multi-keV photon energies when compared with absorption contrast. We describe here the use of a segmented detector in a scanning transmission X-ray microscope to collect partially coherent bright field im... |
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"abstract": "To gain accurate control of the whole switching transients, this article proposes a self-regulating voltage–source gate drive (SRVSD) method for high-power insulated gate bipolar transistors (IGBTs) working under hard switching conditions. The SRVSD has a high-speed circuit capable of adjusting drive l... | {
"abstract": "This paper presents a new active gate drive (AGD) for switching performance improvement and overvoltage protection of high-power insulated gate bipolar transistors (IGBTs). In addition to the conventional gate drive (CGD) based on fixed voltage sources and fixed gate drive resistors, the proposed AGD h... | {
"abstract": "A rowhammer error represents a loss of data stored in a DRAM cell caused by electromagnetic interference due to repetitive access to the same and/or adjacent rows. Due to the concentrated occurrence of rowhammer errors in specific rows and columns, these errors cannot be corrected by the conventional e... |
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"abstract": "As one of the fundamental vision tasks, face alignment has attracted a tremendous amount of efforts and achieved significant improvement over the decades. While the state-of-the-art works fairly well on the lab datasets and certain face images in the wild, it may easily fail in front of large pose vari... | {
"abstract": "Face alignment, which fits a face model to an image and extracts the semantic meanings of facial pixels, has been an important topic in CV community. However, most algorithms are designed for faces in small to medium poses (below 45), lacking the ability to align faces in large poses up to 90. The chal... | {
"abstract": "Topic models have been widely used in discovering latent topics which are shared across documents in text mining. Vector representations, word embeddings and topic embeddings, map words and topics into a low-dimensional and dense real-value vector space, which have obtained high performance in NLP task... |
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"abstract": "Gynecomastia is a common incidental finding on thoracic computed tomography (CT). This study aimed to retrospectively determine the prevalence, imaging characteristics, and possible causes of incidental gynecomastia on thoracic CT. Records of male patients who underwent thoracic CT in 2015 were reviewe... | {
"abstract": "RATIONALE AND OBJECTIVES\nGynecomastia is the benign enlargement of the male breast because of proliferation of the glandular component. To date, there is no radiological definition of gynecomastia and no quantitative evaluation of breast glandular tissues in the general male population. The aims of th... | {
"abstract": "An imbalance between estrogen action relative to androgen action at the breast tissue level results in gynecomastia. Enhancement of aromatization of androgens to estrogens is important in the pathogenesis of gynecomastia associated with obesity, aging, puberty, liver disease, thyrotoxicosis, 17-oxoster... |
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"abstract": "The exponential increase in energy demands continuously causes high price energy tariffs for domestic and commercial consumers. To overcome this problem, researchers strive to discover effective ways to reduce peak-hour energy demand through off-peak scheduling yielding low price energy tariffs. Effici... | {
"abstract": "Non-intrusive load monitoring (NILM) is a popular approach to estimate appliance-level electricity consumption from aggregate consumption data of households. Assessing the suitability of NILM algorithms to be used in real scenarios is however still cumbersome, mainly because there exists no standardize... | {
"abstract": "Human activity recognition (HAR) in ubiquitous computing is beginning to adopt deep learning to substitute for well-established analysis techniques that rely on hand-crafted feature extraction and classification techniques. From these isolated applications of custom deep architectures it is, however, d... |
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"abstract": "The highly abundant, small stable RNAs that are synthesized by RNA polymerase III (RNAPIII) have key functional roles, particularly in the protein synthesis apparatus. Their expression is metabolically demanding, and is therefore coupled to changing demands for protein synthesis during cell growth and ... | {
"abstract": "Human FOXP2 deficiency has been identified as a cause of hereditary developmental verbal dyspraxia. Another member of the same gene family, FOXP1, has expression patterns that overlap with FOXP2 in some areas of the brain, and FOXP1 and FOXP2 have the ability to form heterodimers. These findings sugges... |
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"abstract": "There is an increasing interest in the use of mathematical word problem (MWP) generation in educational assessment. Different from standard natural question generation, MWP generation needs to maintain the underlying mathematical operations between quantities and variables, while at the same time ensur... | {
"abstract": "Texts present coherent stories that have a particular theme or overall setting, for example science fiction or western. In this paper, we present a text generation method called {\\it rewriting} that edits existing human-authored narratives to change their theme without changing the underlying story. W... | {
"abstract": "In recent years there has been an exponential growth in developing machine learning algorithms, focused on applications ranging from scene understanding, to the more standard object recognition and classification tasks. Although multiple approaches have been proposed for solving these issues, a common ... |
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"abstract": "....................................................................................................................................... ii Table des matières ..................................................................................................................... iii Liste des tableaux ....... | {
"abstract": "BackgroundPyridine-2,6-bis(thiocarboxylic acid) (pdtc) is a small secreted metabolite that has a high affinity for transition metals, increases iron uptake efficiency by 20% in Pseudomonas stutzeri, has the ability to reduce both soluble and mineral forms of iron, and has antimicrobial activity towards... | {
"abstract": "The potential for natural genetic transformation among the seven genomovars (gvs) of Pseudomonas stutzeri was investigated. Of the 12 strains originating from a variety of environments, six strains (50%) from five gvs were competent for DNA uptake (Rif(R) marker). The transformation frequencies varied ... |
{
"abstract": ": Gaseous nitrogen (N) emissions, especially emissions of dinitrogen (N 2 ) 35 and ammonia (NH 3 ), have long been considered as the major pathways of N loss from 36 flooded rice paddies. However, no studies have simultaneously evaluated the overall 37 response of gaseous N losses to improved N fertili... | {
"abstract": "Biochar and nitrification inhibitors are increasingly being proposed as amendments to improve nitrogen use efficiency (NUE). However, their effects on soil denitrification and the major N loss in rice paddies over an entire rice-growing season are not well understood. In this study, using intact soil c... | {
"abstract": "Straw returns to the soil is an effective way to improve soil organic carbon and reduce air pollution by straw burning, but this may increase CH4 and N2O emissions risks in paddy soils. Biochar has been used as a soil amendment to improve soil fertility and mitigate CH4 and N2O emissions. However, litt... |
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"abstract": "Multimodal image-text models have shown remarkable performance in the past few years. However, the robustness of such foundation models against distribution shifts is crucial in downstream applications. In this paper, we investigate their robustness under image and text perturbations. We first build se... | {
"abstract": null,
"corpus_id": 19435386,
"title": "A Corpus of Natural Language for Visual Reasoning"
} | {
"abstract": "Beyond understanding what is being discussed, human communication requires an awareness of what someone is feeling. One challenge for dialogue agents is being able to recognize feelings in the conversation partner and reply accordingly, a key communicative skill that is trivial for humans. Research in ... |
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"abstract": "Background: Platinum (II) (Pt(II))-based anticancer drugs dominate the chemotherapy field of ovarian cancer. However, the patient's quality of life has severely limited owing to dose-limiting toxicities and the advanced disease at the time of diagnosis. Multifunctional tumor-targeted nanosized ultrasou... | {
"abstract": "Activating droplets vaporization has become an attractive strategy for ultrasound imaging and physical therapy due to the significant increase in ultrasound backscatter signals and its ability to physically damage the tumor cells. However, the current two types of transitional droplets named after thei... | {
"abstract": "Synchronizing out of phase may sometimes occur to a turbine generator due to the misoperation or failure of a synchronizing controller. There could be a large impulse current in stator windings during out of phase synchronizing. The impulse current could seriously damage the windings insulation, and th... |
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"abstract": "Abstract Growth factors and cytokines activate signal transduction pathways and regulate gene expression in eukaryotes. Intracellular domains of activated receptors recruit several protein kinases as well as transcription factors that serve as platforms or hubs for the assembly of multi-protein complex... | {
"abstract": "The signaling pathway for IFN-gamma-mediated induction of ICAM-1 expression was further studied in human NCI-H292 epithelial cells. The Tyr701 phosphorylation of signal transducer and activator of transcription 1 (STAT1) induced by interferon-gamma (IFN-gamma) and 12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol 13-acetate (... | {
"abstract": "Many simultaneously hermaphroditic land snails have sperm digesting glands and multiple sperm storage organs, which it is suggested give the sperm recipient control over the number of sperm accepted and hence fertilization. In order to increase fertilization success, the sperm donor should manipulate t... |
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"title": "GM1-MEDIATED NEURODIFFERENTIATION IS PROMOTED BY OLIGOGM1-TRKA INTERACTION"
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"abstract": "The ability of Fuc-GM1 ganglioside to mimic the receptor function of GM1 for cholera toxin (CT) has been investigated. For this purpose, rat glioma C6 cultured cells were enriched with Fuc-GM1 and the responsiveness to CT was compared with that of cells enriched with GM1 ganglioside. Fuc-GM1 was taken ... | {
"abstract": "Spatial and temporal distribution of arsenic levels in soil during the 9 year monitoring period was investigated on four different soil types in the area of the gas borehole system Podravina in Croatia. Arsenic levels in the PM10 particle fraction were measured periodically at the same locations for 3 ... |
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