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"abstract": "Abstract. Accelerated depletion of fossil fuel, energy demands, and pollution force us to choose renewable and eco-friendly energy resources. Solar cells are considered as an efficient replacement for fossil fuel. In the family of solar cells, silicon-based solar cells and perovskite solar cells (PSC) ... | {
"abstract": "Kesterite-structured quaternary semiconductor Cu2ZnSnS4 (CZTS) has been commonly used as light absorber in thin film solar cells on the basis of its optimal bandgap of 1.5 eV, high absorption coefficient, and earth-abundant elemental constituents. Herein we applied CZTS nanoparticles as a novel inorgan... | {
"abstract": "The adsorption of cationic dye (i.e., methylene blue) onto acid-activated andesite in aqueous solution was studied in a batch system with respect to its kinetics as a function of agitation speed, initial adsorbate concentration, pH, and adsorbent mass. It was found that the resulting acid-activated ads... |
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"abstract": "Alhagi maurorum Medik (Fabaceae) is the single species of genus Alhagi found in Iraq, locally known as Aqual. Various studies have shown A. maurorum used in folk medicines. However, its potential health benefits have not been studied in details. Methanol extracts ofA. maurorum from the aerial part were... | {
"abstract": "Studies on the antioxidant and antimicrobial activities of Mitragyna speciosa leaf extracts are lacking. In this study the antioxidant properties of water, methanolic and alkaloid M. speciosa leaf extracts were evaluated using the DPPH (2,2-diphenyl-1-picrylhydrazyl) radical scavenging method. The amou... | {
"abstract": "Three Bulgarian medicinal plants--Geranium macrorrhizum L. and G. sanguineum L. (Geraniaceae), and Epilobium hirsutum L. (Onagraceae) were analyzed phytochemically. Different polyphenols like flavonoids and tannis have been found to be principal constituents of the plants. A series of water or alcohol ... |
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"abstract": "ABSTRACT This article profiles consumers based on their attitude toward different practices of responsible tourism, the extent to which they behave consistently with these attitudes, and, finally, the behavioral change they need to make to adopt those practices. Qualitative research informed the develo... | {
"abstract": "Abstract This article recognises the immense and growing interest for the development of a sustainable tourism. However, it demonstrates a gap between general awareness and preferences on the one hand, and the practices and behaviour of tourists and tourist industries on the other hand. The constraints... | {
"abstract": "Part 1 Introduction: tourism and the environment - an overview, H. Briassoulis and J. van der Straaten. Part 2 Tourism and the environment - general considerations: environmental impacts of tourism - a framework for analysis and evaluation, H. Briassoulis tourism and the environment - some observations... |
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"abstract": ": Existing dehazing methods based on convolutional neural networks estimate the transmission map by treating channel-wise features equally, which lacks flexibility in handling different types of haze information, leading to the poor representational ability of the network. Besides, the scene lights are... | {
"abstract": "We present an unsupervised multilevel segmentation scheme for automatically segmenting grayscale and color images.Fuzzy 2-partition entropy is combined with Graph Cut to form a bi-level segmentation operator that splits a given region into 2 parts based on both global optimal threshold and local spatia... | {
"abstract": "Snakes, or active contours, have been widely used in image processing applications. Typical roadblocks to consistent performance include limited capture range, noise sensitivity, and poor convergence to concavities. This paper proposes a new external force for active contours, called vector field convo... |
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"abstract": "This paper investigates the suitability of using Data Visualization, specifically Parallel Coordinates Plots (PCP), as an instrument for helping distance learning instructors identify students with poor performance. To answer this question, we developed a web application that lets users generate and in... | {
"abstract": "In this paper, we would like to investigate how people make sense of unfamiliar information visualizations. In order to achieve the research goal, we conducted a qualitative study by observing 13 participants when they endeavored to make sense of three unfamiliar visualizations (i.e., a parallel-coordi... | {
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"title": "Emerging and Recurring Data-Driven Storytelling Techniques: Analysis of a Curated Collection of Recent Stories"
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"abstract": "Background: The environment is the physical, biological, social, economic and cultural environment in which people and other living things maintain their relationships and interact throughout their lives. In this study, it was aimed to determine the knowledge, attitudes and behaviors of individuals res... | {
"abstract": "This work reviews (i) the most recent information on waste arisings and waste disposal options in the world, in the European Union (EU), in Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OEDC) countries, and in some developing countries (notably China) and (ii) the potential direct and indirec... | {
"abstract": "In this paper, we identify and evaluate the potential of new distributed attacks launched through web browsers using the HTML5 Web Workers API. Web worker attacks rely on the new multi-threading capabilities of Web Workers, which can allow malicious JavaScript code to run in the background of a web pag... |
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"abstract": "It is standardly assumed that non-restrictive relative clauses (NRCs) do not contribute to the meaning of the main clause, despite their embedded position. Rather, they are interpreted like independent sentences, outside the scope of all operators in the embedding sentence (Chierchia and McConnell-Gine... | {
"abstract": "This paper studies the distinction between subordinating and coordinating discourse relations, a distinction that governs the hierarchical structure of discourse. We provide linguistic tests to clarify which discourse relations are subordinating and which are coordinating. We argue that some relations ... | {
"abstract": "Most of the effort in today's digital forensics community lies in the retrieval and analysis of existing information from computing systems. Little is being done to increase the quantity and quality of the forensic information on today's computing systems. In this paper we pose the question of what kin... |
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"abstract": "Thesis (Master, Electrical & Computer Engineering) -- Queen's University, 2015-07-23 16:44:28.655",
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"title": "Improving Code Search Using Learning-to-Rank and Query Reformulation Techniques"
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"abstract": "Jadeite is a new Javadoc-like API documentation system that takes advantage of multiple users' aggregate experience to reduce difficulties that programmers have learning new APIs. Previous studies have shown that programmers often guessed that certain classes or methods should exist, and looked for the... | {
"abstract": "Reuse of existing code from class libraries and frameworks is often difficult because APIs are complex and the client code required to use the APIs can be hard to write. We observed that a common scenario is that the programmer knows what type of object he needs, but does not know how to write the code... |
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"abstract": "In tetraploid rye with single-substitution wheat chromosomes - 1A, 2A, 5A, 6A, 7A, 3B, 5B, 7B - chromosome pairing was analysed at metaphase I in PMCs with the C-banding method. The frequency of univalents of chromosome 1A was considerably higher than that of the other four wheat chromosomes of genome ... | {
"abstract": "Chromosome pairing in tetraploid Secalotriticum was analysed. In the studied plants wheat chromosomes in PMCs during metaphase I showed a higher degree of pairing, in comparison to the rye genome. This is reflected in a very low frequency of univalents and a higher frequency of ring bivalents. The occu... | {
"abstract": "Chromosome pairing was studied at metaphase I in PMCs by C-banding in diploid rye plants with 1–3 monosomic-substitution wheat chromosomes and 1 monosomic-addition wheat chromosome. In plants with chromosome 5A, no univalents were found. In other plants with 1 monosomic-substitution wheat chromosome (7... |
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"abstract": "Energy harvesting is considered as a prominent technology, particularly for low-power wireless nodes. In this paper, we propose the use of hybrid energy harvesting (HEH) utilizing multiple type energy sources and present the modeling of HEH communication systems based on their probabilistic natures. Ac... | {
"abstract": "Energy scarcity is an important problem in wireless communication networks. Radio frequency energy harvesting (RFEH) is a promising solution as an alternative energy source for low-power wireless nodes. In this paper, we target to obtain a finite-state Markov channel based Markov model of an RFEH wirel... | {
"abstract": "This article presents new exact expressions, written in terms of elementary transcendental functions, for calculating the bit error probability of M-ary Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (M-QAM) scheme considering the wireless communication channel modeled by a Markov chain with N states. For the numeric... |
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"abstract": "Cysteine-rich (C1) domains, present in PKC isozymes, Chimaerins, RasGRPs, PKDs, Munc13s, DGKs, and MRCKs, can bind the diacylglycerol (DAG) second messenger. In the present thesis research, I demonstrated that p23/Tmp21 acts as a C1-domain docking protein that mediates perinuclear translocation of beta... | {
"abstract": "Failure of hormone therapy often involves an outgrowth of protein kinase Cɛ (PKCɛ)-positive cells in recurrent prostate cancer. Our previous investigations have uncovered evidence of a complex signaling network operating downstream of this oncogenic protein kinase to actively advance the survival and p... | {
"abstract": "β1C and β1A integrins are two splice variants of the human β1 integrin subfamily that act as an inhibitor and a stimulator of cell proliferation, respectively. In neoplastic prostate epithelium, both these variants are down-regulated at the mRNA level, but only β1C protein levels are reduced. We used a... |
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"abstract": "Personalised production allows the supply chain (SC) to exist in various dynamic fluctuations within a make-to-order (MTO) environment. An SC for personalised production has redundant inventory and operation capacity; therefore, it requires a system that can achieve recoverability for operation resilie... | {
"abstract": "A trend in up-to-date developments in supply chain management (SCM) is to make supply chains more agile, flexible, and responsive. In supply chains, different structures (functional, organizational, informational, financial, etc.) are (re)formed. These structures interrelate with each other and change ... | {
"abstract": "In recent years, information trustworthiness has become a serious issue when user-generated contents prevail in our information world. In this paper, we investigate the important problem of estimating information trustworthiness from the perspective of correlating and comparing multiple data sources. T... |
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"abstract": "This study is a review of literature for theoretical models that provides alternative rationales for corporate hedging under imperfect market conditions. In models explained, corporate hedging is defined in three ways, as any insurance contract, as an activity reducing the correlation of the firm value... | {
"abstract": "We present a model of a risk-averse competitive exporting firm under exchange rate risk. Direct hedging instruments are not available. However, there are domestic assets whose prices are correlated to the foreign currency. We consider a market for futures contracts in these domestic assets and investig... | {
"abstract": "SYNOPSIS: This study examines whether and how a nonprofit organization's financial efficiency and its solicitation type—namely, whether it allows donors the ability to restrict contributions to their preferred choices—influence individual donations. We find that a nonprofit organization's financial eff... |
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"abstract": "What evidence is there for the identification and management of frail older people in the emergency department? A systematic mapping review Louise Preston,* Duncan Chambers, Fiona Campbell, Anna Cantrell, Janette Turner and Elizabeth Goyder School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR), University of ... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Improved performance by public sector organizations is a political imperative in numerous countries. There are particular challenges in turnaround of poorly performing organizations. Theoretical explanations of the performance trajectories of public organizations, and especially the causes of ... | {
"abstract": "This paper brings together resource-based theory and contingency theory to analyse organizational capability in the public sector. Fuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis is used to identify configurations of organizational attributes (department size, structural complexity, agencification, personne... |
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"abstract": "The People’s Republic of China (PRC) has changed remarkably since 1949. The country was closed to Westerners until 1978, when a number of modernizations were introduced and an open door policy was initiated to move the country from a ‘command’ toward a ‘socialist market’ economy (Warner and Joynt, 2002... | {
"abstract": "Little has been written about enhancing human resource management effectiveness in joint ventures with China. This study presented a typology of potential relationships between Chinese and American partners in a joint venture based on goal congruence and cultural understanding. Each relationship is des... | {
"abstract": "Nonenzymatic glycosylation or glycation is a posttranslational modification of proteins which has been implicated in the aging of lens proteins and the development of senile and diabetic cataracts. The extent of glycation of normal human lens proteins was measured by reduction of the protein with [3H]N... |
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"abstract": "Despite efforts to reduce them, traffic accidents continue to increase and bypass reduction targets. The costs of traffic accidents are enormous, killing 1.35 million people every year and costing 3% of most countries’ GDP. Recent research aims to target interventions at high-accident-density locations... | {
"abstract": "Despite continuous investment in road and vehicle safety, as well as improvements in technology standards, the total amount of road traffic accidents has been increasing over the last decades. Consequently, identifying ways of effectively reducing the frequency and severity of traffic accidents is of u... | {
"abstract": "Knowledge mining from the historical traffic big data is absolutely necessary for future intelligent transportation system (ITS) and smart city. Mining traffic data is a challenging task that can be used for traffic forecasting and improving traffic flow. In this paper, we explore and analyse the histo... |
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"abstract": "PURPOSE\nCandida spp. are ranked as one of the four major causative agents of fungal infections. The number of infections caused by Candida species resistant to fluconazole, which is applied as the first line drug in candidiasis treatment, increases every year. In such cases the application of echinoca... | {
"abstract": "Background/Aims The increasing incidence of Candida glabrata and Candida krusei infections is a significant problem because they are generally more resistant to fluconazole. We compared the risk factors associated with C. glabrata and C. krusei fungemia with Candida albicans fungemia and examined the c... | {
"abstract": "Delirium is a common neuropsychiatric disorder that all those working with older people will have encountered at some stage. Delirium is often poorly identified in hospital settings and therefore not optimally managed. After data collection on the acute medical unit in an acute hospital trust in the UK... |
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"abstract": "The at-risk-of-poverty rate is one of the three indicators used for monitoring progress towards the Europe 2020 poverty and social exclusion reduction target. Timeliness of this indicator is crucial for monitoring of the social situation and of the effectiveness of tax and benefit policies. However, pa... | {
"abstract": "Currently, the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) is the single most important data source for cross-national comparative research on income and living conditions in the European Union. As EU-SILC consists of a sample of European households, point estimates should be ac... | {
"abstract": "ABSTRACT In this paper we address the question of the relative importance of within and between country differences in income and material deprivation in the European Union in the context of recent suggestions that insufficient attention has been paid to the latter. In particular, we respond to the arg... |
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"abstract": "Relative reinforcing effects of different ethanol and different cocaine doses were studied under concurrent independent fixed-ratio (FR) schedules and concurrent nonindependent FR schedules with rhesus monkeys. Nonindependent FR schedules differed from independent FR schedules in that responses on eith... | {
"abstract": "Three pigeons were studied under a pair of equal fixed-ratio schedules and a pair of equal variable-ratio schedules. Each pair was arranged as independent, concurrent schedules and also in a non-independent relation where each peck in a schedule counted toward the response requirement of both schedules... | {
"abstract": "In a temporally defined system of reinforcement schedules, the fixed interval case is defined when reinforcement probability, P, is equal to unity for the first response in any cycle length, T; when P is less than 1.0, random interval schedules emerge wherein T/P specifies the expected interval between... |
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"abstract": "Motor vehicle crashes (MVC’s) commonly results in life threating thoracic and abdominal injuries. Finite element models are becoming an important tool in analyzing automotive related injuries to soft tissues. Establishment of accurate material models including tissue tolerance limits is critical for ac... | {
"abstract": "Public awareness for safety and vehicle improvements has contributed to significant reduction in injuries secondary to motor vehicle crashes. The spectrum of trauma has shifted from one region of the body to another with varying consequences. For example, airbags have minimized head and neck injuries f... | {
"abstract": "OBJECTIVES\nThe effectiveness of air bags was estimated in this study by comparing driver fatalities in frontal crashes with driver fatalities in nonfrontal crashes, for cars with air bags and manual belts and cars with manual belts only.\n\n\nMETHODS\nFatal Accident Reporting System data for drivers f... |
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"abstract": "The mechanism for the efflux of taurocholic acid (TC) across the blood-brain barrier (BBB) was studied by examining the elimination of [3H]TC after microinjection into the cerebral cortex. The efflux of [3H]TC from the brain was saturable with a Vmax of 15.0 pmol/min/g brain and a Km value of 0.396 nmo... | {
"abstract": "Abstract: Among the drug‐metabolizing enzymes present in the rat brain, one form of UDP‐glucuronyltransferase catalyzes the formation of the polar metabolite 1‐naphthyl‐β‐D‐glucuronide from 1‐naphthol. We measured the activity of this isoform in different brain regions and showed its heterogeneous dist... | {
"abstract": "Heparan sulfate (HS) interacts with numerous proteins at the cell surface and orchestrates myriad biological events. Unraveling the mechanisms of these events at the molecular level calls for the structural analysis of these negatively charged and highly heterogeneous biopolymers. However, HS is often ... |
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"abstract": "A one parameter family of a linearly ordered, complete nonarchimedean field extensions ${\\bf R^*}_{\\delta}, \\ \\delta>0$ of the real number system $\\bf R$ is constructed using a novel asymptotic concept of duality structure. The parameter $\\delta$ is called an asymptotic scale. The extension is fa... | {
"abstract": "Fractional wave equations with attenuation have been proposed by Caputo [5], Szabo [28], Chen and Holm [7], and Kelly et al. [11]. These equations capture the power-law attenuation with frequency observed in many experimental settings when sound waves travel through inhomogeneous media. In particular, ... | {
"abstract": "Confidence intervals (CIs) are an effective means of quantifying the uncertainty inherent in study results. Alongside considerations of possible sources of bias in the study design, CIs describe the extent to which study results are applicable in general, beyond the participants involved in the study. ... |
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"abstract": "In this article, we explore civil society mobilisation and the impact of organised interests on the energy policies of two post-communist countries—Hungary and Czechia—and specifically nuclear energy. Drawing on numerous hypotheses from the literature on organised interests, we explore how open both po... | {
"abstract": "Rebuilding and upgrading of existing nuclear power plants represent a great energy policy challenge today. In this paper, factors that affect local community support for the rebuilding of an existing nuclear power plant are explored using a regression analysis model. It is based on a survey involving n... | {
"abstract": "Climate change affects agriculture, the water supply, health, and the sustainability of the environment, and is largely due to greenhouse gases produced by human activities and power production. In order to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the usage of renewable green energy must be promoted. The Inter... |
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"abstract": "Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is the most common cancer among children. Recent advances in chemotherapy have made ALL a curable hematological malignancy. In children, there is 25% chance of disease relapse, typically in the central nervous system. While in adults, there is a higher chance of relap... | {
"abstract": "Purpose of reviewThis article highlights recent discoveries about Notch activation and its oncogenic functions in lymphoid malignancies, and discusses the therapeutic potential of Notch inhibition. Recent findingsNOTCH mutations arise in a broad spectrum of lymphoid malignancies and are increasingly sc... | {
"abstract": "Significance The protooncogene c-Myc (Myc) is an oncogenic driver in many cancers, but is difficult to target directly with drugs. An alternative strategy is to use drugs that inhibit factors that regulate Myc expression. Notch drives Myc expression in most T-cell leukemias, but clinical trials of Notc... |
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"abstract": "Lactation is a dynamic process, which evolved to meet dietary demands of growing offspring. At the same time, the mother's metabolism changes to meet the high requirements of nutrient supply to the offspring. Through strong artificial selection, the strain of milk production on dairy cows is often asso... | {
"abstract": "BackgroundThis study focused on the dynamics of genome-wide effects on five milk production and eight fertility traits as well as genetic correlations between the traits. For 2,405 Holstein Friesian bulls, estimated breeding values (EBVs) were used. The production traits were additionally assessed in 1... | {
"abstract": "This paper addresses the image denoising problem using a newly proposed digital image transform: the finite rigdelet transform (FRIT). The transform is invertible, non-redundant and achieved via fast algorithms. Furthermore this transform can be designed to be orthonormal thus indicating its potential ... |
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"abstract": "This paper examines the labour market outcome of migrants in a developing country of Vietnam with respect to the role of social networks and other human capital on the job search duration and earnings using the 2004 Vietnam Internal Migration Survey. The findings contribute to the growing literature of... | {
"abstract": "This paper empirically examines social network explanations for migration decisions in the context of German reunification. Using longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we first show that the presence of a family in West Germany is an important predictor for the migration hazard rate o... | {
"abstract": "A versatile strategy featuring a Colvin rearrangement, hydrozirconation, a Sonogashira cross-coupling reaction and a Z-selective Wittig olefination, was successfully developed for the construction of a conjugated E,E,Z-triene subunit, flanked on both sides by two Z-allylic hydroxyl groups. This chemica... |
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"abstract": "Smart industrial product-service system of systems (SiP-S3) is a new extension of industrial PSS via smart technology and SoS (system of systems) engineering. A framework with revised rough-DEMATEL method is proposed to capture and evaluate requirements for SiP-S3. From the various interactions in valu... | {
"abstract": "The quality of solder paste deposition (SPD) mostly decides performance of solder joints between system on a chip and printed circuit board. In view of the complexity of this SPD process, identifying the key process parameters and optimizing them are very important to improve the quality of SPD. Based ... | {
"abstract": "A physical model of the screen printing process is described. Interrupted printing tests provided guiding information on the flow pattern in the paste during the deposition process. The paste flow region ahead of the squeegee was divided into three regions: the pressurization region (region I), the dow... |
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"abstract": "Behavior prediction plays an essential role in both autonomous driving systems and Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS), since it enhances vehicle's awareness of the imminent hazards in the surrounding environment. Many existing lane change prediction models take as input lateral or angle informat... | {
"abstract": "We propose a prediction method for lane changes in other vehicles. According to previous research, over 90 % of car crashes are caused by human mistakes, and lane changes are the main factor. Therefore, if an intelligent system can predict a lane change and alarm a driver before another vehicle crosses... | {
"abstract": "The accurate maneuver prediction for dynamic vehicles can enhance driving safety in complex environments. This paper presents a maneuver prediction method for dynamic vehicles in highway scenarios. The method effectively combines multi-frame vehicle states, road structures and interactions among vehicl... |
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"abstract": "The use of image and video communication has increased dramatically in recent years. When it is necessary to securely transmit data in limited bandwidth, both compression and encryption must be performed. Unfortunately, encryption and decryption are slow and so it is di cult to carry out real-time secu... | {
"abstract": "The approximation of two-dimensional highly correlated grey value functions can be performed using a linear model of the type f(x, y)=a+bx+cy. The set of plane parameters (PPs) (a, b, c) can be determined in the least squares sense for a block of size N*N pixels, for example. Starting with a block size... | {
"abstract": "License-plate location in sensor images plays an important role in vehicle identification for automated transport systems (ATS). This paper presents a novel method based on vector quantization (VQ) to process vehicle images. The proposed method makes it possible to perform superior picture compression ... |
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"abstract": "Macroparasites have a central place in wildlife ecology because they have the potential to regulate host populations through effects on reproduction and/or survival. However, there remains a paucity of studies that have demonstrated the regulatory role of these parasites in free-ranging animals. Previo... | {
"abstract": "Assessing the role of weather in the dynamics of wildlife populations is a pressing task in the face of rapid environmental change. Rodents and ruminants are abundant herbivore species in most Arctic ecosystems, many of which are experiencing particularly rapid climate change. Their different life-hist... | {
"abstract": "Received: 29 April 2019 Accepted: 4 June 2019 The aim of this paper is to evaluate the wind potential in southwestern Algeria, according to months, seasons and entire years and contribute to the updating of the wind map in Algeria at 10 m from the ground, using hourly data for wind collected over a per... |
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"abstract": "Abstract Alzheimer's disease (AD) is an aging‐related neurodegenerative disease. The main pathological features of AD are β‐amyloid protein (Aβ) deposition and tau protein hyperphosphorylation. Currently, there are no effective drugs for the etiological treatment of AD. Rifampicin (RIF) is a semi‐synth... | {
"abstract": "A 29 amino-acid peptide derived from the rabies virus glycoprotein (RVG29) was exploited as a ligand for efficient brain-targeting gene delivery. RVG29 was modified on polyamidoamine dendrimers (PAMAM) through bifunctional PEG, then complexed with DNA, yielding PAMAM-PEG-RVG29/DNA nanoparticles (NPs). ... | {
"abstract": "ABSTRACTPurposeTo investigate the multivalent effect for up-regulating the intracerebral delivery of nanoparticles via receptor-mediated transcytosis.MethodsNanoparticles labeled with near-infrared (NIR) fluorophore and different numbers of angiopep-2 peptides that specifically target low-density lipop... |
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"abstract": "In this paper, we investigate the validity of an interesting theorem of Ky Fan [Theorem 2, Math. Z. 112 (1969), 234-240] defined on a sphere (the boundary of a closed ball) in an infinite-dimensional Banach space. We will prove that it is true for a continuous condensing map with suitable conditions po... | {
"abstract": "If K is a compact convex subset of a locally convex topological vector space X, we consider a continuous mapping f of K into X. A fixed-point theorem is proved for such a map f under the assumption that for a given continuous realvalued function p on K x X with p(x,y) convex in y and for each point x i... | {
"abstract": "In this paper, we investigate the validity of an interesting theorem of Ky Fan [Theorem 2, Math. Z. 112 (1969), 234-240] defined on a sphere (the boundary of a closed ball) in an infinite-dimensional Banach space. We will prove that it is true for a continuous condensing map with suitable conditions po... |
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"abstract": "Climate change is a major threat to agricultural food production globally and locally. It poses both direct and indirect effects on soil functions. Thus, agricultural management practices has evolved to adaptation strategies in order to mitigate the risks and threats from climate change. The study conc... | {
"abstract": "Soils are considered across the Rio Conventions and while some advances have been made in the past two decades, implementation remains lacking and soil-related issues persist. This calls for a more integrated approach for the implementation of the Conventions. Similarly, soils will play a key role to a... | {
"abstract": "The Plan called Third National Programme of Human Rights, or PNDH-3, created by the Federal Minister Paulo Vannuchi, exmilitant of a terrorist group, is key proposal is to create a National Truth Commission (NCT) to investigate human rights violations during the military regime in Brazil (1964-1985). O... |
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"abstract": "We present a novel mesh-based method for simulating the intricate dynamics of (potentially multi-layered) continuum thick shells. In order to accurately represent the constitutive behavior of structural responses in the thickness direction, we develop a dual-quadrature prism finite element formulation ... | {
"abstract": "We combine the often opposing forces of artistic freedom and mathematical determinism to enrich a given animation or simulation of a surface with physically based detail. We present a process called tracking, which takes as input a rough animation or simulation and enhances it with physically simulated... | {
"abstract": "In this paper we introduce a framework for instrumenting (\"rigging\") characters that are modeled as dynamic elastic bodies, so that their shapes can be controlled by an animator. Because the shape of such a character is determined by physical dynamics, the rigging system cannot simply dictate the sha... |
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"abstract": "Background Tonsillectomy is one of the most commonly performed surgeries among children. It is indicated for the treatment of obstructive sleep apnea and chronic throat infections. Although a relatively safe surgery, post-operative complications have been reported in multiple studies. Over the past cen... | {
"abstract": "There is controversy about which children should be admitted after adenotonsillectomy (T&A) and limited clinical evidence to help with this decision. Current practice has evolved based on empirical or anecdotal evidence. We sought to identify practice variations in postoperative admission after T&A in ... | {
"abstract": "BACKGROUND: A 13-year retrospective study was undertaken to determine the incidence of posttonsillectomy hemorrhage, to evaluate potential risk factors, and to assess the efficacy and safety of ambulatory tonsillectomy. METHODS: From January 1985 to December 1997, 4662 patients underwent tonsillectomy ... |
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"abstract": "Necrosis and apoptosis have been initially identified as two exclusive pathways for cell death. In acute brain lesions, such as focal ischemia, this binary scheme is challenged by demonstrations of mixed morphological and biochemical characteristics of both apoptosis and necrosis in single cells. The r... | {
"abstract": "Apoptosis and necrosis are considered conceptually and morphologically distinct forms of cell death. Here, we report that demise of human T cells caused by two classic apoptotic triggers (staurosporin and CD95 stimulation) changed from apoptosis to necrosis, when cells were preemptied of adenosine trip... | {
"abstract": "This paper presents a novel algorithm for modeling photovoltaic based distributed generators for the purpose of optimal planning of distribution networks. The proposed algorithm utilizes sequential Monte Carlo method in order to accurately consider the stochastic nature of photovoltaic based distribute... |
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"abstract": "We apply deep learning (DL) on Magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) data for the task of brain tumor detection. Medical applications often suffer from data scarcity and corruption by noise. Both of these problems are prominent in our data set. Furthermore, a varying number of spectra are available for... | {
"abstract": "Magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) is an important technique in biomedical research and it has the unique capability to give a non-invasive access to the biochemical content (metabolites) of scanned organs. In the literature, the quantification (the extraction of the potential biomarkers from the MR... | {
"abstract": "Deep learning (DL) networks have recently been shown to outperform other segmentation methods on various public, medical-image challenge datasets [3,11,16], especially for large pathologies. However, in the context of diseases such as Multiple Sclerosis (MS), monitoring all the focal lesions visible on... |
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"abstract": "\n Table-to-text generation aims to generate descriptions for structured data (i.e., tables) and has been applied in many fields like question-answering systems and search engines. Current approaches mostly use neural language models to learn alignment between output and input based on the attention me... | {
"abstract": "This paper proposes a neural generative model, namely Table2Seq, to generate a natural language sentence based on a table. Specifically, the model maps a table to continuous vectors and then generates a natural language sentence by leveraging the semantics of a table. Since rare words, e.g., entities a... | {
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"title": "GraphNet: Recommendation system based on language and network structure"
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"abstract": "The highly pathogenic avian influenza virus (HPAIV), subtype H5N1 poses a serious threat not only to the poultry industry and wild birds but also to humans. Despite a large number of studies conducted on various aspects of this virus, its transmissibility is still poorly understood. This study quantifi... | {
"abstract": "Highly pathogenic avian influenza subtype H5N1 is a zoonotic disease and control of the disease is one of the highest priority in global health. Disease surveillance systems are valuable data sources for various researches and management projects, but the data quality has not been paid much attention i... | {
"abstract": "To understand isotope distributions of PM2.5 in residential buildings and apply them for source identification, carbon (δ13C) and lead (Pb) isotope ratios in indoor and outdoor air of residential buildings were analyzed. Moreover, factor analysis (FA) was employed to investigate sources, which were com... |
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"abstract": "The intensity and submodality of pain are widely attributed to stimulus encoding by peripheral and subcortical spinal/trigeminal portions of the somatosensory nervous system. Consistent with this interpretation are studies of surgically anesthetized animals, showing that relationships between nocicepti... | {
"abstract": "Noxious stimuli that are perceived as painful, are conveyed to the thalamus by the spinothalamic tract (STT) and the spinotrigeminothalamic tracts (vSTT), arising from the dorsal horn of the spinal cord and medulla, respectively. Most investigators have concluded that the thalamic terminus of these pat... | {
"abstract": "The corpora cavernosa consist of smooth muscle cells, loose areolar tissue, blood vessels, nerves and collagen fibers. All these components play a role in the complex physiologic event of erection, together with endocrinal, vascular, neural and psychogenic factors (Jevtich et al. 1990).",
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"abstract": "Mobile robotics in forests is currently a hugely important topic due to the recurring appearance of forest wildfires. Thus, in-site management of forest inventory and biomass is required. To tackle this issue, this work presents a study on detection at the ground level of forest tree trunks in visible ... | {
"abstract": "This paper describes a classification based tree detection method for autonomous navigation of forest vehicles in forest environment. Fusion of color, and texture cues has been used to segment the image into tree trunk and background objects. The segmentation of images into tree trunk and background ob... | {
"abstract": "With the addition of free programmable components to modern graphics hardware, graphics processing units (GPUs) become increasingly interesting for general purpose computations, especially due to utilizing parallel buffer processing. In this paper we present methods and techniques that take advantage o... |
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"abstract": "One of the most promising biometric modalities suggested to secure mobile devices is dynamic signature verification. It is widely accepted by users as to sign is considered a usual action. At the time to sign documents, it happens that people tend to feel stress or discomfort, but does it influence neg... | {
"abstract": "The utilisation of biometrics in mobile scenarios is increasing remarkably. At the same time, handwritten signature recognition is one of the modalities with highest potential of use for those applications where customers are used to sign in those traditional processes. However, several improvements ha... | {
"abstract": "Tesis doctoral inedita leida en la Escuela Politecnica Superior, Departamento de Tecnologia Electronica y de las Comunicaciones. Fecha de lectura: Febrero 2015",
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"abstract": "This work aims to develop corn starch/chitosan nanoparticles/thymol (CS/CNP/Thy) bio-nanocomposite films as potential food packaging materials that can enhance the shelf life of food. CS/CNP/Thy bio-nanocomposite films were prepared by the addition of different concentrations of thymol (0, 1.5, 3.0, 4.... | {
"abstract": "The physicochemical and antimicrobial properties of starch-chitosan films incorporated with oregano essential oil (OEO) have been investigated. The antimicrobial effects of starch-chitosan-OEO films against Bacillus cereus, Escherichia coli, Salmonella enteritidis, and Staphylococcus aureus were determ... | {
"abstract": "The peanut plant (Arachis hypogaea L.) produces flowers aerially, but buries the recently fertilized ovules in the soil in order for the fruit and seeds to mature underground. The organ that carries the seeds into the soil is called the gynophore. The growth of the peanut gynophore is regulated primari... |
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"abstract": "A rich theoretical background to the problems that occur in the automation of material handling can be found in operations research, production engineering, systems engineering and automation, more specifically machine vision, literature. This work has contributed towards the design of intelligent hand... | {
"abstract": "A survey is presented of an approach to motion planning that emphasizes object-oriented, exact, and discrete (or combinatorial) algorithmic techniques in which worst-case asymptotically efficient solutions are being sought. Following a statement of the problem, motion planning in static and known envir... | {
"abstract": "Disclosed is a technique for probing dynamic sheet charge density variations in integrated semiconductor devices. Using a specially designed non-invasive Nomarski phase contrast interferometer a sheet charge density sensitivity of 2.6x108 e/cm2/ 2ROOT Hz is extracted from experimental data for 1 mA of ... |
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"abstract": "ABSTRACT This research was designed to test the hypothesis that motor practice can enhance the capabilities of motor control in healthy controls (NC) and patients with a diagnosis of probable Alzheimer's disease (AD) and mild cognitive impairment (MCI), and consequently results in better motor performa... | {
"abstract": "A new assessment of Activities of Daily Living has been developed specifically for use with people with dementia. The assessment is a carer rated instrument consisting of 20 daily-living abilities. The scale has 'face validity', assessing items rated as important by and using levels of ability generate... | {
"abstract": "ABSTRACT This article introduced China’s four reasons of offensive to the Senkaku Islands: the first reason China’s natural resources demand; the second reason historical issues with Japan that have some relationship to Chinese people’s wartime memories; the third reason the Senkaku Islands Dispute as ... |
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"abstract": "The big data era brought us petabytes of data together with the challenges of storing and efficiently accessing largescale datasets. However, it unexpectedly surprised everyone with an enormous variety of data sources and types, and corresponding different data models. Dealing with a variety of those d... | {
"abstract": "Keyword-search engines (e.g. Web-search) usually can be outperformed by a specialized system optimized for a spe- cic domain, type of data, or queries (8, 2, 12, 5, 11, 9). For example, Halevy et. al. in (13) demonstrate how a special- ized Google Fusion Tables spatial search can outperform the general... | {
"abstract": "While the problem to find needed information on the Web is critical, it is arguably much less pressing nowadays than it was over a decade ago when the Web was emerging. Back then it was much more difficult to find a Web resource of interest, because the search engines were in their infancy covering muc... |
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"abstract": "Background: Overweight/obesity and thinness emerged as an important public health problem in India. The present study was conducted to estimate the prevalence and compare any difference in estimating prevalence of these conditions by using different standards among school children and adolescents. Meth... | {
"abstract": "The objective of this study was to examine the prevalence of obesity and overweight in urban school children in Kochi, Kerala, South India. Three schools from the city were selected representing upper, middle and lower socioeconomic groups and the children aged 6–15 years of age were interviewed. The p... | {
"abstract": "The epidemic in childhood obesity is a driving force behind the increase in paediatric metabolic syndrome, a collection of abnormalities that is associated in adults with increased risk for cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes mellitus. Although there is no clear consensus about the paediatric de... |
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"abstract": "Modern networks have complex configurations to provide advanced functions, but the complexity also makes them error-prone. Network verification is attracting attention as a key technology to detect inconsistencies between a configuration and a policy before deployment. Existing verifiers, however, eith... | {
"abstract": "On the surface, large data centers with about 100,000 stations and nearly a million routing rules are complex and hard to verify. However, these networks are highly regular by design; for example they employ fat tree topologies with backup routers interconnected by redundant patterns. To exploit these ... | {
"abstract": "A number of different algorithms for optimized offset assignment in DSP code generation have been developed recently. These algorithms aim at constructing a layout of local variables in memory, such that the addresses of variables can be computed efficiently in most cases. This is achieved by maximizin... |
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"abstract": "Why does a team member prefer some colleagues to others in information seeking? Past literature suggests that the physical accessibility of a knowledge source, the information quality of the source, and relational concerns influence such a choice. This study extends past literature by suggesting that f... | {
"abstract": "Employees’ information seeking behavior is an important aspect of knowledge management. However, the extant literature has dominantly focused on information sharing and transfer. The limited literature on information seeking has taken a social network perspective as a main theoretical lens and focused ... | {
"abstract": "In the Dutch housing sector, housing associations face increasingly complex challenges such \nas the credit crunch, legal requirements, sustainable energy projects and an increasing social \nresponsibility. In general, the housing associations do not compete with each other which \ncreates many knowled... |
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"abstract": "The classification of Metriorrhynchini, the most diverse lineage of net-winged beetles (Lycidae) containing ~ 1400 species, is revised on the basis of three-marker molecular phylogeny of 175 ingroup taxa, and the adult and larval morphology. The study uses the molecular phylogeny for identification of ... | {
"abstract": "Ancient dispersal history may be obscured by subsequent dispersal events. Therefore, we intend to investigate the biogeography of metriorrhynchine net-winged beetles, a group characterized by limited dispersal propensity. We used DNA data to construct phylogenies and the BayesTraits and RASP programs t... | {
"abstract": "Biotic element analysis is an alternative to the areas-of-endemism approach for recognizing the presence or absence of vicariance events in a given region. If an ancestral biota was fragmented by vicariance events, biotic elements or clusters of distribution areas should emerge. We propose a statistica... |
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"abstract": "The present study evaluated the effects of morphine or morphine together with corticotrophin releasing hormone (CRH) on Met-enkephalin synthesis, secretion, concentration and opioid receptors binding in the hypothalamus, anterior pituitary and adrenal cortex (HPA) in lambs. Lambs received a single i.v.... | {
"abstract": "In late pregnancy, the hypothalamo‐pituitary‐adrenal (HPA) axis is less responsive to a range of psychological and physical stressors as a result of reduced central drive to the corticotropin‐releasing hormone (CRH) neurons in the paraventricular nucleus (PVN). Most stressors activate the brain stem no... | {
"abstract": "Absolute measurements of cerebral blood flow (CBF) are an important endpoint in studies of cerebral pathophysiology. Currently no accepted method exists for in vivo longitudinal monitoring of CBF with high resolution in rats and mice. Using three-dimensional Doppler Optical Coherence Tomography and cra... |
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"abstract": "A review of the literature published in 2011 including 70 papers on topics ranging from analytical methods, to occurrence and environmental fate of emerging contaminants in agricultural environments is presented. This review is divided into the following sections: Introduction, Analytical Methods for E... | {
"abstract": "Sulfonamide antibiotics are a commonly used group of compounds in animal husbandry. They are excreted with manure, which is collected in a storage lagoon in certain types of confined animal feeding operations. Flood irrigation of forage fields with this liquid manure creates the potential risk of groun... | {
"abstract": "Pharmaceuticals (PCs) have been widely detected in natural environment due to agricultural application of reclaimed water, sludge and animal wastes. Their potential risks to various ecosystems and even to human health have caused great concern; however, little was known about their environmental behavi... |
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"abstract": "OBJECTIVE Significant new data suggest that metabolic disorders such as diabetes, obesity, and atherosclerosis all posses an important inflammatory component. Infiltrating macrophages contribute to both tissue-specific and systemic inflammation, which promotes insulin resistance. The complement cascade... | {
"abstract": "Membrane antigens serve as excellent markers of murine macrophage (MO) differentiation in vivo and in vitro, and have yielded insights into novel MO functions in innate and acquired immunity. We review briefly the use of a range of monoclonal antibodies against MO which show restricted expression: F4/8... | {
"abstract": "CD97 is an activation-induced antigen on leukocytes with a seven-span transmembrane (7-TM) region homologous to the secretin receptor superfamily. However, in contrast to this group of peptide hormone receptors, CD97 has an extended extracellular region with three EGF domains at the NH2 terminus, two o... |
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"abstract": "Aiming at the problem that the dimension of the traffic data to be processed in the wireless sensor network (WSN) intrusion detection method is too high, which leads to the large amounts of computational complexity of the intrusion detection model and the weak detection performance of the intrusion beh... | {
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"abstract": "Utilization of the data mining techniques in intrusion detection systems is common for the classification of the network events as either normal events or attack events. Naive Bayes (NB) method is a simple, efficient and popular data mining method that is built on conditional independence of attributes... |
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"abstract": "Collaborative ltering automatically retrieves and lters documents by considering the recommendations or feedback given by other users to the documents. In this paper we describe the webCobra recommendation system for automatically recommending high-quality web documents to users with similar interests ... | {
"abstract": "The rapidly growing volume of electronic information available in distributed heterogeneous environments, such as the World Wide Web, has made it increasingly difficult and time-consuming to search for and locate relevant documents (in textual, visual or audio format). To refieve users of the burden of... | {
"abstract": "1. An Introduction to Document Preparation for Engineering. 2. Microsoft Word Basics. 3. Formatting Documents. 4. Presenting Experimental Data in Tables. 5. Preparing Technical Documents. 6. Collaborating with Other Engineers. 7. The World Wide Web and Word.",
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"abstract": "Detecting and controlling the diffusion of infectious diseases such as COVID-19 is crucial to managing epidemics. One common measure taken to contain or reduce diffusion is to detect infected individuals and trace their prior contacts so as to then selectively isolate any individuals likely to have bee... | {
"abstract": "Social interactions shape the patterns of spreading processes in a population. Techniques such as diaries or proximity sensors allow to collect data about encounters and to build networks of contacts between individuals. The contact networks obtained from these different techniques are however quantita... | {
"abstract": "Many nosocomial outbreaks exhibit “superspreading events” in which cross-transmission occurs via a single individual to a large number of patients. We investigated how heterogeneity in Health-Care Worker (HCW) behaviors, especially compliance to hand hygiene, may cause superspreading events. In particu... |
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"abstract": "ABSTRACT The two-grid method is a technique to solve the linear system of algebraic equations for reducing the computational cost. In this study, the two-grid procedure has been combined with the EFG method for solving nonlinear partial differential equations. The two-grid FEM has been introduced in va... | {
"abstract": "Finite element Galerkin solutions for the Rosenau-RLW (RRLW) equation are considered. The existence and uniqueness of the weak solution are shown and the semidiscrete Galerkin scheme is studied using appropriate projections. For a second order accuracy in time, we propose the Galerkin-Crank-Nicolson fu... | {
"abstract": "The study of structure systems, an abstraction of the concept of first‐order structures, is continued. Structure systems have algebraic systems as their algebraic reducts and their relational component consists of a collection of relation systems on the underlying functors. An analog of the expansion o... |
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"abstract": "Optical network-on-chip is a promising on-chip communication paradigm owing to higher bandwidth and lower latency. However, in the optical network, we have to consider the intrinsic characteristic of crosstalk noise, which has a significant impact on the overall performance of ONoC. In this paper, we p... | {
"abstract": "We experimentally demonstrate a spatially non-blocking five-port optical router, which is based on microring resonators tuned through the thermo-optic effect. The characteristics of the microring-resonator-based switching element are investigated to achieve balanced performances in its two output ports... | {
"abstract": "In this work, we study the very low frequency (VLF) modulation (range 0.01-0.03 Hz) in QRS slopes, heart rate variability (HRV) and ECG-derived respiration in hemodialysis patients. First, the relation between QRS slopes and HRV in the VLF band is measured using ordinary coherence. Then, partial cohere... |
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"abstract": "In this study, we explored the effect of COD loading on the nitrification ability and microbial communities in activated sludge isolated from an aerobic nitrifying tank. The activated sludge was cultured in three different COD groups (L-COD: 200 mg/L; M-COD: 1200 mg/L; H-COD: 4200 mg/L). The results in... | {
"abstract": "In this study, Illumina high-throughput sequencing was used to reveal the community structures of nine coking wastewater treatment plants (CWWTPs) in China for the first time. The sludge systems exhibited a similar community composition at each taxonomic level. Compared to previous studies, some of the... | {
"abstract": "One of the processes most used in biotechnology today for handling industrial liquid wastes is biological wastewater treatment. The efficiency and quality of its operation depends on the composition and activity of the microbial community that is present. The application of traditional and molecular te... |
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"abstract": "Bacterial resistance to conventional antibiotics is a global threat that has spurred the development of antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) and their mimetics as novel anti-infective agents. While the bioavailability of AMPs is often reduced due to protease activity, the non-natural structure of AMP mimetics... | {
"abstract": "Omiganan, a novel topical cationic peptide active against a broad spectrum of bacteria and yeast, is targeted for the prevention of catheter-associated infections. The spectrum of this agent was evaluated against contemporary methicillin-(oxacillin)-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA; 109 isolates),... | {
"abstract": "The results of vancomycin susceptibility tests document that the drug continues to have activity against a wide variety of gram-positive pathogens. The subsequent emergence of vancomycin-resistant enterococci, the persistent failure of vancomycin therapy against strains tested as susceptible, and the m... |
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"abstract": "In healthy subjects, variation in cardiovascular responses to sympathetic stimulation evoked by submaximal lower body negative pressure (LBNP) is considerable. This study addressed the question whether inter-subject variation in cardiovascular responses coincides with consistent and reproducible respon... | {
"abstract": "Tolerance to central hypovolemia is highly variable, and accumulating evidence suggests that protection of anterior cerebral blood flow (CBF) is not an underlying mechanism. We hypothesized that individuals with high tolerance to central hypovolemia would exhibit protection of cerebral oxygenation (ScO... | {
"abstract": "Syncope is caused by insufficient oxygen supply to the brain. There have been attempts to classify syncope on the basis of defects in the venous system, arterial system (that is impaired systemic vascular resistance) or a combination of the two (that is mixed). We examined the hypothesis that a compara... |
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"abstract": "Abstract Aim: The use of oleoresin capsicum (OC) sprays, due to their irreversible health effects has now grown into a matter of heated debate. In the present study, the early phase pulmonary events involving chemotactic and inflammatory mediators after short-exposure duration to OC have been presented... | {
"abstract": "Aim. This study aimed to assess the long-term respiratory effects of tear gases among the subjects with history of frequent exposure. Materials and Methods. A questionnaire by NIOSH and pulmonary function tests was performed in 93 males exposed to the tear gases frequently and 55 nonexposed subjects. R... | {
"abstract": "An understanding of certain network functions is critical for successful network management. Managers must have insight into network topology, protocol performance and fault detection/isolation. The ability to obtain suchin sight is even more critical when trying to support evolving technologies. Multi... |
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"abstract": "Cyber-physical systems are currently seen as a panacea to global competitiveness in developed economies. This work formulates the concept of complexity thinking and discusses practical implication of complexity in cyber-physical systems. Avoidance, prevention and reduction are the existing strategies f... | {
"abstract": "In order to manage increasing numbers of product variants, tools that can reduce or manage production complexity are vital. The paper describes CompleXity Index (CXI), an index-based method and tool that assess the complexity at an industrial workstation. CXI was validated at three Swedish manufacturin... | {
"abstract": "For those who teach methodology within social science departments, notably sociology, the mixing of quantitative and qualitative methods presents an ongoing problem. Recent developments in the philosophy of science have argued that the two traditions should not have a separate-but-equal status, and sho... |
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"abstract": "Data collection is one of the most important issues in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). Many data collection algorithms have been proposed for collecting data using a mobile sink. However, the appropriateness and the number of the selected anchors, which significantly impact the network lifetime of the... | {
"abstract": "WSNs consist of resource constrained sensor nodes that monitor the physical environment and transmit their data to the Sink through multi-hop communication. Mobile sinks are used to reduce the number of hops the data travels and thereby reducing the overall energy consumption. In this paper we propose ... | {
"abstract": "The authors have consolidated their research work in this volume titled Soft Computing for Data Mining Applications. The monograph gives an insight into the research in the fields of Data Mining in combination with Soft Computing methodologies. In these days, the data continues to grow exponentially. M... |
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"abstract": "This paper is concerned with the asymptotical stability of fractional‐order Hopfield neural networks with multiple delays. The problem is actually a generalization of stability for linear fractional‐order delayed differential equations: 0CDtαX(t)=MX(t)+CX(t−τ)$$ {}_0^C{\\mathrm{D}}_t^{\\alpha }X(t)= MX... | {
"abstract": "In this paper, we derive a sufficient condition for asymptotic stability of the zero solution of delay-difference system of Hopfield neural networks in terms of certain matrix inequalities by using a discrete version of the Lyapunov second method. The result is applied to obtain new asymptotic stabilit... | {
"abstract": "Modern medical concerns with telemedicine and robotics practiced across national or other jurisdictional boundaries engage the historical, complex area of law called conflict of laws. An initial concern is whether a practitioner licensed only in jurisdiction A who treats a patient in jurisdiction B vio... |
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"abstract": "Background: Portal vein embolization (PVE) is performed before major liver resection to increase liver volume remnant, controversy remains on the adverse effect of PVE on liver tumor patients. The current study highlighted the effect of PVE on the degree of hypertrophy of future liver remnant (FLR) and... | {
"abstract": "PurposeTo evaluate the efficacy of portal vein embolization (PVE) with n-Butyl-cyanoacrylate (NBCA) through an ipsilateral approach before major hepatectomy. Secondary end-points were PVE safety, liver resection and patient outcome.MethodsOver a 5-year period 50 non-cirrhotic consecutive patients were ... | {
"abstract": "Objectives\nProlonged global cerebral ischaemia leads to irreversible injury, often with lethal outcome. Brain injuries are partly caused by the uncontrolled reperfusion that occurs once the circulation is re-established. Recent animal experiments suggest that controlled reperfusion following lengthy i... |
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"abstract": "We propose a semi-supervised generative model, SeGMA, which learns a joint probability distribution of data and their classes and is implemented in a typical Wasserstein autoencoder framework. We choose a mixture of Gaussians as a target distribution in latent space, which provides a natural splitting ... | {
"abstract": "Generative models with both discrete and continuous latent variables are highly motivated by the structure of many real-world data sets. They present, however, subtleties in training often manifesting in the discrete latent being under leveraged. In this paper, we show that such models are more amenabl... | {
"abstract": "There is a resurging interest in developing a neural-network-based solution to the supervised machine-learning problem. The convolutional neural network (CNN) will be studied in this lecture note. We introduce a rectified-correlations on a sphere (RECOS) [1] transform as a basic building block of CNNs.... |
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"abstract": "The electrochemistry and photophysics of the Pt(II) complexes [Pt(naphen)(X)] (Hnaphen = naphtho[1,2-b][1,10]phenanthroline, X = Cl or C≡CPh) containing the rigid tridentate C^N^N-coordinating pericyclic naphen ligand was studied alongside the complexes of the tetrahydro-derivative [Pt(thnaphen)(X)] (H... | {
"abstract": "Hybridization of visible-light-responsive metal complexes with solid matrices offers an attractive route for practical catalyst design of nanostructured photocatalysts that are operationally simple and can attain unprecedented reactions owing to synergistic effects. This Minireview highlights the preci... | {
"abstract": "Single-site photocatalysts generally display excellent photocatalytic activity and considerably high stability compared with homogeneous catalytic systems. A rational structural design of single-site photocatalysts with isolated, uniform, and spatially separated active sites in a given solid is of prim... |
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"abstract": "Abstract. This paper describes the operational methods to achieve and measure both deep-soil heating (0–3 m) and whole-ecosystem warming (WEW) appropriate to the scale of tall-stature, high-carbon, boreal forest peatlands. The methods were developed to allow scientists to provide a plausible set of eco... | {
"abstract": "In order to plan for global changing climate experiments are being conducted in many countries, but few have monitored the effects of the climate change treatments (warming, elevated CO2) on the experimental plot microclimate. During three years of an eight year study with year-round feedback-controlle... | {
"abstract": "To model the effect of increasing atmospheric CO2 on semi-arid grasslands, the gas exchange responses of leaves to seasonal changes in soil water, and how they are modified by CO2, must be understood for C3 and C4 species that grow in the same area. In this study, open-top chambers were used to investi... |
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"abstract": "This paper presents a generalized feature projection scheme which allows each feature dimension to be classified in a set of 1 to M classes, where M is the total number of classes. Our method is an extension of the classical full-space null-space approach where each dimension can only be classified in ... | {
"abstract": "Linear feature space transformations are often used for speaker or environment adaptation. Usually, numerical methods are sought to obtain solutions. In this paper, we derive a closed-form solution to ML estimation of full feature transformations. Closed-form solutions are desirable because the problem... | {
"abstract": "Statistical speech recognition using continuousdensity hidden Markov models (CDHMMs) has yielded many practical applications. However, in general, mismatches between the training data and input data significantly degrade recognition accuracy. Various acoustic model adaptation techniques using a few inp... |
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"abstract": "Tumour necrosis factor-stimulated gene-6 (TSG-6) is a protein expressed in a wide range of cell types and tissues, predominantly in response to inflammatory stimuli. The expression of TSG-6 is believed to be associated with the protection of tissues from the damaging effects of inflammation. In animal ... | {
"abstract": "In the study of 1:1 binding, M + X right arrow over left arrow MX, isothermal titration calorimetry (ITC) can be used successfully at values of c=K[M](0) well below the value 1.0 that is often considered its lower limit. However, analysis of low-c ITC data may require freezing the stoichiometry paramet... | {
"abstract": "The authors acknowledge the financial support by the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs (OMAFRA) – University of Guelph Bioeconomy Industrial Uses Research Theme Project # 200371 and the Ontario Research Fund, Research Excellence Program; Round-7 (ORF-RE07) from the Ontario Ministr... |
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"abstract": "There is abundant evidence that the pathophysiology of Parkinson's disease (PD) is not confined to the nigrostriatal dopaminergic pathway but propagates along the cortico‐basal ganglia‐thalamo‐cortical neural network. A critical node in this functional circuit impacted by PD is the primary motor cortex... | {
"abstract": "In this article the value of structural and functional imaging in aiding the diagnosis and management of Parkinson's disease is reviewed. The underlying pathological mechanisms leading to tremor, coexistent dementia and depression in PD are considered and the role of imaging as a biomarker for testing ... | {
"abstract": "Abstract A new mammal, Henosferus molus, n.gen. and n.sp., from the Callovian–Oxfordian (latest Middle to earliest Late Jurassic) Cañadón Asfalto Formation from Chubut Province (Argentina) is described. This taxon corresponds to a new species clearly different from Asfaltomylos patagonicus from the sam... |
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"abstract": "ABSTRACT Additive manufacturing (AM) has revolutionised the manufacturing world due to its unique advantages, such as the ability to create complex geometries, work with dissimilar metallic materials, eliminate the need for molds or fixed tooling, and provide economic benefits. However, due to the high... | {
"abstract": "ABSTRACT Three-dimensional printing/digital or additive manufacturing is an area that is taking off with considerable rapidity and magnitude. In the same time, non-destructive evaluation (NDE) is playing an important role in the acceptance of additively manufactured parts, in order to provide the requi... | {
"abstract": "X-ray computed tomography has been used to track the behaviour of individual pores found in selective electron beam melted additive manufactured titanium. Porosity was found to shrink below the detection limit of X-ray microtomography (< 5 μm) upon hot isostatic pressing. Spherical argon containing gas... |
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"abstract": "The MW (Museums and the Web) conferences convene annually in North America and Asia. Our meetings and proceedings feature advanced research and exemplary applications of digital practice for cultural, natural and scientific heritage. Formed by leading professionals from around the world, our community ... | {
"abstract": "As our technologies travel to new cultural contexts and our designs and methods engage new constituencies, both our design and analytical practices face significant challenges. We offer postcolonial computing as an analytical orientation to better understand these challenges. This analytic orientation ... | {
"abstract": "This ethnographic study of 22 diverse families in the San Francisco Bay Area provides a holistic account of parents' attitudes about their children's use of technology. We found that parents from different socioeconomic classes have different values and practices around technology use, and that those v... |
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"abstract": "Abstract Artificial intelligence (AI) has proven time and time again to be a game-changer innovation in every walk of life, including medicine. Introduced by Dr. Gunn in 1976 to accurately diagnose acute abdominal pain and list potential differentials, AI has since come a long way. In particular, AI ha... | {
"abstract": "Artificial intelligence (AI), a computer system aiming to mimic human intelligence, is gaining increasing interest and is being incorporated into many fields, including medicine. Stroke medicine is one such area of application of AI, for improving the accuracy of diagnosis and the quality of patient ca... | {
"abstract": "In fetal cardiology, imaging (especially echocardiography) has demonstrated to help in the diagnosis and monitoring of fetuses with a compromised cardiovascular system potentially associated with several fetal conditions. Different ultrasound approaches are currently used to evaluate fetal cardiac stru... |
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"abstract": "Objective: To analyze the patients’ satisfaction according to the form of hospital stay at a teaching hospital. Methods: Cross-sectional study involving 366 patients over 18 years of age, hospitalized at clinical and surgical wards between January and June 2014, whose outcome was discharge within 15 an... | {
"abstract": "The aim of this study was to characterize the sociodemographic aspects, health issues and social support offered to the senior users of the Emergency Department of the Hospital de Clinicas in Porto Alegre. A cross-sectional survey was conducted with a random sample of 220 seniors. A structured data for... | {
"abstract": "The purpose of this study was to determine the extent of non-urgent visits and the effect of different characteristics on such visits to one public hospital emergency department located in Catanzaro, Italy. Of 581 patients aged 15 years and older who were registered for care in the emergency department... |
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"abstract": "High-throughput structural proteomics is expected to generate considerable amounts of data on the progress of structure determination for many proteins. For each protein this includes information about cloning, expression, purification, biophysical characterization and structure determination via NMR s... | {
"abstract": "As the number of protein folds is quite limited, a mode of analysis that will be increasingly common in the future, especially with the advent of structural genomics, is to survey and re-survey the finite parts list of folds from an expanding number of perspectives. We have developed a new resource, ca... | {
"abstract": "Modulation of Spasticity by Trans-Spinal Direct Current Stimulation in Animals with Spinal Cord Injury by Wagdy W. Mekhael, DPT Advisor: Zaghloul Ahmed, PT, Ph.D. Central nervous system injuries usually produce motor impairments that are exacerbated by pathologically altered muscle tone. Abnormal muscl... |
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"abstract": "The purpose of this study was to investigate student participation in collegiate student governance, the impact of that involvement and its influence on career choice for African-American participants, and to enlighten educators about role and value of collegiate student government participation. If pa... | {
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"title": "The Historical Development of the Student Government Association as a Student Sub-Culture at The Florida State University: 1946-1976"
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"abstract": "learners are precise and attentive to details (Moodley, 2009). They synthesise information to understand the whole. Similar to cognitive learners who need to understand the parts of a new concept before comprehending the whole, they require adequate thinking time and an ordered pattern for thinking. Li... |
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"abstract": "Wireless power transfer technology via magnetic resonance coupling now has significant interest in industry and research with many applications. This paper proposes a linear multiple transmitter coil array (5 coils) for wireless power transfer for added gain and hence higher transfer efficiency in comp... | {
"abstract": "Multiple transmitters can be used to simultaneously transmit power wirelessly to a single receiver via strongly coupled magnetic resonance. A simple circuit model is used to help explain the multiple-transmitter wireless power transfer system. Through this particular scheme, there is an increase in gai... | {
"abstract": "This paper paper presents the practical details involved in the design and implementation of a contactless battery charger that employs a pair of neighboring printed circuit board (PCB) windings as a contactless energy transfer device. A prototype contactless battery charger developed for application w... |
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"abstract": "An accurate and efficient surrogate model plays a significant role in the optimal design of electrical motors. This article presents an accurate and efficient surrogate modeling method for a flux reversal permanent magnet arc motor (FR-PMAM) based on machine learning algorithm. Specifically, the motor ... | {
"abstract": "This research investigates the efficiency and power factor improvement of a 3.4 kW, 2-pole, three-phase line start permanent magnet motor (LSPM). The efficiency improvement can be effectively achieved by designing optimization of the rotor structure using response surface methodology and finite element... | {
"abstract": "This paper presents the study of a high performance 3-Phase 3.7kW 2-Pole line start permanent magnet synchronous motor for pumping system. A method was proposed to study the starting torque characteristics considering line start wit h high inertia load. A direct-quadrate model including cage was built ... |
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"abstract": "Infrasound is generated by a variety of natural and anthropogenic sources. Infrasonic waves travel through the dynamic atmosphere, which can change on the order of minutes to hours. Infrasound propagation largely depends on the wind and temperature structure of the atmosphere. Numerical weather predict... | {
"abstract": "A new practical application of neural network (NN) techniques to environmental numerical modeling has been developed. Namely, a new type of numerical model, a complex hybrid environmental model based on a synergetic combination of deterministic and machine learning model components, has been introduced... | {
"abstract": "The rising need for custom machine learning (ML) algorithms and the growing data sizes that require the exploitation of distributed, data-parallel frameworks such as MapReduce or Spark, pose significant productivity challenges to data scientists. Apache SystemML addresses these challenges through decla... |
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"abstract": "Introduction Interactions between the gut microbiota and enteroendocrine cells play important role in irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). Reduced stem cell densities and their differentiation into enteroendocrine cells may cause abnormal densities of the duodenal enteroendocrine cells in IBS patients. Mate... | {
"abstract": "Background and Aim. Chromogranin A (CgA) is a common marker for endocrine cells. The density of duodenal CgA cells is reduced in patients with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). Methods. The present study was undertaken to evaluate the density of duodenal CgA as a biomarker for the diagnosis of IBS. Two h... | {
"abstract": "Purpose of ReviewObesity is recognized as a chronic and recurring disease, often accompanied by other weight-related comorbid conditions such as obstructive sleep apnea, hypertension, type 2 diabetes, and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). This chapter will seek to focus on the effect of weight... |
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"abstract": "We studied surfactant kinetics on Day 1 of life in 11 preterm infants on mechanical ventilation by infusing stable isotope labeled palmitic (PA) and linoleic acid (LLA). Six infants received exogenous surfactant for the treatment of respiratory distress syndrome (RDS) and five did not meet treatment cr... | {
"abstract": "Little is known about endogenous surfactant metabolism in infants, because radioactive isotopes used for this purpose in animals cannot be used in humans. We developed a novel and safe method to measure the endogenous surfactant kinetics in vivo in humans by using stable isotope labeled fatty acids. We... | {
"abstract": "On 23 October 1973, the third week of the Yom Kippur War, the Israeli army cut off all supply routes to the 20,000 strong Egyptian Third Army on the east bank of the Suez Canal. Five days later, however, Israel partly lifted the siege and allowed the first convoy of non-military supplies to reach the T... |
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"abstract": "Aims The increased atmospheric nitrogen (N) deposition due to human activity and climate change greatly causes grassland ecosystems shifting from being naturally N-limited to N-eutrophic or N-saturated, and further affecting the growth of grass species. The aims of this study are: 1) to evaluate the ef... | {
"abstract": "Ca(NO3)2 stress is one of the most serious constraints to plants production and limits the plants growth and development. Application of polyamines is a convenient and effective approach for enhancing plant salinity tolerance. The present investigation aimed to discover the photosynthetic carbon–nitrog... | {
"abstract": "Using a light-emitting diode (LED) as the light source, the effects of eight different light treatments [white light (control, W), purple light (P), blue light (B), red light (R), green light (G), yellow light (Y), red–blue light in a 9:1 ratio (9R/1B), and red–blue light in a 4:1 ratio (4R/1B)] on the... |
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"abstract": "Depth from Small Motion (DfSM) (Ha et al., 2016) is particularly interesting for commercial handheld devices because it allows the possibility to get depth information with minimal user effort and cooperation. Due to speed and memory issue on these devices, the self calibration optimization of the meth... | {
"abstract": "We have discovered that 3D reconstruction can be achieved from asingle still photographic capture due to accidental motions of thephotographer, even while attempting to hold the camera still. Although these motions result in little baseline and therefore high depth uncertainty, in theory, we can combin... | {
"abstract": "In this paper, we tackle the problem of estimating the depth of a scene from a monocular video sequence. In particular, we handle challenging scenarios, such as non-translational camera motion and dynamic scenes, where traditional structure from motion and motion stereo methods do not apply. To this en... |
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"abstract": "The use of solid-state transmitters is becoming increasingly viable for atmospheric radars and is a key part of the strategy to realize any dense network of low-powered radars. However, solid-state transmitters have low peak powers and this necessitates the use of pulse compression waveforms. In this p... | {
"abstract": "Wideband waveform techniques, such as pulse compression, allow for accurate weather radar measurements in a short data acquisition time. However, for extended targets such as precipitation systems, range sidelobes mask and corrupt observations of weak phenomena occurring near areas of strong echoes. Th... | {
"abstract": "The radar echo from randomly distributed scatterers fluctuates in intensity about a mean equal to the sum of the intensities contributed by each particle. If k independent intensity values are averaged, the r.m.s. deviation of the fluctuation is reduced by a factor √k. Counting the fraction of signals ... |
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"abstract": "In order to improve the assemblability and reduce the cost of the parts, the material requirements can be applied to the toleranced feature and the datum feature of the coaxiality at the same time in the practical application. How to realize the information exchange between different heterogeneous syst... | {
"abstract": "In this paper, a metrology method is presented to calibrate modular robots. It is to perform metrology at the modular level and measure the kinematic parameters of each module so that the acquired information may be used for obtaining an \"as built\" model every time either a modular robot is reconfigu... | {
"abstract": "The paper intends to develop a conceptual foundation for our next works in industrial robots modular design. The goal of this works is to develop cheap and improved robots which are adapted to the costumer needs.",
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"abstract": "Abstract Advancing the knowledge of ocular image quality is important in the development of new tests for the earlier detection of primary open angle glaucoma (POAG). Loss of blue sensitivity is an important feature of POAG; however, it is difficult to separate this loss from the effects of wavelength ... | {
"abstract": "PURPOSE\nTo determine the intraindividual and interindividual characteristics of normal sensitivity derived by short-wavelength automated perimetry (SWAP) as a function of threshold algorithm. To determine also the influence of ocular media absorption on the magnitude of the interindividual variation i... | {
"abstract": "The first four automated visual field examinations of 20 patients with clinically stable chronic open-angle glaucoma who had previously undergone manual perimetry were studied for the presence of a learning effect on mean sensitivity, number of disturbed test locations, total loss, and short-term fluct... |
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"abstract": "Objective: To observe the clinical efficacy of Si-Miao-Yong-An decoction (SMYAD) in the treatment of post-stroke epilepsy. Methods: 112 patients with post-stroke epilepsy were randomly assigned to either the control or the treatment group (56 subjects in each group). Patients in the control group recei... | {
"abstract": "Levetiracetam (LEV) is an anti-epileptic drug commonly used for the treatment of partial onset and generalized seizures. In addition to its neuromodulatory and neuroinhibitory effects via its binding to the synaptic vesicle protein SV2A, multiple studies have suggested neuroprotective properties for LE... | {
"abstract": "Canadian health care providers need to focus more on offering “culturally competent care” and creating “culturally safe” environments for Aboriginal peoples, who tend to avoid seeking medical care because of factors such as negative stereotypes and lingering racism, according to a new report",
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"abstract": "In management accounting research, there is no consensus on which styles of performance evaluation lead to superior (inferior) performance. This study addresses this issue by providing a new conceptual framework that classifies the styles of performance evaluation and revealing the styles that lead to ... | {
"abstract": "Firms are increasingly implementing new performance measurement systems to track nonfinancial metrics such as customer and employee satisfaction, quality, market share, productivity, and innovation. This study examines the implications of nonfinancial performance measures included in compensation contr... | {
"abstract": "Production management systems must constantly deal with unplanned disruptive events and disturbances such as arrivals of rush orders, raw material shortage/delays or equipment breakdowns along with a multitude of interactions in the supply chain which constantly demand on-line task rescheduling and ord... |
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"abstract": "Immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) is an autoimmune bleeding disorder resulting from low platelet counts caused by inadequate production as well as increased destruction by autoimmune mechanisms. As with other autoimmune disorders, chronic ITP is characterized by perturbations of immune homeostasis with hyp... | {
"abstract": "Indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase (IDO) expression in dendritic cells (DCs) can induce or maintain peripheral immune tolerance. Impaired IDO-mediated tryptophan catabolism has been observed in autoimmune diseases. In order to investigate the effects of IDO-mediated tryptophan catabolism and IDO-expressing DC... | {
"abstract": "A CMOS power amplifier integrated circuit with an optimized dual-mode supply modulator is presented. The dual-mode supply modulator, based on a hybrid buck converter consisting of a wideband linear amplifier and a highly efficient switching amplifier, provides two operation modes: envelope tracking (ET... |
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"abstract": "In this paper, we consider secure communication over a multiple-input single-output Rayleigh-fading channel in the presence of a multiple-antenna eavesdropper - referred to as a multiple-input single-output multiple-eavesdropper (MISOME) wiretap channel. Specifically, secure beamforming with artificial... | {
"abstract": "We consider transmission of confidential data over multiple-input single-output multiple-eavesdropper (MISOME) Rayleigh-fading wiretap channels. The transmitter has access to full channel state information (CSI) of a legitimate link but only partial CSI of an eavesdropper link in forms of the average r... | {
"abstract": "In this letter, we consider a multi-antenna downlink network where a secure user (SU) coexists with a passive eavesdropper. There are two design requirements for such a network. First, the information should be transferred in a secret and efficient manner. Second, the quality of service (QoS), i.e. del... |
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"abstract": "Zusammenfassung Hintergrund und Fragestellung Ein etablierter Weg, die optimale Behandlung von Tumorpatienten zu gewährleisten, stellen interdisziplinäre Tumorboards (TBs) dar, die im „Nationalen Krebsplan“ und „Leitlinien der Fachgesellschaften“ als zeitgemäßer Standard der onkologischen Versorgung ei... | {
"abstract": "OBJECTIVE\nThe Tumor Board (TB) allows for an interdisciplinary approach to cancer treatment designed to encourage evidence-based treatment. However, its role in facilitating clinical trial participation has not been reported. We aimed to determine whether a prospective TB is an effective strategy for ... | {
"abstract": "Ileal pouch-anal anastomosis (IPAA) is now the procedure of choice for most patients requiring proctocolectomy for ulcerative colitis. The J-shaped pouch, usually 15–20 cm in length, is easiest to construct and has functional outcomes identical to those of the more complex designs. IPAA is a complex pr... |
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"abstract": "Recent micro-architectural research has proposed various schemes to enhance processors with additional tags to track various properties of a program. Such a technique, which is usually referred to as information flow tracking, has been widely applied to secure software execution (e.g., taint tracking),... | {
"abstract": "Reverse engineering of software is the process of recovering higher-level structure and meaning from a lower-level program representation. It can be used for legitimate purposes--e.g., to recover source code that has been lost--but it is often used for nefarious purposes, e.g., to search for security v... | {
"abstract": "Despite the recent advances in the theory underlying obfuscation, there still is a need to evaluate the quality of practical obfuscating transformations more quickly and easily. This paper presents the first steps toward a comprehensive evaluation suite consisting of a number of deobfuscating transform... |
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"abstract": "Context Erectile dysfunction (ED) represents one of the most common long-term side effects in patients with clinically localized prostate cancer (PCa) undergoing nerve-sparing radical prostatectomy (RP). Objective To analyze the role of penile rehabilitation in the recovery of erectile function (EF) af... | {
"abstract": "INTRODUCTION\nNo multivariable model is currently available for the prediction of erectile function (EF) recovery after bilateral nerve sparing radical prostatectomy (BNSRP).\n\n\nAIM\nThe aim of this study was to develop a novel preoperative risk stratification aimed at assessing the probability of EF... | {
"abstract": "PURPOSE\nCancer at the resection margin (a positive surgical margin) after radical prostatectomy is associated with an increased risk of recurrence even after adjusting for other known risk factors, including pretreatment serum prostate specific antigen (PSA), clinical stage, grade and pathological sta... |
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"abstract": "Daniel Matthew Steinberg Doctor of Philosophy The University of Sydney July 2013 An Unsupervised Approach to Modelling Visual Data With the advent of cheap, high fidelity, digital imaging systems it is now easy to create huge collections of digital images. Subsequently, the computer vision community ha... | {
"abstract": "Dirichlet Process (DP) mixture models are promising candidates for clustering applications where the number of clusters is unknown a priori. Due to computational considerations these models are unfortunately unsuitable for large scale data-mining applications. We propose a class of deterministic accele... | {
"abstract": "We review the current state of nonparametric Bayesian inference. The discussion follows a list of important statistical inference problems, including density estimation, regression, survival analysis, hierarchical models and model validation. For each inference problem we review relevant nonparametric ... |
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"abstract": "In the land administration domain, there is a need for software applications that are capable of faithfully recording the history and state of national land resources, which are easily adaptable to meet varying needs that occur within and across jurisdictions, and which are easily evolvable to meet gro... | {
"abstract": "One of the fundamental aspects of information and database systems is that they change. Moreover, in so doing they evolve, although the manner and quality of this evolution is highly dependent on the mechanisms in place to handle it. While changes in data are handled well, changes in other aspects, suc... | {
"abstract": "Non-temporal data models and their implementations as database management systems (DBMS) capture a single state of the real world, usually the current one. They support modification operations which facilitate the transition from one consistent database state to another. For queries, they assurne that ... |
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"abstract": "ABSTRACT Estuarine/river engineers often encounter a problem that it is hard to specify an upstream boundary of a delta in the numerical modeling because of lack of good quality discharge data. This paper proposes a practical procedure to simulate tidal propagation and damping over a river stretch usin... | {
"abstract": "The present paper demonstrates that inundation levels in the Mekong Delta’s largest city, Can Tho, are predominantly determined by ocean tides, sea-level rise, and land subsidence. Our analysis of inundation patterns projects that the duration of inundation at an important road in the city will continu... | {
"abstract": "Hydrographic sections carried out in January–March 1995 across the pathway of Agulhas rings in the Cape Basin are used for a brief description of the mesoscale thermohaline variability in this region and a detailed study of three rings that were identified in the data. The three eddies exhibited remark... |
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"abstract": "Un Systeme Controle en Reseau (SCR en francais, NCS (Networked Control System) en anglais) est un systeme de controle/commande distribue dans lequel les informations sont echangees en temps reel via un reseau reliant capteurs, actionneurs, controleurs, …) Ces SCR sont presents dans de nombreuses applic... | {
"abstract": "Military systems are the motivational driver for much of the technology development conducted at applied research laboratories around the world. As the needs of the world's militaries change, so does the focus of this research and development. In this paper, we discuss how the fundamental characteristi... | {
"abstract": "To further investigate the recently described avian piroplasm, Babesia kiwiensis, blood samples were collected from 13 wild-caught and 8 zoo-captive brown kiwi (Apteryx mantelli) and screened for the presence of piroplasm DNA using a nested-polymerase chain reaction (PCR) targeting the 18S rRNA gene of... |
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"abstract": "Media façades comprise a category of urban computing concerned with the integration of displays into the built environment, including buildings and street furniture. This paper identifies and discusses eight challenges faced when designing urban media façades. The challenges concern a broad range of is... | {
"abstract": "Collaborative design projects are often complex affairs in which a number of resources, concerns, and sources of inspiration are brought into play in the shaping of future design concepts. This paper presents the Design Space Explorer, a framework for managing these multiple sources of information and ... | {
"abstract": "Ambiguity is usually considered anathema in Human Computer Interaction. We argue, in contrast, that it is a resource for design that can be used to encourage close personal engagement with systems. We illustrate this with examples from contemporary arts and design practice, and distinguish three broad ... |
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