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"abstract": "endometrial carcinoma after a lag of 14 years Sir, A 50‐year‐old gravida 4, para 4, postmenopausal female presented with a lump in her right breast of 6‐month duration. She had a 5.5‐cm mobile lump in her right breast with no axillary lymphadenopathy. All the routine investigations were normal. Biopsy ... | {
"abstract": "PurposeMany patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) are eligible only for palliative radiation (RT) at presentation. This study was designed to assess the feasibility of adding the anti-EGFR monoclonal antibody nimotuzumab to palliative thoracic RT.MethodsPatients with stage IIB, III or IV NSC... | {
"abstract": "SummaryPurpose: Nimotuzumab is a humanized monoclonal antibody which inhibits the ligand-dependent activation of epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR). We conducted a phase I trial to assess the pharmacodynamic (PD) effects of escalating doses of nimotuzumab administered alone in patients with advanc... |
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"abstract": "50 to 70% of all newly diagnosed childhood cancers in Sub-Saharan Africa are due to Endemic Burkitt’s lymphoma (eBL). It occurs mainly in malaria holoendemic areas where the climate supports Plasmodium falciparum mosquitoes and causes year-round malarial infection. eBL risk is highest in children with ... | {
"abstract": "BackgroundAdhesion of Plasmodium-infected red blood cells (iRBC) to different host cells, ranging from endothelial to red blood cells, is associated to malaria pathology. In vitro studies have shown the relevance of CD36 for adhesion phenotypes of Plasmodium falciparum iRBC such as sequestration, plate... | {
"abstract": "Phagocytic cells represent an important line of innate defense against malaria; however, little is known of the mechanism by which macrophages recognize Plasmodium falciparum-parasitized erythrocytes (PEs). Using macrophages from CD36 wild-type (WT), CD36-null, and CD36 transgenically-rescued rodents, ... |
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"abstract": "The Effects of Barriers Toward Fighting Childhood Obesity Within Head Start by Vanessa Chaney MBA, University of Phoenix, 2005 BA, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, 2002 Dissertation Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy Public Health Walde... | {
"abstract": "Research has indicated that the child care center is a very strong predictor of preschool-aged children's physical activity levels, making this an important setting to help young children obtain physical activity that is appropriate for their health and development. However, some evidence suggests that... | {
"abstract": "The human antimicrobial peptide beta-defensin-2 (hBD2) shows broad antibacterial activity and infrequent bacterial resistance. Here mesoporous bioactive glass (MBG) was loaded with hBD2, forming hBD2-loaded MBG (BD-MBG). The antibacterial and osteogenic effects of BD-MBG were investigated in comparison... |
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"abstract": "The mechanical properties of seven zeolitic imidazolate frameworks (ZIFs) based on five unique network topologies have been systematically characterized by single-crystal nanoindentation studies. We demonstrate that the elastic properties of ZIF crystal structures are strongly correlated to the framewo... | {
"abstract": "Attempts to create metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) with zeolitic topologies, metal (zinc(II) and cobalt(II)) imidazolates have repeatedly been used as the metal-organic motifs of inorganic silicate analogues. By modulating the synthetic strategy based on the solvothermal and liquid diffusion method, se... | {
"abstract": "RNA transcripts fold into secondary structures via intricate patterns of base pairing. These secondary structures impart catalytic, ligand binding, and scaffolding functions to a wide array of RNAs, forming a critical node of biological regulation. Among their many functions, RNA structural elements mo... |
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"abstract": "Early metastasis to lymph nodes is a frequent complication in human breast cancer. However, the extent to which this depends on lymphangiogenesis or on invasion of existing lymph vessels remains controversial. Although proliferating intratumoural lymphatics that promote nodal metastasis have been demon... | {
"abstract": "Angiogenesis is essential for tumor growth and metastasis. It is regulated by numerous angiogenic factors, one of the most important being vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF). Recently, VEGF-C, a new VEGF family member, has been identified that binds to the tyrosine kinase receptors flt-4 [VEGF r... | {
"abstract": "We read with interest the article by Maula et al . [(1)][1] , showing that CD44 expression of the primary tumor is an independent prognostic parameter for decreased disease-free survival in patients with HNSCC. [1][2] However, the authors also suggest, as the title states, that intratumor lymphatic",
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"abstract": "The lack of observations of abundance patterns originating in pair-instability supernovae has been a long-standing problem in relation to the first stars. This class of supernovae is expected to have an abundance pattern with a strong odd–even effect, making it substantially different from present-day ... | {
"abstract": "We present numerical simulations of primordial supernovae in cosmological minihalos at z ∼ 20. We consider Type II supernovae, hypernovae, and pair instability supernovae (PISN) in halos from 6.9 × 105 to 1.2 × 107 M☉, those in which Population III stars are expected to form via H2 cooling. Our simulat... | {
"abstract": "We report on the correlated investigation between macroscopic piezoelectric properties and the microscopic deformation of crystal structures of both epitaxial and polycrystalline Pb(Zr,Ti)O3 (PZT) thin films grown on MgO and Si substrates, respectively. We observed the reversible elongation and contrac... |
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"abstract": "Introduction: One of the highly toxic mushrooms that are common in the northwest region of Iran is Amanita phalloides, which might result in renal or liver failure. Case Presentation: This is a case report of a patient referred a few days after consumption of wild mushrooms to emergency department havi... | {
"abstract": "Wild mushroom poisoning from the genus Amanita is a medical emergency, with Amanita phalloides being the most common offender. Patients may complain of nausea, vomiting, diarrhea and/or abdominal pain. If not aggressively treated, fulminant hepatic failure may develop within several days of ingestion. ... | {
"abstract": "Gyromitra esculenta (Pers.: Fr.) Fr. and a few other mushrooms have caused severe poisonings and even deaths in humans. Clinical data are characterized primarily by vomiting and diarrhea, followed by jaundice, convulsions and coma. Gastrointestinal disorders distinguish this poisoning. Frequent consump... |
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"abstract": "Objectives: The aim of this study is to determine the hospital incidence and pattern of conjunctival fungal flora in adult patients at the Guinness Eye Center Onitsha, Nigeria. Materials and Methods: New adult patients, without anterior segment disease, were randomly recruited. Using a sterile swab sti... | {
"abstract": "IN the past 13 years there has been a notable increase in the number of reports of cases of ocular mycosis, a large proportion of which originate in North America (Haggerty and Zimmerman, 1958; Mikami and Stemmermann, 1958; Chick and Conant, 1962). The increase has apparently been associated with the i... | {
"abstract": "Human infection with the various pathogenic yeasts is not of frequent occurrence. This is particularly true of torulosis, which must be classed as an extremely rare disease. When it is considered that the torulae are found on normal skin, in the human throat and gastrointestinal tract, in milk, on vari... |
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"abstract": "The present systematic review and meta-analysis aimed to investigate the use of recombinant proteins to diagnose STIs and evaluate the performance of the tests identified. The databases, SciELO, PubMed, CAPES Journal Portal, and LILACS, were searched according to the PRISMA protocol. A study was consid... | {
"abstract": "Background: Diagnosing femoroacetabular impingement/acetabular labral tear (FAI/ALT) and subsequently making a decision regarding surgery are based primarily on diagnostic imaging and intra-articular hip joint injection techniques of unknown accuracy. Purpose: Summarize and evaluate the diagnostic accu... | {
"abstract": "This review covers the basic principles of systematic reviews and meta-analyses. The problems associated with traditional narrative reviews are discussed, as is the role of systematic reviews in limiting bias associated with the assembly, critical appraisal, and synthesis of studies addressing specific... |
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"abstract": "The wide application of high-resolution SAR data, such as TanDEM-X and TerraSAR-X, has resulted in an increase of the data processing difficulty of interferograms, especially in urban areas with serious layovers caused by high-rise buildings. In this paper, a new method based on frequency estimation is... | {
"abstract": "This letter focuses on estimating the local fringe frequency of the interferometric phase, under the hypothesis of superficial scattering. Starting from the formulation of the maximum-likelihood estimator, a new simplified estimator is derived. Due to computational efficiency and robustness versus mode... | {
"abstract": "This paper addresses the problem of filtering interferometric synthetic aperture radar (IFSAR) signals in presence of nonplanar topography to mitigate geometrical decorrelation effects. The problem is space-variant. The authors assume knowledge about the scene topography and derive an optimal, minimum ... |
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"abstract": "The current literature that discussed ethical leadership, specifically the management of corporate ethics, lacked a consensus toward a consistent component model for a corporate ethical management system (CEMS). This qualitative, multiple case study utilized semi-structured interviews of six executives... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Our literature review focuses on the emerging construct of ethical leadership and compares this construct with related concepts that share a common concern for a moral dimension of leadership (e.g., spiritual, authentic, and transformational leadership). Drawing broadly from the intersection o... | {
"abstract": "PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to describe the development and validation of a multi-dimensional instrument to measure servant leadership.Design/Methodology/ApproachBased on an extensive literature review and expert judgment, 99 items were formulated. In three steps, using eight samples totaling 1... |
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"abstract": "Social influence shapes consumers’ decision-making process by observing other consumers’ actions. Having shown that social influence affects consumers’ actual purchases (beyond price and discount) using longitudinal secondary data from Groupon, we conducted a lab experiment, including eye tracking, to ... | {
"abstract": "Evidence suggests that consumers often hesitate to transact with Web-based vendors because of uncertainty about vendor behavior or the perceived risk of having personal information stolen by hackers. Trust plays a central role in helping consumers overcome perceptions of risk and insecurity. Trust make... | {
"abstract": "Recent research indicates that toddlers and infants succeed at various non-verbal spontaneous-response false-belief tasks; here we asked whether toddlers would also succeed at verbal spontaneous-response false-belief tasks that imposed significant linguistic demands. We tested 2.5-year-olds using two n... |
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"abstract": "Framework design for application development allows to reuse design patterns and code, speeding up the production of software in a same domain. However, in order to design a framework, it is required a considerable time before a functional product is ready to use, and it is essential to design followin... | {
"abstract": "Frameworks can be seen as generative since they are intended and well suited to be used as the foundation for the development of a number of applications in the domain captured by the framework. A framework defines a high-level language with which applications within a domain are created through specia... | {
"abstract": "Policies are rules that govern the choices in behaviour of a system. Policy based management aims at supporting dynamic adaptability of behaviour by changing policy without receding or stopping the system. The common accepted architecture of such systems includes two main management agents: the policy ... |
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"abstract": "The growth in the importance of interruptible sources of energy is increasing the concerns of many electricity market regulators with respect to the reliability and stability of electricity supply. Decisions such as that to increase the number of reserve markets, their reserve requirements, or the role... | {
"abstract": "This paper describes an application of fuzzy-logic and evolutionary computation to the optimization of the start-up phase of a combined cycle power plant. We modelled process experts' knowledge with fuzzy sets over the process variables in order to get the needed cost function for the genetic algorithm... | {
"abstract": "Continuous Goal Directed Actions (CGDA) is a robot learning framework that encodes actions as time series of object and environment scalar features. As the execution of actions is not encoded explicitly, robot joint trajectories are computed through Evolutionary Algorithms (EA), which require a large n... |
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"abstract": "Une malformation d’Arnold Chiari de type 1 (CM1) est une affection frequente, le plus souvent congenitale. Il s’agit d’une ptose de plus de 5mm des amygdales cerebelleuses dans le foramen magnum. La prise en charge est chirurgicale par decompression de la fosse posterieure. La cephalee est la plainte p... | {
"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nSuboccipital cough-induced headaches are considered a hallmark symptom of Chiari malformation type I (CMI). However, non--Valsalva-related suboccipital headaches and headaches in other locations are also common in CMI. The diagnostic significance and the underlying factors associated with t... | {
"abstract": "PURPOSE\nTo assess movement of the medulla, tonsils, and upper cervical cord as well as that of the posterior fossa cerebrospinal fluid pathways in both normal subjects and those with Chiari I malformations.\n\n\nMETHODS\nNine healthy volunteers and eight patients with Chiari I malformations were exami... |
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"abstract": "The post-injury inflammatory response is a key mediator in long-term recovery from traumatic brain injury (TBI). Moreover, the immune response to TBI, mediated by microglia and macrophages, is influenced by existing brain pathology and by secondary immune challenges. For example, recent evidence shows ... | {
"abstract": "Neurodegenerative diseases are characterized by distinctive neuropathological alterations, including the cerebral accumulation of misfolded protein aggregates, neuroinflammation, synaptic dysfunction, and neuronal loss, along with behavioral impairments. Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is believed to be a... | {
"abstract": "Patients with a reported history of mild traumatic brain injury (mild TBI) due to blast (n = 298) or non-blast (n = 92) mechanisms were asked to complete the Neurobehavioral Symptom Inventory (NSI) and the Post-traumatic Stress Disorder Checklist (PCL). Mechanism of injury did not account for a signifi... |
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"abstract": "Background Extracellular vesicles (EVs), as a promising platform for drug delivery, have attracted much attention. Degradation and regeneration of EVs maintain their homeostasis in vivo, but this regeneration is missing in the in vitro culture (IVC) system, which is likely to lead to negative effects. ... | {
"abstract": "Mantle cell lymphoma (MCL) is a type of non-Hodgkins lymphoma (NHL) associated with poor progression-free and overall survival. There is a high relapse rate with conventional cytotoxic chemotherapy. Intensive combination chemotherapy including rituximab, dose intense CHOP- (cyclophosphamide-doxorubicin... | {
"abstract": "We used gene expression profiling to establish a molecular diagnosis of mantle cell lymphoma (MCL), to elucidate its pathogenesis, and to predict the length of survival of these patients. An MCL gene expression signature defined a large subset of MCLs that expressed cyclin D1 and a novel subset that la... |
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"abstract": "The increasing demand for multi-modal systems and applications that are highly interactive and multi-sensory in nature has led to the introduction of new media and new user interface devices in multimedia computing. Computer generated smell, also known as olfactory data, is one of such media objects cu... | {
"abstract": "This work explores the properties of different output modalities as notification mechanisms in the context of messaging. In particular, the olfactory (smell) modality is introduced as a potential alternative to visual and auditory modalities for providing messaging notifications. An experiment was perf... | {
"abstract": "There is an increasing awareness about the potential of serious games for education and training in many disciplines. However, research still witnesses a lack of methodologies, guidelines and best practices on how to develop effective serious games and how to integrate them in the actual learning and t... |
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"abstract": "block by Elsharkawy et al. [1]. They have reported that rhomboid intercostal and sub-serratus block helps effectively manage pain in patients after major abdominal surgeries. Herein, we would like to report that rhomboid intercostal block (RIB) may also provide effective pain relief in myofascial pain ... | {
"abstract": "Pectoral nerve and serratus plane blocks are methods for providing hemithoracic analgesia [1, 2], but do not block the posterior primary rami [3]. We have recently investigated the potential benefits of local anaesthetic infiltration into an interfascial space on the posterior chest wall known as the t... | {
"abstract": "Background and Objectives Fascial plane blocks are rapidly emerging to provide safe, feasible alternatives to epidural analgesia for thoracic and abdominal pain. We define a new option for chest wall and upper abdominal analgesia, termed the rhomboid intercostal and subserratus plane (RISS) block. The ... |
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"abstract": "Monte-Carlo arithmetic is a form of self-validating arithmetic that accounts for the effect of rounding errors. We have implemented a floating point unit that can perform either IEEE 754 or Monte-Carlo floating point computation, allowing hardware accelerated validation of results during execution. Exp... | {
"abstract": "Monte Carlo Arithmetic (MCA) is an extension of standard oating-point arithmetic that exploits randomness in basic oating-point operations. MCA includes random rounding | which forces roundoo errors to be randomly distributed | and precision bounding | which limits the number of signiicant digits in a ... | {
"abstract": "The machine representation of floating point values has limited precision such that errors may be introduced during execution. These errors may get propagated and magnified by the following operations, leading to instability problems, e.g., control flow path may be undesirably altered and faulty output... |
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"abstract": "A compact wideband dual-polarized omnidirectional antenna array for base-station applications is proposed. It consists of ten antenna units. To generate ±45° dual-polarized ominidirectional radiation with low gain variation for each unit, three close-in crossed-dipole elements are uniformly arranged in... | {
"abstract": "A low-profile dual-polarized wideband omnidirectional antenna with artificial magnetic conductor (AMC) reflector is proposed. The proposed antenna is operated in the long term evolution band (1.7–2.7 GHz), and has a compact size of 200 mm $\\times200$ mm $\\times $ 30.6 mm (about $0.25\\lambda $ height... | {
"abstract": "An overview of mathematical modelling of the human hand is given. We consider hand models from a specific background: rather than studying hands for surgical or similar goals, we target at providing a set of tools with which human grasping and manipulation capabilities can be studied, and hand function... |
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"abstract": "When conducting auditory investigations using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), there are inherent potential confounds that need to be considered. Traditional continuous fMRI acquisition methods produce sounds >90 dB which compete with stimuli or produce neural activation masking evoked act... | {
"abstract": "Non-human-primate fMRI is becoming increasingly recognised as the missing link between the widely applied methods of human imaging and intracortical animal electrophysiology. A crucial requirement for the optimal application of this method is the precise knowledge of the time course of the Blood Oxygen... | {
"abstract": "PurposeA history of anorexia nervosa has been associated with a reduced risk of developing breast cancer. We investigated survival after breast cancer among women with a prior anorexia nervosa diagnosis compared with women in a population comparison group.MethodsThis register-based study included combi... |
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"abstract": "An experiment was conducted to determine the effect of dietary P levels and dietary phytase enzyme (E) inclusion on Large White turkey breeder hen reproductive performance from 31 to 62 wk of age. Hens were placed in a curtain-sided house with 48 pens (10 birds per pen; 8 pens per treatment) at 31 wk a... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Two 20-week experiments were conducted to determine the effects of 0.99, 1.77, 2.55 and 3.33 percent calcium, 0.64 and 0.82 percent total phosphorus and 0 and 0.25 percent Nopgro in diets of breeder turkeys on egg production, fertility, hatchability, egg weight, shell thickness and calcium con... | {
"abstract": "Abstract IT IS a well recognized fact that decline in the hatchability of avian eggs during pre-incubation storage can be slowed down by subjecting them to certain “appropriate” conditions. These, in general, involve the placing of the eggs as soon as possible after oviposition in an atmosphere of high... |
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"abstract": "Information hiding is one of the considerable objects in secret communication. Steganography is a vital research area in recent years relating several applications. Image steganography is the mode of embedding information (e.g. text) in an image, such an impossible to be seen by human eyes or so-called... | {
"abstract": "Steganography is the art of hiding a secret message in some kind of media. The main goal is not to hide only the secret message but also the existence of communication and secure data transferring. There are a lot of methods that were utilized for building the steganography; such as LSB (Least Signific... | {
"abstract": "This paper explains a novel scheme for data communication over an unsecure channel. This research presents image steganography on gray and color image using discrete cosine transform (DCT) enhancement and RSA with least significant bit (LSB) technique. Secret data is encrypted and decrypted using RSA. ... |
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"abstract": "Summarization is the process of reducing a text document to create a summary that retains the most important points of the original document. Extractive summarizers work on the given text to extract sentences that best convey the message hidden in the text. Most extractive summarization techniques revo... | {
"abstract": "We present a new HMM tagger that exploits context on both sides of a word to be tagged, and evaluate it in both the unsupervised and supervised case. Along the way, we present the first comprehensive comparison of unsupervised methods for part-of-speech tagging, noting that published results to date ha... | {
"abstract": "The n-gram language model, which has its roots in statistical natural language processing, has been shown to successfully capture the repetitive and predictable regularities (“naturalness\") of source code, and help with tasks such as code suggestion, porting, and designing assistive coding devices. Ho... |
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"abstract": "biodiesel along with (base, and are two general methods used for During of",
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"title": "Handbook of Bioenergy Crop Plants Genetic Engineering for Bioenergy Crops"
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"abstract": "In this analysis, the most recent scientific data for corn, switchgrass, and wood, for fermentation/distillation were used. All current fossil energy inputs used in corn production and for the fermentation/distillation were included to determine the entire energy cost of ethanol production. Additional ... | {
"abstract": "This paper proposes LARS, a location-aware recommender system that uses location-based ratings to produce recommendations. Traditional recommender systems do not consider spatial properties of users nor items, LARS, on the other hand, supports a taxonomy of three novel classes of location-based ratings... |
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"abstract": "Background: Ocular involvement represents about 40% of extra-articular manifestations of Rheumatoid Arthritis, pointing to impairment in patients’ quality of life. Anti-cyclic citrullinated peptide antibody and rheumatoid factor are serological markers to laboratorial diagnosis of disease. Objective: I... | {
"abstract": "We evaluated the association between anti-cyclic citrullinated peptide antibodies (anti-CCP) and anti-mutated citrullinated vimentin antibodies (anti-MCV) with the presence of extra-articular (ExRA) manifestations in 225 patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Ninety-five patients had ExRA and 130 had... | {
"abstract": "This paper presents 4 consecutive cases using negative-pressure dressings (VAC) to bolster skin grafts in male genital reconstruction. In this series reconstruction followed 1 case of tumor ablation and 3 cases of debridement of abscesses or Fornier’s gangrene. The VAC was applied circumferentially to ... |
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"abstract": "Review of the history of auscultation of the lung reveals few scientific investigations. The majority of these have led to inconclusive results. The mechanism of production of normal breath sounds remains uncertain. Hypotheses for the generation of adventitious sounds are unproven. Advances in instrume... | {
"abstract": "Abstract This is an essay on the genesis of adventitious lung sounds, based on clinical and experimental observations. Crackling is usually due to the explosive opening of airways in territories of the lung deflated to residual volume. Wheezing is generated by air passing at high velocity through an ai... | {
"abstract": "Abstract One-millicurie (2–4 ml) boluses of 133 xenon were rapidly injected at the mouthpiece during vital-capacity inspirations in five standing normal subjects. Injections were made between RV and 90% VC. Regional chest concentrations at TLC were measured with eight horizontally collimated scintillat... |
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"abstract": "Background The epigenetic effects of transmission of certain regulatory molecules, such as miRNAs, through maternal milk on future generations, are still unknown and have not been fully understood yet. We hypothesized that breastfeeding regularly by adoptive-mother may cause transmission of miRNAs as e... | {
"abstract": "The metabolic syndrome is becoming increasingly prevalent in the general population and carries significant incremental morbidity and mortality. It is associated with multi‐organ involvement and increased all‐cause mortality, resembling a precocious aging process. The mechanisms that account for this p... | {
"abstract": "The prevalence of the metabolic syndrome, a cluster of cardiovascular risk factors associated with obesity and insulin resistance, is dramatically increasing in Western and developing countries. This disorder consists of a cluster of metabolic conditions, such as hypertriglyceridemia, hyper-low-density... |
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"abstract": "A large cerebello-pontine angle tumor in pregnancy is a rare illness which is a challenge for neurosurgeons, obstetricians and anesthesiologists. The urgent treatment of the life-threatening obstructive hydrocephalus has in these cases its own specificity. Postponement of tumor resection after child de... | {
"abstract": "SummaryBackground. Progressive hydrocephalus secondary to cerebellopontine angle tumours has been traditionally managed with ventriculo-peritoneal shunting. Endoscopic third ventriculostomy provides an alternative treatment option and the success rate in this patient group has not previously been repor... | {
"abstract": "Vestibular schwannomas are slow-growing, benign tumours. Microsurgery has been the standard treatment for vestibular schwannoma over the past 30 years. Following the introduction of stereotactic radiosurgery for the treatment of vestibular schwannoma in 1969, its increasing use worldwide had led to its... |
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"abstract": "Infrastructure-as-a-Service clouds provide out-of-band remote management for users to access their virtual machines (VMs). Out-of-band remote management is a method for indirectly accessing VMs via their virtual devices. While virtual devices running in the virtualized system are managed by cloud opera... | {
"abstract": "To securely execute intrusion detection systems (IDSes) for virtual machines (VMs), IDS offloading with VM introspection (VMI) is used. In semi-trusted clouds, however, IDS offloading inside an untrusted virtualized system does not guarantee that offloaded IDSes run correctly. Assuming a trusted hyperv... | {
"abstract": "While there are a variety of existing virtual machine introspection (VMI) techniques, their latency, overhead, complexity and consistency trade-offs are not clear. In this work, we address this gap by first organizing the various existing VMI techniques into a taxonomy based upon their operational prin... |
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"abstract": "Escherichia coli (E. coli) is a foodborne pathogen that can produce potent toxins, causing severe illnesses due to contaminated food and water consumption. This research has utilized a fluorescence measurement to quantify E. coli colonies from blue fluorescence emitted by 4-methyl-umbelliferone (4MU). ... | {
"abstract": "The quantification of pathogenic bacteria in an environmental or clinical sample commonly involves laboratory-based techniques and results are not obtained for 24-72 h after sampling. Enzymatic analysis of microbial activity in water and other environmental samples using fluorescent synthetic substrate... | {
"abstract": "Drinking water regulations under the Final Coliform Rule require that total coliform-positive drinking water samples be examined for the presence of Escherichia coli or fecal coliforms. The current U.S. Environmental Protection Agency-approved membrane filter (MF) method for E. coli requires two media,... |
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"abstract": "ABSTRACT This study examines the innovation process in Hospitality and Tourism Vocational Education Schools (HTVES) in Spain. HTVES not only have to innovate to update the contents, including the operative and management changes that have occurred in the organisations where the students will work, but ... | {
"abstract": "Purpose – Human resources in knowledge intensive industries create the basis for continuing innovation and subsequent firm performance. At the same time, they pose risks for the competitiveness of the firm: unwanted leaking of knowledge and intellectual capital to outsiders exposes firm-critical knowle... | {
"abstract": "Acquisition and Retention of Skilled Employees for Industries in Giles County, Tennessee by James I. Greene, Jr. MS, Belmont University, 2004 BS, The University of Alabama in Huntsville, 2000 Doctoral Study Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Business Admini... |
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"abstract": "Purpose: To characterize obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) induced blood pressure (BP) variations, using quantitative features derived from BP waveform such as area under beat-to-beat pressure cycle, slope of systolic and diastolic time series, and pulse pressure. Methods: Firstly, to assess the effects of... | {
"abstract": "BACKGROUND--Cyclical changes in systemic blood pressure occur during apnoeic episodes in patients with obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA). Although several factors including arterial hypoxaemia, intrathoracic pressure changes, and disruption of sleep architecture have been reported to be responsible for th... | {
"abstract": "Fused‐silica capillary columns having cationic surfactant moieties (CSM) covalently attached to the capillary inner walls were introduced for the separation of proteins by capillary zone electrophoresis (CZE). The CSM capillary coating proved to be useful in the separation of basic and acidic proteins ... |
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"abstract": "Entropy Agglomeration (EA) is a hierarchical clustering algorithm introduced in 2013. Here, we generalize it to define Generalized Entropy Agglomeration (GEA) that can work with multiset blocks and blocks with rational occurrence numbers. We also introduce a numerical categorization procedure to apply ... | {
"abstract": "Infinite mixture models are commonly used for clustering. One can sample from the posterior of mixture assignments by Monte Carlo methods or find its maximum a posteriori solution by optimization. However, in some problems the posterior is diffuse and it is hard to interpret the sampled partitionings. ... | {
"abstract": "Entropy Agglomeration (EA) is a hierarchical clustering algorithm introduced in 2013. Here, we generalize it to define Generalized Entropy Agglomeration (GEA) that can work with multiset blocks and blocks with rational occurrence numbers. We also introduce a numerical categorization procedure to apply ... |
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"abstract": "Specimens of Scots pine sapwood (Pinus sylvestris L.) and beech wood (Fagus sylvatica L.) were treated with an amino-alkyl-functional oligomeric siloxane, a sodium water glass solution and 1,3-dimethylol-4,5-dihydroxyethylene urea (DMDHEU). Treated and untreated wood specimens were exposed outdoors wit... | {
"abstract": "To infer phylogenetic relationships among species of Hypomyces (Fr.) Tul and allied genera, partial sequences of the 28S rDNA were obtained for 21 strains representing 19 species. On the basis of t...",
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"title": "Phylogenetic relationships in Hypomyces and alli... |
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"abstract": "Mounting evidence supports incorporation of HPV testing into cervical screening; however, the optimal test format and target population have yet to be confirmed. Assessment of the potential benefits of type‐specific testing requires estimation of the risk associated with infection with individual HPV t... | {
"abstract": "In this cross-sectional population-based study we determine human papillomavirus (HPV) prevalence in South Wales to provide comprehensive baseline data for future assessment of the impact of prophylactic HPV vaccination and to help inform future screening strategies. Liquid-based cytology samples from ... | {
"abstract": "Analogous to the epidemiology of different types of human papillomaviruses (HPVs), variants of a single type such as HPV16 may differ in the natural course of infection. A prospective study was conducted in a cohort of female university students who did not have HPV16 DNA or antibody at enrollment. Sub... |
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"abstract": "The study of human mobility is crucial due to its impact on several aspects of our society, such as disease spreading, urban planning, well-being, pollution, and more. The proliferation of digital mobility data, such as phone records, GPS traces, and social media posts, combined with the predictive pow... | {
"abstract": "The availability of massive digital traces of human whereabouts has offered a series of novel insights on the quantitative patterns characterizing human mobility. In particular, numerous recent studies have lead to an unexpected consensus: the considerable variability in the characteristic travelled di... | {
"abstract": "Prognostics activity deals with the estimation of the Remaining Useful Life (RUL) of physical systems based on their current health state and their future operating conditions. RUL estimation can be done by using two main approaches, namely model-based and data-driven approaches. The first approach is ... |
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"abstract": "Tumour-associated macrophages (TAMs) can constitute a large proportion of the cellular mass of solid tumours. Within tumours, macrophages can be in an alternative state of activation that acts in favour of carcinogenesis, instead of counteracting it. Consequently, TAMs can lead to poorer clinical progn... | {
"abstract": "Imatinib, dasatinib, sunitinib, CEP-701, and PKC-412, ATP-competitive small molecule inhibitors of type III receptor tyrosine kinases c-KIT and/or FLT3, were evaluated for binding to the closely related receptor, FMS, by docking into models of inactive and active conformations of the FMS kinase domain.... | {
"abstract": "A fluorescent probe for fulfilling a lysosome targeting function in hypoxic tumor cells is reported, wherein azoreductase triggers a dramatic fluorescence enhancement and specific imaging of lysosomes in hypoxic cancer cells.",
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"abstract": "This paper proposes a partial prediction approach for fast mode decision in H.264/AVC 4 times 4 intra-prediction, exploiting the inherent symmetry existing in the spatial prediction modes. The high compression efficiency of H.264 comes with a price of high computational complexity. The intra-prediction... | {
"abstract": "This paper presents a high-speed procedure of intra prediction mode decision in H.264/AVC using DCT coefficients. Intra prediction mode is one of the techniques that are newly introduced in H.264/AVC. This technique can enhance compression efficiency in an intra frame, however a large computational cos... | {
"abstract": "This paper proposes a partial prediction approach for fast mode decision in H.264/AVC 4 times 4 intra-prediction, exploiting the inherent symmetry existing in the spatial prediction modes. The high compression efficiency of H.264 comes with a price of high computational complexity. The intra-prediction... |
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"abstract": "Cyber physical systems (CPSs) incorporate computation, communication, and physical processes. The deep coupling and continuous interaction between such processes lead to a significant increase in complexity in the design and implementation of CPSs. Consequently, whereas developing CPSs from scratch is ... | {
"abstract": "Mission-critical cyber-physical systems must be resilient to all classes of failures, both hardware and software components. Failures affecting a systempsilas ability to accurately control its physical actions are of special concern, requiring a meta-level monitoring and reaction ability to enable high... | {
"abstract": "Diversity, i.e. transmitting multiple replicas of a signal, may mitigate fading in wireless networks. Among other diversity techniques, the space diversity of multi-antenna systems is particularly interesting since it can complement other forms of diversity. The recent cooperative diversity paradigm br... |
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"abstract": "Copper oxide nanoparticles (CuO‐NPs) can be applied as an efficient alternative to conventional Cu in agriculture. Negative effects of CuO‐NPs on soil organisms were found, but only in clay‐rich loamy soils. It is hypothesized that clay–NP interactions are the origin of the observed toxic effects. In t... | {
"abstract": "The antibacterial activity of copper-doped montmorillonite nanocomposites (Cu-MMT) has been investigated. Copper loaded clay nanocomposites have been synthesised by alkaline ion exchange processes in media containing copper sulfate at 550°C. Characterisation studies on the composites were done by X-ray... | {
"abstract": "Neoglycoconjugates containing 4, 8, 32, and 64 terminal residues of B-disaccharide (BDI) or N-acetylneuraminic acid (Neu5Ac) attached to poly(aminoamide)-type dendrimers (PAMAMs) were synthesized. The ability of BDI conjugates to bind natural xenoantibodies (anti-BDI antibodies) and the ability of Neu5... |
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"abstract": "Exploration of lead compounds against Parkinson’s disease (PD), a neurodegenerative disease, is of great important. Dioscin, a bioactive natural product, shows various pharmacological effects. However, the activities and mechanisms of dioscin against PD have not been well investigated. In this study, t... | {
"abstract": "Hepatic stellate cells (HSCs) migration, an important bioprocess, contributes to the development of liver fibrosis. Our previous studies have found the potent activity of dioscin against liver fibrosis by inhibiting HSCs proliferation, triggering the senescence and inducing apoptosis of activated HSCs,... | {
"abstract": "ObjectiveTo investigate the effect of Ganfukang (肝复康, GFK) on connective tissue growth factor (CTGF) and focal adhesion kinase (FAK)/protein kinase B (PKB or Akt) signal pathway in a hepatic fibrosis rat model and to explore the underlying therapeutic molecular mechanisms of GFK.MethodsFifty SD rats we... |
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"abstract": "High-resolution remote-sensing images are widely used for object detection but are affected by various factors. During the detection process, the orientation sensitivity of the image features is crucial to the detection performance. This study presents a novel rotationally invariant object detection de... | {
"abstract": "In this paper we present a new system for generic rotation invariant 2D object detection based on circular Fourier HOG features. Our system combines the advantages of a dense voting scheme as it is used in the Holomorphic Filter framework with features based on local orientation statistics. Experiments... | {
"abstract": "A novel, non-learning-based, saliency-aware, shape-cognizant correspondence determination technique is proposed for matching image pairs that are significantly disparate in nature. Images in the real world often exhibit high degrees of variation in scale, orientation, viewpoint, illumination and affine... |
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"abstract": "Linear programming (LP) relaxations provide a powerful technique to design approximation algorithms for combinatorial optimization problems. In the first part of the thesis, we study the metric s-t path Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP) via LP relaxations. We first consider the s-t path graph-TSP, a cri... | {
"abstract": "We study the lift-and-project procedures of Lov{\\'a}sz-Schrijver and Sherali-Adams applied to the standard linear programming relaxation of the traveling salesperson problem with triangle inequality. For the asymmetric TSP tour problem, Charikar, Goemans, and Karloff (FOCS 2004) proved that the integr... | {
"abstract": "We study the Asymmetric Traveling Salesman Problem (ATSP), and our focus is on negative results in the framework of the Sherali–Adams (SA) Lift and Project method. Our main result pertains to the standard linear programming (LP) relaxation of ATSP, due to Dantzig, Fulkerson, and Johnson. For any fixed ... |
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"abstract": "Adolescence is the transitional period between childhood and adulthood. During this, nutrient needs are greatest. There is so little data on adolescents' nutrition and research needs are immense. The objective of the study was to assess prevalence and associated factors of undernutrition in school adol... | {
"abstract": "Background: Body mass index (BMI) is a commonly used anthropometric measurement to estimate the level of nutritional indices (underweight/overweight) of adolescents and adults. Knowledge of the factors affecting BMI is essential for developing intervention programs. This study was conducted to measure ... | {
"abstract": "OBJECTIVE\nThe objective of this study was to determine the influence of birth weight and postnatal weight gain on age at menarche.\n\n\nDESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS\nThis was a prospective cohort study where girls from the West Australian Pregnancy (Raine) Cohort Study were followed prospectively... |
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"abstract": "The study is a national survey of corporate philanthropy programs. The original problem underlying the study is the long-term decline in the percentage of total corporate contributions to health and human services. A questionnaire, mailed in May of 1993, was used to investigate the impact of strategic ... | {
"abstract": "Corporate decisions about philanthropic contributions have become more strategic in recent years. Contributions aim not only to benefit recipient nonprofit organizations but also to fulfill major business objectives. This article develops a typology of strategic corporate philanthropy that distinguishe... | {
"abstract": "The study is a national survey of corporate philanthropy programs. The original problem underlying the study is the long-term decline in the percentage of total corporate contributions to health and human services. A questionnaire, mailed in May of 1993, was used to investigate the impact of strategic ... |
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"abstract": "Leaf water content is an important parameter in environmental monitoring. The present study investigated the relation between leaf Equivalent Water Thickness (EWT) as a parameter to estimate the leaf water content and the reflectance in 400-2,500 nm spectral range. The data used were the well-known Lea... | {
"abstract": "Vegetation water content could possibly provide widespread utility in agriculture, forestry and hydrology. In this article, three species leaves were measured radiometrically in order to determine a relationship between leaf water status and the spectral feature centered at 1,450 and 1,940 nm where the... | {
"abstract": ": The continuum of the SWIR (short-wave infrared) signals from 1320 to 1650 nm contains valuable information for effectively diagnosing water, chlorophyll, and nitrogen content. The SWIR spectra of in situ spectroradiometric data and airborne spectrometric images are frequently contaminated by significa... |
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"abstract": "Computing spherical parameterizations for genus-zero closed surfaces is a fundamental task for geometric processing and computer graphics. Existing methods usually suffer from a lack of practical robustness or poor quality. In this paper, we present a practically robust method to compute high-quality s... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Computing a bijective spherical parametrization of a genus-0 surface with low distortion is a fundamental task in geometric modeling and processing. Current methods for spherical parametrization cannot, in general, control the worst case distortion of all triangles nor guarantee bijectivity. G... | {
"abstract": "This article consists only of a collection of slides from the author's conference presentation.",
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"abstract": "Transient structural responses of a board-level chip-scale package subjected to consecutive drops are investigated in this paper using a numerical methodology based on the support excitation scheme and incorporated with the implicit time integration scheme. Evolutions of stresses, plastic strains, and ... | {
"abstract": "Board level solder joint reliability performance during drop test is a critical concern to semiconductor and electronic product manufacturers. A new JEDEC standard for board level drop test of handheld electronic products was just released to specify the drop test procedure and conditions. However, the... | {
"abstract": "In this paper, an integrated testing, finite element modeling and failure analysis approach for drop test reliability of wafer level packages is developed to examine the shock performance of large array wafer level packages. For standard JEDEC drop test, it has been found that corner component group (g... |
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"abstract": "Optical proximity correction (OPC) is one of the most widely used Resolution Enhancement Techniques (RET) in mask designs. Conventional OPC is often designed for a set of nominal imaging parameters without giving sufficient attention to the process variations caused by aspherical wavefront leaving the ... | {
"abstract": "In all imaging systems, the underlying process introduces undesirable distortions that cause the output signal to be a warped version of the input. When the input to such systems can be controlled, pre-warping techniques can be employed which consist of systematically modifying the input such that it c... | {
"abstract": "A reliable and efficient computational algorithm for restoring blurred and noisy images is proposed. The restoration process is based on the minimal total variation principle introduced by Rudin et al. For discrete images, the proposed algorithm minimizes a piecewise linear l (1) function (a measure of... |
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"abstract": "Introduction: Angiosarcomas (AS) are rare and aggressive neoplasms originating from the endothelium: they represent less than 2% of all soft tissue sarcomas and usually have a poor prognosis. Although more often primary, different risk factors have been described and some cases are associated with vasc... | {
"abstract": "This is a report of a primary cardiac angiosarcoma in a woman who, several years earlier, had undergone repair of an aortic dissection with a Dacron graft prosthesis. Dacron prostheses have rarely been associated with neoplasia, and this, to our knowledge, is the first reported case of primary cardiac ... | {
"abstract": "Medical libraries are experiencing a funding crunch. Although this is not specific to medical libraries ([1][1]), funding of libraries is an issue that spans the continent ([2][2],[3][3]). At the University of California San Diego (UCSD), the Medical Libraries proposed subscription to 1250 titles in",
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"abstract": "The sustainability of fisheries and fishing-dependent communities depends upon numerous political, cultural, economic, and ecological factors. My research explores a key threat to this sustainability in Alaska the graying of the commercial fishing fleet. As current fishermen approach retirement age and... | {
"abstract": "Scholars and fishermen alike view the privatization of fishing rights as a fundamental driver of social change in fishing communities. This article presents the results of a mixed-methods ethnographic study in Kodiak, Alaska, exploring how fisheries privatization processes remake fishery systems. Findi... | {
"abstract": "The Hawaii-based longline fishery, which lands the vast majority of the Hawaii commercial catch of pelagic fish, is a limited entry fishery capped at 164 permits. Of the 120 active vessels, roughly 1/3 are owned by Vietnamese-Americans. Since the late 1980s, nearly all of the Vietnamese-American longli... |
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"abstract": "principles. Article 38(1)(d) specifically identifies “judicial decisions” as a subsidiary 215 Michael Ignatieff, Human Rights and Idolatry (Princeton Press 2001) 95. 216 Bantekas and Oette (n 14) 10. 217 ibid. 218 In the United Kingdom, although the ECtHR refused, for almost two decades, to recognise a... | {
"abstract": "Gender variant and transgender youth are seeking medical care at younger ages. Pediatricians and other primary care physicians are often the first professionals who encounter such youth and their families. The goals of this article are to provide information on the epidemiology and natural history of g... | {
"abstract": "Sex differences in the human brain are of interest for many reasons: for example, there are sex differences in the observed prevalence of psychiatric disorders and in some psychological traits that brain differences might help to explain. We report the largest single-sample study of structural and func... |
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"abstract": "Residence-time-distribution (RTD)-based models are key to understanding the mixing dynamics of continuous manufacturing systems. Such models can allow for material traceability throughout the process and can provide the ability for removal of non-conforming material from the finished product. These mod... | {
"abstract": "Abstract This review traces current applications of the residence time theory in various solid unit operations. Besides reviewing recent experimental and simulation studies in the literature, some common modeling and tracer detection techniques applied in continuous flow systems are also considered. We... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Although the fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) process has been commercially established for over 60 years, the technology continues to evolve to meet new challenges. This paper presents examples of recent FCC technology advances through integrated RD otherwise, desirable products will continue t... |
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"abstract": "Here we report a case of a 76-year-old man with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) with simultaneous involvement of the right breast and left testicle. The patient underwent complete resection of the involved testis, followed by immunochemotherapy with rituximab, cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, vincr... | {
"abstract": "Primary lymphoma of the breast is a rare occurrence because of the paucity of lymphoid tissue in the breast and is an even rarer entity in the male breast. Imaging, along with tissue diagnosis goes a long way in diagnosing breast lymphoma which has a significantly different management scheme than other... | {
"abstract": "OBJECTIVES\nTo assess prevalence of gun possession, attitudes regarding gun possession and gun violence, knowledge and influences of gun violence, and the potential role of physicians in gun violence prevention education among adolescents.\n\n\nMETHODS\nAn anonymous questionnaire was distributed to 9th... |
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"abstract": "One of the most common ways to ensure the quality of industry specifications is technical review, as the documents are typically written in natural language. Unfortunately, review activities tends to be less effective because of the increasing size and complexity of the specifications. For example at M... | {
"abstract": "Reviews are the most common way to ensure quality in natural language (NL) requirements specifications. But with increasing size (up to 3,000 pages in the automotive domain) and complexity of the specification documents, the review task tends to be less effective. To improve the review task for large d... | {
"abstract": "When to apply a new technology in an organization is a critical decision for every software development organization. Earlier work defines a set of methods that the research community uses when a new technology is developed. This chapter presents a discussion of the set of methods that industrial organ... |
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"abstract": "In part 1, we prove that the bifurcation diagram for a monotone two-parameter family of vector fields on a torus has to be at least as complicated as the conjectured simplest one proposed in Baesens et al (1991 Physica D 49 387–475). To achieve this, we define ‘simplest’ by sequentially minimising the ... | {
"abstract": "For a family of continuous-time dynamical systems with two angle variables, a resonance is a set of parameter values such that some integer combination of the (lifted) angles remains bounded for some orbits. For weak coupling of an unfolding of a saddle-node periodic orbit with an oscillator, it is sho... | {
"abstract": "Study Objective. To compare the effectiveness of single daily dosing (SDD) versus conventional dosing of gentamicin when administered with penicillin to treat enterococcal infections.",
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"abstract": "We study OI and IO one-pass reduction sequences with term rewritesystems. We present second order decidability and undecidabilityresults on recognizable tree languages and one-pass reductions. Forleft-linear TRSs, the second order OI inclusion problem and the secondorder OI reachability problem are dec... | {
"abstract": "In this paper we study applications of relations based on rewrite systems to regular tree languages. For instance, we want to deal with decidability problems of the form \"Rel(L1) ⊆ L2\" where L1; L2 are regular tree languages and Rel can be either IO, OI, parallel, or one step rewriting for a given re... | {
"abstract": "Melting experiments available in the literature show that carbonates and pelites melt at similar conditions in the crust. While partial melting of pelitic rocks is common and well-documented, reports of partial melting in carbonates are rare and ambiguous, mainly because of intensive recrystallization ... |
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"abstract": "This paper shows the potential impact of Interactive Learning Environments (ILEs) embodying System Dynamics (SD) and accounting models to support top management decisions in allocating business resources in a planning setting for Intellectual Capital (IC) management. Human resource training and organis... | {
"abstract": "Knowledge companies who generate their revenue from leveraging the talents and contacts of professionals are confronted with two dilemmas ‐ acquiring institutional funding without hard collateral and managing these revenue‐generating talents. These companies appear to have understated balance sheets. T... | {
"abstract": "The traditional German corporate governance system has developed against the background of a pay-as-you-go pension system and the consensus-oriented German culture. The system that emerged was characterized by influential banks and bank loans being the main source of outside financing for the corporate... |
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"abstract": "This paper presents a novel readout circuit for micro-mechanical resonant sensors. To determine the sensor's resonance frequency and quality factor, the sensor is briefly excited, after which the exponentially-decaying ring-down current produced by a piezoelectric transducer is read out by an auto-zero... | {
"abstract": "This paper presents an energy-efficient readout circuit for resonant sensors that operates based on a transient measurement method. The resonant sensor is driven at a frequency close to its resonance frequency by an excitation source that can be intermittently disconnected, causing the sensor to oscill... | {
"abstract": "In this paper, a micromachined differential resonant accelerometer with electrostatic stiffness tuning is presented. The ring-down measurement is used for the first time to pick-up the real-time resonant frequencies of the accelerometer, which is more robust to device parameter variations and parasitic... |
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"abstract": "School genetics is changing. Nowadays, students are more likely to be introduced to the idea that many characteristics of organisms, including those of humans, are not determined by the actions of just one or two genes but result from interactions between the products of many genes and the environments... | {
"abstract": "There is now a large body of evidence that supports the conclusion that individual differences in most, if not all, reliably measured psychological traits, normal and abnormal, are substantively influenced by genetic factors. This fact has important implications for research and theory building in psyc... | {
"abstract": "The classical twin design (CTD) circumvents parameter indeterminacy by assuming (1) negligible higher-order epistasis; and (2) either nonadditive genetic or common environmental effects are nonexistent, creating two potential sources of bias (Eaves et al., 1978; Grayson, 1989). Because the extended twi... |
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"abstract": "The proposed work models a novel plagiarism detection system based on the semantic features to uncover the cases of plagiarism. The system constructs the dynamic relation matrix for each suspicious and source sentence pair to measure the degree of similarity using semantic features. Two Weighted Invers... | {
"abstract": "Plagiarism takes place when we use any person’s work without giving due acknowledgment. There are several fields where the text similarity is involved like web document retrieval, information mining, and searching related articles. Several approaches have been introduced for detecting plagiarism in the... | {
"abstract": "To enable efficient exploration of Web-scale scientific knowledge, it is necessary to organize scientific publications into a hierarchical concept structure. In this work, we present a large-scale system to (1) identify hundreds of thousands of scientific concepts, (2) tag these identified concepts to ... |
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"abstract": "ABSTRACT Cronobacter sakazakii is a foodborne pathogen associated with rare but often lethal infections in neonates. Powdered infant formula (PIF) represents the most frequent source of infection. Out of the identified serotypes (O1 to O7), O1, O2, and O3 are often isolated from clinical and PIF sample... | {
"abstract": "Cronobacter are opportunistic pathogens, which cause infections in all age groups. To aid the characterization of Cronobacter in foods and environments a harmonized LPS identification scheme for molecular serotyping is needed. To this end, we studied 409 Cronobacter isolates representing the seven Cron... | {
"abstract": "ABSTRACT Microcin C (McC), a peptide-nucleotide antibiotic, targets aspartyl-tRNA synthetase. By analyzing a random transposon library, we identified Escherichia coli mutants resistant to McC. Transposon insertions were localized to a single locus, yejABEF, which encodes components of a putative inner ... |
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"abstract": "In orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) systems such as Long Term Evolution (LTE), it is extremely important to reduce interference between neighboring cells, especially for cell edge users, since the only interference in LTE is inter-cell interference due to the orthogonality of the s... | {
"abstract": "Inter-cell Interference coordination (ICIC) has gained much interest in the 3rd Generation Partnership Project's (3GPP's) Long Term Evolution (LTE) standardization of a new air interface. Due to the new physical layer, interference can now be predicted and avoided on a frequency basis. Such schemes are... | {
"abstract": "A novel multiple access and resource allocation scheme, suitable for the high bit rate radio-LAN (R-LAN) application, has been developed. The scheme is known as graph theoretic multiple access (GTMA) which is an adaptive scheme allocating the time slices of the bandwidth to the active users and hence c... |
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"abstract": "This paper introduces the R package visualFields, a contributed, open-source software for the analysis of the visual field. The package aims to provide a framework for collaborative research, including data sharing and conventional and novel methods. Single visual field and progression analyses, such a... | {
"abstract": "PURPOSE\nTo establish a method for estimating the overall statistical significance of visual field deterioration from an individual patient's data, and to compare its performance to pointwise linear regression.\n\n\nMETHODS\nThe Truncated Product Method was used to calculate a statistic S that combines... | {
"abstract": "PURPOSE\nWe developed a new family of test algorithms. This is an evaluation in normal subjects.\n\n\nMETHODS\nOne eye in each of twenty normal subjects, with a mean age of 37 years (range 26 to 59), was tested twice with each of the SITA, Full Threshold and Fastpac strategies of the Humphrey perimeter... |
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"abstract": "We extend the theory of Barles Jakobsen [3] for a class of almost monotone schemes to solve stationary Hamilton Jacobi Bellman equations. We show that the monotonicity of the schemes can be relaxed still leading to the convergence to the viscosity solution of the equation even if the discrete problem c... | {
"abstract": "We obtain error bounds for monotone approximation schemes of Hamilton--Jacobi--Bellman equations. These bounds improve previous results of Krylov and the authors. The key step in the proof of these new estimates is the introduction of a switching system which allows the construction of approximate, (al... | {
"abstract": "I. The First Boundary Value Problem.- 1. Notation. Auxiliary results. Formulation of the first boundary value problem.- 2. A priori estimates in the spaces Lp (?).- 3. Existence of a solution of the first boundary value problem in the spaces Lp (?).- 4. Existence of a weak solution of the first boundar... |
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"abstract": "Summary Triflamp, a metalloproteinase isolated from Trimeresurus flavoviridis, inhibits heterotypic adhesion between platelets and neutrophils. Coincubation studies demonstrate that direct interaction of triflamp with neutrophils is sufficient to inhibit the formation of neutrophil-platelet complexes. ... | {
"abstract": "In the inflammatory response, leukocyte rolling before adhesion and transmigration through the blood vessel wall is mediated by specific cell surface adhesion receptors. Neutrophil rolling involves the interaction of P-selectin expressed on activated endothelium and its counter-receptor on neutrophils,... | {
"abstract": "The primary objective of this study was to test the hypothesis that human neutrophil elastase (HNE) affects neutrophil infiltration (adhesion and emigration) into inflamed vessels. To determine whether HNE contributes to neutrophil adhesion in vivo, intravital microscopy was used to study neutrophil-en... |
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"abstract": "Classical asymptotic theory for statistical inference usually involves calibrating a statistic by fixing the dimension $d$ while letting the sample size $n$ increase to infinity. Recently, much effort has been dedicated towards understanding how these methods behave in high-dimensional settings, where ... | {
"abstract": "We propose a new one-sample test for normality in a Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Space (RKHS). Namely, we test the null-hypothesis of belonging to a given family of Gaussian distributions. Hence our procedure may be applied either to test data for normality or to test parameters (mean and covariance) if ... | {
"abstract": "Outlier detection is a key technique in data ming and machine learning fields. The deviating characters of outliers make huge detrimental effects on the learning tasks. A lot of algorithms are therefore proposed to handle outliers from different perspectives, such as distance, density, angle and so on.... |
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"abstract": "A combination of near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) and electrocorticography (ECoG) provides beneficial information on cortical activity from different aspects. Integration of such multimodal measurement capability into a single apparatus and the direct measurement of cortical activity during chronic su... | {
"abstract": "Hypocapnic-hyperventilation has a profound, but probably temporary, effect on CBF, producing approximately a 2% decline in CBF for each 1 torr decline in Pco2. This effect appears to be mediated through changes in perivascular pH of the cerebral resistance vessels acting directly on the vessel wall. At... | {
"abstract": "DURING RECENT YEARS, a state of cerebral vasomotor paralysis has been demonstrated in foca2Zy diseased brain tissue in patients with apoplexy and intracranial tumors. 14 In these vasoparalytic areas there is a loss of autoregulation normally the cerebral blood flow is independent of the arterial blood ... |
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"abstract": "Abstract Skeletal health consequences associated with inflammatory diseases of the airways significantly contribute to morbidity. Sex differences have been described independently for lung and bone diseases. Repetitive inhalant exposure to lipopolysaccharide (LPS) induces bone loss and deterioration in... | {
"abstract": "Murine BM was fractionated using a series of hematopoietic markers to characterize its osteoclast progenitor populations. We found that the early osteoclastogenic activity in total BM was recapitulated by a population of cells contained within the CD11b−/low CD45R−CD3−CD115high fraction.",
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"abstract": "Multiple studies have shown a link between chronic inflammation and lung tumorigenesis. Inbred mouse strains vary in their susceptibility to methylcholanthrene (MCA)‐initiated butylated hydroxytoluene (BHT)‐promoted lung carcinogenesis. In the present study we investigated whether neutrophils play a ro... |
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"abstract": "Background: Studies have pointed out the increased risk of developing psychosis in adulthood related to cannabis use during adolescence. Aim: To conduct a systematic review of the literature on the use of cannabis in adolescence and risk of psychosis. Method: We conducted a systematic review in accorda... | {
"abstract": "INTRODUCTION\nLimited research indicates that pre-illness cannabis use may result in an earlier age at onset of psychosis, though little is known about the influence of prior cannabis use on the premorbid and prodromal phases. This study examined the effects of prior or concurrent cannabis (as well as ... | {
"abstract": "Cannabis use may be considered as an additional risk factor in a diathesis-stress model of schizophrenia where the risk of developing the illness would be higher in genetic vulnerable people. In this regard, much of the research on cannabis and psychosis is currently focusing on gene-environment intera... |
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"abstract": "This paper attempts to develop a model which shows the relationship between TQM practices and customer satisfaction level particularly in Indian manufacturing context through an empirical approach. Though there is considerable literature available in this area to examine the impact of TQM practices on ... | {
"abstract": "Abstract The major objective of the study was to analyze the effects of total quality management (TQM) on improvement efforts and individual performance. Employee response to quality management (QM) and the perceived degree of participation in decision-making (PDM) were considered the major factors aff... | {
"abstract": "Attempts to position TQM in relation to well‐established theoretical and conceptual constructs in management theory literature. Argues that this needs to be done to prevent TQM from sharing the same fate as other management fads that have, over the years, come, reigned at the height of their glory, and... |
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"abstract": "The brushless doubly fed induction machine (BDFIM) has been extensively researched for approximately 30 years, but a related machine [the brushless doubly fed reluctance machine (BDFRM)], has not. This was mainly due to the fact that reluctance rotor designs were not capable of generating saliency rati... | {
"abstract": "1.3 Torque ratio of 6/2 pole BDFRM and the 4 pole SYNCREL with the same copper losses, active copper and current angles of π/4. 13 1.4 α s and α p for maximum torque per 1.7 Maximum-torque-per-total-amperes for various torque levels.. . 19 1.8 Real and reactive powers under the maximum-torque-per-total... | {
"abstract": "Since the energy crisis in 1974, there has been increasing awareness of conserving energy. Industrial ac motors from 1 to 125 hp are estimated to consume 60% of the total electricity produced in the United States. Significant energy conservation could be achieved if the efficiency of these motors is im... |
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"abstract": "proved for use as a sedative and analgesic in intensive care unit (ICU). Dexmedetomidine is seven to eight times more specific to the alpha-2 receptor than the partial agonist clonidine. In addition to its sedative properties, dexmedetomidine has opioidsparing, anxiolytic, sympatholytic, and respirator... | {
"abstract": "Background Dexmedetomidine is a highly selective central α2-agonist used as a sedative in pediatric intensive care unit (PICU). However, little is known about the relationship between dexmedetomidine dose and its plasma concentration during long-term infusion. We have previously demonstrated that the s... | {
"abstract": "Dexmedetomidine is a sedative with limited experience in the pediatric population. This is the first study that prospectively evaluates the sedation profile of a dexmedetomidine pilot program for pediatric sedation for radiological imaging studies. In March 2005, our hospital sedation committee approve... |
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"abstract": "Salmonella enterica subspecies enterica infection remains a serious problem in a wide range of animals and in man. Poultry-derived food is the main source of human infection with the non-host-adapted serovars while fowl typhoid and pullorum disease are important diseases of poultry. We have assessed ce... | {
"abstract": "A daily dosage of vanadate (0.9 mgV/kg) injected subcutaneously for 16 days to adult rats produced significant changes in blood cells and serum elements. The hematological changes included an increase in white blood cell count at two days after the last injection. At five days, red blood cell count (RB... |
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"abstract": "The microbial characteristics in the wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) strongly affect their optimal performance and functional stability. However, a cognitive gap remains regarding the characteristics of the microbial community driven by phosphorus sources, especially co-occurrence patterns and comm... | {
"abstract": "Bacterial denitrification in agricultural soils is a major source of nitrous oxide, a potent greenhouse gas. This study examined the culturable bacterial population of denitrifiers in arable field soils in potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) production and denitrification genes (nir, nor and nos) and 16S rDN... | {
"abstract": "Increasing evidence indicates that several mechanisms, associated or not with antioxidant actions, are involved in the effects of flavonoids on health. Flavonoid‐rich beverages, foods, and extracts, as well as pure flavonoids are studied for the prevention and/or amelioration of metabolic syndrome (MS)... |
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"abstract": "Academic research on agrirural entrepreneurship and opportunity recognition is scant. Because of this research gap, a series of three studies were conducted to develop a measure of entrepreneurial alertness (EA) in agrirural environments that is empirically valid and easy to administer and to analyze h... | {
"abstract": "In this study I investigated the relationship between personality traits and learning motivations by correlating Big Five model of personality, Core Self-evaluation, achievement and affiliation motivation, and intrinsic and extrinsic motivations for leaning. Data were collected from 298 participants us... | {
"abstract": "T.S. Eliot’s modernist poem The Waste Land is often interpreted as collection of voices which appear multiple times throughout the text. Here, we investigate whether we can automatically cluster existing segmentations of the text into coherent, expert-identified characters. We show that clustering The ... |
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"abstract": "The Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) effect from a cosmological distribution of clusters carries information on the underlying cosmology, as well as on the clusters' gas physics. In order to study either cosmology or clusters one needs to break the degeneracies between the two. We present a toy model showing how... | {
"abstract": "We use the X-ray power spectrum of the soft X-ray background ROSAT all-sky survey in the R6 band (0.9-1.3 keV) to set an upper limit on the galaxy cluster power spectrum. The cluster power spectrum is modelled with a minimum number of robust assumptions regarding the structure of the clusters. The powe... | {
"abstract": "We perform a joint likelihood analysis of the power spectra of the 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey (2dFGRS) and the cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropies under the assumptions that the initial fluctuations were adiabatic, Gaussian and well described by power laws with scalar and tensor indices of n... |
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"abstract": "Le but de cette etude etait d'une part de determiner si le recours a une strategie d'envoi de « Short Message System » (SMS) pouvait augmenter l'Activite Physique Aerobie (APA) chez vingt-deux eleves de seconde afin qu'ils atteignent les recommandations de l'Organisation Mondiale de la Sante qui est de... | {
"abstract": "Background Mobile technologies for health (mHealth) represent a promising strategy for reducing type 2 diabetes (T2DM) risk. The PROPELS trial investigates whether structured group-based education alone or supplemented with a follow-on support program combining self-monitoring with pedometers and tailo... | {
"abstract": "Abstract [FeFe]-hydrogenases efficiently catalyze the hydrogen evolution reactions (HERs) at rates of up to 104 s−1 with low overpotentials in aqueous media. Although the small-molecule diiron mimetics of the active site of [FeFe]-hydrogenases have been studied for years, most of the synthetic models m... |
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"abstract": "In the last two decades, there has been an explosive interest in the role of oxidative stress in experimental and clinical medicine. Oxidative stress is strongly correlated with a number of age-related diseases, such as rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis, osteoporosis and atherosclerosis. Repeated in... | {
"abstract": "We previously established that normal articular chondrocytes, like macrophages, express class II major histocompatibility antigens, present antigen, and induce mixed and autologous lymphocyte stimulation. In a recent study using the trapped indicator 2′,7′‐dichlorofluorescein diacetate, we were able to... | {
"abstract": "Bio-hydrogen from microalgae including cyanobacteria has attracted commercial awareness due to its potential as an alternative, reliable and renewable energy source. Photosynthetic hydrogen production from microalgae can be interesting and promising options for clean energy. Advances in hydrogen-fuel-c... |
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"abstract": "Simulation data from a ray-tracing tool applied in specific urban environments in the 28-GHz band suggest that the utilization of arbitrary base station (BS) angles in a directional search procedure may not be of maximum benefit for users located in non-line-of-sight positions, because certain angles r... | {
"abstract": "Propagation measurements at 28 GHz were conducted in outdoor urban environments in New York City using four different transmitter locations and 83 receiver locations with distances of up to 500 m. A 400 mega- chip per second channel sounder with steerable 24.5 dBi horn antennas at the transmitter and r... | {
"abstract": "Cross-lingual text classification(CLTC) is the task of classifying documents written in different languages into the same taxonomy of categories. This paper presents a novel approach to CLTC that builds on model distillation, which adapts and extends a framework originally proposed for model compressio... |
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"abstract": "Groundwater plays a substantial role in resource supply, in ecosystem functioning and human well-being. The aim of this study is develop a tool to assess the groundwater vulnerability through of fuzzy predicates in an area in the Pampas Plain in Argentina. Knowledge is represented as a main fuzzy predi... | {
"abstract": "During the preparation of environmental impact statements (EIS) and environmental impact assessment reports (EIAR) for a development proposal, developers have three concerns. First is acquiring similar proposals for reference. Second is to forecast a possible review result for a compiled EIS or EIAR: a... | {
"abstract": "Humans are confronted with an increasingly complex array of ingestion substances and dietary choices that influence health and well being. However, even with strong medical evidence that clearly links ingestion strategies and heath consequences, the general public struggles to make health-optimizing in... |
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"abstract": "W-ReTuDiS is a web-based open learner modeling system designed to support tutorial dialogue through reflective learning. It models human diagnosis of learner’s cognitive profile and constructs the learner model of historical text comprehension. The learner model is open for inspection, discussion and n... | {
"abstract": "This contribution presents an experimental approach to learner modeling of Historical Text Comprehension (HTC). The Learner Model of Historical Text Comprehension (LMHTC), infers the learner’s cognitive profile and profile descriptor of HTC from his observable behavior imitating the human expert. The e... | {
"abstract": "Ensuring the user comfort and privacy in the Healthcare Information System (HIS) plays essential roles to accept and use any of HISs. This proposal aims to explore and examine the influence of users privacy and discomfort on using the HIS and applications which have been developed by the Saudi Ministry... |
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"abstract": "Tailored services or information for mobile users became very crucial; due to the enormous amount of information and services that are available for mobile users during their various activities. Recommendation system can be merged with context awareness to provide tailored services, information, moreov... | {
"abstract": "Currently recommender systems are incorporating context and social information of the user, producing context aware recommender systems. In the future, they will use implicit, local and personal information of the user from the Internet of Things, where anyone and anything will be connected at anytime ... | {
"abstract": "Locating bugs is important, difficult, and expensive, particularly for large-scale systems. To address this, natural language information retrieval techniques are increasingly being used to suggest potential faulty source files given bug reports. While these techniques are very scalable, in practice th... |
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"abstract": "Malaria is caused by four species of apicomplexan protozoa belonging to the genus Plasmodium. These parasites possess a specialized collection of secretory organelles called rhoptries, micronemes and dense granules (DGs) that in part facilitate invasion of host cells. The mechanism by which the parasit... | {
"abstract": "Secretory processes play an important role on the biology and life cycles of parasitic protozoa. This review focus on basic aspects, from a cell biology perspective, of the secretion of (a) micronemes, rhoptries and dense granules in members of the Apicomplexa group, where these organelles are involved... | {
"abstract": "SUMMARY Many Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) have recently been subject of increased focus, particularly with relation to high-throughput screening (HTS) initiatives. These vital endeavours largely rely of two approaches, in vitro target-directed screening using biochemical assays or cell-based scre... |
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"abstract": "In this paper motivated from subspace coding we introduce subspacemetric codes and subset-metric codes. These are coordinate-position independent pseudometrics and suitable for the folded codes. The half-Singleton upper bounds for linear subspace-metric codes and linear subset-metric codes are proved. ... | {
"abstract": "In this paper, we present error-correcting codes that achieve the information-theoretically best possible tradeoff between the rate and error-correction radius. Specifically, for every 0 < R < 1 and epsiv < 0, we present an explicit construction of error-correcting codes of rate that can be list decode... | {
"abstract": "We study tight bounds and fast algorithms for LCLMs of several linear differential operators with polynomial coefficients. We analyse the arithmetic complexity of existing algorithms for LCLMs, as well as the size of their outputs. We propose a new algorithm that recasts the LCLM computation in a linea... |
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"abstract": "A range of management accounting innovations (MAIs) have emerged in responding to the increasing changes in technology through the proliferation of globalization. Researchers have offered alternative views concerning these MAIs. These views range from rational-economic perspectives to the social-organi... | {
"abstract": "This paper addresses an important but neglected issue – the nature of and evidence for success in management accounting. The case of activity‐based costing/management (ABC/M) is used to explore how researchers have gathered evidence of this technique’s success. A variety of approaches have been adopted... | {
"abstract": "Lead-zinc production at MIM, Mount Isa includes three mines, a lead concentrator, zinc filter plant and lead refinery. Lead production is vertically integrated with lead-silver bullion shipped from Australia to London for refining. Zinc is sold as a concentrate. All three mines have reached varying sta... |
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"abstract": "MicroRNA-29a (miR-29a) has been shown to ameliorate hepatocellular damage, such as in the context of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), steatohepatitis (NASH), and cholestatic injury. However, the mechanism mediating the hepatoprotective effect of miR-29a in diet-induced NASH remains elusive. I... | {
"abstract": "Background Glycogen synthase kinase 3β(GSK3β) is a ubiquitous serine-threonine protein kinase that participates in numerous cellular processes and disease pathophysiology. We aimed to determine therapeutic potential of GSK3β inhibition and its mechanism in a well-characterized model of lipopolysacchari... | {
"abstract": "In 2013, the first case of human infection with an avian influenza A virus (H7N9) was reported in China, and the human infection with this virus has continued as of 2016. At the request of the WHO, we have successfully developed candidate reassortant vaccine virus using A/Anhui/1/2013 and the high egg-... |
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"abstract": "The analysis focuses on researches on optimisation of marketing programmes conducted over the last decade. On one hand, methods and models suggested by the researchers as well as results obtained by experimental modelling do not comply with contemporary marketing needs and therefore can hardly be used ... | {
"abstract": "With the tremendous popularity of social networking sites (SNS) in this era of Web 2.0, enterprises have begun to explore the feasibility of using SNS as platforms to conduct targeted marking and reputation management. Given huge number of users on SNS, how to choose appropriate users as the targets is... | {
"abstract": "Abstract In this paper we study the limiting behavior of the central path for semidefinite programming (SDP). We show that the central path is an analytic function of the barrier parameter even at the limit point, provided that the semidefinite program has a strictly complementary solution. A consequen... |
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"abstract": "A fresh attempt is made to clarify the physics of the diffuse, or spotless, mode of current transfer that may occur on cathodes of vacuum arcs if the average cathode surface temperature is high enough, about 2000 K. It is shown that in the case of chromium cathode the usual mechanism of current transfe... | {
"abstract": "A model of near-cathode layers in vacuum arcs is developed. The model relies on a numerical solution of the problem of near-cathode space-charge sheath with ionization of atoms emitted by the cathode surface, and allows the self-consistent determination of all parameters of the near-cathode layer, incl... | {
"abstract": "A general description of the role of organized motions in wall-bounded turbulence is given, with an emphasis on self-sustaining mechanisms. In addition, some proposals are made regarding future directions of research.",
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"abstract": "Electric vehicles make use of permanent-magnet (PM) synchronous traction motors for their high torque density and efficiency. A comparison between interior PM and surface-mounted PM (SPM) motors is carried out, in terms of performance at given inverter ratings. The results of the analysis, based on a s... | {
"abstract": "Electric Vehicles make use of permanent magnet synchronous traction motors for their high torque density and efficiency. A comparison between interior permanent magnet (IPM) and surface mounted permanent magnet (SPM) motors is carried out, in terms of performance at given inverter ratings. A simplified... | {
"abstract": "In this paper, we propose a methodology to predict the popularity of online contents. More precisely, rather than trying to infer the popularity of a content itself, we infer the likelihood that a content will be popular. Our approach is rooted in survival analysis where predicting the precise lifetime... |
{
"abstract": "Failure to develop normal language comprehension is an early warning sign of autism, but the neural mechanisms underlying this signature deficit are unknown. This is because of an almost complete absence of functional studies of the autistic brain during early development. Using functional magnetic res... | {
"abstract": "Speech processing in adults relies on precise and specialized networks, located primarily in the left hemisphere. Behavioral studies in infants indicate that a considerable amount of language learning already takes place in the first year of life in the domains of phonology, prosody and word segmentati... | {
"abstract": "Human infants use prosodic cues present in speech to extract language regularities, and it has been suggested that this capacity is anchored in more general mechanisms that are shared across mammals. This study explores the extent to which rats can generalize prosodic cues that have been extracted from... |
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"abstract": "\n The concentrations of four heavy metals zinc (Zn), lead (Pb), nickel (Ni) and cadmium (Cd) were determined in liver, kidney, muscle and brain of nine species of birds from the Chahmimeh Sistan from Iran, to assess metal levels and the potential risk to birds, and to the people who eat them. Signific... | {
"abstract": "To investigate the effects of heavy metal accumulations on breeding birds, we compared the egg size, eggshell thickness and some reproductive parameters in feral pigeon populations collected from Seoul and Ansan colonies. The results showed that concentrations of Pb in bone and Cd in kidney of adult pi... | {
"abstract": "Differentiation of Brucella canis from other Brucella species are mainly performed through PCR-based methods and multilocus variable-number tandem-repeat (VNTR) analysis (MLVA) procedures. Both PCR-based and MLVA methods are limited in discriminating B. canis strains. A new MLVA-13Bc method for B. cani... |
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"abstract": "This paper presents an analytical solution to characterize harmonic behavior of digitally controlled H-bridge inverter output with two nonlinear effects: sample delay and dead-time. The effect of sampling frequency in uniformly sampled pulse-width modulation (PWM) is discussed, including spectral analy... | {
"abstract": "This paper characterizes the sampling effect in digital sinusoidal pulse width modulation (SPWM) of voltage source inverter (VSI). The time-domain analysis presented in this paper establishes the relation between the fundamental frequency, carrier frequency, and the sampling frequency at different modu... | {
"abstract": "In order to develop novel shape memory actuators, the torsional deformation of a shape memory alloy (SMA) tape and the actuator models driven by the tape were investigated. The shape memory composite (SMC) belt composed of SMA tapes and a shape memory polymer (SMP) was fabricated, and the three-way ben... |
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"abstract": "ABSTRACT Solid acids as heterogeneous catalysts for cellulose hydrolysis have drawn increasing attention; however, current solid acids face challenges such as high catalyst loading (low catalytic activity), poor catalyst-substrate interaction, deficient hydrothermal stability, and unsatisfactory recycl... | {
"abstract": "Carbon-based materials have attracted interest as high-performance catalysts for the aqueous-phase conversion of cellulose. The adsorption of β-glucans plays a crucial role in the catalytic performance of carbons, although the primary driving force and details of the adsorption process remain unclear. ... | {
"abstract": "The stabilization of a mononuclear copper(II) complex with one MIm2Pr ligand [MIm2Pr = 3,3-bis(1-methylimidazol-2-yl)propionate] in the supercages of zeolite Y was attempted, and the resulting materials were tested for their activity in oxidation catalysis. The preparation procedure yielded initially t... |
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"abstract": "The collection and analysis of volatile memory is a vibrant area of research in the cybersecurity community. The ever-evolving and growing threat landscape is trending towards fileless malware, which avoids traditional detection but can be found by examining a system’s random access memory (RAM). Addit... | {
"abstract": null,
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"title": "Full System Emulation: Achieving Successful Automated Dynamic Analysis of Evasive Malware"
} | {
"abstract": "In this paper, we formulate the optimal coalition formation in federated clouds as an integer linear programming problem under the cloud service brokerage model proposed by Mashayekhy et al [10]. Then we propose a fast polynomial time greedy algorithm to find a near optimal coalition. The profit genera... |
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"abstract": "A complexity analysis of discrete multitone (DMT) and single-carrier modulation (SCM) in the context of a very high-speed digital subscriber line (VDSL) is presented in this paper. In addition to the traditional arithmetic complexity measures such as the number of multiply-and-accumulate (MAC) operatio... | {
"abstract": "We present low-power and high-speed algorithms and architectures for complex adaptive filters. These architectures have been derived via the application of algebraic and algorithm transformations. The strength reduction transformation is applied at the algorithmic level as opposed to the traditional ap... | {
"abstract": "When a diode-connected MOS transistor is biased with a PTAT current source, the gate-source voltage of such transistor can be temperature independent. Based on this idea a circuit is designed and implemented in a standard 0.18/spl mu/m CMOS technology. The simulations show that the output voltage of th... |
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"abstract": "An important objective in weed management is the discrimination between grasses (monocots) and broad-leaved weeds (dicots), because these two weed groups can be appropriately controlled by specific herbicides. In fact, efficiency is higher if selective treatment is performed for each type of infestatio... | {
"abstract": "This paper outlines an automatic computer vision system for the identification of avena sterilis which is a special weed seed growing in cereal crops. The final goal is to reduce the quantity of herbicide to be sprayed as an important and necessary step for precision agriculture. So, only areas where t... | {
"abstract": "The log frequency histogram features are extracted from each lesion image.The lesion shape features are combined with color features.The sparse coefficients can explain the importance of each disease leaf image.The cucumber disease is recognized by SRC. Most existing image-based crop disease recognitio... |
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"abstract": "New possibilities of modern medical science open up prospects for instrumental and laboratory diagnostics of many pathological conditions, unknown or not previously diagnosed in the practice of an orthopedist. These include bone marrow edema. Not only orthopedic traumatologists, but also rheumatologist... | {
"abstract": "Bone marrow lesions (BMLs) or using older terminology 'Bone marrow edema' is characterised by excessive water signals in the marrow space on magnetic resonance imaging or ultrasound; BMLs constitute a central component of a wide variety of inflammatory and non-inflammatory rheumatologic conditions affe... | {
"abstract": "OBJECTIVES\nThe adhesive performance of 3-acryloyloxypropyltrimethoxysilane and a silane blend consisting of 3-acryloyloxypropyltrimethoxysilane and 1,2-bis(triethoxysilyl)ethane, adhering an experimental dendrimer-based resin to a silica-coated titanium surface, conditioned by CoJet method, was evalua... |
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