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"abstract": "Abstract Toxicological and epidemiological evidence on the association between perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) or perfluorooctane sulfonic acid (PFOS) and birth/fetal weight was assessed. An extensive search for toxicological information in rats and mice, and a systematic search for epidemiological evide... | {
"abstract": "Background Perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) is a perfluoroalkyl acid found in > 99% of Americans. Its health effects are unknown. Prior estimates of serum half-life range from 2.3 to 3.8 years. Objectives We assessed the impact of years of residence and years since residing in the study area on serum PFOA... | {
"abstract": "The effect of treatment of marmosets with ciprofibrate for 3 years on activities of hepatic enzymes, hepatic histomorphology, and ultrastructure were investigated. Male and female marmosets were dosed with ciprofibrate (2, 10, and 20 mg/kg) by oral gavage once daily for 3 years. No effect on liver weig... |
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"abstract": "ABSTRACT This article unveils the resilience of national institutional designs in the process of European unification; more specifically, the article stands out the pervasiveness of the pattern of relationship between government and industry in the environmental policy of two countries: Spain and Germa... | {
"abstract": "ABSTRACT Because events occur too fast and ideas mature too slowly for responses to be designed anew for each pressing problem, policy innovation often relies on pre-existing models, foreign or domestic. This seems to be especially true for regulatory policymaking, since public regulation is typically ... | {
"abstract": "Publicado en: M. Decker y M. Ladikas, comps., Bridges between Science, Society and Policy. Technology Assessment: Methods and Impacts, 101-127, Berlin-Heidelberg-New York: Springer-Verlag, 2004",
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"title": "Shaping the impact: the institutional context of parlia... |
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"abstract": "This review includes works published in the general scientific literature during 2014 on the production of bioenergy and biofuel from waste residues generated during bioethanol and biodiesel production with a brief overview of current and emerging feedstocks. Anothersection of this review summarizes li... | {
"abstract": "In this work, a recombinant cyanobacterium strain with increased photosynthesis rate, cell growth and carbohydrate production efficiency was genetically engineered by co-expressing ictB, ecaA, and acsAB (encoded for bacterial cellulose) in Synechococcus elongatus PCC7942. The resulting cyanobacterial b... | {
"abstract": "The expression and activity of type-1 NAD(P)H dehydrogenase (NDH-1) was compared between cells of Synechocystis PCC6803 grown in high (H-cells) and low (L-cells) CO(2) conditions. Western analysis indicated that L-cells contain higher amounts of the NDH-1 subunits, NdhH, NdhI and NdhK. An NADPH-specifi... |
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"abstract": "Genetic transformation, in which cells internalize exogenous DNA and integrate it into their chromosome, is widespread in the bacterial kingdom. It involves a specialized membrane-associated machinery for binding double-stranded (ds) DNA and uptake of single-stranded (ss) fragments. In the human pathog... | {
"abstract": "In this paper, the construction and evaluation of a chromosomal expression platform (CEP), which allows controlled gene expression following ectopic integration into the chromosome of Streptococcus pneumoniae, is described. CEP is based on the well-studied maltosaccharide-inducible system. To facilitat... | {
"abstract": "ABSTRACT Foot-and-mouth disease is a highly contagious viral disease of cloven-hoofed animals that is caused by foot-and-mouth disease virus (FMDV). To replicate efficiently in vivo, FMDV has evolved methods to circumvent host antiviral defense mechanisms, including those induced by interferons (IFNs).... |
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"abstract": "Hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) is a novel potential therapy for improving bone health in patients with type II diabetes and hypertension, but its effect on the bone molecular structure is not revealed yet. Here, X-ray absorption near edge structure (XANES) spectroscopy was used to explore the effects e... | {
"abstract": "The structure of dried and calcined bones from chicken, bovine, deer, pig, sheep and chamois was examined using X-ray Absorption Near Edge Structure (XANES) spectroscopy. The oxygen K-edge absorption edge indicates that the surface of dried bone has a larger proportion of carbonate than the interior th... | {
"abstract": "Abstract This case study deals with the recovery of collagen break-down products from a badly preserved bone from the site of Minshat Abu Omar, eastern Nile delta. The organic remains had been sealed into a hardly soluble mineral matter, which was the result of decomposition, recrystallization and stru... |
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"abstract": "Th e UN’s Vision 2050 regarding food security emphasizes a doubling of food production by 2050 to ensure suffi cient food availability. It should also be considered that economic accessibility to food depends mainly on food prices in developing countries. Vision 2050 requires proper planning at the nat... | {
"abstract": "According to the monetary neutrality hypothesis, only the unanticipated money supply growth has impacts on real economic variables, and the anticipated money supply growth has no real impacts. The monetary neutrality hypothesis is tested on real farm output. The test procedure involves joint estimation... | {
"abstract": "Since the mid-1970s, a number of studies have used vector autoregressive (VAR) models to evaluate the magnitude and timing of macroeconomic impacts on agriculture. Use of the VAR method has been viewed as a way to obtain empirical evidence about these impacts that might not emerge from more traditional... |
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"abstract": "With a growing interest in modeling inherent subjectivity in natural language, we present a linguistically-motivated process to understand and analyze the writing style of individuals from three perspectives: lexical, syntactic, and semantic. We discuss the stylistically expressive elements within each... | {
"abstract": "Access to expressions of subjective personal posts increased with the popularity of Social Media. However, most of the work in sentiment analysis focuses on predicting only valence from text and usually targeted at a product, rather than affective states. In this paper, we introduce a new data set of 2... | {
"abstract": "In this paper, we describe the 2015 iteration of the SemEval shared task on Sentiment Analysis in Twitter. This was the most popular sentiment analysis shared task to date with more than 40 teams participating in each of the last three years. This year’s shared task competition consisted of five sentim... |
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"abstract": "The design of charging strategies for lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries depends on the application. In electric vehicle applications, high charging speed and long battery life are essential requirements. However, with the advent of vehicle-to-grid (V2G) and potential remuneration for electric grid support... | {
"abstract": "Fast charging strategies have gained an increasing interest toward the convenience of battery applications but may unduly degrade or damage the batteries. To harness these competing objectives, including safety, lifetime, and charging time, this paper proposes a health-aware fast charging strategy synt... | {
"abstract": "Spoofing is the act of masquerading as a valid user by falsifying data to gain an illegitimate access. Vulnerability of recognition systems to spoofing attacks (presentation attacks) is still an open security issue in biometrics domain and among all biometric traits, face is exposed to the most serious... |
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"abstract": "BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: The Zuckerkandl tubercle is located at the posteromedial border of the thyroid lobe, and it may be confused with a neoplasm or other mass. This study was performed to clarify the position and morphologic characteristics of the Zuckerkandl tubercle by dissecting cadavers and to c... | {
"abstract": "BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: The posterior thyroid tubercle, also known as ZT, is an important surgical landmark due to its close proximity to the recurrent laryngeal nerve. A recent case of ZT with a nodular configuration caused clinical concern but was shown on biopsy to be normal thyroid tissue. The purp... | {
"abstract": "The presence of tubercle of Zuckerkandl (TZ) of the thyroid gland has been investigated in 20 specimens obtained from patients died from diseases not concerned to the cervical area. The project mas undertaken to elucidate the presence and the role of TZ as normal anatomical landmark. Special attempt ha... |
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"abstract": "High efficiency CuIn Ga Se S (CIGSS)/CdS thin-film solar cells were prepared by optimizing the Mo back contact layer and optimizing the parameters for preparing CIGSS absorber layer using diethylselenide as selenium source. Mo is used as back contact layer in I-IIIVI compound thin-film solar cells. The... | {
"abstract": "▪ Abstract Polycrystalline thin film solar cells on copper indium diselenide (CulnSe2) and its alloys and cadmium telluride (CdTe) appear to be the most promising candidates for large-scale application of photovoltaic energy conversion because they have shown laboratory-efficiences in excess of 15%. He... | {
"abstract": "The effect of elastic energy on nucleation and disappearance of a nanometer size intermediate melt (IM) region at a solid-solid (S1S2) phase interface at temperatures 120 K below the melting temperature is studied using a phase-field approach. Results are obtained for broad range of the ratios of S1S2 ... |
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"abstract": "The enzyme serine palmitoyltransferase (SPT; EC 2.3.1.50), which catalyzes the first committed and rate-limiting step in sphingolipid synthesis, is up-regulated in the epidermis as part of the homeostatic repair in response to permeability barrier perturbation. Moreover, UVB exposure, which also pertur... | {
"abstract": "Cultured human foreskin keratinocytes have been utilized extensively to study modulations in protein content during epidermal differentiation. In this study we examined their usefulness as a model system for differentiation-linked changes in lipid content and metabolism. First-to-third passage keratino... | {
"abstract": "Neutral lipid storage disease (NLSD) (Chanarin-Dorfman Syndrome) is an autosomal recessive disorder of multisystem triacylglycerol (TAG) storage. Previous work has pointed to a defect in intracellular TAG metabolism. In the studies reported here, the lipid metabolism of three lines of NLSD fibroblasts ... |
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"abstract": "Sentiment analysis automatically evaluates people’s opinions of products or services. It is an emerging research area with promising advancements in high-resource languages such as Indo-European languages (e.g. English). However, the same cannot be said for languages with limited resources. In this stu... | {
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"title": "ACTSA: Annotated Corpus for Telugu Sentiment Analysis"
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"abstract": "We present two methods for determining the sentiment expressed by a movie review. The semantic orientation of a review can be positive, negative, or neutral. We examine the effect of valence shifters on classifying the reviews. We examine three types of valence shifters: negations, intensifiers, and di... |
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"abstract": "Inspired by swarms in nature, swarm robotics have been developed to conduct various challenging tasks such as environmental monitoring, disaster recovery, logistics, and even military operations. Despite the significant potential impact of the swarm on society, relatively little attention is given to a... | {
"abstract": "This review paper sets out to explore the question of how future complex engineered systems based upon the swarm intelligence paradigm could be assured for dependability. The paper introduces the new concept of ‘swarm engineering': a fusion of dependable systems engineering and swarm intelligence. The ... | {
"abstract": "The double-stranded(ds)-RNA dependent protein kinase from human cells is a Mr 68,000 protein (p68 kinase), the level of which is enhanced significantly in cells treated with interferon. When activated by dsRNA, the p68 kinase becomes autophosphorylated. The phosphorylated p68 kinase then can catalyze t... |
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"abstract": "This paper presents the design and analysis of a 21∼29 GHz CMOS receiver front-end (RFE) in a standard 0.18 µm CMOS process for ultra-wideband (UWB) automotive radar systems. The circuit comprises a low-noise amplifier (LNA), a double-balanced Gilbert-cell mixer, and two Marchand baluns. The performanc... | {
"abstract": "A clear trend in wireless applications during the last decade has been the push towards higher integration, and multi-mode and multi-band operation, in order to enable low-cost high-functionality consumer devices. As the deployment of silicon-based MMW technology becomes widespread, similar trends may ... | {
"abstract": "This paper introduces a new semi-automated methodology combining a level set method with a top-down segmentation produced by a deep belief network for the problem of left ventricle segmentation from cardiac magnetic resonance images (MRI). Our approach combines the level set advantages that uses severa... |
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"abstract": "Our study verified the neuroprotective properties of emodin against oxygen‐glucose deprivation/reoxygenation (OGD/R) and demonstrated its mechanism.",
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"title": "Nrf2‐mediated neuroprotection against oxygen‐glucose deprivation/reperfusion injury by emodin via AMPK‐dependent inh... | {
"abstract": "ETHNOPHARMACOLOGICAL RELEVANCE\nPolygonum multiflorum Thunb. has been used widely in East Asia in treatment of diseases associated with aging. Emodin, an active component from Polygonum multiflorum Thunb., provides benefits for brain disturbances induced by severe cerebral injury.\n\n\nAIM OF THE STUDY... | {
"abstract": "Glutamate is an endogenous excitatory neurotransmitter. At high concentrations, it is neurotoxic and contributes to the development of certain neurodegenerative diseases. There is considerable controversy in the literature with regard to whether glutamate-induced cell death in cultured HT22 cells (an i... |
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"abstract": "Versican, a large extracellular matrix proteoglycan accumulates in tumor stroma and plays a key role in both malignant transformation and tumor progression. Increased versican expression has been observed in a wide range of malignant tumors, and has been associated with both cancer relapse and poor pat... | {
"abstract": "Changes in the production and structure of glycosaminoglycans and proteoglycans have been reported in many neoplastic tissues, and versican and hyaluronan (extracellular matrix components) are frequently increased in tumours and promote tumour progression. The distribution of chondroitin sulphate, vers... | {
"abstract": "A variety of adherent sarcoma, carcinoma and normal cells are surrounded in vitro by thick, transparent zones (approximately equal to 9 micron thick) that spleen cells and a variety of other cells and particles cannot penetrate. Seven lymphoblastoid cell lines did not possess such halos. The presence o... |
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"abstract": "The existing frameworks to support organisations in their knowledge management operations do not adequately consider global diversity and the local context of the environment in which each organisation operates. The main goal of this study is to develop a context-aware framework to guide organisations ... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Knowledge management (KM) is a focus for knowledge-intensive businesses and organisations, irrespective of the size and geographical location. While it is important to make the local knowledge become global, the efforts to manage the knowledge processes and the specific impact of the enablers ... | {
"abstract": "Purpose – The objective of this study was to investigate the placement, role, functioning, and human resource aspects of IT departments in Kuwaiti corporate companies in the banking and finance sector.Design/methodology/approach – The results of this study are based on an interview‐based survey of IT m... |
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"abstract": "Abstract. A recent CLOUD (Cosmics Leaving OUtdoor Droplets) chamber study showed that\nsulfuric acid and dimethylamine produce new aerosols very efficiently and\nyield particle formation rates that are compatible with boundary layer\nobservations. These previously published new particle formation (NPF)... | {
"abstract": "Abstract. Sulfuric acid is an important gas influencing atmospheric new particle formation (NPF). Both the binary (H2SO4–H2O) system and the ternary system involving ammonia (H2SO4–H2O–NH3) may be important in the free troposphere. An essential step in the nucleation of aerosol particles from gas-phase... | {
"abstract": "Surface tension and the length δ (distance between the Gibbs surface of tension Rs and the equimolar surface Re) of simple liquid droplet (Lennard-Jones and Yukawa) are computed over a wide range of droplet sizes up to about 4×106 molecules. The study is based on the Gibbs theory of capillarity combine... |
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"abstract": "Mitochondrial membrane potential (ΔΨm) is an indicator of sperm quality and its evaluation complements the standard semen analysis. The fluorescent dye JC‐1 has been widely used to assess sperm ΔΨm; however, some problems have been detected under certain experimental conditions. Another fluorescent com... | {
"abstract": "Sperm cells from control donors of proven fertility and men from barren couples were studied by conventional procedures, i.e., light microscopy as well as flow cytometry. Light microscopy analysis of semen included the measurement of spermatozoa concentration, morphology, and motility. All the men from... | {
"abstract": "A major event in enhancing sperm chromatin stability is the replacement of the histones by protamines during spermiogenesis. In this study, we present results indicating that chromomycin A3 (CMA3) can be used to show protamine deficiency in sperm chromatin. Fixed chromatin of mature mouse spermatozoa s... |
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"abstract": "OBJECTIVE: To assess the current evidence of the value of cycling of antimicrobials to control the emergence of resistance or to reverse existing resistance to antimicrobials. DATA SOURCES: Articles were obtained through a MEDLINE search of the English-language literature from 1966 to January 2000. Add... | {
"abstract": "Abundant evidence suggests a relationship between antibiotic resistance and use, including animal models, consistent associations between resistance and antibiotic use in hospitals, concomitant variation in resistance as antibiotic use varies, and a dose-response relationship for many pathogen/antibiot... | {
"abstract": "Catastrophic mass casualty events, such as pandemic flu outbreaks or large-scale terrorism-related events, could yield thousands of victims whose needs would overwhelm local and regional healthcare systems, personnel, and resources. Such conditions will require deploying scarce resources in a manner th... |
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"abstract": "Abstract Streptomyces are involved in the deterioration of cultural heritage materials through several pathways, the most important of these are biomineralization and bio-pigment production. The biomineralization pathway can occur through the precipitation of calcite, silica, barytes, hydromagnesite an... | {
"abstract": "Boron is widespread in the environment. Although contaminated soils are hard to recover different strategies have been investigated in the recent years. Bioremediation is one of the most studied because it is eco-friendly and less costly than other techniques. The aim of this research was to evaluate w... | {
"abstract": "It has been well documented that excess concentrations of boron (B) causes toxic effects on many of the environmental systems. Although Chlorella sp. has been studied to remove pollutants from water, its capacity to remove B has not been investigated yet. Boron removal levels of newly isolated Chlorell... |
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"abstract": "Most of web applications models focus on sequencing of events, where the ignored parameters or DOM elements changes and the relationship between the execution conditions and web states are crucial for analyzing and testing the behavior of client-side of client-server web applications. In this paper, we... | {
"abstract": "Web applications have become one of the fastest growing types of software systems today. Despite their popularity, understanding the behaviour of modern web applications is still a challenging endeavour for developers during development and maintenance tasks. The challenges mainly stem from the dynamic... | {
"abstract": "JavaScript is widely used by web developers and the complexity of JavaScript programs has increased over the last year. Therefore, the need for program analysis for JavaScript is evident. Points-to analysis for JavaScript is to determine the set of objects to which a reference variable or an object pro... |
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"abstract": "ABSTRACT Virtual geographical environments (VGEs) utilize multidimensional representation and allow for deep analysis of geoscience problems; therefore, they facilitate rapid transformation of geodata into geo-knowledge. Knowledge engineering of VGEs (VGE-KE) is thus a promising means of providing geo-... | {
"abstract": "In many applications, the management of geographic knowledge is very important especially not only for urban and environmental planning, but also for any application in territorial intelligence. However there are several practical problems hindering the efficiency, some of them being technical and othe... | {
"abstract": "Virtual 3D city models provide important information for different aspects of disaster management. In order to ensure the unambiguous interpretation of the represented objects, an ontology in the sense of a common information model for urban and regional structures has to be defined. Furthermore, up-to... |
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"abstract": "Summary Aim of this study is to evaluate new and controversially discussed indications for determining the thyroglobulin (Tg) level in different thyroid diseases to support routine diagnostics. Methods: The following groups were included: 250 healthy subjects without goiter, 50 persons with diffuse goi... | {
"abstract": "Forty-three euthyroid patients with a single, solid, nonfunctioning thyroid nodule were submitted to fine needle aspiration biopsy and serum thyroglobulin (Tg) was measured before and after (48h) 10 U of bovine TSH. Twenty-two normal subjects were also submitted to the bTSH test. Patients with nonfunct... | {
"abstract": "Neisseria meningitidis infections are a major public health problem worldwide. Although conventional approaches have not led to development of a serogroup B meningococcal vaccine, a new technique based on genome sequencing has created new perspectives. Recently, a universal serogroup B meningococcal va... |
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"abstract": "Bioactive compounds from Traditional Chinese Medicines (TCMs) are gradually becoming an effective alternative in the control of porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV) because most of the commercially available PRRSV vaccines cannot provide full protection against the genetically di... | {
"abstract": "Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV) is a continuous threat to the pig industry, causing high economic losses worldwide. Current vaccination strategies provide only limited protection against PRRSV infection. Consequently, there is a need to develop new antiviral strategies. Pyri... | {
"abstract": "To increase the likelihood of success of their market-focused innovations, firms that develop innovations for targeted markets regularly communicate with market participants in order to reduce the uncertainties participants hold regarding the firms’ innovations. Among other tactics, these firms employ ... |
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"abstract": "We aim to provide controls for emotion in synthetic speech. Many emotions are not displayed continuously in an otherwise emotional utterance; rather, the intensity varies with time. We show that an emotion recogniser is capable of producing a measure of emotion intensity via attention or saliency; this... | {
"abstract": "In this work, we study the use of attention mechanisms to enhance the performance of the state-of-the-art deep learning model in Speech Emotion Recognition (SER). We introduce a new Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM)-based neural network attention model which is able to take into account the temporal inform... | {
"abstract": "Accurately recognizing speaker emotion and age/gender from speech can provide better user experience for many spoken dialogue systems. In this study, we propose to use deep neural networks (DNNs) to encode each utterance into a fixed-length vector by pooling the activations of the last hidden layer ove... |
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"abstract": "To identify the neural correlates of perceptual awareness, researchers often compare the differences in neural activation between conditions in which an observer is or is not aware of a stimulus. While intuitive, this approach often contains a critical limitation: to link brain activity with perceptual... | {
"abstract": "An important question in neural correlate of consciousness (NCC) studies is whether event-related potential (ERP) component P3 reflects visual awareness or the confidence with which one reports a visual experience. In the present study, participants detected visual stimuli presented at threshold-level ... | {
"abstract": "Received by the editors April 4, 1946, and, in revised form, May 3, 1946. 1 E. C. Titchmarsh, Theory of functions, pp. 253-254; E. T. Copson, Theory of functions of a complex variable, pp. 175-178. 2 For the definition, and so on, see (i) J. M. Whittaker, The lower order of integral functions, J. Londo... |
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"abstract": "A method to apply the principle of integral pulse modulation to the series-resonant converter is proposed, analyzed, and tested. The proposed control module facilitates combining the favorable properties of the series-resonant power converter (reliability, low weight, high efficiency) with those of the... | {
"abstract": "Three basic switching regulators: buck, boost, and buck/boost, employing a multiloop standardized control module (SCM) were characterized by a common small signal block diagram. Employing the unified model, regulator performances such as stability, audiosusceptibility, output impedance, and step load t... | {
"abstract": "Standardized.control and interface circuits were applied to the three most commonly used dc to dc converters: the buck-boost converter, the seriesswitching buck regulator, and the pulse-modulated paral1el inverter. The two-loop ASDTIC regulation control concept was implemented by using a common Analog ... |
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"abstract": "The usage of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles(UAVs) are increasing day by day. UAV’s usage for terrorism activities is one of the main threats faced by every country. As per THE HINDU news media, there are 6 lakh rogue drones in India. The ineffectiveness of standard air defence systems against tiny, sluggish,... | {
"abstract": "Area of image inpainting over relatively large missing regions recently advanced substantially through adaptation of dedicated deep neural networks. However, current network solutions still introduce undesired artifacts and noise to the repaired regions. We present an image inpainting method that is ba... | {
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"title": "Image In painter Mask Generator Object Classifier Real / Fake ? Is there a person ?"
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"abstract": "Abstract This article examines a fundamental lot-sizing problem which arises in the context of a make-to-order remanufacturing environment. The problem setting is characterized by a stochastic used-item return process along with a stochastic remanufactured-item demand process faced by a remanufacturer.... | {
"abstract": "In this paper, we consider a vendor realizing a sequence of random order arrivals in random sizes. The vendor has the autonomy to hold/consolidate small orders until an economical dispatch quantity accumulates. Consequently, the actual inventory requirements at the vendor are in part determined by the ... | {
"abstract": "Abstract The theme of inter-organizational relationships involving SMEs (SME IORs) has generated a relevant body of knowledge that has not been systematized yet. This article carries out a systematic literature review on SME IORs using bibliometric techniques, aiming to provide an overview of the main ... |
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"abstract": "This letter proves that a ReLU network can approximate any continuous function with arbitrary precision by means of piecewise linear or constant approximations. For univariate function f(x), we use the composite of ReLUs to produce a line segment; all of the subnetworks of line segments comprise a ReLU... | {
"abstract": "Recently there has been much interest in understanding why deep neural networks are preferred to shallow networks. We show that, for a large class of piecewise smooth functions, the number of neurons needed by a shallow network to approximate a function is exponentially larger than the corresponding nu... | {
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"title": "Adversarial Active Learning for Sequences Labeling and Generation"
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"abstract": "Pancreatic cancer has been classified as a cancer of unmet need. After diagnosis the patient prognosis is dismal with few surviving over 5 years. Treatment regimes are highly patient variable and often the patients are too sick to undergo surgical resection or chemotherapy. These chemotherapies are not... | {
"abstract": "Tumor-targeted delivery of anticancer drugs using dendrimers has been recognized as a promising strategy to increase efficiency and reduce adverse effects of chemotherapy. Herein, we developed a dendrimer-based drug delivery system targeting Flt-1 (a receptor for vascular endothelial growth factors (VE... | {
"abstract": "Lapatinib (L) and fulvestrant (F) are used in targeted anticancer therapies, in particular, against phenotypically different breast cancer cells. L, a dual inhibitor of EGFR and HER2 tyrosine kinases, is active against HER2-positive breast cancer cells, while F, a selective estrogen receptor degrader (... |
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"abstract": "We show that Deep Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) implementations of computational imaging tasks exhibit spatially correlated values. We exploit this correlation to reduce the amount of computation, communication, and storage needed to execute such CNNs by introducing Diffy, a hardware accelerator t... | {
"abstract": "Deep Neural Networks expose a high degree of parallelism, making them amenable to highly data parallel architectures. However, data-parallel architectures often accept inefficiency in individual computations for the sake of overall efficiency. We show that on average, activation values of convolutional... | {
"abstract": "Training of large-scale deep neural networks is often constrained by the available computational resources. We study the effect of limited precision data representation and computation on neural network training. Within the context of low-precision fixed-point computations, we observe the rounding sche... |
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"abstract": ". Bovine bone is a considerable source for the production of hydroxyapatite. The recent study reported a novel method to exfiact hydroxyapatite from bovine bone witlout producing hazardous residue. The bovine bones were cut and boiled in the opened chamber followed by boiling in pressurized tank. The b... | {
"abstract": "Nano-Hydroxyapatite (nHA) was isolated from salmon bone by alkaline hydrolysis. The resulting nHA was characterized using several analytical tools, including thermogravimetric analysis (TGA), Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR), X-ray diffraction analysis (XRD), scanning electron microscopy... | {
"abstract": "Toroidal rotation velocity profiles during neutral beam injection on ASDEX have been investigated by means of charge exchange recombination spectroscopy. For both co- and counter-injection of neutral beams the ratio of the injected power and the line averaged electron density is found to be an essentia... |
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"abstract": "The use of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) parts in space applications has elicited increased interest, especially in the pursuit of higher-performance satellite hardware for missions that can accept higher risk. This hardware includes DC-DC point-of-load (PoL) converters; this category of power electr... | {
"abstract": "Gallium nitride (GaN) power devices are commercially available from a number of suppliers and the market is growing. The predominant GaN technology is normally-off enhancement mode (e-mode) power transistors. One of the main design challenges of implementing e-mode GaN transistors is the gate drive cir... | {
"abstract": "This paper presents a SPICE-based simulation for a full-bridge converter applying Gallium Nitride (GaN)-based switches. The evaluated converter is concerned to a resonant topology which achieves extra-high efficiency when using an LLC network. The studied GaN-based switch model considers resistances an... |
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"abstract": "We describe reference implementations for selected configurations of the user authentication protocol defined by the Information Card Profile V1.0. Our code can interoperate with existing implementations of the roles of the protocol (client, identity provider, and relying party). We derive formal proof... | {
"abstract": "Web services are an important series of industry standards for adding semantics to web-based and XML-based communication, in particular among enterprises. Like the entire series, the security standards and proposals are highly modular. Combinations of several standards are put together for testing as i... | {
"abstract": "We address the problem of securing sequences of SOAP messages exchanged between web services and their clients. The WS-Security standard defines basic mechanisms to secure SOAP traffic, one message at a time. For typical web services, however, using WS-Security independently for each message is rather ... |
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"abstract": "Twenty to thirty percent of patients with lung cancer present with central airway obstruction. Self-expanding metal stent (SEMS)is effective for recanalization of such lesions when caused by extrinsic compression, with the advantage of ease of deploymentwith a flexible bronchoscope. We report a case of... | {
"abstract": "OBJECTIVE\nTo describe a 10-year experience of inserting Ultraflex™ self-expanding metal stents (SEMS) under sedation using flexible bronchoscopy for the treatment of malignant tracheobronchial stenosis in a tertiary referral centre.\n\n\nMETHODS\nMedical notes were retrospectively reviewed for all pat... | {
"abstract": "In this paper, it is argued that there are significant differences between the concepts of ecological modernization and sustainable development. The different ways in which these concepts frame various approaches to environmental policy have important implications. They affect not only the scope, but a... |
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"abstract": "Since Dietl et al. predicted that Co-doped ZnO may show room-temperature ferromagnetism (RTFM) in 2000, researchers have focused on the investigation of ferromagnetic ZnO doped with various transition metals. However, after decades of exploration, it has been found that undoped ZnO nanostructures can a... | {
"abstract": "The present study reports room-temperature ferromagnetic behaviors in three-dimensional (3D)-aligned thiol-capped single-crystalline ZnO nanowire (NW) and nanotube (NT) arrays as well as polycrystalline ZnO NT arrays. Besides the observation of height-dependent saturation magnetization, a much higher M... | {
"abstract": "The rate equations for the exciton-exciton (ex-ex), exciton-electron (ex-e) and exciton-hole (ex-h) recombination processes are derived by taking into account polariton effects. The solutions of the stationary rate equations yield the spectra of the spontaneous emission and of the gain. Their temperatu... |
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"abstract": "Introduction: Tear of the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) is the most common ligamentous injury of the knee. The importance of ACL in maintaining knee joint stability, so that if a ACL injury occurs, it can be followed by degenerative changes and future meniscus injuries Anterior cruciate ligament. AC... | {
"abstract": "PURPOSE\nThis study aimed to compare the clinical outcomes of patients who underwent anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction with a hybrid graft versus an autograft after 3 years of follow-up.\n\n\nMETHODS\nAmong 57 patients with an ACL injury who underwent ACL reconstruction, 28 patients recei... | {
"abstract": "ObjectivesTo determine the current prevalence of four major sexually transmitted infections (STIs: HIV, Hepatitis B, Herpes simplex virus 2, and Syphilis) in asymptomatic pregnant women.MethodsThis is a prospective study of 500 consecutive, apparently healthy asymptomatic pregnant women who were attend... |
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"abstract": "Legumes are an important component of plant diversity that modulate nitrogen (N) cycling in many terrestrial ecosystems. Limited knowledge of legume effects on soil N cycling and its response to global change factors and plant diversity hinders a general understanding of whether and how legumes broadly... | {
"abstract": "Abstract. Positive relationships between species richness and ecosystem processes such as productivity or nitrogen cycling can be the result of a number of mechanisms. We examined how species richness, biomass, and legume presence, diversity, and abundance explained nitrogen dynamics in experimental gr... | {
"abstract": "Random reductions in plant diversity can affect ecosystem functioning, but it is still unclear which components of plant diversity (species number – namely richness, presence of particular plant functional groups, or particular combinations of these) and associated biotic and abiotic drivers explain th... |
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"abstract": "Kaposi sarcoma‐associated herpesvirus (KSHV) causes Kaposi sarcoma (KS). The risk of KS is amplified in HIV‐immunosuppressed individuals and antiretroviral therapy (ART) reduces KS incidence. Reliable data on the relationship between these factors are lacking in Africa. We used questionnaires and serum... | {
"abstract": "Background:Determinants of Kaposi sarcoma–associated herpesvirus (KSHV) seropositivity among children living in sub-Saharan African populations where infection is endemic are not well understood. Local environmental factors, including other infectious agents, may be key. Methods:Within the context of a... | {
"abstract": "Neoadjuvant therapy, including chemotherapy, endocrine therapy, and/or radiotherapy, has gained acceptance in the routine management of women with early breast cancer with aggressive biological and clinical features and may result in tumor downsizing allowing breast conservation in patients who would o... |
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"abstract": "Cryptochromes are blue/ultraviolet-A light sensing photoreceptors involved in regulating various growth and developmental responses in plants. Investigations on the structure and functions of cryptochromes in plants have been largely confined to Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana), tomato (Lycopersicon ... | {
"abstract": "The cryptochromes are a family of blue light photoreceptors that play important roles in the control of plant development. We have characterised the cryptochrome gene family in the model legume garden pea (Pisum sativum L.). Pea contains three expressed cryptochrome genes; a single CRY1 orthologue, and... | {
"abstract": "A 2-line ferrihydrite/γ-A2O3 hybrid adsorbent (Fh/γ-Al2O3 hybrid adsorbent) precipitated on 10wt% of γ-Al2O3 seed for the effective adsorption of phosphate in water was synthesized from wastewater containing ferric sulfate. The use of γ-Al2O3 seeds for particle initiation made it possible to prepare la... |
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"abstract": "Fully-converged Grids and Web Services (WSs) can lead to the development of a new infrastructure that would offer a more powerful set of networking capabilities and features. On one hand, this convergence was favourably looked at, with the expectation of providing better technical solutions to highly c... | {
"abstract": "Web services have become the predominant paradigm for the development of distributed software systems. Web services provide the means to modularize software in a way that functionality can be described, discovered and deployed in a platform independent manner over a network (e.g., intranets, extranets ... | {
"abstract": "Concept-to-Speech (CTS) systems, which aim to synthesize speech from semantic information and discourse context, have succeeded in producing more appropriate and naturalsounding prosody than text-to-speech (TTS) systems, which rely mostly on syntactic and orthographic information. In this paper, we sho... |
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"abstract": "Relative location prediction in computed tomography (CT) scan images is a challenging problem. In this paper, a regression model based on one-dimensional convolutional neural networks is proposed to determine the relative location of a CT scan image both robustly and precisely. A public dataset is empl... | {
"abstract": "The purpose of this study is to introduce diffusion methods as a tool to label CT scan images according to their position in the human body. A comparative study of different methods based on a k-NN search is carried out and we propose a new, simple and efficient way of applying diffusion techniques tha... | {
"abstract": "Nonlinear dimensionality reduction methods often include the construction of kernels for embedding the high-dimensional data points. Standard methods for extending the embedding coordinates (such as the Nystrom method) also rely on spectral decomposition of kernels. It is desirable that these kernels c... |
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"abstract": "C I T A T I O N L I N K S A R T I C L E I N F O Article Type Original Research Authors Zeinab Borjian Boroujeni, MSc1, Seyed Jamal Hashemi, PhD 1,2,*, Roshanak Daie Ghazvini, PhD 1, Mahdi Zareei, Ph.D 3, Zahra Rafat, Ph.D1 How to cite this article Borjian Boroujeni Z., Hashemi S. J., Daie Ghazvini R., ... | {
"abstract": "Background: Many studies have been conducted on fungal infections which are known as public health and therapeutic problems. Since the prevalence rate of the fungal diseases and their etiological factors are changing over time, the purpose of this study was to identify the prevalence rate of superficia... | {
"abstract": "Apoptosis is a physiological form of cell death required to ensure that the rate of cell division is balanced by the rate of cell death in multicellular organisms. Dysregulation of apoptosis is associated with the pathogenesis of a wide array of diseases: cancer, neurodegeneration, autoimmunity, heart ... |
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"abstract": "Due to environmental conditions and contemporary lifestyles, individuals encounter a variety of ailments presently. Predicting diseases at an early stage thus becomes an essential endeavor. However, the precise prognosis from symptoms becomes increasingly challenging for doctors. Correctly predicting s... | {
"abstract": "With the rapid development of the Internet of Things, cloud computing, and big data, more comprehensive and powerful applications become available. Meanwhile, people pay more attention to higher QoE and QoS in a “terminal- cloud” integrated system. Specifically, both advanced terminal technologies (e.g... | {
"abstract": "With the development of the artificial intelligence (AI), the AI applications have influenced and changed people's daily life greatly. Here, a wearable affective robot that integrates the affective robot, social robot, brain wearable, and wearable 2.0 is proposed for the first time. The proposed wearab... |
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"abstract": "Pesticides pose a significant risk to humans and the environment. This paper analyzes the measures used to manage pesticides in Malawi. Malawi’s regulatory authority of pesticides, the Pesticides Control Board (PCB), faces a number of challenges including lack of facilities for analyzing pesticides and... | {
"abstract": "The presence of pesticide residues in apples raises serious health concerns, especially when the fresh fruits are consumed by children, particularly vulnerable to the pesticide hazards. This study demonstrates the results from nine years of investigation (2005-2013) of 696 samples of Polish apples for ... | {
"abstract": "Canopy characterization is essential for pesticide dosage adjustment according to vegetation volume and density. It is especially important for fresh exportable vegetables like greenhouse tomatoes. These plants are thin and tall and are planted in pairs, which makes their characterization with electron... |
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"abstract": "There is a need to define sustainable development in terms which are more clearly policy-relevant, so as to facilitate the quantitative evaluation of sustainability policies. This paper presents a novel quantitative method to evaluate urban sustainability enhancing policies to further enable evidence b... | {
"abstract": "This paper describes a method of identifying and weighting indicators for assessing the energy efficiency of residential buildings in China. A list of indicators of energy efficiency assessment in residential buildings in the hot summer and cold winter zone in China has been proposed, which supplies an... | {
"abstract": "Numerous higher education (HE) institutions in the United States (US) have created sustainability agendas, including the construction of sustainable buildings. More than 200 US HE institutions have at least one LEED certified building on their campus. With the growing student population and correspondi... |
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"abstract": "Background. Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the most common primary malignant liver tumor. Currently, liver transplantation may be the optimal treatment for HCC in cirrhotic patients. Patient selection is currently based on tumor size. We developed a program to offer liver transplantation to selected... | {
"abstract": "In the United States, there are significant geographic disparities in the time to transplantation for patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC); it is possible that rapid transplantation contributes to higher rates of posttransplant HCC recurrence because there is insufficient time for the tumor bio... | {
"abstract": "BACKGROUND AND AIMS\nHeterogeneous data has been reported regarding liver transplantation (LT) for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in Latin America. We aimed to describe treatment during waiting list, survival and recurrence of HCC after LT in a multicenter study from Latin America.\n\n\nMATERIAL AND ME... |
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"abstract": "Abstract Hypertension usually coexists with other chronic conditions and can cause disability in relation to activities of daily living. We examined the association between the number and categories of comorbid conditions and disability affecting activities of daily living in hypertension patients. The... | {
"abstract": "BackgroundThe assessment of Health Related Quality of Life (HRQOL) has been applied as a significant outcome indicator for patients with chronic diseases. No HRQOL study, however, has looked at HRQOL in patients with chronic gastritis and peptic ulcers. This paper focuses on comparing HRQOL in patients... | {
"abstract": "Methionine metabolism is critical for epigenetic maintenance, redox homeostasis, and animal development. However, the regulation of methionine metabolism remains unclear. Here, we provide evidence that SIRT1, the most conserved mammalian NAD+‐dependent protein deacetylase, is critically involved in mod... |
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"abstract": "Dupuytren's disease (DD) is a chronic condition in which fibrosis of tissue beneath the palm of the hand occurs. Causes and mechanisms of this disease's development are still not entirely understood. However, symptoms and the negative impact on individuals' quality of life are evident. While existing t... | {
"abstract": "We aimed to assess the relative contribution of genes and environment in the aetiology of Dupuytren’s disease by studying Danish twins born between 1870 and 2000. Twins with a diagnosis (n = 365) and the subgroup who also had an operation (n = 259) after 1977 were identified through linkage with a nati... | {
"abstract": "PURPOSE\nDupuytren disease is a common benign fibroproliferative disorder causing thickening and shortening of the palmar fascia of the hand. The exact etiology of the disease is unclear but known risk factors such as increased age, male sex, and northern European ethnicity have been established. A lin... |
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"abstract": "Significance The incidence of chronic inflammatory autoimmune conditions, such as celiac disease (CD), is increasing at an alarming rate. CD is the only autoimmune condition for which the trigger, gluten, is known. However, its etiology and pathogenesis remain incompletely defined as recent studies sug... | {
"abstract": "In the past it was believed that genetic predisposition and exposure to gluten were necessary and sufficient to develop celiac disease (CD). Recent studies however suggest that loss of gluten tolerance can occur at any time in life as a consequence of other environmental stimuli. Many environmental fac... | {
"abstract": "BACKGROUND As granulocyte/macrophage colony stimulating factor (GM-CSF) mediated delay of granulocyte apoptosis contributes to the accumulation of inflammatory cells at the site of inflammation in many diseases, we sought to determine whether asthma is also associated with a GM-CSF dependent increase i... |
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"abstract": "Kerr lens mode locking strongly depends upon intensity. Low pulse intensity weakens the nonlinear Kerr lens, and eventually mode locking is not supported. We demonstrate efficient mode-locking in a Ti:Sapphire laser oscillator with record-low intra-cavity pulse intensity (18 GW/cm2) and intra-cavity av... | {
"abstract": "This paper shows the experimental details of the stabilization scheme that allows full control of the repetition rate and the carrier-envelope offset frequency of a 10 GHz frequency comb based on a femtosecond Ti:sapphire laser. Octave-spanning spectra are produced in nonlinear microstructured optical ... | {
"abstract": "We demonstrate control and stabilization of an optical frequency comb generated by four-wave mixing in a monolithic microresonator with a mode spacing in the microwave regime (86 GHz). The comb parameters (mode spacing and offset frequency) are controlled via the power and the frequency of the pump las... |
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"abstract": "The sex chromosomes play a highly specialized role in germ cell development in mammals, being enriched in genes expressed in the testis and ovary. Sex chromosome abnormalities (e.g., Klinefelter [XXY] and Turner [XO] syndrome) constitute the largest class of chromosome abnormalities and the commonest g... | {
"abstract": "Parts of the male mouse meiotic complement comprising the Y chromosome, the whole X chromosome, and near-centromeric parts of autosomal bivalents are synthesized late, as judged by tritiated thymidine autoradiography. This confirms the occurrence of end-to-end association between X and Y chromosomes an... | {
"abstract": "The relation between Cd and oxidative stress in BY2 cell cultures of tobacco was studied. In response to 5 mM Cd, a rapid generation of H2O2 has been detected in tobacco cell cultures by the oxidative quenching of the fluorescent reporter dye pyranine. This oxidative burst reached the maximum productio... |
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"abstract": "The brain is a slave to sense; we see and hear things that are not there and engage in ongoing correction of these illusory experiences, commonly termed pareidolia. The current study investigates whether the predisposition to see meaning in noise is lateralized to one hemisphere or the other and how th... | {
"abstract": "The heterogeneity of schizotypal traits, suggested in previous research, was further investigated in a sample of subjects (N = 1095) administered a composite questionnaire consisting of a large number of published scales the majority of which were designed to measure psychotic characteristics. Factor a... | {
"abstract": "BackgroundPhysical punishment of children is an important public health concern. Yet, few studies have examined how physical punishment is related to other types of child maltreatment and violence across the lifespan. Therefore, the objective of the current study was to examine if harsh physical punish... |
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"abstract": "Present and future demonstrator designs were used to demonstrate the quality assurance of welds. The NDT methods tested on prototype demonstrator parts are: visual inspection, radius gauges, throat ...",
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"abstract": "Conventionally, the quality of the weld is ascertained only after the welding has been completed through the use of NDT techniques. A lot of time, material and manpower is wasted before one comes to know about the soundness of the weld. These limitations can be overcome if the weld is continuously moni... | {
"abstract": "The problem of process control welding involves not only regulation of weld bead geometry, but also thermally induced changes such as distortion, residual stresses and metallurgical transformations near the weld. This paper addresses the last of these, and poses it as a feedback control problem. The ob... |
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"abstract": "Grain boundaries (GBs) can be used as traps for solute atoms and defects, and the interaction between segregants and GBs is crucial for understanding the properties of nanocrystalline materials. In this study, we have systematically investigated the tendency of Pt to segregate as well as the interactio... | {
"abstract": "Grain boundary (GB) phase transformations often occur in polycrystalline materials while exposed to external stimuli and are universally implicated in substantially affecting their properties, yet atomic-scale knowledge on the transformation process is far from developed. In particular, whether GBs loa... | {
"abstract": "Lead-free perovskite piezoelectric ceramics are important to both scientific and industrial communities due to the promising candidates to replace the toxic lead-based ones. After the great efforts by researchers for several decades, some remarkable progresses are obtained, covering the breakthroughs i... |
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"abstract": "Motivation Historically, gene expression has been shown to be the most informative data for drug response prediction. Recent evidence suggests that integrating additional omics can improve the prediction accuracy which raises the question of how to integrate the additional omics. Regardless of the inte... | {
"abstract": "MOTIVATION\nMolecule-based prediction of drug response is one major task of precision oncology. Recently, large-scale cancer genomic studies, such as The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA), provide the opportunity to evaluate the predictive utility of molecular data for clinical drug responses in multiple canc... | {
"abstract": "This paper presents a Finite Element Analysis of a high speed spindle. At high speeds, bearing preload is reduced automatically by a hydraulic mechanism in the analysed machining centre. The finite element model can consider variable bearing preload effect and other factors such as gyroscopic moments, ... |
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"abstract": "Abstract Objective: To summarise the existing evidence of development, validation and current status of utilisation of dish-based dietary assessment tools. Design: Scoping review. Setting: Systematic search using PubMed and Web of Science. Results: We identified twelve tools from seventy-four eligible ... | {
"abstract": "We used a database approach in developing a dish-based, semi-quantitative FFQ for Korean diet and cancer research. Cancer-related dietary factors (CRDF) recognised in the scientific community and dietary intake data from the 2001 Korean National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey and the 2002 Kore... | {
"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nDyslipidemia is one of the most important risk factors for atherosclerotic disease and may lead to coronary heart disease, obesity, type II diabetes and certain cancers. The choice of food and meals by adults is a large part determined by the dietary habits and knowledge acquired in earlier... |
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"abstract": "The Internet of Things (\n IoT \n) represents a set of emerging technologies that is revolutionizing the agriculture industry and enabling farmers to contend with the enormous challenges in the twenty‐first century. Precision agriculture (\n PA \n), which is also known as site‐specific farming, represe... | {
"abstract": "With an increasing demand of fresh water resources in arid/semi-arid parts of the world, researchers and practitioners are relying more than ever on remote sensing techniques for monitoring and evaluating crop water status and for estimating crop water use or crop actual evapotranspiration (ETa). In th... | {
"abstract": "This study was conducted to determine if Crop Water Stress Index (CWSI) values computed from infrared thermometer measurements of single-leaf temperatures of sunflower [Helianthus annuus (L.) «Triumph 566DW»] were correlated with other measures of plant water stress. Statistically significant correlati... |
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"abstract": "ABSTRACT Sequence analysis of the murine gammaherpesvirus 68 (γHV68) genome revealed an open reading frame (gene 4) which is homologous to a family of proteins known as the regulators of complement activation (RCA proteins) (H. W. Virgin, P. Latreille, P. Wamsley, K. Hallsworth, K. E. Weck, A. J. Dal C... | {
"abstract": "ABSTRACT Many microorganisms encode proteins that interact with molecules involved in host immunity; however, few of these molecules have been proven to promote immune evasion in vivo. Herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) glycoprotein C (gC) binds complement component C3 and inhibits complement-mediated... | {
"abstract": "Glycoproteins C (gC) from herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) and HSV-2, gC-1 and gC-2, bind the human complement fragment C3b, although the two glycoproteins differ in their abilities to act as C3b receptors on infected cells and in their effects on the alternative complement pathway. Previously, we i... |
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"abstract": "Dengue fever is an acute disease caused by the dengue virus and transmitted primarily by the mosquito Aedes aegypti. The current strategy for dengue prevention is vector control including the use of topical repellents to reduce mosquito biting. Although N,N-diethyl-m-methylbenzamide (DEET) is the most ... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Inexpensive insect repellents may be needed to supplement the use of impregnated bed-nets in the Amazon region, where the primary malaria vector, Anopheles darlingi (Root), is exophilic and feeds in the early evening. Three plants that are traditionally used to repel mosquitoes in Riberalta, B... | {
"abstract": "The influence of the geomagnetic field‐removed environment on Arabidopsis growth was investigated by cultivation of the plants in a near‐null magnetic field and local geomagnetic field (45 µT) for the whole growth period under laboratory conditions. The biomass accumulation of plants in the near‐null m... |
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"abstract": "Background: To make the best use of written information in education pamphlets, suitability criteria developed for instructional materials. Moreover, client satisfaction with the quality of written materials provided in hospitals for patients needs to be taken into account. \nAim: Therefore, the presen... | {
"abstract": "PURPOSE\nMillions of adults lack adequate reading skills and many written patient education materials do not reflect national guidelines for readability and suitability of materials, resulting in barriers to patients being partners in their own health care. The purpose of this study was to evaluate com... | {
"abstract": "Undergraduate computer science programs at many small colleges often include only one course focused on hardware. Many important concepts are covered in such a course, including the basics of computer architecture. By the end of such a course, students should have a good understanding of how a binary m... |
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"abstract": "The European Medicines Agency (EMA) defines excipients as the constituents of a pharmaceutical form apart from the active substance. Delayed hypersensitivity reactions (DHRs) caused by excipients contained in the formulation of medications have been described. However, there are no data on the prevalen... | {
"abstract": "In 1996, a 24-year-old man had developed a drug reaction with eosinophilia and systemic symptoms caused by Tegretol® (carbamazepine and carboxymethylcellulose). Positive patch test reactions were obtained with carbamazepine at 10% pet.; carboxymethylcellulose was not tested at the time. Subsequently, t... | {
"abstract": "To determine whether topical provocation could be used for the diagnosis of fixed drug eruption (FDE) instead of systemic provocation, we applied the suspected drug at various concentrations (1–10%,) in either petrolatum, 94% ethanol or dimethyl sulphoxide (DMSO)as an open test on both clinically norma... |
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"abstract": "High dielectric capacitor, that has around 1000 in dielectric constant, can be successfully formed by nanotransfer on non-heat-resisting substrates. PZT film could be released from the Si substrate and bonded onto the polymer one. The releasing characteristics have the relationships with the thickness ... | {
"abstract": "Lead zirconate titanate (Pb(ZrxTi1-x)O3): PZT) films were deposited by pulsed laser ablation on Si/SiO2/Ti/Pt substrates with one seed layer of sol-gel derived PZT at a deposition rate of 0.7 µm/h and substrate temperature of about 500°C. The fabricated films showed the perovskite PZT phase without pyr... | {
"abstract": "Sodium ion batteries (SIB) are considered promising alternative candidates for lithium ion batteries (LIB) because of the wide availability and low cost of sodium, therefore the development of alternative sodium storage materials with comparable performance to LIB is urgently desired. The sodium ions w... |
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"abstract": "Myxofibrosarcoma is a soft tissue sarcoma (STS) prevailing in the elderly and is associated with metastasis and mortality. In this case, an 88-year-old male is presented with a progressively enlarging mass in the posterior thorax. The physical examination revealed a solid, irregular, painful mass on pa... | {
"abstract": "BackgroundMyxofibrosarcoma is an aggressive soft tissue neoplasm, classified as a variant of malignant fibrous histiocytoma. Most often, it occurs in middle to late adult life peaking in the seventh decade and involving the lower extremities (77%), trunk (12%), and retroperitoneum or mediastinum (8%). ... | {
"abstract": "Chlorothiazide and hydrochlorothiazide are widely used, effective, orally given nonmercurial diuretic and antihypertensive agents. A principal action of these drugs is marked enhancement of the excretion of sodium and chloride and to a lesser extent of potassium. Although they possess the advantage of ... |
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"abstract": "During the software maintenance process software comprehension is a time-consuming procedure. Fortunately, there are existing cognitive theories designed to improve software comprehension process. In this article, we intend to review six theories and perform an industrial case study in maintenance of a... | {
"abstract": "Comprehension is an essential part of software evolution. Only software that is well understood can evolve in a controlled manner. In this paper, we present a formal process model to support the comprehension of software systems by using ontology and description logic. This formal representation suppor... | {
"abstract": "The purpose of this paper is to illustrate a research method that may contribute a unique and valuable method of eliciting phenomena of interest to nursing. Case study method can be used as a creative alternative to traditional approaches to description, emphasizing the patient's perspective as central... |
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"abstract": "The histogram is one of the important characteristics of grayscale images, and the histogram equalization is effective method of image enhancement. When processing color images in models, such as the RGB model, the histogram equalization can be applied for each color component and, then, a new color im... | {
"abstract": "The aim of this paper is to present a transform-based framework for color image enhancement which processes all three color components (R,G,B) simultaneously. In this framework, the image enhancement procedure is supported by a two-dimensional discrete quaternion Fourier transform and the new multi-fre... | {
"abstract": "In this paper, a new extension of Bidimensional Empirical Mode Decomposition (BEMD) based on the median filtering is presented. The new scheme is compared with the traditional Empirical Mode Decomposition (EMD) and Fast and Adaptive Bidimensional EMD (FABEMD) techniques. The new scheme manifests to be ... |
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"abstract": "Process monitoring of incipient faults, as opposed to abrupt faults, in an industrial process is increasingly becoming more important. These are slowly developing faults that may eventually lead to severe abnormal conditions, and ultimately, failure of a critical component. Data-driven multivariate sta... | {
"abstract": "The system identification method canonical variate analysis (CVA) has attracted much attention from researchers for its ability to identify multivariable state-space models using experimental data. A model identified using CVA can use several methods for fault detection. Two standard methods are invest... | {
"abstract": "U.S. scholarship and U.S. courts have in recent years been gripped by the question of whether and in what circumstances it might be appropriate to rely on foreign, comparative, and international law. Along with a number of other scholars, this paper suggests that the intensive focus on that question, d... |
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"abstract": "Abstract Background: The objective structured clinical examination (OSCE), originally designed with experts assessing trainees’ competence, is more frequently employed with an element of peer assessment and feedback. Although peer assessment in higher education has been studied, its role in OSCEs has n... | {
"abstract": "Background: At Sydney Medical School, we have recently introduced a practice Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) where our junior medical students are assessed by the senior peers. Aim: We sought to evaluate the efficacy of the programme. Methods: The study took place in 2010 and 2011, wit... | {
"abstract": "Background Examining the relationship between unprofessional behaviors observed in medical students and those manifested by physicians is important in determining whether medical school faculty are observing and reporting behaviors relevant to medical practice. Method This study compares the relationsh... |
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"abstract": "The field of semi-supervised learning has been expanding rapidly in the past few years, with a sheer increase in the number of related publications. In this paper we present the SSL problem in contrast with supervised and unsupervised learning. In addition, we propose a taxonomy with which we categoriz... | {
"abstract": "We present a new method for transductive learning, which can be seen as a transductive version of the k nearest-neighbor classifier. Unlike for many other transductive learning methods, the training problem has a meaningful relaxation that can be solved globally optimally using spectral methods. We pro... | {
"abstract": "Segmentation of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images has several uses, but it is a difficult task due to a number of properties related to SAR images. In this article we show how Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) can easily be trained for SAR image segmentation with good results. Besides this contr... |
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"abstract": "Cytokinesis is a fundamental step of cell proliferation, and its high-fidelity completion is crucial for stable maintenance of the genome (Ganem et al., 2007; Lacroix and Maddox, 2012). Anti-parallel microtubule bundle structures such as the central spindle and the midbody play various important roles ... | {
"abstract": "Mitotic kinases of the Polo and Aurora families are key regulators of chromosome segregation and cytokinesis. Here, we have investigated the role of MKlp1 and MKlp2, two vertebrate mitotic kinesins essential for cytokinesis, in the spatial regulation of the Aurora B kinase. Previously, we have demonstr... | {
"abstract": "Six ponds of age 3 were selected 45 km north from Suzhou in the Tailake region, and research conducted on nitrogen and phosphorus cycling in P. vannanmei(Penaeus vannanme) ponds and M. nipponense(Macrobrachium nipponense) hatchery ponds under normal management. Two treatments each had three replication... |
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"abstract": "The recent studies for face alignment have involved developing an isolated algorithm on well-cropped face images. It is difficult to obtain the expected input by using an off-the-shelf face detector in practical applications. In this paper, we attempt to bridge between face detection and face alignment... | {
"abstract": "Two approaches are proposed for cross-pose face recognition, one is based on the 3D reconstruction of facial components and the other is based on the deep Convolutional Neural Network (CNN). Unlike most 3D approaches that consider holistic faces, the proposed approach considers 3D facial components. It... | {
"abstract": "Despite the great progress achieved in unconstrained face recognition, pose variations still remain a challenging and unsolved practical issue. We propose a novel framework for multi-view face recognition based on extracting and matching pose-robust face signatures from 2D images. Specifically, we prop... |
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"abstract": "The roots of the legume Dolichos biflorus contain a lectin/nucleotide phosphohydrolase (Db-LNP) that binds to the Nod factor signals produced by rhizobia that nodulate this plant. In this study we show that Db-LNP is differentially distributed along the surface of the root axis in a pattern that correl... | {
"abstract": "A lectin has been isolated from the roots of 7-day-old Dolichos biflorus plants and has been compared with the D. biflorus seed lectin. The root lectin differs from the seed lectin in molecular weight, subunit stoichiometry, amino acid composition, amino terminal amino acid sequence, and isoelectric fo... | {
"abstract": "A protein agglutinin, trifoliin, was purified from white clover seeds and seedling roots. Trifoliin specifically agglutinates the symbiont of clover, Rhizobium trifolii, at concentrations as low as 0.2 microgram protein/ml, and binds to the surface of encapsulated R. trifolii 0403. This clover protein ... |
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"abstract": "During vertebrate axis extension, adjacent tissue layers undergo profound morphological changes: within the neuroepithelium, neural tube closure and neural crest formation are occurring, while within the paraxial mesoderm somites are segmenting from the presomitic mesoderm (PSM). Little is known about ... | {
"abstract": "Neural tube defects (NTDs) are the second most common birth defects (1 in 1000 live births) in the world. Periconceptional maternal folate supplementation reduces NTD risk by 50–70%; however, studies of folate related and other developmental genes in humans have failed to definitively identify a major ... | {
"abstract": "During vertebrate axis extension, adjacent tissue layers undergo profound morphological changes: within the neuroepithelium, neural tube closure and neural crest formation are occurring, while within the paraxial mesoderm somites are segmenting from the presomitic mesoderm (PSM). Little is known about ... |
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"abstract": "Corticostriatal projection neurons (CStrPN) project from the neocortex to ipsilateral and contralateral striata to control and coordinate motor programs and movement. They are clinically important as the predominant cortical population that degenerates in Huntington's disease and corticobasal ganglioni... | {
"abstract": "Pyramidal neurons in the deep layers of the cerebral cortex can be classified into two major classes: callosal projection neurons and long-range subcortical neurons. We and others have shown that a gene expressed specifically by subcortical projection neurons, Fezf2, is required for the formation of ax... |
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"abstract": "This paper applies the hedonic pricing approach to study the implicit prices of smartphone characteristics and consumer preferences. Currently, mobile phones are the most widespread technological product worldwide and their performance and technical characteristics have changed dramatically over a shor... | {
"abstract": "This paper outlines emerging business models of heterogeneous wireless networks that are mainly Wi-Fi centric. Wi-Fi networks can be integrated with the Internet and cellular infrastructures to offer innovative services (data and voice) to individuals and businesses. In the metro area network or a ''ho... | {
"abstract": "The newest dimension of the Digital Divide is access to broadband (high-speed) Internet service. Using comprehensive U.S. data covering all forms of access technology (chiefly DSL and cable modem), I look for evidence of unequal broadband availability in areas with high concentrations of poor, minority... |
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"abstract": "Every scientist chooses a preferred level of analysis and this choice shapes the research program, even determining what counts as evidence. This contribution revisits Marr's (1982) three levels of analysis (implementation, algorithmic, and computational) and evaluates the prospect of making progress a... | {
"abstract": "Mental localization efforts tend to stress the where more than the what. We argue that the proper targets for localization are well-specified cognitive models. We make this case by relating an existing cognitive model of category learning to a learning circuit involving the hippocampus, perirhinal, and... | {
"abstract": "Biofuels and -chemicals can be produced from carbohydrates in lignocellulosic biomass. For an efficient total enzymatic hydrolysis of the plant cell wall polysaccharides, a pretreatment step is required. Ionic liquids (ILs) have recently gained considerable interest as solvents for cellulose and lignoc... |
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"abstract": "Background and Purpose— Although long-term outcome determinants in acute ischemic stroke (AIS) patients have been defined, less is known about those predicting hyperacute worsening after thrombolytic therapy (TT). We investigated predictors of short-term clinical worsening (National Institutes of Healt... | {
"abstract": "BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE\nFive pretreatment variables (P<0.1 univariate analysis), including serum glucose (>300 mg/dL), predicted symptomatic intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) in the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke rtPA trial. We retrospectively studied stroke patients treated <3 ho... | {
"abstract": "Abstract: Patients with diabetes are predisposed to microvascular disease. In the retina and brain, this is characterized by neovascularization and new capillary formation. Because of the potential importance of plasmin generation in these processes, we evaluated the effect of elevated glucose concentr... |
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"abstract": "Vaara, Jani Associations of physical activity and physical fitness with cardiovascular risk factors in young men. Jyväskylä: University of Jyväskylä, 2015, 100 p. (Studies in Sport, Physical Education and Health, ISSN 0356-1070; 221) ISBN 978-951-39-6157-2 (nid.) ISBN 978-951-39-6158-9 (PDF) Since the ... | {
"abstract": "Background Uncertainty still exists whether physical activity (PA) and cardiovascular fitness (CF) contribute separately to cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk. This study examined the associations of PA and CF on individual as well as clustered CVD risk factors. Design Cross-sectional. Methods Seven hun... | {
"abstract": "Although regular exercise is associated with reduced cardiometabolic disease risk among overweight adults, it remains unclear whether much of the health benefits of exercise are derived from the most recent session(s) of exercise or if they are the result of adaptations stemming from weeks, months, or ... |
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"abstract": "A new insertion sequence (IS2112) was identified in the genome of the 1-haloalkane-utilizing bacterium Rhodococcus rhodochrous NCIMB 13064. The insertion element is 1415 bp long, does not contain terminal inverted repeats, and is not flanked by directly repeated sequences. IS2112 belongs to the IS110 f... | {
"abstract": "The haloalkane dehalogenase (dhaA) gene from Rhodococcus rhodochrous NCIMB 13064 was cloned and sequenced. Its comparison with the previously studied dhlA gene from Xanthobacter autotrophicus GJ10 did not show homology. However, the amino acid sequences of the products of these genes showed approximate... | {
"abstract": "Optically active 2-chloro- and 2-bromo-butane are formed, with little or no loss of enantiomeric purity, by the interaction of hydrogen halide (Cl, Br) with (+)-tri-s-butyl phosphite or (+)-s-butyl diphenylphosphinite. The reactions of optically active butan-2-ol with phosphorus trichloride, dichloroph... |
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"abstract": "Continuous-time Delta-Sigma (CT- DR ) analog-to-digital converters have been extensively investigated for their use in wireless receivers to achieve conversion bandwidths [ 15 MHz and higher resolution of 10–14 bits. This paper presents the complete design-to-testing tutorial of a state-of-the-art high... | {
"abstract": "A latch-type voltage sense amplifier in 90nm CMOS is designed with a separated input and cross-coupled stage. This separation enables fast operation over a wide common-mode and supply voltage range. With a 1-sigma offset of 8mV, the circuit consumes 92fJ/decision with a 1.2V supply. It has an input equ... | {
"abstract": "A novel dynamic latched comparator with offset voltage compensation is presented. The proposed comparator uses one phase clock signal for its operation and can drive a larger capacitive load with complementary version of the regenerative output latch stage. As it provides a larger voltage gain up to 22... |
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"abstract": "Bioconjugation is a burgeoning field of research. Novel methods for the mild and site-specific derivatization of proteins, DNA, RNA, and carbohydrates have been developed for applications such as ligand discovery, disease diagnosis, and high-throughput screening. These powerful methods owe their existe... | {
"abstract": "We demonstrate the applicability of sequential Diels-Alder and azide-alkyne [3 + 2] cycloaddition reactions (click chemistry) for the immobilization of carbohydrates and proteins onto a solid surface. An alpha,omega-poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG) linker carrying alkyne and cyclodiene terminal groups was s... | {
"abstract": "(R)-Lacosamide ((R)-2, (R)-N-benzyl 2-acetamido-3-methoxypropionamide) has recently gained regulatory approval for the treatment of partial-onset seizures in adults. Whole animal pharmacological studies have documented that (R)-2 function is unique. A robust strategy is advanced for the discovery of in... |
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"abstract": "This paper attempts to understand why children often delay school enrolment despite the prediction of human capital theory that schooling should begin at the earliest possible age. We explore different explanations of delayed enrolment but focus particularly on the effect of child health on the timing ... | {
"abstract": "This paper uses data on the height, weight, age and grade level of over 3000 children in five quite different locations to measure the impact of the nutritional variables on the available measure of school performance. Children tend to be about one grade further behind in rural areas than in the provin... | {
"abstract": "Squamous cell carcinoma of the penis (SCC-P) demonstrates a reliable pattern of spread to the lymph nodes of the groin. High grade and higher stage (pT1b or greater) SCC-P demonstrate a higher propensity for metastasis to the inguinal lymph nodes. Further, lymphadenopathy progresses in a predictable fa... |
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"abstract": "Cognitive impairment and dementia pose particular challenges in the management of patients with Parkinson's disease (PD). Decision‐making capacity can render patients vulnerable in a way that requires careful ethical considerations by clinicians with respect to medical decision making, research partici... | {
"abstract": "Guidelines for assessing fitness to drive in individuals with neurodegenerative disorders, such as Parkinson's disease (PD), are subjective. It is therefore timely to review the current status of the literature not only for health professionals who are required to assess fitness to drive, but also for ... | {
"abstract": "Sixty-four patients undergoing rhinoplasty, consecutively admitted to and operated upon at the Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Malmö General Hospital, Sweden, were studied with regard to their medical history, personality, and psychosocial and psychiatric characteristics. Forty patien... |
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"abstract": "Software engineering is inherently a human-centric and collaborative process and this reflects in its teaching programs, as most of the courses comprise projects and team efforts. In order to fairly evaluate students, there is the problem of quantifying the amount of work contributed to the team develo... | {
"abstract": "When supervising software engineering team projects, having all team members contribute actively to the project is often a challenge. Most often than not, there will be teams having some members with limited or no contribution. Thus one of the key roles of a team leader and academic supervisor are to m... | {
"abstract": "Abstract This paper presents a controlled experiment conducted with senior software engineering students that demonstrates the utility of forming teams based on R. Meredith Belbin's set of team roles. The overall research effort focuses on the general utility of Belbin's roles in improving the effectiv... |
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"abstract": "During a pregnancy complicated by diabetes, the human placenta undergoes a number of functional and structural pathologic changes, such as increased placental weight and increased incidence of placental lesions including villous maturational defects and fibrinoid necrosis. The pathologic findings repor... | {
"abstract": "ObjectiveTo investigate and compare the incidence of histopathological placental lesions in mild gestational hyperglycemia, gestational diabetes and overt diabetes at term and preterm gestation.Research design and methodsOne-hundred-and-thirty-one placental samples were collected from Diabetes mellitus... | {
"abstract": "The placenta is the primary site of nutrient and gas exchange between mother and foetus. During human placental development, proliferation, differentiation and apoptosis occur at different stages. In order to clarify some of the molecular mechanisms underlying these events, we investigated the pattern ... |
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"abstract": "Process mining techniques aim to derive knowledge of the execution of processes, by means of automated analysis of behaviour recorded in event logs. A well-known challenge in process mining is to strike an adequate balance between the behavioural quality of a discovered model compared to the event log ... | {
"abstract": "The discovery of declarative process models by mining event logs aims to represent flexible or unstructured processes, making them visible to business and improving their manageability. Although promising, the declarative perspective may still produce models that are hard to understand, both due to the... | {
"abstract": "To gain competitive advantage, hospitals try to streamline their pro- cesses. In order to do so, it is essential to have an accurate view of the \"careflows\" under consideration. In this paper, we apply process mining techniques to obtain meaningful knowledge about these flows, e.g., to discover typic... |
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"abstract": "Background The accuracy of patient self-report of health care utilization and complications has yet to be determined. If patients are accurate and engaged self-reporters, collecting this information in a manner that is temporally proximate to the health care utilization events themselves may prove valu... | {
"abstract": "Introduction: Current approaches to quantifying total posthospital complications and readmissions following surgical procedures are limited because the United States does not have a single health care payer. Patients seek posthospital care in varied locations, yet hospitals can only quantify those retu... | {
"abstract": "Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia, and neuroinflammation is an important hallmark of the pathogenesis. Tumor necrosis factor (TNF) might be detrimental in AD, though the results coming from clinical trials on anti‐TNF inhibitors are inconclusive. TNFR1, one of the TNF signali... |
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"abstract": "Several ion channels and transporters regulate fluid secretion in salivary and lacrimal glands. In salivary glands, the major anion channel involved in fluid secretion is the calcium‐activated chloride channel anoctamin 1 (ANO1). Several members of the transient receptor potential (TRP) channel superfa... | {
"abstract": "Transient receptor potential vanilloid subtype 4 (TRPV4) is a ligand-gated nonselective cation channel that participates in the transduction of mechanical and osmotic stimuli in different tissues. TRPV4 is activated by endogenous arachidonic acid metabolites, 4α-phorbol-12,13 didecanoate, GSK1016790A, ... | {
"abstract": "The means by which glucose stimulates insulin secretion from pancreatic β-cells has been studied for decades. Yet we still do not fully understand the cellular machinery underlying this process, the complexity of which continues to surprise. The triggering pathway for glucose-induced insulin secretion ... |
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"abstract": "Neurons in the lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN) of the thalamus are the major source of visual input to the cerebral cortex. Much of our understanding of the physiology of LGN neurons comes from data collected in anaesthetized animals. This study examines the visual responses of LGN neurons in alert an... | {
"abstract": "It has been proposed that low-threshold Ca2+ (LT)-associated bursts in the lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN) of awake animals communicate significant or unexpected visual events to cortex. The present study investigated this hypothesis by examining the incidence of LT bursts in 146 cells recorded from t... |
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"abstract": "Mast cells are evolutionarily old cells and the principal effectors in allergic responses and inflammation. They are seeded from the yolk sac during embryogenesis or are derived from hematopoietic progenitors and are therefore related to other leukocyte subsets, even though they form a separate clade i... | {
"abstract": "A RAS-related class of small monomeric G proteins, the RAB GTPases, is emerging as of key biological importance in compartment specific directional control of vesicles formation, transport and fusion. Thanks to human genetic observation and to the consequent dedicated biochemical work, substantial prog... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Although they constitute nearly half of the world’s population, developing countries may be overlooked in U.S. business schools. The authors survey U.S. collegiate business programs (n = 80) to explore how developing countries are addressed in the curriculum and co-curriculum. About one third ... |
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"abstract": "Programmability, performance portability, and resource efficiency have emerged as critical challenges in harnessing complex and diverse architectures today to obtain high performance and energy efficiency. While there is abundant research, and thus significant improvements, at different levels of the s... | {
"abstract": "Modern graphics processing units (GPUs) are well provisioned to support the concurrent execution of thousands of threads. Unfortunately, different bottlenecks during execution and heterogeneous application requirements create imbalances in utilization of resources in the cores. For example, when a GPU ... | {
"abstract": "Accurately detecting psychological stress in time is a significant issue in the modern stressful society, especially for adolescents who are not mature enough to cope with pressure well. Micro-blog offers a new channel for teens’ stress detection, since more and more teenagers nowadays prefer to expres... |
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"abstract": "There is growing evidence that preferential trade agreements (PTAs) provide strong institutional incentives to prevent international conflict among member states, often creating the conditions of trust that can help prevent militarized aggression. We provide an approach to the study of how internationa... | {
"abstract": "There are several approaches to regional integration, both in actor's strategies and in academic analysis. One of the pioneering political science efforts at providing a causal model of regional integration was developed under the stimulus of events in Western Europe in the late 1950's and not surprisi... | {
"abstract": "z One of the most fascinating aspects of the decision-making process in the European Economic Community is what Leon Lindberg has called the \"constant and complex interaction and interpenetration between Community and national institutions, policies, and processes.\"' To comprehend fully the backgroun... |
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"abstract": "Neuropeptides and their G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) regulate multiple physiological processes. Currently, little is known about the identity of native neuropeptides and their receptors in Portunus trituberculatus. This study employed RNA-sequencing and reverse transcription-polymerase chain rea... | {
"abstract": "Background. Neuropeptides are important regulators of physiological processes and behavior. Although they tend to be generally well conserved, recent results using trancriptome sequencing on decapod crustaceans give the impression of significant differences between species, raising the question whether... | {
"abstract": "Renal cell carcinomas (RCC) are emerging as a complex set of diseases that are having a major socioeconomic impact and showing a continued rise in incidence throughout theworld. As the field of urologic oncology faces these trends, several major genomic and mechanistic discoveries are altering our core... |
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"abstract": "Marsaglia recently introduced a class of `xorshift' random number generators with periods \\(2^n-1\\) for \\(n = 32, 64,\\ldots\\). Here Marsaglia's xorshift generators are generalised to obtain fast and high quality random number generators with extremely long periods. Whereas random number generators... | {
"abstract": "G. Marsaglia recently introduced a class of very fast xorshift random number generators, whose implementation uses three “xorshift” operations. They belong to a large family of generators based on linear recurrences modulo 2, which also includes shift-register generators, the Mersenne twister, and seve... | {
"abstract": "Mersenne Twister (MT) algorithm is one of the most widely used long-period uniform random number generators. In this paper, we present a novel and efficient hardware architecture for MT method. Our design is implemented on a Xilinx XC6VLX240T-1 FPGA device at 450 MHz. It takes up 0.1% of the device and... |
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"abstract": "The present study analyses the financial determinants of the level of corporate governance disclosure (CGD) across a large sample of Portuguese firms, listed in the Euronext Lisbon index, in the period between 2005 and 2011. An index, using data drawn from firms’ annual reports regarding corporate go... | {
"abstract": "Purpose - This paper aims to investigate the relationship between board of directors' independence and executive compensation disclosures transparency. Design/methodology/approach - The paper examines compensation disclosure practices of a sample of 181 firms listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange. Board... | {
"abstract": "We investigate the impact of board's quality as defined by a Score published in a Canadian National Newspaper on the performance of the firm. Based on the current literature, we ranked the boards of 219 Canadian firms in terms of four board characteristics: composition of the board, compensation of boa... |
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"abstract": "Aim The role of uric acid as a risk factor for cardio-cerebrovascular diseases is controversial. In this study, we aimed to investigate the relationship between serum uric acid level and the risk of cardio-cerebrovascular events in middle-aged and non-obese Chinese men. Methods We included 3152 partici... | {
"abstract": "Background. The purpose of this study is to compare serum nutritional profiles in chronic stroke survivors to a representative sample of US Adults (NHANESIII) and determine whether these serum markers differed by race and impact physical function in stroke. Methods. Fasting serum samples were collected... | {
"abstract": "Despite evidence for a role of nutrition in the development of metabolic dysfunction, physical deconditioning, and psychological dysfunction common post-stroke, very little is known about the dietary habits and nutritional needs of chronic (>6 months) stroke survivors. This review summarizes the availa... |
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"abstract": "Video quality under rate constraint is mainly controlled by the frame rate and the quantization parameter. This work proposes a mechanism to obtain the optimal frame rate that maximizes video quality under rate constraint. Based on an objective metric of video quality that can reflect subjective qualit... | {
"abstract": "In this paper, we conducted a comprehensive survey of the effects of different frame rates (FRs) on human performance and reviewed more than 50 studies and summarized them in the areas of psychomotor performance, perceptual performance, behavioral effects, and subjective perception. Overall, there seem... | {
"abstract": "Mechanization of forestry harvesting has significant and proven cost, productivity and safety benefits. However, safety concerns mean conventional mechanised harvesting cannot be used in steep terrain (>22° slope) in New Zealand. This means that manual harvesting must still be used in the most dangerou... |
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"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nVoriconazole is a triazole antifungal medication used for prophylaxis or to treat invasive fungal infections. Inflammation of the periosteum resulting in skeletal pain, known as periostitis, is a reported side effect of long-term voriconazole therapy. The trifluorinated molecular structure ... | {
"abstract": "We here investigate the occurrence of fluoride intake-associated alterations in patients with hematologic disease on triazol antifungal medication. Clinical, laboratory, and radiology data of overall 43 patients with hematologic malignancies taking voriconazole (n = 20), posaconazole (n = 8), and itrac... | {
"abstract": "Most living cave streams are misfits, engaged in altering ground plans or chamber cross sections, or both, better to suit their needs, and doing this by familiar procedures of surface streams. The chambers and ground plans undergoing alteration have been inherited from earlier, different, and now vanis... |
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