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"abstract": "In this paper we study the real time deployment of deep learning algorithms in low resource computational environments. As the use case, we compare the accuracy and speed of neural networks for smile detection using different neural network architectures and their system level implementation on NVidia ... | {
"abstract": "We present a novel smiling face detection framework called SmileNet for detecting faces and recognising smiles in the wild. SmileNet uses a Fully Convolutional Neural Network (FCNN) to detect multiple smiling faces in a given image of varying resolution. Our contributions are threefold: 1) SmileNet is ... | {
"abstract": "Label distribution learning (LDL) has achieved great progress in facial expression recognition (FER), where the generating label distribution is a key procedure for LDL-based FER. However, many existing researches have shown the common problem with noisy samples in FER, especially on in-the-wild datase... |
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"abstract": "Mesoporous structures of zinc oxide (ZnO) powders were prepared by the homogenous precipitation method. ZnO nanoparticles were synthesized from a solution of zinc acetate dihydrate (Zn(CH3COO)2.2H2O) as zinc source and ammonium carbonate ((NH4)2CO3) as precipitant agent. Structural and morphological ch... | {
"abstract": "Starting from a mixture of zinc acetate and potassium hydroxide, zinc oxide (ZnO) powders were prepared by the homogenous precipitation method. The powders were calcined at 800°C for 2h, and subsequently milled in a planetary ball milling during 8 h at a constant speed of 400 rpm. The crystalline phase... | {
"abstract": "Pulsed laser irradiation is used to seed the low-temperature hydrothermal growth of ZnO nanorods. UV laser irradiation produces ZnO nanoparticles in solution that act as nucleation seeds for the subsequent hydrothermal growth of the nanorods. By systematically varying the seed density and/or the concen... |
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"abstract": "Real-time and high-precision extraction of groove types and key features is an important factor to achieve high performance of weld quality in the process of automatic welding. Based on the complexity and diversity of weld groove types, a method for identifying weld groove types (TL-Alexnet-ELM) is pre... | {
"abstract": "This paper addresses the feature extraction algorithm of the weld groove image for a welding robot system. The purpose is to improve the speed and the precision of the weld seam recognition. The acquisition of the weld image is a complex process, and consequently, it will be disturbed by a lot of noise... | {
"abstract": "Automation of welding process in shipyard is ultimately necessary, since welding site is spatially enclosed by floors and girders, and therefore welding operators are exposed to hostile working conditions. To solve this problem, recently a robotic welding system for closed block assembly has been devel... |
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"abstract": "We apply machine learning techniques to the problem of galaxy morphology classification. We use both supervised and unsupervised methods to study the Galaxy Zoo dataset of 61,578 pre-classified galaxies. After image pre-processing, we perform multi-class classification using the following algorithms: o... | {
"abstract": "In this work, decision tree learning algorithms and fuzzy inferencing systems are applied for galaxy morphology classification. In particular, the CART, the C4.5, the Random Forest and fuzzy logic algorithms are studied and reliable classifiers are developed to distinguish between spiral galaxies, elli... | {
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"title": "History and Evolution of GPU Architecture A Paper Survey"
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"abstract": "Bacterial cellulose (BC) and poly(aniline) (PANI) composites were successfully synthesized by in situ polymerization of aniline by ammonium persulphate (APS) in the presence and absence of gold nanoparticles. The composites were fully characterized by different techniques such as SEM and AFM (morpholog... | {
"abstract": "In this work, bacterial cellulose was subjected to a high-power ultrasonic treatment for different time intervals. The morphological analysis, scanning electron microscopy, and atomic force microscopy revealed that this treatment changed the width and height of the microfibrillar ribbons and roughness ... | {
"abstract": "Two types of starches with different amylose to amylopectin ratios were used for the production of vitamin D3 loaded nanoparticles and effects of starch type, sonication time and temperature on physicochemical properties of nanocarriers were investigated. Both high amylose corn and potato starches nano... |
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"abstract": "The trends in enterprise IT toward service-oriented computing, server consolidation, and virtual computing point to a future in which workloads are becoming increasingly diverse in terms of performance, reliability, and availability requirements. It can be expected that more and more applications with ... | {
"abstract": "The last decade has seen several changes in the structure and emphasis of enterprise IT systems. Specific infrastructure trends have included the emergence of large consolidated data centers, the adoption of virtualization and modularization, and an increased commoditization of hardware. At the applica... | {
"abstract": "Heterogeneous (or asymmetric) chip multiprocessors present unique opportunities for improving system throughput, reducing processor power, and mitigating Amdahl's law. On-chip heterogeneity allow the processor to better match execution resources to each application's needs and to address a much wider s... |
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"abstract": "Forage chemistry can affect intake, digestion, milk production, and manure excretion. Although information is available on the effects of forage protein-binding polyphenols on small ruminant production and manure excretion, little information is available for dairy cattle. The objective of this study w... | {
"abstract": "Improvements to the efficiency of dietary nitrogen use by lactating dairy cattle can be made by altering the concentration and form of protein in the diet. This study collected urine and feces from dairy cows from selected crude protein (CP) treatments of 2 lactation studies. In the first trial, collec... | {
"abstract": "\nSimple sequence repeat (SSR) and other DNA sequence-tagged site markers can be genotyped more rapidly and cost efficiently by simultaneously amplifying multiple loci (multiplex PCR). The development of PCR-multiplexes for a nearly genome-wide framework of 78 SSR marker loci in cultivated sunflower (H... |
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"abstract": "Author(s): Yan, Lingqi | Advisor(s): Ramamoorthi, Ravi; Ng, Yi-Ren | Abstract: In this dissertation, we focus on physically-based rendering that synthesizes realistic images from 3D models and scenes. State of the art rendering still struggles with two fundamental challenges --- realism and speed. The ... | {
"abstract": "We present a new strategy for importance sampling hair reflectance models. To combine hair reflectance models with increasingly popular physically-based rendering algorithms, an efficient sampling scheme is required to select scattered rays that lead to lower variance and noise. Our new strategy, which... | {
"abstract": "In recent years, image generation using Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) has become increasingly popular in the computer vision domain. However, there is less attention on using CNNs for sprite generation for games. A possible reason for this is that the amount of available sprite data in games is ... |
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"abstract": "Paralogs arise by duplications and belong to families. Ten paralogs (insulin; IGF-1 and -2; INSL3-6 and 3-relaxins) constitute the human insulin-relaxin family. The aim of this study was to outline ...",
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"title": "Evolutionary analysis of the insulin-relaxin gene family from ... | {
"abstract": "Abstract: Recent studies have identified four receptors that are the physiological targets for relaxin family peptides. All are class I (rhodopsin like) G‐protein‐coupled receptors with LGR7 (RXFP1) and LGR8 (RXFP2) being type C leucine‐rich repeat‐containing receptors, whereas GPCR135 (RXFP3) and GPCR... | {
"abstract": "beta -adrenergic agonists stimulate neonatal rat cardiac fibroblast growth, albeit the identity of the signaling event(s) remains equivocal. Isoproterenol (ISO) treatment increased intracellular cyclic AMP levels; however, cyclic AMP-elevating agents had no effect on protein synthesis. The tyrosine kin... |
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"abstract": "A new trellis code for partial-response magnetic recording channels, that eliminates most frequent errors while keeping the code trellis invariant in time, is proposed. Previously published codes either had lower code density or resulted in time varying trellises with a period of 9, thus requiring a hi... | {
"abstract": "We review recent progress in the design of high-rate, distance-enhancing codes that achieve the matched-filter-bound (MFB) on the E/sup 2/PR4 channel, h(D)=(1-D)(1+D)/sup 3/, including a rate 8/9 block code satisfying a time-varying maximum-transition-run (TMTR) constraint. We then prove that these TMT... | {
"abstract": "One of the requirements for Knowledge Management is to define and implement mechanisms to build the corporate memory. Traditional systems for maintaining the corporate memory are based on user's intervention to update knowledge. Adequate approaches for this should however consider the continuous and tr... |
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"abstract": "Why do some municipalities adopt ambitious climate action plans and others do not? This study examines United States cities that have signed the Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate & Energy, to identify the factors that have led some of them (37 percent, 63 cities) to adopt ambitious (Net Zero) clima... | {
"abstract": "Abstract While US climate change mitigation policy has stalled at the national level, local and regional actors are increasingly taking progressive steps to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. Universities are poised to play a key role in this grassroots effort by targeting their own emissions and b... | {
"abstract": "Electricity supply issues have resulted in widespread blackouts and increased utility costs in South Africa. This is placing financial pressure on universities as they have limited means of increasing their income to cover the additional energy costs and, at the same time, are energy-intensive due to p... |
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"abstract": "Daptomycin is the only antibiotic with in vitro bactericidal activity against vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus (VRE) that is approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Data on the potential emergence of daptomycin nonsusceptibility among enterococci remain limited. We systematically reviewed ... | {
"abstract": "Daptomycin is a first-in-class antibiotic with efficacy against Gram-positive bacteria. We document the second report of daptomycin resistance in a clinical isolate of Enterococcus faecalis.",
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"title": "Infective endocarditis caused by daptomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecalis... | {
"abstract": "We describe a patient who developed daptomycin-resistant, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) during an episode of presumed septic thrombophlebitis of the portal vein. Although daptomycin is an alternative agent for treatment of drug-resistant gram-positive bacterial infections, developm... |
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"abstract": "An enriched video metadata framework including video authorization using VAST, metadata integration, and user level applications is presented. The Video Annotation and Summarization Tool (VAST) is a novel video metadata authorization system that integrates both semantic and visual metadata. Balance bet... | {
"abstract": "Silver is an authoring tool that aims to allow novice users to edit di gital video. The goal is to make editing of digital video as easy as text editing. Silver provides multiple coordinated views, including project, source, outline, subject, storyboard, textual transcript and timeline views. Selection... | {
"abstract": "An algorithm for tracking a person's head is presented. The head's projection onto the image plane is modeled as an ellipse whose position and size are continually updated by a local search combining the output of a module concentrating on the intensity gradient around the ellipse's perimeter with that... |
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"abstract": "Frequency deviation from the nominal value of 50 Hz must be within the allowable tolerance limit of 2%. Load changes contributes to vary the frequency then settings are needed using LFC (Load Frequency Control) which controls speed of generator. From the issue, the research is about of making a learnin... | {
"abstract": "1 (Electrical and Electronics Engg, V.R.Siddhartha Engineering College, India) 2 (Electrical and Electronics Engg, K.L.University, India) 3 (Electrical and Electronics Engg, V.R.Siddhartha Engineering College, India) ____________________________________________________________________________________ A... | {
"abstract": "Ni3Mo3C was prepared by a modified organic colloid method and explored as anode catalyst for high-performance microbial fuel cell (MFC) based on Klebsiella pneumoniae (K. pneumoniae). The prepared sample was characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscope (SEM), and Brunauer-Emme... |
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"abstract": "Background: Notoriety bias is defined as “a selection bias in which a case has a greater chance of being reported if the subject is exposed to the studied factor known to cause, thought to cause, or likely to cause the event of interest.” This study aimed to determine the existence of notoriety bias in... | {
"abstract": "Background Numerous reporting biases have been known to affect spontaneous reporting databases. The Weber effect, which constitutes a peak in adverse event (AE) reporting of a drug at the end of second year after regulatory approval followed by a continuous decline thereafter, has been considered an im... | {
"abstract": "Study Objective. To validate or refute a widely accepted epidemiologic phenomenon known as the Weber effect by replicating Weber's original observation by using drugs that were marketed in the United States and using reports from a U.S. database.",
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"abstract": "Modern intensive technologies for handling and growing highly productive animals are accompanied by significant changes in their homeostasis causing stress and adversely affecting their health and the quality of the products obtained from them. Depending on the cause, stress is classified as social (te... | {
"abstract": "The objective of our study was to determine the antioxidative potential of a plant extract (PE) mixture composed of carvacrol, capsicum oleoresin and cinnamaldehyde against high n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acid (PUFA)-induced oxidative stress in young pigs. Thirty-two weaned castrated male crossbred pigs... | {
"abstract": "BALB/c mice were exposed to chronic alcohol-induced oxidative stress by intragastric administration of excessive ethanol (5 g/kg body weight) during the 24-week period. Curcumin (0.016%) or capsaicin (0.014%) containing diets were fed with or without ethanol treatment in four groups. There was no stati... |
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"abstract": "The physical spaces within which organisms live affect their biology and in many cases can be considered part of their extended phenotype. The nests of social insect societies have a fundamental impact on their ability to function as complex superorganisms. Ants in many species excavate elaborate subte... | {
"abstract": "We present a model for the growth of the transportation network inside nests of the social insect subfamily Termitinae (Isoptera, termitidae). These nests consist of large chambers (nodes) connected by tunnels (edges). The model based on the empirical analysis of the real nest networks combined with pr... | {
"abstract": "The internal structure of three nests of Atta laevigata was studied in Botucatu city, São Paulo State, Brazil. Two nests were excavated through the opening of trenches and one was cement-moulded to enable a better view of the internal structures. The three nests presented a similar structure, with the ... |
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"abstract": "In our previous study, drought-resistant transgenic plants of Salvia miltiorrhiza were produced via overexpression of the transcription factor AtDREB1A. To unravel the molecular mechanisms underpinning elevated drought tolerance in transgenic plants, in the present study we compared the global transcri... | {
"abstract": "Drought decreases crop productivity more than any other type of environmental stress. Transcription factors (TFs) play crucial roles in regulating plant abiotic stress responses. The Arabidopsis thaliana gene DREB1A/CBF3, encoding a stress-inducible TF, was introduced into Salvia miltiorrhiza Ectopic e... | {
"abstract": "Abstract This paper examines conditions for extinction when the net benefits from a renewable resource are a nonlinear function of the harvest rate. As in the linear case, extinction depends on the size of the interest rate relative to the growth potential of the species. Here, however, the size of the... |
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"abstract": "Abstract. Measurements of atmospheric peroxides were made during Wangdu Campaign 2014 at Wangdu, a rural site in the North China Plain (NCP) in summer 2014. The predominant peroxides were detected to be hydrogen peroxide (H2O2), methyl hydroperoxide (MHP) and peroxyacetic acid (PAA). The observed H2O2 ... | {
"abstract": "Abstract. HCHO and CHOCHO are important trace gases in the atmosphere, serving as tracers of VOC oxidations. In the past decade, high concentrations of HCHO and CHOCHO have been observed for the Pearl River Delta (PRD) region in southern China. In this study, we performed box model simulations of HCHO ... | {
"abstract": "Soil bacterial communities play an important role in nutrient recycling and storage in terrestrial ecosystems. Loess soils are one of the most important soil resources for maintaining the stability of vegetation ecosystems and are mainly distributed in northwest China. Estimating the distributions and ... |
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"abstract": "Manuscript type: Research paper \nResearch aims: This paper has a tri-fold purpose. First, we seek to establish whether Japan’s focus on quality manufacturing was a conscious choice. Second, we attempt to analyse the impact of the external environment on the success/failure of quality upgrading. Third,... | {
"abstract": "The ideas expressed in this work are based on those put into practice at the Okuma Corporation of Japan, one of the world′s leading machine tool manufacturers. In common with many other large organizations, Okuma Corporation has to meet the new challenges posed by globalization, keener domestic and int... | {
"abstract": "This study examines the validity of the product life cycle concept for selected industrial component products. A descriptive qualitative model for the product life cycle is presented and empirically tested. The results show three types of life cycles. These results are correlated with the degree of inn... |
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"abstract": "Numerous embedding models have been recently explored to incorporate semantic knowledge into visual recognition. Existing methods typically focus on minimizing the distance between the corresponding images and texts in the embedding space but do not explicitly optimize the underlying structure. Our key... | {
"abstract": "Existing deep embedding methods in vision tasks are capable of learning a compact Euclidean space from images, where Euclidean distances correspond to a similarity metric. To make learning more effective and efficient, hard sample mining is usually employed, with samples identified through computing th... | {
"abstract": "We address the problem of distance metric learning (DML), defined as learning a distance consistent with a notion of semantic similarity. Traditionally, for this problem supervision is expressed in the form of sets of points that follow an ordinal relationship -- an anchor point $x$ is similar to a set... |
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"abstract": "Anxiety is the number one health issue college students seek help for on campus (Grasgreen, 2011). An estimated 62% of college students did not continue their studies due to suffering from anxiety (Lindsey, 2014). Psychotherapies such as cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and psychotropic medications h... | {
"abstract": "The purpose of the study was to explore the influence of perceived benefits, barriers, and cues to action on Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) use among university students. This was a prospective, cross sectional questionnaire-based study conducted at a large urban university in Houston, Te... | {
"abstract": "The past 18 months have seen Chinese foreign direct investment (FDI) in the Australian resource sector become an issue of policy interest. There are two big questions that the prospects of a significant rise in FDI from China into the Australian resources sector have raised. Is the surge of FDI into Au... |
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"abstract": "Efficient attention is pivotal for cognitive functioning, and individual differences in attentional functions are likely related to variations in structural properties of the brain. Attention is supported by separate processes, and models of the relationship between attention and brain structure must t... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Recent studies have reported specific executive and attentional deficits in preterm children. However, the majority of this research has used multidetermined tasks to assess these abilities, and the interpretation of the results lacks an explicit theoretical backdrop to better understand the o... | {
"abstract": "Pedestrian small group is an important part of crowds in public places, they maintain similar speed and direction to reach the destination together through interactive cooperation. However, the research into the influence of groups on pedestrian flow dynamics has been limited. Previous research into th... |
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"abstract": "This paper analyses the relationship between service innovation and di erent types of enterprise software systems, i.e. standardised enterprise software designed to t one certain business sector and enterprise software speci cally customised for a single rm. Using recent rm-level data of a survey among... | {
"abstract": "The rise of social media is rapidly changing how organizations operate and communicate. Organizations of all kinds are looking for ways to seize advantage in this emerging era marked by greater immediacy, interactivity and transparency. The new media is growing so fast that it makes it imperative for e... | {
"abstract": "Major organisational scandals, such as the Enron accounting fiasco and the demise of Arthur Andersen, have driven the financial world to seek more rigorous methods for explaining and possibly regulating financial reporting and auditing. As the principal guarantor of information quality, the public acco... |
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"abstract": "As chair of the candidate’s graduate committee, I have read the thesis of Kyle Britton Dickerson in its final form and have found that (1) its format, citations, and bibli-ographical style are consistent and acceptable and fulfill university and department style requirements; (2) its illustrative materia... | {
"abstract": "Music information retrieval is a field of rapidly growing commercial interest. This paper describes TANSEN, a query-by-humming based music retrieval system under development at IIT, Bombay. Named after the legendary musician (and a tenuous acronym for “TA-Note Song ExtractorNavigator), the system is de... | {
"abstract": "This paper describes some early attempts at developing a music indexing and retrieval system based on melody, or tune, of songs. In the envisaged system, the “query”, a song fragment whistled or sung by the user into a microphone, is used to search a database of soundtracks to find the entry that is be... |
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"abstract": "Geopropolis is a special type of propolis produced by stingless bees. Several pharmacological properties have been described for different types of geopropolis, but there have been no previous studies of the geopropolis from Melipona mondury. In this study, we investigated the antioxidant, antibacteria... | {
"abstract": "Background: Geopropolis is a resin collected by native stingless bee, containing soil and wax. Studies concerning their biological activity and chemical composition are scarce. This work evaluated the influence of Ethanolic Extract of Geopropolis (EEGP) from Melipona scutellaris, and its bioactive frac... | {
"abstract": "Controversy exists concerning the effect of aging on replicating cell systems. This review summarizes a number of studies which indicate that both in vivo and in vitro, cell replication is significantly altered during aging. In vitro, studies of both human lymphocytes and fibroblasts indicated that a n... |
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"abstract": "Abstract Area OP2 in the posterior peri-sylvian cortex has been proposed to be the core human vestibular cortex. We investigated the functional anatomy of OP2 and adjacent areas (OP2+) using spatially constrained independent component analysis (ICA) of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data ... | {
"abstract": "Multisensory convergence of visual and vestibular signals has been observed within a network of cortical areas involved in representing heading. Vestibular-dominant heading tuning has been found in the macaque parietoinsular vestibular cortex (PIVC) and the adjacent visual posterior sylvian (VPS) area,... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Industrial robots can be considered very repeatable machines, but they usually lack of absolute accuracy. However, high accuracy during the execution of the task is becoming a more and more critical factor in industrial manufacturing domains. For that reason, in order to fully automatize manuf... |
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"abstract": "Vertically aligned carbon nanotubes (VACNT) are manufactured nanomaterials with excellent properties and great potential for numerous applications. Recently, research has intensified toward achieving VACNT synthesis on different planar and non-planar substrates of various natures, mainly dependent on t... | {
"abstract": "Dense, vertically aligned multiwall carbon nanotubes were synthesized on TiN electrode layers for infrared sensing applications. Microwave plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition and Ni catalyst were used for the nanotubes synthesis. The resultant nanotubes were characterized by SEM, AFM, and TEM. Si... | {
"abstract": "Summary Upper Permian carbonates in eastern England at outcrop feature subeconomic syngenetic and epigenetic Pb-Zn-Cu-Fe-Ba-F mineralization. Pb-Zn-Fe sulphides occur in vugs and breccias of sedimentary origin whereas much barite replaces the host carbonate. Vein mineralization is rare. The majority of... |
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"abstract": "This article presents a new self-powered temperature sensor based on thermoelectric generators (TEGs). Two different types of TEGs measure temperature and supply the interface circuit. The interface circuit calculates and generates an output current proportional to the cold-surface temperature of the T... | {
"abstract": "In this paper, a calibrated temperature difference sensor transducer is newly proposed for monitoring environmental temperature difference applications. The output signal is a pulse stream, and thus it could be easily sent over a wide range of transmission media, such as package switch network, radio, ... | {
"abstract": "Data compression is extremely important for all kinds of networking applications, but most existing compression algorithms are only based on utilizing the redundancy characteristics of data source. This paper proposes a novel compression paradigm, which explores another kind of redundancy that is provi... |
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"abstract": "The aim of this study was to determine whether repeated maximum inspiratory vital capacity manoeuvres against a fixed resistance increased effective short-term sputum clearance in adults with cystic fibrosis (CF). Twenty adults with CF were randomised to receive, on alternate days, either standardised ... | {
"abstract": "We measured circulating and sputum-sol concentrations of interleukin-6 (IL-6), tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha), neutrophil elastase-alpha1-antiproteinase complex (NEAPC), and C-reactive protein (CRP) in an exacerbation, after antibiotic treatment, and in clinically stable patients with cystic f... | {
"abstract": "Cystic fibrosis (CF) is an autosomal recessive disease that results in lung failure and premature death. A long recognized symptom of CF is growth failure, which is clinically relevant because it correlates with the severity of lung disease. We describe growth retardation in a mouse model of CF and dis... |
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"abstract": "Autonomous robots show inadequate results in dynamic and unstructured environments. Integrating a human-operator into a robotic system can help improve performance and reduce system complexity. Collaboration between a human-operator and a robot, benefits from both human‟s perception skills and the robo... | {
"abstract": "To account for latency in recognition memory, strength theory assumes that latency decreases symmetrically on both sides of the yes-no criterion. Some of the standard criticisms of the theory are presented. To evaluate these criticisms, explicit expressions for the latency distribution and its mean and... | {
"abstract": "A model for response latency in recognition memory is described which is a strength model incorporating the notion of multiple observations and with the additional assumptions that the variance of the strength distributions increase with set size and that the observer attempts to keep his error rate at... |
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"abstract": "For electronic packaging engineers in the high-reliability sectors, such as aerospace, defense, oil & gas, etc., the use of commercial off-the-shelf components offers significant advantages due to their high availability, fast delivery time, and low cost. However, these components pose significant reli... | {
"abstract": "The shift of electronics industry towards the use of lead-free solders in components manufacturing brought also the challenge of addressing the problem of tin whiskers. Manufacturers of high reliability and safety critical equipment in sectors such as defence and aerospace rely increasingly on the use ... | {
"abstract": "In addition to a change in silicon morphology, modification of aluminium-silicon alloys with strontium or sodium increases the size of the eutectic grains. To determine the mechanism responsible, eutectic solidification in commercial purity and ultra-high purity aluminium-silicon alloys, with and witho... |
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"abstract": "Hearing is a unique sensory feature providing the individual with acoustic information about the surrounding environment. Humans rely on hearing to localize potential dangers and it is essential for communication and social interaction. Hearing impairment is the most common sensory deficit and affects ... | {
"abstract": "Cochlear inner hair cells (IHCs) transmit acoustic information to spiral ganglion neurons through ribbon synapses. Here we have used morphological and physiological techniques to ask whether synaptic mechanisms differ along the tonotopic axis and within IHCs in the mouse cochlea. We show that the numbe... | {
"abstract": "The afferent innervation of the outer hair cells consists of a special type of neuron, distinguished by its characteristic structure and particular degeneration behavior. The connections of these neurons to the sensory cell, the central nervous system and the other cochlear neurons have been studied fr... |
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"abstract": "In this paper, we consider a class of restless multiarmed bandit processes (RMABs) that arises in dynamic multichannel access, user/server scheduling, and optimal activation in multiagent systems. For this class of RMABs, we establish the indexability and obtain Whittle index in closed form for both di... | {
"abstract": "We consider a variant of the classic multi-armed bandit problem (MAB), which we call feedback MAB, where the reward obtained by playing each of n independent arms varies according to an underlying on/off Markov process with known parameters. The evolution of the Markov chain happens irrespective of whe... | {
"abstract": "In this paper, we consider a class of restless multiarmed bandit processes (RMABs) that arises in dynamic multichannel access, user/server scheduling, and optimal activation in multiagent systems. For this class of RMABs, we establish the indexability and obtain Whittle index in closed form for both di... |
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"abstract": "The lateral habenula (LHb) regulates reward learning and controls the updating of reward-related information. Drugs of abuse have the capacity to hijack the cellular and neurocircuit mechanisms mediating reward learning, forming non-adaptable, compulsive behaviors geared toward obtaining illicit substa... | {
"abstract": "Ventral tegmental area (VTA) dopamine neurons are crucial for appetitive responses to Pavlovian cues, including cue-induced reinstatement of drug seeking. However, it is unknown which VTA inputs help activate these neurons, transducing stimuli into salient cues that drive drug-seeking behavior. Here we... | {
"abstract": "The distribution of neurons and terminal fields that contain a variety of neurotransmitters and steroid hormone receptors has been examined with in situ hybridization and immunohistochemistry in closely spaced series of sections throughout the rostrocaudal extent of the rat lateral septal nucleus, as w... |
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"abstract": "This contribution deals with an application of three different algorithms which optimize a group delay of analog filters. One of them is a part of the professional circuit simulator Micro Cap 7 and the others two original algorithms are developed in the MATLAB environment. An all-pass network is used t... | {
"abstract": "This paper deals with a design method of the analog all-pass filter designated for equalization of the group delay frequency response of the analog filter. This method is based on usage of evolutionary algorithm, the Differential Evolution algorithm in particular. We are able to design such equalizers ... | {
"abstract": "Introduction: our cosmological roots. Philosophical interlude: philosophy and the scientific method. Our biological roots: evolution and philosophical issues. Cultural roots: the ancient Greeks. Cultural roots: science and religion - the Copernican Revolution. Cultural roots: science as a religion - th... |
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"abstract": "We describe best practices for providing convenient, high-speed, secure access to large data via research data portals. We capture these best practices in a new design pattern, the Modern Research Data Portal, that disaggregates the traditional monolithic web-based data portal to achieve orders-of-magn... | {
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"title": "Software-as-a-Service: The iPlant Foundation API"
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"abstract": "As computational work becomes more and more integral to many aspects of scientific research, computational reproducibility has become an issue of increasing importance to computer systems researchers and domain scientists alike. Though computational reproducibility seems more straight forward than repl... |
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"abstract": "A series of experiments was undertaken to determine whether kosher salt reduces persistence of Salmonella serotypes that might cross-contaminate chicken skin on the conveyor belt between the soaking and salting stations in a kosher processing line. The line was simulated in the laboratory because Salmo... | {
"abstract": "Pathogens like Listeria monocytogenes are of great concern in the poultry industry. Poultry, which are subjected to the kosher slaughtering and koshering process, may introduce even higher risks than conventially slaughtered poultry due to the potential for microbial cross-contamination at several crit... | {
"abstract": "This study reports on the first example, to our knowledge, of the usefulness of an ultrasound (US)-irradiation during an enzyme adsorption step, for enhancing the performance of a redox-enzyme-based amperometric biosensor. Horseradish peroxidase (HRP) and thionine (Th) were coadsorbed from a mixed aque... |
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"abstract": "Flotation of liquid droplets on pool surfaces, in the presence of temperature differences, is studied experimentally and numerically. Coalescence or sinking of the droplet is prevented by the thermal Marangoni motion, owing to the surface tension imbalance at the pool surface. The mechanism is the same... | {
"abstract": "DR. M. KATALINIĆ has described a method of producing floating drops of clean water on a water surface by delivery from a suitably situated jet.1 Such drops must owe their existence to the stability of the film immediately beneath them, that is, the thickness-coefficient of the surface tension of the fi... | {
"abstract": "Recent progress in experimental techniques has made it possible to extract detailed information on dynamics of carriers in a correlated electron material from its optical conductivity, σ(Ω,T). This review consists of three parts, addressing the following three aspects of optical response: (1) the role ... |
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"abstract": "We explore the arithmetic of rationally connected varieties over function fields of curves. The main technical issues revolve around the existence of free rational curves with prescribed geometric properties.",
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"title": "Weak approximation for hypersurfaces of low degree"
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"abstract": "This paper addresses weak approximation for rationally connected varieties defined over the function field of a curve, especially at places of bad reduction. Our approach entails analyzing the rational connectivity of the smooth locus of singular reductions of the variety. As an application, we prove w... | {
"abstract": "Abstract This paper focuses on an output feedback stabilization problem for a class of switched nonlinear systems in non-strict feedback form under asynchronous switching via sampled-data control. Since the output of the considered systems is measurable only at the sampling instants, an observer is des... |
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"abstract": "In this article, we summarize some of the recent advancements in assistive technologies that are designed for people with visual impairments (VI) and blind people. Present technology enables applications to be actively disseminated and to efficiently operate on handheld mobile devices. These applicatio... | {
"abstract": "A novel visual and infrared sensor data-based system to assist visually impaired users in detecting obstacles in their path while independently navigating indoors is presented. The system has been developed for the recently introduced Google Project Tango Tablet Development Kit equipped with a powerful... | {
"abstract": "Portability of visually impaired people is confined by within their surroundings. Moving safely and confidently in a metropolitan area without any human assistance is a tedious work for vision loss people. This paper proposes theoretical model and a system concept to provide an electronic aid for visua... |
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"abstract": "With the advent of ubiquitous sensing, robust communication and advanced computation, datadriven modeling is increasingly becoming popular for many engineering problems. Eliminating difficulties of physics-based modeling, avoiding simplifying assumptions and ad hoc empirical models are significant amon... | {
"abstract": "Stacked sparse denoising autoencoders (SSDAs) have recently been shown to be successful at removing noise from corrupted images. However, like most denoising techniques, the SSDA is not robust to variation in noise types beyond what it has seen during training. To address this limitation, we present th... | {
"abstract": "Preface. Acknowledgments. Acronyms. 1. Introduction. 1.1 Non--Gaussian Random Processes. 1.1.1 Generalized Gaussian Distributions and Weighted Medians. 1.1.2 Stable Distributions and Weighted Myriads. 1.2 Statistical Foundations. 1.3 The Filtering Problem. 1.3.1 Moment Theory. PART I: STATISTICAL FOUND... |
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"abstract": "The respiratory gas exchange and ventilation during an incremental cycle exercise test were analysed in a group of 19 healthy, moderately fit men. Different computer algorithms were used to estimate the V̇O2 values where: (i) the rate of V̇CO2 increase just exceeds the rate of V̇O2 increase (DX, deriva... | {
"abstract": "The coefficient of repeatability (COR), expressed as 2 SD of differences, was calculated between two measurements of oxygen consumption ( ), heart rate (HR) and rating of perceived exertion (RPE) during ergometer cycling by men. The two sets of measurements were performed 5 to 6 weeks apart. Nineteen h... | {
"abstract": "Training subjects to step-in-place eyes open on a rotating platform while maintaining a fixed body orientation in space [podokinetic stimulation (PKS)] produces a posteffect consisting in inadvertent turning around while stepping-in-place eyes closed [podokinetic after-rotation (PKAR)]. Since the ratio... |
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"abstract": "OBJECTIVE\nTo study the clinical effect and safety of double filtration plasmapheresis (DFPP) combined with double pulse therapy with methylprednisolone (MP) and cyclophosphamide (CTX) in the treatment of children with severe Henoch-Schönlein purpura nephritis (HSPN).\n\n\nMETHODS\nA total of 60 childr... | {
"abstract": "BackgroundDouble filtration plasmapheresis (DFPP) and (IA) are both used to clear antibody. However, the clinical efficacy and safety of DFPP in patients with anti-glomerular basement membrane (anti-GBM) disease are unclear.MethodsThe 28 enrolled patients diagnosed serologically and pathologically with... | {
"abstract": "Goodpasture's syndrome is characterized by pulmonary hemorrhage, rapid progressive glomerulonephritis and the presence of anti‐glomerular basement membrane (anti‐GBM) antibodies. Here, we report a case of Goodpasture's syndrome that we treated with double filtration plasmapheresis (DFPP) combined with ... |
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"abstract": "Since the beginning of research on two-dimensional (2D) materials, a few numbers of 2D ferroelectric materials have been predicted or experimentally confirmed, but 2D ferroelectrics as necessary functional materials are greatly important in developing future electronic devices. Recent breakthroughs in ... | {
"abstract": "We explore ferroelectric properties of cleaved 2-D flakes of copper indium thiophosphate, CuInP2S6 (CITP), and probe size effects along with limits of ferroelectric phase stability, by ambient and ultra high vacuum scanning probe microscopy. CITP belongs to the only material family known to display fer... | {
"abstract": "This paper reviews the high-speed video cameras developed by the authors. A video camera operating at 4,500 frames per second (fps) was developed in 1991. The partial and parallel readout scheme combined with fully digital memory with overwriting function enabled the world fastest imaging at the time. ... |
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"abstract": "Staffing and Control of Many-Server Service Systems Itai Gurvich This dissertation considers large-scale service systems with multiple customer classes and agent types. Customers are classified according to their processing requirements, service-level guarantees, or both. The customers are served by ag... | {
"abstract": "We study large-scale service systems with multiple customer classes and many statistically identical servers. The following question is addressed: How many servers are required (staffing) and how does one match them with customers (control) to minimize staffing cost, subject to class-level quality-of-s... | {
"abstract": "Motivated by workforce planning problems in health care, professional, warranty, and repair services, we propose modeling service centers that are exclusively dedicated to fixed client constituencies as closed multiserver queueing systems, a framework we refer to as membership services. We provide flui... |
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"abstract": "G-quadruplexes are four-stranded nucleic acids structures that can form in guanine-rich sequences. Following the observation that G-quadruplexes are particularly abundant in genomic regions related to cancer, such as telomeres and oncogenes promoters, several G-quadruplex-binding molecules have been de... | {
"abstract": "Naphthalene diimides, which have for a long time been in the shadow of their higher homologues the perylene diimides, currently belong to the most investigated classes of organic compounds. This is primarily due to the initial synthetic studies on core functionalization that were carried out at the beg... | {
"abstract": "Fourfold arylmercapto substituted tetraazaperopyrene (TAPP) derivatives were obtained by direct nucleophilic substitution of the tetrabrominated TAPP or via Cu-catalyzed S-C coupling. These new materials display a characteristic bathochromic shift of their visible absorption and emission bands by ca. 2... |
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"abstract": "With the development of communication technology and the popularization of Internet of Things (IoT) applications in daily life, anomaly detection for time series data has been paid more attentions. To mitigate the imbalance and incorrectness of data labels in anomaly detection, unsupervised anomaly det... | {
"abstract": "Due to the continued digitization of industrial and societal processes, including the deployment of networked sensors, we are witnessing a rapid proliferation of time-ordered observations, known as time series. For example, the behavior of drivers can be captured by GPS or accelerometer as a time serie... | {
"abstract": "Much of the world's data is streaming, time-series data, where anomalies give significant information in critical situations, examples abound in domains such as finance, IT, security, medical, and energy. Yet detecting anomalies in streaming data is a difficult task, requiring detectors to process data... |
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"abstract": "Mild hyperhomocysteinemia (HHcy) is a risk factor for vascular disease and is closely associated with endothelial dysfunction. Oxidative stress and decreased nitric oxide (NO) bioavailability were reported in HHcy-induced vascular injury; however, the exact relationship is not understood. We thus direc... | {
"abstract": "We studied vascular responses in spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) of both genders after methionine (Met) loading to test whether or not there were gender differences. SHRs were divided into 5 groups: male control (MSHR), female control (FSHR), methionine-loaded (+Met) males (MSHR[+Met]) and female... | {
"abstract": "Metallothionein (MT) is the main protein involved in the homeostasis of metallic micronutrients and in cellular defence against heavy metals and reactive oxygen species. Found in almost all vertebrate tissues, MT presence and localization in the testis has been controversial. In the present study, by u... |
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"abstract": "Let Π be an ergodic simple point process on Rd, and let Π be its Palm version. Thorisson [13] proved that there exists a shift coupling of Π and Π; that is, one can select a (random) point Y of Π such that translating Π by −Y yields a configuration whose law is that of Π. We construct shift couplings i... | {
"abstract": "We consider the following problem: given an i.i.d. family of Bernoulli random variables indexed by Z d , find a random occupied site X ∈ Z d such that relative to X, the other random variables are still i.i.d. Bernoulli. Results of Thorisson imply that such an X exists for all d. Liggett proved that fo... | {
"abstract": "Consider several independent Poisson point processes on R^d, each with a different colour and perhaps a different intensity, and suppose we are given a set of allowed family types, each of which is a multiset of colours such as red-blue or red-red-green. We study translation-invariant schemes for parti... |
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"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nNoise-induced hearing loss has increased due to factors such as industrialization. It is estimated that one third of the world's population suffers from some degree of hearing loss caused by exposure to high-intensity noise. Exposure to noise can cause disease of various ear structures, esp... | {
"abstract": "Noise-induced permanent threshold shifts (NIPTS) were computed from retrospective audiometric analyses by subtracting aging effects on hearing sensitivity in sixty-eight patients with bilateral sensorineural hearing loss who reported significant occupational noise exposure histories. There were signifi... | {
"abstract": "Background: Military personnel are usually exposed to high levels of impulse noise (IN) which can lead to hearing loss. Objectives: The purpose of this study was to assess the effects of relatively low level exposure of impulse noise (IN) during shooting practice on hearing using pure tone audiometry (... |
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"abstract": "The promising outcomes of immune‐checkpoint based immunotherapies in cancer have provided a proportional perspective ahead of exploiting similar approaches in allotransplantation. Belatacept (CTLA‐4‐Ig) is an example of costimulation blockers successfully exploited in renal transplantation. Due to the ... | {
"abstract": "Background Inducible costimulator (ICOS) is rapidly upregulated with T-cell stimulation and may represent an escape pathway for T-cell costimulation in the setting of CD40/CD154 costimulation blockade. Induction treatment exhibited no efficacy in a primate renal allograft model, but rodent transplant m... | {
"abstract": "The inducible costimulatory (ICOS) molecule is expressed by activated T cells and has homology to CD28 and CD152. ICOS binds B7h, a molecule expressed by APC with homology to CD80 and CD86. To investigate regulation of ICOS expression and its role in Th responses we developed anti-mouse ICOS mAbs and I... |
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"abstract": "............................................................................................................viii Chapter 1: Global Introduction and Literature Review................................................... 1 1.1 Background......................................................................... | {
"abstract": "The Marshland Upwelling System (MUS), a potential alternative wastewater treatment strategy for coastal dwellings, was examined to assess its ability to remove fecal coliforms (FC) from domestic wastewater as a step towards total treatment. Wastewater was intermittently injected down a 4.6‐m injection ... | {
"abstract": "This report describes studies of artificial wetlands at Santee, California which demonstrate the capacity of these systems for integrated secondary treatment (BOD and suspended solids removal) and advanced treatment (nitrogen removal) of municipal wastewater effluents. When receiving a blend of primary... |
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"abstract": "The coincidence site lattices of the root lattice A4 are considered, and the statistics of the corresponding coincidence rotations according to their indices is expressed in terms of a Dirichlet series generating function. This is possible via an embedding of A4 into the icosian ring with its rich arit... | {
"abstract": "Summary We consider the CSLs of 4-dimensional hypercubic lattices. In particular, we derive the coincidence index Σ and calculate the number of different CSLs as well as the number of inequivalent CSLs for a given Σ. The hypercubic face centered case is dealt with in detail and it is sketched how to de... | {
"abstract": "Copyright and Moral Rights for the articles on this site are retained by the individual authors and/or other copyright owners. For more information on Open Research Online's data policy on reuse of materials please consult the policies page. Abstract. The coincidence site lattices of the root lattice A... |
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"abstract": "We construct a benchmarking model in the form of a two- dimensional self-organising map (SOM) to compare the performance of non- banking financial institutions (NFIs) in Romania. The NFIs are characterized by a number of performance dimensions such as capital adequacy, assets' quality and profitability... | {
"abstract": "For ease of presentation, this article discusses Type I and Type II accuracy instead of error. Type I accuracy is the percentage of actual downgrades that were identified in advance by the model. Type II accuracy is defined analogously as the percentage of identified banks that are in fact subsequently... | {
"abstract": "A review of the current literature on deposit-institution failures, emphasizing the various methods used to model the determinants of insolvent and failed institutions.",
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"abstract": "The Streptomyces avermitilis genome encodes a putative high‐affinity [NiFe]‐hydrogenase conferring the ability to oxidize tropospheric H2 in mature spores. Here, we used a combination of transcriptomic and mutagenesis approaches to shed light on the potential ecophysiological role of the enzyme. First,... | {
"abstract": "Dihydrogen, a by-product of biological nitrogen fixation, is a competitive inhibitor of N(2) reduction by nitrogenase. To evaluate the significance of H(2) inhibition in vivo, we have measured the apparent inhibition constant for H(2) inhibition of N(2) reduction in Bradyrhizobium japonicum bacteroids ... | {
"abstract": "1. Cell-free extracts prepared from soya-bean nodule bacteroids produced HD from D(2) in the presence of dithionite, an ATP-generating system and nitrogen. 2. Crude extracts of bacteroids or of Azotobacter vinelandii showed some background D(2) exchange when any one of these was omitted. 3. Partial pur... |
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"abstract": "Cells of the thermophilic cyanobacterium Thermosynechococcus vulcanus strain RKN (NIES‐2134) aggregate and produce extracellular cellulose under induced conditions of blue light and low temperature, and both aggregation and cellulose production require the cellulose synthase Tll0007 (XcsA) and photosen... | {
"abstract": "Recent studies identified c-di-GMP as a universal bacterial secondary messenger regulating biofilm formation, motility, production of extracellular polysaccharide and multicellular behavior in diverse bacteria. However, except for cellulose synthase, no protein has been shown to bind c-di-GMP and the t... | {
"abstract": "ABSTRACT The formation of biofilms is thought to play a key role in the environmental survival of the marine bacterium Vibrio cholerae. Although the factors involved in V. cholerae attachment to abiotic surfaces have been extensively studied, relatively little is known about the mechanisms involved in ... |
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"abstract": "Background In clinical diagnosis, some central nervous system lymphomas (CNSL) are difficult to distinguish from high-grade gliomas (HGG). Purpose To evaluate the diagnostic efficacy of the histogram analysis of dynamic contrast-enhanced (DCE) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in the identification of C... | {
"abstract": "OBJECTIVE\nThe objective was to evaluate diagnostic performance of dynamic susceptibility-contrast perfusion-weighted imaging, diffusion-weighted imaging, and (18)F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography in differentiating primary central nervous system lymphoma (PCNSL) and glioblastoma.\n\n\n... | {
"abstract": "The goal of this investigation was to measure changes in vascular permeability, pore cutoff size, and number of transvascular transport pathways as a function of time and in response to vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), placenta growth factor (PIGF-1 and PIGF-2), or basic fibroblast growth fac... |
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"abstract": "Anxiety disorders are one of the most common mental disorders, and benzodiazepines (BDZs), acting on gamma-aminobutyric acid type A (GABA-A) receptor complex, represent the most common antianxiety medications in the world. However, chronic BDZ use elicits several adverse reactions. Reportedly, aromathe... | {
"abstract": "Bergamot (Citrus bergamia Risso et Poiteau) is a citrus fruit growing almost exclusively in the South of Italy. Its essential oil is obtained by cold pressing of the epicarp and, partly, of the mesocarp of the fresh fruit. Although this phytocomplex has been used for centuries, reputedly effectively, a... | {
"abstract": "Abstract The objective of this study was to test the hypothesis that apathy and depression are dissociable in Parkinson disease (PD) by conducting a confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) of items from two commonly used mood scales. A total of 161 non-demented PD patients (age = 64.1; ± 8.4 years) were adm... |
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"abstract": "Web applications are launched by Webkit engine. Dominant fraction of launch latency is spe nt on serializing the resource file. Webkit engine loads the HTML format based resources from the storage de vice, and converts them to memory representation creating DOM (Document Object Model) tree and render t... | {
"abstract": "Persistence of in-memory data is necessary for many classes of application and systems software. We propose Software PersistentMemory (SoftPM), a new memory abstraction which allows malloc style allocations to be selectively made persistent with relative ease. Particularly, SoftPM's persistent containe... | {
"abstract": "We present PubMed 200k RCT, a new dataset based on PubMed for sequential sentence classification. The dataset consists of approximately 200,000 abstracts of randomized controlled trials, totaling 2.3 million sentences. Each sentence of each abstract is labeled with their role in the abstract using one ... |
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"abstract": "This paper explores the challenges of regulating healthcare quality and explains why riskbased approaches have notand cannotsolve the problems of governing the National Health Service (NHS) in the UK. Based on historical policy analysis and in-depth interviews with 15 high-level informants, it document... | {
"abstract": "The Labour Government elected in 1997 faced similar problems in health care to those faced by the Conservative Government in schools in the early 1990s. And the policies developed for health care in the late 1990s echoed those that had been implemented for schools. This paper considers one of those com... | {
"abstract": "In the buoyancy and turbulence-driven atmospheric circulations (BTDAC) that occur over urban areas where the approach means wind speeds are very low (less than turbulent fluctuations and typically <3m/sec), the surface temperatures are significantly higher than those in the external rural areas, and th... |
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"abstract": "The temperature coefficient (TC) of n-type polycrystalline silicon thin-film transistors (poly-Si TFTs) is investigated in this paper. The relationship between the TC and the activation energy is observed and explained. From the experimental results, it is also found that TC is not sensitive to the dev... | {
"abstract": "An analytical on-state drain current model of large-grain polycrystalline silicon thin-film transistors (polysilicon TFTs) is presented, based on the carrier transport through latitudinal and longitudinal grain boundaries. The model considers an array of square grains in the channel, with the current f... | {
"abstract": "This paper introduces and verifies a new light-impact model (LIM) for both p-type and n-type polycrystalline thin-film transistors (poly-Si TFTs). The ratio of the produced current under a specific light intensity (Id) over the dark current (Idark) is calculated. The new model has been also implemented... |
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"abstract": "Two Lysimeter experiments were conducted in Egypt to: explore possible effects of land-applying AlWTRs and /or biosolids on the environment, and recommends ways to minimize human and animal impacts. The specific objectives were to (1) determine the co-application effects on Diethylene Triamine Penta Ac... | {
"abstract": "Drinking-water treatment residuals (WTRs) are being evaluated as cost-effective sorption media for use in environmental remediation. Data from previous work have suggested that intraparticle phosphorus (P) diffusion into micropores is the rate-limiting mechanism of P sorption by WTRs. We used isotherma... | {
"abstract": "Microalgae have been used commercially since the 1950s and 1960s, particularly in the Far East for human health foods and in the United States for wastewater treatment. Initial attempts to produce bulk chemicals such as biofuels from microalgae were not successful, despite commercially favorable condit... |
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"abstract": "Automatic music transcription (AMT) is a challenging topic in audio signal processing. Music transcription is the process of converting a musical recording to a musical score (i.e. symbolic representation). The system discussed in this paper takes as input the sound (.wav file) of a recorded monophonic... | {
"abstract": "Automatic music transcription is a challenging topic in audio signal processing. It consists in transforming the musical content of audio data into a symbolic notation. The system discussed in this paper takes as input the sound of a recorded polyphonic piano music and it produces conventional musical ... | {
"abstract": "A technique for segmenting sounds using processing based on mammalian early auditory processing is presented. The technique is based on features in sound which neuron spike recording suggests are detected in the cochlear nucleus. The sound signal is bandpassed and each signal processed to enhance onset... |
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"abstract": "Khat (Catha edulis) is a recreational, chewed herbal drug that has been used as a psychostimulant for centuries in East Africa and the Arabian Peninsula, namely in Somalia, Ethiopia, and Yemen. However, the growing worldwide availability of khat has produced widespread concern. The plant comprises a la... | {
"abstract": "Summary.The effects of repeated oral administration of the psychostimulant plant, Catha edulis and its active principle, cathinone on rats were studied using isolation induced aggression paradigm. The behavioral responses were videotaped and scored later by offline data analyses. Rats were decapitated ... | {
"abstract": "Microbialites are widespread in modern and fossil hypersaline environments, where they provide a unique sedimentary archive. Authigenic mineral precipitation in modern microbialites results from a complex interplay between microbial metabolisms, organic matrices and environmental parameters. Here, we c... |
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"abstract": "The sensitivity of magnetic resonance imaging to biochemical and biophysical changes in the extracellular matrix of articular cartilage give it the potential to noninvasively detect the earliest changes of cartilage damage. The transverse relaxation time (T2) of cartilage has been shown to be a sensiti... | {
"abstract": "OBJECTIVE\nThe purpose of this study was to perform a quantitative evaluation of the effect of static magnetic field orientation on cartilage transverse (T2) relaxation time in the intact living joint and to determine the magnitude of the magic angle effect on in vivo femoral cartilage.\n\n\nMATERIALS ... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Three series of vanadium phosphorus oxide (VPO) catalysts with nominal P:V ratios in the range 0.8–1.2:1 were prepared using alcohol based preparation procedures. The influence of reflux time and nature of the alcohol on the phases observed in the final catalyst as well as the susceptibility o... |
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"abstract": "We demonstrate an automatic channel-switched intracavity- absorption acetylene sensor via Sagnac loop filter based on the mode-competition in a ring fiber laser. When the photonic crystal fiber gas cell is filled with 1% acetylene, the corresponding absorption intensity can be ~14.0 dB and ~7.2 dB at 1... | {
"abstract": "We report the system design and experimental verification of an intracavity absorption multiplexed sensor network with hollow core photonic crystal fiber (HCPCF) sensors and dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) filters. Compared with fiber Bragg grating (FBG), it is easier for the DWDM to acco... | {
"abstract": "In this letter, a temperature sensor based on a fiber ring laser with a reflective Sagnac loop is proposed. The reflective Sagnac loop inserted into the fiber ring laser through a download optical fiber is used as the filter and sensing head to supply high temperature sensitivity. As the temperature va... |
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"abstract": "ABSTRACT This study made use of differential reinforcement and shaping to increase the variety of food items accepted by two boys with autism. In the first phase, three new food items were introduced to the participants and the acceptance response to the food was systematically increased. Food items we... | {
"abstract": "The current study used differential reinforcement and shaping to increase the variety of foods accepted by children with autism who demonstrated significant feeding inflexibility. Participants were introduced to four new food items via a hierarchical exposure, which involved systematically increasing t... | {
"abstract": "Autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) have been linked with maternally derived duplications/triplications of chromosome 15q11–13 and therefore might occur more frequently in people with Prader–Willi syndrome (PWS) when due to uniparental disomy (UPD), than in other forms of chromosomal abnormality involving... |
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"abstract": "Opioids are the most available medicines to get rid of any general severe pain and avoiding of any deleterious sequential that can worsen patient outcomes. Rational prescription of opioid analgesics with respect to the possibility of abuse is a big concern in the medical care costs. Zabol, where is loc... | {
"abstract": "The administration of narcotic analgesics to postoperative patients was examined with 180 uncomplicated adult appendectomy patients. Narcotic analgesic doses were transcribed from the hospital records of these patients for the entire postoperative period. Equianalgesic doses were calculated so that all... | {
"abstract": "Gemcitabine shows a marked antitumor effect as a result of its cytotoxic action toward proliferative cells. In this article, we aim to investigate the potential antitumor and antiangiogenic effect of gemcitabine following a metronomic schedule that involves the regular administration of cytotoxic drugs... |
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"abstract": "Nowadays, antioxidants are taken as extremely important and bioactive compounds due to their many proven health benefits. Generally found in vegetables and fruits, polyphenols are a complex group of molecules to whom science has attributed antioxidant properties. The desire to uncover the true antioxid... | {
"abstract": "Plasma obtained from fasted humans has been analysed for total radical‐trapping antioxidant content by subjecting it to controlled peroxidation using the thermal decomposition of water‐soluble azobis (2‐amidinopropane hydrochloride) at 37°C to produce peroxyl radicals at a known, steady rate. It is fou... | {
"abstract": "126 appropriate-for-gestational age neonates born in hospital with birth-weights of 750 g-1500 g were prospectively studied in a randomised trial to determine the effect of intramuscular vitamin E on the frequency and severity of retrolental fibroplasia (RLF). In the 99 who lived for more than one mont... |
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"abstract": "Innervation of specific peptidergic and cholinergic compartments of the interpeduncular nucleus (IPN) was investigated using embryonic cell suspension transplants immunoreactive for substance P (SP) and ChAT. In both neonatal and adult host rats, the IPN was first denervated of its normal SP and cholin... | {
"abstract": "The normal postnatal development and response to neonatal fasciculus retroflexus (FR) lesions of serotonin, substance P (SP), and choline acetyltransferase (ChAT) distribution are described for the rat interpeduncular nucleus (IPN). Serotonin-, SP- and ChAT-containing axons differed in development, dis... | {
"abstract": "Diagenetic changes in thermally altered cyanobacterial mats from early Silurian black radiolarian cherts of southwestern Poland (Bardzkie Montains, Sudetes) have been studied. These early diagenetically silicified mats are composed of variously degraded remains of benthic microbes that resemble some mo... |
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"abstract": "We describe different modes of prey rejection in a filter‐feeding appendicularian, Oikopleura dioica. Nonselective prey rejection occurs by intermittent rejection through reversal of the feeding current of all particles when the pharyngeal filter is overloaded, and by accidental loss through the spirac... | {
"abstract": "PELAGIC tunicates of the genus Oikopleura produce, live in and pump water through mucous structures termed 'houses'. Because these houses contain filters with submicrometre pores, oikopleurids have been proposed as important consumers of participate organic carbon (POC) in the sea1. We present new evid... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Organic chemistry of particulates has recently been developed with the increasing quality of analytical methods. Because of the low organic content in deep sea, most of the studies were dealing with the euphotic layer. So we have very little information about the purely detrital material. Part... |
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"abstract": "-In order to meet the complex topological structure and huge distance and site number information of the expressway network, this paper proposed a new degree-based maximal clique mining algorithm which based on the principle from top to down to reasonably simplify the expressway network information. At... | {
"abstract": "Maximal clique enumeration is a fundamental problem in graph theory and has important applications in many areas such as social network analysis and bioinformatics. The problem is extensively studied; however, the best existing algorithms require memory space linear in the size of the input graph. This... | {
"abstract": "Various publications address the suppression of the undesired mode coupling in laterally bounded conductor-backed coplanar waveguides (CPWs). In this paper, we present an integrated waveguide structure in which this coupling effect of different guided modes is deliberately exploited. Efficient forward ... |
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"abstract": "Mutual aid among villagers in developing countries is often the only means of insuring against economic shocks. We use “lab-in-the-field experiments” in Cambodian villages to study solidarity in established and newly resettled communities. Both communities are part of a land distribution project for wh... | {
"abstract": "Mutual aid among villagers in developing countries often is the sole possibility to insure against economic shocks. By using field laboratory experiments in Cambodian villages we study social cohesion in newly resettled and established communities which are both part of a land distribution project. All... | {
"abstract": "AbstractUsing an appropriation game setting, we examine individual responses to changes in a groups’ vulnerability to a probabilistic loss (L) of a public good. The probabilistic loss parameter entails losing 10, 50 or 90% of the value of the public good that is maintained through cooperation, where th... |
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"abstract": "The specificity of acupoint indication (i.e., reverse inference—diseases for which an acupoint could be used) might differ from the specificity of acupoint selection (i.e., forward inference—acupoints used for a disease). In this study, we explore acupoint specificity through reverse inferences from th... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Acupuncture is a therapeutic treatment that is defined as the insertion of needles into the body at specific points (ie, acupoints). Advances in functional neuroimaging have made it possible to study brain responses to acupuncture; however, previous studies have mainly concentrated on acupoint... | {
"abstract": "The design and evaluation of a robotic prosthesis for a drummer with a transradial amputation is presented. The principal objective of the prosthesis is to simulate the role fingers play in drumming. This primarily includes controlling the manner in which the drum stick rebounds after initial impact. T... |
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"abstract": "In this paper, we focus on fine-grained recognition of vehicles mainly in traffic surveillance applications. We propose an approach orthogonal to recent advancement in fine-grained recognition (automatic part discovery, bilinear pooling). Also, in contrast to other methods focused on fine-grained recog... | {
"abstract": "Fine-grained categorization of object classes is receiving increased attention, since it promises to automate classification tasks that are difficult even for humans, such as the distinction between different animal species. In this paper, we consider fine-grained categorization for a different reason:... | {
"abstract": "Les travaux developpes dans cette these s’interessent a l’analyse fine des vehicules a partir d’une image. Nous definissons le terme d’analyse fine comme un regroupement des concepts suivants : la detection des vehicules dans l’image, l’estimation de leur point de vue (ou orientation), la caracterisati... |
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"abstract": "ABSTRACT This qualitative study focuses on elementary teacher candidates (TCs) at two United States university-based teacher preparation programs and their experiences with edTPA, a teacher performance assessment increasing in implementation nationwide. TCs from two public universities, in a state wher... | {
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"abstract": "This ethnographic study suggests that social structures such as the sex segregation of jobs may impact how different groups of workers make sense of robots in their work environment. Designers may need to take such structures into account if mobile autonomous robots are to operate successfully alongsid... |
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"abstract": "Chronic demyelination in the human CNS is characterized by an inhibitory microenvironment that impairs recruitment and differentiation of oligodendrocyte progenitor cells (OPCs) leading to failed remyelination and axonal atrophy. By network-based transcriptomics, we identified sulfatase 2 (Sulf2) mRNA ... | {
"abstract": "Experimental animals with myelin disorders can be treated by transplanting oligodendrocyte progenitor cells (OPCs) into the affected brain or spinal cord. OPCs have been isolated by their expression of gangliosides recognized by mAb A2B5, but this marker also identifies lineage-restricted astrocytes an... | {
"abstract": "The three isomers of the xylyl radical, C8H9 are possible intermediates in the formation of soot and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH). Their infrared spectra have been recorded by IR/UV ion dip spectroscopy using free electron laser radiation. The radicals were generated by flash pyrolysis from t... |
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"abstract": "We study efficient importance sampling techniques for particle filtering (PF) when either (a) the observation likelihood (OL) is frequently multimodal or heavy-tailed, or (b) the state space dimension is large or both. When the OL is multimodal, but the state transition pdf (STP) is narrow enough, the ... | {
"abstract": "We consider the problem of tracking the boundary contour of a moving and deforming object from a sequence of images. If the motion of the \"object\" or region of interest is constrained (e.g. rigid or approximately rigid), the contour motion can be efficiently represented by a small number of parameter... | {
"abstract": "We propose a principled framework for recursively segmenting deformable objects across a sequence of frames. We demonstrate the usefulness of this method on left ventricular segmentation across a cardiac cycle. The approach involves a technique for learning the system dynamics together with methods of ... |
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"abstract": "We present an application of our VBORT algorithm to observation of multiple dynamic targets with robot teams. VBORT is a distributed algorithm that directs the motions of a robot team to maximize effectiveness in observation tasks. The algorithm chooses the most appropriate move for each robot by deter... | {
"abstract": "We present a behavior-based approach for directing the movements of robot teams engaged in mapping target objects in their environment. The resulting paths of the robots optimize the vantage points for all the robots on the team, maximizing information gain. At each step, each robot selects a movement ... | {
"abstract": "In this paper, we consider Multi-User MIMO (MU-MIMO) scheduling in the 3GPP LTE-Advanced (3GPP LTE-A) cellular uplink. The 3GPP LTE-A cellular uplink allows for precoded multi-stream (precoded MIMO) transmission from each user scheduled in the uplink along with flexible multi-user scheduling, wherein m... |
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"abstract": "With the burst of free and open source software projects, software plagiarism has become a serious threat to the healthy development of the software ecosystem. Researchers, educators, open source developers, and software company managers are paying more and more attention to the problem. Software plagi... | {
"abstract": "Statements with conditionals are widely used in C, C++ and java, such as if and while statements and they are easy to plagiarize by adjusting the logical structure of the corresponding statements. However, the existing relative algorithms and tools cannot effectively detect code plagiarism of these sta... | {
"abstract": "This thesis discusses the problems and the methods of finding relevant information in large collections of documents. The contribution of this thesis to this problem is to develop better content analysis methods which can be used to describe document content with",
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"abstract": "AIM\nTo investigate genetic diversity and specificity of Campylobacter jejuni and Campylobacter coli strains isolated from humans, retail poultry meat, and live farm chickens in Zenica-Doboj Canton, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and identify the role of poultry meat in sporadic Campylobacter infections.\n\n\... | {
"abstract": "ABSTRACT Campylobacter coli is an infrequently studied but important food-borne pathogen with a wide natural distribution. We investigated its molecular epidemiology by use of amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP)-based genotyping and Penner serotyping. Serotype reference strains and 177 Danish... | {
"abstract": "Helicobacter pullorum is present in approximately one third of the chickens in Belgium.",
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"abstract": "Durring the early 90’s, workflow technologies were the only ones to offer a transversal integration capacity to the enterprise applications. However, formalisms proposed for workflow specifications were almost systematically activity oriented. Most of the usual modeling formalisms, as well as standards... | {
"abstract": "Process support systems, such as workflows, are being used in a variety of domains. However, most areas of application have focused on traditional production-style processes, which are characterised by predictability and repetitiveness. Application in non-traditional domains with highly flexible proces... | {
"abstract": "Organizations that are geared for success within today's business environments must be capable of rapid and continuous change. This business reality is boosting the popularity of various types of workflow systems. However, current workflow systems are not yet capable of facing the ever-changing nature ... |
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"abstract": "iv Abstract Knowledge transferred from universities is known to pass through many mechanisms to influence innovation in firms. Nonetheless, research on university knowledge transfer in less developed economies is not readily available in the extant literature. At the heart of this is a lack of analytic... | {
"abstract": "This paper aims at developing a taxonomy, which uses both institutional and functional criteria. Departing from the assumption that there are several evolutionary stages in the development of university-industry collaboration, which embrace unstructured to fully structured and complex modes, the paper ... | {
"abstract": "Research into formal and informal technology transfer between universities and industry in economical developed counties is well-documented. However, such studies are limited in number in developing economies. In the context of developing economies, this study analyses technology transfer offices’ role... |
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"abstract": "Abstract Soils in urban areas have versatile functions, and their ecological services, especially the ability to buffer and purify pollutants, are very much needed. However, the formation and characteristics of urban soils are strongly affected by human activities, and so are their functions. In urban ... | {
"abstract": "Since 1993, all new cars sold in the European Union had to be fitted with catalytic converters. Undoubtedly, these measures brought about a great progress concerning traffic emission controls. However, this technology also led to new emissions. A rapid accumulation of the catalytic active noble metals ... | {
"abstract": "The recent introduction of iridium (Ir) into the catalytic converter has resulted in an increase of Ir levels into the environment, especially ambient air and soil. These observations suggested the need to evaluate potential toxicity due to Ir exposure. Since Ir compounds have been previously shown to ... |
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"abstract": "Approaches for measuring blood glucose levels using noninvasive techniques also known as non-invasive glucose monitoring and minimally-invasive glucose monitoring techniques can help support easier and more frequent measurement of blood glucose levels and also lend themselves to support continuous gluc... | {
"abstract": "Machine learning techniques such as logistic regression (LR), support vector machine (SVM) and artificial neural network (ANN) were used to detect fasting blood glucose levels (FBGL) in a mixed population of healthy and diseased individuals in an Indian population. The occurrence of elevated FBGL was e... | {
"abstract": "A non-invasive method for detecting glucose is pursued by millions of diabetic patients to improve their personal management of blood glucose. In this work, a novel CuO nanoparticles (NPs) decorated polycaprolactone@polypyrrole fibers modified indium-tin oxide (denoted as CuO/PCL@PPy/ITO) electrode has... |
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"abstract": "In this paper we analyze the properties of the Xilinx-like regular segmentation schemes for 2-D Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs). We introduce a new notion of architectural level routing decaying effect caused by wiring segmentation. We discuss its routing properties and propose a relative prime ... | {
"abstract": "We propose a novel optimization scheme that can improve the routing by reducing a newly observed router decaying effect. A pair of greedy-grow algorithms, each emphasizing a different optimization target are designed. By applying one algorithm first and then switching to the other when the first one ap... | {
"abstract": "The Internet is generally considered as a global technological system of networked computer networks, as the network of networks working with TCP/IP. Such definitions see the Internet as a purely technological system, they forget that knowledgeable human activities make the Internet work, the technolog... |
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"abstract": "This paper analyses how the financial crisis has affected task of meeting the Maastricht Criteria for the eight Central and Eastern European Countries which have yet to join the euro. It identifies the channels by which the crisis has fed through to deficits, debt, interest rates and inflation and seek... | {
"abstract": "This paper discusses the public finances of the 10 new EU Countries from Central and Eastern Europe, with particular emphasis on the effects of the global financial crisis that started in 2008. The budget outcomes have differed markedly across the new EU countries, both before and during the crisis. Th... | {
"abstract": "Puccinia rutainsulara recently was described as a microcyclic rust on Melicope (= Pelea) spp. (Ru- taceae) endemic to Hawaii. Spermogonia are not pro? duced, and teliospores are extruded from deep-seated telia in tightly compacted bristle-like columns. Telio? spores produced an elongate basidium, typic... |
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"abstract": "The apparent solubility of drug nanocrystals in equilibrium was experimentally determined for a drug-stabilizer system with different particle size distributions. True supersaturation was identified for ultrafine drug nanocrystals with an almost 2-fold increase compared to the thermodynamic solubility ... | {
"abstract": "Graphical abstract Figure. No caption available. ABSTRACT The aim of this study was to prepare amorphous indomethacin nanoparticles in aqueous media and to determine in situ their increased saturation solubility and dissolution rate. Drug nanosuspensions with a Z‐average of ˜300 nm were prepared by wet... | {
"abstract": "Graphical abstract Figure. No Caption available. &NA; Nanocrystals hold great potential as parenteral delivery carrier systems for poorly water‐soluble drugs. Elucidation of the in vivo fate of parenteral nanocrystals is of pharmacological, toxicological and mechanistic significance. However, it is of ... |
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"abstract": "Cardiovascular diseases are the main causes of mortality, not only in Brazil, but around the world. The use of acupuncture as a complementary and alternative treatment for cardiovascular diseases has been suggested for animals as well as human beings. Possible advantages in using acupuncture are the lo... | {
"abstract": "The effect of blood flow on transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) and injection of calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) was studied in a musculocutaneous flap of the rat, using laser Doppler flowmetry. The circulatory border was estimated before and after treatment. It was shown that rep... | {
"abstract": "SummaryHuman cytomegalovirus (CMV) was inactivated by treatment with phytohemagglutinin (PHA) in contrast to herpes simplex virus (HSV), which was not. Approximately 90 per cent of infectivity was lost following exposure of CMV to PHA. Greater reduction of infectivity, more than 99 per cent, was obtain... |
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"abstract": "La ictericia neonatal requiere el diagnóstico diferencial entre la hiperbilirrubinemia no conjugada o indirecta y la hiperbilirrubinemia directa o conjugada, característica de la colestasis neonatal, que siempre es patológica. Se recomienda en todo recién nacido de 15 días o más de vida con ictericia r... | {
"abstract": "ABSTRACT Cholestatic jaundice in infancy affects approximately 1 in every 2500 term infants and is infrequently recognized by primary providers in the setting of physiologic jaundice. Cholestatic jaundice is always pathologic and indicates hepatobiliary dysfunction. Early detection by the primary care ... | {
"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nCongenital hypopituitarism is an uncommon cause of neonatal cholestasis. Little is known about the effect of anterior pituitary hormone on hepatic functions.\n\n\nMETHODS\nA retrospective review of the medical charts of eight infants with congenital hypopituitarism and neonatal cholestasis ... |
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"abstract": "IS research on participant’s motivation 1 in Knowledge Management System have paid relatively limited attention to the effect of diversifying the technological artifacts while they focused more on identifying the generic motivational factors that apply across the varying contexts. However, the manifest... | {
"abstract": "Wikis provide new opportunities for learning and for collaborative knowledge building as well as for understanding these processes. This article presents a theoretical framework for describing how learning and collaborative knowledge building take place. In order to understand these processes, three as... | {
"abstract": "The latest High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) has been increasingly used to generate video streams over Internet. However, the decoded HEVC video streams may incur severe quality degradation, especially at low bit-rates. Thus, it is necessary to enhance visual quality of HEVC videos at the decoder sid... |
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"abstract": "In this article, we studied perception of a particular case of light fields that is characterized by a difference in its consistent structure between parts of a scene. In architectural lighting design, such a consistent structure in a part of a light field is called a light zone. First, we explored whe... | {
"abstract": "Human observers have been demonstrated to be sensitive to the local (physical) light field, or more precisely, to the primary direction, intensity, and diffuseness of the light at a point in a space. In the present study we focused on the question of whether it is possible to reconstruct the global vis... | {
"abstract": "Even‐even nuclei in the A ∼100 mass region are investigated within the framework of the interacting boson model‐1 (IBM‐1). The parametrization established on the basis of known elements is then used to predict properties of the unknown. This paper includes the predicted energy spectra and the potential... |
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"abstract": "V SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS 59 VI ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 62 VII REFERENCES 63 5 ORIGINAL PUBLICATIONS This thesis is based on the following articles, which are in the text referred to their Roman numerals. In addition, some unpublished results are presented. (2001) The small GTPase Rab22 interacts with EEA1 an... | {
"abstract": "Mannose 6-phosphate receptors (MPRs) are transported from endosomes to the trans-Golgi via a transport process that requires the Rab9 GTPase and the cargo adaptor TIP47. We have generated green fluorescent protein variants of Rab9 and determined their localization in cultured cells. Rab9 is localized p... | {
"abstract": "Late endosomes and the Golgi complex maintain their cellular localizations by virtue of interactions with the microtubule-based cytoskeleton. We study the transport of mannose 6-phosphate receptors from late endosomes to the trans-Golgi network in vitro. We show here that this process is facilitated by... |
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"abstract": "Neurogenesis is the growth and regeneration of new or damaged neurons in the brain. This process is partially controlled by BDNF, which increases with exercise in rodents. Exercise improves recovery and decreases risk of developing neurodegenerative diseases. BDNF has only recently become easy to measu... | {
"abstract": "Four studies evaluated the success of behaviors and strategies used to self-regulate bad moods, raise energy, and reduce tension. Study 1 (N = 102) used an open-ended questionnaire to identify behavioral categories. Studies 2 and 4 surveyed a representative sample (N = 308) with a fixed-response questi... | {
"abstract": "In two studies, we explored the frequency and phenomenology of musical imagery. Study 1 used retrospective reports of musical imagery to assess the contribution of individual differences to imagery characteristics. Study 2 used an experience sampling design to assess the phenomenology of musical imager... |
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"abstract": ". We prove that theta functions of binary quadratic forms with congruence conditions coincide with theta functions attached to ray classes of quadratic (cid:12)elds. By Hecke’s Theorem, we can construct Hecke eigenforms by forming linear combinations of them.",
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"abstract": "The purpose of this paper is to study the space ΘD generated by the binary theta series θf attached to the primitive, positive-definite binary quadratic forms f(x, y) = ax + bxy + cy of discriminant D = b − 4ac < 0. It is curious that while much has been written about the space generated by theta serie... | {
"abstract": "This paper was written in the Spring of 1949, and a resume appeared in the note: On Epstein's zeta Function (I), Proceedings of the National Acadeiny of Sciences (U. S. A.), 35 (1949), 371--374. Meanwhile, the following papers which have reference to the Proceedings paper, came to our attention: 1. J.B... |
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"abstract": "A review of the literature published in 2018 on topics related to monitoring, sampling, and automated analysis is presented. The review includes current developments in monitoring, sampling, and analysis of water, wastewater, and groundwater. This review includes the following sections: brief introduct... | {
"abstract": "The monitoring of water-soluble pollutants is receiving a growing interest from the scientific community. In this context, sulfide anion species S2− and HS− are particularly relevant since they can cause acute and chronic toxicity including neurological effects and at high concentrations, even death. I... | {
"abstract": "Hydrogen sulfide evolved from an acidified sample is pre-concentrated by permeation in a stationary alkaline acceptor solution enclosed in a silicone rubber sample loop. Depending on the sample volume pre-concentrated, the applicable analytical range spans low micrograms/L to tens of mg/L for both meth... |
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"abstract": "Introduction Serotonin is involved in a variety of physiological functions and brain disorders. In this context, efforts have been made to investigate the in vivo fluctuations of this neurotransmitter using positron emission tomography (PET) imaging paradigms. Since serotonin is a full agonist, it bind... | {
"abstract": "Assessment of serotonin release in the living brain with positron emission tomography (PET) may have been hampered by the lack of suitable radioligands. We previously reported that fenfluramine caused a dose-dependent reduction in specific binding in monkeys using a classical displacement paradigm with... | {
"abstract": "SummaryThe 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT) autoreceptors mediating inhibition of [3H]5-HT release in rat hippocampus have been characterized pharmacologically in terms of 5-HT receptor subtype by using superfused synaptosomes depolarized with 15 mM KCl. Exogenous 5-HT inhibited in a concentration-dependent ... |
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"abstract": "In 1916, von Economo first described encephalitis lethargica (EL), a CNS disorder presenting with pharyngitis followed by sleep disorder, basal ganglia signs (particularly parkinsonism) and neuropsychiatric sequelae. Since the 1916-1927 epidemic, only sporadic cases have been described. Pathological st... | {
"abstract": "Encephalitis lethargica (EL) was a mysterious epidemic, temporally associated with the 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic. Numerous symptoms characterized this disease, including headache, diplopia, fever, fatal coma, delirium, oculogyric crisis, lethargy, catatonia, and psychiatric symptoms. Many patient... | {
"abstract": "BackgroundDengue is a common illness in the tropics. Equally common are neurological complications that stem from dengue infection. However, to date, parkinsonism following dengue has not been reported in medical literature.Case presentationA previously well 18-year old man developed parkinsonism, in a... |
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"abstract": "Detecting topographic changes in an urban environment and keeping city-level point clouds up-to-date are important tasks for urban planning and monitoring. In practice, remote sensing data are often available only in different modalities for two epochs. Change detection between airborne laser scanning ... | {
"abstract": "In this paper we propose a convolutional neural network (CNN), which allows to identify corresponding patches of very high resolution (VHR) optical and SAR imagery of complex urban scenes. Instead of a siamese architecture as conventionally used in CNNs designed for image matching, we resort to a pseud... | {
"abstract": "We present a novel fusion scheme between multiple intermediate convolutional features within convolutional neurual network (CNN) for dense correspondence estimation. In contrast to existing CNN-based descriptors that utilize a single convolutional activation, our approach jointly uses multiple intermed... |
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