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"abstract": "With spatial crowdsourcing applications such as Uber and Waze deeply penetrated into everyday life, there is a growing concern to protect user privacy in spatial crowdsourcing. Particularly, locations of workers and tasks should be properly processed via certain privacy mechanism before reporting to th... | {
"abstract": "Distributed mobile crowd sensing is becoming a valuable paradigm, enabling a variety of novel applications built on mobile networks and smart devices. However, this trend brings several challenges, including the need for crowd sourcing platforms to manage interactions between applications and the crowd... | {
"abstract": "Abstract: The presence of multimodal sensors on current mobile phones enables a broad range of novel mobile applications. Environmental and user-centric sensor data of unprecedented quantity and quality can be captured and reported by a possible user base of billions of mobile phone subscribers worldwi... |
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"abstract": "Bronikowski, Scott Alan PhD, Purdue University, May 2016. Grounding Robot Motion in Natural Language and Visual Perception. Major Professor: Jeffrey Mark Siskind. The current state of the art in military and first responder ground robots involves heavy physical and cognitive burdens on the human operat... | {
"abstract": "We present a unified framework which supports grounding natural-language semantics in robotic driving. This framework supports acquisition (learning grounded meanings of nouns and prepositions from human annotation of robotic driving paths), generation (using such acquired meanings to generate sententi... | {
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"title": "Toward Interactive Grounded Language Acqusition"
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"abstract": "Amines are bases that originate from both anthropogenic and natural sources, and they are recognized as candidates to participate in atmospheric aerosol particle formation together with sulfuric acid. Monomethylamine, dimethylamine, and trimethylamine (MMA, DMA, and TMA, respectively) have been shown t... | {
"abstract": "The binary H2SO4-H2O nucleation is one of the most important pathways by which aerosols form in the atmosphere, and the presence of ternary species like amines increases aerosol formation rates. In this study, we focus on the hydration of a ternary system of sulfuric acid (H2SO4), methylamine (NH2CH3),... | {
"abstract": "The reaction of hydroxy peroxy radicals (RO(2)) with NO represents one of the most crucial tropospheric processes, leading to terrestrial ozone formation or NO(x)() removal and chain termination. We investigate the formation of hydroxy peroxy nitrites (ROONO) and nitrates (RONO(2)) from the OH-isoprene... |
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"abstract": "Osseous hemangioma is a benign vascular tumor, and it usually occurs in the vertebrae and the skull. However, hemangiomas of flat bones are rare, and there are very few reports that describe the radiologic findings of osseous hemangioma of the ilium. We report a unique case of large cavernous hemangiom... | {
"abstract": "Abstract An 18-year-old woman presented with left elbow joint pain. Radiographs and computed tomographic scan showed a well-defined osteolytic lesion of the left ulna associated with a honeycomb appearance on the radiographs. Magnetic resonance images showed intermediate signal intensity on T1-weighted... | {
"abstract": "1. There now exists the basis for a new syndrome which is supported by a remarkable similarity of clinical and roentgenographic findings in twenty-four cases, and by an equally convincing similarity of the histological picture in eight of these, which we have personally studied.2. However it is acco",
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"abstract": "The merger of two supermassive black holes is expected to produce a gravitational-wave signal detectable by the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna(LISA). The rate of supermassive-black-hole mergers is intimately connected to the halo merger rate, and the extended Press-Schechter (EPS) formalism is ofte... | {
"abstract": "We examine the prospect of using the observed abundance of weak gravitational lenses to constrain the equation-of-state parameter w = p /p of dark energy. Dark energy modifies the distance-redshift relation, the amplitude of the matter power spectrum, and the rate of structure growth. As a result, it a... | {
"abstract": "Three peaks and two dips have been detected in the power spectrum of the cosmic microwave background by the BOOMERANG experiment, at l = (213), (541), (845) and l = (416), (750), respectively. Using model-independent analyses, we find that all five features are statistically significant, and we measure... |
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"abstract": "Fuzzy C-means (FCM) is considered to be one of the most popular fuzzy clustering techniques. However, it has the limitation of producing bad results due to its search for solution easily getting trapped into local optima. To address this problem a hybrid of FCM and Artificial Bee Colony optimization wa... | {
"abstract": "Clustering task aims at the unsupervised classifica tion of patterns in different groups. To enhance th e quality of results, the emerging swarm-based algorithms now-a-days become an alternative to the conventional clustering methods. In this study, an optimization method based on the swarm intelligenc... | {
"abstract": "African American, Hispanic American, Asian American, and European American students rated their procedural preferences in response to a hypothetical conflict scenario and then recalled a real dispute in which they had been involved. Subjects of all four ethnicities and of both genders preferred persuas... |
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"abstract": "The linguistic constraints and phrase-length constraints are the most important factors for Chinese prosodic phrasing in the natural speech. This paper presents a linguistic constraint model and a phrase-length constraint model to describe these two processes independently. Therefore, each part can be ... | {
"abstract": "The mapping between syntactic structure and prosodic structure is a widely discussed topic in linguistics. In this work we use insights gained from research on syntax-to-prosody mapping in order to develop a computational model which assigns prosodic structure to unrestricted text. The resulting struct... | {
"abstract": "Augmented reality glasses are unlike regular glasses, its built-in camera, sensors and modules make it a small computing device capable of independent data processing. Because of the different product structures and wearing modes of AR glasses, its center of gravity and weight have become an important ... |
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"abstract": "Objective To present three cases of inspiratory stridor caused by laryngeal dystonia (LD) in children with cerebral palsy (CP), one of whom is being treated by periodic botulinum toxin type A (BTX) injection into a vocalis muscle, thereby avoiding tracheostomy.",
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"abstract": "Medical treatment of dystonia usually results in an incomplete response and is frequently unsuccessful. Peripheral surgical therapy is available for some focal dystonias, but may only offer temporary relief and may have unacceptable complications. We have used local injections of botulinum toxin into t... | {
"abstract": "PurposeLimited evidence is available to explain the role of four components of health-related quality of life (HRQoL) on breast and cervical cancer screening. The objective of this study was to determine the relationship between four HRQoL aspects and use of mammography and Pap test screening in US wom... |
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"abstract": "Near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) is used to monitor regional cerebral oxygenation (rScO2) during cardiac surgery but is less established during non-cardiac surgery. This systematic review aimed (i) to determine the non-cardiac surgical procedures that provoke a reduction in rScO2 and (ii) to evaluate ... | {
"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nHow phenylephrine and ephedrine treatments affect global and regional haemodynamics is of major clinical relevance. Cerebral tissue oxygen saturation (Sct(O2) )-guided management may improve postoperative outcome. The physiological variables responsible for Sct(O2) changes induced by phenyl... | {
"abstract": "This study investigated the toxicity of double walled carbon nanotubes (DWCNTs) to three aquatic organisms, namely, Pseudokirchneriella subcapitata, Daphnia pulex, and Poecilia reticulata under the influence of exposure media properties specifically the ionic strength and organic matter represented by ... |
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"abstract": "This review aims to analyse the impact of charge carrier trapping processes on the performance of organic optoelectronic devices, particularly organic light emitting diodes. The importance of this subject stems from the fact that the trapping processes are unavoidable in organic semiconductors. The pho... | {
"abstract": "Small amounts of impurity, even one part in one thousand, in polymer bulk heterojunction solar cells can alter the electronic properties of the device, including reducing the open circuit voltage, the short circuit current and the fill factor. Steady state studies show a dramatic increase in the trap‐a... | {
"abstract": "Electron transport layers (ETLs) play a fundamental role in perovskite solar cells (PSCs) through charge extraction. Here, we developed flexible PSCs on 12 different kinds of ETLs based on SnO2. We show that ETLs need to be specifically developed for plastic substrates in order to attain 15% efficient ... |
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"abstract": "An understanding of correlation singularities is fundamentally important in imaging science. Until now spatial coherence studies have examined a two-dimensional projection of the four-dimensional correlation function, finding so-called correlation vortices or correlation ring dislocations in a given tr... | {
"abstract": "Experimental and numerical techniques allowed us to predict and verify the existence of a robust phase singularity in the spatial coherence function when a vortex is present. Though observed in the optical domain, this phenomenon may occur in any partially coherent vortex wave.",
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"abstract": "This paper investigates the leader-follower formation control problem for nonholonomic mobile robots based on a bioinspired neurodynamics based approach. The trajectory tracking control for a single nonholonomic mobile robot is extended to the formation control for multiple nonholonomic mobile robots b... |
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"abstract": "Children with cerebral palsy have difficulty moving their hands and muscles due to developmental issues. One way to assist these children is by having them participate in physical therapy. The best form of physical therapy for children is playing. Playing is a natural activity for children, and it also... | {
"abstract": "In this paper, a low cost system for child interaction through turn taking and dance based on the Pleo robot platform is presented. This system is easily taught new dance movements through visual and haptic cues and provides immediate feedback of the learned motion, making it possible for individuals u... | {
"abstract": "Abstract\nUnpredictability and complexity of social interactions are important challenges for a low functioning autistic child. The objective of this research is to study how a mobile robot can, by appearing more predictable, appealing and simple than a human being, facilitate reciprocal interaction su... |
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"abstract": "Questioned document examination aims to assess if a document of interest has been forged. Spectroscopy-based methods are the gold standard for this type of evaluation. In the past 15 years, Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption Ionisation–Mass Spectrometry Imaging (MALDI-MSI) has emerged as a powerful analy... | {
"abstract": "Carbon-based black gel inks are common samples in forensic practice of questioned document examination in China, but there are few analytical methods for this type of ink. In this study, a liquid chromatography-.high resolution mass spectrometry (LC-HRMS) method was established for the analysis of PEG ... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Amorphous, anodically grown tantalum pentoxide serves as a dielectric layer in capacitors using anodes constructed from tantalum. These capacitors are extensively used in demanding high-reliability applications such as military, aerospace and medical systems. One of the degradation mechanisms ... |
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"abstract": "HgCl(2) (0.1 mM) reduced pressure-induced water flux and root hydraulic conductivity in the roots of 1-year-old aspen (Populus tremuloides Michx.) seedlings by about 50%. The inhibition was reversed with 50 mM mercaptoethanol. Mercurial treatment reduced the activation energy of water transport in the ... | {
"abstract": "Reports of the effects of abscisic acid (ABA) on ion and water fluxes have been contradictory. Some of the confusion seems due to the interaction of ion and water transport across membranes. In these experiments root systems were subjected to hydrostatic pressures up to 5.0 bars to enable measurement o... | {
"abstract": "In this paper a concept for multi-spectral analysis of radar echo signals is presented, which is aimed at level measurement of bulk goods in silos. Severe problems given in these applications result from the conditions that bulk goods build up a heap and that the microwaves are backscattered at both, i... |
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"abstract": "In this innovative experiment, MDA-MB-231 cells were irradiated with a 266-nm laser for 5s, and then injected into NOD/SCID mice. The survival rate of the experimental mice was significantly reduced compared to that of the control mice (p=0.029), which also indicated the vitality of the experimental ce... | {
"abstract": "Photodynamic therapy (PDT), due to its positive outcomes in clinical applications, easiness of practice and few side effects, is a good candidate for an efficient treatment of cancer. Indocyanine green (ICG), a water-soluble, anionic tricarbocyanine and non-toxic molecule is a promising photosensitive ... | {
"abstract": "In the field of aquatic toxicology, quantitative structure-activity relationships (QSARs) have developed as scientifically credible tools for predicting the toxicity of chemicals when little or no empirical data are available. A fundamental understanding of toxicological principles has been considered ... |
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"abstract": "The present work proposes a novel manufacturing technique based on the combination of Laser Metal Deposition, Laser Beam Machining, and laser polishing processes for the complete manufacturing of complex parts. Therefore, the complete process is based on the application of a laser heat source both for ... | {
"abstract": "Hybrid manufacturing processes that combine additive and machining operations are gaining relevance in modern industry thanks to the capability of building complex parts with minimal material and, many times, with process time reduction. Besides, as the additive and subtractive operations are carried o... | {
"abstract": "Background on Continuum Damage Mechanics.- Numerical Analysis of Damage.- Ductile Failures.- Low Cycle Fatigue.- Creep, Creep-Fatigue, and Dynamic Failures.- High Cycle Fatigue.- Failure of Brittle and Quasi-Brittle Materials.",
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"abstract": "The appearance of the double-resonance substrate has promoted the application of surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS). By controlling the frequencies of the double resonances to match the excitation and Raman scattering frequencies, the detection of the object to be measured can be more effective. ... | {
"abstract": "Electromagnetic metamaterials (MMs) and metasurfaces (MSs) are artificial media and surfaces with subwavelength separations of meta-atoms designed for anomalous manipulations of light properties. Owing to large scattering cross-sections of metallic/dielectric meta-atoms, it is possible to not only loca... | {
"abstract": "In this work, we propose a metamaterial absorber at microwave frequencies with significant sensitivity and non-destructive sensing capability for grain samples. This absorber is composed of cross-resonators periodically arranged on an ultrathin substrate, a sensing layer filled with grain samples, and ... |
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"abstract": "Kv1.3 channels are involved in the switch to proliferation of normally quiescent cells, being implicated in the control of cell cycle in many different cell types and in many different ways. They modulate membrane potential controlling K+ fluxes, sense changes in potential, and interact with many signa... | {
"abstract": "Blood vessels are essential for animal life, allowing flow of oxygen and nutrients to tissues and removal of waste products. Consequently, inappropriate remodelling of blood vessels, resulting in occlusion, can lead to disabling or catastrophic events: heart attacks, strokes and claudication. An import... | {
"abstract": "Stromal interaction molecule 1 (STIM1) is a predicted single membrane–spanning protein involved in store-operated calcium entry and interacting with ion channels including TRPC1. Here, we focus on endogenous STIM1 of modulated vascular smooth muscle cells, which exhibited a nonselective cationic curren... |
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"abstract": "EXAMINING ADAPTATIONS TO CHANGING FISH POPULATIONS OF TONLÉ SAP LAKE IN CAMBODIA: A CASE STUDY OF PURSAT PROVINCE, CAMBODIA Natachia Bond Advisor: University of Guelph, 2015 Professor E. Fraser Cambodia is a poverty-stricken country whose rural residents rely heavily on natural resources from Southeast... | {
"abstract": "Agricultural productivity varies markedly across the Lower Mekong Basin. Production of rice is increasing everywhere, whereas per capita increases are marked in Vietnam and modest elsewhere. Fisheries are a major source of animal protein in all parts of the basin, especially in Cambodia and Vietnam. Pr... | {
"abstract": "This paper examines how a changing climate may affect rice production and how Vietnamese farmers are likely to adapt to various climatic conditions using an innovative yield function approach, taking into account sample selection bias and endogeneity of inputs. Model results suggest that although clima... |
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"abstract": "Role analysis plays an important role when exploring social media and knowledge‐sharing platforms for designing marking strategies. However, current methods in role analysis have overlooked content generated by users (e.g., posts) in social media and hence focus more on user behavior analysis. The user... | {
"abstract": "Social roles in online discussion forums can be described by patterned characteristics of communication between network members which we conceive of as 'structural signatures.' This paper uses visualization methods to reveal these structural signatures and regression analysis to confirm the relationshi... | {
"abstract": "Bovine Papilloma Virus (BPV-1) establishes itself as a multicopy nuclear plasmid in somatic mammalian cells in culture. We report here that two discontinuous regions within the viral genome can independently support extrachromosomal replication of the Tn5 neomycinr gene in cells that provide viral fact... |
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"abstract": "Occlusions, one of the most challenging problems in visual tracking, degrade the performance of many trackers significantly. Taking various spatial and temporal forms, occlusions have not been modeled completely yet. State-of-the-art solutions fail to handle persistent and complex occlusions, and mostl... | {
"abstract": "In this paper, we present a review of existing techniques and systems for tracking multiple occluding objects using one or more cameras. Following a formulation of the occlusion problem, we divide these techniques into two groups: mergesplit (MS) approaches and straight-through (ST) approaches. Then, w... | {
"abstract": "Over the past two decades, intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) image segmentation has remained a challenge for researchers while the use of this imaging modality is rapidly growing in catheterization procedures and in research studies. IVUS provides cross-sectional grayscale images of the arterial wall and... |
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"abstract": "Abstract Purpose/Objectives To compare the dose escalation potential of stereotactic body proton therapy (SBPT) versus stereotactic body photon therapy (SBXT) using high-dose rate prostate brachytherapy (HDR-B) dose-prescription metrics. Patients and Methods Twenty-five patients previously treated with... | {
"abstract": "Purpose/objective(s) Stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) is emerging as a minimally invasive alternative to brachytherapy to deliver highly conformal, dose-escalated radiation therapy (RT) to the prostate. SBRT alone may not adequately cover the tumor extensions outside the prostate commonly see... | {
"abstract": "BackgroundHypofractionated stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) has been advanced as monotherapy for low-risk prostate cancer. We examined the dose distributions and early clinical outcomes using this modality for the treatment of intermediate-risk prostate cancer.MethodsForty-one sequential horm... |
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"abstract": "The efficacy of synaptic transmission varies greatly among synaptic contacts. We have explored the origins of differences between phasic and tonic crustacean neuromuscular junctions. Synaptic boutons of a phasic motor neuron release three orders of magnitude more quanta to a single action potential and... | {
"abstract": "Tang et al. (2000) demonstrated that, at the crayfish neuromuscular junction, both the accumulation and the decay properties of short-term synaptic facilitation (STF) are strongly affected by the addition of a fast high-affinity Ca2+ buffer, suggesting a role of residual free Ca2+ in the induction of S... | {
"abstract": "Rapid influx of Ca(2+) into the cytosol from extracellular pools or intracellular stores via ion channels can have wide-ranging physiological consequences. In addition, influx of Ca(2+) across the plasma membrane is necessary for the large net accumulation of Ca(2+) essential for cellular integrity. In... |
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"abstract": "A significant proportion of babies that are admitted to the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) suffer from late onset sepsis (LOS). In order to prevent mortality and morbidity, the early detection of LOS is of the utmost importance. Recent works have found that the use of machine learning techniques m... | {
"abstract": "Heart rate patterns offer a ‘window’ into autonomic nervous system function: when they become abnormal they signal an underlying pathology. Preterm infants in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) are extremely vulnerable to sepsis, which is often associated with decreased heart rate variability (HRV... | {
"abstract": "Consultant in Neonatal Medicine, Poole Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and Visiting Professor, Centre for Midwifery, Maternal and Perinatal Health, Bournemouth University. mineshkhashu@gmail.com infant Introduction Established by Professor Minesh Khashu to help advance a field of neonatal medicine that h... |
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"abstract": "This thesis explores emotion processes in the context of digital games and game research and proposes a framework for studying emotions and emotional individuality in the context of digital games. The focus is on the positive effects of digital games on subjective emotional experiences and well-being, ... | {
"abstract": "Game studies methodologies which focus on the visual, narrative, and semiotic content of digital games overlook the way that embodied perception and physiological response contribute to the meaningfulness of games. Gameplay also needs to be understood in terms of affective response: the embodied, multi... | {
"abstract": "In classical literary theory it has been pointed out by several authors (Iser 1974, Eco, 1984) that the activity of reading fictional texts involves readers in interactions with at least",
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"title": "Understanding Play Practices: Contributions to the State of the... |
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"abstract": "Purpose To compare the postoperative outcomes and management of uncomplicated cataract surgery seen on postoperative day 0 (POD0) versus postoperative day one (POD1). Methods A retrospective cohort study of patients who followed up within 0-14 days of their uncomplicated surgery (current procedural ter... | {
"abstract": "BACKGROUND--In current ophthalmic practice day-case surgery cataract patients are conventionally discharged and then reviewed the following morning thus limiting the advantages of what 'true' day-case surgery strives to achieve. The aim of this study was to see if there was a difference in outcome betw... | {
"abstract": "Povidone-iodine 5% solution placed on the eye immediately before ophthalmic surgery within the preoperative preparation significantly reduces the conjunctival bacterial flora. In 40 patients undergoing ophthalmic surgery, the authors compared the outpatient use of povidone-iodine for 3 days before surg... |
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"abstract": "Ozone is a well‐known oxidant air pollutant, inhalation of which can result in oxidative stress, and lead to pulmonary inflammation.",
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"title": "Lung inflammation and thrombogenic responses in a time course study of Csb mice exposed to ozone"
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"abstract": "The oxidant ozone is a well-known air pollutant, inhalation of which is associated with respiratory tract inflammation and functional alterations of the lung. It is well established as an inducer of intracellular oxidative stress. We investigated whether Cockayne syndrome B, transcription-coupled, repa... | {
"abstract": "Breathing pattern (frequency and tidal volume), minute ventilation (VE), oxygen consumption (MO2), and rectal temperature (TR) were measured from rats exposed to 0.8, 0.6, 0.4, and 0.2 ppm O3 to determine the relation between breathing pattern responses to O3 and metabolic rate. In 0.8 ppm O3, rapid-sh... |
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"abstract": "Aim: apprehend the motivations that led the couples to choose the planned home birth. Method: this is an exploratory descriptive study, using a qualitative approach, with eight couples who opted for home birth, indicated by the professionals who provided the delivery assistance between 2014 and 2016. T... | {
"abstract": "Background Sierra Leone has one of the highest maternal mortality ratios in the world. Efforts to reduce maternal mortality have included initiatives to encourage more women to deliver at health facilities. Despite the introduction of the free health care initiative for pregnant women, many women still... | {
"abstract": "Incidence rates of treated end stage renal disease (ESRD) by age, sex, race, and reported primary etiology were analyzed for 20 contiguous Eastern States for the period 1973-1979. For White males and females rates have stabilized at 60 and 40 per million person-years, respectively, since 1977. The inci... |
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"abstract": "Neurons of the medial superior olive (MSO) in the auditory brainstem encode interaural time differences in the order of microseconds. MSO neurons undergo key structural and functional refinements around hearing onset (postnatal day (P) 12 13) which depend on normal acoustic experience. Given the role o... | {
"abstract": "Responses to monaural and binaural tone bursts were recorded from neurons in the rat's ventral nucleus of the lateral lemniscus (VNLL). Most of the neurons (55%) had V- or U-shaped frequency-tuning curves with a single clearly defined characteristic frequency (CF). However, many neurons had more comple... | {
"abstract": "This review describes mechanisms and circuitry underlying combination-sensitive response properties in the auditory brainstem and midbrain. Combination-sensitive neurons, performing a type of auditory spectro-temporal integration, respond to specific, properly timed combinations of spectral elements in... |
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"abstract": "Gunumuzde mobil cihazlarin kullanim alanlarinda ve islevselliklerinde buyuk bir artis yasanmaktadir. Mobil cihazlar kullanicilarin kisisel bilgilerini sakladiklari platformlar haline gelmislerdir. Bu gibi ozelliklerinden dolayi mobil cihazlar saldirganlarin hedefi konumuna gelmistir. Bu calismada, Naiv... | {
"abstract": "Android security has been built upon a permission-based mechanism which restricts accesses of third-party Android applications to critical resources on an Android device. The user must accept the set of permissions an application requires, before proceeding the installation. This process aims to inform... | {
"abstract": "In this article we show how temporal backdrops that alternately change their color rapidly at recording rate can aid chroma keying by transforming color spill into a neutral background illumination. Since the chosen colors sum up to white, the chromatic (color) spill component is neutralized when integ... |
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"abstract": "ABSTRACT As obligatory parasites, viruses co-opt a variety of cellular functions for robust replication. The expression of the nonsegmented negative-strand RNA genome of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), a significant pediatric pathogen, absolutely requires actin and is stimulated by the actin-regulat... | {
"abstract": "BackgroundActin is required for the gene expression and morphogenesis of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), a clinically important Pneumovirus of the Paramyxoviridae family. In HEp-2 cells, RSV infection also induces actin stress fibers, which may be important in the immunopathology of the RSV disease.... | {
"abstract": "The nucleotide and deduced amino acid sequences of the fusion (F) and phosphoprotein (P) genes of the Long strain of human respiratory syncytial (RS) virus have been determined from cDNA copies cloned into pBSV9 shuttle vector. Comparison of these sequences with their counterparts of other strains reve... |
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"abstract": "ABSTRACT Introduction: In Japan, colorectal endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) is being conducted safely and effectively as shown by the increased number of the cases, however, it is still regarded as a complicated and challenging procedure. Therefore, piecemeal endoscopic mucosal resection (p-EMR)... | {
"abstract": "Advanced complex surgery performed with the natural orifice translumenal endoscopic surgery technique requires use of a multitasking platform. The aim of this study is to evaluate the basic functionality of a prototype multitasking platform “EndoSAMURAI” with the use of a biosimulation model and ex viv... | {
"abstract": "Flexible gastro-intestinal (GI) endoscopy is an integral diagnostic and therapeutic tool in clinical gastroenterology. High quality standards for safety, patients' comfort, and efficiency have already been achieved. Clinical challenges and technical approaches are discussed in this short review. Image ... |
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"abstract": "Web Workers and other asynchronous JavaScript APIs (like XHR/AJAX and GeoLocation) provide us a facility to process (large) tasks in the background to ensure that a JavaScript application stays responsive and does not freeze up. The way these asynchronous APIs are exposed to the application logic is us... | {
"abstract": "We present Prdk: a development kit for programming protocols. Prdk is based on syntactic separation of process code, presumably written in an existing general-purpose language, and protocol code, written in a domain-specific language with explicit, high-level elements of syntax for programming protocol... | {
"abstract": "Parallel programming has become essential for writing scalable programs on general hardware. Conceptually, every parallel program consists of workers, which implement primary units of sequential computation, and protocols, which implement the rules of interaction that workers must abide by. As programm... |
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"abstract": "Combinatorial auctions (CAs) are an important mechanism for allocating multiple goods while allowing self-interested agents to specify preferences over bundles of items. Winner determination for a CA is known to be NP-complete. However, restricting the problem can allow us to solve winner determination... | {
"abstract": "Combinatorial auctions (CAs) are important mechanisms for allocating interrelated items. Unfortunately, winner determination is NP-complete unless there is special structure. We study the setting where there is a graph (with some desired property), with the items as vertices, and every bid bids on a co... | {
"abstract": "Eliciting the preferences of a set of agents over a set of alternatives is a problem of fundamental importance in social choice theory. Prior work on this problem has studied the query complexity of preference elicitation for the unrestricted domain and for the domain of single peaked preferences. In t... |
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"abstract": "ABSTRACT Kv12.1 K+ channels are expressed in several brain areas, but no physiological function could be attributed to these subunits so far. As genetically-modified animal models are not available, identification of native Kv12.1 currents must rely on characterization of distinct channel properties. R... | {
"abstract": "The three members of the ether-à-go-go-gene-like (Elk; Kv12.1-Kv12.3) family of voltage-gated K+ channels are predominantly expressed in neurons, but only little information is available on their physiological relevance. It was shown that Kv12.2 channels modulate excitability of hippocampal neurons, bu... | {
"abstract": "OBJECTIVEDelivery of biological therapeutics to motor and dorsal root ganglion neurons remains a major hurdle in the development of treatments for a variety of neurological processes, including peripheral nerve injury, pain, and motor neuron diseases. Because nerve cell bodies are important in initiati... |
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"abstract": "Procuring offspring from captive animals can be important for research and conservation efforts. Yet, reliable methods for obtaining fertilised eggs are unavailable for many species. In this study, we examined the efficacy of one drug, leuprolide acetate, to induce reproduction (i.e. egg production, ta... | {
"abstract": "Gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) stimulates luteinizing hormone release to control ovulation and spermiation in vertebrates. Dopamine (DA) has a clear inhibitory role in the control of reproduction in numerous teleosts, and emerging evidence suggests that similar mechanisms may exist in amphibians... | {
"abstract": "Procuring offspring from captive animals can be important for research and conservation efforts. Yet, reliable methods for obtaining fertilised eggs are unavailable for many species. In this study, we examined the efficacy of one drug, leuprolide acetate, to induce reproduction (i.e. egg production, ta... |
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"abstract": "Chickpea is very sensitive to zinc (Zn) deficiency that can be corrected by Zn application in several ways to various crops including seed coating. However, the optimization of Zn seed coating in chickpea is needed prior to its wide application under field conditions. This study was comprised of four e... | {
"abstract": "Chickpea is mostly grown in rainfed environments and, consequently, its growth is affected by drought stress. This study comprised two independent experiments to investigate the physiological basis of drought tolerance in desi and kabuli chickpea genotypes. In Experiment 1, six genotypes each of desi a... | {
"abstract": "Adaptive responses to the oxidative stress of hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) were studied in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisciae strain RZ53. Our results show that the growth of naive cells is readily arrested by H2O2 challenge. In contrast, cells that have been preexposed to relatively low H2O2 priming trea... |
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"abstract": "We present gdbank, a small handbuilt corpus of 32 sentences with dependency structures and categorial grammar type assignments. The sentences have been chosen to illustrate as broad a range of the unusual features of Scottish Gaelic as possible, particularly nouns being used to represent psychological ... | {
"abstract": "We present a study of cross-lingual direct transfer parsing for the Irish language. Firstly we discuss mapping of the annotation scheme of the Irish Dependency Treebank to a universal dependency scheme. We explain our dependency label mapping choices and the structural changes required in the Irish Dep... | {
"abstract": "The purpose of this paper is to explore the importance ::: of Information Technology (IT) Governance models for public ::: organizations and presenting an IT Governance model that can ::: be adopted by both practitioners and researchers. A review of the literature in IT Governance has been initiated to... |
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"abstract": "REVIEW OBJECTIVE AND QUESTIONS\nThe objective of the review is to map the available evidence to provide an overview of the use of non-invasive thermometers in the general context of health care. The specific questions, in regards to the available international published and unpublished literature, are.... | {
"abstract": "TO THE EDITOR: We read the article by Sanghavi and colleagues with great interest and appreciate the authors' efforts to conduct comprehensive research (1). However, we have 2 questions about their analysis methods. First, the authors used propensity scoreweighting methods. According to a previous stud... | {
"abstract": "Observational studies are important methodologies to evaluate exposures and risk factors that are not amenable to experimental trials. They offer the advantage of being more generalizable to our patients, as these studies may have more liberal inclusion criteria than the typical randomized trial. Their... |
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"abstract": "Abstract By applying the gluing method, we construct infinitely many axial symmetric singular positive solutions to the Lane-Emden equation: Δ H u + u p = 0 , in H n \\ { 0 } {\\Delta }_{{\\mathbb{H}}}u+{u}^{p}=0\\left,\\hspace{1.0em}\\hspace{0.1em}\\text{in}\\hspace{0.1em}\\hspace{0.33em}{{\\mathbb{H}... | {
"abstract": "We obtain infinitely many non-radial singular solutions of LaneEmden equation ∆u + u = 0 in RN\\{0}, N ≥ 4 with N + 1 N − 3 < p < pc(N − 1) by constructing infinitely many radially symmetric regular solutions of equation on SN−1 ∆SN−1w − 2 p− 1 [ N − 2− 2 p− 1 ] w + w = 0.",
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"abstract": "Degradation of 7 common pesticides (bentazon, boscalid, chloridazon, fluopyram, flutolanil, imidacloprid, and methoxyfenozide) and 2 metabolites of chloridazon (desphenyl-chloridazon, and methyl-desphenyl-chloridazon) was studied in an anoxic and brackish sandy aquifer before and during Aquifer Storage... |
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"abstract": "Objective : to assess the prevalence of frailty and associated factors in old people affected by cerebrovascular accident (CVA) Method : a cross-sectional study with patients aged 60 years or older assisted in a neurology outpatient clinic. Data were collected by a questionnaire containing sociodemogra... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Objective To determine the prevalence of frailty in elderly people living in the community with and without cerebrovascular disease (CVD) and describe the main sociodemographic and clinical characteristics of these patients. Material and method Descriptive and cross-sectional study carried out... | {
"abstract": "AbstractTo the outside world, the Jibaros, the “Head-Hunters of the Western Amazonas”, are best known as the source of the shrunken human heads, which are to be found in most ethnological collections. To the anthropologist, they are the most important members of a race, or group of Indians comprising a... |
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"abstract": "A System-of-Systems (SoS) consists of independent and autonomous constituent systems (CSs) which collaborate to achieve an SoS goal. For SoS engineers, it is important to verify the results of the collaboration for an SoS goal. Statistical verification can be used to verify a large and complex SoS and ... | {
"abstract": "A System of Systems (SoS) consists of complex Constituent Systems (CSs), which have managerial and operational independence. As the CSs have independence, the degree of authority to control the CSs varies depending on the different types of SoS, such as directed, acknowledged, and collaborative SoS. Wh... | {
"abstract": "We propose the first tool for solving complex (some undecidable) problems of timed systems by using Statistical Model Checking (SMC). The tool monitors several runs of the system, and then relies on statistical algorithms to get an estimate of the correctness of the entire design. Contrary to other exi... |
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"abstract": "There are many applications that aim to create a complete model for an autonomously generated composition; systems are able to generate muzak songs, assist singers in transcribing songs or can imitate long-dead authors. Subjective understanding of creativity or aesthetics differs not only within prefer... | {
"abstract": "Musical metacreation (MuMe), also known as musical computational creativity, is a subfield of computational creativity that focuses on endowing machines with the ability to achieve creative musical tasks, such as composition, interpretation, improvisation, accompaniment, mixing, etc. It covers all dime... | {
"abstract": "Several methods exist for a computer to generate music based on data including Markov chains, recurrent neural networks, recombinancy, and grammars. We explore the use of unit selection and concatenation as a means of generating music using a procedure based on ranking, where, we consider a unit to be ... |
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"abstract": "Image-to-image translation (I2I) aims to transfer images from a source domain to a target domain while preserving the content representations. I2I has drawn increasing attention and made tremendous progress in recent years because of its wide range of applications in many computer vision and image proc... | {
"abstract": "The applicability of computer vision to real paintings and artworks has been rarely investigated, even though a vast heritage would greatly benefit from techniques which can understand and process data from the artistic domain. This is partially due to the small amount of annotated artistic data, which... | {
"abstract": "With the current emphasis on “Big Data”, NoSQL databases have surged in popularity. These databases are claimed to perform better than SQL databases. In this paper we aim to independently investigate the performance of some NoSQL and SQL databases in the light of key-value stores. We compare read, writ... |
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"abstract": "Background\nThe present study was to investigate the potential mechanisms underlying the sub-chronic low-dose cadmium (Cd) exposure induced renal injury in rats.\n\n\nMethods\nTotally 40 male adult SD rats were randomly divided into four groups: control group, low-dose Cd group (1 mg/kg CdCl2), moderat... | {
"abstract": "Toxicities of heavy metals is a burning issue and a topic of interest among the toxicologists throughout the world. Metals are always in use of man since long but in recent years the use of cadmium has increased in the form of various cadmium compounds such as cadmium compounds as stabilizers in plasti... | {
"abstract": "Aluminium is being used in the medicines in the form of antacids. The Aluminium metal can be leached from our utensils and can harm the body for its side effects, if become available to the systemic circulation. So it is important to check the effect of Aluminum on the Glutathione in vivo condition. El... |
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"abstract": "Recent advances in the imaging-genetics field within Alzheimer’s disease (AD) have resulted in large amounts of data; however the challenge is filtering through the data and identifying meaningful genotype-phenotype relationships within AD. The overall goal of this thesis is to integrate existing tools... | {
"abstract": "Twin studies generally show great consistency for the heritability of brain structures. Ironically, the lateral ventricles--perhaps the most reliably measured brain regions of interest--are the most inconsistent when it comes to estimating genetic influences on their volume. Heritability estimates in t... | {
"abstract": "Three important issues surround testing for a unit root in practice: uncertainty as to whether or not a linear deterministic trend is present in the data; uncertainty as to whether the initial condition of the process is (asymptotically) negligible or not, and the possible presence of nonstationary vol... |
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"abstract": "A polymer pad has been formulated and tested to act as a conductive element between an ultrasound transducer and the human body during external ultrasound examinations. This pad acts as a replacement for commercially-available ultrasound gel, which is often difficult to acquire in low-income, resource-... | {
"abstract": "This paper describes design of a low cost, ultrasound gel from local products applying aspects of Human Centered Design methodology. A multidisciplinary team worked with clinicians who use ultrasound where commercial gel is cost prohibitive and scarce. The team followed the format outlined in the Ideo ... | {
"abstract": "AbstractBackground: In the majority of sub-Saharan African countries, the absence of computed tomography facilities makes abdominal ultrasound (US) an alternative diagnostic tool in the clinical investigation of infectious and noninfectious complications of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)–infected i... |
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"abstract": "Les progres dans les techniques de conception et dans la technologie des semi-conducteurs ont permis l'integration de systemes embarques de complexite croissante sur une puce, les systemes sur puce (System on Chip - SOC). Les piliers de la strategie adoptee pour atteindre ce resultat sont les suivants:... | {
"abstract": "In this paper we present three efficient DVS techniques for an MPEG decoder. Their energy reduction is comparable to that of the optimal solution. A workload prediction model is also developed based on the block level statistics of each MPEG frame. Compared with previous works, the new model exhibits a... | {
"abstract": "We propose an intra-task voltage scheduling algorithm for low-energy hard real-time applications. Based on a static timing analysis technique, the proposed algorithm controls the supply voltage within an individual task boundary. By fully exploiting all the slack times, a scheduled program by the propo... |
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"abstract": "Forecasting electricity consumption is of national interest to any country. Future electricity forecasts are not only required for short and long term power planning activities but also in the structure of the national economy. This paper proposes six forecasting models developed for electricity consum... | {
"abstract": "Abstract There have been a number of forecasting models based on various forms of the logistic growth curve. This paper investigates the effectiveness of two forms of Harvey models and a Logistic model for forecasting electricity consumption in New Zealand. The three growth curve models are applied to ... | {
"abstract": "In the recent years, China's auto industry develops rapidly, thus bringing a series of burdens to society and environment. This paper uses Logistic model to simulate the future trend of China's vehicle population and finds that China's auto industry would come into high speed development time during 20... |
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"abstract": "Abstract Objective: Ethanol is used as a solvent for flavoring chemicals in some electronic cigarette (e-cigarette) liquids (e-liquids). However, there are limited data available regarding the effects of inhalation of ethanol on blood alcohol concentration (BAC) during e-cigarette use. In this study, a... | {
"abstract": "We analyzed 42 models from 14 brands of refill liquids for e-cigarettes for the presence of micro-organisms, diethylene glycol, ethylene glycol, hydrocarbons, ethanol, aldehydes, tobacco-specific nitrosamines, and solvents. All the liquids under scrutiny complied with norms for the absence of yeast, mo... | {
"abstract": "This study involves two aspects of our investigations of plasmonics-active systems: (i) theoretical and simulation studies and (ii) experimental fabrication of plasmonics-active nanostructures. Two types of nanostructures are selected as the model systems for their unique plasmonics properties: (1) nan... |
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"abstract": "The present paper proposes a novel model based on Copulas for predicting the outage probability experienced in Earth-space site diversity systems. In satellite communication networks, the increase of the operating frequencies above 10 GHz, which is mainly driven by the need of higher bandwidth, results... | {
"abstract": "A novel model based on the bivariate inverse Gaussian (IG) distribution is presented for the prediction of the outage performance of a dual site diversity Earth-space system. In the present paper, the exceeded rain attenuation induced on each Earth-space path is assumed that follows the IG distribution... | {
"abstract": "TianQin is a proposed space-based gravitational wave observatory. It is designed to detect the gravitational wave signals in the frequency range of 0.1 mHz–1 Hz. At a geocentric distance of 105 km, the plasma in the Earth magnetosphere will contribute as the main source of environmental noises. Here, w... |
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"abstract": "ABSTRACT There are two distinct nickel resistance loci on plasmid pTOM9 fromAchromobacter xylosoxidans 31A, ncc andnre. Expression of the nreB gene was specifically induced by nickel and conferred nickel resistance on bothA. xylosoxidans 31A and Escherichia coli. E. coli cells expressing nreB showed re... | {
"abstract": "The nickel-cobalt-cadmium resistance genes carried by plasmid pTOM9 of Alcaligenes xylosoxidans 31A are located on a 14.5-kb BamHI fragment. By random Tn5 insertion mutagenesis, the fragment was shown to contain two distinct nickel resistance loci, ncc and nre. The ncc locus causes a high-level combine... | {
"abstract": "Microbial communities from riparian sediments contaminated with high levels of Ni and U were examined for metal-tolerant microorganisms. Isolation of four aerobic Ni-tolerant, Gram-positive heterotrophic bacteria indicated selection pressure from Ni. These isolates were identified as Arthrobacter oxyda... |
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"abstract": "Many dose-response studies collect data on correlated outcomes. For example, in developmental toxicity studies, uterine weight and presence of malformed pups are measured on the same dam. Joint modeling can result in more efficient inferences than independent models for each outcome. Most methods for j... | {
"abstract": "Summary We consider Bayesian inference in semiparametric mixed models (SPMMs) for longitudinal data. SPMMs are a class of models that use a nonparametric function to model a time effect, a parametric function to model other covariate effects, and parametric or nonparametric random effects to account fo... | {
"abstract": "Data squashing was introduced by W. DuMouchel, C. Volinsky, T. Johnson, C. Cortes, and D. Pregibon, in Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on KDD (1999). The idea is to scale data sets down to smaller representative samples instead of scaling up algorithms to very large data sets. They repo... |
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"abstract": "Functional annotation of human genes is fundamentally important for understanding the molecular basis of various genetic diseases. A major challenge in determining the functions of human genes lies in the functional diversity of proteins, that is, a gene can perform different functions as it may consis... | {
"abstract": "It is occasionally observed that common sporadic diseases have rare familial counterparts in which mutations at a single locus result in a similar disorder exhibiting simple Mendelian inheritance. Such an observation is often sufficient justification for the creation of a disease model in the fly. Whet... | {
"abstract": "Accumulating evidence suggests that early-life diet may program one's health status by causing permanent alternations in specific organs, tissues, or metabolic or homeostatic pathways, and such programming effects may propagate across generations through heritable epigenetic modifications. However, it ... |
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"abstract": "Abstract The mitogenome of the Korean S. vulgaris is a circular molecule of 16,511 bp, consisting of a control region and a conserved set of 37 genes containing 13 protein-coding genes (PCGs), 22 tRNA genes and 2 rRNA genes (12S rRNA and 16S rRNA). The mitogenome of the Korean S. vulgaris is AT-biased,... | {
"abstract": "Abstract We have characterized the complete mitochondrial genome of a Korean ikonnikov’s bat species, Myotis ikonnikovi. Total length of the mitogenome is 16,585 bp with a total base composition of 34.0% A, 30.4% T, 22.8% C and 12.8% G. The mitogenome consists of 13 protein-coding genes, 2 rRNA (12S an... | {
"abstract": "Congenital hypothyroidism (CH) can lead to intellectual deficits despite early high-dose treatment. Our study aimed to determine whether motor impairments can occur despite early high-dose treatment. Sixty-three children with CH and early (median age of onset of treatment 9 d), high-dose treatment (med... |
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"abstract": "Word embedding models learn a distributed vectorial representation for words, which can be used as the basis for (deep) learning models to solve a variety of natural language processing tasks. One of the main disadvantages of current word embedding models is that they learn a single representation for ... | {
"abstract": "We consider the task of estimating, from observed data, a probabilistic model that is parameterized by a finite number of parameters. In particular, we are considering the situation where the model probability density function is unnormalized. That is, the model is only specified up to the partition fu... | {
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"abstract": "Recently, biologically-inspired algorithms have been presented as an alternative for designing many aspects of wireless ad-hoc and sensor networks. In this paper, we propose the adaptation of a bioinspired algorithm called the \"infection algorithm\" for the energy-efficient dissemination of data from ... | {
"abstract": "We present a new bio-inspired approach applied to a problem of stereo images matching. This approach is based on an artifical epidemic process, that we call “the infection algorithm.” The problem at hand is a basic one in computer vision for 3D scene reconstruction. It has many complex aspects and is k... | {
"abstract": "An efficient dynamic programming (DP) algorithm for 2D elastic matching is proposed. The present DP algorithm requires far less complexity than previous DP-based elastic matching algorithms. This complexity reduction results from piecewise linearization of a 2D-2D mapping which specifies an elastic mat... |
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"abstract": "Kırk üç yaşında kadın hasta nefes darlığı yakınması ile başvurdu. Arka-ön akciğer grafisinde sol sinüs kapalı olup her iki akciğer parankiminde retikülonodüler dansite artışları görüldü. Yüksek çözünürlüklü bilgisayarlı tomografi incelemesinde her iki akciğerde, tüm akciğer alanlarını tutan değişik büy... | {
"abstract": "We report a 50 years old female who was admitted to our clinic for investigation of pneumonia. She had responded to antibiotics but full regresson was not observed. Chest x-rays demonstrated lobar consolidation. Fiberoptic bronchoscopy revealed a vegetative whitish membranous material in the medial seg... | {
"abstract": "Introduction Le poumon represente chez l’adulte la deuxieme localisation de l’hydatidose. Notre travail consiste a situer la frequence des formes compliquees de l’hydatidose pulmonaire, a etudier leurs mecanismes physiopathologiques et a relever leurs particularites cliniques, radiologiques, therapeuti... |
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"abstract": "This thesis investigates the employment, unemployment and earnings experience of male immigrants in England using data from the Quarterly Labour Force Surveys of the United Kingdom which were undertaken between December 1992 and November 1994. After outlining some theoretical developments in the econom... | {
"abstract": "The economic impact of immigration on the host country has been the object of extensive theoretical research in economics. However, no clear-cut conclusions on the sign and the size of the main migration effects can be derived from the available literature. While politicians and public opinion makers t... | {
"abstract": "Protective or Counter-Productive? Labor Market Institutions and the Effect of Immigration on EU Natives We estimate the effect of immigrant flows on native employment in Western Europe, and then ask whether the employment consequences of immigration vary with institutions that affect labor market flexi... |
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"abstract": "Research aims: This study attempts to investigate the effect of financial inclusion on bank profitability in the Indonesian context.Design/Methodology/Approach: The sample of this study consisted of 93 commercial banks in Indonesia between 2015 and 2020. The researchers used panel data regression with ... | {
"abstract": "Despite the growing importance of the debit card in most developed countries, there are relatively few academic studies that analyze the impact of such evolution on the demand for cash. Beyond data availability, this research is complicated by the fact that the debit card provides two services for cons... | {
"abstract": "We analyze the development of employment in start-up cohorts, which is the direct gross employment effect of the new businesses. The data is for West Germany and covers the 1984–2002 period. While total employment in the cohorts remains above the initial level in manufacturing, we find a pronounced dec... |
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"abstract": "This report describes the development and validation of a chromatography/tandem mass spectrometry method for the quantitative determination of pravastatin and its metabolite (3α-hydroxy pravastatin) in plasma and urine of pregnant patients under treatment with pravastatin, as part of a clinical trial. ... | {
"abstract": "A simple and reproducible method for the determination of pravastatin and pravastatin lactone in rat plasma and urine by means of ultrahigh performance liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (UHPLC-MS/MS) using deuterium labeled internal standards for quantification is reported. Separation of a... | {
"abstract": "We compared the pharmacogenetic effects of OATP‐C (organic anion transporting polypeptide C) *1a, *1b (A388G), and *5 (T521C) haplotypes on single‐dose pharmacokinetics of pravastatin in white subjects.",
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"abstract": "Les adenovirus humains (HAdV) sont responsables d’une importante morbidite et mortalite chez les patients receveurs de cellules souches hematopoietiques (CSH), en particulier chez les enfants. Le brincidofovir (BCV) prodrogue du cidofovir est un analogue de la cytosine. Il inhibe l’activite de l’ADN po... | {
"abstract": "Human adenovirus (HAdV) infections constitute a major cause of morbidity in paediatric haematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT) patients. New antiviral treatments offer promising perspectives. However, it remains challenging to identify patients at risk for disseminated infection, and who should rece... | {
"abstract": "The Centre for Health Program Evaluation (previously known as the NHMRC National Centre for Health Program Evaluation) was formed to meet the need for evaluation of health programs and the development of appropriate evaluation methodologies for the Australian context. It seeks to contribute to governme... |
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"abstract": "Y‐box proteins are a highly conserved family of gene expression regulatory factors. During gametogenesis they may play a dual role, as both transcriptional activators of germ cell‐specific genes and as translational repressors of stored maternal transcripts. We report the identification of RlYB2, a Y‐b... | {
"abstract": "Germline cell fate decisions are primarily controlled at the post-transcriptional level with DEAD-box RNA helicases playing a crucial role in germline development. In this study, we report the identification of two DEAD-box vasa/PL10 orthologues (RlVlg and RlPL10) in a species complex of the genus Rana... | {
"abstract": "Conventional time domain reflectometry (TDR) probes are comprised of two or three parallel metal rods. Other probes have been designed for water content profiling [Hook et al., 1992; Ferré et al., 1998b; Redman and DeRyck, 1994], surface water content measurement [White and Zegelin, 1992; Selker et al.... |
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"abstract": "The stomachs and proximal duodena of 160 cougars (Puma concolor) and 17 bobcats (Lynx rufus), obtained throughout Oregon during 7 yr, were examined for Cylicospirura spp. and associated lesions. Prevalence in cougars was 73%, with a range in intensity of 1–562 worms. The mean diameter of nodules was 1.... | {
"abstract": "The present study investigated genetic variability within a population of Habronema microstoma and Habronema muscae (Spirurida: Habronematidae) affecting horses in an endemic area of central Italy using polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-coupled sequencing of the mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase subunit... | {
"abstract": "Financing decisions is one of the important areas in financial management to increase shareholder’s wealth. To determine how managers achieve this object, it can say performance measurement of company. In this paper we have studied the issue of whether the capital-structure decision impacts firms’ perf... |
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"abstract": "Dynamic networks evolve with their structures changing over time. It is still a challenging problem to efficiently explore the evolution of dynamic networks in terms of both their structural and temporal properties. In this paper, we propose a visual analytics methodology to interactively explore the t... | {
"abstract": "Dynamic networks naturally appear in a multitude of applications from different fields. Analyzing and exploring dynamic networks in order to understand and detect patterns and phenomena is challenging, fostering the development of new methodologies, particularly in the field of visual analytics. In thi... | {
"abstract": "OBJECTIVE\nWe assessed the representation of numerosity in corticobasal syndrome (CBS), a neurodegenerative condition affecting the parietal lobe.\n\n\nMETHOD\nPatients judged whether a target numerosity (e.g., \"3\") falls between two bounding numerosities (e.g., \"1\" and \"5\"). We manipulated the f... |
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"abstract": "Background: Complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) is characterized by chronic, spontaneous and provoked pain of the distal extremities whose severity is disproportionate to the triggering event. Diagnosis and treatment are still debated and multidisciplinary. The purpose of this systematic review is to... | {
"abstract": "The aim of our study was to evaluate Iloprost, a prostacyclin analog, for treatment of reflex sympathetic dystrophy in children not responsive to conservative treatment. Seven female patients with a mean age of 9 years (range, 6–11 years) diagnosed with reflex sympathetic dystrophy Stage II were treate... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Empirical evidence from developed countries supports the idea that parent-teacher interaction is high and improves student outcomes. The evidence from developing countries is, however, decidedly mixed. Using longitudinal data from nearly 6000 students and their 600 teachers in rural China, we ... |
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"abstract": "Abstract In the early 2000s, medical devices based on acellular matrices multiplied in number. Nowadays, the use of porcine ADMs is to be considered a well-established technology, commonly applied in different surgical specialties. In this retrospective analysis of 110 cases, the use of non-crosslinked... | {
"abstract": "PurposeIn a previous study, we have shown that non-cross-linked porcine dermal scaffolds (NCPDS) are a safe and effective alternative to prosthetic mesh in the reconstruction of complicated abdominal wall defects. Here, we report the long-term outcomes of abdominal wall reconstruction using NCPDS in a ... | {
"abstract": "The current study examined whether overexpression of Klotho (KL) in transgenic mice can enhance remyelination following cuprizone-induced demyelination and improves the clinical outcome in experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE). Demyelination was achieved by feeding transgenic mice overexpress... |
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"abstract": "Among egg-laying terrestrial vertebrates, birds are unique in that they lay only one egg at a time (related to the demands of flight), and that the eggs are almost fully exposed to the atmosphere. Bird embryos require relatively high temperatures for their relatively fast development and thus for their... | {
"abstract": "One of the most important factors determining hatchability of avian eggs is their proper water budget during incubation. We show here that water budget changes of turkey eggs effect not only hatchability but also poult quality. In addition to an increase in hatchability of 3.3%, poult quality was incre... | {
"abstract": "To assess the involvement of the genus Variovorax and the linuron hydrolase gene libA in in situ linuron degradation in agricultural fields, changes in Variovorax community size and composition, in libA abundance and in linuron mineralization capacity were monitored in field soil plots either treated o... |
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"abstract": "The current study examined the association between central adiposity, measured by waist circumference, and cardiovascular reactivity to stress among 106 White and 105 Black adolescents, approximately 50% of whom were girls. Participants engaged in 4 laboratory tasks while cardiovascular reactivity meas... | {
"abstract": "To examine the relationship between body fat distribution and hemodynamic stress responses, cardiovascular responses to a speech task and a forehead cold pressor task were evaluated with 24 premenopausal women classified a priori as either centrally or peripherally obese. Results showed that women with... | {
"abstract": "BackgroundHeightened or prolonged physiological responses to stress may contribute to the development or progression of metabolic abnormalities.PurposeThis study aims to examine the prospective relationships between stress responses and metabolic burden, and to determine whether age and/or sex moderate... |
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"abstract": "Preface[-]INTRODUCTION[-]1. Transit Migrations and European Spaces[-]Michael Collyer, Franck D vell, Hein De Haas, Irina Molodikova[-]MEDITERRANEAN[-]2. Migrants' Uncertainties versus State's Insecurities: Transit Migration in Turkey[-]Ahmet ? duygu[-]3. Refugee Migration to Egypt: Settlement or Transi... | {
"abstract": "Over recent years, there has been growing concern in European countries with irregular migration and other – supposedly related – transnational challenges from across the Mediterranean, which have come to be seen both as a security risk as well as a humanitarian challenge. In response, European countri... | {
"abstract": "In a world with tremendous growth of goods and people flowing across borders, little attention has been paid to the communities through which these goods and people pass and in which people live. Caught in the Middle provides a fascinating look into the inner workings and realities of border communitie... |
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"abstract": "We compute the covering dimension of the asymptotic cone of a connected Lie group. For simply connected solvable Lie groups, this is the codimension of the exponential radical.As an application of the proof, we give a characterization of connected Lie groups that quasi-isometrically embed into a nonpos... | {
"abstract": "We get asymptotics for the volume of large balls in an arbitrary locally compact group G with polynomial growth. This is done via a study of the geometry of G and a generalization of P. Pansu's thesis. In particular, we show that any such G is weakly commensurable to some simply connected solvable Lie ... | {
"abstract": "G will denote throughout a separable, connected, locally compact group. Fix a left Haar measure on G and for a measurable subset A of G, let \\A\\G denote the measure of A. The purpose of this note is to announce results concerning the asymptotic behavior of \\U\\G where U is a compact neighborhood of ... |
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"abstract": "Proteus mirabilis is a leading uropathogen of catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs), which are among the most common health care-associated infections worldwide. A key factor that contributes to P. mirabilis pathogenesis and persistence during CAUTI is the formation of catheter biofilms... | {
"abstract": "Urinary tract infections are one of the most frequent bacterial infections of mankind. In spite of this frequency, the study of the immune system in the urinary tract has not attracted much attention. This could, in part, be attributable to the widespread use of antibiotics and similar antimicrobial ag... | {
"abstract": "Acute-on-chronic liver failure (ACLF) is a syndrome characterized by acute decompensation, organ failures, and high short-term mortality. Hepatitis B virus (HBV) is the main cause of liver failure in China. Urinary tract infection (UTI) is one of the common bacterial infections in patients with HBV-ACL... |
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"abstract": "\nAlgorithmic approaches to anaphor resolution are known to benefit\nsubstantially from syntactic disjoint reference filters.\nTypically, however, there is a considerable gap between the scope of the\nformal model of grammar employed for deriving referential evidence and its\nimplementation. While acco... | {
"abstract": "This paper is a first step towards a computational account of Binding Theory (BT). Two algorithms that compute, respectively, Principle A and B have been provided. Particular attention has been devoted to possible interactions of BT with other modules of the linguistic theory, such as those ruling argu... | {
"abstract": "Redefinition de la notion de complexe fonctionnel complet comme domaine d'assignation des theta-roles et de toutes les fonctions grammaticales introduite par N. Chomsky (1986). Exemples pris a l'italien",
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"abstract": "Microsaccades have long been reported to associate with visual perception and other cognitive functions such as eliminating visual fading, supporting detailed visual sampling and indicating the direction of covert attention. However, despite the knowledge that the direction of microsaccades might be mo... | {
"abstract": "Microsaccades are small-amplitude (typically <1°), ballistic eye movements that occur when attempting to fixate gaze. Initially thought to be generated randomly, it has recently been established that microsaccades are influenced by sensory stimuli, attentional processes, and certain cognitive states. W... | {
"abstract": "The prevalence of obesity has drastically increased over the last few decades. Exploration into how hunger and satiety signals influence the reward system can help us to understand non-homeostatic mechanisms of feeding. Evidence suggests that insulin may act in the ventral tegmental area (VTA), a criti... |
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"abstract": "Label propagation is a heuristic method initially proposed for community detection in networks, while the method can be adopted also for other types of network clustering and partitioning. Among all the approaches and techniques described in this book, label propagation is neither the most accurate nor... | {
"abstract": "Community structure is one of the most important and characteristic features of social networks. Numerous methods for discovering implicit user communities from a social graph of users have been proposed in recent years. However, most of them have performance and scalability issues which make them hard... | {
"abstract": "Like other unstructured decision problems, selection of external trustworthy objects are challenging particularly in a virtual organization (VO). Novel methods are desired to filter out invalid information as well as insecure programs. This paper presents a new, conceptual approach to support selection... |
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"abstract": "Abstract Purpose The number of people with long-term spinal cord injury (SCI) is growing but our knowledge about their successful functioning is still limited. The goal of this study was to investigate the correlations between posttraumatic growth (PTG) and wisdom in people with long-term paraplegia, e... | {
"abstract": "Objectives\nOld age is characterized by many physical and social losses that adversely affect subjective well-being (SWB). Yet, past studies have shown that wisdom tends to be positively related to SWB in old age, particularly under adverse circumstances. We tested whether three-dimensional wisdom, mea... | {
"abstract": "In neurology and psychiatry the detailed study of illusory own body perceptions has suggested close links between bodily processing and self-consciousness. One such illusory own body perception is heautoscopy where patients have the sensation of being reduplicated and to exist at two or even more locat... |
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"abstract": "In spite of the development of the Prognostics and Health Management (PHM) during past decades, the reliability prognostics of engineered systems under time-varying external conditions still remains a challenge in such a field. When considering the challenge mentioned above, a hybrid method for predict... | {
"abstract": "Software that continuously runs over a long period has been frequently reported encountering \"gradual degradation\" issues. As time progresses, software tends to exhibit degraded performance, deflated capacity, exhausted physical resource or deteriorated QoS (Quality of Service). Different from transi... | {
"abstract": "In their early days, brain–computer interfaces (BCIs) were only considered as control channel for end users with severe motor impairments such as people in the locked-in state. But, thanks to the multidisciplinary progress achieved over the last decade, the range of BCI applications has been substantia... |
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"abstract": "We investigate the role of financial education in the management of Defined Contribution retirement savings plans. We survey Finance and English professors from universities across the United States and compare the management of their savings in the TIAA-CREF® plans. We find that compared with English ... | {
"abstract": "We acknowledge the cooperation of numerous consultants in TIAA-CREF Consulting Services who administered the surveys in conjunction with seminars around the country. We would like to thank Pirie McIndoe, Al Gonzalez, and Brian Usischon, TIAA-CREF Raleigh-Durham Office, for their assistance in pretestin... | {
"abstract": "We compare wealth holdings across two cohorts of the Health and Retirement Study: the early Baby Boomers in 2004, and individuals in the same age group in 1992. Levels and patterns of total net worth have changed relatively little over time, though Boomers rely more on housing equity than their predece... |
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"abstract": "Tarihçe: Alınış: 16 Mayıs 2020 Kabul: 7 Ağustos 2020 Online Yayınlanma: Aralık 2020 Etlik piliçlerde immünomodülatör etkiler açısından Moringa oleifera yaprak ununun (MOLM) etkinliğini kontrol ettik. Çalışmada herbirinde 12 hayvan olan 4 grup oluşturulmuş, toplam 144 hayvan, 12 altgruba ayrılmıştır. De... | {
"abstract": "The study was planned to determine the comparative efficacy of leaf extract of Azadirachta indica, Cichorium intybus and Moringa oleifera, on haematology, intestinal histomorphology and nutrient digestibility in broilers. Day old broiler chicks (n=180) purchased from a commercial hatchery were reared i... | {
"abstract": "Neem is the most useful traditional medicine as a source of many therapeutic agents in the Indian culture and grows well in the tropical and semi-tropical countries. In indigenous system of medicine, every part of neem tree is used, viz. bark, leaves, fruits, seeds and extracts. Its extracts have antiv... |
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"abstract": "After digitalization historical documents are available in the form of scanned images. However, having documents in the form of digital text simplifies the work of historians, as it e.g. makes it possible to search for text. Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) is an automatic way to transcribe documents... | {
"abstract": "This paper proposes the use of hybrid Hidden Markov Model (HMM)/Artificial Neural Network (ANN) models for recognizing unconstrained offline handwritten texts. The structural part of the optical models has been modeled with Markov chains, and a Multilayer Perceptron is used to estimate the emission pro... | {
"abstract": "The goal of leading indicators for safety is to identify the potential for an accident before it occurs. Past efforts have focused on identifying general leading indicators, such as maintenance backlog, that apply widely in an industry or even across industries. Other recommendations produce more syste... |
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"abstract": "This paper investigates the problem of exponential stability for a class of 2-D discrete switched systems with state delays. By constructing a novel Lyapunov-Krasovskii functional, using the wirtinger inequality which covers the well-known Jensen inequality as a special case and employing the average d... | {
"abstract": "This paper is concerned with the problem of delay-dependent stability analysis for a class of two-dimensional (2D) discrete switched systems described by the Roesser model with state delays. First, the concept of average dwell time is extended to 2D switched systems with state delays. Then, based on th... | {
"abstract": "Work on decentralized discrete-event control systems is extended to handle the case when, instead of always observing or never observing an event, a supervisor may observe only some occurrences of a particular event. Results include a necessary and sufficient condition for solving this version of the d... |
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"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nWe aim to explore if disease severity score (DSS) at onset is associated with dialysate white cell counts, the severity of causative organisms and the risk for treatment failure of peritoneal dialysis (PD)-associated peritonitis in an adult PD cohort.\n\n\nMETHODS\nOur prospective cohort st... | {
"abstract": "Peritonitis remains a frequent complication of peritoneal dialysis in children and is the most common reason for technique failure. The microbiology is characterized by a predominance of Gram-positive organisms, with fungi responsible for less than 5% of episodes. Data collected by the International Pe... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Theft, burglary, and vehicle theft are among the most frequently committed and least commonly cleared Part I offenses in the United States, but have received disproportionately little attention in the clearance literature. This study contributes to recent efforts to remedy this shortage by pre... |
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"abstract": "Testing of Computation-in-Memory (CIM) designs based on emerging non-volatile memory technologies, such as resistive RAM (RRAM), is fundamentally different from testing traditional memories. Such designs allow not only for data storage (i.e., memory configuration) but also for the execution of logical ... | {
"abstract": "Emerging computing applications (such as big-data and Internet-of-things) are extremely demanding in terms of storage, energy and computational efficiency, while todays architectures and device technologies are facing major challenges making them incapable to meet these demands. Computation-in-Memory (... | {
"abstract": "We introduce a neural network with associative memory and a continuous topology, i.e. its processing units are elements of a continuous metric space and the state space is Euclidean and innite dimensional. This approach is intended as a generalization of the previous ones due to Little and Hop- ¯eld. T... |
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"abstract": "Deep learning has expanded essential role in healthcare system for monitoring and diagnosis support. Rather than trying to make any diagnostic decision, the system just acting as existing medical wisdom accessible. Therefore, this research aims to apply deep learning technique, convolutional neural net... | {
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"title": "Automated Bone Age Classification with Deep Neural Networks"
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"abstract": "This paper proposes a new approach to automatically quantify the severity of knee osteoarthritis (OA) from radiographs using deep convolutional neural networks (CNN). Clinically, knee OA severity is assessed using Kellgren \\& Lawrence (KL) grades, a five point scale. Previous work on automatically pre... |
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"abstract": "One look at the www.top500.org proves it: The exponential growth in supercomputer power has now gone on for decades. Every time physical realities — for example the limits in processor frequency — impinge on this trend, human ingenuity finds workarounds, for example, the evolution of multi-core technol... | {
"abstract": "The SpiNNaker system is a biologically-inspired massively parallel architecture of bespoke multi-core System-on-Chips. The aim of its design is to simulate up to a billion spiking neurons in (biological) real-time. Packets, in SpiNNaker, represent neural spikes and these travel through the two-dimensio... | {
"abstract": "Neural networks present a fundamentally different model of computation from the conventional sequential digital model, for which conventional hardware is typically poorly matched. However, a combination of model and scalability limitations has meant that neither dedicated neural chips nor FPGA’s have o... |
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"abstract": "Project portfolio management is about making strategic choices, resource allocation. Project portfolio management has been considered as the bridge between enterprise strategic management and project management. It focuses on project selection and chooses the right projects from the many opportunities ... | {
"abstract": "OVERVIEW:There are situations in which options pricing theory provides a better basis for the valuation of R&D projects than the traditional discounted cash flow techniques used in most business cases. R&D managers need to be able to recognize those situations in which the two approaches are likely to ... | {
"abstract": "SECURITIES markets, for all the publicity given to them and for all the interest they seem to command, have not until recently2 received the attention of economists such as is enjoyed by commodity markets. Nor has the decision-making procedure of investors in equities been as well documented and analyz... |
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"abstract": "Radiation therapy (RT) is an important modality in cancer treatment with >50% of cancer patients undergoing RT for curative or palliative intent. In patients with breast, lung, and esophageal cancer, as well as mediastinal malignancies, incidental RT dose to heart or vascular structures has been linked... | {
"abstract": "OBJECTIVES\nThe aim of this study was to assess whether global longitudinal strain (GLS) measured early during treatment with anthracycline (at a cumulative dose of 150mg/m2) can predict subsequent alterations in left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF).\n\n\nMETHODS AND RESULTS\nEighty-six patients s... | {
"abstract": "AIMS\nThe aim of this study was to assess whether baseline echocardiographic measures of left ventricular (LV) size and function predict the development of symptomatic heart failure or cardiac death (major adverse cardiac events, MACE) in patients treated with anthracyclines who have a pre-chemotherapy... |
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"abstract": "A comprehensive review of the literature on manoeuvring target tracking for both uncluttered and cluttered measurements is presented. Various discrete-time dynamical models including non-random input, random-input and switching or hybrid system manoeuvre models are presented. The problem of manoeuvre d... | {
"abstract": "When tracking targets in dense environments, sensor reports originating from sources other than the target being tracked (i.e., from clutter, thermal false alarms, other targets) are occasionally incorrectly used in track updating. As a result tracking performance degrades, and the error covariance mat... | {
"abstract": "Tracking performance in surveillance systems depends on two interrelated functions: track updating, the process of incorporating a new measurement into the track to update the system state estimate, and return-to-track correlation, the process of selecting which sensor return, if any, to use for track ... |
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"title": "Characterization of the tick-pathogen interface by functional genomics and proteomics"
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"abstract": "Four white-tailed deer were inoculated with either the Ap-V1 or NY-18 strain of Anaplasma phagocytophilum. Ixodes scapularis nymphs were then allowed to acquistion feed on the inoculated deer and molt to adults. Only an Ap-V1 infected deer was infected persistently and able to infect nymphal Ixodes sca... | {
"abstract": "BackgroundThe intracellular bacteria Anaplasma phagocytophilum are emerging zoonotic pathogens affecting human and animal health, and a good model for the study of tick-host-pathogen interactions. This tick-borne pathogen is transmitted by Ixodes scapularis in the United States where it causes human gr... |
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"abstract": "Abstract: Very few studies have prospectively followed living kidney donors the first year after donor surgery. In 2003, we in‐depth interviewed living kidney donors one wk after donation to explore their immediate experiences of going through nephrectomy. The aim of the current investigation was to e... | {
"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nThe growing shortage of cadaver kidneys, the limited possibilities to expand the living related donor pool and the good results obtained in our centre with poorly matched cadaver kidneys, led us in 1991 to begin accepting highly motivated, unrelated, living kidney donors who had a strong em... | {
"abstract": "BackgroundLimited data exist on the impact of living kidney donation on the donor-recipient relationship. Purpose of this study was to explore motivations to donate or accept a (living donor) kidney, whether expected relationship changes influence decision making and whether relationship changes are ac... |
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"abstract": "Energy harvesting with the utilization of the reverse electrowetting-on-dielectric (REWOD) phenomenon is a unique method of generating energy by implementing electrolyte impingement using mechanical modulation. The goal of wearable motion sensors that are self-powered has been undermined by the prior R... | {
"abstract": "Over the last decade electrical batteries have emerged as a critical bottleneck for portable electronics development. High-power mechanical energy harvesting can potentially provide a valuable alternative to the use of batteries, but, until now, a suitable mechanical-to-electrical energy conversion tec... | {
"abstract": "Decreasing feature sizes and increasing package densities are making thermal issues extremely important in IC design. Uneven thermal maps and hot spots in ICs cause physical stress and performance degradation. Many MEMS and microfluidics-based solutions were proposed in the past. We present a cooling m... |
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"abstract": "Abstract Introduction Neuraxial techniques, including epidural anaesthesia, are often used for perioperative pain control and are generally safe. However, both transient, mild and even severe, life-threatening neurologic complications can occur. Case presentation A seventy-eight-year-old man was admitt... | {
"abstract": "Background Pneumocephalus (PNC) is defined as a pathological collection of gas within the cranial cavity. The authors studied the effects of hyperbaric oxygenation (HBO2) therapy on a group of patients with PNC, comparing them with a control group to determine the relative impact on pneumocephalus volu... | {
"abstract": "Objective In this study, ingestion of Staphylococcus aureus and “bacteria killing” (BK) were measured to evaluate polymorphonuclear leukocyte (PMN) phagocytic functions and chemiluminescence response (CL) to phorbolmyristic acetate (PMA) as respiratory burst activity with regard to metabolic control pa... |
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"abstract": "The study of a GaN based mixed mode Class E/F3 power amplifier is presented in this article. For large signal simulations, we used the Cree transistor's nonlinear device model CG2H40010F and simulation is done at Keysight’s Advanced Design System (ADS) platform. The harmonic balance (HB) simulator is r... | {
"abstract": "A GaN HEMTs class EF3 power amplifier (PA) with π-type network for broadband operation is presented in this paper. The π-type network is constructed by shunt capacitance, series inductance and finite dc-feed inductance, where the series inductance includes the parasitic inductance effects of transistor... | {
"abstract": "The accurate extraction of inter-electrode coupling capacitances (IECCs) is a difficult but important issue in small-signal modeling of highly scaled transistors. In this paper, a new method of determining the IECCs for deep-submicron aluminium gallium nitride/gallium nitride (AlGaN/GaN) high electron–... |
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"abstract": "Chitin synthase (CHS) is a large transmembrane enzyme that polymerizes Uridine diphosphate N-acetylglucosamine into chitin. The genomes of insects often encode two chitin synthases, CHS1 and CHS2. Their functional roles have been investigated in several insects: CHS1 is mainly responsible for synthesiz... | {
"abstract": "Dietary introduction of bacterially expressed double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) has great potential for management of Leptinotarsa decemlineata. Identification of the most attractive candidate genes for RNA interference (RNAi) is the first step. In the present paper, three complete chitin synthase cDNA seque... | {
"abstract": "To accomplish consistent, long-term, integrated management (IPM) of the Colorado potato beetle, Leptinotarsa decemlineata (Say), research assessing the potential of novel, IPM-compatible insecticides is essential. Novaluron is a potent benzoylurea insecticide. In the present paper, we found that novalu... |
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"abstract": "Inflammation is an essential defense mechanism against harmful stimuli. However, uncontrolled inflammatory mechanisms culminate in disturbed responses that contribute to multiple serious diseases. Besides common synthetic drugs, there is a growing interest in optimizing the use of natural products as t... | {
"abstract": "BackgroundEpidemiological studies have shown that the offspring of mothers who experience diabetes mellitus during pregnancy are seven times more likely to develop health complications than the offspring of mothers who do not suffer from diabetes during pregnancy. The present study was designed to inve... | {
"abstract": "Vitamin A deficiency is a widely prevalent health disorder among millions of people worldwide. Introgression of crtRB1 and lcyE favourable alleles that enhance concentration of provitamin A in maize endosperm have been employed in maize biofortification programmes. To make marker-assisted selection (MA... |
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"abstract": "When we acquire tactile information about an object's surface, we actively move our hands. Past studies have shown a correlation between participants’ (i.e., touchers’) hand motion in tactile exploration and the evaluated tactile attributes of the object, which suggests that tactile perception can be e... | {
"abstract": "In daily life, certain textures and materials invite our touch motions. To seek the nature of such haptic invitation, we conducted a series of experiments consisting of sensory evaluations and ranking tasks for 36 materials to ascertain their perceptual properties and their degrees of haptic invitation... | {
"abstract": "In order to evaluate the efficiency of various commercial chemical fabric softeners, a technique of obtaining subjective assessment known as 'magnitude estimation' was used to estimate the fabric softness. Particular emphasis was given to subjective scaling and limits of human perception. Comparison be... |
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"abstract": "The use of conceptual models has long been confined to the data analysis stage of software development. In recent years, this has been extended to use them at run-time as well, for, among others, querying large amounts of data. This brings afore the need to have tractable logicbased reconstructions of ... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Context It is critical to ensure the quality of a software system in the initial stages of development, and several approaches have been proposed to ensure that a conceptual schema correctly describes the user’s requirements. Objective The main goal of this paper is to perform automated reason... | {
"abstract": "Within the mobile devices, the gaming consoles have the greatest graphic processing capabilities, in this category can be find the Nintendo DS and Sony PSP. Despite their resources there is minimal use of client-server architectures. This potential opens the possibility of using this kind of system whe... |
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"abstract": "Energy consumption in buildings has steadily increased. Buildings consume more energy than necessary due to suboptimal design and operation. Apart from retro-fitting, not much can be done with the design of the existing building, but the operation of the building can be improved. Ignoring or failing to... | {
"abstract": "Anomaly detection is an important problem in building energy management in order to identify energy theft and inefficiencies. However, it is hard to differentiate actual anomalies from the genuine changes in energy consumption due to seasonal variations and changes in personal settings such as holidays... | {
"abstract": "Psychiatric assistance for suicide prevention does not have a wide enough reach to help the number of victims who commit suicide every year. To help people cope with suicidal thoughts when formal care is unavailable, we propose an artificial intelligence, text-based conversational agent that generates ... |
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"abstract": "Clustering is traditionally an unsupervised task which is to find natural groupings or clusters in multidimensional data based on perceived similarities among the patterns. The purpose of clustering is to extract useful information from unlabeled data. In order to present the extracted useful knowledge... | {
"abstract": "Clustering on multi-type relational data has attracted more and more attention in recent years due to its high impact on various important applications, such as Web mining, e-commerce and bioinformatics. However, the research on general multi-type relational data clustering is still limited and prelimi... | {
"abstract": "Two novel approaches to extract text lines and words from handwritten document are presented. The line segmentation algorithm is based on locating the optimal succession of text and gap areas within vertical zones by applying Viterbi algorithm. Then, a text-line separator drawing technique is applied a... |
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"abstract": "Following a request from the German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR), the EFSA Panel for Contaminants in the Food Chain was asked to deliver a statement on the presence of microplastics and nanoplastics in food, with particular focus on seafood. Primary microplastics are plastics originally ... | {
"abstract": "Small plastic detritus, termed \"microplastics\", are a widespread and ubiquitous contaminant of marine ecosystems across the globe. Ingestion of microplastics by marine biota, including mussels, worms, fish, and seabirds, has been widely reported, but despite their vital ecological role in marine food... | {
"abstract": "Background ::: ::: There is growing evidence for the positive impact of mindfulness on wellbeing. Mindfulness-based mobile apps may have potential as an alternative delivery medium for training. While there are hundreds of such apps, there is little information on their quality. ::: ::: Objective ::: :... |
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