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"abstract": "Summary Niobium, osmium, scandium, tungsten and vanadium are transition metals naturally occuring in the environment, particularly in the Earth’s crust. Anthropogenic activities, primarily industrial technologies, have precipitated significant alternations in the concentration and distribution of these... | {
"abstract": "It has been suggested that tungsten embolisation coils in intracranial aneurysms may dissolve in situ. These coils are also used, in much larger quantities, for the occlusion of larger vessels outside the cranium. This study was performed to investigate whether tungsten embolisation coils may become de... | {
"abstract": "Abstract This review scrutinizes published information on the levels of 18 trace elements in blood plasma or serum of apparently healthy individuals. The disparities between the values reported by different investigators are examined critically. There is solid experimental evidence that much of the exi... |
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"abstract": "This document is about conveying the application of machine learning towards the field of encryption and how it can be strongly reinforced. The need for secret communication is heavily discussed alongside some password history and why information should never be passed on without security. As businesse... | {
"abstract": "Using fully homomorphic encryption scheme, we construct fully homomorphic encryption scheme FHE4GT that can homomorphically compute an encryption of the greater-than bit that indicates x > x' or not, given two ciphertexts c and c' of x and x', respectively, without knowing the secret key. Then, we cons... | {
"abstract": "In this paper, a novel superpixel-based approach is introduced for unsupervised change detection using remote sensing images. The proposed approach contains three steps: 1) Superpixel segmentation. The simple linear iterative cluster (SLIC) algorithm is applied to obtain lattice-like homogenous superpi... |
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"abstract": "There are many reasons for studying the community structure in citation network, whose underlying community structure may help us understand both the obvious and the more subtle interrelations between subfields, which are so important for understand the research structure and paradigm structure of a su... | {
"abstract": "We investigate the community structure of physics subfields in the citation network of all Physical Review publications between 1893 and August 2007. We focus on well-cited publications (those receiving more than 100 citations), and apply modularity maximization to uncover major communities that corres... | {
"abstract": "We study the problem of virtual machine (VM) placement and migration in a data center. In the current approaches, VMs are assigned to physical servers using on-demand provisioning. Such an approach is simple but it often results in a poor performance due to resource fragmentation. Additionally, sub-opt... |
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"abstract": "We give a polyomino characterisation of recurrent configurations of the sandpile model on the complete bipartite graph Km;n in which one designated vertex is the sink. We present a bijection from these recurrent con- figurations to decorated parallelogram polyominoes whose bounding box is a m n rectang... | {
"abstract": "Parking functions are central in many aspects of combinatorics. We define in this communication a generalization of parking functions which we call (p1,..., pk)-parking functions. We give a characterization of them in terms of parking functions and we show that they can be interpreted as recurrent conf... | {
"abstract": "This paper presents a combinatorial theory of formal power series. The combinatorial interpretation of formal power series is based on the concept of species of structures. A categorical approach is used to formulate it. A new proof of Cayley’s formula for the number of labelled trees is given as well ... |
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"abstract": "In this study, we investigate the potential of Large Language Models to complement biomedical knowledge graphs in the training of semantic models for the biomedical and clinical domains. Drawing on the wealth of the UMLS knowledge graph and harnessing cutting-edge Large Language Models, we propose a ne... | {
"abstract": "State of the art models using deep neural networks have become very good in learning an accurate mapping from inputs to outputs. However, they still lack generalization capabilities in conditions that differ from the ones encountered during training. This is even more challenging in specialized, and kn... | {
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"title": "Machine Comprehension using BiDAF"
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"abstract": "The catastrophic losses from the combined 2004 and 2005 hurricane seasons resulted in significant price increases and mass non-renewals in the residential property insurance market in Florida. The public outcry to these insurer decisions yielded a highly salient insurance pricing environment. On Novemb... | {
"abstract": "On September 14, 2005, a press report announced the Mississippi Attorney General's intention to file a suit against the insurance industry forcing homeowners’ insurers to pay flood damage claims despite the standard water damage exclusion. This increase in uncertainty regarding whether insurance contra... | {
"abstract": "We examine the impact of the events leading up to and including the passage of the Financial Services Modernization Act (FSMA) of 1999 on the stock returns of banks, brokerage firms, and insurance companies. We find that the impact is positive for all institutions. Bank gains are positively related to ... |
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"abstract": "Deep brain stimulation (DBS) is used to treat the motor symptoms of Parkinson's disease patients by stimulating the subthalamic nucleus. However, optimization of DBS is still needed since the performance of the neural electrodes is limited by the body's response to the implant. This review discusses th... | {
"abstract": "Over the last several years, there has been a growing interest in neural implants for the study and diagnostics of neurological disorders as well as for the symptomatic treatment of central nervous system related diseases. One of the major challenges is the trade-off between small electrode sizes for h... | {
"abstract": "Mouse mAb MS-1, raised against human spleen, detects an endothelial cell antigen abundantly expressed by the sinusoidal endothelia of spleen, lymph node, liver, and adrenal cortex, but absent from nonsinusoidal continuous endothelia in these organs. Immunoelectron microscopy of splenic tissue demonstra... |
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"abstract": "Blood doping practices in sports have been around for at least half a century and will likely remain for several years to come. The main reason for the various forms of blood doping to be common is that they are easy to perform, and the effects on exercise performance are gigantic. Yet another reason f... | {
"abstract": "Blood passport has been suggested as an indirect tool to detect various kinds of blood manipulations. Autologous blood transfusions are currently undetectable, and the objective of this study was to examine the sensitivities of different blood markers and blood passport approaches in order to determine... | {
"abstract": "We studied the effect of recombinant human erythropoietin (rhEPO) on erythropoiesis when given at different time intervals to healthy adults. 15 volunteers were randomly selected to receive rhEPO (2 x 300 U/kg) and parenteral iron (2 x 200mg) either within a 24 h or 72 h interval. Controls received par... |
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"abstract": "OBJECTIVE\nTo estimate the incremental cost-effectiveness (ICE) of services from a primary therapist compared with traditional physical therapists and/or occupational therapists for managing rheumatoid arthritis (RA), from the societal perspective.\n\n\nMETHODS\nPatients with RA were randomly assigned ... | {
"abstract": "OBJECTIVE\nTo assess the difference in costs of home-based versus clinic-based physiotherapy (PT) for patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) from a societal perspective.\n\n\nMETHODS\nA cost analysis was performed using statistical and financial information provided by The Arthritis Society, Ontario D... | {
"abstract": "Aim To assess the reasons for low influenza vaccination coverage in Poland, including knowledge of influenza and attitudes toward influenza vaccination. Methods This was a cross-sectional, anonymous, self-administered survey in primary care patients in Lodzkie voivodship (central Poland). The study par... |
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"abstract": "Essential (volatile) oil from leaves of Artemisia monosperma L. belonging to family Asteraceae, and aerial parts of Tamarix aphylla L. (Athel) belonging to family Tamaricaceae were collected from the desert of Ha'il region, northern region of Saudi Arabia, hydro distilled by Clevenger apparatus and ana... | {
"abstract": "Essential oils obtained from aerial parts of Artemisia persica and Artemisia turcomanica were analyzed by GC/MS. While 28 components representing 91.01 % of A. persica were identified, the identity of 50 components, constituting 81.93 % of the total oil, was confirmed in A. turcomanica. β-thujone was t... | {
"abstract": "Guar (Cyamopsis tetragonoloba L. Taub) is a drought tolerant and multipurpose grain legume cash crop grown primarily under rainfed conditions in several countries. The effect of various growth regulators and their combinations on a variety of explants, namely the embryo, cotyledons, cotyledonary nodes,... |
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"abstract": "Three-dimensional (3D) imaging technologies have been increasingly explored in academia and the industrial sector, especially the ones yielding point clouds. However, obtaining these data can still be expensive and time-consuming, reducing the efficiency of procedures dependent on large datasets, such ... | {
"abstract": "The performance of an automated driving system is crucially affected by its environmental perception. The vehicle's perception of its environment provides the foundation for the automated responses computed by the system's logic algorithms. As perception relies on the vehicle's sensors, simulating sens... | {
"abstract": "We introduce CARLA, an open-source simulator for autonomous driving research. CARLA has been developed from the ground up to support development, training, and validation of autonomous urban driving systems. In addition to open-source code and protocols, CARLA provides open digital assets (urban layout... |
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"abstract": "This paper introduces a novel neural-network-based approach for extracting some eigenpairs of real normal matrices of order n. Based on the proposed algorithm, the eigenvalues that have the largest and smallest modulus, real parts, or absolute values of imaginary parts can be extracted, respectively, a... | {
"abstract": "Principal component analysis (PCA) and minor component analysis (MCA) are a powerful methodology for a wide variety of applications such as pattern recognition and signal processing. In this paper, we first propose a differential equation for the generalized eigenvalue problem.We prove that the stable ... | {
"abstract": "A neural approach for solving the total least square (TLS) problem is presented in the paper. It is based on a linear neuron with a self-stabilizing neural algorithm, capable of resolving the TLS problem present in the parameter estimation of an adaptive FIR filters for system identification, where noi... |
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"abstract": "Analysis of published data reveals that the introduction of more basic amino acid residues in the flexible N-terminal region of the human tumour necrosis factor alpha (TNF) molecule indicates a weak but consistent trend towards increased in vitro cytotoxicity, especially when the effect of N-terminal l... | {
"abstract": "We investigated optimal conditions for cytotoxicity to tumor cell lines by recombinant human tumor necrosis factor (rhTNF) and the effect of amino-terminal deletions on the bioactivity of the rhTNF molecule. Two of four deletion muteins (-4 and -7) of rhTNF exhibit 2- to 3-fold enhancement of cytotoxic... | {
"abstract": "Purpose: The human chromosome 19q13.11 deletion syndrome is associated with a variable phenotype that includes aplasia cutis congenita (ACC) and ectrodactyly as specific features. UBA2 (ubiquitin-like modifier-activating enzyme 2) lies adjacent to the minimal deletion overlap region. We aim to define t... |
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"abstract": "Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder is associated with reduced cortical blood flow that is reversible with exposure to the psychostimulant methylphenidate (MPH). D3 dopamine receptors modulate stimulant‐induced changes in blood flow and are associated with reward processing during young adulthood,... | {
"abstract": "Converging evidence implicates the dopaminergic system and the prefrontal and nigrostriatal regions in the pathophysiology of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Using positron emission tomography (PET) with [fluorine-18]fluorodopa (F18-DOPA), we compared the integrity of the presynaptic d... | {
"abstract": "The delivery of health care services is changing dramatically. Increasing longevity, shortening of hospital stays, scientific and technological advances and population mobility contribute to the growing complexity of nursing. Nursing education must keep pace with these changes, which require new knowle... |
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"abstract": "Despite considerable effort, no physical mechanism has been experimentally shown to explain the N-terminal codon bias in prokaryotic genomes. Using a systematic study of synonymous substitutions in two endogenous E. coli genes, we show that interactions between the coding region and the upstream Shine–... | {
"abstract": "Several genes exhibit gene dosage toxicity yet its molecular underpinnings remain unknown. Here we demonstrate that overexpression of DHFR in E. coli causes toxic metabolic imbalance triggered by interactions with several enzymes involved in 1-carbon metabolism, in particular GlyA and PurH. DHFR overex... | {
"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nThe compact form of the chromatin fiber is a critical regulator of fundamental processes such as transcription and replication. These reactions can occur only when the fiber is unraveled and the DNA strands contained within are exposed to interact with nuclear proteins. While progress on id... |
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"abstract": "Background Despite the wealth of evidence regarding effective health behavior change techniques using digital interventions to focus on residents of high-income countries, there is limited information of a similar nature for low- and middle-income countries. Objective The aim of this review is to ident... | {
"abstract": "This article focuses on a novel social media-based system that addresses dengue prevention through an integration of three components: predictive surveillance, civic engagement and health education. The aim was to conduct a potential receptivity assessment of this system among smartphone users in the c... | {
"abstract": "Background Approximately 128 countries and 3.9 billion people are at risk of dengue infection. Incidence of dengue has increased over the past decades, becoming a growing public health concern for countries with populations that are increasingly susceptible to this vector-borne disease, such as Sri Lan... |
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"abstract": "Aim: The aim of this investigation was to evaluate the effect of incorporating titanium dioxide (TiO2) particles on the compressive strength of modified calcium silicate-based cement (CSC). Methods: The modified calcium silicate-based cement (CSC) used comprised 80 wt% white Portland-limestone cement a... | {
"abstract": "Nanomaterials continue to bring promising advances to science and technology. In concert have come calls for increased regulatory oversight to ensure their appropriate identification and evaluation, which has led to extensive discussions about nanomaterial definitions. Numerous nanomaterial definitions... | {
"abstract": "Silver nanoparticles (AgNP) have gained attention over the years due to the antimicrobial function of silver, which has been exploited industrially to produce consumer goods that vary in type and application. Undoubtedly the increase of production and consumption of these silver-containing products wil... |
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"abstract": "This thesis is concerned with building autonomous exploratory robotic controllers in an online, on-board approach, with no requirement for ground truth or human intervention in the experimental setting.This study is primarily motivated by autonomous robotics, specifically autonomous robot swarms. In th... | {
"abstract": "Intelligent adaptive curiosity (IAC) was initially introduced as a developmental mechanism allowing a robot to self-organize developmental trajectories of increasing complexity without preprogramming the particular developmental stages. In this paper, we argue that IAC and other intrinsically motivated... | {
"abstract": "Contextual information has been recognized as an important factor to consider in user-aware Recommendation Systems. Since contextual information can be used as a significant factor in modeling user behavior, various context-aware recommendation methods are proposed. However, the state-of-the-art contex... |
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"abstract": "The tone languages of sub-Saharan Africa raise challenging questions for the design of new writing systems. Marking too much or too little tone can have grave consequences for the usability of an orthography. Orthography development, past and present, rests on many sociolinguistic issues having little ... | {
"abstract": "Advances in storage technology make it possible to house virtually unlimited quantities of recorded speech data online. Advances in character-encoding technology make it possible to create platform-independent transcriptions. Advances in web technology make it possible to publish this data for essentia... | {
"abstract": "The ability of European nation-states to control migration has been at the forefront of the immigration debate. Some scholars have argued that international human rights and the freedom of circulation required by a global economy and regional markets are the two sides of a liberal regime that undermine... |
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"abstract": "Guanylate cyclase C (GUCY2C) is a transmembrane receptor expressed on the luminal aspect of the intestinal epithelium. Its ligands include bacterial heat-stable enterotoxins responsible for traveler's diarrhea, the endogenous peptide hormones uroguanylin and guanylin, and the synthetic agents, linaclot... | {
"abstract": "The gastrointestinal (GI) tract provides a compartmentalized interface with an enormous repertoire of immune and metabolic activities, where the multicellular structure of the mucosa has acquired mechanisms to sense luminal factors, such as nutrients, microbes, and a variety of host-derived and microbi... | {
"abstract": "Patients with inflammatory bowel disease have an increased risk of developing colorectal cancer, and this risk is related to disease duration, extent, and cumulative inflammation burden. Carcinogenesis follows the principles of Darwinian evolution, whereby somatic cells acquire genomic alterations that... |
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"abstract": "Plasminogen activator inhibitor‐1 (PAI‐1, also known as SERPINE1) is a member of the serine protease inhibitor (SERPIN) superfamily and is the primary physiological regulator of urokinase‐type plasminogen activator (uPA) and tissue‐type plasminogen activator (tPA) activity. Although the principal funct... | {
"abstract": "Background—Plasminogen activator inhibitor type 1 (PAI-1) inhibits neointima formation after vascular injury. Hyperlipidemia modulates the expression of multiple genes, however, and the effects of PAI-1 on the arterial response to injury under hyperlipidemic conditions are unknown. The purpose of this ... | {
"abstract": "Patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) were treated with a cellular vaccine, which consisted of autologous collagen-reactive T-cells. This study showed that antigen-specific proliferative activity of the peripheral blood mononuclear cells was significantly downregulated after T-cell vaccination in RA ... |
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"abstract": "Abstract Spermatozoa were collected by cannulae from the rete testis and cauda epididymis of conscious dairy bulls and ejaculated spermatozoa were collected by artificial vagina. Spermatozoa were washed free of fluid and incubated with glutamate-U- 14 C at 37C for 60 minutes. Although glutamate probabl... | {
"abstract": "Summary. A technique for collecting spermatozoa and fluid directly from the testis ofthe living bull is described. Rete testis fluid was secreted at a mean rate of 12\\m=.\\0 ml/100 g of testis/day and spermatozoa were present at a mean concentration of 92 \\m=x\\ 106 cells/ml. Chemical analyses have b... | {
"abstract": "Summary. Interstitial oxygen tension was recorded polarographically with gold-plated needle electrodes in the testis and cauda epididymidis of the rabbit, sheep and dog. The mean epididymal resting oxygen tension was about twice that of the testis in the rabbit and sheep, and nearly three times testis ... |
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"abstract": "This paper provides a framework to assess correlations between the change of institutional functions (political centralization, plurality, rule of law, security of property, economic liberty, measured by 12 indicators) and improvements in human development (income, education, health) and violence limit... | {
"abstract": "Although we cannot conceive of processes of economic growth that do not involve institutional change, in this essay we outline some reasons why one should be cautious about grounding a theory of growth on institutions. We emphasize how very different institutional structures have often been found to be... | {
"abstract": "Globalization and poverty represent broad, multidimensional concepts which refer to phenomena that transform themselves across space and time. The literature on the impacts of globalization on poverty points to highly variable outcomes, both positive and negative, as well as multiple causalities, chann... |
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"abstract": "This dissertation identifies existing issues with major copyright protection mechanisms used on Android. First, the general problem of weak copyright protections utilized on major app stores is introduced, and required fundamentals presented. A security analysis shows more details, followed by practica... | {
"abstract": "Digital content providers seek to restrict usage by implementing conditional access. One such scenario is the security aspects of digital video broadcast (DVB-S). There has been a history of attacks on this technology to circumvent any security measures and some techniques have been countered by the de... | {
"abstract": "Air traffic in the UK has increased rapidly in the past two decades and is forecast to grow at a rate of 4.3% per annum between 1998 and 2020. The failure to develop the air traffic system in order to cope with this growth has had undesirable consequences, e.g. a rise in flight delays and near misses. ... |
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"abstract": "Multimodal learning analytics (MMLA), which has become increasingly popular, can help provide an accurate understanding of learning processes. However, it is still unclear how multimodal data is integrated into MMLA. By following the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (P... | {
"abstract": "To precisely understand human gaze behaviors in three-party conversations, this work is dedicated to look into whether the speaker can be reliably identified from the interlocutors in a three-party conversation on the basis of the interactive behaviors of eye contact, where speech signals are not provi... | {
"abstract": "In contrast to the variety of listening behaviors produced in human-to-human interaction, most virtual agents sit or stand passively when a user speaks. This is a reflection of the fact that although the correct responsive behavior of a listener during a conversation is often related to the semantics, ... |
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"title": "Functional regions and areas: literature review according to application fields"
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"abstract": "Out of the many ingredients that together build urban areas, three deserve particular consideration as their relationship is evolving: the functional centrality, the morphology of built-up areas and the way of life. Those three characteristics do not necessarily match along territorial lines anymore. T... | {
"abstract": "This report describes the participation in the one-child certificate program by Koreans living in China, using data from a household survey conducted in 1986 in Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture, Jilin Province. Although the Koreans and all other minorities are exempt from China's strict one-child f... |
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"abstract": "Most robots are unclothed. However, we believe that robot clothes present an underutilized opportunity for the field of designing interactive systems. Clothes can help robots become better robots––by helping them be useful in a new, wider array of contexts, or better adapt and function in the contexts ... | {
"abstract": "We describe the design and implementation of Blossom, a social robot that diverges from convention by being flexible both internally and externally. Internally, Blossom»s actuation mechanism is a compliant tensile structure supporting a free-floating platform. This design enables organic and lifelike m... | {
"abstract": "This paper presents the application of an embedded camera system for detecting laser spot in ::: the shooting simulator. The proposed shooting simulator uses a specific target box, where the circular ::: pattern target is mounted. The embedded camera is installed inside the box to capture the circular ... |
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"abstract": "The paper aims to clarify the use of the bi-spectrum to detect non-linearity in time series. Further we show how patterns in the bi-spectrum are useful for identifying the frequency (or bi-frequency) components involved in the nonlinear interaction. The bi-spectrum, a third-order spectrum, has properti... | {
"abstract": "Detection and identification of induction machine faults through the stator current signal using higher order spectra analysis is presented. This paper proposes two higher order spectra techniques, namely the power spectrum and the slices of bi-spectrum used for the analysis of induction machine stator... | {
"abstract": "The aim of this paper is to develop a technique for detecting an inter-turn short-circuit in a wound rotor induction machine working as generator by using the bispectral analysis. Bispectral analysis is able to provide more information than power spectrum analysis. In the present investigation, the rot... |
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"abstract": "Business intelligence (BI) and business process management (BPM) are widely implemented in various organizations. However, their impact on organizational performance strongly depends on their alignment. Previous research has focused mainly on large companies. Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) a... | {
"abstract": "Purpose ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: The purpose of this paper is to provide a better understanding of the determinants of business intelligence system (BIS) adoption stages. It develops and empirically tests a conceptual model for assessing the determinants of BIS diffusion on the evaluation, adoption, and use... | {
"abstract": "In this paper, a case study conducted on a small third‐party logistics (3PL) company in Hong Kong is presented. This company is interesting in that it has been designated as the “king” of Hong Kong's 3PL (in‐bound) logistics companies. The company has been successful in its overall business performance... |
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"abstract": "A low cost, high precision hollow structure MEMS IMU has been developed to measure the roll angular rate of a high-spinning projectile. The hollow MEMS IMU is realized by designing the scheme of non-centroid configuration of multiple accelerometers. Two dual-axis accelerometers are respectively mounted... | {
"abstract": "We examine the feasibility of designing an accelerometer-based (or gyroscope-free) inertial navigation system that uses only accelerometer measurements to compute the linear and angular motions of a rigid body. The accelerometer output equation is derived to relate the linear and angular motions of a r... | {
"abstract": "Electronic sensing circuitry and micro-electromechanical sense elements can be integrated to produce inertial instruments for applications unheard of a few years ago. This paper describes the Sandia M/sup 3/EMS fabrication process, inertial instruments that have been fabricated, and the results of init... |
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"abstract": "Ultrasound can be used as a carrier to realize wireless communication to and from a metal-enclosed space, which has the characteristics such as immunity to the electromagnetic shielding effect and non-destructive penetration of metal obstacles. This paper firstly reviews the previous studies in the fie... | {
"abstract": "The process control industry has shown great interest in implementation of low cost, low power wireless sensor networks. Such networks are much easier to deploy and reconfigure compared to wired alternatives. In this paper, we describe the use of radio-frequency (RF) based sensor networks in sensing an... | {
"abstract": "Breast cancer is a severe threat to the health and lives of women due to its difficult early diagnosis and the unsatisfactory therapeutic efficacy of breast cancer treatments. The development of theranostic strategies to combat breast cancer with high accuracy and effectiveness is therefore urgently ne... |
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"abstract": "One of the main outcomes of aerobic endurance exercise training is the improved maximal oxygen uptake, and this is pivotal to the improved work capacity that follows the exercise training. Improved maximal oxygen uptake in turn is at least partly achieved because exercise training increases the ability... | {
"abstract": "Background—Physical fitness and level of regular exercise are closely related to cardiovascular health. A regimen of regular intensity-controlled treadmill exercise was implemented and withdrawn to identify cellular mechanisms associated with exercise capacity and maximal oxygen uptake (&OV0312;2max). ... | {
"abstract": "To obtain quantitative information on changes in myocyte size in hearts with increased myocardial mass light microscopical morphometry was used in fixed and stained myocardial tissue sections. A modification of the azan staining procedure made longitudinal (sarcolemma) and transverse (intercalated disc... |
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"abstract": "Deep learning methods typically require vast amounts of training data to reach their full potential. While some publicly available datasets exists, domain specific data always needs to be collected and manually labeled, an expensive, time consuming and error prone process. Training with synthetic data ... | {
"abstract": "Deep Learning methods usually require huge amounts of training data to perform at their full potential, and often require expensive manual labeling. Using synthetic images is therefore very attractive to train object detectors, as the labeling comes for free, and several approaches have been proposed t... | {
"abstract": "Given a set of texts discussing a particular entity (e.g., customer reviews of a smartphone), aspect based sentiment analysis (ABSA) identifies prominent aspects of the entity (e.g., battery, screen) and an average sentiment score per aspect. We focus on aspect term extraction (ATE), one of the core pr... |
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"abstract": "The increasing penetration of electric vehicles (EVs) in current and future transport fleets imposes significant loading on the existing power grids. Moreover, dc is experiencing renewed interest with rapid growth in electronic loads, the move towards renewable energy sources (RES) and distributed gene... | {
"abstract": "Distribution systems are supplying many customers with electricity requiring a high number of equipment and lines. It is tedious to analyze all low-voltage (LV) networks of a distribution system operator (DSO). Because of the large number of LV-networks within the system benchmark networks are required... | {
"abstract": "An easy and cheap fabrication method for intricate polydimethylsiloxane microfluidic devices is presented. The acrylonitrile butadiene styrene scaffold‐removal method uses cheap, off‐the‐shelf materials and equipment for the fabrication of intricate microfluidic devices. The versatility of the method i... |
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"abstract": "Manually annotated corpora are indispensable resources, yet for many annotation tasks, such as the creation of treebanks, there exist multiple corpora with different and incompatible annotation guidelines. This leads to an inefficient use of human expertise, but it could be remedied by integrating know... | {
"abstract": "The large combined search space of joint word segmentation and Part-of-Speech (POS) tagging makes efficient decoding very hard. As a result, effective high order features representing rich contexts are inconvenient to use. In this work, we propose a novel stacked subword model for this task, concerning... | {
"abstract": "This paper focuses on sensing of McKibben actuator shrinkage using a fiber sensor. Control of McKibben actuators requires sensing their shrinkage without preventing their deformation. We applied electro-conductive yarn, with resistance related to its extensional strain, suggesting that measuring the re... |
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"abstract": "Exosome‐encapsulated microRNAs (miRNAs) have been identified as potential biomarkers in autoimmune diseases. However, little is known about the role of exosome‐delivered miRNAs in rheumatoid arthritis (RA). In this study, we investigated the profile of specific exosomal miRNAs by microarray analysis of... | {
"abstract": "Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are heterogeneous populations of nano- and micro-sized vesicles secreted by various cell types. There is mounting evidence that EVs have widespread roles in transporting proteins, lipids, and nucleic acids between cells and serve as mediators of intercellular communication.... | {
"abstract": "Application of Wiener-Neural model for identification of a synchronous generator is investigated in this paper. The proposed method is applied on a simulated synchronous generator with saturation effect. In this study, the field voltage is considered as the input and the active output power and the ter... |
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"abstract": "Drawing on psychology-derived theories and methods, a questionnaire survey compared principal kinds of work orientation, job content and mental well-being between self-employed and organisationally employed professional workers. Self-employment was found to be particularly associated with energised wel... | {
"abstract": "This paper reviews trends in self-employment up to the 1980s and beyond, and looks at the composition and characteristics of the self-employed workforce. It examines the causes of the current rise in self-employment - in particular employers' strategy of transferring jobs and functions from their `core... | {
"abstract": "Social mobility In the petite bourgeoisie After many years of neglect the middle strata of advanced industrial societies are now the subject of a good deal of academic interest. Much of the new work is still concerned with the role of the small businessmen, self-employed artisans and white collar worke... |
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"abstract": "ABSTRACT This paper initialises an effort to explore the impact of an innovative systems thinking approach for service operations design on creating innovation. A qualitative exploratory case study approach in two of the UK’s service sector departments was conducted, using face-to-face semi-structured ... | {
"abstract": "Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine how the development and experimentation with a designer-assisted and collaborative concept-creating approach can provide new insights into the emergent field of service innovations. Design/methodology/approach – The paper were independent researcher wit... | {
"abstract": "A field theoretical foundation of the TLM method is presented in this paper. In the derivation of the condensed symmetric TLM node, the Method of Moments is applied to Maxwell's equations to obtain discretized field equations. It is shown that the traditional mapping between wave amplitudes and electri... |
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"abstract": ": Learner and learning content are the key factors contributing towards the success of any adaptive learning system. Each learner searches for an adequate environment to his needs which offers personalized and adaptive content that provides a learning experience to be more successful and more useful to... | {
"abstract": "The design of collaborative learning (CL) scenarios that increase both students’ learning and motivation is a challenge that the CSCL community has been addressing in the past few years. On one hand, CSCL design (i.e. scripts) has been shown to be effective to support meaningful interactions and better... | {
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"title": "Galaxy Morphology Classification"
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"abstract": "This thesis studies the notion of stability in software engineering with the aim of understanding its dimensions, facets and aspects, as well as characterising it. The thesis further investigates the aspect of behavioural stability at the architectural level, as a property concerned with the architectu... | {
"abstract": "An abstraction is the reification and conceptualization of a distinction. We use the process of forming abstractions to make sense of the world, i.e., to form concepts. Once created we are often able to externalize these concepts as software. Abstractions are what give software elegance. Abstractions b... | {
"abstract": "—The concepts of modularity, abstraction, and encapsulation have been an integral part of software engineering for over four decades. However, their definitions and application vary between software development paradigms. In some cases, conflicting definitions exist for a single paradigm. This paper fi... |
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"abstract": "ABSTRACT Cefepime-tazobactam (WCK 4282) is currently under clinical development for use at a dosage of 2 g/2 g every 8 h. A total of 7,981 isolates were collected from 146 medical centers (39 countries) in 2014 as a part of the SENTRY Antimicrobial Surveillance Program, and their susceptibilities to ce... | {
"abstract": "Objective: To perform a qualitative systematic review of the evidence comparing traditional with prolonged intermittent or continuous infusions of cefepime based on clinical and pharmacodynamic outcomes. Data Sources: PubMed (1946 to October 2014), EMBASE (1980 to October 2014), CENTRAL, Cochrane Datab... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Background Despite reports questioning its efficacy, cefepime remains a first-line option in febrile neutropenia. We aimed to re-evaluate the role of cefepime in this setting. Methods We searched the PubMed and EMBASE databases to identify randomized comparisons of (1) cefepime vs alternative ... |
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"abstract": "This study analyzes the technology fusion phenomena and its characteristics, focusing on the solar photovoltaic (PV) industry in South Korea. Co-occurrence networks of international patent classification (IPC) codes have been analyzed based on the photovoltaic patents in South Korea during a 15-year pe... | {
"abstract": "To compare electricity-generation fuel mixes in two countries with multiple energy policy goals and unique circumstances, we look at three scenarios reflecting the carbon emissions mitigation targets, differences in energy security levels, and electricity-generating costs of each nation. Korea and Mong... | {
"abstract": "This paper analyzes the impact of load factor, facility and generator types on the productivity of Korean electric power plants. In order to capture important differences in the effect of load policy on power output, we use a semiparametric smooth coefficient (SPSC) model that allows us to model hetero... |
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"abstract": "A multiple transmitter coil wireless power transfer system that eliminates the frequency splitting effect as a result of overcoupling between very close transmitter coils is proposed. The use of coils of different sizes in the transmitter array is proposed in order to eliminate the splitting of the mag... | {
"abstract": "In this paper, an efficient method is proposed to eliminate frequency splitting in nonradiative wireless power transfer via magnetic resonance coupling. In this method, two nonidentical resonant coils (NIRCs) are used as wireless power transmitter and receiver, respectively. According to the elliptic i... | {
"abstract": "In power system full dynamic simulation besides the electric-mechanical transient processes of dynamic elements of power system should be simulated in detail, the detailed dynamic models of mid- and long-term processes are necessary. The dynamic models, such as thermal power plant, hydroelectric power ... |
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"abstract": "The characterization and understanding of body to body communication channels is a pivotal step in the development of emerging wireless applications such as ad-hoc personnel localisation and context aware body area networks (CABAN). The latter is a recent innovation where the inherent mobility of body ... | {
"abstract": "The handshake gesture is an important part of the social etiquette in many cultures. It lies at the core of many human interactions, either in formal or informal settings: exchanging greetings, offering congratulations, and finalizing a deal are all activities that typically either start or finish with... | {
"abstract": "This paper presents a comparative study of type-2 fuzzy logic systems with respect to interval type-2 and type-1 fuzzy logic systems to show the efficiency and performance of a generalized type-2 fuzzy logic controller (GT2FLC). We used different types of fuzzy logic systems for designing the fuzzy con... |
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"abstract": "Abstract: Social media blurs the boundaries of social life and brings together different spheres such as family, work or friends in the same online space. Users begin to post less intimate details about themselves, and they want to see fewer details of the private lives of others as well. Users want to... | {
"abstract": "This study approaches online social networking from the opposite direction, focusing on unsociability, in an attempt to find out how friendships are negotiated and terminated online. The research data was obtained via an online survey (N=107) targeted to SNS users. The findings show that Facebook is cl... | {
"abstract": "This study investigates social media users' preferences of encountering or actively avoiding undesired content and conflicts in social interaction with others. Based on a nationwide survey (N=3706) conducted in Finland and using principal component analysis, we identify three different types of social ... |
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"abstract": "With easy availability of large data sets online, like product catalogs and open data, a common business problem is to allow users to search them for information using natural interfaces. Dialog systems provide such an interface where a user can type or speak to the system and ask for information, and ... | {
"abstract": "This paper studies conversational approaches to information retrieval, presenting a theory and model of information interaction in a chat setting. In particular, we consider the question of what properties would be desirable for a conversational information retrieval system so that the system can allow... | {
"abstract": "This paper describes Movie-DiC a Movie Dialogue Corpus recently collected for research and development purposes. The collected dataset comprises 132,229 dialogues containing a total of 764,146 turns that have been extracted from 753 movies. Details on how the data collection has been created and how it... |
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"abstract": "Objectives We aim to describe a rare case of a young patient with a catastrophic antiphospholipid syndrome (cAPS) who evolved to systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Methodology: Case report description. Case report A 15 years old girl came to the emergency department with acute peritonitis secondary to... | {
"abstract": "Given the lack of information about catastrophic antiphospholipid syndrome (APS) in pediatric patients, the objective of the current study was to describe the clinical characteristics, laboratory features, treatment, and outcome of pediatric patients with catastrophic APS and compare them with the adul... | {
"abstract": "Objective. Neonatal sepsis is a major cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. We analyzed the spectrum of pathogens causing neonatal sepsis in various Arabic countries. Methods. We analyzed hospital-based published studies on neonatal sepsis in eight Arabic countries documenting etiological pathoge... |
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"abstract": "Many patient-relevant outcomes, particularly quality of life measures such as pain or function, are routinely measured on a continuous scale. However, the interpretation of continuous outcomes is difficult, particularly when considering application to clinical practice and shared decision-making. Makin... | {
"abstract": "OBJECTIVE\nTo compare results from meta-analyses for mean differences in minimal important difference (MID) units (MDMID), when MID is treated as a random variable vs. a constant.\n\n\nSTUDY DESIGN AND SETTING\nMeta-analyses of published data. We calculated the variance of MDMID as a random variable us... | {
"abstract": "In this work, we propose a subspace-based algorithm for direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation, referred to as multi-step knowledge-aided iterative estimation of signal parameters via rotational invariance techniques (ESPRIT) method (Multi-Step KAI-ESPRIT), which achieves more accurate estimates than th... |
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"abstract": "Feature descriptor matching is a critical step is many computer vision applications such as image stitching, image retrieval and visual localization. However, it is often affected by many practical factors which will degrade its performance. Among these factors, illumination variations are the most inf... | {
"abstract": "We propose a new dataset for learning local image descriptors which can be used for significantly improved patch matching. Our proposed dataset consists of an order of magnitude more number of scenes, images, and positive and negative correspondences compared to the currently available Multi-View Stere... | {
"abstract": "A large number of vision applications rely on matching keypoints across images. The last decade featured an arms-race towards faster and more robust keypoints and association algorithms: Scale Invariant Feature Transform (SIFT)[17], Speed-up Robust Feature (SURF)[4], and more recently Binary Robust Inv... |
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"abstract": "The aim of our review has been to give an appropriate idea of analogies and differences between primitive MDS (p-MDS) and t-MDS throughout an accurate reviewing of English peer-reviewed literature focusing on clinical, cytogenetic, epigenetic, and somatic mutation features of these two groups of diseas... | {
"abstract": "The pathological hallmark of myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) is marrow dysplasia, which represents the basis of the WHO classification of these disorders. This classification provides clinicians with a useful tool for defining the different subtypes of MDS and individual prognosis. The WHO proposal has... | {
"abstract": "Background Myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) are a group of clonal neoplasms characterized by ineffective hematopoiesis. Hypomethylating agent (HMA) therapy is one of the mainstays of MDS therapy. Failure of HMA therapy is related to poor outcome; hence, new therapeutic approaches are warranted in these ... |
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"abstract": "We review topics related to the first moment of azimuthal anisotropy ( ), commonly known as directed flow, focusing on both charged particles and identified particles from heavy-ion collisions. Beam energies from the highest available, at the CERN LHC, down to projectile kinetic energies per nucleon of... | {
"abstract": "The soft physics, pT<2 GeV/c, observables at both RHIC and the SPS have now been mapped out in quite specific detail. From these results there is mounting evidence that this regime is primarily driven by the multiplicity per unit rapidity, dNch/dη. This suggests that the entropy of the system alone is ... | {
"abstract": "We show that the effects of photoinduced screening of the bias field as a function of optical spot shape for ultrafast excitation of photoconductors to generate terahertz radiation using spatially resolve Monte Carlo simulations coupled with a self-consistent Poisson solver. The results of the simulati... |
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"abstract": "Akilli telefonlar iletisim kaliplarimizi onemli derecede degistirmistir. Bir taraftan insanlar arasinda her zaman ve her yerde baglanabilirlik saglayarak iletisimi kolaylastirirken, bir yandan da ilgimizi cekip, zamanimizi alip bizi birbirimizden soyutlamistir. Bu sorunu onlemek icin, bu makalede, insa... | {
"abstract": "Motivated by perceptual principles, we derive a new color space in which the associated metric approximates perceived distances and color displacements capture relationships that are robust to spectral changes in illumination. The resulting color space can be used with existing image processing algorit... | {
"abstract": "The medical evaluation of children with suspected sexual abuse includes more than just the physical examination of the child. The importance of taking a detailed medical history from the parents and a history from the child about physical sensations following sexual contact has been emphasized in other... |
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"abstract": "One technique to prevent attacks from an untrusted foundry is split manufacturing, where only a part of the layout is sent to the untrusted high-end foundry, and the rest is manufactured at a trusted low-end foundry. The untrusted foundry has front-end-of-line (FEOL) layout and the original circuit net... | {
"abstract": "With the globalization of the integrated circuit (IC) design flow of chip fabrication, intellectual property (IP) piracy is becoming the main security threat. While most of the protection methods are dedicated for digital circuits, we are trying to protect radio-frequency (RF) designs. For the first ti... | {
"abstract": "A highly multithreaded FFT-based direct Poisson solver that makes effective use of the capabilities of the current NVIDIA graphics processing units (GPUs) is presented. Our algorithms carefully manage the multiple layers of the memory hierarchy of the GPUs such that almost all the global memory accesse... |
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"abstract": "Light field imaging has emerged as a technology allowing to capture richer visual information from our world. As opposed to traditional photography, which captures a 2D projection of the light in the scene integrating the angular domain, light fields collect radiance from rays in all directions, demult... | {
"abstract": "Light field photography has gained a significant research interest in the last two decades; today, commercial light field cameras are widely available. Nevertheless, most existing acquisition approaches either multiplex a low-resolution light field into a single 2D sensor image or require multiple phot... | {
"abstract": "Design of a transferable time series anomaly detection method.Novel deep neural network structure facilitates learning short and long-term pattern interdependencies.Detection of anomalies in the Seismic Electrical Signal for predicting earthquake activity.Detection of road anomalies using smartphone da... |
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"abstract": "ARINC 653 provides a strong isolation mechanism for safety computing fields, such as aircrafts. seL4, a 3rd generation microkernel, was formally verified for its functional correctness and provides a desirable code base for partitioning operating systems. But there is a long way from seL4 to partitioni... | {
"abstract": "The Integrated Modular Avionics (IMA) architecture has been suggested for the next-generation avionics systems. ARINC 653 is the standard for application programming interfaces (APIs) of avionics software for IMA architecture. There are several researches on design and implementation of ARINC 653 but l... | {
"abstract": "The abundance of PHP-based Remote Access Trojans (or web shells) found in the wild has led malware researchers to develop systems capable of tracking and analysing these shells. In the past, such shells were ably classified using signature matching, a process that is currently unable to cope with the s... |
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"abstract": "The recent serious cases of spreading false information have posed a significant threat to the social stability and even national security, urgently requiring all circles to respond adequately. Therefore, this survey illustrates how to fight against false information from its propagation process by (1)... | {
"abstract": "How does online content propagate on social networks? Billions of users generate, consume, and spread tons of information every day. This unprecedented scale of dynamics becomes invaluable to reflect our zeitgeist. However, most present diffusion extraction works have only touched individual user level... | {
"abstract": "In recent years, the growing popularity and active use of social media services on the web have resulted in massive amounts of user-generated data. With these data available, there is also an increasing interest in analyzing it and to extract information from it. Since social media analysis is concerne... |
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"abstract": "This study was undertaken to determine if endogenous IAA content and axillary bud development correlate with phenylalanine ammonia-lyase (PAL) induction and russet spotting (RS) susceptibility among RS susceptible and resistant cultivars of Iceberg lettuce ( Lactuca sativa L.). Final levels of ethylene... | {
"abstract": "An isotope-dilution method has been developed for the assay of free indole-3-acetic acid and ester indole-3-acetic acid as measured by indole-3-acetic acid liberated by mild alkaline hydrolysis. Application of this method to seedlings of Avena sativa and Zea mays indicates the upper limit of free indol... | {
"abstract": "INCREASING ATTENTION is being paid to the extraction of auxin2 from the tissues of higher plants, particularly as regards reliability and yield in relation to various extraction procedures. A comparative study of eight different methods of auxin extraction from maize endosperm has been reported (Avery,... |
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"abstract": "Recent penetration of Web 2.0 and social network services (SNS) seems to make information quality (IQ) in those services more important. The main objective of this research is to grasp the impact from system quality to dimensions of information quality and to analyze relationships among those qualities... | {
"abstract": "Web sites have been extensively used to provide information to consumers. While practitioners and researchers have proposed different criteria for effective Web site design based on common sense, intuition, and rules-ofthumb, effective Web site design focusing on the quality of the information it provi... | {
"abstract": "Emotion recognition nowadays plays vital role in human-computer reaction. Different approaches and methods were applied to recognize accurately individual's emotions. However, pupil diameter (PD) is one of the well-known and reliable approaches in identifying emotions. It is controlled by Automatic Ner... |
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"abstract": "Entomological surveillance and control are essential to the management of dengue fever (DF). Hence, understanding the spatial and temporal patterns of DF vectors, Aedes (Stegomyia) aegypti (L.) and Ae. (Stegomyia) albopictus (Skuse), is paramount. In the Philippines, resources are limited and entomolog... | {
"abstract": "Background A life-shortening strain of the obligate intracellular bacteria Wolbachia, called wMelPop, is seen as a promising new tool for the control of Aedes aegypti. However, developing a vector control strategy based on the release of mosquitoes transinfected with wMelPop requires detailed knowledge... | {
"abstract": "Oral implantology is considered as the treatment of choice for replacing missing teeth in elderly people. However, implant complications may occur in patients with osteoporosis. The pathogenesis underlying osteoporosis is due to an alteration in bone cell response to hormonal, nutritional, and aging fa... |
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"abstract": "OBJECTIVE\nOver the world, hydatidosis is endemic in many countries. It is more prevalent in Turkey. We came across with concomitant hydatidosis of the lung and liver and reviewed the management.\n\n\nMATERIAL AND METHODS\nThis is a prospective study that was carried out in the Government Medical Colle... | {
"abstract": "Aim: Hydatid cysts are a clinical problem in developing and nondeveloped countries. This study aimed to present lung and liver hydatid cysts that underwent the transdiaphragmatic surgical approach. Materials and methods: The study retrospectively evaluated 50 consecutive patients with lung and liver hy... | {
"abstract": "One hundred patients with pulmonary hydatid disease underwent thoractomy and operative removal of the cysts. Of the 60 men and 40 women, most were between 3 and 19 years old. Cough, fever, dyspnea, and chest pain were the prominent symptoms in the majority of cases. Intact hydatid cysts were found in 6... |
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"abstract": "Objective: Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is associated with structural brain damage and with a high prevalence of depression. We therefore investigated structural brain alterations in both gray and white matter in CKD patients, focusing on depression-related (frontal-subcortical) regions. Methods: This ... | {
"abstract": "ObjectiveTo prospectively investigate and detect early cerebral metabolic changes in patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) by using in vivo proton MR spectroscopy (MRS).MethodsWe enrolled 32 patients with ESRD and 32 healthy controls between the ages of 26 and 50 years. Short echo time single-vo... | {
"abstract": "The biosynthesis of cannabinoids was studied in cut sprouts of Cannabis sativa by incorporation experiments using mixtures of unlabeled glucose and [1-(13)C]glucose or [U-(13)C(6)]glucose. (13)C-labeling patterns of cannabichromenic acid and tetrahydrocannabinolic acid were analyzed by quantitative NMR... |
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"abstract": "Only a tiny fraction of the carbon fixed by primary producers in the surface ocean is preserved in sediments, but this organic matter (OM) burial is one of the main processes linking the short and long-term carbon cycles, giving it important roles in global biogeochemistry. OM-rich deposits often conta... | {
"abstract": "THE increase in sulphur content of organic matter with depth in Recent sediments has been attributed to incorporation of either H2S (ref. 1) or polysulphides2,3 or to a combination of both4,5. Indeed, the widespread occurrence of organic sulphur compounds6–12 with carbon skeletons that bear an unambigu... | {
"abstract": "The interplay between sediment deposition patterns, organic matter type and the quantity and quality of reactive mineral phases determines the accumulation, speciation and isotope composition of pore water and solid phase sulfur constituents in marine sediments. Here, we present the sulfur geochemistry... |
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"abstract": "There are a lot of techniques that allow to tackle the problem of verifying whether a program runs correctly, that is, in the way intended by the user.\nThis doctoral thesis represents a contribution to the analysis of the data types handled by programs. Particularly, we focused on the modelling of dat... | {
"abstract": "Abstract The theory of algebraic abstract types specified by positive conditional formulas formed of equations and a definedness predicate is outlined and extended to hierarchical types with “noustrict” operations, partial and even infinite objects. Its model theory is based on the concept of partial i... | {
"abstract": "A methodology is described for the validation of Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MERIS) Terrestrial Chlorophyll Index (MTCI) data over heterogeneous land surfaces in an agricultural region in Southern Italy. The approach involves the use inverse canopy reflectance modeling techniques to derive ... |
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"abstract": "The ratio of light-driven O2 consumption to gross photosynthetic O2 evolution decreased significantly with increasing CO2, which is probably due to a reduced cost of operating the carbon-concentrating mechanism.",
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"title": "CO2 modulation of the rates of photosynthesis and li... | {
"abstract": "Photosynthetic rates in the cyanobacterium Trichodesmium erythraeum appear to be a function of CO2, although numerical simulations of the carbon-concentrating mechanism show carboxylation to be mediated as a function of pH and HCO3–.",
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"title": "Inorganic carbon and pH depende... | {
"abstract": "The carboxysome is a protein-based nanoscale organelle in cyanobacteria and many proteobacteria, which encapsulates the key CO2-fixing enzymes ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase (Rubisco) and carbonic anhydrase (CA) within a polyhedral protein shell. The intrinsic self-assembly and archite... |
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"abstract": "Metric learning aims to build a distance metric typically by learning an effective embedding function that maps similar objects into nearby points in its embedding space. Despite recent advances in deep metric learning, it remains challenging for the learned metric to generalize to unseen classes with ... | {
"abstract": "We address the problem of learning a pose-aware, compact embedding that projects images with similar human poses to be placed close-by in the embedding space. The embedding function is built on a deep convolutional network, and trained with triplet-based rank constraints on real image data. This archit... | {
"abstract": "Human pose estimation using deep neural networks aims to map input images with large variations into multiple body keypoints, which must satisfy a set of geometric constraints and interdependence imposed by the human body model. This is a very challenging nonlinear manifold learning process in a very h... |
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"abstract": "In recent decades, bed bugs have swept across wealthy industrialized nations. After near extirpation in North America and Northern Europe, the return of these insects has led to a significant level of public anxiety and cultural notoriety. Here, we undertake an analysis of human-bed bug relations in or... | {
"abstract": "Bed bugs appear to be feared more than vector insects and other household pests. The reasons for this exaggerated fear are not fully understood. One hypothesis is that the folk knowledge on recognising and controlling bed bugs decreased as bed bugs became rarer in the 1960s and led to irrational percep... | {
"abstract": "Psychotic disorders are common and disabling. Overlaps in clinical course in addition to epidemiological and genetic associations raise the possibility that autoimmune mechanisms may underlie some psychoses, potentially offering novel therapeutic approaches. Several immune loci including the major hist... |
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"abstract": "A positive association between executive function (a set of higher order, self-regulatory cognitive skills) and theory of mind (beliefs about mental states) has been well documented during early childhood. As investigations extend beyond false belief understanding (that the mind can misrepresent realit... | {
"abstract": "Four- to 10-year-olds and adults (N = 265) responded to eight scenarios presented on an eye tracker. Each trial involved a character who encounters a perpetrator who had previously enacted positive (P), negative (N), or both types of actions toward him or her in varying sequences (NN, PP, PN, and NP). ... | {
"abstract": "This experiment examines one component of worry, elevated subjective probabilities of negative events, and attempts to elucidate the cognitive processes on which this is based. The results suggest that the pessimistic subjective probabilities shown by chronic worriers can be understood using general th... |
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"abstract": "To examine our hypothesis that a higher number of touching tumour‐infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) in low‐risk ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) detected in a setting such as an active surveillance clinical trial correlates with upgrading to high‐grade DCIS (HG‐DCIS) in the subsequent excisional biopsy.",... | {
"abstract": "A needle core biopsy diagnosis of atypical ductal hyperplasia is an indication for open biopsy. The launch of randomized clinical trials of active surveillance for low-risk ductal carcinoma in situ leads to the paradoxical situation of women with low-grade ductal carcinoma in situ being observed, where... | {
"abstract": "Resume L’hyperplasie canalaire atypique diagnostiquee sur biopsie a l’aiguille est associee a un taux de sous-estimation de 11 a 35 % conduisant le plus souvent a une biopsie chirurgicale. Par ailleurs, l’hyperplasie canalaire atypique augmente le risque de cancer du sein a long terme necessitant apres... |
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"abstract": "Knowledge-driven conversation approaches have achieved remarkable research attention recently. However, generating an informative response with multiple relevant knowledge without losing fluency and coherence is still one of the main challenges. To address this issue, this paper proposes a method that ... | {
"abstract": "The use of connectionist approaches in conversational agents has been progressing rapidly due to the availability of large corpora. However current generative dialogue models often lack coherence and are content poor. This work proposes an architecture to incorporate unstructured knowledge sources to e... | {
"abstract": "To compensate for the inherent unreliability of RFID data streams, most RFID middleware systems employ a \"smoothing filter\", a sliding-window aggregate that interpolates for lost readings. In this paper, we propose SMURF, the first declarative, adaptive smoothing filter for RFID data cleaning. SMURF ... |
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"abstract": "Parallel multiphysics simulations often suffer from load imbalances originating from the applied coupling of algorithms with spatially and temporally varying workloads. It is, thus, desirable to minimize these imbalances to reduce the time to solution and to better utilize the available hardware resour... | {
"abstract": "When designing and implementing highly efficient scientific applications for parallel computers such as clusters of workstations, it is inevitable to consider and to optimize the single-CPU performance of the codes. For this purpose, it is particularly important that the codes respect the hierarchical ... | {
"abstract": "Historians and social scientists have often described modern America as a uniquely pluralist society in which a collective bargaining model of industrial relations won an early triumph over other conceptions of labor relations. Professor Gerber challenges this traditional view. Comparing American and B... |
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"abstract": "Aims. G15.4+0.1 is a faint supernova remnant (SNR) that has recently been associated with the γ-ray source HESS J1818–154. We investigate a hadronic scenario for the production of the γ-ray emission. Methods. Molecular 13 CO (J = 1–0) taken from the Galactic Ring Survey (GRS) and neutral hydrogen (HI) ... | {
"abstract": "The shell-type supernova remnant RX J0852.0-4622 was observed with the High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S.) of atmospheric Cerenkov telescopes between 2004 December and 2005 May for a total observation time of 33 hr, above an average gamma-ray energy threshold of 250 GeV. The angular resolution o... | {
"abstract": "Using radio, X-ray, and optical observations, we present evidence for morphological changes due to efficient cosmic ray ion acceleration in the structure of the southeastern region of the supernova remnant SN 1006. SN 1006 has an apparent bipolar morphology in both the radio and high-energy X-ray synch... |
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"abstract": "The definition of ‘conservation physiology’ is refined to be more inclusive, with an emphasis on characterizing diversity, understanding and predicting responses to environmental change and stressors, and generating solutions. The integrative discipline is focused on mechanisms and uses physiological t... | {
"abstract": "*Department of Biology, University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, Massachusetts 02125-3393 †Department of Biology, Appalachian State University, 572 Rivers Street, Boone, North Carolina 28608 ‡Environmental Stewardship Concepts, Inc. Affiliate Associate Professor, Virginia Commonwealth University, Ce... | {
"abstract": "A rapidly growing literature emphasizes the importance of evaluating the forecast accuracy of empirical models on the basis of density (as opposed to point) forecasting performance. We propose a test statistic for the null hypothesis that two competing models have equal density forecast accuracy. Monte... |
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"abstract": "Evolutionary algorithms have often been applied to evolve controllers for robot locomotion. In an attempt to imitate biological systems, most previous approaches have utilized neural networks and central pattern generators to construct the controllers. In contrast to the conventional approach, control ... | {
"abstract": "This paper presents an experiment in which evolutionary algorithms are used for the development of neural controllers for salamander locomotion. The aim of the experiment is to investigate which kind of neural circuitry can produce the typical swimming and trotting gaits of the salamander, and to devel... | {
"abstract": "1. As part of a continuing investigation of the organization of the spinal cord of the lamprey, propriospinal interneurons with axons projecting contralaterally and caudally (CC interneurons) were surveyed with intracellular recordings. 2. CC interneurons were identified by recording their axon spikes ... |
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"abstract": "Finding the diameter of a dataset in multidimensional Euclidean space is a well-established problem, with well-known algorithms. However, most of the algorithms found in the literature do not scale well with large values of data dimension, so the time complexity grows exponentially in most cases, which... | {
"abstract": "Point location problems for n points in d-dimensional Euclidean space (and ep spaces more generally) have typically had two kinds of running-time solutions: (Nearly-Linear) less than dpoly(d) · n logO(d) n time, or (Barely-Subquadratic) f(d) · n2−1/Θ(d) time, for various f. For small d and large n, \"n... | {
"abstract": "In this article we investigate the problem of regression functions estimation in the edges points of their domain. We refer to the model \\(y_i = R\\left( {x_i } \\right) + \\epsilon _i ,\\,i = 1,2, \\ldots n\\), where \\(x_i\\) is assumed to be the set of deterministic inputs, \\(x_i \\in D\\), \\(y_i... |
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"title": "Patient-ventilator interaction in domiciliary non-invasive ventilation"
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"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nUnintentional leaks, patient-ventilatory asynchrony, and obstructive or central events (either residual or induced by noninvasive positive pressure ventilation [NPPV]) occur in patients treated with NPPV, but the impact of ventilator settings on these disturbances has been little explored. ... | {
"abstract": "Over recent decades, poly(lactic-co-glycolic acid) (PLGA) based nano- and micro- drug delivery vehicles have been rapidly developed since PLGA was approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Common factors that influence PLGA particle properties have been extensively studied by researchers, suc... |
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"abstract": "African Journal of Biotechnology Vol. 5 (18), pp. 1655-1662, 18 September 2006, © 2006 Academic Journals",
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"title": "Multiplicity of infections and level of recrudescence in Plasmodium falciparum malaria in Mlimba, Tanzania"
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"abstract": "BackgroundResults from numerous studies point convincingly to correlations between mutations at selected genes and phenotypic resistance to antimalarials in Plasmodium falciparum isolates. In order to move molecular assays for point mutations on resistance-related genes into the realm of applied tools ... | {
"abstract": "BackgroundResistance of Plasmodium falciparum to atovaquone in vitro and in vivo has been associated to mutations in the parasite cytochrome b gene.MethodsCultures were sequentially subjected to increasing doses of atovaquone alone or in combination with cycloguanil and the cytochrome b gene was sequen... |
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"abstract": "Effective performances particularly on low-cost housing projects has been a major problem in many developing countries. In Nigeria, public sector clients have adopted the design and build (DB) procurement strategy as one of the strategies to deliver Low-cost housing (LcH) projects following potential b... | {
"abstract": "The main emphasis of Malaysia’s housing policy is on the provision of adequate, affordable and quality housing for all Malaysians. The government is encouraging the private sector to produce low income housing in affordable prices. But the scarcity and high cost of land in urban areas raise costs of la... | {
"abstract": "Housing provision for all in any country is very crucial in order to ensure social- economic stability and to promote national development. Therefore the Malaysian government under its 5 year National Plan has introduced the low, medium and high cost housing categories. Under the Seventh Malaysia Plan ... |
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"abstract": "Mucormycosis is a rare condition, posing diagnostic and therapeutic challenge for dental surgeons who may not be familiar with its clinical presentation. Immunocompromised are more likely to suffer from this disease. In dentistry, this condition gains increasing interest because of its first manifestat... | {
"abstract": "Background Mucorales are ubiquitous filamentous fungi that can cause a devastating, invasive infection. This order has become an increasingly important pathogen during the last two decades, due to the dramatic increase in patients with predisposing factors. The aim of this retrospective study was to re... | {
"abstract": "Currently, several epidemiologic studies of workers who have been exposed occupationally to low levels of radiation are being conducted. They include studies of workers in the United States, Great Britain, and Canada involved in the production of both defense materials and nuclear power. This paper foc... |
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"abstract": "Abstract Nestling mourning doves and house finches produced elevated viremias after inoculation with 2–3 log10 plaque-forming units (PFU) of St Louis encephalitis (SLE) virus and infected 67 and 70% of Culex tarsalis Coquillett that engorged upon them, respectively. Mosquito infection rates as well as ... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Immunosuppression of house finches was attempted by blood feeding Culex tarsalis Coquillett mosquitoes or by injecting birds with the corticosteroid dexamethasone or the immunosuppressant drug cyclophosphamide before and after inoculation with western equine encephalomyelitis or St. Louis ence... | {
"abstract": "Avian models of West Nile virus (WNV) disease have become pivotal in the study of infection pathogenesis and transmission, despite the intrinsic constraints that represents this type of experimental research that needs to be conducted in biosecurity level 3 (BSL3) facilities. This review summarizes the... |
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"abstract": "Reactive microglial cells may exacerbate the pathology in some neurodegenerative disorders. Supernatants of stimulated human microglial cells, or their surrogate THP‐1 cells, are lethal to cultured human neuroblastoma SH‐SY5Y cells. To explore this neurotoxicity, we examined the spectrum of proteins ge... | {
"abstract": "Abstract.This review describes the structure and function of prolyl endopeptidase (PEP) enzymes and how they are being evaluated as drug targets and therapeutic agents. The most well studied PEP family has a two-domain structure whose unique seven-blade β-propeller domain works with the catalytic domai... | {
"abstract": "Samples of milk from one hundred and forty-two mares have been analysed for the purpose of determining the percentage of solids, protein, fat, lactose and ash. Of this number, thirty-eight samples were taken during the period of colostrum secretion and one hundred and four were colostrum-free milks. Th... |
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"abstract": "Abstract Around one in five people in developed countries are ‘financially excluded’. But how meaningful is this when the current definition does not differentiate between those who choose to be excluded and those who are forced to be? This conceptual paper draws on frameworks from social exclusion, re... | {
"abstract": "In an increasingly cashless economy, the consequences of being outside the mainstream financial services market have become more serious. This article reviews the progress that has been made in promoting financial inclusion in three areas of financial services provision—banking, consumer credit and ins... | {
"abstract": "Focusing on changes in Western European banking from a functional perspective, \"Changes in Western European Banking\" aims to fill a conspicuous gap in the literature. Gardener and Molyneux provide a systematic study, concentrating on current trends and developments, and covering the whole of Western ... |
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"abstract": "The present series of experiments aimed to pinpoint the source of nucleus accumbens core (AcbC) effects on delay discounting. Rats were trained with an impulsive choice procedure between an adjusting smaller sooner reward and a fixed larger later reward. The AcbC-lesioned rats produced appropriate choi... | {
"abstract": "RationaleThere is evidence that lesions of the nucleus accumbens core (AcbC) promote preference for smaller earlier reinforcers over larger delayed reinforcers in inter-temporal choice paradigms. It is not known whether this reflects an effect of the lesion on the rate of delay discounting, on sensitiv... | {
"abstract": "Processes of selective allocation of visual attention play a prominent role for survival, but also for development and maintenance of clinically relevant symptoms such as in anxiety or depression. Previous research provided evidence for increased attentional orienting and preoccupation with biologicall... |
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"abstract": "A current-mode four-phase synchronous buck converter with a dynamic dead-time control (DDTC) method is presented in this work. A brief analysis of the multiphase buck converter power efficiency in both continuous conduction mode (CCM) and discontinuous conduction mode (DCM) is performed to provide desi... | {
"abstract": "The autonomy of battery-operated electronic systems directly depends on the energy conversion efficiency from the battery to the lower voltage levels required by nowadays CMOS technologies. One of the major contributions for power losses in buck dc-dc converters is explained and analyzed. The work pres... | {
"abstract": "A 0.9-V input discontinuous-conduction-mode (DCM) boost converter delivering 2.5-V and 100-mA output is presented. A novel low-voltage pulse-width modulator is proposed. The modulator can be directly powered from the 0.9-V input instead of using the 2.5-V output as in general modulator designs. Sophist... |
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"abstract": "Globalization has increased technology worldwide, forcing organizations to stay competitive. HRM has become increasingly important, especially in attracting new talent with valuable skills and knowledge. Technological advances can optimize human-dependent tasks. Thus, evaluating and analyzing how techn... | {
"abstract": "In this work, we present a novel approach for evaluating job applicants in online recruitment systems, leveraging machine learning algorithms to solve the candidate ranking problem. An application of our approach is implemented in the form of a prototype system, whose functionality is showcased and eva... | {
"abstract": "In this paper, experiments on automatic extraction of keywords from abstracts using a supervised machine learning algorithm are discussed. The main point of this paper is that by adding linguistic knowledge to the representation (such as syntactic features), rather than relying only on statistics (such... |
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"abstract": "There are controversies about whether cystoscopy with or without hydrodistention (HD) plays a role in the diagnosis and treatment of interstitial cystitis/bladder pain syndrome (IC/BPS). We reviewed the recommendations of various societies and associations of greater impact in this complex disease, ana... | {
"abstract": "Methods: A systematic review of the literature using the MEDLINE database (search dates 1/1/83-7/22/09) was conducted to identify peerreviewed publications relevant to the diagnosis and treatment of IC/BPS. Insufficient evidence was retrieved regarding diagnosis; this portion of the guideline, therefor... | {
"abstract": "Abstract The through-silicon via (TSV) technology is vital for three-dimensional packaging. Void-free electroplating copper filling is a major challenge in TSV manufacturing, and the acid plays an important role in the action of additives. In this study, the effects of acid type on the TSV filling proc... |
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"abstract": "Zhongxu Wei,1, 2, ∗ Qian Li,1, ∗ Ben-Chao Gong,3, ∗ Xinjian Wei,1, 2, 4, 5, ∗ Wei Hu,1, 2 Zhuang Ni,1, 2 Ge He,6 Mingyang Qin,1, 2 Anna Kusmartseva,7 Fedor V. Kusmartsev,7, 8 Jie Yuan,1, 9 Beiyi Zhu,1 Qihong Chen,1 Jian-Hao Chen,4, 10, 5 Kai Liu,3 and Kui Jin1, 2, 9, † 1Beijing National Laboratory for ... | {
"abstract": "The evolution from superconducting LiTi2O4-δ to insulating Li4Ti5O12 thin films has been studied by precisely tuning the oxygen pressure in the sample fabrication process. In superconducting LiTi2O4-δ films, with the increase of oxygen pressure, the oxygen vacancies are filled gradually and the c-axis ... | {
"abstract": "Probably the most unusual crystal-chemical aspect of the new high-temperature oxide superconductors is their significant variability in oxygen content. For the YBa2Cu3O7–δ family of compounds, the oxygen stoichiometry varies in the range 0 < δ < 1 under normal synthetic conditions, with the optimal 91-... |
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"abstract": "Somatosensory information is processed by a complex network of interneurons in the spinal dorsal horn. It has been reported that inhibitory interneurons that express neuropeptide Y (NPY), either permanently or during development, suppress mechanical itch, with no effect on pain. Here, we investigate th... | {
"abstract": "Summary The gate control theory of pain proposes that inhibitory neurons of the spinal dorsal horn exert critical control over the relay of nociceptive signals to higher brain areas. Here we investigated how the glycinergic subpopulation of these neurons contributes to modality-specific pain and itch p... | {
"abstract": "Glycinergic neurotransmission has long been known for its role in spinal motor control. During the last two decades, additional functions have become increasingly recognized—among them is a critical contribution to spinal pain processing. Studies in rodent pain models provide proof-of-concept evidence ... |
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"abstract": "Mycotoxins, the secondary metabolites of mycotoxigenic fungi, have been found in almost all agricultural commodities worldwide, causing enormous economic losses in livestock production and severe human health problems. Compared to traditional physical adsorption and chemical reactions, interest in biol... | {
"abstract": "In an investigation of deoxynivalenol (DON)-transformation products by Devosia mutans 17-2-E-8, the major product was identified as 3-epi-DON. This DON-transformation product was analysed by liquid chromatography and identified by congruent retention time and UV/Vis spectrum, as well as mass spectromet... | {
"abstract": "A liquid culture method for the production of deoxynivalenol and related compounds by Fusarium graminearum was developed. Major factors which stimulate the biosynthesis of these compounds include reduced oxygen levels, depletion of carbohydrate in the medium, pH, and possibly a low concentration of an ... |
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"abstract": "Vulvovaginal candidiasis (VVC) is among the most prevalent vaginal diseases. Candida albicans is still the most prevalent species associated with this pathology, however, the prevalence of other Candida species, such as C. glabrata, is increasing. The pathogenesis of these infections has been intensely... | {
"abstract": "PGG-Glucan, a soluble beta-(1,6)-branched beta-(1,3)-linked glucose homopolymer derived from the cell wall of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, is an immunomodulator which enhances leukocyte anti-infective activity and enhances myeloid and megakaryocyte progenitor proliferation. Incubation of human w... | {
"abstract": "The plasma membrane and intracellular granules of human polymorphonuclear neutrophils (PMN) contain large amounts of the glycolipid, lactosylceramide (LacCer; Gal beta 1----4Glc beta 1----1Cer). Despite its abundance, novel subcellular distribution, and lineage-restricted expression, nothing of PMN Lac... |
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"abstract": "GeneMatcher is a platform through which various stakeholders can connect with others interested in candidate gene findings. GeneDx, a diagnostic laboratory, has utilized GeneMatcher over the last seven years to successfully facilitate connections between clinicians and researchers, generating fruitful ... | {
"abstract": "This study examined the impact of disclosing subclassifications of genetic variants of uncertain significance (VUS) on behavioral intentions. We studied return of VUS results to 79 individuals with a cardiomyopathy‐associated VUS, subclassified into VUS‐high or VUS‐low. Primary outcomes were perceived ... | {
"abstract": "As genomic sequencing expands into more areas of patient care, an increasing number of patients learn of the variants of uncertain significance (VUSs) that they carry. Understanding the potential psychosocial consequences of the disclosure of a VUS can help inform pre- and post-test counseling discussi... |
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"abstract": "Objectives: The aim of this study was to characterize the case volume dependence of both facilities and surgeons on morbidity and mortality after femoral shaft fracture (FSF) fixation. Methods: Adults who had an open or closed FSF between 2011 and 2015 were identified in the New York Statewide Planning... | {
"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nRevision rates following unicondylar knee replacement vary among reporting institutions. Revision rates from institutions involved in the design of these implants and independent single-center series are comparable with those following total knee replacement, suggesting that higher operativ... | {
"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nThe objective of our study was to evaluate the impact of a single- (\"implant only\") versus a double-layer (\"implant & bone\") cementing technique on the primary stability of unicompartmental tibial plateaus under dynamic compression-shear loading conditions in human tibiae.\n\n\nMETHODS\... |
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"abstract": "High-intensity interval training (HIIT) improves traditional cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors in adolescents, but no study has identified the influence of HIIT on endothelial and autonomic function in this group. Thirteen 13- to 14-yr-old adolescents (6 girls) completed six HIIT sessions over ... | {
"abstract": "PurposeThe effect of exercise intensity and sex on postprandial risk factors for cardiovascular disease in adolescents is unknown. We examined the effect of a single bout of work-matched high-intensity interval exercise (HIIE) and moderate-intensity exercise (MIE) on postprandial triacylglycerol (TAG) ... | {
"abstract": "BackgroundHealth workers' counselling practices are essential to improve infant feeding practices. This paper will assess how infant feeding counselling was done and experienced by counsellors and mothers in Eastern Uganda in the context of previous guidelines. This has implications for implementation ... |
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"title": "Adaptation and self-management after stroke : exploring the application of the Selection, Optimisation and Compensation model"
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"abstract": "Recent studies have provided considerable evidence on long-term effects of self-perceptions of aging (SPA) on indicators of successful aging such as health or life satisfaction. To date, little is known about the mechanisms underlying these effects. This study therefore examined whether negative SPA im... | {
"abstract": "Objectives. Social support and social networks have been shown to exert significant effects on health and functioning among elderly persons. Although theorists have speculated that the strength of these effects may differ as a function of sociodemographic characteristics and prior health status, few st... |
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"abstract": "Extrapelvic endometriosis is a rare entity that presents serious challenges to researchers and clinicians. Endometriotic lesions have been reported in every part of the female human body and in some instances in males. Organs that are close to the uterus are more often affected than distant locations. ... | {
"abstract": "The study was undertaken to identify the presenting features of intestinal endometriosis and to evaluate its investigation and surgical management. Twenty-six cases of intestinal endometriosis were identified during a fourteen year period. The commonest site of occurrence was the rectosigmoid region (1... | {
"abstract": "THE subject of this paper is endometriosis solely as it affects the lower sigmoid colon and rectum. I n lesser degrees the condition is not uncommon; in more severe forms and causing bowel obstruction it is comparatively rare. The problems of the latter group are emphasized and ten personal cases have ... |
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"abstract": "We have revealed that even in humans, activated intrarenal renin–angiotensin–aldosterone system (RAAS) enhances tubular sodium reabsorption to facilitate salt sensitivity and nondipper rhythm of blood pressure (BP), and that angiotensin receptor blocker (ARB) could increase daytime urinary sodium excre... | {
"abstract": "We have postulated that the diminished renal capacity to excrete sodium causes nocturnal blood pressure (BP) elevation, which enhances pressure natriuresis in compensation for impaired daytime natriuresis. If such a mechanism holds, high BP during sleep at night may continue until excess sodium is suff... | {
"abstract": "Does the average daily blood pressure correlate with hypertensive cerebrovascular disease better than the casual pressure, as has been reported in other target organ involvement? We investigated the associations of two abnormal findings on brain magnetic resonance imaging suggestive of a vascular etiol... |
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"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nPersistent postsurgical pain (PPSP) affects between 10% and 50% of surgical patients, the development of which is a complex and poorly understood process. To date, most studies on PPSP have focused on specific surgical procedures where individuals do not suffer from chronic pain before the ... | {
"abstract": "The objective of the present study was to examine the relative contributions of different dimensions of catastrophic thinking (i.e. rumination, magnification, helplessness) to the pain experience and disability associated with neuropathic pain. Eighty patients with diabetic neuropathy, post‐herpetic ne... | {
"abstract": "OBJECTIVE\nNo previous studies have investigated the psychiatric characteristics of patients with postherpetic neuralgia (PHN). Similarly, no studies have been performed on patients with different chronic somatic symptoms due to a defined medical disease to compare the characteristics of psychiatric mo... |
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"abstract": "YouTube traffic is bursty. These bursts trigger packet losses and stress router queues, causing TCP's congestion-control algorithm to kick in. In this paper, we introduce Trickle, a server-side mechanism that uses TCP to rate limit YouTube video streaming. Trickle paces the video stream by placing an u... | {
"abstract": "Periodically in the transport protocol research community, the idea of introducing a burst mitigation strategy is voiced. In this paper we assess the prevalence and implications of bursts in the context of real TCP traffic in order to better inform a decision on whether TCP's congestion control algorit... | {
"abstract": "We present in this paper an efficient algorithm for solving the integral Knapsack problem on hypercube. The main idea is to represent the computations of the dynamic programming formulation as a precedence graph (which has the structure of an irregular mesh). Then, we propose a time optimal scheduling ... |
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"abstract": "ABSTRACT The largest E1A isoform of human adenovirus (Ad) includes a C-4 zinc finger domain within conserved region 3 (CR3) that is largely responsible for activating transcription of the early viral genes. CR3 interacts with multiple cellular factors, but its mechanism of action is modeled primarily o... | {
"abstract": "The conserved region 3 (CR3) portion of the human adenovirus (HAdV) 5 E1A protein functions as a potent transcriptional activator that induces expression of viral early genes during infection. Expression of HAdV-5 CR3 in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae inhibits growth, as do the corresponding region... | {
"abstract": "Upon infection, human adenovirus (HAdV) must activate the expression of its early genes to reprogram the cellular environment to support virus replication. This activation is orchestrated in large part by the first HAdV gene expressed during infection, early region 1A (E1A). E1A binds and appropriates ... |
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"abstract": "Many psychological hypotheses require testing whether the similarity between two variables predicts important outcomes. For example, the ideal standards model posits that the match between (A) a participant’s ideal partner preferences, and (B) the traits of a current/potential partner, predicts (C) eva... | {
"abstract": "Research on similarity constructs (e.g., dyadic similarity, personality stability, judgment agreement and accuracy) frequently find them to be associated with positive outcomes. However, a methodological pitfall associated with common “overall similarity” indices, which we term the normative-desirabili... | {
"abstract": "A tire pressure indicator includes a cylindrical housing having an axial bore communicating with the interior of a pneumatic tire either through the tire valve stem or directly through the wheel rim. A valve poppet is movable within the housing between a first position in which it seals the tire by eng... |
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"abstract": "The human brain is believed to simplify the control of the large number of muscles in the body by flexibly combining muscle coordination patterns, termed muscle synergies. However, the neural connectivity allowing the human brain to access and coordinate muscle synergies to accomplish functional tasks ... | {
"abstract": "AIMS ::: Due to their contribution to modulation of intra-abdominal pressure (IAP) and stiffness of the sacroiliac joints, the pelvic floor muscles (PFM) have been argued to provide a contribution to control of the lumbar spine and pelvis. Furthermore, as IAP is modulated during respiration this is lik... | {
"abstract": "This paper presents the state of the art for oil spill detection in the world oceans. We discuss different satellite sensors and oil spill detectability under varying conditions. In particular, we concentrate on the use of manual and automatic approaches to discriminate between oil slicks and look-alik... |
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