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"abstract": "The increase in human consumption of turkey meat and the shift in the poultry market from whole birds to further processed meat products increases the visibility of meat alterations (e.g., heterogenic color, drip loss, petechial hemorrhages) at retail. Changes in poultry meat quality have been related ... | {
"abstract": "The objective of this project was to examine the diversity of breast meat composition and quality traits among unique resource populations. Birds from 5 groups (inbred Leghorn, inbred Fayoumi, commercial broilers, F5 broiler-inbred Leghorn cross, and F5 broiler-inbred Fayoumi cross) were utilized. Cont... | {
"abstract": "Sprouting of red kidney beans resulted in a marked increase in the digestibility coefficient of both raw, 29.5% increased to 66.4%, and cooked beans, 69.3% increased to 84.4%. Sprouting also resulted in reduction of trypsin inhibitor activity by approximately 50%. The trypsin inhibitor from red kidney ... |
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"abstract": "The goal of the IoT is to make people's lives easier and more convenient by connecting all of our everyday objects to the web. Research suggests that patients who are unable to go to a medical centre might benefit from using IoT devices at home. Earlier IoT-based research investigated what variables af... | {
"abstract": "Internet of Things (IoT) has recently received a great attention due to its potential and capacity to be integrated into any complex system. As a result of rapid development of sensing technologies such as radio-frequency identification, sensors and the convergence of information technologies such as w... | {
"abstract": "Voluminous amounts of data have been produced, since the past decade as the miniaturization of Internet of things (IoT) devices increases. However, such data are not useful without analytic power. Numerous big data, IoT, and analytics solutions have enabled people to obtain valuable insight into large ... |
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"abstract": "Recently, we have reported on the existence of some monopoles, multimonopole, and antimonopoles configurations. In this paper we would like to present more monopoles, multimonopole, and antimonopoles configurations of the magnetic ansatz of Ref. 9 when the parameters p and b of the solutions takes diff... | {
"abstract": "The SU(2) Yang-Mills-Higgs theory supports the existence of monopoles, antimonopoles, and vortex rings. In this paper, we would like to present new exact static antimonopole-monopole-antimonopole (A-M-A) configurations. The net magnetic charge of these configurations is always −1, while the net magneti... | {
"abstract": "We compare half-bridge and full-bridge circuit topologies for controllable pulse parameter transcranial magnetic stimulation (cTMS) devices. The full bridge can generate two more distinct coil voltage levels for enhanced pulse shaping, does not need an active snubber circuit, and requires lower semicon... |
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"abstract": "Hamilton Harbour is one of the most polluted sites on the Great Lakes, affected by airborne and sedimentary contamination as a result of both heavy vehicle traffic and thousands of kilograms of industrial steel emissions. Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) are ubiquitous mutagenic byproducts of in... | {
"abstract": "Ever since the Chernobyl accident in 1986, that contaminated vast areas in surrounding countries with radiation, abnormalities and birth defects have been reported in human populations. Recently, several studies suggested that the elevated frequency of such abnormalities can be attributed to poverty an... | {
"abstract": "Although the socially constructed character of childhood is now well established, the methodological challenges this raises remain so far relatively unremarked. Drawing on a recent period of fieldwork, carried out among English schoolchildren aged between 4 and 9 years old, this article explores the co... |
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"abstract": "We review existing methods and present a generic propagation mechanism for graph partitioning constraints based on directed matchings. The task is also to give a set of several propagation rules according to specific partition properties. Every solution of the global constraint corresponds to a subgraph... | {
"abstract": "We consider the problem of finding a cutset in a directed graph G=(V, E), i.e., a set of vertices that cuts all cycles in G. Finding a cutset of minimum cardinality is NP-hard. There exist several approximate and exact algorithms, most of them using graph reduction techniques. In this paper, we propose... | {
"abstract": "Abstract In addition to classical compartment fire development stages, smoke explosions can occur for underventilated conditions while the ventilation openings remain the same. Smoke explosions are different from backdrafts, involving changes in ventilation by additional openings. In this study, the bu... |
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"abstract": "Evolution of semiconductor manufacturing technology leads to the rising trend of leakage current and the end of Dennard scaling. At the dark silicon era, aggressive power gating scheme with quantitative management on power-gated hardware resources is required. This paper proposes a novel approach —para... | {
"abstract": "Since 2004, processor designers have increased core counts to exploit Moore’s Law scaling, rather than focusing on single-core performance. The failure of Dennard scaling, to which the shift to multicore parts is partially a response, may soon limit multicore scaling just as single-core scaling has bee... | {
"abstract": "This work investigates various design and layout optimization approaches for MOSFET-based series-shunt, single-pole double-throw (SPDT) switches in a commercially-available 130 nm silicon-germanium (SiGe) BiCMOS technology. The incorporation of deep-trench isolation, additional substrate contacts, and ... |
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"abstract": "Abstract This retrospective study was performed to identify pretreatment baseline factors that could predict the development of distant metastasis (DM) in patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC). A cohort of 119 NPC patients undergoing radiotherapy (RT) or chemoradiotherapy (CRT) were recruited in... | {
"abstract": "OBJECTIVE\nWe previously reported the five-year results of a randomised trial that compared induction chemotherapy plus concurrent chemoradiotherapy (IC+CCRT) with induction chemotherapy plus radiotherapy (IC+RT) in patients with locoregionally advanced nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC). The aim of this s... | {
"abstract": "BackgroundIn China, most patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) are diagnosed at a late stage and consequently have a poor prognosis. This study aimed to investigate potential factors associated with the clinical stage of NPC at diagnosis.MethodsData were obtained from 118 patients with early-sta... |
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"abstract": "Lipomas are common benign tumours that arise anywhere on the body. Endobronchial lipomas on the other hand are rare tumours. They may also cause obstructive complications in the bronchial tree. Their presentations may vary from being asymptomatic to stridor accompanied by haemoptysis. We describe a cas... | {
"abstract": "We report a rare case of pulmonary intraparenchymal lipoma. Lipomas are benign adipocytic tumors, which are ubiquitous in distribution, particularly in the subcutis and soft tissue. Visceral lipomas, in particular, pulmonary lipomas, are rarely reported. Even rarer are intraparenchymal lipomas, such as... | {
"abstract": "Lipomas are common benign tumours that arise anywhere on the body. Endobronchial lipomas on the other hand are rare tumours. They may also cause obstructive complications in the bronchial tree. Their presentations may vary from being asymptomatic to stridor accompanied by haemoptysis. We describe a cas... |
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"abstract": "Abstract The leading pattern of extratropical Pacific sea surface temperature variability [the Pacific decadal oscillation (PDO)] is shown to depend on observed variability in the spatiotemporal distribution of tropospheric Rossby wave breaking (RWB), where RWB is the irreversible overturning of potent... | {
"abstract": "Abstract There is a fairly well defined stationary wave and storm track response to El Nino SSTs over the Pacific. In this paper, the case is made that this response is a direct result of increased baroclinicity in the central Pacific and that changes in the stationary wave pattern farther east are pri... | {
"abstract": "Time evolutions of prominent blocking flow configurations over the North Pacific and Europe are compared based upon composites for the 30 strongest events observed during 27 recent winter seasons. Fluctuations associated with synoptic-scale migratory eddies have been filtered out before the compositing... |
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"abstract": "ABSTRACT Visual attention serves to select relevant visual information. However, observers often first need to find out what is relevant. Little is known about this information-seeking process and how it affects attention. We employed a cued visual search task in combination with eye tracking to invest... | {
"abstract": "Intelligent animals devote much time and energy to exploring and obtaining information, but the underlying mechanisms are poorly understood. We review recent developments on this topic that have emerged from the traditionally separate fields of machine learning, eye movements in natural behavior, and s... | {
"abstract": "Summary People find it easier to learn about topics that interest them, but little is known about the mechanisms by which intrinsic motivational states affect learning. We used functional magnetic resonance imaging to investigate how curiosity (intrinsic motivation to learn) influences memory. In both ... |
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"abstract": "INTRODUCTION\nFew pediatric studies classify the irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) subtypes.\n\n\nOBJECTIVE\nTo describe the characteristics and subtypes of IBS in children from Panama, Ecuador, El Salvador, Nicaragua and Mexico.\n\n\nMATERIAL AND METHODS\nPrevalence study performed in children between 8 ... | {
"abstract": "Objectives: Our objective was to evaluate the role of sex and age in the prevalence of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) and functional constipation (FC) in Colombian children. We hypothesized that the prevalence of IBS and FC would be higher in female adolescents than in younger female children, with no ... | {
"abstract": "The whole gut transit rate has been measured in the follicular and luteal phases of the menstrual cycle in 18 healthy women in whom ovulation was confirmed biochemically. Mean transit time in the follicular phase (45.2 (2.7) h, mean (SEM) was not significantly different from the luteal phase (51.3 (4.1... |
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"title": "Probabilistic aspects of quantum programming"
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"abstract": "In this paper we introduce a formal model for random access computers and argue that the model is a good one to use in the theory of computational complexity. Results are proved which compare run times for recognizing sets using this model (which has a fixed program) with a stored program model and wit... | {
"abstract": "We introduce techniques for proving superlinear conditional lower bounds for polynomial time problems. In particular, we show that CircuitSAT for circuits with m gates and log( m ) inputs (denoted by log-CircuitSAT) is not decidable in essentially-linear time unless the exponential time hypothesis (ETH... |
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"abstract": "In recent years, there has been dramatic progress in both speech and language processing, which spurs efforts to combine speech and language technologies in spoken document processing applications. However, speech is different from text in many respects, most notably in the lack of explicit punctuation... | {
"abstract": "This work looks at the impact of automatically predicted commas on part-of-speech (POS) and name tagging of speech recognition transcripts of Mandarin broadcast news. There is a significant gain in both POS and name tagging accuracy due to using automatically predicted commas over sentence boundary pre... | {
"abstract": "Machine learning algorithms can help us to detect the onset diabetes. Early detection of diabetes can reduce patient’s health risk. Physicians, patients, and patient’s relatives can be benefited from the prediction’s outcomes. In low resource clinical settings, it is necessary to predict the patient’s ... |
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"abstract": "We sought to define the ambient concentrations of inorganic nitrogen and phosphorus in the coastal waters of Discovery Bay, Jamaica, and to investigate the effects of groundwater and rainfall on those concentrations. Ambient nutrient concentrations, in areas away from groundwater sources, were generall... | {
"abstract": ". 1996. Demographic approaches to community dynamics: A coral reef example. Ecology 77: 2256–2260. , B. D. KELLER, J. B. C. JACKSON, AND M. J. BOYLE. 1985. Mass mortality of the echinoid Diadema antillarum in Jamaica. Bull. Mar. Sci. 36: 377–384. , D. C. REED, AND M. J. BOYLE. 1987. Herbivory on coral ... | {
"abstract": "We monitored a 14-km nutrient gradient in the northern Everglades to identify statistical relationships between periphyton and water-quality changes caused by canal discharges into the marsh. Water chemistry measurements were taken at 15 sampling stations every 2 wk over a 20-mo period to quantify chan... |
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"abstract": "ABSTRACTSevoflurane is used by anesthetists for the induction and maintenance of general anesthesia. This causes the anesthetist to get daily exposures. This will be a potential hazard for exposed operating room personnel, especially anesthetists. The adverse health effects of sevoflurane as hepatotoxi... | {
"abstract": "Objectives: In a field study we evaluated the workplace pollution occurring during conscious sedation with sevoflurane in adults. Methods: Sevoflurane was given in 100% oxygen at a fresh gas flow rate of 3 l/min via a nasal mask. This was conducted in 25 patients scheduled for surgical procedures perfo... | {
"abstract": "Purpose of review Sedation of patients either with or without regional anesthesia is discussed to ascertain sedation requirements in the two groups. The differences between ‘monitored anesthesia care’ and conscious sedation are defined. Several current and promising methods with which we can evaluate a... |
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"abstract": "The C₄ photosynthetic cycle acts to concentrate CO₂ around the enzyme Rubisco. By doing so, C₄ photosynthesis leads to increased radiation, water and nitrogen use efficiencies. As such, C₄ photosynthesis is the most productive form of photosynthesis known. Because it enables such high levels of product... | {
"abstract": "BackgroundGenetic and epigenetic alterations can be invoked by plant tissue culture, which may result in heritable changes in phenotypes, a phenomenon collectively termed somaclonal variation. Although extensive studies have been conducted on the molecular nature and spectrum of tissue culture-induced ... | {
"abstract": "Heterosis is the superior performance of heterozygous individuals and has been widely exploited in plant breeding, although the underlying regulatory mechanisms still remain largely elusive. To understand the molecular basis of heterosis in maize, in this study, roots and leaves at the seedling stage a... |
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"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nPulmonary cryptococcosis (PC) is an infection typically diagnosed in immunocompromised or immunocompetent patients, which can lead to severe disease if not treated appropriately. We aimed to determine the association between clinical manifestations, computed tomography (CT) findings, and ho... | {
"abstract": "PURPOSE\nWe aimed to investigate clinical and radiologic manifestations of pulmonary cryptococcosis in immunocompetent patients and their outcomes after treatment.\n\n\nMATERIALS AND METHODS\nWe retrospectively reviewed the medical records, initial and follow-up chest computed tomography scans and/or r... | {
"abstract": "This article proposes a Bayesian approach to regression with a scalar response against vector and tensor covariates. Tensor covariates are commonly vectorized prior to analysis, failing to exploit the structure of the tensor, and resulting in poor estimation and predictive performance. We develop a nov... |
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"abstract": "When effective vaccines are available, vaccination programs are typically one of the best defences against the spread of an infectious disease. Unfortunately, vaccination rates may be suboptimal for a prolonged duration as a result of slow uptake of vaccines by the public. Key factors driving slow vacc... | {
"abstract": "Motivation Mathematical modeling using ordinary differential equations is used in systems biology to improve the understanding of dynamic biological processes. The parameters of ordinary differential equation models are usually estimated from experimental data. To analyze a priori the uniqueness of the... | {
"abstract": "Ordinary differential equation models in biology often contain a large number of parameters that must be determined from measurements by parameter estimation. For a parameter estimation procedure to be successful, there must be a unique set of parameters that can have produced the measured data. This i... |
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"abstract": "Interstitial fibrosis is a common feature of chronic kidney disease, and platelet-derived growth factor receptor-β (PDGFR-β)-positive mesenchymal cells are reportedly the major source of scar-producing myofibroblasts. We had previously demonstrated that albumin and its derivative R-III (a retinol-bindi... | {
"abstract": "The field of pancreatic stellate cell (PSC) biology is very young, as the essential in-vitro tools to study these cells (ie, methods to isolate and culture PSC) were only developed as recently as in 1998. Nonetheless, there has been an exponential increase in research output in this field over the past... | {
"abstract": "Abstract The recent development of hyperspectral imaging and pattern recognition can find wide applications in recognition of explosive materials. This study reports on novel technique for remote sensing of explosive material using hyperspectral imaging. Common explosive materials including TNT, RDX, a... |
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"abstract": "Unemployment is one of the major macroeconomic factors which has always been a big issue for an economy as it has a direct influence on living condition of citizens and is helpful in ensuring a sound and growing economic system. Based on logical concept it can be said that employment rate states the fi... | {
"abstract": "Recent several months have demonstrated historical levels of market volatility; sometimes attributed to changes in previously hypothesized systematic risk factors, however many times without any known reason other than the overreaction by market participants. Times like these make it even more importan... | {
"abstract": "Several legal scholars are highly skeptical of the use of cost-benefit analysis and other economic tools in regulatory decision making. Recently, these critics have focused on debunking economic summaries of regulatory activity - sometimes referred to as regulatory scorecards. The critics generally off... |
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"abstract": "This paper presents a somewhat new econometric framework that permits simultaneous estimation of price-cost margins, scale economies and productivity from a panel of establishment data. The econometric model contains only a few, economically interesting parameters to be estimated, but it is nevertheles... | {
"abstract": "Hall's (1988) approach to study price- cost margins is adapted to simultaneously estimate price- cost margins and scale economies from a panel of plant level data. The paper shows how this methodology provides a very flexible framework with only a few, economically interesting parameters to be estimate... | {
"abstract": "Abstract The paper examines the relationship between heterogeneity bias and strict exogeneity in a distributed lag regression of y on x . The relationship is very strong when x is continuous, weaker when x is discrete, and non-existent as the order of the distributed lag becomes infinite. The individua... |
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"abstract": "(hmj) Komplexe regionale Schmerzsyndrome (complex regional pain syndrome [CRPS]) können sich nach schädlichen Einwirkungen mit oder ohne klinisch offensichtlichen Nervenverletzungen entwickeln. Sie werden charakterisiert durch Spontanschmerzen oder Hyperalgesie und verschiedenen klinischen Symptomen wi... | {
"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nReflex sympathetic dystrophy/complex regional pain syndrome type I (RSD/CRPS I) is a painful neuropathic disorder that may develop as a disproportionate consequence of a trauma affecting the limbs without overt nerve injury. Clinical features are spontaneous pain, hyperalgesia, impairment o... | {
"abstract": "BackgroundDuring the chronic stage of Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS), impaired microcirculation is related to increased vasoconstriction, tissue hypoxia, and metabolic tissue acidosis in the affected limb. Several mechanisms may be responsible for the ischemia and pain in chronic cold CPRS.Discu... |
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"abstract": "Abstract This study examines how high-performance work systems (HPWSs) are related to Saudi employees’ work and career outcomes. Drawing on the socially embedded model of thriving, we propose a model that includes the mediating role of thriving at work and the moderating role played by wasta in the rel... | {
"abstract": "This study examines the influence of a national cultural dimension, specifically a strong orientation towards collectivism/reliance on network relationships, referred to as ‘wasta’, on the way in which psychological contracts form and change in a Saudi organisation. Specifically, it focuses upon how th... | {
"abstract": "We describe the results of a performance evaluation of four extensions of Particle Swarm Optimisation (PSO) to reduce energy consumption in wireless sensor networks. Communication distances are an important factor to be reduced in sensor networks. By using clustering in a sensor network we can reduce t... |
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"abstract": "The Principal Ideal Problem (resp. Short Principal Ideal Problem), shorten as PIP (resp. SPIP), consists in finding a generator (resp. short generator) of a principal ideal in the ring of integers of a number field. Several lattice-based cryptosystems rely on the presumed hardness of these two problems... | {
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"title": "SOLILOQUY: A CAUTIONARY TALE"
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"abstract": "Robots have the potential to be a game changer in healthcare: improving health and well-being, filling care gaps, supporting care givers, and aiding health care workers. However, before robots are able to be widely deployed, it is crucial that both the research and industrial communities work together ... |
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"abstract": "gpetzold@ubiobio.cl Abstract This study investigated the impacts of centrifugal block freeze concentration (CBFC) and evaporation processes on physicochemical properties, bioactive compounds and antioxidant activity applied to fresh blueberry juice. After three concentration cycles, the solutes were ap... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Coffee extract was freeze-concentrated through block and falling-film techniques. Solute retention and concentration efficiency were determined after one stage of these processes. Ice morphology was characterized through image analysis. Preservation of volatile compounds was determined through... | {
"abstract": "OBJECTIVE\nTo analyze the influence of food preparation methods on the composition of fatty acids and cholesterol in foods.\n\n\nMETHODS\nThe chemical composition of cholesterol and fatty acids was analyzed in eight different types of meat and feijoada in relation to different methods of preparation.\n... |
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"abstract": "Juvenile hormones (JHs) are a group of acyclic sesquiterpenoids. They are biosynthesized in the mevalonate biosynthetic pathway as esters of farnesol (F). F is best known as an intermediate in this pathway that is omnipresent in all eukaryotes. Since 2019 it became apparent that F also has an important... | {
"abstract": "Literature on the question whether the juvenile stage of vertebrates is hormonally regulated is scarce. It seems to be intuitively assumed that this stage of development is automated, and does not require any specific hormone(s). Such reasoning mimics the state of affairs in insects until it was shown ... | {
"abstract": "Abstract In phase-shifting speckle interferometry, the varying intensity of speckle fields always causes some pixels to be invalid. It is either saturation or low modulation that prevents a reliable phase from being calculated. Proceeding from a criterion that considers a point to be valid as soon as i... |
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"abstract": "The major concern for social work, namely child abuse-related deaths (CARD), involves parental neglect. Societal neglect, when measured by child mortality rates (CMR), is considered by bodies such as UNICEF to be indicative of how a nation meets the needs of its children. This population-based study an... | {
"abstract": "Purpose of review This review will examine the most recent published literature on Sudden Infant Death, Sudden Unexplained Infant Death, infant and child death due to maltreatment, and Shaken Baby Syndrome. Recent findings New recommendations from the American Academy of Pediatrics about the evaluation... | {
"abstract": "REPORTS on repetition of s~udden infant death syndrome in families have, for th~ most part, been anecdotal? Available information, therefore, is insufficient for either counseling parents or for addressing questions about heritability. In the United States the incidence rate of SIDS ranges between two ... |
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"abstract": "The usage of the service selection approaches across different dynamic service provisioning environments has increased the challenges associated with an effective method that can be used to select a relevant service. The use of service selection approach should depend on certain factors. In order to ad... | {
"abstract": "As more and more Web services are deployed, Web service's discovery mechanisms become essential. Similar services can have quite different QoS behaviors. For service selection and management purpose, it is necessary to clearly specify QoS constraints and metrics definitions for Web services. We investi... | {
"abstract": "Survivability, the ability of a system to tolerate intentional attacks or accidental failures or errors, is becoming increasingly important with the extended use of computer systems in society. While techniques such as cryptographic methods, intrusion detection, and traditional fault tolerance are curr... |
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"abstract": "Observations using conventional microscopy often lack information related to the fine structures of an object, such as intensity and phase, because of limitations in the lens aperture. In this study, the intensity and phase information are appropriately converted into an electrical signal using laser s... | {
"abstract": "Imaging of phase or optical path length is becoming more important with the development of better imaging systems, computational algorithms, faster computers, and a greater interest in the imaging of transparent objects. Early phase imaging involved qualitative imaging of phase gradients. New computati... | {
"abstract": "Computer technology has brought about a revolution in radiology. By combining the computer with X rays it is possible (in principle) to obtain tomographic images of any cross section in the human body. These techniques are now used for medical diagnosis in all the major hospitals of the world. But X ra... |
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"abstract": "The success of any business/IT collaboration depends on the shared understanding between business and IT professionals (B/IT-SU) on all organizational layers. However, most research on B/IT-SU merely focuses either on top management level or information system development (ISD) teams. This isolated res... | {
"abstract": "Management scholars have articulated the importance of occupational cultures in understanding employee behaviors in organizations. In keeping with this theme, Information Systems (IS) scholars have begun examining the occupational culture of IS personnel. It is generally argued that culture is importan... | {
"abstract": "Purpose – This study aims to evaluate the usefulness of a university unit Facebook page, which was established to support a first-year university justice unit. The study pays particular regard to the Facebook page's impact on students learning outcomes and communications amongst students and between st... |
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"abstract": "Abstract Aim: The aim of this study was to investigate the beneficial effects of 18β-glycyrrhetinic acid (GA) on the experimental allergic encephalomyelitis (EAE) in C57BL/6 mice. GA is a natural substance found in the root of licorice and is used in traditional Chinese medicine. It has many pharmacolo... | {
"abstract": "The exact pathophysiological change concerning mitochondrial injury and oligodendrocyte apoptosis in MS and EAE model is still unknown. Whether curcumin is able to inhibit mitochondrial injury and suppress the apoptosis in the early stages of MS/EAE is still unclear. We first explored mitochondrial inj... | {
"abstract": "In host-parasitoid interactions the coefficient of variation (CV) of the risk of parasitism measures, at least approximately, the stabilizing influence of many forms of heterogeneity. This realization emphasizes the underlying similarity of these heterogeneities, and should end two decades of confusion... |
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"abstract": "Objectives To show by the example of the Optimized Mixed Diet (OMD) for children and adolescents in Germany, how the different food and nutrient profiles of the traditional daily meals complement each other to achieve daily nutrient intakes that meet the Dietary References V. Methods The 7-day menu pla... | {
"abstract": "There is a growing recognition of the need for a lifecourse approach to understanding the aetiology of adult disease, and there is now significant evidence that links patterns of infant feeding to differences in health outcomes, both in the short and longer term. Breastfeeding is associated with lower ... | {
"abstract": "ABSTRACT. In a semi‐longitudinal investigation comprising a total of 81 infants studied at one or more of the ages 4, 9, 15 and 24 months, the food intake was recorded on three consecutive days at 4 months and on seven consecutive days at 9, 15 and 24 months (40, 40, 38 and 40 infants, respectively in ... |
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"abstract": "Despite the great promise of integrated positron emission tomography (PET)/magnetic resonance (MR) imaging to add molecular information to anatomical and functional MR, its potential impact in medicine is diminished by a very high cost, limiting its dissemination. An RF-penetrable PET ring that can be ... | {
"abstract": "The simultaneous acquisition of PET and MRI data shows promise to provide powerful capabilities to study disease processes in human subjects, guide the development of novel treatments, and monitor therapy response and disease progression. A brain-size PET detector ring insert for an MRI system is being... | {
"abstract": "On the basis of personal interviews with 116 members of the political élite of the USSR in its terminal period, conclusions are drawn about influence on political power and reasons for the breakdown of the political system. Unlike democratic transitions grounded on negotiation, the collapse of the USSR... |
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"abstract": "To address the increasingly serious parking pain, numerous mobile Apps have emerged to help drivers to find a convenient parking spot with various auxiliary information. However, the phenomenon of “multiple cars chasing the same spot” still exists, especially for on-street parking. Existing reservation... | {
"abstract": "We propose a novel “smart parking” system for an urban environment. The system assigns and reserves an optimal parking space based on the driver's cost function that combines proximity to destination and parking cost. Our approach solves a mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) problem at each decisio... | {
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"title": "Do Hardware Cache Flushing Operations Actually Meet Our Expectations?"
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"abstract": "A new strain of Actinomycete (S. albovinaceus) no.10/2 with a broad antifungal and antibacterial activitywas isolated from soil sample of Palestine.The medium composition for antibioticproduction fromstrain S.albovinaceus was optimized using shake-flask methodology.The parameters that resulted in maxim... | {
"abstract": "Effect of various fermentation media, carbon sources, nitrogen sources, phosphate concentration and culture requirements includes inoculum levels and age were determined on gentamicin production and biomass dry weight production for Micromonospora echinospora, a gentamicin producing strain. Of the subs... | {
"abstract": "Secondary metabolites obtained from Actinomycetales provide a potential source of many novel compounds with antibacterial, antitumour, antifungal, antiviral, antiparasitic and other properties. The majority of these compounds are widely used as medicines for combating multidrug-resistant Gram-positive ... |
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"abstract": "Thymocytes of AKR mice express two species of gp70, the envelope glycoprotein of murine leukemia virus (MuLV), encoded by the env gene. One is denoted Ec+ gp70 in reference to the type-antigen Ec and association with ecotropic virus. The other, Ec- gp70, resembles gp70 found also on thymocytes of mouse... | {
"abstract": "The family of glycoproteins called gp70 includes molecules that are the main constituent of murine C-type viral envelopes, and some that are expressed as mendelian constituents of thymocyte plasma membranes in the absence of virions. To investigate further the relation of viral gp70s to plasma- membran... | {
"abstract": "Humans explain and predict other agents' behavior using mental state concepts, such as beliefs and desires. Computational and developmental evidence suggest that such inferences are enabled by a principle of rational action: the expectation that agents act efficiently, within situational constraints, t... |
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"abstract": "Renal development in rodents, unlike in humans, continues during early postnatal period. We aimed to evaluate whether the pharmacological inhibition of Endothelin system during this period affects renal development, both at structural and functional level in male and female rats. Newborn rats were trea... | {
"abstract": "Angiotensin II (Ang‐II) is a potent vasoactive hormone, which plays an important role in the pathogenesis of glomerulosclerosis. Ang‐II activates many cytokine systems in the kidney. Recent studies indicate that Ang‐II is closely related to the activation of the endothelin‐1 (ET‐1) system. The present ... | {
"abstract": "Barrott et al. show that PI3′-lipid signaling potentiates metastasis in a genetically engineered mouse model of synovial sarcomagenesis and drives cancer cells to express CSF1, recruiting macrophages to the tumor microenvironment.",
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"title": "Modeling synovial s... |
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"abstract": "Quinones are one of the most promising and widely investigated classes of redox active materials for organic aqueous redox flow batteries. However, quinone-based flow batteries still lack the necessary performance in terms of metrics, such as specific capacity, power density, and long-term stability, t... | {
"abstract": "This article reviews recent developments and applications in the area of computational electrochemistry. Our focus is on predicting the reduction potentials of electron transfer and other electrochemical reactions and half-reactions in both aqueous and nonaqueous solutions. Topics covered include vario... | {
"abstract": "Chemical databases store information such as molecular formulas, chemical structures, and the physical and chemical properties of compounds. Although the massive databases of organic compounds exist, the search of target materials is constrained by a lack of physical and chemical properties necessary f... |
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"abstract": "Abstract In epidemiological studies, dairy food consumption has been associated with minimal effect or decreased risk of some cardiometabolic diseases (CMD). However, current methods of dietary assessment do not provide objective and accurate measures of food intakes. Thus, the identification of valid ... | {
"abstract": "BackgroundPhytanic acid produced in ruminants from chlorophyll may have preventive effects on the metabolic syndrome, partly due to its reported RXR and PPAR- α agonist activity. Milk from cows fed increased levels of green plant material, contains increased phytanic acid concentrations, but it is unkn... | {
"abstract": "The electromigration diffusion boundary value problem with the perfectly blocking diffusion barrier is numerically investigated. Three possible boundary conditions are identified as physically meaningful and the solutions compared at the blocking barrier. It is seen that the solution of M. Shatzkes and... |
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"abstract": "This review discusses current progress and future challenges in the numerical modeling of targeted drug delivery using functionalized nanocarriers (NC). Antibody coated nanocarriers of various size and shapes, also called functionalized nanocarriers, are designed to be injected in the vasculature, wher... | {
"abstract": "Targeting of diagnostic and therapeutic agents to endothelial cells (ECs) provides an avenue to improve treatment of many maladies. For example, intercellular adhesion molecule 1 (ICAM-1), a constitutive endothelial cell adhesion molecule up-regulated in many diseases, is a good determinant for endothe... | {
"abstract": "Cardiovascular diseases, including hypertension and heart failure, are associated with activation of the renin-angiotensin system (RAS) and increased circulating and tissue levels of ANG II, a primary effector peptide of the RAS. Through its actions on various cell types and organ systems, ANG II contr... |
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"abstract": "This paper designed the gate driver circuits and optimized the PCB layout in a 7.2kW battery charger using paralleled GaN HEMTs. 650V/60A enhancement mode GaN HEMTs provided by GaN Systems Inc are adopted. To optimize the switching performance of paralleled GaN HEMTs with low loss and high reliability,... | {
"abstract": "Normally-off GaN-on-Si heterojunction field-effect transistors (HFETs) have been developed with up to 650 V blocking capability, fast switching, and low conduction losses in commercial devices. The natively depletion-mode device can be modified to be normally-off using a variety of techniques. For a po... | {
"abstract": "The nonlinear junction capacitances of power devices are critical for the switching transient, which should be fully considered in the modeling and transient analysis, especially for high-frequency applications. The silicon carbide (SiC) MOSFET combined with SiC Schottky Barrier Diode (SBD) is recogniz... |
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"abstract": "Secondary metabolite compounds have a very diverse structure that is widely used as a source of new drug discovery because they have a variety of bioactivity. But in its development, there are several problems related to these compounds including low bioavailability, low solubility and instability in t... | {
"abstract": "The regioselective synthesis of several quercetin (3,3’,4’,5,7-pentahydroxy flavone) tetraesters bearing a single free OH on 5-C was achieved in good yield by proper choice of reaction conditions using common esterification procedures. Tetracetylated quercetin with the free OH on 7-C was selectively ob... | {
"abstract": "The propolis produced by bees are used in alternative medicine for treating inflammation, and infections, presumably due to its antioxidant properties. In this context, five propolis from México were investigated to determine their inhibitory lipid peroxidation properties. The ethyl acetate extract fro... |
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"abstract": "Event-based sensors are a novel type of visual sensor that operate entirely differently to their traditional frame-based counterparts. Not bound by a synchronous frame-rate, pixels from these sensors respond both independently and asynchronously to changes in log-light intensity. Because of this operat... | {
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"abstract": "Deer vehicle collision (DVC) is constantly a major safety issue for the driving on rural road. It is estimated that there are over 35,000 DVCs yearly in the US resulting in about 200 deaths and close to 4,000 reported property damages of one thousand dollars or more. This justifies many attempts trying... |
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"abstract": "Recent research efforts at Texas Tech University on impulse antenna phased array has necessitated the need to develop a reliable high voltage, high repetition rate switch that will operate with ultra low jitter. An ideal jitter of a small fraction of the risetime is required to accurately synchronize t... | {
"abstract": "Recent attention to impulse antenna phased arrays has necessitated the need to develop a reliable high voltage, high repetition rate switch that will operate with ultra low jitter. The ideal jitter of such a switch would be a small fraction of the risetime in order to synchronize the array to steer and... | {
"abstract": "Recent research efforts at Texas Tech University on impulse antenna phased array has needed to develop a reliable high voltage, high repetition rate switch that will operate with ultra low jitter. An ideal jitter of a small fraction of the risetime is required to accurately synchronize the array to ste... |
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"abstract": "The use of full fat soybeans (FFSB) in poultry nutrition is limited because of the presence of anti-nutritional factors, which can be inactivated by means of heat treatment. Over-processing of FFSB may result in deficient amino acid availability. An experiment, effects of replacing soybean meal (SBM) w... | {
"abstract": "Effects of thermal processing (toasting or extrusion) of untoasted soybean meal on growth performance, apparent ileal nutrient digestibilities, and chyme characteristics were studied in broiler chicks fed diets with soybean meal as the main protein source. Effects of increasing shear forces during extr... | {
"abstract": "The efficiency of utilisation of wheat, oats, barley and rye by poultry is often limited by the presence of antinutritional factors (ANFs). Such ANFs are commonly referred to as non-starch polysaccharides, classified as arabinoxylans and β-glucans. The arabinoxylans, which consist of a linear backbone ... |
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"abstract": "A new way to train a virtual assistant with unsupervised learning is presented in this thesis. Rather than integrating with a particular set of programs and interfaces, this new approach involves shallow integration between the virtual assistant and computer through machine vision. In effect the assist... | {
"abstract": "Existing surveys in visual analytics focus on the importance of the topic. However, many do not discuss the increasingly critical area of mixed-initiative systems. In this survey we discuss the importance of research in mixed-initiative systems and how it is different from visual analytics and other re... | {
"abstract": "This paper presents a novel approach to automatically classify the upperwear genre from a full-body input image with no restrictions of model poses, image backgrounds, and image resolutions. Five style elements, that are crucial for clothing recognition, are identified based on the clothing design theo... |
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"abstract": "There is a large clinical requirement for novel vascular grafts; however, the development of novel vascular grafts has not been extremely successful to date. The most successful method for the continuous evaluation of vascular grafts in vivo remains unclear. Therefore, an optimal successive, non-invasi... | {
"abstract": "PURPOSE\nWe evaluated the safety and feasibility of a new anastomotic device that simplifies coronary distal anastomosis during minimally invasive and robotically assisted coronary artery bypass graft surgery (CABG).\n\n\nDESCRIPTION\nFourteen miniature pigs underwent off-pump CABG using bilateral inte... | {
"abstract": "OBJECTIVES\nTo evaluate the safety and effectiveness of a self-closing surgical clip with an interrupted technique in left internal thoracic artery to left anterior descending artery bypass grafting.\n\n\nMETHODS\nEighty-two patients were enrolled and treated (February 2000 through August 2001) in a pr... |
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"abstract": "Sudden cardiac death (SCD) is the leading cause of death in adults worldwide. Coronary heart disease is the underlying reason for most of the patients with SCD, including acute coronary syndrome and chronic ischemic heart disease. Revascularization is an important treatment technology for coronary hear... | {
"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nHeart failure patients with primary prevention implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICD) may experience an improvement in left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) over time. However, it is unclear how LVEF improvement affects subsequent risk for mortality and sudden cardiac death.\n\n\... | {
"abstract": "PurposeImplantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs) improve survival of systolic heart failure (HF) patients who are at risk of sudden cardiac death (SCD). We recently showed that electrocardiographic (ECG) global electrical heterogeneity (GEH) is independently associated with SCD in the community-dw... |
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"abstract": "Polybrominated flame retardants (BFRs), organochlorine pesticides (OCPs) and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) were analysed in eggs of various wild bird species from industrialised areas in South Africa. Eggs were collected during the 2008 – 2009 breeding season, homogenised and sent to the Norwegian S... | {
"abstract": "Environmental contamination by agricultural chemicals and industrial waste disposal results in adverse effects on reproduction of exposed birds. The diversity of pollutants results in physiological effects at several levels, including direct effects on breeding adults as well as developmental effects o... | {
"abstract": "Summary Nitrosomorpholine (70 mg/litre drinking-water) or morpholine (6·33 g/kg food) plus sodium nitrite (1·0g/litre drinking-water) was administered to guinea-pigs, which were fed a diet containing either a high or a low level of ascorbic acid or no ascorbic acid at all. Animals on the ascorbic acid-... |
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"abstract": "Background: To analyze the role of proinflammatory cytokines in drug-induced gingival enlargement in Indian population. Aim: To evaluate for the presence of interleukin-6 (IL-6) in drug-induced gingival enlargement and to compare it with healthy control in the absence of enlargement. Materials and Meth... | {
"abstract": "The purpose of this study was to demonstrate the localization of collagen types I, III, IV, V, VI and VII as well as the glycoprotein fibronectin in nifedipine-induced gingival overgrowth. The slices, after the use of indirect immunofluorescence (incubation with antibodies against these extracellular m... |
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"abstract": "Date_____________________ The final copy of this thesis has been examined by the signators, and we find that both the content and the form meet acceptable presentation standards of scholarly work in the above mentioned discipline. Agentsheets Genetic Evolutionary Simulations (AGES) is a system develope... | {
"abstract": "This paper presents an approach to writing specifications for parts of software systems. The main goal is to provide specifications sufficiently precise and complete that other pieces of software can be written to interact with the piece specified without additional information. The secondary goal is t... | {
"abstract": "The slogan that information is powerhas undergone a slight change. Today, information updatingis in the focus of interest. The largest source of information is the world-wide web. Fast search methods are in need for this enormous source. In this paper a hybrid architecture that combines soft support ve... |
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"abstract": "The portability, the object-oriented and distributed programming mod- els, multithreading support and automatic garbage collection are features that make Java very attractive for application developers. The main goal of this paper consists in pointing out the impact of Java applications at microarchite... | {
"abstract": "In modern superscalar microarchitectures that speculatively execute a great quantity of code, without performing branch prediction, it won’t be possible to aggressively exploit instruction level parallelism from programs. Both the architectural and technological complexity of current processors emphasi... | {
"abstract": "Considering cloud computing from an organizational and end user computing point of view, it is a new paradigm for deploying, managing and offering services through a shared infrastructure. Current development of cloud computing applications, however, are the lack of a uniformly approach to cope with th... |
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"abstract": "Porcine edema disease (ED) caused by Shiga toxin 2e producing Escherichia coli expressing F18ab+ fimbriae (F18ab+STEC) frequently occurs in post-weaned piglets, resulting in a significant economic loss in swine industries worldwide. In the present study, we proposed an efficient prevention scheme again... | {
"abstract": "Recently, a novel technique for \"real time\" quantitative Reverse Transcriptase-PCR which measures PCR-product accumulation during the exponential phase of the PCR reaction using a dual-labelled fluorogenic probe, has been developed. This method allows direct detection of PCR-product formation by meas... | {
"abstract": "Water pricing has been used as an effective method of conserving water and optimizing water allocation. However, little is known about how to set a rational and efficient water price and how water pricing impacts economic growth. In this paper, we address this challenge by using the SICGE model, a dyna... |
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"abstract": "Independent component analysis (ICA) has been a popular dimension reduction tool in statistical machine learning and signal processing. In this paper, we present a convergence analysis for an online tensorial ICA algorithm, by viewing the problem as a nonconvex stochastic approximation problem. For est... | {
"abstract": "Solving statistical learning problems often involves nonconvex optimization. Despite the empirical success of nonconvex statistical optimization methods, their global dynamics, especially convergence to the desirable local minima, remain less well understood in theory. In this paper, we propose a new a... | {
"abstract": "We study the estimation of low rank matrices via nonconvex optimization. Compared with convex relaxation, nonconvex optimization exhibits superior empirical performance for large scale instances of low rank matrix estimation. However, the understanding of its theoretical guarantees are limited. In this... |
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"abstract": "We generate new spherical and time-dependent solutions of viable Horndeski gravity by disforming a solution of the Einstein equations with scalar field source and positive cosmological constant. They describe dynamical objects embedded in asymptotically FLRW spacetimes and contain apparent horizons and... | {
"abstract": "We consider self-interacting scalar fields coupled to gravity. Two classes of exact solutions to Einstein's equations are obtained: the first class corresponds to the minimal coupling, the second one to the conformal coupling. One of the solutions is shown to describe a formation of a black hole in a c... | {
"abstract": "We consider a scalar field with a negative kinetic term minimally coupled to gravity. We obtain an exact non-static spherically symmetric solution which describes a wormhole in a cosmological setting. The wormhole is shown to connect two homogeneous spatially flat universes expanding with acceleration.... |
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"abstract": "The sequencing of the human genome at the turn of the 21st century was hailed as revealing the overwhelming genetic similarity of human groups. Scholars of genomics have critiqued the subsequent persistence of race-based genetic science, but were reassured that the wide availability of gene sequencing ... | {
"abstract": "Advances in genome assembly and phasing provide an opportunity to investigate the diploid architecture of the human genome and reveal the full range of structural variation across population groups. Here we report the de novo assembly and haplotype phasing of the Korean individual AK1 (ref. 1) using si... | {
"abstract": "von Willebrand factor (VWF) is synthesized primarily in vascular endothelial cells and secreted into the plasma as unusually large VWF multimers. Normally, these multimers are quickly degraded into smaller forms by a plasma metalloproteinase, VWF-cleaving protease (VWF-CP). Decreases in the activity of... |
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"abstract": "A new method is proposed in this paper to learn overcomplete dictionary from training data samples. Differing from the current methods that enforce similar sparsity constraint on each of the input samples, the proposed method attempts to impose global sparsity constraint on the entire data set. This en... | {
"abstract": "We study the robust estimation of missing regions in images and video using adaptive, sparse reconstructions. Our primary application is on missing regions of pixels containing textures, edges, and other image features that are not readily handled by prevalent estimation and recovery algorithms. We ass... | {
"abstract": "We describe the wavelet–vaguelette decomposition (WVD) of a linear inverse problem. It is a substitute for the singular value decomposition (SVD) of an inverse problem, and it exists for a class of special inverse problems of homogeneous type—such as numerical differentiation, inversion of Abel-type tr... |
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"abstract": "We document empirical support for the 'house money' effect proposed by Thaler and Johnson (1990). Market makers for Taiwan' TAIEX index options tend to take above-average risks in afternoon trading after above-average morning gains. The fraction of market makers with better-than-average morning perform... | {
"abstract": "Abstract This paper extends the work of Thaler and Johnson ( Management Science , 1990, 36, no. 6, 643–660) on prior gains and losses in a business context. In support of their results, the current experimental analysis on capital expenditure decisions finds that prior gains shift behaviour towards ris... | {
"abstract": "The goal of ensuring good enough water and sanitation, particularly for the urban poor in lower-income countries, is considered in relation to the initial wave of public private partnerships and the development of the GATS. Some benefits of private sector involvement are discussed whilst recognizing th... |
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"abstract": "The use of implantable electrodes has been long thought as the solution for a more natural control of artificial limbs, as these offer access to long-term stable and physiologically appropriate sources of control, as well as the possibility to elicit appropriate sensory feedback via neurostimulation. A... | {
"abstract": "We have developed a multichannel electrogmyography sensor system capable of receiving and processing signals from up to 32 implanted myoelectric sensors (IMES). The appeal of implanted sensors for myoelectric control is that electromyography (EMG) signals can be measured at their source providing relat... | {
"abstract": "Objectives ::: To develop a fully-implanted, intramuscular, bipolar, myoelectric signal recording electrode (IM-MES) for functional electrical stimulation (FES), prosthetic myoelectric control, and other permanently implantable systems.",
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"abstract": "The ionic liquid 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium dicyanamide ([Bmim][DCA]) is a propellant candidate for a standalone electrospray thruster or a dual-mode propulsion system. Characterization of positive polarity ions produced by [Bmim][DCA] capillary emitters with a nominal extraction voltage of 2.0 kV is ... | {
"abstract": "1-methyl-5-aminotetrazole (4, MAT) can easily be protonated by strong acids, yielding known but largely uninvestigated 1-methyl-5-aminotetrazolium nitrate (4a) and perchlorate (4b). Methylation, rather than protonation, of 4 with iodomethane followed by the exchange of the iodide (5a) for nitrate (5b),... |
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"abstract": "The objective of this study was to investigate the cellular immunolocalization of inhibin a and inhibin/activin (β(A) and β(B)) subunits in the muskrat testes and scented glands during the breeding season. Inhibin α and inhibin/activin (β(A) and β(B)) subunits were expressed in Sertoli cells and Leydig... | {
"abstract": "The search for gonadal proteins that regulate pituitary FSH led to the isolation of inhibins and activins. As members of the transforming growth factor beta (TGFbeta) superfamily of growth and differentiation factors, these proteins have been shown subsequently to affect a range of tissues and systems ... | {
"abstract": "Increasing evidence suggests that autocrine endothelial cell activity contributes significantly to the angiogenic cascade once the endothelial cells are initially activated by exogenous stimuli. We have employed the differential RNA-display technique to identify endothelial cell genes that are expresse... |
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"abstract": "Insights into genome size dynamics and its evolutionary impact remain limited by the lack of data for many plant groups. One of these is the genus Iris, of which only 53 out of c. 260 species have available genome sizes. In this study, we estimated the C-values for 41 species and subspecies of Iris mai... | {
"abstract": "Despite being an important target of conservation concern and horticultural interest, Lebanese irises yet have a confusing taxonomic history and species’ delimitation is often considered problematic, more especially among royal irises (Iris section Oncocyclus). Indeed, these irises of exceptionally lar... | {
"abstract": "The tribe Leucocoryneae is taxonomically and cytogenetically complex, mainly due to its extraordinary morphological and karyological variation. Robertsonian translocations had long been recognized as a central factor contributing to karyotype diversity within the Leucocoryneae, but so far no major tend... |
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"abstract": "Abstract Objective To consolidate evidence from systematic reviews and meta-analyses investigating the association between reproductive factors in women of reproductive age and their subsequent risk of cardiovascular disease. Design Umbrella review. Data sources Medline, Embase, and Cochrane databases ... | {
"abstract": "Age at menarche (AAM) has been reported to be associated with the risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD), but the shape of and the mechanisms behind this association remain unclear. We reviewed the data on the association between AAM and different subtypes of CVD, and used shared genetic loci to identify... | {
"abstract": "Collagenolytic activity was assessed in a variety of microorganisms with particular emphasis on members of the indigenous oral flora. Organisms were grown in complete and peptide depleted basal anaerobic broth. Cell sonicates and media preparations were assayed for collagenolytic activity using 14C-lab... |
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"abstract": "We consider the problem of detecting a subspace signal in white Gaussian noise when the noise power may be different under the null hypothesis - where it is assumed to be known - and the alternative hypothesis. This situation occurs when the presence of the signal of interest (SOI) triggers an increase... | {
"abstract": "We address the matched detector problem in the case the signal to be detected is imperfectly known. While in the standard detector the signal is known to lie along a particular direction, we consider the case where this direction is known up to additive white Gaussian noise. This somehow amounts to ass... | {
"abstract": "We consider parallel, context-free and context sensitive apical growth filamentous systems (in which leftmost and rightmost k symbols may be rewritten). The power of such systems is investigated as well as the power of terminal vocabulary, finite number of axioms and erasing rules.",
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"abstract": "Researchers who start delving into a new research area often resort to reading lists of scientific articles in order to familiarize themselves with the existing literature. Generally, these reading lists are manually built and recommended by experts. In this paper we tackle the problem of automatically... | {
"abstract": "The requirements for the task of building an initial reading list in literature review are re-conceptualized and a novel retrieval technique centered on author-specified keywords of papers is proposed for this task.The HITS variant of the proposed technique best satisfies the requirements of the task i... | {
"abstract": "Finding relevant publications is important for scientists who have to cope with exponentially increasing numbers of scholarly material. Algorithms can help with this task as they help for music, movie, and product recommendations. However, we know little about the performance of these algorithms with s... |
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"abstract": "Feature selection is the key issue of unstructured data mining related fields. This paper presents a dimensionality reduction method which uses a rough set as the feature selection tool. Different from previous rough set based classification algorithm, it takes feature cooccurrence into account when ma... | {
"abstract": "The detection of fraudulent financial statements FFS is an important and challenging issue that has served as the impetus for many academic studies over the past three decades. Although nonfinancial ratios are generally acknowledged as the key factor contributing to the FFS of a corporation, they are u... | {
"abstract": "Abstract The aim of an intrusion detection systems (IDS) is to detect various types of malicious network traffic and computer usage, which cannot be detected by a conventional firewall. Many IDS have been developed based on machine learning techniques. Specifically, advanced detection approaches create... |
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"abstract": "A.A. Varlamov, Y.M. Galperin, 3 S.G. Sharapov, and Yuriy Yerin CNR-SPIN, c/o Dipartimento DICII, Universitá “Tor Vergata”, Viale del Politecnico 1, I-00133 Rome, Italy Department of Physics, University of Oslo, 0316 Oslo, Norway A.F. Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences, Pol... | {
"abstract": "A ferromagnetic quantum critical point is thought not to exist in two- and three-dimensional metallic systems yet is realized in the Kondo lattice compound YbNi_{4}(P,As)_{2}, possibly due to its one-dimensionality. It is crucial to investigate the dimensionality of the Fermi surface of YbNi_{4}P_{2} e... | {
"abstract": "This piece is the introduction to a special section on Feminist Geopolitics focusing specifically on securitisation. This introduction provides an overview of the field of feminist geopolitics and situates the contributions of the articles that follow. We argue that the contributions to the section pus... |
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"abstract": "Concerns on performance alignment, especially on business-IT alignment, have been around for three decades. It is still considered to be one of the most important driving forces for business success, as well as one of the top concerns of many practitioners and organizational researchers. It is also fou... | {
"abstract": "Given the growing importance of service supply chain management (SSCM) in operations, we review a selection of papers in the operations research and the management science (OR/MS) literature that focus on innovative measures associated with the SSCM. First, we review and discuss the definitions of serv... | {
"abstract": "A systematic treatment of the economics of the modern firm, this book draws on the insights of a variety of areas in modern economics and other disciplines, but presents a coherent, consistent, innovative treatment of the central problems in organizations of motivating people and coordinating their act... |
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"abstract": "Aims. We use the surface brightness fluctuation (SBF) technique to derive the distances and analyse the radial behaviour of stellar populations in a sample of 12 elliptical galaxies. The data are I-band images collected with the FORS1 camera at the Very Large Telescope (VLT), drawn from the ESO archive... | {
"abstract": "We study surface brightness fluctuations (SBFs) in a sample of eight elliptical galaxies using the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) Wide Field Channel (WFC) data drawn from the Hubble Space Telescope archive. SBF magnitudes in the F814W bandpass and galaxy colors from F814W, F435W, and F606W images, w... | {
"abstract": "We present a study of pixel colour–magnitude diagrams (pCMDs) for a sample of 69 nearby galaxies chosen to span a wide range of Hubble types. Our goal is to determine how useful a pixel approach is for studying galaxies according to their stellar light distributions and content. The galaxy images were ... |
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"abstract": "Mouse embryonic stem cells (mESCs), derived from the inner cell mass of the blastocyst, are pluripotent stem cells having self-renewal capability and the potential of differentiating into every cell type under the appropriate culture conditions. An increasing number of reports have been published to un... | {
"abstract": "Recent ChIP experiments of human and mouse embryonic stem cells have elucidated the architecture of the transcriptional regulatory circuitry responsible for cell determination, which involves the transcription factors OCT4, SOX2, and NANOG. In addition to regulating each other through feedback loops, t... | {
"abstract": "Parameter estimation is a challenging computational problem in the reverse engineering of biological systems. Because advances in biotechnology have facilitated wide availability of time-series gene expression data, systematic parameter estimation of gene circuit models from such time-series mRNA data ... |
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"abstract": "Debates about biotechnology continue to be polarized despite its potential to improve the living standards of the poor in Sub-Saharan Africa. In the backdrop of this polarized scenario, this paper asked, is there a place for brokers in bringing about a productive debate that is pro-development? The pap... | {
"abstract": "In many countries in Africa, the twin processes of modern biotechnology transfer and development of a regulatory regime have co-evolved. This provides a rich context in which to evaluate the underlying social and institutional factors that confront an evolving regulatory subsystem. This paper uses Keny... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Genetically modified (GM) crops in Kenya are situated in a highly networked and transnational environment, where technical decisions are tied to livelihoods, politics and culture. Within that environment, certain nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) have been extremely influential, driving loc... |
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"abstract": "Speech enhancement techniques that employ trained codebooks of speech and noise linear predictive coefficients have been previously shown to provide good performance in non-stationary noise environments. The speech codebooks are typically trained using data from a large number of speakers. For noise re... | {
"abstract": "In this paper, we propose a Bayesian minimum mean squared error approach for the joint estimation of the short-term predictor parameters of speech and noise, from the noisy observation. We use trained codebooks of speech and noise linear predictive coefficients to model the a priori information require... | {
"abstract": "Speech coding techniques commonly used in low bit rate analysis-by-synthesis linear predictive coders (LPAS coders) create a model that emphasizes the important features of a speech signal. The utilization of these coding methods for speech enhancement is shown. Specifically, the speech signal will be ... |
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"abstract": "Mutable collagenous tissues (MCTs) of echinoderms show reversible changes in tensile properties (mutability) that are initiated and modulated by the nervous system via the activities of cells known as juxtaligamental cells. The molecular mechanism underpinning this mechanical adaptability has still to ... | {
"abstract": "SummaryStrains of Escherichia coli were starved for asparagine or lysine in order to increase the in vivo level of mistranslation. In a relA strain, asparagine starvation increased the error frequency in elongation factor Tu to 0.12 mistake per asparagine codon, while with lysine starvation in the same... |
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"abstract": "This review addresses the impact of different nanoadditives on the glass transition temperature (Tg) of polyvinyl chloride (PVC), which is a widely used industrial polymer. The relatively high Tg limits its temperature-dependent applications. The objective of the review is to present the state-of-the-a... | {
"abstract": "Glass transition temperature Tg values characterize pure polymers, polymer blends, copolymers, as well as matrices in polymer-based composites. Tgs as function of composition reflect miscibility (or lack of it) and determine all properties. We present a new equation for the dependence of Tg on composit... | {
"abstract": "The effectiveness of various stimulus identification (decoding) procedures for extracting the information carried by the responses of a population of neurons to a set of repeatedly presented stimuli is studied analytically, in the limit of short time windows. It is shown that in this limit, the entire ... |
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"abstract": "Modern distributed database systems scale horizontally by partitioning their data across a large number of nodes. Most such systems build their transactional layers on a replication layer, employing a consensus protocol to ensure data consistency to achieve fault tolerance. Synchronization among replic... | {
"abstract": "Traditional database systems are driven by the assumption that disk I/O is the primary bottleneck, overshadowing all other costs. However, future database systems will be dominated by many-core processors, large main memory, and low-latency semiconductor mass storage. In the increasingly common case th... | {
"abstract": "Bug triage, deciding what to do with an incoming bug report, is taking up increasing amount of developer resources in large open-source projects. In this paper, we propose to apply machine learning techniques to assist in bug triage by using text categorization to predict the developer that should work... |
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"abstract": "Data acquisition in planetary remote sensing missions is influenced by complex environmental resource- and instrument-specific constraints. This impedes to perform observations at any given time during the mission and with any of the instruments composing the scientific payload. This article presents a... | {
"abstract": "This paper provides an overview of the Europa Jupiter System Mission (EJSM) and of its scientific objectives, focusing the attention on the subsurface radar (SSR) instrument included in the model payload of the Jupiter Ganymede Orbiter (JGO). The SSR instrument is a radar sounder system at low frequenc... | {
"abstract": "In radar sounding, it is highly desirable to operate at low frequencies to improve the depth of penetration. For a spaceborne sounder that is orbiting a planet with an ionosphere, the lowest operating frequency is limited by the plasma frequency of the ionosphere. The ionosphere affects the radar signa... |
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"abstract": "The levels aflatoxins in Turkish hazelnuts have been monitored over a 3-years period (2002–2004). Periodical sampling was made in 72 different orchards at different locations representative of the hazelnut-growing areas and post-harvest applications. Various parameters (aflatoxins, water activity, moul... | {
"abstract": "Stored and cooked samples of pearl millet (Pennesetum typhoides), which is regularly consumed as food by the Paharia tribe in the hilly regions of Santhal Pargana, Bihar State, India, that were harvested in January 1989 were analyzed for mold flora, natural occurrence of Aspergillus flavus and A. paras... | {
"abstract": "The individual and combined effects of aflatoxin (AF) and cyclopiazonic acid (CPA) were evaluated in day-old Petersen x Hubbard broiler chickens to 3 wk of age. Treatments were arranged in a 2 x 2 factorial with levels of 0 and 3.5 mg AF/kg of feed, and 0 and 50 mg CPA/kg of feed. Production performanc... |
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"abstract": "Background Myeloablative chemotherapy supported by autologous stem cell transplantation (ASCT) is an option for primary central nervous system lymphoma (PCNSL) in both the relapse setting and as postremission consolidation, but the level of evidence in this field is still low. Material/Methods We retro... | {
"abstract": "High-dose chemotherapy followed by autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HDT/ASCT) can improve survival in patients with lymphoma. Limited experience is available on the safety and efficacy of HDT/ASCT in elderly patients. In this article, we review the published data on the role of HDT/ASCT i... | {
"abstract": "A method is presented which enables the computation of the bed-load transport as the product of the saltation height, the particle velocity and the bed-load concentration. The equations of motions for a solitary particle are solved numerically to determine the saltation height and particle velocity. Ex... |
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"abstract": "Web 2.0 represents the evolution of the web from a source of information to a platform. Network advances have permitted users to migrate from desktop applications to so-called Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) characterized by thin clients, which are browser-based and store their state on managed serve... | {
"abstract": "We present a detailed characterization of instruction cache performance for IBM's J2EE-enabled Web server, WebSphere Application Server (WAS). When running two J2EE benchmarks on WebSphere, we find that instruction cache misses cause a 12% performance penalty on current-generation Power5-based multipro... | {
"abstract": "Predicting a sequence of upcoming function calls is important for optimizing programs written in modern managed languages (e.g., Java, Javascript, C#.) Existing function call predictions are mainly built on statistical patterns, suitable for predicting a single call but not a sequence of calls. This pa... |
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"abstract": "This paper presents an effective cost aggregation strategy for dense stereo matching. Based on the guided image filtering (GIF), we propose a new aggregation scheme called Pervasive Guided Image Filtering (PGIF) to introduce weightings to the energy function of the filter which allows the whole image p... | {
"abstract": "To make a matching algorithm to satisfy the requirements of high precision and anti-interference, a novel stereo-matching algorithm with efficient matching cost and adaptive guided image filter is proposed. Firstly, we adopt a modified Census transform with a local texture metric to compute the initial... | {
"abstract": "Because of image sampling, traditional measures of pixel dissimilarity can assign a large value to two corresponding pixels in a stereo pair, even in the absence of noise and other degrading effects. We propose a measure of dissimilarity that is provably insensitive to sampling because it uses the line... |
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"abstract": "Two efficient techniques exploiting the frequency-response masking (FRM) approach are proposed in order to make it feasible to design prototype filters for highly selective nearly perfect-reconstruction cosine-modulated transmultiplexers and filter banks (CMTs and CMFBs) having a very large number of c... | {
"abstract": "Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) is a transmultiplex (TMUX) technique characterized by a low computational complexity and reduced inter-symbol/inter-carrier interference (ISI/ICI). Recently, new TMUX structures based on multicarrier modulation have been proposed aiming at even better p... | {
"abstract": "Multi-carrier modulation (MCM) is increasingly popular as a transmission technique, especially in high speed communications. One implementation of MCM is discrete multi-tone (DMT) modulation using the discrete Fourier transform (DFT) for modulation. DMT is adopted as a standard by the ANSI for asymmetr... |
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"abstract": "This thesis explores compensation for reverberation in human listeners and machines. Late reverberation is typically understood as a distortion which degrades intelligibility. Recent research, however, shows that late reverberation is not always detrimental to human speech perception. At times, prolong... | {
"abstract": "In recent years, a number of feature extraction procedures for automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems have been based on models of human auditory processing, and one often hears arguments in favor of implementing knowledge of human auditory perception and cognition into machines for ASR. This paper... | {
"abstract": "Many ad hoc network protocols and applications assume the knowledge of geographic location of nodes. The absolute position of each networked node is an assumed fact by most sensor networks which can then present the sensed information on a geographical map. Finding position without the aid of GPS in ea... |
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"abstract": "The idea that we live in a higher-dimensional space was first introduced almost 100 years ago. In the past two decades many extra-dimensional models have been proposed in order to solve fundamental problems of nature such as the hierarchy problem. Most of them need exploration via non-perturbative appr... | {
"abstract": "Abstract We consider the lattice regularization of a five-dimensional SU ( 2 ) gauge theory with periodic boundary conditions. We determine a consistent mean-field background and perform computations of various observables originating from fluctuations around this background. Our aim is to extract the ... | {
"abstract": "On-line learning is a “pan-Canadian priority” and many initiatives have been undertaken to support technology integration in the k-12 and postsecondary education sectors. This paper reviews Canadian research on information and communications technologies in education since 1996. Research has focused on... |
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"abstract": "Protein–protein association is often mediated by electrostatic interactions and modulated by pH. However, experimental and computational studies have often overlooked the effect of association on the protonation state of the protein. In this work, we present a methodological approach based on constant-... | {
"abstract": "Abstract The self-association of β-lactoglobulin A in 0.2 m glycine buffer (pH 2.46 at 23.5 °C) has been studied by low speed sedimentation equilibrium experiments at 11, 16, 20, 25 °C. In all four sets of experiments the concentration dependence of the apparent weight average molecular weight, M wa , ... | {
"abstract": "Herein, surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) combined with principal component analysis (PCA) has been successfully applied in the evaluation of cigarette flavoring quality using monolayer films of Au nanoparticles as substrates. With such a method, even a slight difference in the formula of the ... |
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"abstract": "Art therapy has been conducted with military servicemembers and veterans since the beginning of the profession itself. Veterans suffer from a myriad of diagnoses, some of the most prevalent being posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), combat trauma, military sexual trauma (MST), complicated grief, subst... | {
"abstract": "Minimal research is available on the prevalence and impact of complicated grief (CG) in military service members and veterans, despite high reported rates of loss in this population. The present study aimed to examine prevalence rates of CG in a sample of treatment-seeking military service and members ... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Optical lithography has been an industrial workhorse for many decades. It has reached a wavelength of 193 nm, a Numerical Aperture (NA) of 0.93 but was facing difficulties to advance further until the debut of immersion lithography. This review deals with the limit of dry and immersion lithogr... |
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"abstract": "Sepsis is one of the most frequent causes of death among patients in intensive care units. Many therapeutic strategies have been assessed without the desired success rates. A key risk factor for death is hypotension due to vasodilatation with vascular hyposensitivity. However, the pathways underlying t... | {
"abstract": "Our study aimed to characterize the mechanisms underlying the attenuated cardiovascular responsiveness toward the renin-angiotensin system during sepsis. For this purpose, we determined the effects of experimental Gram-negative and Gram-positive sepsis in rats. We found that sepsis led to a ubiquitous ... | {
"abstract": "Accumulating information concerning the structure of angiotensinogen suggests a resemblance of this component of the renin-angiotensin system to the acute-phase protein alpha 1-antitrypsin. Compared to a group of age- and sex-matched controls without signs of infection, markedly elevated levels of angi... |
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"abstract": "Caller-ID spoofing deceives the callee into believing a call is originating from another user. Spoofing has been strategically used in the now-pervasive telephone fraud, causing substantial monetary loss and sensitive data leakage. Unfortunately, caller-ID spoofing is feasible even when user authentica... | {
"abstract": "Caller ID (caller identification) is a service provided by telephone operators where the phone number and/or the name of the caller is transmitted to inform the callee who is calling. Today, most people trust the caller ID information and some banks even use Caller ID to authenticate customers. However... | {
"abstract": "This paper presents inductive theoretical work inspired by the empirical study of the high-tech rivals General Electric and Westinghouse. Comparative historical analysis suggests that each firm's responses to five organizational challenges have affected their chances of enjoying long-term success. In a... |
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"abstract": "Objective:To review the literature with regard to outcome of surgical management for hilar cholangiocarcinoma (Klatskin tumor). Background:Hilar cholangiocarcinoma is a rare tumor with a poor prognosis. Surgical resection provides the only possibility for cure. Advances in hepatobiliary imaging and sur... | {
"abstract": "To evaluate our recent surgical policy regarding hilar bile duct carcinoma, we evaluated 62 cases treated between 1976 and 1993, and 25 cases treated between 1994 and 2000. In the late period we used percutaneous transhepatic portal vein embolization (PTPE) before extended right hepatectomy; S4a + S5 +... | {
"abstract": "A clinicopathologic autopsy study of the vascular changes in the kidneys of 100 patients with systemic lupus erythematosus was undertaken. Necrotizing arteritis was found in seven patients, mucinous intimal thickening in nine, onion-skin intimal thickening in two, and renal vein thrombosis in two. Acti... |
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"abstract": "Hydrogen transfer reactions have exceptional importance, due to their applicability in numerous synthetic pathways, with academic as well as industrial relevance. The most important transformations are, e.g., reduction, ring-closing, stereoselective reactions, and the synthesis of heterocycles. The pre... | {
"abstract": "A hydride transfer reaction with tertiary amines was observed in the presence of noble metals on a carbon support. Hydride transfer had been documented previously in terms of activated allyl-type carbon-carbon double bonds containing carbonyl derivatives in the presence of triethyl amine (conjugate red... | {
"abstract": "Abstract While Pd/C is one of the most useful catalysts for hydrogenation, the high catalyst activity of Pd/C causes difficulty in its application to chemoselective hydrogenation between different types of reducible functionalities. In order to achieve chemoselective hydrogenation using Pd/C, we invest... |
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"abstract": "Background: Case-based learning (CBL) is a long established pedagogical method, which is defined in a number of ways depending on the discipline and type of ‘case’ employed. In health professional education, learning activities are commonly based on patient cases. Basic, social and clinical sciences ar... | {
"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nAs case-based methods replaced lectures in a surgical clerkship, the influences of case structure and prior experience on learning were investigated.\n\n\nMETHODS\nEarly and late third-year students randomly received different cases. \"Structured\" cases had data presented and summarized. \... | {
"abstract": "To elucidate the bacterial community dynamics in a full-scale wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) and the relatedness among bacterial communities in the influent, effluent and sludge, the structure and metabolic ability of the bacterial community throughout a full-scale WWTP employing a conventional acti... |
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"abstract": "The 5G New Radio standard is intended to support delay and reliability critical use cases, reaching round-trip latencies at least as low as 1 milli-second, and error rates of the order of 10-6. This paper first summarizes why redundant transmission over independent wireless interfaces is beneficial to ... | {
"abstract": "Cost related to the wiring of sensors and actuators in the manufacturing industry is rapidly increasing with the number of field devices. Complex engineering as well as cable wear and tear are important factors. For over a decade, fieldbuses have been the dominating approach to simplify installation, r... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Sleep loss may result from total sleep deprivation (such as a shift worker might experience), chronic sleep restriction (due to work, medical conditions or lifestyle) or sleep disruption (which is common in sleep disorders such as sleep apnea or restless legs syndrome). Total sleep deprivation... |
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"abstract": "In the first part of this article, we describe the projective representations in the category of representations by modules of a quiver which does not contain any cycles and the quiver A ∞ as a subquiver, that is, the so-called rooted quivers. As a consequence of this, we show when the category of repr... | {
"abstract": "Rooted quivers are quivers that do not contain \nA∞≡⋯→•→• as a subquiver. The existence of flat covers and cotorsion envelopes \nfor representations of these quivers have been studied by Enochs et al. The main goal of this paper is to prove that flat covers and cotorsion envelopes exist for \nrepresent... | {
"abstract": "Bass characterized the rings R with the property that every left R-module has a projective cover. These are the left perfect rings. A ring is left perfect if and only if the class of projective R-modules coincides with the class of flat R-modules, so the projective covers over these rings are flat cove... |
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"abstract": "The software-as-a-service (SaaS) market is growing very fast, but still many clients are concerned about the confidentiality of their data in the cloud. Motivated hackers or malicious insiders could try to steal the clients' data. Encryption is a potential solution, but supporting the necessary functio... | {
"abstract": "Using a Web application for confidential data requires the user to trust the server to protect the data from unauthorized disclosures. This trust is often misplaced, however, because there are many ways in which confidential data could leak from a server. For example, attackers could exploit a vulnerab... | {
"abstract": "Along with advances in information technology, cybercrime techniques also increased. There are several forms of attacks on data and information, such as hackers, crackers, Trojans, etc. The Symantec Intelligence report edition on August 2012 indicated that the attacker selected the target of attacks. T... |
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"abstract": "Ransomware attacks are becoming increasingly sophisticated, more damaging to victims and more challenging to prevent. In this paper, a dynamic modelling method is used to study the spreading behaviors of ransomware. The dynamic state of each network node is assumed to be statistically dependent of the ... | {
"abstract": "The popularity of the Web improves the growth of web threats. Formulating mathematical models for accurate prediction of malicious propagation over networks is of great importance. The aim of this paper is to understand the propagation mechanisms of web malware and the impact of human intervention on t... | {
"abstract": "In this paper we present our solution of using ICT and ubiquitous computing with the goal of reducing traffic congestion during the peek hours. The solution is in presenting intelligent recommender system that is based on the combination of several machine learning techniques used for traffic density e... |
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"abstract": "The \nmoment method in statistical (SMM) dynamics is used to study the thermodynamic \nquantities of ZrO2 thin films taking into account the anharmonicity \neffects of the lattice vibrations. The average lattice constant, thermal \nexpansion coefficient and specific heats at the constant volume of ZrO2... | {
"abstract": "Abstract We have calculated the adsorption energy of carbon monoxide on a monolayer of copper adsorbed on the (1 1 1) face of cubic zirconia. For the bulk oxide, we compute the structural parameters of cubic, tetragonal, and monoclinic ZrO2 and obtain good agreement with experimental parameters. We als... | {
"abstract": "Theophylline has been used as an active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) in the treatment of pulmonary diseases, but due to its low water solubility reveals very poor bioavailability. Based on its different hydrogen-bond donor and acceptor groups, theophylline is an ideal candidate for the formation of ... |
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"abstract": "Emergency physician (EP)-performed focused cardiac ultrasound (EP FOCUS) has been increasingly recognized as a crucial tool to help clinicians diagnose and treat potentially life-threatening conditions. The existing literature demonstrates a variety of EP FOCUS applications and protocols; however, EP F... | {
"abstract": "OBJECTIVES\n Thoracic aortic aneurysm and thoracic aortic dissection are related and potentially deadly diseases that present with nonspecific symptoms. Transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) may detect thoracic aortic pathology and is being increasingly performed by the emergency physician at the bedsi... | {
"abstract": "Granulation of a lactate-degrading consortium which consisted mainly of lactate-degrading acidogens, propionate-degrading acetogens, and methanogens was performed in an upflow anaerobic sludge blanket (UASB) reactor. In the methanogenic fermentation of lactate, total granular sludge concentration retai... |
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"abstract": "The storage industry is moving toward emerging non-volatile memories (NVMs), including the spin-transfer torque magnetoresistive random-access memory (STT-MRAM) and the phase-change memory (PCM), owing to their high density and low-power operation. In this paper, we demonstrate, for the first time, cir... | {
"abstract": "The control of the magnetization of a material with an electric field would make the design and the integration of novel electronic devices possible. This explains the renewed interest in multiferroic materials. Progress in this field is currently hampered by the scarcity of the materials available and... | {
"abstract": "Abstract We present current-voltage (I-V) characteristics of an individual carbon nanotube (CNT) filled with Cr 2 O 3 , a multi-functional magnetic oxide relevant to spintronics. We demonstrate that a filled CNT during a two probe I-V scan in suspended geometry, can be used like a nano-furnace for cont... |
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"abstract": "This paper examines the influence of the environmental enforcement approach on the effects of government interventions on corporate environmental management. The paper contrasts a potentially innovative cooperative approach with the standard coercive approach. Empirical results show that the effectiven... | {
"abstract": "This paper analyzes the effects of community characteristics on compliance levels—emissions relative to effluent limits—at polluting facilities. In particular, it examines both direct effects and indirect effects; the second type of effects represents the linking of two related effects: (1) effects of ... | {
"abstract": "Preface and Acknowledgments Part One: The Local Level Part Two: The State and Regional Levels Part Three: The National and Intergovernmental Levels Part Four: The Comparative and International Levels",
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"title": "Dimensions of hazardous waste politics and polic... |
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"abstract": "Recent studies have shown that image-to-image translation methods have achieved remarkable success in two domains. In the context of the increasingly hot face generation technology, the StarGAN is one of the most effect generation methods. The existing StarGAN can achieve multi-domain learning through ... | {
"abstract": "As an emerging research topic for proximity service (ProSe), automatic emotion recognition enables the machines to understand the emotional changes of human beings which can not only facilitate natural, effective, seamless, and advanced human-robot interaction or human-computer interface but also promo... | {
"abstract": "For a safe, natural and effective human-robot social interaction, it is essential to develop a system that allows a robot to demonstrate the perceivable responsive behaviors to complex human behaviors. We introduce the Multimodal Deep Attention Recurrent Q-Network using which the robot exhibits human-l... |
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"abstract": "ABSTRACT The translationally controlled tumor protein (TCTP; also known as TPT1 in mammals) is highly conserved and ubiquitously expressed in eukaryotes. It is involved in growth and development, cell cycle progression, protection against cellular stresses and apoptosis, indicating the multifunctional ... | {
"abstract": "The present study was undertaken to systematically purify calcium binding proteins (CaBPs) from homogenates of Trypanosoma brucei. This work is important since CaBPs either serve as intracellular calcium buffers or mediate cellular response to calcium signals. Disruption of either process should be let... | {
"abstract": "The regulatory action of activators for protein kinase C on the specific binding capacity for recombinant human tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-alpha) was studied on various human cell lines. Phorbol myristate acetate (PMA) and oleyl acetyl glycerol (OAG) both are able to rapidly downregulate TNF-bind... |
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