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"abstract": "QUANTIFYING FORECAST UNCERTAINTY IN THE ENERGY DOMAIN Mohammad Saber, B.S., M.S. Marquette University, 2017 This dissertation focuses on quantifying forecast uncertainties in the energy domain, especially for the electricity and natural gas industry. Accurate forecasts help the energy industry minimize... | {
"abstract": "The classical approach to long term load forecasting is often limited to the use of load and weather information occurring with monthly or annual frequency. This low resolution, infrequent data can sometimes lead to inaccurate forecasts. Load forecasters often have a hard time explaining the errors bas... | {
"abstract": "Heating ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) accounts for approximately 50% of the total energy consumption of buildings. Therefore, many studies have been focused on the simulation and optimal control of HVAC power consumption or the prediction of energy consumption through the construction of ener... |
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"abstract": "Summary Soybean is one of the most important oilseed and fodder crops. Benefiting from the efforts of soybean breeders and the development of breeding technology, large number of germplasm has been generated over the last 100 years. Nevertheless, soybean breeding needs to be accelerated to meet the nee... | {
"abstract": "Legumes control the nitrogen-fixing root nodule symbiosis in response to external and internal stimuli, such as nitrate, and via systemic autoregulation of nodulation (AON). Overexpression of the CLV3/ESR-related (CLE) pre-propeptide-encoding genes GmNIC1 (nitrate-induced and acting locally) and GmRIC1... | {
"abstract": "The influence of powder/liquid mixing regime on the performance of a hand-mixed restorative glass-ionomer cement (GIC) was evaluated in terms of compressive strength, working characteristics and the porosity distribution. Mean compressive fracture strengths, standard deviations and associated Weibull m... |
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"abstract": "Vehicle-to-vehicle communication technologies support diverse cooperative applications for intelligent transportation systems to increase safety and fuel efficiency of road vehicles. Vehicles participating in a cooperative pplication are expected to make coordinated and mutually consistent decisions. T... | {
"abstract": "We consider a problem of atomic broadcast in a dynamic setting where processes may join, leave voluntarily, or fail (by stopping) during the course of computation. We provide a formal definition of the Dynamic Atomic Broadcast problem and present and analyze a new algorithm for its solution in a varian... | {
"abstract": "There is great imbalance in the richness of information on the web and the succinctness and poverty of search requests of web users, making their queries only a partial description of the underlying complex information needs. Finding ways to better leverage contextual information and make search contex... |
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"abstract": "Data mining (DM) is the process of applying algorithms on large databases with the aim of discovering knowledge that would help in taking informed decisions by the management of academic institutions (Chalurapruek, S, et al, 2018). This paper seeks to discover the best classifiers to be used on educati... | {
"abstract": "Few years ago, the information flow in education field was relatively simple and the application of technology was limited. However, as we progress into a more integrated world where technology has become an integral part of the business processes, the process of transfer of information has become more... | {
"abstract": "Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effects of online shopping experience and habit in relation to adjusted expectations for enhancing online repurchase intention. Design/methodology/approach – The authors employed partial least square (PLS) as a technique used to analyze the meas... |
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"abstract": "Antimicrobials are classified according to their chemical structure. Each class is characterized by a typical core structure and various members of the class are differentiated by the addition or removal of secondary chemical structures (1, 2). Antimicrobials can also be classified as broad or narrow s... | {
"abstract": "This paper proposes an improved high throughput microbial method for the simultaneous performance of first and second level screening for antibacterial residues in meat. It is based on growth inhibition of B. subtilis on agar medium pH 6, 7.2 and 8, of B. cereus on agar medium pH 5.9, of M. luteus on a... | {
"abstract": "The present study was undertaken to determine the effects of cooking methods like boiling, deep-frying and microwaving on Ciprofloxacin (CPR) level in chicken meat. Chicken meat samples incurred with known concentration of CPR were subjected to these cooking procedures. The cooked samples were then ana... |
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"abstract": "Polymer therapeutics (PTs) provides a potentially exciting approach for the treatment of many diseases by enhancing aqueous solubility and altering drug pharmacokinetics at both the whole organism and subcellular level leading to improved therapeutic outcomes. However, the failure of many polymer-drug ... | {
"abstract": "Solid tumor has unique vascular architecture, excessive production of vascular mediators, and extravasation of macromolecules from blood vessels into the tumor tissue interstitium. These features comprise the phenomenon named the EPR effect of solid tumors, described in 1986. Our investigations on the ... | {
"abstract": "What do we know from research about how three to five year olds learn mathematics, bearing in mind their social, emotional, physical and cognitive development? What are the most important aspects of mathematics for young children to learn and how might children learn them? How should adults 'teach' mat... |
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"abstract": "SUMMARY\nBooleSim (Boolean network simulator) is an open-source in-browser tool for simulation and manipulation of Boolean networks. It was developed mainly during Google's Summer of Code 2012 and uses the biographer project for network visualization. It can be used specifically for the modeling of gen... | {
"abstract": "Somatic cell reprogramming has dramatically changed stem cell research in recent years. The high pace of new findings in the field and an ever increasing amount of data from new high throughput techniques make it challenging to isolate core principles of the process. In order to analyze such mechanisms... | {
"abstract": "In nature, plants are challenged with hurricane winds, monsoon rains, and herbivory attacks, in addition to many other harsh mechanical perturbations that can threaten plant survival. As a result, over many years of evolution, plants have developed very sensitive mechanisms through which they can perce... |
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"abstract": "Costing training activity is one of the most poorly performed business functions. Presents a pragmatic solution to the problem. Beginning with the philosophy that the decision to train is an investment decision like any other, a process focusing on performance factors is followed that takes into accoun... | {
"abstract": "Traditionally, training is seen as simply an activity to be undertaken when all other priorities have been satisfied. The process, still viewed by a majority as imparting knowledge and skills, has progressed slowly from being trainer‐centred to student‐centred. Now, in the 1990s, training must become s... |
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"abstract": "Superlubricity between a cone-shaped (sharp) silicon tip and graphite remains a challenge in the nanotribology field. In this paper, an efficient method of achieving superlubricity between a cone-shaped silicon tip and graphite was proposed. Graphite nanoflakes were transferred onto the silicon tip by ... | {
"abstract": "2D or 3D layered materials, such as graphene, graphite, and molybdenum disulfide, usually exhibit superlubricity properties when sliding occurs between the incommensurate interface lattices. This study reports the superlubricity between graphite and silica under ambient conditions, induced by the forma... | {
"abstract": "Nanometer scale metallic particles have been manipulated on an atomically flat graphite surface by atomic force microscopy techniques and quantitative information on interfacial friction was extracted from the lateral manipulation of these nanoparticles. Similar to conventional friction force microscop... |
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"abstract": "The pull-based development model is an emerging way of contributing to distributed software projects that is gaining enormous popularity within the open source software (OSS) world. Previous work has examined this model by focusing on projects and their owners—we complement it by examining the work pra... | {
"abstract": "Open source software projects often rely on code contributions from a wide variety of developers to extend the capabilities of their software. Project members evaluate these contributions and often engage in extended discussions to decide whether to integrate changes. These discussions have important i... | {
"abstract": "Social coding enables a different experience of software development as the activities and interests of one developer are easily advertised to other developers. Developers can thus track the activities relevant to various projects in one umbrella site. Such a major change in collaborative software deve... |
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"abstract": "The study of the relationship between the integration of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) with external stakeholders (e.g., NGOs, academia, the regulator, or communities) and the implementation of green and social practices in SMEs’ supply chains has received little attention in the literature... | {
"abstract": "Since the Brundtland report in 1987 a wide debate has emerged on eco-innovation (e.g. eco-design, cleaner production) and sustainability-oriented innovations (SOIs), that is, the integration of ecological and social aspects into products, processes, and organizational structures. While prior research h... | {
"abstract": "The business environment is rapidly changing and puts pressure on enterprises to find effective ways to survive and develop. Since it is almost impossible to identify the multitude of complex conditions and business risks, an organization has to build its resilience in order to be able to overcome issu... |
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"abstract": "Phenomenological Study of Career Advancement Experiences of Ethnic Female Migrant Professionals by Evelyn Brisibe MBA, Athabasca University, 2010 Dissertation Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy Management",
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"abstract": "Purpose – Aims to examine the effect of government intervention programs in improving the occupational opportunities of new immigrants as self‐employed entrepreneurs or salaried employees, and to determine the effect, if any, of gender and ethnicity.Design/methodology/approach – To examine the effects ... | {
"abstract": "The early U.S. economic achievement of former Soviet citizens entering the United States during the period 1979 through 1985 is analyzed. Using the Soviet Interview Project (SIP) data, components of human capital acquired in the former Soviet Union (FSU) are identified and related to labor force partic... |
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"abstract": "Aims: To assess the survival of Mycobacterium avium ssp. paratuberculosis (MAP) in yoghurt and commercial fermented milk products containing probiotic strains.",
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"title": "Survival of Mycobacterium avium ssp. paratuberculosis in yoghurt and in commercial fermented milk produ... | {
"abstract": "ABSTRACT Acid resistance of Mycobacterium paratuberculosis was examined as a function of growth conditions (i.e., in vitro growth medium and pH). M. paratuberculosis was cultured in either fatty acid-containing medium (7H9-OADC) or glycerol-containing medium (WR-GD or 7H9-GD) at two culture pHs (pHs 6.... | {
"abstract": "The induction threshold, and the magnitude and direction of changes in synaptic plasticity may depend on the previous history of neuronal activity. This phenomenon, termed “metaplasticity,” could play an important role in integration processes by coordinating the modulation of synapses. Although metapl... |
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"abstract": "The Mo/W- bis PGD enzyme superfamily comprises a vast number of mononuclear molybdenum and tungsten enzymes that catalyze a great diversity of vital reactions in prokaryotes. In the past decades, much attention has been devoted to the immediate surroundings of the metal atom highlighting the importance... | {
"abstract": "Respiratory nitrate reductases (Nars), members of the prokaryotic Mo/W-bis Pyranopterin Guanosine dinucleotide (Mo/W-bisPGD) enzyme superfamily, are key players in nitrate respiration, a major bioenergetic pathway widely used by microorganisms to cope with the absence of dioxygen. The two-electron redu... | {
"abstract": "The catalytic mechanism of nitrate reduction by periplasmic nitrate reductases has been investigated using theoretical and computational means. We have found that the nitrate molecule binds to the active site with the Mo ion in the +6 oxidation state. Electron transfer to the active site occurs only in... |
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"abstract": "II Lincoln Laboratory has investigated the development of a system that can automatically identify the language of a speech utterance. To perform the task of automatic language identification, we have experimented with four approaches: Gaussian mixture model classification; single-language phone recogn... | {
"abstract": "A variety of approaches to language identiication, based on (a) acoustic features, (b) broad-category segmentation, and (c) ne phonetic classiication, are introduced. These approaches are evaluated in terms of their ability to distinguish between English and Japanese utterances spoken over a telephone ... | {
"abstract": "In this paper we present a new application for confidence measures in spoken language processing. In today's computerized dialogue systems, language identification (LID) is typically achieved via dedicated modules. In our approach, LID is integrated into the speech recognizer, therefore profiting from ... |
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"abstract": "A sensor structure based on surface plasmon resonance (SPR) and carbon nanotubes (CNTs) is designed and developed. The device is an ultrasensitive wireless sensor operating in microwave frequencies utilizing the gas sensitivity of CNT mixtures. The sensor consists of a corrugated aluminum plate whose s... | {
"abstract": "Sensors continue to make significant impact in everyday life. There has been a strong demand for producing highly selective, sensitive, responsive, and cost effective sensors. As a result, research emphasis is on developing new sensing materials and technologies. Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have many disti... | {
"abstract": "Pores of molecular dimensions can adsorb large quantities of gases owing to the enhanced density of the adsorbed material inside the pores1, a consequence of the attractive potential of the pore walls. Pederson and Broughton have suggested2 that carbon nanotubes, which have diameters of typically a few... |
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"abstract": "A localized Fourier collocation method is proposed for solving certain types of elliptic boundary value problems. The method first discretizes the entire domain into a set of overlapping small subdomains, and then in each of the subdomains, the unknown functions and their derivatives are approximated u... | {
"abstract": "The paper is concerned with the spectral collocation solution of the Helmholtz equation in a disk in the polar coordinates r and @q. We use spectral Chebyshev collocation in r, spectral Fourier collocation in @q, and a simple integral condition to specify the value of the approximate solution at the ce... | {
"abstract": "The imaginary cone of a Kac-Moody Lie algebra is the convex hull of zero and the positive imaginary roots. This paper studies the imaginary cone for a class of root systems of general Coxeter groups W. It is shown that the imaginary cone of a reflection subgroup of W is contained in that of W, and that... |
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"abstract": "Electroencephalography (EEG) reflects the spontaneous electrophysiological activity in the cerebral cortex of the brain. In practice, these recordings are often contaminated by the artifacts. Removal of these artifacts is necessary before correct processing of the EEG signal. In this study, automatic p... | {
"abstract": "Quantitative electroencephalogram analysis (e.g. spectral analysis) has become an important tool in sleep research and sleep medicine. However, reliable results are only obtained if artefacts are removed or excluded. Artefact detection is often performed manually during sleep stage scoring, which is ti... | {
"abstract": "This paper investigates the performance of amplify-and-forward (AF) cognitive relay networks with partial relay selection (PRS) in a spectrum-sharing context. The PRS schemes can be divided into two different types: source-relay PRS and relay-destination PRS, which are respectively called SR-PRS and RD... |
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"abstract": "Implementing two-qubit gates via strong coupling between quantum-dot qubits and a superconducting microwave cavity requires achieving coupling rates that are much faster than decoherence rates. Typically, this involves tuning the qubit either to a sweet spot, where it is relatively insensitive to charg... | {
"abstract": "A fundamental challenge for quantum dot spin qubits is to extend the strength and range of qubit interactions while suppressing their coupling to the environment, since both effects have electrical origins. Key tools include the ability to take advantage of physical resources in different regimes, and ... | {
"abstract": "An apparatus and method for squaring up the sides of a bulk shipping container and for forming a paperboard cover over and securing it to the upper end of the container.",
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"title": "VERTICAL OR INTEGRATED HEALTH PROGRAMMES? The consequences for the laboratory inf... |
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"abstract": "For design and production of functional and comfortable shoes the knowledge of the morphology of the feet is of vital importance. Development of the technology of 3D-scanning of human body and personal computers has enabled the application of the new methods of data analysis using the empirical and the... | {
"abstract": "BackgroundMost published attempts to quantify footprint shape are based on a small number of measurements. We applied geometric morphometric methods to study shape variation of the complete footprint outline in a sample of 83 adult women.MethodsThe outline of the footprint, including the toes, was repr... | {
"abstract": "Conventional multiple regression analysis which has been used in estimating residential property values typically relies upon cardinal data. This paper argues that appraisal theory requires the appraiser to rank the comparables from best to worst and use a regression technique which can be applied to o... |
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"abstract": "Abstract The Mediator complex is a multi-subunit assembly that appears to be required for regulating expression of most RNA polymerase II (pol II) transcripts, which include protein-coding and most non-coding RNA genes. Mediator and pol II function within the pre-initiation complex (PIC), which consist... | {
"abstract": "Mediator, a large (21 polypeptides, MW ∼1 MDa) complex conserved throughout eukaryotes, plays an essential role in control of gene expression by conveying regulatory signals that influence the activity of the preinitiation complex. However, the precise mode of interaction between Mediator and RNA polym... | {
"abstract": "How does a common RNA polymerase II apparatus generate a complex pattern of transcripts in response to many gene-specific transcription factors and in accordance with cell's state? In this issue of Structure, Cai et al. reveal that the process involves coordinated conformational changes in Pol II and M... |
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"abstract": "We propose a UML-based hardware/software co-design platform for partially reconfigurable systems, targeting mainly at network security systems. Applications with heavy computing are implemented as the partially reconfigurable hardware tasks for enhancing the system performance and flexibility, which me... | {
"abstract": "We propose two basic wrapper designs and an enhanced wrapper design for arbitrary digital hardware circuit designs such that they can be enhanced with the capability for dynamic swapping controlled by software. A hardware design with either of the proposed wrappers can thus be swapped out of the partia... | {
"abstract": "This paper estimates the causal effect of perceived job insecurity { i.e. the fear of involuntary job loss { on health in a sample of men from 22 European countries. We rely on an original instrumental variable approach based on the idea that workers perceive greater job security in countries where emp... |
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"abstract": "Five classes of herbicides (carbamothioates, chloroacetamides, substituted pyridazinones, cyclohexanediones, and aryloxyphenoxypropionic acids) have been reported to inhibit lipid biosynthesis in higher plants. Carbamothioates impair the synthesis of surface lipids (waxes, cutin, suberin). These effect... | {
"abstract": "Microsomes prepared from leek epidermal tissue readily elongate stearoyl-CoA to very long chain fatty acid with malonyl-CoA as the C2 unit. In the absence of stearoyl-CoA, but in the presence of ATP, microsomes elongate endogenous free fatty acids. Endogenous CoA is the source of CoA. Palmitoyl, stearo... | {
"abstract": "1 \nCrambe seeds harvested 6—30 days after flowering actively incorporated radioactive precursors into lipids. The distribution of label among the different lipid classes depended on the precursor, the age of the seed, and the duration of the incubation. \n \n2 \nLabelled acetate was incorporated prefe... |
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"abstract": "SUMMARY. Conventional treatment of beta thalassaemia major is based on regular blood transfusion from early childhood. Maximum effectiveness of transfusion therapy depends on the following. (1) Availability of safe blood. Donation programmes should aim at retaining repeat donors, who carry decreased ri... | {
"abstract": "Since early 1985, blood donations in the United States have been screened for antibody to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). To identify instances of HIV transmission by antibody-negative donations, we investigated 13 persons seropositive for HIV who had received blood from 7 donors who were screened ... | {
"abstract": "The risk of transfusion‐associated acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) has been difficult to estimate because of the long and variable incubation period. Mathematical modeling suggests there may eventually be 2100 cases among persons aged 13 to 65 who received transfusions between 1978 and 1984. ... |
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"abstract": "This paper addresses the problem of gait pattern generation for biped robots. A method based on nonlinear parameter optimization is proposed. Key features of the method are the trajectory description, optimization of only a subset of coordinates and the use of analytical, recursively calculated gradien... | {
"abstract": "This paper presents a systematic approach to generate walking primitive databases for anthropomorphic 3D-bipeds allowing step length adaptation, direction changes and stepping over obstacles. The individual walking primitives are derived by optimal control techniques. Zero moment point (ZMP) and fricti... | {
"abstract": "The objective of this work is to demonstrate the possibility of using primitives for on-line generation of complex movements that ensure motion of bipedal humanoid robots in unstructured environment where on-line generation of motion is required. Primitives represent simple movements that are either re... |
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"abstract": "ABSTRACT Introduction Over the last 20 years (2000-2019) the partners of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) invested in the development and application of mathematical models of poliovirus transmission as well as economics, policy, and risk analyses of polio endgame risk management options,... | {
"abstract": "BackgroundAfter the re-introduction of poliovirus to Syria in 2013, Lebanon was considered at high transmission risk due to its proximity to Syria and the high number of Syrian refugees. However, after a large-scale national immunization initiative, Lebanon was able to prevent a potential outbreak of p... | {
"abstract": "ABSTRACT Introduction Over the last 20 years (2000-2019) the partners of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) invested in the development and application of mathematical models of poliovirus transmission as well as economics, policy, and risk analyses of polio endgame risk management options,... |
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"abstract": "Numerous rodent-based studies have repeatedly demonstrated that grape seed procyanidin extract (GSPE) exhibits hypocholesterolemic and hypolipidemic actions via mechanisms involving an interaction with the farnesoid x receptor (Fxr). In vitro studies revealed that GSPE acts as a co-agonist ligand for F... | {
"abstract": "Various previous studies have found a negative correlation between the risk of cardiovascular events and serum high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol levels. The reverse cholesterol transport, a pathway of cholesterol from peripheral tissue to liver which has several potent antiatherogenic properti... | {
"abstract": "Abstract —The present study examines the expression of ATP-binding cassette transporter 1 (ABC1) mRNA in normal and atherosclerotic tissues by using in situ hybridization in an effort to better understand the function of this cholesterol transport protein. Samples of normal baboon tissues as well as hu... |
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"abstract": "In this paper we address the problem of immediate translation of XPath+IR queries to relational database expressions and exert the benefits of using an intermediate algebra. Adding an intermediate algebra on the logical level of a database enables a level of abstraction from both query languages for IR... | {
"abstract": "This paper investigates an application of the ranked region algebra to information retrieval from large scale but unannotated documents. We automatically annotated documents with document structure and semantic tags by using taggers, and retrieve information by specifying structure represented by tags ... | {
"abstract": "In this paper we address the problem of immediate translation of XPath+IR queries to relational database expressions and exert the benefits of using an intermediate algebra. Adding an intermediate algebra on the logical level of a database enables a level of abstraction from both query languages for IR... |
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"abstract": "This paper proposes a dynamic attention-based visual odometry framework (DAVO), a learning-based VO method, for estimating the ego-motion of a monocular camera. DAVO dynamically adjusts the attention weights on different semantic categories for different motion scenarios based on optical flow maps. The... | {
"abstract": "This work proposes a novel deep network architecture to solve the camera Ego-Motion estimation problem. A motion estimation network generally learns features similar to Optical Flow (OF) fields starting from sequences of images. This OF can be described by a lower dimensional latent space. Previous res... | {
"abstract": "We propose an approach for emptying of bin using a combination of Image and Range sensor. Offering a complete solution: calibration, segmentation and pose estimation, along with approachability analysis for the estimated pose. The work is novel in the sense that the objects to be picked are featureless... |
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"abstract": "In modern global market organizations striving for survive and successful compete have not only to satisfy needs of customers but to perform it with the least costs. Specialists of quality management determined that quality costs make a big part of total factor costs, taking about 30 % (Srivastava, 200... | {
"abstract": "Purpose – The objective of this paper is to present results of the study of the quality costing practices at four large successful multinational companies.Design/methodology/approach – The method of benchmarking was used for the purpose of this study. Company representatives, who were invited for a ben... | {
"abstract": "The concept of the cost of quality which originated in early 1950 s is being practiced widely, nowadays, as the organization are realizing its importance in measuring and improving the performance. It is very easy to implement quality cost concept in manufacturing organization whereas it is beneficial ... |
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"abstract": "Мета роботи – на підставі вивчення результатів досліджень, що наведені у джерелах наукової інформації за останні роки, проаналізувати сучасний стан наукових даних щодо раптової несподіваної смерті при епілепсії (РАНСЕП), її визначення та класифікації, факторів ризику, епідеміологічних даних, патофізіол... | {
"abstract": "Background Sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP) is a major cause of death in those with drug-resistant epilepsy (DRE). There is a need for inventories and biomarkers associated with the risk for SUDEP. Objective To explore the revised SUDEP Risk Inventory (SUDEP-7) in a cohort with DRE and deter... | {
"abstract": "Sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP) has on rare occasions occurred during electroencephalography (EEG) telemetry, and in such cases postictal EEG suppression (PI EEG‐SUP) was frequently observed. More recently a retrospective case–control study reported this pattern as a risk factor for SUDEP. ... |
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"abstract": "Search result diversification aims to retrieve diverse results to cover as many subtopics related to the query as possible. Recent studies showed that supervised diversification models are able to outperform the heuristic approaches, by automatically learning a diversification function other than using... | {
"abstract": "Search result diversification has attracted considerable attention as a means to tackle the ambiguous or multi-faceted information needs of users. One of the key problems in search result diversification is novelty, that is, how to measure the novelty of a candidate document with respect to other docum... | {
"abstract": "With the pervasive use of mobile devices, Location Based Social Networks(LBSNs) have emerged in past years. These LBSNs, allowing their users to share personal experiences and opinions on visited merchants, have very rich and useful information which enables a new breed of location-based services, name... |
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"abstract": "We study the problem of generating arithmetic math word problems (MWPs) given a math equation that specifies the mathematical computation and a context that specifies the problem scenario. Existing approaches are prone to generating MWPs that are either mathematically invalid or have unsatisfactory lan... | {
"abstract": "The ever growing amount of educational content renders it increasingly difficult to manually generate sufficient practice or quiz questions to accompany it. This paper introduces QG-Net, a recurrent neural network-based model specifically designed for automatically generating quiz questions from educat... | {
"abstract": "Most image captioning models focus on one-line (single image) captioning, where the correlations like relevance and diversity among group images (e.g., within the same album or event) are simply neglected, resulting in less accurate and diverse captions. Recent works mainly consider imposing the divers... |
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"abstract": "In this study, an overall survey regarding the determination of several bioactive compounds in olive fruit is presented. Two methodologies were developed, one UPLC-Q-TOF-MS method for the determination of olive fruit phenolic compounds and one HPLC-DAD methodology targeting the determination of pigment... | {
"abstract": "Extracts of leaves, fruits and seeds of olive tree cultivars of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro (Portugal) were analysed by reverse phase HPLC with diode array detection and mass spectrometry (MS). This methodology allowed the identification of some common phenolic compounds, namely, verbascoside, rutin, l... | {
"abstract": "The metabolism of polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins by cytochrome P450 BM-3 from Bacillus megaterium and a mutant enzyme of it (AL4V; Ala74Gly, Phe87Val, Leu188Gln triple mutant) was examined. Both purified enzymes metabolized 1-monochloro-, 2,3-dichloro-, and 2,3,7-trichloro-dibenzo-p-dioxin, but not ... |
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"abstract": "Abstract: Wet enclaves of montane forests in Caatinga domain, locally known as \"Brejos de Altitude\", are associated with plateau at altitudes greater than 500 m a.s.l. and to orographic rainfall. Termite assemblage structures were studied in two areas of montane forest (Brejo de Altitude) located in ... | {
"abstract": "The composition of termite assemblages was analyzed in three caatinga sites of the Estação Ecológica do Seridó, located in the municipality of Serra Negra do Norte, in the state of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil. These sites have been subjected to selective logging, and cleared for pasture and farming. A ... | {
"abstract": "Ethnopharmacological relevance: Medicinal plants from the Caatinga, a Brazilian xeric shrubland, are used in folk medicine to treat infections. These ethnopharmacological data can contribute to obtaining new antimicrobial/antibiofilm extracts and natural product prototypes for the development of new dr... |
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"abstract": "The article is a study into the kinematic scheme of a newly developed anthropomorphic manipulator designed to perform gripping and holding tasks on items from a predefined set. Within the study is the implementation of a mathematical model describing the kinematics of a multilink manipulator using the ... | {
"abstract": "In this paper development, implementation and experimental validation of a grasp synthesis algorithm for an anthropomorphic robotic arm-hand system in a low dimensional posture subspace is proposed. The algorithm has been developed on the basis of the analysis of human hand postural synergies. Drawing ... | {
"abstract": "We present a model based approach to the integration of multiple cues for tracking high degree of freedom articulated motions and model refinement. We then apply it to the problem of hand tracking using a single camera sequence. Hand tracking is particularly challenging because of occlusions, shading v... |
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"abstract": "Abstract Crotin, RL, Forsythe, CM, Bhan, S, and Karakolis, T. Changes in physical size among Major League Baseball players and its attribution to elite offensive performance. J Strength Cond Res 28(10): 2705–2708, 2014—Major League Baseball (MLB) players have not been longitudinally examined for change... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Mangine, GT, Hoffman, JR, Fragala, MS, Vazquez, J, Krause, MC, Gillett, J, and Pichardo, N. Effect of age on anthropometric and physical performance measures in professional baseball players. J Strength Cond Res 27(2): 375–381, 2013—The purpose of this study was to investigate age-related chan... | {
"abstract": "The paper presents the influence of an asymmetry of a stator winding on an axial flux in AC machine. The objective research was performed for selected values of asymmetry. The axial flux was calculated as the sum of flux linkage with stator winding. In order to achieve a magnetic field distribution a d... |
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"abstract": "By reviewing various works of research by many experts on tea, this mini review elaborates the picture of catechins in tea, especially green tea, and their applications as potential antimicrobial agents. Tea originated in China as a drink with medicinal purposes and to be grew a worldwide beverage. Gre... | {
"abstract": "ABSTRACT Compared to MICs (more than 800 μg/ml) of (−)-epigallocatechin gallate (EGCg) against Escherchia coli, MICs of EGCg against methicillin-susceptible and methicillin-resistantStaphylococcus aureus (MSSA and MRSA) were 100 μg/ml or less. Furthermore, less than 25 μg EGCg per ml obviously reversed... | {
"abstract": "A simple and rapid slide latex agglutination assay was developed to detect penicillin‐binding protein 2′ (PBP2′) from isolates of staphylococi. PBP2′ present in the membranes of methicillin‐resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) or methicillin‐resistant coagulase negative staphylococci (MRCNS) was rapi... |
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"abstract": "Artificial perception systems, like autonomous cars and augmented reality headsets, rely on dense 3D sensing technology such as RGB-D cameras and LiDAR scanners. Due to the structural simplicity of man-made environments, understanding and leveraging not only the 3D data but also the local orientations ... | {
"abstract": "Registration is a fundamental task in computer vision. The Iterative Closest Point (ICP) algorithm is one of the widely-used methods for solving the registration problem. Based on local iteration, ICP is however well-known to suffer from local minima. Its performance critically relies on the quality of... | {
"abstract": "We investigate in this article the rigid registration of large sets of points, generally sampled from surfaces. We formulate this problem as a general Maximum-Likelihood (ML) estimation of the transformation and the matches. We show that, in the specific case of a Gaussian noise, it corresponds to the ... |
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"abstract": "Reduction in the skin effect for the sintered Si nanopolycrystalline body as an electricity conductor at a high frequency due to its nanostructure was studied. Singular disappearance of electrical resistances near a local high magnetic harmonic frequency of a few MHz was observed. This phenomenon has n... | {
"abstract": "By means of thermal decomposition, we prepared single-phase spherical Ni nanoparticles (23 to 114 nm in diameter) that are face-centered cubic in structure. The magnetic properties of the Ni nanoparticles were experimentally as well as theoretically investigated as a function of particle size. By means... | {
"abstract": "Nanoscale palladium and nickel colloids prepared in the presence of certain tetra-n-octylammonium carboxylates contain a high proportion of nonequilibrium trigonal cross section particles. Specifically, those carboxylates which bear a hydroxy function at the α-position, e.g., tetra-n-octylammonium glyc... |
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"abstract": "Self-play, where the algorithm learns by playing against itself without requiring any direct supervision, has become the new weapon in modern Reinforcement Learning (RL) for achieving superhuman performance in practice. However, the majority of exisiting theory in reinforcement learning only applies to... | {
"abstract": "We present an algorithm for multiarmed bandits that achieves almost optimal performance in both stochastic and adversarial regimes without prior knowledge about the nature of the environment. Our algorithm is based on augmentation of the EXP3 algorithm with a new control lever in the form of exploratio... | {
"abstract": "We consider optimal sequential allocation in the context of the so-called stochastic multi-armed bandit model. We describe a generic index policy, in the sense of Gittins (1979), based on upper confidence bounds of the arm payoffs computed using the Kullback-Leibler divergence. We consider two classes ... |
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"abstract": "This study compared the nutritional value of quinoa cultivated in different regions, i.e., Peru (PQ), United States (UQ), and Korea (KQ), focusing on their proximate and nutrient compositions and functional components. Moisture, protein, lipid, and ash contents were highest in KQ, and the carbohydrate ... | {
"abstract": "The distribution of minerals in quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa Willd.) seed was examined using energy dispersive X-ray microanalysis (EDX) in combination with scanning electron microscopy (SEM). Phosphorus, K, and Mg coincided in localization in embryonic tissue. Since phytin globoids have been known to lo... | {
"abstract": "Approximately half of the world’s land surface is ‘perennial desert or dry lands’. These areas can only be made more productive by irrigation. Indiscriminate use of irrigation water without any management has created salinity problem at many places. Consequently, salinity has become a threat to food su... |
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"abstract": "The Aho–Corasick (AC) string matching algorithm is commonly used in signature-based intrusion detection and antivirus systems. In this paper, we present a hardware implementation of the AC algorithm that can process multiple characters per cycle. State transitions are implemented using table lookup. He... | {
"abstract": "This paper presents a methodology and a tool for automatic synthesis of highly efficient intrusion detection systems using a high-level, graph-based partitioning methodology and tree-based lookahead architectures. Intrusion detection for network security is a compute-intensive application demanding hig... | {
"abstract": "The left ventricle (LV) pumps oxygenated blood from the lungs to the rest of the body through systemic circulation. The efficiency of such a pumping function is dependent on blood flow within the LV chamber. It is therefore crucial to accurately characterize LV hemodynamics. Improved understanding of L... |
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"abstract": "Received 19 July 2012; revised 21 January 2013; accepted 25 January 2013; published 11 March 2013. [1] The shelf circulation off Ningaloo Reef near the North West Cape of Western Australia is driven by complex interactions between the southward flowing Leeuwin Current and wind-driven currents that epis... | {
"abstract": "Abstract The three-dimensional circulation on the continental shelf off northern California in the wind events and shelf transport (WEST) experiment region during summer 2001 is studied using the primitive equation regional ocean modeling system (ROMS). The simulations are performed with realistic topo... | {
"abstract": "The Sentinel-1 mission provides frequent coverage of global land areas and is hence able to monitor surface water dynamics at a fine spatial resolution better than any other Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) mission before. However, SAR data acquired by Sentinel-1 also suffer from terrain effects when bei... |
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"abstract": "Traffic flow analysis is essential to develop smart urban mobility solutions. Although numerous tools have been proposed, they employ only a small number of parameters. To overcome this limitation, an edge computing solution is proposed based on nine traffic parameters, namely, vehicle count, direction... | {
"abstract": "Many highway toll collection systems have already been developed and are widely used in India. Some of these include Manual toll collection, RF tags, Barcodes, Number plate recognition. All these systems have disadvantages that lead to some errors in the corresponding system. This paper presents a brie... | {
"abstract": "Sociocultural theories of learning such as Wenger and Lave's situated learning have been suggested as alternatives to cognitive theories of learning like constructivism. This article examines situated learning within the context of computer science (CS) education. Situated learning accurately describes... |
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"abstract": "Introduction: Ulcerative rectocolitis is an inflammatory disease that involves only the colon and rectum, being characterized by leukocyte infiltrate and superficial ulcers in the intestinal mucosa. The production and release of reactive oxygen and nitrogen species appears to be crucial in determining ... | {
"abstract": "BackgroundAnti-inflammatory drugs with high potency and low systemic adverse effects, such as budesonide, are drugs of choice for the treatment of ulcerative colitis (UC). Budesonide controlled-release formulations are now being used to induce and maintain clinical remission of Crohn's disease. Budeson... | {
"abstract": "Various pharmacologic stress agents are currently available, including adenosine, dipyridamole, and most recently regadenoson. These agents have a common mechanism, mediated through activation (nonselective or selective) of adenosine A2A receptors with resultant coronary vasodilation. Adenosine and dip... |
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"abstract": "Third-party libraries (TPLs) are extensively utilized by developers to expedite the software development process and incorporate external functionalities. Nevertheless, insecure TPL reuse can lead to significant security risks. Existing methods, which involve extracting strings or conducting function m... | {
"abstract": "Software released in binary form frequently uses third-party packages without respecting their licensing terms. For instance, many consumer devices have firmware containing the Linux kernel, without the suppliers following the requirements of the GNU General Public License. Such license violations are ... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Identifying code duplication in large multi-platform software systems is a challenging problem. This is due to a variety of reasons including the presence of high-level programming languages and structures interleaved with hardware-dependent low-level resources and assembler code, the use of G... |
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"abstract": "We investigated how prospective primary school teachers from two countries with a common Language of Learning and Teaching (LoLT) think about word problems, both as a mathematical task and as a teaching task. The question driving the investigation was: if solving mathematics word problems is both a lin... | {
"abstract": "This paper is an attempt to extend the debate on language policy development, which so far has been dominated by African linguists and language policy planners. Little attempt has been made in the mathematics education field to highlight the discriminatory nature of some language policies, be they nati... | {
"abstract": "We investigated how prospective primary school teachers from two countries with a common Language of Learning and Teaching (LoLT) think about word problems, both as a mathematical task and as a teaching task. The question driving the investigation was: if solving mathematics word problems is both a lin... |
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"abstract": "Social attention involves attention directed toward other individuals, as well as the coordination of attention among individuals. This topic has been the focus of much recent research with nonhuman primates. In this review, we focus on the behavior of the participants in this research—both the animals... | {
"abstract": "Abstract. A model of \"distributed cognition\" is contrasted with the \"mental representation\" model exemplified by Tomasello and Call's Primate Cognition. Rather than using behavior as a basis for inferences to invisible mental events such as intentions, the distributed approach treats communicative ... | {
"abstract": "Diagnostic tests in medicine must satisfy certain validity and accuracy criteria to be clinically useful. In psychiatry, the validity of a diagnostic procedure might be tested independently against clinical diagnosis, treatment response, and family history criteria; a strong relationship to any of the ... |
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"abstract": "RELIGIOUS CHARTER SCHOOLS: SUPERINTENDENTS’ PERCEPTIONS IN A CATHOLIC CONTEXT By Craig N. Horning Dissertation Director: Dr. Elizabeth Twomey This qualitative study was exploratory and analyzed an emerging form of schooling – “religious” charter schools – within the context of urban Catholic elementary... | {
"abstract": "In the USA over 220 Catholic schools closed in 2006, many of which were in urban areas, leaving a number of parents, students, and teachers forced to fi nd new schools. Financial troubles are affl icting Catholic schools around the country as parish subsidies decrease and school enrollments drop, while... | {
"abstract": "Given the debates about the identity and future of counseling psychology programs in colleges of education and given the growing national crisis in K-12 education, this study examined the involvement of counseling psychology faculty in school-related issues. Full-time faculty from APA-accredited counse... |
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"abstract": "Inflammation is recognized as one of the hallmarks of cancer. Indeed, strong evidence indicates that chronic inflammation plays a major role in oncogenesis, promoting genome instability, epigenetic alterations, proliferation and dissemination of cancer cells. Mononuclear phagocytes (MPs) have been iden... | {
"abstract": "Objective To explore the expression feature and biological functions of TREM-1 on tumor-associated macrophages (TAMs) in lung cancer. Results The levels of TREM-1 on tissue-infiltrating monocytes/macrophage from tumor nest were significantly lower than those from nonturmor tissue or peripheral blood sa... | {
"abstract": "Myeloid-derived suppressor cells (MDSC) potently inhibit antitumor immune responses, and thereby promoti tumor progression and metastasis. However, the nature of human tumor-infiltrating MDSC remains poorly characterized. Here, we find B7-H3 is exclusively expressed on a subset of intratumoral CD14+HLA... |
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"title": "Face Processing in Infants : Links to Cognitive, Motor, and Socio-Emotional Development"
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"abstract": "Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), we found an area in the fusiform gyrus in 12 of the 15 subjects tested that was significantly more active when the subjects viewed faces than when they viewed assorted common objects. This face activation was used to define a specific region of intere... | {
"abstract": "Immediate access to information about people that we encounter is an essential requirement for effective social interactions. In this manuscript we briefly review our work and work of others on familiar face recognition and propose a modified version of our model of neural systems for face perception w... |
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"abstract": "In plants, long distance transport of sugars from photosynthetic source leaves to sink organs comprises \ndifferent crucial steps depending on the species and organ types. Sucrose, the main carbohydrate for long \ndistance transport is synthesized in the mesophyll and then loaded into the phloem. After... | {
"abstract": "Localization studies indicate that barley (Hordeum vulgare) sucrose transporter HvSUT1 functions in sucrose uptake into seeds during grain filling. To further understand the physiological function of HvSUT1, we have expressed the HvSUT1 cDNA in Xenopus laevis oocytes and analyzed the transport activity... | {
"abstract": "In celery (Apium graveolens L.), long-distance transport of reduced carbon occurs both in the form of sucrose (Suc) and mannitol. The presence of mannitol has been related to the resistance of celery to salt stress. To investigate the transport events occurring during salt stress, we have cloned the H(... |
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"abstract": "Cloud radio access networks use servers that are connected to Remote Radio Heads (RRH). Base station (BS) implementation with this concept is challenging. The strict real-time nature of baseband (BB) processing seems to rule out usage of General Purpose Processors (GPP) with non-real time Operating Sys... | {
"abstract": "Cognitive radios require fast reconfiguration of the protocol stack for dynamic spectrum access and run-time performance optimization. In order to provide rapid on-the-fly adaptability of PHY/MAC protocols, we have designed and implemented TRUMP: a Toolchain for RUn-tiMe Protocol realization. It includ... | {
"abstract": "We introduce MAClets, software programs uploaded and executed on-demand over wireless cards, and devised to change the card's real-time medium access control operation. MAClets permit seamless reconfiguration of the MAC stack, so as to adapt it to mutated context and spectrum conditions and perform tai... |
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"abstract": "Objective—Ceramides are molecular lipids implicated in apoptosis, inflammation, obesity, and insulin resistance. An earlier study reported that ceramides were associated with fatal outcome among patients with coronary heart disease. Here, we examined whether ceramides are associated with major adverse ... | {
"abstract": "Background: Population-based administrative registers could be used for identifying heart failure (HF) cases. However, the validity of the classification obtained from administrative registers is not known. Design: The validity of HF diagnoses obtained by record linkage of administrative databases in F... | {
"abstract": "Background—Congestive heart failure (CHF) is an increasing public health problem. Methods and Results—Among Framingham Heart Study subjects who were free of CHF at baseline, we determined the lifetime risk for developing overt CHF at selected index ages. We followed 3757 men and 4472 women from 1971 to... |
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"abstract": "Pediatric functional constipation (PFC) is one of the most common functional gastrointestinal complaints in pediatric patients, accounting for 3% of visits to a general pediatrician and up to 25% of visits to a pediatric gastroenterologist in the United States.1 Across epidemiologic studies, global pre... | {
"abstract": "ABSTRACT Introduction: Functional gastrointestinal disorders (FGIDs) are common in children of all ages and comprise of a wide range of conditions related to the gastrointestinal tract that cannot be attributed to structural or biochemical abnormalities. FGIDs are diagnosed according to the symptom-bas... | {
"abstract": "The discovery of cortical networks that participate in pain processing has led to the common generalization that blood oxygen level-dependent (BOLD) responses in these areas indicate the processing of pain. Physical stimuli have fundamental properties that elicit sensations distinguishable from pain, s... |
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"abstract": "Pointwise mutual information (PMI) is a widely used word similarity measure, but it lacks a clear explanation of how it works. We explore how PMI differs from distributional similarity, and we introduce a novel metric, PMImax, that augments PMI with information about a word's number of senses. The coef... | {
"abstract": "A predictive tool to simulate human visual search behavior would help interface designers inform and validate their design. Such a tool would benefit from a semantic component that would help predict search behavior even in the absence of exact textual matches between goal and target. This paper discus... | {
"abstract": "This paper presents context-group discrimination, a disambiguation algorithm based on clustering. Senses are interpreted as groups (or clusters) of similar contexts of the ambiguous word. Words, contexts, and senses are represented in Word Space, a high-dimensional, real-valued space in which closeness... |
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"abstract": "Aim: The purpose of this study was to investigate the difference between the professional perspectives of pharmacists and nurses in Japan with regard to evaluation of the quality of life (QOL) of cancer patients. Methods: A group of cancer hospital inpatients (n=15) were asked to rate the condition of ... | {
"abstract": "PURPOSE\nTo establish structural equation model (SEM) of subjected quality of life (QOL) in cancer patients taking into account qualification of pharmacists.\n\n\nMETHOD\nThe SEM model was constructed from correlation matrix of the scores of answers of questions to both patients and pharmacists. Data w... | {
"abstract": "Aim: The purpose of this study was to investigate the difference between the professional perspectives of pharmacists and nurses in Japan with regard to evaluation of the quality of life (QOL) of cancer patients. Methods: A group of cancer hospital inpatients (n=15) were asked to rate the condition of ... |
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"abstract": "In today's competitive marketplace, improving the management of engineering changes in new product development can reduce enterprise costs, shorten development times, and improve product quality. While previous studies have proposed engineering change management frameworks, these were based on deficien... | {
"abstract": "Product data management is an engineering oriented information system. Engineering change request, engineering change notice, and engineering change control workflow in a product data management system are usually utilized starting from the detail product design phase. Lack of guidelines to identify co... | {
"abstract": "To avoid fraud behavior and ensure product data quality throughout the stages of product lifecycle management, the demand for the computer audit is increasing in the engineering and manufacturing industries. Enterprises have paid much attention to the implementation of product data management/product l... |
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"abstract": "Digital communication systems which use Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) are now widely used and have many advantages. The main disadvantage is the requirement for highly linear analogue electronics including the high power amplifier (HPA). This requirement cannot be met in all circums... | {
"abstract": "Clipping is an efficient and simple method to reduce the peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) of OFDM signals. However, clipping causes distortion and out-of-band radiation. In this paper, a novel iterative receiver is proposed to estimate and cancel the distortion caused by clipping noise. The proposed ... | {
"abstract": "This paper considers the use of digital clipping techniques for OFDM transmission, so as to reduce the envelope fluctuation of the transmitted signals. The impact of oversampling and filtering issues is taken into account, together with the type of clipping and the choice of the clipping level, when ca... |
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"abstract": "POSITIVITY RATIO: PREDICTING SLEEP OUTCOMES ACROSS THE LIFESPAN By Janna Lynn Imel, B.A. A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Psychology at Virginia Commonwealth University. Virginia Commonwealth University, 2016. Major Director: Natalie Dautovich, P... | {
"abstract": "Sleep duration is an important concept in epidemiological studies. It characterizes a night’s sleep or a person’s sleep pattern, and is associated with numerous health outcomes. In most large studies, sleep duration is assessed with questionnaires or sleep diaries. As an alternative, actigraphy may be ... | {
"abstract": "OBJECTIVE\nTo determine the incidence and causes of visual field loss (VFL) in a general elderly population.\n\n\nMETHODS\nCentral visual fields of both eyes were examined with suprathreshold perimetry in 3761 persons aged 55 years or older and free of VFL at baseline from the population-based Rotterda... |
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"abstract": "Excessive levels of fecal bacteria are the leading cause of water quality impairment in Texas, and livestock with direct access to water bodies are potentially a significant source of these bacteria. To help address this, the effect of providing alternative off-stream watering facilities to reduce manu... | {
"abstract": "The objective of this study was to test the combined effect of offstream water and trace mineral salt on cattle distribution in a riparian meadow and its adjacent uplands. From July 15 to August 26, 1996 and 1997, three treatments were each randomly assigned to one pasture in each of three blocks. Sixt... | {
"abstract": "An important part of the forage on cattle ranges of the Bighorn National Forest in north central Wyoming is obtained from the narrow alluvial meadows bordering stream courses. These areas are small in proportion to the total rangeland, but they are potentially productive and serve an integral function ... |
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"abstract": "This work examines the relationship between the biocontrol agent Pseudozyma flocculosa and its fungal relatives, including the pathogen Ustilago maydis, finding subtle yet crucial genetic differences that may explain the nonpathogenic nature of P. flocculosa, including loss of a specific subset of cand... | {
"abstract": "By comparing genomes among both closely and distally related species, comparative genomics analysis characterizes structures and functions of different genomes in both conserved and divergent regions. Synteny blocks, which are conserved blocks of genes on chromosomes of related species, play important ... | {
"abstract": "The classically conditioned eyeblink response in the rabbit is one of the best-characterized behavioral models of associative learning. It is cerebellum dependent, with many studies indicating that the hemispheral part of Larsell's cerebellar cortical lobule VI (HVI) is critical for the acquisition and... |
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"abstract": "The complexity of mammalian transcriptomes is compounded by alternative splicing which allows one gene to produce multiple transcript isoforms. However, transcriptome comparison has been limited to differential analysis at the gene level instead of the individual transcript isoform level. High-throughp... | {
"abstract": "Exon and exon+junction microarrays are promising tools for studying alternative splicing. Current analytical tools applied to these arrays lack two relevant features: the ability to predict unknown spliced forms and the ability to quantify the concentration of known and unknown isoforms. SPACE is an al... | {
"abstract": "Point mutations in the coding regions of genes are commonly assumed to exert their effects by altering single amino acids in the encoded proteins. However, there is increasing evidence that many human disease genes harbour exonic mutations that affect pre-mRNA splicing. Nonsense, missense and even tran... |
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"abstract": "A contínua inserção dos fármacos no ambiente exige novas estratégias tecnológicas para removê-los das águas residuárias domésticas e industriais.Com o objetivo de conhecer o estado da arte recente sobre a biodegradação do diclofenaco, o presente trabalho permitiu identificar o estágio atual das pesquis... | {
"abstract": "The bacterial strain KDF8 capable of growth in the presence of diclofenac and codeine analgesics was obtained after chemical mutagenesis of nature isolates from polluted soils. The strain KDF8 was identified as Raoultella sp. based on its morphology, biochemical properties, and 16S rRNA gene sequence. ... | {
"abstract": "Two non-pathogenic strains R89-1 and R90T isolated from poppy seed (Papaver somniferum L.) wastes were phenotypically and genotypically characterized. Multilocus sequence analysis (MLSA) was conducted with six genes (atpD, glnA, gyrB, recA, rpoB, 16S rRNA). The strains represented a new species which c... |
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"abstract": "GASB Statement No. 53, Accounting and Financial Reporting for Derivative Instruments, (GASB 53) significantly altered U.S. governmental sector accounting of derivative instruments by mandating the recognition of hitherto off-balance sheet derivative instruments in the government-wide statement of net a... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Using a hand-collected dataset of over 300 observations of large U.S. cities and counties, this paper investigates the extent, nature and determinants of derivatives usage in the municipal sector. Over half of our sample entities engage in derivative transactions and a vast majority of these t... | {
"abstract": "The main purpose of this research is to analyze the relationship between characteristics of hiring firms and the perception of auditors/accountants that provide services to them regarding complexity in the elaboration/disclosure of sensitivity analyses and risk management. We seek to analyze whether ch... |
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"abstract": "Facing the big data wave, this study applied artificial intelligence to cite knowledge and find a feasible process to play a crucial role in supplying innovative value in environmental education. Intelligence agents of artificial intelligence and natural language processing (NLP) are two key areas lead... | {
"abstract": "This paper critically examines emergent research with sentiment analysis tools to assess their current status and relevance to applied opinion and behaviour measurement. The rapid spread of online news and online chatter in blogs, micro-blogs and social media sites has created a potentially rich source... | {
"abstract": "The aim of this paper is to investigate the impact of individual dimensions of perceived service quality on customer satisfaction, trust and loyalty in e-commerce settings. Empirical results indicate that the perceived service quality has positive direct effects on both customer satisfaction and trust.... |
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"abstract": "Since Geoffrey Hinton first proposed the concept of deep learning in 2006, which in Reducing the dimensionality of data with neural networks, deep learning has been the continuous concern of the researchers. Deep learning uses a multilayer neural network to simulate the multi-layer abstract learning pr... | {
"abstract": "Multi-class classification can often be constructed as a generalization of binary classification. The approach that we use for solving this kind of classification problem is SVM based Binary Decision Tree architecture (SVM-BDT). It takes advantage of both the efficient computation of the decision tree ... | {
"abstract": "The classical mathematical proof is performed by pencil and paper. However, there are many ways in which computers may be used in a mathematical proof. But \"proofs by computers\" or even the use of computers in the course of a proof are not so readily accepted (the December 2008 issue of the Notices o... |
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"abstract": "Numerical abundance is often considered of primary importance when identifying microbial taxa that drive biogeochemical processes. However, there are a growing number of examples where numerically less abundant microbes carry out critical ecosystem processes. Here, we discuss a paradigmatic example and... | {
"abstract": "A fraction of the carbon captured by phytoplankton in the sunlit surface ocean sinks to depth as dead organic matter and faecal material. The microbial breakdown of this material in the subsurface ocean generates carbon dioxide. Collectively, this microbially mediated flux of carbon from the atmosphere... | {
"abstract": "Multivariate statistical methods were used to examine trends and interrelationships in 132 wetland stands at the southern edge of the boreal forest near Elk Lake, Ont., Canada. A total of nine vegetation types and seven species groups were recognized using cluster analysis. Nonmetric multidimensional s... |
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"abstract": "We propose a new method for computing Dynamic Mode Decomposition (DMD) evolution matrices, which we use to analyze dynamical systems. Unlike the majority of existing methods, our approach is based on a variational formulation consisting of data alignment penalty terms and constitutive orthogonality con... | {
"abstract": "Classical formulations of the shape matching problem involve the definition of a matching cost that directly depends on the action of the desired map when applied to some input data. Such formulations are typically one-sided – they seek for a mapping from one shape to the other, but not vice versa. In ... | {
"abstract": "We introduce a novel framework that enables large-scale dense 3D scene reconstruction, data streaming over the network and immersive exploration of the reconstructed environment using virtual reality. The system is operated by two remote entities, where one entity – for instance an autonomous aerial ve... |
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"abstract": "This paper focuses on two main aspects of the clusters, namely, which factors gives rise to development of clusters and what benefits are acquired by firms from participating in clusters of India. The methodology used for this article is a literature review of published materials. A broad search strate... | {
"abstract": "Purpose – A geographically proximate group of rice mills, supporting companies, suppliers, and associated institutions in a particular field is emerging as a concept to make rice mills more competitive. The factors, which emerged due to cluster formation, appear to have the potential to contribute to t... | {
"abstract": "Abstract In many industrial and military environments, systems are required to execute a sequence of missions with a finite break between two adjacent missions. Due to the limited maintenance resources, such as budget, time, and manpower, etc., it is oftentimes impossible to perform all the desirable m... |
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"abstract": "C-reactive protein (CRP) is one of the major members of the family of acute phase proteins (APP). Interest in this CRP was the result of a seminal discovery of its pattern of response to pneumococcal infection in humans. CRP has the unique property of reacting with phosphocholine-containing substances,... | {
"abstract": "C-reactive protein in Achatina fulica (ACRP) is a normal component of the hemolymph. Its concentration varied from 1mg/ml in the newly hatched male, 3-5 mg/ml in the most active hermaphrodite and 1.5-2.8 mg/ml in the sedentary female showing a direct relationship of the protein with the active phase of... | {
"abstract": "The acute phase response among plasma proteins is a normal response to tissue injury and is therefore a fundamental aspect of many diverse disease processes. It probably usually has a beneficial net function in limiting damage and promoting repair but in some circumstances it may have pathological cons... |
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"abstract": "Climate change, global warming, and population increase have sparked the need to reorient Malaysia's food security strategy by adopting green marketing practices in agriculture production. The paper explored green marketing awareness practices among the small-scale cuniculture farmers at Cenderong Bala... | {
"abstract": "in recent years, greenhouse technology in agriculture is to automation, information technology direction with the IOT (internet of things) technology rapid development and wide application. In the paper, control networks and information networks integration of IOT technology has been studied based on t... | {
"abstract": "Agricultural sector has been facing great challenges in order to feed the increasing number of population living in the world. In the future, it will be very difficult to rely on traditional farming to produce food. Some researchers and industry experts have begun developing smart farming by utilizing ... |
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"abstract": "This paper describes an approach for injecting faults in ad hoc vehicle networks. A prototype fault injector, which makes it possible to investigate how a cooperative vehicle system behaves in the presence of communication errors, has been developed. The prototype shows a feasible way to use fault inje... | {
"abstract": "Middleware is a software layer that stands between the networked operating system and the application and provides well known reusable solutions to frequently encountered problems like heterogeneity, interoperability, security, dependability. Further, with networks becoming increasingly pervasive, midd... | {
"abstract": "Climate change and sea level rise (SLR) pose risks to coastal communities around the world, but societal understanding of the distributional and equity implications of SLR impacts and adaptation actions remains limited. Here, we apply a new analytic tool to identify geographic areas in the contiguous U... |
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"abstract": "Proof of work (PoW), the most popular consensus mechanism for blockchain, requires ridiculously large amounts of energy but without any useful outcome beyond determining accounting rights among miners. To tackle the drawback of PoW, we propose a novel energy-recycling consensus algorithm, namely proof ... | {
"abstract": "Machine learning relies on the availability of a vast amount of data for training. However, in reality, most data are scattered across different organizations and cannot be easily integrated under many legal and practical constraints. In this paper, we introduce a new technique and framework, known as ... | {
"abstract": "A serial-parallel hybrid machine tool is expected to integrate the respective features of pure serial/parallel mechanism. The traditional method of hybridization is to connect n (n ≥ 2) mechanisms bottom to head, in which at least one should be a parallel mechanism. One unique approach called Mechanism... |
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"title": "Swayless Point-to-Point Positioning of an Overhead Crane"
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"abstract": "Systems that exhibit flexible dynamics are susceptible to vibration caused by changes in the reference command, as well as, from external disturbances. Feedback control is an obvious choice to deal with these vibrations, but in many cases, it is insufficient or difficult to implement. Input shaping has... | {
"abstract": "Systems that exhibit flexible dynamics are susceptible to vibration caused by changes in the reference command and from external disturbances. Feedback control is an obvious choice to deal with these vibrations, but in many cases, it is insufficient or difficult to implement. Input shaping does not dea... |
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"abstract": "End stage liver disease represents a common end point for a number of disease processes, the only current treatment for which is liver transplantation, but the demand for donor organs exceeds the supply. This has led to the use of more marginal donors with an increase in the rates of complications. Mes... | {
"abstract": "IntroductionWe have assessed the utility of autologous mesenchymal stem cell (MSC) peripheral vein infusion as a possible therapeutic modality for patients with end-stage liver diseases.MethodsForty patients with post-hepatitis C virus (HCV) end-stage liver disease were randomized into two groups: Grou... | {
"abstract": "Probenecid was administered to 7 unipolar depressed patients, 7 parkinsonians and 7 extrapyramidal patients with senile dementia matched for age and sex. Before and after the administration of probenecid, the levels of 5-hydroxindoleacetic acid (5HIAA) and homovanillic acid (HVA) were determined in the... |
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"abstract": "Vertebrate body organization differs from that of other chordates in a large number of derived features that involve all organ systems. Most of these features arise embryonically from epidermal placodes, neural crest, and a muscularized hypomere. The developmental modifications were associated with a s... | {
"abstract": "In the avian embryo ectomesenchyme cells, derived from the mesencephalic level of the cranial neural crest, migrate into the presumptive maxillary region and subsequently differentiate into the membrane bones and associated secondary cartilage of the upper jaw skeleton. The cartilage arises secondarily... | {
"abstract": "Periosteum has been used clinically for biologic resurfacing arthroplasty in small series of patients for almost two decades. The author's own experience with this technique in multiple joints, including the knee, has been similar to that already reported in the literature. Observations and considerati... |
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"abstract": "Closure of fascia after transverse rectus abdominis myocutaneous (TRAM) flap has usually been performed with direct closure or synthetic material. The dermal autograft removed from zone IV of the flap is an alternative to reinforce fascial closure. Record of the patients who had been undergone breast a... | {
"abstract": "&NA; To find an alternative to synthetic mesh closure of abdominal fascial defects after transverse rectus abdominis musculocutaneous (TRAM) flap harvest, dermal autografts were removed from tissue to be discarded and used for fascial closure. Dermal grafts have been used for herniorrhaphy and fascial ... | {
"abstract": "The purpose of this study was to evaluate the correlation between risk factors and hernia or bulge formation at the donor site of the transverse rectus abdominis myocutaneous (TRAM) flap. A retrospective study was conducted between September 2005 and December 2008 in 206 patients who underwent breast r... |
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"abstract": "Objective: The Oxford Cognitive Screen (OCS) is a screening tool for the assessment of poststroke deficits in attention, memory, praxis, language, and number processing. The goal of the present study was to develop a Russian version of the OCS (Rus-OCS) via translation of the original battery, its cult... | {
"abstract": "Cognitive deficits occur in most stroke patients and cognitive impairment is an important predictor of adverse long term outcome. However, current screening measures, such as the Mini Mental State Examination or the Montreal Cognitive Assessment, do not provide information tuned for evaluating the impa... | {
"abstract": "Previous work indicates that the locus of the word-superiority effect in letter detection is nonvisual and that letter names, but not letter shapes, are more accessible in words than in nonwords, that is, scrambled collections of letters (e.g., Krueger & Shapiro, 1979; Krueger & Stadtlander, 1991; Mass... |
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"abstract": "The effectiveness and reliability of IS-based web services becomes a critical factor in business success. Known classical problems in the field of web services are imposed implicitly in the design and implementation of such systems, namely: description process of web service, publication process, disco... | {
"abstract": "The dynamic environment where organisations and providers live imposes a gradually evolving of their services to meet new needs, technological changes and requirements of these users. Therefore, the evolution of web services becomes necessary because it is inevitable that services will evolve overtime ... | {
"abstract": "We define a high-level model to mathematically capture the semantical meaning of abstract Virtual Providers (VP), their instantiation and their composition into rich mediator structures.",
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"score": -1,
"title": "A High-Level Specification for Mediators(Virtual Providers)"
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"abstract": "Monocular depth prediction is one of the recent research topic which offers reduced computational complexity compared to stereo depth prediction but at the cost of increased ambiguity. Most algorithms for monocular depth prediction are dependent on training models. These algorithms predict depth using ... | {
"abstract": "We describe a technique that automatically generates plausible depth maps from videos using non-parametric depth sampling. We demonstrate our technique in cases where past methods fail (non-translating cameras and dynamic scenes). Our technique is applicable to single images as well as videos. For vide... | {
"abstract": "The processing of a high-definition video stream in real-time is a challenging task for embedded systems. However, modern FPGA devices have both a high operating frequency and sufficient logic resources to be successfully used in these tasks. In this article, an advanced system that is able to generate... |
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"abstract": "The effects of alcohol treatment of dietary soybean meal on growth performance, biliary bile status and liver morphology of red sea bream Pagrus major were investigated. A fish meal-based diet (FM) and four low-fish meal diets, each composed mainly of defatted soybean meal (SBM), soy protein concentrat... | {
"abstract": "Masu salmon, Oncorhynchus masou masou, fry were fed with diets containing three different levels of protein for 18 weeks, and the levels of free amino acids and related compounds in the white muscle were compared among the dietary groups and between smolts and parr. The anserine level in the white musc... | {
"abstract": "The present study was carried out to investigate whether the dietary histidine requirement to reduce cataract development is higher than that for growth in Atlantic salmon smolts (Salmo salar L.) after seawater transfer and whether dietary vegetable oils contribute to cataractogenesis. Duplicate groups... |
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"abstract": "Objectives: The purpose of this work was to evaluate the effect of plateletrich fibrin (PRF) on bone defects regeneration in diabetic rats by histological studies of tibial bone and immunohistochemical examination of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF). Methods:The present investigation was carri... | {
"abstract": "The platelet-rich fibrin (PRF) is known as a rich source of autologous cytokines and growth factors and universally used for tissue regeneration in current clinical medicine. However, the microstructure of PRF has not been fully investigated nor have been studied the key molecules that differ PRF from ... | {
"abstract": "The authors elaborate the personal processes involved in whistleblowing and the ramifications. (non-author abstract)",
"corpus_id": 31394392,
"score": -1,
"title": "'I had to act': in conversation with a whistleblower."
} |
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"abstract": "Memory bandwidth bottleneck is a major challenges in processing machine learning (ML) algorithms. In-memory acceleration has potential to address this problem; however, it needs to address two challenges. First, in-memory accelerator should be general enough to support a large set of different ML algor... | {
"abstract": "Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) is a popular tool for analyzing discrete count data such as text and images. Applications require LDA to handle both large datasets and a large number of topics. Though distributed CPU systems have been used, GPU-based systems have emerged as a promising alternative be... | {
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"corpus_id": 35872876,
"score": -1,
"title": "Language Based Mapping of Science Assessment Items to Skills"
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"abstract": "This study aimed to characterize and compare the efficacy profile on six fibromyalgia syndrome (FM) core symptoms associated with pharmacologic and non‐pharmacologic treatments. We screened PubMed, Embase and the Cochrane Library for FM articles from 1990 to September 2012 to analyse randomized control... | {
"abstract": "Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM), University of Bern, and CTU Bern, Bern University Hospital, Bern, Switzerland Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London, London, UK Department of Internal Medicine 1, Klinikum S... | {
"abstract": "Independent investigators have found that pain is related to health anxiety, trait anxiety, pain‐related anxiety, and anxiety sensitivity. To date, the relationship among these anxiety‐related constructs has not been studied directly and little is known about their relative ability to predict adjustmen... |
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"abstract": "We performed musculoskeletal simulations to provide information on the effects of riding position and bicycle geometry on pedaling with a transfemoral prosthesis. Sixty-four models and their corresponding kinematics in one pedaling cycle were generated from the baseline one-leg cycling model by varying... | {
"abstract": "Background: Few published reports exist regarding the control of the human/prosthesis interface in persons with unilateral transtibial amputation. Objective: To investigate strategies employed by prosthetic users in controlling the human/prosthesis interface to highlight challenges associated with eith... | {
"abstract": "Acquisition of skillfulness is not only characterized by a task-appropriate application of muscular forces but also by the ability to adapt performance to changing task demands. Previous research suggests that there is a different developmental schedule for adaptation at the kinematic compared to the n... |
{
"abstract": "Researchers have found mixed empirical results on the significance of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) on countries around the world. Foreign direct investment has been a major driver in the economic growth of both developed and developing economies. This study examines the influence of FDI on economic ... | {
"abstract": "The objectives of the paper are to study foreign trade and investment dimensions of ASEAN and to study the role of FDI to the growth of exports. Vector autoregression model (VAR) is adopted to estimate the long run causal relationship between exports, foreign direct investment and GDP. The cointegratio... | {
"abstract": "Abstract The decisiveness index introduced in this paper is designed to provide a normalized measure of the agility of all simple games, primarily viewed as collective decision-making mechanisms. We study the mathematical properties of the index and derive different axiomatic characterizations for it. ... |
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"abstract": "In the first part, the photodissociation\ndynamics of methyl azide are probed by photofragment translational\nspectroscopy at 248 nm and 193 nm dissociation wavelengths under\ncollision-free conditions. At 248 nm, the only primary dissociation\nprocess is observed to be molecular elimination of N2.\nTh... | {
"abstract": "We present results of near-threshold photoionization of N3 photofragments produced by laser photodissociation of ClN3 at 248 nm. The time of flight of recoiling N3 is used to resolve two photochemical channels producing N3, which exhibit different translational energy release. The two forms of N3 resol... | {
"abstract": "Abstract The time decay of N2 (A3σ +u) produced by pulsed photolysis of CIN3 at 193 nm exhibits two components, a fast decay corresponding to pseudo-first-order quenching by CIN3 and a much slower decay corresponding to a chain process in which N2(A3Σ+u) is regenerated. The rate constant for N2(A3Σ+u) ... |
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"abstract": "In this paper we consider limit theorems, symmetry of distribution, and absorption problems for two types of one-dimensional quantum random walks determined by 2 × 2 unitary matrices using our PQRS method. The one type was introduced by Gudder in 1988, and the other type was studied intensively by Amba... | {
"abstract": "Given a digraph D on n vertices, a matrix A of size n is said to have pattern D, if it has entry A ij = 0 if and only if (v i , v j) is an arc of D. We give a necessary condition, which is called strong quadrangularity, for a digraph to be the pattern of a unitary matrix. With the use of such a conditi... | {
"abstract": "In this note, we give a characterization of the adjacency matrix of the line digraph of a regular digraph and we discuss a generalization.On the light of the characterization given, we remark that the underlying digraph of a coined quantum random walk is the line digraph of a regular digraph. 1. A char... |
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"abstract": "Procedural memory, which is rooted in the basal ganglia, underlies the learning and processing of numerous automatized motor and cognitive skills, including in language. Not surprisingly, disorders with basal ganglia abnormalities have been found to show impairments of procedural memory. However, brain... | {
"abstract": "Tourette syndrome (TS) is characterized by motor and vocal tics, and frontal/basal-ganglia abnormalities. Whereas cognitive strengths have been found in other neurodevelopmental disorders, less attention has been paid to strengths in TS, or to verbal strengths in any neurodevelopmental disorder. We exa... | {
"abstract": "Theories about basal ganglia function have always been driven by our knowledge about the spiny projection neurons of the striatum. At the core of these theories lies the question of how, precisely, spiny projection neurons process cortical inputs. Most recently, studies demonstrating the role of spiny ... |
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"abstract": "Sahara Mustard (Brassica tournefortii) is an invasive weed that has become widespread throughout the southwestern United States. Its early germination, high fecundity, and dispersal effectiveness augment its ability to outcompete and possibly displace local flora. In this work, we model the dynamics of... | {
"abstract": "Prolonged seed dormancy in desert annuals is thought to be an adaptation to environmental uncertainty. Germination spread over several years could reduce the year-to-year variation in the fitness of a genotype. Previous work has demonstrated that, for a number of species, not all viable seeds germinate... | {
"abstract": "In this paper, we focus on a particular version of the dynamic service network design (DSND) problem, namely the case of a single-terminal that dispatches services to a number of customers and other terminals. We present a time-dependent, stochastic formulation that aims to optimize the problem over a ... |
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"abstract": "Agricultural systems are complex, because managers need to cope with interlinked and dynamic ecological, social, political and economic aspects. Understanding and analysing such systems requires researchers to adopt a holistic approach to grasp the links between those aspects. Holistic approaches withi... | {
"abstract": "This paper explores the role of short food supply chains in rural development. By developing a theoretical perspective, it seeks to contribute to debates on the generalized theory of rural development. It argues that in order to more fully understand their role and potential we need to move beyond desc... | {
"abstract": "Consumers increasingly prefer more direct and more transparent food distribution channels, such as short food supply chains (SFSCs). Nonetheless, SFSCs face a variety of issues and challenges in their creation and functioning, resulting in limited performance and sustainability, as well as in difficult... |
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"abstract": "Considerable scientific and intervention attention has been paid to judgment and decision-making systems associated with aggressive behavior in youth. However, most empirical studies have investigated social-cognitive correlates of stable child and adolescent aggressiveness, and less is known about rea... | {
"abstract": "Externalizing behavior problems of 124 adolescents were assessed across Grades 7–11. In Grade 9, participants were also assessed across social-cognitive domains after imagining themselves as the object of provocations portrayed in six videotaped vignettes. Participants responded to vignette-based quest... | {
"abstract": "Three studies were conducted to evaluate cognitive disturbance and depression in children. In Study I, 47 sixth-grade children, including 17 who received a DSM-III diagnosis of depression, and their parents were independently interviewed with the Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia for S... |
{
"abstract": "\n On 10 May 2018, an unprecedented long and intense seismic crisis started offshore, east of Mayotte, the easternmost of the Comoros volcanic islands. The population felt hundreds of events. Over the course of 1 yr, 32 earthquakes with magnitude greater than 5 occurred, including the largest event eve... | {
"abstract": "At an active volcano, long-period seismicity (with typical periods in the range 0.2–2 s) reflects pressure fluctuations resulting from unsteady mass transport in the sub-surface plumbing system, and hence provides a glimpse of the internal dynamics of the volcanic edifice. When this activity occurs at ... | {
"abstract": "AT the annual general meeting of the Illuminating Engineering Society on May 12, Mr. W. J. Jones (president) was able to present an encouraging record for the past session. A feature has been the further development of centres and groups, of which there are now eleven, and which are expected to do usef... |
{
"abstract": "Abstract Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a global problem hindering treatment of bacterial infections, rendering many aspects of modern medicine less effective. AMR genes (ARGs) are frequently located on plasmids, which are self-replicating elements of DNA. They are often transmissible between bacter... | {
"abstract": "Promethazine has been recognised as an effective antiplasmid agent in cultures containing a single bacterial species such as Escherichia coli, Yersinia enterocolitica, Staphylococcus aureus and Agrobacterium tumefaciens. The objective of this study was to examine the effect of heterogenity of the micro... | {
"abstract": "Gram-negative bacteria tend to be more resistant to lipophilic and amphiphilic inhibitors than gram-positive bacteria. Such inhibitors include dyes, detergents, free fatty acids, antibiotics, and other chemotherapeutic agents. This property is used in the selective enrichment of gram-negative bacteria,... |
{
"abstract": "(Neal and Hinton, 1998) recast maximum likelihood estimation of any given latent variable model as the minimization of a free energy functional $F$, and the EM algorithm as coordinate descent applied to $F$. Here, we explore alternative ways to optimize the functional. In particular, we identify variou... | {
"abstract": "Generative adversarial networks (GANs) can implicitly learn rich distributions over images, audio, and data which are hard to model with an explicit likelihood. We present a practical Bayesian formulation for unsupervised and semi-supervised learning with GANs. Within this framework, we use stochastic ... | {
"abstract": "Transductive Adversarial Networks (TAN) is a novel domain-adaptation machine learning framework that is designed for learning a conditional probability distribution on unlabelled input data in a target domain, while also only having access to: (1) easily obtained labelled data from a related source dom... |
{
"abstract": "[1] Over the years, nanometer-sized magnetite (Fe3O4) crystals have been recovered from many modern and ancient environments including sediments and soils and even meteorites. In some cases these crystals have been used as “magnetofossils” for evidence of the past presence of specific microbes. Magneti... | {
"abstract": "Magnetotactic bacteria produce either magnetite (Fe(3)O(4)) or greigite (Fe(3)S(4)) crystals in cytoplasmic organelles called magnetosomes. Whereas greigite magnetosomes can contain up to 10 atom% copper, magnetite produced by magnetotactic bacteria was considered chemically pure for a long time and th... | {
"abstract": "We studied the sites of gold and silver trapping by uncultured magnetotactic cocci from microcosms using transmission electron microscopy and energy-dispersive X-ray analysis. Two morphotypes were found to trap gold or silver. Morphotype 1 had large magnetite crystals frequently twinned in an unusual w... |
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"abstract": "OF DISSERTATION",
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"title": "The role of ABCG2 in drug active transport in milk"
} | {
"abstract": "Purpose: Despite the extensive use of etoposide for the treatment of different malignant neoplasms, its main pharmacokinetic determinants are not completely defined. We aimed to study the impact of P-glycoprotein (P-gp/ABCB1) and the multidrug resistance proteins ABCC2 (MRP2) and ABCC3 (MRP3) on the ph... | {
"abstract": "Liver transporters play an important role in the pharmacokinetics and disposition of pharmaceuticals, environmental contaminants, and endogenous compounds. Among them, the family of ATP-Binding Cassette (ABC) transporters is the most important due to its role in the transport of endo- and xenobiotics. ... |
{
"abstract": "This paper studies the interaction between tax evasion and wage endogeneity within a Mirrleesian optimal tax framework. It characterizes the optimal marginal income tax rates on the skilled and the unskilled workers and the optimal amount of resources to be spent on deterring tax evasion. It shows that... | {
"abstract": "The article reviews the book \"The Economics of Taxation,\" Second Edition, by Bernard Salanie.",
"corpus_id": 153503764,
"title": "The Economics of Taxation (Second edition), by Bernard Salanié (The MIT Press, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, 2011), pp. viii + 237."
} | {
"abstract": "Media, Technology and Globalization Ralph Schroeder The internet has fundamentally transformed society in the past 25 years, yet existing theories of mass or interpersonal communication do not work well in understanding a digital world. Nor has this understanding been helped by disciplinary specializat... |
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