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"abstract": "The measurement of visual acuity in children is important to detect visual anomalies including amblyopia. The use of visual acuity tests that induce ‘crowding’ are often recommended despite little standardization of the features in such tests. In addition, crowding in children’s foveal vision is known ... | {
"abstract": "BackgroundThis systematic review gives an overview of foveal crowding (the inability to recognize objects due to surrounding nearby contours in foveal vision) and possible interventions. Foveal crowding can have a major effect on reading rate and deciphering small pieces of information from busy visual... | {
"abstract": "In recent years, the development of molecular biology and medicine has prompted the research of gene therapy for brain diseases. In this review, we summarized the current gene therapy approaches of major brain diseases. Against the pathogenesis of major brain diseases, including brain tumors, Parkinson... |
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"abstract": "Cu2O thin film and a transparent bilayer have been fabricated by electrodeposition method. The growths were obtained in potentiostatic mode with gradual degradation of anodic current. X‐ray diffraction (XRD) study showed that the bilayer is polycrystalline and it possesses mixture of different crystall... | {
"abstract": "Nanocrystalline copper oxide (CuO) thin films were deposited onto glass substrates by a spin coating technique using an aqueous solution of copper acetate. These films were characterized for their structural, mor-phological, optoelectronic properties by means of X-ray diffraction (XRD) scanning electro... | {
"abstract": "Copper oxide gas sensor was prepared on silicon wafer by sputtering of copper target at different oxygen flow rate of 0, 4, 8 and 16 sccm using RF magnetron sputtering technique. Argon flow rate, RF power, working pressure and substrate bias voltage were fixed at 50 sccm, 400 W, 22.5 mTorr and -40 V, r... |
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"abstract": "In order to effectively implement the circular economy model, we need to address the core issue of waste management. This is the step to put the waste back into the cycle instead of disposing in the traditional way. As the world economy is rapidly growing, many aspects may pose as challenges, especiall... | {
"abstract": "A comparative analysis of municipal solid waste management (MSWM) in Singapore and Berlin was carried out in order to identify its current status, and highlight the prevailing conditions of MSWM. An overview of the various aspects of MSWM in these two cities is provided, with emphasis on comparing the ... | {
"abstract": "The management of municipal solid waste (MSW) in China is facing urgent problems with rapid industrialization and urbanization. This article focused on the status of Hangzhou, capital city of Zhejiang province, China. The regulations, policies, implementation, barriers and solutions about source separa... |
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"abstract": "The most popular way to use probabilistic models in vision is first to extract some descriptors of small image patches or object parts using well-engineered features, and then to use statistical learning tools to model the dependencies among these features and eventual labels. Learning probabilistic mo... | {
"abstract": "The most commonly used learning algorithm for restricted Boltzmann machines is contrastive divergence which starts a Markov chain at a data point and runs the chain for only a few iterations to get a cheap, low variance estimate of the sufficient statistics under the model. Tieleman (2008) showed that ... | {
"abstract": "Botnets are the preeminent source of online crime and arguably the greatest threat to the Internet infrastructure. In this paper, we present ZombieCoin, a botnet command-and-control (C&C) mechanism that runs on the Bitcoin network. ZombieCoin offers considerable advantages over existing C&C techniques,... |
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"abstract": "We are now exploring the inner region of type 1 active galactic nuclei (AGNs) with the Keck interferometer in the near-infrared. Adding to the four targets previously studied, we report measurements of the K-band (2.2 μm) visibilities for four more targets, namely AKN120, IC 4329A, Mrk6, and the radio-... | {
"abstract": "We report novel, high angular resolution interferometric measurements that imply that the near-infrared nuclear emission in NGC 4151 is unexpectedly compact. We have observed the nucleus of NGC 4151 at 2.2 μm using the two 10 m Keck telescopes as an interferometer and find a marginally resolved source ... | {
"abstract": "Particle dampers are utilized to damp the fundamental modes of vibration of two antennae mounted at the tip end of cantilever beams. The damper is composed of a closed container which is partially filled with metallic particles. The damper is bolted near the tip of the booms where the amplitude of vibr... |
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"abstract": "In this paper we propose to learn a mapping from image pixels into a dense template grid through a fully convolutional network. We formulate this task as a regression problem and train our network by leveraging upon manually annotated facial landmarks in-the-wild. We use such landmarks to establish a d... | {
"abstract": "In this paper we describe a tracker of facial landmarks submitted to the 300 Videos in the Wild (300-VW) challenge. Our tracker is a straightforward extension of a well tuned tree-based DPM landmark detector originally developed for static images. The tracker is obtained by applying the static detector... | {
"abstract": "Human parsing is a challenging and important task in various applications, such as dress collocation, clothing recommendation and action analysis. However, the existing methods are easily affected by pose variation and occlusion with requiring massive intensive annotations for fine-grained human segmen... |
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"abstract": "La theorie des matrices aleatoires presente un ensemble d'outils mathematiques efficaces pour l'etude de performances des systemes de communications numeriques. L'objectif de cette these est de developper des resultats analytiques bases sur la theorie des matrices aleatoires pour etudier les fluctuatio... | {
"abstract": "Consider a $N\\times n$ random matrix $Y_n=(Y_{ij}^{n})$ where the entries are given by $$ Y_{ij}^{n}=\\frac{\\sigma_{ij}(n)}{\\sqrt{n}} X_{ij}^{n}\\ , $$ the $X_{ij}^{n}$ being centered, independent and identically distributed random variables with unit variance and $(\\sigma_{ij}(n); 1\\le i\\le N, 1... | {
"abstract": "The second-order coding rate of the multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) quasi-static Rayleigh fading channel is studied. We tackle this problem via an information-spectrum approach and statistical bounds based on recent random matrix theory techniques. We derive a central limit theorem (CLT) to analy... |
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"abstract": "ion “stateful data-ow graphs” (SDG) that separates data from mutable operator state. In their model, state elements can be partitioned by a key and dispatching is performed by hashor range-partitioning on a key or by shue grouping. If a state element cannot be partitioned, it is replicated, and state... | {
"abstract": "Emerging trends like Big Data and the Internet of Things pose new challenges to established data stream processing engines. Especially, with the advent of the Internet of Things, the data that has to be processed can become very large. Since companies usually aim for cost efficiency, engines need to su... | {
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"title": "The Potential of Blockchain in Education and Health Care."
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"abstract": "Tuberculosis is a chronic infectious disease and a major cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. It can affect any part of the body, including the oral cavity. Oral lesions of tuberculosis, though uncommon, have been observed in both primary and secondary stages of the disease. This article present... | {
"abstract": "Tuberculosis is a major cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. It is a chronic granulomatous disease that can affect any part of the body, including the oral cavity. Oral lesions of tuberculosis, though uncommon, are seen in both the primary and secondary stages of the disease. This article presen... | {
"abstract": "Tuberculosis (TB) of the hard palate is rare and usually secondary to pulmonary TB. We present a case of a 7-year-old boy who presented with difficulty in swallowing solid foods, low-grade fever and loss of weight. Oral cavity examination showed perforation of the hard palate with an irregular, undermi... |
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"abstract": "The objective of the article is twofold. Firstly, it evaluates the importance and significance of true and fair view (TFV)/fair presentation (FP) in European jurisdictions using IFRS standards. Secondly, it examines the potential role of TFV/FP for sustainability accounting and for aligning with the mo... | {
"abstract": "The aim of this paper is to critically examine the applicability of the concept of 'True and Fair View' (TFV) from an Islamic perspective. It then explores the position and roles of TFV in the Islamic accounting context. The sources of data consist of the shari'ah fundamentals from the Islamic legal so... | {
"abstract": "The influence of institutional factors on firm entry has long interested strategy scholars. However, we have limited understanding of how the sociocultural environment, defined as the unwritten, decentralized �rules of the game,� influences founding rates in emergent industries; we know even less about... |
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"abstract": "Tensor decomposition is a dominant framework for multiway data analysis and prediction. Although practical data often contains timestamps for the observed entries, existing tensor decomposition approaches overlook or under-use this valuable temporal information. They either drop the timestamps or bin t... | {
"abstract": "Data in the sciences frequently occur as sequences of multidimensional arrays called tensors. How can hidden, evolving trends in such data be extracted while preserving the tensor structure? The model that is traditionally used is the linear dynamical system (LDS) with Gaussian noise, which treats the ... | {
"abstract": "Motion characteristics of human actions can be represented by the position variation of skeleton joints. Traditional approaches generally extract the spatial-temporal representation of the skeleton sequences with well-designed hand-crafted features. In this paper, in order to recognize actions accordin... |
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"abstract": "To solve modern issues in materials sciences and nanotechnology, aberration corrected electron microscopy has yielded rich results, which could not be realized without a correction technique. Thus, aberration corrected (AC) electron microscopes is obviously becoming \"conventional instruments\" in tran... | {
"abstract": "The combined use of an electron energy loss spectrometer and an electron microscope provides some chemical information at the nanometer scale. The physics of the interaction processes between the incident electron beam and the thin sample foil is reviewed in terms of energy and momentum transfer. This ... | {
"abstract": "The main inner shell ionization edges of gaseous CF3CF2CF2C(O)Cl, including Cl 2p, C 1s, O 1s, and F 1s, have been measured in Total Ion Yield (TIY) mode by using tunable synchrotron radiation, and several resonance transitions have been assigned with the help of quantum chemical calculations. Interest... |
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"abstract": "The code generation modules inside modern compilers, which use a limited number of CPU registers to store a large number of program variables, may introduce side-channel leaks even in software equipped with state-of-the-art countermeasures. We propose a program analysis and transformation based method ... | {
"abstract": "This article presents a simple power-analysis (SPA) attack on implementations of the AES key expansion. The attack reveals the secret key of AES software implementations on smart cards by exploiting the fact that the power consumption of most smart-card processors leaks information during the AES key e... | {
"abstract": "Online shopping provides a good example of the business revolution. In China, e-commerce is currently experiencing a period of rapid development; the large number of Internet users provides a good foundation for the expansion of the online shopping market. In this study, perceived usability, perceived ... |
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"abstract": "Ontario Ministry of Economic Development and Innovation (formerly Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation), BioCar Initiative, Grain Farmers of Ontario, SeCan",
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"title": "Evaluation of Genes Encoding the Enzymes of the Kennedy Pathway in Soybeans with Altered Fatty Acid P... | {
"abstract": "Decreasing the palmitic and linolenic acid content of soybean [Glycine max (L.) Merrill] oil would help improve its nutritional quality and oxidative stability. The altered fatty acid profile in soybean germplasm lines with decreased levels of palmitic and linolenic acid have been developed at the Univ... | {
"abstract": "Palmitic acid is a major saturated fatty acid in soybean oil, and consumption of saturated fat is linked to a risk of coronary diseases. Development of soybean (Glycine max) cultivars with reduced palmitic acid content is an important goal of soybean breeding. The FATB1a gene was previously found to be... |
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"abstract": "Recently, progress on semantic image segmentation is substantial, benefiting from the rapid development of Convolutional Neural Networks. Semantic image segmentation approaches proposed lately have been mostly based on Fully convolutional Networks (FCNs). However, these FCN-based methods use large rece... | {
"abstract": "Image segmentation is a key point for analyzing and understanding image, which occupies an important position in image processing. Recent studies have attempted to tackle pixel level labeling tasks using deep learning. In our paper, we propose an approach of combining fully convolutional network and co... | {
"abstract": "Pixelwise semantic image labeling is an important, yet challenging, task with many applications. Typical approaches to tackle this problem involve either the training of deep networks on vast amounts of images to directly infer the labels or the use of probabilistic graphical models to jointly model th... |
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"abstract": "This article presents a simple compact microstrip feedline printed antenna that can minimize the consequences of frequency interference, thereby, providing good stable omnidirectional radiation pattern and transmission response within whole range of desired frequencies. The proposed antenna has two reg... | {
"abstract": "Defense and aerospace communication systems need compact wide-band antennas suitable for multiple-frequency-band operation. In this article, a miniaturized hexagonaltriangular fractal antenna is examined for wide-band applications. The iterations are made from hexagonal rings, where the sides of the ri... | {
"abstract": "An antenna is one of the prime important parts in the radar system to transmit and receive the electromagnetic signal. In order a coastal radar is able to detect an object at the sea and minimize sea clutter, it is needed to have horizontal polarization signal, and therefore a narrow wall slotted waveg... |
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"abstract": "Variation in femoral and tibial diaphyseal shape is used as an indicator of adaptation to patterns of terrestrial mobility. Recent experimentation has implied that lower limb diaphyseal shape may be primarily influenced by lower limb length, and less so by mobility patterns. If valid, this would, at mo... | {
"abstract": "Measures of diaphyseal robusticity have commonly been used to investigate differences in bone strength related to body size, behavior, climate, and other factors. The most common methods of quantifying robusticity involve external diameters, or cross-sectional geometry. The data derived from these diff... | {
"abstract": "A hypokinetic model has been developed which attempts to simulate the weightlessness experienced during space flight. Male rats (approximately 130 g) were suspended from the model with a head-down tilt for a two-week period. Total mechanical unloading of the hind limbs and partial unloading of the fore... |
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"abstract": "Abstract Today, with the intensity of antibiotic abuse and self-medication, the need for the use of novel systems with high efficiency and biosafety for targeted drug delivery against antibiotic-resistant bacteria and their infections should be highly considered by researchers. Silica-based nanosystems... | {
"abstract": "A glycosaminoglycan mimetic was attached to the surface of solid and mesoporous silica nanoparticles to create novel antiviral agents against herpes simplex type 1 and type 2 viruses. The nanoparticles act as viral entry inhibitors that appear to block viral attachment and penetration into susceptible ... | {
"abstract": "Glycosaminoglycans (GAGs) are complex polysaccharides ubiquitously present in the extracellular matrix of mammalian tissues, where they constitute the gelatinous material responsible for maintaining the cells together, in an intimate association with a variety of proteins. Although their structures are... |
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"abstract": "We propose a system that registers and retrieves text documents to annotate them on-line. The user registers a text document captured from a nearly top view and adds virtual annotations. When the user thereafter captures the document again, the system retrieves and displays the appropriate annotations,... | {
"abstract": "A new method for augmenting paper documents with electronic information is described that does not modify the format of the paper document in any way. Applicable to both commercially printed documents as well as documents that are output from PC's, the technique we call paper-based augmented reality su... | {
"abstract": "Tribochemical silica-coating is the recommended conditioning method for improving glass-infiltrated alumina composite adhesion to resin cement. High-intensity lasers have been considered as an alternative for this purpose. This study evaluated the morphological effects of Er,Cr:YSGG laser irradiation o... |
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"abstract": "Please cite this article as: Gollner, S., Kaiser, S., Menzel, L., Jones, D.O.B., Brown, A., Mestre, N.C., van Oevelen, D., Menot, L., Colaço, A., Canals, M., Cuvelier, D., Durden, J.M., Gebruk, A., Egho, G.A., Haeckel, M., Marcon, Y., Mevenkamp, L., Morato, T., Pham, C.K., Purser, A., Sanchez-Vidal, A.... | {
"abstract": "Nematodes are very common in the deep sea and are an important component of deep-sea hydrothermal vent communities. In early 2006, the eruption of the underwater volcano at 9°50’N East Pacific Rise wiped out almost the entire faunal communities of the area. This provided us with the opportunity to stud... | {
"abstract": "Abstract : A simple, physically clear method is discussed for assessing the amount of atmospheric turbidity on a cloudless day by observing the circumsolar aureole--the ring of brightness around the sun--and comparing its brightness with that of the equivalent Rayleigh scattering (particle-free) atmosp... |
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"abstract": "ABSTRACT This study reports the physiological and performance profiles of a world-class tower runner during a 6-week period surrounding a successful Guinness World Record (WR) attempt, and discusses the efficacy of a tower running specific field test. The world-ranked number 2 tower runner completed fo... | {
"abstract": "Abstract James, C, Tenllado Vallejo, F, Kantebeen, M, and Farra, S. Validity and reliability of an on-court fitness test for assessing and monitoring aerobic fitness in squash. J Strength Cond Res 33(5): 1400–1407, 2019—Current on-court assessments of aerobic fitness in squash are not designed to yield... | {
"abstract": "• A submitted manuscript is the version of the article upon submission and before peer-review. There can be important differences between the submitted version and the official published version of record. People interested in the research are advised to contact the author for the final version of the ... |
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"abstract": "Geolocation information from social media data is essential for conducting geolocation-based analyzes such as traffic analysis and tourism analysis. However, geolocation information on social media data is still very limited. Only about 0.87% to 3% of data are geotagged data. Geolocation Prediction (GP... | {
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"title": "Geolocation Prediction in Twitter Using Location Indicative Words and Textual Features"
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"title": "A System based on Multiple Criteria Analysis for Scientific Paper Recommendation"
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"abstract": "The task of aggregating and denoising crowd-labeled data has gained increased significance with the advent of crowdsourcing platforms and massive datasets. We propose a permutation-based model for crowd labeled data that is a significant generalization of the classical Dawid-Skene model, and introduce ... | {
"abstract": "Crowdsourcing systems provide scalable and cost-effective human-powered solutions at marginal cost, for classification tasks where humans are significantly better than the machines. Although traditional approaches in aggregating crowdsourced labels have relied on the Dawid-Skene model, this fails to ca... | {
"abstract": "In the mining of stock data association, investors are more concerned with such association rules as X (t1)→Y (t2), That is, the X shares rise on t1, and the Y shares rise at a certain probability on day t2. As such association rules can't be directly used GSP algorithm, for this reason, the GSP algori... |
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"abstract": "Association Rule Mining is one of the most popular data analytic algorithms where the well-known Apriori algorithm is its core. Like most machine learning and data mining algorithms, Apriori algorithm is designed for in-memory data. One natural way to cope with this limitation and emerging Bigdata chal... | {
"abstract": "In recent years the MapReduce framework has emerged as one of the most widely used parallel computing platforms for processing data on terabyte and petabyte scales. Used daily at companies such as Yahoo!, Google, Amazon, and Facebook, and adopted more recently by several universities, it allows for eas... | {
"abstract": "Abstract In order to correctly predict the macroscale elastic behavior of nanocomposite macroscale structures, an accurate nanoscale model must be available for subsequent homogenization. In this work, we demonstrate that the accuracy of that nanoscale model greatly depends on the consideration of tran... |
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"abstract": "We describe the use of sodium thymolphthalein monophosphate as a substrate for measuring acid phosphatase activity in serum. Thymolphthalein is liberated in the reaction and is conveniently measured by increasing the pH of the medium, which produces a color and also stops the hydrolysis. Optimal condit... | {
"abstract": "The effects of pH and temperature of storage on the stability of the prostatic fraction of serum acid phosphatase activity have been studied in order to provide a satisfactory method for the preservation of activity in serums shipped from other hospitals. Addition of citrate tablets of a composition to... | {
"abstract": "Drug delivery systems comprised of various types of carriers have long been the object of pharmacological investigation. The search has been stimulated by the belief that carriers will lead to reduced drug toxicity, dosage requirements, enhanced cellular targeting and improved shelf-life. Among the car... |
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"abstract": "Intermediated markets are relatively new market channels that have the potential to expand local and regional food systems while increasing the viability of smalland medium-sized farms. The intermediated channels comprise a short supply chain linking farmers with consumers through the use of intermedia... | {
"abstract": "As demand for locally grown food increases there have been calls to ‘scale-up’ local food production to regionally distribute food and to sell into more mainstream grocery and retail venues where consumers are already shopping. Growing research and practice focusing on how to improve, expand and concep... | {
"abstract": "This paper presents the modeling and control of a gyroscopic inverted pendulum. Inverted pendulum is used to realize many classical control problems. Its dynamics are similar to many real-world systems like missile launchers, human walking and many more. The control of this system is challenging as it’... |
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"abstract": "Diffuse Hair Loss and Clinical Endocrinology: New Insights. Diffuse hair loss is a common problem posing a diagnostic challenge in daily practice. Great progress has been made in the past 10 years in exploring the effects of various hormones. In mouse models, a high expression of corticotropin releasin... | {
"abstract": "INTRODUCTION\nInsulin resistance (IR), hyperinsulinaemia and concomitant metabolic syndrome (MS) are known to be independent risk factors for coronary arterial disease (CAD). The aim of this study was to examine the frequency of IR, hyperinsulinaemia and MS in individuals with early androgenetic alopec... | {
"abstract": "Alopecia impairs the physical and mental health of patients. We have previously shown that 8-week-old ob/ob mice have no reactivity to depilation, which is a stimulus that induces anagen transition in normal mice, while no hair cycle abnormalities have been reported in other studies until mice reach 7 ... |
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"abstract": "This paper discusses on an experimental platform of an electromechanical simulator able to reproduce the power flows between a railway vehicle and the power supply system. The platform consists of an scaled-down system. It represents an urban DC railway systems in normal and extraordinary operating con... | {
"abstract": "A supercapacitive-storage-based substation for the compensation of resistive voltage drops in transportation networks is proposed. It allows to feed as a current source in any voltage conditions of the line. The system has been designed as a compensation substation to be placed at weak points like end-... | {
"abstract": "L’utilisation d’equipements electriques dans les transports ferroviaires et maritimes est souvent limitee par des contraintes de poids et de taille. Cet inconvenient provient essentiellement des transformateurs basse frequence necessaires pour adapter une tension d’entree, souvent elevee a la tension d... |
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"abstract": "In the wake of a natural disaster, locating and extracting victims quickly is critical because mortality rises rapidly after the first forty-eight hours. In order to assist search and rescue teams and improve response times, teams of aerial robots equipped with sensors and cameras can engage in sensing... | {
"abstract": "In this paper, we investigate the following question: when performing next best view selection for volumetric 3D reconstruction of an object by a mobile robot equipped with a dense (camera-based) depth sensor, what formulation of information gain is best? To address this question, we propose several ne... | {
"abstract": "This paper presents a system for an efficient image segmentation on mobile phones using multi-level graph cut. As the computational capacity of mobile devices is often limited, a fluent and smooth image segmentation is a challenging task with existing segmentation algorithms, increased in difficulty by... |
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"abstract": "Over the past century, a sustained effort has been expended on the research and development of surfaces that reduce the amount of drag experienced by a fluid as it passes by, motivated by both environmental and economic savings. Superhydrophobic surfaces have recently emerged as an attractive means to ... | {
"abstract": "Under laminar, microscale flow conditions, rapid mixing can be difficult to achieve. In these low Reynolds number flows, mixing rates are governed by molecular diffusion, and in the absence of enhanced mixing techniques, mixing lengths and residence times can be much longer than most applications will ... | {
"abstract": "Abstract A balloon-borne UV photometer sensor package is proposed for measure atmospheric ozone on Mars. The instrument has been used on a balloon in the terrestrial stratosphere, and is possibly a Discovery Program sensor candidate. The objectives for this instrument are to observe O3 variability with... |
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"abstract": "Heute gehort die Telekommunikation noch immer zu den sich am schnellsten entwickelnden und am hartesten umkampften Markten sowie zu einer der weltweit am schnellsten wachsenden Technologiegebiete. Diese Dissertation konzentriert sich auf die thailandische Telekommuniktionsindustrie als Studienobjekt. B... | {
"abstract": "Software development organizations that have been employing capability maturity models, such as SW-CMM or CMMI for improving their processes are now increasingly interested in the possibility of adopting agile development methods. In the context of project management, what can we say about Scrum’s alig... | {
"abstract": "Pancreatic tumors are resistant to conventional chemotherapies. The present study was aimed at evaluating the potential of a novel plant-derived product as a therapeutic agent for pancreatic cancer (PC). The effects of an extract from the tropical tree Annona Muricata, commonly known as Graviola, was e... |
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"abstract": "This paper is concerned with the development of a method for collaborative policy making. The aim of this method is to improve the quality of policymaking processes. The creation of policies is a collaborative process. The quality of this collaboration has a profound impact on the quality of the result... | {
"abstract": "Interest in evaluating conceptual modelling techniques has recently experienced a revival, in part due to widespread adoption of the Unified Modelling Language (UML). In addition, the use of ontology as a framework for evaluating conceptual modelling techniques has gained acceptance. In this paper, we ... | {
"abstract": "To meet the requirements of excitation information for semi-active suspension control, a new road classification method with application of Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Inference System (ANFIS) was presented. Due to distinct system responses for different road levels, the sprung mass acceleration signal was ut... |
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"abstract": "Weather forecasting has recently gained great importance in terms of predicting potential disasters, taking precautions, and increasing the quality of life around the world. Researchers apply optimization and artificial intelligence techniques to make weather forecasts based on various nature parameter... | {
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"title": "Visualization of Neural Network Predictions for Weather Forecasting"
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"abstract": "We show that collaborative filtering can be viewed as a sequence prediction problem, and that given this interpretation, recurrent neural networks offer very competitive approach. In particular we study how the long short-term memory (LSTM) can be applied to collaborative filtering, and how it compares... |
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"abstract": "IPv6 is the most recent version of the Internet Protocol (IP), which can solve the problem of IPv4 address exhaustion and allow the growth of the Internet (particularly in the era of the Internet of Things). IPv6 networks have been deployed for more than a decade, and the deployment is still growing ev... | {
"abstract": "As we continue to see the increasing global-scale deployment of Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) networks, it is equally important to evaluate the performance of these IPv6 networks. In this paper, we present comprehensive empirical measurements of the IPv6 network performance from an end- user's per... | {
"abstract": "We examined the possibility of adapting the LuminoTox, a recently‐commercialized bioanalytical testing procedure initially developed for aqueous samples, to assess the toxic potential of sediments. This portable fluorescent biosensor uses photosynthetic enzyme complexes (PECs) to rapidly measure photos... |
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"abstract": "The conventional resource allocation method is so-called two-step method in OFDM system. The two-step method can reduce the computational complexity. However, it's solution accuracy is not very good. This paper proposes an improved two-step method. This method combines evolutionary algorithm with simul... | {
"abstract": "The performance of multi-user MIMO-OFDM Multiple Access Channel (MIMO-OFDM-MAC) Uplink systems can be significantly increased by using adaptive transmission and efficient resource-allocation scheme in the system. In the MIMO-OFDM-MAC scenario, the base station decides centrally on the optimal bit loadi... | {
"abstract": "Fast adaptive transmission has been recently identified as a key technology for exploiting potential system diversity and improving power-spectral efficiency in wireless communication systems. An adaptive resource-allocation approach, which jointly adapts subcarrier allocation, power distribution, and ... |
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"abstract": "The treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) has advanced from the use of steroids to disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs (DMARDs) and biologics such as tumor necrosis factor (TNF) and interleukin-6 (IL-6) inhibitors. Historically, steroids have been the mainstream in the clinical treatment of RA; how... | {
"abstract": "The autoimmune disorder rheumatoid arthritis (RA) causes chronic inflammation and destruction of joints. T cells are a predominant component of the synovial environment in RA, however the functional role of these cells is not yet fully understood. This is in part due to the fact that the balance and im... | {
"abstract": "ETHNOPHARMACOLOGICAL RELEVANCE\nEthnopharmacological surveys on Guinea-Bissauan flora reveal that several species are used to treat or ameliorate the symptomatology of conditions with an inflammatory background. As such, extracts obtained from a series of plants recorded in those surveys were screened ... |
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"abstract": "ABSTRACT Introduction: Acute bronchitis is a self-limiting infectious disease characterized by acute cough with or without sputum but without signs of pneumonia. About 90% of cases are caused by viruses. Areas covered: Antibiotics for acute bronchitis have been associated with an approximately half-day... | {
"abstract": "The aim of the study was to determine the occurrence of airflow limitation and the frequency of significant reversibility in respiratory infections in adults without known asthma or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). We also wanted to study the association between airflow limitation and aeti... | {
"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nThe wide use of antibiotics for treatment of exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) lacks evidence. The efficacy is debatable, and bacterial involvement in exacerbation is difficult to verify. The aim of this prospective study was to identify factors that can help to ... |
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"abstract": "Foodborne enteritis is a major disease burden globally. Two of the most common causative bacterial enteropathogens in humans are Campylobacter and Salmonella species which are strongly associated with the consumption of raw or contaminated chicken. The poultry industry has approached this issue by use ... | {
"abstract": "Campylobacter jejuni (C. jejuni) is a major cause of bacterial food-borne illness in humans. It is considered a commensal organism of the chicken gut and infected chickens serve as a reservoir and shed bacteria throughout their lifespan. Contaminated poultry products are considered the major source of ... | {
"abstract": "Bu calismada, koyunlarin enfeksiyoz nekrotik hepatitis hastaligina karsi aluminyum hidroksit ve poli (D, L-Laktik-Ko-Glikolik Asit) (PLGA) adjuvantlari kullanilarak uretilen asilarin kobaylarda olusturdugu bagisiklik duzeyleri karsilastirildi. Clostridium novyi tip A kulturunun formol ile inaktivasyonu... |
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"abstract": "The SPARQL language is the recommendation for querying Linked Data, but querying SPARQL endpoints has problems with performance, particularly when clients remotely query SPARQL endpoints over the Web. Traditionally, caching techniques have been used to deal with performance issues by allowing the reuse... | {
"abstract": "Datasets in the LOD cloud are far from being static in their nature and how they are exposed. As resources are added and new links are set, applications consuming the data should be able to deal with these changes. In this paper we investigate how LOD datasets change and what sensible measures there ar... | {
"abstract": "Publicly available Linked Data repositories provide a multitude of information. By utilizing Sparql, Web sites and services can consume this data and present it in a user-friendly form, e.g., in mash-ups. To gather RDF triples for this task, machine agents typically issue similarly structured queries w... |
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"abstract": "A double RC-bridge arbitrary-phase switching circuit is proposed and fabricated as a 2-GHz 5-bit phase shifter using silicon BiCMOS technology. The maximum phase error is 6.5 degrees, which is slightly larger than 1/2 LSB.",
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"abstract": "The use of chitosan microparticles as chromatographic support has received much attention. In this study, the effects of process parameters, namely, chitosan molecular weight, chitosan concentration, molar ratio of amino group to aldehyde group, volume ratio of water to oil phase and stirring speed on ... |
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"abstract": "The objective of this study was to evaluate the degradation of Linear Alkylbenzene Sulfonate (LAS) in anaerobic sequencing batch reactor (ASBR) under denitrifying conditions using swine sludge as inoculum. The reactor was operated for 104 days with synthetic substrate containing nitrate, and LAS was ad... | {
"abstract": "Agricultural application has become the most widespread method of sewage sludge disposal, being the most economical outlet for sludge and also recycling beneficial plant nutrients and organic matter to soil for crop production. As a matter of fact, the European Sewage Sludge Directive 86/278/EEC seeks ... | {
"abstract": "Nitrogen-fixing activity associated with different wetland rice varieties was measured at various growth stages by an in situ acetylene reduction method after the activities of blue-green algae (cyanobacteria) in the flood water and on the lower portion of the rice stem were eliminated. Nitrogen-fixing... |
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"abstract": "This Handbook traces the uneven experiences that have accompanied development in Southeast Asia. The region is often considered to be a development success story; however, it is increasingly recognized that growth underpinning this development has been accompanied by patterns of inequality, violence, e... | {
"abstract": "In December 2004, the earthquakes and tsunami in Aceh, Indonesia had a major impact on the care situation of children in the region. With almost 200,000 people estimated to have died, and more than 550,000 homeless, the capacity of families to care for their children was seriously challenged (Nazzarudd... | {
"abstract": "In forward testing effects, taking a test enhances memory for subsequently studied material. These effects have been observed for previously studied and tested items, a potentially item-specific testing effect, and newly studied untested items, a purely generalized testing effect. We directly compared ... |
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"abstract": "High-speed connectors contribute to system-level electromagnetic interference (EMI). Radiation from antenna-mode current and transmission-line (TL)-mode current is briefly reviewed with a backplane connector and an optical cage connector. The radiation from the high-speed connector with TL-mode current... | {
"abstract": "Cage connectors for optical subassembly I/O modules have been identified as one of the main coupling paths in an optical link at the front-end of switches and routers. In the study presented herein, the simulation model used to study electromagnetic interference coupling physics and mitigation of the o... | {
"abstract": "The growing bandwidth of optical communication systems has made great improvements to information technology infrastructures. However, electro-magnetic compatibility becomes an issue due to the high frequency of the components. EMI problems occur due to the miniaturization and high density of the Print... |
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"abstract": "X Master ́s thesis Licentiate ́s thesis Doctor ́s thesis",
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"title": "Intellectual property protection for foreign SMEs manufacturing in China : comparison between outsourcing and own manufacturing"
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"abstract": "Purpose – To examine the literature on counterfeit products and explore whether imitation and counterfeit product activities can actually facilitate the development of new products.Design/methodology/approach – The paper examines the dominant school of thought on counterfeit products that characterises... | {
"abstract": "Technical and fundamental analyses are widely used to forecast stock prices due to lack of knowledge of other modern models and methods such as Residual Income Model, ANN-APGARCH, Support Vector Machine, Probabilistic Neural Network and Genetic Fuzzy Systems. Although stock price forecast models integr... |
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"abstract": "Viscous and gravitational flow instabilities cause a displacement front to break up into finger-like fluids. The detection and evolutionary analysis of these fingering instabilities are critical in multiple scientific disciplines such as fluid mechanics and hydrogeology. However, previous detection met... | {
"abstract": "Given a bipartite graph G = ( L 0 , L 1 , E ) and a fixed ordering of the nodes in L 0 , the problem of finding an ordering of the nodes in L 1 that minimizes the number of crossings has received much attention in literature. The problem is NP-complete in general and several practically efficient heuri... | {
"abstract": "This paper introduces a new nonblocking self-routing network, called a multi-root binary tree , which may be used to interconnect the cores in multicore chips. The multi-root binary tree network differs from other binary tree-based networks in that the cores are placed at the roots rather than the leav... |
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"abstract": "INTRODUCTION\nrecent studies have proposed the introduction of cell-free fetal DNA testing (NIPT-Non Invasive Prenatal Testing) in routine clinical practice emphasizing its high sensibility and specificity. In any case, false positive and false negative findings may result from placental mosaicism, bec... | {
"abstract": "Down syndrome or trisomy 21 is the most common cause of prenatal chromosome abnormalities with approximately 50% of all reported chromosome conditions. With the successful introduction of noninvasive prenatal testing (NIPT) for Down syndrome into routine prenatal care, it is important to understand the... | {
"abstract": "The aim of this study is to report the experience of noninvasive prenatal DNA testing using massively parallel sequencing in an accredited clinical laboratory.",
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"abstract": "We consider a drift-flux model (DFM) describing multiphase (gas–liquid) flow during drilling. The DFM uses a specific slip law, which allows for transition between single and two phase flows. With this model, we design unscented Kalman filter (UKF) and extended Kalman filter (EKF) for the estimation of... | {
"abstract": "Abstract We present a simplified drift-flux model (DFM) describing a multiphase (gas-liquid) flow during drilling. The DFM uses a specific slip law, without flow-regime predictions, which allows for transition between single and two phase flows. With this model, we design an Unscented Kalman Filter (UK... | {
"abstract": "IMPORTANCE\nNo national information is available on the epidemiology of psychiatric disorders in Iran for the last decade. \n\n\nOBJECTIVES\nTo estimate the 12-month prevalence of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition (DSM-IV) psychiatric disorders in Iranian populat... |
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"abstract": "1. Pedersen ML. Prevalence of diagnosed type 2 diabetes mellitus in Greenland 2008: the impact of electronic database implementation on the quality of diabetes care. Int J Circumpolar Health. 2009 Feb; 68(1):34-41. 2. Pedersen ML. Management of type 2 diabetes mellitus in Greenland, 2008: examining the... | {
"abstract": "OBJECTIVE\nTo investigate frequency of food intake, body weight, and glucose intolerance in Alaska Natives.\n\n\nDESIGN\nHeight, weight, and random blood glucose levels were measured and a frequency-of-food-intake questionnaire was obtained. This questionnaire classified persons as consumers of indigen... | {
"abstract": "We evaluated anthropometric measurements, blood pressures, dietary intakes, and self-perceived body image of 352 Navajo Indian adolescents. Thirty-three percent of the girls and 25% of the boys were obese according to a body mass index criterion. Navajo youth tended to have larger skinfolds than their ... |
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"abstract": "Self-determination theory suggests that autonomy, competence and relatedness are the sole basic human needs that foster volitional forms of motivation. Given that perceived control, ease of use and usefulness have been found to enhance intrinsic motivation in the context of self-service technology (SST... | {
"abstract": "Basic ICT and Internet skills are becoming necessary for individuals to have meaningful engagement across various life domains. However, mastering basic ICT skills is not a trivial task especially for those socio-economically disadvantaged. This research develops an integrated self-determination and se... | {
"abstract": "Research on how the Internet is diffusing across the population has broadened from questions about who uses the medium to what people do during their time online. With this change in focus comes a need for more detailed data on people’s online actions. The author provides a method for coding and classi... |
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"abstract": "We explore the automatic generation of test data that respect constraints expressed in the Object-Role Modeling(ORM) language. ORM is a popular conceptual modelinglanguage, primarily targeting database applications, withsignificant uses in practice. The general problem of evenchecking whether an ORM di... | {
"abstract": "ORM (Object-Role Modeling) is a rich and well-known conceptual modeling method. As ORM has a formal semantics, reasoning tasks such as satisfiability checking of an ORM schema naturally arise. Satisfiability checking allows a developer to automatically detect contradicting constraints. However, no comp... | {
"abstract": "Machine planning could save a great deal of programmer time if it were tractable, and could help robots design their own plans when human help is not available. Planning with multiple agents faces significantly more severe costs than single-agent planning, in that inter-agent communication is even cost... |
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"abstract": "Abstract: The process by which solitary animals evolve to live in groups is a central question in biology. Conspecifics that compete for patchy resources may evolve incipient social behaviours such as group formation and conspecific tolerance when persistent aggressive interactions reduce resource acce... | {
"abstract": "Abstract We investigated microhabitat selection in the Amazonian whip spider Heterophrynus longicornis (Butler 1973). The probability of finding individuals of this species increased according to the diameter of the trees. Moreover, there was a positive correlation between the size of adult individuals... | {
"abstract": "Summary \n \nAll major types of lophophore in branehiopods, except the ptyeholophe, are represented among the growth stages of the five species described here. The basic ciliary mechanisms are uniform, and similar to those known in other species. The mantle cavity is always divided by the lophophore in... |
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"abstract": "Background/Methods: Scaphoid fracture is the most common fracture in carpal bone of the wrist and represents 11% of all upper extremity fractures and between 70% and 80% of all carpal fractures. In most cases, the mechanism of injury is a fall with an outstretched hand. Although closed treatment of sta... | {
"abstract": "Treatment of nondisplaced scaphoid waist fractures has evolved from conventional cast immobilization to percutaneous screw insertion. This study assessed clinical and radiologic outcomes of volar percutaneous screw fixation for 15 type B2 scaphoid fractures (according to the Herbert and Fisher classifi... | {
"abstract": "The ideal position for a screw used for scaphoid fixation is central. The purpose of this study was to compare the current volar percutaneous approaches used for scaphoid fracture fixation, explore different options to improve central screw placement, and describe our experience with the transtrapezial... |
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"abstract": "Scalar fields play a fundamental role in many scientific disciplines and applications. The increasing computational power offers scientists and digital artists novel opportunities for complex simulations, measurements, and models that generate large amounts of data. In technical domains, it is importan... | {
"abstract": "In this paper we present a volumetric lighting model, which simulates scattering as well as shadowing in order to generate high quality volume renderings. By approximating light transport in inhomogeneous participating media, we are able to come up with an efficient GPU implementation, in order to achi... | {
"abstract": "Volume raycasting techniques are important for both visual arts and visualization. They allow an efficient generation of visual effects and the visualization of scientific data obtained by tomography or numerical simulation. Thanks to their flexibility, experts agree that GPU-based raycasting is the st... |
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"abstract": "For visually impaired people, a white cane is an important aid for obtaining information about the surrounding environment. Although the visually impaired should attend this training by orientation & mobility (O&M) specialists to learn proper cane technique, the number of specialists is limited. In our... | {
"abstract": "This paper describes the perceptual characteristics of a sense of a force induced by asymmetric vibration using a vibration speaker-type non-grounded haptic interface. We confirm that the vibration speaker generates a perceived force that pulls or pushes a user's hand in a particular direction when an ... | {
"abstract": "We present Thor's Hammer - an ungrounded force feedback device. Thor's Hammer consists of a cube-shaped structure and a handle. To generate 3-DOF force feedback, six motors and propellers installed on the cube project air in six directions that are normal to each face of the cube-shaped structure. Trac... |
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"abstract": "Fruit growth and development consists of a continuous succession of physical, biochemical, and physiological changes driven by a genetic program that dynamically responds to environmental cues. Establishing recognizable stages over the whole fruit lifetime represents a fundamental requirement for resea... | {
"abstract": "Grapevine (Vitis vinifera L.) is considered one of the most environmentally sensitive crops and is characterized by broad phenotypic plasticity, offering important advantages such as the large range of different wines that can be produced from the same cultivar, and the adaptation of existing cultivars... | {
"abstract": "Plum (Prunus domestica) is one of the most widespread species of fruit trees in Asia and South-East Europe. There are large quantities of fruit wood trees without suitable usage in world. The aim of this research was to examine biometrical and chemical properties of the plum wood and its application in... |
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"abstract": "SECURING DATA TRANSMISSION IN INTERNET OF THINGS by Xuan Zha The Internet of Things (IoT) is poised to transform our lives and unleash enormous economic benefit. With the rise in the number of connected IoT devices, the potential vulnerabilities in IoT increase as well. The IoT security faces severe ch... | {
"abstract": "In Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs), vehicles driving along highways can be grouped into clusters to facilitate communication. The design of the clusters, e.g., size and geographical span, has significant impacts on communication quality. Such design is affected by the Media Access Control (MAC) oper... | {
"abstract": "Direct radio-based vehicle-to-vehicle communication can help prevent accidents by providing accurate and up-to-date local status and hazard information to the driver. In this paper, we assume that two types of messages are used for traffic safety-related communication: 1) Periodic messages (ldquobeacon... |
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"abstract": "SUMMARY The effects of Mycoplasma gallisepticum (MG) on the performance and physiology of the commercial laying hen have been shown to vary in relation to the strain of MG and the age of the bird when challenged. In an effort to protect birds against more virulent field strains of MG on multiple-age co... | {
"abstract": "Two trials were conducted to determine the effects of a prelay ts-11-strain Mycoplasma gallisepticum (ts-11MG) vaccination alone or in conjunction with F-strain M. gallisepticum (FMG) inoculation overlays at 2 different age periods during lay on the digestive and reproductive organ characteristics of c... | {
"abstract": "Summary Eight lactating dairy cows were used in a ten-day digestion trial, in which the conventional total collection method of determining digestibility was compared with the grab-sampling technique using chromic oxide as an indicator. Variations in the excretion of chromic oxide and crude fiber at 2-... |
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"abstract": "Drug-like compounds are most of the time denied approval and use owing to the unexpected clinical side effects and cross-reactivity observed during clinical trials. These unexpected outcomes resulting in significant increase in attrition rate centralizes on the selected drug targets. These targets may ... | {
"abstract": "Given the tremendous growth of bioactivity databases, the use of computational tools to predict protein targets of small molecules has been gaining importance in recent years. Applications span a wide range, from the 'designed polypharmacology' of compounds to mode-of-action analysis. In this review, w... | {
"abstract": "ABSTRACT Multi material mix is a promising approach to reduce weight and the carbon footprint in automotive engineering at competitive costs. As a result, automotive industry is getting more venturous, exploring and applying other materials than metals and plastics – e.g. fibre reinforced plastics (FRP... |
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"abstract": "ABSTRACT Centrally positioned in nuclear RNA metabolism, the exosome deals with virtually all transcript types. This 3′–5′ exo- and endo-nucleolytic degradation machine is guided to its RNA targets by adaptor proteins that enable substrate recognition. Recently, the discovery of the ‘Poly(A) tail exoso... | {
"abstract": "The advent of high‐throughput sequencing technologies has revealed that pervasive transcription generates RNAs from nearly all regions of eukaryotic genomes. Normally, these transcripts undergo rapid degradation by a nuclear RNA surveillance system primarily featuring the RNA exosome. This multimeric p... | {
"abstract": "A striking result of Bouc gives the decomposition of the representation of the symmetric group on the homology of the matching complex into irreducibles that are self-conjugate. We show how the combinatorial Laplacian can be used to give an elegant proof of this result. We also show that the spectrum o... |
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"abstract": "As process-aware information systems are becoming omnipresent in contemporary organizations, the requirements for risk management and compliance checking have evolved and demand a more process-centered approach. The business events recorded by these information systems are systematically and securely l... | {
"abstract": "The present invention relates to a door for a refrigerator, and more particularly, to a door for use in a refrigerator in which a direction of opening and/or closing the door can be selectively changed. The door of the present invention comprises an external plate 80 which defines at least a front appe... | {
"abstract": "Robust perception is a vital capability for robotic manipulation in unstructured scenes. In this context, full pose estimation of relevant objects in a scene is a critical step towards the introduction of robots into household environments. In this paper, we present an approach for building metric 3D m... |
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"abstract": "RIDMBC for Object Recognition using Convolutional Neural Networks Two trending techniques that are making advances in computer vision research are Convolutional Neural Networks and Visual Hashing. The goal of this paper is to analyze how these two interact in the broad domain of objects. Deep neural ne... | {
"abstract": "A new algorithm for learning binary codes is presented using randomized initial assignments of bit labels to classes followed by iterative refinement to minimize intraclass Hamming distance. This Randomized Intraclass-Distance Minimizing Binary Codes (RIDMBC) algorithm is introduced in the context of f... | {
"abstract": "Face recognition has made significant advances over the last twenty years. State-of-the-art algorithms push the performance envelope to near perfect recognition rates on many face databases. Recently, the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (GBU) face challenge problem has been introduced to focus on hard aspe... |
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"abstract": "TRUDEVICE 2013 : first workshop on trustworthy manufacturing and utilization of secure devices, May 30-31, 2013, Popes'Palace, Avignon(France)",
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"title": "Security of countermeasures against state-of-the-art differential scan attacks"
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"abstract": "Cryptography plays an important role in the security of data transmission. To ensure the correctness of crypto hardware, we should conduct testing at fabrication and infield. However, the state-of-the-art scan-based test techniques, to achieve high test qualities, need to increase the testability of th... | {
"abstract": "Designers of VLSI circuits for cryptographic applications are faced with a severe dilemma: Concerns of security, requiring encapsulation of cryptographic applications, and testability, requiring access to all hardware subunits to check for their correct functionality, are basically contradictory. A fur... |
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"abstract": "Heat shock proteins (HSPs) provide a useful system for studying developmental patterns in the digenetic Leishmania parasites, since their expression is induced in the mammalian life form. Translation regulation plays a key role in control of protein coding genes in trypanosomatids, and is directed excl... | {
"abstract": "Developmental gene regulation in trypanosomatids proceeds exclusively by post-transcriptional mechanisms. Stability and abundance of heat shock protein (HSP)70 and HSP83 transcripts in Leishmania increase at mammalian-like temperatures, and their translation is enhanced. Here we report that the 3'-untr... | {
"abstract": "ABSTRACT The 5′ cap structure of trypanosomatid mRNAs, denoted cap 4, is a complex structure that contains unusual modifications on the first four nucleotides. We examined the four eukaryotic initiation factor 4E (eIF4E) homologues found in the Leishmania genome database. These proteins, denoted LeishI... |
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"abstract": "Interleukin-17E (IL-25) is a member of the IL-17 cytokine family that includes IL-17A to IL-17F. IL-17 family cytokines play a key role in host defense responses and inflammatory diseases. Compared with other IL-17 cytokine family members, IL-25 has relatively low sequence similarity to IL-17A and exhi... | {
"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nThis study aimed to investigate the influence of IL-25 on the capacity of mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) to induce intestinal epithelial cell regeneration.\n\n\nMETHODS\nThe CD4+IL-25R+ cells and LGR5+IL-25R+ cells in colonic mucosa of Crohn's disease (CD) patients, ulcerative colitis (UC) p... | {
"abstract": "The worldwide epidemiology of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), including Crohn’s disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC), still shows an increasing trend in Asia and Iran. Despite an improvement in the treatment landscape focused on symptomatic control, long-term colectomies have not decreased over t... |
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"abstract": "Learning from imbalanced data is a challenge that machine learning community is facing over last decades, due to its ever-growing presence in real-life problems. While there is a significant number of works addressing the issue of handling binary and skewed datasets, its multi-class counterpart have no... | {
"abstract": "Learning in imbalanced datasets is a pervasive problem prevalent in a wide variety of real-world applications. In imbalanced datasets, the class of interest is generally a small fraction of the total instances, but misclassification of such instances is often expensive. While there is a significant bod... | {
"abstract": "We describe an algorithm for support vector machines (SVM) that can be parallelized efficiently and scales to very large problems with hundreds of thousands of training vectors. Instead of analyzing the whole training set in one optimization step, the data are split into subsets and optimized separatel... |
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"abstract": "We consider a schema for graph-theoretic clustering of data using a node-based resilience measure called vertex attack tolerance (VAT). Resilience measures indicate worst case (critical) attack sets of edges or nodes in a network whose removal disconnects the graph into separate connected components: t... | {
"abstract": "We have previously introduced vertex attack tolerance (VAT), denoted mathematically as $\\tau(G) = \\min_{S \\subset V} \\frac{|S|}{|V-S-C_{max}(V-S)|+1}$ where $C_{max}(V-S)$ is the largest connected component in $V-S$, as an appropriate mathematical measure of resilience in the face of targeted node ... | {
"abstract": "In this paper we study the pricing and hedging of options whose payoff is a polynomial function of the underlying price at expiration; so-called ‘power options’. Working in the well-known Black and Scholes (1973) framework we derive closed-form formulas for the prices of general power calls and puts. P... |
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"abstract": "In this dissertation, a feedback control concept is proposed for modeling a market-grid coupling. The contributions are fourfold: 1) Identification and characterization of an interoperable control between the power market and the power grid; 2) Design of a closed-loop MPC for the market-grid coupling; ... | {
"abstract": "This paper provides an overview of the Ecogrid EU project, which is a large-scale demonstration project on the Danish island Bornholm. It provides Europe a fast track evolution towards smart grid dissemination and deployment in the distribution network. Objective of Ecogrid EU is to illustrate that mod... | {
"abstract": "The specific secretion rate of recombinant erythropoietin (EPO) from Chinese Hamster Ovary (CHO) cells was increased by reducing agents. Addition of 5 mM cysteamine to serum free medium led to almost 8-fold increase of specific EPO secretion rate although it was not effective in thiol free medium. Each... |
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"abstract": "This dissertation addresses three questions regarding investments in agricultural research and development (R&D): why, how much, and why not more? The economics literature sees profit as the principal incentive to investing in agricultural R&D. However, this profit motive is constrained by many factors... | {
"abstract": "Seminar paper - Invited Plenary Theme Paper for Theme VII, “National and International Research and Technology Transfer,\" in \"Agricultural Competitiveness, Market Forces and Policy Choice,“ X XII International Conference of Agricultural Economists,Conventional economic analysis ignores or underst... | {
"abstract": "Estimated rates of return to research are distorted by problems of attributing the credit for particular research results, or for particular research-induced productivity increases, among research expenditures undertaken at different times, in different places, and by different agencies. A comprehensiv... |
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"abstract": "As interacoes superficiais dominam as propriedades de suspensoes de particulas coloidais. O equilibrio entre a superficie, o solvente e as especies ativas em solucao determina as propriedades relacionadas a reatividade e as interacoes na interface solido-liquido. O tanino e um composto extraido da casc... | {
"abstract": "Physicochemical characteristics of tannic acid (tannin) suspensions comprising its stability for a wide range of ionic strength and pH were thoroughly investigated using UV-vis spectrophotometry, dynamic light scattering and microelectrophoretic measurements. These studies allowed to determine the hydr... | {
"abstract": "A method is described for the determination of niobium in metals and alloys. Niobium is separated from the matrix elements by adsorption on to Dowex 1 anion-exchange resin from a solution of hydrofluoric acid and nitric acid. The niobium is eluted in a mixture of hydrofluoric and nitric acids and deter... |
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"abstract": "The objective of the present experiment to determine the extent to which the crude protein (CP) content of laying hen diets can be reduced, based on fortified with methionine (Met.) to reach a level of sulfur amino acids equal with high-protein level and their effects on productive and reproductive per... | {
"abstract": "An experiment was conducted to determine the effect of feeding method (constant vs variable) and method of formulation (lysine vs protein) on the performance and profits of first cycle, phase 2 DeKalb Delta hens from 40 to 52 wk of age as influenced by egg and feed prices. Treatments 1 to 5 were formul... | {
"abstract": "This study aims to detect the presence of Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) and Streptococcus agalactiae (S. agalactiae) in subclinical mastitis infections in dairy cows and buffalos in Enrekang (in South Sulawesi, Indonesia). Subclinical mastitis was pre-examined using the California Mastitis Test (CM... |
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"abstract": "Flavonoids are phenolic secondary metabolites commonly occurring in plants. In particular, prenylated flavonoids exhibit a wide range of biological activities, including antitumor, antibacterial and antioxidant activities. In this study, we attempted to produce prenylated flavonoids in tomato as a host... | {
"abstract": "Prenylated polyphenols are secondary metabolites beneficial for human health because of their various biological activities. Metabolic engineering was performed using Streptomyces and Sophora flavescens prenyltransferase genes to produce prenylated polyphenols in transgenic legume plants. Three Strepto... | {
"abstract": "BRCA1-associated RING domain protein 1 (BARD1) stabilizes BRCA1 protein by forming a heterodimeric RING-RING complex, and impacts function of BRCA1, including homologous recombination (HR) repair. Although colon cancer cells usually express wild type BRCA1, presence of an oncogenic BARD1 splice variant... |
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"abstract": "TheDot/Icmtype IVBsecretionsystemofLegionellapneumophila is essential for itspathogenesisbydelivering>300effectorproteins into the host cell. However, their precise secretion mechanism and which components interact with the host cell is only partly understood. Here, we undertook evolutionary analyses o... | {
"abstract": "Type IV secretion systems (T4SSs) play a central role in the pathogenicity of many important pathogens, including Agrobacterium tumefaciens, Helicobacter pylori, and Legionella pneumophila. The T4SSs are related to bacterial conjugation systems, and are classified into two subgroups, type IVA (T4ASS) a... | {
"abstract": "Conjugation of DNA through a type IV secretion system (T4SS) drives horizontal gene transfer. Yet little is known on the diversity of these nanomachines. We previously found that T4SS can be divided in eight classes based on the phylogeny of the only ubiquitous protein of T4SS (VirB4). Here, we use an ... |
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"abstract": "A novel spirooxindole‐pyrrolidine clubbed thiochromene and pyrazole motifs were synthesized by [3+2] cycloaddition (32CA) reactions in one step process starting from the ethylene‐based thiochromene and pyrazole scaffolds with the secondary amino‐acids and substituted isatins in high yield. The 32CA rea... | {
"abstract": "A novel series of chromone-isatin derivatives 6a-6p were designed, synthesized and characterized by 1H NMR, 13C NMR and HRMS. These novel synthetic compounds were evaluated for inhibitory activity against yeast α-glucosidase enzyme. The results of biological test have shown that all tested compounds ex... | {
"abstract": "Engineering photoautotrophic microorganisms to directly convert carbon dioxide into platform chemicals is an attractive approach for chemical sustainability and carbon mitigation. Here, an engineered cyanobacterium Synechococcus elongatus PCC 7942 was developed to produce succinic acid directly from am... |
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"title": "Extreme warming, photic zone euxinia and sea level rise during the Paleocene/Eocene Thermal Maximum on the Gulf of Mexico Coastal Plain; connecting marginal marine biotic signals, nutrient cycling and ocean deoxygenation"
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"abstract": "Relative to the present day, meridional temperature gradients in the Early Eocene age (∼56–53 Myr ago) were unusually low, with slightly warmer equatorial regions but with much warmer subtropical Arctic and mid-latitude climates. By the end of the Eocene epoch (∼34 Myr ago), the first major Antarctic i... | {
"abstract": "[1] During Integrated Ocean Drilling Program Expedition 302 (Arctic Coring Expedition (ACEX)) a more than 200 m thick sequence of Paleogene organic carbon (OC)-rich (black shale type) sediments was drilled. Here we present new biomarker data determined in ACEX sediment samples to decipher processes con... |
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"abstract": "A gp63PCR method was evaluated for the detection and characterization of Leishmania (Leishmania) (L.) parasites in canine lymph node aspirates. This tool was tested and compared to other PCRs based on the amplification of 18S ribosomal genes, a L. infantum specific repetitive sequence and kinetoplastic... | {
"abstract": "Background Various factors contribute to the urbanization of the visceral leishmaniasis (VL), including the difficulties of implementing control measures relating to the domestic reservoir. The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of canine visceral leishmaniasis in an urban endemic area i... | {
"abstract": "Aggregation responses and thromboxane (Tx) formation in ten patients with storage pool deficiency (SPD) specific to the dense granules (delta-SPD) were studied to assess further the role of dense granule adenosine diphosphate (ADP) in mediating platelet aggregation by epinephrine. The ability of epinep... |
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"abstract": "One of the most important ethical step in conducting investigational product trials or drug trials is obtaining informed consent from the participants. Although consent from the participants regarding participation is of prime importance but is not always practical or feasible. There may be several ins... | {
"abstract": "BackgroundIn specific situations it may be necessary to make an exception to the general rule of informed consent for scientific research with an intervention. Earlier reviews only described subsets of arguments for exceptions to waive consent.MethodsHere, we provide a more extensive literature review ... | {
"abstract": "Mental disorders represent an increasing source of disability and high costs for societies globally. Molecular imaging techniques such as positron emission tomography (PET) represent powerful tools with the potential to advance knowledge regarding disease mechanisms, allowing the development of new tre... |
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"abstract": "The matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) form an enzyme family of which gelatinase B (MMP-9) represents the largest and most complex member. We focus here on the biochemical properties, regulation, and functions of gelatinase B. The tight regulation of gelatinase B activity is highly complex and is establi... | {
"abstract": "To study the interaction of lymphocytes and macrophages in the control of extracellular matrix turnover, we determined the effects of several soluble T cell products on mononuclear phagocyte production of metalloproteinases. Cytokines including IL-2, IL-4, IL-6, tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF alpha),... | {
"abstract": "DNase I footprinting experiments showed that binding activities of Sp1 and of GHF-1 to its distal site on the human growth hormone gene promoter are mutually exclusive. The kinetics of GHF-1 binding were indicative of positive cooperativity. The Sp1 site did not affect promoter activity in cell-free tr... |
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"abstract": "We consider static, external memory indexes for exact and approximate versions of the k-nearest neighbor (k-NN) problem, and show new lower bounds under a standard indivisibility assumption: Polynomial space indexing schemes for high-dimensional k-NN in Hamming space cannot take advantage of block tran... | {
"abstract": "We give an explicit construction of a constant distortion embedding F of l<sub>2</sub><sup>n</sup> into l<sub>1</sub><sup>m</sup>, with m=n<sup>1+o(1)</sup>.As a bonus, our embedding also has good computational properties: for any input <i>x</i>, Fx can be computed in n<sup>1+o(1)</sup> time.The previo... | {
"abstract": "Due to the popularity of the World Wide Web stringent quality of service has to be exported to the wireless network devices. Additional synchronous CDMA channels for each wireless terminal are one possibility to guarantee the required quality of service. The aim of this paper is to show the significanc... |
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"abstract": "In MOOCs, learning analytics have to be addressed to the various types of learners that participate. This deliverable describes indicators that enable both teachers and learner to monitor the progress and performance as well as identify whether there are learners at risk of dropping out. How these indi... | {
"abstract": "In the last five years, the world has seen a remarkable level of interest in Massive Open Online Courses, or MOOCs. A consistent message from universities participating in MOOC delivery is their eagerness to understand students' online learning processes. This paper reports on an exploratory investigat... | {
"abstract": "Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are the road that led to a revolution and a new era of learning environments. Educational institutions have come under pressure to adopt new models that assure openness in their education distribution. Nonetheless, there is still altercation about the pedagogical app... |
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"abstract": "Abstract A function of the auditory system is to accurately determine the location of a sound source. The main cues for sound location are interaural time (ITD) and level (ILD) differences. Humans use both ITD and ILD to determine the azimuth. Thus far, the conception of sound localization in barn owls... | {
"abstract": "The roles of interaural time difference (ITD) and interaural level difference (ILD) were studied in free-field source localization experiments for sine tones of low frequency (250-750 Hz). Experiments combined real-source trials with virtual trials created through transaural synthesis based on real-tim... | {
"abstract": "&NA; Auditory research has a rich history of combining experimental evidence with computational simulations of auditory processing in order to deepen our theoretical understanding of how sound is processed in the ears and in the brain. Despite significant progress in the amount of detail and breadth co... |
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"abstract": "Due to the increment of advertising requirements based on various multi-media services, two studies were conducted to propose an Intelligent Embedded Marketing Service System (IEMSS) and then to use IEMSS to implement product placement strategies for idol dramas in interactive television. In the study ... | {
"abstract": "A grouping method of the similar words, is proposed for the classification of documents, which is applied to Reuters international news and it is shown that the grouping of words has equivalent ability to the Latent Semantic Analysis(LSA) in the classification accuracy. Further, a new combining method ... | {
"abstract": "Morphological analysis plays a key role in effective functioning of a parser of any machine translation system. Further, morphological analyzers are useful as supportive software tools to coin terms for a given language. This paper reports on the first morphological analysis system for Sinhala language... |
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"abstract": "residents. • Design: Review and analysis of nursing home records. • Setting and participants: 135 incidents of NHAP among 2251 random Medicare nursing home admissions to 58 skilled nursing facilities located in 5 states during 1997. • Methods: Management of NHAP episodes occurring during the 90 days fo... | {
"abstract": "OBJECTIVE: To determine 2‐month mortality and functional status outcomes after resolution of pneumonia in older long‐term care facility (LTCF) patients treated with and without hospital transfer.",
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"title": "Short‐Term Functional Outcomes of Long‐Term Care Residents with Pneumo... | {
"abstract": "A countrywide program for establishing satellite centers is currently in progress. Plans for the near future are to establish a hotline for the public, to promote educational programs in nursing and medical schools, hospitals, and nursing homes, and to develop guidelines for diagnosis and management of... |
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"abstract": "Abstract This mini-review addresses advances in understanding the transmembrane topologies of two unrelated, single-subunit bicarbonate transporters from cyanobacteria, namely BicA and SbtA. BicA is a Na+-dependent bicarbonate transporter that belongs to the SulP/SLC26 family that is widespread in both... | {
"abstract": "Prestin (SLC26A5) is a member of the SLC26/SulP anion transporter family. Its unique quasi-piezoelectric mechanical activity generates fast cellular motility of cochlear outer hair cells, a key process underlying active amplification in the mammalian ear. Despite its established physiological role, it ... | {
"abstract": "A missense mutation, R130S, was recently found in the prestin gene, SLC26A5, of patients with moderate to severe hearing loss (DFNB61). In order to define the pathology of hearing loss associated with this missense mutation, a recombinant prestin construct harboring the R130S mutation (R130S-prestin) w... |
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"abstract": "Extracting and recognizing mathematical expressions of scientific documents are key steps in the process of mathematical retrieval system, where the documents contain different components such as text, tables, figures, and mathematical expressions. There are several methods proposed to handle the compo... | {
"abstract": "Identification of mathematical expressions in document images is attempted. Several features starting from low level image features, shape features, linguistics information, etc. are extracted and combined to pinpoint the expressions. A performance index has been formulated to evaluate the identificati... | {
"abstract": "An image-based approach to document image analysis is presented, that uses shape and textural properties interchangeably at multiple scales. Image-based techniques permit a relatively small number of simple and fast operations to be used for a wide variety of analysis problems with document images. The... |
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"abstract": "Transforming growth factor‐β (TGF‐β), regulates cell proliferation, angiogenesis, metastasis, and is an inducer of epithelial‐mesenchymal transition (EMT). Cancer cells exhibit activated TGF‐β/SMAD signaling pathway and its inhibition is an attractive strategy for cancer treatment. The Chinese Herbs Sc... | {
"abstract": "In recent years, a number of natural products isolated from Chinese herbs have been found to inhibit proliferation, induce apoptosis, suppress angiogenesis, retard metastasis and enhance chemotherapy, exhibiting anti-cancer potential both in vitro and in vivo. This article summarizes recent advances in... | {
"abstract": "Background Glioblastoma is the most common type of malignant tumor of the brain. Despite substantial improvements in therapy, the 5-year survival rate of patients with glioblastoma remains low. Antitumor drug development has encountered considerable obstacles, which can be attributed to metastasis and ... |
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"abstract": "Background. Heat therapy is widely used for therapeutic purposes in health SPA resorts or hospitals. However, its benefits and consequences are not strongly evidenced and it is partially-related with a lack of experimental information. No one has explored how continuous head and neck warming applied in... | {
"abstract": "Background: It is well known that cold exposure experienced during occupational or recreational activities may adversely affect motor, cognitive performance, and health. Most research has used prolonged passive external rewarming modalities and focused on the direct effects on the kinetics of physiolog... | {
"abstract": "This article reports on 2 studies investigating a response-to-intervention (RTI) approach to behavior support in 2 second-grade classrooms. The results suggest that a slightly more intensive but efficient targeted intervention (“check in and check out”) was effective in supporting the social behavior s... |
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"abstract": "ABSTRACT Many social workers with primarily direct practice experience have been increasingly moving into upper-level administrative roles within their organizations. Unfortunately, many of these new leaders do not have an adequate base of knowledge and skills needed to manage human service organizatio... | {
"abstract": "Abstract This paper suggests issues to consider in the design of an administration concentration, using a case study for illustration. Management competencies of graduates are offered as the products that focus the design process. Strategic planning and program design techniques, including environmenta... | {
"abstract": "The results of a series of three surveys, published by the MIS Quarterly, have designated issues of primary concern to IS practitioners. In addition, Gillenson and Stutz have recently identified the major publication outlets for IS research. By mapping the topics addressed in these research publication... |
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"abstract": "This paper reports on the development of a piezo-actuated nanometric ultra-fast tool servo (NU-FTS) for nanocutting. For motion guidance, a flexure mechanism is especially designed using a novel kind of generalized flexure hinges with the notch profiles described by a rational Bezier curve. Both kinema... | {
"abstract": "A novel piezo-actuated compliant mechanism is developed to obtain triaxial translational motions with decoupled features for nanocutting. Analytical modeling of the working performance followed by Pareto-based multiobjective optimization is conducted for determining dimensions of the mechanism. Finite ... | {
"abstract": "In the newly proposed rotary spatial vibration (RSV)-assisted diamond cutting system, a piezoelectrically actuated monolithic compliant spatial vibrator (CSV), generating three decoupled translational vibrations with high working bandwidth, is deliberately designed to work on the rotating spindle of a ... |
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"abstract": "In this paper we present initial work towards a video-realistic visual speech synthesiser based on statistical models of shape and appearance. A synthesised image sequence corresponding to an utterance is formed by concatenation of synthesis units (in this case phonemes) from a pre-recorded corpus of t... | {
"abstract": "Abstract This paper is motivated by the need to develop low bandwidth virtual humans capable of delivering audio-visual speech and sign language at a quality comparable to high bandwidth video. Using an appearance model combined with parameter compression significantly reduces the number of bits requir... | {
"abstract": "In arid regions, higher irrigation quota for conventional farming causes substantial conflict between water supply and demand for crop production. Innovations in cropping systems are needed to alleviate this issue. A field experiment was conducted in northwestern China to assess whether straw and plast... |
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"abstract": "Amidst widespread reports of digital influence operations during major elections, policymakers, scholars, and journalists have become increasingly interested in the political impact of social media 'bots.' Most recently, platform companies like Facebook and Twitter have been summoned to testify about b... | {
"abstract": "Social botnets have become an important phenomenon on social media. There are many ways in which social bots can disrupt or influence online discourse, such as, spam hashtags, scam twitter users, and astroturfing. In this paper we considered one specific social botnet in Twitter to understand how it gr... | {
"abstract": "AbstractLayered double hydroxide (LDH) nanoparticles synthesized with Mg2+, Al3+, and Dy3+ cations were intercalated with folate ions; this ion increased the interlayer space and allowed passive targeting. This expanded structure retains additional gallate ions in the layers. The folate/gallate-contain... |
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"abstract": "Several algorithms for global motion estimation in video sequences using pixel- or block-based approaches have been published. Most known pixel-based methods lack in performance while when using block-based algorithms working on motion vectors, robustness to outliers and accuracy is missing. In this pa... | {
"abstract": "In this paper, we introduce a new method to estimate a parametric description of the dominant motion existing in a video sequence, a key task needed to face more complex video analysis problems. In order to do so, we use motion data provided by the MPEG streams. We propose a method based on imaginary s... | {
"abstract": "We study the speed of convergence to approximately optimal states in two classes of potential games. We provide bounds in terms of the number of rounds, where a round consists of a sequence of movements, with each player appearing at least once in each round. We model the sequential interaction between... |
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"abstract": "The human tumour antigen PRAME (preferentially expressed antigen in melanoma) is frequently overexpressed during oncogenesis, and high PRAME levels are associated with poor clinical outcome in a variety of cancers. However, the molecular pathways in which PRAME is implicated are not well understood. We... | {
"abstract": "We have isolated a new yeast gene (PCC1) that codes for a factor homologous to human cancer‐testis antigens. We provide evidence that Pcc1p is a new transcription factor and that its mutation affects expression of several genes, some of which are involved in cell cycle progression and polarized growth.... | {
"abstract": "Memetic algorithms are population-based meta-heuristic search algorithms that combine the composite benefits of natural and cultural evolution. In this paper a synergism of the classical Differential Evolution algorithm and Q-learning is used to construct the memetic algorithm. Computer simulation with... |
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"abstract": "In this paper we develop an operational formulation of General Relativity similar in spirit to existing operational formulations of Quantum Theory. To do this we introduce an operational space (or op-space) built out of scalar fields. A point in op-space corresponds to some nominated set of scalar fiel... | {
"abstract": "In this statement we provide some examples of transdisciplinaryjourneys, from one field to another, and back. In particular, thequantuminformaticendeavoris not just a matter of feedingphys-ical theory into the general field of natural computation, bu t alsoone of using high-level methods developed in Com... | {
"abstract": "The one-way quantum computer (QCc) is a universal scheme of quantum computation consisting only of one-qubit measurements on a particular entangled multi-qubit state, the cluster state. The computational model underlying the QCc is different from the quantum logic network model and it is based on diffe... |
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"abstract": "The capsular polysaccharide of Escherichia coli K5 has been hypothesised to promote virulence through its molecular mimicry of host heparan sulphate. To test this hypothesis, we have produced pure oligosaccharides from K5 capsular polysaccharide and investigated their conformational properties with ult... | {
"abstract": "Graphical abstract",
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"title": "NMR spectra of oligosaccharides at ultra-high field (900 MHz) have better resolution than expected due to favourable molecular tumbling"
} | {
"abstract": "This paper presents some solutions to the problem of synthesising multi-lingual speech using waveformconcatenation speech synthesis. The paper presents novel methods for deriving appropriate pronunciations for foreign words in a predominantly native-language text by use of multi-speaker synthesis, and ... |
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"abstract": "ABSTRACT Following wildfire, forest managers are challenged with meeting both socioeconomic demands (e.g., salvage logging) and mandates requiring habitat conservation for disturbance-associated wildlife (e.g., woodpeckers). Habitat suitability models for nesting woodpeckers can be informative, but tes... | {
"abstract": "To conserve habitat for disturbance specialist species, ecologists must identify where individuals will likely settle in newly disturbed areas. Habitat suitability models can predict which sites at new disturbances will most likely attract specialists. Without validation data from newly disturbed areas... | {
"abstract": "Islands are ideal polygons and showcases for demonstration of individual hydrogen technologies as well as the entire mini hydrogen, i.e. hydricity economies. Experience from those demonstration projects will be valuable in designing and implementing larger hydrogen systems on national and regional leve... |
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"abstract": "Cord blood IgE has previously been studied as a possible predictor of asthma and allergic diseases. Results from different studies have been contradictory, and most have focused on high-risk infants and early infancy. Few studies have followed their study population into adulthood. This study assessed ... | {
"abstract": "Background The increase in asthma prevalence until 1990 has been well described. Thereafter, time trends are poorly known, due to the low number of high quality studies. The preferred method for studying time trends in prevalence is repeated surveys of similar populations. This study aimed to compare t... | {
"abstract": "The large increase in asthma prevalence continues in several, but not all areas. Despite the individual risk factors that have been identified, the reasons for the observed trends in prevalence are largely unknown.",
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"score": -1,
"title": "Decreased importance of environment... |
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"abstract": "Myc-deregulating T(12;15) chromosomal translocations are the hallmark cytogenetic abnormalities of murine plasmacytomas (PCTs). In most PCTs, the immunoglobulin heavy chain (Igh) locus is broken between the Eμ enhancer and the 3’ regulatory region (3’RR), making the latter the major candidate for orche... | {
"abstract": "B-cell malignancies, such as human Burkitt’s lymphoma, often contain translocations that link c-myc or other proto-oncogenes to the immunoglobulin heavy chain locus (IgH, encoded by Igh). The nature of elements that activate oncogenes within such translocations has been a long-standing question. Transl... | {
"abstract": "Low-frequency oscillation (LFO), harmonic resonance, and harmonic instability phenomena in high-speed railways (HSRs) result from the interactions between multiple electric trains and the traction network. A train–network interaction system and a unified impedance-based model are therefore presented to... |
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"abstract": "Previous work in animals with recovered hearing thresholds but permanent inner hair cell synapse loss after noise have suggested initial vulnerability of low spontaneous rate (SR) auditory nerve fibers (ANF). As these fibers have properties of response that facilitate robust sound coding in continuous ... | {
"abstract": "Intimates regularly confront their partners to motivate them to change undesirable behaviors. Nevertheless, contextual perspectives suggest that qualities of the partner may determine the implications of such attempts. Consistent with these ideas, a pilot study of romantic relationships, an observation... | {
"abstract": "Should intimates respond to their interpersonal mistakes with self-criticism or with self-compassion? Although it is reasonable to expect self-compassion to benefit relationships by promoting self-esteem, it is also reasonable to expect self-compassion to hurt relationships by removing intimates' motiv... |
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"abstract": "In 2011, we studied the glucosinolate content in 5 cultivars and 5 cabbage hybrids grown outdoors in order to study their influence on the feeding of cabbage moth caterpillars (Mamestra brassicae). The selected genotypes were cat- egorized into three groups, early (the growth period from 55 to 70 days)... | {
"abstract": "ABSTRACT Twenty-one cabbage (Brassica oleracea capitata group) varieties, including 16 local varieties and five commercial hybrids, were screened for resistance to the moth Mamestra brassicae L. under natural and artificial conditions in northwestern Spain. Resistance was assessed as the proportion of ... | {
"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nSteinernema carpocapsae Weiser, an entomopathogenic nematode (EPN), is a potential biological control agent for the cabbage moth (Mamestra brassicae L.). This research aimed to identify a suitable spray application technique, and to determine whether yeast extract added to an EPN spray has ... |
{
"abstract": "This paper presents a fixturing strategy for re-grasping that does not require a physical fixture. To regrasp an object in a gripper, a robot pushes the object against external contact/s in the environment such that the external contact keeps the object stationary while the fingers slide over the objec... | {
"abstract": "“In-hand manipulation” is the ability to reposition an object in the hand, for example when adjusting the grasp of a hammer before hammering a nail. The common approach to in-hand manipulation with robotic hands, known as dexterous manipulation [1], is to hold an object within the fingertips of the han... | {
"abstract": "In the current driving environment, the top priority is the safety of person. There are two methods proposed to solve safety problems. One is active sensors method and another is passive sensor method. Though with high accuracy, active sensors method has many disadvantages such as high cost, failure to... |
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