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"abstract": "Elevating levels of nerve growth factor (NGF) can have pronounced effects on the survival and maintenance of distinct populations of neurons. We have generated a line of transgenic mice in which NGF is expressed under the control of the smooth muscle α‐actin promoter. These transgenic mice have augment... | {
"abstract": "Postganglionic sympathetic axons display a remarkable ability for new collateral growth in response to local increases in nerve growth factor (NGF). Elevating NGF levels within the brain also induces the directional growth of sympathetic axons, but not within myelinated pathways of adult mammals. In th... | {
"abstract": "Cardiac function is determined by an interplay between myocardial cellular and interstitial components. Remodelling of the extracellular matrix (ECM) is a continuous, dynamic process occurring in health and disease, including adaptive and adverse remodelling. The advent of cardiovascular magnetic reson... |
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"abstract": "To overcome the deterioration of azimuth resolution caused by errors of monopulse response curve (MRC) in practical processing, this paper proposes an auto-focusing algorithm for monopulse imaging technique. By applying iterative steps, this algorithm automatically extracts the echo signals of isolated... | {
"abstract": "Forward-looking radar imaging continues to gain in significance due to a variety of convenient applications, like landing assistance for aircraft in poor visibility conditions. Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) techniques are typically used to achieve a high azimuth resolution, but conventional monostatic... | {
"abstract": "The azimuth resolution of forward looking radar is limited. Aiming at forward looking radar with linear array, the azimuth signal is modeled as the sum of exponents and a super-resolution algorithm based on Root-MUSIC is presented. With the estimation of Doppler frequency in each range cell, the coordi... |
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"abstract": "The present study was conducted to isolate pathogenic bacteria and their antimicrobial resistance pattern from Ethiopian paper currency notes in Wolaita Sodo town. A total of 240 Ethiopian paper currency notes samples in different denominations were collected from four different sources such as market,... | {
"abstract": "butchers, food sellers, and banks) where paper currency is widely used. The currencies used by public transport in Nepal (micro-buses) were found to be extremely contaminated with various pathogenic bacteria followed by the currency used by butchers and food sellers. These microorganisms could be one o... | {
"abstract": "AbstractMild cognitive impairment (MCI) is a transient\nstatus between physiologic ageing and dementia. Each year\nmore than 12% of subjects with MCI develop Alzheimer’s\ndisease. This study evaluated the presence of an olfactory\ndeficit in amnesic MCI (aMCI) patients. Twenty–nine\npatients diagnosed ... |
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"abstract": "Smart tourism has contributed to making people’s travels easier and more enjoyable, but sometimes has a negative impact on their travel experience. The challenges travelers face while using smart devices have not been researched in detail and are relatively unknown. While most studies have considered t... | {
"abstract": "Considering that the core concerns in sustainability are threats to the survival of humankind and the ecosystems that humans depend on, changing the consumption and production behaviors of individuals and society is inevitable. However, people are reluctant to change their own behavior in support of su... | {
"abstract": "As a nascent area of study, gamification has attracted the interest of researchers in several fields, but little attention has been focused on creating a theoretical foundation for gamification research. The basic idea of gamification is to use game-like features in non-game contexts to motivate users ... |
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"abstract": "In our paper, we consider approaches towards the recognition of sign languages used by the deaf people in Russia and India. The structure of the recognition system for individual gestures is proposed based on the identification of its five components: configuration, orientation, localization, movement ... | {
"abstract": "This paper summarizes various algorithms used to design a sign language recognition system. Sign language is the language used by deaf people to communicate among themselves and with normal people. We designed a real time sign language recognition system that can recognize gestures of sign language fro... | {
"abstract": "A proximal uniformity constraint is proposed to solve the correspondence problem. According to this constraint, most objects in the real world follow smooth paths and cover a small distance in a small time. An efficient, noniterative polynomial time approximation algorithm which minimizes the proximal ... |
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"abstract": "Knowledge sharing strengthens individual creativity, critical thinking and innovation. It also improves research and development endeavors, performance and productivity at the organizational level. Knowledge sharing decreases the amount of red-tape faced by organizations, firms and individuals in achie... | {
"abstract": "Understanding the business systems success factors has been a challenging process for both public and private organizations. Organizational culture is measured as a critical factor promoting knowledge sharing among employees. Based on the competing value framework (CVF), this research shows how various... | {
"abstract": "Many students hold incorrect ideas and negative attitudes about computer science (CS). In order to address these difficulties, a series of learning activities called Computer Science Unplugged was developed by Tim Bell and his colleagues. These activities expose young people to central concepts in CS i... |
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"abstract": "As a decentralized training approach, horizontal federated learning (HFL) enables distributed clients to collaboratively learn a machine learning model while keeping personal/private information on local devices. Despite the enhanced performance and efficiency of HFL over local training, clues for insp... | {
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"title": "A SURVEY ON VISUALIZATION FOR EXPLAINABLE CLASSIFIERS by"
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"abstract": "Forecasting time series data is an important subject in economics, business, and finance. Traditionally, there are several techniques to effectively forecast the next lag of time series data such as univariate Autoregressive (AR), univariate Moving Average (MA), Simple Exponential Smoothing (SES), and ... |
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"abstract": "Survival of inner ear sensory neurons depends on two neurotrophins, BDNF and NT-3, and their respective receptors, TrkB and TrkC. Because both receptors are present in the same neuron, it has been suggested that BDNF and NT-3 are functionally redundant in promoting neuronal survival. Knock-in of one li... | {
"abstract": "Peripheral ganglion neurons confer sensory information including touch, pain, temperature, and proprioception. Sensory modality is linked to specific neurotrophin (NTF) requirements. NT-3 supports survival of neurons that differentiate primarily into proprioceptors whereas nerve growth factor and brain... | {
"abstract": "Trophic factors, such as NGF, regulate survival and differentiation of many classes of neurons by binding specific receptors. Two types of NGF receptors have been identified, which bind NGF with low and high affinity. The latter mediates the major biological actions of NGF. To determine the relationshi... |
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"abstract": "The Sociology of Scenes, The Sacramento Poetry Scene",
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"title": "The sociology of scenes, the Sacramento poetry scene"
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"abstract": "Relations between culture and community are analyzed in an evaluation of a community arts project conducted in a small Colorado community. A visual artist worked with residents during a four-week residency in a wide variety of arts activities designed to promote community development goals. Surveys, in... | {
"abstract": "The cultural pattern peculiar to a social group functions for its members as an unquestioned scheme of reference. It determines the strata of relevance for their \"thinking as usual\" in standardized situations and the degree of knowledge required for handling the tested \"recipes\" involved. The appro... |
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"abstract": "The direct writing technology known as ion-beam-induced deposition (IBID) has been attracting attention mainly because of its high degree of flexibility of locally prototyping three-dimensional (3D) nanostructures. These high-resolution nanostructures have various research applications. However, no sys... | {
"abstract": "The electron-beam-induced deposition of silicon oxide from tetraethyorthosilicate and tungsten from tungsten hexafluoride is simulated via a Monte Carlo simulation. Pseudo one-dimensional nanopillars are grown using comparable electron-beam parameters and a comparison of the vertical and lateral growth... | {
"abstract": "The effect of the accelerating voltage of incident electrons on the resolution of electron-beam-induced deposition was investigated by a dynamic Monte Carlo profile simulator which includes the electron scattering in the already grown deposit structure. By simulating the deposition at two different acc... |
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"abstract": "Chemical modifications enable preparation of mRNAs with augmented stability and translational activity. In this study, we explored how chemical modifications of 5’,3’-phosphodiester bonds in the mRNA body and polyA tail influence the biological properties of eukaryotic mRNA. To obtain modified and unmo... | {
"abstract": "Modified mRNA cap analogs aid in the study of mRNA-related processes and may enable creation of novel therapeutic interventions. We report the synthesis and properties of 11 dinucleotide cap analogs bearing a single boranophosphate modification at either the α-, β- or γ-position of the 5′,5′-triphospha... | {
"abstract": "Complete removal of residual N-7 guanine cap from degraded messenger RNA is necessary to prevent accumulation of intermediates that might interfere with RNA processing, export, and translation. The human scavenger decapping enzyme, DcpS, catalyzes residual cap hydrolysis following mRNA degradation, rel... |
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"abstract": "In this thesis we present a fast and precise method for evaluating supersymmetric cross sections at next-to-leading order (NLO). The method consists of training the machine learning algorithm boosted desicion trees on a generated data set with samples from the parameter space of the MSSM-24 and their c... | {
"abstract": "We describe ColliderBit, a new code for the calculation of high energy collider observables in theories of physics beyond the Standard Model (BSM). ColliderBit features a generic interface to BSM models, a unique parallelised Monte Carlo event generation scheme suitable for large-scale supercomputer ap... | {
"abstract": "Dilute nitride films with a roughly 1 eV band gap can be lattice-matched to gallium arsenide and germanium, and therefore could become a critical component in next-generation multijunction solar cells. To date most dilute nitride solar cells have been plagued with poor efficiency, due in large part to ... |
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"abstract": "We introduce DrummerNet, a drum transcription system that is trained in an unsupervised manner. DrummerNet does not require any ground-truth transcription and, with the data-scalability of deep neural networks, learns from a large unlabeled dataset. In DrummerNet, the target drum signal is first passed... | {
"abstract": "Automatic drum transcription is the process of generating symbolic notation for percussion instruments within audio recordings. To date, recurrent neural network (RNN) systems have achieved the highest evaluation accuracies for ::: both drum solo and polyphonic recordings, however the accuracies within... | {
"abstract": "SUMMARY ::: This paper considers the containment control problems for both continuous-time and discrete-time multi-agent systems with general linear dynamics under directed communication topologies. Distributed dynamic containment controllers based on the relative outputs of neighboring agents are cons... |
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"abstract": "Quantum-dot Cellular automata is an emerging post-CMOS technology which offers promising features such as high speed, high packaging density and low power. It has led to the emergence of several circuit designs in Quantum-dot Cellular Automata. Circuits are designed in Quantum-dot Cellular Automata usi... | {
"abstract": "Quantum Cellular Automata now has several deduction methodologies none of which explores universal NAND/NOR based design in Boolean reduction techniques. As Boolean laws reveal the intuitive NAND and NOR based reductions, higher cell requirement for majority function can be avoided if NAND/NOR based me... | {
"abstract": "This article describes the design of adder units on quantum-dot cellular automata (QCA) nanotechnology, which promises very dense circuits and high operating frequencies, using a single homogeneous layer of the basic cells. We construct pipelined structures without the earlier noise problems, avoided b... |
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"abstract": "This work presents a deep learning framework for analyzing urban mobility by extracting knowledge from messages collected from Twitter. The framework, which is designed to handle large-scale data and adapt automatically to new contexts, comprises three main modules: data collection and system configura... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Traffic congestion is rapidly increasing in urban areas, particularly in mega cities. To date, there exist a few sensor network based systems to address this problem. However, these techniques are not suitable enough in terms of monitoring an entire transportation system and delivering emergen... | {
"abstract": "Sentiment analysis aims to identify the polarity of a document through natural language processing, text analysis and computational linguistics. Over the last decade, there has been much focus on sentiment analysis as the data available on-line has grown exponentially to include many sentiment based do... |
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"abstract": "Introduction: Pulmonary embolism results from thrombus migration into the pulmonary artery, with the most common cause being deep vein thrombosis. However, pulmonary embolism might not necessarily originate in the lower extremities, which neces- sitates specific diagnostic and therapeutic choices. Case... | {
"abstract": "The velocity of flow and pressure in the venae cavae of four normal conscious subjects was studied. Velocity was measured with a catheter-tip electromagnetic transducer. The effects of respiration, Valsalva and Müller maneuvers, coughing, and exercise were studied. Caval blood velocities during breath ... | {
"abstract": "Global ventricular function was evaluated by both multiple gated cardiac blood pool scans (MUGA) and contrast ventriculograms in a group of 17 patients with suspected coronary artery disease. The contrast ventriculograms were analyzed frame by frame to generate a volume versus time curve for each patie... |
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"abstract": "The chloroplasts of guard cells are largely responsible for the response of stomata to light. The opening movement is probably associated with the synthesis of ATP by non‐cyclic photophosphorylation, and the obligatory fixation of carbon dioxide to produce glycolic acid. The oxidative metabolism of gly... | {
"abstract": "CHEMICALS which close stomata have been described by Zelitch1. When sprayed on leaf surfaces, the compounds decrease transpiration and photosynthesis of detached leaves2 and of maize plants in soil3 by increasing the diffusion resistance of stomata. When sprayed on intact tobacco plants in the greenhou... | {
"abstract": "Salmonellosis in Australia has been linked to eggs and egg products with specific serotypes associated with outbreaks. We compared attachment to and survival on egg shells and growth in eggs of two Salmonella serotypes, an egg outbreak associated Salmonella Typhimurium and a non-egg-associated Salmonel... |
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"abstract": "The interaction between environment and genetic traits under selection is the basis of evolution. In this study, we have investigated the genetic basis of herbicide resistance in a highly characterized initially herbicide‐susceptible Lolium rigidum population recurrently selected with low (below recomm... | {
"abstract": "The dynamics of herbicide resistance evolution in plants are influenced by many factors, especially the biochemical and genetic basis of resistance. Herbicide resistance can be endowed by enhanced rates of herbicide metabolism because of the activity of cytochrome P450 enzymes, although in weedy plants... | {
"abstract": "In the last two decades it has become apparent that enzymes of the P450 monooxygenase (P450) superfamily are responsible for the Phase I metabolism of numerous herbicides representing several classes of organic compounds. The majority of experimental evidence for P450 involvement in herbicide metabolis... |
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"abstract": "Microplasmas have been discussed as novel sources of photons in the ultraviolet to infrared (IR). Recently, the addition of dust to a microplasma has been discussed in various contexts. In this paper, we theoretically investigate thermal radiation from heated dust in microplasmas to explore dusty micro... | {
"abstract": "The localized potential gradients created by a microplasma are capable of trapping and concentrating micro- and nanoparticles. In this paper, argon microplasma is generated within a 350-mum discharge gap formed within a microstrip transmission line. Melamine formaldehyde particles (1 mum) are released ... | {
"abstract": "Particle interactions were directly determined from the lateral compression of two-dimensional plasma dust crystals confined in a parabolic potential well. Measured particle separations combined with an equation of state for the crystal were used to derive values for the particle screening length and t... |
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"abstract": "Biological constraints often impose restrictions for plausible plasticity rules such as locality and reward-based rather than supervised learning. Two learning rules that comply with these restrictions are weight (WP) and node (NP) perturbation. NP is often used in learning studies, in particular as a ... | {
"abstract": "Neural activity during cognitive tasks exhibits complex dynamics that flexibly encode task-relevant variables. Chaotic recurrent networks, which spontaneously generate rich dynamics, have been proposed as a model of cortical computation during cognitive tasks. However, existing methods for training the... | {
"abstract": "We introduce physics informed neural networks -- neural networks that are trained to solve supervised learning tasks while respecting any given law of physics described by general nonlinear partial differential equations. In this two part treatise, we present our developments in the context of solving ... |
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"abstract": "This paper introduces a novel tone mapping operator, designed to offer a good rendering of the local structures. The new operator fusions the multiple versions of a single HDR input obtained by clipping and normalizing its intensity based on a complete set of disjoint intervals. Defining the weight map... | {
"abstract": "Tone-mapping constitutes a key component within the field of high dynamic range HDR imaging. Its importance is manifested in the vast amount of tone-mapping methods that can be found in the literature, which are the result of an active development in the area for more than two decades. Although these c... | {
"abstract": "This research explores the automated process adjustments of chip cutting operations by using neural network and statistical approaches in a computer-aided vision system. Multilayer ceramic capacitors (MLCC), owing to their excellent electronic characteristics, are applied in the design of high-density ... |
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"abstract": "Manganism has captured the imagination of neurologists for more than a century because of its similarities to Parkinson disease and its indirect but seminal role in the “l-dopa miracle.” We present unpublished footage of the original case series reported in Neurology® in 1967 by Mena and Cotzias depict... | {
"abstract": "AQUEOUS systems were reported earlier in which a manganese-phenothiazine auto-oxidation led to the emergence of semiquinone free-radicals of the drugs1. The mildness of the required conditions permitted the postulation that this interaction might be relevant to the pharmacological action of these agent... | {
"abstract": "Periodontal ligament stem cells (PDLSCs) are multipotent stem cells derived from periodontium and have mesenchymal stem cell (MSC)-like characteristics. Recently, the perivascular region was recognized as the developmental origin of MSCs, which suggests the in vivo angiogenic potential of PDLSCs. In th... |
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"abstract": "Focused on a large, diverse branch of the British postal workers’ trade union, workplace union responses to Royal Mail’s employee involvement initiatives are examined through a two-stage longitudinal case study. Royal Mail – the letters section of the British postal service – has carried out a series o... | {
"abstract": "This exploratory study of the US Postal Service examines worker perceptions of ‘management citizenship’ in a high performance workplace, and assesses the impact of management citizenship on worker commitment. Qualitative data from employee narratives show many workers view performance management practi... | {
"abstract": "textabstractAlthough our urbanized civilization requires freight transport in order to sustain it, urban freight transport is especially recognized for its unsustainable impacts. To reduce the unsustainable impacts of urban freight transport, many local governments develop policies that focus sometimes... |
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"abstract": "The precise mechanisms underlying the effects of IFN‐I in CNS autoimmunity remain poorly understood despite the long‐standing use of these cytokines as first‐line disease‐modifying drugs in the treatment of RRMS, a chronic demyelinating CNS autoimmune disease. Systemic use of IFN‐I results in pleiotrop... | {
"abstract": "The mechanism of IFN-β therapy in relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (RRMS) is not well understood, but induction of apoptosis in specific leukocyte subsets is likely to be important. Enhanced expression of TNFSF10 or TNF-related apoptosis-inducing ligand (TRAIL) mRNA in unseparated leukocytes has ... | {
"abstract": "Firms' international activities require an early identification of potential employees with an intention to work abroad. Based on social cognitive theory the current study examines the influence of prior international exposure and cultural intelligence on the individual intention to work abroad. In par... |
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"abstract": "Emerging computational resistive memory is promising to overcome the challenges of scalability and energy efficiency that DRAM faces and also break through the memory wall bottleneck. However, cell-level and array-level nonideal properties of resistive memory significantly degrade the reliability, perf... | {
"abstract": "For the first time, nano-meter-scaled 1T-1R non-volatile memory (NVM) architecture comprising of RRAM cells built on vertical GAA nano-pillar transistors, either junction-less or junction-based, is systematically investigated. Transistors are fabricated using fully CMOS compatible technology and RRAM c... | {
"abstract": "Emerging nonvolatile memory (NVM) technologies, such as resistive random access memories (RRAM) and phase-change memories (PCM), are an attractive option for future memory architectures due to their nonvolatility, high density, and low-power operation. Notwithstanding these advantages, they are prone t... |
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"abstract": "Abstract Traditionally eukaryotes exclusive cytoskeleton has been found in bacteria and other prokaryotes. FtsZ, MreB and CreS are bacterial counterpart of eukaryotic tubulin, actin filaments and intermediate filaments, respectively. FtsZ can assemble to a Z-ring at the cell division site, regulate bac... | {
"abstract": "Cytoskeletal proteins are important mediators of cellular organization in both eukaryotes and bacteria. In the past, cytoskeletal studies have largely focused on three major cytoskeletal families, namely the eukaryotic actin, tubulin, and intermediate filament (IF) proteins and their bacterial homologs... | {
"abstract": "Different statistical methods have been used to classify a gene as differentially expressed in microarray experiments. They usually require a number of experimental observations to be adequately applied. However, many microarray experiments are constrained to low replication designs for different reaso... |
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"abstract": "PURPOSE\nTo assess patient self-perception of overall dental appearance and of potentially localized dyschromic teeth and to compare them to the perception of the treating dentist.\n\n\nMATERIALS AND METHODS\nA sample of 160 patients from Cluj-Napoca, Romania, answered a questionnaire regarding the sel... | {
"abstract": "Objective. To identify participants' satisfaction with appearance and the desired treatment to improve aesthetics. Materials and Methods. 220 participants (127 males and 93 females, mean age = 21.4 ± 1.5 years) were recruited into the study. A structured questionnaire was used to assess patients' satis... | {
"abstract": "11 were dissatisfied with the appearance of their teeth. Therefore understanding the prevalence of ABSTRACT Objective: To assess the satisfaction with dental appearance, desired treatments to improve dental appearance, and factors that affect satisfaction with dental appearance among a group of Nigeria... |
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"abstract": "One key question in the study of the European Union has always been the extent of Commission discretion. We take the discretion index, typically used by principal–agent scholars to measure the Commission's designed discretion, to measure its actual discretion. Commission designed discretion can today b... | {
"abstract": "The 2–300 comitology committees monitor the EU Commission's use of delegated powers. Why should there be this unique and peculiar solution to a parliamentary control problem that is well known from all national political systems? This article argues that, contrary to conventional wisdom, the exact choi... | {
"abstract": "Background Most evidence (not all) points in the direction that individuals with a higher level of health literacy will less frequently utilize the health care system than individuals with lower levels of health literacy. The underlying reasons of this effect are largely unclear, though people’s abilit... |
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"abstract": "This paper describes an alternative approach to morphological language modeling, which incorporates constraints on the morphological production of new words. This is done by applying the constraints as a preprocessing step in which only one morphological production rule can be applied to an extended le... | {
"abstract": "This paper compares two systems for computational morphological analysis of Dutch. Both systems have been independently designed as separate modules in the context of the FLa-VoR project, which aims to develop a modular architecture for automatic speech recognition. The systems are trained and tested o... | {
"abstract": "In several languages compound words form orthographic units, which complicates the task of ensuring good lexical coverage for large vocabulary continuous speech recognition (LVCSR). A common approach to the problem consists of first recognizing the compound constituents, followed by an automatic recomp... |
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"abstract": "ABSTRACT The paper presents the results of a questionnaire survey from Ghana that investigates how perceived environmental uncertainty (environmental level factor) and organizational culture (organizational level factor) influence budget participation, and how budget participation in turn influences ma... | {
"abstract": "Abstract The study attempts to establish the contingent relationship between culture and budget related behavior. Multiple aspects of culture were investigated including national, corporate, professional, and hierarchical components. The paper is the fourth in a series investigating the relationship in... | {
"abstract": "The Job Diagnostic Survey (JDS) and the Job Characteristics Model (JCM) have been widely used in South African organisations. The purpose of this study was to determine whether the JDS is useful if it is applied to a particular population or to groups from highly dissimilar backgrounds. Cultural divers... |
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"abstract": "Directed searches for continuous gravitational waves from spinning neutron stars in binary systems by Grant David Meadors Chair: John Keith Riles Gravitational wave (GW) detectors would reveal the universe in a way unlike any existing kind of telescope. These waves, predicted by general relativity, rad... | {
"abstract": "Millisecond pulsars are neutron stars that are thought to have been spun-up by mass accretion from a stellar companion. It is not known whether there is a natural brake for this process, or if it continues until the centrifugal breakup limit is reached at submillisecond periods. Many neutron stars that... | {
"abstract": "Different oscillations in the flux of X-rays emitted from a neutron star now seem to be linked to the frequency at which the star is spinning. That spin rate in turn hints at what the interior of such a star is made of.",
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"title": "Astronomy: Heartbeats of a neu... |
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"abstract": "El impacto critico de los fenomenos aerodinamicos en el diseno y el rendimiento de las aeronaves modernas de transporte requiere de predicciones numericas precisas. Hasta aparicion de los metodos numericos y los equipos informaticos, se utilizaron principalmente mediciones de tunel de viento y metodos ... | {
"abstract": "Abstract A recently developed centroidal Voronoi tessellation (CVT) sampling method is investigated here to assess its suitability for use in statistical sampling applications. CVT efficiently generates a highly uniform distribution of sample points over arbitrarily shaped M -dimensional parameter spac... | {
"abstract": "A new approach for single response adaptive design of deterministic computer experiments is presented. The approach is called SFCVT, for Space-Filling Cross-Validation Tradeoff. SFCVT uses metamodeling to obtain an estimate of cross-validation errors, which is then maximized, combined with a space fill... |
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"abstract": "• A submitted manuscript is the author's 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 versio... | {
"abstract": "We present an original apparatus combining an acoustic levitator and a pressure-compatible process chamber. To characterize in situ the chemical and physical modifications of a levitated, single particle while heated to well-defined temperatures using a carbon dioxide laser, the chamber is interfaced t... | {
"abstract": "A better understanding of the formation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) and fullerenes is of practical interest due to the apparent environmental health effects of many PAH and potential industrial applications of fullerenes. In the present work, a kinetic model describing the growth of PAH u... |
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"abstract": "Keyphrases have been used extensively in IR systems to facilitate information exchange, organize information and assist information retrieval. Automation of keyphrase generation is essential for the timely creation of keyphrases for large repositories in new domains where previous thesauri do not exist... | {
"abstract": "UsersO information needs are often too complex to be effectively expressed in standard query interfaces to full-text retrieval systems. A typical need is to find documents that are similar to a given source document, yet describing the content of a document in a few terms is a difficult task. We descri... | {
"abstract": "Automatically extracting keyphrases from documents is a task with many applications in information retrieval and natural language processing. Document retrieval can be biased towards documents containing relevant keyphrases; documents can be classified or categorized based on their keyphrases; automati... |
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"abstract": "Characterization of the functional consequences of pupil-linked arousal during perceptual decision-making Brian James Schriver The overarching purpose of this work is to expand the utility of pupillometry as a noninvasive index of pupil-linked neuromodulatory systems, which are correlated with behavior... | {
"abstract": "While judging their sensory environments, decision-makers seem to use the uncertainty about their choices to guide adjustments of their subsequent behaviour. One possible source of these behavioural adjustments is arousal: decision uncertainty might drive the brain's arousal systems, which control glob... | {
"abstract": "We consider the problem of zero-shot learning, where the goal is to learn a classifier f : X → Y that must predict novel values of Y that were omitted from the training set. To achieve this, we define the notion of a semantic output code classifier (SOC) which utilizes a knowledge base of semantic prop... |
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"abstract": "Recent clinical data in lung cancer suggests that epigenetically targeted therapy may selectively enhance chemotherapeutic sensitivity. There have been few if any studies rigorously evaluating this hypothesized priming effect. Here we describe a series of investigations testing whether epigenetic primi... | {
"abstract": "Traditional approaches to the preclinical investigation of cancer therapies rely on the use of established cell lines maintained in serum-based growth media. This is particularly true of small-cell lung cancer (SCLC), where surgically resected tissue is rarely available. Recent attention has focused on... | {
"abstract": "BackgroundPatient-derived tumor xenograft models have been established and increasingly used for preclinical studies of targeted therapies in recent years. However, patient-derived non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) xenograft mouse models are relatively few in number and are limited in their degree of ... |
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"abstract": "Data-driven domains such as public administration, health or mobility have adopted a so-called ‘data ecosystem’ perspective to unify the socio-technical aspects fostering data-driven collaboration. While a data ecosystem is technically able to collect and merge their different datasets, it is yet relat... | {
"abstract": "The field of Participatory Design (PD) has greatly diversified and we see a broad spectrum of approaches and methodologies emerging. However, to foster its role in designing future interactive technologies, a discussion about accountability and rigour across this spectrum is needed. Rejecting the tradi... | {
"abstract": "Improving motivation to read is an important step toward improving reading fluency among children with dyslexia. We describe a test of the RAFT dyslexia fluency tutor which dynamically generates an interactive story by assembling pre-written scene templates in response to user-chosen plot events. Resul... |
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"abstract": "The aims of this study were to examine the associations between perceived social support and oral health behaviors among adolescents and if this perception had a protective effect against the influence of perceived racial discrimination on oral health behaviors in this population.",
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"abstract": "OBJECTIVES\nWe examined the association between mother-perceived neighborhood social capital and oral health status and dental care use in US children.\n\n\nMETHODS\nWe analyzed data for 67 388 children whose mothers participated in the 2007 National Survey of Children's Health. We measured mothers' pe... | {
"abstract": "By Robert D. Putnam A more extended version of this article, complete with references, appears in the Winter 1995 issue of PS, a publication of the American Political Science Association. This work, originally delivered as the inaugural Ithiel de Sola Pool Lecture, builds on Putnam's earlier articles, ... |
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"abstract": "This paper focuses on identification and learning from adaptive neural dynamic surface control (DSC) for a class of nth-order strict-feedback systems. In the previous neural learning control proposed using backstepping, intermediate variables are often used as neural network (NN) inputs to keep the dim... | {
"abstract": "This paper studies learning from adaptive neural control (ANC) for a class of nonlinear strict-feedback systems with unknown affine terms. To achieve the purpose of learning, a simple input-to-state stability (ISS) modular ANC method is first presented to ensure the boundedness of all the signals in th... | {
"abstract": "In November 2019, a joint team from Colorado State University and the University of Rwanda intervened to repair a failed pico-hydropower plant in southwestern Rwanda. In a common outside-intervention model, the plant had been constructed by U.S. university team that later, for unknown reasons, couldn't... |
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"abstract": "Since ancient times and throughout the world, mangroves have been used as traditional medicine. They are biochemically unique producing a wide array of novel natural products such as biologically active antimicrobial compounds. Their anti-inflammatory, anticancer and other therapeutic properties are we... | {
"abstract": "Rhizophora mangle L. bark aqueous extract has antimicrobial, wound healing and antiulcerogenic properties. These properties could be associated with its chemical composition. To test this hypothesis, gravimetric, colorimetric, gas chromatography techniques were used to determine the preliminary chemica... | {
"abstract": "The dried aerial parts of Bidens pilosa L. were extracted with petrol ether, chloroform, methanol, and methanol/water. The petrol ether and the methanol/water extracts showed some antimicrobial activity. Fractionation of the extracts yielded well known substances, most of which have, however, not yet b... |
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"abstract": "This paper introduces a supervised metric learning algorithm, called kernel density metric learning (KDML), which is easy to use and provides nonlinear, probability-based distance measures. KDML constructs a direct nonlinear mapping from the original input space into a feature space based on kernel den... | {
"abstract": "In this paper, we introduce two novel metric learning algorithms, Χ2-LMNN and GB-LMNN, which are explicitly designed to be non-linear and easy-to-use. The two approaches achieve this goal in fundamentally different ways: Χ2-LMNN inherits the computational benefits of a linear mapping from linear metric... | {
"abstract": "Linkages are essentially determined by similarity measures that may be derived from multiple perspectives. For example, spatial linkages are usually generated based on localities of heterogeneous data, whereas semantic linkages can come from various properties, such as different physical meanings behin... |
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"abstract": "Lysyl hydroxylase (E.C. 1.14.11.4) catalyzes the formation of hydroxylysine in collagens and other proteins with collagenous domains. The resulting hydroxylysine residues participate in the formation of collagen crosslinks, and serve as attachment sites for carbohydrate units. They have been regarded a... | {
"abstract": "Cell culture studies were performed on members of a family in which two sisters, ages 9 and 12, have a similar disorder characterized clinically by severe scoliosis, joint laxity and recurrent dislocations, hyperextensible skin, and thin scars. The skin collagen from the sisters was markedly deficient ... | {
"abstract": "Abstract A methyl Cellosolve-toluene phosphor solvent system is described for the differential determination of absolute levels of tritium and C 14 , as well as for the determination of H 3 /C 14 dpm ratios in water-soluble biological samples by liquid scintillation counting techniques. A plot of H 3 /... |
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"abstract": "Large coupled networks of individual entities arise in multiple contexts in nature and engineered systems to produce rich dynamics and achieve complex behaviors. As the state-space dimension increases, the certification of stability and performance properties of these nonlinear dynamical systems become... | {
"abstract": "We present a stability test for a class of interconnected nonlinear systems motivated by biochemical reaction networks. The main result determines global asymptotic stability of the network from the diagonal stability of a \"dissipativity matrix\" which incorporates information about the passivity prop... | {
"abstract": "The notions of asymptotic amplitude for signals, and Cauchy gain for input/output systems, and an associated small-gain principle, are introduced. These concepts allow the consideration of systems with multiple, and possibly feedback-dependent, steady states. A Lyapunov-like characterization allows the... |
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"abstract": "In this paper, we estimate a semi-structural model with a banking sector for the Chilean economy. Our innovation consists of incorporating a system of equations that reflects the dynamics of credit, interest rate spreads and loan-loss provisions to the Central Bank of Chile’s semi-structural model “MSE... | {
"abstract": "Credit and market risks are crucial for financial institutions. In this paper we present the model used by the Central Bank of Chile to conduct the stress tests for commercial banks in Chile. Market risk uses a balance-sheet approach that is consistent with the credit risk. For exchange rate risk we co... | {
"abstract": "Using an unbalanced panel of accounting data from 1997 to 2004 and controlling for individual bank costs and risk, we find capital buffers of the banks in the EU15 have a significant negative co-movement with the cycle. For banks in the accession countries there is significant positive co-movement. Cap... |
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"abstract": "Abstract As a part of an assessment of the Swiss drug harm-reduction policy, cross-sectional surveys were conducted in 1994, 1996 and 2000 among attenders of all needle exchange programmes (NEP) in Switzerland to assess changes in specific aspects of their health related to drug use. Data were gathered... | {
"abstract": "The geographical distribution of chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection appears to be one of high and low prevalence regions. Australia resembles the USA, UK and other parts of northern Europe in being a low prevalence region, and thereby differs from southern Europe, the middle-east, south-eastern ... | {
"abstract": "medical and dental space planning for the 1990s. Book lovers, when you need a new book to read, find the book here. Never worry not to find what you need. Is the medical and dental space planning for the 1990s your needed book now? That's true; you are really a good reader. This is a perfect book that ... |
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"abstract": "The testis‐specific linker histone H1t gene is transcribed exclusively in mid to late pachytene primary spermatocytes. Tissue specific expression of the gene is mediated in large part through elements located within the proximal promoter. Previous work in transgenic animals showed that a unique 40 bp p... | {
"abstract": "Abstract H1t is a testis-specific variant histone 1 gene transcribed in pachytene spermatocytes. As part of a program to understand its transcriptional control, we have investigated the effect of the cap-proximal, GC-rich silencer element in the context of various lengths of upstream sequence. By trans... | {
"abstract": "The distribution and synthesis of the testis-specific variants of histones H1 and H2B, TH1 and TH2B, respectively, and of the somatic histones were studied in rat testis cells. Rat testis cells were labeled in vivo with intratesticular injections of [3H]lysine. The cells and nuclei were then separated ... |
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"abstract": "Thesis. M.S.E.S. American University of Beirut. Interfaculty Graduate Environmental Sciences Program, (Environmental Technology), 2015. ET:6319",
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"title": "A pretreatment process for brackish water and brine desalination"
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"abstract": "Iron is the primary source for discolouration problems in the drinking water distribution system. The removal of iron from groundwater is a common treatment step in the production of drinking water. Even when clear water meets the drinking water standards, the water quality in the distribution system c... | {
"abstract": "Dimethylsulfoniopropionate (DMSP), an osmolyte in marine plants, is biodegraded by cleavage of dimethyl sulfide (DMS) or by demethylation to 3-methiolpropionate (MMPA) and 3-mercaptopropionate (MPA). Sequential demethylation has been observed only with anoxic slurries of coastal sediments. Bacteria tha... |
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"abstract": "Human DNA topoisomerases are ubiquitous enzymes that remove topological constraints like superhelical tension, knots or tangles from the cellular DNA, and are thus essentially required for DNA metabolism. They are divided into type I and type II enzymes, which transiently cleave one or both strands of ... | {
"abstract": "DNA topoisomerase I is essential for cellular metabolism and survival. It is also the target of a novel class of anticancer drugs active against previously refractory solid tumors, the camptothecins. The present review describes the topoisomerase I catalytic mechanisms with particular emphasis on the c... | {
"abstract": "BackgroundAccumulating evidences suggest that tumors are driven by a small population of cells, termed “cancer stem cells” (CSCs), which may be resistant to current therapeutic approaches. In breast carcinoma, the CSCs have been identified as a CD44+/CD24− cell population. These rare cells are able to ... |
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"abstract": "De-differentiation of vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs) plays a critical role in the development of atherosclerosis, a chronic inflammatory disease involving various cytokines such as tumor necrosis factor-α (TNFα). Myocardin is a co-factor of serum response factor (SRF) and is considered to be the ... | {
"abstract": "Rheumatoid arthritis is characterized by hyperplasia of the synovial lining and invasion of cartilage and bone by a subset of resident synovial cells named fibroblast-like synoviocytes. They are characterized by elevated expression of the vascular cell adhesion molecule-1 (VCAM-1). The intensity of VCA... | {
"abstract": "Functional receptors for interleukin (IL)-4 and IL-13 on endothelial cells consist of the 130-kDa IL-4 receptor α-chain (IL-4Rα) and a 65-75-kDa IL-13 binding subunit that are expressed in a ratio of about 1:3, respectively. The restricted number of IL-4Rα limits subunit heterodimerization and in turn ... |
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"abstract": "Increased ratio error of capacitor voltage transformers (CVTs) has been recently encountered in several substations in Iran. The results of the performed diagnostic tests indicate that short-circuited capacitor elements, especially in the low-voltage capacitor, have increased the CVT error. In this pap... | {
"abstract": "Reliability centered maintenance (RCM) allows power companies to improve service quality and prevent equipment functional failure. This paper presents an RCM model for capacitor voltage transformers, which has been developed based on experience of maintenance crews of an important Brazilian power trans... | {
"abstract": "Most preventive maintenance(PM) models assume that the hazard function of a system after each PM occurrence is restored to like new or to some specified level. Thus, there is no provision for system degradation with time. Operation of many systems causes stress which results in system degradation and h... |
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"abstract": "Sportler im Kindesund Jugendalter sind aufgrund des sich noch entwickelnden Gehirns und der vermuteten grösseren Empfindlichkeit des Gehirns eine besondere Herausforderung in der medizinischen Betreuung nach einer Commotio. Noch vor zehn Jahren durften Sportler nach einer leichten Commotio am selben Ta... | {
"abstract": "ObjectiveThe objective was to determine whether the age of patients with mild head injury and skull fracture influences the level of risk for acute intracranial injuries.MethodA study was conducted of 156 patients with skull fracture, 60 children (aged <14 years) and 96 adults, detected among 5,097 con... | {
"abstract": "Objective: Head injuries are the most common injuries sustained by children in motor vehicle crashes regardless of age, restraint, and crash direction. For rear seat occupants, the interaction of the subject with the seat back and the vehicle side interior structures has been previously highlighted. In... |
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"abstract": "Introduction: This is a review of the principal comorbidities of severe asthma (obesity, gastro-oesophageal reflux disease, obstructive sleep apnoea, and psychopathologies) with specific attention to their impact on pathophysiology and treatment. ERS/ATS or GINA guidelines on (severe) asthma provide li... | {
"abstract": "Background/Objectives. Asthma in older individuals is poorly understood. We aimed to characterize the older asthma phenotype and test its association with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). Design. Cross-sectional. Setting. Pulmonary and Asthma/Allergy clinics. Participants. 659 asthma subjects aged 18–59 ... | {
"abstract": "Asthma is characterized by chronic bronchial inflammation, airway hyperresponsiveness induced by specific and nonspecific stimuli, reversible bronchial obstruction, and airway remodeling. Although standard asthma medications were applied, there are approximately 55% of patients with asthma still suffer... |
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"abstract": "The term 5G is sometimes used to encapsulate all existing technologies for all time availability, higher coverage area and higher network density with respect to cell and devices.5G system will be compatible with existing technologies such as 2G, 3G, 4G, WiFi etc. and will support more than ten thousan... | {
"abstract": "Full dimension MIMO has attracted significant attention in the wireless industry and academia in the past few years as a candidate technology for the next generation evolution toward beyond fourth generation and fifth generation cellular systems. FD-MIMO utilizes a large number of antennas placed in a ... | {
"abstract": "Today's production vehicles are fitted with a multitude of antennas to facilitate communication and enable a moving vehicle to connect with the outside world. Recent years have seen the introduction of new electronic devices to the automotive environment. These devices are usually designed to aid the d... |
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"abstract": "The separation of lignin from the black liquor generated during alkaline pulping is reviewed in this article with an emphasis on chemistry. Based on published accounts, the precipitation of lignin from spent pulping liquor by addition of acids can be understood based on dissociation equilibria of weak ... | {
"abstract": "In the development of integrated biorefinery process alternatives to produce value-added by-products, various black liquors from sulfur-free pulping processes offer potential feedstocks for recovering their main chemical constituents, lignin and aliphatic carboxylic acids. In this study, lignin fractio... | {
"abstract": "Have we always lived in cities? Even if we have, they have not been the experience of the majority, and nor are they now. The proportion of the world’s population living in urban areas may surpass that living in rural areas, but ‘urban area’ should not be conflated with ‘city’. Moreover, the processes ... |
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"abstract": "The glymphatic system is a newly identified waste clearance pathway in brain discovered and investigated predominately using in vivo two‐photon confocal microscopy. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), in contrast to two‐photon confocal microscopy, provides dynamic and real‐time pictures of the glymphatic... | {
"abstract": "The human brain has no lymphatic system, but produces over a half-liter each day of cerebrospinal fluid. The cerebrospinal fluid is secreted at the choroid plexus and occupies the cavities of the four ventricles, as well as the cranial and spinal sub-arachnoid space. The cerebrospinal fluid moves over ... | {
"abstract": "This study was undertaken to investigate the entry of administered cortisol and one of its metabolic products into the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) of dogs under a variety of conditions. Cortisol,' one of the principal circulating adrenal cortical steroids of man (1, 2) enters the CSF (3-5), but little is... |
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"abstract": "Despite increasingly sophisticated microbiological techniques, and long after the first discovery of microbes, basic knowledge is still lacking to fully appreciate the ecological importance of microbial parasites in fish. This is likely due to the nature of their habitats as many species of fish suffer... | {
"abstract": "We observed ulcerative lesions on live Atlantic menhaden, Brevoortia tyrannus, during ichthyofaunal sampling in the tidal James River in October 1999 (near Jamestown, VA, USA). Other synoptically collected fishes exhibited no signs of lesions or pre-ulcerative tissues. Live fish were classified as unre... | {
"abstract": "Part of FinnFest 2015, Pia Lindman’s A Kalevala Duo, Playing Bones rubbed the history of Kalevala bone-setting against the grain by putting this otherwise private healing practice on a public stage at Kleinhans Music Hall in Buffalo, New York.",
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"abstract": "Wound cleansing agents are routine in wound care and preoperative preparation. Antiseptic activity intends to prevent contaminating microbes from establishing an infection while also raising concerns of cytotoxicity and delayed wound healing. We evaluated the cytotoxicity of five clinically used wound ... | {
"abstract": "BackgroundStaphylococcus aureus is commonly isolated from infected wounds both in animals and humans. It is known to be an excellent biofilm former and biofilms are present in as many as 60% of chronic wounds. Despite that the presence of biofilms in infections are common, antiseptics are usually quali... | {
"abstract": "&NA; Medical device related infections are a significant and growing source of morbidity and mortality. Biofilm formation is a common feature of medical device infections that is not effectively prevented or treated by systemic antibiotics. Antimicrobial medical device combination products provide a pa... |
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"abstract": "There are many cases when both Digital-to-Analog Converter (DAC) and Analog-to-Digital Converter (ADC) are present in the integrated systems, which could be of great advantage to use both together to test the characteristics of the ADC and DAC without any extra test stimulus or instruments. Conventiona... | {
"abstract": "Data converters are among the most widely used components in modern integrated devices and systems. A major challenge is to characterize their performances accurately and cost effectively. The analog-to-digital converter (ADC) standard test requires the input sinusoidal signal to be 3–4 b better than t... | {
"abstract": "In spectral analysis, achieving coherent sampling, especially when signals have large distortion, has been a challenge for many years. This paper introduces three algorithms to resolve this issue. In comparison to previous algorithms, and two widely used methods in industry: windowing and four-paramete... |
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"abstract": "The stunning advances in understanding the reactivity and selectivity principles of asymmetric pericyclic reactions have had a profound impact on the synthetic planning of complex natural products. Indeed, electrocyclizations, cycloadditions, and sigmatropic rearrangements enable synthetic chemists to ... | {
"abstract": "The 1,6-conjugate addition of nucleophiles to dienyl diketones produces either cyclopentenone or 2H-pyran products with high selectivity through either Nazarov (4π) or 6π electrocyclization, respectively. The outcome of the reaction is dependent upon the nature of the nucleophile used. Nucleophiles tha... | {
"abstract": "Calphostins A, B, C, and D (1–4) were isolated in 1989 from the fungi Cladosporium cladosporioides found in Osaka Japan and belong to a class of naturally occurring perylenequinones.1,2 The calphostins were found to be potent and specific inhibitors of protein kinase C (PKC) and exhibited strong cytoto... |
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"abstract": "Asymmetric links commonly exist in low power wireless sensor networks. However, it is difficult to discover and exploit them efficiently. In this work, we propose DEAL, a link management scheme to Discover and Exploit Asymmetric Links efficiently in dense wireless sensor networks. Equipped with a novel... | {
"abstract": "A new class of networked systems is emerging that involve very large numbers of small, low-power, wireless devices. We present findings from a large scale empirical study involving over 150 such nodes operated at various transmission power settings. The instrumentation in our experiments permits us to ... | {
"abstract": "Several routing protocols for mobile ad hoc networks work efficiently only in bidirectional networks. Unidirectional links may exist in a real network due to variations in transmission power of different nodes, noise or other signal propagation phenomena, and heterogeneity in the transmission hardware ... |
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"abstract": "The regulating of a structure and a pores volume of activated carbons by mechanical, chemical and thermal activations of agricultural wastes, such as apricot kernel shells were studied. The mechanical activation was provided in the grinding mill, in the aqueous medium. The chemical activation was imple... | {
"abstract": "The adsorption ability of a powdered activated carbons (PAC) derived from walnut shell was investigated in an attempt to produce more economic and effective sorbents for the control of Hg(II) ion from industrial liquid streams. Carbonaceous sorbents derived from local walnut shell, were prepared by che... | {
"abstract": "We report on the comparison of the electronic and photophysical properties of a series of related donor-acceptor-donor oligomers incorporating the previously known 2H-benzo[d][1,2,3]triazole (BTz) moiety as the acceptor and the recently reported BTzTD acceptor, a hybrid of BTz and 2,1,3-benzothiadiazol... |
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"abstract": "Background Waist circumference (WC) measurement is practical to define central obesity. However, WC cut-off point might be differ based on different race or ethnicity. This study aims to analyze the optimal WC cut-off point to identify T2DM risk among Indonesian population. Method We analyzed the secon... | {
"abstract": "ObjectivesThe aim of this study was to evaluate the association between Fasting Blood Glucose (FBG) level and Waist Circumference (WC) in men and women among 25–65 years old people in the north of Iran.Material and methodsThis was a cross-sectional and analytical research gender that carried out on the... | {
"abstract": "Prevalence of prediabetes and Type 2 diabetes is rapidly increasing in the United States, and has reached epidemic levels. Currently, 30.3 million adults, or 1/10 of the population, in the U.S. are classified as diabetic, and it has been estimated that this incidence will increase to 1/5 of U.S. adults... |
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"abstract": "Standard treatment for patients with locally advanced rectal cancer (LARC) is currently preoperative radiotherapy with or without concurrent chemotherapy followed by total \nmesorectal excision. Approximately 10-20% of patients who receive preoperative therapy currently achieve a complete pathological ... | {
"abstract": "PurposeThe circulating cell-free DNA (cfDNA) in plasma has been reported to be a marker of cancer detection. The aim of this study was to investigate whether the cfDNA has a role as response biomarker in patients receiving preoperative chemoradiotherapy (CRT) for rectal cancer.MethodsSixty-seven patien... | {
"abstract": "BackgroundWe performed this study to prospectively evaluate the postchemoradiotherapy performance of transrectal ultrasonography (TRUS), pelvic computed tomography (CT) scan and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and endoscopic biopsies for predicting the pathologic complete response of rectal cancer pa... |
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"abstract": "Mechanisms on automatic discovery of macro actions or skills in reinforcement learning methods are mainly focused on subgoal discovery methods. Among the proposed algorithms, those based on graph centrality measures demonstrate a high performance gain. In this paper, we propose a new graph theoretic ap... | {
"abstract": "Reinforcement learning addresses the problem of learning to select actions in order to maximize an agent’s performance in unknown environments. To scale reinforcement learning to complex real-world tasks, agent must be able to discover hierarchical structures within their learning and control systems. ... | {
"abstract": "This paper presents a new method for the autonomous construction of hierarchical action and state representations in reinforcement learning, aimed at accelerating learning and extending the scope of such systems. In this approach, the agent uses information acquired while learning one task to discover ... |
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"abstract": "Background Depression is the most common mental disorder during pregnancy, with prevalence rates between 4% and 20%. The objective of this review was to synthesize the literature on the association between antenatal depression and offspring birth outcomes, as well as developmental, behavioral, and psyc... | {
"abstract": "The world's preterm birth rate continues to increase. In 2006, preterm births accounted for 12.8% of live births in the United States. Only about half the cases of prematurity result from identifiable causes. This review discusses the challenge of understanding the causes of premature birth and finding... | {
"abstract": "BackgroundRecent studies have shown that when individuals are grouped on the basis of genetic similarity, group membership corresponds closely to continental origin. There has been considerable debate about the implications of these findings in the context of larger debates about race and the extent of... |
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"abstract": "We present a novel approach for predicting one lumber strength property from another, each being measured destructively. The objective is to reduce the cost of lumber monitoring programs, by measuring one of the properties and predicting the other. To reach the objective, we review single proof load de... | {
"abstract": "A particular problem in the choice of experimental designs for estimating effective doses is discussed. Several alternative approaches are considered when there is some curvature in the dose‐response relationship, but a linear approximation is still to be used. An example of one method is discussed in ... | {
"abstract": "Estimation of the independent variable in a regression situation for a measured value of the dependent variable (inverse estimation) is discussed along with the corresponding design problems under correct classification and misclassification of the model. Optimal designs are derived using a linear appr... |
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"abstract": "In this article, the pull-in instability and dynamic characteristics of electrostatically actuated suspended microchannel resonators are studied. A theoretical model is presented to describe the pull-in effect of suspended microchannel resonators by considering the electrostatic field and the internal ... | {
"abstract": "Nanomechanical resonators enable the measurement of mass with extraordinary sensitivity. Previously, samples as light as 7 zeptograms (1 zg = 10-21 g) have been weighed in vacuum, and proton-level resolution seems to be within reach. Resolving small mass changes requires the resonator to be light and... | {
"abstract": "This paper describes a highly sensitive, film bulk acoustic resonator (FBAR) mass sensor (built on a micromachined silicon-nitride diaphragm with a piezoelectric thin film and Al electrodes) that can operate in vapor and liquid. The sensitivity of the device to mass change on its surface has been inves... |
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"abstract": "G-quadruplexes are noncanonical nucleic acid structures formed from stacked guanine tetrads. They are frequently used as building blocks and functional elements in fields such as synthetic biology and also thought to play widespread biological roles. G-quadruplexes are often studied as monomers, but ca... | {
"abstract": "Non canonical DNA structures correspond to genomic regions particularly susceptible to genetic instability. The transcription process facilitates formation of these structures and plays a major role in generating the instability associated with these genomic sites. However, little is known about how no... | {
"abstract": "Clays frequently possess a fabric with a preferred particle orientation and the creep properties of such clays are therefore anisotropic. A two-dimensional microstructural model to describe this creep response is developed. The model is based on a triangular cell of three particles sliding over each ot... |
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"abstract": "Given the mixed conclusions on the psychometric properties of the Mindful Attention Awareness Scale (MAAS) and the variety of subsets of items identified as abbreviated forms, the current study aimed to (a) further investigate the performance of single items and different combinations of items of the M... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Mindfulness represents an attribute of consciousness involving an intentional focus on the present-moment experience with a non-judgmental attitude. Due to this quality, it attenuates rumination, a maladaptive way of coping with negative mood characterized by a continuous, passive focus on par... | {
"abstract": "The morphologic changes of the spinal cord in Rett syndrome are described in 2 young women who died at 20 and 30 years of age. Both patients had been in a severely disabled state for many years with tetraparesis and extreme muscle wasting. Degeneration and loss of spinal ganglion nerve cells, in additi... |
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"abstract": "Increasing evidence indicates that the phloem mediates traffic of selective RNAs within a plant. How an RNA enters, moves in, and exits the phloem is poorly understood. Potato spindle tuber viroid (PSTVd) is a pathogenic RNA that does not encode proteins and is not encapsidated, and yet it replicates a... | {
"abstract": "We used the interaction of Hop stunt viroid (HSVd) and cucumber plants to investigate the involvement of phloem proteins in the systemic transport of RNA molecules. A ribonucleoprotein complex, stable even at high salt and temperature conditions, was detected in vitro between HSVd-RNA and the phloem ex... | {
"abstract": "ORIGIN Using a two primer method similar to the one of Tabler et al. (1), we have obtained full-length monomeric clones of an Indonesian isolate of tomato apical stunt viroid (TASV). Infectivity of the cloned sequences was confirmed by inoculation of double stranded recombinant plasmid DNA as shown pre... |
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"abstract": "ABSTRACT The global ambition to “end AIDS” hinges on the universal uptake of HIV treatment-as-prevention and is undergirded by the assumption that biomedical technologies have consistent, predictable effects across highly diverse settings. But as anthropologists argue, such technologies are actively tr... | {
"abstract": "BackgroundThe prevention of intimate partner transmission of HIV remains an important component of comprehensive HIV prevention strategies. In this paper we examine the sexual practices of people living with HIV on antiretroviral therapy (ART) in Papua New Guinea (PNG).MethodIn 2008, a total of 374 HIV... | {
"abstract": "It is not well understood how infection with HIV and prior experience of sexual violence affects sexual behavior in African women. We describe factors influencing current sexual practices of Rwandan women living with or without HIV/AIDS. By design, 75 % of participants were HIV positive and ~50 % repor... |
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"abstract": "Exploitation of bitumen-rich deposits in the Alberta Oil Sands Region (AOSR) by large-scale mining and processing activities has generated widespread concern about the potential for dispersal of harmful contaminants to aquatic ecosystems via fluvial and atmospheric pathways. The release of mercury has ... | {
"abstract": "High-resolution records of anthropogenic mercury (Hg) deposition were constructed from 9 lakes located 5-75km from the Flin Flon, Manitoba smelter (formerly one of North America's largest atmospheric Hg point sources) and 5 lakes in Experimental Lakes Area (ELA), Ontario; a region remote from major Hg ... | {
"abstract": "Abstract The studies of aquatic parasitology and of aquatic pollution effects both have experienced increasing interest during the recent fifteen years. Although considerable effort has been spent on studying the role of pollution as a cause or a trigger of anomalies, tumors and infectious diseases in ... |
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"abstract": "Abstract. This paper focuses on the extractions of Lagrangian Coherent Sets from realistic velocity fields obtained from ocean data and simulations, each of which can be highly resolved and non volume-preserving. We introduce two novel methods for computing two formulations of such sets. First, we prop... | {
"abstract": "Abstract The study of transport and mixing processes in dynamical systems is particularly important for the analysis of mathematical models of physical systems. Barriers to transport, which mitigate mixing, are currently the subject of intense study. In the autonomous setting, the use of transfer opera... | {
"abstract": "The core of a quasi-two-dimensional rotating cylinder filled more than half full with glass beads rotates slightly faster than the cylinder itself and decreases in radius over time. Core precession depends linearly on the number of tumbler revolutions while core erosion varies logarithmically. Both pro... |
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"abstract": "Irony detection is considered a complex task in Natural Language Processing. This paper first introduce and cover the recently state of irony detection. Then we review and summarize previous related research on text-based irony detection. Finally we compare various classifiers including the proposed CN... | {
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"title": "Approaches for Computational Sarcasm Detection : A Survey"
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"abstract": "The research described in this paper is focused on analyzing two playful domains of language: humor and irony, in order to identify key values components for their automatic processing. In particular, we are focused on describing a model for recognizing these phenomena in social media, such as ''tweets... |
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"abstract": "The rise of deep learning has resulted in tremendous demand for compute power, with the FLOPS required for leading machine learning (ML) research doubling roughly every 3.5 months since 2012 [1]. This increase in demand for compute has coincided with the end of Moore’s Law [2]. As a result, major indus... | {
"abstract": "In this paper, we present a method for predicting the transcoding time of videos given an input video stream and its transcoding parameters. Video transcoding time is treated as a random variable and is statistically predicted from past observations. Our proposed method predicts the transcoding time as... | {
"abstract": "Quality of experience (QoE) is the perceptual quality of service (QoS) from the users' perspective. For video service, the relationship between QoE and QoS (such as coding parameters and network statistics) is complicated because users' perceptual video quality is subjective and diversified in differen... |
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"abstract": "In this paper, we proposed the technique of judging from the abstract whether life medical literature relates to the protein interaction. More specifically,we identified the technical terms by a rule base, and created the feature vector. Then we applied the technique to the data set of BioCreative, and... | {
"abstract": "BackgroundIdentifying protein-protein interactions (PPIs) from literature is an important step in mining the function of individual proteins as well as their biological network. Since it is known that PPIs have distinctive patterns in text, machine learning approaches have been successfully applied to ... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Any moment-rate tensor can be expressed as M ( ω ) = 2 M T ( ω ) M ^ ( ω ) , where M T is the total scalar moment and M^ is the source mechanism, a symmetric tensor of unit Euclidean norm describing the geometry of the source. We present a method for the graphical display of the second-order t... |
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"abstract": "La mise au point de capteurs optiques moyen infrarouge (MIR) pour la surveillance des polluants organiques dans l'environnement aquatique est actuellement un defi de grande importance. Les capteurs MIR bases sur la spectroscopie a ondes evanescentes sont des outils d'analyse prometteurs pour la detecti... | {
"abstract": "Germanium-on-silicon is a highly promising platform for planar photonics for the midinfrared, due to germanium's wide transparency range. In this letter, we report Ge-on-Si waveguides with record low losses of only 0.6 dB/cm, which is achieved using a 2.9-μm thick germanium layer, thus minimizing mode ... | {
"abstract": "We present a lattice-Boltzmann method coupled with an immersed boundary technique for the simulation of bluff body flows. The lattice-Boltzmann method for the modeling of the Navier-Stokes equations, is enhanced by a forcing term to account for the no-slip boundary condition on a non-grid conforming bo... |
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"abstract": "In this paper, a Ka-band broadband and high gain circularly polarized (CP) horn antenna based on double-corner-cut square waveguide is proposed. By exploiting the transition from rectangular waveguide to the double-corner-cut square waveguide, the linearly polarized wave can be transformed into two ort... | {
"abstract": "This paper presents the design of a waveguide fed broadband circular polarization truncated horn antenna for high power applications. It consists of a circular polarization truncated horn antenna and a truncated-square to rectangular waveguide transition. The structure does not have any internal sharp ... | {
"abstract": "A small-size broadband circularly polarized microstrip antenna array is proposed in this article. The array has four broadband dual-feed U-slot patch antenna elements with circular polarization, and the sequential feeding technique is used to further enhance the 3 dB axial ratio bandwidth. The lateral ... |
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"abstract": "Recent progress in high-throughput technology has resulted in a significant data overload. Determining how \n \nto obtain valuable knowledge from such massive raw data has become one of the most challenging issues in \n \nbiomedical research. As a result, bioinformatics researchers continue to look for... | {
"abstract": "Chordal graphs are triangulated graphs where any cycle larger than three is bisected by a chord. Many combinatorial optimization problems such as computing the size of the maximum clique and the chromatic number are NP-hard on general graphs but have polynomial time solutions on chordal graphs. In this... | {
"abstract": "Power Control Centers need to model their systems in real-time to support the necessary control and security functions. Neighboring independent system operators and regional transmission organizations also need to exchange system data. In the USA, a data exchange structure based on EPRI's common inform... |
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"abstract": "The paper presents the results of an experimental investigation wherein the bullet form drag force as a function of oscillating actuator frequency, various voltage and for different orifice/slot configuration are studied. In order to perform the experiment, an axisymmetric bullet shape model with ellip... | {
"abstract": "Flow separation at the vehicle’s rear end is the major cause of an aerodynamic drag in a car. In order to delay the flow separation at the rear, bump-shaped vortex generators at the roof end of a car are tested in this paper for two different types of car models Sedan and Hatchback. The aerodynamic ana... | {
"abstract": "BackgroundBurkholderia cepacia lipase (BCL) has been proved to be capable of resolution reactions. However, its free form usually exhibits low stability, bad resistance and no reusability, which restrict its further industrial applications. Therefore, it is of great importance to improve the catalytic ... |
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"abstract": "A 1 GS/s 12-bit pipelined/successive-approximation-register (pipelined/SAR) hybrid analog-to-digital converter (ADC) is presented in this paper, where the five most significant bits are resolved by two cascading 2.5-bit multiplying digital-to-analog converters, and the eight least significant bits are ... | {
"abstract": "An analysis of the statistics of multistage (pipeline, SAR, and algorithmic) ADCs with redundancy is performed and the ability to achieve an extra 6 dB of resolution in ADCs with half-bit redundancy is shown due to probability density function (PDF) residue shaping. This paper classifies redundancy tec... | {
"abstract": "Organizations are beginning to experiment with the use of the “crowd” to complete tasks commonly performed by employees or designated agents. While “crowdsourcing” is growing, we know little about common uses of the crowd and the challenges such initiatives present. Findings from a grounded theory stud... |
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"abstract": "Corporate governance attracted much attention after the corporate failures of Enron, WorldCom, and others, and was again at the center of debate after the financial crisis in 2008. In response, regulations such as Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Act and Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act we... | {
"abstract": "This paper studies a new renewable energy investment model through crowdfunding, which is motivated by emerging community solar farms. In this paper we develop a sequential game theory model to capture the interactions among crowdfunders, the solar farm owner, and an electricity company who purchases r... | {
"abstract": "A critical component to enabling intelligent reasoning in partially observable environments is memory. Despite this importance, Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) agents have so far used relatively simple memory architectures, with the main methods to overcome partial observability being either a tempor... |
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"abstract": "Ingrid REKAA NILSSEN, MSc1, Hege Svean KOKSVIK, MSc1, Kjersti GRØNNING, PhD2,3 and Aslak STEINSBEKK, PhD2 From the 1Norwegian National Advisory Unit on Pregnancy and Rheumatic Diseases, St Olavs Hospital, Trondheim University Hospital, 2Department of Public Health and Nursing, Norwegian University of S... | {
"abstract": "Objectives: Rehabilitation is important for people with musculoskeletal diseases (MSDs), and evaluating the effect of rehabilitation on both an individual and group level is advocated. A consensus concerning use of outcome measures will improve collaboration between healthcare providers, and increase t... | {
"abstract": "Forty patients on a geriatric ward were divided into four groups. Three groups received a beverage (beer, fruit punch, or fruit punch with thioridazine) in a pub setup in the hospital; the fourth group received thioridazine on the ward. The group that received beer sociotherapy showed the greatest impr... |
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"abstract": "Chlorpyrifos (CPF) was administered daily in the feed to evaluate toxicity and oncogenicity potential in male and female Fischer 344 rats, according to U.S. EPA guidelines. Doses for the 2-year study were based on findings in a 13-week feeding study in which lower body weights, urinary perineal stainin... | {
"abstract": "A bioassay of technical-grade malathion for possible carcinogenicity was conducted by administering the test chemical in feed to Osborne-Mendel rats and B6C3F1 mice. Groups of 50 rats of each sex were administered malathion at one of two doses for 80 weeks, then observed for 33 weeks. Time-weighted ave... | {
"abstract": "Rats were exposed to radiation while confined to one of two distinctive compartments of an enclosed alley. On the next day these animals were confined to the opposite compartment for a similar period in the absence of radiation. Following a series of four such cycles the partition between the two compa... |
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"abstract": "Robots are becoming ever more autonomous. This expanding ability to take unsupervised decisions renders it imperative that mechanisms are in place to guarantee the safety of behaviours executed by the robot. Moreover, smart autonomous robots should be more than safe; they should also be explicitly ethi... | {
"abstract": "Ensuring that autonomous systems work ethically is both complex and difficult. However, the idea of having an additional ‘governor’ that assesses options the system has, and prunes them to select the most ethical choices is well understood. Recent work has produced such a governor consisting of a ‘cons... | {
"abstract": "Smart phones are now capable of supporting a wide range of applications, many of which demand an ever increasing computational power. This poses a challenge because smart phones are resource-constrained devices with limited computation power, memory, storage, and energy. Fortunately, the cloud computin... |
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"abstract": "The purpose of this research is to measure the dimensions of student citizenship behavior and the extent of student satisfaction, loyalty, commitment, and trust as integrated factors are antecedents of student citizenship behavior in universities. A sample of 400 students in two private universities in... | {
"abstract": "AbstractThe purpose of this study is to explore the linkages between relationship investment, relationship quality, and loyalty, as well as the moderating role of relational characteristics of age (length of relationship), density (number of unique relational ties), and dependence (extent of dependence... | {
"abstract": "This paper discusses the nature of financial business relationships by drawing on the IMP Group’s theory of industrial relationships. It discusses, among other aspects, the interaction process between banks and their corporate clients, the longevity of relationships, the interdependence between both si... |
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"abstract": "In this thesis, we investigate network architecture from the twin perspectives of link resource allocation and node complexity in WDM optical networks. \nChapter 2 considers networks where the nodes have full wavelength accessibility, and investigates link resource allocation in ring networks in the fo... | {
"abstract": "Waveband switching (WBS) has attracted attention from the optical networking industry for its practical importance in reducing port count, the associated control complexity, and cost of optical cross-connects (OXCs). However, WBS-related problems of theoretical interest have not been addressed thorough... | {
"abstract": "It has long been known that alcohol use disorders (AUDs) run in families with substantial heritability. Determining the specific genetic underpinnings of these disorders has been challenging because of the clinical heterogeneity and variable expression across the lifespan. The search for endophenotypic... |
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"abstract": "This paper discusses an optimal torque distribution for a redundant 3-RRR spherical parallel manipulator (SPM). The SPM has parallel singular configurations within its workspace. The singularity leads to an amplification of the actuated joint torques which violates the actuator torque limits. The use o... | {
"abstract": "This paper deals with a spherical parallel manipulator developed for a master device, used in a teleoperation system for surgical application. The aim is to improve the calculation of the direct kinematic model (DKM) even when the parallel manipulator is in a singular configuration by using an extra se... | {
"abstract": "CO2 capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) is a promising technology wherein CO2 is captured and stored in solid form for further utilization instead of being released into the atmosphere in high concentrations. Under this framework, a new process called accelerated carbonation has been widely resear... |
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"abstract": "Abbreviations: AF: Atrial Fibrillation; ANP: Atrial Natriuretic Peptide; ART: Atrioventricular Reentrant Tachycardia; AV: Atrioventricular; AVNRT: Atrioventricular Nodal Re-entrant Tachycardia; BNP: B-Type Natriuretic Peptide; BPM: Beats per Minute; CHF: Congestive Heart Failure; CRT: Cardiac Resynchro... | {
"abstract": "The term tachycardia-induced cardio-myopathy or tachycardiomyopathy refers to impairment in left ventricular function secondary to chronic tachycardia, which is partially or completely reversible once the tachyarrhythmia is controlled. Tachycardia-induced cardiomyopathy has been shown to occur both in ... | {
"abstract": "Sustained tachycardia may be associated with dilated cardiomyopathy that may improve after medical management of the tachycardia. Ventricular tachycardia due to an ectopic focus is uncommon in children and rarely presents as congestive heart failure. This report documents that severe dilated cardiomyop... |
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"abstract": "Dysregulation of nuclear envelope (NE) assembly results in various cancers; for example, renal and some lung carcinomas ensue due to NE malformation. The NE is a dynamic membrane compartment and its completion during mitosis is a highly regulated process, but the detailed mechanism still remains incomp... | {
"abstract": "Subcellular compartmentalization, cell growth, hormone secretion and neurotransmission require rapid, targeted, and regulated membrane fusion. Fusion entails extensive lipid rearrangements by two apposed (docked) membrane vesicles, joining their membrane proteins and lipids and mixing their luminal con... | {
"abstract": "Carbon dots (CDs), especially heteroatom doped CDs derived from natural resources, have attracted growing interest due to their multiple potential applications. In this work, nitrogen and sulfur co-doped CDs (N/S-CDs) with a high quantum yield of 13.3% were synthesized by a facile approach based on one... |
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"abstract": "Abstract Conclusion: MASPIN subcellular location can be considered a prognostic marker that is potentially useful for identifying elderly patients with laryngeal carcinoma at higher risk of early loco-regional recurrence, who may benefit from more aggressive therapy. In a targeted treatment setting, re... | {
"abstract": "Maspin (mammary serine protease inhibitor) was identified in 1994 by subtractive hybridization analysis of normal mammary tissue and breast cancer cell lines. Subsequently, emerging evidence portrays maspin as a multifaceted protein, interacting with diverse group of intercellular and extracellular pro... | {
"abstract": "Purpose: Mammary epithelial cells and the majority of breast cancer tumors require estrogen for continued growth. Antiestrogen therapy alone, or in combination with other drugs, has long been a common procedure for breast cancer treatment and prophylaxis. Thus, there is a critical need to elucidate the... |
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"abstract": "Thesis: Ph. D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Biology, September 2015.",
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"title": "Several consequences of aneuploidy"
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"abstract": "Aneuploidy is associated with poor prognosis in solid tumors. Spontaneous chromosome missegregation events in aneuploid cells promote chromosomal instability (CIN) that may contribute to the acquisition of multidrug resistance in vitro and heighten risk for tumor relapse in animal models. Identificatio... | {
"abstract": "The insect immune system serves as a key defense against attack by parasitoids. Incompatible hosts often eliminate parasitoids by encapsulation, a process in which hemocytes form a multilayered envelope around the invading organism. Capsule formation involves cooperation between one or more classes of ... |
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"abstract": "ABSTRACT Mineral oil hydrocarbons (MOH) are known to be mixtures of non-identified substances, which can migrate from, inter alia, recycled food packaging into food products. Such substances may have carcinogenic potential, which leads to a need to avoid their migration into food. In this article, we i... | {
"abstract": "Conventional migration testing for long-term storage at ambient temperature with Tenax® was applied to a recycled paperboard as well as to the same paperboard with a polyethylene or polypropylene film in between. Test conditions were from the European Union plastic Regulation 10/2011, that is, 10 days ... | {
"abstract": "The results of a study of the potential migration of diisopropyl naphthalenes (DIPN) from recycled paperboard packaging into some types of dry solid foodstuffs are reported. Paperboard diskettes containing different DIPN concentrations were prepared and put into contact with four types of dry solid foo... |
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"abstract": ": Insect pollinators play a vital role in plant sexual reproduction. Pollinators facilitate cross-pollination that in turn promotes genetic diversity, mediates plant speciation, and contributes to ecosystem stability. However, the abundance, diversity and health of wild pollinators are threatened by hu... | {
"abstract": "This chapter provides information on honey bees (genus Apis) and their reasonably close relative group, the stingless bees within the Meliponini Tribe. Their taxonomic position, common morphology and behaviour are defined and explained. Also, a species identification of the four native Thai honey bee s... | {
"abstract": "OBJECTIVES: To compare, in a retrospective clinicopathological study, the presentation features of patients with dementia and cortical Lewy bodies (Lewy body dementia) with those of patients with Alzheimer's disease. METHODS: From a population of 426 cases from the dementia brain bank, 39 cases of Lewy... |
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"abstract": "Abstract Myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPNs) are clonal disorders, derived from abnormal hematopoietic stem cells and result in an excessive production of blood cells. This MPN group of conditions encompasses different diseases with overlapping clinical and biologic similarities. The majority of the co... | {
"abstract": "Introduction: Polycythemia vera (PV) patients suffer from disease-related constitutional symptoms, cardiovascular complications and risk of transformation into myelofibrosis and acute leukemia. Areas covered: Clinical and molecular aspects and current therapies will be described to provide clinical and... | {
"abstract": "This paper examines the factors that influence the voluntary dissemination of performance information by health care organizations. A model of information dissemination is developed and tested using data on Health Maintenance Organizations. The empirical findings suggest that health care organizations ... |
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"abstract": "Conclusions This study’s findings suggest an important opportunity to promote Latino adolescent health by improving communication between Latino teens and both of their parents. The absence of communication between Latino adolescents and their mother or father appears to be associated with risky health... | {
"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nInterventions designed to prevent tobacco and alcohol use targeting high-risk adolescents are limited. In addition, few studies have attempted to improve parent-child communication skills as a way of improving and maintaining healthy youth decision-making.\n\n\nMETHODS\nA total of 660 Hispa... | {
"abstract": "A scoping review of the literature on parenting programmes that target the promotion of adolescent mental health was conducted to examine the quality of the studies and unique content of programmes for parents from ethnoculturally diverse communities. PsycINFO and Web of Science were searched in April,... |
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"abstract": "Background: Research on the implementation of patient decision aids to facilitate SDM in clinical settings has steadily increased across Western countries. A study which implements decision aids and measures their impact on SDM has yet to be conducted in the Eastern part of Europe. Objective: To study ... | {
"abstract": "BackgroundRandomized trials have demonstrated the efficacy of patient decision aids to facilitate shared decision making in clinical situations with multiple medically reasonable options for treatment. However, little is known about how best to implement these tools into routine clinical practice. In a... | {
"abstract": "Background Young people living with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) face a number of communication barriers for achieving optimal health as they transition from pediatric care into adult care. Despite growing interest in mobile or wireless technologies to support health (mHealth), it is uncertain h... |
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"abstract": "A multi-stage dual replica bit-line delay (MDRBD) technique is proposed for reducing access time by suppressing the sense-amplifier enable (SAE) timing variation of low voltage static random-access memory (SRAM) applications. Compared with the traditional technique, this strategy, using statistical the... | {
"abstract": "Processors for next generation mobile devices will need to operate across a wide supply voltage range in order to support both high performance and high power efficiency modes of operation. However, the effects of local transistor threshold (VT) variation, already a significant issue in today's advance... | {
"abstract": "Optimization of SRAM yield using dynamic stability metrics has been evaluated in the past to ensure continued scaling of bitcell size and supply voltage in future technology nodes. Various dynamic stability metrics have been proposed but they have not been used in practical failure analysis and compare... |
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"abstract": "As an information intensive industry and as one of the most progressive industries in information technology adoption, travel and tourism provides an ideal context in which to investigate how new technologies such as interactive television challenge our understanding of media and media use. This resear... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Muzaffer Bodur, Associate Professor of Marketing at Bogazici University, and Ugur Yavas, Professor of Marketing at East Tennessee State University, describe the results and implications of a study carried out in Istanbul, Turkey, to distinguish between two tourist market segments — those prefe... | {
"abstract": "Travel research is a field which is maturing rapidly into a systematic and cumulative body of knowledge. An important part of the maturing process for any science is the development or adaptation of consistent and well-tested measurement techniques and methodologies which are well-suited to the types o... |
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"abstract": "Ensuring the correct delivery of insulin is essential in the treatment of diabetes. Both proper injection technique and needle length are important considerations for adequate insulin delivery. There have been several studies demonstrating that BMI does not affect efficacy or insulin leakage with short... | {
"abstract": "OBJECTIVE\nDuring a subcutaneous injection with commonly used pen needles, the safety of drug administration plays an essential role. Today short needles with a length of 5.0 mm are increasingly being used. However, so far it is unresolved whether short needles of <5.0 mm affect the safety of insulin i... | {
"abstract": "We compiled a global data set of volcanic degassing during both explosive and quiescent volcanic events. The data set comprises estimates of gas emissions of volcanoes from Europe (e.g. Etna), Asia (e.g. Merapi), the Americas (e.g. Fuego), Africa (e.g. Erta Ale) and ocean islands (e.g. Kilauea) over th... |
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