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"abstract": "An accurate estimate of patient survival at diagnosis is critical to plan efficient therapeutic options. A simple and multiapplication tool is needed to move forward the precision medicine era. Taking advantage of the broad and high CD10 expression in stem and cancers cells, we evaluated the molecular ... | {
"abstract": "Bone morphogenetic protein 2 (BMP2) and BMP4 are key regulators of the fate and differentiation of human mammary epithelial stem cells (SCs), as well as of their niches, and are involved in breast cancer development. We established that MCF10A immature mammary epithelial cells reliably reproduce the BM... | {
"abstract": "Activin A, BMP2, and BMP4, 3 members of the transforming growth factor-beta family, are involved in the regulation of hematopoiesis. Here, we explored the role of these molecules in human megakaryopoiesis using an in vitro serum-free assay. Our results highlight for the first time that, in the absence ... |
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"abstract": "“It is a fascinating testament to Shubnikov’s great originality and to the terrible times that deprived him of his life and we all of the fruits of the science for so long. Even now, many do not really understand the breakthrough made in Kharkov.” From the letter of 31 December, 2008, written by Shubni... | {
"abstract": "In a previous letter1 it was reported that the magnetic induction in tin spheres, which were cooled in an external magnetic field until they became supraconductive, did not vanish entirely, but that part of the magnetic flux remained in the body. This ‘freezing in’ of lines of force was observed, when ... | {
"abstract": "THE behaviour of supra-conducting alloys has been found1 to be different from that of pure metals in two ways: (1) The magnetic induction (B) in alloys does not change to zero when they become supra-conducting. (2) A supra-conducting alloy shows no discontinuity in the specific heat of such an order as... |
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"abstract": "Purpose Although the DTaP and Tdap vaccines used to prevent pertussis have been used for a long time, there is no standard method for measuring pertussis antigens. Therefore, this preliminary study was conducted to develop an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay method using an animal model for measuring ... | {
"abstract": "BackgroundTetanus-reduced dose diphtheria-acellular pertussis (Tdap) vaccination during adolescence was introduced in response to the resurgence of pertussis in various countries. A new Tdap vaccine was manufactured in Korea as a countermeasure against a predicted Tdap vaccine shortage. This study was ... | {
"abstract": "Objectives The purpose of the current study was to determine the upper threshold number of cases for which pertussis infection would reach an outbreak level nationally in Iran. Methods Data on suspected cases of pertussis from the 25th February 2012 to the 23rd March 2018 from the Center for Disease Co... |
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"abstract": "s Sato AY, Cregor M, Condon KW, Plotkin LI, Bellido T. 2016. Pyk2 deficiency 2016 protects from glucocorticoid-induced bone resorption and osteoblast and osteocyte apoptosis, but not from the decrease in bone formation. J Bone Miner Res. 31 (Suppl. 1). Oral Presentation and ASBMR Young Investigator Tra... | {
"abstract": "Endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress is associated with increased reactive oxygen species (ROS), results from accumulation of misfolded/unfolded proteins, and can trigger apoptosis. ER stress is alleviated by phosphorylation of eukaryotic translation initiation factor 2α (eIF2α), which inhibits protein tr... | {
"abstract": "Antithrombin III (AT-III) was studied in a thrombophilic family with an abnormal AT-III molecule (antithrombin III Budapest) using a modified crossed immunoelectrophoresis technique, gel filtration, 'rocket' immunoelectrophoresis and a heparin cofactor assay. When agarose was applied in the first phase... |
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"abstract": "Flavonoids represent a diverse group of natural pigments widely distributed in the plant kingdom and are an important component of human diet due to their high content in fruits and vegetables. Since many flavonoids have been shown to be potent inhibitors, substrates, and even inducers of various cytoc... | {
"abstract": "A novel prodrug [2,5-bis(4-amidinophenyl)furan-bis-O-methylamidoxime (DB289)] of the promising antimicrobial agent, 2,5-bis(4-amidinophenyl)furan (DB75), has excellent oral activity. It is currently undergoing phase II clinical evaluation as an orally administered drug candidate against African trypano... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Three new alkaloids have been obtained from T. fendleri, tetrahydrothalifendine (1), N-methylthalidaldine (2) and N-methylcorydaldine (3). Another alkaloid also present is veronamine (4).1",
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"title": "Thalictrum alkaloids—VII : Tetrahydrothalifendine, ... |
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"abstract": "Algebra I proficiency is an important aspect of a solid foundation in mathematics. Teachers play a critical role in the failure or success of students. Different teacher characteristics are thought to have a significant impact on the potential for student success. This non-experimental correlational re... | {
"abstract": "The effect of cognitive ability as indicated by a vocabulary test score on earnings by teachers and selected other occupations is estimated. Although test scores increase earnings for non-teacher occupations, the effect of test scores on teacher earnings is zero.",
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"abstract": "Education researchers and policy makers agree that teachers differ in terms of quality and that quality matters for student achievement. Despite prodigious amounts of research, however, debate still persists about the causal relationship between specific teacher credentials and student achievement. In ... |
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"abstract": "We consider the problem of filling in missing spatiotemporal regions of a video. We provide a novel flow-based solution by introducing a generative model of images in relation to the scene (without missing regions) and mappings from the scene to images. We use the model to jointly infer the scene templ... | {
"abstract": "We present a method to track the shape of an object from video. The method uses a joint shape and appearance model of the object, which is propagated to match shape and radiance in subsequent frames, determining object shape. Self-occlusions and dis-occlusions of the object from camera and object motio... | {
"abstract": "We propose a generic grouping algorithm that constructs a hierarchy of regions from the output of any contour detector. Our method consists of two steps, an oriented watershed transform (OWT) to form initial regions from contours, followed by construction of an ultra-metric contour map (UCM) defining a... |
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"abstract": "Purpose: To evaluate the dependence of biomechanical metrics on intraocular pressure (IOP). Methods: 233 refractive surgery patients were included in this study—all were examined 3 times with the Corvis ST before and after dilation, and the differences (∆) in the main device parameters were assessed. T... | {
"abstract": "The relationship of corneal biomechanical metrics provided by the Ocular Response Analyzer (ORA) and Corvis ST (CVS) with physical intraocular pressure (IOPp) and central corneal thickness (CCT) was evaluated. Thirty fresh enucleated eyes of 30 rabbits were used in ex vivo whole globe inflation experim... | {
"abstract": "An asymmetric quantum well structure has been developed for 6-10 μm detection. The asymmetric structure consists of N-doped InGaAs wells, GaAs steps and undoped AlGaAs barriers. Due to the strong coupling effect of the electronic state wave functions, significant absorption is observed. But, the absorp... |
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"abstract": "Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy is a powerful tool to investigate inner properties of matter and it is used for both fundamental and applied research. If not-zero nuclear spins are embedded in a magnetic field, a detectable magnetization is formed. Its subsequent manipulation allows the s... | {
"abstract": "TiO2 nanoparticles (NPs) with a size of 240 nm (T240), used as a light-scattering layer, were applied on 25-nm-sized TiO2 NPs (T25) that were used as a dye-absorbing layer in the photoelectrodes of dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs). In addition, the incident light was concentrated via a condenser lens... | {
"abstract": "With the continuing advancement in light-emitting efficiency of high-power light-emitting diodes (LEDs), a nondestructive evaluation on thermal reliability, especially regarding the operating temperature and thermal resistance, which directly affect their lifetime and luminous characteristics, is neede... |
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"abstract": "Biomedical research is increasingly collaborative, and successful collaborations often produce high impact work. Computational approaches can be developed for automatically predicting biomedical research collaborations. Previous works of collaboration prediction mainly explored the topological structur... | {
"abstract": "Predicting the occurrence of links is a fundamental problem in networks. In the link prediction problem we are given a snapshot of a network and would like to infer which interactions among existing members are likely to occur in the near future or which existing interactions are we missing. Although t... | {
"abstract": "Social network systems, like last.fm, play a significant role in Web 2.0, containing large amounts of multimedia-enriched data that are enhanced both by explicit user-provided annotations and implicit aggregated feedback describing the personal preferences of each user. It is also a common tendency for... |
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"abstract": "We study buoyancy-driven exchange flow of two mixtures in a vertical narrow duct (two-dimensional channel as well as pipe) theoretically. While the light mixture is assumed always to be a pure fluid, the heavy mixture can be selected as either a pure or a particle-laden fluid. A small width-to-length r... | {
"abstract": "Abstract We study bidensity suspensions of a viscous fluid on an incline. The particles migrate within the fluid due to a combination of gravity-induced settling and shear induced migration. We propose an extension of a recent model (Murisic et al., 2013) for monodisperse suspensions to two species of ... | {
"abstract": "We prove a general existence theorem for the `viscous profile problem' for singular shocks associated with the weak solutions of some pairs of conservation laws. The structure obtained approximately satisfies the regularized system (identity viscosity matrix) in the space of measures. Several features ... |
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"abstract": "BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES\nFor patients with ESRD, referral from a dialysis facility to a transplant center for evaluation is an important step toward kidney transplantation. However, a standardized measure for assessing clinical performance of dialysis facilities transplant access is lacking. We descr... | {
"abstract": "ESRD providers and policymakers have long been at the forefront of efforts to improve health care quality. The Medicare program currently monitors dialysis facility performance related to vascular access, dialysis dose, mineral metabolism, anemia management, bloodstream infections, patient",
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"abstract": "Masahiro Miura, Shuichi Makita, Yoshiaki Yasuno, Rintaro Tsukahara, Yoshihiko Usui, Narsing A. Rao, Yasushi Ikuno, Sato Uematsu, Tetsuya Agawa, Takuya Iwasaki, and Hiroshi Goto Department of Ophthalmology, Tokyo Medical University, Ibaraki Medical Center, Ami, Japan Department of Ophthalmology, Tokyo M... |
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"abstract": "Static Random Access Memory (SRAM) devices are mostly used in high speed memory elements like caches, buffers, portable devices etc. Many researchers mainly concentrated on power efficiency of SRAM cell, the traditional SRAM designs failed to concentrate on power dissipation sources such as charge shar... | {
"abstract": "Transistors consist of lower number of atoms with every technology generation. Such atoms may be displaced due to the stress caused by high temperature, frequency and current, leading to failures. NBTI (negative bias temperature instability) is one of the most important sources of failure affecting tra... | {
"abstract": "Much of the previous work on modulo scheduling has targeted numeric programs, in which, often, the majority of the loops are well-behaved loop-counter-based loops without early exits. In control-intensive non-numeric programs, the loops frequently have characteristics that make it more difficult to eff... |
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"abstract": "Cardiovascular diseases are the number one cause of death worldwide and greatly impact quality of life and medical costs. Enormous effort has been made in research to obtain new tools for efficient and quick diagnosis and predicting the prognosis of these diseases. Discoveries of epigenetic mechanisms ... | {
"abstract": "After the publication of the article, the authors noted that they had made an error regarding the order of one of their names. For Professor Zheng Yu, the given name is Yu and the family name is Zheng, therefore he should be listed as Professor Yu Zheng in the author list and as the corresponding autho... | {
"abstract": "A single pump column switching technique with multidimensional chromatography, flow gradient and wavelength programmed fluorescence detection was developed for simultaneous quantitation of serotonin, fluoxetine and norfluoxetine in rat brain microdialysate. The column switching was configured such that... |
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"abstract": "Understanding bacterial communication mechanisms is imperative to improve our current understanding of bacterial infectivity and find alternatives to current modes of antibacterial therapeutics. Both Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria use quorum sensing (QS) to regulate group behaviours and assoc... | {
"abstract": "Streptococcus agalactiae (group B Streptococcus; GBS) is a common inhabitant of the genitourinary and/or gastrointestinal tract in up to 40% of healthy adults; however, this opportunistic pathogen is able to breach restrictive host barriers to cause disease and persist in harsh and changing conditions.... | {
"abstract": "ABSTRACT Gram-positive bacteria secrete a variety of peptides that are often subjected to posttranslational modifications and that are either antimicrobials or pheromones involved in bacterial communication. Our objective was to identify peptides secreted by Streptococcus thermophilus, a nonpathogenic ... |
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"abstract": "Data is compressible by presuming a priori knowledge\nknown as a data model, and applying an appropriate encoding to\nproduce a shorter description. The two aspects of compression data\nmodeling and coding - however are not always conceived as distinct,\nnor implemented as such in compression systems, ... | {
"abstract": "We consider the use of a static context tree for binary image compression. The contexts are stored in the leaves of a variable-depth binary tree. The tree structure itself is fully static and optimized off-line for a training image. The structure of the tree is similar for different images of the same ... | {
"abstract": "This overview focuses on a comparison of lossless compression capabilities of the international standard algorithms for still image compression known as MH, MR, MMR, JBIG, and JPEC. Where the algorithms have parameters to select, these parameters have been carefully set to achieve maximal compression. ... |
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"abstract": "It is shown that the general class of three-dimensional first-order ordinary differential equations with quadratic nonlinearities can be physically interpreted as the dynamics of a charged particle in an electromagnetic field, with a constant gradient B-field. The general class of equations is derived ... | {
"abstract": "The Malkus–Lorenz water wheel is analyzed in a more direct way. Two new dimensionless parameters associated with properties of the water wheel are used in place of the traditional Lorenz parameters, which relate only to Lorenz’s fluid model. The primary result is a performance map in the new dimensionl... | {
"abstract": "Many studies of chaos involve using simplified equations with little relation to a real system. Lorenz proposed a real system that demonstrates chaotic behavior - the classic Lorenz water wheel. This wheel, a mechanical analog to fluid heating in a box, consists of a number of buckets on the outside of... |
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"abstract": "Background: Trauma is the leading cause of mortality and disability, especially during the productive age, and is the third most common cause of death. Present study carried out to assess the general spectrum of chest injury patients at tertiary care institute of Gujarat. Subjects and Methods: A total ... | {
"abstract": "Background and Aims: Chest trauma is a major public health problem in India, but only few studies have been conducted to analyze its magnitude and management. The present study was carried out to determine the epidemiological profile of chest trauma cases and to analyze the management strategies with a... | {
"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nThe purpose of this study was to show that elderly patients admitted with rib fractures after blunt trauma have increased mortality.\n\n\nMETHODS\nDemographic, injury severity, and outcome data on a cohort of consecutive adult trauma admissions with rib fractures to a tertiary care trauma c... |
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"abstract": "This paper aimed to examine the management of urinary calculi of a sulcata tortoise. A 5-year-old Sulcata tortoise (Geochelon sulcata) was presented with a history of dehydration, loss of appetite, and lameness. Clinical signs and radiographic examination indicated urinary calculi in the urinary bladde... | {
"abstract": "The present report was carried out to manage a case of calculi in the bladder of African spurred tortoise. A 6 year old African spurred tortoise presented with history of anorexia and whitish discharged from the vent. Upon physical examination, the tortoise were 10% dehydrated, hindlegs muscle wasting ... | {
"abstract": "Urolithiasis is a disease often seen in tortoises at veterinary hospitals, however there have been no comprehensive research reports of tortoises with urolithiasis in Japan. In this study, we analyzed tortoises diagnosed with urolithiasis at three domestic veterinary hospitals. Based on medical records... |
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"abstract": "Graphical elements: particularly tables and figures contain a visual summary of the most valuable information contained in a document. Therefore, localization of such graphical objects in the document images is the initial step to understand the content of such graphical objects or document images. In ... | {
"abstract": "Within the realm of information extraction from documents, detection of tables and charts is particularly needed as they contain a visual summary of the most valuable information contained in a document. For a complete automation of the visual information extraction process from tables and charts, it i... | {
"abstract": "This paper learns a graphical model, namely an explanatory graph, which reveals the knowledge hierarchy hidden inside a pre-trained CNN. Considering that each filter in a conv-layer of a pre-trained CNN usually represents a mixture of object parts, we propose a simple yet efficient method to automatica... |
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"abstract": "Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) has one of the worst outcomes among cancers with a 5-years survival rate of below 10%. This is a result of late diagnosis and the lack of effective treatments. The tumor is characterized by a highly fibrotic stroma containing distinct cellular components, embedde... | {
"abstract": "Extracellular matrix (ECM) remodelling is integral to numerous physiological and pathological processes in biology, such as embryogenesis, wound healing, fibrosis and cancer. Until recently, most cellular studies have been conducted on 2D environments where mechanical cues significantly differ from phy... | {
"abstract": "A target molecule responsible for cell cycle arrest by metformin was discovered using a gene chip array in lung cancer cells and the effect of metformin on E2F8 was assessed. The siRNA-mediated knockdown of E2F8 significantly suppressed G1-S progression while ectopic expression of E2F8 relieved metform... |
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"abstract": "Autonomous terrestrial vehicles must be capable of perceiving traffic lights and recognizing their current states to share the streets with human drivers. Most of the time, human drivers can easily identify the relevant traffic lights. To deal with this issue, a common solution for autonomous cars is t... | {
"abstract": "The accurate detection and recognition of traffic lights is important for autonomous vehicle navigation and advanced driver aid systems. In this paper, we present a traffic light recognition algorithm for varying illumination conditions using computer vision and machine learning. More specifically, a c... | {
"abstract": "The Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) is a generic framework\nsupporting multiple types of authentication methods. In systems where\nEAP is used for authentication, it is desirable to not repeat the\nentire EAP exchange with another authenticator. This document\nspecifies extensions to EAP and t... |
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"abstract": "Abstract Objective To provide an overview of the various treatment options available in the clinic to achieve periorbital rejuvenation. Data Sources Literature review and expert opinion. Conclusions Periorbital rejuvenation in the clinic can be accomplished through a variety of treatment modalities, in... | {
"abstract": "Numerous nonsurgical options for periorbital rejuvenation are available and can be used alone or as adjuncts to other nonsurgical and surgical options. Topicals, chemical peels, laser resurfacing, and dermabrasion therapy, along with neuromodulators and fillers, can be used to enhance the appearance of... | {
"abstract": "BACKGROUND Upper eyelid dermatochalasis is typically treated with excisional blepharoplasty. The role of the CO2 laser previously had been confined to that of a vaporizing, incisional, or hemostatic tool. Over the past several years, however, ablative CO2 laser skin resurfacing has been popularized as ... |
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"abstract": "Penicillium expansum causes severe rots on apple fruit during storage and shelf life. Aiming at the development of new antagonistic yeast active in controlling postharvest pathogens of fruit, several isolates were obtained from fig (Ficus carica) and cactus pear (Opuntia ficus-indica) grown in untreate... | {
"abstract": "Patulin, a mycotoxin produced by Penicillium spp. during fruit spoilage, is a major concern with regard to human health because exposure can result in severe acute and chronic toxicity, including carcinogenic, mutagenic, and teratogenic effects. In this study, we investigated the effects of Penicillium... | {
"abstract": "Ochratoxin A (OA) is a mycotoxin which has been found to occur in foods of plant origin, in edible animal tissues, as well as in human blood sera and tissues. The ability of OA to move up the food chain is aided by its long half-life in certain edible animal species. In this report, an evaluation of th... |
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"abstract": "Background Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) remains a global public health problem. Sub-Saharan Africa is the region most affected by HIV/AIDS in the world. Globally, and in Tanzania in particular, women are more affected by HIV/AIDS than men. Tanzania has been reported to be among the countries with... | {
"abstract": "Background. Early entry into HIV care is low in Sub-Saharan Africa. In Rakai, about a third (31.5%) of HIV-positive clients who knew their serostatus did not enroll into free care services. This qualitative study explored barriers to entry into care from HIV-positive clients who had never enrolled in c... | {
"abstract": "What accounts for differences in HIV stigma across different high prevalence settings? This study was designed to examine HIV stigma and discrimination in five high prevalence settings. Qualitative data were collected as part of the U.S. National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) Project Accept, a mult... |
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"abstract": "By utilizing the channel bandwidth in a pre-assigned time slot, TDMA is very useful to communicate voice and data for small group. It also provides the increased battery life by transmitting data in an assigned slot. Instead of two party communications, it can be applied to multiparty communications. T... | {
"abstract": "Achieving real-time voice communication over a mobile wireless ad hoc network poses many challenges both in speech coding and network protocols. In this paper, we investigate the real-time voice transmission capacity of ad hoc networks using a multiple description coding (MDC) scheme along with a new m... | {
"abstract": "The Tower of Hanoi puzzle, has recently been established as a robotics challenge as a part of EU Robotics coordination action in 2011 and IEEE IROS Conference in 2012. It provides a good standardized test bed to evaluate integration of high-level reasoning capabilities of robots together with their man... |
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"abstract": "The instruction cache is a popular optimization target due to the cache's high impact on system performance and power and because of the cache's predictable temporal and spatial locality. This article is an in depth study on the interaction of code reordering (a long-known technique) and cache configur... | {
"abstract": "Instruction cache performance is important to instruction fetch efficiency and overall processor performance. The layout of an executable has a substantial effect on the cache miss rate and the instruction working set size during execution. This means that the performance of an executable can be improv... | {
"abstract": "As the gap between memory and processor speeds continues to widen, cache eficiency is an increasingly important component of processor performance. Compiler techniques have been used to improve instruction cache pet$ormance by mapping code with temporal locality to different cache blocks in the virtual... |
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"abstract": "Visceral pain is one of the most common symptoms associated with functional gastrointestinal (GI) disorders. Although the origin of these symptoms has not been clearly defined, the implication of both the central and peripheral nervous systems in visceral hypersensitivity is well established. The role ... | {
"abstract": "1. Single unit electrical activity has been recorded extracellularly from 133 neurones in the grey matter of the 8th and 9th thoracic segments of the spinal cord in chloralose anaesthetized cats. The responses of these neurones to electrical stimulation of the ipsilateral splanchnic nerve, to natural s... | {
"abstract": "Activation of alpha 1-adrenergic receptors in BC3H-1 muscle cells has been shown previously to mobilize intracellular Ca2+, which can be monitored as enhanced 45Ca2+ unidirectional efflux. We report here that histamine also stimulates 45Ca2+ efflux in these cells (Kact = 5.50 microM, nH = 0.94 +/- 0.04... |
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"abstract": "Background: HIV/AIDS has become a global health crisis and a leading cause of death in the developing world. Since 1981, more than 25 million people worldwide have died from this immunodeficiency syndrome. Very early in the AIDS epidemic, it was recognized that protein calorie malnutrition and specific... | {
"abstract": "Sir, Adult prevalence of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in India is 0.36%, amounting to approximately 2.5 million people living with HIV and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome.[1] Since the availability of Highly Active Anti-Retroviral Therapy HAART, improvement in quality of life (QOL) of patients... | {
"abstract": "Background: HIV/AIDS has become a global health crisis and a leading cause of death in the developing world. Since 1981, more than 25 million people worldwide have died from this immunodeficiency syndrome. Very early in the AIDS epidemic, it was recognized that protein calorie malnutrition and specific... |
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"abstract": "A Vehicular Ad-Hoc Network (VANET) is an amazing application of Mobile Ad-Hoc Network (MANET) that facilitate vehicles to vehicles and vehicles to road side units and its base stations communication with the main objective of providing secure and safe transportation in an efficient way. The emergency a... | {
"abstract": "We investigate connectivity in ad hoc network formed between vehicles that move in the same direction on a typical highway. We use the common model in vehicular traffic theory in which a fixed point on the highway sees cars passing it separated by times with exponentially distributed duration. We obtai... | {
"abstract": "In highway systems, grouping vehicles into platoons can improve road capacity and energy efficiency. With the advance of technologies, the performance of platoons can be further enhanced by vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs). In the past few years, many studies have been conducted on the dynamics of a ... |
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"abstract": "Secure document storage and retrieval is one of the hottest research directions in cloud computing. Though many searchable encryption schemes have been proposed, few of them support efficient retrieval over the documents which are encrypted based on their attributes. In this paper, a hierarchical attri... | {
"abstract": "Ciphertext-policy attribute-based encryption (CP-ABE) has been a preferred encryption technology to solve the challenging problem of secure data sharing in cloud computing. The shared data files generally have the characteristic of multilevel hierarchy, particularly in the area of healthcare and the mi... | {
"abstract": "Ready or not, the digitalization of information has come, and privacy is standing out there, possibly at stake. Although digital privacy is an identified priority in our society, few systematic, effective methodologies exist that deal with privacy threats thoroughly. This paper presents a comprehensive... |
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"abstract": "Abstract Ranaviruses are known to cause mortality in a variety of anuran species and have the potential to significantly impact wild and captive frog populations. In this study, 16 captive frogs and toads from the Louisville Zoological Garden were examined for the presence of ranavirus; this group incl... | {
"abstract": "Frog virus 3 (FV3) or FV3-like viruses (Iridoviridae) infect a wide range of amphibian species, and they are becoming increasingly and causally associated with amphibian disease outbreaks worldwide. We have established the frog Xenopus laevis as an experimental model to study host defense and pathogene... | {
"abstract": "In contrast to insect viruses, animal viruses can produce considerable amounts of progeny virus in cells undergoing apoptosis. Nevertheless, viruses in general have acquired the ability to escape apoptosis of infected cells. These facts indicate that the role of apoptosis in virus infection is differen... |
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"abstract": "In this paper, a new concept of the Reactivity Trace Curve (RTC) for reactor power control is presente d. The concept is demonstrated for a react or model with one group of delayed neutrons, where the reactivity trace curve is simply a closed form exponential solu tion of the RTC-differential equation... | {
"abstract": "An integrated, closed-loop, control system for online operations in nuclear power plants has been developed and demonstrated with an LSI-ll/23 micro-processor on the 5 MWt fission reactor (NITR-II) that is operated by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. This control system has inherent capabilit... | {
"abstract": "A fault detection and identification methodology has been developed for sensor and plant component validation, with special emphasis on applications to nuclear powerplants. The methodology is particularly suitable for on-line fault diagnostics and does not rely on detailed knowledge of sensor and plant... |
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"abstract": "We examine the influence of US and UK macroeconomic and financial variables on Irish stock returns in a nonlinear framework. We allow for time variation via regime switching using a smooth transition regression (STR) model. Importantly we find that both US and UK stock returns are significant determina... | {
"abstract": "I examine the causes of conditional volatility in a small, internationally integrated stock market using the Irish stock market as an example. I relate Irish stock market conditional volatility to British stock market conditional volatility and business cycle variables from July 1975 to May 1994. Excha... | {
"abstract": "The contemporary significance of branding as a source of value is explored by situating the creation and valorization of brand equity within ‘the full circuit of capital’. Conceived as a form of co-production occurring in the sphere of circulation (as well as production), brand-building is connected to... |
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"abstract": "We propose a masking method to protect the agent privacy for distributed optimization. In the proposed method, each agent adds a masking signal to the own original state to conceal private information. Additionally, to obtain the correct solution of the optimization problem, they exchange the masking s... | {
"abstract": "Demand response (DR) is one of the most promising solutions to efficient control of smart grids with renewable energy resources. Usually, DR programs are implemented by means of centralized control by power supply companies or independent system operators. In contrast, recently, the focus has been on d... | {
"abstract": "Internet of Energy (IoE) is a novel decentralized energy supplying paradigm, which integrated highly scalable and distributed energy resources to satisfy the various demands in future green applications. The existing works focus on the monitor and control of the state of networked energy storage device... |
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"abstract": "Protein phosphatase 1 (PP1c) is one of the main phosphatases whose function is shaped by many regulators to confer a specific location and a selective function for this enzyme. Here, we report that eukaryotic initiation factor 2β of Plasmodium falciparum (PfeIF2β) is an interactor of PfPP1c. Sequence a... | {
"abstract": "In Plasmodium falciparum (Pf), the causative agent of the deadliest form of malaria, a tight regulation of phosphatase activity is crucial for the development of the parasite. In this study, we have identified and characterized PfPTPA homologous to PhosphoTyrosyl Phosphatase Activator, an activator of ... | {
"abstract": "BackgroundEukaryotic cellular machineries are intricately regulated by several molecular mechanisms involving transcriptional control, post-translational control and post-translational modifications of proteins (PTMs). Reversible protein phosphorylation/dephosphorylation process, which involves kinases... |
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"abstract": "We report that regions‐of‐interest (ROIs) associated with idiosyncratic individual behavior can be identified from functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data using statistical approaches that explicitly model individual variability in neuronal activations, such as mixed‐effects multilevel analys... | {
"abstract": "Most analysis of multi-subject fMRI data is concerned with determining whether there exists a significant population-wide 'activation' in a comparison between two or more conditions. This is typically assessed by testing the average value of a contrast of parameter estimates (COPE) against zero in a ge... | {
"abstract": "Despite the growing importance of longitudinal data in neuroimaging, the standard analysis methods make restrictive or unrealistic assumptions (e.g., assumption of Compound Symmetry—the state of all equal variances and equal correlations—or spatially homogeneous longitudinal correlations). While some n... |
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"abstract": "Introduction: Uterine malignancies, the vast majority of which are endometrial cancers, constitute the most common type of gynecological neoplasms in developed countries. The primary treatment for endometrial cancer is hysterectomy and bilateral salpingoophorectomy. Women with endometrial cancer can b... | {
"abstract": "OBJECTIVE\nTo compare different techniques of minimally invasive surgery (laparoscopy and robotics) to abdominal surgery in order to identify the optimal surgical technique in the treatment of endometrial cancer.\n\n\nMETHODS AND MATERIALS\nA single-institutional, matched, retrospective, cohort study w... | {
"abstract": "OBJECTIVES\nThe purpose was to compare robotic assisted total laparoscopic hysterectomy (TRH), laparoscopic assisted hysterectomy (TLH) and total abdominal hysterectomy (TAH) with surgical staging +/- lymphadenectomy for the management of uterine cancer.\n\n\nMETHODS\nInstitutional review board approva... |
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"abstract": "Energies based on biomaterials attract a lot of interest as next-generation energy because biomaterials are environmentally friendly materials and abundant in nature. Fuel cells are also known as the clean and important next-generation source of energy. In the present study, to develop the fuel cell ba... | {
"abstract": "Fuel cells seem a good alternative to dirty and wasteful combustion. But known electrolytes — the crucial component — all have flaws. A new solid-state proton conductor suggests a solution.",
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"abstract": "Lowering the operating temperature of solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) to the intermediate range (500–700 oC) has become one of the main SOFC research goals. High operating temperatures put numerous requirements on materials selection and on secondary units, limiting the commercial development of SOFCs. ... |
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"abstract": "ABSTRACT A novel graft copolymer gel made up of pectin (Pec), 2-(methacryloyloxyethyl)trimethylammonium chloride (METAC), 2-acrylamido-2-methyl-1-propane sulfonic acid (AMPS) and its composite with montmorillonite (MMT) were prepared using methylenebisacrylamide (MBA) as cross-linker via microwave irra... | {
"abstract": "New composite hydrogels were synthesized based on gum tragacanth (GT) carbohydrate and graphene oxide (GO). GT was sulfonic acid-functionalized and cross-linked by using 2-acrylamido-2-methylpropanesulfonic acid (AMPS) and N,N'-methylenebisacrylamide (MBA) monomers and ceric ammonium nitrate (CAN) as a... | {
"abstract": "The present study proposed the use of meranti sawdust in the removal of Cu(II), Cr(III), Ni(II) and Pb(II) ions from synthetic aqueous solutions. Batch adsorption studies showed that meranti sawdust was able to adsorb Cu(II), Cr(III), Ni(II) and Pb(II) ions from aqueous solutions in the concentration r... |
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"abstract": "Given a set of documents and an input query that is expressed using natural language, the problem of document search is retrieving all relevant documents ordered by the degree of relevance. Semantic document search fetches not only documents that contain words from the input query, but also documents t... | {
"abstract": "The paper shows how to create a probabilistic graph for WordNet. A node is created for every word and phrase in WordNet. An edge between two nodes is labeled with the probability that a user that is interested in the source concept will also be interested in the destination concept. For example, an edg... | {
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"abstract": "This dissertation presents results related to two problems in the arithmetic of elliptic curves. Let En : y 2 = x − nx denote the family of congruent number elliptic curves. In [13], Feng and Xiong equate the nontriviality of the Selmer groups associated with En to the presence of certain types of part... | {
"abstract": "In this paper we consider the Lang-Trotter conjecture (Conjecture 1 below) for various families of elliptic curves with prescribed torsion structure. We prove that the Lang-Trotter conjecture holds in an average sense for these families of curves (see Theorem 3). Let E/Q denote an elliptic curve and le... | {
"abstract": "In this paper a theorem on the rank of the group of rational points of an abelian variety with a sufficiently large ring of endomorphisms is proved. It is applied to construct nontrivial factors of the Jacobians of modular curves with finite groups of rational points and to prove finiteness theorems fo... |
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"abstract": "The science of restoration ecology seeks ways to advance the understanding of how to restore native ecosystems that have been degraded or destroyed. Ecological theory suggests that environmental filters influence the outcome of ecological restoration and ultimately long-term restoration success. In thi... | {
"abstract": "We investigated vegetation-seed bank relationships at three fynbos sites on the Cape Peninsula, South Africa, and the impacts to these sites of invasion by the alien tree Acacia saligna. Soil-stored seed banks in uninvaded fynbos were of a similar density to those previously measured in fynbos (ca. 110... | {
"abstract": "Most of North America’s northern Great Plains have been cultivated for crop production, leaving remnants of natural mixed-grass prairie fragmented and threatened by alien plant invasions. The region’s most widespread alien perennial forage crop, crested wheatgrass (Agropyron cristatum sensu amplo), has... |
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"abstract": "The highly-interconnected and neurochemically-rich frontal cortex plays a crucial role in the regulation of mood and cognition, domains disrupted in depression and other central nervous system disorders, and it is an important site of action for their therapeutic control. For improving our understandin... | {
"abstract": "This study describes a novel analytical method permitting simultaneous HPLC-fluorimetric quantification of multiple (15) D- and L-amino acids, kynurenate, taurine and phosphoethanolamine (a marker of membrane integrity) in microdialysates of prefrontal cortex of freely-moving rats. Levels of GABA were ... | {
"abstract": "&NA; In vivo measurement of multiple neurotransmitters is highly interesting but remains challenging in the field of neuroscience. GABA and L‐glutamic acid are the major inhibitory and excitatory neurotransmitters, respectively, in the central nervous system, and their changes are related to a variety ... |
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"abstract": "ABSTRACT Objective: The aim of this review was to assess the methodological quality of systematic reviews evaluating the effectivness of prophylactic central neck dissection plus thyroidectomy to decrease locoregional recurrence in patients with thyroid carcinoma. Introduction: Many systematic reviews ... | {
"abstract": "BackgroundCentral neck dissection and total thyroidectomy are standard treatments for patients with papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) with clinically involved central nodes. However, prophylactic central neck dissection (pCND) in patients with clinically uninvolved cN0 has been beneficial in some studi... | {
"abstract": "PURPOSE\nIn this study, we show the use of three-dimensional printing models for preoperative planning of surgery for patients with complex aortic arch anomalies.\n\n\nDESCRIPTION\nA 70-year-old man with an extensively arteriosclerotic aneurysm reaching from the ascending aorta to the descending aorta ... |
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"abstract": "Summary 1. Despite the proliferation of studies on the role of nestling mouth colour in parent‐offspring communication, there has been very little work regarding the proximate mechanism for mouth pigmentation. 2. Carotenoids, a class of phytochemicals important for immune function and gained by birds o... | {
"abstract": "The integrated antioxidant system is recognised as an essential component of an organisms self maintenance. Our knowledge of this system, however, is largely restricted to species of economic importance. The health and productivity benefits these dietary based compounds provide make them increasingly r... | {
"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nCurrent US dietary recommendations for selenium are based on maximization of plasma glutathione peroxidase (GSHPx) activity according to data from one study of Chinese men.\n\n\nOBJECTIVE\nThe effect of various amounts of supplemental selenium on GSHPx activities in blood of New Zealand adu... |
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"abstract": "Distributed word embeddings have shown superior performances in numerous Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks.\n\nHowever, their performances vary significantly across different tasks,\n\nimplying that the word embeddings learnt by those methods capture complementary aspects of lexical semantics.\n\... | {
"abstract": "Word embeddings -- distributed representations of words -- in deep learning are beneficial for many tasks in natural language processing (NLP). However, different embedding sets vary greatly in quality and characteristics of the captured semantics. Instead of relying on a more advanced algorithm for em... | {
"abstract": "Open-domain question answering (QA) is an important problem in natural language processing. A QA system usually consists of an information retrieve (IR) model for finding the relevant passages that may have answers and a read comprehension (RC) model for generating answers from the selected passages. T... |
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"abstract": "The research reported in this dissertation deals with work ow management and electronic publishing. Recent developments like the evolvement of international standards, advanced communication services, as well as new delivery platforms, have resulted in a bewildering number of work ow systems, each of t... | {
"abstract": "A description is given of the major features and architecture of FolioPub, the publication management components of an experimental production publishing system. Focusing on publication definition and automatic publication processing in a distributed environment, FolioPub supports version and access co... | {
"abstract": "A new semi-analytical method to estimate the bit-error ratio of two-polarization IQ modulation constellations is proposed, taking into account bit mapping and a possible non-Gaussian noise distribution. Results are compared to analytical formulas and various 4-dimensional constellations are evaluated."... |
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"abstract": "This research studies the problem of email overload and proposes a system that automatically detects whether the email is \"to read\" or \"to do\". The goal of our research is to test if a Language Model trained on the entire Enron email data (around 500,000 emails) then retrained on a subset of intent... | {
"abstract": "Email classification is still a mostly manual task. Consequently, most Web mail users never define a single folder. Recently however, automatic classification offering the same categories to all users has started to appear in some Web mail clients, such as AOL or Gmail. We adopt this approach, rather t... | {
"abstract": "The memory wall continues to be a major performance bottleneck. While small on-die caches have been effective so far in hiding this bottleneck, the ever-increasing footprint of modern applications renders such caches ineffective. Recent advances in memory technologies like embedded DRAM (eDRAM) and Hig... |
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"abstract": "The inhibition of voltage-gated potassium channels (Kv) plays an important role in the cerebral hypoxiainduced cell death. The activity of Kv can be inhibited by 15-hydroxyeicosatetrienoic acid (15-HETE). Therefore, as the key enzyme which catalyzed the formation of 15-HETE, 15-LOX may be involved in K... | {
"abstract": "Severe hypoxia induces the constriction of internal carotid arteries (ICA), which worsens ischemic stroke in the brain. A few metabolites are presumably involved in hypoxic vasoconstriction, however, less is known about how such molecules provoke this vasoconstriction. We have investigated the influenc... | {
"abstract": "Distinguishing sideways and backward falls from normal activities of daily living using angular rate sensors (gyroscopes) was explored in this paper. Gyroscopes were secured on a shirt at the positions of sternum (S), front of the waist (FW) and right underarm (RU) to measure angular rate in lateral an... |
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"abstract": "Publish/Subscribe infrastructures have gained significant traction recently with several specifications such as the Java Message Service (JMS), WS-Eventing and WS-Notification. In this paper we present a scheme for the secure organisation and discovery of topics in distributed publish/subscribe systems... | {
"abstract": "The Internet is currently being used to support increasingly complex interactions. The entities, with which applications and services need to interact, span a wide spectrum that includes desktops, PDAs, appliances, and other networked resources. Clients - which abstract users, resources and proxies the... | {
"abstract": "Several efforts to design globally distributed computing systems have converged to the principles of message-centric, service-oriented architectures. As realized through several Web Service specifications, these provide the scaling, robustness, and reliability for delivering distributed capabilities th... |
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"abstract": "In this paper, we introduced an online path planning method which is able to be implemented on micro rotorcrafts with limited payload and computational power. The method enables automatic flight of such vehicles in GPS-denied and obstacle-strewn environments by adopting efficient trajectory generation ... | {
"abstract": "Service robots which directly interact with humans in highly unstructured, unpredictable and dynamic environments must be able to flexibly adapt their motion in reaction to unforeseen events or obstacles and they must provide a new feasible trajectory in real-time. Hence, algorithms come into focus whi... | {
"abstract": "In order to effectively control end effector of a robotic manipulator, one needs to solve inverse kinematics of the robot. This paper reports an investigation to solve inverse kinematics of a low cost 6 degrees of freedom (6 DOF) robotic arm. Since this robot provide no feedback signal, we propose to u... |
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"abstract": "INTRODUCTION\nThe aim of this retrospective study was to determine the clinical significance of incidental findings detected on positron emission tomography (PET) in patients undergoing staging of oesophagogastric malignancies.\n\n\nMETHODS\nPatients with oesophagogastric malignancies who underwent PET... | {
"abstract": "The aim of the present study was to assess retrospectively the additional value of positron emission tomography (PET)/computed tomography (CT) in the detection of unexpected extrapulmonary lesions in the staging of patients with a malignant pulmonary lesion in comparison with CT and PET used alone. A t... | {
"abstract": "Purpose The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationships of physical fitness and obesity with metabolic risk factors in children and adolescents. Methods This cohort study was conducted in Chungju city, South Korea. Total 843 subjects were enrolled, including 193 elementary school 4th gra... |
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"abstract": "Author(s): Cahill, James Andrew | Advisor(s): Shapiro, Beth | Abstract: The concept of the species has traditionally been the principal unit for the classification of the diversity of life. Although the conceptual and legal relevance of the idea of species is profound and wide ranging it is also increa... | {
"abstract": "The climatic and environmental changes associated with the last glaciation (90,000 to 10,000 years before the present; 90 to 10 ka B.P.) are an important example of the effects of global climate change on biological diversity. These effects were particularly marked in Beringia (northeastern Siberia, no... | {
"abstract": "We have identified two individuals from Glasgow in Scotland who have a deletion of one of two copies of the intergenic 9-bp sequence motif CCCCCTCTA, located between the cytochrome oxidase II (COII) and lysine tRNA (tRNA(Lys)) genes of the human mitochondrial genome. Although this polymorphism is commo... |
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"abstract": "AbstractAim: The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of coeliac disease and its relation to duodenitis, H. pylori infection and gastritis in a sample of the adult general population.\nMethods: A Swedish population sample of 482 subjects (aged 35 to 85 years) were examined with gastro-duod... | {
"abstract": "Celiac disease is a common cause of malabsorption in western countries, with significant geographic variation in incidence. Recent epidemiological studies using serology tests, however, suggest that the disease is more common than previously realized and homogeneously distributed in Europe. These studi... | {
"abstract": "The value of IgG and IgA gliadin antibodies (AGA) was compared with that of IgA endomysium antibodies (EMA) for the diagnosis of coeliac disease. Three hundred and six of 340 (90%) children with untreated coeliac disease (flat mucosa) had EMA and 338/340 (99.4%) had IgG AGA and/or IgA AGA. Only 1/340 (... |
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"abstract": "This habilitation thesis presents research that aims to enable long-term deployment of mobile robots in changing environments. The presented approaches encompass methods that ensure robustness of autonomous visual navigation in outdoor environments for prolonged time periods, spatio-temporal representa... | {
"abstract": "Visual place recognition is a mature field in mobile robotics research. Recognizing places in datasets covering traversals of hundreds or thousands of kilometres and accurate localization in small and medium size environments have been successfully demonstrated. However, for real world long term operat... | {
"abstract": "Pairwise constraints specify whether or not two samples should be in one cluster. Although it has been successful to incorporate them into traditional clustering methods, such as K-means, little progress has been made in combining them with spectral clustering. The major challenge in designing an effec... |
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"abstract": "Black rhino numbers have decreased greatly since the early 1970s, primarily as a result of poaching. A recent strategy to protect rhinos in Kenya has been to establish fenced sanctuaries. This has increased the rhino population and that of other species, but problems have emerged because of limited dis... | {
"abstract": "Home range area and habitat utilization by translocated black rhinoceros Diceros bicornis were studied at Sweetwaters Rhino Sanctuary in the Laikipia district of Kenya. Home ranges were estimated from sightings and tracking data; home range area was very variable between individuals (range 2.25‐14.39 k... | {
"abstract": "Summary Black rhinoceros were studied in the Masai Mara Game Reserve from May 1971 to August 1972. Data were gathered on their density, distribution, population structure, social organization, feeding habits and daily activities. The study area, its vegetation, and the study methods are described brief... |
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"abstract": "In recent years, the volume of data present online has grown exponentially. A major portion of this data is related to internet-based e-commerce platforms. The evaluation of such data and/or the extraction of information is difficult due to its huge volume. It is cumbersome for an individual or an orga... | {
"abstract": "Recommendation System Using Collaborative Filtering by Yunkyoung Lee Collaborative filtering is one of the well known and most extensive techniques in recommendation system its basic idea is to predict which items a user would be interested in based on their preferences. Recommendation systems using co... | {
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"abstract": "Abstract. Eleven of the world's 20 most polluted cities are located in India and poor air quality is already a major public health issue. However, anthropogenic emissions are predicted to increase substantially in the short-term (2030) and medium-term (2050) futures in India, especially if no further p... | {
"abstract": "New scientific understanding could increase the cost-effectiveness of local and regional air quality management policies, enhance the acceptance of mitigation measures for long-lived greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and reveal win-win portfolios of controls for short-lived substances that yield immediat... | {
"abstract": "Abstract The aim of this study is to investigate the effects of specific emission control measures on the air quality of urban centres and local area hotspots. In order to achieve this, a sequence of regional, urban and local scale models was applied to assess the impact of European emission control st... |
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"abstract": "The chemical composition and physiological properties of seminal fluid (SF) affect sperm quality. The objective was to investigate the effects of in vitro exposure of artificial seminal fluid (ASF) and biological seminal fluid (SF) on sperm quality. Asthenozoospermic ejaculates (n = 20) were divided in... | {
"abstract": "The role of various environmental conditions on sperm motility and their survival was investigated by incubating washed human spermatozoa in various biologic or artificial media and under different atmospheric compositions. When sperm were analyzed by the multiple exposure photography technique for obj... | {
"abstract": "A normally progressing pregnancy has been established by implanting an eight-cell embryo into the uterine cavity of an infertile woman. The embryo was obtained by in vitro fertilization of preovulatory egg aspirated at laparoscopy 28 hours after the beginning of the luteinizing hormone surge during the... |
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"abstract": "This brief proposes an <tex>$(\\pmb{N}+\\mathbf{1})\\times \\pmb{V}_{\\pmb{DD}}$</tex> gate-voltage boosting circuit. The conventional gate-voltage boosting circuit generates an output-voltage swing of <tex>$\\mathbf{0}\\sim\\mathbf{2}\\pmb{V}_{\\pmb{DD}}$</tex> from the input-voltage swing of <tex>$\\... | {
"abstract": "This paper reports a successive approximation register (SAR) analog-to-digital converter (ADC) based on the charge-sharing principle, which is known to be very energy efficient, but susceptible to the comparator offset. The ADC uses a new background calibration technique to cancel out the comparator mi... | {
"abstract": "An obvious way of achieving higher signal-to-noise ratio in oversampled data converters is by increasing the effec- tive sampling rate. If all other components are kept constant, this translates into integrators with larger bandwidth that in turn results in higher overall power consumption. This work i... |
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"abstract": "Amaç: Bu çalışmanın amacı, ankilozan spondilit (AS) hastalarında düşük doz lazer tedavisinin (DDLT) ağrı, fonksiyonel durum ve hastalık aktivitesi üzerine etkisinin araştırılmasıdır. Gereç ve Yöntem: Çift kör randomize placebo kontrollü olarak düzenlenen çalışmaya 37 hasta alındı. On seans boyunca 1. g... | {
"abstract": "Arthritis of the knee is the most common type of joint inflammatory disorder and it is associated with pain and inflammation of the joint capsule. Few studies address the effects of the 810-nm laser in such conditions. Here we investigated the effects of low-level laser therapy (LLLT; infrared, 810-nm)... | {
"abstract": "Purpose – This paper aims to describe the development of an online project in East London about local history.Design/methodology/approach – The approach to the paper has been to combine the experience of building and developing a live online community of practice (around the subject of local history in... |
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"abstract": "High-permeability pulmonary edema causing acute respiratory distress syndrome is associated with high mortality. Using a model of intratracheal adenovirus (Ad)-mediated overexpression of human vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF)-A(165) in mouse lung to induce alveolar permeability and consequent ... | {
"abstract": "Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) is a pluripotent growth and permeability factor that has a broad impact on endothelial cell function. The lung tissue is very rich in this protein; many different lung cells produce VEGF and also respond to VEGF. VEGF is critical for the development of the lung... | {
"abstract": "We aimed to investigate whether exposure to low-molecular-weight saturated aliphatic aldehydes induces an airway inflammation related to lung toxicity. In previous studies, we identified that several aldehydes induced inflammatory responses through the secretion of pro-inflammatory cytokines. Here, we ... |
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"abstract": "Simple Summary Cancer patients undergoing treatment often experience undesirable symptoms including sexual problems, and are thus in need of high-quality sexual care and information from healthcare professionals on how to deal with sexual issues. In this study, we explored the types of sexual problems ... | {
"abstract": "Cross-cultural investigations of quality of life will provide a more well-rounded picture of the multidimensional aspects of life satisfaction and personal well-being. Careful attention must be given to the nuances of language and sociocultural context in the translation of questionnaires and the imple... | {
"abstract": "This investigation explored whether teaching a case-based seminar influenced dental students' perceptions of the importance of various factors for diagnosis and treatment planning. In addition, the effects of an interdisciplinary approach to case-based teaching were analyzed. During the winter semester... |
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"abstract": "Behavioral and neuropsychological research suggests that delayed actions rely on different neural substrates than immediate actions; however, the specific brain areas implicated in the two types of actions remain unknown. We used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to measure human brain activ... | {
"abstract": "The possible impact upon human visual cortex from saccades to remembered target locations was investigated using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). A specific location in the upper-right or upper-left visual quadrant served as the saccadic target. After a delay of 2400 msec, an auditory sign... | {
"abstract": "When the brain is 'at rest', spatiotemporal activity patterns emerge spontaneously, that is, in the absence of an overt task. However, what these patterns reveal about cortical function remains elusive. In this article, we put forward the hypothesis that the correlation patterns among these spontaneous... |
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"abstract": "Dissipation of the Joule heat, accumulated in non-equilibrium longitudinal optical (LO) phonon modes, is considered in terms of LO-phonon lifetime. The dependence of the lifetime on electron density, hot-electron temperature, and supplied electric power are presented for a voltage-biased GaN-based chan... | {
"abstract": "We present the first evidence for a distinct optical phonon progression in the linear and nonlinear intersubband absorption spectra of electrons in a GaN/Al(0.8)Ga(0.2)N heterostructure. Femtosecond two-color pump-probe experiments in the midinfrared reveal spectral holes on different vibronic transiti... | {
"abstract": "Using femtosecond resonant luminescence, we have measured the intersubband scattering fare of electrons in wide GaAs quantum wells at very low excitation densities. Even when the spacing between the first two electron subbands is smaller than the LO phonon energy, we observe that intersubband scatterin... |
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"abstract": "Cell‐circuit models have suggested that nanosecond pulsed electric fields (nsPEFs) can disrupt intracellular membranes including endoplasmic reticulum (ER), mitochondria, and/or nucleus thereby inducing intrinsic apoptotic pathways. Therefore, we hypothesized that the unfolded protein response (UPR) wo... | {
"abstract": "Background Exposure of cells to very short (<1 µs) electric pulses in the megavolt/meter range have been shown to cause a multitude of effects, both physical and molecular in nature. Physically, nanosecond electrical pulses (nsEP) can cause disruption of the plasma membrane, cellular swelling, shrinkin... | {
"abstract": "Nanosecond pulsed electric fields (nsPEFs) are increasingly recognized as a novel and unique tool in various life science fields, including electroporation and cancer therapy, although their mode of action in cells remains largely unclear. Here, we show that nsPEFs induce strong and transient activatio... |
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"abstract": "A trip generation model is one of the four parts of the classical transport planning model, which explores the volume of trip or freight at the originating and destination points of a traffic analysis zone. The process of calibrating a trip generation model needs appropriate data. Freight transport dat... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Studies about freight distribution modeling are limited due to the limitations in data availability. Existing studies in this subject, generally either use the conventional gravity models or the regression based models as modeling techniques. The present study, using the 1993 US Commodity Flow... | {
"abstract": "This study attempts to identify the mode and the factors that contribute to the selection of a particular mode for commodity movements provincially based on average shipment size, control, loads, hire, and type of commodity. The main objective of this study is to propose a more comprehensive and statis... |
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"abstract": "In this study, the effects of various parameters, such as the geometrical head model, conductivity condition and stimulus position, on the electric field induced in the brain during transcranial magnetic stimulation are thoroughly examined. It is revealed that the distortion of the induced field causes... | {
"abstract": "A comparative, computational study of the modeling of transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) and electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is presented using a human head model. The magnetic fields from a typical TMS coil of figure-eight type is modeled using the Biot-Savart law. The TMS coil is placed in a pos... | {
"abstract": "We present a quantitative comparison of two metrics-neural stimulation strength and focality-in electrocon-vulsive therapy (ECT) and magnetic seizure therapy (MST) using finite-element method (FEM) simulation in a spherical head model. Five stimulation modalities were modeled, including bilateral ECT, ... |
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"abstract": "In the limit of a large mass M » 1 and on a finite interval of length 2L, an equilibrium spike solution to the classical Keller-Segel chemotaxis model with a linear chemotactic function is constructed asymptotically. By calculating an asymptotic formula for the translational eigenvalue for M » 1, it is... | {
"abstract": "In the small diffusion limit ε→0, metastable dynamics is studied for the generalized Burgers problem formula here Here u=u(x, t) and f(u) is smooth, convex, and satisfies f(0)=f′(0)=0. The choice f(u)=u2/2 has been shown previously to arise in connection with the physical problem of upward flame-front ... | {
"abstract": "This work addresses the problem of cheating prevention in secret sharing. The scheme is said to be k-cheating immune if any group of k cheaters has no advantage over honest participants. In this paper we study the constraints of cheating immune secret sharing schemes. We give a necessary and sufficient... |
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"abstract": "Consider the single server queue with an infinite buffer and a FIFO discipline, either of type M/M/1 or Geom/Geom/1. Denote by $\\mathcal{A}$ the arrival process and by $s$ the services. Assume the stability condition to be satisfied. Denote by $\\mathcal{D}$ the departure process in equilibrium and by... | {
"abstract": "Let $(\\xi_k, k\\ge 0)$ be a Markov chain on ${-1,+1}$ with $\\xi_0=1$ and transition probabilities $P(\\xi_{k+1}=1| \\xi_k=1)=a>b=P(\\xi_{k+1}=-1| \\xi_k=-1)$. Set $X_0=0$, $X_n=\\xi_1+\\cdots +\\xi_n$ and $M_n=\\max_{0\\le k\\le n}X_k$. We prove that the process $2M-X$ has the same law as that of $X$... | {
"abstract": "We describe a one‐dimensional probabilistic model of the role of domestic food handling behaviors on salmonellosis risk associated with the consumption of eggs and egg‐containing foods. Six categories of egg‐containing foods were defined based on the amount of egg contained in the food, whether eggs ar... |
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"abstract": "Error messages presented to users are one of the most important elements of Web forms. Error messages are embedded in different parts of the forms available on the Internet and presented in various formats. One of the measures of a user-friendly error message design is the ability to easily capture use... | {
"abstract": "Reading and effectively following instructions on forms is a critical part of daily living. We all encounter forms (and instructions) in almost every facet of life, ranging from education (homework, tests, and applications), to work (employment forms or benefits forms), to life (tax forms, immigration ... | {
"abstract": "Although many authentication and key agreement (AKA) schemes for the mobile satellite communication system have been proposed nowadays, the security performance of the existing schemes is still unable to satisfy the requirements of satellite communications. In 2015, Zhang et al. proposed an improved AK... |
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"abstract": "Online template attack (OTA) is a powerful technique previously used to attack elliptic curve scalar multiplication algorithms. This attack has been only analyzed in the realm of power-consumption and EM side-channels, where the signals leak about the value to be processed. However, no microarchitectur... | {
"abstract": "Denoting by P = [k]G the elliptic-curve double-and-add multiplication of a public base point G by a secret k, we show that allowing an adversary access to the projective representation of P, obtained using a particular double and add method, may result in information being revealed about k. Such access... | {
"abstract": "We propose a software-based projected image stabilization method for a projector mounted on a movable unit (e.g., a wheeled robot). The proposed method is divided into pre-measurement and stabilization processes. In the pre-measurement process, synchronized Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) data and proj... |
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"abstract": "Local authorities were involved in Further Education (FE) from 1889 to 1993, but it was not until 1944 that LEAs were obliged to provide facilities for FE. This study considered economic, political and social factors when examining changes in the roles of central and local government and other policy c... | {
"abstract": "Following the 1992 Further and Higher Education Act, local education authorities (LEAs) lost control of further education in England. Now, after spending almost two decades out in the cold, from 2010, local authorities are set to become re‐involved in the further education system. Given this, this pape... | {
"abstract": "A number of countries, including Sweden, are reconsidering traditional teaching and learning methods in higher education. This article describes the work of implementing an Educational Action Programme to support faculty development. The work has been organized by an educational developer at the Educat... |
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"abstract": "While the world population is dramatically increasing, arable land is decreasing significantly in developing countries such as China. As a result, food security is and will be a primary concern, especially for developing countries with huge population and limited arable land resources. To sustain food ... | {
"abstract": "Most crop models simulate the crop canopy as an homogeneous medium. This approach enables modelling of mass and energy transfer through relatively simple equations, and is useful for understanding crop production. However, schematisation of an homogeneous medium cannot address the heterogeneous nature ... | {
"abstract": "In this paper, a pedigree of the crop growth simulation models by the ‘School of de Wit’ is presented. The origins and philosophy of this school are traced from de Wit's classical publication on modelling photosynthesis of leaf canopies in 1965. It is shown how changing research goals and priorities ov... |
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"abstract": "Physical dust models are presented for 65 galaxies in SINGS that are strongly detected in the four IRAC bands and three MIPS bands. For each galaxy we estimate (1) the total dust mass, (2) the fraction of the dust mass contributed by PAHs, and (3) the intensity of the starlight heating the dust grains.... | {
"abstract": "We present Spitzer 3.6-160 μm images, Spitzer mid-infrared spectra, and JCMT SCUBA 850 μm images of the Sombrero Galaxy (NGC 4594), an Sa galaxy with a 109 M☉ low-luminosity active galactic nucleus (AGN). The brightest infrared sources in the galaxy are the nucleus and the dust ring. The spectral energ... | {
"abstract": "Submillimetre mapping observations of the active edge-on spiral galaxy NGC 3079 are presented. These maps at 850 and 450 μm were made with the Submillimetre Common User Bolometer Array (SCUBA) at the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT). \n \nThe source structure at these wavelengths consists of a cent... |
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"abstract": "Due to the high retrieval efficiency and low storage cost for cross-modal search tasks, cross-modal hashing methods have attracted considerable attention from the researchers. For the supervised cross-modal hashing methods, how to make the learned hash codes sufficiently preserve semantic information c... | {
"abstract": "Multimodal hashing is essential to cross-media similarity search for its low storage cost and fast query speed. Most existing multimodal hashing methods embedded heterogeneous data into a common low-dimensional Hamming space, and then rounded the continuous embeddings to obtain the binary codes. Yet th... | {
"abstract": "Due to the significant reduction in computational cost and storage, hashing techniques have gained increasing interests in facilitating large-scale cross-view retrieval tasks. Most cross-view hashing methods are developed by assuming that data from different views are well paired, e.g., text-image pair... |
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"abstract": "This paper presents a load adaptive DPS control for a dual active bridge (DAB) DC-DC converter. The control is effective for DAB used for charging of EVs (Electric Vehicles) with pre, CC (Constant Current) and CV (Constant Voltage) charging modes. The DPS (Dual-Phase-Shift) control provides an efficien... | {
"abstract": "One of the central requirements of a Dual Active Bridge (DAB) converter is to operate under Zero Voltage Switching (ZVS) conditions, to reduce switching losses and increase operating efficiency. This paper shows how frequency domain analysis can be used to design and operate a DAB to ensure ZVS across ... | {
"abstract": "A simple probabilistic method has been developed to predict the ability of energy storage to increase the penetration of intermittent embedded renewable generation (ERG) on weak electricity grids and to enhance the value of the electricity generated by time-shifting delivery to the network. This paper ... |
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"abstract": "Detection accuracy of Intrusion Detection System (IDS) depends on classifying network traffic based on data features. Using all features for classification consumes more computation time and computer resources. Some of these features may be redundant and irrelevant therefore, they affect the detection ... | {
"abstract": "In this paper, a new learning approach for network intrusion detection using naive Bayesian classifier and ID3 algorithm is presented, which identifies effective attributes from the training dataset, calculates the conditional probabilities for the best attribute values, and then correctly classifies a... | {
"abstract": "Rapid growth in the Internet usage and diverse military applications have led researchers to think of intelligent systems that can assist the users and applications in getting the services by delivering required quality of service in networks. Some kinds of intelligent techniques are appropriate for pr... |
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"abstract": "VICCI is a programmable cloud-computing research testbed t hat provides an experimental platform for developing next-generation Internet services. VICCI encomp asses a distributed set of virtualized compute clusters and networking hardware, as well as thesoftwarethat enables multiple researchers to inn... | {
"abstract": "We describe a technique for writing distributed applications which manage themselves over one or more utility computing infrastructures: by dynamically acquiring new computational resources, deploying themselves on these resources, and releasing others when no longer required. Unlike prior work, such m... | {
"abstract": "In this paper, we investigate the existence and the algorithm analysis of an adaptive scheme that has been introduced for covariance structure matrix estimation in the context of adaptive radar detection under non-Gaussian noise. This latter has been modeled by spherically invariant random vector (SIRV... |
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"abstract": "Abstract Delta and wing traps baited with synthetic female sex pheromone of Leucinodes orbonalis Guenée were found to catch and retain ten times more moths than either Spodoptera or uni-trap designs. Locally-produced water and funnel traps were as effective as delta traps, although ‘windows’ cut in the... | {
"abstract": "Through field trials and wind-tunnel studies, we have demonstrated that certain structural features of a sex-pheromone-baited delta trap affect catch of light-brown apple moth,Epiphyas postvittana, males, by influencing behaviors used to enter and exit the trap. Field catch of males was dependent upon ... | {
"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nField trapping experiments were conducted to evaluate the attractiveness of five different pheromone blends as well as the impact of trap design on attractiveness towards cocoa mirids, Sahlbergella singularis Hagl. and Distantiella theobroma (Dist.), in Cameroon.\n\n\nRESULTS\nA total of 36... |
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"abstract": "Digital transformation, which is the beginning of a new era, and performed in order to provide a more effective service, has become a compulsory situation for the enterprises that take into account the increasing corporate volumes. However, the processes and technologies used in this transformation may... | {
"abstract": "Based on research into the applications of artificial intelligence (AI) technology in the manufacturing industry in recent years, we analyze the rapid development of core technologies in the new era of ‘Internet plus AI’, which is triggering a great change in the models, means, and ecosystems of the ma... | {
"abstract": "Evaluating surgeon skill has predominantly been a subjective task. Development of objective methods for surgical skill assessment are of increased interest. Recently, with technological advances such as robotic-assisted minimally invasive surgery (RMIS), new opportunities for objective and automated as... |
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"abstract": "Renal structural abnormalities are known to precede the development of proteinuria, hypertension, and reduced renal function in patients with type 1 diabetes. The determinants of these early structural abnormalities are, however, largely unknown. The International Diabetic Nephropathy Study (IDNS) has ... | {
"abstract": "Although glomerular structure has been studied, careful evaluation of tubular basement membrane (TBM) structure in diabetes in humans has not been done. We measured proximal TBM width, glomerular basement membrane (GBM) width, mesangial fractional volume [Vv(Mes/glom)], mesangial matrix fractional volu... | {
"abstract": "Although diuresis has long been recognized as one of the important physiologic aberrations of the diabetic state, its exact nature has not been fully explained. Cushny assumed that the unabsorbed sugar in the renal tubule limits the reabsorption of water through offering osmotic resistance. Thus hyperg... |
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"abstract": "Knowledge about product lifetime obtained from actual usage (field data) is of great importance to manufacturers who want to get information about the true reliability of their products. Warranty data are frequently used to estimate reliability characteristics because such databases are automatically g... | {
"abstract": "Phillips and Sweeting [J. R. Statist. Soc. B 58 (1996) 775–783.] considered estimation of the parameter of the exponential distribution with censored failure time data when there is incomplete knowledge of the censoring times. It was shown that, under particular models for the censoring mechanism and c... | {
"abstract": "The problem of estimating the parameter of the negative exponential distribution with censored data may be complicated by a lack of complete knowledge of the censoring times. The effect of ignoring these errors in the censoring times rather than using a complete maximum likelihood estimation approach i... |
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"abstract": "goal of face detection is to locate all regions that contain a face. This paper has a simple face detection procedure which has two major steps, first to segment skin region from an image, and second, to decide these regions contain human face or not. Our procedure is based on skin color segmentation a... | {
"abstract": "Face detection is the first step in automated face recognition and the important cue to detect the human face is skin color. This proposed paper consists of two steps, the first step is to detect the more skinned region by the fusion of RGB, YCbCr skin color region and CIEL∗ a∗ b skin labeled image usi... | {
"abstract": "Face detection is a problem in image processing that has been extensively studied in the last decades. This fact is justified due to the innumerous applications this subject has in computer vision. In this paper we present a technique to detect a face in an image where several persons may be. The image... |
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"abstract": "This paper explores whether (n-2)-resilient services and reliable registers can wait-free solve (n, n-1)-consensus. It has already been shown to be feasible if arbitrary connection is allowed, while we prove that it's impossible otherwise.",
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"title": "The Impossibility of Boo... | {
"abstract": "We prove two theorems saying that no distributed system in which processes coordinate using reliable registers and f-resilient services can solve the consensus problem in the presence of f + 1 undetectable process stopping failures. (A service is f-resilient if it is guaranteed to operate as long as no... | {
"abstract": "During the colonization of tomato leaves, the fungal pathogen Cladosporium fulvum excretes low-molecular-weight proteins in the intercellular spaces of the host tissue. These proteins are encoded by the ecp genes which are highly expressed in C. fulvum while growing in planta but are not, or are only w... |
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"abstract": "Abstract Objective: Smartphones have the potential for capturing subtle changes in cognition that characterize preclinical Alzheimer’s disease (AD) in older adults. The Ambulatory Research in Cognition (ARC) smartphone application is based on principles from ecological momentary assessment (EMA) and ad... | {
"abstract": "Background Trials in Alzheimer’s disease are increasingly focusing on prevention in asymptomatic individuals. This poses a challenge in examining treatment effects since currently available approaches are often unable to detect cognitive and functional changes among asymptomatic individuals. Resultant ... | {
"abstract": "We determined the effects of distraction on gait in healthy elderly subjects and Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients. The effects of simultaneous performance of a verbal fluency task (effect of reciting male or female names) on the time and number of steps taken to walk 30 feet were compared using a repe... |
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"abstract": "On the island of Sardinia the lepidopteran Papilio hospiton uses Ferula communis as exclusive host plant. However, on the small island of Tavolara, adult females lay eggs on Seseli tortuosum, a plant confined to the island. When raised in captivity on Seseli only few larvae grew beyond the first–second... | {
"abstract": "SUMMARY In extracellular tip recordings from long trichoid sensilla of male Manduca sexta moths, we studied dose–response relationships in response to bombykal stimuli of two different durations in the adapted and the non-adapted state. Bombykal-responsive cells could be distinguished from non-bombykal... | {
"abstract": "On the island of Sardinia the lepidopteran Papilio hospiton uses Ferula communis as exclusive host plant. However, on the small island of Tavolara, adult females lay eggs on Seseli tortuosum, a plant confined to the island. When raised in captivity on Seseli only few larvae grew beyond the first–second... |
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"abstract": "Education in the normal era post-pandemic implements flexible learning to allow students to choose learning places and steps by integrating students and technology to enable new possibilities aimed at effective learning. However, students encounter tremendous challenges of losing learning focus for not... | {
"abstract": "With the development of Internet and databases application techniques, the demand that lots of databases in the Internet are permitted to remote query and access for authorized users becomes common, and the problem that how to protect the copyright of relational databases arises. This paper simply intr... | {
"abstract": "In this paper, we address the writer identification problem for noisy handwritten documents written on a substrate of pre-printed ruling lines. Instead of attempting to remove rulings and to recover broken strokes, we incorporate rulings to help with the identification task through the use of new displ... |
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"abstract": "Abstract Background: The clinical characteristics of LVAS have attracted more and more attention, its audiology and imaging features have also been deeply studied. Objective: To analyze phenotypes, genotypes of EVA, and find out the relationship between them. Methods: Sixty EVA patients were tested by ... | {
"abstract": "Enlargement of the vestibular aqueduct (EVA) is the most common inner ear anomaly detected in ears of children with sensorineural hearing loss. Pendred syndrome (PS) is an autosomal recessive disorder characterized by bilateral sensorineural hearing loss with EVA and an iodine organification defect tha... | {
"abstract": "The association between Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) infection and nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) has been shown in many observational studies, but these conclusions remain controversial. Hence, we performed a meta‐analysis to elucidate the association.",
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"abstract": "ABSTRACT Tolerance to combined kidney and hematopoietic cell transplant has been achieved in humans after establishment of mixed chimerism allowing for the withdrawal of immunosuppressive drugs. The seminal contributions of Ray Owen provided the scientific basis for the human protocol.",
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"abstract": "Treatment of recipient Balb/c mice with fractionated, high-dose total lymphoid irradiation, a procedure commonly used in the therapy of human malignant lymphomas, resulted in fivefold prolongation of the survival of C57BL/Ka skin allografts despite major histocompatibility differences between the strai... | {
"abstract": "A new method of cyclophosphamide (CP)-induced skin allograft tolerance in mice that can regularly overcome fully allogeneic (major H-2 plus non-H-2) antigen barriers in mice has been established. The components of the method are intravenous or intraperitoneal administration of 50- 100 micrograms of ant... |
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"abstract": "A largely ignored fact in spectral super-resolution (SSR) is that the subsistent mapping methods neglect the auxiliary prior of camera spectral sensitivity (CSS) and only pay attention to wider or deeper network framework design while ignoring to excavate the spatial and spectral dependencies among int... | {
"abstract": "Deep Convolutional Networks (ConvNets) are fundamental to, besides large-scale visual recognition, a lot of vision tasks. As the primary goal of the ConvNets is to characterize complex boundaries of thousands of classes in a high-dimensional space, it is critical to learn higher-order representations f... | {
"abstract": "Learning to solve complex sequences of tasks--while both leveraging transfer and avoiding catastrophic forgetting--remains a key obstacle to achieving human-level intelligence. The progressive networks approach represents a step forward in this direction: they are immune to forgetting and can leverage ... |
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"abstract": "Patrick D. Pauken, Advisor Research shows that there is a low number of Asian American women administrators in higher education institutions across the United States. The purpose of this life history study was to explore the lives of Asian Pacific American (APA) women in administration in predominately... | {
"abstract": "As academic clinicians and investigators, it is important to facilitate the training of young investigators and clinicians so they can become knowledgeable, competent, and independent in their careers. This process of mentoring is a form of facilitative learning that has its origins extending thousands... | {
"abstract": "Mentoring skills are valuable assets for academic medicine faculty, who help shape the professionalism of the next generation of physicians. Mentors are role models who also act as guides for students’ personal and professional development over time. Mentors can be instrumental in conveying explicit ac... |
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"abstract": "Fault tolerance for the upcoming exascale generation has long been an area of active research. One of the components of a fault tolerance strategy is checkpointing. Petascale-level checkpointing is demonstrated through a new mechanism for virtualization of the InfiniBand UD (unreliable datagram) mode, ... | {
"abstract": "Transparently saving the state of the InfiniBand network as part of distributed checkpointing has been a long-standing challenge for researchers. The lack of a solution has forced typical MPI implementations to include custom checkpoint-restart services that \"tear down\" the network, checkpoint each n... | {
"abstract": "We extend discrete-time dynamic flow algorithms presented in the literature to solve the analogous continuous-time dynamic flow problems. These problems include finding maximum dynamic flows, quickest flows, universally maximum dynamic flows, lexicographically maximum dynamic flows, dynamic transshipme... |
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"abstract": "The usage of smart home is an emergent matter in the construction industry and demands the builders a search for resource optimization to create strategies and competitive advantages and, therefore, supply for the users’ needs. To facilitate this resource optimization, the performance evaluation tools ... | {
"abstract": "Location service is one of the primary services in smart automated systems of Internet of Things (IoT). For various location-based services, accurate localization has become a key issue. Recently, research on IoT localization systems for smart buildings has been attracting increasing attention. In this... | {
"abstract": "The rapid development of computer hardware and Internet technology makes large scale data dependent models computationally tractable, and opens a bright avenue for annotating images through innovative machine learning algorithms. Semi-supervised learning (SSL) has consequently received intensive attent... |
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"abstract": "Methane seeps are globally distributed geologic features in which reduced fluid from below the seafloor is advected upward and meets the oxidized bottom waters of Earth’s oceans. This redox gradient fuels chemosynthetic communities anchored by the microbially-mediated anaerobic oxidation of methane (AO... | {
"abstract": "Symbiont-containing mussels (Mytilidae) are found at hydrothermal vents and cold seeps on the ocean floor, but it is not known whether these taxa represent an ancient lineage endemic to these surroundings or are more recent invaders. Here we show that several small and poorly known mussels, commonly fo... | {
"abstract": "Wood falls on the ocean floor form chemosynthetic ecosystems that remain poorly studied compared with features such as hydrothermal vents or whale falls. In particular, the microbes forming the base of this unique ecosystem are not well characterized and the ecology of communities is not known. Here we... |
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"abstract": "Previous research on factors that influence divided attention have focused on resource allocation, age of participants, task difficulty and familiarity, practice effects as well as brain areas that control dual task performance. The present study examined the effects of task difficulty and stimulus sim... | {
"abstract": "Recent progress in the study of attention and performance is discussed, focusing on the nature of attentional control and the effects of practice. Generally speaking, the effects of mental set are proving more pervasive than was previously suspected, whereas automaticity is proving less robust. Stimulu... | {
"abstract": "This article presents a method for the geometry reconstruction of a Francis turbine installed in a hydroelectric Minipower-station in Colombia. In order to obtain the geometrical CAD model techniques as basic metrology, surface scanning, 3D digitalization, and development of moulds were used. The model... |
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"abstract": "Pyrrolizidine alkaloids (PAs) are typical compounds of plant secondary metabolism and are believed to be part of the plant's chemical defense. Within the monocotyledonous plants, PAs have been described in only a few genera, mainly orchids, including Phalaenopsis. Because phylogenetic analyses suggest ... | {
"abstract": "The evolution of pathways within plant secondary metabolism has been studied by using the pyrrolizidine alkaloids (PAs) as a model system. PAs are constitutively produced by plants as a defense against herbivores. The occurrence of PAs is restricted to certain unrelated families within the angiosperms.... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Instantaneous heat flux measurements have shown that, in the expansion stroke, heat can flow from the wall into the combustion chamber, even though the bulk gas temperature is higher than the wall temperature. This unexpected result has been explained by modelling of the unsteady flows and hea... |
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"abstract": "Objectives To prepare the conductive MWCNT (multiwall carbon nanotube)-agarose scaffolds with multi-microchannel for neuron growth under electrical stimulation. Methods The scaffolds were produced by gradient freeze and lyophilization methods. The synthesized materials were characterized by SEM and nea... | {
"abstract": "Introducing multifunctional groups and inorganic material imparts xylan-based hydrogels with excellent properties, such as responsiveness to pH, temperature, light, and external magnetic field. In this work, a composite hydrogel was synthesized by introducing acid treated carbon nanotubes (AT-CNTs) int... | {
"abstract": "By April 2013, the FCC's recent bill-shock agreement with cellular carriers requires consumers be notified when exceeding usage allowances. Will the agreement help or hurt consumers? To answer this question, we estimate a model of consumer plan choice, usage, and learning using a panel of cellular bill... |
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"abstract": "This thesis questions on one level the assertion that the Internet is a force for democratisation in authoritarian regimes (Habermas, 2006), and at the same time another means for disseminating propaganda, fear and intimidation (Rodan, 1998). It overcomes the limitations of using automated data collect... | {
"abstract": "Abstract The rise of the press, radio, television and other mass media enabled the development of an independent institution: the ‘Fourth Estate’, central to pluralist democratic processes. The growing use of the Internet and related digital technologies is creating a space for networking individuals i... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Analysis of patent citations is a core methodology in the study of knowledge diffusion. However, citations made by patent examiners have not been separately reported, adding unknown noise to the data. We leverage a recent change in the reporting of patent data showing citations added by examin... |
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