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"abstract": "Electricity consumption of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) reached a total of about 900 TWh per year in 2012 and electricity generation for ICT continues to contribute over 2% of the human-generated CO2 to the atmosphere. Energy costs are rapidly becoming the major operational expense f... | {
"abstract": "Power management is an emerging area of interest for network management. This article reviews current developments and describes methods for enabling power management in network-attached computers. © 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.",
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"title": "Enabling power management for networ... | {
"abstract": "A carefully controlled field study has shown that reminder stickers attached to light switch plates reduce lighting energy consumption in private offices. The magnitude of the energy savings is large enough for the switch stickers to be cost effective in 10 weeks or less. A questionnaire administered a... |
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"abstract": "Intrinsically disordered regions (IDRs) often are fast evolving protein domains of low sequence complexity that can drive phase transitions and are commonly found in many proteins associated with neurodegenerative diseases, including the RNA processing factor TDP43. Yet, how phase separation contribute... | {
"abstract": "Interactions of LARKS protein domains More than 1500 human proteins contain long, disordered stretches of “low complexity”—strings of just a few of the 20 common amino acids. The functions of these low-complexity domains have been unclear. Hughes et al. present atomic-resolution structures that suggest... | {
"abstract": "Process control is expected to play an increasingly important role in the biotechnology industry. The development of feedback control systems that exploit advances in online measurement technology to achieve optimal productivity of continuous and fed-batch bioreactors is one of the most important chall... |
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"abstract": "L-Sorbose induces hyperbranching of hyphae, which results in colonial growth in Neurospora crassa. The sor-4 gene, which encodes a glucose sensor that acts in carbon catabolite repression (CCR), has been identified as a sorbose resistance gene. In this study, we found that the deletion mutant of col-26... | {
"abstract": "Neurospora crassa mutants resistant to 2-deoxyglucose have been isolated, and their mutations have been mapped to four genetic loci. The mutants have the following characteristics: (i) they are resistant to sorbose as well as to 2-deoxyglucose; (ii) they are partially or completely constitutive for glu... | {
"abstract": "Summary Regulation and maximization of lipase production in a mutant derivative of R. oligosporus has been investigated using different substrates, inoculum sizes, pH of the medium, temperature, and nitrogen sources in shake flask experiments and batch fermentation in a fermentor. The production of int... |
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"abstract": "A micromachined separable RF connector is demonstrated using low-resistivity silicon as the substrate material. The design is based around a two-part device, containing pins capable of deflections perpendicular to the substrate plane. Thick SU-8 dielectric is used to reduce lossy substrate coupling and... | {
"abstract": "A MEMS in-line separable connector containing features for precision self-alignment is demonstrated. The concept relies on sliding connection between female and male halves to induce vertical deflections of a set of flexible conductors and establish stable electrical contacts. Electrodeposited photores... | {
"abstract": "A multilevel microcontact printing (μCP) system that avoids the use of optical alignment and precision manipulation equipment is demonstrated. Most of the complexity is transferred to the poly(dimethylsiloxane) (PDMS) stamp itself by forming the features, a mechanical self-alignment mechanism, and an e... |
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"abstract": "Abstract The authors assess the impact of foreign graduate teaching associates (GTAs) on undergraduate economics instruction where the standard language for the majority of students is English. They find little evidence that foreign GTAs adversely affect grades in economics principles courses or studen... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Class size is of particular interest to education researchers and administrators because it is one of the few variables that administrators can change from term to term. In studies of class size, however, little if any attention is given to the consequence of missing student records that resul... | {
"abstract": "Abstract This study examines educational outcomes in Illinois for the 1989–1990 school year. Several measures of educational attainment are analyzed including ACT scores, high school graduation rates, and the percentage in a high school planning to attend college. The most important results are that an... |
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"abstract": "Extensive studies of biota at \"Evolution Canyon\" (EC) on Mount Carmel (Nahal Oren Canyon, Israel) include Drosophila as one of the main model organisms. The microtopography of the EC permits interslope mixing by easy migration of the flies. Nevertheless, we found strong interslope differentiation in ... | {
"abstract": "Elucidating the causes of population divergence, and ultimately speciation, is a central objective of evolutionary biology. A number of previous studies of Drosophila populations from the Nahal Oren canyon (Mt Carmel, Israel) revealed significant interslope differences for a complex of fitness and beha... | {
"abstract": "Drugs containing one or more chiral centres exist in stereoisomeric molecular forms. Most commonly, drugs containing a single asymmetric carbon atom exist in two enantiomeric forms, designated as eutomer (the more potent) and distomer (the less potent). As well as differences in potency and other pharm... |
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"abstract": "We explored supervised machine learning (ML) techniques to understand and predict the adequacy and fluency of English-Spanish machine translation. Five experiments were conducted using three classifiers in Weka, an open-source ML tool. We found that the highest performance was achieved by applying a di... | {
"abstract": "This paper presents a method to predict human assessments of machine translation (MT) quality based on a combination of binary classifiers using a coding matrix. The multiclass categorization problem is reduced to a set of binary problems that are solved using standard classification learning algorithm... | {
"abstract": "We study a call center model with a postponed callback option. A customer at the head of the queue whose elapsed waiting time achieves a given threshold receives a voice message mentioning the option to be called back later. This callback option differs from the traditional ones found in the literature... |
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"abstract": "Multicytokine therapy may be useful to counteract radiation-induced myelosuppression. We assessed the stem cell factor + glycosylated erythropoietin + pegylated granulocyte colony-stimulating factor combination (SEG) as an emergency treatment. SEG in highly irradiated monkeys efficacy appeared to be re... | {
"abstract": "OBJECTIVE\nNuclear/radiological threats have evolved and scenarios for terrorist attacks involving radioactive material have been identified as complex situations. Mass casualty scenarios may happen, and individuals may be exposed to intentionally hidden sources of high activity, resulting in delayed d... | {
"abstract": "[1] A model to simulate the complete planetary orbital radar sounder problem is presented in this paper. The subsurface features and the ionosphere will not only bring ambiguity to the collected radar sounder data, but also critically affect instrument capabilities. These environmental uncertainties ge... |
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"abstract": "Evidence suggests that antidepressant (ADTs) use may increase the risk of seizures. In the UK about one percent of the population is affected with epilepsy. Since the use of ADTs is on the rise in the UK, the authors of this study aimed to assess and quantify the change in absolute risk of epilepsy or ... | {
"abstract": "BackgroundEpilepsy is a serious condition which can profoundly affect an individual’s life. While there is some evidence to suggest an association between antidepressant use and epilepsy and seizures it is conflicting and not conclusive. Antidepressant prescribing is rising in the UK so it is important... | {
"abstract": "BackgroundAntidepressants are among the most commonly prescribed drugs in primary care in England and their use is increasing. This is largely due to longer durations of treatment of depression. Observational studies have shown some differences in adverse outcomes associated with different antidepressa... |
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"abstract": "Data size is the bottleneck for developing deep saliency models, because collecting eye-movement data is very time consuming and expensive. Most of current studies on human attention and saliency modeling have used high quality stereotype stimuli. In real world, however, captured images undergo various... | {
"abstract": "In this technical report, we present our publicly downloadable implementation of the SALICON saliency model. At the time of this writing, SALICON is one of the top performing saliency models on the MIT 300 fixation prediction dataset which evaluates how well an algorithm is able to predict where humans... | {
"abstract": "Deep convolutional neural networks have demonstrated high performances for fixation prediction in recent years. How they achieve this, however, is less explored and they remain to be black box models. Here, we attempt to shed light on the internal structure of deep saliency models and study what featur... |
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"abstract": "Abstract Cyclophosphamide (CP), as an antineoplastic agent, causes premature ovarian failure (POF) due to ovarian toxicity and subsequent infertility in women. Platelet-rich plasma (PRP) has accumulated significant attention in regenerative medicine. Pentoxifylline (PTX) as a methylxanthine derivative ... | {
"abstract": "Chronic low-grade inflammation and oxidative stress (OS) appear to be two main pathways involved in the pathogenesis of polycystic ovary (PCO) syndrome. Therefore, targeting these pathways by means of anticytokine and antioxidant agents might be a therapeutic alternative approach to the current treatme... | {
"abstract": "ABSTRACT Neonatal meningitis-causing Escherichia coli isolates (SP-4, SP-5, SP-13, SP-46, and SP-65) were recovered between 1989 and 1997 from infants in the Netherlands. Here, we report the draft genome sequences of these five E. coli isolates, which are currently being used to validate food safety pr... |
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"abstract": "Neonatal jaundice is a common condition worldwide. Failure of timely diagnosis and treatment can lead to death or brain injury. Current diagnostic approaches include a painful and time-consuming invasive blood test and non-invasive tests using costly transcutaneous bilirubinometers. Since periodic moni... | {
"abstract": "Jaundice is a major cause of mortality and morbidity in the newborn. Globally, early identification and home monitoring are significant challenges in reducing the incidence of jaundice-related neurological damage. Smartphone cameras are promising as colour-based screening tools as they are low-cost, ob... | {
"abstract": "This study investigated the effects of a TeleWound program on the use of service and financial outcomes among homebound patients with chronic wounds. The TeleWound program consisted of a Web-based transmission of digital photographs together with a clinical protocol. It enabled homebound patients with ... |
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"abstract": "Recommender systems are effective tools for mitigating information overload and have seen extensive applications across various domains. However, the single focus on utility goals proves to be inadequate in addressing real-world concerns, leading to increasing attention to fairness-aware and diversity-... | {
"abstract": "Performing accurate suggestions is an objective of paramount importance for effective recommender systems. Other important and increasingly evident objectives are novelty and diversity, which are achieved by recommender systems that are able to suggest diversified items not easily discovered by the use... | {
"abstract": "We present the application of optical code division multiple access (OCDMA) modulation based on optical orthogonal codes for automotive time-of-flight light detection and ranging (LiDAR) system sensors using avalanche photodiode (APD) detectors. The modulation opens the possibility to discriminate sing... |
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"abstract": "ADS‐5102 (amantadine) extended release capsules (GOCOVRI™) are a treatment for dyskinesia in patients with Parkinson's disease (PD). ADS‐5102 reduced dyskinesia and OFF time in phase 3 controlled trials of up to six months. Amantadine immediate release (IR) is used for dyskinesia, but suboptimal durabi... | {
"abstract": "SummaryA study into the prevalence and treatment of dyskinesia in Parkinson’s disease (PD) patients was performed with 380 PD specialists-completed interviews relating to PD and retrospectively completed 1900 patient record forms for patients with dyskinesia. Physicians reported, that 34% of their PD p... | {
"abstract": "BackgroundAlthough levodopa is considered the most effective pharmacotherapy for motor symptoms of Parkinson’s disease (PD), chronic use is associated with motor complications, including fluctuating response and unpredictable, involuntary movements called dyskinesia. ADS-5102 (amantadine) extended-rele... |
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"abstract": "The success on the design of new oral nanocarriers greatly depends on the identification of the best physicochemical properties that would allow their diffusion across the mucus layer that protects the intestinal epithelium. In this context, particle tracking (PT) has arisen in the pharmaceutical field... | {
"abstract": "Recently, 24 nm polymer nanoparticles were found to access a privileged non-degradative intracellular pathway that leads to perinuclear accumulation. Here, we report the intracellular dynamics of vesicles containing polymer nanoparticles within this non-degradative pathway, characterized by clathrin- a... | {
"abstract": "Five cDNA clones (ADR6, ADR11-1, ADR11-2, ADR12-1 and ADR12-2), representing three families of auxin down-regulated (ADR) genes were isolated and characterized. These were isolated by screening a λZap cDNA library with the partial cDNA clones p6, p11 and p12, isolated earlier (Baulcombe and Key, J Biol... |
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"abstract": "Abstract Aim: Sensory processing impairments are well characterized in children with neurodevelopmental disorders, particularly autism, and have been associated with maladaptive behaviors. However, little is known regarding sensory processing difficulties within Down syndrome, or how these difficulties... | {
"abstract": "The objective of the reported study was to reassess the factor structure of the Developmental Behaviour Checklist (DBC) in a large cross-cultural sample representing all levels of intellectual disability. Parent and teacher DBC ratings on a combined sample of 1536 Dutch and Australian children and adol... | {
"abstract": "A 24-item short form of the 96-item Developmental Behaviour Checklist was developed to provide a brief measure of Total Behaviour Problem Score for research purposes. The short form Developmental Behaviour Checklist (DBC-P24) was chosen for low bias and high precision from among 100 randomly selected i... |
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"abstract": "Multi-enzyme complexes are responsible for the synthesis of a number of biochemical compounds and the degradation of complex polymers. An example of the latter is the degradation of cellulose by enzyme complexes termed “cellulosomes” which are produced by several bacteria of the class Clostridia. The b... | {
"abstract": "BackgroundThe assembly and spatial organization of enzymes in naturally occurring multi-protein complexes is of paramount importance for the efficient degradation of complex polymers and biosynthesis of valuable products. The degradation of cellulose into fermentable sugars by Clostridium thermocellum ... | {
"abstract": "ABSTRACT Randomly moving but self-propelled agents, such as Escherichia coli bacteria, are expected to fill a volume homogeneously. However, we show that when a population of bacteria is exposed to a microfabricated wall of funnel-shaped openings, the random motion of bacteria through the openings is r... |
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"abstract": "Rare word representation has recently enjoyed a surge of interest, owing to the crucial role that effective handling of infrequent words can play in accurate semantic understanding. However, there is a paucity of reliable benchmarks for evaluation and comparison of these techniques. We show in this pap... | {
"abstract": "Word embeddings improve generalization over lexical features by placing each word in a lower-dimensional space, using distributional information obtained from unlabeled data. However, the effectiveness of word embeddings for downstream NLP tasks is limited by out-of-vocabulary (OOV) words, for which em... | {
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"abstract": "Introduction: The Vietnamese community in New South Wales (NSW) has been identified as a priority group for tailored anti-tobacco campaigns. Aim: Increasing quit attempts and reducing smoking-related harm in the Vietnamese community. Methods: Pre and post (n=778) surveys will be used for evaluation. Ra... | {
"abstract": "ISSUE ADDRESSED\nKnowledge, attitudes and beliefs about lung cancer among Chinese, Vietnamese and Arabic-speaking communities in Sydney, New South Wales (NSW) are explored.\n\n\nMETHODS\nSeven focus groups were completed with a total of 51 participants (smokers and non-smokers) from three culturally an... | {
"abstract": "While there has been no clear consensus on the potential for earlier diagnosis of lung cancer, recent research has suggested that the time between symptom onset and consultation can be long enough to plausibly affect prognosis. In this article, we present a review of the literature concerning help-seek... |
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"abstract": "This study examines how the media and journalists are used in lobbying processes. To explore the topic a systematic review of the literature in peer-reviewed journals published between January 2000 to June 2018 was undertaken. The findings of this paper indicate that lobbyists and interest groups engag... | {
"abstract": "The concept of product positioning is well established in the commercial communication sphere, as are the notions of issue definition and agenda setting in the field of political science. Less thoroughly researched, though, is an area which intersects these two fields—the way in which lobbyists use lan... | {
"abstract": "When political interest groups contend for public support, both money and legitimacy are critical resources. Money is especially useful in disseminating ideas, while legitimacy aids their reception and acceptance. In political contests pitting private interest groups such as large corporations against ... |
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"abstract": "The physical effort required to seek out and extract a resource is an important consideration for a foraging animal. A second consideration is the variability or risk associated with resource delivery. An intriguing observation from ethological studies is that animals shift their preference from stable... | {
"abstract": "Many decisions involve uncertainty, or imperfect knowledge about how choices lead to outcomes. Colloquial notions of uncertainty, particularly when describing a decision as 'risky', often carry connotations of potential danger as well. Gambling on a long shot, whether a horse at the racetrack or a fore... | {
"abstract": "The precise role of orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) in affective processing is still debated. One view suggests OFC represents stimulus reward value and supports learning and relearning of stimulus-reward associations. An alternate view implicates OFC in behavioral control after rewarding or punishing feedb... |
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"abstract": "Formaldehyde (FA) is a commercially important chemical with numerous and diverse uses. Accordingly, occupational and environmental exposure to FA is prevalent worldwide. Various adverse effects, including nasopharyngeal, sinonasal, and lymphohematopoietic cancers, have been linked to FA exposure, promp... | {
"abstract": "The repair of DNA double-strand breaks is critical for maintaining genetic stability. In the non-homologous end-joining pathway, DNA ends are brought together by end-bridging factors. However, most in vivo DNA double-strand breaks have terminal structures that cannot be directly ligated. Thus, the DNA ... | {
"abstract": "Silent stroke is frequently recognized in elderly persons. Diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging has proved to be highly sensitive in the detection of recent silent stroke, and may further applications in the future. Silent stroke in healthy and asymptomatic individuals mainly comprises lacunar... |
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"abstract": "Let $P$ be a partially ordered set. If the Boolean lattice $(2^{[n]},\\subset)$ can be partitioned into copies of $P$ for some positive integer $n$, then $P$ must satisfy the following two trivial conditions: (1) the size of $P$ is a power of $2$, (2) $P$ has a unique maximal and minimal element. Resol... | {
"abstract": "The Boolean lattice 2 n is the power set of n ordered by inclusion. If c is a positive integer, a c -partition of a poset is a chain partition, where all but at most one of the chains have size c . We prove that if n = ? ( c 2 ) , then 2 n has a c -partition. This improves a theorem of Lonc.We also pro... | {
"abstract": "The expanding digitisation of the telephone networks has brought about an increasing interest in methods addressing the performance characterisation of new digital voice transmission systems. In the paper a review of subjective methodologies for the assessment of telephone quality digital voice communi... |
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"abstract": "Obesity is characterized by excessive fat accumulation and inflammation. Aging has also been characterized as an inflammatory condition, frequently accompanied by accumulation of visceral fat. Beneficial effects of exercise and n-3 long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids in metabolic disorders have been... | {
"abstract": "Renal tubular glucose reabsorption is mediated by facilitative glucose transporter (GLUT) proteins and energy-dependent sodium glucose luminal transporters. Glucose transport in the diabetic kidney is upregulated and has been implicated in the pathogenesis of progressive diabetic nephropathy. Hyperglyc... | {
"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nThe tissue renin-angiotensin system (RAS) may modulate the structural and functional changes that occur in the diabetic kidney.\n\n\nMETHODS\nHypertensive transgenic (mREN-2)27 rat (TGR) that exhibit increased tissue renin expression were administered streptozotocin (STZ, diabetic) or citra... |
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"abstract": "Objectives: Cancer of the exocrine pancreas is the fourth leading cause of cancer-related deaths in the United States. The efficacy of a novel bioavailable anticancer agent, dimethylamino-parthenolide (DMAPT), and the cyclooxygenase 2 inhibitor, celecoxib, was evaluated in a carcinogen-induced developm... | {
"abstract": "The design of novel targeted or combination therapies may improve treatment options for pancreatic cancer. Two targets of recent interest are nuclear factor-κB (NF-κB) and cyclooxygenase (COX), known to be activated or overexpressed, respectively, in pancreatic cancer. We have previously shown that par... | {
"abstract": "On 17th May 2011, the Government published its House of Lords Reform Draft Bill and accompanying White Paper, which contained proposals for a smaller, reformed House of Lords. The Draft Bill proceeded to pre-legislative scrutiny by a Joint Committee of both Houses of Parliament, which held its first pu... |
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"abstract": "When comparative neuromorphological studies are extended into evolutionary contexts, traits of interest are often linked to diversification patterns. Features demonstrably associated with increases in diversification rates and the infiltration or occupation of novel niche spaces are often termed “key i... | {
"abstract": "1Departments of Zoology and Botany and Beaty Biodiversity Museum, University of British Columbia, 6270 University Boulevard, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada V6T 1Z4; 2Departments of Zoology and Biodiversity Research Centre, University of British Columbia, 6270 University Boulevard, Vancouver, Briti... | {
"abstract": "Making meaningful inferences from phylogenetic comparative data requires a meaningful model of trait evolution. It is thus important to determine whether the model is appropriate for the data and the question being addressed. One way to assess this is to ask whether the model provides a good statistica... |
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"abstract": "Precisely quantifying the current climate‐related sea level change requires accurate knowledge of long‐term geological processes known as Glacial Isostatic Adjustments (GIA). Although the major postglacial melting phase is likely to have ended ∼6–4 ka BP (before present), GIA is still significantly aff... | {
"abstract": "MICROATOLLS are colonies of corals, commonly Porties, which are dead on top but living around their perimeter, and are found in intertidal environments on coral atolls. They can grow to several metres in diameter. Their upward growth is constrained by sea level through prolonged exposure at the lowest ... | {
"abstract": "Significance Several areas of earth science require knowledge of the fluctuations in sea level and ice volume through glacial cycles. These include understanding past ice sheets and providing boundary conditions for paleoclimate models, calibrating marine-sediment isotopic records, and providing the ba... |
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"abstract": "This paper presents a method to design the waveform of a back electromotive force (back EMF) of an axial flux permanent magnet (AFPM) motor using printed circuit board (PCB) windings. When the magnetization distribution of permanent magnet (PM) is given, the magnetic field in the air gap region is calc... | {
"abstract": "An analytical method to determine the no-load and armature reaction magnetic fields of a single-sided, axial flux permanent-magnet synchronous generator without armature core is presented. Laplace's equation is solved in the rectangular coordinate system to give the scalar magnetic potentials, using a ... | {
"abstract": "The sharp corner significantly affects the flow through triangular duct. In the corners, flow gets stagnant, which results in poor heat transfer. Therefore, in the present study, one corner of the duct is kept rounded with variable curvature radius values (Rc). The curvature radius is selected in such ... |
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"abstract": "Characteristics of the three-phase induction motors can be analized by using a conventional equivalent circuit. The parameters of the circuit can be obtained through of several experiment's results in the laboratory such as dc test, noload test, and blocked-rotor test. All data must be gotten accuratel... | {
"abstract": "In this paper a sensorless rotor speed estimation and parameter identification algorithm is presented. The algorithm is designed specifically for induction motor (IM) drives devoted to automatic rescue devices (ARD) used in lifts and hoist applications. Its peculiarity is that it is based on the sinuso... | {
"abstract": "Characteristics of the three-phase induction motors can be analized by using a conventional equivalent circuit. The parameters of the circuit can be obtained through of several experiment's results in the laboratory such as dc test, noload test, and blocked-rotor test. All data must be gotten accuratel... |
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"abstract": "University of Wollongong Copyright Warning You may print or download ONE copy of this document for the purpose of your own research or study. The University does not authorise you to copy, communicate or otherwise make available electronically to any other person any copyright material contained on thi... | {
"abstract": "The purpose of this paper is to empirically determine the effects of political instability on economic growth. By using the system-GMM estimator for linear dynamic panel data models on a sample covering up to 169 countries, and 5-year periods from 1960 to 2004, we find that higher degrees of political ... | {
"abstract": "The Business Plan. How to Buy a Going Business. How to Buy a Franchise. Unusual Businesses. Patents, Inventions, Trademarks, and Copyrights. Business Formation: Sole Proprietorship, Partnership, Corporation. Naming the Business. The Human Side of Business Start-Ups. Employees. Taxes, Permits, Licenses.... |
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"abstract": "In this article, we review the anatomical inputs and outputs to the mouse primary visual cortex, area V1. Our survey of data from the Allen Institute Mouse Connectivity project indicates that mouse V1 is highly interconnected with both cortical and subcortical brain areas. This pattern of innervation a... | {
"abstract": "It is well established that serotonergic (5-hydroxytryptamine, 5-HT) fibers, mainly originating from the dorsal and median raphe nuclei of the brainstem, distribute throughout the forebrain, most heavily to ‘limbic’ forebrain structures. Few reports have examined the distribution of 5-HT fibers to the ... | {
"abstract": "There is growing interest and investment in health-related collaboration in the United States. In an environment characterized by increasingly complex health problems, substantial resource constraints, and a fragmented health system, public and private organizations as well as communities are recognizi... |
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"abstract": "The performance of the global routing system is vital to thousands of entities operating the Autonomous Systems (ASes) which make up the Internet. The Border Gateway \nProtocol (BGP) is currently responsible for the exchange of reachability information and the selection of paths according to their spec... | {
"abstract": "In this paper, we propose the BGP Visibility Toolkit, a system for detecting and analyzing anomalous behavior in the Internet. We show that interdomain prefix visibility can be used to single out cases of erroneous demeanors resulting from misconfiguration or bogus routing policies. The implementation ... | {
"abstract": "We are designing, implementing, deploying, and operating a secure measurement platform capable of performing various types of Internet infrastructure measurements and assessments. We integrate state-of-the-art measurement and analysis capabilities to try to build a coherent view of Internet topology. I... |
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"abstract": "Assembly of the Escherichia coli 30S ribosomal subunits proceeds through multiple parallel pathways. The protein factors RimM, YjeQ, RbfA, and Era work in conjunction to assist at the late stages of the maturation process of the small subunit. However, it is unclear how the functional interplay between... | {
"abstract": "Polysomes can be extracted from Escherichia coli by freezing and thawing in the presence of lysozyme, followed by treatment with sodium deoxycholate. The method is simple and convenient; the yields consistently high.",
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"title": "Polysomes Extracted from Escherichia coli by Fre... | {
"abstract": "in the in the model L Spinco centrifuge at 25,000 rpm for approximately 150 min. At the end of the ultracentrifuge run, the bottom of the density gradient tube was punctured with a needle, an( the contents were pumped through a Gilford spectrometer to monitor the optical density con tinuously. Fraction... |
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"abstract": "Developing stable controllers, which are able to display virtual objects with high stiffness, is a persistent challenge in the field of haptics. This paper addresses the effect of internal vibration modes and the human operator on the maximum achievable virtual stiffness. An 11-parameter mechanical mod... | {
"abstract": "Developing stable controllers able to exhibit a wide dynamic range of impedances is a persistent challenge in the field of haptics. This paper addresses the effect of internal vibration modes on the stability boundary for haptic rendering. A theoretical study that analyzes the influence of the first re... | {
"abstract": "This paper generalizes the Time Domain Passivity Control concept originally introduced by J.-H. Ryu et al. (2004) in order to work for multi-degree of freedom (DoF) haptic systems with time delay. Its energy computation (named passivity observer) factors in the phase shift caused by time delay, and is ... |
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"abstract": "We present a control-theoretic approach to achieve Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) resilient designs. We assume situations in which the CPS must maintain the correct operation of a set of crucial functionalities despite ongoing adversarial misbehavior. The approach is based on a moving target defense para... | {
"abstract": "In this paper, we consider the problem of attack identification in cyber-physical systems (CPS). Attack identification is often critical for the recovery and performance of a CPS that is targeted by malicious entities, allowing defenders to construct algorithms which bypass harmful nodes. Previous work... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Data is a valuable asset for the success of business and organizations these days, as it is effectively utilized for decision making, risk assessment, prioritizing the goals and performance evaluation. Extreme reliance on data demands quality assurance and trust on processes. Data Provenance i... |
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"abstract": "In humans, the most common genomic disorder is the hemizygous deletion of the chromosome 22q11.2 region, that results in the “22q11.2 deletion syndrome” (22q11.2DS). A peculiarity of 22q11.2DS is its great phenotypic variability that makes this pathology a classic example of a syndrome with variable ex... | {
"abstract": "MicroRNAs are involved in post-transcriptional down-regulation of gene expression. Variations in miRNA genes can severely affect downstream-regulated genes and their pathways. However, population-specific burden of CNVs on miRNA genes and the complexities created towards the phenotype is not known. Fro... | {
"abstract": "Desminopathies represent a subtype of myofibrillar myopathy caused by mutations in the DES gene, which cause myofibril disruption and intracellular inclusions containing desmin and other protein components. Desminopathy mainly involves skeletal and cardiac muscle, separately or together. Both autosomal... |
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"abstract": "Analysing malware is important to understand how malicious software works and to develop appropriate detection and prevention methods. Dynamic analysis can overcome evasion techniques commonly used to bypass static analysis and provide insights into malware runtime activities. Much research on dynamic ... | {
"abstract": "Static malware analysis is well-suited to endpoint anti-virus systems as it can be conducted quickly by examining the features of an executable piece of code and matching it to previously observed malicious code. However, static code analysis can be vulnerable to code obfuscation techniques. Behavioura... | {
"abstract": "Based on API call sequences, semantic-aware and machine learning (ML) based malware classifiers can be built for malware detection or classification. Previous works concentrate on crafting and extracting various features from malware binaries, disassembled binaries or API calls via static or dynamic an... |
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"abstract": "—A reliable, accurate, and yet simple dynamic model is important to analyze, design and control continuum manipulators. Such models should be fast, as simple as possible and user-friendly to be widely accepted by the ever-growing robotics research community. In this study, we introduce two new mod- eli... | {
"abstract": "Nowadays, the most adopted model for the design and control of soft robots is the piecewise constant curvature model, with its consolidated benefits and drawbacks. In this work, an alternative model for multisection soft manipulator dynamics is presented based on a discrete Cosserat approach, in which ... | {
"abstract": "Radiologists routinely examine medical images such as X-Ray, CT, or MRI and write reports summarizing their descriptive findings and conclusive impressions. A computer-aided radiology report generation system can lighten the workload for radiologists considerably and assist them in decision making. Alt... |
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"abstract": "Gender Detection has numerous application in the field of authentication, security and surveillance systems, social platforms and social media. The proposed system describes gender detection based on Computer Vision and Machine Learning Approach using Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) which is used to... | {
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"title": "Convolutional Neural Networks for Age and Gender Classification"
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"abstract": "Searching a large database to find a sequence that is most similar to a query can be prohibitively expensive, particularly if individual sequence comparisons involve complex operations such as warping. To achieve scalability, \"pruning\" heuristics are typically employed to minimize the portion of the ... |
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"abstract": "High speed dislocations have long been identified as the dominant feature governing the plastic response of crystalline materials subjected to high strain rates. They allegedly control deformation and failure response of industrial processes in a large range of applications, including machining, laser ... | {
"abstract": "This article examines the role that the choice of a dislocation mobility law has in the study of plastic relaxation at shock fronts. Five different mobility laws, two of them phenomenological fits to data, and three more based on physical models of dislocation inertia, are tested by employing dynamic d... | {
"abstract": "During the past two decades extensive research on the mechanisms and processes by which crystalline solids are strengthened has greatly enhanced our understanding of the physics of solids and has provided a scientific foundation for establishing engineering control over the strength of materials. While... |
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"abstract": "The regulation of cell–cell adhesion is important for the processes of tissue formation and morphogenesis. Here, we report that loss of 14-3-3c leads to a decrease in cell–cell adhesion and a defect in the transport of plakoglobin and other desmosomal proteins to the cell border in HCT116 cells and cel... | {
"abstract": "Desmogleins and desmocollins are transported to the plasma membrane by different kinesin motors, providing a potential mechanism to tailor desmosome structure and function during development and epithelial remodeling.",
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"abstract": "One mechanism by which endogenous microRNAs (miRNAs) function is to suppress translation of target mRNAs. Computational identification of target mRNAs is hampered by the partial complementarity between miRNAs and their targets and the lack of in vivo approaches to identify targets. Here, we identify mR... |
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"abstract": "Herein, the successful use of a focused ion beam/scanning electron microscope to prepare microsamples of radioactive single crystals for X-ray diffraction analysis is reported. This technique was used to extract and analyze crystalline Pu-containing particles as small as 28 µm3 from Hanford soil taken ... | {
"abstract": "A break in periodicity occurs in the actinide series between plutonium and americium as the result of the localization of 5f electrons. The subsequent chemistry of later actinides is thought to closely parallel lanthanides in that bonding is expected to be ionic and complexation should not substantiall... | {
"abstract": "We describe the synthesis, solid state and solution properties of two families of uranyl(VI) complexes that are ligated by neutral monodentate and anionic bidentate P=O, P=NH and As=O ligands bearing pendent phenyl chromophores. The uranyl(VI) ions in these complexes possess long-lived photoluminescent... |
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"abstract": "The authors investigated the effect of acclimatization to high altitude on cerebral blood flow and oxidative metabolism at rest and during exercise. Nine healthy, native sea-level residents were studied 3 weeks after arrival at Chacaltaya, Bolivia (5,260 m) and after reacclimatization to sea level. Glo... | {
"abstract": "Cerebral blood flow was determined by an N2O method in 7 normal men at sea level and after 6 to 12 hr and 3 to 5 days at 3810 m altitude. An infrared N2O analyzer was used both to measure end-tidal PN2O so that it could be kept constant for 15 min and to determine blood N2O, for which a simple gas extr... | {
"abstract": "Current accreditation and professional standards in health care reflect the importance of chaplaincy services to patients, families, the health care team, and the organization. However, inadequate spiritual assessment, the organizational structure and climate, and lack of understanding of the chaplain'... |
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"abstract": "To perform brain asymmetry studies in large neuroimaging archives, reliable and automatic detection of the interhemispheric fissure (IF) is needed to first extract the cerebral hemispheres. The detection of the IF is often referred to as mid-sagittal plane estimation, as this plane separates the two ce... | {
"abstract": "The midsagittal surface separates the two hemispheres of the cerebrum. This surface is often typified as a geometrical plane: the midsagittal plane. However, in subjects with a considerable amount of naturally occurring brain torque, the midsagittal surface deviates to a large extent from a plane. In t... | {
"abstract": "Automatic segmentation of cerebral hemispheres in magnetic resonance (MR) brain images help to quantify the brain asymmetry and correct several MR brain deformities. The detection of mid‐sagittal plane (MSP) in human brain image is necessary to segment the hemispheres for both operator‐based and automa... |
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"abstract": "Thymoma is an uncommon neoplasm that derived from thymic epithelial cells. Clinically, it is slow-growing and most patients are over 40 years old. Thymoma corresponds to 30% of anterior mediastinal tumors in adults but <1% in pediatric patients. However, thymoma in pediatric group is considered to be h... | {
"abstract": "Malignant thymomas are extremely rare in children, with only 27 cases reported thus far in the pediatric surgical literature. We report four additional cases diagnosed at this institution over the past 20 years (ages 3 to 14 years). Clinical presentations included superior vena cava syndrome, cough, dy... | {
"abstract": "Aim: Thymomas are rare in children. Our aim was to review clinical and pathologic characteristics and outcome in children with thymomas. Patients and Methods: Between 1979 and 2011, 11 children with thymomas were diagnosed. Hospital files were reviewed for presenting complaints, clinical, radiologic, a... |
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"abstract": "AbstractThe natural history of Legg–Calvé–Perthes disease (LCPD) in children older than 8 years is usually poor without treatment. The treatment goal is to prevent deformity and incongruity of the hip by achieving a stable spherical femoral head in a deep, congruent, sharp-edged acetabulum, with a good... | {
"abstract": "This article presents the results of Legg-Calve-Perthes (LCP) disease treatment using triple pelvic osteotomy. Thirty patients were analysed. The conditions for inclusion in the study were complete medical documentation and follow-up until the disease was resolved. Postoperatively, no patients were imm... | {
"abstract": "Background Although surgical containment has become a mainstay for the treatment of Legg-Calvé-Perthes (LCP) disease; traditional operations (varus osteotomy of femur, Salter osteotomy) have certain limitations, sometimes resulting in a prolonged limp or inadequate containment. This paper presents the ... |
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"abstract": "Chronic kidney disease (CKD) in patients with diabetes mellitus (DM) is a major problem of public health. Currently, many of these patients experience progression of cardiovascular and renal disease, even when receiving optimal treatment. In previous years, several new drug classes for the treatment of... | {
"abstract": "To the Editor: In reporting the results of the secondary analysis of the Liraglutide Effect and Action in Diabetes: Evaluation of Cardiovascular Outcome Results (LEADER) trial, Mann et al. (Aug. 31 issue)1 provide details on the previously reported prespecified composite renal outcome that was 22% lowe... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Background: Canaglifozin, a sodium glucose co–transporter 2 inhibitor, lowers plasma glucose in individuals with hyperglycemia by inhibiting renal glucose reabsorption and increasing glucosuria. Urinary tract infections (UTIs) were characterized in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus enroll... |
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"abstract": "Transport activity, a key component of economic development and human welfare, is increasing around the world as economies grow. For most policymakers, the most pressing problems associated with this increasing transport activity are traffic fatalities and injuries, congestion, air pollution and petrol... | {
"abstract": "Per capita and aggregate greenhouse gas emissions are relatively high in South Africa, compared with world averages and other developing countries. Emissions from transportation are increasing. However, government attention to climate change has competition from other urgent concerns, including social,... | {
"abstract": "The past decade has witnessed a sea change in the priorities for the energy sector in South Africa – moving from the apartheid era single-minded emphasis on energy security to a broader concern about access to affordable energy, economic efficiency, and environmental sustainability. Transforming an ene... |
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"abstract": "In this paper, we study random subsampling of Gaussian process regression, one of the simplest approximation baselines, from a theoretical perspective. Although subsampling discards a large part of training data, we show provable guarantees on the accuracy of the predictive mean/variance and its genera... | {
"abstract": "We give the first algorithm for kernel Nystrom approximation that runs in linear time in the number of training points and is provably accurate for all kernel matrices, without dependence on regularity or incoherence conditions. The algorithm projects the kernel onto a set of s landmark points sampled ... | {
"abstract": "There is intense interest in applying machine learning to problems of causal inference in fields such as healthcare, economics and education. In particular, individual-level causal inference has important applications such as precision medicine. We give a new theoretical analysis and family of algorith... |
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"abstract": "Mechanism of resistance to lambda-cyhalothrin in highly resistant Bemisia tabaci strain can be explained by the voltagegated sodium channel which is the primary target site of pyrethroid insecticides. The super knockdown resistance (super-kdr) to pyrethroids is caused by changes at specific sites on th... | {
"abstract": "Knockdown resistance (kdr) to pyrethroid insecticides is caused by point mutations in the pyrethroid target site, the para-type sodium channel of nerve membranes. This most commonly involves alterations within the domain II (S4-S6) region of the channel protein where five different mutation sites have ... | {
"abstract": "ETHNOPHARMACOLOGICAL RELEVANCE\nDanshen (Salvia miltiorrhiza Bunge) is widely used in traditional Chinese medicine. However, it's definite clinical effect and mechanism on colon carcinoma is unclear.\n\n\nAIM OF THE STUDY\nTo test the hypothesis that the protective effect of danshen on colon cancer and... |
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"abstract": "The UK Government's introduction of the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS) in March 2020 was pitched as unprecedented. Yet, during the 1970s and 1980s, UK governments also operated wage subsidy job retention schemes. Indeed, despite their professed liberal market orientation, Thatcher's radical ri... | {
"abstract": "(1987). The industrial distribution of the Temporary Short-Time Working Compensation Scheme. Applied Economics: Vol. 19, No. 1, pp. 111-125.",
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"title": "The industrial distribution of the Temporary Short-Time Working Compensation Scheme"
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"abstract": "PpT HE modern theory of employment determination implicitly or explicitly assumes a close positive relationship between changes in physical output and changes in the volume of employment. If we construe employment very generally as referring to increased utilization of any resource (labor, capital, raw... |
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"abstract": "Sphingosine-1-phosphate (S1P) is a signalling sphingolipid metabolite that regulates important cell processes, including cell proliferation and apoptosis. Circulating S1P levels have been reported to be increased in patients with psoriasis relative to healthy patients. The aim of this study was to exam... | {
"abstract": "Psoriasis is characterized by hyperproliferation, deregulated differentiation and impaired apoptosis of keratinocytes. Mechanisms of lipid profile disturbances and metabolic syndrome in the psoriatic patients are still not fully understood. Sphingolipids, namely ceramides (CER) and sphingosine-1-phosph... | {
"abstract": "Somatosensory neurons mediate responses to diverse mechanical stimuli, from innocuous touch to noxious pain. While recent studies have identified distinct populations of A mechanonociceptors (AMs) that are required for mechanical pain, the molecular underpinnings of mechanonociception remain unknown. H... |
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"abstract": "Decreasing feature size and lower supply voltage cause integrated circuits to be more error-prone, during production as well as during runtime. At the same time the demand for higher reliability is increasing. In particular for applications with long mission times and where no repair is possible, compl... | {
"abstract": "An approach is presented to high-performance asynchronous architectures offering significant advantages over conventional clocked systems, without some of the drawbacks normally associated with asynchronous techniques. As the level of integration increases, an asynchronous wavefront array designed usin... | {
"abstract": "Phased logic is proposed as a solution to the increasing problem of timing complexity in digital design. It is a delay-insensitive design methodology that seeks to restore the separation between logical and physical design by eliminating the need to distribute low-skew clock signals and carefully balan... |
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"abstract": "Advancements in artificial intelligence (AI), more precisely the subfield of machine learning, and their applications to open-source internet data, such as social media, are growing faster than the management of ethical issues for use in society. An ethical framework helps scientists and policy makers ... | {
"abstract": "Spatial big data have the velocity, volume, and variety of big data sources and contain additional geographic information. Digital data sources, such as medical claims, mobile phone call data records, and geographically tagged tweets, have entered infectious diseases epidemiology as novel sources of da... | {
"abstract": "Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common sustained cardiac arrhythmia. It places an enormous burden on the patients, caregivers and the society at large. As a chronic illness, AF accrues significant costs related to clinical presentation, complications and loss of productivity. Novel invasive approa... |
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"abstract": "We present evidence that the expression of rho is regulated by rho-dependent attenuation of transcription. Gene fusion analysis with nested series of deletions of rho indicated that the transcription of rho is attenuated in a rho-dependent manner in the leader region and that neither a read-through tra... | {
"abstract": "The trxA gene of Escherichia coli K-12 has been cloned into multicopy plasmids on DNA fragments of varying sizes. The smallest of these was a 1-kb fragment resulting from partial digestion with Sau3A (pBHK10). The complete nucleotide sequence of the trxA gene and its promoter was determined. Comparison... | {
"abstract": "The rep gene of Escherichia coli was isolated on a 6-kb PvuII fragment of plasmid pLC44-7 DNA from the Clarke-Carbon collection and cloned into pSC101 (to form pHBH8) and pBR322 (to form pHBH30). The plasmids pHBH8 and pHBH30 were found to complement all rep mutations tested. The functional rep gene an... |
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"abstract": "The combination of the two nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NRTI) tenofovir disoproxil fumarate (TDF) and emtricitabine (FTC) is used in most highly active antiretroviral therapies for treatment of HIV-1 infection, as well as in pre-exposure prophylaxis against HIV acquisition. Administered... | {
"abstract": "Nucleoside analogs (NAs) are used to treat numerous viral infections and cancer. They compete with endogenous nucleotides (dNTP/NTP) for incorporation into nascent DNA/RNA and inhibit replication by preventing subsequent primer extension. To date, an integrated mathematical model that could allow the a... | {
"abstract": "BackgroundDetailed knowledge of the evolutionary potential of polymorphic sites in a viral protein is important for understanding the development of drug resistance in the presence of an inhibitor. We therefore set out to analyse the molecular evolution of the HIV-1 subtype B integrase at the inter-pat... |
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"abstract": "O desenvolvimento de sistemas embarcados vem crescendo rapidamente nos últimos anos. Eles são utilizados em diversos domínios (automotiva, aviônica, eletrônica de consumo, entre outras), cada uma com características específicas, e por isso, representam um grande desafio para engenharia de requisitos. A... | {
"abstract": "Component-based models are widely used for embedded systems. The models consist of components with input and output ports linked to each other. However, mismatched links or assumptions among components may cause many failures, especially for large scale models. Binding semantic knowledge into models ca... | {
"abstract": "We describe clinical, electrophysiological, histopathological and molecular features of a unique disease caused by mutations in the glycyl-tRNA synthetase (GARS) gene. Sixty patients from five multigenerational families have been evaluated. The disease is characterized by adolescent onset of weakness, ... |
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"abstract": "Objectives – Epidemiological studies have shown that the incidence of intracerebral haemorrhage (ICH) is high in patients with low cholesterol levels. The aim of this study was to investigate the correlation between ICH and low cholesterol in cases of primary ICH.",
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"abstract": "The paraoxonase (PON) gene cluster contains at least three members, including PON1, PON2, and PON3, located on chromosome 7q21.3–22.1. Until now there has been little insight into the role of the respective gene products in human physiology and pathology. However, emerging evidence from biochemical and... | {
"abstract": "Aims/hypothesis. Oxidative stress is a putative mechanism in the development of diabetic nephropathy. Paraoxonase gene 1 is an HDL-bound enzyme that protects tissues against oxidative damage. Three common polymorphisms of paraoxonase gene 1, T-107C in the promoter, Leu54Met and Gln192Arg, that modify p... |
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"abstract": "Abstract It is commonly assumed that the human auditory cortex is organized similarly to that of macaque monkeys, where the primary region, or “core,” is elongated parallel to the tonotopic axis (main direction of tonotopic gradients), and subdivided across this axis into up to 3 distinct areas (A1, R,... | {
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"title": "TWO DECADES OF FUNCTIONAL IMAGING : FROM NUCLEAR SPINS TO CORTICAL"
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"abstract": "Abstract The MGH–USC CONNECTOM MRI scanner housed at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) is a major hardware innovation of the Human Connectome Project (HCP). The 3T CONNECTOM scanner is capable of producing a magnetic field gradient of up to 300 mT/m strength for in vivo human brain imaging, whic... |
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"abstract": "Background HBV infection is a serious public health problem worldwide, which can contribute to the incidence of chronic hepatitis B (CHB), cirrhosis, and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Objectives In the present report, we assessed the association between adiponectin, its receptors and hepatic steatosi... | {
"abstract": "Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) from human adult bone marrow (haMSCs) represent a promising source for bone tissue engineering. However, their low frequencies and limited proliferation restrict their clinical utility. Alternative postnatal, perinatal, and fetal sources of MSCs appear to have different os... |
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"abstract": "Metastasis to the pancreas is far less common than primary pancreatic tumors. Bladder cancer metastasis involving the pancreas is rarely reported. Here, we report a case of metastasis to the pancreas of urothelial cell origin, diagnosed via upper endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine-needle aspiration and ... | {
"abstract": "Metastases to the pancreas are much less common than primary pancreatic lesions, and there are few reports in the literature of metastatic urothelial carcinoma (UC) found in the pancreas. We report two cases of metastatic UC mimicking a primary pancreatic lesion. Two female patients, aged 48 and 83 yea... | {
"abstract": "Treatment of autoimmune disease with bone marrow transplantation (BMT) is under investigation. A few reports of patients undergoing allogeneic BMT for malignant conditions observed the resolution of psoriasis after BMT, with minimal late morbidity. We describe a patient with chronic myelogenous leukemi... |
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"abstract": "Abstract. Using 5 years of Cluster data, we present a detailed statistical analysis of magnetic fluctuations associated with mirror structures in the magnetosheath. We especially focus on the shape of these fluctuations which, in addition to quasi-sinusoidal forms, also display deep holes and high peak... | {
"abstract": "Non-propagating magnetic hole solutions in anisotropic plasmas near the mirror instability threshold are investigated in numerical simulations of a fluid model that incorporates linear Landau damping and finite Larmor radius corrections calculated in the gyrokinetic approximation. This FLR-Landau fluid... | {
"abstract": "The present article addresses the hypothesis that inefficient skeletal muscle lipid utilization may relate to the development of obesity and insulin resistance. In practice, there is evidence of impaired muscle fatty acid utilization in the obese state, and studies indicate that differences in muscle f... |
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"abstract": "Mantle cell lymphoma (MCL) accounts for 5–10% of non‐Hodgkin's lymphomas and it bears the worst prognosis among B cell lymphomas. Even more than in the other lymphomas, new insights in MCL biology are needed. In this review we will discuss the most recent published data. Immunoglobulin sequencing data ... | {
"abstract": "Amplification of 12q13 locus occurs in some mantle cell lymphomas (MCL), potentially involving CDK4 and MDM2 genes. To determine the role of these genes in MCL, we have examined their gene status and expression and their relationship to INK4a/ARF and p53 gene aberrations in 69 tumors. Increased CDK4 ge... | {
"abstract": "The last decade has been marked by tremendous advances in the biochemical and functional characterization of TGF-betas and their receptors in normal and transformed cells. TGF-betas have been shown to modulate proliferation, differentiation and motility of different cell types in a number of in vitro m... |
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"abstract": "Abstract. We carry out a nonlinear time series analysis motivated by dynamical systems theory to investigate the links between temperatures on the eastern South Pacific coast, influenced by the Humboldt Current System, and El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) events. To this aim, we use a set of 16 ocea... | {
"abstract": "Are perturbations to ocean tides correlated with changing sea-level and climate, and how will this affect high water levels? Here, we survey 152 tide gauges in the Pacific Ocean and South China Sea and statistically evaluate how the sum of the four largest tidal constituents, a proxy for the highest as... | {
"abstract": "Pelagic ecosystem function is integral to global biogeochemical cycling, and plays a major role in modulating atmospheric CO2 concentrations (pCO2). Uncertainty as to the effects of human activities on marine ecosystem function hinders projection of future atmospheric pCO2. To this end, events in the g... |
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"abstract": "Reciprocity is probably the most debated of the evolutionary explanations for cooperation. Part of the confusion surrounding this debate stems from a failure to note that two different processes can result in reciprocity: partner control and partner choice. We suggest that the common observation that g... | {
"abstract": "Although most primates live in groups, experiments on reciprocity usually test individuals in dyads. This could hide the processes emerging in richer social settings, reducing the ecological validity of the results. We run an experiment on reciprocal food transfers testing capuchin monkeys (Cebus apell... | {
"abstract": "Analyses of the pattern of associations, social interactions, coalitions, and aggression among chacma baboons (Papio hamadryas ursinus) in the Okavango Delta of Botswana over a 16-year period indicate that adult females form close, equitable, supportive, and enduring social relationships. They show str... |
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"abstract": "The morphological structure such as nuclei, glands, tumors, etc. of histopathological images has been regularly analyzed by the pathologists in order to determine the extent of malignancy present. For the qualitative diagnosis, accurate detection along with segmentation of the aforesaid objects of inte... | {
"abstract": "In histopathological image analysis, the morphology of histological structures, such as glands and nuclei, has been routinely adopted by pathologists to assess the malignancy degree of adenocarcinomas. Accurate detection and segmentation of these objects of interest from histology images is an essentia... | {
"abstract": "Breast cancer (BCa) grading plays an important role in predicting disease aggressiveness and patient outcome. A key component of BCa grade is the mitotic count, which involves quantifying the number of cells in the process of dividing (i.e., undergoing mitosis) at a specific point in time. Currently, m... |
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"abstract": "Despite the excessive developments of architectural parametric platforms, parametric design is often interpreted as an architectural style rather than a computational method. Also, the problem is still a lack of knowledge and skill about the technical application of parametric design in architectural m... | {
"abstract": "Physical objects and virtual information are used as teaching aids in classrooms everywhere, and until recently, merging these two worlds has been difficult at best. Augmented reality offers the combination of physical and virtual, drawing on the strengths of each. We consider this technology in the re... | {
"abstract": "There are many tools that enable the development of the augmented reality (AR) activities, some of them can even create and generate an AR experience where the incorporation of 3D objects is simple. However AR tools used in education are different from the general tools limited to the reproduction of v... |
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"abstract": "A triple-wavelength erbium-doped fiber laser based on seven-core fiber (SCF) interferometer is proposed and successfully implemented. In the structure of the laser, a special structure of single-seven-single core is used to realize laser interference, which is composed of a 6 cm SCF and ordinary fiber ... | {
"abstract": "An experimental study of the switching and tuning of optical fiber ring lasers is presented. The laser wavelength switching and tuning are based on the modifiable wavelength dependent losses of a modal Michelson interferometer, which is composed by a bi-conical fiber taper spliced with a single-mode fi... | {
"abstract": "We present a concise review of models for neutrino masses and mixings with particular emphasis on recent developments and current problems. We discuss in detail attempts at reproducing approximate tri-bimaximal mixing starting from discrete symmetry groups, notably A4. We discuss the problems encounter... |
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"abstract": "The loss of a spouse is one of the most stressful events people can experience in their lives. In addition to the grief of losing a loved one, widows and widowers must learn to redefine relationships with family and friends; adjust to new routines; and take over the deceased's daily roles, such as care... | {
"abstract": "ABSTRACT This study examines to what extent the often found association between marital status and self-assessed health is influenced by the marital composition of the country people live in. Four hypotheses explaining why the national marital status composition may be influential are derived and teste... | {
"abstract": "The first chapter of this book presented a guide to conducting a research project and an overview of discourse analysis as one form of social research. In Chapters Two to Seven, six academics have offered detailed accounts of their own discourse analytic research, showing some of the possibilities whic... |
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"abstract": "Self‐reported maternal weight is error‐prone, and the context of pregnancy may impact error distributions. This systematic review summarizes error in self‐reported weight across pregnancy and assesses implications for bias in associations between pregnancy‐related weight and birth outcomes. We searched... | {
"abstract": "There is growing interest in the relationship between gestational weight gain (GWG) and long‐term maternal and child outcomes, yet little is known about the accuracy of long‐term maternal recall of GWG. Our objective was to assess the accuracy of maternal recall of GWG at 4–12 years postpartum (mean, 8... | {
"abstract": "There is a scarcity of knowledge on the mentoring experiences of Black women in social work academia. Using a survey methodology, this pilot study examines the mentoring experiences of 10 Black, female leaders in social work education as protégées. It also examines how they describe their current mento... |
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"abstract": "Spinal cord injury (SCI) is associated with high production and excessive accumulation of pathological 4-hydroxy-trans-2-nonenal (4-HNE), a reactive aldehyde, formed by SCI-induced metabolic dysregulation of membrane lipids. Reactive aldehyde load causes redox alteration, neuroinflammation, neurodegene... | {
"abstract": "The reactive nitrogen species peroxynitrite (PN) has been suggested to be an important mediator of the secondary oxidative damage that occurs following acute spinal cord injury (SCI). The PN decomposition products nitrogen dioxide (*NO(2)), hydroxyl radical (*OH), and carbonate radical (*CO(3)) are hig... | {
"abstract": "Plant tissues are highly vulnerable to injury by herbivores, pathogens, mechanical stress, and other environmental insults. Optimal plant fitness in the face of these threats relies on complex signal transduction networks that link damage-associated signals to appropriate changes in metabolism, growth,... |
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"abstract": "Abstract This study examines the frequency of misspellings in health sciences literature and explores how they affect citation retrieval in multiple databases. Searches for commonly misspelled medical words were conducted in PubMed, CINAHL Complete, APA PsycArticles (ProQuest), APA PsycInfo, and ProQue... | {
"abstract": "Objective To examine how misspellings of drug names could impede searches for published literature. Design Database review. Data source PubMed. Review methods The study included 30 drug names that are commonly misspelt on prescription charts in hospitals in Birmingham, UK (test set), and 30 control nam... | {
"abstract": "PURPOSE\nThe aims of this study were to: (a) define the relationship of dose and volume irradiated to damage and morbidity in mouse lung, (b) determine the threshold volume for morbidity after partial lung irradiation; and (c) determine whether the response to radiation of mouse lung is independent of ... |
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"abstract": "In this work, we show that neural networks can be represented via the mathematical theory of quiver representations. More specifically, we prove that a neural network is a quiver representation with activation functions, a mathematical object that we represent using a network quiver. Furthermore, we sh... | {
"abstract": "Recent research works have highlight the invariance or the symmetry that exists in the weight space of a typical neural network and the negative effect of the symmetry on the training neural network due to the Euclidean gradient being not scaling-invariant. Although the problem of the symmetry can be s... | {
"abstract": "A standard model for Recommender Systems is the Matrix Completion setting: given partially known matrix of ratings given by users (rows) to items (columns), infer the unknown ratings. In the last decades, few attempts where done to handle that objective with Neural Networks, but recently an architectur... |
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"abstract": "In the era of big data, huge amounts of data are being generated from the internet, social networks, phone apps, and so on, which creates high demand for powerful and efficient data analysis techniques. In areas such as collaborative filtering, text analysis, graph analysis, and bioinformatics, a large... | {
"abstract": "Topic models based on latent Dirichlet allocation and related methods are used in a range of user-focused tasks including document navigation and trend analysis, but evaluation of the intrinsic quality of the topic model and topics remains an open research area. In this work, we explore the two tasks o... | {
"abstract": "How can the development of ideas in a scientific field be studied over time? We apply unsupervised topic modeling to the ACL Anthology to analyze historical trends in the field of Computational Linguistics from 1978 to 2006. We induce topic clusters using Latent Dirichlet Allocation, and examine the st... |
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"abstract": "ABSTRACT The abstract Cauchy problem for the fractional evolution equation with the Caputo derivative of order and operator , , is considered, where generates a strongly continuous one-parameter semigroup on a Banach space. Subordination formulae for the solution operator are derived, which are integra... | {
"abstract": "The Mellin transform is usually applied in probability theory to the product of independent random variables. In recent times the machinery of the Mellin transform has been adopted to describe the L\\'evy stable distributions, and more generally the probability distributions governed by generalized dif... | {
"abstract": "We revisit two contributions by Salvatore Pincherle (Professor of Mathematics at the University of Bologna from 1880 to 1928) published (in Italian) in 1888 and 1902 in order to point out his possible role in the development of Fractional Calculus. Fractional Calculus is that branch of mathematical ana... |
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"abstract": "IL-12 and IL-23 are molecules mainly produced by activated accessory and antigen-presenting cells. The tools for studying the biology of IL-12 in man and laboratory rodents have greatly advanced our appreciation of the central role of this molecule in cell-mediated immunity and inflammation. In particu... | {
"abstract": "In several models of inflammation, including collagen‐induced arthritis (CIA), the disease‐promoting effect of IL‐12 has been attributed to its well‐known ability to produce IFN‐γ. However, IFN‐γ receptor knockout (IFN‐γ R KO) mice of the DBA/1 strain have been reported to be more susceptible to CIA th... | {
"abstract": "Supernatants collected after primary or secondary stimulation of spleen cells contain different arrays of lymphokines. Primary supernatants from spleen cells stimulated with Con A or allogeneic spleen cells (MLC-SF) contain IL-2 but little IL-4 or IGN-gamma; in contrast, secondary MLC-SF contains IL-2 ... |
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"abstract": "Dimensioning wireless sensor networks requires formal methods to guarantee network performance and cost in any conditions. Based on network calculus, this paper presents a deterministic analysis method for evaluating the worst-case performance and buffer cost of sensor networks. To this end, we introdu... | {
"abstract": "In many applications of sensor networks, it is essential to ensure that messages are transmitted to their destinations as early as possible and the buffer size of each sensor node is as small as possible. In this paper, we firstly propose a mesh sensor network system model. Based on this system model, ... | {
"abstract": "Node deployment is a fundamental issue to be solved in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). A proper node deployment scheme can reduce the complexity of problems in WSNs as, for example, routing, data fusion, communication, etc. Furthermore, it can extend the lifetime of WSNs by minimizing energy consumpti... |
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"abstract": "Zusammenfassung Einleitung Die freie Krankenhauswahl durch Patienten wird gesundheitspolitisch gefördert und soll durch die Qualitätsberichte der Krankenhäuser unterstützt werden. Doch wie entscheiden sich Patienten für ein Krankenhaus? Wie viele können selber entscheiden, wo informieren sie sich und w... | {
"abstract": "Expectations are high that the public will use performance data to choose their health providers and so drive improvements in quality. Martin Marshall and Vin McLoughlin question whether this is realistic and suggest how published information could be better used in the future",
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"abstract": "GPs have a deserved reputation for their ability to respond and adapt to the ever-changing needs, demands and expectations that they experience in their daily work. Viewed from a historical perspective, the changes that they have been exposed to have been largely incremental in nature and scale. Howeve... |
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"abstract": "Nel 1989 il processo di integrazione europea subisce una rapida accelerazione. Il Consiglio Europeo approva Il Rapporto Delors che stabilisce una precisa strategia per il raggiungimento dell’Unione economica e monetaria. Il Governo Britannico cerca di ostacolare l’ipotesi di una moneta unica mettendo s... | {
"abstract": "The discussions on European monetary unification appear to confirm the wisdom of Bertrand Russell’s insight. Both supporters and opponents of the idea are forced to resort to essentially theoretical arguments, as there is no specific empirical evidence on the merits of the various alternatives. In what... | {
"abstract": "Note to the reader: The Report on Economic and Monetary Union in the European Community was published in two versions. The complete edition contains the Report and Collection of Papers, ISBN 92-826-0655-4, catalogue number CB-56-89-401-EN-C. The Report appears on pages 11-43. The Collection of Papers a... |
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"abstract": "Introduction: Despite the recent developments in the biology of addiction, a significant part of relapse and its management is still influenced by psychosocial factors and the interplay between them. This study aims at finding the extent of association of various psychosocial factors with relapse in pa... | {
"abstract": "Summary \n \nThe results of a principal components analysis of the Coping Behaviours Inventory administered to 256 hospitalized alcoholic patients are compared with a reanalysis of data obtained from a different group of patients five years ago. These results indicate that the factor structure of the I... | {
"abstract": "Presented here is the clinical and hemodynamic profile of 147 patients, above the age of 18 with tetralogy of Fallot. Cardiac catheterization and selective cineangiocardiography were performed in all. Infundibular pulmonary stenosis, a subaortic large infracristal ventricular septal defect, mitral-aort... |
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"abstract": "Languages exhibit striking semantic diversity, but different languages often share core metaphors. Conceptual Metaphor Theory (Lakoff & Johnson, 1980) claims that universal human experiences give rise to conceptual representations that are then expressed in language. But languages change slowly, making... | {
"abstract": "Can learning new linguistic metaphors foster new nonlinguistic representations? We describe a set of studies in which we trained English-speaking participants to talk about time using vertical spatial metaphors that are novel to English. One group learned a mapping that placed earlier events above and ... | {
"abstract": "Research in psychology and cognitive science has consistently demonstrated the importance of emotion in a wide range of everyday judgments, including moral judgment. Most current accounts of moral judgment hold that emotion plays an important role, but the nature and extent of this role are still debat... |
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"abstract": "In this letter, a novel dual-band circularly polarized cavity-backed crossed-dipole antenna is proposed. Complementary split-ring resonators (CSRRs) are loaded along both the arms of double-sided printed crossed dipoles along with vacant quarter-printed rings to achieve dual-band circularly polarized o... | {
"abstract": "This communication presents a multi-band, circularly polarized (CP), wide beamwidth, highly efficient antenna for use in global positioning systems (GPS). The primary radiating elements are two crossed printed dipoles, which incorporate a 90° phase delay line realized with a vacant-quarter printed ring... | {
"abstract": "An integration methodology is presented to design antenna systems incorporating a ferrite circulator. Two integrated systems comprised of a microstrip circulator and Yagi planar-type antennas are presented as validation of the proposed methodology. Excellent pass band characteristics are observed in th... |
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"abstract": "Background. Nifurtimox is 1 of only 2 medications available for treating Chagas disease (CD) and currently the only drug available in the United States, but its safety and tolerance have not been extensively studied. This is the first study to evaluate tolerance of nifurtimox in US patients with CD. Me... | {
"abstract": "Nifurtimox (NFX) is one of the approved drugs used to treat Chagas disease. Safety profile studies and models on risk factors for treatment interruption in adults are scarce in Latin America. This study evaluated retrospectively the medical records of adult Chagas disease patients treated with NFX betw... | {
"abstract": "A multicenter, randomized, triple blind and controlled trial was designed to determine whether the combination with thioctic acid (TA), an antioxidant agent, can reduce the intolerance rate to Benznidazol (BZ) in patients infected with Trypanosoma cruzi. Four regimens were assigned randomly for 3 age i... |
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"abstract": "Importance No guidelines at present describe when fludeoxyglucose F 18–labeled positron emission tomography and computed tomography (FDG PET-CT) should be used in the initial posttreatment period for evaluation of oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma treatment outcome and recurrence. Objective To comp... | {
"abstract": "SUMMARY The role of PET-CT imaging in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma during pre-treatment staging, radiotherapy planning, treatment response assessment and post-therapy follow-up is reviewed with focus on current evidence, controversial issues and future clinical applications. In staging, the ro... | {
"abstract": "Introduction Systematic reviews are useful for synthesizing data on various health conditions and for identifying gaps in available data. In the US, the main risk group for hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is people who use drugs (PWUD); as a group, PWUD have the highest prevalence of chronic HCV. Whi... |
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"abstract": "An important means of allowing non-expert end-users to pose ad hoc queries whether over single databases or data integration systems is through keyword search. Given a set of keywords, the query processor finds matches across different tuples and tables. It computes and executes a set of relational sub... | {
"abstract": "The integration of data produced and collected across autonomous, heterogeneous web services is an increasingly important and challenging problem. Due to the lack of global identifiers, the same entity (e.g., a product) might have different textual representations across databases. Textual data is also... | {
"abstract": "With the increasing amount of data and the need to integrate data from multiple data sources, one of the challenging issues is to identify near-duplicate records efficiently. In this article, we focus on efficient algorithms to find a pair of records such that their similarities are no less than a give... |
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"abstract": "As neural networks continue to infiltrate diverse application domains, computing will begin to move out of the cloud and onto edge devices necessitating fast, reliable, and low-power (LP) solutions. To meet these requirements, we propose a time-domain core using one-shot delay measurements and a lightw... | {
"abstract": "Demand for highly energy-efficient hardware for the inference computation of deep neural networks is increasing. Ultimately, fully spatially unrolled architecture where each distributed weight memory has a processing element (PE) for its exclusive use is the most energy-efficient solution because i) it... | {
"abstract": "Recent advances in computer vision---in the form of deep neural networks---have made it possible to query increasing volumes of video data with high accuracy. However, neural network inference is computationally expensive at scale: applying a state-of-the-art object detector in real time (i.e., 30+ fra... |
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"abstract": "Paraphrases refer to texts that convey the same meaning with different expression forms. Pivot-based methods, also known as the round-trip translation, have shown promising results in generating high-quality paraphrases. However, existing pivot-based methods all rely on language as the pivot, where lar... | {
"abstract": "We consider the problem of learning general-purpose, paraphrastic sentence embeddings in the setting of Wieting et al. (2016b). We use neural machine translation to generate sentential paraphrases via back-translation of bilingual sentence pairs. We evaluate the paraphrase pairs by their ability to ser... | {
"abstract": "We present Charagram embeddings, a simple approach for learning character-based compositional models to embed textual sequences. A word or sentence is represented using a character n-gram count vector, followed by a single nonlinear transformation to yield a low-dimensional embedding. We use three task... |
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"abstract": "The portability, the object-oriented and distributed programming mod- els, multithreading support and automatic garbage collection are features that make Java very attractive for application developers. The main goal of this paper consists in pointing out the impact of Java applications at microarchite... | {
"abstract": "In modern superscalar microarchitectures that speculatively execute a great quantity of code, without performing branch prediction, it won’t be possible to aggressively exploit instruction level parallelism from programs. Both the architectural and technological complexity of current processors emphasi... | {
"abstract": "Author: Arpad GELLERT, MSc PhD Supervisor: Professor Lucian N. VINŢAN, PhD PhD Co-supervisor: Professor Theo UNGERER, PhD",
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"title": "Advanced Prediction Methods Integrated Into Speculative Computer Architectures"
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"abstract": "Previous estimates1,2 of wave energy around the United Kingdom have been made by extrapolating measurements from a few sites to the whole UK seaboard. Here directional wave spectra are used from a numerical wave model developed by the Meterological Office3, to make estimates which are verified where po... | {
"abstract": "This invention relates to the recovery of precious metals. More particularly, the invention relates to a process for the recovery of a catalytic metal from a carbonaceous residue or support comprising subjecting an aqueous slurry of material containing catalytic metal to be recovered to a temperature o... |
{
"abstract": "Beraprost sodium is a new stable, orally active Prostaglandin I2 analogue. The aim of this study was to determine the effect of beraprost on cognitive dysfunction and locomotor impairment induced by bilateral common carotid artery occlusion in mice. We investigated the ameliorating effect of beraprost ... | {
"abstract": "Transient global cerebral ischemia causes delayed neuronal death in the hippocampal CA1 region. It also induces an up regulation of cyclooxygenase 2 (COX-2), which generates several metabolites of arachidonic acid, known as prostanoids, including Prostaglandin I2 (PGI2). The present study investigated ... | {
"abstract": "Individuals with color vision deficiency have difficulties in differentiating colour in their daily activities. Through certain coloured filters, dichromats may report an improvement of their capacity to differentiate colors, but it is not known if this is achieved by means of a chromatic mechanism. Th... |
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"abstract": "Cytomegalovirus (CMV) and human herpesvirus-6 (HHV-6) infection stimulated HIV-1 replication and trans-activated the HIV-1 promoter (the long terminal repeat or LTR) to a similar extent in transfected, nonimmortalized, human fetal astrocytes. CMV infection increased basal LTR expression by approximatel... | {
"abstract": "In vitro neurovirological studies of viral infectivity or viral gene expression may be confounded by the multiple neural cell types and/or fibroblast contamination present in early passage cultures prepared from dissociated human central nervous system (CNS) tissue. We have developed highly enriched as... | {
"abstract": "Wiskott–Aldrich syndrome protein (WASP) family proteins have been extensively characterized as factors that promote the nucleation of actin through the activation of the protein complex Arp2/3. While yeast mostly have a single member of the family, mammalian cells have at least six different members, o... |
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"abstract": "Smaller oligomeric chaperones of α-crystallins (αA- and αB-) have received increasing attention due to their improved therapeutic potential in preventing protein aggregating diseases. Our previous study suggested that deleting 54–61 residues from the N-terminal domain (NTD) of αB-crystallin (αBΔ54–61) ... | {
"abstract": "A combination of mass spectrometric techniques has been used to investigate the amino acid sequence and post‐translational modifications of αB‐crystallin isolated from bovine lenses by gel filtration chromatography and reversed‐phase high performance liquid chromatography. Chromatographic fractions wer... | {
"abstract": "Two intrinsic membrane proteins of calf lens fiber cells can be phosphorylated by a soluble bovine lens cAMP-dependent protein kinase and rabbit muscle cAMP-dependent protein kinase. After electrophoresis of the phosphorylated membranes, 32P comigrates with the lens main intrinsic protein at 26-27 kDa ... |
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"abstract": "Scholars agree that, since the inception of the Department of Homeland Security, emergency management in the United States has been increasingly centralized. This study posits that centralization has been a longer term trend with negative effects on federal relationships. This dissertation examines the... | {
"abstract": "Major elements of the Obama administration's health care, education, economic recovery, climate change, and financial reform initiatives have important intergovernmental consequences. This article reviews this broad intergovernmental agenda and analyzes its potential to shape the contours and future di... | {
"abstract": "This report discusses the potential role that the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) block grant to states may play in mitigating the effects of the recession for poor families with children. The TANF block grant is best known as a funding source for cash welfare. However, it also funds a w... |
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"abstract": "We examine the problem of target tracking whilst simultaneously preserving the target’s privacy as epitomized by the robotic panda-tracking scenario, which O’Kane introduced at the 2008 Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics to elegantly illustrate the utility of ignorance. The present pap... | {
"abstract": "We consider a target tracking problem in which, in addition to sensing some information about the position of a mobile target, the tracker must also ensure that the privacy of that target is preserved, even in the presence of adversaries that have complete access to the tracker’s sensor data. This kind... | {
"abstract": "In this paper, we address pursuit-evasion problems in which the pursuer is a Differential Drive Robot (DDR) that attempts to capture an omnidirectional evader. From the Nash property it follows that if the evader deviates from its maximum potential speed then the capture time shall not increase for a p... |
{
"abstract": "Abstract Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a degenerative disorder that causes progressive memory and cognitive decline. Recently, studies have reported that inhibitors of the mammalian renin angiotensin system (RAS) result in a significant reduction in the incidence and progression of AD by unknown mechanis... | {
"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nCentrally acting angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors (CACE-Is) are associated with reduced rates of cognitive decline in patients with dementia. CACE-Is may also improve exercise tolerance in functionally impaired older adults with normal cognition, suggesting that CACE-Is may positive... | {
"abstract": "The etiology of Alzheimer's dementia (AD) is unknown, but several neurotransmitters, e.g., acetylcholine, have been implicated. Recently, the group of calcium channel antagonists have been reviewed for their potential neuropsychiatric applications. These agents are capable of enhancing cholinergic tone... |
{
"abstract": "This review discusses the importance of glucosinolates in plant protection. The Brassicaceae, which are culti- vated worldwide, use glucosinolates and their decomposition products to defend themselves against attacks by harmful organisms. The glucosinolate content varies among individual plant species,... | {
"abstract": "The cabbage aphid Brevicoryne brassicae is a specialist herbivore that sequesters glucosinolates from its host plant as a defense against its predators. It is unknown to what extent parasitoids are affected by this sequestration. We investigated herbivore-mediated effects of glucosinolates on the paras... | {
"abstract": "In this study, the larval sequestration abilities and defense effectiveness of four sawfly species of the genus Athalia (Hymenoptera: Tenthredinidae) that feed as larvae either on members of the Brassicaceae or Plantaginaceae were investigated. Brassicaceae are characterized by glucosinolates (GLSs), w... |
{
"abstract": "Diverse clinical factors, including intestinal ischemia, contribute to acute lung injury (ALI), which has up to a 40% mortality rate. During the development of lung injury an immune response is elicited that exacerbates the lung insult. Neutrophils have been well studied in mediating the pulmonary insu... | {
"abstract": "Intestinal ischemia has a high mortality and often causes acute lung injury (ALI), which is a serious complication, and is accompanied by high mortality up to 40%. An intense local and systemic inflammation occurs during intestinal ischemia/reperfusion (IR)-induced lung injury resulting from activation... | {
"abstract": "Cigarette smoke-triggered inflammatory cascades and consequent tissue damage are the main causes of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). There is no effective therapy and the key mediators of COPD are not identified due to the lack of translational animal models with complex characterization. ... |
{
"abstract": "Simulation-driven verification can provide formal safety guarantees for otherwise intractable nonlinear and hybrid system models. A key step in simulation-driven algorithms is to compute the reach set overapproximations from a set of initial states through numerical simulations and sensitivity analysis... | {
"abstract": "Safety verification of embedded systems modeled as hybrid systems can be scaled up by employing simulation-guided reach set over-approximation techniques. Existing methods are either applicable to only restricted classes of systems, overly conservative, or computationally expensive. We present new tech... | {
"abstract": "Mars is the only planet other than Earth in the Solar System that has a preserved nonpolar geological record of glaciation on its surface. Nonpolar ice deposits on Mars have been linked to variations in spin-axis obliquity that cause mobilization of polar ice and redeposition at lower latitudes, formin... |
{
"abstract": "Semi-Supervised Support Vector Machine (S3VM) is one of the most popular methods for semi-supervised learning, which can make full use of plentiful, easily accessible unlabeled data. Balancing constraint is normally enforced in S3VM (denoted as BCS3VM) to avoid the harmful solution which assigns all or... | {
"abstract": "Due to the prevalence of unlabeled data, semi-supervised learning has drawn significant attention and has been found applicable in many real-world applications. In this paper, we present the so-called Budgeted Semi-supervised Support Vector Machine (BS3VM), a method that leverages the excellent general... | {
"abstract": "Clinical trials of the cholinesterase inhibitor donepezil have used standard psychometric tools to evaluate treatment efficacy. These trials, however, appear not to capture clinically demonstrable, but otherwise unmeasured, beneficial treatment effects. We sought to identify and categorize clinically r... |
{
"abstract": "In the field of computer vision and image processing, analysis and classification of texture images have various crucial applications. However, a detailed survey on how to extract and from which method features can be extracted is necessary. In this paper, we survey key approaches of features for textu... | {
"abstract": "The current study investigates whether texture properties of the tissue surrounding microcalcification (MC) clusters can contribute to breast cancer diagnosis. The case sample analyzed consists of 100 mammographic images, originating from the Digital Database for Screening Mammography (DDSM). All mammo... | {
"abstract": "Lead toxicity is known to induce a broad range of physiological, biochemical and behavioral dysfunctions that may result in adverse effects on several organs, including the central nervous system. Long-term exposure to low levels of lead (Pb2+) has been shown to produce behavioral deficits in rodents a... |
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