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"abstract": "In a test suite, all the test cases should be independent: no test should affect any other test’s result, and running the tests in any order should produce the same test results. The assumption of test independence is important so that tests behave consistently as designed. In addition, many downstream... | {
"abstract": "Tao is a system that optimizes the execution of unit tests in large software programs and reduces the programmer wait time from minutes to seconds. Tao is based on two key ideas: First, Tao focuses on efficiency, unlike past work that focused on avoiding false negatives. Tao implements simple and fast ... | {
"abstract": "Nowadays, systems based on Wireless Sensor Networks are intensively used in various fields. However, there are few real time applications employing WSNs. The problem resides in various limitations especially at the level of their communication capabilities. Various researches were conducted in this dir... |
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"abstract": ".............................................................................................................................. i ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ..................................................................................................... ii LIST OF FIGURES ....................................... | {
"abstract": "Smart homes are gaining vast popularity as the most promising application of the emerging Internet of Things (IoT) technology. Exploiting the high level of connectivity present in current electronic devices (such as smartphones, tablets, and multimedia systems), smart homes provide innovative, automate... | {
"abstract": "Internet of Things (IoT) is playing a more and more important role after its showing up, it covers from traditional equipment to general household objects such as WSNs and RFID. With the great potential of IoT, there come all kinds of challenges. This paper focuses on the security problems among all ot... |
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"abstract": "The study explores the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) countries' under-fives child mortality rates (CMR) and child abuse-related deaths (CARD) since the end of the Soviet Union, and asks whether there has been an 'under-reporting' of CARD? World Health Organization under-fives mortal... | {
"abstract": "Purpose of review This review will examine the most recent published literature on Sudden Infant Death, Sudden Unexplained Infant Death, infant and child death due to maltreatment, and Shaken Baby Syndrome. Recent findings New recommendations from the American Academy of Pediatrics about the evaluation... | {
"abstract": "The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner (OCME) has recorded a significant decline in the deaths of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) in the state of Maryland since 1994. However, infants who died of accidental or non-accidental injuries remained consistent during the same time period. This report fo... |
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"abstract": "The explosive growth in fake news and its erosion to democracy, justice, and public trust has increased the demand for fake news analysis, detection and intervention. This survey comprehensively and systematically reviews fake news research. The survey identifies and specifies fundamental theories acro... | {
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"title": "Can Rumour Stance Alone Predict Veracity?"
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"abstract": "This paper presents a linear time fully connected guided filter by introducing the minimum spanning tree (MST) to the guided filter (GF). Since the intensity based filtering kernel of GF is apt to overly smooth edges and the fixed-shape local box support region adopted by GF is not geometric-adaptive, ... |
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"abstract": "Recent research has highlighted the non-uniqueness problem of energy–momentum tensors in linearized gravity; many different tensors are published in the literature, yet for particular calculations a unique expression is required. It has been shown that (A) none of these spin-2 energy–momentum tensors a... | {
"abstract": "We derive a generic identity which holds for the metric (i.e. variational) energy–momentum tensor under any field transformation in any generally covariant classical Lagrangian field theory. The identity determines the conditions under which a symmetry of the Lagrangian is also a symmetry of the energy... | {
"abstract": "We show how one can generate sizable electromagnetic couplings for the Z (Z..gamma gamma..,ZZ..gamma..) if the neutral weak boson is a composite particle. Contrary to a recent claim, we show that a superheavy fermionic constituent gives a very suppressed contribution.",
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"abstract": "Developing neural network image classification models often requires significant architecture engineering. In this paper, we study a method to learn the model architectures directly on the dataset of interest. As this approach is expensive when the dataset is large, we propose to search for an architec... | {
"abstract": "Existing Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) are limited in their ability to model dynamical systems with nonlinearities and hidden internal states. Here we use our general framework for sequence learning, EVOlution of recurrent systems with LINear Outputs (Evolino), to discover good RNN hidden node weigh... | {
"abstract": "The aim of our work is to specify and build a system dedicated to training in radiology-senology based on the exploitation of senologic images and their related clinical information. The system is called SAFRS (Systeme d'Aide a la Formation des Radiologues-Senologues i.e. system supporting the training... |
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"abstract": "The aim of this review is to evaluate of effectiveness of bleaching procedures used to treat discolored teeth subsequent to regenerative endodontic procedures (REPs) based on the review of in vitro and in vivo studies. This literature review was carried out according to the PRISMA guidelines. Four data... | {
"abstract": "ObjectivesTo investigate the whitening effects of different bleaching agents on teeth discoloured by different antibiotic combinations of ciprofloxacin and metronidazole with minocycline, doxycycline, amoxicillin or cefaclor.Materials and methodsForty extracted bovine incisors were collected and discol... | {
"abstract": "Following gutta-percha obturation of the root canals of 20 extracted human maxillary central incisors, a \"walking bleach\" paste was sealed into the pulp chambers with Cavit temporary restorations. This paste was replaced in 4 days by a thick paste of calcium hydroxide. Cervical cementum or dentin pH ... |
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"abstract": "A powerful technique in the complexity analysis of data structures is amortization, or averaging over time. Amortized running time is a realistic but robust complexity measure for which we can obtain surprisingly tight upper and lower bounds on a variety of algorithms. By following the principle of des... | {
"abstract": "Robust balancing is a technique that substantially decreases the worst case cost of rebalancing B-trees when intermixed insertions and deletions occur, from (theta)(k log k) to 0(k) for k insertions and deletions. It requires a slight extension to the standard data structure, robust B-trees, but it use... | {
"abstract": "A classical problem in computational geometry is the planar point location problem. This problem calls for preprocessing a polygonal subdivision of the plane defined by n line segments so that, given a sequence of points, the polygon containing each point can be determined quickly on-line. Several ways... |
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"abstract": "ABSTRACT In this paper, we treat the control problem of timed discrete event systems under temporal constraints. This type of constraint is very frequent in production systems, transportation network and in networked automation systems. Precisely, we are interested in the validation of strict temporal ... | {
"abstract": "In this paper, we propose a (max,+)-based method for the supervision of discrete event systems subject to tight time constraints. Systems under consideration are those modeled as timed event graphs and represented with linear (max,+) state equations. The supervision is addressed by looking for solution... | {
"abstract": "The dispersion of cell deformability mapping is affected not only by the resolution of the sensing system, but also by cell deformability itself. In order to extract the pure deformability characteristics of cells, it is necessary to improve the resolution of cell actuation in the sensing system, parti... |
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"abstract": "Introduction: In this work, we report the development and initial tests of a measuring system that is used to measure the cervical electrical impedance with the purpose of assessing cervical ripening. The objective is to offer a system that provides real-time information about the cervical electrical i... | {
"abstract": "We have created a bioimpedance probe designed to detect subtle changes in human cervical tissue composition in vivo, and thereby detect the onset of cervical remodeling in a noninvasive manner sooner than existing clinical methods allow. Our cervical bioimpedance measurement device, which can be used d... | {
"abstract": "Unipolar pacemaker leads with titanium nitride or iridium coated tips having the same fractal surface structure have been examined in regard to their stimulation and sensing performance. It is shown, that the electrochemical active surface area is the most important factor, the type of material is less... |
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"abstract": "We consider the Voronoi diagram of a set of n points in three dimensions under a convex distance function induced by an arbitrary, fixed polytope. The combinatorial complexity, i.\\,e.\\ the number of vertices, edges, and facets, of this diagram is shown to be in &thgr;(n^2), which constitutes a consid... | {
"abstract": "A survey is presented of an approach to motion planning that emphasizes object-oriented, exact, and discrete (or combinatorial) algorithmic techniques in which worst-case asymptotically efficient solutions are being sought. Following a statement of the problem, motion planning in static and known envir... | {
"abstract": "This paper presents various applications of evolutionary computing approach for architectural space planning problem. As such the problem of architectural space planning is NP-complete. Finding an optimal solution within a reasonable amount of time for these problems is impossible. However for architec... |
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"abstract": "Medroxyprogesterone acetate (MPA) when employed at high doses ≥ 500 ≤ 1000 mg/day i.m.) can produce objective remission with improved survival in about 30% of postmenopausal women with advanced breast cancer resistant to cytotoxic drugs and endocrine therapies. When administered to women not previously... | {
"abstract": "In a phase II investigation of high dose medroxyprogesterone treatment of advanced and previously with other methods heavily treated patient with mammary carcinoma, 7 of 25 patients had a partial remission with a median duration of 5 + months. In a further 7 patients the disease became stationary. As m... | {
"abstract": "In a series of 183 emergency operations in which intraoperative autotransfusion was used, 14 patients received blood contaminated by intestinal contents. Six of the 14 patients died early in the postoperative period, four of whom had received more than 16 liters of blood. Only two of the eight survivor... |
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"abstract": "We summarize the economic importance, biology, and management of soft scales, focusing on pests of agricultural, horticultural, and silvicultural crops in outdoor production systems and urban landscapes. We also provide summaries on voltinism, crawler emergence timing, and predictive models for crawler... | {
"abstract": "ABSTRACT \n Phytochemicals may modify the food quality, reduce a plant's palatability to insects, or defend against pests. This work aimed to study 1) relationships between the nitrogen and potassium levels given to plants in nutritive solutions and the foliar phytochemical concentrations, 2) the effec... | {
"abstract": "We summarize the economic importance, biology, and management of soft scales, focusing on pests of agricultural, horticultural, and silvicultural crops in outdoor production systems and urban landscapes. We also provide summaries on voltinism, crawler emergence timing, and predictive models for crawler... |
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"abstract": "Pollen storage is one of the valuable tools for overcoming time as well as location isolation in flowering of germplasm lines in various breeding programmes, facilitating germplasm conservation and its exchange and assisting in supplementary pollinations in vegetable crops. There is need for pollen sto... | {
"abstract": "SummaryThree methods of bulk extraction of potato pollen were compared for their efficiency and for the potency of extracted pollen in affecting berry set, seeds/berry and 100 seed weight. Extracting pollen from pre-dried anthers using a sieve of nylon netting with 1 mm perforations was the most econom... | {
"abstract": "SummarySimple phenotypic, genotypic and environmental correlation coefficients were calculated from one year's data for nine characters in F1 seedlings of 72 crosses and 18 parents of potato (Solanum tuberosum L.). Crosses were made in a line x tester model having 12 female lines and six male testers. ... |
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"abstract": "ii Co-Authorship iv Acknowledgements v List of Tables ix List of Figures xi Abbreviations xiii Chapter",
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"title": "Biomechanical and physical requirements of stair negotiation with respect to aging and stroke"
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"abstract": "PURPOSE\nThis study compared the kinematics and kinetics of the knee joint during traditional step-over-step (SOS) and compensatory step-by-step lead-leg (SBSL) and trail-leg (SBST) stair ambulation patterns.\n\n\nMETHODS\nSeventeen (M:9) healthy adults completed five trials of ascent and descent using... | {
"abstract": "The purpose of the present study was to investigate the effects of different motion patterns of ascending and descending stairs on oxygen consumption (VO2), heart rate (HR) and efficiency. Five healthy males performed ascending and descending by two motion patterns; climbing foot over foot (usual climb... |
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"abstract": "A 65‐year‐old woman (C1I) and a 65‐year‐old man (C2I) contracted acute hepatitis C 40 or 42 years after marriage, respectively, in Japan. They had no discernible risk factors for acquiring hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection, except that they had monogamous sexual relationships with their spouses (C1S [6... | {
"abstract": "Background : Interspousal transmission of hepatitis C virus (HCV) has been documented; however, the annual risk of interspousal transmission remains unclear.",
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"title": "Low incidence of hepatitis C virus transmission between spouses: A prospective study"
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"abstract": "To evaluate the intrafamilial transmission of hepatitis C virus (HCV) 104 index patients with type C chronic liver disease and their 307 family contacts were interviewed. After a questionnaire on the risk factors of parenteral exposure, blood samples were obtained and tested for liver biochemistry and ... |
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"abstract": "Abstract The Slow Movement has gained considerable attention as a social movement to counteract increasing globalisation, commercialisation and marketisation in Western societies. It has dispersed into many other economic areas such as Slow Cities or Slow Travel. Events, however, have mainly been viewe... | {
"abstract": "As an active social and political philosophy, slow food aims to change the world, encouraging the public to opt for healthier food and reinvigorate traditional recipes and practices. Persuading people of this message is achieved through a range of methods, including media (particularly television, maga... | {
"abstract": "The aim of this work is threefold: first, to show how, in the context of the gentrification process in the city of Banaras (now Varanasi) in India, social networking, and in particular WhatsApp video calls, make up an attempt by young sex workers in the red-light district (i.e., Shivdaspur) to overcome... |
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"abstract": "The Amaryllidaceae alkaloid galanthamine (Gal) is a long‐acting, selective, reversible, and competitive acetylcholinesterase inhibitor used for the treatment of early‐ to mid‐stage Alzheimer's disease, poliomyelitis, and other neurological diseases. Currently, Gal is produced by extraction from plants ... | {
"abstract": "The common effect of NH4+, NO3-, KH2PO4 and sucrose on the biosynthesis of galanthamine by a Leucojum aestivum shoot culture was studied. Polynominal regression models were elaborated for the description of the galanthamine biosynthesis as a consequence of variation of the investigated variables (NH4+ ... | {
"abstract": "The distribution of Ge composition in an individual Si1−xGex alloy nanowire (SiGeNW) grown by the vapor liquid solid (VLS) process was studied by micro-Raman spectroscopy by changing the measurement position from the catalyst side to the substrate side. The Si–Si mode in Raman spectra were found to spl... |
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"abstract": "Understanding the mechanisms of virus capsid assembly has been an important research objective over the past few decades. Determining critical points along the pathways by which virus capsids form could prove extremely beneficial in producing more stable DNA vectors or pinpointing targets for antiviral... | {
"abstract": "The environment inside a living cell is dramatically different from that found in in vitro models, presenting a problem for computational models of biochemistry that are only beginning to capture these differences. This deviation between idealized in vitro models and more realistic intracellular condit... | {
"abstract": "Inducible genes are expressed in the presence of an external stimulus. Individual cells may exhibit either a binary or graded response to such signals. It has been hypothesized that the chemical kinetics of transcription factor/DNA interactions can account for both these scenarios (EMBO J. 9(9) (1990) ... |
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"abstract": "Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are crucial in supporting continuous environmental monitoring, where sensor nodes are deployed and must remain operational to collect and transfer data from the environment to a base-station. However, sensor nodes have limited energy in their primary power storage unit, ... | {
"abstract": "Due to advances in low power sensors, energy harvesting, and disruption tolerant networking, we can now build mobile systems that operate perpetually, sensing and streaming data directly to scientists. However, factors such as energy harvesting variability and unpredictable network connectivity make bu... | {
"abstract": "Energy is of primary importance in wireless sensor networks. By being able to estimate the energy consumption of the sensor nodes, applications and routing protocols are able to make informed decisions that increase the lifetime of the sensor network. However, it is in general not possible to measure t... |
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"abstract": "Objectives We validate a machine learning-based sepsis prediction algorithm (InSight) for detection and prediction of three sepsis-related gold standards, using only six vital signs. We evaluate robustness to missing data, customization to site-specific data using transfer learning, and generalizabilit... | {
"abstract": "Background: Scoring systems that weigh the degree of abnormality of bedside observations might be able to identify patients at risk of catastrophic deterioration. Objectives: To establish a frequency distribution for typical physiological scoring systems and to establish the potential benefit of adding... | {
"abstract": "Introduction Several methods have been developed to electronically monitor patients for severe sepsis, but few provide predictive capabilities to enable early intervention; furthermore, no severe sepsis prediction systems have been previously validated in a randomised study. We tested the use of a mach... |
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"abstract": "Background: Hypertriglyceridemia (HTG) during pregnancy may be accompanied by acute pancreatitis, hyperviscosity syndrome, and preeclampsia. HTG during pregnancy should be managed by a multidisciplinary team, however, no clinical guidelines exist for severe gestational HTG. Case presentation: We herein... | {
"abstract": "Severe gestational hypertriglyceridemia is a potentially life threatening and complex condition to manage, requiring attention to a delicate balance between maternal and fetal needs. During pregnancy, significant alterations to lipid homeostasis occur to ensure transfer of nutrients to the fetus. In wo... | {
"abstract": "Chylomicrons accumulating in plasma obtained after an overnight fast are always abnormal and can be detected in association with triglyceride levels above 1000 mg per dl. The chylomicronemia syndrome is associated with marked hypertriglyceridemia (plasma triglyceride level above 2000 mg per dl), abdomi... |
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"abstract": "The article presents a few recent developments advanced by the authors in a few key areas of stochastic modeling of solute transport in heterogeneous aquifers. First, a brief review of the Lagrangian approach to modeling plumes longitudinal mass distribution and temporal (the breakthrough curve) mass a... | {
"abstract": "Spatial heterogeneity of the hydraulic properties of geological porous formations leads to erratically shaped solute clouds, thus increasing the edge area of the solute body and augmenting the dilution rate. In this study, we provide a theoretical framework to quantify dilution of a non-reactive solute... | {
"abstract": "Uncertainty in the distribution of hydraulic parameters leads to uncertainty in flow and reactive transport. Traditional stochastic analysis of solute transport in heterogeneous media has focused on the ensemble mean of conservative-tracer concentration. Studies in the past years have shown that the me... |
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"abstract": "ABSTRACT The aim of this study was to analyze the long-term clinical outcomes of labral reconstruction in patients undergoing femoro-acetabular impingement (FAI) surgery and compare them with labral repair and debridement. This is a single-center, single-surgeon, retrospective match-paired study from a... | {
"abstract": "Femoroacetabular impingement is a cause of hip pain in adults and is potentially a precursor of osteoarthritis. Our aim in this study was to determine the prevalence of bilateral deformity in patients with symptomatic cam-type femoroacetabular impingement as well as the presence of associated acetabula... | {
"abstract": "Three cases are presented highlighting varied aspects of labral lesions as a primary or contributing source of mechanical hip pain; including one chronic labral tear associated with old trauma, an acutely entrapped labrum, and a degenerative labral tear associated with osteoarthritis. The diagnosis of ... |
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"abstract": "Objectives Skeletal surveys are necessary in the evaluation for physical abuse in children less than 2 years old, but when to obtain a skeletal survey in older children is less clear. Methods A retrospective study of patients older than 2 years who underwent skeletal survey over a 3-year period after i... | {
"abstract": "OBJECTIVE\nTo determine rates of skeletal survey completion and injury identification as a function of age among children who underwent subspecialty evaluation for concerns of physical abuse.\n\n\nSTUDY DESIGN\nThis was a retrospective secondary analysis of an observational study of 2609 children <60 m... | {
"abstract": "We describe the use of 18F-NaF positron emission tomography (PET) whole-body imaging for the evaluation of skeletal trauma in a case of suspected child abuse. To our knowledge, 18F NaF PET has not been used in the past for the evaluation of child abuse. In our patient, this technique detected all sites... |
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"abstract": "ELECTRA pretrains a discriminator to detect replaced tokens, where the replacements are sampled from a generator trained with masked language modeling. Despite the compelling performance, ELECTRA suffers from the following two issues. First, there is no direct feedback loop from discriminator to genera... | {
"abstract": "For natural language understanding (NLU) technology to be maximally useful, both practically and as a scientific object of study, it must be general: it must be able to process language in a way that is not exclusively tailored to any one specific task or dataset. In pursuit of this objective, we intro... | {
"abstract": "A key goal of computer vision is to recover the underlying 3D structure from 2D observations of the world. In this paper we learn strong deep generative models of 3D structures, and recover these structures from 3D and 2D images via probabilistic inference. We demonstrate high-quality samples and repor... |
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"abstract": "Recent research found gender‐related differences in resting‐state functional connectivity (rs‐FC) measured by functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). To the best of our knowledge, there are no studies examining the differences in rs‐FC between men, women, and individuals who report a discrepancy ... | {
"abstract": "Gender dysphoria (also known as “transsexualism”) is characterized as a discrepancy between anatomical sex and gender identity. Research points towards neurobiological influences. Due to the sexually dimorphic characteristics of the human voice, voice gender perception provides a biologically relevant ... | {
"abstract": "Gender dysphoria (GD), a term that denotes persistent discomfort with one's biologic sex or assigned gender, replaced the diagnosis of gender identity disorder in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders in 2013. Subtypes of GD in adults, defined by sexual orientation and age of onset,... |
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"abstract": "Wind turbines form complex nonlinear mechanical systems exposed to uncontrolled wind profiles. This makes turbine controller design a challenging task (Athanasius & Zhu, 2009). As such, control of wind energy conversion systems (WECS) is difficult due to the lack of systematic methods to identify requi... | {
"abstract": "This paper focuses on a control application of robust fault tolerant in Wind Energy Conversion System. A robust fault tolerant control structure for variable speed fixed pitch wind turbines is presented. The approach could keep the systems asymptotically stable against actuator failures and satisfy dis... | {
"abstract": "State-government–provided reinsurance—essentially, insurance for insurance companies—can relieve health insurers of the risk of “adverse selection” (disproportionate enrollments of individuals with extraordinarily high medical costs), particularly in the small group and individual markets. With such pr... |
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"abstract": "Nanowires of lead telluride (PbTe) were patterned on glass surfaces using lithographically patterned nanowire electrodeposition (LPNE). LPNE involved the fabrication by photolithography of a contoured nickel nanoband that is recessed by approximately 300 nm into a horizontal photoresist trench. Cubic P... | {
"abstract": "Thermoelectricity is the phenomenon of conversion between thermal and electrical energy. Compared with other technologies, thermoelectric (TE) devices offer distinct advantages: they have no moving parts, contain no chlorofluorocarbons, and have a long lifetime of reliable operation. However, current T... | {
"abstract": "PbSe nanowires with an average size of 8 × 350 nm were synthesized by the reaction of Pb(NO3)2 and Se powder at 60 °C under ambient pressure. A mixture of arachidic acid (AA, n-C19H39COOH) and octadecylamine (ODA), which could form a complex with Pb2+, was employed as a soft template to control the mor... |
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"abstract": "SUMMARY Tick-borne rickettsioses are caused by obligate intracellular bacteria belonging to the spotted fever group of the genus Rickettsia. These zoonoses are among the oldest known vector-borne diseases. However, in the past 25 years, the scope and importance of the recognized tick-associated rickett... | {
"abstract": "Identified rickettsiae were 4 pathogens, 2 suspected pathogens, and 1 incompletely described species.",
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"title": "Spotted Fever Group Rickettsiae in Ticks, Morocco"
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"abstract": "The period covered by this bibliographical review (1995-2000) is characterized by an important development of the theoretical researches in transport geography. This new trend is illustrated by a great diversity of materials, which can be divided into three sub-groups: network analysis, modelling techn... |
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"abstract": "Tensor-based methods have shown promise in improving upon traditional matrix factorization methods for recommender systems. But tensors may achieve improved recommendation quality while worsening the fairness of the recommendations. Hence, we propose a novel fairness-aware tensor recommendation framewo... | {
"abstract": "We study fairness in collaborative-filtering recommender systems, which are sensitive to discrimination that exists in historical data. Biased data can lead collaborative filtering methods to make unfair predictions against minority groups of users. We identify the insufficiency of existing fairness me... | {
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"title": "Corpus-Based Content Analysis : A Method for Investigating News Coverage on War and Intervention"
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"abstract": "Many studies have elucidated the protective associations of statin use with liver cancer or mortality, but studies examining statin's effect on the risk of progression to liver cirrhosis considering medical/metabolic conditions or lifestyle factors are lacking. We aimed to assess statin's benefit indep... | {
"abstract": "BACKGROUND & AIMS: Statins have been variably shown to decrease risk and complications of chronic liver diseases (CLDs). We performed a systematic review and meta‐analysis to evaluate the association between statins and risk of cirrhosis and related complications in patients with CLDs. METHODS: Through... | {
"abstract": "PURPOSE\n3D optical surface imaging has been applied to patient positioning in radiation therapy (RT). The optical patient positioning system is advantageous over conventional method using cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) in that it is radiation free, frameless, and is capable of real-time monitori... |
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"abstract": "Digital atlases are commonly used in pre‐operative planning in functional neurosurgical procedures performed to minimize the symptoms of Parkinson's disease. These atlases can be customized to fit an individual patient's anatomy through atlas‐to‐patient warping procedures. Once fitted to pre‐operative ... | {
"abstract": "Digital brain atlases can be used in conjuction with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and computed tomography (CT) for planning and guidance during neurosurgery. Digital atlases are advantageous since they can be warped nonlinearly to fit each patient's unique anatomy. Functional neurosurgery with impl... | {
"abstract": "Percutaneous radiofrequency thermal ablation (RFA) has been used to treat primary and secondary liver tumors under ultrasound, computed tomography (CT), or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) guidance for the past decade [Park et al., Radiol Clin North Am 38:545–561, 2000; Siperstein and Gotomirski, Cance... |
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"abstract": "Les travaux presentes dans ce memoire d'Habilitation a Diriger des Recherches se situent a la frontiere entre la physique de la matiere molle et le genie chimique et se nourrissent de la physique pour developper et donner des fondements scientifiques a de nouveaux concepts et outils pour l'ingenieur. D... | {
"abstract": "This paper investigates the adsorption of different sized carboxyl methyl cellulose (CMC) onto talc particles (adsorption isotherm, adsorption reversibility), its consequences on the particles properties (electrophoretic mobility and surface wetting) and its effect on their dispersion (settling coeffic... | {
"abstract": "Abstract GeTe and SnTe based materials are emerging as viable alternatives for toxic PbTe based thermoelectric materials. Here, a systematic study of thermoelectric properties of Bi and In codoped GeTe, and Sb, In and Ag codoped SnTe alloys processed by Spark Plasma Sintering are presented. We report t... |
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"abstract": "—Fault collapsing is the process of reducing the number of faults by using redundance and equiva-lence/dominance relationships among faults. Exact global fault collapsing can be easily applied locally at the logic gates, however, it is often ignored for library modules due to its high demand of resourc... | {
"abstract": "Fault collapsing is the process of reducing the number of faults by using redundance and equivalence/dominance relationships among faults. Exact fault collapsing can be easily applied locally at the logic gates, however, it is often ignored for most circuits, due to its high demand of resources such as... | {
"abstract": "The present paper deals with optimizing a multi-energy district boiler by adding to the plant an optimally designed thermal water storage tank. First, an operation strategy is defined to manage the plant efficiently. Next, a reliable sizing method based on a parametric study is proposed. Various energy... |
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"abstract": "Engineered nanomaterials (ENMs) possess novel properties making them attractive for application in a wide spectrum of fields. These novel properties are not accounted for in the environmental risk assessment methods that the Registration, Evaluation, Authorization, and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH) ... | {
"abstract": "There is scientific agreement that engineered nanomaterial (ENM) production, use and disposal lead to environmental release of ENM. However, very little is known on emissions of ENM to the environment. Currently, techniques are lacking to quantitatively monitor ENM emissions to and concentrations in th... | {
"abstract": "This paper focuses on the opportunities offered by the latest advances in silicon technologies for realizing system-on-chip microwave radiometer. Such a highly integrated, low-cost, radiometer chip could be applied to the environmental remote sensing and, in particular, to the forest fire detection. Th... |
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"abstract": "In this research, we mainly focus on the problem of estimating the 2D human pose from a monocular image and reconstructing the 3D human pose based on the 2D human pose. Here a 3D pose is the locations of the human joints in the 3D space and a 2D pose is the projection of a 3D pose on an image. Unlike m... | {
"abstract": "This work addresses the challenging problem of unconstrained 3D human pose estimation (HPE) from a novel perspective. Existing approaches struggle to operate in realistic applications, mainly due to their scene-dependent priors, such as background segmentation and multi-camera network, which restrict t... | {
"abstract": "Outlier mining is a major task in data analysis. Outliers are objects that highly deviate from regular objects in their local neighborhood. Density-based outlier ranking methods score each object based on its degree of deviation. In many applications, these ranking methods degenerate to random listings... |
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"abstract": "This study addresses the mechanisms by which collaboration environments affect design teams’ collaboration via shared artefacts. We collected data by observing design teams consisting of experts and decision makers. The teams utilized (1) a state-of-the-art web conferencing collaboration environment an... | {
"abstract": "Traditionally, Systems Analysis and Design (SAD) research has focused on ways of working and ways of modeling. Design ecology – the task, organizational and political context surrounding design – is less well understood. In particular, relationships between design routines and products within ecologies... | {
"abstract": "Sensing cost and data quality are two primary concerns in mobile crowdsensing. In this article, we propose a new crowdsensing paradigm, sparse mobile crowdsensing, which leverages the spatial and temporal correlation among the data sensed in different sub-areas to significantly reduce the required numb... |
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"abstract": "Bias temperature instability (BTI) is known as one serious reliability concern in nanoscale technologies. BTI gradually increases the absolute value of threshold voltage (<inline-formula> <tex-math notation=\"LaTeX\">$V_{\\mathrm{ th}}$ </tex-math></inline-formula>) of MOS transistors. The main consequ... | {
"abstract": "NBTI is a major SRAM aging mechanism, leading to reduced read and hold static noise margins, and increased soft error rate. The existing techniques including guard banding, on-chip sensor-based detection, and recovery. In this paper, we propose a group of testing, diagnosis, and repair methods for NBTI... | {
"abstract": "By shrinking transistors’ dimensions and, consequently, reducing the operating voltage in nano-scale CMOS technologies, the stability of SRAM cells has become a major reliability concern. SRAM cells’ robustness against undesirable bit-flips is commonly measured by Static Noise Margin (SNM). Degradation... |
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"abstract": "Consumers are progressively adopting electronic channels for buying. Explaining on-line client behavior continues to be a significant issue as studies accessible target a multiple set of variables and relied on totally different approaches and theoretical foundations. Based on previous analysis 2 main ... | {
"abstract": "E‐commerce researchers have shown that retailers are increasingly following a click and mortar strategy, whereby online and offline channels are becoming more integrated. Despite case study evidence for the benefit of this approach, an analysis of the websites of nearly 1,000 US‐based retailers having ... | {
"abstract": "ABSTRACT The internet is becoming increasingly important for exporters to reach or sell to potential customers in international markets. This study investigated how exporters could utilize different elements of their corporate websites to achieve either their communication or transaction objectives. Fi... |
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"abstract": "B-cell lymphoma 2 (Bcl-2) has a dual function, acting as both an oncogene and an anti-tumor gene. It is well known that Bcl-2 exerts its tumor promoting function through the mitochondrial pathway. However, the mechanism by which it suppresses tumor formation is not well understood. We have previously s... | {
"abstract": "ABSTRACT Bcl-2 inhibits cell proliferation by delaying G0/G1 to S phase entry. We tested the hypothesis that Bcl-2 regulates S phase entry through mitochondrial pathways. Existing evidence indicates mitochondrial adenosine tri-phosphate (ATP) and reactive oxygen species (ROS) are important signals in c... | {
"abstract": "Human T-cell leukemia is a malignant disease that needs various regimens of cytotoxic chemotherapy to overcome drug resistance. Recently, Na+,K+-ATPase has emerged as a potential target for cancer therapy. However, its exact signaling pathway in human T-cell leukemia cell death has not been well define... |
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"abstract": "BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVE\nIndividuals infected with HIV-1 have higher levels of chemokine producing cells compared to uninfected individuals. It is important to know the changes in chemokine levels associated with rate of progression of disease. There is a paucity of information on the plasma chemokines ... | {
"abstract": "Abstract The balancing performance of an automatic ball balancer fitted on the spindle motor of optical disc drives, for instance CD-ROM or DVD drives, is analysed. It is well known that the operating speed of an optical disc drive with an automatic ball balancer should be higher than the translational... |
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"abstract": "This study aimed to identify and describe the fundamental characteristics of spoken dialogue systems, and their role in supporting human-robot interaction and enabling the communication between socially assistive robots and patients with dementia. First, this work provides an overview of spoken dialogu... | {
"abstract": "This paper describes the state-of-the art of a large-scale project, aimed towards the development of personal service robots for the elderly population. Taking care of elderly and chronically ill people is one of the major challenges currently faced by society. Needs range from increasing articulation ... | {
"abstract": "Phishing emails are semantic attacks that con people into divulging sensitive information using techniques to make the user believe that information is being requested by a legitimate source. In order to develop tools that will be effective in combating these schemes, we first must know how and why peo... |
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"abstract": "The main aim of this study is to provide practitioners and researchers with some insights into the users’ level of smartphone marketing of therapeutic tourism with more focus on the Arab world. Marketing of therapeutic tourism has not been addressed substantially as a research area and very little rese... | {
"abstract": "Reinforcement Learning (RL) has been an interesting research area in Machine Learning and AI. Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning (HRL) that decomposes the RL problem into sub-problems where solving each of which will be more powerful than solving the entire problem will be our concern in this paper. A... | {
"abstract": "A novel high-gain low-profile miniaturized antenna with omnidirectional vertically polarized radiation, similar to a short dipole is presented. The proposed design focus is on increasing the gain and improving the polarization purity of the radiated field in the horizontal plane. The gain and polarizat... |
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"abstract": "Despite the rapid growth and advancement in the Internet of Things (IoT), there are critical challenges that need to be addressed before the full adoption of the IoT. Data privacy is one of the hurdles towards the adoption of IoT as there might be potential misuse of users’ data and their identity in I... | {
"abstract": "All around the globe the concept of smart cities is growing at fast pace meaning that an increasingly amount of people are moving to cities, which causes problems for cities with energy supply, was ...",
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"abstract": "Abstract This study proposes a new typological framework for classifying smart city services. Intentionally focused on citizen-centricity, away from bureaucratic perspectives that most typologies have taken, this typology is derived from marketing and service science literature. The proposed typology c... |
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"abstract": "Cottonwoods (Populus spp.) are adapted to riparian or floodplain zones throughout the Northern Hemisphere; they are also used as parents for fast-growing hybrid poplars. We review recent ecophysiological studies of the native cottonwoods Populus angustifolia James, P. balsamifera L., P. deltoides Marsh... | {
"abstract": "A 5-m-deep gravel pit was excavated from 1996 to 1998 in the floodplain between Willow Creek, Alberta, and a grove of balsam poplars ('cottonwoods', Populus balsamifera L.) and water level at the pit was lowered 2.5 m through pumping. This interrupted the infiltration of stream water into the riparian ... | {
"abstract": "Understanding how reducing carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions impacts climate risks requires probabilistic projections of the baseline (\"business-as-usual\") emissions. Previous studies deriving these baseline projections have broken important new ground, but are largely silent on two key questions: (i) W... |
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"abstract": "Differential privacy, which is due to its rigorous mathematical proof and strong privacy guarantee, has become a standard for the release of statistics with privacy protection. Recently, a lot of dynamic data publishing algorithms based on differential privacy have been proposed, but most of the algori... | {
"abstract": "Differential privacy has recently become a de facto standard for private statistical data release. Many algorithms have been proposed to generate differentially private histograms or synthetic data. However, most of them focus on \"one-time\" release of a static dataset and do not adequately address th... | {
"abstract": "We introduce a new, generic framework for private data analysis.The goal of private data analysis is to release aggregate information about a data set while protecting the privacy of the individuals whose information the data set contains.Our framework allows one to release functions f of the data with... |
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"abstract": "Attribute-aware CF models aims at rating prediction given not only the historical rating from users to items, but also the information associated with users (e.g. age), items (e.g. price), or even ratings (e.g. rating time). This paper surveys works in the past decade developing attribute-aware CF syst... | {
"abstract": "Popular microblogging sites such as Tumblr have attracted hundreds of millions of users as a content sharing platform, where users can create rich content in the form of posts that are shared with other users who follow them. Due to the sheer amount of posts created on such services, an important task ... | {
"abstract": "A novel transmit/receive (Tx/Rx) antenna selection strategy is proposed and analyzed for two-way multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) amplify-and-forward (AF) relay networks. This strategy involves choosing the best transmit and receive antennas at the two sources and the relay based on the minimizati... |
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"abstract": "A variety of frameworks, architectures and techniques have been proposed and used in the field of autonomic computing for self-management. There are also many applications and systems available that exhibit autonomic behavior. However all techniques and applications do not explicitly use autonomic or s... | {
"abstract": "In this paper we present a new server monitoring method based on a new and powerful approach to dynamic data analysis: process query systems (PQS). PQS enables user-space monitoring of servers and, by using advanced behavioral models, makes accurate and fast decisions regarding server and service state... | {
"abstract": "In medical diagnosis doctors must often determine what medical tests (e.g., X-ray, blood tests) should be ordered for a patient to minimize the total cost of medical tests and misdiagnosis. In this paper, we design cost-sensitive machine learning algorithms to model this learning and diagnosis process.... |
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"abstract": "Research has shown that sexualized people are perceived as possessing fewer traits of a human being. Most scholars have argued that these effects are driven by revealing clothing, with targets wearing swimsuits or lingerie being perceived as possessing less mind and less humanness in comparison with no... | {
"abstract": "A number of journalists and scholars have pointed to the sexual objectification of women and men in popular media to argue that Western culture has become “sexualized” or even “pornified.” Yet it is not clear whether men or women have become more frequently—or more intensely sexualized—over time. In a ... | {
"abstract": "The exponential growth of the internet has changed the way people used to interact with each other. With the extensive use of social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram, Google+, Twitter etc., people nowadays share their emotions, opinions, and reactions quite actively. Twitter, for example, being... |
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"abstract": "This paper is about three-dimensional (3-D) reconstruction of a binary image from its X-ray tomographic data. We study the special case of a compact uniform polyhedron totally included in a uniform background and directly perform the polyhedral surface estimation. We formulate this problem as a nonline... | {
"abstract": "We address the issue of reconstructing the shape of an object with uniform interior activity from a set of projections. We estimate directly from projection data the position of a triangulated surface describing the boundary of the object while incorporating prior knowledge about the unknown shape. Thi... | {
"abstract": "This paper presents an effective computational technique for reconstructing a three-dimensional shape of an abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA), from a limited number of computed tomography (CT) images. The three-dimensional template geometry of a healthy abdominal aorta is used as a priori knowledge, and ... |
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"abstract": "We introduce virtually-pipelined memory, an architectural technique that efficiently supports high-bandwidth, uniform latency memory accesses, and high-confidence throughput even under adversarial conditions. We apply this technique to the network processing domain where memory hierarchy design is an i... | {
"abstract": "Modern switches and routers often use dynamic RAM (DRAM) in order to provide large buffer space. For advanced quality of service (QoS), per-flow queueing is desirable. We study the architecture of a queue manager for many thousands of queues at OC-192 (10 Gbps) line rate. It forms the core of the \"dat... | {
"abstract": "With the development of autonomous underwater vehicle technology, there is an increasing demand of its autonomy. The paper presents a distributed hierarchical Petri net model of mission control procedure to describe logical relations among mission level, task level and behavior level. The mission level... |
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"abstract": "Dithiocarbamates represent a class of compounds that were evaluated in different biomedical applications because of their chemical versatility. For this reason, several pharmacological activities have already been attributed to these compounds, such as antiparasitic, antiviral, antifungal activities, a... | {
"abstract": "The 3,5-disubstituted tetrahydro-2H-1,3,5-thiadiazine-2-thione scaffold have found many applications in recent years. This review is aimed at highlighting the most important aspects about these compounds: synthesis, spectroscopic characterization and antiprotozoan activities. How the chemical nature of... | {
"abstract": "Abstract A novel three component one pot methodology for rapid access to pyrido[1,2-c][1,3,5]thiadiazin-4-ones and thiazolo[3,2-c][1,3,5]thiadiazin-4-ones has been developed. A task specific ionic liquid [bmIm]SCN has been used as thiocyanating reagent. The reaction provides high yields of the product ... |
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"abstract": "The bridging bronchus is a rare congenital airway anomaly in which the right upper lobe of the lung is supplied by the right main bronchus while the right lower lobe, and often the right middle lobe is supplied by an aberrant bronchus arising from the left main bronchus. The aberrant bronchus crosses (... | {
"abstract": "In 1976, Gonzales-Crussi et al. (Am. J. Dis. Child. 130:1015–18, 1976) introduced the first case of bridging bronchus as a rare bronchial branching anomaly; since then, only 14 worldwide cases was described. We suggest our case might be number 15 and could be the first case of type six of this bronchia... | {
"abstract": "Protein losing enteropathy is rarely associated with Henoch-Schönlein purpura. Moreover, the disease association of Henoch-Schönlein purpura and rheumatoid arthritis is also rare. We report a case of a 46 year old patient with rheumatoid arthritis presenting with Henoch-Schönlein purpura associated wit... |
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"abstract": "UK policymakers desire to see more and better jobs in the labour market mirrors \ndeepening concern that the quality of much employment is poor, wages are low and \nopportunities to progress are limited. The result is social inequality, growing and \nhighly persistent income inequality and a lack of so... | {
"abstract": "The United Kingdom's labor market policies place it in a kind of institutional middle ground between the United States and continental Europe. Low pay grew sharply between the late 1970s and the mid-1990s, in large part due to the decline of unions and collective bargaining and the removal of protectio... | {
"abstract": "This paper reports results from a recent survey conducted on unionization in over 650 firms in the private sector in the UK. The survey shows that since 1997 there has been a slight fall in derecognition, but a relatively large increase in union recognition. This increase in new recognition agreements ... |
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"abstract": "Historically, the Natural Language Processing area has been given too much attention by many researchers. One of the main motivation beyond this interest is related to the word prediction problem, which states that given a set words in a sentence, one can recommend the next word. In literature, this pr... | {
"abstract": "This paper proposes an exponential interpolation to merge a part-of-speech-based language model and a word-based $n$ -gram language model to accomplish word prediction tasks. In order to find a set of mathematical equations to properly describe the language modeling, a model based on partial differenti... | {
"abstract": "While automatic response generation for building chatbot systems has drawn a lot of attention recently, there is limited understanding on when we need to consider the linguistic context of an input text in the generation process. The task is challenging, as messages in a conversational environment are ... |
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"abstract": "Protein disulfide isomerase (PDI), is a member of the thioredoxin superfamily of redox proteins. PDI has three catalytic activities including, thiol-disulfide oxireductase, disulfide isomerase and redox-dependent chaperone. Originally, PDI was identified in the lumen of the endoplasmic reticulum and su... | {
"abstract": "Proper folding of cellular proteins is assisted by protein disulfide isomerases (PDIs) in the endoplasmic reticulum of mammalian cells. Of the at least 21 PDI family members known in humans, the 57-kDa PDI has been found to be a potential therapeutic target for a variety of human diseases including can... | {
"abstract": "Streptomycin was inactivated in the presence of ATP and magnesium ion by an enzyme preparation made from E. coli K 12 ML 1629 which is resistant to streptomycin. The structure the inactivated streptomycin was determined, it was found that the hydroxy group on C-3 of the N-methyl-L-glucos-amine moiety o... |
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"abstract": "The vital signs monitoring data of an infant receiving intensive care are a rich source of information about its health condition. One major concern about the state of health of such patients is the onset of neonatal sepsis, a life-threatening bloodstream infection. As early signs are subtle and curren... | {
"abstract": "Patients who undergo upper-gastrointestinal surgery have a high incidence of post-operative complications, often requiring admission to the intensive care unit several days after surgery. A dataset comprising observational vital-sign data from 171 post-operative patients taking part in a two-phase clin... | {
"abstract": "In this paper, complex-valued convolutional neural networks are presented, by giving the full deduction of the gradient descent algorithm for training this type of networks. The performances of convolutional neural networks in the real-valued domain for image classification gave rise to the idea of ext... |
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"abstract": "Cranioplasty (CP) is a neurosurgical intervention of skull repairing following a decompressive craniectomy. Unfortunately, the impact of cranioplasty on cognitive and motor function is still controversial. Fifteen TBI subjects aged 26–54 years with CP after decompressive craniectomy were selected in th... | {
"abstract": "Decompressive surgery to reduce pressure under the skull varies from a burrhole, bone flap to removal of a large skull segment. Decompressive craniectomy is the removal of a large enough segment of skull to reduce refractory intracranial pressure and to maintain cerebral compliance for the purpose of p... | {
"abstract": "Background and Purpose— Both hypothermia and decompressive craniectomy (DC) have been shown to reduce ischemic injury in experimental middle cerebral artery (MCA) infarction. This study was designed to evaluate the effect of combined DC and hypothermia on infarction size and neurological outcome in a r... |
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"abstract": "Recent research has shown multiple motives for high-risk sport participation derived from research on adult participants. The aim of this study was to provide insights into motives and risk-related aspects in adolescent high-risk sport participants and to compare those findings with adults performing t... | {
"abstract": "Research on people's motives for engaging in high-risk activities has typically been viewed through the single-focused lens of sensation seeking. We provide evidence that comprehensively challenges that view. First, we develop and confirm the structure of a 3-factor measure of motives: the Sensation Se... | {
"abstract": "Speech perception is inherently a multisensory process involving integration of auditory and visual cues. Multisensory integration in cochlear implant (CI) recipients is a unique circumstance in that the integration occurs after auditory deprivation and the provision of hearing via the CI. Despite the ... |
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"abstract": "Autoencoders are popular feature learning models because they are conceptually simple, easy to train and allow for efficient inference and training. Recent work has shown how certain autoencoders can assign an unnormalized \"score\" to data which measures how well the autoencoder can represent the data... | {
"abstract": "We present the discriminative recurrent sparse auto-encoder model, comprising a recurrent encoder of rectified linear units, unrolled for a fixed number of iterations, and connected to two linear decoders that reconstruct the input and predict its supervised classification. Training via backpropagation... | {
"abstract": "Robust face recognition (FR) is an active topic in computer vision and biometrics, while face occlusion is one of the most challenging problems for robust FR. Recently, the representation (or coding) based FR schemes with sparse coding coefficients and coding residual have demonstrated good robustness ... |
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"abstract": "Kinetic modeling of accelerated stability data serves an important purpose in the development of pharmaceutical products, providing support for shelf life claims and expediting the path to clinical implementation. In this context, a Bayesian kinetic modeling framework is considered, accommodating diffe... | {
"abstract": "Accelerated stability coupled with modeling to predict the stability of compounds, blends, and products at long-term storage conditions provides significant benefits in science-based decision-making throughout drug substance and drug product development. The study can often be completed, including data... | {
"abstract": "Potato chips, popcorn, puffed corn curls, and saltines were equilibrated to various water activities (aw) over saturated salt solutions. Sensory panels determined the crispness and textural hedonic quality of the humidified products by the magnitude estimation technique coupled to a verbal concept scal... |
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"abstract": "High-energy incoming photons can be absorbed and concluded to generate Hot Carriers. In normal solar cells, these carriers are scattered by electron–electron and electron-lattice mechanisms and rapidly lose extra energy and approach to conduction band energy edge. This event plus other loss mechanisms ... | {
"abstract": "In this study, a lower-cost and highly compatible laser scanning method was implemented as an alternative annealing process to fabricate quantum well (QW) structures. Ge QW films were fabricated by continuous-wave laser annealing and their potential for energy selective contact (ESC) applications was a... | {
"abstract": "As an appealing concept for developing next-generation solar cells, intermediate-band solar cells (IBSCs) promise to drastically increase the quantum efficiency of photovoltaic conversion. Yet to date, a standing challenge lies in the lack of materials suitable for developing IBSCs. Recently, a new dop... |
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"abstract": "Doktorsritgerðin var varin við Department of Finnish, Finno-Ugrian and Scandinavian Studies, University of Helsinki. \nRitgerðin er gefin ut sem nr. 42 in ritroðinni Nordica Helsingiensia.",
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"abstract": "Dans cet article l'A. presente un modele concernant les mots et les syntagmes qui possede la propriete de passer du stade d'unites lexicales a celui de marqueurs pragmatiques. Etudiant ce processus de pragmaticalisation, l'A. se penche plus particulierement sur le cas des marqueurs ba' (suedois) et you... |
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"abstract": "Accurate and robust detection of objects from monocular images is a fundamental vision task. This paper describes a novel approach of holistic scene understanding that can simultaneously achieve multiple tasks of scene reconstruction and object detection from a single monocular image. Rather than pursu... | {
"abstract": "In this letter, we present a method of two-dimensional canonical correlation analysis (2D-CCA) where we extend the standard CCA in such a way that relations between two different sets of image data are directly sought without reshaping images into vectors. We stress that 2D-CCA dramatically reduces the... | {
"abstract": "To keep password users from creating simple and common passwords, major websites and applications provide a password-strength measure, namely a password checker. While critical requirements for a password checker to be stringent have prevailed in the study of password security, we show that regardless ... |
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"abstract": "In the framework of the fusion for energy radiation hard imaging system project, the main radiation effects affecting the image quality of a miniaturized complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor-based camera exposed to radiation doses up to 1 MGy(SiO2) are investigated for ITER applications. The radiati... | {
"abstract": "Total ionizing dose effects are studied on a radiation hardened by design (RHBD) <inline-formula> <tex-math notation=\"LaTeX\">$256\\times 256$ </tex-math></inline-formula>-pixel CMOS image sensor (CIS) demonstrator developed for ITER remote handling by using X- and <inline-formula> <tex-math notation=... | {
"abstract": "The behavior of transistors in commercial-grade complementary metal-oxide semiconductor technologies in the 65 and 130 nm nodes has been explored up to a total ionizing dose of 1 Grad. The large dose tolerance of the thin gate oxide is confirmed, but defects in the spacer and STI oxides have a strong e... |
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"abstract": "Astaxanthin is a xanthophyll carotenoid showing efficient scavenging ability and represents an interesting candidate in the development of new therapies for preventing and treating oxidative stress-related pathologies. However, its high lipophilicity and thermolability often limits its antioxidant effi... | {
"abstract": "Abstract During the past decade, the number of studies describing nanostructured lipid carriers (NLCs)-based formulations has been dramatically increased. The raise in NLC exploitation is essentially due to defeated barriers within the technological process of lipid-based nanoparticles' formulation and... | {
"abstract": "Lack of consumer trust in e-commerce merchants, e-commerce technology, and the social, financial and legal infrastructures of the e-commerce environment, poses a major challenge to the large-scale uptake of business to consumer e-commerce. Most traditional cues for assessing trust in the physical world... |
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"abstract": "Diffuse large B cell lymphoma (DLBCL) is the most common subtype of invasive non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma (NHL). DLBCL presents with variable backgrounds, which results in heterogeneous outcomes among patients. Although new tools have been developed for the classification and management of patients, 40% of t... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Objective: To investigate the expression and prognostic value of miR-224 expression in patients with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) who underwent R-CHOP. Materials and methods: RT-PCR was used to determine the relative expression of miR-224, in 258 DLBCL patients and 40 normal lymphoid ... | {
"abstract": "A large number of studies have focused on identifying molecular biomarkers, including microRNAs (miRNAs) to aid in the diagnosis and prognosis of the most common subtypes of non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL), Diffuse Large B-cell Lymphoma and Follicular Lymphoma. NHL is difficult to diagnose and treat with ma... |
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"abstract": "In this paper, the porous NiO/SnO2 nanofibers were synthesized via the electrospinning method along with the carbonization process. The characterization results show that the pristine SnO2-based nanofibers can form porous structure with different grain size by carbonization. The hydrogen gas-sensing in... | {
"abstract": "The detection of partial discharge and analysis of the composition and content of sulfur hexafluoride SF6 gas components are important to evaluate the operating state and insulation level of gas-insulated switchgear (GIS) equipment. This paper reported a novel sensing material made of pure ZnO and NiO-... | {
"abstract": "This paper presents a self-calibration technique for the removal of measurement errors caused by thermal gradients in thermopile-based infrared thermometry, particularly when measuring low temperatures. Applications for this self-calibration method include low-temperature measurement in the food indust... |
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"abstract": "This paper presents a control of single-phase grid-interactive inverters with nonlinear loads. The utility-connected inverter should operate at both stand-alone and grid-connected modes. However, the waveform qualities of the grid current in grid-connected mode and the output voltage in stand-alone mod... | {
"abstract": "This paper presents a novel seamless transfer of single-phase grid-interactive inverters between grid-connected and stand-alone modes. The grid-connected inverter should operate in grid-tied and off-grid modes in order to provide power to the emergency load during system outages. However, the grid curr... | {
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"abstract": "We consider a class of queueing systems that consist of server pools in parallel and multiple customer classes. Customer service times are assumed to be exponentially distributed. We study the asymptotic behavior of these queueing systems in a heavy traffic regime that is known as the Halfin and Whitt ... | {
"abstract": "We study large-scale service systems with multiple customer classes and many statistically identical servers. The following question is addressed: How many servers are required (staffing) and how does one match them with customers (control) to minimize staffing cost, subject to class-level quality-of-s... | {
"abstract": "Attack transients or simply attacks, are zones of short duration and fast variation of the sound signal short-time spectrum such as at the attack of percussion instruments. There are many motivations for attack detection and modeling; improving general analysis techniques is one of them. A method and a... |
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"abstract": "ABSTRACT Toxoplasma gondii tachyzoites were transformed with the coding sequence of the circumsporozoite (CS) protein of the primate malaria parasite Plasmodium knowlesi. A single inoculation of live transformed tachyzoites elicited an antibody response directed against the immunodominant repeat epitop... | {
"abstract": "A variety of vaccine delivery systems including peptides with various adjuvants, recombinant particles, live recombinant viruses and bacteria and plasmid DNA were tested for their ability to induce CD8+ cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTL) against a well‐defined epitope (amino acids 252–260) from the circumsp... | {
"abstract": "The opiate antagonist naloxone has been used to treat cats subjected to cervical spinal trauma. In contrast to saline-treated controls, naloxone treatment significantly improved the hypotension observed after cervical spinal injury. More critically, naloxone therapy significantly improved neurologic re... |
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"abstract": "A digital watermark is a kind of marker covertly embedded in a noise-tolerant signal such as audio or image data. It is typically used to identify ownership of the copyright of such signal. In this paper, I present review on Image Watermarking .Here, I discuss the various factors used in watermarking t... | {
"abstract": "paper proposed a colour image watermarking scheme based on the encrypted watermark with QR code and DWT. In this research, we are working on the security enhancement of image watermarking technique with the latest QR codes. The proposed methodology making image watermarking system more secure and robus... | {
"abstract": "Digital communication plays a vital role in the world of Internet as well as in the communication technology. The secrecy of the communication is an essential part of passing the data or information. One noticeable technique is Digital Watermarking. Copyright owners seek methods to control and detect s... |
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"abstract": "The organizations must develop both in terms of quality as well as productivity, reducing costs and becoming competitive to enable their survival in the market. One of the processes used by enterprises to gain competitiveness is by outsourcing their activities. The lack of adequate processes may cause ... | {
"abstract": "At present, software outsourcing in China is growing rapidly. In the research and analysis on the status quo of China's software outsourcing industry, there are characteristics and main problems: most users being local small-scale enterprise users, a relatively dispersed software outsourcing market, de... | {
"abstract": "Computer security is emerging as the business risk of the 1990s for many organizations operating in the commercial sector. Unlike military, government, defense and financial organizations, the mid- to low-risk commercial sector does not have well-developed security procedures. However, owing to the ver... |
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"abstract": "For small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) it is important to quickly adapt to the ever-changing business environment while also keeping costs low. By adopting a microservice architecture based on containers, SME’s can cut costs on the infrastructure cost and also increase the performance of the serv... | {
"abstract": "An approach to optimize the deployment of microservices-based applications using containers in multi-cloud architectures is presented. The optimization objectives are three: cloud service cost, network latency among microservices, and time to start a new microservice when a provider becomes unavailable... | {
"abstract": "Clouds have become an attractive computing platform which offers on-demand computing power and storage capacity. Its dynamic scalability enables users to quickly scale up and scale down underlying infrastructure in response to business volume, performance desire and other dynamic behaviors. However, ch... |
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"abstract": "A digital class-D audio amplifier is presented that is based on digital pulse-width modulation (PWM) and a combination of digital and analog feedback. Unlike other recent implementations for low-power applications this amplifier directly accepts digital input as the digital-to-analog conversion is an i... | {
"abstract": "This paper presents a continuous-time third-order ΣΔ modulator designed for closing the feedback loop of a digital class-D audio amplifier. The closed-loop digital class-D amplifier fully exploits the potential of the used 40-nm CMOS technology to achieve at the same time the flexibility of digital imp... | {
"abstract": "With advances in new semiconductor IC manufacturing techniques and more complex process flows, the processing environment that a wafer is exposed to has become a critical issue. New CMOS process flows with shallow junction regions and thin gate oxides are susceptible to damage by free electrons and cha... |
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"abstract": "The purpose of this study was to assess if behavior and emotional function, as measured by the Pearson Behavioral Assessment Survey for Children, Second Edition (BASC-2) in patients and parents, changes with differing treatment protocols in patients with adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS). One previ... | {
"abstract": "BackgroundYoung adolescents with scoliosis are more likely than adults to experience psychological distress affecting health-related quality of life (HRQoL). Adolescence is a sensitive period of psychological development, and thus physical deformity from scoliosis can negatively affect body image and a... | {
"abstract": "Background: Health-related quality of life in adults with idiopathic scoliosis diagnosed before maturity has been reported to be similar between brace-treated and surgically treated individuals. The aim of this study was to compare health-related quality of life in untreated, brace-treated, and surgica... |
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"abstract": "Potato virus Y, an important viral pathogen of potato, has several genetic variants and geographic distributions which could be affected by environmental factors, aphid vectors, and reservoir plants. PVY is transmitted to virus-free potato plants by aphids and passed on to the next vegetative generatio... | {
"abstract": "Summary: Limitations of genome sequencing techniques have led to dozens of assembly algorithms, none of which is perfect. A number of methods for comparing assemblers have been developed, but none is yet a recognized benchmark. Further, most existing methods for comparing assemblies are only applicable... | {
"abstract": "Earlier research on the biogeochemical factors affecting natural attenuation in coal-tar contaminated groundwater, at South Glens Falls, NY, revealed the importance of anaerobic metabolism and trophic interactions between degrader and bacterivore populations. Field-based characterizations of both pheno... |
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"abstract": "RLCS acknowledges financial support from a Royal Society \nDorothy Hodgkin Fellowship. KW acknowledges support \nfrom STFC. KLP acknowledges support from UKSA. This work is \nbased on observations obtained with XMM–Newton, an ESA science \nmission with instruments and contributions directly funded by \... | {
"abstract": "We present ASCA data on RE J2248-511, extending existing optical and soft X-ray coverage to 10 keV, and monitoring the soft component. These data show that, despite a very strong ultrasoft X-ray excess below 0.3 keV and a soft 0.3-2 keV spectral index in earlier ROSAT data, the hard X-ray spectrum (alp... | {
"abstract": "This paper examines the role of foreign versus domestic ownership in improving the financial health of acquired firms. In particular, it explores the impact of foreign and domestic acquisitions on financial risk reduction of acquired firms in Italy and Spain over the period 2002-2010. To estimate causa... |
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"abstract": "This study analyzed German and Nso mothers' auditory, proximal, and visual contingent responses to their infants' nondistress vocalizations in postnatal Weeks 4, 6, 8, 10, and 12. Visual contingency scores increased whereas proximal contingency scores decreased over time for the independent (German urb... | {
"abstract": "In this study we analyzed similarities and differences in the contingency experiences of 159 three-month-olds from 6 sociocultural contexts. Across contexts, caretakers responded with similar overall contingency levels, vocalizations provided the dominant response as well as the most salient signal, an... | {
"abstract": "Two studies examined the extent to which the type of triadic interaction pervasive in Western populations (i.e., shared visual attention and ostensive pedagogical cues) was representative of infant-caregiver object exploration in a non-Western indigenous community. Caregivers in the United States and V... |
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"abstract": "Background : Due to the paucity of literature in leadership styles and job satisfaction within the Philippine context, this descriptive correlational study among Filipino nurses (FNs) was piloted in a selected tertiary hospital in Manila. Purpose : This study utilized a descriptive correlational resear... | {
"abstract": "BACKGROUND ::: Nursing turnover is a major issue for health care managers, notably during the global nursing workforce shortage. Despite the often hierarchical structure of the data used in nursing studies, few studies have investigated the impact of the work environment on intention to leave using mul... | {
"abstract": "BackgroundDue to the decrease in informal care by family members and the demographic development, the importance of professional geriatric care will rise considerably. Aim of this study was to investigate the psychosocial workplace situation for employees in this profession.MethodsThe German version of... |
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"abstract": "The existing ASR for Chhattisgarhi using conventional machine learning technique was implemented for speaker dependent speech recognition. However, the conventional machine learning based speech recognition is incapable to handle the spectral variations as well as the spectral correlation of acoustic s... | {
"abstract": "The method of self-organizing maps (SOM) is a method of exploratory data analysis used for clustering and projecting multi-dimensional data into a lower-dimensional space to reveal hidden structure of the data. The Self-Organizing Feature Maps (SOFMs) [11] is a class of neural networks capable of recog... | {
"abstract": "We address the normal reconstruction problem by photometric stereo using a uniform and dense set of photometric images captured at fixed viewpoint. Our method is robust to spurious noises caused by highlight and shadows and non-Lambertian reflections. To simultaneously recover normal orientations and p... |
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"abstract": "Two new epimeric bibenzylated monoterpenes machaerifurogerol (1a) and 5-epi-machaerifurogerol (1b), and four known isoflavonoids (+)-vestitol (2), 7-O-methylvestitol (3), (+)-medicarpin (4), and 3,8-dihydroxy-9-methoxypterocarpan (5) were isolated from Machaerium Pers. This plant was previously assigne... | {
"abstract": "EPIDEMIOLOGY\nBetween 2 to 4 million patients each year develop health care-acquired infections in the United States. Infection resulting from vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus (VRE) is now the second to third most common cause of nosocomial infections in the United States. VRE is most often transmitte... | {
"abstract": "At Mayo Medical Center (Rochester, MN), surveillance rectal (and other‐site) cultures have been routinely collected from liver transplant recipients as part of a selective bowel decontamination program. Beginning in 1995, vancomycin‐resistant enterococcus (VRE) colonization and infection were identifie... |
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"abstract": "Were molecular data available for extinct taxa, questions regarding the origins of many groups could be settled in short order. As this is not the case, various strategies have been proposed to combine paleontological and neontological data sets. The use of fossil dates as node age calibrations for div... | {
"abstract": "BackgroundEstimates of divergence dates between species improve our understanding of processes ranging from nucleotide substitution to speciation. Such estimates are frequently based on molecular genetic differences between species; therefore, they rely on accurate estimates of the number of such diffe... | {
"abstract": "The Himalaya presents an outstanding geologically active orogen and biodiversity hotspot. However, our understanding of the historical biogeography of its fauna is far from comprehensive. Many taxa are commonly assumed to have originated from China-Indochina and dispersed westward along the Himalayan c... |
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"abstract": "mTOR inhibitors are emerging as important anti-neoplastic agents with a wide range of clinical applications. The topoisomerase I inhibitor irinotecan is a potent DNA damaging drug, with a broad spectrum of anticancer activities. mTOR appears to enhance cancer cell survival following DNA damage, thus th... | {
"abstract": "SummaryCombination of platinum with topoisomerase-I inhibitors are synergistic. The objectives of this study were to determine MTD range and toxicity profile of combinations of oral 9-nitrocamptothecin (9NC) and intravenous cisplatin in patients with refractory solid tumors. Each course was 28 days sta... | {
"abstract": "PURPOSE\nThe American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Health Services Research Committee sought to assess whether more appropriate patterns of colony-stimulating factor (CSF) use occurred after the publication of ASCO evidence-based practice guidelines in 1994 and 1996 for patients with solid tumor... |
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"abstract": "In-memory computing is a promising computing paradigm due to its capability to alleviate the memory bottleneck. It has even higher potential when implemented usingmemristive devices ormemristors with various beneficial characteristics such as nonvolatility, high scalability, near-zero standby power con... | {
"abstract": "A number of recent efforts have attempted to design accelerators for popular machine learning algorithms, such as those involving convolutional and deep neural networks (CNNs and DNNs). These algorithms typically involve a large number of multiply-accumulate (dot-product) operations. A recent project, ... | {
"abstract": "Deep convolutional neural networks (CNN) have shown great accuracy on object recognition and classification tasks. Deep CNNs are computation intensive algorithms, hence many customized RRAM crossbar-based accelerators are proposed to meet the computing demands in deep CNNs, but the area costs and the p... |
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"abstract": "This project is attempting to solve the issue of unfair and inconsistent food price being charged in economy rice or mixed rice that widely seen in the café of hawker stall in Malaysia. The main cause of the problem is the absence of standardized price list of the food which causes the pricing of the m... | {
"abstract": "In this paper, we propose a food image recognition system with convolutional neural networks(CNN), which has been applied to image recognition successfully in the literature. A CNN which consists of five layers has been built and two group of controlled trials have been processed on it. Two datasets ar... | {
"abstract": "It is well-known that people love food. However, an insane diet can cause problems in the general health of the people. Since health is strictly linked to the diet, advanced computer vision tools to recognize food images (e.g. acquired with mobile/wearable cameras), as well as their properties (e.g., c... |
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"abstract": "Abstract As the dynamic characteristics of the traveling-wave ultrasonic motor are highly non-linear and time varying, an analysis model is difficult to obtain. It is difficult to design a suitable controller to achieve high-precision position control using conventional control techniques. A new identi... | {
"abstract": "This paper presents a Fuzzy Neural Network (FNN) control system for a traveling-wave ultrasonic motor (TWUSM) driven by a dual mode modulation non-resonant driving circuit. First, the motor configuration and the proposed driving circuit of a TWUSM are introduced. To drive a TWUSM effectively, a novel d... | {
"abstract": "A genetic algorithm (GA) has several genetic operators that can be modified to improve the performance of particular implementations. These operators include parent selection, crossover and mutation. Selection is one of the important operations in the GA process. There are several ways for selection. T... |
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"abstract": "Epidermis-specific promoters are necessary for ectopic expression of specific functional genes such as the cuticlerelated genes. Previous studies indicated that both ECERIFERUM 6 (AtCER6) and MERISTEM L1 LAYER (ATML1) promoters from Arabidopsis thaliana can drive gene expression specifically in the epi... | {
"abstract": "A cDNA clone (designated CaIRL) encoding an isoflavone reductase-like protein from coffee (Coffea arabica) was retrieved during a search for genes showing organ/tissue-specific expression among the expressed sequence tags (EST) of the Brazilian coffee EST database. The CaIRL cDNA contains a single open... | {
"abstract": "A dynamic comparator-based OTA is introduced as a replacement for a conventional OTA. It performs charge transfer in a switched-capacitor circuit by repeatedly evaluating the polarity of the differential input using a dynamic clocked comparator and injecting current pulses at the output to move the inp... |
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"abstract": "Malignant catarrhal fever (MCF) is a lethal disease of ruminants and swine, characterized by vasculitis, necrosis, and accumulation of activated, dysregulated cytotoxic lymphocytes in various tissues. It is transmitted from so-called “reservoir” animal species to “indicator” animal species. Ovine gamma... | {
"abstract": "The herpesvirus of bovine malignant catarrhal fever (MCFV, alcelaphine herpes-virus I) causes an acute, fatal lymphoproliferative disorder in rabbits. In dying rabbits, virus antigen and infectivity were associated with medium sized lymphocytes and not with theproliferative lymphoblastoid cells. Virus ... | {
"abstract": "A novel, simple method of infectious center assay was developed to detect and quantitate the intracellular existence of equine herpesvirus 1 and equine herpesvirus 2 in peripheral blood mononuclear cells infected in vivo and in vitro with the viruses by cocultivation of these cells with a permissive eq... |
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"abstract": "The purpose of this study was to investigate the practice of performance measurement systems (PMS) in Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SME) operating in the service sector in Brunei Darussalam. A further aim was to find the drivers and barriers of PMS adoption for such companies. Quantitative and qu... | {
"abstract": "Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to highlight the factors that enable and/or constrain the design and implementation of team‐based performance measurement systems.Design/methodology/approach – This research study departed from an industrially‐led project. The research strategies used (i.e. case s... | {
"abstract": "Consensus prevails that performance measurement systems should reflect the strategic direction and business environment of a company. However, strategies and business environments are dynamic in nature while existing performance measurement systems are stable and predictable. This has created problems ... |
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"abstract": "ABSTRACT This study is searching for some crucial physicochemical properties of groundwater samples collected from eleven outlets in Dakhla Oasis, Egypt, including the pH-value, electrical conductivity (EC), total dissolved solids (TDS), in addition to the concentrations of heavy metals and trace eleme... | {
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"title": "Protocol for the estimation of drinking water quality index (DWQI) in water resources: Artificial neural network (ANFIS) and Arc-Gis"
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"abstract": "The data of this study was to determine the groundwater quality trend changes in Abhar city (Iran) during one decade (2002–2016). In the first and end year of the study period, the Mean±SD of total hardness (as calcium carbonate, mg/l), electrical conductivity (as micromhos/cm) and total dissolved soli... |
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"abstract": "Simple Summary Heavy metals such as lead and cadmium are pollutants and can be found in different biotopes. Hares, due to their natural habitat, numbers, range and choice of food are good bioindicators of the occurrence of heavy metals. Vojvodina, northern province of Republic of Serbia, has intensive ... | {
"abstract": "The Great Bačka Canal in Serbia is one of the most polluted waterways in Europe. Surface sediments from the canal were subject to systematic annual monitoring between 2007 and 2014 at 33 representative sampling sites. Eight heavy metals (Ni, Zn, Cd, Cr, Cu, Pb, As and Hg), mineral oils, 16 EPA PAHs and... | {
"abstract": "Chloroform-methanol (2:1 v/v), absolute methanol, and 90% acetone were evaluated for their effectiveness as extractants of chlorophyll a from samples of phytoplankton communities collected from catfish ponds. Chloroform-methanol consistently extracted more chlorophyll a than either 90% acetone or metha... |
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"abstract": "Farmers’ satisfaction with their farm job can have far-reaching implications, as farmer and livestock wellbeing is likely to be intertwined. The aim of this study was to explore how job satisfaction of Norwegian sheep farmers is associated with other work-related traits, such as work motivation, percei... | {
"abstract": "This study examined attraction and motivation factors important for people choosing to work and remain in the profession of dairy farm worker. The study comprised 194 agricultural students, 197 employed dairy farm workers and 147 employers. The study was based on questionnaires in which the key questio... | {
"abstract": "The Chinese rose beetle (Adoretus sinicus Burmeister (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae)) is an introduced, widely-established pest in Hawai’i. The adult beetles feed on the leaves of cacao (Theobroma cacao L.), which can lead to defoliation and even death of young trees. We evaluated the impact of five commerc... |
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"abstract": "Real-Time Stereo Vision for Resource Limited Systems Beau Jeffrey Tippetts Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Doctor of Philosophy A significant amount of research in the field of stereo vision has been published in the past decade. Considerable progress has been made in improving accura... | {
"abstract": "This paper presents an efficient implementation for correlation based stereo. Research in this area can roughly be divided in two classes: improving accuracy regardless of computing time and scene reconstruction in real-time. Algorithms achieving video frame rates must have strong limitations in image ... | {
"abstract": "Proportional Resonant (PR) controller with harmonic compensators has extremely higher gain at the desired frequencies to reduce the harmonic distortions in the alternative voltage or current waves. However, the harmonic compensators of the PR controller are limited to several low-order current harmonic... |
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"abstract": "In this paper, we study the downlink resource allocation (RA) problem in orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM)-based cognitive radio (CR) networks. Our goal is to maximize the aggregated capacity of secondary users (SUs). In addition, the power of SUs is controlled to keep the interference ... | {
"abstract": "In this paper we study the resource allocation in multiuser orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM)-based cognitive radio (CR) networks, where secondary users (SUs) have flexible traffic demands, including heterogeneous real-time (RT) and non-real-time (NRT) services. We try to maximize the s... | {
"abstract": "Caching frequently accessed data items on the client side is an effective technique for improving performance in a mobile environment. Classical cache invalidation strategies are not suitable for mobile environments due to frequent disconnections and mobility of the clients. One attractive cache invali... |
{
"abstract": "Oscillations between high and low values of the membrane potential (UP and DOWN states respectively) are an ubiquitous feature of cortical neurons during slow wave sleep and anesthesia. Nevertheless, a surprisingly small number of quantitative studies have been conducted only that deal with this phenom... | {
"abstract": "Temporal spike codes play a crucial role in neural information processing. In particular, there is strong experimental evidence that interspike intervals (ISIs) are used for stimulus representation in neural systems. However, very few algorithmic principles exploit the benefits of such temporal codes f... | {
"abstract": "We propose a noise estimation algorithm for single-channel noise suppression in dynamic noisy environments. A stochastic-gain hidden Markov model (SG-HMM) is used to model the statistics of nonstationary noise with time-varying energy. The noise model is adaptive and the model parameters are estimated ... |
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"abstract": "In this study we explore the use of deep feedforward neural networks for voice separation in symbolic music representations. We experiment with different network architectures, varying the number and size of the hidden layers, and with dropout. We integrate two voice entry estimation heuristics that es... | {
"abstract": "Voice separation is a critical component of music information retrieval, music analysis and automated transcription systems. We present a contig mapping approach to voice separation based on perceptual principles. The algorithm runs in O(n2) time, uses only pitch height and event boundaries, and requir... | {
"abstract": "Abstract A transient sessile droplet evaporation numerical model based on Arbitrary-Lagrangian–Eulerian (ALE) formulation is developed, taking into account of the coupled transport processes in solid, liquid and gas phases as well as the evolution of free surface. The ALE formulation can trace the shar... |
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"abstract": "Information about health is worthwhile only if it is accurate and fairly communicated. Recently, a number of advertisements on the Internet have contained statements about dietary supplements that could lead one to believe, erroneously, that information published in the Journal supported the claims mad... | {
"abstract": "Alveolar bone development has been shown by other investigators to be sensitive to growth hormone concentration in both humans and rodents. Many elderly people are deficient in growth hormone. The cyclic variation in plasma growth hormone concentration that complicates growth hormone measurement is not... |
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"abstract": "A method was developed to measure the osmotic water permeability (Pf) of plasma membranes in cell layers and applied to cells and epithelia expressing molecular water channels. It was found that the integrated intensity of monochromatic light in a phase contrast or dark field microscope was dependent o... | {
"abstract": "Osmotic water permeability (Pf) in toad bladder is regulated by the vasopressin (VP)-dependent movement of vesicles containing water channels between the cytoplasm and apical membrane of granular cells. Apical endosomes formed in the presence of serosal VP have the highest Pf of any biological or artif... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Flower signaling and orientation are key characteristics that determine a flower's pollinator guild. However, many flowers actively move during their daily cycle, changing both their detectability and accessibility to pollinators. The flowers of the wild tobacco Nicotiana attenuata orientate t... |
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