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"abstract": "Microsatellite instability (MSI) is a phenotypic manifestation of mismatch repair (MMR) deficiency and has been used as a biomarker through NGS-based assays to aid clinical cancer diagnosis and prognosis, as being advantageous over traditional electrophoresis-based tests and immunohistochemistry. Criti... | {
"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nMicrosatellite instability (MSI) is a useful phenotype in cancer diagnosis and prognosis. Nevertheless, methods to detect MSI status from next generation DNA sequencing (NGS) data are underdeveloped.\n\n\nMETHODS\nWe developed an approach to detect the MSI phenotype using NGS (mSINGS). The ... | {
"abstract": "Germline mutations in the mismatch repair genes mutL homolog 1 (MLH1) and mutS homolog 2 (MSH2), MSH6, and postmeiotic segregation increased 2 (PMS2) lead to the development of hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer (HNPCC). Diagnosis of HNPCC relies on the compilation of a thorough family history o... |
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"abstract": "In silico simulations aim to provide fast, inexpensive, and ethical alternatives to years of costly experimentation on animals and humans for studying bone remodeling, its deregulation during osteoporosis and the effect of therapeutics. Within the varied spectrum of in silico modeling techniques, bone ... | {
"abstract": "PURPOSE\nThe osteoprotogerin/receptor activator of NF-kappa β/receptor activator of NF-kappa β ligand (OPG/RANK/RANKL) pathway plays a critical role in bone remodeling. This study investigated associations between serum levels of OPG, soluble RANKL (sRANKL), and the ratio of OPG/sRANKL to risk of incid... | {
"abstract": "\n Differential precipitation of plasma proteins after equilibration of the plasma with tracer amounts of testosterone (T) was used to measure free and not-T-estradiol binding globulin (TeBG)-bound T in 20 women and 10 men. Tritiated T was the tracer used. Comparison of this method with the equilibrati... |
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"abstract": "Abstract Spermatozoa of different species are characterised by specific traits of movement and sensitivity spectrum to individual environmental factors. The present study aimed to evaluate spermatozoa motility traits and the effect of some water factors such as osmolality, sodium, potassium concentrati... | {
"abstract": "The objectives of the present study were to determine the relationships among length and weight of males, sperm volume, spermatozoa concentration, total number of spermatozoa, ionic contents and osmolality of seminal plasma in Barbus barbus. The effect of osmolality on sperm motility parameters after a... | {
"abstract": "This review presents actual knowledge about energetic, ionic, osmotic and gaseous control of fish sperm motility and its duration. Right after they are activated, fish spermatozoa of most species swim for a short period of time, in the range of one to several minutes. What determines the activation pro... |
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"abstract": "Retweet prediction is a challenging problem in social media sites (SMS). In this paper, we study the problem of image retweet prediction in social media, which predicts the image sharing behavior that the user reposts the image tweets from their followees. Unlike previous studies, we learn user prefere... | {
"abstract": "While efforts have been made on bridging the semantic gap in image understanding, the in situ understanding of social media images is arguably more important but has had less progress. In this work, we enrich the representation of images in image tweets by considering their social context. We argue tha... | {
"abstract": "We introduce the novel problem of identifying the photographer behind a photograph. To explore the feasibility of current computer vision techniques to address this problem, we created a new dataset of over 180,000 images taken by 41 well-known photographers. Using this dataset, we examined the effecti... |
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"abstract": "Experimental tests of the Standard Model are reaching a precision in which they are probing beyond Standard Model parameter spaces. Increasingly precise experimental tests of the Standard Model (SM) require a concurrent theoretical push to provide ever more precise predictions to interpret experimental... | {
"abstract": "Abstract We analyse the Structure Function collaboration data on the quark pseudoscalar vertex and extract the Goldstone boson pole contribution, in 1/p2. The strength of the pole is found to be quite large at presently accessible scales. We draw the important consequences of this finding for the vario... | {
"abstract": "Abstract We have applied wave packet formalism to investigate the dynamics of electron transport in semiconductor nanodevices shaped in branched nanowires. The nanowires are formed by quantum channels with a width of 10 nm, in which a two-dimensional electron gas is scattered. The theoretical model is ... |
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"abstract": "CD271 has been applied to isolate mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) from bone marrow and other tissues. Umbilical cord blood is a unique resource of stem cells and endothelial progenitor cells. Isolation of MSCs from umbilical cord blood, however, has been inefficient and inconsistent. This study was desig... | {
"abstract": "Cartilage engineering is a strategic experimental goal for the treatment of multiple joint diseases. Based on the process of embryonic chondrogenesis, we hypothesized that cartilage could be engineered by condensing chondrocytes in pellet culture and, in the present study, examined the quality of regen... | {
"abstract": "Chondrocytes in specific areas of chick sterna have different developmental fates. Cephalic chondrocytes become hypertrophic and secrete type X collagen into the extracellular matrix, whereas middle and caudal chondrocytes remain cartilagenous throughout development, continuing to secrete collagen type... |
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"abstract": "This dissertation explores applicant reactions to Internet-based selection procedures in order to advance theory and practice related to the use modern employee selection tools. Previous authors have explored this topic area (e.g., Harris et al., 2003). However, this dissertation goes beyond previous r... | {
"abstract": "This study examined several unexplored issues in research on applicants' perceptions of fairness. First, the study explored possible differences between procedural violations that advantage individuals vs. those that are disadvantageous. Second, the study examined the complex relationship between proce... | {
"abstract": "Youth are agents of upcoming changes who through their knowledge,intense observation and perpetual action can face challenges that would help build a sustainable India. The revolutions that stimulate true youth leadership are nourished by being absorbed in the values and practices of a more sustainable... |
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"abstract": "We have previously demonstrated that alterations of cell redox state, evoked by glutamate, are associated with tissue transglutaminase increases in primary astrocyte cultures. Furthermore, glutamate exposure activated the nuclear factor (NF)‐κB pathway, and its effects were significantly reduced by ant... | {
"abstract": "Glutamate exposure of astroglial cells caused ligand-gated channel receptor activation, associated with excitotoxic cell response. We investigated the effects of 24 h glutamate exposure on transglutaminase in astrocytes primary cultures at 7, 14, and 21 days in vitro (DIV). Increases in enzyme activity... | {
"abstract": "We tested the hypothesis that the neurotransmitter glutamate would influence glial proliferation and differentiation in a cytoarchitecturally intact system. Postnatal day 6 cerebellar slices were maintained in organotypic culture and treated with glutamate receptor agonists or antagonists. After dissoc... |
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"abstract": "The proliferation of IoT devices has led to the development of smart appliances, gadgets, and instruments to realize a significant vision of a smart home. Conspicuously, this paper presents an intelligent framework of a foot-mat-based intruder-monitoring and detection system for a home-based security s... | {
"abstract": "Many occupant-oriented smarthome applications such as automated lighting, heating and cooling, and activity recognition need room location information of residents within a building. Surveillance based tracking systems used to track people in commercial buildings, are privacy invasive in homes. In this... | {
"abstract": "Dermoscopy has frequently been used for hair and scalp disorders. Dermoscopic examinations of psoriasis and seborrheic dermatitis lesions yielded different morphologies. This study aimed to investigate the usefulness of dermoscopy in the clinical differentiation of psoriasis and seborrheic dermatitis o... |
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"abstract": "The MSR algorithms, for the most part, have defined weights in spite of image properties. So it generates the genuine artifact, less clear image. Most of the dehazing strategy use retinex algorithm. We proposed an algorithm that adopts the nonillumination and protects edges to estimate the clarity of t... | {
"abstract": "In image capture a scene with nonuniform illumination has an influence on the image quality, especially the contrast and detail in dark regions. Generally, the tone curve or histogram of an image is modified to improve the contrast and detail, yet this is in- sufficient as the intensity and chromaticit... | {
"abstract": "As the dynamic range of a digital camera is narrower than that of a real scene, the captured image requires a tone curve or contrast correction to reproduce the information in dark regions. Yet, when using a global correction method, such as histogrambased methods and gamma correction, an unintended co... |
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"abstract": "The aim of this project is to develop an electric vehicle research test platform that integrates a high-power density supercapacitor with a lithium-ion battery modelled to a battery electric vehicle (BEV) motor and power control management system. The purpose is to develop an energy management control ... | {
"abstract": "The pollution of environment is increasing due a very large numbers of conventional vehicles present today. To reduce pollution the electric and hybrid electric vehicle are very beneficial. As the decade of low cost fuel is coming to an end the electric vehicle or hybrid electric vehicle is a good alte... | {
"abstract": "This paper provides evaluation of driving power and energy requirements for automotive vehicle. A survey of most promising applications of electric and hybrid vehicles in cities with commercial line solutions is given. The simulation of small hybrid car is processed with the aid of Advisor programme, i... |
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"abstract": "Objective To establish reference intervals for the fetal cisterna magna volume by means of two-dimensional (2D) method using the multiplanar mode of three-dimensional ultrasonography. Materials and Methods Cross-sectional study with 224 healthy pregnant women between the 17th and 29th gestational weeks... | {
"abstract": "Reference ranges which take time (such as age) into account are often required in medicine, but simple, systematic and efficient statistical methods for constructing them are lacking. A method is described which is based on low order polynomial curves (linear, quadratic or occasionally cubic), together... | {
"abstract": "Covariate-dependent reference limits have been extensively applied in biology and medicine for determining the substantial magnitude and relative importance of quantitative measurements. Confidence interval and sample size procedures are available for studying regression-based reference limits. However... |
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"abstract": "Named entity recognition (NER) is an essential Natural Language Processing (NLP) task to find key entities from sentences. In this paper, NewsCorpus Marathi monolingual data set is created, which contains 900 sentences and 7000 tokens. Dataset is scraped from different Marathi news sources available on... | {
"abstract": "Part-of-speech (POS) tagging is a process of assigning the words in a text corresponding to a particular part of speech. A fundamental version of POS tagging is the identification of words as nouns, verbs, adjectives etc. For processing natural languages, Part of Speech tagging is a prominent tool. It ... | {
"abstract": "This paper presents Sequence Matching Across Route Traversals (SMART); a generally applicable sequence- based place recognition algorithm. SMART provides invariance to changes in illumination and vehicle speed while also providing moderate pose invariance and robustness to environmental aliasing. We ev... |
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"abstract": "Abstract Objectives: Ketogenic diets have reported efficacy for neurological dysfunctions; however, there are limited published human clinical trials elucidating the mechanisms by which nutritional ketosis produces therapeutic effects. The purpose of this present study was to investigate animal models ... | {
"abstract": "The high-fat ketogenic diet (KD) leads to an increase of blood ketone bodies (KB) level and has been used to treat refractory childhood seizures for over 80 years. Recent reports show that KD, KB and their components (d-beta-hydroxybutyrate, acetoacetate and acetone) have neuroprotective for acute and ... | {
"abstract": "The immunophilin ligand FK506 (Tacrolimus) is used for prevention of graft rejection following organ transplantation. FK506 is a high-affinity ligand for FK506-binding proteins, an immunophilin subgroup of peptidyl-prolyl-cis/trans-rotamases abundant in the mammalian brain. Here, we demonstrate that FK... |
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"abstract": "Nano- and micrometer-sized compartments composed of synthetic polymers are designed to mimic spatial and temporal divisions found in nature. Self-assembly of polymers into compartments such as polymersomes, giant unilamellar vesicles (GUVs), layer-by-layer (LbL) capsules, capsosomes, or polyion complex... | {
"abstract": "We highlight recent advances in the synthesis of nanocarriers and nanoreactors from synthetic and biological building blocks with emphasis on the stimulus-responsive regulation of their function.",
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"title": "Smart nanocontainers and nanoreactors."
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"abstract": "A set of eight methionine analogues was assayed for translational activity in Escherichia coli. Norvaline and norleucine, which are commercially available, were assayed along with 2-amino-5-hexenoic acid (2), 2-amino-5-hexynoic acid (3), cis-2-amino-4-hexenoic acid (4), trans-2-amino-4-hexenoic acid (5... |
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"abstract": "Purpose – The purpose of this study was to investigate how Chinese adolescent girls and boys construct their own ideal female images in response to gendered advertisements based on Arnett’s (1995) theory of self-socialization and Hirschman and Thompson’s (1997) three interpretive strategies. A qualitat... | {
"abstract": "An autovideography approach was used to investigate the gender role and identity perceptions of ten adolescent Chinese girls in Vancouver. They were asked to take 20 photos in a week from the media that could illustrate ''what women should or should not be and what women should or should not do''. Indi... | {
"abstract": "This study is a replication of the 1972 study Dick and Jane as Victims done by Women on Words and Images. The original study examined 134 children's readers, and found sex stereotyping in both number of times males and females appeared, and the activities in which they were shown. The replication is a ... |
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"abstract": "Background: A global tacrolimus proficiency study recently showed clinically significant variability between laboratories, the inability of a common calibrator to harmonize methods, and differences in patient classification depending on the test method. The authors evaluated (1) the effect of a change ... | {
"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nOwing to the lack of an internationally recognized tacrolimus reference material and reference method, current LC-MS and immunoassay test methods used to monitor tacrolimus concentrations in whole blood are not standardized. The aim of this study was to assess the need for tacrolimus assay ... | {
"abstract": "The immunosuppressant drugs cyclosporine (cyclosporin A), tacrolimus, sirolimus, and everolimus are used to prevent organ rejection. Because commercial immunoassays are available only for cyclosporine and tacrolimus, HPLC (1)(2)(3), often in conjunction with mass spectrometry (MS or MS/MS) (4)(5)(6)(7)... |
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"abstract": "In this paper we present a framework that enables an operator to haptically and visually interact with a simulated dynamic environment subject to virtual holonomic constraints. The framework combines a geometric constraint solver with a constrained dynamics simulation engine that controls an admittance... | {
"abstract": "The design, control and performance of the Cobotic Hand Controller, a novel, six-degree-of-freedom, admittance controlled haptic display is examined. A highly geared admittance architecture is often used to render high impedances with reasonable sized actuators for a haptic display. The Cobotic Hand Co... | {
"abstract": "This thesis focuses on the issues related to the integration of event-based task space planning and real-time control of robotic systems. First, the theory of event-based planning and control is discussed. The key step is introducing the concept of motion reference variable. The equivalence of the even... |
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"abstract": "Large mammalian herbivores (LMH) exert strong effects on plants in tropical savannas, and many wild LMH populations are declining. However, predicting the impacts of these declines on vegetation structure remains challenging. Experiments suggest that tree cover can increase rapidly following LMH exclus... | {
"abstract": "The removal of rinderpest had cascading effects on herbivore populations, fire, tree density, and even ecosystem carbon in the Serengeti ecosystem of East Africa.",
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"title": "A Disease-Mediated Trophic Cascade in the Serengeti and its Implications for Ecosystem C"
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"abstract": "Abstract Distributions of n -paraffins in recent sediments differ from those in petroleum in that n -paraffins with odd-carbon numbers predominate in recent sediments but not in petroleum. A hypothesis proposed to explain this difference predicts a change from a preference for evencarbon-numbered fatty... |
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"abstract": "Export diversification is one of the important pillars of the trade policy of developing countries. Pakistan has embarked on a geographical export diversification policy by signing preferential and free trade agreements. The gravity model is used to check whether Pakistan’s policy of preferential trade... | {
"abstract": "Export Diversification, International Trade, and Economic Growth: A Survey of the Literature.- Structural Change in Exports and Export Diversification: A Look at Colombia over the Period 1990-2008.- Commercial Relations between Colombia and the European Union: An Empirical Approximation in the Light of... | {
"abstract": "Using data from the Major League Baseball free‐agent market, this study is the first to show that the productivity expected of the team a worker will join produces a significant, negative compensating wage differential. The younger workers in the sample drive this result, trading 25% of their wages to ... |
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"abstract": "Abstract. \n Confectionery sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) has been cultivated in Spain for many years in small vegetable gardens for self-consumption, and this has created a vast genetic diversity of local landraces. The objective of this research was to assess variation in seed quality traits in a g... | {
"abstract": "SUMMARY Sunflower oil, with more than 0·9 of tocopherols in the alpha-tocopherol form, supplies more vitamin E than any other vegetable oil. Thus far, no breeding to increase vitamin E levels in sunflower seeds has been conducted. The objective of the present research was to develop sunflower lines wit... | {
"abstract": "A reduction in intercepted photosynthetically active radiation (PAR) during a short period of seed filling could affect weight per seed and oil concentration in sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) depending when the reduction occurs. The main objectives of this work were (i) to determine the period of tim... |
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"abstract": "Inflammation is a generalized, nonspecific, and beneficial host response of foreign challenge or tissue injury. However, prolonged inflammation is undesirable. It will cause loss function of involve organs, such as heat, pain redness, and swelling. Marine natural products have gained more and more atte... | {
"abstract": "Abstract The anti-neuroinflammatory meroterpenoid citreohybridonol was isolated for the first time from a sponge-derived fungus Penicillium atrovenetum. In this study, in addition to isolation and structure featuring, its unambiguous absolute configuration was determined exclusively by single crystal X... | {
"abstract": "Essential background on the determination of absolute configuration by way of single-crystal X-ray diffraction (XRD) is presented. The use and limitations of an internal chiral reference are described. The physical model underlying the Flack parameter is explained. Absolute structure and absolute confi... |
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"abstract": "Electronic waste (e‐waste) recycling is a critical sector for sustainable urban industrial systems. U.S. residents and businesses generate an estimated 3.2 million tons of electronic waste each year; most is not recycled and is generated in urban areas. However, adoption of state environmental regulati... | {
"abstract": "With the rapid growth of electronic waste (e-waste), policies that aim to effectively manage this waste stream have been introduced globally in recent years. Seattle, Washington, has been on the forefront of introducing policies to divert e-waste from the landfills and maximize recycling. With the intr... | {
"abstract": "Driving simulators are frequently used for vehicle system development, human factor study, and vehicle safety research by enabling the reproduction of the actual driving environments in a safe and tightly controlled environment. Recent development of powerful desktop computer workstations can now suppo... |
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"abstract": "Crossing abstraction boundaries often incurs a substantial run-time overhead in the form of frequent procedure calls. Thus, pervasive use of abstraction, while desirable from a design standpoint, may lead to very inefficient programs. Aggressively optimizing compilers can reduce this overhead but confl... | {
"abstract": "Many interactive computing environments provide automatic storage reclamation and virtual memory to ease the burden of managing storage. Unfortunately, many storage reclamation algorithms impede interaction with distracting pauses. Generation Scavenging is a reclamation algorithm that has no noticeable... | {
"abstract": "The paper describes the Mark II digital-computing machine now operating in the Computing Machine Laboratory of Manchester University. It has a 100 kc/s parallel cathode-ray-tube store and a 1 Mc/s serial control, B-register and accumulator. Thus, internally, the speed of the machine is inherently great... |
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"abstract": "Existing techniques for improving scalability of weight learning in Markov Logic Networks (MLNs) are typically effective when the parameters of the MLN are tied, i.e., several ground formulas in the MLN share the same weight. However, to improve accuracy in realworld problems, we typically need to lear... | {
"abstract": "The goal of information extraction is to extract database records from text or semi-structured sources. Traditionally, information extraction proceeds by first segmenting each candidate record separately, and then merging records that refer to the same entities. While computationally efficient, this ap... | {
"abstract": "A large portion of real-world data is stored in commercial relational database systems. In contrast, most statistical learning methods work only with “flat” data representations. Thus, to apply these methods, we are forced to convert our data into a flat form, thereby losing much of the relational stru... |
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"abstract": "Medical Decision Support Systems (MDSS) industry collects a huge amount of data, which is not properly mined and not put to the optimum use. This data may contain valuable information that awaits extraction. The knowledge may be encapsulated in various patterns and regularities that may be hidden in th... | {
"abstract": "In medical decision making (classification, diagnosing, etc.) there are many situations where decision must be made effectively and reliably. Conceptual simple decision making models with the possibility of automatic learning are the most appropriate for performing such tasks. Decision trees are a reli... | {
"abstract": "A reported weakness of C4.5 in domains with continuous attributes is addressed by modifying the formation and evaluation of tests on continuous attributes. An MDL-inspired penalty is applied to such tests, eliminating some of them from consideration and altering the relative desirability of all tests. ... |
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"abstract": "We revisit the problem of fair principal component analysis (PCA), where the goal is to learn the best low-rank linear approximation of the data that obfuscates demographic information. We propose a conceptually simple approach that allows for an analytic solution similar to standard PCA and can be ker... | {
"abstract": "No methods currently exist for making arbitrary neural networks fair. In this work we introduce GRAD, a new and simplified method to producing fair neural networks that can be used for auto-encoding fair representations or directly with predictive networks. It is easy to implement and add to existing a... | {
"abstract": "A push-push transformer-based voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) is proposed and analyzed to achieve high efficiency and a wide tuning range at sub-terahertz (THz) frequencies. Analyses show that the coupling factor of the transformer to obtain high output power $({\\bf P}_{\\rm OUT})$ has to be caref... |
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"abstract": "Abstract: Synthesis of 5,5’-biindole was carried out by the Madelung indole reaction. Understrong basic conditions and high temperatures (350 oC), $,’ - bis -formyl- o -tolidineunderwent cyclization to produce high amounts of the dimeric indole. Full and unambiguousassignments of all 1 H- and 13 C-NMR ... | {
"abstract": "Full and unambiguous assignment of all 1H- and 13C-NMR resonances of the isomers due to restricted C-N amide bond rotation of N-formyl-o-toluidine and N,N’-bis-formyl-o-tolidine in DMSO-d6 is reported. The cis-isomer predominates in the equilibrium mixture of both compounds as 1D-NOE difference experim... | {
"abstract": "The magnitudes of the two spin-spin coupling constants J(N1H … 13C), and all relatives signs of the couplings J(1H … 1H) and J(1H … 13C) of formamide-14N, were determined by triple resonance experiments of the types 1H—{13C}—{14N} and 1H—{1H}—{14N}.",
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"abstract": "We report a quantitative, analytical, and numerical comparison between two models of the interaction of a nonrelativistic quantum particle with a thin time-dependent absorbing barrier. The first model represents the barrier by a set of time-dependent discontinuous matching conditions, which are closely... | {
"abstract": "A class of exact propagators describing the interaction of an N-level atom with a set of on-resonance δ-lasers is obtained by means of the Laplace transform method. State-selective mirrors are described in the limit of strong lasers. For the two-level case, the transient effects arising as a result of ... | {
"abstract": "An all-optical real-time chromatic dispersion (CD) monitoring technique is proposed and demonstrated for 40 Gbit/s differential phase-shifts keying (DPSK) signal, utilizing the cross modulation effects of semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA). The optical power of the output spectral components, which ... |
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"abstract": "In this article, we study the problem of Web user profiling, which is aimed at finding, extracting, and fusing the “semantic”-based user profile from the Web. Previously, Web user profiling was often undertaken by creating a list of keywords for the user, which is (sometimes even highly) insufficient f... | {
"abstract": "We show that it is possible to extend hidden Markov models to have a countably infinite number of hidden states. By using the theory of Dirichlet processes we can implicitly integrate out the infinitely many transition parameters, leaving only three hyperparameters which can be learned from data. These... | {
"abstract": "Abstract We describe and illustrate Bayesian inference in models for density estimation using mixtures of Dirichlet processes. These models provide natural settings for density estimation and are exemplified by special cases where data are modeled as a sample from mixtures of normal distributions. Effi... |
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"abstract": "In Forensic Automatic Speaker Recognition (FASR), forensic examiners typically compare audio recordings of a speaker whose identity is in question with recordings of known speakers to assist investigators and triers of fact in a legal proceeding. The performance of automated speaker recognition (SR) sy... | {
"abstract": "The goal of this paper is to analyze the impact of codecdegraded speech on a state-of-the-art speaker recognition system and propose mitigation techniques. Several acoustic features are analyzed, including the standard Mel filterbank cepstral coefficients (MFCC), as well as the noise-robust medium dura... | {
"abstract": "Several parametric representations of the acoustic signal were compared with regard to word recognition performance in a syllable-oriented continuous speech recognition system. The vocabulary included many phonetically similar monosyllabic words, therefore the emphasis was on the ability to retain phon... |
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"abstract": "Fluorine-treated titanium nitride–silicon oxide–hafnium oxide–silicon oxide–silicon devices (hereafter F-MOHOS) are candidates for total ionization dose (TID) radiation sensor applications. The main subject of the study reportedherein is the performance improvement in terms of TID radiation-induced cha... | {
"abstract": "Metal-aluminum oxide–hafnium aluminum oxide–silicon oxide–silicon (hereafter MAHAOS) devices can be candidates for ionizing radiation sensor applications. In this work, MAHAOS devices (SONOS-like structures with high k stack gate dielectric) were studied regarding the first known characterization of th... | {
"abstract": "Abstract.In the study of microscopic flows, self-propulsion has been particularly topical in recent years, with the rise of miniature artificial swimmers as a new tool for flow control, low Reynolds number mixing, micromanipulation or even drug delivery. It is possible to take advantage of interfacial ... |
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"abstract": "Human-environment connections are the subject of much study, and the details of those connections are crucial factors in effective environmental management. In a large, interdisciplinary study of the eastern Bering Sea ecosystem involving disciplines from physical oceanography to anthropology, one of t... | {
"abstract": "Recent years have seen a rapid expansion in the ability of earth system models to describe and predict the physical state of the ocean. Skilful forecasts ranging from seasonal (3 months) to decadal (5-10 years) time scales are now a reality. With the advance of these forecasts of ocean physics, the fir... |
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"abstract": "ABSTRACT Pastoralism and camelid management have been essential to all aspects of pre-Hispanic Andean societies. Here, we present zooarchaeological and isotopic data on domestic camelid remains from Huaca Cao Viejo (El Brujo archaeological complex) on the northern coast of Peru, and dated to the Lambay... | {
"abstract": "The development of isotopic baselines for comparison with paleodietary data is crucial, but often overlooked. We review the factors affecting the carbon (δ13C) and nitrogen (δ15N) isotopic compositions of plants, with a special focus on the carbon and nitrogen isotopic compositions of twelve different ... | {
"abstract": "The isotopic compositions of plants can provide significant insights into paleodiets, ancient agricultural activities, and past environments. Isotopic compositions of charred (aka carbonized) ancient plant remains are typically preferred over those of uncharred/uncarbonized plants, both because charred... |
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"abstract": "Population stratification (PS) is a primary consideration in studies of the genetic determinants of human traits. Failure to control for it may lead to confounding, causing a study to fail for lack of significant results or resources to be wasted following false‐positive signals. Here we review histori... | {
"abstract": "Chemotherapeutic agents are used in the treatment of many cancers, yet variable resistance and toxicities among individuals limit successful outcomes. Several studies have indicated outcome differences associated with ancestry among patients with various cancer types. Using both traditional SNP-based a... | {
"abstract": "An important component in the analysis of genome‐wide association studies involves the imputation of genotypes that have not been measured directly in the studied samples. The imputation procedure uses the linkage disequilibrium (LD) structure in the population to infer the genotype of an unobserved si... |
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"abstract": "Fast and efficient failure recovery is a new challenge for cloud storage systems with a large number of storage nodes. A pivotal recovery metric upon the failure of a storage node is repair bandwidth cost which refers to the amount of data that must be downloaded for regenerating the lost data. Since a... | {
"abstract": "The total porosity of a subterranean formation is calculated by summing the effective Porosity and the clay bound water (CBW) porosity. With the invention described in this patent, the distortion effects of clay bound water (CBW) porosity on the measurement of total porosity is filtered out. The effect... | {
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"title": "A Counterfeit Solution for Pharma Supply Chain"
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"abstract": "Following the success of deep learning in a wide range of applications, neural networkbased machine-learning techniques have received significant interest for accelerating magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) acquisition and reconstruction strategies. A number of ideas inspired by deep learning techniques ... | {
"abstract": "Learning from unlabeled and noisy data is one of the grand challenges of machine learning. As such, it has seen a flurry of research with new ideas proposed continuously. In this work, we revisit a classical idea: Stein's Unbiased Risk Estimator (SURE). We show that, in the context of image recovery, S... | {
"abstract": "Fitness trackers - wearables that continuously record a wearer's step count and related activity data - are quickly gaining in popularity. Apart from being useful for individuals seeking a more healthy lifestyle, their data is also being used in court and by insurance companies to adjust premiums. For ... |
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"abstract": "Studies have shown that the effect an exposure may have on a disease can vary for different subtypes of the same disease. However, existing approaches to estimate and compare these effects largely overlook causality. In this paper, we study the effect smoking may have on having colorectal cancer subtyp... | {
"abstract": "When a risk factor affects certain categories of a multinomial outcome but not others, outcome heterogeneity is said to be present. A standard epidemiologic approach for modeling risk factors of a categorical outcome typically entails fitting a polytomous logistic regression via maximum likelihood esti... | {
"abstract": "The peptide mass fingerprinting technique is commonly used for identifying proteins analyzed by mass spectrometry (MS) after enzymatic digestion. Our goal is to build a theoretical model that predicts the mass spectra of such digestion products in order to improve the identification and characterizatio... |
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"abstract": "Little is known about soil evaporation (Esoil) in shaded coffee plantations. In this study, Esoil and its proportion to total evapotranspiration and rainfall (P) were quantified for a densely shaded Arabica coffee plantation (~80% tree cover) in central Veracruz, Mexico, using eddy covariance (EC) meas... | {
"abstract": "In the past three decades, coffee cultivation has gained widespread attention for its crucial role in supporting local and global biodiversity. In this synthetic Overview, we present newly gathered data that summarize how global patterns in coffee distribution and shade vegetation have changed and disc... | {
"abstract": "Coffee is a major tropical commodity crop that can provide supplementary habitat for native wildlife. In Asia, coffee production is an increasingly important driver of landscape transformation and shifts between different coffee species is a major dimension of agroforestry trends. Yet few studies have ... |
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"abstract": "Objectives: Polyphenols are vital micronutrients, in our diet, which have a role in the prevention of progressive cancer and cardiovascular diseases developing. The main objective of this research was to evaluate the hemopreventive effects of some polyphenols of Phoenix dactylifera pits on 7,12-dimethy... | {
"abstract": "Appropriate dietary interventions may reduce the potentially damaging effects of free radicals generated during metabolism and various physiological conditions. We have investigated the effects of dietary vitamins C, E, beta-carotene, or selenium (Se) on the activity of endogenous antioxidant enzymes a... | {
"abstract": "BackgroundMitochondrial dysfunction is one of the major events responsible for activation of neuronal cell death pathways during cerebral ischemia. Trace element selenium has been shown to protect neurons in various diseases conditions. Present study is conducted to demonstrate that selenium preserves ... |
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"abstract": "This paper proposes a frequency adaptive quadrature signal generator (QSG) for estimating the single-phase grid voltage fundamental parameters such as amplitude and frequency. The QSG relies on the anticonjugate decomposition (ACD) and the cascaded delayed signal cancellation (CDSC) strategies (QSG-ACD... | {
"abstract": "Fast and accurate selective harmonic detection has crucial value for many power system harmonic compensation systems. The existing detection methods are known to have a few drawbacks, such as long delay time, sensitivity to grid frequency variation, and difficulty to achieve zero steady-state error. In... | {
"abstract": "In this paper, we present a fast min-sum algorithm for decoding LDPC codes over GF(q). Our algorithm is different from the one presented by David Declercq and Marc Fossorier in [1] only at the way of speeding up the horizontal scan in the min-sum algorithm. The Declercq and Fossorier's algorithm speeds... |
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"abstract": "Microbial electrochemical systems (MES) cathodic reaction have stood out in the last decade, due to their versatility for the production of several chemical products of commercial interest using renewable energy. This work addresses the use of halotolerant microorganisms as bio-anodes with saline elect... | {
"abstract": "The mining sector is currently under unprecedented pressure due to stringent environmental regulations. As a consequence, a permanent acid mine drainage (AMD) treatment is increasingly being regarded as a desirable target with direct benefits for the environment and the operational and economic viabili... | {
"abstract": "Critical raw materials (CRMs) are essential in the development of novel high-tech applications. They are essential in sustainable materials and green technologies, including renewable energy, emissionfree electric vehicles and energy-efficient lighting. However, the sustainable supply of CRMs is a majo... |
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"abstract": "Over the last decennium, the object detection is the pivotal step in any machine vision and image processing application. It is the initial step applied to extract most informative pixel from the video stream. Many algorithms are available in literature for extraction of visual information or foregroun... | {
"abstract": "The detection of moving objects from stationary cameras is usually approached by background subtraction, i.e. by constructing and maintaining an up-to-date model of the background and detecting moving objects as those that deviate from such a model. We adopt a previously proposed approach to background... | {
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"abstract": "In northeastern boreal Canada, the long-term perspective on spring flooding is hampered by the absence of long gage records. Changes in the tree-ring anatomy of periodically flooded trees have allowed the reconstruction of historical floods in unregulated hydrological systems. In regulated rivers, the ... | {
"abstract": "There are many different ways in which change point analysis can be performed, from purely parametric methods to those that are distribution free. The ecp package is designed to perform multiple change point analysis while making as few assumptions as possible. While many other change point methods are... | {
"abstract": "A novel framework for anomaly detection in crowded scenes is presented. Three properties are identified as important for the design of a localized video representation suitable for anomaly detection in such scenes: 1) joint modeling of appearance and dynamics of the scene, and the abilities to detect 2... |
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"abstract": "Klebsiella pneumoniae is one of the major causes of nosocomial infection. Understanding the route and dynamics of dissemination in the outbreaks of infections relies on using accurate typing methods. This is achieved through molecular typing using random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) analysis techni... | {
"abstract": "This study was conducted to detect the genes encoding extended-spectrum beta-lactamases (ESBLs) and determine the epidemiological relatedness of 69 Escherichia coli and 33 Klebsiella pneumoniae isolates collected from a regional hospital in central Taiwan, mostly from inpatients (E. coli 87.0%; K. pneu... | {
"abstract": "INTRODUCTION\nExtended-spectrum beta-lactamases (ESBLs) are bacterial enzymes capable of hydrolyzing beta-lactams. The aim of this study was to describe the prevalence of TEM- and SHV-type ESBL-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae strains in Zahedan, Southeast Iran.\n\n\nMETHODS\nA total of 170 non-repetiti... |
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"abstract": "abstract: By altering phenology, organisms have the potential to match life-history events with suitable environmental conditions. Because of this, phenological plasticity has been proposed as a mechanism whereby populations might buffer themselves from climate change. We examine the potential bufferin... | {
"abstract": "Climate change is expected to disrupt biological systems. Particularly susceptible are species with temperature-dependent sex determination (TSD), as in many reptiles. While the potentially devastating effect of rising mean temperatures on sex ratios in TSD species is appreciated, the consequences of i... | {
"abstract": "THERE are several sex determining mechanisms which produce two sexes in a population (dioecy or gonochorism)1–5. In many of these, the offspring's sex is determined at or before conception, as in male or female heterogamety. In several organisms, however, the offspring's sex is determined later than co... |
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"abstract": "Abstract Background DNA sequence accounts for the majority of disease heritability, including cancer. However, it is becoming clear that environmentally-induced epigenetic inheritance can also occur. Epidemiological studies have shown that maternal exposure to the pesticide DDT in pregnancy is associat... | {
"abstract": "The miR-10 microRNA precursor family encodes a group of short non-coding RNAs involved in gene regulation. The miR-10 family is highly conserved and has sparked the interest of many research groups because of the genomic localization in the vicinity of, coexpression with and regulation of the Hox gene ... | {
"abstract": "Introduction. Both sedentary behaviour and fatty liver are associated with increased risk of obesity and non-communicable diseases, but their relationship remains unknown. We investigated the relationship of television (TV) viewing time with serum gamma-glutamyltransferase (GGT) and Fatty Liver Index (... |
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"abstract": "Entity matching is a central task in data integration which has been researched for decades. Over this time, a wide range of benchmark tasks for evaluating entity matching methods has been developed. This resource paper systematically complements, profiles, and compares 21 entity matching benchmark tas... | {
"abstract": "A central problem in the context of the Web of Data as well as in data integration in general is to identify entities in different data sources that describe the same real-world object. There exists a large body of research on entity resolution. Interestingly, most of the existing research focuses on e... | {
"abstract": "Language models for speech recognition concentrate solely on recognizing the words that were spoken. In this paper, we advocate redefining the speech recognition problem so that its goal is to find both the best sequence of words and their POS tags, and thus incorporate POS tagging. The use of POS tags... |
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"abstract": "Many of the genes and enzymes critical for assembly and biogenesis of yeast cell walls remain unidentified or poorly characterized. Therefore, we designed a high throughput genomic screen for defects in anchoring of GPI‐cell wall proteins (GPI‐CWPs), based on quantification of a secreted GFP‐Sag1p fusi... | {
"abstract": "MPC1/GPI13/YLL031C, one of the genes involved in the addition of phospho-ethanolamine to the glycosylphosphatidylinositol (GPI) anchor core, is an essential gene. Three available temperature-sensitive mutant alleles, mpc1-3, mpc1-4, and mpc1-5, displayed different phenotypes to each other and, correspo... | {
"abstract": "Pst1p was previously identified as a protein secreted by yeast regenerating protoplasts, which suggests a role in cell wall construction. ECM33 encodes a protein homologous to Pst1p, and both of them display typical features of GPI-anchored proteins and a characteristic receptor L-domain. Pst1p and Ecm... |
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"abstract": "SUMMARY Nutritional regulation is a powerful mechanism used by generalist feeders to obtain the balance of nutrients they require from nutritionally diverse, perhaps unbalanced, foods. We examined nutritional regulation in a species with a narrow individual diet breadth: the forest tent caterpillar, Ma... | {
"abstract": "Caterpillars of the polyphagous arctiid, Grammia geneura, have a single cell in the medial galeal sensillum that responds to some sugars and to some amino acids. After conditioning on artificial diet containing unbalanced amounts of carbohydrate and protein, the responses of this cell alter. After prot... | {
"abstract": "SUMMARY Nutritional regulation is a powerful mechanism used by generalist feeders to obtain the balance of nutrients they require from nutritionally diverse, perhaps unbalanced, foods. We examined nutritional regulation in a species with a narrow individual diet breadth: the forest tent caterpillar, Ma... |
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"abstract": "The paper investigates the possibility of an arbitrage‐free model for the term structure of interest rates where the yield curve only changes through a parallel shift. HJM type forward rate models driven by a multidimensional Wiener process and by a general marked point process are considered. Within t... | {
"abstract": "The asset and liability portfolios of financial institutions generate patterns of future cash flows that must conform to many restrictions in order to assure solvency and profitability. Many institutions, including insurance companies and pension funds, have definite and certain future commitments of f... | {
"abstract": "There is still no consensus on the causes of the increase in the variance of transitory earnings (earnings instability) in the United States. It is difficult to attribute the rise in instability to job mobility because there is no evidence of a concurrent increase in job turnover or separations. Using ... |
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"abstract": "We have been investigating the cryptographical properties of in nite families of simple graphs of large girth with the special colouring of vertices during the last 10 years. Such families can be used for the development of cryptographical algorithms (on symmetric or public key modes) and turbocodes in... | {
"abstract": "A combinatorial method of encryption is presented. The general idea is to treat vertices of a graph as messages and walks of a certain length as encryption tools. We study the quality of such an encryption in case of graphs of high girth by comparing the probability to guess the message (vertex) at ran... | {
"abstract": "The gait synthesis is one of the tasks that must be performed by the controller of a biped walking machine. A fuzzy logic controller (FLC) has been designed to perform this task. The initial rules have been obtained from biomechanical studies using the description of human limb motion during walking, g... |
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"abstract": "Atopic dermatitis (AD) is a form of allergic skin inflammation characterized by late eczematous skin lesions [1]. These skin lesions occur through non-Immunoglobulin E (nonIgE)-mediated immune responses, and therefore, AD can be regarded as a non-IgE-mediated allergic inflammatory skin disease [2]. Man... | {
"abstract": "The prevalence of atopic dermatitis (AD) in school-age children has increased in industrialized countries. As diet is one of the main factors provoking AD, some studies have suggested that food additives in processed foods could function as pseudoallergens, which comprise the non-immunoglobulin E-media... | {
"abstract": "Oral provocation test with cow's milk and cereals were performed in 81 children with atopic dermatitis, all below 5 years of age. In 15 of the children exacerbation of the dermatitis occurred on the second or third day after initiation of the tests. These patients, whose mean age was 13 months, underwe... |
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"abstract": "Nuclear-vacuolar (NV) junctions are organelle contact sites in yeast. They exclude nuclear pores from the organelle interface. On the vacuolar side, a lipid-dependent process excludes specific membrane proteins, such as V-ATPase, from the contact site. This suggests that NV junctions establish selectiv... | {
"abstract": "The target of rapamycin, TOR, is an essential ser/thr protein kinase that functions in two distinct multiprotein complexes, TOR complex 1 and 2. The structure and functions of these complexes have been conserved from yeast to man. TOR complex 1 is inhibited by rapamycin and is thought to couple growth ... | {
"abstract": "This series is intended to included works that deal with the politics, international relations and political economy of Middle Eastern countries or regional organizations. Also of interest to the series are works on social forces, ideological discourses and strategic affairs pertaining to the Middle Ea... |
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"abstract": "The field effect transistors (FETs) exhibited ultrahigh responsivity (107 A/W) to infrared light with great improvement of mobility in graphene / PbS quantum dot (QD) hybrid. These reported transistors are either unipolar or depletion mode devices. In this paper, we presented and fabricated convenientl... | {
"abstract": "Ambient stability of colloidal nanocrystal quantum dots (QDs) is imperative for low-cost, high-efficiency QD photovoltaics. We synthesized air-stable, ultrasmall PbS QDs with diameter (D) down to 1.5 nm, and found an abrupt transition at D ≈ 4 nm in the air stability as the QD size was varied from 1.5 ... | {
"abstract": "Fractalkine/CX3CL1 is a neuron-associated chemokine, which modulates microglia-induced neurotoxicity activating the specific and unique receptor CX3CR1. CX3CL1/CX3CR1 interaction modulates the release of cytokines from microglia, reducing the level of tumor necrosis factor-α, interleukin-1-β, and nitri... |
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"abstract": "This paper proposes an optimal design method for passive power filters (PPFs) and hybrid active power filters (HAPFs) set at high voltage levels to satisfy the requirements of harmonic filtering and reactive power compensation. Multiobjective optimization models for PPF and HAPF were constructed. Detun... | {
"abstract": "New topologies for harmonic mitigation and active filters have come a long way, and these address the line-harmonic control at the source. These mitigate some of the disadvantages of passive filters, however, for nonlinear loads above 1 MW the passive filters are an economical choice. This paper discus... | {
"abstract": "This paper presents a novel three-phase four-wire low power rating flexible hybrid active filter with a power factor, harmonic and neutral currents capability for distribution systems. The passive filter is tuned to compensate the two largest harmonics components and the power factor of the load. A sel... |
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"abstract": "ABSTRACT China views India as an asymmetric (‘lesser’) rival that has the ability to obstruct China’s grand strategic goals. China’s long-term goals are domination in East Asia followed by Asia-wide domination, and finally global pre-eminence. The asymmetric dimension of their rivalry is rooted in the ... | {
"abstract": "India tends to be deeply apprehensive of threats from China, while China appears comparatively unconcerned about threats from India, and finds it difficult to understand why India might perceive China as a threat. Two explanations of this asymmetry are (1) a deliberate and systematic understatement of ... | {
"abstract": "This thesis aims to analyze the relevance of a particular strategic culture, that of India. At least four cultural variables, each with a specific security dimension identity, values, norms and perceptive lens help us understand the Indian notions of security and power. The main hypothesis put forward ... |
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"abstract": "Physical activity is associated with enhanced generation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) that, in turn, can play a dual role in the human body. Upon physiological conditions, ROS act as secondary messengers in different cell signaling pathways. In contrast, ROS overexpression can lead to oxidative str... | {
"abstract": "8-oxo-7,8-dihydroguanine (8-oxoG) and 2,6-diamino-4-hydroxy-5-formamidopyrimidine (FapyG) are among the most common oxidative DNA lesions and are substrates for 8-oxoguanine DNA glycosylase (OGG1)–initiated DNA base excision repair (BER). Mammalian telomeres consist of triple guanine repeats and are su... | {
"abstract": "Oxidative base lesions, such as 8‐oxoguanine (8‐oxoG), accumulate in nuclear and mitochondrial DNAs under oxidative stress, resulting in cell death. However, it is not known which form of DNA is involved, whether nuclear or mitochondrial, nor is it known how the death order is executed. We established ... |
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"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nOsteoarthritis is the most common disorder of the musculoskeletal system. A unilateral change in the hip joint changes the position of the pelvis and spine, and therefore the patient's body posture. Due to the uneven loading of the lower limbs asymmetry occurs in the trunk. Detailed depende... | {
"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nTotal hip arthroplasty (THA) is the most common method of treatment of severe hip osteoarthritis. There is little data concerning the physical activity of total hip arthroplasty patients in Poland and investigations to explore this area are useful. The aim of the study was to describe the p... | {
"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nSurgical success has traditionally been judged from the surgeon's perspective. A more complete evaluation of outcome incorporates the patient's, surgeon's, and payor's perspectives. Because gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) is primarily a quality-of-life (QOL) problem, the evaluation o... |
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"abstract": "The purpose of this dissertation is to develop a framework for assessing water governance by consolidating and refining disparate principles of water governance in the existing research literature. The developed framework is then applied in a case study of the Lerma Chapala basin in Mexico to assess th... | {
"abstract": "Kenyan river basin governance underwent a pioneering reform in the Water Act of 2002, which established new community water-management institutions. This article focuses on community water projects in the Likii Water Resource Users Association in the Upper Ewaso Ng’iro River basin on Mount Kenya, and t... | {
"abstract": "Despite the success of the MUG fluorometric assay for quantitative analysis of β-glucuronidase (GUS) activity within a vast array of transgenic plant species and tissues, attempts to apply this protocol for analysis of woody plants has been found to be problematic, primarily due to the interfering effe... |
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"abstract": "Symposium on the Frustration-Aggression Hypothesis N. Miller, R. R. Sears, S. Rosenzweig, G, Bateson, D. M. Levy, G. W. Hartmann & A. H. Maslow (1941) First published in Psychological Review, 48, 337-366. I. \"The Frustration-Aggression Hypothesis\" by Neal E. Miller II. \"Non-Aggressive reactions to f... | {
"abstract": "The problem of discovering the factors which determine the resumption of an interrupted task has developed considerable importance in recent years because of its systematic relation to the concept of substitute activity. This latter concept refers to the commonly observed fact that when one kind of act... | {
"abstract": "Co-responding police-mental health programs are increasingly used to respond to ‘Emotionally Disturbed Persons’ in the community; however, there is limited understanding of program effectiveness and the mechanisms that promote program success. The academic and gray literature on co-responding police-me... |
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"abstract": "Epidemiology: Almost all cases of acute methanol toxicity result from ingestion, though rarely cases of poisoning have followed inhalation or dermal absorption. The absorption of methanol following oral administration is rapid and peak methanol concentrations occur within 30–60 minutes. Mechanisms of T... | {
"abstract": "Objective: Since the use of 4-methylpyrazole (4-MP) in the treatment of humans with methanol poisoning is poorly documented, we report two cases of acute methanol intoxication partially treated by this potent alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH) inhibitor. Setting: Intensive Care Unit in a university hospital. ... | {
"abstract": "A feasibility study of teledermatology was undertaken in Groningen. Six general practitioners (GPs) sent digital images by email, along with relevant patient information, to dermatologists at the Martini Ziekenhuis Groningen, a general non-academic hospital. The dermatologists returned their responses ... |
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"abstract": "ABSTRACT Despite the professed concern of many governments, businesses and individuals – and the recent publication of another alarming report from the IPCC – inaction on climate change remains a significant concern. For many, the problem is rooted in a neoliberal account of social change. Neoliberal e... | {
"abstract": "Sustainable investment (SI), which integrates social, environmental and ethical issues, has grown from a niche market of individual ethical investors to embrace institutional investors (e.g. pension funds) resulting in £764 billion in assets under management in the UK alone [Eurosif, 2008: ‘European SR... | {
"abstract": "Foreword by Tim Smith. Series Preface. Preface. Part I: Exploring Socially Responsible Investment. Socially Responsible Investment Comes of Age. What Is Socially Responsible Investment? From the Beginning. Profiling the Investors. Screening in Practice. Part II: Issues for Institutional Investors. From... |
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"abstract": "This thesis reviews the contents and observes certain properties of digitally signed documents of BDOC and ASiC-E container formats. After reviewing a set of sample containers, the author comes up with a header and footer combination (signature) significantly improving pin-pointed carving-based recover... | {
"abstract": "File or data carving is a term used in the field of Cyber forensics. Cyber forensics is the process of acquisition, authentication, analysis and documentation of evidence extracted from and/or contained in a computer system, computer network and digital media. Extracting data (file) out of undifferenti... | {
"abstract": "We propose an approach to monitoring IT systems offline, where system actions are logged in a distributed file system and subsequently checked for compliance against policies formulated in an expressive temporal logic. The novelty of our approach is that monitoring is parallelized so that it scales to ... |
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"abstract": "Bacteriocins and bacteriophage (phage) are biological tools which exhibit targeted microbial killing, a phenomenon which until recently was seen as a major drawback for their use as antimicrobial agents. However, in an age when the deleterious consequences of broad-spectrum antibiotics on human health ... | {
"abstract": "Humans are colonized by immense populations of viruses, which metagenomic analysis shows are mostly unique to each individual. To investigate the origin and evolution of the human gut virome, we analyzed the viral community of one adult individual over 2.5 y by extremely deep metagenomic sequencing (56... | {
"abstract": "The transfusion of red blood cells (RBCs) with maximum therapeutic efficacy is a major goal in transfusion medicine. One of the criteria used in determining stored RBC quality is end‐of‐storage hemolysis. Between donors, a wide range of hemolysis is observed under identical storage conditions. Here, a ... |
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"abstract": "The development of a microfluidic-based process is presented for the production of nanomaterials in continuous-flow microreactors. A flow focusing configuration was used enabling a controllable mixing process to assist the formation of the nanomaterials through precipitation, which was triggered by a s... | {
"abstract": "We describe an autonomous 'black-box' system for the controlled synthesis of fluorescent nanoparticles. The system uses a microfluidic reactor to carry out the synthesis and an in-line spectrometer to monitor the emission spectra of the emergent particles. The acquired data is fed into a control algori... | {
"abstract": "This paper introduces a new robust 3D ultrasound needle detection approach integrated in a 3D needle steering system associated to a real-time path planning. The robustness of an existing algorithm is improved by limiting the needle detection to a curvilinear region of interest (ROI) using a novel mech... |
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"abstract": "Food recognition plays an important role in food choice and intake, which is essential to the health and well‐being of humans. It is thus of importance to the computer vision community, and can further support many food-oriented vision and multimodal tasks, e.g., food detection and segmentation, cross-... | {
"abstract": "The development of automatic nutrition diaries, which would allow to keep track objectively of everything we eat, could enable a whole new world of possibilities for people concerned about their nutrition patterns. With this purpose, in this paper we propose the first method for simultaneous food local... | {
"abstract": "In many computer vision tasks, we expect a particular behavior of the output with respect to rotations of the input image. If this relationship is explicitly encoded, instead of treated as any other variation, the complexity of the problem is decreased, leading to a reduction in the size of the require... |
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"abstract": "For long time, osteoporosis (OP) was exclusively associated with an overall bone mass reduction, leading to lower bone strength and to a higher fracture risk. For this reason, the measurement of bone mineral density through dual X-ray absorptiometry was considered the gold standard method for its diagn... | {
"abstract": "This review presents an overview of the characterization techniques available to experimentally evaluate bone quality, defined as the geometric and material factors that contribute to fracture resistance independently of areal bone mineral density (aBMD) assessed by dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry. Th... | {
"abstract": "1. In normal bone, microscopic hardness was found to be an accurate and reliable measure of the degree of mineralization. 2. The progression of mineralization that accompanies skeletal maturation was found to be reflected by an increase in the microscopic hardness. After the age of thirty, there was ve... |
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"abstract": "This paper focuses on the combinations of R&D investments and marketing expenditures and their relationships with innovative sales. A higher investment in R&D is associated with a higher quality innovation or a faster innovation, with a positive impact on sales and in a macro sense, in GDP. This paper ... | {
"abstract": "Evolution of consumers' preferences has been recognized by many scholars as being key to understanding technological change. However, mainstream economics cannot account for the seemingly irrational behavior of consumers based on changes in taste – consumer theory lacks exibility and accuracy to explai... | {
"abstract": "In the social context of an aging workforce in automobile final assembly processes, modular assembly systems have become a dominant trend to reduce the workers' physical workload. Although a modular assembly system provides various benefits, modularized components are heavier and larger than their prea... |
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"abstract": "xviii CHAPTER ONE: 1 1.0 INTRODUCTION 1 CHAPTER TWO: 4 2.0. LITERATURE REVIEW: 4 2.1 The Physiology of growth and development of the oil palm 4 2.1.1 The role of leaves in dry matter accumulation of plants 4 2.1.2 Oil palm dry matter accumulation and distribution 7 2.2 Factors influencing growth and de... | {
"abstract": "SOME years ago, Heath and Gregory1 made the generalization that the mean net assimilation-rate was constant for species and environments. Subsequent work has demonstrated some large departures from their mean value of about 0.55 g/dm2/week, although Watson2 has more recently supported the validity of t... | {
"abstract": "apparently point to some features of general interest. Our data refer entirely to attempts to estimate the average weight of a complete vegetation cover. The estimate is based on the dry weight of the standing crop towards the end of the growing season and is limited to species in which this can be mad... |
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"abstract": "A functional module can be defined as a spatially or chemically isolated set of functionally associated components that accomplishes a discrete biological process. Modularity is a key attribute of cellular systems, but the mechanisms that underlie the evolution of functional modules are largely unknown... | {
"abstract": "Haploinsufficiency refers to dominant abnormal phenotypes resulting from the absence of substantial activity from one allele at a normally diploid locus. Haploinsufficiency may also result from an altered stoichiometry in a macromolecular complex. Higher-than-diploid levels of a gene product can also i... | {
"abstract": "The genetic and molecular analysis of the Notch locus, which codes for a transmembrane protein sharing homology with the mammalian epidermal growth factor, suggests that the Notch protein is involved in a cell interaction mechanism essential for the differentiation of the embryonic nervous system of Dr... |
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"abstract": "The existence of a sex difference in Parkinson’s disease (PD) is observed as related to several variables, including susceptibility of the disease, age at onset, and symptoms. These differences between men and women represent a significant characteristic of PD, which suggest that estrogens may exert be... | {
"abstract": "Summary. Estrogen acts as a neuroprotectant of the nigrostriatal dopaminergic system when given chronically to female mice prior to Methamphetamine (MA) insult. In this report, we tested the acute effects of Estradiol Benzoate (EB-10 µg in Oil) in ovariectomized CD-1 mice to function as a neuroprotecta... | {
"abstract": "Hendre Viljoen, Amanda Ward, and Johann Brink, Forensic Psychiatric Hospital. Grant L. Iverson, PhD, Department of Psychiatry, University of British Columbia, 2255 Wesbrook Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T 2A1, Canada. Neuropsychological assessments are often used to document the nature and extent of cognitive... |
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"abstract": "Our research goal is to retarget image processingprograms written in sequential languages (e.g., C) toarchitectures with data-parallel processing capabilities.Image processing algorithms are often inherently data-parallel,but the artifacts imposed by the sequentialprogramming language (e.g., loops, poi... | {
"abstract": "As new computer architectures are developed to exploit large-scale data-level parallelism, techniques are needed to retarget legacy sequential code to these platforms. Sequential programming languages force programmers to include sequential artifacts in their code, particularly with respect to how the ... | {
"abstract": "Purpose – The research was undertaken to characterise the three dimensional printing (3DP) process in term of the achievable dimensional and geometric accuracy.Design/methodology/approach – New benchmark models were developed that represent characteristics needing to be investigated. The parts were fab... |
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"abstract": "Exposure to acute hypoxia (barometric pressure 263 mmHg) for 8 hours did not lead to increased numbers of mast cells in the lungs of rats. In contrast, in adult rats kept for 35 days at a barometric pressure of 380 mmHg there was a proliferation of mast cells around the pulmonary blood vessels and in t... | {
"abstract": "Three groups of 10 adult male Wistar albino rats were studied. The first was kept for five weeks in a hypobaric chamber exposed to a barometric pressure of 380 mmHg, equivalent to a simulated altitude of 5,500 m above sea level. The second was exposed to the same barometric pressure for five weeks and ... | {
"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nHypophosphatasia is a rare heritable metabolic disorder characterized by defective bone and tooth mineralization accompanied by a deficiency of tissue-non-specific (liver/bone/kidney) isoenzyme of alkaline phosphatase activity, caused by a number of loss-of-function mutations in the alkalin... |
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"abstract": "In the ongoing discussions about the future energy system, smart grids are seen as a promising solution to match renewable energy production and energy consumption by using sophisticated information and communication technologies. However, flexible conventional power plants which play an essential role... | {
"abstract": "In the future an adaptive power system is required to integrate the emerging distributed generation (DG) and renewable energy sources (RES). Since most present power systems are based on active controlled transmission network and passive distribution network, the development of smart grids in the distr... | {
"abstract": "An implantable glaucoma management system is presented for the first time. Glaucoma is an incurable disease characterized by gradual visual field loss that eventually results in blindness. Studies indicate that reduction of intraocular pressure reduces the rate of disease progress. A passive parylene M... |
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"abstract": "Classification (MC) is the problem of classifying the modulation format of a wireless signal. In the wireless communications pipeline, MC is the first operation performed on the received signal and is critical for reliable decoding. This paper considers the problem of secure MC, where a transmitter (Al... | {
"abstract": "Deep learning (DL), despite its enormous success in many computer vision and language processing applications, is exceedingly vulnerable to adversarial attacks. We consider the use of DL for radio signal (modulation) classification tasks, and present practical methods for the crafting of white-box and ... | {
"abstract": "We present and discuss several novel applications of deep learning for the physical layer. By interpreting a communications system as an autoencoder, we develop a fundamental new way to think about communications system design as an end-to-end reconstruction task that seeks to jointly optimize transmit... |
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"abstract": "Several and distinct physiological processes in all the life forms are dependent on proteases, as processing and turnover of endogenous proteins, digestion of food proteins, regulation of formation and lysis of the clots, activation of apoptosis pathways, plant germination, sporulation, hormone activat... | {
"abstract": "Two cysteine proteinase inhibitors, cystatins Sca and Scb, were previously isolated from sunflower seeds [Kouzuma et al. J. Biochem. 119 (1996) 1106-1113]. A cDNA clone encoding a novel phytocystatin with three repetitive cystatin domains was isolated from a cDNA library of sunflower seeds using the Sc... | {
"abstract": "1. The intrinsic effects of adrenaline on the myocardium of the eel in winter were investigated in the isolated perfused eel heart. 2. Adrenaline was ineffective both on the pacemaker activity and auricular action potentials but markedly increased ventricular action potential duration, thus leading to ... |
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"abstract": "Over the past 30 years many cryopreservation procedures have been applied to oocytes, embryos, sperm, ovarian and testicular tissue. Over this time many, often specialized, terms have been developed for all aspects of these procedures. This can make it dif®cult for readers who are not familiar with the... | {
"abstract": "We examined possible genotype effects on the survival of 8‐ to 16‐cell mouse embryos isolated from four inbred strains (C57BL/6N, BALB/cAnN, DBA/2N, and C3H/HeN), a outbred stock (ICR), and various crosses after cryopreservation by vitrification or conventional slow freezing using glycerol solutions. T... | {
"abstract": "Asiatic citrus canker (ACC) is an incurable disease of citrus plants caused by the Gram-negative bacterium Xanthomonas citri subsp. citri (X. citri). It affects all the commercially important citrus varieties in the major orange producing areas around the world. Control of the pathogen requires recurre... |
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"abstract": "Thanks to the wide range of features offered by web browsers, modern websites include various types of content such as JavaScript and CSS in order to create interactive user interfaces. Browser vendors also provided extensions to enhance web browsers with additional useful capabilities that are not nec... | {
"abstract": "Due to their high practical impact, Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) attacks have attracted a lot of attention from the security community members. In the same way, a plethora of more or less effective defense techniques have been proposed, addressing the causes and effects of XSS vulnerabilities. NoScript, ... | {
"abstract": "Asynchronous event-based sensors present new challenges in basic robot vision problems like feature tracking. The few existing approaches rely on grouping events into models and computing optical flow after assigning future events to those models. Such a hard commitment in data association attenuates t... |
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"abstract": "Four levels of nonphytate P (NPP; 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, and 0.5%; total P = 0.46, 0.56, 0.66, and 0.76%) and two temperatures (25 and 37 degrees C) were evaluated in chicks from 8 to 22 d. In experiment 1, crossbred male chicks (New Hampshire x Columbian) housed at 25 degrees C increased weight gain at all in... | {
"abstract": "The interaction of phosphorus nutrition and fasting on the tolerance of young chickens acutely exposed to high temperature was studied. We also investigated a possible relationship between plasma phosphate (Pi) and body temperature (Tr) of chicks during heat exposure. Survival time (ST) of 24-hour fast... | {
"abstract": "The lowest contents of ATP and the lowest ATP/AMP concentration ratios are observed in the molluscan muscles that have very low rates of energy expenditure during contraction. The highest contents of ATP are observed in the extremely aerobic insect flight muscle and the extremely anaerobic pectoral mus... |
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"abstract": "In recent years, the number of image fusion schemes presented by the research community has increased significantly. Measuring the performance of these schemes is an important issue. In this work, we introduce three quantitative fusion metrics to assess the quality of an image fusion algorithm. The pro... | {
"abstract": "Information entropy based criteria are analyzed and the Normalized Mutual Information(NMI) that is presented in the field of image registration is revised to Normalized Mutual Information Entropy (NMIE) to meet the need of the evaluation of image fusion algorithms. Then, through analysis to NMIE and so... | {
"abstract": "In recent years, the number of image fusion schemes presented by the research community has increased significantly. Measuring the performance of these schemes is an important issue. In this work, we introduce three quantitative fusion metrics to assess the quality of an image fusion algorithm. The pro... |
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"abstract": "Audio identification via fingerprint has been an active research field with wide applications for years. Many technical papers were published and commercial software systems were also employed. However, most of these previously reported methods work on the raw audio format in spite of the fact that now... | {
"abstract": "In this paper, a perceptual audio hashing method in compressed domain is proposed for content identification, in which MDCT coefficients as the intermediate decoding result are selected for perceptual feature extraction and hash generation. The perceptual feature extraction is based on psychoacoustic m... | {
"abstract": "ABSTRACT ADIPOQ/adiponectin, an adipocytokine secreted by adipocytes in the breast tumor microenvironment, negatively regulates cancer cell growth hence increased levels of ADIPOQ/adiponectin are associated with decreased breast cancer growth. However, its mechanisms of action remain largely elusive. W... |
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"abstract": "(ABSTRACT) The purpose of this research was to determine the knowledge, attitudes, and practices of college students toward soy protein and coronary heart disease. A sixteen-question survey was developed to collect data from 211 randomly chosen undergraduate students. Frequencies were tabulated for eac... | {
"abstract": "Although the beneficial effects of dietary soybean protein compared with animal proteins on plasma lipids, lipoproteins and atherosclerosis have been known for about 50 years, it has been uncertain whether these effects are due to its amino acid concentrations or other components in soybeans. To assess... | {
"abstract": "Calo is a variety spoken by the Spanish Cale (i.e. the Roma). It belongs to a group of languages referred to as “Para-Romani”, characterized by Romani vocabulary, but largely non-Romani morphology, ...",
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"abstract": "In this study, the prevalence, effectiveness of diagnosis, and treatment based on vaginal discharge score (VDS) of clinical endometritis in cattle were evaluated. To detect clinical endometritis and classify its severity, vaginoscopy was performed during 21 to 60 days postpartum in 164 Holstein cows co... | {
"abstract": "BackgroundDelayed uterine involution has negative effects on the fertility of cows; use of prostaglandin F2alpha alone as a single treatment has not been shown to consistently improve fertility. Combined administration of PGF2alpha and PGE2 increased uterine pressure in healthy cows. We hypothesized, t... | {
"abstract": "Ninety-two cows that calved between April and August 1984 in a commercial dairy herd were studied. The cows were randomly assigned to receive either cloprostenol (500 mug) or saline placebo on Day 26 postpartum. In addition, each cow was examined per rectum, had three endometrial biopsies taken and mil... |
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"abstract": "Abstract Infection with hepatitis B virus has become a vaccine-preventable disease. The recombinant hepatitis B vaccines available today are safe and immunogenic. In order for these vaccines to eradicate HBV a universal vaccination of neonates and/or children needs to be implemented. Major obstacles on... | {
"abstract": "The emergence in vaccinated individuals of hepatitis B virus (HBV) mutants with amino acid substitutions within theadeterminant of the surface protein has raised the possibility that such variants represent neutralization escape mutants. We previously demonstrated that one such mutant HBV, strain AS, w... | {
"abstract": "Hepadnaviridae is a family of hepatotropic DNA viruses that is divided into the genera orthohepadnavirus of mammals and avihepadnavirus of birds. All members of this family can cause acute and chronic hepatic infection, which in the case of human hepatitis B virus (HBV) constitutes a major global healt... |
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"abstract": "Abstract Foundry workers have increased mortality and morbidity risks from numerous causes, including various cancers. A retrospective Chinese iron-steel cohort study was conducted to examine the mortality effects of exposure to foundry work. Standardized mortality ratios (SMRs) and standardized rate r... | {
"abstract": "OBJECTIVES: Injury is the leading cause of death in the male working population of Brazil. An important fraction of these deaths are work related. Very few cohort studies of steel workers, and none from developing countries, have reported on mortality from injuries. This paper analyses mortality from w... | {
"abstract": "Background Foundry work is associated with serious occupational hazards. Although several studies have investigated the health risks associated with foundry work, the results of these studies have been inconsistent with the exception of an increased lung cancer risk. The current study evaluated the mor... |
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"abstract": "This review seeks to identify (a) the various components and process outcomes of type 2 diabetes peer support (PS) interventions and (b) the measures implemented to monitor intervention fidelity and evaluate outcomes in these studies.",
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"title": "Peer support interventions i... | {
"abstract": "PURPOSE It is unclear whether peer coaching is effective in minority populations living with diabetes in hard-to-reach, under-resourced areas such as the rural South. We examined the effect of an innovative peer-coaching intervention plus brief education vs brief education alone on diabetes outcomes. M... | {
"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nResearch suggests that the central nervous system (CNS) and mobility are closely linked. CNS-mediated mobility impairment may represent a potentially new and prevalent syndrome within the older adult populations. Interventions targeting this group may have the potential to improve mobility ... |
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"abstract": "Defects in p53 and nuclear factor-kappa B (NF-κB) signaling pathways are frequently observed in the initiation and development of various human malignancies, including prostate cancer. Clinical studies demonstrate higher expression of NF-κB/p65/RelA, NF-κB/p50/RelB, and cRel as well as downregulation o... | {
"abstract": "Development of chemoresistance in androgen‐refractory prostate cancer cells is partly due to constitutive activation of Rel/NF‐κB transcription factors that regulate several cell survival and anti‐apoptotic genes. In this study we examined whether betulinic acid (BetA), a pentacyclic triterpene from th... | {
"abstract": "Betulinic acid (BA) is a lupane‐type pentacyclic triterpene, distributed ubiquitously throughout the plant kingdom. BA and its derivatives demonstrate multiple bioactivities, particularly an antitumor effect. This review critically describes the recent research on isolation, synthesis, and derivatizati... |
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"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nValidated targeted therapy is currently unavailable for patients with invasive breast cancer negative for oestrogen receptors, progesterone receptors and HER2 [i.e., those with triple-negative (TN) disease]. ADAM-17 is a protease involved in the activations of several ligands that bind to a... | {
"abstract": "Basal-like breast cancers (BLBC) are highly aggressive, yet selective therapies targeting the specific oncoproteins driving these tumors have not been developed. These cancers frequently express epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR), with resistance to its inhibition being well documented, albeit poo... | {
"abstract": "Oncogenic epidermal growth factor receptors (EGFRs) can recruit key effectors in diverse cellular processes to propagate oncogenic signals. Targeted and combinational therapeutic strategies have been successfully applied for treating EGFR-driven cancers. However, a main challenge in EGFR therapies is d... |
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"abstract": "Both spatial and temporal cues determine the fate of immature neurons. A major challenge at the interface of developmental and systems neuroscience is to relate this spatiotempo-ral trajectory of maturation to circuit-level functional organization. This study examined the development of two ocular cran... | {
"abstract": "Peripheral and central oculomotor organization was studied in the goldfish. The sizes of the extraocular muscles were quantified by counting the fibers contained in a given muscle and by area measurements of the cross‐sectional surfaces. All the muscles were of approximately similar size. Kinematics we... | {
"abstract": "Motoneurones that innervate the medial rectus, lateral rectus, and accessory lateral rectus muscles in the monkey have been identified and localized by retrograde transport of horseradish peroxidase. Medial rectus motoneurones were located within both dorsal and ventral regions of the oculomotor nucleu... |
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"abstract": "The Athens Automation and Control Experiment is a hardware/software-oriented research and development project [1]. The basic purpose of the experiment is to automate the distribution system and to develop and test control strategies that improve the efficiency and controllability of the power system. T... | {
"abstract": "The ultimate goal of integrating the generic functions presently described as supervisory control and data acquisition, load management, and distribution feeder automation into a single system has led to the proposed concept of a distribution energy control center (DECC). An experiment is being conduct... | {
"abstract": "The plant kingdom comprises 766 gymnosperms and ~350,000 angiosperms, for which iron (Fe) is an essential and highly demanded nutrient. Iron is necessary for plant growth and development, being involved in a multitude of functions within the plant, including chlorophyll biosynthesis. The understanding ... |
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"abstract": "Recently, the opioid analgesic d,l‐methadone has gained much attention as a potential antineoplastic compound, considerably triggered through lay press and media. In consequence, physicians and pharmacists are currently confronted with numerous patients willing to use d,l‐methadone against their malign... | {
"abstract": "BACKGROUND/AIM\nD,L-Methadone increases sensitivity toward chemotherapy of different tumor cell populations. We evaluated the safety and tolerance of additional use of D,L-methadone in patients with glioma in combination with chemotherapy.\n\n\nPATIENTS AND METHODS\nThe dosage, duration of therapy and ... | {
"abstract": "A 49-year-old woman presents with an extensive violaceous rash, rapidly progressive proximal muscle weakness, and dysphagia to solids, consistent with a diagnosis of dermatomyositis. Two weeks later, she palpates a mass in her left breast and is diagnosed with her2-positive metastatic invasive ductal c... |
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"abstract": "The induced gravitational collapse paradigm of long gamma-ray bursts associated with supernovae (SNe) predicts a copious neutrino–antineutrino ( ) emission owing to the hypercritical accretion process of SN ejecta onto a neutron star (NS) binary companion. The neutrino emission can reach luminosities o... | {
"abstract": "Non-linear effects on supernova neutrino oscillations, associated with neutrino–neutrino interactions, are known to induce collective flavor transformations near the supernova core for . In scenarios with very shallow electron density profiles, these transformations have been shown to couple with ordin... | {
"abstract": "Supernova neutrino flavour transitions during shock-wave propagation are known to encode relevant information not only about the matter density profile but also about unknown neutrino properties, such as the mass hierarchy (normal or inverted) and the mixing angle θ13. While previous studies have focus... |
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"abstract": "In this paper we analyze the properties of the Xilinx-like regular segmentation schemes for 2-D Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs). We introduce a new notion of architectural level routing decaying effect caused by wiring segmentation. We discuss its routing properties and propose a relative prime ... | {
"abstract": "We propose a novel optimization scheme that can improve the routing by reducing a newly observed router decaying effect. A pair of greedy-grow algorithms, each emphasizing a different optimization target are designed. By applying one algorithm first and then switching to the other when the first one ap... | {
"abstract": "In this paper we investigate the capacity of random wireless networks in which transmitters are equipped with multiantennas. A quantized version of channel direction information (CDI) is also available, provided by the associated single antenna receivers. We adopt tools of stochastic geometry and rando... |
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"abstract": "Central to the design of many engineering systems and social networks is to solve the underlying resource sharing and exchange problems, in which multiple decentralized agents make sequential decisions over time to optimize some long-term performance metrics. It is challenging for the decentralized age... | {
"abstract": "The integration of renewable energy generation, such as wind power, into the electric grid is difficult because of the source intermittency and the large distance between generation sites and users. This difficulty can be overcome through a transmission network with large-scale storage that not only tr... | {
"abstract": "Microgrids are systems that integrate distributed renewable energy sources, controllable loads, and energy storage in a more economic and reliable fashion. In this paper we model the load and generation of two microgrids with wind farms to implement optimal power flow (OPF) using particle swarm optimiz... |
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"abstract": "We report an experiment designed to investigate the effect of modifying the sound of high-heeled shoes on women's self-reported valence, arousal, and dominance scores, as well as any changes to a variety of measures of bodily sensation. We also assessed whether self-evaluated personality traits and the... | {
"abstract": "When consumers shop, the flooring underfoot can prompt bodily sensations-a sense of comfort from soft carpeting or fatigue from hard tile flooring. Like moods, such bodily sensations may foster context effects on the products shoppers observe. However, whereas moods prompt only assimilation effects, we... | {
"abstract": "Are romance movies more desirable when people are cold? Building on research on (bodily) feeling-as-information and embodied cognition, we hypothesize that physical coldness activates a need for psychological warmth, which in turn leads to an increased liking for romance movies. Four laboratory experim... |
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"abstract": "We have detected weak soft X-ray emission from the pulsar wind nebula trailing the high-velocity star PSR 2224+65 (the “Guitar Nebula”). This X-ray flux gives evidence of γ ~ 107 eV particles in the pulsar wind and constrains the properties of the postshock flow. The X-ray emission is most easily under... | {
"abstract": "IN the binary millisecond pulsar system PSR1957 + 20 (ref. 1), a wind from the pulsar is ablating a low-mass (0.02 solar mass) companion and also inflating a local nebula2 confined by the ram pressure of the interstellar medium. We have detected X-ray emission from this system, using the Rosat satellit... | {
"abstract": "Introduction Basic Flow Measurement Laws Types of Fluid Flow Measurement Basic Reference Standards From Theory to Practice Fluids Flow Maintenance Meter Equipment Measurement and Meters Differential (Head) Meters Intrusive Linear and Special Meters Readouts and Related Devices Proving Systems \"Loss an... |
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"abstract": "Wavelength modulation technique (WMT) and wavelength sweep technique (WST) are introduced into intracavity fiber laser for both gas concentration sensing and absorption wavelength detection in this paper. The principle of gas sensing and spectral analysis using WMT and WST was studied. Polynomial fit w... | {
"abstract": "Wavelength modulation spectroscopy by the use of a tunable optical filter was applied to an intra-cavity fiber laser gas sensor. The optimum pump power and the modulation amplitude that maximized the signal-to-noise ratio were found. A minimum detectable gas (C/sub 2/H/sub 2/) concentration of 1000 ppm... | {
"abstract": "A highly sensitive hollow-core photonic crystal fiber (HC-PCF) gas-sensing network based on intracavity absorption is designed and experimentally verified. The capacity of the multichannel sensing network is expanded by time division multiplexing and wavelength division multiplexing technology. The vol... |
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"abstract": "Citrullus colocynthis, a native plant with potential uses as a feedstock for edible oil, biodiesel, and animal feed make it a potential cash crop. The importance of propagating this species under saline arid habitats necessitates understanding environmental factors affecting salinity and drought tolera... | {
"abstract": "BackgroundLight and temperatures of germination greatly affect germination of several Cucurbitaceae species. Environmental conditions prevailing at seed maturation time can affect dormancy and germination requirements. Citrullus colocynthis seeds have a deep dormancy. This perennial prostrate shrub gro... | {
"abstract": "The proposal is made that seed scientists need an internationally acceptable hierarchical system of classification for seed dormancy. Further, we suggest that a modified version of the scheme of the Russian seed physiologist Marianna G. Nikolaeva be adopted. The modified system includes three hierarchi... |
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"abstract": "\n Galaxies and galaxy groups located along the line of sight towards gravitationally lensed quasars produce high-order perturbations of the gravitational potential at the lens position. When these perturbation are too large, they can induce a systematic error on H0 of a few per cent if the lens system... | {
"abstract": "We present new measurements of the time delays of WFI2033-4723. The data sets used in this work include 14 years of data taken at the 1.2m Leonhard Euler Swiss telescope, 13 years of data from the SMARTS 1.3m telescope at Las Campanas Observatory and a single year of high-cadence and high-precision mon... | {
"abstract": "The time delay measured between the images of gravitationally lensed quasars probes a combination of the angular diameter distance to the source-lens system and the mass density profile of the lens. Observational campaigns to measure such systems have reported a determination of the Hubble parameter H0... |
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