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"abstract": "OBJECTIVES\nLiver transplant recipients must adapt to a new life after transplant. We report the effects of a support group on physical and psychosocial adaptation of liver transplant recipients.\n\n\nMATERIALS AND METHODS\nThe study used a quasi-experimental design, comparing an intervention group and... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Objective Structured, empirically supported psychological interventions are lacking for patients who require organ transplantation. This stage IA psychotherapy development project developed and tested the feasibility, acceptability, tolerability, and preliminary efficacy of an 8-week group cog... | {
"abstract": "A new particle filtering detector is proposed for joint estimation of channel model coefficients, channel tracking, and signal detection over flat Rayleigh fading channels. The detector employs a hybrid importance function and a mixture Kalman filter which result in a highly efficient implementation. I... |
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"abstract": "The increasing practice of offshore outsourcing software maintenance has posed the challenge of effectively transferring knowledge to individual software engineers of the vendor. In this theoretical paper, we discuss the implications of two learning theories, the model of work-based learning (MWBL) and... | {
"abstract": "This study examines whether individuals, groups, and organizational units learn from experience in software development and whether this learning improves productivity. Although prior research has found the existence of learning curves in manufacturing and service industries, it is not clear whether le... | {
"abstract": "This paper considers a multi-cell network with base stations (BSs) equipped with large dual-polarized antenna arrays. We derive closed-form expressions of network performance in terms of user signal-to-interference-and-noise ratio both with perfect channel state information and in the presence of pilot... |
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"abstract": "New checkable criteria for persistence of chemical reaction networks are proposed, which extend those obtained by the authors in previous work. The new results allow the consideration of reaction rates which are time-varying, thus incorporating the effects of external signals, and also relax the assump... | {
"abstract": "Hypoxia induces the expression of genes that alter metabolism through the hypoxia-inducible factor (HIF). A theoretical model based on differential equations of the hypoxia response network has been previously proposed in which a sharp response to changes in oxygen concentration was observed but not qu... | {
"abstract": "Comparisons of the physiognomy of leaves from modern vegetation of known climates with that of Eocene and Oligocene fossil leaf assemblages from middle latitudes of western North America indicate paleoaltitudes comparable or higher than those at present. Using canonical correspondence analysis, a multi... |
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"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nWe have reviewed the analgesic efficacies of rectal and parenteral paracetamol and tested the evidence for a possible additive analgesic effect of the combination of paracetamol with a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) in postoperative pain.\n\n\nMETHODS\nRandomized controlled tr... | {
"abstract": "Background: Acetaminophen (paracetamol) is widely used for postoperative analgesia. Its mechanism of action is inhibition of prostaglandin synthesis in the central nervous system, and acetaminophen is traditionally not considered to influence platelet function. The authors studied the dose-dependent in... | {
"abstract": "The aim of the study was to assess the relative morphine‐sparing effects of nefopam and diclofenac when used singly or in combination after upper abdominal surgery. Eighty‐four patients of ASA grade 1 or 2 were allocated randomly to one of three groups. Group A received nefopam 20 mg by intramuscular i... |
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"abstract": "We extend the well-studied concept of a graph power to that of a k-leaf power G of a tree T: G is formed by creating a node for each leaf in the tree and an edge between a pair of nodes if and only if the associated leaves are connected by a path of length at most k. By discovering hidden combinatorial... | {
"abstract": "A finite undirected graph is called chordal if every simple circuit has a chord. Given a chordal graph, we present, ways for constructing efficient algorithms for finding a minimum coloring, a minimum covering by cliques, a maximum clique, and a maximum independent set. The proofs are based on a theore... | {
"abstract": "In this paper, we present an idea of adopting certificateless public key encryption (CL-PKE) schemes over mobile ad hoc network (MANET), which has not been explored before. In current literature, essentially there exists two main approaches, namely the public key cryptography and identity-based (ID-bas... |
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"abstract": "AbstractAn increasing number of patients with psychological conditions with or without drug regimens are seeking orthodontic treatment and orthognathic surgery to address jaws dysmorphology. Depression and bipolar affective disorders are relatively common. These disorders may interfere with the presurg... | {
"abstract": "Acknowledgments This work was supported in part by a JSPS KAKENHI Grant (19K10328) to Professor Toyofuku. The study protocol was approved by the Ethical Committee of Tokyo Medical and Dental University (D2013-005) and conformed to the provisions of the Declaration of Helsinki. Both patients had been in... | {
"abstract": "The diagnosis and treatment of bipolar disorder (BD) has been in con sis tent and frequently mis under stood in re cent years. To identify the causes of this problem and suggest possible solutions, we under took a critical review of studies concerning the nosology of BD and the effects of antidepressan... |
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"abstract": "This is the first workshop to be held on this emerging topic, which integrates recent advances in computational linguistics and cognitive neuroscience with the latest methods from machine learning. This new field promises to aid in the further development of cognitively plausible theories of language, ... | {
"abstract": "There are many possible different semantic relationships between nominals. Classification of such relationships is an important and difficult task (for example, the well known noun compound classification task is a special case of this problem). We propose a novel pattern clusters method for nominal re... | {
"abstract": "This paper describes a state-of-the-art supervised, knowledge-intensive approach to the automatic identification of semantic relations between nominals in English sentences. The system employs a combination of rich and varied sets of new and previously used lexical, syntactic, and semantic features ext... |
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"abstract": "A novel actively mode-locked fiber laser having a semiconductor optical amplifier playing the roles of both a gain element and an optically controlled mode-locker and eight cascaded fiber Bragg gratings playing the role of the wavelength selecting element is proposed and demonstrated. Stable amplitude ... | {
"abstract": "We demonstrate the use of cross-absorption modulation in an electroabsorption modulator to actively mode-lock a semiconductor fiber laser at 10 GHz. The laser cavity also comprises a linearly chirped fiber Bragg grating to obtain wavelength tunable operation based on the dispersion tuning approach. The... | {
"abstract": "This letter presents guidelines of how to design actively mode-locked fiber ring lasers to generate nearly transform-limited soliton pulses. The minimum fiber cavity length and/or dispersion, with which nearly transform-limited soliton pulses can be generated, need to satisfy an additional condition be... |
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"abstract": "In order to improve the performance of internet public sentiment analysis, a text sentiment analysis method combining Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) text representation and convolutional neural network (CNN) is proposed. First, the review texts are collected from the network for preprocessing. Then,... | {
"abstract": "This article provides an interesting exploration of character-level convolutional neural network solving Chinese corpus text classification problem. We constructed a large-scale Chinese language dataset, and the result shows that character-level convolutional neural network works better on Chinese corp... | {
"abstract": "We investigate how neural networks can learn and process languages with hierarchical, compositional semantics. To this end, we define the artificial task of processing nested arithmetic expressions, and study whether different types of neural networks can learn to compute their meaning. We find that re... |
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"abstract": "Seven high-risk clones of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium (VREF) belonging to clonal complex 17 were identified using multilocus sequence typing (MLST) among clinical isolates from Saudi Arabia. Among these isolates, a new hospital-associated sequence type (ST795), VanB(2)-type teicoplanin-re... | {
"abstract": "We aimed to characterize the vancomycin genotype/phenotype, carriage of putative virulence genes, and genetic relatedness of Enterococcus faecium isolates in Saudi Arabia. E. faecium isolated from inpatients at our medical center were studied. Sensitivity to ampicillin, linezolid, teicoplanin, quinupri... | {
"abstract": "ABSTRACT Klebsiella pneumoniae strain 11978 was isolated in Turkey in 2001 and was found to be resistant to all β-lactams, including carbapenems. Cloning and expression in Escherichia coli identified five β-lactamases, including two novel oxacillinases. The β-lactamase OXA-48 hydrolyzed imipenem at a h... |
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"abstract": "Simultaneous two-wavelength polarization and radiance distributions have been obtained for 22 degrees parhelia in four Antarctic ice-crystal swarms that extended to ground level. Samples of crystals that produced these parhelia were collected and replicated. The wavelength dependence of the width of th... | {
"abstract": "Abstract The effect of surface tension in causing the evaporation of the smaller droplets in clouds with simultaneous growth of the larger droplets is an important factor determining the early stages of cumulus cloud droplets. The process is too slow to account for the formation of raindrops. If larger... | {
"abstract": "We have made an experimental investigation of how ion velocity and angle of incidence affect the magnitude and uniformity of secondary electron yield from thin amorphous oxide films. Flat target surfaces of Al2O3 and BeO in a high vacuum of 10−8–10−9 Torr are bombarded with singly‐charged positive ions... |
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"abstract": "Shadow mapping is widely used in computer graphics for efficiently rendering shadows in real-time applications. Shadow maps cannot be filtered as regular textures, thus their limited resolution can cause severe shadow map discretization artifacts in the rendered images. To solve this problem, several t... | {
"abstract": "Shadows play a very important role in enhancing realism of rendered scenes. Scenes without them look unnatural and flat. If you look at them you feel like there is something missing. Furthermore it is hard to determine a spatial relationship between the objects in a scene without shadows. In recent yea... | {
"abstract": "SummaryThe31P-NMR technique has been used to assess the intracellular ratios and concentrations of mobile ATP and ADP and the intracellular pH in an insulin-secreting cell line, RINm5F. The single-channel current-recording technique has been used to investigate the effects of changes in the concentrati... |
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"abstract": "This edition of Review takes its theme from the recent Highway Africa conference in Grahamstown, which in turn has been focusing its conferences, research and news agency reporting on the debates emanating from the World Summit on the Information Society processes for the last two years.",
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"abstract": "A young group inexorably rebels against the forces destroying Africa. By the author of Fragments and The Healers.",
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"title": "Two Thousand Seasons"
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"abstract": "Triply linked porphyrin arrays, so called porphyrin tapes, are intriguing molecules in terms of their planar structures, far red-shifted absorption bands, multi-charge storage abilities, and high conductivities. Recently, porphyrin tape variants such as porphyrin-expanded porphyrin hybrid tapes, porphy... |
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"abstract": "Concrete is the most extensively used construction material in the world, second to water. Increasing rate of urbanization and industrialization has lead to over exploitation of natural resources such as river sand and gravels, which raises sustainability issues. It has now become important to look for... | {
"abstract": "The aim of this study is to test the relevant properties of offshore sand obtained soon after dredging and to examine the effects on chloride levels of offshore sand when fresh water is drained to simulate average monthly rainfalls. The findings are valid for offshore sand that does not require washing... | {
"abstract": "Switchgrass‐derived ethanol has been proposed as an alternative to fossil fuels to improve sustainability of the US energy sector. In this study, life cycle analysis (LCA) was used to estimate the environmental benefits of this fuel. To better define the LCA environmental impacts associated with fertil... |
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"abstract": "With the increasing utilization and popularity of the cloud infrastructure, more and more data are moved to the cloud storage systems. This makes the availability of cloud storage services critically important, particularly given the fact that outages of cloud storage services have indeed happened from... | {
"abstract": "Large distributed storage systems use erasure codes to reliably store data. Compared to replication, erasure codes are capable of reducing storage overhead. However, repairing lost data in an erasure coded system requires reading from many storage devices and transferring over the network large amounts... | {
"abstract": "As the cost of human full genome sequencing continues to fall, we will soon witness a prodigious amount of human genomic data in the public cloud. To protect the confidentiality of the genetic information of individuals, the data has to be encrypted at rest. On the other hand, encryption severely hinde... |
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"abstract": "The behaviour of high-order perturbative-variational wavefunctions, with one or more free parameters, is studied. A variational criterion, and a criterion based upon variation of the norm of the perturbative approximation function with order, are used for fixing free parameters. For the quartic anharmo... | {
"abstract": "Renormalised perturbation series are obtained directly (by the hypervirial method) for the perturbed oscillator and hydrogen atom, and indirectly (by series transformation) for the helium atom.",
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"title": "Renormalised perturbation series"
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"abstract": "Measurements of elastic differential cross sections for electron scattering from acetonitrile (CH3CN) have been performed utilizing a crossed electron-molecular beam experiment and with the relative flow method, for the incident electron energy range of 0.7 eV-30 eV and the scattering angle range of 10... |
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"abstract": "Abstract A scale for the measurement of hypnotic responsiveness in children was constructed with norms provided by testing normal children ages 3 to 16. The test as constructed correlated .67 with SHSS:A, slightly modified in wording to be appropriate for use with children. Because it was designed for ... | {
"abstract": "Pain and Hypnosis. Hypnosis. Pain. Controlling Pain. Hypnosis in Pain Control. Hypnosis and Clinical Pain. Cancer. Obstetrics. Surgery. Dentistry. A Perspective on the Hypnotic Control of Pain. Hidden Pain and Its Interpretation. The Future of Hypnosis in Pain Control. Supplement to the First Edition. ... | {
"abstract": "Eighty families including at least one set of twins were studied to determine intrafamily resemblances in hypnotizability. Each available family member was tested separately on the Stanford Hypnotic Susceptibility Scale. A significant intraclass correlation ofrI=.63 (N=35,p=.001) was found for monozygo... |
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"abstract": "Bone marrow stromal cells (MSCs) have the capability of differentiating into mesenchymal and non-mesenchymal lineages. In this study, MSCs isolated from adult Sprague-Dawley rats were cultured to proliferation, followed by in vitro induction under specific conditions. The results demonstrated that MSCs... | {
"abstract": "Mesenchymal stem cells present in the bone marrow and some other organs are primitive pluripotent precursors of osseous, cartilaginous, adipose, and other mesenchymal tissues. The recently revealed capacity of these cells for differentiation into nonmesenchymal derivatives is of considerable theoretica... | {
"abstract": "The genetic heterogeneity of neuropsychiatric disorders is high, but some pathways emerged, notably synaptic functioning. A large number of mutations have been described in genes such as neuroligins, neurexins, and SHANK that play a role in the formation and the maintenance of synapses. This review foc... |
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"abstract": "Improvement of no-load voltage waveform is one of the important problems for design optimization of generators and quality requirement of electric system. The no-load voltage waveforms of a 45MW hydro-generator are optimized with the asymmetric poles design including the eccentricity of the pole shoes ... | {
"abstract": "This paper presents a combined analytical and finite-element (FE) method for computation of the no-load voltage waveform of laminated salient-pole synchronous generators. The described method takes into account saturation effects as well as the damper bar currents due to the slot pulsation field. The m... | {
"abstract": "An experimental campaign of wire drawing was carried out under different conditions of average die pressure. Experiments were carried out measuring the drawing force and the temperature at the exit of the deformation zone with the use of a thermocouple closely located to the wire-die interface. Dies of... |
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"abstract": "Assistive devices may aid motor recovery after a stroke, but access to such devices is limited. Exosuits can aid human movement and may be more accessible alternatives to current devices, but we know little about how they might assist post-stroke upper extremity movement. Here, we designed an exosuit a... | {
"abstract": "We present the design, modeling, and implementation of a novel pneumatic actuator, the Pneumatic Reel Actuator (PRA). The PRA is highly extensible, lightweight, capable of operating in compression and tension, compliant, and inexpensive. An initial prototype of the PRA can reach extension ratios greate... | {
"abstract": "Electromyographical (EMG) signals have been frequently used to estimate human muscular torques. In the field of human-assistive robotics, these methods provide valuable information to provide effectively support to the user. However, their usability is strongly limited by the necessity of complex user-... |
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"abstract": "Gastric cancer (GC) is the fifth most common cancer in the world and accounts for 7% of the total cancer incidence. The prognosis of GC is dismal in Western countries due to late diagnosis: approximately 70% of the patients die within 5 years following initial diagnosis. Recently, integrative genomic a... | {
"abstract": "ABSTRACT Introduction: Gastric cancer is one of a few gastrointestinal malignancies in which immunotherapy has shown meaningful activity. Pembrolizumab is the first and only immune checkpoint inhibitor to be FDA-approved in gastric cancer. Areas Covered: This review summarizes the current and emerging ... | {
"abstract": "Heads from virgin ♀ crickets. Teleogryllus commodus, yielded 76 ng/head of PGE2, whereas those from mated ♀ ♀ contained approximately double the amount. Smaller but detectable quantities of PGE2 were present in abdominal nerve cords of virgin females. Ovaries from virgins contained 26 ng/organ PGE2, 30... |
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"abstract": "Ferroresonance is a nonlinear oscillatory phenomenon, which occurs in capacitively coupled transformers under certain conditions in a power system. The magnetizing branch of the transformer at no-load is modeled by nonlinear equation. The coupling capacitances are treated as parameters and different nu... | {
"abstract": "A wound potential transformer failed catastrophically on the Manitoba Hydro system. The failure was attributed to excessive current flow in the primary winding due to a sustained ferroresonance between the circuit breaker grading capacitance and nonlinear magnetizing inductance of the potential transfo... | {
"abstract": "The radical forms of two cofactors and an amino acid in the photosystem II (PS II) reaction center were studied by using high-field EPR both in frozen solution and in oriented multilayers. Their orientation with respect to the membrane was determined by using one-dimensionally oriented samples. The rin... |
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"abstract": "Hemicellulosic moieties from opium poppy and cotton stalks were solublized in water at varying alkali concentrations (NaOH) and peroxide (H2O2). The hemicelluloses were then be precipitated from the solutions by acidification. The 2.0 and 3.0% H2O2extractions resulted in a yield of 0.8 and 0.71%, respe... | {
"abstract": "Response surface methodology (RSM) was employed to optimize dilute alkaline pretreatment conditions for the maximum glucose yield of poppy stalk, with respect to NaOH concentration (1.0 to 3.5%, w/v), pretreatment temperature (50 to 100 °C), and pretreatment time (10 to 110 min). Recovery of glucan ran... | {
"abstract": "This research aimed to study the relevant work relating to environmental evaluation associated with global warming, acidification, eutrophication, and human toxicity from the 120 MW combined-cycle cogeneration power plant through use of a life cycle assessment. The functional units of study were one kW... |
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"abstract": "The paper is dedicated to adaptive services enabling real– time image communications. A proposal is made how adaptive strategies can be applied to provide an optimal level of service quality. The service parameters are determined by a currently available communication link, while providing a user with ... | {
"abstract": "The Institute for Telecommunication Sciences (ITS) has developed an objective video quality assessment system that emulates human perception. The perception-based system was developed and tested for a broad range of scenes and video technologies. The 36 test scenes contained widely varying amounts of s... | {
"abstract": "This paper aims to evaluate the operating efficiency of e-market for exploring the efficiency-oriented critical drivers on the development of e-market. A hybrid approach consisting of data envelopment analysis (DEA) and bootstrapped Tobit regression analysis is adopted. The efficiency of forty-three em... |
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"abstract": "The emerald ash borer (EAB, Agrilus planipennis) is a non-native forest pest that has been sweeping across North America causing widespread mortality of trees in the genus Fraxinus, which includes the economically valuable white ash (F. americana). The rapid spread and lethality of EAB, paired with low... | {
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"title": "Forest ecosystems of the Šumava Mts. and their management"
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"abstract": "This article identifies the factors that have an impact on mobile recommender systems. Recommender systems have become a technology that has been widely used by various online applications in situa...",
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"title": "Mobile recommender systems: Identifying the majo... |
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"abstract": "We prospectively randomized 51 patients with haematological malignancy requiring platelet concentrates (PCs) to receive either single donor plateletpheresis products (SD‐PC), PCs made from pooled buffy coats (BC‐PC) or pooled units of platelets made by the platelet‐rich plasma method (PRP‐PC). The leuc... | {
"abstract": "Over the last 15 years, there has been a trend in the United States towards the increasing use of apheresis platelet (AP) concentrates over whole‐blood‐derived platelets (WBP). Although 1‐h‐ and 24‐h‐corrected count increments tend to be higher with AP, this does not translate into improved haemostatic... | {
"abstract": "METHODS Basal medium. A modification of the folic acid assay medium described by Waters & Mollin (1961) was used. Excess folic acid (20 ng/ml) was included in the medium but purines and pyrimidines were omitted. Buffering capacity was increased by addition of 0.2 MSorensen's phosphate buffer, pH 6.6 (5... |
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"abstract": "Convolutional neural network (CNN) driven by image recognition has been shown to be able to explain cortical responses to static pictures at ventral-stream areas. Here, we further showed that such CNN could reliably predict and decode functional magnetic resonance imaging data from humans watching natu... | {
"abstract": "Propelled by advances in biologically inspired computer vision and artificial intelligence, the past five years have seen significant progress in using deep neural networks to model response patterns of neurons in visual cortex. In this paper, we briefly review this progress and then discuss eight key ... | {
"abstract": "Abstract In this paper, we introduce a novel type of Rectified Linear Unit (ReLU), called a Dual Rectified Linear Unit (DReLU). A DReLU, which comes with an unbounded positive and negative image, can be used as a drop-in replacement for a tanh activation function in the recurrent step of Quasi-Recurren... |
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"abstract": "An integrated optical switch consisting of a Mach-Zehnder Interferometer with photonic crystals-based phase shifters is designed for telecom wavelength range. The phase modulation along the two arms of the interferometer comes from the photonic band-to-band transition on the photonic crystals that lead... | {
"abstract": "In this letter, a Mach-Zehnder-based four-port switching module was designed and fabricated by a 0.8-μm standard commercial complementary metal-oxide semiconductor line. The module is composed of five electro-optic switching elements and can be used to realize nonblocking switching for the duplex inter... | {
"abstract": "We demonstrated a hitless wavelength-channel-selective switch (hitless tunable add-drop filter) using thermooptic effect of double series coupled dielectric microring resonator. Using a dielectric material as the core, the response time was reduced to 105 (rise time) and 15 mus (fall time), which are 1... |
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"abstract": "Single-domain theory1 has been remarkably successful as a theoretical basis for rock magnetism and hence palaeomagnetism. However, the grain size of much of the magnetic material present in rocks is too large to be single-domain according to classical theory2. The resolution of this paradox may lie in ... | {
"abstract": "The cooling behaviour of partial thermoremanences (pTRM) below the acquisition temperature (T ) is reported for the first time for well defined, sized, synthetic multidomain magnetite samples produced by hydrothermal recrystallisation. The pTRM cooling behaviour of low-stress magnetite samples, is simi... | {
"abstract": "The creep‐induced anisotropy Kc, the field‐induced anisotropy Kf, and the saturation magnetization Ms have been measured from 77 to 300 K on a zero‐magnetostriction cobalt‐based amorphous alloy. The temperature dependence of both anisotropies can be expressed as K=kMn, with n=2.6±0.1. Since both anisot... |
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"abstract": "In 19 patients with unstable angina pectoris at rest, plasma levels of the platelet-derived proteins β-thromboglobulin and platelet factor 4 were significantly elevated in blood samples obtained during or within 4 hours after episodes of angina, but were usually normal during quiescent intervals. Plasm... | {
"abstract": "Circulating platelet microthrombi were evaluated during the acute and convalescent phases of illness in 44 patients admitted to the hospital for chest pain. Similar studies were performed in 10 healthy volunteers and 6 patients with infection. Circulating platelet microthrombi were significantly increa... | {
"abstract": "Trehalose, a multi-functional and value-added disaccharide, can be efficiently biosynthesized from glucose by using a synergetic carbon utilization mechanism (SynCar) which coupled phosphoenolpyruvate (PEP) generation from the second carbon source with PEP-dependent phosphotransferase system (PTS) to p... |
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"abstract": "This paper proposes model-based non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) for estimating basis spectra and activations, detecting note onsets and offsets, and determining beat locations, simultaneously. Multipitch analysis is a process of detecting the pitch and onset of each note from a musical signal. ... | {
"abstract": "Recently, new methods for smart decomposition of time-frequency representations of audio have been proposed in order to address the problem of automatic music transcription. However those techniques are not necessarily suitable for notes having variations of both pitch and spectral envelope over time. ... | {
"abstract": "\n Virtual reality (VR) technology have become ever matured today. Various research and practice have demonstrated the potential benefits of using VR in different application area of manufacturing, such as in factory layout planning, product design, training, etc. However, along with the new possibilit... |
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"abstract": "The Position Based Dynamics approach (PBD) recently introduced allows robust simulations of dynamic systems in real time. The simplicity of the method is due to the fact, that the solver processes the constraints one by one in a Gauss-Seidel type manner. In contrast to global Newton-Raphson solvers, th... | {
"abstract": "We present a novel framework for the dynamic simulation of elastic deformable solids. Our approach combines classical finite element methodology with a multiresolution subdivision framework in order to produce fast, easy to use, and realistic animations. We represent deformations using a hierarchical b... | {
"abstract": "The linear strain measures that are commonly used in real-time animations of deformable objects yield fast and stable simulations. However, they are not suitable for large deformations. Recently, more realistic results have been achieved in computer graphics by using Green's non-linear strain tensor, b... |
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"abstract": "Abstract We report a case of a pediatric patient with an initial diagnosis of peritonsillar cellulitis made by otolaryngology. The findings from a subsequent transcutaneous point-of-care ultrasound by a pediatric emergency physician directly affected the decision to perform needle aspiration. Sonograph... | {
"abstract": "BackgroundVarious reports support the use of cervical spine (c-spine) CT over conventional radiography in screening of c-spine injury. Interest now exists in diagnostic radiation-induced morbidity.ObjectiveTo estimate excess relative risk for developing cancer from c-spine high-resolution CT radiation ... | {
"abstract": "Background and Purpose— In a previous study, 0.3 and 0.45 mg/kg of intravenous recombinant tissue plasminogen activator (rt-PA) were safe when combined with eptifibatide 75 mcg/kg bolus and a 2-hour infusion (0.75 mcg/kg per minute). The Combined Approach to Lysis Utilizing Eptifibatide and rt-PA in Ac... |
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"abstract": "Melodic motifs form essential building blocks in Indian Classical music. The motifs, or key phrases, provide strong cues to the identity of the underlying raga in both Hindustani and Carnatic styles of Indian music. Thus the automatic detection of such recurring basic melodic shapes from audio is of re... | {
"abstract": "Comunicacio presentada a la 14th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference, celebrada a Curitiba (Brasil) els dies 4 a 8 de novembre de 2013.",
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"title": "Essentia: An Audio Analysis Library for Music Information Retrieval"
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"abstract": "Abstract This paper describes current trends in the prediction of crop pests using machine learning technology. With the advent of data mining, the field of agriculture is also focused on it. Currently, various studies, domestic and overseas, are under progress using machine learning technology, and ca... |
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"abstract": "Philosophers of science have examined The Theory of Island Biogeography by Robert MacArthur and E. O. Wilson (1967) mainly due to its important contribution to modeling in ecology, but they have not examined it as a representative case of ecological explanation. In this paper, I scrutinize the type of ... | {
"abstract": "In this paper I offer an analysis of causation based upon a theory of mechanisms-complex systems whose “internal” parts interact to produce a system's “external” behavior. I argue that all but the fundamental laws of physics can be explained by reference to mechanisms. Mechanisms provide an epistemolog... | {
"abstract": "Species-rich plant communities are prized repositories of biodiversity and a dwindling resource, but how the large numbers of species that characterize such communities are able to coexist is poorly understood. Resource-based competition theory predicts that stable coexistence between species depends o... |
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"abstract": "Convolutional neural network (CNN) based methods have achieved great success in image classification and object detection tasks. However, unlike the image classification task, object detection is much more computation-intensive and energy-consuming since a large number of possible object proposals need... | {
"abstract": "We present an integrated framework for using Convolutional Networks for classification, localization and detection. We show how a multiscale and sliding window approach can be efficiently implemented within a ConvNet. We also introduce a novel deep learning approach to localization by learning to predi... | {
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"title": "MOBILE PHONE ANTENNA USING SLOTTED GROUND STRUCTURE"
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"abstract": "ON March 14, 1962, H.M.S. Protector encountered an extensive raft of large and small pumice fragments in the neighbourhood of Zavodovski Island in the South Sandwich Islands1. It is believed that this pumice was erupted on March 5 from a submarine volcano which forms a shoal, minimum depth 15 fathoms, ... | {
"abstract": "We attempt to quantify how significant the polar archipelago of South Georgia is as a source of regional and global marine biodiversity. We evaluate numbers of rare, endemic and range-edge species and how the faunal structure of South Georgia may respond to some of the fastest warming waters on the pla... | {
"abstract": "Research in the field of dust inhalation has demonstrated that, in general, the degree of health hazard associated with the inhalation of any dust, all other factors remaining constant, is dependent upon the mineral composition of the dust. For example, it has been found that the harmfulness of a quart... |
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"abstract": "Talking about sexual health can be a challenge for some older women. This project was initiated to identify key factors that improve communication between aging women and their primary care providers. A sample of women (aged 60+) completed an online survey regarding their intent to communicate with a p... | {
"abstract": "INTRODUCTION\nDespite increasing demand for clinical interventions into sexual problems in an aging population, epidemiological data on the subject are scarce.\n\n\nAIMS\nTo examine the prevalence of sexual problems across different sociodemographic groups, and risk factors for these problems in multip... | {
"abstract": "Abstract The question of whether historic wrecks are risks or resources is a matter of perception and understanding. This paper discusses how shipwrecks can be, and have been, perceived as either risks and/or resources or neither, but yet how wrecks tend to be thoughtlessly labelled as resources, in pa... |
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"abstract": "Background: This randomized trial was undertaken to investigate the effect of experimentally induced allergy on orthodontic induced root resorption. Materials and Methods: A total of 30 Wistar rats were divided randomly into test and control groups. Starting from the first 3 days, the rats in the test ... | {
"abstract": "OBJECTIVES\nTo investigate the effect of acute and chronic corticosteroid treatment on orthodontically induced root resorption.\n\n\nDESIGN\n'Split mouth' design performing orthodontic tooth movement in 64, 6-month-old male rats divided into three groups: acute (n = 22), chronic (n = 23) and control gr... | {
"abstract": "PURPOSE\nRadiation dose from CT examination depends on the position relative to the irradiated region in the longitudinal direction. The objective of this work is to present a mechanism for calculating dose at any point on a line parallel to the axis of rotation.\n\n\nMETHODS\nIn a medium that is unifo... |
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"abstract": "AbstractLarge-scale DNA sequencing, coupled with in silico gene trapping, is a robust approach to identifying unknown genes in selected genomic regions. Using this approach we have isolated a novel human gene, PROSC (for proline synthetase co-transcribed [bacterial homolog]), from human chromosome 8p11... | {
"abstract": "Amplification of 8p11–12 is a well-known alteration in human breast cancers but the driving oncogene has not been identified. We have developed a high-resolution comparative genomic hybridization array covering 8p11–12 and analysed 33 primary breast tumors, 20 primary ovarian tumors and 27 breast cance... | {
"abstract": "The arcABC operon of Pseudomonas aeruginosa encodes arginine deiminase, catabolic ornithine carbamoyltransferase and carbamate kinase, respectively. We have determined the nucleotide sequences of the arcA and arcC genes. The arcA open reading frame specifies a polypeptide of 46.3 kDa. The same molecula... |
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"abstract": "There is a broad consensus among scholars and policymakers on the need to promote entrepreneurship among all segments of society, especially in developing nations. While female entrepreneurship is common in Nigeria, scholars have identified a “gender gap” in business longevity, profit margin and indust... | {
"abstract": "In this article we provide an introduction to the papers in the special section of this edition of the European Journal of Development Research. We start by framing the challenges posed by female entrepreneurship to the research community, note some of the findings in the literature pertaining to the c... | {
"abstract": "Abstract \nThis study documents how owners of small businesses arrive at growth objectives for their firms. The decision to pursue (or not) a growth objective involves trade-offs among both financial and non-financial factors. Owners' growth decisions appear to be shaped by attitudes towards owners' pe... |
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"abstract": "In visual crowding, target discrimination strongly deteriorates when flanking elements are added. We have recently shown that crowding cannot be explained by simple low-level interactions and that grouping is a key component instead. We presented a vernier flanked by arrays of vertical lines. When the ... | {
"abstract": "Research on neural correlates of consciousness has been conducted and carried out mostly from within two relatively autonomous paradigmatic traditions – studying the specific contents of conscious experience and their brain-process correlates and studying the level of consciousness. In the present pape... | {
"abstract": "This paper examines humanitarianism's moral positioning above private and political interests to save lives and alleviate suffering. It does not aim to assess the legitimacy of this stance, but rather to probe the way in which humanitarian actors relate to this moral dimension in their everyday work. I... |
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"abstract": "Mesorhizobium loti MAFF303099 has a functional type III secretion system (T3SS) that is involved in the determination of nodulation competitiveness on Lotus. The M. loti T3SS cluster contains gene y4yS (mlr8765) that codes for a protein of unknown function (Y4yS). A mutation in the y4yS gene favors the... | {
"abstract": "Mesorhizobium loti MAFF303099, a microsymbiont of the model legume Lotus japonicus, possesses a cluster of genes (tts) that encode a type III secretion system (T3SS). In the presence of heterologous nodD from Rhizobium leguminosarum and a flavonoid naringenin, we observed elevated expression of the tts... | {
"abstract": "In-situ functionalization of gold nanoparticles with fluorophore-tagged oligonucleotides is studied by comparing femtosecond laser ablation in stationary liquid and in biomolecule flow. Femtosecond laser pulses induce significant degradation to sensitive biomolecules when ablating gold in a stationary ... |
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"abstract": "We developed a new technique to observe macroautophagy in the brain in vivo, and examined whether fasting induced macroautophagy in neurons and how the induction was different between Alzheimer’s disease (AD) model and control mice. Lentivirus for EGFP-LC3 injected into the brain successfully visualize... | {
"abstract": "Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the most common neurodegenerative disease, but it remains an intractable condition. Its pathogenesis is predominantly attributed to the aggregation and transmission of two molecules, Aβ and tau; however, other pathological mechanisms are possible. Here, we reveal that phosph... | {
"abstract": "ABSTRACT Pestiviruses represent the first RNA viruses for which recombination with cellular protein-coding sequences has been reported. As a result of such recombinations cytopathogenic (cp) pestiviruses can develop from noncytopathogenic (noncp) viruses. In the case of bovine viral diarrhea virus (BVD... |
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"abstract": "Introduction Wide complex tachycardias have a broad differential diagnosis including ventricular tachycardia (VT), antidromic reciprocating tachycardia (ART), supraventricular tachycardia (SVT) with aberrancy, atrial tachycardia (AT) or atrioventricular nodal reentry tachycardia (AVNRT) with a bystande... | {
"abstract": "Accessory pathways showing decremental properties and inserting into the right ventricle have been frequently described as \"nodoventricular\" or Mahaim pathways. However, conclusive evidence for a nodal origination of such pathways is lacking. The patient in this study had characteristics typical of s... | {
"abstract": "Five patients with recurrent bouts of supraventricular tachycardia proved resistant or became intolerant of both conventional and experimental drugs. These patients were subjected to a new procedure involving delivery of DC shocks to an electrode catheter positioned adjacent to the His bundle. Complete... |
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"abstract": "Introduction Increasing public awareness and knowledge about the need for colorectal cancer (CRC) screening among American Indians is key to reducing health disparities. The objective of this study was to assess Navajo adults' knowledge of CRC risk factors and prevention, CRC screening, and self-report... | {
"abstract": "PurposeThe purpose of this study was to examine the prevalence rates for cervical, breast, and colorectal cancer screening among American Indian and Alaska Native people living in Alaska and in the Southwest US, and to investigate predictive factors associated with receiving each of the cancer screenin... | {
"abstract": "This article discusses the findings and practical import of the authors' study of the fuel hedging activity of 28 U.S. airlines during the period 1992-2003. The aim of the study was to answer the following question: Does fuel hedging add value to the airlines and, if so, how? The airline industry provi... |
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"abstract": "An iron-catalyzed chemo- and diastereoselective reduction of α,β-unsaturated ketones into the corresponding saturated ketones in mild reaction conditions is reported herein. DFT calculations and experimental work underline that transfer hydride reduction is a more facile process than hydrogenation, unv... | {
"abstract": "Herein we have developed a Ni-catalyzed protocol for the synthesis of linear ketones. Aryl, alkyl, and heteroaryl ketones as well as alcohols yielded the monoselective ketones in up to 90% yield. The catalytic protocol was successfully applied in to a gram-scale synthesis. For a practical utility, appl... | {
"abstract": "Transfer hydrogenation catalyzed by an iridium catalyst with 4,4'-dihydroxy-2,2'-bipyridine (DHBP) in an aqueous formate solution exhibits highly pH-dependent catalytic activity and chemoselectivity. The substantial change in the activity is due to the electronic effect based on the acid-base equilibri... |
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"abstract": "Building high quality synthesis systems with open domain vocabulary and a small audio database is a challenging problem, even when the targeted application is well constrained. Monophone unit concatenation (as opposed to diphone) is an approach that can compensate for the poor unit coverage that a smal... | {
"abstract": "Machine generated speech can be produced in different ways however there are two basic methods for synthesizing speech in widespread use. One method generates speech from models, while the other method concatenates pre-stored speech segments. This paper presents a speech synthesis technique where these... | {
"abstract": "We propose a hybrid voice conversion method which employs a combination of techniques using HMM-based unit selection and spectrum generation. In the proposed method, the HMM-based unit selection selects the most likely unit for the required phoneme context from the target speaker's corpus when candidat... |
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"abstract": "The root rot pathogens in Norway spruce (Picea abies) Heterobasidion ssp. cause substantial loss in carbon sequestered in forest and economic revenue for forest owners. To facilitate strategic breeding planning for increased resistance against this pathogen in particular, the blue stain fungus Endoconi... | {
"abstract": "ABSTRACT Plantations of genetically improved forest trees are critical for economic sustainability in forestry. This review summarizes gains in objective traits and the resulting economic impact of tree breeding programmes in Scandinavia and Finland. Genetic improvement of forest trees in these countri... | {
"abstract": "We present a model describing the demand dynamics of two new products competing for a limited target market. The demand trajectories of the two products are driven by a market saturation effect and an imitation effect reflecting the product experience of previous adopters. In this general setting, we p... |
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"abstract": "Fibromyalgia is defined as a chronic musculoskeletal disorder characterized by widespread pain, exquisite tenderness at specific anatomic sites (`̀ tender points''), and other clinical manifestations such as fatigue, sleep disturbance, and irritable bowel syndrome [1]. Although fibromyalgia has been re... | {
"abstract": "The authors should be complimented for bringing to the attention of those working with spinal cord injury patients the unusual feature of self-biting of fingers in tetraplegic patients (Dahlin ex ai., 1985). In nearly 12 years spent in the Spinal Cord Injury Service of the Veterans Administration in Bo... | {
"abstract": "Automated segmentation of the esophagus in CT images is of high value to radiologists for oncological examinations of the mediastinum. It can serve as a guideline and prevent confusion with pathological tissue. However, segmentation is a challenging problem due to low contrast and versatile appearance ... |
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"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nTaqMan-minor groove binder (MGB) probes were used in a real-time PCR-based assay for the rapid and accurate detection of hepatitis B virus (HBV) YMDD mutants.\n\n\nMETHODS\nTaqMan-MGB probes were designed to distinguish between wild-type (YMDD) and mutant (YVDD and YIDD) strains of HBV. The... | {
"abstract": "ABSTRACT Drug-resistant mutations of hepatitis B virus (HBV) are the major obstacles to successful therapy for chronic hepatitis B infection. Although there are many methods for detecting the antiviral drug-resistant mutations of HBV, their applications are restricted because of their shortcomings, suc... | {
"abstract": "The relationship between handedness and cognitive function varies across studies, perhaps partly due to the many medical and psychiatric conditions with known cognitive impact. This study examined cognitive performance in 643 healthy individuals (age 5–82) who were categorized as strongly right-handed,... |
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"abstract": "Massive data to facilitate decision making for organizations and their corporate users exist in many forms, types and formats. Importantly, the acquisition and retrieval of relevant supporting information should be timely, precise and complete. Unfortunately, due to differences in syntax and semantics,... | {
"abstract": "A number of proposals for integrating geographical (Geographical Information Systems-GIS) and multidimensional (data warehouse-DW and online analytical processing-OLAP) processing are found in the database literature. However, most of the current approaches do not take into account the use of a GDW (ge... | {
"abstract": "We present fast strongly universal string hashing families: they can process data at a rate of 0.2 CPU cycle per byte. Maybe surprisingly, we find that these families—though they require a large buffer of random numbers—are often faster than popular hash functions with weaker theoretical guarantees. Mo... |
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"abstract": "OBJECTIVE\nExamine the association between county occupational structure, public expenditures, services availability, prevalence of risk factors, and coronary mortality rates, for 1980-1994, in Washington state.\n\n\nDESIGN\nWashington's 39 counties were classified into three occupational structure cat... | {
"abstract": "Study objective: Occupational structure represents the unequal geographical distribution of more desirable jobs among communities (for example, white collar jobs). This study examines joint effects of social class, race, and county occupational structure on coronary mortality rates for men, ages 35–64 ... | {
"abstract": "IntroductionEven after surgery and intensive postoperative management, the mortality rate associated with colorectal perforation is high. Identification of mortality markers using routinely available preoperative parameters is important.MethodsWe enrolled consecutive patients with colorectal perforatio... |
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"abstract": "The objective of the study was to observe the effect of evaporative cooling during late gestation on immunity around the transition period and the probable outcome on reproductive disorders in Murrah buffaloes. Sixteen pregnant dry Murrah buffaloes at 60 days prepartum were selected and divided into tw... | {
"abstract": "Heat stress (HT) and photoperiod affect milk production and immune status of dairy cows. The objective was to evaluate the effects of HT abatement prepartum under controlled photoperiod on hepatic metabolic gene expression and cellular immune function of periparturient Holstein cows (n=21). Cows were d... | {
"abstract": "The sow's breeding value for mothering ability (EBVma) can be estimated as the genetic effect of the foster sow on piglet survival at weaning. Sows with a high EBVma have litters with a short average interval from birth until first colostrum intake. In the present study, it was investigated whether sow... |
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"abstract": "Additionally to the forearm rolling test to detect mild unilateral upper limb dysfunction, the bed cycling test (BCT) for detection of mild to moderate lower limb dysfunction was developed, evaluated and compared to the leg holding test.",
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"abstract": "OBJECTIVE\nTo assess the inter-rater and intra-rater reliability and validity of the original and a modified Medical Research Council scale for testing muscle strength in radial palsy.\n\n\nDESIGN\nProspective, randomized validation study.\n\n\nPATIENTS\nThirty-one patients with peripheral paresis of r... | {
"abstract": "We compared the reliability of asymmetry of forearm rolling (rotation of one forearm around the other in front of the torso) as a sign of unilateral cerebral dysfunction with that of other standard clinical tests. We studied 62 patients with radiologically confirmed unilateral cerebral lesions and 20 c... |
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"abstract": "Both the Mexican crisis of 1994–95 and the Asian financial crisis of 1997–98 have been preceded by large current account deficits run by the affected economies. External deficits are often assumed to play an important role in the propagation of financial crises in emerging markets. Policymakers are fac... | {
"abstract": "An ambitious successor to W. Max Corden's highly acclaimed Inflation, Exchange Rates, and the World Economy , this book addresses topics in international macroeconomics that have come to the forefront of economic policy debates in recent years. Covering exchange rate policy, the European Monetary Syste... | {
"abstract": "This paper examines whether, as has usually been assumed, there is a trade-off between the degree of flexibility in exchange rates and the extent of reserve use. The first section of the paper constructs a measure of reserve use in order to examine changes in the extent of reserve use since the advent ... |
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"abstract": "This paper proposes a new method to reverse engineer gene regulatory networks from experimental data. The modeling framework used is time-discrete deterministic dynamical systems, with a finite set of states for each of the variables. The simplest examples of such models are Boolean networks, in which ... | {
"abstract": "BackgroundA major goal of computational studies of gene regulation is to accurately predict the expression of genes based on the cis-regulatory content of their promoters. The development of computational methods to decode the interactions among cis-regulatory elements has been slow, in part, because i... | {
"abstract": "We describe OSIRIS, a three-dimensional, relativistic, massively parallel, object oriented particle-in-cell code for modeling plasma based accelerators. Developed in Fortran 90, the code runs on multiple platforms (Cray T3E, IBM SP, Mac clusters) and can be easily ported to new ones. Details on the cod... |
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"abstract": "Perception is a multisensory process, and previous work has shown that multisensory interactions occur not only for object-related stimuli but also for simplistic and apparently unrelated inputs to the different senses. We here compare the facilitation of visual perception induced by transient (target-... | {
"abstract": "Spatial constraints on multisensory integration of auditory (A) and visual (V) stimuli were investigated in humans using behavioral and electrophysiological measures. The aim was to find out whether cross-modal interactions between A and V stimuli depend on their spatial congruity, as has been found fo... | {
"abstract": "The present experiment offers event-related potential evidence suggesting that modulation of neural activity in the visual cortex underlies top-down attentional capture by irrelevant cues. Participants performed a covert visual search task where they identified the unique stimulus in a brief, four-loca... |
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"abstract": "Context Adult survivors of childhood cancer are at risk for developing breast cancer and other secondary cancer. Knowing the risk factors for breast cancer in these women may help to formulate screening policies for them. Contribution Among 6068 women who survived childhood cancer, 95 developed breast ... | {
"abstract": "Purpose: Previous studies have shown an increased risk of second primary malignancies (SPMs) in survivors of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL). Survivors live longer due to the intensi fi cation of and improvements in therapy; thus, we aimed to characterize SPM patterns in patients with DLBCL by tre... | {
"abstract": "A significant increase in the risk of breast cancer has been found for the most recent 5-year period of a long-term follow-up study of children subjected to scalp irradiation, in whom a carcinogenic effect was previously only apparent in the head and neck. This increased risk was found among women aged... |
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"abstract": "Cell-cell signaling is a central process in the formation of multicellular organisms. Notch (N) is the receptor of a conserved signaling pathway that regulates numerous developmental decisions, and the misregulation of N has been linked to various physiological and developmental disorders. The endocyto... | {
"abstract": "Endocytic adaptor proteins select specific cargo for internalization by endocytosis through clathrin-coated pits or vesicles. Recent studies indicate that epsins might also be classified as adaptors.",
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"title": "Epsins: adaptors in endocytosis?"
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"abstract": "Community wildlife management programs in African protected areas aim to deliver livelihood and social benefits to local communities in order to bolster support for their conservation objectives. Most of these benefits are delivered at the community level. However, many local people are also seeking mo... |
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"abstract": "Here we describe scintillation properties of Pb(W0.95-Mo0.05)O4:La,Y material. It is fast, dense and radiation hard scintillation material with scintillation band maximum 512 nm. Scintillator allows effective discrimination of scintillation and Cherenkov light from the crystal. It can be applied at the... | {
"abstract": "Eight PbWO4 crystals produced for the electromagnetic calorimeter of t he CMS experiment at LHC have been irradiated in a 20 GeV/c proton beam up to fluences of 5.4 × 10 13 p/cm 2 . The damage recovery in these crystals, stored in the dark at room temperature, has been followed for over a year. Compara... | {
"abstract": "In this article are discussed the implications that the analysis and evaluation of their work at the micro and macro economy and thus the general welfare of the population. Accommodate such links are proven - effect may first centralized in a single article, the processes of job analysis and evaluation... |
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"abstract": "This paper is concerned with a novel statistical–genetic approach for the construction of linkage maps in populations obtained from reciprocal translocation heterozygotes of barley (Hordeum vulgare L.). Using standard linkage analysis, translocations usually lead to ‘pseudo-linkage’: the mixing up of m... | {
"abstract": "The growing area of European hazelnut (Corylus avellana L.) is increasing, as well as the number of producing countries, and there is a pressing need for new improved cultivars. Hazelnut conventional breeding process is slow, due to the length of juvenile phase and the high heterozygosity level. The de... | {
"abstract": "Echovirus 3 (E3), a serotype of human enterovirus B (HEV-B), causes severe diseases in infants. Here, we determined the structures of E3 with a monoclonal antibody (MAb) 6D10 by cryo-EM to comprehensively understand the specificities and the immunological characteristic of this serotype. The solved cry... |
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"abstract": "FROM recent work1 it would seem that L-serine ethanol-amine phosphodiester (L-SEP) is found only in the tissues of fish, amphibians, reptiles and birds. D-SEP, on the other hand, appears to be confined to earthworms2, where it is the biological precursor of lombricine3. The status of the work on both i... | {
"abstract": "Phosphorus nuclear magnetic resonance studies of various normal and dystrophic muscles have demonstrated differences in phosphodiester contents. Dystrophic chicken pectoralis muscle contains elevated levels of the diester SEP, and Duchenne dystrophic human leg muscle lacks the diester GPC. It is shown ... | {
"abstract": "Worms were collected locally when weather conditions favoured, otherwise they were obtained from L. Haig and Co., Beam Brook, Newdigate, Surrey, and identified as Lumbricus terrestris L. Ion-exchange resins. C50D was a gift from Phillips and Pain-Vermorel, 31, Rue de la Vanne, Montrouge, Seine, France.... |
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"abstract": "In their [letter][1], Bahr and colleagues report their inability to detect lipoarabinomannan (LAM) in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) of patients with tuberculous meningitis (TBM) by using a lateral flow assay (Determine TB LAM; Alere, Waltham, MA, USA). Several studies have shown LAM positivity in",
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"abstract": "A new paradigm in neuroscience has recently emerged – the brain–gut axis (BGA). The contemporary focus in this paradigm has been gut → brain (“bottom-up”), in which the gut-microbiome, and its perturbations, affects one’s psychological state-of-mind and behavior, and is pivotal in neurodegenerative dis... | {
"abstract": "Aims: To determine the clinicopathological features of colorectal cancer (CRC) in Crohn's disease (CD).",
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"title": "Colorectal neoplasia in Crohn's colitis: a retrospective comparative study with ulcerative colitis"
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"abstract": "BackgroundDespite many initiatives to enhance the rational use of antibiotics, there remains substantial room for improvement. The overall aim of this study is to optimise the appropriate use of antibiotics in German ambulatory care in patients with acute non-complicated infections (respiratory tract i... | {
"abstract": "World-wide, shortages of primary care physicians and an increased demand for services have provided the impetus for delivering team-based primary care. The diversity of the primary care workforce is increasing to include a wider range of health professionals such as nurse practitioners, registered nurs... | {
"abstract": "The usual depictions of modern life impacting the environment include images of traffic-jammed highways, smoke-belching factories, and perhaps a few schools of fish floating belly-up in polluted water. Rarely do we see people working at their PCs or stacks of servers in data centers. Computers don't ha... |
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"abstract": "An 89-year-old man with massive bleeding and severe pelvic fracture caused by traffic accident was brought to a nearby emergency room. On the time of arrival, his pelvic painworsened and gradually reached unstable conscious level. The Glasgow coma scale was E3V4M5. After initial evaluation and resuscit... | {
"abstract": "Hemorrhage is a major cause of mortality in pelvic fractures. Bleeding can be controlled in hypotensive patients by direct ligation, angiographic embolization, pelvic packing, and acute external fixation. Acute application of an external fixator can reduce pelvic volume and reduce bleeding fractures to... | {
"abstract": "The Adaptive Noise Canceller (ANC) is a commonly used adaptive filter for estimating signal in additive noise. An important factor that effects the performance of the ANC is the signal crosstalk between the primary and reference channels of the ANC. This results in reduced output Signal-to-Noise Ratios... |
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"abstract": "This contribution reports the growth of InAsP quantum dots on InP(001) using metalorganic vapor phase epitaxy. We show that the control of the voluntary phosphorus incorporation into the quantum dots allows both to tune their emission to 1.55 mum and to improve their optical properties.",
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"abstract": "We have investigated the effects of surface-diffusion kinetics on the molecular-beam-epitaxy growth of highly strained In x Ga 1-x As on GaAs(100). Experiments consisted of growing films at different substrate temperatures and characterizing them using reflection high-energy electron diffraction, scann... | {
"abstract": "AbstractWe have determined the shape of InAs quantum dots using reflection high energy electron diffraction. Our results indicate that self-assembled InAs islands possess a pyramidal shape with {136} bounding facets. This shape is characterized by C2v symmetry and a parallelogram base, which is elongat... |
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"abstract": "The association of interleukin-2 (IL-2), interferon alpha-2a (IFNα), 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) has been reported to induce response in metastatic renal cell carcinoma (MRCC). This study evaluated IL-2, IFNα and 5FU as second-line treatment after failure under immunotherapy. A total of 35 patients received ... | {
"abstract": "Chemokines play an important role in regulating tumor-mediated immunity, angiogenesis, and tumor cell metastasis. The chemokine receptor, CXCR3, is expressed in various human tumors, including renal cell carcinoma (RCC). CXCR3 is also associated with antiangiogenic effects in multiple tumors, and we hy... | {
"abstract": "Blockade of potassium channels with 4-aminopryidine (4-AP) restores conduction to demyelinated axons and improves function. Unfortunately, 4-AP causes adverse effects and its clinical effects are unpredictable and limited. Derivatives of 4-AP have been tested in models of spinal cord injury in guinea p... |
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"title": "Enhanced extreme learning machines for image classification"
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"abstract": "Data may often contain noise or irrelevant information, which negatively affect the generalization capability of machine learning algorithms. The objective of dimension reduction algorithms, such as principal component analysis (PCA), non-negative matrix factorization (NMF), random projection (RP), and... | {
"abstract": "It is of great interest in exploiting texture information for classification of hyperspectral imagery (HSI) at high spatial resolution. In this paper, a classification paradigm to exploit rich texture information of HSI is proposed. The proposed framework employs local binary patterns (LBPs) to extract... |
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"abstract": "Phase-shifted converters are practically important to provide high conversion efficiencies through soft-switching techniques. However, the limitation on a resonant inductor current in the converters often leads to a non-fulfillment of the requirement of minimum load current. This paper presents a new p... | {
"abstract": "A full-bridge LLC resonant converter with series-parallel connected transformers for an onboard battery charger of electric vehicles is proposed, which can realize zero voltage switching turn-on of power switches and zero current switching turn-off of rectifier diodes. In this converter, two same small... | {
"abstract": "Inference of correspondences between images from different modalities is an extremely important perceptual ability that enables humans to understand and recognize cross-modal concepts. In this paper, we consider an instance of this problem that involves matching photographs of building interiors with t... |
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"abstract": "Mutants mice carrying targeted inactivations of both retinoic acid receptor (RAR) alpha and RAR gamma (A alpha/A gamma mutants) were analyzed at different embryonic stages, in order to establish the timing of appearance of defects that we previously observed during the fetal period. We show that embryo... | {
"abstract": "Retinoic acid (RA) is essential for both embryonic and adult growth, activating gene transcription via specific nuclear receptors. It is generated, via a retinaldehyde intermediate, from retinol (vitamin A). RA levels require precise regulation by controlled synthesis and catabolism, and when RA concen... | {
"abstract": "Leukaemia inhibitory factor (LIF) is a cytokine that induces macrophage differentiation of the murine Ml myeloid leukaemia cell line1,2. We have isolated a cDNA clone encoding a novel human haemopoietic growth factor, human interleukin for DA cells (HILDA) that supports the proliferation of the murine ... |
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"abstract": "Abstract. In the last years a research project aimed at the assessment of the landslide hazard and susceptibility in the high Cordevole river basin (Eastern Dolomites, Italy) have been carried out. The hazard map was made adopting the Swiss Confederation semi-deterministic approach that takes into acco... | {
"abstract": "In this paper the problem of landslide monitoring and deformation analysis using the Kalman filter and results obtained from a GPS mass-market receiver in real-time is addressed. Landslide monitoring and deformation analysis are relevant aspects about the safety of human life in any terrain where lands... | {
"abstract": "Some Marine Spatial Planning (MSP) case studies have been investigated in order to evidence the importance of highresolution Synthetic Aperture Radar(SAR) wind data in semi-enclosed coastal seas. The MSP technique consisted in the optimum location of mussel aquaculture farms, on the basis of a Sustaina... |
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"abstract": "In this paper a fitted second-order finite difference method is presented for solving singularly perturbed two-point boundary value problems with the boundary layer at both end (left and right) points. We have introduced a fitting factor in second-order tri-diagonal finite difference scheme and it is o... | {
"abstract": "In this paper an exponentially fitted finite difference method is presented for solving singularly perturbed two-point boundary value problems with the boundary layer at one end (left or right) point. A fitting factor is introduced in a tridiagonal finite difference scheme and is obtained from the theo... | {
"abstract": "SummaryWe consider difference methods for the solution of singular perturbations of boundary value problems. The solutions are smooth except in boundary layers of thickness ε|logε|, 0<ε≪1. Various difference schemes with a uniform stepsizeh are considered. In practice,h is usually much larger than the ... |
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"abstract": "We report on the theoretical investigation of the Wigner distribution function (WDF) reconstruction of the motional quantum state of large molecules in de Broglie interference. de Broglie interference of fullerenes and the like already proves the wavelike behaviour of these heavy particles, while we ai... | {
"abstract": "Utilizing the tools of quantum optics to prepare and manipulate quantum states of motion of a mechanical resonator is currently one of the most promising routes to explore non‐classicality at a macroscopic scale. An important quantum optomechanical tool yet to be experimentally demonstrated is the abil... | {
"abstract": "The study and control of molecular dynamics through the use of femtosecond laser techniques require an understanding of various orders of molecular wave-packet phenomena such as revivals. We present the observation of fractional revivals in a vibrational wave packet: the B state of the Br2 molecule. Fr... |
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"abstract": "BackgroundThe majority of colorectal complications after kidney transplantation reportedly occur <1 year of transplant. We aimed to identify differences in complications in the early and late posttransplant period.MethodsWe retrospectively reviewed kidney transplant recipients undergoing colorectal res... | {
"abstract": "Background The absence of a normal functioning vagina can have a profound impact on women's quality of life and psychological well being. Frasier syndrome is a rare autosomal recessive disorder which presents with male pseudohermaphroditism with gonadal dysgenesis, renal failure in early adulthood and ... | {
"abstract": "The sound absorption capacity of one type of aluminum alloy foams—trade name Alporas—is studied experimentally. The foam in its as-received cast form contains closed porosities, and hence does not absorb sound well. To make the foam more transparent to air motion, techniques based on either rolling or ... |
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"abstract": "Native and exotic sessile invertebrates can act as habitat modifiers and influence the diversity and composition of associated epifaunal communities. Theory and empirical research pre- dict that greater habitat structural complexity will generally result in higher abundance, richness, and diversity of ... | {
"abstract": "Coastal marine ecosystems worldwide are being altered rapidly by the invasion of nonindigenous species. Unlike terrestrial and freshwater systems, the impacts of an invading species have never been quantified on multiple trophic levels for a marine food web. We measured the impact of the nonindigenous ... | {
"abstract": "Indigenous knowledge is a multilayered knowledge system that can effectively manage global ecosystem and biodiversity conservation. Conservation is an applied discipline with the goal of preserving the world's biodiversity and ecosystems. However, settler–coloniser conservation practices often fail to ... |
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"abstract": "A multiple loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) method was developed to detect cow and goat milk in the field using a portable fluorescence device. For rapid on-site detection, this duplex LAMP assay was used in combination with direct amplification, without DNA extraction. The cow- and goat-s... | {
"abstract": "The objective of this study was to develop a fluorogenic real-time PCR-based assay for detecting and quantifying amounts of cow milk in cow/goat milk mixtures or goat milk products. In order to quantify the exact amount of cow milk in cow/goat raw milk mixtures and commercial goat milk products, it was... | {
"abstract": "The development of microfluidic tools for nucleic acid analysis has become a burgeoning area of research during the postgenome era. Here we have developed a microfluidic device that integrates reverse transcription (RT) and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) with online fluorescence detection to realize a... |
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"abstract": "During the past decade, unprecedented changes have taken place in the economic life of Asia. Major reforms have been undertaken in large countries like China and India; also smaller Asian countries like Mongolia have moved away from centrally planned socialist systems to market-oriented structures, whi... | {
"abstract": "Cluster analysis shows that China can be clustered into three groups in a meaningful way. After clustering China into three groups based on statistical data, we surveyed Chinese employees to examine the work goals differences among the three groups. Chinese employees considered opportunities for promot... | {
"abstract": "The new issue process in Tunisia is examined and evidence for underpricing and aftermarket performance of Initial Public Offerings are presented. Substantial positive abnormal returns are obtained in the short run and this finding is similar to that reported in other nations. A positive aftermarket ret... |
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"abstract": "Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), spinal bulbar muscular atrophy (or Kennedy's disease), spinal muscular atrophy and spinal muscular atrophy with respiratory distress 1 are neurodegenerative disorders mainly affecting motor neurons and which currently lack effective therapies. Recent studies in anim... | {
"abstract": "Migration toward pathology is the first critical step in stem cell engagement during regeneration. Neural stem cells (NSCs) migrate through the parenchyma along nonstereotypical routes in a precise directed manner across great distances to injury sites in the CNS, where they might engage niches harbori... | {
"abstract": "Cardiolipin (CL) is a unique anionic phospholipid specific to the mitochondria. CL influences the activity of electron transport chain enzyme complexes as well as members of the Bcl-2 family. Interactions between Bcl-2 family members and other pro-apoptotic enzymes have been shown to be crucial for the... |
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"abstract": "A technique for the fabrication of tapered and lenslike waveguides from solution-deposited thin films is described. Using a microprocessor controlled dipping arm, substrates are withdrawn from a solution with a carefully controlled and varying velocity. Inthisway optical waveguides with regions of vary... | {
"abstract": "We describe a novel embossing technique for fabricating integrated optical components in hard and resistant inorganic waveguiding materials of good optical quality. The desired structure is embossed into a dip-coated deformable gel film prepared from organometallic solutions. Subsequent heat treatment ... | {
"abstract": "The experimental demonstration of deflection of an optical film‐guided wave by a surface acoustic wave is reported. When Bragg conditions are satisfied, 0.18 W acoustic power gives rise to 66% deflection efficiency as measured by the depletion of the incident optical guided wave.",
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"abstract": "Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disease that affects approximately 20 million persons all over the world. There are both sporadic and familial forms of AD. We have previously reported a genome-wide linkage analysis on 71 Swedish AD families using 365 genotyped microsatellite markers. In... | {
"abstract": "The Volga German kindreds are a group of seven related families with autosomal dominant early-onset Alzheimer's disease (AD). Linkage to known AD-related loci on chromosomes 21 and 14 has been excluded. Significant evidence for linkage to AD in these families was obtained with D1S479 and there was also... | {
"abstract": "The activity of cisplatin (CP, range of concentrations 0.25–1 μg/ml), the pure steroidal antiestrogen compound ICI 182,780 (range of concentrations, 0.01–10 μM) and various combinations of, was investigated on an estrogen receptor negative ovarian cancer cell line (A2780 WT) and its CP‐resistant deriva... |
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"abstract": "The effects of a displacive structural phase transition on sliding friction are in principle accessible to nanoscale tools such as atomic force microscopy, yet they are still surprisingly unexplored. We present model simulations demonstrating and clarifying the mechanism and potential impact of these e... | {
"abstract": "We introduce a novel mechanism of temperature dependence of friction at the nanoscale which is determined by a decrease of the slip length with temperature T. We find that the effect of temperature on the slip length may result in a rich temperature dependence of friction, including a peak and/or plate... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Linolenic acid seems to have special importance in the brain lipids since the ω-3 polyunsaturated acids are predominant brain fatty acids. Thus [I-14C]linolenic acid was fed to adult rats to investigate its passage from blood to the brain. Unlike palmitic and oleic acids that are present in la... |
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"abstract": "Advancements in molecular biology have improved the ability to characterize disease-related nucleic acids and proteins. Recently, there has been an increasing desire for tests that can be performed outside of centralised laboratories. This study describes a novel isothermal signal amplification cascade... | {
"abstract": "Fluorescence polarization (FP) assays incorporated with fluorophore-labeled aptamers have attracted great interest in recent years. However, detecting small molecules through the use of FP assays still remains a challenge because small-molecule binding only results in negligible changes in the molecula... | {
"abstract": "The conserved N-terminal domains of the major tegument proteins of herpes viridae encode cysteine proteases with potent ubiquitin and NEDD8-specific deconjugase activity. Here we show that the Epstein-Barr virus-encoded member of this enzyme family, BPLF1, is targeted to cullin-RING ubiquitin ligases (... |
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"abstract": "Dysautonomia has been observed in many cardiac diseases; however, its effect in decompression sickness (DCS) has not been well examined largely due to the difficulty in obtaining experimental data in human or animal subjects. In this study, we examine how DCS affects the autonomic nervous system's (ANS... | {
"abstract": "Hyperbaric oxygen (HBO(2)) stimulates presumptive central CO2-chemoreceptor neurons, increases minute ventilation (V(min)), decreases heart rate (HR) and, if breathed sufficiently long, produces central nervous system oxygen toxicity (CNS-OT; i.e., seizures). The risk of seizures when breathing HBO(2) ... | {
"abstract": "&NA; A placebo‐controlled, double‐blind, crossover trial in 11 healthy male volunteers compared clinical sedation and psychomotor function after intravenous injection of midazolam (0.05, 0.1, or 0.15 mg/kg), diazepam (0.15 or 0.3 mg/kg), or placebo (saline). The depth of sedation was estimated at 5‐10‐... |
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"abstract": "Audiovisual perceptual training of non-native phonetic contrasts was conducted for 10 naive Japanese adults using audiovisual recordings of 13 native English speakers articulating 90 rl minimal word pairs, and analyzed changes in perceptual and articulatory representations of non-native phonetic contra... | {
"abstract": "Near-infrared spectroscopy was used to measure hemodynamic responses in Korean subjects learning Japanese as a second-language to Japanese phonemic contrasts that are either phonologically distinctive or non-distinctive in their ¢rst-language. These results were compared with those of Japanese native l... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Currently working on the Chinese mainland, Western expatriate business managers, mainly from the USA, France, Germany, Australia and Great Britain, participated in a mail survey regarding their degree of adjustment which was then mapped over time. The results showed that while the three dimens... |
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"abstract": "It is common knowledge that the Akaike’s information criterion (AIC) is not a consistent model selection criterion. This inconsistency property has been confirmed from an asymptotic selection probability evaluated from a large-sample asymptotic framework. However, when a high-dimensional asymptotic fra... | {
"abstract": "We propose new model selection criteria based on generalized ridge estimators dominating the maximum likelihood estimator under the squared risk and the Kullback-Leibler risk in multivariate linear regression. Our model selection criteria have the following favorite properties: consistency, unbiasednes... | {
"abstract": "Double-stranded DNA (dsDNA) constitutes a potent activator of innate immunity, given its ability to bind intracellular pattern recognition receptors during viral infections or sterile tissue damage. While effects of dsDNA in immune cells have been extensively studied, dsDNA signalling and its pathophys... |
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"abstract": "BackgroundDo the benefits of intensive lipid-lowering therapy seen in symptomatic patients extend to high-risk subjects who have never had symptoms? Methods and ResulsOf 120 men completing the FATS trial, 91 were symptomatic and 29 asymptomatic. All had apolipoprotein B 2125 mg/dL, a positive family hi... | {
"abstract": "We report the first systems biology investigation of regulators controlling arterial plaque macrophage transcriptional changes in response to lipid lowering in vivo in two distinct mouse models of atherosclerosis regression. Transcriptome measurements from plaque macrophages from the Reversa mouse were... | {
"abstract": "The aim of this study was to measure the levels of general life satisfaction among Finnish young adults, and to clarify the way in which life satisfaction is constructed. In order to explore these aims, the following research questions were specified: (1) What is the level of general life satisfaction ... |
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"abstract": "ABSTRACT With the reemergence of syphilis, it is important that both clinical and public health practitioners recognize the various clinical manifestations of this disease (formerly known as “the great imitator”) and become familiar with the newer diagnostic tests. Here we report the first case of tons... | {
"abstract": "Background The province of Manitoba, Canada, with a population of approximately 1.3 million, has been experiencing increased incidence of syphilis cases since 2015. In this study, we examined the detection of Treponema pallidum DNA in 354 clinical samples from 2012 to 2016, and determined molecular typ... | {
"abstract": "Abstract The effect of the incorporation of SO 4 2− in ZrO 2 was studied. Materials were prepared by wet impregnation method with varying SO 4 2− content (5, 10, 15, 20, 25 and 30 wt%). The structural properties of these catalytic materials were studied by thermal analysis, X-ray diffraction, nitrogen ... |
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"abstract": "Multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) feature excellent mechanical properties and for this reason these nanomaterials are suitable candidate for a reinforcement material in the polymer composites. To take full advantage of their outstanding properties, homogeneous distribution needs to be improved in t... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) were synthesized in a catalytic reaction using CaCO3 as catalyst support. Impregnated with conventional catalysts CaCO3 enabled the production of MWCNTs in a fixed-bed flow reactor at relatively low reaction temperature. The purification was performed in o... | {
"abstract": "In mixed signal applications, interference problems due to crosstalk are well known. These problems have also been reported at the VLSI-IC level. A specially designed chip was used for performing crosstalk measurements at the chip level. Some of the observed effects are reported. The results were gaine... |
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"abstract": "We show that the game chromatic number of a planar graph is at most 33. More generally, there exists a function f: f\\l --+ f\\l so that for each n E f\\l. if a graph does not contain a homeomorph of Kn• then its game chromatic number is at most f(n). In particular, the game chromatic number of a graph... | {
"abstract": "Consider the following game on a graph $G$: Alice and Bob take turns coloring the vertices of $G$ properly from a fixed set of colors; Alice wins when the entire graph has been colored, while Bob wins when some uncolored vertices have been left. The game chromatic number of $G$ is the minimum number of... | {
"abstract": "Abstract It is proved that a natural generalization of chess to an n × n board is complete in exponential time. This implies that there exist chess positions on an n × n chessboard for which the problem of determing who can win from that position requires an amount of time which is at least exponential... |
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"title": "RESEARCH Number : 46-3 EVALUATION OF SINGLE AXLE LOAD ON AN EXPERIMENTA"
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"abstract": "A COMPREHENSIVE STUDY OF DEFLECTION IN CONTINUOUSLY REINFORCED CONCRETE PAVEMENTS HAS BEEN CONDUCTED IN TEXAS USING AASHO ROAD TEST STUDIES AS GUIDELINES FOR THE DESIGN OF THE EXPERIMENTS. LOAD AND TEMPERATURE DIFFERENTIAL, TRANSVERSE CRACK WIDTH AND SPACING /UNIQUE TO CONTINUOUSLY REINFORCED CONCRETE ... | {
"abstract": "This paper presents an analytical model calculating the threshold voltage in nanocrystalline silicon (nc-Si) thin film transistors by considering a granular morphology of silicon nanocrystallites forming the channel and using the two-dimensional the Poisson equation. The numerical calculations demonstr... |
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"abstract": "Colloidal gold nanoparticles represent technological building blocks which are easy to fabricate while keeping full control of their shape and dimensions. Here, we report on a simple two-step maskless process to assemble gold nanoparticles from a water colloidal solution at specific sites of a silicon ... | {
"abstract": "We present a simple protocol to obtain versatile assemblies of nanoparticles from aqueous dispersions onto charge patterns written by atomic force microscopy, on a 100 nm thin film of polymethylmethacrylate spin-coated on silicon wafers. This protocol of nanoxerography uses a two-stage development invo... | {
"abstract": "Abstract A new type of high frequency surface wave radar (HFSWR) system consisting of a close-range detection using surface wave path and a long-range detection using skywave path are proposed in this paper. An important portion of this system is to design a signal that can detect longer distance targe... |
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"abstract": "As research laboratories and clinics collaborate to achieve precision medicine, both communities are required to understand mandated electronic health/medical record (EHR/EMR) initiatives that will be fully implemented in all clinics in the United States by 2015. Stakeholders will need to evaluate curr... | {
"abstract": "applications; Computer communication networks; Computer security; Software design; Medical record linkage; Medical records systems Summary Problem: Although electronic communication of clinical data between various actors in the healthcare domain seems crucial for a cost-effective patient treatment, it... | {
"abstract": "Two approaches are proposed for cross-pose face recognition, one is based on the 3D reconstruction of facial components and the other is based on the deep Convolutional Neural Network (CNN). Unlike most 3D approaches that consider holistic faces, the proposed approach considers 3D facial components. It... |
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"abstract": "This cross-sectional observational study in Goiânia, Goiás State, Brazil in a sample of 56% of 111 individuals exposed to cesium-137 aimed to evaluate their quality of life and associations with socio-demographic factors. The study used the WHOQOL-BREF and the Monitoring System for Radiation Victims. P... | {
"abstract": "Exposure to the Chornobyl nuclear power plant explosion resulted in widespread, persistent somatic complaints, but little is known about the nature and risk factors for these conditions. This study compares the health reports of 300 women evacuated to Kyiv from the contamination zone around the plant a... | {
"abstract": "The necessary paradigm shift of medical prevention and health promotion from general prevention to specific genetic-oriented prevention require two crucial points: the selection of the optimal time for the primary prevention of birth defects and predictive genetic testing and the establishment of the a... |
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"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nInterprofessional education (IPE) is a novel teaching and learning initiative where students of more than one health profession learn interactively together. However, despite its potential for improving interprofessional relationships, there is little information regarding the participation... | {
"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nInterprofessional education (IPE) is a process through which students are provided with learning opportunities with other professions aiming to improve client care. The need to include effective IPE in preregistration programmes for health professionals is increasingly being recognised. The... | {
"abstract": "In this work, a novel core-shell magnetic molecularly imprinted polymers (MMIPs) for the measurement of L-Hydroxyproline (Hyp) in dairy products was prepared. The derivative of Hyp using N-hydroxysuccinimidyl rhodamine B ester (RBS) as derivatization reagent was employed as template to prepare RBS-Hyp-... |
{
"abstract": "Combining several materials to create a structural system has led to a new kind of application previously not possible with conventional materials. Examples are FRP and its strengthening system. Nonetheless, the existence of the interface between two substrates introduces a challenging problem in deter... | {
"abstract": "The present investigation is focused on «opening» dominated load states and the scope is broadened to include finite ligament plasticity and finite deformation effects on near-tip fields. We adopt a geometrically rigourous formulation of J 2 flow theory taking full account of crack-tip blunting",
"co... | {
"abstract": "Hydration of an aluminum oxide surface under an adhesive film was shown to occur when the specimen was immersed for extended periods in hot water. The absence of a crack and lack of access of the water to the specimen edges forced the moisture to reach the interface by migrating through the adhesive. T... |
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"abstract": "A distributed simulation framework is presented to enable natural resource managers to take advantage of both Geographic Information System (GIS) functionality and computationally intensive ecological modeling. Based on one of the newest products from a major vendor of GIS software (ESRI’s ArcGIS engin... | {
"abstract": "To facilitate transparent use of the high-performance Across Trophic-Level System Simulation (ATLSS) ecosystem-modeling package for natural-resource management, the authors developed a grid service module. The module exploits grid middleware functionality to process complex computation without requirin... | {
"abstract": "Abstract A model (ALFISH) for fish functional groups in freshwater marshes of the greater Everglades area of southern Florida has been developed. Its main objective is to assess the spatial pattern of fish densities through time across freshwater marshes. This model has the capability of providing a dy... |
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"abstract": "Issues such as mode selectivity and Polanyi rules are connected to the effects of vibrational and translational energy in dynamics studies. Using the heavy-light-heavy OH(ν) + NH3(ν) gas-phase reaction, these effects were analyzed by performing quasi-classical trajectory calculations, at low and high c... | {
"abstract": "Hydrogen abstraction from NH3 by OH to produce H2O and NH2-an important reaction in combustion of NH3 fuel-was studied with a theoretical approach that combines high level quantum chemistry and advanced chemical kinetics methods. Thermal rate constants calculated from first principles agree well (withi... | {
"abstract": "ABSTRACT The ability of Phytophthora infestans, the causal agent of potato and tomato late blight, to produce oospores in potato tuber tissue was studied in the field and under laboratory conditions. In 1998 and 2000 field experiments, the canopy of potato cvs. Alpha and Mondial, respectively, were coi... |
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"abstract": "This is the companion article to the Bourbaki talk of the same name given in March 2009. The main theme of the talk and the article is to explain the interplay between homotopy theory and algebraic geometry through the Hopkins-Miller-Lurie theorem on topological modular forms, from which we learn that ... | {
"abstract": "Computations involving the root invariant prompted Mahowald and Shick to develop the slogan: \"the root invariant of v_n periodic homotopy is v_n torsion.\" While neither a proof, nor a precise statement, of this slogan appears in the literature, numerous authors have offered computational evidence in ... | {
"abstract": "The performance of Turchin and Taylor's response-surface methodology in characterizing the endogenous dynamics underlying ecological time series is studied for the aphid Phyllaphis fagi. The results are shown to be sensitive to further data from the same population and extra data from a different but c... |
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"abstract": "The use of wastewater in agriculture and aquaculture has a long tradition throughout Asia. For example, in Hanoi, it creates important livelihood opportunities for >500,000 farmers in peri-urban communities. Discharge of domestic effluents pollute the water streams with potential pathogenic organisms p... | {
"abstract": "In many cities of developing countries untreated wastewater and polluted water are used for agriculture in urban and peri-urban areas. Though such practices are a threat to the health of users and consumers, they do provide important livelihoods benefits and perishable food to cities. This paper throug... | {
"abstract": "The success of development programs depends on the role of underlying institutions and the impact synergies from closely related programs. Existing literature has limitations in accounting for these critical factors. This paper fills this gap by developing a methodology, which can quantify both the ins... |
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