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"abstract": "We recently experienced two patients with stroke-like symptoms and ascending aortic dissection (AAD) in our outpatient department. Both patients were transferred to our hospital presenting with neurological deficit such as hemiparesis and conjugate deviation. They did not complain from any chest or abd... | {
"abstract": "Background and Purpose In this study we analyzed the value of ultrasound examination for diagnosis of vertebral artery dissection. Methods The vertebrobasilar arterial system was assessed in 14 patients using transcranial and extracranial pulsed-wave Doppler and duplex sonography. Results The dissectio... | {
"abstract": "Dehydroepiandrosterone sulphate (DHEAS) is the most abundant circulating steroid secreted by adrenal glands—yet its function is unknown. Its serum concentration declines significantly with increasing age, which has led to speculation that a relative DHEAS deficiency may contribute to the development of... |
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"abstract": "In a microarray analysis of human retinal pigment epithelial cells (HRPE) treated with TGF-β, in addition to the alteration of a number of known Extracellular matrix (ECM)-related genes regulated by TGF-β, we found a significant increase in the expression of Kallmann Syndrome (KAL)-1 gene, that codes f... | {
"abstract": "Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) is a major agent in choroidal and retinal neovascularization, events associated with age‐related macular degeneration (AMD) and diabetic retinopathy. Retinal pigment epithelium (RPE), strategically located between retina and choroid, plays a critical role in re... | {
"abstract": "Numerous factors affect the resource quality of detritus, including N content, lignin content, C lability, and concentrations of tannins or phenols. Although many studies have examined the responses of detrital food webs to resources of differing quality, few have independently varied different compone... |
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"abstract": "In this paper, we present a conceptual study on a Virtual Power Plant (VPP) architecture for the optimal management of Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) owned by prosumers participating in Demand-Side Management (DSM) programs. Compared to classical VPP architectures, which aim to aggregate several D... | {
"abstract": "Demand response (DR) smart grid technology provides an opportunity for electricity consumers to actively participate in the management of power systems. Industry is one of the major consumers of electric power. In this study, we propose a DR energy management scheme for industrial facilities based on t... | {
"abstract": "In the field of natural language dialogue, a new trend is exploring persuasive argumentation theories. Applying these theories to human-computer dialogue management could lead to a more comfortable experience for the user and give way to new applications. In this paper, we study the different aspects o... |
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"abstract": "In the paper, PEEK(poly(ether ether ketone)) was added to the epoxy resins as a modifier to improve thermal and mechanical properties of the cured resins. The heat effects of curing epoxy resin composites with PEEK were investigated by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) technology and the morpholo... | {
"abstract": "The methods of toughening epoxy resin by liquid crystalline polymers,nano particles , forming interpenetrating networks, core shell elastic particles are presented",
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"title": "RECENT RESEARCH PROGRESS IN EPOXY RESIN TOUGHENING"
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"abstract": "Abstract Molecular dynamics (MD) with empirical potentials of the Born–Mayer–Huggings (BMH) type has been used to study irradiation damage in pure and uranium-doped zircon (ZrSiO4). Displacement threshold energies (DTE) have been calculated and displacement cascades (DC) initiated by α-decay recoil nuc... |
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"abstract": "A 72 year old male with type 2 diabetes mellitus presented with symptomatic severe recurrent in-stent restenosis (ISR) of a sirolimus drug eluting stent (DES) placed within a previously restenosed cobalt– chromium alloy bare metal stent four years earlier in the proximal left circumflex artery. Baselin... | {
"abstract": "Background— Treatment of in-stent restenosis with paclitaxel-coated balloon catheter as compared with plain balloon angioplasty has shown surprisingly low late lumen loss at 6 months and fewer major adverse cardiac events up to 2 years. We compared the efficacy and safety of a paclitaxel-coated balloon... | {
"abstract": "The most widely held view on the pathogenesis of Hirschsprung's disease as an arrest of neuroblast migration in the gut was based on the hypothesis of a single craniocaudal gradient of development of enteric neurons. Recent experimental studies in animals, however, have revived a contradictory hypothes... |
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"abstract": "Query reverse engineering seeks to re-generate the SQL query that produced a given query output table from a given database. In this paper, we solve this problem for OLAP queries with group-by and aggregation. We develop a novel three-phase algorithm named REGAL 1 for this problem. First, based on a la... | {
"abstract": "Today's enterprise databases are large and complex, often relating hundreds of entities. Enabling ordinary users to query such databases and derive value from them has been of great interest in database research. Today, keyword search over relational databases allows users to find pieces of information... | {
"abstract": "We present a method for simultaneously estimating 3D human pose and body shape from a sparse set of wide-baseline camera views. We train a symmetric convolutional autoencoder with a dual loss that enforces learning of a latent representation that encodes skeletal joint positions, and at the same time l... |
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"abstract": "The organization and regulation of excitatory synapses in the mammalian CNS entails complex molecular and cellular processes. In the postsynaptic membrane, scaffolding proteins bring together glutamate receptors with multiple regulatory proteins involved in signal transduction. This gives rise to an el... | {
"abstract": "Professional deep-water divers exposed to high pressure (HP) above 1.1 MPa suffer from High Pressure Neurological Syndrome (HPNS), which is associated with CNS hyperexcitability. We have previously reported that HP augments N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor (NMDAR) synaptic responses, increases neuronal ex... | {
"abstract": "Abstract\n \n We consider the torus compactifications with flux of a class of 6d (1, 0) SCFTs that can be engineered as the low-energy theories on M5-branes near an M9-plane on a C\n 2 / Z\n 2 singularity. Specifically, we concentrate on the two SCFTs where the Z\n 2 orbifold action acts non-trivially ... |
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"abstract": "The purpose of this study was to assess stability of population-level injection risk behavior over time among participants in a syringe exchange program and compare factors affecting syringe sharing at two points in time. Participants of the Tacoma Syringe Exchange Program were interviewed in 1997 and ... | {
"abstract": "OBJECTIVE\nTo estimate access, activity and coverage of needle and syringe programmes (NSP) in Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia.\n\n\nMETHODS\nTwo data sets ('regional' and 'high-coverage sites') were used to estimate NSP provision (availability/number of sites), NSP utilization (syringes di... | {
"abstract": "The association of neuropathy with monoclonal gammopathy has been known for several years, even if the nosological position of these neuropathies is still debated. Similarly unsettled is the pathogenetic role and diagnostic relevance in clinical practice of the antineural antibodies frequently associat... |
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"abstract": "We developed a closed-skull model of freeze injury-induced brain edema, a model classically thought to produce vasogenic edema, and observed the natural course of changes in edema and blood flow using xenon-enhanced computed tomography (CT) in five rhesus monkeys before and for up to 6 h post insult. I... | {
"abstract": "OBJECTIVE\nRegional cerebral flood flow (rCBF) in peritumoral brain edema is assumed to be decreased because of increased interstitial pressure. Impaired blood flow might lead to local hypoxia, altered metabolism, and disturbed ion homeostasis, thus causing neurological sequelae. Steroid treatment is t... | {
"abstract": "OBJECTIVE\nIn the elderly, obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is frequently under diagnosed. This study was undertaken to assess the accuracy of the Berlin questionnaire to diagnose OSA in a large healthy elderly population.\n\n\nPATIENTS AND METHODS\nSix hundred forty-three participants aged 65.6 years wer... |
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"abstract": "Much of computer system development today is programming in the large - systems of millions of lines of code distributed across servers and the web. At the same time, microcontrollers have also become pervasive in everyday products, economical to manufacture, and represent a different level of learning... | {
"abstract": "Academic courses focused on individual microcomputers or client/server applications are no longer sufficient for students to develop knowledge in embedded systems. Current and near-term industrial systems employ multiple interacting components and new network and security approaches; hence, academic pr... | {
"abstract": "1. SUMMARY We propose a special session focusing on kinesthetic learning activities, i.e., physically engaging classroom exercises. These might, for example, involve throwing a frisbee around the classroom to represent transfer of control in a procedure call, or simulating polygon scan conversion with ... |
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"abstract": "Nineteen children had unilateral dilatation of the internal mammary artery associated with an intrathoracic lesion on the same side. Dilatation of one internal mammary artery to a calibre more than twice that of the artery on the other side is a sign of an intrathoracic pathological finding on the same... | {
"abstract": "The cross-table lateral view of the chest can facilitate a more realistic appreciation of a pneumothorax than the supine frontal projection alone or in combination with the vertical-beam lateral view. This view also permits an optimal evaluation of the relative position of the lung, intrapleural air, a... | {
"abstract": "BackgroundThe use of laparoscopy for right hemicolectomy has gained popularity allowing the option of a totally laparoscopic intracorporeal anastomosis (IA) for intestinal reconstruction. This technique may alleviate some of the technical limitations that a surgeon faces with a laparoscopic-assisted ex... |
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"abstract": "We study the problem of finding an Euler tour in an undirected graph G in the W-Streaming model with O(n polylog(n)) RAM, where n resp. m is the number of nodes resp. edges of G. Our main result is the first one pass W-Streaming algorithm computing an Euler tour of G in the form of an edge successor fu... | {
"abstract": "We describe an alternative implementation of Atallah and Vishkin’s parallel algorithm for finding an Euler Tour of a graph. Instead of finding a spanning tree as an intermediate step, this algorithm is based on identifying a strut which is easier to compute. Using the strut, vertices which have more th... | {
"abstract": "In recent years crowd-voting and crowd-sourcing systems are attracting increased attention in research and industry. As a part of computational social choice (COMSOC) crowd-voting and crowd-sourcing address important societal problems (e.g. participatory budgeting), but also many industry problems (e.g... |
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"abstract": "Hydrodynamic performance of gas microbearings, fabricated with deep X-ray lithography and electroplating, will be presented in this article. Static performance in terms of load parameters and attitude angles was calculated using Molecular Gas Lubrication (MGL) theory. Threshold speed and allowable roto... | {
"abstract": "A single-crystal silicon air turbine supported on gas lubricated bearings has been operated in a controlled and sustained manner at rotational speeds greater then 1 million rpm and power levels approaching 5 W. The device is a second-generation version of the microbearing rig first reported by Lin et a... | {
"abstract": "Parallel Hybrid Electric Vehicles (HEVs) with Discrete and Continuous Variable Transmissions (DVT and CVT) are studied. A common Energetic Macroscopic Representation (EMR) is developed for both kinds of parallel HEVs. Then, a common control structure is deduced from this EMR. Optimization-based Energy ... |
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"abstract": "Although many studies have examined the metabolism of catecholamines and cardiovascular responsiveness to norepinephrine in essential and various experimental hypertension, the role of sympathetic nervous system in the pathogenesis of hypertension has not been elucidated. In this study, therefore,the r... | {
"abstract": "In 40 male patients with established essential hypertension (P diast greater than 95 mmHg) platelet alpha 2-adrenoceptor density (by 3H-yohimbine binding) and -responsiveness (by adrenaline-induced aggregation) as well as lymphocyte beta 2-adrenoceptor density (by (+/-)-125 iodocyanopindolol binding) a... | {
"abstract": "Two experiments were conducted to determine DE and ME and the standardized ileal digestibility (SID) of CP and AA in 2 sources of high-protein canola meal (CM-HP1 and CM-HP2), conventional canola meal (CM-CV), and soybean meal (SBM) fed to growing pigs. In Exp. 1, 40 barrows (51.5 ± 4.0 kg initial BW) ... |
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"abstract": "In the crystal of the title compound, [Ni(NO3)2(C18H10N4)(H2O)]·H2O, the NiII ion is coordinated in a distorted octahedral geometry by two N atoms of the 1,10-phenanthroline moiety of the ligand, three O atoms from two nitrate anions and an O atom from one water molecule. O—H⋯O hydrogen bonds between t... | {
"abstract": "This paper describes the design of a series of luminescent rhenium(I) polypyridine biotin complexes containing different spacer-arms, [Re(N-N)(CO)3 (py-4-CH2-NH-biotin)](PF6) (py-4-CH2-NH-biotin = 4-(biotinamidomethyl)pyridine; N-N = 1,10-phenanthroline, phen (1a), 3,4,7,8-tetramethyl-1,10-phenanthroli... | {
"abstract": "Particular attention are recently receiving antimicrobial agents added as preservatives in hygiene and cosmetics commercial products, since some of them are suspected to be harmful to the human health. The preservatives used belong to different classes of chemical species and are generally used in thei... |
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"abstract": "This paper presents a high power factor single-stage driver powering a high-power-LED. The driver employs a PFC based on a Zeta converter, using the One-Cycled Control (OCC) technique. A design procedure for Zeta converter is presented, which is based on the flyback converter as proposed by (Lamar, et ... | {
"abstract": "At present, the field of power factor corrected (PFC) rectifiers are very much matured. Typically a single phase PFC converter requires measurements from three independent sensors i.e. input voltage, input current and output voltage. By considering a need of farther compact and more flexible in terms o... | {
"abstract": "Doubly-fed induction generator (DFIG) tied with grid and controlled in the stator flux oriented reference frame is known to have poor damping due to the large time constant of the stator circuit. Therefore, the stator flux exhibits sustained oscillation subjected to any disturbances. In this paper, we ... |
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"abstract": "Mining gene-expression-profiling data identified a novel gene that is specifically expressed in preimplantation embryos. Hmgpi, a putative chromosomal protein with two high-mobility-group boxes, is zygotically transcribed during zygotic genome activation, but is not transcribed postimplantation. The Hm... | {
"abstract": "DNA methylation of the genome is essential for mammalian development and plays crucial roles in a variety of biological processes including genomic imprinting. Although the DNA methyltransferase 3-like (Dnmt3L) protein lacks DNA methylase activity, it is thought to establish the maternal imprint in com... | {
"abstract": "Elucidation of the biochemical mechanisms by which specific proteins transduce the all important intracellular calcium (Ca2+) signal at fertilization into events of egg activation will increase our understanding of the regulation of the onset of development and the extent to which these signals can be ... |
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"abstract": "The Amazon Robotics Challenge enlisted sixteen teams to each design a pick-and-place robot for autonomous warehousing, addressing development in robotic vision and manipulation. This paper presents the design of our custom-built. cost-effective robot system Cartman, which won first place in the competi... | {
"abstract": "This paper presents a new method for parallel-jaw grasping of isolated objects from depth images, under large gripper pose uncertainty. Whilst most approaches aim to predict the single best grasp pose from an image, our method first predicts a score for every possible grasp pose, which we denote the gr... | {
"abstract": "Two generalized discontinuous carrier-based pulse-width modulation (GDPWM) methodologies for three-phase current source converters (CSC) are developed based on the classical space vector method and the carrier-based generalized discontinuous modulation scheme for voltage source converters (VSC). With f... |
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"abstract": "This paper presents the first functional SiC super junction devices, SiC SJ Schottky diodes, which substantially improve the trade-off between the breakdown voltage and specific on-resistance in SiC power devices. Processes for fabricating SJ structures by using a trench-etching-and-sidewall-implant me... | {
"abstract": "In this paper, we present a novel lateral/vertical hybrid super-junction structure that breaks the fundamental trade-off between the Rds.A and Charge imbalance window for a Super-Junction MOSFET. This device structure can continue the scaling of Superjunction MOSFET well below 10mΩ.cm2 with good manufa... | {
"abstract": "A three part study conducted over five years involving 4,000 user responses to experiences with over 100 websites was analyzed to generate an eight-item questionnaire of website quality---the Standardized User Experience Percentile Rank Questionnaire (SUPR-Q). The SUPR-Q contains four factors: usabilit... |
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"abstract": "The biological hierarchy and the differences between living and non-living matter are considered from the standpoint of quantum mechanics.",
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"title": "What can biology bestow to quantum mechanics?"
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"abstract": "It is argued that ultraviolet absorption by a DNA molecule (which gets biochemically attached to nearby photolyase enzyme so that the effect of uv absorption becomes macroscopically discernible) constitutes an intriguing example of quantum measurement. We point out that this does not merely illustrate ... | {
"abstract": "Photo-induced multiple body dissociation is of fundamental interest in chemistry and physics. A description of the mechanism associated with n-body (n ≥ 3) photodissociation has proven to be an intriguing and yet challenging issue in the field of chemical dynamics. Oxalyl chloride, (ClCO)2, is the sole... |
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"abstract": "The deployment of Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) in place of traditional communication facilities has helped in huge reduction in operating costs, as well as enabled adoption of next generation communication services-based IP. At the same time, cyber criminals have also started intercepting enviro... | {
"abstract": "Network packet analysis and reconstruction of network sessions are more sophisticated processes in any network forensic and analysis system. Here we introduce an integrated technique which can be used for inspecting, reordering and reconstructing the contents of packets in a network session as part of ... | {
"abstract": "Skype is a peer-to-peer VoIP application that has gained substantial popularity since its launch in 2003. However, none of Skype's algorithms or its protocol specification are available for public inspection, which impedes evaluation from a security perspective. In this report we present an analysis of... |
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"abstract": "Aim: To examine the repeatability and effect of an enhancement module on the severity of atypical birefringence patterns (ABP) using scanning laser polarimetery (SLP) with variable corneal compensation (VCC). Methods: 16 patients with perimetric glaucoma (PG), 24 glaucoma suspect and pre-perimetric gla... | {
"abstract": "PURPOSE\nTo describe a method for assessment and individualized compensation of anterior segment birefringence with scanning laser polarimetry.\n\n\nMETHODS\nA scanning laser polarimeter (GDx Nerve Fiber Analyzer; Laser Diagnostic Technologies, Inc., San Diego, CA) was modified to accommodate a variabl... | {
"abstract": "▶ Additional tables are published online only. To view the fi les please visit the journal online (http://ard.bmj.com/content/ early/recent) 1Rhumatologie, Hôpital Bicêtre, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP), Université Paris-Sud 11, INSERM U1012, 78 rue du Général Leclerc, Le Kremlin Bicêtr... |
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"abstract": "Diversity-embedded space-time block coding (DE- STBC) introduced in [1] is a class of non-orthogonal STBC which can provide multiple diversity orders and transmission rates for the information symbols. This is achieved by transmitting the information symbols in layers each characterized by a diversity-... | {
"abstract": "Diversity-embedding space-time codes, introduced in S.N. Diggavi et al. (2003), embed a high-diversity code within a high-rate code making opportunistic use of the channel fading conditions. They encode the information symbols into layers each at a prescribed rate-diversity operating point; thus provid... | {
"abstract": "We present a numerical method for the frequent pricing of financial derivatives that depends on a large number of variables. The method is based on the construction of a polynomial basis to interpolate the value function of the problem by means of a hierarchical orthogonalization process that allows to... |
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"abstract": "Are EU Member States converging in terms of their innovative effort? To what extent is the current economic downturn impairing the convergence across the European Union countries in innovation performance? Using macro and micro data, this article shows that the EU Member States have converged in their ... | {
"abstract": "Innovation plays a crucial role in determining today's economic growth patterns. But what enables some countries to innovate more than others? This study attempts to answer this question by analyzing in premiere a panel of sixteen Eastern European transition countries. It provides a detailed descriptio... | {
"abstract": "The paper estimates the validity of the balance-of-payments-constrained growth model in the case of the Slovenian economy with a cointegration approach. Three main conclusions can be drawn from the analysis. First, the results identified a long-run relationship between real gross domestic product and v... |
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"abstract": "In considering a long-term investment in a common stock, an investor wants an estimate of the stock's long-run risk premia (and thus the long-run expected returns). Similarly, in evaluating a capital investment project, a firm seeks a reliable estimate of the required return on the proposed project. Gi... | {
"abstract": "This paper presents estimates of shareholder required rates of return and risk premia which are derived using forward-looking analysts' growth forecasts. We update through 1991 earlier work which, due to data availability, was restricted to the period 1982-1984. Using stronger tests, we also reexamine ... | {
"abstract": "Process optimization and yield enhancement techniques rely on physical sensors to provide them with feedback to perform accurate process-characterization across the die. The increased susceptibility of circuit performance characteristics to parameter variations in deep sub-micron technologies motivates... |
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"abstract": "ABSTRACT In 2011 over 3–4 million tourists from Mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore visited South Korea. This study assumes that Chinese tourists are intraculturally different with respect to their tourist attitudes or behaviors, and attempts to determine the intracultural variances in the... | {
"abstract": "Is tourism a generator of peace or simply the beneficiary of peace? This article questions the often-stated claim of tourism as the world's peace industry and asks whether there exists a causal relationship between tourism and peace or simply a co-relationship with tourism as a beneficiary, and not a c... | {
"abstract": "The aging of the population and, concomitantly, of the workforce has a number of important implications for governments, businesses, and workers. In this article, we examine the prospects for the employability of older workers as home‐based teleworkers. This alternative work could accommodate many of t... |
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"abstract": "This paper analyzes the role of patience in a repeated Bertrand duopoly where firms bargain over which collusive price and market share to implement. It is shown that the least patient firm's market share is not monotone in its own discount factor.",
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"abstract": "A dynamic of Bertrand duopoly game is analyzed, where players use different production methods and choose their prices with bounded rationality. The equilibriums of the corresponding discrete dynamical systems are investigated. The stability conditions of Nash equilibrium under a local adjustment proce... | {
"abstract": "1 The vigour of plant resprouting after fire may be driven by the amount of stored non‐structural carbohydrates (NC). However, the extent to which NC reserves limit this response in woody plants has not been established. 2 This study analyses the effects of modifying NC concentrations in the lignotuber... |
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"abstract": "Non-destructive testing (NDT) and condition monitoring techniques are among the most rapidly developing engineering disciplines. In the past decade methods have been sought to enable real-time or on-line analysis of degradation in structures ( 1 - 3 ) . Methods developed in the 1980s based on modal ana... | {
"abstract": "— Reducing the effect of the artificial light interference (ALI) in indoor optical wireless (OW) communication is a challenging prospect because of the spectral overlaps between the interference and the baseband modulating signal. High pass filtering is used for mitigating the effect of ALI; however it... | {
"abstract": "(Subchapter Titles): I. Foundations. Mathematical Preliminaries: Analysis and Topology. Probability Theory. Algebra. Construction of Fractal Sets: Classical Fractal Sets. Iterated Function Systems. Recurrent Sets. Graph Directed Fractal Constructions. Dimension Theory: Topological Dimensions. Metric Di... |
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"abstract": "BackgroundAt Yaokoffikro field site near Bouaké, in central Côte d'Ivoire, a group of experimental huts built in 1996 served over many years for the evaluation of insecticides against highly resistant mosquitoes. Breeding sites of mosquitoes and selection pressure in the area were maintained by local f... | {
"abstract": "BackgroundAedes aegypti and Ae. albopictus are the main epidemic vectors of dengue, chikungunya and Zika viruses worldwide. Their control during epidemics relies mainly on control of larvae and adults with insecticides. Unfortunately, loss of susceptibility of both species to several insecticide classe... | {
"abstract": "The study aim was to compare three formulations, tablet deltamethrin, liquid deltamethrin and liquid permethrin, for their impact on vector behaviour and persistence. Product acceptance, perceived side‐effects and user’s perceptions of effectiveness were also investigated. At the beginning of the 1998 ... |
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"abstract": "Videogame control interfaces continue to evolve beyond their traditional roots, with devices encouraging more natural forms of interaction growing in number and pervasiveness. Yet little is known about their true potential for intuitive use. This paper proposes methods to leverage existing intuitive in... | {
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"title": "Comparison of eSports and Traditional Sports Consumption Motives"
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"abstract": "One of the issues with teaching artificial intelligence (AI) for games is that many AI algorithms work in theory, but have production consequences in terms of speed or memory when actually used in a game. We report on the benefits and drawbacks of modifying or “modding” the commercial game Minecraft fo... |
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"abstract": "Dementia disorders are characterized by clinicopathological criteria. Molecular understandings of these disorders, based on immunohistochemical studies, biochemical investigations, genetic approaches, and animal models, have resulted in advances in diagnosis. Likewise, translational research has allowe... | {
"abstract": "Years of research have highlighted the importance of the immune system in Alzheimer’s disease (AD), a system that, if manipulated during strategic time windows, could potentially be tackled to treat this disorder. However, to minimize adverse effects, it is essential to first grasp which exact aspect o... | {
"abstract": "ABSTRACT Explorative approaches such as DNA microarray experiments are becoming increasingly important in microbial research. Despite these major technical advancements, approaches to study multifactor experiments are still lacking. We have addressed this problem by using rotation testing and a novel m... |
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"abstract": "We have previously observed that amitriptyline and other antidepressants produce impairing effects on inhibitory avoidance (also called passive avoidance) in mice of both sexes. In the present study we investigated the involvement of the cholinergic system in the inhibitory avoidance impairment produce... | {
"abstract": "The effects of the cholinergic muscarinic agonist, oxotremorine (0.005, 0.01, 0.02 and 0.04 mg/kg), the serotonergic agonist, 5-methoxy-NN-dimethyltriptamine (5-MeODMT) (0.5, 1 and 2 mg/kg), and their combination, were investigated in C57BL/6 and DBA/2 mice using a one-trial inhibitory avoidance task, ... | {
"abstract": "The aims of the present study were: (1) to collect normative data of pinch and power grip strength with a newer digital dynamometer; (2) to study the ability of hand grip force matching using a hand dynamometer where the validity and reliability issues were studied; and (3) to study the relationship be... |
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"abstract": "Goal—To determine the frequency and categories of sequelae related to accidental injuries (of all types) in childhood, a prospective follow up study was conducted on a geographically defined population near Paris, France. Methods—The study concerned all child residents of one health care district, aged... | {
"abstract": "Abstract In 1981–2 details were recorded of children treated for accidental injury in an area near Paris: 8026 cases were collected. This is the first French survey involving the entire health care system (including practitioners and private hospitals). Thirty-two per cent of the hospital cases were re... | {
"abstract": "Abstract N,N-dihydroxybenzene-1,3-dicarboximidoyl dichloride was synthesized from benzene-1,3-dicarboxaldehyde and characterized by fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR) and nuclear magnetic resonance (1H and 13C NMR). The elastomer was prepared through the 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition of reacti... |
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"abstract": "In presenting economic puzzles, I have three goals in mind: some puzzles are chosen to stimulate research; others offer examples that will help undergraduate and graduate teaching; all should provide quality distractions during seminars. This feature begins with reader's comments on the first \"Puzzles... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Coasian bargaining under imperfect contract enforcement is moderately successful at predicting Pareto efficient and inefficient agreements, with success rates ranging from 58% to 94%. Neither rational nor equitable behavior dominates, rather self-interest constrained by fairness dictates the d... | {
"abstract": "Patient dose in CT is usually expressed in terms of organ dose and effective dose. The latter is used as a measure of the stochastic risk. Determination of these doses by measurements or calculations can be time-consuming. We investigated the efficacy of physical dose quantities to describe the organ d... |
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"abstract": "Digital Microfluidic Biochips (DMFB), a promising platform for Lab-on-chip systems are capable of automated biochemical analysis targeted for medical diagnostics and other biochemical applications. The inherent nature of reconfigurability and scalability enables the device to integrate multiple bioassa... | {
"abstract": "A second generation Lab-on-chip device termed as digital micro fluidic biochip (DMFB) has been developed in recent years as a time multiplexed reconfigurable device capable of executing multiple bioassay protocols simultaneously on a single 2D planar array. Optical detection, processing and analysis ar... | {
"abstract": "PURPOSE\nExternal beam radiation therapy is currently considered the most common treatment modality for intraocular tumors. Localization of the tumor and efficient compensation of tumor misalignment with respect to the radiation beam are crucial. According to the state of the art procedure, localizatio... |
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"abstract": "The hypothalamus plays a key role in the regulation of body weight by balancing the intake of food, energy expenditure, and body fat stores, as evidenced by the fact that most monogenic syndromes of morbid obesity result from mutations in genes expressed in the hypothalamus. Hypothalamic obesity is a r... | {
"abstract": "Severe obesity in childhood is increasing in prevalence and is associated with considerable morbidity. Studies into pediatric obesity have focused largely on interventions that do not necessarily target the unique biologic or psychological underpinnings for the weight gain in the individual child or ad... | {
"abstract": "To determine if alterations in sympathetic nervous system (SNS) activity occur in rats with ventromedial hypothalamic (VMH) lesions, norepinephrine (NE) turnover rates were examined in various tissues of lesioned and control, weanling rats. VMH-lesioned rats fed a high-carbohydrate diet ad libitum for ... |
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"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nSonographic fetal weight estimation is an important component of antenatal care.\n\n\nAIM\nTo sonographically estimate fetal weight at term and to compare estimated with actual birth weights to determine the validity of estimated fetal weights.\n\n\nSUBJECTS AND METHODS\nIn the prospective ... | {
"abstract": "Background: High rate of perinatal mortality is still a major cause for concern in developing countries such as Nigeria. A large portion of this problem is related to birth-weight which remains the single most important parameter that determines neonatal survival. A simple and accurate method of estima... | {
"abstract": "Abstract InGaAs/AlGaAs/GaAs pseudomorphic high electron mobility transistor (P-HEMT) structures were grown by Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MBE) on (3 1 1)A GaAs substrates with different well widths, and studied by photoluminescence (PL) spectroscopy as a function of temperature and excitation density. The ... |
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"abstract": "In this paper we describe a novel, dominant pleiotropic tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum)-ripening mutation, Cnr (colorless nonripening). This mutant occurred spontaneously in a commercial population. Cnr has a phenotype that is quite distinct from that of the other pleiotropic tomato-ripening mutants a... | {
"abstract": "Fleshy fruits are an essential part of the human diet providing vital vitamins, minerals and other health-promoting compounds. The texture of the ripe fruit has a significant effect on quality and influences consumer acceptance, shelf-life, resistance, and transportability. The development of rational ... | {
"abstract": "Synthesis of the phytohormone ethylene is believed to be essential for many plant developmental processes. The control of ripening in climacteric fruits and vegetables is among the best characterized of these processes. One approach to reduce ethylene synthesis in plants is metabolism of its immediate ... |
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"abstract": "The generation of hydroxyl (OH) radicals was investigated during ultrasonic irradiation and in the presence of TiO(2). The effect of TiO(2) on an ultrasonic system's oxidation power was evaluated by examining the oxidation of salicylic acid. The generation of the salicylic acid derivatives, 2,3-dihydro... | {
"abstract": "In order to examine the mechanism and process of sonodynamic reaction, the chlorophyllin magnesium (Chl-Mg) acting as a sonosensitizer was irradiated by ultrasound, and the generation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) were detected by the method of oxidation-extraction spectrometry (OES). That is, under... | {
"abstract": "The sensing of mechanical stress in polymers is indispensable for investigating the origin and propagation of cracks that lead to material failure and for designing mechanically responsive polymers. Here the unique approaches of using the force-induced switching of aromaticity and homoaromaticity in mo... |
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"abstract": "A convenient synthesis for enantiomeric pure 1-O-(1'-O-alkyl-sn-glycero-3'-phospho)-D (or L)-myo-inositol, 1-O-(1'-O-acyl-sn-glycero-3'-phospho)-D (or L)-myo-inositol and alkylphospho-1-D (or L)-myo-inositol has been described. Starting from myo-inositol, penta-O-acetyl-myo-inositol was made in five st... | {
"abstract": "A new and convenient method for the preparation of the four stereoisomers of dihexadecanoyl phosphatidylinositol has been developed. An enantiomeric pair of acid-labile, pentaprotected myo-inositol building blocks was synthesized in high yield and coupled with chiral phenyl dihexadecanoylglyceryl phosp... | {
"abstract": "Water soluble, core-modified porphyrins 1-5 bearing 1-4 carboxylic acid groups were prepared and evaluated in vitro as photosensitizers for photodynamic therapy. The 21,23-core-modified porphyrins 1-5 gave band I absorption maxima with lambda(max) of 695-701 nm. The number of carboxylic acid groups in ... |
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"abstract": "Benzene is classified by the IARC as carcinogenic to humans. Several sources may contribute for the occurrence of benzene in foods, such as, environmental contamination and the reaction of benzoate salts with ascorbic acid (naturally present or added as food additives). Matrix effect on benzene recover... | {
"abstract": "Purge and trap methods for the determination of benzene and other volatile organic compounds in food have been developed and evaluated. Although generally applicable to the analysis of beverages, it was found that EPA-based methods had limited applicability to the analysis of solid food samples, fallin... | {
"abstract": "Abstract The knowledge that biodiversity is an essential factor for maintaining a proper condition of soils is commonly widespread. However, the loss of microbial diversity as an effect of anthropogenic activities remains in the category of worldwide problem. Until recently, our knowledge about the soi... |
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"abstract": "Purpose Urinary calculi is a familiar disease. A well-known complication of endourological treatment for impacted ureteral stones is the formation of ureteral strictures, which has been reported to occur in 14.2% to 24% of cases. Materials and Methods This was a prospective study. Ureterotripsy treatme... | {
"abstract": "PURPOSE\nWe retrospectively evaluated the records of 21 patients a mean of 46.1 years old with ureteral stones that had been impacted for greater than 2 months to determine predisposing factors for stricture formation.\n\n\nMATERIALS AND METHODS\nBetween January 1993 and September 1996, 21 patients wer... | {
"abstract": "INTRODUCTION\nMucoepidermoid carcinoma is a rare malignant salivary gland neoplasm in the pediatric population. Few studies have discussed best practice with respect to diagnosis and treatment in children.\n\n\nOBJECTIVE\nTo present our institution's experience with the evaluation and management of ped... |
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"abstract": "A $${\\forall\\exists!}$$-sentence is a sentence of the form $${\\forall x_{1}\\cdots x_{n}\\exists!y_{1}\\cdots y_{m}O(\\overline{x},\\overline{y})}$$, where O is a quantifier-free formula, and $${\\exists!}$$ stands for “there exist unique”. We prove that if $${\\mathcal{C}}$$ is (up to isomorphism) ... | {
"abstract": "An algebraically expandable class is a class of similar algebras axiomatizable by sentences of the form $${(\\forall\\exists ! \\bigwedge eq)}$$ . The problem investigated in this work is that of finding all algebraically expandable classes within a given variety. A complete solution is presented for a... | {
"abstract": "Introduction In the theory of groups, the important concepts of Abelian group, solvable group, nilpotent group, the center of a group and centraliz-ers, are all defined from the binary operation [x, y] = x −1 y −1 xy. Each of these notions, except centralizers of elements, may also be defined in terms ... |
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"abstract": "Amyloidosis is a disorder characterized by extracellular deposition of proteins in an abnormal fibrillar configuration. Amyloidosis can be localized or systemic and may affect any organ. Breast involvement by amyloidosis has rarely been reported. In this study, we described the characteristics of 40 ca... | {
"abstract": "No emie Saut Denis Bernot Xavier Pillois Philippe Rameau G erard S ebahoun Marie-Christine Alessi Hana Raslova V eronique Baccini UMR1062 INSERM, Medicine Faculty, Aix Marseille University, Haematology laboratory, Hôpital La Timone, Assistance PubliqueHôpitaux de Marseille, Marseille, INSERM 1034, Haem... | {
"abstract": "Anxiety as an adaptive response is a natural emotion that occurs in response to danger and prepares an organism to cope with the environment, playing a critical role in its survival. Among the components of anxiety, the expression of fear may inform other members of the group about the presence of immi... |
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"abstract": "Brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) is a neurotrophin essential for neuronal survival and differentiation. We examined the concentration of BDNF in cord serum from newborns exposed to methylmercury (MeHg) and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB) in utero by maternal consumption of whale meat. The cohor... | {
"abstract": "Brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), a member of the neurotrophin family, plays critical roles in the survival, growth, and maintenance of brain and peripheral neurons. We report the presence of BDNF protein in human platelets and its release upon agonist stimulation. The BDNF content of washed pl... | {
"abstract": "Lectins are known as polyclonal activators of lymphocytes and work through the induction of battery of cytokines, which vary from lectin to lectin. Most widely used biological response modifier Mistletoe lectin (ML-1) in therapy stimulates lymphocytes, macrophages, and natural killer cells and induces ... |
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"abstract": "Sepsis-induced acute kidney injury (AKI) contributes to the high mortality and morbidity in patients. Although the pathogenesis of AKI during sepsis is poorly understood, it is well accepted that plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 (PAI-1) and vitronectin (Vn) are involved in AKI. However, the functional... | {
"abstract": "Acute kidney injury (AKI) remains to be an independent risk factor for mortality and morbidity. Inflammation is now believed to play a major role in the pathopathophysiology of AKI. It is hypothesized that in ischemia, sepsis and nephrotoxic models that the initial insult results in morphological and/o... | {
"abstract": "Effects of hyperglycemia on glomerular cells may be mediated by glucose entry into the hexosamine pathway, and mesangial cell (MC) expression of the hexosamine pathway rate-limiting enzyme glutamine:fructose-6-phosphate amidotransferase (GFAT) is increased in diabetic glomerulosclerosis. We hypothesize... |
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"abstract": "The smart grid can be seen as a hybrid system composed by many systems. From a large scale point of view, it combines the electric power system itself and a heterogeneous information and communication technology (ICT) infrastructure. Additionally, these systems are composed by many building blocks that... | {
"abstract": "Electrical Grid we have is more than 50 years old. The integration of information technology to the electric grid system is expected to address many shortcomings of the current and traditional electrical grids that have resulted in Smart Grid which is gaining lot of interest and momentum. In Smart Grid... | {
"abstract": "This case study illustrates the potential benefits and risks associated with the migration of an IT system in the oil & gas industry from an in-house data center to Amazon EC2 from a broad variety of stakeholder perspectives across the enterprise, thus transcending the typical, yet narrow, financial an... |
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"abstract": "Conventional techniques for detecting outliers address the problem of finding isolated observations that significantly differ from other observations that are stored in a database. For example, in the context of health insurance, one might be interested in finding unusual claims concerning prescribed m... | {
"abstract": "Most existing approaches to outlier detection are based on density estimation methods. There are two notable issues with these methods: one is the lack of explanation for outlier flagging decisions, and the other is the relatively high computational requirement. In this paper, we present a novel approa... | {
"abstract": "In this paper, we present the design, implementation, and evaluation of an end-to-end camera planning system called Darshak. Darshak automatically constructs cinematic narrative discourse of a given story in a 3-D virtual environment. It utilizes a hierarchical partial-order causal link (POCL) planning... |
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"abstract": "Abstrac t . The complex formation between metmyoglobin and heparin was investigated by absoibance and fiuoiescence spectroscopy as well as differential scanning microcalorimetn In acidic pH legion, three distinct complexes detected by absoibance measurements are formed depending on pH and time of equil... | {
"abstract": "Complex formation between horse heart ferricytochrome c and large three-dimensional polyanions has been investigated, in order to study the influence of surface electrostatic interactions on the structural and redox properties of cytochrome c. Cytochrome c binds the large heteropolytungstates (NaSb9W21... | {
"abstract": "Phosphorus deficiency is one of the major abiotic stresses affecting plant growth. Plants respond to the persistent deficiency of phosphate (Pi) by coordinating the expression of genes involved in alleviation of the stress. The high-affinity Pi transporters are among the major molecular determinants th... |
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"abstract": "Objectives The microRNAs have been implicated in the development and function of the inner ear, especially in contribution to hearing. However, the impact of idiopathic sudden sensorineural hearing loss (SSNHL) on expression of miRNA biogenesis-related components has not been established. To investigat... | {
"abstract": "Aberrant regulation of microRNA (miRNA) machinery components is associated with various human cancers, including papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC), which is the most common type of thyroid cancer, and a higher prevalent female malignancy. The purpose of this study is to investigate racial differences i... | {
"abstract": "Pathologies of senescence, in particular those of neurosensory organs represent an important health problem. The improvement of the life expectation entails the fast increase of the frequency of the age-related hearing loss (ARHL) in the population. There are numerous factors that contribute to this pr... |
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"abstract": "The serious wafer bending and residual stress are formed during the growth of an epi-GaN layer on sapphire substrate due to the difference of thermal expansion coefficients (TECs) in these two different materials. By using the theoretical analysis and a simulation model with the finite-element method t... | {
"abstract": "The comprehensive investigation on the effect of dislocation edge stress for Si N-type metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors is presented in this work by the experimental measurement and proposed simulation model. The accurate stress measurement in Si OD region with and without dislocation... | {
"abstract": "The regrowth of Si crystal from amorphous layers created by Si implantation into 〈111〉, 〈100〉, and 〈110〉 Si was studied. Channeling effect measurements show that the growths on the 〈110〉 and 〈100〉 substrates are epitaxial and linear with time. For the 〈111〉 samples the growth at 550 °C was significantl... |
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"abstract": "Rat embryos at the head-fold stage were cultured in rotating bottles for 2 days in rat serum extensively dialysed against glucose-free BSS, and to which various energy sources and nutrients were added. Optimum growth and differentiation, virtually indentical with that obtained in while serum and to tha... | {
"abstract": "Rat embryos explanted at nine and one-half days of gestation (early head-fold stages) were cultured for 48 hours in rotating bottles containing rat serum and a gas phase. Addition of 12-15 mg/ml of D-glucose to the culture medium resulted in severe abnormalities and retarded development in a high propo... | {
"abstract": "Conducting polymers have been developed as substrates for in vitro studies with a range of cell types including electrically-excitable cells such as nerve and smooth muscle. The goal of this study was to optimise and characterise a range of polypyrrole materials to act as substrates for electrical stim... |
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"abstract": "A vectorizable algorithm for fast computation of structure factors and derivatives during refinement of macromolecular structures is presented. It is based on fast Fourier transformations on subgrids that cover the unit cell of the crystal. The use of subgrids allows reduction of the total memory requi... | {
"abstract": "Crystallographic refinement by simulated annealing with molecular dynamics has been applied to a 2·8 A (1 A = 0·1 nm) resolution X-ray structure of aspartate aminotransferase. Comparison of the refined structure and a structure obtained by combined restrained least-squares refinement and manual re-fitt... | {
"abstract": "When Fourier syntheses are calculated using phase information from both isomorphous replacement and the refined model it is usual to combine the information for each reflection by multiplying the two probability distributions together. It is well known that phase information from a model contains 'bias... |
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"abstract": "This paper proposes the use of genetic algorithms for process optimization and calibration of model parameters. The main principles of these evolution inspired optimizers are briefly explained. Afterwards, their application to two process simulation tasks is presented: (1) a layout problem in lithograp... | {
"abstract": "Abstract.Extended defects are often found after ion implantation and annealing of silicon and they are known to affect dopant diffusion. The article reviews the structure and energetics of the most often found extended defects and describes the mechanisms by which all these defects grow in size and tra... | {
"abstract": "The current study was aimed to investigate the anti-inflammatory effect of triamcinolone acetonide-loaded hydroxyapatite (TA-loaded HAp) nanocomposites in the arthritic rat model. The HAp nanocomposites were synthesized through a chemical precipitation method and the drug was subsequently incorporated ... |
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"abstract": "We address the problem of efficient structure from motion for large, unordered, highly redundant, and irregularly sampled photo collections, such as those found on Internet photo-sharing sites. Our approach computes a small skeletal subset of images, reconstructs the skeletal set, and adds the remainin... | {
"abstract": "Most existing structure from motion (SFM) approaches for unordered images cannot handle multiple instances of the same structure in the scene. When image pairs containing different instances are matched based on visual similarity, the pairwise geometric relations as well as the correspondences inferred... | {
"abstract": "High rotational torques during baseball pitching are believed to be linked to most overuse injuries at the shoulder. This study investigated the effects of trunk rotation on shoulder rotational torques during pitching. A total of 38 pitchers from the professional, college, high school, and youth ranks ... |
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"abstract": "Like biotechnology before it, nanotechnology is beginning to provoke opposition from environmentalists concerned about the ethics of the development and application of nanotechnologies. Given the lack of data on environmental health and safety regarding how nanoparticles might impact the environment an... | {
"abstract": "Ultrafine particles (UFP, particles <100 nm) are ubiquitous in ambient urban and indoor air from multiple sources and may contribute to adverse respiratory and cardiovascular effects of particulate matter (PM). Depending on their particle size, inhaled UFP are efficiently deposited in nasal, tracheobro... | {
"abstract": "A statistical methodology is proposed to rank several estimation methods of a relevant clinical parameter when no gold standard is available. Based on a regression without truth method, the proposed approach was applied to rank eight methods without using any a priori information regarding the reliabil... |
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"abstract": "This paper describes the development of a decoupled vibratory feeding system (DVFS), while the design and commercialization issues are stressed. In DVFS, the vibration angle and the frequency and the waveform of the driving signals as well as the phase angle between the vertical vibration and horizonta... | {
"abstract": "The system identification and real-time control of a vibratory feeder (VF) are discussed. The feeder simply uses a horizontally-vibrating flat bed to feed various parts. Only the 2D motions (translations in the x and y axes) are analyzed here. The system is nonlinear and highly uncertain, because the m... | {
"abstract": "Over the last three decades, mining operations have undergone massive transformation to mechanized, semi- and automated mining systems; manual labor has been gradually replaced by machine operations and processes have become more integrated. This change was possible due to technological advances in sen... |
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"abstract": "Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related deaths in the past several years. A major challenge in lung cancer screening is the detection of lung nodules from computed tomography (CT) scans. State-of-the-art approaches in automated lung nodule classification use deep convolutional neural network... | {
"abstract": "Classical Convolutional Neural Networks, or ConvNets, have been the benchmarks for most object classification and face recognition tasks despite suffering from major limitations such as the inability to capture spatial co-locality between data points and favoring invariance over equivariance. Hence, a ... | {
"abstract": "Attachment theory makes important predictions about stability and change of attachment patterns. Both early and ongoing secure base experiences lead to the development of mental representations. These are expected to be stable enough to guide behavior and yet open to change in light of experience. This... |
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"abstract": "Immunochemical measurement of serum 17α-hydroxyprogesterone (17OHP), the most important parameter for diagnosis of classical 21-hydroxylase deficiency (21OHD) in newborn infants, is known to be inaccurate due to the cross-reactivity of antibodies with a large quantity of fetal adrenal steroids. The aim... | {
"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nIn newborn infants, there are no reference intervals for urinary free steroids, which are thought to reflect the bioavailable fraction of steroids in the blood. We establish a method for simultaneous measurement of urinary free adrenal steroids such as pregnenolone, progesterone, 16α-hydrox... | {
"abstract": "Formaldehyde has not been established as a human carcinogen. Toxicological studies have, however, demonstrated that formaldehyde causes squamous cell carcinoma of the nasal cavity in rats. A case of squamous cell carcinoma of the nasal cavity occurred in a 57-year-old man who had 25 years of occupation... |
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"abstract": "Haematological surveys were carried out in 3 schools in 2 areas where Schistosoma mansoni is endemic in Machakos District, Kenya, before and after a treatment campaign using praziquantel. Earlier clinical impressions of differences in the levels of anaemia between the 2 areas were not confirmed. Althou... | {
"abstract": "Data from 46 schools in western Kenya were used to investigate the performance of school-based questionnaires, on reported blood in stool and water-contact patterns, as indicators of the prevalence of human infection with Schistosoma mansoni. Prevalence of infection was associated with the prevalence o... | {
"abstract": "Tal (mount) Irbid in Irbid city, Jordan, with its continuous human occupation from the Bronze Age until the present, demonstrates the main landmark that has guided the spread of the urban growth of the city. The outcome of studies carried out at Irbid’s historic core, in relation to assessing the loss ... |
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"abstract": "The design and development of new aircraft are becoming increasingly expensive and timeconsuming. To assist the design process in reducing the development cost, time, and late design changes, the c ...",
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"abstract": "This paper investigates techniques for answering microblog questions by searching in a large community question answering website. Some question transformations are considered, some proprieties of the answering platform are examined, how to select among the various available configurations in a learnin... | {
"abstract": "In this paper, we present an object detection system and its application to pedestrian detection in still images, without assuming any a priori knowledge about the image. The system works as follows: in a first stage a classifier examines each location in the image at different scales. Then in a second... |
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"abstract": "Simple Summary This review summarizes adaptations and predispositions of different arthropod taxa (springtails, web spiders, millipedes and centipedes) to flood and drought conditions. The main focus sis directed to arthropod species, which are living in Middle European floodplain forests and wetlands,... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Environmental disturbances seem to be increasing in frequency and impact, yet we have little understanding of the belowground impacts of these events. Soil fauna, while widely acknowledged to be important drivers of biogeochemical function, soil structure and sustainability, and trophic intera... | {
"abstract": "Agriculture is one of the largest anthropogenic sources of greenhouse gases (GHGs), with dairy and beef production accounting for nearly two-thirds of emissions. Several recent papers suggest that dung beetles may affect fluxes of GHGs from cattle farming. Here, we put these previous findings into cont... |
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"abstract": "We use Principal Component Analysis (PCA) to study the Brady Bond Debt of the four primary Latin American sovereign issuers: Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, and Venezuela. Our dataset covers a period of 5½ years starting in July 1994 and consists of daily sovereign (\"stripped\") yield levels for the par an... | {
"abstract": "Preliminaries principal component analysis relationships between matrices common practical components proportional covariance matrices partial common components and common space analysis how different are several covariance matrices? numerical methods. Appendices: spectral decomposition of symmetric ma... | {
"abstract": "The paper presents an analysis of the cloud sizes, velocity line widths, viral masses, and CO luminosities of 273 Galactic molecular clouds which utilizes the higher resolution Massachusetts-Stony Brook Galactic plane CO survey. It is shown that the molecular clouds are in or near viral equilibrium and... |
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"abstract": "THE INTRODUCTION OF RETINAL ANGIOGRAPHY has given the physician the opportunity to study and permanently record morphology and physiology in the living ocular vascular system. Specifically, flow and permeability in the retinal and choroidal vessels can now be correlated with anatomical changes. Other p... | {
"abstract": "The maculas of patients with chloroquine retinopathy exhibit a dramatic fluorescence when studied by intravenous fluorescein angiography. This fluorescence is interpreted as being due to a dysplasia of the macular pigment epithelium, which allows the underlying choroidal fluorescence to show through. W... | {
"abstract": "An important focus of studies of individuals at ultra‐high risk (UHR) for psychosis has been to identify biomarkers to predict which individuals will transition to psychosis. However, the majority of individuals will prove to be resilient and go on to experience remission of their symptoms and function... |
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"abstract": "We present flow analysis models for dependence graph based algorithms for (a) computing program slices and (b) computing summary information needed for slicing. Our models benefits typical of declarative specification. First, they show that algorithms for solving flow analysis problems may be applied t... | {
"abstract": "Program slicing is a technique to extract program parts with respect to some special computation. Since Weiser first proposed the notion of slicing in 1979, hundreds of papers have been presented in this area. Tens of variants of slicing have been studied, as well as algorithms to compute them. Differe... | {
"abstract": "Recent work has shown that the use of finite-state transducers (FST’s) has many advantages in large vocabulary speech recognition. Most past work has focused on the use of triphone phonetic decision trees. However, numerous applications use decision trees that condition on wider contexts; for example, ... |
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"abstract": "This paper presents an approach to functional modeling for the integration process of new productive technologies, based on a FBP5 (Function/Behavior/Process/Structure) representation of the new technological solutions. Our approach (called IfNot, i.e. functional integration of new technologies) includ... | {
"abstract": "Nos travaux concernent la conception de produits dans les phases preliminaires, ou preconception de produits, se trouvant dans la litterature sous l'expression de conceptual design, a la croisee entre les domaines de l'Intelligence Artificielle appliquee a la conception, la conception integree et simul... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Theories of qualitative physics are crucial in developing knowledge-based systems in engineering. Basic models for diagnostic reasoning are based on causal connections between the system parameters. In this paper a knowledge representation and problem solving technique is presented as a ground... |
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"abstract": "NFC (\"Near Field Communication\") is a short-range wireless communication channel. The current NFC credit card protocol allows a contactless credit card to communicate wirelessly with a Point-of-Sale in order to perform a purchase. This protocol is vulnerable to four common attacks: eavesdropping, ski... | {
"abstract": "Nowadays, contactless payments are becoming increasingly common as new smartphones, tablets, point-of-sale (POS) terminals and payment cards (often termed \"tap-and-pay\" cards) are designed to support Near Field Communication (NFC) technology. However, as NFC technology becomes pervasive, there have b... | {
"abstract": "Background ::: The notion of smart city has grown popular over the past few years. It embraces several dimensions depending on the meaning of the word “smart” and benefits from innovative applications of new kinds of information and communications technology to support communal sharing.",
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"abstract": "The cell-immobilization technique is used for the physical and chemical fixation of cells onto a solid support in order to increase their stability and capacity of substrate uptake. However, there is no apparatus to observe the microbial community's structure inside cell immobilizing polymeric carrier.... | {
"abstract": "1Member of JSCE, Professor, Dept. of Civil Eng., College of Industrial Technology, Nihon University (Izumi 1-2-1, Narashino, Chiba 275-8575, Japan) E-mail: takahashi.iwahito@nihon-u.ac.jp (Corresponding Author) 2Member of JSCE, Associate Professor, Dept. of Civil Eng., College of Industrial Technology,... | {
"abstract": "ABSTRACT Each year, thousands of new protistan 18S rRNA sequences are detected in environmental samples. Many of these sequences are molecular signatures of new protistan species, classes, and/or kingdoms that have never been seen before. The main goal of this study was to enable visualization of these... |
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"abstract": "Background and Purpose— Computed tomography (CT) is used to study coronary artery plaques, but little is known about its potential to characterize plaque composition. This study assesses the relation between carotid calcium score (CCS) by CT and plaque composition, namely extracellular matrix, inflamma... | {
"abstract": "BACKGROUND AND AIMS\nA vulnerable plaque is an atherosclerotic plaque that is rupture-prone with a higher risk to cause cardiovascular symptoms such as myocardial infarction or stroke. Mimecan or osteoglycin is a small leucine-rich proteoglycan, important for collagen fibrillogenesis, that has been imp... | {
"abstract": "Alloimmunization to granulocyte-specific antigens can occur during pregnancy. Maternal antibodies of IgG class can cross the placenta to result in alloimmune neonatal neutropenia. Antibodies to human neutrophil antigens anti-HNA-1a, HNA-1b, and HNA-2a have been most commonly reported to cause alloimmun... |
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"abstract": "Abstract The paper examines the spatial pattern of intra-urban freight transportation in Lagos metropolis, Nigeria, using detailed data from a comprehensive field survey. The application of R-mode factor analysis with varimax rotation results in the extraction of four relevant factors which account for... | {
"abstract": "This study examines the logistics of moving cement brands to market centres in Nigeria. The major objective is to evaluate transport and logistics system options used by cement companies in Nigeria, as a basis for recommending an effective option that would optimize cement haulage and distribution syst... | {
"abstract": "In this research, an optimization of a wind turbine airfoil is performed by Genetic Algorithm (GA) as optimization method, coupled with CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) and Artificial Neural Network (ANN). A pressure-based implicit procedure is applied to solve the Navier-Stokes equations on a nonort... |
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"abstract": "This study illustrates the changing nature of organized crime at both national and international levels. Organized crime groups have changed in that they have entered the realm of high technology. In response this change, the use of new or modified analytical tools is suggested to enhance law enforceme... | {
"abstract": "The Bad Guys International Criminal Organizations Introduction The Big Six International Criminal Organizations Other International Criminal Organizations International Terrorist Organizations Strategic Alliances Between International Criminal Organizations Appendix 1 - Specially Designated Narcotics T... | {
"abstract": "Abstract A method and its associated computer program for (specifically communication) network analysis are described. The program described here, NEGOPY, is relational, or linkage-based. The conceptual orientation, computational algorithm, operating characteristics, format and availability of NEGOPY a... |
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"abstract": "The reliability and high performance of metadata service is crucial to the store architecture. A novel design of a two-level metadata server file system (TTMFS) is presented, which behaves high reliability and performance. The merits both centralized management and distributed management are considered... | {
"abstract": "Metadata management is a key technology of heterogeneous data sources integration. Metadata management in data grid is based on distributed multi-layer mapping on resources, which has the characteristics of centralization in indexing and decentralization in resources. These characteristics may lead mul... | {
"abstract": "Motivated by the inherent error-resilience of emerging recognition, mining, and synthesis (RMS) applications, approximate computing techniques such as precision scaling has been advocated for achieving energy-efficiency gains at the cost of small accuracy loss. Most existing solutions, however, focus o... |
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"abstract": "The Internet is evolving rapidly toward the future Internet of Things (IoT) which will potentially connect billions or even trillions of edge devices which could generate huge amount of data at a very high speed and some of the applications may require very low latency. The traditional cloud infrastruc... | {
"abstract": "Despite the broad utilization of cloud computing, some applications and services still cannot benefit from this popular computing paradigm due to inherent problems of cloud computing such as unacceptable latency, lack of mobility support and location-awareness. As a result, fog computing, has emerged a... | {
"abstract": "Although deep neural networks have made tremendous progress in the area of multimedia representation, training neural models requires a large amount of data and time. It is well known that utilizing trained models as initial weights often achieves lower training error than neural networks that are not ... |
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"abstract": "Cardiovascular diseases are the leading causes of death and disability in the world, in both developed and developing countries, and also in both sexes. In fact one third of annual deaths worldwide are due to cardiovascular problems, according to the WHO (World Health Organization) estimated 17.3 milli... | {
"abstract": "The main objective of this study was to analyze the impact of defensive hostility on cardiovascular response in a stressful situation. By measuring three of the most commonly used cardiovascular indexes (heart rate, systolic blood pressure and diastolic blood pressure) over three experimental phases (a... | {
"abstract": "A series of benzothiazolium-based hemicyanines (3a-3f) have been synthesized. Evaluation of their photophysical properties shows that they exhibit improved photophysical characteristics. In comparison with the available commercial MitoTrackers, the new probes revealed an enhanced Stokes shift (Δλ ∼ 80 ... |
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"abstract": "Thousand of news stories are reported each day. How to extract the useful information from the large web news is the important technology today. However, information technology advances have partially automated to processing documents, reducing the amount of text which must be read. In this paper we pr... | {
"abstract": "Approach for classifying in real-time web news articles into various topics.The approach solves a big data problem since it can cope with huge amounts of newsThe presented approach is evolving (on-line, one-pass and recursive).The model that describes a specific topic area changes over time.The approac... | {
"abstract": "This paper deals with the practical and theoretical implications of model reduction for aerodynamic flow based control problems. Various aspects of model reduction are discussed that apply to partial differential equation (PDE) based models in general. Specifically, the proper orthogonal decomposition ... |
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"abstract": "All adaptive organisms face the fundamental tradeoff between pursuing a known reward (exploitation) and sampling lesser-known options in search of something better (exploration). Theory suggests at least two strategies for solving this dilemma: a directed strategy in which choices are explicitly biased... | {
"abstract": "Deep learning and machine learning are hot topics in the financial services nowadays. They allow financial entities to define products and segment clients, efficiently manage risk and detect fraud in banks. The theory of Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) was originally motivated by animal learning of s... | {
"abstract": "In this paper we present pFabric, a minimalistic datacenter transport design that provides near theoretically optimal flow completion times even at the 99th percentile for short flows, while still minimizing average flow completion time for long flows. Moreover, pFabric delivers this performance with a... |
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"abstract": "Context: Breast cancer is a biggest threat to women. X-ray mammography is the most effective method for early detection and screening of breast cancer. It is a tough challenge for the radiologist in reading mammography since it does not provide consistent result every time. Aim: To improve the primary ... | {
"abstract": "Many studies have been carried out on the identification of objects in the image. One feature often used in object identification is the histogram feature of digital images. The next development is the use of a digital image co-occurrence matrix as an identifier. This study aims to compare the use of t... | {
"abstract": "In this article, multiresolution analysis, specifically the discrete wavelet transform modulus-maxima (mod-max) method, is utilized for the extraction of mammographic mass shape features. These shape features are used in a classification system to classify masses as round, nodular, or stellate. The mul... |
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"abstract": "Recent years have witnessed a persistent interest in generating pseudo test collections, both for training and evaluation purposes. We describe a method for generating queries and relevance judgments for microblog search in an unsupervised way. Our starting point is this intuition: tweets with a hashta... | {
"abstract": "We present a new ranking algorithm that combines the strengths of two previous methods: boosted tree classification, and LambdaRank, which has been shown to be empirically optimal for a widely used information retrieval measure. Our algorithm is based on boosted regression trees, although the ideas app... | {
"abstract": "Contextual multi-armed bandit problems have gained increasing popularity and attention in recent years due to their capability of leveraging contextual information to deliver online personalized recommendation services (e.g., online advertising and news article selection). To predict the reward of each... |
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"abstract": "The repair of DNA double-strand breaks is critical for maintaining genetic stability. In the non-homologous end-joining pathway, DNA ends are brought together by end-bridging factors. However, most in vivo DNA double-strand breaks have terminal structures that cannot be directly ligated. Thus, the DNA ... | {
"abstract": "Non-homologous end joining (NHEJ) directly joins two broken DNA ends without sequence homology. A distinct pathway called microhomology-mediated end joining (MMEJ) relies on a few base pairs of homology between the recombined DNA. The majority of DNA double-strand breaks caused by endogenous oxygen spe... | {
"abstract": "Five proteins purified from mouse cells acting together efficiently convert a single-stranded circular DNA template to covalently closed duplex circle by a discontinuous mechanism. DNA polymerase alpha/primase with the assistance of alpha accessory factor covers the single-stranded circle with RNA-prim... |
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"abstract": "In situ techniques with high temporal, spatial and chemical resolution are key to understand ubiquitous solid-state phase transformations, which are crucial to many technological applications. Hard X-ray spectro-imaging can visualize electrochemically driven phase transformations but demands considerab... | {
"abstract": "Understanding the reaction pathway and kinetics of solid-state phase transformation is critical in designing advanced electrode materials with better performance and stability. Despite the first-order phase transition with a large lattice mismatch between the involved phases, spinel LiMn1.5Ni0.5O4 is c... | {
"abstract": "materials with controlled particle size andmicrostructure. The single-phase products occur as submicrometric particles that interconnect into larger aggregates with sphericalshape and no porosity. Two types of electrochemical response are found in lithium cells depending on annealing time andtemperatur... |
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"abstract": "The current study focuses on the evaluation of the Haar wavelet method, i.e. its comparison with widely used strong formulation based methods (FDM-finite difference method and DQM-differential quadrature method). A solid element 3D finite element model is developed and the numerical results obtained by... | {
"abstract": "The higher order Haar wavelet method (HOHWM) introduced recently by workgroup is utilized for vibration analysis of nanobeams. The results obtained are compared with widely used Haar wavelet method. It has been observed that the absolute error has been reduced several magnitudes depending on number of ... | {
"abstract": "Managers are often required to make complex decisions under severe time constraints. We predicted that the perception of time pressure, even when there is sufficient time to make a decision, may impair decision making activity. A pilot study and two experiments were conducted on a sample of 162 univers... |
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"abstract": "Abstract Ecological communities hosted within phytotelmata (plant compartments filled with water) provide an excellent opportunity to test ecological theory and to advance our understanding of how local and global environmental changes affect ecosystems. However, insights from bromeliad phytotelmata co... | {
"abstract": "Climate change will alter the distribution of rainfall, with potential consequences for the hydrological dynamics of aquatic habitats. Hydrological stability can be an important determinant of diversity in temporary aquatic habitats, affecting species persistence and the importance of predation on comm... | {
"abstract": "Temperature time series with high spatial and temporal resolutions are important for several applications. The new MODIS Land Surface Temperature (LST) collection 6 provides numerous improvements compared to collection 5. However, being remotely sensed data in the thermal range, LST shows gaps in cloud... |
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"abstract": "Muhittin Yilmaz received the B.S. degree in electrical and electronics engineering from Gazi University, Ankara, Turkey, and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Pennsylvania State University, University Park. He has been an Assistant Professor with the lectrical Engineering and C... | {
"abstract": "We have combined collaborative didactic techniques, virtual laboratories and intelligent tutors to improve the process of learning mobile robotics. The students learn the basic concepts in mobile robotics, first by experimenting in a virtual laboratory and later by building a small mobile robot for a c... | {
"abstract": "Abstract This contribution presents a novel design concept of a 24 GHz radio frequency communication module. The integration of optical and electrical components is a particular challenge since the module is miniaturized in order to be integrated into any metallic workpieces. The design concept and the... |
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"abstract": "INTRODUCTION\nAboriginal Maternal and Infant Care (AMIC) workers and midwives work in intellectual and inter-cultural partnerships in a new perinatal care model the Anangu Bibi Family Birthing Program that aims to provide culturally focussed perinatal care for Aboriginal mothers and families at two sit... | {
"abstract": "Objective:To assess and contrast views and experiences of women attending the Women's Business Service at the Mildura Aboriginal Health Service with those of rural women attending public maternity services who participated in a Victorian statewide survey conducted in 2000.",
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"abstract": "Understanding natural scenes involves the contribution of bottom–up analysis and top–down modulatory processes. However, the interaction of these processes during the categorization of natural scenes is not well understood. In the current study, we approached this issue using ERPs and behavioral and co... |
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"abstract": "Most of previous studies on automatic database partitioning focus on deriving a (near-)optimal (re)partition scheme according to a specic pair of database and query workload and oversees the problem about how to eciently deploy the derived partition scheme into the underlying database system. In fact, ... | {
"abstract": "Vertical partitioning is a crucial step in physical database design in row-oriented databases. A number of vertical partitioning algorithms have been proposed over the last three decades for a variety of niche scenarios. In principle, the underlying problem remains the same: decompose a table into one ... | {
"abstract": "FranTk is a new high level library for programming Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs) in Haskell. It is based on Fran (Functional Reactive Animation), and uses the notions of Behaviors and Events to structure code. Behaviors are time-varying, reactive values. They can be used to represent the state of an... |
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"abstract": "The analysis of communities and their evolutionary behaviors in dynamic networks is a challenging topic. Although a growing body of work on this topic is emerging, there are few methods which can reveal and track meaningful communities over time and can also deal with large networks efficiently. In thi... | {
"abstract": "In recent years, spectral clustering method has gained attentions because of its superior performance compared to other traditional clustering algorithms such as K-means algorithm. The existing spectral clustering algorithms are all off-line algorithms, i.e., they can not incrementally update the clust... | {
"abstract": "Background ::: Research shows that personnel working in mental health facilities may share some of the societal prejudices towards mental illness. This might result in stigmatizing behaviours towards people suffering from mental disorders, undermining the quality of their care.",
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"abstract": "We construct a stream-cipher S whose implementation is secure even if a bounded amount of arbitrary (adversarially chosen) information on the internal state ofS is leaked during computation. This captures all possible side-channel attacks on S where the amount of information leaked in a given period is... | {
"abstract": "The power consumed by a circuit varies according to the activity of its individual transistors and other components. As a result, measurements of the power used by actual computers or microchips contain information about the operations being performed and the data being processed. Cryptographic designs... | {
"abstract": "Semantic drift is a common problem in iterative information extraction. Previous approaches for minimizing semantic drift may incur substantial loss in recall. We observe that most semantic drifts are introduced by a small number of questionable extractions in the earlier rounds of iterations. These ex... |
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"abstract": "Environmental Health Perspectives (EHP) established the Paper of the Year in 2008 (Tilson 2008) as a way of highlighting high-quality articles published in the journal. The EHP Classic Paper of the Year is given to the most highly cited Research Article, Commentary, or Review Article over the preceding... | {
"abstract": "Authors are often asked about the impact of their research on their fields or disciplines. Likewise, editors often wonder about the impact of articles published in their journals. In an effort to reinforce the high quality of articles published in EHP, reveal trends in emerging research themes, and tra... | {
"abstract": "The biogeography of pungency in three species of wild chili in the chaco and surrounding highland habitats of southeastern Bolivia is described. We report that Capsicum chacoense, C. baccatum, and C. eximium are polymorphic for production of capsaicin and its analogs, such that completely pungent and c... |
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"abstract": "Rotation invariant descriptors based on Local Parameter Histograms are proposed.Two approaches are suggested which produce RI-LPH and I-LPH descriptors.RI-LPH descriptor is formulated by circular shifting the neighbour values.I-LPH descriptor is generated using isotropic Gaussian-Markov Random Fields.B... | {
"abstract": "In this paper, we present an evaluation of texture descriptors’ robustness when interpolation methods are applied over rotated images. We propose a novel rotation invariant texture descriptor called Sampled Local Mapped Pattern Magnitude (SLMP_M) and we compare it with well-known published texture desc... | {
"abstract": "We propose an image segmentation method based on texture analysis. Our method is composed of two parts. The first part determines a novel set of texture features derived from a Gaussian-Markov random fields (GMRF) model. Unlike a GMRF-based approach, our method does not employ model parameters as featu... |
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"abstract": "A revision of the 1995 Data Protection Directive of the European Union is currently in preparation. It is argued that the revised version should take explicitly and adequately into account the special requirements for personal data collection, storage and use needed in epidemiological research activiti... | {
"abstract": "Childhood cancer is a major global health issue. Every year, almost 100 000 children die from cancer before the age of 15 years, more than 90% of them in resource-limited countries. Here, we review the key policy issues for the delivery of better care, research, and education of professionals and patie... | {
"abstract": "The aim of this study was to find an additional resource for clinicians to utilize when determining whether patients with Parkinson’s disease (PD) are capable of driving safely by comparing perceptions of their driving safety with their caregivers. Thirty-two patient-caregiver pairs took the survey. Ca... |
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"abstract": "Approximately 690000-1790000 Salmonella cases, 20000 hospitalizations, and 400 deaths occur in the USA annually, costing approximately $2.6bn. Existing models estimate morbidity, mortality, and cost solely from incidence. They do not estimate illness duration or use time as an independent cost predicto... | {
"abstract": "Salmonella serovars are harmful enteric pathogens of economical and clinical \nimportance that possess sophisticated strategies to rapidly adapt to various \nhost (human and animal) and non-host (soil, water and industrial) environments. \nNitrosative stress, in the form of RNS such as the potent cytot... | {
"abstract": "Face processing plays a central role in human communication, with the eye region a particularly important cue for discriminating emotions. Indeed, reduced attention to the eyes has been argued to underlie social deficits in a number of clinical populations. Despite well-established impairments in facia... |
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"abstract": "THE radiolysis of dilute solutions of aromatic hydrocarbons results in the production of high yields of electronically excited solute molecules1–3. The results of charge-scavenging experiments2,3 indicate that the most probable process for the production of electronically excited solute molecules in cy... | {
"abstract": "SummaryExtrinsic fluorescence changes in squid giant axons were examined under a variety of experimental conditions using 2-p-toluidinylnaphthalene-6-sulfonate (TNS) and other fluorescent probes. Measurements of the degree of polarization of the fluorescent light (with the axis of the polarizer paralle... | {
"abstract": "A physics-based analytical model is proposed in order to predict the temperature profile during metal additive manufacturing (AM) processes, by considering the effects of temperature history in each layer, temperature-sensitivity of material properties and latent heat. The moving heat source analysis i... |
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"abstract": "In the paper a new five-level (5L) inverter based on unidirectional Flying-Capacitor switching cells is presented. It is named 5L-Flying-Capacitor with Coupled-Inductor (5L-FC-CI) and consists in parallel connection of two unidirectional (P and N) three-level (3L) Flying-Capacitor switching cells with ... | {
"abstract": "In the paper two new DC/AC hybrid multilevel bidirectional switching cells are proposed. First cell has three voltage levels (3L) and is called 3L-Bidirectional-Vienna (3L-BV). It contains semiconductor devices that work at different switching frequencies. The second switching cell has five voltage lev... | {
"abstract": "The paper proposes a new digital algorithm for the implementation of the fixed frequency, adaptive hysteresis current control for voltage source inverters. The key features of the new algorithm are the minimization of the analog external circuitry, the capability to automatically compensate for the inv... |
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"abstract": "Background:Response to EGFR-targeted therapies in colorectal cancer patients has been convincingly associated with Kirsten-Ras (K-Ras) mutation status. Current mandatory mutation testing for patient selection is limited to the K-Ras ‘hotspot’ codons 12 and 13.Methods:Colorectal tumours (n=106) were scr... | {
"abstract": "Epstein-Barr virus (EBV)-positive plasmacytoma is a rare plasma cell neoplasm. It remains unclear whether EBV-positive plasmacytoma represents a distinct entity or a variant of plasmacytoma. It shares morphologic features with plasmablastic lymphoma (PBL) and may cause diagnostic uncertainty. To better... | {
"abstract": "A path-integral approach is used to study the spectral properties of the generators of the SO(2,1) symmetry of conformal quantum mechanics (CQM). In particular, we consider the CQM version that corresponds to the weak-coupling regime of the inverse square potential. We develop a general framework to ch... |
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"abstract": "Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is a potential cause of serious morbidity and even mortality among children undergoing hematopoietic SCT (HSCT). Contrary to the available information regarding the aerosolized formulation of ribavirin, there is a paucity of published studies using i.v. ribavirin in ad... | {
"abstract": "To the Editor: \n\nRecently, Walsh et al[1][1] reported that ribavirin can be effectively aerosolized using a vibrating mesh micropump in a pediatric test lung model during both spontaneous breathing and mechanical ventilation. We recently applied this information in an immunocompromised patient",
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"abstract": "An account of Russia's second revolution - the country's wrenching transition from Communist central planning to a market economy - told by interweaving high politics with glimpses of the revolution's impact on the lives of ordinary people. Beginning with a glimpse of the dismal living conditions in th... |
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"abstract": "Background. Knowledge of species-specific vocalization characteristics and their associated active communication space, the effective range over which a communication signal can be detected by a conspecific, is critical for understanding the impacts of underwater acoustic pollution, as well as other th... | {
"abstract": "Information on the habitat use of the critically endangered Yangtze finless porpoise (Neophocaena asiaeorientalis asiaeorientalis) is critical for its conservation. The diel biosonar behavior of the porpoise in the port areas of the Yangtze River was examined along with simultaneous observations of fis... | {
"abstract": "The Yangtze finless porpoise (Neophocaena asiaeorientalis asiaeorientalis) is an endangered freshwater porpoise subspecies unique to the Yangtze River basin. Seasonal variations in local distribution of the animal, as well as fish presence, sand dredging, ship navigation, and bridges were examined as p... |
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"abstract": "The determination of the provenance of 'unknown' plutonium material is demonstrated through a simulation study based on an isotopic fingerprinting approach. Plutonium of known provenance was considered as the 'unknown' nuclear material in order to evaluate the potential of the approach and verify its p... | {
"abstract": "Abstract A fingerprinting procedure, based on the direct use of Pu isotopic ratios, is presented to discriminate spent fuels of different origin. Simulated and real spent fuels from PWR, BWR and LMFBR have been used, with different charge compositions in uranium, plutonium and minor actinides. The sens... | {
"abstract": "Abstract. Secondary ion mass spectrometry (SIMS) was optimised for characterisation of uranium- and plutonium-containing particles in soils, swipes and forensic samples. This was done by analysing in-house produced spherical UO2-particles. Screening techniques as α-autoradiography together with SIMS an... |
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"abstract": "Females may base their choice of sperm on male attractiveness or on genetic (in)compatibility with the male. Evidence is accumulating that male and female genotype both affect fertilization success (Wedekind et al. 1996, Clark et al. 1999). If female sperm choice is a mechanism to avoid the negative ef... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Cryptic female choice (CFC) refers to female-mediated processes occurring during or after copulation that result in biased sperm use in favor of preferred or compatible males. Despite recent empirical support for this hypothesis, evidence that CFC contributes towards the evolution of male body... | {
"abstract": "examination has been made of the evolutionary of maternal-foetal incompatibility, where off the a to present the observed results of certain matings in and to explore the evolutionary consequences to be expected in a population having a hypothetical incompatibility mechanism consistent with the observe... |
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"abstract": "Protein phosphatase 2A consists of three subunits, the catalytic subunit (C) and two regulatory subunits (A and B). The A subunit has a rod-like shape and consists of 15 nonidentical repeats. It binds the catalytic subunit through repeats 11 to 15 at the C terminus and the tumor antigens encoded by sma... | {
"abstract": "We have determined that TPD3, a gene previously identified in a screen for mutants defective in tRNA biosynthesis, most likely encodes the A regulatory subunit of the major protein phosphatase 2A species in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. The predicted amino acid sequence of the product of TPD3 is ... | {
"abstract": "This book explores the historical formation during the colonial period of that part of African law known as customary law. In treating the emergence of the customary law as part of the history of the social and economic transformation of African societies under colonial rule, it also provides an interp... |
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"abstract": "Abstract. The effects of short-term fasting and refeeding were studied on satellite cells extracted from white epaxial muscle of juvenile rainbow trout (1–3 g body weight). In vitro changes in the proliferation of satellite cells were analyzed using bromodeoxyuridine (BrdU) incorporation over a 24-h pe... | {
"abstract": "Although there are mammalian myoblast cell lines, no fish myoblast cell line has been developed so far. The aim of this study was to develop a culture system of muscle explants for fish, as explants provide an approximation of the in vivo conditions for cell proliferation and differentiation, and enabl... | {
"abstract": "Incorporation of the thymidine analogue 5-bromo-2'-deoxyuridine (BrUdR) into newly synthesized DNA provides the basis of a simple technique for identifying proliferating cells. BrUdR was administered to C57BL/6 mice by continuous infusion for 1-7 days, or by intraperitoneal injection for shorter interv... |
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