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"abstract": ". There are many research papers dealing with fractal dimension of real-valued fractal functions in the recent literature. The main focus of the present paper is to study fractal dimension of complex-valued functions. This paper also highlights the difference between dimensional results of the complex- ... | {
"abstract": "We investigate the box dimensions of the horizon of a fractal surface defined by a function f ∈ C[0,1]2. In particular we show that a prevalent surface satisfies the ‘horizon property’, namely that the box dimension of the horizon is one less than that of the surface. Since a prevalent surface has box ... | {
"abstract": "In this article, we investigate partial integrals and partial derivatives of bivariate fractal interpolation functions. We prove also that the mixed Riemann-Liouville fractional integral and derivative of order $\\gamma = (p, q); p > 0,q > 0$, of bivariate fractal interpolation functions are again biva... |
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"abstract": "Many interferometry-based quantitative phase contrast imaging techniques require a separately generated coherent reference wave. This results in a low phase stability and the demand for a precise adjustment of the intensity ratio between object and reference wave. To overcome these problems, the perfor... | {
"abstract": "A completely numerical method, named digital self-referencing holography, is described to easily accomplish a quantitative phase microscopy for microfluidic devices by a digital holographic microscope. The approach works through an appropriate numerical manipulation of the retrieved complex wavefront. ... | {
"abstract": "The global race for the optically integrated photonic chip is driven by the prospective that miniaturization of optical devices and enhanced chip functionality may revolutionize the manufacture of optical circuits, and the futuristic dream of the all-optical computer may come true. The aim of this arti... |
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"abstract": "A Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) analysis for a thermal mixing test was performed for 30 s to develop the methodology for a numerical analysis of the thermal mixing between steam and subcooled water and to apply it to Advanced Power Reactor 1400 MWe (APR1400). In the CFD analysis, the steam condens... | {
"abstract": "This work pertains to the research program on Containment Thermal-Hydraulicsat KTH. The objective is to evaluate and improve performance of methods, whichare used to analyze thermal-hydraulics of s ...",
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"title": "Modeling of Condensation,Stratification, and Mixing Phenomena ... | {
"abstract": "Nusselt-s model is employed to illustrate the effects of vapor superheat and condensate subcooling on laminar film condensation occurring under simultaneous actions of gravity and interfacial shear. The vapor superheat affects the condensation kinetics in cooperation with heat transfer in both phases. ... |
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"abstract": "This report describes the cDNA sequence and embryonic RNA expression pattern of carp Hoxb-1. Carp Hoxb-1 is a labial-like, homeobox-containing gene of the 3' end of the Hox gene cluster. The expression pattern in carp is compared to that of homologs in other vertebrates. As holds for other Hox genes, c... | {
"abstract": "The carp cth1 gene, related to the mammalian TIS11 family of primary response genes, encodes a novel fish protein with two putative CCCH zinc fingers. This report describes the RNA expression of this gene during cleavage, blastula and gastrula stages of carp embryos. Cth1 mRNA is present in all cleavag... | {
"abstract": "The welfare and migration regime of Sweden are undergoing substantial changes, as neo-liberal restructuring is rapidly increasing inequalities, and multicultural policies are in retreat as neo-assimilationist policies are growing. In 2014, the Sweden Democrats, a party conceptualised as culturally raci... |
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"abstract": "Situs inversus totalis (SIT) is a rare congenital anomaly. Generally, laparoscopic surgery is difficult to perform in patients with SIT because of both the potential challenges associated with unexpected vascular anomalies and the lack of standardized strategy for handling such cases. This is the first... | {
"abstract": "We report our case of laparoscopy-assisted distal gastrectomy with D1 + β lymph node dissection for a patient with early gastric cancer and laparoscopic cholecystectomy for gallstone with situs inversus totalis. A superficial elevated lesion was found on the lesser curvature of the antrum. The preopera... | {
"abstract": "Erosion and deposition over a barchan dune near the Salton Sea, California, is modelled by book-keeping the quantity of sand in saltation following streamlines of transport. Field observations of near-surface wind velocity and direction plus supplemental measurements of the velocity distribution over a... |
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"abstract": "Abstract The effects of early mobilization after uncomplicated myocardial infarction were investigated in a strictly randomized controlled study conducted during a period of transition in the therapeutic practice of the Cantonal Hospital in Geneva, Switzerland. One hundred fifty-four patients under age... | {
"abstract": "During the years 1968-71 203 patients with proved myocardial infarction were admitted to the trial. Patients were mobilized either on day 10 (102 patients) or on day 20 (100 patients). All patients were kept in hospital for 30 days in order to ensure a detailed comparison of clinical course and laborat... | {
"abstract": "Huntington's disease (HD) is an incurable, neurodegenerative disease, which manifests via a triad of progressive symptoms: motor impairment, psychiatric disorders, and cognitive decline. Conventionally, the HD diagnosis is based on the presence of involuntary choreiform movements and a positive genetic... |
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"abstract": "Indirect impact of humic acid (HA) on metal accumulation and toxicity (Cd, Ni, Pb, and Hg; 100 μM; 24 h of exposure) in Scenedesmus quadricauda was studied. Algae were pre-cultured on solid (10 and 100 mg HA/L) or in liquid media (1, 5, and 10 mg HA/L) over 30 days and then exposed to metals mentioned ... | {
"abstract": "Toxicity of glyphosate (G) alone or in combination with cadmium (Cd) was studied in Matricaria chamomilla. Cadmium accumulated in shoots and roots in relation to prolonged exposure while glyphosate and aminomethylphosphonic acid (AMPA) were detected only in roots. After 7 days of exposure, root Cd and ... | {
"abstract": "Environmental concentrations of toxic substances are not necessarily constant but fluctuate over time. Periods of intense exposure might be followed by episodes with a relatively low or no exposure, in principle allowing exposed organisms to recover from toxic injury. The growth reproduction assay with... |
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"abstract": "BackgroundMany patients who receive lung transplantation (LT) operations develop varying degrees of bronchiolitis obliterans (BO) after the surgeries. Epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) is considered to be related to the process of bronchiolitis obliterans. In this study we simulated the pathologi... | {
"abstract": "Lung transplant is a definitive treatment for several end-stage lung diseases. However, the high incidence of allograft rejection limits the overall survival following lung transplantation. Traditionally, alloimmunity directed against human leukocyte antigens (HLA) has been implicated in transplant rej... | {
"abstract": "Acute allograft rejection in animals and humans has been associated with increased nitric oxide production in the graft. Exhaled nitric oxide (ENO) measurement is a noninvasive method of assessing inflammation in airway diseases, e.g., asthma, which might be applicable to lung transplant recipients. Ov... |
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"abstract": "A 9-year-old spayed female Scottish terrier presented with an 8-day history of progressive paraparesis. Neurological examination suggested a painful T3-L3 myelopathy. Multifocal uniform contrast-enhancing masses involving the vertebral bodies, pedicles, laminae, and spinous processes of two vertebrae a... | {
"abstract": "A 10-year-old, male, mixed-breed dog that developed cervical pain and neurological deficits was diagnosed with primary lymphoma of the second cervical vertebra. The cervical lesion was not surgically resectable. A dorsal cervical hemilaminectomy was performed to provide temporary decompression. The dog... | {
"abstract": "The authors report on the results obtained in 30 consecutive cases of primary non‐Hodgkin's lymphoma of bone (PNHLB) treated at the Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli between 1972 and 1982. Four patients were treated with radiotherapy only and 26 were treated with radiotherapy plus adjuvant chemotherapy. At a... |
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"abstract": "The paper's point of departure is that the information content of financial asset prices is formed partly through search for private information by individuals or investor groups, rather than gleaned exclusively from observed asset prices. Differences in the efficiency of search for information signals... | {
"abstract": "The paper entertains the proposition that individuals' time performs a productive role in generating nonwage income through the management of nonhuman capital assets. The asset management hypothesis is used to develop a life cycle model of consumptive and productive decisions. The model allows for vari... | {
"abstract": "This paper analyzes the asset pricing implications of commonly used portfolio management contracts linking the compensation of fund managers to the excess return of the managed portfolio over a benchmark portfolio. The contract parameters, the extent of delegation, and equilibrium prices are all determ... |
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"abstract": "Abstract This paper reviews the problems and benefits associated with combining work and family when children are young, then proceeds to discuss both implications for research and some strate-/ gies (individual and structural) for easing tensions between the two domains.",
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"abstract": "Focuses specifically on women’s multiple roles and how this can have a bearing on health and fitness. Looks at how effects of variable dynamics are crystallized in terms of coping strategies, counselling and other, related, research. Discusses various areas where women come under extra stress in multip... | {
"abstract": "Abstract : The purpose of this thesis is to address the challenges of validating simulation models, especially those challenges facing military simulation analysts. Three distinct issues are of concern to the military simulation analyst: (1) What type of validation effort do the academic experts recomm... |
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"abstract": "Unilateral abdominal cryptorchidism has usually been correlated with abnormalities in the spermatogenic activity of the scrotal testis. The present study describes the effects of unilateral abdominal cryptorchidism on the meiotic process in scrotal testes from postpubertal boars. The percentage of prim... | {
"abstract": "The fine structure of acrosomic abnormalities such as fragmentation and vacuolization of boar spermatids was studied in 4 different breeds (Duroc, Hampshire, Landrace and Yorkshire). These abnormalities initially appeared from the cap phase of spermiogenesis. The acrosome did not consist of serial sac ... | {
"abstract": "Environmental perception is one of the most difficult problems for off-road autonomous vehicles. Due to the variety and complexity of off-road environments, the information from any single sensor is not enough for safe and efficient vehicle navigation. Employing more sensors can greatly improve the veh... |
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"abstract": "Bio-image analysis is challenging due to inhomogeneous intensity distributions and high levels of noise in the images. Bayesian inference provides a principled way for regularizing the problem using prior knowledge. A fundamental choice is how one measures \"distances\" between shapes in an image. It h... | {
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"title": "Image segmentation with a Sobolev gradient method"
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"abstract": "Automated analysis of fluorescence microscopy data relies on robust segmentation and tracking algorithms for sub-cellular structures in order to generate quantitative results. The accuracy of the image processing results is, however, frequently unknown or determined a priori on synthetic benchmark data... |
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"abstract": "Retinal normally binds opsin forming the chromophore of the visual pigment, rhodopsin. In this investigation synthetic analogs were bound by the opsin of living cells of the alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii; the effect was assayed by phototaxis to give an activation spectrum for each rhodopsin analog. Th... | {
"abstract": "Chlamydomonas reinhardtii swims toward or away from light (phototaxis) in a graded way depending on various conditions. Activation of rhodopsin provides signals to control the steering of this unicellular organism relative to a light source and to up-regulate rhodopsin biosynthesis. Intracellular cAMP ... | {
"abstract": "The paper uses a range of primary-source empirical evidence to address the question: ‘why is it to hard to value intangible assets?’ The setting is venture capital investment in high technology companies. While the investors are risk specialists and financial experts, the entrepreneurs are more kno... |
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"abstract": "A 56-year-old woman who underwent living liver transplantation for primary biliary cirrhosis seven years previously presented with symptoms of repetitive cholangitis. She had been suffering from a wet cough for the past three months and had also been treated for bacterial pneumonia, which tended to eas... | {
"abstract": "Bronchobiliary fistula is a rare cause of chronic cough. Here we describe a 70-year-old woman complaining of chronic cough and copious dark-yellow watery sputum. The presence of air in the biliary tract in the lower cuts of a computerized tomography scan of the chest and positive bile in the sputum led... | {
"abstract": "Bronchobiliary fistula is an uncommon entity. Recently, we encountered 2 patients with this problem. Both were treated successfully with resection of the involved pulmonary tissue and interposition of viable tissue between the lung and the fistulous tract. This approach, although invasive, provided a r... |
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"abstract": "We investigated the hydrological response to climate change simulations for three basins in South Korea. To provide fine-scale climate information to the PRMS hydrological model, an ECHO-G B2 simulation was dynamically downscaled using the RegCM3 double-nested system implementing two different convecti... | {
"abstract": "A hydrologic model was driven by the climate projected by 11 GCMs under two emissions scenarios (the higher emission SRES A2 and the lower emission SRES B1) to investigate whether the projected hydrologic changes by 2071–2100 have a high statistical confidence, and to determine the confidence level tha... | {
"abstract": "Analyses of the coupling between large‐scale atmospheric patterns and modifications of regional precipitation regimes at seasonal and annual time scales in different terrain of mid‐latitudes in Asia, including western Siberia, Tien Shan and Pamir mountains, and plains of middle Asia and Japanese Island... |
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"abstract": "A new family of diphenylethanes has been synthesized as conformationally restricted analogues of antimitotic combretastatins. The two phenyl rings are linked between the para-phenolic positions through a 3-oxapentamethylene or hexamethylene chain. The key macrocyclization step was achieved in moderate ... | {
"abstract": "A new family of polyoxygenated stilbenophanes has been synthesized as conformationally restricted analogues of antimitotic combretastatins. By means of the McMurry olefination process, compounds derived from diethyleneglycol and 1,6-hexanediol were obtained, whereas Grubbs' catalyst failed in producing... | {
"abstract": "Abstract A series of aza-combretastatin was synthesized and their activity against microtuble assembly was evaluated. N-Benzylaniline analogs with a variety of side chains (10b-10i) showed moderate to excellent inhibitory activity while benzanilide analogs (8, 9 and 12) had little activity.",
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"abstract": "Determining the strength of Li binding to Mo is critical to assessing the survivability of Li as a potential first wall material in fusion reactors. We present the results of a joint experimental and theoretical investigation into how Li desorbs from Mo(110) surfaces, based on what can be deduced from ... | {
"abstract": "Periodic, self-consistent, density functional theory calculations have been performed to investigate Li adsorption on Mo(110) surface. It turns out that the long-bridge site is the most stable site and the Li–Mo surface alloy forms easily at high coverage with the substitution of Mo by Li atoms in the ... | {
"abstract": "Adsorption and desorption studies—by flash‐filament and ion gauge techniques—gave information on surface coverages, sticking probabilities, atom formation, and surface mobilities for the interaction of gases with a molybdenum ribbon. For hydrogen, saturation surface coverages were independent of pressu... |
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"abstract": "Human term placenta and two human choriocarcinoma cell lines were studied immunohistochemically and by immunoblotting with monoclonal antibodies to keratin polypeptides and vimentin. Four keratin polypeptides (40, 45, 52, 54 K) were detected in both normal and malignant trophoblastic cells. The presenc... | {
"abstract": "CONTEXT\nMore than 90% of testicular neoplasms originate from germ cells. Testicular germ cell tumors (GCTs) are a heterogeneous group of neoplasms with diverse histopathology and clinical behavior.\n\n\nOBJECTIVE\nTo help the readers distinguish various subtypes of GCTs, to highlight the clinical mani... | {
"abstract": "ABSTRACT What role does soil play in sustainable design interventions and can it help to reconfigure human place experiences and human-nature relations in cities? Cities are home to a host of nonhuman actors that are overlooked or under-acknowledged in design and planning practices and in everyday dwel... |
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"abstract": "The effect of stitching on mode I and mode II strain energy release rates for debond configurations is studied using an analysis based on plate finite elements and the virtual crack closure technique. The stitches were modeled as discrete nonlinear fastener elements with a compliance determined by expe... | {
"abstract": "An efficient method for predicting the strength of debonded composite skin-stiffener configurations is presented. This method, which is based on fracture mechanics, models the skin and stiffener with two-dimensional (2D) plate elements instead of three-dimensional (3D) solid elements. The skin and stif... | {
"abstract": "This study provides a comprehensive review of existing active disturbance rejection control (ADRC) techniques for the control of non-minimum phase (NMP) DC-DC boost converter (DBC). A boost converter presents a challenging control task due to its non-linear and NMP dynamics while operating in continuou... |
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"abstract": "This work reports on the nanoscale assembly of hybrid lanthanum oxide and silica structures, which form patterns of interfacial dense and porous networks. It was found that increasing the molar ratio of lanthanum nitrate to tetraethyl orthosilicate (TEOS) in an acid catalysed sol-gel process alters the... | {
"abstract": "Pd-silica mixed-matrix membranes with superior H(2) permeability and hydrothermal stability at high temperatures were successfully fabricated using a sol-gel method. The Pd-silica layer was quite thin (100-200 nm) and small Pd particles (several nm) dispersed well in an amorphous silica matrix.",
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"abstract": "Low density aerogels have numerous unique properties which suggest a number of applications such as ultra high efficiency thermal insulation. However, the commercial viability of these materials has been limited by the high costs associated with drying at high pressures (supercritical), low stability t... |
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"abstract": "We present a statistically motivated method to extract magnonic contrast from STXM-FMR measurement with microwave frequencies of the order of \\unit[10]{GHz}. With this method it is possible to generate phase and amplitude profiles with a spatial resolution of about \\unit[30]{nm} given by the STXM res... | {
"abstract": "We present a scanning transmission x-ray microscopy setup combined with a novel microwave synchronization scheme for studying high frequency magnetization dynamics at synchrotron light sources. The sensitivity necessary to detect small changes in the magnetization on short time scales and nanometer spa... | {
"abstract": "Using spin-polarized scanning tunneling microscopy, the local excitation of magnons in Fe and Co has been studied. A large cross section for magnon excitation was found for bulk Fe samples while for thin Co films on Cu(111) the cross section linearly scales with film thickness. Recording inelastic tunn... |
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"abstract": "In product model design, it is of great significance to get to know consumer's perceptual feelings, i.e. Kansei, about the product so as to improve design and work out the desired product. In this paper, smart watch samples are firstly selected by referring to various kinds of sources. By decomposing w... | {
"abstract": "Abstract A semantic recognition and rule-oriented approach for developing a product design is proposed. The development of an office chair is used to describe the design procedures. A number of referential products are used to quantify partial correlation coefficients, which represent individual contri... | {
"abstract": "Physical activity decreases the risk of osteoarthritis (OA)-related disability; however, pain and lack of confidence represent barriers for older adults with knee OA. The purpose of this study was to examine (a) the baseline associations among self-efficacy and physical activity, function, and pain; (b... |
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"abstract": "Aims Knowledge of adverse events associated with regadenoson perfusion cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) and patient tolerability has implications for patient safety and staff training. We sought to assess the safety and tolerability of regadenoson stress CMR. Materials and methods A group of 728 consec... | {
"abstract": "Regadenoson (REG) is a A2a receptor selective pharmacologic SPECT imaging agent. Its safety in unselected chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) or asthma (AM) undergoing SPECT imaging has not been well evaluated. We retrospectively identified 228 patients (COPD n = 126 and AM n = 102, Grp 1) und... | {
"abstract": "To define the role of capillaries in the control of coronary blood flow (CBF) reserve, we developed a model of the coronary circulation and evaluated experimental data in its context. Our model comprised three compartments connected in series (arterial, capillary, and venous), each with its own resista... |
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"abstract": "Cardiac electrophysiology has moved a long way forward during recent decades in the comprehension and treatment of complex cardiac arrhythmias. Contemporary electroanatomical mapping systems, along with state-of-the-art technology in the manufacture of electrophysiology catheters and cardiac imaging mo... | {
"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nConventional activation mapping is difficult without inducible, stable ventricular tachycardia (VT).\n\n\nMETHODS AND RESULTS\nWe evaluated 16 patients with drug refractory, unimorphic, unmappable VT. Nine patients had ischemic and 7 had nonischemic cardiomyopathy. All patients had implanta... | {
"abstract": "Isolated preparations of portions of the canine intraventricular conducting system were studied by microelectrode techniques in order to determine the nature of transverse spread and longitudinal dissociation of impulses in bundle branches and false tendons. Driving stimuli were delivered to an eccentr... |
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"abstract": "We present an accurate and efficient stereo matching method using locally shared labels, a new labeling scheme that enables spatial propagation in MRF inference using graph cuts. They give each pixel and region a set of candidate disparity labels, which are randomly initialized, spatially propagated, a... | {
"abstract": "Stereo correspondence methods rely on matching costs for computing the similarity of image locations. We evaluate the insensitivity of different costs for passive binocular stereo methods with respect to radiometric variations of the input images. We consider both pixel-based and window-based variants ... | {
"abstract": "Super resolving a low-resolution video, namely video super-resolution (SR), is usually handled by either single-image SR or multi-frame SR. Single-Image SR deals with each video frame independently, and ignores intrinsic temporal dependency of video frames which actually plays a very important role in ... |
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"abstract": "DNA content and light scatter were measured by flow cytometry (FCM) in 103 patients including 43 patients with non‐Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL), eight patients with Hodgkin's disease (HD), 17 patients with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), ten patients with acute nonlymphocytic leukemia (ANLL), and 25 pa... | {
"abstract": "In summary, flow cytometry is highly applicable to the detection and classification of leukemias and lymphomas due to the ease with which single-cell suspensions may be made. Composite immunophenotypic analysis is essential for classifying leukemias once the disease is detected by traditional means. In... | {
"abstract": "Summary A rapid and reproducible method for the preparation of autoradiographs from single-cell suspensions of human tumor cells, including melanoma and lung carcinoma, is described. Tritiated thymidine of high specific activity (6.0 Ci/mmole) was used so that autoradiographs could be developed and rea... |
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"abstract": "Background. The pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of lumefantrine, a component of the most widely used treatment for malaria, artemether-lumefantrine, has not been adequately characterized in young children. Methods. Capillary whole-blood lumefantrine concentration and treatment outcomes were deter... | {
"abstract": "This paper reports the clinical pharmacokinetics of artemether and lumefantrine in healthy volunteers and in malaria patients. These two drugs are the active components of the fixed-dose oral combination tablet co-artemether (Riamet®), used for the treatment of Plasmodium falciparum malaria.Artemether ... | {
"abstract": "Objective: To consider the implications for mental health policy of a recent synthesis of the literature on the effectiveness of different service delivery models for depression in primary care.",
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"title": "Depression in primary health care: from evidence to pol... |
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"abstract": "An important step in compile-time optimization of objectoriented languages with polymorphic and virtual functions is static determination of concrete types (classes) of variables referring to objects. This information is essential for identifying monomorphic call sites and hence opening opportunities f... | {
"abstract": "Runtime class testing is a technique whereby virtual function calls are transformed into statically-bound function calls through a series of conditional branches. Through this transformation, the overhead of virtual function calls can be significantly reduced. However, the drawback of these tests is th... | {
"abstract": "Spatioand spectro-temporal data (SSTD) are the most common types of data collected in many domain areas, including engineering, bioinformatics, neuroinformatics, ecology, environment, medicine, economics, etc. However, there is lack of methods for the efficient analysis of such data and for spatiotempo... |
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"abstract": "The narrowest armchair graphene nanoribbon (AGNR) with five carbons across the width of the GNR (5-AGNR) was synthesized on Au(111) surfaces via sequential dehalogenation processes in a mild condition by using 1,4,5,8-tetrabromonaphthalene as the molecular precursor. Gold-organic hybrids were observed ... | {
"abstract": "The on-surface activation of carbon-halogen groups is an efficient route to produce radicals for constructing various hydrocarbons and carbon nanostructures. To date, the employed halide precursors have only one halogen attached to a carbon atom. It is thus of interest to study the effect of attaching ... | {
"abstract": ": The main aim of this thesis is to compare and improve the various heat transfer parameters like overall heat transfer coefficient, heat transfer rate, effectiveness, NTU etc..in double pipe heat exchanger for four different cases, i.e. Plain tube, Corrugated tube, Plain tube with helically twisted wi... |
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"abstract": "Oxygen volume is the most important control in BOF (Basic Oxygen Furnace) steelmaking production and the control accuracy affects the quality of liquid steel directly. In this study, a CBR (Case-based Reasoning) method is adopted to calculate the oxygen blowing volume in the second period of BOF steelm... | {
"abstract": "Case-Based Reasoning (CBR) is an Artificial Intelligence (AI) methodology and a growing field of research. CBR uses past experiences to help solve new problems the system faces. To do so CBR is com ...",
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"title": "Case Representation Methodology for a Scalable Case-Based Reas... | {
"abstract": "A new time series prediction method based on support vector machine (SVM) and genetic algorithm (GA) is proposed. At first, SVM is used to partition the whole input space into several disjointed regions. Secondly, GA is adopted to determine the parameter combination of the SVM corresponding to the part... |
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"abstract": "State‐dependent retrieval is demonstrated when material learned under drug is best recalled in that same drug state. To test whether state‐dependency can be induced by an antihistamine, we administered chlorpheniramine (AH) in a ‘cross‐over’ design with four experimental conditions based on drug state ... | {
"abstract": "The aim of the present study was to investigate whether and by which mechanism; histamine can induce state-dependent retrieval of passive avoidance task. The pre-training or pre-test intracerebroventricular (i.c.v.) injection of histamine (20µg/mouse) impaired retrieval, when it was tested 24 h later. ... | {
"abstract": "The results of two placebo-controlled driving performance studies confirm laboratory data showing that the nonsedating antihistamine terfenadine does not influence the driving performance of users. The amplitude of vehicle weaving calculated for drivers who received this agent did not differ from contr... |
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"abstract": "In day to day life, security of an object or property plays a major role. Nowadays, security is the major threat faced by most of the organizations; hence security is gaining more importance in these days. This paper gives a survey on various automatic identification and access control mechanisms that ... | {
"abstract": "In this paper, design and implement of a microcontroller based home security system with GSM technology have been presented and analyzed. Two microcontrollers with other peripheral devices which include Light Emitting Diode (LED), Liquid Crystal Display (LCD), Buzzer and Global System for Mobile Commun... | {
"abstract": "Sponsored search is at the center of a multibillion dollar market established by search technology. Accurate ad click prediction is a key component for this market to function since the pricing mechanism heavily relies on the estimation of click probabilities. Lexical features derived from the text of ... |
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"abstract": "Introduction Contrast-induced acute kidney injury (CIAKI), defined as a serum creatinine (Cr) level of ≥ 25% or ≥ 0.5mg/dL from baseline, is a major complication associated with the administration of iodinated contrast media, and often irreversible declines in the kidney function. CIAKI is the major le... | {
"abstract": "effect of zinc supplementation on body mass index and serum levels of zinc and leptin in pediatric hemodialysis patients ahmed Nabih el-shazly 1 soha abd el-hady Ibrahim Introduction: Zinc is an essential trace element for human nutrition, and its deficiency is associated with anorexia, poor food effic... | {
"abstract": "Lung cancer biopsy material is limited and is used for morphologic diagnosis, immunohistochemical and molecular testing. This can lead to tissue exhaustion, resulting in repeat biopsies (when clinically possible), delayed testing, and increased risks. Consequently, there is a need to optimize pre-analy... |
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"abstract": "We recently showed that platelets contain submembranous actin filaments that are linked to glycoprotein (GP) Ib on the plasma membrane. In the present study, experiments were performed to determine whether spectrin was associated with these filaments. The membrane-bound filaments were isolated from Tri... | {
"abstract": "Detection of compound-related neurodegeneration is currently limited to brain histopathology in veterinary species and functional measurements such as electroencephalography and observation of clinical signs in patients. The objective of these studies was to investigate whether concentrations of spectr... | {
"abstract": "A Ca2+-dependent protease was prepared from rat brain by using DEAE-Sephadex, Sephadex G-200, and substrate affinity chromatography. Degradation of neurofilament proteins was determined by measuring the changes in radioactivity of electrophoretically separated bands of radioiodinated neurofilament prot... |
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"abstract": "Wavefunctions of a relativistic heavy quark-light quark $(Q,q)$ system described by a Dirac hamiltonian are analyzed. By assuming that the confinement potential is a Lorentz scalar (S), the slope of the Isgur-Wise function is calculated at zero recoil point. The result obtained is $\\xi^\\prime(1)=-0.9... | {
"abstract": "We discuss the Isgur-Wise function [xi]([ital y]) in the small velocity (SV) limit within the QCD sum-rule method. The behavior of [xi]([ital y]) in the SV limit is sensitive to the particular form of the duality relations used to decontaminate the sum-rule predictions from the continuum contribution. ... | {
"abstract": "We investigate the verification problem of two classes of infinite state systems w.r.t. nonregular properties (i.e., nondefinable by finite-state Ω-automata). The systems we consider are Petri nets as well as semilinear systems including pushdown systems and PA processes. On the other hand, we consider... |
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"abstract": "A simple and rapid method for the determination of nanomole levels of biological thiols is described. The analysis is based on the combination of reverse-phase high-performance liquid chromatography with a postcolumn reaction with 6,6'-dithiodinicotinic acid. Thiols, including cysteine, cysteamine, thi... | {
"abstract": "We describe a versatile high-performance liquid-chromatographic method for determining homocysteine and other plasma sulfhydryls. Using three different procedures for preparation of plasma, we determined total, free (non-protein-bound), and reduced forms of homocysteine, cysteine, glutathione, cysteiny... | {
"abstract": "SummaryA fast and sensitive method for the determination of thiol-containing compounds by formation of fluorescent derivatives and high pressure liquid chromatography (HPLC) is described. The conditions for the selective reaction of thiol compounds with 5-dimethylaminonaphthalene-1-sulfonylaziridine we... |
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"abstract": "This paper presents the theoretical assessment of conversion losses for 4H-SiC based power devices over 10 kV. A set of empirical and analytical equations are developed to predict the losses at different temperatures and over wide blocking voltage range. Basic data for empirical equations in terms of R... | {
"abstract": "This letter reports the demonstration of the first 4H-SiC Schottky barrier diode (SBD) blocking over 10 kV based on 115-/spl mu/m n-type epilayers doped to 5.6 /spl times/ 10/sup 14/ cm/sup -3/ through the use of a multistep junction termination extension. The blocking voltage substantially surpasses t... | {
"abstract": "This study assessed the role of immobilized cell adhesion moieties on controlling the cellular attachment, adhesion and phenotype of cardiac muscle cells towards developing scaffolds for cardiac muscle tissue engineering. Collagen I, laminin and the cell-adhesive oligopeptide, arginine-glycine-aspartic... |
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"abstract": "Drawing on García Coll et al.’s integrative framework and the risk and resilience model, this study examined the relationships between adolescents’ perceived discrimination and psychosocial adjustment and the moderating roles of adolescents’, mothers’, and fathers’ cultural orientations and values, and... | {
"abstract": "A critical period hypothesis linking early experiences with both racial discrimination and conduct disorder (CD) with subsequent drug use was examined in a panel of 889 African American adolescents (age 10.5 at time 1) and their parents. Analyses indicated that these early experiences did predict use b... | {
"abstract": "Bovine respiratory syncytial virus (BRSV) is a paramyxovirus that is the major cause of pneumonia in calves. Vaccines for this important pathogen have been available since the late 1970's. This review is a critical assessment of the literature including, experimental challenge studies and field trials,... |
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"abstract": "This special section is devoted to a selection of journal versions of papers that were presented at the first International Symposium On Leveraging Applications of Formal Methods. All papers are relevant to the field of quantitative systems validation. Three papers report on applying state-of-the-art t... | {
"abstract": "During the design of large technical systems it can fast remunerate to use analytic and simulative models to test and dimension the system before implementation. However, setting up such predictive models is time-consuming and nobody intends to repeat work that has already been invested into a design t... | {
"abstract": "This contribution investigates novel techniques for error detection in automatic semantic annotations, as an attempt to reconcile error-prone NLP processing with high quality standards required for empirical research in Digital Humanities. We demonstrate the state-of-the-art performance of semantic NLP... |
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"abstract": "Carbonate reservoirs in the Middle East are believed to contain about half of the world's oil. The processes of sedimentation and diagenesis produce in carbonate rocks microporous grains and a wide range of pore sizes, resulting in a complex spatial distribution of pores and pore connectivity. This het... | {
"abstract": "We introduce and demonstrate an NMR pulsed gradient stimulated echo method of directly obtaining the molecular translational displacement probability (displacement profile) of a liquid. The temporal development of the displacement profile reflects the presence of diffusion, restrictions to diffusion (e... | {
"abstract": "We report the results from spectroscopic observations of 113 ultra-wide, low-mass binary systems, largely composed of M0–M3 dwarfs, from the SLoWPoKES catalog of common proper motion pairs identified in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Radial velocities of each binary member were used to confirm that they... |
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"abstract": "Propelled by a fast evolving landscape of techniques and datasets, data science is growing rapidly. Against this background, topological data analysis (TDA) has carved itself a niche for the analysis of datasets that present complex interactions and rich structures. Its distinctive feature, topology, a... | {
"abstract": "Persistent homology is a method for probing topological properties of point clouds and functions. The method involves tracking the birth and death of topological features (2000) as one varies a tuning parameter. Features with short lifetimes are informally considered to be\"topological noise,\"and thos... | {
"abstract": "Why does Deep Learning work? What representations does it capture? How do higher-order representations emerge? We study these questions from the perspective of group theory, thereby opening a new approach towards a theory of Deep learning. ::: One factor behind the recent resurgence of the subject is a... |
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"abstract": "Measurements of tissue properties using an image-based technique that makes use of an external reference may have the potential for practical clinical implementation in echocardiography. The objective of this study was to quantify the ability of this technique to distinguish myocardial attenuation and ... | {
"abstract": "The principles of a narrowband technique for pulse echo attenuation measurements are presented. Experiments are described which compare the attenuation in tissue-mimicking phantoms, measured by known methods, to the attenuation measured by the present technique. The effects of various experimental para... | {
"abstract": "In this paper we will discuss the measurement of attenuation of soft tissues using broadband pulsed ultrasound. While all the methods presented here may be used for measuring the attenuation coefficient of single layers, some of the methods can also be used for measuring integrated attenuation of compo... |
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"abstract": "The evolution of DNA sequencing techniques generated huge sequence repositories and hence the need for efficient algorithms to compare them. To increase search speed, heuristic algorithms like BLAST were developed and are widely used. In order to further reduce BLAST execution time, this paper evaluate... | {
"abstract": "mpiBLAST is an open-source parallelization of BLAST that achieves superlinear speed-up by segmenting a BLAST database and then having each node in a computational cluster search a unique portion of the database. Database segmentation permits each node to search a smaller portion of the database, elimin... | {
"abstract": "Property estimation of thin sand-shale reservoirs using seismic response could be challenging due to limited seismic resolvability. A forward-modeled investigation on seismic signatures of multiple realizations of pseudo 1-D thin and-shale sequences, constructed from a discrete, first order Markov chai... |
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"abstract": "The exposure to silica and related substances such as silicate (e.g. chrysotile asbestos; 3MgO.2SiO2.H2O) or silicone (-R2Si-O-)n, used in plastic surgery, has been known to induce autoimmune diseases. The pathogenesis of autoimmunity induced by such environmental factors, however, needs to be clarifie... | {
"abstract": "The association between silicosis and autoimmune diseases is not uncommon. Silicosis is well correlated with rheumatoid arthritis and systemic lupus erythematosus. However, cases of dermatomyositis associated with silicosis are relatively understudied. We report a case of a 59-year-old man with a histo... | {
"abstract": "Human skin is a remarkable organ that sustains insult and injury throughout life. The ability of skin to expeditiously repair wounds is paramount to survival. With an aging global population, coupled with a rise in the prevalence of conditions such as diabetes, chronic wounds represent a significant bi... |
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"abstract": "The majority of studies on stem cell differentiation have so far been based in vivo, on live animal models. The usefulness of such models is limited, since it is much more technically challenging to conduct molecular studies and genetic manipulation on live animal models compared to in vitro cell cultu... | {
"abstract": "Stem cells are quickly coming into focus of much biomedical research eventually aiming at the therapeutic applications for various disorders and trauma. It is important, however, to keep in mind the difference between the embryonic stem cells, somatic stem cells and somatic precursor cells when conside... | {
"abstract": "Wetlands function as buffers for nutrients loaded from terrestrial ecosystems through drainage and surface discharges. The objectives of our study were to (1) determine the P retention capacity of representative wetland soils being used for disposal of treated wastewater and (2) relate P retention char... |
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"abstract": "In this paper, we present a methodology for precisely comparing the robustness of face recognition algorithms with respect to changes in pose angle and illumination angle. For this study, we have chosen four widely-used algorithms: two subspace analysis methods (principle component analysis (PCA) and l... | {
"abstract": "Abstract The Face Recognition Technology (FERET) program database is a large database of facial images, divided into development and sequestered portions. The development portion is made available to researchers, and the sequestered portion is reserved for testing facerecognition algorithms. The FERET ... | {
"abstract": "In machine reading comprehension (MRC) tasks, sentence inference is an important but extremely difficult problem. Most of MRC models directly interact articles with questions from the word level, which ignores inter and intra information of sentences and cannot well focus on problems about sentence rea... |
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"abstract": "Motivations like domain adaptation, transfer learning, and feature learning have fueled interest in inducing embeddings for rare or unseen words, n-grams, synsets, and other textual features. This paper introduces a la carte embedding, a simple and general alternative to the usual word2vec-based approa... | {
"abstract": "Multi-view learning can provide self-supervision when different views are available of the same data. Distributional hypothesis provides another form of useful self-supervision from adjacent sentences which are plentiful in large unlabelled corpora. Motivated by the asymmetry in the two hemispheres of ... | {
"abstract": "A compact 680-GHz waveguide orthomode transducer (OMT) and circular horn combination has been designed, tested, and characterized in a radar transceiver's duplexer. The duplexing capability is implemented by a hybrid waveguide quasi optical solution, combining a linear polarization OMT and an external ... |
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"abstract": "Colon cancer is one of the major causes of cancer-related death in the Western world. Although cytotoxic chemotherapeutic agents are available to treat the disease, these agents become ineffective as the disease advances to an invasive state. An alternative but viable approach to reduce the incidence o... | {
"abstract": "Pomegranate (Punica granatum L.) fruits are widely consumed as juice (PJ). The potent antioxidant and anti-atherosclerotic activities of PJ are attributed to its polyphenols including punicalagin, the major fruit ellagitannin, and ellagic acid (EA). Punicalagin is the major antioxidant polyphenol ingre... | {
"abstract": "Skin tumors can be effectively induced in mice by the repetitive application of a carcinogen. The relative order of sensitivity to complete carcinogenesis is Sencar > CD‐1 > C57BL/6 ≥ BALB/c ≥ ICR/Ha Swiss > C3H. Skin tumors in mice can also be induced by the sequential application of a sub‐threshold d... |
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"abstract": "Extracts from different body parts of adult femaleEriocrania cicatricella (Zett.) were tested for electrophysiological activity on conspecific male antennae. Extracts from the Vth abdominal segment, containing a pair of exocrine glands, elicited the largest electroantennographic response when compared ... | {
"abstract": "Pheromone receptors (PRs) are essential in moths to detect sex pheromones for mate finding. However, it remains unknown from which ancestral proteins these specialized receptors arose. The oldest lineages of moths, so-called non-ditrysian moths, use short-chain pheromone components, secondary alcohols, ... | {
"abstract": "The results of histological as well as scanning electron microscope (SEM) and transmission electron microscope (TEM) ultrastructural studies carried out on the Lasiocephala basalis Kol. androconia were compared with other previously studied Trichoptera species. Although the androconial histological fea... |
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"abstract": "This paper outlines a conceptual model for the regulation of the circasemidian sleep propensity process with emphasis on a possible mechanism of the afternoon \"nap zone\". It is proposed that the afternoon nap zone is due to increasing sleep propensity after morning wakening (Borb ly's Process-S) bein... | {
"abstract": "The relation between the duration of prior wakefulness and EEG power density during sleep in humans was assessed by means of a study of naps. The duration of prior wakefulness was varied from 2 to 20 hr by scheduling naps at 1000 hr, 1200 hr, 1400 hr, 1600 hr, 1800 hr, 2000 hr, and 0400 hr. In contrast... | {
"abstract": "Sleep-dependent memory consolidation is observed following motor skill learning: Performance improvements are greater over a 12-h period containing sleep relative to an equivalent interval without sleep. Here we examined whether older adults exhibit sleep-dependent consolidation on a sequence learning ... |
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"abstract": "Sonication and humic acids (HA) are known to disperse carbon nanotube (CNT) suspensions, but potential effects on sorption of chemicals to CNTs remain poorly understood. We applied a passive sampling method to investigate the influence of dispersion/aggregation on sorption of pyrene to CNTs. Sonication... | {
"abstract": "Functionalization of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) is important for enhancing deposition of metal nanoparticles in the fabrication of supported catalysts. A facile approach for oxidizing CNTs is presented using a sonochemical method to promote the density of surface functional groups. This was successfully e... | {
"abstract": "Extracting cores from a tree using an increment borer has been standard practice in dendrochronological studies for a long time. Although empirical rules exist regarding how many samples to take and which methodology to apply, comparatively few studies provide quantification of the similarity of relati... |
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"abstract": "OBJECTIVES\nTo evaluate the feasibility of fusion imaging compound tomography (FICT) of CT/MRI and single photon emission tomography (SPECT) versus planar scintigraphy only (plSc) in pre-surgical staging for vulvar cancer.\n\n\nMATERIALS AND METHODS\nAnalysis of consecutive patients with vulvar cancer ... | {
"abstract": "The value of SPECT/CT for detection and localization of sentinel nodes is reviewed. SPECT/CT depicts extra sentinel nodes and identifies non‐nodal tracer accumulation. SPECT/CT is indicated in patients with complex lymphatic drainage as often present in patients with head, neck and scapular melanoma, b... | {
"abstract": "Salt restriction is important for the prevention and treatment of hypertension; however, salt consumption is still high in Japan. Improvements in dietary habits, including salt reduction in childhood, may contribute to the prevention of hypertension. The aim of the present study was to investigate the ... |
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"abstract": "The theory of finite-size scaling explains how the singular behavior of thermodynamic quantities in the critical point of a phase transition emerges when the size of the system becomes infinite. Usually, this theory is presented in a phenomenological way. Here, we exactly demonstrate the existence of a... | {
"abstract": "Some authors have recently argued that a finite-size scaling law for the text-length dependence of word-frequency distributions cannot be conceptually valid. Here we give solid quantitative evidence for the validity of this scaling law, using both careful statistical tests and analytical arguments base... | {
"abstract": "Nonequilibrium fluctuations, whether generated externally or by a chemical reaction far from equilibrium, can bias the Brownian motion of a particle in an anisotropic medium without thermal gradients, a net force such as gravity, or a macroscopic electric field. Fluctuation-driven transport is one mech... |
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"abstract": "Tourism in the Arab Gulf countries is Third-World tourism in a way. Yet the countries do not depend on the cash-flow involved. Manpower needed is provided by expatriates and social or cultural impacts are minimal as society already is international in character. Moreover existing and idle hotel-capacit... | {
"abstract": "Using the case of United Arab Emirates (UAE) an attempt has been made to find out the place of modern tourism in the social structures of a conservative society. Impact of human inter-action on host society has also been secured qualitatively. The observations and comments are based on perceptive reali... | {
"abstract": "Introductionp53 plays important roles in regulating the metabolic reprogramming of cancer, such as aerobic glycolysis. Oroxylin A is a natural active flavonoid with strong anticancer effects both in vitro and in vivo.Methodswt-p53 (MCF-7 and HCT116 cells) cancer cells and p53-null H1299 cancer cells we... |
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"abstract": "The information contained in the intensity distribution of the convergent beam electron diffraction pattern, produced in the detector plane for each incident beam position in a scanning transmission electron microscope, may be used to enhance the resolution of the microscope or else to decrease the ele... | {
"abstract": "The purpose of this article is to inform the reader, in general terms, of the progress in scanning transmission electron microscopy at our institution. It is not our intent that this be a critically technical paper but, rather, one in which we summarize some of the developments in electron microscopy a... | {
"abstract": "In this letter, we present novel efficient flat-top multipassband filters based on all-fiber Michelson-Gires-Tournois interferometric (MGTI) structures. Experimentally, we realized two MGTI filters with channel spacings of 100 and 50 GHz, respectively. Compared with the bulk-optic MGTI filters, the pro... |
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"abstract": "Background and objectives This study investigated the neuroprotective effect of acute normovolaemic haemodilution with a novel hydroxyethyl starch (130/0.4, HES) on focal cerebral ischaemia‐reperfusion injury and determined optimum degree for haemodilution in the rat. Methods Male Sprague‐Dawley rats w... | {
"abstract": "PurposeIschemia/reperfusion injury (IRI) remains a clinical challenge. We tested the hypothesis that fluid therapy using hydroxyethyl starch (HES) 130/0.4 during the early phase of IRI in rat liver decreases markers of hepatic injury.MethodsWe induced liver IRI in three groups of rats anesthetized with... | {
"abstract": "BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE\nEndothelins (ETs) are potent vasoconstrictors. Plasma ET levels increase during acute brain ischemia and may worsen the ischemic damage. Diffusion-weighted MRI (DWI) and perfusion imaging (PI) are powerful tools for evaluation of acute cerebral ischemia. We studied the effects o... |
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"abstract": "This paper presents “oriented pivoting systems” as an abstract framework for complementary pivoting. It gives a unified simple proof that the endpoints of complementary pivoting paths have opposite sign. A special case are the Nash equilibria of a bimatrix game at the ends of Lemke–Howson paths, which ... | {
"abstract": "A simple idea used in many combinatorial algorithms is the idea of pivoting . Originally, it comes from the method proposed by Gauss in the 19th century for solving systems of linear equations. This method had been extended in 1947 by Dantzig for the famous simplex algorithm used for solving linear pro... | {
"abstract": "Abstract.Let Mm and N be two compact Riemannian manifolds without boundary. We consider the L2 gradient flow for the energy $\\int_M\\vert\\Delta u\\vert^2$. If $m \\leq 4$ and N has nonpositive sectional curvature we show that the biharmonic map heat flow exists for all time, and that the solution sub... |
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"abstract": "In this work, two high-voltage charge pumps are introduced. In order to minimize the area of the pumping capacitors, which dominates the overall area of the charge pump, high density capacitors have been utilized. Nonetheless, these high density capacitors suffer from low breakdown voltage which is not... | {
"abstract": "This paper presents a high-voltage driver in nanometer-scale, low-voltage SOI CMOS technology well beyond the voltage limits of standard devices. The drive level is near the voltage-tolerance limit of the body insulator. A novel, bidirectional, switched-capacitor output stage that combines both voltage... | {
"abstract": "In order to realize the comprehensive monitoring of DC side harmonics of Xiamen MMC-HVDC transmission project, this paper proposes a convenient and feasible harmonic monitoring scheme based on actual engineering conditions. According to this scheme, a DC side harmonic monitoring system is constructed. ... |
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"abstract": "This study determined: (a) if acupuncture stimulation at a traditional site might modulate ongoing EEG as compared with stimulation of a control site; (b) if high-frequency vs. low-frequency stimulation could exert differential effects of acupuncture; (c) if the observed effects of acupuncture were spe... | {
"abstract": "Manual acupuncture (MA) is widely used in Traditional Chinese Medicine clinic for pain treatment and controlling stress. To investigate how MA modulates brain activities, electroencephalograph (EEG) signals are recorded with 20 channels by MA at ST36 of right leg in 11 healthy subjects during rest. Two... | {
"abstract": "In this open pilot study, we investigated the effects of lowfrequency rTMS in nine patients (21‐48 years, five women) with medically refractory focal epilepsies (two temporal, seven extratemporal) with very frequent partial and secondary generalised seizures. Even under various first-line and second-li... |
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"abstract": "Background: Dermatophytes are fungi, which cause most of superficial fungal infections. Several antifungal agents are commercially available to treat these dermatophytes. Methods: We adopted a newly developed agar based disk diffusion assay to test susceptibility of 72 clinically isolated dermatophytes... | {
"abstract": "Biological control represents an important approach for controlling many dermatophyte fungi. Trichoderma spp. and Pleurotus spp. are the most promising and effective bioagents against many pathogenic fungi. In this paper Trichoderma harzianum and Pleurotus ostreatus were screened for their efficacy aga... | {
"abstract": "Abstract A cardiovascular risk factor survey was carried out on a random sample consisting of 1666 residents of three semi-rural, northern California communities. Of these individuals 17.9% were identified as being Mexican-Americans. As expected, Mexican-Americans were of a lower socio-economic status ... |
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"abstract": "The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) recognized the need to balance patient-centered care with responsible creation of generalizable knowledge on the effectiveness of molecular medicine tools. Embracing the principles of the rapid learning healthcare system, a new clinical program called the Precisi... | {
"abstract": "A tri‐federal initiative arising out of the Cancer Moonshot has resulted in the formation of a program to utilize advanced genomic and proteomic expression platforms on high‐quality human biospecimens in near‐real‐time in order to identify potentially actionable therapeutic molecular targets, study the... | {
"abstract": "The Methodology for the Development of Innovative Cancer Therapies (MDICT) task force considered aspects of the design and conduct of early (phase I and II) studies of combinations of molecular targeted agents during their 2012 meeting. The task force defined necessary non-clinical data, such as eviden... |
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"abstract": "Although the role of myeloid cells in oncogenesis and tumor progression remains poorly understood, these cells are mainly ascribed with pro-tumor properties. We have recently unveiled a tumoricidal activity of inflammatory monocytes that can be counteracted by CD4+ regulatory T cells.",
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"abstract": "The development of classically activated monocytic cells (M1) is a prerequisite for effective elimination of parasites, including African trypanosomes. However, persistent activation of M1 that produce pathogenic molecules such as TNF and NO contributes to the development of trypanosome infection-assoc... | {
"abstract": "Studies of electrical stimulation therapies for the treatment of neurological disorders, such as deep brain stimulation, have almost exclusively been performed using animal-models. However, because animal-models can only approximate human brain disorders, these studies should be supplemented with an in... |
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"abstract": "We investigated large-scale systems organization of the whole human brain using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data acquired from healthy volunteers in a no-task or ‘resting’ state. Images were parcellated using a prior anatomical template, yielding regional mean time series for each of 9... | {
"abstract": "There is great interest in estimating brain “networks” from FMRI data. This is often attempted by identifying a set of functional “nodes” (e.g., spatial ROIs or ICA maps) and then conducting a connectivity analysis between the nodes, based on the FMRI timeseries associated with the nodes. Analysis meth... | {
"abstract": "The self-organizing map (SOM) is an excellent tool in exploratory phase of data mining. It projects input space on prototypes of a low-dimensional regular grid that can be effectively utilized to visualize and explore properties of the data. When the number of SOM units is large, to facilitate quantita... |
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"abstract": "Musical onset detection is one of the most elementary tasks in music analysis, but still only solved imperfectly for polyphonic music signals. Interpreted as a computer vision problem in spectrograms, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) seem to be an ideal fit. On a dataset of about 100 minutes of mus... | {
"abstract": "This document describes version 0.4.0 of librosa: a Python pack- age for audio and music signal processing. At a high level, librosa provides implementations of a variety of common functions used throughout the field of music information retrieval. In this document, a brief overview of the library's fu... | {
"abstract": "A* is a best-first search algorithm for finding optimal-cost paths in graphs. A* benefits significantly from parallelism because in many applications, A* is limited by memory usage, so distributed memory implementations of A* that use all of the aggregate memory on the cluster enable problems that can ... |
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"abstract": "Introduction: The objective of this study was to review our experience with urinary reconstruction in patients undergoing surgical management for locally advanced pelvic cancer, and to evaluate the role of urologists in these procedures. Materials and Methods: This study included a total of 37 patients... | {
"abstract": "BackgroundThis study reviewed the outcomes for patients who underwent simultaneous bladder and ureter reconstructive surgery using the ileum after radical treatment for cervical cancer.MethodsThe medical records of seven patients who underwent augmentation ileocystoplasty with ileal ureter replacement ... | {
"abstract": "Results of experiments performed in animal epilepsy models and human epilepsy during the past decade indicate that the epileptic brain is not a stable neuronal network, but undergoes modifications caused by the underlying etiology and/or recurrent seizures. In many forms of epilepsy, such as temporal l... |
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"abstract": "Background: Ideally, fixation of paediatric diaphyseal fractures should produce an “internal splint” that shares loads, maintains reduction until hard callus formation, and does not endanger the growth areas or blood supply. Results from several studies have shown that FIN / TENS fixation meets these r... | {
"abstract": "ZusammenfassungDas Ziel dieser prospektiven Anwendungsbeobachtung war die Erfassung der frühzeitigen und mittelfristigen Ergebnisse der elastisch stabilen intramedullären Nagelung (ESIN) von diaphysären Frakturen im Kindesalter.Von Januar 1997 bis Dezember 2001 wurden bei 112 Kindern im mittleren Alter... | {
"abstract": "Dental implants have increased the use of titanium and titanium alloys in prosthetic applications. Whitening toothpastes with peroxides are available for patients with high aesthetic requirements, but the effect of whitening toothpastes on titanium surfaces is not yet known, although titanium is prone ... |
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"abstract": "A capillary electrophoresis (CE) and a high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) method are described for the simultaneous determination of ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA), S,S'-ethylenediaminedisuccinic acid (EDDS) and R,S-iminodisuccinic acid (IDS) complexing agents as their Fe(III) comple... | {
"abstract": "We present a method for simultaneous determination of the aminopolycarboxylic acids DTPA, EDTA and NTA in dishwashing detergents, paper mill waters, and natural waters by capillary electrophoresis (CE). The complexing agents were examined as their copper(II) complexes and separated by conventional CE w... | {
"abstract": "An in-depth biodegradation test program was executed on the hexadentate ligand Ethylene Diamine Di Succinate (EDDS). The EDDS structure contains two chiral carbon atoms, and has three stereoisomers ([R,R], [R,S]/[S,R], [S,S]). Our research has focused on the isomer mixture (i.e. 25%[S,S]; 25%[R,R]; 50%... |
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"abstract": "Do you believe them? Suppose we restrict both of the above propositions to cases where the probability of a loss is \"small\" and where the amount at risk is \"not too large?\" Both of these propositions follow easily from a recent communication by Szpiro (1985) in this Journal. If Szpiro's results are... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Complete insurance purchases in the presence of premium loadings are empirically observable but inconsistent with the standard insurance model. This note examines asymmetric probability estimates and discount rates as possible explanations of this phenomenon.",
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"abstract": "Problems concerned with purchasing of insurance coverage appear to be a fascinating and potentially fruitful field for application and testing of theories of riskbearing. In this note we shall analyze a series of such problems from the point of view of an individual facing certain risks. Given his risk... |
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"abstract": "Background Young non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients under the age of 40 can further be categorized into different age subgroups. Whether they have homogeneous clinical features and survival outcomes remains unexplored. Methods Information of 4623 NSCLC patients up to 40 years old from 1988 to ... | {
"abstract": "Objective: Tobacco smoking is known to increase lung cancer occurrence beginning in young adulthood, although age-specific rates have not been used to monitor the early consequences of tobacco control efforts in the United States. We evaluated state trends in lung cancer death rates among young adults ... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Interindividual differences in lung cancer susceptibility may be mediated in part through polymorphic variability in the bioactivation of procarcinogens. GSTM1 status has been extensively studied in this context as a lung cancer risk factor, although published studies have produced conflicting... |
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"abstract": "Motivation: Sequencing pools of individuals (Pool‐Seq) is a cost‐effective way to gain insight into the genetics of complex traits, but as yet no parametric method has been developed to both test for genetic effects and estimate their magnitude. Here, we propose GWAlpha, a flexible method to obtain par... | {
"abstract": "Scans of the Drosophila melanogaster genome have identified organophosphate resistance loci among those with the most pronounced signature of positive selection. In this study, the molecular basis of resistance to the organophosphate insecticide azinphos-methyl was investigated using the Drosophila Gen... | {
"abstract": "chapter, on the Germanic peoples, except for a few refinements of general statements. The sixth chapter, on romance language areas, is equally similar. They all are suitable, though one wishes that the discographies and bibliographies had been updated. The seventh chapter, \"Black African Music,\" is c... |
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"abstract": "Mandatory continuing medical education, because of the need to validate participation, rewards classroom activities but not self-education. To determine if self-education is still a major study method for practicing physicians, we surveyed 158 cardiologists to learn how they first heard of, and continu... | {
"abstract": "Although occupational medicine has its own unique knowledge, skills, and organizational base, it exists in a cultural, social, and organizational environment that is common to other institutions in our culture.24 It is therefore possible that the task of introducing the practice of occupational medicin... | {
"abstract": "The purpose of this study was to assess the prevalence of sagittal lumbar spine postural abnormalities and associated factors among students in the federal educational system in Florianópolis. Methods: 288 adolescents (156 males and 132 females), aged from 15 to 18 years, who were students in the feder... |
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"abstract": "BackgroundCurrent guidelines suggest specific criteria for oral or long-acting injectable antipsychotic drugs (LAIs). This review aims to describe the demographic and clinical characteristics of the ideal profile of the patient with schizophrenia treated with LAIs, through the analysis of nonrandomized... | {
"abstract": "Results from clinical trials support the use of oral antipsychotics for treatment of early or first‐episode psychosis in patients with schizophrenia. This paper will review literature on the advantages of early initiation of treatment for schizophrenia and the clinical benefits of early use of long‐act... | {
"abstract": "Remission and response were suggested as the most relevant outcome criteria for the treatment of depression. There is still marked uncertainty as to what cut-offs should be used on current depression rating scales. The goal of the present study was to compare the validity of different HAMD, MADRS and B... |
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"abstract": "Gluteal compartment syndrome is a serious but rare condition that has recently been increasingly reported in literature. This report presents two cases that followed neurological and vascular injuries (first case: an injury of the superior gluteal artery; second case: neurological injury bilaterally). ... | {
"abstract": "Gluteal compartment syndrome (GCS) is a rare surgical emergency where ischemic changes occur to the gluteal muscles from an increase in compartment pressure. While the condition is rare, it is associated with significant risk of high morbidity and mortality. The purpose of this systematic review of the... | {
"abstract": "Effects of fly ash type and content on the permeability characteristics of mortar materials subjected to two different curing conditions and two ages of testing were studied. Three different fly ash contents and three different fly ash types were examined in order to provide sufficient data for statist... |
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"abstract": "This paper is concerned with developing a procedure for assigning students to public schools optimally, given that a specified racial balance must be attained in each school. The criterion for optimality is to minimize the total number of miles traveled. The problem is formulated as a minimum-cost flow... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Map algebra is a methodology for organizing and processing digital cartographic data in a geographic information system (GIS). While its capabilities to describe patterns existing (or hidden) in data have been well studied, its capabilities to prescribe new patterns in response to specific req... | {
"abstract": "An algorithm is given which finds all optimal solutions, for a given set of criteria, to political redistricting problems. Using “population units” as indivisible elements, the first phase generates all feasible districts, where feasibility indicates contiguity, compactness and limited population devia... |
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"abstract": "We give a superconnection proof of the cohomological form of Mathai-Melrose-Singer index theorem for the family of twisted Dirac operators under relaxed conditions.",
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"abstract": "Given a Lie groupoidG and aPU(H)-valued groupoid cocycle, we construct an algebra of projective pseudodifferential operators. The s ubalgebra of regularizing operators identifies with the naturally associated smooth twisted convolu ti n algebra. We develop the associated symbolic calculus, symbol short... | {
"abstract": "Recent growth in the shape-from-shading psychophysics literature has been paralleled by an increasing availability of computer graphics hardware and software, to the extent that most psychophysical studies in this area now employ computer lighting algorithms. The most widely used of these algorithms in... |
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"abstract": "Effects of methyl jasmonate (MeJA), salicylic acid (SA) or 2-aminoindane-2-phosphonic acid (AIP) pre-treatments on the sensitivity of Xanthoria parietina exposed to UV-A were studied. UV decreased chlorophylls and stimulated increase in hydrogen peroxide and superoxide level. Accumulation of soluble ph... | {
"abstract": "The aim of the research is to explore the overall in vitro antioxidant activity, total phenol content, reduction power and antimicrobial activity of the methanol extracts of the lichens Cetraria pinastri, Cladonia digitata, Cladonia fimbriata, Fulgensia fulgens, Ochrolechia parella and Parmelia crinita... | {
"abstract": "A gene encoding 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl-coenzyme A reductase (HMGR) was isolated from a triterpene-producing fungus, Ganoderma lucidum (Reishi or Lingzhi). This report provides the complete nucleotide sequence of the full-length cDNA encoding HMGR and its genomic DNA sequence. The cDNA of the HMGR (... |
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"abstract": "Volume-pressure curves were determined for the living left heart vascular segment by injecting fluid into the left atrium during momentary cardiac asystole and measuring left atrial pressure. Such curves show 2 essentially linear relationships with a break at a low pressure level. It has been suggested... | {
"abstract": "Wedged catheter pressures (PC) were compared with those in the aorta, left atrium, and pulmonary artery before and after production of mitral stenosis, insufficiency, and pulmonary embolism. In general it was found that “PC” pressures follow closely changes in left atrial pressures even when pulmonary ... | {
"abstract": "ABBREVIATIONS BBB: Blood brain barrier, CP: Cysteine protease, CPI: cysteine protease inhibitor, E-64: Epoxid compound: Clonazepam©, E/S: Excretory-secretory, FP2: Falcipain-2HDAC: Histone deacetylases, IFN: Interferon, LC: Lactacystin, NO: Nitrous oxide, PCD: Programmed cell death, PMN: Polymorphonucl... |
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"abstract": "We study the role of energy conversion in phase regulation of frequency entrainment. For an open dynamical system that interacts with its environment, energy conversion in the system is the key to a wide variety of nonlinear phenomena including frequency entrainment. In this paper, using the standard n... | {
"abstract": "We propose a unifying definition for synchronization between stationary finite dimensional deterministic dynamical systems. By example, we show that the synchronization phenomena discussed in the dynamical systems literature fits within the framework of this definition, and discuss problems with previo... | {
"abstract": "Context. LS 5039 has been observed with several X-ray instruments so far showing quite steady emission in the long term and no signatures of accretion disk. The source also presents X-ray variability at orbital timescales in flux and photon index. The system harbors an O-type main sequence star with mo... |
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"abstract": "A novel inductive Contactless Energy Transmission (CET) system for supply mobile consumers is presented in this work. The expression and analytical results of the transfer dc voltage gain are shown in this paper. The energy is transmitted using rotating transformer with adjustable air gap and power con... | {
"abstract": "Abundant sensors used in non-stationary, maintenance-free industrial environments with high sensor densities are preferably powered by a wireless power system. For most industrial applications this is possible with a magnetic supply principle, based on unconventional transformers with large air-gaps. T... | {
"abstract": "The distribution of species depends on the availability of suitable habitats, the capacity to disperse to these habitats, and the capacity of populations to persist after establishment. Dispersal limitation implies that not all suitable habitat patches will be occupied by a species. However, the extent... |
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"abstract": "Aims Elevated homocysteinaemia is associated not only with an increased risk for cardiovascular disease but also for increased morbidity and mortality in patients with established coronary artery or cerebrovascular disease. Whether elevated homocysteine further increases the morbidity and mortality in ... | {
"abstract": "Aims\nTo assess the association and the predictive value of plasma homocysteine (Hcy) levels with LA/LAA thrombus in non-valvular Atrial fibrillation (AF) patients with low CHA2DS2-VASc score.\n\n\nMethods and results\nEight hundred and eighty-eight consecutive patients in non-valvular AF with CHA2DS2-... | {
"abstract": "The anticoagulant effect of heparin in the milieu of altered antithrombin III levels was investigated in adult (n = 7) and pediatric (n = 14) patients undergoing open heart operations. The pediatric patients were subdivided into a control group (n = 8) and an antithrombin III group (n = 6), which recei... |
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"abstract": "Naming requires recognition. Recognition requires the ability to categorize objects and events. What mechanisms in the brain underlie the unfolding of these capacities? In this article, we describe a neural network model in which artificially created individuals are exposed to visual stimuli and vocal ... | {
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"title": "The lateral occipital complex and its role in object recognition"
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"title": "Learning to see: genetic and environmental influences on visual development"
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"abstract": "As software systems evolve, they become more complex and harder to understand and maintain. Certain reverse engineering techniques attempt to reconstruct software models from source code with the help of a parser for the source language. Unfortunately a great deal of effort may be required to build a s... | {
"abstract": "Software complexity increases over time. This makes the analysis of systems increasingly difficult. If we want to analyze a software system and focus on the structure, we require the creation of models. Agile Modeling tries to simplify this task. However, to create these models we need a parser for the... | {
"abstract": "Abstract An analytical three-dimensional thermal model is employed to perform the thermal design for the package of high-power single-emitter laser diodes. Thermal design curves for the heat sink and submount are presented in detail, for laser diodes subjected to several convective heat transfer condit... |
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"abstract": "Common-path design criteria for laser datum based measurement of small angle deviations are proposed to guide the implementation of common-path principle in dealing with laser beam drifts resulting from laser generation mechanism and instability of beam transmission medium. A laser autocollimation meth... | {
"abstract": "A cube-corner is employed as a photoelectric autocollimator's reflector to extend the angle measurement range and the corresponding algorithms are deduced. Experimental investigations reveal that the measurement range is extended from 1.2° to 12° without enlarging the objective lens's aperture. The acc... | {
"abstract": "Exclusive electroproduction of $$\\omega $$ω mesons on unpolarized hydrogen and deuterium targets is studied in the kinematic region of $$Q^2> 1.0$$Q2>1.0 GeV$$^2$$2, 3.0 GeV $$< W <$$<W< 6.3 GeV, and $$-t'< 0.2$$-t′<0.2 GeV$$^2$$2. Results on the angular distribution of the $$\\omega $$ω meson, includ... |
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"abstract": "BackgroundMolecular typing methods are critical for epidemiological investigations, facilitating disease outbreak detection and source identification. Study of the epidemiology of the emerging human pathogen Arcobacter butzleri is currently hampered by the lack of a subtyping method that is easily depl... | {
"abstract": "ABSTRACT Relatedness between isolates of Streptococcus pneumoniae can be determined from sequences of multiple genes belonging to the core genome (multilocus sequence typing [MLST]), but these do not provide information on gene content that may affect the potential of isolates to cause invasive pneumoc... | {
"abstract": "INTRODUCTION\nGender and ethnicity are powerful predictors of initiation and maintenance of cigarette smoking in adults but less is known about their role in smoking in adolescents. Consistent with human studies, rat models also reveal sex and strain differences in response to nicotine administration.\... |
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"abstract": "This paper presents a methodology for fusing data from multiple sensors, including wireless devices, to make an estimation of the state of an urban traffic network. An extended Kalman filter is employed along with a state evolution model to make estimates of the state in a discretized network. Results ... | {
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"title": "An automated signalized junction controller that learns strategies from a human expert"
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"abstract": "This paper summarises the findings on current capabilities of detectors for traffic control from a research project for DfT. It then identifies where efforts to improve detectors should be concentrated. The detector technologies and purposes considered are: Infra-red pedestrian detectors for kerbside d... |
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"abstract": "Purpose Ruxolitinib is an oral Janus kinase (JAK) 1/JAK2 inhibitor approved in the US for the treatment of intermediate-or high-risk myelofibrosis (MF). Because thrombopoietin and erythropoietin signal through JAK2, dose-dependent cytopenias are expected with treatment. In the COMFORT-I (COntrolled Mye... | {
"abstract": "PURPOSE\nTo assess the effects of ruxolitinib on symptom burden and quality of life (QoL) and to evaluate the ability of the modified Myelofibrosis Symptom Assessment Form (MFSAF) v2.0 to measure meaningful changes in myelofibrosis-related symptoms in patients with myelofibrosis.\n\n\nPATIENTS AND METH... | {
"abstract": "Epithelial cells with a granular, pale, acidophilic cytoplasm are often present in human mammary glands, especially in cases of chronic cystic mastitis (1). Among the many theories proposed for the nature of these cells, the most widely accepted is that the “pale epithelium” results from a metaplastic ... |
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"abstract": "Although tremendous strides have been made in face detection, one of the remaining open challenges is to achieve real-time speed on the CPU as well as maintain high performance, since effective models for face detection tend to be computationally prohibitive. To address this challenge, we propose a nov... | {
"abstract": "We present a face detection algorithm based on Deformable Part Models and deep pyramidal features. The proposed method called DP2MFD is able to detect faces of various sizes and poses in unconstrained conditions. It reduces the gap in training and testing of DPM on deep features by adding a normalizati... | {
"abstract": "Current top performing Pascal VOC object detectors employ detection proposals to guide the search for objects thereby avoiding exhaustive sliding window search across images. Despite the popularity of detection proposals, it is unclear which trade-offs are made when using them during object detection. ... |
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"abstract": "Two Ga-acceptor levels, located at EV+0.31 eV and EV+0.37 eV, respectively, have been observed in the gallium implantation manufactured p+n diodes using deep level transient spectroscopy. The behavior of the implanted gallium is very similar to that of implanted aluminum, except that the positions of t... | {
"abstract": "We report on Ga-doped 3C–SiC epitaxial layers grown on on-axis (0001) 6H–SiC substrates using the vapor-liquid-solid technique and different Si1−xGax melts. The resulting samples have been investigated using secondary ion mass spectroscopy (SIMS), micro-Raman spectroscopy (μ-R) and, finally, low temper... | {
"abstract": "Low temperature shallow junction formation is an attractive activation technique for 70nm technology node and beyond as it can easily be integrated into device structures that are formed using disposable spacer (reverse source drain extension formation) or low power CMOS devices using high-k/metal gate... |
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"abstract": "Imaginative pretend play is often thought of as the domain of young children, yet adults regularly engage in elaborated, fantastical, social-mediated pretend play. We describe imaginative play in adults via the term “pretensive shared reality;” Shared Pretensive Reality describes the ability of a group... | {
"abstract": null,
"corpus_id": 3595073,
"title": "Why Do the Children (Pretend) Play?"
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"abstract": "This paper looks at the process of role-playing that takes place in various games. Role-play is a social activity, where three elements are always present: An imaginary game world, a power structure and personified player characters. In a nutshell, all role-playing activities about imaginary people act... |
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"abstract": "Ubiquitylation is a reversible post-translational modification that is involved in various cellular pathways and that thereby regulates various aspects of plant biology. For a long time, functional studies of ubiquitylation have focused on the function of ubiquitylating enzymes, especially the E3 ligas... | {
"abstract": "To control the abundance of plasma membrane receptors and transporters is crucial for proper perception and response to extracellular signals from surrounding cells and the environment. Posttranslational modification of plasma membrane proteins, especially ubiquitin conjugation or ubiquitylation, is ke... | {
"abstract": "Characteristics of acyl-coenzyme A (acyl-CoA):steroid acyltransferase from the digestive gland of the oyster Crassostrea virginica were determined by using estradiol (E2) and dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) as substrates. The apparent Km and Vmax values for esterification of E2 with the six fatty acid ac... |
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"abstract": "The use of embedded computational capabilities in devices with magnetostrictive materials allows the design of objects, able to show smart features without the use of external controllers/devices. However, in the magnetostrictive devices world, the problem of getting smart performances in actuation and... | {
"abstract": "The paper proposes the identification and compensation of the hysteretic behavior of an actuator constituted by a Terfenol-D magnetostrictive material. Hysteresis is modeled by applying the classical Preisach model whose identification procedure is performed by the adoption of both a fuzzy approximator... | {
"abstract": "Device design constraints, such as threshold voltage variation due to short-channel and drain-induced-barrier-lowering effects, off-state leakage current due to punchthrough and gate-induced drain leakage, hot-carrier effects such as hot-electron degradation and avalanche breakdown, and time-dependent ... |
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"abstract": "Assume that A1, … , As are complex normal n × n matrices, p is a natural number and S2p is the standard polynomial in 2p non-commutative variables. It follows from classical results of S. Amitsur, J. Levitzki and H. Shapiro that A1, … , As can be simultaneously block-diagonalized by a unitary matrix wi... | {
"abstract": "Some mathematical topics, circulant matrices, in particular, are pure gems that cry out to be admired and studied with different techniques or perspectives in mind. Our work on this subject was originally motivated by the apparent need of one of the authors (IK) to derive a specific result, in the spir... | {
"abstract": "An improved microwave procedure for detecting defects in dielectric structures is proposed. The procedure is based on the integral equations of the inverse scattering problem. A hybrid genetic algorithm (GA) is applied in order to minimize the obtained nonlinear functional. Since in nondestructive eval... |
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"abstract": "BackgroundSpecialized stroke unit care improves outcome in stroke patients. However, it is uncertain whether the units should be placed in a neurological or non-neurological (eg, internal medicine or geriatric) setting. ObjectivesTo assess whether stroke unit setting (neurological/non-neurological) is ... | {
"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nThe Danish Civil Registration System (CRS) was established in 1968, where all persons alive and living in Denmark were registered. Among many other variables, it includes individual information on personal identification number, gender, date of birth, place of birth, place of residence, cit... | {
"abstract": "Summary The Domerian at the sections near Whitby of Hawsker Bottoms, Kettleness, and Staithes is described in detail. Ammonites listed from each bed have been collected in situ by the writer, and the sequences of species obtained are used as the basis of a critical revision and redefinition of the subz... |
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"abstract": "Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) have recently been increasingly used for highly-parallel processing of compute intensive tasks. This paper introduces an FPGA hardware platform architecture that is PC-based, allows for fast reconfiguration over the PCI bus, and retains a simple physical hardware ... | {
"abstract": "Software Defined Radio (SDR) technology seeks to solve the problem of multiple incompatible broadcast/telecom standards available in different locations, by having standard specific processing defined in software. This software is downloaded and run on generic hardware, so that different broadcast/tele... | {
"abstract": "A 5-Gb/s clock and data recovery (CDR) circuit, incorporating 625 MHz interpolating voltage-controlled oscillators (VCO) and four-phase 1/8-rate phase detectors (PD), is demonstrated. The PD provides a linear characteristic that is proportional to the phase difference between the four-phase clocks and ... |
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"abstract": "Summary Artificial pneumothorax treatment during the last thirty years has been reviewed and its diminishing use since the advent of chemotherapy is noted. The results of such treatment, not in conjunction with chemotherapy, in 152 patients are presented. They indicate that even without chemotherapy go... | {
"abstract": "It has long been recognized that tuberculous cavities may occur in the apex of the lower lobe of the lung, often known as the dorsal lobe (Kidd, 1886; Fowler, 1888 ; Sweany and others, 1931). Steen (1945) has reviewed the many publications on basal tuberculosis, but no paper I have traced has been conc... | {
"abstract": "This is a consideration of the relationships between the uneven ventilation of the lung and the arterial oxygen saturation and CO2 tension. In the simplest case, the lung is considered to contain only two differently ventilated and perfused components. Graphic methods are developed for dealing with sit... |
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"abstract": "Viscous fingering (VF) is a hydrodynamical instability that occurs in porous media when a less viscous fluid displaces a more viscous one. We investigate here numerically how such an instability can be triggered by a simple A+B-->C reaction when a solution of one reactant is displacing linearly a misci... | {
"abstract": "Effects of reactant concentrations on the characteristics of reactive miscible viscous fingering in a Hele-Shaw cell at low finger-growth velocity were studied both experimentally and theoretically. The product distribution varies with the variations in the initial reactant concentrations and depends o... | {
"abstract": "Using an on-column visualization technique, band profiles of solutes migrating along an HPLC column were studied. The study showed that, under conditions where viscous fingering is prevalent, the design of the inlet header has little influence on the outcome of the viscous fingers. Two types of headers... |
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"abstract": "We examined 341 paraffin-embedded cervical tissues for human papillomavirus (HPV) DNA by in situ hybridization. The genital lesions examined represented tissue biopsies from two temporally distinct populations (1964 to 1965 and 1988 to 1989). Biotinylated probes to 14 different HPV types were used in o... | {
"abstract": "In situ hybridization is used commonly for detection of human papillomavirus (HPV) DNA. There is little information, however, on whether the detection of HPV DNA by in situ hybridization can be affected by the way in which the tissue is fixed. To address this question, the authors compared the hybridiz... | {
"abstract": "Recent structural and functional studies of the synaptic vesicle fusion machinery suggest an inhibited tripartite complex consisting of neuronal soluble N-ethylmaleimide sensitive factor attachment protein receptors (SNAREs), synaptotagmin, and complexin prior to Ca2+-triggered synaptic vesicle fusion.... |
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"abstract": "The authors investigated the use of slow-frequency repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) to the unaffected hemisphere to decrease interhemispheric inhibition of the lesioned hemisphere and improve motor function in patients within 12 months of a stroke. Patients showed a significant decre... | {
"abstract": "We studied motor representation in well-recovered stroke patients. Eighteen right-handed stroke patients and eleven age-matched control subjects underwent functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) while performing unimanual index finger (abduction-adduction) and wrist movements (flexion-extension) u... | {
"abstract": "The legislative pressures now dominating the realm of program accountability are moving the mental health system from process to outcome evaluations. While the need for this type of assessment is generally acknowledged, its methodological validity and policy-setting utility are the subject of considera... |
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"abstract": "Let $${\\mathfrak{G}}$$ be a finitely generated group and X its Cayley graph with respect to a finite, symmetric generating set S. Furthermore, let $${\\mathfrak{H}}$$ be a finite group and $${\\mathfrak{H}\\wr\\mathfrak{G}}$$ the lamplighter group (wreath product) over $${\\mathfrak{G}}$$ with group o... | {
"abstract": "These lecture notes are devoted to the spectral analysis of adjacency operators of graphs and random graphs. With the notion of unimodular random graphs, it is possible to define a natural notion of average spectral measure which corresponds to the density of states in the language of mathematical phys... | {
"abstract": "Spectral clustering is based on the spectral relaxation of the normalized/ratio graph cut criterion. While the spectral relaxation is known to be loose, it has been shown recently that a non-linear eigenproblem yields a tight relaxation of the Cheeger cut. In this paper, we extend this result considera... |
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