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"abstract": "BackgroundDevelopment of durable plant genetic resistance to pathogens through strategies of QTL pyramiding and diversification requires in depth knowledge of polygenic resistance within the available germplasm. Polygenic partial resistance to Aphanomyces root rot, caused by Aphanomyces euteiches, one ... | {
"abstract": "Key messageMarker-assisted backcrossing was used to generate pea NILs carrying individual or combined resistance alleles at main Aphanomyces resistance QTL. The effects of several QTL were successfully validated depending on genetic backgrounds.AbstractQuantitative trait loci (QTL) validation is an imp... | {
"abstract": "Resistance to maize streak virus (MSV) is an essential trait of improved maize varieties in sub-Saharan Africa. We mapped quantitative trait loci (QTL) for resistance to MSV in a population of 196 F2:3 lines derived from a cross between the maize inbred lines CML202 (resistant) from CIMMYT-Zimbabwe and... |
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"abstract": "This study was performed to determine and compare the precision of single and bilateral hip bone mineral density (BMD) measurements and to determine the precision of spinal and total body measurements by dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA). Precision (group root-mean-square average coefficient of va... | {
"abstract": "Assessment of precision errors in bone mineral densitometry is important for characterization of a technique's ability to detect logitudinal skeletal changes. Short-term and long-term precision errors should be calculated as root-mean-square (RMS) averages of standard deviations of repeated measurement... | {
"abstract": "Vitamin D intake should be sufficient to maintain calcium absorption and prevent increased parathyroid secretion throughout the year. To determine the level of intake that achieved the latter in elderly women, we studied the interrelations among vitamin D intake, serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH)D) lev... |
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"abstract": "The SREBP-2 transcription factor is mainly activated by low cellular cholesterol levels. However, other factors may also cause SREBP-2 activation. We have previously demonstrated activation of SREBP-2 by the polyunsaturated fatty acid docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) in SW620 colon cancer cells. Despite acti... | {
"abstract": "Cellular cholesterol homeostasis is controlled by sterol‐regulated proteolysis of membrane‐bound transcription factors called sterol‐regulatory element binding proteins (SREBPs). CPP32, a cysteine protease, was shown previously to cleave SREBP‐1 and SREBP‐2 in vitro at an aspartic acid between the basi... | {
"abstract": "Survivin, a member of the inhibitors-of-apoptosis gene family, is overexpressed in many tumor types. Survivin is a prognostic marker of soft-tissue sarcomas, but the downregulation of survivin expression and the possible dependency of survivin downregulation on p53 in these tumors have not been investi... |
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"abstract": "Purpose: We evaluated X-ray repair complementing defective repair in Chinese hamster cells 1 (XRCC1) protein in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) patients in association with outcome. Experimental Design: XRCC1 protein expression was assessed by immunohistochemical (IHC) staining of pretrea... | {
"abstract": "Laryngeal cancer is the most common type of head and neck cancer with poor prognosis and high relapse rate. Several genes involved in DNA repair pathways have been identified for their potential role in laryngeal cancer risk. However, the results remain inconclusive. The aim of this study was to invest... | {
"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nA number of medicinal plants and there compounds played a major role in the treatment of hepatic disorders. They were widely used for the treatment of these disorders, and oxidant stress injury was one of the liver injury mechanisms. The present study evaluated the antioxidant activity and ... |
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"abstract": "An animal model in the rabbit eye was utilized to study mobilization and relocation of the fovea as a potentially beneficial surgical approach to age-related macular disease. After lentectomy and vitrectomy, the retina was completely separated from the pigment epithelium by means of infusion into the s... | {
"abstract": "PURPOSE\nTo report histopathological observations regarding one of our macular translocation cases.\n\n\nMETHODS\nWe have performed macular translocation with 360 degree retinotomy since 1997, and limited macular translocation with or without subretinal membrane removal since 2002. One of our patients ... | {
"abstract": "Abstract The flow conductivity of the rabbit retina has been measured and found to be 9·4 × 10 −9 cm 4 dyn −1 sec −1 at 37°. The measured density of the retina was found to be 1·0174 g/cm 3 . These properties of the retina are used to explain the adhesion of the retina to the underlying tissue. The maj... |
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"abstract": "Two new yeast species of the genus Ambrosiozyma are described on the basis of comparison of nucleotide sequences of large subunit of ribosomal DNA D1/D2 region. Ambrosiozyma kamigamensis and Ambrosiozyma neoplatypodis differ from Ambrosiozyma ambrosiae by 17 nucleotides (3.0%) and 16 nucleotides (2.8%)... | {
"abstract": "Nutritional mutualisms that ambrosia beetles have with fungi are poorly understood. Although these interactions were initially thought to be specific associations with a primary symbiont, there is increasing evidence that some of these fungi are associated with, and move among, multiple beetle partners... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Amyloid fibrillary aggregates, which are gradually formed under predisposing conditions in the human body, are the main sign of conformational diseases such as type 2 diabetes, Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease. How the aggregates are formed, what characteristics they have, and how t... |
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"abstract": "Nucleosome organization affects the accessibility of cis-elements to trans-acting factors. Micrococcal nuclease digestion followed by high-throughput sequencing (MNase-seq) is the most popular technology used to profile nucleosome organization on a genome-wide scale. Evaluating the data quality of MNas... | {
"abstract": "It has been some 40 years since repeating subunits in eukaryotic chromatin, initially termed \"nu bodies,\" were described. Four decades of study have characterized the structural organization of the nucleosome, from multiple crystal structures of individual nucleosomes to genome-wide maps of nucleosom... | {
"abstract": "BACKGROUND AND AIM\nThe increasing number of patients requiring emergency care is a challenge and leads to decreased satisfaction of health professionals at emergency departments (EDs). Thus, a Swiss hospital implemented a hospital-associated primary care centre at the ED. The study aim was to investig... |
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"abstract": "Intracellular Na ion activity (aiNa) and twitch tension (T) of constantly driven (1 Hz) canine cardiac Purkinje fibers were measured simultaneously and continuously with neutral carrier Na+-selective microelectrodes and a force transducer. The aiNa of 8.9 +/- 1.4 mM (mean +/- SD, n = 52) was obtained i... | {
"abstract": "1. Sodium was injected into an identified snail neurone by passing current between two intracellular micro‐electrodes, the membrane potential being recorded with a third micro‐electrode.",
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"title": "Membrane current and intracellular sodium changes in a snail neurone during e... | {
"abstract": "The first catalytic, enantioselective, intramolecular carbosulfenylation of isolated alkenes with aromatic nucleophiles is described. The combination of N-phenylsulfenylphthalimide, a chiral selenophosphoramide derived from BINAM, and ethanesulfonic acid as a cocatalytic Brønsted acid induced an effici... |
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"abstract": "Genome sequencing remains an inexact science, and genome sequences can contain significant errors if they are not carefully examined. Hawkeye is our new visual analytics tool for genome assemblies, designed to aid in identifying and correcting assembly errors. Users can analyze all levels of an assembl... | {
"abstract": "Using current technology, large consecutive stretches of DNA (such as whole chromosomes) are usually assembled from short fragments obtained by shotgun sequencing, or from fragments and mate-pairs, if a \"double-barreled\" shotgun strategy is employed. The positioning of the fragments (and mate-pairs, ... | {
"abstract": "Biotechnology has contributed to improvement and conservation of Prunus species. Biotechnological approaches involving in vitro tissue culture, genetic transformation, molecular marker development and cryopreservation were applied to various Prunus species. This report provides an overview of biotechno... |
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"abstract": "We show the effects of product differentiation and product market competition on technology licensing by an outside innovator. For a certain range of product differentiation, both the innovator and the society prefer royalty licensing compared to auction (or fixed-fee), irrespective of Cournot and Bert... | {
"abstract": "Empirical evidences show that technology licensing contracts differ significantly and may consist of only up-front fixed-fee, only output royalty or the combinations of fixed-fee and output royalty. We explain these possibilities under international technology transfer. The trade-off between the incent... | {
"abstract": "Abstract This paper examines whether the introduction of government consumption expenditure in a standard one good model of the international real business cycle is sufficient to reconcile the theory with the existing pattern of international consumption and output correlations. It is shown that the mo... |
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"abstract": "We report an innovative method to fabricate single-crystalline nanorings based on the conventional vapor-liquid-solid (VLS) mechanism. The controllable formation of kinks in functional oxide nanowires (NWs) can be employed to fold the VLS-grown NWs into closed ring-shaped nanostructures. Successful syn... | {
"abstract": "One-dimensional GeO2 and Ge nanostructures, including nanotubes, nanowires, and branched nanowires, were synthesized using Au as catalysts. White products of GeO2 and brown products of Ge were fabricated at temperature regions of 500−600 and 300−400 °C, respectively. For the first time, we report the f... | {
"abstract": "We investigate electrical properties of self-assembled branched InAs nanowires. The branched nanowires are catalytically grown using chemical beam epitaxy, and three-terminal nanoelectronic devices are fabricated from the branched nanowires using electron-beam lithography. We demonstrate that, in diffe... |
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"abstract": "We introduce a multistable subordinator, which generalizes the stable subordinator to the case of time-varying stability index. This enables us to define a multifractional Poisson process. We study properties of these processes and establish the convergence of a continuous-time random walk to the multi... | {
"abstract": "Fractional generalizations of the Poisson process and branching Furry process are considered. The link between characteristics of the processes, fractional differential equations and Levy stable densities are discussed and used for the construction of the Monte Carlo algorithm for simulation of random ... | {
"abstract": "This paper develops several average-case reduction techniques to show new hardness results for three central high-dimensional statistics problems, implying a statistical-computational gap induced by robustness, a detection-recovery gap and a universality principle for these gaps. A main feature of our ... |
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"abstract": "This paper proposes a novel fingerprint retrieval system that combines level-1 (local orientation and frequencies) and level-2 (minutiae) features. Various score- and rank-level fusion strategies and a novel hybrid fusion approach are evaluated. Extensive experiments are carried out on six public datab... | {
"abstract": "Fingerprints have been widely used as a biometric trait for person recognition. Due to the wide acceptance and deployment of fingerprint matching systems, there is a steady increase in the size of fingerprint databases in law enforcement and national ID agencies. Thus, it is of great interest to develo... | {
"abstract": "Recently, mobile devices have become equipped with sophisticated hardware components such as a heterogeneous multi-core SoC that consists of a CPU, GPU, and DSP. This provides opportunities to realize computationally-intensive computer vision applications using General Purpose GPU (GPGPU) programming t... |
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"abstract": "In a fluid-saturated porous formation, an impinging seismic wave induces fluid motion. The motion of fluid relative to the rock frame generates an electric streaming current. This current produces electric and magnetic fields, which are called seismoelectric and seismomagnetic fields, respectively. Whe... | {
"abstract": "In Volume 1 of Geophysics (1936), R.R. Thompson of Humble Oil and Refining Company proposed that the coupling of seismic and electrical energy can be used as an exploration tool. Subsequent efforts were directed toward using electric‐field antennas as geophones. Small‐scale studies concluded that anten... | {
"abstract": "Electrical signals generated in the earth as a result of seismic energy were investigated as a possible means for detecting low-frequency seismic events. It was found that the conversion of seismic to electrical signals was highly variable with different detection locations. For detection of small seis... |
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"abstract": "Dynamically reconfigurable mixed-mode computers are those systems that can be configured at run-time into Multiple SIMD and MIMD autonomous submachines. Therefore, they are also known as MSIMD/MIMD computers. In the existing MSIMD/MIMD architectures, the role of a processor to run as either a processin... | {
"abstract": "PASM, a large-scale multimicroprocessor system being designed at Purdue University for image processing and pattern recognition, is described. This system can be dynamically reconfigured to operate as one or more independent SIMD and/or MIMD machines. PASM consists of a parallel computation unit, which... | {
"abstract": "TRAC integrates a sufficient number of architecturally unique features to justify the development of microprogrammed processor and memory modules. This paper contains a discussion of the issues considered in the design and implementation of these modules.",
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"abstract": "There is a theoretical controversy regarding when the selfmonitoring process interrupts the speech stream. One view holds that the speech stream is interrupted as soon as an error is detected. Another view holds that, even after an error is detected, the speaker does not interrupt immediately but conti... | {
"abstract": "Speakers often repeat the first word of major constituents, as in, \"I uh I wouldn't be surprised at that.\" Repeats like this divide into four stages: an initial commitment to the constituent (with \"I\"); the suspension of speech; a hiatus in speaking (filled with \"uh\"); and a restart of the consti... | {
"abstract": "ABSTRACT Freshwater turtles (Trachemys scripta) are among the very few vertebrates capable of tolerating severe hypoxia and re-oxygenation without suffering from damage to the heart. As myocardial ischemia and reperfusion causes a burst of mitochondrial reactive oxygen species (ROS) in mammals, the que... |
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"abstract": "The aim of this contribution is the interpretation of intracratonic chains in African plates, but it is important to verify some parameters such us the oblique convergence between Africaand Europa plates. Particularly In southern central of atlassic Tunisian belts, the slickenside examination of direct... | {
"abstract": "Northeast of New Zealand the Pacific plate is obliquely subducted beneath the overriding Australian plate. Major differences appear in the oblique-convergence-driven structures that occur along the plate boundary. While strike-slip component of convergence is accommodated in the forearc domain to the s... | {
"abstract": "Interplanetary dust particles (IDPs) are typically <10 μm in diameter and <10−9 g in mass on collection. The Heidelberg proton microprobe (beam spot ⩽2 × 3 μm2) allows non-destructive detectio of trace elements in such samples. Two IDPs (Zodiac and Bounce) were examined. To evaluate the proton-induced ... |
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"abstract": "An ambient signal based var-voltage characteristics (VVC) identification method is proposed with the var-voltage sensitivity estimated as its linear approximation and the sensitivity of var-voltage ambient fluctuations estimated to confirm its convexity. The proposed method and its potentials for nonst... | {
"abstract": "Recently developed data acquisition equipment and data processing methods have ignited the possibility of power system online sensitivity identification (OSI). Despite the existing OSI algorithms, practical issues such as data collinearity and the noise effect on the identification algorithm must be co... | {
"abstract": "Statistical machine learning methods based on operational data are believed to have high potentials to solve the mismatch problems in power system models, vis-à-vis the real time operational conditions. As a fundamental tool in the field of situational awareness, the instantaneous sensitivity identifi... |
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"abstract": "In this correspondence, we consider a code-division multiple-access (CDMA) channel with a linear receiver structure whose inputs are subject to a total power constraint. Each user is required to satisfy a certain quality-of-service (QoS) requirement expressed, for instance, in terms of data rate or del... | {
"abstract": "This paper provides a theoretical framework for the analysis of interference-coupled multiuser systems. The fundamental behavior of such a system is modeled by interference functions, defined by axioms ldquononnegativity, rdquoscale-invariance,rdquo and ldquomonotonicity.rdquo It is shown that every in... | {
"abstract": "In this paper, we present a novel process of creating hexahedral meshes for the turbomachinery secondary air system. The meshing process is automated from the geometry import to the mesh setup and requires minimum human interventions. The core of the process is a hexahedral meshing algorithm with a bou... |
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"abstract": "The simplicity of the message ‘Ban the Bomb’ was the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament’s (CND) greatest asset and greatest liability. It enabled the organisation to attract a wide variety of people, but it also meant that they needed to undertake actions which would not alienate any of these disparate p... | {
"abstract": "The Committee of 100 (1961-68) was an anti-hierarchical group campaigning for British unilateral nuclear disarmament, using non-violent direct action. This article examines the oral narratives of six women involved in the campaign. It brings to light examples of women's activism at this time when there... | {
"abstract": "Abstract The role of the First Lady has changed significantly over the last century. While the traditional role has been that of escort or host, a few First Ladies have taken on new activities involving leadership and decision making. At the same time, media coverage of the First Lady has changed. We p... |
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"abstract": "Oral mucosa consists of two tissue layers, the superficial epithelium and the underlying lamina propria. Together, oral mucosa functions as a barrier against exogenous substances and pathogens. In development, interactions of stem/progenitor cells of the epithelium and mesenchyme are crucial to the mor... | {
"abstract": "This article has been withdrawn at the request of the author(s) and/or editor. The Publisher apologizes for any inconvenience this may cause. The full Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal can be found at https://www.elsevier.com/about/our-business/policies/article-withdrawal.",
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"abstract": "In spite of very distinct genotypic assets, a number of congenital conditions include oxidative stress as a phenotypic hallmark. These disorders include Fanconi's anaemia, ataxia telangiectasia, xeroderma pigmentosum and Bloom's syndrome, as well as two frequent congenital conditions: Down's syndrome a... |
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"abstract": "The frequency of coastal flood damages is expected to increase significantly during the twenty-first century as sea level rises in the coastal floodplain. Coastal digital elevation model (DEM) data describing coastal topography are essential for assessing future flood-related damages and understanding ... | {
"abstract": "The Shuttle Radar Topography Mission has long been used as a source topographic information for flood hazard models, especially in data‐sparse areas. Error corrected versions have been produced, culminating in the latest global error reduced digital elevation model (DEM)—the Multi‐Error‐Removed‐Improve... | {
"abstract": "Caves are considered as arks of biodiversity yet the cave fauna of Siargao Island in the Philippines is poorly known. In this study a modified cruising method was used to determine species richness, endemism, and conservation status of bats in 10 caves on Siargao Island. Eight species of bats with 25% ... |
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"abstract": "Hyperhomocysteinemia is widely recognised as an emerging risk factor of endothelial dysfunction and vascular damage. In this study we wanted to verify if it, when associated to arterial hypertension--traditional risk factor--represents a higher added risk of organ damage during menopause, which is a co... | {
"abstract": "As an emerging independent risk factor for cardiovascular disease and other aging diseases such as Alzheimer’s, homocysteine-related research has generated a vast amount of literature and sparked a vigorous debate over the past decade. In fact, a comprehensive textbook is now available describing the r... | {
"abstract": "w-T HIS volume of essays' was prepared for publication by a group of Professor Knight's students at the University of Chicago. As they are careful to say, he had no hand in it. Indeed, I could well imagine that he did not altogether approve of the project. He is not the man to cherish all his past utte... |
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"abstract": "There are many degraded systems existed in the complex system such as the aircraft, and it is very significant to plan appropriate Inspection-Maintenance activities to decrease the failure probability and maintenance cost rate. So an inspection policy for a degraded system with two independent competin... | {
"abstract": "This paper studies maintained systems with nonself-announcing (\"hidden\") failures that deteriorate due to both shocks and graceful degradation. Shocks occur according to a Poisson process, shock magnitudes are i.d.d. random variables, and between shocks, deterioration occurs at a constant rate. Inspe... | {
"abstract": "Globalisation, technology, the liberalisation of financial markets, and changing consumer behaviour are changing the banking sector irrevocably. Incumbent banks are faced with unprecedented competition from global competitors, large and small, and both from within and outside the financial services sec... |
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"abstract": "This article examines the role of media on the local community from three perspectives. One approach examines how different media outlets affect the identification and participation of residents in the local community. The second examines the characteristics of online communities and its main features.... | {
"abstract": "This study examines whether the Internet is increasingly a part of everyday neighborhood interactions, and in what specific contexts Internet use affords the formation of local social ties. Studies of Internet and community have found that information and communication technologies provide new opportun... | {
"abstract": "Improving the platinum (Pt) mass activity for the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) should optimize both the specific activity and the electrochemical active surface area (ECSA). We show that solution-synthesized Pt/NiO core/shell nanowires can be readily converted into PtNi alloy nanowires through a pos... |
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"abstract": "This paper presents the responses of the railway vehicle and track components in terms of contact forces and displacements. The considered vehicle model is a five-DOF pitch-plane lumped parameter quarter car model supported on two-dimensional track systems comprising three layers. The car body is linke... | {
"abstract": "A mathematical model of railway carriage on tangent tracks with single-point and two-point wheel-rail contact is considered. The railway carriage is modeled by 31 degrees of freedom which govern vertical, lateral, pitch, roll and yaw dynamic responses of wheelset, carbody and bogies. Linear stiffness a... | {
"abstract": "A mathematical model for the prediction of relative lifetimes of railway wheels exposed to block braking under stop braking cycles is presented. Analytical and finite element thermoelastic calculations are employed together with a model for low-cycle fatigue. Durability curves are established describin... |
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"abstract": "In this work we report about photoluminescence investigations and the first observation of lasing in highly ordered, crystalline para-sexiphenyl (PSP) films grown by hot wall epitaxy on mica substrates. We demonstrate also the fabrication of hot wall epitaxially grown PSP layers for blue light emitting... | {
"abstract": "A multilayered electroluminescent device was constructed with epitaxially oriented films of p-sexiphenyl with its molecular axis lying or standing next to the substrate surface. The films with the lying and standing orientations were prepared by vapor deposition onto the KCl (001) surface kept at 20 an... | {
"abstract": "We employed a novel inorganic-organic hybrid triple junction solar cell (IOHTC), with an inorganic silicon tandem cell (ITC) that is series connected to an organic solar cell (OSC) at the back of the ITC. The ITC is used to absorb the short wavelength part of the solar spectrum, while the organic botto... |
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"abstract": "Repeated cutting of vegetation at or near ground level in power-line corridors is a common practice for inhibiting tree growth and regeneration. However, few data exist on long-term community responses. In this study, we sampled 20 northern Kentucky power-line corridors and compared their seedling and ... | {
"abstract": ". Ten years ago, Delmarva Power began to change its vegetation maintenance techniques to control costs and improve wildlife habitat of its rights-of-way. Instead of periodically cutting vegetation with mechanical mowers, the Utility began to treat incompatible species of plants with herbicides. This no... | {
"abstract": "An experiment was conducted to evaluate the effect of leaf smothering upon establishment of white spruce in Alaska. Treatment consisted of protecting seed-spots from leaf litter of an overstory paper birch stand with hardware cloth screens for varying periods. Protection significantly improved survival... |
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"abstract": "This paper reports the observation of autodetaching resonances in photoelectron spectroscopy of Au−2 according to the process Au−2 +hν■(Au−2)*■Au2 +e−. They appear as sharp features superimposed upon a nearly constant signal associated with direct photodetachment process from Au−2 :Au−2 +hν■Au2+e−. By ... | {
"abstract": "Negative ion photoelectron spectra of Cu−n (n=1–10) are reported for the 0–2.4 eV region at an instrumental resolution of 10 meV. The cluster anions were prepared in a flowing afterglow ion source incorporating a cold cathode dc discharge. This very simple source provides a convenient, general method t... | {
"abstract": "Threshold laws for the cross section for photodetachment of electrons from polyatomic negative ions are derived. The general form for the limiting behavior at threshold is derived using group theory and symmetry considerations. In addition, for energies within a few eV of threshold, a formulation using... |
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"abstract": "Morphological characteristics of the tongue were studied in adult rhea (Rhea americana). The lingual surface and the surface of epithelium-connective tissue interface of rhea tongue were examined macroscopically and by light and scanning electron microscopy. The rhea tongue revealed a triangular aspect... | {
"abstract": "Abstract The ostrich's tongue is situated in the posterior part of the oropharyngeal cavity and its length is only about a quarter of the beak cavity. The triangular shortened tongue has retained the usual division into the apex, the body and the root. There are no conical papillae between the body and... | {
"abstract": "1. Morphological and histochemical observations were done on the chicken anterior and posterior lingual glands. Histology, ultrastructure and glycoconjugate histochemistry were investigated by means of light and electron microscopy using staining specific for complex carbohydrates. 2. In the anterior l... |
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"abstract": "AbstractA procedure is described to culture microorganisms under aerobic and anaerobic conditions in infusion bottles internally coated with a solid agar medium, in view of headspace sampling of volatile components or extraction of cellular constituents.This method is far less laborious than convention... | {
"abstract": "The yeast-like genera Geotrichum and Trichosporon are heterogeneous and are related with anamorphs of both ascomycetous and basidiomycetous fungi. A rearrangement can be obtained using carbohydrate composition of intact cells, studied with the aid of gas-liquid chromatography.The genus Geotrichum is re... | {
"abstract": "This study was undertaken to assess the impact of dietary carbohydrate source on food intake, body composition, glucose tolerance, insulin sensitivity, and glucose and insulin concentrations in overweight and obese cats with reduced insulin sensitivity. Sixteen overweight and obese cats were divided in... |
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"abstract": "We assessed the determinants of onset of hypertension in a large, prospective population-based study of perimenopausal women from the Kuopio Osteoporosis Risk Factor and Prevention (OSTPRE) study. The data collection started in 1989, when a baseline postal inquiry was sent to all women aged 47–56 years... | {
"abstract": "BackgroundMore than one third of adult population in Estonia has problems with elevated blood pressure (BP). The Hypertension in Estonia (HYPEST) study represents the country's first hypertension-targeted sample collection aiming to examine the epidemiological and genetic determinants for hypertension ... | {
"abstract": "A problem often encountered in large-scale epidemiological studies is the assessment of a per son's relative adiposity from very limited data such as measurements of his height and weight only. There have been several papers in recent years, those of Billewicz, Kemsley and Thomson (1962), Kemsley, Bill... |
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"abstract": "Our concern is the development of speech enhancement techniques for hands-free audio terminals, including two major problems: noise reduction and acoustic echo cancellation. The objective is to find a joint structure to get a near-end speech signal with minimum distortion and low levels of echo and noi... | {
"abstract": "A residual echo cancellation scheme based on the autoregressive (AR) analysis is proposed for hands-free telephony. Residual echo is whitened by the inverse filter using the estimated AR coefficients. Removing the speech characteristics of the residual echo signal, the noise reduction system successful... | {
"abstract": "A scheme is presented for obtaining an input power estimate for setting the algorithm gain parameter μ separately in each frequency bin in the frequency domain LMS adaptive algorithm. This is particularly important if the input has large spectral variations, and a single feedback parameter, set on the ... |
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"abstract": "Fluoride ion is produced with the biotransformation of two commonly used anesthetics, methoxyflurane and enflurane. Fluoride ion is added to prenatal vitamin preparations and water to prevent carious teeth. Very high levels of fluoride assailure. Previous studies of placental transfer of fluoride ion w... | {
"abstract": "We conducted this study to measure maternal plasma, fetal plasma, and fetal enamel fluoride concentrations for four hours following an oral F dose to near-term pregnant guinea pigs. We placed female guinea pigs on de-ionized (Group I) or 3-ppm-F (Group II) drinking water prior to breeding and during ge... | {
"abstract": "This in-vitro investigation sought to identify the most effective softening agents for three commercial anterior resin composites (Prisma APH, Brilliant and Blend-a-Lux) from four potential agents (75% ethanol, polyacrylic acid, acetone and acetic acid), selected as having close solubility parameter va... |
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"abstract": "Alewife is a multiprocessor architecture that supports up to 512 processing nodes connected over a scalable and cost-effective mesh network at a constant cost per node. The MIT Alewife machine, a prototype implementation of the architecture, demonstrates that a parallel system can be both scalable and ... | {
"abstract": "We wish to investigate design principles for general-purpose shared memory computers. Specific areas of interest are silicon efficiency, scalability, and RAM integration. Experiments will be performed using a cycle accurate simulator for the Hamal parallel computer. In this proposal we present an overv... | {
"abstract": "The problems addressed apply to both throughput-oriented and speedup-oriented multiprocessor systems, either at the user level or the operating-system level. basic definitions are provided. Communication and synchronization are briefly explained, and hardware-level and software-level synchronization me... |
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"abstract": "ABSTRACT Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) strains are human pathogens. Although >400 non-O157 serotypes have been involved in human disease, whole-genome sequencing information is missing for many serotypes. We sequenced 64 STEC strains comprising 38 serotypes, isolated from clinical sourc... | {
"abstract": "We investigated two outbreaks of an unusual gastrointestinal illness that affected at least 47 people in Oregon and Michigan in February through March and May through June 1982. The illness was characterized by severe crampy abdominal pain, initially watery diarrhea followed by grossly bloody diarrhea,... | {
"abstract": "SUMMARY Foodborne outbreaks from contaminated fresh produce have been increasingly recognized in many parts of the world. This reflects a convergence of increasing consumption of fresh produce, changes in production and distribution, and a growing awareness of the problem on the part of public health o... |
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"abstract": "The assessment target of energy consumption for ethylene equipment is based on Special Energy consumption (SEC) index currently without considering the differences among the raw materials, process technology and equipment scales. Because the standards of the traditional energy consumption statistical m... | {
"abstract": "Energy and management of complex chemical processes play a crucial role in the sustainable development procedure. In order to analyze the effect of the technology, management level, and production structure having on energy efficiency, we put forward an energy analysis and management method based on in... | {
"abstract": "Abstract:Early American history and early Southern African history have much to offer one another, but signal debates in one field go unnoticed in the other. Both fields have witnessed strong efforts to reorient scholarship from older vantage points along the colonial coastlines to newer ones in the co... |
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"abstract": "Introduction: Imperforate Hymen is the most common female genital tract malformation with prevalence of up to 0.1% and can present with wide variety of symptoms, ranging from abdominal pain to urinary retention. Case: Case of 11 y/o female with cyclical abdominal pain and palpable mass up to umbilicus.... | {
"abstract": "Imperforate hymen is a rare condition that presents with amenorrhea, cyclical abdominal pains and urine retention among pubertal girls. A 14 year old girl with imperforate hymen underwent hymenotomy for hematocolpometra, having presented with abdominal pains and tenesmus.",
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"abstract": "A 15-year-old premenarchal girl presented with a 4-day history of increasing abdominal pain. Her medical history was unremarkable. Physical examination revealed a palpable, nontender, nonpulsatile midline mass extending from the pelvis to the umbilicus.",
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"abstract": "The Internet of Things (IoT) is a promising technology which tends to revolutionize and connect the global world via heterogeneous smart devices through seamless connectivity. The current demand for machine-type communications (MTC) has resulted in a variety of communication technologies with diverse s... | {
"abstract": "Narrowband Internet of Things (NB-IoT) is a new narrow-band radio technology introduced in the Third Generation Partnership Project release 13 to the 5th generation evolution for providing low-power wide-area IoT. In NB-IoT systems, repeating transmission data or control signals has been considered as ... | {
"abstract": "Recently, there has been tremendous interest in the phenomenon of influence propagation in social networks. The studies in this area assume they have as input to their problems a social graph with edges labeled with probabilities of influence between users. However, the question of where these probabil... |
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"abstract": "In this paper, a Nano-opto-mechanical (NOM) switch is designed, simulated and experimentally demonstrated, using the electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT)-like effects of coupled-ring resonator. The control of the switch is realized by optical force between the silicon waveguide and the dielec... | {
"abstract": "The force exerted by photons is of fundamental importance in light–matter interactions. For example, in free space, optical tweezers have been widely used to manipulate atoms and microscale dielectric particles. This optical force is expected to be greatly enhanced in integrated photonic circuits in wh... | {
"abstract": "The paper presents an overview and reports the recent progress of research on squeeze film air damping in MEMS. The review starts with the governing equations of squeeze film air damping: the nonlinear isothermal Reynolds equation and various reduced forms of the equation for different conditions. Afte... |
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"abstract": "We have previously reported the discovery of VEGF183, a novel isoform of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), whose nucleotide sequence revealed an 18-bp deletion in the exon 6A-encoded region of VEGF. The following study was done to characterize VEGF183 and to determine its biological activity i... | {
"abstract": "A photoreceptor cell line, designated 661W, was tested for its response to growth factors secreted by retinal pigment epithelial cells including basic fibroblast growth factor, epidermal growth factor, and nerve growth factor. Early passaged 661W cells expressed high levels of retinal progenitor marker... | {
"abstract": "Since the suggestion concerning the hypothesis of the existence of restorer cytoplasms for some of the known and currently available male sterile (ms) genes in maize, a relatively limited amount of research effort has been made in order to test the hypothesis. Considering the importance of such a pheno... |
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"abstract": "Summary form only given. Paying for load reductions results in a market, where the amount of resources sold is less than the amount of resources bought. To resolve this imbalance, ISOs must allocate the cost of compensating demand response to those who benefit from reduced LMPs. Current cost allocation... | {
"abstract": "This essay is a contribution to the Second Annual Demand Response Conference sponsored by George Washington University and the law firm of Husch Blackwell. Demand response is a term that is used in debates about potential ways of reforming regulation of electricity to provide consumers with the proper ... | {
"abstract": "A secondary analysis of a national sample of American adults is used to examine the correlation between membership in voluntary associations and life satisfaction. It is hypothesized that the influence of membership on overall life satisfaction is indirect: Membership influences organizational satisfac... |
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"abstract": "Previous studies have suggested that histamine (HA) acts as an autocrine growth factor. We have explored the modulation of cell proliferation by HA using McA-RH7777 hepatoma cells. High L-histidine decarboxylase (HDC) expression and HA synthesis were found in McA-RH7777 cells. Whereas extracellular HA ... | {
"abstract": "All 4 known histamine receptors (H(1)R, H(2)R, H(3)R and H(4)R) have been used or proposed as therapeutic targets for varied diseases. This article reviews the recent progress in understanding the function of the recently described histamine receptor H(4)R in a variety of immune responses and the poten... | {
"abstract": "This review presents a link between histamine and cognition and provides an overview on the effect of histamine and selective ligands of histamine receptors on experimental models for learning, memory and cognitive functions, with a special focus on recently developed H(3) receptor ligands. Studies sug... |
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"title": "Improving Users' Demographic Prediction via the Videos They Talk about"
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"title": "Lexical Predictors Of Personality Type"
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"abstract": "Failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) is a method that examines potential failures in products or processes and has been used in many quality management systems. One important issue of FMEA is the determination of the risk priorities of failure modes. In this paper we propose an FMEA which uses data... |
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"abstract": "Correlations between alleles after selection are an important source of information. Such correlations should be exploited for further search and thereby constitute the building blocks of evolutionary exploration. With this background we analyze the structure of the offspring probability distribution, ... | {
"abstract": "The choice of representation crucially determines the capability of search processes to find complex solutions in which many variables interact. The question is how good representations can be found and how they can be adapted online to account for what can be learned about the structure of the problem... | {
"abstract": "We investigate the effects of turbulent fluctuations on the Lagrangian statistics of absorption of a scalar field by tracer particles, as a model for nutrient uptake by suspended non-motile microorganisms. By means of extensive direct numerical simulations of an Eulerian-Lagrangian model we quantify, i... |
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"abstract": "To make VR cameras more accessible to the public, devices must be affordable, portable, reliable, high quality, and user friendly. In this article, we describe the challenges in meeting these goals and the techniques that Kandao--a VR startup company based in China--used to conquer them when designing ... | {
"abstract": "We propose a novel 360° scene representation for converting real scenes into stereoscopic 3D virtual reality content with head-motion parallax. Our image-based scene representation enables efficient synthesis of novel views with six degrees-of-freedom (6-DoF) by fusing motion fields at two scales: (1) ... | {
"abstract": "The rapid growth of patent documents has called for the development of sophisticated patent analysis tools. Currently, there are various tools that are being utilized by organizations for analyzing patents. These tools are capable of performing wide range of tasks, such as analyzing and forecasting fut... |
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"abstract": "Objective Bkv-miR-B1-5p, one of the microRNAs encoded by BK virus, was recently reported to be elevated in the blood among the patients with BK virus nephropathy (BKVN). Urinary exosome was suggested to be a possible source of biomarker for kidney diseases, but it was unknown whether it could contain v... | {
"abstract": "There is increased interest in using microRNAs (miRNAs) as biomarkers in different diseases. Present in body fluids, it is controversial whether or not they are mainly enclosed in exosomes, thus we studied if urinary miRNAs are concentrated inside exosomes and if the presence of systemic lupus erythema... | {
"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nNipple discharge accounts for approximately 5% of visits to a breast specialist surgical practice and may be encountered as the chief complaint by many other types of physicians. The vast majority of breast cancers originate in the ductal system, which prompted interest in the evaluation of... |
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"abstract": "Biochar currently attracts technological and market optimism, promising multiple wins – for climate change, food security, bioenergy and health – not least for African farmers. This paper examines the political-economic and discursive processes constructing biochar as a novel green commodity, creating ... | {
"abstract": "We argue that reading the local agricultural landscape is a prerequisite to understanding the plausible local impacts of external drivers for change, such as the introduction of new crops and technologies. Initially driven by a desire to understand the potential for small-scale farmers to produce jatro... | {
"abstract": "Sweetpotato (Ipomoea batatas Lam.) plays an indispensable role in feed, starch-based industries and ethanol biofuel production. Few studies have investigated on how external amino acids affect the growth and production of sweetpotato. In the study, we evaluated morphological, physiological and molecula... |
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"abstract": "Abstract The formation mechanism of tight oxide scale on the microalloyed steel was investigated at temperatures of 550–850 °C in dry air. Microstructural characterisations reveal that the spallation of oxide scale dominates at the centre of coarse grains on the oxidation initiation. The fine-grained s... | {
"abstract": "The oxidation of iron in dry and wet O-2 at 400-600 degrees C has been re-investigated using gravimetry, SEM/EDX, XRD and FIB. In the presence of O-2, water vapour accelerates iron oxidation at 500 and 600 degrees C. At 400 and 500 degrees C the magnetite layer is duplex and exposure to water vapour re... | {
"abstract": "Synopsis By using the sJJecimens of a constant carbon content of O.04wt% and containing O.OI-O.2wt% of the third elements such as Ti, Zr, V, Nb, T a, Cr, Mo, Mn, Co, Ni, Cu, Ag, Zn, B, AI, Si, Ge, Sn, Pb, N, P, As, Sb, Bi, S, Se & Te, the effects of the third elements in steel on the graphite f ormatio... |
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"title": "Get Semantic With Me! The Usefulness of Different Feature Types for Short-Answer Grading"
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"abstract": "Latent semantic analysis (LSA) has been used in several intelligent tutoring systems(ITS's) for assessing students' learning by evaluating their answers to questions in the tutoring domain. It is based on word-document co-occurrence statistics in the training corpus and a dimensionality reduction techn... | {
"abstract": "Recent years have seen increased interest in text summarization with emphasis on evaluation of prototype systems. Many factors can affect the design of such evaluations, requiring choices among competing alternatives. This paper examines several major themes running through three evaluations: SUMMAC, N... |
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"abstract": "The problem of group decision making performed during selection of the best solution from possible alternatives in expert systems set was solved. The problem solution based on the integrated method, which consists of individual and group evaluation, increases quality of decision-making during expert ev... | {
"abstract": "The paper provides an overview of modern recurrent neural network architectures that can be used as a model (building tool) for diagnosis and predicting of infocommunication systems elements. The paper presents arguments in favor of the using of recurrent neural networks. Also, to determine the best ar... | {
"abstract": "Recently, two groups of researchers have reported redundancy gains (enhanced performance with multiple, redundant targets) in tasks requiring semantic categorization. Here we report two experiments aimed at determining whether the gains found by one of these groups resulted from some form of semantic c... |
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"abstract": "Plant-derived phase II metabolites of T-2 toxin (T2) and HT-2 toxin (HT2) were first described in 2011 and further characterized in the following years. Since then, some efforts have been made to understand their biosynthesis, occurrence, toxicity, toxicokinetics, and finally relevance for consumers. T... | {
"abstract": "ABSTRACT Trichothecenes are sesquiterpenoid toxins produced by Fusarium species. Since these mycotoxins are very stable, there is interest in microbial transformations that can remove toxins from contaminated grain or cereal products. Twenty-three yeast species assigned to the Trichomonascus clade (Sac... | {
"abstract": "The trichothecene mycotoxin 3-acetyldeoxynivalenol was transformed by cultures of the diace- toxyscirpenol producer Fusarium sp. strain C37410-90 into four compounds, identified as deoxy- nivalenol, 15-acetyldeoxynivalenol, 3,15-diacetyldeoxynivalenol and fusarenon-X. The major transformations are the ... |
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"abstract": "The discovery of homelessness as the social problem of our times has spawned a number of important studies of homeless people, some more empirical than others. Most of these works are based on small- to medium-sized samples, which thus prohibit much descriptive analysis of subpopulations within the met... | {
"abstract": "A probability sample of 301 homeless adults from Buffalo, NY, was followed over 6 months to document the utilization of a variety of community services, examine services desired, and identify factors associated with service utilization, preference, and satisfaction. The following needs were all rated a... | {
"abstract": "Background. The social rank theory of psychopathology suggests that with the evolution of social hierarchies various psychobiological mechanisms became attuned to the success or failure in conflict situations. Specifically, subordinates and those who have lost status are at greater risk of pathology th... |
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"abstract": "This paper describes an improved synthetic-aperture-focusing-technique (SAFT) for ultrasonic defect detection in multi-material devices with a circular cylindrical geometry. In conventional SAFT, defect imaging resolution in such specimen is limited, due to refraction at material interfaces. Hence, the... | {
"abstract": "Auto-focused virtual source imaging (AVSI) has been recently presented as an alternative method for synthetic aperture focusing through arbitrarily shaped interfaces with arrays. This paper extends the AVSI concept to the case of the total focusing method (TFM-AVSI) using several virtual receivers for ... | {
"abstract": "A new organic–inorganic Cu(I) bromide complex based on triple protonated tris(2-pyridyl)phosphine (HPy)3P, [(HPy)3PCu2Br5] (1), has been synthesized by a straightforward reaction in solution or by modification of the [Cu2Br2(Py3P)2] complex using hydrobromic acid. At 77 K, the solid complex 1 exhibits ... |
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"abstract": "To maximize survival and reproductive success, primates evolved the tendency to tell lies and the ability to accurately detect them. Despite the obvious advantage of detecting lies accurately, conscious judgments of veracity are only slightly more accurate than chance. However, findings in forensic psy... | {
"abstract": "Social psychology has demonstrated that lying is an important, and frequent, part of everyday social interactions. As communication technologies become more ubiquitous in our daily interactions, an important question for developers is to determine how the design of these technologies affects lying beha... | {
"abstract": "ForcePhone is a mobile synchronous haptic communication system. During phone calls, users can squeeze the side of the device and the pressure level is mapped to vibrations on the recipient's device. The pressure/vibrotactile messages supported by ForcePhone are called pressages. Using a lab-based study... |
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"abstract": "Xenopus early development is characterized by a generalized absence of transcription, which resumes at the midblastula transition (MBT). We analyzed this regulation using a plasmid containing the c-myc promoter that is under the same developmental control when injected into fertilized eggs. We find tha... | {
"abstract": "Initiation of mRNA synthesis by RNA polymerase II occurs by a multistep pathway that involves the polymerase along with several auxiliary factors. Here I describe an analysis of the kinetics and mechanism of action of Drosophila RNA polymerase II by using the detergent Sarkosyl to inhibit different ste... | {
"abstract": "We have synthesized RNA from cloned adenovirus 2 late promoter DNA in an in vitro transcription extract under UTP-limiting conditions. Under these circumstances, almost all of the alpha-amanitin-sensitive RNA produced is shorter than 20 nucleotides; most of these short transcripts are present in four s... |
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"abstract": "This paper presents a thrust ripple reduction method for a double-sided linear switched reluctance motor (LSRM). A structure of motor is back-to-back mover LSRM. The spatial arrangement of the stator is investigated in order to reduce the thrust ripple. The thrust distribution generated by a phase of t... | {
"abstract": "This paper presents a detailed sensitivity analysis of the effect of several geometrical parameters on the performance of a double-sided linear switched reluctance motor (LSRM). The analysis was conducted in two dimensions using finite-element method and takes into account only one part of the LSRM. Th... | {
"abstract": "The sensitivity of the pole-arc/pole-pitch ratio of the stator and rotor on the performance of a switched reluctance motor is investigated. An analytical method based on magnetic flux path and a two-dimensional finite-element analysis are used. The sensitivity study is performed by comparing the averag... |
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"abstract": "Game Analytics is one of the new research trends in digital games’ industry. It consists of analyzing the variables collected during a game session in order to improve game designing and collaborate with gamer behavior research as well. These data may be acquired from the game itself, such as level pro... | {
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"title": "An analysis of player affect transitions in survival horror games"
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"abstract": "User-behaviour analysis has only recently been adapted to the context of the virtual world domain and remains limited in its application. Behaviour analysis is based on instrumentation data, automated, detailed, quantitative information about user behaviour within the virtual environment (VE) of digita... |
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"abstract": "the fact that the business executives remain doubtful about the strategic value of information technology. One of the most critical issues facing organizations in Kuwait today is the alignment of information system strategy with the business goals and objectives. Only 28% of the surveyed companies in K... | {
"abstract": "Knowledge generation and diffusion in the modern digital economy as well as innovation process implying novelty technologies, products and services promotion on the market are considered. Production function included R&D or knowledge term regarded as moving force in the self-organizing process of netwo... | {
"abstract": "The software distributed development (SDD) can reduce the time and the production cost for this reason many organizations join in this modality. The quantity of these partnerships is more e and more growing. The SDD environment has a group of properties. This article presents some common properties of ... |
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"abstract": "We determine the holomorphic mappings of C that induce bounded composition operators on the Fock space in C. Furthermore, we determine which of these composition operators are compact, and we compute the operator norm of all bounded composition operators in this setting. We also consider extensions of ... | {
"abstract": "We show that the norm of a composition operator on the classical Hardy space H 2 cannot be computed using only the set of H 2 reproducing kernels, answering a question raised by Cowen and MacCluer.",
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"title": "Norms of Composition Operators on the Hardy Space"
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"abstract": "Modeling the dynamics of biological networks introduces many challenges, among them the lack of first principle models, the size of the networks, and difficulties with parameterization. Discrete time Boolean networks and related continuous time switching systems provide a computationally accessible way... |
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"abstract": "The amyloid precursor protein (APP) belongs to a conserved gene family, also including the amyloid precursor‐like proteins, APLP1 and APLP2. We have previously shown that all members of the APP protein family are up‐regulated upon retinoic acid (RA)‐induced neuronal differentiation of SH‐SY5Y neuroblas... | {
"abstract": "Retinoic acid (RA) is a potent regulator of morphogenesis, growth and cell differentiation. Incubation with RA causes arrest of proliferation and neurite extension in SH-SY5Y cells, a neuroblastoma cell line of human origin. In these cells, RA regulates the expression of the beta-amyloid precursor prot... | {
"abstract": "RATIONALE\nShort-term exposure to air pollution has been associated with asthma exacerbation and increased health-care use due to asthma, but its effect on asthma mortality remains largely unknown.\n\n\nOBJECTIVES\nTo quantitatively assess the association between short-term exposure to air pollution an... |
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"abstract": "Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to focus on the effect that knowledge-ambiguous innovations have on the subsidiary performance of multinational corporations (MNCs). Specifically, the paper s ...",
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"abstract": "In an era characterized by changing customer requirements, decreasing product life cycles and complex systems and processes, knowledge centric activities are becoming the primary source of sustainable competitive advantage in manufacturing and service organizations. In this regard knowledge is consider... | {
"abstract": "The current consideration of technology as ‘applied science’, this is to say, as something that comes ‘after’ science, justifies the lack of attention paid to technology in science education. In our paper we question this simplistic view of the science-technology relationship, historically rooted in th... |
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"abstract": "Community-owned private reserves are emerging around the world as an alternative to government-run resource management and as a way to more directly involve citizens as stewards of their local natural resources. Despite their recent proliferation globally, voluntary efforts by communities to include th... | {
"abstract": "Northeastern Peru is considered a global conservation priority due to high biodiversity and acute threats to natural habitat. Its non-indigenous migrant populations, known as campesinos, are presented by mainstream conservation agents as the major threat to this area, as environmentally destructive, ap... | {
"abstract": "The term ‘Berber’ derives from the Greek, barbaroi and the Latin barbari, and was used by the dominant Arabs to designate those who spoke a different language. In referring to themselves Berber use tribal names, or the collective ‘Amazighen’, which means free or noble in their Tamazight language. The m... |
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"abstract": "IN a recent publication1 an account was given of a new virus disease which occurred spontaneously in tobacco plants growing under insect-proof conditions in sterilised soil and sand. It was shown that the cowpea (Vigna sinensis), on account of its extreme sensitivity to the virus, was a valuable experi... | {
"abstract": "In voorgaande pub]/caties van deze serie (8, 9, I0, ii) werd reeds medegedeeld, hoe door middel van de immuniseerende eigensehappen van verschfllende virusziekten de graden van de sterkte der smetstoffen om elkaar te weren evenals de onderscheidene snelheden der verspreiding door de plant werden nagega... | {
"abstract": "Ultrafiltration methods have a twofold usefulness :—(1) As a general means of fractionating disperse systems, and (2) in providing data enabling the size of dispersed particles to be estimated. Their successful application requires an understanding of the physical processes involved. An ultrafilter mem... |
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"abstract": "Recently, online social networks are becoming increasingly popular platforms for social interactions. Understanding how information propagates in such networks is important for personalization and recommendation in social search. In this paper, we propose a Hierarchical Community-level Information Diff... | {
"abstract": "Social influence is the behavioral change of a person because of the perceived relationship with other people, organizations and society in general. Social influence has been a widely accepted phenomenon in social networks for decades. Many applications have been built based around the implicit notatio... | {
"abstract": "Topic modeling has been widely used for analyzing text document collections. Recently, there have been significant advancements in various topic modeling techniques, particularly in the form of probabilistic graphical modeling. State-of-the-art techniques such as Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) have ... |
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"abstract": "In the context of marketing, attribution is theprocess of quantifying the value of marketing activities relativeto the final outcome. It is a topic rapidly growing inimportance as acknowledged by the industry. However, despitenumerous tools and techniques designed for its measurement, the absence of a ... | {
"abstract": "We use data from a large-scale field experiment to explore what influences the effectiveness of online advertising. We find that matching an ad to website content and increasing an ad's obtrusiveness independently increase purchase intent. However, in combination, these two strategies are ineffective. ... | {
"abstract": "Decision making techniques used to help evaluate current suppliers should aim at classifying performance of individual suppliers against desired levels of performance so as to devise suitable action plans to increase suppliers׳ performance and capabilities. Moreover, decision making related to what cou... |
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"abstract": "The coastal waters of the former GDR comprising more than 9000 sqkm with a maximum width of 12 n.m. from the baseline and the 1600 sqkm inner bodden waters with a volume of about 6 cu.km are of unique importance to trade by providing transport by sea including three ferry links, to fishing, recreaation... | {
"abstract": "Im Stoffkreislauf von Phosphaten in Gewassern spielen Sorptionsprozesse eine grose Rolle. Mit Hilfe der Langmuir Beziehung fur die Adsorptionsisotherme konnen sowohl Gleichgewichtskonzentrationen fur bestimmte Phosphatangebote als auch die maximale Sorptionskapazitat bestimmt werden. Auserdem werden Er... | {
"abstract": "Benthic colonization following physical disturbance was studied in shallow brackish waters at the SW coast of Finland, northern Baltic Sea. Following sand suction and periodic stagnation an annual colonization pattern is described in relation to continuous succession following channel dredging. The imp... |
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"abstract": "Background: The relationship between the high activity of aldose reductase (AR) and diabetic cataract formation has been previously investigated. The purpose of the present study was to determine the preventing effect of melatonin on streptozotocin (STZ)-induced diabetic cataract in rats. Methods: 34 a... | {
"abstract": "Our study aimed at exploring the effects of miR-211 on the proliferation and apoptosis of lens epithelial cells in diabetic cataract mice by targetting NAD+-dependent histone deacetylase sirtulin 1 (SIRT1). Healthy male mice were assigned into normal and diabetic cataract groups. Blood glucose, lens tu... | {
"abstract": "One would expect that a proper appreciation of uterine vascular responses during pregnancy would be dependent on an understanding of those basic factors that control blood flow to the nonpregnant uterus. This is the logical approach, but that is not how it happened. Prior to 1950, observations of both ... |
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"abstract": "BackgroundPanax ginseng C. A. Meyer is one of the most widely used medicinal plants. Complete genome information for this species remains unavailable due to its large genome size. At present, analysis of expressed sequence tags is still the most powerful tool for large-scale gene discovery. The global ... | {
"abstract": "miRBase is the primary online repository for all microRNA sequences and annotation. The current release (miRBase 16) contains over 15 000 microRNA gene loci in over 140 species, and over 17 000 distinct mature microRNA sequences. Deep-sequencing technologies have delivered a sharp rise in the rate of n... | {
"abstract": "Languages differ depending on the set of basic sounds they use (the inventory of consonants and vowels) and on the way in which these sounds can be combined to make up words and phrases (phonological grammar). Previous research has shown that our inventory of consonants and vowels affects the way in wh... |
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"abstract": "antimycotic potential of Datura metel (syn. Datura alba Nees.) was investigated in vitro against Ascochyta rabiei, the cause of chickpea blight disease. The pathogen was exposed to various n-hexane concentrations (1, 2, 3 and 4% w/v) of shoot and root extracts of D. metel using poisoning food technique... | {
"abstract": "Extracts from different parts of Melia azedarach L. were studied as potential antifungal agents for selected phytopathogenic fungi. In a serial agar dilution method, hexanic and ethanolic extracts from fruit, seed kernels, and senescent leaves exhibited fungistatic activity against Aspergillus flavus,D... | {
"abstract": "SummaryLosses and costs during and after harvesting of sugar beets can be reduced by modifying the traditional shape of the roots. Crosses have been made between sugar beets and globe-shaped red table beets, and selection for root shape and sugar content was carried out in the progenies. The root yield... |
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"abstract": "The dichotomy between endophysical/intrinsic and exophysical/extrinsic perception concerns how a model—mathematical, logical, computational—universe is perceived, from inside or from outside. This paper, the first in a proposed series, discusses some limitations and tradeoffs between endophysical/intri... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Finite automata have been recently used as alternative, discrete models in theoretical physics, especially in problems related to the dichotomy between endophysical/intrinsic and exophysical/ extrinsic perception (see, for instance [3, 6, 18–21]). These studies deal with Moore experiments; the... | {
"abstract": "The specificity with which the genetic code is read in protein synthesis, and with which other highly specific biosynthetic reactions take place, can be increased above the level available from free energy differences in intermediates or kinetic barriers by a process defined here as kinetic proofreadin... |
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"abstract": "CONTEXT\nPrevious studies have identified an obese phenotype without the burden of adiposity-associated cardiometabolic risk factors, although the health effects remain unclear.\n\n\nOBJECTIVE\nWe examined the association between metabolically healthy obesity and risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) an... | {
"abstract": "OBJECTIVE\nInflammatory processes contribute to disease pathways and may be affected by behavioral lifestyle factors. The relative contributions of fatness and cardiorespiratory fitness to inflammatory factors remain unclear. The present review examines the hypothesis that the association between fitne... | {
"abstract": "OBJECT\nNonmalignant pain has been treated in the past century with ablative, or more appropriately, destructive procedures. Although individual outcomes for these procedures have previously been described in the literature, to the authors' knowledge this is the first comprehensive and systematic revie... |
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"abstract": "We present a study of the distribution of ozone in the lowermost stratosphere with the goal of characterizing the observed variability. The air in the lowermost stratosphere is divided into two population groups based on Ertel's potential vorticity at 300 hPa. High (low) potential vorticity at 300 hPa ... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Vertical cross sections of potential vorticity, computed and contoured by band, and hemispheric distributions of potential vorticity, computed and contoured by machine, are compared to both discrete and continuous measurements of radioactivity made during Project Springfield. Comparisons made ... | {
"abstract": "A comparison between solute travel times predicted by a transient and a steady state flow model is made. Data for five different soil profiles with detailed measurements of their hydraulic properties and their variation with depth are used. Daily measurements of meteorological data are used as input pa... |
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"abstract": "The air–liquid interfacial tensions of eight ionic liquids, from (298 to 343) K, are presented in this work. The studied ionic liquids are formed by the fixed 1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium cation combined with the anions acetate, dicyanamide, dimethylphosphate, methylphosphonate, methanesulfonate, thiocy... | {
"abstract": "The gas-liquid interface of halide-free 1,3-dialkylimidazolium alkyl sulfates [RMIM][R-OSO(3)] with R chain length from C(1)-C(4) and C(8) has been studied systematically using the surface-specific sum frequency generation (SFG) vibrational spectroscopy and surface tension measurements. From the SFG sp... | {
"abstract": "Four molecular dynamics computer simulations have been performed to study the intrinsic width and the width due to thermal fluctuations of the water/carbon tetrachloride interface. We observed that thermal fluctuations have a capillary wave character. The surface tension calculated by using capillary w... |
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"abstract": "On July 8, 2014 meteorological satellite “Meteor-M” no. 2 with a module of temperature and humidity atmospheric sensing MTVZA-GY was launched on a circular sun-synchronous orbit. Microwave radiometer MTVZA-GY has 16 imaging channels at frequencies of 10.65, 18.7, 23.8, 31.5, 36.5, 42.0, 48.0, and 91.65... | {
"abstract": "Taklamakan is the second largest shifting sand desert in the world and a major source of dust aerosols in East Asia. The time series of GCOM-W1 AMSR2 brightness temperatures TBs were constructed over the Tazhong weather station (39.00° N, 83.40° E, elevation H =1100 m) in Taklamakan desert for the peri... | {
"abstract": "New algorithms for total atmospheric water vapor content (Q) and total cloud liquid water content (W) retrieval from satellite microwave radiometer data, based on neural networks (NNs) and applicable for high-latitude open-water areas, were developed. For algorithm development, a radiative transfer equ... |
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"abstract": "Abstract The biphasic increase in latency to tonic extension following maximal electroshock, observed in mice stressed in a revolving drum for 7.5 min, was reduced markedly in animals which had been stressed prior to study (1 min per day for 3–5 days). In addition, previously stressed mice were found t... | {
"abstract": "Ischemic tolerance is now a well-recognized, endogenous protective response to impaired blood flow in multiple organ systems. Tolerance occurs when ischemia, experienced for a duration less than required for injury, occurs prior to a potentially harmful duration of ischemia which the target organ is no... | {
"abstract": "In contrast to most sedative drugs, reserpine lowers the threshold for electroshockor pentylenetetrazol-induced convulsions in mice.\" Since monoamine oxidase (MAO) inhibitors elevate the levels of brain serotonin (5-HT) and norepinephrine (NE), whereas reserpine lowers the levels, it occurred to us th... |
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"abstract": "The proper design of RF pulses in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has a direct impact on the quality of acquired images, and is needed for many applications. Several techniques have been proposed to obtain the RF pulse envelope given the desired slice profile. Unfortunately, these techniques do not ta... | {
"abstract": "Selective RF pulses are needed for many applications in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). The waveform required to produce a desired excitation profile is, to first-order, its Fourier transform. This approximation is most valid for small tip angles and the quality and accuracy of such excitations decre... | {
"abstract": "Stereoscopic devices are widely used (immersion-based working environments, stereoscopically-viewed movies, auto-stereoscopic screens). In some instances, exposure to stereoscopic immersion techniques can be lengthy, and so eye strain sets in. We propose a method for reducing eye strain induced by ster... |
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"abstract": "With the explosive growth of music recordings, automatic classification of music emotion becomes one of the hot spots on research and engineering. Typical music emotion classification (MEC) approaches apply machine learning methods to train a classifier based on audio features. In addition to audio fea... | {
"abstract": "Music emotion plays an important role in music retrieval, mood detection and other music-related applications. Many issues for music emotion recognition have been addressed by different disciplines such as physiology, psychology, cognitive science and musicology. We present a support vector regression ... | {
"abstract": "We incorporate statistical confidence intervals in both the multi-armed bandit and the reinforcement learning problems. In the bandit problem we show that given n arms, it suffices to pull the arms a total of O((n/e2)log(1/δ)) times to find an e-optimal arm with probability of at least 1-δ. This bound ... |
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"abstract": "Many biological questions require fluorescence microscopy with a resolution beyond the diffraction limit of light. Super-resolution methods such as Structured Illumination Microscopy (SIM), STimulated Emission Depletion (STED) microscopy and Single Molecule Localisation Microscopy (SMLM) enable an incr... | {
"abstract": "ABSTRACT Methods of super-resolving light microscopy (SRM) have found an exponentially growing range of applications in cell biology, including nuclear structure analyses. Recent developments have proven that Single Molecule Localization Microscopy (SMLM), a type of SRM, is particularly useful for enha... | {
"abstract": "A dominant focus in studies of learning and decision-making is the neural coding of scalar reward value. This emphasis ignores the fact that choices are strongly shaped by a rich representation of potential rewards. Here, using fMRI adaptation, we demonstrate that responses in the human orbitofrontal c... |
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"abstract": "Score Function Difference (SFD) is a recently proposed “gradient” for mutual information which can be used in Blind Source Separation algorithms based on minimization of mutual information. To be applied to practical problems, SFD must be estimated from the data samples. In this paper, a new method for... | {
"abstract": "In this paper a new geometrical approach for separating speech signals is presented. This approach can be directly applied to separate more than two speech signals. It is based on clustering the observation points, and then fitting a line (hyper-plane) onto each cluster. The algorithm quality is shown ... | {
"abstract": "Clustering is dividing a dataset into subsets that has similar characteristics. In this study, fuzzy c-means clustering algorithm (FCM) and a new evolutionary optimization algorithm, Backtracking Search (BSA) algorithm, were combined and a new hybrid clustering algorithm (BSAFCM) was proposed. Moreover... |
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"abstract": "Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) has become the best and most adopted practice framework to implement IT Service Management (ITSM) within organizations. Service Catalog is a fundamental basis in ITIL adoption because it is the source of information about services. However, organizat... | {
"abstract": "Android is characterized as a complicated open source software stack created for a wide array of devices with different form of factors, whose latest release has over one hundred million lines of code. Such code is mainly developed with the Java language, which builds complicated logic and brings impli... |
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"abstract": "Acute toxicity tests (48–96‐h duration) were conducted with larvae of 2 echinoderm species (Strongylocentrotus purpuratus and Dendraster excentricus) and 4 bivalve mollusk species (Crassostrea virginica, Crassostrea gigas, Mytilus galloprovincialis, and Mercenaria mercenaria). Developing larvae were ex... | {
"abstract": "The present study examined the effects of chronic exposure of eastern oyster (Crassostrea virginica) larvae to the water‐accommodated fractions of fresh and weathered oils collected from the Deepwater Horizon incident, with and without additions of the dispersant Corexit 9500A, as well as to solutions ... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Chemical dispersants are a mixture of various surfactants and solvents. Most dispersants are proprietary, and the complete composition is not often public knowledge. Chemical dispersants used for the cleanup and containment of crude oil toxicity became a major concern after the 2010 Deepwater ... |
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"abstract": "Every year a great many valuable veneer oaks are damaged by fungal diseases as a result of their great age. The most important oakwood destroying fungi were isolated and identified and their decay activity was tested in the laboratory. White rots in oak are mostly caused byStereum frustulosum, Stereum ... | {
"abstract": "ZusammenfassungZur Beurteilung des Verholzungsgrades stehen zahlreiche Färbemethoden zur Verfügung, deren Einflußbereiche sich überschneiden, aber nicht decken. Vergleichende Beobachtungen über die Wirkungsweise verschiedener Verfahren hatten zum Ziel, deren Anwendungsmöglichkeiten zu erfassen und ihre... | {
"abstract": "Sections containing gelatinous fibers were cut at 15 μ from material both fixed and stored in formalin-acetic-alcohol, 5:5:90 (of 70%). These sections were stained 5 min in a 1% aqueous solution of lignin pink (G. T. Gurr), differentiated quickly in water, soaked 5 min in 95% ethyl alcohol, dehydrated ... |
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"abstract": "We present Statesman, a network-state management service that allows multiple network management applications to operate independently, while maintaining network-wide safety and performance invariants. Network state captures various aspects of the network such as which links are alive and how switches ... | {
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"abstract": "This paper addresses the classification problem with imperfect data. More precisely, it extends standard decision trees to handle uncertainty in both building and classification procedures. Uncertainty here is represented by means of possibility distributions. The first part investigates the issue of b... |
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"abstract": "We have used primary endocrine therapy for 61 elderly women with operable breast cancer (median age 77 years). Eleven patients (18%) had complete and 24 (39%) partial tumour regression, 12 (20%) had stable disease for a minimum of six months and 14 (23%) no response. Salvage surgery was undertaken in t... | {
"abstract": "IntroductionThe inhibition of estrogen receptor (ER) α action with the ER antagonist tamoxifen is an established treatment in the majority of breast cancers. De novo or acquired resistance to this therapy is common. Expression of ERβ in breast tumors has been implicated as an indicator of tamoxifen sen... | {
"abstract": "Ninety-five patients who underwent bilateral adrenalectomy for metastatic breast carcinoma are reviewed. An objective remission of tumor was observed in 66% of the patients over the age of 45 years with metastasis limited to soft tissue, osseous, or pulmonary system. In those patients below the age of ... |
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"abstract": "PURPOSE\nTo evaluate whether selective rather than universal use of adrenal vein sampling (AVS) may be warranted in patients with hyperaldosteronism to characterize and lateralize disease before adrenalectomy.\n\n\nMATERIALS AND METHODS\nFifty-nine consecutive patients with biochemically diagnosed hype... | {
"abstract": "Laparoscopic adrenalectomy has become the preferred method for removal of almost all adrenal tumors. An important component in selecting patients for this operation is a thorough understanding of the clinical presentation (mainly hypertension) and diagnostic workup for the full variety of functioning a... | {
"abstract": "In a free-choice situation, chlordiazepoxide (CDP; 12.5 or 25 mg/100 ml; groups B or C), when incorporated in ethanol solutions (2 to 20%, v/v), caused a significant decrease in ethanol preference index (P.I.). This was probably due to the combined CNS effects of both drugs rather than a taste effect, ... |
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"abstract": "NADPH oxidases (NOXs) contribute to platelet activation by a largely unknown mechanism. Here, we studied the effect of the novel NOX inhibitor 2‐acetylphenothiazine (2‐APT) on human platelet functional responses and intracellular signaling pathways.",
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"abstract": "The behavior of the 2 sialidase forms present in the erythrocyte membrane was investigated in 117 subjects with type 2 diabetes mellitus versus 95 healthy controls. A significant increase of the acidic form of sialidase, which is anchored to the membrane by a glycosylphosphatidylinositol bridge, was ob... | {
"abstract": "Integrin alpha2beta1 is the principal adhesive receptor for collagen but platelets also adhere through glycoprotein VI (GPVI). Integrin alphaIIbbeta3 may augment platelet adhesion. We have shown that disulfide exchange is necessary for platelet adhesion to fibrinogen, fibronectin, and collagen. However... |
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"abstract": "A series elastic actuator (SEA) is a promising actuation method in force control applications that intelligently interacts with environments. The SEA is characterized by a spring placed between a load and an actuator, which is an electric motor in most cases. Since the spring plays the role of a transd... | {
"abstract": "Andrea Calanca *, Luca Capisani and Paolo FioriniDepartment of Computer Science, University of Verona, Strada Le Grazie 15, Verona 37134, Italy;E-Mails: luca.capisani@unipv.it (L.C.); paolo.fiorini@univr.it (P.F.)* Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-Mail: andrea.calanca@gmail.com;Tel.:... | {
"abstract": "Incidence and mortality from prostate cancer were rising in most countries until the late 1980s. Following a number of advances in the management of prostate cancer, including introduction of the prostate‐specific antigen (PSA) test, there have been reports of declines in mortality in Canada, the Unite... |
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"abstract": "A great deal of research effort is being expended at present to develop intelligent autonomous systems. A brief overview of intelligent autonomous system is given in this introductory chapter. A summary of each chapter of this book is also included. An introduction to both the theoretical foundations a... | {
"abstract": "Developing autonomous systems that operate successfully in dynamic environments entails many challenges. Researchers introduce the concept of adjustable autonomy to mitigate some of these challenges. Adjustable autonomy enables a system to operate in different autonomic conditions and transfers control... | {
"abstract": "During the period of 1976 to 1981, a total of 412 young athletes contacted the Turku Sports Medical Research Unit's (TSMRU) Outpatient Sports Clinic with 586 com plaints. These records included 68 athletes with Os good-Schlatter's disease (OSD), who were initially pre scribed an average of 2 months' re... |
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"abstract": "This paper explores what young children can and will ‘say and do’ when positively positioned to think with scientific concepts using ICT interactives. The progress with meaning-making of three young children (7, 9 and 12 years old) when playing a game is tracked and analysed. How these children were po... | {
"abstract": "This paper discusses the role of cultural artifacts or tools in cognitive development. It examines how social interaction with more experienced partners helps children learn how to use tools that support thinking. Of particular interest is how children come to understand and use external representation... | {
"abstract": "The original version of this article unfortunately contained a mistake. The presentation of Fig. 3 was published with an error. The correct version is given below.",
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"abstract": "This paper proposes a unified synthesis method for the bandpass filters based on the alternative J/K inverters and λ/4 microstrip line resonators. Firstly, an even-order Chebyshev bandpass filter prototype with equal terminations is transformed to two dual networks based on hybrid J/K inverters and λ/4... | {
"abstract": "The design methodology and measurement results of a millimeter-wave harmonic-tuned power amplifier (PA) are presented. The PA uses optimum fundamental and second-harmonic terminations to achieve high peak power-added efficiency (PAE). We present a parasitic-aware design technique for the output network... | {
"abstract": "This paper describes a sequence of assignments, each building upon the next, leading students to a working simulation of a simple 8-bit CPU (Central Processing Unit). The design features a classic Von Neumann architecture comprising a simple data path with a few registers, a simple ALU (Arithmetic Logi... |
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"abstract": "Information disclosed to the public by patients is very important for people who are suffering from same illness because such information can be a source of knowledge and encouragement. Our aim is to make a system that extracts, organizes and visually represents information from patients' blogs. As the... | {
"abstract": "In this paper, we propose a ranking method for opinion retrieval that uses a confidence model of opinion as a three-tuple of object-attribute-evaluation . The confidence model has two characteristics for calculating confidence scores. One, the model divides a three-tuple of an opinion into two pairs: o... | {
"abstract": "We discuss update scheduling in streaming data warehouses, which combine the features of traditional data warehouses and data stream systems. In our setting, external sources push append-only data streams into the warehouse with a wide range of interarrival times. While traditional data warehouses are ... |
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"abstract": "This paper explores the material impact of major transformations in the Australian academic field upon a group of ethnically and socioeconomically diverse academic women leaders1 who, because of their varying degrees of seniority, were positioned as key ’change agen(ts)’ in their diverse locales (Yeatm... | {
"abstract": "Charles Taylor (1994) and Nancy Fraser (1995) document the move in the 1990s away from a class politics based on concepts of exploitation to a politics based on the ‘right to recognition’ by different identity groups who present cultural domination as the fundamental injustice.1 This claim for recognit... | {
"abstract": "This study analyzes the determinants of arms production in 15 countries using annual panel data from 1997 to 2002. The results suggest that real GDP per capita, military expenditures, arms exports, and arms imports are positively related to arms production.",
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"abstract": "Web request query strings (queries), which pass parameters to the referenced resource, are always manipulated by attackers to retrieve sensitive data and even take full control of victim web servers and web applications. However, existing malicious query detection approaches in the current literature c... | {
"abstract": "Previous research has shown that byte-level analysis of network traffic can be useful for network intrusion detection and traffic analysis. Such an approach does not require any knowledge of applications running on web servers or any pre-processing of incoming data. In this paper, we apply three n-gram... | {
"abstract": "In this paper, we analyze several metamorphic virus generators. We define a similarity index and use it to precisely quantify the degree of metamorphism that each generator produces. Then we present a detector based on hidden Markov models and we consider a simpler detection method based on our similar... |
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"abstract": "In two large samples (combined N = 31,045), we found a positive relationship between disgust sensitivity and political conservatism. This relationship held when controlling for a number of demographic variables as well as the “Big Five” personality traits. Disgust sensitivity was also associated with m... | {
"abstract": "Guided by appraisal-based models of the influence of emotion upon judgment, we propose that disgust moralizes--that is, amplifies the moral significance of--protecting the purity of the body and soul. Three studies documented that state and trait disgust, but not other negative emotions, moralize the p... | {
"abstract": "Making the City Mobile: The Place of the Motor Car in the Planning of Post-War Birmingham, c. 1945-1973 This thesis explores the ways in which Birmingham was planned for the purposes of mass automobility between 1945 and 1973. The urban landscape was reshaped substantially during this period; the relat... |
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"abstract": "Intelligent assistive technology can greatly improve the daily lives of peo- ple with severe paralysis, who have limited communication abilities. People with motion impairments often prefer camera-based communication interfaces, because these are customizable, comfortable, and do not require user-borne... | {
"abstract": "Severe motion impairments can result from non-progressive disorders, such as cerebral palsy, or degenerative neurological diseases, such as Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), Multiple Sclerosis (MS), or muscular dystrophy (MD). They can be due to traumatic brain injuries, for example, due to a traffi... | {
"abstract": "This thesis studies problems that a mobile robot encounters while it is navigating through its environment. The robot either explores an unknown environment or navigates through a somewhat familiar environment. The thesis addresses the design of algorithms for 1. environment learning, 2. position estim... |
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"abstract": "A cohesive zone model of crack propagation in linear visco-elastic materials with non-linear history-dependent rupture criterion is presented. The viscoelaticity is described by a linear Volterra integral operator in time. The stresses on the cohesive zone satisfy the history dependent rupture criterio... | {
"abstract": "Abstract A history-dependent cohesive zone model approach is used to study the crack behaviour in elastic and visco-elasto materials. The cohesive (yield) stress at the cohesive zone points is related to the nonlinear normalised equivalent stress functional over the stress history at these points, and ... | {
"abstract": "Harmonics up to the 15<sup>th</sup> order are produced from solid targets using 3 mJ, 30 fs pulses focused to a spot size of 1.7 μm and 3 × 10<sup>18</sup> W/cm<sup>2</sup>. Combined conversion efficiency to the highest harmonics is > 10<sup>-5</sup>.",
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"abstract": "This paper presents a framework for analyzing and comparing sub-optimal performance of local search algorithms for hard discrete optimization problems. The β-acceptable solution probability is introduced that captures how effectively an algorithm has performed to date and how effectively an algorithm c... | {
"abstract": "Data security is now a pertinent issue with advent of the Internet. Methods like cryptography, firewalls and gateways used to prevent attacks on data are becoming unsuccessful. Thus, the need for Intrusion Detection System to enhance security efforts. Varying machine learning models are implemented for... | {
"abstract": "Abstract In this paper, we establish some bounds for the probability that stimulated annealing produces an optimal or near-optimal solution. Such bounds are given for both asymptotical and finite number of steps in the algorithm, and they depend only on the instance of the problem to be treated. Then w... |
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"abstract": "Abstract Water is an essential factor of production for hotel activities. Water consumption per person staying at a hotel tends to be high, and can be as much as three times the average consumption of people living at home. Thus, in the context of growing pressure on this scarce and strategic natural r... | {
"abstract": "Abstract This study analyses heat consumption for heating domestic water in large hospital facilities with over 600 hospital beds. The tests were carried out in 2 hospitals: the 715-bed University Hospital in Bydgoszcz and the 690-bed Provincial Hospital. The tests were performed over a period of 4 yea... | {
"abstract": "A thermal storage system for residential buildings in a Northern climate is developed for electrical peak shifting and shaving. To facilitate implementation, only commercially available products are used for the system in conjunction with common construction methods. A thermal model is created with the... |
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"abstract": "The choice of a color model is of great importance for many computer vision algorithms (e.g., feature detection, object recognition, and tracking) as the chosen color model induces the equivalence classes to the actual algorithms. As there are many color models available, the inherent difficulty is how... | {
"abstract": "In this paper, we compare local colour descriptors to grey-value descriptors. We adopt the evaluation framework of Mikolayzcyk and Schmid. We modify the framework in several ways. We decompose the evaluation framework to the level of local grey-value invariants on which common region descriptors are ba... | {
"abstract": "Typical pseudo-relevance feedback methods assume the top-retrieved documents are relevant and use these pseudo-relevant documents to expand terms. The initial retrieval set can, however, contain a great deal of noise. In this paper, we present a cluster-based resampling method to select better pseudo-r... |
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