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"abstract": "Spheroplasts of Candida albicans were regenerated in [14C]glucose and buffered magnesium sulphate (0.1 M-Tris/HCl; 0.5 M-MgSO4, pH 7.2) at 35 degrees C. Uptake of glucose by spheroplasts was faster than that by intact yeast cells. After 6 h, 65% of the glucose taken up by the yeast appeared as CO2 and ... | {
"abstract": "Wall mannoproteins of the two (yeast and mycelial) cellular forms of Candida albicans were solubilized by different agents. Boiling in 2% (w/v) SDS was the best method, as more than 70% of the total mannoprotein was extracted. Over 40 different bands (from 15 to 80 kDal) were detected on SDS-polyacryla... | {
"abstract": "Background: Intestinal targeted mucoadhesive microsphere of probiotics may provide numerous associated health benefits. Aim: To develop mucoadhesive microspheres that will deliver viable probiotic cells into gut protectively against harsh environmental conditions of stomach for extended period. Materia... |
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"abstract": "In this paper we present a coordination model for component-based software systems based on the notion of mobile channels, define it in terms of a compositional trace-based semantics, and describe its implementation in the Java language. Channels allow anonymous, and point-to-point communication among ... | {
"abstract": "Designing a software system's architecture properly is one of the most important tasks of any software engineering project. Nevertheless there exists no common definition of the term \"software architecture\" and no standard software architecture description language (ADL). The paper discusses whether ... | {
"abstract": "Lime is a middleware communication infrastructure for mobile computation that addresses physical mobility of devices and logical mobility of software components through a rich set of local and remote primitives. The system's key innovation is the concept of transiently shared tuple spaces. In Lime, mob... |
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"abstract": "The augmented exposure of both environment and human being to electromagnetic waves and the concomitant lack of an unequivocal knowledge about biological consequences of these radiations, raised public interest on electromagnetic pollution. In this context, the present study aims to evaluate the biolog... | {
"abstract": "Autophagy is a bulk subcellular degradation process through which eukaryotic cells maintain health by forming autophagosomes and recycling intracellular substances. This particular process is an important mechanism for cell survival, growth, differentiation, development and homeostasis. Over the past f... | {
"abstract": "Cornelia de Lange syndrome (CdLS) is a dominantly inherited congenital malformation disorder, caused by mutations in the cohesin-loading protein NIPBL for nearly 60% of individuals with classical CdLS, and by mutations in the core cohesin components SMC1A (∼5%) and SMC3 (<1%) for a smaller fraction of ... |
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"abstract": "Abstract : New language constantly emerges from complex, collaborative human-human interactions like meetings such as when a presenter handwrites a new term on a whiteboard while saying it redundantly. Fixed vocabulary recognizers fail on such new terms, which often are critical to dialogue understandi... | {
"abstract": "This paper describes a novel multi-stage recognition procedure for deducing the spelling and pronunciation of an open set of names. The overall goal is the automatic acquisition of unknown words in a human computer conversational system. The names are spoken and spelled in a single utterance, achieving... | {
"abstract": "For efficient organization of speech recordings - meetings, interviews, voice mails, lectures - the ability to search for spoken keywords is an essential capability. Today, most spoken-document retrieval systems use large-vocabulary recognition. For the above scenarios, such systems suffer from both th... |
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"abstract": "Activity recognition from wearable sensor data has been researched for many years. Previous works usually extracted features manually, which were hand-designed by the researchers, and then were fed into the classifiers as the inputs. Due to the blindness of manually extracted features, it was hard to c... | {
"abstract": "This study provides a comparative assessment on the different techniques of classifying human activities performed while wearing inertial and magnetic sensor units on the chest, arms and legs. The gyroscope, accelerometer and the magnetometer in each unit are tri-axial. Naive Bayesian classifier, artif... | {
"abstract": "This study presents and tests a model in which the effect of IT investments on firm revenues is associated with the dimensions of IT-business alignment in an emerging market context. We disaggregate firms’ IT business alignment into three dimensions: (1) IT investment-business strategy alignment, (2) I... |
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"abstract": "Malnutrition is a condition where the body is deprived of important nutrients required to maintain healthy tissues and organ function. Maintaining the right balance in food intake is very important, especially in infants where tremendous growth occurs. Unlike adults, infants require someone's assistanc... | {
"abstract": "The purpose of this paper is to develop an automatic camera phone based multi-view food classifier as part of a food intake assessment system. Food intake assessment is important for obesity management, which has shown significant impacts in public healthcare. Conventional dietary record based food int... | {
"abstract": "Multimedia or spoken content presents more attractive information than plain text content, but it's more difficult to display on a screen and be selected by a user. As a result, accessing large collections of the former is much more difficult and time-consuming than the latter for humans. It's highly a... |
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"abstract": "This publication describes a constituent analyzer which uses a concave holographic grating for high-energy throughput, a conjugate cam drive to allow up to ten spectral scans per second, a microprocessor for data gathering and system control, and a minicomputer for the complex statistical computations ... | {
"abstract": "We describe a fiber‐optic, field‐portable spectrophotometer for measurement in the near‐infrared (NIR) (680–1050 nm) region of the spectrum. This instrument, bundled with a laptop computer for data acquisition and statistical analysis, has a footprint of only 6 in.×14 in.×18 in. and weights approximate... | {
"abstract": "Genomes of organisms contain a variety of repeated structures of various length and type, interspersed or tandem. Tandem repeats play important role in molecular biology as they are related to genetic backgrounds of inherited diseases, and also they can serve as markers for DNA mapping and DNA fingerpr... |
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"abstract": "This paper addresses the identification and control of a motorcycle electro-hydraulic clutch, to be employed as main actuator for the design of future automatic gear shift controllers and launch controllers. These applications have very different requirements in terms of tracking performance, and desig... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Launch control is an innovative active system for sport motorcycles, which offers an interesting automatic feature for this type of vehicles. In fact, taking a motorcycle to a smooth and safe start from still might be critical for non expert riders in some working conditions, due to the signif... | {
"abstract": "We have published that pharmacological induction of oxidative stress (OS) causes anxiety-like behavior in rats. Using animal models, we also have established that psychological stress induces OS and leads to anxiety-like behaviors. All evidence points towards the causal role of OS in anxiety-like behav... |
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"abstract": "THE problem of formulating a rigorous mathematical description of the molecular motion in .liquids has always been regarded as much more difficult than that of the kinetic theory of gases or of solids, because one has the simplifying features of low density in the case of gases, and of a regular lattic... | {
"abstract": "Precipitation kinetics of Al3Zr and Al3Sc in aluminum supersaturated solid solutions is studied using cluster dynamics, a mesoscopic modeling technique which describes the various stages of homogeneous precipitation by a single set of rate equations. The only parameters needed are the interface free en... | {
"abstract": "J. E. Mayer (1937) has published, together with some collaborators, several papers under the same title as the present one. We consider these papers as a most important contribution to statistical mechanics, and this opinion was shared by the International Conference held in Amsterdam, 26 November 1937... |
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"abstract": "We develop a general theory of the modal coupling of degenerate resonances in optical ring resonators based on Bloch-Floquet theory. This theory can predict the splitting associated with this coupling in all the ring resonances. © 2019 The Author(s)",
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"title": "Bloch-Floquet W... | {
"abstract": "Optical quantum states based on entangled photons are essential for solving questions in fundamental physics and are at the heart of quantum information science. Specifically, the realization of high-dimensional states (D-level quantum systems, that is, qudits, with D > 2) and their control are necessa... | {
"abstract": "Integrated photonic circuits are one of the most promising platforms for large-scale photonic quantum information systems due to their small physical size and stable interferometers with near-perfect lateral-mode overlaps. Since many quantum information protocols are based on qubits defined by the pola... |
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"abstract": "High-performance n-type organic single crystal transistors of a naphthalene diimide are demonstrated. The accomplished transistors exhibit electron mobility as high as 0.7 cm(2) V(-1) s(-1). The anisotropic charge transport in the elongated hexagonal crystals of the naphthalene diimide is also explored... | {
"abstract": "This study investigates the performance of single-crystalline nanomaterials of wide-band gap naphthalene diimide (NDI) derivatives with methylene-bridged aromatic side chains. Such materials are found to be easily used as high-performance, visible-blind near-UV light detectors. NDI single-crystalline n... | {
"abstract": "&NA; In 1987, Taylor and Palmer introduced the angiosome concept. This anatomical study defined the three‐dimensional vascular territories supplied by source arteries and veins to each tissue layer between the skin and the bone. This report, however, was an overview investigation and did not study each... |
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"abstract": "Sir, Tocopherol (vitamin E) has been used to reduce dapsoneinduced haemolysis in patients with dermatitis herpetiformis (DH). Recent observation in two patients suggests that oral vitamin E may also lead to dramatic improvement in dapsoneinduced headache, and its use may be justified for this reason al... | {
"abstract": "OBJECTIVE\nThis study looked at whether oral vitamin C and vitamin E would protect the erythrocyte from oxidant damage caused by dapsone in patients with dermatitis herpetiformis.\n\n\nDESIGN\nFifteen consecutive patients with dermatitis herpetiformis taking dapsone therapy received, in addition, 800 U... | {
"abstract": "A case of massive dapsone poisoning (15 g) in a 26 year old man is reported. The patient exhibited high plasma dapsone concentration, marked methemoglobinemia, and signs of hemolysis. He recovered completely after intensive treatment with methylene blue, activated charcoal, forced diuresis, and plasma ... |
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"abstract": "Findings from studies examining interactions between fat taste and dietary fat intake or body weight are mixed. A convenience sample of 735 visitors to the Denver Museum of Nature & Science ≥8 years old rated the taste intensity of edible taste strips impregnated with varying concentrations (%v/v) of l... | {
"abstract": "Conclusion. The present study introduces normative data for the ‘three-drop test’ of gustatory function. Objectives. Although in some instances liquid tastants appear to be preferable for the measurement of taste function, no such test has been established for the routine clinical testing. The aim of t... | {
"abstract": "The incidence of restenosis after a first successful percutaneous transluminal angioplasty of a native renal artery and the clinical and angiographic variables that may influence its occurrence were studied in 104 hypertensive patients. Angiograms obtained immediately before and after angioplasty and, ... |
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"abstract": "We describe the first sub-quadratic sampling algorithm for the Multiplicative Attribute Graph Model (MAGM) of Kim and Leskovec (2010). We exploit the close connection between MAGM and the Kronecker Product Graph Model (KPGM) of Leskovec et al. (2010), and show that to sample a graph from a MAGM it suff... | {
"abstract": "Represented as graphs, real networks are intricate combinations of order and disorder. Fixing some of the structural properties of network models to their values observed in real networks, many other properties appear as statistical consequences of these fixed observables, plus randomness in other resp... | {
"abstract": "In this paper, we introduce a novel deep learning framework, termed Purine. In Purine, a deep network is expressed as a bipartite graph (bi-graph), which is composed of interconnected operators and data tensors. With the bi-graph abstraction, networks are easily solvable with event-driven task dispatch... |
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"abstract": "Certain subtypes of acute myeloid leukemia (AML) in children have still inferior outcome. One of these AML subtypes has a translocation t(7;12)(q36;p13), always leading to high expression of MNX1 and often to MNX1::ETV6 fusion expression. Here we identi�ed the transforming event in this AML and possibl... | {
"abstract": "Creation of fusion genes by balanced chromosomal translocations is one of the hallmarks of acute myeloid leukemia (AML) and is considered one of the key leukemogenic events in this disease. In t(12;13)(p13;q12) AML, ectopic expression of the homeobox gene CDX2 was detected in addition to expression of ... | {
"abstract": "Although the significance of lysine modifications of core histones for regulating gene expression is widely appreciated, the mechanisms by which these modifications are incorporated at specific regulatory elements during cellular differentiation remains largely unknown. In our previous studies, we have... |
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"abstract": "We studied the distribution of plane-of-sky speeds determined for 4315 coronal mass ejections (CMEs) detected by the Large Angle and Spectrometric Coronagraph Experiment on board the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO LASCO). We found that the speed distributions for accelerating and decelerating... | {
"abstract": "In an attempt to test current initiation models of coronal mass ejections (CMEs), with an emphasis on the magnetic breakout model, we inspect the magnetic topology of the sources of 26 CME events in the context of their chromospheric and coronal response in an interval of approximately 9 hr around the ... | {
"abstract": "Coronal mass ejections are seen as bright features that move outward through the solar corona at speeds from 10 to about 2,000 km s-1. They involve the expulsion of substantial quantities of plasma from large regions of the corona. The spectacular nature of the largest mass ejections is illustrated in ... |
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"abstract": "SIRT1 is a NAD(+)-dependent protein deacetylase that has a very large number of established protein substrates and an equally impressive list of biological functions thought to be regulated by its activity. Perhaps as notable is the remarkable number of points of conflict concerning the role of SIRT1 i... | {
"abstract": "Osteoarthritis is the most prevalent and crippling joint disease, and lacks curative treatment, as the underlying molecular basis is unclear. Here, we show that DOT1L, an enzyme involved in histone methylation, is a master protector of cartilage health. Loss of DOT1L disrupts the molecular signature of... | {
"abstract": "Huntington's disease is a fatal neurodegenerative disorder caused by an expanded polyglutamine repeat in huntingtin (HTT) protein. We previously showed that calorie restriction ameliorated Huntington's disease pathogenesis and slowed disease progression in mice that model Huntington's disease (Huntingt... |
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"title": "Purely Sequence-Trained Neural Networks for ASR Based on Lattice-Free MMI."
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"abstract": "We present a state-of-the-art end-to-end Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) model. We learn to listen and write characters with a joint Connectionist Temporal Classification (CTC) and attention-based encoder-decoder network. The encoder is a deep Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) based on the VGG netw... | {
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"corpus_id": 52010446,
"score": -1,
"title": "Dialogue-act-driven Conversation Model : An Experimental Study"
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"abstract": "BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE\nAdvances in ureteroscope and stone basket design have catapulted ureteroscopy to the forefront of surgical stone management; however, persistent problems such as stone migration continue to challenge urologists. The Escape nitinol stone retrieval basket (Boston Scientific, Natic... | {
"abstract": "PURPOSE\nManagement of large impacted upper ureteral calculi remains challenging for urologists. These calculi are frequently associated with obstructive uropathy and deteriorated renal function. Extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy (SWL) is the least invasive treatment but its success rate is decreas... | {
"abstract": "Emergency thoracotomy is required in 10-15 per cent of all patients with thoracic injury. Nine specific indications for emergency thoracotomy have been described for injured persons. A variety of incisions is available to the surgeon, and selection of the appropriate incision is based on radiographic a... |
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"abstract": "Summary 1 Emerging wildlife diseases pose a significant threat to natural and human systems. Because of real or perceived risks of delayed actions, disease management strategies such as culling are often implemented before thorough scientific knowledge of disease dynamics is available. Adaptive managem... | {
"abstract": "ABSTRACT Chronic wasting disease (CWD), a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy of cervids, was first documented nearly 50 years ago in Colorado and Wyoming and has since been detected across North America and the Republic of Korea. The expansion of this disease makes the development of sensitive dia... | {
"abstract": "Human alteration of landscapes can affect the distribution, abundance, and behavior of wildlife. We explored the effects of human land use on the prevalence of chronic wasting disease (CWD) in mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) populations residing in north-central Colorado. We chose best approximating mo... |
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"abstract": "We perform coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulations for sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) surfactant using a modification of the Dry Martini force field (Arnarez et al. 2014) with implicit water. After inclusion of particle mesh Ewald (PME) electrostatics, an artificially high dielectric constant for w... | {
"abstract": "Using fully atomistic and coarse-grained (CG) molecular dynamics (MD) simulations, we report, for the first time, the self-assembly of initially randomly dispersed dodecyl-β-d-maltoside (DDM) surfactants into a striped cylindrical micelle (SCM) with lamellae of surfactant heads and tails alternating al... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Irradiation-induced microstructure evolution and phase transformation have been studied on the nanocrystalline tungsten film with simple cubic structure (β phase). The samples were irradiated by 4 MeV Au ions at different fluences ranging from 6 × 1014 to 1 × 1016 ions/cm2, corresponding to th... |
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"abstract": "Abstract The mitochondrial genome sequence of the ghost crab, Ocypode ceratophthalmus, is documented (GenBank accession number: LN611669) in this article. This is the first mitogenome for the family Ocypodidae and the second for the order Ocypodoidea. Ocypode ceratophthalmus has a mitogenome of 15,564 ... | {
"abstract": "– An annotated checklist of the extant brachyuran crabs of the world is presented for the first time. Over 10,500 names are treated including 6,793 valid species and subspecies (with 1,907 primary synonyms), 1,271 genera and subgenera (with 393 primary synonyms), 93 families and 38 superfamilies. Nomen... | {
"abstract": "The caridean shrimp genus Alvinocaris Williams and Chace, 1982 (Bresilioidea: Alvinocarididae) is revised based upon type material and newly obtained samples from various reducing environments of the deep‐sea floor of the world. All species are known from chemosynthetic communities associated with hydr... |
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"abstract": "Flow and diffusion distributed structures (FDS) are stationary spatially periodic patterns that can be observed in reaction-diffusion-advection systems. These structures arise when the flow rate exceeds a certain bifurcation point provided that concentrations of interacting species at the inlet differ ... | {
"abstract": "The paper investigates a chemical reaction-diffusion model in an open flow system. It is shown that such a system may, with particular boundary conditions, exhibit stationary space-periodic structures even in the case of equal diffusion coefficients. This is confirmed through numerical simulations.",
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"abstract": "PURPOSE\nDigital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) has been shown to somewhat alleviate the breast tissue overlapping issues of two-dimensional (2D) mammography. However, the improvement in current DBT systems over mammography is still limited. Statistical image reconstruction (SIR) methods have the potential... |
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"abstract": "Image registration is a crucial step in many medical image analysis procedures such as image fusion, surgical planning, segmentation and labeling, and shape comparison in population or longitudinal studies. A new approach to volumetric intersubject deformable image registration is presented. The method... | {
"abstract": "The National Library of Medicine and its partners are sponsoring Insight, a public software toolkit for segmentation and registration of high dimensional medical data. An essential element of this initiative is the development of a validation methodology, a common means of comparing the precision, accu... | {
"abstract": "ABSTRACT Previous research has demonstrated that White college students are more likely to drink alcohol at a greater frequency and quantity compared to their African American counterparts. Examining race-related factors that structure alcohol use among college students remains an important area of res... |
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"abstract": "Maintaining healthy behavior among obesity patients is a challenge. This study aims to design an electronic health application for self-care management in collaboration with obesity patients and healthcare personnel.",
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"title": "Designing an E-Health Application in Collaborati... | {
"abstract": "OBJECTIVES\nTo evaluate from a review of the literature the interest of using the Internet as a tool for the therapeutic education of patients.\n\n\nMETHOD\nA systematic review of Pubmed was carried out using the key words: the Internet, or World Wide Web and patient education, or patient preference, o... | {
"abstract": "BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVE:We aimed to examine the accuracy of segmental multi-frequency bioelectrical impedance analysis (SMF-BIA) for the assessment of whole-body and appendicular fat mass (FM) and lean soft tissue mass (LM) in frail older women, using dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) as a reference ... |
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"abstract": "This paper presents a bandwidth allocation and pricing framework for the spectrum underlay in cognitive radio networks. We assume that a cognitive radio network containing a set of primary users coexists with secondary users in an underlay spectrum sharing paradigm. Primary users use licensed bands of ... | {
"abstract": "Optimal pricing for dynamic spectrum sharing in \"cognitive radio\" networks is an open research issue. In this paper, we address the problem of spectrum pricing in a cognitive radio environment in which multiple primary services with spectrum opportunity compete with each other to offer spectrum acces... | {
"abstract": "Research and discussion into more efficient utilization of frequency spectrum has led to a paradigm shift in future allocation and utilization of spectral resources in the frequency band of licensed (primary) systems. Secondary usage of licensed spectrum is being considered as a viable solution to the ... |
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"abstract": "Abstract To investigate the mechanism of shape fixation of steam-compressed wood, Japanese cedar wood specimens were compressed radially by 50% using saturated water vapor at 160 °C and observed during shape recovery in different liquids, including water and dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO). Shape recovery wa... | {
"abstract": "This paper deals with the heat fixation of compressive deformation of sugi wood (Cryptomeria japonica D. Don) which is a typical Japanese coniferous wood with a low density. After wet specimens were compressed in the radial direction to about 50% of their original thickness and dried under restraint, t... | {
"abstract": "A major theme in thermoelectric research is based on controlling the formation of nanostructures that occur naturally in bulk intermetallic alloys through various types of thermodynamic phase transformation processes (He et al., 2013). The question of how such nanostructures form and why they lead to a... |
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"abstract": "A Z-shaped easy made planar meta-atom is presented as an alternative design to the conventional electric-LC (ELC) resonator for achieving negative permittivity. Transforming the LC topology of the resonator helps to facilitate transposition of geometrical parameters for the optical regime and also to i... | {
"abstract": "Abstract In this paper, design and analysis of U–T-shaped metamaterial antenna have been presented. It shows negative permittivity and permeability characteristics. The metamaterial array is embedded inside the substrate of rectangular microstrip patch antenna. Upon incorporation, directivity increases... | {
"abstract": "An analytical theory of low frequency electromagnetic waves in metallic photonic crystals with a small volume fraction of a metal is presented. The evidence for such waves has been obtained recently by experiments and computations. The cutoff frequency of these waves, omega(0), is studied. An analytica... |
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"abstract": "We survey the recent work in AI on multi-agent reinforcement learning (that is, learning in stochastic games). We then argue that, while exciting, this work is flawed. The fundamental flaw is unclarity about the problem or problems being addressed. After tracing a representative sample of the recent li... | {
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"corpus_id": 5943662,
"title": "A Comprehensive Survey of Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning"
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"abstract": "The performance of GPUs is rapidly improving as the top GPU vendors keep pushing the boundaries of process technologies. While larger die sizes help improve performance given the nature of parallel workloads, additional architectural improvements can also help by utilizing the available die real estate... |
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"abstract": "Introduction: Population-based genomic research is expected to deliver substantial public health benefits. National genomics initiatives are widespread, with large-scale collection and research of human genomic data. To date, little is known about the actual public health benefit that is yielded from s... | {
"abstract": null,
"corpus_id": 149969,
"title": "Predicting disease using genomics"
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"abstract": "Public involvement in research occurs when the public, patients, or research participants are actively contributing to the research process. Public involvement has been acknowledged as a key priority for prominent human genomics research initiatives in many different countries. However, to date, there ... |
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"abstract": "This work presents a new class of porous graphene particles with a three-dimensional microscale network and an ultrahigh specific surface area (2590 m(2) g(-1)), which is obtained by the KOH activation of a compact graphene hydrogel. As supercapacitor electrodes, such porous graphene particles show hig... | {
"abstract": "Energy density has become a critical barrier in supercapacitor engineering and improvement of the electrode-loading is urgently demanded. However, there is conflict between the high loading and good electrochemical properties of supercapacitors. Herein, ultrahigh loading (10.33 mg·cm-2) 3D hierarchical... | {
"abstract": "Vibrissae are a unique sensory system of mammals that is characterized by a rich and diverse innervation involved in numerous sensory tasks with the potential for species-specific differences. In the present study, indocarbocyanine dyes (DiI and PTIR271) and confocal microscopy were combined to study t... |
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"abstract": "While large-scale taxonomies--especially for web pages--have been in existence for some time, approaches to automatically classify documents into these taxonomies have met with limited success compared to the more general progress made in text classification. We argue that this stems from three causes:... | {
"abstract": "Reuters Corpus Volume I (RCV1) is an archive of over 800,000 manually categorized newswire stories recently made available by Reuters, Ltd. for research purposes. Use of this data for research on text categorization requires a detailed understanding of the real world constraints under which the data wa... | {
"abstract": "There have been a growing number of interests in using the convolutional neural network(CNN) in image forensics, where some excellent methods have been proposed. Training the randomly initialized model from scratch needs a big amount of training data and computational time. To solve this issue, we pres... |
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"abstract": "A huge hydrothermal field of 500 by 700 m across associated with a modern analogue of Kuroko-type deposit was first found in the Bayonnaise knoll caldera in a nascent rift zone westward the volcanic front of the Izu-Ogasawara (Bonin) island arc, Japan during the April 2003 Hakurei-maru No.2 cruise sinc... | {
"abstract": "In Japan, the Basic Act on Ocean Policy provided a basic outline of matter regarding the ocean and was promulgated in July 2007. Following on from the Act, the Cabinet introduced the “Basic Plan on Ocean Policy”, to promote measures concerning the ocean both in general and in detail. In particular, thi... | {
"abstract": "Multiple discriminant analysis is used to identify systematic variations of Cu, Pb, Zn, Ag, and Au grade values in the Canadian massive sulfide deposits with the three geological parameters of age, environment, and composition of volcanic lithology. The deposits have been separated into three groups on... |
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"abstract": "Introduction: Physician burnout has received considerable attention in the literature and impacts a large number of emergency medicine physicians, but there is no standardized curriculum for wellness in resident education. A culture change is needed to educate about wellness, adopt a preventative and p... | {
"abstract": "Background Targeted interventions have improved physical activity and wellness of medical residents. However, no exercise interventions have focused on emergency medicine residents. Objective This study aimed to measure the effectiveness of a wearable device for tracking physical activity on the exerci... | {
"abstract": "Estimates of the cell density of cartilage are rare and particularly in the case of human cartilage are restricted almost entirely to articular or epiphyseal tissue. Knowledge of the cellularity of cartilage is of anatomical interest and in articular cartilage is important also from the functional and ... |
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"abstract": "Finding emotions in text is an area of research with wide-ranging applications. We describe an emotion annotation task of identifying emotion category, emotion intensity and the words/phrases that indicate emotion in text. We introduce the annotation scheme and present results of an annotation agreemen... | {
"abstract": "A major limitation in the automatic detection of affect, feelings, emotions, sentiments, and opinions in text is the lack of proper differentiation between these subjective terms and understanding of how they relate to one another. This lack of differentiation not only leads to inconsistency in termino... | {
"abstract": "Children are socialized to conform to traditional gender role stereotypes, a developmental process affected by elements of popular culture that associate femininity with passivity, nurturance, and emotional expressivity; and masculinity with power, agency, and aggression. Toys, as one element of popula... |
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"abstract": "Irrespectively of whether they have treated population as an endogenous variable, or as an exogenously given function of time, economists have traditionally regarded population growth as the natural enemy of per-capita consumption. In classical economics of Malthusian extraction, family size (the deman... | {
"abstract": "The model presented in this paper features the characteristics of long-run growth cycles in West European economic history. Population is considered as the key factor for the dynamic process. Population growth leads to capital dilution in the short run but increases the rate of technical progress in th... | {
"abstract": "A Theoretical model consists of certain hypotheses concerning the causal inter-relationship between various magnitudes or forces and the sequence in which they react on each other. We all agree that the basic requirement of any model is that it should be capable of explaining the characteristic feature... |
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"abstract": "Summary1.The relative functional surface area of isolated-perfused gills was evaluated by measuring the influx of14C-urea, a passively diffusing molecule.2.The catecholamines, norepinephrine and epinephrine, increase functional gill surface area and decrease overall branchial vascular resistance.3.Surf... | {
"abstract": "SummaryA technique is described for simultaneously measuring perfusion pressure and transepithelial potentials in isolated perfused gills.In this preparation the potentials measured in external media of Ringer or sea water were both reduced by 4 mV to 5 mV in the presence of 10−6 M adrenaline. This eff... | {
"abstract": "Following the detection and clinical exploitation of alphafetoprotein (AFP), calcinoembryonic antigen (CEA), and human chorionic genadotropin (HCG) as first and basic tumor markers, the discovery of blood group-related carbohydrate structures on glycoproteins and glycolipids as indicators of malignancy... |
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"abstract": "One of the challenges of mobile health is to provide a way of maintaining privacy in the access to the data. Especially, when using ICT for providing access to health services and information. In these scenarios, it is essential to determine and verify the identity of users to ensure the security of th... | {
"abstract": "Smart connected devices are widely used in healthcare to achieve improved well‐being, quality of life, and security of citizens. While improving quality of healthcare, such devices generate data containing sensitive patient information where unauthorized access constitutes breach of privacy leading to ... | {
"abstract": "The general claim herein is that the analysis of melody rests on the perception of implications of continuation and reversal. Continuation is said to be governed hypothetically by the bottom-up Gestalt laws of similarity, proximity, and common direction (common fate); whereas reversal is hypothesized a... |
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"abstract": "SiO(2)-CaO-P(2)O(5) ternary bioactive glass ceramic (BGC) nanoparticles with different compositions were prepared via a three-step sol-gel method. Polyethylene glycol was selected to be used as the surfactant to improve the dispersion of the nanoparticles. The morphology and composition of these BGC na... | {
"abstract": "Recently, bioactive glass nanoparticles (BGns) have been acknowledged for their ability to promote interactions with the periapical tissue and enhance tissue regeneration by releasing therapeutic ions. However, there have been no studies on calcium silicate sealers with bioactive glass nanoparticle (BG... | {
"abstract": "Biodegradable porous polymer scaffolds are widely used in tissue engineering to provide a structural template for cell seeding and extracellular matrix formation. Scaffolds must often possess sufficient structural integrity to temporarily withstand functional loading in vivo or cell traction forces in ... |
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"abstract": "Fraud has been very common in our society, and it affects private enterprises as well as public entities. However, in recent years, the development of new technologies has also provided criminals more sophisticated way to commit fraud and it therefore requires more advanced techniques to detect and pre... | {
"abstract": null,
"corpus_id": 16140830,
"title": "A genetic programming approach to telecommunications fraud detection and classification"
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"abstract": " Abstract— Cryptarithmetic puzzles are quite old and their inventor is not known. An example in The American Agriculturist of 1864 disproves the popular notion that it was invented by Sam Loyd. The name cryptarithmetic was coined by puzzlist Minos (pseudonym of Maurice Vatriquant) in the May 1931 issu... |
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"abstract": "This paper investigates the joint effects of academic self-efficacy and stress on the academic performance of 107 nontraditional, largely immigrant and minority, college freshmen at a large urban commuter institution. We developed a survey instrument to measure the level of academic self-efficacy and p... | {
"abstract": "The transition from high school to university was used as the context for examining the relationship between emotional intelligence and academic achievement. During the first month of classes 372 first-year full-time students at a small Ontario university completed the short form of the Emotional Quoti... | {
"abstract": "The analysis of large scale data logged from complex cyber-physical systems, such as microgrids, often entails the discovery of invariants capturing functional as well as operational relationships underlying such large systems. We describe a latent factor approach to infer invariants underlying system ... |
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"abstract": "BackgroundPatient falls in hospitals are common and may lead to negative outcomes such as injuries, prolonged hospitalization and legal liability. Consequently, various hospital falls prevention programs have been implemented in the last decades. However, most of the programs had no sustained effects o... | {
"abstract": "OBJECTIVES ::: To determine characteristics and effectiveness of prevention programs on fall-related outcomes in a defined setting. ::: ::: ::: DESIGN ::: Systematic review and meta-analysis. ::: ::: ::: SETTING ::: A clearly described subgroup of nursing homes defined as residential facilities that pr... | {
"abstract": "Recent studies suggest that by using additional user or item relationship information when building hybrid recommender systems, the recommendation quality can be largely improved. However, most such studies only consider a single type of relationship, e.g., social network. Notice that in many applicati... |
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"abstract": "The aim of this study is to investigate the fully‐reversed low cycle fatigue properties of Alloy 617 in the air at 950 °C; these tests were conducted at total strain ranges from 0.9% to 1.5% with a constant strain rate of 10−3/s. The result of the fatigue tests showed a decrease in fatigue resistance w... | {
"abstract": "Due to superior mechanical and metallurgical performance, Nickel-base Alloys 617 and 276 have been considered as structural material for used in complex and stochastic applications. Surface irregularities such as cracks in the material may be vulnerable to the structural integrity of an engineering com... | {
"abstract": "Conformational switch from hairpin DNA to G-quadruplex induced by Pb(2+) is studied by electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) in the presence of [Fe(CN)(6)](3-/4-) as the redox probe. In the presence of Pb(2+), the G-rich hairpin DNA opens the stem-loop and forms G-quadruplex structure, which giv... |
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"abstract": "The initial impetus for the current popularity of statistical methods in computational linguistics was provided in large part by the papers on part-of-speech tagging by Church (1988), DeRose (1988), and Garside (1987b). In contradiction to common wisdom, these taggers showed that it was indeed possible... | {
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"abstract": "Entrepreneurs in Malaysia are playing an important role for the economic development of the country. Due to the potential benefits of e-commerce, entrepreneurs of Malaysia have the opportunity to expand their market in the world. The purpose of the study is to find out the extent of the effect of entre... |
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"abstract": "Chronic low back pain (CLBP) is a chronic pain syndrome in the lower back region, lasting for at least 3 months. CLBP represents the second leading cause of disability worldwide being a major welfare and economic problem. The prevalence of CLBP in adults has increased more than 100% in the last decade ... | {
"abstract": "The aim of this trial was to evaluate the effects of α-lipoic acid (ALA) and γ-linolenic acid (GLA) and the beneficial effect of physical exercise on positive sensory symptoms and neuropathic pain in patients with compressive radiculopathy syndrome from disc-nerve root conflict. Often these painful syn... | {
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"abstract": "A new near-infrared electrochemiluminescence resonance energy transfer (NECL-RET) strategy for enzyme-free amplified DNA detection was designed. In this strategy, the quaternary Cu-Zn-In-S nanocrystals (NCs) were applied as the ECL donor and gold nanostars (AuNSs) were used as the acceptor. The flowerl... | {
"abstract": "Quantitative detection of SFTSV was reported for the first time via the electrochemiluminescence technique.",
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"title": "Quantitative detection of severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome virus via electrochemiluminescence immunoassay"
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"abstract": "A concise seven-step synthesis of atropisomeric 3-aryl analogues of DMAP from 4-pyridone 8 has been developed. A representative compound of this class, biaryl (+/-)-15, has been resolved using CSP HPLC and shown to be an efficient nucleophilic catalyst for kinetic resolution of a series of secondary al... |
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"abstract": "Marine sediments cover two-thirds of our planet and harbor huge numbers of living prokaryotes. Long-term survival of indigenous microorganisms within the deep subsurface is still enigmatic, as sources of organic carbon are vanishingly small. To better understand controlling factors of microbial life, w... | {
"abstract": "The deep-subseafloor biosphere harbours a major part of the total microbial biomass on Earth. However, how life and death in this environment are regulated is not yet understood. While organisms from higher trophic levels appear to be absent, viruses might be a factor for microbial mortality. In this s... | {
"abstract": "Succession in abandoned pastures in the tropics can progress along different pathways, and the changes in biodiversity on local and landscape scales, as well as in species turnover (β diversity), are still unclear. This study assessed the role of secondary forests as a plant biodiversity reservoir or a... |
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"abstract": "Deciphering the mechanism of functioning of DNA as the carrier of genetic information requires identifying inherent factors determining its structure and function. Following this path, our previous DFT studies attributed the origin of unique conformational characteristics of right-handed Watson-Crick d... | {
"abstract": "Some difficulties in the application of various methods of computer modeling for the study of regularities of formation of spatial structure of DNA are analyzed. Computations of intermolecular interaction energy for all ten pairwise combinations of methylated bases (1-methylpyrimidines and 9-methylpuri... | {
"abstract": "The fusion energies of several oxide mixtures were obtained by measuring the total radiant energy emitted during the solidification period. Values obtained for 60BeO-40CaO, 48CaO-52Al2O3, 75CaO-25B2O3, and 80BeO-20Li2O (mole %) were, respectively, 200, 85, 160, and 110 cal/g.",
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"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nThe Metropolitan Police figures suggest an increase in the incidence of injuries related to gun crime. We conducted a retrospective analysis of extremity gunshot injuries over a five-year period. Our aim is to report on our (1) incidence, (2) complications and (3) experience in treating the... | {
"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nBleeding often poses significant life-threatening situations to surgeons. After trauma, a one-third of civilian casualties and one-half of combat casualties die as a result of exsanguination. Recent advances have provided promising new hemostatic dressings that are applied directly to sever... | {
"abstract": "BackgroundSlow-motion training, which comprises exercising using extremely slow-movements, yields a training effect like that of high-intensity training, even when the applied load is small. We developed a slow-training exercise program that allows elderly people to safely use their own body weight wit... |
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"abstract": "Extensive use of internal combustion engine (ICE)-based vehicles has contributed to severe adverse impacts on the environment and accelerated depletion of fossil fuel reserves, leading to considerable rise in price of gas over the past two decades. These challenges, plus the low efficiency associated w... | {
"abstract": "One of the key components of every Electric Vehicle (EV)/Hybrid Electric Vehicle (HEV) is the Energy Storage System (ESS). The most widely-used ESS in electric drivetrains is based on batteries. As the specific power of batteries is normally low, they are hybridized with high-specific power storage ele... | {
"abstract": "Exploiting the highly dynamic flight envelope of a multirotor Micro Aerial Vehicle (MAV) is a particularly challenging task that requires special treatment of its attitude control loop. In this paper, we propose a fast nonlinear model predictive control approach based on a geometric formulation of the ... |
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"abstract": "Mashups have been gaining wide popularity over the past few years. Several tools and platforms exist to support user-created mashups, however working with them is still complex, and their inability to directly impact existing activities and daily lives of endusers provide little motivation for their ad... | {
"abstract": "Mashups - Web applications that integrate multiple data sources or APIs into one interface - have attracted considerable attention in recent years. The availability of Web-based APIs and a growing array of XML data feeds has enabled this novel approach to Web applications. However, due to the relativel... | {
"abstract": "The huge demand for situational and ad-hoc applications desired by the mass of business end users cannot be fully implemented by IT departments. New approaches that allow for End User Development (EUD) are needed to overcome this “long-tail” dilemma. More specifically,most existing approaches insuffici... |
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"abstract": "Rock art is the best known evidence of the Saharan fragile heritage. Thousands of engraved and painted artworks dot boulders and cliffs in open-air sites, as well as the rock walls of rockshelters and caves located in the main massifs. Since its pioneering discovery in the late 19th century, rock art c... | {
"abstract": "Abstract New zoogeomorphological features discovered in dryland landscapes of Northern Africa reflect human-animal agency since prehistory, and attest to complex, networked activities over great distances. We discuss the role of zoogeomorphology in shaping Earth's surface since the beginning of the Ant... | {
"abstract": "Oxy-fuel combustion of solid fuels is seen as one of the key technologies for carbon capture to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The combustion characteristics of lignite coal, Chlorella vulgaris microalgae, and their blends under O2/N2 and O2/CO2 conditions were studied using a Thermogravimetric Analy... |
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"abstract": "We introduce language-driven image generation, the task of generating an image visualizing the semantic contents of a word embedding, e.g., given the word embedding of grasshopper, we generate a natural image of a grasshopper. We implement a simple method based on two mapping functions. The first takes... | {
"abstract": "Previous work on Recursive Neural Networks (RNNs) shows that these models can produce compositional feature vectors for accurately representing and classifying sentences or images. However, the sentence vectors of previous models cannot accurately represent visually grounded meaning. We introduce the D... | {
"abstract": "List-wise learning to rank methods are considered to be the state-of-the-art. One of the major problems with these methods is that the ambiguous nature of relevance labels in learning to rank data is ignored. Ambiguity of relevance labels refers to the phenomenon that multiple documents may be assigned... |
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"abstract": "The adaptive immune system consists of T and B cells that express clonally distributed antigen receptors. To achieve functional adaptive immune responses, antigen-specific T cell populations are stimulated by professional antigen-presenting cells like dendritic cells (DCs), which provide crucial stimul... | {
"abstract": "Previous studies have demonstrated that vitamin D affects T‐cell function and maturation via the vitamin D receptor. However, no studies in children have been performed on this topic. Because most of the T‐cell memory is formed in the first 5 years of life, we aimed to determine the association between... | {
"abstract": "Glioblastoma (GBM) is a deadly and debilitating brain tumor with an abysmal prognosis. The standard therapy for GBM is surgery followed by radiation and chemotherapy with Temozolomide (TMZ). Treatment of GBMs remains a challenge, largely because of the fast degradation of TMZ, the inability to deliver ... |
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"abstract": "OBJECTIVE The incidence of type 1 diabetes is increasing. Delivery by cesarean section is also more prevalent, and it is suggested that cesarean section is associated with type 1 diabetes risk. We examine associations between cesarean delivery, islet autoimmunity and type 1 diabetes, and genes involved... | {
"abstract": "Virus infections are implicated in the development of type 1 diabetes based on epidemiological, clinical, in vitro cell‐based and molecular studies, and animal models. We reviewed the association between virus infections in pregnant women and development of islet autoimmunity or type 1 diabetes in thei... | {
"abstract": "Objective: Certain human leukocyte antigen (HLA)‐DR,DQ genotypes have been associated with type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) risk, although it is unknown whether the association is due to alleles, haplotypes, genotypes, the formation of heterodimers, or all of the above. To characterize the role of the ... |
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"abstract": "The fabrication of high-performance spherical gradient refractive index (S-GRIN) optics requires nondestructive metrology techniques to inspect the samples. We have developed an angular-scan, swept-source-based, Fourier-domain optical coherence tomography (OCT) system centered at 1318 nm with 5 mm imag... | {
"abstract": "In this paper, we develop the methodology, including the refraction correction, geometrical thickness correction, coordinate transformation, and layer segmentation algorithms, for 3D rendering and metrology of a layered spherical gradient refractive index (S-GRIN) lens based on the imaging data collect... | {
"abstract": "Sands showed the equivalence of the third-order aspheric surface contribution of the aberration polynomial to the third-order inhomogenous surface contribution. This fact is exemplified by the substitution of an axial gradient for the aspheric surface of the Schmidt corrector plate. It is shown that a ... |
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"abstract": "Bisphenol A (BPA) exposure in humans is widespread, and BPA has been detected in a variety of samples including follicular fluid. BPA levels have been found to negatively correlate with the developmental potential of oocytes in women undergoing in vitro fertilization and to induce meiotic abnormalities... | {
"abstract": "Known endocrine disruptor bisphenol A (BPA) has been shown to be a reproductive toxicant in animal models. Its structural analogs: bisphenol S (BPS), bisphenol F (BPF), bisphenol AF (BPAF), and tetrabromobisphenol A (TBBPA) are increasingly being used in consumer products. However, these analogs may ex... | {
"abstract": "Increasing utilization of chorionic villus sampling (CVS) has lead to the discovery that the placenta can karyotypically be a very heterogeneous organ, and chromosomal mosaicism within the placental can confuse cytogenetic interpretation. Recently, confined placental mosaicism (confined regions of aneu... |
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"abstract": "Feruloyl esterases cleave ferulic acid from arabinoxylan and pectin. Feruloyl groups are believed to crosslink the polysaccharide chain within the polymer and to link hemicellulose to lignin, which may play a role in controlling the growth of plants. The Clostridium thermocellum cellulosome xylanase Z ... | {
"abstract": "Enzymatic hydrolysis of lignocellulosic biomass is limited by economic considerations arising from enzyme production costs and specific activities. The effect of six hemicellulases on raw sugarcane bagasse and two types of pretreated sugarcane bagasse was investigated using experimental designs. Our st... | {
"abstract": "Photophysical properties and photoisomerization of 1,4-dimethoxy-2,5-bis[2-(thien-2-yl)ethenyl] benzene (DMTB) have been investigated for the EE-, EZ-, and ZZ- stereoisomers. The EE-DMTB was prepared, and the absorption/fluorescence spectra of EE- isomer as well as transient spectra in photoisomerizati... |
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"abstract": "A stochastic program SP with solution value z^* can be approximately solved by sampling n realizations of the program's stochastic parameters, and by solving the resulting ''approximating problem'' for (x^*\"n,z^*\"n). We show that, in expectation, z^*\"n is a lower bound on z^* and that this bound mon... | {
"abstract": "In this paper we discuss a general approach to studying asymptotic properties of statistical estimators in stochastic programming. The approach is based on an extended delta method and appears to be particularly suitable for deriving asymptotics of the optimal value of stochastic programs. Asymptotic a... | {
"abstract": "Quantitative continuity of optimal solution sets to convex stochastic programs with (linear) complete recourse and random right-hand sides is investigated when the underlying probability measure varies in a metric space. The central result asserts that, under a strong-convexity condition for the expect... |
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"abstract": "The development of a new methodology based on Short-Term Fourier Transform (STFT) to detect and track particles is presented. The methodology is investigated based on an CMOS oscillator detection chain optimized for identification of low particle fluxes. The evaluation of the circuit sensitivity to rad... | {
"abstract": "The charge sharing quantification in the case of neutron induced SEUs in a 130 nm bulk SRAM is presented. Conclusions on its contribution to the soft errors sensitivity evaluation using Monte-Carlo codes are underlined",
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"abstract": "Abstract Hydrogen storage by physisorption in carbon based materials is hindered by low adsorption energies. In the last decade doping of carbon materials with alkali, earth alkali or other metal atoms was proposed as a means to enhance adsorption energies, and some experiments have shown promising res... |
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"abstract": "Background We aimed to investigate the predictors, in-hospital and 3-months outcomes of acute coronary syndrome (ACS) patients with insignificant stenosis on a coronary angiogram. \nMethods We conducted a prospective study of 200 consecutive patients admitted to the coronary care unit with a diagnosis ... | {
"abstract": "Background—Troponin elevation is a risk factor for mortality in patients with non–ST-segment–elevation acute coronary syndromes. However, the prognosis of patients with troponin elevation and nonobstructive coronary artery disease (CAD) is unknown. Our objective was therefore to evaluate the impact of ... | {
"abstract": "This article reviews the major information systems projects in the National Health Service over the past 25 years. Rather than looking backwards, it isolates important lessons and issues that should be considered by management in organizations considering the implementation of information systems.",
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"abstract": "The aim of the present study was to investigate the influence of self-awareness of real-world behavior on treatment outcome in adolescents with ASD. For this purpose we followed 28 adolescents with ASD during their first year of specialized treatment. Results showed that better self-awareness at start ... | {
"abstract": "ObjectiveTo investigate the relationship between executive function and awareness of real-world behavioral and attentional dysfunction in persons with moderate and severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) and uninjured controls. DesignObservational 2-group study. ParticipantsThirty-six persons with moderate... | {
"abstract": "The association between regional measures of cortical atrophy and neuropsychological (NP) dysfunction was studied in 35 multiple sclerosis (MS) patients. Patients underwent neurological examination, MRI, and NP testing. Blind quantitative MRI analysis yielded total T(2) lesion area (TLA) and third vent... |
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"abstract": "Rourkela CERTIFICATE This is to certify that the project entitled, \" Mobile Platform Control Using Fuzzy-Logic and WEBOTS \" submitted by Sri Suraj.N.J in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the award of Bachelor of Technology, Rourkela (Deemed University) is an authentic work carried out by hi... | {
"abstract": "One of the long standing challenging aspect in mobile robotics is the ability to navigate autonomously, avoiding modeled and unmodeled obstacles especially in crowded and unpredictably changing environment. A successful way of structuring the navigation task in order to deal with the problem is within ... | {
"abstract": "This Article explores issues surrounding the prosecution of child pornography possession laws based on images located in temporary Internet files. The Article begins with a technical background of both caches and the forensic examinations used by investigators. After reviewing the pertinent case law, t... |
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"abstract": "IN December 1958 an area of sky including the Coma cluster of galaxies was surveyed using the 250-ft. radio telescope at Jodrell Bank1 with a Dicke-type radiometer, pass-band 408 ± 2 Mc./s., and noise figure 6 db. The beam was elliptical, having half-power widths of 40 and 56 minutes of arc. The system... | {
"abstract": "Summary It has been shown previously that radio-frequency radiation is being received on the earth from the extra-galactic nebula N.G.C. 224 (M. 31). This paper reports some initial attempts to extend the measurements of extra-galactic radio radiation on a wavelength of 1·89 m. A radio survey has been ... | {
"abstract": "PURPOSE\nTo verify the speech perception in subjects with ear malformation and unilateral hearing loss, fitted with two types of amplification as follows: conventional hearing aids and softband (band with vibrator bone).\n\n\nMETHOD\nThe study included fifteen subjects of both sexes who presented conge... |
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"abstract": "This paper presents a hardware simulation study for an MRO shop and highlights the reduction in process time due to the introduction of RFID technology. Use of this technology will not only result in less number of process steps, but also enable the operation planner to get real time updates on the loc... | {
"abstract": "The emerging paradigm of agent-based computation has revolutionized the building of intelligent and decentralized systems. The new technologies met well the requirements in all domains of manufacturing where problems of uncertainty and temporal dynamics, information sharing and distributed operation, o... | {
"abstract": "Despite the prevention effort, car accident is still one of the major causes of death. Thus, to avoid as many casualties, helps and assistance should reach the accident sites as soon as possible. This can be enabled by quickly detecting the accidents and reporting them to the related official units. To... |
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"abstract": "Stainless steel reinforcing has an elevated chloride threshold and is an attractive alternative for prestressed concrete applications. However, due to the high strength requirements for prestressing strands, concern exists about the possibility of stress corrosion cracking (SCC). This investigation scr... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Corrosion behavior of stainless steel clad rebar (SCR) was investigated in both model solutions (initial pH: 10, 12.6, and 13.6, respectively, Cl− up to 15%, ˜5 M) and concrete (up to 8% admixed Cl− by weight of cement). The unblemished acid-pickled Type 316L (UNS S31603) stainless steel (SS) ... | {
"abstract": "The properties of emulsions containing 3 wt% of polyoxyethylene nonylphenylether per system were studied as functions of temperature, composition, and the hydrophile-lipophile balance (HLB) of emulsifiers. It has been found that (a) the size of emulsion droplets changes remarkably with temperature and ... |
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"abstract": "A new technique has been developed for determination of the formation thermal conductivity, skin factor and contact thermal resistance for boreholes where the temperature recovery process after drilling operations is not completed. Slider suggested a technique for analysing transient pressure tests whe... | {
"abstract": "A Fortran computer program was written for analyzing step-pressure test data. The program determines formation permeability and skin factor for oil/water wells. During a step-pressure test, fluid is produced at two successive constant pressures. Flow rates and time data are recorded during the second c... | {
"abstract": "The PRC2 and PRC1 complexes are aberrantly expressed in human cancers and have been linked to decreases in patient survival. MUC1-C is an oncoprotein that is also overexpressed in diverse human cancers and is associated with a poor prognosis. Recent studies have supported a previously unreported functi... |
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"abstract": "This paper presents an investigation on the effect of geometrical dimensions on the conductive behaviour of a CMOS MEMS convective accelerometer. Numerous FEM simulations are conducted to prove the validity of a previously developed model. This model was firstly developed to represent the effect of onl... | {
"abstract": "In this paper, we present 3D FEM simulations of a CMOS MEMS convective accelerometer. Differences between 3D and previously published 2D simulations are also discussed. We describe sensor architecture and we present a sensor model that is used for 3D FEM simulations. The prototype has a heater-cavity b... | {
"abstract": "Abstract We consider the evolution of quantum Fermi fields in Minkowski gauge field backgrounds. Our motivation is the study of anomalous fermion number violating processes. We derive selection rules for fermion scattering amplitudes which relate the violation of fermionic charge to the change in windi... |
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"abstract": "Abstract A filter based on characteristic functions is developed in this paper, to fit to a class of non-Gaussian dynamical systems, which state models and measurement models are all nonlinear and multi-dimensional. The new filter overcomes limitations and expands the application of this kind of filter... | {
"abstract": "Recently the filtering design based on probability density function become an important method to solve Non-gaussian filtering. However, the existing methods are difficult to use in practice because the performance of non-negative cannot be guaranteed or owning to the highly conservative. So this paper... | {
"abstract": "In this correspondence paper, a novel robust extended Kalman filter (REKF) for discrete-time nonlinear systems with stochastic uncertainties is proposed. The filter is derived to guarantee an optimized upper bound on the state estimation error covariance despite the model uncertainties as well as the l... |
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"abstract": "This paper focuses on the state of charge estimation (SOC) for battery Li-ion. By modeling a battery based on the equivalent circuit model, the extended Kalman filter approach can be applied to estimate the battery SOC. An electrical battery model is developed in Matlab, Where the structure of the mode... | {
"abstract": "In this paper, a battery state of charge (SOC) estimation method based on the extended Kalman filter is proposed. In some known battery SOC estimation methods, it is assumed that the relationship between battery open circuit voltage and SOC is linear and static. However, this relationship is only piece... | {
"abstract": "In this paper, supervisor control for stand-alone hybrid power system to supply energy to resistance load is presented. The hybrid system is used to produce energy withoutinterruption and it consists of a photovoltaic generator (PV), and a battery bank. PV system work in parallel via DC/DC converter an... |
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"abstract": "Standardized diagnostic criteria determined by the International Restless Legs Syndrome Study Group were used to investigate the current prevalence of restless legs syndrome (RLS). Possible associations between RLS and neuropsychiatric and somatic complaints were also investigated. A random sample of 4... | {
"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nPrevious studies evaluating the association of cardiovascular disease and vascular risk factors with restless legs syndrome showed inconsistent results, especially for the potential relation between various vascular risk factors and restless legs syndrome. We therefore aimed to analyze the ... | {
"abstract": "Periodic leg movements in sleep (PLMS) occur frequently in the sleep of elderly persons but their significance is unknown. In this study, 63 elderly persons with symptoms of insomnia but without history of renal disease were evaluated polysomnographically. All received laboratory evaluations for blood ... |
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"abstract": "We report a sister and two half brothers who presented with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)‐proven syringomyelia and associated Chiari type I malformation in two cases. The individuals have the same mother but two different fathers. The mother shows no clinical signs of syringomyelia. The two fathers ... | {
"abstract": "A unique case of monozygotic triplets, each of whom exhibits variable degrees of tonsillar ectopia, is reported. Patient X presented with a Chiari I malformation and associated syringomyelia; examination of patients Y and Z showed 4 mm and 2.5 mm of tonsillar ectopia, respectively. No such case has bee... | {
"abstract": "The purpose of a sanitary sewer is to carry the peak discharge at the end of the design period, and to transport suspended materials under all flow conditions to prevent deposition of solids, and hence, sewer blockages. To accomplish the latter, the liquid must provide for sufficient shear stress to su... |
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"abstract": "Digital contours in a binary image can be described as an ordered vector set. In this paper an extension of the string edit distance is defined for its computation between a pair of ordered sets of vectors. This way, the differences between shapes can be computed in terms of editing costs. In order to ... | {
"abstract": "Abstract A symmetrized version of the Nagendraprasad-Wang-Gupta thinning algorithm ( Digital Signal Processing 3 (1993) 97) is presented, which produces simpler and more elegant skeletons of handwritten characters at zero extra computational cost.",
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"abstract": "ABSTRACT Recent research has shown an increase in the number of extreme tornado outbreaks per year. The characterization of the spatio-temporal pattern of tornado events is therefore a critical task in the analysis of meteorological data. Currently, there are a large number of available meteorological ... |
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"abstract": "Consumer attitudes towards genetically modified foods (GMFs) play a crucial role in the development of the technology. Both government and food manufacturers of agricultural products in the US and China are optimistic about the potential market for these foods. This paper compares two national consumer... | {
"abstract": "We analyzed the determinants of acceptance of genetically modified food (GMF) by using the probit model. In this study, we found that around 41% of the students are willing to buy GMF, and acceptance of GMF is less in female respondents than male respondents. The findings indicate that in India, benefi... | {
"abstract": "This article discusses a range of recent major surveys of public attitudes toward biotechnology. The authors identify a number of problematic features of the surveys: the use of predominantly consumerist rather than civic conception of public discourse; the assumption of a unitary \"general public,\" a... |
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"abstract": "Abstract Objective: To (a) identify attitudinal barriers to help-seeking for mental health difficulties among fathers of young children; (b) explore the relationships between perceived barriers to help-seeking and mental health difficulties (i.e. depressive, anxiety, stress symptoms); (c) identify soci... | {
"abstract": "This article describes the development and psychometric evaluation of the Barriers to Help Seeking Scale (BHSS). The measure was designed to assess reasons men identify for not seeking professional help for mental and physical health problems. Exploratory factor analyses in a sample of 537 undergraduat... | {
"abstract": "OBJECTIVE: To compare the pharmacology, pharmacokinetics, and efficacy of the newer atypical antipsychotics with those of conventional agents and existing atypical agents. DATA SOURCES: Information was retrieved from a MEDLINE English-literature search from July 1986 to June 1998 and by review of refer... |
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"abstract": "SummaryAn ultrasound scan revealed an ovarian cyst in the fetal lower abdomen at 29 weeks of gestation. Repeated examinations demonstrated that the cyst increased in size to 6.5 cm×6.1 cm×5.0 cm at 33 weeks of gestation, and the cyst showed no complications between 29 weeks of gestation and early infan... | {
"abstract": "ABSTRACT ABSTRACT ABSTRACT ABSTRACT The first prenatal detection of an ovarian cyst was by Valenti in 1975. Since then antenatal and neonatal ovarian cysts are encountered more frequently due to the improvement of imaging techniques as well as routine antenatal ultrasound scanning. We discuss here the ... | {
"abstract": "Abstract A study has been made of the loss of residual monomer from samples of autopolymerizing acrylic resin immersed in water. Diffusion of monomer out of the resin into the water could account for only part of the loss. It was shown that free radicals continue to be present in the acrylic after comp... |
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"abstract": "Multiple isolates of the genus Providencia were obtained from the haemolymph of wild-caught Drosophila melanogaster fruit flies. Sixteen isolates were distinguished from the six previously described species based on 16S rRNA gene sequences. These isolates belonged to two distinct groups, which we propo... | {
"abstract": "In the course of isolating bacteria from infective juveniles of the entomopathogenic nematode Steinernema thermophilum Ganguly & Singh, 2000, three isolates were obtained (OP1T, OP29 and VS3). On the basis of 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis and riboprint patterns, these three strains were identical to ... | {
"abstract": "Abnormal trophoblast invasion is associated with the most common and most severe complications of human pregnancy. The biology of invasion, as well as the etiology of abnormal invasion remains poorly understood. The aim of this study was to characterize the transcriptome of the HTR-8/SVneo human cytotr... |
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"abstract": "We thank the three referees for their constructive review and thoughtful comments which we have used to improve our manuscript in a revised version. The final author’s response to all referee comments (this document) is now provided with reference to all the changes made in the revised manuscript. For ... | {
"abstract": "The evolution of topographically generated interfacial motion is considered in a two-layer model. A system of two non-linear equations, similar to the Boussinesq equations for shallow water waves, is derived. The consequences of the cubic non-linearity of these equations on the nature of the solitary w... | {
"abstract": "In the present study, the photophysical properties of the perylene dye PBI [N,N′-bis(1-hexylheptyl)-3,4:9,10-perylenebis(dicarboximide)] and the quenching of PBI fluorescence by organic quencher molecules in acetonitrile was investigated with stationary and time-resolved fluorescence and absorption mea... |
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"abstract": "A large-area binary blazed grating coupler for the arrayed waveguide grating (AWG) demodulation integrated microsystem on silicon-on-insulator (SOI) was designed for the first time. Through the coupler, light can be coupled into the SOI waveguide from the InP-based C-band LED for the AWG demodulation i... | {
"abstract": "A novel polarization beam splitter using a two-layer grating coupler is proposed and demonstrated. It can directly couple the normally incident light from fiber into two separate waveguides according to their polarization states while splitting them. It realizes high coupling efficiency and a good exti... | {
"abstract": "Abstract. This article reviews progress and developments during the past five years in the field of optical fiber biosensors. Because of the expense and time constraints associated with modern laboratory analysis, there is a growing need for real-time, low-cost technology that can be used industrially,... |
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"abstract": "Purpose To investigate the relationships among antioxidant activities, oxidative stress, and vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) in the vitreous body and serum from proliferative diabetic retinopathy (PDR) patients. Methods In 21 patients with PDR and 21 controls with macular hole (MH), the VEGF ... | {
"abstract": "Purpose To evaluate levels of malondialdehyde and the total antioxidant capacity (TAC) in the blood, aqueous humor, and vitreous bodies of diabetic and nondiabetic patients. We also measured the blood energy charge potential (ECP). Methods We examined 19 patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus and diabe... | {
"abstract": "PurposeA retrospective study was designed to evaluate clinical outcomes and sagittal alignment following single-level unilateral instrumented transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion (TLIF).MethodsFrom November 2008 to December 2010, a total of 139 patients, who suffered from single-level lumbar degenera... |
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"abstract": "Recently several compounds from Okinawa plants including Alpinia zerumbet (alpinia) were shown to inhibit directly the oncogenic/ageing kinase PAK1 (p21-activated kinase 1). Furthermore, it was recently revealed that both PAK1 and PAK4 (p21-activated kinase 4) are equally essential for the melanogenesi... | {
"abstract": "The longevity of the population in the Okinawa Islands of Japan has been ascribed to genetic factors and the traditional Okinawa cuisine, which is low in calories and high in plant content. This diet includes shell ginger (Alpinia zerumbet (Pers.) B.L. Burtt & R.M. Sm) of the ginger family (Zingiberace... | {
"abstract": "Real-time analytical tools to monitor bioprocess and fermentation in biological and food applications are becoming increasingly important. Traditional laboratory-based analyses need to be adapted to comply with new safety and environmental guidelines and reduce costs. Many methods for bioprocess fermen... |
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"abstract": "Electrical resonances may compromise the stability of HVDC-connected offshore wind power plants (OWPPs). In particular, an offshore HVDC converter can reduce the damping of an OWPP at low-frequency series resonances, leading to the system instability. The interaction between offshore HVDC converter con... | {
"abstract": "A controlled power electronic converter can cause local instabilities when interacting with other dynamic subsystems in a power system. Oscillations at a certain frequency cannot, however, build up if the converter differential input admittance has a positive conductance (real part) at that frequency, ... | {
"abstract": "The theoretical basis, practical design considerations, and prototype testing of a perfused model suitable for simulation studies of microwave heated tissue are presented. A parallel tube heat exchanger configuration is used to simulate the internal convection effects of blood flow. The global thermal ... |
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"abstract": "Simulations of different configurations of the symmetrical tapered kaleidoscope are performed to assess their merits for measurement of BRDFs and BTFs. The relationship between optimal kaleidoscope layout, and factors such as hardware restrictions and the resolution of the required reflectance function... | {
"abstract": "We describe a new technique for measuring the bidirectional texture function (BTF) of a surface that requires no mechanical movement, can measure surfaces in situ under arbitrary lighting conditions, and can be made small, portable and inexpensive. The enabling innovation is the use of a tapered kaleid... | {
"abstract": "The classification of remotely sensed images such as aerial photographs or satellite sensor images for deriving ecosystem-related maps (e.g., land cover, land use, vegetation, soil) is generally based on clustering of spatial entities within a spectral space. In most cases, Boolean logic is applied in ... |
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"abstract": "An important function of GMAG is to plan and organize sessions in our field at the March APS Meeting. This is done by sponsoring focus topics, by organizing invited symposia, and by carrying out the sorting of contributed abstracts for category 6 (see the listing in this Newsletter). The focus topics a... | {
"abstract": "A general formulation of scalar hysteresis is proposed. This formulation is based on two steps. First, a generating function g(x) is associated with an individual system, and a hysteresis evolution operator is defined by an appropriate envelope construction applied to g(x), inspired by the overdamped d... | {
"abstract": "Dense hydrous magnesium silicate (DHMS) phases play a crucial role in transporting water in to the Earth’s interior. A newly discovered DHMS, phase H (MgSiO4H2), is stable at Earth’s lower mantle, i.e., at pressures greater than 30 GPa. Here we report the crystal structure and elasticity of phase H and... |
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"abstract": "This article discusses the results of four experiments to test the accuracy of recreational expenditures reported in survey relative to expenditures reported in dairies. We found few situations in which the reported expenditures in the surveys and diaries differ significantly. In general, we conclude t... | {
"abstract": "The authors link consumers’ consumption behavior as reported by a 24-hour recall method and two-day diaries for 39 different food groups. Both frequency of ingestion and average serving size are compared across both methods. The study is based on the current U.S. Department of Agriculture Nationwide Fo... | {
"abstract": "It is known that Human Resources Management (HRM) can help to develop service culture, which will in turn improve service quality. The purpose of this article is to determine the relative importance of six HRM practices in terms of their impact on culture. A questionnaire survey of medium and large-siz... |
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"abstract": "Omental torsion is a rare cause of acute abdomen and sometimes requires surgery. Recently, we encountered a case of omental torsion diagnosed as omental infarction preoperatively. An 18-year-old male presented to our emergency room with a chief complaint of lower abdominal pain since previous 2 days. B... | {
"abstract": "Omental ischemia is a rare cause of acute abdomen. Clinical diagnosis is usually difficult because clinical signs and symptoms are similar to other common causes of abdominal pain. The most common differential diagnosis is acute appendicitis. Diagnosis is mainly based on ultrasound, and especially comp... | {
"abstract": "Social capital supports toward participating in political activities in democratic countries. This study tries to examine the relation between social capital and political participation in Bangladesh. A cross-sectional study was conducted in Sylhet Sadar Upazila (sub-district) of north-eastern Banglade... |
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"abstract": "We achieve essentially the largest possible separation between quantum and classical query complexities. We do so using a property-testing problem called Forrelation, where one needs to decide whether one Boolean function is highly correlated with the Fourier transform of a second function. This proble... | {
"abstract": "The degree of a polynomial representing (or approximating) a function f is a lower bound for the quantum query complexity of f. This observation has been a source of many lower bounds on quantum algorithms. It has been an open problem whether this lower bound is tight. We exhibit a function with polyno... | {
"abstract": "Recently a great deal of attention has been focused on quantum computation following a sequence of results [Bernstein and Vazirani, in Proc. 25th Annual ACM Symposium Theory Comput., 1993, pp. 11--20, SIAM J. Comput., 26 (1997), pp. 1277--1339], [Simon, in Proc. 35th Annual IEEE Symposium Foundations C... |
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"abstract": "The highly conserved LC8/DYNLL family proteins were originally identified in axonemal dyneins and subsequently found to function in multiple enzyme systems. Genomic analysis uncovered a third member (LC10) of this protein class in Chlamydomonas. The LC10 protein is extracted from flagellar axonemes wit... | {
"abstract": "Members of the LC7/Roadblock family of light chains (LCs) have been found in both cytoplasmic and axonemal dyneins. LC7a was originally identified within Chlamydomonas outer arm dynein and associates with this motor's cargo-binding region. We describe here a novel member of this protein family, termed ... | {
"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nYM155 is a small-molecule pro-apoptotic agent which has shown to inhibit survivin expression and induce apoptosis in various cancer cells. In this study, we investigated the function and molecular mechanism of YM155 in human oral cancer cells.\n\n\nMETHODS\nThe apoptotic effects and related... |
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"abstract": "Two experiments were conducted to evaluate the effects of feeding diets containing different inclusion rates of dried tomato pomace (DTP) with or without enzyme supplementation on performance, meat quality and nutrient digestibility in broiler chicks. In experiment 1, four hundred and twenty 1 day-old ... | {
"abstract": "Two experiments were conducted to determine the effects of heat, water, acid, and alkali treatment of tomato pomace on gain, feed to gain ratio, nitrogen utilization, and ME of diets for broiler chicks. In Experiment 1, both treated and untreated tomato pomace was included in broiler diets at a 10 or 2... | {
"abstract": "Pharmaceutical analytical chemistry, which ordinarily deals with the analysis of formulations containing from 0.1 to 100% of active ingredient, uses methods with a reproducibility (between-laboratory variability) of about 2.5% and a repeatability (within-laboratory variability) of about half that amoun... |
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"abstract": "Solubility prediction of high molecular weight molecules in high-pressure solvents is an interesting field of research. Sometimes the solubility data are not available for several components due to lacking of valid equipments. Therefore, an accurate prediction technique can help the researchers. Accord... | {
"abstract": null,
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"title": "Prediction of solubility of biomolecules in supercritical solvents"
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"abstract": "Abstract A generalized cubic equation of state which can represent all the cubic equations is introduced and thermodynamic property relations for it are presented. Five cubic equations of states with respective mixing rules are used to predict molar volumes and vapor pressures of pure alkanes (from met... |
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"abstract": "OBJECTIVE\nTo chronicle the pathophysiologic changes that occur subsequent to laser treatment of vascular lesions, we used a confocal scanning laser microscope that yields high-resolution microscopic images of skin in vivo.\n\n\nMETHODS\nCherry angiomas were treated with the 585-nm flashlamp-pumped pul... | {
"abstract": "Eight types of telangiectases were studied by light and electron microscopy and by 3-dimensional reconstruction from photomicrographs. Five were macular: mat telangiectasia of scleroderma, generalized essential telangiectasia, nevus flammeus, and 2 macular types not previously described. Three were pap... | {
"abstract": "Neovascular glaucoma (NVG) is a sight-threatening secondary glaucoma characterized by appearance of new vessels over the iris and proliferation of fibrovascular tissue in the anterior chamber angle. Retinal ischemia is the common driving factor and common causes are central retinal vein occlusion, prol... |
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"abstract": "In human and in animal model tumor systems malignant cells may express allospecificities or types of histocompatibility antigens that are not detectable on their normal counterparts (Invernizzi and Parmiani 1975, Garrido et al. 1976, Pellegrino et al. 1976, Martin et al. 1977, Winchester et al. 1978, W... | {
"abstract": "SummaryTumor cell suspensions prepared from surgical specimens were characterized for cellular composition and reactivity with monoclonal antibodies detecting T lymphocytes, monocytes, and the monomorphic determinants of DR molecules (antigens encoded by the D region of the major histocompatibility com... | {
"abstract": "The rapid increase in global energy demand, global warming and climate change have driven the search for alternative renewable sources of energy with lesser environmental impact. Microalgae have immense potential as renewable energy feedstocks. Microalgal biomass can be used to generate a variety of bi... |
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"abstract": null,
"corpus_id": 52288284,
"title": "Action Recognition with the Augmented MoCap Data using Neural Data Translation"
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"abstract": "Skeleton based action recognition distinguishes human actions using the trajectories of skeleton joints, which provide a very good representation for describing actions. Considering that recurrent neural networks (RNNs) with Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) can learn feature representations and model long... | {
"abstract": "DeepPrior [18] is a simple approach based on Deep Learning that predicts the joint 3D locations of a hand given a depth map. Since its publication early 2015, it has been outperformed by several impressive works. Here we show that with simple improvements: adding ResNet layers, data augmentation, and b... |
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"abstract": "PURPOSE\nTo assess the feasibility of transplanting adult bladder tissue to its offspring as a source of neobladder tissue for bladder augmentation.\n\n\nMETHODS\nThe dome of the bladder of an adult Lewis rat was excised and transplanted into the omentum of a 6-week-old offspring (living-related partia... | {
"abstract": "Objective To assess the use of demucosalized ileum for bladder augmentation, following the same principles previously used with the sigmoid colon.",
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"title": "Experience with demucosalized ileum for bladder augmentation"
} | {
"abstract": "Three agents have been tested for mucolytic activity to prevent or treat difficulties in bladder emptying following augmentation and substitution cystoplasty, particularly in patients emptying by intermittent self-catheterisation. Carbocysteine produced precipitation of mucus, which was found not to be... |
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"abstract": "The status of citizenship confers the right to participate as a full member of the political community. One might therefore expect foreign residents who acquire citizenship to become more engaged with politics. However, acquiring citizenship is a selective process. Foreign residents choose whether to a... | {
"abstract": "This article examines the extent of political participation by Latino non-citizens across the United States. The only previous national quantitative research on this topic is by Verba, Schlozman and Brady, who found little difference between the participation rates of Latino citizens and non-citizens. ... | {
"abstract": "It was the purpose of the present study to investigate several sets of personality and attitudinal variables together, many of which had previously been studied in isolation, to assess their relationship to one clear-cut example of sex-role behaviornamely, labor-force participation on the part of marri... |
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"abstract": "BackgroundWe add a new rare illustrative case of osteosarcoma of the larynx to the literature.Case presentationThe patient (man; 56 years old) first underwent several biopsies, followed in the end by a total laryngectomy. Diagnosis was histological. The patient developed regional and distant metastases... | {
"abstract": "Inflammatory pseudotumor is a pathologic term used to describe reactive, pseudoneoplastic phenomena, which reportedly occur in many parts of the body. Clinicopathologic and immunohistochemical findings in six cases of inflammatory pseudotumor of the major salivary glands are described. All six lesions ... | {
"abstract": "Some data from three studies of the acute psychological effects of alcohol are presented. After blind administration subjects could often tell that they had consumed alcohol, presumably because of its physiological effects. About 50% of subjects who received placebo alcohol felt slightly drunk and gues... |
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"abstract": "There has been very limited information regarding bagasse exposure among workers in sugar industries as well as on health outcomes. The authors determined the occupational exposure of sugar industry workers in Khon Kaen to airborne bagasse dust. The size of the bagasse dust ranged from 0.08 to 9 µm wit... | {
"abstract": "Objective: The objective of this study was to find the prevalence of impairments in pulmonary function test (PFT) in sugar distillery industry workers in Karad taluka. \nMethods: A total of 88 sugar distillery industry workers, both male and female with 5 years of the duration of exposure to sugar dist... | {
"abstract": "Summary Using original survey data, we document the activities, resources, and governance structure of NGOs operating in Uganda. The NGO sector is funded primarily by international non-governmental organizations and bilateral donors. We find large differences in size and funding across NGOs, with only ... |
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"abstract": "In the present work, the electrophoretic deposition of Ni nanoparticles used for self-repairing of pits in organic suspension was investigated on pitted fractal Ni alloy 600 with respect to surface fractality of the pits. For this purpose, Ni nanoparticles prepared by levitation-gas condensation were d... | {
"abstract": "Coarse (<=20 micron) titanium particles were deposited on low-carbon steel substrates by cathodic electrophoretic deposition (EPD) with ethanol as suspension medium and poly(diallyldimethylammonium chloride) (PDADMAC) as polymeric charging agent. The preceding data demonstrated that Ti particles of ~1-... | {
"abstract": "One of the most important concerns in long-term prostheses is bone resorption as a result of the stress shielding due to stiffness mismatch between bone and implant. The aim of this study was to obtain porous titanium with stiffness values similar to that exhibited by cortical bone. Porous samples of c... |
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"abstract": "Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS) have some specific characteristics that must be taken into consideration during the development. However, there are no specific tools for agent based ITS development. This paper proposes such tool named MASITS for multi-agent based ITS development. The tool supports t... | {
"abstract": "During the last decades modern information and telecommunication technologies which enable student-centered and one-to-one learning are widely used. The concept of intelligent tutoring systems (ITS) emerged and many systems are developed to add adaptivity and intelligence to traditional distance learni... | {
"abstract": "Segmenting skin lesions images is relevant both for itself and for assisting in lesion classification, but suffers from the challenge in obtaining annotated data. In this work, we show that segmentation may improve with less data, by selecting the training samples with best inter-annotator agreement, a... |
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"abstract": "SummaryA computer reconstruction method was used to study five normal temporal bones for the three-dimensional anatomy necessary for singular neurectomy. The length of the singular canal was 4.9 ± 0.6 mm. The distal portion of the singular canal courses at a sharp angle (48.2°) to the direction of the ... | {
"abstract": "To define anatomical relationships important in cochlear implantation, computer‐aided three‐dimensional reconstruction and measurement of middle and inner ear structures in six normal temporal bones were performed. Our findings were as follows: 1. When viewed from the posterior hypotympanotomy (facial ... | {
"abstract": "This investigation was conducted to study the incidence and the causes of sow mortality in breeding herds. Data were obtained from 24 swine breeding herds with an average inventory of 3755 sows and served gilts for the total sample. Producers were involved for 12 consecutive months and agreed to submit... |
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