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"abstract": "Despite the successful discovery of hundreds of variants for complex human traits using genome‐wide association studies, the degree to which genes and environmental risk factors jointly affect disease risk is largely unknown. One obstacle toward this goal is that the computational effort required for t... | {
"abstract": "Genome‐wide association studies (GWAS) successfully identified various chromosomal regions to be associated with multiple sclerosis (MS). The primary aim of this study was to replicate reported associations from GWAS using an exome array in a large German study. German MS cases (n = 4,476) and German c... | {
"abstract": "The future of genetic studies of complex human diseases will rely more and more on the epidemiologic association paradigm, in particular the use of the transmission/disequilibrium test to detect linkage disequilibrium in a case-parents study. With the rapid progress in genomic studies, many single nucl... |
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"abstract": "Energy scarcity is an important problem in wireless communication networks. Radio frequency energy harvesting (RFEH) is a promising solution as an alternative energy source for low-power wireless nodes. In this paper, we target to obtain a finite-state Markov channel based Markov model of an RFEH wirel... | {
"abstract": "Designing an accurate vehicular channel simulator which generates samples at the high speed is a key issue to the vehicular communications transmission scheme and protocol design. Although the finite-state Markov channel (FSMC) models have been extensively investigated to describe fading channels, FSMC... | {
"abstract": "What explains short-term fluctuations of stock prices? This paper exploits a natural experiment from the 18 century in which information flows were regularly interrupted for exogenous reasons. English shares were traded on the Amsterdam exchange and news came in on sailboats that were often delayed bec... |
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"abstract": "In this work, a simple and efficient CAD (computer‐aided diagnostic) system is proposed for tumor detection from brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Poor contrast MR images are preprocessed by using morphological operations and DSR (dynamic stochastic resonance) technique. The appropriate segmentat... | {
"abstract": "This paper presents a new technique for color enhancement in the compressed domain. The proposed technique is simple but more effective than some of the existing techniques reported earlier. The novelty lies in this case in its treatment of the chromatic components, while previous techniques treated on... | {
"abstract": "This paper proposes a number of improvements for the switching table used by the Self Adaptive cache Memories (SAM) method, as described in [1]. The Switching Table is used for maintaining performance in a continuously degrading memory. The proposed improvements aim at decreasing the size of the switch... |
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"abstract": "High cost and low efficiency problem has been bothering NC teaching.To lower the cost of practical teaching of higher speed numerical control manufacturing along with improvement in processing efficiency, a multi-objective scheme for optimization of process parameters has been developed here. Various c... | {
"abstract": "Owing to the enormous engineering advancement in modern industry, the competition in the development of advanced manufacturing technologies has been increasingly intense as can be seen in automobile, aerospace and various industries. Not only has product quality improved tremendously, but also the dema... | {
"abstract": "Ambient ionization imaging mass spectrometry is uniquely suited for detailed spatially resolved chemical characterization of biological samples in their native environment. However, the spatial resolution attainable using existing approaches is limited by the ion transfer efficiency from the ionization... |
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"abstract": " Abstract—A frequency agile triple band microstrip antenna using defected ground structure for WLAN/WiMAX application is presented, in which frequency agility is electronically achieved by changing the bias voltage of varactor diode. A defected ground structure rectangular patch with dual inverted L-s... | {
"abstract": "The objective of this paper is to design a low profile, planar Microstrip patch antenna for triple band applications. The proposed antenna has been designed by etching H-shaped slot radiators on Fr-4 substrate having dielectric constant 4.1 and a defected ground plane. The dimension of the proposed ant... | {
"abstract": "Abstract The primary issue addressed in this research is how to schedule clients as they call for appointments, without knowing which “types” of clients will call at a later time. The main goal is to compare various scheduling rules in order to minimize the waiting time of the clients as well as the id... |
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"abstract": "Background: Significant differences regarding nephrogenesis and its completion among different animal species have been reported. Since many informations on clinical conditions (i.e. asphyxia, drugs) are extrapolated from piglets, this study aimed at analyzing nephrogenesis in piglets, in order to comp... | {
"abstract": "The development of the human kidney is a complex process that requires interactions between epithelial and mesenchymal cells, eventually leading to the coordinated growth and differentiation of multiple highly specialized stromal, vascular, and epithelial cell types. The application of molecular biolog... | {
"abstract": "A rare presentation with rapidly progressive right heart failure due to tricuspid inflow obstruction (simulating right-sided valvular heart disease) caused by a non-coronary cusp sinus of Valsalva aneurysm with small perforation is reported. The aneurysm was causing ball valve obstruction at the tricus... |
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"abstract": "The argument from contingency for the existence of God is best understood as a request for an explanation of the total sequence of causes and effects in the universe (‘History’ for short). Many puzzles about how there could be such an explanation arise from the assumption that God is being introduced a... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Sometimes theists wonder how God's beliefs track particular portions of reality, e.g. contingent states of affairs, or facts regarding future free actions. In this article I sketch a general model for how God's beliefs track reality. God's beliefs track reality in much the same way that propos... | {
"abstract": "We often decide whether a state of affairs is possible (impossible) by trying to mentally depict a scenario (using words, images, etc.) where the state in question obtains (or fails to obtain). These mental acts (broadly thought of as ‘conceiving’) seem to provide us with an epistemic route to the spac... |
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"abstract": "The effect of the exogenous and endogenous NO(3) (-) concentration on net uptake, influx, and efflux of NO(3) (-) and on nitrate reductase activity (NRA) in roots was studied in Phaseolus vulgaris L. cv. Witte Krombek. After exposure to NO(3) (-), an apparent induction period of about 6 hours occurred ... | {
"abstract": "A study was done to relate the in vivo reduction of nitrate to nitrate uptake, nitrate accumulation, and induction of nitrate reductase activity in intact barley seedlings (Hordeum vulgare L. var. ;Numar'). The characteristics of nitrate uptake in response to both time and ambient concentration of nitr... | {
"abstract": "The roles that leaf nitrate content and nitrate flux play in regulating the levels of nitrate reductase activity (NRA) were investigated in 8- to 14-day old maize (Zea mays L.) plants containing high nitrate levels while other environmental and endogenous factors were constant. The nitrate flux of inta... |
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"abstract": "Postembryonic skeletal development of the pipid frog Xenopus laevis is described from cleared‐and‐stained whole‐mount specimens and sectioned material representing Nieuwkoop and Faber developmental Stages 46–65, plus postmetamorphic individuals up to 6 months old. An assessment of variation of skeletog... | {
"abstract": "One hundred and seventy two larval specimens of Xenopus laevis were reared in such a way that their rates of development (as measured by external criteria) were similar, and so the course of dental development could be examined histologically in a cross sectional study. In this way the events of tooth ... | {
"abstract": "In this study, we describe a detection system for the indirect detection of vaccinia virus by DNA analysis. The system uses quartz crystal microbalance (QCM) as the detection technique and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) for amplification. Different immobilization strategies for the capture probe on th... |
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"abstract": "In order to evaluate the operational efficiency of the Internet Company in China, this paper constructed the index system of the efficiency evaluation at first. Then we appraise the overall efficiency and variation tendency about Internet Company of China Based on DEA method from cross section data and... | {
"abstract": "A system in which data for controlling amounts of ink for a number of printing machines, having a variety of printing plates, are measured with one measuring device. This invention provides a printing image area measuring device which can detect a printing image area with high accuracy even if the surf... | {
"abstract": "This article reports on a study of commodity traffic efficiency in 23 selected ports of the Spanish port system (SPS). The authors used the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) technique to identify how specific and specialized each port is (the DEA evaluates top performance, rather than average performance... |
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"abstract": "In the past few decades, much effort was put into the development of synthetic strategies to produce nanoparticles of different sizes and morphologies and a large number of scientific contributions is dedicated to the characterization and application of metal nanoparticles. In contrast, only few studie... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Implications of the DLVO theory for problems associated with colloid particle adsorption and deposition at solid/liquid interfaces were reviewed. The electrostatic interactions between two planar double-layers described by the classical Poisson–Boltzmann (PB) equation were first discussed. The... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Roughness of particle surfaces markedly decreases the van der Waals attraction energy in a globular particle—semi-infinite medium system. Statistical analysis of surface irregularities yielded a radial mass distribution function which was then used to calculate the attraction energy in the rou... |
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"abstract": "Abstract Reusing scrap tires has become a worldwide challenge, especially due to the great difficulty in finding ecologically and economically feasible ways to dispose of them. This has led to the creation of specific programs and legislation for reusing scrap tires. Research has shown that a certain p... | {
"abstract": "Abstract The mechanical performance of rubber-modified asphalt roads depends, besides the intrinsic properties of the constituents (asphalt, rubber and gravel), on their interfaces. To improve the adhesion between constituents, two different coupling agents were required: one to link asphalt with the r... | {
"abstract": "This paper describes the design and construction of the vast piled basement structures for the three terminal buildings at London Heathrow's £4·3 billion Terminal 5 project, together with 1 million m2 of associated aircraft pavements. The basements are up to 20 m deep and involved the excavation and re... |
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"abstract": "Designed to facilitate economic development, the corporate form now threatens human survival. This article presents an argument that organisations are yet to be ‘fit for purpose’ and that the corporate form needs to be re-designed to reach sustainability. It suggests that organisations need to recognis... | {
"abstract": "For nearly 40 years academic literature has recognised key deficits in the skill sets of accounting and business management professionals in relation to sustainability. In an increasingly challenging and competitive globalised market, new entrants to these professions find that the skills that are most... | {
"abstract": "This paper presents a miniaturized quintuple band antenna for multiband operation with the aim of developing a small and simple structure antenna that can operate at multiband frequency. The proposed antenna contains a rectangular microstrip patch, a transmission line with 50 Ω coplanar waveguide (CPW)... |
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"abstract": "Abstract Competition over water resources and related disputes over water are inherently local and context-specific in their manifestations. In Makanya catchment, located in the mid-reaches of the Pangani river basin in northern Tanzania, competition over water is apparent and with increased demands fo... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Water is the main limiting factor for crop production in semi-arid sub-Saharan Africa. This paper presents an evaluation of the effectiveness of community-driven smallholder irrigation schemes using micro dams under current operational practices. The research site is the semi-arid Vudee sub-ca... | {
"abstract": "Abstract : Contents: TCLAM--the generator code for TOIL, presents sample problem, and instructions for usage; TOIL equations--discusses the difference equations used in TOIL; Input for TOIL--describes the necessary data for using the TOIL code; Definition of variables--defines the variables used in the... |
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"abstract": "Organophosphate ester flame retardants and plasticizers like tris-(2-chloro-, 1-methyl-ethyl)phosphate (TCPP), tris-(2-chloro-, 1-chloromethyl-ethyl)phosphate (TDCP), tris-(2-chloroethyl)phosphate (TCEP), tributylphosphates, triphenylphosphate (TPP), ethylhexyldiphenylphosphate (EHDPP) and tris-(butoxy... | {
"abstract": "A simple, low-cost and sensitive method for determining organophosphate esters (OPEs) in water samples has been developed based on headspace solid-phase microextraction (SPME) followed by gas chromatography-flame photometric detector. The ionic liquid (1-allyl-3-methylimidazolium tetrafluoroborate, [AM... | {
"abstract": "An organization must have rules, and so must a state. A constitution is a set of general rules, it is the fundamental law.… Constitution-making is a matter of science.Mao Tse-tung On 5 March 1978 the People's Republic of China promulgated its second constitution in little more than three years and the ... |
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"abstract": "Since the 19th century, and in every field of medicine, monozygotic twins have been studied to assess the involvement of genetic and environmental factors in phenotypic expression. The phenotype/genotype relationship remains the leading problem in contemporary biology. In dentofacial orthopedics, this ... | {
"abstract": "Introduction: Monozygotic twins are a valuable sample for the study of human craniofacial growth and development. Aims: The aim of the present study was to analyze the dento-craniofacial characteristics in monozygotic twins and to discuss the genetic, epigenetic and environmental influences in the twin... | {
"abstract": "To assure proper management and fully realize the benefits of the legume-Rhizobium symbiosis it is necessary to be able to quantify the amount of nitrogen fixed. Having measured the effectiveness of atmospheric N2 fixation the macro- or micro-symbionts as well as agronomic factors can be manipulated wi... |
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"abstract": "A nanometer-scale variation due to grain boundaries in gate poly-Si is investigated in detail assuming arrangement of grain boundaries obeys the Poisson distribution. Statistics of grain boundaries described here enables us to understand nanoscopic fluctuation in leakage current and threshold voltage s... | {
"abstract": "Nonuniformity at the gate oxide interface is considered to be one of the serious fluctuation issues, which is induced by polysilicon grain boundary, impurity segregation, silicide and high-k stack. We introduce a mosaic layer at the gate oxide interface and relate the degree of the nonuniformity with d... | {
"abstract": "Abstract A phenomenological theory of the Hall effect in polycrystalline semiconductors is elaborated which makes it possible to interpret reasonably the experimental results obtained from Hall effect measurements. The theory is based on the analysis of the Hall effect in the individual grains and inte... |
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"abstract": "Objective The objective of this study was to establish normative diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) eigenvalues (&lgr;1,&lgr;2,&lgr;3), apparent diffusion coefficient, and fractional anisotropy in asymptomatic foot muscles. Methods Ten healthy adults (mean [SD], 25.9 [4.3] years) were examined using a 3-T ... | {
"abstract": "To evaluate the validity of different approaches to determine the signal‐to‐noise ratio (SNR) in MRI experiments with multi‐element surface coils, parallel imaging, and different reconstruction filters.",
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"title": "Measurement of signal‐to‐noise ratios in MR images: Influence... | {
"abstract": "Tuberculosis (TB) control programmes of many low TB incidence countries of the European Union/European Economic Area (EU/EEA) perceive challenges in controlling TB due to high numbers of TB in migrants from high-incidence countries. To assess the extent of TB transmission from the foreign-born to the n... |
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"abstract": "We have identified a novel gene MEL1 (MDS1/EVI1-like gene 1) encoding a zinc finger protein near the breakpoint of t(1; 3)(p36;q21)-positive human acute myeloid leukemia (AML) cells. Here, we studied the structure, expression pattern, and function of MEL1 in leukemia cells. In this study, we have ident... | {
"abstract": "Two genes have been implicated in leukemias of patients with abnormalities of chromosome 3, band q26: EVI1, which can be activated over long distances by chromosomal rearrangements involving 3q26, and EAP, a ribosomal gene that fuses with AML1 in a therapy-related myelodysplasia patient with a t(3;21)(... | {
"abstract": "The variant translocations t(2;8) in Burkitt's lymphoma cells join band q24 of chromosome 8, distal from c-myc, to the Igkappa locus, with considerable variation in the location of the breakpoints on chromosome 8. We report the cloning and molecular characterization of a chromosome 8 region, distal fro... |
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"abstract": "In 1999, the Chinese government initiated a massive conservation programme, the 'Grain-for-Green' programme, to reduce soil erosion and to improve the eco-environmental status in western China through the set-aside of sloping agricultural lands and their conversion to forest and pasture. The attitudes ... | {
"abstract": "[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0169483.].",
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"title": "Correction: Rural Household Preferences for Active Participation in \"Payment for Ecosystem Service\" Programs: A Case in the Miyun Reservoir Catchment, China"
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"abstract": "This paper considers the reforestation of New England from the mid-19th to the early 20th century. While the historical data are quite limited, I document a post-1850 flattening and eventual reversal of previous New England deforestation, even as population was increasing. Also, within-region populatio... |
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"abstract": "飛 躍 的 に進 歩 した 心 エ コ ー図 法 やRI心 血 管 造 影 法(RCG)に よ りLVEFを 非 観 血 的 に評 価 で き る よ うに なつ た. 一 方 ,標 準12誘 導 心 電 図 や ベ ク トル 心 電 図 (VCG)は,安 価な機械を用いて,心 臓の電気現象 を容易にかつ再現性よく反復 して記録できること から,広 く一般臨床の場で活用 されている.し た がつて,心 電図所見か ら左室機能を評価すること がで きるとすれば,心 筋梗塞患者の経過観察など において有用な情報に なるものと考 えられる. この10数年来,心 電図のQRS所 見からLVEFを 推測する試... | {
"abstract": "Four hundred and ninety-two patients with coronary artery disease underwent analysis of their electrocardiograms, coronary arteriograms, and ventriculograms. Significant Q-waves were correlated with critical coronary occlusions (greater than or equal 75 per cent obstruction) and ventricular contractili... | {
"abstract": "This study examined the usefulness of 15N natural abundance (δ15N) with in situ core incubation to quantify the predominant N transformation processes in a natural suburban forest of subtropical Australia, which was subjected to prescribed burning. In situ core incubation for 3 days with 20 ml water, o... |
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"abstract": "We aimed to determine if knees with incident accelerated knee osteoarthritis (AKOA) were more likely to receive a knee replacement (KR) than those with common knee osteoarthritis (KOA) or no KOA. We conducted a nested cohort study using data from baseline and the first 9 years of the Osteoarthritis Ini... | {
"abstract": "ObjectiveTo analyze structural, longitudinal MRI findings during the development of accelerated knee osteoarthritis (AKOA) over 4 years.Materials and methodsFrom the Osteoarthritis Initiative (OAI), knees with no radiographic osteoarthritis (KL 0/1) developing advanced-stage osteoarthritis (KL 3/4; AKO... | {
"abstract": "Recent investigations into the effects of low concentrations of inhaled anesthetics on psychometric parameters, pain threshold, hypoxic response, bronchial tone, pulmonary circulation, and learning are reviewed. The prolonged administration of isoflurane in the intensive care unit, patient awareness du... |
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"abstract": "The application of an electronically steered thinned array L-band radiometer (ESTAR) for soil moisture mapping is investigated over the arid rangeland Walnut Gulch Watershed. Antecedent rainfall and evaporation for the flights are very different and result in a wide range of soil moisture conditions. T... | {
"abstract": "Abstract The large dielectric constant of water at the lower microwave frequencies causes a large change in the emissivity of soils as they become wet, from 0.95 when dry to less than 0.6 when wet. Numerous aircraft and field experiments have demonstrated that a 1.4 GHz radiometer is sensitive to moist... | {
"abstract": "Forest above ground biomass (AGB) extraction using Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images has been widely used in global carbon cycle research. Classical AGB inversion methods using SAR images are mainly based on backscattering coefficients. The polarization coherence tomography (PCT) technology which c... |
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"abstract": "Research suggest that just like the rise and fall of nation states and organizations depends on the capabilities of leadership, likewise the success and failure of schools is largely contingent upon the effectiveness of school leadership. Because of its importance, school leadership has long been the f... | {
"abstract": "Part 1 List of Tables and Figures Part 2 Preface Part 3 Introduction: Orienting Concepts Part 4 Part 1: The Contexts of Reform Chapter 5 1 How Education Systems Form and Reform Chapter 6 2 Recent Phases of Education Reform Chapter 7 3 Thinking about Contexts and Processes of Change Chapter 8 4 A Report... | {
"abstract": "Background: The role of cAMP in regulating T cell activation and function has been controversial. cAMP is generally known as an immunosuppressant, but it is also required for generating optimal immune responses. As the effect of cAMP is likely to depend on its cellular context, the current study invest... |
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"abstract": "BACKGROUND ::: Aging can be thought of as the collision between destructive processes that act on cells and organs over the lifetime and the responses that promote homeostasis, vitality and longevity. However, the precise mechanisms that determine the rates of aging in organisms are not known. ::: ::: ... | {
"abstract": "The exercise-induced expression of heat shock proteins (HSPs) in rodent models is relatively well defined. In contrast, comparable data from human studies are limited and the exercise-induced stress response of human skeletal muscle is far from understood. This study has characterized the time course a... | {
"abstract": "The flipped classroom is an innovative pedagogical approach that focuses on learner-centered instruction. The purposes of this report were to illustrate how to implement the flipped classroom and to describe students' perceptions of this approach within 2 undergraduate nutrition courses. The template p... |
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"abstract": "The intention of this paper is to scrutinise the factors impacting small and medium enterprises (SMEs) eBusiness adoption and the challenges faced pertaining to the usage of marketing information system (MkIS) in Fiji and subsequently stress the potential solutions for those challenges. Structured ques... | {
"abstract": "– The purpose of this paper is to investigate the innovative characteristics, benefits, and barriers influencing internet‐based information and communications technology (ICT) adoption among the small and medium enterprises (SMEs)., – A questionnaire‐based survey was used to collect data from 406 manag... | {
"abstract": "Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the practical issues regarding standards and the management of IT services delivered by external or outsourced service providers called managed service providers (MSPs).Design/methodology/approach – Extensive review of published materials from academic ... |
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"abstract": "Chemical allergens represent a significant health burden in the workplace. Exposures to such chemicals can cause the onset of a diverse group of adverse health effects triggered by immune-mediated responses. Common responses associated with workplace exposures to low molecular weight (LMW) chemical all... | {
"abstract": "1Department of Life, Health & Environmental Sciences, University of L’Aquila, L’Aquila, Italy; 2Freelance Health and Safety Technician, Frosinone, Italy; 3Abruzzo e Molise Interregional Transplant Coordination Centre, ASL1 Abruzzo, L’Aquila, Italy Purpose: The aim of this study was to evaluate the appl... | {
"abstract": "Aldosterone is the last component of the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system inducing its peripheral effects via mineralocorticoid receptors (MR). Brain MR bind preferentially glucocorticoids. So far, the role of MR in behavioral functions has been investigated almost exclusively in relation to glucoc... |
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"abstract": "Real-life recommender systems often face the daunting task of providing recommendations based only on the clicks of a user session. Methods that rely on user profiles -- such as matrix factorization -- perform very poorly in this setting, thus item-to-item recommendations are used most of the time. How... | {
"abstract": "Deep learning methods became widely popular in the recommender systems community in 2016, in part thanks to the previous event of the DLRS workshop series. Now, deep learning has been embedded in the main conference as well and initial research directions have started forming, so the role of DLRS 2017 ... | {
"abstract": "The mTOR pathway is a critical regulator of cell growth, proliferation, metabolism, and survival. Dysregulation of mTOR signaling has been observed in most cancers and, thus, the mTOR pathway has been extensively studied for therapeutic intervention. Rapamycin is a natural product that inhibits mTOR wi... |
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"abstract": "Current omnidirectional circularly polarized (CP) antennas meet the difficulty of limited bandwidth and bulky configuration. An exact analytical far-field solution for a conventional tilted dipole array (TDA) has been proposed, where the origin of axial ratio (AR) bandwidth limitation has been investig... | {
"abstract": "A broadband circularly polarized (CP) antenna is developed with an omnidirectional radiation pattern in the horizontal plane. Four broadband CP rectangular loop elements are employed for broadband omnidirectional CP radiation. The four rectangular loop elements are first printed on a flexible thin diel... | {
"abstract": "The rectangular dielectric resonator antenna (DRA) centrally fed by a probe is investigated. Its operating mode is analogous to the TM011 mode of a cylindrical DRA. The DRA radiates like an electric monopole, generating omnidirectional linearly polarized (LP) fields. Based on this LP design, a novel om... |
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"abstract": "BackgroundOptimal stimulation theory and moderate brain arousal (MBA) model hypothesize that extra-task stimulation (e.g. white noise) could improve cognitive functions of children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). We investigate benefits of white noise on attention and inhibition i... | {
"abstract": "We tested the efficacy of a pioneering intervention program grounded in a contemporary theoretical framework of attention and designed to directly improve the various attentional functions of children with ADHD. The computerized progressive attentional training (CPAT) program is composed of four sets o... | {
"abstract": "This study investigates the relationships between predictors (i.e., personal traits and mobile activities) of smartphone dependency and its impacts on improper phone use, academic performance and perceived sociability. Using a stratified sampling method, a web survey obtained data from 438 undergraduat... |
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"abstract": "It has been shown repeatedly that numerous cumulative changes occur in chromosomes of D. melanogaster, as an effect of ageing which, especially in the homozygous state, significantly affect different fitness components of their carriers. It appears that the observed age-affected events are produced by ... | {
"abstract": "We studied the influence of parental age on the degree of polyteny of giant chromosomes and expressivity of mutation eyeless in Drosophila melanogaster descendants. The parental age equal to six days exerted an adverse effect on the function of endoreduplication of giant chromosomes in straineyeless. T... | {
"abstract": "The purpose of this study is to identify critical resource dimensions for the industrialization of hybrid electric vehicle technology. This study focuses on small- and medium-sized technology-based firms in Sweden that employ between 1 and 500 employees and that could be potential suppliers of hybrid e... |
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"abstract": "Sentiment analysis is one of the well-known tasks and fast growing research areas in natural language processing (NLP) and text classifications. This technique has become an essential part of a wide range of applications including politics, business, advertising and marketing. There are various techniq... | {
"abstract": "Corona Virus and Conspiracies Multimedia Analysis Task is the task in MediaEval 2021 Challenge that concentrates on conspiracy theories that assume some kind of nefarious actions related to COVID-19. Our HCMUS team performs different approaches based on multiple pretrained models and many techniques to... | {
"abstract": "Microblogging has become commonplace and created new methods of communication, contributing significantly to information sharing. This holds since microblogging focuses on sharing content while building social relations among people who share the same interests and/or activities. In this context, peopl... |
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"abstract": "A fiscal administration shows the reality of government and public organization in their provision of public good or service for the citizen. It is an independent subject from the accounting, economic, political, and legal science, which is interdisciplinary and strives for any distinct goal of studies... | {
"abstract": "Figures, Tables, and Exhibits ix Preface xi About the Authors xv 1. The Fiscal Context and the Role of the Budget Manager 1 2. Primary Elements of the Budget: Revenue and Expenses 29 3. Understanding Budgets 55 4. Management of the Budget Cycle 87 5. Understanding Auxiliary and Capital Budgets 119 6. P... | {
"abstract": "Player ranking is a common feature of competitive online games, but little research work has closely examined the ways it mediates player practices within this game genre. In this paper, we present a qualitative study of player practices around ranking in League of Legends (LoL), published by Riot Game... |
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"abstract": "Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Heat Transfer in Nanoscale Liquid Films. (May 2009) Bo Hung Kim, B.A., Yonsei University; M.S., Texas A&M University Co-Chairs of Advisory Committee: Dr. Ali Beskok Dr. Tahir Cagin Molecular Dynamics (MD) simulations of nano-scale flows typically utilize fixed lattice ... | {
"abstract": "We compare the results of equilibrium and nonequilibrium methods to compute thermal conductivity. Using Sillinger-Weber silicon as a model system, we address issues related to nonlinear response, thermal equilibration, and statistical averaging. In addition, we present an analysis of finite-size effect... | {
"abstract": "List of Figures. List of Tables. Foreword. Preface. 1. Introduction. 2. Temperature Dependence of Silicon Properties. 3. Schottky Barrier Diodes. 4. P-I-N Diode. 5. Power Bipolar Transistors. 6. Power MOSFETs. 7. Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistors. 8. Power Junction Field Effect Transistors. 9. Asymmet... |
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"abstract": "For a Marchand balun, the output imbalance due to the inevitable physical separation between the balance ports is a problem. In this paper, a general compensation method to cope with this imbalance issue is proposed with rigorous analysis and design formulas. The compensation relies on two intentionall... | {
"abstract": "In this paper, a novel planar Marchand balun using a patterned ground plane is presented. In the new design, with a slot under the coupled lines cut on the ground plane, the even-mode impedance can be increased substantially. Meanwhile, we propose that two additional separated rectangular conductors ar... | {
"abstract": "A 24-beams slot array antenna, which achieves 360-degrees coverage over azimuth direction, based on substrate integrated waveguide (SIW) technology is designed, fabricated and measured for supporting the concept of triangle cell, beam diversity and multiple input multiple output (MIMO) wireless communi... |
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"abstract": "With the growing demand for cybersecurity workforce, as we look to prepare our youth in cybersecurity, a lack of basic awareness about mobile device security and limited practical knowledge in securing mobile devices may expose our young generation to data hacks and cyber-attacks. The current IEEE/ACM ... | {
"abstract": "With an exponential growth in smartphone applications targeting useful services such as banks, healthcare, m-commerce, security has become a primary concern. The applications downloaded from unofficial sources pose a security threat as they lack mechanisms for validation of the applications. The malwar... | {
"abstract": "The problem of location of protective devices is important in distribution networks so the various methods were considered for installation of fuse, recloser, disconnecting switch and breaker. In these methods, a set of protection, economic and reliability aspects are considered. Because of various goa... |
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"abstract": "Dynamic spectrum access (DSA) technologies offer solutions to the spectral crowding associated with static frequency allocation. Hierarchical DSA networks aim at allowing secondary users to efficiently utilize licensed spectrum, while still protecting primary users and ensuring them first priority to s... | {
"abstract": "This article addresses a subject that is ripe for application and is approaching necessity for the continued expansive growth in the use of wireless for broadband multimedia communications. If we carry on business as usual in broadcast, public service and paid auctions in assigning spectrum without reg... | {
"abstract": "The development and establishment of a Swedish translation of the Scale of Ethnocultural Empathy (SEE) was investigated in a sample of 788 participants. The SEE is a self-report instrument and is used to measure empathy directed toward people from ethnic cultural groups who are different from the respo... |
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"abstract": "From Data Streams to Information Flow: Information Exchange in Child-Parent Interaction Heeyoul Choi, Chen Yu, Linda B. Smith, and Olaf Sporns (chenyu@indiana.edu) Psychological and Brain Sciences, and Cognitive Science Program Indiana University, 1101 E. 10th St., Bloomington, IN 47405 Abstract learni... | {
"abstract": "Human toddlers learn about objects through second-by-second, minute-by-minute sensory-motor interactions. In an effort to understand how toddlers' bodily actions structure the visual learning environment, mini-video cameras were placed low on the foreheads of toddlers, and for comparison also on the fo... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Three trials were conducted to study the effect of dietary energy level on the quantity of abdominal fat in broilers. The dietary energy level of the starter diet fed the first 4 weeks appeared to influence the quantity of abdominal fat at 7 and 8 weeks of age, but by 9 weeks of age this influ... |
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"abstract": "Over the past decade, a body of research has developed which purports to show that the well-established relationship between race and psychological distress is due entirely to social class. In our paper we demonstrate that this view is incorrect: Most prior research has assumed that the effects of race... | {
"abstract": "The present study investigated the relationship between maternal appraisal styles, family risk status, and anger biases in children. Participants included 90 mothers and their children between 3–6 years of age. Eighty families were followed up 1 year later. Maternal appraisal styles were assessed via a... | {
"abstract": "The nonwetting nature of hydrophobic soils, which results from wildfires or organic substances, may influence the shear strength and stiffness of granular soils. Since surficial soils are often unsaturated, their shear strength and stiffness are also affected by the magnitude of negative pore-water pre... |
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"abstract": "The possible protective effects of NMDA receptor antagonists dizocilpine (MK-801) and D(-)-2-amino-5-phosphonopentanoic acid (AP5), and nitric oxide synthase (NOS) inhibitors L-nitro-arginine methyl ester (L-NAME) and 7-nitro-indazol (7-NI) on the methylmercury (MeHg)-induced dopamine (DA) release from... | {
"abstract": "Our objective was to characterize the mechanism of action of intrastriatal infusion of domoic acid on extracellular dopamine levels, using in vivo dialysis in conscious and freely moving rats. The local infusion of domoic acid (500 microM) caused an increase (567.9+/-142.5%, versus basal) in dopamine e... | {
"abstract": "Neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs) belong to a family of ligand-gated channels closely related to but distinct from the muscle nAChRs. Recent progress in neurochemical and pharmacological methods supports the hypothesis of presynaptically located nAChRs on axon terminals and indicates ... |
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"abstract": "Two Pb(Zr0.20Ti0.80)O3 samples of different thickness and domain configuration have been studied. The c-domain sample was found to have a higher coercive field Ec and higher dielectric losses than the other which presents approximately 60% of c-domains and 40% of a-domains as observed by piezo force mi... | {
"abstract": "Pb(Mg1/3Nb2/3)O3–PbTiO3 (PMN–PT) single crystals have attracted increasing attention in electro-optic and nonlinear optical applications. In this paper, it was found that the domain configuration of PMN–PT single crystals was influenced by machining and electric process, such as cutting, grinding, poli... | {
"abstract": "It is shown that at weak alternating stress the relationship between the piezoelectrically induced charge and applied stress in ferroelectric ceramics has the same form as the Rayleigh law for magnetization versus magnetic field in ferromagnetic materials. Applicability of the Rayleigh law to the piezo... |
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"abstract": "1. The effects of single daily doses of 20, 50 and 150 mg of WY-45,727, a novel H2-receptor antagonist, and placebo were compared using long term pH-monitoring in 20 male volunteers. 2. Intragastric acidity was measured using combined Ingold glass electrodes. Subjects underwent four studies each under ... | {
"abstract": "Using ambulatory 24 hour pH monitoring, intragastric acidity was measured in 6 healthy volunteers and 8 patients with duodenal ulcer. According to a latin square design each patient was randomly assigned to receive placebo, 300 mg ranitidine at 19.00 h or 300 mg ranitidine at 22.00 h, on three separate... | {
"abstract": "We have studied the effect of a prostaglandin E2 analogue (enprostil), on intragastric acidity, gastric acid and pepsin outputs during a 24 hour period in nine patients with duodenal ulcer in remission. Enprostil 35 micrograms bd dose inhibited 24 hour intragastric acidity by 38% and a 70 micrograms no... |
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"abstract": "In the present paper we describe TectoMT, a multi-purpose open-source NLP framework. It allows for fast and efficient development of NLP applications by exploiting a wide range of software modules already integrated in TectoMT, such as tools for sentence segmentation, tokenization, morphological analys... | {
"abstract": "We present a new collection of treebanks with homogeneous syntactic dependency annotation for six languages: German, English, Swedish, Spanish, French and Korean. To show the usefulness of such a resource, we present a case study of crosslingual transfer parsing with more reliable evaluation than has b... | {
"abstract": "MIL-STD-1553 is a military standard that defines the physical and logical layers, and a command/response time division multiplexing of a communication bus used in military and aerospace avionic platforms for more than 40 years. As a legacy platform, MIL-STD-1553 was designed for high level of fault tol... |
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"abstract": "HER2 plays an important role in the development and maintenance of the malignant phenotype of several human cancers. As such, it is a frequently pursued therapeutic target and two antibodies targeting HER2 have been clinically approved, trastuzumab and pertuzumab. It has been suggested that optimal inh... | {
"abstract": "Failure of clinical trials due to development of resistance to MET-targeting therapeutic agents is an emerging problem. Mechanisms of acquired resistance to MET tyrosine kinase inhibitors are well described, whereas characterization of mechanisms of resistance toward MET-targeting antibodies is limited... | {
"abstract": "We report on a detailed and systematic study of the inter molecular dynamics of a homologous series of protic alkylammonium-formate ionic liquids in a broad spectral window, combining THz time-domain and microwave dielectric methods. The joint experiments yield the complex dielectric function over more... |
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"abstract": "Accurately evaluating the distribution of genetic ancestry across geographic space is one of the main questions addressed by evolutionary biologists. This question has been commonly addressed through the application of Bayesian estimation programs allowing their users to estimate individual admixture p... | {
"abstract": "Finding genetic signatures of local adaptation is of great interest for many population genetic studies. Common approaches to sorting selective loci from their genomic background focus on the extreme values of the fixation index, FST, across loci. However, the computation of the fixation index becomes ... | {
"abstract": "The problem of identifying subtle time-space clustering of disease, as may be occurring in leukemia, is described and reviewed. Published approaches, generally associated with studies of leukemia, not dependent on knowledge of the underlying population for their validity, are directed towards identifyi... |
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"abstract": "To test the hypothesis that the myosin II motor domain (S1) preferentially binds to specific subsets of actin filaments in vivo, we expressed GFP-fused S1 with mutations that enhanced its affinity for actin in Dictyostelium cells. Consistent with the hypothesis, the GFP-S1 mutants were localized along ... | {
"abstract": "High-speed atomic force microscopy was employed to observe structural changes in actin filaments induced by cofilin binding. Consistent with previous electron and fluorescence microscopic studies, cofilin formed clusters along actin filaments, where the filaments were 2-nm thicker and the helical pitch... | {
"abstract": "Scytalidium thermophilum produces an extracellular phenol oxidase on glucose-containing medium. Certain phenolic acids, specifically gallic acid and tannic acid, induce the expression of the enzyme. Production at 45°C in batch cultures is growth-associated and is enhanced in the presence of 160 μM CuSO... |
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"abstract": "This letter presents a hardware-efficient frequency estimator and an advanced phase estimation algorithm capable of tracking the phase noise of a 10-GBaud optical quadrature phase-shift-keying transmission system with standard distributed-feedback lasers in the presence of a frequency mismatch up to 1.... | {
"abstract": "This paper considers feedforward carrier frequency estimation methods in burst-mode digital transmission, with tutorial objectives foremost. Assuming PSK modulation, two scenarios are envisaged in which frequency estimates are derived either from a preamble appended to the data block, or directly from ... | {
"abstract": "A simple algorithm for detection of timing error of a synchronous, band-limited, BPSK or QPSK data stream is proposed. The algorithm requires only two samples per symbol for its operation. One of the two samples is also used for the symbol decision. Derivation of the s curve reveals a sinusoidal shape.... |
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"abstract": "Pre-shaped hierarchical porous carbon (HPC) spheres have been synthesized through a facile anion exchanged route. An industrial polymeric anion-exchange resin with a hierarchical pore structure was used as the carbon precursor. Its high porosity was conserved using an aluminate/silicate precursor formi... | {
"abstract": "Graphene aerogels and graphene aerogel–nanodiamond hybrids have been fabricated by a mild reduction/self-assembly hydrothermal method using graphene oxide dispersion as a precursor. The aerogels have been used as metal-free catalysts for oxidative dehydrogenation of propane. Reduced graphene oxide (RGO... | {
"abstract": "Six new dinuclear Mn(II) compounds with carboxylate bridges have been synthesized and characterized by X-ray diffraction: [{Mn(phen)(2)}(2)(μ-RC(6)H(4)COO)(2)](ClO(4))(2) with R = 2-Cl (1), 2-CH(3) (2), 3-Cl (3), 3-CH(3) (4), 4-Cl (5) and 4-CH(3) (6). Compounds 1 and 2 show two μ(1,3)-carboxylate bridg... |
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"abstract": "Polymers may alter the ability of oppositely charged surfactant micelles to solubilize hydrophobic molecules depending on surfactant-polymer interactions. This study was conducted to investigate the effects of polymer concentration and temperature on the solubilization thermodynamics of an octane oil-i... | {
"abstract": "Isothermal titration calorimetry (ITC) was used to measure enthalpy changes resulting from injection of anionic (sodium dodecyl sulfate, SDS) or cationic (dodecyl trimethylammonium bromide, DTAB) surfactants into aqueous 1 wt % pectin solutions (30, 60, or 90% methoxylated). In the absence of pectin, t... | {
"abstract": "Dynamic light scattering and small-angle neutron scattering measurements have been performed on aqueous polystyrene latex dispersions with physisorbed polymer, poly(ethylene oxide), in the presence of the surfactant sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS). Dynamic light scattering measurements suggested that the ... |
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"abstract": "Problem statement: Record linkage is a technique which is used to detect and match duplicate records which are generated in data integration process. A variety of record linkage algorithms with different steps have been developed in order to detect such duplicate records. To find out whether two record... | {
"abstract": "In order to extract beneficial information and recognize a particular pattern from huge data stored in different databases with different formats, data integration is essential. However the problem that arises here is that data integration may lead to duplication. In other words, due to the availabilit... | {
"abstract": "In this paper a machine learning approach for classifying Arabic text documents is presented. To handle the high dimensionality of text documents, embeddings are used to map each document (instance) into R (the set of real numbers) representing the tri-gram frequency statistics profiles for a document.... |
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"abstract": "Cellobiose dehydrogenase (CDH) is a redox protein containing two electron transfer centers; a flavin coenzyme performing a two-electron transfer reaction and an iron-heme coenzyme facilitating single-electron transfer. Purified CDH from Phanerochaete chrysosporium was immobilized on a pyrolytic graphit... | {
"abstract": "A novel biosensor architecture, which is based on the combination of a manual and a non-manual deposition technique for sensor components on the electrode surface is reported. A water-soluble Os-poly(vinyl-imidazole) redox hydrogel is deposited on a graphite electrode by drop-coating (i.e. manually) fo... | {
"abstract": "This study investigated the effectiveness of successive bioaugmentation, conventional bioaugmentation, and biostimulation of biodegradation of B10 in soil. In addition, the structure of the soil microbial community was assessed by polymerase chain reaction-denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis. The c... |
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"abstract": "A 53 year old woman with respiratory failure and stridor caused by a tracheal plasmacytoma was treated by endoscopic loop polypectomy and neodymium YAG laser therapy, followed by local irradiation. Two years later there was no evidence of recurrence of disease.",
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"abstract": "Radiol Bras. 2017 Jan/Fev;50(1):62–68 66 http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/0100-3984.2015.0186 the arterial and venous systems, without intervening capillary beds, account for less than 10% of all cerebral vascular malformations. The most common place of occurrence is the transverse sinus, and there have been ... | {
"abstract": "Solitary plasmacytoma of bone (SPB) and extramedullary plasmacytoma (EMPC) are unusual solitary tumors of plasma cell origin. The clinical differences between these tumors and multiple myeloma are the subject of continued study. This review examines the radiotherapy experience at M. D. Anderson Hospita... |
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"abstract": "C57BL/6J naïve and immunized mice were intracorneally infected with Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Semi-quantitative RT-PCR was performed to detect cathepsin gene expression and the results were further confirmed by immunoblot analysis. The enzymatic activities of cathepsins B, D and L were measured by peptid... | {
"abstract": "IFNγ induces cell death in epithelial cells, but the mediator for this death pathway has not been identified. In this study, we find that expression of Bik/Blk/Nbk is increased in human airway epithelial cells (AECs [HAECs]) in response to IFNγ. Expression of Bik but not mutant BikL61G induces and loss... | {
"abstract": "The control of weld-induced imperfections like welding deformations and residual stresses is of critical importance in circumferentially welded thin-walled cylinders due to their wide utilization in high tech engineering applications in aerospace and aeronautical structures, pressure vessels and nuclea... |
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"abstract": "In 1979 and 1980 more than 4000 cases of large-bowel cancer were treated annually in the Northwest region of England. Of these, 35.5% were within 13 cm of the anal verge. The prognosis following surgery in operable rectal cancer is 30% surviving at 5 years. A large proportion of patients die with evide... | {
"abstract": "Local recurrence rates for colorectal carcinoma occur in the range from 20% to 35%. For this reason, postoperative radiotherapy was evaluated as a measure to achieve local disease control in the pelvis. Patients with tumors penetrating the entire bowel wall or with regionally involved lymph nodes recei... | {
"abstract": "In this study, we present a crystal structure prediction and characterization for two novel single- and double-bonded nitrogen allotropes (denoted as CubN and DobN) bearing three-membered nitrogen cycles. These materials are ambient-pressure metastable robust solids with strong cohesive energies. Due t... |
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"abstract": "Client honeypots can be used to identify malicious web servers that attack web browsers and push malware to client machines. Merely recording network traffic is insufficient to perform comprehensive forensic analyses of such attacks. Custom tools are required to access and analyze network protocol data... | {
"abstract": "This paper discusses breaking the escalation cycle that locks cyber intruders and their targets in a state where targets are perennially resigned to attacks and intruders are at liberty to exploit and disrupt networks without much risk of suffering consequences. Using systems and case analyses, several... | {
"abstract": "This RFC is an attempt to clarify the generalization of the Domain\nNaming Convention, the Internet Naming Convention, and to explore the\nimplications of its adoption for Internet name service and user\napplications.",
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"abstract": "Halophytes (galos, salt; phyton, a plant) are ecologically, physiologically, and biochemically specialized plants, which belong to various systemic and life forms capable of finishing their life cycle in a saline habitat (the soil solution’s electrical conductivity is 8–10 dS/m). Halophyte resources ar... | {
"abstract": "Halophytes have been evaluated as potential crops for direct seawater or brackish water irrigation. The world areas available for halophyte agriculture include portions of coastal deserts and inland salt deserts. The usable area for halophyte culture is approximately 1.3 million km2, comparable to the ... | {
"abstract": "Native and exotic halophytes (genera Atriplex, Salicornia, Distichlis, Cressa, and Batis) were grown in field trials at Puerto Penasco, Sonora, Mexico using hypersaline (40‰) seawater for irrigation. The most productive halophyte species yielded 1364–1794 g dry weight per square meter per annum. The mi... |
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"abstract": "Increasing evidence implicates long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs), a class of noncoding RNAs >200 nucleotides in length, in the development of cancer. However, the mechanism underlying the effects of lncRNAs in prostate cancer (PCa) remains to be elucidated. The present study aimed to investigate the role o... | {
"abstract": "Background—In a recent large-scale genetic association study, a single nucleotide polymorphism in the thrombospondin-4 (TSP-4) gene, resulting in a proline-for-alanine substitution at position 387, was associated with a significantly increased risk for premature atherosclerosis. TSP-4 had not previousl... | {
"abstract": "The physiological responses to intravenous diazepam and oral local analgesia for conservative dentistry have been assessed in 16 patients. Apart from a transient tachycardia during actual administration of the drug, no clinically significant changes occurred in the haemodynamic, respiratory, or metabol... |
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"abstract": "Discourse markers are an important means to signal the kind of coherence relation holding between adjacent text spans. Research on generating discourse markers has been mainly concerned with causal markers, whereas temporal markers have not received much attention. In this paper, we identify semantic, ... | {
"abstract": "In this paper we present a method for generating French texts conveying temporal information. This method integrates the Discourse Representation Theory (DRT) and the Systemic Grammar Theory. First, we show how the DRT is used to represent temporal information. We then show how this formalism is used t... | {
"abstract": "Human agents are extremely flexible in dealing with Natural Language instructions. I argue that most instructions don't exactly mirror the agent's knowledge, but are understood by accommodating them in the context of the general plan the agent is considering; the accommodation process is guided by the ... |
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"abstract": "Both convolutional and recurrent operations are building blocks that process one local neighborhood at a time. In this paper, we present non-local operations as a generic family of building blocks for capturing long-range dependencies. Inspired by the classical non-local means method in computer vision... | {
"abstract": "Instance-level human analysis is common in real-life scenarios and has multiple manifestations, such as human part segmentation, dense pose estimation, human-object interactions, etc. Models need to distinguish different human instances in the image panel and learn rich features to represent the detail... | {
"abstract": "This research demonstrates that the positive effects of brand logos on customer brand commitment and firm performance derive not from enabling brand identification, as is currently understood, but primarily from facilitating customer self-identity/expressiveness, representing a brand's functional benef... |
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"abstract": "Maintaining data provenance in cloud in a tamper-resistant manner that cannot be breached by malicious parties is a necessity from the current security standpoint. Blockchain technology has emerged as a secure solution to store and share information by offering an immutable distributed ledger service. ... | {
"abstract": "We give an overview of the scripting languages used in existing cryptocurrencies, and in particular we review in some detail the scripting languages of Bitcoin, Nxt and Ethereum, in the context of a high-level overview of Distributed Ledger Technology and cryptocurrencies. We survey different approache... | {
"abstract": "Cassandra is a distributed storage system for managing structured data that is designed to scale to a very large size across many commodity servers, with no single point of failure. Reliability at massive scale is a very big challenge. Outages in the service can have significant negative impact. Hence ... |
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"abstract": "Autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD) is the most common hereditary cause of chronic kidney disease. The intriguing role of innate immune system and inflammation become a target for potential therapeutic approach to slow progression. When toll‐like receptors (TLRs) signaling and their re... | {
"abstract": "Background and Objectives: Cyst pressure induces renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system activation and kidney hypoxia in autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD). Lipopolysaccharide-induced Toll-like receptor activation causes metabolic disturbances that are triggered by increased succinate l... | {
"abstract": "The uterus and heart share the important physiological feature whereby contractile activation of the muscle tissue is regulated by the generation of periodic, spontaneous electrical action potentials (APs). Preterm birth arising from premature uterine contractions is a major complication of pregnancy a... |
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"abstract": "We introduce IR-Wire, a tool for information retrieval research and education in peer-to-peer file-sharing systems. Built on top of Lime Wire's implementation of the popular Gnutella standard, it includes functionality to collect data on queries and shared files and stores them in a way to make analyse... | {
"abstract": "Spam is highly pervasive in P2P file-sharing systems and is difficult to detect automatically before actually downloading a file due to the insufficient and biased description of a file returned to a client as a query result. To alleviate this problem, we first characterize spam and spammers in the P2P... | {
"abstract": "Assessing the performance of peer-to-peer algorithms is impossible without simulations since testing new algorithms by deploying them in an existing P2P network is prohibitively expensive. However, some P2P algorithms are sensitive to the network and traffic models that are used in the simulations. In ... |
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"abstract": "OBJECTIVES\nThis study sought to evaluate the incidence, predictive factors, and prognostic value of new-onset atrial fibrillation (NOAF) following transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI).\n\n\nBACKGROUND\nVery few data exist on the occurrence of NOAF following TAVI.\n\n\nMETHODS\nA total of 138... | {
"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nAtrial fibrillation is responsible for significant morbidity after lung cancer surgery, and preoperative and perioperative risk factors are not well described.\n\n\nMETHODS\nThe Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) database was queried for all lobectomy and pneumonectomy patients with a diagn... | {
"abstract": "Results of a study of the femoral bicondylar angle in adult and juvenile humans and great apes are presented. These results raise the question of whether or not the measurement reference of this angle is valid. This is because humans and great apes have a very different growth process of the distal epi... |
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"abstract": "On October 19, 2007, the Office of Management and Budget issued its long awaited “Final Guidance on Maintaining, Collecting, and Reporting Racial and Ethnic Data to the U.S. Department of Education.” The “Guidance” imposes, for the first time, a required format for COLLECTING data on race. This format ... | {
"abstract": "This paper reviews the new directions in institutional research on undergraduate racial/ethnic and socioeconomic diversity at the University of California, Berkeley. The use of SERU/UCUES and other web-based census surveys has made possible more detailed and extensive analysis of student diversity. Inc... | {
"abstract": "[E]liminating affirmative action would reduce acceptance rates for African American and Hispanic applicants by as much as one-half to two-thirds and have an equivalent impact on the proportion of underrepresented minority students in the admitted class. White applicants would benefit very little by rem... |
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"abstract": "IT plays important role in education. Cloud Computing is a new technology in the world of IT which emerged recently and began to spread rapidly. Cloud computing is an Internet-based computing services on-demand. The main goal of this paper is to highlight the implications of cloud computing in academic... | {
"abstract": "The main advantage of cloud computing is to reduce the IT cost. By using cloud computing, organisations do not have to set up an IT infrastructure, and instead are able to rent resources and give payment only for the using services. Even with the appealing of cloud computing benefits, it is still in in... | {
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"abstract": "In this paper the Two-Scale Model has been used to derive the theoretical Normalized Radar Cross Section (NRCS) for sea clutter in the L-band, taking into account also the circular polarization of GPS signals. Using this theoretical model and the theoretical formula for NRCS, authors aim to investigate... | {
"abstract": "We investigate the capability of GPS signals of opportunity to detect and localize targets on the sea surface. The proposed approach to target detection is new, and stems from the advantages offered by GPS-Reflectometry (GPS-R) in terms of spatial and temporal sampling, and low cost/low power technolog... | {
"abstract": "The results of measurements at X -band of backscattering from water waves of amplitude less than about 0.01 wavelength and with wavelengths of the order of the microwave length are presented and compared with theory. The measurements have been made for both vertical and horizontal polarizations for gra... |
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"abstract": "Netrins are molecules that guide growing axons and that are strikingly similar in sequence and in function in flies, nematodes and vertebrates. Now, members of a family of netrin receptors have been identified in all three animal groups and shown to have crucial, conserved roles in axon navigation.",
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"abstract": "Growth cones, the hand-like structures at the tip of growing neurites, possess remarkable abilities to detect directional cues. On their way to their targets they traverse a dense jungle of many different cells, expressing a variety of different molecular guidance cues. Proper reading and integration o... | {
"abstract": "Caldicellulosiruptor bescii, the most thermophilic cellulolytic bacterium, is rich in hydrolytic and accessory enzymes that can degrade untreated biomass, but the precise role of many these enzymes is unknown. One of such enzymes is a predicted GDSL lipase or esterase encoded by the locus Athe_0553. In... |
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"abstract": "AUTHOR: Lieutenant Colonel Bobbie L. Randall TITLE: Sun Tzu: The Art of Network Centric Warfare FORMAT: Strategy Research Project DATE: 10 March 2001 PAGES: 39 CLASSIFICATION: Unclassified To meet the challenges of the future, the United States must have a strategy to ensure the joint force of tomorrow... | {
"abstract": ": Ti-6Al-4V alloy is successfully used in selective laser melting (SLM) especially for production of metal dental and surgical prostheses. On the other hand Ti-6Al-4V alloy is widely used in aerospace industry including applications with temperatures up to 350°C (623 K). In this work, for investigation... |
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"abstract": "Excessive oxidative stress has been implicated in the induction of cell death in a variety of neurodegenerative diseases. In the present study, hydrogen peroxide (H2O2)-induced cell death in rat C6 glioma cells was used as a model system for studying the molecular events associated with oxidative stres... | {
"abstract": "Mouse cortical cell cultures exposed to transient oxygen-glucose deprivation developed marked acute cell body swelling followed by neurodegeneration, consistent with necrosis-type death. This death was not attenuated by the protein synthesis inhibitor, cycloheximide, but was attenuated by addition of t... | {
"abstract": "Right-sided diaphragmatic hernia (DH) after living donor liver transplant in adult recipients has not been described previously. There have been a few reports of right-side DH in paediatric living donor liver transplant recipients and following right lobe donor hepatectomy. We herein describe the first... |
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"abstract": "Therapy-related myelodysplastic syndrome and acute myeloid leukemia (t-MDS/t-AML) are late complications of cytotoxic therapy used in the treatment of malignant diseases. The most common subtype of t-AML (∼75% of cases) develops after exposure to alkylating agents, and is characterized by loss or delet... | {
"abstract": "Therapy-related myelodysplastic syndrome/acute myeloid leukemia (t-MDS/AML) is an increasingly recognized treatment complication in patients treated with radiotherapy or chemotherapy for previous hematologic malignancies or solid tumors. Distinct clinical entities have been described according to the p... | {
"abstract": "Wilkinson's “income inequality and social cohesion” model has emerged as a leading research program in social epidemiology. Public health scholars and activists working toward the elimination of social inequalities in health can find several appealing features in Wilkinson's research. In particular, it... |
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"abstract": "This paper reports on the development of two spoken language collaborative interface agents built with the Collagen system. It presents sample dialogues with the agents working with email applications and meeting planning applications, and discusses how these applications were created. It also discusse... | {
"abstract": "An agent's ability to understand an utterance depends upon its ability to relate that utterance to the preceding discourse. The agent must determine whether the utterance begins a new segment of the discourse, completes the current segment, or contributes to it. The intentional structure of the discour... | {
"abstract": "This paper presents a wideband jamming emitter localization method based on the fusion of multiple direction-of-arrivals (DOAs) and time-difference-of-arrival(s) (TDOA(s)) obtained from multiple unmanned-aerial-vehicles (UAVs). In this technique, we assume that multiple trajectory controllable UAVs are... |
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"abstract": "The use of relevant metrics of software systems could improve various software engineering tasks, but identifying relationships among metrics is not simple and can be very time consuming. Recommender systems can help with this decision-making process; many applications have utilized these systems to im... | {
"abstract": "Pervasive telemetry in modern applications is providing new possibilities in the application of regression testing techniques. Similar to how research in bioinformatics is leading to personalized medicine, tailored to individuals, usage telemetry in modern software allows for custom regression testing,... | {
"abstract": "Software systems evolve over time due to changes in requirements, optimization of code, fixes for security and reliability bugs etc. Code churn, which measures the changes made to a component over a period of time, quantifies the extent of this change. We present a technique for early prediction of sys... |
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"abstract": "A high yielding synthetic route for methyl 4'-O-methyl-beta-D-cellobioside starting from d-glucose was established. The reaction conditions optimized with nonlabeled materials were used for the synthesis of methyl 4'-O-methyl-13C12-beta-D-cellobioside, a compound having more than 99% 13C enrichment at ... | {
"abstract": "Activation of either anomer of S-phenyl 2,3-di-O-benzyl-4,6-O-benzylidene-1-deoxy-1-thia-D-glucopyranoside with triflic anhydride in dichloromethane at -78 degrees C in the presence of 2,6-di-tert-butyl-4-methylpyridine affords a highly active glycosylating species which, on addition of alcohols, provi... | {
"abstract": "The preparation of C2 symmetric 2,3-dibenzobicyclo[2.2.2]octanedione dioxime is reported. This ligand is then used in the preparation of a (pyridine)(glyoxime)2cobalt(III) chloride complex. The chloride is reduced to a cobaloxime anion which reacted with allenic electrophiles to produce (pyridine)(glyo... |
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"abstract": "The fusion of next generation sensors and advanced information systems, combined with advances in unmanned aircraft systems that have emerged through aerospace engineering technologies, will contribute to the challenge of feeding our future world in a sustainable manner. Without these advances, the wor... | {
"abstract": "\n Highlights\n \n \n \n \n Unmanned aerial systems (UAS) are able to provide data for precision irrigation management.\n \n \n Improvements are needed regarding UAS platforms, sensors, processing software, and regulations.\n \n \n Integration of multi-scale imagery into scientific irrigation schedulin... | {
"abstract": "The possibility of combining novel monitoring techniques and precision spraying for crop protection in the future is discussed. A generic model for an innovative crop protection system has been used as a framework. This system will be able to monitor the entire cropping system and identify the presence... |
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"abstract": "Abstract A connection between deterministic optimal control and large deviations theory has been known for a number of years, whereby the optimal performance index provides information about exit times of stable systems excited by noise, and the optimal trajectory provides information about exit trajec... | {
"abstract": "Reverse-time stochastic diffusion equation models are defined and it is shown how most processes defined via a forward-time or conventional diffusion equation model have an associated reverse-time model.",
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"abstract": "Abstract : The purpose of this paper is to develop a theory of smoothing for finite dimensional linear stochastic systems in the context of stochastic realization theory. The basic idea is to embed the given stochastic system in a class of similar systems all having the same output process and the same... |
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"abstract": "This article discusses the setup and results from the Home-Vacuum event of the 1997 AAAI Robot Competition and Exhibition. After a summary of the rules, we outline the high and low points of the competition. Then we suggest ways such competitions could better accommodate new teams in the future.",
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"abstract": "A number of autonomous robots with varying degrees of reactive functionality have been built, based on different architectures. We review the foundations, limitations, and achievements of a number of architectures of such autonomous agents from the three categories: (1) reactive; (2) deliberative; and ... | {
"abstract": "It is shown that, for a general stationary timelike geodesically complete simple spacetime with positive ADM mass, the topology and null geodesic generating flow of conformal null infinity correspond to those of Minkowski space. A sufficient condition is given for the generators to be complete.",
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"abstract": "Background Limited data exist regarding toxicity and quality of life (QOL) after post-prostatectomy intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) and whether pelvic nodal RT influences these outcomes. Methods 118 men were treated with curative-intent RT after radical prostatectomy. 69 men (58%) received... | {
"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nLittle is known about the impact of adjuvant radiation therapy (aRT) after radical prostatectomy (RP) on urinary continence (UC).\n\n\nOBJECTIVE\nTo evaluate the impact of aRT on UC recovery in patients with unfavourable pathologic characteristics.\n\n\nDESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS\nTh... | {
"abstract": "OBJECTIVES\nTo determine the influence of body weight and prostate volume on surgical outcomes after radical retropubic prostatectomy.\n\n\nMETHODS\nBetween January 1994 and July 2000, 1024 men underwent radical retropubic prostatectomy by a single surgeon. Information was collected on body weight, pro... |
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"abstract": "Background: Tuberculosis stills off be found coincides by malnutrition’s condition, which is deficiency among macro and micro nutrient. In the normal circumstances nutrient can be sufficed from knock about food, but in poverty condition and chronic disease, not all nutrient component can be accomplishe... | {
"abstract": "Analysis of CODIS data from a large study of human populations by Budowle et al. (1) raised concerns articulated in a Commentary by Krane et al. (2) and rebutted in the Authors’ Response by Chakraborty et al. (3). One aspect of this exchange merits additional discussion. Krane et al. (2) objected to th... | {
"abstract": "OBJECTIVES\nA long-term follow-up study with nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) imaging was undertaken to detect the morphological onset and to establish the early diagnosis in apical hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM).\n\n\nBACKGROUND\nA spadelike configuration on left ventriculogram (LVG) is regarded as... |
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"abstract": "Survey reports of the incidence of chronic conditions are considered by many researchers to be more objective, and thus preferable, measures of unobserved health status than self-assessed measures of global well being. In this paper we evaluate this hypothesis by attempting to validate these “objective... | {
"abstract": "Women have worse self-rated health and more hospitalization episodes than men from early adolescence to late middle age, but are less likely to die at each age. We use 14 years ofdata from the u.s. National Health Interview Survey to examine this paradox. Our results indicate that the difference in sel... | {
"abstract": "Objective To demonstrate how an integrative approach to psychiatric treatment can confer specific advantages. Method The impact of conceptual models on clinical information processing and therapeutic intervention, and the potential benefits resulting from the incorporation of multiple treatment modalit... |
{
"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nThe Fc gamma RIIIA-V/F158 polymorphism affects immunoglobulins (Ig)G1- and IgG3-binding capacity and may modulate the expression of renal disease in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). We aimed to determine whether this polymorphism confers risk for the development of lupus ne... | {
"abstract": "Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a complex multigenic disease in which the contributing genetic systems are being rapidly identified. Most of the currently recognized genes have been discovered from case-control association studies, but, increasingly, family linkage studies are being employed to c... | {
"abstract": "Aims To assess whether, based on its relationship with complications of peptic ulcer disease (PUD), directed Helicobacter pylori serological screening is justified in diabetic patients prior to commencement of antiplatelet therapy.",
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"score": 1,
"title": "Antiplatelet ther... |
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"abstract": "Background & objectives: AmpC β-lactamases are clinically significant since these confer resistance to cephalosporins in the oxyimino group, 7-α methoxycephalosporins and are not affected by available β-lactamase inhibitors. In this study we looked for both extended spectrum β-lactamases (ESBL) and Amp... | {
"abstract": "BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVE\nProduction of extended spectrum beta-lactamases (ESBLs) and AmpC beta-lactamases are the most common mechanisms of antimicrobial resistance in Gram negative bacilli. A prospective study was undertaken to know the occurrence of ESBL and AmpC producing strains and their antibiotic... | {
"abstract": "A screening procedure was used to isolate a number of mutants of Escherichia coli K-12 with low penicillinase activity. By co-transduction with purA, three of the mutants were found to map near 82 min. Penicillinase was purified from one mutant and from a transductant with a temperature-sensitive enzym... |
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"abstract": "SummaryInjection of fentanyl into the cisterna magna of the brain leads to hypotension and bradycardia in anesthetised dogs. To determine if this effect is related to the recently discovered opiate receptors fentanyl was perfused in increasing concentrations (2.5–20 μg/ml) through the cerebro-ventricul... | {
"abstract": "To see if the opiate receptor/endorphin system plays a part in the regulation of natural sleep in humans the effects of the opiate antagonist naloxone on delta sleep were examined. The sleep behaviour of each of six healthy male volunteers aged 20–32 years was monitored by continuous recordings of EEG,... | {
"abstract": "Paradoxical, concurrent hyper-and hyporeactivity of a profound nature to specific stimuli occurred when 10 micrograms of morphine was microinjected bilaterally into the periaqueductal gray matter of the rat brain. Both effects at this site were dose-dependent. The hyperreactivity (to previously neutral... |
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"abstract": "The progressive nature of Type 2 diabetes presents a challenge over the choice and course of treatment. Strict metabolic control is recommended to reduce the risk of diabetic morbidity and premature mortality. Treatment usually occurs in a step-wise manner as the insulin secretory capacity of the beta-... | {
"abstract": "The aim of this study was to compare the metabolic effects of a combination of daytime glibenclamide and evening NPH insulin with intensive insulin treatment (rapid acting insulin before meals and NPH insulin at bedtime) in patients exhibiting secondary failure to sulphonylurea treatment. Thirty‐nine m... | {
"abstract": "Two sets of dentures, one with lingualized occlusion and the other with monoplane occlusion, were made for each of 30 edentulous patients. Sixty-seven percent of those people preferred the lingualized occlusal scheme because of improved masticatory ability, comfort, and esthetics.",
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"abstract": "This paper compares the relative performances of area and cordon tolls as opposed to the first-best congestion tolls with respect to alleviation of traffic congestion and social welfare. The comparison is done in the monocentric city where all the jobs are located at the city center. The study shows th... | {
"abstract": "Optimal tolls, capacities, and service levels for highways can be determined jointly by way of an integrated peak-load pricing model. In this paper, such a model is developed and estimated with data for roads in the San Francisco Bay Area. The results suggest optimal peak user tolls of 2-7 cents per au... | {
"abstract": "This study examined the effect of human and social capital upon firm dissolution with data from a population of Dutch accounting firms for the period 1880–1990. Human capital was captured by firm-l...",
"corpus_id": 145719718,
"score": 1,
"title": "Human capital, social capital, and firm dissolut... |
{
"abstract": "Until 15 years ago, inherited thrombocytopenias (ITs) were quite an indistinct group of disorders, only a few forms of which had been clearly defined. Moreover, the genetic defect was known for only two disorders: Bernard-Soulier syndrome (BSS) and Wiskott Aldrich syndrome (WAS).\n\nSince then, our",
... | {
"abstract": "To the Editor Tumour-Associated Macrophages (TAM) may have both anti-tumoural and tumour-promoting functions, depending on their acquired immunophenotype (M1 or M2). Recent studies have shown that TAM expression was related with prognosis in hematologic malignancies, particularly in Hodgkin’s lymphoma ... | {
"abstract": "Fetal exposure to general anesthetics may pose significant neurocognitive risks but methods to mitigate against these detrimental effects are still to be determined. We set out, therefore, to assess whether single or repeated in utero exposure to sevoflurane triggers long-term cognitive impairments in ... |
{
"abstract": "The analytic energy gradients in combined second order Møller-Plesset perturbation theory and conductorlike polarizable continuum model calculations are derived and implemented for spin-restricted closed shell (RMP2), Z-averaged spin-restricted open shell (ZAPT2), and spin-unrestricted open shell (UMP2... | {
"abstract": "The quantum chemistry polarizable force field program (QuanPol) is implemented to perform combined quantum mechanical and molecular mechanical (QM/MM) calculations with induced dipole polarizable force fields and induced surface charge continuum solvation models. The QM methods include Hartree–Fock met... | {
"abstract": "To determine the effect on the normal modes of the multiminimum surface of the protein native state, calculations have been done for a series of conformations and different crystal structures of bovine pancreatic trypsin inhibitor (BPTI) and hen egg white lysozyme (HEWL). The conformations were generat... |
{
"abstract": "For the effective production of hydrocarbon liquid fuel in the hydrocracking of the Fischer-Tropsch (FT) product, the catalytic performance of Pt-loaded catalysts with low Pt content was investigated using an autoclave at 250 °C, an initial H2 pressure of 0.5 MPa, and a reaction time of 1 h. A screenin... | {
"abstract": "This article investigates the environmental profile and costs of woody BTL production and use by reviewing existing LCA studies. The findings reveal that BTL from sustainably managed forest biomass and woody waste may have a lower overall environmental impact than fossil diesel. The benefits of using B... | {
"abstract": "Managed forests serve as a store of carbon (C) and a renewable source of energy and materials. By using forest products as substitutes for fossil fuels or non-renewable materials, emissions from fossil C sources can be displaced. The efficiency of emissions displacement depends on the product, its life... |
{
"abstract": "Objective. The present study was conducted to evaluate the effect of serum progesterone (P) levels on the day of human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) administration on embryo quality and pregnancy rate in intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) cycles. Design and setting. This was a retrospective analysi... | {
"abstract": "OBJECTIVE\nTo ascertain the incidence of premature progesterone P rise and its impact on outcomes in controlled ovarian hyperstimulation and intrauterine insemination (COH-IUI) cycles, and also to identify variables related with premature P rise.\n\n\nSTUDY DESIGN\nFour hundred sixty cycles of 460 coup... | {
"abstract": "AbstractObjective: Our purpose was to assess and clarify the mechanism of whether an early progesterone rise in cycles with gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonist (GnRH-a) is associated with an impairment of IVF outcome\nMethods: Seven hundred eighty-six cycles were induced with GnRH-a and human menopa... |
{
"abstract": "Emerging integrated sensing and monitoring of material degradation and cracks are increasingly required for characterizing the structural integrity and safety of infrastructure. However, most conventional nondestructive evaluation (NDE) methods are based on single modality sensing which is not adequate... | {
"abstract": "This paper introduces a new method to improve the reliability and confidence level of defect depth measurement based on pulsed thermographic inspection by addressing the over-fitting problem. Different with existing methods using a fixed model structure for all pixels, the proposed method adaptively de... | {
"abstract": "Abstract A full magnetic study, dc and ac magnetic susceptibility and magnetization of a sample of superconducting TmBa 2 Cu 3 O 7-δ in sintered and powdered forms, are reported. The sample has been structural (X-ray) and electrically (dc resistance) characterized. Moreover, transmission electron micro... |
{
"abstract": "Abstract. Dissolved black carbon (DBC), defined here as condensed aromatics isolated from seawater via PPL solid phase extraction and quantified as benzenepolycarboxylic acid (BPCA) oxidation products, is a significant component of the oceanic dissolved organic carbon (DOC) pool. These condensed aromat... | {
"abstract": "Abstract. Wetlands provide quintessential ecosystem services such as maintenance of water quality, water supply and biodiversity, among others; however, wetlands are also among the most threatened ecosystems worldwide. Natural dissolved organic matter (DOM) is an abundant and critical component in wetl... | {
"abstract": "We consider a modification of the classical number theoretic question about the gaps between consecutive primitive roots modulo a prime p, which by the well-known result of Burgess are known to be at most p 1/4+o(1) . Here we measure the distance in the Hamming metric and show that if p is a sufficient... |
{
"abstract": "By use of cryofracture and scanning electron microscopy of human amniochorion we have captured images of all the major layers of the tissue. Correlation of confocal and electron-microscope data has allowed greater understanding of how these cellular and acellular layers interconnect in order to maintai... | {
"abstract": "OBJECTIVE\nThis study was undertaken to determine the sequence of events that occur during fetal membrane (FM) rupture and to compare the biophysical properties of intact FM with its separated individual components (amnion and choriodecidua).\n\n\nSTUDY DESIGN\nFM physical properties were determined wi... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Using a dataset of 7635 observations on 1384 commercial banks operating in the EU between 1993 and 2001, we utilise a mixed logit model to identify factors that explain the probability of a bank being a best [worst] performer. The empirical evidence confirms the importance of country-level cha... |
{
"abstract": "Extended from its electromagnetic counterpart, transformation thermodynamics applied to thermal conduction equations can map a virtual geometry into a physical thermal medium, realizing the manipulation of heat flux with almost arbitrarily desired diffusion paths, which provides unprecedented opportuni... | {
"abstract": "Atomic substitution in alloys can efficiently scatter phonons, thereby reducing the thermal conductivity in crystalline solids to the \"alloy limit.\" Using In0.53Ga0.47As containing ErAs nanoparticles, we demonstrate thermal conductivity reduction by almost a factor of 2 below the alloy limit and a co... | {
"abstract": "Real time control (RTC) of sewer networks plays a fundamenta l role in the management of hydrological systems, both in the urban water cycle, as well as in the natural water cycle. An adequate design of control systems for sewer networks can pr event the negative impact on the environment that Combined... |
{
"abstract": "Human parainfluenza virus type 1 (HPIV-1), a paramyxovirus, is a leading cause of pediatric respiratory hospitalizations globally. Currently, there is no clinically successful vaccine against HPIV-1. Hence, there is a need to characterize circulating strains of this virus to establish the feasibility o... | {
"abstract": "ABSTRACT Accurate estimates of virus mutation rates are important to understand the evolution of the viruses and to combat them. However, methods of estimation are varied and often complex. Here, we critically review over 40 original studies and establish criteria to facilitate comparative analyses. Th... | {
"abstract": "For many globally dispersed organisations, the home base (HB) is a historic locus of integrative and coordinating efforts that safeguard overall performance. However, the dynamism of global operations networks is increasingly pulling the centre of gravity away from the HB and dispersing it across the n... |
{
"abstract": "“Mushroom alcohol,” or 1-octen-3-ol, is a common fungal volatile organic compound (VOC) that has been studied for its flavor properties, its effects on fungal spore germination, mushroom development, and as a signaling agent for insects. Far less is known about its effects on plants. We exposed Arabido... | {
"abstract": "In mushrooms, 10-oxo-trans-8-decenoic acid (ODA) and 1-octen-3-ol are secondary metabolites produced naturally by the enzymatic breakdown of linoleic acid. Both compounds were determined to inhibit the mycelial growth of Penicillium expansum PP497A, a common food spoilage organism, when added to potato... | {
"abstract": "In this article we conceptually and empirically compare a number of alternative family life cycle models, ranging from traditional to \"modernized.\" These comparisons evaluate each model's ability to identify homogeneous categories, maximize between-group variation, classify nearly all households, and... |
{
"abstract": "Subresolution assist feature (SRAF) and etch-dummy-insertion techniques have been absolutely essential for process-window enhancement and CD control in photo and etch processes. However, as focus levels change during lithography manufacturing, CDs at a given ldquolegalrdquo pitch can fail to achieve ma... | {
"abstract": "Lithographic wavelength of 193nm has been used for past few generations of patterning and is likely to remain in use for next few technology generations (at least till 28nm technology half-node) as well. This deep sub-wavelength patterning has resulted in wafer shapes not resembling drawn rectilinear s... | {
"abstract": "Possible mechanisms for the breakage of molecular crystals under high-intensity ultrasound were investigated using acetylsalicylic acid (aspirin) crystals as a model compound for active pharmaceutical ingredients. Surprisingly, kinetics experiments ruled out particle-particle collisions as a viable mec... |
{
"abstract": "Multitasking in user behavior can be represented along a continuum in terms of the time spent on one task before switching to another. In this paper, we present a theory of behavior along the multitasking continuum, from concurrent tasks with rapid switching to sequential tasks with longer time between... | {
"abstract": "Everyday life requires frequent shifts between cognitive tasks. Research reviewed in this article probes the control processes that reconfigure mental resources for a change of task by requiring subjects to switch frequently among a small set of simple tasks. Subjects' responses are substantially slowe... | {
"abstract": "Post-adoptive system use is often characterized by cycles of adaptation, in which people actively revise how they use information systems. This paper investigates how and why individual users revise their system use at the feature level. A new concept, adaptive system use (ASU), is conceptualized as a ... |
{
"abstract": "Polyglutamine diseases are inherited neurodegenerative diseases caused by the expanded polyglutamine proteins (polyQs). We have identified a novel guanosine triphosphatase (GTPase) named CRAG that contains a nuclear localization signal (NLS) sequence and forms nuclear inclusions in response to stress. ... | {
"abstract": "Collapsin response mediator proteins (CRMPs)/TOAD64/Ulips/DRPs and CRAM have emerged as strong candidates for a role in semaphorin signaling. In this study we identified Fes/Fps (Fes) tyrosine kinase in the CRMP–CRAM complex and investigated whether Fes was involved in semaphorin3A (Sema3A) signaling. ... | {
"abstract": "In nature, both similar and disparate sizes of Libellula lydia and L. luctuosa larvae frequently co-occur in time and space. To determine if these larvae interact as competitors, and/or as predators and prey, I used artificial ponds to manipulate density, species composition, and size range of co-occur... |
{
"abstract": "Pathological cardiac hypertrophy and heart failure are known to involve changes in cardiac gene expression, particularly downregulation of Myh6 expression and upregulation of Myh7 expression.1 Previous studies have shown that the Brahma Related Gene 1 (Brg1)–histone deacetylase (Hdac)–poly (ADP ribose)... | {
"abstract": "Cardiac hypertrophy and failure are characterized by transcriptional reprogramming of gene expression. Adult cardiomyocytes in mice primarily express α-myosin heavy chain (α-MHC, also known as Myh6), whereas embryonic cardiomyocytes express β-MHC (also known as Myh7). Cardiac stress triggers adult hear... | {
"abstract": "An explosion of knowledge about interactions of drugs with other drugs and with foods threatens to inundate clinicians. This review provides a better understanding of the cytochrome P450 system with a focus on those enzymes most involved in drug metabolism. Emphasis is placed on antidepressant medicati... |
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"abstract": "Research into the biology of the mammalian olfactory system would be greatly enhanced by transgenic reporter mice with cell-specific fluorescence. To this end we previously generated a mouse whose olfactory ensheathing cells (OECs) express DsRed driven by the S100ß promoter. We present here a transgeni... | {
"abstract": "Recently, five novel fluorescent proteins have been isolated from non-bioluminescent species of reef-coral organisms and have been made available through ClonTech. They are AmCyan, AsRed, DsRed, ZsGreen and ZsYellow. These proteins are valuable as reporters for transformation because they do not requir... | {
"abstract": "Using the isozyme analysis, genetic variations in six species of the genus Oxytropis DC. (Fabaceae) from Kamchatka was assessed. It was demonstrated that diploid species from the section Arctobia were characterized by a low level of variations typical of endemic plant species. At the same time, polyplo... |
{
"abstract": "Citrus leprosis has been one of the most destructive diseases of citrus in the Americas. In the last decade important progress has been achieved such as the complete genome sequencing of its main causal agent, Citrus leprosis virus C (CiLV-C), belonging to a new genus Cilevirus. It is transmitted by Br... | {
"abstract": "Defining the taxonomic identity of organisms is a prerequisite for their study, and in the case of economically important species, misidentification may lead to the application of inappropriate prevention and control strategies. Flat mites of the Brevipalpus genus include several crop pests and the sys... | {
"abstract": "Abstract A new separation technique for mixed plastics utilizing selective wetting characteristics has been developed. The surface of specific plastics can be selectively changed from hydrophobic to hydrophilic by using a wetting agent. Then, when small air bubbles are introduced into a separation cell... |
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