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"abstract": "The design and dynamic characterization of a free piston compressor is presented in this paper. The free piston compressor is a proposed device that utilizes combustion to compress air into a high-pressure supply tank. The device is configured such that the transduction from thermal energy to stored en... | {
"abstract": "This paper presents the design and simulation of a resonating free liquid-piston compressor (FLPC) equipped with a separated combustion chamber. The FLPC is a proposed device that utilizes combustion of a hydrocarbon fuel to compress air into a high-pressure supply tank, thus potentially serving as a p... | {
"abstract": "Seaweed Sargassum sp. biomass proved to be useful for the recovery of ionic copper from highly concentrated solutions simulating effluents from semiconductor production. In the case of solutions containing copper in the form of chloride, sulfate, and nitrate salts, the best pH for the recovery of coppe... |
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"abstract": "Various extensions of public announcement logic have been proposed with quantification over announcements. The best-known extension is called arbitrary public announcement logic, APAL. It contains a primitive language construct Box phi intuitively expressing that 'after every public announcement of a f... | {
"abstract": "Two currently active strands of research on logics for multi-agent systems are dynamic epistemic logic, focusing on the epistemic consequences of actions, and logics of coalitional ability, focusing on what coalitions of agents can achieve by cooperating strategically. In this paper we bridge these top... | {
"abstract": "Conceptual background.- The logical structure of commands.- Assignments.- Appendix 1 Some related studies.- Function declarations.- Procedures.- Arrays.",
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"title": "Axiomatising the Logic of Computer Programming"
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"abstract": "Applying ecosystem service valuation principles to natural resources management has the potential to encourage the efficient use of resources, but can decision support systems built on these principles be made both practical and robust? The limitations to building such systems are the practical limits ... | {
"abstract": "The problem of rangeland management is modeled as a stochastic control problem. The manager periodically chooses stocking rates and decides whether to use a treatment which improves the rangeland. His decisions have an uncertain impact on the rangeland. The theory of finite Markov chains is used to ana... | {
"abstract": "The emergence of drug resistance can seriously compromise HIV type-1 therapy and decrease therapeutic options. Resistance testing is highly recommended to guide treatment decisions and drug activity can be accurately predicted in the clinical setting through genotypic assays. While phenotypic systems a... |
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"abstract": "Recently, short-distance high-speed wireless communication using a 60 GHz band has been studied for mobile application. To realize higher-speed wireless communication while maintaining low power consumption for mobile application, however, a short-millimeter-wave band (more than 100 GHz) is used since ... | {
"abstract": "A dual band transmitter implemented using a 65 nm CMOS technology at 60 GHz and 80 GHz is presented. A BPSK modulation scheme is used in each band realized by double balanced Gilbert cells, followed by output buffers and transformer-based diplexer. Output power of up to 5.5 dBm and 0 dBm were achieved ... | {
"abstract": "Massive MIMO can boost the capacity and increase the coverage, however the pilot overhead of its channel estimation will linearly increase with the antenna increasing. In order to reduce pilot overhead and improve the quality of channel estimation, a multi-dimension Wiener filtering channel estimation ... |
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"abstract": "Freshwater toilet flushing consumes 20-35% of typical household water demand. Seawater toilet flushing, as practised by Hong Kong since 1958, provides an alternative water source. To maximise the benefits of this unique dual water supply, urine separation could be combined to allow low-cost struvite pr... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Nitrogenous organic materials (Difco Tryptone and Difco Yeast Extract) were allowed to decompose in seawater (35 p.p.t.) at approximately 24°C under varying conditions of aeration. In aerated cultures the mineral struvite (NH 4 -MgPO 4 · 6H 2 O) formed by a reaction between phosphate and ammon... | {
"abstract": "ABSTRACT The dominant carbonate minerals in carbonate depositional terrains are aragonite and high-magnesian calcite. These undergo mineralogical and textural changes on subaerial exposure leading to lithification. If these minerals after deposition continue to be exposed to marine water, they retain t... |
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"abstract": "Over the last couple of decades, there has been a steady increase in acts of violence by so-called radical Islamic groups. These acts, spanning the globe, were intended to terrorize the common people as well as countries. Murders, suicide attacks, extortion and kidnappings have been carried out in coun... | {
"abstract": "The rise of Islam as a political force cannot be studied in isolation as a regional or localised phenomenon; rather, it has a positive correlation with the political events and changes taking place globally. This is especially so since the decline of Pax Britannica and the corresponding rise of Pax Ame... | {
"abstract": "This is a single-volume history of Islam. The opening chapters briefly discuss the historical background of the Prophet Muhammad in the 7th century, through the rise of the Islam in 18th through 20th centuries. The final two chapters cover the significant events of the 1980s and 1990s.",
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"abstract": "Shape correspondence is a fundamental problem in computer graphics and vision, with applications in various problems including animation, texture mapping, robotic vision, medical imaging, archaeology and many more. In settings where the shapes are allowed to undergo non-rigid deformations and only part... | {
"abstract": "The construction of networks of maps among shapes in a collection enables a variety of applications in data-driven geometry processing. A key task in network construction is to make the maps consistent with each other. This consistency constraint, when properly defined, leads not only to a concise repr... | {
"abstract": "Background: Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a chronic and pervasive developmental disorder that is not restricted to the childhood years. Methods: This paper reviews non-pharmacological interventions that are available at present for preschoolers, school-age children, adolescents and... |
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"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nAcquired hearing loss is common and its incidence increases markedly with age. In most people, 'age-related' hearing loss is sensorineural (due to the loss of cochlear hair cells) and bilateral, affecting both ears to the same degree. Hearing loss categorised as mild, moderate or severe is ... | {
"abstract": "Estimates for the prevalence of self-reported hearing disability and measured hearing impairment as a function of age in the adult population of Great Britain (GB) are reported from two 2-stage surveys. The main study was conducted in Cardiff, Glasgow, Nottingham and Southampton, with rigorous audiolog... | {
"abstract": "IMPORTANCE\nThe round window insertion (RWI) and cochleostomy approaches are the 2 most common surgical techniques used in cochlear implantation (CI). However, there is no consensus on which approach is ideal for electrode array insertion, in part because visualization of intracochlear electrode positi... |
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"abstract": "This paper examines the effects of inflation on the allocation of resources between residential and nonresidential uses and the productivity of capital in the U.S. We begin by calculating the realized rates of return on homeowner equity and the contributions of fixed-rate mortgages and differences in r... | {
"abstract": "A¢Â€ÂœRegulation and Reform of the Housing Finance System,A¢Â€Â by Patric H. Hendershott and Kevin E. Villani, analyzes government efforts to protect the housing finance system from two problems resulting from rising inflation and interest rates in 1966A¢Â€Â“75.",
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"abstract": "Customer‐driven government is a much‐stressed theme of contemporary public management reform. This article identifies 16 ways to consumerize public services and uses that typology to examine the delivery of four services in three countries. It argues that consumerization has no single meaning, that dif... |
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"abstract": "Berberine is a natural isoquinoline alkaloid with significant antitumor activity against many types of cancer cells, including ovarian tumors. This study investigated the molecular mechanisms by which berberine differently affects cell growth of cisplatin (cDDP)-sensitive and -resistant and polyamine a... | {
"abstract": "In traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) theory, pathogenic heat and toxins, which are akin to the inflammatory factors, are the causes of cancer and could promote its virulent development. Therefore, heat-clearing and detoxicating (HCD) herbs are essential components of TCM formulas for cancer treatment.... | {
"abstract": "A meeting Fifty‐ninth meeting Surgical Research Society, Middlesex Hospital and University College, London. was held of the Surgical Research Society with Professor R. Shields in the Chair. The meeting was held at the Imperial College of Science and Technology, South Kensington, London on 5 and 6 Janua... |
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"abstract": "The surge in interest in identifying and characterizing the tumor initiating cell or cancer stem cell (CSC) has a defining ethos which includes the discovery of novel diagnostic and prognostic markers and facilitation of the understanding of basic biology and cellular signaling pathways. The ultimate a... | {
"abstract": "As a hallmark of glioblastoma multiforme (GBM), CD44 plays a crucial role in promoting glioblastoma stem cell (GSC) stemness phenotypes and multiple drug resistance. The therapeutic potential of CD44 has been validated by the clinical successes of several CD44 inhibitors, including antibodies and hyalu... | {
"abstract": "There is considerable evidence for the existence of multiple types of dopamine receptor in the brain. D1 have been defined by their ability to elicit an increase in adenylate cyclase activity while D2 receptors do not activate this enzyme (1). Recently, in experiments using homogenates of the intermedi... |
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"abstract": "BackgroundFew studies have simultaneously compared the impacts of pharmacotherapy and mental diagnoses on metabolic syndrome (MetS) among psychiatric outpatients with mood and anxiety disorders. This study aimed to investigate the impacts of pharmacotherapy and mental diagnoses on MetS and the prevalen... | {
"abstract": "INTRODUCTION\nMetabolic syndrome (MetS) and depression are considered important risk factors for diabetes and cardiovascular disease. Recent evidence suggests that depression can be an important predictor of MetS. Data on the association between anxiety and MetS remain mixed. In a large primary care ba... | {
"abstract": "Applied behavior analysis (ABA), the application of the principles of behavior to problems of social significance, relies on peer-reviewed research to establish and confirm the effectiveness of practical procedures across a wide variety of applied areas (Baer et al. 1968). These areas include, but are ... |
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"abstract": "With high penetration of distributed generation (DG), the conventional underfrequency load shedding (UFLS) faces many challenges and may not perform as expected. This paper proposes new UFLS schemes, which are designed to overcome the shortcomings of the traditional load-shedding scheme. These schemes ... | {
"abstract": "The research and development of underfrequency load-shedding protection tends to rely on an adaptive approach. Unfortunately, adaptive schemes are very dependent on an active power imbalance determination, based on a measurement of the frequency first derivative. Therefore, their effectiveness might be... | {
"abstract": "The authors identify filtering requirements or criteria for different relays. They limit the discussion to relays needing precise measurements of the system-frequency component of the signals, such as distance relays. Many different filtering methods which may meet the filtering requirements are concei... |
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"abstract": "We present the first prototype of the SUMMA Platform: an integrated platform for multilingual media monitoring. The platform contains a rich suite of low-level and high-level natural language processing technologies: automatic speech recognition of broadcast media, machine translation, automated taggin... | {
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"title": "TL ; DR : Improving Abstractive Summarization Using LSTMs"
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"abstract": "In this paper we describe and evaluate methods to perform ensemble prediction in neural machine translation (NMT). We compare two methods of ensemble set induction: sampling parameter initializations for an NMT system, which is a relatively established method in NMT (Sutskever et al., 2014), and NMT sy... |
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"abstract": "Changes in health care are a fundamental part of social and intellectual evolution. The modern practice of scientific medicine depends on the existence of the written and printed word to store medical information. Because computers can transform information as well as store it, new digital tools cannot... | {
"abstract": "Chronic diseases (i.e., noncommunicable diseases), mainly cardiovascular disease, cancer, respiratory diseases and type-2-diabetes, are now the leading cause of death, disability and diminished quality of life on the planet. Moreover, these diseases are also a major financial burden worldwide, signific... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Three hundred unselected intravenous urograms of hypertensive patients were reviewed. The position of both kidneys was related to the vertebral column, the pelvic centre being the point of reference. In 22 per cent of the cases the right kidney was higher than the left. In general series not e... |
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"abstract": "Program performance optimization is usually based solely on measurements of execution behavior of code segments using hardware performance counters. However, memory access patterns are critical performance limiting factors for today's multicore chips where performance is highly memory bound. Therefore ... | {
"abstract": "Array programming languages, such as MATLAB, are often used for algorithm development by scientists and engineers without taking into consideration implementation related issues and with limited emphasis on relevant optimizations. Application code optimization, especially in terms of data storage and t... | {
"abstract": "BackgroundAllele-specific (AS) Polymerase Chain Reaction is a convenient and inexpensive method for genotyping Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs) and mutations. It is applied in many recent studies including population genetics, molecular genetics and pharmacogenomics. Using known AS primer design ... |
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"abstract": "We show and analyze herein how Webstrates can augment the Web from a classical hypermedia perspective. Webstrates turns the DOM of Web pages into persistent and collaborative objects. We demonstrate how this can be applied to realize bidirectional links, shared collaborative annotations, and in-browser... | {
"abstract": "Wikis are well-known for supporting collaborative writing. They are focusing on asynchronous collaboration. Today, synchronous text editing in the web is supported by several tools and approaches. However, this possibility is still missing in wikis. Based on a prototype implementation, this paper prese... | {
"abstract": "High assurance in embedded system software is difficult to attain. Verification relies on testing. The unreliable and costly testing process is made much worse because the software base constantly changes: Adding a feature is by changing the code of other features, and the programs of the features enta... |
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"abstract": "The problem of efficient placement of virtual machines (VMs) in cloud computing infrastructure is well studied in the literature. VM placement decision involves selecting a physical machine in the data center to host a specific VM. This decision could play a pivotal role in yielding high efficiency for... | {
"abstract": "Dynamic migration of virtual machines on a cluster of physical machines is designed to maximize resource utilization by balancing loads across the cluster. When the utilization of a physical machine is beyond a fixed threshold, the machine is deemed overloaded. A virtual machine is then selected within... | {
"abstract": "There are parametric and non-parametric methods for adaptive Hammerstein system identification. The most commonly used method is the non-parametric. In reality, the linear subsystem of a Hammerstein system is not of finite impulse response and non-parametric adaptive algorithms require large matrices a... |
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"abstract": "External business processes involve collaboration with different participants. An integration between systems is usually case by case. We propose a system connection paradigm that the connection across systems are based on a mutual agreed shared ledger, and together with business processes modelling ca... | {
"abstract": "Blockchain is an emerging technology for decentralised and transactional data sharing across a large network of untrusted participants. It enables new forms of distributed software architectures, where agreement on shared states can be established without trusting a central integration point. A major d... | {
"abstract": "The paper presents first experiences on an overhead crane platform targeted for university education, research, and innovation purposes. The main contributions feature a description of projects from the first year after the inauguration of the crane platform. To provide a basic perception on the potent... |
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"abstract": "Supply chains in East Asia are being redesigned following the reassessment of the risk of disruption through terrorist attacks. The nature of these risks and of the costs of the private sector responses is reviewed. The research available suggests the costs incurred are substantial. Government regulati... | {
"abstract": "Arrangements for regional economic integration, under the WTO system, have unexpectedly dominated globalization. In fact, countries that have realized economic arrangements, such as the EU 's monetary union, are further expanding their efforts to achieve political integration. Regional economic integra... | {
"abstract": "Abstract The rise of bike sharing has been phenomenal in China. However, few studies have focused on it relation to subjective well-being. Here we develop an integrated model to investigate factors that affect the subjective well-being of shared bike users in China. An online survey of 908 users was co... |
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"abstract": "This paper presents a dc-dc conversion system consisting of a switched-capacitor voltage tripler and a low-dropout regulator (LDO) for transcutaneous-powered cochlear implants. Break-before-make mechanism is developed in the tripler to improve the power efficiency and reduces the output glitch. The cur... | {
"abstract": "Switching noise reduction techniques for integrated switched-capacitor cross-coupled voltage doublers, which use a break-before-make mechanism and have an increase of resistance of the serial power transistors during turn-on, are presented in this paper. Implemented in a 0.6-/spl mu/m CMOS process, exp... | {
"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nWe assessed the risk of delayed subdural hematoma and other complications associated with subdural grid implantation.\n\n\nMETHODS\nForty-nine patients underwent subdural grid implantation with/without subdural strips or depth electrodes from January 1994 to August 1998. To identify the ris... |
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"abstract": "In this paper we present a method for localisation of facial landmarks on human and sheep. We introduce a new feature extraction scheme called triplet-interpolated feature used at each iteration of the cascaded shape regression framework. It is able to extract features from similar semantic location gi... | {
"abstract": "We present a new approach to localize extensive facial landmarks with a coarse-to-fine convolutional network cascade. Deep convolutional neural networks (DCNN) have been successfully utilized in facial landmark localization for two-fold advantages: 1) geometric constraints among facial points are impli... | {
"abstract": "With the rise of digital photography and social networking, people are sharing personal photos online at an unprecedented rate. In addition to their main subject matter, photographs often capture various incidental information that could harm people's privacy. While blurring and other image filters may... |
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"abstract": "Sundance is a system of software components that allows construction of an entire parallel simulator and its derivatives using a high-level symbolic language. With this high-level problem description, it is possible to specify a weak formulation of a PDE and its discretization method in a small amount ... | {
"abstract": "Graphpartitioninghasbeenshown to beaneffective way to divide a largecomputationover an arbitrarynumber of processors.A goodpartitioningcanensureload balanceandminimize the communicationoverheadof the computationby partitioningan irregularmeshinto p equalpartswhile minimizing thenumberof edgescut by the... | {
"abstract": "In wireless sensor networks (WSNs), due to scarce resources like energy, computational capability and storage space as well as rapid change in wireless link characteristics such as signal strength, interference, and multi-path propagation, how to provide a reliable data transmission in WSNs while prolo... |
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"abstract": "We have realized an integer quantum Hall system with superconducting contacts by connecting graphene to niobium electrodes. Below their upper critical field of 4 T, an integer quantum Hall effect coexists with superconductivity in the leads but with a plateau conductance that is larger than in the norm... | {
"abstract": "We have studied the interplay of Andreev reflection and cyclotron motion of quasiparticles at a superconductor-normal-metal interface with a strong magnetic field applied parallel to the interface. Bound states are formed due to the confinement introduced by both the external magnetic field and the sup... | {
"abstract": "A difficult challenge in geometrical acoustic modeling is computing propagation paths from sound sources to receivers fast enough for interactive applications. This paper describes a beam tracing method that enables interactive updates of propagation paths from a stationary source to a moving receiver ... |
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"abstract": "Computer activities such as writing documents and playing games are becoming more and more popular in our daily life. These activities (especially if identified in a non-intrusive manner) can be used to facilitate context-aware services. In this paper, we propose to recognize computer activities throug... | {
"abstract": "We examine the problem of keyboard acoustic emanations. We present a novel attack taking as input a 10-minute sound recording of a user typing English text using a keyboard and recovering up to 96% of typed characters. There is no need for training recordings labeled with the corresponding clear text. ... | {
"abstract": "This article summarizes key results of our work on experimental characterization and analysis of latency variation and latency-reliability trade-offs in modern DRAM chips, which was published in SIGMETRICS 2016, and examines the work's significance and future potential. \nThe goal of this work is to (i... |
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"abstract": "We study the problem of generating interpretable and verifiable policies through reinforcement learning. Unlike the popular Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) paradigm, in which the policy is represented by a neural network, the aim in Programmatically Interpretable Reinforcement Learning is to find a p... | {
"abstract": "Fuzzing has become the de facto standard technique for finding software vulnerabilities. However, even state-of-the-art fuzzers are not very efficient at finding hard-to-trigger software bugs. Most popular fuzzers use evolutionary guidance to generate inputs that can trigger different bugs. Such evolut... | {
"abstract": "We propose an online tracking algorithm that adaptively models target appearances based on an online gradient boosting decision tree. Our algorithm is particularly useful for non-rigid and/or articulated objects since it handles various deformations of the target effectively by integrating a classifier... |
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"abstract": "Compared to traditional desktop software, Android applications are delivered through software repositories, commonly known as application markets. Other mobile platforms, such as Apple iOS and BlackBerry OS also use the marketplace model, but what is unique to Android is the existence of a plethora of ... | {
"abstract": "Mobile application markets such as the Android Marketplace provide a centralized showcase of applications that end users can purchase or download for free onto their mobile phones. Despite the influx of applications to the markets, applications are cursorily reviewed by marketplace maintainers due to t... | {
"abstract": "Detecting code clones has many software engineering applications. Existing approaches either do not scale to large code bases or are not robust against minor code modifications. In this paper, we present an efficient algorithm for identifying similar subtrees and apply it to tree representations of sou... |
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"abstract": "The presence of indole-3-butyric acid (IBA) as an endogenous auxin in Arabidopsis has been recently demonstrated. However, the in vivo role of IBA remains to be elucidated. We present the characterization of a semi-dominant mutant that is affected in its response to IBA, but shows a wild-type response ... | {
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"title": "Growth- and Inhibiting-Substances in Relation to the Rest Period of the Potato Tuber"
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"abstract": "The plant growth hormone indoleacetic acid (IAA) transcriptionally activates gene expression in plants. Some of the genes whose expression is induced by IAA encode a family of proteins in pea (PS-IAA4 and PS-IAA6) and Arabidopsis (IAA1 and IAA2) that contain putative nuclear localization signals that d... |
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"title": "Indra: A Word Embedding and Semantic Relatedness Server."
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"abstract": null,
"corpus_id": 10013714,
"title": "Investigating Different Syntactic Context Types and Context Representations for Learning Word Embeddings"
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"abstract": "Fungal species undergo many morphological transitions to adapt to changing environments, an important quality especially in fungal pathogens. For decades, Candida albicans has been one of the most prevalent human fungal pathogens, and recently, the prevalence of Candida tropicalis as a causative agent ... |
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"abstract": "Abstract: With the draft sequence of the human genome available and an increasing number of organisms being sequenced, attention is becoming focused on sequence interpretation and functional analysis. Comparative genomics will play an important role in evaluating these data. At the molecular level, rol... | {
"abstract": "Fugu rubripes (Fugu) has one of the smallest recorded vertebrate genomes and is an economic tool for comparative DNA sequence analysis. Initial characterization of 128 kb of Fugu DNA attributed the compactness of this genome, in part, to a sparseness of repetitive DNA sequence compared with mammalian g... | {
"abstract": "The Tapasin molecule is a member of the immunoglobulin (Ig) superfamily required for the association of TAP transporters and MHC class I heterodimers in the endoplasmic reticulum. In this study, the Tapasin gene was precisely mapped in relation to the MHC. The gene was centromeric of the HLA‐DP locus b... |
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"abstract": "The recent characterization of plasticity in the mouse visual cortex permits the use of mutant mice to investigate the cellular mechanisms underlying activity-dependent development. As calcium-dependent signaling pathways have been implicated in neuronal plasticity, we examined visual cortical plastici... | {
"abstract": "Cortical plasticity seems to be critical for the establishment of permanent memory traces. Little is known, however, about the molecular and cellular processes that support consolidation of memories in cortical networks. Here we show that mice heterozygous for a null mutation of α-calcium-calmodulin ki... | {
"abstract": "Polyclonal antibodies were raised against an oligopeptide containing an amino acid sequence specific for beta I protein kinase C (PKC) in order to localize this subspecies of PKC in the rat brain. beta I PKC immunoreactivity was widely distributed but discretely localized in particular brain regions. T... |
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"abstract": "Abstract In this paper, we present a novel continuous field based free-form surface modeling and morphing algorithm. Polyhedra are used in our algorithm as the skeletons of the free-form surfaces. Unlike the conventional methods, we first construct a continuous field from each skeleton using variationa... | {
"abstract": "This paper presents a new morphing method based on the “as-rigid-as-possible” approach. Unlike the original as-rigid-as-possible method, we avoid the need to construct a consistent tetrahedral mesh, but instead require a consistent triangle surface mesh and from it create a tetrahedron for each surface... | {
"abstract": "Evaluating Reusable Class LibrariesTimothy Korson, Clemson University\nObject-oriented technology not only affects the way we designindividual applications, it holds the potential of ushering in thesoftware industrial revolution. A key to the success of objecttechnology is the widespread availability o... |
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"abstract": "Ochratoxin A (OA) production of 92 isolates belonging to the A. niger aggregate was tested. All these isolates were grouped into the two proposed species A. niger and A. tubingensis, according to their ITS-5.8S rDNA RFLP patterns. The distribution of the isolates into the two species was very similar s... | {
"abstract": "The natural occurrence of aflatoxin B1 (AFB1) and ochratoxin A (OTA) has been surveyed in 47 samples of commercial green coffee beans. Samples were collected in Nagoya City, Japan, during 1988–93. Using a combination of immunoaffinity chromatography and high‐performance liquid chromatography analysis, ... | {
"abstract": "Abstract In the environmental monitoring at gas stations, total petroleum hydrocarbons (TPH) and aromatic hydrocarbons, such as benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, and xylenes (BTEX), are determined to verify soil contamination. However, the determination by conventional GC requires a long time of analysis... |
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"abstract": "Short chain chlorinated paraffins (SCCPs) are high production volume chemicals in China and found to be widely present in the environment. In this study, fifty-one surface sediments and two sediment cores were collected from the East China Sea to study their occurrence, distribution patterns and potent... | {
"abstract": "It is increasingly recognized that air pollution is transported on mid-latitude westerly winds from Eurasia to the Pacific Ocean basin and across to North America. This trans-Pacific pollution reaches North America and may have substantial impacts on ecosystems and climate in the entire Pacific region.... | {
"abstract": "More than 70 soil samples were analysed in the last several years; results are in the range 0.10-3.74 Bq/kg dry soil, with a median of 0.49 and mean of 0.59 Bq/kg dry soil. From the analysis of more than 40 moss samples, the range of activity concentration was found to be 0.002-2.80 Bq/kg fresh mass wi... |
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"abstract": "a synthetic population assembled from beetles collected all over Israel, were employed in a two way selection program for high and for low sex ratio. Different types of response to selection have been demonstrated by the four populations, revealing different modes of inheritance. In the synthetic popul... | {
"abstract": "It is a well known fact, noticed by many workers engaged in breeding hymenopterous parasites, that there is a tendency in many bisexual species for the sex-ratio to decrease as the breeding work proceeds over a series of generations. In a number of cases the sex-ratio decreases to an extent where only ... | {
"abstract": "Unstented homograft valves offer several theoretical advantages when used for patients who have had previous operations on the aortic valve. Between January 1970 and February 1993, 177 patients received unstented homograft valves after previous aortic valve operations. One hundred thirty-four patients ... |
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"abstract": "Esophageal distension causes simultaneous relaxation of the lower esophageal sphincter (LES) and crural diaphragm. The mechanism of crural diaphragm relaxation during esophageal distension is not well understood. We studied the motion of crural and costal diaphragm along with the motion of the distal e... | {
"abstract": "Swallow and esophageal distension-induced relaxations of the lower esophageal sphincter (LES) are associated with an orad movement of the LES because of a concurrent esophageal longitudinal muscle contraction. We hypothesized that the esophageal longitudinal muscle contraction induces a cranially direc... | {
"abstract": "Objectives: Endoscopic examination of the colon is indicated in children with diarrhea, hematochezia and suspected inflammatory bowel disease. The aim of this study was to determine the rate of patient-reported symptoms after colonoscopy and flexible sigmoidoscopy under general anesthesia in children. ... |
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"abstract": "INTRODUCTION\nTherapeutic plasma 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) levels are achieved in only 20% to 30% of patients with the current practice of administering 5-FU doses based on body surface area (BSA). Alternatively, 5-FU doses can be adjusted based on 5-FU pharmacokinetic (PK) monitoring. Although benefits of... | {
"abstract": "Hepatic arterial catheters were placed for therapy in 8 patients with primary or metastatic liver cancer. Temporary hepatic venous catheters allowed direct sampling of blood for hepatic venous drug concentrations. Patients were administered from three to six infusions at rates of 10, 30, 90, 135, 180, ... | {
"abstract": "PVI 5FU gives increased response rates and reduced toxicity when compared to bolus 5FU (J Clin Oncol 1989, 425–432). PVI 5FU administration was reported to give highly variable (>1000-fold) plasma 5FU concentrations at steady state (FU Css) which correlated with toxicity (Ann Oncol 1996, 47–53); but on... |
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"abstract": "In machine learning, we wish to find general patterns from a given set of examples, and in many cases we can naturally represent each example as a set of vectors rather than just a vector. In this expository paper, we show how to represent a learning problem in this “bag of tuples” approach and define ... | {
"abstract": "We introduce a new class of kernels between distributions. These induce a kernel on the input space between data points by associating to each datum a generative model fit to the data point individually. The kernel is then computed by integrating the product of the two generative models corresponding t... | {
"abstract": "Queues are a widely used data structure in programming languages. They also provide an important synchronization mechanism in modeling distributed protocols. In this paper we extend the theory of queues with a length function that maps a queue to its size, resulting in a combined theory of queues and P... |
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"abstract": "Visual Abstract Preoperative molecular imaging is paramount to direct surgery in primary hyperparathyroidism (pHPT). We investigated the diagnostic performance of 18F-fluorocholine (18F-FCH) PET/CT compared with 11C-methionine (11C-MET) PET/CT for localization of hyperfunctioning parathyroid tissue in ... | {
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"title": "F18-choline PET/CT guided surgery in primary hyperparathyroidism when ultrasound and MIBI SPECT/CT are negative or inconclusive: the APACH1 study"
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"abstract": "A 71-year-old man was referred for F18-fluorocholine (F18-choline) positron emission tomography (PET)/ computed tomography (CT) because of suspected prostate cancer recurrence after radical prostatectomy. The F18choline PET/CT was negative for recurrent prostate cancer. However, intense choline uptake ... |
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"abstract": "Currently the multiple wireless data transmission technologies have been commercially implemented, such as long-term evolution (LTE), Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth. There is a keen requirement to combine the power amplifiers for those technologies into a single one which can amplifies concurrent multi-band sign... | {
"abstract": "This paper presents a novel power amplifier (PA) architecture for amplifying dual-carrier signals with simultaneous high efficiency and high linearity. This dual-carrier PA is based on two high-efficiency PAs and an innovative RF carrier combiner, which is a diplexer implemented with bandstop filters (... | {
"abstract": "We propose a novel method for the verification of information flow security in component-based systems. The method is (a) modular w.r.t. services and components, i.e., overall security is proved to follow from the security of the individual services provided by the components, and (b) modular w.r.t. at... |
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"abstract": "We studied the mouse NC tumour, a subcutaneously transplanted adenocarcinoma originally of mammary origin. Measurements per g tissue were made of 17 fatty acids (FAs), the combined amounts of n-3, n-6, saturated, unsaturated, and total FAs, and of various FA ratios in the tumour, mammary tissue, spleen... | {
"abstract": "We examined the influence of diets supplemented with fish and vegetable oils on fatty acid and prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) contents in livers of non-7,12-dimethylbenz[a]anthracene (DMBA)- and DMBA-treated rats, and in DMBA-induced tumours. Decreased concentrations of saturated fatty acids and increased uns... | {
"abstract": "Poor upper-limb coordination is a common difficulty for children with developmental coordination disorder (DCD). One hypothesis is that deviant muscle timing in proximal muscle groups results in poor postural and movement control. The relationship between muscle timing, arm motion and children's upper-... |
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"abstract": "Eikenella corrodens is part of the normal flora of the mouth and upper respiratory tract and is usually associated with dental and head and neck infections. We report a case of Eikenella discitis occurring soon after spinal surgery in an otherwise healthy patient, review the literature on bone and join... | {
"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nSubgaleal abscesses and skull osteomyelitis are very uncommon since the introduction of antibiotics. Eikenella corrodens infection is extremely rare in childhood and has never been reported in calvarial osteomyelitis.\n\n\nMETHODS\nWe present a previously healthy 9-year-old boy, with a hist... | {
"abstract": "Nine cases of pyogenic vertebral osteomyelitis from the present series and 309 cases from the literature were reviewed. Elderly males and diabetics were found to be particularly susceptible to the disease. Neck or back pain was present in 92% of the patients and lasted for longer than three months in >... |
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"abstract": "Traditionally data used in on-line analytical processing (OLAP) has limited to the content of one data warehouse of the company. However, analysis needs are often more advantages and data is needed from different sources. We study how the semantics of data sources can be described to allow combining da... | {
"abstract": "On-Line Analytical Processing (OLAP) is a powerful method for analysing large data warehouse data. Typically, the data for an OLAP database is collected from a set of data repositories such as e.g. operational databases. This data set is often huge, and it may not be known in advance what data is requi... | {
"abstract": "Roadway departure (RwD) crashes, comprising run-off-road (ROR) and cross-median/centerline head-on collisions, are one of the most lethal crash types. Nationwide, from 2014 to 2016, annual RwD crashes accounted for 53% of all motor vehicle traffic fatalities. Several factors may cause a driver leave th... |
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"abstract": "We used a double-immunostaining technique to analyze the distribution of bcl-2+ B and T lymphocytes within the synovial membranes (SM) of 13 patients with rheumatic diseases: 11 with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), 1 with ankylosing spondylitis (AS), and 1 with osteoarthritis (OA). A high proportion (up to ... | {
"abstract": "SummaryThe presence of proliferating cells has been sought in the synovium of rheumatoid arthritic (RA) and osteoarthritic (OA) joints using the monoclonal antibody Ki67, which marks a nuclear antigen present in all stages of the cell cycle apart from Go. Synovia were studied from 21 RA and 14 OA cases... | {
"abstract": "Beige mice carry a gene (bg) which codes for the presence of giant intracellular granules in a variety of cell types. Bone marrow from beige mice was transplanted into irradiated normal mice. Giant granules similar to those seen in beige mouse synovial cells were observed subsequently in the synovial l... |
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"abstract": "NELL-1 is a secreted, osteogenic protein first discovered to control ossification of the cranial skeleton. Recently, NELL-1 has been implicated in bone maintenance. However, the cellular determinants of NELL-1's bone-forming effects are still unknown. Here, recombinant human NELL-1 (rhNELL-1) implantat... | {
"abstract": "NELL-1 is an osteogenic protein first discovered to control ossification of the cranium. NELL-1 exists in at least two isoforms. The full-length NELL-1 contains 810 amino acid (aa) (NELL-1810), the N-terminal-truncated NELL-1 isoform contains 570 aa (NELL-1570). The differences in cellular effects betw... | {
"abstract": "SummaryMelanotrophic cells of the pars intermedia of the rabbit were studied at the electron-microscopic level by means of the immuno-gold technique with the use of antisera against γ3-MSH and α-MSH. Both antibodies labelled all secretory vesicles stored in the peripheral cytoplasm, but secretory vesic... |
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"abstract": "Scientific uncertainty permeates the issue of climate change, and public policy decisions must be made in the context of this uncertainty. This article describes interviews with high school students and specialists (scientists and policy analysts) about reasons for scientific disagreement about climate... | {
"abstract": "El articulo aborda el critico tema de la educacion y la comunicacion para el cambio climatico. Los programas educativos sobre este vital asunto consisten en procesos de alfabetizacion cientifica con base en informacion que gravita en torno de los hallazgos de la ciencia climatica, sin considerar la exp... | {
"abstract": "Atmospheric methane (CH4) concentrations have more than doubled over the last two centuries. These increases may contribute to global warming, enhance formation of tropospheric ozone, suppress OH and affect stratospheric ozone. Calculations show that stabilization of CH4 could reduce projected temperat... |
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"abstract": "We previously described two Finnish families with a new autosomal dominant late-onset spinal motor neuronopathy that was mapped to chromosome 22q11.2-q13.2. In the current screening study of 43 lower motor neuron disease patients from Finland and Sweden, we identified 26 new late-onset spinal motor neu... | {
"abstract": "The distal hereditary motor neuropathies (dHMNs) are a heterogeneous group of neurodegenerative disorders affecting the lower motoneuron. In a family with both autosomal-dominant dHMN and dHMN type V (dHMN/dHMN-V) present in three generations, we excluded mutations in all genes known to be associated w... | {
"abstract": "In this review we focus on Charcot-Marie-Tooth (CMT) neuropathies and hereditary spastic paraplegias (HSPs). Although these diseases differ in whether they primarily affect the peripheral or central nervous system, both are genetically determined, progressive, long axonopathies that affect motor and se... |
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"abstract": "Yuo-Hsien Shiau ⁎, Jia-Hong Sie , Sai-Ping Li d a Graduate Institute of Applied Physics, National Chengchi University, Taipei 11605, Taiwan, ROC b Research Center for Mind, Brain, and Learning, National Chengchi University, Taipei 11605, Taiwan, ROC c Institute of Biomedical Engineering, National Yang-... | {
"abstract": "An empirical algorithm is used here to study the stochastic and multifractal nature of nonlinear time series. A parameter can be defined to quantitatively measure the deviation of the time series from a Wiener process so that the stochasticity of different time series can be compared. The local volatil... | {
"abstract": "Confocal microscopy is widely used for three-dimensional (3D) sample reconstructions. Arguably, the most significant challenge in such reconstructions is posed by the resolution along the optical axis being significantly lower than in the lateral directions. In addition, the imaging rate is lower along... |
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"abstract": "Phenolic compounds in wines, especially in red wines, possess strong antioxidant activity, have the largest effect in decreasing atherosclerosis by both hypolipemic and antioxidant mechanisms. The long-term uptake of red wine has a positive impact on antioxidant activity (AA) of blood plasma in rats in... | {
"abstract": "Biomaterials releasing bactericides have currently become tools for thwarting medical device-associated infections. The ideal anti-infective biomaterial must counteract infection while safeguarding eukaryotic cell integrity. Red wine is a widely consumed beverage to which many biological properties are... | {
"abstract": "Volatile components from the leaves of Ziziphora taurica subsp. taurica have been isolated by steam distillation, superheated-water extraction, and direct thermal desorption techniques. The volatile components were characterized by comprehensive two dimensional gas chromatography–time of flight mass sp... |
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"abstract": "The Fisher kernel (FK) is a generic framework which combines the benefits of generative and discriminative approaches. In the context of image classification the FK was shown to extend the popular bag-of-visual-words (BOV) by going beyond count statistics. However, in practice, this enriched representa... | {
"abstract": "Deriving from the gradient vector of a generative model of local features, Fisher vector coding (FVC) has been identified as an effective coding method for image classification. Most, if not all, FVC implementations employ the Gaussian mixture model (GMM) to characterize the generation process of local... | {
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"abstract": "Abstract Tetracarboxylate pyrroline nitroxides undergo very fast reduction with ascorbate/glutathione (GSH), with second-order rate constants that are five orders of magnitude greater than those for gem-diethyl pyrroline nitroxides. For tetracarboxylate nitroxides, the electrochemical reduction potenti... | {
"abstract": "Nitroxides are a class of stable free radicals that have several biomedical applications including radioprotection and noninvasive assessment of tissue redox status. For both of these applications, it is necessary to understand the in vivo biodistribution and reduction of nitroxides. In this study, mag... | {
"abstract": "A specific method for the gas chromatographic determination of chloroquine (CQ) after derivatization with chloroformates, using 9-bromophenanthrene as the internal standard and a column filled with 3% OV-17 on 80-100 mesh Supelcoport is described. Derivatization with chloroformates produced a pyrrolidi... |
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"abstract": "IntroductionThe combination of a pituitary prolactinoma and an aldosterone-producing adrenal adenoma is extremely rare. To the best of our knowledge, double endocrine tumors in association with heart-hand syndrome have not previously been reported.Case presentationA 21-year-old Japanese woman presented... | {
"abstract": "The association of upper limb malformations and congenital cardiac anomalies was established as a definite clinical and genetic entity by Holt & Oram in 1960. Significant variability of malformations in both the upper limbs and the cardiovascular system has been well documented. In 1978, Temtamy & McKu... | {
"abstract": "Ten patients (11 eyes) with sickle-C hemoglobinopathy with complications of proliferative sickle retinopathy were treated using pars plana vitrectomy with or without the use of a scleral buckle. Postoperative visual acuity was improved in ten of 11 cases. Three cases of retinal detachment were managed ... |
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"abstract": "Circuit techniques that overcome practical noise, reliability, and EMI limitations are reported. An auxiliary loop with ramping circuits suppresses pop-and-click noise to 1 mV for an amplifier with 4 V-achievable output voltage. Switching edge rate control enables the system to meet the EN55022 Class-B... | {
"abstract": "A third-order self-oscillating class D audio amplifier that utilizes a hysteretic comparator is presented. The design is analyzed and its THD is theoretically determined by employing an equivalent model, that relates the approach to natural sampling pulse-width modulation. The architecture eliminates t... | {
"abstract": "With contactless inductive power transfer (IPT), it is possible to transfer electrical energy to stationary or movable consumers without contacts, cables, or slip rings. To reduce the very high development effort of new contactless inductive energy supplies, a new systematic and modular design methodol... |
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"abstract": "ABSTRACT Classified as a distinct species in 1980, Lactobacillus reuteri strains have been used in probiotic formulations for intestinal and urogenital applications. In the former, the primary mechanism of action of L. reuteri SD2112 (ATCC 55730) has been purported to be its ability to produce the anti... | {
"abstract": "Some probiotic strains of lactobacilli appear to be protective against vulvovaginal candidiasis. The vaginal epithelial cell line (VK2 E6/E7) was used as a model to assess the protective mechanisms of probiotic lactobacilli for cells chal- lenged with Candida albicans. Co-culture of VK2 cells with Lact... | {
"abstract": "One of the greatest challenges in anti-doping science is the large number of substances available and the difficulty in finding the best analytical targets to detect their misuse. Therefore, metabolism studies involving prohibited substances are fundamental. However, metabolism studies in humans could ... |
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"abstract": "This paper presents a series of recent improvements made on the P300 speller paradigm in the context of the CoAdapt project. The flashing sequence is elicited by a new design called RIPRAND, in which the flashing rate of elements can be controlled independently of grid cardinality. Element-based eviden... | {
"abstract": "Within the Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) community, Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCIs) have raised great hopes as they provide alternative communication means for persons with disabilities bypassing the need for speech and other motor activities. Although significant advancements have been realized in th... | {
"abstract": "As part of our work on building a \"knowledgeable textbook\" about biology, we are developing a textual question-answering (QA) system that can answer certain classes of biology questions posed by users. In support of that, we are building a \"textual KB\" - an assembled set of semi-structured assertio... |
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"abstract": "This paper presents a novel structure composed of electrically small particles and transmission line to harvest and channel infrared power to a potential load. The proposed harvester is numerically proven able to harvest more than 80% of infrared power at a normal incidence angle. The dispersion effect... | {
"abstract": "Solar energy is the most abundant and reliable source of energy we have to provide for the multi-terawatt challenge we are facing. Although huge, this resource is relatively dispersed. High conversion efficiency is probably necessary for cost effectiveness. Solar cell efficiencies above 40% have been a... | {
"abstract": "Model predictive torque control (MPTC) is emerging as a powerful control scheme for high performance control of induction motor (IM) drives. Compared to direct torque control, MPTC is more effective and accurate in voltage vector selection by incorporating the system model directly with the finite swit... |
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"abstract": "Hsp70s assist in the process of protein folding through nucleotide-controlled cycles of substrate binding and release by alternating from an ATP-bound state in which the affinity for substrate is low to an ADP-bound state in which the affinity for substrate is high. It has been long recognized that the... | {
"abstract": "Heat shock protein 70 kDa (Hsp70) is a conserved molecular chaperone family involved in several functions related to protein homeostasis. In eukaryotes, Hsp70 homologues are found in all cell compartments. The mitochondrial Hsp70 isoform (mtHsp70) is involved in import of mitochondrial matrix proteins ... | {
"abstract": "For human hemoglobin, a pronounced dependence of oxygenation curves upon protein concentration can be demonstrated experimentally in the range between 10(-4) and 2 X 10(-6) M heme. The effects of such protein concentration dependence upon analysis of saturation curves have been explored using a model-i... |
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"abstract": "In the present study, we sequenced and analyzed the mitochondrial (mt) genome of Gastrothylax crumenifer and compared it with other selected trematodes. The full mt genome of G. crumenifer was amplified, sequenced, assembled, analyzed and then subjected to phylogenetic analysis. The complete mt genome ... | {
"abstract": "The complete mitochondrial (mt) genome of the trematode Echinochasmus japonicus Tanabe, 1926 was fully determined and annotated. The circular mt molecule of this species is 15,865bp in length, containing 12 protein-coding genes (arranged in the following order: cox3-cob-nad4L-nad4-atp6-nad2-nad1-nad3-c... | {
"abstract": "China has an ageing population with the number of older people living alone increasing. Living alone may increase the risk of loneliness of older people, especially for those in China where collectivism and filial piety are emphasised. Social support may fill the need for social contacts, thereby allev... |
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"abstract": "Selective suprapubic urine aspiration was performed in 905 of 12 942 consecutive live-born infants and showed the presence of infection in 64 (0-5%). A majority (84%) of the infected infants were males. Radiological abnormalities were detected in 35 (55%). Because of this high incidence of abnormalitie... | {
"abstract": "OBJECTIVE\nTo track the clinical evolution of febrile urinary tract infection (UTI) diagnosed in 0- to 3-month-old infants and characterize uropathogen frequencies, antimicrobial resistance rates, renal abnormalities, and differences in the sexes in this age group.\n\n\nSTUDY DESIGN\nWe observed prospe... | {
"abstract": "Adhesion, proliferation and differentiation of dental pulp stem cells (DPSCs) into chondrocytes were investigated in this work with the purpose of broadening the array of cell alternatives to the therapy of cartilage lesions related to tissue engineering approaches. A porous chitosan-xanthan (C-X) matr... |
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"abstract": "In this work, the introduction to the traditional magnetic high frequency transformers is provided along with the trending piezoelectric transformers. The working principle of magnetic transformer is explained in comparison with the piezoelectric transformer. This paper provides a glimpse of existing a... | {
"abstract": "The idea of a piezoelectric transformer (PT) was first implemented by Rosen (Rosen, 1956), as shown in Fig.1. It used the coupling effect between electrical and mechanical energy of piezoelectric materials. A sinusoidal signal is used to excite mechanical vibrations by the inverse piezoelectric effect ... | {
"abstract": "Wireless network sensors consist of a large number of pocket-sized sensors deployed in autonomous manner in the area under surveillance. The sensor networks are used in sensitive, unattended and remote environment. They have a wide range of applications and are used in almost every field like agricultu... |
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"abstract": "AB Purpose: Large physical activity surveillance projects such as the UK Biobank and NHANES are using wrist-worn accelerometer-based activity monitors that collect raw data. The goal is to increase wear time by asking subjects to wear the monitors on the wrist instead of the hip, and then to use inform... | {
"abstract": "A new method of physical activity monitoring is presented, which is able to detect body postures (sifting, standing, and lying) and periods of walking in elderly persons using only one kinematic sensor attached to the chest. The wavelet transform, in conjunction with a simple kinematics model, was used... | {
"abstract": "Detection of affective states in speech could improve the way users interact with electronic devices. However the analysis of speech at the acoustic level could be not enough to determine the emotion of a user speaking in a realistic scenario. In this paper we analysed the spontaneous speech recordings... |
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"abstract": "In this paper, a conceptual framework for integrated uncertainty analysis is developed. The goal of the framework is to help identify all sorts of uncertainties in an integrated way and to assist the development of strategies to deal with major uncertainties, acknowledging that a significant part of th... | {
"abstract": "Emerging renewable energy technologies cannot break through without the involvement of entrepreneurs who dare to take action amidst uncertainty. The uncertainties that the entrepreneurs involved perceive will greatly affect their innovation decisions and can prevent them from engaging in innovation pro... | {
"abstract": "A design of high performance modular adder with an application of FIR filter is implemented in this paper. Moduli set in the form of 2 n -2 k -1 (1≤k≤n-2) can offer excellent balance among RNS channels for multichannel RNS processing. Modular adder can be used in RNS addition, multiplication and divisi... |
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"abstract": "The present study was designed to investigate the dose‐dependent direct effect of corticosterone on adult rat Leydig cell steroidogenesis in vitro. Leydig cells were isolated from the testis of normal adult male albino rats, purified on discontinuous Percoll gradient and plated in culture plates/flasks... | {
"abstract": "ABSTRACT Environmental stress affects various parts of mammals typically through the circulation of stress hormones. It has been identified as one of the possible reasons for male reproductive difficulties, but the complex mechanisms responsible for stress-induced reproductive suppression are poorly un... | {
"abstract": "Adenosine 3 ,5 ' -monophosphate (cAMP) is found in high concentration in nervous tissuOZ, 34 where it probably acts as a 'second messenger' in response to intracellular electrical or biochemical signals4,5,35, 44. cAMP is also present in the perfusate of these cell cultures and in extracellular fluid, ... |
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"abstract": "The worldwide incidence of gastric adenocarcinoma (GC) is lower in women than in men. Furthermore, cancer patients treated with estrogens have been reported to have a lower subsequent risk of GC. The authors conducted a prospective analysis of menstrual and reproductive factors, exogenous hormone use, ... | {
"abstract": "Epidemiological research has indicated that the anti-oestrogen tamoxifen, used in breast cancer therapy, may increase the risk of gastric adenocarcinoma of the intestinal but not of the diffuse type. To test this hypothesis, and evaluate possible involvement of oestrogen receptors (ERs), we conducted a... | {
"abstract": "These are hard times for social welfare advocates. Globalization, devolution, and a conservative political climate have challenged our traditional approaches to advocacy. New advocacy methods that use technology to change public policy have been developed and provide us with new avenues to address the ... |
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"abstract": "The search of substances that minimize cutaneous ageing has increased in the last few years. Previous studies have described the regenerative properties of the secretion of the mollusc Cryptomphalus aspersa (C. aspersa) when applied topically.",
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"abstract": "Regenerative properties of skin decrease with age, and thus, the search for substances that minimize cutaneous ageing has increased in the last few years. The secretion of the mollusc Cryptomphalus Aspersa (SCA) is a natural product that bears regenerative properties when applied topically. The purpose... | {
"abstract": "There is increasing evidence for the generation of reactive oxygen species in skin upon ultraviolet exposure, but little is known about their pathophysiologic relevance in human skin in vivo. We hypothesized that chronic and acute photodamage is mediated by depleted antioxidant enzyme expression and in... |
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"abstract": "Abstract In this study, we analyse viscoelastic numerical solution for an Oldroyd-B model under incompressible and weakly-compressible liquid flow conditions. We consider flow through a planar four-to-one contraction, as a standard benchmark, throughout a range of Weissenberg numbers up to critical lev... | {
"abstract": "Abstract We examine the flow of viscoelastic fluids with various shear and elongational properties in axisymmetric and planar 4:1 contractions, under creeping flow conditions. Particular attention is paid to the influence of elongational viscosity upon vortex enhancement/inhibition. Simulations are per... | {
"abstract": "Multi-Robot Task Allocation (MRTA) addresses the problems related to an efficient job assignment in a team of robots. This paper expresses MRTA as a generalization of the Multiple Traveling Salesman Problem (MTSP) and utilizes evolutionary algorithms (EA) for optimal task assignment. The MTSP version o... |
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"abstract": "The electrical potential difference (PD) between bile and peritoneal cavity of the rat was determined in order to obtain additional information concerning the mechanism of bile formation in this species. A significant negative PD (− 4.4 ± 0.6 mv) was measured in the basal state at a time when the rat w... | {
"abstract": "Summary. \n \nThe effect of cholinergic substances on the thermal receptors of the tongue of the cat has been studied by recording the impulses set up in single thermal fibres. \n \n \n \nMinute amounts of acetylcholine shift the temperature range of the steady discharge of cold fibres towards the warm... | {
"abstract": "Mdx mouse dystrophy is characterized by the absence in the muscle cytoplasmic membrane of a high molecular weight protein called dystrophin. A possible avenue for treatment of muscular dystrophies is to inject normal myoblasts in a dystrophic muscle to form hybrid muscle fibers. Hybrid myotubes were fo... |
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"abstract": "Because small molecules can be beneficial or toxic in biology and the environment, specific and sensitive detection of small molecules is one of the most important objectives of the scientific community. In this study, new signal amplification assays for detection of small molecules based on Mg2+-depen... | {
"abstract": "Engineered nucleic acid hairpin structures are used for the amplified analysis of low-molecular-weight substrates (adenosine monophosphate, AMP) or proteins (lysozyme). The hairpin structures consist of the anti-AMP or antilysozyme aptamer units linked to the horseradish peroxidase (HRP)-mimicking DNAz... | {
"abstract": "In this work, an attempt was made to propose new leads based on the natural scaffold Thiaplakortone-A active against malaria. The 2D QSAR studies suggested that three descriptors correlate with the anti-malarial activity with an R2 value of 0.814. Robustness, reliability, and predictive power of the mo... |
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"abstract": "The design of planar sharp-rejection low-pass and bandpass filters (LPFs and BPFs) featuring a very broad stopband is addressed in this paper. For the LPF case, two new classes of bandstop signal-interference transversal filtering section (TFS) consisting of power directional couplers in reflection mod... | {
"abstract": "Novel compact ultra-wideband (UWB) bandpass filter (BPF) using stub-loaded multiple-mode resonator (MMR) is presented in this letter. The MMR is constructed by loading three open stubs in a uniform-impedance resonator, i.e., one stepped-impedance stub at the center and two uniform-impedance stubs at th... | {
"abstract": "In this letter, spurious passband suppression in microstrip coupled line band pass filters by means of split ring resonators (SRRs) is demonstrated for the first time. By etching SRRs in the upper substrate side, in close proximity to conductor strip, strong magnetic coupling between line and rings ari... |
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"abstract": "This paper presents an extension of a theorem, due to Ness ([5], Theorem 6.2), to the case of real group actions. Ness considers a continuous representation of a complex reductive group G on a complex finite-dimensional vector space V . If k is the Lie algebra of a maximal compact subgroup K of G and g... | {
"abstract": "The purpose of the present expository paper is to give an account of the recent progress and present status of the classification of solvable Lie groups admitting an Einstein left invariant Riemannian metric, the only known examples so far of noncompact Einstein homogeneous manifolds. The problem turns... | {
"abstract": "Throughout the paper, G denotes a compact Lie group and GC the connected component of the identity element in G. If G is a finite group, ord (G) denotes the number of elements in G. If g e G, ord (g) denotes the usual order of g. LEMMA 1. Let G be a compact Lie group and B an integer. Then there are at... |
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"abstract": "SummaryIn rats with cobalt implanted in the right frontal cerebral cortex, acetylcholine (ACh) levels were depressed in the visually non-necotic, surrounding cortex at 7 and 14 days after surgery in comparison with values for controls treated with glass. At 21 days post-implantation, ACh levels were no... | {
"abstract": "Production of bound acetylcholine (ACh) by human epileptogenic cerebral cortex, when incubated in vitro in a high potassium medium, was found to be on the average only very slightly lower than by normal human tissue; production of free ACh was appreciably lower. The presence of glutamine in the medium ... | {
"abstract": "Objectives To perform a meta-analysis of gene expression microarray data from animal studies of lung injury, and to identify an injury-specific gene expression signature capable of predicting the development of lung injury in humans. Methods We performed a microarray meta-analysis using 77 microarray c... |
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"abstract": "The M/GI/m/n queueing system with m homogeneous servers and the finite number n of waiting spaces is studied. Letbe the customers arrival rate, and let µ be the reciprocal of the expected service time of a customer. Under the assumption � = mµ it is proved that the expected number of losses during a bu... | {
"abstract": "A large dam model is the object of study of this paper. The parameters L lower and L upper define its lower and upper levels, L = L upper - L lower is large, and if the current level of water is between these bounds, the dam is assumed to be in a normal state. Passage across one or other of the levels ... | {
"abstract": "Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyse the major development of global citizenship education (GCE) as part of Hong Kong’s secondary school curriculum guidelines, which reveals how it has developed from, first, asking students to understand their responsibilities as citizens to now challengin... |
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"abstract": "This paper addresses the design, construction, and motion control of an adjustable Scotch yoke mechanism generating desired kinematics for dolphin-like robots. Since dolphins propel themselves by dorsoventral oscillations following a sinusoidal path with alterable amplitudes, a two-motor-driven Scotch ... | {
"abstract": "This paper presents the development, control, and experimental evaluation of a bio-inspired underwater vehicle that employs for propulsion a pair of lateral undulatory fins. Each fin is comprised of three actuated fin rays, interconnected by a membrane-like flexible surface. The rays' motion profile is... | {
"abstract": "Generative adversarial networks (GANs) are a framework for producing a generative model by way of a two-player minimax game. In this paper, we propose the \\emph{Generative Multi-Adversarial Network} (GMAN), a framework that extends GANs to multiple discriminators. In previous work, the successful trai... |
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"abstract": "Web site structures are complex to analyze. Cross-referencing the web structure with navigational behaviour adds to the complexity of the analysis. However, this convoluted analysis is necessary to discover useful patterns and understand the navigational behaviour of web site visitors, whether to impro... | {
"abstract": "One reason for poor Web site usability is researchers' lack of understanding about how users surf for information. Predictive Web usage visualizations can help analysts uncover traffic patterns and usability problems. The author describes some of the techniques those in the User Interface Research Grou... | {
"abstract": "VISVIP allows web site developers and usability engineers to visualize the paths taken through the site by the subjects of usability experiments. They can dynamically customize and simplify the graphical layout of the web site, and select which subjects' paths to view. An animated representation of pro... |
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"abstract": "Dear Sir, The blood glucose lowering effect of acarbose, an alpha-glucosidase inhibitor, has been adequately documented by short term studies [1 ~,]. However, a lack of effectiveness with longer term administration of acarbose in patients with Type 2 (non-insulin-dependent) diabetes has been reported [... | {
"abstract": "The present study was undertaken to develop an ointment preparation containing a protease inhibitor for stabilizing subcutaneously injected insulin. The ointment containing the protease inhibitor, gabexate mesilate or nafamostat mesilate, was applied to the skin around the insulin injection site. Three... | {
"abstract": "Two-stage sampling designs are commonly used for household and health surveys. To produce reliable estimators with assorted confidence intervals, some basic statistical properties like consistency and asymptotic normality of the Horvitz-Thompson estimator are desirable , along with the consistency of a... |
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"abstract": "The in vivo hollow fiber assay was developed at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) to help bridge the gap between in vitro cell-based assays and human tumor models propagated in immunodeficient mice. The goal was to develop an intermediate assay that could help predict which compounds found active in ... | {
"abstract": "AbstractHigher plants continue to afford humankind with many new drugs, for a variety of disease types. In this review, recent phytochemical and biological progress is presented for part of a collaborative multi-institutional project directed towards the discovery of new antitumor agents. The specific ... | {
"abstract": "This paper is one of the first to examine how the use of fixed-term employment contracts (FTCs) affects firm competitiveness (i.e. productivity, wages and profits) while controlling for key econometric issues such as time-invariant unobserved workplace characteristics, endogeneity and state dependence.... |
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"abstract": "The new genus Neocampanella (Agaricales, Agaricomycetes, Basidiomycota) is established for Dentocorticium blastanos Boidin & Gilles, a crustose species, and the new combination, Neocampanella blastanos, is proposed. Morphological and molecular studies support the recognition of the new genus and its cl... | {
"abstract": "BackgroundStructural alignment of RNAs is becoming important, since the discovery of functional non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs). Recent studies, mainly based on various approximations of the Sankoff algorithm, have resulted in considerable improvement in the accuracy of pairwise structural alignment. In contr... | {
"abstract": "Group I introns were discovered inserted at the same position in the nuclear small-subunit ribosomal DNA (nuc-ssu-rDNA) in several species of homobasidiomycetes (mushroom-forming fungi). Based on conserved intron sequences, a pair of intron-specific primers was designed for PCR amplification and sequen... |
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"abstract": "A dislocation in a crystalline material has dangling bonds at its core and a strong strain field in its vicinity. Consequently, the dislocation attracts solute atoms and forms a so-called Cottrell atmosphere along the dislocation. A crystalline dislocation can be used as a template to produce nanowires... | {
"abstract": "Basal dislocations having a Burgers vector of 1/3 in zinc oxide (ZnO) with the wurtzite structure are known to strongly affect physical properties in bulk. However, the core structure of the basal dislocation remains unclear. In the present study, ZnO bicrystals with a {2 1 ¯ 1 ¯ 0}/ 2° low-angle tilt ... | {
"abstract": "To enhance the carbon dioxide (CO2) uptake of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), amine functionalization of their pore surfaces has been studied extensively. In general, amine-functionalized MOFs have been synthesized via post-synthetic modifications. Herein, we introduce a one-step construction of a MOF... |
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"abstract": "Four large-area Sunyaev–Zeldovich (SZ) experiments—APEX-SZ, South Pole Telescope, Atacama Cosmology Telescope, and Planck—promise to detect clusters of galaxies through the distortion of cosmic microwave background photons by hot (>106 K) cluster gas (the SZ effect) over thousands of square degrees. A ... | {
"abstract": "We present a catalog of 36,120 QSO candidates from the Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) Release Two (GR2) UV catalog and the USNO-A2.0 optical catalog. The selection criteria are established using known quasars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). The SDSS sample is then used to assign individual... | {
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"abstract": "Therapeutic termination of pregnancy performed during the first trimester was associated with a statistically significant increase in the incidence of second trimester abortion and of premature labour in the next pregnancy. In a series of 520 patients who had previously been aborted 8.1% suffered a mid... | {
"abstract": "Two hundred and eleven patients who had undergone vaginal termination and were pregnant again were investigated; 43-2% had become pregnant within one year of termination. The overall fetal loss in the 211 patients was 17-5% compared with 7-5% in a group matched for parity but consisting of patients who... | {
"abstract": "US biotech sector revenue is estimated to have grown on average >10% each year over the past decade—much faster than the rest of the economy. A more comprehensive assessment of biotech's economic contribution, however, will require improved data collection, classification and analysis.",
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"abstract": "Bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells (BMSCs) transplantation is beneficial for the treatment of acute kidney injury (AKI), but the poor survival of BMSCs limits the repair effect. The oxidative stress in the AKI microenvironment is regarded as the main reason. Considering the potent anti-oxidant ... | {
"abstract": "Silicosis is an occupational lung disease caused by exposure to small particles of crystalline silica, which ultimately results in diffuse pulmonary fibrosis. Evidence indicates an anti-fibrotic role of bone morphogenetic protein-7 (BMP-7) and bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells (BMSCs) in lung diseases... | {
"abstract": "CI-922 (3,7-dimethoxy-4-phenyl-N-1H-tetrazol-5-yl-4H-furo[3,2-b]-indole- 2-carboxamide, L-arginine salt) is a novel antiallergy compound which inhibits the release of the inflammatory mediators histamine and leukotriene (LT) from stimulated cells. CI-922 showed potent, effective inhibition of antigen-i... |
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"abstract": "Aim Gonioscopy is used to exam the anterior chamber angle and the neighbouring structures. Gonioscopy can be performed using a contact lens, with the patient sitting at the slit lamp or in a supine position. Due to the total inner reflection of the cornea, the anterior chamber angle would otherwise be ... | {
"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nVisualization of the anterior chamber angle (ACA) is an important diagnostic part of evaluating patients with glaucoma. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the intra- and interobserver variability and reliability of the ACA and angle opening distance (AOD) measurements using optical c... | {
"abstract": "This paper addresses the issue of conservatism in the stability robustness bound obtained by the Lyapunov matrix equation solution. Ellipsoidal set-theoretical approach is employed to improve the bound on the interval uncertainty of an asymptotically stable linear system for robust stability. The formu... |
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"abstract": "Light field imaging involves capturing both angular and spatial distribution of light; it enables new capabilities, such as post-capture digital refocusing, perspective shift, and depth estimation. Micro-lens array (MLA) based light field cameras provide a cost-effective approach to light field imaging... | {
"abstract": "Current light field (LF) cameras provide low spatial resolution and limited depth-of-field (DOF) control when compared to traditional digital SLR (DSLR) cameras. We show that a hybrid imaging system consisting of a standard LF camera and a high-resolution standard camera enables (a) achieve high-resolu... | {
"abstract": "Laminar throughflow between finite parallel disks, one stationary and the other rotating, can be characterized by four dimensionless parameters in the general case. But, if the ratio of disk spacing to disk radius is small, an approximate definition of the flow may be made with reference to a single pa... |
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"abstract": "Appropriate treatment of a poisoned patient requires knowing the identity of the poison. This review summarizes the methods for identifying poisoning by organophosphorus and carbamate poisons. Mass spectrometry methods identify the poison from the adducts they form with proteins in blood. The most sens... | {
"abstract": "Chronic illness from exposure to organophosphorus toxicants is hypothesized to involve modification of unknown proteins. Tyrosine in proteins that have no active site serine readily reacts with organophosphorus toxicants. We developed a monoclonal antibody, depY, that specifically recognizes diethoxyph... | {
"abstract": "A highly enantioselective conjugate addition/Dieckmann cyclization of 3-carboxymethyl substituted oxindoles with electron-deficient internal alkynes was achieved under the catalysis of a chiral guanidine catalyst and NaH. This protocol provides access to a wide range of synthetically useful optically a... |
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"abstract": "The phase of the macroscopic electron-pair wavefunction in a superconductor can vary only by multiples of 2π when going around a closed contour. This results in quantization of magnetic flux, one of the most striking demonstrations of quantum phase coherence in superconductors. By using superconductors... | {
"abstract": "Frustration, defined as a competition between interactions such that not all of them can be satisfied, is important in systems ranging from neural networks to structural glasses. Geometrical frustration, which arises from the topology of a well-ordered structure rather than from disorder, has recently ... | {
"abstract": "Condom has become inevitable need of all those who are involved in sexual relations. It is one of the best ways to protect from unintended or unwanted pregnancies, but in Muslims societies common people have a shock when they listen that condom use is prohibited in Islam or un-Islamic. Several Muslims ... |
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"abstract": "We present a theoretical and experimental analysis of nonlinear microwave photonic filters. Far from the conventional condition of low modulation index to neglect high-order terms, we analyze the harmonic distortion involved in microwave photonic structures to profit the filtering properties. We demons... | {
"abstract": "New photonic filter structures for interference mitigation of microwave signals are presented. These novel fibre-based filters have a parallel topology, and overcome the problem of synthesising both a narrow stopband and a very-wide and flat passband. Results for these filters showed a stopband 6-dB wi... | {
"abstract": "Novel slot‐fed dielectric resonator antenna is studied experimentally. The antenna is comprised of a rectangular dielectric resonator and a mictrostrip fed coupling slot. The multiband resonances of the two radiators i.e., slot and dielectric resonator are combined to extend the antenna bandwidth. Diel... |
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"abstract": "A 10th-order direct-coupled coaxial filter is designed and optimized using the Cauchy method in this paper. The fabricated filter's tuning procedure is via a real-time Cauchy extracting system. The filter is synthesized based on Chebyshev low-pass prototype with a fractional bandwidth 9.4% centred at 1... | {
"abstract": "In this letter, a novel formulation of the Cauchy method is presented, to be employed in the extraction of circuit models from measured(lossy) response of microwave filters. In particular, it is shown how to generate,from lossy measurements, the characteristic polynomials which allow synthesis of a los... | {
"abstract": "We have investigated the kinetics of the single-turnover reaction of fully reduced solubilised cytochrome c oxidase (cytochrome aa3) from Rhodobacter sphaeroides with dioxygen using the flow-flash methodology and compared the results to those obtained with the well-characterised bovine mitochondrial en... |
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"abstract": "Several methods have been proposed for large-scale 3D reconstruction from large, unorganized image collections. A large reconstruction problem is typically divided into multiple components which are reconstructed independently using structure from motion (SFM) and later merged together. Incremental SFM... | {
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"title": "Bundle Adjustment in the Large"
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"abstract": "Many architectural scenes contain symmetric or repeated structures, which can generate erroneous image correspondences during structure from motion (Sfm) computation. Prior work has shown that the detection and removal of these incorrect matches is crucial for accurate and robust recovery of scene stru... |
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"abstract": "Native and exotic sessile invertebrates can act as habitat modifiers and influence the diversity and composition of associated epifaunal communities. Theory and empirical research pre- dict that greater habitat structural complexity will generally result in higher abundance, richness, and diversity of ... | {
"abstract": "The Proterozoic-Cambrian transition records the appearance of essentially all animal body plans (phyla), yet to date no single hypothesis adequately explains both the timing of the event and the evident increase in diversity and disparity. Ecological triggers focused on escalatory predator–prey “arms r... | {
"abstract": "Recent fast reactor driver fuel tests in the Experimental Breeder Reactor II (EBR-II) have demonstrated good performance of U-Pu-Zr fuel alloys to burnups >15 at. pct. Postirradiation examination of these tests has yielded a large amount of fuel-swelling data and metallographic information. These data ... |
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"abstract": "In this paper the machinery and results developed in (Awodey et al, 2004) are extended to the study of constructive set theories. Specifically, we introduce two constructive set theories BCST and CST and prove that they are sound and complete with respect to models in categories with certain structure.... | {
"abstract": "We advocate a pragmatic approach to constructive set theory, using axioms based solely on set-theoretic principles that are directly relevant to (constructive) mathematical practice. Following this approach, we present theories ranging in power from weaker predicative theories to stronger impredicative... | {
"abstract": "In [4] we proved that a commutative monad on a symmetric monoidal closed category carries the structure of a symmetric monoidal monad ([4], Theorem 3.2). We here prove the converse, so that, taken together, we have: there is a 1-1 correspondence between commutative monads and symmetric monoidal monads ... |
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"abstract": ".. Objective: The objective of the study was to compare the frequency of infection in stoma site skin wound closure done by purse string suture and linear suturing techniques. Study Design: Randomized control trial. Setting: Surgical Unit-I, Allied Hospital, Punjab Medical College, Faisalabad. Duration... | {
"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nOstomy reversal is considered a contaminated surgery and, thus, primary closure is believed to increase infection. Various closure techniques have been described and postulated to be superior to primary closure in regards to decreasing stoma site wound infections. The literature has varied ... | {
"abstract": "PURPOSE: Wound infections after ileostomy closure are common with primary closure of the skin. Although this risk can be reduced by secondary closure, cosmetic outcomes are less than desirable. In an effort to balance these issues, we have used circumferential subcuticular wound approximation to decrea... |
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"abstract": "This thesis proposes optimisation methods for improving the timing performance of digital circuits implemented in Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) with the knowledge of process variation. With the current trend of transistor scaling, improvements in fabrication processes alone will not completely... | {
"abstract": "Timing Extraction identifies the delay of fine-grained components within an FPGA. From these computed delays, the delay of any path can be calculated. Moreover, a comparison of the fine-grained delays allows a detailed understanding of the amount and type of process variation that exists in the FPGA. T... | {
"abstract": "Intrinsic threshold voltage fluctuations introduced by local oxide thickness variations (OTVs) in deep submicrometer (decanano) MOSFETs are studied using three-dimensional (3-D) numerical simulations on a statistical scale. Quantum mechanical effects are included in the simulations employing the densit... |
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"abstract": "The recent advancements in technology and the availability of the Internet make it possible to connect various devices that can communicate with each other and share data. The Internet of Things (IoT) is a new concept that allows users to connect various sensors and smart devices to collect real-time d... | {
"abstract": "In this paper, a secure and efficient authentication and authorization architecture for IoT-based healthcare is developed. Security and privacy of patients’ medical data are crucial for the accepta ...",
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"title": "SEA: A Secure and Efficient Authentication and Authorization A... | {
"abstract": "With an increasingly mobile society and the worldwide deployment of mobile and wireless networks, wireless infrastructure can support many current and emerging healthcare applications. However, before wireless infrastructure can be used in a wide scale, there are several challenges that must be overcom... |
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"abstract": "This paper presents a practical approach to evaluation of the operational health and reliability of circuit breakers in substations. Motivated by the recent failure surveys conducted by CIGRE working groups, circuit breaker condition data, obtained by monitoring critical parameters such as operational ... | {
"abstract": "Although the installed wind generation capacity has grown remarkably over the past decades, percentage of wind energy in electricity supply portfolio is still relatively low. Due to the technical limitations of power system operations, considerable wind generation cannot integrate into the grid but get... | {
"abstract": "(PSERC) is a multi-university Center conducting research on challenges facing the electric power industry and educating the next generation of power engineers. More information about PSERC can be found at the Center's website: Notice Concerning Copyright Material PSERC members are given permission to c... |
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"abstract": "This paper recalls a few past achievements in Model Predictive Control, gives an overview of some current developments and suggests a few avenues for future research.",
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"title": "Model predictive control: Recent developments and future promise"
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"abstract": "This paper addresses the real-time control of autonomous vehicles under a minimum traveling time objective. Control inputs for the vehicle are computed from a nonlinear model predictive control (MPC) scheme. The time-optimal objective is reformulated such that it can be tackled by existing efficient al... | {
"abstract": "A consistent framework for load-line regulation design is presented, applicable to microprocessor voltage regulators (VRs) using either electrolytic or ceramic output capacitors. With conventional feedback control, the loop bandwidth is limited by stability constraints linked to the switching frequency... |
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"abstract": "Receptor for Activated C-Kinase 1 (RACK1) belongs to the WD40 family of proteins, known to act as scaffolding proteins in interaction networks. Accordingly, RACK1 is found to have numerous interacting partners ranging from kinases and signaling proteins to membrane bound receptors and ion channels. Int... | {
"abstract": "As a classic differentiation agent, all-trans retinoic acid (ATRA) has been widely used in the treatment of acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL). However, the clinical application of ATRA has strict limitations, for its severe side effects due to the accumulation of peripheral blood leukocytes. The scaff... | {
"abstract": "Microfluidics offers unique ways of handling and manipulating microorganisms, which has particularly benefited Caenorhabditis elegans research. Optics plays a major role in these microfluidic platforms, not only as a read-out for the biological systems of interest but also as a vehicle for applying per... |
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"abstract": "Background Wheezing is a typical symptom of respiratory conditions. Few objective methods are available for predicting sleep disturbance in young children with wheezing. Objective We investigated whether wheezing characteristics, detected by lung-sound analysis, were associated with risk of sleep distu... | {
"abstract": "Pulmonary sounds were recorded before and after bronchodilator treatment in 20 patients with acute attacks of asthma. Analysis of the sounds showed that improvement in the forced expiratory volume in one second was associated with the following two changes in the sound signal: (1) the proportion of the... | {
"abstract": "Ninety-three asthmatic patients were examined on 320 occasions for wheezing and peak expiratory flow rate (PEFR). The presence of a wheeze (either reported by the patient or found on examination) was associated with a significantly lower PEFR. Expiratory wheezing was usually accompanied by inspiratory ... |
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"abstract": "A low-cost accident detection system utilizing cheap ADXL345 accelerometers and GPS receiver is proposed in this communication. The accident detection algorithm was developed based on sudden deceleration. The double integration of the acceleration and heading from the tilt angles of accelerometers were... | {
"abstract": "Low altitude helicopters are difficult to track due to the limitation of radar horizon, which may cause severe flight hazard. Thus, tracking of helicopter in real time is vital. There are various ways to track low flying helicopter, such as aircraft to ground data link, satellite phone etc. But the Glo... | {
"abstract": "Novel polymerase chain reaction (PCR) primers designed from the 16S-23S internal transcription spacer (ITS) rRNA and 23S rRNA genes, respectively, were used for the specific detection of Lactobacillus acidophilus and Lactobacillus plantarum. Molecular weights of the PCR products were 221 and 599 bp, re... |
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"abstract": "The design of virtual workplaces that can support virtual work processes has traditionally been either ad-hoc, or has been influenced by the top-down approaches, such as 'virtual architecture' and requirements identification and analysis. There are several problems with the top-down approaches. We stil... | {
"abstract": "The concept of ontology entered the field of artificial intelligence as a formal system for representing domain concepts and their related linguistic realisations by means of basic elements. We present an ontology that delineates the categories of building design knowledge as “activity” and “space”: th... | {
"abstract": "Diabetic cardiomyopathy (DCM) is characterized by cardiac microvascular endothelial cells (CMECs) injury and cardiomyocyte (CM) dysfunction. Exosomes mediated cellular communication between CMECs and CM has emerging roles in the pathogenesis of DCM, but the underlining mechanisms are unclear. Mammalian... |
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"abstract": "In this paper we derive two classes of invariant tori which lie on energy surfaces which are large enough to accommodate the charged particles in the Van Allen radiation belt.",
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"title": "The Stability of the Van Allen Radiation Belt"
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"abstract": "We study some of the periodic orbits, among the families f0, f1, f2, f3, f4 and f5 that were previously found by Goudas and Markellos. We concentrate on the periodic orbits which have a special value (= +2, -2, -1 or 0) of the stability index, because, for these orbits, the period of the periodic solut... | {
"abstract": "This paper presents a unified representation scheme for the implicit equations of points, lines, and circles. An associated set of geometric algorithms operates successfully on degenerate and nearly degenerate geometry, and when necessary produces degenerate geometric results. Computation errors are in... |
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