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"abstract": "Abstract A histochemical study of some enzymatic steps in intermediary metabolism and glycogen synthesis in the regenerating limb of the adult Triturus viridescens is presented. There is increasing activity of the pentose phosphate shunt, an alternate pathway of carbohydrate metabolism, associated with... | {
"abstract": "Regenerating limbs of Amblystoma punctatum larvae were fixed in osmic acid, sectioned, and studied with the electron microscope. The present report describes the changes which occur in the syncytial muscle fibers of the stump as they transform into undifferentiated, mononucleate blastema cells during t... | {
"abstract": "Abstract The competitive interaction of bacteria is well recognized. Natural and controlled food fermentations serve as typical examples of competitive inhibition. Some bacteria produce antagonistic substances (bacteriocins) that are active against other closely related bacteria, in addition to the inh... |
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"abstract": "To meet the challenge of processing rapidly growing graph and network data created by modern applications, a number of distributed graph processing systems have emerged, such as Pregel and GraphLab. All these systems divide input graphs into partitions, and employ a \"think like a vertex\" programming ... | {
"abstract": "Studying web graphs is often difficult due to their large size. Recently,several proposals have been published about various techniques that allow tostore a web graph in memory in a limited space, exploiting the inner redundancies of the web. The WebGraph framework is a suite of codes, algorithms and t... | {
"abstract": "Reducing health and economic burdens from diagnostic delay of psychogenic nonepileptic seizures (PNES) requires prompt referral for video electroencephalography (VEEG) monitoring, the diagnostic gold standard. Practitioners make VEEG referrals when semiology suggests PNES, although few semiological sig... |
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"abstract": "This review presents a brief survey of the Bulgarian dendroflora. The country is situated in the transition zone between the continental and Mediterranean climate and, therefore, considerable habitat diversity exists on its territory. About 370 species – trees, shrubs and sub-shrubs – have been establi... | {
"abstract": "The aim of this study was to investigate the antimicrobial activity and HPLC analysis of the methanol and chloroform extracts of leaves and twigs of endemic species Daphne blagayana collected from the area of Suva Mountain, Serbia. The antimicrobial activity, expressed as the values of MIC, were invest... | {
"abstract": "Weather threatens surface transportation nationwide and impacts roadway safety, mobility, and productivity. Weather affects roadway safety through increased crash risk, as well as exposure to weather-related hazards. Weather impacts roadway mobility by increasing travel time delay, reducing traffic vol... |
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"abstract": "The focus of this paper is on modeling and control of Smart Thermal Grids (STGs) in which the uncertainties in the demand and/or supply are included. We solve the corresponding robust model predictive control (MPC) optimization problem using mixed-integer-linear programming techniques to provide a day-... | {
"abstract": "In this paper, we present an energy management framework for building climate comfort systems that are interconnected in a grid via aquifer thermal energy storage (ATES) systems in the presence of two types of uncertainty namely private and common uncertainty sources. The ATES system is considered as a... | {
"abstract": "This paper proposes an alternative fuzzy logic controller to create the anti-swing controller of the 3D crane system. Simultaneously, it uses more genetic algorithms (GA) to optimize the parameters inside the crane controller. The controller’s purpose controls the crane’s position and maintains the sma... |
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"abstract": "Genetic programming (GP) is a well-known evolutionary computation technique, which has been successfully used to solve various problems, such as optimization, image analysis, and classification. Transfer learning is a type of machine learning approach that can be used to solve complex tasks. Transfer l... | {
"abstract": "Object recognition is an important task in the computer vision field as it has many applications, including optical character recognition and facial recognition. However, many existing methods have demonstrated relatively poor performance in all but the most simple cases. Scale-invariant feature transf... | {
"abstract": "The gene AINTEGUMENTA (AtANT) is an APETALA2 transcription factor in Arabidopsis activating growth downstream of auxin signalling. Lateral organ size is positively correlated with ANT expression in Arabidopsis. We tested the use of AtANT as a tool to modify floral size in two different plants used as m... |
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"abstract": "Two long-period gratings (LPGs) fabricated in series in an optical fiber form a Mach-Zehnder interferometer, producing a sinusoidal channelled spectrum within the characteristic LPG attenuation bands, which has the appearance of an interference fringe pattern. The phase of the fringes is sensitive to c... | {
"abstract": "An array of three long period gratings (LPGs) fabricated in a single optical fibre and multiplexed in the wavelength domain was used to measure simultaneously temperature, relative humidity (RH) and volatile organic compounds (VOCs). Each LPG sensor was designed to optimize its response to a desired me... | {
"abstract": "An uncertainty analysis is conducted for four asteroids with different optical and radar observation histories in order to ascertain the degree to which near-earth asteroid ephemerides can be improved by means of radar observations. For any given set of optical and radar observations and their associat... |
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"abstract": "Research on action understanding in cognitive neuroscience has led to the identification of a wide \"action understanding network\" mainly encompassing parietal and premotor cortical areas. Within this cortical network mirror neurons are critically involved implementing a neural mechanism according to ... | {
"abstract": "Debates about the evolution of the ‘mirror neuron system’ imply that it is an adaptation for action understanding. Alternatively, mirror neurons may be a byproduct of associative learning. Here I argue that the adaptation and associative hypotheses both offer plausible accounts of the origin of mirror ... | {
"abstract": "Video surveillance systems have been widely used in society and plays an important role in the maintenance of public security and social justice. Since the camera has been in the natural environment for a long time it is vulnerable to all kinds of interference resulting in the recorded video informatio... |
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"abstract": "BackgroundTo investigate how unilateral cage-instrumented posterior lumbar interbody fusion (PLIF) affects the three-dimensional flexibility in degenerative disc disease by comparing the biomechanical characteristics of unilateral and bilateral cage-instrumented PLIF.MethodsTwelve motion segments in sh... | {
"abstract": "OBJECT\nMany surgeons currently prefer to use transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion (TLIF), placing 1 unilateral pedicle screw (PS) and 1 cage. However, no study has examined whether unilateral fixation improves surgical outcome. The authors conducted a prospective randomized controlled trial with a m... | {
"abstract": "The high time resolution Pb-Pb ages and short-lived nuclide based relative ages for CAIs and chondrules are reviewed. The solar system started at 4567.2 {+-} 0.6Ma inferred from the high precision Pb-Pb ages of CAIs. Time scales of CAIs ({le}0.1Myr), chondrules (1-3Myr), and early asteroidal differenti... |
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"abstract": "Abstract Context: Bisphosphonates (BPs) are widely used for prevention and treatment of osteoporosis. BPs are known as gold standard for osteoporosis (OP) treatment due to their positive results in clinical studies. But some serious side effects are associated with BPs like gastrointestinal adverse eff... | {
"abstract": "Intravenous bisphosphonates are widely used to treat hypercalcemia and to reduce skeletal-related morbidity among cancer patients. However, serious complications, generally occurring in less than 2% of patients participated in phase III clinical trials, including acute systemic inflammatory reaction, o... | {
"abstract": "Recent evidence supports a role for proteoglycans in polycation-mediated gene delivery. Therefore, the interaction of glycosaminoglycans with cationic lipid-DNA complexes (CLDCs) has been characterized using a combination of biophysical approaches. At low ionic strength, CLDCs bind to heparin-derivatiz... |
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"abstract": "Single crystals of pure Cu and Cu‐8%Al with two initial orientations, {112}〈111〉 and {112}〈110〉, were subjected to monotonic compression in channel‐die at room temperature (293 K). The dislocation microstructure and local crystallography were investigated by transmission electron microscopy after diffe... | {
"abstract": "Abstract High-purity Cu–2%Al single crystals with initial C{112}〈111〉 orientation have been deformed by channel-die compression at 77 and 293 K to develop fine shear bands in a twin-matrix (T-M) substructure. The microstructural and microtextural changes during deformation and the early stages of recry... | {
"abstract": "Preface. 1: Elasticity. 2: Slip in single crystals. 3: Taylor and Bishop & Hill analyses. 4: Upper-bound yield loci. 5: Lower-bound yield loci calculations. 6: Relaxed constraints. 7: Deformation textures. 8: Continuum yield criteria. 9: Mechanical twinning. 10: Effect of twinning on yield loci. Append... |
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"abstract": "The explosion of surveillance cameras in smart cites and the increasing demand of low latency visual analysis have pushed the horizon from the traditional image/video compression to feature compression. Due to the recent advances of face recognition, we investigate the simultaneous compression of facia... | {
"abstract": "Convolutional neural networks exhibit superior performance for single image super-resolution (SISR) tasks. However, as the network grows deeper, features from the earlier layers are impeded or less used in later layers. In SISR, the earlier layers are mainly composed of local features that are essentia... | {
"abstract": "Driven by deep neural networks and large scale datasets, scene text detection methods have progressed substantially over the past years, continuously refreshing the performance records on various standard benchmarks. However, limited by the representations (axis-aligned rectangles, rotated rectangles o... |
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"abstract": "Abstract Based on M-estimate, the problem of robust estimation fusion in decentralized architecture when the sensor noises are contaminated by outliers is considered. A simple robust Kalman filtering (RKF) scheme with weighted matrices of innovation sequences is introduced for local state estimation. T... | {
"abstract": "Information fusion based on Kalman filtering often suffers from the lack of knowledge about cross correlations between the noise-corrupted signal sources. Covariance intersection filtering provides a general framework for information fusion with incomplete knowledge about the signal sources since it yi... | {
"abstract": "Analytically tractable statistical-physical models of man-made noise environments have been constructed [1]-[3]. These permit quantitative description of the various types of electromagnetic interference appearing in typical radio receivers and, in particular here, for the communication links employed ... |
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"abstract": "Left ventricle non-compaction cardiomyopathy is currently considered as a well-defined individual entity. However, it includes a broad spectrum of clinical, radiological and pathophysiological findings. In this review we describe 3 different scenarios of this entity: an isolated case with severe left v... | {
"abstract": "OBJECTIVES\nWe evaluated the role of Cypher/ZASP in the pathogenesis of dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) with or without isolated non-compaction of the left ventricular myocardium (INLVM).\n\n\nBACKGROUND\nDilated cardiomyopathy, characterized by left ventricular dilation and systolic dysfunction with sign... | {
"abstract": "OBJECTIVES\nTo objectively evaluate the clinical and functional outcomes of cochlear implantation in an elderly population.\n\n\nDESIGN\nRetrospective comparative study.\n\n\nSETTING\nNeurotology unit at Manchester Royal Infirmary, a supraregional tertiary referral centre in collaboration with Adult Co... |
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"abstract": "Though haemodynamic changes underpin the pathophysiology of chronic liver disease, there are currently no robust non-invasive methods available for their assessment. I propose ‘caval subtraction’ phase contrast MRI (PCMRI) a novel method to measure total liver blood flow (TLBF) and hepatic arterial (HA... | {
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"title": "Direct measurement of hepatic blood flow during living donor liver transplantation in children."
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"abstract": "C irrhosis, and its main complication portal hypertension (PH), represent a serious leading cause of mortality worldwide, accounting for more than 170,000 deaths per year in Europe. The primary factor contributing to the development of PH is a progressive increase in the hepatic vascular resistance due... |
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"abstract": "A practical model for characterizing comparator metastability errors in SAR ADCs is presented, and is used to analyze not only the conventional SAR but also LSB-first and asynchronous versions. This work makes three main contributions: first, it is shown that for characterizing metastability it is more... | {
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"title": "Trend of High-Speed SAR ADC towards RF Sampling"
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"abstract": "The impact of channel width scaling on low-frequency noise (LFN) and high-frequency performance in multifinger MOSFETs is reported in this paper. The compressive stress from shallow trench isolation (STI) cannot explain the lower LFN in extremely narrow devices. STI top corner rounding (TCR)-induced ΔW... |
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"abstract": "We demonstrate for the first time record low Leakage-EOT (3.5 times 10-7 A/cm2 at 1V, EOT=0.49 nm) MIM capacitors fabricated using a low temperature (250degC) ALD SrTiO3 (STO) deposition process on ALD TiN bottom electrode. While most previous work on STO used deposition techniques not compatible with ... | {
"abstract": "This paper presents a novel memory test algorithm, named alternate hammering test, to detect the pairwise word-line hammering faults for application-specific DRAMs. Unlike previous hammering tests, which require excessively long test time, the alternate hammering test is designed scalable to industrial... | {
"abstract": "Abstract An innovative phase transferring process of anisotropic silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) from aqueous to a wide range of organic solvents (e.g. toluene, n-butanol, iso-butyl acetate, ethyl-acetate, acetonitrile and ethylene glycol) was described. In the developed process, AgNPs were transferred to... |
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"abstract": "BackgroundRecent models suggest that escalating reciprocal selection among antagonistically interacting species is predicted to occur in areas of higher resource productivity. In a putatively coevolved interaction between a freshwater snail (Mexipyrgus churinceanus) and a molluscivorous cichlid (Herich... | {
"abstract": "Abstract The “geographic mosaic” approach to understanding coevolution is predicated on the existence of variable selection across the landscape of an interaction between species. A range of ecological factors, from differences in resource availability to differences in community composition, can gener... | {
"abstract": "Among eukaryotes two types of nuclear ribosomal DNA (nrDNA) organization have been observed. Either all components, i.e. the small ribosomal subunit, 5.8S, large ribosomal subunit, and 5S occur tandemly arranged or the 5S rDNA forms a separate cluster of its own. Generalizations based on data derived f... |
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"abstract": "targeted regulation of BMMSCs by aspirin may offer a new approach for estrogen-deficient osteoporosis treatment.”",
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"title": "Is aspirin treatment an appropriate intervention to osteoporosis?"
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"abstract": "IntroductionStem cells have great therapeutic potential due to their capacity for self-renewal and their potential for differentiating into multiple cell lineages. It has been recently shown that the host immune system has fundamental effects on the fate of transplanted mesenchymal stem cells during bo... | {
"abstract": "Voltage-gated potassium channel (VGKC)-complex antibodies are defined by the radioimmunoprecipitation of Kv1 potassium channel subunits from brain tissue extracts and were initially discovered in patients with peripheral nerve hyperexcitability (PNH). Subsequently, they were found in patients with PNH ... |
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"abstract": "Industrial environments often exhibit harsh propagation conditions for wireless transmissions. This paper investigates the influence of different interference characteristics on the performance of IEEE 802.15.4 using the OQPSK and Chirp Spread Spectrum (CSS) PHY. Bit error rates are determined for AWGN... | {
"abstract": "Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are gradually adopted in the industrial world due to their advantages over wired networks. In addition to saving cabling costs, WSNs widen the realm of environments feasible for monitoring. They thus add sensing and acting capabilities to objects in the physical world an... | {
"abstract": "We study a Visual-Inertial Navigation (VIN) problem in which a robot needs to estimate its state using an on-board camera and an inertial sensor, without any prior knowledge of the external environment. We consider the case in which the robot can allocate limited resources to VIN, due to tight computat... |
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"abstract": "Indium oxide (InOx) films were deposited at low processing temperature (150 °C) by atomic layer deposition (ALD) using [1,1,1-trimethyl-N-(trimethylsilyl)silanaminato]indium (InCA-1) as the metal precursor and hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) as the oxidant. As-deposited InOx exhibits a metallic conductor-like... | {
"abstract": "Silicon dioxide (SiO2) films were synthesized by plasma-enhanced atomic layer deposition (PEALD) using BTBAS [bis(tertiarybutylamino) silane] as the precursor and O2 plasma as the reactant, at a temperature range from 50 to 200 °C. While dielectric constant values larger than 3.7 are obtained at all de... | {
"abstract": "Bone is one of the many biological tissues characterized by the still poorly defined process of mineralization, that is, by the deposition of inorganic substance in their organic matrix, and is one that, chiefly due to its important biological functions, but also because of its wide‐ spread presence in... |
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"abstract": "OBJECTIVES:Pancreatic cystic neoplasms (PCNs) are being detected with increased frequency. The aims of this study were to determine the incidence of malignancy and develop an imaging-based system for prediction of malignancy in PCN.METHODS:We conducted a retrospective cohort study of patients ≥18 years... | {
"abstract": "Objective The aim of this study was to determine how patient anxiety, knowledge, and cancer worry influence preferences for management of pancreatic cysts. Methods We performed a prospective, cross-sectional study using a disease-specific survey instrument. We included patients older than 18 years who ... | {
"abstract": "This report tracks appropriation action on the President's FY2007 funding request for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Issues of possible congressional concern are summarized, including a Joint Ocean Commission Initiative statement on ocean science and fisheries-related fundi... |
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"abstract": "Abstract : By using an information survivability control system, the survivability of critical networked information systems can be enhanced using a variety of fault-tolerance mechanisms. Essential to the effective implementation of such mechanisms is communication from the error detection component to... | {
"abstract": "Content-based publish / subscribe (CBPS) systems are a natural substrate for context-aware applications because they provide the right separation of concerns, efficient event distribution, extensibility, and scalability. However, the separation of concerns afforded by CBPS middleware precludes publishe... | {
"abstract": "In the frame of the HearCom1 project five promising signal enhancement algorithms are validated for future use in hearing instrument devices. To assess the algorithm performance solely based on simulation experiments, a number of physical evaluation measures have been proposed that incorporate basic as... |
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"abstract": "BackgroundA 5-day fathead minnow (FHM) spawning assay is used by industry to monitor pulp mill effluent quality, with some mill effluents capable of completely inhibiting spawning. The purpose of this report is to characterize the effect of an inhibitory effluent on egg and milt production in FHM.Metho... | {
"abstract": "Anadramous Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.) returning to Exploits River, Newfoundland, Canada, to spawn encounter low concentrations of thermomechanical pulp (TMP) effluent as they migrate upstream past an integrated newsprint mill. Various physiological responses of adult Atlantic salmon from the Expl... | {
"abstract": "Thirty-day-old fathead minnows, Pimephales promelas, were reared at different pH values in softened Lake Superior water enriched with aluminum: pH 7.5–35 μg Al/L, pH 5.5–30 μg Al/L, pH 5.2–35 and 60 μg Al/L, including a background level of 15 μg Al/L, and at pH 7.5, 6.0, 5.5, and 5.2 at background Al l... |
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"abstract": "BackgroundUnderstanding gene regulatory networks has become one of the central research problems in bioinformatics. More than thirty algorithms have been proposed to identify DNA regulatory sites during the past thirty years. However, the prediction accuracy of these algorithms is still quite low. Ense... | {
"abstract": "3D-Jury is a fully automated protein structure meta prediction system accessible via the Meta Server interface (http://BioInfo.PL/Meta). This is one of the meta predictors, which have made a dramatic, unprecedented impact on the last CASP-5 experiment. The 3D-Jury is comparable with other meta servers ... | {
"abstract": "Coronary heart disease (CHD) is the leading cause of death in western world. Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) is the most common treatment method, among others, to maintain the physiological blood flow inside the coronary arteries. Although implanting the novel recently-designed stents inside t... |
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"abstract": "Exploratory search is an increasingly important activity for Web searchers. However, the current search system can not provide sufficient support for exploratory search. Therefore, we made in-depth analysis for exploratory search processes, and found that there are a lot of search goal shift phenomena ... | {
"abstract": "An exploratory search may be driven by a user's curiosity or desire for specific information. When users investigate unfamiliar fields, they may want to learn more about a particular subject area to increase their knowledge rather than solve a specific problem. This work proposes a topic-oriented explo... | {
"abstract": "Media studies concerns the study of production, content, and/or reception of various types of media. Today's continuous production and storage of media is changing the way media studies researchers work and requires the development of new search models and tools.\n We investigate the research cycle of ... |
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"abstract": "A whole-mount electron microscope technique has allowed direct visualization of the transcription process in mouse spermatids. Thes observations have been supported by light and electron microscope autoradiographic techniques that employ [3H]uridine and [3H]arginine in attempts to clarify mechanisms of... | {
"abstract": "Total mouse testis RNA directs the synthesis of the sperm-specific C subunit of lactate dehydrogenase-X (LDH-X) when translated in a cell- free system derived from rabbit reticulocytes. The newly synthesized C subunits were isolated by immunoprecipitation with antibody specific for this isozyme, and qu... | {
"abstract": "Polymeric micelle forming from self-assembly of amphiphilic macromolecules is one of the most potent drug delivery systems. Fatty acids, naturally occurring hydrophobic lipid components, can be considered as potential candidates for the fabrication of block copolymer micelles. However, examples of synt... |
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"abstract": "A 6-year-old boy presented with a 12-month history of multiple erosions on his face and the dorsal aspects of his hands. On one occasion he had developed an abrasion simply from washing his face with a flannel. Since the age of 3 years he had been diagnosed with juvenile idiopathic arthritis and associ... | {
"abstract": "We show how the subtype relation of the well-known system F , the secondorder polymorphic -calculus with bounded universal type quanti cation and subtyping, due to Cardelli, Wegner, Bruce, Longo, Curien, Ghelli, proved undecidable by Pierce (POPL'92), can be interpreted in the (weak) monadic secondorde... | {
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"abstract": "Experiments were conducted to compare the expression of Russian wheat aphid, Diuraphis noxia (Mordvilko), resistance in 2 genotypes of tall fescue grass, Festuca arundinacea Schreb., harboring different isolates of the endophytic fungus Acremonium coenophialum Morgan-Jones & Gams. Aphids did not select... | {
"abstract": "Model systems can facilitate and focus research efforts but ill-chosen or inapt ones can distract or impede scientific progress. In this Opinion article, we pose the question: how can the literature provide appropriate general conclusions if the model systems upon which the literature is based are unre... | {
"abstract": "Lignocellulose hydrolysates contain fermentation inhibitors causing decreased ethanol production. The inhibitors include phenolic compounds, furan aldehydes, and aliphatic acids. One of the most efficient methods for removing inhibiting compounds prior to fermentation is treatment of the hydrolysate wi... |
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"abstract": "ABSTRACT. Cyclotrichiids are of ecological and evolutionary interest by virtue of their importance in red tide formation, their highly divergent small subunit (SSU) ribosomal RNA (rRNA) genes, kleptoplastidy, and utility as indicators of eutrophication. However, only seven strains have had their SSU rR... | {
"abstract": "The oxic-anoxic transition zone of the Black Sea comprises a large suboxic zone as well as anoxic and sulfidic waters. While the prokaryotes and biogeochemical cycles that characterize this zone have been frequently studied, little is known about the diversity or ecology of its microbial eukaryotes. He... | {
"abstract": "A combined field hydrological monitoring and hydro-mechanical numerical investigation into the triggering mechanism in rainfall-induced shallow landslides was proposed and carried out in the Ren River catchment of central China, considering the effect of predisposing geological conditions. Based on the... |
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"abstract": "We recently studied members from a family with autosomal dominant iris coloboma. All affected members had either unilateral or bilateral iris coloboma and bilateral peripheral corneal changes indistinguishable from those seen in aniridia. The corneal changes consisted of well-demarcated pannus-like gro... | {
"abstract": "We report the presence of simple iris coloboma in 4 out of 5 female members comprising four generations of a Greek family. A varied degree of simple iris coloboma (i.e. not associated with a choroidal coloboma) was present in one eye of the maternal grandmother, mother, daughter and one out of 2 grandd... | {
"abstract": "Premorbid ophthalmoscopic and histopathologic findings were correlated in a case of bilateral optic nerve hypoplasia in a 9-month-old infant with bilateral hydranencephaly. The double-ring sign was due to an extension of retina and retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) over the outer portion of the lamina c... |
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"abstract": "The authors critically review the literature describing the varied neuropsychiatric syndromes associated with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Factors that have complicated the identification and treatment of affective, behavioral, and cognitive disturbances in these patents are identified, and the ... | {
"abstract": "Cranial palsies are a very rare feature of SLE. Similarly, peripheral sensory-motor axonal neuropathy is very uncommon in SLE. The combination of the two as the presenting symptoms of SLE is a diagnostic challenge particularly in an elderly male patient with a known diagnosis of sarcoidosis. This case ... | {
"abstract": "Introduction: Tobacco chewing and cigarette smoking is considered to be the most common particular cause of adult death in developed countries. Now days the adverse effects of tobacco chewing and smoking on renal function have gained more attention because it is associated with various diseases. \nMeth... |
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"abstract": "In this work we have analyzed the influence of various factors on the transverse relaxation times T2 of water protons in suspension of magnetic nanoparticles. For that purpose we developed a full molecular dynamics force field which includes the effects of dispersion interactions between magnetic nanop... | {
"abstract": "Since aptamers have been selected against a broad range of target structures of medical interest and nanoparticles are available with diverse properties, aptamer-modified nanoparticles can be used in various diagnostic and therapeutic applications. While the aptamer is responsible for specificity and a... | {
"abstract": "Data for 18 male and 18 female calves, born from primiparous and multiparous cows, were collected to determine the effect of supplemental lactoferrin and FeSO4 for 5 d after parturition on the Fe status of calves. Dietary treatments were 1) untreated, 2) 40 mg of Fe/d as FeSO4, and 3) 40 mg of Fe as Fe... |
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"abstract": "High-performance airfoils for transonic flows of Bethe-Zel'dovich-Thompson fluids are constructed using a robust and efficient Euler flow solver coupled with a multi-objective genetic algorithm. Bethe-Zel'dovich- Thompson fluids are characterized by negative values of the fundamental derivative of gasd... | {
"abstract": "A numerical investigation of transonic and low-supersonic flows of dense gases of the Bethe–Zel'dovich–Thompson (BZT) type is presented. BZT gases exhibit, in a range of thermodynamic conditions close to the liquid/vapour coexistence curve, negative values of the fundamental derivative of gasdynamics. ... | {
"abstract": "A vibrated bed of powder with a large aspect ratio (periodic boundary) is examined. In contrast to the bed with a small aspect ratio (with side wall), no clear convection roll is observed. The flow in the fluid phase seems to be always turbulent, because the local vibration of powder in static state ha... |
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"abstract": "The teaching of language and power as part of language education is a relatively recent phenomenon particularly in primary and secondary schools. Critical Language Awareness (CLA) will be used as a convenient shorthand for classroom applications of work on language, ideology and power although such wor... | {
"abstract": "Fact and fiction in language learning researching identity and language learning the world of adult immigrant language learners Eva and Mai - old heads on young shoulders mothers, migration, and language learning second language acquisition theory revisited claiming the right to speak in classrooms & c... | {
"abstract": "We report four newborn infants with a distinctive evanescent cutaneous eruption that clinically and histologically resembled lupus erythematosus; two of the mothers had undifferentiated connective tissue disease. The tendency for lesions to occur in a periorbital location and the association of promine... |
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"abstract": "Surface features at the micro and nanometre scale have been shown to influence and even determine cell behaviour and cytoskeleton organization through direct mechanotransductive pathways. Much less is known about the function and internal distribution of organelles of cells grown on topographically mod... | {
"abstract": "Here we culture Chinese hamster ovary cells on isotropic, aligned and patterned substrates based on multiwall carbon nanotubes. The nanotubes provide the substrate with nanoscale topography. The cells adhere to and grow on all substrates, and on the aligned substrate, the cells align strongly with the ... | {
"abstract": "Background and objective High-frequency alternating current (HFAC) can yield a rapid-acting and reversible nerve conduction block. The present study aimed to demonstrate the successful implementation of HFAC block delivery via regenerative macro-sieve electrodes (MSEs). Methods Dual-electrode assemblie... |
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"abstract": "A wideband 100 kHz-4 GHz power sensor, of which the basic design was presented recently by L. J. Fernandez et al. (2004), was successfully realized. The sensor is based on sensing the electrical force between the RF signal line and a suspended membrane. Optimization of the design with SONNET has result... | {
"abstract": "Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) will have an important role in metrology. The essential features of a MEMS are (1) a piece of single crystal silicon forming a spring; (2) metallized surfaces of silicon structures that define an electrode geometry; (3) electrostatic forces between surfaces in a va... | {
"abstract": "Abstract To enhance the stability of packaged high-g MEMS accelerometers with double cantilevers positioned asymmetrically, the dynamic shock responses of components versus impurity concentration of piezoresistors at various working temperatures have been probed by using Finite Element Method (FEM). Re... |
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"abstract": "In this paper, we present our on-going work on localized gestures (i.e., gesture localization and classification) by leveraging acoustic processing techniques. Our exploration focuses on hand gestures that produce non-vocal acoustics when it comes into contact with the user's body or nearby surfaces. T... | {
"abstract": "Smartwatches can facilitate several tasks that are performed on mobile devices. However, due to their limited size, touch interaction can be cumbersome. Although alternative input modalities such as speech input could be used, these can also introduce other issues regarding privacy or ease of use. Cons... | {
"abstract": "This work aimed at clarifying the concept learning in online education, expressed by the literature in the area of health. It is a study of analysis of concept, based on the Evolutionary Model, being highlighted attributes, background, consequents and substitute terms. Learning in the context of online... |
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"abstract": "Dairy proteins—whey protein, in particular—are satiating and often recommended for weight control; however, little is known about the mechanisms by which whey protein and its components promote satiety and weight loss. We used diet‐induced obese rats to determine whether the hypophagic effects of diets... | {
"abstract": "This study evaluated whether supplementation with goat milk whey (GMW) affects the nutritional status, intestinal histology and intestinal microbial composition of female rats fed a westernized diet from gestation to lactation, as well as whether changes can be replicated in the offspring at the end of... | {
"abstract": "Diets with higher protein (1.5 g x kg(-1) x d(-1)) and reduced carbohydrates (120 to 200 g/d) appear to enhance weight loss due to a higher loss of body fat and reduced loss of lean body mass. While studies of prolonged use of moderate protein diets are not available, short-term studies report benefici... |
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"abstract": "Current challenges of car manufacturers are to make roads safe, to achieve free flowing traffic with few congestions, and to reduce pollution by an effective fuel use. To reach these goals, many improvements are performed in-car, but more and more approaches rely on connected cars with communication ca... | {
"abstract": "In this paper, I describe the vehicle-to-vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2V2I) architecture, which is a hybrid of the vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) and vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) architectures. The V2V2I architecture leverages the benefits of fast queries and responses from the V2I architecture, but with t... | {
"abstract": "For safe and reliable autonomous driving systems, prediction of surrounding vehicles' future behavior and potential risks are critical. The state-of-the-art prediction algorithms tend to show limited performance on long-term predictions due to their deterministic nature. In this paper, a probabilistic ... |
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"abstract": "A straightforwardly synthesised complex, [Pd(micro-Cl)Cl(NHC)](2) (NHC = bis(2,6-diisopropylphenyl)imidazol-2-ylidene, IPr), has been employed to mediate Suzuki-Miyaura reactions involving aryl chlorides at very low catalyst loadings and at room temperature.",
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"abstract": "Palladium complexes bearing abnormal N-heterocyclic carbene were used as catalysts in Suzuki-Miyaura cross coupling of aryl chlorides at 25 °C. The catalyst remained active for 10 successive catalytic runs and can activate 4-chlorotoluene at 25 °C with 0.01 mol% catalyst loading resulting in a TON of 9... | {
"abstract": "This paper explores the incentives of a market leader in undertaking merger and acquisition (M&A) of its bankrupt rival firm under financial crisis in an oligopoly model of vertical product differentiation with heterogeneous consumers. I find that, such an M&A only arises if there are cost cutting bene... |
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"abstract": "Code trees [8] is an indexing technique used for implementing several indexed operations on terms in the theorem prover Vampire [5]. Code trees offer greater flexibility than discrimination trees. In this paper we review a new, considerably faster, version of code trees based on a different representat... | {
"abstract": "Sophisticated maintenance and retrieval of first-order predicate calculus terms is a major key to efficient automated reasoning. We present a new indexing technique, which accelerates the speed of the basic retrieval operations such as finding complementary literals in resolution theorem proving or fin... | {
"abstract": "The performance of a theorem prover crucially depends on the speed of the basic retrieval operations, such as finding terms that are unifiable with (instances of, or more general than) some query term. Among the known indexing methods for term retrieval in deduction systems, Path-Indexing exhibits a go... |
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"abstract": "This study attempted to determine whether the Gleason score (GS) assigned at a comprehensive cancer center better predicts risk of biochemical failure (BF) after prostate radiotherapy compared with the GS of the referring institution (RI). Between 1994 and 2007, 1649 men received radiotherapy for prost... | {
"abstract": "OBJECTIVE\nTo evaluate the incidence and degree of change from a pathologic second opinion of bladder biopsies at a Comprehensive Cancer Center that were initially performed at referring community hospitals. The secondary objective was to determine the impact the potential changes would have on a patie... | {
"abstract": "Alumina (Al 2 O 3 ) is a hard, highly biocompatible and low friction ceramic material of multiple biomedical applications, but mechanically weak and showing poor flexibility. To circumvent these limitations, it could be complexed as composite materials with carbon nanotubes (CNTs). However, CNTs displa... |
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"abstract": "*New tools were developed for the study of the endophytic development of the fungal species Fusarium equiseti and Pochonia chlamydosporia in barley (Hordeum vulgare) roots. These were applied to monitor the host colonization patterns of these potential candidates for biocontrol of root pathogens. * Mol... | {
"abstract": "To enable quantification of mycelial abundance in mixed-species environments, eight new TaqMan((R)) real-time PCR assays were developed for five arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal (AMF, Glomeromycota) taxa. The assays targeted genes encoding 18S rRNA or actin, and were tested on DNA from cloned gene fragmen... | {
"abstract": "Influences of rosetting on shoot and root growth, and the inner structure of the stem and root of Eustoma grandiflorum plants were studied. The rosetted and stem-extensional plants, regulated by thermal conditions during ripening in the previous season, were grown under the same conditions. Rosetting w... |
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"abstract": "I don’t know whether my topic is the problem of psychology, but it will be relevant to the discussion of what is called “comparative.” The mating behavior of Lepidoptera, butterflies and moths, has been subject to many interesting studies. Magnus’ demonstrated that the male fritillary butterfly (Argynn... | {
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"abstract": "River flow simulation is required on water resources planning and management. This paper proposes hierarchical network-copula conditional models to generate two-dimension monthly streamflow matrix aiming at simulating flow both on time and space. HNCCMs develop the simulation generator driven by both t... |
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"abstract": "This paper presents an economic viability of solar chimney power plant for 200 MW capacity, in Rajasthan India. Estimation of quantity of different materials required and capital cost for construction of 200 MW solar chimney power plant is done. Based on capital cost, operation cost and maintenance cos... | {
"abstract": "ABSTRACT The solar chimney power plant (SCPP) is a simple solar thermal power plant that is capable of converting solar energy into thermal energy in the solar collector. In the second stage, the generated thermal energy is converted into kinetic energy in the chimney and ultimately into electric energ... | {
"abstract": "The design and construction of the solar chimney pilot plant in Manzanares, and the investigations described below, were commissioned by the Minister of Research and Technology of the Federal Republic of Germany. The work was supervised by the energy research project management department of Kernforsch... |
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"abstract": "Persistent confusion and the grouping together of similar disorders of differing origins confuse the question of genetic influences of male transsexualism. A 27-year-old adopted biological male transsexual was seen for psychiatric referral. At the time of the initial interview, events of her early deve... | {
"abstract": "„Anima muliebris virili corpore inclusa“; mit dieser Formel wurde im vorigen Jahrhundert der Grundstein fur die wissenschaftliche Bearbeitung des Ratsels der gleichgeschlechtlichen Anziehung und der psychischen und sozialen Phanomene, die mit dieser Empfindung in Verbindung stehen, gelegt.",
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"abstract": "In a systematic study of 40 homosexuals and 25 non-homosexual controls data indicated that effeminate homosexuals exhibited effeminacy before puberty. Homosexual behavior was only a secondary manifestation. Birth order and age of mother at birth did not differentiate homosexuals from controls. Family h... |
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"abstract": "Machine learning algorithms are becoming more and more important in everyday life. Applications in search engines, driver assistance systems, consumer electronics, and so on use them heavily and would not be as powerful without them. Neural Networks (NNs), for example, are state-of-the-art classificati... | {
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"abstract": "Neural networks provide state-of-the-art results for most machine learning tasks. Unfortunately, neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial examples: given an input x and any target classification t, it is possible to find a new input x' that is similar to x but classified as t. This makes it diffic... |
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"abstract": "Increased sympathetic nervous system (SNS) activity in patients with heart failure may help to support cardiovascular function. However, increased SNS activity, particularly if prolonged, may exert deleterious effects on cardiovascular structure and function by stimulating pathologic myocardial remodel... | {
"abstract": "Heart failure (HF) is frequently the end-stage of many cardiovascular diseases and remains a major cause of morbidity and mortality, with 26 million patients now affected worldwide. Its prevalence is around 1-2% in developed countries, rising to ≥10% among people over 70 years of age. The terminology o... | {
"abstract": "We developed a liquid chromatography (LC) compatible electron capture dissociation (ECD) mass spectrometer for glycoproteomics, with which ECD and hot ECD (HECD) experiments can be flexibly switched by quickly changing the electron energy without further tuning of the mass spectrometer. Desialylated gl... |
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"abstract": "The article shows that innovations are induced, since they become more profitable with the expansion of output. The amount of resources devoted to innovating activity, however, is in general not the optimal one because of the pressure of two opposing forces. On the one hand, competition between potenti... | {
"abstract": "Economists have recently grown interested in doing research on research or R & D, as it is called in industrial circles. Several studies have tested Schumpeter's hoary hypothesis that large firms are responsible for most industrial inventive activity.1 Few of these studies, however, suggest why this hy... |
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"abstract": "In this paper, a recently proposed approach to multizone sound field synthesis, referred to as joint pressure and velocity matching (JPVM), is investigated analytically using a spherical harmonics representation of the sound field. The approach is motivated by the Kirchhoff-Helmholtz integral equation ... | {
"abstract": "This paper provides a 3D localized sound zone generation method using a planar omni-directional loudspeaker array. In the proposed method, multiple co-centered circular arrays are arranged on the horizontal plane and an additional loudspeaker is located at the array’s center. The sound field produced b... | {
"abstract": "Calculations of conversion coefficients from fluence to ambient dose equivalent and from fluence to maximum dose equivalent, along the principal axis of the ICRU sphere, have been performed for protons, muons and pions of energies up to 10 TeV. All of the results were obtained using the Monte Carlo tra... |
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"abstract": "This paper describes taking parsed sentences, going to meaning representations (the stopover), and then back to parsed sentences (the round trip). Keeping to the same language tests the combined success of building meaning representations from parsed input and of generating parsed output. Switching lan... | {
"abstract": "Boxer is an open-domain software component for semantic analysis of text, based on Combinatory Categorial Grammar (CCG) and Discourse Representation Theory (DRT). Used together with the CC (b) discourse structure triggered by conditionals, negation or discourse adverbs was overall correctly computed; (... | {
"abstract": "Technical debt in software development is a common problem that is overlooked by many development teams. This debt can be generated from a variety of reasons, including time pressure and complexity in software. Technical debt in simple terms is when a simple and less optimized solution is carried out i... |
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"abstract": "We use polyharmonic Radial Basis Functions (RBFs) to reconstruct smooth, manifold surfaces from point-cloud data and to repair incomplete meshes. An object's surface is defined implicitly as the zero set of an RBF fitted to the given surface data. Fast methods for fitting and evaluating RBFs allow us t... | {
"abstract": "A number of techniques have been developed for reconstructing surfaces by integrating groups of aligned range images. A desirable set of properties for such algorithms includes: incremental updating, representation of directional uncertainty, the ability to fill gaps in the reconstruction, and robustne... | {
"abstract": "Successful training of convolutional neural networks is often associated with sufficiently deep architectures composed of high amounts of features. These networks typically rely on a variety of regularization and pruning techniques to converge to less redundant states. We introduce a novel bottom-up ap... |
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"abstract": "ABSTRACT Purpose: To describe an 8-year-old girl with diagnosis of Sturge–Weber syndrome (SWS) presenting with glaucoma, abnormal iris vessels, diffuse choroidal hemangioma, and small white dot-shaped “microdrusen-like” alterations of the retina in the right eye. Patient and methods: Complete ophthalmo... | {
"abstract": "These congenital, non-progressive lesions are benign, and often solitary and unilateral. Patients are usually asymptomatic, although some may experience decreased vision and neurologic symptoms, such as seizures and cranial nerve palsies [15, 87]. Cutaneous or cerebral hemangiomas may also be found, es... | {
"abstract": "Acknowledgements, List of Illustrations 1. Introduction and Overview PART I. CLASSICISM IN THE INTERBELLUM 2. A Network of Reviews and Intellectuals 3. Classicism and the Humanistic Tradition 4. The Philosophy of Classicism 5. Classicism and the Idea of Europe 6. The Cultural Criticism of Classicism 7.... |
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"abstract": "This paper describes experimental research on a floating moored Oscillating Water Column (OWC)-type Wave-Energy Converter (WEC) carried out in the wave flume of the Coastal Engineering Research Group of Ghent University. This research has been introduced to cover the existing data scarcity and knowledg... | {
"abstract": "The oscillating water column (OWC) is one of the more successful wave energy converters so far due to its mechanical and structural simplicity; there are no components for power take-off in seawater. Though there are some successful practical developments in bottom-fixed OWCs, floating OWCs are still i... | {
"abstract": "This discussion is meant to look back at reliability progress over the last thirty years and identify trends and shortcomings. The main body of published work came from the ROCS workshop. While the workshop addresses various specific issues individually, it is the accumulation of a variety of data, inf... |
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"abstract": "The use of anthropomorphic avatars provides Internet users the opportunity and freedom to manipulate their identity. As cyberspace becomes a haven for deceptive behavior, human-computer interaction research will need to be carried out to study and understand these deceptive behaviors. The objective of ... | {
"abstract": "The unknown and the invisible exploit the unwary and the uninformed for illicit financial gain and reputation damage.",
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"abstract": "Comments on the article, \"Violent video games and the Supreme Court: Lessons for the scientific community in the wake of Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association,\" by C. J. Ferguson (see record 2013-04752-001). The commentators agree with Ferguson that the U.S. Supreme Court case involving violen... |
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"abstract": "Once an exporter of oil and gas, the whole world is now struggling to meet its own needs. The growth in energy consumption is a response to the the countries’ economic expansion, industrialization, and change in people’s life style. Although all energy forms have been subjected to high growth, electric... | {
"abstract": "BackgroundIn the recent study, optimum operational conditions of cathode compartment of microbial fuel cell were determined by using Response Surface Methodology (RSM) with a central composite design to maximize power density and COD removal.MethodsThe interactive effects of parameters such as, pH, buf... | {
"abstract": "This paper describes an activity-dependent intracortical microstimulation system-on-chip (SoC) that can convert extracellular neural signals recorded from one brain region to electrical stimuli delivered to another brain region in real-time. The system integrates an analog recording front-end with inpu... |
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"abstract": "It has been shown that chemotherapy has limited antitumor activity against advanced urothelial bladder cancer (UBC). Consequently, there is an urgent need to develop effective therapeutic methods for patients with advanced UBC. In the present study, the inhibitory effects of lentinan alone, gemcitabine... | {
"abstract": "BACKGROUND/AIMS\nRecently, complementary alternative medicine is actively performed for cancer therapy. We investigated the effectiveness of supplementary food containing superfine dispersed lentinan (beta-1,3-glucan) in patients with unresectable or recurrent hepatocellular carcinoma in a multi-center... | {
"abstract": "BackgroundSurvivin is a member of the inhibitor-of-apoptosis (IAP) family which is widely expressed by many different cancers. Overexpression of survivin is associated with drug resistance in cancer cells, and reduced patient survival after chemotherapy and radiotherapy. Agents that antagonize the func... |
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"abstract": "Frequency-domain contention is a promising technique that can significantly improve channel utilization. Recently, a novel multi-subcarrier frequency-domain contention protocol called WiFi-BA has been proposed to solve the collision issue between data transmissions in single-subcarrier frequency-domain... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Shifting from the time domain to the frequency domain is an interesting recent direction that has been exploited to improve the performance of wireless networks. It is shown that the frequency-domain based proposals are of obvious benefits especially for higher rates and densities which are im... | {
"abstract": "A wireless transmitter learns of a packet loss and infers collision only after completing the entire transmission. If the transmitter could detect the collision early [such as with carrier sense multiple access with collision detection (CSMA/CD) in wired networks], it could immediately abort its transm... |
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"abstract": "Objectives Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) shares some similar clinical and pathological features with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA); indeed, the strategy of investigating whether RA susceptibility loci also confer susceptibility to JIA has already proved highly successful in identifying novel JIA loci... | {
"abstract": "Genome-wide association studies are now identifying disease-associated chromosome regions. However, even after convincing replication, the localization of the causal variant(s) requires comprehensive resequencing, extensive genotyping and statistical analyses in large sample sets leading to targeted fu... | {
"abstract": "The reactions of [PtPh2(SMe2)2] (1) with ligands RCHNCH2CH2NMe2 (R = C6H5 (2a), 2-BrC6H4 (2b), 2,6-Cl2C6H3 (2c), 2-ClC6H4 (2d), and C6F5 (2e)) produced compounds [PtPh2{Me2NCH2CH2NCHR}] (3). Compounds 3 led to formation of three different types of [C,N,N‘] platinum compounds, including platinum(II) com... |
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"abstract": "This paper proposes the Sliding Mode Control (SMC) approach in order to control the nonlinear system. A nonlinear model of a five degree of freedom (DOF) flywheel energy storage system (FESS) obtained using Lagrange's equation is introduced. The SMC approach is proposed not only to out-perform the prop... | {
"abstract": "The paper reports on investigation and development of a flywheel device intended for an energy storage prototype. The goal was to design and experimentally verify the concept of self-integrated flywheel with smart control of energy flow and accumulation. The Flywheel Energy Storage System (FESS) must h... | {
"abstract": "Based on a general controller evaluation method, taking both performance and robustness in different frequency regions into account, an analytical PID design method is presented. It is related to the well known and often used lambda tuning approach, which is based on internal model control (IMC) for a ... |
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"abstract": "The self-powering, long-lasting, and functional features of embedded wireless microsensors appeal to an ever-expanding application space in monitoring, control, and diagnosis for military, commercial, industrial, space, and biomedical applications. Extended operational life, however, is difficult to ac... | {
"abstract": "In this paper, we propose an electrostatic energy harvester with an out-of-the-plane gap closing scheme. Using advanced MEMS technology, two components of the energy harvesting device are fabricated from two silicon wafers. A spray coated CYTOP polymer is used both as an electrets material and an adhes... | {
"abstract": "Today, the East European forest-steppe is an agricultural landscape with very few remains of its former natural vegetation. The history of the transformation from natural vegetation to a human-made landscape in the area of Sudzha (Kursk region, Russia) is studied here. We compare the off-site pollen re... |
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"abstract": "Theory: A conditional model of committee behavior is proposed to explain variation in committee responsiveness to chamber and party principals. Hypotheses: Committee member behavior is consistent with the preferences of both the floor and the party caucuses; variation in salience explains differences i... | {
"abstract": "Committees are important features in legislative decision making. The question of who serves on what committee is thus an important one. This paper asks about how mixed electoral systems affect the way committee seats are allocated. Stratmann and Baur (2002) argue that German parties strategically assi... | {
"abstract": "An experiment is described in which it was demonstrated that relative judgments of the more probable of two statements are quicker if the statements are both probable rather than improbable. For judgments of the less probable, the reverse result was obtained. This phenomenon is discussed in relation to... |
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"abstract": "Because organic systems present complex environmental stress, plant breeders may either target very focused regions for different varieties, or create heterogeneous populations which can then evolve specific adaptation through on-farm cultivation and selection. This often leads to participatory plant b... | {
"abstract": "While diversity for resistance has been recognised for more than 60 years as a key factor in disease management, and diversification strategies such as cultivar mixtures and multilines are described and advocated in almost every plant pathology textbook, the general view in modern agriculture is that d... | {
"abstract": "Verbal and nonverbal forms of thinking exhibit widespread dissociation at neural and behavioral level. The importance of this for children's causal thinking and its implications for school science are largely unknown. Assessing 5‐ to 10‐year‐olds' responses (N = 231), verbal ability predicted causal re... |
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"abstract": "Abstract Spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) was used to study left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) and its dynamic change after the interventions with Telmisartan and Amlodipine. The results showed that the expression of TRPC1, CaN and NFATC3 increased gradually with the pathogenesis and progression o... | {
"abstract": "Trimethylamine-N-oxide (TMAO), gut microbiota-dependent metabolites, has been shown to be associated with cardiovascular diseases. However, little is known about the relationship between TMAO and vascular aging. Here, we observed a change in TMAO during the aging process and the effects of TMAO on vasc... | {
"abstract": "Data stability of SRAM cells has become an important issue with the scaling of CMOS technology. SRAM arrays are also an important source of leakage in today’s high performance microprocessors. A new six transistor (6T) SRAM cell based on independent-gate (IG) FinFET technology is presented in this pape... |
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"abstract": "Very little systematic research has focused on the Intellectual Capital (IC) and Strategic Human Resource Management (SHRM) link in the social service non-profit sector. Using data gathered from Australian Social Service Non-profit Organisations (SSNPOs), this paper fills this gap by building a nascent... | {
"abstract": "The aim of the study is to investigate the impact of Structural Capital (SC) on Middle East University's (MEU) Business Performance (BP). To fulfill the purpose of this study, practical data were collected from 167 participants out of about 3217 elements, by means of a questionnaire. Statistical techni... | {
"abstract": "Uncertainty analysis for the multi-input multi-output (MIMO) over-the-air (OTA) measurement is very important for the test standardizations. As one of the only two standard MIMO OTA test methods, the radiated two-stage (RTS) method is known for its simple test setup and cost-effective solution. The RTS... |
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"abstract": "Pawlak's flowgraph has been applied as a suitable data structure for description and analysis of human behaviour in the area supervised with multicamera video surveillance system. Information contained in the flowgraph can be easily used to predict consecutive movements of a particular object. Moreover... | {
"abstract": "In this paper, we mainly discuss the relationship between the extended Pawlak flow graph (EFG) with granular computing (GrC), and develop a both simple and concrete model for EFG using GrC. The distinct advantage is that we can resort to merits of GrC to benefit us in analyzing and processing data usin... | {
"abstract": "This paper concerns the relationship between rough sets and flow graphs. It is shown that flow graph can be used both as formal language for computing approximations of sets in the sense of rough set theory, and as description tool for data structure. This description is employed next for finding patte... |
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"abstract": "Mean firing rate estimation is an important step in electromyographic (EMG) signals analysis. Its application is of great interest for the conception and implementation of algorithms in various research domains, ranging from neuromuscular diseases diagnosis to biomechanics. The proposed work is focused... | {
"abstract": "The present bibliography represents a comprehensive list of references on cyclostationarity and its applications. An attempt has been made to make this bibliography complete by listing most of the existing references up to the year 2005 and by providing a detailed classification group.",
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"abstract": "A variety of quadratic system implementations of spectral correlation analyzers using pipeline digital techniques is studied. The authors analyze in detail three realizations, each with different advantages. One approach is based on the frequency-smoothing method of cross-spectral analysis. The remaini... |
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"abstract": "University of Minnesota Ph.D. dissertation. April 2012. Major: Educational Policy and Administration. Advisor: Melissa S. Anderson. 1 computer file (PDF): ix, 140 pages, appendix A.",
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"abstract": "The purpose of this undertaking was to describe the bullying of teachers in the workplace, specifically in Davao City and Davao del Sur in the Philippines. Employing phenomenological approach with 20 teachers, in-depth interviews and focus group discussion were conducted which revealed that bullying of... | {
"abstract": "Come with us to read a new book that is coming recently. Yeah, this is a new coming book that many people really want to read will you be one of them? Of course, you should be. It will not make you feel so hard to enjoy your life. Even some people think that reading is a hard to do, you must be sure th... |
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"abstract": "Cleistochlamys kirkii (Benth) Oliv. (Annonaceae) is a medicinal plant traditionally used in Mozambique to treat infectious diseases. The aim of this study was to find resistance modifiers in C. kirkii for Gram‐positive and Gram‐negative model bacterial strains. One of the most important resistance mech... | {
"abstract": "One of the strategies to combat antibiotic resistance can be the use of plant materials in combination with antibiotics, taking into account that phytochemicals can act as antibiotic resistance‐modifying agents. This can give a second life to the traditional antibiotics. The aim was to evaluate antibio... | {
"abstract": "Polymeric nanobiocomposites have recently become one of the most essential sought after materials for biomedical applications ranging from implants to the creation of gels. Their unique mechanical and biological properties provide them the ability to pass through the highly guarded defense mechanism wi... |
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"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nFish skin, a by-product of the food industry, contains a large amount of collagen. However, only a small proportion of fish skin is used in the production of leather materials and animal feedstuffs, most of it being discarded. The aims of this study were to prepare peptides from Alaska poll... | {
"abstract": "During fish processing operations, such as skinning and filleting, the removal of collagen-containing materials can account for up to 30% of the total fish byproducts. Collagen is the main structural protein in skin, representing up to 70% of dry weight depending on the species, age and season. It has ... | {
"abstract": "The levels of copper- and zinc-containing superoxide dismutase (CuZnSOD), manganese-containing superoxide dismutase (MnSOD), glutathione peroxidase (GSH-Px) and catalase (CAT) activity have been assessed in a nuclear fraction (NF), a mitochondrial fraction (MF) and a non-mitochondrial, non-nuclear frac... |
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"abstract": "The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of the inflation rate, gross domestic product (GDP), debt to equity ratio (DER), return on assets (ROA), market to book value (MBV) towards the stock returns on the food and beverages company in Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX) 2010-2013. Data colle... | {
"abstract": "Informasi mengenai kondisi umum perekonomian negara di mana perusahaan beroperasi menjadi sangat penting untuk diketahui dan dianalisis oleh para investor yang ingin menanamkan modal agar harapan untuk mendapatkan keuntungan yang tinggi serta meminimalisir risiko bisa terpenuhi. Pendekatan arbitrage pr... | {
"abstract": "SUMMARY The objectives of this review article are, firstly, to provide an overview of the literature on the main characteristics of what is referred to as the international forest regime and secondly, based on this, to review explanations for fragmentation as its core characteristic. A third aim of the... |
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"abstract": "Abstract The initial step in the interaction of thrombin with human platelets in binding of the enzyme to the platelet surface. The effects of digestion of isolated platelets with trypsin and neuraminidase on aggregation, release of serotonin and binding of thrombin have been examined. Trypsin is a pow... | {
"abstract": "Sialic acid is believed to play a critical role in the survival of blood platelets in circulation. Wheat germ agglutinin, which shows specificity for sialic acid, N-acetylglucosamine, and N-acetylgalactosamine, strongly activates platelets. The role of sialic acid in platelet activation by this lectin ... | {
"abstract": "Pneumatically assisted electrospray ionization (ion-spray) mass spectrometry was employed in the detection of non-covalent interactions of immunosuppressive drugs with proteins. Non-covalent complexes of albumin (rat and bovine) with FK506, dihydro-FK506, and FK520 were observed. No complexation was de... |
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"abstract": "This paper describes a novel methodology for automatic musical genre classification based on a feature extraction/statistical similarity measurement approach. First, we perform a 1-D wavelet decomposition of the music signal and we model the resulting subband coefficients using the generalized Gaussian... | {
"abstract": "The parameters estimation of mixture distributions is an important task in statistical signal processing, Pattern recognition, blind equalization and other modern statistical tasks often call for mixture estimation. This paper aims to provide a realistic distribution based on Mixture of Generalized Gau... | {
"abstract": "This paper presents a study on musical signal classification, using wavelet transform analysis in conjunction with statistical pattern recognition techniques. A comparative evaluation between different wavelet analysis architectures in terms of their classification ability, as well as between different... |
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"abstract": "This study reports dynamic changes in the beech forest vegetation during one decade, using 95 permanent observation areas representing a wide variety of soils and management regimes. Current soil acidification, including decreasing pH and base cation pools, increasing solubility of toxic elements and i... | {
"abstract": "From 1941–;1944 nearly 30 phytosociological relevés were completed by F. K. Hartmann in the Rychlebské Mountains, a typical mountainous area in northeastern Czech Republic. Of the original plots still covered with adult grown beech (Fagus sylvatica) forest, 22 were resampled in 1998 and 1999. In order ... | {
"abstract": "RESUME The Umweltbundesamt (Austrian Federal Environment Agency, FEA) is currently evaluating the potential of satellite data for assessing national and regional air quality. Within the framework of the GSE project PROMOTE, Service Level Agreements (SLA) were signed between the Umweltbundesamt and vari... |
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"abstract": "Despite recent advances, heparin-induced immune thrombocytopenia (HIT) continues to pose an important diagnostic challenge because various mechanisms other than drug sensitivity can cause platelet levels to drop in patients treated with unfractionated (UFH) or low-molecular weight (LMWH) heparin. In th... | {
"abstract": "Anticoagulant and nonenzymatic fibrinolytic activities increased in blood plasma of 6–7-month-old rats after repeated intramuscular administration of the heparin-adenosine triphosphate complex (G-ATP). The mixture of heparin and ATP had no fibrin depolymerizing activity in vitro. Repeated intramuscular... | {
"abstract": "Potential‐based flows are an extension of classical network flows in which the flow on an arc is determined by the difference of the potentials of its incident nodes. Such flows are unique and arise, for example, in energy networks. Two important algorithmic problems are to determine whether there exis... |
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"abstract": "For all exoplanet candidates, the reliability of a claimed detection needs to be assessed through a careful study of systematic errors in the data to minimize the false positives rate. We present a method to investigate such systematics in microlensing data sets using the microlensing event OGLE-2013-B... | {
"abstract": "In the context of difference image analysis (DIA), we present a new method for determining the convolution kernel matching a pair of images of the same field. Unlike the standard DIA technique which involves modelling the kernel as a linear combination of basis functions, we consider the kernel as a di... | {
"abstract": "The installed wind power has increased significantly in the last decade and is predicted to increase further. With more installed wind power it can be expected that eventually wind farms will increase in size. Due to the wind speed reduction inside wind farms and the related power losses, it becomes im... |
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"abstract": "Introduction This study investigated the effects of cocaine administration and parvalbumin-type interneuron stimulation on local field potentials (LFPs) recorded in vivo from the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) of six mice using optogenetic tools. Methods The local network was subject to a brief 10 ms ... | {
"abstract": "Optogenetically evoked local field potential (LFP) recorded from the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) of mice during basal conditions and following a systemic cocaine administration were analyzed. Blue light stimuli were delivered to mPFC through a fiber optic every 2 s and each trial was repeated 100 t... | {
"abstract": "CONTEXT\nMathematical models describing changes in mood in affective disorders may assist in the identification of underlying pathologic and neurobiologic mechanisms and in differentiating between alternative interpretations of psychiatric data.\n\n\nOBJECTIVE\nUsing time-to-event data from a large epi... |
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"abstract": "We explore the idea of obtaining valid inequalities for a 0-1 model from a constraint programming formulation of the problem. In particular, we formulate a graph coloring problem as a system of all-different constraints. By analyzing the polyhedral structure of alldiff systems, we obtain facet-defining... | {
"abstract": "We explore the idea of obtaining valid inequalities from a finite-domain formulation of a problem, rather than a 0-1 formulation. A finite-domain model represents discrete choices with variables that have several possible values, as is frequently done in constraint programming. We apply the idea to gra... | {
"abstract": "We present a theoretical study on the idea of using mathematical programming relaxations for filtering binary constraint satisfaction problems. We introduce the consistent value polytope and give a linear programming description that is provably tighter than a recently studied formulation. We then prov... |
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"abstract": "ABSTRACT Paenibacillus sp. strain W-61, which can utilize xylan as the sole source of carbon and energy, produces extracellular xylanases 1 and 3 (Xyn1 and Xyn3) and cell surface xylanase 5. In this study we found that lppX, immediately downstream of xyn1, encodes a lipoprotein located on the outer lay... | {
"abstract": "ABSTRACT Paenibacillus sp. W-61 is capable of utilizing water-insoluble xylan for carbon and energy sources and has three xylanase genes, xyn1, xyn3, and xyn5. Xyn1, Xyn3, and Xyn5 are extracellular enzymes of the glycoside hydrolase (GH) families 11, 30, and 10, respectively. Xyn5 contains several dom... | {
"abstract": "J. Neurochem. (2010) 112, 830–839.",
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"title": "OBCAM, an immunoglobulin superfamily cell adhesion molecule, regulates morphology and proliferation of cerebral astrocytes"
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"abstract": "This study examines the growth in term-time employment and its impact upon academic attainment among full-time undergraduates at Northumbria University. The study utilises data from three large-scale surveys carried out in each Spring Term between 1999 and 2001. The growth in term-time employment coinc... | {
"abstract": "It is almost impossible to juggle classes, lectures and studying and work together with all the things that keep you sane boyfriends, friends. Working 20 hours a week does not, for me, mean more money for lipstick and lager, but is essential for paying rent bills etc. I'll still leave University £6,500... | {
"abstract": "Discusses results of a survey of undergraduates at Lancaster University, showing that student poverty, while not common, can be extreme. Identifies a number of characteristics which affect students′ proneness to poverty.",
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"abstract": "DOM-based cross-site scripting (XSS) is a client-side code injection vulnerability that results from unsafe dynamic code generation in JavaScript applications, and has few known practical defenses. We study dynamic code evaluation practices on nearly a quarter million URLs crawled starting from the the... | {
"abstract": "Web applications typically interact with a back-end database to retrieve persistent data and then present the data to the user as dynamically generated output, such as HTML web pages. However, this interaction is commonly done through a low-level API by dynamically constructing query strings within a g... | {
"abstract": "The popularity of Android OS has dramatically increased malware apps targeting this mobile OS. The daily amount of malware has overwhelmed the detection process. This fact has motivated the need for developing malware detection and family attribution solutions with the least manual intervention. In res... |
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"abstract": "The Mara River Basin in East Africa is a trans-boundary basin of international significance experiencing excessive levels of sediment loads. Sediment levels in this river are extremely high (turbidities as high as 6,000 NTU) and appear to be increasing over time. Large wildlife populations, unregulated... | {
"abstract": "rocesses structuring riparian corridors can be viewed as a hierarchy, in which primary factors (such as matter, energy, and water) create a spatially extensive and temporally variable physical environment, which becomes habitat for plants and animals. The habitat is further modified by the activities o... | {
"abstract": "Total suspended solids (TSS) from combined sewer overflows (CSOs) and stormwater discharges represent a crucial parameter for evaluating wet-weather pollution in urban areas. In fact, the increase of TSS in water during rain events can have ecotoxic effects on aquatic organisms. Furthermore, major pote... |
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"abstract": "People spend the majority of their time indoors, and human indoor activities are strongly correlated with the rooms they are in. Room localization, which identifies the room a person or mobile phone is in, provides a powerful tool for characterizing human indoor activities and helping address challenge... | {
"abstract": "The proliferation of mobile computing devices and local-area wireless networks has fostered a growing interest in location-aware systems and services. In this paper we present RADAR, a radio-frequency (RF)-based system for locating and tracking users inside buildings. RADAR operates by recording and pr... | {
"abstract": "Point-of-interest (POI) recommendation that suggests new places for users to visit arises with the popularity of location-based social networks (LBSNs). Due to the importance of POI recommendation in LBSNs, it has attracted much academic and industrial interest. In this paper, we offer a systematic rev... |
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"abstract": "Anemia, a risk factor for cardiovascular events in patients with CKD, is a common problem following transplantation and has been reported in up to 40% of kidney transplant recipients (KTRs).1–3 It is well established that post-transplant anemia (PTA) is associated with poor clinical outcomes. PTA is as... | {
"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nRecent data suggests that erythropoietin therapy may actually retard the progression of chronic kidney disease (CKD). Transplant recipients with evidence of chronic allograft dysfunction could respond in a similar manner to erythropoietin.\n\n\nMETHODS\nWe evaluated 166 individuals who init... | {
"abstract": "1 Recent investigations have shown that the glycoprotein erythropoietin (Epo) and its specific receptor (EpoR) are present in the mammalian brain including human, monkey and mouse. These findings suggest a local action of Epo in the nervous system. The aim of this study was to elucidate a possible func... |
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"abstract": "Anti-war, or peace, movements are extremely diverse collective actors or social processes, varying in philosophical orientation, political and social aims, organizational structure, and societal and political level — local, national, and increasingly transnational — at which they operate. While post — ... | {
"abstract": "This article contributes to the ongoing activist debate over the nature and future of the World Social Forum as well as to scholarly reflection and theorization of the Forum as an open space versus a more action-oriented and partisan organization at the current stage of global struggles against neolibe... | {
"abstract": "* Editors' Preface * Acknowledgements * Foreword - Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri * Introduction: The World Social Forum and the Reinvention of Democracy * Thomas Ponniah and William F. Fisher * PART I: The Production of Wealth and Social Reproduction * Overview: Key Questions, Critical Issues * Willi... |
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"abstract": "II Acknowledgements and Dedication I would like to begin with expressing my deepest gratitude to my supervisors Prof. Martin Fischer and Prof. Jan-Willem Strijbos. They have been loyal, patient and supportive academic mentors throughout my work, making this dissertation possible. I would also like to e... | {
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"title": "Improving the effectiveness of peer feedback for learning"
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"abstract": "Collaboratively observing tutoring is a promising method for observational learning (also referred to as vicarious learning). This method was tested in the Pittsburgh Science of Learning Center's Physics LearnLab, where students were introduced to physics topics by observing videos while problem solvin... |
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"abstract": "Abstract A 5 GHz LC VCO (voltage-controlled oscillator) with automatic amplitude control (AAC) and automatic frequency-band selection (AFBS) for 2.4 GHz ZigBee transceivers is presented. Instead of continuous feedback loop, an alternative amplitude calibration scheme is proposed in this paper to allevi... | {
"abstract": "Ring oscillators (ROs) provide a low-cost digital VCO solution in fully integrated PLLs. However, due to their supply noise sensitivity and high noise floor, their applications have been limited to low-performance applications. The proposed architecture introduces an analog feed-forward adaptive phase-... | {
"abstract": "Water has been detected on the lunar surface and attributed to delivery by impacts and the solar wind to a dry early Moon. Spectroscopic detections of water in lunar anorthosites from the Apollo collection suggest that a significant amount of water is indigenous to the Moon.",
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"abstract": "The FDTD method is applied to the full-wave analysis of rectangular waveguides loaded with E-plane or H-plane ferrite slabs with transverse magnetization. The treatment of the ferrite material is based on the equation of motion using the Gilbertpsilas approximation of the damping term. A comparison bet... | {
"abstract": "The finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method is extended to include magnetized ferrites. The treatment of the ferrite material is based on the equation of motion of the magnetization vector. Magnetic losses are also included in the equation of motion by means of Gilbert's approximation of the phenom... | {
"abstract": "Mincerian econometric estimates including health (indicated by stature), schooling and experience show adult human capital has increasing returns in Mexico. These may result from recent pro-market reforms. In addition, probit estimates show that childhood nutrition and health (also indicated by stature... |
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"abstract": "The conventional second-order Bragg-spectrum-based wave height extraction method is often susceptible to external noise and spatial aliasing. To improve the wave height estimate, we turn to the first-order Bragg peaks and propose a new method which directly estimates the wave height from them. The key ... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Estimates of the directional wave spectrum obtained from the meteorological buoy of the University of Hamburg and a pitch-and-roll buoy of the Institute of Oceanographic Sciences are reported from a series of measurements made within the framework of the Joint North Sea Wave Project during Sep... | {
"abstract": "Abstract The measured HF sea-echo Doppler spectrum consists of prominent first-order peaks, around which exist second-order sidebands of a continuous nature. Theoretical models developed elsewhere are interpreted here and shown to satisfactorily account for these first and second-order measured spectra... |
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"abstract": "Integrins contribute to progression in many cancers, including breast cancer. For example, the interaction of 5 1 with plasma fibronectin causes the constitutive invasiveness of human prostate cancer cells. Inhibition of this process reduces tumorigenesis and prevents metastasis and recurrence. In this... | {
"abstract": "Our laboratory has developed twelve human breast cancer cell lines from primary and metastatic sites. In this report we demonstrate that eight of eight breast cancer cell lines examined exhibit constitutively tyrosine phosphorylated and enzymatically active endogenous pp125fak when grown in monolayer. ... | {
"abstract": "Proteolysis by type IV collagenase (T4) has been implicated in the process of tumor metastasis. The T4 gene is expressed in fibroblasts, but not in normal epithelial cells, and its expression is specifically repressed by the E1A oncogene of adenovirus. We present an investigation of the transcriptional... |
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"abstract": "Waveguide gratings reflecting at wavelengths near 1530 nm were fabricated by laser ablation of thin Ta/sub 2/O/sub 5/ films on glass waveguides. Variation of reflectivity from 0.3 dB to 34 dB was achieved by alteration of the superstrate refractive index.",
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"abstract": "A highly sensitive waveguide Bragg grating (WBG) sensor for measuring small changes of the refractive index of the surrounding liquid is presented. By using an open top ridge waveguide with a small core, the evanescent field interaction of the guided mode with the liquid analyte on the top of the waveg... | {
"abstract": "AFTER the unit of the roentgen-ray intensity, “one r,” was accepted by the International Congress of Radiology, it was desirable to determine, again, whether this unit might also be used to measure the intensities of gamma rays of radium. The first attempt to measure intensities of both roentgen and ra... |
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"abstract": "The objective of this study was to assess the phenotypic and genetic variability of production traits and milk fatty acid (FA) contents throughout lactation. Genetic parameters for milk, fat, and protein yields, fat and protein contents, and 19 groups and individual FA contents in milk were estimated f... | {
"abstract": "Interest in changing the milk fatty acid profile is growing. However, little is known about the genetic variability of milk fatty acids in the US Holstein population. Therefore, genetic parameters for milk fatty acids were estimated using a single-trait, mixed, linear animal model on 592 individual mil... | {
"abstract": "Twenty-nine multiparous cows of each of the Jersey and Friesian breeds, all kappa-casein AB phenotype, were grazed together and managed identically. On three occasions during 10 d in spring (early lactation), milk was collected from all cows at four consecutive milkings and bulked according to breed. O... |
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"abstract": "Summary Tritiated TCDD was incubated with isolated rat hepatocytes and the resulting incubation mixture subjected to high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC). The major peak of radioactivity not corresponding to TCDD was incubated with β-glucuronidase. The products of this reaction were derivatize... | {
"abstract": "2,3,7,8-Tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD; polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon) is a persistent and ubiquitous environmental contaminant that causes a wide variety of deleterious effects. In this study, the DNA damage and apoptotic activity induced by TCDD was examined using in silico and in vitro approach... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Fenfluramine decreased plasma triglycerides in fed rats but not in fasted rats. When this compound was administered to rats in a post-absorptive state, a diminution in lymphatic flow and in triglyceride concentration was observed. Moreover, pretreatment with fenfluramine inhibited a rise in pl... |
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"abstract": "Studying complex thorax breating motion is an important research topic for accurate fusion of functional and anatomical data, radiotherapy planning or reduction of breathing motion artifacts. We investigate segmented CT lung, airway and diaphragm surfaces at several different breathing states between F... | {
"abstract": "Small animal registration is an important step for molecular image analysis. Skeleton registration from whole-body or only partial micro Computerized Tomography (CT) image is often performed to match individual rats to atlases and templates, for example to identify organs in positron emission tomograph... | {
"abstract": "Complex vector modes represent a general state of light nonseparable in their spatial and polarization degrees of freedom, which have inspired a wide variety of novel applications and phenomena, such as their unexpected propagation behaviour. For example, they can propagate describing periodic polariza... |
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"abstract": "The instructive structure-property relationships of ionic liquids (ILs) can be put to task-specific design of new functionalized ILs. The dicyanamide (DCA) ILs are typical CHN type ILs which are halogen free, chemical stable, low-viscous, and fuel-rich. The transport properties of DCA ionic liquids are... | {
"abstract": "A combined classical molecular dynamics (MD) and ab initio MD (AIMD) method was developed for the calculation of electrochemical windows (ECWs) of ionic liquids. In the method, the liquid phase of ionic liquid is explicitly sampled using classical MD. The electrochemical window, estimated by the energy... | {
"abstract": "A series of experiments investigated the effects of a single injection of estradiol valerate (EV) on female rats' consumption of alcoholic beverages. EV provides sustained release of estradiol. Just after an injection of EV, rats' intake of a palatable alcoholic beverage, which had been taken regularly... |
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"abstract": "A detailed analysis of the dehydrogenation mechanism of LiBH4/xLiAlH4 (x = 0.5, 1, 2) composites was performed by thermogravimetry (TG), differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), mass spectral analysis (MS), powder X-ray diffraction (XRD) and scanning electronic microscopy (SEM), along with kinetic inve... | {
"abstract": "Abstract We have investigated the hydrogen storage properties of the LiAlH4–LiBH4 system, both un-doped and doped with titanium based catalysts. It was found that TiF3 exhibited the superior catalytic effects in terms of enhancing the hydriding/dehydriding kinetics and reducing the dehydrogenation temp... | {
"abstract": "Abstract To improve nanoconfinement of LiBH 4 and MgH 2 in carbon aerogel scaffold (CAS), particle size reduction of MgH 2 by premilling technique before melt infiltration is proposed. MgH 2 is premilled for 5 h prior to milling with LiBH 4 and nanoconfinement in CAS to obtained nanoconfined 2LiBH 4 –p... |
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"abstract": "Pseudorandom vectors are of importance for parallelized simulation methods. In this paper a detailed analysis of the compound inversive method for the generation of k-dimensional uniform pseudorandom vectors, a vector analog of the compound inversive method for pseudorandom number generation, is carrie... | {
"abstract": "A nonlinear congruential pseudorandom number generator with modulus M = 2 w is proposed, which may be viewed to comprise both linear as well as inversive congruential generators. The condition for it to generate sequences of maximal period length is obtained. It is akin to the inversive one and bears a... | {
"abstract": "In this paper, we present a distributed algorithm to find Hamiltonian cycles in C/(n, p) graphs. The algorithm works in a synchronous distributed setting. It finds a Hamiltonian cycle in G(n, p) with high probability when p = ω √/log n/n 1/4), and terminates in linear worst-case number of pulses, and i... |
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"abstract": "A serious problem facing many organizations today is the need to use information from multiple data sources that have been developed separately. Conflicts in the structure and semantics of these disparate data sources create major obstacles to effective use. We have previously described our data mediat... | {
"abstract": "The integration of external, heterogeneous sources of information into a deductive system bears several problems to be solved. The external sources have to be made accessible. A common representation has to be used if possible. Otherwise means have to be provided to take into consideration the semantic... | {
"abstract": "In this note we present some properties of LI-embeddable planar graphs. We present a characterization of graphs isometrically embeddable into half-cubes. This result implies that every planar Li-graph G has a scale 2 embedding into a hypercube. Further, under some additional conditions we show that for... |
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"abstract": "Objectives. To describe glaucoma patients' trust in the physician and to test the hypothesis that increased interpersonal trust is associated with increased medication adherence. Methods. One hundred ninety-five subjects with open-angle glaucoma seen by multiple glaucoma subspecialists participated in ... | {
"abstract": "Significant racial disparities exist in pregnancy outcomes, but few researchers have examined the relationship between trust in providers and pregnancy outcomes. The Trust in Physician Scale (TPS), the most widely used tool, has not been tested in pregnancy. We assessed the psychometric properties of t... | {
"abstract": "PurposeTo assess retrospectively the intraocular pressure (IOP)-reducing effect of latanoprost compared with timolol in the subset of patients with ocular hypertension (OH). MethodsThree randomized, double-masked, multicenter, parallel group, 6-month studies conducted in the United States, United Kingd... |
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"abstract": "This paper exhibits a novel context-aware service framework for IoT based Smart Traffic Management using ontology to regulate smooth traffic flow in smart cities by analyzing real-time traffic environment. The proposed approach makes smarter use of transport networks to achieve objectives related to pe... | {
"abstract": "Internet of Things (IoT) is the most demanding platform that describes the interconnection of physical devices in near future. Since, the inter-connection of physical devices is getting more popular with the internet day by day, these interlinked devices are capable of integration among themselves in o... | {
"abstract": "We propose a sensitivity-based method to allocate decoupling capacitors (decaps) incorporating leakage constraints and tighter data and clock interactions. The proposed approach attempts to allocate decaps not only based on the power grid integrity criteria, but also based on the impact of power grid n... |
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