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"abstract": "We initiate a direction for proving lower bounds on the size of non-commutative arithmetic circuits. This direction is based on a connection between lower bounds on the size of <i>non-commutative</i> arithmetic circuits and a problem about <i>commutative</i> degree four polynomials, the classical sum-o... | {
"abstract": "In the setting of non-commutative arithmetic computations, we define a class of circuits that generalize algebraic branching programs (ABP). This model is called unambiguous because it captures the polynomials in which all monomials are computed in a similar way (that is, all the parse trees are isomor... | {
"abstract": "We present exponential lower bounds on the size of depth-k Boolean circuits for computing certain functions. These results imply that there exists an oracle set A such that, relative to A, all the levels in the polynomial-time hierarchy are distinct, i.e., ΣkP,A is properly contained in Σk+1P,A for all... |
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"abstract": "BackgroundEzrin, a member of the ezrin/radixin/moesin (ERM) protein family, plays a pivotal role in tumor invasion and metastasis. This study is aimed to investigate the clinicopathological significance of upregulated ezrin protein expression in uterine cervical cancers.MethodsImmunohistochemical stain... | {
"abstract": "BackgroundNQO1 (NAD(P)H: quinone oxidoreductase-1), located on chromosome 16q22, functions primarily to protect normal cells from oxidant stress and electrophilic attack. Recent studies have revealed that NQO1 is expressed at a high level in most human solid tumors including those of the colon, breast,... | {
"abstract": "Holographic optical coherence imaging is an en face form of optical coherence tomography that uses low-coherence digital holography as a coherence gate to select light from a chosen depth inside scattering tissue. By acquiring successive holograms at a high camera frame rate at a fixed depth, dynamic s... |
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"abstract": "In this paper, we introduce some new types of pairs of mappings (f,g) on G-metric spaces called G-weakly commuting of type G\"f and G-R-weakly commuting of type G\"f. We obtain also several common fixed point results by using the (E.A) property.",
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"title": "On common fixed poi... | {
"abstract": "Following a recent paper of Zand and Nezhad (2011), we establish some \nfixed point results in GP-metric spaces. The presented theorems generalize and improve \nseveral existing results in the literature. Also, some examples are presented.",
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"title": "Some Fixed Point Results ... | {
"abstract": "A small rocket magnetometer has been developed for use in investigation of electrical currents in the ionosphere. In three flights near the magnetic equator electrical currents were detected. The equatorial electrojet was found to consist of at least two layers of electrical current, one layer near an ... |
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"abstract": "Sirs: Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease (CMT), the most common hereditary neuropathy, is clinically and genetically heterogeneous. The Xlinked form (CMTX) has been linked to mutations in the gap junction protein beta 1 (GJB1) or Connexin 32 (Cx32) gene mapped to chromosome Xq13, which codes for a protein loc... | {
"abstract": "CNS glia and neurons express connexins, the proteins that form gap junctions in vertebrates. We review the connexins expressed by oligodendrocytes and astrocytes, and discuss their proposed physiologic roles. Of the 21 members of the human connexin family, mutations in three are associated with signifi... | {
"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nThe inability to coordinate the signaling pathways that lead to proper cytokine responses characterizes the pathogenesis of inflammatory diseases such as Crohn's disease. The Crohn's disease susceptibility protein, NOD2, helps coordinate cytokine responses upon intracellular exposure to bac... |
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"abstract": "In DSM regime, due to higher interconnect densities, the coupling noise between adjacent signals is aggravated and can lead to many timing violations. In traditional high-level synthesis (HLS), due to lack detailed physical details, it is difficult to accurately estimate crosstalk. Crosstalk minimizati... | {
"abstract": "In this paper, we proposed BIST-based architecture to at-speed test of crosstalk faults for system-on-chip interconnects. This architecture includes IEEE 1500 wrapper enhanced cells intended for multiple victim test model test patterns generation and analysis test responses. One new instruction is used... | {
"abstract": "This paper presents an adaptive controller with real‐time simultaneous estimation of coefficients and orders of the plant polynomials in the reference signal tracking task of a servo drive.",
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"title": "Minimum Variance Adaptive Control of A Servo Drive with Unk... |
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"abstract": "Dwarf eelgrasses (Zostera noltei) populations have decreased since 2005 in Arcachon Bay (southwest France). Various stressors have been pointed out, however the role of xenobiotics like pesticides or copper (Cu) and of parameters like water temperature warming have not yet been explored. To determine t... | {
"abstract": "The work presented here aims at comparing monitoring of S-metolachlor, the major pesticide in use in the Arcachon Bay (South West of France, transitional coastal area), by chemical analysis (monthly passive sampling) and contaminant dissipation modeling from sources (Mars-2D model). The global strategy... | {
"abstract": "Riboflavin secretion by Hyoscyamus albus hairy roots under Fe deficiency was examined to determine where riboflavin is produced and whether production occurs via an enhancement of riboflavin biosynthesis or a stimulation of flavin mononucleotide (FMN) hydrolysis. Confocal fluorescent microscopy showed ... |
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"abstract": "Customer Relationship Marketing has been described as a concept that not only relates to sales, marketing and services automation, but also increasingly embraces enterprise‐resource planning applications as well as the tracking of relationships, which organisations have with their customers and their s... | {
"abstract": "Looks at the dominance of relationship marketing (RM) in the current marketing debate and challenges some of the notions which appear to have grown up around the concept. In particular looks at a number of aspects of RM, which, despite the rhetoric, remain largely unsubstantiated. Examines the various ... | {
"abstract": "The performance prediction in communication, jobs processing in computers, etc, are always influenced by the customers behavior and the provision of this additional information will be useful in upgrading the service. Our paper is concerned under a loss and trigger protocol where each customer has a se... |
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"abstract": "Routing games, as introduced in the pioneering work of Orda, Rom and Shimkin (1993), are very closely related to the traffic assignment problems as already studied by Wardrop and to congestion games, as introduced by Rosenthal. But they exhibit more complex behavior: often the equilibrium is not unique... | {
"abstract": "Abstract We study potential games with continuous player sets, a class of games characterized by an externality symmetry condition. Examples of these games include random matching games with common payoffs and congestion games. We offer a simple description of equilibria which are locally stable under ... | {
"abstract": "HIGH-TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTIVITY TURNS 20After 2 decades of monumental effort, including two reports appearing online this week in Science ([www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/1134742][1] and [www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/1133411][2]), physicists still cannot explain high-temperature ... |
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"abstract": "In this technological era, every person, authorities, entrepreneurs, businesses, and many things around us are connected to the internet, forming Internet of thing (IoT). This generates a massive amount of diverse data with very high-speed, termed as big data. However, this data is very useful that can... | {
"abstract": "As architecture, systems, and data management communities pay greater attention to innovative big data systems and architecture, the pressure of benchmarking and evaluating these systems rises. However, the complexity, diversity, frequently changed workloads, and rapid evolution of big data systems rai... | {
"abstract": "A low-quiescent high-performance class-AB headphone amplifier is presented. The effect of the input-referred offset on the quiescent power of audio power amplifier (APA) that drives very small resistive load is described and analyzed. A digitally assisted offset calibration-based APA topology together ... |
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"abstract": "Integrated Power Electronics Modules (IPEMs) have been developed to relieve the converter manufacturers of the burden of several discrete power devices integration. With respect to generic assemblies, modern high-end IPEMs guarantee several advantages such as high power density, low profiles and an opt... | {
"abstract": "This article analyzes the effect of the modulation strategy on the thermal behavior of the power devices in AC drives. Excessive temperatures in the Silicon can be prevented by adequate selection of the switching frequency and modulation method. Continuous and discontinuous modulation methods will be c... | {
"abstract": "The combination of high power dissipation (e.g., >500 W) and high power densities required of power conversion devices, such as those utilized within variable-speed motor drives, necessitates thermal management systems with ever-increasing capabilities. Although device power densities on the order of 1... |
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"abstract": "This contribution introduces a computationally-efficient scheme for phase-based motion estimation. The local phase for consecutive dyadic scales and six different directions is retrieved through a complex-valued subband decomposition. It is obtained by a successive use of a recursive Hilbert transforme... | {
"abstract": "Motion estimation (ME) is the most time consuming part of the algorithms in the contemporary video compression standards like MPEG4, H.263 and H.264. To enable video and still image applications on today’s mobile devices a more computationaly efficient realization of ME is needed. In this paper a modif... | {
"abstract": "Time-based demand response (DR) enables industrial consumers to transfer their power consumption by following daily price curve. However, general time-based DR is basically a passive tariff. Utilities usually create general pricing tariff to the whole industrial consumers at the same voltage connection... |
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"abstract": "The process of oogenesis culminates in steroid-induced oocyte maturation to produce the fertilizable egg. A quintessential biological entity, the egg is central to the production of new individuals. The result of egg fertilization by a sperm cell is the production of the mother of all stem cells (i.e. ... | {
"abstract": "The aim of this work is to determine when and how ooplasmic segregation is initiated in the zebrafish egg. To this end, the organization of the ooplasm and vitelloplasm were examined in oocytes and eggs shortly after activation. Ooplasmic segregation, initiated in the stage V oocyte, led to the formati... | {
"abstract": "Protein-protein interactions (PPIs) mediate signal transduction in cells. Small molecules that regulate PPIs are important tools for biology and biomedicine. Dynamic imaging of small molecule induced PPIs characterizes and verifies these molecules in living cells. It is thus important to develop cellul... |
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"abstract": "Approximate simulation, an extension of simulation relations from formal methods to continuous systems, is a powerful tool for hierarchical control of complex systems. Finding an approximate simulation relation between the full \"concrete\" system and a simplified \"abstract\" system establishes a boun... | {
"abstract": "Fifty years ago, control and computing were part of a broader system science. After a long period of separate development within each discipline, embedded and hybrid systems have challenged us to reunite the, now sophisticated theories of continuous control and discrete computing on a broader system th... | {
"abstract": "In this paper, we present a new approach for hierarchical control based on the recent notions of approximate simulation and simulation functions, a quantitative version of the simulation relations. Given a complex system that needs to be controlled and a simpler abstraction, we show how the knowledge o... |
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"abstract": "In a recent retrospective study (Ringelstein et al., 1985), we analyzed the patterns of supratentorial brain infarctions on computed tomography (CT) in 421 patients and related these findings to the associated clinical and angiological data",
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"title": "Analysis of patterns of ... | {
"abstract": "Background and Purpose— The clinical diagnosis and treatment of stroke, as well as investigations into the underlying pathophysiology of the disease, hinge on inferences from the anatomy of the stroke lesion. We describe an MRI-based system of topographic and volumetric analysis that considers distribu... | {
"abstract": "Although surgical treatment of the stenotic and ulcerative internal carotid artery has been accepted as an effective approach to the management of cerebrovascular insufficiency, uncertainty and controversy have prevailed over the past two decades regarding the optimal management of the totally occluded... |
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"abstract": "Background.There are difficulties in obtaining health-related quality of life (HRQL) data from patients with dementia due to variation in their cognitive ability, degree of insight and capacity to make judgments. The use of proxies is one solution. Objectives.To examine the inter-rater agreement of pat... | {
"abstract": "PurposeDue to their cognitive impairment, the health-related quality of life (HRQoL) of patients with dementia is often rated by proxies. This study aims to analyse the psychometric properties of the EQ-5D applied to patients with mild to moderate dementia and their family caregivers.MethodsThree hundr... | {
"abstract": "A 20-microns thick apatite layer was coated onto polyethersulfone (PES) rectangular plates by soaking them in simulated body fluid containing CaO-SiO2 based glass powder. Coated and uncoated PES plates (10 x 15 x 1.5 mm) were implanted in the tibiae of rabbits, which were sacrificed 8, 16, and 30 weeks... |
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"abstract": "Face has been used as one of the mainstream manners for user identification. However, with the popularity of face-swapping apps, it takes only a few seconds to change the faces between two facial images. Such swapped results, when using improperly or carelessly, might create some security issues in cer... | {
"abstract": "Rendering a face recognition system robust is vital in order to safeguard it against spoof attacks carried out using printed pictures of a victim (also known as print attack) or a replayed video of the person (replay attack). A key property in distinguishing a live, valid access from printed media or r... | {
"abstract": "This paper presents our effort to the Audio/Visual+ Emotion Challenge (AV+EC2015), whose goal is to predict the continuous values of the emotion dimensions arousal and valence from audio, visual and physiology modalities. The state of art classifier for dimensional recognition, long short term memory r... |
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"abstract": "The need for the usage of signal processing and pattern recognition techniques to monitor photovoltaic (PV) arrays and to detect and respond to faults with minimal human involvement is increasing. The data obtained from the array can be used to dynamically modify the array topology and improve array po... | {
"abstract": "In 1990 – 1993 and during an EU project in 1998 – 2000, the PV laboratory of BFH-TI has carried out tests about sensitivity of PV modules against lightning currents flowing in or close to the frame of a PV module [1], [2], [3]. For these tests, impulse currents with imax ≤ 120kA and di/dtmax ≤ 40kA/μs ... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Background Water-soluble vitamins are often included simultaneously in pharmaceutical formulations as food complements or in parenteral nutrition mixtures. Given their sensitivity to heat, light or pH variations, it is important to study their stability using validated stability indicating met... |
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"abstract": "The effect of deep-water radiance on modelling bathymetry in shallow rivers using Lyzenga’s algorithm was investigated. To this end, a new method for estimating deep-water radiance in the absence of deep water is presented. This parameter is necessary for applying Lyzenga’s optical bathymetry model to ... | {
"abstract": "This study represent an assessment of the feasibility of using optical and near infra‐red wavelengths to map water depth and substrate type which are two of the primary components of river physical habitat. The objective was met by measuring reflectance using field spectroscopy of exposed and then prog... | {
"abstract": "Mapping of substrate cover types such as Coral Reefs, Algae, Seagrass, etc. in coastal regions has been performed in wide areas using satellite-based observation since mid 1980's. Although the high spatial resolution data such as IKONOS images has overcome some spatial limitations, still low signal-to-... |
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"abstract": "Unstable and assumptive aspects of the securities makes it hard to predict the next day stock prices. There is no absolute indicator for financial forecasting but there are many technical indicators like simple moving average, exponential moving average, stochastic fast and slow, on balance volume for ... | {
"abstract": "Despite the fact that both the Efficient Market Hypothesis and Random Walk Theory postulate that it is impossible to predict future stock prices based on currently available information, recent advances in empirical research have been proving the opposite by achieving what seems to be better than rando... | {
"abstract": "This paper presents a novel method for accurate motion detection in dynamic scenes without any prior information about moving object or dynamic scenes. Moving object detection is mainly performed by segmentation of estimated optical flow field, which is calculated by classical Horn Schunck algorithm. R... |
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"abstract": "An interactive algorithm for improving control flow is introduced. This algorithm has been implemented within the ENCORE re-engineering environment. The objective of the algorithm is to restructure input code so as to simplify the control flow. A key feature of the algorithm is that is permits user con... | {
"abstract": "Suppose we want to eliminate the local go to statements of a Pascal program by replacing them with multilevel loop exit statements. The standard ground rules for eliminating go to's require that we preserve the flow graph of the program, but they allow us to completely rewrite the control structures th... | {
"abstract": "Existing verification technology, though theoretically adequate, is not directly applicable to the construction of large software systems. This thesis explores the view that reasoning about code is not the proper paradigm for correct program development. Instead, specifications should be the objects of... |
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"abstract": "OBJECTIVE\nThis meta-analysis integrates primary research testing the effect of patient education to increase physical activity (PA) on behavior outcomes among adults with diverse chronic illnesses.\n\n\nMETHODS\nExtensive literature searching strategies located published and unpublished intervention s... | {
"abstract": "The aim of the study was to determine whether a recommendation to walk 10000 steps per day would result in significant improvements in glycemic control, insulin sensitivity, and cardiovascular risk in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus. The study was a 6-week randomized controlled trial that includ... | {
"abstract": "OBJECTIVE\nDetermining the success of technical skill training for surgery residents should include not only the efficacy of the training in terms of skills learned but also the cost of the facility where the training occurs and the cost of faculty participation. Traditional training occurs in the oper... |
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"abstract": "Asynchronous distributed machine learning solutions have proven very effective so far, but always assuming perfectly functioning workers. In practice, some of the workers can however exhibit Byzantine behavior, caused by hardware failures, software bugs, corrupt data, or even malicious attacks. We intr... | {
"abstract": "With the increase in available data parallel machine learning has become an increasingly pressing problem. In this paper we present the first parallel stochastic gradient descent algorithm including a detailed analysis and experimental evidence. Unlike prior work on parallel optimization algorithms [5,... | {
"abstract": "How do real graphs evolve over time? What are \"normal\" growth patterns in social, technological, and information networks? Many studies have discovered patterns in static graphs, identifying properties in a single snapshot of a large network, or in a very small number of snapshots; these include heav... |
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"abstract": "A new method is presented to determine the rates of oxygen consumption, net oxygen metabolism (defined as photosynthesis minus oxygen consumption), and gross photosynthesis at high vertical resolution in benthic photo‐trophic communities. The rates of oxygen consumption and of net oxygen metabolism as ... | {
"abstract": "Microprofiles of O2 and NO3- were measured simultaneously in freshwater sediment with microsensors which were completely free from electrical interference because of coaxial designs. Depth profiles of nitrification (NO3- production) and denitrification (NO3- consumption) were subsequently determined by... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Data envelopment analysis seeks a frontier to envelop all data with data acting in a critical role in the process and in such a way measures the relative efficiency of each decision making unit in comparison with other units. There is a statistical and empirical rule that if the number of perf... |
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"abstract": "Transient receptor potential V1 (TRPV1) is specifically expressed in the nociceptive receptors and can detect a variety of noxious stimuli, thus potentiating pain sensitization. While peripheral delivery of capsaicin causes the desensitization of sensory neurons, thus alleviating pain. Therefore capsai... | {
"abstract": "A serine/threonine protein kinase that binds phorbol esters and diacylglycerol (named protein kinase D, PKD) has been identified. PKD contains membrane localization signals and a cysteine-rich repeat sequence homologous to that seen in the regulatory domain of protein kinase C (PKC). A bacterially expr... | {
"abstract": "In biotechnology, medicine, and food processing, simple and reliable methods for cell membrane permeabilization are required for drug/gene delivery into the cells or for the inactivation of undesired microorganisms. Pulsed electric field treatment is among the most promising methods enabling both aims.... |
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"abstract": "The goal of this paper is to find the optimum mechanism for extracting the maximum possible power out of a given set of solar panels. There are many different approaches to this problem. A huge variety of concepts leads to an even larger variety of circuits and mechanisms for operating photovoltaic pan... | {
"abstract": "This paper presents a new stable fuzzy-logic-control (FLC) based maximum power point tracking (MPPT) algorithm for stand-alone photovoltaic (PV) system. The proposed method uses the power to voltage variation and voltage variation as the inputs, which significantly simplified the computation. The propo... | {
"abstract": "We demonstrate photocurrent enhancement of up to 20% in polymer:fullerene bulk heterojunction photovoltaic cells via the incorporation of a phosphorescent dopant, without degradation in the open-circuit voltage or fill factor of the device. The enhancement is shown to originate from multiple sources. F... |
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"abstract": "PURPOSE\nWe evaluated the effect of exercise on stiffness and fat-free mass (FFM), which consists of bone and muscle, in Japanese students. It is uncertain whether exercise or sports activities will help to accumulate overall peak bone mass in Japanese adolescents.\n\n\nMETHODS\nA total of 710 Japanese... | {
"abstract": "Objective: To examine the absolute and relative changes in skeletal muscle (SM) size using whole body magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in response to heavy resistance training (RT). Method: Three young men trained three days a week for 16 weeks. Results: MRI measured total SM mass and fat free mass (FF... | {
"abstract": "Two fundamental precepts of geriatrics are the importance of evaluating the whole person and matching therapy to that person's specific conditions and circumstances.1-4The high prevalence of coexisting multiple diseases among older persons, the interactions of physiological systems affecting functional... |
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"abstract": "A previous study has shown a lower survival for colorectal cancer in Europe than in the United States of America (USA). It is of interest to examine the extent to which anatomical location and morphological type influence this difference in colorectal cancer survival. We analysed survival for 151,244 E... | {
"abstract": "PurposeColorectal cancer (CRC) is a major cause of death in the western world and a leading cause of cancer-related death. It is one of the most common human malignancies with >300,000 cases both in the United States and in the European Union each year. The present study was conducted to assess differe... | {
"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nThe results of several recent epidemiologic studies suggest that estrogen replacement therapy (ERT) in postmenopausal women may decrease their risk of subsequently developing colon or colorectal cancer. However, the association is not clear, as other similar studies have failed to show this... |
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"abstract": "The natural gamma-cyclodextrin (gammaCD) is like linear water-soluble dextrins, and unlike the natural alpha- and beta-cyclodextrins (alphaCD and betaCD), digested by salivary and pancreatic amylase. This gives gammaCD a very favorable toxicological profile. However, its usage is hampered by its relati... | {
"abstract": "The gastrointenstinal tolerance of γ-cyclodextrin (γ-CD) was examined in 24 healthy human volunteers. In a double-blind, placebo-controlled, randomized crossover study, single acute doses of 8g maltodextrin (placebo) or 8g γ-CD (test) were consumed as a mid-morning snack after addition to 100g yogurt. ... | {
"abstract": "Numerous physiological and emotionally motivated behaviors require concomitant activation of somatomotor and sympathetic efferents. Likewise, adaptive and maladaptive responses to stress are often characterized by simultaneous recruitment of these efferent systems. This review describes recent literatu... |
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"abstract": "A model of heat transfer through greenhouse covering materials was developed in this study. The influences of the thermal properties of covering materials, the construct parameters of greenhouse and the environment inner and outer of greenhouse were completely considered in the model. Heat transfer flu... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Two isothermal hot boxes were designed, built, and set up in the open to investigate the overall heat transfer coefficient or K factor (Wm 2 K), of different greenhouse covers. Tests were made on plastic films and glass, both dry and in the presence of condensation. Experiments were conducted ... | {
"abstract": "Quantifying crop residue cover on the soil surface is important for evaluating the effectiveness of conservation tillage practices. Current methods of measuring residue cover are inadequate in characterizing the spatial variability of residue cover over large fields. The objectives of this research wer... |
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"abstract": "Gum ghatti is a food additive in some parts of the world, serving as an emulsifier, a stabilizer, and a thickening agent. To evaluate its genotoxic potential, we conducted Good Laboratory Practice compliant in vitro and in vivo studies in accordance with the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and D... | {
"abstract": "Abstract In vitro cytotoxicity assays can be used to evaluate potential toxicological effects of tobacco products. Total particulate matter (TPM) from mainstream cigarette smoke trapped by a Cambridge filter is used widely for biological evaluation of smoke. This study compared neutral red uptake (NRU)... | {
"abstract": "Bioethanol production from lignocellulosic raw materials involves process steps like pre-treatment, enzymatic hydrolysis, fermentation and distillation. In this study, wheat straw was explored as feedstock for on-site cellulase production by T. reesei 3EMS35 mutant, and as a substrate for second genera... |
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"abstract": "We present Image2Emoji, a multi-modal approach for generating emoji labels for an image in a zero-shot manner. Different from existing zero-shot image-to-text approaches, we exploit both image and textual media to learn a semantic embedding for the new task of emoji prediction. We propose that the wide... | {
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"title": "Untangling emoji popularity through semantic embeddings"
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"abstract": "The capacity of a robot to automatically adapt to new environments is crucial, especially in social robotics. Often, when these robots are deployed in home or office environments, they tend to fail because they lack the ability to adapt to new and continuously changing scenarios. In order to accomplish... |
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"abstract": "Highly ordered arrays of TiO2 nanotubes can be produced by self-organized anodic growth. It is desirable to identify key parameters playing a role in the maximization of the surface area, growth rate, and nanotube lengths. In this work, the role of the crystallographic orientation of the underlying Ti ... | {
"abstract": "Oxidative stress is commonly existed in bone degenerative disease (osteoarthritis, osteoporosis etc.) and some antioxidants had great potential to enhance osteogenesis. In this study, we aim to investigate the anti-oxidative properties of various TiO2 nanotubes (TNTs) so to screen the desirable size fo... | {
"abstract": "Nanometer-sized titania particles have been prepared by chemical reactions between TiCl4 solution and ammonia in reversed microemulsion systems. Cyclohexane and a mixture of poly (oxyethylene)(5) nonyle phenol ether and poly (oxyethylene)(9) nonyle phenol ether with weight ratio 1:1 are used as oil pha... |
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"abstract": "The ability of laser-ultrasound to monitor in real-time metallurgical transformations is reviewed in this paper. Although the technique is appropriate for online industrial materials characterization, this paper addresses laboratory characterization of metallurgical transformations. Examples are presen... | {
"abstract": "A broad overview of laser-ultrasonics, which is a technique for non-contact generation and detection of ultrasound is presented. The principles of generation and detection are outlined, stressing a few key characteristics of laser-ultrasonics: the material is actually the emitting transducer and transd... | {
"abstract": "BMS-B is a highly lipophilic compound (clog P 7.72) with poor aqueous solubility (<10 ng/mL at pH 1 and 6.5). The compound exhibits low bioavailability in preclinical species when dosed as cosolvent solution formulations, with reduced exposure upon dose escalation. The purpose of this study was to eval... |
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"abstract": "Under the framework of PU(Positive data and Unlabeled data), this paper originally proposes a three-setp algorithm. First, CoTraining is employed for filtering out the likely positive data from the unlabeled dataset U. Second, affinity propagation (AP) approach attempts to pick out the strong positive ... | {
"abstract": "We discuss two learning algorithms for text filtering: modified Rocchio and a boosting algorithm called AdaBoost. We show how both algorithms can be adapted to maximize any general utility matrix that associates cost (or gain) for each pair of machine prediction and correct label. We first show that Ad... | {
"abstract": "Challenges in scaling of semiconductor memory technologies are reviewed with the focus on DRAM and NAND Flash while demands for memory improvement in the ICT industry are increasing. This paper introduces evolutionary and revolutionary paths to overcome scaling challenges of current and emerging memory... |
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"abstract": "Acoustic evidence for a distinction between low-toned intermediate (ip) and intonational phrase (IP) boundaries is presented from two speech corpora representing spontaneous, conversational speech and scripted broadcast speech. Robust effects of the two boundary levels are found in the phrase-final syl... | {
"abstract": "The objective of this paper is to investigate whether prosodic phrase breaks are specific to a speaker, and if so, propose a mechanism of learning speaker-specific phrase breaks from the speech database. Another equally important aspect dealt in this work is to demonstrate the usefulness of these speak... | {
"abstract": "Measurements of the magnetic moment of antiferromagnetic La/sub 2/CuO/sub 4/ at high fields reveal a new phase boundary originating from a previously undetected canting of the Cu/sup 2+/ spins out of the CuO planes. This canting, together with the exponential temperature dependence of the two-dimension... |
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"abstract": "Background and aims: Personality psychology research relies on the notion that humans have a single self that is the result of the individual's thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that can be reliably described (i.e., through traits). People who identify themselves as “multiple” have a system of multiple... | {
"abstract": "Abstract This study tested the correlations between Carter's (2008) Multiplicity Scale and the Plural Self Scale, which measures a similar concept of multiple self. 67 undergraduate students (17 men, 50 women; M age = 20.6 yr., SD = 2.3) completed Carter's Multiplicity Scale, Altrocchi's Plural Self Sc... | {
"abstract": "A fully discrete difference scheme is derived for a diffusion-wave system by introducing two new variables to transform the original equation into a low order system of equations. The solvability, stability and L∞ convergence are proved by the energy method. Similar results are provided for a slow diff... |
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"abstract": "Menadione (vitamin K(3)) has been shown to form charge transfer complexes with N,N-dimethyl aniline, N,N-dimethyl p-toluidine and N,N-dimethyl m-toluidine in CCl(4) medium. The CT transition energies are well correlated with the ionisation potentials of the anilines. The formation constants of the comp... | {
"abstract": "The electron donor-acceptor (EDA) interactions between menadione (i.e., 2-methyl-1,4-naphthoquinone, which is also called 'Vitamin K3') and a series of phenols (viz., phenol, resorcinol and p-quinol) have been studied in CCl4 medium. In all the cases, charge transfer (CT) bands have been located. The C... | {
"abstract": "The radio frequency spectrum of 35ClF has been observed in the J=1 and J=2 rotational states of the ground vibrational state using molecular beam electric resonance spectroscopy. The results are: eqQ(Cl)=−145 782.11(9) kHz, μ=0.8881(2) D, CCl=+21.615(9) kHz, CF=−22.67(3) kHz. JClF=+1.005(54) kHz. The v... |
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"abstract": "Ultrafast X-ray absorption spectroscopy is a powerful tool to observe electronic and geometric structures of short-lived reaction intermediates. The ab initio FEFF9 code is applied to simulate the Pt L(3)-edge XANES spectrum of the photocatalytic diplatinum molecule [Pt(2)(P(2)O(5)H(2))(4)](4-) and the... | {
"abstract": "X-ray absorption spectra of fac-[ReBr(CO)3(bpy)] near the Re L3- and Br K-edges were measured in a steady-state mode as well as time-resolved at 630 ps after 355 nm laser pulse excitation. Relativistic spin-orbit time-dependent density functional theory (TD-DFT) calculations account well for the shape ... | {
"abstract": "We describe the results of our quasiclassical calculations of the ionization probabilities of a helium atom, exposed to a short pulse of linearly polarized laser radiation. The technique known as Fermi molecular dynamics was applied. Of particular interest was our observation of the signature of a new ... |
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"abstract": "Despite the fact that ophthalmology is one of the foremost branches of medicine, conceptualization of the structure and function of the eye barely advanced in ancient Western civilizations. At the early recovery of Persian civilization (9th century AD) after the extinction of the Sassanid Empire (7th c... | {
"abstract": "Vernal keratoconjunctivitis (VKC) is a chronic, bilateral, at times asymmetrical, seasonally exacerbated, allergic inflammation of the ocular surface, involving tarsal and/or bulbar conjunctiva. Though the allergic nature of this entity has been accepted for a long time, the accumulation of a large amo... | {
"abstract": "In contrast to the widely accepted consensus of the existence of a single RNA polymerase in bacteria, several actinomycetes have been recently shown to possess two forms of RNA polymerases due the to co-existence of two rpoB paralogs in their genome. However, the biological significance of the rpoB dup... |
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"abstract": "Stochastic Diffusion Search is an efficient probabilistic bestfit search technique, capable of transformation invariant pattern matching. Although inherently parallel in operation it is difficult to implement efficiently in hardware as it requires full inter-agent connectivity. This paper describes a l... | {
"abstract": "Summary. The concept of partial evaluation of fitness functions, together with mechanisms manipulating the resource allocation of population based search methods, are presented in the context of Stochastic Diffusion Search, a novel swarm intelligence metaheuristic that has many similarities with ant an... | {
"abstract": "A description is given of a hospital transport mobile robot, HelpMate, developed to carry out such tasks as the delivery of off-schedule meal trays, lab and pharmacy supplies, and patient records. Unlike many existing delivery systems in the industry which operate within a rigid network of wires buried... |
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"abstract": "Arbutin is an effective agent for the treatment of melanin disorders. Arbutin may be converted to hydroquinone under conditions of high temperature, ultraviolet (UV) radiation and dilute acid. The aim of the current study was to develop an analytical method to determine the levels of arbutin and hydroq... | {
"abstract": "In this study, we examined the inhibitory effects of ferulic acid and caffeic acid on melanin production using a murine B16 melanoma cell line. The mechanisms by which the two acids inhibit melanin production were investigated by evaluating their effects on the activity of tyrosinase, which is involved... | {
"abstract": "Simple direct precipitation was used to synthesize the single-phase Mn0.9Co0.1HPO4·3H2O compound. Two thermal decomposition steps were observed corresponding to the dehydration and polycondensation processes, respectively. The pure-phase Mn1.8Co0.2P2O7 compound was obtained as the final decomposition p... |
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"abstract": "Breast cancer is known as the second most prevalent cancer among women worldwide, and an accurate and fast diagnosis of it requires a pathologist to go through a time-consuming process examining different captured images under varying magnifications. Computer vision and machine learning techniques are ... | {
"abstract": "Despite the progress made in the field of medical imaging, it remains a large area of open research, especially due to the variety of imaging modalities and disease-specific characteristics. This paper is a comparative study describing the potential of using local binary patterns (LBP), deep features a... | {
"abstract": "We compare a set of convolutional neural network (CNN) architectures for the task of segmenting and detecting human sperm cells in an image taken from a semen sample. In contrast to previous work, samples are not stained or washed to allow for full sperm quality analysis, making analysis harder due to ... |
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"abstract": "The present work focuses on the growth phase regulated expression of biopterin transporter gene (BT1) from the LD1 locus on chromosome 35 of Leishmania donovani. Antiserum against recombinant BT1 detected a polypeptide of 45 kDa of equal intensity at lag, log and stationary phases of promastigote growt... | {
"abstract": "Leishmania (V.) braziliensis, the causative agent of mucocutaneous leishmaniasis in the New World, may present an LD1 type genomic amplification that appears as a small 245 kb linear chromosome, and is not clearly associated to the presence of a selection agent. A bt1 gene, codifying for a biopterin tr... | {
"abstract": "Rationale and objectives: Gadomer-17 is a new magnetic resonance (MR) contrast medium presently in clinical development. It is a dendritic gadolinium (Gd) chelate carrying 24 Gd ions. This study investigated the pharmacokinetic behavior of this contrast medium. Methods: The pharmacokinetics of Gadomer-... |
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"abstract": "The purpose of this study is to present a time-domain numerical modeling of the guitar. The model involves the transverse displacement of the string excited by a force pulse, the flexural motion of the soundboard and the sound radiation in the air. We use a specific spectral method for solving the Kirc... | {
"abstract": "OF DOCTORAL DISSERTATION HELSINKI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY P. O. BOX 1000, FI-02015 TKK http://www.tkk.fi Author Jyri Pakarinen Name of the dissertation Manuscript submitted Sept. 29, 2007 Manuscript revised Jan. 9, 2008 Date of the defence March 4, 2008 Article dissertation (summary + original article... | {
"abstract": "Economic theory and legal theory can both claim to provide plausible accounts of rational decision-making. Yet, despite the growth of \"law and economics\" as a hugely successful area of interdisciplinary study, there is very little intellectual exchange between the rational choice theorist who attempt... |
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"abstract": "The available data suggest that epidermis is organized as a system of discrete structural–functional units (SFUs) that reproduce both in vivo and in vitro. SFUs are formed in the culture of epidermal keratinocytes via self-organization of the developing cellular elements. SFUs are capable of self-maint... | {
"abstract": "The skin of vertebrates has numerous and diverse derivatives, either located within the epithelial sheet itself (glands) or extending above its surface (teeth, scales, feathers, hairs, etc.). Many of them have a modular structure and constitute structural-functional units. Ontogenetically, all skin der... | {
"abstract": "DSL (Delta, Serrate, Lag-2) ligands activate Notch signaling and thereby regulate the differentiation of many different cell types during development. We have isolated a novel Serrate-like gene, Jagged2, whose amino acid sequence and expression pattern during rat embryogenesis suggest that it functions... |
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"abstract": "This paper describes a novel approach to morphological tagging for Korean, an agglutinative language with a very productive inflectional system. The tagger takes raw text as input and returns a lemmatized and morphologically disambiguated output for each word: the lemma is labeled with a part-of-speech... | {
"abstract": "In this paper, we present a rule based model for morphological disambiguation of Turkish. The rules are generated by a novel decision list learning algorithm using supervised training. Morphological ambiguity (e.g. lives = live+s or life+s) is a challenging problem for agglutinative languages like Turk... | {
"abstract": "Network embedding is an effective method to learn a low-dimensional feature vector representation for each node of a given network. In this paper, we propose a deep network embedding model with aggregated proximity preserving (DNE-APP). Firstly, an overall network proximity matrix is generated to captu... |
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"abstract": "The Internet is central to the new media, but the Internet is itself a dynamic technology that is constantly evolving as users adopt and reject new features, devices and applications and use them in ways that are often unanticipated. This article is anchored in longitudinal survey data on how Britons u... | {
"abstract": "This paper examines patterns of beliefs and attitudes among Internet users in Britain. Using data from the 2013 Oxford Internet Survey (OxIS), we employ principal components analysis to identify four sets of beliefs and attitudes that capture most variance across fourteen items. This four dimensions we... | {
"abstract": "Abstract In this paper we examine operators which can be derived from the general solution of functional equations on associativity. We define the characteristics of those functions f(x) which are necessary for the production of operators. We shall show, that with the help of the negation operator for ... |
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"abstract": "PurposeIn this study, we introduce a methodology for preparing 18F-labeled Affibody protein, specifically 18F-Anti-HER2 dimeric Affibody (14 kDa), for in vivo imaging of HER2neu with positron emission tomography (PET).ProceduresWe have used 4-[18F]fluorobenzaldehyde as a synthon to prepare 18F-Anti-HER... | {
"abstract": "In recent years, modular and simplified chemical and biological strategies have been developed for the synthesis and implementation of positron emission tomography (PET) radiotracers. New developments in bioconjugation and synthetic methodologies, in combination with advances in macromolecular delivery... | {
"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nStreptococcal protein G comprises two or three domains that bind to the constant Fc region of most mammalian immunoglobulin Gs (IgGs). Protein G is functionally related to staphylococcal protein A, with which it shares neither sequence nor structural homology.\n\n\nRESULTS\nTo understand th... |
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"abstract": "Data leakage is a budding security threat to organizations, particularly when data leakage is carried out by trusted agents. In this paper, we present unobtrusive techniques for detecting data leakage and assessing the “guilt” of agents. Water marking is the long-established technique used for data lea... | {
"abstract": "This paper studies an improved algorithm to watermark numeric attributes in relational databases for copyright protection. It reviews related researches and presents an improved insertion algorithm, a detection algorithm and a recover algorithm. We introduce a varied-size grouping method in our inserti... | {
"abstract": "Recent efforts to improve medical education include adopting a new framework based on 6 broad competencies defined by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education. In this article, the Alliance for Academic Internal Medicine Education Redesign Task Force II examines the advantages and chall... |
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"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nChoroidal melanomas are diagnosed in approximately 6 out of one million Americans per year, and although their incidence is low, they are the most common primary intraocular tumor in adults.\n\n\nMETHODS\nChoroidal melanoma is rare tumors and till date no such reports with sclera involvemen... | {
"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nA systematic review and assessment of disease-related mortality as part of standardized prospective patient follow-up and evaluation within a multicenter clinical trial have been lacking in previous studies of choroidal melanoma.\n\n\nOBJECTIVE\nTo describe disease status at death in patien... | {
"abstract": "Four cases of malignant melanoma of the choroid are reported due to rarity of the condition in India. One of the cases presented with Naevus of Ota. All the cases had typical clinical and investigative features. All cases were enucleated. Histopathologically three of them were of mixed type and one was... |
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"abstract": "This paper presents a novel approach for image retrieval and pattern spotting in document image collections. The manual feature engineering is avoided by learning a similarity-based representation using a Siamese Neural Network trained on a previously prepared subset of image pairs from the ImageNet da... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Recent studies have shown that image representations built upon deep convolutional layers in Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have strong discriminative characteristics. In this paper, we present a novel and effective method to create compact binary codes (deep binary codes) based on deep ... | {
"abstract": "In 47 previously untreated patients with nasopharyngeal cancer, curative doses of linear accelerator radiation were administered. The absolute survival rate without clinical evidence of disease was 27/47 (58%). More deaths resulted from intercurrent disease and metastases (11 patients) than from persis... |
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"abstract": "A new psychophysical metric is proposed for the measurement of visual cues in space perception. Its application to the discrimination of distance by means of binocular disparity, monocular movement parallax and linear perspective is discussed. Experiments are described in which the validity of the prop... | {
"abstract": "A composite thin film resistor is disclosed, including an electrically inert substrate upon which is deposited a nickel-chromium alloy thin film, and an overlying second thin film - which is initially deposited as metallic tantalum. In the final product the tantalum is passivated, as by thermal oxidati... | {
"abstract": "Restrained eaters are likely to overeat when pre-exposed to cues such as the sight, smell, thought or taste of palatable food whereas unrestrained eaters remain unaffected. However, the neurocognitive correlates of inhibitory control to food stimuli after food exposure have not been examined. This stud... |
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"abstract": "The ClC-2 epithelial cell chloride channel is a voltage-, tonicity- and pH-regulated member of the ClC super family. We have previously shown that rat lung ClC-2 (rClC-2) is down-regulated at birth, and molecular diversity is generated by alternative splicing [Murray et al. (1995) Am. J. Respir. Cell M... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Chloride channels perform important roles in the regulation of cellular excitability, in transepithelial transport, cell volume regulation, and acidification of intracellular organelles. This variety of functions requires a large number of different chloride channels that are encoded by genes ... | {
"abstract": "The article summarizes research into the existing methods for the quantitative determination of tyrosine and tryptophane in proteins. Limitations to the accuracy of the Folin-Looney method (reaction of a phosphotungstic phosphomolybdic acid in a phenol solution, evaluated using colorimetry) have been s... |
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"abstract": "A number of helical structures have been reported. Foldamers form helical structures in response to chemical stimuli such as neutral molecules, metal cations, and anions. The ability to prepare enantiomerically enriched helical foldamers is crucial for applying helical structures to functional material... | {
"abstract": "Dipyrrolyldiketone boron complexes, as π-conjugated acyclic anion receptors, act as building subunits of various assemblies through noncovalent interactions in the form of receptor-anion complexes. Instead of, or in addition to, the modification of receptor structures, the introduction of anion modules... | {
"abstract": "A new type of weak bond, i.e., the N...O=C interaction, that determines the crystal packing of N-oxalyl 2,4-dinitroanilide (1) in cooperation with C-H...O hydrogen bonds, has been found and is rationalized by ab initio calculations as being the result of electrostatic interactions.",
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"abstract": "Correct rotation of the femoral component is critical in avoiding patellar instability in total knee arthroplasty. This study attempted to compare the precision of 4 commonly used methods (transepicondylar axis [TEA], 3 degrees external rotation [ER] from posterior condylar line [PCL], perpendicular cu... | {
"abstract": "The landmarks used to achieve correct rotational alignment of the femoral component in total knee arthroplasty may be indistinguishable or unreliable in the distal architecture of a valgus knee. Five observers identified the anteroposterior axis, the posterior condylar axis, and the transepicondylar ax... | {
"abstract": "Non-financial matters in the operation of an enterprise that influence decision-making process are attracting more and more attention in the contemporary research. One of the most commonly used frameworks is the theory of financial architecture. In a great set of various facets of a financial architect... |
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"abstract": "Timely detection and identification of faults in railway track circuits are crucial for the safety and availability of railway networks. In this paper, the use of the long-short-term memory (LSTM) recurrent neural network is proposed to accomplish these tasks based on the commonly available measurement... | {
"abstract": "This paper gives a review of the recent developments in deep learning and unsupervised feature learning for time-series problems. While these techniques have shown promise for modeling static data, such as computer vision, applying them to time-series data is gaining increasing attention. This paper ov... | {
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"abstract": "It is shown that a thin layer of CdS on top of a CdTe Solar Cell improves the efficiency by increasing mainly the open circuit voltage. This is reasoned as a result of reduced junction leakage and caused by a limitation of the maximum junction field. Such a limitation is achieved by the creation of a h... | {
"abstract": "High-Field Domains.- Moving High-Field Domains.- Negative Differential Conductivity Caused by Mobility.- Negative Differential Conductivity in Other Materials.- Current Channels.",
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"abstract": "Evaporated CdTe/CdS solar cells with a transparent Cu-indium tin oxide contact have been made with an efficiency greater than 8.5%. The deposition of single-phase CdTe films from a compound source required a cadmium-to-tellurium flux ratio of 1.7 incident on the substrate. To obtain the needed p-type c... |
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"abstract": "For the case when the abstraction of instantaneous state transitions is adopted, this paper proposes to start fault detection and isolation in an engineering system from a single time-invariant causality bond graph representation of a hybrid model. To that end, the paper picks up on a long-known propos... | {
"abstract": "The hybrid bond graph (HBG) paradigm is a uniform, multi-domain physics-based modeling language. It incorporates controlled and autonomous mode changes as idealized switching functions that enable the reconfiguration of energy flow paths to model hybrid physical systems. Building accurate and computati... | {
"abstract": "By mode-switching systems we mean physical systems characterized by transitions which are at least an order of magnitude faster than the overall time-scale. There are essentially two different ways to model such systems for simulation. One is to employ continuous models and stiff solvers. This approach... |
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"abstract": "We propose a deep learning approach to remove motion blur from a single image captured in the wild, i.e., in an uncontrolled setting. Thus, we consider motion blur degradations that are due to both camera and object motion, and by occlusion and coming into view of objects. In this scenario, a model-bas... | {
"abstract": "We present an algorithm to directly solve numerous image restoration problems (e.g., image deblurring, image dehazing, image deraining, etc.). These problems are highly ill-posed, and the common assumptions for existing methods are usually based on heuristic image priors. In this paper, we find that th... | {
"abstract": "This paper studies gradient-based schemes for image denoising and deblurring problems based on the discretized total variation (TV) minimization model with constraints. We derive a fast algorithm for the constrained TV-based image deburring problem. To achieve this task, we combine an acceleration of t... |
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"abstract": "Lipases were produced by a microbial consortium derived from a mixture of wastewater sludges in a medium containing solid industrial wastes rich in fats, under thermophilic conditions (temperature higher than 45°C for 20 days) in 4.5-L reactors. The lipases were extracted from the solid medium using 10... | {
"abstract": "Bioproduction of generally recognized as safe (GRAS) products starting with low-cost raw materials has become significant in the biorefinery concept. Thus, the solid-state fermentation (SSF) of agro-industrial residues using GRAS strains appears as alternative to obtain aroma compounds. Here, the SSF o... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Lipase activity, measured as hydrolysis of tributyrin is a valid assay to quantify the lipase activity of a lyophilized crude lipase in hydrolysis reactions but it is not useful to predict the catalytic activity in lipase-catalyzed reactions in organic media. Three factors control the catalyti... |
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"abstract": "The incidence and types of unusual nuclear structures (UNS) were examined based on the observation of randomly photographed 1,919 nuclei in total from the normal epithelium, dysplasia, Peutz-Jeghers type polyp, adenoma and carcinoma of the large bowel. These nuclear structures were classified as filame... | {
"abstract": "Correlative data are presented here on the developmental history, dynamics, histochemistry, and fine structure of intranuclear rodlets in chicken sympathetic neurons from in vivo material and long-term organized tissue cultures. The rodlets consist of bundles of ∼70 ± 10 A proteinaceous filaments close... | {
"abstract": "We present a simple, two- or three-step method for the synthesis of chromogenic octamethylcalix[4]pyrrole-based (OMCP) sensors for anions. Electrophilic aromatic substitution allows for converting the pyrrole moieties of OMCP into a dye. The formation of a sensor-anion complex results in partial charge... |
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"abstract": "Background: Ingestion of foreign bodies is an old medical problem of decreasing occurrence. Several cases have been reported in the medical literature, and the diagnostic and therapeutic approaches must be applied in a multi-faceted and differentiated manner. Case Report: Our case concerns a 54-year-ol... | {
"abstract": "Appendicitis due to foreign bodies is rare. Foreign bodies leading to appendicitis or perforation are usually sharp, pointed objects. Lead shot can become lodged in the appendix. Few prior cases have shown a causal relationship between the presence of pellets in the appendix and acute appendicitis. We ... | {
"abstract": "BackgroundPatient's rights law is intended to secure good medical practice, but it can also serve to improve understanding between patients and medical staff if both were aware of their rights.MethodsAwareness and practice of the new patient's rights law in Lithuanian health care institutions was explo... |
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"abstract": "Both environmental and economic factors have driven the development of recycling routes for the increasing amount of composite waste generated. This paper presents a new paradigm to fully recycle epoxy‐based carbon fiber reinforced polymer (CFRP) composites. After immersing the composite in ethylene gl... | {
"abstract": "Conventional polymer network composites cannot be recycled for high-value applications because of the presence of permanent covalent cross-links. We have developed reprocessable polyhydroxyurethane network nanocomposites using silica nanoparticles with different surface functionalities as reinforcing f... | {
"abstract": "The nonlinear viscoelastic properties for a series of intercalated nanocomposites of an organically modified montmorillonite and a disordered styrene−isoprene diblock copolymer are reported. The linear-to-nonlinear transition for stress relaxation measurements, the applicability of time−strain separabi... |
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"abstract": "Native Americans have traditionally been underrepresented in nursing. The authors surveyed 19 undergraduate nursing students participating in a university sponsored Native American nursing student support program and examined which social support factors influenced the students' success. Using validate... | {
"abstract": "In recognition of the severe underrepresentation of Alaska Natives in the Alaska RN workforce, the University of Alaska Anchorage School of Nursing implemented Project RRANN (Recruitment and Retention of Alaska Natives into Nursing) to recruit Alaska Natives into a nursing career and to facilitate thei... | {
"abstract": "CONTEXT\nUnprofessional behaviors in medical school predict high stakes consequences for practicing physicians, yet little is known about specific behaviors associated with professionalism during residency.\n\n\nOBJECTIVE\nTo identify behaviors that distinguish highly professional residents from their ... |
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"abstract": "Analysis into the effect of packet loss on speech recognition performance shows that both the burst length and the overall proportion of packets lost contribute to a deterioration in accuracy. To combat this burst-like packet loss several methods are compared for estimating the value of missing feature... | {
"abstract": "We propose a feature extraction method for a speech recognizer that operates in digital communication networks. The feature parameters are basically extracted by converting the quantized spectral information of a speech coder into a cepstrum. We also include the voiced/unvoiced information obtained fro... | {
"abstract": "This study sought to discover the potential sources of occupational stress in the Ghanaian Banking Sector and their impact on employee performance. The quantitative methodology was employed using survey instrument. Convenience sampling was used to select four top performing banks listed in the Ghana cl... |
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"abstract": "According to the pseudo-ideal mixing assumption employed in practically all chemical transport models, organic aerosol components from different sources interact with each other in a single solution, independent of their composition. This critical assumption greatly affects modeled organic aerosol conc... | {
"abstract": "series of sunlight-irradiated, smog-chamber experiments confirmed that the atmospheric organic aerosol formation potential of whole gasoline vapor can be accounted for solely in terms of the aromatic fraction of the fuel. The total amount of secondary organic aerosol produced from the atmospheric oxida... | {
"abstract": "An experimental study of aerosol formation in aromatic hydrocarbon/NO_x systems has been conducted in an outdoor smog chamber. Aerosol size distributions were measured as a function of time in toluene, m-xylene, ethylbenzene, or 1,3,5-trimethylbenzene photooxidations to determine the rates of new parti... |
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"abstract": "The preparation of CoZr nanostructure films to replicate the order of anodized aluminum oxide template with barrier layer was described. Coercivity and in-plane magnetic anisotropy were increased with the increase of oblique sputtering angle. Resonance frequency and damping factor had the same tendency... | {
"abstract": "The state of art is reviewed with an emphasis on recent research results and a view to identifying areas in which further developments in materials and processing might lead to even better properties and greater application of novel technology. Basis magnetic considerations are discussed, namely, B-H l... | {
"abstract": "It has been found possible to consolidate layers of amorphous ribbon to produce a thick strip which does not require annealing, and has similar magnetic properties to those of the much thinner ribbon. The reduced importance of eddy current losses that this implies must be due to the nature of the bond ... |
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"abstract": "ABSTRACT. 61 boys with constitutional delay of growth and maturation, aged 9‐19 years and with a bone age (BA) lag of 1.3‐5.5 years, were administered fluoxymesterone (0.05‐0.24 mg/kg daily orally, relative dose increasing with age) to accelerate growth. The therapy was continuous and lasted 0.4‐3.6 ye... | {
"abstract": "Summary 1. Fluoxymesterone, usually 5 mg. daily, was given by mouth for 6 to 41 months to 12 boys and 4 girls with short stature and retarded skeletal age from various causes. 2. During treatment the average growth rate was 3.2 inches per year, while skeletal age advanced an average of 0.83 year per ch... | {
"abstract": "There is no literature mentioning the dynamics of a micro beam on which a harmonic force traveling to and fro. This article is the first to present the dynamics of a micro beam subjected to a traveling harmonic force, especially the effects of the frequencies and traveling speed on the dynamics of a mi... |
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"abstract": "INTRODUCTION\nHuman judgement on the need for life-saving interventions (LSI) in trauma is poorly studied, especially during initial casualty management. We prospectively examined early clinical judgement and compared clinical experts' predictions of LSI to their later occurrence.\n\n\nPATIENTS AND MET... | {
"abstract": "BACKGROUND Recognizing the use of uncross-matched packed red blood cells (UnXRBCs) or predicting the need for massive transfusion (MT) in injured patients with hemorrhagic shock can be challenging.A validated predictive model could accelerate decision making regarding transfusion. METHODS Three transfu... | {
"abstract": "To observe the extent to which blood pressure (BP) was reduced to below 140/90 mm Hg in Nigerians with diabetes (DM), data were collected using structured questionnaire, standard sphygmomanometer, and measurement of fasting blood glucose (FBG). Two hundred forty-four subjects (85 males) aged 17-84 year... |
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"abstract": "This work aims to achieve deep insight into the phenomenon of phase transformation upon rapid cooling in metal systems and reveal the physical meaning of scatter in the time taken to reach crystallization. The total number of pure metals considered in this work accounts for 14. Taking pure copper as an... | {
"abstract": "Isothermal crystallization studies are performed on Zr 41Ti14Cu12Ni10Be23 melts. Undercooling experiments are carried out repeatedly at 907, 860, and 750 K. The scattering of the time to reach the onset of crystallization is investigated. Results from experiments performed at 907 K show a large scatter... | {
"abstract": "The research area of collaborative information retrieval (CIR) has received increasing interest from interactive information retrieval researchers in recent years. Various studies on CIR have been conducted within different contexts and illuminated some key aspects of CIR. However, the research area of... |
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"abstract": "A few years ago J. Bentley initiated a general approach to searching problems and their solution by means of dynamic data structures. As it is often easier to find a static solution first, his goal was to obtain efficient dynamic data structures by applying transformations to static data structures. Th... | {
"abstract": "A technique is described for dynamizing data structures of common types of decomposable searching problems, yielding good worst-case bounds rather than merely good average bounds on all operations to be performed on the resulting structures.",
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"abstract": "By simply modifying the expansion of ligand tether length, two Cd(ii) metal-organic frameworks have been constructed from linear tetranuclear and trinuclear cadmium clusters, respectively, which present an unprecedented 10-connected uninodal bct net.",
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"abstract": "Hybridizing battery and capacitor materials to construct lithium ion capacitors (LICs) has been regarded as a promising avenue to bridge the gap between high-energy lithium ion batteries and high-power supercapacitors. One of the key difficulties in developing advanced LICs is the imbalance in the powe... | {
"abstract": "Bio-waste in the form of chicken eggshells, which contain high amounts of calcium carbonate (CaCO3), is used to store energy. The fine eggshell powders are used as an electrode against a metallic lithium anode in a non-aqueous electrolyte. The initial discharge capacitance of the eggshell system was fo... | {
"abstract": "The effects of temperature and testing rate on the fracture energies and modes of crack propagation of an epoxide resin cured with a range of amine curing agents have been determined. The simplest behaviour observed consisted of unstable crack propagation at high temperatures with a transition to stabl... |
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"abstract": "This paper examines the definition and management of creativity in the 'creative industries'. Initially the paper sets out the economic and cultural context for the emergence of the creative industries, before going on to argue that there are gaps in our understanding of the role of creativity and part... | {
"abstract": "As a scientific field of research, entrepreneurship has strong relevance to media. On the one hand, the entrepreneurship phenomenon heavily impact media industries as long as they, in their very nature, fall into the culture and creativity-related businesses. The essential characteristics of the entrep... | {
"abstract": "This paper proposes a Bearing Opportunistic Network (BON) coding procedure that operates in wireless multihop networks over multiple unicast sessions and it introduces very low overhead to the network. The BON coding is used to increase network performance in terms of a higher throughput and a lower de... |
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"abstract": "Abstract Safeguarding organizations against opportunism and severe deception in computer-mediated communication (CMC) presents a major challenge to chief information officers and information technology managers. New insights into linguistic cues of deception derive from the speech acts innate to CMC. A... | {
"abstract": "Each relationship has its own personality. Almost immediately after a social interaction begins, verbal and nonverbal behaviors become synchronized. Even in asocial contexts, individuals tend to produce utterances that match the grammatical structure of sentences they have recently heard or read. Three... | {
"abstract": "With the advent of e-commerce, the potential of new Internet technologies to mislead or deceive consumers has increased considerably. This paper extends prior classifications of deception and presents a typology of product-related deceptive information practices that illustrates the various ways in whi... |
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"abstract": "Femoroacetabular impingement (FAI) has been frequently identified in the active adolescent. This has commonly been associated with sports that require extreme hip range of motion. It has also been suggested that repeated stress to the physis can contribute to the development of cam impingement. Several... | {
"abstract": "The number of adolescent girls participating in sports has dramatically increased throughout the last few decades. In the early 1990's, an association between amenorrhea, osteoporosis, and disordered eating was recognized and eventually labeled the 'Female Athlete Triad'. In 1997, the Task Force on Wom... | {
"abstract": "As participation in virtual community becomes popular, it is important to know how to encourage individuals to contribute actively and assist other members share their expertise. Through the lens of organizational citizenship behavior (OCB), we explored the factors that facilitate voluntary knowledge s... |
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"abstract": "Candida albicans is a commensal fungal species that commonly colonizes a heterogeneous mixture of human body where it intimately interacts with other microbes in the host environment such as the gastrointestinal (GI) tract. Most studies in fungal-bacterial interactions are about synergistic or antagoni... | {
"abstract": "The importance of the microbiome to human health is increasingly recognized and has become a major focus of recent research. However, much of the work has focused on a few aspects, particularly the bacterial component of the microbiome, most frequently in the gastrointestinal tract. SUMMARY The importa... | {
"abstract": "Background: Amoxicillin and clarithromycin have been used extensively for the eradication of Helicobacter pylori. However, no study has examined the impact of their combination on the Candida albicans concentration of the gastrointestinal (GI) tract. This is the first study examining and comparing dire... |
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"abstract": "ABSTRACT The genetic and phenotypic responses of Streptococcus mutans, an organism that is strongly associated with the development of dental caries, to changes in carbohydrate availability were investigated. S. mutans UA159 or a derivative of UA159 lacking ManL, which is the EIIAB component (EIIABMan)... | {
"abstract": "ABSTRACT Recent genome-scale studies have begun to establish the scope and magnitude of the impacts of carbohydrate source and availability on the regulation of gene expression in bacteria. The effects of sugars on gene expression are particularly profound in a group of lactic acid bacteria that rely a... | {
"abstract": "The aim of this study was to estimate the sensitivity of microorganisms, isolated from soil long-term polluted with obsolete pesticides, to magnetite (Fe3O4) nanoparticles and fluorinated dinitroaniline herbicide trifluralin, and to evaluate the inhibition activity of these substances. The response of ... |
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"abstract": "Despite the growing interest in Small Medium sized Power Plants (SMPP) international literature provides only studies related to portfolios of large plants in infinite markets/grids with no particular attention given to base load SMPP. This paper aims to fill this gap, investigating the attractiveness ... | {
"abstract": "SMR (Small Modular Reactor) is an acronym for a group of nuclear power plant designs receiving an increasing deal of attention from the industry and policy makers. A large number of SMRs need to be built in the same site and across the word to compensate diseconomies of scale and be cost competitive wi... | {
"abstract": "In this paper, we propose a coordinated motion control algorithm of multiple mobile manipulators handling a single object without using force/torque sensors. In this control algorithm, each mobile manipulator is controlled as if its grasping point has an impedance dynamics by using the real dynamics of... |
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"abstract": "BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE\nUltrasound is often recommended in the treatment of people with partial and full-thickness wounds. Many treatments are performed over a hydrogel sheet or semipermeable film dressing. The purpose of this in vitro study was to examine the effectiveness of 4 hydrogels (Nu-Gel, Clea... | {
"abstract": "Edited by two respected American practitioners (a nurse and a physical therapist), this book is a well-written, comprehensive resource for nurses in the community and in hospital.",
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"title": "Wound care: a collaborative practice manual for physical therapists and nurses Carrie... | {
"abstract": "The results of a questionnaire that was distributed in 1985 to physiotherapists, both in private practice and in the National Health Service (NHS) in the UK, are presented.The topics covered by the questionnaire included the range of conditions treated, contra-indications for using ultrasound, technica... |
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"abstract": "In most ciliates, the epiplasm, a superficial cytoskeletal layer of variable thickness, both surrounds basal bodies and interacts tightly with adjacent membrane networks; it constitutes the predominant structure in Paramecium cell ghosts. Previous indirect data suggested several cortical proteins as po... | {
"abstract": "Abstract In Paramecium, several kinds of the oral networks of fine filaments are defined at the ultrastructural level. Using the sodium chloride-treated oral apparatus of Paramecium as an antigen to produce monoclonal antibodies, we have begun to identify the proteins constituting these networks. Immun... | {
"abstract": "The widc,pre.ld u e of psychedelic drug • ,>uch a Iy t:rgic acid dit:lh) IJmide (LSD), dunng Ihe 1960's and 1970' led 10 ev re reaclion by govern menIal agencies and pro criplion~ a '.lin~1 Iheir u e. However, wilh Ihe hi 'h degree 01 inkr ',I in mind-31lering drug in Ihe lllHled Sllh:,. a, t:\\'lIlenc... |
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"abstract": "Virtualization is the ubiquitous way to provide computation and storage services to datacenter end-users. Guaranteeing sufficient data storage and efficient data access is central to all datacenter operations, yet little is known of the effects of virtualization on storage workloads. In this study, we ... | {
"abstract": "To address the limitations of centralized shared storage for cloud computing, we are building Lithium, a distributed storage system designed specifically for virtualization workloads running in large-scale data centers and clouds. Lithium aims to be scalable, highly available, and compatible with commo... | {
"abstract": "The structure and operation of human organizations, such as corporations, offer useful insights to designers of self-* systems (a.k.a. self-managing or autonomic). This paper explores the analogy, and describes the design of a self-* storage system that borrows from it.",
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"abstract": "The paper reports our last advances in the realization of mobile wireless sensor networks (WSNs), able to reveal unknown tracks and leakages within underground pipelines used to distribute water. This WSN technology is based on a concept recently proposed by the authors, which makes use of mobile acous... | {
"abstract": "Ground-penetrating radar (GPR) could in principle identify leaks in buried water pipes either by detecting underground voids created by the leaking water as it circulates near the pipe or by detecting anomalies in the depth of the pipe as the radar propagation velocity changes due to soil saturation wi... | {
"abstract": "OBJECTIVE\nTo determine the degree of compliance of spectacle wear and some of its determinants among school children of Dhakhiliya region of Oman.\n\n\nMETHODS\nThis was a cross-sectional descriptive study of a sample of 663 students who had been prescribed spectacles for constant wear. After one year... |
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"abstract": "The computation of Inelastic Displacement Ratios (IDRs) in different structural types and site conditions has been attracted numerous studies in the past. Those studies usually were performed through a nonlinear time history analysis of a SDOF oscillator, which is assumed to be fixed at its base. There... | {
"abstract": "In recent earthquakes, many buildings have been damaged due to the soft‐storey mechanism failure. The seismic design codes for buildings do not contain enough criteria to predict the real displacement of such buildings. This paper focuses on evaluating the nonlinear displacement of buildings that fail ... | {
"abstract": "In this study, a novel upflow microaerobic sludge reactor (UMSR) was constructed to conduct anaerobic digestion of municipal wastewater with low carbon and nitrogen ratio (C/N). Oxygen in the UMSR was supplied by falling water and external recirculation. Excellent nitrogen removal performance was obtai... |
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"abstract": "SummaryThis paper examines the optical and physiological organisation of locust ocelli with a view to understanding their function. The approach taken in this work has largely been to correlate quantitative measurements of the spectral, angular and absolute sensitivities of large second order neurons w... | {
"abstract": "Dorsal ocelli are small cup-like organs containing a layer of photoreceptor cells, the short axons of which synapse at the base of the cup with dendritic terminals of ocellar nerve fibers. The ocellar ERG of dragonflies, recorded from the surface of the receptor cell layer and from the long lateral oce... | {
"abstract": "The characteristic features of individual neurons in leech ganglia are highly consistent from animal to animal. Hy chance a leech was dis- covered that had more cells to be seen than usual in many of its ganglia. \n \n \n \nIn some segmental ganglia of the abnormal animal there were four or even five s... |
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"abstract": "The continual changes in the current market have increased complexity in business strategies. Under such dynamic conditions, enterprises need new tools, methods and methodologies to deal with uncertainty, ambiguity and a huge number of interactions. This phenomenon presents important differences in eme... | {
"abstract": "This paper deals with how to develop a model to forecast air passenger demand and to evaluate some policy scenarios related with runway and passenger terminal capacity expansion to meet the future demand. System dynamics frameworks can be used to model, to analyze and to generate scenario to increase t... | {
"abstract": "A combination of administrative theory and traditional system dynamics modeling promises a flexible model-based tool to assist businesses in designing policies and programs to support new strategic moves. Administrative theory helps clarify the firm's organization and decision-making structure. System ... |
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"abstract": "This paper uses argumentation tools such as argument diagrams and argumentation schemes to analyze four examples of argument from analogy, and argues that to proceed from there to evaluating these arguments, features of the context of dialogue need to be taken into account. The evidence drawn from thes... | {
"abstract": "The distinction between action persuasion dialogues and deliberation dialogues is not always obvious at first sight. In this paper, we provide a characterisation of both types of dialogues that draws out the distinctive features of each. It is important to recognise the distinctions since participants ... | {
"abstract": "In 2016, the state of North Carolina enacted House Bill 2 (HB2) to impede the choices of trans folk regarding the usage of sex-segregated public facilities. Shortly thereafter, Attorney General Loretta Lynch announced a federal lawsuit to prevent enforcement of the statute. In her speech, she drew para... |
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"abstract": "ABSTRACT The melanopsin system consists of intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells containing the photopigment melanopsin (mRGCs). These mRGCs mediate several non-image-forming visual functions, including light entrainment of circadian rhythms. Here we evaluate age-related alterations of th... | {
"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nThe long-term age-related changes in circadian rhythm of heart rate variability (HRV), that is, autonomic nervous activity, remain unknown in elderly people.\n\n\nMETHODS AND RESULTS\nHolter monitoring was conducted twice at an interval of 15 years in 15 healthy elderly patients (age: 70.0 ... | {
"abstract": "Survival of cerebellar granule cells (CGC) in culture was significantly improved in the presence of cholera toxin B subunit (Ctx B), a ligand which binds to GM1 with specificity and high affinity. This trophic effect was linked to elevation of intracellular calcium ([Ca2+]i), and was additive to that o... |
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"abstract": "Tegress is ethylene vinyl alcohol which is non-allergenic and permanent. The aim of the study was to evaluate efficacy, feasibility and safety of transurethral Tegress® in women with urodynamic stress incontinence in a two-centre setting. Approximately 33 female patients with urodynamic stress incontin... | {
"abstract": "Dear Editor, I thank Dr. Hurtado and Dr. Appell for their comment [1] on the long-term results after transurethral injection of ethylene vinyl alcohol [2]. We criticized the additional amount of injectable in the study carried out by Hurtado and colleagues on the basis of the data of the original Europ... | {
"abstract": "Work–life balance has become a buzzword in many corporate settings. This study situates itself at a higher education institute in Melbourne (Australia) where African music (singing and drumming) was used as a lever for faculty staff to “break from work” and “learn about a new music and culture”. Drawin... |
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"abstract": "Survival and growth of monarch larvae, Danaus plexippus (L.), after exposure to either Cry1Ab-expressing pollen from three Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) corn (Zea mays L.) events differing in toxin expression or to the insecticide, λ-cyhalothrin, were examined in field studies. First instars exposed to l... | {
"abstract": "Cultivation of genetically modified crops is presently based largely on four crops containing few transgenes and grown in four countries. This will soon change and pose new challenges for risk assessment. A more structured approach that is as generic as possible is advocated to study consequences of ge... | {
"abstract": "Species in a guild of nontarget leaf-feeding Lepidoptera on Garry oak, Quercus garryana Dougl., were monitored in the field for a period of 3 yr (1986–1988) to assess the ecological effects of three applications of the microbial pest control agent, Bacillus thuringiensis Berliner var. kursraki within a... |
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"abstract": "A major obstacle in the utilization of Mo thin films in flexible electronics is their brittle fracture behavior. Within this study, alloying with Re is explored as a potential strategy to improve the resistance to fracture. The sputter-deposited Mo1−xRex films (with 0 ≤ x ≤ 0.31) were characterized in ... | {
"abstract": "Abstract The ability of magnetron sputtered Ti-Ag thin films deposited on polymeric substrate to be used as sensors for biosignal acquisition is investigated. Influence of the Ag content on the microstructure of TiAgx thin films prepared by magnetron sputtering is characterized by X-ray diffraction and... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Layer buckling and delamination is a common interfacial failure phenomenon in thin film multi-layer structures that are used in flexible display applications. Typically, the substrate is coated on both sides with a hybrid coating, called a hard coat (HC), which acts as a gas barrier and also i... |
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"abstract": "Fatty acids (FAs) consist of long hydrophobic, often unbranched chains of hydrocarbons, with hydrophilic carboxylic acid groups at one end. They are an important source of reserve energy and essential components of membrane lipids in all living organisms. In plants, FA metabolic pathways play significa... | {
"abstract": "Our work aimed at a global investigation of the lipid metabolism during the induction of resistance in wheat (Triticum aestivum) against powdery mildew (Blumeria graminis f.sp. tritici). More specifically, the effect of salicylic acid, known as playing a key role in the activation of defence reactions ... | {
"abstract": "1 Amazonian Palm Flora - General Considerations.- 1.1 Richness of Amazonian Palm Flora.- 1.2 The Major Groups of the Amazonian Palms.- 1.3 Palm Distribution in Amazonia.- 1.3.1 Spruce's Palm Regions.- 1.3.2 Distribution of Genera in Amazonia.- 1.3.3 Distribution of Species in Amazonia.- 1.4 Conclusion.... |
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"abstract": "The sentinel lymph nodes (SLNs) as the primary targets for lymphatic metastases can be removed selectively by γ probe‐guided sentinel lymph nodectomy (SLNE) in nearly all patients with cutaneous melanoma. Correspondingly high standards in terms of specificity, sensitivity, and microstaging are required... | {
"abstract": "In melanoma, different classification systems have been proposed that predict overall survival (OS) and recurrence‐free survival (RFS) based on findings in the sentinel lymph node (SLN). The authors of this report compared the RFS and OS of 697 melanoma patients as predicted by various classification s... | {
"abstract": "Pyranoindolizine is a tricyclic structure found in various biologically active compounds, such as camptothecin (CPT) and its derivatives. In the case of CPTs, the chirality at the α-position in the α-hydroxyl lactone moiety of pyranoindolizine is important for the antitumor activity. This paper deals w... |
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"abstract": "A novel technique is presented to construct sparse Gaussian regression models. Unlike most kernel regression modelling methods, which restrict kernel means to the training input data and use a fixed common variance for all the regressors, the proposed technique can tune the mean vector and diagonal cov... | {
"abstract": "The paper presents a two-level learning method for radial basis function (RBF) networks. A regularized orthogonal least squares (ROLS) algorithm is employed at the lower level to construct RBF networks while the two key learning parameters, the regularization parameter and the RBF width, are optimized ... | {
"abstract": "The main problem in this paper is related to the many national issues faced by the Indonesian people, especially social conflict, due to differences in religion, ethnicity, and race. The purpose of this study is to reveal the importance of multicultural education in increasing national awareness. This ... |
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"abstract": "We describe the use of transcranial color Doppler ultrasound in the diagnosis of arteriovenous fistula with vein of Galen aneurysm. This technique allows early, rapid, bedside diagnosis of the condition so that appropriate therapy can be instituted.",
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"abstract": "The case of premature girl with a vein of Galen aneurysm is reported. The lesion was detected by ultrasonography. MRI provided complete anatomical information, obviating the need for initial angiography for preoperative evaluation of the malformation. Venous drainage through a persistent embryonic falc... | {
"abstract": "Paracoccidioidomycosis (PCM) is a systemic fungal infection, endemic in Brazil, that leads to severe morbidity and even mortality if not correctly treated. Patients may respond differently to PCM depending on the pattern of the acquired immune response developed. The onset of protective immune response... |
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"abstract": "HT bursts were abolished by 250 μM Ni 2+ , so that in all cases, cells became only able to exhibit single spikes at depolarized membrane potentials (n = 4 of 4) (Supplemental Figures S5A and S5C). In addition , neither Cd 2+ (400 μM) (p > 0.1; n = 5) nor ω-conotoxin-MVIIC (2–3 μM) (p > 0.1; n = 5) caus... | {
"abstract": "Ich h~tte in meiner letzten, der XII. Mitteilung, ~usffihrlich dargetan, aus welchen Griinden ich meine frfihere Arbeitshypothese yon der psychophysiologischen Bedeutung der ~-W. des menschlichen E.E.G. aufgegeben habe. Ich bin zu der Annahme ge]angt, dab die g-W. in der inneren Hauptzone der menschlic... | {
"abstract": "Purpose: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the attitudes of nursing and medical students toward older people in Turkey. Method: This was a cross-sectional and comparative descriptive study. The Turkish version of Kogan’s Old People Scale was used to evaluate attitudes toward older people among ... |
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"abstract": "This paper presents a formal evaluation of the paper-based scribble simplification algorithm described in [BCFB07] and [BCFB08]. A comparative analysis of different aspects of the algorithm with other algorithms described in the literature such as Sparse Pixel Vectorization, spatial moving average filt... | {
"abstract": "Computer assisted traditional animation has gained a lot of attention nowadays. Although most existing software applications turn out to produce appealing results, still the animator has to cope with many limitations. So far, animators have to make great efforts when interacting with the software. Most... | {
"abstract": "Breeding with a disease‐resistant parent is challenging because of the unfavorable traits. A bell pepper reference genome and genotype‐by‐sequencing provide tools to predict candidate genes. Three candidate genes are proposed for controlling organ sizes in bell pepper. A candidate gene is proposed for ... |
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"abstract": "MicroRNAs (miRNAs) regulate biological pathways by inhibiting gene expression. However, most current analytical methods fail to consider miRNAs, when inferring functional or pathway activities. In this study, we developed a model called sPAGM to infer subpathway activities by integrating gene and miRNA... | {
"abstract": "Background Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is a highly lethal malignancy and its mortality continues to rise globally. Because of its high heterogeneity and complex molecular landscapes, published gene signatures have demonstrated low specificity and robustness. Functional signatures containing... | {
"abstract": "Phosphoinositides (PIs) are signaling molecules that regulate cellular events including vesicle targeting and interactions between membrane and cytoskeleton. Phosphatidylinositol (PtdIns)(4,5)P2 is one of the best characterized PIs; studies in which PtdIns(4,5)P2 localization or concentration is altere... |
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"abstract": "Abstract The confonnational properties of a simulated polymer chain with secondary and tertiary structures are calculated. The calculation is carried out by a Monte-Carlo procedure for a chain on the cubic lattice consisting of 64 links with Zimm-Bragg parameters s = 0.8–1.3, σ = 1 64 and an energy of ... | {
"abstract": "Approximate expressions, which are amenable to straightforward numerical calculation, are derived from Nagai’s theory for such important molecular quantities of polypeptides in solution as helical content fN, number of helical sections gN, mean-square radius of gyration ‹S3›, and particle scattering fu... | {
"abstract": "The conformation of polypeptides in helix-coil transition region is not Gaussian. In the present work an interrupted helix model of polypeptide chain is adopted in which random coil parts and rod-like helix parts are connected by universal joints alternately. The second and the fourth moments, and , ar... |
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"abstract": "Three low-energy pathways for the reaction of HO(•) with acrolein, a key reaction in atmospheric environments, have been investigated by means of quantum-mechanical electronic structure methods (UQCISD and RQCISD(T)). The first step of all the reaction pathways studied involves the barrierless formatio... | {
"abstract": "In the present paper, we review the toxicity of sugar- and lipid-derived RCs (reactive carbonyls) and the RC-scavenging systems observed in photosynthetic organisms. Similar to heterotrophs, photosynthetic organisms are exposed to the danger of RCs produced in sugar metabolism during both respiration a... | {
"abstract": "Abstract The problem of structures learning in Bayesian networks is to discover a directed acyclic graph that in some sense is the best representation of the given database. Score-based learning algorithm is one of the important structure learning methods used to construct the Bayesian networks. These ... |
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"abstract": "AIM\nThe patients who undergo neurosurgical procedures are at high risk for perioperative deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism. Pharmacological prophylaxis with mechanic prophylaxis is a safe and effective way of preventing deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary thromboembolism in neurosurgery. Howe... | {
"abstract": "Deep vein thrombosis (DVT) is a common but unpredictable complication of surgical interventions. To reveal an association between the blood clot contraction (retraction) and the incidence of postoperative venous thrombosis, 78 patients with brain tumors that were operated on were studied, of which 23 (... | {
"abstract": "Aim: Evaluate the dimensional accuracy of stone casts of a partially edentulous mandibular arch made by two impression techniques (1-step putty/light-body and 2-step putty/light-body) using addition and condensation silicones. Methods: A partially edentulous steel stainless cast with four markings on t... |
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