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"abstract": "Thymic selection of natural killer-1+ natural T cells that express alpha beta T cell receptors requires a conserved beta 2-microglobulin- associated molecule, presumably CD1d, displayed by CD4+8+ thymocytes. Here we demonstrate that positive selection of natural T cells occurs independent of transporte... | {
"abstract": "Invariant CD1d-restricted T cells express NK cell markers and use a limited TCR repertoire. Here, we describe a second CD1d-restricted T cell subset that uses a diverse TCR repertoire. These T cells can also express NK cell markers and function similarly to invariant T cells. The antigens recognized by... | {
"abstract": "DNA microarray measurements are susceptible to error caused by non-specific hybridization between a probe and a target (cross-hybridization), or between two targets (bulk-hybridization). Search algorithms such as BLASTN can quickly identify potentially hybridizing sequences. We set out to improve BLAST... |
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"abstract": "The prostate-specific antigen (PSA) promoter is known to be highly tissue specific. Although its tissue specificity has been confirmed, its efficiency of gene transcription is significantly lower compared to known nonspecific viral promoters. These lower levels of promoter activity therefore pose a pro... | {
"abstract": "Two barriers prevent adenovirus-based vectors from having wide application. One is the difficulty of making new adenoviruses, and the second is the strong immunological reaction to viral proteins. Here we describe uses of Cre-lox recombination to overcome these problems. First, we demonstrate a simple ... | {
"abstract": "The male reproductive tract of ungulates contains two protein families bearing tandemly arranged fibronectin II (Fn2) modules; one (small Fn2 proteins) bears two modules (e.g. BSP-A1/2), the other (long Fn2 proteins) bears four (e.g. epididymal sperm-binding protein 1 (ELSPBP1)). While it is well known... |
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"abstract": "Thirty genes belonging to three classes of biochemical markers (eight isozyme loci, 16 protein loci revealed by two-dimensional gel electrophoresis, and six terpene loci) were scored in six populations of maritime pine. The purpose of the study was to compare the level of genetic differentiation (GST) ... | {
"abstract": "Heterosis, the superior vegetative or reproductive vigor associated with heterozygosity, has been observed for allozymes in a wide variety of plant and animal taxa. Its causes, however, are widely debated. To gain insight into the causes of heterosis, we examined the relationship of allozyme heterozygo... | {
"abstract": "Commercially available essential oils extracted from Artemisia dracunculus L., Inula graveolens L., Lavandula officinalis Chaix, and Ocimum sanctum L. and the components of these oils were screened by the microplate assay method for determining their acetylcholinesterase (AChE) inhibitory activity. The... |
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"abstract": "PURPOSE\nThis study was undertaken to evaluate the application of duplex scanning during infrainguinal vein grafting procedures to verify vein conduit preparation, anastomotic patency, and graft hemodynamics.\n\n\nMETHODS\nBetween 1991 and 1995, 275 infrainguinal vein bypasses (in situ, 114; reversed, ... | {
"abstract": "PURPOSE\nOur purpose was to determine the incidence and segmental distribution of intraluminal disease in the arm veins of patients in whom saphenous vein was unavailable or inadequate for bypass, determine whether angioscopic evaluation and directed interventions can upgrade the quality of arm vein co... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Effective co-metabolism of microbes has been reported as an available method to achieve better performance of digestion. In order to identify the optimal synergetic living conditions of microbes and obtain the highest methane production, co-digestion of cardboard and waste yeast at 15, 25 and ... |
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"abstract": "Hilgemann, Donald W. New insights into the molecular and cellular workings of the cardiac Na /Ca exchanger. Am J Physiol Cell Physiol 287: C1167–C1172, 2004; doi:10.1152/ajpcell.00288.2004.—The cardiac Na /C 2 exchanger (NCX1) is almost certainly the major Ca 2 extrusion mechanism in cardiac myocytes, ... | {
"abstract": "Spontaneous electrical activity and indo 1 fluorescence ratios were recorded simultaneously in cultured pacemaker cells isolated from the rabbit sinoatrial node. Ryanodine (10 μM) reduced the amplitude of action potential-induced intracellular Ca2+([Formula: see text]) transients by 19 ± 3%, increased ... | {
"abstract": "We report on the fabrication of photochromic polymersomes exhibiting photoswitchable and reversible bilayer permeability from newly designed poly(ethylene oxide)-b-PSPA (PEO-b-PSPA) diblock copolymers, where SPA is spiropyran (SP)-based monomer containing a unique carbamate linkage. Upon self-assemblin... |
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"abstract": "Abstract Metastable 4-methyl benzophenone (4-MBP, C14H12O) crystallizes in the polar (pyroelectric) and enantiomorphic space groups (SG) P31 and P32. The optical rotation tensor has been measured for 670 nm and the material was tested for evidence of phase-matchability. The absolute structure was deter... | {
"abstract": "Here, we review the history, theory, measurement technique and experimental results on gyrotropic phenomena including optical rotation (optical activity), electrogyration, the Faraday effect and magneto-electrogyration in transparent crystals, including examples of structural phase transitions. Relatio... | {
"abstract": "The optical rotation (OR) of CsLiB6O10 (CLBO, space group I\\bar{4}2d) along the a axis has been determined by the HAUP method [Kobayashi & Uesu (1983). J Appl. Cryst. 16, 204–211] at a wavelength of 632.8 nm and by the TILTER method [Kaminsky & Glazer (1996). Ferroelectrics, 183, 133–141] at 532 nm an... |
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"abstract": "We consider distributed inference in social networks where a phenomenon of interest evolves over a given social interaction graph, referred to as the social digraph. We assume that a network of agents monitors certain nodes in the social digraph and the agents rely on inter-agent communication to perfo... | {
"abstract": "This paper deals with the partial state and input observability analysis for structured linear systems with an application to distributed systems. The proposed method is based on a graph-theoretic approach and assumes only the knowledge of the system’s structure. More precisely, we express, in simple g... | {
"abstract": "Le travail presente est relatif au vaste probleme de l'historique et de la mise a jour de donnees geographiques. Dans cette problematique nous nous sommes plus particulierement attaches aux operations d'integration de donnees livrees par un producteur a la suite de changements du domaine de reference, ... |
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"abstract": "A renal transplant patient developed a fatal caecal perforation after Histoplasma capsulatum infection acquired abroad. Disseminated histoplasmosis is an uncommon fungal infection, usually seen in patients with impaired immunity. The diagnosis should be considered in immunosuppressed patients who devel... | {
"abstract": "Gastrointestinal involvement with histoplasmosis in patients with the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome is a rare but documented phenomenon. Most patients present with diarrhea, fever, and abdominal pain. We present a case of a woman who tested positive for the human immunodeficiency virus antibody wh... | {
"abstract": "A retrospective 10-year experience with the traditional three-stage plan (diverting colostomy, resection, colostomy closure) for perforated diverticulitis of the colon in four urban hospitals was reviewed to accurately assess the mortality rate. Only patients who were admitted in a non-elective manner ... |
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"abstract": "The use of numerical tools to solve challenging problems in mathematics has exploded in the past several decades. The purpose of this paper is to compare the results of two different types of numerical methods in finding solutions to the eigenvalue problem for a second-order elliptic differential equat... | {
"abstract": "This book is an introduction to the quantitative treatment of differential equations that arise from modeling physical phenomena in the area of chemical engineering. It evolved from a set of notes developed for courses taught at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. \n \nAn engineer work... | {
"abstract": "Lymphocytes have long been established to play an important role in the regulation of hematopoiesis and produce many cytokines that act on hematopoietic progenitor cells. Previous studies by our group have shown that normal, unstimulated lymphocytes produce a protein that inhibits normal bone marrow GM... |
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"abstract": "Objective: Adding cognitive remediation to vocational rehabilitation services improves cognitive and work functioning in people with serious mental illness, but despite interest, the uptake of cognitive programs into community services has been slow. This study evaluated the feasibility of implementing... | {
"abstract": "Computerized targeted cognitive training (TCT) of auditory processing has been shown to improve verbal learning in several clinical trials of schizophrenia outpatients. Less is known, however, about the effectiveness of this promising intervention in more chronic, treatment-refractory patients who are ... | {
"abstract": "BackgroundAn important portion of asthmatics do not respond to current therapies. Thus, the need for new therapeutic drugs is urgent. We have demonstrated a critical role for PARP in experimental asthma. Olaparib, a PARP inhibitor, was recently introduced in clinical trials against cancer. The objectiv... |
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"abstract": "The purpose of this review was to determine whether past research provides conclusive evidence about the effects of type and timing of ingestion of specific sources of protein by those engaged in resistance weight training. Two essential, nutrition-related, tenets need to be followed by weightlifters t... | {
"abstract": "Amino acids such as leucine and its metabolite α-ketoisocaproate (KIC), are returning to be the focus of studies, mainly because of their anti-catabolic properties, through inhibition of muscle proteolysis and enhancement of protein synthesis. It is clear that these effects may counteract catabolic con... | {
"abstract": "Rapidly increasing volumes of news feeds from diverse data sources, such as online newspapers, Twitter and online blogs are proving to be extremely valuable resources in helping anticipate, detect, and forecast outbreaks of rare diseases. This paper presents SourceSeer, a novel algorithmic framework th... |
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"abstract": "The emergence of pure Internet-based service providers has put many integrated telecommunications firms - industry incumbents that provide services on their own infrastructure - under massive pressure. While various pure service providers enjoy high performance, the products offered by the incumbents o... | {
"abstract": "The goal of this paper is to evaluate the importance of cloud services for Integrated Service Providers and how collaborative product development could strengthen their position within the Cloud Industry. The global cloud market is growing rapidly and gaining daily more momentum. The German Bitkom esti... | {
"abstract": "Organizations are composed of individuals. However, organizational behavior is not simply a sum of the behaviors of the individuals comprising them. Organizations alter individual behavior by constraining who interacts with whom, as well as constraining the subjects motivating their interactions [March... |
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"abstract": "This study examines the influence of a national cultural dimension, specifically a strong orientation towards collectivism/reliance on network relationships, referred to as ‘wasta’, on the way in which psychological contracts form and change in a Saudi organisation. Specifically, it focuses upon how th... | {
"abstract": "Purpose - Repatriation continues to be a current challenge for many international firms. While this topic has received only limited attention in literature in the past, it has aroused an increased academic interest since the 2000s. Until now, however, thorough analyses of advancements in this field, wh... | {
"abstract": "This chapter assesses the state of entrepreneurship education in higher education institutions (HEIs) in Europe, comparing it to developments in the United States and outlining a set of recommendations for universities and policy makers. Comparisons include the differences in definition between entrepr... |
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"abstract": "Abstract Purpose: Functional electrical stimulation (FES) is effective in assisting people with multiple sclerosis (pwMS) with gait. Previous studies have investigated the effects of FES in pwMS with slow self-selected walking speeds (SSWS). This study reports on the effect of the Odstock Dropped Foot ... | {
"abstract": "Fifty-eight patients with severe, progressive multiple sclerosis were prospectively randomized to one of three treatments: 20 received intravenous ACTH, 20 received high-dose intravenous cyclophosphamide plus ACTH, and 18 were placed on a regimen consisting of plasma exchange, low-dose oral cyclophosph... | {
"abstract": "This study evaluated the gait and balance performance of two clinically distinct groups of recently diagnosed and minimally impaired multiple sclerosis (MS) patients (Expanded Disability Status Scale range 0- 2.5), compared to control subjects. Ten MS patients with mild pyramidal signs (Pyramidal Funct... |
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"abstract": "The purpose of this article is to find out the most important factors for sales of dairy products. Transactional data for sales are used. This article is published for the first time. The results of the analysis will show how transactional data may be used for data mining. SPSS is used to analyze the d... | {
"abstract": "This conceptual article examines the effects of out- of-stock items through the Service-Dominant (S-D) logic lens. Combining classic S-D logic research with recent applications of S-D logic in supply chains, this article examines the role that out-of-stock items play in value attenuation throughout the... | {
"abstract": "Celem opracowania jest opis zmian liczby i struktury wieku pracuj¹cych w rolnictwie w latach 1993-2008 oraz projekcja zmian tej populacji do roku 2035. Projekcja zosta³a przygotowana dynamiczn¹ metod¹ kohortow¹, stosowan¹ do przewidywania podaSy pracy w opracowaniach OECD oraz Komisji Europejskiej. Pro... |
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"abstract": "STUDY OBJECTIVE\nTo report the occurrence of persistent respiratory disorders, including irritant-induced asthma, among adults living and working near an environmental spill of the pesticide, metam sodium, after the derailment of a tank car.\n\n\nDESIGN\nRetrospective clinical case series.\n\n\nSETTING... | {
"abstract": "RATIONALE\nOn September 11, 2001, the World Trade Center collapse created an enormous urban disaster site with high levels of airborne pollutants. First responders, rescue and recovery workers, and residents have since reported respiratory symptoms and developed pulmonary function abnormalities.\n\n\nO... | {
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"title": "E PLURIBUS URBES: INTEREST GROUP ORGANIZATION’S EFFECT ON THE FRAGMENTATION AND GOVERNANCE OF AMERICAN URBAN AREAS"
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"abstract": "PURPOSE\nThe Advanced Clinician Practitioner in Arthritis Care (ACPAC) Program was developed to train experienced physical and occupational therapists within extended practice roles with the aim of facilitating optimal, timely, and appropriate delivery of health care to patients with arthritis. This pa... | {
"abstract": "Objective To assess patient satisfaction with the arthritis care services provided by graduates of the Advanced Clinician Practitioner in Arthritis Care (ACPAC) program. Materials and methods This was a cross-sectional evaluation using a self-report questionnaire for data collection. Participants compl... | {
"abstract": "Background The annual number of total hip arthroplasties (THA) has increased in Denmark over the past 15 years. There is, however, limited detailed data available on the incidence of THAs. Methods We calculated the incidence rates (IR) of primary THA and revision in Denmark between 1996 and 2002 and es... |
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"abstract": "The study aimed to assess the knowledge increment in paediatric surgery of interns (pre‐registration) after a 1‐month period of training and of registrars after a 6‐month rotation. A comparison of the knowledge base of interns from different universities was included.",
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"abstract": "ObjectiveThe authors determine the reliability, validity, and usefulness of the Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) in the evaluation of surgical residents. Summary Background DataInterest is increasing in using the OSCE as a measurement of clinical competence and as a certification tool. ... | {
"abstract": "No abstract available.",
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"title": "An objective structured clinical examination for the licentiate of the Medical Council of Canada: from research to reality"
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"abstract": "Critical infrastructures have a number of the characteristic properties of complex systems. Among these are infrequent large failures through cascading events. These events, though infrequent, often obey a power law distribution in their probability versus size which suggests that conventional risk ana... | {
"abstract": "Networked infrastructures operated under highly loaded conditions are vulnerable to catastrophic cascading failures. For example, electric power transmission systems must be designed and operated to reduce the risk of widespread blackouts caused by cascading failure. There is a need for analytically tr... | {
"abstract": "In this paper, we analyze stochastic passivity of discrete-time Markovian jump nonlinear systems (MJNS). We define the notions of general stochastic dissipativity, stochastic QSR dissipativity and then stochastic passivity for these systems. Based on these definitions, the discrete-time stochastic KYP ... |
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"abstract": "Background: In spinal paired associative stimulation (PAS), orthodromic and antidromic volleys elicited by transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) and peripheral nerve stimulation (PNS) coincide at corticomotoneuronal synapses at the spinal cord. The interstimulus interval (ISI) between TMS and PNS det... | {
"abstract": "Plasticity can be induced at human corticospinal-motoneuronal synapses by delivery of repeated, paired stimuli to corticospinal axons and motoneurons in a technique called paired corticospinal-motoneuronal stimulation (PCMS). To date, the mechanisms of the induced plasticity are unknown. To determine w... | {
"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nHemodialysis technique (dialysate composition, filter, convection/diffusion ratio, etc.) can have an impact on the patient's tendency to acute hypotension. We have examined the hypothesis that the dialysis technique affects the hypotension risk by altering the cardiovascular compensatory re... |
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"abstract": "Summary We describe two patients who developed an extensive catheter-related upper extremity deep vein thrombosis and a cerebral venous sinus thrombosis, respectively. Both thrombotic complications occurred in the presence of an elevated platelet count. Subsequent detection of the JAK2 V617F and MPL mu... | {
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"title": "An overview on CALR and CSF3R mutations and a proposal for revision of WHO diagnostic criteria for myeloproliferative neoplasms"
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"abstract": "To investigate the characteristics and clinical course of cerebral vein thrombosis (CVT) in patients with myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPN) we compared 48 patients with MPN and CVT (group MPN‐CVT) to 87 with MPN and other venous thrombosis (group MPN‐VT) and 178 with MPN and no thrombosis (group MPN‐N... |
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"abstract": "Bound states in semiconductor–superconductor hybrids are shown to have parity lifetimes of over 10 milliseconds, suggesting that they could provide a platform for topological quantum computing.",
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"title": "Parity lifetime of bound states in a proximitized semiconductor nanowir... | {
"abstract": "Color-code quantum computation seamlessly combines Majorana-based hardware with topological error correction. Specifically, as Clifford gates are transversal in two-dimensional color codes, they enable the use of the Majoranas' non-Abelian statistics for gate operations at the code level. Here, we disc... | {
"abstract": "We find that quasiparticle generation from stray infrared light creates a significant loss mechanism in superconducting resonators and qubits. We show that resonator quality factors and qubit energy relaxation times are limited by a quasiparticle density of approximately 200 μm−3, induced by 4 K blackb... |
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"abstract": "Linear optical and enhanced nonlinear optical (NLO) properties of undoped and Cu2+ doped ZnS nanoparticles are demonstrated. NLO properties are measured with a 10 ns pulsed laser radiation of 532 nm wavelength by z-scan techniques.",
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"title": "Linear and nonlinear optical prop... | {
"abstract": "We report for the first time that doped nanocrystals of semiconductor can yield both high luminescent efficiencies and lifetime shortening at the same time. Nanocrystals of Mn-doped ZnS with sizes varying from 3.5 to 7.5 nm were prepared by a room temperature chemical process. These nanosized particles... | {
"abstract": "This paper presents a method to develop formal specifications of managed systems using their information model descriptions. The method proposed also includes the modeling of object relationships of any kind of complexity.",
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"title": "Modeling object relationshi... |
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"abstract": "The large availability of user provided contents on online social media facilitates people aggregation around common interests, worldviews and narratives. However, in spite of the enthusiastic rhetoric about the so called {\\em wisdom of crowds}, unsubstantiated rumors -- as alternative explanation to ... | {
"abstract": "Polarization in social media networks is a fact in several scenarios such as political debates and other contexts such as same-sex marriage, abortion and gun control. Understanding and quantifying polarization is a long-term challenge to researchers from several areas, also being a key information for ... | {
"abstract": "The past decade has witnessed an explosion of interest in the partisan polarization of the American electorate. Scholarly investigation of this topic has coincided with the media’s portrayal of a polity deeply divided along partisan lines. Yet little research so far has considered the consequences of t... |
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"abstract": "Shunt reactor interruption by circuit breakers may produce current chopping and cause severe overvoltages. The four-legged reactor interrupting transients are elucidated with equivalent circuit analysis, and the mechanism of beat frequency oscillation is also characterized, further, a 3-D portfolio of ... | {
"abstract": "This paper describes transients switching study carried out for variable shunt reactor (VSR) connected to 220 kV Grid at 220/33 kV Adani Electricity Mumbai Ltd (AEML) Gorai substation. The study model developed in the PSCAD. It includes a model for VSR, Sf6 CB, other substation equipments. Inrush curre... | {
"abstract": "A double circuit HVDC transmission linie equipped with a factacting dc circuit breaker has been studied in three modes of switching. Load breaking in one line and transfer to the other was investigated by utilizing an HVDC system simulator; breaker duty was easy and system disturbances were minimal. Fa... |
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"abstract": "Context-aware recommender systems are becoming a popular topic, still, there are many untouched aspects. In this paper, research involving context identification and the concepts related to hybrid and context-aware systems is presented. A conceptual architecture for a context-aware recommender system f... | {
"abstract": "Context-aware recommender systems (CARS) aim at improving users’ satisfaction by tailoring recommendations to each particular context. In this work we propose a contextual pre-ltering technique based on implicit user feedback. We introduce a new context-aware recommendation approach called user micro-p... | {
"abstract": "Spam is commonly defined as unsolicited email messages and the goal of spam filtering is to differentiate spam from legitimate email. Much work have been done to filter spam from legitimate emails using machine learning algorithm and substantial performance has been achieved with some amount of false p... |
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"abstract": "The use of extended Chebyshev spaces in geometric design is motivated by the interesting shape parameters they provide. Unfortunately the algorithms such spaces lead to are generally complicated because the blossoms themselves are complicated. In order to make up for this inconvenience, we here investi... | {
"abstract": "Originally, Tchebycheean B-splines have been deened by generalized divided diierences. In this paper, we deene Tchebycheean B-splines by integration. Based upon this deenition, all basic algorithms for Tchebycheean splines can be derived in a straightforward manner. As an example, a knot insertion algo... | {
"abstract": "The research presented in this paper was motivated by our aim to study a problem due to J. Bourgain [3]. The problem in question concerns the uniform boundedness of the classical separation rank of the elements of a separable compact set of the first Baire class. In the sequel we shall refer to these s... |
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"abstract": "Abstract : This work describes the development of a 2x2 array of pattern reconfigurable antennas, capable of switching between boresight and endfire radiation patterns over a common impedance bandwidth. The reconfigurable element for the array is a single turn square spiral microstrip antenna on an ele... | {
"abstract": "A novel design for a circularly-polarised printed square spiral slot antenna with a stripline feed is demonstrated. The printed slot antenna consists of a square spiral slot of /spl sim/1.25 turns, and a total slot length of approximately one free-space operating wavelength. By carefully trimming both ... | {
"abstract": "Numerous disciplines are now trying to analyse and represent the processes and products of organisational memory, in order to clarify what tangible representations future knowledge managers will work with. This short paper begins by reflecting briefly on the nature of systematic representations, as a r... |
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"abstract": "We have examined the interaction of recombinant lily pollen ADF, LlADF1, with actin and found that whilst it bound both G- and F-actin, it had a much smaller effect on the polymerization and depolymerization rate constants than the maize vegetative ADF, ZmADF3. An antiserum specific to pollen ADF, anti... | {
"abstract": "Cofilin is a 21,000-Mr actin-binding protein that widely exists in mammalian tissues. (1) A new purification procedure for porcine brain cofilin has been developed that involves (NH4)2SO4 fractionation and sequential chromatographies on Toyo Pearl and butyl-Toyo Pearl hydrophobic columns, hydroxyapatit... | {
"abstract": "A flexible, modular software package intended for the processing of electron microscopy images is presented. The system consists of a set of image processing tools or filters, written in the C programming language, and a command line style user interface based on the UNIX shell. The pipe and filter str... |
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"abstract": "BackgroundWith the spread of pyrethroid resistance in mosquitoes, the combination of an insecticide (carbamate or organophosphate) with a repellent (DEET) is considered as a promising alternative strategy for the treatment of mosquito nets and other relevant materials. The efficacy of these mixtures co... | {
"abstract": "The primary defence against mosquitoes and other disease vectors is often the application of a repellent. Despite their common use, the mechanism(s) underlying the activity of repellents is not fully understood, with even the mode of action of DEET having been reported to be via different mechanisms; e... | {
"abstract": "Presbyacusis, or age-related hearing loss, can be characterized in humans as metabolic and sensory phenotypes, based on patterns of audiometric thresholds that were established in animal models. The metabolic phenotype is thought to result from deterioration of the cochlear lateral wall and reduced end... |
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"abstract": "Sixty eight Trypanosoma cruzi strains were isolated in the state of Santa Catarina, Southern Brazil, from sylvatic reservoirs or naturally infected vectors and characterized by their biological behaviour in mice, morphology of bloodstream forms and isoenzyme profiles. Twenty eight strains were isolated... | {
"abstract": "In this study, we report the characterization of seven trypanosome stocks isolated in different geographical ar- eas of Latin America and from different vector species, by analysis of kinetoplast DNA (kDNA) restriction fragment- length polymorphism, using five different restriction endonucleases, and g... | {
"abstract": "Mediante a instalacao de galinheiros experimentais em regioes distintas, observou-se variacao da capacidade de colonizacao espontânea de Panstrongylus megistus nesses ecotopos artificiais. Os resultados positivos foram obtidos em areas de clima com inverno seco ou chuvoso mas onde a destruicao da cober... |
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"abstract": "An insufficient endogenous dormancy period of apricot flower buds can result in reduced frost resistance. This is one of the causes of lower fruit yields in certain years. The aim of this work was the analysis of gene expression profiles in flower buds of four apricot cultivars (‘Sundrop’, ‘Stark Early... | {
"abstract": "We periodically investigated the lateral flower bud morphology of 1-year shoots of 'Kosui' pears (Pyrus pyrifolia Nakai) in terms of dormancy progression, using magnetic resonance imaging. The size of flower buds did not change significantly during endodormancy, but rapid enlargement took place at the ... | {
"abstract": "Supplementation of milk with combination of casitone (0.5% (w/w)) and fructose (0.5% (w/w)) resulted in greater acid production, higher viable counts, increased sugar utilization and shorter generation time for the L. acidophilus strains tested. The experimental product prepared by using these additive... |
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"abstract": "The two-dimensional superfocusing of nanoring-based plasmonic lenses (NRPLs) beyond the diffraction limit in the far-field region remains a great challenge at optical wavelengths. In this paper, in addition to the modulation of structural parameters, we investigated the polarization-dependent focusing ... | {
"abstract": "Planar super-oscillation lenses (SOLs) can fulfill super-resolution focusing and nanoscopic imaging in the far field without the contribution of evanescent waves. Nevertheless, the existing deviations between the design and experimental results have been seldomly investigated, leaving the practical app... | {
"abstract": "This article presents a new approach for the study of urban areas using polarimetric SAR (PolSAR) data. The PolSAR multidimensional information is analyzed using a linear time-frequency (TF) decomposition which permits to describe an urban area polarimetric behavior for different azimuth angles of obse... |
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"abstract": "Abstract Morphine and other opiates interact powerfully with prostaglandin mechanisms. One interaction is to inhibit the stimulation by E prostaglandins of cyclic AMP formation in rat brain homogenate. This action is stereospecific and is reversed by the specific morphine antagonist, naloxone. Scrutiny... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Dibutyryl cyclic adenosine 3′,5′-monophosphate (DBcAMP), 25 mg/kg, administered intraperitoneally 25 minutes prior to testing produced a significant decrease in spontaneous locomotor activity (SLMA) to 58 percent of control and in exploratory behavior to 64 percent of control but failed to alt... | {
"abstract": "Tellurium (Te) implantation was introduced to tune the effective electron Schottky barrier height (SBH) ΦBn of platinum-based silicide (PtSi) contacts formed on n-type silicon-carbon (Si:C). Te introduced by ion implantation prior to Pt deposition segregated at the PtSi:C/Si:C interface during PtSi:C f... |
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"abstract": "We extracted the electronic disorder energy of the organic-inorganic lead-halide hybrid perovskite CH3NH3PbBr3 from temperature-dependent absorption data. We showed that the disorder at room temperature is ∼30 meV and is due to strong electron-phonon coupling with the longitudinal-optical mode of energ... | {
"abstract": "Almost ten years after the renaissance of the popular perovskite-type semiconductors based on lead salts with the general formula AMX3 (A=organic or inorganic cation; M=divalent metal; X=halide), many facets of photophysics continue to puzzle researchers. In this Minireview, light is shed on the low mo... | {
"abstract": "Tailoring of the titania morphology is achieved by the combination of a triblock copolymer, acting as structure-directing agent, and a sol-gel chemistry enabling the incorporation of the provided inorganic material (titania) into the selected phase of the triblock copolymer. Spin-coating of the solutio... |
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"abstract": "The present paper is concerned with the buffering hypothesis that social support ameliorate. the impact of occupational stress on job-related strain and health. Previous studies of this hypothesis have yielded conflicting results. Our purpose, therefore, is twofold. First, we summarize the literature i... | {
"abstract": "Several authors have suggested that social support reduces the risk of psychiatric disorder by providing a \"buffer\" against the adverse effects of stressful events. Others have proposed, in contrast, that social support is beneficial irrespective of life stress. We addressed this issue in a community... | {
"abstract": "An earlier study by Howard (1990) employed a “foot-in-the-mouth” approach (FITM) to increase the frequency of compliance with charitable requests. This effect was explained through consistency theory: People are more likely to comply with a request for a charitable donation if the person making the req... |
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"abstract": "More and more of the information available on the web is dialogic, and a significant portion of it takes place in online forum conversations about current social and political topics. We aim to develop tools to summarize what these conversations are about. What are the CENTRAL PROPOSITIONS associated w... | {
"abstract": "With the growing use of the Social Web, an increasing number of applications for exchanging opinions with other people are becoming available online. These applications are widely adopted with the consequence that the number of opinions about the debated issues increases. In order to cut in on a debate... | {
"abstract": "Technology of automatic text summarization plays an important role in information retrieval and text classification, and may provide a solution to the information overload problem. Text summarization is a process of reducing the size of a text while preserving its information content. This paper propos... |
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"abstract": "Abstract We study the non-vanishing on the line $\\operatorname{Re}\\left( s \\right)=1$ of the convolution series associated to two Dirichlet series in a certain class of Dirichlet series. The non-vanishing of various $L$ -functions on the line $\\operatorname{Re}\\left( s \\right)=1$ will be simple c... | {
"abstract": "Abstract In this paper, we consider Dirichlet series with Euler products of the form F(s) = Πp in > 1, and which are regular in ≥ 1 except for a pole of order m at s = 1. We establish criteria for such a Dirichlet series to be nonvanishing on the line of convergence. We also show that our results can b... | {
"abstract": "Several formulas for Ramanujan's function r, defined by 00 00 xHI(, = EZr(n)xn (lxI < 1), 1 1 are presented. We also present a congruence modulo 3 for some of the function values.",
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"title": "New representations of Ramanujan’s tau function"
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"abstract": "We have previously shown that the cyclooxygenase (COX)-2/PGE2 pathway plays a key role in VEGF production in gastric fibroblasts. Recent studies have identified three PGE synthase (PGES) isozymes: cytosolic PGES (cPGES) and microsomal PGES (mPGES)-1 and -2, but little is known regarding the expression ... | {
"abstract": "Periprosthetic osteolysis is the most common cause of aseptic loosening in total joint arthroplasty. The role of inflammatory mediators such as prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) and osteoclast promoting factors including RANKL in the pathogenesis of osteolysis has been well characterized. However, the PGE2 recep... | {
"abstract": "Current methods for evaluating the kinetics of ribozyme-catalyzed reactions rely primarily on the use of radiolabeled RNA substrates, and so require tedious electrophoretic separation and quantitation of reaction products for each data point in any experiment. Here, we report the use of fluorescent sub... |
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"abstract": "(2001b). Identifying physical properties of CO 2 laser by dynamical modeling of measured time series.",
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"abstract": "In silico investigations by simulating dynamical models of biochemical processes play an important role in systems biology. If the parameters of a model are unknown, results from simulation studies can be misleading. Such a scenario can be avoided by estimating the parameters before analysing the syste... | {
"abstract": "Abstract The Mackey-Glass delay-differential equation exhibits multistability when the ratio of delay to response time is large. A piecewise constant initial function corresponding to a finite message can then be stored into a periodic waveform. We show that the storage capability is enhanced by the co... |
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"abstract": "Current models of the functional architecture of human cortex emphasize areas that capture coarse-scale features of cortical topography but provide no account for population responses that encode information in fine-scale patterns of activity. Here, we present a linear model of shared representational ... | {
"abstract": "Animacy and real-world size are properties that describe any object and thus bring basic order into our perception of the visual world. Here, we investigated how the human brain processes real-worl...",
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"title": "Tracking the Spatiotemporal Neural Dynamics of Real-world Objec... | {
"abstract": "Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are an emerging technology for monitoring physical world. Different from the traditional wireless networks and ad hoc networks, the energy constraint of WSNs makes energy saving become the most important goal of various routing algorithms. For this purpose, a cluster bas... |
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"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nGeneric patient-accessible medical records have shown promise in enhancing patient-centred care for patients with chronic diseases. We sought to design, implement and evaluate a patient-accessible medical record specifically for patients undergoing a course of assisted reproduction (IVF or ... | {
"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nThe Website Developmental Model for the Healthcare Consumer (WDMHC) is an extensive and successfully evaluated framework that incorporates user-centered design principles. However, due to its extensiveness its application is limited. In the current study we apply a subset of the WDMHC frame... | {
"abstract": "Self-help interventions for smoking cessation are an important bridge between the clinical and public health approaches to smoking cessation. The current literature on self-help interventions is encouraging but incomplete. Although their quit rates are lower than those of more intensive programs, self-... |
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"abstract": "We present the case of a 48-year-old woman with hypothenar hammer syndrome. Hypothenar hammer syndrome is caused by chronic repetitive trauma to the ulnar artery and superficial palmar arch. This syndrome was originally described in males working in occupations that involved repetitive blunt trauma inc... | {
"abstract": "In a retrospective review of the radiographs taken for 113 acute scaphoid fractures, each view was assessed for the clarity of demonstration of the fracture. The X-rays on which diagnosis of fracture were made, were taken between 0 and 16 days after injury (mean, 2 days). Whenever a lateral, supinated ... | {
"abstract": "OBJECTIVE\nOur objective was to review the imaging features of pseudoaneurysms of the hand in 25 patients. The patients presented with a mass, peripheral paresthesia, or ischemia. Pseudoaneurysm of the hand is a rare and often clinically unsuspected diagnosis. Correct diagnosis is important because the... |
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"abstract": "Substitution of chromosome 13 from Brown Norway BN/SsNHsd/Mcw (BN/Mcw) rats into the Dahl salt-sensitive SS/JrHsd/Mcw (SS/Mcw) rats resulted in substantial reduction of blood pressure salt sensitivity in this consomic rat strain designated SSBN13. In the present study, we attempted to identify genes as... | {
"abstract": "Apoptotic and necrotic cells are strong candidates as sources of the autoantigens that drive the autoantibody response in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Defects in the physiological mechanisms for the clearance of dying cells may promote disease susceptibility to SLE. Ablation of the mouse gene Dn... | {
"abstract": "Recovering tissue deformation during robotic assisted minimally invasive surgery is an important step towards motion compensation and stabilization. This paper presents a practical strategy for dense 3D depth recovery and temporal motion tracking for deformable surfaces. The method combines image recti... |
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"abstract": "Adoption of deep learning in image steganalysis is still in its initial stage. In this paper, we propose a generic hybrid deep-learning framework for JPEG steganalysis incorporating the domain knowledge behind rich steganalytic models. Our proposed framework involves two main stages. The first stage is... | {
"abstract": "In this paper, we point out that SRM (Spatial-domain Rich Model), the most successful steganalysis framework of digital images possesses a similar architecture to CNN (convolutional neural network). The reasonable expectation is that the steganalysis performance of a well-trained CNN should be comparab... | {
"abstract": "The vast majority of steganographic schemes for digital images stored in the raster format limit the amplitude of embedding changes to the smallest possible value. In this paper, we investigate the possibility to further improve the empirical security by allowing the embedding changes in highly texture... |
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"abstract": "Publisher Summary This chapter discusses the reflections and perspectives at the millennium. In this chapter the researchers in the field of International Management (IM) witnessed the development of one of the most complex and sophisticated social institutions in human history–the modern multinational... | {
"abstract": "1. The distinctive nature of the multinational enterprise \"John H. Dunning\" 2. The theory of the firm \"Thomas O. Horst\" 3. The determinants of investment \"Guy V. G. Stevens\" 4. The location of economic activity \"Raymond Vernon\" 5. Industrial organisation \"Richard E. Caves\" 6. Technology and t... | {
"abstract": "The transaction cost approach to the study of economic organization regards the transaction as the basic unit of analysis and holds that an understanding of transaction cost economizing is central to the study of organizations. Applications of this approach require that transactions be dimensionalized ... |
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"abstract": "We propose an end-to-end learning framework for segmenting generic objects in videos. Our method learns to combine appearance and motion information to produce pixel level segmentation masks for all prominent objects in videos. We formulate this task as a structured prediction problem and design a two-... | {
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"title": "Adaptation of Convolutional Neural Networks for the 2017 DAVIS Challenge on Video Object Segmentation"
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"abstract": "Our paper is motivated from the advancement in deep learning algorithms for various computer vision problems. We are proposing a novel end-to-end deep learning based framework for image super-resolution. This framework simultaneously calculates the convolutional features of low-resolution (LR) and high... |
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"abstract": "We developed a colour tint scale to use as an aid in the clinical assessment of anaemia by measuring conjunctival pallor. The objectives of this study were to evaluate the accuracy and agreement among observers in detecting anaemia in three sequential phases with incremental information using clinical ... | {
"abstract": "Anaemia in pregnancy is a common and severe problem in many developing countries. Because of lack of resources and staff motivation, screening for anaemia is often solely by clinical examination of the conjunctiva or is not carried out at all. A new colour scale for the estimation of haemoglobin concen... | {
"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nSome algae are an excellent sources of vitamin B12, of special interest for vegetarian/vegan consumers, and of fucose to supplement fruit and vegetable beverages such as smoothies. Nevertheless, supplementation of smoothies with algae may lead to possible quality changes during smoothie she... |
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"abstract": "BackgroundIn 2005, the Indian government launched the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) to improve the quality of and access to rural public health care. Despite these efforts, recent evidence shows that the rural poor continue to primarily consult private non-degree allopathic practitioners (NDAPs)... | {
"abstract": "M health (mHealth), i.e., the use of portable electronic devices with software applications to provide health services and manage patient information,1 has the potential to transform health service delivery worldwide.2 mHealth has a crucial role to play in health care systems, as it can improve communi... | {
"abstract": "Perhaps the oldest question in economics is why some countries are rich while others are poor. Economic theory has emphasized that differences in the educational levels of the population are an important part of the answer and that improved schooling opportunities should raise incomes in developing cou... |
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"abstract": "Functional outcome after high tibial osteotomy (HTO) was evaluated with respect to both improvement and goal achievement. Fifty-seven subjects, 32 men and 25 women, with a mean age of 55 years were examined with the Functional Assessment System (FAS) 6 and 12 months after surgery. The FAS is an evaluat... | {
"abstract": "Sixty osteoarthritic knees that were evaluated by arthroscopic, radiographic, and clinical (Insall knee-rating scale) examination prior to high tibial valgus osteotomy were re-evaluated radiographically and clinically after a minimum follow-up of two years. After two and three years, the clinical score... | {
"abstract": "MUCH has been said in the last decade of the outstanding advances of medicine and surgery, and, as a direct result, of the prolongation of life. Persons with formerly fatal congenital deformities, disease, or injury, were saved. So also were those suffering from acute infections kept alive. Further, th... |
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"abstract": "Virtualization enables the consolidation of virtual machines (VMs) to increase the utilization of physical servers in Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud providers. However, our experience shows that storage I/O performance varies wildly in the face of consolidation. Since many users may desire co... | {
"abstract": "Services that share a storage system should realize the same efficiency, within their share of time, as when they have the system to themselves. The Argon storage server explicitly manages its resources to bound the inefficiency arising from inter-service disk and cache interference in traditional syst... | {
"abstract": "One of the biggest bottlenecks in desktop-based computing is the hard disk with I/O write latency being a key contributor. I/O write latency stems from the mechanical nature of hard disks, with seek and rotational delays the major components. Hybrid disk drives place a small amount of flash memory (NVC... |
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"abstract": "Papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) displays higher heritability than most other cancers. To search for genes predisposing to PTC, we performed a genome-wide linkage analysis in a large family with PTC and melanoma. Among several peaks the highest was at 8q24, with a maximum nonparametric linkage (NPL) s... | {
"abstract": "The purpose of this study was to estimate the occurrence of familial nonmedullary thyroid cancer (FNMTC) in a large population-based study. Of the 5274 cases of thyroid cancer on record in the Norwegian Cancer Registry between 1960 and 1995, a total of 1025 patients could be identified with verified th... | {
"abstract": "A new input device for kinetically challenged persons has been developed. This device is based on solid-state accelerometers to sense motion in space, a microcontroller to sample the data in real time, and an embedded FPGA to distinguish types of motion from programmable lists of motions. The FPGA comp... |
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"abstract": "Taming interfacial electronic effects on Pt nanoparticles modulated by their concomitants has emerged as an intriguing approach to optimize Pt catalytic performance. Here, we report Pt nanoparticles assembled on vacancy-abundant hexagonal boron nitride nanosheets and their use as a model catalyst to em... | {
"abstract": "Methane dry reforming (MDR) has attracted significant attention for effectively consuming greenhouse gases and producing valuable syngas. The development of coking- and sintering-resistant catalysts is still a challenge. Herein, highly active Ni nanocatalysts confined by the active edges of boron nitri... | {
"abstract": "In this work, the applicability of mean centering (MC) of ratio kinetic profiles method to the kinetic voltammetry data is verified. For this purpose, a procedure is described for the determination of Sb(III) and Sb(V) by adsorptive linear sweep voltammetry using pyrogallol (py) as a complexing agent. ... |
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"abstract": "The class imbalance problem appears to be ubiquitous to a large portion of the machine learning and data mining communities. One of the key questions in this setting is how to evaluate the learning algorithms in the case of class imbalances. In this paper we introduce the Bayesian Receiver Operating Ch... | {
"abstract": "This paper proposes an innovative fraud detection method, built upon existing fraud detection research and Minority Report, to deal with the data mining problem of skewed data distributions. This method uses backpropagation (BP), together with naive Bayesian (NB) and C4.5 algorithms, on data partitions... | {
"abstract": "Recently, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been used widely in medicine and health care sector. In machine learning, the classification or prediction is a major field of AI. Today, the study of existing predictive models based on machine learning methods is extremely active. Doctors need accurate predi... |
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"abstract": "This paper proposes two new 2D-spectral estimation methods. The 2D-modified magnitude group delay (MMGD) is applied to 2D-discrete Fourier transform (2D-DFT) for the first and to the analytic 2D-discrete Cosine transform for the second. The analytic 2D-DCT preserves the desirable properties of the DCT ... | {
"abstract": "A new method of magnitude square coherence (MSC) estimation by an auto-regressive moving average (ARMA) model based on analytic discrete cosine transform (ADCT) and group delay (GD) property is proposed. The estimation is achieved by modeling the Welch-MSC derived from ADCT and the ARMA model realized ... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Torsional flexibility in the joints is responsible for the typical high frequency modes detectable in the motion of industrial robots. In this work a systematic procedure for the estimation of the elastic dynamics is presented, and some aspects relevant to a correct design of the identificatio... |
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"abstract": "Evidence from Greenland ice cores shows that year-to-year temperature variability was probably higher in some past cold periods, but there is considerable interest in determining whether global warming is increasing climate variability at present. This interest is motivated by an understanding that inc... | {
"abstract": "Some of the earliest unequivocal signs of climate change have been the warming of the air and ocean, thawing of land and melting of ice in the Arctic. But recent studies are showing that the tropics are also changing. Several lines of evidence show that over the past few decades the tropical belt has e... | {
"abstract": "A measurement of indoor radon (222Rn) concentrations in Hiroshima and Nagasaki was carried out to assess the variability of exposure expected among atomic bomb survivors. Two hundred dwellings, mostly belonging to members of the fixed cohort of atomic bomb survivors under study by the Radiation Effects... |
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"abstract": "A sample of 526 Y chromosomes representing six Middle Eastern populations (Ashkenazi, Sephardic, and Kurdish Jews from Israel; Muslim Kurds; Muslim Arabs from Israel and the Palestinian Authority Area; and Bedouin from the Negev) was analyzed for 13 binary polymorphisms and six microsatellite loci. The... | {
"abstract": "A randomly ascertained sample of males with the surname \"Sykes\" was typed with four Y-chromosome microsatellites. Almost half the sample shared the same Y-chromosome haplotype, which has not been observed in control samples either from the same geographic region or from the United Kingdom as a whole.... | {
"abstract": "Y chromosomal DNA polymorphisms were used to investigate Pleistocene male migrations to the American continent. In a worldwide sample of 306 men, we obtained 32 haplotypes constructed with the variation found in 30 distinct polymorphic sites. The major Y haplotype present in most Native Americans was t... |
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"abstract": "A new type of promising chitosan beads with advanced properties were obtained under microwave radiation according to Green Chemistry principles. Biomaterials were prepared using chitosan as raw material and glutamic acid/1,5-pentanodiol mixture as crosslinking agents. Additionally beads were modified w... | {
"abstract": "Chitin, chitosan, and their derivatives are considered to promote diverse activities, including antioxidant, antihypertensive, anti-inflammatory, anticoagulant, antitumor and anticancer, antimicrobial, hypocholesterolemic, and antidiabetic effects, one of the most crucial of which is the antioxidant ef... | {
"abstract": "Gentamicin-loaded polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA), widely used for primary cemented arthroplasty and revision surgery for preventing or treating infections, may lead to the evolution of antibiotic-resistant bacteria and dysfunction of osteogenic cells, which further influence the osteointegration of bone... |
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"abstract": "The murine single-chain variable fragment F8 (scFv(F8)) is endowed with high intrinsic thermodynamic stability and can be functionally expressed in the reducing environment of both prokaryotic and eukaryotic cytoplasm. The stability and intracellular functionality of this molecule can be ascribed mostl... | {
"abstract": "Gibberellins, a class of plant hormones, consist of more than 120 members. Only a few of them are recognized by a receptor that remains unknown. The haptenic mouse monoclonal antibody, 4-B8(8)/E9, was generated against gibberellin A(4) (GA(4)) to recognize biologically active GA selectivity, and we att... | {
"abstract": "Astroglia are a major cellular constituent of the central nervous system (CNS) and play crucial roles in brain development, function, and integrity. Increasing evidence demonstrates that astroglia dysfunction occurs in a variety of neurological disorders ranging from CNS injuries to genetic diseases an... |
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"abstract": "PLEURAL effusion is a common occurrence in disseminated cancer of the breast. Ultmann1 states that in approximately half the patients with metastatic carcinoma of the breast, a pleural effusion develops in the course of the disease. In the majority of the patients it is not the sole manifestation of th... | {
"abstract": "Twenty-one patients with proven recurrent malignant pleural effusions were randomly allocated to treatment groups receiving either intrapleural Corynebacterium parvum in a dose of 7 mg or intrapleural mustine (20 mg). The designated intrapleural therapy was repeated on one occasion if further pleural a... | {
"abstract": "AMONG the late complications of malignant disease which afflict both patient and physician is the formation of fluid in the serous cavities. Such effusions are often seen between the layers of the pleura following carcinoma' of the breast and in the peritoneal space after carcinoma of the ovary. The pr... |
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"abstract": "Objective—Moderate alcohol consumption has been postulated to be cardioprotective. Such an effect might be reflected in large-artery properties, such as arterial stiffness and wave reflections. Methods and Results—Three hundred seventy-one healthy postmenopausal women aged 50 to 74 years were sampled f... | {
"abstract": "Light to moderate alcohol consumption is associated with a reduced risk of coronary heart disease, as well as ischaemic stroke and possibly type 2 diabetes. Epidemiological and physiological data are in favour of a causal relationship. Proposed protective mechanisms include the stimulation of HDL-media... | {
"abstract": "The objective of this study was to examine the effects of wave propagation properties (global reflection coefficient gamma IG; pulse wave velocity, c(ph); and characteristic impedance zeta(o) on the mechanical performance of the coupled left ventricle-arterial system. Specifically, we sought to quantif... |
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"abstract": "Results are reported from a series of twenty-four patients who received intraoral dermis grafts for a variety of conditions and have been followed for between 6 months and 4 years. Advantages and disadvantages of dermal grafting, including contracture, the final histologic and clinical appearance of th... | {
"abstract": "PURPOSE\nAtrophic ridges usually have both hard and soft tissue shortages, and bone augmentation can make soft tissue closure difficult. The aim of this case series is to present a new method utilizing transfer of free fat tissue grafts (FFG) from the buccal fat bad (BFP) during bone augmentation to en... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Context: Diabetes mellitus (DM) type 2 is a chronic disease characterized by hyperglycemia and insulin resistance. Oxidative stress participates in development and progression of DM, in which changes of superoxide dismutase (SOD) and catalase (CAT) were noted in DM mice. Berberine has been wid... |
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"abstract": "Much emphasis is currently placed on the impact of marketisation on higher education and the damage it has caused to forms of academic and student identity. Evident is a concern that much of value in these identities has been lost amidst the pressure of audit, performance indicators and consumerism. Th... | {
"abstract": "The changed dynamic between tertiary students and universities has resulted in much discussion about consumer rights and obligations. Whilst some consider the change from students to clients to be simply an accurate reflection of changing times, others believe the trend to be a covert blueprint for rad... | {
"abstract": "Without wishing to deny the historical reality of processes of disenchantment, this paper challenges the classic Weberian account of disenchantment as a uni-directional and universalizing tendency of modernity. This argument has a number of stages. (1) Reason and rationalization are distinguished from ... |
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"abstract": "There is growing public awareness of the ethical issues raised by progress in many areas of neuroscience. This commentary reviews the issues, which are triaged in terms of their novelty and their imminence, with an exploration of the relevant ethical principles in each case.",
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"abstract": "The use of neuroimaging in product marketing has received considerable business and media attention. Ariely and Berns consider the possibilities and limitations of neuromarketing, arguing that, although not generally cost-effective, it might be useful in specific aspects of marketing. An interview with... | {
"abstract": "Compared to unmanned cars, unmanned bicycles have the inherent problem of keeping balance. This paper proposes the design of a steering controller to achieve the balance control of bicycles when the forward velocity remains constant, bringing us closer to the autonomous driving of unmanned bicycles. Fi... |
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"abstract": "Tracking the process of fault growth in mechanical systems using a range of tests is important to avoid catastrophic failures. So, it is necessary to study the design for testability (DFT). In this paper, to improve the testability performance of mechanical systems for tracking fault growth, a fault ev... | {
"abstract": "After eight years of development and application, the ARINC Research Corporation System Testability and Maintenance Program (STAMP) has been expanded to provide a portable, intelligent, interactive diagnostic tool-the portable interactive troubleshooter (POINTER). POINTER is an artificially intelligent... | {
"abstract": "We analyze the motion of colloids propelled by a comet-like tail of polymerizing actin filaments. The curvature of the particle trajectories deviates strongly from a Gaussian distribution, implying that the underlying microscopic processes are fluctuating in a non-independent manner. Trajectories for b... |
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"abstract": "In this paper, we study the conjecture made in (IEEE Trans. Automat. Control 47 (8) (2002) 1401) concerning the existence of basic switching sequence for switched systems, and give it an affirmative answer and a construction method. This paper proves that for switched linear system, there exists a swit... | {
"abstract": "The sufficient and necessary condition of controllability and reachability of a class of linear switching systems which has the same systematic matrix and different input matrixes is given.",
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"title": "Sufficient and Necessary Condition of Controllability and Reachability of... | {
"abstract": "Let <italic>G=(V,E)</italic> be an undirected <italic>weighted</italic> graph with <italic>|V|=n</italic> and <italic>|E|=m</italic>. Let <italic>k\\ge 1</italic> be an integer. We show that <italic>G=(V,E)</italic> can be preprocessed in <italic>O(kmn^{1/k})</italic> expected time, constructing a data... |
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"abstract": "Highly correlated ab initio methods were used in order to generate the potential-energy curves of the SO+ electronic states correlating to S+(4Su)+O(3Pg) and S+(2Du)+O(3Pg). These curves were used for deducing accurate spectroscopic properties for these electronic states. Our calculations predict the e... | {
"abstract": "Highly correlated ab initio methods have been used to generate one-dimensional cuts of the six-dimensional potential energy surfaces of the quartet and lowest doublet states for the HCCH(+) ion along the CH, CC, and cis and trans bending coordinates. Transition dipole moments and spin-orbit matrix elem... | {
"abstract": "Measurements of square wave response over a 4.1-km near-field horizontal path are presented for different wavelength regions. Relatively high winds generate increased concentrations of soil-derived aerosols that noticeably dampen low-spatial-frequency IR response. At diurnal Cn minimums, when turbulenc... |
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"abstract": "AbstractWe present approximation algorithms for the unsplittable flow problem (UFP) in undirected graphs. As is standard in this line of research, we assume that the maximum\ndemand is at most the minimum capacity. We focus on the non-uniform capacity case in which the edge capacities can vary arbitrar... | {
"abstract": "Column-sparse packing problems arise in several contexts in both deterministic and stochastic discrete optimization. We present two unifying ideas, (non-uniform) attenuation and multiple-chance algorithms, to obtain improved approximation algorithms for some well-known families of such problems. As thr... | {
"abstract": "In this paper, we discuss how a suitable family of tensor kernels can be used to efficiently solve nonparametric extensions of $\\ell^p$ regularized learning methods. Our main contribution is proposing a fast dual algorithm, and showing that it allows to solve the problem efficiently. Our results contr... |
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"abstract": "To the Editor:\n\nWe applaud the work by Zhang et al1 demonstrating abnormal action potential characteristics in cardiomyocytes derived from pluripotent stem cells. This offers experimental evidence …",
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"title": "Stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes demonstrate arrhythmic potentia... | {
"abstract": "Ischemic disorders of the heart can cause an irreversible loss of cardiomyocytes resulting in a substantial decrease of cardiac output. The therapy of choice is heart transplantation, a technique that is hampered by the low number of donor organs. In the present study, we describe the specific labeling... | {
"abstract": "Using the perforated patch version of whole-cell recording, we have measured currents from isolated frog lens epithelial cells. Three types of currents were seen. A time-independent outwardly rectifying potassium current was identified that sets the resting voltage. This potassium current differs signi... |
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"abstract": "WHILE our understanding of the pathophysiologic processes that underlie acute evolving myocardial infarction has exploded over the last decade, true progress in the effective treatment of evolving infarction has been disappointing. ' Although early interventions in animal models have decreased myocardi... | {
"abstract": "A multicenter study evaluated the early management and subsequent hospital course of 204 patients with acute myocardial infarction who were receiving intracoronary infusions of streptokinase (STK). The in-hospital mortality in 37 patients with thrombotic occlusion of the infarct-related vessel, in whom... | {
"abstract": "A novel anti-inflammatory drug, IS-741, blocked the adhesion of inflammatory cells to microvascular endothelial cells in vivo and in vitro. We examined the efficacy of IS-741 in a dextran sulfate sodium (DSS)-induced colitis model. DSS colitis was induced by the oral administration of 3% DSS for 10 day... |
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"abstract": "Lay SummaryStomatopods (mantis shrimp) may disclose their fighting ability to opponents when they display a colored patch, the meral spot. We used an ultrafast laser to increase meral spot brightness of a Caribbean stomatopod species. Fights over ownership of a refuge were shorter and more active when ... | {
"abstract": "In the course of a single raptorial strike by a mantis shrimp (Stomatopoda), the stages of energy release span six to seven orders of magnitude of duration. To achieve their mechanical feats of striking at the outer limits of speeds, accelerations, and impacts among organisms, they use a mechanism that... | {
"abstract": "Outbreak of blue-green algal blooms, with associated unsightly scum and unpleasant odor, occurs frequently in eutrophic lakes. We conducted feeding experiments to study ingestion and digestion of Microcystis aeruginosa by tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) under laboratory conditions and field testing to ... |
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"abstract": "The study of the immunology of schistosomiasis has allowed a clear understanding of the basic mechanisms of resistance, emphasizing the important role played by cellular and humoral factors. Whereas the production of polyclonal or monoclonal antibodies and the precise inventory of immune effector mecha... | {
"abstract": "Over the last ten years there has been a steadily increasing effort in the field of schistosome immunology, and the greater part of this activity has had the long term aim of producing an effective anti-schistosome vaccine. It seems likely that the development of such a vaccine will depend on an improv... | {
"abstract": "Cucurbit[8]uril (CB[8]) heteroternary complexes display certain characteristics making them well-suited for molecular level adhesives. In particular, careful choice of host-guest binding pairs enables specific, fully reversible adhesion. Understanding the effect of the environment is also critical when... |
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"abstract": "MOTIVATION\nWe propose a new class of variable-order Bayesian network (VOBN) models for the identification of transcription factor binding sites (TFBSs). The proposed models generalize the widely used position weight matrix (PWM) models, Markov models and Bayesian network models. In contrast to these m... | {
"abstract": "BackgroundStatistical modeling of transcription factor binding sites is one of the classical fields in bioinformatics. The position weight matrix (PWM) model, which assumes statistical independence among all nucleotides in a binding site, used to be the standard model for this task for more than three ... | {
"abstract": "Despite increased awareness of the need to begin educating young children about the potential dangers of gambling, empirical knowledge of the prevention of adolescent problem gambling and its translation into science-based prevention initiatives is scarce. This paper poses the question of whether or no... |
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"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nInterpersonal sensitivity is a personality trait that describes as excessive awareness of both the behaviour and feelings of others. High interpersonal sensitivity has been associated with the development and maintenance of mental health problems. This study aimed to examine whether the Ita... | {
"abstract": "Prominent theoretical models and existing data implicate interpersonal factors in the development and maintenance of suicidal behavior and non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI). However, no known study has yet used computerized behavioral tasks to objectively assess responses to interpersonal conflict/collab... | {
"abstract": "Abstract In this fMRI study, we investigated the development between adolescence and adulthood of the neural processing of social emotions. Unlike basic emotions (such as disgust and fear), social emotions (such as guilt and embarrassment) require the representation of another's mental states. Nineteen... |
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"abstract": "OBJECTIVE\nSuicide rates in veteran and military populations in the United States are high. This article reviews studies of the accuracy of methods to identify individuals at increased risk of suicide and the effectiveness and adverse effects of health care interventions relevant to U.S. veteran and mi... | {
"abstract": "Background Suicide has been linked to intense negative affect. However, little is known about the range of affects experienced by suicidal persons, or the separate effects of affect valence and intensity. We examine a novel self-report scale, the 17-item Affective Intensity Rating Scale (AIRS), and its... | {
"abstract": "Clinical evidence suggests a potentially causal interaction between sleep and affective brain function; nearly all mood disorders display co-occurring sleep abnormalities, commonly involving rapid-eye movement (REM) sleep. Building on this clinical evidence, recent neurobiological frameworks have hypot... |
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"abstract": "To determine the importance of prelinguistic babbling by studying patterns of speech and language development after cricotracheal resection in aphonic children.",
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"title": "Babbling, vegetative function, and language development after cricotracheal resection in aphonic childre... | {
"abstract": "The \"ba, ba, ba\" sound universal to babies' babbling around 7 months captures scientific attention because it provides insights into the mechanisms underlying language acquisition and vestiges of its evolutionary origins. Yet the prevailing mystery is what is the biological basis of babbling, with on... | {
"abstract": "In previous studies, we showed that the C-terminal domain, F2, but not the N-terminal domain, F1, is responsible for the binding of apolipoprotein [a] (apo[a]) to human fibronectin (Fn). To pursue those observations, we prepared, by both elastase digestion and recombinant technology, subsets of F2 of a... |
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"abstract": "This paper proposes a simple method to assess the sustainability of public finances in Romania, which uses the twin deficits concept. We conclude that the sustainability of the country has been seriously affected by the recent crisis, but to a larger extent by the inappropriate design of economic polic... | {
"abstract": "The aim of our paper is to explore empirically the existence of the long-run relationship and the direction of causality between the budget and current account deficits for some selected Central and Eastern European economies. Bulgaria, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Serbia and Slovenia are the sa... | {
"abstract": "Abstract This paper examines whether the conduct of U.S. fiscal policy since the 1920s has been influenced by constraints on the accumulated stock of outstanding Federal debt. The evidence is affirmative: during most of the inter- and post-war period, policy in effect stabilized the Federal debt relati... |
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"abstract": "Sukhpal Singh. Modern Food Value Chains in India: Emerging Potential for the Poor , 2012, New Delhi: Samskriti. ISBN 9788187374763",
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"title": "Book Review: Modern Food Value Chains in India: Emerging Potential for the Poor"
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"abstract": "Feeding nine billion people by 2050 is a top priority on the global agenda for sustainable and inclusive development. This task is especially formidable in Asia, where more than two-thirds of the world’s poor and malnourished people live. Food prices in Asia are projected to remain high and volatile,... | {
"abstract": "Summary Using case studies from six Asian countries, this paper assesses the relevance of underlying rationales for public intervention in food grain markets, documents the existing policies and regulatory supports to grain marketing parastatals, examines benefits and costs of parastatals, and summariz... |
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"abstract": "The multiwalled carbon nanotubes/BaFe12O19-chitosan (MCNTs/BF-CS) Schiff base Ag (I) complex composites were synthesized successfully by a chemical bonding method. The morphology and structures of the composites were characterized with electron microscopy, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy and X-... | {
"abstract": "A simple synthesis route for growth of Ag/AgO nanoparticles (NPs) in large quantitative yields with narrow size distribution from a functional, non-activated, Ni (II) based highly flexible porous coordination polymer (PCP) as a template has been demonstrated. This template is a stable storage media for... | {
"abstract": "We introduce a model gel system in which colloidal forces, structure, and rheology are measured by balancing the requirements of rheological and microscopy techniques with those of optical tweezers. Sterically stabilized poly(methyl methacrylate) colloids are suspended in cyclohexane (CH) and cyclohexy... |
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"abstract": "Abstract Objective To determine the relationship of motor skills and adaptive behavior skills in young children with autism. Design A multiple regression analysis tested the relationship of motor skills on the adaptive behavior composite, daily living, adaptive social and adaptive communicative skills ... | {
"abstract": "We investigated the nature of sensory integration deficits in postural control of young adults with ASD. Postural control was assessed in a fixed environment, and in three environments in which sensory information about body sway from visual, proprioceptive or both channels was inaccurate. Furthermore,... | {
"abstract": "From a previous survey, 45% of users did not get what they are actually looking for in the web using any search engine. Suppose, you have a million of text file in your server or in your computer, then there is a need to categorize them on the basis of their content in a very efficient way. As a result... |
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"abstract": "Nowadays our society meets many changes that not coordinating with these changes causes many problems such as Unemployment, a weak economy and falling behind scientific developments around the world. One of the main problems is unemployment of university graduates, who are scientifically high and have ... | {
"abstract": "Purpose: In response to the emergence of anenterprise economy, government claims that building an enterprise culture isvital. Correspondingly, provision of entrepreneurship education in highereducation has expanded. The paper aims to assess the potential ofentrepreneurship education to develop skills, ... | {
"abstract": "Much has been written regarding the organizational changes needed to achieve entrepreneurship in established companies. Many corporate strategists conclude that above all others, a firm's \"rank and file\" have the intimate knowledge of business operations necessary to discover innovations within a cor... |
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"abstract": "Background: The ability of poloxamer 407 to control drug release was investigated along with the effect of incorporation of a second polymer with poloxamer on dissolution behavior. Methods: Tablets made of 30% w/w/ theophylline and 15%, 25%, 50%, or 69% poloxamer were prepared. Additionally, tablets co... | {
"abstract": "The objective of this study was to prepare and evaluate in vitro the bioadhesive gels of 5-Fluorouracil (FU) for the treatment of oropharyngeal cancer. In preformulation study, the physicochemical interactions between FU and polymers were investigated by X-ray diffraction (XRD), Fourier transform infra... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Many studies of British electoral geography suggest that class is the major influence on voting patterns, with the neighbourhood effect presented as an ‘explanation’ for variations around the class cleavage. Recently Dunleavy has criticised this model. Analyses undertaken in the light of his c... |
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"abstract": "Disproportionate enlargement or isolation of the fourth ventricle are rare complications of ventriculo-peritoneal shunt for post-haemorrhagic hydrocephalus. Obvious features such as ataxia may indicate raised intracranial pressure in the posterior fossa. The child may, however, present with less specif... | {
"abstract": "Signs of cerebellar dysfunction combined with signs suggestive of shunt malfunction developed in three children with obstructive hydrocephalus. Shunt function was normal. In all cases, the cerebellar signs persisted and computerized tomography scans revealed enlargement of the fourth ventricle. Shuntin... | {
"abstract": "Endogenous brassinosteroids (BRs) in the dwarf mutants lka and lkb of garden pea (Pisum sativum L.) and comparable wild-type plants were quantified by gas chromatography-selected ion monitoring using deuterated internal standards. In young shoots of the lkb mutant, the levels of brassinolide, castaster... |
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"abstract": "A three-port triple-half-bridge bidirectional dc-dc converter topology is proposed in this paper. The topology comprises a high-frequency three-winding transformer and three half-bridges, one of which is a boost half-bridge interfacing a power port with a wide operating voltage. The three half-bridges ... | {
"abstract": "High-frequency-link (HFL) power conversion systems (PCSs) are attracting more and more attentions in academia and industry for high power density, reduced weight, and low noise without compromising efficiency, cost, and reliability. In HFL PCSs, dual-active-bridge (DAB) isolated bidirectional dc-dc con... | {
"abstract": "This paper presents a new proposal for driving LED lamps through the use of a micro controlled quadratic buck DC/DC converter. The main focus is to improve the LED driver's characteristics using the microcontroller PIC16F873A, thus achieving greater durability and efficiency. Mathematical analyses and ... |
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"abstract": "Organic-Inorganic or (Hybrid) perovskites are a special class of perovskites with a general chemical formula of AMX3 formed by using low-temperature synthesis approaches. They exhibit exceptional fundamental properties that have been translated into proof-of-principle demonstrations of photovoltaics (1... | {
"abstract": "Organolead trihalide perovskite is an emerging low-cost, solution-processable material with a tunable bandgap from the violet to near-infrared, which has attracted a great deal of interest for applications in high-performance optoelectronic devices. Here, we present hybrid perovskite single-crystal pho... | {
"abstract": "ABSTRACT We carried out physical-chemical and electrochemical characterizations of lithium naphthalenide solutions in tetrahydrofuran (THF) in view of their potential use as liquid anode material in rechargeable batteries. Concentrations of dissolved naphthalene and lithium were varied to prepare homog... |
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"abstract": "There has been considerable recent interest in the literature on the impact of the internet on the internationalisation processes of SMEs. This contribution reports the findings of a four-country study on how internationalising Australian, Canadian, Irish and New Zealand firms utilise the internet. The... | {
"abstract": "Despite the promise of increased sales and operational efficiencies, a surprising number of firms have not adopted e-business. Annual surveys of e-business use in Canada and other OECD countries reveal significant differences between sectors in using online selling channels. However, firms in all secto... | {
"abstract": "information on the behavior and interaction of molecules at interfaces, which is important for the application and processing of many materials of the general type: foods, beverages, pharmaceuticals, coatings, household and personal products, etc. It is the basis of many res e a rch programs, i.e., the... |
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"abstract": "Extracting relevant features from data sets where the number of observations ($n$) is much smaller then the number of predictors ($p$) is a major challenge in modern statistics. Sorted L-One Penalized Estimation (SLOPE), a generalization of the lasso, is a promising method within this setting. Current ... | {
"abstract": "This paper proposes atomic norm formulation of octagonal shrinkage and clustering algorithm for regression (OSCAR) regularization. The OSCAR regularizer can be reformulated using a decreasing weighted sorted ℓ1 (DWSL1) norm (which is shown to be convex). We also show how, by exploiting an atomic norm f... | {
"abstract": "The NIPS 2003 workshops included a feature selection competition organized by the authors. We provided participants with five datasets from different application domains and called for classification results using a minimal number of features. The competition took place over a period of 13 weeks and at... |
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"abstract": "ONE of the more successful descriptions of the electronic structure of aromatic hydrocarbons has been given by molecular orbital theory. Originally formulated by Huckel1, it has been developed and modified by many different authors. An account of the molecular orbital theory in its various forms has be... | {
"abstract": "Abstract The normal incidence reflectivity spectrum of anthracene crystals has been measured in the range from 2 to 13 eV using unpolarised light. The data were analyzed by means of the Kramers-Kronig relation. The results extend our knowledge of the optical constants well beyond the range of previous ... | {
"abstract": "The π‐electrons belonging to the double bonds of trans‐conjugated polyenes are assumed to be a one‐dimensional electron gas in a field of uniform potential energy whose length is approximately that of the conjugated system. The energy levels, the selection rule (Δn odd) and the transition intensities a... |
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"abstract": "Animals that glide produce aerodynamic forces that enable transit through the air in both arboreal and aquatic environments. The relative ease of gliding compared with flapping flight has led to a large diversity of taxa that have evolved some degree of flight capability. Glide paths are curved, reflec... | {
"abstract": "Although many cylindrical animals swim through water, flying snakes of the genus Chrysopelea are the only limbless animals that glide through air. Despite a lack of limbs, these snakes can actively launch by jumping, maintain a stable glide path without obvious control surfaces, maneuver, and safely la... | {
"abstract": "Geckos are nature's elite climbers. Their remarkable climbing feats have been attributed to specialized feet with hairy toes that uncurl and peel in milliseconds. Here, we report that the secret to the gecko's arboreal acrobatics includes an active tail. We examine the tail's role during rapid climbing... |
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"abstract": "Localized pagetoid reticulosis, also known as Woringer-Kolopp disease, is an uncommon cutaneous lymphoproliferative disorder classified as a solitary variant of mycosis fungoides. We describe a case of localized pagetoid reticulosis that occurred in early childhood. A 6-year-old boy presented with an e... | {
"abstract": "Primary cutaneous lymphomas (CL) in children is rare. Only a few studies focused specifically on paediatric CL and therefore little is known whether primary CL in children are similar to or different from their adult counterparts with respect to the clinicopathological presentation, behaviour and progn... | {
"abstract": "1. Black MM. Lichen planus and lichenoid eruptions. In: Rook A, Wilkinson DS, Ebling FJG, et ai, eds. Textbook of dermatology. Oxford: Blackwell Scientific Publications, 1986: 1665-85. 2. Peachey JE, Brien JF, Roach CA, et al. A comparative review of the pharmacological and toxicological properties of ... |
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"abstract": "A novel spectral formulation is proposed for the efficient computation of coupling integrals between a cylindrical wave with arbitrary radial wavenumber and azimuthal dependence and a slot. The coupling is originally expressed through a two-fold spatial integration. It is then transformed into an equiv... | {
"abstract": "A novel spectral formulation is proposed here for the coupling integral between a cylindrical wave with arbitrary radial wavenumber and azimuthal dependence, and a slot placed on a plane orthogonal to the wavefront. Such a kind of integral is massively encountered in electromagnetic modeling of stratif... | {
"abstract": "We propose a fast and accurate full-wave code capable of analyzing electrically large substrate integrated waveguides consisting of stacked parallel-plate waveguides hosting dielectric or metallic posts and coupling and/or radiating slots. Boundary conditions enforced on posts yield scattering amplitud... |
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"abstract": "Solution-gated graphene transistors were developed recently for use in pH sensor applications. The device operation is understood to rely on the capability of hydronium and hydroxide ions in solution to change the electrical properties of graphene. However, hydronium and hydroxide ions are accompanied ... | {
"abstract": "Meeting the increasing demand for sensors with high sensitivity, high selectivity, and rapid detection presents many challenges. In the last decade, electronic sensors based on field-effect transistors (FETs) have been widely studied due to their high sensitivity, rapid detection, and simple test proce... | {
"abstract": "Abstract High-resolution transient IR absorption spectroscopy was used to measure (0001− 0000) R-branch transition frequencies for N2O molecules in extreme rotational states, with quantum number up to J = 205 and energies as high as Erot=17000 cm−1. A population inversion of rotationally excited N2O st... |
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"abstract": "Oxaliplatin is a platinum commonly used in the treatment of metastatic colon cancer. It can cause thrombocytopenia through different mechanism. Sudden isolated drop in platelets should raise the concern for oxaliplatin immune‐induced thrombocytopenia and abrupt discontinuation of the drug. Patients sho... | {
"abstract": "Partial splenic embolization (PSE) has been used to improve hematologic parameters related to hypersplenism. The purpose of this study was to review our institutional experience with PSE for cancer patients with thrombocytopenia because of splenic sequestration precluding the administration of systemic... | {
"abstract": "ABSTRACT Illumina MiSeq shotgun sequencing technology was used to sequence the genomes of two novel sub-Antarctic Williamsia species, designated strains 1135 and 1138. The estimated genome sizes for strains 1135 and 1138 are 5.99 Mb and 6.08 Mb, respectively. This genome sequence information will aid i... |
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"abstract": "Methotrexate and [(3)H]methotrexate were conjugated through a carbodiimide-catalyzed reaction to a 70,000 molecular weight poly(L-lysine) in molar ratios of approximately 13 to 1. The cellular uptake of labeled conjugate was far in excess of the uptake of free drug in cells that were either proficient ... | {
"abstract": "Poly(L-lysine) (PLL) adsorption onto various materials has been widely applied as a surface modification strategy and layer-by-layer fabrication method. Considering the role of electrostatic charges, a detailed understanding of the influence of solution pH on PLL adsorption process is important for opt... | {
"abstract": "The cardiac troponin C (TnC)-A8V mutation is associated with hypertrophic and restrictive cardiomyopathy (HCM and RCM) in human and mice. The residue affected lies in the N-helix, a region known to affect Ca2+-binding affinity to the N-terminal domain. Here we report on the functional effects of this m... |
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"abstract": "A growing segment of society is concerned about a myriad of health and environmental issues related to the use of pesticides and other agricultural chemicals. Despite the leveling-off of agricultural chemical use in the 1980s, chemical use in agriculture has come to be seen as a two-edged sword. On the... | {
"abstract": "W E appreciate the opportunity to reply to the criticisms raised in CHOICES of our recent study which addressed the economic impacts of reduced chemical use. Ayer and Conklin raise several concerns regarding the design of our study in this issue-all of which were anticipated, but are nonetheless believ... | {
"abstract": "The sheep is one of the most successful and widely spread domestic animals. Archaeological evidence traces the first domestic sheep back to the Near East region around 9,000 years ago. It is also known that soon after, the domesticated sheep started to flow out of the centre of origin and spread all ov... |
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"abstract": "Over the past years, positron emission tomography (PET) with fluoro-2-deoxy-D-glucose (FDG) has emerged as an important imaging modality. In the thorax, FDG-PET has been shown to differentiate benign from malignant pulmonary lesions and stage lung cancer. Preliminary studies have shown its usefulness i... | {
"abstract": "The information provided by functional images may be used to guide radiotherapy planning by identifying regions that require higher radiation dose. In this work we investigate the dosimetric feasibility of delivering dose to lung tumors in proportion to the fluorine-18-fluorodeoxyglucose activity distr... | {
"abstract": "Nineteen Sesbania accessions were investigated, in a total of six species, to characterize the accessions based on morphological and agronomic data using multivariate methods, to identify a core set of morphological and agronomic attributes to be used in germplasm characterization of Sesbania spp., and... |
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"abstract": "A case of post-transplantation pneumonia due to Candida krusei is reported. A 42-year-old man was admitted 28 days after heart transplantation with cough, pleuritic pain and fever. A chest computed tomograph showed multiple alveolar infiltrates bilaterally. He received broad-spectrum antibiotics, fluco... | {
"abstract": "In this report we describe a patient suffering from chronic myeloid leukemia (CML), who was treated for 4.5 years with imatinib and developed pneumonia caused by two Candida species, i.e., C. krusei and C. glabrata. The patient was in complete hematologic remission and molecular analyses did not displa... | {
"abstract": "ObjectiveTo study the factors associated with relative adrenocortical deficiency in mechanically ventilated, critically ill patientsDesign and settingProspective observational study in a multidisciplinary ICU of a university-affiliated teaching hospitalPatientsSixty-two consecutive, acutely ill patient... |
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"abstract": "This paper has attempted to practice the evaluation of learning organisation by studying learning organisation models. Changing organisations into learning ones empowers them and as a result these organisations are going to change rapidly and improve their performance more and more consciously. As expe... | {
"abstract": "Environment is nowadays characterized by permanent change and growing complexity. Flexibility and lifelong learning are required for success in such environment for individuals and for organizations as well. Learning organization is defined as organizations that have implemented structure, processes an... | {
"abstract": "Purpose – The management of intellectual capital (IC) within organizations depends on appropriate organizational structures and characteristics. This paper seeks to argue that certain structural, cultural, and climate characteristics will lead to more effective IC management.Design/methodology/approach... |
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"abstract": "A number of investigators have attempted to utilize the hemagglutination system for detection of streptococcal type-specific antibody in human sera. Cross-reactions have made the procedure unreliable without cumbersome and time-consuming manipulation of the test sera. A method is described in which a m... | {
"abstract": "A microtiter complement fixation (CF) procedure was developed for use in detection of antibodies in sera of swine and rabbits vaccinated with Streptococcus equisimilis. Crude ultrasonic as well as acid-extracted preparations contained CF antigen, but the ultrasonic procedure resulted in a higher yield ... | {
"abstract": "ABSTRACT To overcome the tradeoff between the bandwidth and force-to-weight ratio of the backdrivable actuators, actuation by electro-hydrostatic actuators (EHA) is effective. Based on the idea, we developed the adult size, humanoid robot ‘Hydra’, whose joints are driven by EHA. In its development, a c... |
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"abstract": "Video stabilization is an important video enhancement technology which aims at removing annoying shaky motion from videos. We propose a practical and robust approach of video stabilization that produces full-frame stabilized videos with good visual quality. While most previous methods end up with produ... | {
"abstract": "This paper presents techniques for constructing full view panoramic mosaics form sequences of images. Our representation associates a rotation matrix (and optionally a focal length) with each input image, rather than explicitly projecting all of the images onto a common surface (e.g., a cylinder). In o... | {
"abstract": "Extreme learning machine (ELM) has become a popular topic in machine learning in recent years. ELM is a new kind of single-hidden layer feedforward neural network with an extremely low computational cost. ELM, however, has two evident drawbacks: 1) the output weights solved by Moore-Penrose generalized... |
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