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"abstract": "Background. Engagement in physical exercise in pregnancy is hamstrung by safety concerns, skepticism about usefulness, and limited individualized prescription guidelines. This study assessed knowledge and attitude of pregnant women towards antenatal exercises (ANEx). Methods. The cross-sectional study ... | {
"abstract": "ABSTRACT Objective To evaluate the acute effects of maternal and fetal hemodynamic responses in pregnant women submitted to fetal Doppler and an aerobic physical exercise test according to the degree of effort during the activity and the impact on the well-being. Methods Transversal study with low risk... | {
"abstract": "Sir, I read with interest the case report “Intrahepatic hematoma: hepatic lesion in a newborn with high α-fetoprotein level” [1]. The presented lesion, its anatomic location, and imaging appearance are typical of the ten focal hepatic lesions related to umbilical venous catheter (UVC) misplacement we p... |
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"abstract": "Due to their relevance, systems such as water distribution, power grids, and gas pipelines are studied in order to guarantee robustness and security. Control systems, fault detection algorithms, and intrusion detection systems represent the crucial systems for critical infrastructure protection develop... | {
"abstract": "Intrusion detection is only the initial part of the security system for an industrial control system. Because of the criticality of the industrial control system, professionals still make the most important security decisions. Therefore, a simple intrusion alarm has a very limited role in the security ... | {
"abstract": "This paper presents the proof of concept for a new solution to the problem of recomposing missing information at the SCADA of energy/distribution management systems (EMS/DMS), through the use of offline trained autoencoders. These are neural networks with a special architecture, which allows them to st... |
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"abstract": "In this paper, an iterative time-frequency (TF) synthesis/time-varying filtering algorithm in the discrete Gabor transform domain is proposed. A sufficient condition is obtained for the Gabor synthesis and analysis window functions so that the iterative algorithm converges. It is proved that, under the... | {
"abstract": "The Wigner-Ville spectrum has been recently introduced as the unique generalized spectrum for time-varying spectral analysis. Its properties are revised with emphasis on its central role in the analysis of second-order properties of nonstationary random signals. We propose here a general class of spect... | {
"abstract": "This paper presents a novel unmanned aerial vehicle tracking framework. First, hierarchical convolutional neural network features are used to track the object independently in a correlation filter tracking framework. Second, a stability criterion is proposed, which is based on the variance of tracking ... |
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"abstract": "Vapor condensation is routinely used as an effective means of transferring heat or separating fluids. Filmwise condensation is prevalent in typical industrial-scale systems, where the condensed fluid forms a thin liquid film due to the high surface energy associated with many industrial materials. Conv... | {
"abstract": "Coalescence-induced jumping of condensate droplets has been studied as an emerging mode for enhanced condensation heat transfer. However, the spontaneous droplet jumping phenomenon usually disappears at relatively higher degrees of subcooling due to the increase of nucleation density of condensate drop... | {
"abstract": "A wheeled inverted pendulum cannot balance without control, and it is important to save motion in a control range. In some situations, however, to avoid a collision, the maximum acceleration and deceleration must be applied. A motion-planning method for a wheeled inverted pendulum (“body” hereafter)-wh... |
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"abstract": "This paper presents a Laser-SLAM algorithm which can be programmed in less than 200 lines C-language program. The first idea aimed to develop and implement a simple SLAM algorithm providing good performances without exceeding 200 lines in a C-language program. We use a robotic platform called MinesRove... | {
"abstract": "In this paper, we describe a representation for spatial information, called the stochastic map, and associated procedures for building it, reading information from it, and revising it incrementally as new information is obtained. The map contains the estimates of relationships among objects in the map,... | {
"abstract": "Part of the dissertation is derived by a joint work with Siemens AG - Corporate Technology - Munich.",
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"title": "Graphical models for text mining: knowledge extraction and performance estimation"
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"abstract": "Academics from diverse disciplines are recognizing not only the procedural ethical issues involved in research, but also the complexity of everyday “micro” ethical issues that arise. While ethical guidelines are being developed for research in aboriginal populations and low-and-middle-income countries,... | {
"abstract": "Visual research methods like photography and digital storytelling are increasingly used in health and social sciences research as participatory approaches that benefit participants, researchers, and audiences. Visual methods involve a number of additional ethical considerations such as using identifiab... | {
"abstract": "Abstract The complex metallic alloy (CMA), Al 76.8 Fe 24 , was in-situ synthesized in the Al-based hybrid composite by powder metallurgy technique. The structural analysis by X-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscopy, and transmission electron microscopy indicated that the Al 76.8 Fe 24 CMA phase... |
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"abstract": "I use data from the Bank of Canada’s Bank Note Distribution System and exploit a natural experiment offered by the timing of Easter in the Gregorian calendar to analyse the effects of demographic change for bank note demand by financial institutions from the Bank of Canada. I find that the main drivers... | {
"abstract": "While the U.S. continues to transition away from cash toward electronic payment methods, some population segments continue to rely heavily on cash. In this study of foreign-born Latin Americans in Chicago, the authors find that the dramatic increase in the number of immigrants is supporting a growing d... | {
"abstract": "Bills have traditionally been paid by writing checks and sending them with statements by U.S. mail. Increasingly, bills are being paid by automated clearinghouse debits. More recently, the Internet has created new bill payment methods such as online banking and online credit card payments. These new op... |
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"abstract": "The variation of nutrients over decadal timescales south of the polar front in the Southern Ocean is poorly known because of a lack of continuous observational data in this area. We examined data from long-term continuous hydrographic monitoring of 43 years (1965–2008) in the Indian sector of the South... | {
"abstract": "Southern Ocean (SO) physical and biological processes are known to have a large impact on global biogeochemistry. However, the role that SO biology plays in determining ocean oxygen concentrations is not completely understood. These dynamics are investigated here by shutting off SO biology in two marin... | {
"abstract": "Studies were conducted to assess the effects of black carbon, clay type and aging (1-1.5yr) on desorption and bioavailability of hexachlorobenzene (HCB) in spiked artificial sediments. Tenax (a super sorbent)-mediated desorption was used to examine the effects of these parameters on the physicochemical... |
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"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nAlthough a direct causal relationship between hyperuricaemia and stroke continues to be debated, strong associations between serum uric acid (SUA) and cerebrovascular disease exist. Very few studies have been conducted to evaluate the frequency and association between this potentially modif... | {
"abstract": "Oxidative modification of low density lipoprotein (LDL) is implicated in the early development of atherosclerosis. In the present study, attention has been focused toward the potential protective effects of uric acid and purine-based chemical analogues in copper-promoted oxidative changes to human LDL ... | {
"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nPrevious cross-sectional studies have shown hyperuricemia to be prevalent among individuals with metabolic syndrome, but the evidence from prospective studies of an association between uric acid and diabetes risk is limited. We prospectively investigated the association between plasma conce... |
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"abstract": "PURPOSE\nThis study was designed to determine the factors associated with Norplant choice for postpartum teens.\n\n\nMETHODS\nA total of 151 teenagers, ages 12-20 years, who delivered at the Medical Center of Delaware from July to December 1992, were offered insertion of Norplant within 48 h postpartum... | {
"abstract": "PURPOSE\nThe objective of this study was to determine if there are sociodemographic differences between adolescent mothers who choose to use Norplant after delivery and those who do not. We hypothesized that those adolescent mothers who are at highest risk for repeat adolescent pregnancy are least like... | {
"abstract": "Ureteric changes with stricture, stenosis or imprint may be caused by a number of different conditions. The following causes, apart from the presence of stones, are included in the literature: 1. Tumours, benign or malignant, in or around the ureters (ABESHOUSE 1956, ALTVATER 1956, ELLEGAST & SCHIMATZE... |
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"abstract": "The growing power of bloggers to influence their connected network has emerged as a new communication venue for brands. This study elaborates upon the role of bloggers in brand communication, and reveals how brands can engage with bloggers, currently considered as online opinion leaders, from the persp... | {
"abstract": "This study seeks to analyze the relationships between content features, video attributes, and parasocial attributes the characteristics that could lead to the creation of parasocial relationshipsamong the top most subscribed YouTube channels. A quantitative content analysis was utilized in order to exp... | {
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"title": "Automatic Rapid Segmentation of Human Lung from 2D Chest X-Ray Images"
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"abstract": "Base-promoted 5-exo-dig cyclizations of aza-propargylglycinamides provided N-amino-imidazolin-2-one peptide mimics, which exhibited turn geometry in X-ray crystallographic and NMR spectroscopic analyses. Sonogashira coupling prior to cyclization afforded N-amino-imidazolin-2-ones with diverse 4-positio... | {
"abstract": "Diamination of olefins presents a powerful strategy to access vicinal diamines. During the last decade, metal-catalyzed diamination of olefins has received considerable attention. This study describes an efficient sequential diamination and dehydrogenation process of terminal olefins with CuBr as catal... | {
"abstract": "Abstract This paper analyzes changes in labor force participation rates over time for gender- and ethnicity-differentiated groups in urban China. From 1990 to 2000, urban labor force participation rates fell substantially with women's rates declining more rapidly than men's and minority women's declini... |
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"abstract": "Traffic engineering at network edges is challenging given the latency-sensitive nature of all applications that need to be supported. End-to-end delay estimation and forecasts were essential traffic engineering tools even before the mobile edge computing paradigm pushed the cloud closer to the end user... | {
"abstract": "Large content providers build points of presence around the world, each connected to tens or hundreds of networks. Ideally, this connectivity lets providers better serve users, but providers cannot obtain enough capacity on some preferred peering paths to handle peak traffic demands. These capacity con... | {
"abstract": "The largest IXPs carry on a daily basis traffic volumes in the petabyte range, similar to what some of the largest global ISPs reportedly handle. This little-known fact is due to a few hundreds of member ASes exchanging traffic with one another over the IXP's infrastructure. This paper reports on a fir... |
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"abstract": "Sinigrin (allyl-glucosinolate or 2-propenyl-glucosinolate) is a natural aliphatic glucosinolate present in plants of the Brassicaceae family, such as broccoli and brussels sprouts, and the seeds of Brassica nigra (mustard seeds) which contain high amounts of sinigrin. Since ancient times, mustard has b... | {
"abstract": "Glucosinolates have attracted significant interest due to the chemopreventive properties of some of their transformation products. Numerous protocols for the extraction and analysis of glucosinolates have been published, but limited effort has been devoted to optimize and validate crucial extraction pa... | {
"abstract": "Segmentation of the vertebrate hindbrain leads to the formation of a series of rhombomeres (r) with distinct identities. Recent studies have uncovered regulatory links between transcription factors governing this process, but little is known of how these relate to molecules mediating cell-cell signalli... |
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"abstract": "This study examined how child support, frequency of contact with children, and the relationship between nonresidential parents influenced preteens’ reports of the involvement of fathers and mothers in their life. Data are from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 (NLSY79) that has followed th... | {
"abstract": "The percentage of children in the United States living apart from their biological father has increased, while public assistance for single mothers has diminished. This has resulted in a need to better understand and promote nonresident fathers' economic support of their children. In the present study ... | {
"abstract": "Recent trends in marriage and fertility have increased the number of adults having children by more than 1 partner a phenomenon that we refer to as multipartnered fertility. This article uses data from the Fragile Families and Child Well-being Study to examine the prevalence and correlates of multipart... |
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"abstract": "Resolving the atomic structure of the surface of ice particles within clouds, over the temperature range encountered in the atmosphere and relevant to understanding heterogeneous catalysis on ice, remains an experimental challenge. By using first-principles calculations, we show that the surface of cry... | {
"abstract": "Using statistical field theory supplemented with molecular dynamics simulations, we consider premelting on the surface of ice as a generic consequence of broken hydrogen bonds at the boundary between the condensed and gaseous phases. A procedure for coarse-graining molecular configurations onto a conti... | {
"abstract": "The geometry exhibiting the least marginal discrepancy in this investigation was the shoulder of the slightly oversize casting (Fig. 4). This was significantly better (p = .05) than the oversize bevel, the control shoulder, or the control bevel.",
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"abstract": "This paper investigates social and environmental injustices in solid waste management in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo. The urban poor in most parts of Kinshasa bear a huge encumbrance of the solid waste burden and face multiple challenges associated with poor management of ... | {
"abstract": "Informal solid waste recycling has increasingly become part of the urban landscape in many South African cities and towns. In the city of Johannesburg, for example, informal solid waste pickers are now playing an important role in the recycling of different types of waste. There is evidence in literatu... | {
"abstract": "Ecological modernization has become a central concept in environmental social science. The purpose of this paper is to take a closer look at this concept as a theoretical device. Two criteria structure the analysis. First, some central writings in the sociology of science are applied to identify what a... |
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"abstract": "Using inductively-coupled-plasma reactive ion etching (ICP-RIE), recessed 1 mm gate-length enhancement-mode (E-mode) AlGaN=GaN high electron mobility transistors (HEMTs) were fabricated. These 1 mm gate-length devices exhibited maximum drain current density of 470 mA=mm, extrinsic transconductance of 2... | {
"abstract": "A report is presented into the fabrication and characterisation of an enhancement mode AlGaN/GaN heterojunction field-effect transistor (HFET) with selectivity grown pn junction gate. At zero gate bias the device channel is depleted due to the high built-in potential of the gate-channel junction. The s... | {
"abstract": "This paper presents mechanical actuation experiments performed on ultrathin suspended nanoscale silicon devices presenting Euler buckling. The devices are fabricated by a combination of focused ion beam implantation and selective wet etching. By loading the center of curved nanobeams with an atomic for... |
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"abstract": "Existing distributed operating systems lack two key features-predictability and choice. Predictability refers to the ability of the system to provide each user with a computing environment whose performance is independent of the behavior of other users. Choice refers to the ability of a user to select ... | {
"abstract": "This is a very reasonable book that should be read. The following may offer you the way to get this book. It is actually ease. When the other people must walk around and go outside to get the book in the book store, you can just be by visiting this site. There is provided link that you can find. It wil... | {
"abstract": "Resiliency of exascale systems has quickly become an important concern for the scientific community. Despite its importance, still much remains to be determined regarding how faults disseminate or at what rate do they impact HPC applications. The understanding of where and how fast faults propagate cou... |
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"abstract": "Significance This paper describes the development of a computationally designed enzyme that is the cornerstone of a novel metabolic pathway. This enzyme, formolase, performs a carboligation reaction, directly fixing one-carbon units into three-carbon units that feed into central metabolism. By combinin... | {
"abstract": "Hypophosphite was used as a toxic analogue to identify genes whose products have a putative function in the transport of formate. Two Tn10‐derived insertion mutants were identified that exhibited increased resistance to high concentrations of hypophosphite in the culture medium. The transposon was loca... | {
"abstract": "Formation of bacterial colonies as biofilm on the surface/interface of various objects has the potential to impact not only human health and disease but also energy and environmental considerations. Biofilms can be regarded as soft materials, and comprehension of their shear response to external forces... |
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"abstract": "This study compared African American and Hispanic students’ engagement at faith-based institutions (FBIs) and non-faith-based institutions (NFBIs). Data was obtained from the 2007 National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE). Benchmarks of the NSSE used in this study include Active and Collaborative Le... | {
"abstract": "This article reviews the results from an in-depth multi-site case study of 20 institutions examining approaches to student engagement exploring differences by mission. The research questions pursued were: Is mission related to distinctive approaches for creating an engaging environment for students? If... | {
"abstract": "In this study, the concept of ‘community of learners’ was used to improve initial vocational education. The framework of a ‘community of learners for vocational orientation’ that we present offers both a theoretical understanding of teaching–learning processes in initial vocational education and heuris... |
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"abstract": "Abstract. Catchments show a wide range of response behaviour, even if they are adjacent. For many purposes it is necessary to characterise and classify them, e.g. for regionalisation, prediction in ungauged catchments, model parameterisation. In this study, we investigate hydrological similarity of cat... | {
"abstract": "Abstract. A multi basin analysis of runoff and erosion in the Blue Nile Basin, Ethiopia was conducted to elucidate sources of runoff and sediment. Erosion is arguably the most critical problem in the Blue Nile Basin, as it limits agricultural productivity in Ethiopia, degrades benthos in the Nile, and ... | {
"abstract": "Disaster response, especially fire-fighting and rescue, is highly risky for firefighters engaged in action. As a result, many robots intended for fire-fighting have been proposed. However, it is difficult for them to directly access fire sources because their mobility is limited. Specifically, existing... |
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"abstract": "We apply recent advances in machine learning and computer vision to a central problem in materials informatics: The statistical representation of microstructural images. We use activations in a pre-trained convolutional neural network to provide a high-dimensional characterization of a set of synthetic... | {
"abstract": "Convolutional neural networks are increasingly used outside the domain of image analysis, in particular in various areas of the natural sciences concerned with spatial data. Such networks often work out-of-the box, and in some cases entire model architectures from image analysis can be carried over to ... | {
"abstract": "In this paper, we investigate the tendency of end-to-end neural Machine Reading Comprehension (MRC) models to match shallow patterns rather than perform inference-oriented reasoning on RC benchmarks. We aim to test the ability of these systems to answer questions which focus on referential inference. W... |
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"abstract": "A three-step methodology to assess the carbon sequestration and the environmental impact of afforestation projects in the framework of the Flexible Mechanisms of the Kyoto Protocol (Joint Implementation and Clean Development Mechanism) was developed and tested using a dataset collected from the Jonkers... | {
"abstract": "This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY) which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.",
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"title": "Why Include Impacts on Biodiversity from L... | {
"abstract": "Although numerous studies have attempted to place species of interest within the context of food webs, such efforts have generally occurred at small scales or disregard potentially important spatial heterogeneity. If food web approaches are to be employed to manage species, studies are needed that eval... |
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"abstract": "Mozilla Corporation has recently released a Linux-based open source operating system, namely Firefox OS. The arrival of this Firefox OS has created new challenges, concentrations and opportunities for digital investigators. Currently, Firefox OS is still not fully supported by most of the existing mobi... | {
"abstract": "Summary ::: The continued amalgamation of cloud technologies into all aspects of our daily lives and the technologies we use (i.e. cloud-of-things) creates business opportunities, security and privacy risks, and investigative challenges (in the event of a cybersecurity incident). This study examines th... | {
"abstract": "In the past few years, cloud computing develops very quickly. A large amount of data are uploaded and stored in remote public cloud servers which cannot fully be trusted by users. Especially, more and more enterprises would like to manage their data by the aid of the cloud servers. However, when the da... |
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"abstract": "Doped fluorescent carbon dots (CDs) have drawn widespread attention because of their diverse applications and attractive properties. The present report focusses on the origin of photoluminescence in nitrogen-doped CDs (NCDs), which is unraveled by the interaction with Cu(2+) ions. Detailed spectroscopi... | {
"abstract": "The band gap properties of graphene quantum dots (GQDs) arise from quantum confinement effects and differ from those in semimetallic graphene sheets. Tailoring the size of the band gap and understanding the band gap tuning mechanism are essential for the applications of GQDs in opto-electronics. In thi... | {
"abstract": "Cation exchange has been investigated in a wide range of nanocrystals of varying composition, size, and shape. Complete and fully reversible exchange occurs, and the rates of the reactions are much faster than in bulk cation exchange processes. A critical size has been identified below which the shapes... |
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"abstract": "Local accumulation of the plant growth regulator auxin mediates pattern formation in Arabidopsis roots and influences outgrowth and development of lateral root- and shoot-derived primordia. However, it has remained unclear how auxin can simultaneously regulate patterning and organ outgrowth and how its... | {
"abstract": "CHAPTER 1 Special Features of Plant Development CHAPTER 2 Cell Wall, Cell Division, and Cell Growth CHAPTER 3 Embryogenesis CHAPTER 4 Determination, Differentiation, and Dedifferentiation in Plants CHAPTER 5 General Features of Plant Hormones, Their Analysis, and Quantitation CHAPTER 6 Auxins CHAPTER 7... | {
"abstract": "Warren Mitofsky and Joseph Waksberg were two of the most influential researchers in telephone surveys and survey research methods. Their development of the Mitofsky–Waksberg method for random digit dialing sampling revolutionized telephone sampling and surveys. Jointly and separately, Waksberg and Mito... |
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"abstract": "Crime reduction and prevention strategies are essential to increase public safety and reduce the crime costs to society. Law enforcement agencies have long realized the importance of analyzing co-offending networks---networks of offenders who have committed crimes together---for this purpose. Although ... | {
"abstract": "In this paper, we give comprehensive surveys of efficient and effective methods/techniques on data mining for crime data analysis. These techniques aim at finding the illegal activities of professional identity fraudsters based on knowledge discovered from their own histories. We also raise some proble... | {
"abstract": "Real-life behaviors shown by the mobile users typically exhibit plenty noises, making it hard to construct an effective recommendation engine. In this paper, we present a fused model based on the LR algorithm and the GBDT algorithm to recommend vertical industry commodities in a mobile setting. A set o... |
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"abstract": "Abstract Objectives To identify and describe dietary patterns in a cohort of pregnant women and investigate whether the dietary patterns are associated with dietary intake and sociodemographic factors. Design Mothers entering the Finnish Type 1 Diabetes Prediction and Prevention (DIPP) Nutrition Study ... | {
"abstract": "Children's diet patterns are likely to be influenced by their mothers' diet pattern. The primary objective of this study was to examine whether children's adiposity could be influenced by diet patterns of mothers during pregnancy. A secondary objective was to study the relative influence of fathers' an... | {
"abstract": "Aims Essential hypertension (EHT) is characterized by cardiovascular hyperreactivity to stress but underlying mechanism are not fully understood. Here, we investigated the role of α-adrenergic receptors (α-AR) in the cardiovascular reactivity to a norepinephrine (NE)-stress reactivity-mimicking NE-infu... |
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"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nInfliximab is a chimeric immunoglobulin G1kappa monoclonal antibody that binds with high affinity and specificity to the soluble form of tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-alpha, preventing it from binding to cellular receptors. Infliximab also binds to membranebound TNF-alpha found on inflammator... | {
"abstract": "Opinion statementThe development of biologic therapies for Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis has profoundly affected the treatment of these diseases. The impact of these novel therapies has been tremendous in terms of their ability to cause clinical improvement in symptoms and endoscopic and histo... | {
"abstract": "OBJECTIVE. The purpose of this study was to test the hypothesis that patients with idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy (IDCM) and heart failure have increased liver T1 relaxation times at MRI owing to congestion compared with the T1 relaxation times in patients with IDCM without heart failure and healthy... |
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"abstract": "Abstract The tricuspid valve is being increasingly recognised as an important safeguard to the heart with congenital heart disease. Both structural anomalies of the valve and functional burdens from other malformations of the right heart can lead to major haemodynamic consequences both upstream and dow... | {
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"title": "Long-term outcomes after atrioventricular valve operations in patients undergoing single-ventricle palliation."
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"abstract": "A case of double mitral valve orifice associated with atrioventricular canal was found at operation. These two anomalies are frequently associated. Double mitral valve is usually subclinical and does not necessarily need to be corrected, depending on the associated anomalies, the extent of the defect, ... |
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"abstract": "Layout migration has re-emerged as an important task due to the increasing use of library hard intellectual properties. While recent advances of migration tools have accommodated new metrics, the underlying engine is based on the one-dimensional (1D) layout compaction algorithm, largely due to its effi... | {
"abstract": "Compaction is the CAD tool used to pack rough sketches or symbolic diagrams to produce IC layouts. Manual compaction is tedious, time-consuming, and error-prone; automated compaction tools can greatly shorten the layout design cycle. This paper reviews the historical background and the major developmen... | {
"abstract": "PTL is a new kind of music sequencer in his first stage of development. Limitation of MIDI for contemporary music is well known. Nowadays, there is no sequencer dedicated to real time synthesis environment such as pure data from Miller Puckett or Max from IRCAM. PTL is an attempt to fill this lack. Unl... |
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"abstract": "Mutations in the Steel locus, encoding a growth factor (Steel factor or SF) or c-kit, the gene encoding its receptor, result in severe anemia in the mouse. In the present study, we have addressed the mechanism of synergistic growth activation, at the cellular level, by SF and GM-CSF using the blast cel... | {
"abstract": "The effects of recombinant interleukin-6 (IL-6) on the proliferation of blast precursors present in the peripheral blood of patients with acute myeloblastic leukemia (AML) was investigated. IL-6 had little effect by itself; however, it synergized with granulocyte macrophage colony-stimulating factor (G... | {
"abstract": "A minority of blast cells in acute myeloblastic leukemia (AML) form colonies in culture in methylcellulose when stimulated by media conditioned by normal leukocytes in the presence of phytohemagglutinin (PHA-LCM). Blast colonies can be replated successfully, either as pooled cells or suspensions from s... |
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"abstract": "Abstract The effects of 1 hour of occlusion of the left anterior descending coronary artery and subsequent reperfusion were studied for 3 hours in anesthetized closed chest pigs using an intracoronary balloon occluding technique. In 12 pigs subjected to reperfusion, S-T segment elevation decreased to c... | {
"abstract": "The purpose of this study was (1) to establish the maximal interval between the onset of ischemia and reperfusion that would permit a decrease in the size of infarction, and (2) to evaluate the relation between changes in infarct size and preservation of cardiac function. Studies were carried out in 19... | {
"abstract": "Summary Finger amputations are devastating, life-changing inju-ries. They can occur from many different types of in-jury, but most often are caused by power tools or ma-chinery in the workplace. Modern microvascular surgicaltechniques have enabled surgeons to successfully reat-tach fingers that have be... |
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"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nAltered matrix degradation contributes to fibrosis in some liver diseases but the role of matrix degradation in fibrogenesis associated with genetic haemochromatosis has not previously been addressed.\n\n\nAIMS\nTo measure serum concentrations of tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinase 1 (TIM... | {
"abstract": "Hepatic fibrosis occurs as a consequence of net accumulation of matrix proteins (particularly collagen types I and III) in liver. Current concepts of the pathogenesis of liver fibrosis place major emphasis on the activation of hepatic lipocytes (fat-storing or Ito cells) to a myofibroblast-like phenoty... | {
"abstract": "Background/Aims:The disodium disuccinate derivative of astaxanthin (DDA) is a carotenoid antioxidant under development for the treatment of ischemic cardiovascular events. Recent evidence suggests that reactive oxygen species (ROS) play an important role in platelet activation. This study seeks to inve... |
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"abstract": "In this study, we set out to ask three questions. First, does lexical entrainment with a robot interlocutor persist after an interaction? Second, how does the influence of social robots on humans compare with the influence of humans on each other? Finally, what role is played by personality traits in l... | {
"abstract": "This paper compares the effect of a robot's and on-screen agent's recommendations on human decision-making using a quantitative evaluation method. We are interested in whether a robot's physical body produces some differences in the effect or not. Previous research investigated the advantage of a physi... | {
"abstract": "In implementations of neuromorphic computing systems (NCS), memristor and its crossbar topology have been widely used to realize fully connected neural networks. However, many neural networks utilized in real applications often have a sparse connectivity, which is hard to be efficiently mapped to a cro... |
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"abstract": "This paper investigates the total ionizing dose (TID) response of nanoscaled field-effect transistors (FET) made of silicon multiple-gate nanowire (NW). The NWFET architecture relies on its remarkable electrostatic properties to push “silicon”-based technologies much deeper into device scaling than pre... | {
"abstract": "The worst case bias during total dose irradiation of partially depleted SOI transistors from two technologies is correlated to the device architecture. Experiments and simulations are used to analyze SOI back transistor threshold voltage shift and charge trapping in the buried oxide.",
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"abstract": "AMSH [associated molecule with a Src homology 3 domain of signal transducing adaptor molecule (STAM)] is one of the deubiquitinating enzymes associated in the regulation of endocytic cargo trafficking. It shows an exquisite selectivity for Lys63-linked polyubiquitin chains that are the main chains invo... |
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"abstract": "AIM\nTo develop a multi-dimensional valid and reliable measure of cannabis-related problems.\n\n\nMETHOD\nThe Cannabis Problems Questionnaire (CPQ) was developed from the Alcohol Problems Questionnaire to measure cannabis treatment outcome. The CPQ was administered on two occasions 1 week apart to a st... | {
"abstract": "Research has demonstrated negative effects of both alcohol and tobacco use after bariatric surgery. However, no research to date has examined effects of cannabis use after bariatric surgery, even though cannabis is the most commonly used illicit drug in the USA. Literature review reveals that many prac... | {
"abstract": "BACKGROUND AND AIMS\nThe Ankle-Brachial index (ABI) is a well-accepted measure of peripheral artery disease (arterial stenosis and stiffness) and has been shown to be associated with cognitive function and disorders; however, these associations have not been examined in Hispanics/Latinos. Therefore, we... |
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"abstract": "Prevalence of oral cancer is relatively increasing in Yemen in recent years, which is ascribed to Qat with other carcinogens. Since the establishment of a simple and reliable method for the detection of oral cancerous and precancerous lesions is essential, exfoliative cytology (EC) was applied to a cas... | {
"abstract": "The objectives of this study were first to estimate the prevalence of cigarette smoking among secondary-school students and then to identify and analyse the demographic, social and cultural risk factors associated with the first cigarette smoking experience. A sample comprising 1000 students was select... | {
"abstract": "This paper examines the impact of parental migration on schooling outcomes for children left behind in El Salvador. Using cross sectional data collected in 2012, outcomes for children are observed for children with migrant parents; the outcomes are also analyzed by gender of the migrant parent who left... |
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"abstract": "Transfer learning significantly accelerates the reinforcement learning process by exploiting relevant knowledge from previous experiences. The problem of optimally selecting source policies during the learning process is of great importance yet challenging. There has been little theoretical analysis of... | {
"abstract": "Policy gradient algorithms have shown considerable recent success in solving high-dimensional sequential decision making tasks, particularly in robotics. However, these methods often require extensive experience in a domain to achieve high performance. To make agents more sample-efficient, we developed... | {
"abstract": "Application of machine induction techniques in complex domains promises to push the computational limits of non-incremental, search intensive induction methods. Learning effectiveness in complex domains requires the development of incremental, cost effective methods. However, discussion of dimensions f... |
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"abstract": "OBJECTIVE\nTo examine the separate and combined effects of potassium (K+) channels and nitric oxide synthase (NOS) on cutaneous vasodilation and sweating in older men during rest and exercise in the heat.\n\n\nMETHODS\nIn thirteen habitually active men (61±4 years), cutaneous vascular conductance and l... | {
"abstract": "More frequent and intense periods of extreme heat (heatwaves) represent the most direct challenge to human health posed by climate change. Older adults are particularly vulnerable, especially those with common age-associated chronic health conditions (e.g., cardiovascular disease, hypertension, obesity... | {
"abstract": "α-Synuclein (α-syn) and oxidative stress play pivotal roles in the pathogenesis of Parkinson's disease (PD). However, the mechanisms underlying the interaction between α-syn and oxidative stress remain poorly understood. The present study provides evidence to suggest that the nuclear translocation of α... |
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"abstract": "BackgroundDiverticulosis and redundant colon are colonic conditions for which underlying pathophysiology, management and prevention are poorly understood. Historical papers suggest an inverse relationship between these two conditions. However, no further attempt has been made to validate this relations... | {
"abstract": "OBJECTIVES\nIn this study, we aimed at investigating the relationship between diverticula and in vivo colonic features such as total colon length (TCL), using CTC. We also evaluated polyps, neoplastic lesions and the correlation among them.\n\n\nMETHODS\nThis retrospective study considered a series of ... | {
"abstract": "This essay presents an overview of key issues in literature on gender justice, citizenship and entitlement in the sub-Saharan Africa region. The essay begins with definitions of the key terms, making a special effort to draw from literature generated within the region. The second section, constituting ... |
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"abstract": "Carrier-induced degradation (CID) of multicrystalline silicon (mc-Si) solar cells has been receiving significant attention; however, despite this increasing interest, the defect (or defects) responsible for this degradation has not been determined yet. Previous studies have shown that the surface passi... | {
"abstract": "We examine the carrier lifetime evolution of block-cast multicrystalline silicon (mc-Si) wafers under illumination (100 mW/cm2) at elevated temperature (75°C). Samples are treated with different process steps typically applied in industrial solar cell production. We observe a pronounced degradation in ... | {
"abstract": "The electrode-electrolyte interface stability is a critical factor influencing cycle performance of All-solid-state lithium batteries (ASSLBs). Here, we propose a LiF- and Li3N-enriched artificial solid state electrolyte interphase (SEI) protective layer on metallic lithium (Li). The SEI layer can stab... |
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"abstract": "To provide new insights in the molecular mechanism controlling preantral follicular development and to unravel the needs to support in vitro follicular development of early-stage preantral follicles (PAFs), there is a need for alternative in vitro bovine follicle culture methods. In this study, we aime... | {
"abstract": "In vitro ovarian follicle culture is a new frontier in assisted reproductive technology with tremendous potential, especially for fertility preservation. Folliculogenesis within the ovary is a complex process requiring interaction between somatic cell components and the oocyte. Conventional two-dimensi... | {
"abstract": "Relaxed thick filaments from insect asynchronous flight muscle appear different from those of other striated muscles, both in sections and as separated, negatively-stained structures. Unlike relaxed filaments of scallops, chelicerate arthropods, or vertebrate striated muscle, all of which display a pre... |
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"abstract": "User tasks play a pivotal role in visualization design and evaluation. However, the term ‘task’ is used ambiguously within the visualization community. In this article, we critically analyze the re...",
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"abstract": "High-throughput experiments, such as gene expression microarrays in the life sciences, result in very large data sets. In response, a wide variety of visualization tools have been created to facilitate data analysis. A primary purpose of these tools is to provide biologically relevant insight into the ... | {
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"abstract": "Motivated by applications from computer network security and software engineering, we study the problem of reducing reachability on a graph with unknown edge costs. When the costs are known, reachability reduction can be solved using a linear relaxation of sparsest cut. Problems arise, however, when ed... | {
"abstract": "\n \n We consider single-agent, two-agent turn-taking and cooperative security games with Inverse Geodesic Length (IGL) as utility metric. We focus on the single-agent vertex deletion problem corresponding to IGL called MinIGL. Specifically, given a graph G, a budget k and a target inverse geodesic len... | {
"abstract": "A design method for a code-matched symbol-interleaver for turbo trellis-coded modulation is proposed. The method constructs an interleaver by code matched criteria to eliminate some input error events of low symbol Hamming weight (SHW) sequences of the code which can produce low SHW codewords. Numerica... |
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"abstract": "Background: In contrast to the many studies in females, there are few data in males on the relationships between childhood growth and weight gain and the timing of pubertal maturation and its relevance to adult body mass index (BMI) and body composition. Methods: A total of 2008 males in the 1946 Briti... | {
"abstract": "Understanding the regulation of puberty timing has relevance to developmental and human biology and to the pathogenesis of various diseases. Recent large-scale genome-wide association studies on puberty timing and adult height, body mass index (BMI) and central body shape provide evidence for shared bi... | {
"abstract": "BACKGROUND CONTEXT\nIn lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS), conservative treatment is usually the first choice of treatment. If conservative treatment fails, surgery is indicated. Psychological factors such as depression and anxiety are known to affect the outcome of surgery. Previous studies on depression an... |
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"abstract": "Abstract Cognitive mechanisms for recognizing high quality sexual rivals should facilitate the economical allocation of mating effort. Women compete to attract male investment, and previous studies have shown that feminine voices are attractive to men. Here, we manipulated two sexually dimorphic acoust... | {
"abstract": "Abstract The assessment of same-sex individuals as intrasexual competitors may depend in part on the perceived mate value of potential rivals. Men’s and women’s preferences for vocal and facial masculinity suggest that feminine women and masculine men may be perceived as more threatening intrasexual co... | {
"abstract": "The current study aimed to assess the topographical and physical properties of a minimally invasive implant (MagiCore®: MC®, InnosBioSurg, IBS) and to evaluate its biological behavior compared to a gold standard implant (NobelParallel™: NB™, Nobel Biocare™). After surface characterization, the biologic... |
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"abstract": "Lack of an analogue of the Crab Nebula around PSR1937 + 214 is shown to be consistent with theory of pulsar magnetospheres only if the surface magnetic field is unusually weak, ∼109 G. Predictions are made for observations of the weak nebular emission around this object. It is suggested that the neutro... | {
"abstract": "This paper is concerned with the stability against small perturbations of a certain class of nonlinear wave solutions of the equations that describe a cold unmagnetized electron–ion plasma. These nonlinear waves are of fixed profile, superluminous, period.ic and transverse. The small perturbations are ... | {
"abstract": "We consider solitons in which the electrons and/or the positive ions have relativistic random velocities and we discuss possible applications of such solitons to pulsar phenomena.",
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"abstract": "Load modeling is very important for power system dynamic analysis and control. The composite load model widely applied recently in the power system operation centre consists of the static load and the equivalent motor. Current practices in measurement-based load modeling identify all the parameters in ... | {
"abstract": "Study of distribution system's dynamic response from the perspective of M.V and H. V networks, especially in presence of DGs is one of the important issues in integrating distributed generation. This paper presents the modeling of distribution system dynamics during voltage drops, from the data provide... | {
"abstract": "This study evaluated a prototype load modeling procedure developed by the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) in EPRI project RP849-3. Tests were run on three different power systems to evaluate the procedure's accuracy in modeling the dynamic power response of loads (active and reactive) when subje... |
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"abstract": "AINTENANCE of genetic variability is a subject of great interest in population genetics. For more than 15 years, the relative importance of the classical uersus balance hypotheses (cf. DOBZHANSKY 1955) has been actively discussed among population geneticists. Recent studies on the isozyme polymorphisms... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Correlation between DNA microsatellite heterozygosity and growth rate was investigated in two hatchery-propagated stocks of the shrimp Penaeus stylirostris, which had been genetically isolated from wild founders for 17 generations, and from each other for five more generations. Presumed demogr... | {
"abstract": "ABSTRACT Cryptosporidium parvum is an opportunistic pathogen in AIDS patients. It is an intracellular but extracytoplasmic parasite residing in a host cell-derived parasitophorous vacuole. It is still poorly understood how this parasite interacts with host cells. We observed that expression of the inte... |
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"abstract": "The objective of this study was to determine if feeding probiotics to a young calf would result in earlier development of rumen function and the concomitant increase in daily grain intake, permitting the calf to be weaned at a younger age. A total of 72 heifer calves were assigned at birth to one of tw... | {
"abstract": "Forty Holstein-Friesian calves were used to evaluate the effect on young calves of daily dietary supplementation with Lactobacillus acidophilus. Calves were randomly assigned at 2 d of age to one of two treatments; 1) milk replacer with no additives or 2) milk replacer supplemented with 1 ml (5 x 10(7)... | {
"abstract": "Publisher Summary This chapter discusses the proof theory of formal classical analysis, formulated as a two-sorted axiomatic theory with variables for natural numbers and number theoretic functions and the basic relations of equality and function evaluation. The analyses of the notion of free choice se... |
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"abstract": "This paper proposes a new underlay cooperative cognitive radio system, where a paid cooperation between the primary and the secondary systems is allowed. We consider both decoding strategy at the secondary receiver and the power efficiency optimization problem, in order to maximize the rate of the cogn... | {
"abstract": "This paper proposes a resource allocation and decoding strategy at the secondary system for underlay and interweave multi‐carrier cooperative cognitive radio. The objective is to maximise the sum rate of both primary and secondary systems, taking into account the interference threshold constraint and t... | {
"abstract": "It is clear that multicore processors have become the building blocks of today’s high-performance computing platforms. The advent of massively parallel singlechip microprocessors further emphasizes the gap that exists between parallel architectures and parallel programming maturity. Our research group,... |
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"abstract": "Superficial epidermolytic ichthyosis (SEI) is an autosomal dominant disorder caused by a mutation in the keratin 2 gene and clinically characterized by mild hyperkeratosis, superficial blisters and shedding, referred to as the moulting phenomenon. We report a case of SEI in an 18‐month‐old girl present... | {
"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nThe clinical condition generalized epidermolytic hyperkeratosis, also known as bullous congenital ichthyosiform erythroderma, is an autosomal dominant disorder and presents as a bullous disease of the newborn followed by an ichthyotic skin disorder throughout life. Clinical epidermolytic hy... | {
"abstract": "Autosomal recessive congenital ichthyosis (ARCI) is a heterogeneous group of rare cornification diseases. Germline mutations in TGM1 are the most common cause of ARCI in the United States. TGM1 encodes for the TGase‐1 enzyme that functions in the formation of the cornified cell envelope. Structurally d... |
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"abstract": "We report exact nonperturbative results for the Fermi-edge singularity in the absorption spectrum of an out-of-equilibrium tunnel junction. We consider two metals with chemical potential difference V separated by a tunneling barrier containing a defect, which exists in one of two states. When it is in ... | {
"abstract": "We propose to investigate the full counting statistics of nonequilibrium spin transport with an ultracold atomic quantum gas. The setup makes use of the spin control available in atomic systems to generate spin transport induced by an impurity atom immersed in a spin-imbalanced two-component Fermi gas.... | {
"abstract": "Context. The Sun shows abundance anomalies relative to most solar twins. If the abundance peculiarities are due to the formation of inner rocky planets, that would mean that only a small fraction of solar type stars may host terrestrial planets. \nAims. In this work we study HIP 56948, the best solar t... |
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"abstract": "AIM\nTo evaluate the incidence of bacterial infections (BI) in hepatic cirrhosis (HC), the pathogen agents involved, to define the risk factors and impact on prognosis.\n\n\nMETHODS\nThere was a retrospective study that enrolled a total of 1046 patients with HC admitted in our clinic between 1.10.2008-... | {
"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nBacterial infections are often associated with significant morbidity and mortality in cirrhosis. The common practice of outdoor barefoot walking in the developing world may predispose cirrhotic individuals to skin infection. Aims. To determine the prevalence, risk factors, spectrum of infec... | {
"abstract": "Infectious complications in cirrhotic patients can cause severe morbidity and mortality. Bacterial infections are estimated to cause up to 25% of deaths in cirrhotic patients. The most frequent are urinary tract infection, spontaneous bacterial peritonitis, respiratory tract infection, and bacteremia. ... |
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"abstract": "Effectively managing concurrent execution is one of the biggest challenges for future wireless sensor/actor networks (WSANs): for safety reasons concurrency needs to be tamed to prevent unintentional nondeterministic executions, on the other hand, for real-time guarantees concurrency needs to be booste... | {
"abstract": "In this study, we provide a lightweight singlehop primitive, Read-All-Write-Self (RAWS), that achieves optimistic concurrency control. RAWS guarantees serializability, which simplifies implementation and verification of distributed algorithms, compared to the low level message passing model. We also pr... | {
"abstract": "The effective transfer of software requirement knowledge is one of the key factors of decreasing the requirements volatility, solving conflicts between requirements, ensuring the quality of software project and customer satisfaction. From the point of knowledge management, this paper first classifies t... |
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"abstract": "Abstract A popular approach for detecting network intrusion attempts is to monitor the network traffic for anomalies. Extensive research effort has been invested in anomaly-based network intrusion detection using machine learning techniques; however, in general these techniques remain a research topic,... | {
"abstract": "A small subset of machine learning algorithms, mostly inductive learning based, applied to the KDD 1999 Cup intrusion detection dataset resulted in dismal performance for user-to-root and remote-to-local attack categories as reported in the recent literature. The uncertainty to explore if other machine... | {
"abstract": "The limited available fossil fuels and the call for sustainable environment have brought about new technologies for the high efficiency in the use of fossil fuels and introduction of renewable energy. Smart grid is an emerging technology that can fulfill such demands by incorporating advanced informati... |
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"abstract": "Regime shifts in the marine environment have recently received much attention. To date, however, few large-scale meta-analyses have been carried out due to insufficient data coverage and integration between sustained observational datasets because of diverse methodologies used in data collection, recor... | {
"abstract": "The keynote paper by Garrett Hardin 44 years ago introduced the term 'tragedy of the commons' into our language (Hardin, 1968); this term is now used widely, but it is neither universally accepted nor fully understood. Irrespective, the 'tragedy of the commons' is an increasing reality for more than 50... | {
"abstract": "TEMPERATURE records from Greenland ice cores1,2 suggest that large and abrupt changes of North Atlantic climate occurred frequently during both glacial and postglacial periods; one example is the Younger Dryas cold event. Broecker3 speculated that these changes result from rapid changes in the thermoha... |
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"abstract": "Background: Fetal neuroendocrine maturation in late gestation is critical for maintenance of fetal homeostasis, growth, and readiness for birth. Sheep express estrogen receptors (ERs) in various brain regions. However, little is known about the regulation of ER-α and ER-β in the ovine brain prenatally.... | {
"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nThe aim of this study was to assess the association between postnatal exposure to multiple persistent organic pollutants (POPs) measured in breast milk samples and early behavioral problems using statistical methods to deal with correlated exposure data.\n\n\nMETHODS\nWe used data from the ... | {
"abstract": "Stroke is a very complex disease influenced by many risk factors: genetic, environmental and comorbidities, such as hypertension, diabetes mellitus, obesity and having had a previous stroke. Neuroprotective therapies that have been found to be successful in laboratory animals have failed to produce the... |
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"abstract": "The aim of this work was to study citizen participation, which was considered as a complex behavior based on more simple conducts. The variables analyzed were private and social citizen participation, according to some authors and institutions. The participants were 91 university students, and the inst... | {
"abstract": "The purpose of this paper is todescribe an index methodology for measuringquality of life, understood multidimensionally,in a set of very different municipalities,units of measurement, and time periods.Although certain technical problems arise whensmall areas (municipalities) are considered,cross and s... | {
"abstract": "THE free-lance writer Claire Sterling has done what academics have so far failed to do: document the fact that corruption and the violence which so often accompanies it, represent a real security threat to the nations of this world (see Sterling, 1984, 1990, 1994). In three data-packed books, Sterling ... |
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"abstract": "The world wide web and its continuous growth remains among the trending topics in daily conversations. Social networks are a convenient way for people to share information and communicate with one another whether it is for the purpose of exchanging information or seeking social interaction from colleag... | {
"abstract": "Social computing is the backbone of the increasing socialized web applications, which more and more people are tending to intensively rely on. Trust is a critical element for social computing that has been involved into many computational systems. It is a topic intriguing numerous studies. In this pape... | {
"abstract": "Previous efforts on event detection from the web have focused primarily on web content and structure data ignoring the rich collection of web log data. In this paper, we propose the first approach to detect events from the click-through data, which is the log data of web search engines. The intuition b... |
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"abstract": "Background: Nasal tip hemangiomas cause significant parental distress and can negatively affect the psychological development of a child. Treatment is controversial, with numerous modalities available for reconstruction. The authors outline their combined medical and surgical approach to treating nasal... | {
"abstract": "Importance Current treatment approaches for infantile hemangiomas of the nose include observation, pharmacologic agents, surgery, and/or laser therapy. Because of the known functional, social, and cosmetic effect of nasal deformities, obtaining the best possible result is critical. Optimal timing, type... | {
"abstract": "Background/Objectives:The aim of this study is to investigate whether adherence to the Mediterranean diet changed during the period 1991–2006 in an Italian population.Subjects/Methods:We derived data from the comparison groups of a network of case–control studies on cancer and acute myocardial infarcti... |
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"abstract": "The analysis of a total of 654 benign and malignant lesions of the skin, genitalia, lungs and bronchi, intestine, kidneys, bladder, mammae, and of the head and neck region, resulted in the identification of human papilloma virus 7 (HPV 7) infections in 3 individuals. One of these was an ordinary \"butc... | {
"abstract": "Forty warts from different patients and of different clinical type were examined histologically and virologically. Eight lesions were found to be associated with human papillomavirus type 1 (HPV 1), 15 tumors were induced by HPV 2, HPV 3 was detected 4 times, HPV 4 twice, and HPV 6 eleven times. HPV 3,... | {
"abstract": "Objective Our goal is to determine if antimicrobial prophylaxis with trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole prevents recurrent urinary tract infections and renal scarring in children who are found to have vesicoureteral reflux after a first or second urinary tract infection. Design, Participants, and Methods Th... |
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"abstract": "Affective analysis of images in social networks has drawn much attention, and the texts surrounding images are proven to provide valuable semantic meanings about image content, which can hardly be represented by low-level visual features. In this paper, we propose a novel approach for visual affective ... | {
"abstract": "A huge number of videos are posted every day on social media platforms such as Facebook and YouTube. This makes the Internet an unlimited source of information. In the coming decades, coping with such information and mining useful knowledge from it will be an increasingly difficult task. In this paper,... | {
"abstract": "To uncover interesting and actionable information from natural language documents authored by software developers, many researchers rely on \"out-of-the-box\" NLP libraries. However, software artifacts written in natural language are different from other textual documents due to the technical language ... |
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"abstract": "In this study, anatomy and histology of the male reproductive system of Chrysolina herbacea (Duftschmid 1825) (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) are described and illustrated by using light and scanning electron microscopies. Data from the male gonad of this species provide more extended and precise knowledge... | {
"abstract": "The histomorphology of the reproductive system and the germ cells has been useful to establish phylogenetic relationships in many insects. However, these elements remain little known in the Curculionidae. In this study, histomorphological structure of the male reproductive system of Tanymecus dilaticol... | {
"abstract": "Distributional data about 234 species and subspecies belonging to 21 genera of Alticinae in Turkey are given. Thirteen of these taxa, Altica lythri Aube, Aphthona rugipennis Ogloblin, Chaetocnema laevicollis (Thomson), Dibolia rugulosa Redtenbacher, Longitarsus atricillus (Gyllenhal), L. bytinskii Furt... |
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"abstract": "In this paper we introduce a mixed Polya-Aeppli process with shifted gamma mixing distribution and call it an Inated-parameter Delaporte process (I-Delaporte). We derive the pro bability mass function, recursion formulas and some basic properties. Then we de ne the process as a pure birth process and d... | {
"abstract": "The non-central negative binomial distribution is derived by mixing the POISSON distribution with a certain BESSEL function distribution, or the negative binomial distribution with the POISSON distribution. Some properties of the distribution are discussed, including a characterization. The fitting of ... | {
"abstract": "A set of m distinct positive integers is called a D(−1)-m-tuple if the product of any distinct two elements in the set decreased by one is a perfect square. In this paper, we show that if {1, b, c, d} with b < c < d is a D(−1)-quadruple, then c < 9.6b. AMS subject classifications: 11D09, 11J68",
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"abstract": "a r t i c l e i n f o Keywords: Soil science Student numbers Soil science publications Environmental soil science UN organisations Soil science impact Research funds The renaissance was an intellectually-rich period following a period of stasis in the medieval period. Something analogous appears to be ... | {
"abstract": "THE strong criticisms of the agricultural practices in many countries at the present day, and of the aims and technique of modern agricultural research made in this book, are based upon the author's work and experience during a period of forty years in the West Indies, India, and Great Britain. It is w... | {
"abstract": "Efficient intervention to control soil erosion in rural tropical landscapes requires accurate models for predicting the spatial location and intensity of degradation. The Universal Soil Loss Equation (USLE) has commonly been applied for spatial erosion risk assessment in the tropics, but has rarely bee... |
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"abstract": "As a mean of supplying water, Water distribution system (WDS) is one of the most important complex infrastructures. The stability and reliability are critical for urban activities. WDSs can be characterized by networks of multiple nodes (e.g. reservoirs and junctions) and interconnected by physical lin... | {
"abstract": "Since cascading failure has negative and significant impact on R&D network, it is essential to research the characteristics of cascading failure for keeping R&D network safety. Firstly, the paper introduces the weighted scale-free network model to generate a R&D network. Then we develop overloaded func... | {
"abstract": "Abstract\nThis paper discusses home-making practices and senses of belonging in a street in a disadvantaged neighbourhood in the south of the Netherlands. The local tenure mix of tenants and owner-occupiers offers insight into the role class and ethnicity play in social mixing. Therefore, attention is ... |
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"abstract": "The electrospinning technique is a method used to produce nano and microfibers using the influence of electrostatic forces. Porous three dimensional networks of continuous and interconnected fibers as scaffolds were obtained from a poly (lactic acid) solution. The concentration of the polymeric solutio... | {
"abstract": "Immiscible blends of high molecular weight commercial poly(p-dioxanone) (PPDX) and poly(e-caprolactone) (PCL) were prepared by melt mixing in a wide composition range. The materials were exposed to a hydrolysis medium (phosphate buffer kept at a constant pH of 7.2) at 37°C during 36 weeks. The change i... | {
"abstract": "Particle size has opposing effects on the effectiveness of freeze/thaw sludge conditioning. Small particles migrate easily and coagulate into larger particles during freezing, but small particles also cause poor sludge dewaterability. Since agitation can change particles size, the effects of agitation ... |
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"abstract": "The architecture of alcohol oxidase crystalloids occurring in vivo in the peroxisomes of methylotrophic yeasts was deduced from electron micrographs of similar crystals of the Hansenula polymorpha enzyme grown in vitro. Three characteristic views of the crystal are observed, as well as single layers in... | {
"abstract": "The first step in methanol metabolism in methylotrophic yeasts, the oxidation of methanol and higher alcohols with molecular oxygen to formaldehyde and hydrogen peroxide, is catalysed by alcohol oxidase (AOX), a 600-kDa homo-octamer containing eight FAD cofactors. When these yeasts are grown with metha... | {
"abstract": "The dissolution of chrysotile is studied in regard to the surfaces analysis by photoelectron spectrometry. After leaching of chrysotile (Provenance: Thetford; about 200 mg of fibers of 1 cm length) in nonstirred 0.1 N oxalic conditions, the composition of the mineral surfaces is determined by XPS; kine... |
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"abstract": "In humans and pigs, hydrolysis of dietary polyglutamyl folates is carried out by intestinal brush border folate hydrolase [glutamate carboxypeptidase II (GCPII)], whereas the transport of the monoglutamyl folate derivatives occurs via the intestinal brush border reduced folate carrier (RFC). The study ... | {
"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nFolate deficiency is common in alcoholic patients, in part due to abnormal transport across membranes relevant to folate homeostasis. The reduced folate carrier (RFC) transports monoglutamyl folates across tissue membranes and could be affected by chronic exposure to ethanol. The micropig m... | {
"abstract": "The rat is immature at birth and undergoes major developmental changes at the end of the suckling period. This review deals with the maturation of ingestive behavior, gastrointestinal digestive and absorptive functions, liver metabolism, and brain structure and function. Each aspect of development is p... |
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"abstract": "For decades, Thailand has had a strong labor market in both supplying and demanding labor resources. Since the 1970s, Thailand has sent workers to the Middle East, Japan, Taiwan, Singapore, and Malaysia, among others. Based on the Socio-Economic Survey, emigrant workers come from households with low in... | {
"abstract": "It is clear from data that worker movements in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), like elsewhere, are dominated by unskilled and semiskilled workers. It is also well-known that movements of these types of workers are dominated by irregular migration mainly because of lack of avenues fo... | {
"abstract": "In this paper we analyze an endogenous growth model, in which sustained per capita growth results from investment in public capital and the government is allowed to borrow from the capital market. As to the government behavior we do not suppose that governments optimize but instead stick to some well-d... |
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"abstract": "A processing system has been developed to meet increasing demands for detailed noise measurement of aircraft in wind tunnels. Phased arrays enable spatial and amplitude measurements of acoustic sources, including low signal-to-noise sources not measurable by conventional measurement techniques. The Mic... | {
"abstract": "While phased microphone arrays are often applied with the focus on acoustic source localization, in many cases quantitative source information is also needed. The estimation of quantitative source spectra from array measurements is not straightforward and a number of methods exist that either use integ... | {
"abstract": "We describe and demonstrate a new principle to improve the self-resonance frequency f/sub SR/ and the quality factor of integrated spiral inductors by minimizing the AC potential differences between neighboring turns. In this way, f/sub SR/ values can be increased for stacked spiral inductors up to a f... |
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"abstract": "Stacked denoising autoencoders (SDAs) have been successfully used to learn new representations for domain adaptation. They have attained record accuracy on standard benchmark tasks of sentiment analysis across different text domains. SDAs learn robust data representations by reconstruction, recovering ... | {
"abstract": "In text mining, information retrieval, and machine learning, text documents are commonly represented through variants of sparse Bag of Words (sBoW) vectors (e.g. TF-IDF). Although simple and intuitive, sBoW style representations suffer from their inherent over-sparsity and fail to capture word-level sy... | {
"abstract": "It is known that the inconsistent distributions and representations of different modalities, such as image and text, cause the heterogeneity gap, which makes it very challenging to correlate heterogeneous data and measure their similarities. Recently, generative adversarial networks (GANs) have been pr... |
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"abstract": "PURPOSE\nTo investigate the effects of acquired superior oblique palsy (SOP) and corrective strabismus surgery on torsional optokinetic nystagmus (tOKN) in monkeys.\n\n\nMETHODS\nThe trochlear nerve was severed intracranially in two rhesus monkeys (M1 and M2). For each monkey, more than 4 months after ... | {
"abstract": "PURPOSE\nTo examine the quality of binocular coordination of saccades in children with various types of strabismus and the effect of strabismus surgery.\n\n\nMETHODS\nEight subjects were tested (5-15 years old): five with convergent strabismus, three with divergent strabismus. A standard saccade paradi... | {
"abstract": "Hurewicz found connections between some topological notions and the combinatorial cardinals b and d. Rec law gave topological meaning to the definition of the cardinal p. We extend the picture with a topological interpretation of the cardinal t. We compare our notion to the one related to p, and to som... |
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"abstract": "Abstract VolSurf+ in silico physicochemical descriptors for both the cationic and the anionic counterparts of ionic liquids (ILs) have been derived. These descriptors, suitable for molecular modelling of IL structures which, due to their amphiphilic nature, interact strongly with biological matrices, c... | {
"abstract": "A novel class of indole derivatives characterized by a (αE)-α-(1H-indol-3-ylmethylene)benzeneacetic acid or amide scaffold was synthesized. These derivatives, assayed for cell-growth inhibition activity against a panel of six different tumor cell lines, showed strong antiproliferative activity and sele... | {
"abstract": "We have examined the cytotoxicity of a number of poly(amidoamine) polymers which have been proposed for use as DNA delivery systems and compared them to the charged polyamino acid polylysine. Most of the poly(amidoamine)s tested were shown to be remarkably non-toxic to both HepG2 and HL60 cell lines. H... |
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"abstract": "In graph-based semi-supervised learning approaches, the classification rate is highly dependent on the size of the availabel labeled data, as well as the accuracy of the similarity measures. Here, we propose a semi-supervised multi-class/multi-label classification scheme, dynamic label propagation (DLP... | {
"abstract": "Most semi-supervised learning algorithms have been designed for binary classification, and are extended to multi-class classification by approaches such as one-against-the-rest. The main shortcoming of these approaches is that they are unable to exploit the fact that each example is only assigned to on... | {
"abstract": "Embodied and grounded cognition theories have assumed that the sensorimotor system is causally involved in processing motor-related language content. Although a causal proof on a single-cell basis is ethically not possible today, the present fMRI study provides confirmation of this longstanding specula... |
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"abstract": "Abstract Lateral flow immunoassays (LFIAs) are advantageous over conventional detection methods in terms of their simplicity and rapidity. These assays have been reported using various types of labels but colloidal gold nanoparticles are still the preferred choice as a label because of their easy synth... | {
"abstract": "Organizations of all sizes are shifting their IT infrastructures to the cloud because of its cost efficiency and convenience. Because of the on-demand nature of the Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) clouds, hundreds of thousands of virtual machines (VMs) may be deployed and terminated in a single larg... |
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"abstract": "Glycoprotein gC1 of herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) binds complement component C3b. To determine if gC1 modifies the interaction of complement with virus-infected cells or cell-free virus, ns-1, a mutant HSV-1 strain that does not express gC1 at the cell surface and does not bind C3b, was compared ... | {
"abstract": "The vaccinia virus A56 protein was one of the earliest-described poxvirus proteins with an identifiable activity. While originally characterized as a haemagglutinin protein, A56 has other functions as well. The A56 protein is capable of binding two viral proteins, a serine protease inhibitor (K2) and t... | {
"abstract": "concepts such as emotions, ideas, and events can be perceived as uniform entities and substances. While ontological metaphors do not structure concepts in quite as a detailed manner as structural metaphors do, they function to “give a new ontological status to general categories of abstract target conc... |
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"abstract": "Within this paper, CoBoLD — short for Cone Bolt Locking Device — a bonding mechanism for modular self-reconfigurable autonomous mobile robots is presented. The docking unit is used to physically connect modular robots and/or toolboxes in order to form complex structures and robotic organisms. CoBoLD is... | {
"abstract": "The field of modular self-reconfigurable robotic systems addresses the design, fabrication, motion planning, and control of autonomous kinematic machines with variable morphology. Modular self-reconfigurable systems have the promise of making significant technological advances to the field of robotics ... | {
"abstract": "We consider the problem of clustering Web image search results. Generally, the image search results returned by an image search engine contain multiple topics. Organizing the results into different semantic clusters facilitates users' browsing. In this paper, we propose a hierarchical clustering method... |
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"abstract": "Selecting a single photograph to represent a set of photographs is a useful approach when creating interfaces to large photo collections. Unfortunately, many different methods for selecting photographs are used in practice today, and none have been well studied or shown to be particularly effective. In... | {
"abstract": "The medium of collage supports the visualization of meaningful event summaries using photographs. It can however be rather tedious to author a collage from a large collection of photographs. In this work we present an approach that supports efficient construction of a collage by assisting the user with... | {
"abstract": "To determine whether deer can transmit Neospora caninum, brains of naturally infected white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) were fed to 4 dogs; 2 of these dogs shed oocysts. Oocysts from 1 of the dogs were tested by polymerase chain reaction and found to be positive for N. caninum and negative for... |
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"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nBiliary pancreatitis (BP) constitutes 30-55% of all cases of acute pancreatitis. Laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC) has become the gold standard for the surgical treatment of gallbladder disease. We aimed to compare and evaluate the relation between the timing of LC and the rates and reasons... | {
"abstract": "Background All patients with mild acute biliary pancreatitis should undergo early cholecystectomy. Whether routine common bile duct (CBD) imaging should be employed before the surgical procedure in these patients is a matter of current controversy. The aim of this study was to investigate the rate of d... | {
"abstract": "Retrospective research has identified communication impairment in over a quarter of hospice patients (Jackson et al. 1996) but this field has not been investigated using speech and language therapy assessments. The present study assessed a sample of 12 hospice patients using tests of verbal learning an... |
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"abstract": "The problem of decentralized sequential detection with conditionally independent observations is studied. The sensors form a star topology with a central node called fusion center as the hub. The sensors make noisy observations of a parameter that changes from an initial state to a final state at a ran... | {
"abstract": "The problem of decentralized inference over multiple-access fading channels is considered from a joint source-channel coding perspective. In our setting, spatially distributed wireless sensor nodes collect observation data about a hidden source and communicate relevant statistics to a receiver node tha... | {
"abstract": "Network measurement is used to improve the precision, efficiency, and fairness for a variety of Internet protocols and applications, ranging from transport protocols to overlay networks. Measurement is typically performed in one of two ways: (1) passively, by using existing data traffic to perform meas... |
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"abstract": "Despite the fact that perovskite solar cells (PSCs) have a strong potential as a next-generation photovoltaic technology due to continuous efficiency improvements and the tunable properties, some important obstacles remain before industrialization is feasible. For example, the selection of low-cost or ... | {
"abstract": "Poor stability of organic–inorganic halide perovskite materials in humid condition has hindered the success of perovskite solar cells in real applications since controlled atmosphere is required for device fabrication and operation, and there is a lack of effective solutions to this problem until now. ... | {
"abstract": "Colloidal quantum dots offer broad tuning of semiconductor bandstructure via the quantum size effect. Devices involving a sequence of layers comprised of quantum dots selected to have different diameters, and therefore bandgaps, offer the possibility of funneling energy toward an acceptor. Here we repo... |
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"abstract": "We report evidence of nonequilibrium hot carrier extraction from graphene by gate-dependent photocurrent study. Scanning photocurrent excited by femtosecond pulse laser shows unusual gate dependence compared with continuous wave (CW) laser excitation. Power dependence studies further confirm that the p... | {
"abstract": "Extending the operation wavelength of silicon photonics to the mid-infrared (mid-IR) band will significantly benefit critical application areas, including health care, astronomy, and chemical sensing. However, a major hurdle for mid-IR silicon photonics has been the lack of high-speed, high-responsivit... | {
"abstract": "Ionic gels represent a novel class of stretchable materials where ionic conducting liquid is immobilized in a polymer matrix. This review focuses on the design of ionic gel materials and device fabrication of ionic-gel-based stretchable electronics. In particular, recent progress in ionic-gel-based ele... |
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"abstract": "We report here experimental results obtained in saturated absorption spectroscopy of iodine in a low pressure cell at 501.7 nm. We obtained lines of 30 kHz wide (HWHM) for the R(26)62-0 transition, which are, to our knowledge, the narrowest resonances ever observed in iodine spectroscopy in cell",
"c... | {
"abstract": "A widely tunable and high-resolution spectrometer based on a frequency-doubled Ti:sapphire laser was used to explore sub-Doppler transitions of iodine molecules in the wavelength range 523-498 nm. The wavelength dependence of the hyperfine transition linewidth of iodine was mapped out in this region, a... | {
"abstract": "We demonstrate a simple optical clock based on an optical transition of iodine molecules, providing a frequency stability superior to most rf sources. Combined with a femtosecond-laser-based optical comb to provide the phase coherent clock mechanism linking the optical and microwave spectra, we derive ... |
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"abstract": "Human papilloma virus (HPV) is the major cause of invasive cervical cancer (ICC). The study aim was to determine the prevalence of HPV genotypes and to correlate HPV types with response to radiotherapy. A total of 43 cervical biopsies collected from sequentially enrolled patients were analyzed by DNA a... | {
"abstract": "Infection with human papillomavirus (HPV) could affect genesis of both cervical and esophageal cancers. The type-specific distribution of HPV in cervical cytology abnormalities of women has remained unclear in Shantou, an esophageal cancer high-incidence area of China. Data from 22,617 women who were s... | {
"abstract": "BackgroundPseudomonas fluorescens is a common inhabitant of soil and the rhizosphere environment. In addition to potential applications in biocontrol and bioremediation, P. fluorescens is of interest as a model for studying bacterial survival and fitness in soil. A previous study using in vivo expressi... |
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"abstract": "Using evidence from cores from Marks Tey, Essex, it is concluded that the glacial cycles suggested by Emiliani give a much truer picture of the chronology of glacial events in Europe than those suggested by Ericson et al.",
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"title": "Correlation between Marine and Terrestrial ... | {
"abstract": "Nick Shackleton was an international scientist of great renown who fundamentally changed our understanding of how Earth processes work. His research on ancient oceans and climates was both innovative and pioneering, and he clarified the precise role of carbon dioxide in warming and cooling the Earth's ... | {
"abstract": "Abstract. Non-annually resolved palaeoclimate records in the Australasian region were compiled to facilitate investigations of decadal to centennial climate variability over the past 2000 years. A total of 675 lake and wetland, geomorphic, marine, and speleothem records were identified. The majority of... |
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"abstract": "In Spain, farmers and water user authorities have applied a variety of approaches in modernizing irrigation systems to address the delicate balance between water and energy use. This review presents the technical aspects of this process. This delicate balance is strongly manifested when replacing open-... | {
"abstract": "The development of intensive horticulture in Almeria, with a huge increase in greenhouse surface area, is related to three essential factors: climatic characteristics, groundwater use and mulching sandy soil. The purpose of the present paper is to draw a picture of the integral management of water irri... | {
"abstract": "To create a competitive advantage, firms need to find activity configurations that are not only internally consistent, but also appropriate given the firm's current environment. This challenge is particularly acute after firms have experienced an environmental change that has shifted the existing compe... |
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"abstract": "NUCLEAR magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy has recently been found useful for investigating the conformations of polypeptides like gramicidin S1,2, valinomicin3 and so on. We now report preliminary conclusions on the conformation of the two peptide lactone rings of actinomycin D4 on the basis of NMR... | {
"abstract": "Publisher Summary This chapter presents nomenclature of actinomycins (AMs) based on the peptide structure, which uses International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry–International Union of Biochemistry (IUPAC–IUB) rules for naming peptide analogs. AMs are well-known as specific inhibitors of DNA-prim... | {
"abstract": "This paper presents results of research on utilizing chromic waste, such as chromic mud from the current production and chromic tannery waste in the sodium chromate production process, in the area determined by the range of variation of selected process parameters. It was established that it was possib... |
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"abstract": "Open-source software development projects are almost always collaborative and distributed. Despite the difficulties imposed by distance, these projects have managed to produce large, complex, and successful systems. However, there is still little known about how open-source teams manage their collabora... | {
"abstract": "In this paper, we seek to shed light on how communication networks in geographically distributed projects evolve in order to address the limits of the modular design strategy. We collected data from a geographically distributed software development project covering 39 months of activity. Our analysis s... | {
"abstract": "This paper presents a method for measuring the semantic similarity between concepts in Knowledge Graphs (KGs) such as WordNet and DBpedia. Previous work on semantic similarity methods have focused on either the structure of the semantic network between concepts (e.g., path length and depth), or only on... |
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"abstract": "Purpose: Women are penalized if they do not behave in a stereotype-congruent manner (Heilman, 1983, 2001; Eagly and Carli, 2007). For example, because women are not expected to be agentic they incur an “agency penalty” for expressing anger, dominance or assertiveness (Rudman, 1998; Rudman and Glick, 19... | {
"abstract": "A great deal of research has focused on work group diversity, but management scholars have only recently focused on inclusion. As a result, the inclusion literature is still under development, with limited agreement on the conceptual underpinnings of this construct. In this article, the authors first u... | {
"abstract": "Many studies have highlighted the potential of oxytocin (OT) to enhance facial affect recognition in healthy humans. However, inconsistencies have emerged with regard to the influence of OT on the recognition of specific emotional expressions (happy, angry, fear, surprise, disgust, and sadness). In thi... |
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"abstract": "OBJECTIVES\nTo summarize current excellent research in the field of medical sensor, signal and imaging informatics.\n\n\nMETHOD\nSynopsis of the articles selected for the IMIA (International Medical Informatics Association) Yearbook 2010.\n\n\nRESULTS\nCurrent research in the field of sensor, signal, a... | {
"abstract": "Medical imaging research has long suffered problems getting access to large collections of images due to privacy constraints and to high costs that annotating images by physicians causes. With public scientific challenges and funding agencies fostering data sharing, repositories, particularly on cancer... | {
"abstract": "OBJECTIVES\nThe aim of this study was to assess the effects of different proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) on the steady-state pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of clopidogrel.\n\n\nBACKGROUND\nMetabolism of clopidogrel requires cytochrome P450s (CYPs), including CYP2C19. However, PPIs may inhibit CYP2... |
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"abstract": "This chapter reviews the recent polarisation of debates in agrofood and rural studies, in particular the opposition between network (social relations, actor-network) and political economy analyses. It explores the contributions of different network approaches and draws on the French convention and regu... | {
"abstract": "Abstract In the now extensive literature on alternative food networks (AFNs) (e.g. farmers’ markets, community supported agriculture, box schemes), a body of work has pointed to socio-economic problems with such systems, which run counter to headline claims in the literature. This paper argues that rat... | {
"abstract": "Yeast damage-associated response protein (Dap1p) and mouse progesterone receptor membrane component-1 protein (mPGRMC1p) belong to a highly conserved class of putative membrane-associated progesterone binding proteins (MAPR), with Dap1p and inner zone antigen (IZA), the rat homologue of mPGRMC1p, recen... |
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"abstract": "In the present study, we tested the hypothesis that substance P (SP) is an excitatory peptide to the rat carotid body and plays an important role in chemosensory excitation by hypoxia. Chemosensory discharge was recorded from the cut carotid sinus nerve in 19 anaesthetized, paralyzed and mechanically v... | {
"abstract": "Substance P (SP) belongs to a family of peptides called tachykinins. It has been proposed that SP acts as a sensory transmitter or modulator in the peripheral nervous system1. The carotid body, a sensory organ that detects changes in arterial oxygen, contains SP-like immunoreactivity and may participat... | {
"abstract": "Many anti-cancer therapies (CTx) have cardiotoxic side effects that limit their therapeutic potential and cause long-term cardiovascular complications in cancer survivors. This has given rise to the field of cardio-oncology, which recognizes the need for basic, translational, and clinical research focu... |
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"abstract": "The design of scalar quantizers for communication systems that use diversity to overcome channel impairments is considered. The design problem is posed as an optimization problem and necessary conditions for optimality are derived. A design algorithm, a generalization of S.P. Lloyd's (1962) algorithm f... | {
"abstract": "A two-channel conjugate vector quantizer is proposed in an attempt to reduce quantization distortion for noisy channels. In this quantization, two different codebooks are used. The encoder selects the channel code pair that generates the smallest distortion between the input and the averaged output vec... | {
"abstract": "This study explored M.Ed graduates’ perceptions of thesis supervision, writing and defence in the M.Ed Programme in the Faculty of Education, University of Swaziland. The main objective was to find out how M.Ed graduates think and feel about thesis supervision, writing and defence, with the ultimate ai... |
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"abstract": "Twitter has become a target platform for both promoters and spammers to disseminate their messages, which are more harmful than traditional spamming methods, such as email spamming. Recently, large amounts of campaigns that contain lots of spam or promotion accounts have emerged in Twitter. The campaig... | {
"abstract": "Social networking communities have become an important communications platform, but the popularity of these communities has also made them targets for a new breed of social spammers. Unfortunately, little is known about these social spammers, their level of sophistication, or their strategies and tacti... | {
"abstract": "LLC series resonant converters for consumer or industrial electronics frequently encounter considerable changes in both input voltage and load current requirements. This paper presents theoretical and practical details involved with the dynamic analysis and control design of LLC series resonant dc-to-d... |
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"abstract": "Here, we analyse the energetics, performance and optimization of flight in a moving atmosphere. We begin by deriving a succinct expression describing all of the mechanical energy flows associated with gliding, dynamic soaring and thermal soaring, which we use to explore the optimization of gliding in a... | {
"abstract": "We examined the gliding flight performance of a jackdaw Corvus monedula in a wind tunnel. The jackdaw was able to glide steadily at speeds between 6 and 11 m s(-1). The bird changed its wingspan and wing area over this speed range, and we measured the so-called glide super-polar, which is the envelope ... | {
"abstract": "The alignment of the Fermi level of a metal electrode within the gap of the highest occupied and lowest unoccupied orbital of a molecule is a key quantity in molecular electronics. Depending on the type of molecule and the interface structure of the junction, it can vary the electron transparency of a ... |
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"abstract": "A crosstalk effect in counter-pumped distributed Raman amplifiers (DRAs) with discrete time-division multiplexed (DTDM) pumping is investigated using numerical modeling. We show that the pump repetition frequency has an impact on the pump mediated cross modulation between two channels. Crosstalk effect... | {
"abstract": "Signal-to-signal cross-gain modulation characteristics for a counter-pumped Raman fiber amplifier (RFA) is investigated when time division multiplexed (TDM) Gaussian pulse stream is used for pumping. Crosstalk dependence on the pump pulse full width half maximum (FWHM)is investigated.",
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"abstract": "It is clear that ischemia inhibits successful defibrillation by altering regional electro-physiology. However, the exact mechanisms are unclear. This study investigated whether regional gap junction inhibition increases biphasic shock defibrillation thresholds (DFT). Sixteen swine were instrumented wit... |
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