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"abstract": "In streptococci, entry in competence is dictated by ComX abundance. In Streptococcus thermophilus, production of ComX is transient and tightly regulated during growth: it is positively regulated by the cell-cell communication system ComRS during the activation phase and negatively regulated during the ... | {
"abstract": "ABSTRACT Streptococcus includes species that either contain or lack the LexA-like repressor (HdiR) of the classical SOS response. In Streptococcus pneumoniae, a species which belongs to the latter group, SOS response inducers (e.g., mitomycin C [Mc] and fluoroquinolones) were shown to induce natural tr... | {
"abstract": "High expression of the transcriptional activator ComK occurs in 10–20% of the cells in stationary phase cultures of Bacillus subtilis strain 168. ComK drives the expression of more than 100 genes constituting the semidormant K‐state, distinct from sporulation and vegetative growth. Among the genes so a... |
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"abstract": "C-Jun and c-Fos belong to the family of immediate early genes. Apart from their role as transcription factors, a basal expression was shown for them in central nervous system tissues. The expression of c-Jun and c-Fos in sensory ganglia of guinea pig, rat and murine sensory ganglia was examined under n... | {
"abstract": "Transforming growth factor-beta (TGF-beta) plays an important role in the pathogenesis of allergic asthma and other airway diseases. Signals from the activated TGF-beta receptor complex are transduced to the nucleus of airway cells by Smad proteins, which represent a family of transcription factors tha... | {
"abstract": "The origin of calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP)-containing fibers observed in the superior cervical ganglia (SCG) of the rat was investigated by a combined technique of retrograde axonal tracing and indirect immunofluorescence. Following the injection of Fast blue (FB) into the SCG, labeled neuron... |
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"abstract": "A key feature of animal and human decision-making is to balance the exploration of unknown options for information gain (directed exploration) versus selecting known options for immediate reward (exploitation), which is often examined using restless bandit tasks. Recurrent neural network models (RNNs) ... | {
"abstract": "We propose a model by which dopamine (DA) and norepinepherine (NE) combine to alternate behavior between relatively exploratory and exploitative modes. The model is developed for a target detection task for which there is extant single neuron recording data available from locus coeruleus (LC) NE neuron... | {
"abstract": "When a saccade is expected to result in a reward, both neural activity in oculomotor areas and the saccade itself (e.g., its vigor and latency) are altered (compared with when no reward is expected). As such, it is unclear whether the correlations of neural activity with reward indicate a representatio... |
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"abstract": "Calcitonin gene–related peptide (CGRP) is a neuropeptide that is regionally regulated following peripheral insult and in central nervous system (CNS) damage models targeting limbic structures. Functional studies have shown this neuropeptide to be involved in neuronal protection and remodeling, vasodila... | {
"abstract": "Significance Microglia (MG) play important roles in brain homeostasis and neuronal plasticity, and are recruited by the immune system to orchestrate inflammatory responses to danger signals. We find that, within MG, an RNA-editing function performed by the deaminase APOBEC1 and its obligate cofactor af... | {
"abstract": "Hydrophobic tributylin (TBT) compounds at concentrations greater than 10 μM used hemolysis of human erythrocytes and formed structures in plasma membranes. The mercapto compounds, β‐mercaptoethanol (β MER), 2,3‐dimercaptopropanol (BAL), 2,3‐dimercapto‐1‐propane sulfonate (DMPS), DL‐dithiothreitol (DTT)... |
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"abstract": "Males (n = 12, M age 25.6 yrs) with clear experiences (CE) of both \"pure consciousness\" (unbounded inner awareness without thoughts) and the TM--Sidhi techniques (mental procedures derived from Vedic Science to enhance cognitive, perceptual and other abilities) were compared with unclear experience (... | {
"abstract": "Maharishi’s Vedic Mathematics is the absolutely precise organizing power inherent in the structure of self-referral consciousness, pure knowledge, the Veda. In elementary education, the computational aspect of Maharishi’s Vedic Mathematics is Vedic sTMtra based computation, derived from 16 Vedic STMtra... | {
"abstract": "Abstract The model of the EMG showing an interference pattern in which motor units are discharged independently (which is typical for relatively weak contractions) gives an adequate picture of this type of activity, agreeing with the actual EMG in appearance as well as in some important parameters (the... |
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"abstract": "GPS-equipped taxis can be regarded as mobile sensors probing traffic flows on road surfaces, and taxi drivers are usually experienced in finding the fastest (quickest) route to a destination based on their knowledge. In this paper, we mine smart driving directions from the historical GPS trajectories o... | {
"abstract": "We consider the problem of estimating real-time traffic conditions from sparse, noisy GPS probe vehicle data. We specifically address arterial roads, which are also known as the secondary road network (highways are considered the primary road network). We consider several estimation problems: historica... | {
"abstract": "Horizontal and vertical handoffs are important ramifications of user mobility in multitier heterogeneous wireless networks. They directly impact the signaling overhead and quality of calls. However, they are difficult to analyze due to the irregularly shaped network topologies introduced by multiple ti... |
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"abstract": "This paper examines the influence of the motor pole pair number on the audible noise of electric motors for inverter operation. The number of pole pairs affects different parameters related to electromagnetic noise generation: the mode shape of the related force waves, the motor eigenfrequencies, the s... | {
"abstract": "This paper presents an evaluation of noise and vibration in a distributed winding permanent magnet synchronous motor driven by voltage source pulse width modulation (PWM) inverters. The permanent magnet synchronous motor (PMSM) is widely used as an important driving source in a variety of fields. Howev... | {
"abstract": "The issue of noise emission from electric drives is becoming increasingly important. Motor manufacturers have to comply with certain standards in order to assure the high competitiveness of their products. At the same time, with today's variable speed drives, which are supplied with nonsinusoidal volta... |
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"abstract": "The interaction of the low molecular weight group of surfactant-associated proteins, SP 5-18, with the major phospholipids of pulmonary surfactant was studied by fluorescence measurements of liposomal permeability and fusion, morphological studies, and surface activity measurements. The ability of SP 5... | {
"abstract": "Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy has been used to investigate the effect of the lung surfactant apolipoproteins B/C on dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine to address the mechanism by which the adsorption rate of phospholipids from the bulk to the air/water interface is enhanced. Apolipoproteins B/C w... | {
"abstract": "Analytical expressions for the light scattering autocorrelation function of Schulz distributed Rayleigh–Debye particles are presented. The theory is shown to be valid for spheres, thin rods, disks, and Gaussian coils executing translational diffusion. The polydisperse form factors for these shapes are ... |
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"abstract": "Influence is a complex and subtle force that governs the dynamics of social networks as well as the behaviors of involved users. Understanding influence can benefit various applications such as viral marketing, recommendation, and information retrieval. However, most existing works on social influence ... | {
"abstract": "Influence maximization is the problem of finding a small set of most influential nodes in a social network so that their aggregated influence in the network is maximized. In this paper, we study influence maximization in the linear threshold model, one of the important models formalizing the behavior o... | {
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"title": "Identifying Interestingness in Fashion E-commerce using Pinterest Data"
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"abstract": "This paper explores and investigates deep convolutional neural network architectures to increase the efficiency and robustness of semantic segmentation tasks. The proposed solutions are based on up-convolutional networks. We introduce three different architectures in this work. The first architecture, ... | {
"abstract": "We propose a novel deep architecture, SegNet, for semantic pixel wise image labelling. SegNet has several attractive properties; (i) it only requires forward evaluation of a fully learnt function to obtain smooth label predictions, (ii) with increasing depth, a larger context is considered for pixel la... | {
"abstract": "Deadlock-freedom is a major challenge in developing multi-threaded programs, as a deadlock cannot be resolved until one restarts the program (mostly by using manual intervention). To avoid the risk of blocking, a program may use the trylock operations rather than lock operations. In this case, if a thr... |
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"abstract": "Tetrodotoxin (TTX) is a potent marine neurotoxin with bacterial origin. To date, around 28 analogs of TTX are known, but only 12 were detected in marine organisms, namely TTX, 11-oxoTTX, 11-deoxyTTX, 11-norTTX-6(R)-ol, 11-norTTX-6(S)-ol, 4-epiTTX, 4,9-anhydroTTX, 5,6,11-trideoxyTTX, 4-CysTTX, 5-deoxyTT... | {
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"title": "Tetrodotoxin and its analogue 6-epitetrodotoxin in newts (Triturus spp.; Urodela, Salamandridae) from southern Germany."
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"abstract": "Tetrodotoxin (TTX) poisoning, although uncommon, is frequently seen in Taiwan, Japan, and Southeast Asia. It is rare but significant in the United States as well. Only three cases have been reported in the EM literature. We report an outbreak of six cases of TTX poisoning from eating puffer fish. On Ap... |
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"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nCardiac tumours are very uncommon and are the topic of little investigation. Imaging features offer reliable diagnostic evidence for cardiac tumours, but diagnostic confusion may arise when tumours with similar features are present.\n\n\nMETHODS\nBetween January 2003 and July 2008, 34 patie... | {
"abstract": "Although echocardiography has provided a useful noninvasive means for detecting cardiac myxomas, the ultrasound manifestations of these tumors may be variable. We describe our experiences with unusual echographic features encountered in left and right heart myxomas. Thus the left atrial tumor may be ma... | {
"abstract": "Amylase activities were quantitated in secretions of marginally and severely malnourished Colombian children. In young children with a mean age of 21 months, the relative pancreatic and salivary amylase isozyme activities of urine were significantly changed in marginally malnourished children compared ... |
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"abstract": "A 324-Mbit/s electrical regenerator module intended for undersea optical-fiber systems is described. It has a sensitivity of 20 mV peak to peak, at which the total jitter is 3.3° rms, a low figure achieved by close attention to balance at chip and circuit board level. Timing phase adjustment is by mean... | {
"abstract": "An integrated amplifier having a bandwidth of 470 MHz, and a gain and limiting range of 60 dB has been realized using a cascade of three cells on an uncommitted array. The circuit is capable of operating in optical fiber repeaters in the signal or retiming path at transmission rates up to 650 MBd. Dire... | {
"abstract": "The development of stress in evaporated dielectric and metal films, used as optical coatings, has been investigated experimentally by observing the bending of a thin silica strip as it becomes coated. The strip forms one mirror of a laser interferometer mounted within the coating chamber, giving high m... |
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"abstract": "The Scrum development process has gained increasing popularity during the last decade. At the same time user experience (UX) has emerged as an important quality feature. However, the integration of UX related activities into Scrum projects has not been without problems, and this area needs to be furthe... | {
"abstract": "Despite the growing interest in user experience (UX), it has been hard to gain a common agreement on the nature and scope of UX. In this paper, we report a survey that gathered the views on UX of 275 researchers and practitioners from academia and industry. Most respondents agree that UX is dynamic, co... | {
"abstract": "The research presented in this paper was partly funded by the Engineering and Physical ::: Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) of the UK under grant ref: EP/M024083/1.",
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"title": "Software development: do good manners matter?"
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"abstract": "On the basis of an exact nonlinear energy principle, it is shown that the change in magnetic topology (i.e., reconnection) in a finite-domain system leads to the conversion of magnetic field energy to particle energy. However, it is also shown that the conversion efficiency gradually disappears as the ... | {
"abstract": "In the present paper we revisit the energy principle associated with magnetic reconnection. In the earlier approach the boundary of the system was freely adjusted to always contain one full period of the magnetic islands. In view of the fact that in simulations of reconnection such an adjustment of the... | {
"abstract": "In this paper, the thermal conductivity and thermal diffusivity of four kinds of polymer melts were measured by using the transient short-hot-wire method. This method was developed from the hot-wire technique and is based on two-dimensional numerical solutions of unsteady heat conduction from a wire wi... |
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"abstract": "This paper surveys various Image denoising parameters by Fractal Image denoising [1], Neighbouring wavelet Coefficients [2] & Directional Filter Banks [3]. The survey analysis the RMSE,PSNR values obtained with various Image denoising techniques including Predictive FW Scheme, Predictive quadtree-based... | {
"abstract": "Why does fractal image compression work? What is the implicit image model underlying fractal block coding? How can we characterize the types of images for which fractal block coders will work well? These are the central issues we address. We introduce a new wavelet-based framework for analyzing block-b... | {
"abstract": "BackgroundThe Falkland Islands and Patagonia are traditionally assigned to the Magellan Biogeographic Province. Most marine species in Falkland waters are also reported from southern Patagonia. It remains unclear if relatively immobile, marine benthic, shallow-water species maintain gene flow, and by w... |
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"abstract": "Cloud computing has drawn significant attention from both academia and industry as an emerging computing paradigm where data, applications, or processing power are provided as services through the Internet. Cloud computing extends the existing computing infrastructure owned by the cloud service provide... | {
"abstract": "Constantly advancing integration capability is paving the way for the construction of the extremely large scale continuum of the Internet where entities or things from vastly varied domains are uniquely addressable and interacting seamlessly to form a giant networked system of systems known as the Inte... | {
"abstract": "ABSTRACT Cancer occurs because of an anomaly in cell structure due to the uncontrolled behavior of genes. The approach to reduce and identify the set of dominant biomarkers for malfunctioning genes which may lead to various types of cancer has been identified. A reduced Gene Prediction Graph depicting ... |
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"abstract": "Is the world breaking up into three trading blocs, one in the Americas, one in Europe and one in Pacific Asia? If so, is this deviation from the principle of MFN (nondiscriminatory trade policies) good or bad? This paper attempts to answer both questions. Using the gravity model to examine bilateral tr... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Using a gravity model of trade and the U.S. and Chinese panel data, I present evidence that supports the views that linguistic links have become more important in foreign trade than geographical proximity and that linguistic influence on trade is more significant in China than in the U.S. The ... | {
"abstract": "A consumer's preference for an offering can be influenced by the preferences of others in many ways, ranging from social identification and inclusion to the benefits of network externalities. In this article, the authors introduce a Bayesian spatial autoregressive discrete-choice model to study the pre... |
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"abstract": "We propose a new full-rate space-time block code (STBC) for two transmit antennas which can be designed to achieve maximum diversity or maximum capacity while enjoying optimized coding gain and reduced-complexity maximum-likelihood (ML) decoding. The maximum transmit diversity (MTD) construction provid... | {
"abstract": "Vertical Bell Laboratories Layered Space-Time(V-BLAST) is a novel Multi-Input Multi-Output(MIMO) antenna scheme.This paper focuses on the detection algorithms for V-BLAST.Firstly the structure of the system is introduced.And then various detection algorithms are analyzed.Finally some conclusions are dr... | {
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"title": "A RISK ASSESSMENT STUDY OF CHILDREN PRIVACY OF THE MOBILE APPs"
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"abstract": "Abstract Leaching requirement, defined as the minimum leaching fraction that maintains full crop production, was determined in field plots at the U.S. Salinity Laboratory for three crops; oat, tomato, and cauliflower. Six replicated leaching-fraction treatments were pulse-irrigated daily with water hav... | {
"abstract": "The objective of the study was to examine the production functions of industrial tomatoes (Lycopersicon esculentum cv. M-82) with saline and nonsaline water and to determine their water and leaching requirements. The experiment was conducted in small field plots on a sandy loam soil. Water was applied ... | {
"abstract": "A production function relating irrigated crop yield to the quality and supply of irrigation water is developed. It was found that the adverse effects of saline irrigation water can be offset by application of additional water over and above that required for plant transpiration. Results indicate that a... |
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"abstract": "The paper’s research purpose is to discuss the key firm-specific IT capability and its impact on the business value of IT. In the context of IT application in China, the paper builds research model based on Resource-Based View, this model describes how the partnership between business and IT management... | {
"abstract": "This study examines two dynamic capabilities which are possible intervening mechanisms by which an information systems strategy relates to information systems performance. It also explores the relevance of the dynamic capabilities absorptive capacity and agility at three different levels of environment... | {
"abstract": "The purpose of this article is to develop an instrument for measuring TQM implementation following the European Foundation for Quality Management Excellence Model and to provide empirical evidence on the relationship between management practices and measures of business performance in the model. To thi... |
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"abstract": "Using the monoclonal antibody EGFR1, normal mammary gland and a series of 213 unselected primary breast tumours were investigated immunohistochemically for expression of epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR). In normal breast EGFR was expressed in variable patterns in lobular, ductal, and myoepitheli... | {
"abstract": "The mammary myoepithelial cell was named the 'Cinderella of mammary cell biology' in light of the earlier focus on the luminal cell. Mammary myoepithelial cells have recently been described as 'natural tumour suppressors'. We now need to understand more about their origin and to reconsider their place ... | {
"abstract": "Platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF) is thought to mediate the proliferation of smooth muscle cells in injured arteries, and may be involved in the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis1. PDGF-like molecules from non-platelet sources may also play a role in the regulation of cell activity in other circumsta... |
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"abstract": "In mobile computing and other contexts, latency is a more critical resource than bandwidth. Interactive performance relies on low latency response to the user. The question of how much performance is necessary (and when) is still open. These sources of latency manifest themselves in different ways and ... | {
"abstract": "Although its popularity is widespread, the Web is well known for one particular drawback: its frequent delay when moving from one page to another. This experimental study examined whether delay and two other website design variables (site breadth and content familiarity) have interaction effects on use... | {
"abstract": "In this paper we report on the analysis of critical incidents during an urban search and rescue robot competition where critical incidents are defined as a situation where the robot could potentially cause damage to itself, the victim, or the environment. We look at the features present in the human-ro... |
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"abstract": "This paper presents an analytic characterization of a random access strategy in low data-rate networking with the provision for service differentiation. Its utility lies in the context of certain emerging network types, such as those enabling smart homes and buildings, where a set of conflicting requir... | {
"abstract": "In this paper, a unified analytical framework is established to study the stability, throughput, and delay performance of homogeneous buffered IEEE 802.11 networks with Distributed Coordination Function (DCF). Two steady-state operating points are characterized using the limiting probability of success... | {
"abstract": "This paper describes a new approach to end-to-end congestion control on a multi-user network. Rather than manually formulate each endpoint's reaction to congestion signals, as in traditional protocols, we developed a program called Remy that generates congestion-control algorithms to run at the endpoin... |
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"abstract": "Abstract Many production/inventory systems contain thousands of stock keeping units (SKUs). In general, it is not computationally (or conceptually) feasible to consider every one of these items individually in the development of control polices and strategies. Our objective here is to develop a methodo... | {
"abstract": "Group Technology (GT) is an innovative approach to batch production which seeks to rationalize a variety of aspects of the conversion process by recognizing and exploiting the underlying sameness which exists among component parts, end items, raw materials and so forth. The majority of GT applications,... | {
"abstract": "Adaptive relaying schemes significantly improve the performance of relay networks by switching the forwarding technique according to the reliability of the received signal. In this paper, semi-analytical solution for the power optimization in adaptive relay network is derived. Furthermore, the accuracy... |
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"abstract": "Cardiac computed tomographic angiography (CCTA) has evolved at an unprecedented pace over the past decade, during which time it has proven to be an accurate and effective tool for imaging of the heart in a growing list of clinical applications. However, the rapid growth in the use of CT imaging in gene... | {
"abstract": "OBJECTIVE\nThis article discusses the relatively recent adoption of effective dose in medicine that allows comparison between different imaging techniques, and describes the principles, pitfalls, and potential value of effective dose. The medical community must use this information wisely, realizing th... | {
"abstract": "A new 3D reconstruction scheme, weighted filtered backprojection (WFBP) for multirow spiral CT based on an extension of the two-dimensional SMPR algorithm is described and results are presented. In contrast to other 3D algorithms available, the algorithm makes use of all available data for all pitch va... |
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"abstract": "In vitro intracellular recording techniques in the rat brain slice preparation demonstrate that both serotonin (5-HT) and baclofen (a GABAB-receptor agonist) inhibit 5-HT neurons in the dorsal raphe nucleus by inducing a hyperpolarization of membrane potential and a decrease in apparent input resistanc... | {
"abstract": "Toshio Narahashi Department of Pharmacology Northwestern University Medical School Chicago, IL 60611 U.S.A. The transmitter-activated ion channels are known to be important target sites of a variety of therapeutic and toxic agents. The GABA-activated chloride channel has been shown to be modulated by g... | {
"abstract": "Chemical modulation of tumor blood flow has until recently received relatively little attention as a therapeutic tool. Developments in the last few years, both in technology and in drug development, have changed this perspective. Fluorescence activated cell sorting techniques have provided evidence for... |
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"abstract": "This paper implements and compares between the key concepts to enable wind power short-term frequency support from electrical and mechanical loads perspectives. Pitch de-loading, kinetic energy extraction, and wind turbine (WTG) over-speeding are investigated, where each concept is integrated as a supp... | {
"abstract": "The rate of change of frequency (RoCoF) following any disturbance in low voltage islanded microgrids is not only relatively high compared to conventional systems, but also becomes location specific due to the presence of highly resistive lines. This makes the disturbance detection challenging. A novel ... | {
"abstract": "PUF proteins bind mRNAs and regulate their translation, stability, and localization. Each PUF protein binds a selective group of mRNAs, enabling their coordinate control. We focus here on the specificity of Puf2p and Puf1p of Saccharomyces cerevisiae, which copurify with overlapping groups of mRNAs. We... |
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"abstract": "Objective: To differentiate frontotemporal dementia (FTD) subtypes from each other and from probable Alzheimer disease (AD) using neuropsychological tests. Methods: Patients with FTD and AD (n = 109) were studied with a comprehensive neuropsychological protocol at first contact. Data were subjected to ... | {
"abstract": "Objectives: To investigate whether metacognitive impairments in self-awareness and self-monitoring occur in patients with frontotemporal dementia (FTD), particularly among those with prominent social and dysexecutive impairments. Methods: Patients diagnosed with FTD were divided by clinical subtype (so... | {
"abstract": "The distribution of picture-naming errors for Broca's aphasics (n = 9), Wernicke's aphasics (n = 9), conduction aphasics (n = 9), frontal anomics (n = 7), and posterior anomics (n = 9) was examined to determine the diagnostic power of error types in picture-naming. Negated responses were associated wit... |
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"abstract": "Ictal EEG may be of great benefit in facilitating accurate classification of the underlying seizure disorder in some patients and thus guiding further investigation and management. Ictal recordings in patients with generalized epilepsies are protean in their manifestations and yet may have considerable... | {
"abstract": "ABSTRACT – Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy (JME) is a special syndrome within the primary generalized epilepsies which is characterized clinically by irregular jerks of shoulders and arms (so‐called impulsive petit mal) after awakening and electroencephalographically by bilateral‐synchronous 4–6/s spike‐wa... | {
"abstract": "Atherosclerosis is a leading cause of mortality and long-term morbidity worldwide. It is a lipoprotein-driven disease that leads to plaque formation at focal areas in the arterial blood vessels through intimal inflammation, necrosis, fibrosis, and calcification. Adventitial and intimal angiogenesis con... |
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"abstract": "Trp, Phe, and Tyr ethyl esters and their dipeptides with Gly at the C-terminals inhibited ovalbumin (OVA) permeation through Caco-2 monolayers. The inhibitory activity of Trp ethyl ester was the highest at near the concentration of 10-6 M. It was suggested that Trp ethyl ester inhibited transcellular p... | {
"abstract": "The immature small intestine of neonatal mammals is permeable to gamma globulins as a source of passive immunity. Allegedly, macromolecular absorption ceases when the epithelial cell membrane matures. However, some evidence exists that adult animals retain a limited capacity to transport antigenic and ... | {
"abstract": "Key messageThere are multiple publications onAnthuriumtransformation, yet a commercial product has not been achieved. This may be due to use of non-optimum promoters here we address this problem.AbstractDifferent promoters and tissue types were evaluated for transient β-glucuronidase (GUS) expression i... |
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"abstract": "This paper develops the theory of vibrational control of nonlinear time lag systems with arbitrarily large but bounded delay. Averaging theory for fast oscillating, differential delay equations is presented and then applied to vibrational control. Conditions are given which ensure the existence of para... | {
"abstract": "Abstract This paper addresses two problems of control of nonlinear time lag systems: (i) an existence and a synthesis of parametric vibrations for their stabilization and (ii) the transient behavior analysis of the vibrationally controlled nonlinear systems with time lags. In this work, stabi1izabi1ity... | {
"abstract": "In recent years, with the development of mobile communications and Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) as well as restrictions on limited spectrum resources, wireless spectrum resources are increasingly strained. Cognitive radio, put forward as a concept of dynamic use of spectrum, solved the problem of... |
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"abstract": "Purpose: To evaluate the outcome of bilateral symmetric and asymmetric superior rectus (SR) recessions in patients with bilateral dissociated vertical deviation (DVD) without oblique dysfunction and determine factors that might influence the surgical outcome. Design: Retrospective study. Methods: All p... | {
"abstract": "Purpose To report the surgical results on superior rectus recession (SRR) and inferior oblique anterior transposition (IOAT) for cases with isolated bilateral dissociated vertical deviation（DVD）without inferior oblique overaction (IOOA). Methods A retrospective review was conducted for cases with isola... | {
"abstract": "PURPOSE\nTo determine outcomes after anterior and nasal transposition of the inferior oblique muscle for dissociated vertical deviation (DVD) associated with inferior oblique overaction.\n\n\nMETHODS\nA total of 10 patients who had bilateral DVD with ipsilateral inferior oblique muscle overaction were ... |
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"abstract": "Background: Malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumors (MPNSTs) are uncommon but aggressive neoplasms associated with radiation exposure and neurofibromatosis Type I (NF1). Their incidence is low compared to other nervous system cancers, and intramedullary spinal lesions are exceedingly rare. Only a few ... | {
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"title": "Intramedullary malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor"
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"abstract": "The authors explored the prognostic factors and clinical outcomes of patients who had malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumors (MPNST) with and without neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF‐1).",
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"title": "Malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumors"
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"abstract": "For a decade, the second author has been dreaming of and working towards building artificial brains that consist of tens of thousands of evolved neural net circuit modules that are assembled according to the designs of human brain architects (BAs). The bottleneck with this approach is the slow evolutio... | {
"abstract": "A new class of evolutionary computation processes is presented, called Learnable Evolution Model or LEM. In contrast to Darwinian-type evolution that relies on mutation, recombination, and selection operators, LEM employs machine learning to generate new populations. Specifically, in Machine Learning m... | {
"abstract": "The goal is to perform geometric studies on cone-beam CT scanning along a three-dimensional (3D) spiral of variable radius. First, the background for variable radius spiral cone-beam scanning is given in the context of electron-beam CT/micro-CT. Then, necessary and sufficient conditions are proved for ... |
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"abstract": "Dear Editor: \n \nCongenital woolly hair is a rare disorder in Asians and Caucasians, resulting from structural defects in the hair shafts. It is characterized by tightly-coiled, fine hair involving the entire, or part of, the scalp of an individual of non-African ethnicity1. Most patients exhibit only... | {
"abstract": "Some cases of chronic idiopathic urticaria (CIU) have histamine-releasing IgG autoantibodies in their blood. This disease subgroup is called \"autoimmune urticaria\". To date, the autologous serum skin test (ASST) is the best in vivo clinical test for the detection of basophil histamine-releasing activ... | {
"abstract": "It is critically important to study the dynamic response of materials under a combined compression-shear loading for developing constitutive laws more accurately and fully. We present a novel technique to achieve the combined compression and shear loadings at high strain rates. The main apparatus consi... |
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"abstract": "Wildfires in Mexico increased in 1998, compared to information for the last 6 years. The average number of wildfires in the Mexico City Metropolitan Area (MCMA) for this year (1998) were 58% (1916 events) more events than the 1992-1997 (average cases 1217 events). Mexico City affected area corresponds ... | {
"abstract": "Abstract. In March 2006 two instrumented aircraft made the first detailed field measurements of biomass burning (BB) emissions in the Northern Hemisphere tropics as part of the MILAGRO project. The aircraft were the National Center for Atmospheric Research C-130 and a University of Montana/US Forest Se... | {
"abstract": "In this study the behavior of fracture systems under well test conditions and methods for analyzing well test data from fractured media are investigated. Several analytical models are developed to be used for analyzing well test data from fractured media. Numerical tools that may be used to simulate fl... |
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"abstract": "The empirical fact that classifiers, trained on given data collections, perform poorly when tested on data acquired in different settings is theoretically explained in domain adaptation through a shift among distributions of the source and target domains. Alleviating the domain shift problem, especiall... | {
"abstract": "Unlike human learning, machine learning often fails to handle changes between training (source) and test (target) input distributions. Such domain shifts, common in practical scenarios, severely damage the performance of conventional machine learning methods. Supervised domain adaptation methods have b... | {
"abstract": "Real-world tasks in computer vision often touch upon open set recognition: multi-class recognition with incomplete knowledge of the world and many unknown inputs. Recent work on this problem has proposed a model incorporating an open space risk term to account for the space beyond the reasonable suppor... |
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"abstract": "Substantial progress has been made recently in finding acoustic features that describe perceptually relevant aspects of sound. This paper presents a general framework for synthesizing audio manifesting arbitrary sets of quantifiable acoustic features of the sort used in music information retrieval and ... | {
"abstract": "In this paper we propose an empirical method to develop mapping strategies between a gestural-based interface (the Gloves) and physically based sound synthesis models. An experiment was conducted to investigate which gestures listeners associate with sounds synthesised using physical models, correspond... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Background The Internet Gaming Disorder Scale (IGDS) is a widely used measure of video game addiction, a pathology affecting a small percentage of all people who play video games. Emerging adult males are significantly more likely to be video game addicts. Few researchers have examined how peo... |
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"abstract": "Depictions, such as maps, that portray visible things are ancient whereas graphics, such as charts and diagrams, that portray things that are inherently not visible, are relatively modern inventions. An analysis of historical and developmental graphic inventions suggests that they convey meaning by usi... | {
"abstract": "Creative thought is invisible. Sketches of thought not only make it visible to others, so they can study creativity, and to self, to foster creativity. Sketches reveal thought, promote communication, and foster inference and discovery. A range of quantitative and qualitative data from coding sketches, ... |
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"abstract": "Energy budgets for agricultural production can be used as building blocks for life‐cycle assessments that include agricultural products, and can also serve as a first step toward identifying crop production processes that benefit most from increased efficiency. A general trend toward increased energy e... | {
"abstract": "Camelina (Camelina sativa L. Crantz), as a bioenergy and bio-product feedstock, may be grown as a rotation crop in the wheat-based cropping system to increase land use efficiency in the Northern Great Plains (NGP). In this study, which was conducted from 2008 to 2011 in central Montana, we evaluated th... | {
"abstract": "Abstract: This article reports an assessment of the global warming potential associated with the life cycle of a biopolymer (poly(hydroxyalkanoate) or PHA) produced in genetically engineered corn developed by Monsanto. The grain corn is harvested in a conventional manner, and the polymer is extracted f... |
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"abstract": "Leaf traces are important structures in higher plants that connect leaves and the stem vascular system. The anatomy and emission pattern of leaf traces are well studied in extant vascular plants, but remain poorly understood in fossil lineages. We quantitatively analysed the leaf traces in the late Per... | {
"abstract": "Preface. Acknowledgments. General References. Chapter 1. Structure and Development of the Plant Body-An Overview. Chapter 2. The Protoplast: Plasma Membrane, Nucleus, and Cytoplasmic Organelles. Chapter 3. The Protoplast: Endomembrane System, Secretory Pathways, Cytoskeleton, and Stored Compounds. Chap... | {
"abstract": "Sortable silt mean grain sizes together with oxygen and carbon isotopic data produced on the benthic foraminiferal species Fontbotia wuellerstorfi are used to construct high-resolution records of near-bottom flow vigour and deep water ventilation at a core site MD02-2589 located at 2660 m water depth o... |
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"abstract": "This paper examines the effect of cell loadings on the performance of a group based multicast algorithm implemented on the HSDPA air interface. The group based multicast scheme could offer higher QoS and capacity in a HSDPA network. However, the performance of the multicast algorithm could be affected ... | {
"abstract": "Interference performance is among the most important issues especially in WCDMA cellular networks planning coverage and capacity. F-factor has been introduced in previous works to model the interference in WCDMA downlink dimensioning process. In this paper, we establish its PDF expression assuming one ... | {
"abstract": "Simulation and modelling of the orthogonality factor (OF) in urban environments is considered. OF is one of the factors affecting the performance of the forward link in W-CDMA systems. The correlation between the OF and the RMS delay spread in microcellular conditions and LOS propagation is investigate... |
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"abstract": "Exchange interaction at the interface between magnetic layers exhibits significant contribution to the magnetic resonance frequency. The in situ tuning of the resonance frequency, as large as 10 GHz, is demonstrated in a spintronics microwave device through manipulating the interface exchange interacti... | {
"abstract": "Dual E- and H-field control of microwave performance with enhanced ferromagnetic resonance (FMR) tunability has been demonstrated in microwave composites FeGaB/PZN-PT(011). A voltage-impulse-induced non-volatile magnetization switching was also realized in this work, resulting from the hysteretic type ... | {
"abstract": "The intent of this chapter is to review high-frequency magnetic device measurements and modeling work at NIST which is being conducted to support the development of high-speed read sensors, magnetic random access memory, and magnetoelectronic applications (such as isolators and microwaves components). ... |
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"abstract": "We define a set of \"second-order\" L^(2)-signature invariants for any algebraically slice knot. These obstruct a knot's being a slice knot and generalize Casson-Gordon invariants, which we consider to be \"first-order signatures\". As one application we prove: If K is a genus one slice knot then, on a... | {
"abstract": "We give an example of a 3-component smoothly slice boundary link, each of whose components has a genus one Seifert surface, such that any metaboliser of the boundary link Seifert form is represented by 3 curves on the Seifert surfaces that form a link with nonvanishing Milnor triple linking number. We ... | {
"abstract": "We report on the frictional response and atomic process that occur when molecular fluorocarbon molecules of varying lengths are sheared between two polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) surfaces. The thicknesses of the molecular layers are also varied. The approach is classical molecular dynamics simulations ... |
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"abstract": "FROM the study of rare earth elements (REE) in basalts, spilites and hydrothermally altered basalts in the ocean floor1–5, ophiolites6,7, geosynclines3,8 and low-grade to greenschist facies regions9 it has come to be accepted that the REE are immobile during rock alteration. This conclusion has led to ... | {
"abstract": "Abstract The isolated volcano-sedimentary sequences of the Punagarh and Sindreth Groups occur along the western flank of the Delhi Fold Belt in northwest India, and include mafic rocks (pillow basalts and dolerite dykes) that are dominantly olivine tholeiites with minor quartz-normative and alkali basa... | {
"abstract": "The assessment of the economic benefits of cultural events is necessary to inform decision-making. In many cases cultural events are designed to attract tourists and the injection of tourist spending to a local economy is one of the drivers for hosting events. From an economic perspective, the impact o... |
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"abstract": "Cefepime is a fourth-generation cephalosporin that is frequently used in a wide array of infections. Since approval for use, concerns have been raised due to adverse effects including seizures, encephalopathy and myoclonus especially if renal dysfunction is present. Despite having appropriate renal dos... | {
"abstract": "This article reviews the new beta-lactam (beta-lactam) antibiotics doripenem, ceftobiprole, and ceftaroline. It covers pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic properties, dosing, in vitro activities, safety, and clinical trial results. Doripenem (Doribax) has been approved by the US Food and Drug Administr... | {
"abstract": "The discovery of drugs to treat tuberculosis (TB) was a major medical milestone in the twentieth century. However, from the outset, drug resistance was observed. Currently, of the 10 million people that exhibit TB symptoms each year, 450,000 have multidrug or extensively drug resistant (MDR or XDR) TB.... |
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"abstract": "With the rapid growth of nanotechnology and the applications of nanoparticles, environmental exposure to these particles is increasing. However, their impact in human and environmental health is not well studied. Anurans, with life stage comprising embryos, tadpoles and adults, have an extremely permea... | {
"abstract": "Particle research has been historically closely connected to industrial activities or materials, such as coal, asbestos, man-made mineral fibers, and more recently ambient particulate matter (PM). It is the purpose of this review to combine insights and developments in particle toxicology with the hist... | {
"abstract": "Schizotypal traits are of interest and importance in their own right and also have theoretical and clinical associations with schizophrenia. These traits comprise attenuated psychotic symptoms, social withdrawal, reduced cognitive capacity, and affective dysregulation. The link between schizotypal trai... |
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"abstract": "AbstractBackground\nOlder patients with longstanding type 1 diabetes have high cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk such that statin therapy is recommended independent of prior CVD events. We aimed to determine self-reported CVD prevention guideline adherence in patients with longstanding diabetes.Researc... | {
"abstract": "Diabet. Med. 29, 937–944 (2012)",
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"title": "Use of the Michigan Neuropathy Screening Instrument as a measure of distal symmetrical peripheral neuropathy in Type 1 diabetes: results from the Diabetes Control and Complications Trial/Epidemiology of Diabetes Interventions and Co... | {
"abstract": "Adriamycin (ADR) induces nonimmunological and noncytotoxic histamine release from peritoneal and pleural rat mast cells. This secretion is unaffected by the pretreatment with pertussis toxin, cholera toxin and benzalkonium chloride. Histamine release induced by compound 48/80, was markedly inhibited by... |
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"abstract": "A novel method of estimating blood pressure (BP) from Photoplethysmogram (PPG) is provided. The first 15 points of the discrete cosine transform (DCT) sequence of the PPG signal are trained as inputs of the Backpropagation neural network (BPNN), the systolic blood pressure (SBP) and diastolic blood pre... | {
"abstract": "Cuffless technique enables continuous blood pressure (BP) measurement in an unobtrusive manner, and thus has the potential to revolutionize the conventional cuff-based approaches. This study extends the pulse transit time (PTT) based cuffless BP measurement method by introducing a new indicator – the p... | {
"abstract": "Author(s): Joudaki, Shahab; Kaplinghat, Manoj; Keeley, Ryan; Kirkby, David | Abstract: We model the expansion history of the Universe as a Gaussian Process and find constraints on the dark energy density and its low-redshift evolution using distances inferred from the Luminous Red Galaxy (LRG) and Lyma... |
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"abstract": "The presence of a stratospheric haze layer may produce increases in both the actinic flux and the irradiance below this layer. Such haze layers result from the injection of aerosol-forming material into the stratosphere by volcanic eruptions. Simple heuristic arguments show that the increase in flux be... | {
"abstract": "The Montreal Protocol is working. Concentrations of major ozone-depleting substances in the atmosphere are now decreasing, and the decline in total column amounts seen in the 1980s and 1990s at mid-latitudes has not continued. In polar regions, there is much greater natural variability. Each spring, la... | {
"abstract": "We have used Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) data and sequential Landsat imagery to identify and temporally constrain two acceleration events on Pine Island Glacier (PIG). These two events are separated by a period of at least seven years (1987–1994). The change in discharge between tw... |
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"abstract": "• A 48-year-old man with a history of Parkinson's disease presented with obstructive sleep apnea.",
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"title": "Obstructive apnea with pseudo-Cheyne-Stokes breathing."
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"abstract": "The contribution of apnea to chronic hypercapnia in obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) has not been clarified. Using a model (D. M. Rapoport, R. G. Norman, and R. M. Goldring.J. Appl. Physiol. 75: 2302–...",
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"title": "CO2 homeostasis during periodic breathing in obstructive sleep ... | {
"abstract": "Chronic hypercapnia and daytime hypersomnolence in the obese patient without intrinsic lung disease — the so-called Pickwickian syndrome — has long been associated with periodic breathing.1 The recognition that obstructive sleep apnea with functional upper-airway obstruction is the mechanism of such pe... |
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"abstract": "A non-human primate antiserum was prepared to acute lymphoblastic leukemia of T-cell phenotype (T-ALL) and, after absorptions with normal blood elements, reacted by immunofluorescence and microcytotoxicity to all the T-ALL tested. In addition, the antiserum reacted with cells from about 70% of the comm... | {
"abstract": "Previous studies have demonstrated that the common acute lymphoblastic leukemia antigen (CALLA) is expressed by leukemic cells from approximately 80% of patients with non-T-cell ALL and 30%-50% of patients with chronic myelocytic leukemia in blast crisis. A small number of normal bone marrow and fetal ... | {
"abstract": "Immunological (surface-marker) tests have been used to define four subgroups of acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (A.L.L.) in childhood: T-A.L.L., B-A.L.L., common-A.L.L., and null-A.L.L. A study of 94 children shows that the common-A.L.L. subgroup achieves a much longer duration of remission than T-A.L.L.... |
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"abstract": "A sliding-level orthogonal differential evolution algorithm with a two-level orthogonal array (SLODEA2OA) is proposed for solving worst-case tolerance design problems. Tolerance affects system performance and leads to violate design constraints. By including a two-level orthogonal array, the proposed S... | {
"abstract": "A Taguchi sliding-based differential evolution algorithm with orthogonal array (TDEOA) is proposed for solving tolerance design problems. Tolerance affects system performance and leads to violation of design constraints. By including a Taguchi three-level orthogonal array, the proposed TDEOA obtains ro... | {
"abstract": "This paper investigates the attainability of the minimum average data rate for stabilization of linear systems via logarithmic quantization. It is shown that a finite-level logarithmic quantizer suffices to approach the well-known minimum average data rate for stabilizing an unstable linear discrete-ti... |
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"abstract": "In a classical classification process, automatic sleep apnea detection involves creating and selecting the features, using prior knowledge, and apply them to a classifier. A different approach is applied in this paper, where a Deep Belief Network is used for feature extraction, without using domain-spe... | {
"abstract": "The wide availability of sensing devices in the medical domain causes the creation of large and very large data sets. Hence, tasks as the classification in such data sets becomes more and more difficult. Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are very effective in classification, yet finding the best values for t... | {
"abstract": "Hazard mapping is essential to effective driver-vehicle interface (DVI) design. Determining which modality to use for situations of different criticality requires an understanding of the relative impact of signal parameters within each modality on perceptions of urgency and annoyance. Towards this goal... |
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"abstract": "BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE\nAlthough vertebral artery (VA) blood flow is adequate in normal circumstances, reduction in the dimensions of the vessel because of atherosclerosis, or compression or stretching, may lead to hindbrain hypoxia with serious clinical manifestations. Such effects may be more pronoun... | {
"abstract": "Knowledge of the anatomy of the vasculature of the head and neck from the thorax to the skull base is critical to the approach to diagnosis and treatment of cerebrovascular disease. Awareness of the anatomic variations that may be encountered, common and uncommon, is necessary to avoid diagnostic pitfa... | {
"abstract": "The purpose of this article is to review the characteristics of computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the pericardium and pericardial diseases. Because patients with pericardial diseases usually present with nonspecific symptoms, these diseases may not be detected until they ... |
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"abstract": "Dendritic cells (DCs) loaded with α-galactosylceramide (α-GalCer) are known to be active APCs for the stimulation of innate NKT and NK cell responses in vivo. In this study, we evaluated the capacity of non-DCs to present α-GalCer in vitro and in vivo, particularly tumor cells loaded with α-GalCer (tum... | {
"abstract": "Significance Both natural killer (NK) cells and γδT cells, classified as innate immune cells, recently have been shown to have features of memory cells. However, after activation, a memory fate of invariant NK T cells (iNKT cells) has not been identified. Here we show the presence of effector memory-li... | {
"abstract": "There is an increasing demand for formulations of silk fibroin (SF) scaffolds in biomedical applications. SF was crosslinked via glutaraldehyde with osteoinductive recombinant human bone morphogenic protein-2 (rhBMP2) of different ratios viz. (i) 3% SF with no rhBMP2 (SF), (ii) 3% SF with equal amount ... |
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"abstract": "A cost-effective and efficacious influenza vaccine for use in commercial poultry farms would help protect against avian influenza outbreaks. Current influenza vaccines for poultry are expensive and subtype specific, and therefore there is an urgent need to develop a universal avian influenza vaccine. W... | {
"abstract": "Current influenza vaccines provide strain-specific protection against homologous subtypes and need to be updated annually. Therefore, it is essential to develop a universal vaccine that would induce broadly cross-protective immunity against homologous and heterologous influenza A viruses. The highly co... | {
"abstract": "Significant body of evidence suggests that abnormal kynurenic acid (KYNA) level is involved in the pathophysiology of central nervous system disorders. In the brain, KYNA is synthesized from kynurenine (KYN) by kynurenine aminotransferases (KATs), predominantly by KAT II isoenzyme. Blockage of ionotrop... |
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"abstract": "Abstract: The density of [3H]prazosin binding to α1‐adrenoceptors in the rat cortex was measured after selective and mixed noradrenergic or dopaminergic lesions. DSP‐4 produced a selective noradrenergic lesion and increased the density of α1‐adrenoceptors. 6‐Hydroxydopamine produced a selective dopamin... | {
"abstract": "After peripheral nerve injury, nociceptive afferents acquire an abnormal excitability to adrenergic agents, possibly due to an enhanced expression of α1-adrenoceptors (α1-AR) on these nerve fibres. To investigate this in the present study, changes in α1-AR expression on nerve fibres in the skin and sci... | {
"abstract": "Part 1: Beginnings 1. Introduction 2. A Critical Framework Part 2: Familiar Faces 3. Awards for Teachers 4. Institutions and Teaching Excellence 5. The Contribution of Subject Disciplines Part 3: Alternative Explorations 6. Local Knowledge: 'Ordinary' Teacher and Student Perceptions 7. Internationalisa... |
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"abstract": "We describe a new system for the interactive enhancement of 2D art with 3D geometry. Repoussé creates a 3D shape by inflating the surface that interpolates the input curves. By using the mean curvature stored at boundary vertices as a degree of freedom, we are able to control the inflated surface intui... | {
"abstract": "Although reliefs are frequently used to add patterns to product surfaces, there is a lack of interaction techniques to model reliefs on the surface of virtual objects. We adopted the repoussé and chasing artwork techniques in an alternative interaction technique to model relief on virtual surfaces. To ... | {
"abstract": "Abstract In a certain strong coupling limit, compactification of the E8 × E8 heterotic string on a Calabi-Yau manifold X can be described by an eleven-dimensional theory compactified on X × S 1 / Z 2 . In this limit, the usual relations among low-energy gauge couplings hold, but the usual (problematic)... |
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"abstract": "Background: Chronic kidney disease is an increasingly prevalent health problem with the potential for poor outcome of end-stage renal disease. Hospitalized critically ill patients are prone to acute renal injury from numerous factors such as poor renal perfusion secondary to ischemia and hypotension, n... | {
"abstract": "This retrospective study of referral patterns in an individual private practice demonstrates that the family physician provides a definitive care for the large majority of patient problems in everyday practice and does not function primarily as a triage officer. Ninety-seven percent of all patient cont... | {
"abstract": "Aim To investigate the protective effect of epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG) on the immune function of dendritic cells (DCs) after ultraviolet B irradiation (UVB) and its underlying mechanisms.",
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"title": "Protective effect of epigallocatechin gallate on the imm... |
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"abstract": "Hypoxia contributes to the development of fibrosis with epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) via stimulation of hypoxia-inducible factor 1α (HIF-1α) and de novo twist expression. Although hypoxemia is associated with increasing levels of surfactant protein D (SP-D) in acute lung injury (ALI), the lo... | {
"abstract": "Epithelial–mesenchymal transition (EMT) is a pathological process that occurs in a variety of diseases, including organ fibrosis. Twist1, a basic helix–loop–helix transcription factor, is involved in EMT and plays significant roles in various fibrotic diseases. Suppression of the EMT process represents... | {
"abstract": "We investigated regulation of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) expression by hypoxia in cultured and freshly isolated rat alveolar epithelial cells (AEC). In vitro, hypoxia increased VEGF mRNA and protein levels, with maximal stimulation at 0% O2 for 18 h. A similar upregulation of VEGF expres... |
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"abstract": "BackgroundPatient-reported side effect questionnaires offer a simple method for the systematic measurement of drug-related side effects. In order to measure patients' inhaled corticosteroids (ICS) related side effect perceptions the 14-day retrospective Inhaled Corticosteroid Questionnaire (ICQ) was de... | {
"abstract": "BackgroundDirect patient reporting of adverse drug events (ADEs) is relevant for the evaluation of drug safety. To collect such data in clinical trials and postmarketing studies, a valid questionnaire is needed that can measure all possible ADEs experienced by patients.ObjectiveOur aim was to develop a... | {
"abstract": "Beta-tricalcium phosphate (beta-TCP) has been clinically used as a bone graft substitute for decades because of its excellent osteoconductivity. However, the exact mechanism(s) by which beta-TCP exerts osteoconductivity are not fully documented. This study was aimed to investigate the molecular mechani... |
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"abstract": "The increased availability of biological databases containing representations of complex objects permits access to vast amounts of data. In spite of the recent renewed interest in knowledge-discovery techniques (or data mining), there is a dearth of data analysis methods intended to facilitate understa... | {
"abstract": "In clustering, providing an explanation of the results is an important task. Pattern-based clustering algorithms provide, in addition to the list of objects belonging to each cluster, an explanation of the results in terms of a set of patterns that describe the objects grouped in each cluster. It makes... | {
"abstract": "Although vesicular trafficking is essential for a large variety of cellular processes, the regulation of vesicular trafficking is still poorly understood. Members of the Rho family of small GTPases have recently emerged as important control elements of many stages of vesicular trafficking, providing ne... |
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"abstract": "This paper presents the results from a Human-Robot Interaction study that investigates the issues of participants’ preferences in terms of the robot approach direction (directionRAD), robot base approach interaction distance (distanceRBAID), robot handing over hand distance (distanceRHOHD), robot handi... | {
"abstract": "In this paper we present a framework that allows a human and a robot to perform simultaneous manipulation tasks safely in close proximity. The proposed framework is based on early prediction of the human's motion. The prediction system, which builds on previous work in the area of gesture recognition, ... | {
"abstract": "The emergence of Mobile Mapping Systems (MMS) has set a marked paradigm in the photogrammetric and mapping community that has not only facilitated comprehensive 3D mapping of different environments but has also paved way for new aspects of applied research in this direction. Out of the many essential b... |
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"abstract": "The mechanical, electrical, and autonomy aspects of designing a novel, modular, and reconfigurable cleaning robot, dubbed as sTetro (stair Tetro), are presented. The developed robotic platform uses a vertical conveyor mechanism to reconfigure itself and is capable of navigating over flat surfaces as we... | {
"abstract": "This paper presents an online complete coverage algorithm for cleaning robots based on boustrophedon motions combined with A* search algorithm. In our approach, while performing a boustrophedon motion to cover an unvisited area in the workspace, the robot detects and stores backtracking points. To exec... | {
"abstract": "Gait is a commonly used biometric for human recognition. Its main advantage relies on its ability to identify people at distances at which other biometrics fail. In this paper, we develop a new approach for gait recognition that combines the distance transform with curvatures of local contours. We call... |
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"abstract": "Background and the purpose of the study During the last two decades one of the most important problems in drug formulations has been low aqueous solubility of new molecules. However, numerous techniques, such as milling, co-solvent solubilization and solid dispersion have been used conventionally for a... | {
"abstract": "The solubility, bioavailability and dissolution rate of drugs are important parameters for achieving in vivo efficiency. The bioavailability of orally administered drugs depends on their ability to be absorbed via gastrointestinal tract. For drugs belonging to Class II of pharmaceutical classification,... | {
"abstract": "Hyperbranched 3D SrS/CdS nanostructures were synthesized using a one pot hydrothermal method. Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM) and Field Emission-Scanning Electron Microscopy (FE-SEM) analysis showed the formation of flower-like structure and the crystalline phase was confirmed by powder X-ray di... |
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"abstract": "BACKGROUND\n5% to 8% of 70-year-olds and some 10% of persons over age 80 have atrial fibrillation (AF).\n\n\nMETHODS\nSelective literature review.\n\n\nRESULTS\nNew scoring schemes (CHA(2)DS(2)-VASc score, HAS-BLED score) have been introduced to enable more accurate estimation of the risk of stroke and... | {
"abstract": "ZusammenfassungDas 12-Kanal-Oberflächenelektrokardiogramm (12-Kanal-EKG) ist für die Intensivmedizin, v. a. für die Diagnostik des akuten Koronarsyndroms und von Herzrhythmusstörungen, von großer Bedeutung. Unter den Arrhythmien unterscheidet man Bradykardien (Kammerfrequenz < 50/min) und Tachykardien ... | {
"abstract": "Drug-induced hepatotoxicity represents a major clinical problem and an impediment to new medicine development. Serum biomarkers hold the potential to provide information about pathways leading to cellular responses within inaccessible tissues, which can inform the medicinal chemist and the clinician wi... |
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"abstract": "Thomas J. Sargent has fundamentally changed and, in the words of Art Rolnick, who interviewed him in 2010, “irrevocably transformed” the field of macroeconomics—whether as sole author, as co-author with collaborators, as an author influenced by others, or as a teacher of the profession, influencing oth... | {
"abstract": "A crucial challenge for economists is figuring out how people interpret the world and form expectations that will likely influence their economic activity. Inflation, asset prices, exchange rates, investment, and consumption are just some of the economic variables that are largely explained by expectat... | {
"abstract": "This paper examines the performance of the Systematic Investment Plan (SIP) and different market timing strategies. The components of the NIFTY50 index are considered for the analysis. The empirica...",
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"title": "Systematic investment plans vs market-timed inve... |
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"abstract": "Dr Martin Mihm is an internist, a dermatologist, a pathologist and a humanist. It is natural then that the complexity of Hansen’s disease would interest him not only as a medical subject but also as a deeply overwhelming human condition of global impact. His contributions to the field of Hansen’s disea... | {
"abstract": "Leprosy is a granulomatous disease affecting the skin and nerves caused by Mycobacterium leprae. It continues to be a significant public health problem. Multidrug therapy (MDT) cures the infection, but immunological reactions may occur and neuropathy may lead to disability and deformity. It is importan... | {
"abstract": "Cell adhesion-dependent activation of ERK1/2 has been linked functionally to focal adhesion dynamics. We previously reported that in adherent vascular smooth muscle (VSM) cells, CaMKII mediates ERK1/2 activation in response to Ca(2+)-mobilizing stimuli. In the present study, we tested whether CaMKII re... |
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"abstract": "Dear Sir, I read with interest the article entitled ‘‘Prospective study of intra-abdominal pressure following major elective abdominal surgery’’ by Scollay et al. [1]. The authors measured the intra-abdominal pressure (IAP) in 42 patients after elective laparotomy for various foregut and hepatopancreat... | {
"abstract": "BackgroundStudies in emergency surgical patients have shown that raised intra-abdominal pressure may adversely affect organ function. The major aim of the present study was to establish the incidence of intra-abdominal hypertension (IAH) in patients undergoing major elective abdominal surgery. A second... | {
"abstract": "BackgroundThis experimental, randomized, controlled study was designed to investigate the effects of increased intraabdominal pressure (IAP) on colocolic anastomoses. To our knowledge, this is the first study to address this important issue.MethodsFor this study, 50 Wistar albino rats were randomized i... |
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"abstract": "The erythrocyte glutathione S-transferase (e-GST) is a member of a superfamily of inducible enzymes involved in cell detoxification that shows an increased expression in chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients. We propose a new automated analysis procedure for e-GST activity that has been validated in 72... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Background. Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a condition of impaired homeostasis of blood thiols characterized by a severe hyperhomocysteinemia (HH) and abnormal expression of the red blood cell glutathione (GSH)-consuming enzyme GSH S-transferase (eGST) (Galli et al., Clin Chem 1999). The corr... | {
"abstract": "Transmission of mechanical stimuli through the actin cytoskeleton has been proposed as a mechanism for rapid long-distance mechanotransduction in cells; however, a quantitative understanding of the dynamics of this transmission and the physical factors governing it remains lacking. Two key features of ... |
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"abstract": "It is with great sadness that the African Studies community has learnt of the death of Professor Patrick Chabal. Patrick was a member of the Critical African Studies Advisory Board and he will be greatly missed. This journal previously housed a debate on his recent work Africa: The Politics of Sufferin... | {
"abstract": "This article addresses the concern that democratization may contribute to the reproduction of neo-patrimonialism, rather than to counteract it. The article reports the result of a survey among members of parliament in Ghana regarding their election campaigns. Total spending, sources of funds, and their... | {
"abstract": "The Global report on urban health: equitable, healthier cities for sustainable development, 2016 presents new data on the health of urban residents from nearly 100 countries, updating the first joint WHO-UN Habitat global report on urban health titled Hidden cities: unmasking and overcoming health ineq... |
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"abstract": "A new MATLAB toolbox for computing eigenvalues and invariant subspaces of Hamiltonian and skew-Hamiltonian matrices is described. Based on orthogonal symplectic decompositions, the implemented algorithms are both numerically backward stable and structure-preserving. It will be demonstrated how this too... | {
"abstract": "Skew-Hamiltonian and Hamiltonian eigenvalue problems arise from a number of applications, particularly in systems and control theory. The preservation of the underlying matrix structures often plays an important role in these applications and may lead to more accurate and more efficient computational m... | {
"abstract": "On decrit des sous-programmes efficaces pour calculer les matrices de reponse en frequence liees aux modeles d'espace d'etat dans la theorie de la commande",
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"title": "Algorithm 640: Efficient calculation of frequency response matrices from state space models"
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"abstract": "A model of the chemostat involving two species of microorganisms competing for two perfectly complementary, growth-limiting nutrients is considered. The model incorporates distributed time delay in the form of integral differential equations in order to describe the time involved in converting nutrient... | {
"abstract": "Competitive exclusion is frequently observed in the chemostat when multiple species compete exploitatively for a single growth-limiting nutrient. However, rigorous mathematical proof for competitive exclusion is very limited, especially for delayed chemostat models with differential removal rates. In t... | {
"abstract": "This second edition is really a new book incorporating Dr Bailey's earlier monograph on the theory of epidemics. More than half the book is new and the wider scope is indicated by the more general title. The purpose of the book is to give fairly wide coverage of mathematical theory relevant to modellin... |
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"abstract": "ABSTRACT We investigated the presence of endophytic rhizobia within the roots of the wetland wild rice Oryza breviligulata, which is the ancestor of the African cultivated rice Oryza glaberrima. This primitive rice species grows in the same wetland sites as Aeschynomene sensitiva, an aquatic stem-nodul... | {
"abstract": "ABSTRACT Bradyrhizobium strains, isolated in New Caledonia from nodules of the endemic legume Serianthes calycina growing in nickel-rich soils, were able to grow in the presence of 15 mM NiCl2. The genomes of these strains harbored two Ni resistance determinants, the cnr and nre operons. By constructin... | {
"abstract": "Studies on N balance due to N inputs and outputs and soil N retention to measure cropping system performance and environmental sustainability are limited due to the complexity of measurements of some parameters. We measured N balance based on N inputs and outputs and soil N retention under dryland agro... |
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"abstract": "Artificial metalloenzymes for asymmetric catalysis were created by in vivo incorporation of unnatural metal binding amino acids into LmrR.",
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"title": "Novel artificial metalloenzymes by in vivo incorporation of metal-binding unnatural amino acids† †Electronic supplementary inf... | {
"abstract": "The bidentate metal binding amino acid bipyridylalanine (BpyAla) was incorporated into a disulfide linked cyclic peptide phage displayed library to identify metal ion binding peptides. Selection against Ni(2+)-nitrilotriacetic acid (NTA) enriched for sequences containing histidine and BpyAla. BpyAla pr... | {
"abstract": "The red palm weevil, Rhynchophorus ferrugineus (Olivier) (Coleoptera, Curculionidae), is a widely distributed pest which has recently become the major pest of palms in the Mediterranean Basin. This weevil has been recorded on 19 different palm species, however, the host status of Washingtonia filifera ... |
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"abstract": "Compact motor with high torque and wide speed range is the primary requirement for in-wheel electric vehicle application. Axial flux permanent magnet (AFPM) brushless direct current (BLDC) motors are an interesting solution for electric vehicles, because of their shape, flexibility, compactness, robust... | {
"abstract": "Now-a-days, BLDC motors are gaining popularity rapidly. BLDC motors are highly used in industries. These motors do not use brushes for commutation, instead of that, they are electronically commutated. As compared to Brushed DC motor and Induction motor, BLDC motors have many advantages. The aim of this... | {
"abstract": "Alfred system suggests that ear shape can be used as a unique and comparable feature for identity recognition. In this paper, we aim to extract ear shape features for recognition. Active Shape Models (ASMs) is applied to model the shape and local appearance of the ear in a statistical manner. In additi... |
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"abstract": "Atrial fibrillation (AF) is one of the most common arrhythmias seen in clinical practice. The incidence of AF increases with age and is seen in up to 8.9% of individuals greater than 80 years of age.1 Although many treatment modalities are available for AF, curative therapy has recently become possible... | {
"abstract": "Anatomy of Pulmonary Veins. Introduction: Electrophysiologic studies have shown that spontaneous initiation of atrial fibrillation (AF) by ectopic heats may originate from within pulmonary veins. The extensions of left atrial myocardium are considered to play a role, but there is little detailed anatom... | {
"abstract": "This paper discusses the influences on food and farming of an increasingly urbanized world and a declining ratio of food producers to food consumers. Urbanization has been underpinned by the rapid growth in the world economy and in the proportion of gross world product and of workers in industrial and ... |
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"abstract": "[1] Elsayed H, Poullis M. Does tricuspid valve pathophysiology affect outcome in patients having tricuspid valve interventions? Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 2009;35:193. [2] Guenther T, Noebauer C, Mazzitelli D, Busch R, Tassani-Prell P, Lange R. Tricuspid valve surgery: a thirty-year assessment of early an... | {
"abstract": "OBJECTIVE\nTricuspid valve (TV) surgery is usually performed as a concomitant reconstruction procedure in addition to the correction of other cardiac pathologies. Isolated tricuspid procedures are exceptionally rare. Prosthetic valve replacement is also seldom required. Generally, these patients face a... | {
"abstract": "Response criteria in acute myeloid leukemia (AML) has recently been re-established, with morphologic examination utilized to determine whether patients have achieved complete remission (CR). Approximately half of the adult patients who entered CR will relapse within 12 months due to the outgrowth of re... |
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"abstract": "Thermal radiation from sample and detector can affect internally modulated Michelson interferometers (for example, rapid scanning, phase-modulated, or internally chopped) and cause serious systematic errors in the spectra measured by these instruments.",
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"abstract": "Abstract Details of the theory of phase modulation are given for two-beam interferometers and compared with the more common amplitude modulation. The application to Fourier spectrometry is discussed in detail and the forms of the transmission and refraction spectra are given. The effects of noise are c... | {
"abstract": "Abstract The formation of orographic wakes and vortices is studied within the context of numerically simulated viscous flow with uniform basic-state wind and stability past elongated free-slip ridges. The viscosity and thermal diffusivity are sufficiently large that the onset of small-scale turbulence ... |
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"abstract": "To understand the physical and evolutionary determinants of protein folding, we map out the complete organization of thermodynamic and kinetic properties for protein sequences that share the same fold. The exhaustive nature of our study necessitates using simplified models of protein folding. We obtain... | {
"abstract": "With the help of a simple 20‐letter lattice model of heteropolymers, we investigated the energy landscape in the space of designed good‐folder sequences. Low‐energy sequences form clusters, interconnected via neutral networks, in the space of sequences. Residues that play a key role in the foldability ... | {
"abstract": "Satellite DNA specific to the oat C genome was sequenced and located on chromosomes of diploid, tetraploid, and hexaploid Avena ssp. using in situ hybridization. The sequence was present on all seven C genome chromosome pairs and hybridized to the entire length of each chromosome, with the exception of... |
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"abstract": "Previously, we have shown that vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs) exhibit varied physiological responses when exposed to altered gravitational conditions. In the present study, we focused on elucidating whether the cell surface glycocalyx could be a potential gravity sensor. For this purpose, a rolle... | {
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"title": "Chlorate: a reversible inhibitor of proteoglycan sulfation."
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"abstract": "The concept of endothelium‐derived relaxing factor (EDRF) put forward in 1980 by Furchgott and Zawadzki implies that nitric oxide (NO) produced by NO synthase (NOS) in the endothelium diffuses to the underlying vascular smooth muscle, where it modulates vascular tone as well as vascular smooth muscle c... |
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"abstract": "Objective The aim of this study was to compare the efficacy and side effect profile of atosiban with hexoprenaline when used for intrauterine resuscitation of intrapartum fetal distress.",
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"title": "A prospective randomised trial of atosiban versus hexoprenaline for acute toc... | {
"abstract": "Severe fetal distress in labor is an obstetric emergency which may result in the delivery of a severely asphyxiated baby or even death of the fetus. This problem may be compounded by a hurried mechanical vaginal delivery or by delay before a cesarean section can be performed. The rationale for using a ... | {
"abstract": "OBJECTIVE\nTo examine infant feeding intentions of HIV-infected and uninfected women and the appropriateness of their choices according to their home resources; and to determine their adherence to their intentions in the first postnatal week.\n\n\nMETHODS\nFeeding intentions of pregnant women were comp... |
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"abstract": "PURPOSE OF THE STUDY\nThe aim of the study was to assess the clinical outcomes and permanent sequelae of pelvic fractures at one year after injury and to identify factors that influenced these results.\n\n\nMATERIAL AND METHODS\nThe group evaluated consisted of 151 patients older than 15 years treated ... | {
"abstract": "Introduction The close anatomical relationship between the skeletal and connective systems of the pelvis, neurological, and vascular structures and pelvic organs are predisposing factors for structural and functional damages of the urogenital system. Materials and methods We performed PUBMED and MEDLIN... | {
"abstract": "Insulin pumps for children with type 1 diabetes have been broadly adopted despite equivocal evidence about comparative effectiveness. To understand why and inform policy related to public funding for new technologies, we explored how physicians interpret the value of pumps. We conducted open-ended, sem... |
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"abstract": "The ten member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) constitute an economic powerhouse, yet these countries also harbor a mostly hidden burden of poverty and neglected tropical diseases (NTDs). Almost 200 million people live in extreme poverty in ASEAN countries, mostly in the lo... | {
"abstract": "Objective\nNeglected tropical diseases (NTDs) continue to be a public health problem in the Philippines. We assessed the association of soil-transmitted helminthiasis (STH) and schistosomiasis with selected health-related and socioeconomic variables in four villages in Leyte, Philippines.\n\n\nMethods\... | {
"abstract": "Recently, multiple locomotion gaits of snake have been realized by snake robots. However, previous locomotion gaits are mainly limited on two-dimensional plane. In this study, we make a snake robot that can move in three-dimensional space by connecting several units serially. The each unit is composed ... |
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"abstract": "The organic Rankine cycle (ORC) presents a great potential in the efficient heat–power conversion of low and medium temperature (<350°C) thermal energy. Dual-pressure evaporation ORCs can significantly reduce the exergy loss in the endothermic process. While, variations of optimal cycle parameters and ... | {
"abstract": "Abstract The working fluid has a crucial effect on the thermodynamic performance of the organic Rankine cycle (ORC) system. Trans-1,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene, R1234ze(E), is a new-typed environmental friendly and safe organic fluid that presents a great potential to be used in ORC systems. This study fo... | {
"abstract": "Microelectromechanical resonators are advantageous over traditional LC tanks in transceiver circuits due to their high quality factors (Q > 10000), small size and low power consumption. These characteristics enable monolithic integration of MEMS-based resonators as high-performance filters and oscillat... |
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"abstract": "Abstract Quantitative and molecular genetic research requires large samples to provide adequate statistical power, but it is expensive to test large samples in person, especially when the participants are widely distributed geographically. Increasing access to inexpensive and fast Internet connections ... | {
"abstract": "Language difficulties have historically been viewed as integral to autism spectrum conditions (ASC), leading molecular genetic studies to consider whether ASC and language difficulties have overlapping genetic bases. The extent of genetic, and also environmental, overlap between ASC and language is, ho... | {
"abstract": "Using a sample of 13,500 adolescents (53% female and 47% male) who participated in all four waves of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, this study used multilevel regression to examine the influence of early structural community adversity (as measured by rates of community poverty, s... |
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"abstract": "The textile industries hold an important position in the global industrial arena because of their undeniable contributions to basic human needs satisfaction and to the world economy. These industries are however major consumers of water, dyes and other toxic chemicals. The effluents generated from each... | {
"abstract": "A generalized kinetic model is proposed for the first time for dye removal using polyelectrolytes in application of polyelectrolyte enhanced ultrafiltration. Three polyelectrolyte-dye systems, reported in the literature have been taken up for case studies. Different cases, namely, nature of dye and pol... | {
"abstract": "Abstract A batch process of polymer enhanced ultrafiltration (PEUF) for the removal of Cu(II) ions from aqueous effluents has been developed in an installation equipped with mineral membranes at laboratory scale. It has been proposed a model based on mass conservation equations and kinetics of complex ... |
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"abstract": "Quantifying the exploitable gap between average farmer yields and yield potential (Y P ) is essential to prioritize research and formulate policies for food security at national and international levels. While irrigated maize accounts for 58% of total annual maize production in the Western U.S. Corn Be... | {
"abstract": "Shoot dry weight of maize (Zea mays L.) depends on the amount of photosynthetically active radiation intercepted by the crop (IPAR). The present work was conducted to analyze the variation in shoot dry weight production and its partitioning to reproductive sinks when seasonal changes of temperature and... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Analyses were performed to evaluate the hypothesis that, under conditions of good water availability, variations in yield in the Argentine wheat belt were related to variations in the photothermal quotient (Pq, the ratio of mean daily incident short-wave radiation to mean daily temperature in ... |
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"abstract": "This paper proposes a new interacting multiple (IM) filter containing simplified unscented Kalman filter (UKF) -based subfilters with different heading initializations for a low-performance inertial sensors-based inertial navigation system (INS)/global positioning system (GPS) -integrated navigation sy... | {
"abstract": "The loose and tight coupling algorithms of GPS/INS integrated navigation system are studied, and the accuracy of integrated navigation system in different coupling modes is analyzed. The optimal estimation on the error states of inertial navigation system and satellite navigation system is made by mean... | {
"abstract": "This paper presents a low cost analog test system with diagnosis capabilities. The tester is able to detect faults in any linear circuit by learning a reference plant behavior in a first step, and comparing this behavior against the output of the circuit under test in a second step. For a faulty circui... |
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"abstract": "This paper analyzes the maximal power loss in the output diode of flyback switching converter operating in both continuous conducting mode (CCM) and discontinuous conducting mode (DCM). Comparing with the previous work, this paper extends the condition, under which the maximal power loss of the output ... | {
"abstract": "Appropriate simulation models of converters under heavy loads are crucial for designing a high reliability converter system. This paper presents the modeling and simulation of flyback DC-DC converters operating in heavy loads such as over-current and under-voltage modes, based on the concept of energy ... | {
"abstract": "In high speed applications, slotless permanent magnet (PM) motors appear an attractive solution, being almost insensitive to magneto-motive force harmonics and to pulsewidth modulation (PWM) current ripple and exhibiting lower stator iron losses and rotor losses (significant with squarewave current con... |
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"abstract": "Creative Commons Non Commercial CC-BY-NC: This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits noncommercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission ... | {
"abstract": "To the editor: Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) with t(1;22) (p13.3;q13.1); RBM15MKL1 fusion is a rare type of AML with recurrent genetic abnormalities and shows megakaryocytic phenotype (AMLK).1 It usually affects infants without Down syndrome (DS), is associated with marked hepatosplenomegaly, and consti... | {
"abstract": "Metaphysics annotations on Internet topics are looked with quoted sentences and phrases derived from Heidegger (H) and Leibniz (L)",
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"abstract": "Macroscopic and 3D superaligned CNT (SACNT) sponges are fabricated through a simple, low-cost, controllable, and scalable self-assembly method without using organic binder. Sponges with specific shapes and densities can be achieved. SACNT sponges are ultralight (1-50 mg cm-3 ), highly porous (97.5%-99.... | {
"abstract": "It is one of the most important needs to develop renewable, scalable and multifunctional methods for the fabrication of 3D carbon architectures. Even though a lot of methods have been developed to create porous and mechanically stable 3D scaffolds, the fabrication and control over the synthesis of such... | {
"abstract": "Acid pretreatment of lignocellulosic biomass, required for bioethanol production, generates large amounts of by-products, such as lignin and hydrolyzed hemicellulose fractions, which have found so far very limited applications. In this work, we demonstrate how the recovered hemicellulose hydrolysis pro... |
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"abstract": "Between March 1996 and December 1997, 15 consecutive patients with carotid artery occlusion diagnosed with duplex sonography were treated with intravenous recombinant tissue plasminogen activator (rt‐PA), following a protocol similar to that of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Strok... | {
"abstract": "BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE\nControlled multicenter studies have demonstrated the efficacy of systemic recombinant tissue-type plasminogen activator (rtPA) treatment in selected cases of acute ischemic stroke. The feasibility of this therapeutic option in clinical practice was assessed in a community-based ... | {
"abstract": "INTRODUCTION The American Association of Endodontists (AAE) and the American Academy of Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology (AAOMR) have jointly developed this position statement. It is intended to provide scientifically based guidance to clinicians regarding the use of cone beam computed tomography (CBCT... |
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"abstract": "Kidneys play a vital role in long-term regulation of blood pressure. This is achieved by actions of many renal and nonrenal factors acting on the kidney that help maintain the body's water and electrolyte balance and thus control blood pressure. Several endogenously formed or circulating hormones/pepti... | {
"abstract": "Background Angiotensin II type 1 receptor (AT1R)–associated protein (ATRAP; Agtrap gene) promotes AT1R internalization along with suppression of pathological AT1R activation. In this study, we examined whether enhancement of ATRAP in the renal distal tubules affects sodium handling and blood pressure r... | {
"abstract": "Background: Proteins have the fundamental ability to selectively bind to other molecules and perform specific functions through such interactions, such as protein-ligand binding. Accurate prediction of protein residues that physically bind to ligands is important for drug design and protein docking stu... |
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"abstract": "This study estimated cognitive awareness and the predictors of self-rating in patients with epilepsy (PWE). The Multiple Ability Self-Report Questionnaire (MASQ), State-Trait Anxiety Inventory, and Beck Depression Inventory were used for self-evaluation. Neuropsychological assessment yielded five singl... | {
"abstract": "OBJECTIVES\nThis study describes the effects of active music therapy (AMT) on cognition and behaviour in chronic vascular encephalopathy.\n\n\nDESIGN\nA single case study investigated different cognitive and psycho-behavioural changes after AMT.\n\n\nSETTING\nAn adult patient with memory, attention, an... | {
"abstract": "In October 1931 I had the privilege of reading before the Society a paper which was based on a study of cases of head injury examined during the acute stage. A follow-up investigation of these and other cases has been made, and I find that I now have records of 200 patients who have reported for ^-exam... |
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"abstract": "ABSTRACT Here, we present the draft genome sequences for five bacterial strains. These strains were all isolated from seagrass (Zostera marina) collected from Bodega Bay, CA, as a part of an undergraduate research project focused on seagrass-associated microbes.",
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"title": "Dr... | {
"abstract": "Background We recently described FastTree, a tool for inferring phylogenies for alignments with up to hundreds of thousands of sequences. Here, we describe improvements to FastTree that improve its accuracy without sacrificing scalability. Methodology/Principal Findings Where FastTree 1 used nearest-ne... | {
"abstract": "Motivation: Metagenomics is a recent field of biology that studies microbial communities by analyzing their genomic content directly sequenced from the environment. A metagenomic dataset consists of many short DNA or RNA fragments called reads. One interesting problem in metagenomic data analysis is th... |
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"abstract": "Abstract Recent research suggests that psychosocial resources and life stressors are mediating pathways explaining socioeconomic variation in young adults' health risks. However, less research has examined both these pathways simultaneously and their genetic moderation. A nationally representative samp... | {
"abstract": "Childhood adversity negatively impacts the biological development of children and has been linked to poor health outcomes across the life course. The purpose of this literature review is to explore and evaluate the effectiveness of interventions that have addressed an array of biological markers and ph... | {
"abstract": "While much has been written on the difference between diagrammatic and sentential representations (sometimes also called propositional or symbolic representations), the explanations don’t address the fact that, when viewed as marks on paper, interpreting the marks in both cases involves use of visual p... |
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"abstract": "Convection-enhanced drug delivery (CED) enables achieving a drug concentration within brain tissue and brain tumors that is orders of magnitude higher than by systemic administration. Previous phase I/II clinical trials using intratumoral convection of interleukin-4 Pseudomonas exotoxin (PRX321) have d... | {
"abstract": "In spite of aggressive multi-modality treatments, patients diagnosed with anaplastic astrocytoma and glioblastoma continue to display poor median survival. The success of our current conventional and targeted chemotherapies are largely hindered by systemic- and neurotoxicity, as well as poor central ne... | {
"abstract": "Interleukin (IL)-13 receptor α2 (IL-13Rα2) chain is an essential binding component for IL-13-mediated ligand binding. Recently, we have demonstrated that this receptor chain also plays an important role in the internalization of IL-13. To study the mechanism of IL-13 internalization, we generated mutat... |
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