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"abstract": "Neurospora crassa incorporated exogenous deuterated palmitate (16∶0) and 14C-labeled oleate (18∶1Δ9) into cell lipids. Of the exogenous 18∶1Δ9 incorporated, 59% was desaturated to 18∶2Δ9,12 and 18∶3Δ9,12,15. Of the exogenous 16∶0 incorporated, 20% was elongated to 18∶0, while 37% was elongated and desa... | {
"abstract": "So far, reviews that have appeared on fungal lipids present data mainly on the lipid composition of these organisms and the influence of lipids on their physiology. These reviews provide little information about the enzymes of lipid metabolism in these organisms and it is assumed, by most workers, that... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Four new mononuclear cationic four-coordinate Cu(I) complexes supported by N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC) ligands bearing electron-donating/withdrawing groups and diphosphine ligand were successfully synthesized. All of these complexes have high stability with thermal decomposition temperatures ... |
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"abstract": "Study Type – Therapy (case series)
Level of Evidence 4",
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"title": "‘LESS’ radical prostatectomy: a pilot feasibility study with a personal original technique"
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"abstract": "PurposeLike other branches of surgery, Urology has encountered major challenges in aligning the research processes by which new interventions are assessed with the principles of Evidence-Based Medicine. This article explains the IDEAL framework and recommendations and illustrates how they might affect ... | {
"abstract": "OBJECTIVE\nTo study communication disability in stroke patients with aphasia.\n\n\nPATIENTS AND METHODS\nProspective, multicentric cohort study of patients with aphasia, consecutively included after a first stroke, and examined 1 year later at home. Assessment included a stroke severity scale, the Bart... |
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"abstract": "A recent work reported a local stability analysis of a thermo-economical model of an irreversible heat engine working under maximum power conditions. That work showed that after small perturbations to the working temperatures, the system decreases exponentially to the steady state characterized by two ... | {
"abstract": "The efficiency at maximum power output of linear irreversible Carnot-like heat engines is investigated based on the assumption that the rate of irreversible entropy production of the working substance in each \"isothermal\" process is a quadratic form of the heat exchange rate between the working subst... | {
"abstract": "In the present study, the cadmium’s effect on anti-oxidative enzymes in tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum) plants was evaluated. Plants treated with increasingly CdCl2concentrations (0, 20, 40, 80, 100 and 200 �M respectively) were grown in a basic nutrient solution for 7 days. APX (Ascorbate Peroxidase)... |
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"abstract": "In recent years we have witnessed the wide-spread evolution of support tools that operate in association with the user to accomplish a range of computer-mediated tasks. Two examples of these tools are critics and recommenders. Critics are cooperative tools that observe the user interacting with a compu... | {
"abstract": "Recommender systems attempt to predict the preference/ratings that a user would give to an item. Traditional collaborative filtering give recommendation to a user based on its similarity of ratings with the ratings of other users in the system. But they face issues such as sparsity, cold start problem,... | {
"abstract": "Decimation filters are widely used in communication-embedded systems. In fact, decimation filters are useful for implementing channel filtering or selection with low-computation complexity requirements. Many multistandard receiver designs that are required in ubiquitous embedded systems are based on a ... |
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"abstract": "In this paper trajectory tracking problem in marine vessels under model errors isaddressed. In the wake of the results obtained in Serrano et al. (2013), the problem of modelerrors is focused and the zero convergence of tracking errors under polynomial uncertainties isdemonstrated. A simple design meth... | {
"abstract": "Este trabajo muestra el diseño de un controlador adaptable para un buque marino; la estrategia de control que se propone es la aplicación de un controlador basado en álgebra lineal para la cinemática y una técnica de control adaptable para la parte dinámica del buque. El controlador basado en álgebra l... | {
"abstract": "Auto theft makes a substantial contribution to the crime statistics of the United States. Eleven percent of all Uniform Crime Report index crimes in 1989 and 12 percent of crimes reported in the Victim Risk Supplement to the National Crime Survey comprised thefts of and from vehicles. Auto theft is eve... |
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"abstract": "Design requirements now appear in the 2005 AISC Seismic Provisions for Structural Steel Buildings (AISC, 2005b), referred to herein as The Provisions, for steel plate shear walls (SPSWs) that are designed such that their web plates buckle in shear and develop diagonal tension fi eld action when resisti... | {
"abstract": "Introducing a fast and accurate method to estimate the seismic demand and capacity of first-mode-dominated multi-degree-of-freedom systems in regions ranging from nearelastic to global collapse. This is made possible by exploiting the connection between the Static Pushover (SPO) and the Incremental Dyn... | {
"abstract": "A novel proximity-coupled probe-fed stacked patch antenna is proposed for Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) applications. The antenna has been designed to operate for the satellite navigation frequencies in L-band including GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, and Compass (1164-1239 MHz and 1559-1610 MHz). ... |
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"abstract": "This auto-ethnography discusses the arrest of a researcher engaged in the study of female street prostitution. The event becomes a way to reflect on the nature of the recently implemented measures for dealing with commercial sex in Italy, and the consolidation process of a new penal ethic based on prev... | {
"abstract": "WHEN EVERETT HUGHES TAUGHT ME at the University of Chicago in the late 1940s, we were trained in Participant Observation (PO), although we also called it fieldwork. We were already aware, however, that PO was an umbrella word covering several combinations of participation and observation and that diffe... | {
"abstract": "Re-entry into society after imprisonment is problematic. However, politically motivated prisoners can potentially draw on their collective solidarity and social legitimacy to smooth re-entry. That possibility is examined by focusing on ex-combatants in South Africa and Northern Ireland who organised ag... |
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"abstract": "UNLABELLED\nIn this study we aimed to determine current distribution and short-term analgesic effects of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) in fibromyalgia using different electrode montages. For each electrode montage, clinical effects were correlated with predictions of induced cortical c... | {
"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nTranscranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) enhances treatment outcomes post-stroke. Feasibility and tolerability of high-definition (HD) tDCS (a technique that increases current focality and intensity) for consecutive weekdays as an adjuvant to behavioral treatment in a clinical populat... | {
"abstract": "Epidemiological and clinical data indicate high comorbidity between depression and drug dependence that may reflect an attempt to self-medicate with drugs of abuse. The present review examines whether these two psychiatric disorders are related by attempting to identify similarities in the neurobiology... |
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"abstract": "Xerogels and porous materials for specific applications such as catalyst supports, CO2 capture, pollutant adsorption, and selective membrane design require fine control of pore structure, which in turn requires improved understanding of the chemistry and physics of growth, aggregation, and gelation pro... | {
"abstract": "Five organic aerogels were prepared simultaneously by polycondensation of resorcinol and formaldehyde using different alkali carbonates (M(2)CO(3), M = Li, Na, K, Rb and Cs) as basification agents. The gelation time depended on the carbonate used, increasing from Li(2)CO(3) to Cs(2)CO(3). The porosity ... | {
"abstract": "Many drugs have progressed through preclinical and clinical trials and have been available – for years in some cases – before being recalled by the FDA for unanticipated toxicity in humans. One reason for such poor translation from drug candidate to successful use is a lack of model systems that accura... |
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"abstract": "A novel sandwich-like MnO2/g-C3N4 nanocomposite (NC) based on the integration of high-density MnO2 nanorods (NRs) onto the surfaces of two-dimensional (2D) g-C3N4 sheets has been successfully fabricated through a facile soft chemical route at low temperature. The MnO2/g-C3N4 NC electrode enhanced the s... | {
"abstract": "Although the use of nickel oxide in supercapacitor electrodes has been reported extensively, the effect of incorporating copper in the binary compound is not known. Arrays of nickel copper oxide nanowires on the current collector via a simple and industrially compatible route have been successfully syn... | {
"abstract": "The fatigue lives and damage mechanisms of Sn-Ag-X (X=Bi and Cu) solder alloys under creep-fatigue interaction mode have been investigated, and the adaptability of the strain partitioning approach to the creep-fatigue of these alloys was examined. Symmetrical and asymmetrical saw-tooth strain profiles ... |
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"abstract": "A farmscape study was conducted in commercial sweetpotato (Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam) fields in Columbus County, NC, in 2010 and 2011 to investigate the effects of the following field conditions: soil drainage class, soil texture, field size, border habitat, land elevation, and the previous year's crop ... | {
"abstract": "ABSTRACT \n The distribution of phytophagous stink bugs and associated boll injury in margins of cotton fields bordering various agronomic crops and woodlands were studied in 2007 and 2008. Two commercial cotton fields, ranging in size from 7.8 to 12.1 ha in Barnwell and Lee Counties, SC, were sampled ... | {
"abstract": "The sweetpotato [Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam.] ‘Ruddy’ was developed jointly by the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture (USDA), Agricultural Research Service (ARS), and the South Carolina Agriculture Forestry Research System. ‘Ruddy’ is an attractive, red-skinned, orange-fleshed cultivar with multiple resistance to... |
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"abstract": "This paper presents a TCAD study on the performance of Si and Ge-GaAs hetrojunction dopingless tunnel field effect transistor (TFETs). Si tunnel device have low on current. So hetrojunction architecture is combined with dopingless structure for improving on current with smaller off current. Dopingless ... | {
"abstract": "It is well-known that conventional field effect transistors (FETs) require a change in the channel potential of at least 60 mV at 300 K to effect a change in the current by a factor of 10, and this minimum subthreshold slope S puts a fundamental lower limit on the operating voltage and hence the power ... | {
"abstract": "Summary One-dimensional perovskites are an interesting material for energy and optoelectronic applications. However, exploring the full wealth of architectures these materials could allow, through multi-element doping of A-sites and B-sites, is still a challenge. Here, we report a high-yield synthetic ... |
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"abstract": "Abstract Most scheduling/lot sizing models for the single-machine problem assume that aggregate demand equals aggregate production; and that backorders are to be avoided. Where working inventories are low, the scheduler may wish to avoid short production runs and willingly incur some backorder penaltie... | {
"abstract": "Conventional production scheduling makes use of a minimum cost production quantity. Since cost is relatively insensitive to the production quantity within some range of the minimum cost production quantity, substantial freedom of action can be given the production scheduler provided he stays within som... | {
"abstract": "Purpose \n \n \n \n \nThe purpose of this paper is to empirically examine the moderating role of organisational culture on the relationship between empowerment and the three dimensions of organisational commitment amongst flight attendants working in a collectivist organisation and an individualist org... |
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"abstract": "A charge-density model of urea was calculated using quantum theory and was refined against publicly available ultra-high-resolution X-ray diffraction data. The quantum model differs from a multipole model but agrees comparably with the data; quantum crystallography therefore can provide unique and accu... | {
"abstract": "Bergenin, which has been isolated from a variety of tropical plants, has several pharmacological applications in traditional Asian medicine. Its electron-density distribution was obtained from a room-temperature low-resolution X-ray data set measured with point detection making use of multipole populat... | {
"abstract": "A method that combines transmission of air-coupled ultrasound pulses through solid plates and amplitude and phase spectral analysis is presented. In particular, the method analyzes the first thickness resonance of the plates. The purpose is to determine, simultaneously, velocity and attenuation coeffic... |
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"abstract": "Despite improvements in understanding biophysical response to climate change, a better understanding of how such changes will affect societies is still needed. We evaluated effects of climate change on the coupled human–environmental system of the McKenzie River watershed in the Oregon Cascades in orde... | {
"abstract": "In recent years increasing attention has been focused on understanding the different resources that can support decision makers at all levels in responding to climate variability and change. This article focuses on the role that access to information and other potential constraints may play in the cont... | {
"abstract": "West Nile disease, caused by the West Nile virus (WNV), is a mosquito-borne zoonotic disease affecting humans and horses that involves wild birds as amplifying hosts. The mechanisms of WNV transmission remain unclear in Europe where the occurrence of outbreaks has dramatically increased in recent years... |
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"abstract": "Recent neuroscience studies have been concerned with how aimed movements are generated on the basis of target localization. However, visual information from the surroundings as well as from the target can influence arm motor control, in a manner similar to known effects in postural and ocular motor con... | {
"abstract": "To perceive the relative positions of objects in the visual field, the visual system must assign locations to each stimulus. This assignment is determined by the object's retinal position, the direction of gaze, eye movements, and the motion of the object itself. Here we show that perceived location is... | {
"abstract": "SummaryIn this study, a visual target was localized by both limb and eye. The experimental procedure provided an opportunity to analyze the limb movement trajectories to the target whose location was displaced during saccades. Absence of visual information about position of the moving limb did not inte... |
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"title": "Fast Marching farthest point sampling for point clouds and implicit surfaces"
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"abstract": "We present a benchmark for the evaluation and comparison of algorithms which reconstruct a surface from point cloud data. Although a substantial amount of effort has been dedicated to the problem of surface reconstruction, a comprehensive means of evaluating this class of algorithms is noticeably absen... | {
"abstract": "For Disney's Moana, water was a dominant part of island life, in fact it had a life of itfis own. Presenting itself as a character, water was ever present, in a multitude of shapes and scales. An end-to-end water pipeline was developed for this film [Garcia et al. 2016], including the creation of propr... |
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"abstract": "The objectives of this study were to measure in vivo an instantaneous partition coefficient of xenon, and to estimate the effect of it on calculated flow values obtained from washout experiments. The results suggest that the calculated xenon clearance based on the static equilibrium partition coefficie... | {
"abstract": "SummaryIn dogs anaesthetized with pentobarbital hepatic blood flow measured with electromagnetic flowmeters placed on the hepatic artery and the portal vein was 142 ± 10.2 ml.min−1.100 g−1. The flow estimated with the hydrogen clearance technique was 64 ± 4.4 per cent, with the Xe133 wash-out technique... | {
"abstract": "In a previous paper (1) we have described a method of following the disappearance of intravenously injected colloidal radioactive gold from the circulation in man and have discussed the possibilities of calculating liver blood flow from the disappearance rate constant as the fraction of blood volume pe... |
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"abstract": "Adjuvant therapy of breast cancer is accepted as a useful method for reducing mortality in patients with histologically axillary involved lymph nodes. Polychemotherapy regimens and hormonal treatment procedures are used to reach this goal. Hormonal treatment seems to be useful especially in selected pa... | {
"abstract": "The results of preliminary investigations into specific immunohistochemical detection of the estrogen receptor in breast cancer tissue by means of monoclonal antibodies are presented. Thirty-one tumor tissue samples stored in a tumor tissue bank for between 10 and 35 months were immunohistochemically s... | {
"abstract": "A number of experiments have been carried out in two large wave tanks with three different radar systems. The radar frequency, grazing angle, azimuth angle, water wavelength, wave steepness and the breaking wave strength were all varied systematically. The velocity of the peak Doppler power spectral de... |
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"abstract": "As of this writing, the automatic recognition of spontaneous speech by computer is fraught with errors; many systems transcribe one out of every three to five words incorrectly, whereas humans can transcribe spontaneous speech with one error in twenty words or better. This high error rate is due in par... | {
"abstract": "State-of-the-art automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems are usually based on hidden Markov models (HMMs) that emit cepstral-based features which are assumed to be piecewise stationary. While not really robust to noise, these features are also known to be very sensitive to \"auxiliary\" information,... | {
"abstract": "In this paper I argue that Optimality Theory provides for an explanatory model of syllabic parsing in English and French. The argument is based on psycholinguistic facts that have been mysterious up to now. This argument is further buttressed by the computational implementation developed here. This mod... |
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"title": "A PROGRAMMING INTERFACE FOR MEDICAL DIAGNOSIS PREDICTION"
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"abstract": "Association rules, introduced by Agrawal, Imielinski, and Swami, are rules of the form “for 90% of the rows of the relation, if the row has value 1 in the columns in set W , then it has 1 also in column B”. Efficient methods exist for discovering association rules from large collections of data. The nu... | {
"abstract": "In recent years, multi-layer feedforward neural networks have been popularly used for pattern classification, function approximation and regression problems. Methods using standard back-propagation learning algorithm perform gradient descent only in the weight space of a network with fixed topology. Re... |
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"abstract": "The paper surveys possible configurations of a coupling capillary column operating in various electromigration modes. Special attention is given to capillary isotachophoresis-capillary zone electrophoresis (cITP-CZE) coupling and its description from the theoretical point of view. Computer simulations ... | {
"abstract": "A capillary isotachophoretic (cITP) method to determine the concentration of 3-methylhistidine (3-MeHis) in meat and meat products is described. A clear separation of the 3-MeHis from histidine, 1-methylhistidine and other components of acidic sample hydrolyzate was achieved within 20 min. Method chara... | {
"abstract": "Abstract This paper reports results of a study conducted to investigate the causes of cracks noted on concrete beams in a student facility on a university campus. Cracks were noted on the beams within 6 months of construction. They increased in size within a month. Field and laboratory investigations w... |
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"abstract": "Due to the limitation of rapid development of specific antiviral drug or vaccine for novel emerging viruses, an accurate and rapid diagnosis is a key to manage the virus spread. We developed an efficient and rapid method with high specificity for the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus (MERS-C... | {
"abstract": "\n Abstract\n \n Clinical detection of Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) coronavirus (MERS-CoV) in patients is achieved using genetic diagnostic methods, such as real-time RT-PCR assay. Previously, we developed a reverse transcription-loop-mediated isothermal amplification (RT-LAMP) assay for the... | {
"abstract": "Transformation of atrazine to hydroxyatrazine in the environment may be underestimated by current assessment schemes since immobilization and further transformation of the metabolite can render parent-to-daughter compound ratios unreliable. This study reports significant C and N isotope fractionation o... |
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"abstract": "While previous studies have examined the growth and yield response of rice to continued increases in CO2 concentration and potential increases in air temperature, little work has focused on the long‐term response of tropical paddy rice (i.e. the bulk of world rice production) in situ, or genotypic diff... | {
"abstract": "Rice is the staple food for more than 50% of the world's population1–3. Reliable prediction of changes in rice yield is thus central for maintaining global food security. This is an extraordinary challenge. Here, we compare the sensitivity of rice yield to temperature increase derived from field warmin... | {
"abstract": "Abstract An attempt is made to estimate the temperature changes resulting from doubling the present CO2 concentration by the use of a simplified three-dimensional general circulation model. This model contains the following simplications: a limited computational domain, an idealized topography, no beat... |
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"abstract": "A systematic and detailed study has been designed and conducted, taking into account some of the proposed benefits such as increased efficiency, transparency, unique texture, protection of active ingredient and higher consumer compliance of cosmetics containing nano‐sized metal oxides.",
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"abstract": "Recent research is revealing combinations of disturbed oncogenic and tumor-suppressive signaling pathways by altered or missing genes in skin cancers: mutated PTCH (in the mitogenic Sonic Hedgehog pathway) and mutated p53 tumor suppressor gene in basal cell carcinomas (BCC), possibly an activated mitog... | {
"abstract": "The Microsponge Delivery System (MDS) is a unique technology for the controlled release of topical agents and consists of macroporous beads, typically 10-25 microns in diameter, loaded with active agent. When applied to the skin, the MDS releases its active ingredient on a time mode and also in respons... |
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"abstract": "The CAFE regulations will require average fuel consumption of cars and light duty trucks to be reduced from 27 mpg to 54.5 mpg by 2025. In order to reach this requirement, automakers have to improve both the vehicle powertrain efficiency and the vehicle weight. Polymer composite materials are a preferr... | {
"abstract": "Resin transfer/compression molding (RT/CM) is a two-step process in which resin injection is followed by mold closing. This process can enhance the resin flow speed and the fiber volume fraction, as well as reducing the mold filling time. In this study, a simulation program for the mold filling process... | {
"abstract": "A technique based on matching the refractive index of an invading liquid to that of a fiber mat has been used to study entrapment of air (“voids”) that occurs during forced in-plane radial flow into nonwoven multifilament glass networks. The usefulness of this technique is demonstrated in quantifying a... |
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"abstract": "IMPORTANCE\nMammary Analogue Secretory Carcinoma (MASC) is a newly characterized salivary gland carcinoma resembling secretory carcinoma of the breast. Prior to being described, MASC was most commonly misdiagnosed as Acinic Cell Carcinoma. Though MASC is predominantly an adult neoplasm, cases have been... | {
"abstract": "The Clinco-pathological, immunohistochemical and molecular findings of four cases of Mammary Analogue Secretory Carcinoma (MASC) of salivary glands found in Mexico are described. The cases were extracted from 253 salivary gland tumors from a single institution in Mexico City. The 85 candidates for init... | {
"abstract": "Mammary analogue secretory carcinoma is a recently described salivary gland neoplasm defined by ETV6-NTRK3 gene fusion. Mammary analogue secretory carcinoma's morphology is not entirely specific and overlaps with other salivary gland tumors. Documenting ETV6 rearrangement is confirmatory, but most labo... |
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"abstract": "To investigate causes, diagnostics and treatment modalities for persistent socket pain (PSP) after enucleation and evisceration.",
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"title": "Persistent socket pain postenucleation and post evisceration: a systematic review"
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"abstract": "PURPOSE\nTo study possible causes of persistent pain in patients who underwent enucleation of the globe and in whom all other noninvasively detectable causes of pain had been ruled out.\n\n\nMETHODS\nTwenty patients were studied, 10 with intractable pain (score >5 on a 0-to-9 self-reporting pain scale)... | {
"abstract": "Purpose: To assess the problems associated with the use of 4 types of porous orbital implant (Bio-Eye coralline hydroxyapatite, FCI3 synthetic hydroxyapatite, aluminium oxide [Bioceramic], and porous polyethylene [Medpor]) after evisceration surgery. Methods: A retrospective analysis was made of all ca... |
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"abstract": "Kinetics of polymer surfactant interactions and the effect of surfactant binding on the conformational dynamics of the polymer were explored in this work using surface plasmon resonance spectroscopy. Polyacrylic acid was modified with thiol to varying degrees so as to force the polymer to form differen... | {
"abstract": "In this paper the development of a surface plasmon resonance (SPR) immunosensor for syphilis screening is described. This immunosensor is based on the detection of antibodies in serum against the causative organism Treponema pallidum. In order to achieve selectivity a recombinant Treponema pallidum mem... | {
"abstract": "Surface plasmon resonance (SPR) detection requires no labelling of antigen or antibodies and allows quantification of two or more interacting molecular species. The automated SPR instrument used here consists of an optical detection unit, an integrated liquid handling unit, and an autosapler. A first m... |
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"abstract": "The structure of nanocrystalline anatase (TiO2) was successfully refined from electron powder diffraction data using the Rietveld technique. A polycrystalline sample (average crystal size about 70 A) was characterised by selected area electron diffraction in a conventional transmission electron microsc... | {
"abstract": "The statistical features of the amplitudes obtained via precession electron diffraction have been studied, with particular concern with their effects on direct phasing procedures. A new algorithm, denoted by BEA, is described: according to it, the average amplitude of the symmetry equivalent reflection... | {
"abstract": "Modern electron microscopes have resolutions in the range 1.8–2.4 Å which is, in principle, sufficient for structure determination at atomic resolution. High-resolution electron microscopy (HREM) has been widely used for studies of inorganic materials1, and computerized image processing of electron mic... |
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"abstract": "The synthesis of metal nano materials with controllable geometry has received extensive attention of researchers from the past decade. In this study, we report an unexplored new route for rapid and facile biogenic synthesis of silver nanocubes (AgNCs) by systematic reduction of silver ions with crude c... | {
"abstract": "SiO2 coated silver nanocubes Ag@SiO2 with enhanced surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) and metal enhanced photoluminescence (MEPL) sensitivity were synthesized and characterized. The silver nanocubes (NCs) were synthesized by the polyol method and modified, first with different coupling agents, su... | {
"abstract": "Silver nanoparticles prepared through a borohydride-reduction method were directly coated with silica by means of a seeded polymerization technique based on the Stober method. Various amine catalysts were used for initialization of a sol-gel reaction of TEOS with no need for a prior surface modificatio... |
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"abstract": "Due to the limited spectrum resource availability, an unoccupied spectrum will be found to opportunistically use the vacant primary licensed user's spectrum. Challenge is to find the unoccupied band without information about the position or carrier frequency of the sub-band in the spectrum of interest.... | {
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"corpus_id": 708548,
"title": "Theoretical results for sparse signal recovery with noises using generalized OMP algorithm"
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"abstract": "The sophistication possible in a software defined radio has now reached a level where each radio can conceivably perform many beneficial tasks that help the user and network. It can also minimize the spectral congestion. If a radio could use favourable frequencies and choose waveforms that would minimi... |
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"abstract": "A preliminary meta-analysis using the p-curve method (Simonsohn, Nelson, & Simmons, 2014) was performed on a subset of the learned categorical perception literature to explore the robustness of the phenomenon. Only studies using novel visual categories and behavioral measures were included. The results... | {
"abstract": "Can behavior be unconsciously primed via the activation of attitudes, stereotypes, or other concepts? A number of studies have suggested that such priming effects can occur, and a prominent illustration is the claim that individuals' accuracy in answering general knowledge questions can be influenced b... | {
"abstract": "IntroductionBiomarkers can be useful for identifying or ruling out sepsis, identifying patients who may benefit from specific therapies or assessing the response to therapy.MethodsWe used an electronic search of the PubMed database using the key words \"sepsis\" and \"biomarker\" to identify clinical a... |
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"abstract": "This paper takes up again the study of the Jacobi and Watson identities that have been derived combinatorially in several manners in the classical literature.",
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"title": "Jacobi and Watson Identities Combinatorially Revisited"
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"abstract": "We give a simple proof of the well-known quintuple product identity. The strategy of our proof is similar to a proof of Jacobi (ascribed to him by Enneper) for the triple product identity.",
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"title": "Another simple proof of the quintuple product identity"
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"abstract": "Abstract. Let G be a compact torus acting on a compact symplectic manifold M in a Hamiltonian fashion, and T a subtorus of G. We prove that the kernel of $ \\kappa : H^\\ast_G(M) \\to H^\\ast(M//G) $ is generated by a small number of classes $ \\alpha \\in H^\\ast_G(M) $ satisfying very explicit restri... |
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"abstract": "Purpose: Patients with idiopathic clubfoot are considered at increased risk for having developmental dysplasia of the hips (DDH). However, the studies showing this association have been relatively small. Many clinicians who treat idiopathic clubfoot routinely screen the hips of these patients with ultr... | {
"abstract": "In a prospective study over 11 years we assessed the relationship between neonatal deformities of the foot and the presence of ultrasonographic developmental dysplasia of the hip (DDH). Between 1 January 1996 and 31 December 2006, 614 infants with deformities of the foot were referred for clinical and ... | {
"abstract": "BackgroundHereditary hearing loss is a heterogeneous class of disorders showing various patterns of inheritance and involving many genes. Mutations in the EYA4 gene are responsible for postlingual, progressive, autosomal dominant hearing loss at the DFNA10 locus.MethodsWe report on a Chinese family wit... |
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"abstract": "The Southeast South American shelf large marine ecosystem (SSASLME) extends roughly over the entire continental shelf off southeastern South America, from 23° to 55°S, the largest shelf in the southern hemisphere. Distinctive bathymetry, hydrography, productivity and biological communities characteri... | {
"abstract": "We conducted a comprehensive survey of existing knowledge about exotic marine organisms introduced to the southwestern Atlantic Ocean, including coastal and shelf areas of Uruguay and Argentina. This domain is equivalent to the so-called Patagonian Shelf Large Marine Ecosystem, and corresponds to two b... | {
"abstract": "We employ a climate-driven hydrological water balance and sediment transport model (HydroTrend) to simulate future climate-driven sediment loads flowing into the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna (GBM) mega-delta. The model was parameterised using high-quality topographic data and forced with daily temperature... |
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"abstract": "An indirect organocatalytic method for the beta-methylation of alpha,beta-unsaturated aldehydes that involves the addition of bis(arylsulfonyl)methane catalyzed by prolinol derivatives and further elimination of the chameleonic sulfonyl groups is presented.",
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"title": "The org... | {
"abstract": "A Lewis base assisted Brønsted base catalysis (LBABB) strategy is applied for direct asymmetric vinylogous alkylation of allylic sulfones with Morita-Baylis-Hillman (MBH) carbonates, in which a strong Brønsted base, tert-butoxy anion, generated in situ from a tertiary amine catalyst and MBH carbonate, ... | {
"abstract": "Schiff bases, named after Hugo Schiff, are aldehyde- or ketone-like compounds in which the carbonyl group is replaced by imine or azomethine group. They are widely used for industrial purposes and also have a broad range of applications as antioxidants. An overview of antioxidant applications of Schiff... |
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"abstract": "There are different levels of energy law and this chapter details the three levels: international, national and local. The reader is introduced to the key international treaties and organisations which set energy law and policy. The chapter then explains national and local energy law with examples from... | {
"abstract": "Comparative assessment of accident risks in the energy sector is a key aspect in a comprehensive evaluation of sustainability and energy security concerns. Safety performance of energy systems can have important implications on the environmental, economic and social dimensions of sustainability as well... | {
"abstract": "On December 26, 2004, a 9.0-magnitude earthquake occurred off the northwest coast of Sumatra, Indonesia. The subsequent tsunami caused unprecedented destruction throughout the Indian Ocean basin1. In eleven nations, millions were injured and/or displaced and, although estimates vary, as many as 300,000... |
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"abstract": "Abstract We consider two types of generalized self-duality conditions for Yang-Mills fields on paracomplex manifolds of arbitrary dimension. We then specialize to 3 + 3 dimensions and show how one can obtain the KP equation from these self-duality conditions on SL (2, R ) valued gauge fields.",
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"abstract": "We present self-dual N=2 supergravity in superspace for Euclidean seven dimensions with the reduced holonomy G2⊂SO(7), including all higher-order terms. As its foundation, we first establish N=2 supergravity without self-duality in Euclidean seven dimensions. We next show how the generalized self-duali... | {
"abstract": "The positions of objects, which include topographical features and man-made structures on and below Earth’s surface or under water, can be determined by various techniques. These techniques include photogrammetry and remote sensing, satellite positioning, hydrographic surveys, and terrestrial survey te... |
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"abstract": "AIMS AND OBJECTIVES\nTo explore health care professionals' perspective of hospice at home service that has different components, individually tailored to meet the needs of patients.\n\n\nBACKGROUND\nOver 50% of adults diagnosed with a terminal illness and the majority of people who have cancer, prefer ... | {
"abstract": "BackgroundPrimary care physicians provide palliative home care. In cancer patients dying at home in the Netherlands (45% of all cancer patients) euthanasia in about one out of every seven patients indicates unbearable suffering. Symptom prevalence, relationship between intensity of symptoms and unbeara... | {
"abstract": "Wellhouse NHS Trust moved its inpatient services to the new Barnet General Hospital in 1997 and merged with Chase Farm Hospital NHS Trust in 1999. To assist with the trust's management of resulting changes in care provision, a short project was conducted to examine the nursing services provided by ward... |
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"abstract": "We study the Sign_then_Encrypt, Commit_then_Encrypt_and_Sign, and Encrypt_then_Sign paradigms in the context of two cryptographic primitives, namely designated confirmer signatures and signcryption. Our study identifies weaknesses in those paradigms which impose the use of expensive encryption (as a bu... | {
"abstract": "Aggregate signatures provide bandwidth-saving aggregation of ordinary signatures. We present the first unrestricted instantiation without random oracles, based on the Boneh-Silverberg signature scheme. Moreover, our construction yields a multisignature scheme where a single message is signed by a numbe... | {
"abstract": "Abstract We present some discrete functional analysis tools for the proof of convergence of numerical schemes, mainly for equations including diffusion terms such as the Stefan problem or the Navier–Stokes equations in the incompressible and compressible cases. Some of the results covered here have bee... |
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"abstract": "Listeria monocytogenes is an important foodborne pathogen which its data in Iranian dairy products is limited. A total of 545 samples of traditional dairy products (raw milk, traditional cheese, traditional butter, traditional curd, and traditional ice cream) were collected from traditional dairy shops... | {
"abstract": "The incidence of Listeria and Listeria monocytogenes in European red smear cheese was determined in order to assess whether the lack of recent outbreaks of listeriosis associated with cheese is due to improved hygenic conditions in the dairies. Out of European red-smear cheese samples of various types,... | {
"abstract": "Abstract The gliricidia ( Gliricidia sepium )/maize intercropping system holds promise for increasing productivity in maize-based cropping systems on depleted soils in Southern Africa. The effect of the intercrop on soil properties was investigated to better understand soil processes underlying maize y... |
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"abstract": "This paper presents an active harmonic elimination method to eliminate any number of specific higher order harmonics of multilevel converters with equal or unequal dc voltages. First, resultant theory is applied to transcendental equations characterizing the harmonic content to eliminate low order harm... | {
"abstract": "This paper introduces a new multilevel converter topology that has many steps with fewer power electronic switches. The proposed circuit consists of series-connected submultilevel converters blocks. The optimal structures of this topology are investigated for various objectives, such as minimum number ... | {
"abstract": "An active power-factor correction (PFC) circuit is presented that employs a newly proposed resistor-free zero-current detection (ZCD). While the conventional ZCD requires either a sensing resistor or auxiliary transformer, the proposed ZCD requires only one OFF-chip capacitor. The active PFC circuit wi... |
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"abstract": "Linear dimensionality reduction methods, such as LDA, are often used in object recognition for feature extraction, but do not address the problem of how to use these features for recognition. In this paper, we propose Probabilistic LDA, a generative probability model with which we can both extract the ... | {
"abstract": "I-vector extraction and Probabilistic Linear Discriminant Analysis (PLDA) has become the state-of-the-art configuration for speaker verification. Recently, Gaussian-PLDA has been improved by a preliminary length normalization of i-vectors. This normalization, known to increase the Gaussianity of the i-... | {
"abstract": "The automatic identification of security vulnerabilities is a critical issue in the development of web-based applications. We present a methodology and tool for vulnerability identification based on symbolic code execution exploiting Static Taint Analysis to improve the efficiency of the analysis. The ... |
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"abstract": "Oxidative \nstress has been implicated as one of the causes in cell death in many neurodegenerative disorders. Due to antioxidative properties in vitro, the use of flavonoids and other polyphenolic compounds synthesised by plants are considered to be a promising \nstrategy to prevent Alzheimer’s diseas... | {
"abstract": "We have studied the hypothesis that 6,7-dihydroxy-1-methyl-1,2,3,4-tetrahydroisoquinoline (salsolinol) is neurotoxic. Salsolinol induced a significant time and dose related inhibition of 3[4,5-dimethylthiazol-2-yl]-2,5-diphenyltetrazolium bromide; thiazoyl blue (MTT) reduction, and increased lactate de... | {
"abstract": "&NA; Defects in complex I and &agr;‐ketoglutarate dehydrogenase (&agr;‐KGDH) occur in the substantia nigra in Parkinson's disease (PD). Isoquinoline derivatives structurally related to 1‐methyl‐4‐phenyl‐1,2,3,6‐tetrahydropyridine (MPTP) or 1‐methyl‐4‐phenylpyridinium (MPP+) are implicated in the cause ... |
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"abstract": "We describe a polyacrylamide gel casting cassette that overcomes limitations of commercially available gel electrophoresis equipment. This apparatus molds a single polyacrylamide gel that can evaluate more than 200 samples in parallel, is loaded with a multichannel pipettor, and is flexible with respec... | {
"abstract": "This article describes approaches for identifying proteins that bind conserved or functional DNA motifs. It discusses the use of consensus sequence databases to identify candidate proteins capable of binding a DNA motif of interest and then explains the potential uses of sophisticated mass spectrometry... | {
"abstract": "C.I. Reactive Blue 2 analogues were bonded onto an agarose support matrix by a novel method which entailed immobilisation by the anthraquinone ring 1-amino group as opposed to the usual triazine ring coupling methods. Dyes with spacer arms attached to the anthraquinone ring 1-amino group were synthesis... |
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"abstract": "SummaryHeifers were superovulated by PMSG or FSH, and oestrus was induced by prostaglandin. One group of animals was ovariectomized 19–26 h after the LH peak, the content of preovulatory follicles aspirated, and the oocytes processed for in vitro fertilization. Another group was inseminated and ova wer... | {
"abstract": "Cow ova and embryos were recovered in 1-16-cell stages and studied by light and electron microscopy. Events associated with normal fertilization and early development in other species were documented by observations of acrosome-reacted sperm cells embedded in the matrix of the zona pellucida, presence ... | {
"abstract": "Rosin esters were prepared by heating rosin with glycerol and intermediate reaction products with different acid values were withdrawn. Salicylic acid granules were encapsulated using a 10 per cent solution of rosin esters in acetone. The coated microcapsules were evaluated for moisture absorption, flo... |
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"abstract": "High-voltage LiNi0.5Mn1.5O4 is a promising cathode candidate for lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) due to its considerable energy density and power density, but the material generally undergoes serious capacity fading caused by side reactions between the active material and organic electrolyte. In this work... | {
"abstract": "Abstract In this work, we successfully use ultralong γ-MnOOH microrods to synthesize ultralong spinel LiNi0.5Mn1.5O4 microrods through high temperature solid state reaction, which allows to drastically increase the content of residual Mn3+ ions (up to 61.3%) along with oxygen deficiency (up to 0.44) in... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Structural changes in solid solutions formed between the cubic normal spinel, LiMn 2 O 4 , and ordered inverse spinel, Li 0.5 Fe 2.5 O 4 , have been investigated by X-ray powder diffraction and infrared spectroscopic techniques. By refining the X-ray diffraction patterns with Rietveld profile ... |
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"abstract": "Cranial radiotherapy improves survival of the most common childhood cancers, including brain tumors and leukemia. Unfortunately, long-term survivors are faced with consequences of secondary neoplasia, including radiation-induced meningiomas (RIMs). We characterized 31 RIMs with exome/NF2 intronic seque... | {
"abstract": "Background\nMeningiomas are the most common primary tumor of the central nervous system. The relationship between meningioma and progestins is frequently mentioned but has not been elucidated.\n\n\nPatients and methods\nWe identified 40 female patients operated for a meningioma after long-term progesti... | {
"abstract": "An experimental study was carried out in hamster tongue cancer induced with 9,10-dimethyl-1,2-benzanthracene (DMBA) to examine the association between the histological features and the incidence of lymph node metastases. Squamous cell carcinoma was induced in 64 of 71 hamsters exposed to DMBA 3 times w... |
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"abstract": "With the spread of Machine-to-Machine (M2M) systems and cloud services, various kinds of data are available through Web services. A context-aware service recognizes a real-world context from such data and behaves autonomously based on the context. However, it has been challenging to manage contexts and... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Smart metering is aimed at efficient energy management. Its potential may be revealed using recent advances in machine type communications. This paper presents an approach to design web services for residential power control with prepaid functionality. The reduction in energy consumption is es... | {
"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nNeedle localization breast biopsy (NLBB) is the standard for removal of breast lesions after vacuum assisted core biopsy (VACB). Disadvantages include a miss rate of 0% to 22%, a positive margin rate of approximately 50%, and vasovagal reactions (approximately 20%). We hypothesized that cli... |
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"abstract": "BackgroundIn China, there was a pressing need to establish a governmental agency to oversee the organizations that provide public health and medical services. The Chinese Health Inspection Authority (HIA), a relatively independent organization functioning at each administrative level (provincial, munic... | {
"abstract": "The right to privacy, especially with regard to personal health condition, seems to be an issue in China. Illegal access to personal information and illegal disclosure of personal information to others constitute the infringement of the Personal Privacy Act. Although the privacy right has been governed... | {
"abstract": "One quarter of all TB cases occur in China, which, during the past 20 years has moved from a planned economy to a socialist market economy. In the health sector, an important proportion of the financing originates from user payment. TB control is not an exception and different programmatic models are i... |
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"abstract": "Abstract A small-volume fluorescent dye viability assay has been successfully applied to a conduction cryomicroscope freezing-thawing stage as a means of determining post-thaw survival of the nucleated mammalian cell HeLa S-3. The survival signature for HeLa S-3 cells has been determined, revealing an ... | {
"abstract": "Conventional cryosurgical process employs extremely low temperatures to kill tumor cells within a closely defined region. However, its efficacy can be markedly compromised if the same treatment method is administrated for highly irregularly shaped tumors. Inadequate controls of freezing may induce tumo... | {
"abstract": "ABSTRACT Understanding how some HIV-infected cells resist the cytotoxicity of HIV replication is crucial to enabling HIV cure efforts. HIV killing of CD4 T cells that replicate HIV can involve HIV protease-mediated cleavage of procaspase 8 to generate a fragment (Casp8p41) that directly binds and activ... |
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"abstract": "To address complications of pathogenic antibody or life-threatening anaphylactic reactions in protein replacement therapy for patients with hemophilia or other inherited protein deficiencies, we have developed a prophylactic protocol using a murine hemophilia B model. Oral delivery of coagulation facto... | {
"abstract": "Infantile Pompe disease progresses to a lethal cardiomyopathy in absence of effective treatment. Enzyme-replacement therapy (ERT) with recombinant human acid alpha-glucosidase (rhGAA) has been effective in most patients with Pompe disease, but efficacy was reduced by high-titer antibody responses. Immu... | {
"abstract": "This work is focused on the fabrication of a new drug delivery system based on polyanionic matrix (e.g. sodium alginate), polycationic matrix (e.g. chitosan) and silica network. The FT-IR, SEM, DTA-TG, eukaryotic cell cycle and viability, and in vitro assay of the influence of the biocomposite on the e... |
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"abstract": "Most of t he avai lable m e t h o d s to t e s t for mac romolecu la r synthes i s , e i ther wi th i n t ac t ceils or cell ex t r ac t s are t ime cons u m i n g and allow on ly a l imi ted n u m b e r of samples to be ana lysed a t t he s ame t ime. W e describe a rap id me thod , wh ich is based on... | {
"abstract": "Administration of phenobarbital or 3-methylcholanthrene to animals markedly enhances the activity of several reduced triphosphopyridine nucleotide-dependent enzyme systems in liver microsomes (l-5). Although the resistance of these enzyme systems to solubihzation and purification has prevented definiti... | {
"abstract": "A TMSBr/InBr3-promoted Prins cyclization/homobromination reaction of dienyl alcohol with aldehyde has been developed to construct a unique cis-E THP shown as the A ring in (-)-exiguolide and the B ring in bryostatins.",
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"abstract": "The network metaphor in the analysis of urban and territorial cases has a long tradition, especially in transportation or land-use planning and economic geography. More recently, urban design has brought its contribution by means of the ‘space syntax’ methodology. All these approaches—though under diff... | {
"abstract": "We use complex network concepts to analyze statistical properties of urban public transport networks (PTN). To this end, we present a comprehensive survey of the statistical properties of PTNs based on the data of fourteen cities of so far unexplored network size. Especially helpful in our analysis are... | {
"abstract": "A standard approach to exploring a domain is to conduct a literature review. However, conducting a literature review in a new domain presents unique challenges. Whereas in an existing domain, researchers can use established classifications of knowledge to guide their search for and interpretation of th... |
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"abstract": "For real-world applications, virtual agents must be able to learn new behaviors from non-technical users. Positive and negative feedback are an intuitive way to train new behaviors, and existing work has presented algorithms for learning from such feedback. That work, however, treats feedback as numeri... | {
"abstract": "We present a novel formulation for providing advice to a reinforcement learner that employs support-vector regression as its function approximator. Our new method extends a recent advice-giving technique, called Knowledge-Based Kernel Regression (KBKR), that accepts advice concerning a single action of... | {
"abstract": "In this paper, we propose a model to analyze sentiment of online stock forum and use the information to predict the stock volatility in the Chinese market. We have labeled the sentiment of the online financial posts and make the dataset public available for research. By generating a sentimental diction... |
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"abstract": "A new strategy to improve silicon-based endodontic treatment tightness by dentine hydrophobization is presented in this work: root dentine was silanized to obtain a hydrophobic dentine-sealer interface that limits fluid penetration. This strategy was based on the grafting of aliphatic carbon chains on ... | {
"abstract": "AIM\nThis study was undertaken to examine whether a correlation exists between apical dye penetration and the clinical performance of root fillings.\n\n\nMETHODOLOGY\nApical dye penetration into 116 roots of human teeth that had been root-filled at least 6 months prior to extraction was tested in vitro... | {
"abstract": "IN a recent monograph1, Carman dismisses the suggestion that the spreading pressure ϕ is the operative force in the diffusion of adsorbed molecules with the statement that the coefficient of resistance of such an equation varies more rapidly with concentration than does the diffusion coefficient of Fic... |
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"abstract": "SummaryBy the use of a sterile culture system experiments have been carried out with peas in order to elucidate to what extent inoculation with an ineffective bacterial strain effects the ability of an effective strain to produce further nodulation. It has been established that effective strains, when ... | {
"abstract": "The work deals with the behaviour of mixed strains of nodule bacteria towards each other and towards their legume host. It introduces the concept of dominance in competition between strains. This dominance is independent of degree of effectiveness as regards nitrogen fixation. Where tow strains of nodu... | {
"abstract": "This study aimed to evaluate effectiveness of composting performance and cost of raw materialunder the adjustment of medium-high initial C/N ratio. The methodology was divided into three phases.Phase 1 was to investigate the effect of initial C/N ratio on composting by varying the C/N ratios of 30, 40,... |
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"abstract": "The paper deals with the obstacle avoidance problem for Automated Guided Vehicles (AGVs). We propose an automatic algorithm to build new obstacle-free trajectories that leave the original roadmap. The new path has to also comply with the dynamic and kinematic constraints of the AGV. The new paths are g... | {
"abstract": "This paper presents a motion control method for mobile robots in partially unknown environments populated with moving obstacles. The proposed method is based on the integration of focused D* search algorithm and dynamic window local obstacle avoidance algorithm with some adaptations that provide effici... | {
"abstract": "Serverless computing promises to provide applications with cost savings and extreme elasticity. Unfortunately, slow application and container initialization can hurt common-case latency on serverless platforms. In this work, we analyze Linux container primitives, identifying scalability bottlenecks rel... |
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"abstract": "Comunicacio presentada a: CL-SciSumm 2017, organitzat com a part de The 2nd Joint Workshop on Bibliometric-enhanced Information Retrieval and Natural Language Processing for Digital Libraries (BIRNDL 2017) i conjuntament amb The 40th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Inf... | {
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"title": "On Identifying Cited Texts for Citances and Classifying Their Discourse Facets by Classification Techniques"
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"abstract": "Due to the flourish of World Wide Web and the rapid development of the Internet technology, the increasing volume of digital textual data become more and more unmanageable, therefore the importance of text classification has gained significant attention. Text classification pose some specific challenge... | {
"abstract": "All clustering methods have to assume some cluster relationship among the data objects that they are applied on. Similarity between a pair of objects can be defined either explicitly or implicitly. In this paper, we introduce a novel multiviewpoint-based similarity measure and two related clustering me... | {
"abstract": "The newly broadcast GPS L2C signal will be extensively used due to its superiority. In order to acquire L2C signal fast in a dual-frequency GPS receiver, this paper firstly discusses two traditional acquisition algorithms, then proposes and implements a new algorithm based on the fixed phase relationsh... |
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"abstract": "During the last decades the disciplines of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Software Engineering (SE) have developed separately without much exchange of research results. In AI we researched techniques for the computations that made it possible to perceive, reason, and act. Research in SE was concerned... | {
"abstract": "The study of computational agents capable of rational behaviour has received a great deal of attention in recent years. Theoretical formalizations of such agents and their implementations have proceeded in parallel with little or no connection between them. Tkis paper explores a particular type of rati... | {
"abstract": "Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) have made the real-time dense reconstruction possible increasing the prospects of navigation, tracking, and augmented reality problems. Some breakthroughs have been achieved in this regard during past few decades and more remarkable works are still going on.... |
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"abstract": "The acquisition of a series of energy-filtered TEM images over the energy-loss range of interest creates a three-dimensional data set comprising both spatial and spectral information. Such an image-series contains energy-loss information not available with conventional two- or three-window methods, all... | {
"abstract": "The analytical sensitivity in terms of the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) was investigated for elemental mapping by a transmission electron microscope equipped with an energy filter (EF-TEM) and a scanning transmission electron microscope with an X-ray energy dispersive spectrometer (STEM-XEDS). To compar... | {
"abstract": "Experiments on two of the recent manifestations of Berry's phases in optics and their mutual influence are reported. The first is the phase that arises from a cycling in the directions of a beam of light, so that the tip of the spin vector of a photon in this beam traces out a closed curve on the spher... |
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"abstract": "Septins are conserved filament-forming proteins that assemble into cortical cytoskeletal structures in animal and fungal cells. Although rapid progress has been made into the functions of septins, the mechanisms governing their localization and organization remain mysterious. In Saccharomyces cerevisia... | {
"abstract": "Swe1 is a key regulator of mitosis, and its levels are tightly regulated in response to different stress conditions. Budding yeast Dma1 and Dma2 contribute to the control of Swe1 localization, ubiquitylation, and degradation.",
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"abstract": "Leguminous plants have exclusive ability to form symbiotic relationship with soil bacteria of the genus Rhizobium. Symbiosis is a complex process that involves multiple molecular signaling activities, such as calcium fluxes, production of reactive oxygen species (ROS) and synthesis of nodulation genes.... |
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"abstract": "Background: Hev b 5 is a potent latex allergen. In this study, we characterize the linear B-cell epitopes for three monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) to Hev b 5. Methods: The mAbs included 2 IgG1 (6A10, 3G3) and 1 IgG2b (6F6) isotypes. We used SPOTscan analysis with overlapping octapeptides to identify the ... | {
"abstract": "Natural rubber latex (NRL; Hevea brasiliensis) allergy is an IgE-mediated reaction to latex proteins. When latex glove exposure is the main sensitizing agent, Hev b 5 is one of the major allergens. Dendritic cells (DC), the main antigen presenting cells, modulated with pharmacological agents can restor... | {
"abstract": "Background In this study we used cellular magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to detect mesenchymal stem cells (MSC) labeled with a Fluorine-19 (19F) agent. 19F-MRI offers unambiguous detection and in vivo quantification of labeled cells. Methods We investigated two common stem cell transplant mouse model... |
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"abstract": "In this article we present three arithmetic methods for coding oriented geodesics on the modular surface using various continued fraction expansions and show that the space of admissible coding sequences for each coding is a one-step topological Markov chain with countable alphabet. We also present con... | {
"abstract": "The decimal expansion real numbers, familiar to us all, has a dramatic generalization to representation of dynamical system orbits by symbolic sequences. The natural way to associate a symbolic sequence with an orbit is to track its history through a partition. But in order to get a useful symbolism, o... | {
"abstract": "This study compared the vasoconstrictor action of angiotensin II (ANG II) and norepinephrine (NE) with different levels of nitric oxide (NO) in the kidney of anesthetized rats. In one series of experiments, the drugs were infused intravenously, and systemic NO content was reduced by a NO synthase inhib... |
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"abstract": "In this paper, we present an annotation tool developed specifically for manual sentiment analysis of social media posts. The tool provides facilities for general and target based opinion marking on different type of posts (i.e. comparative, ironic, conditional) with a web based UI which supports synchr... | {
"abstract": "This paper presents a challenge to the community: given a large corpus of written text aligned to its normalized spoken form, train an RNN to learn the correct normalization function. We present a data set of general text where the normalizations were generated using an existing text normalization comp... | {
"abstract": "In Multiview Video plus Depth (MVD) format, virtual views are generated from decoded texture videos with decoded depth images through Depth Image based Rendering (DIBR). 3DV-ATM is a reference model for H.264/AVC based Multiview Video Coding (MVC) and aims at achieving high coding efficiency for 3D vid... |
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"abstract": "We generalise some results of (7, 5) and show that if L is an -modal logic (for some ordinal ≥ 3) such that (i) L contains the product logic K and (ii) the product of -many trees of depth one and with arbitrary large finite branching is a frame for L, then any axiomatisation of L must contain infinitel... | {
"abstract": "The notion of polyadic algebra was introduced by Halmos to reflect algebraically the predicate logic without equality. Later Halmos enriched the study with the introduction of the notion of equality. These algebras are very closely related to the cylindric algebras of Tarski. The notion of diagonal fre... | {
"abstract": "We examined the predictive validity of the results using discriminant analysis to distinguish statistically among two or more populations with a large sample of random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) loci but a small sample of genotypes from each population. We compared and contrasted results from ran... |
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"abstract": "The present study was performed to evaluate the levels of the amino thiols cysteine, homocysteine, and glutathione in the colonic mucosa of patients with various intestinal diseases, especially chronic inflammatory bowel disease. Colonic biopsies of macroscopically normal mucosa out of a proximal and d... | {
"abstract": "We recently analyzed the hypermethylation status of the p16INK4a (p16) gene promoter in normal-appearing mucosa obtained from patients with colorectal cancer. Hypermethylation of p16 was associated with reduced survival of these patients. In the present study, germ line polymorphisms in the folate- and... | {
"abstract": "Efforts to develop effective and sustainable school health programs evolved in sophistication the past 20 years through research and practical experience. This paper reviews these developments, arguing they were significantly driven by public health priorities, and have not adequately accounted for edu... |
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"abstract": "Expanding into application: covalent organic framework (COF) films are ideally suited for vertical charge transport and serve as precursors of ordered heterojunctions. Their pores, however, were previously too small to accommodate continuous networks of complementary electron acceptors. Four phthalocya... | {
"abstract": "Covalent organic frameworks (COFs) are an emerging class of crystalline porous polymers that make these materials suitable for use as excellent scaffold in heterogeneous catalysis. Here we synthesize a layered two-dimensional (2D) COF (TADP–COF) through the condensation reaction between four-branched 5... | {
"abstract": "The thermal annealing behaviour of an electrolyte-triggered calixarene hydrogelator is found to depend strongly on the specific metal chloride used. While the lithium chloride gel showed typical gel-sol transitions as a function of temperature, the magnesium chloride gel was found to repeatedly strengt... |
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"abstract": "Meeting: 5th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, Chiang Mai, Thailand, November 8 - 13, 2011",
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"title": "K2Q: Generating Natural Language Questions from Keywords with User Refinements"
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"abstract": "This poster investigates a novel query suggestion technique that selects query refinements through a combination of many users' post-query navigation patterns and the query logs of a large search engine. We compare this technique, which uses the queries that retrieve in the top-ranked search results pl... | {
"abstract": "Word2Vec is a widely used algorithm for extracting low-dimensional vector representations of words. It generated considerable excitement in the machine learning and natural language processing (NLP) communities recently due to its exceptional performance in many NLP applications such as named entity re... |
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"abstract": "Objective To determine risk factors of superimposed preeclampsia in women with essential chronic hypertension receiving antihypertensive therapy prior to conception. Methods A retrospective study of 211 patients that analyzed risk factors of superimposed preeclampsia at first prenatal visit. Variables ... | {
"abstract": "Objective To provide an accurate assessment of complications of pregnancy in women with chronic hypertension, including comparison with population pregnancy data (US) to inform pre-pregnancy and antenatal management strategies. Design Systematic review and meta-analysis. Data sources Embase, Medline, a... | {
"abstract": "BackgroundUndergraduate nursing placement in aged care is forecast to grow in importance with the increasing aging population, and to help to reverse trends in student lack of interest in gerontology careers. However, there is a need to better understand undergraduate nursing students’ experiences on p... |
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"abstract": "Benzene is classified by the IARC as carcinogenic to humans. Several sources may contribute for the occurrence of benzene in foods, such as, environmental contamination and the reaction of benzoate salts with ascorbic acid (naturally present or added as food additives). Matrix effect on benzene recover... | {
"abstract": "Recently, the combination of sodium or potassium benzoate with ascorbic acid was shown to produce low levels (ng/g) of benzene in fruit-flavored soft drinks. The presence of benzene also was reported in butter, eggs, meat, and certain fruits; levels of these findings ranged from 0.5 ng/g in butter to 5... | {
"abstract": "This exploratory report examines the risk of selected organic air pollutants measured in homes in the United States and the Netherlands. After several theoretical assumptions, estimates are made for the carcinogenic potency of each chemical; combined with the exposure measurements, these give estimates... |
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"abstract": "This paper proposes a quadratic cost function for Modulated Model Predictive Control, M2PC, designed in a way such as to guarantee that the inverter under consideration will be stable for a desired steady-state operational condition, also considering parametric variations. The M2PC results in better ha... | {
"abstract": "In this paper, finite-set model-predictive control (FS-MPC) methodologies for a grid-connected three-level neutral-point-clamped converter are investigated. The proposed control strategies produce fixed switching frequency, maintaining all the advantages of predictive control such as fast dynamic respo... | {
"abstract": "We study stability of Model Predictive Control (MPC) with a quadratic cost function for LTI systems with a discrete input alphabet. Since this kind of systems may present a steady-state error, the focus is on practical stability, i.e., ultimate boundedness of solutions. To derive sufficient conditions ... |
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"abstract": "A phase-locked loop (PLL) for power electronic systems is presented in this paper. The PLL system can fast detect the voltage magnitudes, phase angles and frequency under distorted power system conditions. A series of simulation studies have been conducted. The results are presented and compared with s... | {
"abstract": "In this paper, a new phase detecting method is proposed for PWM rectifiers and active filters considering distorted utility conditions. The accurate phase angle information of utility voltage is essential to the active power conversion systems tied to the utility line. The angle information can be easi... | {
"abstract": "In this issue, a special section on phase-locked loop (PLL) techniques has been organized. This special section was motivated by new developments in PLL circuits and growing interest in using PLL in various applications. There are five papers contributed by researchers in academic and industrial fields... |
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"abstract": "Hydrodistilled essential oils of 21 accessions of Ocimum basilicum L. belonging to two different varieties (var. purpurascens and var. dianatnejadii) from Iran were characterized by GC‐FID and GC/MS analyses. The oil yield was found to be between 0.6 and 1.1% (v/w). In total, 49 compounds, accounting f... | {
"abstract": "Résumé : Parmi les chimiotypes (chemotype en anglais) d’HE de basilic, deux sont disponibles sur le marché des HE proposées au pharmacien d’officine : traditionnellement celui à méthyl-chavicol (synonyme d’estragole) et plus récemment celui à linalol (HE de basilic Natur’Activ) [11]. À la pharmacopée, ... | {
"abstract": "We measured Cd, Cr, Hg, Mn, and Pb levels in samples of fodder, milk, dairy products, and tissues collected from 12 ovine farms in the regions of Campania and Calabria (Southern Italy). The areas in which the farms are located show different levels of anthropogenic pressure. The main purpose of this st... |
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"abstract": "We present a hardwired decoder prototype for H.264/AVC main profile video. Our design takes as its input compressed H.264/AVC bit-stream and produces as its output video frames ready for display. We wrap the decoder core with an AMBA-AHB bus interface and integrate it into a multimedia SoC platform. Se... | {
"abstract": "In an advanced System-on-Chip (SoC) for real-time applications, the arbiter of its on-chip communication subsystem needs to support multiple QoS criteria while providing a hard real-time guarantee. To fulfill both objectives, the arbitration algorithm must dynamically switch between NonReal-Time (NRT) ... | {
"abstract": "The motivation for the study is to examine the effects of several trends on the IT workforce. The purpose of the study is to understand several key mid-level roles in IT client organizations, which are gaining importance for organizations as they employ alternative sourcing arrangements. Mid-level posi... |
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"abstract": "In electrified railways, harmonics and low power factor (PF) are typical power quality problems. The traction system of 25 kV, single phase, 50 Hz that exists in India has been taken for this case study. Most of the locomotives are single-phase and draw very high currents. The load is of highly variabl... | {
"abstract": "In this paper Quantum based Ptilonorhynchus violaceus optimization (QPVO) algorithm and Haliastur Indus (HI) optimization algorithm is applied to solve the power loss lessening problem. Key aims of the work are loss dripping, power steadiness enhancement and deviance lessening. In QPVO Rendering to the... | {
"abstract": "With the increasing penetration of wind turbines (WTs) grid utilities require extended reactive power supply capability not only during voltage dips but also in steady-state operation. WTs with doubly fed induction generators (DFIG) are able to control active and reactive power independently. The react... |
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"abstract": "Entity linking has recently been the subject of a significant body of research. Currently, the best performing approaches rely on trained mono-lingual models. Porting these approaches to other languages is consequently a difficult endeavor as it requires corresponding training data and retraining of th... | {
"abstract": "Knowledge bases (KB's) contain data about a large number of people, organizations, and other entities. However, this knowledge can never be complete due to the dynamics of the ever-changing world: new companies are formed every day, new songs are composed every minute and become of interest for additio... | {
"abstract": "Abstract We develop a parameter-free face recognition algorithm which is insensitive to large variations in lighting, expression, occlusion, and age using a single gallery sample per subject. We take advantage of the observation that equidistant prototypes embedding is an optimal embedding that maximiz... |
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"abstract": "This is the author’s version of a work that was presented at the 14th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS2008), Toronto, Canada.",
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"title": "The Overreliance on Analyst Experience in the Selection of Requirements Elicitation Techniques"
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"abstract": "This paper expands, refines, and explicates media synchronicity theory, originally proposed in a conference proceeding in 1999 (Dennis and Valacich 1999). Media synchronicity theory (MST) focuses on the ability of media to support synchronicity, a shared pattern of coordinated behavior among individual... | {
"abstract": "Mediation is a complex social process which facilitates interpersonal, intergroup, and international negotiations. However, at present, neither the nature nor the potential of mediation is adequately understood because insufficient effort has been devoted to the analysis and study of the process. In or... |
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"abstract": "© 2020 John Wiley & Sons Ltd This study analyses an implementation of a government accounting reform in Benin directed at redressing fraudulent and corrupt practices. Although reforms to improve public administration and to mitigate corruption in Africa often have disappointing outcomes, our case study... | {
"abstract": "This article examines how, against a background of localism endorsed by the 2010 coalition government in the United Kingdom, a key component of local integrity and governance was fundamentally altered. The Localism Act 2011 abolished the English local integrity framework, which relied on the participat... | {
"abstract": "This article proposes a value-based model for performance management, governance, and public service leadership development. There are three distinguishing features of this model. First, the model is the product of considerable research and curricular “field-testing” with academic partners in the Unite... |
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"abstract": "Abstract Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) demonstrate face processing abnormalities that may underlie social impairment. Despite substantial overlap between ASD and ADHD, ERP markers of face and gaze processing have not been directly compa... | {
"abstract": "Whether the development of face recognition abilities truly reflects changes in how faces, specifically, are perceived, or rather can be attributed to more general perceptual or cognitive development, is debated. Event-related potential (ERP) recordings on the scalp offer promise for this issue because... | {
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"abstract": "Objective. To determine the associations of BoLA DRB3.2 alleles present in Holstein and BON x Holstein cattle to production and milk quality traits in a dairy herd of Antioquia, Colombia. Materials and methods. Ninety-one cows, 66 Holstein and 25 BxH, were genotyped for the BoLA DRB3.2 gene, through PC... | {
"abstract": "A polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-based method is described for typing of alleles of the bovine lymphocyte antigen (BoLA)-DRB3 gene. A total of 30 DRB3 alleles were distinguished by digestion of PCR amplification products of BoLA-DRB3 exon 2 with RsaI, BstYI and HaeIII (PCR-RFLP). All restriction fragm... | {
"abstract": "The ability of animals to resist infections with parasites is genetically determined and therefore variable between individuals or breeds of a given host species. Such variation may involve innate (non-immunological) and acquired (immunologically mediated) resistance mechanisms, and is determined by bo... |
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"abstract": "Author(s): Olsen, Daniel; Aghajanzadeh, Arian; McKane, Aimee | Abstract: Pumping water for agricultural irrigation represents a significant share of California’s annual electricity use and peak demand. It also represents a large source of potential flexibility, as farms possess a form of storage in the... | {
"abstract": "Author(s): Aghajanzadeh, A; English, M; English, C | Abstract: Integrating the agricultural sector into energy demand management incentive programs requires a decision support system for irrigation management – tools to more precisely plan and track water and energy use across the growing season. Balan... | {
"abstract": "In the contemporary flurry of hostile corporate takeover activity, the ethics of the practice of greenmail have been called into question. The authors provide an account of greenmail in parallel with Daniel Ellsberg's conception of blackmail, as consisting of two conditions: a threat condition and a co... |
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"abstract": "A temporary vegetative storage protein, composed of similar 25 kilodalton and 27 kilodalton subunits, was found to be abundant in soybean (Glycine max (L.) Herr. var Hobbit) leaves, stems, pods, flower petals, germinated cotyledons, and less abundant in roots, nodules and seeds. Total pod protein was h... | {
"abstract": "Removing the pods from soybean (Glycine max [L.] Merr. cv Wye) plants induces a change in leaf function which is characterized by a change in the leaf soluble protein pattern. The synthesis of at least four polypeptides ( approximately 27, 29, 54, and 80 kilodaltons) is enhanced, and these polypeptides... | {
"abstract": "In the light of evidence which suggests that the use of medicines is in some degree predictable from the demographic structure of practice populations,1 a move has been made towards the use of a weighted capitation formula in determining general practitioners' prescribing budgets. One recently devised ... |
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"abstract": "For the first time, we demonstrated transparent 1.16Gbit/s commercial LEDs based visible light transmission from free space to special designed ULEAPS fiber using an Ag/AgI coated hollow waveguide for visible light beam shaping. VLC is no longer restrained by line of sight which can help solve continuo... | {
"abstract": "We report on AgI/Ag infrared hollow fiber with low-loss in visible region. Improved methods of silver plating and iodination were proposed to fabricate the hollow fiber. The surface roughness of the silver layer and the silver iodide layer was reduced by the pretreatment with an SnCl2 solution and low ... | {
"abstract": "In this paper, we first experimentally demonstrate a 550 Mbit/s real-time visible light communication (VLC) system based on nonreturn-to-zero on-off keying (NRZ-OOK) modulation of a commercial phosphorescent white light LED. The 3-dB modulation bandwidth of such devices is only a few megahertz. We prop... |
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"abstract": "A 53-year-old hypertensive man presented with the sudden onset of an isolated lemniscal sensory syndrome of the entire left side of his body. Magnetic resonance images showed a small lacune in the right paramedian pons corresponding to the location of the medial lemniscus.",
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"abstract": "Isolated paresthesia, or paresthesia not accompanied by sensory and/or motor deficits, is an extremely rare manifestation of a cerebrovascular accident. Lacunar pure sensory stroke (PSS) confined to thalamus is characterized by persistent or transient numbness, tingling, pain, burning, or another unple... | {
"abstract": "Objective. Nonadherence is currently an underrecognized and potentially modifiable obstacle to care in juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA). The purpose of our study was to design and implement a standardized approach to identifying adherence barriers for youth with JIA across 7 pediatric rheumatology c... |
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"abstract": "Microcystins (MCs) are hepatotoxins with potent inhibitor activity of protein phosphatases PP1 and PP2A. These non-ribosomal peptides are getting more and more attention due to their acute toxicity and potent tumor-promoting activity. These toxins are produced by freshwater cyanobacteria. The most toxi... | {
"abstract": "Microcystin-LR (MCLR) is a commonly encountered blue-green algal hepatotoxin and a known inhibitor of cellular protein phosphatase (PP), however, little is known about its neurotoxicity. This study investigated the protein profiles of zebrafish (Danio rerio) brains chronically exposed to MCLR concentra... | {
"abstract": "Myocardial protection with cardioplegia has resulted in significant improvement in the outcomes of cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) in coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) procedure. However, subendocardial damage created by ischemic injury still remains a source of morbidity and mortality associated with C... |
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"abstract": "Visual classifiers are part of many applications including surveillance, autonomous navigation and scene understanding. The raw data used to train these classifiers is abundant and easy to collect but lacks labels. Labels are necessary for training supervised classifiers, but the labeling process requi... | {
"abstract": "How can we know whether a statement about our world is valid. For example, given a relationship between a pair of entities e.g., ‘eat(horse, hay)’, how can we know whether this relationship is true or false in general. Gathering such knowledge about entities and their relationships is one of the fundam... | {
"abstract": "This paper describes the participation of the ECOUAN team in the LifeCLEF 2015 challenge. We used a deep learning approach in which the complete system was learned without hand-engineered components. We pre-trained a convolutional neural network using 1.8 million images and used a fine-tuning strategy ... |
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"abstract": "Abstract This note supplies approximate variance formulas for the Allen Partial Elasticities of Substitution estimated with a three-input translog cost function. These formulas are based on a first-order Taylors series approximation to the true but unknown variances.",
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"abstract": "of the United States. The deflator for gross book value of structures in year T, DST, is: T SIt dst DST = T t-=T-n sit t=T-n where Sit is the constant dollar investment in structures undertaken by all manufacturing industries in year t. Given the assumption made above, the resulting deflator will be ap... | {
"abstract": "Knowledge-based proof planning is a new paradigm in automated theorem proving. Its motivation partly comes from an increasing disillusionment by many researchers in the field of automated deduction, who feel that traditional techniques have been pushed to their limit and — as important as these develop... |
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"abstract": "Abstract. Extracting land cover information from satellite imagery is of great importance for the task of automated monitoring in various remote sensing applications. Deep convolutional neural networks make this task more feasible, but they are limited by the small dataset of annotated images. In this ... | {
"abstract": "In recent years, Fully Convolutional Networks (FCN) have led to a great improvement of semantic labeling for various applications including multi-modal remote sensing data. Although different fusion strategies have been reported for multi-modal data, there is no in-depth study of the reasons of perform... | {
"abstract": "Central to the looming paradigm shift toward data-intensive science, machine-learning techniques are becoming increasingly important. In particular, deep learning has proven to be both a major breakthrough and an extremely powerful tool in many fields. Shall we embrace deep learning as the key to every... |
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"abstract": "Heterogeneous SoCs (HeSoCs) typically share a single DRAM between the CPU and GPU, making workloads susceptible to memory interference, and predictable execution troublesome. State-of-the art predictable execution models (PREM) for HeSoCs prefetch data to the GPU scratchpad memory (SPM), for computatio... | {
"abstract": "The dark silicon concept is around for 10 years now in which we had to get used to diminished returns after each scaling step while the sharply increasing complexity of manufacturing processes decelerated scaling and raised costs dramatically. The combination of all those factors lead to a long-awaited... | {
"abstract": "We present a first-order theory of (finite) sequences with integer elements, Presburger arithmetic, and regularity constraints, which can model significant properties of data structures such as lists and queues. We give a decision procedure for the quantifier-free fragment, based on an encoding into th... |
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"abstract": "Replication has been difficult to achieve in linkage studies of psychiatric disease. Linkage studies of panic disorder have indicated regions of interest on chromosomes 1q, 2p, 2q, 3, 7, 9, 11, 12q13, 12q23, and 15. Few regions have been implicated in more than one study. We examine two samples, the Io... | {
"abstract": "We completed a genome scan of 23 multiplex families of panic disorder. Ninety family members had DSM-III-R panic disorder, and another 23 had recurrent, spontaneous panic attacks that did not satisfy these criteria. We typed 469 markers from the CHLC map (ver 8c7) with an average intermarker distance o... | {
"abstract": "One of the major pathological characteristics of Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the presence of enhanced deposits of beta-amyloid peptide (Aβ). The neuropeptide galanin (GAL) and its receptors are overexpressed in degenerating brain regions in AD. The functional consequences of galaninergic systems plasti... |
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"abstract": "In the framework of generalized Lorenz-Mie theory, laser beams are described by sets of beam-shape coefficients. The modified localized approximation to evaluate these coefficients for a focused Gaussian beam is presented. A new description of Gaussian beams, called standard beams, is introduced. A com... | {
"abstract": "The use of a laser sheet (or elliptical Gaussian beam) in measurement techniques is of growing interest. Some of these techniques take advantage of the wavefront curvature of such beams as in a dual-cylindrical wave system (DCW). Nevertheless, up to now, the analysis of the properties of the light scat... | {
"abstract": "The buoyant density of canine distemper virus was determined in cesium chloride. In 10 different experiments, the infectivity peak was found at a density ranging from 1.242–1.226, with a mean of 1.231. Three stable complement-fixing (CF) antigens were found for CDV with buoyant densities of 1.29, 1.23,... |
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"abstract": "This study examines the underpricing cost of 123 US REIT IPOs over the period 1996 until June 2010, including the period of the global financial crisis. The study uses OLS multivariate regression to determine some potential factors behind underpricing. The underpricing cost of raising REIT external equ... | {
"abstract": "Unlike operating company initial public offerings (IPOs), REIT IPOs in the 1970s and 1980s were initially overpriced and subsequently under performed other REIT securities in the 100 days after the initial issuance. In contrast, the equity REIT IPOs that have come to the market in the 1990s have been u... | {
"abstract": "Abstract This article examines the relationship between corporate acquisition activity and pension plan terminations that result in a reversion of surplus assets. We use a logit analysis to compare characteristics of terminating and nonterminating firms that held surpluses during the period 1980–1985. ... |
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"abstract": "The chemokine CCL2, which is best known for its chemotactic functions, is expressed not only by immune cells, but also by several types of malignant and stromal cells. CCL2 has been shown to exert both pro- and anti-tumor effects. However, recent results demonstrate a main role for CCL2 in tumor progre... | {
"abstract": "Tumour‐induced myeloid‐derived suppressor cells (MDSC) promote immune suppression and mediate tumour progression. However, the molecular basis for the generation of MDSC, which in mice co‐express the CD11b+ and Gr‐1+ cell surface markers remains unclear. Because CD11b+Gr‐1+ cells expand during progress... | {
"abstract": "Defective dendritic cell (DC) function caused by abnormal differentiation of these cells is an important mechanism of tumor escape from immune system control. Previously, we have demonstrated that the number and function of DC were dramatically reduced in cancer patients. This effect was closely associ... |
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"abstract": "In 1985 and 1986, large-scale natural die-offs of sandhill cranes in Texas were attributed to fusariomycotoxicosis. These birds demonstrated a progressive loss of motor control to the neck, wings, and legs. Based on necropsy and/or histopathology of 31 cranes, the most common lesions involved skeletal ... | {
"abstract": "Abrupt population change in birds may be caused by various factors. When such events occur, it is important to understand the population-level impact on the species. We applied a change point analysis with Markov chain Monte Carlo using long-term population count data to address this question. We first... | {
"abstract": "To safely, efficiently change lanes among human drivers, autonomous vehicles (AV) should act as close as possible to human to decide when to friendly cut in and seamlessly cooperate with surrounding vehicles. However, it is still not fully clear about how AV cut-in behavior would influence on human dri... |
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"abstract": "BackgroundOperative therapy of pancreatic cancer is associated with poor survival because of high recurrence rates after pancreatectomy. The effect of lymph node (LN) dissection on survival continues to be debated.MethodsA pancreatic cancer data set was created through structured queries to the Surveil... | {
"abstract": "BackgroundAdequate lymph node evaluation (LNE) is recommended for surgically treated pancreatic adenocarcinoma because studies have shown an association between improved survival and adequate LNE. This study aimed to understand the mechanism of this association and determine whether LNE is a valuable q... | {
"abstract": "1 Adrenaline (10 nM) significantly enhanced the stimulation‐induced efflux of radioactivity from rat atria previously incubated with [3H]‐noradrenaline ([3H]‐NA). This effect was abolished by metoprolol (0.1 μm). 2 Adrenaline in a higher concentration (1μm) and NA (1μm) significantly reduced the stimul... |
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"abstract": "Deep (>300 m) subsurface hydrochemical data are important components of geological investigations of potential radioactive waste disposal sites. These data can be interpreted to yield information that supports conceptual hydrogeological models, constrains palaeohydrogeological evolution and characteris... | {
"abstract": "There are considerable, well-recognized difficulties involved in the investigation of very low permeability rocks by conventional measurements of water potentials and spatial distribution of hydrological parameters such as permeability and effective porosity. Therefore, most studies of predictive behav... | {
"abstract": "The study is focused on the geomorphological analysis of the Guatemala Trench, East Pacific Ocean. Research goal is to find geometric variations in western and eastern flanks of the trench and correlation of the submarine geomorphology with geologic settings and seismicity through numerical and graphic... |
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"abstract": "A construction of $2^{2n}$-QAM sequences is given and an upper bound of the peak-to-mean envelope power ratio (PMEPR) is determined. Some former works can be viewed as special cases of this construction.",
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"title": "A generalized construction of OFDM M-QAM sequences with low pe... | {
"abstract": "We present a new construction of 16-QAM Golay sequences of length n = 2/sup m/. The number of constructed sequences is (14 + 12m)(m!/2)4/sup m+1/. When employed as a code in an orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) system; this set of sequences has a peak-to-mean envelope power ratio (PMEPR... | {
"abstract": "ABSTRACT Nitrobenzene 1,2-dioxygenase from Comamonas sp. strain JS765 catalyzes the initial reaction in nitrobenzene degradation, forming catechol and nitrite. The enzyme also oxidizes the aromatic rings of mono- and dinitrotoluenes at the nitro-substituted carbon, but the basis for this specificity is... |
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