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"abstract": "Recently, it was claimed that the two-phase local/nonlocal constitutive models give well-posed nonlocal field problems and eliminates the ill-posedness of the fully nonlocal constitutive models. In this study, it is demonstrated that, both, the fully nonlocal and the two-phase local/nonlocal constituti... | {
"abstract": "Nonlocal elasticity is addressed in the context of geometrically linearised structural models with linear and symmetric constitutive relations between dual fields, with physical interpretation of stress and elastic strain. The theory applies equally well to formulations as integral convolutions with an... | {
"abstract": "A model, based on the theory of nonlocal continuum mechanics, on the column buckling of multiwalled carbon nanotubes is presented. The present analysis considers that each of the nested concentric tubes is an individual column and that the deflection of all the columns is coupled together through the v... |
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"abstract": "A novel method based correlation wavelet for online dynamic characteristic analysis and measurement of dynamic performance index of robot wrist sensor is developed in this paper. Based on the dynamic model of the force sensor, the simulations on the correlation wavelet method for extracting the IRF of ... | {
"abstract": "In this study, dynamic characteristics of a robot six-axis wrist force/torque (F/T) sensor with crossbeam elastomer are analyzed by two methods of model identification, a method for simultaneous identification of order and parameters of the model (SIM) and a method based on the differential evolution (... | {
"abstract": "This article presents a real-time sensor-based control approach to the manipulation of the transition of a robot from free space motion to contact with an environment. Use is made of exter nal sensors, including proximity sensors and a force sensor at the end effector of the robot, to control the inter... |
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"abstract": "AIM\nTo investigate the efficacy of Magliasa, a traditional Iranian formula, on experimental colitis.\n\n\nMETHODS\nAfter botanical authentication of herbal ingredients, formulation of Magliasa, quantitative determination of total glucosinolates and total phenolic content, and analysis of the thin laye... | {
"abstract": "The chemoprotective effect of garden cress (GC, Lepidium sativum) and its constituents, glucotropaeolin (GT) and benzylisothiocyanate (BITC), a breakdown product of GT, towards 2-amino-3-methyl-imidazo [4,5-f] quinoline (IQ)-induced genotoxic effects and colonic preneoplastic lesions was investigated i... | {
"abstract": "OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to evaluate the histological responses of cementum, root dentin, and pulp following intentional root injuries caused via self-tapping and self-drilling miniscrews. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Fourteen patients (with a mean age of 15.7 years and age range of 14–18 years) ... |
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"abstract": "With the emergence of new methodologies and technologies it has now become possible to manage large amounts of environmental sensing data and apply new integrated computing models to acquire information intelligence. This paper advocates the application of cloud technologies to support the information,... | {
"abstract": "Urban Automation Networks (UANs) are being deployed worldwide in order to enable Smart City applications. Given the crucial role of UANs, as well as their diversity, it is critically important to assess their properties and trade-offs. This article introduces the requirements and challenges for UANs, c... | {
"abstract": "Main sources of power dissipation in general-purpose superscalar microprocessors are concerned in the article. Some basic techniques of power dissipation reduction are presented. A concept of new superscalar MOVE (SMOVE) architecture based on MOVE and GALS (globally asynchronous locally synchronous) ar... |
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"abstract": "ABSTRACT An artificial lateral line (ALL) system consists of a set of flow sensors around a fish-like body. An ALL system aims to identify surrounding moving objects, a common example of which is a vibrating sphere, called a dipole. Accurate identification of a vibrating dipole is a challenging task be... | {
"abstract": "For underwater vehicles to successfully detect and navigate turbulent flows, sensing the fluid interactions that occur is required. Fish possess a unique sensory organ called the lateral line. Sensory units called neuromasts are distributed over their body, and provide fish with flow-related informatio... | {
"abstract": "The effects of uni- and bilateral transections of the medullary pyramids on movements requiring differential use of distal forelimb muscles were studied. The pyramidotomy abolished for more than one year the ability to solve tasks which required flexion and adduction of the digits involved in grasping,... |
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"abstract": "With the development and di usion of the Internet worldwide connection, a large amount of information is available to the users. Methods of information ltering and fetching are then required. This paper presents two approaches. The rst concerns the information ltering system ProFile based on an adaptat... | {
"abstract": "Traditional information retrieval (IR) systems only allow users access to documents that match their current query, and therefore, users can only give relevance feedback on matching documents (or those with a matching strength greater than a set threshold. This article shows that, in systems that allow... | {
"abstract": "In Service-Oriented Architectures (SOAs), software systems are decomposed into independent units, namely services, that interact with one another through message exchanges To promote reuse and evolvability, these interactions are explicitly described right from the early phases of the development lifec... |
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"abstract": "BackgroundGeneral Practitioners spend a disproportionate amount of time on frequent attenders. So far, trials on the effect of interventions on frequent attenders have shown negative results. However, these trials were conducted in short-term frequent attenders. It would be more reasonable to target in... | {
"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nIncreasing consultation rates have implications for the organisation of health services, the quality of care, and understanding the decision to consult. Most quantitative studies have concentrated on very high attenders--not those attending five or more times a year, who are responsible for... | {
"abstract": "It is commonly assumed that older and younger adults have very different attitudes about seeking mental health services and that this is a major factor in reducing the use of mental health services by the elderly. However, little evidence exists to illustrate how elders actually perceive mental health ... |
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"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nAdherence to clinical guidelines improves health care outcomes, reduces expenditure and prevents the complication of unnecessary interventions. It is uncertain what effect the adherence to guidelines for treating diabetes has on patient satisfaction. Some authors have reported that the use ... | {
"abstract": "Correction An article on patients' global ratings of health care (1) contained errors. Figure 2 and Figure 3 and their accompanying legends were incorrect; the corrected figures are shown here (Figure 1 and Figure 2). The last sentence before the heading Logistic Regression Analysis on page 669 should ... | {
"abstract": "Catalytic upgrading of biomass pyrolysis vapors is an effective utilization technology of biomass energy. Based on the disadvantages of commonly used reactors, the V-shaped downer reactors were designed to increase gas-solid two-phase turbulent intensity, contact frequency and then increase the catalyt... |
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"abstract": "APOBEC3s (A3s) are potent restriction factors of human immunodeficiency virus type 1/simian immunodeficiency viruses (HIV-1/SIV), and can repress cross-species transmissions of lentiviruses. HIV-1 originated from a zoonotic infection of SIV of chimpanzee (SIVcpz) to humans. However, the impact of human... | {
"abstract": "HIV, the causative agent of AIDS, has a complex evolutionary history involving several cross-species transmissions and recombination events as well as changes in the repertoire and function of its accessory genes. Understanding these events and the adaptations to new host species provides key insights ... | {
"abstract": "Extreme weather can lead to serious contingencies in power systems. Risk assessment based on weather forecast is pivotal for emergency response and restoration plan of potential contingencies in power grids. Numerous models and algorithms of electric asset risk prediction have been proposed in the last... |
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"abstract": "Salisbury T, Baptista RR, Fei J, Susin F, Russomano T. Physiological Aspects of Walking in Simulated Hypogravity. JEPonline 2015;18(2):13-24. The purpose of this study was to compare the differences in gait between land (1G), Lunar (Lunar G), and Martian (Mars G) based ambulation. Nine subjects (mean a... | {
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"title": "Human locomotion and workload for simulated lunar and Martian environments."
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"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nTreadmill training, with or without body weight support using a harness, is used in rehabilitation and might help to improve walking after stroke. This is an update of the Cochrane review first published in 2003 and updated in 2005 and 2014.\n\n\nOBJECTIVES\nTo determine if treadmill traini... |
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"abstract": "We describe the design, fabrication, and testing of an ultra-low cost orthotweezers system for microassembly. By utilizing rapid prototyping technology, compliant mechanisms, and commodity-grade actuators and sensors, we significantly reduce the complexity and cost of the previous Orthotweezers system ... | {
"abstract": "A method is presented for stably grasping 2 dimensional polygonal objects with a dextrous hand when object models are not available. Basic constraints on object vertex angles are found for feasible grasping with two fingers. Local tactile information can be used to determine the finger motion that will... | {
"abstract": "Amongst multi-level inverter topologies, neutral point clamped (NPC) inverter is widely used for inherent advantages offered by it compared to other topologies. The main drawback of NPC inverter is the fluctuation in the neutral point voltage and the corresponding imbalance created in dc-link capacitor... |
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"abstract": "A general-order local coupled-cluster (CC) method is presented which has the potential to provide accurate correlation energies for extended systems. Our method combines the cluster-in-molecule approach of Li and co-workers [J. Chem. Phys. 131, 114109 (2009)] with the frozen natural orbital (NO) techni... | {
"abstract": "It is shown that using an appropriate localized molecular orbital (LMO) basis, one is able to calculate coupled-cluster singles and doubles (CCSD) wave functions and energies for very large systems by performing full CCSD calculations on small subunits only. This leads to a natural linear scaling coupl... | {
"abstract": "The single-reference ab initio methods for high accuracy calculations of potential energy surfaces (PESs) of excited electronic states, termed the completely renormalized equation-of-motion coupled-cluster approaches with singles, doubles, and noniterative triples [CR-EOMCCSD(T)], are developed. In the... |
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"abstract": "Thirteen cases of juvenile angiofibroma were treated surgically with preoperative embolisation. One case occurred in a female. Embolisation significantly reduced blood loss and allowed complete surgical removal of the tumour in all cases. No significant complications occurred. Preoperative embolisation... | {
"abstract": "Therapeutic embolization of juvenile angiofibromas was performed in 15 boys, aged 12--18 years, 11 of whom subsequently underwent surgery. Intraoperative blood loss was reduced from an average of 2,400 ml in nonembolized patients to 800 ml after embolization. Angiography is of value to confirm the diag... | {
"abstract": "Twenty‐five cases of juvenile nasopharyngeal angiofibroma are reviewed. Surgical removal via a transpalatal approach accompanied by a gingivobuccal incision and exploration of the pterygomaxillary space to remove lateral extension is advocated. This procedure is almost uniformly successful in eradicati... |
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"abstract": "Breast cancer preferentially metastasizes to lung, lymph node, liver, bone, and brain. However, it is unclear whether properties of cancer cells, properties of organ microenvironments, or a combination of both is responsible for this observed organ tropism. We hypothesized that breast cancer cells exhi... | {
"abstract": "After entry into the blood, cells from disseminating malignant tumors are rapidly distributed to many organs, but they only grow to form metastases in certain sites. Clinical and pathologic observations on tumor metastasis in humans and in animals have confirmed that the distribution of these secondary... | {
"abstract": "Deng, X-W. et al. (2000) Unified nomenclature for the COP9 signalosome and its subunits: an essential regulator of development. Trends Genet. 16, 202–203An error occured during the publication of the letter by Deng et al. in the May issue. The correct citation for this letter should be:Deng, X-W., Dubi... |
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"abstract": "ABSTRACT MicroRNAs are key regulators of the immune response, but their role in CD8 T cell differentiation in vivo is not known. We show that miR-155 is important in both effector and memory antiviral CD8 T cell responses. Without miR-155, there was a weaker effector response and a skewing toward memor... | {
"abstract": "Memory CD8(+) T cells are critical for long-term immunity, but the genetic pathways governing their formation remain poorly defined. This study shows that the IL-10-IL-21-STAT3 pathway is critical for memory CD8(+) T cell development after acute LCMV infection. In the absence of either interleukin-10 (... | {
"abstract": "Degradation of [125I]iodoinsulin by cytosol from rat liver (as judged by the appearance of perchloric acid soluble counts) occurs rapidly and generates both high- and low-molecular-weight labelled products on chromatography on AcA54 or AcA202. One of the low-molecular-weight products can be converted t... |
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"abstract": "In this paper, we present a visual simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) system which integrates measurements from multiple cameras to achieve robust pose tracking for autonomous navigation of micro aerial vehicles (MAVs) in unknown complex environments. We analyze the iterative optimizations fo... | {
"abstract": "One of the main challenges of aerial robots navigation in indoor or GPS-denied environments is position estimation using only the available onboard sensors. This paper presents a Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) system that remotely calculates the pose and environment map of different low-c... | {
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"title": "Markerless Augmented Reality with Light Source Estimation for Direct Illumination"
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"abstract": "Results reported in Part I of the Earthquakes in El Salvador series (see Disaster Management & Response 2003;1:105-9) indicated clinically relevant findings. The findings indicated a need for greater public health action within all five categories reviewed: healthcare, access to healthcare, housing, fo... | {
"abstract": "OBJECTIVE\nThis study determined the severity of posttraumatic stress and depressive reactions among Nicaraguan adolescents after Hurricane Mitch and the relationship of these reactions to objective and subjective features of hurricane exposure, death of a family member, forced relocation, and thoughts... | {
"abstract": "Up to 30% of the population in Western countries suffer from chronic pain. The treatment of chronic pain causes medical and socioeconomic problems. Guided self‐help (GSH) might be an effective supplementary treatment, however, the size of this effect is unclear. This meta‐analysis quantifies the effect... |
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"abstract": "Equatorial Africa has among the highest incidences of Kaposi's sarcoma (KS) in the world, thus earning the name “KS Belt.” This was the case even before the HIV epidemic. To date, there is no clear evidence that HHV‐8 seroprevalence is higher in this region but interpretation of the available literatur... | {
"abstract": "Background\nThe prevalence and titers of antibodies against Kaposi sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV) in rural Africa are not completely understood, nor are their trends over time in populations in which human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is also endemic. We examined prevalence, titers, temporal tre... | {
"abstract": "There are significant economic, environmental, social, and marketing issues that exist from the supply-side perspective in response to sustainability. This study examines New Zealand winegrowers in terms of their attitudes and behaviours towards wine tourism and sustainable wine production. A national ... |
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"abstract": "This paper introduces the first pattern-based Persian Temporal Relation Classifier (PTRC) that finds the type of temporal relations between pairs of events in the Persian texts. The proposed system uses support vector machines (SVMs) equipped by combinations of simple, convolution tree, and string subs... | {
"abstract": "We present a new parser for parsing down to Penn tree-bank style parse trees that achieves 90.1% average precision/recall for sentences of length 40 and less, and 89.5% for sentences of length 100 and less when trained and tested on the previously established [5, 9, 10, 15, 17] \"standard\" sections of... | {
"abstract": "We present SeVeN (Semantic Vector Networks), a hybrid resource that encodes relationships between words in the form of a graph. Different from traditional semantic networks, these relations are represented as vectors in a continuous vector space. We propose a simple pipeline for learning such relation ... |
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"abstract": "Hydrazines are an important class of compounds which find considerable technical and commercial applications. Furthermore, numerous biological activities of hydrazine derivatives have been discovered which make them potent drugs, peptidomimetics, and pesticides. 2] Besides their synthetic relevance, hy... | {
"abstract": "The concept of hard and soft acids and bases (HSAB) proved to be useful for rationalizing stability constants of metal complexes. Its application to organic reactions, particularly ambident reactivity, has led to exotic blossoms. By attempting to rationalize all the observed regioselectivities by favor... | {
"abstract": "Abstract By the proper choice of the substituents on the aldehyde and amine groups, the nature of the Schiff base formed (fully condensed or half condensed) can be tuned by the templating effect of the metal ion. The condensation of 5-chlorosalicylaldehyde with ethylene diamine in the presence of Co(II... |
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"abstract": "Abstract We use mitochondrial and nuclear sequence data to show that three weakly electric mormyrid fish specimens collected at three widely separated localities in Gabon, Africa over a 13-year period represent an unrecognized lineage within the subfamily Mormyrinae and determine its phylogenetic posit... | {
"abstract": "Because most species in an ecological assemblage are rare, much of the species richness we value is due to taxa with few individuals or a restricted distribution. It has been apparent since the time of ecological pioneers such as Bates and Darwin that tropical systems have disproportionately large numb... | {
"abstract": "Historic processes are expected to influence present diversity patterns in combination with contemporary environmental factors. We hypothesise that the joint use of beta diversity partitioning methods and a threshold-based approach may help reveal the effect of large-scale historic processes on present... |
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"abstract": "Objective This study explores active learning algorithms as a way to reduce the requirements for large training sets in medical text classification tasks. ::: ::: Design Three existing active learning algorithms (distance-based (DIST), diversity-based (DIV), and a combination of both (CMB)) were used t... | {
"abstract": "BackgroundPrevious studies of named entity recognition have shown that a reasonable level of recognition accuracy can be achieved by using machine learning models such as conditional random fields or support vector machines. However, the lack of training data (i.e. annotated corpora) makes it difficult... | {
"abstract": "Phishing is an online social engineering attack with the goal of digital identity theft carried out by pretending to be a legitimate entity. The attacker sends an attack vector commonly in the form of an email, chat session, blog post etc., which contains a link (URL) to a malicious website hosted to e... |
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"abstract": "The activity-dependent refinement of neural circuit connectivity during critical periods of brain development is essential for optimized behavioral performance. We hypothesize that this mechanism is defective in fragile X syndrome (FXS), the leading heritable cause of intellectual disability and autism... | {
"abstract": "Despite its ubiquity and significance, behavioral habituation is poorly understood in terms of the underlying neural circuit mechanisms. Here, we present evidence that habituation arises from potentiation of inhibitory transmission within a circuit motif commonly repeated in the nervous system. In Dros... | {
"abstract": "Synaptotagmin is a synaptic vesicle-specific integral membrane protein that has been suggested to play a key role in synaptic vesicle docking and fusion. By monitoring Synaptotagmin's cellular and subcellular distribution during development, it is possible to study synaptic vesicle localization and tra... |
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"abstract": "Inspired by the immune theory and multi-agent systems, an immune multi-agent active defense model for network intrusion is established. The concept of immune agent is introduced. While its logical structure and running mechanism are established. The method which uses antibody concentration to quantitat... | {
"abstract": "Attacks on network infrastructure presently are main threats against network and information security. With rapidly growing unauthorized activities in networks, intrusion detection (ID) as a component of defense-in-depth is very necessary because traditional firewall techniques cannot provide complete ... | {
"abstract": "A growing number of computer systems,in the hope that such simulations w as we had thought. More recently, however, resources for such work can be obtained from untapped source: the generation of extremely large numbers of graduate students and their subsequent application to the creation of alternate ... |
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"abstract": "Background: Strictures occur in ≈30% of patients with Crohn's disease (CD) and are characterized by intestinal smooth muscle hyperplasia, hypertrophy, and fibrosis due to excess extracellular matrix production including collagen. Insulin‐like growth factor‐I (IGF‐I) expression is increased in smooth mu... | {
"abstract": "Insulin-like growth factor (IGF)-I and its binding protein IGF binding protein 5 (IGFBP-5) were highly expressed in inflamed and fibrotic intestine in experimental Crohn's disease. IGF-I induced proliferation and increased collagen synthesis by smooth muscle cells and fibroblasts/myofibroblasts in vitr... | {
"abstract": "Background: Stricture formation occurs in ≈30% of patients with Crohn's disease (CD) and is a significant cause of morbidity. Strictures are characterized by intestinal smooth muscle cell hyperplasia, smooth muscle cell hypertrophy, and fibrosis due to excess net extracellular matrix production, includ... |
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"abstract": "The relations between the velocity of prestretch and the mechanical energy liberated during the subsequent isovelocity release were studied in contractions of frog single fibers and human muscles. During isometric contractions of frog single fibers, a ramp stretch of varied velocity (amplitude, 0.02 fi... | {
"abstract": "Take-off in birds at high speeds and steep angles of elevation requires a high burst power output. The mean power output of the pectoralis muscle of blue-breasted quail (Coturnix chinensis) during take-off is approximately 400 W kg(-1) muscle, as determined using two independent methods. This burst pow... | {
"abstract": "The order of recruitment of flexor carpi radialis (FCR) motor units was studied during voluntary and reflexive activation of the motoneuron pool for two adult subjects. During slow \"voluntary\" activation, the recruitment threshold for tonic motoneuron firing was determined, and then the twitch profil... |
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"abstract": "To protect the body efficiently from infectious organisms, leukocytes circulate as nonadherent cells in the blood and lymph, and migrate as adherent cells into tissues. Circulating leukocytes in the blood have first to adhere to and then to cross the endothelial lining. CD31/PECAM- 1 is an adhesion mol... | {
"abstract": "Background—Myocardial infarction (MI) is one of the major causes of death worldwide. Chronic heart failure is a serious complication of MI that leads to poor prognosis. We recently found that neuron-derived neurotrophic factor (NDNF) is a proangiogenic secretory protein that is upregulated in ischemic ... | {
"abstract": "In The Netherlands between January 2002 and December 2004, numerous psittaciformes died showing severe splenomegaly and hepatomegaly with multifocal acute necrosis. At the start of the outbreaks mostly parakeets were affected, but later larger parrots were also involved. Seventy-eight birds showed the ... |
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"abstract": "The given title discloses the method of producing binaural audio and a distinctive way of using it with an IR headset. The binaural audio is a wide field of research and its working along with IR headset is been established as a system. The functioning of the binaural audio has been properly reviewed a... | {
"abstract": "In past few years virtual reality has emerged to become the centre of attraction for people. Virtual reality may change the way during which many of the common things are getting used today like it's already changed the gaming world by introducing virtual games. It provides an environment that's someho... | {
"abstract": "A new model for silver electrochemical migration is presented, which includes the insulation resistance degradation prior to dendritic growth. This failure model reported is based on the calculation of the ion accumulation rate. Failure occurs when the accumulated ion concentration exceeds the threshol... |
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"abstract": "Monochromatic light, which is polarized in an arbitrary state, is totally internally reflected at angle of incidence phi=45 degrees without change of polarization by a right-angle prism of refractive index n0=1+1/Square root of 2=1.70711 (e.g., N-LAK8 Schott glass at wavelength lambda=706 nm), which is... | {
"abstract": "This paper analytically describes the concept of controlling total phase shifts accompanying the propagation of p- and s-polarized light at the interface between two transparent dielectric media. This has been achieved by introducing a thin-film of specific refractive index and thickness. Generalized e... | {
"abstract": "In the first application of thin films discussed, a multilayer stack is enclosed in a cemented cube to form a polarizing beam splitter. Polarizing efficiencies exceeding 99.8% have been achieved in both reflected and transmitted beams at the design wavelength. In the second application, the deposition ... |
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"abstract": "Introduction : Renal carcinoid tumor is an extremely rare neoplasia. It arises from neuroendocrine cells, which have never been identified within the normal renal parenquima. After diagnosis, which is usually histological and proceeds nephrectomy, it is therefore important to exclude a primary tumor lo... | {
"abstract": "Carcinoid tumors are low-grade malignant tumors that arise from neuroendocrine cells. Primary renal carcinoid is extremely rare. We present a case of 57-year-old male with primary renal carcinoid tumor. Presently, the patient is on regular follow up and is doing well.",
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"abstract": "Debates surrounding casino gaming development in the US often are based on the assumption that the opening of a casino is followed by an increase in crime in the host community and surrounding areas. This paper examined crime volume in Detroit, Michigan and neighboring communities before, during and af... |
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"abstract": "Abstract Operations research is applied to analysing uncertainties in the selection of nuclear reactor types. Dynamic programming methods have been extended to account for uncertain decision factors by including in the objective function a variance-related uncertainty factor as well as expected cost va... | {
"abstract": "Abstract The study demonstrates the use of fuzzy expectation values in problems of multistage optimization under uncertainty. A practicable procedure is presented for the case where the optimization objective can be decomposed into a series of single-stage decision goals. Instead of probability theory,... | {
"abstract": "The article investigates the participatory co-development of suitable indicators for the assessment of internationalization of funding agencies (FAs). Our research questions are: How can we measure different functions and institutional characteristics using a participatory process? What and who do we m... |
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"abstract": "A defining characteristic of most human cancers is heterogeneity, resulting from the somatic acquisition of a complex array of genetic and genomic alterations. Dissecting this heterogeneity is critical to developing an understanding of the underlying mechanisms of disease and to paving the way toward p... | {
"abstract": "Somatic alterations in cellular DNA underlie almost all human cancers. The prospect of targeted therapies and the development of high-resolution, genome-wide approaches are now spurring systematic efforts to characterize cancer genomes. Here we report a large-scale project to characterize copy-number a... | {
"abstract": "PurposeCA 19-9 is the only established tumor marker in pancreatic cancer (PC); the prognostic role of other serum markers like CEA, CRP, LDH or bilirubin has not yet been defined.MethodsWe pooled pre-treatment data on CA 19-9, CEA, CRP, LDH and bilirubin levels from two German multicenter randomized ph... |
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"abstract": "Recently a new Y–Ba–Cu–O superconducting oxide has been prepared as a distinct phase in thin films1–3. The new phase was first seen as a defect structure in bulk samples of YBa2Cu3O7 (refs 4–7) and found to contain an additional copper layer7. The proposed defect structure has a c-axis spacing of ∼27 Å... | {
"abstract": "The known room-temperature, solution-phase reaction between nitrite ions and iodide ions, which occurs in acidic conditions (pH < 5.5), is shown to be accelerated when neutral aqueous solutions are frozen. The reaction is proposed to occur in liquid \"micropockets\" within the ice structure at temperat... | {
"abstract": "Traditional oscillator steady state simulation and noise analysis methods are only applicable to stand-alone oscillators without large signal inputs. In this paper, we present a multi-tone harmonic balance simulation method for driven oscillators with one or more periodic inputs. More importantly, we e... |
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"abstract": "Social networks offer vast potential for marketing agencies, as members freely provide private information, for instance on their current situation, opinions, tastes, and feelings. The use of social networks to feed into crime platforms has been acknowledged to build a kind of a virtual neighborhood wa... | {
"abstract": "Social media provides increasing opportunities for users to voluntarily share their thoughts and concerns in a large volume of data. While user-generated data from each individual may not provide considerable information, when combined, they include hidden variables, which may convey significant events... | {
"abstract": "The text present on online forums and social media platforms conventionally does not follow a standard sentence structure and uses words that are commonly termed as slang or Internet language. Online text mining involves a surfeit of slang words; however, there is a distinct lack of reliable resources ... |
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"abstract": "Long-chain chitooligosaccharides are fungal microbe-associated molecular patterns (MAMPs) that are recognized by LYSIN MOTIF RECEPTOR KINASE5 (LYK5), inducing the formation of a complex with CHITIN ELICITOR RECEPTOR KINASE1 (CERK1). Formation of this complex leads to activation of the CERK1 intracellul... | {
"abstract": "Recent research findings clearly indicate that lysin motif (LysM)-containing cell surface receptors are involved in the recognition of specific oligosaccharide elicitors (chitin and peptidoglycan), which trigger an innate immunity response in plants. These receptors are either LysM-containing receptor-... | {
"abstract": "Proprioception of hand orientation (orientation production using the hand) is compared with manual matching of visual orientation (visual surface matching using the hand) in two experiments. In experiment 1, using self-selected arm postures, the proportions of wrist and elbow flexion spontaneously used... |
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"abstract": "Numerous studies documented low intakes of iron, zinc, calcium, and other micronutrients in young children. A recent report suggests that intakes are low in both home food and food provided at day care centers. Most of the young children in that study could not have obtained adequate intakes of key mic... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Objective Child-care providers have a key role to play in promoting child nutrition, but the higher cost of nutritious foods may pose a barrier. The present study tested the hypothesis that higher nutritional quality of foods served was associated with higher food expenditures in child care ho... | {
"abstract": "Problem solving games are often advised in the behavioral therapy of fearful dogs. There has been little experimental work conducted on animals with respect to the intrinsic reinforcing properties of problem solving or the emotional consequences of responding to challenge. The aim of the current study ... |
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"abstract": "Abstract Yield constraint analysis using a combination of experiments and crop growth models has been useful for quantifying the relative role of yield-limiting factors, and for prioritizing management interventions aimed at increasing the yields of non-photoperiod-sensitive rice grown under rainfed co... | {
"abstract": "The objective of this work was to assess the spatial and temporal variability of sugarcane yield efficiency and yield gap in the state of Sao Paulo, Brazil, throughout 16 growing seasons, considering climate and soil as main effects, and socioeconomic factors as complementary. An empirical model was us... | {
"abstract": "Rice shows significant genotypic variation in physiological response to water deficit. This work examines whether this variation is due to genotypic differences in water extraction capability. Leaf elongation rate, leaf rolling, leaf death, and predawn leaf water potential were studied for four rice (O... |
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"abstract": "The notes which play the most important and second most important roles in expressing a raga are called Vadi and Samvadi swars respectively in (North) Indian Classical music. Like Bageshree, Bhairavi, Shankara, Hamir and Kalingra, Rageshree is another controversial raga so far as the choice of Vadi-Sam... | {
"abstract": "A raga is a melodic structure with fixed notes and a set of rules characterizing a certain mood endorsed through performance. By a vadi swar is meant that note which plays the most significant role in expressing the raga. A samvadi swar similarly is the second most significant note. However, the determ... | {
"abstract": "THIS book embodies the material usually included in a complete course of elementary instruction in Quantitative analysis. It is divided into five parts. Part I. treats of the balance, the determination of physical constants, the purification of substances, and preliminary analytical processes generally... |
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"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nEndoscopic ultrasonography is accurate, safe, and cost-effective in diagnosing common bile duct stones, thus suggesting the possibility to avoid invasive endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography.\n\n\nAIM\nTo prospectively evaluate the diagnostic and therapeutic performance of early e... | {
"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nExisting guidelines aim to stratify the likelihood of choledocholithiasis to guide the use of ERCP versus a lower-risk diagnostic study such as EUS, MRCP, or intraoperative cholangiography.\n\n\nOBJECTIVE\nTo assess the performance of existing guidelines in predicting choledocholithiasis an... | {
"abstract": "OBJECTIVE\nOur purpose was to compare the accuracy of MR cholangiopancreatography and endoscopic sonography for the diagnosis of common bile duct stones in patients with a mild to moderate clinical suspicion of common bile duct stones.\n\n\nSUBJECTS AND METHODS\nForty-seven patients were prospectively ... |
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"abstract": "Many materials require functionally graded cellular microstructures whose porosity is engineered to meet specific requirements of diverse applications (e.g. polymers and/or ceramics that mimic biological material such as soft tissue and bone). It has been shown in previous work that the bubble growth r... | {
"abstract": "An ultrasonic interferometric sensor has been introduced for the measurement of subtle changes in the physical properties of fluids such as density, viscosity, and bulk modulus. Tone burst ultrasonic waves are generated using a single peizocrystal bonded in between two solid delay line media of slightl... | {
"abstract": "Fluid droplet interaction/dynamics on modified surfaces is very pertinent in understanding the heat transfer mechanism associated with evaporative cooling of such surfaces. In the present paper, wicking grooves experimentation in enhancing Heat Transfer Coefficients (HTC) in spray cooling is carried ou... |
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"abstract": "In multilevel security there is a hierarchy of users or user-levels, in which each user has its own version of information. Most of the existing multilevel secure (MLS) data models support u-polyinstantiation. The only model that supports key-polyinstantiation was proposed by Gadia et al[GS1998, JS1990... | {
"abstract": "In a multilevel security database there are multiple beliefs about a given real world object. The ability of a database model to accommodate multiple beliefs is termed polyinstantiation in the multilevel security literature. In this paper we remark that in an abstract sense polyinstantiation is a prior... | {
"abstract": "RGS-GAIP (Galpha-interacting protein) is a member of the RGS (regulator of G protein signaling) family of proteins that functions to down-regulate Galphai/Galphaq-linked signaling. GAIP is a GAP or guanosine triphosphatase-activating protein that was initially discovered by virtue of its ability to bin... |
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"abstract": "Synopsis This research is part of the NIMH-CRB Collaborative Study on the psychobiology of depression. The main objective of the research programme is to test hypotheses concerning the interaction of neurobiological mechanisms and behaviour in the depressive disorders. Part I of the report describes th... | {
"abstract": "This study was aimed at resolving the time course of clinical action of antidepressants (ADs) and the type of early behavioral changes that precede recovery in treatment-responsive depressed patients. The first goal was to identify, during the first 2 weeks of treatment, the onset of clinical actions o... | {
"abstract": "This study presents results from a 2-year evaluation of biomass and cellulosic ethanol (EtOH) production potential of forage sorghum (Sorghum bicolor L. Moench) cultivars differing in brown midrib trait (i.e., bmr12) under dryland (no irrigation) and limited irrigation (2.88 mm day−1; subsurface drip) ... |
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"abstract": "We study the impact of highly correlated image content on the estimated photo response non-uniformity (PRNU) of a sensor unit and its impact on the sensor identification performance. Based on eight publicly available finger vein datasets, we show formally and experimentally that the nature of finger ve... | {
"abstract": "In this work, we propose a method to obtain higher quality sensor pattern noise (SPN) for identifying source cameras. We believe that some components of SPN have been severely contaminated by the errors introduced by denoising filters and the quality of SPN can be improved by abandoning those component... | {
"abstract": "This paper presents a new approach to improve the performance of finger-vein identification systems presented in the literature. The proposed system simultaneously acquires the finger-vein and low-resolution fingerprint images and combines these two evidences using a novel score-level combination strat... |
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"abstract": "The enantioselective total synthesis of (+)-ophiobolin A is described. This total synthesis features the construction of the spiro CD ring of (+)-ophiobolin A through a stereoselective intramolecular Hosomi-Sakurai cyclization reaction, the joining of the A ring to the CD ring by using a reaction repor... | {
"abstract": "The cytotoxic meroterpenoids terreumol A and C from the grey knight mushroom Tricholoma terreum were synthesized for the first time. The key step of the enantioselective total synthesis of terreumol C is a ring-closing metathesis to form a trisubstituted Z double bond embedded in the 10-membered ring o... | {
"abstract": "A novel high-performance millimeter-wave planar diplexer is developed based on the complementary characters of substrate integrated waveguide (SIW) dual-mode filters with circular and elliptic cavities by making the tradeoff between the isolation, insertion loss, and selectivity. The responses of the d... |
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"abstract": "To determine whether concentrations of insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1) in blood of ewes change during the oestrous cycle, oestrus was synchronized for 45 ewe lambs from four genotypes (Finn ewes selected for low ovulation rate (LF), Finn ewes selected for high ovulation rate (HF), unselected contr... | {
"abstract": "The objective of this study was to determine the effect of genotype and week postpartum on serum concentrations of IGF-I, body condition score (BCS), BW, and ovarian function in beef cows. Cows from the following genotypes were utilized in two consecutive years: Angus (A x A; n = 9), Brahman (B x B; n ... | {
"abstract": "We describe an in vitro system of swine granulosa cells which remain responsive to estradiol (E2) and FSH. In this system, we examined mechanisms by which E2 amplifies the stimulatory actions of FSH. E2 stimulated progesterone production in a dose-dependent manner and enhanced the tropic effects of FSH... |
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"abstract": "Mitral regurgitation (MR) has a prevalence of 2% in the general population and is even more common in the elderly.[1][1] Organic (or primary) MR arises as a result of pathology affecting one or more components of the mitral valve (MV) apparatus, whereas functional (or secondary) MR is a consequence",
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"abstract": "Aims\nSignificant efforts are currently undertaken to reduce functional mitral regurgitation (FMR) in patients with chronic heart failure in the hope to improve prognosis. We aimed to assess the prognostic impact of FMR in heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF) under optimal medical thera... | {
"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nCurrent methods for the laboratory diagnosis of histoplasmosis are problematic in terms of their sensitivity, specificity and runtime.\n\n\nOBJECTIVES\nThus, in this study, we sought to select and optimize methods for the detection of Histoplasma capsulatum var. capsulatum by polymerase cha... |
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"abstract": "Molecular level diagnostics based on microarray technologies can offer the methodology of precise, objective, and systematic cancer classification. Genome-wide expression patterns generally consist of thousands of genes. It is desirable to extract some significant genes for accurate diagnosis of cancer... | {
"abstract": "Gene selection is a demanding task for microarray data analysis. The diverse complexity of different cancers makes this issue still challenging. In this study, a novel evolutionary method based on genetic algorithms and artificial intelligence is proposed to identify predictive genes for cancer classif... | {
"abstract": "Summary Membrane potentials, cable parameters and component resting conductances, were measured in extensor digitorum longus (EDL) muscle fibers from adult rats, in vitro at 25°–28°C, at 6 to 33 days following chronic application of 0.05% and 0.1% vincristine sulfate to the peroneal nerve. All the vinc... |
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"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nAluminum contaminates parenteral nutrition solutions and accumulates in bone and liver of patients receiving total parenteral nutrition therapy. Although previous reports have shown that parenteral administration of aluminum in pharmacologic doses to rats results in the production of elevat... | {
"abstract": "Patients on long-term total parenteral nutrition were found to have elevated aluminum (AI) levels in bone, and plasma, with the casein in the total parenteral nutrition solution the source of A1. Substitution of amino acids for casein was followed by a fall in urinary and plasma A1. Thus, parenteral lo... | {
"abstract": "Tumor necrosis factor (TNF) may be a mediator of cancer cachexia. This study evaluates the activity of macrophages from non-tumor-bearing (NTB) and tumor-bearing (TB) rats by measuring TNF production in response to endotoxin (LPS), both in vitro and in vivo, and correlates macrophage activity with tumo... |
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"abstract": "Congenital central hypoventilation syndrome (CCHS) is a rare disorder across the world with reported incidence of 1 per 200,000 live births. The estimated prevalence in Saudi Arabia is not currently available. Male and female ratio in many countries is reported to be 1:1 [1]. CCHS is characterized by c... | {
"abstract": "Congenital central hypoventilation syndrome (CCHS or Ondine's curse; OMIM 209880) is a life-threatening disorder involving an impaired ventilatory response to hypercarbia and hypoxemia. This core phenotype is associated with lower-penetrance anomalies of the autonomic nervous system (ANS) including Hir... | {
"abstract": "Congenital central hypoventilation syndrome, which is related to abnormal autonomic control of breathing and typically manifests at birth, was recently associated with PHOX2B gene mutations. In contrast, central hypoventilation with later onset constitutes a poorly defined group of unknown etiology. He... |
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"abstract": "With the development of next-generation sequencing technology, ever-expanding databases of genetic information from various organisms are available to researchers. However, our ability to study the biological meaning of genetic information and to apply our genetic knowledge to produce genetically modif... | {
"abstract": "Buried within the genomes of many microorganisms are genetic elements that encode rare-cutting homing endonucleases that assist in the mobility of the elements that encode them, such as the self-splicing group I and II introns and in some cases inteins. There are several different families of homing en... | {
"abstract": "The variation in impact resistance of steel fiber-reinforced concrete and plain concrete as determined from a drop weight test is reported. The observed coefficients of variation are about 57 and 46% for first-crack resistance and the ultimate resistance in the case of fiber concrete and the correspond... |
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"abstract": "Local recurrence, and regional and distant metastases, respectively, develop in 30% and 15% of patients with esthesioneuroblastoma (ENB).",
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"title": "Possible esthesioneuroblastoma metastasis to paranasal sinuses: Clinical report and literature review"
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"abstract": "The sinonasal cavities are rare locations for metastases. Metastases to these locations are usually solitary and produce similar symptoms to those of a primary sinonasal tumor. Nasal obstruction and epistaxis are the most frequent symptoms. The maxillary sinus is most frequently involved. The most comm... | {
"abstract": "BACKGROUND: Sinonasal carcinomas, including nonkeratinizing (NK) squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) and sinonasal undifferentiated carcinoma (SNUC), are uncommon malignant neoplasms arising from the Schneiderian respiratory epithelium of the nasal cavity and paranasal sinuses. Due to their low frequency, th... |
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"abstract": "OBJECTIVE\nTo evaluate the efficacy of treatment with fluoxetine in reducing symptoms associated with elective mutism.\n\n\nMETHOD\nSixteen subjects with elective mutism were treated with placebo (single-blind) for 2 weeks. Fifteen placebo nonresponders were then randomly assigned to double-blind treat... | {
"abstract": "Sixty-five patients with social phobia were treated in a study that compared a cognitive-behavioral group treatment program with pharmacotherapy with alprazolam, phenelzine sulfate, or pill-placebo plus instructions for self-directed exposure to phobic stimuli. Statistically significant repeated-measur... | {
"abstract": "Rasagiline (Azilect®) is a novel, selective, irreversible second-generation inhibitor of monoamine oxidase type B (MAO-B). It is administered orally once daily and is approved in the US, Canada, Mexico, Israel and the EU for use as monotherapy and as adjunct therapy in the treatment of Parkinson’s dise... |
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"abstract": "Cancer metastasis involves multiple processes which may complicate clinical management and even lead to death. Matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) play an important role in cancer cell invasion, metastasis and angiogenesis, depending on whether agents can inhibit MMPs which could lead to inhibition of the... | {
"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nBidi smoking, which is widely prevalent in India and in other south Asian countries, increases the risk of oral cancer as observed in case-control studies and metaanalysis. However, population attributable risk percent (PAR%) has not been determined yet.\n\n\nMATERIALS AND METHODS\nTwelve c... | {
"abstract": "With dienes as specific triplet quenchers, it has been shown that the photodimerization of thymine in acetonitrile proceeds entirely through the triplet state and the photodimerization of uracil in acetonitrile or in water proceeds in part through the triplet state. The photohydration of uracil probabl... |
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"abstract": "Although pollen viability promises to be a very sensitive indicator of environmental mutagenesis, its utility in this regard is confounded by the fact that it is influenced also by nonmutagenic environmental stress. However, with appropriately homozygous material, we may discriminate between mutagenic ... | {
"abstract": "Cytostatic drugs are among the most toxic chemicals which are produced. Many of them cause damage of the genetic material which may affect the fertility of higher organisms. To study the impact of the widely used anticancer drugs [cisplatin (CisPt), etoposide (Et), and 5-fluorouracil (5-FU)] on the rep... | {
"abstract": "In this paper, a pin pull test is introduced as an effective way to assess the PCB pad strength. The pad strength is evaluated by different level of strain, pad type, PCB life phase and accumulation effect of various stations. Finite element analysis (FEA) is employed to analyze whether the PCB materia... |
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"abstract": "Solitary choroidal metastasis as an initial presentation of lung cancer is rare. A 67-year-old woman who initially presented with a 3-month history of blurred vision in the right eye was suggestive of choroidal melanoma on MRI. Preoperatively, a pulmonary mass was found on x-ray. She was referred for a... | {
"abstract": "The most common type of intraocular tumor in adults is the metastatic variety, with the choroid as the typical site of involvement. The case of a patient with non-small cell lung cancer, who presented with choroidal metastasis, is described in the current report. In addition, the limitation of using a ... | {
"abstract": "Decreased vision may be the initial symptom of metastatic disease. A case of metastasis to the choroid from the lung is presented together with a discussion of metastatic disease to the eye. Differential diagnosis of metastatic lesions and malignant melanoma is explored. Epidemiology, clinical features... |
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"abstract": "Thermally activated barrier crossing in the presence of an increasing load can reveal kinetic rate constants and energy barrier parameters when repeated over a range of loading rates. Here we derive a model of the mean escape force for all relevant loading rates-the complete force spectrum. Two well-kn... | {
"abstract": "In this article, we discuss a system that is appropriately called a domain-wall junction (DWJ). The DWJ is a close analog of the Josephson junction with respect to the usefulness of both systems in studying switching by thermal activation (TA) and by quantum tunneling (QT). We will show through theoret... | {
"abstract": "SUBJECTS\nThe study subjects were 507 children (228 females and 279 males) from the Casa Pia school system in Lisbon, Portugal; the same cohort of children used in a previous study. The children were 8 to 12 years old at the time of enrollment in the study, which began in January of 1997. To be include... |
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"abstract": "Background: Neonatal deaths account for 40% of deaths under the age of 5 years worldwide. Therefore, efforts to achieve the UN Millennium Development Goal 4 of reducing childhood mortality by two-thirds by 2015 are focused on reducing neonatal deaths in high-mortality countries. The aim of present stud... | {
"abstract": "In Switzerland, data are collected prospectively by collaborators from all nine neonatal intensive care units and their affiliated paediatric units caring for neonates, to determine survival and (pulmonary) outcome of infants with birth weights ranging from 501 to 1500 g. To assess the pulmonary outcom... | {
"abstract": "The current study evaluated amyloid-β oligomers (Aβo) in cerebrospinal fluid as a clinical biomarker for Alzheimer’s disease (AD). We developed a highly sensitive Aβo ELISA using the same N-terminal monoclonal antibody (82E1) for capture and detection. CSF samples from patients with AD, mild cognitive ... |
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"abstract": "Two families of variously-substituted N-pyrrolylphosphino-N'-arylaldimine ligands, 2-(aryl-N=CH)C4H3N-PR2 {R=Ph; R=Pri2N}, have been prepared from the corresponding pyrrolylaldimines . The donor characteristics/basicity of P-N-chelating and have been assessed using a combination of 31P{1H} NMR and IR s... | {
"abstract": "Nitrogen-based polydentate ligands are of interest owing to their flexible complexation to transition metal atoms. For the title compound, [Ni(C15H17N2)2], a transition metal complex formed by the coordination of two identical N,N'-bidentate mono(imino)pyrrolyl ligands to an Ni(II) centre, an X-ray cry... | {
"abstract": "Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is one of the leading causes of cancer-related deaths in the world. F-box/WD repeat-containing protein 7 (FBW7) plays important roles in human cancers, such as gastric cancer, breast cancer, and hepatocellular carcinoma. In this study, we found that high levels of FBW... |
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"abstract": "Users currently access Wikipedia through two traditional paradigms, text search and hypertext navigation. We believe that user access can be significantly improved by supporting a systematic conceptual exploration of the knowledge base through dynamic taxonomies with a faceted taxonomy organization. Th... | {
"abstract": "An appropriate promotion, distribution and dissemination of scientific, artistic and technology developments can foster the collaboration between a country's productive and academic sectors. The purpose of this paper is to present a novel search engine aiming at helping people to access science and tec... | {
"abstract": "The task of text segmentation, or 'chunking,' may occur at many levels in text analysis, depending on whether it is most beneficial to break it down by paragraphs of a book, sentences of a paragraph, etc. Here, we focus on a fine-grained segmentation task, which we refer to as text partitioning, where ... |
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"abstract": "DPTP61F is a non-receptor protein tyrosine phosphatase that is expressed during Drosophila oogenesis and embryogenesis. DPTP61F transcripts are alternatively spliced to produce two isoforms of the protein which are targeted to different subcellular locations. DPTP61Fn accumulates in the nucleus, and DP... | {
"abstract": "Drosophila nemo was first identified as a gene required for tissue polarity during ommatidial development. We have extended the analysis of nemo and found that it participates in multiple developmental processes. It is required during wing development for wing shape and vein patterning. We observe gene... | {
"abstract": "Larval and adult gynandromorphs were produced to study the origin and development of the larval epidermis in Drosophila . In mosaic larvae the genetic marker mal was used to score the genotype of all the cells in the epidermis and thus to follow the gynandromorphic border through this large continuous ... |
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"abstract": "Purpose - Several pending court cases regarding the valuation of historic facade easements and the associated tax credit have generated interest in the valuation of such preservation tools. The purpose of this paper is to assess the impact of facade easements on the value of single-family home sales. D... | {
"abstract": "Abstract This research provides a significant step towards understanding the relationship between house vintage and value. This study analyses residential sales transactions in New Zealand using hedonic pricing models and uncovers evidence that a home’s vintage is a commodity that commands price premiu... | {
"abstract": "Empirical research on gentrification suffers from a dichotomy between richly detailed neighborhood case studies and macro-scale, census-based analyses, perpetuating uncertainty over the extent and timing of gentrified areas in American cities. We develop a model relating tract-level census statistics t... |
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"abstract": "Abstract In this article we study when there exist non-crossing subgraphs in a geometric complement of 2-factor and in a complete bipartite geometric graph.",
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"title": "Plane subgraphs in geometric complement of 2-factor and complete bipartite geometric graph"
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"abstract": "Given a tree T on n vertices and a set P of n points in the plane in general position, it is known that T can be straight line embedded in P without crossings. Now imagine the set P is partitioned into two disjoint subsets R and B, and we ask for an embedding of T in P without crossings and with the pr... | {
"abstract": "This paper develops the links between overidentification tests, underidentification tests, score tests and the Cragg-Donald (1993, 1997) and Kleibergen-Paap (2006) rank tests in linear instrumental variables (IV) models. This general framework shows that standard underidentification tests are (robust) ... |
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"abstract": "Abstract Objectives. To assess left ventricular diastolic dysfunction (LVDD) and its predictors in rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Methods. This cross-sectional case–control study assessed 100 RA patients and 100 healthy controls for LVDD by M-mode, two-dimensional, colour Doppler echocardiography. Results.... | {
"abstract": "Background: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a polyarticular disorder with many extra-articular features. Cardiovascular disorders, including heart failure (HF), are the leading causes of mortality in RA patients. We studied the prevalence of left ventricular dysfunction (LVD) in patients with RA. Material... | {
"abstract": "\n Abstract\n \n In this study, we compare the development of infection and/or disease in Beagle dogs intradermally infected with Leishmania chagasi, in the presence or absence of Lutzomyia longipalpis saliva, with those of intravenously infected animals.\n Spleen samples of all the animals inoculated ... |
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"abstract": "The topological analysis tool known as the common neighbor analysis (CNA) is used for the first time in this work to analyze crystallization kinetics and excess entropy of charge-stabilized colloidal suspensions. For this purpose, Brownian dynamics computer simulations are implemented to investigate th... | {
"abstract": "Abstract The process of grinding silicon carbide(SiC) single crystals containing defects with a single diamond was simulated using molecular dynamics(MD) software. A 4H–SiC simulated workpiece—with transverse, vertical, 45°, and 135° defects—and a diamond tool were established through molecular dynamic... | {
"abstract": "The formation of polypeptide aggregates, including amyloid fibrils and prions, is a biochemical process of considerable interest in the context of its association with ageing and neurodegeneration. Aggregation occurs typically with a lag phase and a growth phase that reflect an underlying nucleation-po... |
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"abstract": "The paper addresses kinematic and geometrical aspects of the Orthoglide, a three-DOF parallel mechanism. This machine consists of three fixed linear joints, which are mounted orthogonally, three identical legs and a mobile platform, which moves in the Cartesian x-y-z space with fixed orientation. New s... | {
"abstract": "The paper addresses the geometric synthesis of Orthoglide-type mechanism, a family of 3-DOF parallel manipulators for rapid machining applications, which combine advantages of both serial mechanisms and parallel kinematic architectures. These manipulator possess quasi-isotropic kinematic performances a... | {
"abstract": "A Rayleigh acoustic wave traveling on the surface of a semi-infinite piezoelectric medium may be amplified by interaction with drifting carriers in an adjacent semiconductor. The gain and frequency response of this interaction is determined here by using a normal mode expansion of the Rayleigh wave pie... |
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"abstract": "Purpose – The Taiwanese higher education sector is presently facing a significant challenge with regard to supply and demand. The purpose of this paper is to examine how, in this scenario, the balanced scorecard (BSC) can be used for performance evaluation as a strategic management tool.Design/methodol... | {
"abstract": "Annual reports and operational data are key performance indicators for any business. However, performance measurement is critical in today’s real property domain and should become part of strategic planning and management processes for an organisation to be truly successful. In this paper the authors e... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Recent reforms of teacher education in England and Wales and the extent to which they reflect a response to global economic pressures are considered. The paper challenges the view that such pressures are inexorable determinants of educational policy and argues that any country will need to dev... |
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"abstract": "A description is given of an experiment in which an attempt was made to show that audio-visual feedback is more effective in intonation learning than auditory feedback. The factors in the experiment were feedback mode and practice time. The results showed a significant effect of audio-visual feedback o... | {
"abstract": "Abstract The controversial question of the scope of sensory control in the voluntary motor patterns involved in speech is examined by reviewing studies in which the auditory, tactile, and proprioceptive feedback channels have been distorted or interrupted. The author makes a case for open loop control ... | {
"abstract": "Few studies have been reported on the role of the lingual nerve in the proprioceptive innervation of the human tongue. In 1937 Carleton investigated the position sense of the tongue in eight human subjects after abolishing tactile sensation by applying cocaine to the lips, labio-dental groove, floor an... |
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"abstract": "The anatomy of the clitoris is described in human anatomy textbooks. Some researchers have proposal and divulged a new anatomical terminology for the clitoris. This paper is a revision of the anatomical terms proposed by Helen O'Connell, Emmanuele Jannini, and Odile Buisson. Gynecologists, sexual medic... | {
"abstract": "INTRODUCTION ::: Female genital mutilation (FGM), the partial or total removal of the external genitalia for non-medical reasons, can affect female sexuality. However, only few studies are available, and these have significant methodologic limitations. ::: ::: ::: AIM ::: To understand the impact of FG... | {
"abstract": "The Tasmanian devil (Sarcophilus harrisii), the largest marsupial carnivore, is endangered due to a transmissible facial cancer spread by direct transfer of living cancer cells through biting. Here we describe the sequencing, assembly, and annotation of the Tasmanian devil genome and whole-genome seque... |
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"abstract": "Photovoltaic (PV) source simulators serve as a convenient tool for the dynamic evaluation of solar power conditioning systems and maximum power point tracking algorithms. High efficiency and fast transient response time are essential features of any PV source simulator. This paper proposes a new type o... | {
"abstract": "One of the major drawbacks of photovoltaic (PV) systems is represented by the effect of module mismatching and of partial shading of the PV field. Distributed maximum power point tracking (DMPPT) is a very promising technique that allows the increase of efficiency and reliability of such systems. Model... | {
"abstract": "The concept and inherent challenges associated with the development of a resilient, affordable, high quality integrated power generation, energy management and rapid recovery and emergency response (RRaER) capability for providing electrical power and sustained life support operations during power disr... |
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"abstract": "The inhibitory neurotransmitter gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA), acts at ionotropic (GABA(A) and GABA(C)) and metabotropic (GABA(B)) receptors. Functional GABA(B) receptors are heterodimers of GABA(B(1)) and GABA(B(2)) subunits. Here we show a robust, direct, and specific interaction between the coiled-... | {
"abstract": "Metabotropic gamma-aminobutyric acid receptors (GABA(B)Rs) play a critical role in inhibitory synaptic transmission in the hippocampus. However, little is known about a possible long-term effect requiring transcriptional changes. Here, using microarray technology and RT-PCR of RNA from cultured rat emb... | {
"abstract": "During early postnatal development of auditory synapses, the decay time course of AMPA receptor (AMPAR) EPSCs accelerates markedly, but the mechanisms underlying this process remain uncertain. Using the developing calyx of Held synapse in the mouse auditory brainstem, we have examined presynaptic and p... |
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"abstract": "The proopiomelanocortin (POMC) and the corticotropin releasing hormone receptor (CRH-R) genes are expressed in the skin of the C57BL/6 mouse throughout the entire hair cycle, and CRH immunoreactivity is present in the pilosebaceous unit of the hair follicle and the epidermis. These findings suggest tha... | {
"abstract": "The POMC gene is predominantly expressed in the pituitary gland; it is also expressed in various extrapituitary tissues. While POMC mRNAs of similar size (approximately equal to 1000 nucleotides) are present in the anterior and neurointermediate lobes of the pituitary, other POMC-expressing tissues con... | {
"abstract": "Alpha-MSH, considered an important pigmentation hormone, binds to melanocytes and is thought to stimulate melanogenesis through a cyclic-AMP-dependent mechanism. The binding of alpha-MSH to follicular melanocytes has been investigated in human hair of different colors, ranging from black to blond and s... |
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"abstract": "Extramedullary plasmacytoma is a rare plasma cell neoplasm, and it is extremely uncommon in the testicles. We report a 73-year-old man with multiple myeloma presented with testicular plasmacytoma. He complained of left leg pain and scrotal swelling. Ultrasonography revealed testicular masses. Pathologi... | {
"abstract": "Extramedullary plasmacytoma (EMP) is a rare entity belonging to the category of non‐Hodgkin lymphoma. EMPs make up 4% of all plasma cell tumors and occur mainly in the upper aerodigestive tract (UAD). Seven patients with EMP included in this evaluation were under the authors' care and have been clinica... | {
"abstract": "BackgroundThe purpose of this study was to describe the development and evaluation of the image-based Veterans Affairs (VA) Tobacco Tactics program logo and campaign character using principles of social marketing.MethodsFour cross-sectional surveys with open- and closed-ended questions were used to gat... |
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"abstract": "Genetic variants regulating RNA splicing and transcript usage have been implicated in both common and rare diseases. Although transcript usage quantitative trait loci (tuQTLs) have now been mapped in multiple cell types and conditions, the molecular mechanisms through which these variants exert their e... | {
"abstract": "Environmental perturbations have large effects on both organismal and cellular traits, including gene expression, but the extent to which the environment affects RNA processing remains largely uncharacterized. Recent studies have identified a large number of genetic variants associated with variation i... | {
"abstract": "Most human protein-coding genes are regulated by multiple, distinct promoters, suggesting that the choice of promoter is as important as its level of transcriptional activity. While the role of promoters as driver elements in cancer has been recognized, the contribution of alternative promoters to regu... |
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"abstract": "SummaryCanine distemper virus (CDV) antigen was demonstrated immunocytochemically in the central nervous system (CNS) of 19 dogs killed from 16 to 170 days after infection. In the earliest lesions, infection of glial cells preceded demyelination, and the degree of myelin destruction correlated with the... | {
"abstract": "Canine distemper virus (CDV) exhibits lymphotropic, epitheliotropic, and neurotropic nature, and causes a severe systemic infection in susceptible animals. Initially, signaling lymphocyte activation molecule (SLAM) expressed on immune cells has been identified as a crucial cellular receptor for CDV. Cu... | {
"abstract": "Your car has been making ominous clunking sounds lately and you've brought it in for a checkup. The mechanic says there are some minor transmission problems, which he'll fix while you wait. You position yourself in the grimy lounge with the stack of four-year-old issues of Road and Track and wait. And ... |
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"abstract": "Mechanistic insight into how polycations disrupt and cross cell membranes is needed for understanding and controlling polycation-membrane interactions, yet such information is surprisingly difficult to obtain at the molecular level. We use second harmonic and vibrational sum frequency generation spectr... | {
"abstract": "Biodegradable core--shell structured nanoparticles with a poly(β-amino ester) (PBAE) core enveloped by a phospholipid bilayer shell were developed for in vivo mRNA delivery with a view toward delivery of mRNA-based vaccines. The pH-responsive PBAE component was chosen to promote endosome disruption, wh... | {
"abstract": "Abstract This paper begins with an introduction to the basic principles of data envelopment analysis (DEA). DEA is a linear programming-based method for assessing the productive efficiencies of operating units such as bank branches, sales outlets, schools or individuals. This paper then goes on to desc... |
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"abstract": "Abstract Firms use R&D partnerships to access knowledge and build global R&D networks. This article develops an integrated framework to examine the determinants of the choice of partners with which firms co-operate on R&D. This resource-based perspective underscores the interactions between three major... | {
"abstract": "Present times are marked by profound changes in industry and enterprises. Many of the ideas that have the capacity to create innovative businesses and markets in the future can only be realized through the co-operation of key partners from different industries. This phenomenon is referred to as Multi C... | {
"abstract": "Purpose – This paper aims to examine the complexities emerging in the attempts to develop a sophisticated IT-based knowledge management system (KMS) for sharing knowledge. Using actor-network theory, the authors conceptualise this as continuous processes of translation, whereby heterogeneous human and ... |
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"abstract": "Optical remote sensing images of urban areas usually contain large amount of line-segments that represent the boundaries of man-made objects. The extraction and vectorization of these line-segments are desirable for many applications, such as digital city reconstruction. This paper presents a “Sweep & ... | {
"abstract": "Improving the accuracy of line segment detection reduces the complexity of subsequent high-level processing common in cartographic feature detection. We developed a new extension to the Hough transform and reported on its application to building extraction. We expanded the Hough space by a third parame... | {
"abstract": "AbstractPerturbed physics configurations of version 3 of the Hadley Centre Atmosphere Model (HadAM3) driven with observed sea surface temperatures (SST) and sea ice were tuned to outgoing radiation observations using a Gauss–Newton line search optimization algorithm to adjust the model parameters. Four... |
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"abstract": "In this paper, we present the most extensive comparison of synchronization techniques. We evaluate 5 different synchronization techniques through a series of 31 data structure algorithms from the recent literature on 3 multicore platforms from Intel, Sun Microsystems and AMD. To this end, we developed ... | {
"abstract": "The advent of multicore processors as the standard computing platform will force major changes in software design.",
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"title": "Data structures in the multicore age"
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"abstract": "For most wireless sensor networks, one common and major bottleneck is the limited battery lifetime. The frequent maintenance efforts associated with battery replacement significantly increase the system operational and logistics cost. Unnoticed power failures on nodes will degrade the system reliabilit... |
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"abstract": "In this article we propose a novel D2D Crowd framework for 5G mobile edge computing, where a massive crowd of devices at the network edge leverage network-assisted D2D collaboration for computation and communication resource sharing. A key objective of this framework is to achieve energy-efficient coll... | {
"abstract": "Current estimates of mobile data traffic in the years to come foresee a 1,000 increase of mobile data traffic in 2020 with respect to 2010, or, equivalently, a doubling of mobile data traffic every year. This unprecedented growth demands a significant increase of wireless network capacity. Even if the ... | {
"abstract": "The proliferation of mobile devices, coupled by the increase in their capabilities, have enabled the establishment of a rich mobile computing platform that can be utilized in conjunction with cloud services. In this chapter, we overview the latest mobile computing models and architectures focusing on t... |
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"abstract": "The CAEP Stroke Practice Committee was convened in the spring of 2013 to revisit the 2001 policy statement on the use of thrombolytic therapy in acute ischemic stroke. The terms of reference of the panel were developed to include national representation from urban academic centres as well as community ... | {
"abstract": "As the UK regulator reviews alteplase in ischaemic stroke, Brian Alper and colleagues interpret the evidence to suggest increased mortality with uncertain benefit for its use beyond three hours",
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"title": "Thrombolysis in acute ischaemic stroke: time for a rethink?"
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"abstract": "The aim of the present study was to compare the influence of volatile anesthetics on transcranial motor-evoked potentials (tcMEP) in humans anesthetized with propofol/fentanyl/nitrous oxide and on partial neuromuscular blockade (NMB). The authors studied 35 ASA I and II patients who were undergoing ele... |
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"abstract": "Biological systems can generate robust and complex behaviors through limited local interactions in the presence of large amount of uncertainties. Inspired by biological organisms, we have proposed a gene regulatory network (GRN) based algorithm for self-organizing multiple robots into different shapes.... | {
"abstract": "This paper provides a combination of chemotaxic and anemotaxic modeling, known as odor-gated rheotaxis (OGR), to solve real-world odor source localization problems. Throughout the history of trying to mathematically localize an odor source, two common biometric approaches have been used. The first appr... | {
"abstract": "We report the experimental observation of an endogeneous antisymmetric wave source in a quasi-one-dimensional chemical system. Substantiated by numerical simulations, a theoretical interpretation relying on the interaction between Turing and Hopf modes is proposed",
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"abstract": "A new method for the assay of Na+, K+-adenosine triphosphatase (Na+, K+-ATPase) inhibition has been devised involving the determination of enzymatically produced adenosine diphosphate (ADP) and unchanged adenosine triphosphate (ATP) by high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC). The substrate, ATP, ... | {
"abstract": "Forty-three different cardiac steroids having a doubly linked sugar and related compounds were tested for inhibition of Na+,K+-adenosine triphosphatase from guinea pig heart, and the structure-activity relationship has been discussed. The doubly linked glycosides showed higher activities than the respe... | {
"abstract": "A wide variety of drugs and chemicals have been shown to produce induction and inhibition of heme-metabolizing enzymes, and of drug-metabolizing enzymes, including cytochrome P450s (P450s, CYPs), which consist of many molecular species with lower substrate specificity. Such chemically induced enzyme al... |
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"abstract": "To assess the efficacy of early intervention (EI) for very-low-birth-weight (VLBW) infants, we evaluated 62 2 year old children who were enrolled in an EI program and 48 control subjects aged 2 years. We determined the subjects' developmental quotients (DQ) and obtained information about the parents' e... | {
"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nInfants born preterm are at increased risk of developing cognitive and motor impairments compared with infants born at term. Early developmental interventions have been used in the clinical setting with the aim of improving the overall functional outcome for these infants. However, the bene... | {
"abstract": "Originally published in Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books, 1973, Vol 18(12), 679. Reviews the book, Sensory Integration and Learning Disorders by Jean A. Ayres (1972). This volume states the case for neurogenic impairment as an etiologic factor underlying certain learning disorders in chi",
... |
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"abstract": "An explicit formula for the dual basis functions of the Bernstein basis is derived. The dual basis functions are expressed as linear combinations of Bernstein polynomials.",
"corpus_id": 3437944,
"title": "The dual basis functions for the Bernstein polynomials"
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"abstract": "for the dual basis functions of Wang-Said type generalized Ball bases (WSGB) with respect to the Jacobi weight function are given. The dual basis functions with and without boundary constraints are also considered. As a result, the paper includes the weighted dual basis functions of Bernstein basis, Wa... | {
"abstract": "In this Note, the third of the series, we continue the study of the inverse problem in the coupling constant, and give the complete solution in the general case where the potential may be singular at the origin On etudie le probleme inverse en constante de couplage et on donne la solution complete dans... |
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"abstract": "A variant of mixed adenosquamous carcinoma of the endometrium was encountered in 5 of 68 patients (7.4 per cent) with mixed adenosquamous carcinomas of the endometrium. A sixty patient had an isolated area of glassy cell carcinoma in an otherwise typical adenosquamous carcinoma. The ground-glass appear... | {
"abstract": "This study was conducted to elucidate the prognostic significance of a three‐grade system for lymphovascular space invasion (LVSI).",
"corpus_id": 6594170,
"title": "The grading of lymphovascular space invasion in endometrial carcinoma"
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"abstract": "The cytological readings were evaluated of 2 simultaneously obtained cervical Pap smears from a cohort of 30000 women. The distribution of diagnostic categories among central and periopheral laboratories was closely similar. In 32 cases diagnosed on the first slide as severe dysplasia-carcinoma in situ... |
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"abstract": "A new form of cloud computing, serverless computing, is drawing attention as a new way to design micro-services architectures. In a serverless computing environment, services are developed as service functional units. The function development environment of all serverless computing framework at present... | {
"abstract": "The impact of the maximally possible batch size (for the better runtime) on performance of graphic processing units (GPU) and tensor processing units (TPU) during training and inference phases is investigated. The numerous runs of the selected deep neural network (DNN) were performed on the standard MN... | {
"abstract": "This paper presents a spatial-based trajectory planning method for automated vehicles under actuator, obstacle avoidance, and vehicle dimension constraints. Starting from a nonlinear kinematic bicycle model, vehicle dynamics are transformed to a road-aligned coordinate frame with path along the road ce... |
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"abstract": "An elevator system in which distance pulses are generated in response to travel of an elevator car, and used to update a car position counter. The difference between the car position count and a count representative of the location of the target floor is determined when the elevator car reaches a prede... | {
"abstract": "This paper will discuss two participatory design projects, a supports needed to make participatory design a viable option.",
"corpus_id": 111315638,
"title": "Participatory Design: Examples and Institutional Needs"
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"abstract": "The superconducting pairing in Sr_{2}RuO_{4} is widely considered to be chiral p wave with d[over →]_{k}∼(k_{x}+ik_{y})z[over ^], which belongs to the E_{u} representation of the crystalline D_{4h} group. However, this superconducting order appears hard to reconcile with a number of key experiments. In... |
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"abstract": "To identify plants with bioactive potential for skin care, methanol extracts of 56 plant parts from 47 medical and edible plants cultivated in Okinawa were tested for their proliferative effects on NB1RGB skin fibroblast cells. Extracts from six plants, Bischofia javanica, Colocasia esculenta, Melaleuc... | {
"abstract": "We have previously shown that royal jelly (RJ) promoted collagen production by skin fibroblasts in the presence of ascorbic acid-2-O-alpha-glucoside (AA-2G). In this study, we purified the honeybee RJ-derived collagen production-promoting factor (HBRJ-CPF) from an alkali-solubilized fraction of RJ by C... | {
"abstract": "This study aims to assess the costs and benefits of the Thai agricultural diversification policy in 1994–96. Three competitive crops (rice, soybeans and mungbeans) are selected in two provinces to study their comparative advantages in terms of a policy analysis matrix. The results suggest that rice is ... |
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"abstract": "Abstract Nuclear pore complexes (NPCs) orchestrate cargo between the cytoplasm and nucleus and regulate chromatin organization. NPC proteins, or nucleoporins (Nups), are required for human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) gene expression and genomic integration of viral DNA. We utilize the Ty1 ret... | {
"abstract": "Genomics and other large-scale analyses have drawn increasing attention to the potential impacts of transposable elements (TEs) on their host genomes. However, it remains challenging to transition from identifying potential roles to clearly demonstrating the level of impact TEs have on genome evolution... | {
"abstract": "A female rat, by operating a lever, causes the presentation of a potent male rat and subsequent sexual contact. The female shows contact-response latencies that vary according to the nature of the contact. Latencies after ejaculations are longer than those after intromissions, which in turn exceed thos... |
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"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nThere has not been a comprehensive multi-center study investigating the microbial profile of community acquired pneumonia (CAP) in Taiwan.\n\n\nMETHODS\nA prospective study of adult CAP patients requiring hospitalization between December 2001 and April 2002 was carried out in 13 hospitals i... | {
"abstract": "OBJECTIVE\nTo provide recommendations for the management of community-acquired pneumonia and the surveillance of drug-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae (DRSP).\n\n\nMETHODS\nWe addressed the following questions: (1) Should pneumococcal resistance to beta-lactam antimicrobial agents influence pneumonia... | {
"abstract": "Solid-state radiation dosimetry by electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectroscopy and thermoluminescence (TL) was utilized for the determination of absorbed doses in the range of 0.5-2.5 Gy. The dosimeter materials used were lithium formate and lithium fluoride (TLD-100 rods) for EPR dosimetry and ... |
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"abstract": "Abstract Fatty acid synthesis by extracts of Euglena shows an absolute requirement for ATP when acetyl-SCoA is the substrate. Since the system is not inhibited by avidin and is not enhanced by HCO 3 − , it is suggested that the malonyl-SCoA pathway is inoperative in these extracts. This conclusion is s... | {
"abstract": "At least 3 known pathways are available to a cell to synithesize satuirated fatty acids: A) the malonylCoA pathwav which has been shown to result in do novo synthesis of long-chain fatty acids, B) reversal of the fl-oxidation pathway which results primarily in syinthesis of short-chain acids and onlv n... | {
"abstract": "The production of spermatozoa in the male insect and the transfer of the seminal mass to the female require significant investments of biochemical resources and the temporal coordination of development in several organs. Maturation of the gonads and the secondary reproductive systems must be synchroniz... |
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"abstract": "Modern software systems are required to operate in a highly uncertain and changing environment. They have to control the satisfaction of their requirements at run-time, and possibly adapt and cope with situations that have not been completely addressed at design-time. Software engineering methods and t... | {
"abstract": "We present a language-theoretic approach to symbolic model checking of PCTL over discrete-time Markov chains. The probability with which a path formula is satisfied is represented by a regular expression. A recursive evaluation of the regular expression yields an exact rational value when transition pr... | {
"abstract": "Events of various sorts make up an important subset of the entities relevant not only in knowledge representation but also in natural language processing and numerous other fields and tasks. How to represent these in a homogeneous yet expressive, extensive, and extensible way remains a challenge. In th... |
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"abstract": "In recent years, model predictive control (MPC) has been successfully used for the control of power electronics converters with different topologies and for different applications. MPC offers many advantages over more traditional control techniques such as the ability to avoid cascaded control loops, e... | {
"abstract": "Multilevel converters are known to have many advantages for electricity network applications. In particular, cascaded H-bridge converters are attractive because of their inherent modularity and scalability. Predictive control for power converters is advantageous as a result of its applicability to disc... | {
"abstract": "This study proposes a new structure of hybrid cascade coupled-inductor high step-up (HCCIHSU) DC/DC converter for renewable energy sources. The proposed topology can provide an ultra-high voltage gain under continuous input current and low voltage stress on semiconductor devices. This converter is a hy... |
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"abstract": "key words: Textile conservation, black-dyed silk, tensile test, compression resilience, accelerated ageing To propose a new non-destructive assessment procedure for historic Suga-yarns using the “Kawabata Evaluation System (KES)”, compression resilience (RC) was compared with tensile breaking strain, w... | {
"abstract": "Effect of pile length on the comfortable usage for the powder puff was investigated by both subjective and objective evaluations. Two series of samples varying the pile length from 4 mm to 16 mm were made from the same fiber type and fabric structure for this purpose. Subjects evaluated the degree of “... | {
"abstract": "Literature on silk suggests two mechanisms for the degradation of fibroin: oxidation and hydrolysis of amino acids, and hydrolysis of the peptide bonds. To study this degradation a high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) method was developed to separate and quantify amino acids. New silk was weig... |
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"abstract": "Oral submucous fibrosis (OSF) is a potentially malignant condition of the oral cavity characterized by progressive fibrosis of the submucosal tissues. OSF is typically associated with the use of betel quid (BQ), a chewing package made of natural products (e.g., areca nut, betel leaves), with or without... | {
"abstract": "140 In India, Betel leaf (BL) plays an important role since ancient culture. Its use in India dates back to 400 BC. As per ancient books of Ayurveda, Charaka, Sushruta Samhitas, and Kashyapa Bhojanakalpa, the practice of chewing BL after meals became common between 75 AD and 300 AD. Toward the 13th cen... | {
"abstract": "OBJECTIVE\nTo investigate the prevalence and the associated risk factors of oral precancerous disorders in southern Taiwan.\n\n\nMETHODS\nWe conducted a cross-sectional community survey interviewing 1075 adult subjects, 15 years of age and over, gathered from randomly selected 591 households, and spann... |
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"abstract": "In this paper, we consider the problem of managing a fleet of trucks with different capacity to serve the requests of different customers that arise randomly over time. The problem is formulated via dynamic programming. Linear programming approximations of the problem are presented and their solutions ... | {
"abstract": "Mathematical programming models for airline seat inventory control provide booking limits and bid-prices for all itineraries and fare classes. E.L. Williamson [Airline network seat inventory control: methodologies and revenue impacts, Ph.D. thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, ... | {
"abstract": "The movement of vehicles and goods in a transportation system can be represented as flows through a time-dependent transshipment network. An inductive out-of-skilter type of algorithm is presented which utilizes the basic underlying properties of the dynamic transshipment network to optimize the flow o... |
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"abstract": "A new method is given for obtaining the probability density of the output of an RC filter when the input is a stationary binary random process. The axis-crossing intervals of the input are assumed to be statistically independent and identically distributed, but with an arbitrary density function. The m... | {
"abstract": "The power spectra for FM signal modulated by the smoothed random telegraph signal are examined experimentally. These FM signals are the noises of variable bandwidth with power spectrum distributions in Gaussian, rectangular, or concave forms; these forms being determined by the values of the product of... | {
"abstract": "The integral equations discussed and illustrated are those of Fredholm, with fixed limits in the integral and including the eigenvalue problem, and of Volterra, with a variable upper limit in the integral. The methods are mostly based on finite-difference theory, the integrals being replaced by formula... |
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"abstract": "One hundred fifty patients with idiopathic hypertrophic subaortic stenosis (IHSS) were followed-up for an average of 5.5 years. There were 95 males and 55 females with a mean age of 51 years. Patients usually presented with cardiac symptoms or syncope; no patient presented with stroke. Eight patients (... | {
"abstract": "The study of biomarkers and their signalling pathways has allowed the development of new therapeutic strategies in a range of disorders. The aim of the present systematic review is to provide an overview of different biomarkers in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy that could give some insight i... | {
"abstract": "Abstract The hemodynamic alterations induced by isoproterenol and methoxamine in 7 patients with idiopathic hypertrophic subaortic stenosis are described. The intravenous administration of 2 μg. of isoproterenol generally lowered the cardiac output and the systemic arterial pressure, while elevating th... |
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"abstract": "Multihop wireless sensor networks have recently emerged as an important embedded computing platform. This paper defines a quantitative notion of real-time capacity of a wireless network. Real-time capacity describes how much real-time data the network can transfer by their deadlines. A capacity bound i... | {
"abstract": "The deadline of a request is the time instant at which its execution must complete. The deadline of the request in any period of a job with deferred deadline is some time instant after the end of the period. The authors describe a semi-static priority-driven algorithm for scheduling periodic jobs with ... | {
"abstract": "The Rate Monotonic Scheduling (RMS) policy is a widely accepted scheduling strategy for real-time systems due to strong theoretical foundations and features attractive to practical uses. For a periodic task set of n tasks with deadlines at the end of task periods, it guarantees a feasible schedule on a... |
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"abstract": "3D network structure NiFe2O4 was successfully synthesized by a templated salt precipitation method using PMMA colloid crystal as templates. The morphology, phase composition and microwave absorbing properties of as-prepared samples were characterized by scanning electron microscopy (SEM), X-ray diffrac... | {
"abstract": "We have synthesized thin Fe3O4 microflakes by a simple hydrothermal method and prepared Fe3O4 microflake–paraffin composites without and with magnetic orientation using the method of simple ultrasonic mixing and rotating samples in a magnetic field. X-ray diffractometer, Mössbauer spectrum, scanning el... | {
"abstract": "Thermotoga neapolitana (Tne) DNA polymerase belongs to the DNA polymerase I (Pol I) family. The O-helix region of these polymerases is involved in dNTP binding and also plays a role in binding primer-template during DNA synthesis. Here we report that mutations in the O-helix region of Tne DNA polymeras... |
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