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"abstract": "Abstract A novel inorganic–organic hybrid molecule, [Cu(4,4′bipyH) 3 (4,4bipy)][HPW 12 O 40 ] 2 .12H 2 O ( 1 ), has been hydrothermally synthesized and characterized by IR spectra, TG and single crystal X-ray diffraction analyses. Structural analysis reveals that the novel compound 1 composed of two Ke... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Two supramolecular compounds of Keggin POMs supporting the natural active ingredient, (THB)3(H5PMo12O40) (1) and (THB)3(H3PW12O40) (2) (THB = tetrahydroberberine), have been synthesized and characterized by X-ray single-crystal diffraction, elemental analyses, IR, XRPD and TGA. A crystallizati... | {
"abstract": "Through tuning the spacer length of flexible bis(triazole) ligands, three Keggin anion-based coordination polymers with different dimensionalities, [Cu4(H2O)4(bte)2(HPMoVI10MoV2O40)]·2H2O (1) (bte = 1,2-bis(1,2,4-triazol-1-yl)ethane), [Cu(btb)][Cu2(btb)2(PMo12O40)] (2) (btb = 1,4-bis(1,2,4-triazol-1-y1... |
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"abstract": "Discovering the mechanism that controls the three-dimensional structures of proteins, which are closely related to their biological functions, remains a challenge in modern biological science, even for small proteins. From a thermodynamic viewpoint, the native structure of a protein can be understood a... | {
"abstract": "The biogenic production of hydrogen sulfide gas by sulfate-reducing bacteria (SRB) causes serious economic problems for natural gas and oil industry. One of the key enzymes important in this biologic process is adenosine phosphosulfate reductase (APSr). Using virtual screening technique we have discove... | {
"abstract": "A total of 94 European eels (Anguilla anguilla) were collected from five estuaries in the UK. The deconjugated metabolites of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in the bile of the eels were separated using HPLC. Six PAH metabolites were identified: 1-hydroxy (1-OH) metabolites of phenanthrene, pyr... |
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"abstract": "This study identifies and examines the components and the structure of energy and carbon literacy for hospitality and tourism practitioners. A questionnaire survey was administered to collect data from a sample of hotel employees in Taiwan, and 369 valid questionnaires were obtained for data analysis. ... | {
"abstract": "This paper sheds light on the challenges facing communication praxis for transition by reporting on an exploratory, thematic analysis of media reports about reducing carbon emissions. It maps the deployment of ideas about the rationale and multi-faceted processes for moving to a low carbon society in t... | {
"abstract": "Purpose – The purpose of this study is to introduce a framework for developing a maintenance strategic plan that links the maintenance function with the corporate strategy and integrates it with other functional areas. Within the proposed framework, a systematic process for maintenance strategic planni... |
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"abstract": "Experience during the financial crisis illustrates that the integrated measurement and management of different forms of risk remains a challenge for industry practitioners, researchers and financial supervisors alike. In the context of related literature, this article summarizes new research on the int... | {
"abstract": "This paper presents a new approach to modeling conditional credit loss distributions. Asset value changes of firms in a credit portfolio are linked to a dynamic global macroeconometric model, allowing macroeffects to be isolated from idiosyncratic shocks from the perspective of default (and hence loss)... | {
"abstract": "Emphasizes the contribution of multicultural teams in the rate of creativity and innovation in project management. Decline of public acceptance of technologies; Characterization of the environment of business organization; Internationalization of innovation process.",
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"abstract": "The pin-patch antenna provides a low-profile monopolar element suitable for wireless access point requirements. This design concept is extended here to provide dual-band operation. Experimental results are compared to predictions from a FDTD package confirming monopolar radiation in two bands at 2.4 GH... | {
"abstract": "Compact, low-cost antennas for multiband telematics applications on vehicles are described. The multifrequency band antennas are variations on the printed inverted-F antenna (PIFA) principle. One type of PIFA is a compact variation of a conventional antenna while the other is a novel planar version cus... | {
"abstract": "Assembly variant design in agile manufacturing involves modifying components or mixing and matching existing components from valid assemblies to proliferate new variant products. Wanget al. (2001, \"Assembly Modeling for Complex Assembly variant Design, \" Tenth Industrial Engineering Research Conferen... |
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"abstract": "The L1 norm has been tremendously popular in signal and image processing in the past two decades due to its sparsity-promoting properties. More recently, its generalization to non-Euclidean domains has been found useful in shape analysis applications. For example, in conjunction with the minimization o... | {
"abstract": "The natural vibration modes of deformable objects are a fundamental physical phenomenon. In this paper, we introduce compressed vibration modes, which, in contrast to the natural vibration modes, are localized (“sparse”) deformations. The localization is achieved by augmenting the objective which has t... | {
"abstract": "The methods for computing of Algebraic Immunity of cryptographic Boolean functions and non-linear substitutions (substitutions) blocks of symmetric ciphers are explored. The results of a comparative analysis of the Algebraic Immunity of nonlinear blocks of symmetric ciphers are denoted.",
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"abstract": "The present research examined how implicit racial associations and explicit racial attitudes of Whites relate to behaviors and impressions in interracial interactions. Specifically, the authors examined how response latency and self-report measures predicted bias and perceptions of bias in verbal and n... | {
"abstract": "Two experiments used a priming paradigm to investigate the influence of racial cues on the perceptual identification of weapons. In Experiment 1, participants identified guns faster when primed with Black faces compared with White faces. In Experiment 2, participants were required to respond quickly, c... | {
"abstract": "Interest in heart rate variability (HRV) metrics as markers of physiological and psychological health continues to grow beyond those with psychophysiological expertise, increasing the importance of developing suitable tools for researchers new to the field. Allen, Chambers, and Towers (2007) developed ... |
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"abstract": "Differently colored authigenic quartz crystals were found as the druses compound within mudstone heteroliths from the Pepper Mts. Shale Formation (Cambrian unit of the Holy Cross Mts., Central Poland). The genesis of this mineral was established on the basis of fluid inclusion study. Raman microspectro... | {
"abstract": "The computer package FLUIDS contains five sets of computer programs written in C++ for the calculation of fluid properties. Both model fluids and data from fluid inclusions can be analysed in the programs. Bulk density, molar volume and composition of fluid inclusions are calculated with the program BU... | {
"abstract": "1 Using front‐surface fluorometry with fura‐2‐loaded porcine coronary arterial strips, we simultaneously measured effects of a Ca2+ antagonist, diltiazem, on cytosolic Ca2+ concentrations ([Ca2+]i) and on tension development. 2 In the presence of extracellular Ca2+ (1.25 mm), histamine concentration‐de... |
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"abstract": "This paper presents the implementation of Indirect Field Oriented Control (IFOC) for a five-phase induction motor drive using matlab/Simulink. Features of multiphase induction motor and IFOC are discussed. Dynamic model of five phase induction motor is developed. Performance of the motor is investigate... | {
"abstract": "The main objective of this two-part state-of-the-art paper called “Recent Advances in the Design, Modeling, and Control of Multiphase Machines” is to present latest contributions in the multiphase machines' field. The first part of this paper focuses on the recent progress in the design, modeling, and ... | {
"abstract": "Written by a team of internationally respected experts, this book explores the conditions under which social policy, defined as the public pursuit of secure welfare, operates in the poorer regions of the world. Social policy in advanced capitalist countries operates through state intervention to compen... |
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"abstract": "This paper proposes a guideline for the mechanical acceleration of end-of-lifetime prognostics of metal based die attach materials. As a such, we used first an advanced nano-effect sintered silver layer as interface between die and substrate which has very god electrical and thermal conductivities. Two... | {
"abstract": "In this work we present the results on a reliability study on chip capacitor solder joints. The components were tested under three different loading conditions. First, temperature shock tests were conducted on a set of various chip capacitor components. Tested components were evaluated for the occurred... | {
"abstract": "The work is devoted to mathematical analysis of the fork-type wave gyroscope. It includes the theory of flexural and torsional vibrations of thin bimorph beams and an applied theory of elastic half-ring vibrations both in the plane of the fork arrangement and in the perpendicular direction. Solution of... |
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"abstract": "The spatially separated forms of ornithine transcarbamoylase (EC 2.1.3.3) of different molecular weights coexist in sugarcane (Saccharum sp.). The smaller form of the enzyme (mol wt 79,000) appears to be cytoplasmic, while a larger form (mol wt 224,000) sedimented with mitochondria. The Km of the cytop... | {
"abstract": "Citrulline was chemically isolated more than 100 years ago and is ubiquitous in animals, plants, bacteria, and fungi. Most of the research on plant citrulline metabolism and transport has been carried out in Arabidopsis thaliana and the Cucurbitaceae family, particularly in watermelon which accumulates... | {
"abstract": "\"Tail-clamp\" PNAs composed of a short (hexamer) homopyrimidine triplex forming domain and a (decamer) mixed sequence duplex forming extension have been designed. Tail-clamp PNAs display significantly increased binding to single-stranded DNA compared with PNAs lacking a duplex-forming extension as det... |
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"abstract": "In this thesis, we propose energy-efficient data management techniques dedicated to periodic sensor networks based on clustering architecture. First, we propose to adapt sensor sampling rate to the changing dynamics of the monitored condition using one-way ANOVA model and statistical tests (Fisher, Tuk... | {
"abstract": "Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) plays vital role in research field. Due to its rapidly increasing application in monitoring various kinds of environment by sensing physical phenomenon. Clustering is an efficient and effective method to enhance performance of the WSNs system. In this project work, we stu... | {
"abstract": "In this paper, we are concerned with the optimum cluster size in underwater acoustic sensor networks. Due to the sparse deployment and channel property, the clustering characteristics of underwater acoustic sensor networks are different from those of terrestrial sensor networks. We show that the optimu... |
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"abstract": "We present an efficient graph-theoretic algorithm for segmenting a colored laser point cloud derived from a laser scanner and camera. Segmentation of raw sensor data is a crucial first step for many high level tasks such as object recognition, obstacle avoidance and terrain classification. Our method e... | {
"abstract": "This paper presents a novel method for recovering consistent depth maps from a video sequence. We propose a bundle optimization framework to address the major difficulties in stereo reconstruction, such as dealing with image noise, occlusions, and outliers. Different from the typical multi-view stereo ... | {
"abstract": "Distinct gene expression profiles in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) consistent with increased sympathetic nervous system activity have been described in different populations under chronic stress. Neuroinflammatory brain changes, possibly related to the migration of primed monocytes to the ... |
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"abstract": "This paper presents a novel two-level scheme for coding discourse structure in dialogue, which was created by the authors for the discourse structure subgroup of the 1998 DR/meet ing on dialogue tagging. We discuss the theoretical motivations and framework for the coding proposal, and then review the r... | {
"abstract": "In this paper we propose a model of creation and use of documentation based on the concept of mixed-initiative interaction. In our model, successful single-initiative interaction is characterized by grounding of contributions, and successful mixed-initiative interaction is characterized by both groundi... | {
"abstract": "This thesis describes a theoretical framework for modelling cooperative dialogue. The linguistic theory is a version of speech act theory adopted from Cohen and Levesque, in which dialogue utterances are generated and interpreted pragmatically in the context of a theory of rational interaction. The lat... |
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"abstract": "Background Vrikshayurveda, an ancient science of plant life described by Surapala, deals with healthy growth and productivity of plants, which has clearly outlined a systematized agricultural practice that insisted the use of Kunapa jala (KJ) and Pancha gavya (PG). Objective An experiment was conducted... | {
"abstract": "Experiments were conducted to evaluate the influence of cow urine-based bioformulations on the morphological, physiological growth response and expression of stress responsive genes under drought stress in mungbean [ Vigna radiata (L.) Wilczek] plants. An initial in vitro evaluation and three separate ... | {
"abstract": "Abstract The present study investigates the role of sensory interactions and the level of expertise of consumers on the perception of bitterness and astringency in a red wine complex matrix. In the first experiment, a commercial red wine was spiked with quinine sulphate to produce two levels of bittern... |
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"abstract": "This study examines the relationship between use of Facebook, a popular online social network site, and the formation and maintenance of social capital. In addition to assessing bonding and bridging social capital, we explore a dimension of social capital that assesses one’s ability to stay connected w... | {
"abstract": "Abstract This study assessed motives for social network site (SNS) use, group belonging, collective self-esteem, and gender effects among older adolescents. Communication with peer group members was the most important motivation for SNS use. Participants high in positive collective self-esteem were str... | {
"abstract": "This paper presents a 0.13um BiCD process (BiCD-0.13) based on a 0.13um standard CMOS technology with a superior Deep Trench Isolation(DTI). Merits of using DTI are to improve breakdown voltage, reduce parasitic transistor actions and increase area density, compared with Junction-Isolation. We simulate... |
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"abstract": "Purpose For patients with breast carcinoma, immunohistochemical markers are important factors in determining the breast cancer subtype and for establishing a therapeutic plan, including the use of neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NACT). However, it is not clear whether the expression of certain markers change... | {
"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nThis study aimed to assess the efficacy and safety of chemoradiotherapy (CRT) for locally recurrent or advanced inoperable breast cancer.\n\n\nPATIENTS AND METHODS\nTwenty patients treated between 2009 and 2013 were reviewed from a prospectively collected database. All patients had symptoma... | {
"abstract": "This investigation was conducted to validate the use of dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) as a quantitative molecular probe for the generation of hydroxyl radicals (HO.) in aqueous systems. Reaction of HO. with DMSO produces methane sulfinic acid as a primary product, which can be detected by a simple colorime... |
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"abstract": "Abstract Childhood stress and trauma are associated with substance use disorders in adulthood, but the neurological changes that confer increased vulnerability are largely unknown. In this study, maternal separation (MS) stress, restricted to the pre-weaning period, was used as a model to study mechani... | {
"abstract": "Increasing evidence suggests that postnatal events, such as handling or maternal separation, can produce long-term changes in brain function. These are often expressed as changes in the profile of endocrine or behavioral responses to stress. Changes in γ-aminobutyric acid type A receptors (GABARs), whi... | {
"abstract": "Alcoholism is a complex disease with both genetic and environmental risk factors. To identify genes that affect the risk for alcoholism, we systematically ascertained and carefully assessed individuals in families with multiple alcoholics. Linkage and association analyses suggested that a region of chr... |
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"abstract": "Population screening for colorectal cancer (CRC) has recently commenced in the United Kingdom supported by the evidence of a number of randomised trials and pilot studies. Certain factors are known to influence screening cost-effectiveness (e.g. compliance), but it remains unclear whether an ageing pop... | {
"abstract": "Objective To estimate the difference in use of hospital resources in the Finnish Colorectal Cancer (CRC) screening programme between those invited and controls, within the year of randomisation and the next year. Design CRC screening was implemented in Finland in 2004 as a population-based randomised d... | {
"abstract": "A series of new polysubstituted derivatives of 2-tetralones possessing two ester groups were synthesized via a tandem aldol condensation-Diels–Alder-aromatization sequence of reactions. All the three steps took place in one pot and in the presence of aminofunctionalized silica coated Fe3O4 nanoparticle... |
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"abstract": "As a result of increased support and the diligent application of new and conventional anti-malaria tools, significant reductions in malaria transmission are being accomplished. Historical and current evolutionary responses of vectors and parasites to malaria interventions demonstrate that it is unwise ... | {
"abstract": "BackgroundBecause of its dramatic public health impact, Plasmodium falciparum resistance to chloroquine (CQ) has been documented early on. Chloroquine-resistance (CQR) emerged in the late 1950's independently in South East Asia and South America and progressively spread over all malaria areas. CQR was ... | {
"abstract": "Abstract The emergence of Anopheles species resistant to insecticides widely used in vector control has the potential to impact directly on the control of malaria. This may have a particularly dramatic effect in Africa, where pyrethroids impregnated onto bed-nets are the dominant insecticides used for ... |
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"abstract": "The authors explored the contribution of individual differences in attachment orientations to the experience of sexual intercourse and its association with relationship quality. In Study 1, 500 participants completed self-report scales of attachment orientations and sexual experience. The findings indi... | {
"abstract": "The purpose of the study was to test four predictions derived from evolutionary (sexual strategies) theory. The central hypothesis was that men and women possess different emotional mechanisms that motivate and evaluate sexual activities. Consequently, even when women express indifference to emotional ... | {
"abstract": "Accurately synchronized clocks are crucial for many applications in sensor networks. Existing time synchronization algorithms provide on average good synchronization between arbitrary nodes, however, as we show in this paper, close-by nodes in a network may be synchronized poorly. We propose the Gradie... |
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"abstract": "TRANSFER of momentum from wind to the surface layer of lakes and oceans plays a central part in driving horizontal and vertical circulation of water masses. Much work has been devoted to understanding the role of waves in momentum transfer across the air–sea interface, but less is known about the energ... | {
"abstract": "At any free surface at which the tangential stress τns vanishes there must be a surface vorticity ω = −2κq, where κ is the curvature and q the tangential velocity. In a surface wave on water, this condition produces a (Stokes) boundary layer with thickness of order δ = (2ν/σ)½, where ν is the kinemetic... | {
"abstract": "Abstract This study describes the three-dimensional dispersion of aircraft exhausts released into regions of overturning and breaking gravity waves below a critical level. The principal concept is to estimate effective diffusivities of a passive scalar by combining previous numerical approaches to the ... |
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"abstract": "Customizable Keyboard is an on-screen keyboard designed to be flexible and expandable. Instead of giving the user a keyboard layout Customizable Keyboard allows the user to create a layout that is accommodating to the user's needs. Customizable Keyboard also allows the user to select from a variety of ... | {
"abstract": "The solution to get this book is that we don't over you the free book. But, we offer you the free information about the midas touch. Why should be this book to read and where is the place to get it, even the soft file forms are common questions to utter. In this website, we don't only provide this book... | {
"abstract": "We develop a neural network workflow, which provides a systematic approach for tackling various problems in petroleum engineering. The workflow covers several design issues for constructing neural network models, especially in terms of developing the network structure. We apply the model to predict wat... |
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"abstract": "AbstractTo determine bilirubin-induced neurotoxicity, serial visual evoked potentials (VEPs) of 72 infants with neonatal hyperbilirubinaemia and 22 controls were evaluated and compared in four sessions for 8 weeks after birth. The levels of maximal serum bilirubin were found positively related to the w... | {
"abstract": "To study brain function in the neonatal period, disproportionately growth-retarded (n = 33) and appropriately grown (n = 21) infants were examined using Doppler flow velocities prenatally and visual evoked potentials postnatally. Visual evoked potentials recordings were made at gestation of 40 and 46 w... | {
"abstract": "Abstract RMS measurements of amplitude symmetry (derived from ratios between 4 homologous pairs of EEG derivations) were calculated for 45-sec digitized samples of typical active sleep and typical quiet sleep periods in 20 selected normal newborns at 21–70 h after term birth. In 10 of the 20 subjects r... |
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"abstract": "The prioritization of processing emotional stimuli usually produces deleterious effects on task performance when it distracts from a task. One common explanation is that brain resources are consumed by emotional stimuli, diverting resources away from executing the task. Viewing unpleasant stimuli also ... | {
"abstract": "Negative emotional signals are known to influence task performance, but so far, investigations have focused on how emotion interacts with perceptual processes by mobilizing attentional resources. The attention-independent effects of negative emotional signals are less well understood. Here, we show tha... | {
"abstract": "Although a variety of plant lectins are consumed as part of the normal human diet and are capable of binding to intestinal cell surfaces in vitro, little information exists on their effects on intact intestine. We have studied the acute effects of intraluminal administration of wheat germ agglutinin an... |
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"abstract": "The synthesis of two new azobenzene dyes, namely CR-528 and CR-555, and their spectral properties in ethanol solution are described. The recognition of sulfur-containing analytes (2-mercaptoethanol (2-ME), sodium hydrosulfide (NaHS)), and biogenic amines (spermine, spermidine, ethanolamine) bestowed si... | {
"abstract": "We developed a novel colorimetric method for rapid detection of biogenic amines based on arylalkylamine N-acetyltransferase (aaNAT). The proposed method offers distinct advantages including simple handling, high speed, low cost, good sensitivity and selectivity.",
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"abstract": "p110 alpha (PIK3CA) is the most frequently mutated kinase in human cancer, and numerous drugs targeting this kinase are currently in preclinical development or early-stage clinical trials. Clinical resistance to protein kinase inhibitors frequently results from point mutations that block drug binding; ... |
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"abstract": "We address the problem of Electric Vehicle (EV) drivers' assistance through ITS. Drivers of EVs that are low in battery may ask a navigation service for advice on which charging station to use and which route to take. A rational driver will follow the advice if there is no alternative choice that lets ... | {
"abstract": "In this paper, the basic functions of an electric vehicle charging service provider are described with a focus on the associated optimization problems. A novel method of planning the charging of electric drive vehicles including electricity grid constraints, both voltage and power, is shown. The method... | {
"abstract": "CHANGES IN AGGREGATE demand are the fundamental source of changes in the price level. In the long run, the supply of resources determines the volume of real output, the quantity of money determines the nominal value of output, and the price level is the ratio of the two. Economists who disagree with Mi... |
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"abstract": "Multiple forms of DNA-dependent RNA polymerases have been isolated and characterized from Leishmania strain UR6 promastigotes. RNA polymerases from this organism fail to resolve into multiple forms by conventional chromatography on DEAE-Sephadex A25, but could be separated by a modification of the meth... | {
"abstract": "α-Amanitin, a toxic substance from the mushroom Amanita phalloides, is a potent inhibitor of DNA-dependent RNA polymerase II (the nucleoplasmic form) from sea urchin, rat liver, and calf thymus. This compound exerts no effect on the activity of polymerase I (nucleolar form) or polymerase III (also nucl... | {
"abstract": "Homogeneous RNA polymerase III (RNA nucleotidyltransferase III) has been obtained from yeast. The subunit composition of the enzyme was examined by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis in the presence of sodium dodecyl sulfate. The enzyme is composed of 12 putative subunits with molecular weights 160,000... |
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"abstract": "This article presents a system identification analysis of a soil-structure interaction model with coupled horizontal and rocking response based on a combination of Fourier analysis, wave travel-time analysis, and a relationship between fixed-base, rigid-body, and system frequencies. The study provides ... | {
"abstract": "The extraction of the response of physical systems from field fluctuations is an area undergoing rapid growth. It is of relevance because it makes it possible to obtain the response of the system from passive field fluctuations instead of from an active point source. The impulse response is characteriz... | {
"abstract": "Toexplorethenatureofhowthestructureandphysicalpropertiesofthecrustvaryfromextendedtorelativelyunextendeddomains we present teleseismic receiver functions which measure crustal thickness, shear wavespeed structure and the Vp/Vs ratio at 12 seismic stations in eastern Arizona. The crustal thickness is ∼2... |
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"abstract": "We present an end-to-end design methodology for efficient deep learning deployment. Unlike previous methods that separately optimize the neural network architecture, pruning policy, and quantization policy, we jointly optimize them in an end-to-end manner. To deal with the larger design space it brings... | {
"abstract": "In recent years, advances in the design of convolutional neural networks have resulted in signicant improvements on the image classication and object detection problems. One of the advances is networks built by stacking complex cells, seen in such networks as InceptionNet and NasNet. ese cells are e... | {
"abstract": "A major challenge in biometrics is performing the test at the client side, where hardware resources are often limited. Deep learning approaches pose a unique challenge: while such architectures dominate the field of face recognition with regard to accuracy, they require elaborate, multi-stage computati... |
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"abstract": "BackgroundBreede Valley is a sub-district of the Cape Winelands district, Western Cape Province, South Africa. The administrative capital of the district is situated in the semi-rural town Worcester. Findings of a baseline survey in Worcester revealed poor infant feeding practices and childhood under- ... | {
"abstract": "Background Parents play a key role in providing nurturance and nurturing care to their child during the first 1000 days which is important for optimal child development. Various factors have been found to influence parenting but the contribution of these factors toward parental nurturance within the fi... | {
"abstract": "Whilst the Writing culture critique since the mid-1980s has led to a number of experiments with ethnographic writing, the visual side has been neglected. Thus this article argues that by looking at the work of Oppitz, Downey, and Lockhart, which has not been considered in the canon of visual and genera... |
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"abstract": "It is a daunting task to write a book review. In a few brief paragraphs, you judge the work of respected colleagues who have devoted years to painstaking data collection and analyses. A book review may be the place (but not the time) to bond with old friends with sycophantic praise or make new foes by ... | {
"abstract": "For the past twenty years, the standard reference on the varieties of species native to the Canadian Atlantic region was A.H. Leim and W.B. Scott's Fishes of the Atlantic Coast of Canada. This new work, by W.B. Scott in collaboration with M.G. Scott, now replaces the earlier volume as a comprehensive g... | {
"abstract": "A temporal change in stable isotope (δ 15 N) distributions in North Sea harbour porpoises Phocoena phocoena (L.) was documented by analysing stable isotope abundances in bone colla- gen from 88 skeletons of harbour porpoises stranded in the period between 1848 and 2002 along the southern North Sea coas... |
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"abstract": "Exceptional fossil specimens with preserved soft parts from the Maotianshan Shale (ca 520 Myr ago) and the Burgess Shale (505 Myr ago) biotas indicate that the worldwide distributed bivalved arthropod Isoxys was probably a non-benthic visual predator. New lines of evidence come from the functional morp... | {
"abstract": "Major aspects of the Earth system, including climate, atmospheric oxygen, the strength of the biological pump, and export productivity from plankton communities, have varied dramatically through time. How these factors might have interacted to shape the evolution of marine life and ecosystems is not kn... | {
"abstract": "A growing body of evidence indicates that Crustacea and Hexapoda are sister groups, rather than Hexapoda and Myriapoda. Some recent molecular data even suggest that Mandibulata is not monophyletic, with Myriapoda and Chelicerata instead being sister groups. Here, arguments for homology of the mandible ... |
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"abstract": "Objectives To evaluate the accuracy and reproducibility of a three-dimensional (3D) optical laser-scanning device to record the surface detail of plaster study models. To determine the accuracy of physical model replicas constructed from the 3D digital files. Design and setting A method comparison stud... | {
"abstract": "Introduction Our objective was to evaluate the effect of cusp height of posterior teeth (first premolar, second premolar, first molar) on the accuracy of the computer‐aided design and computer‐aided manufacturing (CAD‐CAM) indirect bonding system. Material Five kinds of maxillary arch models, without a... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Reflection—absorption infrared spectroscopy was used to determine the structure of films formed by the adsorption of γ-aminopropyltriethoxysilane (γ-APS) onto iron mirrors from aqueous solutions. Films formed at the natural pH of 1% aqueous solutions were composed of oligomers characterized by... |
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"abstract": "In this paper, through the analysis of the great challenges faced by China’s energy industry in the development of low carbon economy, it is advisable that China increase the proportion of natural gas (NG) in primary energy as the main strategy of energy conservation and CO2 reduction in the advancemen... | {
"abstract": "This paper examines the impacts of industrialization and urbanization on CO2 emissions in China using nonparametric additive regression models and provincial panel data from 1990 to 2011. The empirical results show that there is an inverted U-shaped nonlinear relationship between industrialization and ... | {
"abstract": "How has the agricultural sector in China performed over the past decades? Has China experienced a \"green revolution\" in agriculture as other Asian countries have? How does agricultural productivity in China today compare with the past and with other Asian countries? In a nutshell, my conclusion is th... |
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"abstract": "This paper presents a resonant pressure microsensor with the measurement range of 1 MPa suitable for the soaring demands of industrial gas pressure calibration equipment. The proposed microsensor consists of an SOI layer as a sensing element and a glass cap for vacuum packaging. The sensing elements in... | {
"abstract": "This paper presents the analysis and characterization of a resonant pressure microsensor, which employs a temperature compensation method based on differential outputs and a temperature sensor. Leveraging a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) wafer, this microsensor mainly consists of a pressure-sensitive diagr... | {
"abstract": "—This paper considers a minimum mean-squared error (MMSE) single user adaptive receiver for the asynchronous direct-sequence code-division multiple-access (DS-CDMA) system, based on the least-mean-square (LMS) algorithm. It is known that in this context the adaptive algorithm can be iterated several ti... |
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"abstract": "An Abstraction Network is a compact summary of an ontology's structure and content. In previous research, we showed that Abstraction Networks support quality assurance (QA) of biomedical ontologies. The development of an Abstraction Network and its associated QA methodologies, however, is a labor-inten... | {
"abstract": "Biomedical ontologies often reuse content (i.e., classes and properties) from other ontologies. Content reuse enables a consistent representation of a domain and reusing content can save an ontology author significant time and effort. Prior studies have investigated the existence of reused terms among ... | {
"abstract": "Medical Terminologies are becoming increasingly expressive secondary to their increase in size, and are becoming increasingly difficult to analyze secondary to inconsistencies in their use and complex interrelationships that are often not explicitly defined. To address these problems, SNOMED-RT is bein... |
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"abstract": "Effects of mechanical stretching, produced after the expansion of cable accessories, on the electrical tree growth characteristics of EPDM (Ethylene Propylene Diene Monomer) are reported in the present work. FFV (fractional free volume) and CED (cohesion energy density), which were respectively related... | {
"abstract": "To investigate liquid nitrogen (LN2) effects on insulation materials in high temperature superconducting (HTS) systems, the electrical tree was studied in ethylene propylene diene monomer (EPDM)/antioxidant specimens by using a needle–plane electrode system. The pulse amplitude and frequency were 25 kV... | {
"abstract": "Dynamics of shear Alfven waves and energetic particles are crucial to the performance of burning fusion plasmas. This article reviews linear as well as nonlinear physics of shear Alfven waves and their self-consistent interaction with energetic particles in tokamak fusion devices. More specifically, th... |
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"abstract": "We review two different methods of calculating Witten's invariant: a stationary phase approximation and a surgery calculus. We give a detailed description of the 1-loop approximation formula for Witten's invariant and of the technics involved in deriving its exact value through a surgery construction o... | {
"abstract": "In 1985, Andrew Casson defined an invariant À(M) of an oriented integral homology 3-sphere M [C, AM]. This invariant can be thought of as counting the number of conjugacy classes of nontrivial representations nx (M) —• SU(2), in the sense that the Lefschetz number of a map counts the number of fixed po... | {
"abstract": "In the spring of 1985, A. Casson announced an interesting invariant of homology 3-spheres via constructions on representation spaces. This invariant generalizes the Rohlin invariant and gives surprising corollaries in low-dimensional topology. In the fall of that same year, Selman Akbulut and John McCa... |
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"abstract": "BackgroundHeavy usage of gasoline, burgeoning fuel prices, and environmental issues have paved the way for the exploration of cellulosic ethanol. Cellulosic ethanol production technologies are emerging and require continued technological advancements. One of the most challenging issues is the pretreatm... | {
"abstract": "The optimization of enzymatic hydrolysis, with high solids loading, of two species of cactus pear for bioethanol production was tested evaluating the influence of surfactant Tween 80 and pretreatment with H2O and H2SO4 (1% v/v) (50 °C, 150 rpm, 3 h). XRD and FTIR analyzes were performed. Afterwards, th... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Coconut residue obtained after the extraction of oil or milk is mostly used as animal feeds or discarded. However, this residue is high in dietary fibre which is known to significantly promote digestion. Therefore, in order to explore its potentials in food formulations, flour blends were prod... |
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"abstract": "We present a new approach to the geometric alignment of a point cloud to a surface and to related registration problems. The standard algorithm is the familiar ICP algorithm. Here, we provide an alternative concept which relies on instantaneous kinematics and on the geometry of the squared distance fun... | {
"abstract": "This paper describes a parallel implementation developed to improve the time performance of the Iterative Closest Point Algorithm. Within each iteration, the correspondence calculations are distributed among the processor resources. At the end of each iteration, the results of the correspondence determ... | {
"abstract": "The aim of this study was to adapt and validate the Spanish version of the Sport Motivation Scale-II (S-SMS-II) in adolescent athletes. The sample included 766 Spanish adolescents (263 females and ...",
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"abstract": "We established hybrid, horizontal, vertical, and vertical-twisted alignment of discotic liquid crystals on web-coating thin film. Newly developed materials are the photopolymerizable discotic liquid crystals, in order to fix desired novel alignment, the alignment promoters that deposit toward air surfa... | {
"abstract": "Most associate liquid crystals with their everyday use in laptop computers, mobile phones, digital cameras, and other electronic devices. However, in contrast to their rodlike (calamitic) counterparts, first described in 1907 by Vorländer, disklike (discotic, columnar) liquid crystals, which were disco... | {
"abstract": "(2+1) resonance enhanced multiphoton ionization spectra have been recorded, simulated, and used to derive energies of rovibrational levels in the F(1Δ), E(1Σ+), and V(1Σ+) states for HCl (H35Cl and H37Cl) and HBr (H79Br and H81Br). Spectroscopic parameters derived for the F states compare nicely with t... |
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"abstract": "Algorithms for dimensionality reduction and feature extraction and their applications as effective pattern recognizers in identifying computer users are presented. Fisher's linear discriminant technique was used for the reduction of dimensionality of the patterns. An approach for the extraction of phys... | {
"abstract": "A general technique for combining the strengths of structural shape analysis with statistical classification is proposed. The approach is to construct a function, called a feature identification mapping, from the representation generated by structural analysis to the one required for statistical classi... | {
"abstract": "This paper presents a framework for a systematic study of the rough set theory. Various views and interpretations of the theory and different approaches to study the theory are discussed. The relationships between the rough sets and other theories,such as fuzzy sets,evidence theory,granular computing,f... |
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"abstract": "Anthropogenically-modulated reductions in pH, termed ocean acidification, could pose a major threat to the physiological performance, stocks, and biodiversity of calcifiers and may devalue their ecosystem services. Recent debate has focussed on the need to develop approaches to arrest the potential neg... | {
"abstract": "To determine the relative importance of different sources of nitrate to the annual nitrogen needs of the giant kelp Macrocystis pyrifera, we measured ambient nitrate concentrations at a kelp forest for 13 months and characterized nitrate delivery using water column thermal structure and flow data colle... | {
"abstract": "Sexual selection has traditionally been divided into competition over mates and mate choice. Currently, models of sexual selection predict that sexual traits are expressed in proportion to the condition of their bearer. In horned beetles, male contest competition is well established, but studies on fem... |
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"abstract": "We consider the problem of learning transformations of acoustic feature vectors for phonetic frame classification, in a multi-view setting where articulatory measurements are available at training time but not at test time. Canonical correlation analysis (CCA) has previously been used to learn linear t... | {
"abstract": "We report on investigations, conducted at the 2006 Johns Hopkins Workshop, into the use of articulatory features (AFs) for observation and pronunciation models in speech recognition. In the area of observation modeling, we use the outputs of AF classifiers both directly, in an extension of hybrid HMM/n... | {
"abstract": "The so-called tandem approach, where the posteriors of a multilayer perceptron (MLP) classifier are used as features in an automatic speech recognition (ASR) system has proven to be a very effective method. Most tandem approaches up to date have relied on MLPs trained for phone classification, and appe... |
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"abstract": "INTRODUCTION\nDesmoid tumors are rare soft tissue tumors derived from musculoaponeurotic structures of the abdominal wall musculature. Although they are considered benign tumors because they don't metastasize to other parts of the body, they are clinically considered as malignant for their high tendenc... | {
"abstract": "Desmoid tumours of the anterior abdominal wall are benign neoplasms arising from musculo-aponeurotic tissues. Desmoid tumours tend to be locally infiltrative resulting in a high local recurrence following surgical resection only. From 1980 to 1989, 10 patients with desmoid tumours of the anterior abdom... | {
"abstract": "Recent advances in radiation therapy in the clinical management of patients with sarcoma of soft tissue are discussed. Radical dose radiation therapy combined with limited surgery has been shown to be highly effective as treatment of early to moderately advanced sarcomas of the extremities. Desmoid tum... |
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"abstract": "A number of facial expression recognition algorithms based on hand-crafted features and deep neutral networks have been developed. Motivated by the similarity between the hand-crafted features and features learned by deep network, a new feature loss is proposed to embed the information of hand-crafted ... | {
"abstract": "Quality data recorded in varied realistic environments is vital for effective human face related research. Currently available datasets for human facial expression analysis have been generated in highly controlled lab environments. We present a new static facial expression database Static Facial Expres... | {
"abstract": "Bloom filters are widely-used powerful tools for processing set membership queries. However, they are not entirely suitable for many new applications, such as deleting one attribute value according to another attribute value for a set of data objects/items with two correlated attributes. In this paper,... |
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"abstract": "Context11β-hydroxylase deficiency is the second most common form of congenital adrenal hyperplasia. Untreated, this enzyme deficiency leads to virilization, hypertension, and significant height impairment.PatientWe describe a patient from abroad who first presented to us at age 7 years for follow-up of... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Background 11β-hydroxylase deficiency (11βOHD) is a rare disease representing the second most common cause of congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) (5–8%) with an incidence of about 1:100,000. In contrast to 21-hydroxylase deficiency (21OHD), 11βOHD is not included in neonatal screening program... | {
"abstract": "In about one-third of advanced breast cancers, estrogen deprivation causes tumor regression. Estrogen concentrations in tumor tissue seem to depend largely on local production. The aromatase enzyme complex is thought to be the key enzyme in this respect. In the present study, the effect of the new thir... |
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"abstract": "Trace element signatures of mantle xenoliths along an east‐west transect extending from the Sierra Nevada to the Colorado Plateau were investigated in this study. Those beneath the Sierra Nevada are highly enriched in fluid‐mobile elements (Cs, Pb, U, and Sr) and, in particular, are characterized by lo... | {
"abstract": "The isotope and trace-element geochemistry of late Cenozoic basalts from the Western Great Basin of California and Nevada demonstrates contributions from two distinct mantle source regions. High concentrations of large-ion lithophile relative to high-field strength elements (50 < Ba/Nb < 250) are often... | {
"abstract": "King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals (through the Center for Clean Water and Clean Energy at MIT and KFUPM)",
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"abstract": "This paper describes NICT’s participation in the IWSLT 2012 evaluation campaign for the TED speech translation RussianEnglish shared-task. Our approach was based on a phrasebased statistical machine translation system that was augmented by using transliteration mining techniques. The basic premise behi... | {
"abstract": "We report on the ninth evaluation campaign organized by the IWSLT workshop. This year, the evaluation offered multiple tracks on lecture translation based on the TED corpus, and one track on dialog translation from Chinese to English based on the Olympic trilingual corpus. In particular, the TED tracks... | {
"abstract": "Bicyclists running the red light at crossing facilities increase the potential of colliding with motor vehicles. Exploring the contributing factors could improve the prediction of running red-light probability and develop countermeasures to reduce such behaviors. However, individuals could have unobser... |
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"abstract": "Relating visual information to its linguistic semantic meaning remains an open and challenging area of research. The semantic meaning of images depends on the presence of objects, their attributes and their relations to other objects. But precisely characterizing this dependence requires extracting com... | {
"abstract": "For some images, descriptions written by multiple people are consistent with each other. But for other images, descriptions across people vary considerably. In other words, some images are specific - they elicit consistent descriptions from different people - while other images are ambiguous. Applicati... | {
"abstract": "Optimal placement of phasor measurement units (PMU's) within a power system is essential to maximize network observability while minimizing implementation cost. As such, it is a popular topic with academic as well as industry researchers. The authors of this work review several innovative optimal PMU p... |
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"abstract": "Background:Health-related quality of life is usually reported for specific rather than heterogeneous populations such as those treated in routine anesthesia practice. The 8-item short-form generic health-related quality-of-life questionnaire (SF-8) is a candidate instrument for this setting. The author... | {
"abstract": "How does one determine if a measure of health-related quality of life (HRQL) is adequate for clinical trials? Psychometric methods are frequently used to answer this question. What is psychometrics all about? In this paper we address these questions, discussing common psychometric evaluation procedures... | {
"abstract": "OBJECTIVE\nLatino children are diagnosed with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) at older ages and at the point of more severe symptoms. We sought to qualitatively describe community, family, and health care system barriers to ASD diagnosis in Latino children.\n\n\nMETHODS\nFive focus groups and 4 qualit... |
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"abstract": "We consider a network consisting of a file server connected through a shared link to a number of users, each equipped with a cache. Knowing the popularity distribution of the files, the goal is to optimally populate the caches, such as to minimize the expected load of the shared link. For a single cach... | {
"abstract": "In this paper, the placement strategy design of coded caching in fog-radio access networks (F -RANs) is investigated. By considering time-variant content popularity, federated deep re-inforcement learning is exploited to learn the placement strategy for our coded caching scheme. Initially, the placemen... | {
"abstract": "A 200-225 GHz SiGe combiner Power Amplifier (PA) based on a wideband 4-way power combiner architecture is presented in this paper. The circuit is implemented in a 130 nm SiGe BiCMOS technology with fT/fmax of 250/370 GHz. A parallel power combining architecture based on the low-loss transmission line b... |
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"abstract": "The purpose of this study was to decrease patient falls by applying relevant interventions found in the nursing research literature. Clinical nurse specialists assisted staff with the application of selected research-based patient fall program interventions on two adult medical-surgical specialty units... | {
"abstract": "Healthcare organizations are being challenged to find ways to leverage improvement efforts. Collaboration offers an avenue for working together toward a common goal. Healthcare leaders can initiate collaborative projects to analyze common clinical problems and to share best practices. This article desc... | {
"abstract": "1. Introduction to Case Management 2. Financial Reimbursement Systems 3. Case Management Models 4. Role of the Nurse Case Manager 5. Utilization Management 6. Transitional Planning 7. Disease Management 8. Skills for Successful Case Management 9. Nurse Case Manager's Documentation 10. Hiring Case Manag... |
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"abstract": "Computing constrained shortest paths is fundamental to some important network functions such as QoS routing, which is to find the cheapest path that satisfies certain constraints. In particular, finding the cheapest delay-constrained path is critical for real-time data flows such as voice calls. Becaus... | {
"abstract": "This note contains two fully polynomial approximation schemes for the shortest path problem with an additional constraint. The main difficulty in constructing such algorithms arises since no trivial lower and upper bounds on the solution value, whose ratio is polynomially bounded, are known. In spite o... | {
"abstract": "We study methods for approximating the set of Pareto optimal paths in multiple-objective, shortest-path problems. Known generalizations of standard shortest-path methods will compute this set, but can suffer from rapidly increasing computational and storage demands as problem size increases. In an effo... |
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"abstract": "Abbreviations used: NMR, nuclear magnetic resonance; ppm, parts per million; RMSD, root mean square deviation; HSQC, heteronuclear single quantum coherence spectroscopy; NOE, nuclear Overhauser effect; NOESY, nuclear Overhauser and exchange spectroscopy; RDC, residual dipolar coupling; PDB, Protein Dat... | {
"abstract": "The measurement of dipolar contributions to the splitting of 15N resonances of 1H-15N amide pairs in multidimensional high-field NMR spectra of field-oriented cyanometmyoglobin is reported. The splittings appear as small field-dependent perturbations of normal scalar couplings. Assignment of more than ... | {
"abstract": "The NOAH/DIAMOD program suite was used to automatically assign an experimental 2D NOESY spectrum of the 46 residue protein crambin(S22/I25), using feedback filtering and self-correcting distance geometry (SECODG). Automatically picked NOESY cross peaks were combined with 157 manually assigned peaks to ... |
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"abstract": "OBJECTIVE\nTotal extracardiac cavopulmonary connection is an established procedure, but the best spatial arrangement remains controversial. On the basis of our clinical experience with total extracardiac cavopulmonary connection, we performed quantitative and qualitative flow analysis on total extracar... | {
"abstract": "In the last two decades, there has been very active cooperation between cardiac surgeons and computational engineers in the field of congenital heart disease [1–3]. Cardiac surgeons are moving from traditional attitudes towards a new way of thinking which necessitates interdisciplinary integration and ... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Cardiac activity and respiration markedly alter the venous flow patterns in the major thoracic systemic veins. Cardiac activity ( vis a fronte ) is associated with two periods of increased and two periods of decreased venous flow, corresponding to changes in atrial pressure. Respiratory activi... |
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"abstract": "Partial shading of PV arrays reduces the energy yield of PV systems and the arrays exhibit multiple peaks in the P-V characteristics. The losses due to partial shading are not proportional to the shaded area but depend on the shading pattern, array configuration and the physical location of shaded modu... | {
"abstract": "Global maximum power point tracking (GMPPT) strategies for photovoltaic systems are effective under nonuniform irradiation conditions but cause unnecessary power loss due to wide search under uniform irradiance. This paper proposes a scheme for detecting the type of irradiation, viz., uniform or nonuni... | {
"abstract": "This work deal with the problem related to the energy recovered in an induction motor drive. During deceleration, a regenerative braking control strategy allows the recovery of the mechanical energy stored in an inertial mass. This process involves the conversion of the kinetic energy into electric ene... |
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"abstract": "1 Department of Agricultural Machinery Engineering, Faculty of Biosystems Engineering, University of Tehran, Karaj, Iran. 2 Department of Agricultural Machinery Engineering, University of Gorgan, Iran asakerehabbas@gmail.com ABSTRACT Energy in agriculture is important in terms of crop production and ... | {
"abstract": "Abstract The purpose of the underlying research for this paper was to obtain a better understanding of the eco-efficiency improvements of a crop protection product from the perspective of the crop protection industry in the context of sustainable agricultural development. The environmental impacts of a... | {
"abstract": "A field experiment was conducted during 1983-90 at Ranchi, to study the energetics of 4 cropping systems, viz maize (Zea mays L.) -wheat (Triticum aestivum L. emend. Fiori & Paol.), soybean [Glysine max(L.) Merr.] -wheat, rice (Oryza sativa L.) - wheat and groundnut (Arachis hypogaea L.) - wheat. Maize... |
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"abstract": "We probe the roto-translational Brownian motion of optically anisotropic particles suspended in water with a simple and straightforward optical microscopy experiment that does not require positional or rotational particle tracking. We acquire a movie of the suspension placed between two polarizing elem... | {
"abstract": "The translational and rotational motions of optically anisotropic spherical particles embedded in cross-linked polyacrylamide gels is studied by dynamic light scattering. The particles are liquid crystal droplets solidified in the nematic phase. The amount of cross linkers is varied to cross the sol-ge... | {
"abstract": "This chapter aims to question the legitimacy of criminal justice systems in Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries after their transition to capitalism and democracy. Issues of legitimacy are addressed through critical assessment of trends in crime and crime policy, criminal law reforms, imprison... |
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"abstract": "Ruthenium polypyridyl complexes are among the most studied molecular species for photochemical applications such as light-harvesting and photocatalysis, with [Ru(bpy)3]2+ (bpy = 2,2'-bipyridine) serving as an iconic example. We report the use of the [Ru(bpy)2]2+ fragment as a 90° acceptor tecton (M) in... | {
"abstract": "A Pt(II)(2) organometallic \"clip\" (1a) containing ethynyl functionality is synthesized. Multinuclear NMR and electrospray ionization mass spectrometry characterized this \"clip\", and the molecular structure was determined in an X-ray single-crystal diffraction study. A series of discrete molecular r... | {
"abstract": "This study determined effects of follicle stimulating hormone (FSH) alone and in combination with tumour necrosis factor (TNF), on granulosa cells from small (5-10 mm diameter) and large (>10-25 mm) follicles during follicular and luteal phases of the cycle and during periods of acyclicity. Granulosa c... |
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"abstract": "A challenging problem for spoken dialog systems is the design of utterance generation modules that are fast, flexible and general, yet produce high quality output in particular domains. A promising approach is trainable generation, which uses general-purpose linguistic knowledge automatically adapted t... | {
"abstract": "Given the unprecedented availability of data and computing resources, there is widespread renewed interest in applying data-driven machine learning methods to problems for which the development of conventional engineering solutions is challenged by modelling or algorithmic deficiencies. This tutorial-s... |
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"abstract": "We present a hybrid method for automated on-demand creation of conceptual models of domain-specific knowledge. Models are thereby created using a two-step process of Domain Definition and Domain Description. Domain Definition creates a conceptual base whereas in the Domain Description relationships are... | {
"abstract": "We address the issue of extracting implicit and explicit relationships between entities in biomedical text. We argue that entities seldom occur in text in their simple form and that relationships in text relate the modified, complex forms of entities with each other. We present a rule-based method for ... | {
"abstract": "The murine plasma cell line MOPC 315 efficiently targets newly synthesized acid hydrolases to lysosomes in spite of a marked deficiency in the level of the mannose 6-phosphate receptor (Gabel, C., D. Goldberg, and S. Kornfeld, 1983, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 80:775- 779). To better understand the rou... |
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"abstract": "Increasing applications of titanium dioxide nanoparticles (nano-TiO2) have intensified the risk of environmental contamination. Since nano-TiO2 can absorb metals and be consumed as 'food' by zooplankton but also can interact with phytoplankton, they could significantly disturb the existing metal assimi... | {
"abstract": "Silver nanoparticles (AgNP) are widely used as antibacterial products, and there are increasing concerns for their potential environmental risks in aquatic ecosystems. The biokinetics of AgNP in aquatic organisms has not yet been determined. In the present study, we employed a radiotracer methodology t... | {
"abstract": "The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, with its vast geographical area, and its location at the boundary of the equatorial, has seen recently several outbreaks of either tropical or Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTD). Being the center of the Islamic world, with millions of pilgrimages visiting the holy sites in S... |
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"abstract": "Pickar et al1reported the superior efficacy of clozapine over fluphenazine and placebo in eight (38%) of 21 neuroleptic treatment—resistant or —intolerant schizophrenic patients. They noted that this was consistent with the 30% clozapine superiority in the neuroleptic nonresponders reported by Kane et ... | {
"abstract": "Some investigators have speculated that structural brain alterations observed in some psychiatric patients might be related to increased limbic-hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis (LHPA) activity. To explore this hypothesis, we prospectively studied 166 research volunteers (19 patients with research di... | {
"abstract": "In recent years the dopamine hypothesis has failed to explain the complexities of schizophrenia. Because both negative symptoms and noradrenergic activity appear to increase with psychotic relapse, we studied negative symptoms, psychosis, cerebrospinal fluid norepinephrine, and cerebrospinal fluid mono... |
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"abstract": "This paper focuses on the problem of congestion control in wireless ATM network. This is a practical fact that frequent handoff in Personal Communication Network (PCN) introduces the phenomena of congestion. After studying the currently used schemes, it is clear that there is some room for improvement ... | {
"abstract": "Handoffs in a mobile cellular communications environment will become an increasingly important issue as cell sizes shrink to accommodate an increasingly large demand for services. A new handoff ordering method is proposed which can be used to provide rapid handovers with a smaller percentage of dropped... | {
"abstract": "The aim of this paper is to consider the meaning of employee involvement in practical functioning of European companies. The basis for this evaluation will be not only legal provisions but also practical operation of European companies in the market. This will allow us to learn about the level and scop... |
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"abstract": "We read with interest the systematic review by Zhao et al. [1] comparing the effect of the high-flow nasal cannula (HFNC) and noninvasive positive pressure ventilation (NIPPV) therapies in acute respiratory failure. Coincidentally, a similar review [2] was also published in Chest recently in which the ... | {
"abstract": "BackgroundHigh-flow nasal cannula oxygen (HFNC) is a relatively new therapy used in adults with respiratory failure. Whether it is superior to conventional oxygen therapy (COT) or to noninvasive mechanical ventilation (NIV) remains unclear. The aim of the present study was to investigate whether HFNC w... | {
"abstract": "Importance\nHigh-flow conditioned oxygen therapy delivered through nasal cannulae and noninvasive mechanical ventilation (NIV) may reduce the need for reintubation. Among the advantages of high-flow oxygen therapy are comfort, availability, lower costs, and additional physiopathological mechanisms.\n\n... |
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"abstract": "e goal of personalised medicine is a top priority for current clinical research and in the UK this has been recognised by the development of a Stratifi ed Medicines Initiative, which is being led by the Medical Research Council. Although oncology is unique among disciplines in its personalisation, bein... | {
"abstract": "PURPOSE\nTo conduct meta-analyses of randomized trials of aromatase inhibitors (AIs) compared with tamoxifen either as initial monotherapy (cohort 1) or after 2 to 3 years of tamoxifen (cohort 2).\n\n\nMATERIALS AND METHODS\nData submitted to the Early Breast Cancer Trialists' Collaborative Group were ... | {
"abstract": "AIM\nThe aim of this study was to investigate whether interventricular asynchrony (IVA) can be measured by electrocardiography.\n\n\nMETHODS\nSixty-two patients (New York Heart Association heart failure functional class III: age, mean +/- SD: 64 +/- 9 years; ejection fraction, mean +/- SD: 24% +/- 8%; ... |
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"abstract": "Advancement of container technology (e.g. Docker, LXC, etc.) transformed the virtualization concept by providing a lightweight alternative to hypervisors. Docker has emerged as the most popular container management tool. Recent research regarding the comparison of container with hypervisor and bare-met... | {
"abstract": "Cloud computing provides variety of services with the growth of their offerings. Due to efficient services, it faces numerous challenges. It is based on virtualization, which provides users a plethora computing resources by internet without managing any infrastructure of Virtual Machine (VM). With netw... | {
"abstract": "Network virtualisation has received attention as a way to allow for sharing of physical network resources. Sharing resources involves mapping of virtual nodes and links onto physical nodes and links respectively, and thereafter managing the allocated resources to ensure efficient resource utilisation. ... |
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"abstract": "Double-shell cobalt monoxide (CoO) hollow particles were successfully synthesized by a facile and effective one-pot solution-based synthetic route. The inner architecture and outer structure of the double-shell CoO hollow particles could be readily created through controlling experimental parameters. A... | {
"abstract": "Self-generation of ionic organic capping from nonionic surfactant polyoxyethylene (20) sorbitan trioleate (Tween-85) has been realized for the controlled synthesis of single crystalline Co(3)O(4) quantum dots (3.0-5.7 nm) in cubic morphology from related layered hydroxide precursors at 80-95 degrees C.... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Typical synthesis of α″-Fe16N2 nanoparticles involves nitridation of iron nanoparticles obtained from the reduction of iron oxide, during which the iron nanoparticles are prone to agglomerate and make the nitridation difficult. Herein, we report a method to obtain α″-Fe16N2 phase by loading th... |
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"abstract": "Xanthan and its crosslinked beads have many biomedical applications. Xanthan has been reticulated with epichlorohydrin, thus becoming a hydrogel with a swelling ratio in the range 1–10 and having a solvent content of 80–90%. Through its diffusion from alcohol/water mixture (5/1–5/4,v/v) of various conc... | {
"abstract": "Ampicillin and chloramphenicol were coupled on xanthan by activation by dicyclohexyl-carbodiimide. Drug release from the support was studied in vitro for ampicillin, and in vitro and in vivo conditions for chloramphenicol.",
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"abstract": "The coupling of chloramphenicol on Biozan R (Hercules) by activation with dicyclohexylcarbodiimide was studied. The esterification is influenced by the chloramphenicol/dicyclohexylcarbodiimide ratio, concentration of the reactants and reaction time.The microbial tests performed with products of differe... |
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"abstract": "We present the results of clinical and molecular genetic investigations of a family in which the father suffers from distal spinal muscular atrophy and the younger son is affected by infantile autosomal recessive SMA type I. The molecular analysis of the SMN gene showed homozygous deletions of telSMN e... | {
"abstract": "Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a common fatal autosomal recessive disorder characterized by degeneration of lower motor neurons, leading to progressive paralysis with muscular atrophy. The gene for SMA has been mapped to chromosome 5q13, where large-scale deletions have been reported. We describe her... | {
"abstract": "Proximal spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a group of progressive muscular diseases recently mapped to chromosome 5q. SMA is usually classified into types I-III, and there are cases of two types of SMA in the same sibship. Becker and others later proposed that these sibships might be due to the existenc... |
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"abstract": "Metadata processing is recognized as a central challenge for database research in the next decade. Already, novel desktop data management and search applications (cf. Apple's Spotlight and Microsoft's WinFS) are enabled by rich metadata. Efficient and effective access to such data becomes a crucial iss... | {
"abstract": "Since the beginning of the Semantic Web initiative, significant efforts have been invested in finding efficient ways to publish, store, and query metadata on the Web. RDF and SPARQL have become the standard data model and query language, respectively, to describe resources on the Web. Large amounts of ... | {
"abstract": "Enzymatic activity is a limiting factor for conducting the hydrolysis of lignocellulosic waste materials to generate renewable biofuels and biochemicals. A novel β-glucosidase (BGL) gene from Hypocrea sp. W63 was cloned and expressed in Pichia pastoris. The specific activity of the purified recombinant... |
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"abstract": "The aim of this study was to identify the first abnormalities of apolipoprotein B (apoB) metabolism in HIVinfected patients treated by antiretroviral therapy (ART) with protease inhibitors (PIs). The influence of ART on the metabolism of apoB in VLDL, IDL, and LDL was investigated in six patients recei... | {
"abstract": "This study examined the effect of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) protease inhibitor therapy on lipoprotein production and catabolism in vivo. The HIV protease inhibitor ritonavir was given to C57BL/6 mice fed either a basal low-fat diet or a Western type high-fat diet. Fasted mice were injected wit... | {
"abstract": "Infection causes disturbances in lipid metabolism that may be mediated by cytokines. Therefore we studied plasma lipids, lipoproteins, triglyceride (TG) metabolism, and serum cytokines in three groups: patients with the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) without active secondary infection, patie... |
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"abstract": "The impact of terms of trade shocks on a country’s output and price level are, according to economic theory, expected to vary according to the de facto exchange rate regime. This paper tests this hypothesis how terms of trade shocks impact on 22 African countries, which operate different de facto excha... | {
"abstract": "I explore how the concept of Othe terms of tradeO has been used since it was coined by Marshall. Early writers (Taussig, Viner, Dorrance) constructed variations on the relative price of traded goods that Marshall was concerned with, but most of these variations have been left behind in modern uses of t... | {
"abstract": "Depressive illness was a common clinical syndrome found in general practice in Hong Kong. The phenomenon of somatization among Chinese depressives in general practice was investigated. Patients clinically identified as depressed were compared with organic patients in terms of their presenting complaint... |
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"abstract": "Abstract We examine the impact of rearing by an alcoholic parent on risk for child behavior problems using data on 2492 offspring drawn from two ongoing studies of children of female and male same- and opposite-sex twin pairs. Results of regression models predicting child behavior problems from parent ... | {
"abstract": "Because twins and adoptees are a rare resource, they are often studied repeatedly over a period of many years. Differential attrition, and in some studies initial cooperation bias, have the potential to lead to serious biases to estimates of genetic and environmental parameters. Since non-response is o... | {
"abstract": "OBJECTIVE\nData from a representative sample of U.S. adults were used to assess the extent of familial alcoholism, to examine its association with the odds of DSM-IV lifetime alcohol dependence, major depression, and their comorbid occurrence, and to determine whether the magnitude of this association ... |
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"abstract": "Due to the refined nature of microstructures that can be effectively manipulated by the application of various thermal/mechanical processes, metastable beta titanium alloys have attracted considerable attention in recent days. Usually, such refinement involves the precipitation of the intragranular hcp... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Non-conventional transformation pathways have been exploited to determine the degree of refinement of the microstructure of a metastable β-Ti alloy. This has involved a set of heat-treatments where samples, initially quenched to room temperature (RT) from above the β transus are slowly heated ... | {
"abstract": "Abstract The mechanism of repeated precipitation on a climbing edge dislocation (or growth of planar precipitate colonies) has been analysed in terms of balancing the rate at which vacancies are being absorbed by the growing particles to the climb rate of the dislocation. The possibility of having the ... |
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"abstract": "Atmospheric turbulence introduces optical aberration into wavefronts arriving at groundbased telescopes. Current adaptive optics (AO) systems use vector-matrix-multiply (VMM) reconstructors to convert gradient measurements to wavefront phase estimates. Until recently, the problem of an efficient phase ... | {
"abstract": "Wave-front reconstruction with the use of the fast Fourier transform (FFT) and spatial filtering is shown to be computationally tractable and sufficiently accurate for use in large Shack-Hartmann-based adaptive optics systems (up to at least 10,000 actuators). This method is significantly faster than, ... | {
"abstract": "Low-cost magnetic cooling based on the magnetocaloric effect is an energy efficient, environmentally friendly, thermal management technology. However, inadequate temperature span is often a challenge in developing a magnetic cooling system. We report the novel use of multiphase materials to enhance the... |
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"abstract": "A decrease in high-density lipoprotein (HDL) level and an increase in atherogenic low-density lipoprotein (LDL) concentration in plasma are involved in the progress of atherosclerosis and incidence of cardiovascular diseases. Cholesteryl ester transfer protein (CETP) passes cholesteryl ester and trigly... | {
"abstract": "Cholesteryl ester transfer protein (CETP) inhibitors are a new class of therapeutics for dyslipidemia that simultaneously improve two major cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors: elevated low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol and decreased high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol. However, th... | {
"abstract": "In 23 patients with recurrent sustained ventricular tachycardia (VT) which originated from the left ventricle, endocardial catheter mapping has performed. In an additional 14 patients we also stimulated their left ventricle for non-sustained VT. Multiple sites could be mapped for the recording of local... |
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"abstract": "The emergence of the acquired immune deficiency syndrome has provoked a widespread review of policies for infection control. Incomplete knowledge about the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), hepatitis B virus, and mycobacteria has until now been compensated for by adopting \"overkill\" precautions for... | {
"abstract": "Since the first case of AIDS in the United Kingdom was described in 1981 (1), there have been up to October 1988, 1794 AIDS cases reported, of whom 965 are dead and 8794 individuals known to be Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) seropositive (2). In fact the actual number of seropositive individuals is... | {
"abstract": "A 10(-3) dilution of pooled serum (positive for hepatitis B e antigen and DNA polymerase activity) containing hepatitis B virus (HBV) in a titer 10(5) times the chimpanzee-infectious dose, was heated under water maintained at 60 C for 10 hr. There was a twofold decrease in the titer of hepatitis B surf... |
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"abstract": "This paper is about the relation between output and labour productivity measures for individual production units and for aggregates such as industries, sectors, or economies. In the framework of discrete time periods several useful, symmetric expressions are derived and confronted with results from the... | {
"abstract": "Strong growth, intensive structural change, and expanding informality have characterized many developing and emerging economies in recent decades. Yet most empirical investigations into the relationship between structural change and productivity growth overlook informality. This paper includes the info... | {
"abstract": "In this Note, we describe a new TTF-anthracene dyad fusion with the crown ether unit. It is interesting to find that the fluorescence of this new dyad can be modulated with Na+ and C60, and its fluorescence intensity can be largely enhanced only in the presence of both Na+ and C60. Such fluorescence mo... |
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"abstract": "In attempts to understand and interpret Egyptian and other nonwestern cultures on the most general level, the problem of characterising and defining alien thought has been discussed again and again. The prime focus of such discussions is on religious beliefs or, more generally, 'apparently irrational b... | {
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"abstract": "The Description for this book, How Natives Think. Introduction by C.S. Littleton, will be forthcoming.",
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"abstract": "Early-phase optical spectra of aspherical jet-like supernovae (SNe) are presented. We focus on energetic core-collapse SNe, or hypernovae. Based on hydrodynamic and nucleosynthetic models, radiative transfer in the SN atmosphere is solved with a multidimensional Monte Carlo radiative transfer code, SAM... | {
"abstract": "A three-dimensional Monte Carlo code for modelling radiation transport in Type Ia supernovae is described. In addition to tracking Monte Carlo quanta to follow the emission, scattering and deposition of radiative energy, a scheme involving volumebased Monte Carlo estimators is used to allow properties ... | {
"abstract": "We demonstrate a versatile approach to fine-tuning the ratio of blue to near-infrared emission intensity from Tm3+ ions in LaF3 nanocrystals by adjusting the pulse widths and excitation wavelengths of red laser beams. The mechanism of color-tunable Tm3+ emission by pulse widths is explored, and a mecha... |
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"abstract": "SummaryThe localization of the proenkephalin A-derived octapeptide, Met5-enkephalin-Arg6-Gly7-Leu8 (MEAGL), was studied in the major salivary glands of Sprague-Dawley and Wistar rats with the indirect immunofluorescence method. MEAGL-immunoreactive nerve fibers were found around the acini, along intra-... | {
"abstract": "The enkephalins Met-enkephalin and Leu-enkephalin were first isolated from porcine brain by Hughes and co-workers1. We have recently isolated from bovine adrenals another enkephalin with the structure Tyr-Gly-Gly-Phe-Met-Arg-Phe, or Met-enkephalin-Arg6-Phe7 (ref. 2). We report here that this new heptap... | {
"abstract": "OBJECTIVES. Our objectives were to (a) estimate the prevalence of children's mental health problems, (b) assess family functioning, and (c) investigate the relationship between children's mental health and family functioning in Rhode Island. METHODS. From the 2003 National Survey of Children's Health, ... |
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"abstract": "The environmental impacts of Cu-based nanoparticles (NPs) are not well understood. In this study, cilantro (Coriandrum sativum) was germinated and grown in commercial potting mix soil amended with Cu(OH)2 (Kocide and CuPRO), nano-copper (nCu), micro-copper (μCu), nano-copper oxide (nCuO), micro-copper ... | {
"abstract": "The increased production and use of nanoparticles (NPs) has generated concerns about their impact on living organisms. In this study, nCu, bulk Cu, nCuO, bulk CuO, Cu(OH)2 (CuPRO 2005, Kocide 3000), and CuCl2 were exposed for 15 days to 10 days-old hydroponically grown lettuce (Lactuca sativa) and alfa... | {
"abstract": "Mineral elements and metabolizable carbohydrates in Citrus leaves [Citrus sinensis (L.) Osbeck cv. Washington navel] have been determined from bud sprouting until the end of the June drop and related to fruitlet growth and abscission. Mineral elements in old leaves decreased during the spring flush of ... |
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"abstract": "During the past three decades sport has assumed an ever greater role within the globalisation process and in the regeneration of national, regional and local identities in the postcolonial and global age. With much of global culture displayed by the media, events, particularly significant sporting ones... | {
"abstract": "Foreword Acknowledgments 1. Introduction 2. Dropping Hierarchies: Toward the Study of a Contemporary Sporting Avant-Garde 3. Sport and Kitsch: A Case Study of The American Gladiators 4. Sport as Avant-Garde: A Case Study of the World Wrestling Federation 5. Sport as Epiphanic Marker: The Case of Super ... | {
"abstract": "Should local governments subsidize the construction and operation of sports stadiums? This is being debated in cities throughout North America, and several factors have conspired to elevate this issue to headline status. Local government officials, burdened by the deteriorating financial health of thei... |
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"abstract": "This paper considers the problem of controlling the position and the orientation of a Gun Launched Micro Aerial Vehicle - GLMAV - despite unknown aerodynamic efforts. The proposed approach overcomes the problem of gyroscopic coupling by taking advantage from the structure of the thrust mechanism, which... | {
"abstract": "Although robotic helicopters have received increasing interest from university, industry, and military research groups, their flight envelope in autonomous operations remains extremely limited. The absence of high-fidelity simulation models has prevented the use of well-established multivariable contro... | {
"abstract": "Micro aerial vehicles have been the subject of considerable interest and development over the last several years. The majority of current vehicle concepts rely on rigid fixed wings or rotors. An alternate design based on an aeroelastic membrane wing concept has also been developed that has exhibited de... |
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"abstract": "We studied interobserver variability (IV) in the assessment of thyroid fine-needle aspiration (FNA). We limited our cases to those showing predominantly colloid and follicular cell groups. Twenty cases of thyroid FNA diagnosed by 1 experienced cytopathologist were reviewed by 4 other cytopathologists w... | {
"abstract": "To the Editor \n\nIn their article in the June 2011 issue of the Journal , Kocjan et al1 raise very important questions about the terminology of thyroid cytopathology. Specifically, a concept has aroused our curiosity: interobserver reproducibility.\n\nThe United Kingdom Royal College of Pathologists C... | {
"abstract": "Abstract We present a new multidomain spectral method for the treatment of non-spherical stellar surfaces in iterative methods for binary neutron stars. A stellar surface changes throughout the course of an iterative solution, potentially stalling the convergence. Our method affords low-complexity upda... |
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"abstract": "Rich evidence has highlighted that stimulation of gamma-amino-butyric acid (GABA)(B) receptors increases the occurrence of spike-and-wave discharges (SWDs), the electroencephalographic (EEG) landmark of absence epilepsy (AE). Recent findings suggest that the outcomes of GABA(B) activation in vivo are c... | {
"abstract": "Pain after spinal cord injury (SCI-Pain) is one of the most debilitating sequelae of spinal cord injury, characterized as relentless, excruciating pain that is largely refractory to treatments. Although it is generally agreed that SCI-Pain results from maladaptive plasticity in the pain processing path... | {
"abstract": "The application of the flow tracing method to power flows in and out of storage units allows to analyse the usage of this technology option in large-scale interconnected electricity systems. We apply this method to a data-driven model of the European electricity network, which uses a techno-economic op... |
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"abstract": "Smart home has become a visible concept that attracts the collaboration of various areas of science and engineering. Increasing the power efficiency and power management has become an important research topic since a decade. In this research article, the focus is to ease the life of elder and handicapp... | {
"abstract": "Th is paper presents a low cost and flexib le home control and monitoring system using an embedded micro-web server, with IP connectivity for accessing and controlling devices and appliances remotely using Android based Smart phone app. The proposed system does not require a dedicated server PC with re... | {
"abstract": "This paper looks at both the civilian and governmental sectors to examine covert webcam hacking. By using remote administration tools commonly used by hackers, a specific executable is created and installed on a computer. Another computer then attempts to access the infected computer and utilize its re... |
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"abstract": "A carbonyl compound or a mixture of two or more carbonyl compounds is catalytically hydrogenated in the presence of a Raney copper catalyst in the form of nuggets.",
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"title": "Turn-taking in social talk dialogues : temporal, formal and functional aspects"
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"abstract": "People with hearing impairment are thought to rely heavily on context to compensate for reduced audibility. Here, we explore the resulting cost of this compensatory behavior, in terms of effort and the efficiency of ongoing predictive language processing. The listening task featured predictable or unpr... | {
"abstract": "to 312; it has the same nine-chapter format as the old edition (with the same or similar chapter titles); and it adds an author index and an example author index as well as a small set of BASIC programs. In other respects, it is similar to the old edition except as indicated in the following chapter-by... |
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"abstract": "Our understanding of how microRNAs (miRNAs) regulate gene networks and affect different molecular pathways leading to various human pathologies has significantly improved over the years. In contrary, the role of miRNAs in pregnancy-related hypertensive disorders such as preeclampsia (PE) is only beginn... | {
"abstract": "ABSTRACT Mononuclear cytotrophoblasts of the human placenta proliferate rapidly, subsequently fuse, and differentiate to form multinucleated syncytiotrophoblast with induction of aromatase (hCYP19A1) and chorionic gonadotropin (hCGβ) expression. Using microarray analysis, we identified members of the m... | {
"abstract": "Leonardo CC, Mendes M, Ahmad AS, Doré S. Efficacy of prophylactic flavan-3-ol in permanent focal ischemia in 12-mo-old mice. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 308: H583–H591, 2015. First published January 9, 2015; doi:10.1152/ajpheart.00239.2014.—The consumption of flavan-3-ol-containing foods, including... |
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"abstract": "The overload control system of anti-warship missiles is researched. The output-redefinition technique is used to eliminate the nonminimum phase characteristics of missile overload output. In order to improve the robustness of the control system in the whole control process, an adaptive global terminal ... | {
"abstract": "A novel sliding surface is proposed by defining a virtual state. This sliding surface has the nominal dynamics of an original system and makes it possible to use the sliding-mode control technique with various types of controller. Its design is based on an augmented system whose dynamics have a higher ... | {
"abstract": "Preface. Editors. Contributors. Acknowledgements. Chapter 1. Lead-Free Electronics: Overview. Chapter 2. Lead-Free Legislations, Exemptions & Compliance. Chapter 3. Lead-Free Alloys: Overview. Chapter 4. Lead-Free Manufacturing. Chapter 5. Review of Lead-Free Solder Joint Reliability. Chapter 6. Consti... |
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"abstract": "Histograms are used to summarize the contents of relations into a number of buckets for the estimation of query result sizes. Several techniques have been proposed in the past for determining bucket boundaries which provide accurate estimations. However, while search strategies for optimal bucket bound... | {
"abstract": "This paper studies the generic location-aware rank query (GLRQ) over a set of location-aware objects. A GLRQ is composed of a spatial location, a set of keywords, a query predicate, and a ranking function formulated on location, text and other attributes. The result consists of k objects satisfying the... | {
"abstract": "A database is compromised if a user can determine the data elements associated with keys which he did not know previously. If it is possible, compromise can be achieved by posing a finite set of queries over sets of data elements and employing initial information to solve the resulting system of equati... |
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"abstract": "Background: UCN-01 (7-hydroxy-staurosporine) is a novel antineoplastic agent targeting cyclin-dependent kinases, which shows potent in vitro and in vivo activity against a broad range of tumor types. Our grouphas previously shown that UCN-01potentiates the apoptotic response ofagents suchas cisplatin i... | {
"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nArrest of the cell cycle in G2 phase following DNA damage helps protect cell viability by allowing time for DNA repair before entry into mitosis (M phase). Abrogation of G2 arrest sensitizes cells to the effects of DNA-damaging agents. UCN-01 (7-hydroxystaurosporine), a protein kinase C inh... | {
"abstract": "ntil recently, the population of North America has largely been spared from concerns about bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) and variant CJD (vCJD). The absence of indigenous cases of either disease, and the presence of measures to protect the food chain and to defer blood donors judged to be at r... |
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"abstract": "The location of the cells of origin and the projection areas of descending fibre tracts of the spinal cord lateral columns were examined in rats. Unilateral micro-transections of subpopulations of lateral column fibres, at C2 or T10, with subsequent application of horseradish peroxidase to the severed ... | {
"abstract": "(1) Electrical stimulation of the lateral vestibular nucleus (LVN) facilitated lordosis reflex responses to somatosensory stimulation, in estrogen-primed female rats. (2) Unilateral LVN stimulation was sufficient for this effect. Currents as low as 10muA could be used. (3) With the stimulus parameters ... | {
"abstract": "Self-assembling protein templates have enormous potential as biomaterials for the fabrication of multifunctional nanostructures that require precise positioning of individual molecules in regular patterns over large surface areas. Furthermore, the development of protein templates that are stable under ... |
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"abstract": "The capacity of multilamellar (MLV), small unilamellar (SUV) and reverse-phase vesicle (REV) liposomes to incorporate house dust mite allergens has been studied. All three liposome preparations entrapped mite proteins with efficiencies of 36% (SUV), 29% (MLV) and 14% (REV). MLV incorporated the complet... | {
"abstract": "IAbbreviations used in this article are as follows: AraC= l -,B-d arabinofuranosyl cytosine, Chol=cholesterol, DNA=deoxyribonucleic acid, DMPA=dimyristoyl phos phatidic acid, DMPC = dimyristoyl phosphatidylcholine, DMPE = dimyristoyl phos phatidylethanolamine, DOPC = dioleoyl phosphatidylcholine, DOP... | {
"abstract": "Abstract The chronic chloride method for coupling proteins to erythrocytes has been investigated in terms of its effect on erythrocytes and its application in passive haemagglutination, reversed passive haemagglutination, inhibition of haemagglutination, passive immune lysis and the inhibition of passi... |
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"abstract": "Simulation and rendering of sparse volumetric data have different constraints and solutions depending on the application area. Generating precise simulations and understanding very large data are problems in scientific visualization, whereas convincing simulations and realistic visuals are challenges i... | {
"abstract": "This paper presents data-parallel algorithms for surface and solid voxelization on graphics hardware. First, a novel conservative surface voxelization technique, setting all voxels overlapped by a mesh's triangles, is introduced, which is up to one order of magnitude faster than previous solutions leve... | {
"abstract": "Leakage inductance is a critical design attribute of high-frequency transformers. In this paper, a new method to estimate core-type transformer leakage inductance is proposed. The magnetic analysis uses a combination of analytical and numerical analysis. A two-dimensional magnetic analysis using Biot-S... |
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"abstract": "The present study aimed to characterize the behavior of Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus in the presence of Staphylococcus aureus. B. bacteriovorus was co-cultured with S. aureus or Pseudomonas aeruginosa or Streptococcus mutans, in planktonic and sessile conditions. Co-cultures were studied by Field-Emissio... | {
"abstract": "This study highlights the abundance, distribution, and diversity of a poorly known microbial compartment in natural aquatic ecosystems, the Bdellovibrio and like organisms (BALOs). These obligate bacterial predators of other bacteria may have an important functional role. This study shows the relative ... | {
"abstract": "Understanding the microbial flora of the cystic fibrosis (CF) respiratory tract is of considerable importance, as patient morbidity and death are primarily caused by chronic respiratory infections. However, chronically colonized CF airways represent a surprisingly complex and diverse ecosystem. The pre... |
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"abstract": "If field applications of the electrostatic method are limited to roughly the first ten metres due to the necessity of staying in a low-induction number domain, the possibilities it opens in urban area surveying, dry hole resistivity logging, non-destructive testing and laboratory studies of the complex... | {
"abstract": "There are some useful themes that are fundamental to the success of this book. Most importantly is the fact that many of the authors embrace different types of data and techniques rather than single methods. As a result, the papers often illustrate the integration of ideas and data that is increasingly... | {
"abstract": "Key-words. - Western Mediterranean, Convergent boundary, Tectonic reorganization, subduction, Back-arc basin, Basin inversion. Abstract. - In the western Mediterranean area, after a long period (late Paleogene-Neogene) of Nubian (W-Africa) northward subduction beneath Eurasia, subduction has almost cea... |
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