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"abstract": "As the world's largest carbon dioxide (CO2) emitter, China is facing increasing international pressure to reduce emissions. Actively developing new energy has become a fundamental means to solve the dilemma between environmental pollution and energy consumption growth. Thus, more scholars have conducte... | {
"abstract": "Chinese coal consumption declined 3.7% year on year in 2015. Is this evidence of China's “coal peak” or a temporary blip? In this paper, we use a time series model to explore if further China's coal consumption will be higher or lower than the level of 2014. Before the modeling, we undertake a comprehe... | {
"abstract": "Abstract The TAU robot presents a new configuration of parallel robots with three degrees of freedom. This robotic configuration is well adapted to perform with a high precision and high stiffness within a large working range compared with a serial robot. It has the advantages of both parallel robots a... |
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"abstract": "Stem cell factor (SCF) binds to and activates the KIT receptor, a class III receptor tyrosine kinase (RTK), to stimulate diverse processes including melanogenesis, gametogenesis and hematopoeisis. Dysregulation of KIT activation is associated with many cancers. We report a 2.5 Å crystal structure of th... | {
"abstract": "The class III receptor tyrosine kinase (RTKIII) Fms-like tyrosine kinase receptor 3 (Flt3) and its cytokine ligand (FL) play central roles in hematopoiesis and the immune system, by establishing signaling cascades crucial for the development and homeostasis of hematopoietic progenitors and antigen-pres... | {
"abstract": "The purpose of this investigation was to determine what structural changes convert \"inert\" alphaIIbbeta3 integrins into \"activated\" high-affinity receptors for adhesive proteins. Light scattering, analytical ultracentrifugation, electron microscopy, and molecular modeling were used to probe the con... |
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"abstract": "Human–robot teams combining the complementary capabilities of robots and humans towards solving potentially complex service tasks are gaining widespread popularity. Many of these tasks will involve close interactions between the robot and the human it serves, thereby making safety a crucial parameter. ... | {
"abstract": "A safety-ensuring systematic design procedure is proposed that allows service robots to be designed to perform predefined tasks in which safety is guaranteed. To cope with the safety problem, the safety target is defined, the hazards associated with predefined tasks are identified, and the risks are an... | {
"abstract": "Mobility is a fundamental functionality of the next generation Internet computing. How to support mobility for legacy codes, however, is still an issue of research. The key to solve this outstanding issue is the support of heterogeneous process migration. During the last few years, we have successfully... |
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"abstract": "This paper presents a new interleaved pulse-width modulation (PWM) boost-flyback converter to achieve power factor correction (PFC) and regulate DC bus voltage. The adopted boost-flyback converter has a high voltage conversion ratio to overcome the limit of conventional boost or buck-boost converter wi... | {
"abstract": "This paper presents a novel integrated magnetic boost converter (IMBC) with both input/output current ripple cancellation and right-half-plane (RHP) zero elimination. The input inductor, output inductor, and the ripple cancellation network auxiliary inductor of the proposed IMBC have been integrated in... | {
"abstract": "This paper provides an overview of different methods for evaluating automatic summarization systems. The challenges in evaluating summaries are characterized. Both intrinsic and extrinsic approaches are discussed. Methods for assessing informativeness and coherence are described. The advantages and dis... |
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"abstract": "ABSTRACT This article presents an approach to enrollment management based on target marketing strategies developed from a choice-based segmentation methodology. Students are classified into “switchable” or “non-switchable” segments based on their probability of selecting specific majors. A modified mul... | {
"abstract": "Retention and graduation rates at institutions of higher education receive a great deal of attention from a wide range of constituents. The search to identify students who are attrition risks early in their collegiate careers often is elusive. More often, practitioners rely on the random initiation of ... | {
"abstract": "Macroscopic cracks in bulk silicon are generally considered to be immune to fatigue. Here, evidence for pronounced fracture-related fatigue damage in cyclic contact loading of (001) monocrystalline silicon with hard spheres of millimeter-scale radius is presented. The periodic indentation field generat... |
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"abstract": "The skin diseases are often incurable and treatments aim to reduce symptoms. Common examples include eczema, psoriasis, acne, rosacea and vitiligo. Whether these conditions are common or very rare, the impact on quality of life can be far-reaching and profound even without stigmatisation. Stigmatisatio... | {
"abstract": "Psychodermatology is an exciting field which deals with the close relationship that exists between dermatological and psychiatric disorders. A combined bio-psycho-social approach is essential for effective evaluation and treatment of these conditions. This review aims to give the practicing clinician a... | {
"abstract": "OBJECTIVE\nTo investigate the psychological sequelae of acne vulgaris.\n\n\nDESIGN\nQualitative study using a grounded-theory approach.\n\n\nSETTING\nGeneral practices and specialty dermatology practices in Newcastle, Australia.\n\n\nPARTICIPANTS\nPatients with current acne recruited from the practices... |
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"abstract": "The pore of the catfish olfactory cyclic nucleotide–gated (CNG) channel contains four conserved glutamate residues, one from each subunit, that form a high-affinity binding site for extracellular divalent cations. Previous work showed that these residues form two independent and equivalent high-pKa (∼7... | {
"abstract": "Much of our present understanding of macromolecular architecture has come from the extrapolation to large molecules of rules derived from analysis of small molecules. This is exemplified by the work of Pauling et al.1 on polypeptide conformation, which depended on the insight afforded by the crystal st... | {
"abstract": "Arsenic (As) exerts oxidative stress with depletion of body selenium in monogastric animals. But in ruminants this fact is not yet verified. Vitamin E is an effective dietary antioxidant. Thus, in this experiment, the protective effect of vitamin E against arsenic toxicity induced by sodium arsenite (6... |
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"abstract": "AbstractPurpose. To evaluate the effects doxycycline (Dox) in animal models of early abdominal aortic aneurysm.\nMethods. Of 43 male Wistar rats, 33 underwent intraluminal perfusion of the abdominal aorta with thioglycolate plus plasmin to reproduce early aortic aneurysm. These rats then were treated f... | {
"abstract": "Background There is no proven medical approach to attenuating expansion and rupture of abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAAs). One approach that is currently being investigated is the use of doxycycline. Despite being primarily used as an antimicrobial drug, doxycycline has been proposed to function in redu... | {
"abstract": "To efficiently deliver the chemotherapeutics to the tumor tissue and minimize the associated adverse effects, nucleolin targeted hybrid nanostructure based on hollow mesoporous silica nanoparticles (HMSNs) were fabricated. To provide the controlled, sustained drug release and enhance blood circulation,... |
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"abstract": "This paper proposes a novel handwriting recognition interfacefor wearable computing where users write characterscontinuously without pauses on a small single writingbox. Since characters are written on the same writingarea, they are overlaid with each other. Therefore thetask is regarded as a special c... | {
"abstract": "This paper describes a method of generating a Kanji hierarchical structured dictionary for stroke-number and stroke-order free handwriting recognition based on sub-stroke HMM. In stroke-based methods, a large number of stroke-order variations can be easily expressed by just adding different stroke sequ... | {
"abstract": "We present data from high-resolution numerical simulations of the Navier–Stokes-α and the Leray-α models for two-dimensional turbulence. It was shown previously (Lunasin et al 2007 J. Turbul. 8 30) that for wavenumbers k such that kα ≫ 1, the energy spectrum of the smoothed velocity field for the two-d... |
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"abstract": "Discovery of natural groups of similarly functioning individuals is a key task in analysis of real world networks. Also, overlap between community pairs is commonplace in large social and biological graphs, in particular. In fact, overlaps between communities are known to be denser than the non-overlap... | {
"abstract": "The recent boom of large-scale online social networks (OSNs) both enables and necessitates the use of parallelizable and scalable computational techniques for their analysis. We examine the problem of real-time community detection and a recently proposed linear time- O(m) on a network with m edges-labe... | {
"abstract": "Social influence in social networks has been extensively researched. Most studies have focused on direct influence, while another interesting question can be raised as whether indirect influence exists between two users who're not directly connected in the network and what affects such influence. In ad... |
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"abstract": "Two cytidine deaminases (CDDs) from the free-living nematode Caenorhabditis elegans have been cloned and characterized. Both Ce-CDD-1 and Ce-CDD-2 are authentic deaminases and both exhibit RNA-binding activity towards AU-rich templates. In order to study their temporal and spatial expression patterns i... | {
"abstract": "Seventeen years after the discovery of tissue-specific apoB mRNA editing, only three nucleus-encoded mRNAs have been shown to undergo C-to-U editing. All three mRNAs occur in mammals. apoB mRNA editing is tissue-specific and occurs normally, whereas NF1 and NAT1 mRNA editing is found largely in tumors.... | {
"abstract": "Two-dimensional laser-induced fluorescence (2D-LIF) imaging of OH radicals, excited at 308 nm, has been employed to visualize the flame front in an internal combustion engine burning air/propane mixtures. Light sheet thicknesses down to 70 μm have been attained for excitation. Hydroxyl radicals were de... |
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"abstract": "A FSS filter with shorting stubs will be designed in this paper. This filter provides compact design and sharp frequency selectivity by using transmission-zeros, and it is designed for a compact E-plane duplexer. It can be fabricated in a simple and economical way. We simulate the filter with CAD tool,... | {
"abstract": "A novel type of broadband highly selective filters in waveguide technology is presented. It is based on directly coupled resonant irises filters. The position of the apertures is studied in order to obtain a filter structure easier to construct. The Mode Matching Method is used for the design and simul... | {
"abstract": "Waveguide band-pass filters with cavity have high characteristic stability and small losses; however, the dimensions and weight of such filters are too big. As a rule, it is polynomial filters with direct coupled cavity or more seldom with quarter-wave coupled ones. In such filters all zeros are locate... |
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"abstract": "Abstract This article describes the emergence of public relations in the Russian Federation over the past 7 years. It appears as if public relations has developed more rapidly within the public sector, where officials and practitioners are having trouble with the concept of openness. Russian government... | {
"abstract": "Abstract In theory a function of management, the practice of public relations assumes various roles in different organizations, ranging from technician to manager. Crises present organizations with significant financial, social and ethical challenges. This article suggests a relationship between organi... | {
"abstract": "The difference between the lambda values of the economic dispatch and the unit commitment problems is presented, based on the economic interpretation of the Lagrangian relaxation solution framework. Although both sets of lambdas represent marginal cost of electricity, the underlying assumptions on thei... |
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"abstract": "This paper presents results from the theoretical and experimental analysis of add/drop filters based on the grating-frustrated coupler (GFC). GFC filtering heavily relies on synchronous operation, which is difficult to achieve without ad hoc postfabrication processing. The double-GFC (DGFC) is analyzed... | {
"abstract": "We present experimental results on the operation of a dissimilar two-core fiber segment as a channel dropping filter based on the principle of grating-frustrated coupling. The restoration of 100% coupling by ultraviolet (UV)-tuning of the fiber is demonstrated over a bandwidth in excess of 20 nm. It is... | {
"abstract": "A novel design is proposed for a four-port optical tap that extracts efficiently from a fibre in which light containing several discrete wavelength bands is propagating only that light within one such band. The same device can be used simultaneously to combine light of the same wavelength as the extrac... |
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"abstract": "Left ventricular (LV) dysfunction has been demonstrated in patients with metabolic syndrome (MetS). However, alterations in left atrial (LA) function in MetS are unknown. We aimed to use strain/strain rate (SR) imaging to investigate the effect of MetS on LA function. A total of 177 MetS patients and 1... | {
"abstract": "OBJECTIVE: To assess relations of left ventricular (LV) geometry and function to insulin resistance in obesity – a condition associated with volume overload and abnormal LV relaxation.DESIGN: Cross-sectional relational study.SUBJECTS: 27 healthy overweight–obese subjects (18 women, body mass index (BMI... | {
"abstract": "Before the mid-twentieth century, few people with CP survived to adulthood. Now, 65% to 90% of children with CP survive. Because of improvements in intensive care techniques leading to the increased survival of very low-birth-weight infants and the increased longevity of the general population, there a... |
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"abstract": "Seed vigor, an important index of seed quality, determines the potential for rapid and uniform emergence of plants. The objective of this study was to explore a rapid method for evaluating seed vigor. To analyze the correlation of seed traits and seedling traits related to seed vigor, we designed five ... | {
"abstract": "BackgroundSeed viability monitoring is very important in ex situ germplasm preservation to detect germplasm deterioration. This requires seed-, time- and labor- saving methods with high precision to assess seed germination as viability. Although the current non-invasive, rapid, sensing methods (NRSs) a... | {
"abstract": "Objective This study aims to evaluate the effects of dietary supplement of rubber seed oil on production performance, egg quality, and yolk fatty acid composition in laying hens during a 16-week feeding trial period. Methods Forty-eight 25-week-old laying hens of Hy-Line Brown were randomly divided int... |
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"abstract": "Background The use of distally based neurocutaneous sural flaps (DBNCSF) is one of the most common methods of reconstructing the distal lower leg. However, they have developed a bad reputation because of their propensity for venous engorgement. Venous congestion that can lead to distal necrosis can be ... | {
"abstract": "Background: Conjoined flap viability is associated with arterial blood supply and venous return. This study aimed to assess the effects of venous drainage position on arterial blood supply and venous return within the conjoined flap. Methods: Fifty-four rats were divided randomly into three groups (n =... | {
"abstract": "This chapter describes how large animal models can be used to improve our knowledge of neuroscience and brain disorders. Various animal models have been used in Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). Rodents and non-human primates are the most commonly used, but they present a number of drawbacks; for examp... |
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"abstract": "The present study describes the phenotypic and genotypic features of seven individual growth transformed, euploid-diploid EBV+ human B cell lines arisen spontaneously in vitro. The lines, obtained under general and standard culture conditions (un-manipulated), from seven individual bone marrow samples ... | {
"abstract": "The posttransplantation lymphoproliferative disorders (PT-LPDs) are a morphologically heterogeneous group of Epstein-Barr virus (EBV)-driven lymphoid proliferations of varying clonal composition. Some PT-LPDs regress after a reduction in immunosuppression, while others progress in spite of aggressive t... | {
"abstract": "A 26-year-old woman who had undergone orthotopic heart transplantation because of dilative cardiomyopathy received a triple-drug immunosuppressive regimen (cyclosporine A, azathioprine, and prednisolone). During her relatively frequent episodes of acute rejection, she was treated with methylprednisolon... |
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"abstract": "Numerous meta-analyses on inotropes (dobutamine) and inodilators (milrinone, levosimendan) suggest that their impact on survival are at best neutral (but may be deleterious) whereas levosimendan seems to have beneficial effects on survival in patients with acute heart failure (AHF) syndromes. The aim o... | {
"abstract": "Arterial pressure at zero flow (Pz = 0) that is higher than venous pressure (Pv) in dynamic pressure-flow relations has been explained by the presence of an arteriolar Starling resistor (SR) mechanism (i.e., vascular waterfall) or the discharge of vascular capacitance. To determine which was predominan... | {
"abstract": "Objective:To provide a conceptual and clinical review of the physiology of the venous system as it is related to cardiac function in health and disease. Data:An integration of venous and cardiac physiology under normal conditions, critical illness, and resuscitation. Summary:The usual clinical teaching... |
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"abstract": "Recently, several researchers have demonstrated the association between periodontal disease and coronary artery disease (CAD). Therefore, we herein investigate the association between periodontal diseases and the existence of CAD among the study population who received both coronary angiography and den... | {
"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nA major aspect of the adaptive host response in periodontitis is the production of antibodies. Several risk and susceptibility factors for periodontitis, including smoking, age and composition of the subgingival microflora, have also been suggested to influence antibody production.\n\n\nAIM... | {
"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nThe role of antibodies to periodontal microorganisms in the development of periodontal tissue destruction is still unclear. The aim of this study was to investigate the association between serum levels of IgG, IgA, and IgM antibodies to 6 periodontal microorganisms and clinical subtypes of ... |
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"abstract": "In this paper, a novel nano-antenna for energy harvesting is proposed. It consists of two elements gold slab with rectangular shape and slot with double bowtie ring. The height of the slots is the same as that of the nano-antenna. Due to the slot with double bowtie ring, the free electron distribution ... | {
"abstract": "A new genetic algorithm (GA)-based multi-slot nanoantenna is proposed for energy harvesting, which consists of two element nanoantennas with rectangular shape and with double bowtie double ring (DBDR) slot. The DBDR slot structure can enhance the electric field to increase the absorptivity of nanoanten... | {
"abstract": "A study of ionizing radiation effects on InSb MIS devices at cryogenic temperatures has been performed. Measurements of the dependence of flatband voltage shift on total ionizing dose and on applied bias for irradiations performed at 4 and 77° K are presented. Substantial positive charge buildup in the... |
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"abstract": "Abstract Experiments were conducted to determine whether the reduced pancreatic insulin content in rats treated with cyproheptadine is due to a drug-induced inhibition in insulin biosynthesis. Pancreatic islets were isolated six hours after the last of eight daily oral doses of cyproheptadine (45 mg kg... | {
"abstract": "The purpose of the present study was to investigate the regulation of insulin biosynthesis during the perinatal period. The incorporation of [3H]leucine into total immunoreactive insulin (IRI) and into IRI fractions was measured by a specific immunoprecipitation procedure after incubation, extraction, ... | {
"abstract": "Little is publicly known about the efficiency and economics of heavy water production at the Department of Atomic Energy's facilities. We estimate the cost of producing heavy water at the Manuguru plant by analysing the available budget figures and assuming reasonable values for other factors that affe... |
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"abstract": "FPGA accelerators are being applied in various types of systems ranging from embedded systems to cloud computing for their high performance and energy efficiency. Given the scale of deployment, there is a need for efficient application development, resource management, and scalable systems, which make ... | {
"abstract": "We present an OpenCL compilation framework to generate high-performance hardware for FPGAs. For an OpenCL application comprising a host program and a set of kernels, it compiles the host program, generates Verilog HDL for each kernel, compiles the circuit using Altera Complete Design Suite 12.0, and do... | {
"abstract": "“Security Keys” are second-factor devices that protect users against phishing and man-in-the-middle attacks. Users carry a single device and can self-register it with any online service that supports the protocol. The devices are simple to implement and deploy, simple to use, privacy preserving, and se... |
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"abstract": "Smart spaces are those that are aware of their state and can act accordingly. Among the central elements of such a state is the presence of humans and their number. For a smart office building, such information can be used for saving energy and safety purposes. While acquiring presence information is c... | {
"abstract": "Driven by the rapid market growth of sensors and beacons that offer Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) based connectivity, this paper empirically investigates the performance characteristics of the BLE interface on multiple Android smartphones, and the consequent impact on a proposed BLE-based service: continu... | {
"abstract": "This paper describes a smart office energy management system (SOEMS) that can reduce the energy consumption of PCs, monitors, and lights in an office environment through the use of a mobile app and Bluetooth Low Energy based Beacons (BLE Beacons). BLE Beacons placed at several places in an office and a... |
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"abstract": "This paper presents least-squares wave equation AVP (Amplitude versus Ray Parameter) migration with non-quadratic regularization. We pose migration as an inverse problem and propose a cost function that makes use of a priori information about the AVP common image gather. In particular, we introduce two... | {
"abstract": "A least-squares migration algorithm is presented that reduces the migration artifacts (i.e., recording footprint noise) arising from incomplete data. Instead of migrating data with the adjoint of the forward modeling operator, the normal equations are inverted by using a preconditioned linear conjugate... | {
"abstract": "Multichannel seismic data acquired in the Lesser Antilles in the western tropical North Atlantic indicate that the seismic reflection method has imaged an oceanic ther- mohaline staircase. Synthetic acoustic modeling using mea- sured density and sound speed profiles corroborates infer- ences from the s... |
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"abstract": "The proteins fibronectin (FN), Von Willebrand factor (VWF), and fibrinogen are believed to play a role in platelet function. They are distributed between the plasma and the platelet pool in the resting state and undergo redistribution upon platelet activation. We have studied their expression on the su... | {
"abstract": "Monovalent goat antibody fragments (Fab) that were monospecific for human fibrinogen were isolated by affinity chromatography on fibrinogen-Sepharose and used as a direct probe for the involvement of fibrinogen in platelet aggregation and the release reaction. The antifibrinogen Fab inhibited aggregati... | {
"abstract": "The acute and chronic autonomic, systemic, and renal hemodynamic effects of trimazosin and placebo were studied in patients with uncomplicated essential hypertension of mild to moderate severity. In these studies, trimazosin effectively reduced arterial pressure through a decrease in peripheral vascula... |
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"abstract": "The aim of this study was to assess different concentrations of sucrose-based extenders combined with bovine serum albumin (BSA) as an alternative to stallion sperm cryopreservation with permeable cryoprotectants. Semen samples (n = 16) were collected from six stallions. Sperm was cooled, filled in 0.5... | {
"abstract": "The cellular damage that spermatozoa encounter at rapid rates of cooling has often been attributed to the formation of intracellular ice. However, no direct evidence of intracellular ice has been presented. An alternative mechanism has been proposed by Morris (2006) that cell damage is a result of an o... | {
"abstract": "Thus the Wisdom of God forsawe in the corruption of mans Nature, when in the planting of the Jewes in the land of Canaan commanded to roote out the auncient people of that Lande least their euill maners should corrupt the Jewes. And as touching the Irish (I speak not of the good, who are to be embraced... |
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"abstract": "In this chapter, the physical properties of group III-nitride compound semiconductors are reviewed in the context of their potential application as semiconducting material in photoelectrocatalytic solar fuel structures. The band alignments in the InN-GaN-AlN-InN alloy system are summarized and discusse... | {
"abstract": "We report on the growth and exploitation of InGaN epilayers as a photoelectrochemical cell (PEC) material for direct generation of hydrogen by splitting water using photoelectrochemical hydrolysis. Under white light illumination, a drastic dependence of the photocurrent density on the In content was ob... | {
"abstract": "High electron mobility was achieved in Al1−xInxN∕AlN∕GaN (x=0.20–0.12) heterostructure field effect transistors (HFETs) grown by metal-organic chemical vapor deposition. Reduction of In composition from 20% to 12% increased the room temperature equivalent two-dimensional-electron-gas density from 0.90×... |
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"abstract": "We have developed fast, reliable and simple fluorescent method to assess and compare repair capacity of cells. To this end plasmid pEGFP containing the gene for the enhanced green fluorescent protein was damaged in vitro by genotoxic agents and introduced into cells by transfection. The repair capacity... | {
"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nThe protein product of the BRCA2 gene mediates repair of double-strand breaks in DNA. Because a number of cancer therapies exert cytotoxic effects via the initiation of double-strand breaks, cancers comprised of cells carrying BRCA2 gene mutations may be more amenable to treatment with agen... | {
"abstract": "V79 Chinese hamster cells expressing either the O6-alkylguanine-DNA-alkyltransferase (ATase) encoded by the E. coli ogt gene or a truncated version of the E. coli ada gene have been exposed to various alkylnitrosoureas to investigate the contribution of ATase repairable lesions to the toxicity of these... |
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"abstract": "Abstract Four different types (α4, α′2, (αβ)2 and ϵ2) of RNA-splicing endonucleases (EndAs) for RNA processing are known to exist in the Archaea. Only the (αβ)2 and ϵ2 types can cleave non-canonical introns in precursor (pre)-tRNA. Both enzyme types possess an insert associated with a specific loop, al... | {
"abstract": "The ribosome is an ancient molecular fossil that provides a telescope to the origins of life. Made from RNA and protein, the ribosome translates mRNA to coded protein in all living systems. Universality, economy, centrality and antiquity are ingrained in translation. The translation machinery dominates... | {
"abstract": "The use of plant polyphenols to prevent cancer has been studied extensively. However, recent findings regarding the cancer-promoting effects of some antioxidants have led to reservations regarding the therapeutic use of food-derived antioxidants including polyphenols. The aim of this study was to evalu... |
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"abstract": "Aim. This study aimed to assess the long-term respiratory effects of tear gases among the subjects with history of frequent exposure. Materials and Methods. A questionnaire by NIOSH and pulmonary function tests was performed in 93 males exposed to the tear gases frequently and 55 nonexposed subjects. R... | {
"abstract": "BackgroundChemical irritants used in crowd control, such as tear gases and pepper sprays, are generally considered to be safe and to cause only transient pain and lacrimation. However, there are numerous reports that use and misuse of these chemicals may cause serious injuries. We aimed to review docum... | {
"abstract": "In the context of widely distributed multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) radar, target localization accuracy is very sensitive to the knowledge of radar antenna positions. However, perfect knowledge of antenna positions is difficult to acquire even after calibration. This paper aims at investigating ... |
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"abstract": "ABSTRACT Hypermutation, the introduction of excessive G-to-A substitutions by host proteins in the APOBEC family, can impair replication of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Because hypermutation represents a potential antiviral strategy, it is important to determine whether greater hypermutation... | {
"abstract": "We investigated variable selective pressures among amino acid sites in HIV-1 genes. Selective pressure at the amino acid level was measured by using the nonsynonymous/synonymous substitution rate ratio (ω = dN/dS). To identify amino acid sites under positive selection with ω > 1, we applied maximum lik... | {
"abstract": "This paper proposes a trajectory tracking scheme which belongs to the sliding mode control (SMC) for the 4-degree-of-freedom (DOF) parallel robots. Two fuzzy logic systems (FLS) are first put forward to replace the constant switching control gain and the width of the boundary layer. The fuzzy adaptive ... |
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"abstract": "The authors present a real-time vision-based system for automatic positioning and trajectory following, based on a direct method for 3D motion estimation. The spatio-temporal derivatives of the image function, calculated from time-varying imagery, are used to directly calculate the motion and position ... | {
"abstract": "We present a direct closed-form solution for estimating 3D depth and translational motion of a camera from image sequences where the scene illumination can vary from one frame to the next. The method is based on a dynamic image model that we proposed previously for the computation of optical flow. We u... | {
"abstract": "Abstract This paper presents a model for probabilistic analysis of reinforced concrete structures. The study considers the effects of structural geometric imperfections, as well as the materials’ mechanical properties variability on the response of beams and columns. The finite element method is combin... |
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"abstract": "Thrombospondin-2 (TSP-2) is an endogenous negative regulator of vascularization in human cancer. TSP-2 regulates angiogenesis through binding and sequestration of the proangiogenic fibroblast growth factor-2 (FGF-2). However, it is unclear whether TSP-2 and FGF-2 are related to prognosis in non-small c... | {
"abstract": "Purpose: Urothelial carcinoma (UC) is a type of tumor, especially of the urinary bladder, that affects people worldwide. Clarification of its detailed tumor biology and discovery of potential targets for developing treatment strategies are imperative because of frequent recurrences and poor prognosis o... | {
"abstract": "Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is one of the most common chronic diseases worldwide, presenting a great challenge to the public health systems due to high morbidity and mortality, because of frequent micro-/macro-vascular complications. Many treatment options are now available, with different efficacy... |
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"abstract": "Abstract The outer fibres of sea-urchin sperm tail flagella have been studied by X-ray and optical diffraction methods. Both diffraction methods have demonstrated that the basic repeat distance along the outer fibre axis is 40 A in agreement with the results of optical diffraction studies by G RIMSTONE... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Outer fibers have been isolated from sea urchin sperm flagella by a process of selective solubilization. The outer fibers, like most other microtubules reported in the literature, are composed of 40 A globular subunits arranged longitudinally. The fibers may be solubilized to a characteristic ... | {
"abstract": "The major 22S protein of the hexylene glycol-isolated mitotic apparatus has been characterized from spindle isolates and extracts of whole eggs and acetone powders of eggs from the sea urchins Strongylocentrotus purpuratus, Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis, and Arbacia punctulata. The protein is free ... |
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"abstract": "ABSTRACT Glucocorticoids and estrogens regulate a number of vital physiological processes. We developed a model breast cancer cell line, MCF-7 M, to examine potential mechanisms by which the ligand-bound estrogen receptor (ER) regulates glucocorticoid receptor (GR)-mediated transcription. MCF-7 cells, ... | {
"abstract": "ABSTRACT p53 is a critical coordinator of a wide range of stress responses. To facilitate a rapid response to stress, p53 is produced constitutively but is negatively regulated by MDM2. MDM2 can inhibit p53 in multiple independent ways: by binding to its transcription activation domain, inhibiting p53 ... | {
"abstract": "The mouse gene encoding the mu opioid receptor, Oprm, undergoes extensive alternatively splicing, with 14 variants having been identified. However, only one variant of human mu opioid receptor gene (Oprm), MOR-1A, has been described. We now report two novel splice variants of the human Oprm gene, hMOR-... |
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"abstract": "Restoration is ultimately a problem of statistical estimation. An optimal filter is estimated to restore binary fax images. The filter is an approximation of the binary conditional expectation that minimizes the expected absolute error between the degraded image and the ideal image. It is implemented a... | {
"abstract": "For given binary image and degradation processes, an optimal mean-absolute-error translation-invariant filter can be designed via the representation of such filters as a union of morphological hit-or-miss transforms. The present paper investigates a different optimization methodology by representing tr... | {
"abstract": "The paper presents an extended analysis of a hybrid 13-level inverter operated under different modulation methods and different conditions. The proposed approach can be extended to any desired number of levels. Extensive simulation results of the proposed inverter are presented. The simulations are val... |
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"abstract": "‘Tagged MRI’ techniques have been used during the past years to predict which tongue muscles are activated during the production of vowels and for non-speech gestures. Using this technique, tongue muscle activation inferences are based on the hypothesis that a significant distortion of the anatomical r... | {
"abstract": "Les travaux presentes dans ce memoire ont pour but, a long terme, l'elaboration d'un outil interactif pour la chirurgie linguale, base sur un modele biomecanique tridimensionnel de la langue, et permettant a la fois d'evaluer les consequences d'une chirurgie sur la mobilite linguale et de favoriser le ... | {
"abstract": "Plasticity within the human central motor system occurs and has been studied with transcranial magnetic stimulation in patients with amputations, spinal cord injuries, and ischemic nerve block. These studies have identified a pattern of motor system reorganization that results in enlarged muscle repres... |
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"abstract": "This chapter shows that the concepts of the public sphere and alternative public spheres, frequently used to understand the influence of the Internet on public debate, only have limited value when we examine particular forms of online communication in the context of actual societal conflict. More speci... | {
"abstract": "In diesem Beitrag werden europaische Akteure in den Fokus genommen. Der Begriff der Offentlichkeit spielt in diesem Zusammenhang eine grose Rolle, wobei in der Forschung zu diesem Thema das Publikum bis jetzt weitgehend unberucksichtigt blieb. Dies gilt insbesondere im Falle von transnationalen Gebilde... | {
"abstract": "Much of the development of model-based design and dependability analysis in the design of dependable systems, including software intensive systems, can be attributed to the application of advances in formal logic and its application to fault forecasting and verification of systems. In parallel, work on... |
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"abstract": "A facile solvothermal process is successfully developed to prepare F-center cubic Co3O4 nanoflakes in ethylene-glycol-water solvent. Cobalt acetate [Co(Ac)2·4H2O] is directly used as precursor and ethylene glycol performs a reducer and modifying agent in the system. The as obtained products were charac... | {
"abstract": "Low-temperature oxidation of CO, perhaps the most extensively studied reaction in the history of heterogeneous catalysis, is becoming increasingly important in the context of cleaning air and lowering automotive emissions. Hopcalite catalysts (mixtures of manganese and copper oxides) were originally de... | {
"abstract": "In this article we report a chemical synthetic means for generating a high Ku magnetic material—narrowly dispersed nanoparticles of SmCo5. Using Co2(CO)8 and Sm(acac)3 as the precursors under air-free conditions, we produced SmCo5 nanoparticles according to the procedure reported by Sun et al. [Science... |
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"abstract": "This paper addresses the need for a modular approach to document composition and life-cycle, enabling mixed content to be used and re-used within documents. Each content item may bring with it its own workflow. Documents are conventionally considered to be the passive subjects of workflow, but when a d... | {
"abstract": "Data-intensive Web sites are large sites based on a back-end database, with a fairly complex hypertext structure. The paper develops two main contributions: (a) a specific design methodology for data-intensive Web sites, composed of a set of steps and design transformations that lead from a conceptual ... |
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"abstract": "A large fraction of factor VIII in blood originates from liver sinusoidal endothelial cells although extrahepatic sources also contribute to plasma factor VIII levels. Identification of cell-types other than endothelial cells with the capacity to synthesize and release factor VIII will be helpful for t... | {
"abstract": "Purpose: Inborn Errors of Metabolism (IEMs) are a group of complex genetic conditions, predominantly affecting the pediatric population. While the understanding and identification of various IEMs has significantly improved over recent times, not much is known about the communication disorders in this p... |
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"abstract": "The 2008/2009 economic crisis provided a sustainable impulse for improving environmental scanning systems (ESS). Although a rich body of know-ledge exists, concepts are not often used in practice. This article contributes a literature review addressing six findings for ESS design to become more applica... | {
"abstract": "A health analytics process model is necessary to carryout projects in a manageable and a repeatable way without having to rely on the individual skills and experiences. This study is one of the first steps in developing a comprehensive process model for health analytics. Literature suggests that succes... | {
"abstract": "This paper introduces TakeFive, a new semantic role labeling method that transforms a text into a frame-oriented knowledge graph. It performs dependency parsing, identifies the words that evoke lexical frames, locates the roles and fillers for each frame, runs coercion techniques, and formalises the re... |
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"abstract": "The cancellation of gubernatorial elections in Russia was aimed at tightening the central grip over the regions and checking the influence of regional elites at the sub-national level. These policies represented a logical continuation to centralizing reforms launched by President Putin upon his accessi... | {
"abstract": "An American specialist on Russian politics and federalism examines the democratizing effects, intended and unintended, of President Vladimir Putin's federative reforms. Focus is on the \"harmonization\" of regional constitutions and legislation with federal laws and the RF Constitution in the name of t... | {
"abstract": "Abstract. To what extent are variations in public attitudes and outcomes of social/economic policies caused by institutions like consociational democracy, corporatism and regimes of veto players? In dealing with this question, this paper starts from a critical review of Arend Lijphart's argument in Pat... |
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"abstract": "Image segmentation is the first step in image analysis and pattern recognition. Image segmentation is the process of dividing an image into different regions such that each region is homogeneous. The accurate and effective algorithm for segmenting image is very useful in many fields, especially in medi... | {
"abstract": "Image and video (multimedia) databases are very large in size. It becomes very difficult to search the images from these databases by the application of conventional exhaustive searching because it will require unreasonable amount of time. For this purpose an automatic graph based clustering algorithm ... | {
"abstract": "Reduced feature set containing relevant features for identifying individual phonemes were obtained using two game-theoretic formulations. In one formulation feature selection algorithm tries to obtain features that maximize the accuracy of the classifier, and in another it obtains features that minimiz... |
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"abstract": "Nursing practice includes static standing and much walking causing strains to lower extremities. However, little is known about nurses’ foot health and particularly their perceptions of their foot health. Therefore, in this study operating room nurses’ perceptions of their foot health was investigated ... | {
"abstract": "Aims: The aim of the narrative review was to describe and analyze lower extremity musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) in nurses and to identify factors associated with these disorders. The ultimate goal was to promote lower extremity health in nurses by recognizing factors that could improve their well-be... | {
"abstract": "The objective was to study folate production of yeast strains, bacteria isolated from oat bran, and selected lactic acid bacteria as well as one propionibacterium in oat and barley based models. Simultaneously, we aimed at sustaining the stability of viscosity, representing the physicochemical state of... |
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"abstract": "Rice (Oryza sativa L.) is one of the major grain cereals of the Indian subcontinent which face water-deficit stress for their cultivation. Seed-priming has been reported to be a useful approach to complement stress responses in plants. In the present study, seed-priming with hormonal or chemical elicit... | {
"abstract": "Drought is one of the severe abiotic stress that affects the productivity of rice, an important staple crop that is consumed all over the world. The traits responsible for enhancing or adapting drought resistance in rice plants can be selected and studied to improve their growth under stress conditions... | {
"abstract": "The eukaryotic initiation factor 5A (eIF5A) contains a polyamine-derived amino acid, hypusine [Nε-(4-amino-2-hydroxybutyl)lysine]. Hypusine is formed post-translationally by the addition of the 4-aminobutyl moiety from the polyamine spermidine to a specific lysine residue, catalyzed by deoxyhypusine sy... |
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"abstract": "We summarize our recent results on the study of electrode size and shape for a few common cuts of quartz and langasite plate thickness-shear mode piezoelectric resonators. Optimal electrode shape and size satisfying Bechmann's number in every direction are determined.",
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"abstract": "We study the effects of electrodes of nonuniform thickness on thickness-shear vibration frequencies and mode shapes of quartz resonators. This paper extends a previous paper from electrodes of stepped thickness to continuously varying thickness. Numerical results for electrodes of linearly varying thic... | {
"abstract": "This paper presents AlScN piezoelectric two-axis MEMS mirrors with gimbal-less and gimbaled designs fabricated in a CMOS-compatible manner. Integrated piezoelectric sensors provided feedback signals of the actual mirror positions. The mirror with a diameter of 1.5 mm possessed adjustable optical tilt a... |
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"abstract": "This paper introduces and explores the new concept of Time-Specific Encryption (TSE). In (Plain) TSE, a Time Server broadcasts a key at the beginning of each time unit, a Time Instant Key (TIK). The sender of a message can specify any time interval during the encryption process; the receiver can decryp... | {
"abstract": "Paterson and Quaglia (SCN 2010) proposed the concept of time-specific encryption (TSE) and its efficient constructions. TSE is a type of public-key encryption with an additional functionality where an encryptor can specify a suitable time interval, meaning that the ciphertexts may only be decrypted wit... | {
"abstract": "We introduce a new lightweight generic compiler that is able to transform any passively forward secure twomessage key exchange (KE) protocols into authenticated key exchange (AKE) protocols with security in the presence of active adversaries who can reveal critical session specific information such as ... |
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"abstract": "When data on child poverty in 2003/04 were released, the fall in child poverty since 2002/03 was smaller than had been expected. Brewer et al. (2005) identified several reasons that might explain this, one of which was that the Family Resources Survey (FRS) - the data-set from which the Households Belo... | {
"abstract": "It is necessary for these statements to present true financial situation and results of business operations because an unauthentic financial statement resulting from fraud and error, is often misleading. This is why prevention and detection of fraud and error should be given priority by all those invol... | {
"abstract": "In China during the reform period, the multitude of conflicts between the state or its agents and peasants has become a serious concern for the Chinese government. A fundamental reason for these conflicts is the fact that peasants' basic economic or political interests have been threatened or ignored. ... |
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"abstract": "In this paper, a catalyst of hollow PdCu alloy nanocubes supported on nitrogen-doped graphene support (H-PdCu/ppy-NG) is successfully synthesized using a simple one-pot template-free method. Two other catalyst materials such as solid PdCu alloy particles supported on this same nitrogen-doped graphene s... | {
"abstract": "We have investigated by photoemission spectroscopy and scanning tunnelling microscopy what are the chemical and structural changes induced by nitrogen ion implantation (500 eV) on highly oriented pyrolytic graphite and how the defects induced by this process modify the growth and thermal stability of p... | {
"abstract": "Synthetic retinoid-related molecules, such as N-(4-hydroxyphenyl)retinamide (fenretinide) and 6-[3-(1-adamantyl)-4-hydroxyphenyl]-2-naphthalene carboxylic acid (CD437) induce apoptosis in a variety of malignant cells. The mechanism(s) of action of these compounds does not appear to involve retinoic aci... |
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"abstract": "Mycosporine-like amino acids (MAAs) are secondary metabolites of a variety of marine organisms including cyanobacteria and macroalgae. These compounds have strong ultraviolet (UV) absorption maxima between 310 and 362 nm and are biological sunscreens for counteracting the damaging effects of UV radiati... | {
"abstract": "We present the results of our tenth annual horizon scan. We identified 15 emerging priority topics that may have major positive or negative effects on the future conservation of global biodiversity, but currently have low awareness within the conservation community. We hope to increase research and pol... | {
"abstract": "Brucella canis, a gram-negative, facultative intracellular and zoonotic bacterium causes canine brucellosis. Direct methods are the most appropriate for the detection of canine brucellosis and bacterial isolation from blood samples has been employed as gold-standard method. However, due to the delay in... |
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"abstract": "Evidence for the occurrence of indole 3-acetic acid in Caulerpa paspaloides extracts was obtained by bioassay, by high-performance liquid chromatography with an electrochemical detector, and by capillary gas chromatography combined with mass spectrometry. The amount of indole 3-acetic acid present was ... | {
"abstract": "The characteristics of transmembrane transport of 14C-labelled indol-3yl-acetic acid ([1-14C]IAA) were compared in Chlorella vulgaris Beij., a simple unicellular green alga, and in Chara vulgaris L., a branched, multicellular green alga exhibiting axial polarity and a high degree of cell and organ spec... | {
"abstract": "The synthesis of indole-3-acetyl-2-14C-N-aspartic acid from carrier-free indole-3-acetic acid-2-14C (54.5 mCi/mmole) and bis-t-butyl-l-aspartic acid was accomplished by coupling with dicyclohexylcarbodiimide followed by removal of the ester blocking groups by treatment with 2 N NaOH.",
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"abstract": "Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to determine how luxury hotel operators in Dubai interpret the current disability laws in the region, and further how they currently provide accessible accommodation to disabled tourists. Design/methodology/approach – This study draws on data collected using docum... | {
"abstract": "The easy exchange of rich information between often geographically dispersed parties is an important precursor of successful tourism transactions. Internet-based technologies, in particular the World Wide Web, offer possibilities to both buyers and sellers to exchange information without the constraint... | {
"abstract": "There are a number of interrelating factors that must be considered and weighed against each other when deciding which features or capabilities should be added to a product to increase its flexibility and usability by a wider range of users. Not all strategies or approaches are created equal, and desig... |
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"abstract": "Being able to induce word translations from non-parallel data is often a prerequisite for cross-lingual processing in resource-scarce languages and domains. Previous endeavors typically simplify this task by imposing the one-to-one translation assumption, which is too strong to hold for natural languag... | {
"abstract": "\n \n Following their monolingual counterparts, bilingual word embeddings are also on the rise. As a major application task, word translation has been relying on the nearest neighbor to connect embeddings cross-lingually. However, the nearest neighbor strategy suffers from its inherently local nature a... | {
"abstract": "Recent methods for learning vector space representations of words have succeeded in capturing fine-grained semantic and syntactic regularities using vector arithmetic, but the origin of these regularities has remained opaque. We analyze and make explicit the model properties needed for such regularitie... |
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"abstract": "Immunogenetics (1999) 49:235–237 Q Springer-Verlag 1999H. Havelkova 7 M. Kosarˇova 7 M. Krulova 7 V. HolanˇM. Lipoldova (Y)Institute of Molecular Genetics, Academy of Sciences of theCzech Republic, Fleming. nam. 2, 166 37 Praha 6,Czech Republic,e-mail: Lipoldova@img.cas.cz,Tel.: c4202-243-10-195, Fax: ... | {
"abstract": "Allergic asthma is a genetically complex disease characterized by allergen-specific immunoglobulin (Ig)E, eosinophilic inflammation of the lungs and airway hyper-responsiveness to bronchospasmogenic stimuli. In this study, we compared 13 recombinant congenic (RC) mouse strains in an ovalbumin model of ... | {
"abstract": "BackgroundThe flowers of Malus pumila Mill (Rosaceae) is rich in resources, but lack of medicinal value research. Chemical constituents of the same family M. pumila have coagulatory activity. Considering the coagulatory activity could be beneficial for various cardiovascular diseases, the aim of this s... |
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"abstract": "BackgroundAnesthesia management for patients with severe ankylosing spondylitis scheduled for total hip arthroplasty is challenging due to a potential difficult airway and difficult neuraxial block. We report 4 cases with ankylosing spondylitis successfully managed with a combination of lumbar plexus, ... | {
"abstract": "Background: Peripheral nerve block is a preferable method for elderly patients receiving hip arthroplasty. Sedation with dexmedetomidine may reduce postoperative delirium (POD). The aim of this study was to investigate whether intraoperative sedation with dexmedetomidine, as a supplementary to peripher... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Selective block of the femoral and sciatic nerves was performed on 601 patients undergoing knee arthroscopy. The results were good in 87%, adequate in 12%, and poor in 1%. The whole knee surface was covered by the nerve blockade. The duration of anesthesia was 152 ± 21 min and that of analgesi... |
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"abstract": "We present a robust approach for reconstructing the architectural structure of complex indoor environments given a set of cluttered input scans. Our method first uses an efficient occlusion-aware process to extract planar patches as candidate walls, separating them from clutter and coping with missing ... | {
"abstract": "This paper presents the result of the work achieved in the frame of three successive European Projects, which aimed to build an innovative system to assist security managers in the crisis preparation, training and management phases. The iterative approach of the consortium is presented, as well as the ... | {
"abstract": "Abstract The computational costs of calculating the matrix sign function of the overlap operator together with fundamental numerical problems related to the discontinuity of the sign function in the kernel eigenvalues are the major obstacle towards simulations with dynamical overlap fermions using the ... |
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"abstract": "Information technology (IT) is becoming essential for organizations. In this context, IT management has evolved to include IT service management and governance, towards business driven IT management paradigms. Thus, the alignment between IT and business has been regarded as one of the leading factors t... | {
"abstract": "In recent years, there has been a growing interest in the development and use of domain ontologies, strongly motivated by the semantic Web initiative. However, as we demonstrate in this paper, an approach for ontology representation uniquely based on the modeling languages adopted in the semantic Web i... | {
"abstract": "The multiplicity of network management models may imply in some scenarios the use of multiple management information languages defining the resources to be managed. Each language has a different level of semantic expressiveness, which is not easily measurable. Also, these management information models ... |
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"abstract": "We examined the effects of habitat type and distance from the edge on ant species richness and community composition and we assessed the ability of species to dominate experimental bait stations in degraded longleaf pine savanna and oak hammock in northern Florida. We were particularly interested in th... | {
"abstract": "The distribution of non-ant arthropods was examined in 40 urban habitat fragments in coastal San Diego County, California, USA, to look for effects of fragmen- tation, proximity to developed edge, and the non-native Argentine ant (Linepithema humile). Arthropods were sampled with pitfall traps and by v... | {
"abstract": "Although food-hoarding animals benefit plant seeds by generating predation pressure on granivorous insects, we lack experimental evidence of whether the tripartite interactions maintain a mutualistic relationship between the third trophic level and primary producers. Relying on the behavior of shelling... |
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"abstract": "Extract: The intermediates of the glycolytir pathway were investigated in erythroeytes of children with Down's syndrome and the results achieved were compared with those obtained from healthy children of the same age. In the acid-soluble fraction obtained from the erythroeytes, the levels of the interm... | {
"abstract": "Abstract 1. 1. A procedure for assay of galactose-I-phosphate uridyltransferase employing [I-14C]galactose-I-phosphate has been described. 2. 2. The method is direct, convenient and reproducible. It is applicable to diagnosis of galactosemia and is useful in family studies. 3. 3. Down's syndrome patien... | {
"abstract": "In 1953, Monod and Cohen-Bazire as well as Cohn, Cohen, and Monod showed that an amino acid may repress the last enzyme in the biochemical pathway which leads to the formation of that amino acid. Four years later, H. J. Vogel found that arginine, when added to a growing bacterial culture, represses the... |
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"abstract": "A new urea biosensor was prepared by immobilizing urease with four different procedures on poly(vinylchloride) (PVC) ammonium membrane electrode containing palmitic acid by using nonactine as an ammonium-ionophore. The analytical characteristics were investigated and were compared those of the biosenso... | {
"abstract": "Combination of gel-entrapped urease with a pH electrode can be used to measure plasma urea, provided that the response is related to an auxiliary pH electrode. The response time is 1–3 min and electrodes can be used for up to one week. Good correlation was obtained for routine samples with a spectropho... | {
"abstract": "The progress of artificial kidney development is presented in terms of the polymers used in their fabrication. Current trends and results in cellulosic and synthetic polymer membrane research are reviewed.",
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"abstract": "We perform SPICE based simulations to identify the possibility and challenges of a sub-threshold read operation in a cross-point one-selector and one-resistive memory (1S-1R) array enabled by an ovonic threshold switch (OTS) with a high threshold voltage (Vth) and strong non-linearity of a sub-threshol... | {
"abstract": "Resistance-based memory devices are considered as a strong candidate for next-generation nonvolatile memories as well as potential application in high density embedded cache. These devices can be programmed to different resistance states by applying electrical bias. Read operation then senses the progr... | {
"abstract": "Abstract The treatment planning of a patient with false ankylosis, severe malocclusion, and a bird-face appearance is presented. The fabrication of the condylar head prosthesis was facilitated by the use of tomograms. The principles of tomography and its clinical application are discussed. The condylar... |
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"abstract": "The term \"rheumatoid factor\" is applied to the macroglobulin component of serum which is responsible for a group of serological reactions used as diagnostic procedures in rheumatoid arthritis. The rheumatoid factor is able to react with antigen-antibody complexes of diverse origins. It agglutinates s... | {
"abstract": "The reaction of rheumatoid factors with rabbit IgG sensitized erythrocytes was inhibited by Fc fragments and by a mixture of Facb and pFc' fragments of rabbit IgG, but not by either of the latter two fragments alone. The reaction was also inhibited by heat aggregated human IgG1 and IgG2 myeloma protein... | {
"abstract": "Summary Data obtained from kinetic studies of C′ fixation with a polysaccharide immune system are presented to show that the C′-fixing potency of an immune serum may be related to the aggregating properties of the antibody. The evidence at hand points to the fact that antibody which flocculates readily... |
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"abstract": "Free grafts of connective tissue, without epithelium, were transplanted from either the keratinized gingiva or the non-keratinized alveolar mucosa (controls) into areas of the alveolar mucosa in seven monkeys. The grafts were placed in pouches created in the connective tissue as close as possible to th... | {
"abstract": "A new method for covering localized areas of root exposure with free connective tissue grafts uses connective tissue obtained from the depth of the hard palate, leaving only a narrow surface defect at the donor site. The graft is positioned directly over the exposed root, but its major part is placed i... | {
"abstract": "Abstract A study was conducted on dogs to compare the outcome of mucogingival surgery with and without removal of the periosteum. The width of the attached gingiva following the surgical procedure could not be predetermined by removing the periosteum or leaving it intact. Removing the periosteum during... |
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"abstract": "This research examines the importance of technological factors in international tourism specialisation. The test application consists in finding tourism data related to technology, as well as in synthesising the correlation between tourism and technological factors which appear in domestic tourism expe... | {
"abstract": "During the ′60s and ′70s computers were first used to automate clerical procedures such as record keeping, accounting, billing and report generation; and in manufacturing they were used to automate the manufacturing process itself. In this phase of IT’s introduction, there is some evidence of their con... | {
"abstract": "This paper defines an object-oriented methodology for developing hypermedia information systems. The methodology consists of six phases: domain analysis; object modeling; view design; navigation design; implementation design; and construction. Users' requirements are analyzed with a responsibility-driv... |
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"abstract": "Abstract Herbaceous vegetation comprises the main habitat type in cool-seasons grasslands and can be managed by various methods. We compared changes in plant communities and bird and mammal use of grasslands that were not managed, managed by mechanical methods (mowing), or managed by chemical methods (... | {
"abstract": "Voles (Microtus spp.) commonly inhabit forage crops and may cause excessive damage to these crops. However, cover removal by mowing or haying may cause vole populations to decline. To determine if gray-tailed voles (M. canicaudus) responded to mowing of alfalfa in a density-dependent manner, we livetra... | {
"abstract": "In Brazil, the cultivation of bioenergy crops is expanding at an accelerated rate. Most of this expansion has occurred over low-intensity pasture and is considered sustainable because it does not involve deforestation of natural vegetation. However, the impacts on the water quality of headwater streams... |
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"abstract": "In distributed mobile sensing applications, networks of agents that are heterogeneous, respecting both actuation as well as body and sensory footprint, are often modelled by recourse to power diagrams - generalized Voronoi diagrams with additive weights. In this paper, we adapt the body power diagram t... | {
"abstract": "This paper presents coverage algorithms for mobile sensor networks in which agents have limited power to move. Rather than making use of a constrained optimization technique, our approach accounts for power constraints by assigning non-homogeneously time-varying regions to each robot. This leads to a n... | {
"abstract": "This paper is concerned with a study of differentiability properties of the optimal value function and an associated optimal solution of a parametrized nonlinear program. Second order analysis is presented essentially under the Mangasarian-Fromovitz constraint qualification when the corresponding vecto... |
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"abstract": "The indiscriminate infrastructural growth is leading to rapid environmental degradation. Steel, cement, synthetic polymers and metal alloys used for construction activities are energy intensive as well as cause environmental pollution during their entire life cycle. In order to quantify the energy and ... | {
"abstract": "Abstract It is a fact that the construction industry is the main consumer of energy and materials in most countries. The pursuit of sustainable development, defined in the Brundtland Report 1987 as “development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations t... | {
"abstract": "The study was aimed to investigate biofilm forming ability of Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae and to determine the minimum biofilm eradication concentrations of antibiotics. Biofilm forming ability of six strains of M. hyopneumoniae was examined using crystal violet staining on coverslips. The results demonst... |
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"abstract": "By taking advantage of the thermal gradient that is generated in plasmonic systems and by using an a.c. field, plasmonic tweezers can have a large radius of action and can trap and manipulate single nano-objects.",
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"abstract": "Optical manipulations utilizing the mechanical effect of light have been indispensable in various disciplines. Among those various manipulations, optical pulling has emerged recently as an attractive notion and captivated the popular imagination, not only because it constitutes a rich family of counter... | {
"abstract": "This paper theorises how decision-makers in the EU legislative process reach consensual decisions and in which policy direction through a mechanism of “implicit voting”. I introduce spatial model coalitional bargaining using a utility function that incorporates decision-maker considerations of the poli... |
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"abstract": "This paper presents magnetic and anisotropic magnetoresistance (AMR) results of permalloy Ni80Fe20 films of different thickness (10–250 nm). The films were grown by sputter deposition at an angle, with in-situ magnetic field assisting the definition of uniaxial anisotropy. The results show that there i... | {
"abstract": "Abstract The dependence of magnetoresistance on film thickness and substrate temperature has been studied on 82Ni-Fe alloy films. The anisotropic resistivity Δϱ = ϱ − ϱ ⊥ is nearly a constant of about 0.64 μΩcm when the thickness of the films is 200 to 1400 A. An anisotropic magnetoresistivity ratio ... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Depending on the angle between magnetization and current density in a thin permalloy film, the anisotropic magnetoresistive effect is utilized for high-performance sensors. Both the parameters of the sputtering process and the sensor layout are discussed. The anisotropic magnetoresistive effec... |
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"abstract": "Scopafungin is the major component of the non-polyenic endomycin complex which was extracted from Streptomyces hygroscopicus var. enhygrus var. nova and purified by partition column chromatography or silica gel column chromatography followed by crystallization. It is a white crystalline compound which ... | {
"abstract": "Streptomyces violaceusniger strain YCED-9 is an antifungal biocontrol agent antagonistic to many different classes of plant pathogenic fungi. We discovered that strain YCED-9 produces three antimicrobial compounds with antifungal activity. These compounds were purified and identified, and included: AFA... | {
"abstract": "Slavery has been a major institution of labor coercion throughout history. Colonial societies used slavery intensively across the Americas, and slavery remained prevalent in most countries after independence from the European powers. We investigate the impact of slavery on long-run development in Colom... |
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"abstract": "Pain relief is a management problem for many patients, their families, and the medical professionals caring for them. Although everyone experiences pain to some degree, responses to it vary from one person to another. Recognizing and specifying someone else’s pain is clinically a well know challenge. R... | {
"abstract": "Religious coping now represents a key variable of interest in research on health outcomes, not only because many individuals turn to their faith in times of illness, but also because studies have frequently found that religious coping is associated with desirable health outcomes. The purpose of this ar... | {
"abstract": "The genus Prosopis (Leguminosae, Mimosoideae), comprises 44 species widely distributed in arid and semi-arid zones. Prosopis pallida (Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd.) Kunth and P. juliflora (Sw.) DC. are the two species that are truly tropical apart from P. africana, which is native to tropical Africa (Pasiec... |
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"abstract": "A promising technology for small scale seawater desalination is the humidification dehumidification (HDH) system. This technology has been widely investigated in recent years. Since existing HDH systems have very high specific energy consumption, the authors have previously invented several ways to inc... | {
"abstract": "Humidification-dehumidification (HDH) desalination involves vaporizing water from a saline liquid stream into a carrier gas stream and then condensing the vapor to form purified water. This chapter describes various forms of the HDH cycle, with analysis of the energy consumption of various realizations... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Low temperature synthesis of beta-alumina leads to epitaxial mixtures of beta and beta″ types. Beta″ alumina is metastable unless stabilized with magnesium (and, presumably, lithium). Beta aluminas have not been seen below 950°C, but we are unable to show that beta is metastable at lower tempe... |
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"abstract": "The effects of sex control and twinning techniques on determination of optimal culling parity of cows in beef cow-calf production systems were deterministically analyzed using a herd model simulation. The model simulated the annualized net revenue as an economic indicator during the whole life cycle of... | {
"abstract": "Monthly observations on prices from 10 weight/gender classifications of Nebraska beef cattle are studied in an error correction model (ECM) framework. This study attempts a replication of the 2003 paper on Texas prices by Bessler and Davis, where they find medium heifers (600-700 1b) at the center of p... | {
"abstract": "Peanut (Arachis hypogaea L.) is an important legume providing edible proteins and N2 fixation. However, iron deficiency severely reduces peanut growth in calcareous soils. The maize/peanut intercropping effectively improves iron nutrition and N2 fixation of peanut under pot and field conditions on calc... |
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"abstract": "Synchronous neural activity occurs throughout the brain in association with normal and pathological brain functions. Despite theoretical work exploring how such neural coordination might facilitate neural computation and be corrupted in disease states, it has proven difficult to test experimentally the... | {
"abstract": "Attention and Synchrony Neural activity in the visual cortex becomes synchronized with attention and other behavioral states. However, the source of this synchrony is still unknown. Gregoriou et al. (p. 1207) tested the hypothesis that synchronized activity from the frontal eye field is one of the caus... | {
"abstract": "Here we describe the combined use of acid-labile microgel approach and RAFT-mediated seeded dispersion polymerization technique to prepare an acid-cleavable core-shell like polymeric colloidal system for the delivery of hydrophobic drugs at slightly acidic sites. A new bisacrylate acetal crosslinker wa... |
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"abstract": "This study systematically compares the effects of amphiphilic diblock copolymer (di-BCP) on stabilizing hydrophobic drug nanoparticles formed by flash nanoprecipitation (FNP), and provides a guideline on choosing suitable di-BCPs. Four widely used di-BCPs, i.e., polystyrene-block-poly(ethylene glycol) ... | {
"abstract": "Oleanolic acid (OA) is a natural triterpenoid with anticancer properties, but its hydrophobic nature and poor aqueous solubility pose challenges in pharmaceutical formulation development. The present study aimed at developing OA-loaded mPEG-PLGA or mPEG-PLA nanoparticles (NPs) to improve the delivery o... | {
"abstract": "It is difficult to establish structure–property relationships in plasma sprayed coatings because of their unique and intermingled splat microstructures incorporating networks of various intrinsic process-dependent microdefects. In this paper, these coatings are characterized using two distinctly differ... |
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"abstract": "This paper addresses the problem of large-scale acquisition of computational-semantic lexicons from machine-readable resources. We describe semantic filters designed to reduce the number of incorrect assignments (i.e., improve precision) made by a purely syntactic technique. We demonstrate that it is p... | {
"abstract": "Imagine a language that is completely unfamiliar; the only means of studying it are an ordinary grammar book and a very large corpus of text. No dictionary is available. How can easily recognized, surface grammatical facts be used to extract from a corpus as much syntactic information as possible about... | {
"abstract": "Response times in large distributed systems can be reduced by exchanging jobs between idle servers and servers with pending jobs. When a pull strategy is deployed the initiative to exchange jobs is taken by the idle servers, while servers with pending jobs initiate the exchange when a push strategy is ... |
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"abstract": "Transmission over wireless ad hoc networks is a challenging problem, because the wireless channel is characterized by limited bandwidth, multi-hop connectivity, mobility of nodes, and dynamically varying network topology. Current unipath routing protocols result in performance degradation in mobile net... | {
"abstract": "Nodes in mobile ad hoc networks communicate with one another via packet radios on wireless multihop links. Because of node mobility and power limitations, the network topology changes frequently. Routing protocols therefore play an important role in mobile multihop network communications. A trend in ad... | {
"abstract": "Cloud computing is a recent and significant development in the domain of network applications with a new information technology perspective. This study attempts to develop a hybrid model to predict motivators influencing the adoption of cloud computing services by information technology (IT) profession... |
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"abstract": "Sensor networks are usually dense networks where the network diversity can be exploited in order to overcome failures. In this paper, we study the use of multiple description techniques in the context of sensor networks where the cause of failures is due to the usual practical constraint of having fini... | {
"abstract": "Simple path diversity, where the source packet is transmitted simultaneously over multiple paths, is an effective method to combat packet losses or link failures for communications over a wireless network. The bandwidth inefficiency inherent in a path diversity method can be reduced by using multiple d... | {
"abstract": "Router mechanisms designed to achieve fair bandwidth allocations, like Fair Queueing, have many desirable properties for congestion control in the Internet. However, such mechanisms usually need to maintain state, manage buffers, and/or perform packet scheduling on a per flow basis, and this complexity... |
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"abstract": "The ongoing growth in use of financial instruments together with the accompanying disclosing requirements debate has motivated this study to examine the role of internal corporate governance and accounting rule changes in firms’ derivatives using derisions. The empirical results reveal that firms with ... | {
"abstract": "I present evidence consistent with managers using derivatives and discretionary accruals as partial substitutes for smoothing earnings. Using 1994–1996 data for a sample of Fortune 500 firms, I estimate a set of simultaneous equations that captures managers' incentives to maintain a desired level of ea... | {
"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nA systematic search of brain nuclei putatively involved in L-3,4-dihydroxyphenylalanine (L-DOPA)-induced dyskinesia (LID) in Parkinson's disease shed light, notably, upon the lateral habenula (LHb), which displayed an overexpression of the ∆FosB, ARC, and Zif268 immediate-early genes only i... |
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"abstract": "BackgroundPeroxisome proliferator activated receptor-alpha (PPARα) is a ubiquitously expressed nuclear receptor. The role of endogenous PPARα in retinal neuronal homeostasis is unknown. Retinal photoreceptors are the highest energy-consuming cells in the body, requiring abundant energy substrates. PPAR... | {
"abstract": "Neuronal gap junctions are abundant in both outer and inner plexiform layers of the mammalian retina. In the inner plexiform layer (IPL), ultrastructurally-identified gap junctions were reported primarily in the functionally-defined and anatomically-distinct ON sublamina, with few reported in the OFF s... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Direct immunogold labeling and histological mapping of membrane proteins is demonstrated in Lexan-stabilized SDS-washed freeze-fracture replicas of complex tissues. Using rat brain and spinal cord as primary model systems and liver as a ”control” tissue to identify preparation and labeling art... |
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"abstract": "Abstract : Most first-person shooter game AI's are poor at quickly getting out of lines of fire. AI agents that pass up obvious opportunities to hide or take cover can ruin a game's immersiveness. We will present a system that combines the sensor grid algorithm (Darken 2004) with pathnode-based informa... | {
"abstract": "Delta3D is a GNU-licensed open source game engine with an orientation towards supporting \"serious games\" such as those with defense and homeland security applications. AI is an important issue for serious games, since there is more pressure to \"get the AI right\", as opposed to providing an entertai... | {
"abstract": "We report on a new system for single molecule spectroscopy in the near infrared: dibenzoterrylene (DBT) in a naphthalene crystal. Its absorption band (758 nm) is interesting because single-frequency laser diodes may serve as cheap sources for near-infrared light. Single molecules in this system have a... |
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"abstract": "Many current ICT-supported reform efforts demand teachers to assume the role of epistemic facilitator of knowledge construction supported by technology. It is thus important for teacher educators to understand teachers’ epistemic beliefs. This qualitative study investigated seven Singaporean in-service... | {
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"title": "Academic Use of a Group on Facebook: Initial Findings and Perceptions"
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"abstract": "A smart wheelchair (SW) is a power wheelchair (PW) to which computers, sensors, and assistive technology are attached. In the past decade, there has been little effort to provide a systematic review of SW research. This paper aims to provide a complete state-of-the-art overview of SW research trends. W... |
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"abstract": "The restrictive immigration and refugee policies of many Western countries force most refugee families to remain separated for long periods. Although there is much discussion among professionals in the community and the clinical milieu about the problems families encounter after reunification, the stra... | {
"abstract": "In this article, we discuss incorporating the transnational intersectionality framework in family therapy with resettled refugees. Transnational intersectionality is an extension of the framework of intersectionality which helps to better understand complexities of power and oppression across national ... | {
"abstract": "The discipline of psychology has made many contributions to the understanding of the social problem of men's violence against women during the past 15 years by reframing the problem as one of misuse of power by men who have been socialized into believing they are entitled to control the women in their ... |
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"abstract": "Squamate reptiles (lizards and snakes) are an ideal model system for testing hypotheses regarding the evolution of viviparity (live birth) in amniote vertebrates. Viviparity has evolved over 100 times in squamates, resulting in major changes in reproductive physiology. At a minimum, all viviparous squa... | {
"abstract": "The evolution of a placenta requires several steps including changing the timing of reproductive events, facilitating nutrient exchange, and the capacity for maternal–fetal communication. To understand the evolution of maternal–fetal communication, we used ligand-receptor gene expression as a proxy for... | {
"abstract": "The FTIR spectrum of vaporized ionic liquid has been measured with a low-temperature rare-gas matrix-isolation technique for the first time. l-Ethyl-3-methylimidazolium bis(trifluoromethanesulfonyl)imide, EmimTFSI, was employed as thermally vaporizable ionic liquid. The matrix-isolated IR spectrum was ... |
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"abstract": "The cell-wall sulfated polysaccharide of the marine red microalga Porphyridium sp. is a high molecular weight biopolymer that has potential for use as a platform for metal complexation for various applications. This paper describes the structural and rheological characterization and antibacterial activ... | {
"abstract": "The cell-wall sulphated polysaccharide of the red microalga Porphyridium sp. has impressive antiviral activity against Herpessimplex viruses types 1 and 2 (HSV 1, 2) and Varicella zoster virus(VZV). Treatment of cells with 1 μg mL-1 polysaccharideresulted in 50% inhibition of HSV-infection as measured ... | {
"abstract": "Abstract : The author of this report looks at the ways in which the end of the cold war affects the pattern of violent conflict in the international system. Based on this examination, he suggests that the focus of national security attention in the new international order is likely to shift to the Thir... |
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"abstract": "The motional Stark effect measurement of magnetic field pitch angle in tokamaks is a mature and powerful technique for estimating plasma current density in tokamaks. However, its range of applicability is limited by the requirement that and manifolds are spectrally sufficiently well separated (high mag... | {
"abstract": "We describe methods for time-resolved imaging of the complex coherence of a spectral scene at one or more optical delays using electro-optically modulated polarization interferometers. By encoding the coherence information at harmonics of the electro-optic modulation frequency, it can be possible to ob... | {
"abstract": "Observations are reported of resolved components of deuterium Balmer emission in neutral beam heated JET plasmas. The features are interpreted as Doppler-shifted emission from deuterium in the neutral beams spectrally resolved into components by the nu *B motional Stark electric field. The mechanisms o... |
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"abstract": "AbstractMarine\n resource management programs face conflicting mandates: to scale-up marine conservation efforts to cover larger areas and meet national and international conservation targets, while simultaneously to downscale and decentralize management authority to resource users and local communitie... | {
"abstract": "Many countries in sub-Saharan Africa have areas of significant ecological importance that overlap with pressing development needs and high levels of natural resource dependence. This makes the design of effective natural resource governance and management systems both challenging and critical. In Ghana... | {
"abstract": "Landscape ecological networks (ENs) consist of landscape-scale conservation corridors that connect areas of high natural value within a production mosaic with protected areas (PAs). In South Africa, ENs have been implemented on a large spatial scale to offset the negative impacts of plantation forestry... |
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"abstract": "Although helmet use has been compulsory for motorcycle drivers and passengers in Thailand since the enactment of the Helmet Act in 1994, recent surveys show that the prevalence of helmet usage remains low, particularly among passengers. This paper has sought to explore motorcyclists’ awareness of helme... | {
"abstract": "In this paper it is argued that conventional analyses of road user adaptation to traffic law enforcement, based on parametric rational-choice theory, are flawed. Such analyses only consider road-user actions as a response to enforcement level and penalty size and do not simultaneously consider enforcem... | {
"abstract": "A study is described that was undertaken to examine the effects of patrol tactics on vehicle speeds, to identify the best patrol tactics of those studied, to identify general speed trends over time, and to examine the effects of an areawide selective enforcement program implemented by the Alabama State... |
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"abstract": "Multidrug resistance (MDR) is a major challenge for cancer therapy. Herein, we report a simple yet effective system, cell-penetrating peptide (CPP)-assisted poly(lactic-co-glycolic acid nanoparticles (PLGA NPs), for improving doxorubicin (DOX) delivery and overcoming MDR cancer. We selected the natural... | {
"abstract": "Resistance to chemotherapy is a major obstacle in the treatment of cancer. Despite the advent of new chemotherapies and molecular-targeted therapies, approximately 90% of patients with metastatic cancer succumb to their disease. Drug resistance, either acquired or intrinsic, often prevents tumour cells... | {
"abstract": "Multiple clinical trials have demonstrated the benefits of 3-hydroxy3-methylglutaryl coenzyme A (HMG-CoA) reductase inhibitors (statins) in reducing the risk of death and nonfatal ischemic cardiovascular events in both stable coronary heart diseases as well as following acute coronary syndromes (ACSs).... |
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"abstract": "Desalination of seawater is an increasingly common means by which nations satisfy demand for water. Desalination has a long history in the Middle East and Mediterranean, but expanding capacities can be found in the United States, Europe and Australia. There is therefore increasing global interest in un... | {
"abstract": "A comprehensive utilization of concentrated seawater is crucial in order to promote the development of the desalination industry as a key solution to global freshwater. Debromination of the desalination plant effluent as well as the bromine product extraction are two parallel goals, which have been the... | {
"abstract": "We have a great power not to destroy and in exercising that power, we will give proof of our consideration for the future, and for the first time in our history we will be recognised as custodians of the earth. \n \nTasmania has rivers flowing to the sea … these are great natural energy resources just ... |
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"abstract": "Light-quark meson spectroscopy provides a powerful tool to study QCD in the non-perturbative sector. Crystal Barrel has developed a lively experimental activity over the last decade and different high-statistics results have been published which have led to stimulating theoretical interpretations. A se... | {
"abstract": "The three reactions pp! … 0 … 0 … 0 , … 0 … 0 · and … 0 ·· in proton-antiproton annihilation in ∞ight at 900 MeV=c are used to search for isoscalar 0 ++ and 2 ++ mesons in the mass range 1000i 2000 MeV, in particular the f0(1710). The description of both … 0 … 0 … 0 and … 0 ·· data sets requires an iso... | {
"abstract": "Milk and dairy products are valuable sources of food for humans. Increased milk yield and changes in milk composition in dairy cows have been achieved through a variety of means including better nutrition, management and genetic selection. This selection can be performed without consideration of the sp... |
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"abstract": "Relatively few studies on hemoparasites have been conducted on wading birds in the families Ardeidae and Threskiornithidae (order Pelecaniformes), especially in the United States. In this study, we obtained baseline data on the prevalence and genetic diversity of haemosporidian parasites in wading bird... | {
"abstract": "Abstract We compared information obtained by both microscopy and nested mitochondrial cytochrome b PCR in determining prevalence of haemosporidian infections in naturally infected birds. Blood samples from 472 birds of 11 species belonging to 7 families and 4 orders were collected in Europe, Africa, an... | {
"abstract": "The Amazonian environment is changing rapidly, due to deforestation, in the short term, and, climatic change is projected to alter its forest cover, in the next few decades. These modifications to the, environment have been altering the dynamics of infectious diseases which have natural foci in the, Am... |
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"abstract": "The new social order requires teaching a foreign language as a means of international communication, forming a student's personality that absorbed the values of native and foreign language cultures and preparing for international communication in all spheres of life. These ideas are reflected in the de... | {
"abstract": "ABSTRACT This study aims to determine the effect of the group investigation model on students' interest in reading (attention, positive perception, and feeling happy). Research subjects 78 semester 4 students of PGSD UST. This study uses quasi-experimental methods (quasi experiment) with the design of ... | {
"abstract": "Since about a decade cuffed intubation is becoming more popular in pediatric anesthesia. Studies supporting cuffed intubation compared cuffed and uncuffed intubation by using stridor as main outcome measure after extubation. No differentiations were made between benign (oedema) and severe (ulceration o... |
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"abstract": "Background to the study Instrumental music education, formalised as Western classical music, is provided as an extra-curricular activity on a fee-paying basis by a small number of Education and Training Boards, formerly Vocational Education Committees (ETB/VECs) through specialist instrumental Music Se... | {
"abstract": "In music history as in general history, the term \"middle class\" has long served to characterize styles, periods, and people. One reads of a middle-class \"spirit,\" described most commonly as earnest, moral, not overly refined, but still forward-looking. Musical life of the nineteenth century seems s... | {
"abstract": "According to the dual labor market theory, it is possible to identify distinct segments in the labor market that have different ways of allocating labor and determining wages. In this paper, the author tests this hypothesis by examining the role of institutional and demand-side factors in explaining th... |
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"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nSimultaneous double cancers of the biliary tract are rare. Most of them are thought to be associated with pancreaticobiliary maljunction (PBM); however, the characteristics of tumours without PBM are still unclear.\n\n\nMETHODS\nHistology, immunoreactivity with carcinoembryonic antigen, car... | {
"abstract": "To investigate the clonal origin of multifocal urothelial tumours, we analysed the p53 tumour-suppressor gene in 3 cases with bladder tumours developing after treatment for a renal pelvic or ureteral tumour and in 1 case with a ureteral tumour after treatment for a bladder tumour. For each case, identi... | {
"abstract": "Qualitative reasoning can, and should, be decomposed into a model-building task, which creates a qualitative differential equation (QDE) as a model of a physical situation, and a qualitative simulation task, which starts with a QDE, and predicts the possible behaviors following from the model. \n \nIn ... |
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"abstract": "PurposeTo examine the trend in annual first admission rates for psychotic disorders as a whole as well as individual psychotic disorders in Taiwan from 1998 to 2007, and influences of age, sex, and geographic region on the trend.MethodUsing the inpatient claims records in the National Health Insurance ... | {
"abstract": "Several studies have reported decreasing time trends in first diagnosed schizophrenia patients. The aim of this study was to analyze time trends for first admissions with a diagnosis of schizophrenia or a diagnosis of either schizophrenia or paranoid psychosis during 1978-1994 in Stockholm County, Swed... | {
"abstract": "Annual age-standardised rates for first contacts with psychiatric services in the Aberdeen area from 1969 to 1984 were calculated for schizophrenia, paranoid states, reactive psychoses, all affective psychoses, mania, and depressive neuroses. Highly significant declines occurred in the diagnosis of sch... |
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"abstract": "Knowledge graphs have become popular over the past decade and frequently rely on the Resource Description Framework (RDF) or Property Graph (PG) databases as data models. However, the query languages for these two data models -- SPARQL for RDF and the PG traversal language Gremlin -- are lacking intero... | {
"abstract": "Graph data management has revealed beneficial characteristics in terms of flexibility and scalability by differently balancing between query expressivity and schema flexibility. This has resulted into an rapid developing new task specific graph systems, query languages and data models, such as property... | {
"abstract": "This study examined visual, spatial-sequential, and spatial-simultaneous working memory (WM) performance in children with mathematical learning disability (MLD) and low mathematics achievement (LMA) compared with typically developing (TD) children. Groups were matched on reading decoding performance an... |
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"abstract": "The DARPA Robotics Challenge Trials held in December 2013 provided a landmark demonstration of dexterous mobile robots executing a variety of tasks aided by a remote human operator using only data from the robot's sensor suite transmitted over a constrained, field-realistic communications link. We desc... | {
"abstract": "One of the challenges in developing real-world autonomous robots is the need for integrating and rigorously testing high-level scripting, motion planning, perception, and control algorithms. For this purpose, we introduce an open-source cross-platform software architecture called OpenRAVE, the Open Rob... | {
"abstract": "In this paper, a loan default prediction model is constricted using three different training algorithms, to train a supervised two-layer feed-forward network to produce the prediction model. But first, two attribute filtering functions were used, resulting in two data sets with reduced attributes and t... |
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