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"abstract": "Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) studies that use tract-based spatial statistics (TBSS) have demonstrated the microstructural abnormalities of white matter (WM) in patients with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD); however, robust conclusions have not yet been drawn. The present study integra... | {
"abstract": "CONTEXT\nVarious anatomic brain abnormalities have been reported for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), with varying methods, small samples, cross-sectional designs, and without accounting for stimulant drug exposure.\n\n\nOBJECTIVE\nTo compare regional brain volumes at initial scan and t... | {
"abstract": "More than a decade of neuroimaging research has established that anterior and posterior cortical midline regions are consistently recruited during self-referential thinking. These regions are engaged under conditions of directed cognition, such as during explicit self-reference tasks, as well as during... |
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"abstract": "Sir: Formycin1) is a representative pyrazolopyri-midine nucleoside that contains the unusual C-riboside linkage and its biological properties2) have been intensely investigated ever since its discovery by H. UMEZAWA and coworkers.1) Formycin is a cytotoxic analog of adenosine and it has been shown that... | {
"abstract": "A study has been made by means of 1H-NMR spectroscopy of the syn in equilibrium anti dynamic equilibrium about the glycosidic bond for 5'-deoxyadenosine and some 8-substituted analogues, in different solvents. The results are compared with those previously obtained for the parent adenosine and its 8-su... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Methods are outlined for the synthesis of methyl, ethyl, propyl, isopropyl, and butyl hippurates. By heating the reactants in an atmosphere of hydrogen in the absence of a catalyst, contact of the esters with acid or alkali, which might attack both the ester and amide linkages present, is avoi... |
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"abstract": "Abstract We present a novel force sensor designed to facilitate force measurement deployment in various applications such as load cells or force sensitive surfaces. This force sensor can indeed inherently sense out-of-plane forces. It is a monolithic structure that integrates two resonators and provide... | {
"abstract": "The aim of this paper is to present a novel resonant multi-axis force sensor with applications in robotics. A resonant force sensor is characterized by the use of a frequency output signal to estimate the applied forces, instead of using its amplitude as it is often the case for the other existing tech... | {
"abstract": "The velocity field of the flow around a circular cylinder started impulsively from rest was studied by the aluminium dust method. The experiments were carried out at Re=1, 200 and when τ=U0t/d was from 0 to 5, where Re is the Reynolds number based on the diameter d of the cylinder, U0 the cylinder spee... |
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"abstract": "The authors have developed a method for applying the active vision paradigm for a vision-guided mobile robot to acquire 3D structure of a man-made environment. The robot plans a circular path by itself, moves along the planned circular path by the visual feedback, computes the camera rotation from the ... | {
"abstract": "This chapter reports the development of a real time 3D sensor system and a new concept based on space decomposition by encoding its operational space using limited number of laser spots. The sensor system uses the richness and the strength of the vision while reducing the data-load and computational co... | {
"abstract": "To investigate the effects of high dielectric material padding on RF field distribution in the human head at 7.0 T, and demonstrate the feasibility and effectiveness of RF passive shimming and focusing with such an approach.",
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"abstract": "The extent to which increased intracortical porosity affects the fracture properties of aging and osteoporotic bone is unknown. Here, we report the development and application of a microcomputed tomography based finite element approach that allows determining the effects of intracortical porosity on bo... | {
"abstract": "To support future studies of tibial bending in a murine model of senile osteoporosis (SAMP6), we sought to determine the relationship between applied external bending force and peak endocortical strain in the tibiae of SAMP6 and control SAMR1 mice. The lower hindlimbs of mice were loaded by three-point... | {
"abstract": "New demands are being placed on monitoring systems in precision manufacturing because of recent developments and trends in machining technology and machine tool design. This paper first discusses the requirements for sensor technology for precision manufacturing process monitoring in general. Then, bac... |
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"abstract": "In this paper, two different techniques for the determination of the rms value of sinusoidal AC voltage at the range of 2V are practically compared: non-thermoelectric technique (via the direct measurement using a precise high sensitive digital voltmeter, and the comparison method using a precise AC vo... | {
"abstract": "Three methods for the determination of the RMS value of AC voltage at low frequencies are compared: the step calibration of a digitally synthesized source, the optimized sampling method, and the AC-DC voltage transfer with a multifunction thermal converter. The three methods agree within 1/spl times/10... | {
"abstract": "Detection of dopamine, an important neurotransmitter, is vital for understanding its roles in mammals and disease diagnosis. However, commonly available methods for dopamine detection typically rely on a single signal readout, which can be susceptible to interference by internal or external factors. He... |
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"abstract": "Soft compliant gripping is a promising way to protect soft tissues from the grip damage caused by the high stress points in delicate surgical manipulation. In this paper, a new soft robotic gripper is designed to minimize the risk of soft tissues damage due to the over-gripping force generated by the c... | {
"abstract": "Soft-bending actuators are inherently compliant, compact, and lightweight. They are preferable candidates over rigid actuators for robotic applications ranging from physical human interaction to delicate object manipulation. However, characterizing and predicting their behaviors are challenging due to ... | {
"abstract": "A reconfigurable mechanism for varying the footprint of a four-wheeled omnidirectional vehicle is developed and applied to wheelchairs. The variable footprint mechanism consists of a pair of beams intersecting at a pivotal point in the middle. Two pairs of bad wheels at the diagonal positions of the ve... |
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"abstract": "Some pathogens have evolved mechanisms to overcome host immune defenses by inhibiting host defense signaling pathways and suppressing the expression of host defense effectors. We present evidence that Pseudomonas aeruginosa is able to suppress the expression of a subset of immune defense genes in the a... | {
"abstract": "The intestinal tract of a host exposed to extreme physiologic stress and modern medical intervention represents a relatively unexplored yet important area of infection research, given the frequency with which this site becomes colonized by highly pathogenic microorganisms that cause subsequent sepsis. ... | {
"abstract": "Hox genes have been shown to play a key role in the acquisition of positional identity by precursors of embryonic axial, paraxial and limb structures. This function is thought to depend on the sequential, concerted expression of these genes in time and space. However the underlying molecular mechanisms... |
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"abstract": "Abstract. The case of an 8-month-old boy with aortic dissection caused by intraaortic balloon pumping is reported. The balloon was inserted during an operation for the anomalous origin of the left coronary artery. It is important to realize the potential risk of aortic dissection even in infants and to... | {
"abstract": "El caso que se presenta es el de un recien nacido de 40 semanas de gestacion, el que durante el trabajo de parto tuvo bradicardia y culmino en asistolia subita. En el estudio de autopsia se encontro que el nino mostro diseccion de la arteria aorta: ascendente, a nivel del cayado y en la descendente tor... | {
"abstract": "Current guidelines recommend opioid therapy to chronic non-malignant pain (CNP) patients when the benefits for pain and function outweigh risks. This systematic review examined the effects of opioid therapy on sleep - a valued functional outcome- in CNP. Electronic and hand searches of relevant studies... |
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"abstract": "Quantum entanglement is a phenomenon available only at nanometer scale. In this paper, we show how quantum entanglement can be used to build cryptographic primitives such as oblivious transfer. In addition to studying the protocol itself, we also show how to realize some applications based on our propo... | {
"abstract": "Shows that the BBCS-protocol (Bennett, Brassard, Cre/spl acute/peau and Skubiszewska, CRYPTO'91, 1992) implementing one of the most important cryptographic primitives-'oblivious transfer'-is secure against any individual measurement allowed by quantum mechanics. We analyze the common situation where su... | {
"abstract": "Among the most remarkable algorithms in algebra are Strassen's algorithm for the multiplication of matrices and the Fast Fourier Transform method for the convolution of vectors. For both of these problems the definition suggests an obvious algorithm that uses just the monotone operations + and ×. Schno... |
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"abstract": "We present a study of the properties of the transition temperature (T ∼ 105 K) gas in the Milky Way corona, based on the measurements of O vi, N v, C iv, Si iv, and Fe iii absorption lines seen in the far-ultraviolet spectra of 58 sight lines to extragalactic targets, obtained with the Far-Ultraviolet ... | {
"abstract": "We continue our recent work of characterizing the plasma content of high-redshift damped and sub-damped Lyman-α systems (DLAs/sub-DLAs), which represent multi-phase gaseous (proto)galactic disks and halos seen toward a background source. We survey N v absorption in a sample of 91 DLAs and 18 sub-DLAs i... | {
"abstract": "We report Far-Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE) observations of interstellar O VI absorption in the halo of the Milky Way toward 12 early-type stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) and 11 in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC). The mean column densities of O VI associated with the Galactic hal... |
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"abstract": "Photon density estimation techniques are a popular choice for simulating light transport in scenes with complicated geometry and materials. This class of algorithms can be used to accurately simulate inter-reflections, caustics, color bleeding, scattering in participating media and subsurface scatterin... | {
"abstract": "Developing robust light transport simulation algorithms that are capable of dealing with arbitrary input scenes remains an elusive challenge. Although efficient global illumination algorithms exist, an acceptable approximation error in a reasonable amount of time is usually only achieved for specific t... | {
"abstract": "The Ionising Radiations Metrology Forum (IRMF) organised an intercomparison of calibrations of neutron area survey instruments in which five establishments in the UK participated. The exercise involved the circulation of two neutron dose-rate monitors for calibration in the fields produced using 252Cf ... |
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"abstract": "The “privacy calculus” has been used extensively to describe how people make privacy-related decisions. At the same time, many researchers have found that such decisions are often anything but calculated. More recently, the privacy calculus has been used in service of machine learning approaches to pri... | {
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"title": "PRIVACY, TRUST AND SELF-DISCLOSURE ONLINE"
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"title": "Etiology of the Psychopathic Serial Killer: An Analysis of Antisocial Personality Disorder, Psychopathy, and Serial Killer Personality and Crime Scene Characteristics"
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"abstract": "A broad range of new high-volume consumer applications require the availability of low-power, battery operated, wireless microsystems. These systems should conciliate a sufficient battery lifetime with reduced overall dimensions (including antenna), low cost and versatility. The design of such systems ... | {
"abstract": "Wireless sensor networks consist of a large number of tiny sensors that have only limited energy supply. One of the major challenges in constructing such networks is to maintain long network lifetime as well as sufficient sensing areas. To achieve this goal, a broadly-used method is to turn off redunda... | {
"abstract": "Enantiomeric compositions of chiral terpenes in commercial fruit beverages were examined by solid phase microextraction-gas chromatography (SPME-GC). Optimization of the method was accomplished on the basis of some parameters involved in the extraction, such as heating temperature and extraction time, ... |
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"abstract": "Nowadays, with the appearance of e-government affair, the requirement of realizing online application and approval (i.e. one-stop examination and approval) by means of information and network technology has been gaining more and more government attention. For real estate construction projects, many pro... | {
"abstract": "To enhance the efficiency of surfing the Internet, an integrated platform for real estate agency is established based on service-oriented architecture (SOA). It employs the concept of search engine and loads the information provided by each real estate agency to this platform. Due to various types of d... | {
"abstract": "In this article we analyze the creation of electronic trading infrastructures using electronic data interchange standards and associated technologies. We compare the genesis and evolution of such infrastructures in Denmark, Finland, and Hong Kong. This article analyzes 8 specific attempts to build trad... |
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"abstract": "Modified Vaccinia virus has been shown to be a safe and immunogenic vector platform for delivery of HIV vaccines. Use of this vector is of particular importance to the military, with the implementation of a large scale smallpox vaccination campaign in 2002 in active duty and key civilian personnel in r... | {
"abstract": "The adenovirus (Ad)26 serotype–based vector vaccine Ad26.COV2.S has been used in millions of subjects for the prevention of COVID-19, but potentially elicits persistent anti-vector immunity. We investigated if vaccine-elicited immunity to Ad26 vector–based vaccines significantly influences antigen-spec... | {
"abstract": "Background Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a common comorbidity in cats with hypercalcemia, but whether CKD is a risk factor for hypercalcemia is unclear. Hypercalcemia often is diagnosed based on total calcium concentration (tCa), which tends to underestimate the ionized calcium concentration (iCa) in... |
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"abstract": "Wild Atlantic salmon are traditionally harvested from both the sea and spawning rivers during spawning runs. From an economic point of view, the return from sport fishing in rivers is several times higher than marine 'for meat only' harvests. This situation calls for a side payment regime where river o... | {
"abstract": "AbstractTo reproduce, Atlantic Salmon Salmo salar return to freshwater rivers and migrate upriver to spawning areas. This migration is the basis for recreational fisheries, which for conservation reasons are increasingly characterized by catch-and-release angling. The effectiveness of catch and release... | {
"abstract": "A full analysis of optimal fisheries investment strategies must take into account high levels of uncertainty in future fishery returns, as well as irreversibility of investment in specialized, nonmalleable fishing fleets. A stochastic optimization model is analyzed using dynamic programming to determin... |
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"abstract": "To investigate the expression pattern of rat Eppin (epididymal protease inhibitor; official symbol Spinlw1), we detected mRNA transcripts and subsequent protein translation of Eppin in several sorts of tissues by RT-PCR and western blotting. Then immunohistochemistry was performed for more detailed obs... | {
"abstract": "The epithelial localization and expression of the spermadhesin PSP-I and PSP-II subunits were determined in the testis, ductus epididymes (caput, corpus and cauda), seminal vesicles and bulbourethral glands of mature boars, using immunohistochemical, western blotting and RT-PCR methods. Immunohistochem... | {
"abstract": "Aims To investigate the association of clinical and immunological markers with diabetes classification in newly diagnosed young diabetic patients at disease onset.",
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"title": "Clinical characteristics, GAD antibody (GADA) and change of C‐peptide in Korean young ... |
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"abstract": "This paper explores an analysis-aware data cleaning architecture for a large class of SPJ SQL queries. In particular, we propose QuERy, a novel framework for integrating entity resolution (ER) with query processing. The aim of QuERy is to correctly and efficiently answer complex queries issued on top o... | {
"abstract": "As key decisions are often made based on information contained in a database, it is important for the database to be as complete and correct as possible. For this reason, many data cleaning tools have been developed to automatically resolve inconsistencies in databases. However, data cleaning tools pro... | {
"abstract": "Effectively performing code review increases the quality of software and reduces occurrence of defects. However, this requires reviewers with experiences and deep understandings of system code. Manual selection of such reviewers can be a costly and time-consuming task. To reduce this cost, we propose a... |
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"abstract": "Objective: An increased number of endothelial progenitor cells (EPCs), which correlated with heme oxygenase-1 gene expression and nitric oxide-mediated vasodilation [flow-mediated dilation (FMD)], has been recently reported by us in Bartter/Gitelman syndromes, rare diseases that represent a human model... | {
"abstract": "Objective. We studied circulating precursor cells (CPC) in type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) with neuropathic foot lesions with or without critical limb ischemia and relationships between endothelial precursor cells (EPC) and peripheral neuropathy. Methods and Subjects. We measured peripheral blood CD34,... | {
"abstract": "The evolutionarily conserved T-box family of transcription factors have critical and well-established roles in embryonic development. More recently, T-box factors have also gained increasing prominence in the field of cancer biology where a wide range of cancers exhibit deregulated expression of T-box ... |
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"abstract": "This paper focuses on verification and validation (V&V) of a model dedicated to mode handling of flexible manufacturing systems. This model, specified using the synchronous formalism Safe State Machines, was proposed in our earlier work. The rigorous semantics that characterize such formalism enable to... | {
"abstract": "Amino ester products, useful as additives to lubricating oils, may be prepared by reaction of an alpha-nitroketone and a tertiary aminoalcohol.",
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"title": "The Synchronous Languages Twelve Years Later"
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"abstract": "Labor disputes are an intriguing feature of the landscape of industrialized economies. Economists have had a long-standing interest in formulating a framework for understanding and analyzing labor disputes. The development of noncooperative bargaining theory provided the tools for a theory of collectiv... |
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"abstract": "It is shown that, for maximally monotone linear relations defined on a general Banach space, the monotonicities of dense type, of negative-infimum type, and of FitzpatrickPhelps type are the same and equivalent to monotonicity of the adjoint. This result also provides affirmative answers to two problem... | {
"abstract": "Abstract In this paper, we give two explicit examples of unbounded linear maximal monotone operators. The first unbounded linear maximal monotone operator S on l 2 is skew. We show its domain is a proper subset of the domain of its adjoint S ∗ , and − S ∗ is not maximal monotone. This gives a negative ... | {
"abstract": "We provide and analyze an average for two convex functions, based on a kernel function. It covers several known averages such as the arithmetic average, epigraphical average, and the proximal average. When applied to the Fitzpatrick function and the conjugate of Fitzpatrick function associated with a m... |
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"abstract": "Peripheral ameloblastoma (PA) is a rare odontogenic tumor. Previously, only 39 cases of PA had been reported in the English literature. In this article 11 additional cases of PA are presented. Concordance with previous cases was evident with regard to race, clinical appearance, and site of predilection... | {
"abstract": "Differential diagnosis of gingival mass lesions includes several conditions and causes. Peripheral odontogenic tumors may mimic gingival swellings and, although rare, must be included in the differential diagnosis. The purpose of this article is to describe 3 different cases of peripheral odontogenic t... | {
"abstract": "OBJECTIVES\nIssues related to lack of system usability and potential safety hazards continue to be reported in the health information technology (HIT) literature. Usability engineering methods are increasingly used to ensure improved system usability and they are also beginning to be applied more widel... |
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"abstract": "Model-based diagnosis has largely operated on hard-ware systems. However, in most complex systems today, hardware is augmented with software functions that influence the system's behavior. In this paper, hard-ware models are extended to include the behavior of associated embedded software, resulting in... | {
"abstract": "Design and implementation of a complicated real-time system, completely free of fault is difficult and fault tolerance methods require features which are not usually follow the characteristics of a real-time systems. To deal with this issue, an appropriate automatic classification system to detect and ... | {
"abstract": "Technological advancements in today’s electrical grids give rise to new vulnerabilities and increase the potential attack surface for cyber-attacks that can severely affect the resilience of the grid. Cyber-attacks are increasing both in number as well as sophistication and these attacks can be strateg... |
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"abstract": "Stimulation of melanotrope dopamine D2 receptors decreases mitotic rate, calcium channel activity, and the biosynthesis of several proteins. This study demonstrates that D2 receptor activation also affects GABA(A) receptor beta2/beta3 subunit immunoreactivity. Following chronic treatment with haloperid... | {
"abstract": "The frog pars intermedia is composed of a single population of endocrine cells directly innervated by γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA)ergic nerve terminals. We have previously shown that GABA, acting through GABAA receptors, modulates both the electrical and secretory activities of frog pituitary melanotroph... | {
"abstract": "means of fermentation or biotransformation. In fermentation, L-methionine, [methyl-14C]-, a radioactive precursor, was added at 48 hours after inoculation. After the fermentation at 30°C for 7 days 14C labeled fortimicins were isolated according to the method reported previously2). Subsequently about 6... |
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"abstract": "A model is developed for the electromagnetic form factor of the pion. One-loop corrections are included in the linear σ-model. The ρ-meson contribution is added in an extended VMD model. The form factor, calculated without fitting parameters, is in a good agreement with experiment for spacelike and tim... | {
"abstract": "A precise measurement of the anomalous g value, a(mu) = (g-2)/2, for the positive muon has been made at the Brookhaven Alternating Gradient Synchrotron. The result a(mu+) = 11 659 202(14) (6) x 10(-10) (1.3 ppm) is in good agreement with previous measurements and has an error one third that of the comb... | {
"abstract": "The effects of spin-dependent charge-symmetry-breaking forces can be measured in elastic $n\\ensuremath{-}p$ scattering. We find that a term in the one-pion exchange potential arising from the neutron-proton mass difference is dominant. This, together with single-photon exchange, gives a result in agre... |
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"abstract": "Network function virtualization (NFV) aims to run software network functions (NFs) in commodity servers. As CPU is general-purpose hardware, one has to use many CPU cores to handle complex packet processing at line rate. Owing to its performance and programmability, FPGA has emerged as a promising plat... | {
"abstract": "Multi-pattern string matching remains a major performance bottleneck in network intrusion detection and anti-virus systems for high-speed deep packet inspection (DPI). Although Aho-Corasick deterministic finite automaton (AC-DFA) based solutions produce deterministic throughput and are widely used in t... | {
"abstract": "With the evolution of Network Function Virtual-izaiton (NFV), enterprises are increasingly outsourcing their network functions to the cloud. However, using virtualized network functions (VNFs) to provide flexible services in today's cloud is challenging due to the inherent difficulty in intelligently s... |
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"abstract": "In recent years, a large number of studies have focused on micro-robots. Moreover, yearly contests have been held in order to develop micro-robot technologies. As a result of these activities, various types of microrobot have been proposed, including motor-type, piezoelectric-element-type, and electrom... | {
"abstract": "In recent years, various investigations have been conducted on microrobots by many researchers, and contests are held throughout the year with the aim of developing microrobot technologies. As a result, various types of microrobots have been proposed including motor-type, piezoelectric-element-type, an... | {
"abstract": "Frequency and hold-time effects on fatigue lives of cylindrical notched specimens of SUS 316 stainless steel were studied at 600/sup 0/C in air. From the tests, the following conclusions were obtained: Neuber's rule, as used in the ASME N-47 Code, predicts very conservatively the life of notched specim... |
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"abstract": "The synthesis and characterization of the bis(triarylphosphine) 3 are described. Slow protonation of an inwardly directed phosphine is possible, but the phosphines do not react with larger reagents. X-ray structures of the parent compound, its HCl salt, and the corresponding trisulfone are reported. Co... | {
"abstract": "Isomers of the cage like dibridgehead diphosphine P((CH2)14)3P (1) are treated with Ph3PAu(2,6-C6H3(Trip)2) (2 equiv.; Trip = 2,4,6-C6H2(iPr)3). With out,out-1, workup gives out,out-1·(Au(2,6-C6H3(Trip)2))2 (46%), as confirmed by a crystal structure. With in,out-1, crystallization affords not in,out-1·... | {
"abstract": "The enantiomers of oxazepam, chlorthalidone and phenylthiohydantoin-phenylalanine (PTH-phenylalanine) were separated by HPLC using chemically bonded β-cyclodextrin (ChiraDex) as chiral stationary phase. The obtained chromatograms showed typical plateaus between the peaks of the separated enantiomers, i... |
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"abstract": "The paper presents an overview of global issues in optimization methods for Supervised Learning (SL). We focus on Feedforward Neural Networks with the aim of reviewing global methods specifically devised for the class of continuous unconstrained optimization problems arising both in Multi Layer Percept... | {
"abstract": "In this article we review computational aspects of Deep Learning (DL). Deep learning uses network architectures consisting of hierarchical layers of latent variables to construct predictors for high-dimensional input-output models. Training a deep learning architecture is computationally intensive, and... | {
"abstract": "In this paper, monkey algorithm (MA) is designed to solve global numerical optimization problems with continuous variables. The algorithm mainly consists of climb process, watch-jump process, and somersault process in which the climb process is employed to search the local optimal solution, the watch-j... |
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"abstract": " Abstract— Existing GSM networks are being replaced by UMTS/3G networks to meet the increasing demand of wireless communication services. In order to achieve the target capacity and reduce the deployment cost of UMTS/ 3G, co-sitting mechanism has been proposed and implemented throughout the world. In ... | {
"abstract": "UMTS was initially deployed in Europe and in Asia using new spectrum at around 2 GHz. The deployment at 2 GHz frequency requires fairly high site density making it challenging to match existing GSM900 coverage with the same sites. Now also UMTS can take benefit of the better signal propagation at 900 M... | {
"abstract": "Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Tier 1 methodologies commonly underpin project‐scale carbon accounting for changes in land use and management and are used in frameworks for Life Cycle Assessment and carbon footprinting of food and energy crops. These methodologies were intended for use... |
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"abstract": "Recently, an emerging subsynchronous resonance (SSR) issue was observed in series-compensated systems comprising multiple wind farms. However, only simplified single-machine-infinite-bus system models were adopted to investigate the characteristics of this issue in the previous work. As a result, it is... | {
"abstract": "Small-signal instability of grid-connected power converters may arise when the converters use a phase-locked loop (PLL) to synchronize with a weak grid. Commonly, this stability problem (referred as PLL-synchronization stability in this paper) was studied by employing a single-converter system connecte... | {
"abstract": "This paper presents a parameterized reduction technique for highly nonlinear systems. In our approach, we first approximate the nonlinear system with a convex combination of parameterized linear models created by linearizing the nonlinear system at points along training trajectories. Each of these line... |
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"abstract": "Department of Suicide Prevention, Centre of Psychiatry Amager, Institute of Biological Research, Department of Research, Centre of Psychiatry Frederiksberg, Department O, Centre of Psychiatry Copenhagen, Department of Research, Centre of Psychiatry Hvidovre, Department of Clinical Pharmacology, Copenha... | {
"abstract": "The incidence of suicidal acts was studied in 68 depressed patients and related to the level of 5-hydroxyindoleacetic acid (5-HIAA) in the cerebrospinal fluid. The distribution of 5-HIAA levels was bimodal. Patients in the low 5-HIAA mode (below 15 ng/ml) attempted suicide significantly more often than... | {
"abstract": "Certain disturbances in porphyrin biosynthesis were examined in rabbits administered with either tin or lead. Stannous chloride treatment increased the concentrations of coproporphyrin in blood and urine, as did lead acetate treatment. No effect of tin on 5-aminolevulinic acid concentration was observe... |
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"abstract": "Obsidian is a natural glass of volcanic origin and a primary resource used by indigenous peoples across North America for making tools. Geochemical studies of obsidian enhance understanding of artifact production and procurement and remain a priority activity within the archaeological community. Laser-... | {
"abstract": "Comprehensive geochemical studies of archaeological obsidian sources in the Southwest typically have lagged behind other regions of North American and Mesoamerica. Current archaeological and petrological research indicates four previously unreported sources in Arizona, Sonora, and western New Mexico. T... | {
"abstract": "Thirty-eight separate domes and flows of phenocryst-poor, high-silica rhyolite of similar major element chemical composition were erupted over the past 1 m.y. from vents arranged in a crudely S-shaped array atop a granitic horst in the Coso Range, California. Most of the extrusions are probably less th... |
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"abstract": "8th International Conference on Information Warfare and Security (ICIW), Denver, Colorado, USA, 25-26 March 2013",
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"title": "Design of a hybrid command and control mobile botnet: Presentation"
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"abstract": "Mobile botnets have recently evolved due to the rapid growth of smartphone technologies. In this paper, we designed a region C&C server selected algorithm for the atomic network of the heterogeneous multi-layer mobile botnet. The nodes are divided into two categories based on the energy threshold divis... | {
"abstract": "Abstract. SQUARE is an iterated block cipher proposed by Daemen et.al. in FSE1997. Inspired by Bogdanov et.al.’s recent works [12], we first present an improved biclique attack, i.e. stat-based independent biclique attack on full rounds SQUARE in this paper. We construct a one round stat-based independ... |
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"abstract": "The community colleges were established in Ontario in 1965 during a period of economic optimism, characterized by a spirit of innovation and diversity. Growth and a willingness to experiment were the order of the day. One very positive outcome of these features was the freedom of opportunity for the co... | {
"abstract": "The implementation of ESL courses at universities and colleges has been based on the assumption that a threshold level of English proficiency is necessary for students to succeed at their academic work. The correlation, however, between English language proficiency and academic success has not been cle... | {
"abstract": "ISSUES When Practice Doesn't Make Perfect: The Case of a Graduate ESL Student Good Writing: I Know it When I See It Redefining the Task: An Ethnographic Examination of Writing and Response in Graduate Seminars Local Interactions: Constructing Contexts for Composing in a Graduate Sociology Program RESEA... |
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"abstract": "OBJECTIVE\nIn 2005, the World Health Organization reclassified the parakeratinizing odontogenic keratocyst as a neoplasm. This article reviews the research leading to this reclassification, and validates a new survey tool that can be easily used to pool surgical and recurrence data from multiple office... | {
"abstract": "Background Keratocystic odontogenic tumor (KCOT) is a clinically significant cystic lesion of odontogenic origin. This study aimed to retrospectively review and describe the clinicopathologic features of KCOT and to objectively compare the clinical and histological features of solitary, multiple and re... | {
"abstract": "Abstract. We report the fabrication and validation of a microfluidic chip for fluorescence detection, which incorporates in the same glass substrate the microfluidic network, the excitation, the filtering, and the collection elements. The device is fabricated in a hybrid approach combining different te... |
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"abstract": "Context awareness is a key property for enabling context aware services. For a mobile device, the user's location or trajectory is one of the crucial contexts. One common challenge for detecting location or trajectory by mobile devices is to manage the tradeoff between accuracy and power consumption. T... | {
"abstract": "In this article we discuss an assisted cognition information technology system that can learn personal maps customized for each user and infer his daily activities and movements from raw GPS data. The system uses discriminative and generative models for different parts of this task. A discriminative re... | {
"abstract": "With the widespread use of information technologies, information networks are becoming increasingly popular to capture complex relationships across various disciplines, such as social networks, citation networks, telecommunication networks, and biological networks. Analyzing these networks sheds light ... |
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"abstract": "There has been much interest in admission control schemes that place the burden of admission control decisions on the end users. In these schemes, referred to as Endpoint Admission Control, the decision to join the network is taken by the user, based on the probing of the network using probe packets. D... | {
"abstract": "This paper describes a framework for admission control for a packet-based network where the decisions are taken by edge devices or end-systems, rather than resources within the network. The decisions are based on the results of probe packets that the end-systems send through the network, and require on... | {
"abstract": "Accurate yet simple methods for traffic engineering are important for efficient management of resources in broadband networks. The goal of this paper is to apply and evaluate large deviation techniques for traffic engineering. In particular, we employ the recently developed theory of effective bandwidt... |
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"abstract": "The current financial crisis has prompted significant debate around the proper management of monetary policy and its role in preventing financial crises, particularly when they grow to the size of the one we are now seeing in developed economies. That’s why we think that it is very important to look up... | {
"abstract": "This paper was presented at the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City's Symposium on Monetary Policy and Uncertainty: Adapting to a Changing Economy at Jackson Hole, Wyoming on 28-30 August 2003. The views expressed are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of the BIS.",
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"abstract": "\"Money, as a physical medium of exchange, made a diversified civilization possible,. .. And yet it is money, in its mechanical more than in its spiritual effects, which may well, having brought us to the present level, actually destroy society.\" PREFACE This book grew out of an invitation to speak on... |
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"abstract": "solved by using an IBM 2991 computerized blood cell processing system to wash the red cells serially, rinse them, and then resuspend them in compatible fresh plasma. This reprocessing would correct any abnormalities of dilution or concentration. It might also possibly restore other factors necessary fo... | {
"abstract": "A 29-year-old Saudi Arabian male with known sickle cell disease presented to the hematology clinic at Vanderbilt University Medical Center for follow-up and disease management. The patient had a complex past medical history including frequent pain crises requiring hospitalization, chronic kidney diseas... | {
"abstract": "Activation of complement may contribute to tissue damage in many inflammatory diseases, including those that are clearly T cell driven. We have previously provided evidence that C is involved in tissue damage in multiple sclerosis and in the animal models of this disease, experimental allergic encephal... |
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"abstract": "multifactorial process of which one potentially preventable component is lung derecruitment. Lung derecruitment is an inevitable result of repeated disconnections of the tracheal tube from ventilators during a transfer. Disconnection was associated with a dramatic drop in functional residual capacity o... | {
"abstract": "The GlideScope® Video Laryngoscope may improve the view seen at laryngoscopy in adults who have a difficult airway. Manikin studies and case reports suggest it may also be useful in children, although prospective studies are limited in number. We hypothesised that the paediatric GlideScope will result ... | {
"abstract": "Methods. The laryngoscopic view in 203 children was scored using both the Macintosh laryngoscope and the GlideScope using Cormack and Lehane (C&L) grades. After scoring each laryngoscopic view with and without BURP, the patients were randomly allocated to two groups. The trachea was intubated using dir... |
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"abstract": "Template-based Tolerant Algebraic Side Channel Attacks (Template-TASCA) were suggested in [20] as a way of reducing the high data complexity of template attacks by coupling them with algebraic side-channel attacks. In contrast to the maximum-likelihood method used in a standard template attack, the tem... | {
"abstract": "The block cipher designers assume that the secret information will be manipulated in close and reliable computing environments. Unfortunately, this isn’t feasible because actual computing units and chips have implementation information leakage during their operation. Side channel cryptanalysis exploits... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Er 3+ :Y 2 O 3 transparent ceramics have been fabricated successfully via nanocrystalline powder technology and hydrogen atmosphere sintering method. Under the excitation of 980 nm diode laser, very strong green emission centered at 562 nm and red emission centered at 660 nm were observed, whi... |
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"abstract": "Partial nitrification (ammonium oxidation to nitrite) has gained a lot of interest among researchers in the last years because of its advantages with respect to complete nitrification (ammonium oxidation to nitrate): decrease of oxygen requirements for nitrification, reduction of COD demand and CO(2) e... | {
"abstract": "This study deals with the influence of heterotrophic growth on autotrophic nitrogen removal from wastewater in a granular sludge reactor. A mathematical model was set-up including autotrophic and heterotrophic growth and decay in the granules from a partial nitritation-anammox process. A distinction be... | {
"abstract": "A mechanistically based nitrification model was formulated to facilitate determination of both NH(4)(+)-N to NO(2)(-)-N and NO(2)(-)-N to NO(3)(-)-N oxidation kinetics from a single NH(4)(+)-N to NO(3)(-)-N batch-oxidation profile by explicitly considering the kinetics of each oxidation step. The devel... |
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"abstract": "BACKGROUND: Bacillus anthracis causes anthrax, a vaccine-preventable zoonotic disease that may follow intentional or unintentional exposure to its spores. Although an anthrax vaccine is currently licensed in the USA, better vaccines are desirable for both pre- and post-exposure prophylaxis. METHODS: He... | {
"abstract": "Anthrax, a disease of herbivores, only rarely infects humans. However, the threat of using Bacillus anthracis, the causative agent, to intentionally produce disease has been the impetus for development of next-generation vaccines. Two licensed vaccines have been available for human use for several deca... | {
"abstract": "The production of insecticidal crystal proteins (ICPs) in Bacillus thuringiensis normally coincides with sporulation, resulting in the appearance of parasporal crystalline inclusions within the mother cell. In most instances, the temporal and spatial regulation of ICP gene expression is determined at t... |
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"abstract": "Upper parts of wheat grown in containers with brown soil were four-times repeatedly treated with a solution of urea. The foliar application of urea resulted in a considerable increase of the number of bacteria in the roots and a decrease of the number of fungi. Seventeen and 13 genera of fungi could be... | {
"abstract": "A single-step spraying of wheat during shooting under field conditions with solutions of CCC (chlorocholine chloride), CCC and urea, CCC and Aminex (ammonium salt of 4-chloro-2-methylphenoxyacetic acid), or CCC, urea and Aminex caused changes both in numbers and composition of the rhizosphere mycoflora... | {
"abstract": "This chapter gives an overview of the history of formal argumentation in terms of a distinction between argumentation-based inference and argumentation-based dialogue. Systems for argumentationbased inference are about which conclusions can be drawn from a given body of possibly incomplete, inconsisten... |
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"abstract": "In cells of the cellular slime mold Dictyostelium discoideum concanavalin A (Con A), at a concentration of 100 microgram per ml, inhibits folic acid and cyclic AMP induced decrease in light scattering. Con A has no effect on folic acid mediated cyclic GMP accumulation and increases cyclic AMP mediated ... | {
"abstract": "respond chemo- tactically to.cyclic AMP [l] and to folic acid [3]. Cyclic AMP is a most efficient attractant for cells of the aggregation phase [2], folic acid is more effective with preaggregation cells [4]. Both cyclic AMP and folic acid stimulate also cell development from the preaggregation phase t... | {
"abstract": "Metabolomic analysis of bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (BALF) may help understand the pathophysiology of pulmonary diseases such as asthma. However, a major analytical challenge is that most metabolites in BALF are in low abundance and further diluted by the collection procedure. Here we report a sensiti... |
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"abstract": "Let $(G,G^{+})$ be an ordered abelian group. We say that $G$ has strong perforation if there exists $x \\in G$, $x \\notin G^{+}$, such that $nx \\in G^{+}$, $nx \\neq 0$ for some natural number $n$. Otherwise, the group is said to be weakly unperforated. Examples of simple $C^{*}$-algebras whose order... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Simple C*-algebras are constructed for which the ordered K 0 -group is not weakly unperforated. The algebras are approximately homogeneous and do not have slow dimension growth.",
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"abstract": "On montre qu'il est possibile d'obtenir une version «norme continue» de la solution de Connes a la 1-cohomologie qui est adaptable a la situation des C*-algebres. On exhibe diverses actions modeles stables",
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"abstract": "User-centered design is often performed without regard to individual user differences. In this paper, we report results of an empirical study aimed to evaluate whether computer experience and demographic user characteristics would have an effect on the way people interact with the visualized medical da... | {
"abstract": "Volumetric imaging modalities are increasingly being used in surgical applications. However, visualizing the 3D information contained in these datasets effectively on a 2D display is a challenging problem. Most important issues to overcome are the occlusion of different anatomical features of each othe... | {
"abstract": "Individuals with cognitive impairments can be faced with difficulties that may challenge their ability to drive an automobile, and this impairment is often very disruptive to vocational, social, and domestic activities. Rehabilitation specialists are often given the task of determining capacity to driv... |
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"abstract": "This paper offers an alternative way, based on the logistic population growth hypothesis, to produce transitional dynamics in the standard AK framework with an exogenous savings rate. In the model the growth rate of the aggregate stock of capital is independent of the evolution of population and always... | {
"abstract": "Economic, agronomic, and biophysical drivers affect global land use, so all three influences need to be considered in evaluating economically optimal allocations of the world’s land resources. A dynamic, forward-looking optimization framework applied over the course of the coming century shows that alt... | {
"abstract": "A class of optimal control problems is considered in which the cost functional is locally Lipschitz (not necessarily convex or differentiable) and the dynamics linear and/or convex. By using genera...",
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"abstract": "Background Safe drinking water is critical for health. Household water treatment (HWT) has been recommended for improving access to potable water where existing sources are unsafe. Reports of low adherence to HWT may limit the usefulness of this approach, however. Methods and Findings We constructed a ... | {
"abstract": "Introduction: Despite clear linkages between provision of clean water and improvements in child health, limited information exists about the health impacts of large water infrastructure improvements in low-income settings. Billions of dollars are spent annually to improve urban water supply, and rigoro... | {
"abstract": "Objective: Identify facilitators and barriers to implementing standardized outcome measurement in cleft care. Design: Cross-sectional, qualitative study. Setting/Participants: Participants included 24 providers and staff from a large, multidisciplinary cleft team in the southwest United States, 5 careg... |
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"abstract": "During walking on an instrumented treadmill with an embedded force platform or grid of pressure sensors, center-of-pressure (COP) trajectories exhibit a characteristic butterfly-like shape, reflecting the medio-lateral and anterior–posterior weight shifts associated with alternating steps. We define “g... | {
"abstract": "The correlational structure of stride-to-stride fluctuations differs between healthy and pathological gait. Uncorrelated and anti-persistent stride-to-stride fluctuations are believed to indicate pathology whereas persistence represents healthy functioning. However, this reading can be questioned becau... | {
"abstract": "A simple robust optimizer has been developed that can produce patient-specific calibration curves to convert x-ray computed tomography (CT) numbers to relative stopping powers (HU-RSPs) for proton therapy treatment planning. The difference between a digitally reconstructed radiograph water-equivalent p... |
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"abstract": "In this paper, robust distributed consensus of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUV) in the presence of ocean disturbances is investigated where the considered model describes both the kinematics and dynamics of the AUV with six degrees of freedom. The backstepping technique is used to make the position... | {
"abstract": "In this paper, we present a newly developed consensus protocol for an underwater multi-robot system using acoustic communication. The approach is motivated by a system in which robots, called aMussels, are dispersed in the environment and measure its properties over longer periods of time. They communi... | {
"abstract": "The fish farming industry suffers significantly from the effects of biofouling. The fouling of cages and netting, which is costly to remove, is detrimental to fish health and yield and can cause equipment failure. With rapid expansion of the aquaculture industry, coupled with the tightening of legislat... |
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"abstract": "The local activity theory introduced by Chua has provided a new tool for studying the complexity of high dimensional coupled nonlinear differential systems, in particular for reaction- diffusion cellular neural networks(R-D CNNs). In this paper some criteria for the local activity theory range from one... | {
"abstract": "This paper present an application of the local activity theory [Chua, 1998] to a specific reaction–diffusion cellular nonlinear network (CNN) with cells defined by the model of morphogenesis first proposed in [Gierer & Meinhardt, 1972]. Both the local activity domain and a subset called the \"edge of c... | {
"abstract": "The tender phase is the stage of the project, where EPC contractors compete to offer the best prices to get the project. This phase is the critical phase that requires EPC contractors to work in a very narrow period compared to the duration of the project execution. EPC contractors must have efficiency... |
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"abstract": "The protein transduction domains have been reported to have potential to deliver the exogenous molecules, including proteins, to living cells. However, poor transduction of proteins limits therapeutic application. In this study, we examined whether imipramine could stimulate the transduction efficiency... | {
"abstract": "Many proteins are internalized by live cells following a pathway that differs from classical endocytosis. Thus, they gain direct access to the cell cytoplasm and nucleus. The same proteins, very often, are secreted even though they lack a signal peptide. This very original mechanism of signal transduct... | {
"abstract": "Combinatorial and high‐throughput methods have been increasingly used to accelerate research and development of new biomaterials. These methods involve creating miniaturized libraries that contain many specimens in one sample in the form of gradients or arrays, followed by automated data collection and... |
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"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nThe American College of Surgeons reports that 60% of the hundreds of thousands of surgical site infections occurring annually are preventable. The practice of surgeons taking phone calls while remaining sterile in the operating field is often accomplished by interposing a sterile disposable... | {
"abstract": "Various breathing and cough simulators have been used to model respiratory droplet dispersion and viral droplets, in particular for SARS-CoV-2 modeling. However, limited data are available comparing these cough simulations to physiological breathing and coughing. In this study, three different cough si... | {
"abstract": "In this paper, the importance and perspective for the digitally-assisted analog and RF circuits are discussed, especially related to wireless transceivers. Digital calibration techniques for compensating I/Q mismatch, IM2, and LO impairments in cellular, 2.4 GHz WiFi, and 60 GHz WiGig transceivers are ... |
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"abstract": "Scintillation is the process currently employed by conventional X-ray detectors to create X-ray images. Scintillating quantum dots (StQDs) or nano-crystals are novel, nanometer-scale materials that upon excitation by X-rays, re-emit the absorbed energy as visible light. StQDs theoretically have higher ... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Plastic scintillators have received strong interest as an important type of radiation sensing material due to their relatively high light output, fast decay time, low fabrication cost, excellent durability, and most importantly, the capability to be shaped into desired forms through the use of... | {
"abstract": "The ability to monitor reporter gene expression in living animals and in patients will permit longitudinal examinations both of somatically transferred DNA in experimental animals and patients and of transgenic constructs expressed in experimental animals. If investigators can non‐invasively monitor th... |
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"abstract": "Abstract : The military has long been interested in advanced decision-support capabilities for combat casualty care in which an automated computer algorithm processes available data and, through artificial intelligence, offers caregivers accurate information about the state of the casualty. However, tw... | {
"abstract": "OBJECTIVE\nThe development and application of data-driven decision-support systems for medical triage, diagnostics, and prognostics pose special requirements on physiologic data. In particular, that data are reliable in order to produce meaningful results. The authors describe a method that automatical... | {
"abstract": "A representation and interpretation of the area under a receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve obtained by the \"rating\" method, or by mathematical predictions based on patient characteristics, is presented. It is shown that in such a setting the area represents the probability that a randomly ... |
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"abstract": "This review describes recent examples of cyclometalated iridium(iii) metal complexes that act as luminescent chemosensors for cations, anions or small molecules.",
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"abstract": "A reusable quartz crystal microbalance (QCM) biosensor based on the toehold-mediated strand displacement reaction (SDR) is first developed for highly specific detection of single-base DNA mutation. N⁵, N¹⁰-methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR) gene C677T mutation is chosen as a model to investiga... | {
"abstract": "We present a study of the hybridization of complementary DNA hairpin loops, with particular reference to their use as fuel for autonomous DNA devices. The rate of spontaneous hybridization between complementary hairpins can be reduced by increasing the neck length or decreasing the loop length. Hairpin... |
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"abstract": "MANY fluorocarbon derivatives that contain higher halogens dissociate hydrogen bonds of the N–H—N, O–H—O, S–H—S, N–H—O=C type which are similar to those occurring in living organisms. A parallelism exists between this property of fluorocarbons and their anaesthetic potency. Their interference with cell... | {
"abstract": "The structures and intermolecular interactions in the halogen bonded complexes of anaesthetics (chloroform, halothane, enflurane and isoflurane) with formaldehyde were studied by ab initio MP2 and CCSD(T) methods. The CCSD(T)/CBS calculated binding energies of these complexes are between -2.83 and -4.2... | {
"abstract": "N-fused pentaphyrins (NFP) are the stable forms of fully meso-aryl pentaphyrins(1.1.1.1.1). In order to determine the optimum conditions for viable Möbius topologies of these porphyrinoids, the conformational preferences, Hückel-Möbius interconversion pathways and aromaticity of [22] and [24]NFP have b... |
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"abstract": "Th e aim of our study was to observe the infl uence of low molecular Weight heparin (LMWH) on systemic infl ammation, including high mobility group box protern (HMGB) and protective eff ect on acute lung injury induced by cecal ligation and puncture(CLP). Discuss the mechanism of this eff ect. m... | {
"abstract": "OBJECTIVE\nTo investigate whether the levels of expression of high mobility group protein B1 (HMGB1) in hepatic tissue are related with severity and prognosis of sepsis in rat, in order to look for a dependable marker for monitoring and evaluating the efficiency of the treatment of sepsis.\n\n\nMETHODS... | {
"abstract": "INTRODUCTION\nIn the female population, adherence to specialist clinical treatment for psychoactive substance dependence has peculiar characteristics in terms of therapeutic approaches available to addicts in general. A smaller number of women seek specialist treatment in comparison with men. Tradition... |
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"abstract": "The problem of low-voltage operation of switched-capacitor circuits is discussed, and several solutions based on using unity-gain-reset of the opamps are proposed. Due to the feedback structure, the opamps do not need to be switched off during the reset phase of the operation, and hence can be clocked ... | {
"abstract": "The switched-capacitor technique which implements analog functions in CMOS technology requires capacitors, switches, and opamps. Supply voltage reduction does not affect capacitors. On the other hand, turning MOS switches on and off and maintaining proper opamp operation are difficult with reduced supp... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Hydrogen production by Escherichia coli is mediated by the formate hydrogenlyase (FHL) complex. E. coli strain HD701 cannot synthesize the FHL complex repressor, Hyc A. Consequently, it has an up-regulated FHL system and can, therefore, evolve hydrogen at a greater rate than its parental wild ... |
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"abstract": "Preparatory heart rate deceleration occurs in tasks with an external focus of attention and is often assumed to facilitate balance performance. However, its effects upon sport-related complex balance movements have not been studied. Heart rate patterns during the preparation period of an acrobatic elem... | {
"abstract": "The ability of experts in motor skills requiring a fine postural control to keep a stable upright posture while facing the task of reinserting proprioceptive information was investigated. Seven expert gymnasts and seven experts in other non-gymnastics sports were asked to stand as immobile as possible ... | {
"abstract": "Objectives: Cochlear implants are a standard therapy for deafness, yet the ability of implanted patients to understand speech varies widely. To better understand this variability in outcomes, the authors used functional near-infrared spectroscopy to image activity within regions of the auditory cortex ... |
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"abstract": "Distinguishing practice effects from other factors in repeated neuropsychological assessments are discussed in the context of research studies and clinical/forensic assessments. Potential methodological procedures for reducing the impact of practice effects in research settings are outlined. In contras... | {
"abstract": "Objective: The Wechsler Memory Scale—Fourth Edition (WMS-IV) is one of the most widely used memory batteries. We examined the test–retest reliability, practice effects, and standardized regression-based (SRB) change norms for the Dutch version of the WMS-IV (WMS-IV-NL) after both short and long retest ... | {
"abstract": "Abstract The behavior of argon and nitrogen, injected into single null diverted Ohmic discharges, has been compared. The screening of the divertor and scrape-off layer plasma is studied by comparing the number of impurity atoms in the core with the number injected by a calibrated gas puff. The effect o... |
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"abstract": "BackgroundChronic hepatitis B is a common, progressive disease, particularly when viral replication is detected. Oral antivirals can suppress viral replication and prevent or delay the development of cirrhosis and liver-related complications.ObjectiveThe aim of this study was to systematically review t... | {
"abstract": "Background/Aims \nChronic hepatitis B has a high prevalence (>8%) in China. We compared the safety and efficacy of entecavir with that of lamivudine for the treatment of patients with chronic hepatitis B in China.",
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"abstract": "In a study involving 18 piglets divided into three groups (A, B and C), the effects of dietary calcium and citric acid, and feeding technique on chlortetracycline bioavailability were examined. Groups of 6 animals received a basal diet with either 0.7% (group A) or 1.4% calcium (groups B and C). Citric... |
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"abstract": "We consider the propagation of galactic cosmic rays under assumption that the interstellar medium is a fractal one. An anomalous diffusion equation in terms of fractional derivatives is used to describe of cosmic ray propagation. The anomaly in used model results from large free paths (\"Levy flights\"... | {
"abstract": "We consider the galactic propagation of cosmic rays with energies below the knee of the cosmic ray spectrum (at 3×106 GeV). Lagutin and his colleagues suggested that propagation in a fractal medium would be an appropriate model for such particles and pointed out that a different diffusion equation to t... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Pd/Ni composite film was deposited on the side-face of chemically etched fiber Bragg grating as sensing element by magnetron sputtering process. The composition, structure and micro morphology of Pd/Ni composite film were investigated by energy dispersive X-ray analysis (EDAX), X-ray diffracti... |
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"abstract": "SummaryTissue-cultured neonatal cardiomyocytes can be successfully maintained in culture on a variety of extracellular matrix components such as laminin, fibronectin, and interstitial collagens (Types I and III).In vivo, however, cardiomyocytes (as well as many other cells) exist in a highly complex ex... | {
"abstract": "Extracellular matrix (ECM) is an intricate network composed of an array of macromolecules, the importance of which is becoming increasingly apparent. The ECM is an integral part of the machinery that regulates cell function; its role in cell differentiation and tissue‐specific gene expression, although... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Insulin stimulates glycogen synthesis in the heart in vivo and in vitro. During insulin stimulation an activation of the glycogen synthetase enzyme (UDP-glucose: α-1, 4-glucan α-4-glucosyltransferase, EC 2.4.1.11) is expected since this enzyme is rate limiting for the synthesis of glycogen. Ho... |
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"abstract": "One approach to treatment of negative cognitive effects associated with Alzheimer's disease and schizophrenia may involve activation of neuronal alpha7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs). We used the alpha7-selective partial agonist 3-(4-hydroxy, 2-methoxy-benzylidene)anabaseine (4OH-GTS-21), t... | {
"abstract": "Over the past four decades, the patch clamp technique and nicotinic ACh (nACh) receptors have established an enduring partnership. Like all good partnerships, each partner has proven significant in its own right, while their union has spurred innumerable advances in life science research. A member and ... | {
"abstract": "Abstract In the framework of a phase field model of a single cell crawling on a substrate, we investigate how the properties of the cell membrane affect the shape and motility of the cell. Since the membrane influences the cell dynamics on multiple levels and provides a nontrivial feedback, we consider... |
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"abstract": "The effect of treatment of an existing neuropathy in streptozocin-induced diabetic rats with the ACTH4–9 analogue ORG 2766 was examined. Four groups of rats were studied: group 1 consisted of age-matched, non-diabetic controls and groups 2, 3 and 4 of diabetic rats. Sensory and motor nerve conduction v... | {
"abstract": "One of the side-effects of the cytotoxic drug, cisplatin, is its neurotoxicity. In rats this neurotoxicity can be measured as a slowing of the H-reflex-related sensory nerve conduction velocity. Concurrent treatment with Org.2766 (an ACTH4-9 analog) prevents this neurotoxic side effect while leaving th... | {
"abstract": "PURPOSE\nThe purpose of this article is to describe perspectives on information availability and information use among users of a management information system in one specialized health care organization. The management information system (MIS) is defined as the information system that provides managem... |
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"abstract": "The segmentation, seen as the association of a partition with an image, is a difficult task. It can be decomposed in two steps: at first, a family of contours associated with a series of nested partitions (or hierarchy) is created and organized, then pertinent contours are extracted. A coarser partitio... | {
"abstract": "This paper aims to understand the practical features of hierarchies of morphological segmentations, namely the quasi-flat zones hierarchy and watershed hierarchies, and to evaluate their potential in the context of natural image analysis. We propose a novel evaluation framework for the hierarchies of p... | {
"abstract": "THE NOTION OF A HEALTH CARE team is as rarely challenged in principle as it is achieved in practice. Currently, a resurgence of interest in team-based care is evident. The Institute of Medicine has called for a New Health System for the 21st Century with primary care teams playing a central role. The q... |
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"abstract": "In this paper, a new fast convergence hybrid decoding algorithm based on multi-dimensional searhing is proposed for decoding LDPC codes. The main idea of this algorithm is flipping variable multi bits in each iteration, change in which leads to the syndrome vector with least hamming weight. To this end... | {
"abstract": "A 1024 bit rate-1/2 Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) code decoder has been implemented that matches the coding gain of equivalent turbo codes. The parallel decoder architecture supports throughputs up to 1 Gb/s and convergence in the decoding algorithm translates into extremely low switching activity wi... | {
"abstract": "This paper introduces several new combinatorial constructions of low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes, in contrast to the prevalent practice of using long, random-like codes. The proposed codes are well structured, and unlike random codes can lend themselves to a very low-complexity implementation. Co... |
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"abstract": "A generalized Cauchy-Kowalevski approach is proposed for flatness-based trajectory planning for boundary controlled semilinear systems of partial differential equations (PDEs) in a one-dimensional spatial domain. For this, the ansatz presented in “Trajectory planning for boundary controlled parabolic P... | {
"abstract": "We consider a tank containing a fluid. The tank is subjected to directly controlled translations and rotations. The fluid motion is described by linearized wave equations under shallow water approximations. For irrotational flows, a new variational formulation of Saint-Venant equations is proposed. Thi... | {
"abstract": "On donne une caracterisation en termes de corps differentiels de systemes linearisables par bouclage dynamique, souvent rencontres en pratique",
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"abstract": "Abstract To reduce plastic bag litter, China introduced a nationwide regulation requiring all retailers to charge for plastic shopping bags on 1 June 2008. By using the policy implementation as a natural experiment and collecting individual-level data before and after the implementation, we investigate... | {
"abstract": "A field application of behavior modification studied the relative effectiveness of different prompting procedures for increasing the probability that customers entering a grocery store would select their soft drinks in returnable rather than nonreturnable containers. Six different 2-hr experimental con... | {
"abstract": "This book is intended as a reference manual of statistical methodology for nuclear material management practitioners. It describes statistical methods currently or potentially important in nuclear material management, explains the choice of methods for specific applications, and provides examples of pr... |
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"abstract": "This paper presents a framework for a logical characterization of fault tolerance and its formal analysis based on partial model checking techniques. The framework requires a fault tolerant system to be modeled using a formal calculus, here the CCS process algebra. To this aim we propose a uniform mode... | {
"abstract": "We study the problem of synthesizing fault-tolerant components from specifications, i.e., the problem of automatically constructing a fault-tolerant component implementation from a logical specification of the component, and the system's required level of fault-tolerance. In our approach, the logical s... | {
"abstract": "In this paper we discuss flow control in a resource-sharing computer network (1). The network resources consist of a set of inhomogeneous computers called Hosts that are geographically distributed and are interconnected by a store-and-forward communications subnet. Each Host is connected to a store-and... |
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"abstract": "Several therapeutic regimens have been proposed for women with recurrent spontaneous abortion (RSA) and antiphospholipid antibodies (APA). Conflicting results have been reported about women with history of RSA, positive APA, and failure of standard therapy. To evaluate the use of intravenous immunoglob... | {
"abstract": "OBJECTIVE\nThe 155 patients suffering from primary RM who took part in this study were qualified after excluding known causes of abortions.\n\n\nMETHODS\nThe presence of the following immunological factors was examined in serum samples: autoantibodies such as anti-cardiolipin (ACA) IgG and IgM, lupus-a... | {
"abstract": "Pregnancy may induce hypertension in previously normotensive women or aggravate hypertension in women who are already hypertensive. The triad of complications of hemorrhage hypertension and sepsis is responsible for the majority of maternal deaths. Good prenatal supervision with the detection of signs ... |
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"abstract": "A modern system-on-chip (SOC) may become one of the dies of a three-dimensional (3D) IC using through-silicon via (TSV). Built-in self-repair (BISR) techniques have been widely used to improve the yield of RAMs in a SOC. This paper proposes a memory BISR allocation scheme to allocate shared BISR circui... | {
"abstract": "Built-in self-repair (BISR) techniques are widely used to enhance the yield of random access memories (RAMs) in a system-on-chip (SoC) which typically consists of hundreds of RAMs. Hence, many BISR circuits may be needed in a such SoC. Effective techniques for planning these BISR circuits thus are impe... | {
"abstract": "Fundamental understanding of liquid flow through microchannels is important to the design and optimization of microfluidic devices. The objective of the current study is to experimentally investigate the effects of surface roughness on the flow characteristics in rectangular PDMS microchannel with a hy... |
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"abstract": "A surgical protocol was designed to implant in dogs a programmable atrioventricular pacemaker and to destroy the bundle of His with one to four 0·1 ml formaldehyde injections. The heart rate and P-R interval were paced at 100 beats min−1 and 75 ms, respectively. Cardiac inotropy was then varied in five... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Intraarterial sound and pressure in the region of normal semilunar valves and the physical characteristics of the normal semilunar valves were measured to determine the factors that cause a difference in amplitude of the aortic and pulmonary components of the second heart sound. During cardiac... | {
"abstract": "Abstract The phasic pressure, time derivative of pressure, circumference and isometric contractile tension (Walton-Brodie strain-gauge arch) of the left ventricle have been simultaneously recorded in a series of anesthetized, thoracotomized, innervated dogs. These parameters were recorded at multiple l... |
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"abstract": "LSST will open new vistas for cosmology in the next decade, but it cannot reach its full potential without data from other telescopes. Cosmological constraints can be greatly enhanced using wide-field (> 20 deg total survey area), highly-multiplexed optical and near-infrared multi-object spectroscopy (... | {
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"title": "Spectroscopic Needs for Imaging Dark Energy Experiments"
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"abstract": "We directly constrain the non-linear alignment (NLA) model of intrinsic galaxy alignments, analysing the most representative and complete flux-limited sample of spectroscopic galaxies available for cosmic shear surveys. We measure the projected galaxy position-intrinsic shear correlations and the proje... |
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"abstract": "Direct brain control of a prosthetic system is the subject of much popular and scientific news. Neural technology and science have advanced to the point that proof-of-concept systems exist for cortically-controlled prostheses in rats, monkeys, and even humans. However, realizing the dream of making suc... | {
"abstract": "Neural prosthetics for motor systems is a rapidly growing field with the potential to provide treatment for amputees or patients suffering from neurological injury and disease. To determine whether a physically active patient such as an amputee can take advantage of these systems, we seek to develop an... | {
"abstract": "Continuous multiday broadband neural data provide a means for observing effects at fine timescales over long periods. In this paper we present analyses on such data sets to demonstrate neural correlates for physically active and inactive time periods, as defined by the response of a head-mounted accele... |
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"abstract": "BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES\nPaediatric obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and tic disorders (TD) often present together. However, there has been relatively little research on whether comorbid tic disorders influence response to cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) for OCD. This study aimed to examine the ... | {
"abstract": "Gilles de la Tourette syndrome (GTS) is a neurodevelopmental condition characterised by multiple motor and phonic tics and associated behavioural problems, carrying a significant burden on patients' lives. Although the term health related-quality of life (HR-QOL) has only been used in recent years, sev... | {
"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nGilles de la Tourette syndrome (GTS) is a chronic neurodevelopmental disorder characterised by multiple motor and phonic tics and behavioural problems. Patients with GTS of all ages often report a poor health-related quality of life (HR-QOL). The diagnosis of GTS is usually established in c... |
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"abstract": "We consider the problem of synchronizing coded data in distributed storage networks undergoing insertion and deletion edits. We present modifications of distributed storage codes that allow updates in the parity-check values to be performed with one round of communication at low bit rates and with smal... | {
"abstract": "Component failure in large-scale IT installations is becoming an ever larger problem as the number of components in a single cluster approaches a million. ::: ::: In this paper, we present and analyze field-gathered disk replacement data from a number of large production systems, including high-perform... | {
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"title": "Curriculum Learning Based on Reward Sparseness for Deep Reinforcement Learning of Task Completion Dialogue Management"
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"abstract": "The application of a few basic principles, some empirical data, and experience is applied to estimate the average residual reflection expected in an AR coating as a function of bandwidth, wavelength, overall thickness, substrate index, available coating materials, and number of layers. This can be a us... | {
"abstract": "The NRCC Fourier transform synthesis method has been applied for the first time to an optical thin film design problem in which the external media are different. Graded index AR coatings for germanium substrates have been synthesized and compared to multilayer solutions. No limits have been imposed on ... | {
"abstract": "A series of nine coordination polymers {[Cd(L)(2)(solvent)(x)](solvent)(y)}(n) have been prepared from Cd(NO(3))(2) and 5-bromonicotinic acid (HL) in different solvents through a layered diffusion method. By using CH(3)OH/H(2)O at different volume ratios of 1:1 and 1:3, a one-dimensional (1D) coordinat... |
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"abstract": "Summary¶Rocks containing braunite from the Ossa-Morena central belt (Iberian Massif, SW Spain) have been studied; these include nodules and layers of braunite (association I), Mn-slates (association II) and Mn-metatuffs (associations III and IV). Geochemical features of braunite nodules such as Mn/Fe r... | {
"abstract": "Fow types of piemontite-bearing Mn-rich assemblage are studied from the Ossa-Morena Zone (Iberian Massif, SW Spain): silicate rocks containing braunite (SRB), silicate rocks containing hematite (SRH), carbonate rocks containing braunite nodules (CRB) and carbonate rocks containing thin hematite beds (C... | {
"abstract": "Abstract The major and minor element compositions of a suite of abyssal sea-floor ferromanganese nodules and associated sediments from the eastern central Pacific have been used to examine inter-element relationships and the mineralogy of the nodules, the relationship between the composition of nodules... |
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"abstract": "Objective Our goal was to quantify the short-term effects of particulate matter with aerodynamic diameter ≤ 10 μm (PM10) and nitrogen dioxide (NO2) on respiratory health of asthmatic children from published panel studies, and to investigate the influence of study and population characteristics as effec... | {
"abstract": "BackgroundThe adverse effects of Asian dust (AD) on health have been demonstrated in earlier studies, but there is no standardized definition for heavy–AD. This study aimed to examine which definition of heavy–AD has the most adverse effect on respiratory function.MethodsOne–hundred–and–thirty–seven ad... | {
"abstract": "Source apportionment of urban fine particle mass (PM(2.5)) was performed from data collected during 1998-1999 in Amsterdam (The Netherlands), Erfurt (Germany) and Helsinki (Finland), using principal component analysis (PCA) and multiple linear regression. Six source categories of PM(2.5) were identifie... |
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"abstract": "Forty years of research into retinoblastoma has seen wide-ranging changes in our knowledge of the histogenesis of this childhood tumour and in the treatment of the disease. These changes, and some of the more recent developments in the molecular biology of this tumour are reviewed.",
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"abstract": "The responses of retinoblastoma tumor cells and normal retinal cells to various growth inhibitory factors were examined. Whereas fetal retinal cells were highly sensitive to the antimitogenic effects of transforming growth factor beta 1 (TGF-beta 1), retinoblastoma tumor cell lines were all resistant t... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Our knowledge of pineal neoplasms is still fragmentary, but a pattern is beginning to emerge in this highly challenging area of neuro-oncology. In vitro studies and more complete morphologic and biochemical characterization are still needed for these very rare neoplasms. Follow-up data from ap... |
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"abstract": "Purpose: Reliable risk estimates of recurrence are necessary to establish optimal postoperative surveillance strategies. The purpose of the present study was to clarify changes in the hazard rate (HR) for tumor recurrence over time in Japanese patients with colon cancer. Methods: Data for 3984 patients... | {
"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nIntensive surveillance strategies are currently recommended for patients after curative treatment of colon cancer, with the aim of secondary prevention of recurrence. Yet, intensive surveillance has not yielded improvements in overall patient survival compared with minimum follow-up, and mo... | {
"abstract": "The present study examines the potential electromagnetic interference effects induced by cellular telephones on ICDs. We developed ad hoc protocols to conduct both in vitro and in vivo trials on most of the implantable cardioverter defibrillators available on the international market. Trials were condu... |
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"abstract": "Dental forensics forms a vital branch of forensic science which deals with proper handling, examination and evaluation of dental evidences for identification of victims of crime, accidents or calamities. Therefore skull and teeth often provide the identification material. The aim of the study was to in... | {
"abstract": "Data on the permanent dentition of 153 individuals from the well known Indian Knoll skeletal population are presented. Mesiodistal and buccolingual measurements were taken with a Helios dial caliper. Cusp number of maxillary and mandibular molars are recorded. The Indian Knoll dentition is larger than ... | {
"abstract": "Music is the art of thinking in sounds.1 With its power to evoke and communicate emotions it has long intrigued philosophers, but only recently has it claimed the attention of neuroscientists. Even today, there are some who see it as a mere epiphenomenon.2 Many others, however, are exploring the neurol... |
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"abstract": "We introduce two variants of computation tree logic CTL based on team semantics: an asynchronous one and a synchronous one. For both variants we investigate the computational complexity of the satisfiability as well as the model checking problem. The satisfiability problem is shown to be EXPTIME-comple... | {
"abstract": ". We study modal team logic MTL, the team-semantical extension of modal logic ML closed under Boolean negation. Its fragments, such as modal dependence, independence, and inclusion logic, are well-understood. However, due to the unrestricted Boolean negation, the satisfiability problem of full MTL has b... | {
"abstract": "The electrodeposition of silver on highly oriented pyrolytic graphite (HOPG) from the acid room-temperature molten salt aluminum chloride−1-methyl-3-butyl-imidazolium chloride (molar ratio of 55/45 containing AgCl in a concentration of 0.05 mol/L) has been investigated with electrochemical scanning tun... |
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"abstract": "This paper reports our method on measuring data quality in data integration. Data integration is the problem of combining data residing at different sources, and providing the user with a unified view of these data. Data quality is crucial for operational data integration. We posit that data-integratio... | {
"abstract": "This paper focuses on the human's perception of information quality and describes the results of a study on how accuracy is estimated for data shown through a visual representation. The subjective assessment of quality appears to be non-linear in relation to the actual degree of errors in the dataset. ... | {
"abstract": "Diabetes mellitus can cause dysfunction of the central nervous system called \"diabetic encephalopathy.\" Although insulin and various oral drugs are used to treat diabetes, they do not completely prevent the development of diabetic encephalopathy, and novel strategies for the prevention and treatment ... |
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"abstract": "Unilateral injection of the catecholamine neurotoxin 6-hydroxydopamine into the axons or terminals of the nigrostriatal pathway is commonly used to model Parkinson's disease in experimental animals. Although the terminal lesion paradigm is considered to induce a more progressive lesion when compared to... | {
"abstract": "One of the primary approaches in experimental brain research is to investigate the effects of specific destruction of its parts. Here, several neurotoxins are available which can be used to eliminate neurons of a certain neurochemical type or family. With respect to the study of dopamine neurons in the... | {
"abstract": "Cortex traditionally referred to as S-I in monkeys is a composite of 4 separate and complete representations of the contralateral body surface, one in each of the 4 cytoarchitectonic fields, areas 3a, 3b, 1 and 2. We investigated the significance of interconnections between these architectonic areas by... |
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"abstract": "Although little evidence supports cannabis-induced amotivational syndrome, sources continue to assert that the drug saps motivation [1], which may guide current prohibitions. Few studies report low motivation in chronic users; another reveals that they have higher subjective wellbeing. To assess differ... | {
"abstract": "The cocaine abstinence syndrome has been associated with a range of symptoms, including apathy and depression. Although initial studies reported high prevalence rates of 'apathy/amotivation' and depression, validated rating scales of apathy were not then available. Using a validated measure of apathy, ... | {
"abstract": "Reduced levels of vitamin or its metabolites have been reported in various psychiatric disorders. Insufficient levels of vitamin D in depressive patients have been confirmed by many authors, but there have been conflicting results in subjects with anxiety disorders. In the present cross-sectional study... |
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"abstract": "The assessment of thermoelastic attenuation is crucial in designing surface acoustic wave (SAW) devices. As irregular structures are more and more involved in modern applications for which efficient numerical tools are required, a multi-physics finite-element model is proposed in this paper, where ther... | {
"abstract": "This paper proposes an investigation of the magnetoelectric (ME) effect of multiferroic artificial ME composite combining a piezoelectric matrix medium incrusted of magnetostrictive particles. The modeling has been performed on a 0-3 type multiferroic artificial ME composite in using a multiphysics cod... | {
"abstract": "Two new triterpenes have been isolated from Amberboa ramosa. Their structures were established as (22R)-cycloart-25-ene-3β,22-diol [1] and cycloart-20-ene-3β,25-diol [2] through chemical and spectroscopic studies including 2D nmr. Two known triterpenes, cycloartanol and cycloart-23-ene-3β,25-diol, were... |
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"abstract": "Background : Greenlanders have a lower rate of cardiovascular mortality and morbidity than Danes, possibly due to lower blood pressure. However, 24-h blood pressure has never been measured in Greenlanders. The aim of this study was to compare the 24-h blood pressure of Greenlanders and Danes, and to an... | {
"abstract": "Objective: To analyse the associations between the intake of fish and marine mammals and risk factors for cardiovascular disease, ie lipid profile, fasting blood glucose, blood pressure and obesity, in a population whose average consumption of n-3 fatty acids is high compared with Western countries.Des... | {
"abstract": "OBJECTIVE\nEndovascular disconnection of pial arteriovenous fistulas (AVFs) is challenging. The aim of this study was to evaluate safety and effectiveness of transarterial balloon-assisted glue embolization for treating pial AVFs.\n\n\nMETHODS\nWe retrospectively reviewed medical and imaging records of... |
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"abstract": "OBJECTIVES\nThis study examined nativity as a risk factor for poor physical and emotional health for an ethnically diverse population making the transition into retirement. The authors addressed whether the health disadvantage observed for immigrants lessens with increased time spent in the country (su... | {
"abstract": "This report was prepared by the National Research Councils Panel on the Demographic and Economic Impacts of Immigration and concerns the economic demographic and fiscal effects of immigration to the United States. \"Three key questions are explored: What is the influence of immigration on the overall e... | {
"abstract": "Herein, oil-in-water high internal phase emulsions (HIPEs) were stabilized by lignin from different technical resources with the assistance of alkyl polyglycoside (APG) using an ultrasonic cavitation method. The results showed that the amphiphilicity of lignin determined the formation of HIPEs. Microsc... |
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"abstract": "The rise of online networks as a means of communicating and organizing has received increasing attention in political science, psychology, sociology, and communications research. Less attention has been given to the differences between these new media and traditional forms of political participation. T... | {
"abstract": "This chapter inquires into the role of social media in electoral campaigning. Although parties and leaders agree on its importance and are very interested in promoting their presence and activity on the Internet by using tools like Twitter, it is still unclear whether or not they have coherent strategi... | {
"abstract": "The popularization of the Internet has shepherded a revolution in business and personal communication. But how has online technology been used in mainstream American politics? In Politics Moves Online, Michael Cornfield provides a comprehensive guide to how the Internet has been used in political campa... |
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"abstract": "During the past decade remarkable advances have been made in the integration of microwave circuits on semiconductor chips. This progress could not have taken place without the concomitant advances in the technology of planar circuits, modelling techniques, and computer-aided design (CAD) software. It i... | {
"abstract": "Design of Microwave Monolithic Integrated Circuits (MMIC's) is currently limited by the lack of suitable analysis and computer aided design tools capable of efficiently handling large-scale analog nonlinear circuits. In this paper we address this problem and present a new multi-frequency technique for ... | {
"abstract": "An efficient algorithm is given for calculating the steady-state response of a nonlinear circuit driven by multi-tone signals, possibly made up of incommensurable frequencies \\omega_{1}, \\omega_{2}, \\cdots , \\omega_{p} . The algorithm is particularly useful when the steady-state response is not per... |
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"abstract": "This report supports evidence for the existence of a dexamethasone-induced factor that modulates fatty acid desaturase activities. Dexamethasone at a dose of 1 mg/rat produced a significant decrease in microsomal Δ6 and Δ5 desaturation activity 12 h after the injection. Both desaturase activities were ... | {
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"title": "Gluconeogenic enzymes in the human placenta"
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"abstract": "The presence of a contact lens, particularly a textured cosmetic lens, poses a challenge to iris recognition as it obfuscates the natural iris patterns. The main contribution of this paper is to present an in-depth analysis of the effect of contact lenses on iris recognition. Two databases, namely, the... |
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"abstract": "In order to design an efficient blind watermarking scheme, Eggers, et al. (2000) proposed the scalar Costa scheme (SCS). However, SCS, which is based on the uniform scalar quantizer, is vulnerable to the amplitude modification. In this paper, we propose an amplitude-modification resilient watermarking ... | {
"abstract": "Watermarking is the process of imperceptibly embedding a message (watermark) into a host signal (audio, video). The resulting signal is called a watermarked signal. The message should introduce only tolerable distortion to the host signal and it should be recoverable by the intended receiver after sign... | {
"abstract": "A variety of emerging applications require the design of systems for embedding one signal within another signal. We describe a new class of embedding methods called quantization index modulation (QIM) and develop a realization termed coded dither modulation in which the embedded information modulates t... |
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"abstract": "Malicious software also known as malware are the critical security threat experienced by the current ear of internet and computer system users. The malwares can morph to access or control the system level operations in multiple dimensions. The traditional malware detection strategies detects by signatu... | {
"abstract": "In this paper, we studied the way that classify whether unknown PE file is malware or not. In the classification problem of malware detection domain, feature extraction and classifier are important. For that purpose, we studied what the feature is good for classifier and the which classifier is good fo... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Both inorganic and hybrid (organo-inorganic) perovskite materials are potential candidates as photocatalysts for use in both photovoltaic (PV) and photocatalytic water splitting applications. Currently, research has been focused on specifically designing perovskite materials so they can harnes... |
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"abstract": "Aqueous liquid mixtures, in particular, those involving amphiphilic species, play an important role in many physical, chemical and biological processes. Of particular interest are alcohol/water mixtures; however, the structural dynamics of such systems are still not fully understood. Herein, a combinat... | {
"abstract": "Bond-order analysis is introduced to facilitate the study of cooperative many-molecule effects on proton mobility in liquid water, as simulated using the multistate empirical valence-bond methodology. We calculate the temperature dependence for proton mobility and the total effective bond orders in the... | {
"abstract": "Neutron diffraction with hydrogen/deuterium isotope substitution is used to investigate the structure of water in concentrated dimethyl sulphoxide (DMSO) aqueous solutions. Partial structure factors and pair correlation functions involving the hydrogen atom on the water molecule are determined. Water s... |
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