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"abstract": "Reactive oxygen species have been suggested to be involved in cyclosporine nephrotoxicity. Hyperbaric oxygen is known to induce the generation of reactive oxygen species in tissues. The aim of this study was to investigate whether the use of hyperbaric oxygen concurrently with cyclosporine potentiates ... | {
"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nWe report an investigation of the effects of cyclosporine (CsA) on kidney function, the glomerular synthesis of reactive oxygen species, the peroxidation of lipids, and the levels of thromboxane B2 (TXB2). The effect of the simultaneous administration of the antioxidant vitamin E (Vit E) an... | {
"abstract": "We designed studies to characterize metabolic aspects of the protective effects of glycine and glutathione against hypoxic proximal tubule cell injury b clarifying the relationship between protection and preservation of tubule cell adenosine triphosphate (ATP) and glutathione levels. The tubule prepara... |
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"abstract": "Tetrabromobisphenol A (TBBPA), hexabromocyclododecane (HBCD), and decabromodiphenyl ether (DecaBDE) are high production volume chemicals used as flame retardants in plastics for products such as electronic equipment, insulation panels, and textiles. The environmental safety of brominated flame retardan... | {
"abstract": "Hexabromocyclododecanes (HBCDs) are high production volume chemicals (16700 t worldwide in 2001) used as flame-retardants for plastics and textiles. HBCDs exhibit typical properties of persistent organic pollutants (POPs). They are highly lipophilic and accumulate in biota. Increasing environmental con... | {
"abstract": "This study investigated the profiles of volatile compounds produced by Lactobacillus paracasei during oat fermentation using gas chromatography-mass spectrometry coupled with headspace solid-phase microextraction method. A total of 60 compounds, including acids, alcohols, aldehydes, esters, furan deriv... |
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"abstract": "The development of a loading method of a water-soluble drug using aqueous binding solution to produce microgranules that were then coated with an aqueous ethylcellulose dispersion to sustain drug release is described. The results, in terms of drug used, showed that besides the fluidized bed parameters,... | {
"abstract": "Abstract By adding hydroxypropyl methyl cellulose (HPMC) to aqueous ethyl cellulose (EC) dispersions with 20% dibutyl sebacate (DBS) as plasticizer, it is possible to manufacture diffusion pellets (coated pellets) which contain water-filled pores in the release-controlling membrane after extraction of ... | {
"abstract": "AbstractPlasticized aqueous ethyl cellulose (EC) dispersions (AquacoatR ECD-30) are incompatible with concentrated electrolytes but stable with nonelectrolytes. The minimum film formation temperature (MFT) decreases with increasing plasticizer content, from 81°C to about 30°C with 20% dibutyl sebacate ... |
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"abstract": "Abstract We establish some inequalities for the second moment $$\\frac{1}{\\left| K \\right|}\\,{{\\int }_{K}}\\left| x \\right|_{2}^{2}dx$$ of a convex body $K$ under various assumptions on the position of $K$ .",
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"title": "Simplices in the Euclidean Ball"
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"abstract": "Abstract Given $r\\,>\\,1$ , we consider convex bodies in ${{\\mathbb{E}}^{n}}$ which contain a fixed unit ball, and whose extreme points are of distance at least $r$ from the centre of the unit ball, and we investigate how well these convex bodies approximate the unit ball in terms of volume, surface ... | {
"abstract": "Given r > 1, we search for the convex body of minimal volume or of minimal surface area in E3 that contains a unit ball, and the extreme points are of distance at least r from the centre of the unit ball. We show that the optimal bodies are regular octahedron and icosahedron if $r=\\sqrt{3}\\ {\\rm or}... |
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"abstract": "The actual paper introduces the integration of LS-DYNA and CATIA V5 into automatic geometrybased topology optimization of an engine hood regarding pedestrian head impact. In current design processes, such Computer Aided Engineering (CAE) tools, along with structural optimization, have become essential ... | {
"abstract": "Topology optimization for nonlinear and dynamic problems is expensive because of the necessity to solve the equations of motion at every optimization iteration in order to evaluate the objective function and constraints. In this work, an iterative methodology is developed using the concept of an equiva... | {
"abstract": "A 1.8 V, 14 b pipelined ADC using passive capacitor error-averaging and nested CMOS gain boosting achieves 99 dB SFDR for signal frequencies up to 5.1 MHz without trimming or calibration. With a 1 MHz analog input, DNL is 0.31 LSB, INL is 0.58 LSB, and SNDR is 73.6 dB. The chip occupies 15 mm/sup 2/ in... |
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"abstract": "In the wake of the current trend of increasing the number of cores on a chip, compiler optimizations for improving the memory performance have assumed increased importance. Loop fusion is one such key optimization that can alleviate memory and bandwidth wall and thus improve parallel performance. Howev... | {
"abstract": "Increasing data movement costs motivate the integration of polyhedral loop optimizers in the standard flow (-O3) of production compilers. While polyhedral optimizers have been shown to be effective when applied as source-to-source transformation, the single static assignment form used in modern compile... | {
"abstract": "Tiling is a well‐known technique for sequential compiler optimization, as well as for automatic program parallelization. However, in the context of parallelization, tiling should not be considered as a stand‐alone technique, but should be applied after a dedicated parallelization phase, in our case aft... |
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"abstract": "The nature of the centre of the elliptical galaxy M87 is still a matter of controversy. To obtain improved spatial resolution we have recorded alternately a number of short-exposure images of the M87 core and several comparison stars with an ISIT camera at the AMOS 1.6-m telescope at Haleakala, Maui. A... | {
"abstract": "In this study, we investigated the effect of adding metallic nanowires in the anode of dye-sensitized solar cell (DSSC) to improve the photovoltaic efficiency. Photo-excited electrons can be efficiently transferred to the electrode through the network of the dispersed metallic nanowires added in the an... | {
"abstract": "Abstract The use of a Michelson stellar interferometer or multiple-hole interferometers is considered as a special case of speckle interferometry. Formulas are given for the power spectrum of the interference pattern produced by the multiple apertures. The limitation in stellar magnitude is shown to in... |
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"abstract": "Jia, Yanlin, Xin Wang, LoriAnn Varty, Charles A. Rizzo, Richard Yang, Craig C. Correll, P. Tara Phelps, Robert W. Egan, and John A. Hey. Functional TRPV4 channels are expressed in human airway smooth muscle cells. Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol 287: L272–L278, 2004. First published April 9, 2004; 1... | {
"abstract": "The mammalian transient receptor potential (TRP) superfamily of cation channels is divided into six subfamilies based on sequence homology TRPC (canonical), TRPV (vanilloid), TRPM (melastatin), TRPA (ankyrin), TRPP (polycystin) and TRPML (mucolipin). The expression of these channels is especially abund... | {
"abstract": "1. Hypotonic stimulation (180 +/‐ 5 mosmol l‐1) increased [Ca2+]i in fura‐2‐loaded Green monkey kidney cells (COS‐7 cells) and depolarized the membrane. 2. COS‐7 cells were depolarized up to ‐3.5 +/‐ 4.4 mV from a resting membrane potential of ‐35.2 +/‐ 2.3 mV in response to hypotonic stimulation, when... |
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"abstract": "The continuing growth of World Wide Web and on-line text collections makes a large volume of information available to users. Automatic text summarization allows users to quickly understand documents. In this paper, we propose an automated technique for single document summarization which combines conte... | {
"abstract": "In this paper, we describe four experiments in text summarization. The first experiment involves the automatic creation of 120 multi-document summaries and 308 single-document summaries from a set of 30 clusters of related documents. We present official results from a multi-site manual evaluation of th... | {
"abstract": "Empirical studies of information retrieval methods show that good retrieval performance is closely related to the use of various retrieval heuristics, such as TF-IDF weighting. One basic research question is thus what exactly are these \"necessary\" heuristics that seem to cause good retrieval performa... |
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"abstract": "Eleven pigmented rice genotypes were evaluated to estimate genetic parameters, heritability and association. The results indicated that, genotypic variation was high among the lines. The distinct seasonal effect on plant performance for antioxidant capacity, anthocyanin, flavonoids, head rice recovery ... | {
"abstract": "Abstract The main purpose of this paper is to build an objective and effective environmental performance evaluation model of air pollution control. Based on the severe air polluted region in China, that is Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, this evaluation model consists of four parts, including economic be... | {
"abstract": "The methodology used by the International Maize and Wheat \nImprovemenCt enter (CIMMYTto) develop and improvei ts maize \n(Zea mays L.) germplasmin volves evaluation of families or experimental \nvarieties in extensive international testing trials. The genotype- \nenvironmenitn teraction is producedb y... |
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"abstract": "Background: Thyroid dysfunction plays an important role in the development of cardiovascular disease. However, its relationship with venous thromboembolism (VTE) remains unclear. We performed a meta-analysis of published cohort and case-control studies to investigate the association between thyroid dys... | {
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"title": "Risk of venous thromboembolism in people admitted to hospital with selected immune-mediated diseases: record-linkage study"
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"abstract": "Chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH) is a serious complication of acute pulmonary embolism (PE) which remains underdiagnosed. A better understanding of risk factors for CTEPH would improve our ability to predict which PE survivors are at risk. Several medical conditions—including malig... |
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"abstract": "The present study examined how younger and older adults choose to selectively remember important information. Participants studied words paired with point values, and \"bet\" on whether they could later recall each word. If they bet on and recalled the word, they received the points, but if they failed... | {
"abstract": "Remembering important information is imperative for efficient memory performance, but it is unclear how we encode important information. The current experiment evaluated two non-exclusive hypotheses for how learners selectively encode important information at the expense of less important information (... | {
"abstract": "This paper proposes growth mixture modeling to assess intervention effects in longitudinal randomized trials. Growth mixture modeling represents unobserved heterogeneity among the subjects using a finite-mixture random effects model. The methodology allows one to examine the impact of an intervention o... |
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"abstract": "Room-temperature metal-free hydrogenation catalysis.",
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"title": "A family of N-heterocyclic carbene-stabilized borenium ions for metal-free imine hydrogenation catalysis"
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"abstract": "Boranes are widely used Lewis acids and N-heterocyclic carbenes (NHCs) are popular Lewis bases, so it is remarkable how little was known about their derived complexes until recently. NHC-boranes are typically readily accessible and many are so stable that they can be treated like organic compounds rath... | {
"abstract": "Biofilms find a favorable environment in industrial processes such as food, cosmetic, or medical prosthesis and devices, being responsible of approximately 80% of human bacterial infections. Prevention and/or eradication of microorganism’ films is a worldwide need. There is an increasing interest on th... |
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"title": "An Overview of Networking Infrastructure for Massively Multiplayer Online Games"
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"abstract": "Over the past few years, the prominence of multiplayer network gaming has increased dramatically in the Internet. The effect of network delay (lag) on multiplayer network gaming has been studied before. Players with higher delays (whether due to slower connections, congestion or a larger distance to th... | {
"abstract": "Since their introduction over a year ago, Google's TensorFlow package for learning with multilayer neural networks and their Word2Vec representation of words have both gained a high degree of notoriety. This paper considers the application of TensorFlow-guided learning and Word2Vec-based representation... |
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"abstract": "Contingency management (CM) has extensively been shown to be effective in reducing substance use disorders, but its effects in reducing child maltreatment have yet to be determined. The current study provides preliminary support for the utilization of an innovative family-assisted CM component in 18 mo... | {
"abstract": "..................................................................................................iii LIST OF TABLES..........................................................................................vii CHAPTER 1 LITERATURE REVIEW.................................................................1... | {
"abstract": "Puberty is characterized by hormonal, physical and psychological transformation. The human brain undergoes significant changes between childhood and adulthood, but little is known about how puberty influences its structural development. Using a longitudinal sample of 711 magnetic resonance imaging scan... |
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"abstract": "AIM\nThe classification of a Lisfranc injury has conventionally been based around Myerson's system. The aims of this study were to review whether a novel classification system based on sagittal displacement of the tarsometatarsal joint and breadth of injury as determined by a columnar theory was associ... | {
"abstract": "Injury of the tarsometatarsal (TMT) joint complex, known as Lisfranc injury, covers a wide range of injuries from subtle ligamentous injuries to severely displaced crush injuries. Although it is known that these injuries are commonly missed, the literature on the accuracy of the diagnostics is limited.... | {
"abstract": "Since devolution in 1998, it has become more difficult to collect comparable data across the four UK countries, particularly on NHS expenditure and waiting times. - NHS activity and health outcomes seem more dependent on how healthcare resources are deployed than higher levels of resources. - The most ... |
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"abstract": "Background— For clinically relevant proangiogenic therapy, it would be essential that the growth of the whole vascular tree is promoted. Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) is well known to induce angiogenesis, but its capability to promote growth of larger vessels is controversial. We hypothesiz... | {
"abstract": "One of the main cause of ineffective cell therapy in repairing the damaged heart is the poor yield of grafted cells. To overcome this drawback, rats with 4-week-old myocardial infarction (MI) were injected in the border zone with human adipose-derived stem cells (ADSCs) conveyed by poly(lactic-co-glyco... | {
"abstract": "The ultimate objective of dental treatment is preservation of the tooth in oral cavity. Endodontic treatment reduces the fracture resistance of tooth, thus making it more vulnerable to fracture. To reinforce the endodontically treated teeth and protect against fracture, some type of stabilization is re... |
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"abstract": "The current migration from passive to active neuroprobes, the increasing density in multielectrode arrays, as well as the introduction of new materials and processes for electrode fabrication, are imposing important challenges on the implementation of optimal integrated neural recording systems. In thi... | {
"abstract": "Chronically implanted electrode arrays have enabled a broad range of advances in basic electrophysiology and neural prosthetics. Those successes motivate new experiments, particularly, the development of prototype implantable prosthetic processors for continuous use in freely behaving subjects, both mo... | {
"abstract": "A simple substrate decoupling method with optimized growth conditions enables a high-quality synthetic monolayer semiconductor. In recent years, there have been tremendous advancements in the growth of monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) by chemical vapor deposition (CVD). However, obtai... |
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"abstract": "Abstract Historical factors, coupled with indigenous talent, made the United States the world's leading scientific power by the end of World War II. In the post-war years, it appears that American scientists may have been overly self-preoccupied, ignoring the research efforts of their foreign colleague... | {
"abstract": "Der vorliegende Beitrag konstruiert einen analytischen Rahmen, der das Realphanomen Wissensnetzwerk beschreibt und in einen theoretischen Gesamtzusammenhang einordnet. Dabei werden Aspekte des Netzwerkansatzes und der okonomischen Theorie des Wissens miteinander verbunden. Die Analyse ist in zwei Teile... | {
"abstract": "In spite of a number of difficulties and shortcomings, this international meeting was relatively effective for this group of respondents. They benefitted from the informal interaction of participants, from information that pertained to current and planned work, and from the prospects of continued excha... |
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"abstract": "The mixed leukocyte population obtained from the peritoneum of the August rat is a potentially important experimental model of inherent eosinophilia that has not been well characterized. In the present study, isolated cell preparations generated a concentration-dependent release of leukotriene (LT) C4 ... | {
"abstract": "L-663,536 (3-[1-(4-chlorobenzyl)-3-t-butyl-thio-5-isopropylindol-2-yl]-2, 2-dimethylpropanoic acid) is a potent inhibitor of leukotriene (LT) biosynthesis in intact human polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMN) (IC50, 2.5 nM). Similarly, L-663,536 inhibited A23187-induced LTB4 formation by rat peripheral bl... | {
"abstract": "The leukotriene D4 (LTD4) receptor on rat basophilic leukemia (RBL-1) cell membranes was characterized using a radioligand binding assay. [3H]LTD4 binding to RBL-1 membrane receptors was stereoselective, specific, and saturable. The binding affinity and maximum binding density of [3H]LTD4 to RBL-1 memb... |
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"abstract": "This paper presents an implementation of a practical and low-cost hardware-based control system for multifunctional myoelectric hand prostheses. The model utilizes a mode-switching technique in order to voluntarily control the operation of a dual-mode prosthetic device in two degrees of freedom: grasp/... | {
"abstract": "This paper presents a novel hand motion recognition method to achieve the volitional control of a multi-DOF prosthetic hand. Based on the principle that the pressure distributions on the surface of forearm caused by the muscular activities are different when different hand motions are performed, a huma... | {
"abstract": "An efficient first grasp for a wheelchair robotic arm-hand with pressure sensing is determined and presented. The grasp is learned by combining the advantages of neural networks and fuzzy logic into a hybrid control algorithm which learns from its tip and slip control experiences. Neurofuzzy modificati... |
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"abstract": "Developmental dyslexia is a complex syndrome whose exact cause remains unknown. It has been suggested that a problem with fatty acid metabolism may play a role, particularly in relation to the visual symptoms exhibited by many dyslexics. We explored this possibility using two self-report questionnaires... | {
"abstract": "Breast-milk provides nutrients required for the development of the brain. n-6 and n-3 long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids (LCPUFAs) have been suggested to be particularly involved. In this study levels of fatty acids in breast-milk were examined in relation to theory of mind (ToM) (n = 13) and WISC-... | {
"abstract": "Multiple isozymes of Ca2+/phospholipid‐dependent protein kinase (PKC) were isolated from the rat ventral prostate. The enzyme exists mainly as type II (β), and type III (α) forms, and it is possible that type II isozyme may comprise the subspecies β1 and β2. The total and specific activities of prostat... |
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"abstract": "Unsupervised learning of visual similarities is of paramount importance to computer vision, particularly due to lacking training data for fine-grained similarities. Deep learning of similarities is often based on relationships between pairs or triplets of samples. Many of these relations are unreliable... | {
"abstract": "Current methods for training convolutional neural networks depend on large amounts of labeled samples for supervised training. In this paper we present an approach for training a convolutional neural network using only unlabeled data. We train the network to discriminate between a set of surrogate clas... | {
"abstract": "In this paper we study smooth convex programming problems where the decision variables vector is split into several blocks of variables. We analyze the block coordinate gradient projection method in which each iteration consists of performing a gradient projection step with respect to a certain block t... |
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"abstract": "Self-reconstruction refers to an ability of certain fully coherent optical beams to recover their spatial profiles after scattering by obstacles. In this communication, we extend the self-reconstruction concept to partially coherent beams. We show theoretically and verify experimentally that any partia... | {
"abstract": "We demonstrate that partially coherent light beams of arbitrary intensity and spectral degree of coherence profiles can self-image in linear graded-index media. The results can be applicable to imaging with noisy spatial or temporal light sources.",
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"abstract": "This work aims to study the effects of culture conditions and storage time on stirred yogurt acidity and texture and to determine relationships in order to better control product viscosity. A four-factor experimental design was carried out to display the simple and combined effects of the ratio of two ... |
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"abstract": "Wind disasters are responsible for tremendous physical destruction, injury, loss of life and economic damage. In this review, we discuss disaster preparedness and effective medical response to wind disasters. The epidemiology of disease and injury patterns observed in the early and late phases of wind ... | {
"abstract": "Wind-related disasters cause tremendous loss around the world, therefore a fast, low-cost but accurate wind velocity monitoring technique is highly desirable and will provide great benefits for wind risk management. Acoustic travel-time tomography, which utilise the dependence of sound speed on the win... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Hurricane-spawned tornadoes are most frequent at the time when hurricanes initially cross land and undergo rapid filling. This paper presents data composite information on all available rawinsonde and pibal reports surrounding this type of tornado genesis in the United States and Japan. Inform... |
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"abstract": "This article reviews the MRI and clinical findings in 70 spinal cord metastases; 20% of patients had multiple metastases and 8% were asymptomatic. Spinal cord metastases were the initial clinical presentation in 20% of patients. Nearly all metastases showed contrast enhancement and had extensive edema.... | {
"abstract": "Les métastases de la moelle épinière sont extrêmement rares. Elles surviennent chez 0,1 à 0,4% des patients cancéreux et représentent 1% de toutes les tumeurs de la colonne vertébrale et 1-3% des tumeurs intramédullaires. Le cancer du poumon est le primitif le plus fréquent. Nous rapportons le cas d'un... | {
"abstract": "Nine children with neuroblastoma and five with Ewing sarcoma were found at diagnosis to have epidural extension of tumor. Five children underwent laminectomy prior to referral, with good neurologic recovery in only one. Management in the other nine children did not include laminectomy. All 14 patients ... |
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"abstract": "The trajectory tracking of a class of robot manipulators with disturbance and parameter uncertainties is considered. This paper proposes a adaptive neural-variable Structure control algorithm based on H∞ theory. The controller that integrates neutral network with variable by way of smooth function. Thi... | {
"abstract": "A novel scheme for integrating a neural network approach with an adaptive implementation of variable structure control for multijointed robotic manipulators in complex task executions is presented. The control strategy is developed within the general framework of nonlinear model-following control and a... | {
"abstract": "Our objective was to determine the effects of clear-cutting and removal of the soil organic layer and residual vegetation on regeneration of woody species from seed. Germination, survival, and height growth of woody seedlings were followed over a 4-year period after clear-cutting in plots with and with... |
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"title": "The Potential of Blockchain in Education and Health Care"
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"abstract": "In the Internet of Things (IoT) scenario, the block-chain and, in general, Peer-to-Peer approaches could play an important role in the development of decentralized and dataintensive applications running on billion of devices, preserving the privacy of the users. Our research goal is to understand wheth... | {
"abstract": "Popular mobile apps use push notifications extensively to offer an “always connected” experience to their users. Social networking apps use them as a real-time channel to notify users about new private messages or new social interactions (e.g., friendship request, tagging, etc.). Despite the cryptograp... |
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"abstract": "The authors report the cases of four patients who presented with progressive myelopathy (one patient had been asymptomatic for 25 years) due to spinal epidural arteriovenous fistulas (AVFs). Clinical symptoms and magnetic resonance imaging findings were similar to those of dural AVFs. In contrast to du... | {
"abstract": "We report the clinical and imaging findings in the cases of two children who initially presented with back pain related to epidural AVF in the cervicothoracic spine. Both lesions were of particular interest because of their exclusive epidural and paraspinal venous drainage and the presence of the promi... | {
"abstract": "To evaluate the role of magnetic resonance (MR) in the diagnosis of dural arteriovenous (AV) fistulas and the resulting myelopathy, the MR examinations of 11 patients with symptoms and signs of slowly progressive myelopathy of the lower spinal cord have been reviewed. Patients with intradural or extrad... |
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"abstract": "Knowledge management activity is a relevant construct for the analysis of the organization and functional behavior in primary care practices. The increased interest in knowledge management framework can be associated to many elements including the advances in information and communication technologies;... | {
"abstract": ".................................................................................. II Acknowledgements ....................................................................... III Declaration ............................................................................... IV Table of",
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"abstract": "The capability to quickly create new partnerships is crucial for enterprises to cope with changing market and customer requirements in business areas such as e-commerce and supply-chain-management. To implement these partnerships, enterprises have to create inter-organizational business processes takin... |
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"abstract": "Human parainfluenza virus type 1 (HPIV-1), a paramyxovirus, is a leading cause of pediatric respiratory hospitalizations globally. Currently, there is no clinically successful vaccine against HPIV-1. Hence, there is a need to characterize circulating strains of this virus to establish the feasibility o... | {
"abstract": "BackgroundHuman parainfluenza virus type 1 (HPIV1) causes various acute respiratory infections (ARI). Hemagglutinin-neuraminidase (HN) glycoprotein of HPIV1 is a major antigen. However, the molecular epidemiology and genetic characteristics of such ARI are not exactly known. Recent studies suggested th... | {
"abstract": "Short-term treatment of rat submandibular tissues with 10 microM isoproterenol (IPR) resulted in reduction of mucin secretion in response to the agonist during further incubation, and in increases in EC50 values. This IPR-induced reduction of secretion was coupled with selective decreases in the number... |
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"abstract": "PREMISE OF THE STUDY\nMajor relationships within Lamiidae, an asterid clade with ∼40000 species, have largely eluded resolution despite two decades of intensive study. The phylogenetic positions of Icacinaceae and other early-diverging lamiid clades (Garryales, Metteniusaceae, and Oncothecaceae) have b... | {
"abstract": "Flowers embedded in amber are rare. Only about 70 flowers or inflorescences have been described among which only one lamiid is known. Nevertheless, these fossils are important to our understanding of evolutionary process and past diversity due to the exceptional preservation of fragile structures not n... | {
"abstract": "Access to sufficient resources is a barrier to scientific progress for many researchers facing large computational problems. Gaining access to large-scale resources (i.e., university-wide or federally supported computer centers) can be difficult, given their limited availability, particular architectur... |
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"abstract": "Treatment of 21 steroid‐dependent asthmatic patients with methotrexate (MTX) 15 mg/week was prospectively evaluated for a mean of 14.7 (SD 3.7) months. Before MTX, therapy consisted of a mean prednisone dose of 16.6 (SD 9.2) mg, in addition to inhaled beclomethasone/budesonide (mean daily dose 1157 (SD... | {
"abstract": "The antimetabolite drug methotrexate has recently been used in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis refractory to conventional antirheumatic drugs.1-3 The doses of methotrexate used in such cases are much lower than those used in the treatment of malignancy or skin disorders. Instances of diffuse inte... | {
"abstract": "Cardiac pacing systems produce cardiac contractions by delivering electrical charges to the myocardium. Reliable cardiac pacing, and the longevity of pacemakers depends on the absence of electrical leaks. Electrical leaks ofen do not cause symptoms and if suspected, there are few methods which are able... |
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"abstract": "Modern detection systems use sensor outputs available in the deployment environment to probabilistically identify attacks. These systems are trained on past or synthetic feature vectors to create a model of anomalous or normal behavior. Thereafter, run-time collected sensor outputs are compared to the ... | {
"abstract": "Big data is changing the landscape of security tools for network monitoring, security information and event management, and forensics; however, in the eternal arms race of attack and defense, security researchers must keep exploring novel ways to mitigate and contain sophisticated attackers.",
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"abstract": "There is no current study that examined sport-specific tests of reactive-agility and change-of-direction-speed (CODS) to replicate real-sport environment in handball (team-handball). This investigation evaluated the reliability and validity of two novel tests designed to assess reactive-agility and COD... |
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"abstract": "Generating highly detailed, complex data is a long-standing and frequently considered problem in the machine learning field. However, developing detail-aware generators remains an challenging and open problem. Generative adversarial networks are the basis of many state-of-the-art methods. However, they... | {
"abstract": "This paper presents a learning method for convolutional autoencoders (CAEs) for extracting features from images. CAEs can be obtained by utilizing convolutional neural networks to learn an approximation to the identity function in an unsupervised manner. The loss function based on the pixel loss (PL) t... | {
"abstract": "Predicting the future from a sequence of video frames has been recently a sought after yet challenging task in the field of computer vision and machine learning. Although there have been efforts for tracking using motion trajectories and flow features, the complex problem of generating unseen frames ha... |
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"abstract": "Interpretation of Prolog Programs with Cut and Built-ins Agostino Cortesi Gilberto Fil e Sabina Rossi Dept. of Mathematics University of Padova Via Belzoni 7, I-35131 Padova ITALY fcortesi, le, srossi g@pdmat1.unipd.it Abstract We are interested in the Abstract Interpretation of real Prolog programs an... | {
"abstract": "This paper presents a technique for achieving a class of optimizations related to the reduction of checks within cycles. The technique uses both Program Transformation and Abstract Interpretation. After a first pass of an abstract interpreter which detects simple invariants, program transformation is u... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Isoalloxazine is the core chromophore present in the cofactor of flavoproteins. Naturally, flavin usually exists in five different redox forms in protein milieu by accepting up to 2-electrons and 2-protons. The redox state has a strong impact on its photophysical properties. Fully oxidized and... |
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"abstract": "Visible light communications (VLC) technology has a potential to complement the RF wireless technology for indoor coverage. It promises concurrent illumination control and wireless data transmission capabilities. The potential of advanced multi-carrier modulation techniques, i.e. orthogonal frequency-d... | {
"abstract": "Increasing wireless data traffic is creating pressure on the conventional dwindling radio frequency spectrum. A new and reliable communication medium becomes a necessity. Visible Light Communication (VLC), a subset of optical wireless communication uses the visible light spectrum between 400 and 800 TH... | {
"abstract": "Asymmetrically clipped optical OFDM (ACO-OFDM) is compatible with optical intensity modulation and is well suited to bandlimited optical wireless channels. By carefully locating data on odd subcarriers and clipping the resulting time signal, ACO-OFDM guarantees non-negative output amplitudes and clippi... |
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"abstract": "A new generation of 10 Gb/s wafer fused VCSELs show high single mode output in excess of 2 mW at 80°C (6 mW at 20°C) in the 1310 nm band and 1.5 mW at 80°C (4 mW at 20°C) in the 1550 nm band. Error free transmission over 10 km of standard single mode fiber was performed with less than 1 dB penalty.",
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"abstract": "High-performance vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) emitting in the 1310-nm waveband are fabricated by bonding AlGaAs-GaAs distributed Bragg reflectors on both sides of a InP-based cavity. A 2-in wafer bonding process is optimized to produce very good on-wafer device parameter uniformity.... | {
"abstract": "The possible experimental use of correlations between two neutral-kaon decays is discussed. Kaon pairs produced either in proton-antiproton annihilation from an $s$ state or in $\\ensuremath{\\phi}$ decay are in a $p$ wave, which is forbidden by Bose statistics for identical bosons. The observance of a... |
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"abstract": "This paper investigates the fast‐scale instability in a power‐factor‐correction (PFC) boost converter under a conventional average current‐mode control. The converter is operated in continuous mode. Computer simulations and theoretical analysis are performed to study the effects of the time‐varying inp... | {
"abstract": "Power-factor-correction (PFC) power supplies are required to provide high input power factor and tight output voltage regulation. The usual configuration takes a two-stage cascade structure, consisting of a PFC preregulator and a dc/dc converter. Previous studies of the dynamical behaviour mainly focus... | {
"abstract": "A new and challenging scenario for Knowledge Management (KM) is the development of conceptual and computational frameworks to support Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in formalizing their knowledge models, improving their capability to innovate and limiting their drawbacks in tackling wider competit... |
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"abstract": "This letter proposes a control framework allowing to position a robot in range and orientation with respect to a sound source from a binaural system. To this end, a sensor-based control framework is developed upon interaural level difference (ILD) cues. ILD is known to be implicitly related to the soun... | {
"abstract": "A robot's auditory perception of the real world should be able to cope with motor and other noises caused by the robot's own movements in addition to environment noises and reverberation. This paper presents the <i>active direction-pass filter</i> (ADPF) that separates sounds originating from a specifi... | {
"abstract": "Rydberg-Rydberg transitions of BaF molecules have been directly observed in our lab. The key to the experimental success is our ability to combine two powerful and new technologies, Chirped-Pulse millimeter-Wave spectroscopy (CPmmW) and a buffer gas cooled molecular beam source. CPmmW spectroscopy is a... |
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"abstract": "We compute the one-loop contributions of the chronological products for massless gravity in the second order of the perturbation theory. We prove that the loop contributions are coboundaries i.e. expressions which give zero when averaged on physical states. We conjecture that such a result should be tr... | {
"abstract": "It is shown how an inductive construction of the renormalized perturbation series of quantum field theory automatically yields, at each order, finite terms satisfying the requirements of locality. This method whose result is equivalent to the Bogoliubov-Parasiuk-Hepp prescriptions, also establishes the... | {
"abstract": "We consider a gauge theory by taking real quantum groups of nondegenerate bilinear form as a symmetry. The construction of this quantum gauge theory is developed in order to fit with the Hopf algebra structure. In this framework, we show that an appropriate definition of the infinitesimal gauge variati... |
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"abstract": "Continuous repeated gate sweeping incorperated with substrate etching step is utilized to decrease the OFF state current in carbon nanotube field effect transistor (CNT-FET) devices with bundled carbon nanotubes. In particular, the effects of continuous repeated gate sweeping on transfer characteristic... | {
"abstract": "Extrusion-shear (ES) process for magnesium alloy is a newly developed plastic deformation process, and ES process combines direct extrusion and two steps of ECAE (equal channel angular extrusion). To investigate the effects of the die channel angles on the microstructures and wear behaviors of AZ61 wro... | {
"abstract": "Wind energy has seen great development during the past decade. However, wind turbine availability and reliability, especially for offshore sites, still need to be improved, which strongly affect the cost of wind energy. Wind turbine operational cost is closely depending on component failure and repair ... |
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"abstract": "Special relativity and quantum physics combine to generate unusual arrangements of electron spins in two different solids.",
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"abstract": "The Bi2Se3 and Mn doped Bi2Se3 (i.e. Bi1.5Mn0.5Se3, referred as BiMnSe) single crystals were grown using a melt growth method and characterized for their structural, electrical and magnetic properties. These crystals were found to be of single phase having rhombohedral structure with the space group (R... | {
"abstract": "The dependence on pressure (P) and field (H) of the magnetic phase diagram of MnSi has been investigated by means of measurements of the AC susceptibility up to 16 kbar and 7 T at temperatures down to 30 mK. For ambient pressure, we report on a peak in above at a characteristic temperature that rises q... |
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"abstract": "The strength of incentives used in an organization and the productivity of employees that results from these incentives depend to a large degree on the characteristics of the performance measures available to the organization. Some employees work under high-powered explicit incentive contracts, while o... | {
"abstract": "Companies that outsource information technology (IT) services usually focus on achieving multiple objectives. Correspondingly, outsourcing contracts typically specify a variety of metrics to measure and reward (or penalize) vendor performance. The specific types of performance metrics included in a con... | {
"abstract": "Shopbots are Internet agents that automatically search for information pertaining to the price and quality of goods and services. As the prevalence and usage of shopbots continues to increase, one might expect the resultant reduction in search costs to alter market behavior significantly. We explore th... |
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"abstract": "Recent experiments have shown unambiguously that living cells respond to the nano-topography of surfaces they grow on—specifically, the fate of stem cells grown on nano-porous titania or alumina have been shown to be decided by the pore size. However, most experiments have focused on pore size or pitch... | {
"abstract": "We systematically analyzed the adhesion and the proliferation of cells on various nanoporous alumina surfaces to understand the effects of nanostructured surfaces on cell behavior. Various nanoporous surfaces were fabricated using the anodizing method and characterized by atomic force microscopy and sc... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Polarographic current-potential characteristics and current-time curves for a Nernstian charge transfer O+ ne R with Langmuir or Frumkin adsorption of reactant and/or product are derived via a mathematical procedure based on the diffusion-layer approximation. It is shown that all features of r... |
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"abstract": "Abstract Binary inspection systems such as those based on ideal templates, neural networks, fuzzy logic, and genetic algorithms are trained by presenting them with exemplars of acceptable work. The system inspects new work by comparing it to the exemplars. The operator may not always agree with the jud... | {
"abstract": "Testing involves examining the behaviour of a system in order to discover potential faults. Given an input for a system, the challenge of distinguishing the corresponding desired, correct behaviour from potentially incorrect behavior is called the “test oracle problem”. Test oracle automation is import... | {
"abstract": "Two neural networks are described. The first network is used to determine optimal factor combinations, and the second to predict the values of multiple response. Two numerical examples, attributed separately to conventional experiments and to Taguchi's ..",
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"abstract": "This study aims to develop an integrative understanding of the Big Five Personality (BFP) factors supporting or inhibiting individuals’ online entertainment knowledge sharing behaviours. Survey data are collected from 255 university students from two Malaysian universities. As hypothesised, structural ... | {
"abstract": "This study directly tests the effect of personality and cognitive style on three measures of Internet use. The results support the use of personality-but not cognitive style-as an antecedent variable. After controlling for computer anxiety, self-efficacy, and gender, including the \"Big Five\" personal... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Similar to effects identified with traditional media forms, recent evidence indicates that body image concerns, such as body dissatisfaction and drive for thinness, may also be associated with exposure to images on Social Networking Sites. Utilizing social comparison theory, the current study ... |
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"abstract": "Recognition ability and, more broadly, machine learning techniques enable robots to perform complex tasks and allow them to function in diverse situations. In fact, robots can easily access an abundance of sensor data that are recorded in real time such as speech, image, and video. Since such data are ... | {
"abstract": "Recent research has focused on Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) implemented directly in hardware. However, larger DNNs require significant energy and area, thereby limiting their wide adoption. We propose a novel DNN quantization technique and a corresponding hardware solution, CompactNet that optimizes the... | {
"abstract": "Object detection is an important step in any video analysis. Difficulties of the object detection are finding hidden objects and finding unrecognized objects. Although many algorithms have been developed to avoid them as outliers, occlusion boundaries could potentially provide useful information about ... |
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"abstract": "Background—Social media have the potential to offer important benefits for patient education, support, and shared decision making. Despite the proliferation of social media use during the past decade, little is known about the scope and quality of available information, or the purposes that social medi... | {
"abstract": "In a connected care environment, more citizens are engaging in their health care through mobile apps and social media tools. Given this growing health care engagement, it is important for health care professionals to have the knowledge and skills to evaluate and recommend appropriate digital tools. The... | {
"abstract": "In this article, we present new ideas concerning Non-Gaussian Component Analysis (NGCA). We use the structural assumption that a high-dimensional random vector X can be represented as a sum of two components - a lowdimensional signal S and a noise component N. We show that this assumption enables us fo... |
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"abstract": "Nowadays, the structural health monitoring is an active research area for engineers and scientists due to the necessity for reducing monetary costs and saving human lives. To accomplish the aforementioned objectives, one of the features used for performing the monitoring is the modal parameters calcula... | {
"abstract": "One of the challenging issues in computational rehabilitation is that there is a large variety of patient situations depending on the type of neurological disorder. Human characteristics are basically subject specific and time variant; for instance, neuromuscular dynamics may vary due to muscle fatigue... | {
"abstract": "A new Ensemble Empirical Mode Decomposition (EEMD) is presented. This new approach consists of sifting an ensemble of white noise-added signal (data) and treats the mean as the final true result. Finite, not infinitesimal, amplitude white noise is necessary to force the ensemble to exhaust all possible... |
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"abstract": "Abstract We study the folding of the regular two-dimensional triangular lattice embedded in the regular three-dimensional Face-Centred Cubic lattice, a discrete model for the crumpling of phantom membranes. Possible folds are complete planar folds, folds with the angle of a regular tetrahedron (71°) or... | {
"abstract": "The problem of counting the different ways of folding the planar triangular lattice is shown to be equivalent to that of counting the possible 3-colourings of its bonds, a dual version of the 3-colouring problem of the hexagonal lattice solved by Baxter. The folding entropy log q per triangle is thus g... | {
"abstract": "Given a static array of $n$ totally ordered objects, the range minimum query problem is to build a data structure that allows us to answer efficiently subsequent on-line queries of the form “what is the position of a minimum element in the subarray ranging from $i$ to $j$?”. We focus on two settings, w... |
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"abstract": "The aim of this study was to test the possibility of using human antibodies to study the pathogenic mechanism of SV40 and asbestos in a hamster mesothelioma model. The cellular lysates from human and hamster primary mesothelial cells were tested by Western blot analysis. All of the antibodies we tested... | {
"abstract": "5 I REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE 8 1 ASBESTOS FIBRES 8 1.1.1 Oxidative stress and antioxidant pathways 11 1.1.2 Nuclear factor-kappa B (NFB) and tumor necrosis factor(TNF) 13 1.1.3 Epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) mediated pathway 14 1.1.4 Transforming growth factor(TGF) 14 2 MALIGNANT MESOTHELIOMA ... | {
"abstract": "BackgroundIdentification of biological specimens is a requirement for a range of applications. Reference-free methods analyse unprocessed sequencing data without relying on prior knowledge, but generally do not scale to arbitrarily large genomes and arbitrarily large phylogenetic distances.ResultsWe pr... |
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"abstract": "The TLS Internet Standard features a mixed bag of cryptographic algorithms and constructions, letting clients and servers negotiate their use for each run of the handshake. Although many ciphersuites are now well-understood in isolation, their composition remains problematic, and yet it is critical to ... | {
"abstract": "We present FLEXTLS, a tool for rapidly prototyping and testing implementations of the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol. FLEXTLS is built upon MITLS, a verified implementation of TLS, and hence protocol scenarios written in FLEXTLS can benefit from robust libraries for messaging and cryptography.... | {
"abstract": "We introduce a new silhouette-based representation for modeling clothed human bodies using deep generative models. Our method can reconstruct a complete and textured 3D model of a person wearing clothes from a single input picture. Inspired by the visual hull algorithm, our implicit representation uses... |
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"abstract": "AbstractA dual-channel electrospray microchip has been developed for electrospray ionization mass spectrometry (ESI-MS) where aqueous samples are mixed at the Taylor cone with an organic buffer. Due to the fast and effective mixing in the Taylor cone, the aqueous sample can be well ionized with a high ... | {
"abstract": "Novel multichannel electrospray emitters are presented that use silica-based microstructured fibers (MSFs) to split the flow allowing efficient desolvation during electrospray. The MSFs investigated in this study possess 30-168 individual fluidic channels (each channel being 5 microm in diameter) that ... | {
"abstract": "Mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) pathway activation is a frequent event in human cancer and is often the result of activating mutations in the BRAF and RAS oncogenes. Targeted inhibitors of BRAF and its downstream effectors are in various stages of preclinical and clinical development. These age... |
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"abstract": "Abstract Substantial advances in antigen-targeted lymphoma therapy have been achieved in recent years that make the use of monoclonal antibodies a highly attractive concept and promise further improvements in the clinical management of malignant lymphoma. The development of the chimeric anti-CD20 antib... | {
"abstract": "Non-Hodgkin's lymphomas (NHL) are a heterogeneous group of disorders which can either be classified according to their biology, represented by corresponding counterparts of normal lymphocyte development as in the Kiel classification, or according to their clinical course, used in the Working Formulatio... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Eutrophication of waterways through delivery of phosphorus (P) and nitrogen (N) from farmland is a problem in many countries. Loss of nutrients from grazed grassland via overland flow is well demonstrated, but the sources of these nutrients and the processes controlling their mobilization into... |
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"abstract": "The rigidity, conjugation, and shape-persistent architectures of aryl ethynyls of V, Y, and X shapes serve as an ideal model system for defining interparticle structures, which have been demonstrated for the mediated assembly of gold nanoparticles.",
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"abstract": "X-shaped rigid methylthio arylethynes (MTA) have been demonstrated to mediate the assembly of gold nanoparticles. The structural attributes of MTAs include molecular rigidity, π-conjugation, and importantly the tunability in terms of size, shape, and binding strength. The size, kinetics, optical, and s... | {
"abstract": "The understanding of the particle size and interparticle spatial effects on the electrical conductivity properties of molecularly mediated thin film assemblies of nanoparticles is important for exploring the unique electrical properties in applications such as chemical sensors and biosensors. This pape... |
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"abstract": "A recently proposed model of non-autocatalytic reactions in dipeptide formation that leads to spontaneous symmetry breaking and homochirality was examined. The model is governed by activation, polymerization, epimerization, and depolymerization of amino acids. Symmetry breaking was determined to result... | {
"abstract": "We study a very simple linear evolutionary model based on distribution of protocells by total enantiomeric excess and without any mutual inhibition and show that such model can produce two species with values of total enantiomeric excess in each of the species approaching [Formula: see text] when there... | {
"abstract": "Adsorption of histidine on cerium oxide model surfaces was investigated by synchrotron radiation photoemission, resonant photoemission, and near edge X-ray absorption fine structure spectroscopies. Histidine was evaporated in a vacuum onto ordered stoichiometric CeO2(111) and partially reduced CeO1.9 t... |
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"abstract": "An acid protease from the broth of a 24 h cultivated Aspergillus niger BCRC 32720 was purified to electrophoretical homogeneity by CM Sepharose FF and Sephacryl S-100 HR chromatographs. The specific activity, purification fold, and yield were 23.29 kU/mg, 2.5, and 24.2%, respectively. Molecular mass (M... | {
"abstract": "An acidic thermostable protease was extracellularly produced either in shake flask or in stirred tank bioreactor by an Aspergillus foetidus strain isolated from the Brazilian savanna soil using different nitrogen sources. Its maximum activity (63.7 U mL-1) was obtained in a medium containing 2% (w/v) p... | {
"abstract": "Combustion syntheses involving intermetallic and thermitic reactions were conducted to fabricate FeAl–TiB2–Al2O3 composites. Two combustion systems consisting of Fe, Al, Ti, Fe2O3 and B2O3 were studied for formation of xFeAl–yTiB2–Al2O3 composites with x = 1.5–3.5 and y = 0.5–0.8. In the reaction serie... |
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"abstract": "Abstract Peripheral nerve interactions and regenerative phenomena were studied in newt forelimbs fused end to end. After simple fusion, one or two spikelike structures regenerated at the plane of fusion in 88% of the cases. When one of the limbs was denervated at the time of fusion, no regeneration occ... | {
"abstract": "This article presents some general principles underlying regenerative phenomena in vertebrates, starting with the epimorphic regeneration of the amphibian limb and continuing with tissue and organ regeneration in mammals. Epimorphic regeneration following limb amputation involves wound healing, followe... | {
"abstract": "Over the past couple of decades, research has established that infants are sensitive to the predominant stress pattern of their native language. However, the degree to which the stress pattern shapes infants' language development has yet to be fully determined. Whether stress is merely a cue to help or... |
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"abstract": "Le but de ce travail est d'evaluer les variations de la pression partielle d'oxygene preretienne (PO2) dans les territoires ischemiques apres occlusion experimentale d'une branche veineuse retinienne en normoxie et sous des conditions d'inhalation, d'hyperoxie (100% 02), de carbogene (95% O2, 5% CO2), ... | {
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"abstract": "OBJECTIVE\nTo study the involvement of eight angiogenic growth factors that have been identified so far in the literature, especially vascular endothelial growth factor, in proliferative diabetic retinopathy.\n\n\nMETHODS\nSamples of neovascular membranes were obtained from diabetic patients; these sam... |
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"abstract": "Six hydrocarbon components (2-methylhexadecane,n-heptadecane, 2-methylheptadecane, 2-methyloctadecane,n-nonadecane, and 2-methylnonadecane) were identified in sex-pheromone gland extracts and in airborne collections ofHolomelina lamae. Low variability in the ratio of components among individuals indica... | {
"abstract": "Ovipositors of the female corn earworm, Heliothis zea (Boddie), contained large amounts of extractable sex pheromone only during scotophase. Quantitative gas chromatographic analysis of ovipositor extracts for (Z)-11-hexadecenal, the species' major pheromonal component, indicated that female sex pherom... | {
"abstract": "When improvingStreptomyces coeruleorubidus JA 10092, a producer of antibiotics of the daunomycinone complex, the most active variants were found among isolates of morphological typesbld-1 (with a suppressed production of the aerial mycelium on organic media containing glucose) andwhi (with an asporogen... |
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"abstract": "ETHNOPHARMACOLOGICAL RELEVANCE\nHuman groups in the Argentinean Andes highlands (Puna) selected native plants as anti-inflammatory agents. The indications of use are mainly to relieve pain, as infusions, ethanolic extracts or plasters.\n\n\nAIM OF THE STUDY\nThe objective of the study was to assess the... | {
"abstract": "OBJECTIVE\nTo evaluate the anti-inflammatory property of the leaf exacts of Gendarussa vulgaris (G. vulgaris) Nees.\n\n\nMETHODS\nG. vulgaris Nees of the family Apocynaceae is a medium sized tree grown in semishade or no shade and is common in the Ernad and Nilambur taluks of Kerala.Various parts of th... | {
"abstract": "The role of leukotriene synthesis in the gastrointestinal damage induced by platelet-activating factor (PAF) was examined in the rat. The effects of a 20-min infusion of PAF (100 ng/kg per min) on leukotriene B4 (LTB4) and leukotriene C4 (LTC4) synthesis were examined in samples of the stomach, duodenu... |
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"abstract": "With the evolution of the Internet, collaborative filtering (CF) techniques are becoming increasingly popular. Such techniques are widely used by many E-commerce companies to suggest products to customers, based on like-minded customers' preferences; but they fail to protect users' privacy. Data from c... | {
"abstract": "Recommenders widely use collaborative filtering schemes. These schemes, however, threaten privacy as user profiles are made available to the service provider hosting the recommender and can even be guessed by curious users who analyze the recommendations. Users can encrypt their profiles to hide them f... | {
"abstract": "Although bystander intervention can mitigate the negative effects of cyberbullying, few bystanders ever attempt to intervene. In this study, we explored the effects of interface design on bystander intervention using a simulated custom-made social media platform. Participants took part in a three-day, ... |
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"abstract": "Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) are formed by a large number of networked sensing nodes. It is rather complex, or even unfeasible, to model analytically a WSN and it usually leads to oversimplified analysis with limited confidence. Besides, deploying test-beds supposes a huge effort. Therefore, simulati... | {
"abstract": "A widespread methodology for performance analysis in the field of communication systems engineering is network simulation. While ns-2 has established itself as virtually the standard network simulation tool, other network simulators have gained more and more attention during the last years. In this pap... | {
"abstract": "The purpose of robots has always been to act as a substitute for human labor. This paper introduces the design and development of Robotic Arm with Proximity and Color Detection using Arduino Mega microcontroller. The robotic arm has six degrees of freedom (6-DOF). This project not only satisfies the cr... |
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"abstract": "Despite recent progress, a unified understanding of how ions affect the structure and dynamics of water across different phases remains elusive. Here, we report the development of full-dimensional many-body potential energy functions, called MB-nrg (Many-Body-energy), for molecular simulations of halid... | {
"abstract": "The hydration properties of halide aqua ions have been investigated combining classical Molecular Dynamics (MD) with Extended X-ray Absorption Fine Structure (EXAFS) spectroscopy. Three halide-water interaction potentials recently developed [M. M. Reif and P. H. Hünenberger, J. Chem. Phys. 134, 144104 ... | {
"abstract": "A molecular chromophore-catalyst assembly containing a chromophore ruthenium(II) center (RuIIchro ) and a catalytic copper(II) center (CuIIcat ) has been prepared easily. The assembly was employed for photocatalytic oxidation of sulfides without sacrificial reagent in the presence of dioxygen under blu... |
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"abstract": "Urolithiasis (kidney stone formation) is an acquired degenerative kidney lesion affecting sexually mature and immature domestic fowl. For the present study, uroliths were collected from three commercial flocks during outbreaks of urolithiasis. Uroliths also were collected from a research flock in which... | {
"abstract": "Experiments were designed to determine if Gray strain infectious bronchitis virus (IBV) infection increases the incidence of urolithiasis type kidney damage when the urine is already high in Ca and relatively alkaline due to a high Ca-low available P diet (i.e., layer ration). In addition, experiments ... | {
"abstract": "Formulations affect many aspects of the success of biocontrol organisms, including the shelf-life of a product, ability of a biocontrol organism to proliferate and survive in the environment, effectiveness for disease control, ease of preparation and application, and expense. Recent review articles hav... |
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"abstract": "Source code plagiarism is a growing concern in academia. Programming assignments are used to evaluate students in programming courses. Therefore, checking programming assignments for plagiarism is essential. If a course consists of a large number of students, it is impractical for a human inspector to ... | {
"abstract": "Plagiarism is defined as representing someone else words, thoughts, knowledge, methods, programs etc in our own name. Plagiarism has a wider meaning by paraphrasing someone else text by replacing some data or method in our way is also a plagiarism. It also violates the rule if you don‟t mention someone... | {
"abstract": "Genetic engineering methodology offers the ability to synthesize protein-based polymers with precisely controlled structures. Protein-based polymers synthesized by recombinant techniques have a well-defined monomer composition and sequence, stereochemistry, and a narrow molecular weight distribution. T... |
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"abstract": "The impact of hepatic steatosis on regeneration of the remnant liver after living donor liver transplantation is unclear. We evaluated the impact of steatosis on regeneration and function of the remnant liver by using technetium-99m-diethylenetriaminepentaacetic acid-galactosyl human serum albumin scin... | {
"abstract": "Hepatic drug metabolism is decreased in patients with severe liver disease, but it is unclear to what extent this is due to altered hepatic blood flow or reduced intrinsic metabolic capacity. In this study we quantitated in needle‐biopsy specimens the intrinsic capacity of liver tissue from 67 patients... | {
"abstract": "An assessment in China of the application of a transportable indirect thermal dryer unit for the remediation of soils contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) demonstrated that it is well suited to remove PCBs from soils. A remarkable reduction of total PCBs in soils from 163-770 μg g(-1) to ... |
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"abstract": "Fibrinogen Paris I, a congenital fibrinogen abnormality, is characterized by delayed fibrin aggregation and poor clot retraction owing to the replacement of normal gamma-chains by mutant gamma-chains, which are termed gamma-Paris I. Available evidence indicates that the structural abnormality involves ... | {
"abstract": "FIBRINOGEN IS A 340-kD glycoprotein that circulates in the blood at approximately 3 mg/mL, making it one of the most abundant blood proteins. It is composed of six polypeptide chains, (α, β, γ)2, which are held together by disulfide bonds and organized in a symmetrical dimeric fashion (Fig [1][1]",
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"abstract": "Antibodies against porcine parvovirus were detected in 17 of 116 prenursing pig sera. Antibodies against transmissible gastroenteritis or ECPO-6 (an enterovirus) were not detected in prenursing sera of the pigs tested. Seventy-seven percent of 129 serum samples from 23 Ohio farms and 82% of 96 samples ... |
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"abstract": "Abstract Sustained resonance in a linear oscillator is achievable with a drive whose constant frequency matches the resonant frequency of the oscillator. But in oscillators with nonlinear restoring forces such as the pendulum, Duffing and Duffing–Van der Pol oscillator, the resonant frequency changes a... | {
"abstract": "The problem of efficient capture of nonlinear oscillations into resonance is discussed. The capture is guaranteed by passage through resonance when the system starts in equilibrium and the driving amplitude exceeds a threshold. The threshold problem is described by a universal nonlinear Schrödinger-typ... | {
"abstract": "The structure of a tubulin-binding cofactor from L. major is reported and compared with yeast, plant and human orthologues.",
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"abstract": "Abstract The major objective of this study was to investigate the effects of within-industry diversification and related diversification on short and long-run firm performance in the restaurant industry. Accordingly, this study decomposed Jacquemin and Berry's (1979) traditional related diversification... | {
"abstract": "Changes in credit risk may arise when either the value or the risk of corporate assets changes. Changes in the equity value associated with the changes in the asset value and changes in asset risk can be characterized into potentially countervailing direct and indirect effects. The indirect effect of r... | {
"abstract": "T he measurement of stability and growth in earnings per share, or EPS, has been an important concern of researchers and practitioners of financial analysis for years. The generally accepted measures of EPS stability and growth are derived from the loglinear regression model. Logarithms cannot be used,... |
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"abstract": "The increased deployment of wireless networks for battery-limited industrial applications in recent years highlights the need for tractable performance analysis and efficient QoS-aware transmit power management schemes. Modern industrial solutions deploy multi-hop topologies in order to bridge larger d... | {
"abstract": "Motivated by emerging vision-based intelligent services, we consider the problem of rate adaptation for high-quality and low-delay visual information delivery over wireless networks using scalable video coding. Rate adaptation in this setting is inherently challenging due to the interplay between the v... | {
"abstract": "In this paper, we present a methodology to analytically compute the throughput capacity, or the maximum end-to-end throughput of a given source and destination pair in a multi-hop wireless network. The end-to-end throughput capacity is computed by considering the interference due to neighboring nodes, ... |
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"abstract": "Abstract The long period of house price growth in markets across the world ended with the US and global financial crisis of 2007/08. The crisis and the consequent recession had profound effects on mortgage market actors – including households, institutions and governments – in most advanced economies, ... | {
"abstract": "In recent years, in all countries - albeit to varying degrees - many changes have taken place in the financial structure which have accompanied the development of new instruments, markets and financial intermediaries. A growing literature describes and analyses these changes, generically grouped togeth... | {
"abstract": "Housing markets have multiple interactions with the rest of the economy and these are surveyed in this paper. The drivers of house prices include income, the housing stock, demography, credit availability, interest rates, and lagged appreciation, the latter a potential mechanism for overshooting. There... |
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"abstract": "This study aimed to use a population-based Prescription Database to explore later development of diabetes in women registered with gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) and/or preeclampsia in the Medical Birth Registry of Norway (MBRN) during 2004–8. We used two nationwide Norwegian registries, the Norwe... | {
"abstract": "Previous studies have suggested that asthma, like other common diseases, has at least part of its origin early in life. Low birth weight has been shown to be associated with increased risks of asthma, chronic obstructive airway disease, and impaired lung function in adults, and increased risks of respi... | {
"abstract": "High doses of dextromethorphan (20-42 mg/kg/day) were given to four critically ill children with seizures and frequent epileptiform abnormalities in the EEG that were refractory to antiepileptic drugs. Their acute diseases (hypoxia, head trauma and hypoxia, neurodegenerative disease, hypoglycaemia) wer... |
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"abstract": "This review discusses the approaches to prescription drug payment practices taken by managed care to influence drug use and costs, and presents the research evidence supporting these interventions.In the US, drugs were infrequently covered as an ambulatory benefit under fee-for-service indemnity insura... | {
"abstract": "Rising costs of prescription drugs are a concern to both private and public purchasers. Common methods of controlling or sharing costs include copayments and incentives to use generic substitutes. A study of prescription drug use and costs for a set of employer groups reveals that a common change in th... | {
"abstract": "A single‐blind trial in 50 outpatients was aimed at comparing the effectiveness of ranitidine (150 mg twice a day) and cimetidine (200 mg three times a day and 400 mg at night) in the healing of en‐ doscopically proven duodenal ulcer. Patients were reassessed after two weeks of therapy, and then after ... |
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"abstract": "The Personal Healthcare Record (PHR) enables the patients or other authorized persons to manage their own medical records in a centralized way, and it (PHR) emerges as a patient-centric model which helps in the health information exchange. The PHRs can be stored in the server maintained by the hospital... | {
"abstract": "The involvement of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) for the adoption of smart cities in India is in high demand today. The healthcare service solution uses cloud computing based future technology which uses the coming Internet of things technology to access the patient’s details and their... | {
"abstract": "In this paper, low power architectures of register files on register-transfer level (RTL) are presented. The proposed architectures are implemented using a standard hardware description language (HDL) and can be synthesized within a commercial semi-custom design flow. The presented register file archit... |
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"abstract": "Based on nonsubsampled contourlet transform and image statistical property, an image enhancement method is presented. A noise variance estimate algorithm is given using nonsubsampled Laplace Pyramid decompose, and a wake edge enhancement algorithm using directional local neighborhood is proposed. This ... | {
"abstract": "Digital images are extensively used by the medical doctors during different stages of disease diagnosis and treatment process. In the medical field, noise occurs in an image during two phases: acquisition and transmission. During the acquisition phase, noise is induced into an image, due to manufacturi... | {
"abstract": "We are interested in the adaptive watermarking approaches and in directional multiresolution image transforms. In this paper, a novel watermarking technique based on a redundant contourlet transform is presented. In contrast to the wavelet transform widely used for image watermarking, to our best knowl... |
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"abstract": "Objectives Gram-stained urethral smear (GSUS), the standard point-of-care test for non-gonococcal urethritis (NGU) is operator dependent and poorly specific. The performance of rapid automated urine flow cytometry (AUFC) of first void urine (FVU) white cell counts (UWCC) for predicting Mycoplasma genit... | {
"abstract": "Background Acute urethritis is among the most common types of sexually transmitted diseases in men. The diagnosis usually requires microscopic evidence of urethritis, but sometimes urethral pathogens are detected in asymptomatic men without such evidence. The aims of this study were to assess the sensi... | {
"abstract": "cancer chemotherapeutic drugs, which acts on the specific phase of the cell cycle, especially the S phase of cell division [2]. The doxorubicin has been introduced in the clinics to treat various malignant diseases in the early 1970s and remains an integral part of various modern chemotherapeutic regim... |
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"abstract": "Electromagnetic wave propagation in arid and semi-arid regions is influenced by sand and dust storms. Meagre information has hitherto been reported as to the effect of storms on telecommunication systems operating in such regions. This paper presents a survey of current understanding of the wave propag... | {
"abstract": "Electromagnetic wave propagation in arid and semi-arid regions is influenced by sand and dust storms. This phenomenon has received considerable interest in recent time with emphasis on signal attenuation. To this end, electromagnetic waves equation is proposed in this paper to compute and predict the a... | {
"abstract": "A theoretical method has been developed to determine the electromagnetic field induced inside heterogeneous biological bodies of irregular shapes. A tensor integral equation for the electric field inside the body was derived and solved numerically for various biological models.",
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"abstract": "A visualization methodology is presented in which a Pareto Frontier can be visualized in an intuitive and straightforward manner for an n-dimensional performance space. Based on this visualization, it is possible to quickly identify 'good' regions of the performance and optimal design spaces for a mult... | {
"abstract": "Parallel coordinates have been widely applied to visualize high-dimensional and multivariate data, discerning patterns within the data through visual clustering. However, the effectiveness of this technique on large data is reduced by edge clutter. In this paper, we present a novel framework to reduce ... | {
"abstract": "There are various kinds of social media information, including different types of objects and relations among these objects, in music social communities such as Last.fm and Pandora. This information is valuable for music recommendation. However, there are two main challenges to exploit this rich social... |
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"abstract": "The twists and turns of Turkish foreign policy under Justice and Development Party (AKP) rule have been a matter of interest not only in the scholarly literature, but also in common discourse. This article traces the unfolding of this policy in Turkey’s neighbourhood and in relation to its quest for EU... | {
"abstract": "ABSTRACT This paper offers a contribution to the literature on Turkish foreign policy (TFP) change through quantitative analysis of Turkey’s foreign policy chronology under the ruling Justice and Development Party (Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi, AKP) between January 2009 and October 2016. It utilizes an o... | {
"abstract": "In this article, we will focus on the role of political transformation and reform in the emergence of a new foreign policy line in Turkey. We hold the idea that Turkey adopted a new course in foreign policy due to political transformation at home, which resulted in reconstruction of the previous policy... |
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"abstract": "The increment of computer technology use and the continued growth of companies have enabled most financial transactions to be performed through the electronic commerce systems, such as using the credit card system, telecommunication system, healthcare insurance system, etc. Unfortunately, these systems... | {
"abstract": "CARDWATCH, a database mining system used for credit card fraud detection, is presented. The system is based on a neural network learning module, provides an interface to a variety of commercial databases and has a comfortable graphical user interface. Test results obtained for synthetically generated c... | {
"abstract": "A new algorithm is presented for the problem of finding all primes between 2 and N. It is based on Mairson's sieve algorithm which uses θ(N) additions and multiplications. The new algorithm improves on this algorithm by using a dynamic sieve technique that avoids most of the nonprimes in the range 2 to... |
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"abstract": "By investigating how educational practitioners participate in activities around open educational practices (OEP), this paper aims at contributing to an understanding of open practices and how these practitioners learn to use OEP. Our research is guided by the following hypothesis: Different social conf... | {
"abstract": "This paper reviews some of the literature on the sustainability of Open Educational Resources (OER) and what it has to say about successful or sustainable open content projects on the internet. \nIt goes on to argue that OER need to be considered with respect to the different types of economy market, p... | {
"abstract": "Team learning is not a well researched or examined phenomenon. This paper describes a team learning model that grew out of case study research in one company. The model is derived in part by drawing on the literatures of both group dynamics and adult learning. Team learning processes and phases are des... |
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"abstract": "Take-off is how a bird initiates flight and is important for predator evasion and therefore survival. A birds’ take-off ability is affected by the mechanical power available from the flight muscles, the size and shape of the wings, the mechanical control of the wings and therefore the wing beat kinemat... | {
"abstract": "During the moult, birds sequentially replace their flight feathers and thus temporarily have gaps in their wings. These gaps will vary in size and position(s) during the course of the moult. We investigated the aerodynamic effects of having moult gaps in a rectangular wing by using a vortex-lattice (pa... | {
"abstract": "Two- and three-dimensional low-aspect-ratio (AR = 4) hovering airfoil/wing aerodynamics at a low Reynolds number (Re = 100) are numerically investigated. Regarding fluid physics, in addition to the well-known leading-edge vortex and wake-capture mechanisms, a persistent jet, induced by the shed vortice... |
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"abstract": "We look into the issue that the amount of entropy kept by the pseudorandom number generator (PRNG) of Android is constantly low. We find that the accusation against this issue of causing poor performance and low frame rate experienced by users is ungrounded. We also investigate possible security vulner... | {
"abstract": "The security architecture and distribution of iOS was introduced. The threats to user's data security and privacy from iOS malicious applications were analyzed. The reasons that the number of iOS malicious applications is less than Android malicious applications were discussed. The attacking methods of... | {
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"score": -1,
"title": "Abelian square-free dithering for iterated hash functions"
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"abstract": "The animal model for genetic evaluations of dairy cattle by the USDA currently includes a term for interaction effects of sire and herd. The relative magnitude of the variance of that effect was established in the 1960s as 14% of the total variance, but recent research has shown that the proportion is ... | {
"abstract": "Heritabilities for milk, fat, and protein yields were estimated from first lactation data used for USDA-Dairy Herd Improvement Association (DHIA) genetic evaluations. Contemporary group assignments and standard deviations within herd-year were determined with the procedure used for national evaluations... | {
"abstract": "SUMMARY Leptospirosis is still one of the most important health problems in developing countries located in humid tropical and subtropical regions. Human infections are generally caused by exposure to water, soil or food contaminated with the urine of infected wild and domestic animals such as rodents ... |
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"abstract": "A case of pyridoxine-responsive anemia with hypolipidemia and hypocholesterolemia responsive to pyridoxine is presented. It is suggested that abnormalities of the serum lipids are common but often unrecognized in patients with pyridoxine-responsive anemia. A mechanism to explain their occurrence is pos... | {
"abstract": "The association of hereditary ring sideroblastic anaemia with Christmas disease in a Swedish family is described. We have studied the transmission of the sideroblastic trait, in relation to HLA groups and Christmas disease, and also evaluated the erythrocyte morphology, uroporphyrinogen-I-synthetase ac... | {
"abstract": "ANIMAL cxpcrinicnts have shown that hypochromic anaemia occurs in dogs (Fouts, Hclnicr, Lcpkovsky and Jukcs, I 93 8), pigs (Wiiitrobc, Follis, Miller, Stcin, Alcayaga, Htiiiiplircys, Suksta and Cartwright, i 943), guinca-pigs, cliickcns and monkeys (L'oppcn, Grceiibcrg and Iliticliart, 1952) on a pyrid... |
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"abstract": "This paper deals with visually guided grasping of unmodeled objects for robots which exhibit an adaptive behavior based on their previous experiences. Nine features are proposed to characterize three-finger grasps. They are computed from the object image and the kinematics of the hand. Real experiments... | {
"abstract": "Grasping an object with a multifingered robot hand requires complete constraint of its motion by contacts. Complete con straint of an object can also be described using force equilib rium. If any external force on the object can be balanced by applicable contact forces, a stable grasp has been achieved... | {
"abstract": "Data visualization is an effective mechanism for identifying trends, insights, and anomalies in data. On large datasets, however, generating visualizations can take a long time, delaying the extraction of insights, hampering decision making, and reducing exploration time. One solution is to use online ... |
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"abstract": "High-resolution CT is more sensitive than chest radiography and conventional CT in the detection and assessment of benign asbestos-related pleural and parenchymal diseases. The HRCT features of asbestosis correlate with clinical and functional restriction. The specificity of HRCT findings of asbestosis... | {
"abstract": "Asbestosis is the most important change noted in the lung parenchyma after environmental and occupational exposure to asbestos fibers. It is characterized by diffuse interstitial pulmonary fibrosis. In Korea, the incidence of asbestosis will continue to increase for many years to come and the governmen... | {
"abstract": "Valproate-induced hyperammonemic encephalopathy is an unusual but serious complication that may occur in people with normal liver-associated enzyme levels, despite normal therapeutic doses and serum levels of valproate. Here, we describe an adolescent girl who had absence seizure and complained about p... |
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"abstract": "Summary. An adenovirus associated with systemic and localized vascular damage was demonstrated by transmission electron microscopy and immunohistochemistry in a newly recognized epizootic hemorrhagic disease in California black-tailed deer. In this study, we describe the cultural, physicochemical and s... | {
"abstract": "ABSTRACT In this study, a molecular procedure for the detection of adenoviruses of animal origin was developed to evaluate the level of excretion of these viruses by swine and cattle and to design a test to facilitate the tracing of specific sources of environmental viral contamination. Two sets of oli... | {
"abstract": "Mild photothermal therapy (PTT), as a new anticancer therapeutic strategy, faces big challenges of limited therapeutic accuracy and side‐effects due to uneven heat distribution. Here, near infrared triggered nitric oxide (NO) release nanocomposites based on bismuth sulfide (Bi2S3) nanoparticles and bis... |
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"abstract": "Alveolar macrophages (AMs) are resident macrophages in the lungs; however, whether the number of AMs plays a role in the lung neuroendocrine tumor (NET) prognosis remains unclear. We counted the number of AMs located around the tumor (peritumoral alveolar macrophages [pAMs]) and the number of AMs locat... | {
"abstract": null,
"corpus_id": 1909863,
"title": "The cell-cell interaction between tumor-associated macrophages and small cell lung cancer cells is involved in tumor progression via STAT3 activation."
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"abstract": "TNM Classification of Malignant Tumours, 7th Edition - Libros de Medicina - Oncologia clinica - 45,00",
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"score": -1,
"title": "TNM Classification of Malignant Tumours, 7th Edition"
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"abstract": "PURPOSE\nLate anthrocycline cardiotoxicity after treatment for childhood cancer is common and often progressive. A safe anthracycline dose that will not result in late cardiac abnormalities has not been established due to the limited dose ranges used in existing studies.\n\n\nPATIENTS AND METHODS\nTo d... | {
"abstract": "A symptom‐limited incremental cycle ergometer test was performed in 17 young adult patients treated with hematopoietic cell transplantation and total body irradiation for hematologic malignancies during childhood. These 17 young adult patients were compared with 17 sex‐ and age‐matched healthy control ... | {
"abstract": "Left ventricular wall stress and contractile function were determined by echocardiographic methods in 11 patients studied 0.7 to 13.8 years (mean +/- standard error of the mean = 5.6 +/- 1.2 years) after undergoing the Rastelli operation for transposition of the great arteries associated with ventricul... |
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"abstract": "T cells, as well as other cell types, are composed of phenotypically and functionally distinct subsets. However, for many of these populations it is unclear whether they develop from common or separate progenitors. To address such issues, we developed a novel approach, termed cellular barcoding, that a... | {
"abstract": "Genetic barcodes are increasingly used to track individual cells and to quantitatively assess their clonal contributions over time. Although barcode quantification relies entirely on counting sequencing reads, detailed studies about the method’s accuracy are still limited. We report on a systematic inv... | {
"abstract": "The respiratory tract is a primary site of infection and exposure to environmental antigens and an important site of memory T cell localization. We analyzed the migration and retention of naive and activated CD8+ T cells within the noninflamed lungs and quantitated the partitioning of adoptively transf... |
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"abstract": "The total power budget of Ultra-Low Power (ULP) VLSI Systems-on-Chip (SoCs) is often dominated by the leakage power of embedded memories and pipeline registers, which typically cannot be power-gated during sleep periods as they need to retain data and program state, respectively. On the one hand, suppl... | {
"abstract": "This paper presents a robust OxRAM-based nonvolatile flip-flop (NVFF) solution, designed for deep nano-scaled CMOS technologies. Forming, set and reset operations rely on a reliable design approach using thin gate oxide CMOS. The NVFF is benchmarked against a standard FF in 28nm CMOS FDSOI. Non-volatil... | {
"abstract": "The development of new technologies in power generation and application, together with the demand for the reliability and capability of power supply has drawn increasing attention to dc distribution and microgrid technology. This paper introduces the renovation project for a single-circuit XLPE cable l... |
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"abstract": "In this paper, we attempt to predict the Bitcoin price accurately taking into consideration various parameters that affect the Bitcoin value. For the first phase of our investigation, we aim to understand and identify daily trends in the Bitcoin market while gaining insight into optimal features surrou... | {
"abstract": "In recent years, Bitcoin is the most valuable in the cryptocurrency market. However, prices of Bitcoin have highly fluctuated which make them very difficult to predict. Hence, this research aims to discover the most efficient and highest accuracy model to predict Bitcoin prices from various machine lea... | {
"abstract": "We analyze variational inference for highly symmetric graphical models such as those arising from first-order probabilistic models. We first show that for these graphical models, the tree-reweighted variational objective lends itself to a compact lifted formulation which can be solved much more efficie... |
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"abstract": "Earlier studies conducted on lead-exposed workers have determined the reticulocyte count (RC) (%), but the parameters of Absolute Reticulocyte Count (ARC), Reticulocyte Index (RI), and Reticulocyte Production Index (RPI) were not reported. This study assessed the effect of lead (Pb) exposure on the sta... | {
"abstract": "Lead (Pb) is a toxic heavy metal affecting human health; it is known to be harmful to various organs or systems, yet the mechanisms by which Pb influences immune cell development remain to be defined. In this study, we show that Pb exposure (1250 ppm via drinking water) selectively impacted the develop... | {
"abstract": "Our objective was to describe the conditionsthat determine the costs of empirical therapy ingastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD). Our design wasa threshold analysis using a decision tree. The costs of medications were estimated from the averagewholesale prices. The costs of diagnostic procedureswere ... |
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"abstract": "In the complex-Riemannian framework we show that a con- formal manifold containing a compact, simply-connected, null-geodesic is conformally flat. In dimension 3 we use the LeBrun correspondence, that views a conformal 3-manifold as the conformal infinity of a selfdual four-manifolds. We also find a re... | {
"abstract": "Using the conformally invariant Cotton tensor, we define a geometric flow, the Cotton flow, which is exclusive to three dimensions. This flow tends to evolve the initial metrics into conformally flat ones, and is somewhat orthogonal to the Yamabe flow, the latter being a flow within a conformal class. ... | {
"abstract": "On a complex n-manifold with holomorphic projective connexion, any point has a neighbourhood U of which the space of geodesies has naturally the structure of a (Hausdorff) complex (2n-2)-manifold; it is shown that the complex structure of this auxiliary space encodes, in a sense, the original projectiv... |
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"abstract": "SummaryThe nucleotide sequence of a 10.5 kb region (map position 0.332 to 0.410) of bovine herpesvirus type 1 (BHV-1) was determined. This region contained three open reading frames (ORFs) homologous to herpes simplex virus DNA polymerase catalytic subunit (DNApol, UL30), major DNA-binding protein (MDB... | {
"abstract": "We report the nucleotide sequence of the 19-kb HindIII fragment B of bovine herpesvirus 1 (BHV-1) DNA and adjacent parts of the HindIII A and L fragments, which together span a still completely uncharted 30-kb region located between the glycoprotein H gene and the right end of the unique long segment. ... | {
"abstract": "The association of hypoglycemia with nonislet cell tumors is well recognized and in nearly all instances has been related to the production of hormones with insulin-like activity. To determine the mechanism of such tumor-induced hypoglycemia and the response to pharmacological intervention, we studied ... |
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"abstract": "Partially-observed Boolean dynamical systems (POBDS) are large and complex dynamical systems capable of being monitored through various sensors. However, time, storage, and economical constraints may impede the use of all sensors for estimation purposes. Thus, developing a procedure for selecting a sub... | {
"abstract": "Control of gene regulatory networks (GRNs) to shift gene expression from undesirable states to desirable ones has received much attention in recent years. Most of the existing methods assume that the cost of intervention at each state and time point, referred to as the immediate cost function, is fully... | {
"abstract": "We study the moduli space M of N = (4, 4) superconformal field theories with central charge c = 6. After a slight emendation of its global description we find the locations of various known models in the component of M associated to K3 surfaces. Among them are the Z2 and Z4 orbifold theories obtained f... |
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"abstract": "The theme of this article is that knowledge acquisition can be managed as a transition from general expertise to specific expertise. FORR is a general architecture for learning and problem solving that models expertise at a set of related problem classes. This architecture postulates initial brood doma... | {
"abstract": "We present a novel ensemble architecture for learning problem-solving techniques from a very small number of expert solutions and demonstrate its effectiveness in a complex real-world domain. The key feature of our “Generalized Integrated Learning Architecture” (GILA) is a set of heterogeneous independ... | {
"abstract": "We present an approach to learning to predict and explain the outcome of events which lies between similarity-based methods and explanation-based methods. In the approach to learning presented in this paper and implemented in a computer program called OCCAM, a theory of causality constrains the search ... |
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