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"abstract": "Background— To assess the sensitivity of biochemical, physiological, and pharmacological markers of peripheral norepinephrine (NE) transporter (NET) function, we chronically antagonized NET by a range of doses of duloxetine [(+)-N-methyl-3-(1-naphthalenyloxy)-2 thiophenepropanamine], which blocks the N... | {
"abstract": "Duloxetine is a dual inhibitor of norepinephrine (NE) and serotonin (5-HT) uptake. Initial trials conducted in depressed patients using regimens of 20 mg/day or less did not convincingly demonstrate its efficacy as an antidepressant. The aim of this study was to assess the effects of duloxetine on the ... | {
"abstract": "In vivo experiments in dogs demonstrated angiographically that the subarachnoid injection of blood produced cerebral arterial apasm both immediately after the injection of blood and 2 days later. The sublingual adminstration of nifedipine reversed both the acute and the delayed cerebral arterial spasm.... |
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"abstract": "We consider the problem of person identification using gait sequences under normal, carrying bag and different clothing conditions as the main concern. It has been demonstrated that Gait Energy Image (GEI) can attain a better gait recognition rate under normal conditions. However, it has been shown tha... | {
"abstract": "Many studies have shown that gait can be deployed as a biometric. Few of these have addressed the effects of view-point and covariate factors on the recognition process. We describe the first analysis which combines view-point invariance for gait recognition which is based on a model-based pose estimat... | {
"abstract": "Recently, gait recognition for human identification has received substantial attention from biometrics researchers. Compared with other biometrics, it is more difficult to disguise. In addition, gait can be captured in a distance by using low-resolution capturing devices. In this paper, we proposed a n... |
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"abstract": "With the increasing popularity of social tagging, services that assist the user in the task of tagging, such as tag recommenders, are more and more required. As we all known, crucial to the performance of a recommendation system is the accuracy of the user profiles used to represent the interests of th... | {
"abstract": "Social tagging systems (STSs) allow collaborative users to share and annotate many types of resources with descriptive and semantically meaningful information in freely chosen text labels. STS provides three recommendations such as tag, item and user recommendations. Existing recommendation algorithms ... | {
"abstract": "Face recognition is a problem that has theoretical and applied value. However, the fact of facial aging is rarely addressed in research and unmentioned in the major theories of face recognition. Facial aging also has ramifications for missing persons and fugitive cases, confounding attempts by law enfo... |
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"abstract": "In this paper, we describe the first steps in the design of a synthetic biological system based on the use of genetically modified bacteria to detect elevated pressures in soils and respond by cementing soil particles. Such a system might, for example, enable a self- constructed foundation to form in r... | {
"abstract": "When poured into a container, cohesive granular materials form low-density, open granular aggregates. If pressure is applied to these aggregates, they densify by particle rearrangement. Here we introduce experimental and computational results suggesting that densification by particle rearrangement occu... | {
"abstract": "A novel flash fast-locking digital phase-locked loop (DPLL) is presented and behaviorally modeled. The DPLL operation includes two stages: (1) a novel coarse-tuning stage for frequency tracking which employs a flash algorithm similar to the one employed in flash A/D converters (ADCs) and (2) a fine-tun... |
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"abstract": "Background While the \"widowhood effect\" is well known, there is substantial heterogeneity in the magnitude of effects reported in different studies. We conducted a meta-analysis of widowhood and mortality, focusing on longitudinal studies with follow-up from the time of bereavement. Methods and Findi... | {
"abstract": "Background: A diagnosis of heart failure (HF) often requires a comprehensive lifestyle change to maintain disease stability. When patients with HF are married, the spouse frequently assumes the caregiving role. Our objectives were to describe the health of spouses of married patients with HF, and exami... | {
"abstract": "The object of the present study was to examine the interaction of working environment factors and the individual social support network with medical variables related to blood pressure elevations in young (mean age = 28 years) hypertensives. The results of path analyses reveal that the medical variable... |
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"abstract": "We investigated the indirect effects of Argentine ant (Linepithema humile) invasions on patterns of seed dispersal and predation in the myrmecochorous tree poppy Dendromecon rigida in coastal San Diego County, California. Significantly more seeds were removed from ant-accessible seed stations at sites ... | {
"abstract": "As invasive ants spread, their interactions with plants are inevitable and have potentially great implications for agriculture and conservation. When considered in the context of pre-existing models of ant-plant interactions, the higher abundance, aggressive nature, and attraction to high-carbohydrate ... | {
"abstract": "Sixteen 1-ha study plots covering five regeneration stages were simultaneously trapped five times over a 20-month period to provide data on small mammal response to vegetation changes following fire. Areas regenerating after fires from 9 years to 1 month before the investigation were sampled in a unifo... |
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"abstract": "This paper describes planar motion modeling for an unmanned surface vehicle (USV), including a comparative evaluation of several experimentally identified models over a wide range of speeds and planing conditions. The modeling and identification objective is to determine a model that is sufficiently ri... | {
"abstract": "We propose an efficient method for updating a path that was computed using level-set methods. Our approach is suitable for autonomous vehicles navigating in a static environment for which an a priori map of the environment is inaccurate. When the autonomous vehicle detects a new obstacle, our algorithm... | {
"abstract": "Recent recommendations for biology education highlight the role of authentic research experiences early in undergraduate education as a means of increasing the number and quality of biology majors. These experiences will inform students on the nature of science, increase their confidence in doing scien... |
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"abstract": "Combining GPS and TWSTFT considerably increases the robustness of the accurate time transfer result due to the complete independence between these two spatial techniques. In this paper we present the last improvements of a time and frequency transfer method based on a least-square analysis of GPS code ... | {
"abstract": "When neglecting calibration issues, the accuracy of GPS-based time and frequency transfer using a combined analysis of code and carrier phase measurements highly depends on the noise of the GPS codes. In particular, the pseudorange noise is responsible for day-boundary discontinuities which can reach m... | {
"abstract": "High-precision orbit determination of Global Positioning System (GPS) satellites is a key requirement for GPS-based precise geodetic measurements and precise low-Earth orbiter tracking. We explore different strategies for orbit determination with data from 1985 GPS field experiments. The most successfu... |
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"abstract": "We present the first characterization of a simple subwavelength-diameter plastic wire by using wideband terahertz timedomain spectroscopy. The propagation characteristics including waveguide dispersion, group velocity, and attenuation constant of various plastic wires with different diameters and refra... | {
"abstract": "By measuring the spectral loss characteristics of subwavelength-diameter terahertz fibers, our study supports the recent theory proposed by M. Sumetsky [Opt. Lett. 31, 870 (2006)] that diameter-variation-induced radiation is a dominant loss mechanism for subwavelength fibers in the low- (<1%) core-frac... | {
"abstract": "We report the theory and experiment on the low-loss subwavelength-diameter plastic THz fibers with attenuation constants < 0.01 cm-1. With a single-mode guiding capability, a direct free-space coupling efficiency > 20% is achieved.",
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"abstract": "A better understanding of the mechanisms employed by HIV-1 to escape immune responses still represents one of the major tasks required for the development of novel therapeutic approaches targeting a disease still lacking a definitive cure. Host innate immune responses against HIV-1 are key in the early... | {
"abstract": "Sialic acid binding immunoglobulin-like lectin-7 (Siglec-7) is a trans-membrane receptor carrying immunoreceptor tyrosine based inhibitory motifs (ITIMs) and delivering inhibitory signals upon ligation with sialylated glycans. This inhibitory function can be also targeted by several pathogens that have... | {
"abstract": "The cross-talk among cells of the innate immunity can greatly affect both innate and adaptive responses. Here we analyzed the molecular interactions between human natural killer (NK) cells and autologous macrophages. Activated NK cells killed M0 and M2, whereas M1 macrophages were more resistant to lys... |
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"abstract": "Several changes and developments (e.g., the changing labor market, growing worldwide competition, technological advances, and changing demand patterns in tourism) require new employability skills from graduates that enable them to cope with the changing circumstances of the tourism business world. Univ... | {
"abstract": "This paper addresses the work-integrated learning (WIL) initiative embedded in selected tourism training programs in Vietnam. The research was grounded on the framework of stakeholder ethos. Drawing on tourism training curriculum analysis and interviews with lecturers, institutional leaders, industry m... | {
"abstract": "In Tanzania, the competency-based curriculum for nursing and midwifery was introduced in 2008. Despite the government’s efforts to ensure its effective implementation, there has been a public concern on graduate nurses’ and midwives’ competencies in providing quality nursing care in the country. This c... |
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"abstract": "This paper presents the system adopted for the Faceted Blog Distillation task by PRIS team. The PRIS system is submitted by Pattern Recognition and Intelligent System Lab at Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications. And a two-stage strategy is involved for this task. First, an adaptable Votin... | {
"abstract": "Abstract We propose to combine parse forest and discourse structures to form a unified representation for a paragraph of text. The purpose of this representation is to tackle answering complex paragraph-sized questions in a number of products and services-related domains. A candidate set of answers, ob... | {
"abstract": "The use of inference networks to support document retrieval is introduced. A network-based retrieval model is described and compared to conventional probabilistic and Boolean models.",
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"title": "Inference networks for document retrieval"
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"abstract": "Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) is defined as greater than 6 months of persistent fatigue that is experienced physically and cognitively. The cognitive symptoms are generally thought to be a mild cognitive impairment, but individuals with CFS subjectively describe them as “brain fog.” The impairment is ... | {
"abstract": "Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) is a chronic illness of uncertain aetiology characterized by at least six months of debilitating fatigue and associated symptoms. The symptoms of the syndrome are all non-specific and some (but not all) are also seen in psychiatric illness. The symptomatology suggesting a... | {
"abstract": "### Key learning points\n\nIntellectual disability (ID; also known as learning disability) is characterised by significant impairment of both cognitive functioning and adaptive behaviours, and an onset in early childhood. People with ID experience a different pattern of morbidity to the general populat... |
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"abstract": "Learning cluster-based classification systems is the process of partitioning a training set into data subsets (clusters), and then building a local classifier for each data cluster. The class of a new instance is predicted by first assigning the instance to its nearest cluster, and then using that clus... | {
"abstract": "Ant colony optimisation (ACO) for classification has mostly been limited to rule-based approaches where artificial ants walk on datasets in order to extract rules from the trends in the data, and hybrid approaches which attempt to boost the performance of existing classifiers through guided feature red... | {
"abstract": "In a patient with lobar atelectasis who was on positive pressure ventilatory support, ventilation and perfusion images showed absent ventilation and normal perfusion (reverse mismatch) in the region of the atelectasis and normal ventilation and decreased perfusion (true mismatch) not caused by pulmonar... |
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"abstract": "traditional age-elevation method using detrital and bedrock 40 Ar/ 39 Ar muscovite data sets from a single river catchment in the Annapurna Range, Nepal Himalaya. A nominal erosion rate estimate of � 0.6 km/Myr for the 5.0–2.5 Ma period was calculated from the bedrock data, presented here for the first... | {
"abstract": "Application of different thermochronological methods to two areas of pronounced relief (Apuane Alps and Mt. Falterona ) of the Northern Apennines chain documents an average exhumation rate of about 0:7 mm=yr: This result suggests that the general exhumation of the chain is driven mainly by erosion. Nev... | {
"abstract": "Fission-track grain-age distributions for detrital zircon are used in this study to resolve the late Cenozoic exhumation history of the European Alps. Grain-age distributions were determined for six sandstone samples and one modern river sediment sample, providing a record from 15 Ma to present. All sa... |
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"abstract": "We adapted the join-training scheme of Faster RCNN framework from Caffe to TensorFlow as a baseline implementation for object detection. Our code is made publicly available. This report documents the simplifications made to the original pipeline, with justifications from ablation analysis on both PASCA... | {
"abstract": "The performance of object detection has been improved as the success of deep architectures. The main algorithm predominantly used for general detection is Faster R-CNN because of their high accuracy and fast inference time. In pedestrian detection, Region Proposal Network (RPN) itself which is used for... | {
"abstract": "This paper investigates a concept for highly ubiquitous game interactions in pervasive games. Pervasive gaming is increasingly popular, but steadily improving mobile and ubiquitous technologies (e.g. smartwatches) have yet to be utilised to their full potential in this area. For this purpose, we implem... |
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"abstract": "Extended sexual receptivity in primates is thought to facilitate paternity confusion, thus decreasing the risk of infanticide. However, females might also provide some indication of ovulation to attract preferred males during fertile periods. We examined female mate preferences across defined receptive... | {
"abstract": "Intersexual conflicts over mating can engender antagonistic coevolution of strategies, such as coercion by males and selective resistance by females. Orangutans are exceptional among mammals for their high levels of forced copulation. This has typically been viewed as an alternative mating tactic used ... | {
"abstract": "SummaryData on reproductive activity in one group of free-ranging Macaca mulatta were analysed in an attempt to assess the explanatory power of male dominance for mate selection when male reproductive performance is weighted in relation to the likelihood of ovulation and conception. In the present stud... |
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"abstract": "This volume provides a comprehensive overview of the current issues facing scientists working on delivering drugs locally and systemically via the membranes that line the mouth. The book describes the anatomical and physiological challenges of this route for drug delivery and how they impact the design... | {
"abstract": "Graphical abstract Figure. No caption available. Abstract Oral mucositis, a common inflammatory side effect of oncological treatments, is a disorder of the oral mucosa that can cause painful ulcerations, local motor disabilities, and an increased risk of infections. Due to the discomfort it produces an... | {
"abstract": "Brief moments of blood flow occlusion followed by reperfusion may promote enhancements in exercise performance. Thus, this study assessed the 24-h effect of post-exercise ischemic conditioning (PEIC) on exercise performance and physiological variables in trained cyclists. In a randomized, single-blind ... |
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"abstract": "In this paper, we consider the problem of machine teaching, the inverse problem of machine learning. Different from traditional machine teaching which views the learners as batch algorithms, we study a new paradigm where the learner uses an iterative algorithm and a teacher can feed examples sequential... | {
"abstract": "We present a theoretical analysis of active learning with more realistic interactions with human oracles. Previous empirical studies have shown oracles abstaining on difficult queries until accumulating enough information to make label decisions. We formalize this phenomenon with an “oracle epiphany mo... | {
"abstract": "We present a novel regularization strategy for training neural networks which we call ``BitNet''. The parameters of neural networks are usually unconstrained and have a dynamic range dispersed over a real valued range. Our key idea is to control the expressive power of the network by dynamically quanti... |
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"abstract": "BackgroundCognitive deficits and multiple psychoactive drug regimens are both common in patients treated for opioid-dependence. Therefore, we examined whether the cognitive performance of patients in opioid-substitution treatment (OST) is associated with their drug treatment variables.MethodsOpioid-dep... | {
"abstract": "Cognitive dysfunction is a major feature of drug addiction. In the present paper, we compared the decision-making ability using the Iowa gambling task of methadone- and buprenorphine-maintained individuals to non opiate-dependent drug-free controls. Buprenorphine-maintained individuals performed better... | {
"abstract": "Soft landing on the moon is the main target of the second phase of China Lunar Exploration Project. In order to gain guidance accuracy less than 100m, the terrain relative navigation methods should be involved. However the terrain map of lunar with enough resolution will not be available within trienni... |
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"abstract": "Bacillus subtilis macrofibres, highly ordered multicellular structures, undergo twisting and writhing motions when they grow in fluid medium as a result of forces generated by the elongation of individual cells. Macrofibres are denser than the fluid medium in which they are cultured, consequently they ... | {
"abstract": "Static and dynamic studies of helical Bacillus subtilis macrofibers reveal that a spectrum of twisted states exists ranging from tight left-handed structures with twist equal to approximately equal to 40 left turns per mm to tight right-handed structures with twist equal to 57 right turns per mm. In th... | {
"abstract": "Abstract—Regional seismograms were collected to image the lateral variations of Lg coda Q at 1 Hz (Q0 ) and its frequency dependence <(eta)> in the Middle East using a back-projection method. The data include 124 vertical-component traces recorded at 10 stations during the period 1986–1996. The resulti... |
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"abstract": "Background Command hallucinations are a distressing and high-risk group of symptoms that have long been recognised but little understood, with few effective treatments. In line with our recent research, we propose that the development of an effective cognitive therapy for command hallucinations (CTCH) ... | {
"abstract": "Summary Background Auditory hallucinations—or voices—are a common feature of many psychiatric disorders and are also experienced by individuals with no psychiatric history. Understanding of the variation in subjective experiences of hallucination is central to psychiatry, yet systematic empirical resea... | {
"abstract": "A small controlled trial of cognitive behaviour therapy for drug-resistant psychosis is reported. The study was designed as a pilot study for a future larger and longer randomized controlled trial. The therapy was offered to patients with a diagnosis of schizophrenia or schizo-affective psychosis who p... |
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"abstract": "The photoinactivation of the Escherichia coli bacteria with the pulsed dielectric barrier discharge excilamp krypton chorine (KrCl) emitted at 222 nm is presented. The Escherichia coli, with the initial density of 34.106 colony forming units (CFU)/¿L, has been irradiated in the aqueous and on the surfa... | {
"abstract": "The ultraviolet (UVC) light irradiation has been recently studied as a novel non-thermal treatment method for milk. However, the potential reactivation of microorganisms following exposure to UVC light in milk medium was not studied yet. Therefore, the present study was conducted to determine the inact... | {
"abstract": "Strains of Staphylococcus aureus, an opportunistic pathogen commonly found on human skin, were exposed to sunlight and UV C radiation, and the lethal and mutational effects measured. Sunlight killed cells with an inactivation constant of 3×10-5 per joule per square metre; UV C was much more lethal, giv... |
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"abstract": "In this paper, we propose a novel reduced-rank adaptive filtering algorithm exploiting the Krylov subspace associated with estimates of certain statistics of input and output signals. We point out that, when the estimated statistics are erroneous (e.g., due to sudden changes of environments), the exist... | {
"abstract": "This paper indicates that an appropriate design of metric leads to significant improvements in the adaptive projected subgradient method (APSM), which unifies a wide range of projection-based algorithms [including normalized least mean square (NLMS) and affine projection algorithm (APA)]. The key is to... | {
"abstract": "In recent times, games-based learning has been attracting the attention of educators around the world. One of the challenges in deploying games-based learning to cover a larger proportion of the curriculum is the high costs associated with development of the games. Games development often requires spec... |
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"abstract": "Evaluating the effectiveness and performance of neuromorphic hardware is difficult. It is even more difficult when the task of interest is a closed-loop task; that is, a task where the output from the neuromorphic hardware affects some environment, which then in turn affects the hardware’s future input... | {
"abstract": "The design and simulation of a scalable neural chip with synaptic electronics using nanoscale memristors fully integrated with complementary metal?oxide?semiconductor (CMOS) is presented. The circuit consists of integrate-and-fire neurons and synapses with spike-timing dependent plasticity (STDP). The ... | {
"abstract": "Intelligent behaviour in the real-world requires the ability to acquire new knowledge from an ongoing sequence of experiences while preserving and reusing past knowledge. We propose a novel algorithm for unsupervised representation learning from piece-wise stationary visual data: Variational Autoencode... |
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"abstract": "Anti-p-azophenylarsonate (anti-Ar) antibodies elicited in all strain A/J mice tested share one or more idiotypic specificities. These specificities are also found in the anti-Ar antibodies of mice of the closely related strain, AL/N, but not in those of BALB/c mice. Anti-Ar antibodies were elicited in ... | {
"abstract": "THE induction of monoclonal, plasma cell tumours which produce immunoglobulin in the inbred BALB/c strain of mice is a unique form of carcinogenesis1,2. Mouse plasma cell tumours have been produced by intraperitoneal implantation of solid materials, such as plastic diffusion chambers, polymethylmethacr... | {
"abstract": "Oxidative stress is involved in the pathogenesis of pulmonary fibrosis, therefore antioxidants may be of therapeutic value. Clinical work indicates that N‐acetylcysteine (NAC) may be beneficial in this disease. The activity of this antioxidant was examined on bleomycin-induced lung damage, mucus secret... |
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"abstract": "Males born preterm are at greater risk of illness and death than females, principally due to respiratory disease. Much of the excess morbidity occurs within the first few hours of life. Therefore, the aim of the present study was to investigate whether or not differences in the cardiopulmonary transiti... | {
"abstract": "We investigated factors affecting the sex differential in neonatal mortality rate using linked birth and death certificates of more than 300,000 infants born in Georgia between 1974 and 1977. The neonatal mortality rate was higher in male infants than in female infants (relative risk = 1.23, p less tha... | {
"abstract": "The value of scintigraphy in the early detection of osteomyelitis is demonstrated in children who had signs and symptoms suggestive of bone infection. Nine patients between 2 and 13 years of age were evaluated with technetium Tc 99m diphosphonate bone scintigrams and roentgenograms. Blood cultures were... |
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"abstract": "g-C3 N4 has been found to be highly functional in many fields, such as photocatalysis, electrocatalysis, and chemical analysis. Pickering emulsion polymerization is a fascinating strategy to fabricate a range of nanomaterials, in which the emulsion is stabilized by solid particles, rather than molecula... | {
"abstract": "Abstract In this paper, a highly efficient photocatalyst of ZnTCPP sensitized g-C3N4 was successfully constructed via a facile thermal polycondensation method. The FT-IR and XRD data indicated that ZnTCPP molecules were successfully condensed on the surface of g-C3N4 through amide groups as the bridgin... | {
"abstract": "Substantial improvements in the selectivity of amperometric monitoring of flowing streams are obtained by using detectors coated with neutral n-alkanethiol monolayers. Permselective transport properties, based on solute polarity, are obtained and add a new dimension of information to amperometric detec... |
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"abstract": "Theoretical models predict that macromolecular crowding can increase protein folding stability, but depending on details of the models (e.g., how the denatured state is represented), the level of stabilization predicted can be very different. In this study, we represented the native and denatured state... | {
"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nIn the cellular environment, macromolecules occupy about 30% of a cell's volume. In this crowded environment, proteins behave very differently than in dilute solution where scientists typically study the properties of proteins. For this reason, recent studies have investigated proteins in c... | {
"abstract": "The oxidative refolding of reduced, denatured hen egg white lysozyme in the presence of a mixed macromolecular crowding agent containing both bovine serum albumin (BSA) and polysaccharide has been studied from a physiological point of view. When the total concentration of the mixed crowding agent is 10... |
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"abstract": "Peptidoglycan is predominantly cross-linked by serine dd-transpeptidases in most bacterial species. The enzymes are the essential targets of β-lactam antibiotics. However, unrelated cysteine ld-transpeptidases have been recently recognized as a predominant mode of peptidoglycan cross-linking in Mycobac... | {
"abstract": "The l,d-transpeptidases, Ldts, catalyze peptidoglycan cross-linking in β-lactam-resistant mutant strains of several bacteria, including Enterococcus faecium and Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Although unrelated to the essential d,d-transpeptidases, which are inactivated by the β-lactam antibiotics, they a... | {
"abstract": "A heterotypic multienzyme complex from sheep liver containing seven aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases specific for isoleucine, leucine, methionine, glutamine, glutamic acid, lysine and arginine was subjected to kinetic analyses to examine the possibility that association of these enzymes may impart kinetic pr... |
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"abstract": "Angiotensin II (Ang II) might induce pro‐inflammatory effects directly in the vascular wall independently of its haemodynamic effects. The aim of our study was to investigate the putative direct pro‐inflammatory and vasomotor effects of Ang II and compare to those of lipopolysaccharides (LPS) in mouse ... | {
"abstract": "Endothelial cells play a critical role in inflammation by responding to several endogenous and exogenous proinflammatory stimuli. The three most studied factors that provide inflammatory signals to endothelial cells are lipopolysaccharide (LPS), tumor necrosis factor (TNF)‐α, and interleukin (IL)‐1β; h... | {
"abstract": "The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of insulin resistance on glycogen concentration and glycogen synthase activity in the red and white gastrocnemius muscles and to determine whether the inverse relationship existing between glycogen concentration and enzyme activity is maintained in in... |
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"abstract": "A dissertation submitted in partial fulfilment of the award of the Degree of Master of Arts Ethics and Public Management in the Department of Philosophy Faculty Of Arts \nMakerere University.",
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"title": "The impact of unethical conduct among civil servants on service deliver... | {
"abstract": "use of the common proper ty, and gov ern in-g docume nts that prov ide acons titutionby which the asso ciation and its memb er s ar e gov erned . Common in terest dev elopment s take the form of si ngle family houses, townhous es, and apartment s, ranging in siz e from two to thousands of units, housin... | {
"abstract": "This paper describes a simulation model to estimate the enrollments and expenditures associated with various policy alternatives for the post-secondary education system of a state, with Indiana as an example. Enrollments, operating expenditures, and construction costs are predicted for every public and... |
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"abstract": "The effect of the crystal structure of silicon LPCVD thin films on the initial residue stress and changes under post deposition treatment was investigated. It is shown that initial residue stress as-deposited films are under compression regardless of the crystal structure. Sharp change of the residue s... | {
"abstract": "Calculation and measurements of Young's modulus, Poisson's ratio, shear modulus, and internal strain for fine-grained polysilicon as a function of processing conditions are presented. Calculations are based on appropriate averaging of single-crystal silicon properties, taking into account the film morp... | {
"abstract": "A condenser microphone design that can be fabricated using the sacrificial layer technique is proposed and tested. The microphone backplate is a 1- mu m plasma-enhanced chemical-vapor-deposited (PECVD) silicon nitride film with a high density of acoustic holes (120-525 holes/mm/sup 2/), covered with a ... |
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"abstract": "This clinical report describes the use of a subepithelial connective tissue graft to recontour a soft tissue margin discrepancy for a single-implant crown in the anterior maxilla. This procedure demonstrates that the use of soft tissue grafts to correct an esthetic deficiency may be a feasible approach... | {
"abstract": "The reconstruction of deficient alveolar ridges using vertical and/or horizontal guided bone regeneration techniques allows for ideal implant placement, which is crucial for function and also for esthetically successful outcomes. Unlike in the past, when meeting a patient's functional demands was suffi... | {
"abstract": "Nowadays, network security is increasing rapidly and becoming an important and challenging issue. Information and internet security threats and attacks are becoming difficult to be detected. Therefore, encryption has come up as a solution, and plays an important role in information security system. Man... |
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"abstract": "Study Design. Prospective evaluation of 24 consecutive patients with isthmic spondylolisthesis with chronic back, buttock, and leg pain treated by endoscopic foraminal decompression and followed for a minimum of 2 years. Objectives. To assess the efficacy of endoscopic foraminal decompression and mobil... | {
"abstract": "Transforaminal percutaneous endoscopic lumbar discectomy is regarded as an effective alternative to open discectomy. Remarkable technical evolution now enables selective endoscopic removal of an epidurally extruded disc fragment. As a result, the surgical indications for this technique are becoming bro... | {
"abstract": "&NA; The course of pain associated with temporomandibular disorders (TMD) and other chronic pain conditions is typically episodic. Its expression may influence when a person seeks treatment, for example, when the level of pain flares up or exceeds its characteristic severity. Improvement in pain status... |
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"abstract": "Looking at the societal functions that cause radical societal change as the products of us – our society’s producers and users– entails investigating systems functioning within the nature of our human nature. This article shows the interchange of these systems, the lack of balance among them and their ... | {
"abstract": "Principles and practice of geriatric sleep medicine / , Principles and practice of geriatric sleep medicine / , کتابخانه دیجیتال جندی شاپور اهواز",
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"title": "Principles and Practice of Geriatric Sleep Medicine: Treatment of sleep disorders in the elderly"
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"abstract": "It has been hypothesized that Tree Adjoining Grammar (TAG) is particularly well suited for sentence generation. It is unclear, however, how a sentence generation system based on TAG should choose among the syntactic possibilities made available in the grammar. In this paper we consider the question of ... |
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"abstract": "We report on a new photon-counting detector possessing unprecedented spatial resolution and moderate spectral resolution for 0.1-100 keV X-rays. It consists of an X-ray charge-coupled device (CCD) and a scintillator. The scintillator is directly coupled to the back surface of the X-ray CCD. Low-energy ... | {
"abstract": "We have investigated the radiation damage effects on a charge-cloupled device (CCD) to be employed in the Japanese X-ray astronomy mission including the monitor of all-sky X-ray image (MAXI) onboard the international space station (ISS). Since low-energy protons release their energy mainly at the charg... | {
"abstract": "A high energy telescope design is presented which combines grazing incidence geometry with Bragg reflection in a graded d-spacing multilayer coating to obtain significant sensitivity up to --6O keV. The concept utilizes total reflection and first order Bragg reflection in a graded d-spacing multilayer ... |
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"abstract": "We argue that in order to detect stance, not only the explicit attitudes of the stance holder towards the targets are crucial. It is the whole narrative the writer drafts that counts, including the way he hypostasizes the discourse referents: as benefactors or villains, as victims or beneficiaries. We ... | {
"abstract": "In this work, we build an entity/event-level sentiment analysis system, which is able to recognize and infer both explicit and implicit sentiments toward entities and events in the text. We design Probabilistic Soft Logic models that integrate explicit sentiments, inference rules, and +/-effect event i... | {
"abstract": "This study examined the relative effectiveness of two approaches to teaching learning disabled students literal comprehension during content area instruction. An approach which utilized an advanced organizer in the form of a visual spatial display was compared to a method in which students were present... |
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"abstract": "We study question answering systems over knowledge graphs which map an input natural language question into candidate formal queries. Often, a ranking mechanism is used to discern the queries with higher similarity to the given question. Considering the intrinsic complexity of the natural language, fin... | {
"abstract": "Existing knowledge-based question answering systems often rely on small annotated training data. While shallow methods like relation extraction are robust to data scarcity, they are less expressive than the deep meaning representation methods like semantic parsing, thereby failing at answering question... | {
"abstract": "This paper investigates the use of deep belief networks (DBN) for semantic tagging, a sequence classification task, in spoken language understanding (SLU). We evaluate the performance of the DBN based sequence tagger on the well-studied ATIS task and compare our technique to conditional random fields (... |
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"abstract": "The newly introduced model-free control is applied to the stabilization of an active magnetic bearing, which is a most important industrial device. Experimental results are compared to those obtained via other control techniques, showing at least on-par performance with this very straightforward approa... | {
"abstract": "The ubiquity of PID controllers in the industry has remained mysterious until now. We provide here a mathematical explanation of this strange phenomenon by comparing their sampling with the the one of “intelligent” PID controllers, which were recently introduced. Some computer simulations nevertheless ... | {
"abstract": "Abstract SO 2 adsorbed on solids inactive for the n -butene isomerization, such as NaX zeolite, porous Vycor glass, or silica gel, catalyzes selectively the cis-trans isomerization of 2-butenes at room temperature. On solids active for the reactions, such as γ-Al 2 O 3 , NiO, or α-Fe 2 O 3 , SO 2 poiso... |
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"abstract": "US-bound immigrants with suspected non-infectious TB are encouraged to be medically re-evaluated after arrival in the United States. We evaluated the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s immigrant referral process, designed to facilitate timely post-arrival evaluations. Over 1,200 immigrants wi... | {
"abstract": "In low tuberculosis incidence regions, tuberculosis is mainly concentrated among hard-to-reach populations like migrants, homeless people, drug or alcohol abusers, prisoners and people living with HIV. To be able to eliminate tuberculosis from these low incidence regions tuberculosis screening and trea... | {
"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nThe resurgence of tuberculosis (TB) and the increase in multidrug-resistant TB prompted this study, which estimates direct expenditures for TB treatment and public health activities in the United States.\n\n\nMETHODS\nThis retrospective cost of illness study estimated 1991 direct expenditur... |
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"abstract": "Abstract: As shown in Wikipedia, tagging or cross-linking through major keywords in a document collection improves not only the readability of documents but also responsive and adaptive navigation among related documents. In recent years, the Semantic Web has increased the importance of social tagging ... | {
"abstract": "Weak semantic techniques rely on the integration of Semantic Web techniques with social annotations and aim to embrace the strengths of both. In this article, we propose a novel weak semantic technique for query expansion. Traditional query expansion techniques are based on the computation of two-dimen... | {
"abstract": "Web sites (or more in general interactive applications) need to be evaluated from a usability perspective for improving their quality for the end-users. This paper introduces a systematic methodology called MiLE+, which proposes an innovative approach to usability evaluation under several aspects. The ... |
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"abstract": "Sjögren-Larsson syndrome is an inborn error of metabolism with its primary clinical manifestations being congenital ichthyosis, spastic hemiplegia or quadriplegia, and moderate to severe mental retardation. Definitive diagnosis can be made by measuring fatty aldehyde dehydrogenase activity in cultured ... | {
"abstract": "Sjögren-Larsson syndrome (SLS) is a rare autosomal recessive neurocutaneous disorder characterized by the triad of intellectual disability, spastic diplegia or tetraplegia, and congenital ichthyosis with associated ocular features, which include macular glistening dots. Herein, two cases of SLS are pre... | {
"abstract": "OBJECTIVE\nTo assess the clinical outcomes of 45 cases of harlequin ichthyosis and review the underlying ABCA12 gene mutations in these patients.\n\n\nDESIGN\nMulticenter, retrospective, questionnaire-based survey.\n\n\nSETTING\nDermatology research institute.\n\n\nPARTICIPANTS\nPatients with harlequin... |
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"abstract": "Knowledge of the structures of the activin receptor genes is crucial to our understanding of the role of the activins, inhibins, and their receptors in developmental and physiological processes. The type II activin receptor (ActRc) has been shown to be a transmembrane protein with putative serine/threo... | {
"abstract": "A broad and diffuse neuronal network conveys information reflecting the state of the internal and external environment to the neurosecretory hypothalamus. Recently, we identified an inhibin-beta A- (I beta A) immunoreactive terminal field within the CRF-rich portion of the dorsomedial paraventricular n... | {
"abstract": "1. \n1. Normal cotton rats are completely resistant to infection with a strain of Trypanosoma vivax. This resistance appears to be wholly or largely due to a factor present in the serum in low titre which agglutinates and lyses the trypanosomes. \n \n2. \n2. This factor appears to be specifically direc... |
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"abstract": "In a recent review, Mathijssen et al. [1] proposed using flatfixed dosing regimens rather than body surface area (BSA)based dosing for anticancer drugs because “it does not seem worse than using BSA-based dosing” with regard to pharmacokinetic variability. We feel that this statement, together with oth... | {
"abstract": "More than 60% of adults in the United States have a body mass index (BMI) over 25 and are considered overweight or obese. Clinicians traditionally order chemotherapy doses based on a patient's estimated body-surface area (BSA) using formulas that were developed decades ago. Despite studies confirming t... | {
"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nRelations between organs and body size are not linear but rather follow allometric (growth) relations characterized by their powers (exponents).\n\n\nMETHODS AND RESULTS\nStroke volume (SV) by M-mode echocardiography was related to height, weight, body surface area (BSA), and ideal BSA (der... |
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"abstract": "This study examined the second-order factor structure of Siller's (1969) Disability Factor Scale--General. Factor analysis of the seven attitudinal factors toward disabled individuals, based on the responses of 200 college students, yielded two major second-order factors. These two second-order factors... | {
"abstract": "THE purpose of this paper is to illustrate the use of a strategy for determining the common factors in a set of data. C. Harris (1967) suggested using several different computing algorithms for the initial solution, obtaining derived solutions, both orthogonal and oblique, comparing the results, and re... | {
"abstract": "A general framework for obtaining all possible factor analytic solutions, orthogonal and oblique, for a given common factor space is developed in detail. Interestingly, and seemingly paradoxically, any one of these solutions may be obtained by orthogonal transformations of selected matrices; thus an ob... |
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"abstract": "NTRODUCTION Since devolution, Scotland has been one of the world leaders in terms of levels of women’s representation: substantial proportions of female parliamentarians were returned in both the 1999 and 2003 elections. The ‘female face’ of the Scottish parliament was widely regarded as one of the ‘su... | {
"abstract": "The following two chapters examine some of the strategies that can be used to overcome the obstacles to political participation outlined in the previous chapter. In this chapter, we focus our attention on two issues. First, we examine the principle steps involved in the legislative recruitment process ... | {
"abstract": "Research on sustainable transport planning has concluded that, for the most part, the policies that will lead to more sustainable outcomes are known and what is required is a more widespread and intense application of such measures. In response, upper tiers of government with responsibility for achievi... |
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"abstract": "Assay validation is a series of the following interrelated processes: an experimental process: reagents and protocols are optimised by experimentation to detect the analyte with accuracy and precision, and to ensure repeatability and reproducibility in the assay. a relative process: its diagnostic sens... | {
"abstract": "In the serodiagnosis of tropical infectious diseases, cut-off values are often established by using sera from individuals living under moderate climatic conditions, not exposed to the risk of infection (non-endemic controls). This approach guarantees the disease-free status of the individuals within th... | {
"abstract": "Lysine is an important indispensable amino acid, and describing the lysine content of a food or feedstuff provides useful information about nutritional value. However, when a food or feedstuff is subjected to heating the lysine present can be altered to nutritionally unavailable derivatives. These deri... |
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"abstract": "Building high quality synthesis systems with open domain vocabulary and a small audio database is a challenging problem, even when the targeted application is well constrained. Monophone unit concatenation (as opposed to diphone) is an approach that can compensate for the poor unit coverage that a smal... | {
"abstract": "Speech generated by parametric synthesizers generally suffers from a typical buzziness, similar to what was encountered in old LPC-like vocoders. In order to alleviate this problem, a more suited modeling of the excitation should be adopted. For this, we hereby propose an adaptation of the Deterministi... | {
"abstract": "In this paper we present a method for speech modeling and its utilization in IBM’s small footprint concatenative text-tospeech system. The method is based on frequency-domain, complex spectral envelope modeling, where the phase component plays a crucial role in attaining high quality speech synthesis. ... |
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"abstract": "Functional MRI (fMRI) and diffusion MRI (dMRI) are non-invasive imaging modalities that allow in-vivo analysis of a patient's brain network (known as a connectome). Use of these technologies has enabled faster and better diagnoses and treatments of neurological disorders and a deeper understanding of t... | {
"abstract": "People spend the majority of their time indoors, and human indoor activities are strongly correlated with the rooms they are in. Room localization, which identifies the room a person or mobile phone is in, provides a powerful tool for characterizing human indoor activities and helping address challenge... |
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"abstract": "In this paper we propose a fast 3D pose based SLAM system that estimates a vehicle’s trajectory by registering sets of planar surface segments, extracted from 360∘360∘ field of view (FOV) point clouds provided by a 3D LIDAR. Full FOV and planar representation of the map gives the proposed SLAM system t... | {
"abstract": "Pose graphs have become a popular representation for solving the simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) problem. A pose graph is a set of robot poses connected by nonlinear constraints obtained from observations of features common to nearby poses. Optimizing large pose graphs has been a bottlenec... | {
"abstract": "Feature subset selection presents a common challenge for the applications where data with tens or hundreds of features are available. Existing feature selection algorithms are mainly designed for dealing with numerical or categorical attributes. However, data usually comes with a mixed format in real-w... |
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"abstract": "Pseudoxanthoma elasticum (PXE), an autosomal recessive multisystem disorder, is caused by mutations in the ABCC6 gene, and approximately 300 distinct mutations representing >1,000 mutant alleles have been disclosed thus far. Few population‐based studies have reported mutational hotspots in some geograp... | {
"abstract": "Pseudoxanthoma elasticum (PXE), an autosomal recessive disorder characterized by ectopic mineralization, is caused by mutations in the ABCC6 gene. We examined clinically 29 Chinese PXE patients from unrelated families, so far the largest cohort of Asian PXE patients. In a subset of 22 patients, we sequ... | {
"abstract": ". The carbon isotopic signature inherited from soil/epikarst processes may be modified by degassing and prior calcite 15 precipitation (PCP) before its imprint on speleothem calcite. Despite laboratory demonstration of PCP effects on carbon isotopes and increasingly sophisticated models of the governin... |
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"abstract": "The pathogenesis of hypersensitivity angiitis (microscopic polyarteritis nodosa) is controversial. Although evidence in favour of the immune complex theory is strong,'4 some experienced investigators have failed to demonstrate immune complex deposits in lesions by direct immunofluorescence,44 and to ou... | {
"abstract": "More than 100 cases of Wegener's granulomatosis have been described since the original reports of Klinger in 1931 and Wegener in 1936. Clinically, the disease is characterized by a severe progressive sinusitis; cough; and finally, in the majority of cases, by renal failure. 1,2 Pathologically it has be... | {
"abstract": "Given an extension E/F of Galois fields and an intermediate field K, we consider the problem whether the (E, K)-trace of a primitive F-normal element of E can be a prescribed F-normal element of K. An interesting application is the existence of trace-compatible sequences of primitive F-normal elements ... |
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"abstract": "The bacterium Piscirickettsia salmonis is the etiological agent of salmonid rickettsial septicemia (SRS), a severe disease that causes major economic losses to the Atlantic salmon aquaculture industry every year. Little is known about the infective strategy of P. salmonis, which is able to infect, surv... | {
"abstract": "ABSTRACT Introduction: Piscirickettsia salmonis (P. salmonis) is the aetiological bacterium of the contagious disease piscirickettsiosis or salmonid rickettsial septicaemia (SRS) and causes significant economic losses to aquaculture production in Chile. Current strategies to control infection are i) in... | {
"abstract": "The turbulent #ow over a circular hill, having a cosine-squared cross section and a maximum slope of about 323, was investigated using split-\"ber probes designed for measuring #ows with a high turbulence and separation. Pro\"les of the means and variances for the three velocity components are presente... |
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"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nThere are data suggesting a link between proton pump inhibitor (PPI) use and the development of spontaneous bacterial peritonitis (SBP) in cirrhotic patients with ascites; however, these data are controversial.\n\n\nOBJECTIVE\nTo assess whether the use of PPIs in cirrhotic patients with asc... | {
"abstract": "Proton pump inhibitor (PPI) prescribing may often be inappropriate and expose patients to a risk of adverse effects, while incurring unnecessary healthcare expenditure. Our objective was to determine PPI usage in Australia since 2002 and review international studies investigating inappropriate PPI pres... | {
"abstract": "This study was designed to define the role of the interdigestive myoelectric complex in small intestinal bacteriostasis. In rats, six monopolar electrodes were surgically sewn to the small intestine at equal intervals. One week later myoelectric activity was recorded. Under different experimental condi... |
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"abstract": "A UWB array antenna with electromagnetic band-gap (EBG) structures is presented in this article. The proposed patch array consists of two identical microstrip-fed monopole antennas. The EBG structures are etched between the radiating elements to enhance the performance of the patch array antenna. The e... | {
"abstract": "A miniature ultra-wideband (UWB) antenna for wireless universal serial bus (USB) dongle applications is presented. The proposed antenna comprises a half-circular quasi-self-complementary structure together with a triangular cut on a bent microstrip feed line. As a result of its simple geometry and comp... | {
"abstract": "At frequent intervals, new reports and papers are published stressing the importance of high quality and quality improvement measures in the public and private sector if Sweden is to survive as a w ...",
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"abstract": "§1. The perspective of historical epistemology §1.1. A spate of scholarly work on the origins of writing has been pursued in the last decades at different places and in different disciplines and with varying success. In this paper, I would like to pose some questions that represent challenges resulting... | {
"abstract": "The rare earth element (REE) geochemistry of various phases from the active TAG hydrothermal mound has been examined and related to their mineralogy and fluid chemistry. The mound deposits range from black and white smoker chimneys, massive anhydrite/sulphide mixtures, oxides, and ochres. All phases, e... |
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"abstract": "A solid-phase radioimmunoassay for the rapid determination of human immunoglobulin M (IgM) rheumatoid factor (RF) has been developed. Preparation of the solid phase for the assay involved the formation of complexes between respiratory syncytial virus-specific human IgG antibodies and virus antigen on t... | {
"abstract": "IgM rheumatoid factor (RF), an autoantibody to the Fc fragment of IgG, was determined by solid-phase enzyme immunoassay (EIA). RF levels were significantly higher in patients with rubella virus infection than in patients with infections due to influenza virus, cytomegalovirus, respiratory syncytial vir... | {
"abstract": "PURPOSE\nExposure to a high number of alcohol outlets and adverts within a community may lead to higher alcohol use by local residents. The aim of this systematic review was to explore evidence on the influence on alcohol use of community level availability and marketing of alcohol.\n\n\nRESULTS\n26 st... |
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"abstract": "Purpose – The aim of this paper is to support public decision‐makers in a local healthcare agency (LHA) in evaluating the effects of different de‐hospitalization strategies and the potential for outsourcing clinical services.Design/methodology/approach – The approach adopted is based on the “patient pa... | {
"abstract": "The main characteristics of researches on Operations Research (OR) applied to Hospital Admission Systems (HAS) are described and analysed, not only in order to determine the interest of this topic and its evolution over the last decade, but also to improve our understanding on this issue. A database wi... | {
"abstract": "Background: A single, acute exposure to ozone has been shown to modify the antioxidant defense mechanism in the respiratory tract. Objective: The aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of ozone exposure on antioxidant response in BALB/c mice. Methods: We measured enhanced pause of breathing (Pen... |
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"abstract": "We examined the effect of repeated cold (RC) stress on cyclophosphamide (CPA)-induced cystitis/bladder pain in mice, in relation to macrophage activity. CPA, given i.p. at 400 mg/kg, caused bladder pain symptoms accompanying cystitis in both unstressed and RC-stressed mice, which were prevented by the ... | {
"abstract": "Disseminated intravascular coagulation is characterized by the widespread activation of coagulation, which results in the intravascular formation of fibrin and ultimately thrombotic occlusion of small and midsize vessels.1–3 Intravascular coagulation can also compromise the blood supply to organs and, ... | {
"abstract": "This paper modifies the management performance index system of engineering project combining quantitative evaluation and qualitative evaluation. On the basis of fuzzy theory, a fuzzy integrative evaluation model of management performance of engineering project is developed. An example is given to expla... |
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"abstract": "Nutrients in overland flow from agricultural areas are a common cause of stream and lake water quality impairment. One method of reducing excess nutrient runoff from non-point sources is to restore or enhance existing riparian areas as vegetative buffers. A field scale study was conducted to assess the... | {
"abstract": "The ability to predict the impact of abiotic stressors on plant assemblage characteristics during habitat restoration is critical in the success of targeted restoration efforts. In an effort to determine wetland plant responses to common agricultural stressors, we seeded 75 mesocosms with soil collecte... | {
"abstract": "What leads people seeking refuge from violence to select one country over another? One view of refugees as forced migrants suggests that they will flee to the nearest safe space. Another view of refugees as opportunists suggests that they will flee to the most free, wealthiest countries. We use a globa... |
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"abstract": "In this paper we present a test structure and design methodology for testing, characterization, and self-repair of TSVs in 3D ICs. The proposed structure can detect the signal degradation through TSVs due to resistive shorts and variations in TSV. For TSVs with moderate signal degradations, the propose... | {
"abstract": "Pre-bond testing of 3D stacked ICs involves testing individual dies before bonding. The overall yield of 3D ICs improves with pre-bond testability because designers can avoid stacking defective dies with good ones. However, pre-bond testability presents unique challenges to 3D clock tree design. First,... | {
"abstract": "Analysis of currents recorded from single channels is complicated by the limited time resolution (filtering) of the data which can prevent the detection of brief intervals. Although a number of approaches have been used to correct for the undetected intervals (missed events) when identifying kinetic mo... |
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"abstract": "Sudden deafness is acute onset of impaired hearing which develops within hours to few days. The commonly accepted audiometric criterion is a decrease in hearing of ≥30 dB, affecting at least three consecutive frequencies. Hearing loss is thought to involve several causative factors, including internal ... | {
"abstract": "OBJECTIVE\nThis study aims to evaluate clinical features of both carotid and vertebral arteries in the idiopathic sudden sensorineural hearing loss (ISSNHL) patients and healthy individuals to contribute additional knowledge on vascular compromise theory.\n\n\nMETHODS\nThis study was designed as a retr... | {
"abstract": "The first edition of The Sciences of the Artificial will be forty years in 2009. In this book Herbert Simon (1916-2001) gives the most complete panorama of his man-made world vision. This world can be first described as a set of artefacts, which are the things created by Humans to satisfy their needs. ... |
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"abstract": "Platelet monoamine oxidase (MAO) activity and electroencephalographic (EEG) sleep measures were examined in 56 drug-free hospitalized patients with primary depression as defined by the Research Diagnostic Criteria. The group included 35 females and 21 males with a mean age of 42.6 +/- 1.4 years. Platel... | {
"abstract": "Platelet monoamine oxidase (MAO) activity was determined with tryptamine as substrate for 61 drug-free patients who had a primary major depressive disorder and for 32 normal controls. Although there were no significant differences between the mean platelet MAO activity of 19 bipolar patients (4.94 nmol... | {
"abstract": "The progression of symptoms during an acute manic episode was studied retrospectively in 20 bipolar manic-depressive patients whose diagnosis was reconfirmed at follow-up. Three stages were delineated, the most severe of which was manifested by bizarre behavior, hallucinations, paranoia, and extreme dy... |
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"abstract": "Amikacin has been used to treat Providencia stuarii infections on the Burn Service at Los Angeles County/University of Southern California Medical Center since March, 1973. The median minimal inhibitory concentration (MIC) of strains collected on this service prior to the introduction of amikacin was 3... | {
"abstract": "A multipledrug-resistant strain of Shigella was first isolated in Japan by Kitamoto and colleagues from a dysentery patient who had just returned from Hong Kong in 1955. This strain was found resistant to sulfanilamide (Su), streptomycin (Sm), chloramphenicol (Cm) and tetracycline (Tc) . NO such strain... | {
"abstract": "Administration of effective antimicrobial agents to a patient with an infectious disease not only may eliminate the causative bacteria but also may produce profound alterations in the normal flora of the body [1-12]. These changes in the bacterial population are usually of no consequence, but they may ... |
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"abstract": "The $QR$ algorithm is still one of the most important methods for computing eigenvalues and eigenvectors of matrices. Most discussions of the $QR$ algorithm begin with a very basic version and move by steps toward the versions of the algorithm that are actually used. This paper outlines a pedagogical p... | {
"abstract": "So far, the best result in running time for solving the “floating” watchman route problem (WRP) is O(n log n); the best result in running time for solving the “fixed” safari route problem (SRP) is O(n log n) published in 2003 by M. Dror, A. Efrat, A. Lubiw, and J. Mitchell. The best result in running t... | {
"abstract": "In recent year wireless communication is most widely used, but there is also traffic in surrounding environment, while transferring the data from source to destination. This can be possible due to channel interference, various obstacles, which result in link failure causes poor performance, require exp... |
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"abstract": "The ability to predict hidden phases under extreme conditions is not only crucial to understanding and manipulating materials but it could also lead to insight into new phenomena and novel routes to synthesize new phases. This is especially true for Ruddlesden-Popper perovskite phases that possess inte... | {
"abstract": "We report temperature and thermal-cycling dependence of surface and bulk structures of double-layered perovskite ${\\text{Sr}}_{3}{\\text{Ru}}_{2}{\\text{O}}_{7}$ single crystals. The surface and bulk structures were investigated using low-energy electron diffraction (LEED) and single-crystal x-ray dif... | {
"abstract": "Abstract A rich variety of ferrihydrite/hematite nanocomposites (NCs) with specific size, composition and properties were obtained in transformation reactions of 2-line ferrihydrite. Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) observations showed that the NCs consist of clusters of strongly aggregated nanop... |
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"abstract": "This study compared six widely used European life‐cycle assessment (LCA) inventory data sets, identified those, data elements that introduce major differences, and quantitatively determined the influence of these data elements for a cradle‐to‐gate LCA o f polyvinyl chloride (PVC).Large differences in d... | {
"abstract": "A Introduction.- 1 Two Paths.- References.- B Overarching Topics of LCA.- 2 System Boundaries.- 2.1 Introduction.- 2.2 Choosing the System Boundaries.- 2.2.1 Basic Considerations.- 2.2.2 The Time Aspect-Period of Analysis.- 2.2.3 Space or Geographical Aspects.- 2.2.4 Subject Aspects.- 2.3 How to Procee... | {
"abstract": "Dwarf pine (Pinus mugo) is a successful pioneer tree, but also an invader of the subalpine belt in Central-European mountains. In the Hrubý Jesenik Mts. (Czech Republic), dwarf pine was introduced at the end of the 19th century by humans into alpine communities. To analyse the influence of non-native w... |
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"abstract": "Introduction The Harjavalta area (Figure 1) is one of the areas most seriously polluted by heavy metals in Finland. Copper smelting first started in 1945, and nickel smelting in 1959. The smelted ore concentrates contain sulphur, trace metals and arsenic. Although emissions of SO2 and heavy metals from... | {
"abstract": "Three sample plots were established in tree stands growing at distances of 0.5, 4 and 8 km from the Harjavalta smelter. The breast height diameter of all the trees, and the height of about 30 sample trees on each plot (625–900 m2 in size), were measured in 1991 and again in 1996. The sample trees were ... | {
"abstract": "In addition to extreme abiotic conditions, biotic factors such as grazing influence the growth of tundra plants. Strategies of carbon assimilation, accumulation, and utilization must not only satisfy the requirements of a rigorous physical environment but also must simultaneously adjust to the impacts ... |
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"abstract": "Finger vein images are rich in orientation and edge features. Inspired by the edge histogram descriptor proposed in MPEG-7, this paper presents an efficient orientation-based local descriptor, named histogram of salient edge orientation map (HSEOM). HSEOM is based on the fact that human vision is sensi... | {
"abstract": "Mixing, abduction and illegal adoption of infant is a global challenge and the research done to solve this problem is minimal. Traditional methods of biometric and non biometric techniques have their own limitations and fail to provide required level of security. The task of face recognition has been a... | {
"abstract": "Abstract : The Australian Defence Force (ADF) is committed to transitioning, over time, to Network Centric Warfare (NCW). NCW sees the elements of the ADF as \"nodes\" in a network. The capability of such a force is determined not so much by the individual capabilities of each node, but by the systems ... |
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"abstract": "Enterprise architecture is practiced in different ways, and there are different types of enterprise architects with quite different roles. This paper looks closer at the role of enterprise architects and the importance of the enterprise architects' understanding of boundary issues in their practice. Th... | {
"abstract": "For large enterprises, IT governance is a major lever to influence the way how IT enables business. The authors hypothesize that a part of IT governance, namely business-IT responsibility sharing and structural IT organization, has a strong influence on IT architecture complexity of large enterprises. ... | {
"abstract": "In a decade ago software engineering exploration progressively focused on software quality improvement and assessment, however the major of these researchers focus on the internal/development perspective i.e. they did not consider users point of views. Nevertheless users mainly attention in the quality... |
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"abstract": "Classification of objects into their specific classes is always been significant tasks of machine learning. As the study of flower, categorizing specific class of flower is important subject in the field of Botany but the similarity between the diverse species of flowers, texture and color of flowers, ... | {
"abstract": "In this work we investigate the effect of the convolutional network depth on its accuracy in the large-scale image recognition setting. Our main contribution is a thorough evaluation of networks of increasing depth using an architecture with very small (3x3) convolution filters, which shows that a sign... | {
"abstract": "We present Magiclock, a novel potential deadlock detection technique by analyzing execution traces (containing no deadlock occurrence) of large-scale multithreaded programs. Magiclock iteratively eliminates removable lock dependencies before potential deadlock localization. It divides lock dependencies... |
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"abstract": "Background: Mood and negative emotional states and their regulation in patients with post-traumatic stress disorder have family, social and employment problems. Practices that could be helpful in this area are highly important. Objectives: The current study aimed to investigate the influence of mindful... | {
"abstract": "A core manifestation of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a disconnection between physiological state and psychological or behavioral processes necessary to adequately respond to environmental demands. Patients with PTSD experience abnormal oscillations in autonomic states supporting either figh... | {
"abstract": "The current report used confirmatory factor analysis to examine the latent structures of both key features and associated symptoms of three disorders that commonly develop following a traumatic event: posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), major depressive disorder (MDD), and generalized anxiety disorde... |
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"abstract": "Mobile phone technology has led to implementation of portable and inexpensive microscopes. Lightemitting diode (LED) array microscopes support various multicontrast imaging by flexible illumination patterns of the LED array that can be achieved without changing the optical components of the microscope.... | {
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"abstract": "We demonstrate the design and application of an add-on device for improving the diagnostic and research capabilities of CellScope—a low-cost, smartphone-based point-of-care microscope. We replace the single LED illumination of the original CellScope with a programmable domed LED array. By leveraging re... |
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"abstract": "Human Cytomegalovirus (hCMV), which is the prototype member of the β-subfamily of the herpesvirus family, is a pathogen of high clinical relevance in recipients of hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT). hCMV causes multiple-organ disease and interstitial pneumonia in particular upon infection during... | {
"abstract": "Human CMV establishes a lifelong latent infection in the majority of people worldwide. Although most infections are asymptomatic, immunocompetent hosts devote an extraordinary amount of immune resources to virus control. To increase our understanding of CMV immunobiology in an animal model, we used a g... | {
"abstract": "ABSTRACT Chemokines are important mediators of the early inflammatory response to infection and modify a wide range of host immune responses. Functional homologs of cellular chemokines have been identified in a number of herpesviruses, suggesting that the subversion of the host chemokine response contr... |
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"abstract": "Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) affect nearly 2 million hospitalized patients annually and is both costly and potentially life-threatening. Though most HAIs associated with the use of medical devices may be avoidable, studies have found considerable variation in ways U.S. hospitals go about pre... | {
"abstract": "Abstract : Patient safety is an important national issue. To date, there has been little attention paid to patient safety in rural hospitals, which make up nearly half of all U.S. hospitals. Information is needed to target interventions for improving patient safety. Our objective was to determine how p... | {
"abstract": "Introduction With the acute shortage of human resources and infrastructure, mobile phones can be a critical tool for accessing health services and strengthening health systems in Bangladesh. Yet, there is a scarcity of evidence on the use of mobile phones in this context for accessing health services. ... |
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"abstract": "Background Medication nonadherence poses a serious and a hard-to-tackle problem for many chronic diseases. Electronic health (eHealth) apps that foster patient engagement and shared decision making (SDM) may be a novel approach to improve medication adherence. Objective The aim of this study was to inv... | {
"abstract": "ABSTRACT Introduction: Asthma and allergic rhinitis (AR) are chronic conditions in which management needs adherence to prescribed drugs. Despite the benefits of regular maintenance of asthma and AR therapy, low adherence is a frequent issue in clinical practice. Areas covered: The aim of this review is... | {
"abstract": "Objective: To assess the determinants of poor mid-term health related quality of life (HRQoL) at one year after primary isolated coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG). Methods: 463 patients who underwent primary isolated CABG for multivessel disease and came for their annual follow up at the outpatien... |
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"abstract": "This study was aimed at exploring the reclamation of sewage treatment plant effluent water (SEW) as an alternative water resource. For the oxidation of SEW, an ozone-UV system, based on the results of the combined ozone/UV process performed in our previous study, was set up under practical conditions, ... | {
"abstract": "ABSTRACT The effect of six water quality constituents on wastewater effluent disinfection by tin oxide anodes (TOAs) was investigated in single cell laboratory reactors. Several concentrations of suspended solids, chemical oxygen demand (COD), alkalinity, ammonia–nitrogen, nitrite–nitrogen, and nitrate... | {
"abstract": "Abstract The efficiency of 5 different types of u.v. reactors for disinfecting secondary effluent was tested in continuous experiments lasting 4–10 weeks. The units were hydraulically characterized by tracer studies and microbiologically calibrated by measuring the inactivation of a model organism, for... |
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"abstract": "There is considerable interest in natural language conversational interfaces. These allow for complex user interactions with systems, such as fulfilling information requirements in dynamic environments, without requiring extensive training or a technical background (e.g. in formal query languages or sc... | {
"abstract": "We describe a system architecture aimed at supporting Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) activities in a Company Intelligence Support Team (CoIST) using natural language-based knowledge representation and reasoning, and semantic matching of mission tasks to ISR assets. We illustrate a... | {
"abstract": "In today's semantic web, ontology fragmentation and mo- dularization are considered as important tasks due to the size and co- mplexity of prime ontologies. At the same time, the ontology alignment community thrives with solutions for discovering and producing align- ments between semantically related ... |
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"abstract": "Epoxy materials have attracted attention for many applications that require fireproof performance; however, the utilization of hazardous reagents brings about potential damage to human health. Eugenol and cardanol are renewable, harmless resources (according to ECHA) that allow the achievement of synth... | {
"abstract": "The effects of conversion beyond the gel point on the structure-property relationships of epoxy thermosets using formulations representative of the most commonly used epoxy resin and amine curing agents at balanced stoichiometry with an emphasis on the thermal, tensile, and fracture properties were stu... | {
"abstract": "Advances in silicon-on-insulator (Sol) iniregrated circuit technology and the steady development of wider band gap semiconductors like silicon carbide are enabling the practical deployment of high temperature electronics. High temperature civilian and military elecr'ronics applications include distribu... |
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"abstract": "Exosomes are nano-vesicles which can transport a range of molecules including but not limited to proteins and miRNA. This ability of exosomes renders them useful in cellular communication often resulting in biological changes. They have several functions in facilitating normal biological processes such... | {
"abstract": "Exosomes contain plenty of bioactive information, playing an important role in intercellular communication by transfer their bioactive molecular contents to recipient cells. Glioblastoma stem cells (GSCs) and non-GSC glioma cells coexist in GBM microenvironment; GSC-released exosomes contain intracellu... | {
"abstract": "Recently, expression patterns of microRNAs in body fluids underscored their potential as noninvasive biomarkers for various diseases. Here we summarize the current works describing microRNAs in blood cells or serum as biomarkers and the applied methodologies of small RNA purification and detection. Fut... |
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"abstract": "This thesis examines the external energy policy of the European Union in a two-step approach. First, an analysis of the degree of actorness that the EU has achieved in this new policy field is carried out on the basis of the theoretical concept introduced by Bretherton and Vogler. It is argued that the... | {
"abstract": "The following article will analyse the global and geopolitical dimensions of the future international energy security and its implications for Europe and the EU-27. In this context, I will discuss to which extent the EU's newly proclaimed \"Energy Action Plan\" of the EU Spring summit of 2007 and its d... | {
"abstract": "This paper has three objectives. First, we develop an equilibrium pricing model in which consumers have incomplete information about both product qualities and prices. Specifically, manufacturers can use high prices to signal high quality to uninformed consumers. Furthermore, prices of any given brand ... |
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"abstract": "The determinant and the inverse of the distance matrix of a tree have been investigated in the literature, following the classical formulas due to Graham and Pollak for the determinant, and due to Graham and Lovasz for the inverse. We consider two q-analogs of the distance matrix of a tree and obtain f... | {
"abstract": "Abstract A strongly connected directed graph in which any two directed cycles of it share at most one common vertex is called a cactoid digraph. Let D be its distance matrix. By a theorem of Graham, Hoffman and Hosoya, we have det ( D ) ≠ 0 . In this paper, we give the formulas for both the determina... | {
"abstract": "A class of fractional derivative operators (with the Appell hypergeometric function in the kernel) is used here to define a new subclass of analytic functions and a coefficient bound inequality is established for this class of functions. Also, an inclusion theorem for a class of fractional integral ope... |
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"abstract": "A 38-year-old Afro-Caribbean woman, who was pre-dialysis with polycystic kidney disease, received a live-donor kidney transplant from her 55-year-old mother. This study documents her imunosuppression therapy including resolution of an oral Kaposi's sarcoma and explores the many underlying problems with... | {
"abstract": "Chez les patients transplantes, le traitement immunosuppresseur est associe a une augmentation du risque de sarcome de Kaposi. La prise en charge de ces tumeurs est difficile dans la mesure ou l’immunosuppression doit etre poursuivie afin d’empecher la survenue d’un rejet. En 2009, un patient âge de 48... | {
"abstract": "Aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AhR), which was discovered as a receptor for environmental concomitants, plays an important role widely in the immune system. In this study, we assessed AhR involvement in immune-complex-mediated vascular injury by examining the reverse-passive Arthus reaction in AhR heterozy... |
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"abstract": "AbstractThe congenital muscular dystrophies (CMDs) are a heterogeneous group of autosomal recessive disorders. Approximately one half of cases diagnosed with classic CMD show primary deficiency of the laminin α2 chain of merosin. Complete absence of this protein is usually associated with a severe phen... | {
"abstract": "We found partial merosin deficiency in a boy presenting at 12 yr with marked limb weakness and a waddling gait. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) showed the characteristic white matter abnormalities of merosin-negative congenital muscular dystrophy. There were also peripheral demyelinating polyneuropath... | {
"abstract": "Primary merosin-deficient congenital muscular dystrophy (CMD) is a severe form of congenital muscular disorder which is caused by mutations in the laminin alpha2 chain gene (LAMA2). The disease is characterized by marked dystrophic changes in skeletal muscles during early infancy, while little is known... |
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"abstract": "One of the issues in evolutionary algorithms (EAs) is the relative importance of two search operators: mutation and crossover. Genetic algorithms (GAs) and genetic programming (GP) stress the role of crossover, while evolutionary programming (EP) and evolution strategies (ESs) stress the role of mutati... | {
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"corpus_id": 12971702,
"title": "2000a, “Combination and Recombination in Genetic Algorithms"
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"abstract": null,
"corpus_id": 5192962,
"score": -1,
"title": "Web-Based Text Mining of Hotel Customer Comments Using SAS ® Text Miner and Megaputer Polyanalyst ®"
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"abstract": "We investigated how strong cross-bridge number affects sliding speed of regulated Ca(2+)-activated, thin filaments. First, using in vitro motility assays, sliding speed decreased nonlinearly with reduced density of heavy meromyosin (HMM) for regulated (and unregulated) F-actin at maximal Ca(2+). Second... | {
"abstract": "Muscle contraction is highly dynamic and thus may be influenced by viscosity of the medium surrounding the myofilaments. Single, skinned fibers from rabbit psoas muscle were used to test this hypothesis. Viscosity within the myofilament lattice was increased by adding to solutions low molecular weight ... | {
"abstract": "To investigate how Ca2+ binding to troponin C regulates muscle contraction, the Ca2+-sensitive properties of thin filament assembly were studied as the tropomyosin binding, NH2-terminal region of troponin T was progressively shortened. Troponin complexes were prepared that contained skeletal muscle tro... |
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"abstract": "Relapsing polychondritis is a rare syndrome thought to be autoimmune in nature and characterized by inflammation and degeneration of cartilage. The association with a reticuloendothelial malignancy has not previously been reported. A 46-year-old man presented typical clinical manifestations of relapsin... | {
"abstract": "We report an unusual case of a patient with a myelodysplastic syndrome associated with life threatening relapsing polychondritis. The improvement in symptoms attributable to the relapsing polychondritis during treatment of the hematologic disorder suggests that relapsing polychondritis is a paraneoptas... | {
"abstract": "The oxidation of low‐density lipoprotein (LDL; oxLDL) appears to play a key role in the early development of atherosclerosis. Increased serum antibodies against the oxLDL (anti‐oxLDL antibodies) have been found in adults with atherosclerotic disease, as well as in healthy adults. The clinical significa... |
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"abstract": "Exposure of rabbit pulmonary arterial smooth muscle cells to 10 μM of the calcium ionophore A23187 dramatically stimulates cell membrane-associated phospholipase A2 activity and arachidonic acid release. In addition, A23187 also enhances cell membrane-associated serine esterase activity. Serine esteras... | {
"abstract": "Tumour necrosis factor (TNF) is an important mediator of endotoxin-induced vascular collapse and other inflammatory reactions. Eicosanoids have been implicated in the pathogeensis of these responses. In order to explore further the potential interactions between TNF and eicosanoid metabolism in eliciti... | {
"abstract": "Antigen challenge of passively sensitized chopped human lung resulted in the generation of several arachidonic acid cyclooxygenase metabolites (AACM): thromboxane A2 (TxA2) as measured by its stable metabolite TxB2, prostaglandin D2 (PgD2), prostacyclin (PgI2) as measured by its stable metabolite 6-ket... |
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"abstract": "To develop a free‐breathing variable flip angle (VFA) balanced steady‐state free precession (bSSFP) cardiac cine imaging technique with reduced specific absorption rate (SAR) at 3 Tesla.",
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"title": "Free‐breathing variable flip angle balanced SSFP cardiac cine imaging with red... | {
"abstract": "Objective The aim of this study was to evaluate agreement of measured thoracic aortic caliber in patients with aortic disease, using electrocardiographically-(ECG) and pulse-gated breath-hold noncontrast balanced steady-state free precession MRA (ECG-MRA, P-MRA) at 1.5 T, compared with ECG-gated comput... | {
"abstract": "Purpose of reviewThe search for a cure for Duchenne muscular dystrophy and other muscular dystrophies is progressing rapidly despite significant challenges posed by some genes and the complexity of targeting all skeletal muscles. This review focuses on three areas in which experimental clinical studies... |
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"abstract": "This is the second of a series of four articles on Common Good adapted from the author’s doctoral dissertation. This article starts from the three variables in the morality construct in the Catholic Magisterium to review the current related business literatures; their debates and weakneses of their pro... | {
"abstract": "Usury is a concept often associated more with religiously based financial ethics, whether Christian or Islamic, than with the secular world of contemporary finance. The problem is compounded by a tendency to interpret riba, prohibited within Islam, as both usury and interest, without adequately disting... | {
"abstract": "We present a decision-making assistant tool for an integrated product and process design environment for manufacturing applications. Specifically, we target microwave modules that use electro-mechanical components and require optimal solutions to reduce cost, improve quality, and gain leverage in time ... |
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"abstract": "Purpose of review Robot-assisted laparoscopic surgery in urology has gained immense popularity with the daVinci system, but a lot of research teams are working on new robots. The purpose of this study is to review current urologic robots and present future development directions. Recent findings Future... | {
"abstract": "This paper presents a new type of pneumatic motor, a pneumatic step motor (PneuStep). Directional rotary motion of discrete displacement is achieved by sequentially pressurizing the three ports of the motor. Pulsed pressure waves are generated by a remote pneumatic distributor. The motor assembly inclu... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Objective To assess the characteristics and incidence of medical litigation in China and the potential usefulness of the records of such litigation as an indicator of health-care quality. Methods We investigated 13 620 cases of medical malpractice litigation that ended between 2010 and 2015 an... |
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"abstract": "This paper proposes to use probabilistic model checking to synthesize optimal robot policies in multi-tasking autonomous systems that are subject to human-robot interaction. Given the convincing empirical evidence that human behavior can be related to reinforcement models, we take as input a well-studi... | {
"abstract": "The intrinsic complexity of the brain can lead one to set aside issues related to its relationships with the body, but the field of embodied cognition emphasizes that understanding brain function at the system level requires one to address the role of the brain-body interface. It has only recently been... | {
"abstract": "Traditional graph based sentence ranking approaches modeled the documents as a text graph where vertices represent sentences and edges represent pairwise similarity relationships between two sentences. Such modeling cannot capture complex group relationships shared among multiple sentences which can be... |
{
"abstract": "Purpose – This is the first part of a two-part paper. The purpose of this paper is to report on methods that use the Response Surface Methodology (RSM) to investigate an Evolutionary Algorithm (EA) and memory-based approach referred to as McBAR – the Mapping of Task IDs for Centroid-Based Adaptation wi... | {
"abstract": "Pigeon-inspired optimization (PIO) is a new swarm intelligence optimization algorithm, which is inspired by the behavior of homing pigeons. A variant of pigeon-inspired optimization named multi-objective pigeon-inspired optimization (MPIO) is proposed in this paper. It is also adopted to solve the mult... | {
"abstract": "In the design of the organisation of a multiagent system the concept of role is funda- mental. We informally analyse this concept through examples. Then we propose a more formal definition that can be decomposed into: the conditions to hold a role, the norms and powers to change some normative facts th... |
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"abstract": "Abstract 1. 1. The major direction of the first stage of the reaction of hydroxylamine with uridine and UMP (pH optimum approx. 8) is the addition of the neutral reagent molecule to the C-5-C-6 double bond of the neutral uracil nucleus. 2. 2. The structures of the adducts of uridine and uridine 5′-phos... | {
"abstract": "Abstract During the reaction of H2O2 with deoxyribonucleotides or their components, the ultraviolet absorption decreased at rates which were for cytosine > thymine > adenine > guanine . The chromatographic separation of the reaction mixtures revealed that all four bases were partially removed from both... | {
"abstract": "Abstract An amber suppressing tyrosine transfer RNA has been converted to an ochre suppressor by hydroxylamine mutagenesis. Nucleotide sequence analysis reveals that the anticodon of the new suppressor is UUA as expected.",
"corpus_id": 46396697,
"score": 2,
"title": "Identification of an ochre-s... |
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"abstract": "AimStudies have identified the metabolically obese normal-weight (MONW) phenotype, which carries increased risk of diabetes and cardiovascular disease. We aimed to investigate the ability of lipid accumulation product (LAP) and visceral adiposity index (VAI), two markers of visceral obesity, to identif... | {
"abstract": "Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is a common condition in women of reproductive age. 2 PCOS phenotypes (classic and ovulatory) are currently recognized as the most prevalent, with important differences in terms of cardiometabolic features. We studied the performance of different adiposity indexes to pr... | {
"abstract": "Gaining weight is associated with diabetes risk (1–3). It may be, however, that gaining lipid is associated more specifically with the development of insulin resistance, pancreatic exhaustion, and diabetes. According to a current pathophysiological model, when available fuels exceed the adipose tissue’... |
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"abstract": "The social media network phenomenon leads to a massive amount of valuable data that is available online and easy to access. Many users share images, videos, comments, reviews, news and opinions on different social networks sites, with Twitter being one of the most popular ones. Data collected from Twit... | {
"abstract": "A taxonomy that classifies ensemble models in the literature is presented.Surface and deep features integration is explored to improve classification.Several ensembles of classifiers and features are proposed and evaluated.Performance of the proposed models is evaluated on several sentiment datasets. D... | {
"abstract": "Latent fingerprints are one of the most crucial sources of evidence in forensic investigations. As such, development of automatic latent fingerprint recognition systems to quickly and accurately identify the suspects is one of the most pressing problems facing fingerprint researchers. One of the first ... |
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"abstract": "This paper presents a state machine-based architecture, which enhances the flexibility and reusability of industrial robots, more concretely dual-arm multisensor robots. The proposed architecture, in addition to allowing absolute control of the execution, eases the programming of new applications by in... | {
"abstract": "Nowadays, factories are required to increase production flexibility in order to manufacture small-lot variants, rapidly adapting to customer demands. Furthermore, manufacturing may involve complex manipulation tasks, usually performed by human workers. In such a context, traditional robotic systems are... | {
"abstract": "The Statistical Machine Translation (SMT) systems are developed using sentence aligned parallel corpus. The difficulty is that there is no parallel corpus at the required measure for many language pairs. The preparation of large scale parallel corpus takes time and demands the linguistics skill. In the... |
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"abstract": "Torsion of the gallbladder is a rare entity. Approximately 300 cases have been reported since it was first described in 1898 by Wendel (Ann. Surg. 1898; 27:199). The condition occurs most often in the elderly. Although the etiology is unknown, a constant finding is the presence of the gallbladder on a ... | {
"abstract": "Gallbladder volvulus is a known but rare condition that often presents with acute abdomen in the elderly population. Less than 500 cases have been previously reported and the incidence is unknown. Only a few have reported a preoperative diagnosis of gallbladder volvulus, and imaging remains non-diagnos... | {
"abstract": "A method for generating serotonin raphe neurons in vitro will aid the study of genetic variants and drugs that modulate serotonin activity.",
"corpus_id": 3199086,
"score": 0,
"title": "Serotonin neurons in a dish"
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"abstract": "Motivation for Volunteering With Older Adults in a Rural Community by Tonia Maria Truesdell MS, Walden University, 2005 BA, Finlandia University 2002 Dissertation Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy Psychology Walden University August 2016 Abstrac... | {
"abstract": null,
"corpus_id": 153678046,
"title": "Winter weather – an obstacle to older people’s activities?"
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"abstract": "OBJECTIVES\nSocial inactivity predicts adverse health events, but less is known about how different dimensions of social activity are related to health. The aim of this study was to investigate collective (e.g., cultural and organizational activities) and productive (e.g., helping others) social activi... |
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