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"abstract": "Rapid determinations of bloodgas parameters are desirable in today's clinical care. This calls for continuousin vivo measurements with miniaturised electrodes. In this study we have replaced the commonly used glass pH sensor in a pCO2-electrode of the conventional type with a monocrystalline antimony e... | {
"abstract": "Re-evaluation of microelectrode methodology for the in vitro determination of pH and bicarbonate concentration. The behavior of glass, antimony and quinhydrone microelectrodes was evaluated in an in vitro system in which the pH of 25- to 35-nl droplets of standard bicarbonate solutions (equilibrated wi... | {
"abstract": "In this paper, we study a layout problem of a digraph using queues. The queuenumber of a digraph is the minimum number of queues required for a queue layout of the digraph. We present upper and lower bounds on the queuenumber of an iterated line digraph L k (G) of a digraph G. In particular, our upper ... |
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"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nMental and physical health problems are more prevalent among individuals with an intellectual disability (ID) than in the general population. Studies suggest that there may be significant associations between these co-occurring disorders and aggressive behaviour, but few studies have taken ... | {
"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nA critical step for improving the prediction of on-ward violence is the identification of variables that are not only consistently associated with an increased risk of aggression but also easily evaluated during the admission interview. The goal of this prospective study was to assess the p... | {
"abstract": "OBJECTIVES\nThis study sought to determine whether post-operative neurocognitive dysfunction (POCD) occurs after ablation for atrial fibrillation (AF).\n\n\nBACKGROUND\nAblation for AF is a highly effective strategy; however, the risk of transient ischemic attack and stroke is approximately 0.5% to 1%.... |
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"abstract": "SUMMARY Studies were carried out on the semen characteristics and libido of a South Devon bull. Seven ejaculates were first collected by the electro-ejaculation technique. The percentage incidence of morphologically abnormal cells ranged from 18·65% in the first to 7·6% in the seventh ejaculate. Live s... | {
"abstract": "The collection of semen from domestic animals by electrical stimulation is not a new procedure. Numerous reports (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11) since the early work of Gunn (12) with rams have shown that bulls, rams, boars, bucks and dogs may be made to ejaculate by electrical stimulation of the e... | {
"abstract": "Abstract An investigation into the location of certain chemical constituents in the mature ram spermatozoon is described. This included magnesium, calcium, potassium, phosphate, sulphydryl groups, proteins, polysaccharides, nuclear material, lipids, cholesterol, and acid and alkaline phosphatase. The r... |
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"abstract": "AbstractBackground\nThe purpose of this study is to evaluate whether computed tomography perfusion (CTP) can evaluate the biological change during chemoradiation therapy (CRT) and the survival of patients with esophageal cancer after CRT.MethodsThirty-two consecutive patients (31 men, 1 woman; mean age... | {
"abstract": "The correlation between the number of pathologic metastatic LNs in patients with esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) after neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy (NACRT) and surgical outcome has rarely been reported. We evaluated the correlation between the number of pathologic metastatic lymph nodes (LNs... | {
"abstract": "Absolute quantification of pancreatic perfusion in man has been extremely difficult to date. This paper describes a relatively simple application of dynamic computed tomography to provide perfusion imaging of the human pancreas. Values for perfusion in eight normal pancreases ranged between 1.25 and 1.... |
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"abstract": "It is a critical step to control the cutting vibration during diamond turning in order to obtain super smooth surface. Both the wavelet transformation method and the autoregressive moving average (ARMA) model are combined utilized to predict and fit the cutting vibration signals in diamon turning. Firs... | {
"abstract": "This paper proposes a new self-organizing model of fuzzy autoregressive moving average with exogenous input variables (FARMAX) for one day ahead hourly load forecasting of power systems. To achieve the purpose of self-organizing the FARMAX model, identification of the fuzzy model is formulated as a com... | {
"abstract": "Abstract CsPbIBr2 perovskite solar cells (PSCs) have received considerable concern due to their excellent stability. However, the interface defects and imperfect band alignment between electron transporting layer (ETL) and perovskite is one of the main reasons for hindering further efficiency improveme... |
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"abstract": "Autoimmune disorders, medical interventions, and aging are all known to be associated with salivary gland hypofunction, which results in the uncomfortable feeling of dry mouth (xerostomia) and significantly diminished oral health. The current therapeutic regimen includes increasing oral hydration using... | {
"abstract": "Older people constitute a growing proportion of the worldwide population. Despite this, older people are often excluded from clinical research and are generally underrepresented in intervention studies. This severely restricts the ability to generalise outcomes from research involving younger populatio... | {
"abstract": "A new member of water channels has been identified from rat testis. This gene, termed aquaporin 8 (AQP8), encoded a 263-amino-acid protein that contained the conserved NPA motifs of MIP family proteins. AQP8 has amino acid sequence identity with other aquaporins (approximately 35%) and highest with a p... |
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"abstract": "AbstractSpray-dried ipratropium bromide (IPB) microspheres for oral inhalation were engineered using Quality by Design. The interrogation of material properties, process parameters, and critical product quality attributes interplay enabled rational product design. A 27–3 screening design exhibited the ... | {
"abstract": "The physicochemical and aerodynamic properties of spray dried powders of the drug/drug mixture salbutamol sulphate/ipratropium bromide were investigated. The in vitro deposition properties of spray dried salbutamol sulphate and the spray dried drug/excipient mixtures salbutamol sulphate/lactose and sal... | {
"abstract": "A nano-ZrO2 modified coating system was prepared by incorporation of nano-ZrO2 concentrates into phenolic-epoxy resin. The corrosion performance of the coatings was evaluated in hot mixed acid solution, using electrochemical methods combined with surface characterization, and the effects of nano-ZrO2 c... |
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"abstract": "Abstract Let {T1,…,Tk} be a set of trees which is Kh-packable. It is shown that every n-vertex graph G=(V,E) with δ(G)⩾n/2+3h n log n has k subgraphs S1,…,Sk with the following properties: 1. Si is a set of ⌊n/h⌋ vertex-disjoint copies of Ti. 2. The subgraphs S1,…,Sk are edge-disjoint. 3. S1∪⋯∪Sk has m... | {
"abstract": "The following asymptotic result is proved. For every?>0, and for every positive integerh, there exists ann0=n0(?, h) such that for every graphHwithhvertices and for everynn0, any graphGwithhnvertices and with minimum degreed?((?(H)?1)/?(H)+?)hncontainsnvertex disjoint copies ofH. This result is asympto... | {
"abstract": "Abstract We study large cardinal properties associated with Ramseyness in which homogeneous sets are demanded to satisfy various transfinite degrees of indescribability. Sharpe and Welch [25], and independently Bagaria [1], extended the notion of \n$\\Pi ^1_n$\n -indescribability where \n$n<\\omega $\n... |
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"abstract": "This letter proposes a hybrid method for the modeling of multilayer planar structures with locally inhomogeneous penetrable objects. By using the equivalence principle, the original problem can be decomposed into external and internal problems, which are formulated by the mixed-potential integral equat... | {
"abstract": "Near-surface electromagnetic characterization of objects buried in multilayered earth is important for the detection and identification of landmines, unexploded ordnance, and underground structures. However, so far little progress has been made in the development of fast algorithms for inhomogeneous ob... | {
"abstract": "An approach to hybridization of the method of moments and the finite-difference time-domain method is investigated in this paper. This hybrid method is capable of analyzing a system of multiple discrete regions by employing the principle of equivalent sources to excite their coupling surfaces. The case... |
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"abstract": "Nieto and Coresh (1) are reviewing alternative methods for presenting adjusted survival curves. The proposed new method is a special case of the Ederer II method currently used at cancer registries worldwide. In addition, there are other frequently used methods for adjusting for deaths and censorings t... | {
"abstract": "125I-Labeled human transferrin was used to study the binding of transferrin to Colo 320 DM and Colo 205 human cell lines derived from adenocarcinomas of the colon. Although transferrin uptake was greater in both cases at 37 degrees than at 4 degrees it was found that slightly greater than two-thirds of... | {
"abstract": "Abstract. Thermoluminescence excitation spectra of adenine, guanine, thymine and 1,3‐dimethyluracil were observed to be similar to their phosphorescence excitation spectra. Intensity dependence studies of thermoluminescence induced by ultraviolet light suggest that thermoluminescence could not be due t... |
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"abstract": "Birds display a latitudinal gradient in clutch size with smaller clutches in the tropics and larger in the temperate region. Three factors have been proposed to affect this pattern: seasonality of resources (SR), nest predation and length of the breeding season (LBS). Here, we test the importance of th... | {
"abstract": "Fitness results from the optimal balance between survival, mating success and fecundity. The interactions between these three components of fitness vary importantly depending on the selective context, from positive covariation between them, to antagonistic pleiotropic relationships when fitness increas... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Bioindication is a method to assess environmental conditions using indicator organisms. In Colombia, water quality evaluation is mostly performed following the Biological Monitoring Working Party/Colombia method (BMWP/ Col), which uses aquatic macroinvertebrates at the taxonomic family level. ... |
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"abstract": "Physical activity improves the quality of life and decreases the risk of several diseases (i.e. stroke, hypertension, myocardial infarction, obesity, and malignancies). Skeletal muscles are considered as an endocrine organ that produces myokines characterized by a paracrine or endocrine activity. Irisi... | {
"abstract": "Objective After spinal cord injury (SCI), hybrid stimulation patterns that interpose paired-pulse doublets over a constant-frequency background may enhance the metabolic “work” (muscle torque) performed by paralyzed muscle. This study examined the effect of background stimulation frequency on the torqu... | {
"abstract": "Bone formation is enhanced by mechanical loading, but human exercise intervention studies have shown that the response to mechanical loading is variable, with some individuals exhibiting robust osteogenic responses while others respond modestly. Thus, mechanosensitivity - the ability of bone tissue to ... |
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"abstract": "This paper has described the reliability of the grid-controlled traveling wave tube (TWT) which caused by the evaporation of the cathode. If the cathode evaporates a lot, the TWT would damage in two cases, such as spark and grid-emission. The analysis of these two problems and the methods we usually us... | {
"abstract": "A new compilation, based on a literature search for the period 1969–1976, is made of experimental data on the work function. For these 44 elements, preferred values are selected on the basis of valid experimental conditions. Older values, which are widely accepted, are given for 19 other elements on wh... | {
"abstract": "Recently, nine-switch inverter (NSI) has been presented as a dual-output inverter with constant frequency (CF) or different frequency (DF) operation modes. However, the CF mode is more interesting because of its lower switching device rating. This study proposes a new space-vector modulation (SVM) meth... |
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"abstract": "The applicability of the microservice architecture has extended beyond traditional web services, making steady inroads into the domains of IoT and edge computing. Due to dissimilar contexts in different execution environments and inherent mobility, edge and IoT applications suffer from low execution re... | {
"abstract": "Due to the increase in Web services, many recent studies have been addressing the service selection problem based on non-functional or quality aspects. Our study incorporates combinational use of functionally-equivalent services into the problem to compose an application of higher quality or with addit... | {
"abstract": "Many developments have taken place within dataflow programming languages in the past decade. In particular, there has been a great deal of activity and advancement in the field of dataflow visual programming languages. The motivation for this article is to review the content of these recent development... |
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"abstract": "We present observations of the proposed double-degenerate polar RX J1914+24. Our optical and infrared spectra show no emission lines. This, coupled with the lack of significant levels of polarization, provides difficulties for a double-degenerate polar interpretation. Although we still regard the doubl... | {
"abstract": "RX J0806.3+1527 is an ultracompact, double-degenerate binary with the shortest known orbital period (321.5 s). Hakala et al. have recently reported new optical measurements of the orbital frequency of the source indicating that the frequency has increased over the ≈9 yr since the earliest ROSAT observa... | {
"abstract": "The n→π* interaction is an extremely weak but very important noncovalent interaction. Although this interaction is widely present in biomolecules and materials, its existence is counterintuitive and so has been debated extensively. Herein, we have reported direct spectroscopic evidence for an n→π* inte... |
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"abstract": "The symmetry of the arrangement of objects has fascinated philosophers, artists and scientists for a long time, and still does. Symmetries often exist in nature, but are also created artificially, for instance by chemical synthesis of novel molecules and materials. The one-sided, non-orientable Möbius ... | {
"abstract": "The Möbius topology inspired science and arts for many centuries. In chemistry interest was stimulated by Heilbronner almost 50 years ago when he predicted that Möbius annulenes would violate the Hückel rule. A number of theoretical papers followed but it was not until 2003 when the first synthesis of ... | {
"abstract": "For nearly 40 years, organic chemists have been fascinated by the idea of aromatic molecules that have the topology of a Möbius strip. No such molecule has been isolated — until now.",
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"title": "Organic chemistry: Aromatics do the twist"
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"abstract": "The objective of the study was to determine whether the increase in the maximum temperature-humidity index (ITHmax) significantly reduced the daily milk production of cows in the intensive farms of Lima department. The study was conducted in four dairy farms over a three-year period. 8245 records of da... | {
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"title": "Relationships between heat stress and metabolic and milk parameters in dairy cows in southern Brazil"
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"abstract": "Lactating cows were exposed to moderate and hot, humid weather to determine the effect of increasing ambient temperature, relative humidity, or temperature-humidity index (THI) on intake, milk yield, and milk temperature. Minimum and maximum temperatures averaged 17.9 and 29.5 degrees C (cool period) a... |
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"abstract": "Head rice rate is an important factor affecting rice quality. In this study, an inflection point detection-based technology was applied to measure the head rice rate by combining a vibrator and a conveyor belt for bulk grain image acquisition. The edge center mode proportion method (ECMP) was applied f... | {
"abstract": "Characteristics of rice appearance quality are very important to evaluate rice quality and pricing. The normal method for determining rice quality is based on manual inspection which is an inefficient way and resulting in unconstant outcomes. Thus, we developed an automatic system relying on the machin... | {
"abstract": "Abstract The case is made for normalization of discrete planar objects prior to comparison with test objects and an expression for normalization is derived using a Euclidean distance function based on the underlying continuous boundaries of the objects and their prototypes. The results are given in bot... |
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"abstract": "How can we efficiently find very large numbers of clusters <italic>C</italic> in very large datasets <italic>N</italic> of potentially high dimensionality <italic>D</italic>? Here we address the question by using a novel variational approach to optimize Gaussian mixture models (GMMs) with diagonal cova... | {
"abstract": "We propose k^2-means, a new clustering method which efficiently copes with large numbers of clusters and achieves low energy solutions. k^2-means builds upon the standard k-means (Lloyd's algorithm) and combines a new strategy to accelerate the convergence with a new low time complexity divisive initia... | {
"abstract": "The k-means method is a widely used clustering technique that seeks to minimize the average squared distance between points in the same cluster. Although it offers no accuracy guarantees, its simplicity and speed are very appealing in practice. By augmenting k-means with a very simple, randomized seedi... |
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"abstract": "The recent profusion of smartphones in the mobile industry offers new opportunities for mobile services vendors. One of the most influenced service categories is location-based services (LBS). Based on insights from behavioural decision-making, a theoretical framework is developed to analyse individual... | {
"abstract": "Many real world mobile device interactions occur in context-rich environments. However, the majority of empirical studies on mobile computing are conducted in static or idealized conditions, resulting in a deficit of understanding of how changes in context impact users’ abilities to perform effectively... | {
"abstract": "The author reviews the field of pricing strategy and constructs a unifying taxonomy of the many strategies described in the literature. The taxonomy is based on the simple proposition that all the strategies have a common denominator—shared economies among buyer segments, across firms, or among product... |
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"abstract": "Epigenetic phenomena have been widely characterized in the genomes of vertebrates and DNA methylation is a key mechanism of epigenetic regulation. The DNA methylation systems of invertebrates and vertebrates show several notable differences. However, the evolutionary implications of those differences o... | {
"abstract": "Fine scale meiotic recombination maps have uncovered a large amount of variation in crossover rate across the genomes of many species, and such variation in mammalian and yeast genomes is concentrated to <5kb regions of highly elevated recombination rates (10–100x the background rate) called “hotspots.... | {
"abstract": "Purpose, with the application of workbench finite element analysis software, get the analysis results of DVG 850 high-speed vertical machining center via the modal analysis and harmonic response analysis. Use the calculation results for reference, put forward the improved method, and prove the credibil... |
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"abstract": "Part 1: The alkaline single-cell gel electrophoresis (comet) assay was used to analyse the integrity and DNA content of exfoliated cells extracted from bladder washing specimens from 9 transitional cell carcinoma patients and 15 control patients. DNA damage, as expressed by % tail DNA and tail moment v... | {
"abstract": "Aims: To determine sperm nuclear DNA integrity and to investigate the relation between fenvalerate (FE) exposure and spermatozoa DNA damage. Methods: Sperm DNA fragmentation was detected by a modified alkaline single cell gel electrophoresis (Comet) assay and a terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase med... | {
"abstract": "Abstract High cycle fatigue (HCF) life in cast Al–Mg–Si alloys is particularly sensitive to the combination of microstructural inclusions and stress concentrations. Inclusions can range from large-scale shrinkage porosity with a tortuous surface profile to entrapped oxides introduced during the pour. W... |
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"abstract": "Dust particles of 4 µm radius which are reported to lie in a ring at 1.8 jovian radii around Jupiter may be charged to −10 V, but any larger charge would lead to non-circular orbits, due to interactions with Jupiter's dipole magnetic field. Such dust will be scattered randomly in eccentricity and incli... | {
"abstract": "The results of further measurements of the Jovian ring system are presented. The system has three major components: the bright ring, the faint sheet, and the out-of-plane halo. The bright ring has an outer radius of 1.81±0.01 RJ, an inner radius 1.72±0.01 RJ, an eccentricity not greater than 0.003 and ... | {
"abstract": "EK Dra (HD 129333) is a young, active, nearby star that is orbited by a low mass companion. By combining new speckle observations with old and new radial velocity measurements we find that the orbit is highly eccentric with e = 0.82 ± 0.03, and we derive the true masses of both components. The masses a... |
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"abstract": "ObjectivesTo identify the key methodological challenges for public health economic modelling and set an agenda for future research.MethodsAn iterative literature search identified papers describing methodological challenges for developing the structure of public health economic models. Additional multi... | {
"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nHealth policy decisions must be relevant, evidence-based and transparent. Decision-analytic modelling supports this process but its role is reliant on its credibility. Errors in mathematical decision models or simulation exercises are unavoidable but little attention has been paid to proces... | {
"abstract": "In this expository paper we give a general introduction to verification and validation of simulation models, define the various validation techniques, and present a recommended model validation procedure.",
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"abstract": "Robots are solving challenging tasks that we want them to be able to perform (liveness), but we also do not want them to endanger their surroundings (safety). Formal methods provide ways of proving such correctness properties, but have the habit of only saying “yes” when the answer is “yes” (soundness)... | {
"abstract": "Nowadays, robots interact more frequently with a dynamic environment outside limited manufacturing sites and in close proximity with humans. Thus, safety of motion and obstacle avoidance are vital safety features of such robots. We formally study two safety properties of avoiding both stationary and mo... | {
"abstract": "This paper presents an approach for automatically synthesizing and re-synthesizing a hybrid controller that guarantees a robot will exhibit a user-defined high-level behavior while exploring a partially known workspace (map). The approach includes dynamically adjusting the discrete abstraction of the w... |
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"abstract": "Balance-recovery stepping is often necessary for both a human and humanoid robot to avoid a fall by taking a single step or multiple steps after an external perturbation. The determination of where to step to come to a complete stop has been studied, but little is known about the strategy for initiatio... | {
"abstract": "Robotic football with humanoid robots is a multidisciplinary field connecting several scientific fields. A challenging task in the design of a humanoid robot for the AndroSot and HuroCup competitions is the realization of movement on the field. This study aims to determine a walking pattern for a human... | {
"abstract": "Companies that go public on global stock markets are not obliged to disclose earnings forecasts in their prospectuses. We use this fact to examine the shipping sector, where most firms issue earnings forecasts during the IPO process, and provide unique, international-level evidence. We find overall pes... |
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"abstract": "The patient was a neonate with a large coronary artery fistula (CAF) between the left circumflex artery and coronary sinus in whom an intractable progressive heart failure with myocardial ischemia developed within 24 h after birth. He survived the surgical intervention and is doing well. This is the fi... | {
"abstract": "Coronary artery fistula (CAF) is a rare heart anomaly defined as abnormal communication of coronary arteries with cardiac chambers or other vessels. Although symptoms such as exercise intolerance with dyspnea, angina, and arrhythmia may occur, more than half of patients are clinically asymptomatic even... | {
"abstract": "A detachable latex balloon was used to occlude an iatrogenic aortocoronary arterio-venous fistula. The aim of providing retrograde myocardial perfusion was not achieved to any significant degree because of rapid recruitment of collateral venous routes to the coronary sinus. This may have implications f... |
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"abstract": "A healthy 12-year-old girl presented with episodes of fatigue recurring for more than one year. Fatigue was followed by sleep onset and typically developed in the afternoon during quiet moments. Episodes had occurred while she was in class, talking or even shopping, but could be avoided if she was part... | {
"abstract": "BACKGROUND. Narcolepsy is a predominantly rapid eye movement sleep disorder with onset usually in the second decade but often in earlier childhood. Classically it is characterized by combinations of excessive sleepiness especially sleep attacks, cataplexy, hypnagogic hallucinations, and sleep paralysis... | {
"abstract": "ABSTRACT Background: Increasing efforts are being devoted to the study of early onset dementia (EOD), namely dementia in persons under the age of 65. Until recently, it was assumed that dementia occurs primarily among people aged 65 and over. However, since the number of persons with EOD is increasing,... |
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"abstract": "A consumer survey conducted in 2006 (n = 419), and therefore after the first confirmed bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) cases in North America in 2003, employs attribute-based choice experiments for a cross-country comparison of consumers' valuation of credence attributes associated with beef ste... | {
"abstract": "The mad cow disease crisis in the United Kingdom (U.K.) was a major policy disaster. The government and public health officials failed to identify the risk to humans, created tremendous uncertainty regarding the human risks once they were identified, and undertook a series of policies that undermined p... | {
"abstract": "Afghanistan and Iraq war student-veterans have incr eased in population on college campuses in the United States (U.S.) as a result of sing the Post 9/11 GI Bill. Healthy Campus 2020 (American College Health Association, 2012) hi ghlighted the importance of college student wellbeing, health promotion a... |
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"abstract": "Agentcities is a worldwide initiative designed to help realize the commercial and research potential of agent-based applications by constructing an open distributed network of platforms hosting diverse agents and services. The ultimate aim of the Agentcities initiative is to enable the dynamic, intelli... | {
"abstract": "This paper describes an approach to developing an appropriate agent environment appropriate for use in community care applications. Key to its success is that software designers collaborate with environment builders to provide the levels of cooperation and support required within an integrated agent–or... | {
"abstract": "This paper is based on research of the authors emphasizing traffic safety and highway geometric design, which has led to the development of three quantitative safety criteria for distinguishing sound and poor design practices on both planned and existing two-lane roadway sections. The safety criteria a... |
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"abstract": "The harmonic pollution of electric vehicle chargers is increasing rapidly as the scale of electric vehicle charging stations enlarges to meet the rising demand for electric vehicles. This paper investigates the operating characteristics of a three-phase uncontrolled rectification electric vehicle charg... | {
"abstract": "The proposed model of an electric vehicle charging station is suitable for the fast DC charging of multiple electric vehicles. The station consists of a single grid-connected inverter with a DC bus where the electric vehicles are connected. The control of the individual electric vehicle charging proces... | {
"abstract": "Reinforcement learning (RL) is a paradigm for learning sequential decision making tasks. However, typically the user must hand-tune exploration parameters for each different domain and/or algorithm that they are using. In this work, we present an algorithm called LEO for learning these exploration stra... |
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"abstract": "Computational thinking is an important part of a modern education, and robotics provides a powerful tool for teaching programming logic in an interactive and engaging way. The robot garden presented in this paper is a distributed multi-robot system capable of running autonomously or under user control ... | {
"abstract": "Origami can turn a sheet of paper into complex three-dimensional shapes, and similar folding techniques can produce structures and mechanisms. To demonstrate the application of these techniques to the fabrication of machines, we developed a crawling robot that folds itself. The robot starts as a flat s... | {
"abstract": "Identifying inter-frame forgery is a hot ::: topic in video forensics. In this paper, we propose a method based on the assumption ::: that the correlation coefficients of gray values is consistent in an original ::: video, while in forgeries the consistency will be destroyed. We first extract ::: the c... |
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"abstract": "We have used spectrophotometric data from the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) to eclipse-map the primary component of the RS CVn binary SV Cam over nine HST orbits. We find from these observations and the Hipparcos parallax that the surface flux in the eclipsed low-latitude region of the primary is about ... | {
"abstract": "Context. We examine the evolution of low-mass star and brown dwarf eclipsing binaries. These objects are rapid rotators and are believed to shelter large magnetic fields. Aims. We suggest that reduced convective efficiency, due to fast rotation and large field strengths, and/or to magnetic spot coverag... | {
"abstract": "Abstrac t In the testing of high current transformer performance under interference from external current, it is very difficult to reproduce the high current in adjacent bus-bar or eccentric primary bus-bar. To overcome the testing difficulty, this manuscript presents an effective and simple method nam... |
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"abstract": "Postpartum tubal ligation is an effective, safe method of sterilization. Underserved women face many barriers in their attempt to access this time sensitive postpartum contraception. A major barrier for many of these women who are without the means of availing themselves of this procedure is the Federa... | {
"abstract": "OBJECTIVE\nThe objective of the study was to examine the associations between prenatal and postpartum contraceptive counseling and postpartum contraceptive use.\n\n\nSTUDY DESIGN\nThe Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System 2004-2008 data were analyzed from Missouri, New York state, and New York Ci... | {
"abstract": "OBJECTIVE\nThe National Survey of Family Growth has been a primary data source for trends in US women's contraceptive use. However, national-level data may mask differences in contraceptive practice resulting from variation in local policies and norms.\n\n\nSTUDY DESIGN\nWe used the Pregnancy Risk Asse... |
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"abstract": "Aims: The purpose of this study is to investigate whether the NG2+ cells, a class of oligodendrocyte progenitor cells, is involved in the pathophysiology of stroke in stroke‐prone spontaneously hypertensive rat (SHR‐SP). Methods: SHR‐SP, SHR, Wistar‐Kyoto rats (WKY), and C57BJ/6 mice were used. Immunoh... | {
"abstract": "White matter injury following ischemic stroke is a major cause of functional disability. Injury to both myelinated axons and oligodendrocytes, the myelin producing cells in the central nervous system, occurs in experimental models of ischemic stroke. Age‐related changes in white matter vulnerability to... | {
"abstract": "1. Ag.l.c. method was developed to determine sclareol (1) and its microbial metabolites: 3-keto-sclareol (2), 2 alpha-hydroxysclareol (3), 3 alpha-hydroxysclareol (4), 3 beta-hydroxysclareol (5), 18-hydroxysclareol (6), and 2 alpha, 18-dihydroxysclareol (7) in both microbial cultures and biological flu... |
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"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nTNF-alpha secreted by activated T cells is known to increase intestinal permeability, whereas transforming growth factor (TGF) beta has the ability to protect the epithelial barrier.\n\n\nOBJECTIVE\nWe determined the expression of TGF-beta1, its receptors, and TNF-alpha on the mucosa of sma... | {
"abstract": "There is increasing recognition of the non-IgE-mediated gastrointestinal food allergy known as food protein-induced enterocolitis syndrome (FPIES), with several recent publications summarizing the clinical experience with FPIES in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe, and Australia. Our unders... | {
"abstract": "NADH-cytochrome b5 reductase is the predominant NADH-diaphorase found in the human neutrophil (Blood 62:152, 1983). Although this reductase segregates with the light membranes of nitrogen-cavitated neutrophils separated on Percoll gradients (which include the plasma membrane markers alkaline phosphatas... |
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"abstract": "In recent years, advances in sensor technologies and expansion of smart meters have resulted in massive growth of energy data sets. These Big Data have created new opportunities for energy prediction, but at the same time, they impose new challenges for traditional technologies. On the other hand, new ... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Energy is vital for sustainable development of any nation – be it social, economic or environment. In the past decade energy consumption has increased exponentially globally. Energy management is crucial for the future economic prosperity and environmental security. Energy is linked to industr... | {
"abstract": "Astroviruses are small, non-enveloped, positive-stranded RNA viruses. Previously studied mammalian astroviruses have been associated with diarrhoeal disease. Knowledge of astrovirus diversity is very limited, with only six officially recognized astrovirus species from mammalian hosts and, in addition, ... |
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"abstract": "Abstract Background: Many visually impaired children can learn to read print with appropriate training and simple visual aids. This may allow them to attend normal schools and to be integrated into society, which has lifelong benefits. Yet, in Africa, many visually impaired children are enrolled in spe... | {
"abstract": "Although uncommon, childhood blindness is a major contributor to blind-person years in Africa. Children with vision-related problems need urgent referral, but existing evidence suggests that there is delay in presentation. A pilot study in a random selection of government dispensaries in two districts ... | {
"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nBreast cancer incidence is increasing among South Asian migrants to the United States (US). However, their utilization of cancer screening services is poor. This study characterizes attitudes of South Asians towards breast health and screening in a community sample.\n\n\nMATERIALS AND METHO... |
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"abstract": "In vivo gene expression new insights into the genetics and regulation of expression of Clostridium perfringens enterotoxin mechanisms of pathogenesis of Staphylococcal/Streptococcal superantigens intracellular multiplication of Legionelle pneumophila Anthrax pathogenesis and host response identificatio... | {
"abstract": "ABSTRACT In vivo expression technology was used for testingPseudomonas aeruginosa in the rat lung model of chronic infection and in a mouse model of systemic infection. Three of the eight ivi proteins found showed sequence identity to known virulence factors involved in iron acquisition via an open rea... | {
"abstract": "Iron-starved cultures of Enterobacter cloacae produced two siderophores, identified as enterochelin and aerobactin. The aerobactin was excreted in larger amounts than was enterochelin, and it was synthesized preferentially in the late logarithmic and stationary growth phases under iron-deficient condit... |
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"abstract": "A database of 128 measured incised butchery marks (Le., the classic cut mark) was the basis for exploratory statistical tests of length and width measurements from late Pleistocene mammoth localities and an early Holocene bison locality. The tests reveal several trends. The initial approach uses univar... | {
"abstract": "The oldest direct evidence of stone tool manufacture comes from Gona (Ethiopia) and dates to between 2.6 and 2.5 million years (Myr) ago. At the nearby Bouri site several cut-marked bones also show stone tool use approximately 2.5 Myr ago. Here we report stone-tool-inflicted marks on bones found during... | {
"abstract": "An 87-year-old woman in a chronic mild confusional state was admitted with right hypochondrial pain and vomiting. On examination she was afebrile and was found to have a large abdominal aneurysm. Ultrasound and plain abdominal x-ray examination confirmed the presence of a saccular abdominal aortic aneu... |
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"abstract": "Background The cultivation of poplars (Populus spp.) is favored for forestry and reclamation purposes all over the northern hemisphere where they represent a commercially important resource. Poplars may become a component of programs to optimize carbon sequestration however; poplars are generally regar... | {
"abstract": "Drought is expected to become an increasingly important factor limiting tree growth caused by climate change. Two divergent clones of Populus nigra (58-861 and Poli) originating from contrasting environments were subjected to water limitation (WL) to elucidate whether they differ in tolerance to drough... | {
"abstract": "A sunflower cDNA microarray containing about 800 clones covering major metabolic and signal transduction pathways was used to study gene expression profiles in leaves and embryos of drought-tolerant and -sensitive genotypes subjected to water-deficit stress under field conditions. Using two-step ANOVA ... |
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"abstract": "Despite emerging evidence and guidelines, poor prescribing and administration of oxygen therapy persists. This study aimed to explore healthcare professionals’ (HCPs) and patients’ perceptions of oxygen.",
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"title": "A wolf in sheep's clothing? Patients’ and healthcare professi... | {
"abstract": "Background: Chronic breathlessness syndrome in the context of advancing disease is distressing for all concerned. Oxygen is commonly prescribed in this setting; however, little is known about the perspectives of breathless people who either are on oxygen or are yet to have it prescribed. Aim: To unders... | {
"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nBreathlessness remains a refractory symptom in malignant lung disease. Breathing training is an effective, non-pharmacological intervention but it is unclear how this should be delivered. This feasibility study aimed to assess recruitment and retention, best end point and variability of bre... |
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"abstract": "The influence of coffee consumption on hematological and trace element status was studied in two groups of pregnant, low-income Costa Rican women: coffee drinkers (greater than or equal to 450 mL/d, n = 22) and coffee nondrinkers (0 mL/d, n = 26). Groups had similar income, education, prenatal care, ag... | {
"abstract": "Coffee is widely consumed by children in Guatemala. To evaluate whether coffee has an adverse effect on growth or morbidity, 160 children 12-24 mo of age who had received coffee for > or = 2 mo and had at least one indicator of iron deficiency were stratified by initial hemoglobin (Hb) (A = anemic vs. ... | {
"abstract": "Using computed tomography, the renal parenchymal volume and tissue-plasma ratio of contrast enhancement, with a bolus injection, were measured, and the latter measurement is believed to indicate regional renal function per unit of parenchymal volume. 67 studies were carried out on 50 patients, 17 of wh... |
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"abstract": "Room-temperature ionic liquids (RTILs) have been shown to have a significant effect on the redox potentials of compounds such as 1,4-dinitrobenzene (DNB), which can be reduced in two one-electron steps. The most noticeable effect is that the two one-electron waves in acetonitrile collapsed to a single ... | {
"abstract": "AIM\nTriterpenes are natural compounds, whose wide biological activity predestines them for application as promising new chemotherapeutics. In this paper, we report the results of our investigations into the substitution of oleanolic acid with aromatic and nitroaromatic moieties acting as bioreducing a... | {
"abstract": "Abstract The Raman spectra of calf thymus and of salmon testes DNA as solid, aqueous gel, D 2 O gel and alkaline aqueous gel are presented. The spectra show features ascribable to the disordered helix B -helix transition. However, the spectra of the two DNA's agree neither with each other nor with the ... |
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"abstract": "We show that every orientable 3-manifold is a classifying space B\\Gamma where \\Gamma is a groupoid of germs of homeomorphisms of R. This follows by showing that every orientable 3-manifold M admits a codimension one foliation F such that the holonomy cover of every leaf is contractible. The F we cons... | {
"abstract": "© Publications mathématiques de l’I.H.É.S., 1979, tous droits réservés. L’accès aux archives de la revue « Publications mathématiques de l’I.H.É.S. » (http:// www.ihes.fr/IHES/Publications/Publications.html) implique l’accord avec les conditions générales d’utilisation (http://www.numdam.org/legal.php)... | {
"abstract": "Let us consider two binary systems of inequalities (i) Cx ≥ e and (ii) Cx ≤ e , where C ∈ {0, 1}m×n is a m × n (0, 1)-matrix, x ∈ {0, 1}n, and e is the vector of m ones. The set of all support-minimal (support-maximal) solutions x to (i) (to (ii)) is called the blocker (anti-blocker). A blocker B (anti... |
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"abstract": "Huntington's disease (HD) is a monogenic neurodegenerative disorder with an underlying pathology involving the toxic effect of mutant huntingtin protein primarily in striatal and cortical neurons. Phosphodiesterase 10A (PDE10A) regulates intracellular signalling cascades, thus having a key role in prom... | {
"abstract": "Parkinson's disease is acknowledged to be a multisystem syndrome, manifesting as a result of multineuropeptide dysfunction, including dopaminergic, cholinergic, serotonergic, and noradrenergic deficits. This multisystem disorder ultimately leads to the presentation of a range of nonmotor symptoms, now ... | {
"abstract": "We examined the influence of two K(ATP) channel openers, diazoxide and an analog (NNC 55-0118), on experimental beta-cell damage induced by streptozotocin (STZ; 0.5 mmol/l). Rat pancreatic islets were exposed to diazoxide or NNC 55-0118 for 30 min and were further incubated for 30 min after the additio... |
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"abstract": "Cedar leaf oil (CLO), derived from the Western red cedar, Thuja plicata, was evaluated as a safe and acceptable broad spectrum antimicrobial agent, with a view to its potential applications in buildings, including the alleviation of sick building syndrome. Various Gram-positive and Gram-negative human ... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Objective: To identify environmentally safe, rapidly acting agents for killing spores of Clostridium difficile in the hospital environment. Design: Three classic disinfectants (2% glutaraldehyde, 1.6% peracetyl ions, and 70% isopropanol) and acidified nitrite were compared for activity against... | {
"abstract": "OBJECTIVE\nTo study the effect of eucalyptus globulus oil on the activity of nuclear factor-kappaB(NF-kappaB) in THP-1 cell line.\n\n\nMETHODS\nTHP-1 cells were cultured with or without eucalyptus globulus oil at different concentrations (1, 10, 100 mg x L(-1), 30 min) before being stimulated with lipo... |
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"abstract": "Gradient-domain processing is widely used to edit and combine images. In this article we extend the framework in two directions. First, we adapt the gradient-domain approach to operate on a spherical domain, to enable operations such as seamless stitching, dynamic-range compression, and gradient-based ... | {
"abstract": "A fundamental step in stitching several pictures to form a larger mosaic is the computation of boundary seams that minimize the visual artifacts in the transition between images. Current seam computation algorithms use optimization methods that may be slow, sequential, memory intensive, and prone to fi... | {
"abstract": "The standard technique to attack triple encryption is the meet-in-the-middle attack which requires 2 112 encryption steps. In this paper, more efficient attacks are presented. One of our attacks reduces the overall number of steps to roughly 2 108 . Other attacks optimize the number of encryptions at t... |
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"abstract": "The transmission performance of a free-space optical (FSO) link could be severely degraded due to atmospheric turbulence, which causes the temporal and spatial fluctuation of light intensity. Both the space diversity reception technique (SDRT) and advanced modulation formats can successfully mitigate t... | {
"abstract": "We successfully transmitted a 1.28-Tb/s (32 times 40 Gb/s) wavelength-division-multiplexed (WDM) signal over a free-space optic (FSO) link, for the first time. We used a novel pair of FSO terminals, transparently connected to optical fibers, to transmit/receive the WDM channels over a double-pass FSO p... | {
"abstract": "Fine magnetic pole pitch of less than 1 mm fabricated on printed circuit board with different magnetic poles on single and dual layer structures were analyzed. The central consecutive magnetic poles of magnetic flux density distributions were measured using a Hall probe. The measured values were found ... |
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"abstract": "Tumor cell immunogenicity depends heavily upon the microenvironment in which the cells grow. We have compared the tumorigenicity and immunogenicity of the same tumor cells when injected either into the dermis, a tissue containing numerous dendritic cells (DCs), or s.c., at a site which contains only fe... | {
"abstract": "Macrophages play an essential role in host defense, and we have identified a novel CD8 molecule, on alveolar and peritoneal macrophages, that may be involved in regulating this function. Flow cytometric analysis of bronchoalveolar lavage from normal rats identified a large number of CD8-positive cells ... | {
"abstract": "Intravenous infusion of hapten-derivatized epidermal cells (EC) in syngeneic mice leads to two competing signals for contact hypersensitivity (CH), a dominant effector signal attributable to Langerhans cells (LC) and a suppressor signal from Thy-1+ EC. In vitro exposure of LC to low dose ultraviolet B ... |
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"abstract": "Cooperative coevolution is an approach for evolving solutions composed of coadapted components. Previous research has shown, however, that cooperative coevolutionary algorithms are biased towards stability: they tend to converge prematurely to equilibrium states, instead of converging to optimal or nea... | {
"abstract": "This research falls within evolutionary robotics and the larger taxonomy of cooperative multi-robot systems. A study of comparative methods to adapt the behaviors and morphologies of simulated robot teams that must solve a collective construction task is presented. Multiple versions of an indirect (dev... | {
"abstract": "During the last two decades there has been a growing interest in Particle Filtering (PF). However, PF suffers from two long-standing problems that are referred to as sample degeneracy and impoverishment. We are investigating methods that are particularly efficient at Particle Distribution Optimization ... |
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"abstract": "Serpent is an SP Network block cipher submitted to the AES competition and chosen as one of its five finalists. The security of Serpent is widely acknowledged, especially as the best known attack so far is a differential-linear attack on only 11 rounds out of the 32 rounds of the cipher. \n \nIn this p... | {
"abstract": "We utilise a simulated annealing algorithm to find several nonlinear approximations to various Sboxes which can be used to replace the linear approximations in the outer rounds of existing attacks. We propose three variants of a new nonlinear cryptanalytic algorithm which overcomes the main issues that... | {
"abstract": "In some applications for synchronous stream ciphers, the risk of loss of synchronization cannot be eliminated completely. In these cases frequent resynchronization or resynchronization upon request may be necessary. In the paper it is shown that this can lead to significant deterioration of the cryptog... |
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"abstract": "Penicillium dipodomyis is thought to be an exclusively asexual fungus associated with Kangaroo Rats, Dipodomys species, and is unique among Penicillium species in growing at 37°C but producing no known toxins. Lack of recombination within P. dipodomyis would result in limited adaptive flexibility but p... | {
"abstract": "Significant progress has been made since the previous edition of The Mycota published in 2006. The most conspicuous advances have concerned firstly our understanding of the evolution of mating-type regions in the fungal kingdom and secondly the identification of the spectrum of target genes regulated b... | {
"abstract": "AIM OF THE STUDY\nIn this work the endothelium-dependant vasorelaxant and anti-platelet aggregation activities of an aqueous extract from Ocimum basilicum were studied.\n\n\nMATERIALS AND METHODS\nThe vasorelaxant effect was undertaken in thoracic aorta from three experimental groups of rats: one of th... |
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"abstract": "The success of current spaceborne Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) is boosting the performance requirement of next generation systems. In order to cope with the evolution of SAR the design of the new systems will need to meet higher requirements for spatial and radiometric resolution together with an inc... | {
"abstract": "In the last years, the Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) systems evolution migrates toward the \nuse of multi-channel systems based on Digital Beam Forming (DBF) techniques [1]. This tendendy \nallows fulfilling stringent SAR requirements, providing high spatial resolution within a wide swath. \nMoreover,... | {
"abstract": "Fish endpoints measured in early life stage toxicity tests are often used as representative of larval amphibian sensitivity in Ecological Risk Assessment (ERA). This application potentially overlooks the impact of developmental delays on amphibian metamorphosis, and thereby reduced survival, in amphibi... |
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"abstract": "Rabi oscillations may be viewed as an interference phenomenon due to a coherent superposition of different quantum paths, as in Young's two-slit experiment. The inclusion of the atomic external variables causes a non-dissipative damping of the Rabi oscillations. More generally, the atomic translational... | {
"abstract": "Abstract.We have recently presented a novel protocol to teleport an\nunknown atomic state via cavity QED and position measurements. Here,\nafter a brief review of our scheme, we provide a quantitative study\nof its efficiency. This is accomplished by an explicit description\nof the measurement process ... | {
"abstract": "The demonstrations of von Neumann and others, that quantum mechanics does not permit a hidden variable interpretation, are reconsidered. It is shown that their essential axioms are unreasonable. It is urged that in further examination of this problem an interesting axiom would be that mutually distant ... |
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"abstract": "Seabirds, as long-lived top predators, accumulate contaminants such as mercury (Hg), an established endocrine disruptor. In long lived species hormonal secretion varies with age; therefore, Hg-induced endocrine disruption may be exacerbated in some age classes. Here we investigated relationships betwee... | {
"abstract": "Seabirds are top predators of the marine environment that accumulate contaminants over a long life-span. Chronic exposure to pollutants is thought to compromise survival rate and long-term reproductive outputs in these long-lived organisms, thus inducing population decline. However, the demographic con... | {
"abstract": "Populus x canadensis clone I-214 exhibits a general indicator phenotype in response to excess Zn, and a higher metal uptake in roots than in shoots with a reduced translocation to aerial parts under hydroponic conditions. This physiological adaptation seems mainly regulated by roots, although the molec... |
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"abstract": "The characterisation and management of deleterious processes affecting wildlife are ideally based on sound scientific information. However, relevant information is often absent, or difficult to access or contextualise for specific management purposes. We describe ‘AvianBuffer’, an interactive online to... | {
"abstract": "BackgroundInteractions between wildlife and humans are increasing. Urban animals are often less wary of humans than their non-urban counterparts, which could be explained by habituation, adaptation or local site selection. Under local site selection, individuals that are less tolerant of humans are les... | {
"abstract": "Aseptic tomato and radish roots were found to exude, respectively, 2.8–5.3 and 290–390 ng tryptophan per seedling per day. The inoculation of radish plants with rhizosphere pseudomonads increased the root biomass by 1.4 times. The inoculation of tomato plants with the same pseudomonads was ineffective.... |
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"abstract": "This article considers a model of genealogy corresponding to a regular exchangeable coalescent (also known as Xi-coalescent) started from a large finite configuration, and undergoing neutral mutations. Asymptotic expressions for the number of active lineages were obtained by the author in a previous wo... | {
"abstract": "The goal of this paper is to provide formulae for the expectation and variance of the height and length of the ancestral recombination graph (ARG). While the formula for the expectation of the height is known (see, e.g. Krone and Neuhauser (1997)), the other formulae seem to be new. We obtain in partic... | {
"abstract": "Studies on life and fertility tables were undertaken with Trichogramma pretiosum Riley (uniparental race) and T. retorridum Girault to explore the potential for using the intrinsic rate of natural increase (r) as a method for differentiating races and/or species of Trichogramma . The r value of the uni... |
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"abstract": "Underwater wireless sensor networks (UWSNs) can provide a promising solution for underwater target tracking. Due to the limitation of energy consumption, only a part of nodes are selected to track the target. As we know, most research about node selection for underwater target tracking in UWSNs is carr... | {
"abstract": "Since underwater nodes provide measurements for target tracking based on underwater wireless sensor networks (UWSNs), node topology, which is made up of the underwater nodes, may affect the performance of target tracking. But all the existing target tracking schemes do not consider this effect. This pa... | {
"abstract": "The NNN-UTS project (Nordområdenes Nye Nervesystem – Undervanns Trådløst Sensornettverk) has aimed to develop wireless network technology for underwater sensor networks, employing acoustic communication to realize wireless functionality in water. Research and development has been carried out in 2006-20... |
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"abstract": "Disclaimer: This guideline is designed primarily as an educational resource for health care providers to help them provide quality medical genetic services. Adherence to this guideline does not necessarily ensure a successful medical outcome. This guideline should not be considered inclusive of all pro... | {
"abstract": "BackgroundClinical laboratories are adopting array genomic hybridization as a standard clinical test. A number of whole genome array genomic hybridization platforms are available, but little is known about their comparative performance in a clinical context.MethodsWe studied 30 children with idiopathic... | {
"abstract": "The development of microangiopathic hemolytic anemia after renal transplantation in a 17 year old white boy is reported, and the literature is reviewed. In this patient microangiopathic hemolytic anemia developed 6 weeks after renal transplantation during a second episode of rejection. Light, fluoresce... |
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"abstract": "NEC Research Institute 4 IndependenceWay Princeton NJ sandiway@research.nj.nec.com Abstract The analysis of examples of Logical Metonomy, where an event-taking verb is combined a non-eventive object, intuitively involves the recovery or insertion of a missing verb generally known as a Telic Role. For e... | {
"abstract": "In this paper we propose an analysis and an upgrade of WordNet's top-level synset taxonomy. We briefly review WordNet and identify its main semantic limitations. Some principles from a forthcoming OntoClean methodology are applied to the ontological analysis of WordNet. A revised top-level taxonomy is ... | {
"abstract": "Introduction / B. Boguraev and E. Briscoe -- Placing the dictionary on-line / Alshawi, B. Boguraev, and D. Carter -- An independent analysis of the LDOCE grammar coding system / E. Akkerman -- Utilising the LDOCE grammar codes / B Boguraev and E. Briscoe -- The derivation of a large computational lexic... |
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"abstract": "Introduction: Cementless total hip arthroplasty involves a press-fit condition between the stem and the femur. The primary stem stability is crucial in order to achieve bone in-growth and good functional outcomes especially in the early post-operative period. The stem stability is usually assessed intu... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Cementless joint prostheses require adequate initial press-fitting to achieve sufficient primary stability, which is necessary for bone ingrowth and implant success. A device was developed that measured intra-operatively the stability of a hip stem in the host bone. It included an excitatory p... | {
"abstract": "EXOMPHALOS is an uncommon congenital malformation, characterized by incomplete development of the abdominal wall, with herniation of the intestine. It results from incomplete reduction of the herniation of the mid-gut loop, which normally returns to the abdomen at about the 42 mm. stage of embryonic de... |
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"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nThe purpose of this study was to examine outcomes of patients undergoing concomitant hepatectomy and bile duct excision for advanced Klatskin tumors.\n\n\nMETHODS\nThirty-one patients, 16 men and 15 women, with an average age of 64 years, underwent concomitant biliary and hepatic resections... | {
"abstract": "Patients with peri‐hilar cholangiocarcinoma who undergo R1 resection with curative intent will have an improved survival compared to patients who were not resected.",
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"title": "Overall survival peri‐hilar cholangiocarcinoma: R1 resection with curative intent compared to primar... | {
"abstract": "In medical ultrasound imaging, lateral resolution is limited when using a fixed transmit focusing. Various synthetic aperture (SA) techniques, in which two-way dynamic focusing is enabled by utilizing prebeamformed radio-frequency (RF) data have been proposed for improving the spatial resolution. Howev... |
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"abstract": "BackgroundSurgical treatment and complications in patients with zygomatic bone fractures can lead to a significant degree of tissue trauma resulting in common postoperative symptoms and types of pain, facial swelling and functional impairment. Beneficial effects of local cold treatment on postoperative... | {
"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nSeveral studies have shown that mild hypothermia (32-34°C) markedly mitigates brain damage after cardiac arrest (CA). This study aimed to compare the efficacy of the non-invasive cooling device Hilotherm Clinic (Hilotherm GmbH, Germany) with conventional cooling to induce and maintain mild ... | {
"abstract": "The effects of chitosan hydrochloride (CH-HCl) on in vitro release of ofloxacin (OFX) from mucoadhesive erodible ocular inserts and on the relevant ocular pharmacokinetics have been studied both to contribute evidence of the ability of CH-HCl to enhance transcorneal penetration of drugs and to increase... |
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"abstract": "This paper deals with symmetric and non-symmetric polynomial perturbations of symmetric quasi-definite bilinear functionals. We establish a relation between the Hessenberg matrices associated with the initial and the perturbed functionals using LU and QR factorizations. Moreover we give an explicit alg... | {
"abstract": "Abstract In this paper, we study two equivalent ways of transforming a system of orthogonal polynomials: one is the so-called lifting of the recurrence relation associated with an orthogonal polynomial system (OPS) and the other consists of applying the QR algorithm to the Jacobi matrix of the OPS. The... | {
"abstract": "A class of large scale systems, which is naturally divided into many smaller interacting subsystems, are usually controlled by a distributed or decentralized control framework. In this paper, a novel distributed model predictive control (MPC) is proposed for improving the performance of entire system. ... |
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"abstract": "We discuss the jet kinematics of a complete flux-density-limited sample of 135 radio-loud active galactic nuclei (AGNs) resulting from a 13 year program to investigate the structure and evolution of parsec-scale jet phenomena. Our analysis is based on new 2 cm Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) images obt... | {
"abstract": "We report on multifrequency observations performed during 2012 December–2013 August of the first narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxy detected in γ-rays, PMN J0948+0022 (z = 0.5846). A γ-ray flare was observed by the Large Area Telescope on board Fermi during 2012 December–2013 January, reaching a daily peak f... | {
"abstract": "Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to examine the profile of accounting research in the two academic accounting research journals in South Africa ( Design/methodology/approach - The archival research method is applied, which analyses existing data (in this case the articles published in the South A... |
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"abstract": "The detection of clustered microcalcifications can help the radiologist to detect early breast cancer. Microcalcifications exhibit some important characteristics, such as small size and high luminosity. Use of a computeraided diagnosis (CAD) method can prevent them being overlooked. In this report, a m... | {
"abstract": "The breast consists of two main types of tissues — glandular tissues and supporting (stromal) tissues. The glandular part is responsible for milk production during lactation and mainly consists of lobules and ducts. The support tissue of the breast includes fatty tissue and fibrous connective tissue, w... | {
"abstract": "Four categories of plant food dominated the diet of chimpanzees in Kibale Forest, Uganda: non-fig tree fruits, fig tree fruits, herbaceous piths and terrestrial leaves. Fruit abundance varied unpredictably, more among non-figs than figs. Pith intake was correlated negatively with fruit abundance and po... |
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"abstract": "The Jiles–Atherton magnetic hysteresis model coupled with time-stepping finite-element analysis is reported to suffer from numerical convergence problems, for example, when simulating electrical machines. In this paper, we describe a source of the numerical difficulties, and present a more stable time ... | {
"abstract": "Validation and verification are the most important issues in railway applications due to cost and security reasons. Therefore, having a model of the system would be necessary in this case. Due to non-ideal test conditions in industrial applications, an accurate parameter identification process has to b... | {
"abstract": "A minimum‐ordered set of elliptic integral equations is given for magnetic vector potential, axial and radial fields, the mixed gradient ∂B ρ/∂z for axially symmetric iron‐free current systems, and for mutual inductance and force between coaxial units. The units may be circular loops, cylindrical or pl... |
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"abstract": "Biochemical evaluations have been extremely rewarding in the search for etiological mechanisms in neurootological patients. They have been diagnostically confirmatory in 72% of our patients. In these patients, the treatment results are gratifying when the instructions are followed. This method of etiol... | {
"abstract": "The problem of food sensitivity causing chronic disorders of the ear, nose, and throat has been a known fact for many years. Diagnosis and management of the problem are well within the abilities of any concerned otolaryngologist. Precise means of laboratory diagnosis are currently being developed and s... | {
"abstract": "Brain serotonin cocentrations at 1 p.m. were significantly elevated 1 hour after rats received a dose of L-tryptophan (12.5 milligrams per kilogram. intraperitoneally) smaller than one-twentieth of the normal daily dietary intake. Plasma and brain tryptophan levels were elevated 10 to 60 minutes after ... |
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"abstract": "MoboQ is a location-based real-time social question answering service deployed in the field in China. Using MoboQ, people can ask temporal and geo-sensitive questions, such as how long is the line at a popular business right now, and then receive answers that crowdsourced from other users in a timely f... | {
"abstract": "Local search users today decide what business to visit solely based on distance information, and business ratings that can be sparse or stale. We believe that when users search for local businesses, such as bars or restaurants, they need to know more about the ambience of each business, such as how cro... | {
"abstract": "UDP-Glucuronate, formed through dehydrogenation of UDP-glucose and itself decarboxylated to make UDP-xylose, is the presumed donor for the glucuronyl side-groups in biosynthesis of the capsular polysaccharide in Cryptococcus neoformans. A specific radiochromatographic assay for UDP-glucose dehydrogenas... |
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"abstract": "INTRODUCTION\nIn DSM-5, body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) was reclassified under the obsessive-compulsive and related disorders (OCRDs), but little is known about the nature of BDD beliefs. This study aimed to compare level of insight in BDD and consider related implications for DSM-5 classification.\n\n\... | {
"abstract": "Objective: Current nosology conceptualises body dysmorphic disorder as being related to obsessive-compulsive disorder, but the direct evidence to support this conceptualisation is mixed. In this systematic review, we aimed to provide an integrated overview of research that has directly compared body dy... | {
"abstract": "Researchers using a goal orientation framework have hypothesized that learning goals are associated with adaptive patterns of behavior, regardless of the level of perceived ability. In contrast, perceived ability is hypothesized to moderate the relation between performance goals and patterns of adaptiv... |
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"abstract": "The highly extended atmospheres of evolved M supergiant stars such as Betelgeuse have complex properties which are not clearly understood, nor are the processes responsible for elevating their atmospheres to form massive cool outtows. Alf ven waves 1?4 , acoustic waves 1;2;5?7 , and radial pulsations 8... | {
"abstract": "Un modele de chromosphere stellaire chauffee acoustiquement est developpe pour les etoiles de type avance. Les simulations numeriques des profils de raies d'emission de MgII et Ca II sont realissees pour une geante (log g =3) et pour une naine (log g = 5) de temperature effective 5012 K",
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"abstract": "Radio continuum and H{sub 2}O maser emission have been detected from the semiregular variable W Hya. The continuum emission at radio frequencies probably comes from the outer photosphere of the red giant star. A partial resolution of the stellar disk shows it to be approximately 0.09 arcsec in diameter... |
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"abstract": "M. ulcerans is adapting to a more stable environment.",
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"title": "Ongoing Genome Reduction in Mycobacterium ulcerans"
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"abstract": "Giardia lamblia (syn G. intestinalis, G. duodenalis) is the most common pathogenic intestinal parasite of humans worldwide and is a frequent cause of endemic and epidemic diarrhea. G. lamblia is divided into eight genotypes (A–H) which infect a wide range of mammals and humans, but human infections are... | {
"abstract": "Tacrolimus is prescribed to the majority of transplant recipients to prevent graft rejection, and although patients are maintained on oral administration, nonoral routes of administration are frequently used in the initial post-transplant period. CYP3A5 genotype is an established predictor of oral tacr... |
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"abstract": "Hop is a dioecious perennial, the female plants of which are cultivated for production of resin, used mainly in the brewing industry. Sex determination of hop plants is phenotypically determined in the second year of growth, so early sex determination at seedling stage, before planting, is important fo... | {
"abstract": "Gene sequences mediating sexual reproduction are more divergent within and between closely related species. Microsatellite or simple sequence repeat (SSR) markers are valuable molecular tools for analysis of genetic variability, phylogeny, and also for identifying sex at seedling stage in dioecious pla... | {
"abstract": "Protease inhibitors play important roles in stress and developmental responses of plants. Rice genome contains 17 putative members in chymotrypsin protease inhibitor (ranging in size from 7.21 to 11.9 kDa) gene family with different predicted localization sites. Full-length cDNA encoding for a putative... |
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"abstract": "Automated tissue image analysis aims to develop algorithms for a variety of histological applications. This has important implications in the diagnostic grading of cancer such as in breast and pros ...",
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"title": "Automated Tissue Image Analysis Using Pattern Recognition"
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"abstract": "RNA-seq data from single cells are mapped to their location in complex tissues using gene expression atlases based on in situ hybridization.",
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"title": "Spatial reconstruction of single-cell gene expression data"
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"abstract": "Traffic safety is a severe problem around the world. Many road accidents are normally related with the driver's unsafe driving behavior, e.g. eating while driving. In this work, we propose a vision-based solution to recognize the driver's behavior based on convolutional neural networks. Specifically, g... |
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"abstract": "A glial glutamate transporter, GLAST, is expressed abundantly in Bergmann glia and plays a major role in glutamate uptake at the excitatory synapses in cerebellar Purkinje cells (PCs). It has been reported that a higher percentage of PCs in GLAST-deficient mice are multiply innervated by climbing fiber... | {
"abstract": "Cerebellar Purkinje cell and granule cell development are coordinated by Bergmann glia, and are particularly sensitive to ethanol (EtOH) exposure. The liver X receptor (LXR) plays important roles in Bergmann glial development. However, the effect of LXR activation on EtOH-mediated impairment of Bergman... | {
"abstract": "We studied gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) gated whole-cell Cl- currents after rapid transmitter application (< 10 ms) to cells expressing structurally different recombinant GABAA receptors. A variety of recombinant receptors were transiently transfected in a human cell line with three cDNAs encoding fo... |
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"abstract": "Current search technologies can only harness the ever increasing amount of multimedia data when sufficient metadata exists. Several annotations are already available, yet they seldom cover all aspects. The generation of additional metadata proves costly; therefore efficient multimedia retrieval require... | {
"abstract": "Knowledge Discovery consists in discovering hidden regularities in large amounts of data using data mining techniques. The obtained patterns require an interpretation that is usually achieved using some background knowledge given by experts from several domains. On the other hand, the rise of Linked Da... | {
"abstract": "Peace provides the freedom to express our views, to relate with others people and create cooperation, and social networks (SNs) provide that platform. SNs can play a very important role to improve peacebuilding (Pb) applications as current peace-related studies witness that violence- and Pb-related rep... |
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"abstract": "Body mass index (BMI) is expressed by the body weight (kg) divided by height (m) squared. Therefore, if we know ideal BMI, ideal body weight (kg) of each individual can be calculated by a formula: Ideal BMI x height (m)2. In order to estimate ideal BMI, we investigated average BMI with the lowest morbi... | {
"abstract": "Background The link between elevated serum uric acid (SUA) levels and cardiovascular disease (CVD)–related mortality in the elderly population remains inconclusive. Nutritional status influences both SUA and CVD outcomes. Therefore, we investigated whether SUA‐predicted mortality and the effect‐modifyi... | {
"abstract": "Khosla and Lowe (1967) have drawn attention to the usefulness of a reliable index of obesity derived from height and weight. From their analysis of data on 5,000 British men aged 15 to 64 years, they decided that the best index was weight divided by the square of height, thus confirming the conclusions... |
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"abstract": "Biped locomotion created b ya controller based on Zero-Momen tP oint (ZMP) known as reliable control method looks differen tf r om human's walking on the vie wp oin tt hat ZMP-base dw a lkin gd oes no ti nclude falling stat e. However, the walking control that does no td epend on ZM Pi s vu lnerable to... | {
"abstract": "In this paper, we focus on how to control the robot end-effector to track an object, meanwhile, to approach it with a suitable posture for grasping. We named it “Approaching Visual Servoing”. A proposed hand & eye-vergence dual control system is used to perform Approaching Visual Servoing, aiming at qu... | {
"abstract": "First, the three dimensional precise simulation method for biped robot has been proposed, which is the extension of the open link manipulator simulation method and the contact simulation method of rigid body mechanics. The proposed simulation model can be said to be mathematically exact, thus this appr... |
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"abstract": "Sources, pathways and reservoirs of microplastics, plastic particles smaller than 5mm, remain poorly documented in an urban context. While some studies pointed out wastewater treatment plants as a potential pathway of microplastics, none have focused on the atmospheric compartment. In this work, the at... | {
"abstract": "Microplastics are present throughout the marine environment and ingestion of these plastic particles (<1 mm) has been demonstrated in a laboratory setting for a wide array of marine organisms. Here, we investigate the presence of microplastics in two species of commercially grown bivalves: Mytilus edul... | {
"abstract": "The staggering amount of streaming time series coming from the real world calls for more efficient and effective online modeling solution. For time series modeling, most existing works make some unrealistic assumptions such as the input data is of fixed length or well aligned, which requires extra effo... |
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"abstract": "The problem 2-Xor-Sat asks for the probability that a random expression, built as a conjunction of clauses x ⊕ y, is satisfiable. We consider here a refinement of this question, namely the probability that a random expression computes a specific Boolean function. The answer involves a description of 2-... | {
"abstract": "A considerable number of asymptotic distributions arising in random combinatorics and analysis of algorithms are of the exponential‐quadratic type, that is, Gaussian. We exhibit a class of “universal” phenomena that are of the exponential‐cubic type, corresponding to distributions that involve the Airy... | {
"abstract": "Using a Physically Unclonable Function or PUF to extract a secret key from the unique submicron structure of a device, instead of storing it in non-volatile memory, provides interesting advantages like physical unclonability and tamper evidence. However, an additional Helper Data Algorithm (HDA) is req... |
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"abstract": "In this paper we present our findings on teaching Object Oriented Programming (OOP) with BlueJ in the context of a one-semester programming course. Specifically, we present the evolution of the course, results from its evaluation and proposals for a more effective teaching of OOP. Our proposals focus o... | {
"abstract": "Younger students are very often scared from programming, because of its complexity, before they even understand what it is or which purpose it serves. Using characteristics from different types of graphical languages and a tangible interface, Botbeans tries to present programming in a more casual and l... | {
"abstract": "With innovations ruling the world, there has been a phenomenal growth of e-commerce leading to a lot of transactions taking place online in Internet. To safely transfer data, an existing technique called steganography is used. The goal of steganography is to insert a message into a carrier signal so th... |
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"abstract": "Veliparib (ABT‐888) is a potent, orally bioavailable poly(ADP‐ribose) polymerase‐1 and ‐2 inhibitor. This phase 1 study evaluated the tolerability, pharmacokinetic profile, safety, and preliminary antitumor activity of single‐agent veliparib in Japanese patients with advanced solid tumors. Eligible pat... | {
"abstract": "PurposeVeliparib (ABT-888) is an orally bioavailable potent inhibitor of poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP)-1 and PARP-2. This phase 1 study evaluated the effect of veliparib on corrected QT interval using Fridericia’s formula (QTcF).MethodsEligible patients with advanced solid tumors received single-d... | {
"abstract": "Background: Transcirculation approaches, which consist of primary catheterization of a target artery from the contralateral side or opposite cerebral circulation, provide alternate endovascular routes when anterograde interventions are not feasible. We aimed to assess the safety and efficacy of mechani... |
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"abstract": "Rival penalized competitive learning (RPCL) has provided attractive ways to perform clustering without knowing the exact cluster number. In this paper, a new variant of the rival penalized competitive learning is proposed and it performs automatic clustering analysis of seismic data. In the proposed al... | {
"abstract": "Unsupervised seismic facies analysis provides an effective way to estimate reservoir properties by combining different seismic attributes through pattern recognition algorithms. However, without consistent geological information, parameters such as the number of facies and even the input seismic attrib... | {
"abstract": "Sympathetic control of arteries and veins may be altered in hypertension. To test this hypothesis, constrictions of mesenteric arteries and veins caused by nerve stimulation and by norepinephrine (NE) and ATP were studied in vitro in tissues from deoxycorticosterone acetate (DOCA)-salt hypertensive and... |
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"abstract": "Adaptive sparse representations have been very popular in numerous applications in recent years. The learning of synthesis sparsifying dictionaries has particularly received much attention, and such adaptive dictionaries have been shown to be useful in applications such as image denoising, and magnetic... | {
"abstract": "The introduction of the fast Fourier transform algorithm has led to the development of the Fourier transform image coding technique whereby the two-dimensional Fourier transform of an image is transmitted over a channel rather than the image itself. This devlopement has further led to a related image c... | {
"abstract": "Fourier coding method for coding images for digital transmission, achieving bandwidth reduction for televised images",
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"abstract": "The existence of supermassive black holes lurking in the centers of galaxies and of stellar binary systems containing a black hole with a few solar masses has been established beyond reasonable doubt. The idea that black holes of intermediate masses (∼1000M⊙) may exist in globular star clusters has gai... | {
"abstract": "Level-set methods have become a valuable and well-established field of visualization over the last decades. Different implemen-tations addressing different design goals and different data types exist. In particular, level sets can be used to extract isosurfaces from scalar volume data that fulfill certai... | {
"abstract": "This paper proposes a new topology for fault current limiter (FCL) that is based on series LC resonance circuit. The proposed FCL uses a high speed switch to put an inductor in series with a capacitor and make resonance condition between them. This structure can hold the peak of fault current in the co... |
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"abstract": "A comparative study on the level of expression of lacZ reporter constructs driven by equivalent carp and rat β‐actin regulatory sequences was carried out in embryos of tilapia and rainbow trout. DNA was microinjected into fertilised tilapia and rainbow trout eggs and the embryos/fry were assayed at var... | {
"abstract": "Regulatory regions of the beta-actin gene of the common carp (Cyprinus carpio) have been examined by linking upstream, 5'-flanking sequences and regions of the first intron to a bacterial chloramphenicol acetyltransferase (CAT) reporter gene. By analysis of the mRNA products and encoded CAT activity, w... | {
"abstract": "Fish represent the largest and most diverse group of vertebrates. Their evolutionary position relative to other vertebrates and their ability to adapt to a wide variety of environments make them ideal for studying both organismic and molecular evolution. A number of other characteristics make them exce... |
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"abstract": "We have found (1), in contrast to previous reports, the human rotavirus Wa strain is sialic acid-dependent for binding to and infectivity of MA-104 cells and (2), a dual carbohydrate binding specificity is associated with both human Wa and Porcine OSU rotaviruses. One carbohydrate binding activity is a... | {
"abstract": "We used NMR spectroscopy, molecular modeling and infectivity competition assays to investigate the key interactions between the spike protein (VP8(*)) from 'sialidase-insensitive' human Wa and 'sialidase-sensitive' porcine CRW-8 rotaviruses and the glycans of gangliosides G(M1) and G(D1a). Our data pro... | {
"abstract": "A new anion exchange resin, Spherosil-DEAE-Dextran, consisting of porous glass beads covered with cross-linked DEAE-Dextran, was used in the separation of gangliosides. The gangliosides were eluted from the resin with a discontinuous gradient of potassium acetate in methanol, separating the ganglioside... |
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"abstract": "BackgroundLearning the structure of microbial communities is critical in understanding the different community structures and functions of microbes in distinct individuals. We view microbial communities as consisting of many subcommunities which are formed by certain groups of microbes functionally dep... | {
"abstract": "In this paper, we study the problem of computing a principal component analysis of data affected by Poisson noise. We assume samples are drawn from independent Poisson distributions. We want to estimate principal components of a fixed transformation of the latent Poisson means. Our motivating example i... | {
"abstract": "Mass spectrometry based high throughput proteomics are used for protein analysis and clinical diagnosis. Many machine learning methods have been used to construct classifiers based on mass spectrometry data, for discrimination between cancer stages. However, the classifiers generated by machine learnin... |
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"abstract": "This paper presents the design of a GaN-based class-F power amplifier using nonlinear embedded model of GaN HEMT transistor. The non-linear device embedding model has been utilized for projecting the desired mode of operation from the current reference plane to the external reference plane. The design ... | {
"abstract": "This paper presents a methodology to improve the efficiency of a power amplifier in broadband using an active harmonic injection. The harmonic signal is injected to operate the power amplifier similar to the Class J mode. The second harmonic signal is generated on-board using a frequency doubler whose ... | {
"abstract": "Abstract The vertical field (Eeff) dependence of electron and hole mobility (μn,p) in MOSFETs with reoxidized nitrided oxide (RONO) gate dielectrics is characterized and compared with that of MOSFETs with thermal oxide (SiO2) gate dielectrics over temperatures ranging from 100 to 350 K. In the devices ... |
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"abstract": "SummaryIn the progenies of the crosses between disomics and trisomies, two plants were isolated which carried an extra chromosome that was unlike any in the standard complement. The plants were not alike; while one carried a metacentric, the other had a telocentric extra chromosome. Their detailed stru... | {
"abstract": "Plant Biotechnology involves manipulation of genetic material to develop better crops. Keeping in view the challenges being faced by humanity in terms of shortage of food and other resources, we need to continuously upgrade the genomic technologies and fine tune the existing methods. For efficient gene... | {
"abstract": "Approximately 25% of progenies from crosses between diploid seed-parents and a spontaneous autotriploid included trisomic plants. The frequency of trisomics from self-pollinated or female trisomics ranged from 5 to 50%. The frequency of pollen mother cells with a trivalent from trisomics ranged from 21... |
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"abstract": "Advanced fault-tolerant control schemes are required for ensuring efficient and reliable operation of complex technological systems such as ground vehicles. A novel approach to fault-tolerant control design is proposed for a full-scale vehicle dynamic model with an active suspension system in the prese... | {
"abstract": "This paper presents an application of a diagnosis and a fault tolerant control method for an active suspension system. This method detects and identifies an actuator fault and reconfigures the controller in order to maintain the ride comfort and vehicle performance in the presence of road disturbances.... | {
"abstract": "Although the phenomenon of shock wave reflection was discovered more than a hundred years ago, active research related to this phenomenon still goes on in many countries in the world (e.g., Australia, Canada, China, Germany, Israel, Japan, Poland, Russia and United States of America). As a matter of fa... |
{
"abstract": "The six Painleve transcendents P\"I-P\"V\"I have both applications and analytic properties that make them stand out from most other classes of special functions. Although they have been the subject of extensive theoretical investigations for about a century, they still have a reputation for being numer... | {
"abstract": "This paper presents iterative reproducing kernel algorithm for obtaining the numerical solutions of Bagley–Torvik and Painlevé equations of fractional order. The representation of the exact and the numerical solutions is given in the $$ \\hat{W}_{2}^{3} \\left[ {0,1} \\right] $$W^230,1, $$ W_{2}^{3} \\... | {
"abstract": "In this article we give a construction of the resolution graphs of hypersurface surface singularities (X_k,0) given by generalized Iomdin series. All these resolution graphs are coordinated by an ``universal bi-colored graph'' which is associated with the ICIS determining the Iomdin series. The definit... |
{
"abstract": "Abstract As service offerings and technologies constantly develop there seems to be confusion over what we are actually talking about when we talk about mobile services. A requirement for constructing an organized body of knowledge in a specific area of research is the clarity of its basic concepts. Of... | {
"abstract": "This paper presents the results of a survey study carried out in Oulu, Finland between spring and autumn 2000 as a part of the VRFLow2 research project in the University of Oulu. The survey investigates Finnish and other European travellers' attitudes about mobile services of a local travel portal deve... | {
"abstract": "The pendulum appears to be swinging away from the merger mania of the 1980s, with many leaner-and meaner organizations refocusing on their core competencies. However, these more focused organizations often lack the breadth of skills and expertise necessary for developing products and services which cut... |
{
"abstract": "Video games have shown great potential as tools that both engage and motivate players to achieve tasks and build communities in fantasy worlds. We propose that the application of game elements to real world activities can aid in delivering contextual information in interesting ways and help young peopl... | {
"abstract": "Human Pacman is a novel interactive entertainment system that ventures to embed the natural physical world seamlessly with a fantasy virtual playground by capitalizing on mobile computing, wireless LAN, ubiquitous computing, and motion-tracking technologies. Our human Pacman research is a physical role... | {
"abstract": "The influential pure embedding methodology of embedding domain-specific languages (DSLs) as libraries into a general-purpose host language forces the DSL designer to commit to a single semantics. This precludes the subsequent addition of compilation, optimization or domain-specific analyses. We propose... |
{
"abstract": "Biological sequences play a major role in molecular and computational biology.DNA sequence representation remains as one of the critical steps in the analysis of relationships between species. There are several 2D and 3-D graphical representation methods for DNA sequences. We have introduced a tabular ... | {
"abstract": "The sequencing of genomic data requires methods to allow this data to be visualized and analyzed. With the emergence of genomic signal processing, graphical representation techniques play a key role in applying digital signal processing techniques like Fourier transforms, and more recently, wavelet tra... | {
"abstract": "We consider some unintended effects of a \"technology treaty\" to increase the (stochastic) possibility of developing an energy alternative to fossil fuels which, when available, makes fossil fuels redundant. One implication of such a treaty is to increase the incentives for fossil-fuels producers to e... |
{
"abstract": "In recent years, we have observed a clear trend in the rapid rise of autonomous vehicles, robotics, virtual reality, and augmented reality. The core technology enabling these applications, Simultaneous Localization And Mapping (SLAM), imposes two main challenges: first, these workloads are computationa... | {
"abstract": "Part II of the tutorial has summarized the remaining building blocks of the VO pipeline: specifically, how to detect and match salient and repeatable features across frames and robust estimation in the presence of outliers and bundle adjustment. In addition, error propagation, applications, and links t... | {
"abstract": "In this paper we describe a method for the automatic self-calibration of a 3D laser sensor. We wish to acquire crisp point clouds and so we adopt a measure of crispness to capture point cloud quality. We then pose the calibration problem as the task of maximizing point cloud quality. Concretely, we use... |
{
"abstract": "Many studies have suggested that there is an inverse relationship between education and number of children among women from sub-Saharan Africa countries, including Malawi. However, a crucial limitation of these analyses is that they do not control for the potential endogeneity of education. The aim of ... | {
"abstract": "We use the 2014 round of Burkina Faso’s Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) to identify and quantify the causal effect of women’s education on their fertility outcomes focusing on two fertility indicators: the total number of children ever born and the age at first birth. However, women's educational ... | {
"abstract": "This paper examines the impact of macroeconomic announcements on the high-frequency behavior of the observed implied volatility skew of S&P 500 index options and VIX. We document that macroeconomic announcements affect VIX significantly and slope at a lesser extent. We also find evidence that good and ... |
{
"abstract": "Chlamydia trachomatis was cultured from the cervix of 70 of 557 (12 6%) patients admitted for therapeutic abortion. Postoperatively, 22 (3 9%) developed acute pelvic inflammatory disease (PID); of these women, 14 (63 6/o) had harboured C trachomatis in the cervix before the abortion. Thus of 70 patient... | {
"abstract": "Three-hundred sixty sera from unselected patients attending two London venereal disease clinics were examined by a microimmunofluorescence test. Eleven egg-grown serotypes of Chlamydia trachomatis and the so-called \"fast\" strain SA2(f) were used as antigens. Of the 360 sera tested, 119 (33%) reacted ... | {
"abstract": "A prospective study of 1,000 cases of termination of pregnancy by vacuum aspiration is presented and the safety of the method emphasized. By setting up special clinics and an additional weekly operating session, the maximum delay from a request to appointment is 5 days, and, if operation is advised, fr... |
{
"abstract": "In this paper, radiated emission from a PCB with an attached cable resulting from a nonzero ground plane impedance is studied experimentally and with FDTD modeling. Frequency responses of the CM current, the electric field near the PCB, and the electric far field are investigated. First, the effect of ... | {
"abstract": "Common mode current induced on cable attached to a PCB has been a well-known source of unintentional radiated emissions. The coupling mechanism of the common mode current to the cable can be divided into two types: voltage-driven and current-driven. In voltage-driven mechanism, the common mode current ... | {
"abstract": "The measurement of electromagnetic fields generated by indirect electrostatic discharge (ESD) between low-voltage-charged metal objects with the use of very short monopole antennas has clarified the hitherto unknown specific characteristics of the impulse field which features the ultrawideband characte... |
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