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{ "abstract": null, "corpus_id": 38808563, "title": "AuDoscore: Automatic Grading of Java or Scala Homework" }
{ "abstract": null, "corpus_id": 18866444, "title": "Using Test-Driven Development in the Classroom: Providing Students with Automatic, Concrete Feedback on Performance" }
{ "abstract": "We present a novel deep Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) model for acoustic modelling in Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR). We term our contribution as a TC-DNN-BLSTM-DNN model, the model combines a Deep Neural Network (DNN) with Time Convolution (TC), followed by a Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory ...
{ "abstract": "One hurdle to using peer-to-peer networks as anonymizing networks is churn. Node churn makes anonymous paths fragile and short-lived: failures of a relay node disrupt the path, resulting in message loss and communication failures. To make anonymous routing resilient to node failures, we use a simple ye...
{ "abstract": "Tarzan is a peer-to-peer anonymous IP network overlay. Because it provides IP service, Tarzan is general-purpose and transparent to applications. Organized as a decentralized peer-to-peer overlay, Tarzan is fault-tolerant, highly scalable, and easy to manage.Tarzan achieves its anonymity with layered e...
{ "abstract": "Email: wesugi@computer.org, miwa@waseda.jp Abstract A significance of engagement in face-to-face has been pointed out in computer mediated communication area. In order to create such a coexisting situation, mainly two approaches can be available; visual interaction and tangible interaction. However, ea...
{ "abstract": "A hallmark of the mammalian circadian timing system is synchronization of physiology and behavior, but when this synchronization is disturbed, chronic diseases such as metabolic syndrome and depression may develop. Three new studies show that nuclear receptors of the Rev-Erb family impact the circadian...
{ "abstract": "Evidence from clinical and preclinical research provides an undeniable link between disruptions in the circadian clock and the development of psychiatric diseases, including mood and substance abuse disorders. The molecular clock, which controls daily patterns of physiological and behavioral activity i...
{ "abstract": "During an immune response T cells enter memory fate determination, a program that divides them into two main populations: effector memory and central memory T cells. Since in many systems protection appears to be preferentially mediated by T cells of the central memory it is important to understand whe...
{ "abstract": null, "corpus_id": 7261165, "title": "Optimizing Interventions via Offline Policy Evaluation: Studies in Citizen Science" }
{ "abstract": null, "corpus_id": 44144165, "title": "Accelerating Human Learning with Deep Reinforcement Learning" }
{ "abstract": "Sparse coding provides a class of algorithms for finding succinct representations of stimuli; given only unlabeled input data, it discovers basis functions that capture higher-level features in the data. However, finding sparse codes remains a very difficult computational problem. In this paper, we pre...
{ "abstract": "This contribution deals with tracking of convoys moving on ground by airborne GMTI radar. A technique based on generalized power estimators using multiple beams is used to estimate the lateral length component of an unresolved convoy. In combination with the conventional range measurement, the full len...
{ "abstract": "The Basics of Target Tracking. Sensor and Source Characteristics. Kinematic State Estimation: Filtering and Prediction. Modelling and Tracking Dynamic Targets. Passive Sensor Tracking. Basic Methods for Data Association. Advanced Methods for MTT Data Association. Attribute Data Fusion. Multiple Sensor ...
{ "abstract": "Abstract High precision tracking of all surrounding objects is a prerequisite to the autononious/senii-autononious management of multiple mobile robot systems. This task comprises not only tracking of moving objects, but also detection of obstacles or other stationary objects. We demonstrate that Expec...
{ "abstract": "From the literature on resistance to persuasion in advertising, much is known about how people can resist advertising by adopting resistance strategies, such as avoidance, counter-arguing, and selective attention (e.g., Fransen et al., 2015b). However, the role of emotion regulation and bodily expressi...
{ "abstract": "We review research showing that the meaning of physical actions matters, that meaning can vary, and that the key element of meaning to affect judgments is the perceived validity of the thoughts. This article first describes studies on embodied persuasion for which changing the meaning of a behavior als...
{ "abstract": "A symposium on ‘Rotating fluid systems’ was held at La Jolla, California, from 28 March to 1 April 1966. The meeting was organized under the auspices of the International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, and took place at the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics of the University of...
{ "abstract": "Silicon carbide (SiC) n-channel and p-channel junction field-effect transistors (JFETs) were fabricated by direct ion implantation into a high-purity semi-insulating 4H-SiC substrate toward complementary-JFET integrated circuit applications under a harsh environment. The fabricated n-JFET and p-JFET on...
{ "abstract": "High-temperature electronics find use in extreme environments, like data logging in downhole drilling for geothermal energy production, inside of high-temperature turbines, industrial gas sensors a ...", "corpus_id": 155233449, "title": "SiC CMOS and memory devices for high-temperature integrated c...
{ "abstract": "The wide band-gap of Silicon Carbide (SiC) makes it a material suitable for high temperature integrated circuits [1], potentially operating up to and beyond 450°C. This paper describes the development of a 15V SiC CMOS technology developed to operate at high temperatures, n and p-channel transistor and...
{ "abstract": null, "corpus_id": 15954469, "title": "Underwater Color Image Enhancement Using Wavelength Compensation and Dehazing" }
{ "abstract": "The image processing community has witnessed remarkable advances in enhancing and restoring images. Nevertheless, restoring the visual quality of underwater images remains a great challenge. End-to-end frameworks might fail to enhance the visual quality of underwater images since in several scenarios i...
{ "abstract": "In this research, we consider the supervised learning problem of seismic phase classification. In seismology, knowledge of the seismic activity arrival time and phase leads to epicenter localization and surface velocity estimates useful in developing seismic early warning systems and detecting man-made...
{ "abstract": "This thesis is presented in three parts. The overall aim was to explore public beliefs about and attitudes towards bipolar disorder. Bipolar disorder is one of the few disorders to have undergone a name change in the last 30 years, and there are current proposals for schizophrenia to also be renamed to...
{ "abstract": "Objective:  To provide a review of population‐based attitude research in psychiatry during the past 15 years.", "corpus_id": 3705336, "title": "Public beliefs about and attitudes towards people with mental illness: a review of population studies" }
{ "abstract": "Abstract The stigma of mental illness remains a serious social problem and critical impediment to treatment seeking among diagnosed individuals. Study 1 evaluated explicit attitudes and stereotypes about persons with mental illness relative to persons with physical illness, and also implicit attitudes ...
{ "abstract": "AMPA receptor subunit‐specific antibodies were used to determine if the distribution of excitatory amino acid receptors in the owl's auditory brainstem and midbrain nuclei reflected specializations for temporal processing. Each auditory nucleus displays characteristic levels of immunostaining for the A...
{ "abstract": "1. The influence of sound location and sound frequency on the responses of single units in the midbrain auditory area (MLD) of the owl (Tyto alba) were studied using a movable sound source under free-field conditions. With this technique, two functionally distinct regions in MLD have been identified: a...
{ "abstract": "Data driven computational approaches to predicting protein-ligand binding are currently achieving unprecedented levels of accuracy on held-out test datasets. Up until now, however, this has not led to corresponding breakthroughs in our ability to design novel ligands for protein targets of interest. Th...
{ "abstract": null, "corpus_id": 3092396, "title": "A Matched-Filter Method For Motion-Compensated Spotlight-Mode Sar Processing" }
{ "abstract": "In this paper, we introduce a new synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging modality which can provide a high-resolution map of the spatial distribution of targets and terrain using a significantly reduced number of needed transmitted and/or received electromagnetic waveforms. This new imaging scheme, req...
{ "abstract": "A Computer Vision system extracts and analyzes image features in order to recognize and/or measure it. A Computer Vision system for inspection has received considerable industry attention, in the last years. This paper uses some Computer Vision techniques to measure parts and discusses common difficult...
{ "abstract": "This chapter summarizes weight and body mass index findings of the Multiple Risk Factor Intervention Trial and then focuses on relations of food group and nutrient intakes to weight change during follow-up. Results were qualitatively similar for the special intervention (SI) and usual care groups. Weig...
{ "abstract": "This study examined the effect of food group intake on subsequent 2-y weight change. Food-frequency questionnaire-based food intake data of 17,369 nonsmoking subjects of the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC)-Potsdam cohort were examined in their relation to a subsequen...
{ "abstract": "A study of possible nutritional determinants of certain haemostatic factors (heparin-neutralizing activity, fibrinogen and antithrombin III) was conducted in the Caerphilly cohort of 2512 men. Data on diet were obtained in a sub-sample of 665 men by a 7-d weighed dietary inventory and in the complete c...
{ "abstract": "Household auto ownership modeling plays an important role in travel demand analysis because it reveals a key link between travel behavior and built environment. The object of this paper is to estimate the impact of built environment on household auto ownership levels by using a multilevel, mixed ordere...
{ "abstract": "Although the impacts of built environment on car ownership and use have been extensively studied, limited evidence has been offered for the role of spatial effects in influencing the interaction between built environment and travel behavior. Ignoring the spatial effects may lead to misunderstanding the...
{ "abstract": "It is usually assumed that most, if not all, small scale fishing communities, particularly in tropical countries, represents the poorest and most disadvantaged part of rural societies. As a result, these populations have been targeted for poverty alleviation by fisheries development programmes since th...
{ "abstract": "While correlational evidence exists that humor is positively associated with well-being, only few studies addressed causality. We tested the effects of five humor-based activities on happiness and depression in a placebo-controlled, self-administered online positive psychology intervention study (N = 6...
{ "abstract": "Ke yW ords well being, strength(s), meaning, flow, happiness ■ Abstract Positive psychology is the scientific study of positive experiences and positive individual traits, and the institutions that facilitate their development. A field concerned with well-being and optimal functioning, positive psychol...
{ "abstract": "Due to the short and noisy nature of Twitter microposts, detecting named entities is often a cumbersome task. As part of the ACL2015 Named Entity Recognition (NER) shared task, we present a semisupervised system that detects 10 types of named entities. To that end, we leverage 400 million Twitter micro...
{ "abstract": "A detailed comparison is carried out between two popular equations of state (EOS), the Mihalas-Hummer-Däppen (MHD) and the OPAL equations of state, which have found widespread use in solar and stellar modeling during the past two decades. They are parts of two independent efforts to recalculate stellar...
{ "abstract": "This book introduces the theory of the internal structure of stars and their evolution in time. It presents the basic physics of stellar interiors, methods for solving the underlying equations, and the most important results necessary for understanding the wide variety of stellar types and phenomena. T...
{ "abstract": "An experiment has been set up at the Daresbury Synchrotron Radiation Facility to make absolute absorption cross section measurements over a wide range of photon energies. New data are reported for helium, neon, argon and krypton over the range 340-40 Å which are believed to be reliable to ± 5%. A criti...
{ "abstract": "Several companies have recently announced plans to build \"green\" datacenters, i.e. datacenters partially or completely powered by renewable energy. These datacenters will either generate their own renewable energy or draw it directly from an existing nearby plant. Besides reducing carbon footprints, ...
{ "abstract": "Designing thermal management policies for todaypsilas power-dense server clusters is currently a challenge, since it is difficult to predict the exact temperature and performance that would result from trying to react to a thermal emergency. To address this challenge, in this paper we propose C-Oracle,...
{ "abstract": "High-level manipulation of facial expressions in images such as expression synthesis is challenging because facial expression changes are highly non-linear, and vary depending on the facial appearance. Identity of the person should also be well preserved in the synthesized face. In this paper, we propo...
{ "abstract": "If the social world were ‘flat’ in the sense that it did not matter where you lived or with whom you associated—no place effects, no context effects, no contagion effects—then single-level analysis would do. The message of Subramanian, Jones, Kaddour and Krieger 1 is that the social world usually is no...
{ "abstract": "Influential cases: Arizona and New Mexico It is interesting to note that after weighting the original ecological correlation between illiteracy and percent black, which is based on the incorrect ecol ogical data, the result went from .773 up to .901. This difference is almost completely attributable t ...
{ "abstract": "Increasingly it is recognized that health and illness are products of individual level risk and protective factors, as well as forces operating at contextual levels. In this article, we present the motivation and rationale for understanding trauma within its context. We use the example of the concept o...
{ "abstract": "Acute facial nerve injuries involving the total facial nerve (n = 202) and its segmental branches (n = 63) were repaired with a variety of neural (n = 225) and myofascial transfer (n = 40). A system for evaluating results based on facial symmetry and tone at rest, recovery of voluntary mimetic activity...
{ "abstract": "Importance Human motor neurons may be reliably derived from induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs). In vivo transplant studies of human iPSCs and their cellular derivatives are essential to gauging their clinical utility. Objective To determine whether human iPSC-derived motor neurons can engraft in an...
{ "abstract": "A flexible endoscope was used to obtain 223 tracheal washes from 191 horses in three clinical categories. Total cell counts, cytological and bacteriological examinations are reported and the features of the main cell types encountered described. The presence and degree of inflammatory airway disease wa...
{ "abstract": "With increasing complexity of designs and reducing process nodes, the number of devices in designs has been rapidly rising. This has a dramatic impact on analysis of these designs, as the software and hardware are unable to analysis such designs \"flat\". The authors discuss a method for partitioning d...
{ "abstract": "As feature sizes decrease and clock frequencies increase, noise is becoming a greater concern in digital IC design. The authors describe a verification metric, noise stability, which guarantees functionality in the presence of noise, and a CAD technique, static noise analysis, for applying this metric ...
{ "abstract": "Bifunctional linker-scaffolds (compounds 1-3) were designed to meet several criteria for solid-phase syntheses of bivalent ligands. They have two amine-functionalized arms that can be differentially protected. Elaboration of these arms could give ligand-pharmacophore dimers wherein the two active compo...
{ "abstract": "A control system utilizing dithering signals is used to demonstrate wavelength locking of WDM channels by a microring filter array. Data measurements verify that the dithering mechanism has a near-negligible effect on filtered data channels.", "corpus_id": 15852197, "title": "Wavelength locking of ...
{ "abstract": "We present the novel mechanism of thermal dithering for breaking the symmetry of a microring resonance, and experimentally show it can be utilized to thermally stabilize a silicon microring resonator experiencing fluctuations of 3 K.", "corpus_id": 6303634, "title": "Microring resonance stabilizati...
{ "abstract": "Abstract Silicon microring resonators have been hailed for their potential use in next-generation optical interconnects. However, the functionality of silicon microring based devices suffer from susceptibility to thermal fluctuations that is often overlooked in their demonstrated results, but must be r...
{ "abstract": "Anaerobic co-digestion of grease trap and sewage sludge from a wastewater treatment plant is evaluated. Enzyme-lipase application, both addition and dosage, are evaluated by fitting the methane production of biochemical potential tests with the first order model. The enzyme addition effect, at 2, 5 and...
{ "abstract": "Abstract A dynamic mathematical model capable to predict the methane production in an anaerobic completely stirred tank reactor (CSTR), performing the co-digestion of the organic fraction of municipal solid waste (OFMSW) and sewage sludge, is used to assess the effect of the organic loading rate (OLR) ...
{ "abstract": "Abstract Liquid-water-content measurements made during the 1957 and 1958 flights by the National Hurricane Research Project airplanes have been utilized in statistical analyses to determine some of the gross features of the water distribution in hurricanes. The water contents were generally well below,...
{ "abstract": "This paper considers a capacitated vehicle routing problem with fuzzy random travel time and demand (FRVRP). A chance-constrained multiobjective programming is presented based on fuzzy random theory and converted to a crisp equivalent models under some assumptions. To solve such a multiobjective combin...
{ "abstract": "Vehicle routing problem with time windows (VRPTW) is of crucial importance in today's industries, accounting for a significant portion of many distribution and transportation systems. In this paper, we present a computational-efficient VRPTW algorithm, which is based on the principles of particle swarm...
{ "abstract": "Long-term levodopa therapy in patients with Parkinson’s disease (PD) is associated with motor complications including motor fluctuations (MF) and levodopa-induced dyskinesias (LID). The time to appearance of MF and LID is apparently related to both the timing and the duration of levodopa therapy, but i...
{ "abstract": "Layer-by-layer (LbL) was first introduced as a surface modification technique based on the sequential spontaneous adsorption of at least two distinct materials onto planar substrates. In the last two decades, this technique has been expanded to the coating of more convoluted geometries with high levels...
{ "abstract": "In this paper, we describe the construction and characteristics of thermoresponsive, thin nanostructured films prepared by layer-by-layer sequential assembly of chitosan-graft-NIPAAm and alginate. FTIR and (1)H NMR spectra have confirmed the introduction of NIPAAm moieties onto the chitosan backbone. T...
{ "abstract": "BACKGROUND: Plasma fractionators have implemented many improvements over the past decade directed toward reducing the likelihood of pathogen transmission by purified blood products, yet little has been published attempting to assess the overall impact of these improvements on the probability of safety ...
{ "abstract": "Abstract \nCowden syndrome is a rare cancer predisposition syndrome inherited in an autosomal-dominant fashion. The syndrome is characterized by hamartomatous polyps that affect multiple organs: skin, mucous membranes, thyroid, breast,", "corpus_id": 1953638, "title": "Well differentiated thyroid t...
{ "abstract": "It is generally known that even with permanent sections, the differential diagnosis between follicular adenoma and follicular carcinoma is often difficult to determine. It is not unusual to encounter patients diagnosed with benign follicular adenoma whose diagnoses have to be changed to malignancies be...
{ "abstract": "The specific objective of this paper is to determine expenditure patterns of rural households with a view to evaluating factors which make households more food secured. Expenditure patterns of households participating in the Farmer Support Programme of DBSA were analysed and compared with no-participan...
{ "abstract": "We report an analysis of twins of spectral types F or later in the 9th Catalog of Spectroscopic Binaries (SB9). Twins, the components of binaries with mass ratio within 2% of 1.0, are found among the binaries with primaries of F and G spectral type. They are most prominent among the binaries with perio...
{ "abstract": "We present numerical results on the properties of young binary and multiple stellar systems. Our analysis is based on a series of smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) +N-body simulations of the fragmentation of small molecular clouds, which fully resolve the opacity limit for fragmentation. These simu...
{ "abstract": "We present a companion of the ≤2 Myr young classical T Tauri star GQ Lup in the Lupus star forming region at 140 ± 50 pc from imaging, astrometry, and spectroscopy. With direct K-band imaging using VLT/NACO, we detected an object 6 mag fainter than GQ Lup located 0.7 �� west of it. Compared to images o...
{ "abstract": "The role of the perioperative nurse liaison at Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center, Ein Kerem in Jerusalem, Israel, is to provide information and help patients' family members and others accompanying surgical patients cope with feelings of uncertainty, emotional stress, and fear. The nurse liaiso...
{ "abstract": "BACKGROUND\nPreoperative surgical anxiety is an unpleasant and common reaction exhibited by patients who are scheduled for surgical procedures. Beyond emotional effects on the patient, it can also have negative repercussions on the surgery including longer hospital stays and poorer outcomes. Given the ...
{ "abstract": "To evaluate the validity and reliability of cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) masseter muscle segmentation by comparing with the magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) masseter muscle segmentation of the same patients. Seventeen volunteers were included in this study. CBCT and MRI scans of the volunteers ...
{ "abstract": "AbstractStrong, fast pulses, called “bang–bang” controls can be used to eliminate the effects of system-environment interactions. This method for preventing errors in quantum information processors is treated here in a geometric setting which leads to an intuitive perspective. Using this geometric desc...
{ "abstract": "Strong and fast ``bang-bang'' (BB) pulses have been recently proposed as a means for reducing decoherence in a quantum system. So far theoretical analysis of the BB technique relied on model Hamiltonians. Here we introduce a method for empirically determining the set of required BB pulses, that relies ...
{ "abstract": "The field isolates of Trypanosoma evansi was collected from the infected cattle and it was propagated in rats. Trypanosoma evansi parasites were separated from the blood of infected rats by using diethylaminoethyl cellulose column chromatography. Whole cell lysate antigen (WCL) was prepared from purifi...
{ "abstract": "In this paper, we propose a second order optimization method to learn models where both the dimensionality of the parameter space and the number of training samples is high. In our method, we construct on each iteration a Krylov subspace formed by the gradient and an approximation to the Hessian matrix...
{ "abstract": "Deep and recurrent neural networks (DNNs and RNNs respectively) are powerful models that were considered to be almost impossible to train using stochastic gradient descent with momentum. In this paper, we show that when stochastic gradient descent with momentum uses a well-designed random initializatio...
{ "abstract": "This letter presents a method to determine experimentally the transfer impedance of electrically short shielded cables up to 100 or 150 MHz (depending on the cable length). The proposed method aims to create a disturbance along the cable shield with a localized injection device as for instance a toroid...
{ "abstract": "Australia has made a substantial contribution to the recognition and treatment of the Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome (WKS). Much of this occurred over a generation ago, and vigilance in identifying this condition needs to be sustained. More recently, treatment protocols have been developed by the Royal Co...
{ "abstract": "Emergency medicine is rapidly evolving as a medical specialty. It provides immediate and universal care to over 90 million patients a year in the United States alone. In addition to life saving treatment, the emergency department provides a safety net, giving unrestricted care to people with little or ...
{ "abstract": "The source parameters, moment, stress drop and source dimension are estimated for 61 events from the January 1975 Brawley earthquake swarm. Earthquakes studied range in local magnitude from 1.0 to 4.7. Stress drops range from 1 to 636 bars and increase with source depth. It is estimated that the sedime...
{ "abstract": "Spider silks combine a significant number of desirable characteristics in one material, including large tensile strength and strain at breaking, biocompatibility, and the possibility of tailoring their properties. Major ampullate gland silk (MAS) is the most studied silk and their properties are explai...
{ "abstract": "The capture spiral of web from N. clavipes spider consists of a single type of spidroin - the flagelliform silk protein, a natural material representing a combination of strength and high elasticity. Flagelliform spider silk is the most extensible silk fibre produced by orb weaver spiders and the struc...
{ "abstract": "Abstract The application of alumina-doped ZnO (AZO) films as luminescent material for large area lighting sources has been evaluated. Thin films were grown on quartz using magnetron sputtering and subsequently annealed under argon atmosphere in a rapid thermal annealing experiment. Below 550 °C, red-sh...
{ "abstract": "The proportion of the capacity of the large on-grid wind turbines to transmission networks is increasing rapidly. During the light degree network fault, it is required that wind turbines have certain self-adaptive ability, the wind turbines can operate uninterruptedly and continue to supply the power t...
{ "abstract": "Wind energy conversion systems have become a focal point in the research of renewable energy sources. This is in no small part due to the rapid advances in the size of wind generators as well as the development of power electronics and their applicability in wind energy extraction. This paper provides ...
{ "abstract": "To facilitate the development of future FPGA architectures and CAD tools -- both embedded programmable fabrics and pure-play FPGAs -- there is a need for a large scale, publicly available software suite that can synthesize circuits into easily-described hypothetical FPGA architectures. These circuits s...
{ "abstract": "This article describes the development of a high power density Direct Formate Fuel Cell (DFFC) fed with potassium formate (KCOOH). The membrane electrode assembly (MEA) contains no platinum metal. The cathode catalyst is FeCo/C combined with a commercial anion exchange membrane (AEM). To enhance the po...
{ "abstract": "Pd nanoparticles have been generated by performing an electroless procedure on a mixed ceria (CeO(2))/carbon black (Vulcan XC-72) support. The resulting material, Pd-CeO(2)/C, has been characterized by means of transmission electron microscopy (TEM), inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectrosc...
{ "abstract": "The direct formate fuel cell (DFFC) has recently been demonstrated as a viable alkaline direct liquid fuel cell (DLFC) that does not require addition of hydroxide to the fuel stream for operation. In this work, we report that the DFFC can produce significant power at low temperatures without added hydr...
{ "abstract": "Many scholars point to the decreasing yield spread between the benchmark German bund and other European states as a sign of unprecedented European integration since Maastricht. There are two possible issues with this claim. First, without a historical perspective on sovereign bond yields and their como...
{ "abstract": "Some institutional investors may be confined (either by policy or by regulation) to holdings in the bond market. In the 1960-80 period, the U.S. stock market dominated the U.S. bond market in terms of risk-adjusted returns. But an internationally diversified portfolio of bonds dominated an internationa...
{ "abstract": "Based on lectures which Hawtrey delivered in 1926 for the Institute of Bankers, his book describes ...what [the Gold Standard] is, how it works, why it broke down, and what ought to be done.", "corpus_id": 72116014, "score": 2, "title": "The gold standard in theory and practice" }
{ "abstract": "The activities of inorganic pyrophosphatase (PPase) and adenosine triphosphatase (ATPase) were studied in the plasma membrane of Leishmania donovani promastigotes and amastigotes. It was shown that the specific activity of PPase was greater than that of ATPase in the promastigote plasma membrane. We ch...
{ "abstract": "The majority of living cells, tissues, and organisms have some form of sensitivity to ATP. ATP mediated signaling emerged at the dawn of evolution, most likely in a form of a primitive “danger” signal that flagged cell damage and the release of the intracellular content into the environment. Further ev...
{ "abstract": "1. A highly stable ATPase (TF1) was purified to a monodispersed state from the membranes of a thermophilic bacterium PS3. Its molecular weight was 380,000, and it was composed of five subunits alpha, beta, gamma, sigma', and sigma with molecular weights of 56,000, 53,000, 32,000, 15,500, and 11,000, re...
{ "abstract": "We present Assignment Space Planning, a new efficient robot multi-agent coordination algorithm for the PSPACE-hard problem of multi-robot multi-object push rearrangement. In both simulated and real robot experiments, we demonstrate that our method produces optimal solutions for simple problems and exhi...
{ "abstract": "Most motion planning algorithms have dealt with motion in a static workspace, or more recently, with motion in a workspace that changes in a known manner. We consider the problem of finding collision-free motions in a changeable workspace. That is, we wish to find a motion for an object where the objec...
{ "abstract": "We continue the study of the integrated document and connection caching problem. We focus on the case where the connection cache has a size of one and show that this problem is not equivalent to standard paging, even if there are only two locations for the pages, by giving the first lower bound that is...
{ "abstract": "Four-wave mixing (FWM) is a nonlinear phenomenon in optical communication system that introduces undesired interferences on wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) application for radio over fibre (RoF) broadband access networks. This impairment remarkably degrades the RoF system's performance. In this ...
{ "abstract": "This paper describes an optical Thresholder (o-Thresholder) intended to be part of a transmitter module for future all-optical Digitising Radio-over-Fibre (o-DRoF) transceivers. The proposed device is based on an Attenuation-Imbalanced Semiconductor Laser Amplifier Loop Mirror (AI-SLALOM) in self-switc...
{ "abstract": "Over the past few years there has been an increasing interest in using the radiation force of ultrasound for evaluating, characterizing and imaging biological tissues. Of particular interest are those methods that measure the dynamic properties of tissue at low frequencies. In this paper we present dyn...
{ "abstract": "This work draws upon a recent result (Pekerman et al., 2008) [3] on self-intersection detection and elimination for planar curves, which attempted to eliminate redundant algebraic components. We extend this result to surfaces and bivariate functions. An algebraic decomposition is presented that reformu...
{ "abstract": "Abstract A method is described for obtaining the self-intersection curves of a collapsed offset surface. The method comprises two essential processes. The first is to detect the self-intersection points of a collapsed offset surface by successive unidimensional searches. The second is to calculate self...
{ "abstract": "Control networks move small packets of data to a large set of nodes, so as to integrate and automate everything from home appliances to entire factories. This is due to the use of embedded microprocessors. The author discusses the control net architecture, network topology and the fast response of the ...
{ "abstract": "A polypyridylimidazole-based bifunctional Os(II) complex of the type [(bpy)2Os(tpy-Hbzim-dipy)](ClO4)2 (1), where tpy-Hbzim-dipy = 4'-[4-(4,5-dipyridin-2-yl-1H-imidazol-2-yl)-phenyl]-2,2';6',2″-terpyridine and bpy = 2,2'-bipyridine, has been synthesized and structurally characterized for the constructi...
{ "abstract": "Molecular logic-based computation is a broad umbrella covering molecular sensors at its simplest level and logic gate arrays involving steadily increasing levels of parallel and serial integration. The fluorescent PET (photoinduced electron transfer) switching principle remains a loyal servant of this ...
{ "abstract": "With the analytical grade Ce(NO3)3·6H2O, Sm(NO3)3·6H2O, and Na2CO3 as starting materials, Sm0.2Ce0.8O1.9(SDC)/Na2CO3 nanocomposite electrolytes were prepared through a rare-earth/sodium carbonate complex precipitation, prefiring, and sintering operations. The phase components and microstructures were s...
{ "abstract": "This paper presents a system for supplying spatial orientation and support to cognitively impaired people in their daily activities. The system is a technological solution based on external aid at a practical level (substitution-based rehabilitation). In particular, we propose a model focused on points...
{ "abstract": "Whereas outdoor navigation systems typically rely upon GPS, indoor systems have to rely upon dierent techniques for localizing the user, as GPS signals cannot be received indoors. Over the past decade various indoor navigation systems have been developed. This paper provides a comprehensive overview of...
{ "abstract": "Text simplification aims to rewrite text into simpler versions, and thus make information accessible to a broader audience. Most previous work simplifies sentences using handcrafted rules aimed at splitting long sentences, or substitutes difficult words using a predefined dictionary. This paper present...
{ "abstract": "Web services provide standard means to promote interoperability and extensibility among software applications, as well as to allow them to be combined in order to perform more complex operations. Therefore web services have to be described, published, discovered, invoked and composed. Within this proce...
{ "abstract": "Many businesses are adopting Web Service technologies to provide greater access to their applications. Due to the fast-paced E-Commerce requirements, more and more businesses prefer to only creating their core applications, and outsourcing the non-critical applications, or making use of their partners’...
{ "abstract": "We find two new hook length formulas for binary trees. The particularity of our formulas is that the hook length hv appears as an exponent.", "corpus_id": 13063472, "score": 1, "title": "New hook length formulas for binary trees" }
{ "abstract": "AbstractPurpose. The purpose of this study was to investigate the utility of a purified, semisynthetic saponin, DS-1, prepared by deacylation of a naturally occurring saponin from the bark of the Quillaja saponaria Molina tree, as a permeation enhancer for mucosal delivery of the aminoglycosides, genta...
{ "abstract": "The ability of a saponin adjuvant, QS-21, to induce OVA-specific, class I MHC Ag-restricted CTL was investigated using different forms of soluble OVA and OVA adsorbed onto alum as immunogens. C57BL/6 mice were immunized with soluble native or denatured OVA in formulations that contained increasing quan...
{ "abstract": "Long term use of ovine corticotropin-releasing hormone (oCRH) requires a convenient route of administration. The effects of 0.3, 3, and 30 micrograms/kg BW synthetic oCRH given as a sc injection and of 10 and 30 micrograms/kg given as an intranasal spray were studied in 10 normal men in the late aftern...
{ "abstract": "Power gating is one of most effective ways to suppress the leakage power in CMOS digital circuits. In this paper, we propose a new method to estimate the maximum instantaneous current (MIC), and derive an analytical model for the MIC of the clusters in distributed sleep transistor network (DSTN) power-...
{ "abstract": "Power gating is one of the most effective ways to reduce leakage power. In this paper, we introduce a new relationship among maximum instantaneous current, IR drops and sleep transistor networks from a temporal viewpoint. Based on this relationship, we propose an algorithm to reduce the total sizes of ...
{ "abstract": "Sleep transistors are effective to reduce dynamic and leakage power. The cluster-based design was proposed to reduce the sleep transistor area by clustering gates to minimize the simultaneous switching current per cluster and then inserting a sleep transistor per cluster. In the paper, we propose a nov...
{ "abstract": "‘‘Cancer in the elderly: why so badly treated?’’. This was the title of an article published by us over 15 years ago in a widely available medical journal [1]. The foreseen increasing incidence of cancer in the elderly at the beginning of the new millennium has been confirmed [2]. At present, around 60...
{ "abstract": "As a result of an increasing life expectancy, the incidence of cancer cases diagnosed in the older population is rising. Indeed, cancer incidence is 11-fold higher in persons over the age of 65 than in younger ones. Despite this high incidence of cancer in older patients, solid data regarding the most ...
{ "abstract": "A novel bio nanocomposite of Carboxymethyl Starch (CMS)-Chitosan (CS)-Montmorillonite (MMT) was developed for Curcumin delivery. To improve Curcumin entrapment into Cs-CMS-MMT, different ratios of Chitosan (Cs), Carboxymethyl Starch (CMS) and MMT were used. Particle size and Curcumin entrapment efficie...
{ "abstract": "In this work we present a novel route to produce a graphene-based film on a polymer substrate. A transparent graphite colloidal suspension was applied to a slat of poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA). The good adhesion to the PMMA surface, combined with the shear stress, allows a uniform and continuous sp...
{ "abstract": "Graphene is a potential building block for next generation electronic devices including field-effect transistors, chemical sensors, and radio frequency switches. Investigations of strain application of graphene-based films have emerged in recent years, but the challenges in synthesis and processing ach...
{ "abstract": "The product of the SNF1 gene is a protein kinase whose activity is essential for transcriptional activation of glucose repressed genes in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. We have cloned a mammalian AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) that is 46% identical to the deduced amino acid sequence of SNF1 (Carling, D...
{ "abstract": "Despite the investment of billions of dollars in federal funding for emergency preparedness and response initiatives, broadly accepted performance measures for determining the efficacy of these systems have yet to be established. The inability to accurately capture this information hinders the ability ...
{ "abstract": "Purpose. Mathematical and simulation models are increasingly used to plan for and evaluate health sector responses to disasters, yet no clear consensus exists regarding best practices for the design, conduct, and reporting of such models. The authors examined a large selection of published health secto...
{ "abstract": "The polymerase chain reaction (PCR) was 103-104 times more sensitive for detecting rice tungro bacilliform virus (RTBV) DNA extracted from infected rice plants than was enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). The greater sensitivity of PCR enabled the detection of the virus in individual RTBV-expose...
{ "abstract": "Positron emission tomography (PET) is currently the only feasible method for in-situ and noninvasive three-dimensional monitoring of the precision of the treatment in highly conformal ion therapy. Its positive clinical impact has been proven for fractionated carbon ion therapy of head and neck (H&N) tu...
{ "abstract": "The feasibility of off-line positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) for routine three dimensional in-vivo treatment verification of proton radiation therapy is currently under investigation at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. In preparation for clinical trials, phantom experi...
{ "abstract": "The Mw ¼ 8.0 Wenchuan Earthquake occurred on May 12, 2008 at the Longmen Shan fault, the western Sichuan Basin, China, killing more than ten thousand people in several cities and causing large economic losses. Global Positioning System (GPS) observations have provided unique insights on this event, inc...
{ "abstract": "Abstract  The mechanisms that underlie the propagation of contractions along the colon are uncertain. We have examined whether spontaneous colonic migrating motor complexes (CMMCs) migrate through a region of muscle paralysis, or through a region where neural transmission was disrupted in the isolated ...
{ "abstract": "The colonic migrating motor complex (CMMC) is a major pattern of motility that is entirely generated and organized by the enteric nervous system. We have previously demonstrated that the Nav1.9 channel underlies a tetrodotoxin-resistant sodium current which modulates the excitability of enteric neurons...
{ "abstract": "Swine vesicular disease (SVD) is a viral infectious disease, which, if acute, is manifested by the clinical pattern similar to a number of vesicular diseases including foot-and-mouth disease. In case of subclinical disease, there are no evident clinical signs, therefore the diagnosis is problematic, an...
{ "abstract": "Body-part size estimates of 20 male Ss were obtained under normal room illumination and under three basic conditions: active movement of a joint-bounded body part prior to making an estimate of that part, active movement of a different body part prior to making an estimate of joint-bounded and non-join...
{ "abstract": "Independent groups of subjects judged the size of four body-parts and four nonbody stimuli under two size-instruction conditions. The shapes of the nonbody stimuli approximated the shapes of the body-parts. For both apparent and objective size instructions, the pattern of errors of body-part judgments ...
{ "abstract": "Body image and self-concept were studied experimentally in schizophrenic patients, normal controls and non-schizophrenic psychiatric patients. Seven experimental studies were conducted.\n\nIt was found that: \n\n1. Schizophrenic subjects when compared with non-schizophrenic controls underestimated the ...
{ "abstract": "This paper introduces the concept of problem stores: static stores whose dependent loads often miss in the cache. Accurately identifying problem stores allows the early determination of addresses likely to cause later misses, potentially allowing for the development of novel, proactive prefetching and ...
{ "abstract": "Energy is an increasingly important consideration in memory system design. Caches improve energy efficiency by decreasing execution time and reducing the number of main memory accesses, but they suffer from known inefficiencies: the last-level cache (LLC) tends to have a high miss ratio while simultane...
{ "abstract": "Pathway Tools is a bioinformatics software environment with a broad set of capabilities. The software provides genome-informatics tools such as a genome browser, sequence alignments, a genome-variant analyzer and comparative-genomics operations. It offers metabolic-informatics tools, such as metabolic ...
{ "abstract": "Kalis et al. (2013) provide a lucid and useful discussion of options and option generation, and argue persuasively that these constructs can be instrumental in our understanding of decision making. I cannot agree more, but we must not be confused: Kalis et al. tell us what option generation is, but not...
{ "abstract": "GENERATING ALTERNATIVE SOLUTIONS WHEN DEPRESSION IS THE PROBLEM Benjamin Todd Johnson, M.S. Marquette University, 2020 Generating alternative solutions for problem situations is a key component of effective problem solving. This process is used to generate a variety of potential options for managing a ...
{ "abstract": "Bipolar disorder and schizophrenia overlap in symptoms and may share some underlying neural substrates. The medial prefrontal cortex (MPFC) may have a crucial role in the psychophysiology of both these disorders. In this study, we examined the functional connectivity between MPFC and other brain region...
{ "abstract": "This paper introduces dynamic impact analysis as a cost-effective technique to enforce the error-propagation condition for detecting a fault. The intuition behind dynamic impact analysis is as follows. In a specific test-case, if an execution of a syntactic component has a strong impact on the program ...
{ "abstract": "To detect a fault in software, a test case execution must enable an intermediate error to propagate to the output. We describe two specification-based mutation testing methods that use a model checker to guarantee propagation of faults to the visible outputs. We evaluate the methods empirically and sho...
{ "abstract": "INTRODUCTIO N This note revises and re-substantiates the original ESTCA rul e EFOST80] for generating or evaluating test data for simpl e conditional or comparison expressions. Comments on other method s are included. The rules apply to the lowest program component-\"variabl e operator variable-or-cons...
{ "abstract": "The insect antennal lobe is the first brain structure to process olfactory information. Like the vertebrate olfactory bulb the antennal lobe is substructured in olfactory glomeruli. In insects, glomeruli can be morphologically identified, and have characteristic olfactory response profiles. Local neuro...
{ "abstract": "A critical role of Ca(2+) in vertebrate olfactory receptor neurons (ORNs) is to couple odor-induced excitation to intracellular feedback pathways that are responsible for the regulation of the sensitivity of the sense of smell, but the role of intracellular Ca(2+) stores in this process remains unclear...
{ "abstract": "Numerous investigators have shown that the development of the bursal lymphoid follicle in chicken begins with the formation of epithelial gemmations called epithelial buds. The mesenchymal stem cells migrate into these epithelial buds and give rise to the lymphoid cells of the follicle medulla. However...
{ "abstract": "A mesh objective crack band model was implemented within the generalized method of cells micromechanics theory. This model was linked to a macroscale finite element model to predict post-peak strain softening in composite materials. Although a mesh objective theory was implemented at the microscale, it...
{ "abstract": "The manuscript presents a novel model reduction approach for periodic heterogeneous media, which combines the multiple scale asymptotic (MSA) expansion method with the transformation field analysis (TFA) to reduce the computational cost of a direct homogenization approach without significantly compromi...
{ "abstract": "A new method is proposed for inrush current reduction of under load transformers. The proposed limiter consists of a control-less diode-bridge and a single coil that connects in series with each-phase of transformer. It is necessary using three similar circuits for three-phase transformers. The limiter...
{ "abstract": "This prospective multicenter study was conducted under the Food and Drug Administration Investigational Device Exemption to evaluate the safety and efficacy of the combination of the Cadence implantable defibrillator (Ventritex, Inc.) and 60-series Endotak C leads (Cardiac Pacemakers, Inc.). Implantati...
{ "abstract": "BackgroundNonthoracotomy-implantable cardioverter/defibrillator (ICD) systems may represent a significant advance in the treatment of patients with life-threatening ventricular arrhythmias, but their merits relative to those of the well-established thoracotomy systems remain largely unknown. The object...
{ "abstract": "This article investigates complex repairable artillery systems that include several failure modes. We derive a superposed process based on a mixture of nonhomogeneous Poisson processes in a minimal repair model. This allows for a bathtub-shaped failure intensity that models artillery data better than c...
{ "abstract": "In the preceding paper [Pelech, S.L., Meijer, L., & Krebs, E.G. (1987) Biochemistry (preceding paper in this issue)], at least three activated kinases were detected in soluble extracts from sea star oocytes induced to undergo maturation by 1-methyladenine (1-MeAde). Coincident with nuclear envelope bre...
{ "abstract": "A p38MAPK homolog Mipk (meiosis-inhibited protein kinase) was cloned from seastar oocytes. This 40-kDa protein shares approximately 65% amino acid identity with mammalian p38-α isoforms. Mipk was one of the major tyrosine-phosphorylated proteins in immature oocytes arrested at the G2/M transition of me...
{ "abstract": "A heat-labile inhibitor protein of adenylate cyclase (EC 4.6.1.1) and phosphodiesterase (EC 3.1.4.17) has been purified to apparent homogeneity from bovine brain cerebrum by a simple two-column procedure. The inhibitor exerts its effect on adenylate cyclase or phosphodiesterase by forming a complex wit...
{ "abstract": "Abstract A moving rigid object produces a moving image on the retina of an observer. It is shown that only the first-order spatial derivatives of image motion are sufficient to determine (i) the maximum and minimum time-to-collision of the observer and the object and (ii) the maximum and minimum angula...
{ "abstract": "From the Publisher: \nComputer scientists designing machine vision systems, psychologists working in visual perception, visual neurophysiologists, and theoretical biologists will derive a deeper understanding of visual function - in particular the computations that the human visual system uses to analy...
{ "abstract": "The measurement of winds to an accuracy of at least 2 knots (1 m/s) is a major requirement of the global atmospheric research program (GARP) [1]. Such accurate wind measurements will be needed over large regions presently lacking ground or rawinsonde observations. A man-computer system called WINDCO ha...
{ "abstract": "Country-level animosity effects on foreign products from disliked countries are fairly well understood, but little is known about the role of global company animosity (GCA). Such understanding is important in a world increasingly dominated by global brands that are rapidly losing their associations wit...
{ "abstract": "Recently, scholars have been calling attention to the macro-social and institutional structures shaping development and welfare. In this study we offer a socio-temporally situated understanding of quality of life (QOL) in a developing country setting and investigate the effects of macro structures on c...
{ "abstract": "Cooperative diversity employs relays to assist source-destination transmissions and has shown to improve link outage probability in multipath fading environments. In this paper, we model relay selection as a semi-Markov process to analyze the impact of relay selection overhead on throughput, delay, and...
{ "abstract": "Enabling practical utilization of layered R3̅m positive electrodes near full delithiation requires an enhanced understanding of the complex electrode-electrolyte interactions that often induce failure. Using Li[Ni0.8Co0.15Al0.05]O2 (NCA) as a model layered compound, the chemical and structural stabilit...
{ "abstract": "Surface impurity species, most notably Li 2 CO 3 , that develop on layered oxide positive electrode materials with atmospheric aging have been reported to be highly detrimental to the subsequent electrochemical performance. LiNi 0.8 Co 0.15 Al 0.05 O 2 (NCA) was used as a model layered oxide compound t...
{ "abstract": "Recently, Cho et al. studied the effects of a ZrO 2 coating on the electrochemical behavior of Li/Li x CoO 2 cells. They found that the capacity retention to 4.4 V was significantly improved for cells having electrodes incorporating coated material compared to those with uncoated LiCoO 2 . They suggest...
{ "abstract": "In this paper, we present a cooperative MAC protocol called automatic relay cooperative MAC (ARC-MAC) for wireless Ad Hoc networks. ARC-MAC develops the 802.11 DCF to five handshakes, which is suitable for cooperative transmission. According to the channel condition, neighbors decide whether it is a re...
{ "abstract": "In this paper, a novel idea of user cooperation in wireless networks has been exploited to improve the performance of the IEEE 802.11 medium access control (MAC) protocol. The new MAC protocol leverages the multi-rate capability of IEEE 802.11b and allows the mobile stations (STA) far away from the acc...
{ "abstract": "This paper proposes a medium access control (MAC) protocol, termed as CD-MMAC, for wireless networks that utilizes multiple channels and incorporates opportunistic cooperative diversity dynamically to improve its performance. The IEEE 802.11b standard protocol allows the use of multiple channels availa...
{ "abstract": "For a restricted class of monoids, we prove that the decidability of the existential theory of word equations is preserved under graph products. Furthermore, we show that the positive theory of a graph product of groups can be reduced to the positive theories of some of the factor monoids and the exist...
{ "abstract": "We consider three important and well-studied algorithmic problems in group theory: the word, geodesic, and conjugacy problem. We show transfer results from individual groups to graph products. We concentrate on logspace complexity because the challenge is actually in small complexity classes, only. The...
{ "abstract": "This work extends the estimator developed in Part 1 of this study to the problem of estimating a turbulent channel flow at $Re_{\\tau}\\,{=}\\,100$ based on a history of noisy measurements on the wall. The key advancement enabling this work is the development and implementation of an efficient techniqu...
{ "abstract": "This paper describes the design of the help and explanation component of a user-friendly operating system command interface called COUSIN. The facility can provide two kinds of information: (1) static descriptions of the various subsystems that can be invoked, their parameters, and the syntax that must...
{ "abstract": "A flexible parser can deal with input that deviates from its grammar, in addition to input that conforms to it. Ideally, such a parser will correct the deviant input; sometimes, it will be unable to correct it at all; at other times, correction will be possible, but only to within a range of ambiguous ...
{ "abstract": "This paper presents the two level optimization algorithms: a centralized day-ahead and decentralized minute-ahead algorithm for energy management in an integrated mainline railway system. All energy players, such as trains, infrastructure facilities, wayside storages, and distributed energy resources, ...
{ "abstract": "Presently, cloud computing is being used to store large amounts of data for sharing among users. However, it imposes cloud data-out charges and data access delays on organizations. These problems can be relieved by using cloud caching to prevent repetitive data loading from clouds. This paper proposes ...
{ "abstract": "Over the past decades, caching has become the key technology used for bridging the performance gap across memory hierarchies via temporal or spatial localities; in particular, the effect is prominent in disk storage systems. Applications that involve heavy I/O activities, which are common in the cloud,...
{ "abstract": "The complete guide to provisioning and managing cloud-based Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) data center solutions Cloud computing will revolutionize the way IT resources are deployed, configured, and managed for years to come. Service providers and customers each stand to realize tremendous value fr...
{ "abstract": null, "corpus_id": 17043131, "title": "Applying Deep Learning to Enhance Momentum Trading Strategies in Stocks" }
{ "abstract": null, "corpus_id": 52124372, "title": "Dow Jones Trading with Deep Learning: The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Recurrent Neural Networks" }
{ "abstract": "We leverage causal inference tools to support a principled and more robust transfer of knowledge in reinforcement learning (RL) settings. In particular, we tackle the problem of transferring knowledge across bandit agents in settings where causal effects cannot be identified by Pearl's {do-calculus} no...
{ "abstract": "Concentrations of tryptophan, serotonin (5-HT), and 5-hydroxyindoleacetic acid (5-HIAA) in brain and plasma, as well as plasma amino acid composition, were measured after 1-h foot shock. Stress induced a rise in both plasma and brain 5-HIAA, whereas 5-HT concentration was found to be increased only in ...
{ "abstract": "Toll-like receptors (TLRs) and nuclear-binding domain (NOD)-like receptors (NLRs) are sensors of bacterial cell wall components to trigger an immune response. The TLR4 agonist lipopolysaccharide (LPS) is a strong immune activator leading to sickness and depressed mood. NOD agonists are less active but ...
{ "abstract": "Lean premixed combustion offers a practical approach for the reduction of NOx emissions, but increases the risk of lean burn blow out (LBO) in gas turbines. Flame behavior in terms of stability is simulated in a model gas turbine combustor burning aviation kerosene at atmospheric pressure. The flame sy...
{ "abstract": "Within computer science, the term provenance has multiple meanings, due to different motivations, perspectives, and assumptions prevalent in the respective communities. This chapter provides a high-level “sightseeing tour” of some of those different notions and uses of provenance in scientific workflow...
{ "abstract": "Many scientific disciplines are now data and information driven, and new scientific knowledge is often gained by scientists putting together data analysis and knowledge discovery “pipelines”. A related trend is that more and more scientific communities realize the benefits of sharing their data and com...
{ "abstract": "Dimensional modeling is a common modeling technique in data warehousing. It reflects a simple logical view of a data warehouse system. It can be easily mapped to a physicaldesign.Traditionaldimensionalmodelingisdata-orientedandsemantically informal. From a software engineering perspective, the informal...
{ "abstract": "With steganalysis, it is aimed to obtain a hidden message from a media file or only to detect the presence of the message. Although there are many steganography methods in the literature aiming to ensure the medical data security, medical steganalysis studies are very few. In this study, it is aimed to...
{ "abstract": null, "corpus_id": 16606347, "title": "Steganalysis via a Convolutional Neural Network using Large Convolution Filters" }
{ "abstract": "Recently well-designed adaptive steganographic systems, including ±1 embedding in the DCT domain with optimized costs to achieve the minimal-distortion [8], have posed serious challenges to steganalyzers. Additionally, although the steganalysis of Yet Another Steganographic Scheme (YASS) was actively c...
{ "abstract": "(19)F-MRI offers unique opportunities to image diseases and track cells and therapeutic agents in vivo. Herein we report a superfluorinated molecular probe, herein called PERFECTA, possessing excellent cellular compatibility, and whose spectral properties, relaxation times, and sensitivity are promisin...
{ "abstract": "Cellular therapeutics show great promise for the treatment of disease, but few noninvasive techniques exist for monitoring the cells after administration. Here we present a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technology that uses perfluoropolyether (PFPE) agents to track cells in vivo. Fluorine MRI select...
{ "abstract": "BackgroundAppendicectomy specimens removed from patients with suspected acute appendicitis often appear macroscopically normal but histopathological analysis of these cases may reveal a more sinister underlying pathology. We evaluated histopathological reports of 1225 appendicectomy specimens at the No...
{ "abstract": "OXYGEN ordering in YBa2Cu3O z , is responsible for the tetragonal-to-orthorhombic phase transition at high temperature, and gives rise to additional ordered superstructures at low temperature1–3. We suggest here that such ordered superstructures are intimately related to the 'plateaus' in the plot of t...
{ "abstract": "A detailed study of the superconducting properties and the crystal symmetry of YBa2Cu3Ox as a function of oxygen content (x) is presented. We correlate the oxygen content, structure and superconducting transition temperature for YBa2Cu3Ox (6<×<7) series of materials formed by the topotactic intercalati...
{ "abstract": "Abstract We have performed high-resolution electron microscopy studies on oxygen-deficient YBa2Cu3O7−δ samples of composition δ = 0.45 and 0.37 having a Tc of 60 K. We find that samples which appear single phase by powder X-ray diffraction (sharp peaks) contain a large amount of inhomogeneities with bo...
{ "abstract": "Abstract The concept of flexibility—originated in the context of heat exchanger networks—is associated with a substructure which guarantees the performance of the original structure, in a given range of possible states. We extend this concept to combinatorial optimization problems, and prove several co...
{ "abstract": "Maximum flow problems appear in many practical applications. In this paper, we study how to simplify a given directed flow network by finding edges that can be removed without changing the value of the maximum flow. We give a number of approaches which are increasingly more complex and more time-consum...
{ "abstract": "The Ras/Raf/MEK pathway represents an important oncogenic signaling pathway in gastrointestinal malignancies, including pancreatic cancer. Although activating B-Raf mutations are infrequent in pancreatic cancer, we hypothesized that targeting Raf could be valuable for therapy of this cancer entity. Mor...
{ "abstract": "Wireless Big Data has aroused extensive attention, as mass mobile devices have been developed and deployed for the upcoming 5G era. The context information of these devices is of importance for personalized services in a smart environment. Nevertheless, the constant change of scenes challenges to the n...
{ "abstract": "Indoor/outdoor localization, tracking, and positioning applications are developed using the Global Positioning System receivers, ultrasound, infrared, and radio frequency (Wi-Fi and cellular) signals. The key point of such upper layer applications is to detect precisely whether a user is indoor or outd...
{ "abstract": "This article provides a survey of approximation metrics for stochastic processes. We deal with Markovian processes in discrete time evolving on general state spaces, namely on domains with infinite cardinality and endowed with proper measurability and metric structures. The focus of this work is to dis...
{ "abstract": "Laser trabeculoplasty has an increasing important role in the management of glaucoma as more emphasis is placed on minimally invasive therapies. In recent years, the following laser trabeculoplasty technologies have been introduced: micropulse laser trabeculoplasty, titanium-sapphire laser trabeculopla...
{ "abstract": "Aim: To test the hypothesis that trabecular meshwork endothelial cells (TMEs) increase the permeability of Schlemm’s canal endothelial cells (SCEs) by actively releasing ligands that modulate the barrier properties of SCEs. Methods: The TMEs were first irradiated with a laser light and allowed to condi...
{ "abstract": "To investigate whether alterations in the cellular component of the trabecular meshwork occur with age, we evaluated trabecular meshwork cellularity and absolute cell number, using specimens obtained from patients ranging in age from newborn to 81 years. We obtained reproducible, quantitative measureme...
{ "abstract": "Abstract This paper is concerned with a Lasota–Wazewska model with an oscillating death rate. Under proper conditions, we employ a novel argument to establish a criterion on the existence and stability of positive pseudo almost periodic solutions. The obtained result complements with some existing ones...
{ "abstract": "This article is concerned with a class of neutral type cellular neural networks with D operator. By using Lyapunov functional method and differential inequality techniques, we establish a novel result to ensure the existence and global exponential stability of pseudo almost periodic solutions for the a...
{ "abstract": "Abstract New explicit conditions of exponential stability are obtained for the nonautonomous linear equation x ˙ ( t ) + ∑ k = 1 m a k ( t ) x ( h k ( t ) ) = 0 , where ∑ k = 1 m a k ( t ) ⩾ 0 , h k ( t ) ⩽ t , by comparing this equation with a nonoscillatory exponentially stable equation of the form x...
{ "abstract": "The subtle relationship between depression, gender and life events (such as motherhood) creates a global challenge to the United Nations' sustainable development goals.[1][1] Du Preez and colleagues make a fascinating contribution to the epidemiology of postnatal depression.[2][2] However, as", "corp...
{ "abstract": "The aim of this case study was to evaluate the local impact of an innovative Sure Start located in the east of England. The evaluation addressed the expectations of parents/carers for themselves and their children, and the extent to which Sure Start contributed to their achievement. A distinction was m...
{ "abstract": "This country profile for Zambia was compiled between 1998 and 2002. The objectives of the exercise were to first of all avail policymakers, other key decision makers and leaders in Zambia, information about mental health in Zambia in order to assist policy and services development. Secondly, to facilit...
{ "abstract": "A computational strategy to model flexible molecules tethered to a rigid inert surface is presented. The strategy is able to provide uncorrelated relaxed microstructures at the atomistic level. It combines an algorithm to generate molecules tethered to the surface without atomic overlaps, a method to i...
{ "abstract": "Inorganic nanostructures that interface with biological systems have recently attracted widespread interest in biology and medicine. Nanoparticles are thought to have potential as novel intravascular probes for both diagnostic (e.g., imaging) and therapeutic purposes (e.g., drug delivery). Critical iss...
{ "abstract": "The clinical evaluation of eye movements can contribute substantially to the diagnosis of parkinsonian disorders, provided the physician performs a proper examination and interprets the findings by referring to a simple scheme of the neurobiology of eye movements (1). Further diagnostic information can...
{ "abstract": "The electrotonic behavior of three phenotypes of sympathetic postganglionic neuron has been analyzed to assess whether their distinct cell input capacitances simply reflect differences in morphology. Because the distribution of membrane properties over the soma and dendrites is unknown, compartmental m...
{ "abstract": "Although it is generally thought that sensory transduction occurs at or close to peripheral nerve endings, with action potentials subsequently propagating along the axons of dorsal root ganglia (DRG) neurons toward the central nervous system, the small diameter of nociceptive axons and their endings ha...
{ "abstract": "Optimum detection in a frequency hopping (FH) system requires knowledge of the channel parameters. The channel estimation problem for (slow) frequency hopping systems is considered here assuming a frequency selective fading channel. An upper bound for the approximation error using flat fading models is...
{ "abstract": "We prove that if $\\mathfrak{F}$ is an abelian group of \n$C^1$ diffeomorphisms isotopic to the identity \nof a closed surface $S$ of genus at least two, then \nthere is a common fixed point for all elements of $\\mathfrak{F}$. \nIf $\\mathfrak{F}$ is an abelian group of \n$C^1$ diffeomorphisms (not ne...
{ "abstract": "We classify abelian subgroups of Out(F_n) up to finite index in an algorithmic and computationally friendly way. A process called disintegration is used to canonically decompose a single rotationless element \\phi into a composition of finitely many elements and then use these elements to generate an a...
{ "abstract": "Since the publication of two influential papers on lazy evaluation in 1976 [Henderson and Morris, Friedman and Wise], the idea has gained widespread acceptance among language theoreticians—particularly among the advocates of “functional programming” [Henderson80, Backus78]. There are two basic reasons ...
{ "abstract": "Bone metastases from prostate cancer are detected with staging bone scans. New research supports existing guidelines on the appropriate referral criteria for bone scans and shows that a specific subgroup of patients with prostate cancer who are at low risk of bone metastases do not require a staging bo...
{ "abstract": "OBJECTIVES\nTo evaluate, in an exploratory analysis, the effect of zoledronic acid (ZOL) on skeletal-related event (SRE) incidence as determined by the bone pain levels at study entry. Bone metastases can undermine skeletal integrity long before the onset of symptoms. Treating patients before symptom o...
{ "abstract": "The propeptides PICP and PINP are derived from the synthesis of type I collagen, a major matrix protein of bone and soft tissues. The aim of this cross-sectional study was to investigate their value as indicators of the aggressivity of breast cancer. Serum PINP, PICP, and total alkaline phosphatase wer...
{ "abstract": "BACKGROUND\nIn mice, group 2 innate lymphoid cells (ILC2s) likely mediate helminth immunity, inflammation, and tissue repair and remodeling. However, the involvement of ILC2s in human diseases, such as asthma, is not well understood.\n\n\nOBJECTIVES\nThe goals of this study were to investigate whether ...
{ "abstract": "T helper type 2 (TH2) cells were previously thought to be the main initiating effector cell type in asthma; however, exaggerated TH2 cell activities alone were insufficient to explain all aspects of asthma. Asthma is a heterogeneous syndrome comprising different phenotypes that are characterized by the...
{ "abstract": "BACKGROUND\nThymic stromal lymphopoietin (TSLP) is expressed at sites of allergic inflammation, including eczematous skin. This cytokine has been reported to exert its T(H)2-inducing properties through dendritic cells. Expression of TSLP receptor on the surface of activated T(H)2 cells could amplify T(...
{ "abstract": "BACKGROUND\nThe aim of this study was to assess the frequency of subjective and objective dysphagia in patients with chronic progressive external ophthalmoplegia (CPEO) due to single, large-scale deletions (LSDs) of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA).\n\n\nMETHODS\nSixteen patients with CPEO and single LSDs of ...
{ "abstract": "BACKGROUND\nMutations of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) cause a broad spectrum of clinical phenotypes. Anecdotal evidence suggests that voice and swallow problems are a common feature of these diseases.\n\n\nAIMS\nTo characterize accurately the prevalence and severity of voice and swallow problems in a larg...
{ "abstract": "Dysphagia is a potentially harmful feature, also in Parkinson's disease (PD). As published prevalence rates vary widely, we aimed to estimate the prevalence of oropharyngeal dysphagia in PD in a meta-analysis. We conducted a systematic literature search in February 2011 and two independent reviewers se...
{ "abstract": "We investigated eyewear contamination levels in the operating room to assess infection risk and inform protocol development. Microbial contamination after use was found in 37.7% of disposable and 94.9% of reusable eyewear pieces. After disinfection, 74.4% of reusable eyewear also cultured positive. Dis...
{ "abstract": "INTRODUCTION\nThe French Society of Gastro-Intestinal Surgery (SociétéFrançaisedeChirurgieDigestive) and the Association of hepato-bilio-pancreatic and transplantation surgery (AssociationdeChirurgieHépato-Bilio-PancréatiqueetTransplantation) requested that clinical practice recommendations be establis...
{ "abstract": "Unlike adults, primary membranous nephropathy (PMN) comprises only 1–2% of childhood nephrotic syndrome. The clinical behaviour of PMN in children is not explicit and we report upon clinical presentation and outcome. This prospective study includes children and adolescents (< 20 years) with biopsy-prov...
{ "abstract": "Tyrosinase was purified to apparent homogeneity from the skin of the White Silky fowl (Gallina lanigera). Under alkaline conditions copper ions from a complex with the diethylaminoethyl moiety of DEAE-cellulose, allowing the purification of the enzyme in a one step chromatography. In polyacrylamide gel...
{ "abstract": "A new tyrosinase was isolated from Aeromonas media strain WS and purified to homogeneity. The purified tyrosinase, termed TyrA, had a molecular mass of 58 kDa and an isoelectric point of 4.90. It exhibited optimal monophenol and diphenol oxidase activities under basic conditions (pH > 8.0). TyrA had a ...
{ "abstract": "The mould Neurospora crassa is normally able to interconvert proline and ornithine, since either proline or ornithine will satisfy the growth requirement of certain mutant strains (Srb, Fincham & Bonner, 1950). Another mutant requires proline specifically, while numerous other strains, representing at ...
{ "abstract": "PURPOSE\nSeveral studies have recently shown that a transition from light to dark is associated with a reduction in choroidal blood flow. The mechanism underlying this effect is unclear but may be related to changes in neural input. In the present study, the authors hypothesized that either the alpha-r...
{ "abstract": "Purpose:  It has been shown that retinal blood flow is autoregulated, meaning that flow is independent of perfusion pressure within a certain range. We tested the hypothesis that nitric oxide (NO) synthase inhibition alters the response of retinal arterial and venous vessels during isometric exercise."...
{ "abstract": "The cardiovascular effects of an intracerebroventricular (i.c.v.) injection of physostigmine were studied using conscious cats. Physostigmine (5-25 micrograms: 5 microliters) caused a dose-dependent increase in mean arterial pressure (MAP) and heart rate (HR). The highest dose (25 micrograms) increased...
{ "abstract": "Abstract One of the main issues in conservation biology is assessing how much biodiversity is currently represented in protected areas (PA). Traditional approaches such as ‘gap analysis’ require the choice of arbitrary targets and thresholds that can greatly influence the obtained results. We present h...
{ "abstract": "One of the most important issues in biodiversity conservation is an exploration of the relationships among protected areas, land-use changes and biodiversity, so we aimed to assess the performance of the Natura 2000 network (N2000) in representing the bat conservation hotspots in peninsular Spain and t...
{ "abstract": "Abstract Seed dormancy and endozoochorous dispersal have important effects on population dynamics, i.e. seed bank formation, spatial and temporal bet-hedging, avoidance of crowding and decreased sib-competition. Seeds having primary dormancy do not germinate, even if adequate environmental and dispersa...
{ "abstract": "Anatomic delineation of a gastrointestinal fistula is essential in assessing the likelihood of spontaneous closure or to plan the surgical management. Computed tomography (CT) enterography and/or fistulograms provide invaluable information. The surgical strategy should carefully consider the when and h...
{ "abstract": "The development of sepsis associated with a GI fistula can be a catastrophic complication of any surgical procedure in the vicinity of the abdominal cavity. The predominant sites of infection directly associated with GI fistulas are in the surgical wound and within the abdominal cavity. Some patients p...
{ "abstract": "A 55-year-old white man was admitted to the Miami Veterans Administration Hospital with complaints of diarrhea, weight loss, and weakness. One year prior to admission the patient developed intermittent right upper quadrant discomfort, and four months prior to admission he developed 8-10 black, watery, ...
{ "abstract": "We present the first comprehensive study of mass wasting processes in the continental slope of a convergent margin of a subduction zone where tectonic processes are dominated by subduction erosion. We have used multibeam bathymetry along ∼1300 km of the Middle America Trench of the Central America Subd...
{ "abstract": "Fluid distribution in convergent margins is by most accounts closely related to tectonics. This association has been widely studied at accretionary prisms, but at half of the Earth's convergent margins, tectonic erosion grinds down overriding plates, and here fluid distribution and its relation to tect...
{ "abstract": "A FEW weeks ago, I returned from a journey of several Months' duration through the western part of the republic of Guatemala, where I investigated, at the request of the Government, the causes and effects of the recent earthquakes. The principal results are the following:—", "corpus_id": 4054395, "...
{ "abstract": "Abstract A posteriori error estimation and control methods are proposed for a quantum corrected energy balance (QCEB) model that describes electron and hole flows in semiconductor nanodevices under the influence of electrical, diffusive, thermal, and quantum effects. The error estimation is based on th...
{ "abstract": "A hierarchy of diffusive partial differential equations is derived by a moment method and a Chapman–Enskog expansion from the semiconductor Boltzmann equation assuming dominant collisions. The moment equations are closed by employing the entropy maximization principle of Levermore. The new hierarchy co...
{ "abstract": "A new random telegraph signal (RTS) amplitude model based upon band bending fluctuations has been developed, in contrast to other studies of RTS noise amplitudes, which are derived from RTS fitting parameters, it is demonstrated in this work that noise amplitudes may be predicted from band bending calc...
{ "abstract": "The treatment of odorous pollutants by microorganisms on packed waste straw and cortex was investigated at the wastewater treatment plant of the Shanghai petrochemical factory. The removal efficiency of H(2)S, NH(3) and VOCs (volatile organic compounds) reached 98%, 91% and 90%, respectively after oper...
{ "abstract": "Biotreatment of various ratios of H2S and NH3 gas mixtures was studied using the biofilters, packed with co-immobilized cells (Arthrobacter oxydans CH8 for NH3 and Pseudomonas putida CH11 for H2S). Extensive tests to determine removal characteristics, removal efficiency, removal kinetics, and pressure ...
{ "abstract": "A study demonstrating how ultrafast laser radiation stimulates osteoblasts is presented. The study employed a custom made optical system that allowed for simultaneous confocal cell imaging and targeted femtosecond pulse laser irradiation. When femtosecond laser light was focused onto a single cell, a r...
{ "abstract": "The goals of this study were to evaluate the efficacy of benznidazole (Bz) treatment in decreasing of the parasitic load during the acute phase of experimental Chagas disease and to analyze its influence in the development of cardiac chronic alterations in mice inoculated with drug-resistant Trypanosom...
{ "abstract": "OBJECTIVES\nThe purpose of this study was to determine the pathological importance of oxidative stress-induced injurious processes in chagasic heart dysfunction.\n\n\nBACKGROUND\nTrypanosoma cruzi-induced inflammatory pathology and a feedback cycle of mitochondrial dysfunction and oxidative stress may ...
{ "abstract": "Cells from artificially induced decidual tissue (deciduoma) in the mouse were examined for Thy-1 surface antigen and receptors for the Fc portion of immunoglobulin G (FcR) and compared with cells of the normal decidua from 6 to day 9 of pregnancy. It was shown that (1) Thy-1 antigen is present on the s...
{ "abstract": "Diverse spatiotemporal patterns are generated in a three-variable reaction-diffusion model that supports 1(1) mixed-mode oscillations. Diffusion-induced instability results in spatiotemporal patterns such as amplitude-modulated overtargets (circular super-waves superimposed on spiral waves) and supersp...
{ "abstract": "We study amplitude-modulated waves, e.g., wave packets in one dimension, overtarget spirals and superspirals in two dimensions, under mixed-mode oscillatory conditions in a three-variable reaction-diffusion model. New transition zones, not seen in the homogeneous system, are found, in which periodic tr...
{ "abstract": "The interaction of waves and obstacles is simulated by adding heterogeneities to a FitzHugh-Nagumo model and a cellular automata model. The cellular automata model is formulated to account for heterogeneities by modelling the interaction between current sources and current sinks. In both models, wave f...
{ "abstract": "Antipsychotic drugs are effective in psychoses, whatever the aetiology of the disorder. The positive symptoms tend to respond more readily. The need for developing new drugs arises from the refractoriness of the negative symptoms, the 10‐25% of the patients that are treatment‐resistant and the problems...
{ "abstract": "Data provided by literature show a wide variability of treatment resistance rates among patients affected by psychiatric disease (i.e. schizophrenia, depression, bipolar disorder). Therefore, we have evaluated the entity and the real clinical impact of the “treatment-resistance” phenomenon in a selecte...
{ "abstract": "Using two standardized recording techniques (the Abnormal Involuntary Movement Scale [AIMS] and the Rockland Scale), spontaneous involuntary movement disorder was assessed in a sample of 411 hospitalized patients with chronic schizophrenia, 47 of whom apparently had never been exposed to neuroleptic me...
{ "abstract": "Dear Editor, I refer to the paper by Walsh on the future of e-learning in healthcare professional education [1]. The paper aptly states that the e-learning has moved from simple text based learning to more interactive, multimedia social learning resources. While e-learning has been around ever since th...
{ "abstract": "College physical education is an important component of the higher education system and national health plans. Promoting the scientific and modern construction of the physical education teaching system in colleges and universities is conducive to enhancing the science and effectiveness of higher educat...
{ "abstract": "It has long been recognized that client learning is an important factor in the successful development of information systems. While there is little question that clients should learn, there is less clarity about how best to facilitate client learning during developer-client meetings. In this study, we ...
{ "abstract": "Background The Internet is widely used to conduct research studies on health issues. Many different methods are used to recruit participants for such studies, but little is known about how various recruitment methods compare in terms of efficiency and costs. Objective The aim of our study was to compar...
{ "abstract": "Effective dissemination of health information to a desired population can be a challenging and expensive process, particularly to Chinese-Americans. Print and radio advertisements are limited by geographic, language, cost, and demographic barriers. The expense and efforts necessary to overcome these ch...
{ "abstract": "Thumb reconstruction aims to restore the cardinal thumb traits and actions including mobility, stability, sensibility, length, and appearance. The level of thumb loss is divided into thirds: distal (tip to interphalangeal [IP] joint), middle (IP joint to metacarpal neck), and proximal (metacarpal neck ...
{ "abstract": "Timely recognition of threats can be significantly supported by security assistance systems that work continuously in time and call security personnel in case of anomalous events in the surveillance area. We are describing the concept and the realization of an indoor security assistance system for real...
{ "abstract": "Abstract : Sensor Data Fusion is the process of combining incomplete and imperfect pieces of mutually complementary sensor information in such a way that a better understanding of an underlying real-world phenomenon is achieved. Typically, this insight is either unobtainable otherwise or a fusion resul...
{ "abstract": "In this paper we introduce a new way to deal with Grid portals referring to our implementation. L-GRID is a light portal to access the EGEE/EGI Grid infrastructure via Web, allowing users to submit their jobs from a common Web browser in a few minutes, without any knowledge about the Grid infrastructur...
{ "abstract": "Treatment of atrial fibrillation is often unsatisfactory because no available drug has been shown to be clearly superior for maintaining patients in sinus rhythm, and all agents have significant potential for toxicity. Selection of an antiarrhythmic drug is more likely to be based on the drug's potenti...
{ "abstract": "OBJECTIVES\nThis study evaluated the efficacy of antiarrhythmic drugs for the treatment of atrial fibrillation (AF).\n\n\nBACKGROUND\nThe most effective and safest antiarrhythmic drug for the treatment of AF is unknown.\n\n\nMETHODS\nThe Atrial Fibrillation Follow-up Investigation of Rhythm Management ...
{ "abstract": "Differences in the magnitude of antibody response after one, two or three doses of Haemophilus influenzae type b conjugate vaccines have been reported which may influence decision-making regarding which vaccine should be used. This is of particular importance in developing countries where children may ...
{ "abstract": "Biologists rely heavily on the language of information, coding, and transmission that is commonplace in the field of information theory developed by Claude Shannon, but there is open debate about whether such language is anything more than facile metaphor. Philosophers of biology have argued that when ...
{ "abstract": "It comes as something ofa surprise to reflect that the New York Review ofBooks is now over twenty years old. Even people of my generation (that is, old enough to remember the revolutionary 196os but not young enough to have taken a very exciting part in them) think of the paper as eternally youthful. I...
{ "abstract": "Protein-coding sequences of 337 human genes were compared with those of homologous genes from rodent (mouse or rat). A composite alignment containing 477,189 nucleotide positions was constructed, and 21,570 amino acid replacements were inferred. The rates of transitional and transversional silent subst...
{ "abstract": "Bug fixing is one of the most important activities in software development and maintenance. Bugs are reported, recorded, and managed in bug tracking systems such as Bugzilla. In general, a bug report contains many fields, such as product, component, severity, priority, fixer, operating system (OS), and...
{ "abstract": "In practice, some bugs have more impact than others and thus deserve more immediate attention. Due to tight schedule and limited human resources, developers may not have enough time to inspect all bugs. Thus, they often concentrate on bugs that are highly impactful. In the literature, high-impact bugs ...
{ "abstract": "In this paper, we present a tutorial on modeling and visualizing software architectures in form of architectural runtime models to support quality-aware DevOps in cloud applications. The tutorial is held in context of the 2017 14th IEEE International Conference on Software Architecture to share our fin...
{ "abstract": "This paper describes a implementation of virtual interactive interview system. A hand motion recognition algorithm based on the particle filters is applied for this system. The particle filter is well operated for human hand motion recognition than any other recognition algorithm. Through the experimen...
{ "abstract": "This paper presents new methods for efficient object tracking in web camera video sequences using multiple features and particle filtering. Particle filtering is particularly useful in dealing with nonlinear state space models and non-Gaussian probability density functions. We develop a multi-objects t...
{ "abstract": "Invited Talks.- Knowledge Patterns.- Computational Semantics and Knowledge Engineering.- Principles for Knowledge Engineering on the Web.- Knowledge Patterns and Knowledge Representation.- Applying Ontology Design Patterns in Bio-ontologies.- A Pattern and Rule-Based Approach for Reusing Adaptive Hyper...
{ "abstract": "Abstract It has been 20 years since Freeman [Freeman, R. E. (1984). Strategic management: A stakeholder approach. Marshfield, MA: Pittman Publishing.] first proposed his stakeholder approach to strategic management, which stated that corporations must consider the needs and demands not only of their sh...
{ "abstract": "When seeking to influence firm decision making, what types of influence strategies do stakeholders have available, and what determines which type the stakeholders choose to use? In this article I use resource dependence theory to investigate these two questions. I propose that the resource relationship...
{ "abstract": "Martin Gargiulo INSEAD This paper proposes an alternative to resource-dependence approaches to strategic behavior, which predict that actors seek direct cooptive relations to alleviate constraint. I propose that an actor can gain leverage on a limiting party by building a cooptive relation with a playe...
{ "abstract": "In this paper based on the advantages of both optical transmission and electronic computation, we first provide an O(log log N) bus cycles parallel algorithm for the medial axis transform of an N/spl times/N binary image on a linear array with a reconfigurable pipelined bus system using N/sup 2/ proces...
{ "abstract": "Many parallel algorithms have been proposed for computing the two-dimensional block-based medial axis transform (2D/spl I.bar/BB/spl I.bar/MAT). Unfortunately, almost all of them are dedicated for solving 2D/spl I.bar/BB/spl I.bar/MAT problem and are very difficult to be extended for solving the 3D/spl...
{ "abstract": "In this work we study the problem of a robot searching for a target on bounded and unbounded domains, specifically in one and two dimensions. We present some relevant results in the field and within this framework, the contributions of this work. We show that one-sided searches on the real line have an...
{ "abstract": "Extramural vascular invasion (EMVI) is a poor prognostic feature in colorectal cancer. The accuracy of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in detecting EMVI and predicting relapse‐free survival (RFS) was compared retrospectively with the histological reference standard.", "corpus_id": 766510, "title":...
{ "abstract": "Abstract Objective To assess the accuracy of preoperative staging of rectal cancer with magnetic resonance imaging to predict surgical circumferential resection margins. Design Prospective observational study of rectal cancers treated by colorectal multidisciplinary teams between January 2002 and Octob...
{ "abstract": "Five years have passed since the second edition of this book appeared, and Professor King now shares the authorship with his colleague at the Postgraduate School, Dr. Wotton. Many changes 'have been made in the text. There is a new section on Normal Values and on the Control of Laboratory Accuracy whic...