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"abstract": "Chlamydomonas reinhardtii is the most powerful photosynthetic eukaryotic unicellular model organism. However, its potential is not fully exploitable since as in most green plants specific targeting of nuclear genes is not routinely possible. Recently, we have shown by repair of an introduced truncated ... | {
"abstract": "As we march into the 21st century, the prevailing scenario of depleting energy resources, global warming and ever increasing issues of human health and food security will quadruple. In this context, genetic and metabolic engineering of green microalgae complete the quest toward a continuum of environme... | {
"abstract": "Group‐living primates monitor group members to maintain the spatial cohesiveness of the group. We examined the possibility that visual scanning (turning the head for more than 3 sec) and contact calls (coo calls) function as visual and auditory monitoring behaviors to avoid separation from group member... |
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"abstract": "Objective: To determine the prevalence of sleep problems in children with Down syndrome. Design and setting: A community prevalence study in a child population of 100 000 in England. Participants: 58 children with Down syndrome aged to 0.65–17.9 years (mean 8.6 years). Interventions: Child sleep Habits... | {
"abstract": "Much progress has been made toward behavioral and pharmacological intervention in intellectual disability, which was once thought too difficult to treat. Down syndrome (DS) research has shown rapid advances, and clinical trials are currently underway, with more on the horizon. Here, we review the liter... | {
"abstract": "Objective. Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) has been linked to prenatal conditions and history of maternal pregnancy problems. While research has also shown a trend of reduced semantic fluency performance in children with ADHD, pediatric fluency studies are limited. The present study sou... |
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"abstract": "Direct torque control based on space vector modulation (SVM-DTC) preserve DTC transient merits, furthermore, produce better quality steady-state performance in a wide speed range. A new adaptive neural integration algorithm for estimating stator flux is introduced. The simulations of conventional DTC a... | {
"abstract": "In this paper, a new approach to the direct torque control (DTC) of induction motor drives is presented. In comparison with the conventional DTC methods, the inverter switching frequency is constant and is dramatically increased, requiring neither any increase of the sampling frequency, nor any high fr... | {
"abstract": "Drawbacks of control strategy will appear if autonomous distributed electric vehicles are integrated into the power grid. In order to decrease those unstable influences of power system frequency, a novel decentralized primary frequency regulation control strategy is presented in this paper, which inclu... |
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"abstract": "The LISA mission, a 5 × 10 6 km-base space-borne LASER interferometer to be launched around year 2010, will detect gravitational waves emitted by Galactic and extra-galactic sources. It has been predicted that one of the main astrophysical processes leading to strong emission in the LISA frequency band... | {
"abstract": "We simulate the star cluster, made of stars in the main sequence and different black hole (BH) remnants, around SgrA* at the center of the Milky Way galaxy. Tracking stellar evolution, we find the BH remnant masses and construct the BH mass function. We sample 4 BH species and consider the impact of th... | {
"abstract": "The Unified Radio and Plasma Wave (URAP) experiment on the interplanetary spacecraft Ulysses is able to detect the Saturnian kilometric radiation (SKR) thanks to the high sensitivity of the receiver and in spite of the remoteness of the planet (8–13 AU). Our knowledge about Saturn comes essentially fro... |
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"abstract": "Stripe rust, caused by Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici (Pst), is one of the most damaging diseases of wheat worldwide. It is essential to identify new genes for effective resistance against the disease. Durum wheat PI 480148, originally from Ethiopia, was resistant in all seedling tests with severa... | {
"abstract": "A pair of stripe rust and leaf rust resistance genes was introgressed from Aegilops caudata, a nonprogenitor diploid species with the CC genome, to cultivated wheat. Inheritance and genetic mapping of stripe rust resistance gene in backcross-recombinant inbred line (BC-RIL) population derived from the ... | {
"abstract": "Wheat for food use is conceptualised as an input into flour production and demand is derived from an industry profit function to quantify price responsiveness and economic substitutability across wheat classes. Price and substitution elasticities are estimated for hard red winter, hard red spring, soft... |
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"abstract": "WE have found that the distillation of chloroform, carbon tetrachloride, methyl alcohol and benzene leads, surprisingly enough, in all four cases to an enrichment of carbon-13 in the distillate, whereas the other heavy isotopes, such as chlorine-37 and oxygen-18, are enriched in the still pot.",
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"abstract": "A THEORY of the vapour pressure relationship for isotopic molecules has been given by Topley and Eyring1. It is, however, difficult to see a priori how to apply the theory in calculating vapour pressures for a particular case, in view of our lack of knowledge of the liquid state. The isotopic molecules... | {
"abstract": "Complexes formulated as {[Co(L)2].[Co(HL)2].4H2O} (1), [Ni2(HL)2(Cl)2(H2O)2]2 (2), {[Cu2(HL)2(Cl)2].[Cu2(HL)2(Cl)2].(H2O)} (3) and [Cu2(HL)2(Cl)2] (4) were synthesized by mixing an equimolar amount of methanol or ethanol solution containing CoCl2.6H2O, NiCl2.6H2O or CuCl2.2H2O and methanol or ethanol s... |
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"abstract": "The establishment of a new preferential trade agreement (PTA) or the expansion of an existing one alters the incentives of non-members to participate in a PTA. This can lead to a domino effect whereby non-members join an existing PTA. Or it can lead a pair of countries to establish a new PTA. We examin... | {
"abstract": "This paper presents a new model of the domino effect which is used to generate an empirical index of how \"contagious\" FTAs are with respect to third nations due to the trade diversion. We test our contagion hypothesis together with alternative specifications of interdependence and other political, ec... | {
"abstract": "Recent regional initiatives have been addressed from a Vinerian perspective of trade creation and trade diversion. This is true of both policy‐oriented economists, who tend to be critical of the initiatives, and theorists, who have added dynamic and gametheoretic elements to the Vinerian structure. Thi... |
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"abstract": "Despite their exceptional error-correcting properties, Reed-Solomon (RS) codes have been overlooked in distributed storage applications due to the common belief that they have poor repair bandwidth: A naive repair approach would require the whole file to be reconstructed in order to recover a single er... | {
"abstract": "Large scale storage systems require multi-disk fault tolerant erasure codes. Replication and RAID extensions that protect against two- and three-disk failures offer a stark tradeoff between how much data must be stored, and how much data must be read to recover a failed disk. Flat XOR-codes-erasure cod... | {
"abstract": "Review of the recent literature in 3D human pose estimation from RGB images and videos.Release of a challenging, publicly available, 3D pose estimation synthetic dataset.Extensive experimental evaluation of some representative state-of-the-art methods. Estimating the pose of a human in 3D given an imag... |
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"abstract": "In many everyday activities, we need to attend and encode multiple target objects among distractor objects. For example, when driving a car on a busy street, we need to simultaneously attend objects such as traffic signs, pedestrians, and other cars, while ignoring colorful and flashing objects in disp... | {
"abstract": "Recent studies have challenged the ventral/“what” and dorsal/“where” two-visual-processing-pathway view by showing the existence of “what” and “where” information in both pathways. Is the two-pathway distinction still valid? Here, we examined how goal-directed visual information processing may differen... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Based on a self-administered online survey of undergraduate students, this study aimed to explore college students’ social media involvement in relation to their stress coping in the United States and China. A total of 262 survey responses were received from American participants and 265 surve... |
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"abstract": "An important aspect in the design of nanomaterials for delivery is an understanding of its uptake and ultimate release to the cytosol of target cells. Real-time chemical sensing using a nanoparticle-based platform affords exquisite insight into the trafficking of materials and their cargo into cells. T... | {
"abstract": "An ideal carrier that delivers small interfering RNA (siRNA) should be designed based on two criteria: cellular-mediated internalization and endosomal escape. Poly(histidine-arginine)6(H6R6) peptide was introduced into chitosan (CS) to create a new CS derivative for siRNA delivery, 6-polyarginine (R6) ... | {
"abstract": "With the development of nanotechnology, nanoscale products that are smaller than several hundred nanometers have been applied to all areas of science and technology. Nanoscale products, including carbon nanotubes, fullerene derivatives, and nanocrystal quantum dots (QDs), are wide spread as novel tools... |
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"abstract": "Background: This multicenter, observational study was conducted in three European countries (Germany, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom) to determine the exposure of adult cigarette smokers and nonsmokers to selected cigarette smoke constituents: 1,3-butadiene, 2-naphthylamine, 4-aminobiphenyl, 4-(me... | {
"abstract": "Biological markers or biomarkers of exposure are indicators for the evaluation of the internal dose of a xenobiotic. Biomarkers integrate exposure from all routes and sources. This review presents a short overview of potential biomarkers of benzene exposure currently under investigation, the methodolog... | {
"abstract": "Visual search and line orientation discrimination was studied in 67 brain-damaged and 15 control subjects, with the aim of demonstrating that hemi-inattention follows both left- and right-hemisphere damage even when confined to the frontal lobe. Both anterior and posterior lesions of either hemisphere ... |
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"abstract": "ABSTRACT Visualising how social networks evolve is important in intelligence analysis in order to detect and monitor issues, such as emerging crime patterns or rapidly growing groups of offenders. It remains an open research question how this type of information should be presented for visual explorati... | {
"abstract": "We present Net EvViz, a visualization tool for analysis and exploration of a dynamic social network. There are plenty of visual social network analysis tools but few provide features for visualization of dynamically changing networks featuring the addition or deletion of nodes or edges. Our tool extend... | {
"abstract": "Data visualization is regularly promoted for its ability to reveal stories within data, yet these “data stories” differ in important ways from traditional forms of storytelling. Storytellers, especially online journalists, have increasingly been integrating visualizations into their narratives, in some... |
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"abstract": "The acquisition rate of all scanning probe imaging techniques with feedback control is limited by the dynamic response of the control loops. Performance criteria are the control loop bandwidth and the output signal noise power spectral density. Depending on the acceptable noise level, it may be necessa... | {
"abstract": "Summary Noise performance of a phase-locked loop (PLL) based frequency modulation Kelvin force microscope (FM-KFM) is assessed. Noise propagation is modeled step by step throughout the setup using both exact closed loop noise gains and an approximation known as “noise gain” from operational amplifier (... | {
"abstract": "This paper studies an internal model control (IMC) based single-loop controller design method to find the feedback controller in either proportional−integral−derivative or high-order form for unstable processes with time delay. The performance limitation of implementing the IMC controller in an equival... |
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"abstract": "Long-term marriages (N = 156) varying in spouses' age (40-50 years or 60-70 years) and relative marital satisfaction (satisfied and dissatisfied) were studied. Spouses independently completed demographic, marital, and health questionnaires and then participated in a laboratory-based procedure focused o... | {
"abstract": "Research has consistently found an association between marital distress and poor mental and physical health of couples, as well as the impact on maladaptive child outcomes. Several studies have examined the problems that couples experience in the United States, while only one study has in Taiwan. Howev... | {
"abstract": "ABSTRACT Background and Objectives: partners’ caregiving efforts are not always beneficial to both recipient and provider. Bowlby’s conceptualization of caregiving style as a stable predisposition may clarify such caregiving effects. The relationship between caregiving style (compulsive and sensitive) ... |
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"abstract": "Synthesis and characterization of the novel sulfonated BAPPO monomer and its use in the synthesis of a new phosphine oxide-based sulfonated polyimide are described. BTDA, 6FDA, and DDS were used as monomers in the polyimide synthesis. Sulfonated polyimide membranes were obtained by a solution thermal i... | {
"abstract": "Highly sulfonated poly(phenylene sulfide) prepared from the polysulfonium cation exhibits excellent thermal stability (T d = 265°C) and high conductivity (> 10 -2 S/cm). These properties arise from the two sulfonic acid groups substituted on one phenyl ring",
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"abstract": "What does it mean to be healthy? Why do we get ill? What makes us recover? This book is about how people answer these questions and draw different conclusions to explain health and illness. It is broad in scope, and examines psychological, sociological and anthropological theories, as well as the autho... |
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"abstract": "The Maitland-Japp reaction has been extended to the synthesis of highly functionalised dihydropyran-4-ones. These dihydropyran-4-ones can in turn be converted stereoselectively into tetrahydropyran-4-ones with tertiary and quaternary stereocentres via the one-pot addition of hydride or carbon nucleophi... | {
"abstract": "This review covers work published in the calendar year 2012. Novel reaction chemistry and new ring synthetic methods for pyrans, [1]benzopyrans, dihydro[1]benzopyrans (chromenes, chromans), [2]benzopyrans, dihydro[2]benzopyrans (isochromenes, isochromans), pyranones, coumarins, chromones, xanthenes, xa... | {
"abstract": "Novel spirobis(oxazolines) provide excellent levels of stereocontrol in copper-catalysed Diels–Alder reactions; the larger the ligand bite angle the higher the enantioselection (up to 98.4% ee).",
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"title": "THE INFLUENCE OF LIGAND BITE ANGLE ON THE ENANTIOSELECT... |
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"abstract": "Retinex model is an effective tool for low-light image enhancement. It assumes that observed images can be decomposed into the reflectance and illumination. Most existing Retinex-based methods have carefully designed hand-crafted constraints and parameters for this highly ill-posed decomposition, which... | {
"abstract": "Abstract In this paper, we propose a new video Super-Resolution (SR) method by jointly modeling intra-frame redundancy and inter-frame motion context in a unified deep network. Different from conventional methods, the proposed Spatial-Temporal Recurrent Residual Network (STR-ResNet) investigates both s... | {
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"title": "Adaptive Block-based Light Field Coding"
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"abstract": "To investigate the mechanism underlying the protective effect against cisplatin (CDDP) nephrotoxicity of its antidote, sodium thiosulfate (STS), the effects of STS on the pharmacokinetics of unchanged CDDP and on the distribution of unchanged CDDP and high and low molecular mass metabolites (fixed and ... | {
"abstract": "The anticancer drug cis-platin (CP) is widely used to treat patients, but it is also associated with significant side effects, including nephrotoxicity. Given that this metallodrug is intravenously (iv) administered, its biotransformations in the bloodstream are likely to be involved in mediating these... | {
"abstract": "No conventional form of therapy is of practical value in the management of patients with diffuse primary or secondary liver tumors. This is also true in most cases of cancer of the gallbladder or bile ducts. Approximately 20 to 30 per cent of patients with cancer of the colon or rectum die as a result ... |
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"abstract": "The purpose of this paper is to investigate patients' drug information preferences using a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods. Patient interviews (n=299) were conducted on general medical wards in three London teaching hospitals. The purpose was to refine and validate a quantitative 12... | {
"abstract": "Purpose Patient safety is gaining prominence in health professional curricula. Patient safety must be complemented by teaching and skill development in practice settings. The purpose of this paper is to explore how experienced pharmacists identify, prioritize and communicate adverse drug effects to pat... | {
"abstract": "In a population‐based birth cohort, we aimed to identify longitudinal trajectories of atopic dermatitis (AD) during childhood using data from different sources (validated questionnaires and healthcare records). We investigated the impact of different AD definitions on such trajectories and their relati... |
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"abstract": "Background: This narrative review was to determine which medication, tacrolimus (TAC) or infliximab (IFX), is safer and more effective in the management of active UC. Our literature search identified 5 studies directly comparing the outcomes of TAC versus IFX for active UC. A review of the 5 studies wa... | {
"abstract": "Biosimilars are reliable drugs that are similar to the authorized biological products for treatment of various diseases. They have been produced due to the shortage of biological drugs as a result of the great demand. This article reviews the literature on uses of biosimilar drugs in many different way... | {
"abstract": "The goal of public health is to promote the best possible health for the whole population. Public health issues are numerous and can be unbelievably complex in form, scope, and possible consequence. Most public health decisions involve assessing several different options, weighing the respective benefi... |
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"abstract": "Endotrophin is a cleavage product of collagenVIα3 (COL6A3). Here, we explore the relationship between thiazolidinediones (TZDs), endotrophin and cisplatin resistance in the context of a mammary tumour model. COL6A3 levels are increased in response to cisplatin exposure in tumours. Endotrophin, in turn,... | {
"abstract": "Aims/hypothesisThe treatment of type 2 diabetes with full peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma (PPARγ) agonists improves insulin sensitivity, but is associated with weight gain, heart failure, peripheral oedema and bone loss. Endotrophin, the C-terminal fragment of the α3 chain of procollag... | {
"abstract": "The pathogenesis of haemorrhagic septicaemia in buffalo infected with Pasteurella multocida is poorly understood. However, the characteristic of sudden onset leading to the rapid death of infected animals is similar to that seen in other clinical conditions known to involve endotoxic shock. The objecti... |
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"abstract": "Motivation: Imaging demonstrates that preclinical and human tumors are heterogeneous, i.e. a single tumor can exhibit multiple regions that behave differently during both development and also in response to treatment. The large variations observed in control group, tumors can obscure detection of signi... | {
"abstract": "MRI biomarkers of tumor response to treatment are typically obtained from parameters derived from a model applied to pre‐treatment and post‐treatment data. However, as tumors are spatially and temporally heterogeneous, different models may be necessary in different tumor regions, and model suitability ... | {
"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nTeriflunomide is an oral disease-modifying therapy approved for treatment of relapsing or relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis. We aimed to provide further evidence for the safety and efficacy of teriflunomide in patients with relapsing multiple sclerosis.\n\n\nMETHODS\nThis international... |
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"abstract": "Advances in major gastrointestinal surgery and the existence of a significant number of high-risk patients necessitate a detailed knowledge of the metabolic response to surgery and the need for adjunctive nutritional therapy. Such surgery has the potential to cause significant nutritional consequences ... | {
"abstract": "Chronically undernourished patients (n=10) undergoing elective abdominal surgery were assessed with regard to their energy expenditure and urinary nitrogen loss. These measurements were made for 1 week after the surgery, and stress factors for each parameter were computed. The responses of the chronica... | {
"abstract": "Using time domain NMR, the moisture in Norway spruce ( Picea abies (L.) Karst. ) sapwood subjected to four different treatments (never-dried, dried and remoistened, acetylated, and furfurylated) was studied during drying at 40°C, at sample average moisture contents above fiber saturation. Spin-spin rel... |
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"abstract": "Abstract Aim: The aim of this study was to evaluate the adherence to current guidelines for the investigation of suspected subarachnoid haemorrhage and the prevalence and outcome of computed tomography (CT)-negative aneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage. Design: A retrospective review in a single large t... | {
"abstract": "We describe MR imaging findings applying gradient echo (GRE) T2*-weighted and fluid-attenuated inversion recovery (FLAIR) MR images at 3T to three patients with hyperacute subarachnoid and intraventricular hemorrhage from ruptured aneurysms. Hyperacute subarachnoid and intraventricular hemorrhages (SAH... | {
"abstract": "CONTEXT\nA current limitation of assisted reproduction is the number of available female gametes. This Commentary discusses in vitro activation (IVA), a technique that activates dormant ovarian follicles so that these follicles can become mature oocytes for fertilization. There is considerable evidence... |
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"abstract": "To the Editor: We read the recent article published in your journal and written by Ter Borg et al1 with great interest. The study is well designed and its findings are important and remarkable. Ter Borg et al1 found in this cross-sectional study that daily intake of some nutrients, such as omega 3 fatt... | {
"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nThere is growing evidence of a relationship between nutrients and muscle mass, strength, and physical performance. Although nutrition is seen as an important pillar of treating sarcopenia, data on the nutritional intake of sarcopenic older adults are limited.\n\n\nOBJECTIVE\nTo investigate ... | {
"abstract": "BackgroundSinus histiocytosis (Rosai–Dorfman disease) with massive lymphadenopathy is a rare nonneoplastic and nonlangerhans cell proliferation disorder of the histiocytes. Extranodal location with or without lymphadenopathy occurs in about 40 % of the cases. Intracranial location is rare in children o... |
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"abstract": "Aim: To compare the Health Status Questionnaire with established methods of assessing disability in preterm and very low birthweight infants. Method: All survivors of gestational age <31 weeks or birth weight <1500 g, born in 1994 to women resident in Wales were identified. Assessments were by a single... | {
"abstract": "Premature birth is not normal. Very preterm birth results from major disturbance of pregnancy at a time of rapid growth and development. This review looks at outcomes of premature birth at various stages of life with a view to developing and benchmarking perinatal services.",
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"abstract": "BackgroundThe timing of laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC) performed after the mild acute biliary pancreatitis (MABP) is still controversial. We conducted a review to compare same-admission laparoscopic cholecystectomy (SA-LC) and delayed laparoscopic cholecystectomy (DLC) after mild acute biliary pancr... |
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"abstract": "Bacterial transcription is initiated after RNA polymerase (RNAP) binds to promoter DNA, melts ~14 bp around the transcription start site and forms a single-stranded \"transcription bubble\" within a catalytically active RNAP-DNA open complex (RP(o)). There is significant flexibility in the transcriptio... | {
"abstract": "Bio-macromolecules carry out complicated functions through structural changes. To understand their mechanism of action, the structure of each step has to be characterized. While classical structural biology techniques allow the characterization of a few ‘structural snapshots’ along the enzymatic cycle ... | {
"abstract": "THE USE OF HYPOTHERMIA AFTER CARDIAC ARREST DONALD BENSON;G. WILLIAMS;FRANK SPENCER;ADOLPH YATES; Anesthesia & Analgesia",
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"title": "THE USE OF HYPOTHERMIA AFTER CARDIAC ARREST"
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"abstract": "A hallmark of Plasmodium development inside its mammalian victim is the remarkable restriction to the host species. Adaptation to an intracellular life style in specific target cells is determined by multiple parasite-host interactions. The first line of crosstalk occurs during intradermal sporozoite i... | {
"abstract": "Intracellular parasites from the genus Plasmodium reside and multiply in a variety of cells during their development. After invasion of human erythrocytes, asexual stages from the most virulent malaria parasite, P. falciparum, drastically change their host cell and export remodelling and virulence prot... | {
"abstract": "Ever since the observation that collinearity, that is, the sequential activity of Hox genes based on their relative positions within their gene clusters, is conserved throughout most of the animal kingdom, the question has been raised as to what are the underlying molecular mechanisms. In recent years,... |
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"abstract": "Prion-like domains have emerged as important drivers of neurodegenerative disease. Now, Boulay et al. establish that the translocated prion-like domain of the oncogenic EWS-FLI1 fusion protein enables phase-separation events, which inappropriately recruit chromatin-remodeling factors to elicit the aber... | {
"abstract": "Ewing sarcoma is the second most common solid bone malignancy diagnosed in pediatric and young adolescent populations. Despite global co-operative efforts, outcomes for patients with relapsed and refractory disease remains obstinately poor. It has become increasingly clear that disruption of the epigen... | {
"abstract": "Growth plate chondrocytes play a pivotal role in promoting longitudinal bone growth. The current review represents a brief survey of the phenomena involved in this process at the cellular level; it delineates the contributions made by various activities during the course of the chondrocyte life cycle, ... |
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"abstract": "PURPOSE\nTo report a novel mouse model of achromatopsia with a cpfl3 mutation found in the ALS/LtJ strain.\n\n\nMETHODS\nThe effects of a cpfl3 mutation were documented using fundus photography, electroretinography (ERG), and histopathology. Genetic analysis was performed using linkage studies and PCR ... | {
"abstract": "One of two orphan photoreceptor guanylyl cyclases that are highly conserved from fish to mammals, GC-E (or retGC1) was eliminated by gene disruption. Expression of the second retinal cyclase (GC-F) as well as the numbers and morphology of rods remained unchanged in GC-E null mice. However, rods isolate... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Vertical slices of 6-day postnatal (P6) rat retina were cut at a thickness of 100 μm and cultured using the roller-tube technique. After 14–21 days in vitro there was significant distortion of normal retinal architecture, but localized areas of the slices showed the typical pattern of layering... |
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"abstract": "This article describes the evaluation of indicators computed with a numerical simulation model of soil water and solute flow against field measurements of the amount of adsorbed and dissolved salts. In the Mediterranean environment,characterised by hot, dry summers, a field experiment on irrigation of ... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Half of the world food production originates from irrigated and drained soils. Advanced soil water flow simulation models have the potential to contribute to the solution of relatively complex problems in irrigation and drainage science and management, provided that field data are available to... | {
"abstract": "An empirical sink function describing water extraction by roots is proposed. Water uptake is given as a function both of the potential transpiration rate and a weighted stress index which accounts for the effects of the vertical distributions of roots and soil water content. \n \nThe model was tested i... |
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"abstract": "PURPOSE\nBrazil has one of the highest incidence of carcinoma of the cervix in the world. Half of the patients have advanced stages at the diagnosis. Due to this large number of patients we decided to conduct a prospective pilot study to investigate the tolerance to and survival rate with hyperfraction... | {
"abstract": "PURPOSE\nTo evaluate the feasibility and efficacy of definitive continuous 7-days-a-week pelvic irradiation without breaks between external beam radiotherapy and brachytherapy in locally advanced cervical cancer.\n\n\nMETHODS AND MATERIALS\nBetween November 1998 and December 1999, 30 patients with Inte... | {
"abstract": "Altered fractionation radiation therapy is one of the attempts to improve the therapeutic ratio in the hope of controlling locally advanced tumors by radiation therapy alone. This includes hypofractionation, split course fractionation, hyperfractionation, accelerated hyperfractionation, and others. Var... |
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"abstract": "Abstract In this paper we will apply the causality Granger test between the closure prices on Romanian day ahead energy markets and different primary energy sources production (coal, hydrocarbons, nuclear, wind and hydro energy). We will apply also the Chow breakpoint test for the prices independently,... | {
"abstract": "The question whether fiscal policies are sustainable in the long run has received much attention in the international political agenda. In this paper, we investigate whether Austrian fiscal policy has been sustainable during the last four decades. We apply several econometric approaches to test for the... | {
"abstract": "Quantitation of individual phospholipids separated by HPLC from tissue extracts by colorimetric analysis of phosphate was investigated. Elution of inorganic phosphate and breakthrough of lecithin were determined using radioisotopes. A substance which interfered with sample phosphate determinations was ... |
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"abstract": "SummaryExpiants obtained from the media of swine abdominal aortas, free of intimai cells and of vasa vasis, were cultivated in a semisynthetic medium for various periods of time, up to 50 days. Under these conditions it was observed that some smooth muscle cells, apparently independently from their loc... | {
"abstract": "Smooth muscle cells derived from rat aortic media were explanted and grown in culture for 14 to 60 days. During that time they formed a confluent multilayer and depostied extracellular material resembling newly formed elastin. The lipid composition of the cells in culture differed slightly from the par... | {
"abstract": "A 45-year-old woman with angina pectoris, beginning at the age of 16 and progressing to produce incapacitation, was found to have an anomalous left coronary artery arising from the pulmonary artery. Because of the severity of symptoms and progression of disability, the anomalous artery was ligated at i... |
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"abstract": "Washing hands is one of the easiest yet most effective ways to prevent spreading illnesses and diseases. However, not adhering to thorough handwashing routines is a substantial problem worldwide. For example, in hospital operations lack of hygiene leads to healthcare associated infections. We present W... | {
"abstract": "Personnel working in health services and food preparation industries maintain hand hygiene by washing their hands. Often this follows the WHO hand hygiene guidelines. Systems exist to monitor and detect compliance with all stages of the guidelines. However, the critical step of verifying whether the su... | {
"abstract": "Iris recognition is a promising method by which to accurately identify a person. During the iris recognition stage, the features of the iris are extracted, including the unique, individual texture of the iris. The ability to extract the texture of the iris in non-cooperative environments from eye image... |
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"abstract": "It is shown that ac discharges propagating at an air / dielectric interface, though of planar structure, behave, till a critical voltage Vcrit, as corona discharges in an air gap, with similar propagation fields for the filamentary discharge components and similar glow components. This leads to conside... | {
"abstract": "Charge transfer occurring between materials of different nature when they are put into contact is a well known phenomenon. In the first part of the paper it is shown how the transposition of this phenomenon to the metal/insulator interfaces in gas insulated HV equipments can explain why such interfaces... | {
"abstract": "The developing velocities of the positive and negative corona streamers on insulating plates have been measured by using the dust figure technique at low pressure in air. By applying nanosecond time pulses from 10‐ to 50‐nsec duration to a needle point where the insulating plate is sandwiched in betwee... |
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"abstract": "Objective This study aimed to assess the association between bone mineral density (BMD) and coronary atherosclerosis in healthy postmenopausal women. Methods We performed a retrospective review of 252 postmenopausal women who had visited a health promotion center for a routine checkup. BMD of the lumba... | {
"abstract": "Systemic roles for bone-derived proteins have emerged from recent studies. In particular, the serum concentration of osteocalcin (OCN) or sclerostin was found to be associated with altered glucose metabolism or atherosclerosis. The aims of this study were to evaluate OCN and sclerostin levels in subjec... | {
"abstract": "SummaryWe studied bone mineral density (BMD) of the spine using dual photon absorptiometry, as well as standard anterior-posterior and lateral lumbar spine X-ray film in 113 ambulatory elderly male volunteers with a mean age of 72 years (range 66–91 years). Each subject had three measurements taken for... |
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"abstract": "This study describes the development, electrochemical characterization and utilization of novel modified N-(4-hydroxyphenyl)-3,5-dinitrobenzamide-FePt/CNTs carbon paste electrode for the electrocatalytic determination of glutathione (GSH) in the presence of piroxicam (PXM) for the first time. The synth... | {
"abstract": "Inorganic nanoparticles usually provide novel and unique physical properties as their size approaches nanometer scale dimensions. The unique physical and optical properties of nanoparticles may lead to applications in a variety of areas, including biomedical detection. Therefore, current research is no... | {
"abstract": "A method for the simultaneous quantification of reduced and oxidized glutathione in human plasma employing a two-dimensional chromatographic system with parallel porous graphitized carbon (PGC) columns coupled with fluorescence (FLD) and coulometric electrochemical detection (ED) has been developed. Po... |
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"abstract": "The progesterone receptor (PR) has been increasingly well described as an important mediator of the pathogenesis and progression of breast cancer. The aim of this study was to assess the role of PR status as a prognostic factor in addition to other well-established prognostic factors. Data from five in... | {
"abstract": "Human breast cancers that are estrogen receptor (ER) negative convey a poor prognosis for patient survival. A mouse model that mimics essential biological and genetic attributes of a subset of human breast cancer is the BALB/c p53-null mammary epithelium, in which deletion of the tumor suppressor gene ... | {
"abstract": "One hundred and twenty‐six radial scars and complex sclerosing lesions from 91 women were examined to determine the incidence of and the clinical and pathological factors associated with the development of carcinoma and atypical hyperplasia within them. There was a clear relationship between the presen... |
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"abstract": "Abstract We present the results of our perturbative calculations of the static quark potential, small Wilson loops, the static quark self energy, and the mean link in Landau gauge. These calculations are done for the one loop Symanzik improved gluon action, and the improved staggered quark action.",
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"abstract": "After presenting a brief review of how simulations of QCD with imaginary \nchemical potential can be used to extract physical results, we analyse the \nphase structure of QCD with four flavours of dynamical fermions in the finite \ntemperature - imaginary chemical potential plane, and discuss perspecti... | {
"abstract": "The respective contributions of cold-matter and hot-medium effects to the suppression of $\\Upsilon(1S)$ and $\\Upsilon(2S)$ mesons in pPb collisions at energies reached at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) are investigated. Whereas known alterations of the parton density functions in the lead nucleus an... |
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"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nAlthough T wave alternans (TWA) and the T wave peak-to-end (Tpte) interval are associated with vulnerability to ventricular tachyarrhythmia (VT), no previous reports have demonstrated that TWA immediately precedes spontaneous VT in the human ambulatory setting.\n\n\nMETHODS AND RESULTS\nSto... | {
"abstract": "Background: Nonsustained ventricular tachycardia (nVT) may have ominous implications for patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM). The microvolt T‐wave alternans (TWA) has been proposed as a noninvasive tool‐identifying patients at risk of sudden cardiac death and ventricular tachycardia/fibrill... | {
"abstract": "Different noninvasive or minimally invasive therapeutic ablation procedures can produce tissue necrosis associated with local-stiffness increase. Although elastography has been proved as a potential evaluation tool for many kinds of ablation-induced lesions, the application of subtraction technique in ... |
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"abstract": "Economic development rarely happens in the absence of large-scale job creation. The scarcity of research on formal employment in Africa in the field of development economics is thus noteworthy. Part of the explanation is that, although steady employment represents an overarching aspiration for many Afr... | {
"abstract": "This paper concerns the problem of allocating a binary treatment among a target population based on observed covariates. The goal is to (i) maximize the mean social welfare arising from an eventual outcome distribution, when a budget constraint limits what fraction of the population can be treated and ... | {
"abstract": "This paper tests a straightforward implication of the basic Life Cycle model of consumption: that current consumption depends on expected lifetime income. The paper projects future income for a panel of households and finds that consumption is closely related to projected current income, but unrelated ... |
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"title": "Involvement of Matrix Metalloproteinase-9 in Amyloid-β 1–42–Induced Shedding of the Pericyte Proteoglycan NG2"
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"abstract": "The population of brain pericytes, a cell type important for vessel stability and blood brain barrier function, has recently been shown altered in patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD). The underlying reason for this alteration is not fully understood, but progressive accumulation of the AD characteri... | {
"abstract": "The acute effects of various antihypertensive agents on cerebral blood flow and mean arterial pressure (MAP) were studied in anesthetized (amobarbital 100 mg/kg) spontaneously hypertensive rats. Cerebral blood flow in the cortex and thalamus was measured by the hydrogen clearance method before and duri... |
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"abstract": "Eosinophilic dermatosis of hematologic malignancy is a rare, paraneoplastic phenomenon that presents as a pruritic papular or vesicular eruption that is clinically and histopathologically similar to insect bites. We present a 56-year-old man with multiple relapses of diffuse large B cell lymphoma with ... | {
"abstract": "&NA; We report three patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia with unusual vesiculobullous skin eruptions on exposed areas which were more commonly noted in spring and summer. The lesions appeared to be due to insect bites and could be differentiated from other causes on the basis of histological, im... | {
"abstract": "Five of seven patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) who had pruritus and a chronic, nonspecific-appearing skin eruption had increased antibody titers to antigens in the salivary glands of Aedes taeniorhynchus, a salt marsh mosquito common to South Florida. We hypothesize that the prur... |
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"abstract": "The synthesis of wurtzite gallium nitride (GaN) nanorods with triangular shape on c-Al 2 O 3 substrates using a thermal chemical vapor deposition process was investigated. It was possible to control nanorod shape and growth mode of GaN nanorods by change of sample geometry in the chamber using a mixtur... | {
"abstract": "Abstract c -Axis-aligned InN nanocolumn arrays were vertically grown on 3 μm GaN epilayers with InGaN buffer layers by radio-frequency molecular beam epitaxy without any catalysts. X-ray diffraction, transmission electron microscopy, and field-emission scanning electron microscope were used to study th... | {
"abstract": "CoO–ZnO-based composites have attracted considerable attention for the development of energy storage devices because of their multifunctional characterization and ease of integration with existing components. This paper reports the synthesis of CoO@ZnO (CZ) nanostructures on Ni foam by the chemical bat... |
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"abstract": "In spite of all advantages of solar energy, its deployment will significantly change the typical electric load profile, thus necessitating a change in traditional distribution grid management practices. In particular, the net load ramping, created as a result of simultaneous solar generation drop and l... | {
"abstract": "One month of supply bids in the California ISO day-ahead energy market are analyzed in this paper. A total of 1.5 million records of bid data are studied. The bids are studied based on their types and their distribution at different hours. The relationship between the market price and the offered suppl... | {
"abstract": "The electrical frequency of an interconnection must be maintained very close to its nominal level at all times. Excessive frequency deviations can lead to load shedding, instability, machine damage, and even blackouts. There is rising concern in the power industry in recent years about the declining am... |
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"abstract": "Point cloud matching is one of the key technologies of optical three-dimensional contour measurement. Most of the point cloud matching without landmark used the iterative closest point algorithm. In order to improve the performance of the iterative closest point algorithm, the two-step iterative closes... | {
"abstract": "Segmentation of 3D point clouds is an essential part of automatic tasks, such as object classification, recognition, and localization. The segmentation results pose a direct impact on the further processing. In this paper, we present an improved region-growing algorithm based on local convexity and dim... | {
"abstract": "In the scenario where an underwater vehicle tracks an underwater target, reliable estimation of the target position is required. While USBL measurements provide target position measurements at low but regular update rate, multibeam sonar imagery gives high precision measurements but in a limited field ... |
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"abstract": "A conventional materialized view blindly materializes and maintains all rows of a view, even rows that are never accessed. We propose a more flexible materialization strategy aimed at reducing storage space and view maintenance costs. A dynamic materialized view selectively materializes only a subset o... | {
"abstract": "Applications ranging from algorithmic trading to scientific data analysis require realtime analytics based on views over databases that change at very high rates. Such views have to be kept fresh at low maintenance cost and latencies. At the same time, these views have to support classical SQL, rather ... | {
"abstract": "Subspace clustering algorithms are notorious for their scalability issues because building and processing large affinity matrices are demanding. In this paper, we introduce a method that simultaneously learns an embedding space along subspaces within it to minimize a notion of reconstruction error, thu... |
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"abstract": "Background: There is a wide variation in reported survival from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA). One factor in this variation may be the contribution of general practitioners to pre-hospital resuscitation. Studies using self-reported data describe increased survival proportions when general pract... | {
"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nMore than a third of Ireland's population lives in a rural area, defined as the population residing in all areas outside clusters of 1500 or more inhabitants. This presents a challenge for the provision of effective pre-hospital resuscitation services. In 2012, Ireland became one of three E... | {
"abstract": "Editor,—Most fatal events in patients with ischaemic heart disease occur outside hospital and therefore the greatest opportunities for reducing mortality from acute coronary events lie in the prehospital setting1. In their recent paper Soo and colleagues2 published the results of a study to determine w... |
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"abstract": "Interactive sonification can provide a platform for demonstration and education as well as for monitoring and investigation. We present a system designed to demonstrate the facilities of the UK's most advanced large-scale research wave tank. The interactive sonification of water waves in the “ocean bas... | {
"abstract": "We present a musical keyboard that is not only velocity-sensitive, but in fact responds to absement (presement), displacement (placement), velocity, acceleration, jerk, jounce, etc. (i.e. to all the derivatives, as well as the integral, of displacement).Moreover, unlike a piano keyboard in which the ke... | {
"abstract": "There is a strongly growing interest for wastewater heat recovery (WWHR) in Sweden and elsewhere, but a lack of adequate tools to determine downstream impacts due to the associated temperature drop. The heat recovery potential and associated temperature drop after heat recovery on a building level is m... |
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"abstract": "BackgroundHigh throughput pyrosequencing (454 sequencing) is the major sequencing platform for producing long read high throughput data. While most other sequencing techniques produce reading errors mainly comparable with substitutions, pyrosequencing produce errors mainly comparable with gaps. These e... | {
"abstract": "The Genome Sequencer FLX System (GS FLX), powered by 454 Sequencing, is a next-generation DNA sequencing technology featuring a unique mix of long reads, exceptional accuracy, and ultra-high throughput. It has been proven to be the most versatile of all currently available next-generation sequencing te... | {
"abstract": "This thesis analyses the determinants of Foreign Direct Investment in Vietnam from 1988-2009. It examines the nature, motivation and impact of FDI upon the Vietnam economy and its contribution to the subsequent leap forward in economic growth. The focus is on developing Dunning’s eclectic theory throug... |
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"abstract": "The rate of spontaneous emission is known to depend on the environment of a emitter, and the enhancement of one-photon emission in a resonant cavity is known as the Purcell effect. Here we develop a theory of spontaneoustwo-photon emission for a general electromagnetic environment including inhomogeneo... | {
"abstract": "Spontaneous decay is a fundamental quantum property of emitters that can be controlled in a material environment via modification of the local density of optical states (LDOS). Here we use transformation optics methods in order to design required density of states and thus spontaneous emission (SE) rat... | {
"abstract": "We report a comprehensive experimental study and detailed model analysis of the terahertz (THz) dielectric response and density kinetics of excitons and unbound electron-hole pairs in GaAs quantum wells. A compact expression is given, in absolute units, for the complex-valued THz dielectric function of... |
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"abstract": "We consider two classes of probability distributions for configurations of the ideal gas. They depend only on kinetic energy and they remain of the same form when degrees of freedom are integrated out. The relation with equilibrium distributions of Tsallis’ thermostatistics is discussed.",
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"abstract": "We construct classes of stochastic differential equations with fluctuating friction forces that generate a dynamics correctly described by Tsallis statistics and nonextensive statistical mechanics. These systems generalize the way in which ordinary Langevin equations underly ordinary statistical mechan... | {
"abstract": "In this paper the Zipf–Mandelbrot law is revisited in the context of linguistics. Despite its widespread popularity the Zipf–Mandelbrot law can only describe the statistical behaviour of a rather restricted fraction of the total number of words contained in some given corpus. In particular, we focus ou... |
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"abstract": "First generation of biomarkers (fluorescence labels) is based on organic dyes. To replace them nanoparticles (NPs)/quantum dots (QDs) of highly fluorescent CdTe-, CdS- and CdSe-based biomarkers were introduced. Despite the fact that these NPs show some advantageous properties, their use is limited by b... | {
"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nQuantum dots (qdots) are a promising alternative to organic fluorophores for biological imaging. Advantages of quantum dots over organic fluorophores include broad excitation coupled with narrow, tunable emission, high resistance to chemical and metabolic degradation, a higher photobleachin... | {
"abstract": "Herein, tetrabromoterepthalic acid (TBTA) is used as the potential co-crystal former with various organic base molecules containing free nitrogen atoms. The crystal structure of TBTA (compound 1) has been determined from powder X-ray diffraction (PXRD) data. In a systematic way, we have synthesized hyd... |
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"abstract": "The wafer stage and reticle stage in a lithographic tool, used to manufacture integrated circuits (ICs), operate at nanometer accuracy during a scanning motion. The position accuracy and settling time after accelerating to the scanning velocity are largely determined by the feedforward controller. The ... | {
"abstract": "This paper considers model-based feedforward for motion systems. The proposed feedforward controller consists of an acceleration feedforward part and an inverse dynamics model of flexible modes. Based on analysis and H/sub /spl infin// model-based feedforward design, the inverse dynamics can be restric... | {
"abstract": "In this paper, we present a new approach for reduction of residual vibrations in point-to-point motions, based on iterative learning control (ILC). The approach is to add a signal to the command input during the point-to-point motion, chosen such as to compensate for the residual vibration. A special f... |
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"abstract": "In the field of glioma research, in vitro models are widely used to investigate tumor biology as well as tumor response to chemotherapy and radiation. There is an increasing need to improve these in vitro models in order to meet the new challenges arising in drug discovery. It is thus important that de... | {
"abstract": "Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is the most common and aggressive form of primary brain tumor for which there is no curative treatment to date. Resistance to conventional therapies and tumor recurrence pose major challenges to treatment and management of this disease, and therefore new therapeutic strate... | {
"abstract": "A1 First-in-human phase I study of a selective VEGFR/FGFR dual inhibitor sulfatinib in patients with advanced solid tumors. Jian-Ming Xu, Lin Sheng, Yan Wang, Yu-Ling Chen, Ru Jia, Jian Wang, Ke Li, Yang Sai, Jing Li, Chuan Qi, Ye Hua, Wei-Guo Su. The 307th Hospital of Chinese People's Liberation Army,... |
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"abstract": "Filter-feeding bivalve molluscs (such as oysters, clams, mussels and cockles) can concentrate contaminants from the water column. The extent of faecal contamination in shellfish is usually estimated by determining the concentration of faecal coliforms and/or Escherichia coli. Three sample points in eac... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Faecal coliform levels were determined for sea water and shellfish flesh from farms of the green mussel, Perna canaliculus, in Pelorus Sound, Marlborough Sounds, New Zealand. Simple linear models were developed to relate logarithmically transformed data on the faecal coliform levels to measure... | {
"abstract": "Norwalk virus in water was found to be more resistant to chlorine inactivation than poliovirus type 1 (LSc2Ab), human rotavirus (Wa), simian rotavirus (SA11), or f2 bacteriophage. A 3.75 mg/liter dose of chlorine was found to be effective against other viruses but failed to inactivate Norwalk virus. Th... |
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"abstract": "Electro-Optical Probing (EOP) has shown its efficiency in the world of failure analysis. The different external physical parameters effects, especially the temperature, on the EOP signals are not well known and not that much described in the literature. In addition to thermoreflectance, the temperature... | {
"abstract": "We present various results of electro-optical frequency mapping (EOFM) simulations and experiments on different pn-junctions. The results give detailed insight into EOFM signal causes (also parasitic) present in modern ICs, Over 350 EOFM simulations draw a precise quantitative picture of EOFM signal de... | {
"abstract": "Analysis of experimental data shows that a simple relationship connects the electron mobility with the donor concentration ND. At room temperature, the mobility is inversely proportional to 1+√(ND/1017) for a number of important semiconductors.",
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"abstract": "Background: Sutherland et al. (2011) suggested that, instead of risk factors for single neurodegenerative disorders (NDDs), there was a need to identify specific “drivers”, i.e., risk factors with impact on specific deposits, such as amyloid-β, tau, or α-synuclein, acting across entities. Objectives an... | {
"abstract": "Background: During the last two decades, protein aggregation at all organismal levels, from viruses to humans, has emerged from a neglected area of protein science to become a central issue in biology and biomedicine. This article constitutes a risk-based review aimed at supporting an etiologic scenari... | {
"abstract": "This paper presents a model for serial multi-stage manufacturing systems facing variability from two sources. One source is demand uncertainty; the other is manufacturing uncertainty associated with all manufacturing stages. A production control policy based on the planned lead time and the manufacturi... |
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"abstract": "In this thesis, we will examine a card game called MYST, a variant of the Parker Brothers' classic board game Clue. In MYST, a set of cards is divided uniformly among a set of players, and the remaining cards form a hidden pile. The goal of each player is to be the rst to determine the contents of the ... | {
"abstract": "Since an accidental loss in the 1950 U.S. Championship, Tinsley amassed an incredible record. Over the period 1950-1995, he finished in undivided first place in every tournament that he played in †. He contested 9 World Championship matches, winning each usually by an embarrassingly large margin. Over ... | {
"abstract": "In August 1992, the first man versus machine world championship took place. The champion, Dr. Marion Tinsley, is arguably the greatest checkers player that ever lived. The challenger was the computer checkers program Chinook, a 3 year team effort from the University of Alberta. This article is an anecd... |
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"abstract": "Preconditioners for hyperbolic systems are numerical artifacts to accelerate the convergence to a steady state. In addition, the preconditioner should also be included in the artificial viscosity or upwinding terms to improve the accuracy of the steady state solution. For time dependent problems we use... | {
"abstract": "Abstract The preconditioned characteristic boundary conditions based on the artificial compressibility (AC) method are implemented at artificial boundaries for the solution of two- and three-dimensional incompressible viscous flows in the generalized curvilinear coordinates. The compatibility equations... | {
"abstract": "ConclusionThe purpose of the last three sections is to demonstrate by representative examples that control theory can be used to formulate computationally feasible procedures for aerodynamic design. The cost of each iteration is of the same order as two flow solutions, since the adjoint equation is of ... |
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"abstract": "Organizing and annotating biomedical data in structured ways has gained much interest and focus in the last 30 years. Driven by decreases in digital storage costs and advances in genetics sequencing, imaging, electronic data collection, and microarray technologies, data is being collected at an alarmin... | {
"abstract": "The Extensible Neuroimaging Archive Toolkit (XNAT) is a software platform designed to facilitate common management and productivity tasks for neuroimaging and associated data. In particular, XNAT enables qualitycontrol procedures and provides secure access to and storage of data. XNAT follows a threeti... | {
"abstract": "Improving Library Searches Using Word-Correlation Factors and Folksonomies Maria Soledad Pera Department of Computer Science Master of Science Libraries, private and public, offer valuable resources to library patrons; however, formulating library queries to retrieve relevant results can be difficult. ... |
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"abstract": "The primary auditory cortex (AI) is the representative recipient of information from the ears in the mammalian cortex. However, the delineation of the AI is still controversial in a mouse. Recently, it was reported, using optical imaging, that two distinct areas of the AI, located ventrally and dorsall... | {
"abstract": "Species-specific vocalizations in mice have frequency-modulated (FM) components slower than the lower limit of FM direction selectivity in the core region of the mouse auditory cortex. To identify cortical areas selective to slow frequency modulation, we investigated tonal responses in the mouse audito... | {
"abstract": "Classical tone conditioning shifts frequency tuning in the auditory cortex to favor processing of the conditioned stimulus (CS) frequency versus other frequencies. This receptive field (RF) plasticity is associative, highly specific, rapidly acquired, and indefinitely retained-all important characteris... |
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"abstract": "Methylglyoxal (MG) is one of the aldehydes accumulated in plants under environmental stress. Cytosolic ascorbate peroxidase (cAPX) plays a key role in the protection of cells from oxidative damage by scavenging reactive oxygen species in higher plants. A cDNA encoding cAPX, named NtcAPX, was isolated f... | {
"abstract": "BackgroundIn addition to controlled post-translational modifications proteins can be modified with highly reactive compounds. Usually this leads to a compromised functionality of the protein. Methylglyoxal is one of the most common agents that attack arginine residues. Methylglyoxal is also regarded as... | {
"abstract": "In biosynthesis of octadecanoids and jasmonate (JA), the naturally occurring enantiomer is established in a step catalysed by the gene cloned recently from tomato as a single-copy gene (Ziegler et al., 2000). Based on sequence homology, four full-length cDNAs were isolated from Arabidopsis thaliana eco... |
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"abstract": "The emerging Web of Things (WoT) will comprise billions of Web-enabled objects (or \"things\") where such objects can sense, communicate, compute and potentially actuate. WoT is essentially the embodiment of the evolution from systems linking digital documents to systems relating digital information to... | {
"abstract": "Despite the active research into, and the development of, human activity recognition over the decades, existing techniques still have several limitations, in particular, poor performance due to insufficient ground-truth data and little support of intra-class variability of activities (i.e., the same ac... | {
"abstract": "We describe an algorithm for learning bilinear SVMs. Bilinear classifiers are a discriminative variant of bilinear models, which capture the dependence of data on multiple factors. Such models are particularly appropriate for visual data that is better represented as a matrix or tensor, rather than a v... |
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"abstract": "Abstract An increasing number of patients are undergoing sentinel node biopsy alone for axillary staging of early breast cancer. A reliable method for evaluating the status of the sentinel node intraoperatively would allow patients with sentinel node metastases to undergo immediate rather than delayed ... | {
"abstract": "OBJECTIVE\nTo compare imprint cytology with histology as a method for rapid intraoperative diagnosis of axillary lymph node metastasis in breast cancer.\n\n\nSTUDY DESIGN\nWe evaluated imprint cytology, comparing it with histopathology. A sample of 635 axillary lymph nodes was studied by imprint cytolo... | {
"abstract": "Type 1 acute macular neuroretinopathy (AMN), also known as paracentral acute middle maculopathy (PAMM), is a novel form of AMN in which spectral-domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT) demonstrates a characteristic hyper-reflective band-like lesion at the level of the inner nuclear layer. This for... |
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"abstract": "The present study was undertaken to assess the role of ovarian renin-angiotensin system (RAS) in the preovulatory cascade induced by gonadotropin exposure. In the in vitro perfused rabbit ovaries, exposure to human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) enhanced the secretion rate of angiotensin II (Ang II) with... | {
"abstract": "In vitro culture of ovarian follicles is a promising bioengineering technique for preserving fecundity in reproductive-aged female by providing fertilizable oocytes. Successful clinical application should be preceded by developing the protocols that can efficiently overcome follicular cell apoptosis si... | {
"abstract": "Pocket gophers, despite their relatively small size, are an important element controlling ecosystem structure and development. Mielke (1977, p. 171) argues that \"... Geomyidae provide a dynamic force to direct the biogeochemical attributes of the North American Prairie lands .... [T]he activities of f... |
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"abstract": "Cerium is traditionally referred to as one of the “rare earths”, \nbut is in fact more plentiful in the earth’s crust than many other \nelements, including lead. \n1,2 \nIt is also the most widely distributed \nof the “rare earths”, averaging 22 ppm in the earth’s crust. \n3 \nCerium is industrially im... | {
"abstract": "A method was developed for the simultaneous determination of Ce, Nd and Sm in biological materials at sub- or low ng g–1 levels by isotope dilution inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ID-ICP-MS). The monitored isotopic pairs for sample analysis were 140Ce/142Ce, 143Nd/146Nd and 147Sm/149Sm. T... | {
"abstract": "Insectivorous bats have often been touted as biological control for mosquito populations. However, mosquitoes generally represent only a small proportion of bat diet. Given the small size of mosquitoes, restrictions imposed on prey detectability by low frequency echolocation, and variable field metabol... |
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"abstract": "A group of specialized genes has been defined to govern the molecular mechanisms controlling the circadian clock in mammals. Their expression and the interactions among their products dictate circadian rhythmicity. Three genes homologous to Drosophila period exist in the mouse and are thought to be maj... | {
"abstract": "The primary hallmark of circadian clocks is their ability to entrain to environmental stimuli. The dominant, and therefore most physiologically important, entraining stimulus comes from environmental light cycles. Here we describe the establishment and characterization of a new cell line, designated Z3... | {
"abstract": "Abstract The evolution of the hemagglutinin (HA) of equine H3 influenza viruses was studied by analysis of nucleotide and deduced amino acid sequences, as well as reactivity of the HA molecule to ferret antisera and monoclonal antibodies. The evolutionary tree constructed from the nucleotide sequences ... |
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"abstract": "Electrospray ionization Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometry (ESI-FT-ICR-MS) was used to examine the molecular composition of dissolved organic matter (DOM) from soils under different land use regimes and how the DOM composition in the catchment is reflected in adjacent streams. ... | {
"abstract": "We examined the molecular composition of forest soil water during three different seasons at three different sites, using electrospray ionization Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometry (ESI-FT-ICR-MS). We examined oxic soils and tested the hypothesis that pH and season correlate wi... | {
"abstract": "Recently proposed non-linear propagation models allow to derive simple link optimization rules. We show that local optimization leads to global optimization (LOGO) and propose a network optimization strategy (LOGON) that allows substantial control-plane simplification.",
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"abstract": "The construction and electrochemical response characteristics of poly (vinyl chloride) matrix membrane sensors for seven phenolic compounds (phenol, o-cresol, p-cresol, p-chlorophenol, o-nitrophenol, alpha-naphthol and beta-naphthol) are described. The membranes incorporate ion association complexes of... | {
"abstract": "A new method, ultrasound-assisted emulsification–microextraction (USAEME) with in situ derivatization and gas chromatography-electron-capture (GC-μ-ECD) detection, was developed to determine selected chlorophenols (CPs), including 2-chlorophenol, 2,6-dichlorophenol, 2,4,5-trichlorophenol, 2,3,4,6-tetra... | {
"abstract": "It is customary in industrial analysis in the determination of phenols by the 4-aminoantipyrine (4-AAP) and ultraviolet-ratio spectrophotometric methods to report the total of phenolic compounds as phenol. A study was therefore made of the behaviour of 36 representative phenolic compounds in the 4-AAP ... |
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"abstract": "The field of reinforcement learning (RL) is facing increasingly challenging domains with combinatorial complexity. For an RL agent to address these challenges, it is essential that it can plan effectively. Prior work has typically utilized an explicit model of the environment, combined with a specific ... | {
"abstract": "Combining deep model-free reinforcement learning with on-line planning is a promising approach to building on the successes of deep RL. On-line planning with look-ahead trees has proven successful in environments where transition models are known a priori. However, in complex environments where transit... | {
"abstract": "We present a live, multiple-representation novice environment for probabilistic programming based on the Infer.NET language. When compared to a text-only editor in a controlled experiment on 16 participants, our system showed a significant reduction in keystrokes during introductory probabilistic progr... |
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"abstract": "AIMS AND OBJECTIVES\nTo review literature on identifying the risk factors associated with early sexual coerced debut with the aim to facilitate the healthcare workers' planning of relevant health services to improve intervention strategies for delaying of early coerced sexual debut or forced sexual deb... | {
"abstract": "PURPOSE\nSexual consent is important to healthy relationships; however, sexual coercion is common. We examine modifiable risk and protective factors for sexual coercion among high school students in a rural community.\n\n\nMETHODS\nWe surveyed 10th graders (N = 442) in a rural, Midwestern, low-to-middl... | {
"abstract": "OBJECTIVE\nTo develop a multidimensional classification of sexual partnerships.\n\n\nMETHODS\nEighty-two female subjects (ages 15-20 years; 77% African American) used coital logs to record dates of 1265 coital events, partner initials, and condom use. Logs were collected at 1-, 3-, 9-, 15-, and 21-mont... |
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"abstract": "A case study which illustrates the infant's ability to regulate caloric intake through adjustments in formula intake is presented. A daily record of infant formula and supplemental food intake of a normal, bottle-fed male infant was kept from 1 week to 9 months after birth. The infant's physical growth... | {
"abstract": "A wide range of maternal exposures — undernutrition, obesity, diabetes, stress and infection — are associated with an increased risk of metabolic disease in offspring. Developmental influences can cause persistent structural changes in hypothalamic circuits regulating food intake in the service of ener... | {
"abstract": "We report the case of a brain-damaged subject R.C. who is more impaired at producing grammatical forms of words and pseudo-words used as verbs (he judges, he wugs) than of the same words used as nouns (the judges, the wugs). This pattern of performance constitutes the first clear demonstration that gra... |
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"abstract": "Bacterial small RNAs (sRNAs) are an emerging class of regulatory RNAs of about 40–500 nucleotides in length and, by binding to their target mRNAs or proteins, get involved in many biological processes such as sensing environmental changes and regulating gene expression. Thus, identification of bacteria... | {
"abstract": "Bacterial small non-coding RNAs (sRNAs) are known as novel regulators involved in virulence, stress responsibility, and so on. Recently, a lot of new researches have highlighted the critical roles of sRNAs in fine-tune gene regulation in both prokaryotes and eukaryotes. Edwardsiella tarda (E. tarda) is... | {
"abstract": "More than 300 years ago Dr. Stephen Hales drilled holes in the shaft of chicken bones and noted that as the animal grew, the distance between these holes remained constant. This led him to conclude that longitudinal bone growth occurs at the end of the long bones, rather than in the middle. During the ... |
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"abstract": "This is not an advertisement for a conference; it is serious analysis and critique of a new product development and innovation conference from a learning perspective to determine if one could ‘learn new product development and innovation in a conference setting. The author attended the product innovati... | {
"abstract": "Traditional approaches to teaching in higher education typically fail to prepare students with many of the skills they need to become the knowledge workers employers expect them to be as graduates. Furthermore, successful students expect that the strategies they cultivated during their academic career ... | {
"abstract": "Emergence of the Power of Action Learning Applying the Six Components of Action Learning The Problem The Group Questions and Reflections Action Strategies Individual, Team, and Organizational Learning The Coach 12 Steps for Action Learning Introducing, Implementing and Sustaining Action Learning.",
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"abstract": "The aim of this article is to revise the literature about the applied econometric models to the analysis of the demand and utilisation of health care. Due to the difficulty to measure directly the demand of these services, the empirical investigations resort to data of the use of medical services. If t... | {
"abstract": "In this paper we estimate a demand for private medical services equation based on the tradition of Grossman's model of demand for health using data for a panel of Spanish households. The econometric specification accounts for the censored nature of the data, which arises from no participation and infre... | {
"abstract": "In developing countries opportunity exists for the application of policy instruments like Payment for Environmental Services (PES) to address the challenges of poverty and environmental degradation. Assessing the preferences of farmers for management scenarios provides an inroad into the application of... |
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"abstract": "Advances in high-resolution prenatal ultrasound and fetal magnetic resonance (MR) imaging have changed the practice of obstetrics by allowing better visualization of intrathoracic and neck structures and better estimation of lung volumes. More accurate prenatal diagnosis has increased options for pregn... | {
"abstract": "Fetal MRI is now a well-established imaging modality for the diagnostic evaluation of fetuses with congenital anomalies. In this article, the authors provide a brief overview of the physical principles involved in fetal MRI imaging, the sequences that are used in clinical practice today, current indica... | {
"abstract": "Pulmonary arterial (PA) blood flow patterns, changes in pulmonary blood flow, and pulmonary vascular responses to graded hypoxemia and intravenous acetylcholine (ACh) were studied in IS fetal lambs in utero 3–12 days after surgical implantation of an electromagnetic flow transducer and PA catheter. Pha... |
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"abstract": "The aim of the paper is to examine the effects of endogenous approach to the principle of retaliation in base models of strategic trade policy in the sphere of welfare. Two main models are considered: the model of homogeneous international duopoly with behaviours according to Cournot's ( Brander - Spen... | {
"abstract": "Countries often perceive themselves as being in competition with each other for profitable international markets. In such a world export subsidies can appear as attractive policy tools, from a national point of view, because they improve the relative position of a domestic firm in noncooperative rivalr... | {
"abstract": "Humanity is young: In 2006, over a third (2.2 billion) were under age 18 and almost half were under age 25. In addition, nearly the majority of young people ages 15–24 lives on less than $2 per day, 15 percent are undernourished, and 14.4 percent are unemployed. Although 85 percent of young people live... |
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"abstract": "The literature proposes many techniques for reconstructing software architectures. However, there are limited guidelines on when and how to apply these techniques. There is even less information on how to combine them depending on the objectives and the boundary conditions of the reconstruction. This p... | {
"abstract": "data types Sorting and searching parallel and distributed algorithms 3. [AR] Computer Architecture",
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"title": "Guide to the Software Engineering Body of Knowledge"
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"abstract": "Virtualization of computing resources enables multiple virtual machines to run on a physical machine. When many virtual machines are deployed on a cluster of PCs, some physical machines will inevitably experience overload while others are under-utilized over time due to varying computational demands. T... |
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"abstract": "Abstract This study examines the impact of tie strength and service failure type on consumers’ behavioral intention (voice complaint and negative Word-of-Mouth) in a restaurant context. Overall, the results indicate that tie strength significantly reduces consumers’ intention to spread negative Word-of... | {
"abstract": "This thesis work is conducted with the purpose to study the importance of relationship marketing in service industry and design relationship management plan for the case restaurant X emphasizing the trust factor. The main goal is to identify antecedents of customer trust and transform them into applica... | {
"abstract": "Radiation in the form of unwanted patterns, energy wastage and reduction is caused by high side lobe levels in a radiation pattern. This, in turn, affects the overall performance of the antenna. The purpose of this work is to improve the performance of a smart antenna by optimizing the radiation patter... |
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"abstract": "Patients with Crohn's disease of the small bowel or the colon are at risk for development of cancer within their chronically inflamed intestinal loops. We present here the first reported case of malignant degeneration of duodenal mucosa involved by Crohn's disease. The clinical observations as well as ... | {
"abstract": "Two patients with concurrent esophagitis and ileocolitis due to Crohn's disease are presented. The initial feature of esophageal involvement was dysphagia caused by severe inflammation of the distal esophagus with mucosal ulcerations and polypoid folds. Long-term observation of both cases revealed a gr... | {
"abstract": "Mr D S, aged 36. Lettering artist Sixteen years ago this man developed attacks of diarrheea, nausea and vomiting with, in addition, the typical pain of peptic ulceration. The attacks became more frequent until seven years ago when laparotomy revealed a mass in the jejunum 5 in. (12-5 cm) from the duode... |
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"abstract": "A cost reduced method of producing injection molding tools is reported and demonstrated for the fabrication of optical microlens arrays. A standard computer-numerical-control (CNC) milling machine was used to make a rough mold in steel. Surface treatment of the steel mold by spray coating with photores... | {
"abstract": "Injection molding could be used as a mass production technology for microlens arrays. It is of importance, and thus of our concern in the present study, to understand the injection molding processing condition effects on the replicability of microlens array profile. Extensive experiments were performed... | {
"abstract": "We study the kinetic and thermodynamic properties of a bilayer patterning process induced by an electrohydrodynamic instability. We construct a parametric map, depending on the dielectric contrast and ratio of two film thicknesses, that describes the conditions under which hexagonally ordered pillars o... |
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"abstract": "The noxious effects of UV radiation in SLE are well known.’,’ However, patients and physicians have long appreciated that the longer UV wavelengths designated as ultraviolet-A (UV-A: 320-400 nm) lack the toxicity of the shorter UV wavelengths known as ultraviolet-B (UV-B: 280-320nm).~ Additionally, som... | {
"abstract": "List of Contents.- Basic Features of Heat Shock Proteins.- Heat Shock Proteins hsp60 and hsp70: Their Roles in Folding, Assembly, and Membrane Translocation of Proteins.- Response of Mammalian Cells to Metabolic Stress Changes in Cell Physiology and Structure/Function of Stress Proteins.- Heat Shock Pr... | {
"abstract": "THE use of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) as a reference standard in biochemical investigations1, which is now well established, rests on the observed constancy of DNA content in each somatic cell in a species. With certain exceptions, the number of cells in a sample may be related to the amount of DNA2."... |
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"abstract": "The responsivity of primary sensory cortical neurons is reduced following prolonged adaptation, but such adaptation has been little studied in higher sensory areas. Adaptation to visual motion has strong perceptual effects, so we studied the effect of prolonged stimulation on neuronal responsivity in t... | {
"abstract": "Highlights • TMS effects depend on various factors such as intensity, brain state and timing.• We examined how these factors interact to give rise to behavioral effects.• TMS was applied while participants performed a behavioral priming task.• State dependency of TMS effect was found to interact with i... | {
"abstract": "This paper analyses and compares approaches to unitary taxation in federal and regional integrated markets, and explores the potential application of unitary taxation in the context of regional economic communities within Africa, East Asia, and Latin America. The federal models to be examined are the s... |
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"abstract": "A technique to improve the dynamic range of a microwave photonic filter using an SBS-assisted adaptive filter is proposed. An improved dynamic range of 6 dB over a tunable range of 14 GHz is demonstrated.",
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"title": "A narrow-passband frequency-tunable microwave photonic filter... | {
"abstract": "A high Q-factor photonic microwave filter showing tuning and reshaping capabilities and based on stimulated Brillouin scattering is demonstrated. The filter bandpass can be continuously tuned, changing the microwave oscillator used to generate the pump power, and the filter shape can be modified by mod... | {
"abstract": "These words were spoken by Drury Lane performer Susanna Mountfort, in her cross-dressed role as Belvedera, the female officer of Charles Shadwell's 1713 army comedy, The Humours of the Army; or, The Female Officer.2 This moment serves as a synecdoche for a range of cultural instabilities which preoccup... |
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"abstract": "A layer of sand of thickness h flows down a rough surface if the inclination is larger than some threshold value θstart which decreases with increasing h. A tentative microscopic model for the dependence of θstart on h is proposed for rigid frictional grains, based on the following hypothesis: i) a hor... | {
"abstract": "While frictionless spheres at jamming are isostatic, frictional spheres at jamming are not. As a result, frictional spheres near jamming do not necessarily exhibit an excess of soft modes. However, a generalized form of isostaticity can be introduced if fully mobilized contacts at the Coulomb friction ... | {
"abstract": "Abstract The behaviour of a Vosges sandstone is studied, including quasi-homogeneous deformation, incipient strain localisation and localised rupture. The homogeneous behaviour is first presented from about 60 experiments in triaxial compression with two slenderness ratios ( H / D =1 and 2), in triaxia... |
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"abstract": "Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effect of choices of model structure and scale in development viability appraisal. The paper addresses two questions concerning the application of development appraisal techniques to viability modelling within the UK planning system. The first r... | {
"abstract": "Purpose - – Whilst the real estate development appraisal practices of large national and international real estate companies are well understood, relatively little is known about how development appraisals are conducted by indigenous appraisers and valuers in developing countries. The purpose of this p... | {
"abstract": "Coadministration of progesterone (4 mg/day) opposed the antitumor activity of tamoxifen (100 micrograms/day) in rats bearing 7,12-dimethylbenzanthracene-induced tumors and also partially prevented the inhibition by tamoxifen (50 micrograms/day started 30 days after 7,12-dimethylbenzanthracene administr... |
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"abstract": "Following identification of the proportion of pelvic congestion among symptomatic patients complaining of chronic pelvic pain, and in a totally asymptomatic group of patients requesting tubal ligation, the efficiency of goserelin acetate versus medroxyprogesterone acetate was compared objectively using... | {
"abstract": "Background: Chronic pelvic pain (CPP) in women is a long‐lasting condition.",
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"title": "Predictors of outcome in a cohort of women with chronic pelvic pain – A follow‐up study"
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"abstract": "PURPOSE\nThe authors evaluated the technical success and immediate and long-term results of percutaneous varicocele embolotherapy in the adolescent population.\n\n\nPATIENTS AND METHODS\nFifty-nine adolescent patients were referred for outpatient spermatic venography and possible varicocele embolothera... |
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"abstract": "This research was carried out to investigate the influence of Sr–Sb on the microstructures and mechanical properties of Al–18 wt % Mg2Si–4.5Cu alloys. After the addition of 0.2 wt % Sr–Sb, the morphologies of primary Mg2Si transformed from equiaxed dendrite to cube in as-cast alloys and the average siz... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Mg 2 Si/Mg–Zn–Si composite was in situ synthesized and modified by the addition of Ba and Sb; the microstructure and tensile properties of the resulting composites were investigated. Results show that the co-modification with Ba and Sb effectively refined the morphology of Mg 2 Si as follows: ... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Photoreflectance and photoluminescence studies were performed to characterize InAs ultrathin layer embedded in Si-delta-doped GaAs/AlGaAs high electron mobility transistors. These structures were grown by Molecular Beam Epitaxy on (1 0 0) oriented GaAs substrates with different silicon-delta-d... |
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"abstract": "better informed about their disease and treatment. Also, the responders predominantly reported granulomatosis with polyangiitis as their diagnosis, representing possible misclassification of disease or a skewed sample. In summary, our study demonstrates that patient awareness of potential adverse effec... | {
"abstract": "A major challenge in human genetics is to devise a systematic strategy to integrate disease-associated variants with diverse genomic and biological data sets to provide insight into disease pathogenesis and guide drug discovery for complex traits such as rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Here we performed a g... | {
"abstract": "Making causative connections between genotypic and phenotypic variation is a major challenge for geneticists engaged in the study of human disease. A study drawing this connection for a type 1 diabetes risk locus now demonstrates the importance of focusing on specific quantitative traits and studying t... |
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"abstract": "Objectives: The aim of the present research was to investigate the possible psychological predictors of cyber bullying behavior in early adulthood. It was hypothesized that lack of empathy and emotional-behavioral problems would be related to the cyber bullying as well as will prove significant predict... | {
"abstract": "OBJECTIVE ::: To investigate the factors associated with exposure to in-real-life (IRL) bullying, cyberbullying, and both IRL and cyberbullying and to explore the relationship between these types of bullying and mental health among 13-16-year-old Swedish boys and girls. ::: ::: ::: METHODS ::: Data was... | {
"abstract": "We propose a multi-view learning approach called co-labeling which is applicable for several machine learning problems where the labels of training samples are uncertain, including semi-supervised learning (SSL), multi-instance learning (MIL) and max-margin clustering (MMC). Particularly, we first unif... |
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"abstract": "Increasing environmental pollution concerns and diminishing petroleum reserves has brought in attention towards the use of non edible vegetable oils as an alternative to petroleum oil based lubricants. Non edible vegetable oil plant contains high amount of oil in its seeds which can be converted into b... | {
"abstract": "Limited crude reserves, consistently rising oil prices, unsafe disposal of the harmful lubricants and its guaranteed adverse aftereffects has increased concern for replenishing the environment. Development of environmental friendly lubricants and its appropriate usage is an option of prime importance w... | {
"abstract": "In recent years there has been a growing demand for information on the biodegradability (fate) and microbial toxicity (effects) of lubricants. This has been driven by the need to comply with environmental legislation and to meet the requirements of ecolabelling schemes, standards and customer specifica... |
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"abstract": "Protein complexes serve as functional modules in various biological processes. Computational predication of protein complexes is one of the most important challenges in the post-genomic era. In this paper, we take into account the biological function of proteins to reconstruct protein-protein interacti... | {
"abstract": "Protein molecules interact with each other in protein complexes to perform many vital functions, and different computational techniques have been developed to identify protein complexes in protein-protein interaction (PPI) networks. These techniques are developed to search for subgraphs of high connect... | {
"abstract": "The eukaryotic proteins discussed above share a number of amino acid sequence features with prokaryotic members of the two-component signal transducer family. ETR1 and Sln1 each contain putative HPK and receivers, while Skn7 has similarity to receivers only. The other proteins--phytochromes, BCKDH kina... |
{
"abstract": "An intensional model for the programming language PCF is described in which the types of PCF are interpreted by games and the terms by certain history-free strategies. This model is shown to capture definability in PCF. More precisely, every compact strategy in the model is definable in a certain simpl... | {
"abstract": "The main purpose of this short paper is to serve as an introduction to the following paper, “On the rr-calculus and linear logic”, by Gianluigi Bellin and Philip Scott. The circumstances from which it arises are as follows. In June 1991 I gave a lecture on “Proofs as processes” at the symposium held at... | {
"abstract": "Our goal is to compare and contrast various image reconstruction algorithms for optoacoustic tomography (OAT) assuming a finite linear aperture of the kind that arises when using a linear-array transducer. Because such transducers generally have tall, narrow elements, they are essentially insensitive t... |
{
"abstract": "To describe the natural history, prognostic factors, and optimal treatment modalities of undifferentiated endometrial sarcoma (UES).",
"corpus_id": 2215143,
"title": "Prognostic factors and outcome of undifferentiated endometrial sarcoma treated by multimodal therapy"
} | {
"abstract": "Abnormal vaginal bleeding is a common gynaecological symptom, and most causes are benign. International Federation of Gynaecology and Obstetrics proposed a PALM-COEIN classification in 2011 to decrease heterogeneity in studies. The gynaecological malignancies that present with abnormal bleeding vary ac... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Planners and decision-makers entitled for rural land use planning seem to be challenged by the growing multidimensional nature of rural areas. The emergence of non-agricultural land uses in land allocated for agriculture is an important aspect of this multidimensional nature of rural areas. Th... |
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"abstract": "Abstract. Three acid phosphatase (AcP) isozymes, pI 8.1, 8.0 and 7.8, were isolated, purified and partially characterised from optimised cultures of the entomopathogenic fungus Metarhizium anisopliae. The enzymes had similar molecular masses (approximately 44.0 kDa), and could degrade sugar phosphates ... | {
"abstract": "Abstract The mortality of pine caterpillar, Dendrolimus tabulaeformis Tsai et Liu (Lepidoptera: Lasiocampidae), larvae treated with Beauveria brongniartii (Saccardo) Petch (Hypocreales: Clavicipitaceae) conidia and cell-free culture supernatants enriched for the secondary metabolites of the fungus was ... | {
"abstract": "Analytical and preparative isoelectric focusing were used to separate extracellular isoenzymes of aminopeptidase (pI 4.51, M(r) 45,000, pH optimum 7.0) and prolyl-dipeptidylpeptidase (pI 4.01, M(r) 74,000, pH optimum 8.0) produced by the entomopathogenic fungus Metarhizium anisopliae during growth on l... |
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"abstract": "Purpose:To further describe the glaucoma with the oculocerebrorenal syndrome of Lowe (OCRL) including the responsible filtration angle abnormalities and response to treatment. Methods:The scientific literature regarding the glaucoma associated with OCRL from 1952, when the first report of the syndrome ... | {
"abstract": "The oculocerebrorenal syndrome of Lowe is a rare X-linked multisystemic disorder characterized by the triad of congenital cataracts, intellectual disability, and proximal renal tubular dysfunction. Whereas the ocular manifestations and severe muscular hypotonia are the typical first diagnostic clues ap... | {
"abstract": ".he anatomy of the developing anterior chamber in man has been described in detail.\"\" However, there is no information available correlating anatomical findings with physiologic measurement of the resistance to outflow. The purpose of this paper is to present data on the determination of the coeffici... |
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"abstract": "Face alignment, which fits a face model to an image and extracts the semantic meanings of facial pixels, has been an important topic in CV community. However, most algorithms are designed for faces in small to medium poses (below 45 degree), lacking the ability to align faces in large poses up to 90 de... | {
"abstract": "Face alignment is a classic problem in the computer vision field. Previous works mostly focus on sparse alignment with a limited number of facial landmark points, i.e., facial landmark detection. In this paper, for the first time, we aim at providing a very dense 3D alignment for large-pose face images... | {
"abstract": null,
"corpus_id": 52285751,
"score": -1,
"title": "Point Attention Network for Gesture Recognition Using Point Cloud Data"
} |
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"abstract": "The K/BxN serum-transfer arthritis (STA) model is a murine model in which the immunological mechanisms occurring in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and other arthritides can be studied. To induce K/BxN STA, serum from arthritic transgenic K/BxN mice is transferred to naive mice and manifestations of arthriti... | {
"abstract": "Autoimmune diseases such as Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) are complex and involve many different cell types. Of these cell types, T cells are thought to be key drivers of the inflammation. The current treatment options available are restricted to small molecule drugs and Biologics, typically exerting its t... | {
"abstract": "This review discusses hearing performance in primates and selective pressures that may influence it. The hearing sensitivity and sound-localization abilities of primates, as indicated by behavioral tests, are reviewed and compared to hearing and sound localization among mammals in general. Primates fit... |
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