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{ "abstract": "Jamming attack is one of the most severe attacks in wireless sensor networks (WSNs). While existing countermeasures mainly focus on designing new communication mechanisms to survive under jamming, an alternative solution is to first localize the jammer(s) and then take necessary actions. In this work, ...
{ "abstract": "Jamming attacks are especially harmful when ensuring the dependability of wireless communication. Finding the position of a jammer will enable the network to actively exploit a wide range of defense strategies. Thus, in this paper, we focus on developing mechanisms to localize a jammer. We first conduc...
{ "abstract": "Objectives: To sustain an argument that harnessing the natural properties of sociotechnical systems is necessary to promote safer, better healthcare. Methods: Triangulated analyses of discrete literature sources, particularly drawing on those from mathematics, sociology, marketing science and psycholog...
{ "abstract": "The Internet of Things (IoT) scenario is strongly related with the advance of the development of wireless sensor networks (WSN) and radio frequency identification (RFID) systems. Additionally, in the WSN context, for a continuous feed, the integration of textile antennas for energy harvesting into smar...
{ "abstract": "Skin-mounted electronics is the new frontier for unobtrusive body-centric monitoring systems. In designing the wireless devices to be placed in direct contact with the human skin, the presence of the lossy body cannot be ignored because of strong electromagnetic interactions. In this paper, the perform...
{ "abstract": "This paper describes an atto farad capacitive sensing system for a finger-print sensor. The architecture of mutual capacitive finger-print sensor is obtained by investigating the capacitance change by the finger-print based on the Q3D Extractor model. An electrostatic simulation shows that the 200aF di...
{ "abstract": "The principal goal of integration in Europe has always been the safeguarding of peace through economic integration. The European Union (EU) has overseen splendid economic achievements. A sign of that great success has been the EU’s continuous enlargement. The eurozone is the crown jewel in the process ...
{ "abstract": "We discuss structural and institutional underpinnings of the Greek “Debt” Crisis. We suggest that Greece‟s de facto catching-up competitiveness model and strategy was misguided, short term-focused, and eventually doomed. Alongside this “model” were behaviours and attitudes that assisted the realisation...
{ "abstract": "IntroductionPART 1 - WHAT IS CHANGING, HOW AND WHY?1. The Politics of Technocracy in the EU2. What is Technocracy?3. From Technocracy to the Cognitive Dimension of PoliticsPART 2 - WHERE DOES POWER LIE?4. Technocracy at Work Environmental Policy5. An Imposssible harmonisation?6. EU TaxationPART 3 - SCE...
{ "abstract": "On-street parking is an essential component of parking infrastructure for smart cities, which allows users to park near their destinations for short term. However, due to limited capacity, saturated on-street parking becomes a serious and widespread problem for urban transportation systems. Greedily se...
{ "abstract": "Finding a parking place in a busy city centre is often a frustrating task for many drivers; time and fuel are wasted in the quest for a vacant spot and traffic in the area increases due to the slow moving vehicles circling around. In this paper, we present the results of a survey on the needs of driver...
{ "abstract": "Objective: An autoencoder-based framework that simultaneously reconstruct and classify biomedical signals is proposed. Previous work has treated reconstruction and classification as separate problems. This is the first study that proposes a combined framework to address the issue in a holistic fashion....
{ "abstract": "We have investigated drying of water droplets stabilized by solid particles or surfactant molecules in a thin oil layer. The surfactant-stabilized droplets isotropically shrink, whereas the droplets stabilized by spherical particles severely deform during drying because of buckling of the particulate s...
{ "abstract": "HYPOTHESIS\nThe mechanism for the spontaneous formation of water droplets at oil/solid interfaces immersed in water is currently unclear. We hypothesize that growth and shrinkage of droplets are kinetically controlled by diffusion of water through the oil, driven by differences in chemical potential be...
{ "abstract": "A shearing quotient (SQ) is a way of quantitatively representing the Phase I shearing edges on a molar tooth. Ordinary or phylogenetic least squares regression is fit to data on log molar length (independent variable) and log sum of measured shearing crests (dependent variable). The derived linear equa...
{ "abstract": "ABSTRACT The goal of this minireview is to provide an overview of varicella-zoster virus (VZV) phylogenetics and phylogeography when placed in the broad context of geologic time. Planet Earth was formed over 4 billion years ago, and the supercontinent Pangaea coalesced around 400 million years ago (mya...
{ "abstract": "ABSTRACT Varicella-zoster virus (VZV) is a remarkably stable virus that until recently was thought to exhibit near-universal genetic homogeneity among circulating wild-type strains. In recent years, the expanding knowledge of VZV genetics has led to a number of groups proposing sequence-based typing sc...
{ "abstract": "The capsids of neurotropic herpesviruses have the remarkable ability to move in specific directions within axons. By modulating bidirectional capsid transport to favor either retrograde (minus-end) or anterograde (plus-end) motion, these viruses travel to sensory ganglia or peripheral tissue at specifi...
{ "abstract": "During a study on the epidemiology of trichinellosis in Spain, 91 animals and 9 samples of sausages homemade with pork were found positive for Trichinella. Parasite identification at the species level was carried out by the polymerase chain reaction with a random primer on single muscle larvae. Seventy...
{ "abstract": "We developed a PCR-based assay using a single primer pair to amplify the 5S ribosomal DNA intergenic spacer region to identify Trichinella isolates. In our method, amplified products are directly sequenced on both strands and compared to GenBank sequences. Using this method, we were able to identify Tr...
{ "abstract": "Biological characteristics of Trichinella isolate (wolverine: 55?00'N, 100?00'W, 1979) were established in Crl: COBS CFW (SW) mice. Comparison of the wolverine isolate's biological characteristics with another Trichinella isolate (polar bear), both from closely related geographic areas, revealed there ...
{ "abstract": "Substrates and cofactors of the serine protease thrombin (IIa) employ two anion binding exosites (ABE-I and -II) to aid in binding. On the surface of platelets resides the GpIbalpha/beta-GpIX-GpV membrane-bound receptor complex. IIa's ABE-II is proposed to interact with an anionic portion of GpIbalpha ...
{ "abstract": "INTRODUCTION\nThrombin is a primary target of most anticoagulants. Yet, thrombin's dual and opposing role in pro- as well as anti- coagulant processes imposes considerable challenges in discovering finely tuned regulators that maintain homeostasis, rather than disproportionately changing the equilibriu...
{ "abstract": "Presentation of the use of the new Valsalva graft that incorporates sinuses of Valsalva: its use is mostly recommended for the reimplantation type of valve sparing procedure where it combines the advantages of proper anatomical reconstruction with those of annular stabilization. Its advantages when use...
{ "abstract": "The major barriers to successful bone marrow transplantation (BMT) are graft‐versus‐host disease (GVHD), infection, rejection and relapse. The combination of methotrexate and cyclosporin is significantly better than either alone in controlling GVHD. Removal of T cells from donor marrow prior to BMT has...
{ "abstract": "In an attempt to prevent primary cytomegalovirus infection after marrow transplantation, we randomly assigned 97 patients who were seronegative for antibody to cytomegalovirus before transplantation to receive one of the following: (1) both intravenous cytomegalovirus immune globulin and seronegative b...
{ "abstract": "Two brothers physically very alike became ill in their third decade, one with severe bone marrow hypoplasia and the other with acute leukemia. Both died and the autopsy findings are described.\n\nThe two shared certain congenital defects, notably short stature with small heads, cutaneous pigmentation, ...
{ "abstract": "Extant research finds that firms are increasingly substituting dividends with share repurchases. This substitution effect is largely attributable to the flexibility offered by share repurchases but not by dividends. Without fear of an adverse market reaction, firms can choose not to repurchase shares, ...
{ "abstract": "Diverging beliefs about the impact of climate policy on the value of fossil fuel assets can lead investors to different valuations of fossil fuel companies. This paper models the share price formation in a market where one group of investors systematically overestimate future prices, and explores how f...
{ "abstract": "This study presents a signaling model of fixed-price repurchase offers which shows that the proportion repurchased and the premium paid in excess of the stock's full-information value signal both earnings and risk. The model yields four novel implications: high risk firms repurchase smaller proportions...
{ "abstract": "In this paper, the design of a real-time harmonic analysis and measurement system is proposed, the system is combined by the ARM and virtual instrument technology, the wavelet packet transform is used to detect harmonic, also, the paper set out the system’s hardware structure diagram, harmonic analysis...
{ "abstract": "Harmonics bred from loads are mainly odd order because the current waveforms have half‐wave symmetry. Since the even harmonics are negligibly small, they generally are not measured in electric power systems. However, even harmonics were measured at a 500/275/154 kV substation in Hokuriku Electric Power...
{ "abstract": "A reverse power flow procedure is described to identify the sources of harmonic signals in electric power systems. Methods have been reported elsewhere to analyze the propagation of these harmonics signals throughout the network. Here the reverse problem of how to identify the source (and potentially t...
{ "abstract": "Abstract\nHead and neck (H&N) cancer is an aggressive disease and the incidence has increased in younger population worldwide. Tumour TNM staging is the main basis for treatment decision despite significant variation in clinical outcome. Survival time of these patients has marginally improved during th...
{ "abstract": "Head and Neck Cancer addresses a wide range of topics under the broad heading of head and neck oncology. In the initial section, the authors address therapeutic approaches with chapters on current and future treatments. Coverage is extensive and includes articles on IMRT, combined modality treatments, ...
{ "abstract": "Pemphigoid gestationis is a rare, autoimmune bullous disease of pregnancy that involves autoantibodies directed against type XVII collagen in the basement membrane zone. This article discusses the immunopathogenesis, diagnostic methods, and clinical features of this fascinating disease.", "corpus_id"...
{ "abstract": "Functional loads on an organ induce tissue adaptations by converting mechanical energy into chemical energy at a cell-level. The transducing capacity of cells alters physico-chemical properties of tissues, developing a positive feedback commonly recognized as the form-function relationship. In this stu...
{ "abstract": "Bone is subject to continuous remodeling throughout life. The age‐related loss of (trabecular) bone, leading to senile osteopenia, is mainly due to impaired bone formation. Osteoblasts (OB) and osteoclasts (OC) have been identified as playing a crucial role in the process of bone turnover, but the cont...
{ "abstract": "Saksenaea vasiformis is a zygomycete fungus found in soils worldwide; however, it is rarely documented as a cause of human disease. We describe what, to our knowledge, is the first nosocomial infection caused by S. vasiformis and the first documentation that this organism exists in Louisiana. The infec...
{ "abstract": "Microcantilever sensor technology is a next-generation electromechanical technique with broad application in chemical, physical, and biological detection. In this paper, we are using a microcantilever to detect the temperature. The sensing action essentially is the deflection of the microcantilever bea...
{ "abstract": "An investigation of the influence of deposition and post-fabrication processes on the final mechanical structure of tantalum beams is reported in the present study. The final deflection profiles of doubly supported beams made from compressive and tensile-stressed films have been studied experimentally....
{ "abstract": "In this paper, we present a new methodology for structure optimization of block-based design. Instead of merging area and delay criteria, we segregate them into two independent steps. Solutions optimized for delay in the first step are optimized for area with a block-sizing algorithm in the second step...
{ "abstract": "Although the use of schema modes in schema-focused therapy (SFT) has been very popular since its introduction, Young's schema mode concept remained largely empirically untested. In order to provide insight into the mode conceptualization of personality disorders (PDs), the current study assessed the re...
{ "abstract": "BACKGROUND\nThis study presents a new questionnaire to assess schema modes: the Schema Mode Inventory (SMI).\n\n\nMETHOD\nFirst, the construction of the short SMI (118 items) was described. Second, the psychometric properties of this short SMI were assessed. More specifically, its factor structure, int...
{ "abstract": "The Diagnostic Interview for Borderlines (DIB) was revised to sharpen its ability to discriminate between clinically diagnosed borderline patients and patients with other types of Axis II clinical diagnoses. The discriminant power of both the revised DIB (DIB-R) and the DIB itself was then tested in a ...
{ "abstract": "SUMMARY Although sponges (Porifera) are basal Metazoa without muscles and a central nervous system, they are able to locomote, which is generally correlated to drastic morphological changes. This behaviour has been known for more almost 150 years, but it is only partly understood. The sponge T. wilhelm...
{ "abstract": "The skeleton of siliceous sponges (phylum Porifera: classes Demospongiae and Hexactinellida), composed of tightly interacting spicules that assemble to a genetically fixed scaffold, is formed of bio‐silica. This inorganic framework with the quality of quartz glass has been shown to operate as light wav...
{ "abstract": "Background Rattus rattus is a widely distributed, invasive species that presents an important role in disease transmission, either directly or through vector arthropods such as fleas. These black rats can transmit a wide variety of pathogens, including bacteria of the genus Bartonella, which can cause ...
{ "abstract": "To perform a thorough risk assessment of the new antifouling compound zinc pyrithione (ZnPT2), additional information regarding the fate of the compound is needed. The present study examined the recovery and transchelation of ZnPT2 in controlled laboratory experiments, photodegradation experiments, and...
{ "abstract": "Zinc pyrithione (ZnPT) is a widely used booster biocide in combination with copper (Cu) in antifouling paints as a substitute for tributyltin. The co-occurrence of ZnPT and Cu in coastal marine environments is therefore very common, and may pose a higher risk to marine organisms if they can result in s...
{ "abstract": "The relative biodegradability in seawater of a number of compounds in current use in antifouling paints viz. Sea-Nine™ 211 antifoulant (4,5-dichloro-2-n-octyl-4-isothiazolin-3-one), Irgarol(R) 1051 (2-methylthio-4-tert-butylamino-6-cyclopropylamino-s-triazine), diuron (3-(3,4-dichlorophenyl)l-l-dimethy...
{ "abstract": "SummaryPreoxidation with performic acid facilitated the differential staining of 1–2 μ thick sections of water-insoluble Durcupan (Swiss Araldite)-embedded adenohypophysis. Alcian blue-PAS-Orange G and aldehyde fuchsin-Orange G staining procedures were used. Except for increases in staining times, thes...
{ "abstract": "A method is described whereby small numbers of eggs can be embedded compactly. Handling through reagents is achieved in 6 mm. glass tubing having a linen mesh affixed to one end, up to and including paraffin. The egg mass is then obtained and reembed-ded in a pre-cut paraffin block in which a well has ...
{ "abstract": "It is well established that HIV-1 infection typically involves an interaction between the viral envelope protein gp120/41 and the CD4 molecule followed by a second interaction with a chemokine receptor, usually CCR5 or CXCR4. In the early stages of an HIV-1 infection CCR5 using viruses (R5 viruses) pre...
{ "abstract": "Hygroinduced motion is a fundamental process of energy conversion that is essential for applications that require contactless actuation in response to the day–night rhythm of atmospheric humidity. Here we demonstrate that mechanical bistability caused by rapid and anisotropic adsorption and desorption ...
{ "abstract": "Wet, soft, squishy, and tunable Hydrogels are highly cross-linked polymer networks that are heavily swollen with water. Hydrogels have been used as dynamic, tunable, degradable materials for growing cells and tissues. Zhang and Khademhosseini review the advances in making hydrogels with improved mechan...
{ "abstract": "Microbacterium oleivorans A9 cells were exposed or not to 10 µM uranyl nitrate as resting cells in sodium chloride solution. Bacteria exposed to U(VI) and controls were harvested after 0.5, 4, and 24 h of toxicant exposure. Bacteria were subjected to high-throughput proteomics analysis using a Q-Exacti...
{ "abstract": "Abstract:  Salivary secretions contain a variety of molecules that reflect important pathophysiological activities. Quantitative changes of specific salivary biomarkers could have significance in the diagnosis and management of both oral and systemic diseases. Modern point‐of‐care technologies with enh...
{ "abstract": "A microfluidic device containing arrays of microwells filled with microbead sensors was used to perform protein assays in a saliva sample. Techniques for the fabrication of fully integrated arrays of microwells within polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) microchannels were demonstrated. Subsequent microwell loa...
{ "abstract": "Case: A 57-year-old woman with no noteworthy medical or surgical history underwent an interscalene block with bupivacaine in preparation for an arthroscopic rotator cuff repair. Following administration of the bupivacaine, the patient sustained a ventricular fibrillation arrest. After successful cardio...
{ "abstract": "Process optimisation is often a multi-criteria problem. Combined with the use of nonlinear models, generating a Pareto front can be difficult to achieve reliably. This paper describes the use of high-dimensional data analysis and visualisation techniques as the basis for a multi-step procedure for gene...
{ "abstract": "Automated process design tools are often based on the use of optimization to identify the best process flowsheet, typically in the early stages of design. Due to the non-linear models that are frequently required, the resulting optimization problem is difficult to solve. Difficulties arise both in iden...
{ "abstract": "This paper has two aims: to exhibit very general conditions under which members of a broad class of unconstrained minimization algorithms are globally convergent in a strong sense, and to propose several new algorithms that use second derivative information and achieve such convergence. In the first pa...
{ "abstract": "Cancer studies suggest that the null polymorphisms of glutathione S-transferase M1 or T1 (GSTM1/GSTT1) may affect the ability to detoxify or activate chemicals in cigarette smoke. The potential modification of the association between smoking and coronary heart disease (CHD) by GSTM1 and GSTT1 has not b...
{ "abstract": "Free radicals have a number of toxic effects on the cell including the initiation of lipid peroxidation (Pryor, 1976) and the induction of potentially mutagenic lesions in DNA (Ames and Saul, 1986). Current knowledge suggests that some of the lesions in DNA may be peroxides. Irradiation of free thymidi...
{ "abstract": "A key question for health care reform in the U.S. is whether expanded health insurance eligibility will lead to improvements in health outcomes. We address this question in the context of dramatic expansions in the Medicaid eligibility for pregnant women that took place during the 1980s. We build a det...
{ "abstract": "Several studies have been carried out on augmented reality (AR)-based environments that deal with user interfaces for manipulating and interacting with virtual objects aimed at improving immersive feeling and natural interaction. Most of these studies have utilized AR paddles or AR cubes for interactio...
{ "abstract": "The main aim of our work is to explore the social and gaming attributes of multi-user collaborative mobile phone games. For these purposes, considering the performances of the contemporary converged mobile phones, we have developed and augmented reality (AR) TeamTwixT game for mobile phones. The game i...
{ "abstract": "One of the language phenomena that n-gram language model fails to capture is the topic information of a given situation. We advance the previous study of the Bayesian topic language model by Wallach (2006) in two directions: one, investigating new priors to alleviate the sparseness problem caused by di...
{ "abstract": "UNLABELLED\nBalance disorders affect social, family and professional activities. Vestibular rehabilitation can reduce the impact of these disorders on the quality of life of individuals with vertigo.\n\n\nAIM\nto study the influence of vestibular rehabilitation on the quality of life of individuals, co...
{ "abstract": "The objective of this research study was to verify the efficiency of the personalized vestibular rehabilitation (PVR) in different otoneurologic clinical diseases, as well as set the best protocol option in each case. STUDY DESIGN: clinical retrospective. MATERIAL AND METHOD: A retrospective study was ...
{ "abstract": "Abstract Pakistan is one of the most populous countries with diversity in language and culture. Urdu is the national language and English is the official language. The only education language in most provinces is Urdu. However, most minority language speaker are discriminated and non-Urdu languages are...
{ "abstract": "The future impact of ocean acidification (OA) on corals is disputed in part because mathematical models used to predict these impacts do not seem to capture, or offer a framework to adequately explain, the substantial variability in acidification effects observed in empirical studies. The build-up of a...
{ "abstract": "The resilience of tropical corals to ocean acidification depends on their ability to regulate the pH within their calcifying fluid (pHcf). Recent work suggests pHcf homeostasis under short-term exposure to pCO2 conditions predicted for 2100, but it is still unclear if pHcf homeostasis can be maintained...
{ "abstract": "In the wet-dry tropics, animal species face the major challenges of acquiring food, water or shelter during an extended dry season. Although large and conspicuous animals such as ungulates and waterfowl migrate to wetter areas during this time, little is known of how smaller and more cryptic animal spe...
{ "abstract": "Periodontal disease has not been well characterized in the cat, and it is not known if feline tooth resorptions (TR) are equivalent to those observed in humans and dogs. The aim of this study was to investigate the different patterns of periodontal inflammation in cats, and to evaluate their prevalence...
{ "abstract": "Based on recent findings of increased vitamin D activity in cats with feline odontoclastic resorptive lesions (FORL), the present article provides further clues on the possible etiology of FORL. Microscopic features of FORL and other peculiarities of feline permanent teeth are compared with pathologic ...
{ "abstract": "Musculo-skeletal diseases are a major cause of pain and suffering in cats and several conditions involve increased bone resorption by osteoclasts. However, little is known about the biology of these cells in the cat. In this study we established a method to generate feline osteoclasts from blood mononu...
{ "abstract": "We used a computer tomography (CT)-assisted three-dimensional (3D) technique to assess dose to the rectum and bladder in intracavitary brachytherapy (ICBT) for patients with cervical cancer, and compared this technique with the conventional method. The results revealed that the difference in dose to th...
{ "abstract": "PURPOSE\nTo compare the dose-volume histogram (DVH) parameters obtained by three-dimensional gynecologic brachytherapy planning with the rectosigmoid mucosal changes observed by flexible sigmoidoscopy.\n\n\nMETHODS AND MATERIALS\nBetween January 2004 and July 2005, 71 patients with International Federa...
{ "abstract": "Dose escalation in radiation therapy has led to increased control rates with some clinical trial evidence that rectal toxicity may be reduced when using intensity‐modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) over 3D conformal radiotherapy (3DCRT) for dose‐escalated prostate radiotherapy. However, IMRT for prostate pa...
{ "abstract": "The Wnt/beta-catenin signaling pathway plays an important role in development, tissue homeostasis, and regeneration. Inappropriate activation of the Wnt pathway is linked to a wide range of human cancers. The purpose of this study was to characterize the Wnt/beta-catenin signaling pathway as depicted b...
{ "abstract": "BACKGROUND\nOral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) constitutes 90% of all cancers in the oral cavity, and the prognosis for patients diagnosed with OSCC is still poor. The identification of novel therapeutic targets and prognostic markers for OSCC is therefore essential. Previous studies of OSCC revealed ...
{ "abstract": "The impact that modern molecular biology has had on elucidating the genetic basis of neoplasia is best illustrated by the paradigm of colon cancer. Several unique features of colon cancer biology have served to accelerate the discovery process. The development of a readily evident precursor lesion, the...
{ "abstract": "41. Roghmann MC, Qaiyumi S, Johnson JA, Schwalbe R, Morris JG. Recurrent vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium bacteremia in a leukemia patient who was persistently colonized with vancomycin-resistant enterococci for two years. Clin Infect Dis 1997;24:514-515. 42. Lai KK, Fontecchio SA, Kelley AL, ...
{ "abstract": "Abstract Objective: To determine the susceptibilities of vancomycin-resistant and -sensitive enterococci (VRE and VSE) to various concentrations of commonly used, commercial, hospital-grade disinfectants. Design: A microbial suspension test using inocula of 108 cells per mL in a disinfectant test dilut...
{ "abstract": "Modulation of gene expression through histone deacetylase (HDAC) inhibition is considered a possible therapeutic strategy in acute myeloid leukaemia (AML). In vitro effects and basal gene expression of structurally different HDAC inhibitors were examined. Primary human AML cells were derived from 59 co...
{ "abstract": "A case of necrotizing infection of the heart is presented. A 70-year-old woman presented with vague chest and abdominal pain. CT of the abdomen and pelvis was initially obtained, which demonstrated gas in the myocardium of the left ventricle. Subsequent chest CT, endoscopy, and abdominal surgical explo...
{ "abstract": "We present, to our knowledge, the first reported case of necrotizing fasciitis following insertion of a cardiac permanent pacemaker (PPM). A 91-year-old gentleman was admitted with septic shock under the medical team. He had had a cardiac PPM inserted 10 days prior for complete heart block. He was init...
{ "abstract": "A 63-year-old man with lung carcinoma underwent a right pneumonectomy and combined resection of the pericardium. Postoperatively, SF6 gas was introduced into the empty pleural space for the protection of excessive shift of heart and mediastinum, but a fatal pneumopericardium occurred. A rare but possib...
{ "abstract": "The three-dimensional imaging of satellites from a groundbased radar is considered in a space situational awareness context. Utilizing the synthetic aperture radar (SAR) tomographic formulation and a model of the collection geometry in a specific low Earth orbit scenario, the shape and repeat nature of...
{ "abstract": "In this paper we demonstrate how spotlight-mode synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery can be collected and processed using tomographic techniques to produce three-dimensional images. The technique is particularly useful for the application of foliage penetration (FOPEN), wherein it is desired to separ...
{ "abstract": "We study a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model in continuous time. Related work has proven that optimal consumption in this model is a smooth function of state variables. This allows us to describe the evolution of optimal state variables (wealth and labour market status) by stochastic differe...
{ "abstract": "An object moving in a fluid experiences a drag force that depends on its velocity, shape and the properties of the medium. From this simplest case to the motion of a flock of birds or a school of fish, the drag forces and the hydrodynamic interactions determine the full dynamics of the system. Similar ...
{ "abstract": "Applying mechanical perturbations in a granular assembly may rearrange the configuration of the particles. However, the spatial propagation of an event is not related to the size of the external perturbation alone. Thus, the characteristic length scale of an event is not well defined. In this study, we...
{ "abstract": "Understanding the mechanical properties of granular materials is important for applications in civil and chemical engineering, geophysical sciences and the food industry, as well as for the control or prevention of avalanches and landslides. Unlike continuous media, granular materials lack cohesion, an...
{ "abstract": "Summtiizary. Primary roots of solution--grown, 5-day-old or 6-day-old seedlings of corn (Zea mays L.) 10 to 14 cm in length were used to study radial salt trtansport. Measurements were made of the volume of root pressure exudation, salt concentration of the exudate, and rate of salt movement into the x...
{ "abstract": "I N a recent number of this journal, V. H. Blackman(2) makes frequent critical reference to a recent attempt made by the present writer(11) to explain the mechanism of root pressure in terms consistent with the facts and with physical and chemical laws. Since the publication of the paper referred to th...
{ "abstract": "We have studied optical changes induced by ArF (6.4 eV/193 nm) excimer laser light illumination of high purity SiO2 implanted with Si 2+ (5 MeV) at a fluence of 1015 ions/cm2. Optical absorption was measured from 3 eV (400 nm) to 8 eV (155 nm) and showed evidence of several well‐defined absorption band...
{ "abstract": "Medicinal herbs and their derivative phytocompounds are being increasingly recognized as useful complementary treatments for cancer. A large volume of clinical studies have reported the beneficial effects of herbal medicines on the survival, immune modulation, and quality of life (QOL) of cancer patien...
{ "abstract": "Numerous studies have indicated that in cancer treatment Chinese herbal medicines in combination with chemo- or radio-therapy can be used to enhance the efficacy of and diminish the side effects and complications caused by chemo- and radio-therapy. Therefore, an understanding of Chinese herbal medicine...
{ "abstract": "\"1. The facts: Child malnutrition in India India is home to 40 percent of the world's malnourished children and 35 percent of the developing world's low-birth-weight infants; every year 2.5 million children die in India, accounting for one in five deaths in the world. More than half of these deaths co...
{ "abstract": "The efficacy of utilizing an automated algorithm to identify auditory brainstem responses (ABR) was studied. A microcomputer-based threshold-seeking algorithm utilizing click-evoked ABR was developed to determine evoked-response thresholds for automated hearing screening. The software consists of an ev...
{ "abstract": "Detection of an auditory brainstem response, ABR, usually relies on visual evaluation of two or more data acquisition runs of a fixed number of sweeps to determine if there is sufficient replication of the averaged waveforms to indicate a response. Visual interpretation can be difficult when the signal...
{ "abstract": "OBJECTIVE\nTo determine the immunocompetence of the successfully nonoperatively managed injured spleen warranting vaccinations for overwhelming postsplenectomy sepsis by differential interference contrast microscopy (DICM).\n\n\nMETHODS\nCull an urban Level I trauma systems data bank for all patients w...
{ "abstract": "Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is accompanied by several features that can be attributed to involvement of the central or peripheral nervous system. The etiology and pathogenesis of these manifestations are mostly unknown. To which degree these neuropsychiatric conditions can be explained on the ba...
{ "abstract": "Opinion statementThe development of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) vasculitis is of prognostic value. The earlier the vasculitis is treated, the better the prognosis for SLE. Cutaneous vasculitis is common in SLE, whereas visceral vasculitis is rare. Skin SLE vasculitis is successfully treated with...
{ "abstract": "Background In Scandinavia 13–28% of gynecology patients have experienced abuse in health care in their life time, which contradicts the ethical obligations not to harm the patient and to protect the patient's dignity. Concerning learning to act ethically, scholars have emphasized the importance of comb...
{ "abstract": "Intuitively, obedience -- following the order that a human gives -- seems like a good property for a robot to have. But, we humans are not perfect and we may give orders that are not best aligned to our preferences. We show that when a human is not perfectly rational then a robot that tries to infer an...
{ "abstract": "Rapid progress in machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) has brought increasing attention to the potential impacts of AI technologies on society. In this paper we discuss one such potential impact: the problem of accidents in machine learning systems, defined as unintended and harmful behavi...
{ "abstract": "To solve a text-based game, an agent needs to formulate valid text commands for a given context and find the ones that lead to success. Recent attempts at solving text-based games with deep reinforcement learning have focused on the latter, i.e., learning to act optimally when valid actions are known i...
{ "abstract": "A clustering of generalized malignant lymphoma is reported in a single household of Rottweiler dogs (both parents and three of the four sibling in one litter) and in a breeding pair of unrelated Scottish terriers. In addition, malignant lymphoma of the myocardium was found in three directly related ott...
{ "abstract": "BACKGROUND\nThe etiology of non-Hodgkin's lymphomas (NHL) is multifactorial. Environmental and genetic factors are frequently incriminated both in humans and dogs.\n\n\nOBJECTIVES\nOur purpose was to study the geographic distribution of canine NHL (CNHL) in France and to evaluate genetic and environmen...
{ "abstract": "Abstract Human epithelial lens cells (HEL) from embryos and 40–89-year-old donors were studied in vitro to evaluate their role in the maintenance and aging of the lens. Cells from young and old donors were cultured in MEM 199 with 15% fetal calf serum (FCS). While, like many other normal human epitheli...
{ "abstract": "Rapid declines in legacy poly- and perfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) have been reported in human populations globally following changes in production since 2000. However, changes in exposure sources are not well understood. Here, we report serum concentrations of 19 PFASs (∑19PFAS) measured in children...
{ "abstract": "Here, we review present understanding of sources and trends in human exposure to poly- and perfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) and epidemiologic evidence for impacts on cancer, immune function, metabolic outcomes, and neurodevelopment. More than 4000 PFASs have been manufactured by humans and hundreds ha...
{ "abstract": "Concentrations and accumulation of 13 fluorinated organic compounds (FOCs) in human sera and seminal plasma were measured in an Asian developing country, Sri Lanka. Six of the FOCs, PFOS (perfluorooctanesulfonate), PFHS (perfluorohexanesulfonate), PFUnA (perfluoroundecanoic acid), PFDA (perfluorodecano...
{ "abstract": "Seven outbreaks of acute intoxication from oleander (Nerium oleander) in cattle were reported in Northeast of Brazil. A total of 92 cattle were poisoned by oleander in 7 different herds; 57 animals died (67% of affected cattle). All cases reported here occurred during dry season. Two of the outbreaks r...
{ "abstract": "Plants that affect the skin and liver are considered together in this chapter because some plant toxins cause liver disease that results in secondary skin disease. One of the most noticeable signs indicative of an animal with liver disease is the appearance of dermatitis and hair loss affecting the whi...
{ "abstract": "Over sixteen years, 49 horses were diagnosed by Alberta Agriculture Animal Health laboratories as having \"alsike clover poisoning\". There was a distinct northwestern distribution of cases, the majority coming from the Peace River district. This distribution is opposite to that of the Alberta horse po...
{ "abstract": "The purpose of this study is to identify the strengths of a specific motivator for judgment and decision-making, referred to as \"need for closure\" and determine how the strength of that motivator affects materiality judgments of auditors. The extent to which auditors seek and process information prio...
{ "abstract": "Abstract In an effort to contribute to improved audit efficiency and quality, an experiment was administered to 596 CPAs to study the potential effects on materiality judgments of auditors' personal characteristics. A multivariate analysis indicates that age and place of employment can affect materiali...
{ "abstract": "Gestutzt auf die Theorie der dynamischen Optimierung wird ein Konzept zur Messung der Flexibilitat beliebiger betrieblicher Systeme vorgestellt. Die Flexibilitat eines Systems, mit der man dessen Fahigkeit zur Bewaltigung von Unsicherheit und Dynamik verbindet, ist eng korreliert mit der Fahigkeit des ...
{ "abstract": "Consider a $N\\times n$ random matrix $Y_n=(Y_{ij}^{n})$ where the entries are given by $$ Y_{ij}^{n}=\\frac{\\sigma_{ij}(n)}{\\sqrt{n}} X_{ij}^{n}\\ , $$ the $X_{ij}^{n}$ being centered, independent and identically distributed random variables with unit variance and $(\\sigma_{ij}(n); 1\\le i\\le N, 1...
{ "abstract": "This paper characterizes the asymptotic distribution of the input-output mutual information of multiantenna channels. Using recent results on random matrix theory, we prove asymptotic normality of the unnormalized mutual information for arbitrary signal-to-noise ratios and fading distributions, allowin...
{ "abstract": "Table of", "corpus_id": 11769378, "score": 1, "title": "The Geometry of the Compactification of the Hurwitz Scheme" }
{ "abstract": "In a typical receiver, symbol synchronization must be established before symbol demodulation. This paper discusses synchronization for an isolated symbol from a filter-bank type multicarrier system. It is shown that accurate symbol timing for a single multicarrier symbol can be obtained using forward-o...
{ "abstract": "Continuous-time linear state space models with discrete-time observations enable digital estimation of continuous-time signals with arbitrary temporal resolution by means of Kalman filtering/smoothing or Gaussian message passing in the corresponding factor graph. In this paper, we demonstrate the appli...
{ "abstract": "Filterbank multicarrier modulation (FBMCM) is an attractive technology for high-speed twisted-pair transmission and for broadband wireless communications, as well. In wireline applications, signal transmission takes place at baseband, so the issue of carrier acquisition and tracking for coherent demodu...
{ "abstract": "An approach, both analytical and numerical, is used to solve a two-dimensional pursuit-evasion game characterized by a difficulty level intermediate between that of thesimple motion game (with freely and instantaneously oriented velocities) and that of thegame of two cars (with lower bounds on curvatur...
{ "abstract": "The dynamics of predator-prey pursuit appears complex, making the development of a framework explaining predator and prey strategies problematic. We develop a model for terrestrial, cursorial predators to examine how animal mass modulates predator and prey trajectories and affects best strategies for b...
{ "abstract": "A tactical situation analogous to the goal-keeping and scoring problem in hockey is considered. The problem is formulated as a differential game and solved analytically using dynamic programming techniques. The analytic solution is represented by return function maps (in two variables). Other approache...
{ "abstract": "In this paper, we propose a cooperative perception framework for multi-robot real-time 3D high dynamic target estimation in outdoor scenarios based on monocular camera available on each robot. The relative position and orientation between robots establishes a flexible and dynamic stereo baseline. Overl...
{ "abstract": "High speed, low latency obstacle avoidance is essential for enabling Micro Aerial Vehicles (MAVs) to function in cluttered and dynamic environments. While other systems exist that do high-level mapping and 3D path planning for obstacle avoidance, most of these systems require high-powered CPUs on-board...
{ "abstract": "A formal specification of a multi-level marketing (MLM) business is presented. Specifying a MLM business boils down to specifying properties of and operations on mathematical forests and trees. The usefulness of the model-based specification language, Z, is investigated as a vehicle for a formal specif...
{ "abstract": "BACKGROUND\nIn 2012 the United States Food and Drug Administration approved implantation of a magnetic sphincter to augment the native reflux barrier based on single-series data. We sought to compare our initial experience with magnetic sphincter augmentation (MSA) with laparoscopic Nissen fundoplicati...
{ "abstract": "BACKGROUND & AIMS\nThe Bravo pH capsule is a catheter-free intraesophageal pH monitoring system that avoids the discomfort of an indwelling catheter. The objectives of this study were as follows: (1) to obtain normal values for the first and second 24-hour recording periods using a Bravo capsule placed...
{ "abstract": "Background:Several studies have demonstrated laparoscopic antireflux surgery (LAS) for the treatment of gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) to be efficient at short- and midterm follow-up evaluations. The aim of this study was to evaluate the results for LAS 10 years after surgery.Methods:The 100 co...
{ "abstract": "BACKGROUND\nThe treatment of Nocardia species found in the sputum of cystic fibrosis patients is of unknown value.\n\n\nMETHODS\nWe conducted a retrospective analysis of the impact of directed oral antibiotic therapy against Nocardia spp. isolated from the sputum of 17 cystic fibrosis patients over a 1...
{ "abstract": "Applied mixed models in medicine , Applied mixed models in medicine , کتابخانه دیجیتال جندی شاپور اهواز", "corpus_id": 9732623, "title": "Applied Mixed Models in Medicine" }
{ "abstract": "Abstract Objective: To identify cost estimates related to myocardial infarction (MI) or stroke in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) for use in economic models. Methods: A systematic literature review was conducted. Electronic databases and conference abstracts were screened against inclusio...
{ "abstract": "Rosa rugosa is an excellent landscaping plant famous for its fragrance and primarily red flower. In this study, transcriptome sequencing on R. rugosa ‘Red Zizhi’ and its bud mutations R. rugosa ‘Pink Zizhi’ and R. rugosa ‘White Zizhi’ were conducted using the Illumina HiSeq™ 2000 platform. In total, 10...
{ "abstract": "Background Paphiopedilum hirsutissimum is a member of Orchidaceae family that is famous for its ornamental value around the globe, it is vulnerable due to over-exploitation and was listed in Appendix I of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, which prevent...
{ "abstract": "To study the effect of phosphorus solublizing bacteria as biological growth regulators of rapeseed Brassica napus L.) field experiments were conducted from September 2006 to October 2007 at the experimental farm of Arak Islamic Azad University in Iran. The study comprised four levels of phosphorus (P) ...
{ "abstract": "Quality of service (QoS) model of composite services and web service selection based on QoS are currently the hot issues in the web service composition area. Service selection based on QoS, which is a globally optimal selection issue, is a NP-hard problem. Taking engine into consideration, this paper d...
{ "abstract": "Abstract Service composition is an important means of integrating individual web services to create new value-added systems that satisfy complex requirements. Effectively analyzing different types of services and identifying the matching similarity between services is a crucial component of service com...
{ "abstract": "We formulate the service composition problem as a multi-objective stochastic program which simultaneously optimizes the following quality of service (QoS) parameters: workflow duration, service invocation costs, availability, and reliability. All of these quality measures are modelled as decision-depen...
{ "abstract": "The issue of sexual relations in nursing homes between patients with Alzheimer-related dementia is in ward practice largely characterized by confusion and ignorance. Staff are seriously conflicted on how to respond and almost totally untrained on the subject. Patients are being mistreated and humiliate...
{ "abstract": "This study endeavoured to clarify the ethical dilemmas concerning sexuality encountered by nurses caring for elderly patients suffering from dementia, and to assist the decision-making process of the nurses and staff who handle dilemmas of this nature. Many of the staff in geriatric institutions report...
{ "abstract": "Objective: This paper describes the need for and development of a policy on patient sexuality implemented at a provincial psychiatric hospital. Method: The need for a policy was assessed by reviewing the literature and interviewing a sample of chronic psychiatric patients. Development of the policy inv...
{ "abstract": "The professional requirements in Software Engineering have become highly volatile due to the complexities of project development and rapid and innovative changes occurring in the field. Therefore, the development of inter-personal and social competences has gained central importance in the training of ...
{ "abstract": "This paper presents an effective methodology to teaching the UNIT 1 Caribbean Examinations Council’s advanced level Electrical and Electronic Technology (EET) subject to students of Presentation College, San Fernando, Trinidad and Tobago. The paper also serves to compare the performance of students und...
{ "abstract": "This paper presents a collection of experience related to success factors in graduate and postgraduate education. The experiences are mainly concerned with how to make the education relevant from an industrial viewpoint. This is emphasized as a key issue in software engineering education and research, ...
{ "abstract": "Background: Cloud-connected diabetes applications enable health care professionals (HCPs) to monitor patient progress and offer the potential for remote consultations. OneTouch Reveal (OTR) is a cloud-based web application that aggregates data from blood glucose (BG) meters or insulin pumps and provide...
{ "abstract": "Background Mobile diabetes apps enable health care professionals (HCPs) to monitor patient progress, offer remote consultations, and allow more effective and informed treatment decisions between patients and HCPs. The OneTouch Reveal app aggregates data from a blood glucose meter and provides analytics...
{ "abstract": "Abstract This paper describes an approach for fully automated segmentation of intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) images that mimics the procedure performed by human experts. The approach requires no manual initialization or interaction, and is integrated into our previously developed system for reconstruc...
{ "abstract": "In this paper we present a radial sample preconcentration strategy enabled by axisymmetric concentration polarization in a microfluidic chamber on a uniform nanoporous film. Sample analytes are focused into the centre, creating a concentrated plug that is injected vertically into the microfluidic analy...
{ "abstract": "We describe a novel and simple mechanism for inducing ion concentration polarization (ICP) using a surface-patterned perm-selective nanoporous film like Nafion in single, open microchannels. Such a surface-patterned Nafion film can rapidly transport only cations from the anodic side to the cathodic sid...
{ "abstract": "Laser-patterning of nanoporous membranes at the junction of a cross channel in a microchip is used to integrate protein concentration with an electrokinetic injection scheme. Upon application of voltage, linear electrophoretic concentration of charged proteins is achieved at the membrane surface becaus...
{ "abstract": "X‐ray crystal structures of carbonic anhydrase II (CAII) complexed with sulfonamide inhibitors illuminate the structural determinants of high affinity binding in the nanomolar regime. The primary binding interaction is the coordination of a primary sulfonamide group to the active site zinc ion. Seconda...
{ "abstract": "Human carbonic anhydrases (hCAs) play various roles in cells, and have been drug targets for decades. Sequence similarities of hCA isoforms necessitate designing specific inhibitors, which requires detailed structural information for hCA-inhibitor complexes. We present room temperature neutron structur...
{ "abstract": "Abstract Almost equal amounts of the trans and cis isomers of 2,5-diethoxy-2,5-bis(hydroxymethyl)-1,4-dioxane (2trans and 2cis) are obtained by treating dihydroxyacetone with acidic ethanol. To explain the formation of an unusually large quantity of 2cis, conformation analyses and equilibration experim...
{ "abstract": "Summary ::: Trillions of dollars are traded daily on the foreign exchange (forex) market, making it the largest financial market in the world. Accurate forecasting of forex rates is a necessary element in any effective hedging or speculation strategy in the forex market. Time series models and shallow ...
{ "abstract": "The key to successful stock market forecasting is achieving best results with minimum required input data. Given stock market model uncertainty, soft computing techniques are viable candidates to capture stock market nonlinear relations returning significant forecasting results with not necessarily pri...
{ "abstract": "The future Internet is an IPv6 network interconnecting traditional computers and a large number of smart objects. This Internet of Things (IoT) will be the foundation of many services and our daily life will depend on its availability and reliable operation. Therefore, among many other issues, the chal...
{ "abstract": "Since the late 1960 ́s, a great interest in the use of bioceramic materials for biomedical applications has been developed. In a previous paper, the authors reviewed crystalline bioceramic materials “sensus stricto”, it is to say, those ceramic materials, constituted for non-metallic inorganic compound...
{ "abstract": "The bioactive glass 45S5 was crystallized to 8-100 vol % of crystals by thermal treatments from 550-680 degrees C. The micro-structure of the glass-ceramics had a very uniform crystal size, ranging from 8 to 20 microns. Fourier-transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy was used to determine the rate of hy...
{ "abstract": "Lithium iron borate is an attractive cathode material for Li-ion batteries due to its high specific capacity and low-cost, earth-abundant constituents. However, experiments have observed poor electrochemical performance due to the formation of an intermediate phase, that is, LixFeBO3, which leads to la...
{ "abstract": "Human hypertensive subjects were found to have an increased sodium and water concentration in renal artery and psoas muscle. Hypertensive rats showed a high water content in their aortas. If the water and sodium content were increased in hypertensive arterioles as well as arteries, the swelling of the ...
{ "abstract": "AbstractTHE second edition of Prof. Wiggers' book follows the first after an interval of only two years. Special emphasis has been laid on subjects of clinical importance and the book is really a general textbook of clinical science. Chapters are devoted to such subjects as œdema, sleep, acidosis, peri...
{ "abstract": "The significance of Cryptosporidium as a causative agent of diarrhea has been assessed in bovine for a period of 2 years. A total of 940 faecal samples (470 samples in each year) both from diarrhoeic and non-diarrhoeic bovine (0-12 months age) were examined during three different seasons (rainy season,...
{ "abstract": "This study reports on experiments where bismuth sesquioxide (Bi2O3) was cycled between its high-temperature δ-phase and one or more of its low-temperature phases (α-, β-, or γ-Bi2O3) while being subjected to uniaxial tensile stresses in the range of 0.11–0.55 MPa. Reproducible strain increments of 0.4%...
{ "abstract": "Transformational plasticity associated with the monoclinic-to-cubic phase transition at 730°C in Bi2O3 was observed and characterized. This phenomenon is explained in terms of Greenwood and Johnson's model of internal stress-induced deformation, proceeding, in this instance, by a time-dependent, grain-...
{ "abstract": "The temperature, pressure, and time dependence of bulk density and the compressive strength of clay and boehmite compacts subjected to reactive hot-pressing were determined. The strength and the bulk density are linearly related to the extent of the dehydroxylation reaction which occurs during reactive...
{ "abstract": "This study evaluates the determinants of insurance coverage in the 18–24- year-old population using the National Medical Care Utilization and Expenditure Survey. Three specific issues are addressed: 1) the characteristics of the insured versus uninsured, 2) the reason given by the uninsured for not hav...
{ "abstract": "Upon termination, most displaced workers lose employer-financed health insurance along with their jobs; data for 1983-84 suggest that such workers ran a high risk of remaining uninsured for extended periods, even after new employment was secured.", "corpus_id": 23330506, "title": "Health insurance ...
{ "abstract": "Prologue: Uncompensated hospital care is a growing problem facing federal and state legislators, hospitals and doctors, and, indeed, all of society. The American Hospital Associations Annual Survey...", "corpus_id": 12739786, "score": 2, "title": "Solving uncompensated hospital care: targeting th...
{ "abstract": "Responses of work functions to uniaxial strain on infinite-length single-walled armchair (AC) [(2, 2) and (7, 7)] and zigzag (ZZ) [(3, 0) and (12, 0)] carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are investigated based on density functional theory. It is found that as strain increases, the work function of ZZ (3, 0) tubes ...
{ "abstract": "Abstract In this paper, we analytically investigate the effects of the two samples of mechanical deformations, i.e., uniaxial and torsional strains on the electronic band structure and the density of states of the single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) using the nearest neighbor, the third-nearest nei...
{ "abstract": "Using classical molecular dynamics and empirical potentials, we show that the axial deformation of single-walled carbon nanotubes is coupled to their torsion. The axial-strain-induced torsion is limited to chiral nanotubes-graphite sheets rolled around an axis that breaks its symmetry. Small strain beh...
{ "abstract": "Colletotrichum lindemuthianum is the causal agent of plant bean anthracnose, one of the most important diseases affecting the common bean. We investigated the structure and expression of the nit1 gene (nitrate reductase) of C. lindemuthianum. The nit1 gene open reading frame contains 2787 bp, interrupt...
{ "abstract": null, "corpus_id": 2094584, "title": "Molecular evolution of nitrate reductase genes" }
{ "abstract": "The purpose of this study was to determine the relatedness 18 isolates of Fusarium solani f. sp. phaseoli and F. solani f. sp. glycines. The majority of these isolates have shown host un-especificity and were pathogenic to dry-bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) and soybean (Glycine max). The vegetative compatib...
{ "abstract": "This paper proposes a new approach to automatically detect dementia. Even though some works have detected dementia from speech and language attributes, most have applied detection using picture descriptions, narratives, and cognitive tasks. In this paper, we propose a new computer avatar with spoken di...
{ "abstract": "To promote sustainable development, the smart city implies a global vision that merges artificial intelligence, big data, decision making, information and communication technology (ICT), and the internet-of-things (IoT). The ageing issue is an aspect that researchers, companies and government should de...
{ "abstract": "The distribution of picture-naming errors for Broca's aphasics (n = 9), Wernicke's aphasics (n = 9), conduction aphasics (n = 9), frontal anomics (n = 7), and posterior anomics (n = 9) was examined to determine the diagnostic power of error types in picture-naming. Negated responses were associated wit...
{ "abstract": "Ganglioneuroma is a rare tumour of autonomic ganglia arising in the sympathetic chain or the parasympathetic nervous system.1 So far, no authentic solitary lesion has been recorded in the tongue.\n\nA 30-year-old man presented with an asymptomatic submucosal mass in the right lateral border of the tong...
{ "abstract": "OBJECTIVE\nThe purpose of this investigation was to confirm the presence of subepithelial nerve plexuses associated with taste buds in the human tongue and to study the histomorphologic features of each plexus.\n\n\nSTUDY DESIGN\nThrough use of a light microscope, several hundred microslides representi...
{ "abstract": "Big data is often discussed in the context of improving medical care, but it also has a less appreciated but equally important role to play in preventing disease. Big data can facilitate action on the modifiable risk factors that contribute to a large fraction of the chronic disease burden, such as phy...
{ "abstract": "Today it is known that the weakest link in the cyber security chain is the computer user. Social engineering attacks are commonly used to deceive computer users to perform actions that could leak private information. Such attacks psychologically manipulate the computer users to reveal his/her confident...
{ "abstract": "This research presents an integrated information processing model of phishing susceptibility grounded in the prior research in information process and interpersonal deception. We refine and validate the model using a sample of intended victims of an actual phishing attack. The data provides strong supp...
{ "abstract": "Personal health technologies are increasingly introduced in workplace settings. Yet little is known about workplace implementations of activity tracker use and the kind of experiences and concerns employees might have when engaging with these technologies in practice. We report on an observational stud...
{ "abstract": "A novel type of limited double-moment scheme for bulk microphysics is presented here for cloud-systemresolving models (CSRMs). It predicts the average size of cloud droplets and crystals, which is important for representing the radiative impact of clouds on the climate system. In this new scheme, there...
{ "abstract": "Size spectra of water droplets in haze, fogs and clouds of various type measured by several authors have been analyzed by a computational method in terms of the modified gamma distribution function. The preliminary results are shown on the wide ranges that result of the function parameters. These resul...
{ "abstract": "A detailed study was made of the micrometeorological and microphysical characteristics of eleven valley fogs occurring near Elmira, New York. Observations were made of temperature, dew point, wind speed and direction, dew deposition, vertical wind velocity, and net radiative flux. In fog, visibility wa...
{ "abstract": "Background Identifying modifiable determinants of fat mass and muscle strength in older adults is important given their impact on physical functioning and health. Light intensity physical activity and sedentary behavior are potential determinants, but their relations to these outcomes are poorly unders...
{ "abstract": "Physical activity (PA) and cognition have reportedly been associated with each other. However, it remains to be elucidated what intensities of PA are most strongly associated with cognition. In the current study, we aimed to determine the association between the intensities of objectively measured PA a...
{ "abstract": "Previous studies of endurance exercise training in older men and women generally have found only minimal skeletal muscle adaptations to training. To evaluate the possibility that this may have been due to an inadequate training stimulus, we studied 23 healthy older (64 +/- 3 yr) men and women before an...
{ "abstract": "Effect of electrolyte temperature on the thickness of resulting oxide layer has been studied. Unlike previous published studies this article was aimed to monitor the relationship between electrolyte temperature and resulting AAO layer thickness in interaction with other input factors affecting during a...
{ "abstract": "The influence of heat transfer on anodic oxide growth during anodizing of high purity Al is studied on a laboratory scale in a wall-jet electrode reactor under different flow conditions. Local electrode temperatures are monitored by temperature measurements on the backside of the anode, whereas the eff...
{ "abstract": "This case study shows how to use Triangular Voltage Sweep (TVS) to reduce Na and K in the backend of a triple-metal BiCMOS process from 10/sup 12/ ions/cm/sup 2/ to 10/sup 10/ ions/cm/sup 2/. TVS is compared to Bias Temperature Stress (BTS) techniques. While Capacitance-Voltage plots are good monitors ...
{ "abstract": "Many economic sectors often collect significantly less data than would be required to analyze related standard decision problems. This is because the demand for some data can be intrusive to the participants of the economy in terms of time and sensitivity. The problem of modelling and solving decision ...
{ "abstract": "Abstract The electric power transmission network plays an important role in the delivery of energy from outlying generation to demand centers located far away. Because power plants are interconnected via the transmission network, together they can provide improved reliability and lower overall generati...
{ "abstract": "The objective of the present paper is to examine the effect of certain economic factors on the competitiveness of the Greek meat processing enterprises. The meat sector went through significant changes over the last ten years affecting the structure of the entire industry. Competitiveness will be measu...
{ "abstract": "BackgroundGonadotrophins are routinely administered in assisted reproductive technology (ART) treatment protocols. Recombinant human follicle-stimulating hormone (r-hFSH; follitropin alfa) and recombinant human luteinizing hormone (r-hLH; lutropin alfa) can be administered individually or in a fixed co...
{ "abstract": "Bovine ovarian hyperstimulation is a process that currently relies on pituitary-derived follicle stimulating hormone (FSH) to facilitate the maturation of multiple follicles to achieve dominance and eventual ovulation. The prevalence of this process, also called superovulation, has more than doubled in...
{ "abstract": "Follicle-stimulating hormone of a high state of physicochemical and biological purity was isolated from acetone-preserved human pituitary glands. The follicle-stimulating hormone was dissociated into alpha and beta subunits by treatment with 8 M urea and the subunits were separated by ion exchange chro...
{ "abstract": "UNLABELLED\n\n\n\nPREMISE OF THE STUDY\nSex allocation models assume male and female traits are measured in a common currency, allocation traits show heritability, and tradeoffs between investment in the two sexual functions occur. The potential for model predictions and genetic parameters to depend on...
{ "abstract": "Abstract We report on how a long-term study of the reproductive biology of the Critically Endangered Schiedea adamantis (Caryophyllaceae), one of Hawai‘i's rarest plant species, was leveraged for conservation purposes. Our major goals were to provide seeds with the greatest genetic variation possible f...
{ "abstract": "A belief-updating model of adaptation and cue combination in syntactic comprehension Dave F. Kleinschmidt 1 , Alex B. Fine 1 , and T. Florian Jaeger 1,2 {dkleinschmidt, afine, fjeager} @ bcs.rochester.edu of Brain and Cognitive Sciences and 2 Department of Computer Science, University of Rochester, Roc...
{ "abstract": "In this paper, a novel single stage passive ac to dc converter is first proposed for LED drivers. No controlled active switch, electrolytic capacitors and auxiliary power supply are required in the proposed LED driver. The advantages of the proposed driver include long lifetime, high efficiency and rec...
{ "abstract": "⎯ Public lighting with high power LEDs is getting more importance nowadays, but until now it shows several problems, mainly related to electrical circuit of driver (DC-DC converter). This converter presents less life time compared with LED lamp, high cost and low efficiency. With purpose to improve con...
{ "abstract": "When a power system needs power factor correction and fast output voltage regulation, two main possibilities arise: to use two converters connected in cascade or to use a single converter performing both things. In the first case, each converter performs a different function; the first one corrects the...
{ "abstract": "Background Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common sustained cardiac arrhythmia resulting in mortality and morbidity. Gaps in oral anticoagulation and education of patients regarding AF have been identified as areas that require improvement. Methods and Results A before‐and‐after study of 433 patie...
{ "abstract": "Few patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) receive care by cardiac electrophysiologists. Although previous work has highlighted differential care for patients with AF treated by electrophysiologists, it is unclear whether this is associated with improved clinical outcomes. This retrospective population...
{ "abstract": "The 18‐membered polyketide macrolide borrelidin exhibits a number of important biological activities, including potent angiogenesis inhibition. This has prompted two recent total syntheses as well as the cloning of the biosynthetic gene cluster from Streptomyces parvulus Tü4055. Borrelidin possesses so...
{ "abstract": "Research on generative models is a central project in the emerging field of network science, and it studies how statistical patterns found in real networks could be generated by formal rules. Output from these generative models is then the basis for designing and evaluating computational methods on net...
{ "abstract": "Dynamic complex networks are used to model the evolving relationships between entities in widely varying fields of research such as epidemiology, ecology, sociology, and economics. In the study of complex networks, a network is said to have community structure if it divides naturally into groups of ver...
{ "abstract": "Obstacle avoidance is a fundamental requirement for autonomous robots which operate in, and interact with, the real world. When perception is limited to monocular vision avoiding collision becomes significantly more challenging due to the lack of 3D information. Conventional path planners for obstacle ...
{ "abstract": "A Gram-negative, filamentous, rod-shaped bacillus which failed to grow in cell-free media was isolated in apparently pure culture from the bronchial scraping and washing of a laboratory rat suffering from chronic respiratory disease by inoculating embryonated chicken eggs via the allantoic route. None ...
{ "abstract": "Antibody to cilia-associated respiratory (CAR) bacillus was detected by the indirect immunofluorescence assay (IFA) technique using tracheal sections of infected mice as antigen in serum samples collected from rats infected naturally and experimentally. Nine of 23 cases of natural infection were positi...
{ "abstract": "List of Abbreviations Volume 1 Preface to the 1978 Re-issue Preface Introduction Part One: Conceptual Exposition I. Basic Sociological Terms II. Sociological Categories of Economic Action III. The Types of Legitimate Domination IV. Status Groups and Classes Part Two: The Economy and the Arena of Normat...
{ "abstract": "We describe the complete sequence of the gene encoding mouse NF-M, the middle-molecular-mass neurofilament protein. The coding sequence is interrupted by two intervening sequences which align perfectly with the first two intervening sequences in the gene encoding NF-L (the low-molecular-mass neurofilam...
{ "abstract": "Intermediate filaments (IF) represent one of three main cytoskeletal structures in most animal cells. The human IF protein family includes about 70 members divided into five main groups. The characteristic feature of IF is that in various cells and tissues they are formed by proteins of different group...
{ "abstract": "For each fixed set of Boolean connectives, how hard is it to determine satisfiability for formulas with only those connectives? We show that a condition sufficient for NP-completeness is that the functionx Λ ~ y be representable, and that any set of connectives not capable of representing this function...
{ "abstract": "Abstract SU (2)-flavor-symmetry breaking in antiquark distributions of the nucleon was suggested by the New Muon Collaboration (NMC) in deep inelastic muon scattering. As an independent test, Drell-Yan data for the tungsten target have been used for examining the asymmetry. We investigate whether there...
{ "abstract": "Abstract A surprisingly large asymmetry between the up and down sea quark distributions in the nucleon has been observed in recent deep inelastic scattering and Drell-Yan experiments. This result strongly suggests that the mesonic degrees of freedom play an important role in the description of the part...
{ "abstract": "This development starts from the deduction of the cutoff characteristics equations of the modes in the circular waveguide filled with microwave ferrite. Corresponding to different values of μr, the cutoff frequencies for several modes are calculated, the theoretical results of dominate mode and TM01 mo...
{ "abstract": "Using a set of approximate evolution equations [J. G. Amar et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3092 (2001)] for the average gap size between islands, we calculate analytically the asymptotic scaled capture-number distribution (CND) for one-dimensional irreversible submonolayer growth of point islands. The pre...
{ "abstract": "In this paper, a simple (2+1) solid-on-solid model of the epitaxial films growth based on random deposition followed by breaking particle–particle lateral bonds and particles surface diffusion is introduced. The influence of the critical number of the particle–particle lateral bonds z and the depositio...
{ "abstract": "We review the role of massive neutrinos in astrophysics and cosmology, assuming that the oscillation interpretation of solar and atmospheric neutrinos is correct. In particular, we discuss cosmological mass limits, neutrino flavor oscillations in the early universe, leptogenesis, and neutrinos in core-...
{ "abstract": null, "corpus_id": 42432866, "title": "Grammatical Error Correction using Neural Networks" }
{ "abstract": "This paper introduces the freely available WikEd Error Corpus. We describe the data mining process from Wikipedia revision histories, corpus content and format. The corpus consists of more than 12 million sentences with a total of 14 million edits of various types. As one possible application, we show ...
{ "abstract": null, "corpus_id": 16387037, "score": -1, "title": "Named Entity Recognition in Swedish Health Records with Character-Based Deep Bidirectional LSTMs." }
{ "abstract": "This paper presents a new modeling framework for analysis of impact and scheduling of price-responsive as well as controllable loads in a three-phase unbalanced distribution system. The price-responsive loads are assumed to be linearly or exponentially dependent on price, i.e., demand reduces as price ...
{ "abstract": "In this paper, a demand elasticity model is developed and tested for the dispatch of microgrids. The price obtained from dispatching the network in a base-case scenario is used as input to a demand elasticity model; this demand model is then used to determine the price-responsive demand for the next it...
{ "abstract": "In this paper, the price elasticity of electrical demand is studied in a smart grid framework where electricity loads are scheduled by distributed Energy Management Controller (EMC) units. It is shown that different price responsive behaviors of electricity loads are results from interactions between t...
{ "abstract": "Nuclear factor-kappa B (NF-κB) is an important transcription factor, involved in many immune, inflammatory, and apoptotic responses. Preventing its binding to DNA is a rational strategy that could be translated to potential therapeutic applications. In this study, the interference of curcumin and its d...
{ "abstract": "Chronic ultraviolet radiation (UV-R) exposure causes skin disorders like erythema, edema, hyperpigmentation, photoaging and photocarcinogenesis. Recent research trends of researchers have focused more attention on the identification and use of photo stable natural agents with photoprotective properties...
{ "abstract": "In this paper, the optimum assignment of crews among the bases in an airlift operation is considered. An airlift operation consists of transporting large quantities of equipment and personnel among various bases. The crews operating the aircraft rest for a constant period of time after arriving at the ...
{ "abstract": "The modular multilevel converter (M2C) has become an increasingly important topology in medium- and high-voltage applications. A limitation is that it relies on positive and negative half-cycles of the ac output voltage waveform to achieve charge balance on the submodule capacitors. To overcome this co...
{ "abstract": "This paper describes a bidirectional isolated dc-dc converter considered as a core circuit of 3.3-kV/6.6-kV high-power-density power conversion systems in the next generation. The dc-dc converter is intended to use power switching devices based on silicon carbide (SiC) and/or gallium nitride, which wil...
{ "abstract": "The article considers one variant for solving problem of development high-efficiency power converters for hybrid and electric vehicles, wind turbines and micro hydroelectric power stations. The results of designing high-efficiency power converters with power electronic converters and Squirrel-Cage Indu...
{ "abstract": "A new approach to the prevention of sickling in vitro by use of the bifunctional crosslinking reagent, dimethyl adipimidate, is described. Prior treatment of sickle erythrocytes with dimethyl adipimidate will inhibit sickling in completely deoxygenated erythrocytes. Treated erythrocytes do not demonstr...
{ "abstract": "Six patients with sickle cell anemia were treated with sodium cyanate (30 mg/kg/day). In four, treatment was stopped because of definite or suspected toxicity, and no improvement was seen in the other two. Most alarming was the sudden development of peripheral motor neuropathy in a patient whose red bl...
{ "abstract": "Increases or decreases of red cell glutathione reductase (GR) have been described in connection with many clinical abnormalities. We find that GR activity as measured in hemolysates represents only a portion of the available GR activity. The addition of small amounts of flavin adenine dinucleotide (FAD...
{ "abstract": "Mexico is in the midst of an unprecedented demographic transition that is changing the size and age structure of its population. The most salient demographic change—and clearly the precursor of most other demographic changes—is the abrupt decline in the country's fertility rate from 6.5 in the early 19...
{ "abstract": "The degree of population–economy coupling and coordination is an important indicator of a region’s balanced development. This study examines the evolution of the population–economy coupling coordination pattern in the Yangtze River Economic Belt spanning from 2000 to 2019. It draws from the economic gr...
{ "abstract": "We suggest that the 'poverty-efficiency' aid allocation is merely a benchmark guide if a donor lacks other information about the country and also the power to change or prevail over government preferences. We argue that in most circumstances donors have only limited scope for the latter and that, while...
{ "abstract": "Electroporation of cells is successfully used in biology, biotechnology and medicine. Practical problems still arise in the electroporation of cells in suspension. For example, the determination of cell electroporation is still a demanding and time-consuming task. Electric pulses also cause contaminati...
{ "abstract": "The direct transfer of genetic material into cells by electroporation can be described in physicochemical terms as an electroporation-resealing hysteresis. The hysteresis concept includes unidirectional state transitions of the membrane, coupled to electrodiffusive migration of DNA through cell wall st...
{ "abstract": "High-voltage pulses have been shown to increase rates of transport across skin by several orders of magnitude on a time scale of minutes to seconds. Two main pulse protocols have been employed to promote transport: the intermittent application of short ( approximately 1 ms) high-voltage (approximately ...
{ "abstract": "The University of Minnesota is committed to the policy that all persons shall have equal Acknowledgements The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) provided funding for this review. The involvement of the project manager from the MPCA, Bruce Wilson, was greatly appreciated. Executive Summary Recent...
{ "abstract": "Previous studies have indicated that raingardens are effective at removing petroleum hydrocarbons from stormwater. There are concerns, however, that petroleum hydrocarbons could accumulate in raingarden soil, potentially resulting in liability for the site owner. In this work, 75 soil samples were coll...
{ "abstract": "This paper discusses the need for the reporting of a variety of physical, chemical, climatic, geological, biological, and meteorological parameters along with the data required by various investigators on the performance of structural stormwater best management practices (BMPs) used to enhance stormwat...
{ "abstract": "Iron status was assessed in 70 female athletes aged 18–25 yr participating in collegiate cross-country track, tennis, softball, swimming, soccer, basketball, and gymnastics. No significant differences in mean hemoglobin, hematocrit, serum iron, total iron-binding capacity, transferrin saturation, and f...
{ "abstract": "population-based studies are needed to eval-uate the components of history and examination that can be used to identify athletes at risk, intervene and change outcome.", "corpus_id": 10761673, "title": "The International Olympic Committee (IOC) consensus statement on periodic health evaluation of e...
{ "abstract": "International Conference “Bioinformatics: from Algorithms to Applications” (BiATA) is one of the few international conferences that bring together both the programmers and algorithm developers creating tools for a wide spectrum of modern bioinformatics studies and the researchers conducting those exper...
{ "abstract": "An experiment using a high-value cryogenic resistor is proposed, with the aim of improving the experimental link between three quantum electrical standards. This technique is new in its approach and does not require feedback from either a voltage detector or a current detector. Performance is limited b...
{ "abstract": "We have built a prototype capacitance standard based on single-electron tunneling (SET) devices and cryogenic vacuum-gap capacitor. We are currently involved in a thorough uncertainty analysis of the prototype, and we are preparing to make a direct comparison with the calculable capacitor at NIST.", ...
{ "abstract": "Electrons can be made to pass through a circuit one by one, in nanoscale devices based on the combination of the Coulomb interaction between electrons and their passage by quantum tunnelling through an insulating barrier. Single-electron devices provide a new way of measuring the charge quantum, and cl...
{ "abstract": "Nitric oxide (NO) produced by vascular endothelial cells (ECs) plays a critical role in normal vascular physiology. Important insights into mechanisms regulating the production of endothelial NO have been derived from in vitro studies employing cultured ECs. Although many techniques for the detection o...
{ "abstract": "Application of chemiluminescence (CL) for study of free-radical reactions in human and animal cells and tissues is considered in this review. Historically, the study of intrinsic (ultraweak) luminescence gave place to the measurement of CL in the presence of chemical activators (CL probes) and physical...
{ "abstract": "Melanin-concentrating hormone (MCH) is a cyclic neuropeptide synthesized as a preprohormone in the hypothalamus of all vertebrates. This neuropeptide binds to G-protein-coupled seven transmembrane receptor(s) to mediate its function. MCH was named after its function in teleosts, in which it causes aggr...
{ "abstract": "The senescence-accelerated SAMP8 mouse model displays features of cognitive decline and Alzheimer's disease. With the purpose of identifying potential epigenetic markers involved in aging and neurodegeneration, here we analyzed the expression of 84 mature miRNAs, the expression of histone-acetylation r...
{ "abstract": "While Huntington disease (HD) is caused solely by a polyglutamine expansion in the huntingtin gene, environmental factors can influence HD onset and progression. Here, we review studies linking environment and HD in both humans and animal models. In HD patients, we find that: (i) an active lifestyle as...
{ "abstract": "Few if any reliable indicators of long-term outcome have been found in eating disorders. Impulsivity was the strongest predictor in the present study of 35 adults with anorexia nervosa or bulimia nervosa. This variable accounted for 25% of anorectic symptoms at 2 to 3 years follow-up and 14% at 4 to 6 ...
{ "abstract": "United States. Dept. of Energy. Office of High Energy and Nuclear Physics (Grant DE-FG02-94ER40818)", "corpus_id": 327310, "title": "Jet p[subscript T] resummation in Higgs production at NNLL' + NNLO" }
{ "abstract": "The simulation software for the ATLAS Experiment at the Large Hadron Collider is being used for large-scale production of events on the LHC Computing Grid. This simulation requires many components, from the generators that simulate particle collisions, through packages simulating the response of the va...
{ "abstract": "Implantable electronic devices such as pacemakers and neural implants are often used for electrical stimulation. The usage of microfabrication techniques to produce microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) has allowed engineers to address a wider range of clinical indications. A new direction in the area ...
{ "abstract": "Circulating miRNAs have been shown as promising biomarkers for various pathologic conditions. The aim of this study was to clarify that circulating miR-1 and miR-126 in human plasma might be useful as biomarkers in acute myocardial infarction (AMI). In our study, after pre-test, two candidate miRNAs we...
{ "abstract": "Background Cardiovascular disease, including acute myocardial infarction (AMI), is a major global cause of mortality and morbidity. Specificity and sensitivity limit the utility of classic diagnostic biomarkers for AMI. Therefore, it is critical to identify novel biomarkers for its accurate diagnosis. ...
{ "abstract": "Monopole HVDC systems create dc current flow in the earth, which can cause the grounding location potential to rise relative to infinite spot and alters the working point of the transformer core. Because of the nonlinearity of the transformer core, the exciting current produces the amount of harmonics ...
{ "abstract": "Abstract Input shaping is a method of reducing residual vibrations in computer-controlled machines. Shaped command profiles are generated by convolving a sequence of impulses, an input shaper, with the desired command signal. The shaped command profile will move the system without residual vibration. T...
{ "abstract": "The control problem of time-optimal, rest-to-rest slewing of a flexible spacecraft through a large angle is considered. The flexible spacecraft is modeled as a linear, elastic, undamped, nongyroscopic system suitable for analysis of planar rotational maneuvers. Minimum-time open-loop planar maneuvers a...
{ "abstract": "This study presents a control scheme using a flywheel energy-storage system (FESS) to simultaneously achieve power-fluctuation mitigation and dynamic-stability enhancement of an offshore wind farm (OWF) and marine-current farm (MCF) connected to a power grid. The performance of the studied OWF is simul...
{ "abstract": "Nucleotide sequences coding proteins in human, yeast and Escherichia coli genes were analyzed in terms of dinucleotide occurrences. Every gene is plotted as a point in the dinucleotide space, which is spanned by 16 axes corresponding to the 16 components of the dinucleotide. The metric unit in the spac...
{ "abstract": "Correlations of the amino acid composition of a protein to its location in an organism, biological function, folding type, and disulfide bond(s) were examined for 356 proteins. In the present data set, 325 proteins of known location and biological characters were divided into 122 intracellular enzymes ...
{ "abstract": "What is “Christian” about Christian leadership? In this article, I propose that theories of Christian leadership can be defi ned, implemented, and evaluated through qualitative and quantitative research (Alvesson and Skoldberg, 2000). Qualitative-research methods suit the complex (Heifetz, 1994), conte...
{ "abstract": "The need for the usage of signal processing and pattern recognition techniques to monitor photovoltaic (PV) arrays and to detect and respond to faults with minimal human involvement is increasing. The data obtained from the array can be used to dynamically modify the array topology and improve array po...
{ "abstract": "Photovoltaic (PV) electrical power generation is an important and promising research area because there is high demand for renewable energy systems. In order to improve the performance of PV array systems so that these energy systems might be better understood and made more readily available, further r...
{ "abstract": "In West Africa, the traditional yam-based cropping systems (shifting cultivation and slash-and-burn) contribute to the deforestation, land degradation and low soil productivity. With the aim of designing more sustainable yam cropping systems, the agronomic research organization in Benin implemented alt...
{ "abstract": "BackgroundHigh-throughput (omic) data have become more widespread in both quantity and frequency of use, thanks to technological advances, lower costs and higher precision. Consequently, computational scientists are confronted by two parallel challenges: on one side, the design of efficient methods to ...
{ "abstract": "The HOX genes are a family of homeodomain-containing transcription factors that determine cellular identity during development. Here we review a number of recent studies showing that HOX genes are strongly expressed in ovarian cancer, and that in some cases the expression of specific HOX genes is suffi...
{ "abstract": "Two-dimensional (2D) material-based heterostructures gain increasing interest due to their extraordinary properties and excellent potential for the optoelectronic devices. This study deals with modulation of electronic and optical properties of the ZrS2/PtS2 van der Waals heterostructure under vertical...
{ "abstract": "IntroductionIn 2012, the Systemic Lupus International Collaborating Clinics (SLICC) network presented a new set of criteria (SLICC-12) to classify systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). The present study is the first to evaluate the performance of SLICC-12 in an adult European study population. Thus, SLIC...
{ "abstract": "Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a multiorgan disease with protean manifestations. Because SLE is uncommon and heterogeneous, its diagnosis can pose a considerable challenge, especially for clinicians with limited expertise of the disease. This is particularly true at the early stages of SLE, when...
{ "abstract": "Publisher Summary The ultrahigh-speed, low-power performance requirements for the next generation of high-speed signal-processing systems and commercial computers will be significantly improved by the emerging GaAs digital IC technology. Logic gates with 10s of picoseconds gate delay, 10s microwatts po...
{ "abstract": "This work deals with the analysis of situations where load increases and/or contingencies cause transmission voltages to become unstable or unacceptably low. Simple sensitivities are proposed to determine the relative efficiency of candidate remedial actions, which are parameter changes likely to stren...
{ "abstract": "The authors discuss voltage stability analysis of power systems using static and dynamic techniques. Using a small test system, results of time domain simulations are presented to clarify the phenomenon of voltage instability and to better understand modeling requirements. The same system is then analy...
{ "abstract": "Background: Scoliosis, defined as an abnormal lateral curvature of spine, can affect any part of the spine. The most common regions are the chest area known as thoracic scoliosis and the lower section of the back (lumbar scoliosis). Sitting and standing with faulty posture, putting irregular exertional...
{ "abstract": "We address the problem of testing in every brain voxel v whether at least u out of n conditions (or subjects) considered shows a real effect. The only statistic suggested so far, the maximum p-value method, fails under dependency (unless u=n) and in particular under positive dependency that arises if a...
{ "abstract": "Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), we identified cortical regions mediating interpretive processes that take place during language comprehension. We manipulated participants' interpretation of texts by asking them to focus on action-, space-, or time-related features while listening to...
{ "abstract": "Let k be a commutative ring. To any k-algebra A, there is a simplicial A-module LA/k such that π∗LA/k defines a homology theory of algebras, called André–Quillen homology [Qui70]. This gives a very sensitive invariant of the geometry of the algebra. For example: (1) a morphism A→ B is smooth if and onl...
{ "abstract": "This paper presents a numerical analysis (FDTD) of the electromagnetic wave propagation mechanism at f = 2.45 GHz around the human trunk. Different body models starting from planar models, to cylindrical models up to realistic trunk models are considered. In addition homogeneous and inhomogeneous model...
{ "abstract": "In this paper, on-body propagation modelling has been investigated applying various numerical computational techniques. Propagation measurements with body-worn antennas have been carried out at 2.4 GHz inside and outside an anechoic chamber respectively for narrowband communication channel characterisa...
{ "abstract": "Exact formulas for the wave function and vertical electric field at the surface of the ground are derived for a vertical dipole of zero height.", "corpus_id": 51633471, "score": 2, "title": "The Grounded Condenser Antenna Radiation Formula" }
{ "abstract": "This 2014 revision of the Standards of Practice (SOP) and Standards of Professional Performance (SOPP) for Registered Dietitians Nutritionists (RDNs) in Nutrition Support represents an update of the 2007 Standards composed by content experts of the American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition ...
{ "abstract": "Enteral nutrition (EN) is a valuable clinical intervention for patients of all ages in a variety of care settings. Along with its many outcome benefits come the potential for adverse effects. These safety issues are the result of clinical complications and of process-related errors. The latter can occu...
{ "abstract": "We showed that increasing dietary protein from omnivorous sources increases intestinal calcium absorption and urinary calcium, whereas a low-protein diet decreases calcium absorption and lowers urinary calcium. To assess the effect of soy protein on this relation, we substituted soy for meat in high- a...