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"abstract": "Abstract The El Nino–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) phenomenon and variability in the subtropical North Atlantic high sea level pressure (SLP) are known to affect rainfall in the Caribbean region. An El Nino event is associated with drier-than-average conditions during the boreal summer of year (0), and w... | {
"abstract": "Over the last few decades, rising greenhouse gas emissions have promoted poleward expansion of the large-scale atmospheric Hadley circulation that dominates the Tropics, thereby affecting behavior of the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) and North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO). Expression of these cha... | {
"abstract": "Photochemical oxidant models are essential tools for assessing effects of emissions changes on ground-level ozone formation. Such models are needed for predicting the ozone impacts of increased alternative fuel use. The gas-phase photochemical mechanism is an important component of these models because... |
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"abstract": "Salesperson Problem is finding a Hamiltonian cycle with minimum weight. The paper presents solution travelling salesperson problem with Genetic Algorithm. Dynamic allocation of reproduction operators and social disaster technique are used for generating the population and based on the convergence analy... | {
"abstract": "ABSTRACT In this paper, the Moving Target Travelling Salesman Problem (MTTSP) is described. In MTTSP, several sites are required to be visited which are moving with constant velocity in different directions. The distance of the sites from origin, velocity and the angle of movement are known in advance.... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Thermal analysis of accident conditions is an important problem during safety assessment of the dry spent nuclear fuel storage facilities. Thermal aspects of accident conditions with channel blockage of ventilated storage containers are considered in this article. Analysis of flow structure in... |
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"abstract": "The interfacial and bulk properties of mixtures of the anionic surfactant (dioctyl sulphosuccinate sodium salt, AOT) with zwitterionic surfactants 3-(N,N-dimethyldodecylammonio) propane sulfonate (DPS), 3-(N,N-dimethyltetradecylammonio) propane sulfonate (TPS), 3-(N,N-dimethylhexadecylammonio) propane ... | {
"abstract": "The interaction between cationic gemini hexanediyl-1,6-bis(dimethylcetylammonium bromide) (16-6-16, abbreviated as G6) with conventional cationic cetylpyridinium chloride (CPC), anionic sodium bis(2-ethyl hexyl)sulfosuccinate (AOT) and nonionic polyoxyethylene 10 cetyl ether (Brij56) in aqueous medium ... | {
"abstract": "One-electron oxidation of organoboron L2PhB: 1 (L = oxazol-2-ylidene) afforded a dicationic diborane(6) species [L2PhB-BPhL2]·2X (X = OTf, BF4, AlCl4) 3, representing a new strategy to construct a B(sp(3))-B(sp(3)) covalent bond. Each boron atom in 3 is in the formal oxidation state +II, and tetracoord... |
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"abstract": "v List of Figures vii Chapter 1: Introduction 1 Chapter 2: Methodology 8 Participants 8 Materials 9 Measurement of Constructs 9 Procedure 13 Chapter 3: Results 15 Chapter 4: Conclusion & Discussion 17 List of references 23 List of Scales 26",
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"title": "Understanding the risk... | {
"abstract": "\n Tourists traveling internationally lower their inhibitions and take greater risks than they would typically in their home cultures. Loneliness, boredom, and a sense of freedom contribute to this behavioral change. Some tourists travel internationally in search of sexual gratification. This motivatio... | {
"abstract": "Abstract In this paper, I review pollination systems in which plants provide breeding sites as a reward for pollination. I divide the pollinators into three groups based upon ovipositing sites and the larval food of insects. The first group consists of ovule parasites found in only five plant lineages,... |
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"abstract": "The increasing number of launched satellites per year, calls for solutions to keep free operational space for telecommunication systems in geo-synchronized orbit, as well as to avoid the endangering of space systems in LEO (low-Earth orbit) and of the public living in the habited parts on Earth. Exampl... | {
"abstract": "The increasing number of launched satellites per year calls for solutions to keep free operational space for telecommunication systems in GEO, as well as to avoid the endangering of space systems in LEO and of the public living on Earth. Malfunctions of satellite sub-systems like solar generators, cont... | {
"abstract": "A viable medium for perpendicular recording must be writeable by a realistic head and yet must also be thermally stable. These requirements place conflicting demands upon anisotropy and saturation magnetization and this paper seeks to identify viable parameter values for terabit/in/sup 2/ perpendicular... |
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"abstract": "BackgroundIt has been demonstrated that glucose transporter (GLUT1) deficiency in a mouse model causes a diminished cerebral lipid synthesis. This deficient lipid biosynthesis could contribute to secondary CoQ deficiency. We report here, for the first time an association between GLUT1 and coenzyme Q10 ... | {
"abstract": "Primary coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10) deficiencies are rare, clinically heterogeneous disorders caused by mutations in several genes encoding proteins involved in CoQ10 biosynthesis. CoQ10 is an essential component of the electron transport chain (ETC), where it shuttles electrons from complex I or II to comple... | {
"abstract": "Brittle materials such as rock and ceramic usually exhibit apparent increases of strength and toughness when subjected to dynamic loading. The reasons for this phenomenon are not yet well understood, although a number of hypotheses have been proposed. Based on dynamic fracture mechanics, the present wo... |
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"abstract": "Rab7 regulates vesicle traffic from early to late endosomes, and from late endosomes to lysosomes. The crystal structure of Rab7‐GTP in complex with the Rab7 binding domain of RILP reveals that Rab7 interacts with RILP specifically via two distinct areas, with the first one involving the switch and int... | {
"abstract": "Bacterial superantigens (SAgs) are exotoxins produced mainly by Staphylococcus aureus and Streptococcus pyogenes that can cause toxic shock syndrome (TSS). According to current paradigm, SAgs interact directly and simultaneously with T cell receptor (TCR) on the T cell and MHC class II (MHC-II) on the ... | {
"abstract": "Biodegradable macroporous gelatin microcarriers fixed with blood‐derived biodegradable glue are proposed as a delivery system for human autologous chondrocytes. Cell‐seeded microcarriers were embedded in four biological glues—recalcified citrated whole blood, recalcified citrated plasma with or without... |
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"abstract": "We study Arrow’s Impossibility Theorem in the quantum setting. Our work is based on the work of Bao and Halpern, in which it is proved that the quantum analogue of Arrow’s Impossibility Theorem is not valid. However, we feel unsatisfied about the proof presented in Bao and Halpern’s work. Moreover, the... | {
"abstract": "We propose a quantum voting system in the spirit of quantum games such as the quantum prisoner's dilemma. Our scheme enables a constitution to violate a quantum analog of Arrow's impossibility theorem. Arrow's theorem is a claim proved deductively in economics: Every (classical) constitution endowed wi... | {
"abstract": "Originally published in 1951, Social Choice and Individual Values introduced \"Arrow's Impossibility Theorem\" and founded the field of social choice theory in economics and political science. This new edition, including a new foreword by Nobel laureate Eric Maskin, reintroduces Arrow's seminal book to... |
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"abstract": "Purpose - This paper aims to investigate the intervalling effect bias in ETFs' systematic risk expressed by beta. The authors' findings reveal the existence of a significant intervalling effect on ETFs' beta obtained by the ordinary least squares method (OLS). Also investigated is the impact of ETFs' c... | {
"abstract": "The article is discussed to the analysis of ESG rating factors, profitability and risk in relation to global ETFs. The hypothesis under study is that global ETFs with a maximum ESG rating are heterogeneous in terms of systematic risk level. Based on the FOREL clustering algorithm, two ETF clusters are ... | {
"abstract": "A novel wideband beamforming technique for cellular CDMA systems is presented. The proposed algorithm asymptotically provides the optimum combination of space-time samples to maximize the SINR for the signal with the desired code (SDC) by optimally combining its multipath and canceling strong multiuser... |
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"abstract": "Accurate estimation of exposure to air pollution is necessary for assessing the impact of air pollution on the public health. Most environmental epidemiology studies assign the home address exposure to the study subjects. Here, we quantify the exposure estimation error at the population scale due to as... | {
"abstract": "The National Children’s Study is considering a wide spectrum of airborne pollutants that are hypothesized to potentially influence pregnancy outcomes, neurodevelopment, asthma, atopy, immune development, obesity, and pubertal development. In this article we summarize six applicable exposure assessment ... | {
"abstract": "1. Name of the Organism: Aeromonas hydrophila, Aeromonas caviae, Aeromonas sobria & (Aeromonas veronii?) Aeromonas hydrophila is a species of bacterium that is present in all freshwater environments and in brackish water. Some strains of A. hydrophila are capable of causing illness in fish and amphibia... |
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"abstract": "This paper addresses the inventory control problem of determining economic order quantities during inflation. A simple average annual cost model is constructed for which a closed-form solution is found. The solutions thus generated arc then compared with the optimal solutions to a ‘theoretically correc... | {
"abstract": "When Ford W. Harris published his short three-page article developing the Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) model in 1913, he likely did not foresee that it would still be discussed and used 100 years later. Harris’ EOQ model was one of the first applications of mathematical modeling to guide managers in m... | {
"abstract": "In this paper, we propose a cross routing and MAC QoS protocol design, named Signal-to-Interference-plus-Noise-Ratio and Quality-of-Service (SINR-QoS), for wireless ad hoc networks. SINR-QoS is spatial-reuse time division multiple access (STDMA)-based. Unlike most of the conventional approaches, SINR-Q... |
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"abstract": "The number and site of brain metastases were identified on the computed tomographic scans of 288 patients. There was one brain metastasis in 49%, two in 21%, three in 13%, four in 6%, and five or more in 11% of scans. In patients with one metastasis, the posterior fossa was involved in 50% of patients ... | {
"abstract": "The authors conducted a retrospective review of the charts of 56 patients who underwent resection for multiple brain metastases. Of these, 30 had one or more lesions left unresected (Group A) and 26 underwent resection of all lesions (Group B). Twenty-six other patients with a single metastasis who und... | {
"abstract": "We attempted to establish a microscopy based tumour characterization providing insight into the genetics of cancer cells and in particular their DNA ploidy. The core classification defined semi-quantitative criteria for scoring the nuclear size ranging from small (core score 1) to giant nuclei (core sc... |
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"abstract": "The occlusive patch test developed for assessing topical retinoids activity in human skin has been extended as a short‐term screening protocol for anti‐ageing agents. In this model, biopsies are performed at the end of the occlusion period for morphological and immuno‐histochemistry analysis. Multiphot... | {
"abstract": "Multiphoton microscopy has emerged in the past decade as a promising tool for noninvasive skin imaging. Our aim was to evaluate the potential of multiphoton microscopy to detect topical corticosteroids side effects within the epidermis and to provide new insights into their dynamics. Healthy volunteers... | {
"abstract": "The photoaging process of facial skin is investigated by use of multiphoton fluorescence and second-harmonic generation (SHG) microscopy. We obtain the autofluorescence (AF) and SHG images of the superficial dermis from the facial skin of three patients aged 20, 40, and 70 years. The results show that ... |
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"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nPostmortem and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data have suggested volume reductions in the mediodorsal (MDN) and pulvinar nuclei (PUL) of the thalamus. The centromedian nucleus (CMN), important in attention and arousal, has not been previously studied with MRI.\n\n\nMETHODS\nA sample of 4... | {
"abstract": "Recent volumetric magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) studies have suggested brain volume changes in schizophrenia to be progressive in nature. Whether this is a global process or some brain areas are more affected than others is not known. In a 5-year longitudinal study, MRI whole brain scans were obtain... | {
"abstract": "Biological nitrogen fixation is a phenomenon occurring in all known ecosystems. Symbiotic nitrogen fixation is dependent on the host plant genotype, theRhizobium strain, and the interaction of these symbionts with the pedoclimatic factors and the environmental conditions. Extremes of pH affect nodulati... |
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"abstract": "In the course of our ongoing work on the chemical characterization of Corsican olive oil, we have developed and validated a method for direct quantification of squalene using 13C Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectroscopy without saponification, extraction, or fractionation of the investigated sampl... | {
"abstract": "Various squalene derivatives, including squalene, squalene 2,3-epoxide (monoepoxide, SQME), squalene 2,3;22,23-diepoxide (SQDE), 2-aza-2,3-dihydrosqualene (SQN) and 2-aza-2,3-dihydrosqualene N-oxide (SQNO), were studied in chloroform solutions using ID high-resolution 1H spectra and 13C longitudinal re... | {
"abstract": "This paper deals with the characterization of 475 Sicilian virgin olive oils (VOO) produced in 10 different crop years (from 1993 to 2004), according to the cultivar and the geographical origin by means of multivariate statistical analysis applied to fatty acids. In particular, the studied VOOs came fr... |
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"abstract": "Lung cancer is one of the leading cause of cancer related deaths for people of both sexes worldwide and sputum cytology has been accepted as one of the best non-invasive method for lung cancer diagnosis, but this method is not accepted as a screening technique because of its lower sensitivity. Aim: To ... | {
"abstract": "Context: Despite sputum cytology being accepted as a simple and noninvasive diagnostic method for lung cancer, the clinical usefulness of sputum for evaluation of prognosis is yet to be explored. Validation of some of the markers in sputum for prognosis prediction will be highly useful for selective th... | {
"abstract": "Orthotopic heart transplantation was performed in a 65-year-old man with a donor heart with Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome. An electrophysiologic study performed 7 days after transplantation showed a left-lateral accessory pathway that exhibited only anterograde conduction. Radiofrequency ablation of t... |
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"abstract": "Recent research paints an ominous picture of climate impacts on agriculture, in contrast to the relative optimism of research from the 1990s. Continued use of the earlier research findings, in economic models and policy analyses, contributes to an unwarranted complacency about the urgency of climate po... | {
"abstract": "Agriculture is the main stay of people in Ethiopia. However, the current change in the main parameters of climate, temperature and precipitation put rain dependent agriculture under serious problem. This coupled with low adaptive capacity of the people make the country highly susceptible to the adverse... | {
"abstract": "Abstract Seasonal germination timing strongly influences lifetime fitness and can affect the ability of plant populations to colonize and persist in new environments. To quantify the influence of seasonal environmental factors on germination and to test whether pleiotropy or close linkage are significa... |
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"abstract": "The formation of thromboxane A2 by phospholipase A2 in rat platelets is inhibited by nicotinic acid. The synthesis of PGE2 and PGF2α is increased. \n \nNicotinic acid inhibits collagen-induced aggregation in rat platelets.",
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"title": "Nicotinic acid inhibits thromboxane synthe... | {
"abstract": "A systematic approach to the optimization of centrifugal elutriation is described for the purification of rat femoral marrow megakaryocytes, which has permitted the first direct demonstration of thromboxane synthesis in these cells. The rapidity, simplicity, and capacity of this technique has made it p... | {
"abstract": "Summary Soil moisture plays a key role in most environmental processes, as evaporation and transpiration are heavily dependent on soil moisture variability. While it is one of the few important hydrological variables that can be directly observed, the high spatial and temporal variability makes it diff... |
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"abstract": "Three experiments were done to test for the influences of different (i) hanging ratios (E=0.5, 0.65 and 0.8); (ii) fishing heights (25 and 12 meshes); and (iii) twine diameters (0.41, 0.56 and 0.62 mm) and materials (multifilament nylon and multimonofilament nylon polyamide) on catches and by-catches i... | {
"abstract": "We examined catch compositions and vulnerability of target and bycatch species in two fishing gears, namely the bottom-set gillnet and collapsible crab trap, used in small-scale fisheries of Bandon Bay, Suratthani Province, Thailand. Both gears mainly target the blue swimming crab (BSC) Portunus pelagi... | {
"abstract": "Throughout history, human hunters for fish have made use of their knowledge of fish behaviour in order to make catches. There are more than 22000 different species of teleost fishes, each with its own characteristic world of reaction and behaviour, so that numerous appropriate fish capture systems have... |
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"abstract": "This article highlights the need for awareness of bias due to group size and proposes means of minimizing its effect. Three mathematical models are presented for measuring the effect of bias, and sampling techniques, commonly used in visitor surveys, are examined for possible bias.",
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"abstract": "Abstract Casual observation suggests that a mega-multi-mall, such as West Edmonton Mall (WEM) and the Mall of America, which combines a very large shopping centre with a theme park, can play an important role in generating urban tourism. In the course of a campaign directed at obtaining government subs... | {
"abstract": "In this paper the development of status structures in task-oriented discussion groups is considered. It is shown that the generally accepted belief about the process through which such groups arrive at status differentiation is incorrect and that groups attain status differentiation through at least tw... |
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"abstract": "This paper introduces the architecture of an emotion-aware ambient intelligent and gerontechnological project named “Improvement of the Elderly Quality of Life and Care through Smart Emotion Regulation”. The objective of the proposal is to find solutions for improving the quality of life and care of th... | {
"abstract": "Gerontechnology [1] is an interdisciplinary field combining gerontology and technology. Sustaining an ageing society depends upon our effectiveness in creating intelligent systems, using assistive technology and inclusive design, to help older adults enjoy innovative and independent living and particip... | {
"abstract": "Assessment is probably the most important thing we can do to help \nour students learn. We may not like it, but students can and do ignore \nour teaching; however, if they want to get a qualification, they have \nto participate in the assessment processes we design and implement. \nFor that reason I be... |
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"abstract": "This paper presents an overview of the asynchronous cryptographic algorithm RSA, its underlying mathematical concepts and the proposed attack on it, using my new proprietary algorithm of fusing mathematical and brute-force approaches.",
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"title": "New Approach To Cryptanalysis ... | {
"abstract": "The author includes not only information about the most important advances in the field of cryptology of the past decade-such as the Data Encryption Standard (DES), public-key cryptology, and the RSA algorithm-but also the research results of the last three years: the Shamir, the Lagarias-Odlyzko, and ... | {
"abstract": "Timely and accurate state detection and fault diagnosis of rolling element bearings are very critical to ensuring the reliability of rotating machinery. This paper proposes a novel method of rolling bearing fault diagnosis based on a combination of ensemble empirical mode decomposition (EEMD), weighted... |
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"abstract": "Burn injuries sustained during residential trash, brush, and grass burning cause significant morbidity and mortality in rural areas. To further prevention efforts, we surveyed individuals who incurred injuries from residential burning. Thirty-six individuals injured while burning trash, brush, or grass... | {
"abstract": "Explosions and fire incidents involving portable plastic gasoline containers manufactured for consumer use are known to occur frequently and are verified in databases, engineering literature, legal briefs, and newspapers. This project studied such incidents and presents findings from a comprehensive te... | {
"abstract": "Back in 1986, the World Health Organization (WHO) produced the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion. The intention of the charter was to create a framework that conveyed the notions of capacity building into a structured process for health promotion action in specific settings. This charter subsequently... |
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"abstract": "In this paper, existence criteria of three positive solutions to the followimg p-Laplacian functional dynamic equation on time scales { [ Φp(u (t)) 5 + a(t)f(u(t), u(μ(t))) = 0, t ∈ (0, T ) , u0(t) = φ(t), t ∈ [−r, 0] , u(0) −B0(u (η)) = 0, u(T ) = 0, are established by using the well-known Five Functi... | {
"abstract": "The existence of multiple positive fixed points of completely continuous nonlinear operators defined on the cone of an ordered Banach space is considered. The main results give sufficient conditions for such an operator to have two, and in some cases three, positive fixed points. (RWR)",
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"abstract": "The existence of positive solutions to a three‐point boundary value problem for the one‐dimensional p‐Laplacian is proved by a simple application of a Fixed Point Theorem in cones due to Krasnoselskii and the Arzela‐Ascoli Theorem.",
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"abstract": "TheThis study uses an information processing view to assess how autonomy of foreign R&D units in a major emerging market is influenced by the organizational and environmental conditions they face.We argue that specification of the autonomy is an optimal decision requiring a balance between the costs of... | {
"abstract": "This study reviews the research on foreign business management in China and analyzes 193 articles published in English in 13 academic journals between 1980 and 2008. The studies were classified based on the type of research, the main topic, and the methods employed. The studies were then mapped and the... | {
"abstract": "The main purpose of this study was designed to explore and compare Human Resource Management practices and their impact on organizational performance in Indian Public Sector Banks. Human Resource Management is very important for banks because banking is a service industry. Research suggests that servic... |
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"abstract": "Intel® Software Guard Extensions (Intel® SGX) SGX2 extends the Intel® Software Guard Extensions (SGX) instruction set and enables software developers to dynamically manage memory within the SGX environment. This paper reviews the current SGX Software RunTime Environment and proposes additions to the fr... | {
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"title": "VeritasDB: High Throughput Key-Value Store with Integrity."
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"title": "An exceptional case of bilateral gestational gigantomastia with multiple breast lumps"
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"abstract": "The intrinsic evolution of analog controllers to provide closed-loop control of the speed of a DC motor has been previously demonstrated at NASA Marshall Space Flight Center. A side effect of the evolutionary process is that during evolution there are necessarily poor configurations to be evaluated tha... | {
"abstract": "In this dissertation, a novel self-repair approach based on Consensus Based Evaluation (CBE) for autonomous repair of SRAM-based Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) is developed, evaluated, and refined. An initial population of functionally identical (same input-output behavior), yet physically dist... | {
"abstract": "Thrust vector control (TVC) for the Space Shuttle Main Engines (SSMEs) is accomplished by hydraulic servo actuators. Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) is developing electromechanical actuator technology to be physically and functionally interchangeable with the existing hydraulic actuator. One of the... |
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"abstract": "We have isolated a maedi-visna-like virus from the peripheral blood mononuclear cells of a British sheep displaying symptoms of arthritis and pneumonia. After brief passage in fibroblasts this virus (designated EV1) was used to infect choroid plexus cells. cDNA clones of the virus were prepared from th... | {
"abstract": "This review describes the pathogenesis of a slowly progressive disease complex caused by naturally occurring nononcogenic retroviruses in sheep and goats. In nature, infections are usually clinically silent, but disease may manifest itself after prolonged incubation periods. Clinically, this is seen as... | {
"abstract": "Chitosan exhibits outstanding properties, which allow a wide range of applications. For this reason, chitosan-based biomaterials have been developed over the years and, among these biomaterials, chitosan-based nanomaterials may significantly change the material properties, which could result in some ex... |
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"abstract": "This paper is devoted to a laser-based diagnostic technique described as a method for solving an applied inverse problem in turbulent media using laser beam propagation. This problem consists of extracting local information about temperature ∞uctuations inside a hot turbulent jet of air, from the lumin... | {
"abstract": "A multilevel approach, based on our previously developed hybrid optimizer, is presented for solving a problem that consists of a solidifying thermosolutal flow in a square cavity subjected to variable thermal and magnetic boundary conditions. The objective is to reduce the standard deviations of the vo... | {
"abstract": "\n A number of analytical models exist for both electro-hydrodynamics (EHD), the study of fluid flows containing electric charges under the influence of an electric field and negligible magnetic field, and magneto-hydrodynamics (MHD), the study of fluid flows containing no free electric charges that ar... |
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"abstract": "The luminal surfaces of epithelial cells in the fimbriae, ampulla, isthmus, and utero‐tubal junction of the oviducts of the prolific Chinese Meishan pig at follicular and luteal phases of the estrous cycle were examined by scanning electron microscopy. Marked cyclic changes were observed on the surface... | {
"abstract": "In Exp. 1, 5-8-cell embryos from superovulated cattle were co-cultured with oviducal tissue suspended in Ham's F10 + 10% fetal calf serum (F10FCS) or in F10FCS alone. After 4 days, the proportion of embryos developing into compact morulae or blastocysts was greater (P less than 0.005) in co-culture (38... | {
"abstract": "Preface Acknowledgements ONE Andreea Deciu RITIVOI: Introduction TWO Michael KRAUSZ: Interpretation and Its Objects: A Synoptic View IDEALS AND AIMS OF INTERPRETATION THREE Garry HAGBERG: Rightness Reconsidered: Krausz, Wittgenstein, and the Question of Interpretive Understanding FOUR Nirmalangshu MUKH... |
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"abstract": "The genome of the gut protozoan parasite Giardia duodenalis (assemblage A) has been sequenced and compiled as contigs and scaffolds (GiardiaDB—http://GiardiaDB.org), but specific chromosome location of all scaffolds is unknown. To determine which scaffolds belong to the 3-Mb chromosome, a library of pr... | {
"abstract": "Abstract The gut protozoan parasite, Giardia lamblia (Assemblage A), has 5 major chromosomes, 1 of which is 2 Mb, as determined from gel separations of whole chromosomes. We originally published a physical map of this chromosome and, now, using the sequence data from 46 chromosome-specific probes, have... | {
"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nCrimean Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) has been reported from more than 30 countries in Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe and Middle East. The disease is considered endemic in Pakistan and neighboring countries like Iran and Afghanistan.\n\n\nOBJECTIVES\nThis study aimed to explore the genetic d... |
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"abstract": "Autopilots for small UAVs are generally equipped with low fidelity sen- sors that make state estimation challenging. In addition, the sensor suite does not include units that measure angle-of-attack and side-slip angles. The achievable flight performance is directly related to the quality of the state ... | {
"abstract": "This paper describes the MAGICC Lab unmanned air vehicle (UAV) testbed at Brigham Young University. Motivation for pursuing experimental research with UAVs is given as well as a historical perspective of the UAV testbed is developed. Lessons learned through the development and use of the testbed over t... | {
"abstract": "Unlike heart valves or blood vessels, heart muscle has no replacement alternatives. The most challenging goal in the field of cardiovascular tissue engineering is the creation/ regeneration of an engineered heart muscle. Recent advances in methods of stem cell isolation, culture in bioreactors, and the... |
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"abstract": "THE magnetic vortex lattice of copper oxide superconductors in the mixed (field-penetrated) state 'liquefies'1,2 on increasing the temperature T or the external magnetic field H, giving rise to an ohmic resistivity well below the fluctuation-dominated crossover to the normal state at the upper critical... | {
"abstract": "We have investigated the magnetic phase diagram of a fully oxygenated detwinned YBa2Cu3O7 single crystal by means of magneto-caloric and magnetization measurements, and found thermodynamic evidence for a temperature dependent first-order phase-transition line deep within the vortex-solid region. The as... | {
"abstract": "The precautionary principle states that serious environmental threats and health hazards should be anticipated and that they ought to be forestalled before the realisation of damage even if scientific understanding of the risks is inadequate. Although the principle is a subject of intense debate and ac... |
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"abstract": "The paper describes a combinatorial scheme for the analysis and synthesis of product life cycle on the basis of a typical compressed structure: design of materials and manufacturing process. In addition, the following problems are studied: system refinement, series-parallel production process, and mult... | {
"abstract": "We present a decision-making assistant tool for an integrated product and process design environment for manufacturing applications. Specifically, we target microwave modules that use electro-mechanical components and require optimal solutions to reduce cost, improve quality, and gain leverage in time ... | {
"abstract": "An investigation of bone samples taken from the left ulna of New Zealand white rabbits, with and without stresses and hysteresis loop, was undertaken using Small Angle X-ray Scattering technique. The purpose of this study is to investigate the nanostructural changes in the mean size of hydroxyapatite c... |
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"abstract": "Cooperative (co-op) advertising investments benefit brand goodwill and further improve supply chain performance. Meanwhile, online word-of-mouth (OWOM) can also play an important role in supply chain performance. On the basis of co-op advertising, this paper considers a single supply chain structure le... | {
"abstract": "Consumer choice is influenced in a direct and meaningful way by the actions taken by others. These “actions” range from face-to-face recommendations from a friend to the passive observation of what a stranger is wearing. We refer to the set of such contexts as “social interactions” (SI). We believe tha... | {
"abstract": "This paper presents a method for estimating the ::: 6DOF pose of sweet-pepper (capsicum) crops for autonomous ::: harvesting via a robotic manipulator. The method uses the ::: Kinect Fusion algorithm to robustly fuse RGB-D data from ::: an eye-in-hand camera combined with a colour segmentation ::: and ... |
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"abstract": "An investigation of the bandwidth behavior of planar monopoles built with quasi-fractal patches based on the curves of Koch is presented. A rectangular monopole patch microstrip antenna is used as reference and generator for the proposed quasi-fractals antennas. Koch levels 1 and 2 geometries are devel... | {
"abstract": "A novel wideband and compact size fractal Kokh antenna is described in this article. The return‐loss, E‐plane and H‐plane radiation pattern of the proposed antenna are measured and simulated by Finite Element method. Both experimental and numerical results show that the proposed antenna has smaller siz... | {
"abstract": "Although their importance in service operations is widely acknowledged in services marketing literature, the place and role of customers in organizational theories remain unclear. In particular, the way customers may influence the firm’s intra-organizational coordination has received little attention. ... |
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"abstract": "Dendrite sidebranch detachment is an important fragmentation mechanism during the solidification of alloys. The detachment occurs at the junction between a sidearm and its parent stem. While this pinching process is driven by capillarity, the presence of solidification opposes the instability. Using a ... | {
"abstract": "The microstructural evolution of dendrite coarsening during isothermal holding is simulated using a quantitative cellular automaton (CA) model involving the mechanisms of both solidification and melting. The present model encompasses the essential aspects of thermodynamics and kinetics, particularly th... | {
"abstract": "We investigate both experimentally and theoretically the traffic of particles flowing in microfluidic obstacle networks. We show that the traffic dynamics is a nonlinear process: the particle current does not scale with the particle density even in the dilute limit where no particle collision occurs. W... |
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"abstract": "Reduction in area and power dissipation of Newton-Raphson (N-R) division module could be achieved by substituting the standard parallel multiplier with truncated multiplier. This is possible since when standard multipliers are employed, their products are rounded to avoid unnecessary growth in word siz... | {
"abstract": "When two numbers are multiplied, a double-wordlength product is produced. In applications where only the single-precision product is required, the double-wordlength result is rounded to single-precision. Hence, in single-precision applications, it is not necessary to compute the least significant part ... | {
"abstract": "Switching control systems are getting increased interests due to their capability to exhibit simultaneously several kinds of dynamic behaviour in different parts of the system. Such hybrid systems can be applied in many different fields. We present the application of the switched control systems in mod... |
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"abstract": "The Bitcoin system is an anonymous, decentralized crypto-currency. There are some deanonymizating techniques to cluster Bitcoin addresses and to map them to users' identifications in the two research directions of Analysis of Transaction Chain (ATC) and Analysis of Bitcoin Protocol and Network (ABPN). ... | {
"abstract": "Cryptocurrencies, based on and led by Bitcoin, have shown promise as infrastructure for pseudonymous online payments, cheap remittance, trustless digital asset exchange, and smart contracts. However, Bitcoin-derived blockchain protocols have inherent scalability limits that trade-off between throughput... | {
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"abstract": "A recent paper categorizes classifier learning algorithms according to their sensitivity to a common type of sample selection bias where the chance of an example being selected into the training sample depends on its feature vector x but not (directly) on its class label y. A classifier learner is cate... | {
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"abstract": "BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES\nThe sudden occurrence of the 2008 Wenchuan Earthquake not only devastated people's health, but also may have impacted on the psychological and dietary attitudes and behaviours of the survivors. Although the influence of natural disaster on people's health has been extensively... | {
"abstract": "The mechanisms involved in body weight regulation in humans include genetic, physiological, and behavioral factors. Stability of body weight and body composition requires that energy intake matches energy expenditure and that nutrient balance is achieved. Human obesity is usually associated with high r... | {
"abstract": "Technetium-99m (Tc-99m) tetrofosmin single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) is a useful alternative to thallium-201 scintigraphy for the assessment of myocardial perfusion. This study assessed the incremental value of exercise Tc-99m tetrofosmin SPECT for the prediction of cardiac events in ... |
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"abstract": "A cross-correlation analysis of lidar echoes from an artificial tracer transported through two closely spaced atmospheric scattering volumes provides a remote measurement of the wind speed along the line joining the two volumes. A pulsed nitrogen transit-time lidar has been developed and used to make t... | {
"abstract": "The wind speed transverse to the line-of-sight of a laser Doppler radar has been measured using the intensity fluctuations of the returned signal. These measurements were made at a range of 100 m with a CO(2) cw laser Doppler velocimeter, which was simultaneously performing its design function of deter... | {
"abstract": "This paper reviews the results of a test program utilizing a CW CO 2 laser-Doppler velocimeter system that has demonstrated the capability of detecting wing tip vortices by the measurement of Doppler shifted back scatter from atmospheric aerosols naturally suspended in the atmosphere. The velocity sign... |
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"abstract": "In this paper, a social identity perspective on the management of diversity in organizations is outlined. The perspective is well-placed to offer considerable insight in this area, given that it explicates the processes through which group memberships impact on people's attitudes and behaviour both wit... | {
"abstract": "The editors of this volume assess the contact hypothesis in situations of intergroup encounter, and present an incisive and realistic picture of social psychological contributions to the reduction of conflict. The situations which they evaluate include: Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland; Je... | {
"abstract": "Experience menee dans une population d'etudiants pour tester deux tendances dans la manipulation des relations avec autrui: celle de jouir dans le partage de sa reussite et celle de se retirer face a l'experience de son echec",
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"abstract": "Phosphatidylinositol-(3,4,5)-trisphosphate (PIP3), a product of phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase, is an important second messenger implicated in signal transduction and membrane transport. In hippocampal neurons, the accumulation of PIP3 at the tip of neurite initiates the axon specification and neuronal ... | {
"abstract": "Target-derived neurotrophins like nerve growth factor (NGF) mediate biological effects by binding to and activating Trk neurotrophin receptors at nerve terminals. The activated Trk receptors then stimulate local effects at nerve terminals, and retrograde effects at neuronal cell bodies that often resid... | {
"abstract": "Phenylalanine hydroxylase (PheH) is an iron(II)-dependent enzyme that catalyzes the hydroxylation of aromatic amino acid l-phenylalanine (L-Phe) to l-tyrosine (L-Tyr). The enzymatic modification has been demonstrated to be highly regiospecific, forming proteinogenic para-Tyr (p-Tyr) exclusively. Here w... |
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"abstract": "BackgroundDrivers of change in dairy herd health management include the significant increase in herd/farm size, quota removal (within Europe) and the increase in technologies to aid in dairy cow reproductive management.Main bodyThere are a number of key areas for improving fertility management these in... | {
"abstract": "In the present study, the aim was to evaluate the associations between serum calcium concentration after calving and serum metabolites, postpartum disorders, and reproductive performance in dairy cows. Blood samples were collected from 200 Holstein cows immediately and 1, 2, 4, 6, and 8 weeks after cal... | {
"abstract": "A multicriteria decision-aid method, Electre II, was applied to the real choice process of a solid waste management system in the Uusimaa region, Finland. The criteria used were chosen by a supervision group. The weights of the criteria were defined by the managers of environmental and technical affair... |
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"abstract": "This paper presents a memoryless categorization learner that predicts differences in category complexity found in several psycholinguistic and psychological experiments. In particular, this learner predicts the order of difficulty of learning simple Boolean categories, including the advantage of conjun... | {
"abstract": "In influential research, R. N. Shepard, C. I. Hovland, and H. M. Jenkins (1961) surveyed humans' categorization abilities using tasks based in rules, exclusive-or (XOR) relations, and exemplar memorization. Humans' performance was poorly predicted by cue-conditioning or stimulus-generalization theories... | {
"abstract": "Despite the pervasiveness of figurative language, many language researchers still assume that it represents a peripheral issue that language comprehension and production models can easily ignore. Current theories and experimental results on the processes underlying figurative language comprehension—par... |
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"abstract": "The European Centre for the Validation of Alternative Methods (ECVAM) proposes to make the validation process more flexible, while maintaining its high standards. The various aspects of validation are broken down into independent modules, and the information necessary to complete each module is defined... | {
"abstract": "The roles played by the European Centre for the Validation of Alternative Methods (ECVAM) and its advisory committee, the ECVAM Scientific Advisory Committee (ESAC), in the evolution of alternative methods are described. Particular emphasis is given to the process by which ECVAM and the ESAC assess the... | {
"abstract": "An interlaboratory validation study was carried out in seven laboratories to evaluate the suitability of in vitro serological assay systems for the assessment of the potency of tetanus toxoid in single and multicomponent vaccines for veterinary use. Nine commercial vaccines and one experimental tetanus... |
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"abstract": "INTRODUCTION\nInduction of labour (IOL) nowadays is a common procedure in obstetric practice. The success of IOL largely depends upon \"favourability\" or \"readiness\" cervix which is traditionally assessed by manual examination and Scored as Bishop Score. However, this method is limited by subjectivi... | {
"abstract": "Aim: The aim of this retrospective study was to investigate the influence of gestational age and mode of delivery at term on early neonatal morbidity and mortality in a tertiary maternity center in a 10-year period. Materials and methods: The data were derived from the medical records between January 1... | {
"abstract": "This report describes the long-term outcomes of nonsurgical periodontal therapy and supportive periodontal treatment (SPT) of a 21-year-old patient affected by generalized aggressive periodontitis at multiple teeth with a compromised prognosis. After 25 years of SPT, no teeth had been extracted and no ... |
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"abstract": "ABSTRACT Previous studies have suggested that paternal vocabulary selection in speech to young children may be more diverse or demanding than that of mothers. This study examined the speech of eight mothers and eight fathers to their young language learning children. Nominal usage was subjected to TTR ... | {
"abstract": ": The verbal interaction of 12 mothers and 12 fathers with their 19-month-old girls and boys in 2 situations was assessed. In 1 situation, all 3 family members were together, while in the other, each parent was alone with the child. Analyses indicated that when all 3 family members were together, fathe... | {
"abstract": "To compensate for the limited number of morphological characteristics of fish eggs and larvae, we established a convenient and robust method of species identification for eggs of the Japanese eel (Anguilla japonica) using a real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) that can be performed onboard researc... |
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"abstract": "BACKGROUND\nThe frequencies of isocitrate dehydrogenase (IDH) 1 and IDH2 mutations among patients with de novo acute myeloid leukemia (AML) are different among different ethnic groups. The aim of this study was to determine the frequencies of IDH1 and IDH2 mutations among Egyptian AML patients and its ... | {
"abstract": "Isocitrate dehydrogenase 2 (IDH2) is a mitochondrial NADP-dependent isocitrate dehydrogenase. It is considered to be a novel tumor suppressor in several types of tumors. However, the role and related mechanism of IDH2 in osteosarcoma remain unknown. The expression and significance of IDH2 were investig... | {
"abstract": "Venture capital financing is widely believed to be influential for new innovative companies. We provide empirical evidence that venture capital financing is related to product market strategies and outcomes of start-ups. Using a unique hand-collected database of Silicon Valley high-tech start-ups we fi... |
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"abstract": "SummaryThe distribution of the vitamin-D dependent calcium-binding protein (Calbindin-D 28K) (CaBP-28K) in the tibial growth plate cartilage of the rat has been studied immunohistochemically using an antibody raised against rat renal CaBP-28K. The protein was detected mainly in the nuclei of chondrocyt... | {
"abstract": "SummaryImmunocytochemical reaction for demonstration of calbindin D-28K has been performed in superficial pineal bodies of the Mongolian gerbil (Meriones unguiculatus) and the rat. Whereas in the Mongolian gerbil there were no clearly expressed calbindin immunoreactive cells, these were numerous in the... | {
"abstract": "Superresolution microscopy (SRM) has become an enabling tool for biomedical research. A major limitation of SRM, however, is the small field-of-view (FOV), typically ∼50µm x 50µm and up to ∼200µm x 200µm in recent attempts, hampering its use in imaging large cell populations or clinical tissues. Here w... |
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"abstract": "The meaning of temperature in nonequilibrium thermodynamics is considered by using a forced harmonic oscillator in a heat bath, where we have two effective temperatures for the position and the momentum, respectively. We propose a concrete model of a thermometer to testify the validity of these differe... | {
"abstract": "An in-depth study of the thermodynamics of nonequilibrium radiation is presented. The characterization of its nonequilibrium macroscopic state is performed in the framework of Informational Statistical Thermodynamics. This is done in terms of a nonequilibrium Dirac–Landau–Wigner single particle density... | {
"abstract": "Over 50 years in the history of accelerator physics, RF cavities have been used as beam position and intensity monitors. Their structure has been extensively discussed across numerous papers reporting their successful operation (a review can be found in [1]). The application of RF cavities as pickups h... |
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"abstract": "Recently, [Bra17] showed that the single-swap heuristic for weighted metric uncapacitated facility location and $K$-Means is tightly PLS-complete. We build upon this work and present a stronger reduction, which proves tight PLS-completeness for the unweighted version of both problems.",
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"abstract": "Metric facility location and K-means are well-known problems of combinatorial optimization. Both admit a fairly simple heuristic called single-swap, which adds, drops or swaps open facilities until it reaches a local optimum. For both problems, it is known that this algorithm produces a solution that i... | {
"abstract": "The k-means method is a widely used technique for clustering points in Euclidean space. While it is extremely fast in practice, its worst-case running time is exponential in the number of data points. We prove that the k-means method can implicitly solve PSPACE-complete problems, providing a complexity... |
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"abstract": "We describe our experience in the development of self-managing technologies in Sybase SQL Anywhere, a full-featured relational database system that is commonly embedded with applications developed by Independent Software Vendors (ISVs). We illustrate how SQL Anywhere’s embeddability features work in co... | {
"abstract": "Enterprise storage systems are facing enormous challenges due to increasing growth and heterogeneity of the data stored. Designing future storage systems requires comprehensive insights that existing trace analysis methods are ill-equipped to supply. In this paper, we seek to provide such insights by u... | {
"abstract": "Recently, many studies have emphasized the role of body movements in \nprocessing, sharing and giving meaning to music. At the same time, neuroscience \nstudies, suggest that different parts of the brain are integrated and activated by the same \nstimuli: sounds, for example, can be perceived by touch ... |
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"abstract": "A rotating fan could produce noise of both broadband and discrete frequency. The discrete part typically consists of shaft frequency, blade passage frequency (BPF) and their higher harmonics. The shaft-order noise, which is mainly induced by unbalanced rotating, is often hard to be eliminated. In this ... | {
"abstract": "In this paper, a CMOS digitized wind transducer with noise insensitivity for wind environmental applications is newly proposed. The proposed chip is attractive due to the fact that it can monitor the present wind conditions and then quickly response to controllers or computers by combing various wind s... | {
"abstract": "In this paper the Regional Entrepreneurship and Development Index (REDI) has been constructed for capturing the contextual features of entrepreneurship across EU regions. The REDI method builds on the National Systems of Entrepreneurship Theory and provides a way to profile Regional Systems of Entrepre... |
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"abstract": "Chemotactic factors produced by stromal cells in the bone marrow are characterized. Two kinds of factors produced by stromal cell lines are identified using blind-well Boyden's Chambers; one is a neutrophil-chemotactic factor and the other a hematopoietic stem cell (HSC)-chemotactic factor. The latter ... | {
"abstract": "We have studied the in vivo proliferation and differential properties of murine bone marrow cells (BMC) differing in mitochondrial activity. Following centrifugal elutriation, the cells were sorted on the basis of rhodamine-123 (Rh) fluorescence intensity within a predetermined light scatter window. Un... | {
"abstract": "Protein based biotherapeutics have emerged as a successful class of pharmaceuticals. However, these macromolecules endure a variety of physicochemical degradations during manufacturing, shipping, and storage, which may adversely impact the drug product quality. Of these degradations, the irreversible s... |
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"abstract": "Increasingly companies and governments are turning to enterprise versions of social software to accomplish organizational goals. Unlike public social media, access to Enterprise Social Media (ESM) is normally restricted to the organization or key strategic partners. We know from research on Information... | {
"abstract": "The recent decade has witnessed a mass proliferation of information systems enabled, community-based, social networking. Such proliferation has contributed to seismic social and political movements around the globe, but is yet to make a noticeable imprint in business organisations. While many researche... | {
"abstract": "This paper presents the findings of two studies that replicate previous work by Fred Davis on the subject of perceived usefulness, ease of use, and usage of information technology. The two studies focus on evaluating the psychometric properties of the ease of use and usefulness scales, while examining ... |
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"abstract": "Traditionally, frequency spectrum is licensed to users by government agencies in a fixed manner where licensee has exclusive right to access the allocated band. This policy has been de jure practice to protect systems from mutual interference for many years. However, with increasing demand for the spec... | {
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"abstract": "The expectation-maximization (EM) method can facilitate maximizing likelihood functions that arise in statistical estimation problems. In the classical EM paradigm, one iteratively maximizes the conditional log-likelihood of a single unobservable complete data space, rather than maximizing the intracta... |
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"abstract": "Liquid-liquid microextraction using the water immiscible ionic liquid, 1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium bis(trifluoromethylsulfonyl)imide, EMIM NtfO₂, for the concentration and cleanup of basic compounds for analysis by CE has been investigated. Using an electrolyte comprising 1 mol/L alanine and 3 mol/L ac... | {
"abstract": "The separation of three flavonoids, kaempferol, quercetin and luteolin, by capillary zone electrophoresis with three 1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium ionic liquids (ILs), namely chloride, hydrogen sulfate and tetrafluoroborate salts, under non-aqueous conditions using acetonitrile as solvent was investigate... | {
"abstract": "Hydrophilic interaction liquid chromatography (HILIC) is an alternative technique to ion pairing-reversed-phase liquid chromatography (IP-RPLC) and classical RPLC for separation of alkylimidazolium room-temperature ionic liquids (RTILs). Particularly, HILIC offers better retention and selectivity for s... |
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"abstract": "Frege hoped that the theories of mathematics could be given bases of self-evident axioms. As far as possible, the aim was the reduction of mathematics to logic; the axioms grounding mathematical theories should be logical principles, and the rules of inference used to move from the axioms to the theory... | {
"abstract": "According to logical empiricist orthodoxy, while science is a posteriori, contentful and (at least in principle) fallible, mathematics is a priori, tautologous and infallible. It may therefore come as a surprise for the historian of ideas to find statements by some of the best contemporary experts in f... | {
"abstract": "In the current study, we aimed to examine the function of scutellarin on human osteoblast proliferation and osteogenic function. The results indicated that scutellarin enhanced osteoblast proliferation over a seven day period. This increase in cell proliferation was associated with corresponding increa... |
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"abstract": "ABSTRACT Scientists regularly evaluate alternative explanations of phenomena and solutions to problems. Students should similarly engage in critical evaluation when learning about scientific and engineering topics. However, students do not often demonstrate sophisticated evaluation skills in the classr... | {
"abstract": "Developing critical thinking ability is one of the main goals of medical education, in part because it enhances clinical reasoning, a vital competence in clinical practice. However, there is limited evidence suggesting ways to effectively teach critical thinking in the classroom. Here, we describe the ... | {
"abstract": "We aimed to provide the most comprehensive picture, to date, of service utilization and help-seeking behavior for mental health problems among college students in the United States. We conducted online surveys in 2007 and 2009 of random samples of students in 26 campuses nationwide. Among students with... |
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"abstract": "Abstract Aqueous two-phase systems demix slowly due to similar physical properties. This is one of the major drawbacks for their adaptation for industrial scale extraction of enzymes. In the present work, a method to accelerate the demixing rates of these systems, employing a traveling acoustic wave fi... | {
"abstract": "Publisher Summary This chapter discusses aqueous two-phase extraction (ATPE) for downstream processing of enzymes or proteins. Downstream processing in many fermentation processes accounts for a large share of the total cost. The ATPE appears to be a promising technique for efficient downstream process... | {
"abstract": "Partitioning of beta-galactosidase in aqueous two-phase systems of poly(ethylene glycol) and potassium phosphate is reviewed. The affinity of Escherichia coli beta-galactosidase for the PEG-rich phase dominates also in beta-galactosidase fusion proteins and the concept of using beta-galactosidase as an... |
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"abstract": "There is an increasing need to quickly understand the contents log data. A wide range of patterns can be computed and provide valuable information: for example existence of repeated sequences of events or periodic behaviors. However patternminingtechniquesoftenproducemanypatternsthathave to be examined... | {
"abstract": "We present a framework for interactive visual pattern mining. Our system enables the user to browse through the data and patterns easily and intuitively, using a toolbox consisting of interestingness measures, mining algorithms and post-processing algorithms to assist in identifying interesting pattern... | {
"abstract": "In this paper, a cell zooming based dynamic base stations (BS) switching scheme is conceived for energy saving in cellular networks. A cell zooming algorithm is developed for leveraging the BS's coverage with inter-cell cooperation and downlink power control. Meanwhile, we design a feasible working str... |
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"abstract": "Purpose of review Several invasive and noninvasive tests for risk stratification of sudden cardiac death (SCD) have been studied. Tests such as microwave T wave alternans (repolarization abnormality) and signal-averaged ECG (depolarization abnormality) have high negative predictive values but low posit... | {
"abstract": "Background— Conduction abnormalities serve as a substrate for ventricular fibrillation (VF) in patients with Brugada syndrome (BS). Signal-averaged electrograms can detect late potentials, but the significance of conduction abnormalities within the QRS complex is still unknown. The latter can present a... | {
"abstract": "BackgroundThrombolytic therapy reduces mortality after acute myocardial infarction, even when treatment is initiated relatively late after onset of symptoms. The mechanism underlying this survival benefit is incompletely understood. Methods and ResultsIn a prospectively designed ancillary study of a ra... |
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"abstract": "Although recent works in semi-supervised learning (SemiSL) have accomplished significant success in natural image segmentation, the task of learning discriminative representations from limited annotations has been an open problem in medical images. Contrastive Learning (CL) frameworks use the notion of... | {
"abstract": "The recently proposed temporal ensembling has achieved state-of-the-art results in several semi-supervised learning benchmarks. It maintains an exponential moving average of label predictions on each training example, and penalizes predictions that are inconsistent with this target. However, because th... | {
"abstract": "Producing densely annotated data is a difficult and tedious task for medical imaging applications. \nTo address this problem, we propose a novel approach to generate supervision for semi-supervised semantic segmentation. \nWe argue that visually similar regions between labeled and unlabeled images like... |
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"abstract": "Nanoindentation tests were performed on nanostructured transparent magnesium aluminate (MgAl2O4) ceramics to determine their mechanical properties. These tests were carried out on samples at different applied loads ranging from 300 to 9,000 μN. The elastic recovery for nanostructured transparent MgAl2O... | {
"abstract": "Abstract MgAl2O4-MgO eutectic ceramics were fabricated by the laser-heated floating zone (LFZ) method with various growth rates to assess its possible beneficial effect on microstructural aspects and mechanical properties. It was determined that the growth rate optimizing the microstructure and mechani... | {
"abstract": "A series of five unique d-f heteronuclear luminescent metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) in an entangled polyrotaxane array and the light-harvesting block homonuclear zinc compound have been isolated successfully and characterized. The series of isostructural polymers feature 3,4-connected (4.82)(4.83.92)... |
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"abstract": "Frequency compensation of two-stage integrated-circuit operational amplifiers is normally accomplished with a capacitor around the second stage. This compensation capacitance creates the desired dominant-pole behavior in the open-loop transfer function of the op-amp. Circuit analysis of this compensati... | {
"abstract": "MOS Devices as Circuit Elements. Basic Analog CMOS Subcircuits. CMOS Operational Amplifier. Comparators. Digital-to-Analog Converters. Analog-to-Digital Converters. Practical Considerations and Design Examples. Index.",
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"abstract": "This study was conducted to examine the role of bradykinin in the persistence of the renal vasodilator effect of captopril during angiotensin II receptor blockade. Blood pressure and renal blood flow were monitored in eight groups of pentobarbital-anesthetized rabbits. In group 4, captopril alone was a... |
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"abstract": "This paper has described some initial work in developing a planar electromagnetic sensor for use in nondestructive evaluation (NDE) of saxophone reeds. Both theoretical and experimental approaches were undertaken. The results obtained serve as a starting point for development of a commercial sensor. Th... | {
"abstract": "A new application of eddy current testing techniques for investigating trace defects on printed circuit boards is proposed. A test probe consisting of a meander type exciting coil is used to induce eddy currents. The following three experiments are conducted: measuring the induced signal when a circuit... | {
"abstract": "This paper presents the development of an on-line pre-concentration system to determine cadmium(II) in aqueous samples. The analyte was trapped in a mini-column filled with Al(2)O(3) in the form of macro-spheres obtained by the mixture of Al(NO(3))(3).9H(2)O(aq) and chitosan dissolved in acetic acid. T... |
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"abstract": "Intelligent embedded systems are of increasing importance in industrial and consumer applications and systems. Application domains comprise, e.g., mobile communication devices, games, monitoring devices or medical implants. In particular with the increasing variety of sensor devices, intelligent system... | {
"abstract": "Given a real-valued time function x(t), its nth-order autocorrelation function is defined by {if121-1} It is easy to see that this function is translation invariant in the sense that x(t) and y(t) = x(t + τ) have the same nth-order autocorrelation function. In this paper we investigate the properties o... | {
"abstract": "A molecular descriptor space has been developed which describes structural diversity. Large databases of molecules have been mapped into it and compared. This analysis used five chemical databases, CMC and MDDR, which represent knowledge bases containing active medicinal agents, ACD and SPECS, two data... |
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"abstract": "Abstract B-cell activating factor-receptor (BAFF-R) is the primary BAFF receptor that is responsible for promoting B-cell development and survival. Malignant B-cells exploit the BAFF/BAFF-R system, and high serum BAFF levels or genetic alterations in BAFF receptors have been found in B-cell cancers. BA... | {
"abstract": "The B cell activating factor belonging to the tumor necrosis factor family (BAFF) is required for B cell survival and maturation. The mechanisms by which BAFF mediates B cell survival are less understood. We found that BAFF and a proliferation-inducing ligand (APRIL), which are related, block B cell an... | {
"abstract": "Quercus coccifera L., the characteristic scrub oak of the garrigue, covers more than 100,000 ha in southern France alone. Precipitation in this area averages 900 mm/year and summer rains are not rare. A total belowground biomass of 7.2 kg/m2, including rhizomes and lignotubers, was harvested. Roots wer... |
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"abstract": "Abstract At birth, severe thrombocytopenia without context of infection should mainly suggest neonatal alloimmune thrombocytopenia (NAIT), especially in case of a platelet count below 20 GL−1. We report two cases of severe neonatal thrombocytopenia, first suspected as being NAIT. Both had a platelet co... | {
"abstract": "The common autosomally inherited mucocutaneous bleeding disorder, von Willebrand disease (VWD) results from quantitative or qualitative defects in plasma von Willebrand factor (VWF). Mutation can affect VWF quantity or its functions mediating platelet adhesion and aggregation at sites of vascular damag... | {
"abstract": "Although rare, the prevalence of inherited platelet function disorders (IPFD) is probably underestimated due to under-diagnosis [1]. IPFD are heterogeneous in severity, mechanisms and frequency and few are characterized at the molecular level. While severe IPFD, such as Glanzmann Thrombasthenia (GT) or... |
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"abstract": "Conventional high-temperature reactions limit the control of coordination polyhedra in transition-metal oxides to those obtainable within the bounds of known coordination geometries for a given transition metal. For example, iron atoms are almost exclusively coordinated by three-dimensional polyhedra s... | {
"abstract": "Determination of magnetic structure is an important analytical procedure utilized in various fields ranging from fundamental condensed-matter physics and chemistry to advanced manufacturing. It is typically performed using a neutron diffraction technique; however, finding global solutions of the magnet... | {
"abstract": "Nanocomposite materials provide the possibility for multifunctional properties in contrast with their more-limited single-component counterparts. Here, we report the synthesis and characterization of the first all-inorganic core/shell hybrid magnetic-optical nanoparticle, cobalt/cadmium selenide. The c... |
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"abstract": "OBJECTIVE\nThe purpose of this paper was to describe patients' use of a multi-component eHealth application, WebChoice, designed to support cancer patients in illness management. With WebChoice patients can monitor their symptoms, obtain individually tailored, evidence-based self-management support, as... | {
"abstract": "BackgroundEuropean citizens are increasingly being offered Internet health services. This study investigated patterns of health-related Internet use, its consequences, and citizens' expectations about their doctors' provision of e-health services.MethodsRepresentative samples were obtained from the gen... | {
"abstract": "We carried out a seroepidemiologic survey to define the prevalence of human T cell lymphotropic virus types 1/2 (HTLV-1/2) infections among aboriginal populations from isolated regions of northern Argentina and the Amazon region of Peru. Antibodies against HTLV were measured with agglutination tests an... |
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"abstract": "Spermatozoa, fluids, and principal cells from different regions of the epididymis were characterized by two-dimensional electrophoresis. Rete testis fluid was collected after 36-h efferent duct ligation, and cauda epididymal fluid was collected by retrograde perfusion through the vas deferens. Spermato... | {
"abstract": "Spermatozoa from the testis and cauda epididymidis were solubilized by detergent treatment and electrophoresis on SDS polyacrylamide gels revealed that the relative amounts of 13 detergent-extractable proteins decreased during passage of spermatozoa through the epididymis, 6 increased, whilst the remai... | {
"abstract": "Summary. Boar seminal plasma, vesicular secretion and epididymal plasma proteins were studied by gel disc electrophoresis at pH 4\\m=.\\5and 8\\m=.\\6and by isoelectric focusing in tubes and on plates using ampholines of pH range 3 to 10. The number of protein bands obtained in the gel disc electrophor... |
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"abstract": "During a survey for grasshopper pathogens in Argentina in 2005-2006, individual Covasacris pallidinota from halophylous grasslands in Laprida, Buenos Aires province were found to be infected with a microsporidium. Infection was restricted to the salivary gland epithelial cells. The microsporidium produ... | {
"abstract": "A microsporidium of the mosquito Aedes aegypti (L.), identified as Nosema aedis Kudo, 1930, was found to be a heterosporous species with 3 sporulation sequences. Usually, 1 sequence developed in a parental generation host individual that was infected per os as a larva and the other 2 developed concurre... | {
"abstract": "The tubulin gene family, which includes alpha-,beta-, and gamma-tubulin subfamilies, is composed of highly conserved proteins which are the principle structural and functional components of eukaryotic microtubules. We are interested in (1) establishing when in eukaryotic evolution the duplications lead... |
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"abstract": "The existing social recommendation models mostly utilize various explicit user-generated information. Although there exist a few studies adopting the implicit relationship between users for social recommendation, however, these studies do not consider the deeper social relationship, nor simultaneously ... | {
"abstract": "The Web has grown into one of the most important channels to communicate social events nowadays. However, the sheer volume of events available in event-based social networks (EBSNs) often undermines the users' ability to choose the events that best fit their interests. Recommender systems appear as a n... | {
"abstract": "The preferred treatment for kidney failure is a transplant; however, demand for donor kidneys far outstrips supply. Kidney exchange, an innovation where willing but incompatible patient-donor pairs can exchange organs—via barter cycles and altruist-initiated chains—provides a life-saving alternative. T... |
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"abstract": "We report on the thermoelectric properties of large-area high-aspect-ratio nanostructures. We fabricate the structures by atomic layer deposition of conformal ZnO thin films on track-etched polycarbonate substrate. The resulting structure consists of ZnO tubules which continue through the full thicknes... | {
"abstract": "Abstract High-aspect ratio porous structures with controllable pore diameters and without a stiff substrate can be fabricated using the ion track technique. Atomic layer deposition is an ideal technique for depositing thin films and functional surfaces on complicated 3D structures due to the high confo... | {
"abstract": "This study synthesizes Al-doped ZnO (AZO) nanoparticles using a chemical colloid process. Raman scattering analysis shows that Al doping increases the lattice defects and induces Raman vibration modes of 651 cm−1. The Raman shift of the active mode E2 (high) of AZO nanoparticles shows the presence and ... |
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"abstract": "Among 1076 schoolchildren aged about 7, four were found to have anomalous elevation of the optic disc attributable to buried drusen. No superficial optic disc drusen were found in any of the children examined. The optic disc anomaly due to buried drusen is peculiar to children. The frequency of the con... | {
"abstract": "ObjectiveTo compare visual field loss (VFL) in eyes with optic nerve head drusen (ONHD) with or without ocular hypertension (OHT). MethodsThe records of all patients aged 45 years or older with a diagnosis of ONHD at 2 centers were reviewed. OHT was defined as intraocular pressure ≥22 mm Hg. We categor... | {
"abstract": "Involvement of the retina in cases of tuberous sclerosis escaped notice until 1921, when van der Hoeve, 1 of Amsterdam, Netherlands, published a clinical report describing six cases of tuberous sclerosis in which tumors of the retina were observed through the ophthalmoscope. Since then a number of clin... |
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"abstract": "This paper describes the use of the Direct Memory Access (DMA) paradigm in a practical natural language interface. Advantages and disadvantages of DMA in such applications are discussed. The DMA natural language interface 'DM-COMMAND' described in this paper is being used for development of a knowledge... | {
"abstract": "Real-time understanding of speech input is difficult especially because the input is often noisy and elliptic. Multiple morphophonemic and lexical hypotheses generated for a single input sentence cannot be resolved by local semantics alone. We have developed a system in which unification-based parsing ... | {
"abstract": "This thesis introduces an efficient context-free parsing algorithm and emphasizes its practical value in natural language processing. In the theoretical worst case analysis, the parsing algorithm occasionally takes more than O(n('3)) time with kinds of context-free grammars which are very unlikely to a... |
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"abstract": "Background Patients with lipoprotein lipase (LPL) deficiency had been generally thought to be spared accelerated atherosclerosis in spite of a marked elevation of plasma triglyceride levels. However, it has been recently reported that some heterozygous and homozygous LPL‐deficient patients are associat... | {
"abstract": "Lipoprotein lipase degrades triglycerides in plasma and as a byproduct produces HDL particles. Genetic variation in lipoprotein lipase may therefore affect cardiovascular risk. We tested 9,214 men and women from a general population sample and 948 patients with ischemic heart disease for the Asn291Ser ... | {
"abstract": "Primary polycythemia is remarkable chiefly for its chronicity and the unusual variations which occur in its course and terminal phases. The disease may be of many years' duration, and the clinical changes may develop so insidiously as to make it impossible to determine the transition from one stage to ... |
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"abstract": "The goal of this paper is to investigate (locally) risk-minimizing hedging strategies under the benchmark approach in a financial semimartingale market model where there are restrictions on the available information. More precisely, we characterize the optimal strategy as the integrand appearing in the... | {
"abstract": "A 'filtered' martingale problem is defined for the problem of estimating a process X from observations of Y, where (X,Y) is Markov. We give conditions on the generator of (X,Y) that imply that the conditional distribution is the unique solution to this filtered martingale problem. We apply this result ... | {
"abstract": "This paper investigates the iterative decoding for spectrally efficient two-way relay (TWR) communications in which two end nodes exchange information through a relay (R). With the use of physical-layer network coding (PNC), information exchange throughput can be significantly improved as only two orth... |
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"abstract": "Abstract Rabbit hearts were perfused in vitro with Tyrode's solution or low sodium media (17 mm Na+) substituted with either KCl (low Na-high K) or urea (low Na-urea). Samples of right atrial tissues were removed for fluorescence and electron microscopy after 5, 15 and 120 min. In separate experiments,... | {
"abstract": "Abstract The relation between matrix density and noradrenaline content has been investigated in a fraction of small noradrenergic storage vesicles obtained from seminal ducts of castrated rats by density gradient centrifugation. This preparation contained numerous dense-cored small vesicles with an inc... | {
"abstract": "Electrical and mechanical responses of vascular smooth muscle to variations in extracellular osmolarity were analysed in a previous study using isolated preparations of rat portal vein (Johansson and Jonsson 1968). The purpose of the present investigation has been to measure the changes in the volume o... |
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"abstract": "OBJECTIVES\nThe aim of this study was to assess whether global longitudinal strain (GLS) measured early during treatment with anthracycline (at a cumulative dose of 150mg/m2) can predict subsequent alterations in left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF).\n\n\nMETHODS AND RESULTS\nEighty-six patients s... | {
"abstract": "The cardiotoxicity of chemotherapy (CTx) for non-Hodgkin’s lymphomas is not well recognized. In order to facilitate individual risk counseling for patients, we analyzed the effect of CTx on echocardiographic indices in regard to clinical data in patients treated for non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma (NHL). A pros... | {
"abstract": "PURPOSE\nTrastuzumab is effective in treating human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) -positive breast cancer, but it increases frequency of cardiac dysfunction (CD) when used with or after anthracyclines.\n\n\nPATIENTS AND METHODS\nNational Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Project trial B-31... |
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"abstract": "A critical optimization in the domain of linear signal transforms, such as the discrete Fourier transform (DFT), is loop merging, which increases data locality and reuse and thus performance. In particular, this includes the conversion of shuffle operations into array reindexings. To date, loop merging... | {
"abstract": "Traditional array dependence analysis, which detects potential memory aliasing of array references is a key analysis technique for automatic parallelization. Recent studies of benchmark codes indicate that limitations of analysis cause many compilers to overlook large amounts of potential parallelism, ... | {
"abstract": "We describe an extension of our graphics processing unit (GPU) electronic structure program TeraChem to include atom-centered Gaussian basis sets with d angular momentum functions. This was made possible by a \"meta-programming\" strategy that leverages computer algebra systems for the derivation of eq... |
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"abstract": "Compared with fully actuated systems, underactuated systems present such advantages as simpler structure, broader applications, and so on. Yet, the control of this kind of system proves to be a very challenging problem since the number of control inputs is less than that of the degrees of freedom, whic... | {
"abstract": "This brief proposes a motion planning-based adaptive control strategy for an underactuated overhead crane system. To improve the transportation efficiency and enhance the safety of the crane system, the trolley is required to reach the desired position fast enough, while the swing of the payload needs ... | {
"abstract": "A method that can be used to perform self-propulsion computations of surface ships is presented. The propeller is gridded as an overset object with a rotational velocity that is imposed by a speed controller, which finds the self-propulsion point when the ship reaches the target Froude number in a sing... |
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"abstract": "Lead poisoning from ingested shots is thought to be a major cause of high mortality in waterfowls throughout the world, and some millions of fowls die each year. However, there have been no other Japanese studies regarding lead toxicity in birds from ingested lead shots. We used domestic fowls instead ... | {
"abstract": "American kestrels (Falco sparverius) were randomly paired and fed 0, 10, or 50 ppm metallic lead in their diet from November 1979–May 1980. Lead levels were elevated in bones and livers of birds receiving the treated diets, particularly the 50 ppm treatment group. Differential deposition of lead was no... | {
"abstract": "Pixel shrink is a driving force for novel CMOS image sensor development used in mobile and DSC applications. This paper describes the latest results in super small, sub 2μm pixel development at Micron Technology, Inc. Presented are results of optical and electrical characterization of super small pixel... |
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"abstract": "Many of the properties of thick lenses can be understood by considering these as a combination of parallel ideal thin lenses that share a common optical axis. A similar analysis can also be applied to many other optical systems. Consequently, combinations of ideal lenses that share a common optical axi... | {
"abstract": "Wave optics can limit the ways in which optical components can change lightray elds. Optical components called METATOYs trade in the continuity of the phase fronts and the precision to which they change light-ray elds in return for",
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"abstract": "An analysis of visco-elastic free convective transient MHD flow over a vertical porous plate through porous media in presence of radiation and chemical reaction with heat and mass transfer is presented. A transverse variable suction velocity is applied on the porous plate. The equations governing the f... |
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"abstract": "AbstractThe relationship between day-to-day variability of equatorial plasma bubbles (EPBs) and the neutral atmosphere is studied. This study is based on the previous study in which the GPS scintillation index and the tropospheric cloud-top temperature are used as proxies for EPB activity and atmospher... | {
"abstract": "In this paper, we address the day‐to‐day variation in the development of equatorial plasma bubble (EPB) using simultaneous observations made by the 30 MHz Gadanki Ionospheric Radar Interferometer (GIRI) and ionosonde (DPS‐4D) from Gadanki and C/NOFS. We show that wave‐like variations with horizontal wa... | {
"abstract": "Large eddy simulations of turbulent flows are known to suffer from two separate error sources: the subgrid stress model and the numerical discretization scheme. In general, the two sources of error cannot be separately quantified for finite-difference/finite-volume CFD simulations. The motivation of th... |
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"abstract": "We develop an economic growth model in which both the R&D resources to develop new product applications and the market structure of consumption goods manufacturing are determined endogenously. There exists uncertainty with respect to the development date of an inaugural product, although higher R&D spe... | {
"abstract": "We develop a two-country model of endogenous innovation and imitation in order to study the interactions between these two processes. Firms in the North race to bring out the next generation of a set of technology-intensive products. Each product potentially can be improved a countably infinite number ... | {
"abstract": "This paper presents evidence on the long-run trends in U. S. regional specialization and localization and examines which model of regional specialization is most consistent with the data. Regional specialization in the United States rose substantially between 1860 and the turn of the twentieth century,... |
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"abstract": "The functions and underlying mechanisms of homeobox B9 (HOXB9) in scar formation remain unclear; therefore, the present study aimed to investigate whether HOXB9 is highly expressed in hypertrophic scar formation. Immunohistochemistry was performed to examine the expression levels of laminin, fibronecti... | {
"abstract": "We previously reported that HOXB9 is overexpressed in colon cancer and predicts a favourable patient outcome, which is opposite to the tumour-promoting role of HOXB9 in other cancers. We hypothesized that HOXB9 acetylation may account for its inhibitory role in colon cancer. We aim to examine the role ... | {
"abstract": "Murine bone marrow was separated on continuous Percoll density gradients to analyze the distribution of cells of the megakaryocyte lineage. Eighty‐seven percent of the recovered megakaryocytes were found in fractions of density less than 1.058 g/cm3, with 63% of these cells found between 1.020 and 1.03... |
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"abstract": "Environmental Health Perspectives (EHP) established the Paper of the Year in 2008 (Tilson 2008) as a way of highlighting high-quality articles published in the journal. The EHP Classic Paper of the Year is given to the most highly cited Research Article, Commentary, or Review Article over the preceding... | {
"abstract": "The hypothesis of fetal origins of adult disease posits that early developmental exposures involve epigenetic modifications, such as DNA methylation, that influence adult disease susceptibility. In utero or neonatal exposure to bisphenol A (BPA), a high-production-volume chemical used in the manufactur... | {
"abstract": "We argue that combining direct numerical simulation (DNS) with large‐eddy simulation (LES) and field studies could accelerate current lines of stratocumulus research. LES allows for a faster and more holistic study of the parameter space, but LES is sensitive to details of its formulation because the e... |
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"abstract": "We perform a numerical simulation of the mapping of charge confined in quantum dots by the scanning probe technique. We solve the few-electron Schrödinger equation with the exact diagonalization approach and evaluate the energy maps as a function of the probe position. Next, from the energy maps we try... | {
"abstract": "We propose a spin-sensitive scanning probe microscopy experiment on double quantum dots in Pauli blockade conditions. Electric spin resonance is induced by an AC voltage applied to the scanning gate which induces lifting of the Pauli blockade of the current. The stationary Hamiltonian eigenstates are u... | {
"abstract": "This thesis is centred on modelling and multi-objective optimization of Safety Instrumented Systems (SIS) in compliance with the standard IEC 61508. SIS are in charge of monitoring that the operating conditions of a plant remain under safe limits and free of hazards. Their performance is, therefore, cr... |
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"abstract": "Glaucoma is a progressive optic neuropathy with a typical optic disc appearance and a par ticular loss of sensitivity in visual field testing. Its disc appearance includes enlargement of the disc cup toward the rim, undercutting of the rim tissue, and deepening of the cup floor. These features are all... | {
"abstract": "We matched 17 eye f patients with op nangle glaucoma with 17 eye of patient with glaucoma-like di cs b di c area iz . We fund no significant diff r nc between th two group for the t tal di c wilh re pecl to cup v lum ,area, depth, neur retinal rim ar a, lope and area f pallor. However, a ignificant dif... | {
"abstract": "Panoramic dental X-ray is widely used in many medical fields. Panoramic dental X-ray helps to extract the entire mouth in single image. The extracted image used by dentist and surgeons to plan for the treatment for implants, dentures etc. For the accurate prediction of treatment. In this proposed metho... |
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"abstract": "Detailed structural organization in organic films are investigated using grazing incidence X-ray scattering (GIXS) methods. The key structural features are revealed and the influence of specific side chain positions and shapes are characterized. A correlation between the fill factor (FF) of the corresp... | {
"abstract": "Advances in the design and application of highly efficient conjugated polymers and small molecules over the past years have enabled the rapid progress in the development of organic photovoltaic (OPV) technology as a promising alternative to conventional solar cells. Among the numerous OPV materials, be... | {
"abstract": "The partial molal volumes, \\barV°, of [M(phen)3]Cl2 (M=Fe(II), Co(II), Ni(II), Cu(II), and Zn(II)) and 1,10-phenanthroline were determined from density measurements at 25 °C. From the values for \\barV° of [M(phen)3]2+, M2+ and phen the volume changes for complex formation of [M(phen)3]2+, Δ\\barV°, w... |
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"abstract": "In this paper we will discuss structure and motion problems for curved surfaces. These will be studied using the silhouettes or apparent contours in the images. The problem of determining camera motion from the apparent contours of curved three-dimensional surfaces, is studied. It will be shown how spe... | {
"abstract": "This paper is a study of the motion eld generated by moving 3D curves which are observed by a camera. We rst discuss the relationship between optical ow and motion eld and show that the assumptions made in the computation of the optical ow are a bit diicult to defend. We then go ahead to study the moti... | {
"abstract": "This is the second of a series of articles applying Monte Carlo simulation-based photon migration as a means of enhancing understanding of near-infrared (NIR) diffuse reflectance in pharmaceutical analysis. This work utilizes Monte Carlo simulation to explore photon movement along the radial direction,... |
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"abstract": "With the total energy consumption of computing systems increasing in a steep rate, much attention has been paid to the design of energy-efficient computing systems and applications. So far, database system design has focused on improving performance of query processing. The objective of this study is t... | {
"abstract": "Database management systems (DBMSs) have largely ignored the task of managing the energy consumed during query processing. Both economical and environmental factors now require that DBMSs pay close attention to energy consumption. In this paper we approach this issue by considering energy consumption a... | {
"abstract": "[Introduction]: Traditionally, philosophers have defined emotions to be interruptions to otherwise logical states of being (Smith & Kirby, 2000). The recent resurgence of research in the emotional realm in both psychology and cognitive science agrees with the view developed by the late Charles Darwin w... |
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"abstract": "and outcomes of aerosol therapy: evidence-based guidelines; American College of Chest Physicians/American College of Asthma, Allergy, and Immunology. Chest 2005; 127:335–471 6 Hogue CW Jr, Creswell LL, Guterman DD, et al. Epidemiology, mechanisms, and risks: American College of Chest Physicians guideli... | {
"abstract": "Research and surveillance activities involving airborne pathogens rely on the capture and enumeration of pathogens suspended in aerosols. The objective of this study was to estimate the analytical sensitivity (detection threshold) of each of 4 air samplers for Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndr... | {
"abstract": "Quichua Indian mothers have traditionally served as primary health caretakers for the families of Saraguro in highland Ecuador. A hospital has recently opened, providing biomedical health care and programs in preventive medicine for local indigenous commmunities. Opposition to the new facility has aris... |
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"title": "Skip-Gram - Zipf + Uniform = Vector Additivity"
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"abstract": "Vector-space word representations have been very successful in recent years at improving performance across a variety of NLP tasks. However, common to most existing work, words are regarded as independent entities without any explicit relationship among morphologically related words being modeled. As a... | {
"abstract": "ContextThe prevalence of overweight and obesity has increased markedly in the ::: last 2 decades in the United States.ObjectiveTo update the US prevalence estimates of overweight in children and ::: obesity in adults, using the most recent national data of height and weight ::: measurements.Design, Set... |
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"abstract": "We present CONCURRIT, a domain-specific language (DSL) for reproducing concurrency bugs. Given some partial information about the nature of a bug in an application, a programmer can write a CONCURRIT script to formally and concisely specify a set of thread schedules to explore in order to find a schedu... | {
"abstract": "Many modern software systems are composed of multiple execution flows that run simultaneously, spanning from applications designed to exploit the power of modern multi-core architectures to distributed systems consisting of multiple components deployed on different physical nodes. We collectively refer... | {
"abstract": "Nowadays, many pedestrians are victims of road accidents. Several artificial vision solutions, based on pedestrian detection, have therefore been developed to assist drivers and reduce the accident rate. But most of the proposed pedestrian databases make it possible to test detection only in favorable ... |
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"title": "Richer Interpolative Smoothing Based on Modified Kneser-Ney Language Modeling"
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"abstract": "Morphological segmentation breaks words into morphemes (the basic semantic units). It is a key component for natural language processing systems. Unsupervised morphological segmentation is attractive, because in every language there are virtually unlimited supplies of text, but very few labeled resourc... | {
"abstract": "The manufacturing sector is considered an important field to the industry. Its products help manufacturers to achieve more control with less labor and more output with less cost. Current technology and especially Artificial Intelligence effectively increase productivity and reduce the cost of operation... |
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