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Systems engineering considerations in body-mounted sensing (2012)

The desire to augment human performance with additional information and sensing capabilities remains great and is perhaps becoming even more desirable as witnessed by the recent initiation of a few large technology development programs. Considerable advances have been made recently on focal planes that could possibly be used in bodymounted sensing. Advances in optical technology yielded the potential for lighter and smaller objective and eyepiece lenses. However, the systems engineering implications of these new focal planes, optics, displays, and performance augmentation technologies have not been adequately considered. This paper will examine engineering trades in body-mounted sensing. Issues such as sensor resolution, the use of color, body supported loads, power, processing and computational power, along with offensive and defensive capabilities will be considered. A case for the replacement of traditional, piece-wise system development with integrated body-mounted system development will also be presented.
Oriented Immobilization of Farnesylated Proteins by the Thiol‐Ene Reaction (2010)

Einfach und unter milden Bedingungen werden Proteine durch Thiol-En-Photokupplung zwischen S-Farnesylgruppen an einer genetisch kodierbaren „CAAX-Box“-Tetrapeptidsequenz (A ist aliphatisch) am C-Terminus des Proteins und Oberflächen-Thiolen immobilisiert (siehe Schema). Auf diese Art gelingt die gerichtete kovalente Immobilisierung von Proteinen direkt aus Expressionslysaten ohne zusätzliche Reinigungs- oder Derivatisierungsschritte. Detailed facts of importance to specialist readers are published as ”Supporting Information”. Such documents are peer-reviewed, but not copy-edited or typeset. They are made available as submitted by the authors. Please note: The publisher is not responsible for the content or functionality of any supporting information supplied by the authors. Any queries (other than missing content) should be directed to the corresponding author for the article.
A Study on the Tendencies and Construction Methods of Campus Facilities Remodeling (2004)

The aims of this study are proposal for architectural design guidelines and reviewing the remodeling tendencies in the campus facilities. To achieve these purposes, the architectural remodeling characteristics of 23 campus facilities have been investigated, and the technical construction methods were also analyzed for each one of these facilities. The results from this study are as follows : (1) The requests from the changes of academic plan and the degradation and obsolescence are highly occupied the causes of architectural remodeling in campus facilities. (2) In technical construction methods, the horizontal and vertical additions are effective in campus facilities remodeling. (3) According to the recent campus remodeling tendencies, the campus facility remodeling plan and schedule should be included in campus facility master plan.
Susceptibility toSalmonella typhimuriumInfection and Effectiveness of Vaccination in Mice Deficient in the Tumor Necrosis Factor Alpha p55 Receptor (1998)

Mice defective in the ability to produce the tumor necrosis factor alpha p55 receptor (TNFalphap55R) were orally challenged with a number of Salmonella typhimurium HWSH derivatives that differ in virulence. In comparison to TNFalphap55R+/+ mice, TNFalphap55R-/- mice succumbed earlier to challenge with wild-type S. typhimurium HWSH and S. typhimurium HWSH purE. In contrast, TNFalphap55R-/- mice were able to control an S. typhimurium HWSH aroA challenge, although greater numbers of Salmonella organisms were present in the tissues for a longer time period than was observed with TNFalphap55R+/+ mice. Vaccination of normal and TNFalphap55R knockout animals with S. typhimurium HWSH aroA showed that TNFalphap55R-/- mice, unlike TNFalphap55R+/+ mice, were not protected against a virulent S. typhimurium HWSH challenge. Splenocytes from TNFalphap55R-/- mice exhibited a reduced ability to proliferate in the presence of S. typhimurium antigen compared to TNFalphap55R+/+ mice. Thus, TNFalphap55R is essential for controlling Salmonella growth in tissues and for recall of immunity in murine salmonellosis.
Characterization and Emulsification Properties of Rhamnolipid and Sophorolipid Biosurfactants and Their Applications (2011)

Due to their non-toxic nature, biodegradability and production from renewable resources, research has shown an increasing interest in the use of biosurfactants in a wide variety of applications. This paper reviews the characterization of rhamnolipid and sophorolipid biosurfactants based on their hydrophilicity/hydrophobicity and their ability to form microemulsions with a range of oils without additives. The use of the biosurfactants in applications such as detergency and vegetable oil extraction for biodiesel application is also discussed. Rhamnolipid was found to be a hydrophilic surfactant while sophorolipid was found to be very hydrophobic. Therefore, rhamnolipid and sophorolipid biosurfactants in mixtures showed robust performance in these applications.
Asynchronous Evolution of Nanoporous Silver on Dual-Phase Ag–Sn Alloys by Potentiostatic Dealloying in Hydrochloric Acid Solution (2019)

Evolution behavior of the nanoporous architectures has been investigated via potentiostatic electrochemical dealloying of dual-phase Ag<sub>x</sub>Sn<sub>100</sub><sub>-</sub><sub>x</sub> (<i>x</i> = 20, 30, 40 at.%) alloys, which consist of β-Sn and ε-Ag<sub>3</sub>Sn phases with different volume fractions in 1.2 M HCl solution. The results show that the open-circuit potentials and corrosion potentials of dual-phase Ag-Sn alloys are determined by the less noble β-Sn phases rather than chemical compositions of the Ag-Sn precursor alloys. The potentiodynamic polarization curves show that the anodic dissolution of Ag-Sn alloys is divided into two stages including the first preferential dissolution of β-Sn phases and secondary dealloying of ε-Ag<sub>3</sub>Sn phases, which is associated with the order of the nanoporous evolution. Nanoporous silver (NPS) can be fabricated by potentiostatic dealloying of dual-phase Ag-Sn alloys in HCl solution. The dealloying of two phases is asynchronous: The less noble β-Sn phases are preferentially etched to generate the larger pores, and then the more noble ε-Ag<sub>3</sub>Sn phases are dealloyed to form the finer nanoporous structure. The significant surface diffusion of Ag adatoms at the applied potential higher than the pitting potential of ε-Ag<sub>3</sub>Sn phases during the dealloying results in the coarsening of nanoporous ligaments with a time dependence of <i>d</i>(<i>t</i>) ∝ <i>t</i><sup>0.1</sup>. The fractions and the difference in electrochemical stabilities of the β-Sn and ε-Ag<sub>3</sub>Sn phases in dual-phase Ag<sub>x</sub>Sn<sub>100</sub><sub>-</sub><sub>x</sub> (<i>x</i> = 20, 30, 40 at.%) precursor alloys determines the final nanoporous structure.
Um modelo de monitoramento de pacientes utilizando a ciência de situação (2016)

Os constantes avanços na computação móvel e ubíqua possibilitam novos desenvolvimentos e recursos em diversas áreas, sendo a saúde uma destas. A partir disto, surge então o conceito de cuidados ubíquos, onde são aplicadas novas formas cuidados médicos, como o monitoramento de pacientes. Tendo em vista este recurso, o modelo SAC - Situation-Aware Care propõe o uso do monitoramento de pacientes em conjunto da ciência de situação para perceber, compreender e projetar desvios e degradações na saúde, disponibilizando aos médicos melhores informações para atendimento. Para avaliar a viabilidade do modelo SAC foi aplicado um estudo de caso, baseado em cenário, sendo este apoiado pelo desenvolvimento de um protótipo do modelo.
Abstract 322: Chamber-specific Mitochondrial Remodeling in Atrial Fibrillation (2020)

Introduction: Studies have shown that right (RA) and left (LA) have different susceptibilities toward developing atrial fibrillation (AF). However, the molecular basis of these differences are not well characterized. Given these, we hypothesize that AF is associated with dissimilar energetic remodeling in the RA and LA and presence of interatrial differences might be a potential reason for different susceptibility of the atria to AF. Objective: The aim was to compare differences in mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation system (OXPHOS) between the RA and LA in patients with and without AF (non-AF) and determine whether the same differences in chamber-specific sensitivity toward AF exist in the animal model of AF. Methods: The RA and LA tissue were collected from non-AF and AF dogs and consented patients undergoing elective open-heart surgery. Gene expression profiling of 72 genes involved in OXPHOS was performed using the Mitochondrial Energy Metabolism RT2 Profiler PCR Array. Comparison between the AF and non-AF groups were determined by using a pairwise differential expression analysis. A Venn diagram tool was applied to visualize expressed genes that overlap. Results: Expression of 14 and 25 genes was significantly reduced in the human and dog RA, correspondingly. Unlike, expression of only 2 and 9 genes was significantly reduced in human and dogs LA. The Venn diagram demonstrates the overlaps (common genes) and differences between the genes in patients and dogs with AF (Fig. A, B). Conclusion: AF is associated with different chamber-specific energetic remodeling suggesting that dissimilar mechanisms may contribute to the development and progression of AF.
Slodowy slices and the complete integrability of Mishchenko-Fomenko subalgebras on regular adjoint orbits (2018)

This work is concerned with Mishchenko-Fomenko subalgebras and their restrictions to the adjoint orbits in a finite-dimensional complex semisimple Lie algebra. In this setting, it is known that each Mishchenko-Fomenko subalgebra restricts to a completely integrable system on every orbit in general position. We improve upon this result, showing that each Mishchenko-Fomenko subalgebra yields a completely integrable system on all regular orbits (i.e. orbits of maximal dimension). Our approach incorporates the theory of regular $\mathfrak{sl}_2$-triples and associated Slodowy slices, as developed by Kostant.
Family Functioning, Early Intervention Support, and Spoken Language and Placement Outcomes for Children With Profound Hearing Loss (2006)

This study investigated parents' perceptions of their family's functioning and the level of early intervention support they received as they reflected on their involvement at an oral early intervention centre for children with hearing loss. Overall, parents reported high levels of family functioning and satisfaction with the services they had received. Parental ratings of family functioning were not associated with either the child's language performance or the device used. The parents of the four children who entered mainstream classes on exit from the early intervention programme appeared to rate their family functioning slightly lower than did parents of the children who entered oral facilities or special schools for the deaf. Case studies indicated that family functioning is dependent on many factors and that early intervention professionals should be sensitive to individual needs, strengths and priorities. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Design, Synthesis, and Activity of Novel cis- and trans-3,6-Disubstituted Pyran Biomimetics of 3,6-Disubstituted Piperidine as Potential Ligands for the Dopamine Transporter. (2003)

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Improved NlaIII digestion of PAGE-purified 102 bp ditags by addition of a single purification step in both the SAGE and microSAGE protocols (2000)

Despite the success of microarray technologies, serial analysis of gene expression (SAGE) still remains the only technique that allows an accurate quantitative and qualitative analysis of cell transcription in a variety of physiological and pathological conditions. Nevertheless, the efficiency of SAGE is limited by the numerous gel purification steps required and these increase the possibility of contamination and reduce or inhibit the activity of the enzymes used in the protocol. In order to eliminate this problem, we have modified the original protocol by adding a single purification step before NLA:III digestion of the ditags. This allows us to increase the yield of digested ditags without reducing the amount of DNA or affecting the subsequent concatemerization.
Die Scrapie (Traberkrankheit) bei kleinen Wiederkäuern (2010)

Die Scrapie (Traberkrankheit) ist eine transmissible spongiforme Enzephalopathie (TSE → Kapitel VIII – 4.0) bei Schafen und Ziegen [1, 2]. Ursächlich ist ein unkonventionelles übertragbares Agens, das der Erregerklasse der Prionen zugerechnet wird. Fälle von Scrapie treten zahlenmäßig weit häufiger bei Schafen als bei Ziegen auf, und bei Schafen ist die Krankheit bisher auch deutlich intensiver erforscht als bei Ziegen. In der folgenden Darstellung steht daher die Scrapie beim Schaf im Mittelpunkt.
Shell structure of new magic nuclei: Systematics of features (2008)

Investigation of the structure of the upper shells of new magic nuclei revealed an empirical regularity with the following characteristic feature: closed proton and neutron subshells, with identically large total angular momenta (j = j coupling), are located near the Fermi energy and there is a closed subshell with j = 1/2 above one of them. The properties of the nuclei exhibiting this feature of closed upper proton and neutron subshells have been investigated in detail. Quantitative manifestation of the new magicity effects, depending on the occupancy of the corresponding subshells with nucleons, has been analyzed. Several nuclei have been found, which, obviously, also have magic properties, and all classical, new magic, and nonmagic oxygen isotopes 14–48O have been considered from the new point of view.
1006 Sleep Problems and Risk of Cancer Incidence and Mortality in the Cardiovascular Health Study (CHS) (2020)

Abstract Introduction Even in the absence of a formal diagnosis, sleep problems (SP) are frequently indicative of an underlying sleep disorder, such as obstructive sleep apnea, which may be adversely associated with cancer risk and cancer outcomes. Methods We assessed the association of self-reported SP with incident cancer (N=4,997, excluding prevalent cancers) and cancer mortality (N=5849) among the participants of Cardiovascular Health Study (CHS), a population-based study of adults aged &amp;gt;=65 years recruited from 4 US communities. Participants reported SP (daytime sleepiness, observed apnea and snoring) yearly from 1989-1994; these self-reported symptoms have been validated against objective sleep measures assessed within a subset of CHS participants (n= 1240) who received a home polysomnography as part of the Sleep Heart Health Study. Cancer incidence was ascertained through linkage with state cancer registries through 2005; cancer specific death was adjudicated through 2015. We used Cox proportional hazards regression to calculate hazard ratios (HR) and 95% confidence intervals (CI) for associations of baseline SP with subsequent cancer incidence and cancer mortality, adjusting for baseline sociodemographics, lifestyle factors, and medical history. Results The mean age (SD) of the study population was 73 (6) years, 56% were female, and 84% were white. The prevalence of SP was 17% for daytime sleepiness, 8% for observed apnea, and 24% for snoring; 63% reported none of the 3 SP. Overall, 1,130 first incident cancers and 1,014 cancer deaths were identified over median follow-up of 12 and 13 years, respectively. Compared to participants who reported no SP, the risk of incident cancer was inversely associated with daytime sleepiness (HR 0.86 [95% CI 0.70-1.04]), observed apnea (HR 0.74 [0.56-1.00]), and snoring (HR 0.80 [0.68-0.95]). Cancer mortality HR (95% CI) estimates were 1.00 (0.82-1.21) for daytime sleepiness, 0.77 (0.57-1.04) for observed apnea, and 0.88 (0.74, 1.04) for snoring. Conclusion Symptoms indicating SP reported at baseline were not associated with increased cancer incidence or cancer mortality. Ongoing analyses are focused on the impact of longitudinal SP (time dependent, cumulative average) to ensure an adequate latency period is incorporated into our analysis of the association between SP and cancer risk and mortality. Support NIHT32CA09488017
Integrative Urinary Peptidomics in Renal Transplantation Identifies Biomarkers for Acute Rejection (2010)

Noninvasive methods to diagnose rejection of renal allografts are unavailable. Mass spectrometry followed by multiple-reaction monitoring provides a unique approach to identify disease-specific urine peptide biomarkers. Here, we performed urine peptidomic analysis of 70 unique samples from 50 renal transplant patients and 20 controls (n = 20), identifying a specific panel of 40 peptides for acute rejection (AR). Peptide sequencing revealed suggestive mechanisms of graft injury with roles for proteolytic degradation of uromodulin (UMOD) and several collagens, including COL1A2 and COL3A1. The 40-peptide panel discriminated AR in training (n = 46) and test (n = 24) sets (area under ROC curve >0.96). Integrative analysis of transcriptional signals from paired renal transplant biopsies, matched with the urine samples, revealed coordinated transcriptional changes for the corresponding genes in addition to dysregulation of extracellular matrix proteins in AR (MMP-7, SERPING1, and TIMP1). Quantitative PCR on an independent set of 34 transplant biopsies with and without AR validated coordinated changes in expression for the corresponding genes in rejection tissue. A six-gene biomarker panel (COL1A2, COL3A1, UMOD, MMP-7, SERPING1, TIMP1) classified AR with high specificity and sensitivity (area under ROC curve = 0.98). These data suggest that changes in collagen remodeling characterize AR and that detection of the corresponding proteolytic degradation products in urine provides a noninvasive diagnostic approach.
IFCIoT: Integrated Fog Cloud IoT Architectural Paradigm for Future Internet of Things (2017)

We propose a novel integrated fog cloud IoT (IFCIoT) architectural paradigm that promises increased performance, energy efficiency, reduced latency, quicker response time, scalability, and better localized accuracy for future IoT applications. The fog nodes (e.g., edge servers, smart routers, base stations) receive computation offloading requests and sensed data from various IoT devices. To enhance performance, energy efficiency, and real-time responsiveness of applications, we propose a reconfigurable and layered fog node (edge server) architecture that analyzes the applications' characteristics and reconfigure the architectural resources to better meet the peak workload demands. The layers of the proposed fog node architecture include application layer, analytics layer, virtualization layer, reconfiguration layer, and hardware layer. The layered architecture facilitates abstraction and implementation for fog computing paradigm that is distributed in nature and where multiple vendors (e.g., applications, services, data and content providers) are involved. We also elaborate the potential applications of IFCIoT architecture, such as smart cities, intelligent transportation systems, localized weather maps and environmental monitoring, and real-time agricultural data analytics and control.
Feature Weighting for Improved Classifier Robustness (2009)

There are often discrepancies between the learning sample and the evaluation environment, be it natural or adversarial.It is therefore desirable that classifiers are robust, i.e., not very sensitive to changes in data distribution.In this paper, we introduce a new methodology to measure the lower bound of classifier robustness under adversarial attack and show that simple averaged classifiers can improve classifier robustness significantly.In addition, we propose a new feature reweighting technique that ameliorates the performance and robustness of standard classifiers at at most twice the computational cost.We verify our claims in content based email spam classification experiments on some public and private datasets.
Performance improvement of edge detection based on edge likelihood index (2005)

One of the problems of conventional edge detectors is the difficulty in distinguishing noise and true edges correctly using a simple measurement, such as gradient, local energy, or phase congruency. This paper proposes a performance improvement algorithm for edge detection based on a composite measurement called Edge Likelihood Index (ELI). In principle, given a raw edge map obtained from any edge detectors, edge contours can be extracted where gradient, continuity and smoothness of each contour are measured. The ELI of an edge contour is defined as directly proportional to its gradient and length, and inversely proportional to its smoothness, which offers a more flexible representation of true edges, such as those with low gradient, but continuous and smooth. The proposed method was tested on the South Florida data sets, using the Canny edge operator for edge detection, and evaluated using the Receiver Operator Characteristic curves. It can be shown that the proposed method reduces Bayes risk of ROC curves by over 10% in the aggregate test results.
Combining Tabular and Satellite-Based Datasets to Better Understand Cropland Change (2022)

In recent years, regulatory agencies in the USA and Europe have begun to require documentation that land used to produce crops and biofuels has not been converted from carbon-capturing grasslands or forests. Precise measurement of these land cover changes, however, has proven difficult. Analysis to date has focused primarily on moderate resolution (30 m) satellite imagery, which has not provided the land cover granularity or accuracy needed. These studies have estimated large-scale land conversion to crops in the USA. This study analyzed the satellite datasets but included tabular datasets and aerial imagery of the USA to determine whether the combination of datasets, focusing on more detailed analysis in these locations, could more accurately identify potential locations of land use change. Analyses of satellite imagery data from 1985 to 2020 found that much of the land that 2008 to 2020 satellite datasets classified as natural-to-crop land change was idle cropland. The results indicate a dynamic landscape of marginal land moving in and out of cropland. Approximately as much land was allowed to go fallow (6145 hectares) as land going into crop (7901 hectares) from 1985 to 2020. The results from this study indicate regulatory agencies could more accurately measure the impacts of conversion of natural lands to crop if long-term historical land cover/land use was also analyzed.