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Bluetooth application developer's guide : the short range interconnect solution (2002)

(enabled devices) will ship in the billions of units once it gains momentum. - Martin Reynolds, Gartner Group. Bluetooth is the most exciting development in wireless computing this decade! Bluetooth enabled devices can include everything from network servers, laptop computers and PDAs, to stereos and home security systems. Most Bluetooth products to hit the market in 2001 will be PC cards for laptop computers and access points, which allow up to seven Bluetooth devices to connect to a network. Reports indicate that by the end of 2003 there will be over 2 billion Bluetooth-enabled devices. Bluetooth-enabled devices communicate with each other through embedded software applications. Developer's Guide to Embedded Applications will provide embedded applications developers with advanced tutorials and code listings written to the latest Bluetooth's latest specification, version 1.1. Written by Bluetooth pioneers from market leaders in Bluetooth software development, Extended Systems and Cambridge Silicon Radio, this is the first advanced level Bluetooth developer title on the market. It is the white hot topic! While other books introduce readers to the possibilities of Bluetooth, this is the first comprehensive, advanced level programming book written specifically for embedded application developers. Authors are responsible for SDK, the market-leading development tool for Bluetooth. It comes with Syngress' revolutionary Credit Card CD containing a printable HTML version of the book, all of the source code and sample applications from Extended Systems and Cambridge Silicon Radio.
The role of intelligence in the process of management (2012)

Leadership is one of the most important management functions (planning, organization, personnel management, leadership, control). For the management process is very important, among other things, the role of intelligence, as a part of intellectual capital. Intelligence is one of man's ability, which allows him to properly understand things and phenomena in the life and in the world, therefore to detect the proper place and to solve problems and has a clear and realistic vision of development. Intelligence is the foundation of wisdom, which is the ultimate stage in the development of intelligence, i.e. maturation of leader. The author discusses the different forms of intelligence: natural intelligence, rational intelligence, emotional intelligence, social intelligence, spiritual intelligence, cultural intelligence, business intelligence, artificial intelligence. Each of them, in turn, contributes to the quality of leadership, and need to be comprehensively developed and used.
Complete Genome Sequence of Bifidobacterium breve CECT 7263, a Strain Isolated from Human Milk (2012)

Bifidobacterium breve is an actinobacterium frequently isolated from colonic microbiota of breastfeeding babies. Here, we report the complete and annotated genome sequence of a B. breve strain isolated from human milk, B. breve CECT 7263. The genome sequence will provide new insights into the biology of this potential probiotic organism and will allow the characterization of genes related to beneficial properties.
Optimising ontology stream reasoning with truth maintenance system (2011)

So far researchers in the Description Logics / Ontology communities mainly consider ontology reasoning services for static ontologies. The rapid development of the Semantic Web and its emerging data ask for reasoning technologies for dynamic knowledge streams. Existing work on stream reasoning is focused on lightweight languages such as RDF and RDFS. In this paper, we introduce the notion of Ontology Stream Management System (OSMS) and present a stream-reasoning approach based on Truth Maintenance System (TMS). We present optimised EL++ algorithm to reduce memory consumption. Our evaluations show that the optimisation improves TMS-enabled EL++ reasoning to deal with relatively large volumes of data and update efficiently.
Ultra-low loss silica-based waveguides with millimeter bend radius (2010)

We characterize an approach to make compact low loss silica on silicon waveguides and achieve good agreement with theory. Record low losses of 8 dB/m for 0.5-mm bend radius down to 3 dB/m for 2-mm bend radius were achieved.
社交媒体影响青少年同伴关系:友谊、孤独感和归属感 (2014)

本文描述了社交媒体的特性和媒体使用对青少年成长的影响，特别是对他们的社会认知能力、自我概念和自尊、以及同伴关系的影响。深度探讨社交媒体对青少年从12—18岁时的友谊、孤独感和群体认同或归属感的发生和变化所起的作用。未来的研究应着眼于青少年置身社交媒体环境所产生各种学习，以及这些环境对他们的人际交往能力和社会心理健康发展的影响。
Efficacy of sodium hypochlorite and Er,Cr: YSGG laser energised irrigation against an Enterococcus faecalis biofilm. (2012)

Aim: Laser energised irrigation (LEI) may enhance the chemo-mechanical disinfection of the root canal system. Sodium hypochlorite (NaOCl) is the most widely used endodontic irrigant, however it is cytotoxic. LEI at high laser power settings may extrude the irrigant. In order to minimise iatrogenic injury to the patient, there is the need to minimise the concentration of sodium hypochlorite and/or laser output power whilst achieving maximum antimicrobial efficacy. The aim of this study was two-fold. Firstly, to determine an appropriate laser output power for LEI. Secondly, to establish the efficacy of various concentrations of sodium hypochlorite, with and without Er,Cr:YSGG laser energy, in extracted teeth with an Enterococcus faecalis biofilm. Methodology: One hundred and seventy six decoronated single rooted extracted human teeth (preliminary studies (Studies 1 & 2) n = 71, Study 3 n = 96) were prepared to a size 40, 0.06 taper 1 mm beyond the apex. Tooth roots were mounted within a flow cell, which was sterilised before pumping a nutrient media through the root canals. The flow cell was inoculated with E. faecalis (ATCC 700802) and cultivated for 4 weeks. The root ends were then sealed prior to treatment. Preliminary studies: A range of irrigants (saline, 0.5% NaOCl, 1% NaOCl, 4% NaOCl) and laser output powers (0.1W, 0.25W, 0.5W, 1W) were compared. Following treatment, teeth were crushed and viable bacteria were quantitated by serial dilution and plating (n = 54). Scanning electron microscope images were also used to qualitatively compare groups (n = 17). In a larger study, (Study 3), ninety six teeth were randomised to one of six groups: control (saline irrigation); 1% NaOCl standard irrigation (SI); 4% NaOCl SI; 0.5% NaOCl with laser energised irrigation (LEI); 1% NaOCl with LEI; 4% NaOCl with LEI. Following treatment, teeth were crushed and viable bacteria were quantitated by serial dilution and plating. The number of colony forming units (cfu) were compared between groups using a Kruskal-Wallis test and analysis of variance with post-hoc Wilcoxon tests. A P value of < 0.05 was considered statistically significant. Results:\nPreliminary studies: A laser output power of 0.5 W was determined to be the most appropriate power setting. Study 3: Post-hoc analysis showed a significant difference between the control group and the 5 other treatment groups (P < 0.001). Significant differences were shown between 1% NaOCl (SI) and 4% NaOCl (SI) (P = 0.036), 1% NaOCl (SI) and 1% NaOCl LEI (P = 0.045) and between 1% NaOCl (SI) and 4% NaOCl LEI (P = 0.11). Statistical differences were not shown between the other groups. Conclusion: The study concluded that standard irrigation with 4% NaOCl was more effective than standard irrigation with 1% NaOCl. However lower concentrations (0.5% and 1% NaOCl) when energised with an Er,Cr:YSGG laser (at 0.5 W) were as effective as standard irrigation with 4% NaOCl.
Enhanced Blind Face Restoration With Multi-Exemplar Images and Adaptive Spatial Feature Fusion (2020)

In many real-world face restoration applications, e.g., smartphone photo albums and old films, multiple high-quality (HQ) images of the same person usually are available for a given degraded low-quality (LQ) observation. However, most existing guided face restoration methods are based on single HQ exemplar image, and are limited in properly exploiting guidance for improving the generalization ability to unknown degradation process. To address these issues, this paper suggests to enhance blind face restoration performance by utilizing multi-exemplar images and adaptive fusion of features from guidance and degraded images. First, given a degraded observation, we select the optimal guidance based on the weighted affine distance on landmark sets, where the landmark weights are learned to make the guidance image optimized to HQ image reconstruction. Second, moving least-square and adaptive instance normalization are leveraged for {spatial} alignment and illumination translation of guidance image in the feature space. Finally, for better feature fusion, multiple adaptive spatial feature fusion (ASFF) layers are introduced to incorporate guidance features in an adaptive and progressive manner, resulting in our ASFFNet. Experiments show that our ASFFNet performs favorably in terms of quantitative and qualitative evaluation, and is effective in generating photo-realistic results on real-world LQ images. The source code and models are available at https://github.com/csxmli2016/ASFFNet.
Answering regular path queries using views (2002)

Query answering using views amounts to computing the answer to a query having information only on the extension of a set of views. This problem is relevant in several fields, such as information integration, data warehousing, query optimization, mobile computing, and maintaining physical data independence. We address query answering using views in a context where queries and views are regular path queries, i.e., regular expressions that denote the pairs of objects in the database connected by a matching path. Regular path queries are the basic query mechanism when the database is conceived as a graph, such as in semistructured data and data on the Web. We study algorithms for answering regular path queries using views under different assumptions, namely, closed and open domain, and sound, complete, and exact information on view extensions. We characterize data, expression, and combined complexity of the problem, showing that the proposed algorithms are essentially optimal. Our results are the first to exhibit decidability in cases where the language for expressing the query and the views allows for recursion.
Single sign-on to the web with an EMV card (2008)

Single sign-on has been on the wish-list of many information systems professionals since the early days of networked computers. Initially the challenge was to bridge a diverse range of proprietary systems but more recently the challenge has been to specify a system, particularly for the World Wide Web, that is: portable, suitable for universal deployment and sufficiently trustworthy for the participating entities. Some solutions have been developed but in general they rely on one party authenticating a user through a user id and password and the other participant organizations trusting that authentication. This paper proposes a framework for single sign-on that meets the mentioned criteria by using an EMV card for two-factor authentication, without the card making physical contact with the network connected device, and without exposing the keys and PIN that are used to protect financial transactions. The proposed framework also offers a basic form of single point of user registration that helps protect the cardholder's privacy from the service provider(s) and the framework could offer some non-repudiation properties for the authentication.
All silicon infrared photodiodes: photo response and effects of processing temperature (2007)

CMOS compatible infrared waveguide Si photodiodes are made responsive from 1100 to 1750 nm by Si(+) implantation and annealing. This article compares diodes fabricated using two annealing temperatures, 300 and 475 degrees C. 0.25-mm-long diodes annealed to 300 degrees C have a response to 1539 nm radiation of 0.1 A W-(-1) at a reverse bias of 5 V and 1.2 A W(-1) at 20 V. 3-mm-long diodes processed to 475 degrees C exhibited two states, L1 and L2, with photo responses of 0.3 +/-0.1 A W(-1) at 5 V and 0.7 +/-0.2 A W(-1) at 20 V for the L1 state and 0.5 +/-0.2 A W(-1) at 5 V and 4 to 20 A W(-1)-1 at 20 V for the L2 state. The diodes can be switched between L1 and L2. The bandwidths vary from 10 to 20 GHz. These diodes will generate electrical power from the incident radiation with efficiencies from 4 to 10 %.
An efficient synchronization method for dual bus networks (2003)

The problem of the loss of synchronization in high-speed dual-bus MANs or LANs (metropolitan or local area networks) is considered, and an efficient method to recover alignment is proposed. The proposed mechanism provides for use of a particular bit pattern, called a synchronization pattern, which is inserted into the network through an empty slot. This pattern implicity defines a variable length-frame and is issued just when an AU (access unit) loses alignment. This method allows the two end AUs on the buses to recognize the presence of misaligned stations in the networks and thus to emit the bit pattern as soon as recovery action is made necessary. This method is assessed in comparison with other synchronization mechanisms proposed in the literature in terms of realignment delay and overhead. It is shown that the proposed method is faster than other methods for networks with overall lengths up to 50 km, and, therefore, it turns out to be especially suitable for high-speed LANs and MANs.< <ETX xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">></ETX>
Molecular Degradation Rate of Rice and Corn Starches during Acid−Methanol Treatment and Its Relation to the Molecular Structure of Starch (2006)

The degradation rates of rice and corn starches with different contents of amylose treated in methanol containing 0.36% HCl at 25 degrees C for 1-15 days were evaluated by monitoring the weight average degree of polymerization of starch. A two-stage degradation pattern during acid-methanol treatment was found for the starches studied, which were the slow (first) and the rapid (second) degradation stages. Waxy starches showed a shorter time period of the first stage than that of nonwaxy starch. Rice starch showed a shorter time period of the first stage and a higher degradation rate of the second stage than the counterpart corn starch with similar amylose content. Despite the botanic source and amylose content of starch, the degradation rate of starch in the second stage significantly (p < 0.05) correlated to the S/L ratio (r = -0.886) and polydispersity (r = 0.859) of amylopectin branch chains of native starch.
Evolution of Robot-assisted ultrasound-guided breast biopsy systems (2017)

Robot-assisted ultrasound-guided breast biopsy combines ultrasound (US) imaging with a robotic system for medical interventions. This study was designed to provide a literature review of a robotic US-guided breast biopsy system to delineate its efficacious impact on current medical practice. In addition, the strengths and limitations of this approach were also addressed. Articles published in the English language between 2000 and 2016 were appraised in this review. A wide range of systems that bind robotics with US imaging and guided breast biopsy were examined in this article. The fundamental safety and real-time imaging capabilities of US, together with the accuracy and maneuverability of robotic devices, is clearly an effective association with unmatched capabilities. Numerous experimental systems have obvious benefits over old-fashioned techniques, and the future of robot-assisted US-guided breast biopsy will be characterized by increasing levels of automation, and they hold tremendous possibility to impact doctor achievement, patient recovery, and clinical management.
100 kHz MEMS Vibratory Gyroscope (2013)

The behavior of MEMS rate gyroscopes depends on the sensor's resonance frequency f <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">0</sub> . Key features like robustness against external vibrations and ease of integration can be optimized by increasing f <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">0</sub> . We designed and fabricated a device with f <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">0</sub> =100 kHz for experimental and theoretical investigation of MEMS vibratory gyroscopes with increased f <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">0</sub> . The frequency of 100 kHz is significantly above the typical f <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">0</sub> of current gyroscopes which is in the range of 10 kHz to 30 kHz. Measurements prove that key parameters that are theoretically derived from a 15 kHz reference model can be scaled to 100 kHz with good accuracy. It is shown that the increase of f <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">0</sub> to 100 kHz has-on the one hand-design trade offs like a much lower sensitivity and higher quadrature and-on the other hand-major advantages like the significantly improved vibration robustness.
Dynamic Traffic Offloading and Transmit Point Muting for Energy and Cost Efficiency in Virtualized Radio Access Networks (2015)

A virtualized radio access network (VRAN) is envisaged in next generation wireless networks. Therein, users experience a seamless ubiquitous service without cell-specific signaling through transparent grouping of densely deployed transmit points (TPs) and helping UEs. Aiming at reducing the Carbon footprint as well as the operational expenditure while maintaining users' QoS, we propose an energy/cost-aware dynamic wideband muting and traffic offloading scheme for the VRAN. The proposed scheme favors muting hypotheses with greater energy/cost savings from TPs with relatively light traffic loads. Such loads are opportunistically offloaded to adjacent TPs to improve their energy efficiency. This is achieved by employing a low-complexity joint wideband muting and multi-point scheduling algorithm optimizing a novel energy-aware utility. The utility accounts for the power consumption models of different TPs, the current cost per unit energy and the TP's predicted 'Soft Loading Ratio'. Operator controls the energy savings-performance tradeoff in individual network regions regardless of the topology. Simulation results show significant energy efficiency and system capacity gains.
In Defence of 'Structural Listening': Some Problems With the New Musicology (2005)

This essay raises a number of issues with regard to recent developments in music theory. Among them is the turn against 'analysis' or 'structural listening' on account of their (supposed) investment in a discourse of mainstream musicology whose aim is to perpetuate the canon of acknowledged 'great works' and the kinds of elitist value-judgement that are conventionally applied to such works. Along with this goes the idea – derived from Paul de Man and exponents of literary deconstruction – that notions such as those of 'organic form', structural unity, thematic integration, long-range tonal or harmonic development, etc., are products of a certain 'aesthetic ideology' with dubious, even sinister, implications when transposed to the wider realm of cultural politics. I maintain that this is a false, or at any rate a highly tendentious line of thought which itself involves the illicit transposition from one domain (that of literary criticism) where such arguments have a certain force to another (that of music theory) where they simply don't apply unless by a great and implausible stretch of analogy. Thus de Man's case against naively organicist readings of poetic metaphor which assume a direct continuity (even identity) between mind and nature, subject and object, or language and phenomenal intuition must appear distinctly off-the-point when applied to our sensuous but also conceptually-informed experience of music. My essay pursues these questions via a reading of various theorists on both sides of the debate, including Adorno, whose emphasis on the virtues of 'structural listening' as a means of resistance to routine, habitual, or ideologically conditioned modes of response offers perhaps the most powerful rejoinder to this current revolt against analysis in all its forms. I go on to remark that those forms have been far more diverse – and often less committed to a hard-line organicist creed – than their detractors like to make out, tending as they do to equate 'analysis' with Heinrich Schenker's deeply conservative, dogmatic, and ideologically-loaded approach. In support of my counter-argument I draw on various developments in cognitive science and the psychology of perception, along with a recent debate between the philosophers Peter Kivy and Jerrold Levinson concerning the latter's highly controversial claim that musical understanding is limited to very short stretches of temporal (retentive and anticipatory) grasp. I conclude that our appreciation of music can be greatly deepened and enriched by the kinds of sustained or long-range structural comprehension that analysis seeks to provide, and that any theory which rules this out – or puts it down to mere 'aesthetic ideology' – is ipso facto on the wrong track.
Islanding detection and transient over voltage mitigation using wireless sensor networks (2015)

Islanding condition happens when a DG units continues to energize a part of the grid while that part has been isolated from the main electrical utility. In this situation if the DGs power exceed the load then Transient Over Voltages (TOVs) occurs. Because of the adverse effects of the islanding and TOVs, power system sections must detect, mitigate the over voltage, and disconnect the DG systems from the grid if it is necessary. This paper proposes a communication method based on wireless sensor networks for islanding detection. Also a defined number of loads are added to the power system section in order to mitigate the over voltage in the islanding condition. The effectiveness of the method is discussed and conclusion is offered.
Anti-sense suppression of epidermal growth factor receptor expression alters cellular proliferation, cell-adhesion and tumorigenicity in ovarian cancer cells (2000)

Over-expression of epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) in ovarian cancer has been well documented. Human NIH:OVCAR-8 ovarian carcinoma cells were transfected with an expression vector containing the anti-sense orientation of truncated human EGFR cDNA. EGFR anti-sense over-expression resulted in decreased EGFR protein and mRNA expression, cell proliferation and tumor formation in nude mice. In accordance with the reduced levels of EGFR in EGFR anti-sense-expressing cells, tyrosine phosphorylation of EGFR was decreased compared to untransfected parental cells treated with EGF. In EGFR anti-sense-transfected cells, expression of erbB-3, but not erbB-2, was increased. In addition, basal and heregulin-beta 1-stimulated tyrosine phosphorylation of erbB-3 was higher in EGFR anti-sense vector-transfected cells. A morphological alteration in EGFR anti-sense gene-expressing cells was correlated with a decrease in the expression of E-cadherin, alpha-catenin and, to a lesser extent, beta-catenin. Changes in the expression of these proteins were associated with a reduction in complex formation among E-cadherin, beta-catenin and alpha-catenin and between beta-catenin and EGFR in EGFR anti-sense-expressing cells compared to sense-transfected control cells. These results demonstrate that EGFR expression in ovarian carcinoma cells regulates expression of cell adhesion proteins that may enhance cell growth and invasiveness.