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DIE BYVOEGLIKE VERBUIGING IN NEDERLANDS EN AFRIKAANS (1969)

SUMMARY This article is a review of a thesis dealing with the history of the inflection of the attributive adjective in Dutch and Afrikaans, and an attempt at a critical assessment of the treatment of the current position in Afrikaans in particular.
Using a Multi-touch Panel to Control Lights in Indoor Public Spaces  — Prototype Designs and User Studies (2012)

An effective light controller helps users provide accurate and effective illumination in public spaces. Control errors caused by confusion about the relationship between the controller and its corresponding lights can delay or interrupt work, meetings or performances. Two novel light controller designs are proposed: (1) a map light controller that integrates a gesture control and 2D CAD layout; and (2) an interactive map light controller that uses an interactive 3D color-coded display and gesture control. Simulations compared the performance of the proposed designs with that of two commonly used light controllers. Qualitative (N = 5) and quantitative (N = 30) tests were conducted to validate and compare the speed and performance of all controllers in controlling luminaries in a virtual lecture hall.
[Pharmacokinetics of theophylline in sustained-release formulation in young asthmatics]. (1998)

Pharmacokinetics of two theophylline (CAS 58-55-9) sustained release preparations (T: Bronchoretard Capsules/R: Capsule formulation from the US market) were investigated in an open randomised two-way crossover design. The capsules of the test formulation were opened and administered on a tablespoonful of apple sauce. Nineteen asthmatics aged 6 to 12 years participated in this study. Following individual dosing of 100-300 mg theophylline twice a day, a pharmacokinetic profile for 24 h was derived after seven days of multiple dosing. All relevant parameters for rate (Cmax ss, Cmin ss, Cav ss, plateau time, peak-trough fluctuation, nocturnal excess, tmax ss) and extent of absorption (AUCss) were calculated for both formulations. With long plateau times (T: 17.3 h) and small peak-trough fluctuations (T: 49.0%), established quality criteria for high quality theophylline preparations were fulfilled by the test formulation. Furthermore, symmetrical peaks resulted after morning and evening administration of the test formulation. In conclusion, smooth and predictable concentration/time profiles were achieved, enabling an efficacious and safe therapy of asthma. This individual mode of administration allows not only a perfect dose titration in young asthmatics, but is also helpful to patients who have difficulty in swallowing large dosage forms.
Probability of error for selection diversity as a function of dwell time (1989)

An expression is derived for the probability of error of an Nth-order selection diversity system for the case where the receiver is forced to swell on one channel for several symbols before being allowed to make a decision regarding the best channel. It is found that the time-varying nature of a fading channel causes significant degradation of the probability of error when the dwell time becomes longer than about 10% of the inverse of the fading bandwidth of the channel. The onset of degradation is a function of the signal-to-noise ratio and of the order of diversity. Specific probabilities of error are calculated for differential phase-shift keyed modulation (DPSK). However, the calculations can be done for any other modulation technique.< <ETX xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">></ETX>
Layered Double Hydroxide Nanostructured Photocatalysts for Renewable Energy Production (2015)

An enormous research effort is currently being directed towards the development of efficient visible‐light‐driven photocatalysts for renewable energy applications including water splitting, CO 2 reduction and alcohol photoreforming. Layered double hydroxide (LDH)‐based photocatalysts have emerged as one of the most promising candidates to replace TiO 2 ‐based photocatalysts for these reactions , owing to their unique layered structure, compositional flexibility, controllable particle size, low manufacturing cost and ease of synthesis. By introducing defects into LDH materials through the control of their size to the nanoscale, the atomic structure, surface defect concentration, and electronic and optical characteristics of LDH materials can be strategically engineered for particular applications. Furthermore, through the use of advanced characterization techniques such as X‐ray absorption fine structure, positron annihilation spectrometry, X‐ray photoelectron spectroscopy, electron spin resonance, density‐functional theory calculations, and photocatalytic tests, structure‐activity relationships can be established and used in the rational design of high‐performance LDH‐based photocatalysts for efficient solar energy capture. LDHs thus represent a versatile platform for semiconductor photocatalyst development with application potential across the energy sector.
Hybrid adaptive block truncation coding for image compression (1997)

A hybrid adaptive block truncation coding (HABTC) method is presented to improve block truncation coding (BTC)-related compression methods for gray-level images. The basic idea behind the method is to use various coding schemes to take advantage of local image charac- teristics. A simple linear interpolation coding scheme and a very basic predictive coding scheme are used to improve the compression ratio of the homogeneous area of the image. Moreover, a four-level BTC, whose thresholds are obtained using a radius-weighted mean (RWM), is ap- plied to encode the inhomogeneous area. The bits per pixel/peak SNR (bpp/PSNR) values listed in many other BTC-related papers are cited and compared with ours. It is found that reasonable compression ratio is obtained by the proposed HABTC method and the visual quality of the decoded images is also acceptable. © 1997 Society of Photo-Optical Instrumen- tation Engineers. (S0091-3286(97)00104-9) Subject terms: image compression; hybrid adaptive block truncation coding; lin- ear interpolation coding; predictive coding; radius weighted mean; vector quanti- zation.
Service Recommendation for User Groups in Internet of Things Environments Using Member Organization-Based Group Similarity Measures (2016)

Recommender systems can be used to assist groups of users to select services in Internet of Things (IoT)-enriched environments. However, aggregating the preferences of the individual users of a group, which is generally used in group recommendation, is not appropriate for IoT environments, where the user groups' preferences for IoT-based services differ significantly from those of individual users. In this paper, we propose a user-based collaborative filtering approach that considers member organization for a new user group. We select neighbor user groups that are similar to the new group based on combinations of member organization-based group similarity (MOGS) metrics such as the group size-based, common member-based, and member preference-based metrics. We conduct experiments to evaluate our approach using real-world datasets collected from practical IoT testbed environments. The results demonstrate that the proposed approach is effective in improving the performance and stability of service recommendations in IoT environments regardless of the locational characteristics.
Clinical Immunology and Serology: A Laboratory Perspective (1995)

Part 1 Nature of the immune system: historical concepts and introduction to serology natural immunity the lymphoid system characteristics of antigens antibody structure and function cell-mediated immunity the complement system. Part 2 Basic immunological procedures: overview of antigen-antibody reactions and basic safety considerations precipitation reactions agglutination reactions immunoassay molecular biology techniques. Part 3 Immune disorders: hypersensitivity autoimmunie diseases immunoproliferative diseases immunodeficiency diseases transplantation tumour immunology. Part 4 Serological diagnosis of infectious diseases: spirochete diseases streptococcal serology serology of viral infections HIV serology miscellaneous serologies.
Automatic segmentation of the lungs using robust level sets (2007)

This paper presents a method for the automatic segmentation of the lungs in X-ray computed tomography (CT) images. The proposed technique is based on the use of a robust geometric active contour that is initialized around the lungs, automatically splits in two, and performs outlier rejection during the curve evolution. The technique starts by grey-level thresholding of the images followed by edge detection. Then the edge connected points are organized into strokes and classified as valid or invalid. A confidence degree (weight) is assigned to each stroke and updated during the evolution process with the valid strokes receiving a high confidence degree and the confidence degrees of the outlier strokes tending to zero. These weights depend on the distance between the stroke points and the curve and also on the stroke size. Initialization of the curve is fully automatic. Experimental results show the effectiveness of the proposed technique.
Navigating a spatialized speech environment throught simultaneous listening within a hallway metaphor (1998)

Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Architecture and Planning, Program in Media Arts and Sciences, 1998.
Business Intelligence Systems in the Holistic Infrastructure Development Supporting Decision Making in Organisations (2006)

The paper aims at analysing Business Intelligence Systems (BI) in the context of opportunities for improving decision-making in a contemporary organisation. The authors - taking specifics of a decision-making process together with heterogeneity and dispersion of information sources into consideration - present Business Intelligence Systems as some holistic infrastructure of decisionmaking. It has been shown that the BI concept may contribute towards improving quality of decision-making in any organisation, better customer service and some increase in customers’ loyalty. The paper is focused on three fundamental components of the BI systems, i.e. key information technologies (including ETL tools and data warehouses), potential of key information technologies (OLAP techniques and data mining) and BI applications that support making different decisions in an organisation. A major part of the paper is devoted to discussing basic business analyses that are not only offered by the BI systems but also applied frequently in business practice.
RBESP: Reliable and best effort stack protocol for UAV collaboration with WSN (2014)

This paper describes RBESP, a dual stack protocol designed as part of the communication infrastructure of a short-range Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV). It aims at providing a reliable communication between the UAV and its base station and a best effort communication between the UAV and a WSN. RBESP targets two distinct communication requirements using the same communication transceiver. The other end of the communication link can be heterogeneous devices transmitting with the IEEE 802.15.4 standard, which is also used in the UAV transceiver. The paper details the software layers that implement both the reliable communication with the base station and the best-effort communication with the WSN nodes. Two different scenarios were implemented in order to allow RBESP evaluation. The first scenario consists of the UAV node communicating with spatially distributed sensors on the ground. In the second scenario, the UAV node delivers the collected data to the base station. Both communication scenarios are very different in terms of connection time and volume of transmitted data. Obtained results are presented and discussed along the paper.
Cooperative Systems Design: Scenario-Based Design of Collaborative Systems (2004)

Medical Informatics, Telematics 1 NATO: Life and Behavioural Sciences 3 Cancer 4 Artificial Intelligence 5 Computer Science, Applications 6 NATO: Science and Technology Policy 7 Electronics, Mechanics 8 Physics 9 Cognitive Science 9
Stacked Microchannel Heat Sinks for Liquid Cooling of Microelectronic Components (2004)

A novel heat sink based on a multilayer stack of liquid cooled microchannels is investigated. For a given pumping power and heat removal capability for the heat sink, the flow rate across a stack of microchannels is lower compared to a single layer of microchannels. Numerical simulations using a computationally efficient multigrid method [1] were carried out to investigate the detailed conjugate transport within the heat sink. The effects of the microchannel aspect ratio and total number of layers on thermal performance were studied for water as coolant. A heat sink of base area 10 mm by 10 mm with a height in the range 1.8 to 4.5 mm (2–5 layers) was considered with water flow rate in the range 0.83×10−6m3/s (50 ml/min) to 6.67×10−6m3/s (400 ml/min). The results of the computational simulations were also compared with a simplified thermal resistance network analysis.
The Use of a Computer Program to Calculate the Mean Amplitude of Glycemic Excursions (2011)

The proposed computerized calculation of MAGE is a practicable method that may provide an efficient tool for assessing glycemic variability.
Unsupervised Induction of Tree Substitution Grammars for Dependency Parsing (2010)

Inducing a grammar directly from text is one of the oldest and most challenging tasks in Computational Linguistics. Significant progress has been made for inducing dependency grammars, however the models employed are overly simplistic, particularly in comparison to supervised parsing models. In this paper we present an approach to dependency grammar induction using tree substitution grammar which is capable of learning large dependency fragments and thereby better modelling the text. We define a hierarchical non-parametric Pitman-Yor Process prior which biases towards a small grammar with simple productions. This approach significantly improves the state-of-the-art, when measured by head attachment accuracy. © 2010 Association for Computational Linguistics.
Introduction à la journée d'information sur la R.C.B. (1970)

avec les conditions générales d'utilisation (http://www.numdam.
A compression-based area-efficient recovery architecture for nonvolatile processors (2012)

Nonvolatile processor has become an emerging topic in recent years due to its zero standby power, resilience to power failures and instant on feature. This paper first demonstrated a fabricated nonvolatile 8051-compatible processor design, which indicates the ferroelectric nonvolatile version leads to over 90% area overhead compared with the volatile design. Therefore, we proposed a compare and compress recovery architecture, consisting of a parallel run-length codec (PRLC) and a state table logic, to reduce the area of nonvolatile registers. Experimental results demonstrate that it can reduce the number of nonvolatile registers by 4 times with less than 1% overflow possibility, which leads to 43% overall processor area savings. Furthermore, we implemented the novel PRLC and defined the method to optimize the optimal parallel degree to accelerate the compressions. Finally, we proposed a reconfigurable state table architecture, which supports the reference vector selecting for different applications. With our heuristic vector selecting algorithm, the optimal vector can provide over 42% better register number reduction than other vector selecting approaches. Our method is also applicable to designs with other nonvolatile materials based registers.
Metabolic characterization of sciadonic acid (5<i>c</i>,11<i>c</i>,14<i>c</i>‐eicosatrienoic acid) as an effective substitute for arachidonate of phosphatidylinositol (2001)

Sciadonic acid (20:3 Delta-5,11,14) is an n-6 series trienoic acid that lacks the Delta8 double bond of arachidonic acid. This fatty acid is not converted to arachidonic acid in higher animals. In this study, we characterized the metabolic behavior of sciadonic acid in the process of acylation to phospholipid of HepG2 cells. One of the characteristics of fatty acid compositions of phospholipids in sciadonic acid-supplemented cells is a higher proportion of sciadonic acid in phosphatidylinositol (PtdIns) (27.4%) than in phosphatidylethanolamine (PtdEtn) (23.2%), phosphatidylcholine (PtdCho) (17.3%) and phosphatidylserine (PtdSer) (20.1%). Similarly, the proportion of arachidonic acid was higher in PtdIns (35.8%) than in PtdEtn (29.1%), PtdSer (18.2%) and PtdCho (20.2%) in arachidonic-acid-supplemented cells. The extensive accumulation of sciadonic acid in PtdIns resulted in the enrichment of newly formed 1-stearoyl-2-sciadonoyl molecular species (38%) in PtdIns and caused the reduction in the level of pre-existing arachidonic-acid-containing molecular species. The kinetics of incorporation of sciadonic acid to PtdEtn, PtdSer and PtdIns of cells were similar to those of arachidonic acid. In contrast to sciadonic acid, neither eicosapentaenoic acid (20:5 Delta-5,8,11,14,17) nor juniperonic acid (20:4 Delta-5,11,14,17) accumulated in the PtdIns fraction. Rather, these n-3 series polyunsaturated fatty acids, once incorporated into PtdIns, tended to be excluded from PtdIns. In addition, the level of arachidonic-acid-containing PtdIns molecular species remained unchanged by eicosapentaenoic-acid-supplementation. These results suggest that sciadonic acid or sciadonic-acid-containing glycerides are metabolized in a similar manner to arachidonic acid or arachidonic-acid-containing glyceride in the biosynthesis of PtdIns and that sciadonic acid can effectively modify the molecular species composition of PtdIns in HepG2 cells. In this regard, sciadonic acid will be an interesting experimental tool to clarify the significance of arachidonic acid-residue of PtdIns-origin bioactive lipids.
Diastrophism and the Evolution of Sedimentary Rocks (1942)

Prepared by the Author The mode of formation of the earth's crust depends upon the interplay of physical and chemical processes which control respectively the appear- ance (texture) and the composition (mineralogy) of each rock type. These processes have been fairly well understood for igneous (in- strusive and volcanic) rocks. In the realm of sedimentary rocks, how- ever (and sediments cover 70% of the surface of the continents) only the physical (textural) factors have been so far properly built into a coherent scheme. The present paper introduces a concept of systematic evolution of the chemical and mineralogic composition of sedimentary rocks. It is shown that during the successive diastrophic (tectonic and orogenic) stages which follow each other during the life history of a continent two sets of conditions are likely to control the character of the sedimentary rocks formed during each stage. The first set of con- ditions affects relief, topography, and climate — in a word controls sedimentation and hence affects mostly the texture of sediments. The second affects the very make-up of the petrogenic province from which sediments are being derived and hence controls the basic mineralogic make-up of the future sediments. The tectonic and geomorphic processes which shape the successive stages of the development of a landmass also control on a broad regional scale the sediments related to each diastrophic stage. Such differentiation is most easily studied in medium-graine d elastics (sandstones). These processes operate: (1) directly by controlling both relief and topography within source area and basin of deposition; and also con- trolling depth and intensity of metamorphism and igneous activity which shape the material to be brought into the region of erosion; and (2) indirectly by influencing climate through topography. The following tectonic stages and their corresponding sandstones seem to be well defined in the central part of the Appalachian Trough, and their counterparts appear to be also present in the Alpine, Himal- ayan regions and other geosynclinal regions, including in parts the Gulf
Hemolymph‐dependent and ‐independent responses in <i>Drosophila</i> immune tissue (2004)

Insects possess an antimicrobial defense response that is similar to the mammalian innate immune response. The innate immune system is designed to recognize conserved components of microorganisms called pathogen-associated molecular patterns (PAMPs). How host receptors detect PAMPs and transmit the signals to mount the immune response is being elucidated. Using GFP-Dorsal, -Dif, and -Relish reporter proteins in ex vivo assays, we demonstrate that Drosophila fat bodies, a major immune tissue, have both hemolymph-dependent and -independent responses. Microbial preparations such as lipoteichoic acid (LTA) and peptidoglycan (PGN) can stimulate some responses from dissected and rinsed larval fat bodies. Therefore, at least some aspects of recognition can occur on fat body cell surfaces, bypassing the requirement of hemolymph. Our results also show that supernatants from bacterial cultures can stimulate the nuclear translocation of Dorsal in dissected fat bodies, but this stimulation is strictly hemolymph-dependent. Various biochemical assays suggest that the factors from bacterial supernatants that stimulate the hemolymph-dependent nuclear translocation are likely made up of proteins. We further show that Dorsal mutant larvae have much lower phenoloxidase activity, consistent with a more important role of Dorsal in innate immunity than previously shown.
[The value of number connection test in the diagnosis of subclinical hepatic encephalopathy]. (2001)

NCT result was influenced by age and educational background and the sensitivity was low for the scanning of SHE. Combination of four psychometric tests: block design test, picture arrangement, object assembly and NCT was recommended to substitute full set of IQ test in the diagnosis of SHE.
[Construction of HBV S gene recombinant and its immunity induced in mice] (2002)

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the feasibility of HBV DNA vaccines. METHODS: HBV S gene was obtained by PCR and the PCR product was cloned into pcDNA3. The recombinant was screened by antibiotics, identified by digestion and confirmed by sequencing. The plasmid was then transfected into mammalian cell COS-7 for transient expression. Then the recombinant was injected into mice and the immune responses induced in mice were investigated. RESULTS: The sequence of HBV S gene was correct and HBsAg could be detected in cells transfected with pcDNA3-S. After immunization, the positive rate in mice immunized with pcDNA3-S and pCMV-S was 70%(7/10) and 80% (8/10). The mean levels of anti-HBs were (32.14+/-13.79)mIU/ml and (28.50+/-11.87)mIU/ml respectively. There was no statistically significant difference between them P 0.05 . The mean levels of anti HBs in the control group and blank groups were both less than 10 mIU/ml. In mice immunized with pcDNA3-S and pCMV-S the results were (35.40+/-4.85)% and (38.20+/-7.69)% when E/T was 20:1, or (23.95+/-3.98)% and (24.55+/-3.59)% when E/T was 10:1, again showing no difference statistically (P>0.05). The specific CTL cytotoxicity rate of control and blank groups was both less than 5%. CONCLUSION: A specific humoral and cellular immune response can be induced in mice by intramuscular injection of pcDNA3-S.
Solar Radiation and Vitamin D: Mitigating Environmental Factors in Autoimmune Disease (2012)

This paper looks at the environmental role of vitamin D and solar radiation as risk reduction factors in autoimmune disease. Five diseases are considered: multiple sclerosis, type 1 diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, autoimmune disease of the thyroid, and inflammatory bowel disease. Clinical relevant studies and factors that may indicate evidence that autoimmune disease is a vitamin D-sensitive disease are presented. Studies that have resulted in prevention or amelioration of some autoimmune disease are discussed. An example of the utility of supplementing vitamin D in an unusual autoimmune disease, idiopathic thrombocytic purpura, is presented.