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Fiber optic local area networks (1984)

The use of the fiber optic transmission medium in local area networks is explored. A taxonomy of LANs is presented, and it is shown that the application of fiber optic technology to LANs can be grouped into two areas. The first area are traditional network architectures in which fiber is an alternative to other transmission media such as coaxial cable. The second area are networks designed specifically to exploit the bandwidth of fiber.
Democracy Abroad, Lynching at Home, Racial Violence in Florida (2017)

Democracy Abroad, Lynching at Home, Racial Violence in Florida. Tameka Bradley Hobbs, Gainesville: The University Press of Florida, 2015. 978-0-8130-6104-7 (hardcover) $74.95; 978-0-8130-6239-6 (pbk.) $24.95. 288 p.
Development of an online pharmaceutical calculations learning module (2011)

At Monash University prior to 2004, no formal mechanism existed in later years of the pharmacy course to review or re-assess pharmaceutical calculations. Competency in the area at registration was a concern. A flexibly delivered online module was developed which contained tutorials, and practice and assessment questions in a multiple-choice format. The module was initially introduced into the pre-registration year, then subsequently into each undergraduate year level. Students needed to achieve a score of at least 80% in the assessment to pass the module. Preliminary evaluation showed the module was well accepted by students. Negative aspects mostly related to students perceiving some topics as irrelevant, computer difficulties and degree of difficulty of the questions. The assessment component of the module now forms part of the assessment within each year level. The module requires students to be responsible for their own learning and imparts the principle of life-long learning early in their pharmacy career.
La 0.95 Sr 0.05 CoO 3 : An efficient room-temperature thermoelectric oxide (2004)

We present measurements of electrical resistivity, thermal conductivity, and thermopower of polycrystalline Sr-doped LaCoO3 with composition La0.95Sr0.05CoO3. Our data show that the investigated compound exhibits a very respectable room-temperature thermoelectric figure of merit value of 0.18. Our results not only show that oxides are promising candidates for thermoelectric cooling applications, but also point toward the need for careful theoretical calculations that will serve as a guide in producing the next generation of thermoelectric materials.
The Exposure to Routinization: Labor Market Implications for Developed and Developing Economies (2018)

Evidence that the automation of routine tasks has contributed to the polarization of labor markets has been documented for many developed economies, but little is known about its incidence in developing economies. We propose a measure of the exposure to routinization-that is, the risk of the displacement of labor by information technology-and assemble several facts that link the exposure to routinization with the prospects of polarization. Drawing on exposures for about 85 countries since 1990, we establish that: (1) developing economies are significantly less exposed to routinization than their developed counterparts; (2) the initial exposure to routinization is a strong predictor of the long-run exposure; and
A Clustering Algorithm for Short Documents Based On Concept Similarity (2007)

In recent years, there has been an increasing interest in data clustering of short documents. Existing works consider seldom the concept similarity between the words, so the quality of clustering is often very low. This paper proposes a new document-clustering algorithm based on concept similarity in Chinese text processing. Different from tradition method, the algorithm converts text into a words vector space model at first; it splits words into a set of concepts at second; 3rd, it gets the similarity between words through computing the inner products between concepts; 4th, it computes the similarity of text based on the similarity of words. Finally, through two-phased steps, the algorithm finishes the clustering of a specified set of document. The extensive experiments prove the validity and performance of the algorithm.
Detection of Live <em>Escherichia coli</em> O157:H7 Cells by PMA-qPCR (2014)

A unique open reading frame (ORF) Z3276 was identified as a specific genetic marker for E. coli O157:H7. A qPCR assay was developed for detection of E. coli O157:H7 by targeting ORF Z3276. With this assay, we can detect as low as a few copies of the genome of DNA of E. coli O157:H7. The sensitivity and specificity of the assay were confirmed by intensive validation tests with a large number of E. coli O157:H7 strains (n = 369) and non-O157 strains (n = 112). Furthermore, we have combined propidium monoazide (PMA) procedure with the newly developed qPCR protocol for selective detection of live cells from dead cells. Amplification of DNA from PMA-treated dead cells was almost completely inhibited in contrast to virtually unaffected amplification of DNA from PMA-treated live cells. Additionally, the protocol has been modified and adapted to a 96-well plate format for an easy and consistent handling of a large number of samples. This method is expected to have an impact on accurate microbiological and epidemiological monitoring of food safety and environmental source.
Pattern Mining Approaches Used in Sensor-Based Biometric Recognition: A Review (2019)

Sensing technologies place significant interest in the use of biometrics for the recognition and assessment of individuals. Pattern mining techniques have established a critical step in the progress of sensor-based biometric systems that are capable of perceiving, recognizing, and computing sensor data, being a technology that searches for the high-level information about pattern recognition from low-level sensor readings in order to construct an artificial substitute for human recognition. The design of a successful sensor-based biometric recognition system needs to pay attention to the different issues involved in processing variable data being-acquisition of biometric data from a sensor, data pre-processing, feature extraction, recognition, and/or classification, clustering, and validation. A significant number of approaches from image processing, pattern identification, and machine learning have been used to process sensor data. This paper aims to deliver the state-of-the-art summary and present strategies for utilizing the broadly utilized pattern mining methods in order to identify the challenges as well as future research directions of sensor-based biometric systems.
Applications de la méthode des analogies électriques aux problèmes d’hydraulique laminaire (1955)

Habib Pierre. Applications de la méthode des analogies électriques aux problèmes d’hydraulique laminaire. In: Pluie, évaporation, filtration et écoulement. Compte rendu des troisièmes journées de l'hydraulique, Alger, 12-14 avril 1954. Tome 1, 1955.
[Effect of L-isoleucine and glycine on catechol 2,3-dioxygenase expression and excretion in Escherichia coli]. (1994)

The secretion of gene products expressed in E. coli is a problem noticeable nowadays. Effect of glycine and L-Isoleucine on catechol 2,3-dioxygenase (CatO2ase) expression and secretion was reported here. Both L-Ile and Gly could increase CatO2ase production. Gly could also cause expressed product excreted into the culture medium. The effect of Gly and L-Ile was related to the composition of culture medium, the concentration of Gly and L-Ile and the culture time. The sensitivity to lysozyme of bacterium cells grown in the Gly containing medium was a little higher and electron micrograph of bacteria grown in the Gly-containing medium showed morphological changes of cell wall and outer membrane. This may have been due to interference with peptidoglycan synthesis by the Gly, and cause passability increase, as reported in other bacterium strains.
Three dimensional model (2004)

The sundry e-commerce related theoretic researches and practical application cases appear to have limitations in stressing the essence of e-commerce, depositing profound theories, and well guiding practices. Consequently, there still exists an urgent necessity for an integrated analyzing sketch of e-commerce. After clarifying such vital concepts like commerce (deal), commerce chain (deal chain), six flows, and application dimensions, the paper solves the problem through introducing a conceptual analyzing sketch: three dimensional model for e-commerce researches and applications. It then provides several sample expansions, deriving commerce chain based expansion, and commerce mode and commerce chain based expansion, and commerce chain and application dimension based expansion. Though the advancement has been the most significant contribution, detailed indexes designing may still require more efforts later.
Minimum audible angle thresholds for sources varying in both elevation and azimuth (1990)

Minimum audible angle (MAA) thresholds were obtained for four subjects in a two-alternative, forced-choice, three up/one down, adaptive paradigm as a function of the orientation of the array of sources. With sources distributed on the horizontal plane, the mean MAA threshold was 0.97 degrees. With the sources distributed on the vertical plane (array rotated 90 degrees), the mean MAA threshold was 3.65 degrees. Performance in both conditions was well in line with previous experiments of this type. Tests were also conducted with sources distributed on oblique planes. As the array was rotated from 10 degrees-60 degrees from the horizontal plane, relatively little change in the MAA threshold was observed; the mean MAA thresholds ranged from 0.78 degrees to 1.06 degrees. Only when the array was nearly vertical (80 degrees) was there any appreciable loss in spatial resolution; the MAA threshold had increased to 1.8 degrees. The relevance of these results to research on auditory localization under natural listening conditions, especially in the presence of head movements, is also discussed.
Retinoblastoma and osteogenic sarcoma in siblings (1974)

Two siblings with bilateral retinoblastoma are presented, both of whom subsequently developed osteogenic sarcoma of the femur. The general concept of gene-induced oncogenesis is discussed, and it is suggested that both patients with familial retinoblastomas and their first-degree relatives might be at increased risk for other tumors at sites distant from the ocular area.
Electrical drives to increase the fluid processing efficiency (2002)

Drives devoted to fluid processing (pumps, fans, etc.) do not require high performance controls strategy but, since the fluid flow depends on the motor speed, a motor speed regulation is mandatory. In a standard drive the speed command is obtained by directly imposing the output voltage and frequency through a PWM voltage source inverter (VSI); the current loops are present just as inverter protection and low dynamic performances, without management of acceleration transients, can be accepted. In this paper some methods to improve the general efficiency of these drives are experimentally tested and compared. A first method is based on separating the voltage and frequency regulation tasks: the proposed converter topology is based on a variable DC link voltage supply followed by a unitary modulation index (UMI) PWM inverter. Two types of variable DC supply are examined: an AC/DC controlled rectifier and an the use of an AC/DC diode bridge and of a DC/DC converter. A second efficiency improvement technique is considered based on the possibility to reduce the supply voltage at speed lower than the rated one, in order to reach the maximum motor and inverter efficiency. This condition can be attained following an appropriate control strategy based on a minimum current control (MCC). Experimental tests and comparisons of the proposed solutions with a standard drive are pointed out and single improvements in motor and inverter efficiency are evaluated and discussed. Furthermore noise measurements are carried out in order to complete the comparison between the different supply converters.
Nutritional Aspects of Essential Trace Elements in Oral Health and Disease: An Extensive Review (2016)

Human body requires certain essential elements in small quantities and their absence or excess may result in severe malfunctioning of the body and even death in extreme cases because these essential trace elements directly influence the metabolic and physiologic processes of the organism. Rapid urbanization and economic development have resulted in drastic changes in diets with developing preference towards refined diet and nutritionally deprived junk food. Poor nutrition can lead to reduced immunity, augmented vulnerability to various oral and systemic diseases, impaired physical and mental growth, and reduced efficiency. Diet and nutrition affect oral health in a variety of ways with influence on craniofacial development and growth and maintenance of dental and oral soft tissues. Oral potentially malignant disorders (OPMD) are treated with antioxidants containing essential trace elements like selenium but even increased dietary intake of trace elements like copper could lead to oral submucous fibrosis. The deficiency or excess of other trace elements like iodine, iron, zinc, and so forth has a profound effect on the body and such conditions are often diagnosed through their early oral manifestations. This review appraises the biological functions of significant trace elements and their role in preservation of oral health and progression of various oral diseases.
Methods in cardiovascular and brain systems (2005)

Geometrical and Structural Analysis of Vessel Systems in 3D Medical Image Datasets (T Boskamp) Logic Characterization and Classification of ECG Signals (W Pedrycz) Techniques in Analyzing the Neocortical Fine Structure (F Kruggel) and many other papers.
Comparison of pipelined IEEE-754 standard floating point adder with unpipelined adder (2005)

Many Digital Signal Processing (DSP) algorithms use floating-point arithmetic, which requires millions of calculations per second to be performed. For such stringent requirements, design of fast, precise and efficient circuits is the goal ol every VLSI designer. This paper presents a comparison of pipelined floating-point adder complaint with IEEE 754 format with an unpipelined adder also complaint with IEEE 754 format. It describes the IEEE floating-point standard 754. A pipelined floating point adder based on IEEE 754 format is developed and the design is compared with that of an unpipelined floating point adder and a rigorous analysis is done for speed, area, and power considerations. The functional partitioning of the adder into four distinct stages operates simultaneously for different serial input data stream. It not only increases the speed hut also is energy efficient. All these improvements are at the cost of slight increase in the chip area. The basic methodology and approach used for VHDL (Very Large Scale Integration Hardware Descriptive Language) implementation of the floating-point adder are also described. Detailed synthesis report operated upon Xilinx ISE 5.2i software and Modelsim is given. The hardware design is implemented on Spartan HE FPGA chip.
Bottleneck starvation indicators for shop floor control (semiconductor manufacturing process) (1988)

A graphical tool for inventory and production control, currently in use at a major US semiconductor manufacturer, is presented. The tool supports a bottleneck starvation avoidance policy. Equations for calculating the bottleneck in a clean room manufacturing environment are presented. A new constraint which must be satisfied to ensure starvation avoidance is introduced. A technique for helping a manual decision process conform to this constraint is presented. Many graphs are given to illustrate the concepts.< <ETX xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">></ETX>
Seasonal variations of free amino acids and nucleotide-related compounds in the muscle of cultured Taiwanese puffer Takifugu rubripes (2000)

Seasonal variation in the level of extractive nitrogenous components was investigated in the muscle of puffer Takifugu rubripes cultured in two different areas of Taiwan. There were no seasonal and regional variations in the proximate composition of the fish. Of the free amino acids (FAA) in the muscle of puffer, the predominant one was taurine, followed by glycine, lysine, and alanine. Among nucleotide-related compounds, inosine monophosphate (IMP) and guanosine monophosphate (GMP) were the most prominent compounds. The total nucleotide-related compounds in the muscle of puffer were higher in July and November than those in the other months. The level of total taste-active components including glycine, alanine, arginine, GMP, IMP, and adenosine 5'-monophosphate was much higher in the muscle of puffer collected from July to January. Therefore, the puffer is probably more palatable in these periods.
On the use of I-vectors and average voice model for voice conversion without parallel data (2016)

Recently, deep and/or recurrent neural networks (DNNs/RNNs) have been employed for voice conversion, and have significantly improved the performance of converted speech. However, DNNs/RNNs generally require a large amount of parallel training data (e.g., hundreds of utterances) from source and target speakers. It is expensive to collect such a large amount of data, and impossible in some applications, such as cross-lingual conversion. To solve this problem, we propose to use average voice model and i-vectors for long short-term memory (LSTM) based voice conversion, which does not require parallel data from source and target speakers. The average voice model is trained using other speakers' data, and the i-vectors, a compact vector representing the identities of source and target speakers, are extracted independently. Subjective evaluation has confirmed the effectiveness of the proposed approach.
Mechanical Properties of Suture Materials <i>In Vitro</i> and after <i>In Vivo</i> Implantation in Horses (1992)

Tensile testing of reproducible loops of size 5 braided polyester, size 2 polyglycolic acid, size 2 monofilament nylon, and size 2 polydioxanone sutures was performed in vitro and after subcutaneous implantation in horses for 7, 14, and 28 days. Maximum breaking strength, energy absorption, and percentage elongation to breakage point were measured. Size 5 braided polyester had the highest maximum breaking strength and energy absorption over 28 days. Polydioxanone had better mechanical performance over 28 days than did polyglycolic acid. On day 28, none of these parameters was measurable in polyglycolic acid. Monofilament nylon had the lowest breaking strength of the three materials tested on day 28.
Somaclonal variation and the ploidy level in Phalaenopsis alliance (2003)

Summary: We tested the fbrmation of malfbrmed plantlets that are usually fbund during mass propagation in Phalaenopsis alliance(including Doritaenopsis). When 75 normal and malfbrmed sections of protocorm-like-bodies(PLB)of Doritaenopsis City Girl were cultured in vitro for mass propagation, 1.7%and100% of malfbrmed plantlets were formed respectively, Cytometric analysis revealed that the malfbrmed plantlets had double the nuclear DNA content in comparison to normal ones. They were 8C and 4C amounts in comparison with the 2C internal standard of Phalaenopsis schilleriana. Malformed plantlets also showed larger nuclei than normal ones in apical meristems of root tips and in the epidermis of PLB and leaves in 4, 6-diamidino-2-phenylindole(DAPI)-stained sections. Analyses by light microscopy and confocal laser microscopy suggested that the formation of malfbrmed PLB was possibly due to changes of 4C cells to8C cells in the epidermis.
Chapter 1: Introduction: diversity and development in Asia (2014)

The Universities of Bergen and Leeds are both member institutions of the World Universities Network (WUN). This book brings together Asia specialists from both universities in a collaborative venture to explore different perspectives on how we may understand development, and more specifically the development trajectories of Asia, arguably the most dynamic and certainly the most diverse part of our world. The ‘great diversity’ of Asia reminds us that there is no one singular ‘truth’ on understanding development, or universal model on prescribing future paths of development. The importance of locality has not diminished despite deepening globalisation in the modern era. Accepting the prevalence of diversity does not mean we cannot learn certain lessons of development from each other, and this applies from an academic disciplinary perspective as well as those from the same disciplinary background studying different parts of Asia. The scholars from Bergen and Leeds assembled for this book come from a variety of backgrounds: history, economics, geography, politics, sociology, anthropology, environmental science, international political economy, religious studies and philosophy.
High Temperature Corrosion Problems In the Reduction of Nickel Copper Ores (1960)

A review is given of certain high temperature corrosion problems involved in the reduction of Canadian-mined nickel copper ores. Emphasis is placed on the proper selection of materials for various pieces of mining and processing equipment. Among the pieces of equipment discussed are roasters (superimposed on reverberatory furnaces), converters, lute caps, piping, drag line conveyors, sinter machines and hot crusher rolls. Materials of construction tested include cast iron, cast 28 chromium- 3 nickel, 25 chromium-12 nickel, ductile iron, 13 chromium-0 nickel, 26 chromium- 46 nickel-5 tungsten, and Types 431 and 410 stainless steels. 8.10.3
Electrospray mass spectrometry and fragmentation of N-linked carbohydrates derivatized at the reducing terminus (2000)

Derivatives were prepared from N-linked glycans by reductive amination from 2-aminobenzamide, 2-aminopyridine, 3-aminoquinoline, 2-aminoacridone, 4-amino-N-(2-diethylaminoethyl)benzamide, and the methyl, ethyl, and butyl esters of 4-aminobenzoic acid. Their electrospray and collision-induced dissociation (CID) fragmentation spectra were examined with a Q-TOF mass spectrometer. The strongest signals were obtained from the [M + Na]+ ions for all derivatives except sugars derivatized with 4-amino-N-(2-diethylaminoethyl)benzamide which gave very strong doubly charged [M + H + Na]2+ ions. The strongest [M + Na]+ ion signals were obtained from the butyl ester of 4-aminobenzoic acid and the weakest from 2-aminopyridine. The most informative spectra were recorded from the [M + Li]+ or [M + Na]+ ions. These spectra were dominated by ions produced by sequence-revealing glycosidic cleavages and "internal" fragments. Linkage-revealing cross-ring cleavage ions were reasonably abundant, particularly from high-mannose glycans. Although the nature of the derivative was found to have little effect upon the fragmentation pattern, 3-aminoquinoline derivatives gave marginally more abundant cross-ring fragments than the other derivatives. [M + H]+ ions formed only glycosidic fragments with few, if any, cross-ring cleavage ions. Doubly charged molecular ions gave less informative spectra; singly charged fragments were weak, and molecular ions containing hydrogen ([M + 2H]2+ and [M + H + Na]2+) fragmented as the [M + H]+ singly charged ions with no significant cross-ring cleavages.
Fast algorithms for ill-conditioned dense-matrix problems in vlsi interconnect and substrate modeling (1998)

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1998.