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A Novel Scheme for Mobile Payment Using RFID-Enabled Smart SIMcard (2009)

Mobile phones have become essential part of everybodypsilas daily life. Efforts have been made to add more features into the mobile devices. Contact less payment is another dimension that adds value to mobile phones. In contact less payment through mobile device, user is able to pay using his mobile device without touching or swiping card on a reading device. In this paper, we present an idea to equip mobile devices with RFID-enabled SIM (subscriber identity module) card to carry out money transfer. RFID-enabled SIM is a special SIM card that includes RFID (radio frequency identification) chip in the SIM casing. We propose an architecture to integrate RFID and normal SIM features into a single specialized RFID-enabled SIM. This specialized SIM can be used for normal phone applications as well as contact less payment. RFID enables the mobile user to be identified by the RFID reader and SIM stores the payment information. We discuss various scenarios in which RFID-enabled SIM can be used for different applications. This mode of payment provides freedom, flexibility, mobility and security to the customer.
Pyrrolidines. IV. The Investigation of the Synthesis of 1-Methyl-2-pyrrolidineethanol (1961)

ADVERTISEMENT RETURN TO ISSUEPREVArticleNEXTPyrrolidines. IV. The Investigation of the Synthesis of 1-Methyl-2-pyrrolidineethanolYAO-HUA WU, JOHN R. CORRIGAN, and R. F. FELDKAMPCite this: J. Org. Chem. 1961, 26, 5, 1531–1533Publication Date (Print):May 1, 1961Publication History Published online1 May 2002Published inissue 1 May 1961https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jo01064a054https://doi.org/10.1021/jo01064a054research-articleACS PublicationsRequest reuse permissionsArticle Views378Altmetric-Citations7LEARN ABOUT THESE METRICSArticle Views are the COUNTER-compliant sum of full text article downloads since November 2008 (both PDF and HTML) across all institutions and individuals. These metrics are regularly updated to reflect usage leading up to the last few days.Citations are the number of other articles citing this article, calculated by Crossref and updated daily. Find more information about Crossref citation counts.The Altmetric Attention Score is a quantitative measure of the attention that a research article has received online. Clicking on the donut icon will load a page at altmetric.com with additional details about the score and the social media presence for the given article. Find more information on the Altmetric Attention Score and how the score is calculated. Share Add toView InAdd Full Text with ReferenceAdd Description ExportRISCitationCitation and abstractCitation and referencesMore Options Share onFacebookTwitterWechatLinked InRedditEmail Other access optionsGet e-Alertsclose Get e-Alerts
A Hardware Implementation of Real-Time Video Deblocking Using Shifted Thresholding (2007)

Video compression has become very important as demand has increased for the storage and transmission of digital video content. Popular video compression schemes like MPEG encoding make use of block-transform coding techniques which are susceptible to blocking artifacts. Recently, an efficient deblocking algorithm based on the concept of shifted thresholding has been proposed. This algorithm uses only integer arithmetic and replaces division operations with bit shifting. This paper proposes a new hardware architecture for the implementation of video deblocking using shifted thresholding. A prototype system for high performance video deblocking using a FPGA (field programmable gate array) board is described. The prototype system leverages the reduced hardware complexity of the shifted thresholding algorithm to cost-effectively implement video deblocking on a FPGA board.
Adding Hierarchical Objects to Relational Database General-Purpose XML-Based Information Managements (2006)

NETMARK is a flexible, high-throughput software system for managing, storing, and rapid searching of unstructured and semi-structured documents. NETMARK transforms such documents from their original highly complex, constantly changing, heterogeneous data formats into well-structured, common data formats in using Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) and/or Extensible Markup Language (XML). The software implements an object-relational database system that combines the best practices of the relational model utilizing Structured Query Language (SQL) with those of the object-oriented, semantic database model for creating complex data. In particular, NETMARK takes advantage of the Oracle 8i object-relational database model using physical-address data types for very efficient keyword searches of records across both context and content. NETMARK also supports multiple international standards such as WEBDAV for drag-and-drop file management and SOAP for integrated information management using Web services. The document-organization and -searching capabilities afforded by NETMARK are likely to make this software attractive for use in disciplines as diverse as science, auditing, and law enforcement.
Crohn’s Disease Mimicking Sarcoidosis in Bronchoalveolar Lavage (1999)

Granulomatous disorders like sarcoidosis or Crohn's disease are commonly associated with extrapulmonary or extraintestinal manifestations which occasionally may represent the only symptoms. We describe a 28-year-old female patient suffering from atypical erythema nodosum and arthritis. Although the chest x-ray was unremarkable bronchoalveolar lavage revealed lymphocytic alveolitis with an elevated CD4/CD8 ratio of 8 and 11.4 at repeated examinations suggesting a diagnosis of sarcoidosis. Further diagnostic workup included endoscopy of the bowel. The macroscopic aspect and histology of the terminal small bowel and colon ascendens indicated Crohn's disease. The patient recovered on steroids and sulfasalazine. Six months later she developed a perianal abscess for which she needed surgery supporting the diagnosis of Crohn's disease. This is the first case of a significantly (>6) elevated CD4/CD8 ratio in Crohn's disease previously regarded as highly specific for sarcoidosis.
Operators and curried functions: Training and analysis of simple recurrent networks (1991)

We present a framework for programming tbe bidden unit representations of simple recurrent networks based on the use of hint units (additional targets at the output layer). We present two ways of analysing a network trained within this framework: Input patterns act as operators on the information encoded by the context units; symmetrically, patterns of activation over tbe context units act as curried functions of the input sequences. Simulations demonstrate that a network can learn to represent three different functions simultaneously and canonical discriminant analysis is used to investigate how operators and curried functions are represented in the space of hidden unit activations.
Arsenic trioxide reduces 2,4,6-trinitrobenzene sulfonic acid-induced murine colitis via nuclear factor-κB down-regulation and caspase-3 activation (2010)

Arsenic trioxide, As(2)O(3), already used in human anti-cancer therapy, is also an efficient agent against the autoimmune and inflammatory diseases developed in MRL/lpr mice. Inflammatory bowel diseases (IBDs), notably Crohn's disease, which remain without efficient treatment, display autoimmune and inflammatory components. We, therefore, hypothesized that As(2)O( 3) may be active on IBDs. Using the 2,4,6-trinitrobenzene sulfonic acid-induced murine model of colitis, we demonstrate that As(2)O(3) used either in a preventive or a curative mode markedly reduced the induced colitis as assessed by macroscopic and microscopic scores, leading to prolonged mice survival. In addition, As(2)O(3) was able to inhibit NF-κB expression and DNA-binding in colon extracts leading to decreased cytokine gene expression (i.e. tumor necrosis factor-α, interleukin(IL)-1β, IL-12, IL-17, IL-18, and IL-23). Interestingly, As(2)O(3) also reduced keratinocyte-derived chemokine (KC), inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) mRNA levels, and myeloperoxidase (MPO) protein expression suggesting an impairment of neutrophils. This was associated with a marked increase of procaspase-3 and induced caspase-3 activation. This caspase-3 co-localized with MPO in the remaining neutrophils suggesting that As(2)O( 3) might have eliminated inflamed cells probably by inducing their apoptosis. These results assessed the potent anti-inflammatory effect of As(2)O( 3), that targets both NF-κB and caspase-3 pathways, and suggests a therapeutic potential for Crohn's disease and other severe IBDs.
Combination Therapy with a Dipeptidyl Peptidase-4 Inhibitor and a Proton Pump Inhibitor Induces β-Cell Neogenesis from Adult Human Pancreatic Duct Cells Implanted in Immunodeficient Mice (2011)

Combination therapy with a dipeptidyl peptidase-4 inhibitor (DPP-4i) and a proton pump inhibitor (PPI) raises endogenous levels of GLP-1 and gastrin, respectively, and restores pancreatic β-cell mass and normoglycemia in nonobese diabetic (NOD) mice with autoimmune diabetes. The aim of this study was to determine whether a DPP-4i and PPI combination could increase β-cell mass in the adult human pancreas. Pancreatic cells from adult human pancreas donors were implanted in NOD-severe combined immunodeficient (NOD-scid) mice and the mice were treated with a DPP-4i and a PPI for 16 weeks. Human grafts were examined for insulin content and insulin-stained cells. Graft β-cell function was assessed by intravenous glucose tolerance tests (IVGTT) and by glucose control in human cell-engrafted mice treated with streptozotocin (STZ) to delete mouse pancreatic β-cells. Plasma GLP-1 and gastrin levels were raised to two- to threefold in DPP-4i- and PPI-treated mice. Insulin content and insulin-stained cells in human pancreatic cell grafts were increased 9- to 13-fold in DPP-4i and PPI-treated mice and insulin-stained cells were colocalized with pancreatic exocrine duct cells. Plasma human C-peptide responses to IVGTT were significantly higher and STZ-induced hyperglycemia was more completely prevented in DPP-4i- and PPI-treated mice with grafts than in vehicle-treated mice with grafts. In conclusion, DPP-4i and PPI combination therapy raises endogenous levels of GLP-1 and gastrin and greatly expands the functional β-cell mass in adult human pancreatic cells implanted in immunodeficient mice, largely from pancreatic duct cells. This suggests that a DPP-4i and PPI combination treatment may provide a pharmacologic therapy to correct the β-cell deficit in type 1 diabetes.
Effect of recombinant human granulocyte colony-stimulating factor administration in normal and experimentally infected newborn rats. (1991)

We investigated the effects of repetitive recombinant human granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (rhG-CSF) administration at three different doses (every 12 h times six doses, starting at 12-24 h of age) on the kinetics of neutrophil production in Sprague-Dawley rats. We determined WBC counts, differentials, the number of total nucleated cells, the myeloid mitotic pool cells (promyelocytes and myelocytes), the storage pool cells (metamyelocytes, bands, and polymorphonuclear cells [PMNs]) and the granulocyte-macrophage (granulocyte-macrophage colony-forming units, CFU-GM) and macrophage (macrophage colony-forming units, CFU-M) progenitor cells of the bone marrow, spleen, and the liver before the first dose of rhG-CSF administration and 12 h after the second, fourth, and sixth dose. Control animals were given the diluent by the same schedule. Recombinant human G-CSF-treated rats showed a significant dose-dependent increase in the number of total WBC and neutrophil counts at all time points compared to control rats. The total number of CFU-GM and myeloid mitotic pool cells (marrow plus spleen plus liver) progressively increased with age in both control and G-CSF groups, but the G-CSF treated groups showed a significantly larger number of mitotic pool cells at hour 24, continuing up to hour 72, compared to the control group. However, there was no significant difference at any time point in the number of CFU-G/GM as detected by the granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF)-supported culture system. Priming of newborn rats with injections every 12 h of rhG-CSF times two doses, or six doses followed by inoculation of group B streptococci (GBS) did not significantly change the sepsis death rate of animals, although the neutrophil counts in infected rhG-CSF-primed animals were significantly larger than the infected control animals. Injection of human i.v. gammaglobulin 3 h following inoculation with GBS significantly improved the survival of animals compared to G-CSF administration or administration of the diluent alone (control). Thus G-CSF alone may not be beneficial for the treatment of neonates with sepsis. Additional work is needed to determine whether combination of G-CSF with antibiotics or other cytokines, such as GM-CSF or interleukin 6 (IL-6) may be of benefit.
Molecular differentiation of <i>Erwinia amylovora</i> strains from North America and of two Asian pear pathogens by analyses of PFGE patterns and <i>hrpN</i> genes (2004)

Summary In order to determine a possible genomic divergence of Erwinia amylovora ‘fruit tree’ and raspberry strains from North America, several isolates were differentiated by pulsed‐field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) analysis, the size of short DNA sequence repeats (SSRs) and the nucleotide and deduced amino acid sequences of their hrpN genes. By PFGE analysis European strains are highly related, whereas strains from North America were diverse and were further distinguished by the SSR numbers from plasmid pEA29. The E. amylovora strains from Europe showed identical HrpN sequences in contrast to the American isolates from fruit trees and raspberry. Those were related to each other, but distinguishable by their HrpN patterns. The Asian pear pathogens differed in HrpN among each other and from E. amylovora . Erwinia pyrifoliae isolates and the Erwinia strains from Japan were ordered via their HrpN sequences in agreement with the PFGE patterns. For all three pathogens, dendrograms from PFGE and sequence data indicate an evolutionary diversity within the species in spite of a genetic conservation for parts of the hrpN genes suggesting a long persistence of the Asian pear pathogens in Korea and Japan as well as of fire blight in North America. Some of the divergent American E. amylovora isolates share PFGE patterns with the relatively uniform European strains.
ChemInform Abstract: Oxidation Conversion of 3‐Alkoxyfurans to 2‐Hydroxy‐3(2H)‐furanones and 2‐Hydroxy‐2‐butene‐1,4‐diones with 2,3‐Dichloro‐5,6‐dicyano‐1,4‐benzoquinone (DDQ) or Phenyltrimethylammonium Tribromide (PTAB) in t‐BuOH. (2008)

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Hybrid-Coupled VHF Transistor Power Amplifier (1964)

35 w of power was produced at 132 mc using four transistor amplifier modules in the final stage, combined by a hybrid network. The use of the hybrid system permits summing of signals with a high degree of isolation between the amplifier modules. This permits operation of the amplifier modules to their full power capacity without requiring a match of device characteristics or equal power-sharing capabilities. Isolation is also realized with respect to load mis-tuning and greater reliability is achieved.
Identification, characterization, and purification of two mammalian stress proteins present in mitochondria, grp 75, a member of the hsp 70 family and hsp 58, a homolog of the bacterial groEL protein (1989)

We describe the identification, characterization, and purification of two members of the mammalian stress protein family, both of which are shown to be components of the mitochondria. The first, with an apparent mass of 58,000 daltons, is a constitutive protein whose synthesis increases in cells exposed to elevated temperatures and/or amino acid analogs and is therefore referred to as heat shock protein hsp 58 (hsp 58). The second, with an apparent mass of 75,000 daltons, is also a constitutive protein whose synthesis is increased in cells following glucose deprivation or exposure to either a calcium ionophore or 2-deoxyglucose and therefore represents a member of the so-called glucose-regulated proteins (grp 75). In cells treated with the potassium ionophore, nonactin, both hsp 58 and grp 75 were observed to accumulate in precursor form. Since nonactin has been reported to specifically inhibit the processing of cytoplasmic precursor proteins destined for the mitochondria, we investigated whether mature hsp 58 and grp 75 were components of the mitochondria. Mitochondria were isolated from rat liver and shown to contain both hsp 58 and grp 75. Indirect immunofluorescence using antibodies specific to either hsp 58 or grp 75 confirmed their presence within mitochondria. Proteolytic digestion experiments with intact mitochondria indicated that both proteins were not accessible to external proteolytic attack, suggesting that they are not exposed on the cytoplasmic face of the outer membrane. Based on a variety of biochemical and immunological criteria, grp 75 is shown to be a member of the hsp 70 family of stress proteins, while hsp 58 represents the mammalian equivalent of the bacterial groEL protein. Procedures for the purification of both hsp 58 and grp 75 are presented. The possible biochemical role of these two mitochondrial stress proteins is discussed in relation to the known biochemical function of their related stress protein counterparts.
Vocal tract normalization as linear transformation of MFCC (2003)

We show that vocal tract normalization (VTN) frequency warping results in a linear transformation in the cepstral domain.For the special case of a piece-wise linear warping function, the transformation matrix is analytically calculated.This approach enables us to compute the Jacobian determinant of the transformation matrix, which allows the normalization of the probability distributions used in speaker-normalization for automatic speech recognition.
Photographic Plates for Use in Spectroscopy and Astronomy III (1933)

Get PDF Email Share Share with Facebook Tweet This Post on reddit Share with LinkedIn Add to CiteULike Add to Mendeley Add to BibSonomy Get Citation Copy Citation Text C. E. Kenneth Mees, "Photographic Plates for Use in Spectroscopy and Astronomy. III," J. Opt. Soc. Am. 23, 229-233 (1933) Export Citation BibTex Endnote (RIS) HTML Plain Text Citation alert Save article
Ensemble Diffusion for Retrieval (2017)

As a postprocessing procedure, diffusion process has demonstrated its ability of substantially improving the performance of various visual retrieval systems. Whereas, great efforts are also devoted to similarity (or metric) fusion, seeing that only one individual type of similarity cannot fully reveal the intrinsic relationship between objects. This stimulates a great research interest of considering similarity fusion in the framework of diffusion process (i.e., fusion with diffusion) for robust retrieval. In this paper, we firstly revisit representative methods about fusion with diffusion, and provide new insights which are ignored by previous researchers. Then, observing that existing algorithms are susceptible to noisy similarities, the proposed Regularized Ensemble Diffusion (RED) is bundled with an automatic weight learning paradigm, so that the negative impacts of noisy similarities are suppressed. At last, we integrate several recently-proposed similarities with the proposed framework. The experimental results suggest that we can achieve new state-of-the-art performances on various retrieval tasks, including 3D shape retrieval on ModelNet dataset, and image retrieval on Holidays and Ukbench dataset.
2,3-Di-n-alkoxyanthraquinones as gelators of organic solvents (1998)

The gelling ability of a series of dialkoxy-9,10-anthraquinone derivatives has been investigated in a number of organic solvents at different concentrations. The most efficient systems were found to be formed from the 2,3-dialkoxy (OCnH2n + 1) derivatives with n = 8–11 (compounds 9–11, 14–15). In ethanol, a gel is formed with 2,3-di-n-decyloxyanthraquinone (11) at a concentration of ca. 10–2M (0.65 g/100 g) at 30 °C. The gel-to-sol transition temperatures were determined in ethanol, isopropanol and n-heptane as a function of gelling agent concentration. The gel-to-sol transition enthalpies (23–51 kJ mol–1) were found to be in agreement with recent results obtained for other gel forming systems.
Dichloroacetate treatment partially regresses established pulmonary hypertension in mice with SM22α‐targeted overexpression of the serotonin transporter (2009)

Voltage-gated potassium (Kv)1.5 is decreased in pulmonary arteries (PAs) of patients with idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension (IPAH) and in experimental models including mice with SM22alpha-targeted overexpression of the serotonin transporter (5-HTT). The mechanisms underlying these abnormalities, however, remain unknown. Dichloroacetate (DCA) inhibits chronic hypoxia- or monocrotaline-induced PAH by inhibiting nuclear factor of activated T-cells (NFAT)c2 and increasing Kv1.5. Therefore, we hypothesized that DCA could regress established PAH in SM22-5-HTT+ mice. We evaluated pulmonary hemodynamics, vascular remodeling, NFATc2, and Kv1.5 protein in 20-wk-old SM22-5-HTT+ or wild-type mice treated for 1, 7, and 21 d with DCA, cyclosporine-A (NFAT inhibitor), or vehicle. DCA partially reversed PAH in SM22-5-HTT+ mice by decreasing proliferation and increasing apoptosis in muscularized PAs. Furthermore, serotonin (10(-8)-10(-6) M) dose-dependently increased PA-smooth muscle cell (PA-SMC) proliferation in culture (EC(50)=0.97 x 10(-7) M) and DCA (5 x 10(-4) M) vs. PBS markedly reduced the growth of PA-SMC from IPAH and control patients treated with the highest dose of serotonin by 50 and 30%, respectively. Finally, although serotonin induces NFATc2 activation in PA-SMCs, inhibition of NFATc2 alone with cyclosporine-A was not sufficient for reversing PAH in this model. Our results support the possibility that DCA may be an interesting agent for investigation in patients with PAH.
Differential Privacy and Machine Learning: a Survey and Review (2014)

The objective of machine learning is to extract useful information from data, while privacy is preserved by concealing information. Thus it seems hard to reconcile these competing interests. However, they frequently must be balanced when mining sensitive data. For example, medical research represents an important application where it is necessary both to extract useful information and protect patient privacy. One way to resolve the conflict is to extract general characteristics of whole populations without disclosing the private information of individuals. In this paper, we consider differential privacy, one of the most popular and powerful definitions of privacy. We explore the interplay between machine learning and differential privacy, namely privacy-preserving machine learning algorithms and learning-based data release mechanisms. We also describe some theoretical results that address what can be learned differentially privately and upper bounds of loss functions for differentially private algorithms. Finally, we present some open questions, including how to incorporate public data, how to deal with missing data in private datasets, and whether, as the number of observed samples grows arbitrarily large, differentially private machine learning algorithms can be achieved at no cost to utility as compared to corresponding non-differentially private algorithms.