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Aerial virtual reality 360 research-creation (2017)

This paper presents a development of an aerial virtual reality 360 video capture approach. A drone was converted and retrofitted with a 360 spherical panorama camera for acquiring source aerial visual content. In this case study, an experiment of a 360-fly-by video was reproduced for the intended use of an event launching where user perception was being observed in terms of practicality and suitability. Utilizing a consumer 360 camera the Samsung Gear 360 and the DJI Inspire 1, it allowed the researcher to capture aerial 360-degree video. The paper documented the process of retrofitting the 360-camera onto the drone. Research findings on why certain drones are suitable for the 360-degree camera will be presented. A user study was conducted to gauge the usability for comparing aerial VR360 being experienced on hand-held multimedia tablets and head-mount-devices (HMD). In this paper we describe the proposed configuration and workflow of aerial 360-video and identifying its potential capabilities and limitation, a user evaluation study and directions for future work.
Professional Rich Internet Applications: AJAX and Beyond (2007)

Combining numerous cutting-edge technologies, this authoritative guide will show you how to take AJAX and Ruby on Rails to the next level in order to develop full-fledged web applications.
Kaposi Sarcoma-associated Herpesvirus Latency-associated Nuclear Antigen Inhibits Interferon (IFN) β Expression by Competing with IFN Regulatory Factor-3 for Binding to IFNB Promoter (2010)

Host cells respond to viral infections by synthesizing and producing antiviral molecules such as type I interferons (IFN). The Kaposi sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV) encodes multiple proteins expressed during the lytic replication cycle that alter the antiviral response of the host. Considering that in Kaposi sarcoma lesions and primary effusion lymphoma cells KSHV is latent in the vast majority of cells, we were interested in determining whether latently expressed viral proteins have the ability to modulate IFN synthesis. The latency-associated nuclear antigen (LANA-1) is a large nuclear protein that plays a role in the establishment and maintenance of latent KSHV episome in the nucleus of infected cells. LANA-1 is also described to modulate the cellular transcription. Here, we report that LANA-1 inhibits IFN-beta transcription and synthesis by competing with the binding of interferon regulatory factor-3 (IRF3) to the IFNB promoter. Using mutants of LANA-1, we have identified the central acidic repeated region as the domain essential for interfering with the binding of IRF3 to the positive regulatory domains I-III of the IFNB promoter. In addition, the nuclear localization of LANA-1 proved essential for IFN-beta inhibition. Thus, LANA-1 interferes with the formation of IFN-beta enhanceosome by competing with the fixation of IRF3 and by inhibiting the expression of the CREB-binding protein. The ability of LANA-1 to inhibit IFNB gene expression highlights a new role for this protein in cellular gene modulation and immune evasion strategies.
Direct Coupling of Benzene with Olefin Catalyzed by Pd(OAc)<sub>2</sub> Combined with Heteropolyoxometalate under Dioxygen (2003)

The oxidative coupling reaction of benzenes with alkenes was successfully achieved by the Pd(OAc)(2)/molybdovanadophosphoric acid (HPMoV)/O(2) system. For example, the reaction of benzene with ethyl acrylate by the above catalytic system in acetic acid afforded ethyl cinnamate as a major product in satisfactory yield.
Efficient self‐collision detection on smoothly discretized surface animations using geometrical shape regularity (1994)

Abstract We present a new algorithm for detecting self‐collisionson highly discretized moving polygonal surfaces. If is based on geometrical shape regularity properties that permit avoiding many useless collision tests. We use an improved hierarchical representation of our surface that, besides the optimizations inherent to hierarchisation, allows us to fake adjacency information to our advantage for applying efficiently our geometrical optimizations. We reduce the computation time between each frame by building automatically the hierarchical structure once as a preprocessing task. We describe the main principles of our algorithm, followed by some performance tests.
Steroids and Related Natural Products. XI. Reduction of Esters to Ethers<sup>1-3</sup> (1962)

ADVERTISEMENT RETURN TO ISSUEPREVArticleNEXTSteroids and Related Natural Products. XI. Reduction of Esters to Ethers1-3George R. Pettit and David M. PiatakCite this: J. Org. Chem. 1962, 27, 6, 2127–2130Publication Date (Print):June 1, 1962Publication History Published online1 May 2002Published inissue 1 June 1962https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jo01053a054https://doi.org/10.1021/jo01053a054research-articleACS PublicationsRequest reuse permissionsArticle Views1028Altmetric-Citations58LEARN 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
Holistic Fracture Diagnostics: Consistent Interpretation of Prefrac Injection Tests Using Multiple Analysis Methods (2009)

Summary Since the introduction of the G-function derivative analysis, prefrac diagnostic injection tests have become a valuable and commonly used technique. Unfortunately, the technique is frequently misapplied or misinterpreted, leading to confusion and misdiagnosis of fracturing parameters. This paper presents a consistent method of analysis of the G-function, its derivatives, and its relationship to other diagnostic techniques including square-root(time) and log(∆pwf)-log(∆t) plots and their appropriate diagnostic derivatives. Four field test examples are given for the most common diagnostic curve signatures. These show how multiple analysis methods can be applied to consistently interpret closure pressure and time, as well as pre- and post-closure flow regimes and reservoir properties from the test data. The cases include normal constant-area and constant permeability leakoff, pressure dependent fissure leakoff, fracture tip extension, and variable fracture storage. In some cases conventionally accepted analysis methods, such as the Sqrt(time) plot, can lead to misleading interpretations. A single consistent approach to analysis is described for each case. The example cases can be used to build a foundation for consistent and less ambiguous analysis of any complex fracture injection/falloff test.
New concepts for old? (1999)

There has been an explosion of interest in corruption in the past 10 years and the literature on the causes, consequences and control of corruption is now substantial. But there has not been a corresponding concern with the concept of corruption and how it can be defined and refined. Dissatisfaction with the approaches used in earlier decades has, in the 1990s, encouraged many analysts to turn to other, primarily economic, concepts. This article explores how the concept of corruption has evolved in contemporary social science and examines whether the new concepts constitute an important advance on the approaches used in earlier studies. It concludes that the new concepts are attempts to explain the circumstances most likely to give rise to corruption rather than original ways of defining it.
The Necessity of Leisure and Physical Activity (2014)

Educational Objectives 1. Explain the value and benefit of physical and leisure activity across the lifespan, regardless of physical limitations. 2. Identify barriers to participation in physical and leisure activity. 3. Discuss strategies to engage and maintain physical and recreational activity participation.
Surface Modification of Pigments with Temperature-Responsive Polymer Grafted by Plasma-Induced Polymerization. (1998)

In order to develop temperature-responsive dispersing systems, we have grafted poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) (PNIPA), which is a temperature-responsive polymer having a lower critical solution temperature (LCST) at 32°C, onto carbon black (CB) by plasma-induced graft polymerization technique. CB was treated with H2O and/or O2 plasma, to which aqueous solution of the monomer (NIPA) was introduced, resulted in simultaneous graft polymerization. The dispersibility of the PNIPA-grafted CB in water at 25 and 35°C was investigated by the measurement of the transmittance of visible light (500nm). The most of the PNIPA-grafted CB showed better dispersibility at 25°C (below the LCST) than at 35°C (above the LCST). In many graft polymerization conditions, CB grafted in 2wt% of the monomer concentration with ultrasonic irradiation at room temperature showed the most clear temperature response of the dispersibility in water.
Design and characterization of In/sub 0.2/Ga/sub 0.8/As MQW vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (1993)

The device design, material characterization, and performance of optimized vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) are presented. The basic design goal was to increase the output power of the lasers without greatly increasing the low threshold current reported in earlier devices. The material characterization was performed by measuring in-plane lasers and broad-area VCSELs made from the same material as the small VCSELs. For 10- mu m-square devices, outputs over 3 mW, device operation over 100 degrees C, 6% wall-plug efficiency, threshold voltages under 3 V, and threshold currents under mA are reported.< <ETX xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">></ETX>
INTERPERSONAL ORIENTATION AND PREFERENCE FOR FUNCTIONAL AREA OF MANAGEMENT AMONG MBA STUDENTS. (1972)

This study is an examination of differences in the interpersonal needs of first semester MBA students who prefer different functional areas of management. it was felt that the findings had relevance to occupational choice and care er development processes, even though selection ufa functional socialty is only one of many sequential preferences which an individual is likely to express over time in gravitating toward a business career. This association between interpersonal needs and preference for a functional area of managament would seem to offer empirical support to the occupational Choice theories of Roe and Bordin mentioned earlier in this study. Furthermore, the fact that the sample was first-semester MBA students indicates the relationship between needs and functional area preference is present before the student has had much direct, extended experience with a particular function area. The empirical confirmation of the Roe-Bordin frameworks indicated by the data would seem all the more compelling since the FIRO Instrument is an attempt to measure a need orientation developed from early childhood experience, an element which is central to both theories. The present data established an association between specific needs and a particular preference relevant to the occupational choice process. It is admittedly another matter to use the need data to predict future occupational role since there are many intervening variables which obscure the connection between needs and ultimate choice of occupation. Furthermore, there are many choices an individual makes over time, and the question arises as to which job is indicative of ultimate occupational role.
Numerical modeling of vertical Hall-effect devices (1984)

A two-dimensional numerical simulation of the unconventional Hall device recently proposed by Popovic is presented. Some improved and simplified alternative device structures are proposed and simulated as well.
Constrained 3D navigation with 2D controllers (2002)

Navigation through 3D spaces is required in many interactive graphics and virtual reality applications. The authors consider the subclass of situations in which a 2D device such as a mouse controls smooth movements among viewpoints for a "through the screen" display of a 3D world. Frequently, there is a poor match between the goal of such a navigation activity, the control device, and the skills of the average user. They propose a unified mathematical framework for incorporating context-dependent constraints into the generalized viewpoint generation problem. These designer-supplied constraint modes provide a middle ground between the triviality of a single camera animation path and the confusing excess freedom of common unconstrained control paradigms. They illustrate the approach with a variety of examples, including terrain models, interior architectural spaces, and complex molecules.
新出曾伯「雨桼」壺銘的“元屖”與舊著録銅器銘文中相關詞語考釋 (2018)

2017年1月16、17日，湖北省文物考古研究所發表湖北京山蘇家壟遺址出土的曾伯雨桼壺銘文照片，並對銘文大部分内容作了解釋。有學者很快就發表了研究文章。本文隨即對前述相關研究做了檢討，重新隸寫釋文，並作相關注釋，重點將其中“孔武元屖”與舊著録曾伯「雨桼」簠相應的“元武孔黹”進行對比，確定“孔黹”當讀爲“孔夷”。由此，文章又對其他銘文中難解的“黹”字及相關語詞進行了重新解釋。此外，文章還順便討論了樂器銘文中常見的“元鳴孔皇”的語法結構問題。
La Granada judía: (Granada en la época de Semu'el ibn Nagrela) (1992)

Oxidative stress develops when the generation of free radicals exceeds the antioxidant capacity of cells or extracellular fluids. It can also occur as a result of physical exercise, and the pathogenesis of exercise-induced myopathies and haemolysis in horses may be related to changes in lipid peroxidation caused by free radicals. Cells have developed biochemical protection against oxidative stress and, as tissues seem to increase their antioxidant defences under chronic activation, training may be one of the ways of increasing antioxidant defences. Accordingly, we tested some enzymatic antioxidant activities as well as nonenzymatic antioxidants in horses undergoing special training. The results indicated a decrease in both chemical and biochemical defences against free radicals during training. It was deduced that the horses' diet may have been unable to provide the increased need for antioxidant defences resulting from training.
A quorum-based commit and termination protocol for distributed database systems (2003)

A quorum-based commit and termination protocol is designed with the goal of maintaining high data availability in case of failures. The protocol proposed is resilient to arbitrary concurrent site failures, lost messages, and network partitioning. The major difference between this protocol and existing ones is that the voting partition processing strategy is taken into consideration in the design. As a result, the protocol is expected to maintain higher data availability.< <ETX xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">></ETX>
Local Interrelationships of Cerebral Oxygen Consumption and Glucose Utilization in Normal Subjects and in Ischemic Stroke Patients: A Positron Tomography Study (1984)

With the use of positron emission tomography (PET) and the 15O steady-state-[18F]fluorodeoxyglucose combined method, the local interrelationships between the cerebral metabolic rate for oxygen (CMRO2) and the cerebral metabolic rate for glucose ( CMRGlc ) were investigated in control subjects and in stroke patients. In addition to the classic in vivo autoradiographic approach, a kinetic method was used to measure CMRGlc because it was expected to be more reliable in cerebral ischemia. In control subjects local coupling between CBF, CMRO2, and CMRGlc was confirmed, and acceptable values for the CMRO2/ CMRGlc ratio were found; the latter, however, was lower in white matter than in gray. Uncoupling between CMRO2 and CMRGlc was observed in all stroke patients, suggesting that (1) enhanced anaerobic glycolysis occurred both in reperfused recent infarcts and in chronically ischemic tissue, and (2) substrates other than blood-borne glucose were being oxidized at the borders of recent infarcts. However, methodological uncertainties presently make such observations only tentative. Finally, a coupled depression of CMRO2 and CMRGlc was found in the contralateral cerebellum.
Brake Control for Lateral Vehicle Dynamics (2015)

This thesis describes the evaluation of the potential in utilizing the brakes on a vehicle to perform a small-overlap\navoidance maneuver as a potential future active safety system and is done through both experimental and\nsimulated testing. A strong reason for using brakes instead of steering is the availability of a powerful actuator\nthat can be controlled by-wire while being less intrusive than a mechanically connected steering-actuated\nsystem. A 2008 SAAB 9-3 test vehicle is equipped with a separate electronic hydraulic brake system, enabling\ndifferential braking that can be implemented in a way to generate a yawing motion of the vehicle similar to\nturning the steering wheel.\nSimulink was used to develop a controller to autonomously perform the avoidance maneuver, requiring only an\ninput describing the desired lateral displacement. In order to verify the functionality of the controller without\nexperimental testing the vehicle dynamic simulation software, CarSim, was used. The developed avoidance\nmaneuver controller was identical in both simulation and in the test vehicle to ensure proper correlation between\nthe two.\nIn order to evaluate and quantify the differential braking potential, the experimental tests were conducted\nin different conditions and levels of intervention. Parameters such as velocity, vehicle load, road friction, and\nlateral displacement were varied to achieve a good performance estimation. To minimize driver intrusiveness\nduring a differential braking avoidance maneuver tests were also conducted with spacers installed between the\nfront wheels and hubs to remove the lateral component of the scrub radius and thereby decrease the torque\nsteer effect during braking. However the results proved that self-aligning moment is more dominant than torque\nsteer and the installed spacers had a negligible effect on both driver intrusiveness and avoidance maneuver\nperformance. To evaluate the potential of differential braking, the maneuvers were compared to corresponding\nsimulated and experimental front wheel steered maneuvers to generate a reliable and quantifiable assessment of\nthe differential braking potential. The experimental steered maneuvers were performed with a steering robot to\nensure high accuracy and consistency.\nThe results show that there is indeed potential in utilizing differential braking to perform an avoidance maneuver.\nAt higher velocities, differential braking has the potential to perform avoidance maneuvers both at a shorter\ndistance as well as duration compared to steering, especially for smaller lateral displacements. Differential\nbraking decelerates the vehicle, shortening the traveled distance while at the same time increasing the duration\nto perform the maneuver. At lower velocities, a steered maneuver is performed at both a shorter distance as\nwell as duration, compared to differential braking since the vehicle is not as sensitive to steering inputs and\nlarger steering amplitudes can be applied, resulting in more effective lateral movement.
CLIPS-LSR Experiments at TRECVID 2006 (2009)

This paper presents the systems used by CLIPS-IMAG and LSR-IMAG laboratories for their participation to TRECVID 2006 and the obtained results. Shot boundary detection was performed using a system based on image difference with motion compensation and direct dissolve detection. This system gives control of the silence to noise ratio over a wide range of values and for an equal value of noise and silence (or recall and precision), the F1 value is 0.805 for all types of transitions, 0.833 for cuts and 0.727 for gradual transitions. High level feature detection was performed using networks of SVM classifiers arranged in a variety of architectures and taking into account a variety of low level descriptors combining text, local and global information as well as conceptual context. The inferred average precision of our first run is
Bedtime H<sub>2</sub> blockers improve nocturnal gastric acid control in GERD patients on proton pump inhibitors (2001)

Adding a bedtime H2-blocker to a proton pump inhibitor b.d. regimen should be considered in patients who require continued nocturnal gastric acid control whilst taking proton pump inhibitor b.d.
Address block location on complex mail pieces (2002)

Unlike simple letter envelopes which have a high degree of global spatial structure among a limited number of entities, many mail pieces such as magazines usually have an address block printed on a label which can be pasted in an arbitrary position and orientation among text, graphics and images on a magazine cover, which is often shrink wrapped. This work concentrates on address block location for complex mail pieces with an arbitrary layout of printed entities. Using a bottom-up approach, a pyramid model is created for the address block. Based on this model, some features are extracted for assigning a confidence value to the located address blocks. The typical processing time for locating a destination address block is 0.1 seconds on a SGI Indy workstation.
Quality of life and sexual function in patients with benign prostatic hyperplasia. (2003)

Incidence of benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), one of the most common conditions affecting adult men, increases dramatically after the age of 50. The various symptoms of BPH, which include lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS), can adversely affect quality of life (QOL). Many men with BPH and LUTS wait until symptoms become significantly bothersome before seeking medical attention. Evaluating the exact severity and significance of symptoms has been difficult with previous methodology. Over the last decade, assessment tools have become available to quantify the symptoms of BPH and LUTS. This article addresses the impact of BPH, its management, and the overall effects it has on QOL.
Relationship Between the Menstrual Cycle and Timing of Ovulation Revealed by New Protocols: Analysis of Data from a Self-Tracking Health App (2017)

The large number of subjects allowed us to capture the relationships between the lengths of the menstrual cycle, follicular phase, and luteal phase in more detail than previous studies. We then demonstrated how the present calendar methods could be improved by the better grouping of women. This study suggested that even without integrating various biological metrics, the dataset collected by a self-tracking app can be used to develop formulas that predict the ovulation day when the data are aggregated. Because the method that we developed requires data only on the first day of menstruation, it would be the best option for couples during the early stages of their attempt to have a baby or for those who want to avoid the cost associated with other methods. Moreover, the result will be the baseline for more advanced methods that integrate other biological metrics.