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Geomorphic evolution in Hebridean Scotland (1966)

Synopsis The view is challenged that the Highland plateau in Scotland originated during later Palaeozoic times and evolved as a complex ‘peneplain’. The view is also challenged that the Highland plateau originated as an emergent Cretaceous sea-floor. Although Cretaceous rocks were repeatedly deformed by Palaeogene earth-movement and igneous action, there is no sign of a ‘Hebridean rift’ to which the complexities of Hebridean geology may be relegated. Arran, of Hebridean igneous facies in an alien structural context, confirms other evidence in demonstrating that the evolution of regional relief is not to be separated into one mode in a conjectural rift, another in a mainland massif. The primary Hebridean landform appears to be the product of the pulsed emergence of little-warped wave-cut benches. The benches continue uninterruptedly from the Hebridean province into the Highlands, and prove an original geomorphic unity of the whole country. Since the benches bevel the Palaeogene igneous masses and are later than the mid-Tertiary folds and faults, the regional landscape is essentially Neogene in origin. So also appears to be the landscape of other parts of Britain.
Integration of a stand-alone expert system with a hospital information system. (1992)

A stand-alone PC expert system for evaluating the appropriateness of inpatient admissions has been integrated with an existing hospital information system. The expert system supports preadmission screening for appropriateness of inpatient admissions. The HIS provides extensive clinical data in a coded electronic form, permitting high-level decision support. The integrated system was developed for a 20 week randomized clinical trial to evaluate the effects of preadmission screening on inappropriate inpatient admissions. Three factors of the integration are considered: programmatic integration of the expert system, seamless presentation of mixed platform applications, and integration of coded data from the stand-alone application into the HIS data structure.
A unified model for inter-gate and intra-gate CMOS bridging fault: the configuration ratio (2002)

In order to simulate the effects of a bridging fault it is necessary to accurately determine the intermediate voltage of the shorted nodes and compare it to the logic threshold voltage of the driven gates. This paper presents a general model called "the configuration ratio model" which can be used to determine if a particular structure of transistors gives an intermediate voltage which is higher or lower than a given threshold voltage. This general model applies to inter-gate and intra-gate bridging fault. Moreover the approach is extremely faster than the previous ones since no SPICE simulation is required. The accuracy is of 0.06 V to compare with SPICE simulations.< <ETX xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">></ETX>
Sequence Alignment in Molecular Biology (1998)

Molecular biology is becoming a computationally intense realm of contemporary science and faces some of the current grand scientific challenges. In its context, tools that identify, store, compare and analyze effectively large and growing numbers of bio-sequences are found of increasingly crucial importance. Biosequences are routinely compared or aligned, in a variety of ways, to infer common ancestry, to detect functional equivalence, or simply while searching for similar entries in a database. A considerable body of knowledge has accumulated on sequence alignment during the past few decades. Without pretending to be exhaustive, this paper attempts a survey of some criteria of wide use in sequence alignment and comparison problems, and of the corresponding solutions. The paper is based on presentations and literature given at the Workshop on Sequence Alignment held at Princeton, N.J., in November 1994, as part of the DIMACS Special Year on Mathematical Support for Molecular Biology.
Improved Television Systems: NTSC and beyond (1987)

After a discussion of the limits to received image quality in NTSC and a review of various proposals for improvement, it is concluded that the current system is capable of significant increase in spatial and temporal resolution, and that most of these improvements can be made in a compatible manner. Newly designed systems, for the sake of maximum utilization of channel capacity, should use many of the techniques proposed for improving NTSC, such as high-rate cameras and displays, but should use the component, rather than composite, technique for color multiplexing. A preference is expressed for noncompatible new systems, both for increased design flexibility and on the basis of likely consumer behavior. Some sample systems are described that achieve very high quality in the present 6-MHz channels, full “HDTV” at the CCIR rate of 216 Mbits/sec, or “better-than-35mm” at about 500 Mbits/sec. Possibilities for even higher efficiency using motion compensation are described.
El Palacio de San Telmo en el siglo XIX (2004)

El presente texto trata de analizar especialmente la Intervención del arquitecto Balbino Marrón para transformar el Seminario en Palacio, coincidiendo con la llegada de los duques de Montpensier a la ciudad de Sevilla, en la segunda mitad del siglo XIX. La aportación de Marrón confiere al edificio una unidad definitiva, convirtiéndolo en un recinto acabado y cerrado sobre sí mismo. Igualmente, el arquitecto supo ejecutar con gran sensibilidad la rehabilitación como palacio, con las modificaciones funcionales que la transformación implicaba.
Excretion pattern investigation of urinary normal and modified nucleosides of breast cancer patients by RP‐HPLC and factor analysis method (2000)

Modified nucleosides, formed post-transcriptionally in RNA by a number of modification enzymes, are excreted in abnormal levels in the urine of patients with malignant tumors. To test their usefulness as tumor markers, and to compare them with the conventional tumor markers, a reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatographic (RP-HPLC) method and a factor analysis method have been used to study the excretion pattern of nucleosides of breast cancer patients. A clear cut differentiation of the breast cancer group and the healthy individuals in two clusters without overlapping was obtained. Copyright © 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
A cold-active esterase of Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2): from genome sequence to enzyme activity (2007)

The genome sequence of Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2) contains 51 putative lipase and esterase genes mostly of unknown function. The gene estB (locus SCO 6966) was expressed as a His-tagged protein in E. coli. Esterase B was active at low temperatures exerting its maximum activity at 30 degrees C and retaining more than 25% of its activity at 4 degrees C. The optimum pH was 8-8.5. The enzyme was active against short synthetic p-nitrophenylesters (C2-C10) with maximum activity towards the acetate ester (C2). The esterase was tested on 13 series of racemic esters of potential interest for the synthesis of chiral pharmaceutical compounds. 4 of the series were substrates and a modest degree of enantioselectivity was observed (enantiomeric ratios of 1.1-1.9).
Methods for the Analysis of Continuous Biomarker Assay Data With Increased Sensitivity (2004)

Prospective studies must be able to adapt to improved technology and adopt new assays with increased limits of detection. Our objective is to describe methods for incorporating new technologies in which the lower limits of quantification of a biomarker are enhanced. One may conduct an analysis of data with new and old sensitivity levels using a variety of methods, including retesting a sample of stored specimens from which multiple imputation may be applied, and a parametric approach that accounts for the changing limit of detection. We compare these methods in terms of their statistical bias and efficiency and identify the conditions under which the various methods perform well and then demonstrate our methods by evaluating differences in HIV RNA levels obtained from 2 prospective cohort studies.
Increased expression of the Abcg2 transporter during erythroid maturation plays a role in decreasing cellular protoporphyrin IX levels (2004)

ABCG2/BCRP is a member of the adenosine triphosphate-binding cassette (ABC) transporter family and is expressed in intestine, kidney, and liver, where it modulates the absorption and excretion of xenobiotic compounds. ABCG2 is also expressed in hematopoietic stem cells and erythroid cells; however, little is known regarding its role in hematopoiesis. Abcg2 null mice have increased levels of protoporphyrin IX (PPIX) in erythroid cells, yet the mechanism for this remains uncertain. We have found that Abcg2 mRNA expression was up-regulated in differentiating erythroid cells, coinciding with increased expression of other erythroid-specific genes. This expression pattern was associated with significant amounts of ABCG2 protein on the membrane of mature peripheral blood erythrocytes. Erythroid cells engineered to express ABCG2 had significantly lower intracellular levels of PPIX, suggesting the modulation of PPIX level by ABCG2. This modulating activity was abrogated by treatment with a specific ABCG2 inhibitor, Ko143, implying that PPIX may be a direct substrate for the transporter. Taken together, our results demonstrate that ABCG2 plays a role in regulating PPIX levels during erythroid differentiation and suggest a potential role for ABCG2 as a genetic determinant in erythropoietic protoporphyria.
Gold deposits in the western sector of the Central Spanish System (2010)

The gold deposits in the western sector of the Central Spanish System can be grouped in: (1) gold quartz veins type (El Chivote, La Pedrera), (2) paleoplacers: gold nuggets in tertiary alluvial deposits (Las Cavenes, Sierro de Coria), (3) quaternary placers (Río Erjas), (4) gold nuggets in a regolith developed on the Schist and Graywacke Complex (CEG) (Casillas de Coria). The morphological study of gold nuggets will provide physical, chemical, bacteriological and climatic characteristics. Mining works are located on these deposits from roman time to the present day.
Recognizing Unseen Attribute-Object Pair with Generative Model (2019)

In this paper, we are studying the problem of recognizing attribute-object pairs that do not appear in the training dataset, which is called unseen attribute-object pair recognition. Existing methods mainly learn a discriminative classifier or compose multiple classifiers to tackle this problem, which exhibit poor performance for unseen pairs. The key reasons for this failure are 1) they have not learned an intrinsic attributeobject representation, and 2) the attribute and object are processed either separately or equally so that the inner relation between the attribute and object has not been explored. To explore the inner relation of attribute and object as well as the intrinsic attribute-object representation, we propose a generative model with the encoder-decoder mechanism that bridges visual and linguistic information in a unified end-to-end network. The encoder-decoder mechanism presents the impressive potential to find an intrinsic attribute-object feature representation. In addition, combining visual and linguistic features in a unified model allows to mine the relation of attribute and object. We conducted extensive experiments to compare our method with several state-of-the-art methods on two challenging datasets. The results show that our method outperforms all other methods.
Cationic Conjugated Polymer/DNA Complexes for Amplified Fluorescence Assays of Nucleases and Methyltransferases (2007)

A new method is developed for sensitive, homogeneous, and convenient assays of nucleases and methyltransferases using complexes of cationic conjugated polymers with DNA containing a fluorescein tag at the 5′-terminus (DNA-Fl). The cleavage of DNA by nucleases can be monitored by fluorescence spectra by observing conjugated-polymer or fluorescein emission changes in aqueous solutions.
Tracking of Multiple Moving Speakers With Multiple Microphone Arrays (2004)

In this paper we use multiple microphone arrays to fuse the location estimate from each microphone array which yields an improved estimate of the positions and velocities of multiple, simultaneously active, moving speakers based on time delay of arrivals (TDOAs). Our approach: 1) incorporates kinematic information of moving speakers by using an interacting multiple model (IMM) estimator for each speaker in order to constrain the evolution of the location measurements; 2) fuses the location estimates of the same speaker from multiple microphone arrays for better acoustical coverage of the sensed environment, and 3) directly accounts for the measurement origin uncertainty, i.e., which measurement comes from which speaker by using the probabilistic data association (PDA) technique with the IMM estimator. We demonstrate that a network of arrays combined with the estimation technique widely used in multisensor multitarget tracking area provides a consistent and coherent way to reduce the uncertainty and ambiguity of measurements. The effectiveness of our approach is illustrated by extensive simulation study on tracking a single moving speaker and two closely-spaced speakers with a crossing segment in their trajectories.
[Total hip prosthesis in patients less than 50 years of age. Value of ceramic materials]. (1990)

87 consecutive cases of sealed total hip prosthesis with an alumina/alumina friction couple, placed in 76 patients less than 50 years old, have been studied. The surveillance period ranged between 2 and 13 years for 74 of them. 51 have been followed over more than 5 years, 10 have been lost out of sight and 3 died. 5 failures are to be deplored, one by fracture of a 22 mm ceramic head, the normal size in this series being 32 mm; the 4 others occurred after 6, 6, 10 and 11 years and are the consequence of a cotyloid loosening. Compared to the other series in literature concerning young patients and therefore those considered to be "at risk", the results obtained are better, especially if the high number of cases re-operated upon in this series (18 prosthesis exchanges out of 87) is taken into account. The actuarial method of Kaplan Meier gives a probability of 94% of keeping the prosthesis for 8 years. It is undoubtedly the quality of the design of the titanium femoral stem and especially the small amount of erosion scraps produced by the alumina/alumina couple which explain this result. The hip replacement must however remain an exceptional indication in a young subject.
Evaluation of Trastuzumab Without Chemotherapy as a Post-operative Adjuvant Therapy in HER2-positive Elderly Breast Cancer Patients: Randomized Controlled Trial [RESPECT (N-SAS BC07)] (2011)

We hereby report the study concept.
Automatic Generation of Music Slide Show Using Personal Photos (2008)

We present an algorithmic system capable of automatically generating a music slide show given a piece of music with lyrics. Different from previous approaches, our method generates slide shows using personal photos which are without annotation. We introduce a novel algorithm to infer the relevance of personal photos to the lyrics, based on which personal photos are optimally selected to match the music. The proposed system first detects the keyframes of the input music. For each music keyframe, it optimally selects an image from the personal photo collection via our image content analysis procedure. Once the keyframe images have been selected, the in-between frames are then generated via an image morphing process. Experiment results have shown that our method can successfully generate music slide shows which follow the rhythms of the music and at the same time match the lyrics.
The opposite effects of fluvoxamine and sertraline in the treatment of psychotic major depression: a case report (2010)

Doctors should consider the monotherapy of sigma-1 receptor agonist fluvoxamine as an alternative approach to treating psychotic major depression.
Bupropion for weight reduction (2006)

Bupropion is a norepinephrine and dopamine uptake inhibitor that has been available for several years for the treatment of depression and aiding smokers to quit. Although bupropion is not approved for treating obesity, three randomized clinical trials have shown some degree of efficacy for this drug in promoting weight loss in obese patients. The present drug profile provides a review of the pharmacology of bupropion, clinical evidence of efficacy with regard to weight reduction, tolerability and risks, and the current and future role of this drug in the management of obesity.
Real-time image-based tracking of planes using efficient second-order minimization (2005)

The tracking algorithm presented in this paper is based on minimizing the sum-of-squared-difference between a given template and the current image. Theoretically, amongst all standard minimization algorithms, the Newton method has the highest local convergence rate since it is based on a second-order Taylor series of the sum-of-squared-differences. However, the Newton method is time consuming since it needs the computation of the Hessian. In addition, if the Hessian is not positive definite, convergence problems can occur. That is why several methods use an approximation of the Hessian. The price to pay is the loss of the high convergence rate. The aim of this paper is to propose a tracking algorithm based on a second-order minimization method which does not need to compute the Hessian.
Individual admixture estimates: Disease associations and individual risk of diabetes and gallbladder disease among Mexican‐Americans in Starr County, Texas (1986)

The ethnic and geographic distributions of several common chronic diseases show distinct patterns that are consistent with the distribution of genes and genetic admixture. For example, diabetes and gallbladder disease occur most frequently among Amerindians, while those genetically admixed with them (such as Mexican-Americans) have intermediate rates, and lowest rates are found among Whites and Blacks. Because there will be heterogeneity from individual to individual in ancestral affinity within an admixed population, a method is developed for estimating each person's admixture probability. Results confirm that there is substantial heterogeneity of individual admixture among Mexican-Americans in Starr County, Texas, with a mean value indicating that 65% of genes in this population are Caucasian derived and 35% Amerindian derived. The individual estimates are shown to be unrelated to the probability of being diabetic and only marginally related to gallbladder disease, with those having the most Amerindian affinity being at increased risk. These results are a consequence of the independent assortment of loci and indicate that unless the markers employed are related (including linkage) to the disease of interest, the method will have limited utility. Individual admixture estimates will be useful, however, for examining aspects of population structure and will find increased utility for predicting disease and examining disease associations as more and more of the genome is represented by markers, a very probable prospect with the abundance of DNA polymorphism being identified by restriction enzymes.
Heptyl Butyrate, a New Synthetic Attractant for Yellow Jackets12 (1969)

Journal Article Heptyl Butyrate, a New Synthetic Attractant for Yellow Jackets Get access Harry G. Davis, Harry G. Davis Entomology Research Division, Agr. Res. Serv., USDA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Gaines W. Eddy, Gaines W. Eddy Entomology Research Division, Agr. Res. Serv., USDA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar T. P. McGovern, T. P. McGovern Entomology Research Division, Agr. Res. Serv., USDA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Morton Beroza Morton Beroza Entomology Research Division, Agr. Res. Serv., USDA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Journal of Economic Entomology, Volume 62, Issue 5, 1 October 1969, Page 1245, https://doi.org/10.1093/jee/62.5.1245 Published: 01 October 1969 Article history Accepted: 22 July 1969 Published: 01 October 1969
Remanence and longitudinal recording properties of advanced particulate media and metal thin - film media (1990)

A comparison is made of the magnetic remanence and longitudinal recording properties of advanced particulate media with metal thin-film media. The remanence properties were studied parallel and orthogonal to the track direction and were diagnostic of recording performance. The recording properties were measured using thin-film heads with inductive-write and magnetoresistive-read elements. Longitudinal barium ferrite and isotropic cobalt alloy media show substantially narrower switching field distributions (SFDs) compared to acicular cobalt-modified gamma -Fe/sub 2/O/sub 3/ media. Narrow SFD, high H/sub c/, and small M/sub r/ delta lead to small, well-defined magnetic transitions and high bit densities. Indeed, there is a linear correlation between the calculated transition length, a, and the linear density. Results confirm that particulate barium ferrite and cobalt alloy media have very small transition lengths and high linear densities. Cobalt-modified gamma -Fe/sub 2/O/sub 3/ media show lower linear densities; however, their intrinsic signal-to-noise ratios (SNR) are much higher compared to the barium ferrite and cobalt alloy media. The trend of noise with increasing density or frequency differs for the three types of media. >
Review of the Human Immune Mechanisms Directed Against Entamoeba histolytica (1986)

The human immune mechanisms effective against the destructive parasite Entamoeba histolytica have not been established. Humoral responses develop with invasive disease but have not positively correlated with protection against recurrent invasive infection. Though complement is amebicidal, invasive strains of amebas may be resistant. Polymorphonuclear neutrophils have not been active in vitro against virulent amebic strains and could contribute to the pathogenesis of disease. In vitro studies have shown human activated monocyte-derived macrophages and cytotoxic T lymphocytes to be competent cells in killing virulent amebas. Soluble amebic protein preparations have been shown to be mitogenic for normal, uninfected human lymphocytes, apparently because the N-acetyl-D-galactosamine-inhibitable amebic lectin is present. Despite a lower T4:T8 ratio and a heterogeneous lymphocyte proliferation in response to mitogens, patients with amebic hepatic abscess develop sensitization to amebic antigens and specific effector mechanisms. Although antibody, complement, and nonimmune mechanisms, as well as parasite factors, may be important in determining the occurrence of invasive amebiasis, human cell-mediated immune mechanisms may play a major role in combating invasive infection due to E. histolytica.
Automatic Fall Detection using Smartphone Acceleration Sensor (2016)

In this paper, we describe our work on developing an automatic fall detection technique using smart phone. Fall is detected based on analyzing acceleration patterns generated during various activities. An additional long lie detection algorithm is used to improve fall detection rate while keeping false positive rate at an acceptable value. An application prototype is implemented on Android operating system and is used to evaluate the proposed technique performance. Experiment results show the potential of using this app for fall detection. However, more realistic experiment setting is needed to make this technique suitable for use in real life situations.