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Ergot alkaloid transport across ruminant gastric tissues. (2001)

Ergot alkaloids cause fescue toxicosis when livestock graze endophyte-infected tall fescue. It is generally accepted that ergovaline is the toxic component of endophyte-infected tall fescue, but there is no direct evidence to support this hypothesis. The objective of this study was to examine relative and potential transport of ergoline and ergopeptine alkaloids across isolated gastric tissues in vitro. Sheep ruminal and omasal tissues were surgically removed and placed in parabiotic chambers. Equimolar concentrations of lysergic acid, lysergol, ergonovine, ergotamine, and ergocryptine were added to a Kreb's Ringer phosphate (KRP) solution on the mucosal side of the tissue. Tissue was incubated in near-physiological conditions for 240 min. Samples were taken from KRP on the serosal side of the chambers at times 0, 30, 60, 120, 180, and 240 min and analyzed for ergot alkaloids by competitive ELISA. The serosal KRP remaining after incubation was freeze-dried and the alkaloid species quantified by HPLC. The area of ruminal and omasal tissues was measured and the potential transportable alkaloids calculated by multiplying the moles of transported alkaloids per square centimeter of each tissue type by the surface area of the tissue. Studies were conducted to compare alkaloid transport in reticular, ruminal, and omasal tissues and to determine whether transport was active or passive. Ruminal tissue had greater ergot alkaloid transport potential than omasal tissue (85 vs 60 mmol) because of a larger surface area. The ruminal posterior dorsal sac had the greatest potential for alkaloid transport, but the other ruminal tissues were not different from one another. Alkaloid transport was less among reticular tissues than among ruminal tissues. Transport of alkaloids seemed to be an active process. The alkaloids with greatest transport potential were lysergic acid and lysergol. Ergopeptine alkaloids tended to pass across omasal tissues in greater quantities than across ruminal tissues, but their transport was minimal compared to lysergic acid and lysergol.
1000-bit bipolar shift register (1969)

The design of a bipolar shift register array using discretionary interconnection techniques is presented. The array which includes clock drivers and output buffer circuits interfaces directly with T2L and has a fanout drive capability of 10. It operates from D C. to 15 MHz at a power dissipation of only 4 mw per bit including all clock drivers. Eight separate registers and four separate clock frequencies are possible on a single array.
On-line testable logic design for FPGA implementation (2002)

In recent years, a number of logic design techniques for look-up table (LUT) based FPGAs have been proposed. However, none of these address issues such as fault detection or testability. This paper presents an algorithm which maps optimized Boolean expressions into look-up table based FPGAs. This mapping automatically incorporates testability features into designs, allowing on-line detection of faults within a FPGA. This is accomplished by utilizing a unique set of cells to implement a design. These cells operate on the premise of a two-rail checker, thus producing both the normal and complemented output when a cell is operating correctly, and two outputs of the same value in the presence of a fault. Faults generated in an intermediate cell is propagated to the final outputs, thus allowing on-line testability of a FPGA-based logic system.
iLiving - Interaction Design für den Wohnraum der Zukunft (2010)

Ziel dieser Arbeit ist die Konzeption und Evaluation von neuartigen Interaktionskonzepten für\ndie digitalSTROM Gebäudeautomation.\n\ndigitalSTROM ist ein innovatives Konzept mit dem Ziel sämtliche Stromverbraucher in einem\nHaushalt über die bestehenden Stromleitungen zu vernetzen. Die Stromverbraucher werden\ndabei mit einem Chip ausgestattet, welcher den Geräten die Fähigkeit gibt im Netzwerk zu\nkommunizieren. Es entsteht ein intelligenter Wohnraum, wofür die Firma futureLAB intelligente\nLösungen anbieten will. futureLAB hat die Arbeit in Auftrag gegeben.\n\nDas Projekt folgt den Prinzipien benutzerorientierter Vorgehensmodelle und bindet den zukünftigen\nBenutzer von Beginn an aktiv ein. Dafür werden Methoden aus dem Bereich des Human\nComputer Interaction Design herangezogen und bei Bedarf an die Bedürfnisse des Projekts angepasst.\nDie erarbeiteten Konzepte sollen dem Auftraggeber als Ideenpool und Grundlage für die künftige\nEntwicklung von Produkten für das digitalSTROM System dienen.
Integrated child development in rural China (1999)

In the past two decades, China has instituted economic and social reforms that have resulted in impressive strides in virtually every area of human endeavor. Yet despite these achievements, China's rural children continue to lag far behind their urban counterparts in physical, cognitive, and social development. Since two-thirds of the country's children reside in the countryside, improving child development services in rural areas is one of China's most pressing concerns. Educational research has shown that intervention in the preschool years, particularly before age five, has the greatest impact on an individual's future (and for the health of society as a whole). This study evaluates the current situation of children in rural and urban China, identifies problems related to child development, presents evidence of the effect of investment in interventions targeted to the early years, assesses the socioeconomic development of such investment, and outlines a program of interventions in both health and education to improve the outcome for children in rural China.
Fullerene C[60] : history, physics, nanobiology, nanotechnology (1993)

Part I: Science of Fullerene C60. 1. History of Fullerene C60. 2. The Icosahedron: Symmetry and Golden Mean Properties. 3. Symmetry of Electronic and Vibrational Structure of C60. 4. STM Images and Vibrational-Rotational Spectra of C60. Part II: From Nanobiology to Nanotechnology. 5. Bio-Fullerenes. 6. Intelligence within Cells - Bio-Fullerene Information Processing. 7. From Nanobiology to Nanotechnology - Basic Concept. Part III: Fullerene C60: Production, Technology, and Applications. 8. Fullerene Production. 9. Nanotechnology of C60 10. Electrochemistry of Fullerenes and its Applications. Figure Sources.
Packed Capillary Reversed-Phase Liquid Chromatography with High-Performance Electrospray Ionization Fourier Transform Ion Cyclotron Resonance Mass Spectrometry for Proteomics (2001)

In this study, high-efficiency packed capillary reversed-phase liquid chromatography (RPLC) coupled on-line with high-performance Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance (FTICR) mass spectrometry has been investigated for the characterization of complex cellular proteolytic digests. Long capillary columns (80-cm) packed with small (3-micron) C18 bonded particles provided a total peak capacity of approximately 1000 for cellular proteolytic polypeptides when interfaced with an ESI-FTICR mass spectrometer under composition gradient conditions at a pressure of 10,000 psi. Large quantities of cellular proteolytic digests (e.g., 500 micrograms) could be loaded onto packed capillaries of 150-micron inner diameter without a significant loss of separation efficiency. Precolumns with suitable inner diameters were found useful for improving the elution reproducibility without a significant loss of separation quality. Porous particle packed capillaries were found to provide better results than those containing nonporous particles because of their higher sample capacity. Two-dimensional analyses from the combination of packed capillary RPLC with high-resolution FTICR yield a combined capacity for separations of > 1 million polypeptide components and simultaneously provided information for the identification of the separated components based upon the accurate mass tag concept previously described.
Water removal and repair of porous ultra low-k films using supercritical CO 2 (2003)

Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy was used to investigate the effect of adding cosolvents (aliphatic Cl to C6 alcohols) and Si-bearing precursors hexamethyldisilazane (HMDS) and trimethylchlorosilane (TMCS) to supercritical carbon dioxide (scCO 2 ) to dry and repair ashed blanket porous ultra low-k (ULK) methyl silsesquioxane (MSQ) films (JSR LKD5109) (k = 2.4). The drying results showed that all of the aliphatic C1-C6 alcohols removed hydrogen-bonded water. The film repair results indicated that HMDS and TMCS reacted with both lone (SiO-H) and H-bonded silanol (SiO-H) groups. The hydrophobicity of the starting surface before ashing was recovered after HMDS and TMCS treatments as confirmed by contact angle measurements (≥84°). Electrical performance was also restored based on dielectric constant values of 2.4 ± 0.1. HMDS and TMCS treatments are an effective approach to restore the degradation of ULK MSQ films due to plasma ashing.
Comment on the Paper by M. E. Rose, Entitled ``On the Dispersion of Sound. Consideration of Three Energy Levels'' (1934)

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In situ identification of nocardioform actinomycetes in activated sludge using fluorescent rRNA-targeted oligonucleotide probes (1998)

Hitherto, few environmental samples have been investigated by a 'full cycle rRNA analysis'. Here the results of in situ hybridization experiments with specific rRNA-targeted oligonucleotide probes developed on the basis of new sequences derived from a previously described comparative 16S rRNA analysis of nocardioform actinomycetes in activated sludge are reported. Application of the specific probes enabled identification and discrimination of the distinct populations of nocardioform actinomycetes in activated sludge. One of the specific probes (DLP) detected rod-shaped bacteria which were found in 13 of the 16 investigated sludge samples from various wastewater treatment plants, suggesting their importance in the wastewater treatment process. Another probe (GLP2) hybridized with typically branched filaments of nocardioforms mainly found in samples from enhanced biological phosphorus removal plants, suggesting that these bacteria are involved in sludge foaming. The combination of in situ hybridization with fluorescently labelled rRNA-targeted oligonucleotide probes and confocal laser scanning microscopy improved the detection of nocardioform actinomycetes, which often showed only weak signals inside the activated-sludge flocs.
Catalytic molten metals for the direct conversion of methane to hydrogen and separable carbon (2017)

Metals that are active catalysts for methane (Ni, Pt, Pd), when dissolved in inactive low-melting temperature metals (In, Ga, Sn, Pb), produce stable molten metal alloy catalysts for pyrolysis of methane into hydrogen and carbon. All solid catalysts previously used for this reaction have been deactivated by carbon deposition. In the molten alloy system, the insoluble carbon floats to the surface where it can be skimmed off. A 27% Ni-73% Bi alloy achieved 95% methane conversion at 1065°C in a 1.1-meter bubble column and produced pure hydrogen without CO<sub>2</sub> or other by-products. Calculations show that the active metals in the molten alloys are atomically dispersed and negatively charged. There is a correlation between the amount of charge on the atoms and their catalytic activity.
Abstract 10128: NT-pro C-type Natriuretic Peptide is a Novel Urinary Biomarker with Prognostic Value in Hospitalized Heart Failure Patients Independent of Glomerular Filtration Rate (2011)

Background: The relative utility of novel renal biomarkers in diagnosis or risk stratification in hospitalized heart failure (HHF) patients remains poorly defined. C-type natriuretic peptide (CNP) ...
Intent Biometrics: An Enhanced Form of Multimodal Biometric Systems (2014)

Biometrics is a field in which very little progress has been made since it was first established. One of the major milestones in the field was the introduction of the multi-modal biometrics concept which uses a multi-factor authentication method. In this method, multiple factors are being authenticated as opposed to a single factor in the 'classic' unimodal biometric systems. This paper proposes an extension to the multi-modal biometrics concept to check for individuals' consent or intent to authenticate. It does that by checking certain physiological characteristics during authentication together with the classic biometric traits of fingerprints, iris etc. This additional physiological measurement will indicate whether the user authenticating is doing so without consent or whether the authentication is done with mal intentions.
Automatically identifying and georeferencing street maps on the web (2005)

Article Share on Automatically identifying and georeferencing street maps on the web Authors: Sneha Desai University of Southern California, Marina del Rey, CA University of Southern California, Marina del Rey, CAView Profile , Craig A. Knoblock University of Southern California, Marina del Rey, CA University of Southern California, Marina del Rey, CAView Profile , Yao-Yi Chiang University of Southern California, Marina del Rey, CA University of Southern California, Marina del Rey, CAView Profile , Kandarp Desai University of Southern California, Marina del Rey, CA University of Southern California, Marina del Rey, CAView Profile , Ching-Chien Chen Geosemble Technologies, El Segundo, CA Geosemble Technologies, El Segundo, CAView Profile Authors Info & Claims GIR '05: Proceedings of the 2005 workshop on Geographic information retrievalNovember 2005 Pages 35–38https://doi.org/10.1145/1096985.1096995Online:04 November 2005Publication History 4citation447DownloadsMetricsTotal Citations4Total Downloads447Last 12 Months5Last 6 weeks1 Get Citation AlertsNew Citation Alert added!This alert has been successfully added and will be sent to:You will be notified whenever a record that you have chosen has been cited.To manage your alert preferences, click on the button below.Manage my AlertsNew Citation Alert!Please log in to your account Save to BinderSave to BinderCreate a New BinderNameCancelCreateExport CitationPublisher SiteGet Access
A Fast Algorithm for ICP-Based 3D Shape Biometrics (2006)

This paper addresses the problem of creating a faster version of the general ICP approach by exploiting the biometrics application context. In a recognition scenario, gallery images are enrolled into the database ahead of time, which gives us the opportunity to build related information before the probe comes into the system. In this paper, we present a novel approach, called "pre-computed voxel closest neighbors," to reduce the computational time for shape matching. The approach shifts the heavy computation burden to the enrollment stage, which can be done offline. Experiments in 3D ear biometrics with 302 subjects demonstrate the effectiveness of the approach.
Bonding induced stress in semiconductor laser (2002)

The TM mode in a semiconductor laser is often associated with tensile stress and therefore the laser fabrication processes are optimized so that the active waveguide layer is in compression. Our experiments suggest that hard solder such as AuSn induces compressive stress in the laser chip which is dependent on the process and the submount material. Using a thermal expansion model we have calculated the stress in the laser chip for various submount materials.< <ETX xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">></ETX>
Camera tamper detection using wavelet analysis for video surveillance (2007)

It is generally accepted that video surveillance system operators lose their concentration after a short period of time and may miss important events taking place. In addition, many surveillance systems are frequently left unattended. Because of these reasons, automated analysis of the live video feed and automatic detection of suspicious activity have recently gained importance. To prevent capture of their images, criminals resort to several techniques such as deliberately obscuring the camera view, covering the lens with a foreign object, spraying or defocusing the camera lens. In this paper, we propose some computationally efficient wavelet domain methods for rapid camera tamper detection and identify some real-life problems and propose solutions to these.
Convolutional neural network transfer for automated glaucoma identification (2017)

Most current systems for automated glaucoma detection in fundus images rely on segmentation-based features, which are known to be influenced by the underlying segmentation methods. Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are powerful tools for solving image classification tasks as they are able to learn highly discriminative features from raw pixel intensities. However, their applicability to medical image analysis is limited by the non-availability of large sets of annotated data required for training. In this article we present results of analysis of the viability of using CNNs that are pre-trained from non-medical data for automated glaucoma detection. Two different CNNs, namely OverFeat and VGG-S, were applied to fundus images to generate feature vectors. Preprocessing techniques such as vessel inpainting, contrast-limited adaptive histogram equalization (CLAHE) or cropping around the optic nerve head (ONH) area were explored within this framework to evaluate the improvement in feature discrimination, combined with both ℓ<sub>1</sub> and ℓ<sub>2</sub> regularized logistic regression models. Results on the Drishti-GS1 dataset, evaluated in terms of area under the average ROC curve, suggests the viability of this approach and offer significant evidence of the importance of well-chosen image pre-processing for transfer learning when the amount of data is not sufficient for fine-tuning the network.
BEOL stack-aware routability prediction from placement using data mining techniques (2016)

In advanced technology nodes, physical design engineers must estimate whether a standard-cell placement is routable (before invoking the router) in order to maintain acceptable design turnaround time. Modern SoC designs consume multiple compute servers, memory, tool licenses and other resources for several days to complete routing. When the design is unroutable, resources are wasted, which increases the design cost. In this work, we develop machine learning-based models that predict whether a placement solution is routable without conducting trial or early global routing. We also use our models to accurately predict iso-performance Pareto frontiers of utilization, aspect ratio and number of layers in the back-end-of-line (BEOL) stack. Furthermore, using data mining and machine learning techniques, we develop new methodologies to generate training examples given very few placements. We conduct validation experiments in three foundry technologies (28nm FDSOI, 28nm LP and 45nm GS), and demonstrate accuracy ≥ 85.9% in predicting routability of a placement. Our predictions of Pareto frontiers in the three technologies are pessimistic by at most 2% with respect to the maximum achievable utilization for a given design in a given BEOL stack.
Characterization of Haemophilus influenzae Isolates from the Respiratory Tract of Patients with Primary Antibody Deficiencies: Evidence for Persistent Colonizations (1995)

A total of 117 consecutive patients with primary antibody deficiencies were followed for up to 5 years with regard to acute respiratory tract infections. Nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae (NTHI) was the sole pathogen in 61% (202/330) of the samples from which a potential pathogen was recovered. Common variable immunodeficiency (CVI) was the most prevalent condition (27/39 patients) in the group where H. influenzae was isolated. In patients where H. influenzae was not found only 9/78 patients had CVI. 49 of these 78 patients had isolated IgG3 or IgA deficiency. Both of these entities seemed to be associated with a lower prevalence of NTHI infections. 13 of 18 patients with at least 2 isolates of NTHI were colonized with the same strain from 3 to 43 months as shown by total genomic DNA-fingerprinting. Recurrent symptomatic infections occurred in these patients despite substitution therapy with gammaglobulins and repeated antibiotic treatments. All but 2 of the 224 H. influenzae isolates were beta-lactamase negative and sensitive to ampicillin. The use of 10 lipopolysaccharide-specific monoclonal antibodies in a whole cell ELISA showed that the LPS-epitopes on the 224 H. influenzae isolates from the hypogammaglobulinemic group were very similar to 499 NTHI isolates from immunocompetent patients with respiratory infections. One may therefore conclude that i) patients with CVI, were prone to be permanently colonized with NTHI, and ii) the colonizing bacteria were ordinary strains showing the same LPS-phenotypes as those strains that cause acute respiratory tract infections in immunocompetent individuals.
Text Clumping for Technical Intelligence (2012)

This development responds to a challenge. Text mining software can conveniently generate very large sets of terms or phrases. Our examples draw from use of VantagePoint (or equivalently, Thomson Data Analyzer -TDA) software A typical search on an ST&I topic of interest might yield, say, 5,000 records. One approach is to apply VantagePoint's Natural Language Processing (NLP) to the titles, and also to the abstracts and/or claims. We also take advantage of available topic-rich fields such as keywords and index terms. Merging these fields could well offer on the order of 100,000 terms and phrases in one field (list). That list, unfortunately, will surely contain much noise and redundancy. The text clumping aim is to clean and consolidate such a list to provide rich, usable content information.
New perspectives in simulation planning of skin wound suture in plastic surgery: the integration procedure (1988)

A novel simulation method for planning a skin wound suture is proposed according to the principles of biogeometry, using a finite-element approach. The skin mesh program (CASMeD II) is used to select the suture axis and to determine the minimal distribution of the tension forces on the suture points of the suture line. The damping effect of the continuum of the skin, quantified by the calculated relative difference of suture-line tension, is evaluated. The relative difference in the integration procedure expresses the surgical plasticity as it affects the suture process.< <ETX>></ETX>
10-Ketonaltrexone and 10-ketooxymorphone (1985)

Ethylketocyclazocine (1) has greater kappa/mu selectivity than cyclazocine in brain binding assays. 10-Ketonaltrexone (11) and 10-ketooxymorphone (10) were prepared from naltrexone 3-methyl ether and oxycodone, respectively. Bioassays in the myenteric plexus longitudinal muscle preparation of the guinea pig ileum and in the mouse vas deferens, in addition to brain binding assays, demonstrated that 10 and 11 were far less potent than naltrexone (2) and oxymorphone (3) at mu sites and also had little affinity for kappa and delta sites. It is concluded that introduction of the 10-keto group in naltrexone and oxymorphone diminished opioid effects at all binding sites.
Toward the Design of an Intelligent Courseware Production System Using Software Engineering and Instructional Design Principles (1990)

There are literally hundreds of authoring systems available for personal computers. Most of them are designed to go with specific hardware and provide no intention to facilitate individualized instruction. This article describes a prototype courseware production system which is designed not only to offer the full power of traditional authoring system, but also to propose the design based on software engineering practice to ensure system transportability. In addition, the proposed system utilizes sound instructional design theory to facilitate individualized instruction. The basic structure and characteristics of the Minimum Courseware Creation Support Environment (MCCSE), the systematic editing process using the system, the sample products, and the strength of the product are also discussed.