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This chapter introduces a psychological mechanism that involves a close link between perception and motor behaviour. It focuses on a mechanism called the brain stem reflex, which refers to a process whereby an emotion is aroused in a listener because an acoustic feature — such as sound intensity or roughness of timbre ... |
We present a method to automatically register images presenting both global and local deformations. The image registration process is performed by exploiting a multi-level/multi- image approach whereby after having wavelet transformed the images, the subband images at different levels are used in a non-feature-based wa... |
Generally, it is claimed that gestation theory was originated locally in Tibet, with only a single origin. This author proves that there are two sources, both derived from India. One is a combination of gestation theory from rGyud-bzhi, i.e. Astangahrdayasamhita, and the Great Ratnakuta, and the other, from Somaradza, ... |
To evaluate the use of serial measurement of cervical length and width of internal os by means of vaginal ultrasound 144 pregnant women were examined prospectively. We hypothesized, that cervical length and width of the internal os would be significantly different in normal patients and those with preterm labor or cerv... |
The recommendation for the frequency for routine clinical monitoring of persons with well-controlled HIV infection is based on evidence that relies on observed rather than intended follow-up intervals. We sought to determine if the scheduled follow-up interval is associated with subsequent virologic failure. Participan... |
SUMMARY During August and September 2010 an unexpected high number of domestic cases of Legionnaires' disease (LD) were reported in The Netherlands. To examine this increase, patient characteristics and results of source finding and environmental sampling during the summer peak were compared to other domestic cases in ... |
SUMMARY Like many biomaterials, spider silk responds to water through softening and swelling. Major ampullate silk, the main structural element of most prey capture webs, also shrinks dramatically if unrestrained or develops high tension if restrained, a phenomenon called ‘supercontraction’. While supercontraction has ... |
Islam in Southeast Asia developed first among the trading community in the port cities. By virtue of this background Islam has progressed in harmony with other religions and local custom. This does not mean that certain Muslim rulers never launched war to defend their territories or even to expand their political influ... |
ABSTRACT This article examines the centrality of sibling relationships in Jesmyn Ward’s fiction and nonfiction, focusing specifically on her second novel Salvage the Bones (2011) and memoir Men We Reaped (2013) but referencing all of her long-form works. It analyzes Ward’s repeated depictions of siblings supporting eac... |
Various models have been proposed to predict the future head/gaze orientation of a user watching a 360-degree video. However, most of these models do not take sound information into account, and there are few studies on the influence of sound on users in VR space. This study proposes a multimodal model for predicting h... |
Alaria, Didelphodiplostomum and Pharyngostomoides are among genera of diplostomid digeneans known to parasitize mammalian definitive hosts. Despite numerous recent molecular phylogenetic studies of diplostomids, limited DNA sequence data is available from diplostomids parasitic in mammals. Herein, we provide the first ... |
1 Thirteen women taking long term oral contraceptive steroids were studied while taking ampicillin (500 mg three times daily) and compared to a control cycle while not taking ampicillin. 2 There were no significant changes in the plasma concentrations of ethinyloestradiol, levonorgestrel, follicle stimulating hormone o... |
The objective of this study was to establish a safe, repeatable procedure for measuring functional fields of view for indirect visibility systems on heavy trucks. Thirty-two professional truck drivers participated. A stationary class 8 tractor and attached semi-trailer was the test vehicle. On each trial the driver sea... |
This paper presents a novel five-phase fault tolerant permanent magnet motor drive with higher performance and reliability for use in safety-critical applications. A new machine design is developed for fault tolerant operation without severely comprising the drive performance. Fault tolerance is achieved by employing a... |
The role of membrane sialic acid in erythrocyte survival is unclear, although there is evidence for a reduction in sialic acid and surface charge in older erythrocytes. We reduced the surface charge of human, rat, and rabbit erythrocytes by removing sialic acid with neuraminidase. Reduction in sialic acid correlated wi... |
The fragmentation of free tenfold protonated ubiquitin in intense 70 femtosecond pulses of 90 eV photons from the FLASH facility was investigated. Mass spectrometric investigation of the fragment cations produced after removal of many electrons revealed fragmentation predominantly into immonium ions and related ions, w... |
Aims To determine the prevalence of psychosomatic disorders among dental students with recurrent aphthous stomatitis. MethodA cross-sectional study was performed on 184 dental students with recurrent aphthous stomatitis (RAS). A p-value cut off point of 0.05 at 95% confident interval (CI) was used to determine statist... |
Biopharmaceuticals are the fastest-growing and the most expensive among prescription drugs. A biopharmaceutical drug can cost a patient between USD 25,000 and USD 120,000 a year. Such sophisticated medicines are critical options for many unmet medical needs where no sufficient therapies are available, and the demand fo... |
The inflation in hospital financing has fallen off. The new regulations brought in with the health reform law (Gesundheitsreformgesetz) could help to cut hospital running costs and lead to a more economical form of medical treatment. At present a prognosis of these cost reductions is not possible. The new list of charg... |
Wild birds, particularly raptors, commonly use electrical transmission structures for nesting, perching, hunting, and roosting. Consequently, birds are exposed to electromagnetic fields (EMFs). The amount of time that wild reproducing American kestrels (Falco sparverius) were exposed to EMFs was determined, and the eff... |
A new type of fixed rf frequency acceleration scheme so-called serpentine acceleration is applied in scaling FFAG to realize rapid beam acceleration and produce high-intensity beams. With serpentine acceleration schemes, particles are accelerated in the serpentine channel which is around both stationary buckets below a... |
Purpose: The purpose of study is sheds light on the internationalization/globalization and performance factors of international new ventures (INVs), which have recently attracted a lot of attention in the field of international business. This study aims to present an important theoretical framework for the internationa... |
Research design, data, and methodology: As for the method of the study, existing prior studies are considered and complements the theoretical deficiencies of these studies. What the study argues is that existing fragmentary studies do not produce consistent results in identifying the influencing factors on internationa... |
Results: The results of the study are expected to be a guide for empirical analysis in the future. However, the limitations to sufficiently consider factors other than industry, resources, and Institutions is a limitation. |
Implications: This study was conducted from an integrated perspective to overcome the fragmentation of studies that investigated the impact of existing studies on the internationalization and performance of INVs from a specific perspective and the inconsistency of research results. Through this study, it can be said th... |
Community detection is a widely explored research area in complex networks. Communities are a set of components with highly intra-community similarities and little inter-community similarities. Detecting community structure in complex directed and labeled graphs is an inter-disciplinary research area with great importa... |
Three-component coupling reaction of conjugated dienes, thiols, and carbon monoxide affords an atom-economical thiocarbonylation of the dienes to give beta,gamma-unsaturated thioesters as the sole products. A catalyst system based on [Pd(OAc)(2)] and Ph(3)P showed excellent catalytic activity. The thiocarbonylation was... |
In this paper, the collisionless electrostatic instability of the entropy mode is investigated linearly in multi-component plasmas confined by a dipole magnetic field, which commonly exists in space environments, as well as laboratory plasmas, such as Collisionless Terrella eXperiment, Levitated Dipole eXperiment, and ... |
The pyroantimonate and radiometric procedures were used to establish the presence of three foci of selective accumulation of ions Ca2+ in the myometrium smooth-muscular cells: in nuclei, mitochondria and endoplasmatic reticulum. In the epithelium of the womb glands, besides the same foci a considerable amount of ions C... |
This study examines the impact of OSHA inspections on injuries in manufacturing plants. The authors use the same model and some of the same plant-level data employed by several earlier studies that found large effects of OSHA inspections on injuries for 1979–85. These new estimates indicate that an OSHA inspection impo... |
Twist drills are geometrical complex tools and thus various researchers have adopted different mathematical and experimental approaches for their simulation. The present paper acknowledges the increasing use of modern CAD systems and using the API (Application Programming Interface) of a CAD system, drilling simulation... |
Our laboratory has reported previously that angiotensin II, type-1 (AT1) receptor stimulation in isolated stellate ganglion neurons decreases intraneuronal calcium concentration ([Ca2+]i) acutely if baseline [Ca2+]i is high and increases [Ca2+]i if baseline [Ca2+]i is low. Part of the angiotensin II (Ang II) effect in ... |
Native state topology has been implicated as a major determinant of protein-folding mechanisms. Here, we test experimentally the robustness of the src SH3-domain folding transition state to changes in topology by covalently constraining regions of the protein with disulfide crosslinks and then performing kinetic analys... |
Abstract In this paper we analyze some models being used for fuzzy preference representation and fuzzy classification, putting them in relation to intuitionistic fuzzy sets. In particular, preference modeling is viewed as a classification problem, which is deeply related to intuitionistic fuzzy sets. In particular, the... |
Notwithstanding the significant achievements on gross domestic product, India is the least urbanised country among the top ten economies of the world Chandrasekhar and Sharma, 2014 The contribution of internal migration has also been little in the growth of urbanisation as natural increase accounts for 0 per cent of ur... |
QF‐PCR can be used to rapidly diagnose primary trisomy in prenatal samples. Our objectives were to estimate the prevalence of primary trisomy mosaicism for chromosomes 13, 18 or 21 in a cohort of prenatal samples, and to compare and contrast the detection of this mosaicism using both QF‐PCR and karyotype analysis.Anato... |
The birth of conjoined twins occurs in approximately 1 in 50,000 to 1 in 100,000 deliveries, and the majority are either stillborn or die early in life. Approximately 184 successful separations have been described. The authors describe the preoperative radiologic evaluation of a set of thoracopagus–omphalopagus twins a... |
The adsorption and orientation properties of a Y-shaped biomolecule, which models an immunoglobulin (Ig), on a charged surface are analyzed mesoscopically by Monte Carlo simulations. The orientation is a consequence of the interplay between van der Waals interactions and electrostatic interactions. For adsorption domin... |
In this this work is presented a semi-automatically technique for eddies recognition using GOES Sea Surface Temperature (SST) data time series from 2003 to 2008. The methodology consists of the main steps as follows: 1) identify the main characteristics of the eddies and define the area of interest (such climatology wa... |
In this paper, we propose a novel representation and verification technique for software components in a robotic system using a linear logic theorem prover. Linear logic includes consumable resources together with persistent resources, enabling representing and reasoning of robotic domains. We demonstrate model represe... |
DHT (Distributed Hash Tables) has been applied to the structured P2P system to achieve information retrieval and positioning efficiently. KAD is a large-scale network protocol based on the XOR metric in practice, which uses DHT technology to improve network salability without central server. However, the increasing mal... |
The goal of this work is to advance the capability of automated, mechanical cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) by predicting Coronary Perfusion Pressure (CPP) within 5 mmHg at a given moment in time. We aim to utilize methods from machine learning in order to model the CPP of a porcine patient subjected to automated c... |
BACKGROUND |
The relationship between pet ownership and the risk of developing allergic sensitization to pet allergens is still controversial. We assessed the possible effect of direct exposure to dog allergen on skin reactivity in dog-sensitized patients. |
METHODS |
We studied, in a case-control trial, 116 adults sensitized to dog allergens (55 with a dog at home for at least 10 years and 61 without it). The degree of response was assessed by skin prick test, performed in quadruplicate with three concentrations of allergenic extract: A (1:20 w/v), B (1:200 w/v) and C (1:2000 w/v).... |
RESULTS |
No significant difference between the two groups in the wheal diameters induced by the three concentrations of dog allergen could be demonstrated. |
CONCLUSION |
The results of this study suggest that direct dog exposure in adults with respiratory allergy is not associated with greater cutaneous response to dog allergens, as compared to non exposed subjects.3a.1 Workload Dependent Nbti and Pbti Aging Analysis for a Sub-45nm Commercial 3a.2 Interplay between Statistical Reliabil... |
This paper analyzes aging effects in various design hierarchies of a sub-45nm commercial processor running real-world applications. Dependencies of aging effects on workloads switching-activity and power-state are quantified. This paper presents an “instance-based” simulation flow, where a unique standard-cell library ... |
The climatological changes that have been forming for years have led to several different effects within the Wupper catchment area: the increasing of strong to extremely pronounced convective events lead on one hand (exacerbated by the strong topography within the “Bergische Land” region) to major damage events (e.g. i... |
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