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In the 1980s, Chinese village poetry reached the peak of its development. In the process of formation, she went through stages of prosperity, stagnation and rebirth. The proof was the shifting of the authors' attention from the traditional display of reality to a realistic depiction of the fate of peasants; transformat... |
In this letter, a new DOA estimation method based on sparse signal recovery is proposed. We utilize the Capon spectrum to design a weighted l1-norm penalty in order to further enforce the sparsity and approximate the original l0-norm. A theoretical guidance for choosing a proper regularization parameter is also present... |
An adaptive output feedback neural network controller is designed, capable of rendering affine in the control uncertain MIMO nonlinear systems passive. Consequently, a linear output feedback is employed to stabilize the system. The controlled system need not be in normal form, or have a well defined relative degree. Un... |
Employing HPLC coupled with RIA, it was shown that alpha-human atrial natriuretic peptide is excreted in urine. Freshly collected urine had to be acidified to obtain reproducible results. When prepurified urine was subjected to HPLC (ion exchange and reversed phase) the subsequent quantification of alpha-hANP immunorea... |
The special behavior of dielectric barrier discharges (DBDs) and surface DBDs (SDBDs) in argon at atmospheric pressure is presented. Images show complex discharge patterns due to the interaction of the microdischarges and the dielectric. The pictures presented in this paper correspond to only one current peak and exhib... |
We elaborate the use of entanglements in implementations of quantum algorithms with single and two-photon states. The dual nature of entanglement is widely exploited in many quantum problems. In Deutsch algorithm, we analyze why Hadamard gate in the single-photon implementation is not necessary for the case using EPR b... |
Two objects with homologous landmarks are said to be of the same shape if the configurations of landmarks of one object can be exactly matched with that of the other by translation, rotation/reflection, and scaling. The observations on an object are coordinates of its landmarks with reference to a set of orthogonal coo... |
Standards play the key role in safety-critical systems. Errors in standards could mislead system developer's understanding and introduce bugs into system implementations. In this paper, we present an Event-B formalization and verification for the ARINC 653 standard, which provides a standardized interface between safet... |
In this paper, we consider a network of energy constrained sensors deployed over a region. Each sensor node in such a network is systematically gathering and transmitting sensed data to a base station (via cluster- heads). This paper focuses on reducing the power consumption of wireless sensor networks. Firstly, we pro... |
Abstract: This paper ethnographically explores the border-crossing experience of sub-Saharan African migrants in Athens. The everyday social visibility and spatial mobility of migrants in the city is viewed through a critical phenomenological perspective centering on irregularity and border-crossing as a lived experien... |
Native insulin is susceptible to biophysical aggregation and fibril formation, promoted by manual agitation and elevated temperatures. The safety of the drug and its application to alternative forms of administration could be enhanced through identification of chemical modifications that strengthen its physical stabili... |
Genome‐wide association studies (GWAS) for orofacial clefts have identified several susceptibility regions, but have largely focused on non‐Hispanic White populations in developed countries. We performed a targeted genome‐wide study of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in exons using the Illumina HumanExome+ array... |
BACKGROUND |
Subjective stress is a well-documented predictor of early smoking relapse, yet our understanding of stress and tobacco use is limited by reliance on self-reported measures of stress. We utilized a validated functional neuroimaging paradigm to examine whether stress exposure during early abstinence alters objective meas... |
METHODS |
75 participants underwent blood oxygen level dependent (BOLD) functional magnetic resonance imaging (FMRI) during the Montreal Imaging Stress Task (MIST) on two occasions: once during smoking satiety and once following biochemically confirmed 24-hour abstinence (order counter-balanced). The primary outcome measure was ... |
RESULTS |
Abstinence (vs. satiety) was associated with significantly increased activation in the left inferior frontal gyrus, a brain region associated with inhibitory control. Abstinence-induced change in brain response to stress was positively associated with change in self-reported stress. |
CONCLUSIONS |
This study provides objective evidence that the brain response to stress is altered during the first 24 hours of a quit attempt compared to smoking satiety. |
IMPLICATIONS |
These results point to the potential value of inoculating smokers with stress management training prior to a quit attempt.Bypassing Joins in Disjunctive Queries |
The bypass technique, which was formerly restricted to selections only [KMPS94], is extended to join operations. Analogous to the selection case, the join operator may generate two output streams-the join result and its complement-whose subsequent operator sequence is optimized individually. By extending the bypass tec... |
This paper describes the study of the kinetic isotope effect for the reaction between cyclohexanone and iodine under acidic conditions that has been adapted for an advanced level undergraduate organic chemistry laboratory class. The kinetics of the reaction of iodine with cyclohexanone can be readily followed with a UV... |
In this paper, a general structure of linear-phase finite impulse response filters, whose frequency responses satisfy given derivative constraints imposed upon an arbitrary frequency, is proposed. It is comprised of a linear combination of parallelly connected subfilters, called the cardinal filters, with weighted coef... |
MF01/Pr'01 Plus roeteae. Academic rducetion: c11eae Tnetructicr: Hfgher ucation: *Tndependent study: *Pacing: *Student ?ducational Obiectives: ..udert Evaluation: *Stu:lent Irtereste: *c!tudent *ot4yetion: Student Neede: sc7me Facters (Learn:I-al The value of self-paced instruction is considered. :is sugae'sted that ac... |
Abstract Slope failure is one of the failure modes of natural dams. Turbid seepage flow is often observed on the downstream slope of a natural dam in the field and indicates the migration of fine particles in the dam. However, the coupling of internal erosion and seepage in natural dams during the impounding process is... |
Constitutive stable DNA replication (cSDR) is a mechanism for replisome loading in Escherichia coli K-12. This occurs in a dnaA-independent fashion in an rnhA mutant. cSDR is dependent on recA, priA, and transcription. In this report, it is shown that dnaA rnhA mutants using cSDR for initiation of their DNA replication... |
ABSTRACT The roles of interleukin-4 (IL-4) and IL-13 in the regulation of immunity to Leishmania donovani infection are still poorly understood. Here we show that the increased parasite load observed in IL-4−/− and IL-4 receptor α−/− mice correlates with retarded granuloma maturation and antileishmanial activity and th... |
Secondary lymphedema is a life‐long disorder characterized by chronic tissue swelling and inflammation that obstruct interstitial fluid circulation and immune cell trafficking. Regenerating lymphatic vasculatures using various strategies represents a promising treatment for lymphedema. Growth factor injection and gene ... |
We propose a novel process whereby Antimony Assisted Arsenic Source/Drain Extension (A/sup 3/ SDE) is employed to realize a steep and retrograde indium pocket profile for sub-0.1 /spl mu/m nMOSFETs. By engineering the defect distributions in the amorphous layer created by an indium implant, this new process improves by... |
Like many libraries, Seton Hall University Libraries has suffered budget cuts that forced a reduction in serial subscriptions. As science librarian, I report on my efforts to streamline subscriptions and to address the question “Why are science journals so expensive?” Our science journals are significantly more expensi... |
There are many types of transportation of fluids such as a truck, train and ship. However, it is not suitable and economic practical. The employment of truck vehicles increase problems with traffic and pollution. The transport of train requires high maintenance of structures responsible for training moves. The ship con... |
In one dimensional codes, a cross section area variation versus the duct length can produce important mass conservation errors when the gas-dynamic through the ducts of an internal combustion engine (ICE) is modelled. The CE-SE scheme (Conservation Element-Solution Element) is a numerical method that combines accuracy ... |
1. The effects of epidermal growth factor on the synthesis and secretion by human gastric mucosa of radiolabelled mucus glycoprotein have been studied in organ culture. 2. Addition of epidermal growth factor at a concentration of 5 or 10 ng/ml increased the synthesis of glycoprotein from 84 +/- 16.2 d.p.m./micrograms o... |
- Abstract-Magnetic Resonance Angiography: This article reviewed the initial experiences of 73 cases of the magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) to evaluate its usefulness and limitaions as a screening examination. Among them 31 patients underwent correlative contrast angography (CA). MRA examinations were perfor :n ed... |
A procedure to design a global exponentially stable, second‐order, sliding‐mode observer for nDOF Lagrangian systems is presented. The observer converges to the system state in spite of the existence of bounded disturbances or parameter uncertainties affecting the system dynamics. The generation of sliding modes permit... |
Grid Computing provides sharing of geographically distributed resources among large scale complex applications. Due to dynamic nature of resources in grid, there is a need of highly efficient job scheduling and resource management policies in grid. In this paper, a novel Grid Resource Scheduler (GRS) is proposed to eff... |
175 DP-OS. MAGNETIC BEHAVIOR O F NiFe/NiO BILAYERS. Zhenghong Qian, John M. Sivertsen, and Jack H Judy* (The Center for Micromagnetics and Information Technologies (MINT), Dept. of Chemical Eng. and Mater. Sci., *Dept. of Elec. Eng., Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455) The exchange coupling between a ferromagnet... |
This paper presents a parallel implementation of the fast isogeometric solvers for explicit dynamics for solving non-stationary time-dependent problems. The algorithm is described in pseudo-code. We present theoretical estimates of the computational and communication complexities for a single time step of the parallel ... |
Background Exposure of a cochlear implant electrode array in the middle ear or external auditory canal is an uncommon complication. We report a series of 7 patients with electrode array exposure, 5 of whom were managed without surgical intervention. Objective To report the outcomes of patients with electrode array expo... |
Simultaneous Contradictory Belief and the Two-System Hypothesis Joshua Mugg (joshuamugg@gmail.com) Department of Philosophy, 4700 Keele St. Toronto, ON M3J 1P3 Canada criticism of the two-system hypothesis has focused on the kind claim (Samuels 2009; Evans 2011), I argue that Sloman has not provided us with cases of SC... |
We investigate the Andreev reflection across a uniaxial strained graphene-based superconducting junction. Compared with pristine graphene-based superconducting junction, three opposite properties are found. Firstly, in the regime of the interband conversion of electron–hole, the Andreev retro-reflection happens. Second... |
Abstract—What matrix factorization methods do is reduce the dimensionality of the data without losing any important information. In this work, we present the Non-negative Matrix Factorization (NMF) method, focusing on its advantages concerning other methods of matrix factorization. We discuss the main optimization algo... |
Index Terms—NMF, PCA, ICA, dimensionality reduction.Board ’ s Views about Electronic Learning |
Increased availability of appropriate software and hardware has built a new horizon in educational institutions in order to facilitate electronic learning, especially the development of global web net. Importance of this problem in medical sciences which is associated with human life is twice. Hence the aim of this stu... |
This article introduces the interface for communication research (iCoRe) to access, explore, and analyze the Global Database of Events, Language and Tone (GDELT; Leetaru & Schrodt, 2013). GDELT provides a vast, open source, and continuously updated repository of online news and event metadata collected from tens of tho... |
Macrophages from nonobese diabetic (NOD) mice, which spontaneously develop type I diabetes, share a defect in elicited cytokine production with macrophages from multiple diverse strains of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE)-prone mice. We have previously shown that, in SLE-prone mice, this defect is triggered by exposu... |
Abstract— We report on the meteorite search campaign of April 2008, conducted by a joint Tunisian‐Italian scientific expedition in southern Tunisia (Dahar region). Nine likely unpaired meteorites (seven H‐class and two L‐class chondrites) totalling ?1.3 kg were recovered by exploring an approximately 45 km2area, theref... |
Despite protracted efforts by both researchers and practitioners, security vulnerabilities remain in modern software. Artificial diversity is an effective defense against many types of attack, and one form, address-space randomization, has been widely applied. Present artificial diversity implementations are either coa... |
This article argues that environmental racism should be broadened to include the maldistribution of beneficial environmental conditions and proposes that advocacy planning may be an effective way to address the spatial absence of beneficial environmental services and amenities. The article examines advocacy in the cont... |
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