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The paper contributes to Knowledge-Based View theories by exploring those variables, from the domains of creativity and communication, which significantly influence the knowledge creation process. Through six propositions, firms are encouraged to assemble balanced heterogeneous knowledge creation teams by selecting act... |
The records of 70 patients with vena caval injuries who were treated from 1970 through 1983 were reviewed to define factors determining patient survival. Fifty-two percent of patients survived, with the highest mortality in patients with blunt or shotgun injuries. The primary determinants of survival were the mechanism... |
Carbon-based iron nitride nanocomposites were prepared by means of preoxidation and then carbonization of a uniformly blended mixture nano-iron powders and liquid polyacrylonitrile.The prepared nanocomposites were characterized by X- ray diffraction(XRD),scanning electron microscopy(SEM),and transmission electron micro... |
Objective This study aimed to quantify the extent to which health characteristics of workers are related to the potential risk of experiencing job displacement due to automation. Methods Linking the 2015 Norwegian Statistics on Income and Living Conditions survey (n=6393) with predicted probabilities of automation by o... |
The list of materials systems displaying both electric and magnetic long range order is short. Oxides, however, concentrate numerous examples of multiferroicity with, in some cases, a large magnetoelectric coupling. As a result, a fruitful research field has emerged contemporaneously with the consolidation of spintroni... |
The purpose of this study is to describe our early experience in the development and use of a minimally invasive, anterolateral approach to the hip joint for total hip arthroplasty (THA). This approach uses a specific intraoperative protocol involving leg positioning to maximise exposure and hip joint visualisation. Be... |
Twenty-four different tissues from 73 children and infants, including stillbirths, were analysed for lead content. In the youngest group of 49 infants aged under 1 year, including 14 stillbirths, the mean concentrations of lead in their soft tissues were all less than 0.3 ppm and nearly all less than the concentrations... |
The role of donor‐recipient body size mismatch (DRSM) on outcomes after whole liver transplantation (LT) is not clearly defined. At our center, in presence of considerable DRSM, objective assessment of the donor liver by a radiology or intraoperative evaluation by procuring surgeon was incorporated. To evaluate the imp... |
This work investigated the effect of nitrogen fertilization and harvest time on the flavonoid composition and antioxidant properties of Stevia rebaudiana leaves. At the same time, changes in stevioside (Stev) and rebaudioside A (RebA) contents were recorded. A pot trial under open air conditions was set up, testing fiv... |
Abstract The tentacular ganglion, the primary olfactory system of terrestrial slugs, exhibits spontaneous oscillations with a spatial coherence. The digit-like extensions (digits) of the tentacular ganglion presumably house the cell bodies of the neurons underlying the oscillations. The present study was designed to id... |
Gastrointestinal (GI) malignancies are notorious for frequently progressing to advanced stages even in the absence of serious symptoms, thus leading to delayed diagnoses and dismal prognoses. Secondary prevention of GI malignancies through early detection and treatment of cancer-precursor/premalignant lesions, therefor... |
Epidemiology and chronobiology are two emerging scientific disciplines of the 20th century. In the United States and certain European and Asian countries, epidemiology is a well-developed science; however, in many countries the field is not yet well practiced. Too, in several European countries and certain centers in t... |
Burma is a minor producer of rubber, yet its association with the cultivation of rubber dates back to the earliest days of the industry in the East. The overall process of development of the industry in Burma is little understood, especially regarding the early period. This article reviews the industry in its historica... |
The author comments on the trend of publishers using the date of digitization for monographs in a Demand-driven Acquisition (DDA) collection as publication dates. She discusses her experience of a keyword search, explains how a dated content get into a collection, and cites the benefits of spurious metadata for the MAR... |
Noncontact terahertz time-domain spectroscopy was employed to measure pressure-dependent refractive indices of gases such as helium (He), argon (Ar), krypton (Kr), oxygen (O<sub>2</sub>), nitrogen (N<sub>2</sub>), methane (CH<sub>4</sub>), and carbon dioxide (CO<sub>2</sub>). The refractive indices of these gases scale... |
First arrivals detecting on seismic record is important at all times. A novel support vector machine (SVM)-based method for seismic first-arrival pickup is proposed in this research. Firstly, the multi-resolution wavelet decomposition is used to de-noise the seismic record. And then, feature vectors are extracted from ... |
We report on a large Dutch family with a syndrome characterized by severe hand and/or foot anomalies, and hypoplasia/aplasia of the mammary gland and nipple. Less frequent findings include lacrimal-duct atresia, nail dysplasia, hypohydrosis, hypodontia, and cleft palate with or without bifid uvula. This combination of ... |
We consider the problem of optimal trajectory tracking for unknown systems. A novel data-enabled predictive control (DeePC) algorithm is presented that computes optimal and safe control policies using real-time feedback driving the unknown system along a desired trajectory while satisfying system constraints. Using a f... |
Abnormalities in gait remain after total hip replacement (THR). The purpose of this study was to evaluate step length asymmetry and its links to other aspects of gait and physical function after THR and to investigate links with mechanical energy exchange. The rationale is that step length asymmetry may influence gait ... |
A physical mechanism for the topological transformation of a two-layer system confined by two substrates is proposed. Initially the two horizontal layers, A and B, are on top of each other, but upon a sufficiently large disturbance, they can rearrange themselves through a spontaneously propagating sectioning to create ... |
Extensive aneurysmal disease of the aorta presents considerable challenges to the cardiovascular surgeon and is generally treated with a staged approach. The elephant trunk principle, in which the downstream end of the primarily inserted graft is allowed to float freely in the downstream aorta, serves this approach. Th... |
The open hypermedia research community recognised that to make progress on defining a protocol to enable third party applications to access open link services, it was necessary to first establish a reference architecture for open hypermedia systems upon which to base discussions. In this paper we argue that there is a ... |
T A his article presents a quantitative analysis of the contents of the weekly top ten fiction bestseller lists that appeared in Knizhnoe obozrenie (The Book Review) between 1994 and 1998. Compiled from information provided by Moscow book retailers, the Knizhnoe obozrenie bestseller lists comprise the only available bo... |
In future packet based wireless communication systems, transmission in the downlink will often dominate the traffic load. High bit-rate applications like WWW-browsing, file transfer, and full motion video will impose strong requirements on the system capacity. An obstacle in this context is the time-variability of the ... |
In the framework of DustBot European project, aimed at developing a new multi-robot system for urban hygiene management, we have developed a twowheeled robot: DustCart. DustCart aims at providing a solution to door-to-door garbage collection: the robot, called by a user, navigates autonomously to his/her house; collect... |
INTRODUCTION 290 children aged between eight months and 10 years have been operated on under the combination of light general and caudal anaesthesia. Lignocaine or bupivicaine were the local anaesthetic agents used. Bupivicaine was used in major penile surgery and orchidopexies. No serious complications occurred. The f... |
ABSTRACT Photochromic ring-closure reaction of a network polymer film ( Poly BPOH-C ) obtained by oxidation polymerization of the closed-ring isomer ( BPOH-C ) of 1,2-bis[2-methyl-6-(o-hydroxyphenyl)-1-benzothiophen-3-yl]hexafluorocyclopentene ( BPOH-O ). In the film, diarylethene molecules are densely packed and they ... |
This work presents the quality performance and the capabilities of altimetry derived wind speed (WS) retrievals from the altimeters on-board Copernicus satellites Sentinel-3A/B (S3A/B) for the spatial assessment of WS outputs from the weather research and forecasting (WRF) model over the complex area of the Gulf of Cád... |
Total Quality Management (TQM) practices are well established in higher education. However, their application in primary and secondary schools is less well established. This study aimed to critically review and discuss different applications of TQM in primary and secondary schools by presenting critical perspectives fr... |
Mercuric iodide (HgI2) and lead iodide (PbI2) materials as direct converter layers for digital x-ray imaging have been studied for several years. This paper present results of basic imaging parameters by comparing dark current, sensitivity and image lag properties of these materials. A difficult challenge of both lead ... |
Designing interactive systems for multiple contexts of use becomes a burden when the end user interaction takes place in distinct scenarios whose specific characteristics and constraints vary and must be carefully considered. Stakeholders face then two main challenges: they are not aware of what among several context i... |
Background: A four-site RCT of Fatigue: Take Control (FTC), a multicomponent group program, found no significant differences from a control program, MS: Take Control (MSTC), in fatigue on the Modified Fatigue Impact Scale (MFIS) through 6 months. Objective: Assess FTC for a delayed effect on fatigue. Methods: Of 78 sub... |
Previous studies indicate that a subgroup of suicide completers has low cortical brain expression levels of TrkB-T1, a TrkB gene transcript that is highly expressed in astrocytes. Epigenetic modifications, including methylation changes in the TrkB promoter, partially explain TrkB-T1 low expression levels in brain tissu... |
The nature of the relationship between cognition and brain morphology in schizophrenia-spectrum disorders (SSD) and bipolar disorder (BD) is uncertain. This review aimed to address this, by providing a comprehensive systematic investigation of links between several cognitive domains and brain volume, cortical thickness... |
The paper investigates a model of a liquid with some dispersion and some nonlinearity in Lagrange variables. A wavepacket of sound of small amplitude, and of a wavelength long compared with the characteristic wavelength of the dispersion law, will in general split in two, unless the oscillatory amplitude is accompanied... |
The notion of a person's memory style (elaborated in Sehulster, 1988) was investigated as it relates to the presentation of self. A memory style is defined as a combination of a subject's (perceived) ability in verbal memory, auto- biographical memory, and prospective memory, as measured by the Memory Scale (Sehulster,... |
o C increased with time, whereas that of samples stored at 30 and 40 o C decreased. Visible mold appeared in all the 17.5% moisture samples and in all the samples stored at 40 o C. Penicillium spp. and Aspergillus glaucus group were the predominant fungi in almost all samples throughout the study. Fat Acidity Value (FA... |
The paper presents an approach to robust PI controller design for systems with interval parametric uncertainty and time delay. It is supposed that the controlled system is described by a transfer function with parameters lying in certain intervals and with a time delay term. The transfer function of the controlled syst... |
The intuition that local flatness of the loss landscape is correlated with better generalization for deep neural networks (DNNs) has been explored for decades, spawning many different local flatness measures. Here we argue that these measures correlate with generalization because they are local approximations to a glob... |
Abstract The essential trace element selenium is a focus of attention due to its effects on human health, there being consequences of both its deficiency and excess. Due to the ultra-trace content of selenium, the neutron activation analysis method (NAA) is difficult to apply. We therefore made use of the radiochemical... |
A problem of optimal debt management is modeled as a noncooperative interaction between a borrower and a pool of lenders, in an infinite time horizon with exponential discount. The yearly income of the borrower is governed by a stochastic process. When the debt-to-income ratio $x(t)$ reaches a given size $x^*$, bankrup... |
The development of electronic healthcare data systems has proceeded rapidly; concerns regarding the impact and costs of electronic healthcare data have also been raised. This study describes the development and implementation of a community-wide program for daily electronic exchange of aggregate healthcare data in Syra... |
The hollow cathode effect (HCE) is investigated in the dielectric hollow cathode structure in a Ne–Xe mixture at 4%. The influence of the dielectric is shown experimentally by the relationship between voltage and current peaks. The linearity of reduced current density confirms the existence of the HCE and shows that ca... |
Urinary tract infection (UTI) is one of the most common health problems among pregnant women and the reason for morbidity during pregnancy in worldwide, most of them in developing countries. The causative agents include Escherichia coli, Klebsiella species, Staphylococcus aureus, Staphylococci, Proteusmirabilis, Entero... |
The decisive limiting parameter in such patients is the lower oxygen partial pressure in inhaled air. It is, however, still possible for patients with coronary heart disease, high blood pressure or bronchial asthma to tolerate high altitudes without having to experience health problems. Prerequisites, however, are adeq... |
Cancer incidence patterns of Jews from the former USSR differ from those among Israeli Jews originating from Europe who arrived with previous waves of immigration. Projected estimates of cancer incidence in Israel following the current Russian immigration indicate that the total cancer rate in the country will grow in ... |
In this study we have explored the potential of PUVB (8‐MOP + UVB) therapy for the reduction of luminal narrowing after arterial injury. In 15 rabbits, balloon dilation of iliac arteries was performed. In 20 arteries, dilation was combined with the delivery of pulsed ultraviolet light B (UVB) irradiation with 10 arteri... |
Objective: To observe changes in cognition over six months in subjects with recently diagnosed sporadic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Methods: The study used a between-group and within-group longitudinal design. Nineteen ALS subjects and eight matched caregivers were recruited to participate in baseline neuropsy... |
Copyright is held by the author/owner(s). Workshop on designing the future of mobile healthcare support MobileHCI, September 23 -26, 2014, Toronto, Canada. Abstract One of the challenges when designing an electronic health record is the generational difference between general practitioners (GPs), which is especially no... |
Competitive protein binding studies, using oestrone as the inhibitor, demonstrated that mouse amniotic fluid contains a high affinity oestradiol-binding component precipitable by monospecific rabbit anti-alpha-foetoprotein (AFP) in a double-antibody radio-immunoassay. On disc gel radio-electrophoresis the oestrogen-bin... |
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