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This scoping review highlights factors impacting the provision of education tailored to the needs of clients with cognitive impairment in the inpatient setting. The findings also call to attention the need for better assessment of cognition to guide provision of tailored education, as well as future studies exploring h... |
Our prime purpose in setting up a telephone advice line was to provide confidential advice to people with anxieties about Aids. The data collected are a by-product of this advice service. Because it was necessary to adopt a passive approach to data collection we inevitably left some gaps in our analysis. Despite this l... |
Sample preparation is the first, and often most crucial and limiting, step in transmission electron microcopy (TEM) investigation. While cryo-TEM can provide images of incredible detail and resolution from frozen-hydrated specimens, the resolution declines with increasing sample thickness. Useful data can only be obtai... |
New evidence suggests a role for the plant growth hormone auxin in pathogenesis and disease resistance. Bacterial infection induces the accumulation of indole-3-acetic acid (IAA), the major type of auxin, in rice (Oryza sativa). IAA induces the expression of expansins, proteins that loosen the cell wall. Loosening the ... |
First‐principles calculations on MgSiO3 suggested a breakdown into MgO + SiO2 at pressure above 1000 GPa with an extremely large negative Clapeyron slope, isolating the lowermost mantles of larger super‐Earths (∼10M⊕) from convection. Similar calculations predicted the same type of breakdown in NaMgF3 to NaF + MgF2 at ... |
The twenty-first century has seen a paradigm shift occasioned by the onset and rapid spread of the coronavirus pandemic in different perspectives. The lockdowns and other protocols introduced by health authorities globally inhibited the progress of many business sectors of the economy. The education sector for example ... |
This work describes the kinetics of thermal polymerization in nanoconfined domains of lyotropic liquid crystal (LLC) templates by using chemorheological studies at different temperatures. We investigate lamellar and reverse hexagonal LLC phases with the same concentration of the monomeric phase. Results show that the m... |
Categorization has been one of the keys that allowed people to handle large quantities of information: instead of digesting a large block of data, we find order, classify, and navigate to the parts we are interested in. Successful categorizations are the key to successful online systems, even more in large portals. Her... |
We investigated long‐term changes in the activity of deep very low frequency earthquakes (VLFEs) in western Shikoku, southwest part of the Nankai subduction zone in Japan for 13 years by the matched‐filter technique. VLFE activity is expected to be a proxy of interplate slips. In the Bungo channel, where long‐term slow... |
It is needless to say that four quadrant principle plays a vital role in industrial applications .Running a machine both in motoring and generating action illustrates the four quadrant operation. In electric locomotives, the motor may run clock wise and anti clockwise, and the torque may act either with or against the ... |
A system for developing microwave induced hyperthermia in small animals is described, for the purpose of assessing the effects of heat alone and heat plus ionizing radiation on normal tissue and tumors. The temperature is monitored using thermistors, and with the use of a scanner, recorded on a single channel recorder.... |
Despite significant advances in medicine, diabetes mellitus remains a major health problem among diabetes patients (diabetics). Diabetes in Malaysia has become increasingly critical along with diabetes complications. Diabetes Self-Management Applications (DSMA) are impactful patient-centered tools that has immense pote... |
This is a revised version of a paper prepared for the forthcoming International Labour Office (ILO) anthology edited by Lourdes Beneria entitled "Women and Development: Sexual Division of Labor in Rural Societies." The paper draws upon material in the manuscript "Women in Agriculture: Peasant Production and Proletarian... |
Objective: To explore the effect of BoTN-A on pathological characteristics of calf (GM) and motor function of ankle dorsiflexors in SCI model rats. Methods: Thirty-six SD male rats (weight 260-280 g) were randomly allocated into normal control group and 12w-control group, NS-injection group and BT-injection group in th... |
This project describes the development of a wireles s electronic patch for wearable health monitoring b y reflectance pulse oximetry. The Electronic Patch is the health monitoring system which incorporates th e biomedical sensors, detectors, communication system, and a bat tery in a polymer based material that will hol... |
This commentary discusses a paper by Nakibinge that illustrates the value of multi-faceted integrated approach to community engagement in health research. It also argues that the strong evidence base for effectiveness and the value of community engagement is still lacking but the study by Nakibinge provides indications... |
This empirical study applies complexity theory to understand complex interactions of demographics and medical tourism index (MTI) dimensions in predicting causal models leading to high and low levels of satisfaction and behavioral intentions among medical travelers. A questionnaire-based survey is applied to investigat... |
The anomalous data identification procedures existing today in power system state estimation become problematic-if not totally unefficient-under stringent conditions, such as multiple and interacting bad data. The identification method presented in this paper attempts to alleviate these difficulties. It consists in :(i... |
Noticing that many available view-based methods are confined within rather limited operating conditions, in this work we Investigate Into whether external factors such as illumination, pose, expression and occlusion can be explicitly estimated and be used to boost the verification performance. Our approach consists of ... |
g' , The lack of physical activity in Americans of all ages is an important public health problem. Diet and sedentary activity patterns are the second largest contributor to mortality in the US.' Although regular physical activity is associated with numerous benefits to both physical and mental health, more than 60% of... |
This paper suggests the application of an embedded real-time simulator (eRTS) in the context of voltage–sensorless control of a modular multilevel power converter (MMC). This eRTS acts as an observer and ensures digital redundancy in the case of any fault occurring among the capacitor voltage sensors of the MMC submodu... |
Abstract Tetraalkyl ammonium salts (TAAS) of a wide range of lipophilicities are used as ion‐pairing reagents for simultaneous separation of proposed anionic metal complexes [M (H2PO4) 3]− of U(VI), Fe(III), and neutral Cu(II) using reversed‐phase ion pairing high performance liquid chromatography (RPIP‐HPLC). Tetramet... |
Carcass analyses were performed on 160 male rats maintaining reduced, normal, or elevated levels of body weight following lateral hypothalamic (LH), sham (control), or ventromedial hypothalamic (VMH) lesions, respectively. Extracted body lipid (ranging from 26 to 738% of the control mean) correlated highly (r = +0.95) ... |
We study in detail both experimentally and theoretically Lamb-like wave excitation up to 7.3 GHz in the piezoelectric layered structures “Me-IDT/AlN/(100) diamond” ($\text{Me} =\text{Pt}$, Al) configured as a SAW resonator. Theoretical investigation identifying Lamb wave types by Finite Element Modeling as well as by d... |
We investigated whether the composition of modified forms of LDL in circulating immune complexes (LDL-ICs) was associated with cardiovascular disease (CVD) outcomes, including any CVD, major adverse cardiac and cerebrovascular events (MACCE), myocardial infarction (MI), and coronary artery disease, in type 1 diabetes (... |
MelanA is a known melanocyte marker and is important in melanoma diagnostics. Some tumours, however, show loss of MelanA expression and may therefore be difficult to distinguish from tumours of mesenchymal origin. Pure spindle-cell melanoma is a rare event, and little is known about its biological background and progno... |
In this paper, we will discuss the issue of recognizing the runway target in IR images and choosing the aimpoint. At first, we detect out the target from complicated background, Then we use tow characteristics to recognize it and choose the optimal aimpoint. Some results are presented. From the experiment, our method o... |
(Cd,Zn)Te crystals were grown from the melt by the Bridgman method with diameters of 25 and 75 mm. The material was doped with indium. The structural quality of the crystals was constantly improved to increase the single crystalline areas. These improvements reduced the number of grains in the 25 mm and 75 mm diameter,... |
Geochemical data help to constrain the sizes of identifiable reservoirs within the framework of models of layered or whole-mantle circulation, and they identify the sources of the circulating heterogeneities as mainly crustal and/or lithospheric, but they do not decisively distinguish between different types of circula... |
One of the most important application these days in Pattern Recognition (PR) is Optical Character recognition (OCR) which is a system used to convert scanned printed or handwritten image files into machine readable and editable format such as text documents. The main motivation behind this study is to build an OCR syst... |
In this review, we discuss a novel function of ascorbic acid in brain energetics. It has been proposed that during glutamatergic synaptic activity neurons preferably consume lactate released from glia. The key to this energetic coupling is the metabolic activation that occurs in astrocytes by glutamate and an increase ... |
As well-oriented, surface-bound metal-organic frameworks become the centerpiece of many new applications, a profound understanding of their growth mode becomes necessary. This work shows that the currently favored model of surface templating is in fact a special case valid only for systems with a more or less cubic cry... |
Assume we have a network of three or more players, each player in possession of some private input. The players want to compute some function of these private inputs, but in a way which protects the privacy of each participant's contribution. Not all of the players can be trusted to do as they are instructed. The resou... |
Many insightful protocols have been proposed for solving this problem of multiparty secure function evaluation. Building on Yao's protocol for the case of two players (Ya86), Goldreich, Micali and Wigderson (GMW87) offered the first general protocol for this problem, and they provided the paradigm on which a large body... |
Despite enormous progress, research on secure function evaluation has suffered from some serious shortcomings. First, though many protocols have been devised for solving the problem, what, exactly, these protocols accomplish has not been fully understood. In fact, no rigorously specified and generally accepted definiti... |
We address both of these points, carefully crafting definitions which satisfactorily deal with the myriad of issues lurking here, and offering a new protocol for multiparty secure function evaluation--one which categorically improves the complexity requirements for this task. The new protocol completely divorces the co... |
Recent report says Internet usage in country has exceeded half-billion people, driven by cheap data plans thus bridging digital gap between urban and rural India Elsewhere World Health Organization (WHO) prescribed ratio of doctorpatient limit is 1:1000, but in India an average government doctor attends 11,082 people. ... |
In this paper, a novel mechanism for generating user-based video abstracts has been proposed. Initially, video experts (operators) score the video frames based on the different modalities contextual information. Later, a two-dimensional matrix that stores the relativity scores of each video scene and a number of pre-de... |
Phase array systems can be found in military radar, satellite communications, space-time adaptive communications, and MIMO systems. As hardware capabilities increase, it will become feasible to implement MIMO communication systems, which will push further towards the Shannon Channel Capacity. This paper presents a comp... |
To the Editor.— We would like to share with our colleagues a quick and effective method of extracting foreign bodies from the nose, a method that we devised when a 2-year-old boy came to the emergency room with a 1-cm bead lodged in his nose. The 1-cm diameter bead was visible 1.5 cm from the external nares and could n... |
OBJECTIVE |
To investigate the effect of a new houttuyfonate derivative (NHD) on proliferation of NIH3T3 cell and expression of Syndecan-4 induced by TNF-alpha in vitro. |
METHODS |
NIH3T3 cells were cultured and exposed to TNF-alpha or NHD respectively, and then cotreated with TNF-alpha and NHD. All the groups were cultured for 24 hour in vitro, in addition to the untreated control group established for comparison. The ratio of proliferation of NIH3T3 cell was determined by non-radioactive MTS/PM... |
RESULTS |
Statistical analysis showed that, compared with the control group, NHD had no effect on VSMCs growth, but significantly inhibited NIH3T3 cell proliferation while induced by TNF-alpha. It also showed that compared with control group, NHD had no effect on the expression of Syndecan-4, but significantly inhibited its expr... |
CONCLUSIONS |
NHD can inhibit the proliferation of NIH3T3 cell and the expression of syndecan-4 protein induced by TNF-alpha in vitro.Nonparametric Identification of Hammerstein Systems Using Orthogonal Basis Functions as Ersatz Nonlinearities |
In this paper, we present a technique for estimating the input nonlinearity of a Hammerstein system by using multiple orthogonal ersatz nonlinearities. Theoretical analysis shows that by replacing the unknown input nonlinearity by an ersatz nonlinearity, the estimates of the Markov parameters of the plant are correct u... |
This paper provides an introduction to the theory of steady-state fluctuation relations for molecular dynamics systems, that led to a general theory of response. The main ingredient of this theory is a new dynamical condition now known as t-mixing. We use such a condition to identify necessary and sufficient conditions... |
We extend the state diagrams used for dynamic modelling in object-oriented analysis and design. We suggest that the events which label the state transitions be replaced with plausible logic expressions. The result is a very effective descriptive and declarative mechanism for specifying requirements that can be applied ... |
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