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A large signal FET model is presented which is valid for DC, small signal and nonlinear operation over the whole range of bias conditions. Novel features of the proposed approach include the consideration of dispersion in transconductance and channel conductance as well as the input power dependent pinch-off voltage sh... |
The treatment and management of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) have gone through significant changes over the past decade. This plenary session, part of the 2015 COPD9USA conference, examines how the diagnosis and management of COPD has become more individualized as new phenotypes have been identified. In... |
Noninvasive ventilation may bring considerable benefits in the treatment of acute respiratory failure, especially in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Reduction in the need for endotracheal intubation has been well-documented. In selected groups a reduction in morbidity, mortality, and length of hosp... |
The radioprotective and restorative (therapeutic) effects of human recombinant interleukin-1 beta (IL-1 beta) on the population of bone marrow CFU-S of mice, subjected to either sublethal doses of ionising irradiation itself or the same irradiation in combination with thermal burn, are investigated. Both the effects of... |
Financial advisors are continually faced with the challenge of evaluating the quality of financial investments. Previous research has indicated that even among researchers of financial markets, diverse views exist about the meaning of risk and its relationship to returns. A survey study of 265 financial advisors and pl... |
Lateral exchange markets (LEMs) are sites of technologically intermediated exchange between actors occupying equivalent network positions. To develop an enriched understanding of these markets, the authors develop a more broad-based and differentiated understanding of peer-to-peer, sharing, and access-based markets. Th... |
Five novel mutations have been identified in the gene encoding L1CAM, a neural cell adhesion protein, in families with X linked hydrocephalus (XHC). Interestingly, all five mutations are in the evolutionarily highly conserved Ig-like domains of the protein. The two frameshift mutations (52insC and 955delG) and the nons... |
The unique features of SnS2 make it a sensitive material ideal for preparing high-performance nitrogen dioxide (NO2) gas sensors. However, sensors based on pristine tin disulfide (SnS2) fail to work at room temperature (RT) owing to their poor intrinsic conductivity and weak adsorptivity toward the target gas, thereby ... |
Immaterial labor, which is a philosophical concept established by Maurizio Lazzarato and others for understanding the post-Fordism industry, refers to the process of producing the informational and cultural contents of a commodity. Through examining software development and software-intensive society with the lens of i... |
The management of stage T1b (A2) and T1c adenocarcinoma of the prostate is somewhat controversial. With the widespread use of serum prostate-specific antigen (PSA) determinations, an increasing number of these cancers are likely to be diagnosed. Hence, it is important to formulate a cogent management strategy for these... |
Aspects of post‐16 education, particularly with reference to vocational education and training, have acquired a degree of common presentation in the policy making of many national and international organizations in recent years. This paper compares similarities and differences in the rhetoric and reality of policy impl... |
Abstract Malignant gliomas are aggressive brain cancers. After many decades of intensive research they represent a major cause of cancer related mortality and morbidity. Management of malignant gliomas is very difficult. None of the current treatments are curative. High grade gliomas are optimally treated with surgery ... |
A novel scheme to monolithically integrate photodetectors with a polarization beam splitter (PBS) based on the dielectric transmission gratings is proposed. In this letter, we demonstrate the InP-based two-quadrant photodetector covered over with silicon nitride grating, which serves as both an efficient vertical coupl... |
Congenital muscular dystrophy with laminin-α2 deficiency, also known as MDC1A, displays an extensive phenotypic and genetic heterogeneity. The combination of clinical, biochemical, and genetic findings must be considered to obtain the precise diagnosis and provide appropriate genetic counseling. Here we report one indi... |
ABSTRACT Irrigated olive grove agroforestry systems in the Southern Mediterranean have rarely been studied. In the context of increased interest for agroecological approaches, this study questions why and how farmers undertake such associations, in the case of smallholder irrigated agriculture in Tunisia. The objective... |
Prodigiosin (PG) is a red pigment produced by Serratia marcescens with immunosuppressive and apoptotic activities. In this study, we sought to examine the effect of PG on cell cycle-related proteins. The antiproliferative activity of PG was tested using human Jurkat leukaemia T cells in culture. PG-inhibited cell proli... |
Background: Anopheles mosquitoes prefer to oviposit in certain water bodies while avoiding other water bodies with similar physicochemical parameters within the same locality. Understanding the physicochemical composition of these water bodies may provide answers. In this study, we analysed Anopheles mosquito larvae b... |
Methods: Thirty-six samples comprising eighteen water and eighteen soil samples were collected from breeding and non-breeding sites across the study areas and analysed. Temperature, Conductivity, Dissolved Oxygen, and pH were measured in situ, while magnesium, sodium, potassium, and calcium were determined in the labo... |
Results: Findings from this study showed that there was no significant difference (p>0.05) in the physicochemical parameters of soil and water samples from both breeding and non-breeding sites in the study LGAs, except in the silt (p=0.02) and sand (p=0.04) content of soil from breeding and non – breeding sites from I... |
Conclusion: Therefore, there is a need to carry out more studies to provide more information on the breeding habitat preferences of these mosquitoes"Words that tell and hide": Revisiting C. P. Cavafy's Closets |
Critics have traditionally viewed C. P. Cavafy's work as moving from erotic secrecy to homosexual self-revelation. However, following Foucault, we should think of sexuality not as something repressed by control, but as a discourse inextricably linked with repression, power and knowledge. Seen in this way, Cavafy's stra... |
The efficacy and complication rate of menstrual regulation with the hand-held Karman cannula was tested on 223 women with amenorrhea up to 56 days in the Dept. of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Nairobi, Kenya from October 1982-January 1983. 195 women had positive pregnancy tests, while menstrual regulation w... |
Comparative effectiveness of angiotensin-converting-enzyme inhibitors and angiotensin II receptor blockers in patients with type 2 diabetes and retinopathy |
Background: Angiotensin-converting-enzyme (ACE) inhibitors and angiotensin II receptor blockers (ARBs) are effective treatments for diabetic retinopathy, but randomized trials and meta-analyses comparing their effects on macrovascular complications have yielded conflicting results. We compared the effectiveness of thes... |
Spring deposits exposed during building operations in downtown Windhoek, and lake sediments retrieved from underneath 50 m of water in a sinkhole (Lake Otjikoto), contain pollen profiles which reflect environmental changes in Namibia during the Holocene. At Windhoek moist local conditions are reflected by pollen in the... |
Despite multilingualism and multiculturalism, English language is taught by teachers as they face impacts of globalization, diffusion, and disruption. Armed with ideas, practices, strategies, and perspectives, the English language teachers continue providing quality and relevant language instruction to their students b... |
Chapter 14 turns from property to a further class of rights groundable only by how they serve parties beyond the right-holder. Unlike property, the rights of Chapter 14 protect the right-holder’s performance of role-defining duties to serve others: e.g. a bus driver’s or politician’s rights to be unimpeded in performin... |
The security of many computer systems hinges on the secrecy of a single word - if an adversary obtains knowledge of a password, they will gain access to the resources controlled by this password. For the vast majority of computer systems, passwords are the method of choice for authenticating users. The most widely and ... |
The effect of age on the lung elastic tissue of inbred BALB/c mice were studied. Static compliance of excised lungs increased with age. Morphometrically determined total elastic fiber length increased with lung expansion in age- and sex-matched mice (r = 0.83, P smaller than 0.001), indicating an axial extension of ela... |
By virtue of its high sensitivity and rapidity, Fenton reaction has been demonstrated as a powerful tool for in vitro biochemical analysis; however, in vivo applications of Fenton reaction still remain to be exploited. Herein, we report, for the first time, the design, formation and testing of Fenton reaction for in vi... |
Background: The Research Domain Criteria seeks to bridge knowledge from neuroscience with clinical practice by promoting research into valid neurocognitive phenotypes and dimensions, irrespective of symptoms and diagnoses as currently conceptualized. While the Research Domain Criteria offers a vision of future research... |
This article looks into groundwater pollution in Nigeria; groundwater uses and suggests how to go about protection of Nigeria’s underground water. There were case studies of wells at different regions; content analysis indicated physical, chemical and organic factors with parameters that surpassed upper boundaries esta... |
Temporal evolution of Sarda ewes milk production was analyzed with mixed linear models and factor analysis to investigate environmental effects on the shape of lactation curves and on milk yields during different lactation stages. Parity, year of production, level of altitude, and flock within altitude affected milk yi... |
Marsupial newborns are highly altricial and also show a wide array of shifts in the rate or timing of developmental events so that certain neonatal structures are quite mature. One particularly notable feature is the steep gradient in development along the anterior–posterior axis such that anterior structures are gener... |
Training the whole deep neural network together is restricted by the gradient diffusion problem. Greedy layer-wise training of an auto-encoder has achieved promising results in deep neural networks. However, it can not learn useful input representation from the original input directly. In this work, we propose to use t... |
Megawatt microwave power transmission systems often use a combination of quasi optical mirror lines andovermoded corrugated circular waveguides. The optimum coupling between a free space Gaussian beam and acorrugated waveguide can be achieved by particular mode mixtures of HEll and HE12 hybrid modes [1]. Thewanted amou... |
The activation reaction of the inhibitory guanine nucleotide-binding regulatory site of the adenylate cyclase system was studied in membranes of rat adipocytes, S49 lymphoma wild-type cells and their cyc- variants, pretreated without and with the Bordetella pertussis toxin, islet-activating protein (IAP), by measuring ... |
A total of 231 patients suffering from a first acute myocardial infarction were randomly allocated within 4 hours following the onset of symptoms either to anistreplase or anisoylated plasminogen streptokinase activator complex (APSAC), 30 U over 5 minutes, or to conventional heparin therapy, 5000IU in bolus injection.... |
Vessel Monitoring Systems (VMS) offer trajectory data of fishing vessels to excavate spatio-temporal pattern of fishing activity and impact on resources. This paper proposes a spatio-temporal fine-grained density prediction model of fishing vessels, called ST-FiD. This model finds a data structure to capture the dynami... |
Background: Good oral hygiene is necessary for optimal oral health and sound systemic health. Oral hygiene practices of undergraduates in various disciplines are well documented, but little is known about their oral hygiene status in relation to the oral hygiene practices. Objective: The objective of the present study ... |
Variability of the total solar irradiance (TSI) is a potential contributor to changes in global mean temperature on time scales longer than the relaxation time of the upper ocean (i.e. a few years). Indeed, striking correlations between the global instrumental temperature record, extending back a little more than a cen... |
Osteoarthritis causes many negative effects, which reduce the quality of life. Patients complain of persistent pain, functional impairment, restricted ability to move, and depression based on their personal beliefs about health, which are the basis of their psychological problems. In the process of rehabilitation after... |
This study applied deep learning methods for scene classification of plastic-mulched landcover (PML) from high-resolution remote sensing (HRRS) images. Firstly, 1,555 and 900 HRRS sample images with a size of $256\times 256$ pixels were labeled into three types (PML, farmland and impervious land) in agricultural region... |
To improve the reliability of the matrix converter (MC), a fault diagnosis method to identify a single open-switch fault is proposed in this paper. The introduced fault diagnosis method is based on finite control set-model predictive control (FCS-MPC), which employs a time-discrete model of the MC topology and a cost f... |
Job crafting is a method taught by career developers and coaches to workers to help them achieve greater happiness in their jobs. Given its agentic, bottom-up approach, job crafting has become closely aligned with positive psychology. While offering empowerment benefits, job crafting has limitations. Given its almost e... |
The heterogeneous ultra-dense network (UDN) has been widely regarded as a promising architecture for coping with the massive data traffic in future mobile networks including fifth generation mobile networks. There have been innumerable research efforts toward boosting the capacity of UDNs. Global communication path orc... |
AIM |
A discussion of the findings from a nationwide study of workplace and well-being issues of Australian nurses and midwives. |
BACKGROUND |
Current discourse only provides a fragmented understanding of a multifaceted nature of working conditions and well-being, necessitating a more holistic investigation to identify critical workplace issues within these professions. |
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