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Several early-life social and biological factors are associated with strabismus, with differences in patterns between isolated and neurodevelopmental forms. Further collaborative research could explore this hypothesis to identify modifiable risk factors.Object Matching Using Boundary Descriptors |
The problem of object recognition is of immense practical importance and potential, and the last decade has witnessed a number of breakthroughs in the state of the art. Most of the past object recognition work focuses on textured objects and local appearance descriptors extracted around salient points in an image. Thes... |
The world is suddenly talking about the emergence of “Greater China.” The term has appeared in the headlines of major newspapers and magazines, has been the topic of conferences sponsored by prominent think-tanks, and is now the theme of a special issue of the world's leading journal of Chinese affairs. It thus joins o... |
As time goes by, discoveries become common knowledge, and often the person who first changed a paradigm gets forgotten. One such case is the discovery that the Sun’s corona is a million degrees hot – much hotter than its surface. While we still work on solving how the Sun heats the corona, the name of the discoverer se... |
Topical application of dibenzo[a,l]pyrene (DB[a,l]P) to the dorsal skin of SENCAR mice induces codon 61 (CAA Gln to CTA Leu) mutations in the Harvey (H)-ras gene within 12 h after treatment. Between days 1 and 3, the frequency of these mutations increases rapidly, suggesting that skin cells carrying the codon 61 mutati... |
A model is considered in which the activity values, the weights of connections, and the transmission factors of neurons are positive, the connections are chosen by chance and are symmetric regarding the layer of associative neurons. Formulas were obtained for the mathematical expectation and the dispersion of activity ... |
In order to meet the demand of electrical energy by consumers, utilities have to maintain the security of the system. This paper presents a design of the Microgrid Central Energy Management System (MCEMS). It will plan operation of the system one-day advance. The MCEMS will adjust itself during operation if a fault occ... |
As the traditional gray forecasting model GM(1, 1) has poor performance in forecasting the fast-growing power load, we present a chaotic co-evolutionary particle swarm optimization (CCPSO) algorithm, one with better efficiency than the PSO algorithm. Based on the GM(1, 1) model, the CCPSO algorithm is adopted to solve ... |
Background and Purpose— Stroke increases the risk of hip/femur fracture, as seen in several studies, although the time course of this increased risk remains unclear. Therefore, our purpose is to evaluate this risk and investigate the time course of any elevated risk. Methods— We conducted a case-control study using the... |
An evolutionary algorithm model of early cells (protocells) has been studied to investigate the evolution of the universal and the several alternate genetic codes in biology. Up to one thousand protocells are initialized with randomly selected genetic codes, which are then mutated over many generations, with a continuo... |
Convolutional neural networks (CNN) are tremendously successful at classifying objects in electro-optical images. However, with synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data, off-the-shelf classifiers are insufficient because there are limited measured SAR data available and SAR images are not invariant to object manipulations. ... |
In many levitation systems superconductors are used in combination with permanent magnets. In this paper we considered three types of magnetic assemblies that are most often used: with magnets oriented in one direction, oppositely oriented magnets and the Halbach array. Based on the H-formalism, we performed modeling o... |
Groupanizer is an extension of groupware and constitutes a development platform to integrate user-centric information for the benefit of groupware applications. User-centric context is used in a collaborative manner to positively link and reinforce group member idiosyncrasies. In order to do so, monitoring of the user'... |
BACKGROUND |
The use of risperidone long-acting injection (RLAI) is reasonably well supported by controlled studies. Little is known about treatment outcomes in patients receiving RLAI in clinical practice. |
METHOD |
All prescribers in the South London and Maudsley Trust, London, United Kingdom, were informed that RLAI could be ordered for suitable patients with a DSM-IV diagnosis of schizophrenia or schizo-affective disorder: those known to be noncompliant with oral atypical antipsychotics and those intolerant of the adverse effec... |
RESULTS |
Outcome could be determined for 100 subjects. Seventy-nine subjects (79%) were hospitalized when RLAI was initially prescribed. Mean duration of stay before RLAI initiation was 97 days (range, 0-1492 days). Most subjects were switched to RLAI from oral atypical (58%) or conventional depot (28%) antipsychotics. The main... |
CONCLUSION |
RLAI was moderately effective in clinical practice as judged by attrition from treatment. CGI score changes and discharge rates also suggest moderate effectiveness. RLAI was well tolerated. Antipsychotic coprescription was infrequent.The immunological principles underlying vaccine-induced protection in the occupational... |
Abstract Protection against the large numbers of pathogenic microbes to which humans are constantly exposed is effected through external barriers (skin and mucus membranes), innate barriers (cellular components and soluble chemical mediators) and adaptive barriers (B and T lymphocytes). This article reviews the normal ... |
The metric learning problem is concerned with learning a distance function tuned to a particular task, and has been shown to be useful when used in conjunction with nearest-neighbor methods and other techniques that rely on distances or similarities. Metric Learning: A Review presents an overview of existing research i... |
OBJECT |
Smoking is one of the leading causes of preventable morbidity and death in the U.S. and has been associated with perioperative complications. In this study, the authors examined the effects of smoking on perioperative outcomes and pseudarthrosis rates following anterior cervical corpectomy. |
METHODS |
All adult patients from 2006 to 2011 who underwent anterior cervical corpectomy were identified. Patients were categorized into 3 groups: patients who never smoked (nonsmokers), patients who quit for at least 1 year (quitters), and patients who continue to smoke (current smokers). Demographic, medical, and surgical cov... |
RESULTS |
A total of 160 patients were included in the study. Of the 160 patients, 49.4% were nonsmokers, 25.6% were quitters, and 25.0% were current smokers. The overall 30-day complication rate was 20.0%, and pseudarthrosis occurred in 7.6% of patients. Mean blood loss was 368.3 ml and mean length of stay was 6.5 days. Current... |
CONCLUSIONS |
Smoking is independently associated with higher perioperative complications (especially infectious complications), longer lengths of stay, and higher rates of pseudarthrosis in patients undergoing anterior cervical corpectomy.An estimation method of wind energy curtailment considering wind generator tripping in frequen... |
Summary |
Development of wind farms clustering exerts significant influence on secure operation of power grid and also puts forward new requirements for the capacity of peak regulation and frequency adjustment. When power grid frequency is higher than 50.2 Hz, active power output of wind farm should be reduced gradually accordin... |
The rising demand for optoelectronic devices to be operable in adverse environments necessitates the sensing of ultraviolet (UV) radiation. Here, a self‐driven, highly sensitive, fast responding GaN nanoflower based UV photodetector is reported. By developing unique structures, the light absorption increases efficientl... |
Describes a four-day workshop on recent technological developments in the field of blindness hosted by Arkansas Enterprises for the Blind in Little Rock. The main objective of the program was to increase rehabilitation counselors’ awareness of how technological aids could be used to enhance their clients’ vocational op... |
Polymeric systems have been extensively studied as polyelectrolyte complexes to enhance the cellular delivery and transfection efficiency of genetic materials, such as plasmid DNA (pDNA). Here, self-assembled nanoparticles were formulated by complexation of hyaluronic acid (HA)-conjugated poly(ethylene glycol) (HA-PEG)... |
Wouldn’t it be great to be able to develop a completely new drug for less than $60 million in 6 years or less? And to solve a problem associated with significant morbidity (intraoperative hypothermia) during and following major surgery with inhalation anesthetics? Or does someone think I’m dreaming or smoking something... |
We report an implantable neural probe with monolithically integrated light-emitting diodes (LEDs) and recording site for optogenetic applications. The device were designed and fabricated with 2-inch gallium nitride on silicon epitaxial wafer. The neural probe consisted of three μLEDs (a mesa size of 310 × 41 mm2) and f... |
HelioRoom simulates the orbital motion of the planets in the Solar system on a set of synchronized computer displays situated on the walls of the classroom, with planets "orbiting" around the periphery of the room. Third grade students used the application for a problem-solving activity requiring the collection of evid... |
The responses of cultured tobacco cells to microgravity were examined. Cultured tobacco cells grew and regenerated shoots under microgravity conditions. However, such growth, especially of stems, was much more heterogeneous than that in the ground control, and the increase in fresh weight of the flight samples was less... |
This article is a synoptic overview of a larger project on the social histories of anarchism from the eighteenth century to the present. The specific themes of this article are a discussion of the periodization of anarchism as an ism, an ideology originating in nineteenth-century Europe, and its relationship to and dif... |
Summary form only given. We study the spatialization of the sound field in a room, in particular the evolution of room impulse responses as a function of their spatial positions. The presented technique allows us to characterize the sound field in any arbitrary location completely if the sound field is known in a certa... |
The objective of this study was to quantify individual variation in daily milk yield and milking duration in response to the length of the milking interval and to assess the economic potential of using this individual variation to optimize the use of an automated milking system. Random coefficient models were used to d... |
Homogeneous robotic sorting systems, such as the famous Kiva system which follows the shelves-to-workers mode, have been successfully used in warehouses. However, these systems generally have shortages in two-folds, i.e., (1) redundant moves of shelves, and (2) unavoidable manual operations. To overcome these shortages... |
Large-scale integrated silicon photonic circuits suffer from two inevitable issues that boost the overall power consumption. First, fabrication imperfections even on sub-nm scale result in spectral device non-uniformity that require fine-tuning during device operation. Second, the photonic devices need to be actively c... |
A conceptual framework for evaluating statutory performance indicators for local authorities is developed. The framework, which contains 14 dimensions of organizational performance, is then applied to the indicators set for local government from 1993/94 to 2001/02. The results show that the validity and comparability o... |
Current evidence favors the theory that, when the globular motor domain of myosin attaches to actin, the light chain binding domain or "lever arm" rotates, and thereby generates movement of actin filaments. Myosin is uniquely designed for such a role in that a long alpha-helix (approximately 9 nm) extending from the C ... |
The utilization of the synchrotron radiation from the UVSOR storage ring of the Institute for Molecular Science at Okazaki in Japan for the far infrared and millimeter wave spectroscopy has started since 1986. The experience at the UVSOR proved that the synchrotron radiation is a very bright light source over a black b... |
We present the first results of a galaxy redshift survey, ESO Slice Project (ESP), we are accomplishing as an ESO Key--Project over about 40 square degrees in a region near the South Galactic Pole. The limiting magnitude is $b_J = 19.4$. Up to now $\sim 85\%$ of the observations has been completed and $\sim 65\%$ of th... |
* Commander McLennan is currently a member of the Directing Staff at the Australian Command and Staff College in Canberra. The views expressed in this paper are his own and not those of the Australian Department of Defence, NZ Ministry of Defence, Royal Australian Navy or Royal New Zealand Navy. ‘I have said that a Nav... |
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