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The arithmetic of texture classification by support vector machines (SVM) was investigated, using discrete cosine transform (DCT) to extracting external features. It was unlike the arithmetic proposed by KIM K I in which the gray-level values of raw pixels were fed to SVM directly without any external feature extractio... |
One of the main neuropathological lesions observed at brain autopsy of Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients are the extracellular senile plaques mainly composed of amyloid-beta (Abeta) peptides. Abeta is generated by proteolytic processing of amyloid precursor protein (APP) via beta and gamma-secretases. The beta-secretas... |
The present study was performed to evaluate the effects of calcium phosphate cement (alpha-DT cement) containing alpha-TCP, dicalcium phosphate anhydrous, and tetracalcium phosphate mixed with hydroxypropyl cellulose (HPC) for bone augmentation within a titanium cap in the rabbit calvarium. A total of 24 male adult Jap... |
The radionuclide bone scan 3 months after the initiation of treatment for advanced cancer of the prostate occasionally shows apparent progression of individual lesions despite clinical improvement. To determine the incidence and clinical significance of this so-called flare phenomenon, serial bone scans were reviewed i... |
Materials handling of a cross-docking center under retail distribution environment is complicated and labour intensive. Managers are usually under enormous pressure to optimize the staff shifts, inbound schedules and operating rules to minimize handling costs while ensuring just-in-time shipments. In this study, a disc... |
Abstract The paper discusses the local government revenue from the real estate market, focusing mainly on identifying the spatial differentiation of municipal income from the real estate market. The study covered all communes (gminas) in Poland (2,478). The temporal scope of the study was a decade between 2005 and 2015... |
The purpose of this study was to explore camp outcomes specialized in ethnic identity among Asian American youth after they participated in a residential cultural immersion camp. In this study, the cultural immersion camp is viewed as a mediating factor that channels other influences in such a way as to guide Asian Ame... |
A single feed Broadband Circularly polarized Microstrip patch antenna array operating at C-band frequency has been analyzed and designed. The antenna is mainly intended to be used for continuous command transmission. In order to avoid energy losses due to mismatch of linear polarized antennas, we choose circularly pola... |
Pontine glioma is a rare tumor and exclusively occurs in children. It originates from the glial (connective/supporting) cells of the brain. In children, they are the leading cause of deaths from brain tumors. The usual age of presentation is later half of first decade. Most of the children die within 18 months of diagn... |
BACKGROUND |
Patient safety is one of the most important issues in healthcare. High-risk percutaneous coronary interventions (HR-PCIs) offer well-established treatment options for patients with complex coronary artery disease and multiple comorbidities. Whether process standardization using standard operating procedure (SOP) manage... |
METHODS AND RESULTS |
This retrospective study analyzed procedural characteristics, in-hospital outcomes, and length of hospital stay in patients who received HR-PCI in a German heart center 12 months before the introduction of process standardization using SOP management-the SOP (-) group-and after the introduction of process standardizati... |
CONCLUSION |
This retrospective study shows significantly better quality of care measures after the introduction of process standardization techniques using SOP management in HRPCIs, with a lower risk of adverse outcomes and shorter length of hospital stay.Economic Globalization and the Environment in China: A Comparative Case Stud... |
This article examines the effects of trade and investment liberalization on the environment in two Chinese cities—Shenyang and Dalian. Theoretically, it draws insights from literature on trade and environment on one hand, and norm diffusion study in the international relations literature on the other hand. It attempts ... |
1. New Hopes, New Worries The end of the Cold War has unleashed many new hopes and aspirations: i t has also given rise to concerns and worries not only for Europe and the USA but also for the rest of the world. The beginning of the process of ending the Cold War initiated by Gorbachev’s ‘new thinking’ had a benign imp... |
This guide was developed to provide the primary care physician with essential practice information on viral hepatitis in a concise and useful format. An American Medical Association advisory panel, representative of all primary care specialty associations and nationally recognized experts, conducted a systematic review... |
We consider a two‐phase Stefan problem for a semi‐infinite body x>0, with a convective boundary condition including a density jump at the free boundary with a time‐dependent heat transfer coefficient of the type h/t , h>0 whose solution was given in D. A. Tarzia, PAMM. Proc. Appl. Math. Mech. 7, 1040307–1040308 (2007).... |
ABSTRACT A consensus binding site for the human papillomavirus (HPV) E2 protein was determined from an unbiased set of degenerate oligonucleotides using cyclic amplification and selection of targets (CASTing). Detectable DNA-protein complexes were formed after six to nine cycles of CASTing. A population of selected bin... |
A new homogeneous immunoprecipitation inhibition assay has been developed to quantitate concentrations of hapten in human serum or plasma without the use of radioactive isotopes, enzymes, fluorescent markers, or laser nephelometers. This immunoprecipitation is based on spectrophotometric measurement of the inhibition b... |
We have previously developed a new method for accurately tracking the movement of the heart wall based on both the phase and magnitude of the demodulated signals to determine the instantaneous position of an object. By this method, velocity signals of the heart wall with small amplitudes less than several micrometers o... |
This article examines the relation between a language testing code of ethics and a code of practice by discussing the development of the Japan Language Testing Association (JLTA) draft Code of Practice. It claims that the relation between the two sorts of codes is not as straightforward as seems to be assumed by the au... |
When the portal hypertension syndrome occurs, patients with liver cirrhosis develop three major collateral blood flow pathways. These are gastroesophageal, splenorenal, and paraumbilical ones along the recanalized umbilical veins. Only both the splenorenal pathway of blood return from the portal venous system, which co... |
PURPOSE |
Explore the perceptions of nurses working in mental health of effective clinical leadership. |
DESIGN AND METHODS |
In-depth interviews were conducted with registered nurses employed in a mental health setting. Qualitative research using grounded theory. |
FINDINGS |
Remaining calm and confident in times of crisis and uncertainty was identified as one attribute of clinical leadership. Participants noted clinical leaders' demeanor during stressful or crisis situations, and their ability to manage unpredictable or unexpected clinical situations as contributing positively to clinical ... |
PRACTICE IMPLICATIONS |
Understanding these characteristics and how they can influence positive outcomes for clients is crucial in addressing the recruitment and retention challenges for the nursing workforce.Postoperative Nausea and Vomiting with Plastic Surgery: A Practical Advisory to Etiology, Impact, and Treatment. |
Postoperative Nausea and Vomiting with Plastic Surgery: A Practical Advisory to Etiology, Impact, and Treatment Sir: A Drs. Manahan et al.1 correctly identify continuous propofol infusion as a preferred approach to prevent postoperative nausea and vomiting, several errors appear in their otherwise fine article. Table 1... |
Cytotoxic T lymphocyte (CTL) responses are thought to be important for the control of many viral and other infections. Qualitative aspects of the CTL response, including the epitope specificity, affinity, and clonal composition, may affect the ability of T cells to mediate infection control. Although it is clear that t... |
This paper addresses the task of extracting free-text sections from scientific PDF documents, and specifically the problem of formatting disparity among different publications, by analysing their metadata. For the purpose of extracting procedural knowledge in the form of recipes from papers, and for the application dom... |
ABSTRACT The present study addresses the problems of catalytic synthesis of C60-based 3D polymers in the presence of carbon disulfide CS2. It is shown that CS2 lowers the pressure of fullerite 3D polymerization at room temperature. In particular, the pressure at which the 3D ultrahard fullerite C60 phase is formed decr... |
DESDynl-Deformation, Ecosystem Structure, and Dynamics of Ice-is one of the first-tier missions recommended in The National Research Council's Earth Science 2007 Decadal Survey. DESDynI's L-band synthetic aperture radar (SAR) is designed to measure terrain surface deformation and forest biomass, hence its quadrature-po... |
In May 2018, the Eurasian economic union (EAEU) and China signed a non-preferential agreement on trade and economic cooperation. The agreement provides for joint projects in many economics sectors. For China, this agreement is a new step in the implementation of the large – scale project «One belt-one road», as well as... |
India is a large country with 29 states as constituents in its federal structure. The large and growing population imposes great pressure on available natural resources. Disputes arising out of contested river water entitlements between states are common and often intractable. Laws conceived for settling such disputes ... |
A number of highly abundant proteins in urine have been identified through proteomics approaches, and some have been considered as disease-biomarker candidates. These molecules might be clinically useful in diagnosis of various diseases. However, none has proven to be specifically indicative of perturbations of cellula... |
This paper considers the clinical problems associated with the detection of localized retinal lesions using automated perimeters. We present four case studies of patients who had documented macular lesions, some about the size of the papilla, but who had normal visual field results when tested with automated perimeters... |
We present an ultrasonic transit-time gas flow meter (UFM) that features a 40-kHz 8×8 2D-phased array for transmitting ultrasonic sound waves up- and downstream to two single element receivers. This allows us to electronically compensate for the well-known parasitic sound drift effect, resulting in larger measurement r... |
In this paper, three control methods experiencing more and more general study and application of switched reluctance motor (SRM) have been compared and analyzed to obtain the best control way of torque ripple. They are current chopper control (CCC), torque sharing function (TSF) and direct instantaneous torque control ... |
Equipment Battlefield damage repair (BDR) sequence is an important content in the equipment maintenance support decision-making in wartime. If not handled correctly, time, man-hours, parts, and resources will be wasted and opportunities to get back in the fight will be missed. The influence factors of equipment BDR seq... |
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to find novel gene(s) involved in the development of lung adenocarcinoma (AD). Using DNA microarrays, we identified 31 up-regulated and 8 downregulated genes in 12 AD. Real time PCR was used to measure expression of VIPR1 and SPP1 mRNA and possible losses or gains of genes in 32 A... |
Since the report from the Eudora Welty Foundation published in the Volume 9 Spring 2017 edition of the Eudora Welty Review, the Foundation has engaged in some stimulating new activities and produced rewarding installments of other on-going programs and projects. The Foundation partners with many organizations to promot... |
Study Design. A multicenter, prospective, single-arm, intervention study. Objective. The aim of this study was to investigate efficacy of balloon kyphoplasty (BKP) for acute osteoporotic vertebral fractures (OVFs) in patients with poor prognostic factors. Summary of Background Data. The indications for BKP remain uncle... |
In this paper, we propose a novel authentication method for digital images that achieves fine authenticating granularity (e.g., block-level granularity). Its appealing flexibility lies in the fact that with only one piece of authenticating data (e.g., digital signature or message authentication code) spanning all block... |
In this study, the corrosion performance of dissimilar welded joints between ASTM A615 and AISI 304 stainless steel with and without buttering using Inconel 182 was evaluated. In both cases, the filler metal was ER-309L and the base metals were prepared with a 45° single bevel. One half of the specimens were welded wit... |
Donor-acceptor biphenyl derivatives are particularly interesting model compounds presenting a charge transfer absorption band because the extent of conjugation, and therefore the amount of charge transfer between the substituents, may be varied by a controllable structural feature, namely the torsion angle between the ... |
A new probe was designed to quantify groundwater‐surface water exchange in the hyporheic zone under dynamic stage condition. Current methods focus on either vertical pore water velocity or Darcy flux measurements. Both parameters must be understood to evaluate residence time and mass flux of constituents. Furthermore, ... |
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