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Condition information is the important indicator of the equipment healthy management. In order to embody the condition information in the traditional age replacement model, age replacement availability model based condition information is established in the long run. Finally an example is used to demonstrate the relati... |
We introduce an intuitive gesture-based interaction technique for creating and manipulating simple three-dimensional (3D) shapes. Specifically, the developed interface utilizes low-cost depth camera to capture user's hand gesture as the input, maps different gestures to system commands and generates 3D models from mida... |
Abstract This abridged conversation arose from a meeting of artists, academics, and factory workers in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 2012. The artists had all contributed work to the “Tool at Hand,” an exhibition at the Milwaukee Art Museum. The gathering afforded the opportunity for productive discussion about tools, materi... |
ABSTRACT To produce promising biocatalysts, natural enzymes often need to be engineered to increase their catalytic performance. In this study, the enantioselectivity and thermostability of a (+)-γ-lactamase from Microbacterium hydrocarbonoxydans as the catalyst in the kinetic resolution of Vince lactam (2-azabicyclo[2... |
Abstract: We report here on a newborn with end‐stage renal failure due to autosomal recessive polycystic kidney disease, also causing ventilation‐requiring respiratory distress. Peritoneal dialysis was able to keep the newborn alive but not wean it from the respirator. After removal of both huge kidneys, dialysis becam... |
India’s Northeast has long been risen by protracted armed conflicts for secession and movements for other forms of autonomy. India’s Northeast, the confederation of eight states (i.e, Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim and Tripura) is home to around 200 indigenous communities. All t... |
The residual effect of three cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) herbicide programs, including the use of no herbicides, a minimum program consisting of fluometuron {N,N-dimethyl-N′-[3-(trifluoromethyl)phenyl] urea} and MSMA (monosodium salt of methylarsonic acid), and an intensive program consisting of trifluralin [2,6-din... |
An eigenspace generalization technique for overcoming partial occlusion and destruction of an object is proposed in this paper. Eigenspaces of various partially occluded and destroyed shapes of a particular object are merged with the corresponding eigenspaces of good-shapes in order to reduce the effect of data-loss du... |
Spontaneous dyskinesia in first-episode psychosis was described previously with varying incidence rates ranging from zero to 53%. Dyskinesia was also found to be more common in siblings of patients with both schizophrenia and dyskinesia. This condition was linked with structural brain abnormalities and posited to be an... |
Founding families are in unique positions of power and control that enable them to expropriate wealth from minority shareholders. However, recent research suggests that in large publicly trade companies, firms with founding family presence outperform those with more dispersed ownership structures. This raises the quest... |
A novel wireless embroidered integrated platform for radio frequency identification (RFID)-enabled strain sensing that takes advantage of the nonlinear behavior of the RFID chip impedance as a function of the incident power is introduced. Due to the nonlinearity of the chip impedance as a function of the power, a large... |
In this work, an extension of the database relational model which incorporates vague or imprecise data is presented. Specifically, we extend the concept of functional dependency to Fuzzy Attributes Tables. This extension is based on the use of a residuated lattice as a truthfulness value set. For this goal, the domains... |
We evaluated safety and efficacy of concurrent chemoradiotherapy (CCRT) with capecitabine in patients with locally advanced pancreatic cancer (LAPC). Between January 2004 and January 2008, 39 patients with LAPC treated with capecitabine CCRT were reviewed. Capecitabine was administered at 850 mg/m2 twice daily every da... |
This paper analyzes the inflation dynamics of several countries belonging to the European Monetary Union and of the UK. We estimate the two main parameters driving the degree of persistence in inflation and its uncertainty using a dual long memory process. We also investigate the possible existence of heterogeneity in ... |
The microbiota of breast milk from Chinese lactating mothers at different stages of lactation was examined in the framework of a Maternal Infant Nutrition Growth (MING) study investigating the dietary habits and breast milk composition in Chinese urban mothers. We used microbiota profiling based on the sequencing of fr... |
Tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF‐α) plays a major role in the pathogenesis of many inflammatory diseases. Neutralizing TNF‐α by antibodies or antisense oligodeoxynucleotides, alleviate disease symptoms. In this study, we introduce the new generation of gene‐silencing molecules, namely the short interfering RNA (siRNA),... |
Small proteins are critically involved in the acclimation response of photosynthetic cyanobacteria to nitrogen starvation. NblD is the 66-amino-acid effector of nitrogen-limitation-induced phycobilisome breakdown, which is believed to replenish the cellular amino acid pools. To address the physiological functions of Nb... |
This paper deals with control of flexible mechanical systems. The goal is to modify the input signal in order to minimize the residual vibrations excited during a motion of a system with flexible parts. The filter is designed in the time domain via impulse function analysis. Possible application of the proposed solutio... |
The effort of universities is to prepare their graduates for their future career by providing them with sufficient knowledge and skills that can be used and further developed in their practice. In our contribution we focused on the use of the online computational tool Wolfram Alpha (Wolfram|Alpha) for increase of compu... |
OREGON has experienced a progressive increase in the reported incidence of gonorrhea since 1955. In 1970, the State ranked 11th (1) nationally, with a reported incidence of 328.0 per 100,000 based on 6,793 reported cases. This is only a fraction of the true incidence, however, because an estimated 30,000 cases are not ... |
Paramagnetic NMR data contain extremely accurate long-range information on metalloprotein structures and, when used in the frame of integrative structural biology approaches, they allow for the retrieval of structural details to a resolution that is not achievable using other techniques. Paramagnetic data thus represen... |
Polyelectrolyte complex (PEC) micelles are formed by mixing a block copolymer composed of a neutral block and a charged block, with an oppositely charged polymer. The micelles formed have a PEC core, capable of encapsulating charged molecules like nucleic acids or proteins, while the neutral block(s) forms the corona t... |
The metabolic syndrome is a common metabolic disorder that results from the increasing prevalence of obesity. It also refers to a clustering of specific cardiovascular disease risk factors whose underlying pathophysiology is thought to be related to insulin resistance with an excessive flux of fatty acids implicated. O... |
This paper considers the problem of estimating the position, attitude and velocity of a rigid-body in a 3D space by fusing bearing measurements provided by a monocular camera with gyroscopic and accelerometer measurements provided by an Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU). The proposed deterministic observer is accompanied... |
Current preservice teacher education students are tomorrow's teachers and what they believe about the priority and challenges of music education in elementary schools is important, as it will impact on their attitudes and practice when they are teaching in schools. This study examines the state of primary music educati... |
Since CRM system research has currently overlooked the combination of end user and managerial intervention the aim of this study is to highlight how the managerial interventions are perceived by the end users in the later stages of assimilation in a CRM implementation process. Through a review of relevant literature an... |
We use weakly supervised structured learning to track and disambiguate the identity of multiple indistinguishable, translucent and deformable objects that can overlap for many frames. For this challenging problem, we propose a novel model which handles occlusions, complex motions and non-rigid deformations by jointly o... |
Purpose: As rallies inevitably have a direct impact on social order as a collective freedom of expression, the need for autonomy inherent in basic rights and the need for batting average regulation to maintain social order need to be harmonized with each other. Method: To Study the judicial discussion and improvement o... |
We present seven sequential weekly observations of NGC 5548 conducted in 2007 with the Suzaku X-ray Imaging Spectrometer (XIS) in the 0.2–12 keV band and Hard X-ray Detector (HXD) in the 10–600 keV band. The iron Kα line is well detected in all seven observations and Kβ line is also detected in four observations. In th... |
Abstract In his article “Metaphorical terms for translation’ (Perspectives 11: 3. 189–195), Wang Bin argues that the notion of equivalence is ‘a trap ‘ in the context of translation and should be replaced by the concept of blending. I reject this diagnosis because ‘equivalence ‘ is a definitional feature of translation... |
Abstract. We explore the use of an improved particle filter to detect and track stealth targets (STs) in noisy imagery with unknown detection profile. Recently, a cardinality-balanced multitarget multi-Bernoulli (CBMeMBer) of variational Bayesian (VB) approximation has been proposed for tracking multitargets with unkno... |
Osteosarcoma (OS) is considered the most common type of primary malignant bone tumor, which has a high rate of mortality in children and adolescents. However, the current treatment methods for OS are ineffective. Therefore, there is an urgent requirement to identify the critical targets. This study aimed to identify th... |
Observations have shown that mesospheric hydroxyl (OH) is affected by energetic electron precipitation (EEP) at magnetic latitudes connected to the outer radiation belt. It is not clear, however, if the current satellite‐based electron flux observations can be used to accurately describe EEP in atmospheric models. We u... |
We assessed adequacy of ventilation in 20 critically ill patients with multiple organ failure using a Pneupac Ventipac portable ventilator and the effects on patients' haemodynamic stability. Baseline data were recorded over 15 min for a range of respiratory, haemodynamic and oxygen transport variables during ventilati... |
The aim of this study was to determine motor repertoire at 3 to 5 months of age in infants with hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy and to examine how this repertoire changes according to severity. Objective: The aim of this study was to determine motor repertoire at 3 to 5 months of age in infants with hypoxic-ischemic en... |
NO 1: SCIENCE & INDUSTRY: J D BERNAL CONTENTS PREFACE page v SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY I. INTRODUCTION 3 II. HEAT AND ENERGY 39 III. FERMENTS AND MICROBES 70 IV. THE AGE OF STEEL 93 V. ELECTRIC LIGHT AND POWER 113 VI. CONCLUSIONS 134 MOLECULAR ASYMMETRY VII. MOLECULAR ASYMMETRY INDEX 118 CHART 220 ... |
An aerial survey of Asian Water Buffalo Bubalus bubalis and wild cattle Bos taurus was undertaken in the Arafura Swamp region of central Arnhem Land in September 2005. The survey covered 3 089 km² and included the Arafura Swamp, nearby Blyth River, Glyde River floodplains, Goyder River and the floodplains of the Gulbuw... |
The ability of Elderly Nutrition Programs, especially in rural areas, to address increasing needs for disparate program services is linked to determining which older people are most likely to be at nutritional risk and what constitutes the potential risk. The purpose of this study is to characterize nutritional risk fa... |
In this paper I examine where Bion's theory of freedom fits within the traditional philosophical debate. I claim that the notion of freedom is the organizing centre of Bion's thought and that the traditional debate has focused with too great a concentration upon the will. I propose that underlying the workings of the w... |
When we tune a microwave cylindrical cavity resonator by varying its length with the help of a moving plunger, resonant frequencies of different modes may overlap to each other causing a noise problem. So, tunable range is influenced by the frequency overlapping of different modes. In this paper we describe a simple bu... |
An important feature of efforts to prevent global warming is the appropriate use of aluminium to reduce the weight of motor vehicles, etc., and this necessitates the development of techniques for joining dissimilar metals to steel. When the combination is steel and aluminium, however, conventional welding techniques br... |
Peritoneal dialysis (PD) has a prevalence in Italy that does not exceed 10% of patients in substitution treatment. Among the barriers, which hinder access to DP, the lack of patient autonomy or family support has great importance. In 2012 in Lombardy, the lack of support has prevented 155 new patients to use DP and has... |
The authors present a new investigation technique by means of CT of the frontal sinus drainage pathway, the frontal recess, which could be of considerable help in defining its potential role in determining a chronic or recurrent inflammatory process of this cavity. Among the main characteristics of this technique are: ... |
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OBJECTIVE-PURPOSE: The purpose of this case report is to describe a gait disorder presenting as a bilateral sacral radiculopathy after vigorous cycling. Also, we discuss the pathogenic mechanisms and we revise the bibliography. |
PATIENT AND METHODS |
The patient complained of a rapid painless weakness in legs, after intense and prolonged cycling 4 months ago. The physical and electromyographical examinations revealed important weakness in foot and knee flexors, and signs of acute denervation with mixed reinnervation (active and chronic) in myotomal S1 muscles, resp... |
DISCUSSION |
We established that our patient presented a subacute bilateral S1 radiculopathy and we confirmed the progressive clinical and neurophysiological improvement. The radiculopathy are infrequent in cyclists, and its common origin is the external compressive aggression. In our patient we speculate and discuss that this radi... |
The AI planning field has a long history of introducing yet another search algorithm that is believed to be the best in all domains. Some recent examples are NONLIN, TWEAK and SNLP. In this paper we show, by directly comparing the above three planners, that the quest for an overall winner is doomed to fail. We first ar... |
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