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the bay was assessed according to the criteria established by the Canadian Council of Ministers of the Environment. The levels of metallic trace elements remain below the toxicity thresholds, except for the sediments taken from the harbour basin.
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Anti-parity-time symmetric phase transition in diffusive systems Parity-time (PT) symmetry/anti-parity-time (APT) symmetry in non-Hermitian systems reveal profound physics and spawn intriguing effects. Recently, it has been introduced into diffusive systems together with the concept of exceptional points (EPs) from qua...
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BLIND COMPRESSED SENSING ENABLES 3 D DYNAMIC FREE BREATHING MR IMAGING OF LUNG VOLUMES AND DIAPHRAGM MOTION Objectives: The objective of this study is to increase the spatial and temporal resolution of dynamic 3D MR imaging of lung volumes and diaphragm motion. To achieve this goal, we evaluate the utility of the propo...
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ANALYSIS OF DIESEL PILOT-IGNITED NATURAL GAS LOW-TEMPERATURE COMBUSTION WITH HOT EXHAUST GAS RECIRCULATION Abstract Earlier efforts demonstrated the low NOx(<0.2 g/kWh) and high efficiency (>40%) benefits of the low temperature, advanced low pilot injection natural gas (ALPING) combustion concept that utilized advanced...
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Simulated workplace protection factor study of a quarter facepiece elastomeric respirator. The assigned protection factor (APF) for quarter facepiece respirators is currently 5, based on fit test data from the 1970s with models no longer commercially available. The goal of this project was to evaluate the respirator fi...
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years. A lightweight, low profile, reusable quarter facepiece respirator is an effective option for healthcare and other worker protection during pandemic and similar situations.
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Study on Damage, Equivalent Stress and Life Distribution Characteristics of Bogie Frame of High-speed Train : In order to analyze the damage , equivalent stress and life distribution characteristics of bogie frame of high-speed train , the dynamic stress railway line measurement of the key fatigue points of frame is ca...
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Scenario-based robust dominance criteria for multi-objective automated flexible transfer line balancing problem under uncertainty The automated flexible transfer line (AFTL) is designed with flexibility, reconfigurability and reliability to satisfy the requirements in real manufacturing environment. It contains multipl...
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Real-time Detection and Interpretation of 3 D Deictic Gestures for Interaction With an Intelligent Environment We present a system that enables pointing-based unconstrained interaction with a smart conference room using an arbitrary multi-camera setup. For each individual camera stream, areas exhibiting strong motion a...
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PARK6-linked autosomal recessive early-onset parkinsonism in Asian populations The authors performed linkage analysis in 39 families with autosomal recessive early-onset PD (AR-EOPD) negative for parkin and DJ-1 mutations. Eight families including three Japanese, two Taiwanese, one Turkish, one Israeli, and one Philipp...
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Antispasmodic activity of isovanillin and isoacetovanillon in comparison with Pycnocycla spinosa Decne.exBoiss extract on rat ileum Isovanillin and isoacetovanillon are two components found in P. spinosa Decne.exBoiss extract with no previously reported effect on ileum contractions. Spasmolytic effect of isovanillin an...
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[Observance and treatment follow-up]. The consequences of a bad observance of the treatment are serious for the patient and for the community: relapse, prolongation of the treatment, increase of the risk of death (x 4), prolongation of the period of contagiousness and development of multiresistant strains. If a suitabl...
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Cage design reduces emotionality in mice To see if a more natural cage design would alter the reactivity of laboratory mice, 192 mice were reared in cages with (1) no dividers, (2) five vertical dividers, (3) nine vertical dividers, or (4) nine vertical dividers and one horizontal platform. The mice preferred the most ...
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Employees’ Job Satisfaction and their Work Performance as Elements Influencing Work Safety Abstract Job satisfaction has a big impact on how an employee performs his job. Both elements have an impact on job safety and employee perception of it. A satisfied employee devotes himself to work, performs orders better, cares...
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Advanced Coatings of Polyureas for Building Blast Protection: Physical, Chemical, Thermal and Mechanical Characterization Due to the increase in the global terrorist threat, there has been a growing demand for materials that can more efficiently protect civil, industrial, and military structures against explosions. In ...
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Morphological Analysis of Particles Formed by Aeolian Abrasion in Dune Sands have been reported in which the content of nanometric particles in aeolian sands in austral deserts is analyzed The study of these subject within the perspective of nanotechnology is a methodological challenge, in which the employment of caref...
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Application of pheB as a Reporter Gene for Geobacillus spp., Enabling Qualitative Colony Screening and Quantitative Analysis of Promoter Strength ABSTRACT The pheB gene from Geobacillus stearothermophilus DSM6285 has been exploited as a reporter gene for Geobacillus spp. The gene product, catechol 2,3-dioxygenase (C23O...
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Whole-body predictors of wrist shot accuracy in ice hockey: a kinematic analysis The purpose of this study was to identify joint angular kinematics that corresponds to shooting accuracy in the stationary ice hockey wrist shot. Twenty-four subjects participated in this study, each performing 10 successful shots on four ...
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Feedforward Compensation-Based Finite-Time Traffic Flow Controller for Intelligent Connected Vehicle Subject to Sudden Velocity Changes of Leading Vehicle Optimal velocity (OV)-based car-following model can be easily applied to the transportation system composed of intelligent connected vehicle (ICV) via vehicle-to-veh...
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Long-wavelength infrared transmitting glasses: new ternary sulfide compositions Compositions in the MS-In2S3 and MS-Y2S3 systems (M equals Ca or Sr) have been investigated as potential long-wavelength infrared transmitting materials with possible glass-formability. Previous studies of CaY2S4 and SrY2S4 single crystals ...
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Integrated Electrical and Gas Network Flexibility Assessment in Low-Carbon Multi-Energy Systems In power systems with more and more variable renewable sources, gas generation is playing an increasingly prominent role in providing short-term flexibility to meet net-load requirements. The flexibility provided by the gas ...
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flexibility requirements and capability, and assess how the electrical network can experience local generation and reserve constraints related to the gas network's lack of flexibility.
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Gastric hemorrhage as a late complication of splenic artery aneurysm repair: A dramatic way to vent one's spleen To the Editor, The splenic artery is the third most common site of intra-abdominal aneurysm. 1 Elective repair of a splenic artery aneurysm is favored in patients at high risk of rupture and may allow conser...
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from gastric varices, possibly due to splenic vein thrombosis, or an increase in portal flow through a splenic arteriovenous fistula. An intravenous infusion of octreotide was started, as was oral propranolol. Abdominal ultrasound showed a normal sized spleen and liver, with normal flow in the splenic, portal, and hepa...
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Development of Coliphage T5: Ultrastructural and Biochemical Studies Electron microscopic studies of Escherichia coli infected with bacteriophage T5+ have revealed that host nuclear material disappeared before 9 min after infection. This disappearance seemed to correspond to the breakdown of host deoxyribonucleic acid ...
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of viral structures being produced.
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Blocking celiac antigenicity of the glutamine-rich gliadin 33-mer peptide by microbial transglutaminase Celiac disease (CD) is a T cell-mediated enteropathy of the small intestine and caused by the ingestion of wheat gluten and related prolamins in barley and rye. However, there is no effective therapy to alleviate sym...
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In vivo induction of proinflammatory cytokines in mouse tissue by Porphyromonas gingivalis and Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans. Periodontitis is a chronic inflammatory disease initiated by a multitude of bacteria. Persistent infection leads to generation of various inflammatory mediators, resulting in tissue destr...
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Neurobehavioural Changes in a Hemiparkinsonian Rat Model Induced by Rotenone. INTRODUCTION Rotenone, a mitochondrial complex I inhibitor is used as a neurotoxin agent to reproduce the neuropathological, and behavioural feature of Parkinson's Disease (PD) in rat. Due to acute and chronic exposure of rotenone with variou...
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behavioural studies. RESULTS Statistical analysis showed that the signs and symptoms like motor in-coordination and postural disturbances are highly significant (p<0.05) on 14th and 21st day after administration of rotenone when compared to sham group. In L-DOPA treated rats, all the motor deficits were reversed. The n...
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The super practice: a marketing and professionalism hybrid. The old standard dental practice of yesterday, with a stubborn dentist who thinks marketing and advertising (concepts key to retail establishment success) are "unethical" doesn't cut it anymore. The practical retail concepts discussed about in this article all...
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Uterus unicornis in two mares. Two American Paint Horses, a 3-year-old nulliparous mare and a 7-year-old primiparous mare, presented for recent infertility and a pre-breeding examination, respectively. Examination of the internal reproductive tract of both mares using transrectal palpation and ultrasonography revealed ...
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Professional experience validation process at a national level Long-life learning allows for workers' career evolution, and can be achieved either through dedicated adults' courses, or via professional experience. In this paper, we report on a project started four years ago with Orange-France Telecom (major Telco opera...
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Book Review: The Gospel of Luke as Ancient Biography should be slavishly subject to their husbands as it would be to say "on the basis of verses 17—19 that man should scrap his tractors and air conditioners, grub the earth with a hoe, and sweat profusely!" Another major theological difficulty is the practice of herem, ...
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discussion of critical issues is vague, evasive, and indecisive, perhaps because the authors are trying to lead conservatives, who hold to the verbal inspiration of Scripture, into a larger understanding. Those who can accept the presuppositions of this approach doubtless will find that this survey is more appealing th...
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EFFECT OF TRISODIUM PHOSPHONOFORMATE AND IDOXURIDINE ON EXPERIMENTAL HERPES SIMPLEX KERATITIS IN IMMUNIZED AND NON‐IMMUNIZED RABBITS The effect of trisodium phosphonoformate (PFA) has been compared to that of idoxuridine (IDU) when applied topically in both liquid and ointment preparations on herpetic keratitis in rabb...
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A Cooling Off Period GEOCHEMISTRY The earliest stage of Earth's history from 4.56 to 4.45 billion years ago (Ga) was hot and has been referred to as Hadean. The oldest known rocks date from 4.0 Ga and the oldest known water-derived sedimentary rocks from 3.8 Ga, consistent with a cooled Earth consisting of a stable cru...
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A novel iterative identification based on the optimised topology for common state monitoring in wireless sensor networks Power consumption and data redundancy of wireless sensor networks (WSN) are widely considered for a distributed state monitoring network. For reducing the energy consumption and data amount, we propo...
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Toward a More Strategic National Stockpile The COVID-19 pandemic has uncovered major deficiencies in the United States’ approach to stockpiling for emergencies. States, cities and hospitals across the country had inadequate stores of critical medical items on hand when the pandemic reached US soil, and the federal gove...
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next time disaster strikes.
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Financial index time series prediction based on bidirectional two dimensional locality preserving projection Presented in this paper is a predicting model for time series forecasting of stock market index with the aid of bidirectional two-dimensional locality preserving projection and radial basis function neural netwo...
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Genetic algorithm based optimization for resource leveling problem with precedence constrained scheduling Abstract Resource Leveling Problem (RLP) in construction projects mainly deals with reducing the peaks and valleys of daily resource requirements. RLP is an interesting field of research and several researchers hav...
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A Critical Examination of Disability and Agency through Art Throughout history and the historical canons of western art, disability and the afflicted human form have often been marginalized and used as manifestations of iniquity, social malfeasance and mental degradation. It is not until the 20th and 21st centuries tha...
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Hybrid multidentate ligands : amido phosphine complexes of the Group VIII metals The hybrid ligands HN(SiMe 2CH 2PPh 2) 2 and HN(CgH 5CH 2)(SiMe 2CH 2PPh 2) react readily with n-butyl lithium to y i e l d the corresponding lithium s a l t s . Metathesis of Group VIII t r a n s i t i o n metal halides with LiN(SiMe 2CH ...
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by crystallographic analysis to have a very distorted tetrahedral geometry; no interaction between the NH moiety and the nickel centre i s observed. Reaction of these amino phosphines with t r i e t h y l amine cleanly produces the corresponding amido phosphines. [NiClN(SiMe 2CH 2PPh 2) 2] reacts at low temperatures wi...
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Endothelial involvement indicates disease activity in Herpes simplex virus keratitis Purpose Corneal endotheliitis is a potentially sight‐threatening clinical manifestation of herpes simplex virus (HSV) keratitis. Early detection and consequent treatment may prevent development of endothelial decompensation. The goal o...
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[Ambiguous action of splenocytes from tumor-bearing mice on the formation of metastases in the lungs of mice in an adaptive transfer system]. The growth of the syngeneic tumor MMT1 in C3H of mice was accompanied by significant changes in the spleen weight and in the number of nucleated cells in the spleen. Tumor excisi...
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DIAGNOSTIC AND THERAPEUTIC CHALLENGES An 11-year-old African American girl presented to the ophthalmology clinic with a 2-month history of progressive vision loss with no associated discomfort. Her medical history for the past 8 months is notable for fatigue, decreased appetite, a 10-pound weight loss, left-sided tempo...
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both eyes. Dilated fundoscopic examination revealed hyperemic optic nerves with neovascularization of both disks. The vessels were dilated and tortuous in both eyes with marked whitening of the arterioles. There were peripapillary cotton wool spots in both posterior poles. The maculae were edematous and had subfoveal e...
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antibody, anti–double-stranded DNA, anti-Smith, lupus inhibitor), scleroderma (anti-Scl-70 and anticentromere), antiphospholipid antibody syndrome (anti–beta 2 glycoprotein and anticardiolipin antibodies), and antibodies against proteinase 3 and myeloperoxidase (anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies) for vasculitides....
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Phase space reconstruction and prediction of multivariate chaotic time series In order to obtain the effective input vector for the prediction of multivariate time series, method of joint entropy determine the dimension(JEDD) is proposed in the reconstructed phase space. For multivariate chaotic time series, Firstly, d...
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Comparison of anxiety between smokers and nonsmokers with acute myocardial infarction. BACKGROUND Increased anxiety correlates with increased complications after acute myocardial infarction. Anxiety levels and use of anxiolytic agents have not been compared between smokers and nonsmokers hospitalized because of acute m...
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Carbon-Doped Boron Nitride Nanomesh: Stability and Electronic Properties of Adsorbed Hydrogen and Oxygen Atomic or molecular preferential adsorption on a surface template provides a facile and feasible means of fabricating ordered low-dimensional nanostructures with tailored functionality for novel applications. In thi...
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Automatic recognition of repeating patterns in rectified facade images Building facades typically consist of multiple similar tiles which are arranged quite strictly in grid-like structures. The proposed method takes advantage of translational symmetries and is able to analyze and segment facades into tiles assuming th...
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Feeling good without doing good: Comment on Orth and Robins (2022). Reviewing the literature of the past two decades, Orth and Robins (2022) conclude that high self-esteem yields reliable benefits. In this commentary, we caution that for objective outcome measures, these effects are variable- and domain-dependent. The ...
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An ASIC for fast single photon counting in the LHCb RICH upgrade The LHCb experiment will be upgraded during the second LHC long shutdown (years 2019–2020) to operate at higher luminosity. The new triggerless architecture of LHCb requires data from the entire detector to be read out at 40 MHz. The basic element of the ...
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Book Review: Archaeology as Human Ecology: Method and Theory for a Contextual Approach Butzer's vision is never mean and his books are always enjoyable and rewarding to read. His Environment and archaeology continues to be an important text, and his latest book certainly deserves to be successful. The paperback edition...
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in the mix of industry and agriculture in the midwest and chooses to treat the industry of the region with the northeast and the agriculture with Great Plains, but his aim is not to deal with regions for theh own sake, but to show how they fh into the larger national scene. The concluding chapter deals with the present...
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not reaUy famihar with fundamentals of the country. It is not designed for multiple-choice exams. But it should be requhed readmg for aU courses where students are wrestling with geographic thought and the perspectives of geography. Here is a display of the essence of regional geography.
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The Effects of Volunteering on the Physical and Mental Health of Older People The purpose of this study is to build on the growing body of literature examining the correlations between volunteering and health among older persons. Longitudinal data from the 1993 and 2000 panels of the Asset and Health Dynamics Among the...
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[Cpx two-component regulatory system in gram-negative bacteria--a review]. Bacteria predominantly adapt to environmental changes to ensure their growth and proliferation through one-component, two-component and three-component regulatory systems. Conjugative pilus expression (Cpx) system is one of the two-component reg...
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Pre-organized oligofunctional ligands based on rctt-C-naphthyl-resorcinarene: Synthesis and complex formation GRAPHICAL ABSTRACT ABSTRACT Synthesis of pre-organized oligofunctional ligands based on ortho-methyl-tetra-C-naphthyl-resorcinarene existing in the chair conformation was carried out. By selective modification ...
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X‐ray microradiography in the scanning electron microscope or microanalyser A technique is described which enables microradiographic examination to be carried out in a scanning electron microscope (SEM) or X‐ray microanalyser. Comparison can readily be made between the radiographic image, a conventional scanning electr...
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Investigating the Use of Semantic-Based Websites to Improve Recommendation Quality In this paper, we aim to investigate the use of semantic-based websites to improve recommendation quality by testing a knowledge based recommendation system whose results completely depends on the product descriptions, on two different d...
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Trigonometric splines and geometric continuity of surfaces Trigonometric splines are introduced as a tool for description of a sm ooth surface in a neighbourhood of a common corner of patches being the surface components. This description, develop d for the case of curvature continuity, significantly narrows the gap be...
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Designing an Ergonomic Bathroom for Elderly Generally, the elderly face a decline in physical, psychomotor, and sensory abilities. As a result of those changing conditions, the elderly have different needs compared to those who are younger. Most of the facilities in elderly homes still use the same design for adults in...
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Cure of Barrett's carcinoma by ifosfamide chemotherapy. The prognosis of patients with oesophageal cancer is poor, with an overall 5-year survival rate below 15%. The best chance for cure of patients with oesophageal cancer is surgical resection. However, more than 50% of patients have inoperable disease and can only b...
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Metabolomic Identification of a Novel, Externally Validated Predictive Test for Gestational Diabetes Mellitus Abstract Context Undiagnosed gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is a major preventable cause of stillbirth. In the United Kingdom, women are selected for diagnostic testing for GDM based on risk factors, inclu...
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of 0.82 (95% CI 0.78-0.86). Conclusions We identified 4 strongly and independently predictive metabolites for GDM that could have clinical utility in screening for GDM.
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Nowhere Motel, Light beyond Being and therefore inevitably encourages moral virtue—or, if the college is a Nowhere Motel, vice. Since Aristotle and recent research on the human brain indicate that, throughout the college years, reason gains power to influence behavior, college is a logical place to study virtue. Many c...
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Agreement between patient-reported symptoms and their documentation in the medical record. OBJECTIVES To determine the agreement between patient-reported symptoms of chest pain, dyspnea, and cough and the documentation of these symptoms by physicians in the electronic medical record. METHODS Symptoms reported on patien...
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Reconfigurable independent multiband CPW‐fed printed F‐antenna for USB applications A low‐profile compact printed pentaband inverted F‐antenna (IFA) for wireless universal serial bus is presented in this article. The proposed antenna consists of four printed arms capacitive loaded IFA in one side and one parasitic ring...
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Synthesis and structure of novel phosphorylated azomethines GRAPHICAL ABSTRACT ABSTRACT The condensation of do-, hexa-, octadecan-1-amines with bromo- and nitrobenzaldehydes yielded a series of Schiff bases in good yields. Subsequent reaction of these compounds with dioctylphosphine oxide yielded phosphorylated azometh...
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Peroxidase-catalyzed formation of quercetin quinone methide-glutathione adducts. The oxidation of quercetin by horseradish peroxidase/H(2)O(2) was studied in the absence but especially also in the presence of glutathione (GSH). HPLC analysis of the reaction products formed in the absence of GSH revealed formation of at...
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Supporting Students With Communication Impairment in Australian Schools: Administering the Obligation to Make Reasonable Adjustment Abstract In this article, I address the problem that education support for students with communication impairment may be delivered in an inconsistent manner within schools, or school syste...
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Floating-Point Arithmetic Algorithms in the Symmetric Residue Number System The residue number system is an integer number system and is inconvenient to represent numbers with fractional parts. In the symmetric residue system, a new representation of floating-point numbers and arithmetic algorithms for its addition, su...
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Diffusion-weighted MRI beyond the central nervous system in children. Diffusion-weighted imaging has recently been incorporated into extra-neurological pediatric imaging protocols because of its various clinical advantages. Because diffusion-weighted imaging does not require intravenous contrast media, it can be safely...
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Caring for children and adolescents in the aftermath of natural disasters The recent Southeast Asia tsunami confronted countries with the challenge to provide mental healthcare to children and adolescents who experienced loss, displacement and disruption of daily lives. The region that was affected is resource poor, ho...
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Röntgen quantum phase shift: a semiclassical local electrodynamical effect? The Röntgen quantum phase shift is exhibited by the interference of point particles endowed with an electric dipole moment due to their motion relative to a source of the magnetic field. Here we show, using arguments involving the classical con...
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Effect of helix length on the stability of the lac repressor antiparallel coiled coil The helix length dependence of the stability of antiparallel four‐chain coiled coils is investigated using eight synthetic peptides (Lac21–Lac28) whose sequences are derived from the tetramerization domain of the Lac repressor protein...
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Inhibition of VEGF or TGF-β Signaling Activates Endothelium and Increases Leukocyte Rolling Objective—Motivated by the central roles that vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) and transforming growth factor (TGF)-β play in the assembly and maintenance of the vasculature, we examined the impact of systemic VEGF or T...
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Effectiveness of a Robot-Mediated Strategy While Counteracting Multidirectional Slippages Summary This study investigates the effectiveness of a robot-mediated strategy aimed at promoting balance recovery after multidirectional slippages. Six older adults were asked to manage anteroposterior and mediolateral slippages ...
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About this title ‐ Global Heritage Stone: Towards International Recognition of Building and Ornamental Stones This Geological Society Special Publication is dedicated to heritage stone: those natural stones that have special significance in human culture. Some stones that have had important uses in the past are now neg...
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Distance Learners: Welcome to Campus! When Old Dominion University created a summer institute to allow adult distance learning students to enroll in accelerated on-campus courses, typical college transition issues were, at first, left off the schedule. Over the years, the institute has evolved to provide these students...
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Adaptive angle quantization index modulation for robust image watermarking A robust image watermarking scheme based on angle quantization index modulation (AQIM) is proposed. The original AQIM method employs a fixed quantization step-size, which results in poor robustness of the algorithm. In this paper, the quantizati...
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Automated Essay Scoring Using Incremental Latent Semantic Analysis Writing has been increasingly regarded by the testers of language tests as an important indicator to assess the language skill of testees. As such tests become more and more popular and the number of testees becomes larger, it is a huge task to score so...
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Emotional Foundations of Creativity Emotion in the brain generated by subcortical brain circuits provides the foundation for creativity. Creativity is ultimately a higher brain process that is grounded in a variety of primal affective states of mind, mainly of the emotional variety. Of these emotional systems, the brai...
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On different types of non-additive set multifunctions In this paper, we study different types of non-additive set multifunctions (such as: uniformly autocontinuous, null-additive, null-null-additive), presenting relationships among them and some of their properties regarding atoms and pseudo-atoms. We also study non-at...
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n The Search for Cross-Linguistic Invariants and Variation in Language Development The goal of this chapter is to present some of the interesting and important aspects of cross-linguistic comparisons which can be made between the acquisition of Japanese and of English. We d o not attempt an exhaustive review of the lit...
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Who Paid for the Canadian Welfare State Between 1955-1988? This paper attempts to examine the impact of state taxation and expenditure activities on Canadian labor and non-labor. Using state expenditure and revenue data for the period 1955-1986, the Canadian transfer ratio is estimated and then it is compared and contr...
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Recurrent rectal cancer: diagnosis with MR imaging versus CT. During an 18-month period, a prospective study comparing the findings at computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance (MR) imaging was conducted on 35 patients who satisfied the following criteria: prior surgery for rectal cancer (11 curative resections, ...
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Characterization of cell lines derived from xenografts of childhood rhabdomyosarcoma. Three human rhabdomyosarcoma cell lines (Rh10, Rh18, and Rh28) have been established from three independently derived xenografts. These lines have been characterized as mesenchymal in origin (reactivity to desmin and vimentin antibodi...
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Numerical Study of Opposed-Jet H2/Air Diffusion Flame - Vortex Interactions Abstract We consider the interaction of vortices of different size and strength (vorticity) and a diffusion flame of N2-diluted H2 and air stabilized on an opposed-jet burner. In our direct numerical simulations, which take into account the eff...
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Theoretical and Experimental Investigations on Transient Run-Up Procedures of Journal Bearings Including Mixed Friction Conditions This paper focuses on the operating behavior of journal bearings for industrial machinery application during run-ups. For this purpose, a numerical simulation code that is based on a two-di...
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data, however, only if the transient energy model was applied.
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Bed Head: A Note on the Durability (and Subsequent Potential “Reuse”) of Women’s Hairstyles in Antiquity Basing her arguments on a modern recreation of women’s elaborate hairstyles worn in ancient Rome, Janet Stephens proposed that such styles were sewn into place, and therefore were durable and comfortable enough to p...
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Organizational Adoption Of Social Media In The Usa: A Mixed Method Approach Current literature about organizational adoption of social media mainly focuses on how organizations are using these technologies to interact with customers and other stakeholders. In this paper, we expand this line of research by exploring the...
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Effects of Urban Expanion on LUCC - A Case of Guiyang City Regional land use change has been and will continue to be one of the hugest human impacts on the environment. Based on eight remotely sensed images of Guiyang city from 1973 to 2001, this paper studies the effect of urban sprawl on the land use and land cover o...
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The Formation, Structure, and Properties of Epoxide Matrices for High-strength Composites The results of studies of the kinetics and thermodynamics of the formation, and the structure and properties, of epoxide cross-linked polymers, carried out in the last 7–8 years in the Institute of Chemical Physics of the Academy ...
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