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Single-mode 1.34-microm Nd:YVO(4) microchip laser with cw Ti:sapphire and diode-laser pumping. We report cw single-mode output at 1.34 microm in a Nd:YVO(4) microchip laser pumped separately with a Ti:sapphire laser and a diode laser in the region of 809 nm. The 0.5 mm x 1.0 mm x 1.0 mm Nd(3+)-doped YVO(4) crystal prod...
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Metonymies don’t bomb people, people bomb people Abstract In the cognitive linguistic literature, sentences like Nixon bombed Hanoi have long been explained in terms of metonymy, either ‘referential’ (i.e. the NP Nixon metonymically refers to the bomber pilots controlled by President Nixon), or ‘predicative’ (i.e. the ...
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Mixed non-uniform width/evanescent mode ceramic resonator waveguide filter with wide spurious free bandwidth This paper presents a method to improve the spurious performance of integrated ceramic waveguide filters. Non-uniform width ceramic waveguide resonator and evanescent mode ceramic resonators are employed togethe...
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Structural studies on aldolase isozymes through protein engineering. Enzymatic studies on aldolase isozymes have been carried out by techniques of protein engineering. Site-directed mutagenesis helps us to verify the roles of amino acid residues in catalytic reactions. Chimeric fusion proteins give us information about...
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Inhibition of mammary carcinoma growth by retinoidal benzoic acid derivatives. The growth of many breast carcinoma cell lines is inhibited by vitamin A, and derivatives as well as synthetic retinoids. New retinoidal derivatives have recently been synthesized. These retinoidal benzoic acid derivatives displayed enhanced...
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A spatial multiplexing technique based on large-scale fading for distributed antenna systems A spatial multiplexing technique for distributed antenna systems is proposed, where the mobile co-located with multiple antennas is capable of receiving distinct sub-streams from multiple widely separated antennas. Modulation a...
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Justice for the Menopause: A Research Agenda Menopause is defined by its relationship to menstruation––it is the cessation of menstruation. Medical texts identify menopause as part of the cycle of “decay” associated with female reproductive functions; early menopause is often a dreaded result of various medical treatme...
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menopause––acknowledging its realities––is one means for removing the associated stigma and “disabilities” and might result in reinterpreting existing laws and guiding future legal reforms.
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Pipecuronium versus high dose vecuronium The onset time and tendency to cumulation of pipecuronium and high‐dose vecuronium were compared during nitrous oxide anaesthesia supplemented with a propofol infusion. Pipecuronium 0.06 mg·kg−1 had a similar duration of action to vecuronium 0.2 mg·kg−1 (49 vs 43). Patients who ...
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Cell walls, peptidoglycans, and teichoic acids of Gram-positive bacteria as polyclonal inducers and immunomodulators of proliferative and lymphokine responses of human B and T lymphocytes In this study the mitogenic and immunomodulating effects of bacterial cell wall preparations were investigated. Cell walls, peptidog...
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Sharing Meals With Institutionalized People With Dementia: A Natural Experiment Nutritional deficiency can have dramatic effects on the physical and psychological status of older adults. Although food supplements can enhance nutritional status, several authors suggest that more ecological means could also have benefici...
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Probabilistic Performance Reliabiilty-Cost Tradeoff for Maintenance Strategy Maintenance strategies are typically implemented by optimizing only the cost whilst the reliability of facility performance is neglected. This study proposes a novel algorithm using multi-objective particle swarm optimization (MOPSO) technique...
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Coarsening dynamics of phase-separating systems When a system such as a binary liquid is cooled rapidly from a homogeneous phase into a two–phase region, domains of the two equilibrium phases form and grow (‘coarsen’) with time. In the absence of an external drive, such as gravity or an imposed shear flow, a dynamical–...
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Preaching at Infant Baptism Apart from the Sunday Assembly One of the great hallmarks of conciliar reform is the restoration of God’s word in every sacramental celebration. Sacrosanctum Concilium 24 clearly states: “Sacred scripture is of the greatest importance in the celebration of the liturgy.” The dynamic of call-a...
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Optimizing the Combination of Acoustic and Electric Hearing in the Implanted Ear Objectives: The aim of this study was to determine an optimal approach to program combined acoustic plus electric (A+E) hearing devices in the same ear to maximize speech-recognition performance. Design: Ten participants with at least 1 ye...
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is no particular advantage for the Meet fitting strategy for recognition of consonants in quiet, the advantage becomes evident for speech recognition in competing-talker babble and in patient preferences.
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Implementing the Risk of Ovarian Malignancy Algorithm Adding Obesity as a Predictive Factor. AIM To evaluate whether obesity represents a risk factor for the onset of ovarian cancer. PATIENTS AND METHODS One hundred and sixty-three patients with a body mass index (BMI) >30 kg/m2 (group 1) and 130 women with a BMI of <2...
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Social Media: No 'Friend' of Personal Privacy This comment examines the lack of regulation of social media websites, such as Facebook and MySpace, and the effects this lack of regulations has had on the liberties guaranteed by the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution. This comment argues that by establish...
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Temperature-Dependent Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy and Raman Mapping Spectroscopy of Phase-Separation in a Poly(3-hydroxybutyrate)–Poly(l-Lactic Acid) Blend Variable-temperature Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR) and Raman spectroscopic mapping measurements were applied to study the phase separa...
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can provide new (and so far unavailable) insights into structural phenomena of phase-separated polymer blends.
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Optimisation of a mixed truck fleet schedule through a mathematical model considering a new truck-purchase option Abstract Mining is a capital-intensive industry that requires hundreds of million-dollar investment in major equipment. In regards to surface mining operations, mine trucks are the most common pieces of equ...
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Japan's Orderly Resolution Regime for Financial Firms - A New Scheme Provided for Under the Revised DIA Japan's Diet passed legislation adding a new resolution regime for financial firms to the Deposit Insurance Act in June 2013. The new resolution regime provides a safety net for financial markets and for the entire f...
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Cloning and expression pattern of a Smad3 homolog from the pearl oyster, Pinctada fucata. Several transforming growth factor beta (TGFbeta) superfamily members have been identified from mollusks. The significant effects of TGFbeta signaling pathways on bone formation in vertebrates give clues to the signal transduction...
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hybridization results showed that Pf-Smad3 mRNA was expressed mainly at the outer epithelial cells of the middle fold and the inner epithelial cells of the outer fold, especially around the gutter. These results suggested that Pf-Smad3 might take part in many physiological processes, including biomineralization, in oys...
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E V ects of selected food phytochemicals in reducing the toxic actions of TCDD and p,p (cid:2) -DDT in U937 macrophages To assess the e V ectiveness of selected food phytochemicals in reducing the toxic e V ects of the environmental toxicants, 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD) and p,p (cid:2) -DDT (DDT), we te...
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Empirical Validation of Lean Implementation Barriers in Engineer-to-Order Companies: An Exploratory Study Enterprises employing an Engineer-to-Order (ETO) manufacturing strategy produce complex products designed specifically to customer requirements, on a project basis, under time and cost constraints. As a result of t...
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The Value of Using Micro-Teaching for K-12 New Teacher Leadership Development in a Pandemic Response COVID-19 in 2020 has created a dramatic and instant shift of many K-12 educational institutions to distance learning often without the preparation and training required to be successful. The pedagogy and technology used...
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Post‐irradiation Renbok phenomenon in erythema multiforme: Report of a case sparing previously irradiated areas Dear Editor, The phenomenon of one skin disease sparing the site of an area which was previously affected by another skin disease or by a physical or chemical insult has been recognized since 1981, when it wa...
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2). No palmoplantar or mucosal lesions were observed (except for a labial herpes simplex in resolution). No fever or other associated symptoms were present. A skin biopsy from involved skin showed characteristic histopathological features of erythema multiforme. Oral corticosteroid treatment was prescribed achieving a ...
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The product replacement algorithm and Kazhdan’s property (T) A problem of great importance in computational group theory is to generate (nearly) uniformly distributed random elements in a finite groupG. A good example of such an algorithm should start at any given set of generators, use no prior knowledge of the struct...
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([CLMNO]): Given a finite group G, let Γk(G) be the set of k-tuples (g) = (g1, . . . , gk) of elements of G such that 〈g1, . . . , gk〉 = G. We call elements of Γk(G) the generating k-tuples. Given a generating k-tuple (g1, . . . , gk), define a move on it in the following way: Choose uniformly a pair (i, j), such that ...
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Discovery of the first histone deacetylase 6/8 dual inhibitors. We disclose the first small molecule histone deacetylase (HDAC) inhibitor (3, BRD73954) capable of potently and selectively inhibiting both HDAC6 and HDAC8 despite the fact that these isoforms belong to distinct phylogenetic classes within the HDAC family ...
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Maintaining Consistency in a Stratified System Program We present our research on defining a correct semantics for forward chaining production systems (PS) programs. A correct semantics ensures that the execution of the program will not produce incorrect answers and execution will terminate; it also ensures that the an...
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Replication of the scrapie agent in ocular neural tissues. Optic nerves and retinas removed from hamsters experimentally inoculated with the scrapie agent contain a high titer of infectivity. Ophthalmoscopic examination of these animals revealed gross lesions of retinopathy as early as 3 weeks before the onset of clini...
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Androgen Deprivation Therapy for Prostate Cancer Does Not Increase Cardiovascular Mortality in the Long Term Objective: To determine if 6 months of neo-adjuvant androgen deprivation is associated with the long-term risk of cardiac mortality. Methods: In the TROG 96.01 trial, 802 men with locally advanced prostate cance...
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Existence and multiplicity of homoclinic solutions for a second-order Hamiltonian system In this paper, we find new conditions to ensure the existence of one nontrivial homoclinic solution and also infinitely many homoclinic solutions for the second order Hamiltonian system ü− a(t)|u|p−2u +∇W(t, u) = 0, t ∈ R, where p ...
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[Lipids-lowering effects of equol on low density lipoprotein receptor knockout hamsters]. OBJECTIVE Used low density lipoprotein receptor knockout(LDLR KO) hamster as the model similar to human dyslipidemia to observe the lipid-lowering effect of equol on heterozygotes. METHODS With soy-free high cholesterol high fat d...
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lipid. It may play a role in lipid lowering by inhibiting cholesterol absorption besides estrogen receptor pathway, but it is weaker than NPC1 L1 inhibitor. At the same time, up-regulation of ApoAI inhibits the decrease of high-density lipoprotein and reduces lipid accumulation in liver.
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Successful Use of Alternative Anticoagulants in the Management of Heparin-induced Thrombocytopenia with Thrombotic Complications: Report of 5 cases and review of literature. Heparin is one of the most frequently used anticoagulants. It is easy to use, but can be associated with life-threatening side effects. One of the...
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Asp330 and Tyr331 in the C-terminal Cysteine-rich Region of the Luteinizing Hormone Receptor Are Key Residues in Hormone-induced Receptor Activation* The luteinizing hormone (LH) receptor plays an essential role in male and female gonadal function. Together with the follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) and thyroid stimul...
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Risk Assesment and Intrusion Detection for Airborne Networks. (Analyse De Risque Et Detection D'intrusions Pour Les Reseaux Avioniques) Aeronautics is actually facing a confluence of events: connectivity of aircraft is gradually increasing in order to ease the air traffic management and aircraft fleet maintainability, ...
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a prior training phase and an unsupervised one based on subspace clustering. Since a very common issue in anomaly detection techniques is the presence of false alarms, we prone the use of the Local Outlier Factor (a density indicator) to set a threshold in order to distinguish real anomalies from false positives. This ...
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Effect of published scientific evidence on glycemic control in adult intensive care units. IMPORTANCE Little is known about the deadoption of ineffective or harmful clinical practices. A large clinical trial (the Normoglycemia in Intensive Care Evaluation and Survival Using Glucose Algorithm Regulation [NICE-SUGAR] tri...
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relative proportion of admissions with tight glycemic control (1.7% per quarter; 95% CI, 1.2%-2.3%; P<.001) and hypoglycemia (2.5% per quarter; 95% CI, 1.9%-3.2%; P<.001) and decreases in those with hyperglycemia (0.6% per quarter; 95% CI, 0.4%-0.9%; P<.001). Following the publication of NICE-SUGAR, there was no change...
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Climate of Anxiety in the Sahel: Emigration in Xenophobic Times Young Sahelian farmers are crossing the Sahara toward Europe. They are sold as slave labor, held ransom for money from their families, beaten and spit on. Many die in the desert or drown at sea. Yet, knowing the dangers, they go. The media depicts them as ...
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A nuclear magnetic resonance investigation of solid tetraphosphorus trisulphide The31P n. m. r. spectrum and spin–lattice relaxation time in polycrystalline P4S3 have been measured between 77 and 500 K in the range 7 to 25 MHz. In phase II the31P n. m. r. spectra and second moments are dominated by the anisotropic chem...
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Mitochondrial diversity of early-branching metazoa is revealed by the complete mt genome of a haplosclerid demosponge. The first mitochondrial (mt) genomes of demosponges have recently been sequenced and appear to be markedly different from published eumetazoan mt genomes. Here we show that the mt genome of the haplosc...
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Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Recent Work Title Global Earth structure : Inference and assessment A suite of compressional and shear phase arrival times (P, S, PP, PeP, SS, SeS, PKPab, 1 PI< P be, PI< Pdf, S I< S ae) and two sets of differential times ( S S S41oS, S S S66oS) are used to infer lateral variations...
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variations coincide with regions of past and present subduction. The high velocity anomalies extend into the lower mantle though with a reduced amplitude (0.5-1.0 %) until the lowest mantle (2.5 %). At the base of the outer core a large scale pattern of heterogeneity (0.8 %) is observed, slower at the poles. In the inn...
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[Epidemiology and therapy of infections caused by Neisseria meningitidis]. In spite of the progress in antibiotic therapy and immunoprophylaxis Neisseria meningitidis remains one of the major causes of meningitis and sepsis burdened by high mortality. In this paper characteristics of N. meningitidis and in particular i...
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Tests for radio frequency interference to medical telemetry operating in the Private Land Mobile Radio Service (PLMRS) from newly allocated PLMRS channels. Abstract Radio frequency interference (RFI) is a well-known risk for wireless medical telemetry, particularly for older telemetry systems still operating in the Pri...
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Ab initio study of the hyperfine structure of the X2Π electronic state of HCCS The results of an ab initio study of the magnetic hyperfine structure of the X2Π electronic state of HCCS and DCCS are reported. The potential surfaces for two components of the X2Π electronic state and the electronically averaged hyperfine ...
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HEXOKINASE1 forms a nuclear complex with the PRC2 subunits CURLY LEAF and SWINGER to regulate glucose signaling. The glucose sensor HEXOKINASE1 (HXK1) integrates myriad external and internal signals to regulate gene expression and development in Arabidopsis thaliana. However, how HXK1 mediates glucose signaling in the ...
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Theories of Africans: The Question of Literary Anthropology Literary criticism at the present moment seems ready to open its doors once again to the outside world, even if that world is only a series of other academic disciplines, each cloistered in its own way. For the reader of black African literature in French, the...
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[Temporal relationship of LH and estradiol at mid cycle (author's transl)]. In order to quantitate the feedback effect of estradiol (E2) on the release of LH, serum LH and E2 were measured in 27 ovulatory women daily during the menstrual cycle. The initial rise of LH levels concomitantly occurred when serum E2 concentr...
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Conventional Albee: Box and Chairman Mao THERE IS LITTLE IN EDWARD ALBEE'S PLAY(S) Box and Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse—Tung that obviously conforms to even an expressionistically liberal definition of "normal" drama. Such things as plot, character, setting, dramatic conflict, dialogue hardly exist in any conventio...
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[Can the screening of blood samples identify adverse drug reactions?]. BACKGROUND Analysis of blood samples may identify adverse drug reactions (ADRs) and risk situations. The study objective was to validate a method for in-hospital detection of ADRs based on screening of blood samples. MATERIAL AND METHODS Routine blo...
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Modulation of expression of the MHC class I‐binding natural killer cell receptors, and NK activity in relation to viral load in HIV‐infected/AIDS patients The natural killer (NK) cells play an important role in viral infections via their spontaneous cytolytic activity against virus‐infected cells as well as via secreti...
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Doing and writing an accompanied feminist geography research project My dissertation offers a critical topography in which the processes and practices of producing post-disaster spaces are exposed, which, in turn, ‘invite the vivid revelation of social and political difference and inequality’ (Katz 2001, 1228). Because...
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United States: Supreme Court Opinion in International Longshoremen's Association V. Allied International (Russian Invasion of Afghanistan; Refusal to Unload Soviet Cargoes; Violation of U.S. Labor Law) Respondent is an American importer of Russian wood products and had contracts with an American shipper for shipment of...
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Labeling Maize (Zea mays L.) Leaves with 15 NH4+ and Monitoring Nitrogen Incorporation into Amino Acids by GC/MS Analysis. The human body contains approximately 3.2% nitrogen (N), mainly present as protein and amino acids. Although N exists at a high concentration (78%) in the air, it is not readily available to animal...
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A GRASP WITH PATH-RELINKING FOR PERMANENT VIRTUAL CIRCUIT ROUTING A frame relay service offers virtual private networks to customers by provisioning a set of long-term private virtual circuits (PVCs) between customer endpoints on a large backbone network. During the provisioning of a PVC, routing decisions are made wit...
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Impact of Somatic Mutations and Pretransplant Strategies on the Outcome of Patients Allografted for MDS or Secondary AML Introduction: In addition to other disease-, patient- and procedure-related factors, recent studies revealed a strong impact of somatic mutations on the outcome after allogeneic transplantation (allo...
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mutations per patient, range 0-6) a total of 285 mutations were detected, with RUNX1 (18%), ASXL1 (17%), SRSF2 (15%), DNMT3A (13%), TET2 (13%), TP53 (12%) and SF3B1 (10%) being the most frequently affected genes. Multivariate modeling revealed independent negative prognostic impact of TP53 and SF3B1 mutations on OS, RF...
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seems be a prognostic interaction between mutational status and pre-transplant strategy, suggesting that it may be possible to adapt pre-transplant therapy according to the molecular profile of each patient. Figure 1 Rautenberg: Jazz Pharmaceuticals: Other: Travel Support; Celgene: Honoraria, Other: Travel Support. Ger...
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The Artistry of Anger: Black and White Women's Literature in America, 1820-1860, and: The Language of War: Literature and Culture in the U.S. from the Civil War through World War II (review) of effigies of George III in 1776. Downes suggests that because the American revolutionaries were unable to physically kill their...
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the bigger, monarchical picture. Like Bloch’s book, Downes’s study presents a valuable new reading of American Revolutionary culture, and it stands as an example of the important work that remains to be done within the confines of American studies and the geographical boundaries of the United States.
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Assessing Waste Taxation: an Empirical Study in a Cge Multi-Pollutant Framework Economic theory states that incineration and landfill taxes can be a good policy to reduce environmental impacts of these activities by reducing their importance and associated pollutants, while stimulating reuse and recycling of materials....
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Application of theory of semi-Markov processes to determining distribution of probabilistic process of marine accidents resulting from collision of ships ABSTRACT In this paper is presented possible application of the theory of semi-Markov processes to elaborating an eight-state model of the process of occurrence of se...
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probabilities Pj(j = 1, 2, 3, …, 7) of occurrence of all the selected events. In summing up the paper, attention was drawn to its merits which - in opinion of this author - are crucial for research on real process of accidents during entering the port and leaving it by sea-going ship in difficult navigation conditions.
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Talc: using desktop graffiti to fight software vulnerability With the proliferation of computer security threats on the Internet, especially threats such as worms that automatically exploit software flaws, it is becoming more and more important that home users keep their computers secure from known software vulnerabili...
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Primary Hyperparathyroidism: An Uncommon Cause of Hip Pain Abstract Hip pain is a common complaint in a pediatric emergency department. The causes of hip pain are diverse and generally include traumatic and infectious causes. We report a case of hip pain caused by deep soft tissue infection associated with hypercalcemi...
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Metal Halide Perovskites Functionalized by Patterning Technologies Metal halide perovskites (MHPs), as emerging stars, are greatly attracted due to their superior optical and optoelectrical properties. The design and construction of patterned materials have been considered as a powerful tool to improve the performance ...
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Identification of high confidence human poly(A) RNA isoform scaffolds using nanopore sequencing Nanopore sequencing devices read individual RNA strands directly. This facilitates identification of exon linkages and nucleotide modifications; however, using conventional methods the 5′ and 3′ ends of poly(A) RNA cannot be...
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[The effect of OROS metoprolol in mild and moderately severe essential hypertension]. The authors tested in an open, uncontrolled trial in a group of 23 patients with essential hypertension grade I-II (WHO classification) the effect of Metoprolol OROS. The OROS system is a new form of Metoprolol administration which ma...
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tolerated preparation in treatment of mild to medium severe essential hypertension.
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The circular loop intraocular lens. A large series of cases of intracapsular cataract extractions with implantation of the recently introduced Medallion circular loop lens is reviewed. Case selection surgical technique, postoperative management, complications and results are presented in detail. Surgical and visual res...
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Design, synthesis, and bioactivities of steroid-linked taxol analogues as potential targeted drugs for prostate and breast cancer. The female steroid hormone 3,17beta-estradiol (2) was selected as an agent to target taxol (1) to estrogen receptor (ER) positive breast cancer cells. Estradiol-taxol conjugates (ETC) were ...
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A “Cognitive Miser” Theory of Cooperators Advantage We propose a new model of cooperators' advantage depending neither on supplementary incentives nor on cooperators' capacity to recognize, and play selectively with, other cooperators. It depends, rather, on players' making the play-no play decision by the heuristic of...
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Improvement in Brightness Uniformity by Compensating for the Threshold Voltages of Both the Driving Thin-Film Transistor and the Organic Light-Emitting Diode for Active-Matrix Organic Light-Emitting Diode Displays In this paper, we propose a novel pixel design and driving method for active-matrix organic light-emitting...
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Tau-Induced Defects in Synaptic Plasticity, Learning, and Memory Are Reversible in Transgenic Mice after Switching Off the Toxic Tau Mutant This report describes the behavioral and electrophysiological analysis of regulatable transgenic mice expressing mutant repeat domains of human Tau (TauRD). Mice were generated to ...
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Myocutaneous island pedicle "sling" flap for correction of central upper cutaneous (philtral) lip defects. Defects in the central upper cutaneous lip offer a challenge to surgeons because closure options are limited. Maintaining the architecture of the philtrum and Cupid’s bow is necessary because disruptions in these ...
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[Sublobar resection for non-small cell lung cancer in Iceland]. INTRODUCTION A sublobar resection is performed on patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) who are not candidates for a lobectomy due to reduced pulmonary function or comorbid disease. The aim of this study was to investigate the outcomes of these ...
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Seroprevalence of hepatitis C (HCV) and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection among street children in Isfahan, Iran. Background: There are millions of children around the world living on the street. They are at higher risk of physical, sexual and drug abuse, and have no access to health care facilities. Therefo...
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Smartphone Based Distance Estimation Algorithm Using Dynamic Step Length In this paper, a new Smartphone sensor-based algorithm is proposed to detect accurate distance estimation. The algorithm consists of two phases, the first phase is for detecting the peaks from the Smartphone accelerometer sensor. The other one is ...
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Trust, Gender and Social Capital: Experimental Evidence from Three Western European Countries The economic literature has discussed the links between trust and gender, and trust and social capital. Given that some empirical evidence shows also that gender and trust are somehow related and specifically women tend to tru...
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The impact of increasing the availability of lower energy foods for home delivery and socioeconomic position: a randomized control trial examining effects on meal energy intake and later energy intake. Increasing the availability of lower energy food options is a promising public health approach. However, it is unclear...
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be an effective and equitable approach to reducing energy intake which may contribute to improving diet and population health.
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The Potential of Applying Collaborative Learning Strategy via the Internet to Collect, Correct, and Create Educational Content in Higher Education ABSTRAT Specialists in the field of education calling that student is the focus of the educational process to create self-knowl edge and then to engage in an educational env...
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the internet in collaborative learning and to the importance of providing students with the internet skills when searching for information. In addition, the study sug gests that ‘large groups’ of students using the internet should consist of a minimum number of 15 students. Finally, efforts should be made to conduct tr...
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Research on the influence of background light on the accuracy of a three-dimensional coordinate measurement system based on dual-PSD Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyze the measurement error of a three-dimensional coordinate measurement system based on dual-position-sensitive detector (PSD) under different ...
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Control of high frequency microactuators using active structures A fluidically driven microactuator that generates supersonic, pulsed microjets has been implemented with smart materials to actively and precisely control the frequency of the microjets in a closed-loop manner. Since this actuator relies on a number of mi...
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Argument Mining for Improving the Automated Scoring of Persuasive Essays End-to-end argument mining has enabled the development of new automated essay scoring (AES) systems that use argumentative features (e.g., number of claims, number of support relations) in addition to traditional legacy features (e.g., grammar, di...
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A novel saliency-based object segmentation method for seriously degenerated images Automatically segmenting the salient object based on the saliency information frequently fails on the non-uniform motion blurred images. We propose a novel saliency-based object segmentation method with a self-expansion mechanism to deal...
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What is the status of metabolic theory one century after Pütter invented the von Bertalanffy growth curve? Metabolic theory aims to tackle ecological and evolutionary problems by explicitly including physical principles of energy and mass exchange, thereby increasing generality and deductive power. Individual growth mo...
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confusion and controversy regarding these theories to the notions of anabolism, catabolism, assimilation and maintenance, the connections to respiration rate, and the number of parameters and state variables their models require. The OGM model has significant inconsistencies that stem from the interpretation of growth ...
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Short communication Variability of resistance in goats infected with Haemonchus contortusin Brazil The variability between and within breeds with respect to nematode egg counts (EPG), packed cell volume (PCV) and hemoglobin (Hb) was studied in 36 yearling female goats of the Caninde (15), Bhuj (6) and Anglo-Nubian (15)...
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Endothelin in the pulmonary circulation with special reference to hypoxic pulmonary vasoconstriction. 1. The experimental model using periods of ventilation with a gas mixture containing 10% oxygen in the anesthetized pig was found to induce HPV that was reproducible and remained stable for up to two hours. 2. Intrapul...
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