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Abatement of methidathion and carbaryl from aqueous solutions using organic photocatalysts
Abstract Degradation of two pesticides, methidathion and carbaryl, has been studied using organic photocatalysts, namely triphenylpyrylium (TPP+), triphenylthiapyrylium (TPTP+) and acridine yellow G (AYG). Experiments carried out... | Organic photoredox catalysts: tuning the operating mechanisms in the degradation of pollutants
Abstract Photocatalysis is an emerging area of chemistry that takes advantage of light as the primary source of energy to carry out chemical transformations. In this context, organic photocatalysts appear as an alternative th... | Neural Arabic Question Answering
This paper tackles the problem of open domain factual Arabic question answering (QA) using Wikipedia as our knowledge source. This constrains the answer of any question to be a span of text in Wikipedia. Open domain QA for Arabic entails three challenges: annotated QA datasets in Arabic... |
Heart Disease Prediction Analysis Using Hybrid Machine Learning Approach
Heart sickness is one of the maximum extreme demanding situations that the arena is going through today. In the sector of medical facts analysis, predicting cardiovascular sickness is a main difficulty. Machine learning (ML) has proven to be benef... | HealthCloud: A system for monitoring health status of heart patients using machine learning and cloud computing
In the context of the global health crisis of 2020, the tendency of many people to self-diagnose at home virtually, prior to any physical interaction with medical professionals, has been increased. Existing s... | Critical Success Factors of Component-Based Software Outsourcing Development From Vendors’ Perspective: A Systematic Literature Review
Component-Based Software Development (CBSD) is a very demanding approach for developing complex products or systems. In CBSD, software or product is creating from reusable pieces of com... |
Some aspects of effective control of Bovine infectious rhinotracheitis in European countries
Data on the epizootic situation concerning bovine infectious rhinotracheitis in the countries of the European continent are presented. Most of the countries that are members of the World Organization for Animal Health have impl... | Safety and immunogenicity of a glycoprotein E gene-deleted bovine herpesvirus 1 strain as a candidate vaccine strain
A glycoprotein E-deleted Brazilian bovine herpesvirus 1 (BoHV-1gE;) was tested regarding to safety and immunogenicity. Intramuscular inoculation of young calves with a high virus dose did not result in c... | Epidemiology of age-dependent prevalence of Bovine Herpes Virus Type 1 (BoHV-1) in dairy herds with and without vaccination
Many studies report age as a risk factor for BoHV-1 infection or seropositivity. However, it is unclear whether this pattern reflects true epidemiological causation or is a consequence of study de... |
Combined Systemic Drug Treatment with Proton Therapy: Investigations on Patient-Derived Organoids
Simple Summary Radiotherapy is part of the standard of care for many solid tumors. In pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC), good responses to radiotherapy can only be observed in a minority of patients. In our study, we... | Efficacy and feasibility of proton beam radiotherapy using the simultaneous integrated boost technique for locally advanced pancreatic cancer
To evaluate the clinical efficacy and feasibility of proton beam radiotherapy (PBT) using the simultaneous integrated boost (SIB) technique in locally advanced pancreatic cancer ... | Kisspeptin and Testicular Function—Is It Necessary?
The role of kisspeptin in stimulating hypothalamic GnRH is undisputed. However, the role of kisspeptin signaling in testicular function is less clear. The testes are essential for male reproduction through their functions of spermatogenesis and steroidogenesis. Our re... |
Fire Spread Characteristics of Metal-Polyethylene Sandwich Panels
An experimental study was conducted to determine the characteristics of the flame spread and droplets of metal-polyethylene (PE) sandwich panels during combustion. The mass-loss rate, average flame height, temperature, and fire spread rate were investiga... | Experimental study on the temperature field of ETICS cladding system with finishing colorful steel plate
Abstract Colorful steel plate (CSP) is a material characterized with high durability and low maintenance requirement during the service life, especially when it is used as a decoration material in the building exter... | Postearthquake fire performance of cavity-insulated CFS shear walls with gypsum and calcium-silicate sheathing
Abstract This paper presented a detailed postearthquake fire investigation of cavity-insulated cold-formed steel (CFS) shear walls lined with face-layer gypsum (GP) boards and base-layer calcium-silicate (CS) ... |
Effect of ATG12–ATG5-ATG16L1 autophagy E3-like complex on the ability of LC3/GABARAP proteins to induce vesicle tethering and fusion
In macroautophagy, the autophagosome (AP) engulfs portions of cytoplasm to allow their lysosomal degradation. AP formation in humans requires the concerted action of the ATG12 and LC3/GAB... | Mechanisms underlying ubiquitin-driven selective mitochondrial and bacterial autophagy.
Selective autophagy specifically eliminates damaged or superfluous organelles, maintaining cellular health. In this process, a double membrane structure termed an autophagosome captures target organelles or proteins and delivers thi... | Selective localization of Mfn2 near PINK1 enables its preferential ubiquitination by Parkin on mitochondria
Mutations in Parkin and PINK1 cause early-onset familial Parkinson's disease. Parkin is a RING-In-Between-RING E3 ligase that transfers ubiquitin from an E2 enzyme to a substrate in two steps: (i) thioester inter... |
Dynamics of axion-neutral pseudoscalar mixing
Axions mix with neutral pions after the QCD phase transition through their common coupling to the radiation bath via a Chern-Simons term, as a consequence of the $U(1)$ anomaly. The non-equilibrium effective action that describes this mixing phenomenon is obtained to second... | Axion physics in condensed-matter systems
Axions are hypothetical particles that were proposed to solve the strong charge–parity problem in high-energy physics. Although they have long been known in quantum field theory, axions have so far not been observed as elementary particles in nature. Yet, in condensed-matter sy... | First-principles study of the low-temperature charge density wave phase in the quasi-one-dimensional Weyl chiral compound
(TaSe4)2I
Using ab initio density functional theory, we study the lattice phase transition of quasi-one-dimensional $({\mathrm{TaSe}}_{4}{)}_{2}\mathrm{I}$. In the undistorted state, the strongly a... |
Comparison of tolterodine, trospium chloride, solifenacin treatments and its side effects on patients with pure urinary and mixed incontinence
Objective: Urinary incontinence is defined as urinary incontinence that is a social or hygienic problem and can be objectively demonstrated. It is aimed to compare tolterodine, ... | Systematic review and economic modelling of the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of non-surgical treatments for women with stress urinary incontinence.
OBJECTIVES
To assess the clinical effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of non-surgical treatments for women with stress urinary incontinence (SUI) through systemati... | 3D text segmentation and recognition using leap motion
In this paper, we present a method of Human-Computer-Interaction (HCI) through 3D air-writing. Our proposed method includes a natural way of interaction without pen and paper. The online texts are drawn on air by 3D gestures using fingertip within the field of view... |
Experimental assessment to evaluate adhesion in hybrid composite structures containing shape memory alloy layers
Embedding SMA layers in a composite structure is a promising technology to improve mechanical features, but this achievement must not come at the cost of structural integrity. The research carried out within... | Effects of laser cutting on the chemical composition and phase transformation capacity in Cu-Al-Mn shape memory alloy sheets
Application of laser cutting operations on thin sheets of Cu-Al-Mn shape memory alloys can be used for shaping, or for producing different types of holes and hole patterns within the SMA sheets. ... | Introduction to Shape Memory Alloys
Shape Memory Alloys (SMA's) are novel materials which have the ability to return to a predetermined shape when heated. When an SMA is cold, or below its transformation temperature, it has a very low yield strength and can be deformed quite easily into any new shape--which it will ret... |
Developing a multiview spatiotemporal model based on deep graph neural networks to predict the travel demand by bus
Abstract The accurate prediction of travel demand by bus is crucial for effective urban mobility demand management. However, most models of travel demand prediction by bus tend to focus on the bus’s spati... | A multi-view bidirectional spatiotemporal graph network for urban traffic flow imputation
Abstract Accurate estimation of missing traffic data is one of the essential components in intelligent transportation systems (ITS). The non-Euclidean data structure and complex missing traffic flow patterns make it challenging to... | A novel loss function of deep learning in wind speed forecasting
Abstract Wind speed forecasting is an essential task in improving the efficiency of the energy supply. Currently, deep learning models have become extremely popular, where the traditional mean squared error (MSE) loss function is often employed. Unfortuna... |
Reactivity of ynamides in catalytic intermolecular annulations.
Ynamides are unique alkynes with a carbon-carbon triple bond directly attached to the nitrogen atom bearing an electron-withdrawing group. The alkyne is strongly polarized by the electron-donating nitrogen atom, but its high reactivity can be finely temper... | Insight into the reaction mechanism and chemoselectivity in the cycloaddition of ynamides and isoxazoles with H2O
The mechanism and chemoselectivity in the cycloaddition of ynamides and isoxazoles have been explored by the density functional theory (DFT) in model systems composed of a Bronsted acid (HNTf2), gold(I) [IP... | The Rapid Evolution of Homo Economicus: Brief Exposure to Neoclassical Assumptions Increases Self-Interested Behavior
Economics students have been shown to exhibit more selfishness than other students. Because the literature identifies the impact of long-term exposure to economics instruction (e.g., taking a course), i... |
A New HadGEM3-A-Based System for Attribution of Weather- and Climate-Related Extreme Events
AbstractA new system for attribution of weather and climate extreme events has been developed based on the atmospheric component of the latest Hadley Centre model. The model is run with either observational data of sea surface t... | Human activity and simultaneous high-pressure anomalies influence the long-duration cold events of winter in China
Long-duration extreme cold events in China were often characterized by strong simultaneous high-pressure anomalies (SHA) over the Ural and the North Pacific regions, e.g., 2018. It is unclear how human act... | A small-cell lung cancer genome with complex signatures of tobacco exposure
Cancer is driven by mutation. Worldwide, tobacco smoking is the principal lifestyle exposure that causes cancer, exerting carcinogenicity through >60 chemicals that bind and mutate DNA. Using massively parallel sequencing technology, we sequenc... |
Recent advances in the study of saccade trajectory deviations
In recent years, the number of studies that have used deviations of saccade trajectories as a measure has rapidly increased. This review discusses these recent studies and summarizes advances in this field. A division can be made into studies that have used ... | Top-down control in time and space: Evidence from saccadic latencies and trajectories
Visual distractors disrupt the production of saccadic eye movements temporally, by increasing saccade latency, and spatially, by biasing the trajectory of the movement. The present research investigated the extent to which top-down co... | Comparison of perceptual and motor latencies via anticipatory and reactive response times
To compare the timing of perceptual and motor decisions, distinct tasks have been designed, all of which have yielded systematic differences between these two moments. These observations have been taken as evidence of a sensorimot... |
Engineering Research Progress of Electrochemical Microreaction Technology—A Novel Method for Electrosynthesis of Organic Chemicals
Abstract Electrochemical methods are environmentally friendly and have unique advantages in the synthesis of organic chemicals. However, their implementation is limited due to the complex t... | Advances in Selective Electrochemical Oxidation of 5‐Hydroxymethylfurfural to Produce High‐Value Chemicals
The conversion of biomass is a favorable alternative to the fossil energy route to solve the energy crisis and environmental pollution. As one of the most versatile platform compounds, 5‐hydroxymethylfural (HMF) c... | Facile synthesis of core-shell organic-inorganic hybrid nanoparticles with amphiphilic polymer shell by one-step sol-gel reactions
Organic–inorganic hybrid core-shell nanoparticles with diameters ranging from 100 to 1000 nm were prepared by a one-pot synthesis based on base catalyzed sol–gel reactions using tetraethoxy... |
Polarization control of RABBITT in noble gas atoms
The mutual angle formed by the non-collinear polarization axes of two laser pulses is used to control two-photon extreme ultraviolet and infrared ionization of noble gas atoms in the process of reconstruction of attosecond bursts by beating of two-photon transitions (R... | Atomic partial wave meter by attosecond coincidence metrology
Attosecond chronoscopy is central to the understanding of ultrafast electron dynamics in matter from gas to the condensed phase with attosecond temporal resolution. It has, however, not yet been possible to determine the timing of individual partial waves, a... | Dimensional heterojunction design: The rising star of 2D bismuth-based nanostructured photocatalysts for solar-to-chemical conversion
With the fast-pace digitalization evolution in the current generation’s lifestyle and the industry revolution, the energy demand has been skyrocketed. Recently, the two-dimensional (2D) ... |
Refashioning repair culture through the circle of value creation: A case study of the Japanese brand KUON
During the past ten years or more, sustainable fashion and slow lifestyle has received a growing amount of attention from design scholars, creative practitioners and fashion brands. In addition to new technologies ... | The Several Lives of a Collection of Rag Dump Clothing from Normandy (1900–55): From Farm, to Dump, to Poverty Chic
: This material culture-based text researches the history of a collection of damaged clothing (1900–50s) once worn by farming families in Normandy and Brittany. The clothing was excavated from a textile d... | Graphic Design History A Critical Guide
Thank you for reading graphic design history a critical guide. Maybe you have knowledge that, people have look numerous times for their favorite novels like this graphic design history a critical guide, but end up in infectious downloads. Rather than reading a good book with a cu... |
Important Factors to Improve Student Performance in the Universities of UAE: Examining the Mediating Effect of using M-Learning
This study aims to examine different factors that can improve student performance. Therefore, this study examined the impact of lecturers' influence, hedonic motivation, quality of service, an... | Student Performance on an E-Learning Platform: Mixed Method Approach
E-learning is considered a leading application of digital technologies in educational systems. The aim of the paper is to explore the utilization and impact of digital technologies on an e-learning platform. For this purpose, research was conducted at... | Heteronomous hyperparasitoids, sex ratios and adaptations: a reply
Donaldson & Walter (199la, b) described a series of observations and experiments designed to investigate the reproductive strategy of the he teronomous hyperparasitoid Coccophugus atratus (Hymenoptera: Aphelinidae). Heteronomous hyperparasitoids (also c... |
Exploring the Common Ground of Sustainability and Resilience in the Building Sector: A Systematic Literature Review and Analysis of Building Rating Systems
Over the last ten years, due to the increase in frequency and severity of climate change effects, resilience in buildings has become a growing topic in the current ... | Climate Adaptation and Indoor Comfort Improvement Strategies for Buildings in High-Cold Regions: Empirical Study from Ganzi Region, China
The improvement of building and living conditions in high-cold areas has always been an issue worthy of attention, but there is currently no research using field survey data for eval... | Covid-19. Civic Universities, Societal Innovation and the Recovery of Local Communities
Corona virus has had a differential impact on not only various age and ethnic groups but also on different localities. In many of these places, universities have hitherto acted in dual roles as key anchor and as knowledge institutio... |
Efficiency of Thematic Mapper Data for Detecting the Changes of Land Use -Land Cover in Mosul Lake and Surrounding Area Northern Iraq
The study area lies in the northern part of Iraq, This study depends on one scene of Thematic Mapper (TM5) data of Landsat, these data are subset by using region of interest (ROI) file w... | DESERT ECOSYSTEMS: MAPPING, MONITORING & ASSESSMENT USING SATELLITE REMOTE SENSING
Desert ecosystems are unique but fragile ecosystems , mostly vulnerable to a variety of degradational processes like water erosion, vegetal degradation, salinity, wind erosion , water logging etc. Some researchers consider desertificatio... | Hybrid fusion approach for synthetic aperture radar and multispectral imagery for improvement in land use land cover classification
Abstract. Multisensor image fusion has gained tremendous significance due to various satellites operating in different parts of the electromagnetic spectrum. We present a hybrid fusion app... |
An Unusual/Rare Case of Toothbrush Impalement Injury in Floor of Mouth
Foreign bodies of the aero-digestive tract are commonly seen emergencies in ENT practice. Young children often present with accidental ingestion of foreign bodies like coins and battery cells. However penetrative foreign bodies of the oral cavity an... | Toothbrush injury in an adult.
Tooth brushing is an oral hygiene measure. Keeping the toothbrush in the mouth and doing other works with both arms may lead to injury of the oral tissues. We hereby report a case of severe injury to the oral mucosal tissues caused by the toothbrush, which was treated surgically. | Oro-Pharyngo-Laryngeal Foreign Bodies: Some Interesting Cases
Ingestion of variety of foreign bodies causing respiratory distress and/or dysphagia is worldwide among all age groups. Securing airway by tracheostomy is important and direct laryngoscopy provides immediate diagnosis. The importance of contributory history ... |
CATALYTIC OXIDATION AND VOLTAMMETRIC DETERMINATION OF CYSTEINE AT AN ELECTRODE MODIFIED BY FILMS OF OSMIUM HEXACYANOCOBALTATE OR OSMIUM HEXACYANORUTHENATE
An inorganic film of osmium(III) hexacyanocobaltate(III) or osmium(III) hexacyanoruthenate(II) electrodeposited on the surface of a glassy carbon electrode shows ele... | Preparation and electrocatalytic properties of osmium oxide/hexacyanoruthenate films modified electrodes for catecholamines and sulfur oxoanions
Abstract Osmium oxide/hexacyanoruthenate films have been prepared using repeated cyclic voltammetry, and their electrocatalytic properties have been investigated. The osmium o... | Novel Ag decorated, BiOCl surface doped AgVO3 nanobelt ternary composite with Z-scheme homojunction-heterojunction interface for high prolific photo switching, quantum efficiency and hole mediated photocatalysis
Abstract A ternary composite Ag@AgVO3/BiOCl possessing homojunction-heterojunction interface with varied BiO... |
Progression from prediabetes to type 2 diabetes mellitus in adolescents: a real world experience
Background Obesity in pediatric patients is strongly associated with increased vascular and metabolic risk. Prediabetes is present in up to 1 in 5 adolescents, aged 12-18 years-old, though is thought to remit spontaneously ... | Ensuring trust in COVID-19 data
Abstract There are no standardized methods for collecting and reporting coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) data. We aimed to compare the proportion of patients admitted for COVID-19-related symptoms and those admitted for other reasons who incidentally tested positive for severe acute r... | Screening for Prediabetes and Type 2 Diabetes in Children and Adolescents: Evidence Report and Systematic Review for the US Preventive Services Task Force.
Importance
Of youths diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, many develop microvascular complications by young adulthood.
Objective
To review the evidence on benefits and... |
Differential lysine acetylation profiles of Erwinia amylovora strains revealed by proteomics.
Protein lysine acetylation (LysAc) has recently been demonstrated to be widespread in E. coli and Salmonella, and to broadly regulate bacterial physiology and metabolism. However, LysAc in plant pathogenic bacteria is largely ... | Proteins of Diverse Function and Subcellular Location Are Lysine Acetylated in Arabidopsis1[W][OA]
Acetylation of the ε-amino group of lysine (Lys) is a reversible posttranslational modification recently discovered to be widespread, occurring on proteins outside the nucleus, in most subcellular locations in mammalian c... | Myelinating Glia-Specific Deletion of Fbxo7 in Mice Triggers Axonal Degeneration in the Central Nervous System Together with Peripheral Neuropathy
Myelination of axons facilitates the rapid propagation of electrical signals and the long-term integrity of axons. The ubiquitin-proteasome system is essential for proper pr... |
Diffusion of Cs^+ in compacted Na^+/K^+–saturated smectite-rich natural clay: role of clay microstructure
Clay surrounding nuclear waste in an underground repository for radioactive waste gets modified by fluid emanating from surrounding host rock. In this work, caesium (Cs^+) diffusion was investigated in smectite-ric... | Radioactive wastes and disposal options
This paper provides for a summary of facts which are indispensable for nuclear waste disposal. Information is presented on types of radioactive wastes and the origin, the waste treatment procedures and some characteristics of the waste forms. Finally the various host rocks and th... | Efficient 3-D frequency-domain mono-parameter full-waveform inversion of ocean-bottom cable data: application to Valhall in the visco-acoustic vertical transverse isotropic approximation
Computationally efficient 3-D frequency-domain full waveform inversion (FWI) is applied to ocean-bottom cable data from the Valhall o... |
Continuity and discontinuity of care among older patients in Danish general practice.
BACKGROUND
Continuity of care (COC) for older adults has been associated with lower use of health care services, decreased risk of hospitalisation, and lower mortality. However, research on COC in older adults is limited by short time... | Prevalence of polypharmacy in Denmark.
INTRODUCTION
Polypharmacy is associated with an increased risk of adverse health outcomes. This study aims to describe the prevalence of polypharmacy and medication use among older Danish citizens.
METHODS
From national registers, we extracted medicine use in relation to age gro... | Influence of organization and demographic characteristics of primary care practices on continuity of care: analysis of a retrospective cohort from 287 primary care practices covering about 6 million people in Catalonia
Background There is evidence that an ongoing patient-physician relationship is associated with improv... |
An inverse problem for data-driven prediction in quantum mechanics
Data-driven prediction in quantum mechanics consists in providing an approximative description of the motion of any particles at any given time, from data that have been previously collected for a certain number of particles under the influence of the s... | DeepM&Mnet for hypersonics: Predicting the coupled flow and finite-rate chemistry behind a normal shock using neural-network approximation of operators
In high-speed flow past a normal shock, the fluid temperature rises rapidly triggering downstream chemical dissociation reactions. The chemical changes lead to apprecia... | NSFnets (Navier-Stokes flow nets): Physics-informed neural networks for the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations
We employ physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) to simulate the incompressible flows ranging from laminar to turbulent flows. We perform PINN simulations by considering two different formulations of the... |
Parasitic Infections in Internationally Adopted Children: A Twelve-Year Retrospective Study
Parasitic infections (PIs) are among the most frequent infectious diseases globally. Previous studies reported discrepant results regarding the prevalence of PIs in internationally adopted children (IAC). Data from IAC referred ... | Liver abscess: diagnostic and management issues found in the low resource setting
Abstract Introduction Liver abscesses are mainly caused by parasitic or bacterial infection and are an important cause of hospitalization in low-middle income countries (LMIC). The pathophysiology of abscesses is different depending on th... | A Systematic Review of Reviews of the Outcome of Severe Neglect in Underresourced Childcare Institutions
The aim of the systematic review described in this article was to determine the outcomes for individuals exposed to severe neglect in congregate care institutions such as orphanages. In this context, severe neglect ... |
Monitoring the aerosol solids deposited in snow in the area affected by the technological road of the Gorlov anthracite mining pit (Novosibirsk region, Russia)
The aim of the study. To monitor and assess the chemical composition of the solid aerosols deposited in the snow in the area affected by the technological road ... | Time trends in the levels and patterns of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in pine bark, litter, and soil after a forest fire.
Forest fires are known as an important natural source of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), but time trends of PAH levels and patterns in various environmental compartments after f... | Development of Technosol properties and recovery of carbon stock after 16 years of revegetation on coal mine degraded lands, India
Abstract Surface mining is recognized as one of the essential anthropogenic activities which drastically disturbs the ecosystem. To offset the impacts of surface mining, revegetation is wid... |
Unstable invariant manifolds for stochastic PDEs driven by a fractional Brownian motion
Abstract In this paper, we consider a class of stochastic partial differential equations (SPDEs) driven by a fractional Brownian motion (fBm) with the Hurst parameter bigger than 1/2. The existence of local random unstable manifolds... | Asymptotic behaviour of a stochastic semilinear dissipative functional equation without uniqueness of solutions
In this work we present the existence and uniqueness of pullback
and random attractors for stochastic evolution equations with
infinite delays when the uniqueness of solutions for these
equations is not re... | The stable manifold theorem for non-linear stochastic systems with memory: II. The local stable manifold theorem
Abstract We state and prove a Local Stable Manifold Theorem (Theorem 4.1) for non-linear stochastic differential systems with finite memory (viz. stochastic functional differential equations (sfde's)). We in... |
Herbal remedies used for the treatment of infertility in males and females by traditional healers in the rural areas of the West Bank/Palestine
BackgroundInfertility is considered one of the global public health problems and during human history, it is also considered one of the unsolved problems of the continuous huma... | News from Tartary: an ethnopharmacological approach to drug and therapeutic discovery.
Ethnopharmacology aims to identify new therapeutic agents based on their traditional use. It begins by the identification of disease states, and of the traditional therapies for these, most commonly herbals. Herbals of interest are s... | Outcomes After Arthroscopic Revision Bankart Repair is Dependent on Glenoid Bone Loss: An Updated Systematic Review of Recent Literature.
PURPOSE
To provide an update of recent literature with a specialized focus on clinical outcomes following arthroscopic revision Bankart repair (ARBR) by performing a systematic revie... |
Coloboma of the Choroid
Colobomas of the choroid are a subset of uveal colobomas which result from disruption of the normal process of ocular development during organogenesis. This disruption causes a thinning or absence of a portion of the choroid. Choroidal colobomas may be isolated, associated with other ocular feat... | Anophthalmos, microphthalmos, and Coloboma in the United kingdom: clinical features, results of investigations, and early management.
PURPOSE
To describe the clinical features of children with anophthalmos, microphthalmos, and typical coloboma (AMC).
DESIGN
Descriptive, observational, cross-sectional study of the Uni... | Anophthalmos, microphthalmos, and typical coloboma in the United Kingdom: a prospective study of incidence and risk.
PURPOSE
Anophthalmos, microphthalmos, and typical coloboma (AMC) form an interrelated spectrum of congenital eye anomalies that can cause significant visual loss and cosmetic disfigurement in children. T... |
Toward High Performance Anodes for Sodium-Ion Batteries: From Hard Carbons to Anode-Free Systems
Sodium-ion batteries (SIBs) have been deemed to be a promising energy storage technology in terms of cost-effectiveness and sustainability. However, the electrodes often operate at potentials beyond their thermodynamic equi... | Advances in Carbon Materials for Sodium and Potassium Storage
Over the past decades, ground‐breaking techniques and transformative progress have been achieved on exploring alternative battery candidates beyond lithium‐ion batteries, among which sodium‐/potassium‐ion batteries (SIBs/PIBs) are receiving rapidly increased... | Kinetics of Interfacial Ion Transfer in Lithium-Ion Batteries: Mechanism Understanding and Improvement Strategies.
The development of high-rate lithium-ion batteries is required for automobile applications. To this end, internal resistances must be reduced, among which Li+ transfer resistance at electrode/electrolyte i... |
Individual willingness to prepare for disasters in a geological hazard risk area: an empirical study based on the protection motivation theory
Public participation in disaster preparedness and mitigation activities become an important part of disaster risk management. The impact of risk perception and protection motiva... | Research on household emergency supplies storage from the theory of planned behavior and intention-behavior gap in the context of COVID-19
Introduction In the context of COVID-19 epidemic, household-level emergency supplies are becoming a critical link in the national emergency response mechanism for public health emer... | The Future of Economic Decision Making in Project Management
Project management has become the best way to plan for the future, and its importance in finding appropriate solutions is undoubted. Because of the cost factor of operations, barely any of the projects involve economic decision-making. The complexity in makin... |
CONDITION AND DEVELOPMENT TRENDS OF WINE TOURISM IN BULGARIA (THE EXAMPLE OF FESTIVALS OF WINE AND FOLKLORE HERITAGE)
Tourism is one of the most significant sectors, generating major economic benefits. This makes it an important part of the economy in many parts of the world.
Tourism, as a means of developing the regio... | Profile and motivations of European tourists on the Sherry wine route of Spain
Abstract In this paper we present an investigation on the profile and motivations of wine tourists in the Sherry region of Spain whose wineries receive about 500,000 visitors annually. We present the results of a field study carried out with... | How motivations and satisfaction influence wine tourists’ loyalty? An analysis of the Italian case
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to assess the “motivation-satisfaction-loyalty” framework. Through a structural equation model (SEM), it is possible to disentangle attitudinal and behavioral loyalty as a multifaceted... |
The aesthetic value of landscapes of the upland right bank area of the Dnieper River of the Kaniv Nature Reserve, Ukraine
The purpose of this publication is to assess the qualities of landscapes that are significant to their aesthetic value. The object of this study is the landscapes of the dislocation loess plateau Uk... | The change of European landscapes: human-nature relationships, public attitudes towards rewilding, and the implications for landscape management in Switzerland.
The rewilding of landscapes is one of the most important and intensively discussed landscape changes occurring in Switzerland, as the need for agricultural and... | A contribution towards a transfer of the ecosystem service concept to landscape planning using landscape metrics
Abstract The article introduces a conceptual approach for how to enhance the assessment of ecosystem services with regard to landscape structural aspects. Therefore, we have implemented landscape metrics in ... |
The ovamboland expedition of 1917: the deposing of King Mandume
ABSTRACT Mandume ya Ndemufayo, the last king of the Oukwanyama, resisted the subjugation of his people by colonial powers. To the Portuguese, Germans, and South Africans (and other missionaries), he was a recalcitrant, bloodthirsty, and murderous despot. B... | Order out of chaos: Mandume ya Ndemufayo and oral history
Oral historical sources from northern Namibia offer powerful new insights into the history of the Kwanyama under their last king, Mandume ya Ndemufayo. Namibian nationalists see Mandume as a great historical hero of resistance. After defending Oukwanyama against... | Structures and Settlement Organization at Kua Ruins, Juani (Mafia Archipelago, Tanzania)
The settlement of Kua in the Mafia Archipelago, Tanzania, has considerable research potential. It was surveyed in 2010 as part of a larger project to understand the maritime landscapes of the archipelago and elucidate the social co... |
Editorial to special issue on rational choice and political power
The literature on power is something of a wormhole between the worlds of political philosophy and political science. It ranges over empirical strategies for measuring power through to the debate surrounding its normative implications. Empirical political... | Two puzzles for shared-reason accounts of persuasion
ABSTRACT Dowding has developed an account of deliberative persuasion leveraging ‘reliability conditions’ distinguishing persuasion from manipulation. The central idea is that proper reasons offered for deliberation must be shared reasons: reasons the speaker holds as... | Editorial to special issue on rational choice and political power
The literature on power is something of a wormhole between the worlds of political philosophy and political science. It ranges over empirical strategies for measuring power through to the debate surrounding its normative implications. Empirical political... |
Synthesis and Properties of Thermally Self-Healing PET Based Linear Polyurethane Containing Diels–Alder Bonds
A Diels–Alder (DA) bond containing poly(tetrahydrofuran)-co-(ethyleneoxide) (PET) based linear polyurethane (PET-DA-PU) was synthesized via a prepolymer process using PET as raw material, DA diol as chain exten... | Fluoropolymer/Glycidyl Azide Polymer (GAP) Block Copolyurethane as New Energetic Binders: Synthesis, Mechanical Properties, and Thermal Performance
In order to enhance the application performance of glycidyl azide polymer (GAP) in solid propellant, an energetic copolyurethane binder, (poly[3,3-bis(2,2,2-trifluoro-ethox... | A Self-Crosslinking Supramolecular Polymer Network Enabled by Crown Ether-Based Molecular Recognition.
Supramolecular polymers based on host-guest molecular recognition have emerged as promising platforms for the development of smart materials. However, the studies on them are primarily conducted in solution and/or in ... |
Seasonal semen quality of a local and commercial taurine cattle breeds, raised in a subtropical climate: Relationship between external morphology of the animals and climate.
Livestock production is considered an important factor influencing global warming; however, climate change has also been considered one of the maj... | Shade Modifies Behavioral and Physiological Responses of Low to Medium Production Dairy Cows at Pasture in an Integrated Crop-Livestock-Forest System
Simple Summary The husbandry of high-producing dairy cattle on pasture in tropical regions promotes heat stress and alters physiological and behavioral parameters. Howeve... | Identification and analysis of differentially expressed long non-coding RNAs of Chinese Holstein cattle responses to heat stress
Abstract The mechanisms that dairy cattle respond to environmental stresses are very complicated. Previous research into the molecular mechanisms of mammalian heat stress has largely focused ... |
Ionizing radiation modulates the phenotype and function of human CD4+ induced regulatory T cells
Background The use of immunotherapy strategies for the treatment of advanced cancer is rapidly increasing. Most immunotherapies rely on induction of CD8+ tumor-specific cytotoxic T cells that are capable of directly killing... | Radiation Followed by OX40 Stimulation Drives Local and Abscopal Antitumor Effects in an Anti–PD1-Resistant Lung Tumor Model
Purpose: Radiation is used extensively to treat localized cancer, but improved understanding of its effects on the immune system has increased interest in its potential systemic (abscopal) effect... | Militant internationalism and dogmatism among foreign policy elites: evidence from Russia, 1995–2016
ABSTRACT Are foreign policy attitudes among Russian elites structured around broader beliefs about the nature of world politics? Are these attitudes consistently related to individual cognitive styles? I address these q... |
Perspectives of Clinicians on Shared Decision Making in Pediatric CKD: A Qualitative Study.
RATIONALE AND OBJECTIVE
Clinical decision making priorities among children, and their parents and clinicians may differ. This study sought to describe clinicians' perspectives on shared decision-making in pediatric chronic kidne... | Child and Parental Perspectives on Communication and Decision Making in Pediatric CKD: A Focus Group Study.
BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES
Effective communication and shared decision making improve quality of care and patient outcomes but can be particularly challenging in pediatric chronic disease because children depend on ... | HAEMOPHILIA B DIAGNOSTIC DISCREPANCY: A SURVEY TO CONFIRM THE DIAGNOSIS OF HAEMOPHILIA B
OBJECTIVES: To determine the frequency of misdiagnosis among documented factor IX (FIX) deficient (hemophilia B) patients of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province of Pakistan and to discern role of different diagnostic tests employed in... |
The Paradox of Suicide Prevention
The recognition that we cannot use risk stratification (high, medium, low) to predict suicide or to allocate resources has led to a paradigm shift in suicide prevention efforts. There are challenges in adapting to these new paradigms, including reluctance of clinicians and services to ... | Distinguishing Prevention from Treatment in Suicide Prevention. Comment on Turner et al. The Paradox of Suicide Prevention. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19, 14983
In “The Paradox of Suicide Prevention”, Turner and colleagues made an important contribution: they applied Rose’s prevention paradox to suicide ... | A Network Perspective on the Comorbidity of Personality Disorders and Mental Disorders: An Illustration of Depression and Borderline Personality Disorder
The comorbidity of personality disorders and mental disorders is commonly understood through three types of theoretical models: either a) personality disorders preced... |
Review of Venetoclax in CLL, AML and Multiple Myeloma
Venetoclax is a highly selective and effective B-cell lymphoma-2 (BCL-2) inhibitor, which is able to reinstate the apoptotic potential of cancer cells. With its full repertoire yet to be explored, it has changed the therapeutic landscape in haematological malignanci... | Venetoclax: A New Partner in the Novel Treatment Era for Acute Myeloid Leukemia and Myelodysplastic Syndrome
Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML) and Myelodysplastic Syndrome (MDS) are two closely related blood cancers that are more frequent in older adults. AML is the most common type of adult acute leukemia, and MDS is chara... | Recent Update in Food Protein-Induced Enterocolitis Syndrome: Pathophysiology, Diagnosis, and Management
Food protein-induced enterocolitis syndrome (FPIES), though first reported in the 1970s, remains poorly understood and likely underdiagnosed. It is a non-immunoglobulin E (IgE)-mediated food allergy syndrome, most c... |
Observational constraints for an axially symmetric transitioning model with bulk viscosity parameterization
In this paper, we have analyzed the significance of bulk viscosity in an axially symmetric Bianchi type-I model to study the accelerated expansion of the universe. We have considered four bulk viscosity parameter... | Cosmic acceleration with bulk viscosity in an anisotropic f(R, L m ) background
In this article, we investigate the observed cosmic acceleration in the framework of a cosmological f(R, L m ) model dominated by bulk viscous matter in an anisotropic background. We consider the locally rotationally symmetric Bianchi type ... | Cosmological model with time varying deceleration parameter in F(R, G) gravity
In this paper, we study the dynamical behaviour of the Universe in the F(R, G) theory of gravity, where R and G respectively denote the Ricci scalar and Gauss-Bonnet invariant. Our wide analysis encompasses the energy conditions, cosmographi... |
Measles Outbreak Associated With Low Vaccine Effectiveness Among Adults in Pohnpei State, Federated States of Micronesia, 2014
Background. A measles outbreak in Pohnpei State, Federated States of Micronesia in 2014 affected many persons who had received ≥1 dose of measles-containing vaccine (MCV). A mass vaccination ca... | Development of a Measles and Rubella Multiplex Bead Serological Assay for Assessing Population Immunity
Serosurveys are important tools for estimating population immunity and providing immunization activity guidance. The measles and rubella multiplex bead assay (MBA) offers multiple advantages over standard serological... | Risk Factors for Measles Virus Infection Among Adults During a Large Outbreak in Postelimination Era in Mongolia, 2015
Background
In 2015, a large nationwide measles outbreak occurred in Mongolia, with very high incidence in the capital city of Ulaanbaatar and among young adults.
Methods
We conducted an outbreak inve... |
Gender differences in femoral trochlea morphology
Purpose This study aimed to analyze the morphology of the anterior femoral condyle using a quantitative three-dimensional reconstruction method. The morphological data were compared between genders. Methods Computed tomography scans of femurs were taken from 90 healthy ... | Healthy knees have a highly variable patellofemoral alignment: a systematic review
Purpose There is still lack of knowledge regarding the variability of patellofemoral alignment in healthy, non-osteoarthritic knees, without patellofemoral instability. Therefore, a systematic review of the existing literature was perfor... | In‐vivo patellar tracking in individuals with patellofemoral pain and healthy individuals
Understanding of the exact cause of patellofemoral pain has been limited by methodological challenges to evaluate in‐vivo joint motion. This study compared six degree‐of‐freedom patellar motion during a dynamic lunge task between ... |
Cultivation of the microalgae Chlamydomonas reinhardtii and Desmodesmus quadricauda in highly deuterated media: Balancing the light intensity
The production of organic deuterated compounds in microalgal systems represents a cheaper and more versatile alternative to more complicated chemical synthesis. In the present st... | Microalgae as Contributors to Produce Biopolymers
Biopolymers are very favorable materials produced by living organisms, with interesting properties such as biodegradability, renewability, and biocompatibility. Biopolymers have been recently considered to compete with fossil-based polymeric materials, which rase severa... | Biomolecules from Microalgae and Cyanobacteria: Applications and Market Survey
Nowadays, microalgae and cyanobacteria have become a promising and sustainable source of useful products, thanks to their richness in bioactive metabolites of high value (antibiotics, toxins, pharmaceutically active compounds, plant growth r... |
Joining Strategies for Double-Sided Self-Pierce Riveting
Double-sided self-pierce riveting (DSSPR) has been presenting itself as a proper alternative to self-pierce riveting (SPR) with many advantages for joining geometries of different thicknesses and cross-sections. To ensure its successful future industrial applicat... | Mechanical joining in versatile process chains
The use of mechanical joining technologies offers the possibility of joining mixed material structures, which are used in particular in lightweight construction. An integrated securing of the joinability in versatile process chains is currently hardly possible as the numbe... | Vibration analysis of smart piezoelectrically actuated nanobeams subjected to magneto-electrical field in thermal environment
In this paper, vibration characteristics of magneto-electro-thermo-elastic functionally graded (METE-FG) nanobeams is investigated in the framework of third order shear deformation theory. Magne... |
Defect detection of FRP-bonded civil structures under vehicle-induced airborne noise
Abstract Fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP)-bonded civil structures have been increasingly used in various construction fields, such as building, bridge, and tunnel. To maintain their designed mechanical performance, the integrity of inter... | Autonomous concrete crack detection using deep fully convolutional neural network
Abstract Crack detection is a critical task in monitoring and inspection of civil engineering structures. Image classification and bounding box approaches have been proposed in existing vision-based automated concrete crack detection meth... | Automatic Pavement Crack Detection Based on Structured Prediction with the Convolutional Neural Network
Automated pavement crack detection is a challenging task that has been researched for decades due to the complicated pavement conditions in real world. In this paper, a supervised method based on deep learning is pro... |
Functional groups of bio-lubricants from crude catfish oil (Pangasius hypothalamus)
Bio-lubricants have great potential in the production of lubricating in the future. Several studies have developed animal oils as lubricants, which come from a by-product of fish processing. Fish oil extracted from the material and proc... | A methodological review on bio-lubricants from vegetable oil based resources
Finiteness of global crude oil reserve, rising crude oil prices, and issues related to environment seems to be a reality check for the problems of emerging generations. Present article focuses on lubricating oils as well as lubricating greases... | Experimental Investigation on the Performance of Vegetable Oil Based Cutting Fluids in Drilling AISI 304L Using Taguchi Technique
The demand for renewable and biodegradable cutting fluids is increasing day by day. Owing to the desirable properties of vegetable oils as cutting fluids, an attempt is made to explore the p... |
Comparative transcriptome mining for terpenoid biosynthetic pathway genes in wild and cultivated species of Plantago
Plantagos are important economical and medicinal plants that possess several bioactive secondary metabolites, such as phenolics, iridoids, triterpenes, and alkaloids. Triterpenoids are the ubiquitous and... | The organ-specific differential roles of rice DXS and DXR, the first two enzymes of the MEP pathway, in carotenoid metabolism in Oryza sativa leaves and seeds
Deoxyxylulose 5-phosphate synthase (DXS) and deoxyxylulose 5-phosphate reductoisomerase (DXR) are the enzymes that catalyze the first two enzyme steps of the met... | Melatonin Inhibits Ethylene Synthesis via Nitric Oxide Regulation To Delay Postharvest Senescence in Pears.
Understanding ripening and senescence processes in postharvest stored fruit is key to the identification and implementation of effective treatment methods. Here, we explored the effects of exogenous applications ... |
Bias correction of CMIP6 simulations of precipitation over Indian monsoon core region using deep learning algorithms
General Circulation Models or Global Climate Models (GCMs) output consists of inevitable bias due to insufficient knowledge about parameterization schemes and other mathematical computations that involve... | Frequency-intensity-distribution bias correction and trend analysis of high-resolution CMIP6 precipitation data over a tropical river basin
Advancements in computational power have enabled general circulation models (GCMs) to simulate climate variables at a higher resolution. However, GCM outputs often deviate from the... | Ranking of downscaled CMIP5 and CMIP6 GCMs at a basin scale: case study of a tropical river basin on the South West coast of India
This study assessed the performance of 21 general circulation models (GCMs) from National Aeronautics Space Administration (NASA) Earth Exchange Global Daily Downscaled Projections (NEX-GDD... |
Automated Identification of Patent Ductus Arteriosus Using a Computer Vision Model.
OBJECTIVES
Patent ductus arteriosus (PDA) is a vascular defect common in preterm infants and often requires treatment to avoid associated long-term morbidities. Echocardiography is the primary tool used to diagnose and monitor PDA. We t... | A Novel Patent Ductus Arteriosus Severity Score to Predict Clinical Outcomes in Premature Neonates
Background: Patent Ductus Arteriosus (PDA) in premature neonates has been associated with comorbidities including chronic lung disease (CLD), and death. However, the treatment of PDA remains controversial. There have been... | The ZR refurbishment project
ZR is a refurbished (R) version of Z aiming to improve its overall performance, reliability, precision, pulse shape tailoring and reproducibility. Z, the largest pulsed power machine at Sandia, began in December 1985 as the Particle Beam Fusion Accelerator II (PBFA II). PBFA II was modified... |
Role of Big Tech in Future Cyber Defence
Ordered society and nation states are dependent on interconnected systems, the defence of which is largely in private hands whose actions are driven by need for oligopolistic market dominance, protection of assets, and their monetisation models. This paper queries the responsib... | Transnational Organised Crime and Fragile States
Transnational organised crime (TOC) refers to a fluid and diversified industry that engages in illicit activities ranging from drug and human trafficking to drug smuggling, piracy and money laundering. Although it may affect strong states, conflict-affected and fragile s... | World development report 2011 : conflict, security, and development
The 2011 World Development Report looks across disciplines and experiences drawn from around the world to offer some ideas and practical recommendations on how to move beyond conflict and fragility and secure development. The key messages are important... |
Transcriptomic and immunophenotypic characterization of two cases of adamantinoma-like Ewing sarcoma of the thyroid gland.
INTRODUCTION
Adamantinoma-like Ewing sarcoma (ALES) is a rare aggressive malignancy occasionally diagnosed in the thyroid gland. ALES shows basaloid cytomorphology, expresses keratins, p63, p40, fr... | EWSR1 rearrangement in papillary thyroid microcarcinoma is related to classic morphology and the presence of small-cell phenotype
The Ewing sarcoma breakpoint region 1 (EWSR1) rearrangements with unknown genes were detected in a high percentage of classic variants of papillary thyroid carcinoma. The small-cell carcinom... | Risk-based maintenance planning of subsea pipelines through fatigue crack growth monitoring
Research and development in the field of risk-based maintenance of offshore structures has recently attracted large attention due to the significant level of accident risk and the cost associated with maintenance in such remote ... |
Should The Proud Dragon Repent? A Relative Theory for China’s State Capitalist Banking Sector Based On East Asia’s Experience
Amidst the U.S.-China trade war, China’s banking sector, the backbone of China’s economy, plays a key role in this battle. China’s banking sector, however, poses a puzzle to contemporary studies... | The Impact of State Ownership on Performance Differences in Privately-Owned Versus State-Owned Banks: An International Comparison
This paper examines how government ownership and government involvement in a country's banking system affect bank performance from 1989 through 2004. Our study uncovers an interesting patter... | Consumption-based carbon emissions and trade nexus: Evidence from nine oil exporting countries
The relationship between international trade and carbon emissions has been studied extensively; nonetheless, consumption-based carbon emissions, which is adjusted for international trade, have not been studied. This study is ... |
Wuzhi Capsule Dosage Affects Tacrolimus Elimination in Adult Kidney Transplant Recipients, as Determined by a Population Pharmacokinetics Analysis
Purpose In this study, we aimed to establish a tacrolimus population pharmacokinetic model and better understand the drug-drug interaction between Wuzhi capsule and tacrolim... | Effect of hepar‐protecting Wuzhi capsule on pharmacokinetics and dose‐effect character of tacrolimus in healthy volunteers
Wuzhi capsule (WZC), a preparation of Fructus Schisandra sphenanthera extract, has been used widely for the treatment of viral and drug‐induced hepatitis in China. This study aimed to determine the... | Population Pharmacokinetic Analysis of Tacrolimus in Adult Chinese Patients with Myasthenia Gravis: A Prospective Study
Background and Objectives Tacrolimus is a widely used immunosuppressive agent with narrow therapeutic window. Nowadays, tacrolimus has gained acceptance as a therapeutic option in myasthenia gravis (M... |
Width Measurement from True Retinal Blood Vessels
A retinal image can establish the state of human body by simply providing the information about what is happening inside it. Because the AVR status of blood vessels is having good correlation with hypertension, coronary, heart disease and stroke. However they require th... | Extraction of Retinal Blood Vessels from Diabetic Retinopathy Imagery Using Contrast Limited Adaptive Histogram Equalization
Retinal image vessel segmentation and their branching pattern can provide us with the information about abnormality or disease by examining its pathological variance. Retinal vascular pattern are... | Automated segmentation of blood vessels for detection of proliferative diabetic retinopathy
Retinal image analysis is very effective in early detection and diagnosis of diabetic retinopathy. Diabetic retinopathy is a progressive disease and is broadly classify into two stages i.e. Non proliferative diabetic retinopathy... |
An element-by-element strategy for non-linear shape optimization
A strategy for the efficient solution of non-linear shape optimization problems is developed. This strategy employs an integrated element-by-element approach to the solution of the governing partial differential equations, and, more particularly, to the c... | Parallelism in finite element modelling
Parallel processes can be identified at several different levels in the computational simulation of physical processes and problems. We first briefly sketch the main steps involved in modelling physical processes and give examples where inherent parallelism is evident. We then pr... | A general-purpose optimization program for engineering design
Abstract A new general-purpose optimization program for engineering design is described. ADS (Automated Design Synthesis) is a FORTRAN program for nonlinear constrained (or unconstrained) function minimization. The optimization process is segmented into thre... |
Instantaneous and Non-Instantaneous Impulsive Boundary Value Problem Involving the Generalized ψ-Caputo Fractional Derivative
This paper studies a new class of instantaneous and non-instantaneous impulsive boundary value problem involving the generalized ψ-Caputo fractional derivative with a weight. Depending on critic... | Relative Controllability of ψ-Caputo Fractional Neutral Delay Differential System
The aim of this work is to analyze the relative controllability and Ulamn–Hyers stability of the ψ-Caputo fractional neutral delay differential system. We use neutral ψ-delayed perturbation of the Mitttag–Leffler matrix function and Banac... | Symbolic Rees Algebras
We survey old and new approaches to the study of symbolic powers of ideals. Our focus is on the symbolic Rees algebra of an ideal, viewed both as a tool to investigate its symbolic powers and as a source of challenging problems in its own right. We provide an invitation to this area of investigat... |
How do U.S. wine consumers escape from COVID-19 restrictions by seeking for variety? A Machine Learning approach on purchase behavior
Variety-seeking behavior is modeled using machine learning. We do a variance analysis of the partial derivatives of variety measures and compare the varietal patterns across unrestricted... | Seeking Freedom through Variety
This article examines the effect of spatial confinement on consumer choices. Building on reactance theory and the environmental psychology literature, we propose that spatially confined consumers react against an incursion to their personal space by making more varied and unique choices.... | Uncertainty principles of Ingham and Paley–Wiener on semisimple Lie groups
Classical results due to Ingham and Paley–Wiener characterize the existence of nonzero functions supported on certain subsets of the real line in terms of the pointwise decay of the Fourier transforms. Viewing these results as uncertainty princi... |
Functions of dialogue in (television) drama: A case study of Indigenous-authored television narratives
While stylistics has successfully integrated the study of language use in film and television, relatively little research has tried to systematically classify the functions of television or film dialogue – i.e. to tax... | Toward racial justice in linguistics: Interdisciplinary insights into theorizing race in the discipline and diversifying the profession
Abstract:This article builds on the Linguistic Society of America's Statement on Race to argue that linguistics urgently needs an interdisciplinarily informed theoretical engagement wi... | Race, Representation, and Diversity in the American Association for Applied Linguistics
Since its inception, the American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) has advocated for diversity within the organization and in the discipline. This culminated in the passing of the resolution, ‘Affirming Commitment to Promo... |
Effect of Moringa Oleifera Leaves on Bisphenol-A Induced Histological Changes of Hepatocytes in Albino Rats
Objectives: To observe the effects of Moringa Oleifera leaves extract on BPA induced changes (Diameter of hepatocytes and vacuolization) in liver of rats.
Study Design: Experimental study, conducted at Post Grad... | Lead-Induced Damage on Hepatocytes and Hepatic Reticular Fibres in Rats; Protective Role of Aqueous Extract of Moringa oleifera Leaves (Lam)
This study was designed to evaluate the hepatoprotective and ameliorative effects of aqueous extract of Moringa oleifera (MO) leaves on the histologyof liver and hepatic reticular... | A new chapter in the bisphenol A story: bisphenol S and bisphenol F are not safe alternatives to this compound.
Bisphenol A (BPA) is a widely studied typical endocrine-disrupting chemical, and one of the major new issues is the safe replacement of this commonly used compound. Bisphenol S (BPS) and bisphenol F (BPF) are... |
The Evaluation Model for Interior Design Organizational Technology Integration
Technological substitution is the process by which a radical technology replaces the dominant technology in an industry. The processes of diffusion and substitution have been modeled extensively (Technology & innovation, 2010). However, the ... | Customer Relationship Management and Higher Education -A Vision
Educational institutions worldwide are undergoing fundamental shifts in how they operate and interact with their “customers”: students, alumni, donors, faculty members and staff members. Kotler and Fox1 state that “the best organization in the world will b... | MANDO: Multi-Level Heterogeneous Graph Embeddings for Fine-Grained Detection of Smart Contract Vulnerabilities
Learning heterogeneous graphs consisting of different types of nodes and edges enhances the results of homogeneous graph techniques. An interesting example of such graphs is control-flow graphs representing po... |
Identification of Erythromycin and Clarithromycin Metabolites Formed in Chicken Liver Microsomes Using Liquid Chromatography–High-Resolution Mass Spectrometry
Nontargeted analysis can be used for the rapid screening and confirmatory analysis of veterinary drugs and their metabolites, which are important for the compreh... | TLC densitometric analysis of triple antibiotic therapy; Erythromycin, Sulfadiazine and Trimethoprim in different edible chicken tissues
Abstract Erythromycin (ERY) is one of the macrolides used abundantly in veterinary medicines to treat various infections including respiratory, skin and bones. Combination of sulfadia... | High Fundamental Frequency Quartz Crystal Microbalance (HFF-QCMD) Immunosensor for detection of sulfathiazole in honey
Abstract In this study, a piezoelectric immunosensor based on High Fundamental Frequency Quartz Crystal Microbalance (HFF-QCMD) technology was developed for detection of sulfathiazole in honey. The bio... |
Dynamically convex and global surface of section in $L(p,p-1)$ from the viewpoint of ECH
The notion of dynamically convex has been studied since it was introduced by Hofer, Wysocki and Zehnder. In particular, they showed that there muse exist a global surface of section of disk type binding a periodic orbit for the Ree... | Torsion contact forms in three dimensions have two or infinitely many Reeb orbits
We prove that every nondegenerate contact form on a closed connected three-manifold, such that the associated contact structure has torsion first Chern class, has either two or infinitely many simple Reeb orbits. By previous results it fo... | Computing Reeb dynamics on four-dimensional convex polytopes
We study the combinatorial Reeb flow on the boundary of a four-dimensional convex polytope. We establish a correspondence between "combinatorial Reeb orbits" for a polytope, and ordinary Reeb orbits for a smoothing of the polytope, respecting action and Conle... |
A general long wavelength instability for Z-pinches and for Extrap within the Hall model
The stability of long wavelength perturbations is analysed within the framework of the Hall model. Free boundary modes with m=1 and kz to 0 are shown to be unstable for all pressure profiles which go to zero at the plasma surface, ... | On the influence of the Hall effect on the spectrum of the ideal magnetohydrodynamic cylindrical pinch
The influence of the Hall effect on the spectrum of ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) is investigated for axisymmetric perturbations of an infinitely extended circular cylindrical Z pinch with a diffuse current density... | Z‐pinch instability with distributed current
Sausage and kink growth rates for a Z pinch are computed from ideal magnetohydrodynamic theory for an infinitely thin surface current sheath and for a surface current layer of finite width. The growth rate decreases with increasing layer width. Satisfactory agreement with ex... |
Psychopedagogy of cognition and thinking: on the links between cognitive concepts and educational transactional analysis (part 3)
The paper deals with cognitive psychology and various procedures used in cognitive therapy. In pedagogy, the cognitive approach led to the emergence of cognitive and constructivist pedagogy.... | Personal Responsibility in Human Relationships: A Cognitive-Constructivist Approach
This article addresses issues of personal responsibility in human relationships from a cognitive-constructivist point of view, a perspective that differs from the one articulated by Steiner (1996) ... | Learning Design: A Handbook on Modelling and Delivering Networked Education and Training
E-learning is still in its infancy. This can be seen both in the limited pedagogical quality and lack of portability of e-learning content, and in the lack of user-friendly tools to exploit the opportunities offered by current tech... |
Quest for a parsimonious factor model in the wake of recent additions to factor space
ABSTRACT Information about expected returns contained in Fama and French's (2018) six-factor model cannot explain the misvaluation (UMO) and quality-minus-junk (QMJ) factor premiums. Results from factor spanning tests, examination of ... | Testing the Augmented Fama–French Six-Factor Asset Pricing Model with Momentum Factor for Borsa Istanbul
This study aims to test the validity of the Fama–French Asset Pricing Model, which has become a six-factor along with the inclusion of the momentum factor, in terms of Borsa Istanbul. In this context, nested asset p... | High-fidelity laser-free universal control of trapped ion qubits
Universal control of multiple qubits—the ability to entangle qubits and to perform arbitrary individual qubit operations1—is a fundamental resource for quantum computing2, simulation3 and networking4. Qubits realized in trapped atomic ions have shown the ... |
Towards Latency-Aware Linux Scheduling for Serverless Workloads
A key principle in the design of the Linux kernel's Completely Fair Scheduler (CFS) is fairness: all running tasks receive a minimum time slice during every scheduling period, ensuring that none starve. However, this may lead to a significant number of con... | Achieving low latency in public edges by hiding workloads mutual interference
On multi-tenant platforms, such as public clouds and edges, workloads interfere with each other through shared resources. The performance degradation caused by such interference is a notoriously challenging problem. Though many solutions have... | ORION and the Three Rights: Sizing, Bundling, and Prewarming for Serverless DAGs
Serverless applications represented as DAGs have been growing in popularity. For many of these applications, it would be useful to estimate the end-to-end (E2E) latency and to allocate resources to individual functions so as to meet probab... |
Characterization of multi-TRP wireless propagation Channel in the Industrial Environment with Modeling of Robotic Arms
In this paper, properties of the channel multipath are analyzed for the industrial environment, where there are full of metallic boxes, operating platforms, tubes and also the robotic arms which are us... | Digital Twin: Vision, Benefits, Boundaries, and Creation for Buildings
The concept of a digital twin has been used in some industries where an accurate digital model of the equipment can be used for predictive maintenance. The use of a digital twin for performance is critical, and for capital-intensive equipment such a... | Deep Learning for Fading Channel Prediction
Channel state information (CSI), which enables wireless systems to adapt their transmission parameters to instantaneous channel conditions and consequently achieve great performance boost, plays an increasingly vital role in mobile communications. However, getting accurate CS... |
The Preventive Effect of Decorin on Epidural Fibrosis and Epidural Adhesions After Laminectomy
Laminectomy is commonly performed to treat degenerative spinal diseases by reducing compression on the spinal cord and nerve roots. The postoperative epidural fibrosis and epidural adhesions may result in failed back surgery ... | Failed Back Surgery Syndrome: No Longer a Surgeon’s Defeat—A Narrative Review
The introduction of the term Persistent Spinal Pain Syndrome (PSPS-T1/2), replacing the older term Failed Back Surgery Syndrome (FBSS), has significantly influenced our approach to diagnosing and treating post-surgical spinal pain. This compr... | A 14-Year-Old Boy with Torsion of the Epididymal Cyst
Epididymal cyst is a benign mass in the scrotum that is relatively common in adults but it is rare in children. In routine experience the treatment of such cysts is conservative. Torsion of these cysts is extremely rare and the diagnosis is made by exploration of th... |
Developing a Freight Capacity Model for Land Use Planning and Air Quality Impact Analysis
Congestion is a growing concern among those professionals tasked with managing traffic flows and air quality. Congestion is also a growing concern for the trucking industry, which is tasked with delivering goods to retailers, manu... | Energy and Emissions Impacts of Operating Higher-Productivity Vehicles
The American Transportation Research Institute and Cummins, Inc. teamed up to investigate the energy and emissions impacts from operating commercial vehicles at weights equal to or greater than existing federal limits. Six vehicle configurations and... | THE FREIGHT STORY: A NATIONAL PERSPECTIVE ON ENHANCING FREIGHT TRANSPORTATION
Efficient, safe, and secure freight transportation helps form the foundation upon which our nation's economic strength rests. Although efforts to improve freight transportation efficiency and reliability have been successful, the U.S. transpo... |
KaryoCreate: a new CRISPR-based technology to generate chromosome-specific aneuploidy by targeting human centromeres
Aneuploidy, the presence of chromosome gains or losses, is a hallmark of cancer and congenital syndromes. Here, we describe KaryoCreate (Karyotype CRISPR Engineered Aneuploidy Technology), a system that ... | Inducing Specific Chromosome Mis-Segregation in Human Cells
Cancer cells display persistent underlying chromosomal instability that results in chromosome mis-segregation, the formation of micronuclei, and abnormal numbers of chromosomes (aneuploidy). These features are common to nearly all human cancers, with individua... | HORmon: automated annotation of human centromeres
Recent advances in long-read sequencing opened a possibility to address the long-standing questions about the architecture and evolution of human centromeres. They also emphasized the need for centromere annotation (partitioning human centromeres into monomers and highe... |
Learned sketch for subgraph counting: a holistic approach
Subgraph counting, as a fundamental problem in network analysis, is to count the number of subgraphs in a data graph that match a given query graph by either homomorphism or subgraph isomorphism. The importance of subgraph counting derives from the fact that it ... | Pre-training Summarization Models of Structured Datasets for Cardinality Estimation
We consider the problem of pre-training models which convert structured datasets into succinct summaries that can be used to answer cardinality estimation queries. Doing so avoids per-dataset training and, in our experiments, reduces th... | MorphVAE: Generating Neural Morphologies from 3D-Walks using a Variational Autoencoder with Spherical Latent Space
For the past century, the anatomy of a neuron has been considered one of its defining features: The shape of a neuron’s dendrites and axon fundamentally determines what other neurons it can connect to. The... |
Intuitive Interaction with Motion Controls in a Tennis Video Game
This paper broadens understanding of intuitive use in games by testing the influence of three naturally mapped motion control interfaces in the context of a tennis video game. It also extends exploratory work on natural mapping and intuitive interaction ... | Children's embodied intuitive interaction - Design aspects of embodiment
Intuitive features could make complex products and interfaces easier to use for children, and designing for embodied interactions is considered as one of the ways to make products and interfaces intuitive to use. However, there is lack of empirica... | How Do Secondary Science Teachers Perceive the Use of Interactive Simulations? The Affordance in Singapore Context
Research has shown that teaching science with a modeling-oriented approach, particularly with interactive simulations, will promote student engagement and understanding. To date, many interactive simulatio... |
Adaptive algorithms for weather radar
New adaptive algorithms for radar signals processing are developed and applied for the detection of turbulent zones in clouds and precipitation. Effciency ofthe algorithms is analyzed. Simulation of weather radar signals on the one hand and modeling and testing of the processing al... | Recent researches in the field of weather radar at the National Aviation University
An overview and analysis of weather radar methods and systems are presented based on the developments and researches fulfilled in the National Aviation University in Kiev, Ukraine during the last decade. Functional, methodical, and tech... | Advances in Radar Meteorology
Publisher Summary In this chapter there were two main objectives: To summarize significant developments in radar meteorology since 1958 and to integrate them properly within the framework of knowledge existing prior to that time. The emphasis in this chapter is on the basic principles and ... |
Awareness of cloud computing among the prospective teachers in the modern world
Cloud computing plays a vital role in education, politics, religion, transportation, relationships, medical check-ups, and so on. In education, online courses are carried out with the help of cloud computing. In cloud computing, expert conv... | A Review Paper on Cloud Computing
Today is the era of Cloud Computing Technology in IT Industries. Cloud computing which is based on Internet has the most powerful architecture of computation. It reckons in of a compilation of integrated and networked hardware, software and internet infrastructure. It has various avail... | Cloud computing adoption by SMEs in the north east of England: A multi-perspective framework
– The purpose of this paper is to contribute to a growing body of research on cloud computing, by studying the small to medium‐sized enterprise (SME) adoption process. If SMEs have access to scalable technologies they could pot... |
Bridging the Gap: The Role of Apprenticeship Training Programs
This paper summarizes a study on the prospects and challenges of apprenticeship training programs for vocational students from schools in India. The study explores the current state of vocational education in India and the potential benefits of apprenticesh... | UGC Guidelines for Synchronization of Apprenticeship/ Internship in Degree Programmes of HEIs
With the sole objective of making the fresh graduates to be ready for employment with the necessary knowledge, competencies and the attitude, the UGC has framed the guidelines for higher educational institutions to offer appre... | Flows, leaks and blockages in informational interventions: A field experimental study of Bangalore's water sector
Many policies and programs based on informational interventions hinge upon the assumption that providing citizens with information can help improve the quality of public services, or help citizens cope with... |
A Plea for the Cognitive Solution Attempt: Cognitive Robotics, Cognitive Factory and Cognitive Solutions. Cognitive Robotics as a Model for the Development of Cognitive Solutions
A cognitive approach conceptualizes the goods producing enterprise and its production factors (such as divisions, units, sections or resource... | Book Review
Every field of science relies on having its trusted sources of knowledge, the books that unite investigators with a common language and provide them with the basic toolbox for approaching problems. Physics, for instance, has its ‘‘Landau and Lifschitz’’; electrical engineers routinely turn to ‘‘Horowitz and... | Training Products of Experts by Minimizing Contrastive Divergence
It is possible to combine multiple latent-variable models of the same data by multiplying their probability distributions together and then renormalizing. This way of combining individual expert models makes it hard to generate samples from the combined ... |
4 Diabetes mellitus in relation to COVID-19
The recent ongoing COVID-19 pandemic caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus saw many hospitalizations and deaths among elderly patients. It has been reported that the most common underlying conditions in these patients were obesity and diabetes. While both type 1 and type 2 diabetes ... | Characteristics of and Mortality Associated With Diabetic Ketoacidosis Among US Patients Hospitalized With or Without COVID-19
This cohort study analyzed inpatient data from multiple US hospitals to characterize patients with and without coronavirus disease (COVID-19) who had diabetic ketoacidosis. | Glycemic fluctuations caused by COVID-19: Results from continuous glucose monitoring
Aim
We aimed to address the potential impact of COVID-19 on glycemic patterns in a small pilot study.
Method
13 patients with mild COVID-19 who were confirmed withou... |
Influence of surface modification by vanadium oxide and carbon on the electrochemical performance of LiFePO4/C
Surface modification with metal oxides is an efficient method to improve the performance of LiFePO4. Carbon and V2O3 co-coated LiFePO4 is synthesized by carbothermal reduction method combined with star-balling... | Effect of CeO2-coating on the electrochemical performances of LiFePO4/C cathode material
Abstract The effect of CeO 2 coating on LiFePO 4 /C cathode material has been investigated. The crystalline structure and morphology of the synthesized powders have been characterized by XRD, SEM, TEM and their electrochemical perf... | Low power CO2 laser modified iron/nickel alloyed pure aluminum surface: Evaluation of structural and mechanical properties
Abstract Surface modification of metals is demanding for high strength industrial purposes. Weak mechanical properties of aluminum (Al) are disadvantageous for several applications and needs improv... |
Research for the Influence of Ferris Wheel Deep Foundation Pit Excavation on Adjacent Existing Tunnel
The excavation of deep foundation pit could have a great impact on the adjacent existing structures. The proposed Ferris wheel is located in Jianghehui Block. The construction site is narrow and adjacent existing struc... | Three-dimensional centrifuge modelling of basement excavation effects on an existing tunnel in dry sand
Basement excavation may induce unsymmetrical and highly skewed loadings and (or) stress changes in an existing tunnel, not only in the transverse, but also in the longitudinal direction of the tunnel. Although baseme... | Pile Foundation Analysis And Design
Thank you very much for downloading pile foundation analysis and design. Maybe you have knowledge that, people have search numerous times for their favorite novels like this pile foundation analysis and design, but end up in infectious downloads. Rather than reading a good book with ... |
Investigation of approaches for change impact analysis and facilitating finding reviewers in testing frameworks
As software becomes larger and more complex and time between deliveries decreases
the more maintenance becomes an issue. An established way to facilitate some maintenance
efforts is to use automated testing f... | GECOJAP: A novel source-code preprocessing technique to improve code coverage
Abstract Safety critical standards such as DO178B/DO178C/ RTCA (Radio Technical Commission for Aeronautics) mandates coverage based testing in Aerospace applications. These standards mandate Level A certification for Modified Condition/Decisi... | Effects of Career Plateauing on Turnover
Completed questionnaires from 223 organizational members were analyzed to test the extent to which career plateaus were positively associated with intentions to leave and that structure and content plateaus explained unique variation in turnover intentions after considering job ... |
Diffusion coefficients of gallium(III) in potassium nitrate and potassium chloride supporting electrolytes
The diffusion coefficient values of GaIII in potassium nitrate and potassium chloride supporting electrolytes have been obtained polarographically. The half-wave potential, E1/2, and E3/4-E1/4 values have also bee... | Voltammetry of metals at mercury film microelectrodes in the absence and the presence of varying concentrations of supporting electrolyte
The steady-state limiting current for reduction of mono and divalent metal cations to amalgam in solution without supporting electrolyte depends on both the charge of the cation and ... | The mechanism of oxidation of mercury in the presence of EDTA
Abstract The oxidation of mercury in the presence of EDTA (ethylenediamine-tetraacetic acid) has been studied over the pH range 4.6–12 using cyclic voltammetry, normal and reverse pulse voltammetry and chronocoulometry. The reaction is complicated by product... |
Surgical outcomes associated with sleep apnea syndrome in Stanford A aortic dissection patients
Background Patients suffering from aortic dissection (AD) often experience sleep apnea syndrome (SAS), which aggravates their respiratory function and aortic false lumen expansion. Methods We analyzed the peri-operative data... | Endocrine responses during CPAP withdrawal in obstructive sleep apnoea: data from two randomised controlled trials
The aim of this investigation was to elucidate the effect of CPAP withdrawal on neurometabolic and cardiometabolic markers in patients with obstructive sleep apnoea. We evaluated 70 patients (mean age 61±1... | Abdominal obesity and metabolic syndrome
Metabolic syndrome is associated with abdominal obesity, blood lipid disorders, inflammation, insulin resistance or full-blown diabetes, and increased risk of developing cardiovascular disease. Proposed criteria for identifying patients with metabolic syndrome have contributed g... |
Short sleep duration and interest in sleep improvement in a multi-ethnic cohort of diverse women participating in a community-based wellness intervention: an unmet need for improvement
Background Disparities in sleep duration are a modifiable contributor to increased risk for cardiometabolic disorders in communities of... | The Sleep-Immune Crosstalk in Health and Disease
Sleep and immunity are bidirectionally linked. Immune system activation alters sleep, and sleep in turn affects the innate and adaptive arm of our body's defense system. Stimulation of the immune system by microbial challenges triggers an inflammatory response, which, de... | Algorithmic Probability-Guided Machine Learning on Non-Differentiable Spaces
We show how complexity theory can be introduced in machine learning to help bring together apparently disparate areas of current research. We show that this model-driven approach may require less training data and can potentially be more gener... |
U.S. Cooperative Extension's response to substance misuse: A scoping review
Background The U.S. has experienced exponential growth in overdose fatalities over the past four decades and more than 22 million people are currently living with a substance use disorder (SUD). While great strides have been made in advancing t... | Cooperative Extension professionals' knowledge and attitudes toward the opioid epidemic: Implications for capacity development and outreach
Introduction Worsening of the opioid epidemic amplifies calls for involvement of the nationwide Cooperative Extension System (Extension) in addressing this crisis. Understanding kn... | Effect of Pain Neuroscience Education Combined With Cognition-Targeted Motor Control Training on Chronic Spinal Pain: A Randomized Clinical Trial
Importance Effective treatments for chronic spinal pain are essential to reduce the related high personal and socioeconomic costs. Objective To compare pain neuroscience educ... |
Retrospective identification of intrinsic factors that mark pluripotency potential in rare somatic cells
Pluripotency can be induced in somatic cells by the expression of the four “Yamanaka” factors OCT4, KLF4, SOX2, and MYC. However, even in homogeneous conditions, usually only a rare subset of cells admit reprogrammi... | clampFISH 2.0 enables rapid, scalable amplified RNA detection in situ
RNA labeling in situ has enormous potential to visualize transcripts and quantify their levels in single cells, but it remains challenging to produce high levels of signal while also enabling multiplexed detection of multiple RNA species simultaneous... | CoSpar identifies early cell fate biases from single-cell transcriptomic and lineage information
A goal of single-cell genome-wide profiling is to reconstruct dynamic transitions during cell differentiation, disease onset and drug response. Single-cell assays have recently been integrated with lineage tracing, a set of... |
Chiral kinetic theory from the on-shell effective field theory: Derivation of collision terms
We show that the on-shell effective theory (OSEFT) is the quantum field theory counterpart of a Foldy-Wouthuysen diagonalization of relativistic quantum mechanics for massless fermions. Thus, it is free of the Zitterbewegung o... | Bremsstrahlung in chiral medium: Anomalous magnetic contribution to the Bethe-Heitler formula
We investigate photon bremsstrahlung in chiral media. The chiral medium response to the magnetic field is described by the chiral magnetic current $ j= b_0 B$, where $b_0$ is the chiral magnetic conductivity. This current modi... | Galileo and the Conflict between Religion and Science
Introduction 1. Before Copernicus 2. The Copernican Revolution 3. The Galileo Affair 4. The Question of Authority 5. The Question of Certainty 6. Critical Thought in Religion and Science 7. Faith and Knowledge 8. Secular Acts of Faith 9. Science as a Religion Conclu... |
Identifying key environmental factors for enhancing the pollutant removal potential at a river confluence.
The confluence area of river networks is a hot spot for pollutant removal. As an essential part of the river ecosystem, sediment bacterial communities played a crucial role in the removal of pollutants. However, h... | Diagnosis of Wetland Ecosystem Health in the Zoige Wetland, Sichuan of China
Wetlands are among the most productive ecosystems worldwide and are frequently described as the kidneys of the earth because of the wide range of environmental functions and ecological benefits. Assessments of wetland ecosystem health play an ... | Hydraulic complexity at a large river confluence in the Amazon basin
Confluences are a classic feature in riverine networks with important ecological and morphological functions. A method to characterize the hydraulic complexity of a river based on velocity gradients was applied, for high and low flow conditions, to th... |
Algorithm 672: generation of interpolatory quadrature rules of the highest degree of precision with preassigned nodes for general weight functions
where the N nodes x1, . . . , xN are preassigned and the M free nodes xN+l, . . . , xN+M are calculated to achieve the highest possible algebraic degree of precision (at lea... | A generalized Bairstow algorithm
Abstract : The report discusses convergence and applications for the generalized Bairstow algorithm. | Algorithm 468: algorithm for automatic numerical integration over a finite interval [D1]
Submittal of an algorithm for consideration for publication in Communications of the A C M implies unrestricted use of the algorithm within a computer is permissible. Copyright © 1973, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. Gene... |
The influence of electrolyte on photocatalytic activity of PEO coatings with incorporated Ce-ZSM5 formed on aluminum
The preparation and characterization of oxide coatings made by plasma electrolytic oxidation (PEO) process on aluminum in two different electrolyte solutions of opposite pH values with addition of Ce-enr... | Photoluminescent and Photocatalytic Properties of Eu3+-Doped MgAl Oxide Coatings Formed by Plasma Electrolytic Oxidation of AZ31 Magnesium Alloy
The synthesis of Eu3+-doped MgAl oxide coatings containing MgO and MgAl2O4 was accomplished through plasma electrolytic oxidation of AZ31 magnesium alloy in aluminate electrol... | Activated carbon derived from waste orange and lemon peels for the adsorption of methyl orange and methylene blue dyes from wastewater
The study of adsorbent behaviour in laboratory conditions helps to predict the adsorption process in a large industrial scale. In this study, orange and lemon peels-derived activated ca... |
Leaky waveguide with mecanically-controlled radiated power
This article presents the topology of a leaky waveguide with mechanically-controlled radiated power allowing to radiate at each aperture the same amount of power. To do this, the number of opened slots is modified. Its design and radiation performances on the I... | Distributed antenna system for mass transit communications
This paper presents an overview of an antenna system designed to support communications between underground subway trains and other users and their central control stations. The antenna system design is based on a leaky coaxial cable. The system is capable of p... | Power Loss in Reverberation Chambers by Antennas and Receivers
Antennas, and more generally any equipment under test (EUT) capable of coupling to impinging electromagnetic waves, are well-known sources of power loss in reverberation chambers (RCs). As such, it is fundamental to model their contribution to an RC quality... |
Elimination of Congo Red Dye from Industrial Wastewater Using Teucrium polium L. as a Low-Cost Local Adsorbent
A novel adsorbent prepared from the leaf powder of Teucrium polium L. (TPLLP) was characterized and its ability for adsorption of Cong red (CR) was inspected. Influences of CR concentration, adsorbent dosage, ... | Enhance the adsorption behavior of methylene blue from wastewater by using ZnCl2 modified neem (Azadirachta indica) leaves powder
Many unwanted by-products containing several hazardous dyes are found in wastewater produced from the manufacturing units, such as printing, leather, paper, textiles, cosmetics, etc. Especia... | Numerical Simulation of Charge Multiplication in Ultra-Fast Silicon Detectors (UFSD) and Comparison with Experimental Data
In this contribution we present our most recent numerical investigations towards the development of silicon particle detectors able to provide accurate measurements in both space and time (4D track... |
AI + Education: Self-adaptive Learning Promotes Individualized Educational Revolutionary
Recently, AI technology has implemented speedily in the applications of education, the all academia embraces that the Bonus period has already came. The whole dissertation generally writes all sorts of AI applications in the educat... | Design, Implementation and Evaluation of Blended Learning for the Undergraduate Course “Education and Artificial Intelligence”
For the ambitious aim toward world-class university, Peking University encourages the blended learning of information and communication technology with classroom teaching for undergraduates. Th... | Modulated Contrast for Versatile Image Synthesis
Perceiving the similarity between images has been a long-standing and fundamental problem underlying various visual generation tasks. Predominant approaches measure the inter-image distance by computing pointwise absolute deviations, which tends to estimate the median of... |
Spatial planning and urban resilience in the context of flood risk
Spatial planning is increasingly being considered as an important mechanism in coping with flood risk due to climate change. One of the reasons for this is that engineering approaches are increasingly expensive and cannot provide complete certainty of p... | Examining resilience in local adaptation policies - pilot studies in Taipei and Tainan, Taiwan
Resilience has gained considerable attention over recent years in both theories and decision-making practices. In Taiwan, the term resilience is generally considered as a synonym for adaptation. This may limit the use of the ... | Toward greater building earthquake resilience using concept of critical excitation: A review
Abstract The words of ‘unexpected issue’ and ‘earthquake resilience’ are frequently used after the 2011 off the Pacific coast of Tohoku earthquake which occurred March 11, 2011. Although the unexpected issues are hard to includ... |
Versatile Photoelectrocatalysis Strategy Raising Up the Green Production of Hydrogen Peroxide
H2O2 plays an irreplaceable role in many aspects of human society, such as paper bleaching, medical disinfection, wastewater treatment, organic synthesis, hydrometallurgy and the electronic industry. However, the unsustainabil... | Carbon dots with different energy levels regulate the activity of metal-free catalyst for hydrogen peroxide photoproduction.
Artificial photoproduction of hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) from H2O and O2 by metal-free catalysts (e.g., graphitic carbon nitride) is regarded as an ultra-clean approach. Metal-free catalysts are of... | Interface photo-charge kinetics regulation by carbon dots for efficient hydrogen peroxide production
Interface photo-charge kinetics can be regulated by carbon dots for efficient hydrogen peroxide production. |
Research on Hybrid Recommendation Model for Personalized Recommendation Scenarios
One of the five types of Internet information service recommendation technologies is the personalized recommendation algorithm, and knowledge graphs are frequently used in these algorithms. RippleNet is a personalized recommendation model... | Multi-Task Feature Learning for Knowledge Graph Enhanced Recommendation
Collaborative filtering often suffers from sparsity and cold start problems in real recommendation scenarios, therefore, researchers and engineers usually use side information to address the issues and improve the performance of recommender systems... | A Deep Hybrid Model for Recommendation by jointly leveraging ratings, reviews and metadata information
Abstract Although matrix factorization (MF) based collaborative filtering (CF) and deep learning approaches have achieved great success, there is still much room for improvement in recommender systems. Most of the exi... |
[High tibial osteotomy with computer navigation for medial gonarthritis].
OBJECTIVE
To study significance of computer navigation for improving clinical and radiological results of medial gonarthritis treatment compared to non-invasive methods of lower limb axis correction control.
MATERIAL AND METHODS
The study inclu... | Measurement of the Posterior Tibial Slope Depends on Ethnicity, Sex, and Lower Limb Alignment: A Computed Tomography Analysis of 378 Healthy Participants
Background: There is no general consensus on the normal and pathological values for the posterior tibial slope (PTS). Purpose/Hypothesis: The primary aim of this stud... | Yolk Sac Tumor of Stomach: Case Report and Review of Literature
Gastric yolk sac tumors (YSTs) are very rare. Only seven cases of pure YST of the stomach, with a median age of 65 years, and five cases of YST combined with adenocarcinoma have been reported. We report a 3-year-old boy who presented to us with recurrent e... |
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