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{ "title": "Persistent hydrophilicity for Titanium oxide (TiO2) thin films by Silicon oxide (SiO2) over nanolayers", "abstract": "SiO2 thin layers in thicknesses (1, 5, 10, 18 nm) on TiO2 thin layer in thickness 79 nm deposited by reactive RF sputtering technique. The deposited films were heat treated at temperatur...
{ "title": "Superhydrophilic stability enhancement of RF co-sputtered TixSi1−xO2 thin films in dark", "abstract": "Abstract Ti x Si 1− x O 2 compound thin-film systems were deposited by reactive RF magnetron co-sputtering technique. The effect of Ti concentration on the hydrophilicity of Ti x Si 1− x O 2 compound t...
{ "title": "An miRNA fingerprint using neural-enriched extracellular vesicles from blood plasma: towards a biomarker for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis/motor neuron disease", "abstract": "Biomarkers for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis/motor neuron disease (ALS/MND) are currently not clinically available for disease di...
{ "title": "What we say and what we mean when we say redundancy and robustness of the chemokine system – how CCR5 challenges these concepts", "abstract": "Classically, robustness and redundancy are features that define the intricate and connected functioning of the chemokine system. Following these ideas, the lack ...
{ "title": "Chemokines in hyperthyroidism", "abstract": "The term “hyperthyroidism” indicates a condition due to an exaggerate production of thyroid hormone; the most frequent cause is Graves’ disease (GD). We review cytokines and chemokines in hyperthyroidism, with a special focus in GD. In GD, recruited Th1 lymph...
{ "title": "A Chronic Inflammatory Infusion Model of Peritoneal Dialysis in Rats", "abstract": "Objectives Peritoneal membrane changes are related to daily exposure to non physiologic dialysate and recurrent acute inflammation. We modified a daily infusion and inflammation model and evaluated it for fibrotic and an...
{ "title": "The Role of Social Support Networks Could Develop on the Well-Being and Mental Health toward COVID-19 Pandemic: A", "abstract": "Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/), permitting all non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium...
{ "title": "COVID 19 and its mental health consequences", "abstract": "The global community is concerned about Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and its long-term consequences. It is going to impact various spheres of life such as the economy, industries, global mar...", "corpus_id": 216594556 }
{ "title": "The emotional impact of Coronavirus 2019-nCoV (new Coronavirus disease)", "abstract": "Abstract\n \n Background\n : A novel form of Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) in Wuhan has created a confused and rapidly evolving situation. In this situational framework, patie...
{ "title": "Interferometer for Testing of Convex Mirrors of Optical and Radio Telescopes Constructed by the Scheme of Orthogonal Rays", "abstract": "An interferometer for testing of convex spherical and aspherical mirrors has been developed and manufactured, operating according to the scheme of orthogonal rays, acc...
{ "title": "Research of the Characteristics of the Parabolic Reflector during Its Natural Oscillations", "abstract": "The study considered the degree of reduction in the efficiency parameters of a parabolic reflector caused by free vibrations. Estimates of the research results for various types of amplitude functio...
{ "title": "First CO J = 6-5 and J = 4-3 Detections in Local ULIRGs: The Dense Gas in Markarian 231 and Its Cooling Budget", "abstract": "We report on detections of the high-excitation CO J = 6-5 and J = 4-3 lines in Mrk 231, a prototypical ultraluminous infrared galaxy (ULIRG) and Seyfert 1 QSO. These observations...
{ "title": "Price and Volatility Transmissions among Natural Gas, Fertilizer, and Corn Markets: A Revisit", "abstract": "In this paper, we revisit price and volatility transmission among natural gas, fertilizer, and corn markets; an important issue was explored in previous work. An update of the results is urgently...
{ "title": "Phosphorus price spikes: A wake-up call for phosphorus resilience", "abstract": "Food systems depend on reliable supplies of phosphorus to fertilize soils. Since 2020, a pandemic, geopolitical disputes, trade wars and escalating fuel prices have driven a >400% increase in phosphorus commodity prices, co...
{ "title": "Correlations between crude oil and stocks prices of renewable energy and technology companies: A multiscale time-dependent analysis", "abstract": "Abstract The study on the dynamic relationships between crude oil, stock prices of renewable energy and technology companies has aroused increasingly interes...
{ "title": "Model-free Motion Planning of Autonomous Agents for Complex Tasks in Partially Observable Environments", "abstract": "Motion planning of autonomous agents in partially known environments with incomplete information is a challenging problem, particularly for complex tasks. This paper proposes a model-fre...
{ "title": "Memory-based Deep Reinforcement Learning for POMDPs", "abstract": "A promising characteristic of Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) is its capability to learn optimal policy in an end-to-end manner without relying on feature engineering. However, most approaches assume a fully observable state space, i.e...
{ "title": "Radial basis function neural network based approach to test oracle", "abstract": "Software testing is an important discipline, and consumes significant amount of effort. A proper strategy is required to design and generate test cases systematically and effectively. In this paper automated software test ...
{ "title": "Mobile Base Solution for Individuals with Limited Knowledge About Cars", "abstract": "Different modes of transportation were discovered by our ancestors from ancient times. Currently, the majority of people choose to purchase a personal automobile for transport needs. However, the vast majority of peopl...
{ "title": "Used Car Price Prediction using K-Nearest Neighbor Based Model", "abstract": ": Predicting the price of used cars is one of the significant and interesting areas of analysis. As an increased demand in the second-hand car market, the business for both buyers and sellers has increased. For reliable and ac...
{ "title": "User Preference and Reviews Analysis with Neural Networks for Travel Recommender Systems", "abstract": "These days’ people like to explore numerous places all over the world predominantly which are highly recommended. For instance, people who are new to a particular location regularly choose places to v...
{ "title": "Domain formation on curved membranes", "abstract": "We study by computer simulations the physics of domain formation on surfaces, as a model for pattern formation on biological membranes. We compare the dynamics predicted by a simple phase separation model for a binary mixture, with that obtained throug...
{ "title": "Sensing the shape of a cell with reaction diffusion and energy minimization", "abstract": "Significance Cells can polarize, with proteins accumulating in one region along its membrane. This location can depend on the shape of the cell. Thus, through membrane proteins, a cell can sense its shape. We simu...
{ "title": "Membrane Tension Maintains Cell Polarity by Confining Signals to the Leading Edge during Neutrophil Migration", "abstract": "Little is known about how neutrophils and other cells establish a single zone of actin assembly during migration. A widespread assumption is that the leading edge prevents formati...
{ "title": "A nonlinear momentum observer for sensorless robot collision detection under model uncertainties", "abstract": "Abstract Collision detection methods could reduce collision forces and improve safety during physical human-robot interaction without additional sensing devices. However, current collision det...
{ "title": "Model-Adaptive High-Speed Collision Detection for Serial-Chain Robot Manipulators", "abstract": "In this letter, we introduce a novel regressor-based observer method to adapt an initially erroneous dynamics model of serial manipulators for improving collision detection sensitivity. Specifically, we assu...
{ "title": "Nanoporous membrane device for ultra high heat flux thermal management", "abstract": "High power density electronics are severely limited by current thermal management solutions which are unable to dissipate the necessary heat flux while maintaining safe junction temperatures for reliable operation. We ...
{ "title": "Multi-Omics Database Analysis of Aminoacyl-tRNA Synthetases in Cancer", "abstract": "Aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases (aaRSs) are key enzymes in the mRNA translation machinery, yet they possess numerous non-canonical functions developed during the evolution of complex organisms. The aaRSs and aaRS-interacting...
{ "title": "Targeting the interaction of AIMP2-DX2 with HSP70 suppresses cancer development", "abstract": "A tumorigenic factor, AIMP2 lacking exon 2 (AIMP2-DX2), is often upregulated in many cancers. However, how its cellular level is determined is not understood. Here, we report heat-shock protein HSP70 as a crit...
{ "title": "Ras‐PI3K‐AKT signaling promotes the occurrence and development of uveal melanoma by downregulating H3K56ac expression", "abstract": "Uveal melanoma (UM) is an intraocular malignant tumor characterized by rapid progression and recurrence. The current conventional treatments are unsatisfactory. Histone ac...
{ "title": "Impulsive Noise Suppression Methods Based on Time Adaptive Self-Organizing Map", "abstract": "Removal of noise and restoration of images has been one of the most interesting topics in the field of image processing in the past few years. Existing filter-based methods can remove image noise; however, they...
{ "title": "Advanced Metaheuristic Techniques for Mechanical Design Problems: Review", "abstract": "The design of complex mechanical components is a time-consuming process which involves many design variables with multiple interacted objectives and constraints. Traditionally, the design process of mechanical compon...
{ "title": "Cat swarm optimization algorithm based on the information interaction of subgroup and the top-N learning strategy", "abstract": "Abstract Because of the lack of interaction between seeking mode cats and tracking mode cats in cat swarm optimization (CSO), its convergence speed and convergence accuracy ar...
{ "title": "Healthcare workers experiences of caring for patients colonized with Carbapenemase-Producing Enterobacterale (CPE) in an acute hospital setting - A qualitative descriptive study.", "abstract": "BACKGROUND\nCarbapenemase-Producing Enterobacterale (CPE) is a multi-drug resistant organism, that is of growi...
{ "title": "Fear of Contagion Among Nursing Students in the Era of COVID-19.", "abstract": "BACKGROUND\nCOVID-19 quickly spread to pandemic proportions, resulting in anxiety and fear for many students. The Fear of Contagion model was explored in first-semester nursing students.\n\n\nMETHOD\nThis study used a qualit...
{ "title": "An Eye on Staphylococcus aureus Toxins: Roles in Ocular Damage and Inflammation", "abstract": "Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) is a common pathogen of the eye, capable of infecting external tissues such as the tear duct, conjunctiva, and the cornea, as well the inner and more delicate anterior and pos...
{ "title": "A Charge Pump Based 1.5A NMOS LDO with 1.0~6.5V Input Range and 110mV Dropout Voltage", "abstract": "This paper presents a low dropout regulator (LDO) with ampere-level loading capability and wide input range. The NMOS power transistor with built-in charge pump was adopted to reduce the dropout voltage ...
{ "title": "An External Capacitor-Less Low-Dropout Voltage Regulator Using a Transconductance Amplifier", "abstract": "This brief presents an external capacitor-less nMOS low-dropout (LDO) voltage regulator integrated with a standard CSMC 0.6-<inline-formula> <tex-math notation=\"LaTeX\">${\\mu }\\text{m}$ </tex-ma...
{ "title": "Association of Eating Alone with Depressive Symptoms and Suicidal Ideation among Korean Adults", "abstract": "Background In recent years, eating dinner alone has become a rising social issue in Korea. Depression is one of the primary health problems that can lead to numerous negative consequences. Howev...
{ "title": "A comparative study of hydrogen peroxide oxidation and electrocoagulation using aluminum, iron, and zinc electrodes for urban sludge disintegration", "abstract": "ABSTRACT Municipal and industrial wastewater treatment plants produce large amounts of sludge containing high levels of organic, chemical, an...
{ "title": "Electrochemical pretreatment (EPT) of waste activated sludge: Extracellular polymeric substances matrix destruction, sludge solubilisation and overall digestibility.", "abstract": "Anaerobic digestion (AD) of waste activated sludge (WAS) is widely used for stabilisation, mass reduction and resource reco...
{ "title": ": A Simplified", "abstract": "The deformation of reinforced concrete elements is a main consideration during the design process due to its importance for the service life of structures. Deformation (deflections and cracking) control has an effect at both the design and construction stages. The determina...
{ "title": "Infrared Acousto-Optic Filters Based on a Biaxial Crystal of Indium Iodide for Combined Spectral- Polarization Analysis of Optical Images", "abstract": "In this work, we examine a spectral-polarization geometry of acousto-optic diffraction in a biaxial orthorhombic crystal of indium iodide. The focus is...
{ "title": "Quasi-collinear IR AOTF based on mercurous halide single crystals for spatio-spectral hyperspectral imaging.", "abstract": "The paper aims to show the advantages of the infrared-optimised quasi-collinear AOTF (acousto-optic tunable filter) for the spatio-spectral hyperspectral imaging system. The optimi...
{ "title": "Cinnamon supplementation positively affects obesity: A systematic review and dose-response meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.", "abstract": "BACKGROUND & AIMS\nData about the effects of cinnamon supplementation on obesity measures are conflicting. This systematic review and meta-analysis of ...
{ "title": "Second wave of COVID-19: more hype than reality", "abstract": "Background: The second wave of COVID-19 hit India with the nation reporting over 4 lakh cases daily since second week of April 2021. Keeping in view the lack of adequate data in this regard; and the public health importance of the second wav...
{ "title": "Clinical profile of hospitalized COVID-19 patients in first & second wave of the pandemic: Insights from an Indian registry based observational study", "abstract": "Background & objectives: India witnessed a massive second surge of COVID-19 cases since March 2021 after a period of decline from September...
{ "title": "Phytoestrogens, novel dietary supplements for breast cancer.", "abstract": "While endocrine therapy is considered as an effective way to treat breast cancer, it still faces many challenges, such as drug resistance and individual discrepancy. Therefore, novel preventive and therapeutic modalities are sti...
{ "title": "Nanoencapsulation and Characterization of Hypercium perforatum for the treatment of Neuropathic Pain.", "abstract": "AIM\nThis work aimed to encapsulate Hypercium perforatum extract (HPE) into nanophytosomes (NPs) and assess therapeutic efficacy of this nanocarrier in neuropathic pain induced by PSNL (P...
{ "title": "Nanophytosomes for enhancement of rutin efficacy in oral administration for diabetes treatment in streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats.", "abstract": "Rutin is a natural antioxidant compound with several therapeutic benefits. However, the application of this bioactive compound is limited due to its low ...
{ "title": "Enhanced physicochemical stability of ω-3 PUFAs concentrates-loaded nanoliposomes decorated by chitosan/gelatin blend coatings.", "abstract": "To enhance the physicochemical stability of ω-3 PUFAs concentrates from fish oil, biopolymer coating based on chitosan (CH) and gelatin (GE) deposited on the sur...
{ "title": "Insights from a workplace SARS-CoV-2 specimen collection program, with genomes placed into global sequence phylogeny", "abstract": "In 2020, the Department of Energy established the National Virtual Biotechnology Laboratory (NVBL) to address key challenges associated with COVID-19. As part of that effor...
{ "title": "2019nCoVR—A comprehensive genomic resource for SARS-CoV-2 variant surveillance", "abstract": "Guoqing Lu1,* and Etsuko N. Moriyama2,* 1Department of Biology, University of Nebraska at Omaha, Omaha, NE 68182, USA 2School of Biological Sciences and Center for Plant Science Innovation, University of Nebras...
{ "title": "More Accurate Estimates of the Accuracy of RT-PCR and Chest CT Tests for COVID-19", "abstract": "In this article, we propose a novel statistical method for estimating the accuracy of chest computed tomography (CT) and reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) tests in the diagnosis of cor...
{ "title": "Exposure risk to heavy metals through surface and groundwater used for drinking and household activities in Ifite Ogwari, Southeastern Nigeria", "abstract": "Surface and groundwater are the most common sources of water in Nigeria's rural communities, which are used for a variety of purposes ranging from...
{ "title": "Hydrogeochemical Assessment of Groundwater and Suitability Analysis for Domestic and Agricultural Utility in Southern Punjab, Pakistan", "abstract": "Groundwater is a critical water supply for safe drinking water, agriculture, and industry worldwide. In the Khanewal district of Punjab, Pakistan, groundw...
{ "title": "Systematic Comparison of Vectorial Spherical Radiative Transfer\nModels in Limb Scattering Geometry", "abstract": "Abstract. A comprehensive inter-comparison of seven radiative transfer models in the limb scattering geometry has been performed. Every model is capable of accounting for polarisation withi...
{ "title": "Tissue microarray molecular profiling of early, node-negative adenocarcinoma of the rectum: a comprehensive analysis.", "abstract": "PURPOSE\nEarly-stage adenocarcinoma of the rectum treated with curative intent has a favorable overall prognosis; however, 20%-30% of the patients recur, and the majority ...
{ "title": "Dukes B Colorectal Cancer: Distinct Genetic Categories and Clinical Outcome Based on Proximal or Distal Tumor Location", "abstract": "PURPOSE The aim of this study was to determine whether tumor location proximal or distal to the splenic flexure is associated with distinct molecular patterns and can pre...
{ "title": "Ectopic production of prolactin by colorectal adenocarcinoma", "abstract": "PURPOSE: This study assessed the role of prolactin in patients with Dukes B and C colorectal carcinoma. METHODS: Circulating prolactin and carcinoembryonic antigen were assayed using immunoradiometric assay and radioimmunoassay ...
{ "title": "The impact of cryo-EM on determining allosteric modulator-bound structures of G protein-coupled receptors.", "abstract": "G-protein coupled receptors (GPCRs) are important therapeutic targets for the treatment of human disease. Although GPCRs are highly successful drug targets, there are many challenges...
{ "title": "Ligand recognition and biased agonism of the D1 dopamine receptor", "abstract": "Dopamine receptors are widely distributed in the central nervous system and are important therapeutic targets for treatment of various psychiatric and neurological diseases. Here, we report three cryo-electron microscopy st...
{ "title": "A Small Sugar Molecule with Huge Potential in Targeted Cancer Therapy", "abstract": "The number of cancer-related diseases is still growing. Despite the availability of a large number of anticancer drugs, the ideal drug is still being sought that would be effective, selective, and overcome the effect of...
{ "title": "NEOPLASTIC CAUSES OF SPINAL CORD AND CAUDA EQUINA COMPRESSION IN ADULTS: PATHOLOGICAL AND STATISTICAL FEATURES", "abstract": "This presentation analyses the histological types, relative incidences, age, sex and anatomical distributions of one hundred and seventy-nine biopsy proven tumors of the spinal c...
{ "title": "Spinal metastases. A retrospective survey from a general hospital.", "abstract": "One hundred and thirty-one patients presenting to a general hospital with neurological symptoms deriving from spinal metastases were reviewed. The primary site of tumour was the lung in 33 per cent, breast in 28 per cent, ...
{ "title": "Racial differences and factors associated with low femoral neck bone mineral density: an analysis of NHANES 2005–2014 data", "abstract": "Summary Using national representative data, we found the prevalence of and risk factors associated with low BMD differed by race and ethnicity. Purpose Race/ethnicity...
{ "title": "Prostate Cancer Risk Stratification via Nondestructive 3D Pathology with Deep Learning–Assisted Gland Analysis", "abstract": "An end-to-end pipeline for deep learning–assisted computational 3D histology analysis of whole prostate biopsies shows that nondestructive 3D pathology has the potential to enabl...
{ "title": "Computationally Derived Cribriform Area Index from Prostate Cancer Hematoxylin and Eosin Images Is Associated with Biochemical Recurrence Following Radical Prostatectomy and Is Most Prognostic in Gleason Grade Group 2.", "abstract": "BACKGROUND\nThe presence of invasive cribriform adenocarcinoma (ICC), ...
{ "title": "Exploring the spatial and temporal dynamics of land use in Xizhuang watershed of Yunnan, southwest China", "abstract": "Over the last two decades, China has introduced a series of agricultural and forestland use reforms, aiming to feed the largest population in the world and maintain ecological services...
{ "title": "The impact of culture, religion, and ethnicity on the adoption of fertilisers in rural Ethiopia", "abstract": "This paper analyses culture as a determinant of technology adoption in a developing country. While the literature discusses the influence of culture upon economic growth, little attention has b...
{ "title": "Quality of Government", "abstract": "In trying to conceptualize quality of government (QoG) one enters into the same difficulties as with other central concepts in the social sciences such as power, democracy, corruption, violence, etc. It is argued that conceptual precision is necessary for creating va...
{ "title": "A Tutorial on Multilevel Survival Analysis: Methods, Models and Applications", "abstract": "Data that have a multilevel structure occur frequently across a range of disciplines, including epidemiology, health services research, public health, education and sociology. We describe three families of regres...
{ "title": "Tardive dyskinesia and dystonia – Clinical case review and grand rounds", "abstract": "Tardive dyskinesia (TD) syndromes are clinical conditions characterized by abnormal involuntary movements of the body and can range from occasional annoying involuntary movements to debilitating dystonia and are assoc...
{ "title": "Prevalence, clinical correlates and risk factors associated with Tardive Dyskinesia in Chinese patients with schizophrenia.", "abstract": "Tardive Dyskinesia (TD) is a serious, nonrhythmic and iatrogenic movement disorder, and is a common comorbidity in patients with schizophrenia (SZ). The main goal of...
{ "title": "Structural Racism and Impact on Sickle Cell Disease: Sickle Cell Lives Matter.", "abstract": "Wealth begets health: the health care system in the United States is run by and benefits the groups that have traditionally held power. Systems of structural racism and health care disparities persist. Patients...
{ "title": "Digital Capability and Sustainable Development of Enterprises: the Role of Long-Term Competitive Advantage", "abstract": ": With the arrival of the VUCA digital economy era, digital resources have become an important factor of production. How to effectively utilize digital resources to build and develop...
{ "title": "Explicating dynamic capabilities: the nature and microfoundations of (sustainable) enterprise performance", "abstract": "This paper draws on the social and behavioral sciences in an endeavor to specify the nature and microfoundations of the capabilities necessary to sustain superior enterprise performan...
{ "title": "Employee Motivation, An Organizational Performance Improvement Strategy (A Review on Influence of Employee Motivation on Organizational Performance)", "abstract": "The major aim of most organizations worldwide is to be good performer in terms of goal achievement. They lay several strategies to boost the...
{ "title": "The Structure of the Zooplankton Community in Spitsbergen Waters during the Winter Period", "abstract": "The plankton community was collected during the winter season from the Isfjord aquatic area, on the western coast of Spitsbergen Island, on November 30–December 6, 2015. Sampling was carried out with...
{ "title": "Non-consumptive mortality in copepods: occurrence of Calanus spp. carcasses in the Arctic Ocean during winter", "abstract": "During a research cruise to the Arctic Ocean in January 2012, we observed high occurrence of carcasses of Calanus spp. We analysed live samples to separate living from dead indivi...
{ "title": "Autonomous Marine Observatories in Kongsfjorden, Svalbard", "abstract": "Several moored autonomous marine observatories, with a variety of sensors and scientific instruments have been installed in Kongsfjorden, Svalbard, since 2002. These provide seasonal and inter-annual data on a number of physical, c...
{ "title": "The role of visual experience in brain inter-individual variability", "abstract": "Visual cortex organization is highly consistent across individuals. But to what degree does this consistency depend on life experience, in particular sensory experience? In this study, we asked whether visual cortex reorg...
{ "title": "Extensive childhood experience with Pokémon suggests eccentricity drives organization of visual cortex", "abstract": "The functional organization of human high-level visual cortex, such as the face- and place-selective regions, is strikingly consistent across individuals. An unanswered question in neuro...
{ "title": "An agenda for research on the sustainability of public health programs.", "abstract": "Funders of programs in public health and community health are increasingly concerned about the sustainability of changes they initiate. Despite a recent increase in sustainability research and evaluation, this literat...
{ "title": "DNA Repair Enzyme XRCC4 30 bp Indel Intron 3 Locus Significant Association with Predisposition of Cataract in Senility.", "abstract": "Impaired DNA damage repair cascade can disrupt the lens transparency due to aging-associated oxidative stress. The aim of study was to assess the association of 30 bp in...
{ "title": "Oxidative Stress and Advanced Lipoxidation and Glycation End Products (ALEs and AGEs) in Aging and Age-Related Diseases", "abstract": "Oxidative stress is a consequence of the use of oxygen in aerobic respiration by living organisms and is denoted as a persistent condition of an imbalance between the ge...
{ "title": "Untargeted Metabolomic Analysis of Sjögren–Larsson Syndrome Reveals a Distinctive Pattern of Multiple Disrupted Biochemical Pathways", "abstract": "Sjögren–Larsson syndrome (SLS) is a rare inherited neurocutaneous disease characterized by ichthyosis, spastic diplegia or tetraplegia, intellectual disabil...
{ "title": "Organohalogen compounds and their metabolites in the blood of Japanese amberjack (Seriola quinqueradiata) and scalloped hammerhead shark (Sphyrna lewini) from Japanese coastal waters.", "abstract": "Information on accumulation of polychlorinated biphenyl metabolites (OH-PCBs) and hydroxylated polybromin...
{ "title": "Halogenated flame retardants in atmospheric particles from a North African coastal city (Bizerte, Tunisia): Pollution characteristics and human exposure", "abstract": "Abstract In the present study, atmospheric particle samples were collected between September 2015 and February 2016 from Bizerte city (T...
{ "title": "Chemical ecology of the marine plankton.", "abstract": "This review summarizes recent work in the chemical ecology of pelagic marine ecosystems. In order to provide a comprehensive overview of advances in the field over the period covered, we have organized this review by ecological interaction type beg...
{ "title": "Evaluation of Awareness and Attitude Regarding Infection Control Practices in Dental Prosthesis Laboratories", "abstract": "Objective: Transport of blood and saliva-contaminated materials such as impressions and prostheses between clinics and laboratories increases the risk of cross-infection. This stud...
{ "title": "Infection control awareness level among dental laboratory technicians, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia", "abstract": "Aims and objectives: Infection control is an essential part in dental practices. Potential disease transmission in the dental lab is well documented. Dental technicians should strictly adhere to th...
{ "title": "Persistence of coronaviruses on inanimate surfaces and their inactivation with biocidal agents", "abstract": "Summary\n \n Currently, the emergence of a novel human coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, has become a global health concern causing severe respiratory tract infections in humans. Human-to-human transmiss...
{ "title": "Subassemblage with semi-rigid joint", "abstract": "The finite element technique is employed to analyse and perform a parametric study on cold-formed thin-walled column subassemblage with a semi-rigid joint. Besides large displacement, the analysis also considers the area of contact between the fastener,...
{ "title": "Channel frames with semi-rigid joints", "abstract": "Abstract The analysis and tests of cold-formed thin-walled channel frames including nonlinear flexible or semi-rigid connection behaviour is presented. The semi-rigid connection behaviour is modelled using a mathematical approximation of the connectio...
{ "title": "A Sensitive and Selective Optical Sensor Based on Molecularly Imprinting Technique Using Green Synthesized Carbon Dots for Determination of Trace Amount of Metronidazole", "abstract": "In this study, an optical sensor has been suggested to measure a trace amount of metronidazole (MTZ). In the first step...
{ "title": "HIV-1 3′-Polypurine Tract Mutations Confer Dolutegravir Resistance by Switching to an Integration-Independent Replication Mechanism via 1-LTR Circles", "abstract": "The integrase inhibitor DTG is a potent inhibitor of HIV replication and is currently recommended in drug regimens for people living with H...
{ "title": "Tax induces the recruitment of NF-kB to unintegrated HIV-1 DNA to rescue viral gene expression and replication", "abstract": "We have previously reported that the normally essential step of integration of the HIV-1 proviral DNA intermediate into the host cell genome becomes dispensable in T cells that e...
{ "title": "Wall shear over high degree stenoses pertinent to atherothrombosis.", "abstract": "Atherothrombosis can induce acute myocardial infarction and stroke by progressive stenosis of a blood vessel lumen to full occlusion. Since thrombus formation and embolization may be shear-dependent, we quantify the magni...
{ "title": "Modelling of Loan Non-Payments with Count Distributions Arising from Non-Exponential Inter-Arrival Times", "abstract": "The number of non-payments is an indicator of delinquent behaviour in credit scoring, hence its estimation and prediction are of interest. The modelling of the number of non-payments, ...
{ "title": "A COLLECTIVE RESERVING MODEL WITH CLAIM OPENNESS", "abstract": "Abstract The present paper introduces a simple aggregated reserving model based on claim count and payment dynamics, which allows for claim closings and re-openings. The modelling starts off from individual Poisson process claim dynamics in...
{ "title": "Efficient synthesis of bio-based activated carbon (AC) for catalytic systems: A green and sustainable approach", "abstract": "Abstract Tremendous efforts in developing sustainable processes for integrated production of value-added products/chemicals and fuels in biorefineries increase through delicate d...
{ "title": "Overcoming Conflicting Definitions of “Euthanasia,” and of “Assisted Suicide,” Through a Value-Neutral Taxonomy of “End-Of-Life Practices”", "abstract": "The term “euthanasia” is used in conflicting ways in the bioethical literature, as is the term “assisted suicide,” resulting in definitional confusion...
{ "title": "End-of-life decisions in medical practice: a survey of doctors in Victoria (Australia)", "abstract": "Objectives: To discover the current state of opinion and practice among doctors in Victoria, Australia, regarding end-of-life decisions and the legalisation of voluntary euthanasia. Longitudinal compari...
{ "title": "Competing paradigms of response to assisted suicide requests in Oregon.", "abstract": "Legalization of assisted suicide in Oregon ushered in a new approach to evaluating suicidal patients with serious medical illnesses. Two competing paradigms—the traditional model (1–4) and the assisted suicide compete...
{ "title": "Correction", "abstract": "AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES Correction for “Targeted microRNA expression in dairy cattle directs production of β-lactoglobulin-free, high-casein milk,” by Anower Jabed, Stefan Wagner, Judi McCracken, David N. Wells, and Goetz Laible, which appeared in issue 42, October 16, 2012, of P...
{ "title": "Production of Transgenic Calves Expressing an shRNA Targeting Myostatin", "abstract": "Myostatin (MSTN) is a well‐known negative regulator of muscle growth. Animals that possess mutations within this gene display an enhanced muscling phenotype, a desirable agricultural trait. Increased neonatal morbidit...
{ "title": "Procyclicality and Monetary Aggregates", "abstract": "Financial intermediaries borrow in order to lend. When credit is increasing rapidly, the traditional deposit funding (core liabilities) is supplemented with other funding (non-core liabilities). We explore the hypothesis that monetary aggregates refl...
{ "title": "“Appropriateness” in foreign language acquisition and use: Some theoretical, methodological and ethical considerations", "abstract": "Abstract In this contribution, I focus on the concept of “appropriateness” in the usage, the learning and the teaching of foreign languages. Using a participant-based emi...
{ "title": "The emotional weight of I love you in multilinguals' languages", "abstract": "Abstract The present paper considers the perceived emotional weight of the phrase I love you in multilinguals’ different languages. The sample consists of 1459 adult multilinguals speaking a total of 77 different first languag...
{ "title": "Emotion and emotion-laden words in the bilingual lexicon", "abstract": "The purpose of this paper is to draw on recent studies of bilingualism and emotions to argue for three types of modifications to the current models of the bilingual lexicon. The first modification involves word categories: I will sh...
{ "title": "Stratigraphy and tectonic evolution of Late Miocene - Quaternary Basins in Eastern Albania: A Review", "abstract": "The new stratigraphic data and tectonic evolution of the Late Miocene-Quaternary basins developed in Eastern Albania are presented. The reviewed stratigraphic data for deposits filling the...
{ "title": "Ground Deformation and Seismic Fault Model of the M6.4 Durres (Albania) Nov. 26, 2019 Earthquake, Based on GNSS/INSAR Observations", "abstract": "We identify the source of the Mw = 6.4 earthquake that rocked north-central Albania on November 26, 2019 02:54 UTC. We use synthetic aperture radar interferog...
{ "title": "The Destructive Earthquake (Mw6.4) of 26 November 2019 in Albania: a First Report", "abstract": "<p>On 26 November 2019 an Mw6.4 earthquake ruptured along the Adriatic coast of Albania causing extensive destruction, mainly in Durr&#235;s city and Thuman&#235; town, claiming 51 human lives. Maximum inten...
{ "title": "Using Geospatial Analysis to Evaluate Access to Lung Cancer Screening in the United States.", "abstract": "BACKGROUND\nScreening current and former heavy smokers aged 55-80 years for lung cancer with low dose chest CT has been recommended by the USPSTF since 2013. Although the number of screening facili...
{ "title": "Cancer statistics, 2020", "abstract": "Each year, the American Cancer Society estimates the numbers of new cancer cases and deaths that will occur in the United States and compiles the most recent data on population‐based cancer occurrence. Incidence data (through 2016) were collected by the Surveillanc...
{ "title": "Unmet Clinical Need: Developing Prognostic Biomarkers and Precision Medicine to Forecast Early Tumor Relapse, Detect Chemo-Resistance and Improve Overall Survival in High-Risk Breast Cancer", "abstract": "Chemo-resistant breast cancer is a major barrier to curative treatment for a significant number of ...
{ "title": "An Implicit Hybrid Delay Functional Integral Equation: Existence of Integrable Solutions and Continuous Dependence", "abstract": "In this work, we are discussing the solvability of an implicit hybrid delay nonlinear functional integral equation. We prove the existence of integrable solutions by using th...
{ "title": "Analytical investigation of nonlinear hybrid implicit functional differential inclusions of arbitrary fractional orders", "abstract": "Here, in this article, we study some existence results of monotonic integrable solutions for a nonlinear hybrid implicit functional differential inclusion of arbitrary f...
{ "title": "Revisiting the General Identifiability Problem", "abstract": "We revisit the problem of general identifiability originally introduced in [Lee et al., 2019] for causal inference and note that it is necessary to add positivity assumption of observational distribution to the original definition of the prob...
{ "title": "Outcomes of the Initial Surgical Treatment without Neoadjuvant Therapy in Patients with Unexpected N2 Non-small Cell Lung Cancer", "abstract": "Background: Preoperative chemotherapy has been adopted in our hospital as a standard treatment for non-small cell lung cancer patients with N2 disease. However,...
{ "title": "FDG PET / CT and Mediastinal Nodal Metastasis Detection in Stage T 1 Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer : Prognostic Implications", "abstract": "Materials and Methods: Our institutional review board approved this retrospective study with a waiver of informed consent. The study included 184 patients (124 men and...
{ "title": "Mediastinal nodal staging of nonsmall cell lung cancer using integrated 18F‐FDG PET/CT in a tuberculosis‐endemic country", "abstract": "Integrated 18fluorine fluorodeoxyglucose (18F‐FDG) positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) has shown somewhat variable sensitivity and specificity for...
{ "title": "What do Language Models know about word senses? Zero-Shot WSD with Language Models and Domain Inventories", "abstract": "Language Models are the core for almost any Natural Language Processing system nowadays. One of their particularities is their contextualized representations, a game changer feature w...
{ "title": "ZS4IE: A toolkit for Zero-Shot Information Extraction with simple Verbalizations", "abstract": "The current workflow for Information Extraction (IE) analysts involves the definition of the entities/relations of interest and a training corpus with annotated examples. In this demonstration we introduce a ...
{ "title": "WARP: Word-level Adversarial ReProgramming", "abstract": "Transfer learning from pretrained language models recently became the dominant approach for solving many NLP tasks. A common approach to transfer learning for multiple tasks that maximize parameter sharing trains one or more task-specific layers ...
{ "title": "Investigation of the Pauli paramagnetic effect in systematically tuned NbN thin films", "abstract": "Superconductivity and the normal-state properties of NbN films can be tuned in a wide range, supplying a suitable platform to investigate the systematical evolution of the superconducting performances. H...
{ "title": "Quantized current steps due to the a.c. coherent quantum phase-slip effect", "abstract": "The a.c. Josephson effect predicted in 19621 and observed experimentally in 19632 as quantized ‘voltage steps’ (the Shapiro steps) from photon-assisted tunnelling of Cooper pairs is among the most fundamental pheno...
{ "title": "Quantum breakdown of superconductivity in low-dimensional materials", "abstract": "In order to understand the emergence of superconductivity it is useful to study the reverse process and identify the various pathways that lead to its destruction. One way is to increase the amount of disorder, as this le...
{ "title": "Absorption Spectra of Dye Solutions Measured Using a White Light Thermal Lens Spectrophotometer", "abstract": "We describe a two-beam thermal lens spectrophotometer that uses a xenon lamp as the excitation source and a low power diode pumped Nd-YAG laser as the probe light. The white light from the xeno...
{ "title": "Thermal lensing and absorbance spectra of a fluorescent dye solution", "abstract": "We compare thermal lensing and absorbance spectra of a fluorescent dye solution. When the dye solution shows a strong fluorescence, the thermal lensing spectrum is blue-shifted and broadened when comparing to the absorba...
{ "title": "Mode-mismatched thermal lens experiment in the pulse regime", "abstract": "We present a pump-probe mode-mismatched thermal lens method for pulse excitation aimed to the measurement of one- and multi-photon absorption coefficient with high sensitivity. Short pulses of light are used as pump source while ...
{ "title": "Half-spherical twists on derived categories of coherent sheaves", "abstract": "Let $\\pi \\colon X \\to T$ be a flat morphism between smooth quasi-projective varieties and $Y$ be a fiber. We prove that the twist functors on $D^b(X)$ along spherical objects pushed-forward from $D^b(Y)$ induce autoequival...
{ "title": "Arithmetic mirror symmetry for genus 1 curves with n marked points", "abstract": "We establish a $${\\mathbb {Z}}[[t_1,\\ldots , t_n]]$$Z[[t1,…,tn]]-linear derived equivalence between the relative Fukaya category of the 2-torus with n distinct marked points and the derived category of perfect complexes ...
{ "title": "Numerical Integration of Second Order Differential—Algebraic Systems in Flexible Mechanism Dynamics", "abstract": "This paper studies second order accurate methods to numerically time-integrate the equations of motion for flexible mechanism dynamics. The aspects of stability, accuracy, conditioning of e...
{ "title": "Lifestyle physical activity intensity and rapid-rate non-sustained ventricular tachycardia in arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy", "abstract": "Objectives: This study aimed to investigate the association of accelerometer-measured lifestyle physical activity with the incidence of rapid-rate non-sustained vent...
{ "title": "Facts and Gaps in Exercise Influence on Arrhythmogenic Cardiomyopathy: New Insights From a Meta-Analysis Approach", "abstract": "Arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy (ACM) is a genetic cardiac condition characterized by fibrofatty myocardial replacement, either at the right ventricle, at the left ventricle, or...
{ "title": "Quantum Circuit Engineering for Correcting Coherent Noise", "abstract": "Crosstalk and several sources of operational interference are invisible when qubit or a gate is calibrated or benchmarked in isolation. These are unlocked during the execution of full quantum circuit applying entangling gates to se...
{ "title": "Stress Cardiomyopathy Induced by Refractory Hypoglycemia Due to Acute Sulfonylurea Intoxication", "abstract": "Takotsubo cardiomyopathy (TCM) is a reversible syndrome that resembles a myocardial infarction but without typical coronary stenosis and with an apical “ballooning” image present on an echocard...
{ "title": "Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy in Anorexia Nervosa Patients: Why Is It Happening?", "abstract": "Hassan, A. and Freyre A.  Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy in Anorexia Nervosa Patients: Why Is It Happening?  International Cardiovascular Forum Journal. 2015;4:59-60  DOI: 10.17987/icfj.v4i0.121", "corpus_id": 7447809...
{ "title": "Two cases of torsades de pointes associated with Takotsubo cardiomyopathy as the second insult.", "abstract": "Torsades de pointes (TdP) is a fatal polymorphic ventricular tachyarrhythmia that is related to QTc prolongation. Takotsubo cardiomyopathy (TCM) is characterized by acute transient left ventric...
{ "title": "Intrinsic Functional Plasticity of the Sensorimotor Network in Relapsing-Remitting Multiple Sclerosis: Evidence from a Centrality Analysis", "abstract": "Background and Purpose Advanced MRI studies have revealed regional alterations in the sensorimotor cortex of patients with relapsing-remitting multipl...
{ "title": "Intrinsic Functional Plasticity of the Sensory-Motor Network in Patients with Cervical Spondylotic Myelopathy", "abstract": "Several neuroimaging studies have suggested brain reorganisation in patients with cervical spondylotic myelopathy (CSM); however, the changes in spontaneous neuronal activity that...
{ "title": "The spectrum of bleeding in women and girls with haemophilia B", "abstract": "Although hemophilia B affects 1 in 25,000 males there may be 3 female hemophilia B carriers per affected male. This clinical review highlights the unique challenges faced by hemophilia B carriers including the under‐recognitio...
{ "title": "Increased radiographic opacity in the region of the gallbladder can be identified in dogs with large amounts of gallbladder sediment, sludge balls, and gallbladder mucocele.", "abstract": "Increased soft-tissue opacity in the region of the canine gallbladder is incidentally detected on radiographs. We h...
{ "title": "Clinical relevance of radiographic linear branching mineral opacities in the canine liver", "abstract": "OBJECTIVES\nTo assess the prevalence, clinical significance and breed distribution of linear branching mineralisation superimposed on the hepatic radiographic silhouette in dogs.\n\n\nMATERIALS AND M...
{ "title": "Active Pulmonary Tuberculosis in Elderly Patients: A 2016–2019 Retrospective Analysis from an Italian Referral Hospital", "abstract": "Tuberculosis (TB) in the elderly (>65 years old) has increasingly become a global health problem. It has long been recognized that older people are vulnerable to develop...
{ "title": "Designing Strategies for Autonomous Stock Trading Agents using a Random Forest Approach", "abstract": "Machine learning-based autonomous agents are valuable for back-testing stock trading strategies, including algorithmic trading. Several studies in the financial literature have proposed artificial inte...
{ "title": "Systematic analysis and review of stock market prediction techniques", "abstract": "Abstract Prediction of stock market trends is considered as an important task and is of great attention as predicting stock prices successfully may lead to attractive profits by making proper decisions. Stock market pred...
{ "title": "DeflickerCycleGAN: Learning to Detect and Remove Flickers in a Single Image", "abstract": "Eliminating the flickers in digital images captured by rolling shutter cameras is a fundamental and important task in computer vision applications. The flickering effect in a single image stems from the mechanism ...
{ "title": "Financial feasibility study and innovation in robotic milking", "abstract": "The study aimed to analyze the financial feasibility of implementing robotic milking on a dairy farm in western Santa Catarina/Brazil. This is a descriptive case study with a qualitative basis using semi-structured interviews. ...
{ "title": "Ordenha robotizada de vacas leiteiras: uma revisão", "abstract": "An innovative technology that currently tries to gain market share are milking robots. Despite the high costs, robotic milking may produce benefits for the farmer and for animals submitted to this system. The objective of this study was t...
{ "title": "Service customer orientation and social sustainability: The case of small medium enterprises", "abstract": "Abstract Social sustainability is an intricate subject with interrelated but distinct components. This paper measures social sustainability as an employee outcome, customer outcome and organizatio...
{ "title": "Role of Acetaldehyde on Synthesizing Large Surface Area Porous g-C3N4 Nanosheets with Enhanced Photocatalytic Performance by Using Acetaldehyde–Melamine", "abstract": "Large specific surface area porous g-C3N4 nanosheets were prepared by utilizing acetaldehyde-mediated melamine. The synthetic processes ...
{ "title": "High-yield and low-cost method to synthesize large-area porous g-C3N4 nanosheets with improved photocatalytic activity for gaseous nitric oxide and 2-propanol photodegradation", "abstract": "Abstract A high-yield and low-cost method was developed for preparing graphitic carbon nitride (g-C3N4) with high...
{ "title": "Efficient and sustainable metal-free GR/C3N4/CDots ternary heterostructrues for versatile visible-light-driven photoredox applications: Toward synergistic interaction of carbon materials", "abstract": "Abstract A sheet-on-sheet and metal-free graphene/C 3 N 4 /carbon dots (GR/C 3 N 4 /CDots) ternary het...
{ "title": "G-CSF Granulocyte colony-stimulating factor ICU Intensive care units IFN-y Interferon-gamma IL-6 Interleukin-6 IL-1B Interleukin 1B MERS Middle East respiratory syndrome MCP-1 Monocyte chemoattracting protein 1 SARS Severe acute respiratory syndrome TNF-a Tumor necrosis factor-alpha", "abstract": "Coron...
{ "title": "A Retrospective Controlled Cohort Study of the Impact of Glucocorticoid Treatment in SARS-CoV-2 Infection Mortality", "abstract": "Evidence to support the use of steroids in coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pneumonia is lacking. We aim to determine the impact of steroid use for COVID-19 pneumonia on ...
{ "title": "Hepatitis C Virus Infection in Pregnancy", "abstract": "Parenteral transmission is the major route of hepatitis C virus transmission in adults; however, vertical transmission is most common in children. There are several factors that have been shown to be associated with vertical transmission of hepatit...
{ "title": "An Investigation of the Mechanism on Interfacial Charge Transformation of the TiB2/Cu Composites Studied by the First Principles", "abstract": "The charge communications have been widely existed in the metal materials when they are under the processing, the modeling and the failing. We studied the inter...
{ "title": "The bonding characteristics of the Cu(111)/WC(0001) interface: An insight from first-principle calculations", "abstract": "Abstract A detailed theoretical investigation of the interface binding characteristics of Cu(111)/WC(0001) interfaces is studied by first-principles method. The calculation results ...
{ "title": "Microstructure and mechanical property of bimodal-size metallic glass particle-reinforced Al alloy matrix composites", "abstract": "Abstract A bimodal size metallic glassy particles reinforced 7075 aluminum composite was fabricated by powder metallurgy via ball milling and hot extrusion. The results sho...
{ "title": "Target prediction utilising negative bioactivity data covering large chemical space", "abstract": "BackgroundIn silico analyses are increasingly being used to support mode-of-action investigations; however many such approaches do not utilise the large amounts of inactive data held in chemogenomic reposi...
{ "title": "CXCR4 expression is elevated in TNBC patient derived samples and Z-guggulsterone abrogates tumor progression by targeting CXCL12/CXCR4 signaling axis in mice model.", "abstract": "Environmental factors such as exposure to ionizing radiations, certain environmental pollutants, and toxic chemicals are con...
{ "title": "TNF-α and its inhibitors in cancer", "abstract": "Tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-α is implicated in the same time in apoptosis and in cell proliferation. TNF-α not only acts as pro-inflammatory cytokine conducing to wide spectrum of human diseases including inflammatory diseases, but can also induce tumor ...
{ "title": "Biofeedback system with interchangeable modules for applied research and clinical practice using microcomputer interface", "abstract": "The authors describe the design and construction of an electronic system to perform biofeedback studies. The system consists of interchangeable modules that will permit...
{ "title": "An LED-Transistor Photoplethysmograph", "abstract": "A commercial transducer combining a gallium arsenide infrared emitting diode and silicon phototransistor has been adapted for use as a photoelectric plethysmograph. This device is superior to the tungsten lamp-photoconductive cell plethysmograph gener...
{ "title": "Object-oriented design of real-time software", "abstract": "An examination is made of the ability of the object-oriented model to represent and encapsulate the temporal characteristics of adaptable, real-time software. The differences between object-oriented design and the more traditional function-orie...
{ "title": "Parieto-Occipital Alpha and Low-Beta EEG Power Reflect Sense of Agency", "abstract": "The sense of agency (SoA) is part of psychophysiological modules related to the self. Disturbed SoA is found in several clinical conditions, hence understanding the neural correlates of the SoA is useful for the diagno...
{ "title": "Brain State Relays Self-Processing and Heartbeat-Evoked Cortical Responses", "abstract": "The self has been proposed to be grounded in interoceptive processing, with heartbeat-evoked cortical activity as a neurophysiological marker of this processing. However, inconsistent findings have been reported on...
{ "title": "Empirical Bayes estimation of normal means, accounting for uncertainty in estimated standard errors", "abstract": "We consider Empirical Bayes (EB) estimation in the normal means problem, when the standard deviations of the observations are not known precisely, but estimated with error -- which is almos...
{ "title": "Success Factors of Social Entrepreneurship: A Case Study of the Russian Far East", "abstract": "When it comes to the social firms’ performance, currently there is a huge interest in this issue. Some authors suppose that there is a correlation between human capital and success. Although, the interrelatio...
{ "title": "The role and characteristics of social entrepreneurs in contemporary rural cooperative development in China: case studies of rural social entrepreneurship", "abstract": "Rural communities in China have experienced rapid changes in recent years under the government's policy of ‘new countryside developmen...
{ "title": "Entrepreneurial knowledge, personal attitudes, and entrepreneurship intentions among South African Enactus students", "abstract": "This paper investigates how action-based entrepreneurship training influences entrepreneurial knowledge and personal attitudes, which in turn reportedly develop individuals’...
{ "title": "Evaluation of the User Adaptation in a BCI Game Environment", "abstract": "Brain-computer interface (BCI) technology is a developing field of study with numerous applications. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the use of brain signals as a direct communication pathway to an external device. In thi...
{ "title": "Design of a Brain-Controlled Video Game based on a BCI System", "abstract": "The Computer Brain Interface (BCIs) is a new type of user interface designed to recognize real-time user-specific intentions based on user brain mapping. Gradual advancing technology behind the BCI interface has made it possibl...
{ "title": "2018 N2c2 Shared Task on Adverse Drug Events and Medication Extraction in Electronic Health Records", "abstract": "OBJECTIVE\nThis article summarizes the preparation, organization, evaluation, and results of Track 2 of the 2018 National NLP Clinical Challenges shared task. Track 2 focused on extraction ...
{ "title": "Know&Share: Social network to disseminate topic ideas for undergraduate works", "abstract": "Even though all Universidad Javeriana' students must present a undergraduate work, the election about which topic to develop, is usually the most difficult task to perform. On the other hand, professors have top...
{ "title": "ResearchGate: Disseminating, communicating, and measuring Scholarship?", "abstract": "ResearchGate is a social network site for academics to create their own profiles, list their publications, and interact with each other. Like Academia.edu, it provides a new way for scholars to disseminate their work a...
{ "title": "Combined Safety and Cybersecurity Testing Methodology for Autonomous Driving Algorithms", "abstract": "Combined safety and cybersecurity testing are critical for assessing the reliability and optimisation of autonomous driving (AD) algorithms. However, safety and cybersecurity testing is often conducted...
{ "title": "Common pool resource management and risk perceptions", "abstract": "Motivated by recent discussions about the issue of risk perceptions for climate change related events, we introduce a non-cooperative game setting where agents manage a common pool resource under a potential risk, and agents exhibit diff...
{ "title": "God did not save the kings: Environmental consequences of the 1982 Falklands War", "abstract": "Warfare has been found to have detrimental impacts on biodiversity due to its long-lasting economic and social consequences. Yet, much less is known about the amount of biodiversity loss directly resulting fr...
{ "title": "NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) global database on microplastics", "abstract": "Microplastics (< 5 mm) pollution is a growing problem affecting marine ecosystems, aquatic life, and human health. Despite the growing awareness, data management of measurements of marine debris la...
{ "title": "Electron Magnetic Resonance of Iron-Sulfur Proteins in Electron-Transfer Chains:Resolving Complexity", "abstract": "Iron–sulfur clusters, some of the most abundant electron-transfer groups in biology, were first detected and investigated using EPR spectroscopy. They are commonly found in large, membrane...
{ "title": "Reevaluating the relationship between EPR spectra and enzyme structure for the iron–sulfur clusters in NADH:quinone oxidoreductase", "abstract": "NADH:quinone oxidoreductase (complex I) plays a pivotal role in cellular energy production. It employs a series of redox cofactors to couple electron transfer...
{ "title": "Oxidative desulfurization of dibenzothiophene with molecular oxygen using cobalt and copper salen complexes encapsulated in NaY zeolite", "abstract": "Abstract The objective of the research is to develop a new method for removal of organic sulfur in liquid fuels. Cobalt and copper salen (salen=N, N’-bis...
{ "title": "How OECD Countries Subsidizes Oil and Natural Gas Producers and Modeling the Consequences", "abstract": "Since fossil fuel subsidies entail significant economic, fiscal, social and environmental costs, more and more attention is being paid to phase out fossil fuel subsidies. The OECD has recently comple...
{ "title": "Bottom-up modeling of oil production : A review of approaches", "abstract": "Bottom-up models of oil production are continuously being used to guide investments and policymaking. Compared to simpler top-down models, bottom-up models have a number of advantages due to their modularity, flexibility and co...
{ "title": "VALUATION AND UNDERPRICING OF TURKISH IPOS", "abstract": "This study utilizes prospectuses and supplementary valuation reports to investigate the relationship between underwriters’ valuation and underpricing in 113 firms going public on Borsa Istanbul. It argues that underwriter discretion in the valuat...
{ "title": "Particularly in Highly Developed and More Gender Egalitarian Societies: Sex Differences in Attitudes Towards Homosexuality.", "abstract": "Time and again, research has shown that men are less accepting of homosexuality than women. Studies on such attitudinal sex differences have been overwhelmingly cond...
{ "title": "Best Practices for Estimating, Interpreting, and Presenting Nonlinear Interaction Effects", "abstract": "Many effects of interest to sociologists are nonlinear. Additionally, many effects of interest are interaction effects—that is, the effect of one independent variable is contingent on the level of an...
{ "title": "Experimental study of solar photovoltaic/thermal (PV/T) air collector drying performance", "abstract": "Abstract Solar thermal technology has prospects for the broad application of drying agricultural and associated products. Solar hot air drying technology can effectively solve storage and transportati...
{ "title": "Uso dos termos consciência, conscientização e tomada de consciência nos trabalhos paranaenses de Educação Ambiental", "abstract": "O artigo analisa o uso dos termos consciencia, conscientizacao e tomada de consciencia nos trabalhos apresentados no IX e X Encontro Paranaense de Educacao Ambiental – EPEA ...
{ "title": "A pesquisa de educação ambiental nos eventos da ANPEDSUL (1998-2000)", "abstract": "This paper aims at describing the investigation and the evaluation of bibliographical reviews in the papers in Environmental Education (EE) which were published in the 1st, 2nd and 3rd ANPEDSUL. A bibliographical meta-an...
{ "title": "Hand injuries in sports – a retrospective analysis of 364 cases", "abstract": "Background Hand injuries are common in sports and associated with high dropout rates and costs. Hence, efforts should strive for further risk prevention measures in order to increase safety in sports. This implies knowledge o...
{ "title": "New aldo-keto reductase 1C3 (AKR1C3) inhibitors based on the hydroxytriazole scaffold.", "abstract": "The aldo-keto reductase 1C3 (AKR1C3) enzyme is considered an attractive target in Castration Resistant Prostate Cancer (CRPC) because of its role in the biosynthesis of androgens. Flufenamic acid, a non...
{ "title": "Aldo-Keto Reductases and Cancer Drug Resistance", "abstract": "Human aldo-keto reductases (AKRs) catalyze the NADPH-dependent reduction of carbonyl groups to alcohols for conjugation reactions to proceed. They are implicated in resistance to cancer chemotherapeutic agents either because they are directl...
{ "title": "Aldo-keto reductase 1C3 - assessment as a new target for the treatment of endometriosis.", "abstract": "Endometriosis is a common gynecological disorder, which is treated surgically and/ or pharmacologically with an unmet clinical need for new therapeutics. A completed phase I trial and a recent phase I...
{ "title": "Ginseng of different ages is affected by the accumulation of heavy metals in ginseng soil", "abstract": "Heavy-metal pollution has been established to affect ginseng quality. However, this effect is still unknown in ginseng of different ages, emphasizing the need to investigate the effects of heavy meta...
{ "title": "Removal of Heavy Metals in Contaminated Soil by Phytoremediation Mechanism: a Review", "abstract": "The rapid development of industrial sector has increased the heavy metal pollution issue recently, as the need of various metals is increasing for manufacturing purpose. These metals are the natural compo...
{ "title": "The effect of NaOH for the recovery of elemental mercury from simulated mixture wastes and waste sludge from an industrial process using a thermal desorption process.", "abstract": "The need for appropriate management of mercury (Hg) wastes is increasing for active implementation of the Minamata Convent...
{ "title": "Design and characterisation of an amorphous formulation of nifedipine for the treatment of autonomic dysreflexia.", "abstract": "OBJECTIVES\nCurrent treatment for autonomic dysreflexia (AD) involves rupturing a liquid-filled soft capsule of nifedipine to aid rapid drug release and absorption, however, t...
{ "title": "Physicochemical Properties of Poly-vinyl Polymers and Their Influence on Ketoprofen Amorphous Solid Dispersion Performance: A Polymer Selection Case Study", "abstract": "When developing an amorphous solid dispersion (ASD), a prudent choice of polymer is critical to several aspects of ASD performance inc...
{ "title": "Medicines management in care homes", "abstract": "There is an increasing demand on health and social care to provide high quality care to older adults in the UK as the population of this vulnerable group grows. These services should meet the needs of individuals who can have a range of acute and chronic...
{ "title": "DFT, FTIR, Raman and NMR study of 1-methyl-8-oxyquinolinium betaine", "abstract": "Abstract 1-Methyl-8-oxyquinolinium betaine, 8QB, has been characterized by FTIR, Raman, 1 H and 13 C NMR spectra and B3LYP calculations with 6-31G(d,p) and 6-311G(d,p) basis sets using the conductor-like screening continu...
{ "title": "X-ray, DFT, FTIR and NMR structural study of 2,3-dihydro-2-(R-phenylacylidene)-1,3,3-trimethyl-1H-indole", "abstract": "Abstract Fischer base derivatives are widely used as precursor in the formation of different chemical switches. Besides, in the presence of acyl chlorides, indole enaminoketone derivat...
{ "title": "Impact of pH on Aqueous-Phase Phenol Hydrogenation Catalyzed by Carbon-Supported Pt and Rh", "abstract": "In aqueous phase, the rates of hydrogenation of aromatic substrates such as phenol on Pt/C and Rh/C are influenced by varying activity of hydronium ions. Decreasing the pH from 8 to 1 increases the ...
{ "title": "Assessment and Comparison of Knowledge and Awareness about Hand Hygiene among Health Care Workers from PHC and Medical College", "abstract": "Objectives: Present study was conducted to assess and compare the knowledge of hand hygiene (HH) according to WHO guidelines among healthcare workers (HCW) from m...
{ "title": "The knowledge of hand hygiene among the healthcare workers of two teaching hospitals in Mashhad", "abstract": "Introduction Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) affect millions of patients worldwide annually. Hand hygiene (HH) has been identified as the single most important factor preventing HAIs. T...
{ "title": "Depression: Prevalence and Associated Risk Factors in the United Arab Emirates", "abstract": "A Depression is a prevalent mental healthcare problem and a common cause of disability worldwide. The purpose of this study was to determine the prevalence and risk factors of depression in individuals living i...
{ "title": "Development of contextual learning models through collaboration between lecturers, students, and village governments in nursing education", "abstract": "Purpose This study aims to develop a contextual learning model through a collaboration between lecturers, students, and the village government for nurs...
{ "title": "Summative program evaluation of a Student-Led Seminar Series in the subject of physiology: an outcome-based study", "abstract": "Purpose Active involvement of students in their learning process is a recommended andragogical approach to increase student engagement. Many new teaching-learning strategies b...
{ "title": "Preservice teachers' use of spatio-visual elements and their level of justification dealing with a geometrical construction problem", "abstract": "The main purpose of this research is to determine to what extent preservice teachers use visual elements and mathematical properties when they are dealing wi...
{ "title": "Improvement of the Method for the High-Carbon Wire Rod Pearlite Grain Grade Identification", "abstract": "The main characteristics of metal long products quality include mechanical properties, depending on the microstructure state. The key indicator for evaluation the micro-structure of high carbon stee...
{ "title": "The Assessment Of The Structure And Properties Of High-Carbon Steel Wires After The Process Of Patenting With Induction Heating", "abstract": "One of the most important types of heat treatment that high-carbon steel wires are subjected to is the patenting treatment. This process is conducted with the ai...
{ "title": "Low-temperature micromechanical properties of annealed and hydrostatically extruded Al–3.8 at. % Li alloy", "abstract": "The structural state of as-received course-grained (CG) and extruded ultrafine-grained (UFG) billets of Al–3.8 at. % Li substitutional alloy as well as that of the samples of the same...
{ "title": "Asymptotic stability of dynamical systems with Barbalat’s lemma and Lyapunov function", "abstract": "The article explains Barbalat’s lemma, combining the application of Barbalat’s lemma, the Lyapunov function, and the theorem Lagrange to ensure mathematical certainty in analyzing the asymptotic stabilit...
{ "title": "New versions of Barbalat’s lemma with applications", "abstract": "This note presents a set of new versions of Barbalat’s lemma combining with positive (negative) definite functions. Based on these results, a set of new formulations of Lyapunov-like lemma are established. A simple example shows the usefu...
{ "title": "Applied Nonlinear Control", "abstract": "Covers in a progressive fashion a number of analysis tools and design techniques directly applicable to nonlinear control problems in high performance systems (in aerospace, robotics and automotive areas).", "corpus_id": 106519536 }
{ "title": "Text Generation with Diffusion Language Models: A Pre-training Approach with Continuous Paragraph Denoise", "abstract": "In this paper, we introduce a novel dIffusion language modEl pre-training framework for text generation, which we call GENIE. GENIE is a large-scale pretrained diffusion language mode...
{ "title": "XDLM: Cross-lingual Diffusion Language Model for Machine Translation", "abstract": "Recently, diffusion models have excelled in image generation tasks and have also been applied to neural language processing (NLP) for controllable text generation. However, the application of diffusion models in a cross-...
{ "title": "Architecture and Finite Precision Optimization for Layered LDPC Decoders", "abstract": "Layered decoding is known to provide efficient and high-throughput implementation of LDPC decoders. However, two main issues affect performance and area of practical implementations: quantization and memory. Quantiza...
{ "title": "Asymptotic analysis of turbulent channel and boundary-layer flow", "abstract": "Asymptotic expansion techniques are used, in the limit of large Reynolds number, to study the structure of fully turbulent shear layers. The relevant Reynolds number characterizes the ratio of the local turbulent stress to t...
{ "title": "The turbulence structure of equilibrium boundary layers", "abstract": "Measurements in three boundary layers, one with constant free-stream velocity and two with power-law variations of free-stream velocity giving ‘moderate’ and ‘strong’ adverse pressure gradients, are presented and discussed. Several u...
{ "title": "Steady active control of noise radiation from highly heated supersonic jets.", "abstract": "The goal of the present investigation is to study the effect of using fluid inserts for noise control at high exhaust temperatures by performing a sequence of large eddy simulations on a typical military-style no...
{ "title": "An Improved Theory of the Instrumental Corrections for Absolute Radiometers", "abstract": "An improved theory of the instrumental corrections applied to absolute radiometers, with the exception of the effect of sensitivity variations across the receiver surface, is derived. After a brief review of the h...
{ "title": "6 – Instrumental Corrections in Absolute Radiometry", "abstract": "In order to recognize the difference between the environmental and instru­ mental corrections for absolute radiometers, it is useful to consider the main components involved in a typical measurement with such instruments. These are depic...
{ "title": "Delay-dependent robust stability of uncertain delayed stochastic systems: an LMI-based approach", "abstract": "In this paper we give a sufficient condition of delay dependent robust stability in terms of linear matrix inequalities (LMIs) for linear and nonlinear stochastic delayed systems with norm-boun...
{ "title": "Adolescents' problematic internet and smartphone use in (cyber)bullying experiences: A network analysis.", "abstract": "BACKGROUND\nThis study investigates both offline and online bullying perpetration and victimization in association with problematic internet use (PIU) and problematic smartphone use (P...
{ "title": "Editorial: Control alt delete - technology and children's mental health.", "abstract": "With international contributions from Denmark, Peru, Italy, Turkey, Estonia, Russia, Canada, the USA, Australia and the UK, this special issue offers insights and evidence about the technology's ability to act as a f...
{ "title": "Learning Safe, Generalizable Perception-Based Hybrid Control With Certificates", "abstract": "Many robotic tasks require high-dimensional sensors such as cameras and Lidar to navigate complex environments, but developing certifiably safe feedback controllers around these sensors remains a challenging op...
{ "title": "Research Progress of Urban Heat Wave Environment", "abstract": "High temperature heat wave is one of the disasters with higher frequency and greater impact in extreme weather. This article starts with the definition, disaster and health, influencing factors, prevention and control of high temperature he...
{ "title": "PHOENICS-based Simulation Study on Winter Wind Environment in Outdoor Space of Old Communities—Taking Sanlihe Community of Beijing as An Example", "abstract": "The quality of wind environment is closely related to the comfort of outdoor space, and the wind environment is an important factor affecting ou...
{ "title": "Controlling the carrier recombination zone for improved color stability in a two-dopant fluorophore/phosphor white organic light-emitting diode", "abstract": "A white organic light-emitting diode (WOLED) is produced upon systematic introduction of deep-blue fluorescence from 4,4′-bis(9-ethyl-3-carbazovi...
{ "title": "Deep-Learning Based Estimation of Dielectrophoretic Force", "abstract": "The ability to accurately quantify dielectrophoretic (DEP) force is critical in the development of high-efficiency microfluidic systems. This is the first reported work that combines a textile electrode-based DEP sensing system wit...
{ "title": "Non-contact vibration sensor using deep learning and image processing", "abstract": "Abstract This paper proposes a non-contact vibration measurement method based on deep learning and image processing. The deep learning method is used to realize the automatic and efficient selection of effective pixels ...
{ "title": "Selective oxidation of methane to methanol with H2O2 over an Fe-MFI zeolite catalyst using sulfolane solvent.", "abstract": "The effect of reaction conditions for direct oxidation of methane to methanol over Fe-MFI zeolite with H2O2 has been investigated. Sulfolane has been proved to be an efficient sol...
{ "title": "Parameter Estimation of the Bishop Photovoltaic Model Using a Genetic Algorithm", "abstract": "Photovoltaic panels can be affected by partial shading, which causes some shaded cells to consume the energy generated by other cells of the panel. That is, shaded cells stop operating in the first quadrant an...
{ "title": "A Critical Review on the Estimation Techniques of the Solar PV Cell’s Unknown Parameters", "abstract": "To meet the exponentially growing demand for clean and green energy, the solar photovoltaic (PV) system’s importance is increasing day by day, for which PV modeling is considered to be one of the most...
{ "title": "Flight testing of a rate saturation compensation scheme on the ATTAS aircraft", "abstract": "This paper presents the application of a rate saturation compensation scheme to the DLR Advanced Technologies Testing Aircraft (ATTAS) and the results of the subsequent flight tests. Details of the design philos...
{ "title": "Protective Effects of Piceatannol on DNA Damage in Benzo[a]pyrene-Induced Human Colon Epithelial Cells.", "abstract": "Evidence shows that the dietary intake of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) from food processing induces the cellular DNA damage response and leads to the development of colorecta...
{ "title": "Quercetin and Isorhamnetin Attenuate Benzo[a]pyrene-Induced Toxicity by Modulating Detoxification Enzymes through the AhR and NRF2 Signaling Pathways", "abstract": "Benzo[a]pyrene, classified as a Group 1 carcinogen, is metabolized to B[a]P-7,8-dihydrodiol-9,10-epoxide (BPDE), causing DNA mutations and ...
{ "title": "Structural basis for a complex I mutation that blocks pathological ROS production", "abstract": "Mitochondrial complex I is central to the pathological reactive oxygen species (ROS) production that underlies cardiac ischemia–reperfusion (IR) injury. ND6-P25L mice are homoplasmic for a disease-causing mt...
{ "title": "Intravenous immunoglobulin and treatment in COVID-19 patients: case series", "abstract": "Introduction: Intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) is one of the drugs used to treat COVID-19. The aim of this study was to evaluate the role of IVIG in the treatment of COVID-19 in hospitalized patients. Materials an...
{ "title": "Hyperimmune anti-COVID-19 IVIG (C-IVIG) Therapy for Passive Immunization of Severe and Critically Ill COVID-19 Patients: A structured summary of a study protocol for a randomised controlled trial", "abstract": "Objectives The aim of this trial is to investigate the safety and clinical efficacy of passiv...
{ "title": "Hepatitis B Surface Antigen Seroclearance: Immune Mechanisms, Clinical Impact, Importance for Drug Development.", "abstract": "Hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) seroclearance occurs rarely in the natural history of chronic hepatitis B (CHB) infection and is associated with a reduced risk of hepatocell...
{ "title": "Acute Symptomatic Seizures and Risk of Epilepsy in Autoimmune Encephalitis: A Retrospective Cohort Study", "abstract": "Purpose To investigate the clinical characteristics of acute symptomatic seizures and the predictors of the development of epilepsy in patients with anti-NMDAR, anti-LGI1, and anti-GAB...
{ "title": "Characteristics and outcome‐related factors of seizure at the first onset of autoimmune encephalitis: A retrospective study", "abstract": "Seizure outcome of autoimmune encephalitis (AE) varies from seizure‐free to refractory epilepsy, and the associated factors remain unclear. We aimed to describe seiz...
{ "title": "Corrosion behavior of duplex stainless steel reinforcement in ternary binder concrete exposed to natural chloride penetration", "abstract": "Abstract The corrosion behavior duplex stainless steel rebars embedded in concrete exposed to natural chloride penetration has been carried out. Three duplex stain...
{ "title": "Nonpharmacologic management of chronic pain in the United States’ Medicare population: a scoping review protocol", "abstract": "ABSTRACT Objective: This objective of this review is to describe the scope of the literature on the access to and use of nonpharmacologic therapies to manage chronic pain among...
{ "title": "Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain: Nonpharmacologic, Noninvasive Treatments.", "abstract": "Chronic low back pain, neck pain, hip and knee osteoarthritis, and fibromyalgia are the most common types of chronic musculoskeletal pain. Because no individual therapy has consistent benefit, a multimodal treatment a...
{ "title": "Artificial eye for scotopic vision with bioinspired all-optical photosensitivity enhancer", "abstract": "Significance Although biological eyes ingeniously adopt diverse optical approaches to improve their scotopic vision, enhancement of the photosensitivity in artificial imaging systems still clings to ...
{ "title": "A Brief OpenGL Shading Tutorial", "abstract": "Perlin noise is one of the primary tools responsible for the success of procedural shading in production rendering. It breaks the crisp computer generated look by adding apparent randomness that is controllable and repeatable. Both Perlin’s original noise a...
{ "title": "Tile-based texture mapping on graphics hardware", "abstract": "Texture mapping has been a fundamental feature for commodity graphics hardware. However, a key challenge for texture mapping is how to store and manage large textures on graphics processors. In this paper, we present a tile-based texture map...
{ "title": "GPU-accelerated Cellular Automata based Finite-Difference Model for Seismic Wave Propagation with OpenCL", "abstract": "Models based on Cellular Automata (CA) paradigm are inherently adaptable to distributed computing and provide opportunity to reach high efficiency when they are implemented on GPUs. Pr...
{ "title": "Learning disability prediction tool using ANN and ANFIS", "abstract": "Learning Disability (LD) is a neurological condition that affects a child’s brain and impairs his ability to carry out one or many specific tasks. LD affects about 15 % of children enrolled in schools. The prediction of LD is a vital...
{ "title": "Significance of Classification Techniques in Prediction of Learning Disabilities", "abstract": "The aim of this study is to show the importance of two classification techniques, viz. decision tree and clustering, in prediction of learning disabilities (LD) of school-age children. LDs affect about 10 per...
{ "title": "Rough Set Theory with Applications to Data Mining", "abstract": "This paper is an introduction to rough set theory with an emphasis on applications to data mining. First, consistent data are discussed, including blocks of attribute-value pairs, reducts of information tables, indiscernibility relation, d...
{ "title": "Algorithmic Color Methods of Media Arts", "abstract": "The paper describes a framework for systematically exploring the RGB color model (RGB color cube) for generating color palettes based on six algorithmic methods divided into two categories: Primitive and Derivative. The Primitive method is comprised...
{ "title": "Generative Design: Visualize, Program, and Create with Processing", "abstract": "Generative design is a revolutionary new method of creating artwork, models, and animations from sets of rules, or algorithms. By using accessible programming languages such as Processing, artists and designers are producin...
{ "title": "The Hitler Myth", "abstract": "Hitler miming gestures to a record of his speeches; one of an extraordinary series of photographs he commissioned in 1925 to aid self-analysis and improve his hold over an audienceFor almost a decade after 1933, Hitler enjoyed a remarkable degree of popularity among the gr...
{ "title": "Retracted: Evaluation of Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice of Health Practitioners towards Fertility Preservation in Cancer Patients in an Environmental Region of Saudi Arabia", "abstract": "[This retracts the article DOI: 10.1155/2022/6404837.].", "corpus_id": 259350016 }
{ "title": "Evaluation of Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice of Health Practitioners towards Fertility Preservation in Cancer Patients in an Environmental Region of Saudi Arabia", "abstract": "Background Cancer patients face multiple challenges, such as infertility caused by exposure to gonadotoxic agents and gonada...
{ "title": "Artificial Intelligence Technique of Synthesis and Characterizations for Measurement of Optical Particles in Medical Devices", "abstract": "The aim of this study is to demonstrate the effect of particle size on semiconductor properties; artificial intelligence is being used for the research methods. As ...
{ "title": "A solvent sensitive coumarin derivative coupled with gold nanoparticles as selective fluorescent sensor for Pb2+ ions in real samples.", "abstract": "A coumarin based fluorescent molecule, 3-amino-2-cynano-3-(7-diethylamino-2-oxo-2H-chromen-3-yl)-acrylic acid ethyl ester (1) has been synthesized and cha...
{ "title": "Selective Recognition of Hg2+ ion in Water by a Functionalized Metal-Organic Framework (MOF) Based Chemodosimeter.", "abstract": "A metal-organic framework (MOF)-based highly selective and sensitive probe (UiO-66@Butyne) for the detection of Hg(II) ion has been developed. To the best our knowledge, this...
{ "title": "Metal−Support Interactions in Co/Al2O3 Catalysts: A Comparative Study on Reactivity of Support", "abstract": "Co/Al2O3 catalysts have been prepared with conventional impregnation and sol−gel methods to vary the chemical reactivity of the alumina support. The material system has been investigated with X-...
{ "title": "A cell-permeable peptide inhibitor of p55PIK signaling alleviates suture-induced corneal neovascularization and inflammation.", "abstract": "To prepare an ophthalmic solution with a cell-permeable TAT peptide (TAT-N24) as the main cell-permeable peptide inhibitor of p55PIK signaling and observe its ther...
{ "title": "Inhibiting corneal neovascularization by sustainably releasing anti-VEGF and anti-inflammation drugs from silica-thermogel nanohybrids.", "abstract": "Corneal neovascularization (CNV) is one of the main factors that induce blindness worldwide. To effectively inhibit CNV, a novel nanohybrid has been deve...
{ "title": "Silencing of miR-150-5p Ameliorates Diabetic Nephropathy by Targeting SIRT1/p53/AMPK Pathway", "abstract": "Diabetic nephropathy (DN) is a common complication of diabetes and an important cause of end-stage renal disease. Increasing evidence suggests that microRNAs (miRNAs) regulate the development of D...
{ "title": "On the Stability of Oscillatory Modes in an Oscillator Based on a Distributed Amplifier", "abstract": "An in-depth investigation of oscillation modes in an oscillator based on a distributed amplifier is presented. It shows that instability problems reported in previous papers are intrinsic to the circui...
{ "title": "New features of the software MatCont for bifurcation analysis of dynamical systems", "abstract": "Bifurcation software is an essential tool in the study of dynamical systems. From the beginning (the first packages were written in the 1970's) it was also used in the modelling process, in particular to de...
{ "title": "In Vitro Activity of the Ultrabroad-Spectrum Beta-Lactamase Inhibitor QPX7728 in Combination with Multiple Beta-Lactam Antibiotics against Pseudomonas aeruginosa", "abstract": "QPX7728 is an ultra-broad-spectrum beta-lactamase inhibitor with potent inhibition of key serine and metallo beta-lactamases. Q...
{ "title": "Periarticular muscle status affects in vivo tibio-femoral joint loads after total knee arthroplasty", "abstract": "Background: Total knee arthroplasty (TKA) is a highly effective treatment for severe knee osteoarthritis that is increasingly performed in younger, more active patients. As postoperative mu...
{ "title": "ESB Clinical Biomechanics Award 2018: Muscle atrophy‐related increased joint loading after total hip arthroplasty and their postoperative change from 3 to 50 months", "abstract": "Background Hip joint loading is dominated by muscular activity. Thus, contact forces exceeding many times one's body weight ...
{ "title": "Awake ECMO and mobilizing patients on ECMO", "abstract": "Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) is a lifesaving technology in critically ill patients who present with cardiac/pulmonary/combined cardiopulmonary failure. These patients are the sickest of all patients in any critical care unit and wil...
{ "title": "Nonlinear diffusion of water molecules in glycerol", "abstract": "The dependence of the concentration of water molecules in water vapor brought into contact with glycerol surface was measured in a time window of 10−1–103 s. An obvious nonlinearity of water molecule diffusion was found in a short time ap...
{ "title": "Measurement of the mass diffusivity of miscible liquids as a function of concentration using a common path shearing interferometer", "abstract": "A common path-shearing interferometer was adapted, using a Wollaston prism, to measure the diffusion coefficient for mass transfer of transparent, miscible li...
{ "title": "Application of CSA-VMD and optimal scale morphological slice bispectrum in enhancing outer race fault detection of rolling element bearings", "abstract": "Abstract The bearing vibration signal with strong non-stationary properties is normally composed of multiple components (e.g. periodic impulses, back...
{ "title": "Internet-based advanced metering and control infrastructure of smart grid", "abstract": "Existing advanced metering infrastructures (AMI) use three levels of bi-directional communication between the customer and utility. Given the increase of the available amount of data provided by smart meters in smar...
{ "title": "Multiple Loads-Single Smart Meter for Measurement and Control of Smart Grid", "abstract": "In order to control a single/targeted load, an energy measurement and control infrastructure must be available for such load. Existing submetering technology is expensive, intended mostly for load measurement, pro...
{ "title": "A Cloud-Based On-Line Disaggregation Algorithm for Home Appliance Loads", "abstract": "In this paper, we address the problem of providing fast and on-line households appliance load detection in a non-intrusive way from aggregate electric energy consumption data. Enabling on-line load detection is a rele...
{ "title": "Gut microbiome-mediated mechanisms for reducing cholesterol levels: implications for ameliorating cardiovascular disease.", "abstract": "Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is a health problem worldwide, and elevated cholesterol levels are a key risk factor for the disease. Dysbiotic gut microbiota has been sh...
{ "title": "Administration of A. muciniphila ameliorates pulmonary arterial hypertension by targeting miR-208a-3p/NOVA1 axis.", "abstract": "Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PH) is a chronic disease induced by a progressive increase in pulmonary vascular resistance and failure of the right heart function. A number ...
{ "title": "Neural activations at the junction of the inferior frontal sulcus and the inferior precentral sulcus: Interindividual variability, reliability, and association with sulcal morphology", "abstract": "The sulcal morphology of the human frontal lobe is highly variable. Although the structural images usually...
{ "title": "A theoretical discussion of the links between trade and IR-theory", "abstract": "This working paper provides a theoretical discussion of the linkages between international trade theory and international relations (IR-) theory concerning international trade liberalisation. IR-theory on international co-o...
{ "title": "The possibility of cooperation", "abstract": "Preface 1. Introduction: the problem of collective action 2. The prisoners' dilemma, chicken and other games in the provision of public goods 3. The two-person prisoners' dilemma supergame 4. The N-person prisoners' dilemma supergame 5. Altruism and superior...
{ "title": "Power, Trade, and War", "abstract": "List of FiguresList of TablesPrefaceCh. 1Introduction3Ch. 2The Distribution of Wars Over Time: A Basic Empirical Analysis34Ch. 3The Distribution of Power and the Onset of War71Ch. 4International Trade and the Onset of War117Ch. 5The Effects of Power and War on Trade1...
{ "title": "Deep Placement of Briquette Urea Increases Agronomic and Economic Efficiency of Maize in Sandy Loam Soil", "abstract": "Imbalanced use of fertilizers along with inappropriate sources and application methods has attributed to reduced nitrogen use efficiency (NUE) and crop productivity. The use of the rig...
{ "title": "Nutrient Budget and Economic Assessment of Blended Fertilizer Use in Kenya Tea Industry", "abstract": "Kenya’s tea industry depends predominantly on imported compound NPK fertilizers to replenish nutrients removed through plucking. These fertilizers cannot be easily manipulated for specific soils and te...
{ "title": "Effects of integrated nutrient application on phenological, vegetative growth and yield-related parameters of maize in Ethiopia: A review", "abstract": "Abstract Declining soil fertility was the major factor for lower productivity of maize and to combat these problems, commercial fertilizers have been a...
{ "title": "Prevalence and predictors of sexual problems in men aged 75-95 years: a population-based study.", "abstract": "INTRODUCTION\nHypogonadism is associated with impaired libido and erectile dysfunction in young men, but the causes of sexual dysfunction in older men are less well understood.\n\n\nAIM\nTo det...
{ "title": "Androgens and morphologic remodeling at penile and cardiovascular levels: a common piece in complicated puzzles?", "abstract": "CONTEXT\nEpidemiologic data demonstrate a protective role by normal androgen levels on cardiovascular health and erectile function. Low androgen levels are associated with erec...
{ "title": "Cellular components and signals required for the cardiac outflow tract assembly in Drosophila", "abstract": "Specification of cardiac primordia and formation of the Drosophila heart tube is highly reminiscent of the early steps of vertebrate heart development. We previously reported that the final morph...
{ "title": "ORAL CONTRACEPTION AND SEX RATIO AT BIRTH", "abstract": "Dr. Keseru and his colleagues report (March 2 p. 369) on the basis of a small series of observations in Hungary that prior taking of the contraceptive pill produces a marked shift in the sex ratio of children subsequently born. They cite a figure ...
{ "title": "5‐Hydroxyindole Levels in the Blood and CSF in Down's Syndrome, Phenylketonuria and Severe Mental Retardation", "abstract": "The age and frequency distributions of whole‐blood 5‐hydroxyindole (5‐hi) levels in normal subjects, and in patients with Down's syndrome, phenylketonuria and severe mental retard...
{ "title": "Maturational changes in blood serotonin levels and platelet counts.", "abstract": "Abstract A study was carried out on a medically normal control population to assess the influence of age, sex, and menstrual cycle phasing on whole blood serotonin levels and platelet counts. Intrasubject consistency was ...
{ "title": "The European Project TILA", "abstract": "Telecollaboration for Intercultural Language Acquisition (TILA), is an EU-funded project within the Lifelong Learning Programme that will run between January 2013 and June 2015. TILA’s overall objectives are: (1) to innovate, enrich and make foreign language teac...
{ "title": "Online intercultural exchange : an introduction for foreign language teachers", "abstract": "This volume provides an introduction to online intercultural exchange, the activity of engaging language learners in collaborative project work with partners from other cultures through the use of online communi...
{ "title": "Amazon Spot Instance Price Prediction with GRU Network", "abstract": "The Amazon cloud platform sells its idle resources to cloud users as Spot Instances, which provide an ultra-low discount compared to the price of on-demand instances. Unlike the pricing strategy of the on-demand and reserved instances...