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We present an algorithm that can anticipate tax evasion by modeling the co-evolution of tax schemes with auditing policies. Malicious tax non-compliance, or evasion, accounts for billions of lost revenue each year. Unfortunately when tax administrators change the tax laws or auditing procedures to eliminate known fraud... | Detecting tax evasion: a co-evolutionary approach | An Intelligent Anti-Money Laundering Method for Detecting Risky Users in the Banking Systems |
Abamectin is used as an acaricide and insecticide for fruits, vegetables and ornamental plants, as well as a parasiticide for animals. One of the major problems of applying pesticides to crops is the likelihood of contaminating aquatic ecosystems by drift or runoff. Therefore, toxicity tests in the laboratory are impor... | Lethal effects of abamectin on the aquatic organisms Daphnia similis, Chironomus xanthus and Danio rerio. | Effects of in vitro and in vivo avermectin exposure on alpha synuclein expression and proteasomal activity in pigeons. |
Radiotherapy for head and neck tumors often results in persistent loss of function in salivary glands. Patients suffering from impaired salivary function frequently terminate treatment prematurely because of reduced quality of life caused by malnutrition and other debilitating side-effects. It has been previously shown... | IGF1 activates cell cycle arrest following irradiation by reducing binding of ΔNp63 to the p21 promoter | ΔNp63 expression in four carcinoma cell lines and the effect on radioresistance—a siRNA knockdown model |
Partly released, relaxed and wrinkled InGaAs membranes are used as virtual substrates for overgrowth with InAs. Such samples exhibit different lattice parameters for the unreleased epitaxial parts, the released flat, back-bond areas and the released wrinkled areas. A large InAs migration towards the released membrane i... | InAs migration on released, wrinkled InGaAs membranes used as virtual substrate | In adatom diffusion on InxGa1−xAs/GaAs(001): effects of strain, reconstruction and composition |
This paper presents an ongoing research aimed to build the first corpus, 5 million words, for Mongolian language by focusing on annotating and tagging corpus texts according to TEI XML (McQueen, 2004) format. Also, a tool, MCBuilder, which provides support for flexibly and manually annotating and manipulating the corpu... | Corpus building for Mongolian language | Mongolian speech corpus for text-to-speech development |
This work is motivated by the present needs to increase tranmission capacity of power systems operating far from conditions for which they were originally designed, without having to endanger their integrity when an unexpected fault occurs. Most of the theoretical work related to this problem has beenseparated into loa... | A New Class of Fast Nonlinear Voltage Controllers and their Impact on Improved Transmission Capacity | Smart power grid synchronization with Fault Tolerant nonlinear estimation |
Using bomb calorimetry and Knudsen effusion methods the enthalpic characteristics in condensed state of ethyl-2-cyano-3-(furan-2-yl) prop-2-enoate derivatives were experimentally determined. The values of the enthalpies of formation in the gas state of investigated esters were calculated taking into account the values ... | Thermodynamic Characteristics of Ethyl-2-cyano-3-(furan-2-yl)-prop-2-enoate Derivatives | The Merck index : an encyclopedia of chemicals, drugs, and biologicals |
SummaryX-ray diffraction, infrared absorption spectroscopy, and chemical investigation have been carried out on deproteinated samples of turkey leg tendon at different degrees of calcification. The inorganic phase consists of poorly crystalline B carbonated apatite. On increasing calcification, the apatite crystal size... | The role of magnesium on the structure of biological apatites | Structural and chemical characterization of inorganic deposits in calcified human mitral valve. |
In the undirected unweighted minimum size k-spanner problem we are given a graph with edges of cost and length 1, and a number k. The goal is to find a minimum size E′ and a graph G′(V,E′) so that for every u, v ∈ V : distG(u, v) distG′(u, v) ≤ k. In [2], a conditional hardness was given to the problem, based on the co... | Hardness of approximating the undirected minimum size k-spanner | Approximating the domatic number |
Distances between mass functions are instrumental tools in evidence theory, yet it is not always clear in which situation a particular distance should be used. Indeed, while the mathematical properties of distances have been well studied, how to interpret them is still a largely open issue. As a step towards answering ... | Interpreting evidential distances by connecting them to partial orders: Application to belief function approximation | Complementary Lipschitz continuity results for the distribution of intersections or unions of independent random sets in finite discrete spaces |
Intermittent demand is characterized by occasional demand arrivals interspersed by time intervals during which no demand occurs. These demand patterns pose considerable difficulties in terms of forecasting and stock control due to their compound nature, which implies variability both in terms of demand arrivals and dem... | Impact of temporal aggregation on stock control performance of intermittent demand estimators: Empirical analysis | Forecasting intermittent inventory demands: simple parametric methods vs. bootstrapping ☆ |
Perceptual image hash has been widely investigated in an attempt to solve the problems of image content authentication and content-based image retrieval. In this paper, we combine statistical analysis methods and visual perception theory to develop a real perceptual image hash method for content authentication. To achi... | A Visual Model-Based Perceptual Image Hash for Content Authentication | Multi-Scale Difference Map Fusion for Tamper Localization Using Binary Ranking Hashing |
Based on original data (450 samples from 115 streams of European Russian middle latitudes—from Pskov to Kostroma regions), an attempt is made to describe the diversity of rheophilic communities inhabiting stream bottoms and macrophytes. A total of 39 community types are identified by the Braun-Blanquet method. Their ta... | Diversity and classification of rheophilic communities of macrozoobenthos in middle latitudes of European Russia | Rheophilic communities of macrobenthos of the southwestern Kola Peninsula |
Immunization with neurally derived peptides (INDP) boosts the action of an autoreactive immune response that has been shown to induce neuroprotection in several neurodegenerative diseases, especially after spinal cord (SC) injury. This strategy provides an environment that promotes neuronal survival and tissue preserva... | Immunization with A91 peptide or copolymer‐1 reduces the production of nitric oxide and inducible nitric oxide synthase gene expression after spinal cord injury | Management of glaucoma as a neurodegenerative disease. |
We consider different methods of calculating the (fractional) fermion number of solitons based on the heat kernel expansion. We derive a formula for the localized $$\eta $$η function that provides a more systematic version of the derivative expansion for spectral asymmetry and compute the fermion number in a multi flav... | Soliton fermionic number from the heat kernel expansion | Fermion transfer in the
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This paper focuses on how terms of second order λ-calculus, which may take types as inputs, depend on types. These terms are generally understood to have an “essentially” constant meaning, in all models, on input types. We show how the proof theory of second order λ-calculus suggests a clear syntactic description of th... | The Genericity Theorem and the Notion of Parametricity in the Polymorphic λ-calculus | Rollit: An Application Builder |
This paper presents a vision based sign language gesture recognition framework that can assist people with impaired hearing and speech with their social interaction and interactive communications. Utilizing a low-cost sensor, such as Microsoft Kinect combined with advanced machine learning analysis, it aims to ease the... | Sign language recognition using depth images | Hand Gesture Recognition in Real Time for Automotive Interfaces: A Multimodal Vision-Based Approach and Evaluations |
We are building TelegraphCQ, a system to process continuous queries over data streams. Although we had implemented some parts of this technology in earlier Java-based prototypes, our experiences were not positive. As a result, we decided to use PostgreSQL, an open source RDBMS as a starting point for our new implementa... | TelegraphCQ: An Architectural Status Report | Optimization and Execution of Complex Scientific Queries over Uncorrelated Experimental Data |
Abstract This paper suggests a novel diagnosis scheme for detection, isolation and estimation of faults affecting satellite reaction wheels. Both spin rate measurements and actuation torque defects are dealt with. The proposed system consists of a fault detection and isolation module composed by a bank of residual filt... | Combined Geometric and Neural Network Approach to Generic Fault Diagnosis in Satellite Reaction Wheels | Combined Geometric and Neural Network Approach to Generic Fault Diagnosis in Satellite Actuators and Sensors |
This paper analyses challenges, and provides a model and a framework for mining Arabic tweets to measure customer satisfaction toward telecom companies in Saudi Arabia, to predict the ratio of customer churn and overcome the specific challenges with the semantic sentiment analysis of Arabic text. | Framework for Sentiment Analysis of Arabic Text | Comparison Research on Text Pre-processing Methods on Twitter Sentiment Analysis |
Human herpesvirus-6 (HHV-6) is the causative agent of the common childhood infectious disease, exanthem subitum. After the virus was recently isolated from humans, it was found to be closely related to human cytomegalovirus (CMV), and was thus classified within the beta subgroup of human herpesviruses. HHV-6 possesses ... | Central nervous system complications in human herpesvirus-6 infection | A protective role for herpes simplex virus type-1-specific humoral immunity in Alzheimer’s Disease |
Feigelson and colleagues have raised some important points concerning the selection of the data sets and the application of meta-analysis to resolve some of the problems associated with determining the relationships between metabolic polymorphisms and susceptibility to various disease conditions. In recent years, many ... | Concerning the CYP 17 MSPA 1 polymorphism and breast cancer risk : a meta-analysis | The CYP17 MspA1 polymorphism and breast cancer risk: a meta-analysis. |
Pluripotent stem cells can differentiate into various lineages but undergo genetic and epigenetic changes during long-term cultivation and, therefore, require regular monitoring. The expression patterns of cancer-testis antigens (CTAs) MAGE-A2, -A3, -A4, -A6, -A8, -B2, and GAGE were examined in undifferentiated human e... | Expression Patterns of Cancer-Testis Antigens in Human Embryonic Stem Cells and Their Cell Derivatives Indicate Lineage Tracks | Derepression of Cancer/Testis Antigens in cancer is associated with distinct patterns of DNA Hypomethylation |
3D-IC is a solution to achieve lower cost and higher performance as the transistor density doubles every 18 months following Moore's law. In recent years, Integrated Fan-Out Wafer-Level Chip-Scale Packaging (InFO WLCSP) is one of the most promising packaging technologies for 3D-IC. In InFO WLCSP, there are some inter-d... | An Enhanced Boundary Scan Architecture for Inter-Die Interconnect Leakage Measurement in 2.5D and 3D Packages | Novel adaptive probing for wafer level chip scale package |
Magnesium in its ionic form (Mg 2 + ) is essential for many physiological processes, including much of metabolism, enzyme activation and catalysis, photosynthesis development, signal transduction, and protection against hypertension and blood vessel spasm. [ 1 ] Therefore, it has been long recognized that for suitable ... | EcoRI-modified gold nanoparticles for dual-mode colorimetric detection of magnesium and pyrophosphate ions. | Advance and Application of DNA-functionalized Nanoparticles. |
Therapeutic efficacy of an Indian Ayurvedic medicinal preparation, Ashwagandha [Withania somnifera L. Dunal (Solanceae; root)] was evaluated against experimental aspergillosis in Balb/c mice. Ashwagandha given orally once daily for 7 consecutive days in a dose of 100 mg/kg after intravenous infection of Aspergillus fum... | Therapeutic efficacy of Ashwagandha against experimental aspergillosis in mice. | Plant Products as Antimicrobial Agents |
The ground-state electronic order in doped manganites is frequently associated with a lattice modulation, contributing to their many interesting properties. However, measuring the thermal evolution of the lattice superstructure with reciprocal-space probes alone can lead to ambiguous results with competing interpretati... | Direct observation of electronic-liquid-crystal phase transitions and their microscopic origin in La1/3Ca2/3MnO3 | Spontaneous Magnetic Superdomain Wall Fluctuations in an Artificial Antiferromagnet. |
The formation of the 5,5-dimethyl-1-pyrroline N-oxide (DMPO)/.OH adduct of the spin trap DMPO has been reported to occur through nucleophilic addition of water in the presence of aqueous ferric chloride (K. Makino, T. Hagiwara, A. Hagi, M. Nishi, and A. Murakami, 1990, Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 172, 1073-1080). Du... | When are metal ion-dependent hydroxyl and alkoxyl radical adducts of 5,5-dimethyl-1-pyrroline N-oxide artifacts? | Cautionary note for DMPO spin trapping in the presence of iron ion. |
This analysis extends creative design thinking to the macro-level, applying it to the enormous problems and opportunities generated by twenty-first century globalization. Today’s macroproblems and macro-opportunities require creative, interdisciplinary thinking, and collaboration to enable individuals and teams to addr... | Large-Scale Interdisciplinary Design Thinking for Dealing with Twenty-First Century Problems and Opportunities | Social Neuroscience of Empathy |
The distributed source inverse problem for Magnetoencephalography (MEG) requires regularisation in order to calculate a stable and accurate solution. Recently there has been interest in source reconstruction via the l1 penalised least squares problem. Although this gives some sparseness the ideal measure for sparsity i... | Grouped L0 least squares penalised Magnetoencephalography | Topology identification of a sparse dynamic network |
The objective of this study was to investigate the influence of type of cross-linking method used on the properties of ambroxol hydrochloride microspheres such as encapsulation efficiency, particle size, and drug release. Microspheres were prepared by solvent evaporation technique using chitosan as a matrix-forming age... | Biodegradable Chitosan-Based Ambroxol Hydrochloride Microspheres: Effect of Cross-Linking Agents | In situ gelling pectin formulations for oral drug delivery at high gastric pH. |
It is not true that mirror self-recognition has nothing to do with self-awareness and, contrary to Suddendorf and Butler's claim [1], that self-recognition is ‘universally acquired in toddlers’, there are failures to find mirror self-recognition in mentally retarded children, adolescents, and adults, as well as in auti... | The nature of visual self-recognition revisited | The enfacement illusion in autism spectrum disorder: How interpersonal multisensory stimulation influences facial recognition of the self |
Workflow technology has emerged as an appropriate platform for consolidating the distributed information resources of an enterprise, promoting interoperability across cross-platform systems and for providing a global view and understanding of business process models. However, the business processes that workflows repre... | Handling dynamic schema change in process models | Enforcement vs. freedom of action an integrated approach to flexible workflow enactment |
Extensive shooting and angling causes, indirectly, fatal lead poisoning of birds. European Union policy on this major source of pollution is inconsistent with its laws regulating other forms of lead in the environment. Only three countries have banned the use of lead shot completely in the European Union, despite avail... | Limitations of European Union policy and law for regulating use of lead shot and sinkers: comparisons with North American regulation | Lead-poisoned wildfowl in Spain: A significant threat for human consumers |
A hybrid fuzzy knowledge-based system with crisp and fuzzy rules as well as numerical methods was developed for multiobjective optimization of power distribution system operations. The development process and knowledge acquisition process for the fuzzy knowledge-based system are described in detail. The fuzzy knowledge... | The Development Process and Design of a Hybrid Fuzzy Knowledge-Based System for Multiobjective Optimization of Power Distribution System Operations | A knowledge-based approach for network radiality in distribution system reconfiguration |
A model composed of van der Waals-like and hydrogen bonding contributions that simulates the low-temperature anomalous thermodynamics of pure water while exhibiting a second, liquid-liquid critical point [P. H. Poole et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 73, 1632 (1994)] is extended to dilute solutions of nonionic species. Critical... | Water anomalous thermodynamics, attraction, repulsion, and hydrophobic hydration. | Osmotic Second Virial Coefficients of Aqueous Solutions from Two-Component Equations of State. |
Rational development of transcranial current stimulation (tCS) requires solving the ‘forward problem’: the computation of the electric field distribution in the head resulting from the application of scalp currents. Derivation of forward models has represented a major effort in brain stimulation research, with model co... | The point spread function of the human head and its implications for transcranial current stimulation | ROAST: An Open-Source, Fully-Automated, Realistic Volumetric-Approach-Based Simulator For TES |
Purpose The purpose of the present study was to investigate the correlation between the postoperative stability and area of pterygomasseteric sling (PMS). Materials and Methods Forty patients of mandibular prognathism were treated by isolated mandibular setback. Serial lateral cephalograms were collected (preoperativel... | The Effect of Pterygomasseteric Sling's Area in the Postoperative Stability after Mandibular Setback Surgery | Masseter muscle changes following orthognathic surgery: a long-term three-dimensional computed tomography follow-up. |
The Hasse-Weil-Serre bound is improved for low genus curves over finite fields with discriminant from {-3,-4,-7,-8} by studying maximal and minimal curves. | An improvement of the Hasse-Weil-Serre bound for curves over some finite fields | The Maximum or Minimum Number of Rational Points on Genus Three Curves over Finite Fields |
Dynamic software updating (DSU) enables running programs to be updated with new code and data without interrupting their execution. A number of DSU systems have been designed, but there is still little rigorous understanding of how to use DSU technology so that updates are safe. As a first step in this direction, we in... | Formalizing Dynamic Software Updating | Modelling a Framework for Plugins |
Although the outcome of therapy for leukemia has improved over the years, mainly in younger patients, less than a third of adults with acute myeloid leukemia (AML), for example, are cured by current treatments, a fact stressing the need for new therapeutic approaches. Since leukemias are considered disorders of self-re... | Toward the development of innovative bifunctional agents to induce differentiation and to promote apoptosis in leukemia: clinical candidates and perspectives. | Nanomedicine and personalized medicine toward the application of pharmacotyping in clinical practice to improve drug-delivery outcomes. |
Monitoring of latent Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection may prevent disease. We tested an ESAT-6 and CFP-10-specific IFN-γ Elispot assay (RD1-Elispot) on 163 HIV-infected individuals living in a TB-endemic setting. An RD1-Elispot was performed every 3 months for a period of 3–21 months. 62% of RD1-Elispot negative in... | Prospective Monitoring Reveals Dynamic Levels of T Cell Immunity to Mycobacterium Tuberculosis in HIV Infected Individuals | Prevalence of latent tuberculosis infection among gold miners in South Africa. |
Background Clinical and biomechanical studies have demonstrated the increase in contact pressure and progressive deterioration of the tibiofemoral compartments that occur after partial or complete meniscectomy. Meniscus transplantation has been indicated for the symptomatic postmeniscectomy patient to alleviate symptom... | Prospective Evaluation of Allograft Meniscus Transplantation | Meniscal Allograft Transplantation Without Bone Plugs |
An innovative numerical method based on an artificial neural network is presented in order to solve an inverse problem associated with the calculation of the Dirichlet eigenvalues of the anisotropic Laplace operator. Using a set of predefined eigenvalues obtained by solving repeatedly the direct problem, a radial basis... | Neural network solution for an inverse problem associated with the Dirichlet eigenvalues of the anisotropic Laplace operator | Analytical study and numerical experiments for true and spurious eigensolutions of a circular cavity using the real‐part dual BEM |
Psychosocial stress is associated with chronic disease. We evaluated whether in the general population the number of stressful life events is associated with risk of mortality and whether this association is mediated by behavioral factors and morbidities. We conducted this study in the Hoorn cohort; a population-based ... | The association between psychosocial stress and mortality is mediated by lifestyle and chronic diseases: the Hoorn Study. | Cardiovascular survey methods. |
The contents of many valuable web-accessible databases are only accessible through search interfaces and are hence invisible to traditional web “crawlers.” Recent studies have estimated the size of this “hidden web” to be 500 billion pages, while the size of the “crawlable” web is only an estimated two billion pages. R... | Probe, count, and classify: categorizing hidden web databases | Automated Extraction of Hit Numbers from Search Result Pages |
Abstract In this study, a model for the estimation of the dynamics of the lower extremities in standing sway from force plate data only is presented. A three-dimensional, five-segment, four-joint model of the human body was used to describe postural standing sway dynamics. Force-plate data of the reactive forces and ce... | Standing sway: iterative estimation of the kinematics and dynamics of the lower extremities from force-plate measurements | Effect of selective fatiguing of the shank muscles on single-leg-standing sway. |
Solid stems provide resistance to the wheat stem sawfly (WSS, Cephus cinctus Nort.) in wheat (Triticum aestivum L.). A major quantitative trait locus, designated Qss.msub-3BL, controls most of the variation for stem solidness. Two alleles that differ for temporal expression of stem solidness have been identified. An al... | Comparison of Three Alleles at a Major Solid Stem QTL for Wheat Stem Sawfly Resistance and Agronomic Performance in Hexaploid Wheat | Antixenosis, Antibiosis, and Potential Yield Compensatory Response in Barley Cultivars Exposed to Wheat Stem Sawfly (Hymenoptera: Cephidae) Under Field Conditions |
Explicitly or implicitly, all the theoretical models examined so far, have a common set of assumptions: perfect competition, the rigid supply of productive factors, absence of intermediate goods, absence of transport costs, certainty, absence of illegal trade (such as smuggling), and so on. These are undoubtedly assump... | Some Refinements of the Orthodox Theory | The Theorems of International Trade with Factor Mobility |
In the last three years, there has been a great deal of turbulence in U.S. defense acquisition policy. This has contributed to confusion within the acquisition workforce in terminology, major policy thrusts, and unclear implications of the changes. The new acquisition framework has added complexity, with more phases an... | Controlling Risk in Defense Acquisition Programs: The Evolving Decision Review Framework | Images of Organization |
The influence of bonding pressure during low temperature direct metal bond formation between gold studs and electroplated copper joints respectively was evaluated. The findings obtained showed an optimum pressure where bond strength peaks before degrading at further increase in bond pressure. Furthermore, it was found ... | Optimum pressure in low temperature direct metal bonding | Recent progress in copper-based wafer bonding for 3-D ICs application |
Abstract First results are reported from a program for measuring the field-to-field fluctuation level of the cosmic diffuse background by using differences between the two background positions of each deep exposure with the HEXTE instrument on RXTE. With 8 million live seconds accumulated to date a fluctuation level on... | Granularity of the diffuse background observed | Decrease in the Brightness of the Cosmic X-ray and Soft Gamma-ray Background toward Clusters of Galaxies |
Objective: The objective of this study is to evaluate our methods for management of renal caliceal diverticular stones (CDS). Materials and Methods: We conducted a retrospective study from January 2005 to July 2015 and included patients who were treated for renal CDS. Patients were evaluated for treatment modality, pun... | Management of renal caliceal diverticular stones: A decade of experience | A clinical case of surgical treatment of calyx diverticulum in a 12-year-old child |
Ontologies evolve continuously throughout their lifecycle to respond to different change requirements. Several problems emanate from ontology evolution: capturing change requirements, change representation, change impact analysis and resolution, change validation, change traceability, change propagation to dependant ar... | Ontology Evolution: State of the Art and Future Directions | A semiotic metrics suite for assessing the quality of ontologies |
Guadeloupean Parkinsonism has been linked epidemiologically to the consumption of Annonaceae fruits. These were proposed to be etiological agents for sporadic atypical Parkinsonism worldwide, because of their content of neurotoxins such as isoquinolinic alkaloids and Annonaceous acetogenins. The pulp of Annona cherimol... | Kaurenoic Acid from Pulp of Annona cherimolia in regard to Annonaceae‐induced Parkinsonism | Medicinal Plants from North and Central America and the Caribbean Considered Toxic for Humans: The Other Side of the Coin |
Contaminant composition affects the discharge characteristics of external insulation. This paper studies the intense discharge phenomenon at low relative humidity (77%) in an AC 500 kV substation in Southern China. Due to farming and the soil feature in the sugar cane field around the substation, aluminum phosphate is ... | Influence of aluminum phosphate contaminant on discharge characteristics of suspension glass insulators | Influence of sugar as a contaminant on outdoor insulation characteristics of insulators in a substation |
A previously unrecognized neuropathy was identified in Bulgarian gypsies, and was designated hereditary motor and sensory neuropathy-Lom (HMSNL) after the town where the initial cases were found. It was subsequently identified in other gypsy communities. The disorder, which is of autosomal recessive inheritance, was ma... | Hereditary motor and sensory neuropathy--Lom, a novel demyelinating neuropathy associated with deafness in gypsies. Clinical, electrophysiological and nerve biopsy findings. | Gene mapping in Gypsies identifies a novel demyelinating neuropathy on chromosome 8q24 |
Extraordinary optical transmission (EOT) of both transverse-electric (TE) and transverse-magnetic (TM) polarizations was investigated for sub-wavelength metallic structures by the rigorous coupled-wave analysis, implemented as the Airy-like internal reflection series. Generally, because of the absence of coupled surfac... | Correlation between extraordinary optical transmission and polarization in metallic subwavelength structures | Polarization independent enhanced optical transmission in one-dimensional gratings and device applications. |
Studies examining the use of pre‐exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) to prevent HIV transmission among people who inject drugs (PWIDs) have not been adequately summarized. Recently, the Bangkok Tenofovir Study has shown that PrEP may be effective at reducing new HIV infections among this high‐risk group. This randomized contro... | HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis for people who inject drugs: a review of current results and an agenda for future research | The cost-effectiveness of pre-exposure prophylaxis for HIV infection in South African women. |
Cumulative evidence has proven the safety, feasibility and efficacy of stem cell therapy for cardiomyocyte replacement in heart failure treatment. In contrast to embryonic stem cells, induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS cells) provide a route to the production of patient-specific stem cell lines with no ethical concern... | A novel protocol to provide a suitable cardiac model from induced pluripotent stem cells. | Cardiovascular molecular imaging of apoptosis |
Recently, formal verification has had success in rigorously checking the correctness of digital designs. We have developed the LEMA tool to provide a methodology for the formal verification of analog/mixed-signal (AMS) circuits. In particular, LEMA utilizes a labeled Petri net (LPN) model to represent AMS circuit behav... | Improved Model Generation of AMS Circuits for Formal Verification | Verification of Analog/Mixed-Signal Circuits Using Symbolic Methods |
Purpose It is unknown whether there is a benefit to starting androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) prior to rather than concurrently with definitive radiation therapy in men with high-risk prostate cancer. We studied the National Cancer Data Base to determine whether the timing of ADT impacts survival. Methods Men diagnos... | Comparison of Neoadjuvant vs Concurrent/Adjuvant Androgen Deprivation in Men with High-risk Prostate Cancer Receiving Definitive Radiation Therapy | Escalated-dose versus control-dose conformal radiotherapy for prostate cancer: long-term results from the MRC RT01 randomised controlled trial. |
Giant Spin Hall One of the primary challenges in the field of spin-electronics, which exploits the electron's spin rather than its charge, is to create strong currents of electrons with polarized spins. One way to do this is to use a ferromagnet as a polarizer, a principle used in magnetic tunnel junctions; however, th... | Spin-Torque Switching with the Giant Spin Hall Effect of Tantalum | Magnetic Tunnel Junction Mimics Stochastic Cortical Spiking Neurons |
In this letter, we investigate the bit-error rate (BER) performance of uncoded space-time transmit diversity (STTD) aided interleave division multiple access (IDMA) scheme for down-link (DL) communications. In this contribution, we consider the orthogonal structure based on Alamouti Space-Time code which offers full ra... | Performance analysis of MIMO-IDMA system using spatial diversity in frequency-selective channel | Performance of Transmitter Preprocessing Assisted Multi-carrier IDMA in Frequency-Selective Channel for Downlink Communications |
Social media shatters the barrier to communicate anytime anywhere for people of all walks of life. The publicly available, virtually free information in social media poses a new challenge to consumers who have to discern whether a piece of information published in social media is reliable. For example, it can be diffic... | Provenance Data in Social Media | Filter bubbles and fake news |
We present a simple and wait-free implementation of a snapshot shared data structure suitable for real-time systems with sporadic tasks. Snapshot mechanisms give the means to a real-time task to read a globally consistent set of variable values while other concurrent tasks are updating them. Such a mechanism can be use... | Simple Wait-Free Snapshots for Real-Time Systems with Sporadic Tasks | Snapshots in real-time databases using database pointer transactions |
In this paper we propose an improvement to the GRPW algorithm for wireless sensor networks called GRPW-M , which collects data in a wireless sensor network (WSN) using a mobile nodes. Performance of GRPW algorithm algorithm depends heavily on the immobile sensor nodes . This prediction can be hard to do. For that reaso... | Geographic Routing Using Logical Levels in Wireless Sensor Networks for Sensor Mobility | Geographic convergecast using mobile sink in wireless sensor networks |
Recurrent event data are quite common in biomedical and epidemiological studies. A significant portion of these data also contain additional longitudinal information on surrogate markers. Previous studies have shown that popular methods using a Cox model with longitudinal outcomes as time‐dependent covariates may lead ... | A conditional estimating equation approach for recurrent event data with additional longitudinal information | Group Network Hawkes Process |
A causal association of high risk HPV persistent infections with cervical cancer is firmly established by epidemiological and experimental evidence. Since HPV is considered a necessary factor for cervix carcinoma development and disease severity, the HPV DNA persistence may represent an indicator of both therapy effect... | Persistence of HPV after radio-chemotherapy in locally advanced cervical cancer. | Persistence of human papillomavirus infection after therapeutic conization for CIN 3: is it an alarm for disease recurrence? |
ABSTRACT Arboviruses are transmitted to vertebrate hosts by biting arthropod vectors such as mosquitoes, ticks, and midges. These viruses replicate in both arthropods and vertebrates and are thus exposed to different antiviral responses in these organisms. RNA interference (RNAi) is a sequence-specific RNA degradation ... | RNA Interference Targets Arbovirus Replication in Culicoides Cells | viRome: an R package for the visualization and analysis of viral small RNA sequence datasets |
TITANIUM occurs widely in the Earth's crust, traces of it being present in most rocks, soils and clays. It is estimated that titanosilicate minerals alone number more than 100; but, remarkably, in only one of these does the Ti(IV) ion take up fivefold coordination. This is in fresnoite1 (Ba2TiSi2O8), which contains squ... | Synthesis and structure of a layered titanosilicate catalyst with five-coordinate titanium | Ba(2)Ti(2)Si(2)O(9)F(2), a new titanium silicate. |
Despite extensive studies, there are still many unanswered questions regarding the mechanism of hedgehog signaling and the phylogenic conservation of hedgehog function in vertebrates. For example, whether hedgehog signaling in vertebrates requires smoothened is unclear, and the role of hedgehog activity in zebrafish is... | Analysis of the zebrafish smoothened mutant reveals conserved and divergent functions of hedgehog activity. | Comparative synteny cloning of zebrafish you-too: mutations in the Hedgehog target gli2 affect ventral forebrain patterning. |
To the Editor: We completely agree with the critical point of view expressed by Dr Singh regarding the new challenges raised by epoetin-a’s copies known as follow-on epoetin. However, we would like to stress the point that the qualification of Wepox (Wockhardt Limited, Mumbai, India) as a ‘biosimilar’ is probably not f... | Not all new recombinant human erythropoietins are biosimilars. | Regulation of follow-on biologics. |
Transmission lines with time-varying reactance exhibit interesting behaviors such as parametric amplification and mixing [1]. In this paper, such a transmission line realized with distributedly modulated capacitors (DMC) is demonstrated with its active conversion gain, low noise figure as well as non-reciprocity. DMC i... | Parametric conversion with distributedly modulated capacitors (DMC) for low-noise and non-reciprocal RF front-ends | Nonreciprocal Components With Distributedly Modulated Capacitors |
A simple but efficient method for highly sensitive Raman detection, covering a thin polydimethylsiloxane elastomer, pre-coated with a layer of Au or Ag nanoparticles, onto the detected substrate, is proposed. Moreover, this nanoparticle-coated PDMS elastomer can be used for chemical imaging with high sensitivity. | Nanoparticle-coated PDMS elastomers for enhancement of Raman scattering. | Patterning Self-Assembled Monolayers: Applications in Materials Science |
One of the central considerations to be taken into account in evaluating the ethics of compensation for donated plasma is respect for donor autonomy. And one of the main arguments against compensated donation systems is that many donors do or would come from circumstances of poverty that restrict their alternatives in ... | “I Can’t Eat if I Don’t Plass”: Impoverished Plasma Donors, Alternatives, and Autonomy | Autonomy and organ sales, revisited. |
Xylan is the second most abundant polysaccharide in dicot wood. Unraveling the biosynthetic pathway of xylan is important not only for our understanding of the process of wood formation but also for our rational engineering of wood for biofuel production. Although several glycosyltransferases are implicated in glucuron... | Down-regulation of PoGT47C expression in poplar results in a reduced glucuronoxylan content and an increased wood digestibility by cellulase. | Evolutionary Conservation of Xylan Biosynthetic Genes in Selaginella moellendorffii and Physcomitrella patens. |
Infrared (IR) cameras have wide range of applications, but high cost and low performance of its core component, IR detectors, prevent theirs broad usages in various fields. Motivated by this challenge, a carbon nanotube (CNT) based multiple spectrum IR camera was developed, which used nano-size CNT as the functional el... | Carbon nanotube based multiple spectrum infrared camera | High-speed non-cryogenic cooled infrared sensors using carbon nanotubes |
The hallmark of Engineering Technology (ET) programs is its student-centered curriculum and hands-on approach to teaching. Many institutions with ET programs now require scholarship of their ET faculty in addition to their teaching duties. In many institutions that have always emphasized scholarship and research, under... | Strategies for embedding scholarship in the educational experiences of engineering technology undergraduate students | The Role Of Undergraduate Research In Engineering Education |
Recent ChIP experiments of human and mouse embryonic stem cells have elucidated the architecture of the transcriptional regulatory circuitry responsible for cell determination, which involves the transcription factors OCT4, SOX2, and NANOG. In addition to regulating each other through feedback loops, these genes also r... | Transcriptional Dynamics of the Embryonic Stem Cell Switch | Parameter estimation methods for gene circuit modeling from time-series mRNA data: a comparative study |
As the severity of natural catastrophes continues to intensify, disaster risk management is becoming increasingly important. In order to expand the capacity of the insurance markets, insurers and reinsurers have utilized alternative risk financing mechanisms such as catastrophe (CAT) bonds. Although the CAT bond market... | Catastrophe Bonds - Regulating a Growing Asset Class | The Evolving Market for Catastrophic Event Risk |
Current methods for producing clinical guidelines are cumbersome and not always reliable. Could a more streamlined approach improve coverage and make decisions more transparent? | Developing clinical guidelines: a challenge to current methods | The Appropriateness Method |
Limitations imposed by the traditional practice in financial institutions of running risk analysis on the desktop mean many rely on models which assume a normal Gaussian distribution of events which can seriously underestimate the real risk. In this paper, we propose an alternative service which uses the elastic capaci... | The Business Intelligence as a Service in the Cloud | Introducing STRATOS: A Cloud Broker Service |
We have developed a methodology of prodrug delivery by using a modified insulin species whose biological activity potentially can be regulated in vivo. Native insulin was derivatized with aldol-terminated chemical modifications that can be selectively removed by the catalytic aldolase antibody 38C2 under physiologic co... | Synthesis of an organoinsulin molecule that can be activated by antibody catalysis | Enhancing the synthetic utility of aldolase antibody 38C2. |
BackgroundRoutes of transmission of multidrug-resistant gram-negative organisms (MDRGN) are not completely understood. Since sexual transmission of MDRGN might represent a potential mode that has not been noticed so far, this study evaluated transmission of MDRGN in HIV positive men.MethodsBetween November 2014 and Mar... | Elevated prevalence of multidrug-resistant gram-negative organisms in HIV positive men | Escherichia coli Antimicrobial Susceptibility Reduction amongst HIV-Infected Individuals at the University Teaching Hospital, Lusaka, Zambia |
Potato starch and both untreated and decationized dextrose syrups were used as substrates for submerged citric acid biosynthesis using a mutant of Aspergillus niger. The same yield of product (80%) was achieved with both syrups and the starch despite having different trace metals content. The obtained mutant was more s... | Citric acid fermentation from starch and dextrose syrups by a trace metal resistant mutant of Aspergillus niger | Changes in transcript levels of starch hydrolysis genes and raising citric acid production via carbon ion irradiation mutagenesis of Aspergillus niger |
Driven by the need for high data-rates and improved cell coverage, mobile phone filters are required to process increasingly high RF power levels. The simultaneous demand for smaller filter footprints makes designing a filter for high-power performance a challenge. We report a method for simulating the self-heating eff... | Design and characterization of SAW filters for high power performance | Recent development of temperature compensated SAW Devices |
BackgroundUnilateral absence of the pulmonary artery (UAPA) is a rare congenital malformation often associated with other cardiac anomalies; however it may occur as an isolated lesion. Isolated absence of the right pulmonary artery is twice more frequent than that of the left pulmonary artery. Patients with isolated UA... | Neonatal diagnosis of isolated absence of the right pulmonary artery: a case report and review of the literature | Isolated unilateral absence of right proximal pulmonary artery: surgical repair and follow-up. |
Over fifteen years after first reporting to the State of New York, the Harvard Medical Practice Study (HMPS) continues to have a significant impact in medical malpractice policy debates. In those debates the HMPS has come to stand for four main propositions. First, “medical injury ... accounts for more deaths than all ... | Reconsidering the Harvard Medical Practice Study conclusions about the validity of medical malpractice claims. | Discussion between reviewers does not improve reliability of peer review of hospital quality. |
A series of 137 urine samples were analyzed for drugs of abuse by enzyme immunoassay (EMIT) and by gas chromatography/mass spectrometry (GC/MS). Agreement between these methods was excellent and ranged from 93.4% for benzodiazepines to 98.5% for propoxyphene. EMIT false negative were traced to the presence of elevated ... | A comparison of enzyme immunoassay and gas chromatography/mass spectrometry in forensic toxicology. | Urine screening for drugs by EMIT. |
AIMS To assess the effects of the nitric oxide donor 5-isosorbide mononitrate (ISMO) on blood flow in the optic nerve head (ON flow) and choroid (Ch flow). METHODS Laser Doppler flowmetry was used to measure ON flow and Ch flow in 12 normal subjects by aiming the laser beam at the fovea and at the temporal rim, respect... | Effect of isosorbide mononitrate on the human optic nerve and choroidal circulations | Assessment of ocular surface toxicity after topical instillation of nitric oxide donors. |
The heterogeneity of a network causes major challenges for link prediction in heterogeneous complex networks. To deal with this problem, supervised link prediction could be applied to integrate heterogeneous features extracted from different nodes/relations. However, supervised link prediction might be faced with highl... | Multi-kernel one class link prediction in heterogeneous complex networks | Mining clique frequent approximate subgraphs from multi-graph collections |
A peculiar echocardiographic pattern was recorded in a case of cystic teratoma of the left anterior and upper mediastinum, causing a mild stenosis at the pulmonary valve level. The usefulness of echocardiography in the evaluation of anterior mediastinal masses as they distort normal cardiac anatomy is discussed. | Echocardiographic findings in a case of acquired pulmonic stenosis from extrinsic compression by a mediastinal cyst. | [Peripheral pulmonary stenosis due to tumour compression (author's transl)]. |
This paper describes the design and the implementation of the EduWel survey project which took place during the PhD programme of the EduWel Early Stage Researchers (ESRs), between September 2010 and July 2013. The project had two main purposes: to design and implement a pilot survey for the detection and study of certa... | Developing and Testing Tools to Measure Youth Capabilities: Theoretical Rationales and Empirical Procedures within a Cross-National Pilot Survey Project | Aspirations, Education and Social Justice: Applying Sen and Bourdieu |
The design and analytical modeling of a high efficiency energy harvester comprising a passive voltage-boosting network (VBN) and a switching charge pump rectifier (CPR) is presented in this paper. To improve the power conversion efficiency (PCE), the VBN increases the voltage at the input of the CPR and provides contro... | A High Efficiency Orthogonally Switching Passive Charge Pump Rectifier for Energy Harvesters | A 13.56/402 MHz autonomous wireless sensor node with −18.2 dBm sensitivity and temperature monitoring in 0.18 /im CMOS |
In Europe, more than 250,000 university students spend one or two semesters abroad every year. This study explores whether a short time abroad contributes to the acquisition of foreign language proficiency. We use a newly available dataset about almost the totality of Italian graduates and two alternative instruments t... | The Spanish or the German apartment? Study abroad and the acquisition of permanent skills | Do Study Abroad Programs Enhance the Employability of Graduates? |
The complement system was discovered toward the end of the nineteenth century as a heat-labile principle in fresh nonimmune serum which was essential for the bactericidal activity of serum from immunized guinea pigs. It has subsequently been established as a very important factor of constitutive immunity. The complemen... | The complement system and inflammation. | Proteolysis of C2 and factor B: analyses of cleavage products by one- and two- dimensional peptide mapping. |
We present a framework which enables the combination of different mobile devices into one multi-display such that visual content can be shown on a larger area consisting, e.g., of several mobile phones placed arbitrarily on the table. Our system allows the user to perform multi-touch interaction metaphors, even across ... | Ad-Hoc Multi-Displays for Mobile Interactive Applications | Cross-Device Interaction Definition, Taxonomy and Applications |
Data aggregation protocols can reduce the communication cost, thereby extending the lifetime of sensor networks. Prior works on data aggregation protocols have focused on tree-based or cluster-based structured approaches. Although structured approaches are suited for data gathering applications, they incur high mainten... | Structure-Free Data Aggregation in Sensor Networks | A Qualitative Comparison of Different Logical Topologies for Wireless Sensor Networks |
Rates of cannabis use in Canada are among the highest in the Western world. Past year use among Canadian youth is estimated to be approximately 25%, with up to 28% of children aged 11 to 15 years reporting cannabis use, the highest rate among developed countries. Moreover, 43% of Canadians currently endorse lifetime ca... | Cannabis Legalization and Psychiatric Disorders: Caveat “Hemp-tor” | Medical Marijuana for Treatment of Chronic Pain and Other Medical and Psychiatric Problems: A Clinical Review. |
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