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کمرکولی بزرگ و کمرکولی کوچک دو گونة هم‌بوم و خویشاوند نزدیک و مثال کلاسیک و اولیة اصل جابه‌جایی صفات‌اند، ولی، با وجود این، سؤالات بسیاری دربارة جدایی آشیان‌بوم‌شناختی این دو گونه از سال 1950 بدون پاسخ مانده است. در مطالعة حاضر، تفاوتهای رژیم غذایی دو گونة کمرکولی بزرگ و کوچک به‌منزلة یکی از ابعاد مهم آشیان‌بوم‌شناختی در ناحیة تماس آن‌ها در ایران (رشته‌کوه زاگرس) بررسی شده است. در این پژوهش، رژیم غذایی دو گونه با بررسی محتویات دستگاه گوارش و با استفاده از استرئومیکروسکوپ مطالعه شد. نتایج نشان داد رژیم غذایی غالب دو گونه در فصل بهار حشرات‌اند؛ به‌طوری‌که در کمرکولی بزرگ به‌ترتیب راستة سخت‌بال‌پوشان[1]، نیمبالپوشان[2] و راستبالان[3] بیشترین مقدار را در رژیم غذایی این گونه شامل میشوند. همچنین، در کمرکولی کوچک راستة نیمبالپوشان، سخت‌بال‌پوشان و بالپولکداران[4] به‌ترتیب بیشترین مقدار را در رژیم غذایی این گونه به خود اختصاص دادهاند. همچنین، به منظور تعیین رابطة بین اندازة بدن این دو گونه با اندازة طعمه‌های استفاده‌شده (برای دو صفت اندازۀ طول سر در راستة نیمبالپوشان و اندازۀ دهانی در سخت‌بال‌پوشان) از آنالیز کوواریانس استفاده شد. نتایج نشان داد که بین اندازة بدن و اندازة طعمه در دو گونه در اندازۀ طول سر در سنها تفاوت معناداری وجود دارد؛ به‌طوری‌که کمرکولی بزرگ نسبت به جثة خود، از حشرات بزرگ‌تری تغذیه میکند. همچنین، نتایج این مطالعه نشان داد که بین پهنای آشیان‌بوم‌شناختی هر دو گونه اختلاف اندکی وجود دارد، ولی هم‌پوشانی آشیان‌بوم‌شناختی غذایی بین هر دو گونه بالاست. نتایج این پژوهش اهمیت نسبی اندازة بدن طعمه را در جدایی آشیان‌بوم‌شناختی غذایی دو گونة هم‌بوم کمرکولی بزرگ و کوچک جهت همزیستی پایدار نشان میدهد.
[1]. Coleoptera
[2]. Hemiptera
[3]. Orthoptera
[4]. Lepidoptera
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2022-02-08T14:02:21.785Z
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Le congres regional de l’Union Geographique Internationale (UGI) s’est tenu cette annee a Quebec, du 6 au 10 aout 2018. La commission « Geography of Information, Innovation and Technology - C16.13 » y etait tres bien representee avec 5 sessions thematiques (patrimoine, ville intelligente, economie de la connaissance, vehicules autonomes et mobilites 2.0, Cartographie numerique) totalisant 30 presentations (plus 3 posters) en provenance de 12 pays differents. Les interventions se sont deroulee...
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2022-02-10T22:15:36.246Z
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79,207,817 |
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The American Heart Association advises clinicians to use a global coronary heart risk score as an initial determinant of a patient's candidacy for aspirin prophylaxis or lipid-lowering therapy. In a systematic review, authors assessed whether providing such …
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2022-02-11T04:06:41.801Z
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184,514,556 |
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El presente articulo presenta una revision de las investigaciones antecedentes que analizan y describen los intercambios conversacionales entre docente y alumnos que promueven el aprendizaje del vocabulario en los distintos niveles de la escolaridad: inicial, primario y secundario. Asimismo, describe los estudios previos que tratan la relacion entre el vocabulario y la alfabetizacion, y el impacto de ciertas estrategias pedagogicas en el aprendizaje de palabras en jardin de infantes y en la escuela primaria.
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2022-07-31T03:08:50.357Z
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233,986,909 |
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Abstract The inappropriate use of automation as a result of trust issues is a major barrier for a broad market penetration of automated vehicles. Studies so far have shown that providing information about the vehicle’s actions and intentions can be used to calibrate trust and promote user acceptance. However, how such feedback could be designed optimally is still an open question. This article presents the results of two user studies. In the first study, we investigated subjective trust and user experience of (N=21) participants driving in a fully automated vehicle, which interacts with other traffic participants in virtual reality. The analysis of questionnaires and semi-structured interviews shows that participants request feedback about the vehicle’s status and intentions and prefer visual feedback over other modalities. Consequently, we conducted a second study to derive concrete requirements for future feedback systems. We showed (N=56) participants various videos of an automated vehicle from the ego perspective and asked them to select elements in the environment they want feedback about so that they would feel safe, trust the vehicle, and understand its actions. The results confirm a correlation between subjective user trust and feedback needs and highlight essential requirements for automatic feedback generation. The results of both experiments provide a scientific basis for designing more adaptive and personalized in-vehicle interfaces for automated driving.
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2022-10-31T15:55:48.405Z
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242,971,630 |
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随着中国经济的发展，对建设工程项目的管理和实施也提出了极高的要求。从事建设工程业务的企业为了提高自身在市场中的核心竞争力，就要重视在建筑工程中的工程预结算的效率和质量。分析当前中国的工作状态，中国工程预结算依然存在各种各样的问题需要制定相应的解决方案。工程结算作为工程建筑中的关键环节之一，也是企业项目管理、项目经营和成本控制能力的集中体现，因此必须加强建筑企业工程预结算的管理，根据工程造价的特点，制定合理的工程造价管控措施和科学的工程预算结算管理方案。
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2022-11-11T08:25:56.957Z
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214,235,406 |
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Evidence for tectonic activity on Titan is provided by the presence of eroded mountain ranges. Xanadu is an equatorial region of Titan characterized by a complex topography, even though, overall, it has a lower average elevation compared to its surroundings. We investigated Xanadu's southwestern margin, a part of the region composed of heavily eroded and rugged terrains to the north and east, and of smoother, more uniform terrains to the west and south. The central portions of southwestern Xanadu (SW Xanadu) are characterized by an extensive fluvial network. The presence of such a distinctive feature was the main reason motivating the study of this area, given its potential to provide tectonic indications. Through detailed geomorphological mapping (map scale 1:700,000) on Synthetic Aperture Radar data and analysis of both fluvial drainage patterns and Digital Terrain Models, we identified several putative tectonic structures in this area: normal faulting to the west and east, thrust faulting to the north, and small‐scale strike‐slip faulting in its central parts. Pull‐apart basins are depressions bounded by both dip‐slip faults and by (overlapping and/or bending) segments of a major transcurrent fault, i.e., they are basins generated in transtensional tectonic settings. We propose that central SW Xanadu is a pull‐apart basin, bordered by both normal and thrust faults and formed by transtensional tectonics, which we consider to be the most recent tectonic phase active in this area. This basin is characterized by small‐scale strike‐slip faulting within it, on which a fluvial network has subsequently imposed.
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2022-11-17T15:30:37.139Z
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39,682,645 |
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ABSTRACT In the present study, the role of direct procaryote-eucaryote interactions in the virulence of Bacillus cereus was investigated. As a model of human enterocytes, differentiated Caco-2 cells were used. Infection of fully differentiated Caco-2 cells with B. cereus in the exponential phase of growth, in order to minimize the concentration of spores or sporulating microorganisms, shows that a strain-dependent cytopathic effect develops. Interestingly, addition of 3-h-old cultures of some strains resulted in complete detachment of the cultured cells after a 3-h infection whereas no such effect was found after a 3-h infection with 16-h-old cultures. Infection of enterocyte-like cells with B. cereus leads to disruption of the F-actin network and necrosis. Even though the effect of secreted factors cannot be ruled out, direct eucaryote-procaryote interaction seems to be necessary. In addition, we observed that some B. cereus strains were able to be internalized in Caco-2 cells. Our findings add a new insight into the mechanisms of virulence of B. cereus in the context of intestinal infection.
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2022-11-25T00:55:20.848Z
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235,207,182 |
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Over the past decade, cloud computing has demonstrated its potential to provide powerful and reliable resources at the core of the network. Many applications can benefit from the wide range of centrally managed cloud services. However, as Internet of Things (IoT) applications proliferate, the requirements for distributed computing environments are changing. Timecritical applications that need to spontaneously transfer large amounts of data would suffer from centralized infrastructures. These developments have led to new concepts of distributed environments such as edge computing, where computational resources are located in close proximity. Applications can leverage powerful computing devices that offer lower latency, higher bandwidth, and higher levels of trust. Since many applications in the IoT collect large amounts of sensor data, often containing sensitive information, these applications benefit most from less centralized infrastructures at the edge of the network. However, edge computing reaches its limits when peak workloads require large amounts of reliable computing resources. Ultimately, fog computing combines the benefits of nearby edge resources on one side and high-performance, centralized cloud resources on the other [1]. In this talk, I will summarize the current discussion on edge and Fog architectures and discuss how they differ from established cloud computing infrastructures. I will present multiple use cases in the IoT domain and evaluate how these applications have contributed to the paradigm shift in distributed computing.
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2022-12-11T09:26:13.132Z
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Switching activity is the primary cause of power dissipation in CMOS combinational and sequential circuits. We give a method of estimating power in pipelined sequential CMOS circuits that accurately models the correlation between the vectors applied to the combinational logic of the circuit. We explore the implications of the observation that the switching activity at flip-flop outputs in a synchronous sequential circuit can be significantly less than the activity at the flip-flop inputs. We present a retiming method that targets the power dissipation of a sequential circuit.
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2022-12-20T01:57:12.151Z
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90,206,453 |
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Abstract Lycophyta and Polypodiophyta have been used by humans worldwide since ancient times, yet little has been documented. This paper analyzes and discusses the different uses of these plants in three Priority Terrestrial Regions (PTR) of conservation in the state of Oaxaca in Mexico. Our objectives were to: 1) document the traditional knowledge and uses of Lycophyta and Polypodiophyta among ethnic and mestizo groups; 2) analyze the variation in the use of taxa among these ethnic and mestizo groups, in terms of altitudinal distribution and type of vegetation in habitats supporting these species. Fifty species and two varieties of useful Lycophyta and Polypodiophyta from 29 genera and 15 families, were recorded. Mazatecs, Zapotecs, and Mixes are the ethnic groups with the greatest number of records of useful species from these taxonomic groups. More than 68% of such species are recognized with common names in the local languages. There are two conditions of useful plants: 1) among species used by at least four ethnic groups, how do the uses vary from two to four; 2) related to species with at least four categories of use, which are used by few ethnic groups. More than half of the species are named in at least one language, which reinforces the fact that species are recognized, valued, and important in people's daily lives, including traditional ceremonies, beliefs. Eight categories of use were documented, with medicinal, ornamental, and handcraft being the most represented. 80% of the useful Lycophyta and Polypodiophyta were distributed above 1000 masl, mainly in montane cloud forest, Quercus forest and Quercus-Pinus forest.
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2022-12-26T16:55:09.619Z
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120,042,641 |
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Considerable efforts have been made recently to understand the detailed structure and properties of high Rydberg states of the bound even-parity spectrum of Ba. Interest in Ba is motived by the ability to study interacting Rydberg series. The perturbations of 6snl Rydberg series by 5d7d levels are reflected not only in the level structure but also in various observable quantities recently investigated by high-resolution laser spectroscopy. A wealth of data has been obtained on lifetimes, isotopes shifts, Lande factors, hyperfine structures, photoelectron angular distributions, etc. Previously the multichannel-quantum-defect theory (MQDT) has permitted one successfully to interpret the energies of perturbed series. The new possibilities offered by laser spectroscopy to analyze state mixing have provided an opportunity to probe the MQDT wave functions. This paper shows how the data provided by different measurements complement one another to check or even extend the MQDT models derived from energies. Various examples concerning the perturbed 6sns and 6snd Rydberg series are presented. For the 6snd1,3D2 series, energies are insufficient to get the full MQDT parameters needed to determine the wave functions, and gJ-factor and hyperfine-structure measurements have been essential to improve MQDT wave functions.
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2022-12-31T19:03:50.317Z
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3,332,665 |
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Grinding circuits typically contribute disproportionately to the overall cost of ore beneficiation and their optimal operation is therefore of critical importance in the cost-effective operation of mineral processing plants. This can be challenging, as these circuits can also exhibit complex, nonlinear behavior that can be difficult to model. In this paper, it is shown that key time series variables of grinding circuits can be recast into sets of descriptor variables that can be used in advanced modelling and control of the mill. Two real-world case studies are considered. In the first, it is shown that the controller states of an autogenous mill can be identified from the load measurements of the mill by using a support vector machine and the abovementioned descriptor variables as predictors. In the second case study, it is shown that power and temperature measurements in a horizontally stirred mill can be used for online estimation of the particle size of the mill product.
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2022-11-25T00:46:25.599Z
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62,139,013 |
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Microarray technology is increasingly used as a means of high throughput analysis of human, non-human and plant genomes. Manual methods of array production have inherent imperfections and variations of the quality of output data derived from these arrays. For paired microarray images acquired using manual methods of array production, image registration is necessary for aligning corresponding spots for comparison. In this research, a dynamic programming technique is investigated for registering and comparing microarray image pairs. The output of the cost function developed provides a similarity measure between the images and can be applied to evaluating the quality of the image pair. The backward solution from the dynamic programming algorithm developed provides the basis for registering the image pairs. The image registration technique provides for an optimal alignment of the image pairs. The aligned images facilitate spot-to-spot comparisons between the image pairs for detecting specific genetic expressions that could be related to bio-medical functions.
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2022-02-11T14:50:34.979Z
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We have investigated the alignment of liquid crystal LC-6710A molecules with Cinnamate material 2-(cinnamoyloxy) ethyl methacrylate (CEMC).The change of alignment of substrate surface was observed before and after photochemical reaction.The pretilt angle of LC molecules in photo-alignment cell was measured.The electro-optical property and time response curves of twisted nematic liquid crystal display (TNLCD) with single side photo-alignment substrate were obtained.The process of photochemical reaction of the material CEMC using linear polarized photopolymerization method by UV-light was studied in this paper.The mechanism of liquid crystal molecules alignment on substrate surface was discussed.
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2022-02-09T18:28:14.130Z
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35,391,545 |
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There is much debate surrounding the topic of immunisation. Helen McCarthy discusses the immunisation process with an emphasis on risk assessment.
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2022-06-30T23:58:19.908Z
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213,412,652 |
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I artikkelen presenteres en undersokelse blant en mindre gruppe laererstudenter av utbyttet av en utbredt gehormetode innenfor musikkundervisning. Studenter i laererutdanningen har i en arrekke fatt undervisning i trinnsang for a lettere kunne lese noter og forsta melodiske monstre. Denne undersokelsen avdekker hvor effektiv gehormetoden som brukes er, og hvor mye oving som skal til for a fa fremgang. To studentgrupper var med i undersokelsen. En gruppe fikk undervisning i gehormetoden, den andre ikke. Funn fra tidligere studier tyder pa at denne metoden er effektiv i korsammenheng. Resultatene, malt gjennom pre- og posttest i notelesing og diktat, viser at laererstudenter som over til sammen cirka 1000 minutter i en periode over 7 maneder opplever a lese noter bedre og oppfatte tonetrinn lettere.
Nokkelord: trinnsang, notelesing, melodiforstaelse, laererstudenter
Ear training and learning outcome
AbstractThis article presents a study among a smaller group of teacher students on the outcome of a widespread ear training method used in music education. For many years, students in teacher education have learned numerical sight-singing in order to facilitate score reading and understanding of melodic patterns. This study is about measuring how effective this method is, and how much practice is required in order to attain progress. Two relatively similar student groups were included in the survey. One group had ear training, the other did not. Findings from earlier studies indicate that this method is effective in choirs. The results from this study, measured in a pre- and a post-test in score reading and melodic dictation, show that teacher students who practice around 1000 minutes over a 7-month period, are more fluent and accurate in score reading and the ability to recognize melodic patterns.
Keywords: numerical sight-singing, score reading, melody recognition, teacher students
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2022-07-19T23:02:48.802Z
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This paper develops a condition-based maintenance model for High Speed Train wheel subject to two competing failure causes, i.e., internal degradation and external shocks that are dependent. The system fails when the degradation level or the cumulative shock damage level reaches their corresponding thresholds, which occurs first. Each shock will increase the rate of degradation by a fixed percentage, while the damage threshold is reduced when the degradation level exceeds a threshold that is smaller than the failure threshold. The system is inspected periodically to measure its degradation and damage level, and it is replaced immediately once found failed. The aim of this paper is to seek the optimal periodic inspection internal such that the expected cost per unit time is minimized. A numerical example is given to validate the model.
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2022-07-27T08:19:08.156Z
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121,009,260 |
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Relativistic quantum-field theory provides the machinery for calculating wave functions or probability amplitudes depending upon space-time coordinates. The currently accepted theory, however, fails to provide position operators and a means of measuring particle coordinates that are consistent with Dirac's properties of physical observables. This is because it calls for a space position probability distribution at a specified time. This paper shows, however, that space-time event coordinate operators, together with a corresponding measurement procedure, can be found that are consistent with Dirac's requirements. This is done through a reinterpretation of the amplitudes computed by field theory and does not involve any change in that mathematical formalism. The measurement of the space-time coordinates of an event is accomplished by detecting the absorption of a photon by a particle from each of two light pulses designed to overlap at a given point at a given time. If a final emitted photon has an energy whose sum with the final particle energy approximately equals the sum of the mean energies of the pulses, then the absorption of the two pulse photons must certainly have taken place within a distance the order of a Compton wavelength of the small space-time region of overlapping pulses. This is clear from the fact that the high energy required to confine the pulses to very small volumes must throw a particle absorbing them far off the mass shell. Thus the absorption of the two photons throws the particle into a narrowly confined spatial wave function that must decay extremely rapidly—to within a Compton wavelength, a delta function in space-time. This delta function is the eigenfunction of space-time coordinate operators Xμ and is the scalar product of vectors in a Hilbert space spanned by spin–space-time kets large enough to contain the operators of the Poincare group. These event operators transform properly under the action of Poincare operators but do not commute with the mass. If the Compton wavelength is not negligible compared to the accuracy desired in the coordinate measurements, individual coordinate measurements are no longer possible. Nevertheless, a large number of repeated coordinate measurements can be carried out to produce a coordinate probability distribution. This distribution can be unfolded to find a true coordinate probability distribution if the charge form factor is known from basic theory. An analysis of laboratory particle detection techniques shows that they actually determine space coordinates and energy rather than spatial coordinates at a given time. When this fact is included, the Klein–Nishina formula can be derived using the electromagnetic four-vector potential as the photon probability amplitude wave. To clarify the meaning of the observables, a mass-momentum measurement is described.
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2022-08-25T12:50:02.181Z
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123,023,029 |
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Remote sensing of enemy installations or their movements by trace gas detection is a critical but challenging military objective. Open path measurements over ranges of a few meters to many kilometers with sensitivity in the parts per million or billion regime are crucial in anticipating the presence of a threat. Previous approaches to detect ground level chemical plumes, explosive constituents, or combustion have relied on low-resolution, short range Fourier transform infrared spectrometer (FTIR), or low-sensitivity near-infrared differential optical absorption spectroscopy (DOAS). As mid-infrared quantum cascade laser (QCL) sources have improved in cost and performance, systems based on QCL's that can be tailored to monitor multiple chemical species in real time are becoming a viable alternative. We present the design of a portable, high-resolution, multi-kilometer open path trace gas sensor based on QCL technology. Using a tunable (1045-1047cm-1) QCL, a modeled atmosphere and link-budget analysis with commercial component specifications, we show that with this approach, accuracy in parts per billion ozone or ammonia can be obtained in seconds at path lengths up to 10 km. We have assembled an open-path QCL sensor based on this theoretical approach at City College of New York, and we present preliminary results demonstrating the potential of QCLs in open-path sensing applications.
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2022-08-30T02:15:24.304Z
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38,563,355 |
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We report multifocal cutaneous and mucosal vascular proliferations with the clinical and histological features of lobular capillary hemangioma and histiocytoid hemangioma in a 32-year-old acquired immunodeficiency syndrome patient. The lesions resolved subsequent to erythromycin therapy.
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2022-09-11T00:00:49.825Z
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26,496,296 |
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In order to investigate cerebral perfusion changes induced by neuroleptic drugs, we performed 99Tcm hexamethyl propyleneamine oxime (HMPAO) single-photon emission computed tomography (SPET). Fifteen patients (nine drug naive, six non-naive) diagnosed by using the DSM-III-R criteria, and 10 right-handed age and sex matched normal volunteers were included in this study. The SPET study was performed with 740 MBq 99Tcm-HMPAO by using a 128×128 matrix, 30 s/frame for a total 64 view over 360° before and after 1 month of neuroleptic treatment. A semiquantitative method was used for the analysis. Patients were clinically assessed using the Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS). There was no significant regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) difference between the patient group and control group in whole-brain regions except in the left temporal lobe. Although clinical scores of the patients improved after neuroleptic treatment no statistically significant difference was found in the rCBF between pre- and post-treatment. Moreover, there was no statistically significant correlation between the rCBF and BPRS in any region. These results suggest that there was a discrepancy between the clinical situation and rCBF in schizophrenia and the lateralized temporal lobe blood flow, which may have important implications for the evaluation of patients with schizophrenia.
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2022-09-13T13:59:04.391Z
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40,935,980 |
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To the Editor .—
In their statement on the prevention of childhood obesity through increased physical activity,1 the American Academy of Pediatrics Council on Sports Medicine and Fitness and the Council on School Health gave only a passing glance at what may be the elephant in the room (no pun intended). Our reliance on the automobile and our propensity to design our urban environments for cars rather than for people may well be an additional root cause of the obesity epidemic. Any solution to this epidemic requires that this issue be addressed.
The authors acknowledged …
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2022-09-14T03:44:52.765Z
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83,946,113 |
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Exomalopsis globosa (F) was more numerous during the winter, whereas E. similis Cresson was more so during the spring. These differences were explained from comparison of the bees' daily foraging activities and flight ranges with the seasonal and daily rainfall patterns. The types of pollen collected by the two species during the year did not account for the seasonal changes in the numbers of bees. Exomalopsis globosa (F) fue mas numerosa durante el invierno, mientras que E. similis Cresson lo fue tambien la primavera. Estes diferencas fueron explicadas por la comparacion de la actividad por las abejas en el forrajear diario y por sus radios de vuelo con los patrones diarios y estadonales de la lluvia. Los tipos de polen recojidos de las dos especies no explican los cambios estacionales en los numeros de abejas. Two MAJOR CONTRASTS exist between the flowering of tropical and temperate plants. Both regions are subject to seasonality, but the wetness and dryness of the seasons in the tropics do not generally have such drastic effects on the grow,th of plants as the warmth and coldness of the temperate seasons have (MacArthur 1972). The marked seasonality in temperate regions has maintained low diversities of plant species there and consequent high local densities of some of them. However, in the moist tropics, where the effect of seasonality is small, the diversity of plant species is very high and the densities of even the commonest species are low (Dobzhansky 1950). The second con,trast between the two regions is, like the first, maintained by the different effects of seasonality in them. The flowering of plants in temperate regions is largely restricted to the spring and summer, and the flowering periods of many species are only a few weeks in duration. However, in the moist tropics, many plants, especially the herbs, flower throughout the year (Adams 1972). These spatial and temporal concentrations of flowers in temperate regions have affected the activities of bees there. Such large numbers of flowers may be produced at the same time within foraging range that the bees can choose to feed at flowers of only a few of the available species. Species of bees in the same genus, for example in Bombus (Brian 1951), Andrena (Chambers 1968), and Osmia (Raw 1974), nesting at the same time of year and in the same locality have been found to collect pollen from largely different types of plants. In extreme situations bees have become oligolectic, in which each species of bee collects pollen from one or a few related taxa of plants (Linsley et al. 1963 and 1964, Cruden 1972). In contrast to the situation in temperate regions, the moist tropics have low densities of flowers of many species that are available to bees throughout the year and this led Michener (1954) to suggest that very few species were oligolectic there. However, so far, the food preferences of troipical bees have not been investigated quantitatively. The species within several Jamaican genera commonly feed at the same types of plants, so the interaction of two Exomalopsis species was investigated. E. globosa (F) and E. similis Cresson are probably the most common indigenous species of bees in Jamaica. Adults of both are active throughout the year and in many localities they have been seen to visit much the same types of flowers. Their nests are built in the ground, and in the study area the entrances of the nests of the two species were only a few metres apart. Adults of the two species are almost identical in size and were thought to have similar flight ranges and hence similar potential foraging areas in the locality studied (but see discussion). Up to 19 adult females of E. globosa co-operated in building and provisioning a nest as did up to 12 of E. similis. Most of the bees from a nest collected pollen, and many of these foragers had well-developed ovaries. Castes of egg-laying and non-egg-laying bees could not be distinguished by their size, age or ovarian development in either species (Raw, in press).
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2022-11-19T17:13:13.616Z
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110,177,289 |
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The simulation of vibration control of offshore platforms under earthquake loadings is performed in this paper by using the ANSYS software, in which the first three order natural frequencies of the platform are controlled by the ETMD system where the parameters of the system are taken in the optimal regions. The results show that the ETMD system can reduce the vibration of the platform effectively under earthquake loadings. Another important conclusion is that reasonable control effects can be obtained by control the first order natural frequency. There are 10% and 20% increase in y and z directions when the first two and three order natural frequencies are controlled simultaneously.Copyright © 2008 by ASME
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2022-12-21T19:14:56.659Z
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154,671,141 |
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We analyze the employment, wages, human resource management, and industrial relations impact of private equity, drawing on empirical evidence from various countries and institutional contexts. We identify different types of private equity-backed buyouts and highlight the impact of creating value through long- and short-term ownership and strategies emphasizing increased efficiency or growth. We show that the effects may vary between buyout types and that it is inappropriate to regard most private equity leveraged buyouts as a zero-sum game with value transferred to shareholders at workers' expense. We conclude that regulating private equity in favor of the organizational model of managerial capitalism is unlikely to necessarily further workers' interests.
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2022-12-21T19:42:43.702Z
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7,461,049 |
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This paper presents a statistic-based method to estimate the testability of a design at Register-Transfer Level. This testability estimation technique is composed of a new proposed high-level design representation and a Monte Carlo simulation which exploits a statistic model to bound the error rate and confidence level of simulation results. The experimental results show that the proposed method can efficiently report more than 60% hard-to-test points of an RL design on average prior to the synthesis task.
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2022-02-13T08:59:44.088Z
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18,909,217 |
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Oxide materials which exhibit both ferroelectricity and ferromagnetism are of great interest. Layered bismuth titanates with a Aurivillius structure, (BiFeO3)n Bi4Ti3O12, can potentially posses ferroelectric and ferromagnetic order paramaters simultaneously. It has recently been demonstrated that one such example, Bi5Fe0.5Co0.5Ti3O15 where n = 1 with half the Fe3+ sites substituted by Co3+ ions exhibits both ferroelectric and ferromagnetic properties at room temperature. Here we report on the fabrication of well oriented polycrystalline ceramics of this material, via molten salt synthesis and uniaxial pressing of high aspect ratio platelets. Electron backscatter images showed that there is an extra secondary phase within the obtained ceramic which is rich in cobalt and iron. The concentration of the secondary phase obtained from secondary electron microscopy is estimated at less than 2.5 %, below the detection limit of XRD. Further, the sintering temperature was varied and excess addition of bismuth oxide was employed in an attempt to reduce the secondary phase with limited success. The samples have been characterized by X-ray diffraction, polarization-field measurements and SQUID magnetometery as a function of sample orientation. It is inferred from the data that the resultant ferromagnetic response identified using SQUID measurements is due to the presence of the secondary phase.
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2022-04-14T15:27:11.374Z
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158,197,151 |
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ABSTRACT This paper presents findings from a three-year longitudinal qualitative case-study exploring the experiences of Asian women returning home after completing higher education. Drawing on the literature on empowerment, education and identity, analyses point to the empowering and displacing aspects of education: While education enhances choice, awareness, self-confidence, and status in the family, it also produces differences which are utilized to delegitimize and destabilise the empowerment process, through frames of culture, class and gender. The paper addresses how these women negotiate these conflicting experiences, mitigate the alienation that empowerment and education processes can trigger, and maintain their new identities and aspirations. This contributes to understanding the complexity and multidimensional nature of empowerment dynamics for women in cross-cultural higher education processes in the Global South.
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2022-07-31T07:56:10.392Z
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111,894,605 |
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The uncertainty of measurement for various testing operations is affected by quantitative and qualitative factors. The effects of quantitative factors can be estimated using statistical approach, but the same for qualitative factors is difficult to achieve. The measurement of uncertainty in case of various testing processes may be affected by qualitative factors like operator, sample, environmental conditions and machine interference. Various sub-factors related to operator like knowledge, experience, training and attitude may affect the overall performance of test results. The analytical hierarchy process (AHP) is the decision making tool used for ranking of these factors. The objective of paper is to rank these factors using AHP, which is used by the management or administrator to set the strategy for quality improvement by decreasing the uncertainty of measurement.
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2022-09-06T07:29:45.124Z
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120,880,687 |
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A statistical thermodynamic model of the nonstoichiometry in ABO3 compounds possessing volatile AO species is applied to mass−loss Knudsen effusion experimental (p,T,x) data. Good qualitative agreement is found between the model and the experiment. The nonstoichiometry is assumed to be accommodated by randomly occurring uncharged Schottky defects with an energy of formation about +0.5 eV/defect and an interaction energy of about −0.1 eV/defect pair. However, the theoretical model deviates from the experimental data describing the relationship between vapor pressure and the PbTiO3 defect concentration. This observation suggests that some refinements in the model (such as a consideration of the ordering and/or charging of lattice vacancies) will be necessary.
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2022-09-07T14:47:44.398Z
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245,927,417 |
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"url": "https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8752458"
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Penetrating brain injury is a rare pathology generally requiring emergency surgical intervention. We discuss a case of penetrating brain injury by the umbrella in which surgical intervention was performed 14 days after the injury, and obtained good clinical results.
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2022-12-11T01:56:32.152Z
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226,852,674 |
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Determining the preferences of individuals is important for many scientific and practical problems, especially when modeling information control and information warfare. Previously, a model was developed that allows taking into consideration the ideological and political preferences of citizens of the Russian Federation in the three-dimensional basis derzhavnik (great power nationalist)–liberal–socialist model, as well as several methods and technologies that determine the preferences of users of the online social network VKontakte. In this paper, we propose approaches to identifying individual preferences in a stochastic preference model based on an opinion poll, which allows these preferences to be compared with the results of the analysis of an online social network.
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2022-02-07T23:42:59.396Z
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240,462,718 |
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ABSTRACT Mental health has become an interprofessional service. Historically, differences between professionals in their epistemological orientation toward mental illness and treatment have created substantial tension. However, there are little empirical evidence about professional’s epistemological identity. In this article, we first discuss the important relationship between epistemology, practice and ethic and report the results from a survey based on a Norwegian sample (N = 432) of social workers. The overall finding is that social workers seem to be more eclectic than specific in their epistemological orientation and that the eclecticism seems to express epistemological indifference rather than a conscious choice.
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2022-02-08T07:01:41.005Z
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233,431,093 |
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A short abstract (normally not exceeding 200 words) succinctly summarizing the content of the manuscript should accompany the manuscript on a separate sheet. If the paper is accepted, the abstract will be published along with the manuscript. REFERENCES: Footnotes to sources should be numbered consecutively, and placed on triple spaced pages at the end of the text. All footnotes should conform to A Uniform System oj Citation (13th ed.), published and distributed by the Harvard Law Review Association, Gannett House, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138. Nonlawyers unfamiliar with this system should follow the citation form accepted in their field and the Editors of the JOURNAL will make the appropriate modifications if the paper is published. ILLUSTRATIONS: Illustrations and tables accompanying manuscripts should be numbered, provided with suitable legends, and marked lightly on the back with the author's name. Authors should indicate on the manuscript the appropriate positions of tables and text figures. Special arrangements must be made with the Editor-in-Chief for color plates, elaborate tables, half-tone illustrations or extra illustrations, drawings, and photographs. SELECTION AND EDITING TIMETABLE: Receipt of manuscript will be acknowledged within one week of receipt. Authors will be notified of the manuscript's acceptance or rejection within one to three months, and accepted manuscripts will be published within three to eight months of acceptance. PROOFS AND AUTHOR OFFPRINTS: Because of time pressures, printer's proofs of articles accepted for publication will not be made available to authors. Twenty-five offprints of each article, enclosed in JOURNAL covers, will be distributed to the author or divided among the authors if there is more than one. Orders for additional offprints, for which a fee is charged, must be communicated at least one month prior to publication. RETURN OF MANUSCRIPTS: Upon request of the author and upon receipt of a suitable envelope stamped with adequate postage, the Editor-in-Chief will return to the author the original of any manuscript not accepted for publication.
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2022-04-30T13:26:04.915Z
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225,590,347 |
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Penelitian ini bertujuann untuk mengembangkan produk permainan edukatif berupa media pembelajaran untuk meningkatkan keterampilan membaca nyaring pada siswa di sekolah dasar. Media ini akan membantu siswa lebih semangat dan aktif saat proses pembelajaran dilakukan. Penelitian dan pengembangan ini menggunakan desain penelitian Borg and Gall. Subjek penelitian ini yaitu ahli materi, ahli media, praktisi dan siswa kelas 3 sekolah dasar. Hasil penelitian ini meliputi uji kelayakan produk, uji respon siswa, dan hasil tes keterampilan membaca nyaring siswa dengan teknik pengumpulan data menggunakan lembar wawancara, lembar angket dan lembar tes. Aspek yang dinilai dalam validasi kelayakan produk dan respon siswa yaitu komponen kelayakan isi, komponen intruskional, dan komponen teknis. Setelah melakukan uji kelayakan maka media SMG memiliki persentase skor maksimal 50 sedangkan skor komponen kelayakan isi 42,25 dengan kriteria sangat baik, komponen intruskional 45 dengan kriteria sangat baik, dan komponen teknis 46,25 dengan kriteria sangat baik. Respon siswa meiliki memiliki persentase skor maksimal 50 sedangkan skor komponen kelayakan isi 4,3 dengan kriteria sangat baik, komponen intruskional 4,54 dengan kriteria sangat baik, dan komponen teknis 4,68 dengan kriteria sangat baik. Pada hasil belajar keterampilan membaca nyaring siswa terjadi kenaikan pada uji coba 1 dengan skor gain 0,4 dengan kategori kenaikan sedang dan uji coba coba 2 dengan skor gain 0,3 dengan kategori kenaikan sedang.
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2022-07-19T05:01:57.336Z
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129,558,602 |
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In this paper, an effective exhaustive search method for the phase ambiguity resolution in angle-measuring equipment of satellite navigation is considered.
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2022-08-20T13:49:11.038Z
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54,812,064 |
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A case of patent who was admitted to the unit because of lung tumor is presented in his report. After receiving the cytological diagnosis of the carcinoma non-microcellulare from biopsy taken during bronchoscopy patient was qualified for operative procedure. Upper left lobectomy was performed. During the histological investigation of postoperative specimen the diagnosis of adenocarcinoma GI was established. Furthermore in subsegmental bronchus small tumor which didn’t infiltrate the whole bronchial wall was noticed. The diagnosis of carcinoma planoepitheliale keratodes GII was established. For each cancer I stage of disease was established (pT1N0M0). Postoperative period was uncomplicated. In control X-ray after 3, 6, 9 months cancer recurrence wasn’t diagnosed. General condition of patient was very good (WHO 0). Patient return to the complete physical activity.
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2022-09-11T13:14:31.820Z
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18,082,083 |
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The main goal of this study is to evaluate the potential of the FAO-56 dual technique for the estimation of regional evapotranspiration (ET) and its constituent components (crop transpiration and soil evaporation) in the semi-arid region of the Kairouan plain in central Tunisia. The proposed approach combines the FAO-56 technique with remote sensing data (optical and microwave), not only for vegetation characterization, as proposed in other studies, but also for the estimation of soil evaporation, through the use of satellite moisture products. Two vegetation classes are considered in the evapotranspiration estimations. In the case of annual agriculture (cereals), crop coefficients and cover fractions are estimated using relationships established with the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), retrieved from SPOT-VGT data. In order to characterize the soil evaporation, a relationship is established between evaporation and the retrieved soil moisture values, based on the ERS/WSC products developed by the University of Vienna. Finally, a comparison is made between the ISBA-A-gs and FAO approaches, for the same studied site for the period between 1991 and 2007.
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2022-09-12T06:19:09.142Z
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13,187,954 |
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A novel aerobic, chemoheterotrophic, bacteriochlorophyll-containing bacterium, strain OCh 323T, was isolated from sand at Monkey Mia, Shark Bay, located on the west coast of Australia. The cells were Gram-negative, non-motile rods of variable length; one or both cell poles was narrower. Bacteriochlorophyll a was synthesized under aerobic conditions. Catalase, oxidase and urease were produced. The ONPG reaction was positive. The major component of the cellular fatty acid was octadecenoic acid (18:1). The DNA G+C content was 68.1 mol%. The results of 16S rRNA gene sequence comparisons revealed that strain OCh 323T formed a novel, separate line of descent within the alpha-3 group of the Alphaproteobacteria. The similarity value for the 16S rRNA gene sequence of strain OCh 323T and that of the most closely related species, Rhodovulum sulfidophilum, was 91.4%. It is concluded that strain OCh 323T (=JCM 11220T=CIP 107377T) should be placed in a novel genus, Roseibacterium gen. nov., as the type strain of a novel species Roseibacterium elongatum sp. nov.
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2022-11-24T16:21:34.478Z
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56,405,090 |
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The present study experimentally evaluates the performance of control (standard cylinder specimen), damaged (mechanical loading after thermal exposure) and repaired / retrofitted normal plain concrete cylinders using different repair schemes such as on use of FRP wraps, Geo-polymers, etc., to restore the capacity of damaged structural concrete elements. The control-companion specimen in the series provides the reference frame against which both, specimen damage levels were quantified and the benefits of a specimen repaired subsequent to damage were assessed.
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2022-12-10T09:16:46.115Z
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133,998,571 |
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This study reassesses the claim of an anomalous geomagnetic diurnal variation two months prior to and northwest of the eventual epicenter of the 2011 Tohoku earthquake, Japan (Mw 9.0). Instead of discussing the ratios of geomagnetic diurnal variation ranges at observation and reference stations, which previous studies have analyzed, the ranges themselves are examined in the present work. For the reassessment, the technique to identify the range of typical variations is improved, leading to more appropriate values of the geomagnetic diurnal variation range than those obtained by previous studies. The variations that were deemed anomalous by previous authors can be explained by coupling of the ranges of three components of the geomagnetic diurnal variation; this coupling effect was not discussed in previous studies. The cause of the high ratio was a combination of low-amplitude quiet-day diurnal solar variations in the geomagnetic field in winter, day-to-day variations, and a weak magnetic disturbance during the period. It is therefore not strictly correct that the observed variations were anomalous and, as such, they cannot be unambiguously related to seismo-magnetic phenomena due to crustal activity prior to the megathrust earthquake. In addition, due to issues with the statistical treatment of samples in previous studies, a more appropriate statistical discussion of the matter is presented.
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2022-12-21T05:52:39.323Z
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120,261,937 |
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The following situation is considered: A dense plasma armature which has been accelerated to a high velocity in a rail gun is allowed to impact a stationary metal plate. At impact, a shock wave is transmitted into the plate and a shock wave is reflected back into the plasma. For very high plasma velocities, the subsequent behavior depends primarily on the plasma density profile just prior to impact. The appropriate partial differential equations are analyzed in plane geometry and the conditions required to prevent spallation of the plate are determined. These results are compared with the "plasma only" armature plasma profiles predicted by Sloan, and it is shown that the conditions for not spalling the metal are well satisfied. The typical rail gun makes use of a low mass plasma armature to continuously accelerate a more massive solid projectile down the length of the rails. It has been suggested that substantially higher velocities and energies may be achievable with a "plasma only" rail gun-which has no solid projectile, but which has an armature mass comparable to the mass of a solid projectile. Subsequent to the acceleration, the momentum of this high velocity plasma must be transferred to a solid projectile. One way to do this is to simply allow the plasma to collide with the projectile. For this to be of interest, the projectile should not shatter and the energy transfer should be reasonably efficient. The purpose of the paper is to analyze an idealized model of such a collision.
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2022-02-09T22:28:24.122Z
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86,630,595 |
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Trends and Technology welcomes releases and information about new products, services, Web sites, trends, and upcoming events (give us six months lead time for seminars and meetings). If your company has a Web site that you would like for us to review, please send us news for our Online section, or tell us about sites that would interest clinical laboratory scientists. These sites, as well as the new product information, are offered for reader information only. We cannot vouch for them and their presence here does not constitute an endorsement by CLS or ASCLS. NEW PRODUCTS The VWR bioMarke New Lab Start-Up Program Guide offers a selection of money-saving product promotions to make laboratory set-ups easier and less costly. Leading manufacturers offer thousands of dollars in savings and free products to help new laboratories reduce initial start-up costs and easily obtain items for their laboratories. Products are discounted as much as 50% from manufacturer's suggested list price. For a free copy of the guide, phone (800) 932-5000. So-Low Environmental Equipment now offers a new laboratory freezer for preserving tissue, plasma, blood cells, microbiology specimens and other biological storage needs. A digital temperature control provides an adjustable range from −40 °C to −85 °C. The freezer has a 22 cubic foot capacity. Contact Jim Schum at (513) 772-9410. Gloves In A Bottle is a lotion that turns your outer layer of skin into what works like an invisible pair of gloves to keep moisture–robbing irritants out while retaining your own natural…
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2022-02-10T22:15:02.984Z
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129,422,852 |
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O presente artigo trata da analise ambiental integrada do municipio de Grossos. Os sistemas ambientais do municipio foram delimitados e analisados segundo a escala de 1: 40.000. Para a consecucao do trabalho foram seguidas etapas de revisao bibliografica e documental, trabalhos de campo, interpretacao de imagem de satelite e cartografia digital. A analise da estrutura e dinâmica natural dos sistemas ambientais, associada ao estudo das condicoes de uso e cobertura da terra possibilitou a confeccao de um quadro-diagnostico onde sao evidenciadas as potencialidades e limitacoes ao uso e os problemas ambientais emergentes.
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2022-02-09T14:45:59.854Z
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23,455,729 |
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In order to set up evaluation model and criterion, the index system of construction project standardization level were designed by induction. The index system consists of 4 first-degree indexes: Standard level Indexes, Implementation Indexes, Benefits Indexes and Efficacy Indexes, and 14 second-degree indexes. Then some evaluation method were analyzed by antitheses, combining weighed method were put forward to solve weighted calculation of all indexes and grey multi-hierarchy comprehensive evaluation to solve evaluation of efficacy indexes. Finally one composite index can be got to measure construction project standardization level.
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2022-02-12T19:15:53.090Z
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113,222,399 |
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Toward clarifying structural factors in the lack of fishery successors and devising countermeasures to such lack, this paper analyzes the applicability of AHP (Analytic Hierarchy Process). The DEMATEL (DEcision MAking Trial and Evaluation Laboratory) method, based on a pair comparison questionnaire survey, was used to clarify the factors constituting the structureo f the problem. The ISM (Interpretive Structural Modeling) method examined the relationship between the causes and effects of the factors identified by DEMATEL by setting the boundaries of 1 (“yes”) and 0 (“no”) for the data obtained by DEMATEL., AHP was then used to weight three evaluation criteria (industrial, cultural, regional maintenance), and then to rank them. The resulting weighting was used to rank the effectiveness of each remedial measure in terms of each of the evaluation criteria.
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2022-06-18T16:26:58.251Z
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142,982,723 |
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Many program managers in student affairs bring methods and values from their graduate training and entry-level positions that do not adequately prepare them for the conflicting roles of middle management. Building alliances within a political perspective is an approach they can use to manage the dynamics of being caught in the middle and thereby more easily accomplish their goals.
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2022-09-05T22:01:16.650Z
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45,486,567 |
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Summary 1) Injections of 1-25 μg of DNP into chicken eggs, prior to incubation resulted in embryonic mortality after 3 days incubation, but did not produce lens changes. 2) Injections of 25-200 μg of DNP after 5 days incubation did not produce lenticular changes. 3) Cataracts were produced in embryos and hatched chicks from eggs injected with 200-500 μg of DNP after 8 days incubation. The size of cataract was roughly the same in hatched chicks as in embryos from the 500 μg group. 4) Injection of 750 μg of DNP after 15 days incubation produced an opacity evident after 20 hours. However, the opacity apparently regressed since the eyes of chicks hatched from this group appeared to be normal.
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2022-09-10T12:19:51.845Z
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244,137,945 |
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It is difficult to evaluate the degradation performance and the degradation state of the rolling bearing in noisy environment. A new method is proposed to solve the problem based on singular value decomposition (SVD)-sliding window linear regression and ResNeXt - multi-attention mechanism's deep neural network (RMADNN). Firstly, the root mean square(RMS) gradient value is calculated on the basis of RMS based on SVD and linear regression of sliding window, which is used as the rolling bearing performance degradation indicator in noisy environment. Secondly, the degradation state of rolling bearing is divided by the RMS gradient. Thirdly, for the part of the deep learning network model, the soft attention mechanism is introduced into the bidirectional long short-term memory network (BiLSTM) to extract more important and deep fault features. At the same time, the ResNeXt layer is added into the convolutional neural network (CNN) to extract more fault features and merge them through multi-scale grouped convolution. Then, the hybrid domain attention mechanism (HDAM) was introduced after the ResNext layer. The HDAM can screen out more important features from the output features of the ResNext in the two dimensions of channel and spatial. Therefore, the improved deep learning network of the ResNeXt - multi-attention mechanism's deep neural network (RMADNN) in this research is established. Finally, the labeled data set is input into the improved model for training, and the Softmax classifier is used to identify the life decline state of the rolling bearing. The result shows that the indicator of RMS gradient proposed has a better characterization, and the RMADNN model can distinguish the life degradation state of rolling bearing better.
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2022-09-29T21:29:25.341Z
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37,477,764 |
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Statistical distributions of switching overvoltages have been used for decades for the determination of insulation levels of extremely high voltage (EHV) systems. Existing statistical distributions obtained in the 1970s are for overhead lines, and statistical distributions of switching overvoltages of EHV cables are not available to date. This paper derives the statistical distribution of energization overvoltages of EHV cables. Through the comparison of the statistical distributions of EHV cables and overhead lines, it has been found that line energization overvoltages on the cables are lower than those on the overhead lines with respect to maximum, 2%, and mean values. As the minimum value is almost at the same level, standard deviations are smaller for the cables. The obtained statistical distributions in this paper are of a great importance in considering insulation levels of cable systems.
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2022-09-30T05:34:54.039Z
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7,749,468 |
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In software development we are faced with the problem to comprehend and take over source code from other developers. The key challenge is to understand the underlying specification implemented by the software system. Regaining this understanding is more difficult when the source code is the only reliable source of information, documentation is outdated or only present in fragments, and original developers are not available anymore. Unfortunately, we encounter such situations frequently for scientific and engineering software systems, developed in industry. For instance, process models in the steelmaking domain are developed and maintained over decades by single engineers. If such an engineer leaves the company, he/she literally leaves behind a legacy system for another person (or team). We propose tool support combining static and dynamic program analysis to tackle this challenge. Using static program analysis we extract the input/output behavior from program source code and present the extracted information besides the analyzed source code, providing seamless navigation between both views. Dynamic program analysis allows developers to examine input/output behavior for single program executions and thereby gain insight into standard behavior and exceptional cases. In this paper we present requirements on tool support integrating static and dynamic code analysis, briefly describe the implementation of the tool and report on its application to a C++ program source in the industry. Furthermore, we discuss challenges in the present implementation as well as the potential and limitations of using the tool in general.
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2022-11-28T18:06:56.821Z
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29,189,710 |
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Sir,
We read with interest the excellent paper by Gallitelli et al . on emergencies in hereditary haemorrhagic telangiectasia (HHT).1 HHT (or Osler-Weber-Rendu disease) is an uncommon autosomal dominant vascular disorder, related to an endoglin or activin-receptor-like kinase 1 ( ALK1 ) gene mutation, resulting in multiorgan vascular dysplasia.2 HHT can lead to several life-threatening conditions, which are seen in more than a third of patients.1 However, acute cardiac complications of HHT are unusual. We report a case of myocardial infarction in a woman with normal coronary arteries and well-documented HHT.
A 57-year-old woman was admitted for acute coronary syndrome without ST elevation. Her history included mucocutaneous telangiectases …
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2022-12-10T09:39:24.868Z
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218,560,799 |
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"status": "GOLD",
"url": "http://www.pjoes.com/pdf-117759-51762?filename=Variations in Carbon_.pdf"
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Knowledge of seasonal variations of carbon (C), nitrogen (N), and phosphorus (P) concentrations plus C:N:P ratios can provide insight into the dynamics of biological processes, nutrient cycling, resource acquisition, and mass partitioning in plants and soils. Platycladus orientalis (Cupressaceae) is an important tree species distributed throughout northern China. We studied the seasonal dynamics of C, N, and P concentrations and their stoichiometry in leaves, branches, roots, and soil in a P. orientalis plantation. Plant and soil C, N, and P concentrations, and their stoichiometry varied significantly among ecosystem components and growth season sampling times, indicating nutrient allocation patterns and mobility in the P. orientalis plantation. Accurately quantifying and comparing C:N:P stoichiometry in the plant and soil of P. orientalis requires a study of plant organs, soil depth, and sampling times. The mean N concentration in leaves was 14.06 g kg-1 and the mean N:P ratio was 11.82, indicating that the growth of P. orientalis was N limited during the growing season. N and P concentrations and stoichiometry in plants were correlated with those in soil, suggesting coupled nutrient control between plant and soil. The C:N:P ratio was regulated in different components of the ecosystem.
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2022-12-20T17:22:07.537Z
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146,947,403 |
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Auch wenn das Internet sich weder so schnell noch so nachhaltig im Alltag und als Bestandteil von Massenkommunikation etablierte, wie es Ende der neunziger Jahre den Anschein hatte, so zeigt sich am Internet doch, was sich mit der Vernetzungs- und Verfugbarkeitslogik verandern konnte, die dem Internet zu eigen ist. Manuel Castells (2001) mit seiner Analyse des „Informationszeitalters“ und der als instrumentellem Netzwerk organisierten Gesellschaft skizziert die Umrisse, wie sich unsere Gesellschaft mit welcher Dynamik entwickelt. Er spricht von einer „informationeilen Entwicklungsweise“ (ebd., S. 17), die anders als die „agrarische“ oder die „industrielle“ auf das gesellschaftliche Verhaltnis der Menschen zur Natur („Produktion“), zu sich selber („Erfahrung“, „kulturelle Identitat“) und zu anderen (.Macht“) einwirkt. Einen Aspekt dieser „informationellen Entwicklungsweise“ beschreibt Castells mit dem Hinweis auf „globale Netzwerke der Instrumentalitat“, die eine „unuberschaubare Anzahl virtueller Gemeinschaften“ hervorbringt (ebd., S. 23). Dabei konstituiert sich auch eine Art von Subjektivitat, die sich im Moment als „zunehmende Distanz zwischen Globalisierung und Identitat, zwischen dem Netz und dem Ich“ beschreiben lasst (ebd., S. 24). In dieser Spannung bekommt .Multimedia“ die Funktion einer „symbolischen Umwelt“ (ebd., S. 415).
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2022-01-27T17:04:54.018Z
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91,043,321 |
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Background: The Sır Dam Lake is located on the Ceyhan River and provides a major water-supply to agricultural fields in Southern Methodology: Gram negative bacterial strains were identified based on biochemical tests. Biochemical identification of the bacterial isolates was further verified using CHROMagar ECC (France). A fragment corresponding to 16S rRNA gene was amplified using universal primers. The sequence analyses of amplified fragments were used for molecular identification of unidentified isolates by biochemical tests. Antimicrobial susceptibilities of the isolates were determined with disk diffusion method. Results: A total of 17 identified strains were grouped as Escherichia coli (n=8), non-fermenters (n=5) and Enterobacteriaceae (n=4). Only two strains ( Klebsiella oxytoca and Enterobacter spp.) were identified from Enterobacteriaceae . Acidovorax temperans emerged as the second predominant bacteria following to E. coli and did not display significant resistance to the tested antimicrobials. However, most of E. coli isolates as well as a single K. oxytoca and a single Acinetobacter spp. isolates displayed higher multiple antimicrobial resistance (MAR) index values that should be considered seriously for local public health. Conclusion: Gram negative bacterial distribution remarked the presence of fecal contamination. In addition, the presence of A. temperans might indicate a presence of different types of pollution, and this organism might be useful in biodegradation processes after its metabolic capability is defined.
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2022-08-18T12:52:25.717Z
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2,796,199 |
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We measure the effects of reservoir engineering on the decay of a coherent, many-body excitation in a BEC loaded into an optical lattice. We show both enhancement and suppression of decoherence vs. lattice depth.
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2022-02-13T13:11:58.574Z
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171,092,922 |
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"DOI": "10.1111/gcb.14717",
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Predicting the biological effects of climate change presents major challenges due to the interplay of potential biotic and abiotic mechanisms. Climate change can create unexpected outcomes by altering species interactions, and uncertainty over the ability of species to develop in situ tolerance or track environmental change further hampers meaningful predictions. As multiple climatic variables shift in concert, their potential interactions further complicate ecosystem responses. Despite awareness of these complexities, we still lack controlled experiments that manipulate multiple climatic stressors, species interactions, and prior exposure of species to future climatic conditions. Particularly studies that address how changes in water availability interact with other climatic stressors to affect aquatic ecosystems are still rare. Using aquatic insect communities of Neotropical tank bromeliads, we combined controlled manipulations of drought length and species interactions with a space‐for‐time transplant (lower elevations represent future climate) and a common garden approach. Manipulating drought length and experiment elevation revealed that adverse effects of drought were amplified at the warmer location, highlighting the potential of climatic stressors to synergistically affect communities. Manipulating the presence of omnivorous tipulid larvae showed that negative interactions from tipulids, presumably from predation, arose under drought, and were stronger at the warmer location, stressing the importance of species interactions in mediating community responses to climate change. The common garden treatments revealed that prior community exposure to potential future climatic conditions did not affect the outcome. In this powerful experiment, we demonstrated how complexities arise from the interplay of biotic and abiotic mechanisms of climate change. We stress that single species can steer ecological outcomes, and suggest that focusing on such disproportionately influential species may improve attempts at making meaningful predictions of climate change impacts on food webs.
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2022-12-03T12:31:43.127Z
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126,399,974 |
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"status": "CLOSED",
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The objective of this study is to present a novel in‐wheel (IW) active vibration system for an IW motor (IWM)‐driven electric vehicle to overcome the negative effects of vertical vibration due to road roughness and the impact of rotary inertial forces from the IWM. First, the reason for the poor ride comfort of the general electric wheel structure is examined by theoretical derivation. Second, a 6 degree‐of‐freedom (DOF) vehicle model is established and the corresponding cost function based on 10 ride comfort indexes is proposed. Third, a fuzzy optimal sliding mode (FOSM) control method is presented and the IW active vibration system is designed by applying this proposed control theory. Then, normalization and analytic hierarchy process (AHP) methodologies are adopted to select reasonable weighted coefficients of performance indexes. Finally, the advantages of the electric vehicle with the IW active vibration system are illustrated by MATLAB/Simulink. Analysis results demonstrate the feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed method.
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2022-12-14T11:06:13.270Z
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236,651,390 |
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Влияние личностных черт на учебную успеваемость стабильно воспроизводится в разных исследованиях. В рамках пятифакторной теории предполагается, что влияние врожденных черт на поведение опосредовано приобретенными характерными адаптациями. Одной из разновидностей характерных адаптаций могут быть рефлексивные характерные адаптации. Данное исследование посвящено актуальной проблеме поиска личностных предикторов учебной успеваемости. Впервые вклад рефлексивных характерных адаптаций в успеваемость изучается на выборке старшеклассников. В исследовании приняли участие 135 российских школьников в возрасте от 14 до 17 лет. Были измерены черты Большой пятерки и четыре варианта рефлексивных характерных адаптаций. Также была посчитана успеваемость – средний балл по всем предметам для каждого ученика за прошедший учебный год. В результате были обнаружены корреляции добросовестности и открытости с успеваемостью. Показано, что рефлексивные характерные адаптации являются более надежным коррелятом успеваемости, чем черты. Обнаружено, что метаустановка на добросовестность вносит уникальный вклад в варьирование учебной успеваемости. Выявлено, что корреляции успеваемости с открытостью в основном объясняются половыми различиями, а метаустановка на открытость вносит значимый вклад в варьирование учебных успехов. Таким образом, было показано, что рефлексивные характерные адаптации вносят уникальный вклад в предсказание учебной успеваемости.
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2022-12-27T18:04:38.030Z
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219,909,299 |
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The present commentary offers a timely exploration of the racial trauma experienced by Asian, Black, and Latinx communities as it relates to COVID-19. Instances of individual, cultural, and structural racism and implications for mental health are discussed. Evidence-based strategies are identified for mental health professionals in order to support healing and mitigate the risk of further racial traumas. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).
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2022-12-21T10:49:42.133Z
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163,165,310 |
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"DOI": "10.1111/joim.12942",
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The aim of this study was to investigate the predictive factors for relapse of IgG4‐related disease (IgG4‐RD) and observe the long‐term clinical outcomes in patients with IgG4‐RD.
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2023-01-01T17:17:15.362Z
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35,635,376 |
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BACKGROUND
Studies have shown that extracts of cementum from periodontally involved teeth stimulated cytokine secretion from cultured human monocytes and that this stimulatory effect is inhibited by conditioning of the cementum with tetracycline. Using the subcutaneous chamber model in mice, the present study was designed to test the ability of cementum extracts from periodontally diseased teeth to induce an inflammatory response in vivo and to evaluate the effect of cementum conditioning with tetracycline.
METHODS
Subcutaneous chambers were implanted in 24 mice. Two weeks later, the animals received intrachamber injection of one of the following: diseased-cementum extract, healthy-cementum extract, diseased-cementum extract preconditioned with tetracycline, or medium alone. Chamber exudates were harvested and analyzed for leukocyte levels, tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-alpha, interferon (IFN)-gamma, and interleukin-10 (IL-10).
RESULTS
Injection of healthy- or diseased-cementum extracts increased the intrachamber levels of leukocytes. Extracts of diseased cementum were found to significantly increase the levels of TNF-alpha, IFN-gamma, and IL-10, compared with extracts of healthy cementum or media alone. Peak cytokine levels were observed 2 hours postinjection. Conditioning of diseased cementum with tetracycline before extraction resulted in augmented levels of TNF-alpha and IFN-gamma, and reduced levels of IL-10, compared with untreated diseased cementum.
CONCLUSIONS
The present results demonstrate that conditioning of diseased cementum with tetracycline may induce an intense inflammatory response in a mouse model, and they suggest that local application of tetracycline for root conditioning should be carefully reinvestigated.
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2022-09-13T13:34:54.219Z
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14,262,368 |
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ABSTRACT We have earlier shown that galectin-3, a lactose-binding mammalian lectin that is secreted from activated macrophages, basophils, and mast cells, induces activation of the NADPH oxidase in exudated but not in peripheral blood neutrophils (A. Karlsson, P. Follin, H. Leffler, and C. Dahlgren, Blood 91:3430–3438, 1998). The alteration in responsiveness occurring during extravasation correlated with mobilization of the gelatinase and/or specific granules to the cell surface, indicating a role for mobilizable galectin-3 receptors. In this study we have investigated galectin-3-induced NADPH oxidase activation, measured as superoxide production, in lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-primed neutrophils. Upon galectin-3 challenge, the LPS-primed cells produced superoxide, both extracellularly and intracellularly. A primed extracellular response to formylmethionyl-Leu-Phe (fMLF) was also achieved. The exposure of complement receptors 1 and 3 as well as the formyl peptide receptor on the cell surface was markedly increased after LPS treatment, indicating that granule fusion with the plasma membrane had occurred. Further assessment of specific markers for neutrophil granules showed that the LPS treatment had mobilized the gelatinase granules but only a minor fraction of the specific granules. We thus suggest that the mechanism behind LPS priming lies at the level of granule (receptor) mobilization for galectin-3 as well as for fMLF.
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2022-12-20T20:26:21.553Z
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114,321,995 |
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Cyber-attacks are on the rise due to the increased usage of social networking application's built-in Android devices via Wi-Fi connections, which has resulted in privacy issues. Several studies have been conducted to investigate Android phones, however, none of these have proposed a comprehensive Android investigation method, which begins with a Man-in-the-Middle attack and ending in a criminal investigation. The purpose of this research is to propose an Android forensics framework against such Wi-Fi attacks, using advanced forensic tools, such as the Cellebrite Universal Forensic Extraction Device and the Oxygen. This will assist the researcher to prove the suggested arguments in the following: 1. To implement guidelines for the forensic examiners, especially for those new in the field of forensics, and 2. To guide Android and social networking application developers to enhance the level of security. Furthermore, this study recommends the best data extraction methods designed for Android devices.
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2022-02-10T01:42:50.353Z
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28,992,260 |
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Errors in the execution of procedural tasks can have severe consequences. Attempts to ameliorate these slip errors through increased training and motivation have been shown to be ineffective. Instead, we identified the steps in a task procedure on which errors are most likely to occur, so that these might be designed out of the task procedure in the first place. Specifically, we considered whether device-oriented steps (i.e., steps in the task procedure that do not directly contribute to the achievement of the task goal) are more error-prone than task-oriented steps (i.e., steps that do directly contribute to the task goal). Two experiments are reported in which participants were trained to perform a novel procedural task. Across conditions, we manipulated the extent to which each step in the task procedure appeared to contribute to the achievement of the task goal (i.e., alternating the assignment of a task step between device- and task-oriented), while keeping the interface and underlying task procedure the same. Results show that participants made more errors and took longer to complete a task step when it played a device-oriented role rather than a task-orientated role. These effects were exacerbated by the introduction of a secondary task designed to increase working memory load, suggesting that when a task step plays a device-oriented role it is more weakly represented in memory. We conclude that device-oriented task steps are inherently problematic and should be avoided where possible in the design of task procedures.
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2022-09-13T00:26:18.413Z
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54,715,751 |
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Empowerment, Clear and Challenging Goals, Evaluation of Function, Access to Resources, Rewarding System Empowerment is still on the agenda as a management concept and has become a widely used management term in the last decade or so. The purpose of this research was describing model of empowering managers by applying structural equation modeling (SEM) at Ardabil universities. Two hundred and twenty managers of Ardabil universities including chancellors, managers, and vice presidents of education, research, and studies participated in this study. Clear and challenging goals, evaluation of function, access to resources, and rewarding were investigated. The results indicated that the designed SEM for empowering managers at university reflects a good fitness level. As it stands out, the conceptual model in the society under investigation was used appropriately. Among variables, access to resources with 88 per cent of load factor was known as the affective variable. Evaluation of function containing 51 per cent of load factor was recognized to have less effect. Results of average rating show that evaluation of function and access to resources with 2.62 coefficients stand at first level. Due to this, they had great impact on managers' empowerment. The results of the analysis provided compelling evidence that model of empowering managers was desirable at Ardabil universities. Correspondence: m_h_ma@yahoo.com
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2022-09-13T19:53:56.313Z
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149,889,625 |
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T he demise of the traditional leftright divide in British politics has been widely touted. Voters, some commentators contend, no longer base their political choices on this familiar binary. Sure enough, the left versus right vision of the world was unable to predict Brexit, nor distinguish between Labour and Ukip (or indeed Green party) voters at the 2015 General Election. But old ideas of left and right are far from a useless relic as far as understanding key political outcomes are concerned. The resurgence of two-party competition in England in the 2017 General Election returned a situation where the key factor in distinguishing between Labour and Conservative voters was their position on the traditional, economic left-right scale. While the dimension variously described as ‘new’, ‘other’, 'open vs closed’ or more usefully ‘liberal-authoritarian’ substantially modifies the effect of left-right position on vote choice, it is far from replacing it.
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2022-12-18T04:00:20.881Z
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23,837,892 |
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Beam splitters are essential components in various optical and photonic applications, for example, interferometers, multiplexers, and so on. Present beam splitters based on cubes or plates are normally bulky. Realizing beam splitters in nanoscales is useful to reduce the total size of photonic devices. We demonstrate here a beam splitter with nanoscale thickness based on a gradient metasurface comprising lithium niobate cylinder arrays. Since one unit cell of metasurface comprising two cylinder rows shows two opposite phase gradients, the incident light is split into different directions according to the generalized Snell's law. The split ratio is proven to be effectively tunable.
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2022-12-18T18:45:56.641Z
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128,840,405 |
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Nitrate distribution and reduction processes were investigated in an unconfined sandy aquifer of Quaternary age. Ground water chemistry was studied in a series of eight multilevel samplers along a flow line, deriving water from both arable and forested land. Results show that plumes of nitrate-contaminated groundwater emanate from the agricultural areas and spread through the aquifer. The aquifer can be subdivided into an upper 10- to 15-m thick oxic zone that contains O2 and NO3−, and a lower anoxic zone characterized by Fe2+-rich waters. The redox boundary is very sharp, which suggests that reduction processes of O2 and NO3− occur at rates that are fast compared to the rate of downward water transport. Nitrate-contaminated groundwater contains total contents of dissolved ions that are two to four times higher than in groundwater derived from the forested area. The persistence of the high content of total dissolved ions in the NO3−-free anoxic zone indicates the downward migration of contaminants and that active nitrate reduction is taking place. Nitrate is apparently reduced to N2 because both nitrite and ammonia are absent or found at very low concentrations. Possible electron donors in the reduced zone of the aquifer are organic matter, present as reworked brown coal fragments from the underlying Miocene, and small amounts of pyrite at an average concentration of 3.6 mmol/kg. Electron balances across the redoxcline, based on concentrations of O2, NO3−, SO42− and total inorganic carbon (TIC), indicate that pyrite is by far the dominant electron donor even though organic matter is much more abundant. Groundwater transport and chemical reactions were modeled using the code PHREEQM, which combines a chemical equilibrium model with a one-dimensional mixing cell transport model. Only the vertical component of the water transport was modeled since, in contrast to rates along flow lines, the vertical rates are close to constant as required by the one-dimensional model. Average vertical transport rates of water in the saturated zone were obtained by tritium dating. The modeling process is a two-step procedure. First the sediment column is initialized with natural water containing only oxygen as electron acceptor, and subsequently agricultural waters containing both oxygen and nitrate are fed into the column. The nitrate concentration of agricultural waters entering the saturated zone varies with time, and an input function was therefore constructed by linear mixing of natural waters and agricultural waters. This input function was fed into the column initialized with natural water, and the model run forward in time to the year 1988 where field data are available. Comparison with field data shows that the variation in groundwater chemistry is well described by the model when reduction of oxygen and reduction of nitrate by pyrite oxidation are the only redox reactions occurring. Finally, predictions are made for the distribution of water chemistry in the year 2003. Downward progression of the redoxcline is accelerated by a factor of five due to nitrate pollution of the aquifer, but absolute rates remain small, of the order of a few centimeters per year. The controlling factor for nitrate migration through the aquifer, once it has reached the anoxic zone, is the concentration and distribution of pyrite in the sediments.
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2022-12-19T14:00:41.961Z
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252,923,162 |
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During many years, chemo-immunotherapy fludarabine-cyclophosphamide-rituximab (FCR) was the gold standard for first line treatment of medically fit patients with symptomatic B-chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL). Over the last decade, targeted biotherapies have revolutionized the treatment of B-CLL patients and almost entirely supplanted FCR. However, no biomarker still exists to predict the complete remission (CR) with undetectable minimal residual disease (uMRD) in bone marrow (BM), which remains the best predictive factor for survival. MicroRNAs represent a class of molecular biomarkers which expression is altered in B-CLL. Our study aimed at identifying before treatment blood miRNAs that predict treatment outcome in previously untreated B-CLL patients (NCT 01370772, https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT01370772). Using hierarchical clustering of miRNA expression profiles discriminating 8 patients who achieved CR with BM uMRD from 8 patients who did not achieve CR and displayed detectable BM MRD, we identified 25 miRNAs differentially expressed before treatment. The expression of 11 miRNAs was further validated on a larger cohort (n=123). Based on the dosage of 5 miRNAs at diagnosis, a decision tree was constructed to predict treatment outcome. We identified 6 groups of patients with a distinct probability of being CR with BM uMRD to FCR treatment, ranging from 72% (miR-125b, miR-15b and miR-181c high) to 4% (miR-125b and miR-193b low). None of the patients displaying high expression levels of miR-125b, miR-15b and miR-181c relapsed during study follow-up. In contrast, patients with low miR-15b and high miR-412, or with low miR-125b and miR-193b, demonstrated significant low PFS. RNA sequencing of blood at diagnosis identified that patients relapsing after treatment are characterized by significant enrichment of gene signatures related to cell cycle, MYC target genes, metabolism and translation regulation. Conversely, patients achieving CR with BM uMRD displayed significant enrichment in genes related to communication between CLL cells and the microenvironment, immune system activation and upregulation of polycomb PRC2 complex target genes. Our results suggest that blood miRNAs are potent predictive biomarkers for FCR treatment efficacy and might be implicated in the FCR efficacy in B-CLL patients, providing new insight into unmet need for the treatment of B-CLL patients and identifying pathways predictive of patients’ remission. Clinical trial registration ClinicalTrials.gov, identifier NCT 01370772.
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2022-11-11T07:59:13.621Z
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24,298,159 |
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Cordyceps militaris is a mushroom traditionally used for diverse pharmaceutical purposes in East Asia, including China, and has been found to be effective for enhancing immunity through various types of animal testing. The aim of this study is to determine the efficacy of C. militaris for enhancing cell-mediated immunity and its safety in healthy male adults. Healthy male adults were divided into the experimental group (n = 39), given 1.5 g/day of ethanol treated C. militaris in capsules, and the control group (n = 40), given the same number of identical placebo capsules filled with microcrystalline cellulose and lactose for 4 weeks from February 13 to March 14, 2012; the natural killer (NK) cell activity, lymphocyte proliferation index (PI), and T-helper cell 1 (Th1) cytokine cluster (interferon [IFN]-γ, interleukin [IL]-12, IL-2, and tumor necrosis factor [TNF]-α) were measured, along with stability test, at weeks 0, 2, and 4. The C. militaris group showed a statistically significant greater increase in NK200 (P = .0010), lymphocyte PI (P ≤ .0001), IL-2 (P = .0096), and IFN-γ (P = .0126), compared with the basal level, than the placebo group. There was no statistically significant adverse reaction. C. militaris enhanced the NK cell activity and lymphocyte proliferation and partially increased Th1 cytokine secretion. Therefore, C. militaris is safe and effective for enhancing cell-mediated immunity of healthy male adults.
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2022-12-20T22:43:31.821Z
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224,780,975 |
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"url": "https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7573796"
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Importance
The reported associations of cerebral microbleeds with recurrent stroke and intracerebral hemorrhage have raised concerns regarding antithrombotic treatment in patients with a history of stroke and microbleeds on magnetic resonance imaging.
Objective
To characterize microbleeds in embolic strokes of undetermined source (ESUS) and report interactions between microbleeds and the effects of random assignment to anticoagulant vs antiplatelet therapy.
Design, Setting, and Participants
Subgroup analyses of the New Approach Rivaroxaban Inhibition of Factor Xa in a Global Trial vs Aspirin to Prevent Embolism in ESUS (NAVIGATE ESUS) international, double-blind, randomized, event-driven phase 3 clinical trial. Participants were enrolled between December 2014 and September 2017 and followed up for a median of 11 months. The study setting included 459 stroke recruitment centers in 31 countries. Patients aged 50 years or older who had neuroimaging-confirmed ESUS between 7 days and 6 months before screening were eligible. Of these 7213 NAVIGATE ESUS participants, 3699 (51%) had information on cerebral microbleeds reported on their baseline clinical magnetic resonance imaging and were eligible for these analyses. Patients with a prior history of symptomatic intracerebral hemorrhage were excluded from the NAVIGATE ESUS trial.
Interventions
Rivaroxaban, 15 mg, compared with aspirin, 100 mg, daily.
Main Outcomes and Measures
The primary outcome was recurrent stroke. Secondary outcomes were ischemic stroke, intracerebral hemorrhage, and all-cause mortality.
Results
Microbleeds were present in 395 of 3699 participants (11%). Of patients with cerebral microbleeds, mean (SD) age was 69.5 (9.4) years, 241 were men (61%), and 201 were White (51%). Advancing age (odds ratio [OR] per year, 1.03; 95% CI, 1.01-1.04), East Asian race/ethnicity (OR, 1.57; 95% CI, 1.04-2.37), hypertension (OR, 2.20; 95% CI, 1.54-3.15), multiterritorial infarcts (OR, 1.95; 95% CI, 1.42-2.67), chronic infarcts (OR, 1.78; 95% CI, 1.42-2.23), and occult intracerebral hemorrhage (OR, 5.23; 95% CI, 2.76-9.90) were independently associated with microbleeds. The presence of microbleeds was associated with a 1.5-fold increased risk of recurrent stroke (hazard ratio [HR], 1.5; 95% CI, 1.0-2.3), a 4-fold risk of intracerebral hemorrhage (HR, 4.2; 95% CI, 1.3-13.9), a 2-fold risk of all-cause mortality (HR, 2.1; 95% CI, 1.1-4.3), and strictly lobar microbleeds with an approximately 2.5-fold risk of ischemic stroke (HR, 2.3; 95% CI, 1.3-4.3). There were no interactions between microbleeds and treatment assignments for recurrent stroke, ischemic stroke, or all-cause mortality. The HR of intracerebral hemorrhage on rivaroxaban was similar between persons with microbleeds (HR, 3.1; 95% CI, 0.3-30.0) and persons without microbleeds (HR, 3.0; 95% CI, 0.6-14.7; interaction P > .99).
Conclusions and Relevance
Microbleeds mark an increased risk of recurrent stroke, ischemic stroke, intracerebral hemorrhage, and mortality in ESUS but do not appear to influence effects of rivaroxaban on clinical outcomes.
Trial Registration
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT02313909.
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2022-12-30T15:32:26.449Z
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109,905,530 |
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Structural damage detection is a very important research topic and, currently, there are not specific tools to solve it. A promising tool that can be used is the artificial neural network, ANN, which can deal with hard problems. This paper uses a back propagation ANN with Bayesian regularization training to locate and quantify damage in truss structures. The input parameters corresponded to natural frequencies combined with shape modes, modal flexibilities or modal strain energies. The ANN was trained by considering only simple damage scenarios, random multiple damage scenarios or a combination of them. The results are shown in terms of the percentage of cases in which the ANN trained achieves a determined performance in assessing both the damage extension and the presence of damaged elements. The best performance for the ANN is obtained by using modal strain energies and multiple damage scenarios.
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2022-01-27T17:30:08.799Z
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38,129,729 |
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Effects of a stimulus change presented with delay of shock-escape were examined in escape conditioning. Where a stimulus change occurred with the delay, greater response rates were found before delay and lower rates during the delay. Results are interpreted as providing evidence for the efficacy of a stimulus change in maintaining behavior with delay of negative reinforcement. Results are consistent with an information account of secondary reinforcement. Data from a control procedure suggest the possibility that stimuli paired with shock termination might have two opposite properties, secondary reinforcing and conditioced aversive, depending upon the background stimulus conditions prevailing at testing.
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2022-12-10T02:23:51.889Z
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2,700,886 |
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The causes of transplant-associated coronary artery disease remain obscure, and there is no known treatment. Preservation injury of murine heterotopic vascularized cardiac isografts caused a small, albeit significant, increase in neointimal formation; preservation injury of allografts markedly increased both the incidence and severity of transplant-associated coronary artery disease. As cAMP is an important vascular homeostatic mediator the levels of which decline during organ preservation, buttressing cAMP levels solely during initial preservation both improved acute allograft function and reduced the severity of transplant-associated coronary artery disease in grafts examined 2 months later. Inhibiting the cAMP-dependent protein kinase abrogated these beneficial effects. cAMP treatment was associated with an early reduction in leukocyte infiltration and a reciprocal decrease in superoxide and increase in NO levels. These data indicate that alloantigen-independent injury to the graft, which occurs at the time of cardiac preservation, can set in motion pathological vascular events that are manifest months later. Furthermore, a cAMP pulse during cardiac preservation reduces the incidence and severity of transplant-associated coronary artery disease.
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2022-12-18T03:07:23.181Z
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205,390,687 |
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Objective: The prevalence of obesity in women among child baring age is increasing and this has been parallel to the increase in obesity in general population around the world. We investigated the trans-generational ‘programming’ of leptin signalling in the central nervous system (CNS) to increase blood pressure (BP), heart rate (HR) and renal sympathetic nerve activity (RSNA) following a high fat diet (HFD)feeding in mothers. Design and method: Female New Zealand White rabbits were fed a high fat (13%) diet (mHFD) or a control diet (mCD) prior mating and during pregnancy. Kittens from mCD rabbits were subdivided and fed HFD for 10days (mCD10dHFD) at 15 weeks of age. All rabbits received an intracerebroventricular (ICV) catheter into the lateral ventricle and a recording electrode on the left renal nerve. Experiments were conducted in conscious rabbits and BP, HR and RSNA was measured. Rabbits received an increasing doses of ICV Melanocortin receptor antagonist (SHU9119),alpha-Melanocortin stimulating hormone (alpha-MSH) and a single dose of Leptin antagonist. Results: ICV SHU9119 reduced BP (-5.8 ± 0.7mmHg and -4.1 ± 0.9mmHg) and RSNA (-2.4 ± 0.3 nu and -0.7 ± 0.3 nu) in mHFD and mCD10dHFD rabbits (P < 0.001). Leptin antagonist reduced BP and RSNA only in mHFD rabbits (-2.1 ± 0.5mmHg and -2.7nu, respectively). alpha-MSH injection increased BP, HR and RSNA in both mHFD and mNFD10dHFD rabbits (P < 0.05). Total % fat was increased (50%) in all rabbits that had HFD. Conclusions: Obesity during pregnancy ’programs’ leptin signalling pathway in the CNS of the offspring during development. Leptin via activation of melanocirtin pathway plays a key role in the CNS contributing to the pressor and tachycardic effects as well as renal sympathetic nerve activity in the pathophysiology of obesity.
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2022-12-20T05:46:08.313Z
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19,014,361 |
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The mobile market is characterized by a large number of mobile phone providers. Therefore the market entrance is very difficult for newcomer. This article presents an algorithm for simulating the behavior of changing the mobile phone provider regarding to several given competing mobile tariffs and ones own.
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2022-03-04T01:37:57.673Z
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238,687,267 |
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"DOI": "10.37899/journallamultiapp.v2i3.383",
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"status": "GOLD",
"url": "https://newinera.com/index.php/JournalLaMultiapp/article/download/383/331"
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The Nigerian power problem resulted to incessant and erratic supply of electricity and this has destroyed many industrial processes in the country. It has reduced productivity and has increased unemployment rate in the country to over 50million (this figure is over 70% of Nigerian youths). This has led many of the youths in the country to crime. It has led to the deaths of many innocent people in the country. As of 2016, the electricity energy consumption in the world from the world fact book revealed that the average power per capita (watts per person) in the United States is 1,377 Watts. In Canada, it is 1704 Watts per person and in South Africa; it is 445 Watts per person and in Australia, average power per capita (watts per person) is as high as 1,112 Watts. Whereas, the average electricity consumed in watts per person in Nigeria is just 14 Watts. Unfortunately, this has put the country in a rank of 189 out of 219 countries estimated. In this research work, a Hybrid Electric Power System (HEPS) which comprises Hydro Electric Power Plant (HEPP) and Diesel Generator (DG) was modelled and a control algorithm was established to improve the performance of the system. Hybrid power system mathematical and Simulink models were developed. The output power of the developed Simulink model was be optimized using optimum power point optimization techniques and control algorithms. Simulink models of the two components of the Hybrid Electric Power System were produced using MATLAB/Simulink software. The develop Simulink models was interconnected and final model was developed. The results obtained revealed that the problems associated with conventional methods of power generation was overcomed by the development of this renewable and non-renewable energy resources Hybrid Electric Power System (HEPS) models.
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2022-08-29T19:28:05.054Z
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27,183,165 |
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"status": "BRONZE",
"url": "https://academic.oup.com/ejcts/article-pdf/47/5/e232/17783459/ezv062.pdf"
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Figure 2: (A) ‘Half-moon’ shaped skin incision (4 cm) used for the correction, performed in correspondence with the deepest depressed point of the chondro-sternal deformity, allowing an optimal exposure of the sternum. (B and C) Chest CT scan with 3D reconstruction at 7 months from correction showing complete regeneration from the 3rd to 10th costal cartilages. The metallic bar was removed after 7 months.
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2022-12-16T20:56:16.967Z
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187,861,119 |
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Terapi homoepati kurang didengar di masyarakat Indonesia dikarenakan di Indonesia jarang dipakai pengobatan secara homoepati. Penyembuhan penyakit secara homoepati sangat dimungkinkan untuk masyarakat Indonesia, dikarenakan penyembuhan secara homoepati dapat memanfaatkan tumbuhan yang ada di indonesia. Hoemoepati sering disebut dengan gagasan “seperti pengobatan”, penyakit yang disembuhkan contohnya penyakit demam. Mengobati penyakit demam dengan cara mengambil ekstrak tanaman yang bisa menurunkan demam, walaupun ketingkatan yang sangat encer. Pengobatan homoepati tidak memenuhi persyaratan yang ada di farmokologi modern. Pengobatan homoepati memang tidak memakai percobaan pada binatang namun bahan percobaan langsung ke manusia, hal itu tidak diketahui efek toksik yang mungkin terkandung dalam obat tersebut. Tetapi pengobatan homoepati ini bisa dicontoh pada perlakuan terhadap pasien yang meyakinkan untuk sembuh. Oleh karena itu, pilihlah penyembuhan yang sudah di rekomendasi oleh peneliti-peneliti. Kata kunci : terapi homeopati, penyakit, pengobatan
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2022-01-24T21:44:51.151Z
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41,435,480 |
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Presents remarks delivered by IEEE President and CEO J. Roberto B. de Marca at the 2014 IEEE Ethics Conference, which was also this year's IEEE-SSIT International Symposium on Technology and Society (ISTAS'14), on May 24, 2014, in Chicago, IL, USA. It is argued that in the years to come, we will be dealing with issues of ethics that could not have been foreseen even a brief generation ago. For our global professional community, ethics must be a nonnegotiable part of our composition as engineers, scientists, and technologists.
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2022-01-27T12:42:19.309Z
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41,342,423 |
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The case history of a 47-year-old male patient with vitiligo and hemochromatosis is reported. Skin biopsies disclose the uniform distribution of iron pigmentation, although the vitiligo spots seem to be deficient in melanin as opposed to the dark-colored skin areas where contents of melanin apparently have increased. The findings indicate that the pigmentation in hemochromatosis is due exclusively to an increased content of melanin.
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2022-09-07T19:58:20.335Z
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147,889,930 |
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Der Artikel beschreibt demokratietheoretische Konsequenzen einer politischen Rationalitat des Neoliberalismus, wie sie speziell von der amerikanischen Politikwissenschaftlerin Wendy Brown ausformuliert wurden. Der Fokus des Artikels liegt neben der theoretischen Analyse einer politischen Rationalitat des Neoliberalismus auf dessen Auswirkungen auf die Institutionen der liberalen Demokratie, wie freie Wahlen, politische Offentlichkeit sowie Verrechtlichungsprozesse. Es wird der zentralen Frage anhand von aktuellen Beispielen nachgegangen, inwiefern durch eine neoliberale politische Rationalitat und durch Verrechtlichungsprozesse eine machtpolitische Verschiebung zwischen den Institutionen der liberalen Demokratie stattfindet und zentrale demokratietheoretische Begriffe in eine okonomische Marktrationalitat umgedeutet werden.
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2022-10-01T16:29:24.779Z
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245,091,167 |
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This study aims to determine conjunctive devices that are found in Legasi Tombiruo novel written by Ramlee Awang Murshid (RAM). This study also analysed the types of conjunctive devices used in the novel to link the sentences, clauses, and paragraphs to become a comprehensive discourse that is capable of leaving a lasting impression on the readers. A qualitative method is employed in this research. Software Atlas ti8 is used to analyse the content of the texts based on the novel as part of the research instrument. The source of this study is a novel entitled Legasi Tombiruo written by Ramlee Awang Murshid. This novel has 530 pages and is analysed based on the application of its words, clauses and sentences. Cohesion theory introduced by Halliday & Hassan (1976) is adopted in this research. Apart from that, types of Malay language conjunctive devices are categorized according to Karim et al (2011). Findings from the research indicate that there are four types of conjunctive cohesion devices which are additive conjunction, adversative conjunction, causal conjunction and temporal conjunction in Legasi Tombiruo novel. This study will facilitate discourse researchers to understand the structural aspect of conjunction devices in Malay Language. It is hoped that the next Malay Language conjunction-based research can provide more focus to conjunction devices apart from grammar, which refers to lexical conjunction. Keyword: Discourse, Textual, Cohesion, Conjunction, Thriller Novel Introduction Language is a system adopted by humans for communication purposes. Language is also used as a tool to express oneself through the creation of discourse. Discourse analysis is a research method that is employed to understand the use of language in a particular discourse regarding a broader context of phrases, clauses and sentences. Hence, novel is an extensive written discourse that is in the form of complex storytelling. Well-written literature is a coalescence of elements that forms a discourse (Sariyan, 2015). Concurrently, as stated by Brown & Yule (1983), discourse must be comprised of certain linguistic characteristics to ensure its structures possess the continuity and succinctness to convey a meaningful message. One of the elements that form the discourse's succinctness is cohesion (Halliday & International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences Vol. 1 1 , No. 12, 2021, E-ISSN: 2222-6990 © 2021 HRMARS 80 Hasan, 1985). As mentioned by Halliday & Hasan (1976), cohesion element serves as a linkage that binds the elements in a particular discourse, for example as a linkage between the first clause with the following clause, or between a sentence with the next sentence. Halliday & Hasan (1976) further asserts that cohesion element consists of several types of devices which are reference, ellipsis, conjunction and lexical repetition. These elements can be determined through textual analysis.
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2022-10-21T01:09:36.631Z
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92,858,905 |
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Contributors.Preface.1. Inclusion Complexation as a Tool in Resolution of Racemates and Separation of Isomers (Zofia Urbanczyk-Lipkowska and Fumio Toda).2. Enantiomer Ordering and Separation During Molecular Inclusion (Roger Bishop).3. Molecular Recognition of Crystalline Dipeptides and Its Application to Separation (Katsuyuki Ogura and Motohiro Akazome).4. Separation of Isomers and Enantiomers by Bile Acid Derivatives (Mikiji Miyata, Nungruethai Yoswathananont, Kazunori Nakano and Kazuki Sada).5. Physicochemical Studies of Separation of Isomers by Supramolecular Systems (Luigi R. Nassimbeni).6. Regioselective Synthesis of Fullerene Derivatives and Separation of Isomers of the Higher Fullerenes (L. Echegoyen, M. A. Herranz, F. Diederich and C. Thilgen).7. Selective Reactions in Inclusion Crystals (Zofia Urbanczyk-Lipkowska and Fumio Toda).8. Supramolecular Control of Reactivity in the Solid State Using Linear Templates (Leonard R. MacGillivray).9. Development of a New Biocide as an Inclusion Complex (Minoru Yagi, Ayako Sekikawa and Tetsuya Aoki).Cumulative Author Index.Cumulative Title Index.Index.
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2022-12-03T20:17:13.028Z
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23,997,375 |
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Abortion is illegal in Ireland, except in very limited circumstances, but the Irish Constitution guarantees the right of women to travel abroad to obtain abortion services. Every year, large numbers of women travel to the UK to obtain abortions. This article argues that this can be regarded as an illustration of cross-border reproductive care (CBRC). CBRC is the phenomenon whereby people travel abroad to obtain assisted reproduction services that are illegal in their country of origin. A leading commentator, Guido Pennings, argues that CBRC is to be welcomed as a means by which society might compromise on issues of profound moral disagreement. Other commentators believe CBRC is highly problematic. This article argues that the Irish abortion example, when examined as an example of CBRC, illustrates both the advantages and disadvantages of CBRC identified by Pennings and his critics.
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2022-12-20T22:55:07.002Z
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59,236,930 |
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This paper reveals the performance anomaly (i.e., the decline of delivery speed) when the client upgrades a task from single-source content delivery to multi-source content delivery. This anomaly is mainly caused by two aspects: (1) data sources with different types vary greatly in terms of acceleration reward (AR), and data sources with certain types are particularly easy to become inferior; (2) When the data sources remain fixed for a period of time, the large diversity of participant time (DPT) of data sources disturb the acceleration and the data sources with less participant time are inferior. Combing these insights, we figure out that the multi-source content delivery is limited by the so-called cask effect, i.e., the acceleration effect mainly depends on the inferior data sources.
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2022-12-22T15:07:41.676Z
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55,391,181 |
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Gronotoma micromorpha is a solitary egg-pupal and larval-pupal parasitoid. In a previous study, the developmental time of this parasitoid decreased with the age of its leaf miner host, Liriomyza trifolii, being significantly longer when the host was 0-day old (= 0-24 h old egg) than when 4 days old (mature larva) at the time of parasitization at 25°C. In the present study, the suitability and acceptability of 0 and 4 day old L. trifolii as hosts for G. micromorpha, and the ovipositional preference of this parasitoid for these two developmental stages of the host were examined. No significant difference was found in the size of the parasitoid offspring that emerged from hosts parasitized at these two developmental stages. There was no significant difference in the acceptability of the two developmental stages of L. trifolii in no choice tests, but 4 day old larvae were preferred to 0 day old eggs in choice tests. Moreover, parasitization of eggs by G. micromorpha did not appear to result in more of the eggs dying before they hatched. Non-reproductive killing (host feeding and host stinging without oviposition) of host eggs by this parasitoid was also not detected.
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2022-12-31T19:18:50.271Z
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234,729,414 |
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Nesta pesquisa analisamos a obra regionalista Caetés (2013) do escritor Graciliano Ramos com o intento de discutir a relação eminentemente estreita entre linguagem regional-popular e Dialetologia. Nesse viés, nosso estudo está fundamentando na teoria dialetológica com enfoque na variação diatópica. Buscamos, assim, corroborar que é por meio do léxico que conseguimos identificar os aspectos geo-sócio-culturais de uma comunidade linguística. Para tal, ancoramos nosso trabalho nos pressupostos teóricos de Biderman (1978), Câmara Júnior (1965), Cardoso (2016), entre outros. Por fim, podemos afirmar que ao analisar o léxico da obra em estudo, através dos pressupostos da Dialetologia, foi possível perceber o quão grandiosa a obra de Graciliano é em regionalismos. Seu estilo literário evidencia a língua falada do povo nordestino, evidencia seus hábitos, costumes, ideologias, bem como, sua cultura.
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2022-01-27T04:13:33.333Z
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170,172,924 |
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Das bibliographische Verzeichnis von Groseljs Werken erweckt auf den ersten Blick den Eindruck, als ob es recht bescheiden ware. Auch wenn man die Seitenzahl zusammenzahlte, konnte sich dieses Opus nicht mit den umfangreichen Abhandlungen manch eines anderen Fachmannes messen. Doch wenn wir uns in dieses Opus aufmerksam vertiefen, mussen wir feststellen, dass es sehr viele originelle Losungen, eine lange Reihe genauer Beobachtungen, gewandter und einfallsreicher Interpretationen, geistreicher und exakter Kombinationen und Folgerungen enthalt. Hier gibt es unter anderem schon Hunderte von Etymologien, von denen jede einzelne eine neue Idee, einen neuen Beitrag zur vertieften Kenntnis der klassischen Sprachen bedeutet.
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2022-01-27T17:48:56.936Z
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123,228,241 |
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Abstract We map the stellar distribution on Hess diagram in the Anti-Center roughly in the boxes 130<l<230, −30<b<−10 and 10<b<30. There are ‘extra components’ associated with the anti-center structures of figure 1 of Newberg et al. (2002). The turnoff point of the structure in the North sky is at 16m.5 and the turnoff point in the South is at 17m.5. In our work, these structures can be found in all of the longitude in our box that can't be explained by standard thin or thick disk models. The distance of the North structure is about 2 kpc (we call it the North near structure) and the galactic height is about 0.7 kpc, the distance of the South structure is about 4 – 6 kpc (we call it the South middle structure). The Vgsr distribution of stars selected along the North near structure has a kinematic distribution similar to that of thick disk stars. But the metallicities of these stars are quite similar to the metallicity distribution of thin disk stars. We try to explain these structures with wave structure of the Galactic plane.
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2022-02-09T18:47:48.528Z
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17,415,784 |
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"status": "HYBRID",
"url": "https://ccsenet.org/journal/index.php/cis/article/download/28631/17462"
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Achieving interactive response times when searching for documents on the web has become a challenge especially with the tremendous increase in the size of information available nowadays. Incorporating parallelism in search engines is one of the approaches towards achieving this aim. In this paper, we present a model for parallel query processing. Then, this model is extended particularly for usage on shared-memory and cluster parallel architectures. A special simulator, reflecting the proposed model, was developed allowing parameters concerning the data set, queries and architectures to be varied. A total of 32 experiments were conducted and the output was studied for the effect of varying different parameters. A number of performance measures such as average response time, speedup and efficiency are computed to study the effect of varying the parameters. Results show that in terms of average response time, speedup and efficiency, the proposed model for parallel query processing on shared-memory architecture outperforms that on cluster-based architecture.
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2022-06-04T14:35:12.620Z
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123,028,827 |
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"DOI": "10.1086/168049",
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"url": "https://doi.org/10.1086/168049"
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A near-infrared spectrophotometric observation of bright IRAS galaxies, M82, NGC 4102, NGC 4194, and NGC 4536, has been made to study the relation between the 3.3 micron emission feature and star formation activity. The extinction-corrected intensity ratios of 3.3 micron feature to Br-gamma are nearly constant, 10-17, which shows that the 3.3 micron feature intensity could be used as a quantitative indicator for star formation activity in galaxies undergoing active star formation. 54 refs.
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2022-09-08T05:41:57.629Z
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35,450,926 |
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"DOI": "10.1111/J.1600-0579.1999.TB00069.X",
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We have previously shown that avoidance of lingual flap retraction with a Howarth periosteal elevator during lower 3rd molar removal, reduces the incidence of lingual nerve damage. In that study, the surgery was undertaken by qualified staff and we have now assessed the effect of revising the method taught to our junior undergraduate dental students. We evaluated the outcome of surgery undertaken by 2 consecutive years of students, each group being taught 1 of the 2 methods. A total of 200 patients requiring lower 3rd molar removal under local anaesthesia were included in the study. In year 1, the surgery included elevation of a lingual flap and insertion of a Howarth elevator adjacent to the lingual plate; in year 2 this part of the procedure was avoided by using a purely buccal approach. There were no significant differences between the levels of tooth eruption and types of impaction of the teeth removed in each year. Lingual sensory disturbance occurred in 3 patients in the 'flap' group (3.3%) and in 1 patient (0.9%) in the 'no flap' group. As this incidence is not significantly different in the 2 groups (P < 0.4), we conclude that avoidance of lingual retraction by students undertaking lower 3rd molar removal does not appear to place the lingual nerve at greater risk. In view of the results of our previous study, we therefore advocate this method for use in undergraduate dental education.
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2022-09-11T11:41:12.177Z
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43,818,352 |
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BACKGROUND
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infection typically occurs in chronically ill patients requiring long-term antimicrobial therapy or hospitalization. However, community-associated MRSA (CA-MRSA) necrotizing soft tissue infections seem to be increasing in incidence. Our aim was to describe the incidence and microbiologic characteristics of CA-MRSA isolates collected at an army community hospital.
METHODS
We report a retrospective review of MRSA isolates identified during 1998-2003 at the microbiology laboratory of Moncrief Army Community Hospital that serves a community of approximately 40,000 transient residents yearly in Fort Jackson, South Carolina. We evaluated the incidence of MRSA in our laboratory during 1998-2003. For MRSA isolates from 2003, we evaluated antimicrobial susceptibility patterns. Six selected isolates were evaluated by molecular typing, resistance gene analysis, and toxin analysis.
RESULTS
During 1998-2003, 241 (23%) of 1041 S. aureus isolates identified at the hospital microbiology laboratory were resistant to methicillin. Of these 241 MRSA isolates, 223 were cultured from outpatients. The incidence of MRSA in our population increased from 12% of S. aureus isolates in 1998 to 43% in 2003. In 2003, MRSA was cultured from 76 different patients. Isolates of MRSA were often resistant to erythromycin (91%), although resistance to other agents was less common: Ciprofloxacin (14%), levofloxacin (14%), clindamycin (3%), tetracycline (3%), and trimethoprim sulfamethoxazole (1%). No isolates were resistant to vancomycin, gentamicin, nitrofurantoin, or rifampin. Six CA-MRSA isolates were compared by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE). Five were PFGE type USA300, and one was PFGE type USA100, based on the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) classification scheme. The five USA300 isolates carried SCCmec type IV, and the USA100 carried SCCmec II. None of the isolates were positive by PCR for genes encoding enterotoxins A-E and H, or toxic shock syndrome toxin (TSST-1), but the five USA300 isolates carried the gene coding for Panton-Valentine leukocidin toxin.
CONCLUSIONS
The incidence of MRSA at our institution is increasing. Isolates of MRSA show resistance patterns and microbiologic characteristics consistent with CA-MRSA isolates from the United States. Clinicians should consider the possibility of CA-MRSA in patients with soft-tissue infections who do not respond to initial therapy with beta-lactam antimicrobial agents.
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2022-09-15T04:45:01.918Z
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201,814,532 |
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This paper presents the growth in the industrial monitoring system’s design using Internet of Things (IoT). The sensor used for the development of this system is MQ-2 which detects the leakage of gas at any atmos pheric condition and fire sensor as a simple and compact device for protection against fire. In gas sensor system, Ras pberry pi plays an important role such that all the components are interfaced to it. This avails the observer to notice the changes from anywhere in the world. The requirement of a gas detection system is to monitor the surroundings continuously. When gas and smoke is detected then system will send short message service (SMS) to the user then user will take respective action.
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2022-09-30T06:19:18.853Z
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101,270,191 |
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The authors report the energy and polarization dependence of resonant inelastic x-ray scattering from Nd{sub 2}CuO{sub 4}. An energy loss feature at {approximately}6 eV is observed in the vicinity of the Cu K-edge. Numerical calculations based on the Anderson impurity model identify this as a charge transfer excitation to the anti-bonding state. The incident polarization is shown to select the intermediate states participating in the resonance process. Resonances are observed at 8,990 eV and 9,000 eV with the incident polarization perpendicular and parallel to the CuO planes, respectively. In contrast to the single-site model calculations, no resonances are observed associated with the {und 1s}3d{sup 10} {und L} intermediate states, suggesting non-local effects play a role.
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2022-12-11T23:45:11.410Z
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113,852,978 |
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In this letter, we investigate the bit error rate (BER) performance of a cooperative relaying transmission scheme for wireless nanosensor networks in the Terahertz (THz) Band. We consider nanosensor networks comprising several graphene-based devices deployed at the nanoscale. Both amplify-and-forward (AF) and decode-and-forward (DF) relaying modes are studied. We consider a line-of-sight (LOS) channel model in the THz band which takes into account both spreading loss and molecular absorption loss. Given the high path loss and level of noise from significant random fluctuations through the THz channel, relay assisted schemes offer advantages in terms of significant performance improvements. To quantify the likely benefits, we derive the predicted bit error rate (BER) of the proposed scheme. We conduct a simulation of the proposed relay schemes based on the THz LOS channel model utilizing a Monte-Carlo method. The results obtained show that a performance improvement of 2.2 dB for AF and of 5 dB for DF is achievable at a target bit error rate (BER) of 10-5.
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2022-12-21T13:41:44.095Z
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14,787,148 |
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"status": "GOLD",
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Speech and emotion perception are dynamic processes in which it may be optimal to integrate synchronous signals emitted from different sources. Studies of audio-visual (AV) perception of neutrally expressed speech demonstrate supra-additive (i.e., where AV>[unimodal auditory+unimodal visual]) responses in left STS to crossmodal speech stimuli. However, emotions are often conveyed simultaneously with speech; through the voice in the form of speech prosody and through the face in the form of facial expression. Previous studies of AV nonverbal emotion integration showed a role for right (rather than left) STS. The current study therefore examined whether the integration of facial and prosodic signals of emotional speech is associated with supra-additive responses in left (cf. results for speech integration) or right (due to emotional content) STS. As emotional displays are sometimes difficult to interpret, we also examined whether supra-additive responses were affected by emotional incongruence (i.e., ambiguity). Using magnetoencephalography, we continuously recorded eighteen participants as they viewed and heard AV congruent emotional and AV incongruent emotional speech stimuli. Significant supra-additive responses were observed in right STS within the first 250 ms for emotionally incongruent and emotionally congruent AV speech stimuli, which further underscores the role of right STS in processing crossmodal emotive signals.
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2022-12-28T05:46:43.754Z
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