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Making use of de Gennes-Alexander's network equation, we have investigated the transition temperature of superconducting honeycomb and square lattice networks in magnetic field. We found that the decrease of the transition temperature T C of the finite cluster due to the external field is small compared with that of th... |
This research designs a multi-agent based multiattribute negotiation framework for large-scale construction projects (LCP) supply chain coordination (SCC) through adopting the agent technology and regarding supply chain as a typical multi-agent system. Since different members in the supply chain have different preferen... |
A reconstructive phase transition has been found and studied in ultrashort di- and tripeptide nanostructures, self-assembled from biomolecules of different compositions and origin such as aromatic, aliphatic, linear, and cyclic (linear FF-diphenylalanine, linear LL-dileucine, FFF-triphenylalanine, and cyclic FF-dipheny... |
Orthogonal Frequency division is an emerging modulation technique that provides high spectral efficiency and bandwidth. It has a drawback of high Peak to Average Power Ratio. In this paper we discuss a new clipping and filtering approach which is based on cancellation of clipping noise to overcome the drawback of PAPR ... |
Office automation is the progeny of technological imperatives coupled with bureaucratic realities. Advances in computer, photographic, and telecommunication technologies have made it possible to collect, edit, store, distribute, and copy documentary information at ever decreasing cost. The need for training, acceptance... |
Facebook images get distributed within a fraction of a second, which hackers may tamper and redistribute on cyberspace. JPEG fingerprint based tampering detection techniques have major scope in tampering localization within standard JPEG images. The majority of these algorithms fails to detect tampering created using F... |
There is a lack of detailed information about wind flow and distribution of wind pressure around atypically shaped high-rise buildings. The national standard EN 1991-1-4 Eurocode 1 used to determine the effects of wind on the territory of Slovakia (and indeed other countries of the European Union) does not have a proce... |
As open standards for the Internet of Things gain traction, the current Intranet of Things will evolve to a truly open Internet of Things, where constrained devices are first class citizens of the public Internet. However, the large amount of control over constrained networks offered by today's vertically integrated pl... |
Nodulated plants of Ulex europaeus L. (gorse) were grown over two seasons in sand. Nutrients were supplied as solutions containing either 0-25 mol m-3 NO3 -> , 5·0 mol m-3 NO3 , 0·25 mol m-3 NH4 -+ or 5·0 mol m-3 NH4 + , as Ca(NO3 )2 or (NH4 )2 SO4 . In the first season all nitrogen (N) was enriched with 15 N to 5 atom... |
[abridged] The polar disk galaxy NGC4650A was observed during the commissioning of the MUSE at the ESO VLT to obtain the first 2D map of the velocity and velocity dispersion for both stars and gas. The new MUSE data allow the analysis of the structure and kinematics towards the central regions of NGC4650A, where the tw... |
As a test vehicle to measure the piezoelectricity of zinc oxide films, bulk acoustic wave (BAW) resonators were fabricated using standard microelectronics deposition, photolithography, and etching techniques on 100 mm Corning glass or silicon wafers. Resonators and filters were of solidly mounted resonator (SMR) type. ... |
The follow-up of the degree and evolution of the upper hydrocalicosis and of the parenchymatous changes in patients with Fraley's syndrome is very important. All authors agree that these patients should be followed up periodically. 20 patients with Fraley's syndrome were followed up and the authors conclude that the ec... |
A study was undertaken in order to compare plasma disposition kinetic parameters of doramectin (DRM) and ivermectin (IVM) in horses after oral administration. Ten crossbreed adult horses, clinically healthy, weighing 380-470 kg body weight (bw) were selected for study. Faecal examinations were performed to determine fa... |
In 1789, the First Congress passed the “Act to establish the Treasury Department,” creating one of the three “great departments” that would form the foundation of the US federal government as we know it. Critical to this statute was the fact that Congress, in addition to the President, provided oversight of the Treasur... |
The Treasury Act is not an aberration of American legal history, used briefly in the 1790s and then forgotten. Instead, for nearly 150 years after its passage — until at least the 1940s — the Treasury Act’s reporting requirement was widely cited as a foundational separation of powers precedent that demarcated the relat... |
Then, around the middle of the 20th Century, all references to the Treasury Act and its central place at the heart of separation of powers doctrine disappeared. This happened even though Section 2 of the Treasury Act in fact remains the law, codified under 31 U.S.C. § 331(d), which states “The [Treasury] Secretary shal... |
This article seeks to reestablish the centrality of the Treasury Act to any understanding of the powers of Congress and the Executive Branch relative to one another. It explores how the history of the Treasury Act, and the reporting requirement it encapsulates, may inform a new interpretation of separation of power doc... |
Oral fluid samples were compared with serum samples as a specimen source for hepatitis A, B, and C virus markers. Oral fluid was obtained with a treated absorbent pad and tested by using existing commercial enzyme immunoassays with only minor modifications. Compared with serum sampling the sensitivity and specificity o... |
OBJECTIVE |
Autonomic dysreflexia (AD) is a potentially life-threatening condition that occurs in patients with cervical and high thoracic spinal cord injury (SCI). AD is not completely understood and has a high incidence that increases proportional to the level and severity of the SCI. The signs and symptoms can vary, but severe ... |
CONCLUSION |
Awareness of AD is essential for all health care practitioners involved in the care of patients with SCI. A variety of procedures in the radiology department, both diagnostic and interventional, may precipitate AD. Planning, monitoring procedures, knowledge of the relevant pathophysiology and pharmacology, and communic... |
INTRODUCTION Prior to termination of the Interstate Commerce Commission, one of the primary responsibilities of the ICC was to observe surface transportation providers and monitor their compliance with economic regulations. Primarily due to dramatic deregulation of U.S. surface transportation over the last twenty years... |
Extracting dense subgraphs from large graphs is a key primitive in a variety of graph mining applications, ranging from mining social networks and the Web graph to bioinformatics [41]. In this paper we focus on a family of poly-time solvable formulations, known as the k-clique densest subgraph problem (k-Clique-DSP) [5... |
Functional MRI is known to be prone to artifacts caused by spatio-temporally varying structural noise components such as gross head motion, CSF pulsation, physiological fluctuation, and magnetic susceptibility changes. The presence of these artifacts can cause negative and positive false activation and obscure true act... |
AIM |
To estimate the prevalence of periodontal disease in Brazilian adults and to test its association with skin colour after controlling for socio-demographic variables. |
METHODS |
The periodontal status of 11,342 Brazilian adults was informed by a nationwide oral health survey. Socio-demographic variables included skin colour, gender, schooling, per capita income, age and geographical region. The association between periodontal disease and skin colour was tested by a logistic regression model, a... |
RESULTS |
The prevalence of periodontal diseases was 9.0% [95% confidence interval (CI) 7.6-10.3]. Lighter-skinned black people (pardos) and dark-skinned black people (pretos) presented higher levels of periodontal disease when compared with white people [odds ratio (OR)=1.5; 95% CI 1.2; 1.8; OR=1.6; 95% CI 1.2; 2.1, respectivel... |
CONCLUSION |
Skin colour was significantly associated with periodontal disease among Brazilian adults after adjustment for socio-economic and demographic covariates.Florivory by a floriphilic katydid, Phaneroptera brevis, induces changes in a leaf trait in Lantana camara |
1. Plants can induce a response when they are attacked by herbivores. Although the induction of responses by herbivory in both flowers and leaves is relatively well studied, whether florivory (feeding of flowers) can also induce responses in flowers and leaves is less well explored and there are still unanswered questi... |
ObjectivesThe aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of two successive neurotoxin treatments for chronic low back pain using multiple pain rating scales in an open-label, prospective study. MethodsAdult patients with chronic low back pain received multiple paraspinal muscle injections with a maximum dosing of 50... |
We succeeded in integrating single-wall carbon nanotubes (SWNTs), several water-soluble pyrene derivatives (pyrene(-)), which bear negatively charged ionic headgroups, and a series of water-soluble metalloporphyrins (MP(8+)) into functional nanohybrids through a combination of associative van der Waals and electrostati... |
This paper presents an improved hybrid approach for fault location in a series compensated transmission line. The proposed method uses one cycle post fault current and voltage samples. Thereafter features of faulty signal are extracted by wavelet transform. Best features are then selected by genetic algorithm based fea... |
An experimental investigation was designed to test the hypothesis that all axisymmetric turbulent free jets become asymptotically independent of the source conditions and may be described by classical similarity analysis. Effects of initial conditions were studied by varying jet exit boundary conditions and the global ... |
Due to the drastic growth in the number of devices connected to mobile networks, the demand for further expansion of the capacity of wireless communication is increasing. It is necessary to decrease the traffic on the backhaul and reduce the end-to-end latency. To address it, in the last few years, the authors have pro... |
In recent years economists have become increasingly interested in the apparent self-selection exhibited by economic agents as they participate in market processes. Embodied in this concept is the notion that agents choose among competing alternatives at least in part on the basis of anticipated incremental returns. Rat... |
For several thousand years natural products were successfully used to treat a variety of diseases and to maintain health in humans, but until now it is not fully known what causes these medicinal effects. In our study we assessed the cytotoxic, DNA-protective and pro-apoptotic effect of two frequently occurring natural... |
Overweight men often underestimate their weight status. Here, we examine whether underestimation occurs when visually judging the weight status of men and whether exposure to heavier body weights may be a cause of visual underestimation of male weight status. Participants systematically underestimated the weight status... |
The present study examined the effectiveness of a new technique for the assessment of eye dominance. 41 undergraduates of both sexes completed the Edinburgh Handedness Inventory, as well as two conventional performance indexes of eye dominance. Then each subject was positioned before the video monitor of a microcompute... |
This paper aims to analyze so-called anomalies or additional risk factors (other than market risk) on the Hong Kong stock exchange. To do so, we first select arbitrarily several factors that we a priori believe to be significant, we then collect the data and evaluate the returns associated with each factor. Our finding... |
The transport of glucose and urea under electro-osmosis across two polyelectrolyte complex membrances and two othermembranns, for comparison, was analyzed in detail, both experimentallyand theoretically. |
The membranes were characterized by measurements of water content, concentration of coion and countrion in the membrane, and distribution coefficient of glucose and urea in the absence of electric current, as a function of external solution composition. In addition, fluxes of those solutes and solvent were measured as ... |
The observed phenomena were modelled by use of Fick's law of of diffusion, with electro-osmosis treated simply as bulk flow. the effect of stirring was accounted for in terms of a boundars layer mass transfer coefficient. |
The results indicate a good fit of the model to the data for glucose. For urea, the results indicate substantial binding of urea to the membrane matrix and anomalous behavior in he boundary layer adjacent to the membrane.A neurofuzzy-evolutionary approach for product design |
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