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We propose a method based on deep learning to perform cardiac segmentation on short axis Magnetic resonance imaging stacks iteratively from the top slice (around the base) to the bottom slice (around the apex). At each iteration, a novel variant of the U-net is applied to propagate the segmentation of a slice to the ad...
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Like other integral membrane proteins, the activity of the Sarco/Endoplasmic Reticulum Ca(2+)-ATPase (SERCA) is regulated by the membrane environment. Cholesterol is present in the endoplasmic reticulum membrane at low levels, and it has the potential to affect SERCA activity both through direct, specific interaction w...
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The impact of high siltation and accumulation of organic and waste material in the intertidal of the dammed Ba Lai River in Vietnam as part of the Mekong estuarine system was investigated by means of marine free-living nematodes. Nutrients content (nitrate, ammonium, total phosphorus, total nitrogen), total suspended s...
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In this paper, a novel approach to the problem of elasticity reconstruction is introduced. In this approach, the solution of the wave equation is expanded as a sum of waves travelling in different directions sharing a common wave number. In particular, the solutions for the scalar and vector potentials which are relate...
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Earth-abundant tungsten carbide exhibits potential hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) catalytic activity owing to its Pt-like d-band electronic structure, which, unfortunately, suffers from the relatively strong tungsten-hydrogen binding, deteriorating its HER performance. Herein, a catalyst design concept of incorporat...
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Assistive technologies help all persons with disabilities to improve their accessibility in all aspects of their life. The AIDE European project contributes to the improvement of current assistive technologies by developing and testing a modular and adaptive multimodal interface customizable to the individual needs of ...
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to apply recurrent neural networks (RNNs) and more specifically long-short term memory (LSTM)-based ones for mental task classification in terms of BCI systems. The authors have introduced novel LSTM-based multichannel architecture model which proved to be highly promising in other ...
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Edge detection is a primary image processing technique used for object detection, data extraction, and image segmentation. Recently, edge-based segmentation using structured classifiers has been receiving increasing attention. The intima media thickness (IMT) of the common carotid artery is mainly used as a primitive i...
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The art, science, and technology of mammography have developed steadily over the past 35 y. Mammography is a central tool for diagnosis of symptoms of breast cancer. In addition, periodic screening of asymptomatic women in certain age groups has been clearly demonstrated to contribute to reduction of mortality from bre...
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CeF3 nanophosphors have been extensively investigated in recent years for lighting and numerous bio-applications. Downconversion emissions in CeF3:Eu(3+)/Tb(3+) phosphors were studied with the objective of attaining a white light emitting composition, by means of a simple co-precipitation method. The material was chara...
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The increase in popularity of point-cloud-oriented applications has triggered the development of specialized compression algorithms. In this paper, a novel algorithm is developed for the lossless geometry compression of voxelized point clouds following an intra-frame design. The encoded voxels are arranged into runs an...
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The abundance of image-level labels and the lack of large scale detailed annotations (e.g. bounding boxes, segmentation masks) promotes the development of weakly supervised learning (WSL) models. In this work, we propose a novel framework for WSL of deep convolutional neural networks dedicated to learn localized featur...
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Trichodina centrostrigeata Basson, Van As et Paperna, 1983 from Oreochromis mossambicus (Peters) and O. niloticus (Linnaeus) from different host populations from Argentina, Mexico and South Africa was reviewed. Although T. centrostrigeata has a distinct denticle structure that makes morphological taxonomic inferences u...
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SYF2, also known as p29/NTC31/CBPIN, encodes a nuclear protein that interacts with Cyclin D-type binding-protein 1. SYF2 has been reported to be involved in pre-mRNA splicing and cell cycle regulation. In the present study, we observed that SYF2 was obviously upregulated in HCC tumor tissues and cell lines, and its lev...
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Amongst energy-related CO2 emissions, electricity is the largest single contributor, and with the proliferation of electric vehicles and other developments, energy use is expected to increase. Load forecasting is essential for combating these issues as it balances demand and production and contributes to energy managem...
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This paper designed and implemented a low-cost surveillance and information system for museums with two new coding schemes using visible light communication. For security, we use a key in place of the clock in the Manchester coding. For the enhanced data transfer, we use the unbalanced time duration for data one and ze...
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Accurate segmentation of nasopharyngeal carcinoma is essential to its treatment effect. However, there are several challenges in existing deep learning-based segmentation methods. First, the acquisition of labeled data are challenging. Second, the nasopharyngeal carcinoma is similar to the surrounding tissues. Third, t...
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Multi-object tracking is a vital component in various robotics and computer vision applications. However, existing multi-object tracking techniques trade off computation runtime for tracking accuracy leading to challenges in deploying such pipelines in real-time applications. This paper introduces a novel real-time mod...
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People working as a team can achieve more than when working alone due to a team's ability to parallelize the completion of tasks. In collaborative search tasks, this necessitates the formation of effective division of labor strategies to minimize redundancies in search. For such strategies to be developed, team members...
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Chronic pain in the head and face region has a predicted prevalence of 20% in Europe, and is more common in women than men. The etiology of temporomandibular disorder (TMD) is multifactorial, and high levels of psychological stress amplify its symptoms. We were interested in how headache reported in RDC/TMD is associat...
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Diabetic retinopathy, an eye disease commonly afflicting diabetic patients, can result in loss of vision if prompt detection and treatment are not done in the early stages. Once the symptoms are identified, the severity level of the disease needs to be classified for prescribing the right medicine. This study proposes ...
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Data visualization is a powerful skill for the demonstration of meaningful data insights in an interactive and effective way. In this survey article, we collected 70 articles from last five years (2017-2022) to identify, classify, and investigate the various scopes, aspects and theories of data visualization. We also i...
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This paper discusses a dendrochronological approach to studying works of art associated with Shintoism, an indigenous religion of Japan. Chronological studies of Shinto artwork are, by comparison, lagging behind the studies on artwork associated with the other primary religion of Japan, Buddhism. This author believes t...
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Nonrigid image registration techniques using intensity based similarity measures are widely used in medical imaging applications. Due to high computational complexities of these techniques, particularly for volumetric images, finding appropriate registration methods to both reduce the computation burden and increase th...
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This work presents the design and test of a switched-cap 3D DC/DC converter able to work up to 60V. The switches and the control circuits are integrated single-chip in a high-voltage (HV) MOS technology, and the passive devices are stacked on top of the chip. As an innovation versus the state-of-the-art, the work first...
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Homicide prediction is a challenging task due to the spatio-temporal sparsity of these crime events. In this paper we report the results of using several approaches to mitigate this sparsity condition in machine learning models specially tailored towards modeling homicides events. Since spatial resolution is a direct d...
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In recent years, fully convolutional neural network (FCN) has broken all records in various vision task. It also achieves great performance in salient object detection. However, most of the state-of-the-art methods have suffered from the challenge of precisely segmenting the entire salient object with uniform region an...
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The human sodium-glucose co-transporter 2 (hSGLT2) is a transporter responsible for reabsorption of glucose in the proximal convoluted tubule of the kidney. hSGLT2 inhibitors, including luseogliflozin, have been developed as drugs for type 2 diabetes mellitus. Only luseogliflozin contains a thiosugar ring in its chemic...
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This paper reviews the state of the art in sensors and automated inspection devices for enhanced sewer inspection. Efficiency, safety, environmental, and legislative concerns have made inspection and assessment of communal sewers a central issue to water and sewerage companies. Nowadays, the standard sewer inspection s...
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In traditional framework of compressive sensing (CS), only sparse prior on the property of signals in time or frequency domain is adopted to guarantee the exact inverse recovery. Other than sparse prior, structures on the sparse pattern of the signal have also been used as an additional prior, called model-based compre...
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The autonomous car must recognize the driving environment quickly for safe driving. As the Light Detection And Range (LiDAR) sensor is widely used in the autonomous car, fast semantic segmentation of LiDAR point cloud, which is the point-wise classification of the point cloud within the sensor framerate, has attracted ...
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In this study, we propose a novel model called template-based multitask generation (TM-generation) that can improve the problem-solving accuracy of mathematical word problem-solving task. In automatic mathematical word problem-solving task, a machine learning model should deduce an answer to a given problem by acquirin...
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Reinforcement learning has been widely-used for applications in planning. control. and decision making. Rather than using instructive feedback as in supervised learning. reinforcement learning makes use of evaluative feedback to guide the learning process. In this paper, we formulate a pattern classification problem as...
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Highly bloating ceramsite has been successfully prepared from forthcoming industrial wastes, the white mud (WM), which is the residue from H2SO4-treated coal fly ash obtained from our previous industrial art. In this art the oil shale (OS) and black cotton soil (BCS) were used as foaming and fluxing agents, respectivel...
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Constructed wetland (CW) is an effective ecological technology to treat water pollution and has the significant advantages of high impact resistance, simple construction process, and low maintenance cost. However, under extreme conditions such as low temperature, high salt concentration, and multiple types of pollutant...
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Nowadays, sensor/access-point coverage is an essential problem for wireless communication and sensor systems, which will significantly impact the quality of access, monitoring, and surveillance. Indoor sensor/access-point placement still remains very challenging as the regions of interest (ROIs) or underlying geometrie...
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In this study, a reduced-reference image-quality-assessment (IQA) method for screen content images, named as feature-quality-index (FQI) is proposed. The proposed method is based on the fact that the human visual system is more sensitive towards change in features than intensity or structure. Reduced features from the ...
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This meta-analysis aimed to summarize the evidence regarding attitudes of Iranian nurses and related factors towards end-of-life (EOL) care. PubMed, Web of Science, Scopus, Magiran, Iranmedex, Scientific Information Database, and Google Scholar search engine were searched using Persian and English appropriate keywords ...
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The present study further investigated the effects of fluctuated low-temperature combined with high-humidity thawing (FLHT) on the gelling properties of pork myofibrillar proteins (MPs). Results showed that compared with refrigerator thawing (RT) and low-temperature combined with high-humidity thawing (LHT), FLHT effec...
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Zero-shot learning (ZSL) is one of the most promising avenues of annotation-efficient machine learning. In the era of deep learning, ZSL techniques have achieved unprecedented success. However, the developments of ZSL methods have taken place mostly for natural images. ZSL for medical images has remained largely unexpl...
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Afidopyropen, a novel insecticide, is highly effective against piercing insects such as the tea leafhopper. The residual levels of afidopyropen and M440I007 in tea cultivation, processing, and brewing were studied. During tea cultivation, afidopyropen dissipated faster in fresh tea shoots in the rainy season (T1/2 of 1...
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In the past decade, significant research effort has been directed toward developing single-image dehazing algorithms. Despite this effort, dehazing continues to present a challenge, particularly in complex real-world cases. Indeed, it is an ill-posed problem because scene transmission depends on unknown and nonhomogene...
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Zinc bioavailability with the presence of other elements in wheat grains might be affected by fertilizers. A long-term field experiment was conducted to examine effects of N fertilizer on Zn bioavailability in wheat grain tissues, with changes in the concentrations, distribution, and speciation of Zn as well as P and s...
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We propose a novel pixel-modeling approach for background subtraction using histograms based on strong uniform fuzzy partitions. In the proposed method, the temporal distribution of pixel values is represented by a histogram based on a triangular partition. The threshold for background segmentation is set adaptively ac...
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A new approach to image retrieval is presented in the domain of museum and gallery image collections. Specialist algorithms, developed to address specific retrieval tasks, are combined with more conventional content and metadata retrieval approaches, and implemented within a distributed architecture to provide cross-co...
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I examine a speculative diagnosis made by Sigmund Freud regarding his patient's mother in his landmark 1905 paper describing a hysterical illness. Freud considered the impact of Dora's mother's mental state on her daughter, wondering whether the mother might suffer from a 'housewife's psychosis'. Here was an emphasis o...
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This article indicates that work standardization is an effective tool for the improvement of occupational safety in any process performed by people. Work standardization has an impact on improving productivity, quality and engaging employees in improving current working methods. The article shows that in the constructi...
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Immunotherapy against amyloid-beta (Aβ) is a promising option for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Aβ exists as various species, including monomers, oligomers, protofibrils, and insoluble fibrils in plaques. Oligomers and protofibrils have been shown to be toxic, and removal of these aggregates might represen...
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Mucins are large, highly glycosylated transmembrane and secreted proteins that line and protect epithelial surfaces. However, the details of mucin biosynthesis and packaging in vivo are largely unknown. Here, we demonstrate that multiple distinct mucins undergo intragranular restructuring during secretory granule matur...
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Ieoh Ming Pei is a modern world-renowned architect with a large number of excellent architectural works worldwide. His architectural design inherits the traditional architectural concept and integrates the Chinese and Western architectural ideas, which does not stick to stereotype and conventions, and dare to innovate,...
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Nucleic acids play a pivotal role in life processes. The endeavours to shed light on the essential properties of these intriguing building blocks led us to the synthesis of different analogues and the investigation of their properties. First various peptide nucleic acid monomers and oligomers have been synthesized, usi...
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The state-of-the-art trackers using deep learning technology have no special strategy to capture the geometric deformation of the target. Based on that the affine manifold can better capture the target shape change and that the higher level of Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) can better describe semantic information ...
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Although mainstream partial nitrification-anammox (PN-A) is a highly efficient and sustainable wastewater treatment process, it is difficult to achieve and stabilize due to the competition among functional bacteria. In this study, achieving one-stage mainstream anammox via regulating bacteria community structure was st...
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With the rapid development of computer and network technology, the application of mobile app has been involved in all walks of life, especially the traditional art teaching mode. Therefore, it is of great significance to design an app with art learning and education as the main content based on the concept of young peo...
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This paper proposes a highly efficient bitmap-based approach for discovery of so-called sentinels. Sentinels represent schema level relationships between changes over time in certain measures in a multidimensional data cube. Sentinels are actionable and notify users based on previous observations, for example, that rev...
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Naïve T-cell activation requires signals from both the T-cell receptor (TCR) and the costimulatory molecule CD28. A central mediator of the TCR and CD28 signals is the scaffold protein CARMA1, which functions by forming a complex with partner proteins, Bcl10 and MALT1. A well-known function of the CARMA1 signaling comp...
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In this work, the development of exo-olefin compounds (R-CH2 C(=CH2 )Z) as chain-transfer agents for the sulfur-free reversible addition-fragmentation chain transfer (RAFT) radical polymerization of methacrylates in homogeneous solution is described. A series of exo-olefin compounds with a methyl methacrylate (MMA) dim...
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This paper presents a SAR converter based mixed-signal multiplier for the feature extraction of neural signals using quadratic operators. After a thorough analysis of design principles and circuit-level aspects, the proposed architecture is explored for the implementation of two quadratic operators often used for the c...
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At present. with the continuous improvement of the economic level of our society, people's quality of life has also been significantly improved. In recent years. our society has vigorously advocated the concept of eco-environmental protection and strived to create an environment-friendly indoor environment in the field...
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In this work, two kinds of imine-type covalent organic framework (COF) nanoparticles are demonstrated as efficient photocatalytic initiators to trigger the free-radical polymerization of acrylamide (AM) to prepare polyacrylamide (PAM) hydrogels under visible light irradiation, without any assistance from the co-initiat...
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Accurate detection of bone marrow involvement in patients with lymphoma is of crucial importance because of the prognostic and therapeutic consequences. Bone marrow trephine biopsy (BMB) is currently regarded as the method of choice for the evaluation of the bone marrow in lymphoma, but it is invasive, has a risk of co...
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By applying the potassium salts of cyclopentadienyl-phosphine ligands LK to CoCl2 , the corresponding cobalt chlorides (1, LCoII Cl) were prepared. By reducing complexes 1 with KHBEt3 under a N2 atmosphere, bridging end-on complexes, LCoI -N2 -CoI L (2 a and 2 b), were successfully obtained. 15 N2 -labeled [15 N2 ]-2 a...
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The active power-decoupling (APD) method is an effective solution to handle the inherent double-line frequency ripple power in single-phase power systems. It removes the bulky passive devices and facilitates the improvement of the system power density and even the reliability. This article provides a comprehensive revi...
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Campbell and colleagues propose a robust and rigorous strategic model to address and reduce Relationship Violence and Sexual Misconduct (RVSM) at Michigan State University, which significantly advances the field of RVSM prevention and education, particularly for survivors belonging to marginalized populations. While pr...
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We propose a novel approach to online estimation of probability density functions, which is based on kernel density estimation (KDE). The method maintains and updates a non-parametric model of the observed data, from which the KDE can be calculated. We propose an online bandwidth estimation approach and a compression/r...
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We sequenced the complete plastid genome (plastome) for Piper kadsura, a woody vine endemic to East Asia. This species is part of the largest genus within Piperaceae and its genome is almost identical to its congener P. cenocladum. The plastome for P. kadsura comprises 131 genes, including four unique rRNAs, 30 tRNAs, ...
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Articular cartilage defects remain the most common and challenging joint disease. Cartilage lacks the self-healing capacity after injury due to its avascularity. Recently, stem cell-based therapy has been applied for cartilage regeneration. However, the critical target for stem cells during chondrogenesis remains uncle...
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The electromagnetic (EM)-simulator-based tuning process for rapid microwave design can combine EM accuracy with circuit-design speed. Our own approach is based on the intuitive engineering idea of space mapping. In this article, we explain the art of microwave design optimization through tuning space mapping procedures...
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Deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are the state-of-the-art methods in the domain of classification of remote sensing (RS) data. However, traditional CNN models suffer from huge computational costs in learning land-use and land-cover features, particularly in large-scale RS problems. To address this issue, we pr...
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This paper presents a 30 Gb/s/link 2.2 Tb/s/mm(2) inductive-coupling link for a high-speed DRAM interface. The data rate per layout area is the highest among DRAM interfaces reported up to now. The proposed interface employs a high-speed injection-locking CDR technique that utilizes the derivative property of inductive...
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Today's population is expanding quickly, and there is a growing desire for aesthetics. Smiles and other friendly facial expressions communicate joy and assurance. They are the essential elements of nonverbal communication and play a significant part in establishing a person's first impression. The altered passive erupt...
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Splenic artery pseudoaneurysm is the most common of all the visceral artery pseudoaneurysms. Presentation is often variable and the condition demands immediate diagnosis and management because pseudoaneurysm rupture increases morbidity and mortality. It is associated with pancreatitis and other conditions like abdomina...
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Lung transplantation has been accepted as a viable treatment for end-stage respiratory failure. While regression models continue to be a standard approach for attempting to predict patients' outcomes after lung transplantation, more sophisticated supervised machine learning (ML) techniques are being developed and show ...
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Imaging mass cytometry (IMC) is a new technology integrating mass spectrometry, high-resolution laser ablation and immunohistochemistry/cytochemistry. A unique high-dimensional perspective comprehensively and accurately depicts the complex interaction of phenotype, signalling pathway and tumour microenvironment and is ...
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A limited array of reactive intermediates have enabled a wealth of discoveries in N-heterocyclic carbene organocatalysis. In this study, the viability of α,β-unsaturated sulfonyl azoliums as double electrophiles in new reactions is examined. Specifically, the (3+3) annulation of such species with the trimethylsilyl eno...
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Rational design of hydrogen-bonded organic frameworks (HOFs) with multiple functionalities is highly sought after but challenging. Herein, we report a multifunctional HOF (HOF-FJU-2) built from 4,4',4'',4'''-(9H-carbazole-1,3,6,8-tetrayl)tetrabenzaldehyde molecule with tetrabenzaldeyde for their H bonding interactions ...
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The methanol extract of the seeds of Khaya ivorensis afforded two new mexicanolide limonoids, ivorensines A and B (1 and 2), together with one known compound, ruageanin D (3). The structures of the isolated compounds were established based on 1 D and 2 D (1H-1H COSY, HMQC, and HMBC) NMR spectroscopy, in addition to hig...
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This survey presents a brief discussion of different aspects of digital image watermarking. Included in the present discussion are these general concepts: major characteristics of digital watermark, novel and recent applications of watermarking, different kinds of watermarking techniques and common watermark embedding ...
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John Squire did not only produce leading works in the muscle field, he also significantly contributed to the vascular permeability field by ultrastructural analysis of the endothelial glycocalyx. Presented here is a review of his involvement in the field by his main collaborator C.C. Michel and his last postdoctoral re...
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Ovarian fibroma is the most common benign pure stromal tumor. It has no specific clinical manifestation, most of which are pelvic or adnexal masses. 10-15% of cases with hydrothorax or ascites, after tumor resection, hydrothorax and ascites disappear, known as Meigs Syndrome. The elevated level of CA125 in a few patien...
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Rapid development in cloud computing has made an impact on the manufacturing industry. Consequently, cloud manufacturing has been proposed and has become a hot topic in the past 3 years. Many technologies such as service-oriented architecture, resource virtualisation, service ontology and modelling, service composition...
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What is the state-of-the-art in sketch recognition and what are some important future research directions in matching sketches with digital face images? This opinion paper focuses on answering these questions through proposing three important steps that need to move the field forward: (i) create a large, real world for...
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State-of-the-art voice codecs have been developed to extend the input bandwidth to enhance quality while maintaining interoperability with a legacy codec. Most of them employ a modified discrete cosine transform (MDCT) for coding their extended band We propose a source filter model-based coding algorithm of MDCT spectr...
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In view of the shortage of research on the seismic performance of medical imaging equipment, this paper investigates and summarizes the seismic regulatory requirements and seismic tests of medical imaging equipment, and focuses on the parameter selection, detection steps, result evaluation and detection equipment requi...
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Graves' dermopathy is one of the extra-thyroidal manifestations of Graves' disease (GD) and is characterized by the accumulation of glycosaminoglycans in the reticular dermis. In the majority of cases, pretibial myxedema is self-limiting but, in some cases, it can lead to structural and functional damage. Topical stero...
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With the evolution of the computing capabilities of supercomputers, there are growing and diversified demands for numerical modeling of natural phenomena and engineering problems. Fast and robust numerical algorithms are essential as a basis for scientific applications. NEC has been developing the ASL/SX Series mathema...
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We propose a gradient-based global feature and its application to seam carving. We focus on areas, rather than points and lines, to be assigned as important elements for expressing the rough location of salient objects in an image. The proposed feature is calculated with a low computational load based on gray-scale int...
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On the basis of the previous examinations of the historical windows of the main building of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts by the authors [1] using a certified software package, the multi-variant analysis of the methods of increasing efficiency of the existing translucent structures was conducted. The recommenda...
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This paper reports on state-of-the-art power-frequency-normalized phase noise of 21 dB, obtained from a CMOS-integrated LC oscillator with a measured phase noise of -112 dBc/Hz at 100 kHz from the 5.3-GHz center frequency and with power consumption of 15 mW. The excellent performance (if the oscillator is attributed to...
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We present the characterization of three cryogenic sapphire oscillators (CSOs) using the three-cornered-hat method. Easily implemented with commercial components and instruments, this method reveals itself very useful to analyze the fractional frequency stability limitations of these state-of-the-art ultrastable oscill...
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In this paper the review of the state-of-art of electric power system reliability analyses methodology as well as the new trends are given. The definition and the relationships between electric power system reliability and electric energy security and quality of electricity supply are presented. The available models, m...
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We demonstrate a novel all-optical static RAM cell that exploits wavelength diversity in the incoming optical streams towards reducing the number of active elements. The circuit requires only three semiconductor optical amplifiers-cross gain modulation gates for successful read/write operation, yielding a 25% reduction...
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In this article we give efficient solutions to the construction of structured dictionaries for sparse representations. We study circulant and Toeplitz structures and give fast algorithms based on least squares solutions. We take advantage of explicit circulant structures and we apply the resulting algorithms to shift-i...
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This paper presents a tutorial overview of Continuous-Time Delta-Sigma Modulators (CTDSM); their operating principles to understand what is important intuitively and architectures to achieve higher conversion efficiency and to operate low supply voltage, design methods against loop stability problem, tuning methods of ...
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This paper reviews the state-of-the-art of hydrostatic leveling and tilt measurement, with an emphasis on the Pellissier H5, and the National Radio Astronomy Observatory NPH6. Details of the NPH6 design are described, experimental results are discussed, suggestions are made for further enhancements, and additional pote...
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A novel 1-D sampling method is proposed to calculate 2-D diamond-shaped discrete frequency distributions, which are often treated in the harmonic balance method. The proposed method fills up the entire 2-D discrete frequency plane with diamond-shaped rhombic tiles and makes the number of sampling points equal to that o...
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A new European Doctoral Program on Metamaterials has been initiated by the European Union (EU) Network of Excellence METAMORPHOSE. So far, twenty European academic institutions have established a consortium that operates a geographically distributed doctoral school in the emerging and multidisciplinary field of metamat...
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To commemorate the SPIE Medical Imaging 50th anniversary, this article provides a brief review of the Picture Archiving and Communication Systems (PACS) and Informatics conferences. Important topics and advances, contributing researchers from both academia and industry, and key papers are noted.
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And the combined event is going to put us in a very good position to deploy those, deploy that all for now through our more than 600 sales resources around the U.S. So we think it's a great opportunity.
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And what we’ve said in the past and we’ll continue to do is, we want to be more focus where there are distressed retailers or we can buy the real estate underneath where there is a cap rate arbitrage.
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