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Characterization of Arabidopsis enhanced disease susceptibility mutants that are affected in systemically induced resistance. | In Arabidopsis, the rhizobacterial strain Pseudomonas fluorescens WCS417r triggers jasmonate (JA)- and ethylene (ET)-dependent induced systemic resistance (ISR) that is effective against different pathogens. Arabidopsis genotypes unable to express rhizobacteria-mediated ISR against the bacterial pathogen Pseudomonas sy... |
Emerging Technologies to Conserve Biodiversity. | Technologies to identify individual animals, follow their movements, identify and locate animal and plant species, and assess the status of their habitats remotely have become better, faster, and cheaper as threats to the survival of species are increasing. New technologies alone do not save species, and new data creat... |
Reference values of lymphocyte subsets in healthy, HIV-negative children in Cameroon. | Lymphocyte subset reference values used to monitor infectious diseases, including HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, or other immunological disorders in healthy children in Cameroon, are lacking. Values for Caucasian cohorts are already being utilized for clinical decisions but could be inappropriate for African populati... |
Comparison of gait in patients following a computer-navigated minimally invasive anterior approach and a conventional posterolateral approach for total hip arthroplasty: a randomized controlled trial. | Minimally invasive total hip arthroplasty (MIS THA) aims at minimizing damage to muscles and tendons to accelerate postoperative recovery. Computer navigation allows a precise prosthesis alignment without complete visualization of the bony landmarks during MIS THA. A randomized controlled trial (RCT) was conducted to d... |
CAVE: Configuration Assessment, Visualization and Evaluation | To achieve peak performance of an algorithm (in particular for problems in AI), algorithm configuration is often necessary to determine a well-performing parameter configuration. So far, most studies in algorithm configuration focused on proposing better algorithm configuration procedures or on improving a particular a... |
Active Network Alignment: A Matching-Based Approach | Network alignment is the problem of matching the nodes of two graphs, maximizing the similarity of the matched nodes and the edges between them. This problem is encountered in a wide array of applications---from biological networks to social networks to ontologies---where multiple networked data sources need to be inte... |
Design Capital and Design Moves: The Logic of Digital Business Strategy | As information technology becomes integral to the products and services in a growing range of industries, there has been a corresponding surge of interest in understanding how firms can effectively formulate and execute digital business strategies. This fusion of IT within the business environment gives rise to a strat... |
Parallel Restarted SGD with Faster Convergence and Less Communication: Demystifying Why Model Averaging Works for Deep Learning | In distributed training of deep neural networks, parallel minibatch SGD is widely used to speed up the training process by using multiple workers. It uses multiple workers to sample local stochastic gradient in parallel, aggregates all gradients in a single server to obtain the average, and update each worker’s local m... |
On Convergence and Stability of GANs | We analyze convergence of GANs through the lens of online learning and game theory, to understand what makes it hard to achieve consistent stable training in practice. We identify that the underlying game here can be ill-posed and poorly conditioned, and propose a simple regularization scheme based on local perturbatio... |
Analysis of Common-Mode Noise for Weakly Coupled Differential Serpentine Delay Microstrip Line in High-Speed Digital Circuits | This study investigates the mechanisms of generation of the transient transmission common-mode noise in a differential serpentine delay line under weak coupling condition. The generation mechanism and the frequency of common-mode noise are investigated with reference to the time-domain transmission waveform and the dif... |
Archaea: very diverse, often different but never bad? | Christa Schleper is Professor and Head of the Department of Genetics in Ecology at the University of Vienna. Her research combines microbial physiology, genetics and metagenomics and is now focused primarily on anaerobic ammoniaoxidizing Archaea and on the study of genetic elements in Sulfolobus. This is the second Cur... |
Differences in frequency of violence and reported injury between relationships with reciprocal and nonreciprocal intimate partner violence. | OBJECTIVES
We sought to examine the prevalence of reciprocal (i.e., perpetrated by both partners) and nonreciprocal intimate partner violence and to determine whether reciprocity is related to violence frequency and injury.
METHODS
We analyzed data on young US adults aged 18 to 28 years from the 2001 National Longitu... |
Tuning metaheuristics: A data mining based approach for particle swarm optimization | The paper is concerned with practices for tuning the parameters of metaheuristics. Settings such as, e.g., the cooling factor in simulated annealing, may greatly affect a metaheuristic’s efficiency as well as effectiveness in solving a given decision problem. However, procedures for organizing parameter calibration are... |
When the hammer meets the nail: Multi-server PIR for database-driven CRN with location privacy assurance | We show that it is possible to achieve information theoretic location privacy for secondary users (SUs) in database-driven cognitive radio networks (CRNs) with an end-to-end delay less than a second, which is significantly better than that of the existing alternatives offering only a computational privacy. This is achi... |
Discriminatively trained recurrent neural networks for single-channel speech separation | This paper describes an in-depth investigation of training criteria, network architectures and feature representations for regression-based single-channel speech separation with deep neural networks (DNNs). We use a generic discriminative training criterion corresponding to optimal source reconstruction from time-frequ... |
Constraint-induced movement therapy for the lower extremities in multiple sclerosis: case series with 4-year follow-up. | OBJECTIVE
To evaluate in a preliminary manner the feasibility, safety, and efficacy of Constraint-Induced Movement therapy (CIMT) of persons with impaired lower extremity use from multiple sclerosis (MS).
DESIGN
Clinical trial with periodic follow-up for up to 4 years.
SETTING
University-based rehabilitation resear... |
Safety and efficacy of the PrePex device for rapid scale-up of male circumcision for HIV prevention in resource-limited settings. | OBJECTIVE
To assess the safety and efficacy of the PrePex device for nonsurgical circumcision in adult males as part of a comprehensive HIV prevention program in Rwanda.
METHODS
Single-center 6-week noncontrolled study in which healthy men underwent circumcision using the PrePex device, which employs fitted rings to ... |
An Efficient Face Normalization Algorithm Based on Eyes Detection | This paper presents an effective and efficient face normalization method based on eyes location. The face is first rapidly detected based on boosted cascade of simple Haar-like features. Then, the algorithm detects the position of pupils in the face image using the geometric relation between the face and the eyes. Fina... |
Contrastive Estimation: Training Log-Linear Models on Unlabeled Data | Conditional random fields (Lafferty et al., 2001) are quite effective at sequence labeling tasks like shallow parsing (Sha and Pereira, 2003) and namedentity extraction (McCallum and Li, 2003). CRFs are log-linear, allowing the incorporation of arbitrary features into the model. To train on u labeled data, we requireun... |
Importance of the high-molecular-mass isoform of adiponectin in improved insulin sensitivity with rosiglitazone treatment in HIV disease. | The present study was designed to investigate the relationship of isoforms of adiponectin to insulin sensitivity in subjects with HIV-associated insulin resistance in response to treatment with the thiazolidinedione, rosiglitazone. The two isoforms of adiponectin, HMW (high-molecular-mass) and LMW (low-molecular-mass),... |
Mind the semantic gap | Hypertext can be seen as a logic representation, where semantics are encoded in both the textual nodes and the graph of links. Systems that have a very formal representation of these semantics are able to manipulate the hypertexts in a sophisticated way; for example by adapting them or sculpting them at run-time. Howev... |
Old School vs. New School: Comparing Transition-Based Parsers with and without Neural Network Enhancement | In this paper, we attempt a comparison between "new school" transitionbased parsers that use neural networks and their classical "old school" counterpart. We carry out experiments on treebanks from the Universal Dependencies project. To facilitate the comparison and analysis of results, we only work on a subset of thos... |
Auricular Acupressure on Specific Points for Hemodialysis Patients with Insomnia: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial | OBJECTIVES
To assess the feasibility and acceptability of a randomized controlled trial compared auricular acupressure (AA) on specific acupoints with AA on non-specific acupoints for treating maintenance hemodialysis (MHD) patients with insomnia.
METHODS
Sixty three (63) eligible subjects were randomly assigned into... |
Clothing genre classification by exploiting the style elements | This paper presents a novel approach to automatically classify the upperwear genre from a full-body input image with no restrictions of model poses, image backgrounds, and image resolutions. Five style elements, that are crucial for clothing recognition, are identified based on the clothing design theory. The correspon... |
Assessment of celecoxib pharmacodynamics in pancreatic cancer. | Cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) inhibitors are being developed as chemopreventive and anticancer agents. This study aimed to determine the biological effect of the COX-2 inhibitor celecoxib in pancreatic cancer as an early step to the further development of the agent in this disease. Eight patients scheduled for resection of ... |
Visual domain-specific modelling : Benefits and experiences of using metaCASE tools | 1 Introduction Jackson (Jackson 95) recognises the vital difference between an application's domain and its code: two different worlds, each with its own language, experts, ways of thinking etc. A finished application forms the intersection between these worlds. The difficult job of the software engineer is to build a ... |
Cloud Computing: Characteristics and Deployment Approaches | Cloud Computing is a generic term for anything that involves delivering hosted services over the Internet. It is a new paradigm based on a pay-as-you-go approach. Whereas, many large enterprises have embraced the cloud technologies and infrastructures, numerous vendors have developed application, platform and infrastru... |
Survey of Maneuvering Target Tracking . Part I : Dynamic Models | The key to successful target tracking lies in the effective extraction of useful information about the target’s state from observations. A good model of the target will certainly facilitate this information extraction to a great extent. In general, one can say without exaggeration that a good model is worth a thousand ... |
Using Phishing Experiments and Scenario-based Surveys to Understand Security Behaviours in Practice | Threats from social engineering can cause organisations severe damage if they are not considered and managed. In order to understand how to manage those threats, it is important to examine reasons why organisational employees fall victim to social engineering. In this paper, the objective is to understand security beha... |
Formation of reactive halide species by myeloperoxidase and eosinophil peroxidase. | The formation of chloro- and bromohydrins from 1-palmitoyl-2-oleoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine following incubation with myeloperoxidase or eosinophil peroxidase in the presence of hydrogen peroxide, chloride and/or bromide was analysed by matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionisation time-of-flight mass spectrometry. T... |
[The corrugator supercilii muscle. A review]. | Corrugator supercilii is a facial, forehead and supra-orbital muscle. The frown glabellar wrinkles are mainly formed by repeated contractions of this muscle. These wrinkles will produce the picture of premature ageing even in a young person. Many treatments reduce or abolish the action of this muscle, enhancing the app... |
SAMU: Design and implementation of selectivity-aware MU-MIMO for wideband WiFi | In anticipation of the increasing demand of wireless traffic, WiFi standardization efforts have recently focused on two key technologies for capacity improvement: multi-user MIMO and wider bandwidth. However, users experience heterogeneous channel orthogonality characteristics across sub-carriers in the same channel ba... |
The Major Transitions in Evolution | It's not surprisingly when entering this site to get the book. One of the popular books now is the the major transitions in evolution. You may be confused because you can't find the book in the book store around your city. Commonly, the popular book will be sold quickly. And when you have found the store to buy the boo... |
Renewable Energy Pricing Driven Scheduling in Distributed Smart Community Systems | A smart community is a distributed system consisting of a set of smart homes which utilize the smart home scheduling techniques to enable customers to automatically schedule their energy loads targeting various purposes such as electricity bill reduction. Smart home scheduling is usually implemented in a decentralized ... |
Trans-gram, Fast Cross-lingual Word-embeddings | We introduce Trans-gram, a simple and computationally-efficient method to simultaneously learn and align wordembeddings for a variety of languages, using only monolingual data and a smaller set of sentence-aligned data. We use our new method to compute aligned wordembeddings for twenty-one languages using English as a ... |
Efficient and Robust Retrieval by Shape Content through Curvature Scale Space | We introduce a very fast and reliable method for shape similarity retrieval in large image databases which is robust with respect to noise, scale and orientation changes of the objects. The maxima of curvature zero crossing contours of Curvature Scale Space (CSS) image are used to represent the shapes of object boundar... |
What's Going On in Neural Constituency Parsers? An Analysis | A number of differences have emerged between modern and classic approaches to constituency parsing in recent years, with structural components like grammars and featurerich lexicons becoming less central while recurrent neural network representations rise in popularity. The goal of this work is to analyze the extent to... |
Near-regular texture analysis and manipulation | A near-regular texture deviates geometrically and photometrically from a regular congruent tiling. Although near-regular textures are ubiquitous in the man-made and natural world, they present computational challenges for state of the art texture analysis and synthesis algorithms. Using regular tiling as our anchor poi... |
PHILOSOPHY AND THE MIRROR OF NATURE | Richard Rorty's Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature brings to light the deep sense of crisis within the profession of academic philosophy which is similar to the paralyzing pluralism in contemporary theology and the inveterate indeterminacy of literary criticism. Richard Rorty's provocative and profound meditations imp... |
The pandemic of physical inactivity: global action for public health | Physical inactivity is the fourth leading cause of death worldwide. We summarise present global efforts to counteract this problem and point the way forward to address the pandemic of physical inactivity. Although evidence for the benefits of physical activity for health has been available since the 1950s, promotion to... |
Gait Generation With Smooth Transition Using CPG-Based Locomotion Control for Hexapod Walking Robot | This paper presents a locomotion control method based on central pattern generator (CPG) for hexapod walking robot to achieve gait generation with smooth transition. By deriving an analytical limit cycle approximation of the Van der Pol oscillator, a simple diffusive coupling scheme is proposed to construct a ring-shap... |
ADvanced IMage Algebra (ADIMA): a novel method for depicting multiple
sclerosis lesion heterogeneity, as demonstrated by quantitative MRI | BACKGROUND
There are modest correlations between multiple sclerosis (MS) disability and white matter lesion (WML) volumes, as measured by T2-weighted (T2w) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans (T2-WML). This may partly reflect pathological heterogeneity in WMLs, which is not apparent on T2w scans.
OBJECTIVE
To dete... |
Management of Acral Lentiginous Melanoma | Cutaneous malignant melanoma is the most common cause of mortality from skin cancers in Caucasian populations. The incidence rates of malignant melanoma show considerable varia‐ tion worldwide. Annual incidence rates per 100,000 people vary between about 40 in Australia and New Zealand to about 20 in the United States ... |
Which children benefit from letter names in learning letter sounds? | Typical U.S. children use their knowledge of letters' names to help learn the letters' sounds. They perform better on letter sound tests with letters that have their sounds at the beginnings of their names, such as v, than with letters that have their sounds at the ends of their names, such as m, and letters that do no... |
Vertex Domination in t-Norm Fuzzy Graphs | For the first time, We do fuzzification the concept of domination in crisp graph on a generalization of fuzzy graph by using membership values of vertices, α-strong edges and edges. In this paper, we introduce the first variation on the domination theme which we call vertex domination. We determine the vertex dominatio... |
Deep Decentralized Multi-task Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning under Partial Observability | Many real-world tasks involve multiple agents with partial observability and limited communication. Learning is challenging in these settings due to local viewpoints of agents, which perceive the world as non-stationary due to concurrentlyexploring teammates. Approaches that learn specialized policies for individual ta... |
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