70 Result(s)
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Bisretinoid Degradation and the Ubiquitin-Proteasome System
Bisretinoid fluorophores of retinal pigment epithelial (RPE) lipofuscin have been shown to undergo degradation in two ways, the first involving photofragmentation following photooxidation of their polyene stru...
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Impairment of the Ubiquitin-Proteasome Pathway in RPE Alters the Expression of Inflammation Related Genes
The ubiquitin-proteasome pathway (UPP) plays an important role in regulating gene expression. Retinal pigment epithelial cells (RPE) are a major source of ocular inflammatory cytokines. In this work we determi...
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Association of Apolipoprotein E Polymorphisms with Cerebral Vasospasm After Spontaneous Subarachnoid Hemorrhage
Cerebral vasospasm (CVS) is the main complication of spontaneous subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH), severely affecting clinical outcome of patients with SAH. Apolipoprotein E gene (APOE) is associated with prognos...
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Changes of Blood–Brain Barrier Permeability Following Intracerebral Hemorrhage and the Therapeutic Effect of Minocycline in Rats
Objective: To investigate the changes of blood–brain barrier (BBB) permeability and expressions of VEGF, NGF and HPS70 in brain at different time points following intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH)...
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The Yin and Yang of Low-Dose Radiobiology
Two conflicting phenomena, bystander effect and adaptive response, are important in determining the biological responses at low doses of radiation and have the potential to impact the shape of the dose-respons...
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Fuzzy Logic Control for Vehicle Suspension Systems
An active suspension system for vehicles using fuzzy logic controls is presented in this paper. The model is described by a linear system with six degrees of freedom, subject to irregular excitations from the ...
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Adaptive Notch Filter Control for the Torsion Vibration in Lead-Screw Feed Drive System Based on Neural Network
In the machining process, the nature vibration characteristics of feed drive frames are in time-varying. The nature frequencies of the torsion vibration in the lead-screw feed drives are notably changed with t...
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Path Planning for Mobile Robot Based on Improved Framed-Quadtree
A path planning method based on improved Framed-Quadtree is researched for mobile robot in this paper. Firstly, this paper analyzes drawbacks of the quadtree method and according to those, proposes the method ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Intelligent Robot Manipulator’s Application in the Racking of Drill Pipe
The racking of drill pipe, loading and unloading are all completed through the automated manipulator; the degree of manipulator automation also reflects the wellhead mechanization and automation. Take intellig...
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Vehicle Control Strategy on High Speed Obstacle Avoidance under Emergency
The most important task for the driver in a vehicle running at high speed is to bypass the obstacle under emergency because of insufficient vehicle-to-vehicle distance. A vehicle dynamics control strategy was ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Realizing Stateful Public Key Encryption in Wireless Sensor Network
In this paper, we present our implementation of a stateful public key encryption (stateful PKE) scheme in the wireless sensor network (WSN) environment. In order to reduce the communication overhead of the sta...
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Inhibition of c-Jun N-terminal kinase pathway attenuates cerebral vasospasm after experimental subarachnoid hemorrhage through the suppression of apoptosis
Recent studies have demonstrated that apoptosis in cerebral arteries could play an essential role in cerebral vasospasm after subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) and that SP600125, an inhibitor of c-Jun N-terminal k...
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A 3-D Locomotion Biomimetic Robot Fish with Information Relay
In this paper, a biomimetic robot fish is designed. It has a biomimetic tail to simulate the carangiform tail, a barycenter-adjustor for descending/ascending motions, multiple sensors, and it may communicate w...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Property Identification of 6-3 Stewart Parallel Manipulators for Special Orientations
This paper presents a new principle and method of kinematics to analyze the singularity of Stewart manipulators and addresses the property identification of the singularity loci of 6-3 Stewart manipulators for...
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Pediatric cerebrovascular diseases: report of 204 cases
To investigate the epidemiology of pediatric cerebrovascular diseases.
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Observation-Based Multi-robot Cooperative Formation Control
This paper proposes an observation-based control approach with only local sensing for controlling a team of nonholonomic mobile robots to keep predetermined geometric shapes. Based on the data from the encoder...
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The optimal time-window for surgical treatment of spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage: result of prospective randomized controlled trial of 500 cases
The aim of this clinical study was to determine the optimal time-window for surgical treatment of spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH). From January 1998 to September 2000, 17 hospitals in Shanghai parti...
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Application of a New Fault Detection Approach to Aerocraft’s Closed-Loop Control System
The main contributions of this paper is the successful application in the aerocraft’s closed-loop control system. As we know, the fault detection approaches proposed before mainly aim at the open-loop system. ...
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Design of Multi-resolution 3D Measurement System Using Light Sectioning Method and Multi-sensor Data Fusion Techniques
With the rapid development of shape measurement technique, multi-resolution approach becomes one of valid way to improve the accuracy, to expend measuring range, to reduce occlusion, to realize multi-resolutio...
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Research on TOC Accounting Based Decision Making of Products Pricing
In order to help enterprises to make a competitive strategy of price, a TOC accounting based decision making model of products pricing is proposed. A function between sales and prices is taken into account in ...
