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Deletion and inactivation of retinoblastoma susceptibility gene in primary retinoblastoma
The status and expression of Rb gene was detected and analyzed in 19 surgical retinoblastoma specimens using Rb cDNA 3.8 kb and 0.9 kb fragment as probe and antibodies specific for synthetic Rb peptide or expr...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Auto cameraman via collaborative sensing agents
In this paper, we propose a new multiple sensing agent based scheme for an automated cameraman. It is capable of 1) constantly monitoring the visual events in a global surrounding, 2) dynamically, based on the de...
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A nonlinear theory of elastic plates without using kirchhoff-love assumptions and its application
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Extracting characters of license plates from video sequences
In this paper, we present a new approach to extract characters on a license plate of a moving vehicle, given a sequence of perspective-distortion-corrected license plate images. Different from many existing s...
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Noninvasive visualization of tumors in rodent dorsal skin window chambers
A novel model for evaluating anti-cancer therapies.
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Temporal and spatial differences of the industrial restructuring of Guangdong Province in the 1990S
This paper focuses on the temporal and spatial change of industrial structure in Guangdong Province since the 1990s. The attention is initially paid to the change of industrial structure through analyzing the ...
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Photoactivated γ-secretase inhibitors directed to the active site covalently label presenilin 1
Cleavage of amyloid precursor protein (APP) by the β- and γ-secretases generates the amino and carboxy termini, respectively, of the Aβ amyloidogenic peptides Aβ40 and Aβ42—the major constituents of the amyloi...
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Call Admission Control for 3G CDMA Networks with Differentiated QoS
A call admission control (CAC) scheme for 3G wireless networks based on the estimated interference and differentiated quality of service (QoS) is proposed in this paper. In this CAC scheme, the interferences i...
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HIV-1 Tat reprograms immature dendritic cells to express chemoattractants for activated T cells and macrophages
Immature dendritic cells are among the first cells infected by retroviruses after mucosal exposure. We explored the effects of human immunodeficiency virus-1 (HIV-1) and its Tat transactivator on these primary...
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Role of VEGF in the growth and metastasis of a murine bladder carcinoma
Bladder transitional cell carcinoma is the most common form of carcinoma in the urinary system. Although overexpression of VEGF has been identified in tissue, serum, and urine of patients with bladder cancer, ...
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Cost-Sensitive Ensemble of Support Vector Machines for Effective Detection of Microcalcification in Breast Cancer Diagnosis
This paper presents a new approach for the cost-sensitive classification problems based on the Boosting ensemble of support vector machines (SVMs). Different from conventional Boosting ensemble learning method...
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Adaptive Deinterlacing for Real-Time Applications
In general, motion compensated (MC) deinterlacing algorithms can outperform non-MC (NMC) ones. However, we often prefer to choose the latter due to the considerations of error propagation and computational com...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Real-Time Video Deinterlacing Scheme for MPEG-2 to AVS Transcoding
Real-time motion compensated (MC) deinterlacing is defined to be deinterlacing at the decoder in real-time at low cost using the transmitted motion vectors. Although the possibility of this was shown ten years...
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Detection of Microcalcifications in Digital Mammograms Based on Dual-Threshold
Breast cancer is one of the main leading causes to women mortality in the world especially in the western countries. Since the causes are still unknown, breast cancer cannot be prevented completely even till n...
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Deformation rigidity of assumed stress modes in hybrid elements
The new methods to determine the zero-energy deformation modes in the hybrid elements and the zero-energy stress modes in their assumed stress fields are presented by the natural deformation modes of the eleme...
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Collaborative software design in an SOA environment
Based on the current Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), this paper proposes a new collaborative software design methodology in an SOA Environment: the Global Software Enterprise (GSE). The current SOA is pro...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
An Approximation Method for Multiservice Loss Performance in Hierarchical Networks
This paper presents an approximation method — Multiservice Overflow Approximation (MOA), to compute traffic loss in multi-tier hierarchical networks with multiservice overflows. With the MOA method, we first o...
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Paclitaxel nanoparticle inhibits growth of ovarian cancer xenografts and enhances lymphatic targeting
Objectives: Ovarian cancer has the highest mortality of all the gynecologic cancers. The antitumor agent paclitaxel has been proved to be efficient in the treatment of ovarian cancer. Our study i...
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Service-oriented system engineering (SOSE) and its applications to embedded system development
In the past few years, we witnessed a rapid progress in service-oriented computing (SOC), which represents a new computing paradigm. SOC changes the way we develop and use software and hardware. Major enabling...
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Breast-conserving surgery and combined therapy for women breast cancer: a report of 216 cases
To explore the therapeutic effect and associated techniques of breast-conserving therapy on patients with clinical stage I and stage II breast cancer.
