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Chapter and Conference Paper
Multiscale edge detection via normal changes
A new edge detection technique based on detection of normal changes is proposed. Most of the existing range image-based edge detection algorithms base their detection criterion on depth or curvature changes. H...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
An Automatic Traffic Surveillance System for Vehicle Tracking and Classification
This paper presents an automatic traffic surveillance system to estimate important traffic parameters from video sequences using only one camera. Different from traditional methods which classify vehicles into...
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A complete sequence and comparative analysis of a SARS-associated virus (Isolate BJ01)
The genome sequence of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)-associated virus provides essential information for the identification of pathogen(s), exploration of etiology and evolution, interpretation ...
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Effects of integrative Chinese and Western medicine on arterial oxygen saturation in patients with severe acute respiratory syndrome
Objective: To evaluate the effects of treatment of integrative Chinese and Western medicine (ICWM) on arterial oxygen saturation (SaO2) in patients with severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS).M...
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Analysis and comparison of the tongue picture of 34 patients with severe acute respiratory syndrome
Objective: To explore the changes of tongue pictures in the develo** process of disease in patients with severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), and to compare the tongue pictures of SARS patients with those...
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Swietenia mahagony extract shows agonistic activity to PPAR γ and gives ameliorative effects on diabetic db/db mice
To search the peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor γ (PPARγ) agonists from Swietenia mahagony extract (SmE) and observe the possible ameliorative effects of SmE on diabetic db/db mice.
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Open AccessPigs in sequence space: A 0.66X coverage pig genome survey based on shotgun sequencing
Comparative whole genome analysis of Mammalia can benefit from the addition of more species. The pig is an obvious choice due to its economic and medical importance as well as its evolutionary position in the ...
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Involvement of nociceptin/orphanin FQ in release of hypothalamic GnRH mediated by ORL1 receptor in ovariectomized rats
To investigate effect of the nociceptin/orphanin FQ (OFQ) on hypothalamus gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) release in ovariectomized (OVX) rats.
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Modeling Approach for Service-Oriented Architecture
Specifying service-oriented system, which is a new type of Enterprise Information System, is critical with the rapid development of Web Services. For the purpose, this paper presents an approach to model Servi...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Completing UML Model of Component-Based System with Middleware for Performance Evaluation
To free analysts from knowing about the internal details of middleware when evaluating the performance of component-based system (CBS), this paper proposes a framework to automatically integrate middleware com...
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Synthesis of a novel 18 β-glycyrrhetinic acid derivative
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Comparison of antioxidant activities between salvianolic acid B and Ginkgo biloba extract (EGb 761)
To investigate and compare the antioxidant activities of salvianolic acid B (SalB) and Ginkgo biloba extract (EGb 761) in aqueous solution, rat microsomes and the cellular system.
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(5R)-5-hydroxytriptolide inhibits IFN-γ-related signaling
(5R)-5-hydroxytriptolide (LLDT-8) displayed anti-arthritis and anti-allogenic transplantation rejection activities in our previous studies. Here, we aim to further clarify the effect of LLDT-8 on the pro-inflamma...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
High Performance Approach for Multi-QoS Constrained Web Services Selection
In general, multi-QoS constrained Web Services composition, with or without optimization, is a NP-complete problem on computational complexity that cannot be exactly solved in polynomial time. A lot of heurist...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Performance Analysis Infrastructure for Component-Based System Hosted by Middleware
An infrastructure is proposed for automatically modeling the impact of middleware to component-based system at architectural level performance evaluation. The basic ideas behind infrastructure are separation o...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Grid Scheduling Optimization Under Conditions of Uncertainty
One of the biggest challenges in building grid schedulers is how to deal with the uncertainty in what future computational resources will be available. Current techniques for Grid scheduling rarely account for...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Sequential Pattern-Based Cache Replacement in Servlet Container
Servlet cache can effectively improve the throughput and reduce response time experienced by customers in servlet container. An essential issue of servlet cache is cache replacement. Traditional solutions such...
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Bufalin induces apoptosis in human osteosarcoma U-2OS and U-2OS methotrexate300-resistant cell lines
To investigate the antiproliferative activity and apoptosis-inducing effects of bufalin on human osteosarcoma cell lines.
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Non-cytolytic antigen clearance in DNA-vaccinated mice with electroporation
To explore the potential of electroporation (EP)-mediated hepatitis B virus (HBV) DNA vaccination for the treatment of chronic HBV infection.
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Open AccessRegion- or state-related differences in expression and activation of extracellular signal-regulated kinases (ERKs) in naïve and pain-experiencing rats
Extracellular signal-regulated kinase (ERK), one member of the mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) family, has been suggested to regulate a diverse array of cellular functions, including cell growth, diffe...
