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Chapter and Conference Paper
Exchange Rate Forecasting Using Classifier Ensemble
In this paper, we investigate the impact of the non-numerical information on exchange rate changes and that of ensemble multiple classifiers on forecasting exchange rate between U.S. dollar and Japanese yen. W...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Rock Structure Recognition System Using FMI Images
Formation Micro Imager (FMI) can directly reflect changes of wall stratum and rock structures. It is also an important method to divide stratum and identify lithology. However, people usually deal with FMI ima...
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FMI image based rock structure classification using classifier combination
Formation Micro Imager (FMI) can directly reflect changes of wall stratums and rock structures, and is an important factor to classify stratums and identify lithology for the oil and gas exploration. Conventio...
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Exchange rate prediction with non-numerical information
Exchange rate prediction is an important yet challenging problem in financial time series analysis. Although the historical exchange rates can provide valuable information, other factors will also affect the p...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Classifier Ensemble Using a Heuristic Learning with Sparsity and Diversity
Classifier ensemble has been intensively studied with the aim of overcoming the limitations of individual classifier components in two prevalent directions, i.e., to diversely generate classifier components, a...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Pedestrian Analysis and Counting System with Videos
Reliable estimation of number of pedestrians has played an important role in the management of public places. However, how to accurately count pedestrians with abnormal behavior noises is one challenge in such...
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Universal energy-level alignment of molecules on metal oxides
Transition-metal oxides improve power conversion efficiencies in organic photovoltaics and are used as low-resistance contacts in organic light-emitting diodes and organic thin-film transistors. What makes met...
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One-Dimensional Modeling on the Asymmetric Features of a Radio-Frequency Atmospheric Helium Glow Discharge Produced Using a Co-Axial-Type Plasma Generator
In this paper, a one-dimensional transient fluid model is used to investigate the asymmetric characteristics of the radio-frequency atmospheric-pressure helium glow discharges produced using a co-axial-type pl...
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Open AccessHLA-A*0201-restricted CD8+T-cell epitopes identified in dengue viruses
All four dengue virus (DV) serotypes (D1V, D2V, D3V and D4V) can cause a series of disorders, ranging from mild dengue fever (DF) to severe dengue hemorrhagic fever and dengue shock syndrome (DHF/DSS). Previou...
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Construction of over-expression shuttle vectors in Streptomyces
Two high-copy number vectors, pL97 and pL98, that contain the strong constitutive ermEp* from Saccharopolyspora erythraea and the ssrA promoter (ssrAp) from Streptomyces coelicolor, respectively, and an inducible...
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Evaluation of measurement uncertainty in EA–IRMS: for determination of δ 13C value and C-4 plant sugar content in adulterated honey
In this study, the method for determining the stable carbon isotope ratio value was validated. Measurement uncertainty of stable carbon isotope ratio value of whole honey and its extracted protein derived from...
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Behaviour of recycled aggregate concrete filled stainless steel stub columns
Past research indicates that recycled aggregate concrete (RAC) could be successfully used in concrete-filled steel tubular (CFST) columns. Their yielded performance is almost as good as that of the traditional...
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GC-MS Analysis of Essential Oil from the Leaves of Aralia elata
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Analysis of the Heavy Pseudoscalar Mesons with Thermal QCD Sum Rules
In this article, we calculate the contributions of the condensates up to dimension-6, including the one-loop corrections to the quark condensates, in the operator product expansion in a consistent way, and stu...
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A critical overview of long non-coding RNA in glioma etiology 2016: an update
With the development of whole genome and transcriptome sequencing technologies, a growing body of long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) has been identified and is receiving increasing attention. LncRNAs are non-prote...
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Open AccessLow level of swiprosin-1/EFhd2 in vestibular nuclei of spontaneously hypersensitive motion sickness mice
Susceptibility to motion sickness (MS) varies considerably among humans. However, the cause of such variation is unclear. Here, we used a classical genetic approach to obtain mouse strains highly sensitive and...
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LY333531, a PKCβ inhibitor, attenuates glomerular endothelial cell apoptosis in the early stage of mouse diabetic nephropathy via down-regulating swiprosin-1
Glomerular endothelial cell (GEC) injury plays an important role in the early stage of diabetic nephropathy (DN). Previous studies show that a PKCβ inhibitor is effective for treating DN. In the current study ...
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Sodium Valproate Ameliorates Neuronal Apoptosis in a Kainic Acid Model of Epilepsy via Enhancing PKC-Dependent GABAAR γ2 Serine 327 Phosphorylation
GABA is a dominant inhibitory neurotransmitter in the brain and A type GABA receptor (GABAAR) phosphorylation is critical for GABA-mediated inhibitory effect. However, its role in the neuroprotective effect of so...
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Reliability and Validity of Simplified Chinese STOP-BANG Questionnaire in Diagnosing and Screening Obstructive Sleep Apnea Hypopnea Syndrome
The main purpose of this study was to assess the reliability and validity of the simplified Chinese STOP-BANG Questionnaire (SBQ) as a diagnosing and screening tool for obstructive sleep apnea hypopnea syndrom...
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Significant Bacterial Distance-Decay Relationship in Continuous, Well-Connected Southern Ocean Surface Water
Recently, an increasing number of studies have focused on the biogeographic distribution of marine microorganisms. However, the extent to which geographic distance can affect marine microbial communities is st...
