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Open AccessPhotosymbiosis reduces the environmental stress response under a heat challenge in a facultatively symbiotic coral
The symbiosis between corals and dinoflagellates of the family Symbiodiniaceae is sensitive to environmental stress. The oxidative bleaching hypothesis posits that extreme temperatures lead to accumulation of ...
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The Effect of Load Ratio on the Fatigue Crack Growth Rate of Type 304 Stainless Steels in Air and High Temperature Deaerated Water at 482 °F
A test program has been completed that re-examined the effect of load ratio, R, on fatigue crack growth rates (FCGRs) of austenitic stainless steel in 482 °F air and deaerated water. Data for the test program ...
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Open AccessOutlook and challenges for hydrogen storage in nanoporous materials
Considerable progress has been made recently in the use of nanoporous materials for hydrogen storage. In this article, the current status of the field and future challenges are discussed, ranging from importan...
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Open AccessThe Physics of the B Factories
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Sugary drinks in the pathogenesis of obesity and cardiovascular diseases
Soft drink overconsumption is now considered to be a major public health concern with implications for cardiovascular diseases. This follows a number of studies performed in animals suggesting that chronic con...
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Open AccessSurvival from bladder cancer in England and Wales up to 2001
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A simple deep breathing test reveals altered cerebral autoregulation in type 2 diabetic patients
Patients with diabetes mellitus have an increased risk of stroke and other cerebrovascular complications. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the autoregulation of cerebral blood flow in diabetic patient...
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The EUV Imaging Spectrometer for Hinode
The EUV Imaging Spectrometer (EIS) on Hinode will observe solar corona and upper transition region emission lines in the wavelength ranges 170 – 210 Å and 250 – 290 Å. The line centroid positions and profile w...
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The EUV Imaging Spectrometer for Hinode
The EUV Imaging Spectrometer (EIS) on Hinode will observe solar corona and upper transition region emission lines in the wavelength ranges 170 – 210 Å and 250 – 290 Å. The line centroid positions and profile ...
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Altered cerebral regulation in type 2 diabetic patients with cardiac autonomic neuropathy
Assessment of cerebral regulation in diabetic patients is often problematic because of the presence of cardiac autonomic neuropathy. We evaluated the technique of oscillatory neck suction at 0.1 Hz to quantify...
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The contribution of individual and pairwise combinations of SNPs in the APOA1 and APOC3 genes to interindividual HDL-C variability
Apolipoproteins (apo) A-I and C-III are components of high-density lipoprotein-cholesterol (HDL-C), a quantitative trait negatively correlated with risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD). We analyzed the contrib...
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Effect of physical countermaneuvers on orthostatic hypotension in familial dysautonomia
Familial dysautonomia (FD) patients frequently experience debilitating orthostatic hypotension. Since physical countermaneuvers can increase blood pressure (BP) in other groups of patients with orthostatic hyp...
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Resik: A Bent Crystal X-ray Spectrometer for Studies of Solar Coronal Plasma Composition
We describe the RESIK (REntgenovsky Spektrometr s Izognutymi Kristalami) instrument, consisting of two double-channel X-ray spectrometers, designed to observe solar active region and flare plasmas. RESIK is on...
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Fracture toughness of alloy 690 and EN52 welds in air and water
The effect of low- and high-temperature water with high hydrogen on the fracture toughness of alloy 690 and its weld, EN52, was characterized using elastic-plastic J IC ...
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An approximate 2-D solution for the shear-induced strain fields in eigenstrained cubic materials
An approximate analytical 2-D solution for the strain field components ɛ11, ɛ12 and ɛ22 occurring in a cubic material due to a coherently bonded shear eigenstrained inclusion of cylindrical geometry was obtained ...
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Fracture toughness of alloy 600 and an EN82H weld in air and water
The fracture toughness of alloy 600 and its weld, EN82H, was characterized in 54 °C to 338 °C air and hydrogenated water. Elastic-plastic J IC testing w...
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Optimal Camera Parameter Selection for State Estimation with Applications in Object Recognition
In this paper we introduce a formalism for optimal camera parameter selection for iterative state estimation. We consider a framework based on Shannon’s information theory and select the camera parameters that...
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Getah virus infection of Indian horses
An outbreak of disease, characterized by depression, anorexia, fever, limb oedema and lymphocytopenia, occurred on a farm for thoroughbreds in India in 1990. Twenty-six of the 88 horses on the farm were affect...
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Real-time pose estimation and control for convoying applications
This results support our position that by putting together traditional computer vision techniques carefully customized to the to meet application-specific needs, it is possible to tackle challenging problems w...
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Combining Distributed Populations and Periodic Centralized Selections in Coarse-Grain Parallel Genetic Algorithms
In this paper we demonstrate that parallel genetic algorithms can profit from performing periodic centralized selections of distributed populations. With this combination, implementations can benefit from the ...
