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Personalizing the dichotomy of fixed and flexible activities in everyday life: deriving prism anchors from GPS-enabled survey data
Space–time prism is a fundamental concept in time geography that can model an individual’s accessibility to resources under space–time constraints. A prism anchor is often defined by work, school, or home acti...
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In vitro and in vivo activity of ceftazidime/avibactam and aztreonam alone or in combination against mcr-9, serine- and metallo-β-lactamases–co-producing carbapenem-resistant Enterobacter cloacae complex
Enterobacteriaceae carrying mcr-9, in particularly those also co-containing metallo-β-lactamase (MBL) and TEM type β-lactamase, present potential transmission risks and lack adequate clinical response methods, th...
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Digital twins in engineering dynamics: variational equation identification, feedback control design and their rapid update
Digital twins, as a rising concept in many industry sectors, have tremendous potential for engineering dynamics. Their practical applications, however, are hindered by the lack of near real-time system identif...
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Open AccessComparison of posterior cruciate retention and substitution in total knee arthroplasty during gait: a systematic review and meta-analysis
To compare the gait patterns between posterior cruciate retention and substitution in total knee arthroplasty (TKA).
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Delineation of an Urban Community Life Circle Based on a Machine-Learning Estimation of Spatiotemporal Behavioral Demand
Delineating life circles is an essential prerequisite for urban community life circle planning. Recent studies combined the environmental contexts with residents’ global positioning system (GPS) data to deline...
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Rapid identification of switched systems: A data-driven method in variational framework
Switched systems, i.e., systems changing the parameter values (even structural forms) abruptly and randomly at arbitrary instants, have been extensively utilized in many fields of modern industries. Rapid iden...
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Open AccessOutbreak of KPC-2 Carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae ST76 and Carbapenem-resistant K2 Hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae ST375 strains in Northeast China: molecular and virulent characteristics
Carbapenem-resistant hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae strains have recently come into existence worldwide; however, researchers in northeast China are not aware of their clinical features and molecular charact...
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Estimation of the functions of viral RNA silencing suppressors by apple latent spherical virus vector
Apple latent spherical virus (ALSV) is a latent virus with wide host range of plant species. In the present study, we prepared ALSV vectors expressing RNA silencing suppressors (RSSs) from eight plant viruses:...
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Open AccessMolecular characterization of metallo-β-lactamase- producing carbapenem-resistant Enterobacter cloacae complex isolated in Heilongjiang Province of China
Enterobacter cloacae complex (ECC) is one of the most common extended-spectrum β-lactamase and carbapenemase-producing pathogen that threatens millions of the elderly and vulnerable sick persons. The objective of...
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RNA Silencing-Mediated Apple Latent Spherical Virus Vaccine in Plants
The apple latent spherical virus (ALSV), originally isolated from an apple tree in Japan, is a small spherical virus with a diameter of 25 nm and comprises a bisegmented, single-stranded RNA genome (RNA1 and R...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
High Performance Stencil Computations for Intel \(^{\normalsize \circledR }\) Xeon Phi™ Coprocessor
Stencil computations are a class of computational kernels which update array elements according to some stencil patterns, and they have drawn more attentions recently. The Intel Xeon Phi coprocessor, which is ...
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Virus-Induced Gene Silencing of N Gene in Tobacco by Apple Latent Spherical Virus Vectors
Virus infections induce an RNA-mediated defense that targets viral RNAs in a nucleotide sequence-specific manner in plants, commonly referred to as virus-induced gene silencing (VIGS). When the virus carries s...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Stencil Computations on HPC-oriented ARMv8 64-Bit Multi-Core Processor
The ARMv8 64-bit platform has been considered as an alternative for high performance computing (HPC). Stencil computations are a class of iterative kernels which update array elements according to a stencil. I...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Checkpointing RSIP Applications at Application-level in ChinaGrid
In this paper, we checkpointing remote-sensing image processing (RSIP) applications in computational grid using a novel application-level uncoordinated checkpoint protocol based on Job Progress Description (JP...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Application Availability Measurement in Computational Grid
The computational grid built on wide-area distributed computing systems is a more variable and unreliable computing environment, hence it is undoubtedly important to analyze its availability. In our opinion, t...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Selection and Advanced Reservation of Backup Resources for High Availability Service in Computational Grid
Resource redundancy is a primary way to improve availability for applications in computational grid. How to select backup resources for an application during the resource allocation phase and how to make advan...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Predicting the Reliability of Resources in Computational Grid
The computational grid built on wide-area distributed computing systems is a more variable and unreliable computing environment, hence it is undoubtedly necessary to predict the reliability of the resources be...
