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Open AccessEnergy and environmental impacts of air-to-air heat pumps in a mid-latitude city
Heat pumps (HPs) have emerged as a key technology for reducing energy use and greenhouse gas emissions. This study evaluates the potential switch to air-to-air HPs (AAHPs) in Toulouse, France, where convention...
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Open AccessImproved resilience and proteostasis mediate longevity upon DAF-2 degradation in old age
Little is known about the possibility of reversing age-related biological changes when they have already occurred. To explore this, we have characterized the effects of reducing insulin/IGF-1 signaling (IIS) d...
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The potential of wearable sweat sensors in heart failure management
Wearable sweat sensors could be used to monitor patients with heart failure, providing a route to personalized and automated patient management in hospitals and at home.
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Association of distance traveled on receipt of surgery in patients with locally advanced rectal cancer
Studies have shown patients residing in rural settings have worse cancer-related outcomes than those in urban settings. Specifically, rural patients with colorectal cancer have lower rates of screening and lon...
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Open AccessDelayed-onset post-operative keratitis and endophthalmitis caused by Exophiala oligosperma
A case of delayed-onset post-cataract-surgery keratitis and endophthalmitis, caused by the melanin-producing fungus Exophiala oligosperma, is presented. The patient presented with an infection at the corneal side...
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Improving the Accuracy of Ballot Scanners Using Supervised Learning
Most U.S. voters cast hand-marked paper ballots that are counted by optical scanners. Deployed ballot scanners typically utilize simplistic mark-detection methods, based on comparing the measured intensity of ...
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Open AccessSpatio-temporal deep learning models for tip force estimation during needle insertion
Precise placement of needles is a challenge in a number of clinical applications such as brachytherapy or biopsy. Forces acting at the needle cause tissue deformation and needle deflection which in turn may le...
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Needle Tip Force Estimation Using an OCT Fiber and a Fused convGRU-CNN Architecture
Needle insertion is common during minimally invasive interventions such as biopsy or brachytherapy. During soft tissue needle insertion, forces acting at the needle tip cause tissue deformation and needle defl...
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Multiobjective Optimization of Geosynchronous Earth Orbit Space Situational Awareness Systems via Parallel Executable Architectures
This research implements a genetic algorithm (GA) to optimize geosynchronous Earth orbit (GEO) space situational awareness (SSA) systems via parallel evaluation of executable architectures on a high-performanc...
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Open AccessAssessment of left ventricular systolic and diastolic function in patients with sarcoidosis with and without cardiac involvement by magnetic resonance feature tracking at 1.5T: a follow up study
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Open AccessCombining powers of linkage and association map** for precise dissection of QTL controlling resistance to gray leaf spot disease in maize (Zea mays L.)
Gray Leaf Spot (GLS causal agents Cercospora zeae-maydis and Cercospora zeina) is one of the most important foliar diseases of maize in all areas where the crop is being cultivated. Although in the USA the situat...
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Life-cycle assessment framework for indoor emissions of synthetic nanoparticles
Life-Cycle Assessment (LCA) is a well-established method to evaluate impacts of chemicals on the environment and human health along the lifespan of products. However, the increasingly produced and applied nan...
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Life cycle assessment for emerging materials: case study of a garden bed constructed from lumber produced with three different copper treatments
The objective of this research was to evaluate the appropriateness of using life cycle assessment (LCA) for new applications that incorporate emerging materials and involve site-specific scenarios. Cradle-to-g...
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LISP-MN: Mobile Networking Through LISP
The current Internet architecture was not designed to easily accommodate mobility because IP addresses are used both to identify and locate hosts. The Locator/Identifier Separation Protocol (LISP) decouples th...
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Open AccessNetwork Cosmology
Prediction and control of the dynamics of complex networks is a central problem in network science. Structural and dynamical similarities of different real networks suggest that some universal laws might accur...
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Product On-Chip Process Compensation for Low Power and Yield Enhancement
This paper aims at introducing a reliable on-chip process compensation flow for industrial integrated systems. Among the integrated process compensation techniques, the main one aims at reducing the supply vol...
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The role of perceived enjoyment and social norm in the adoption of technology with network externalities
The emergence of highly interactive media and the increased connectivity among people call for an investigation of usage behaviour of those media. People tend to rely heavily on peer-to-peer interaction influe...
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Benchmarking Open-Source Tree Learners in R/RWeka
The two most popular classification tree algorithms in machine learning and statistics — C4.5 and CART — are compared in a benchmark experiment together with two other more recent constant-fit tree learners fr...
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Visualizing Contingency Tables
Categorical data analysis is typically based on two- or higher dimensional contingency tables, cross-tabulating the co-occurrences of levels of nominal and/or ordinal data. In order to explain these, statistic...
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Einführung in SAP Business Information Warehouse
