Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies
11th International Joint Conference, BIOSTEC 2018, Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, January 19–21, 2018, Revised Selected Papers
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Power-Sharing as a Tool of Conflict Management: The Experience of Northern Ireland and South Tyrol
In deeply divided societies, power-sharing is often promoted as a tool of conflict management. These societies, which tend to be characterised by ethnic, linguistic and/or religious divisions, are often marked...
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Analysis of the San Luis Obispo Bay Microbiome from a Network Perspective
Microorganisms are key players in ecosystem functioning. In this work, we describe steps to preprocess raw microbiome data, build a correlation network, and analyze co-occurrence patterns between microbes. We ...
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Comparisons of Knowledge Graphs and Entity Extraction in Breast Cancer Subty** Biomedical Text Analysis
In order to capitalize on the extensive biological research publications and databases, knowledge graphs can help extract clinically useful details from large and complicated resources. Here, we compare utilit...
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Using Requisite Variety: A Novel Approach to Enhancement Technologies
The purpose—This research aims to situate enhancement technologies within a second-order cybernetic framework. Enhancement is here characterised as the process of develo** sensing systems to expand an agent’s i...
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Plurinationalism, Devolution and Intergovernmental Relations in the United Kingdom
This chapter examines the evolution of intergovernmental relations (IGR) in the United Kingdom (UK). Infrastructure to facilitate relations, specifically communication and cooperation, between the UK and devol...
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Spain and the United Kingdom: Between Unitary State Tradition and Federalization
This chapter examines the evolution of Spain and the United Kingdom (UK) as federal political systems. Neither Spain nor the UK qualifies as a full-fledged federation, but an identifiable process of federaliza...
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A Consociational Compromise? Constitutional Evolution in Spain and Catalonia
This chapter examines the prospects of a consociational compromise in Spain and Catalonia as a response to the protracted constitutional stalemate between the two governments. While Spain’s transition to democ...
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Open AccessKnowledge and attitudes of us adults regarding COVID-19
This was a survey of the general non-healthcare-worker USA population regarding their knowledge and attitudes toward the COVID-19 pandemic. Almost everyone practiced social distancing. Women were significantly...
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Publisher Correction: Recycling lithium-ion batteries from electric vehicles
An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via a link at the top of the paper.
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Open AccessDetection of live M. bovis BCG in tissues and IFN-γ responses in European badgers (Meles meles) vaccinated by oropharyngeal instillation or directly in the ileum
Oral vaccination with Mycobacterium bovis Bacille of Calmette and Guerin (BCG) has provided protection against M. bovis to badgers both experimentally and in the field. There is also evidence suggesting that the ...
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Recycling lithium-ion batteries from electric vehicles
Rapid growth in the market for electric vehicles is imperative, to meet global targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, to improve air quality in urban centres and to meet the needs of consumers, with wh...
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Open AccessTwo-Year Outcomes After Aquablation Compared to TURP: Efficacy and Ejaculatory Improvements Sustained
To compare 2-year safety and efficacy outcomes after Aquablation or transurethral resection of the prostate (TURP) for the treatment of lower urinary tract symptoms related to benign prostate hyperplasia (BPH).
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Open AccessAuthor Correction: Biofortification of field-grown cassava by engineering expression of an iron transporter and ferritin
An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via a link at the top of the paper.
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Open AccessBiofortification of field-grown cassava by engineering expression of an iron transporter and ferritin
Less than 10% of the estimated average requirement (EAR) for iron and zinc is provided by consumption of storage roots of the staple crop cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz) in West African human populations. We u...
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Open AccessThe quantification of surface roughness on root caries using Noncontact Optical Profilometry—An in vitro study
The aim of this study was to quantify surface roughness of carious dentine using noncontact optical profilometry (NCOP) in vitro.
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Open AccessNitric oxide triggers the assembly of “type II” stress granules linked to decreased cell viability
We show that 3-morpholinosydnonimine (SIN-1)-induced nitric oxide (NO) triggers the formation of SGs. Whereas the composition of NO-induced SGs is initially similar to sodium arsenite (SA)-induced type I (cyto...
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Open AccessProtein disorder–order interplay to guide the growth of hierarchical mineralized structures
A major goal in materials science is to develop bioinspired functional materials based on the precise control of molecular building blocks across length scales. Here we report a protein-mediated mineralization...
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Open AccessNEDDylation promotes stress granule assembly
Stress granules (SGs) harbour translationally stalled messenger ribonucleoproteins and play important roles in regulating gene expression and cell fate. Here we show that neddylation promotes SG assembly in re...
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A Formal Semantics for the SmartFrog Configuration Language
System configuration languages are now widely used to drive the deployment and evolution of large computing infrastructures. Most such languages are highly informal, making it difficult t...
