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Shale mineral particles directional arrangement and its effect on the mesoscopic failure mechanism
Quantitative characterization of the heterogeneity of shale mineral particles and determination of the relationship between the heterogeneity and the anisotropy of shale meso-mechanical behavior is difficult. ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Fair Division with Allocator’s Preference
We consider the problem of fairly allocating indivisible resources to agents, which has been studied for years. Most previous work focuses on fairness and/or efficiency among agents given agents’ preferences. How...
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Greedy algorithms for the profit-aware social team formation problem
Motivated by applications in online labor markets, we study the problem of forming multiple teams of experts in a social network to accomplish multiple tasks that require different combinations of skills. Our ...
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Open AccessBorderline personality disorder: associations with psychiatric disorders, somatic illnesses, trauma, and adverse behaviors
In one of the largest, most comprehensive studies on borderline personality disorder (BPD) to date, this article places into context associations between this diagnosis and (1) 16 different psychiatric disorde...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
EFX Under Budget Constraint
Fair division captures many real-world scenarios and plays an important role in many research fields including computer science, economy, operations research, etc. For the problem of indivisible goods allocati...
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Open AccessMindfulness in Relation to Diet Quality in Adults with Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes: Results from Diabetes MILES-The Netherlands
The objectives of this study were to investigate the associations of dispositional mindfulness and its facets with diet quality in Dutch adults with type 1 diabetes and type 2 diabetes and to evaluate the pote...
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Candidate selections with proportional fairness constraints
Selecting a subset of candidates with various attributes under fairness constraints has been attracting considerable attention from the AI community, with applications ranging from school admissions to committ...
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Maximin fairness with mixed divisible and indivisible goods
We study fair resource allocation when the resources contain a mixture of divisible and indivisible goods, focusing on the well-studied fairness notion of maximin share fairness (MMS). With only indivisible go...
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Open AccessPoor glycaemic control is associated with increased risk of neurodevelopmental disorders in childhood-onset type 1 diabetes: a population-based cohort study
The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of childhood-onset type 1 diabetes on the risk of subsequent neurodevelopmental disorders, and the role of glycaemic control in this association. We hypothes...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Minimizing Energy on Homogeneous Processors with Shared Memory
Energy efficiency is a crucial desideratum in the design of computer systems, from small-sized mobile devices with limited battery to large scale data centers. In such computing systems, processor and memory a...
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Geochemistry, Zircon U-Pb Age and Hf Isotope of the Huilanshan Granitoids in the North Dabie Terrane: Implications for Syn-Collapse Magmatism of Orogen
Syn-collapse magmatism is a critical issue for evolution of the continental orogen. The Dabie Orogen is a typical orogen which was suffered from a complete collapse. Two kinds of granitoids, namely, the coarse...
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Open AccessIntake of dietary saturated fatty acids and risk of type 2 diabetes in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition-Netherlands cohort: associations by types, sources of fatty acids and substitution by macronutrients
The association between dietary saturated fatty acids (SFA) intake and type 2 diabetes (T2D) remains unclear. This study aimed at investigating the association between SFA intake and T2D risk based on (1) indi...
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Open AccessBreastfeeding and myopia: A cross-sectional study of children aged 6–12 years in Tian**, China
This study aimed to determine whether an association existed between breastfeeding and myopia in children aged 6–12 years in Tian**, China, using a cross-sectional study of 527 children. The spherical equival...
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On mining approximate and exact fault-tolerant frequent itemsets
Robust frequent itemset mining has attracted much attention due to the necessity to find frequent patterns from noisy data in many applications. In this paper, we focus on a variant of robust frequent itemsets...
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P300 amplitude and latency in autism spectrum disorder: a meta-analysis
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is an early onset neurodevelopmental disorder. Evidence suggests that ASD patients have abnormalities in information processing. Event-related potential (ERP) technique can direc...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Simple Greedy Algorithm for the Profit-Aware Social Team Formation Problem
Team formation in social networks has attracted much attention due to its many applications such as the online labour market. In this paper, we focus on the problem of forming multiple teams of experts with di...
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Characteristics, Genesis, and Sedimentary Environment of Duplex-Like Structures in the Jurassic Sediments of Western Qaidam Basin, China
A particular type of soft-sediment deformation structure, similar to imbricate structure, is developed in the Jurassic strata at Honggouzi, western Qaidam Basin, China. We refer to this structure as a duplex-l...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Optimal Algorithms for Running Max and Min Filters on Random Inputs
Given a d-dimensional array and an integer p, the max (or min) filter is the set of maximum (or minimum) elements within a d-dimensional sliding window of edge length p inside the array. The current best algorith...
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Serum Helicobacter pylori CagA antibody may not be used as a tumor marker for diagnosing gastric cancer in east Asian countries
Gastric cancer (GC) is a highly malignant cancer with increasing incidence and mortality worldwide. Serum Helicobacter pylori CagA antibody has been widely reported to play an important role in diagnosing GC. How...
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Characteristics and sedimentary processes of lamina-controlled sand-particle imbricate structure in deposits on Lingshan Island, Qingdao, China
Imbricate structure is a common sedimentary structure and is well developed in sandy sediments. Here, we report a lamina-controlled fine-sand-particle imbricate structure in a set of very fine grained sediment...
