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Multimodal Data Fusion: An Overview of Methods, Challenges and Prospects
(IEEE, 2015)In various disciplines, information about the same phenomenon can be acquired from different types of detectors, at different conditions, in multiple experiments or subjects, among others. We use the term “modality” for ... -
Application of Graph Theory to Assess Static and Dynamic Brain Connectivity: Approaches for Building Brain Graphs
(IEEE, 2018)Abstract: Human brain connectivity is complex. Graph-theory-based analysis has become a powerful and popular approach for analyzing brain imaging data, largely because of its potential to quantitatively illuminate the ... -
PREDATOR PLAYBACK, FORAGING HEIGHT, AND PHYLOGENY AFFECT GAP CROSSING BEHAVIOR IN TROPICAL FOREST BIRDS
(Neotropical Ornithological Society, 2017)The effects of fragmented landscapes on tropical bird movements remain poorly understood, partly due to a dearth of experimental tests of gap crossing behavior. To learn more about the factors involved in gap crossing ... -
Childhood Trauma and Dissociative Intimate Partner Violence
(Sage, 2018)The present study assesses childhood abuse/neglect as a predictor of dissociative intimate partner violence (IPV) among 118 partner-abusive men. One third (36%) endorsed dissociative IPV, most commonly losing control (18%), ... -
Spatial alterations of De Novo purine biosynthetic enzymes by Akt-independent PDK1 signaling pathways
(PLOS ONE, 2018)A macromolecular complex of the enzymes involved in human de novo purine biosynthesis, the purinosome, has been shown to consist of a core assembly to regulate the metabolic activity of the pathway. However, it remains ... -
Environmental and spatial drivers of taxonomic, functional, and phylogenetic characteristics of bat communities in human-modified landscapes
(PeerJ, 2016)Background. Assembly of species into communities following human disturbance (e.g., deforestation, fragmentation) may be governed by spatial (e.g., dispersal) or envi-ronmental (e.g., niche partitioning) mechanisms. Variation ... -
LIDAR PROFILING IN THE LOWER TROPOSPHERE: EXPERIENCE FROM PECAN
(EPJ, 2018)Results from the PECAN (Plains Elevated Convection at Night) campaign are discussed. In particular, the utility of simple backscatter lidars/ceilometers in quantifying atmospheric dynamics parameters and variables as well ... -
How Long Do Restored Ecosystems Persist?
(Missouri Botanical Garden, 2017)Why do some restored ecosystems persist for centuries while others are quickly converted to alternative land uses or land covers? We propose that restored ecosystems have a temporal dimension that is variable, often finite, ... -
MIXED LAYER DEPTHS VIA DOPPLER LIDAR DURING LOW-LEVEL JET EVENTS
(EPJ, 2018)A low-level jet (LLJ) is a prominent wind speed peak in the lower troposphere. Nocturnal LLJs have been shown to transport and mix atmospheric constituents from the residual layer down to the surface, breaching quiescent ... -
Automatically Infer Human Traits and Behavior from Social Media Data
(2018)Given the complexity of human minds and their behavioral flexibility, it requires sophisticated data analysis to sift through a large amount of human behavioral evidence to model human minds and to predict human behavior. ... -
Enhanced biochars can match activated carbon performance in sediments with high native bioavailability and low final porewater PCB concentrations
(Elsevier, 2018)A bench scale study was conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of in situ amendments to reduce the bioavailability of pollutants in sediments from a site impacted with polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), polycyclic aromatic ... -
The role of the C-domain of bacteriophage T4 gene 32 protein in ssDNA binding and dsDNA helix-destabilization: Kinetic, single-molecule, and cross-linking studies
(PLOS ONE, 2018)The model single-stranded DNA binding protein of bacteriophage T4, gene 32 protein (gp32) has well-established roles in DNA replication, recombination, and repair. gp32 is a single-chain polypeptide consisting of three ... -
Myeloid Derived-Suppressor Cells: Their role in cancer and obesity
(Elsevier, 2018-04)Myeloid-derived suppressor cells (MDSC) are present in most individuals with cancer where they inhibit adaptive and innate antitumor immunity and are an obstacle to cancer immunotherapies. Chronic inflammation is ... -
Recent trends in machine learning for human activity recognition—A survey
(Wiley, 2018)There has been an upsurge recently in investigating machine learning techniques for Activity Recognition (AR) problems as that have been very effective in extracting and learn-ing knowledge from the activity datasets. The ... -
Engineering a Simplified 0-Bit Consistent Weighted Sampling
(Arxiv, 2018)The Min-Hashing approach to sketching has become an important tool in data analysis, search, and classification. To apply it to real-valued datasets, the ICWS algorithm has become a seminal approach that is widely used, ... -
High fat diet and leptin promote tumor progression by inducing myeloid-derived suppressor cells
(Wiley, 2018)Obesity is a risk factor for cancer incidence and cancer mortality. The association of obesity and cancer is attributed to multiple factors, but the tightest linkage is with the chronic, low‐grade inflammation that accompanies ... -
Polarization-filtering and polarization-maintaining low-loss negative curvature fibers
(Optical Society of America, 2018)We propose a polarization-filtering and polarization-maintaining negative curvature fiber in which two nested resonant tubes are added to a standard negative curvature fiber with one ring of tubes. The coupling between the ... -
CD3xPDL1 bi-specific T cell engager (BiTE) simultaneously activates T cells and NKT cells, kills PDL1⁺ tumor cells, and extends the survival of tumor-bearing humanized mice
(Oncotarget, 2017)Bi-specific T cell engagers (BiTEs) activate T cells through CD3 and target activated T cells to tumor-expressed antigens. BiTEs have shown therapeutic efficacy in patients with liquid tumors; however, they do not benefit ... -
Retrieval of aerosol properties and water-leaving reflectance from multi-angular polarimetric measurements over coastal waters
(The Optical Society, 2018)Ocean color remote sensing is an important tool to monitor water quality and biogeochemical conditions of ocean. Atmospheric correction, which obtains water-leaving radiance from the total radiance measured by satellite-borne ...
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