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Secure collaboration in an open environment.
Internet -- Security measures. Public key infrastructure (Computer security). Digital signatures. Peer-to-peer architecture (Computer networks) -- Security measures.
The Internet has become a virtual place where people not only operate in isolation but also interact with other Internet users. Collaborative systems are becoming more popular. Applications now being introduced could provide better remote education...
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Investigating the role of pitch contours in the expression of emotion: do prosody and music share a code for communicating emotion?
Musical pitch -- Psychological aspects. ; Voice -- Psychological aspects. ; Emotions in music. ; Musical perception.
There is a long history of attempts to explain why music is perceived as expressive of emotion. Many of the acoustic parameters that are used to communicate emotion in music are also used in human vocal expressions of emotion, suggesting that the...
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Secure context-sensitive authorization.
Computers -- Access control. ; Authentication. ; Ubiquitous computing.
Pervasive computing leads to an increased integration between the real world and the computational world, and many applications in pervasive computing adapt to the user's context, such as the location of the user and relevant devices, the presence...
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Market-based control of mobile-agent systems.
Mobile agents (Computer software). ; Resource allocation -- Mathematical models. ; Computer networks -- Economic aspects.
Modern distributed systems scatter sensors, storage, and computation throughout the environment. Ideally these devices communicate and share resources, but there is seldom motivation for a device''s owner to yield control to another user. We...
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The pathophysiology of transforming growth factor-beta in breast cancer.
Transforming growth factors-beta -- Pathophysiology. ; Breast -- Cancer -- Pathophysiology.
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$Stark-geometry photorefractive multiple quantum well spatial light modulators.$
Stark-geometry photorefractive multiple quantum well spatial light modulators.
Light modulators -- Mathematical models. ; Quantum wells. ; Photorefractive materials. ; Optoelectronic devices -- Mathematical models.
Stark-geometry photorefractive multiple quantum well (PR-MQW) spatial light modulators (SLMs) show promise for several optoelectronic applications such as high-speed image correlation and real-time 3-D holographic imaging. Their performance is...
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Regulation of human cytochrome P4501A2 gene (CYP1A2) expression: isolation and functional analysis of the 5'-flanking region.
Cytochrome P-450. ; Genetic regulation. ; Genetic transcription.
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The effects of octave transformations : evidence from harmonic priming concerning the functional equivalence of chords and their inversions.
Musical intervals and scales -- Psychological aspects. ; Music -- Acoustics and physics.
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The effect of microstructure on firn gas transport / by Kaitlin M. Keegan
The processes affecting gas transport through the firn column are important to understand in order to accurately interpret climate records from ice cores. Historically, density measurements have been used to estimate open and closed porosity in the...
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ID4 promotes the growth of glioblastoma multiforme by mediating MGP-enhanced angiogenesis.
Glioblastoma multiforme. DNA-binding proteins. Transcription factors. Extracellular matrix proteins. Neovascularization.
ID proteins are naturally occurring dominant negative HLH-transcription factors that are highly expressed during development but generally not expressed in adult tissue except for selected cell types and some stem cells. Also, aberrant expression...
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Kinetic characterization of metabolism and antibody production of a hybridoma cell line in high density homogeneous perfusion culture.
Hybridomas -- Metabolism. Hybridomas -- Growth. Cultures (Biology).
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Heart rate and palmar skin conductance in anticipation of painful electric shock.
Stress (Physiology). Psychophysiology.
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Efficient I/O for computational grid applications.
Computer input-output equipment. ; Computational grids (Computer systems). ; High performance computing. ; Electronic data processing -- Distributed processing.
High-performance computing increasingly occurs on computational grids composed of heterogeneous and geographically distributed systems of computers, networks, and storage devices that collectively act as a single virtual computer. A key challenge...
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Aging minds and twisting attitudes: effects of age-related decline in executive function on older adults' attitudes toward stigmatized individuals.
Stigma (Social psychology). Aging -- Psychological aspects. Cognition -- Age factors. Older people -- Attitudes.
Extensive research on aging has demonstrated that normal aging debilitates executive function, a system that is critical for regulating stereotypes. However, there is a paucity of research on whether age-related declines to executive function...
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Structural and compositional aspects of low-grade metamorphic chlorite.
Chlorites. Metamorphism (Geology). ; Clay -- Analysis -- Maine. ; Clay -- Analysis -- Pennsylvania.
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Mechanisms of feeling of knowing in memory.
Memory -- Testing. ; Psychology Experimental.
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Interrogation of autolysins as a source of novel bacteriolytic agents / by Daniel Carmen Osipovitch
Staphylococcus aureus is a formidable pathogen, and its high morbidity and mortality rates are compounded by its ability to quickly develop antibiotic resistance. The current antimicrobial pipeline is inadequate to curb this mounting public health...
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Securing operating systems through utility virtual machines / by Robert Denz
The advent of hypervisors revolutionized the computing industry in terms of malware prevention and detection, secure virtual machine managers, and cloud resilience. However, this has resulted in a disjointed response to handling known threats...
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The role of the Drosophila SK channel in sensory processing and behavior / by Ahmad Nawwaf Abou Tayoun.
Partially ordered sets. ; Forcing (Model theory). ; Set theory.
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Fault modeling and design of dynamic logic.
Logic programming. ; Electronic digital computers -- Circuits -- Testing -- Mathematical models. ; Fault-tolerant computing.
Today''s fastest microprocessors, logic chips, and even memory chips employ dynamic logic as the key part to achieving advanced performance. Dynamic logic only retains the correct data state briefly and is far less robust than previous technologies...
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Discovering MII1 regulated pathways in hematopoietic stem cells.
Hematopoietic stem cells. ; Hematopoietic stem cell disorders -- Genetic aspects. ; Genetic transcription -- Regulation. ; Leukemia -- Genetic aspects. ; Cell proliferation. ; Myeloid-Lymphoid Leukemia Protein -- genetics.
Hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) balance self-renewal with the continuous production of the suitable numbers of lineage-restricted progenitor cells. In this work we demonstrate that the Mixed lineage leukemia 1 (Mll1) gene is essential for this...
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Observation of changing information sources.
Information resources management -- Mathematical models. ; Database management -- Methodology. ; Change. ; World Wide Web.
Many modern information management tasks consist of an observer that must maintain current knowledge of a collection of changing information. The goal of this observer is to maintain acceptably accurate state estimates given limited observation...
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Development and application of a genetically-structured simulation for bacteriophage T7.
Viral genetics -- Mathematical models. ; Bacteriophages -- Growth -- Computer simulation. ; Recombinant viruses. ; Bacteriophage T7.
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Evolution in fickle environments: dispersal, specialization, and the problem of heterogeneity.
Caenorhabditis elegans -- Ecology. ; Ecological heterogeneity. ; Evolution (Biology). ; Adaptation (Biology). ; Nematodes -- Dispersal.
All ecological theories regarding the distribution and relative abundance of species refer to organisms'' abilities to utilize an environment and (sometimes implicitly) their ability to colonize and re-colonize habitats that change in character or...
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Building a better trap: the use of iron dithiocarbamate complexes in the in vivo and ex vivo detection and quantification of nitric oxide.
Nitric oxide -- Analysis. ; Dithiocarbamates. ; Iron compounds. ; Organonitrogen compounds. ; Electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy.
Nitric oxide is synthesized by living organisms and plays important roles in circulatory, neurological, and immune function. Nitric oxide can also play pathophysiological roles, depending on the amount of the molecule, the presence of other species...
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Pulse shaping for optical fiber communication systems.
Fiber optics. ; Optical communications. ; Pulse circuits.
A fiber can transmit around 25 Tbit/s, but electronic signal processing today is performed at much slower speeds, usually 1-10 Gbit/s. To avoid this "bottleneck" in optical fiber communication systems, all signal processing will have to be done...
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Glucocorticoid receptors in ATP-depleted WCL2 cells: dephosphorylation, loss of hormone binding, nuclear unextractibility and dissociation from HSP90.
Glucocorticoids -- Receptors. ; Hormones. ; Phosphorylation.
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Metamorphic diffusion in New Hampshire: Soapstone bodies and flecky gneisses.
Gneiss -- New Hampshire; Soapstone -- New Hampshire.
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Biophysical and ligand-binding characterization of the interleukin-2 receptor ß-subunit ectodomain.
Interleukin-2. ; T cells -- Receptors. ; Ligand binding (Biochemistry).
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Coping in context: a longitudinal analysis of the relationship between emotion and coping in two stressful situations.
Adjustment (Psychology) -- Testing. ; Affect (Psychology) -- Testing. ; Context effects (Psychology). ; Life change events. ; Stress (Psychology).
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Reactions of cyclopropane nucleophiles with α-formyl ketone derivatives.
Cyclopropane. ; Ketones.
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Biochemistry of isolated sea urchin mitotic apparatuses: protein phosphorylation and the control of mitosis.
Mitosis. ; Phosphorylation. ; Sea urchins -- Embryos.
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Agent Tcl: a flexible and secure mobile-agent system.
Intelligent agents (Computer software). ; Electronic data processing -- Distributed processing. ; Tcl (Computer program language). ; Computer networks -- Security measures.
A mobile agent is an autonomous program that can migrate under its own control from machine to machine in a heterogeneous network. In other words, the program can suspend its execution at an arbitrary point, transport itself to another machine, and...
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Calcium control of nervous excitation.
Excitation (Physiology). ; Calcium -- Physiological effect.
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On the dynamics of emotional facial expressions.
Facial expression. ; Emotions.
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Temporal selective attention in letter perception.
Attention -- Testing. ; Selectivity (Psychology) -- Testing. ; Visual perception -- Testing. ; Human information processing -- Testing.
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On the quantum kinetic theory of high energy plasmas.
Quantum theory. ; Plasma (Ionized gases).
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General nonlinear mechanics of an electron beam driven multimode plasma system.
Electron beams. ; Nonlinear mechanics. ; Plasma (Ionized gases).
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Synthesis and chemistry of fluorinated cyclopropenes: The α excited state in polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon photochemistry.
Cyclopropane. ; Fluorination. ; Excited state chemistry. ; Photochemistry. ; Aromatic compounds.
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General base catalysis of reversible beta elimination reactions.
Elimination reactions. ; Chemical kinetics.
The reversible elimination reactions of beta acyloxyketone 1 and beta alkoxyketone 2 were studied by monitering formation of the product enones in the UV spectra, and, in the case of 2, by using ('13)C NMR to follow deuterium incorporation into the...
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Bayesian methods in decision analysis.
Decision making -- Mathematical models. ; Bayesian statistical decision theory. ; Steel.
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Affective and perceptual judgments of major and minor musical stimuli.
Musical intervals and scales -- Psychological aspects. ; Music -- Psychological aspects. ; Chords (Music) -- Psychological aspects. ; Stability.
In Western tonal music, the major mode is associated with positive emotions, and the minor mode is associated with negative emotions. Although this is a highly salient distinction, it is poorly understood. In 9 experiments, participants made...
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Role of Erv14p in vesicle mediated protein transport from the endoplasmic reticulum to the Golgi in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
Membrane proteins -- Physiological transport. ; Carrier proteins. ; Biological transport -- Regulation. ; Saccharomyces cerevisiae -- Cytology. ; Golgi apparatus. ; Endoplasmic reticulum.
Transport vesicles form at a donor compartment and fuse to an acceptor compartment mediate the movement of cargo proteins within eukaryotic cells from one subcellular compartment to another. COPII vesicles specifically provide the means of...
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