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A framework of computational opinions / by Fei Yu.
We have a limited understanding of how an opinion is originated, how an opinion and information supporting and explaining it gets conveyed, and how the communicated opinion is perceived and processed by others. One direction of current research...
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Measuring quality of life in economic evaluations of treatment for severe mental illness.
Quality of life -- Evaluation. ; Health status indicators. ; Psychiatric rating scales. ; Mental illness -- Treatment -- Evaluation. ; Mental illness -- Treatment -- Economic aspects. ; Mental illness -- Treatment -- Social aspects.
Background. It is not clear whether a generic quality-of-life instrument can appropriately represent severe mental illness in an economic evaluation. This problem is particularly salient for resource-allocation decisions where policymakers compare...
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The function of perceived gaze direction in emotion and person perception.
Gaze -- Psychological aspects. ; Facial expression. ; Body language.
The primary goal of the current research was to examine the effect of perceived gaze direction on the perception and processing of facially communicated emotion. There is good reason to believe that gaze direction and facial displays of emotion...
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Advancement of magnetic resonance poroelastography for applications in brain imaging / by Adam J. Pattison.
Brain tissue mechanics are an important biomarker for neurological disorders, yet methods to obtain tissue information yield inconsistent conclusions. These techniques can be invasive or require excised tissue, where tissue function is altered from...
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Structural, stratigraphic, and thermo-chronological evolution of Trinidad.
Geochronometry -- Trinidad and Tobago -- Trinidad. ; Geology Structural -- Trinidad and Tobago -- Trinidad. ; Geology.
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Isolation and characterization of essential genes of Saccharomyces cerevisiae required for the efficient nucleocytoplasmic trafficking of mRNA.
Messenger RNA. ; Saccharomyces cerevisiae. ; Cytoplasm.
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Neo-architectonics computer-aided histological examination of the human visual cortex.
Visual cortex -- Imaging. ; Visual cortex -- Histology. ; Image processing -- Digital techniques.
Functional neuroimaging has confirmed a high degree of localization of function in the cerebral cortex of man. In contrast, microstructural analysis has contributed very little to the topographical characterization of cortical areas. In this work I...
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Isotopic phase separation in dilute solid mixtures of Helium-4 in Helium-3.
Helium -- Isotopes. ; Isotope separation.
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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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Th-dependent B cell activation.
B cells. ; T cells. ; Cell interaction. ; Body fluids -- Immunology.
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Providing evidence and measurement tools to support health care reform in communities.
Community health services -- United States -- Evaluation. ; Health care reform -- United States. ; Medical care -- United States -- Evaluation. ; Evidence-based medicine.
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Interspecific competition and the niche of the American redstart.
Wood warblers -- Migration. ; Wood warblers -- Behavior. ; Bird populations.
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Synthetic approaches to indolo[2,3-a]carbazole alkaloids.
Indole alkaloids -- Synthesis. ; Carbazole.
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The role of dichoptic brightness in binocular vision.
Binocular vision.
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Effect of increased hemoglobin oxygen affinity on oxygen transport and its regulation in the rat.
Hemoglobin. ; Oxygen -- Physiological transport. ; Rats.
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The wear resistance mechanism of particulate fillers in polytetrafluoroethylene-based polymer composites.
Polytef. ; Mechanical wear. ; Fillers (Materials).
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A study of drag forces.
Drag (Aerodynamics). ; Boundary layer control.
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Influence of long-term sensitization on long-term habituation of the acoustic startle response: brain and behavioral manipulations.
Conditioned response. ; Habituation (Neuropsychology). ; Acoustic reflex. ; Startle reaction.
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The formation of chloroform and related products from the chlorination of polyhydroxybenzenes and diketones in dilute aqueous solution.
Chloroform. ; Chlorination.
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Large-scale structure of the universe: a clustering analysis.
Cosmology -- Mathematical models. ; Galaxies -- Clusters -- Mathematical models. ; Dark matter (Astronomy).
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Mitochondrial biogenesis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae: transcriptional control by glucose.
Saccharomyces cerevisiae. ; Glucose. ; Mitochondria. ; Gene fusion. ; Cytochromes. ; Mutation (Biology).
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On facial mimicry and facial feedback.
Imitation. ; Facial expression. ; Smiling. ; Laughter.
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Isolation and characterization of two distinct mutations affecting cholesteryl ester synthesis in mammalian cells.
Cholesterol. ; Esters. ; Mammals -- Cytology. ; Cell metabolism.
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Mechanisms of the nephrotoxicity of acetaminophen studied in the mouse kidney cortex slice system.
Renal pharmacology. ; Acetaminophen. ; Mice -- Physiology.
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Development of a ruby fluorescence-based surface probe of tribological processes.
Plastics -- Testing. ; Fluorescent probes. ; Temperature measuring instruments. ; Tribology. ; Polytef -- Thermal properties. ; Nylon -- Thermal properties.
This research has established feasibility of surface temperature characterization using ruby fluorescence. Study was performed in pin-on-disk geometry, with balls made of different plastics sliding against the sapphire disk. Fluorescence signal was...
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The molecular basis for the carcinogenicity of nickel.
Nickel. ; Nickel compounds. ; Carcinogens.
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A knowledge-based environment for the automated design of analog electronic circuits.
Electronic analog computers -- Circuits -- Design and construction -- Computer programs. ; SLADE (Computer program).
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Three-dimensional reconstruction of noisy images from partially confocal scanning microscope.
Confocal microscopy. ; Image processing.
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Synthesis of highly fluorinated bicyclo [2.2.0] hex-2-ene derivatives.
Ketones. ; Fluorocarbons.
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Coordination chemistry and DNA-binding studies of a non-classical zinc finger motif.
Coordination compounds. ; Zinc-finger proteins. ; DNA-binding proteins. ; DNA-protein interactions.
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The role of p53 in retinoic acid-induced differentiation of human germ cell tumors.
p53 antioncogene -- Regulation. ; Retinoids -- Physiological effect. ; Retinoids -- Receptors. ; Cell differentiation -- Molecular aspects. ; Genetic transcription -- Regulation. ; Germ cells -- Tumors. ; Receptors.
The retinoids exert potent growth and differentiation effects on normal, embryonic and neoplastic cells. Although retinoids are known to regulate gene transcription through activation of retinoid receptors, the direct target genes of retinoid...
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Moisture and temperature effects on the microwave dielectric behavior of soils.
Soils -- Effect of temperature on. ; Soils -- Electric properties. ; Dielectrics. ; Soil moisture -- Measurement.
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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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Biological significance of VIVID photocycle length and the control of gene expression by the Neurospora clock / by Arko Dasgupta
Sensing light from the environment using photoreceptors is of great adaptive significance to eukaryotes. A prominent feature of the photochemistry of these receptors is the photocycle length, the time taken to decay from the initial signaling light...
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The identification and characterization of aldosterone responsive genes.
Aldosterone. ; Genetic regulation. ; Mineralocorticoids -- Receptors.
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An investigation of the thiosulfate-mediated metabolism of cyanide in the perfused liver and musculature of the rat.
Cyanides -- Metabolic detoxification. ; Thiocyanates. ; Thiosulfates.
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Landscape response to climate forcing: quantifying mechanisms and rates of erosion and weathering along an orographically-enhanced climate gradient.
Climatic geomorphology -- Sierra Nevada (California and Nevada). ; Slopes (Physical geography) -- Sierra Nevada (California and Nevada). ; Weathering -- Sierra Nevada (California and Nevada). ; Chemical denudation -- Sierra Nevada (California and...
Landscapes evolve in response to external forcings such as climate and tectonics that influence the pace and patterns of erosion and weathering processes. Furthermore, internal feedbacks between erosion and weathering regulate the expression of...
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Geology and paleomagnetics of three old red sandstone basins: Spitsbergen, Norway and Scotland.
Paleomagnetism -- Norway. ; Paleomagnetism -- Norway -- Spitsbergen Island. ; Paleomagnetism -- Scotland. ; Sandstone -- Norway. ; Sandstone -- Norway -- Spitsbergen Island. ; Sandstone -- Scotland.
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Vibrational and electronic spectroscopic studies of metallothionein.
Metallothionein.
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Simulating electron radiation belt dynamics.
Van Allen radiation belts -- Mathematical models. ; Magnetosphere -- Mathematical models. ; Magnetohydrodynamics -- Mathematical models.
The physics of geomagnetically-trapped radiation has been a topic of interest since the discovery of the Van Allen belts in 1958. As the energetic particles comprising these belts can pose a hazard to human activity in space, considerable effort...
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Linking behavioral, population, and community ecology: consequences of oviposition-site selection in tree hole metacommunities.
Mosquitoes -- Ecology. ; Mosquitoes -- Behavior. ; Insect communities. ; Habitat selection
Though researchers have advocated a more direct link between individual, population, and community processes, translating the behavior of individuals to the dynamics of natural populations and communities has remained a major challenge in ecology....
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Analysis of the respiratory movements of the human vocal cords.
Vocal cords. ; Respiration.
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Northeastern Venezuela''s Jurassic through Eocene passive margin, Hispaniola''s Neogene Cibao Basin, and their histories and causes of evolution.
Geology -- Venezuela. ; Geology -- Dominican Republic -- Cibao Basin. ; Geology Structural -- Venezuela. ; Geology.
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A proof that essergy is the only consistent measure of potential work (for chemical systems).
Force and energy. ; Thermodynamics. ; Chemistry Physical and theoretical
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Interactions between tree species, soil, and nitrogen availability in fir-birch-spruce forests.
Plants -- Effect of nitrogen on. ; Nitrogen cycle. ; Forest ecology
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Conversion of paper sludge to ethanol and analysis of selection based strain improvement for recombinant Saccharomyces cerevisiae expressing saccharolytic enzymes through continuous culture.
Cellulase -- Biotechnology. ; Hydrolysis. ; Paper industry -- Technological innovations. ; Biomass energy -- Economic aspects. ; Saccharomyces cerevisiae -- Genetics. ; Enzymes -- Industrial applications.
Paper sludge is the largest solid waste stream produced by pulp and paper industry, and is also an attractive feedstock for emergent technologies based on processing of cellulosic biomass featuring enzymatic hydrolysis. This study focuses on...
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The temperature dependence of the fluorescence of tetracene single crystals.
Tetracene. ; Fluorescence.
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Photo-induced free ion formation in charge transfer complexes.
Electron donor-acceptor complexes. ; Complex compounds. ; Photochemistry.
In this study we have utilized spectroscopic and photoconductivity techniques to investigate free ion formation in the fumaronitrile/trans-stilbene charge transfer-complex. We report free ion yields resulting from the direct excitation of this...
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The effects of parathyroid hormone and estradiol on cadmium accumulation by Madin-Darby canine kidney cells.
Parathyroid hormone -- Physiological effect. ; Estradiol -- Physiological effect. ; Cadmium -- Bioaccumulation. ; Cadmium -- Toxicology.
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