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Topical Collection on “Smart and Interactive Healthcare Systems”
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Discovering the interdisciplinary nature of Big Data research through social network analysis and visualization
Big Data is a research field involving a large number of collaborating disciplines. Based on bibliometric data downloaded from the Web of Science, this study applies various social network analysis and visuali...
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Epidemiology of acute kidney injury in patients with stroke: a retrospective analysis from the neurology ICU
Acute kidney injury (AKI) is proven to be an independent risk factor for adverse clinical outcomes in patients with stroke, but data about the epidemiology of AKI in these patients are not well characterized. ...
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Cloud-based learning system for answer ranking
Community question answering (Q&A) is a new knowledge-sharing model where a large number of questions and answers are accumulated through the user’s submission. When the user submits a new question, the Q&A sy...
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Effects of dietary vitamin E supplementation on growth performance, fatty acid composition, lipid peroxidation and peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors (PPAR) expressions in juvenile blunt snout bream Megalobrama amblycephala
A 9-week feeding experiment was conducted to evaluate the effects of dietary vitamin E (VE) supplementation on growth performance, liver fatty acid composition, lipid peroxidation and peroxisome proliferator-a...
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A microfluidic diode for sorting and immobilization of Caenorhabditis elegans
Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans) is a powerful model organism extensively used in studies of human aging and diseases. Despite the numerous advantages of C. elegans as a model system, ...
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TempoRec: Temporal-Topic Based Recommender for Social Network Services
With the popularization of social networks, increasing numbers of users choose to use Weibo to get information. However, as the number of users grows, the information on Weibo is also multiplying, making it in...
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An alternating direction and projection algorithm for structure-enforced matrix factorization
Structure-enforced matrix factorization (SeMF) represents a large class of mathematical models appearing in various forms of principal component analysis, sparse coding, dictionary learning and other machine l...
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Investigation on the interaction length and access resistance of a nanopore with an atomic force microscopy
Nanopore devices have attracted a lot of attention for their potential application in DNA sequencing. Here, we study how an occluding object placed near a nanopore affects its access resistance by integrating ...
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Characterizing early child growth patterns of height-for-age in an urban slum cohort of Bangladesh with functional principal component analysis
Early childhood is a critical stage of physical and cognitive growth that forms the foundation of future wellbeing. Stunted growth is presented in one of every 4 children worldwide and contributes to developme...
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Seven-layer deep neural network based on sparse autoencoder for voxelwise detection of cerebral microbleed
In order to detect the cerebral microbleed (CMB) voxels within brain, we used susceptibility weighted imaging to scan the subjects. Then, we used undersampling to solve the accuracy paradox caused from the imb...
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Erratum to: Smart pathological brain detection system by predator-prey particle swarm optimization and single-hidden layer neural-network
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Glass formation and structure of calcium antimony phosphate glasses and those doped with tellurium oxide
An approximate glass-forming region in the P2O5–Sb2O3–CaO ternary system was determined. The properties and structure of two compositional series of (A) (75−x)P2O5–xSb2O3–25CaO (x = 20, 25, 30, 35 mol%) and (B) 4...
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miR-27b inhibits gastric cancer metastasis by targeting NR2F2
Increasing attention is focused on the down-regulation of miRNAs in cancer process. Nuclear receptor subfamily 2 (NR2F2, also known as COUP-TFII) is involved in the development of many types of cancers, but it...
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Subspace Methods with Local Refinements for Eigenvalue Computation Using Low-Rank Tensor-Train Format
Computing a few eigenpairs from large-scale symmetric eigenvalue problems is far beyond the tractability of classic eigensolvers when the storage of the eigenvectors in the classical way is impossible. We cons...
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Operating Virtual Panels with Hand Gestures in Immersive VR Games
Portable depth-sensing cameras allow users to control interfaces using hand gestures at a short range from the camera. These technologies are being combined with virtual reality (VR) headsets to produce immers...
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Smart pathological brain detection system by predator-prey particle swarm optimization and single-hidden layer neural-network
In order to develop an artificial intelligence and computer-aided diagnosis system that assists neuroradiologists to interpret magnetic resonance (MR) images. This paper employed Hu moment invariant (HMI) as t...
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Single slice based detection for Alzheimer’s disease via wavelet entropy and multilayer perceptron trained by biogeography-based optimization
Detection of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) from magnetic resonance images can help neuroradiologists to make decision rapidly and avoid missing slight lesions in the brain. Currently, scholars have proposed several...
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Effects of salinity on simultaneous reduction of perchlorate and nitrate in a methane-based membrane biofilm reactor
This study builds upon prior work showing that methane (CH4) could be utilized as the sole electron donor and carbon source in a membrane biofilm reactor (MBfR) for complete perchlorate (ClO4 ...
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Wavelet energy entropy and linear regression classifier for detecting abnormal breasts
Breast abnormalities are the early symptoms of breast cancers. They may also bring in psychoemotional stresses to women. In this study, we developed a new automatic program based on wavelet energy entropy (WEE...
