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MTG-Audio Problems Detection on Sound Collections
No full text<p>Manual annotation for the Audio Tagging Competition 2019 (<a href="https://www.kaggle.com/c/freesound-audio-tagging-2019">https://www.kaggle.com/c/freesound-audio-tagging-2019</a>) for audio problems described in Victor Badenas' Thesis from <a href="https://github.com/pirulok02/MTG-Audio-Problems-Detection">https://github.com/pirulok02/MTG-Audio-Problems-Detection</a></p>
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Mitomycin C in highly myopic eyes - Author reply
No full textOphthalmology. 2005 Feb;112(2):208-18; discussion 219.
Mitomycin C modulation of corneal wound healing after photorefractive keratectomy in highly myopic eyes.
Gambato C, Ghirlando A, Moretto E, Busato F, Midena E.
SourceRefractive Surgery Service and Antimetabolite Therapy Research Unit, Department of Ophthalmology, University of Padova, Padova, Italy.
Abstract
PURPOSE: To evaluate the role of topical mitomycin C in corneal wound healing (CWH) after photorefractive keratectomy (PRK) in highly myopic eyes.
DESIGN: Prospective, double-masked, randomized clinical trial.
PARTICIPANTS: Seventy-two eyes of 36 patients affected by high (>7 diopters) myopia.
METHODS: In each patient, one eye was randomly assigned to PRK with intraoperative topical 0.02% mitomycin C application, and the fellow eye was treated with a placebo. Postoperatively, mitomycin C-treated eyes received artificial tears (3 times daily, tapered in 3 months), whereas the fellow eye was treated with fluorometholone sodium 2% and artificial tears (3 times daily, tapered in 3 months).
MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Uncorrected visual acuity (UCVA) and best-corrected visual acuity (BCVA), contrast sensitivity, manifest refraction, and biomicroscopy. Contrast sensitivity was determined using the Pelli-Robson chart. Corneal confocal microscopy documented CWH.
RESULTS: Mean follow-up was 18 months (range, 12-36). No side effects or toxic effects were documented. At 12-month follow-up examination, UCVAs (logarithm of the minimum angle of resolution) were 0.4+/-0.48 and 0.5+/-0.53 (P = .03) in mitomycin C-treated eyes and corticosteroid-treated eyes, respectively. At 1 year, corneal haze developed in 20% of corticosteroid-treated eyes, versus 0% of mitomycin C-treated eyes. At 12, 24, and 36 months, corneal confocal microscopy showed activated keratocytes and extracellular matrix significantly more evident in untreated eyes (Ps = 0.004, 0.024, and 0.046, respectively).
CONCLUSION: Topical intraoperative application of 0.02% mitomycin C can reduce haze formation in highly myopic eyes undergoing PRK.
Comment in
Ophthalmology. 2006 Feb;113(2):357; author reply 357-8
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
Caracterización de variantes genómicas. Aplicación de nuevas tecnologías al estudio del retraso mental.
No full text[spa] Estudios recientes han permitido estimar que aproximadamente un 5% del genoma consiste en duplicaciones segmentarias (DS), secuencias de entre 1-100 kb con un nivel de similitud de más del 95% (Eichler, 2001). Las regiones flanqueadas por duplicaciones segmentarias son susceptibles de sufrir reordenamientos mediante recombinación homóloga no alélica y se ha hipotetizado que estas regiones representan puntos calientes de inestabilidad genómica propensos a variación en número de copia (CNVs). Esta variación estructural (deleciones, duplicaciones e inversiones) representa una fuerza mutacional infravalorada en la contribución a las enfermedades genéticas, y en particular en los loci susceptibles a retraso mental. La aparición de nuevas tecnologías como los arrays de CGH o el MLPA permiten el análisis de alta resolución para la identificación de alteraciones genéticas y variaciones en número de copia a nivel de todo el genoma. La aplicación de estas tecnologías ha permitido, recientemente, establecer la implicación de microdeleciones y microduplicaciones en diversas enfermedades genéticas, como por ejemplo el retraso mental (RM). Las técnicas convencionales (cariotipo, FISH, CGH o PCR) de las que disponemos actualmente para el estudio de enfermedades genéticas como el retraso mental no son los suficientemente sensibles para la detección de reordenamientos submicroscópicos. Disponiendo de la tecnología y el material adecuado, es posible la caracterización molecular nuevas variantes geonómicas en retraso mental. Debido a la gran cantidad de casos de RM en los que se desconoce su etiología, el objetivo principal de esta tesis ha sido la caracterización de variantes genómicas responsables de RM aplicando nuevas tecnologías: aCGH del cromosoma X y MLPA. El MLPA se basa en la detección simultánea del número de copias de una secuencia específica mediante la hibridación genómica del DNA con una mezcla de sondas específicas. La cantidad relativa del producto amplificado se correlaciona con el número de copias de la secuencia diana de esa sonda. Por otro lado, los arrays de CGH permiten detectar reordenamientos cromosómicos desequilibrados de <1 Mb. Con el uso de clones genómicos distribuidos de forma que cubran la totalidad del cromosoma X se puede generar un array específico que permitirá obtener un cariotipo molecular de este cromosoma a nivel de 100kb, lo que permitirá detectar microdeleciones, microduplicaciones e inversiones del cromosoma X. Esta parte del proyecto que incluye tanto el diseño, la construcción y validación del array como la hibridación de las muestras se realiza de forma coordinada con el Centro de Regulación de Barcelona (CRG).Para este estudio se seleccionaron pacientes procedentes de familias con herencia compatible con un RM ligado al cromosoma X. Estas familias procedían del Departamento de Bioquímica y Genética Molecular del Hospital Clínico de Barcelona y del grupo GIRMOGEN (Grupo Investigación Retraso Mental de Origen Genético). A todos ellos se les había realizado previamente un cariotipo, se había descartado la expansión del triplete CGG el gen FMR1, responsable del Síndrome del X frágil y no se habían detectado reordenamientos subteloméricos. Gracias a la aplicación de estas tecnologías hemos identificado y caracterización de nuevas variantes genómicas implicadas en RM (11,5%). La detección de reordenamientos cripticos en pacientes afectos de estas enfermedades nos ha permitido establecer una correlación genotipo/fentipo e identificar nuevos genes y mecanismos implicados en el desarrollo del RM.[eng] "CARACTERIZATION OF GENOMIC VARIANTS. APLICATION OF NEW TECHONOLOGIES TO THE STUDY OF MENTAL RETARDATION" TEXT:Mental Retardation (RM) is a common disorder affecting 1-3% of general population. X-linked MR represents and important group inside MR. Nowadays OMIM lists 359 entries about XLMR although only 44 X-linked genes are known to cause XLMR (syndromic and non-syndromic). On the other hand, subtelomeric rearrangements comprise 5-7% of MR with unknown genetic origin. There are few reports about submicroscopic rearrangements that affect X chromosome due to the difficulties that implicate these studies. CGHarray (array-based comparative genomic hibridization) measures submicroscopic DNA copy number changes and allows the simultaneous high-resolution mapping of these changes onto the genome sequence. With the construction and application of a specific CGH microarray, it will be possible to characterize different molecular variants inside this chromosome in those cases of MRLX without molecular diagnosis. On the other hand, MLPA is based in the simultaneous detection of the number of copies of a specific sequence through hybridization of genomic DNA with a mixture of specific probes. The main objective of the present project is to identify submicroscopic duplications and deletions affecting chromosome X in patients with non-syndromic. For this study we selected patients from families with an inheritance consistent with an XLMR. These families came from the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics at the Hospital Clinical of Barcelona and the GIRMOGEN group (Research Group for Mental Retardation of Genetic Origin). The application of new techonolgies such as MLPA o aCGH has led to the identification of new rearrangements in the X chromosome responsible for MR (11,5%). The detection of cryptic rearrangements in MR patients has enabled us to establish a gentype/phenotype correlation and to identify new genes and mechanisms involved in the development of MR
A Multi-Language Comparison of Influences on Author Verification using Character N-Grams
No full textWe create a new multi-language corpus for author verification based on Wikipedia talkpages, and evaluate the influence that differences in topic and time have on character n-gram author profiles. Topic alignment between two texts is found to increase author verification precision, and an authors writing style is found to change over time, but not more significantly after 3 years than after 1 year.Information ArchitectureWISElectrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Scienc
A 0.12mm<sup>2</sup> Wien-Bridge Temperature Sensor with 0.1°C (3σ) Inaccuracy from -40°C to 180°C
No full text Resistor-based temperature sensors can achieve much higher resolution and energy efficiency than conventional BJT-based sensors [1], but they typically occupy more area (> 0.25 mm 2 ) and have lower operating temperatures (le 125 {circ} {C}) [2]-[4]. This work describes a 0.12mm 2 resistor-based sensor that uses a Wien-bridge (WB) filter to achieve 0.1 {circ} {C} (3 sigma) inaccuracy from - 40 {circ} {C} to 180 {circ} {C}. Compared to a state-of-the-art WB sensor [4], it occupies 6 × less area and achieves comparable relative accuracy over a 76% wider operating range. Session 10.3 Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.Electronic InstrumentationMicroelectronic
Screening for FMR1 and FMR2 mutations in 222 individuals from Spanish special schools: identification of a case of FRAXE-associated mental retardation.
No full textA ±25A Versatile Shunt-Based Current Sensor with 10kHz Bandwidth and ±0.25% Gain Error from -40°C to 85°C Using 2-Current Calibration
No full textAccurate current sensing is critical in many industrial applications, such as battery management and motor control. Precise shunt-based current sensors have been reported with gain errors of less than 1% over the industrial temperature range (-40°C to 85°C) [1]–[4]. However, since they are intended for coulomb counting, their bandwidth is limited to a few tens of Hz, making them unsuitable for battery impedance or motor-current sensing. This paper presents a current sensor with a wide (10kHz) bandwidth and a tunable temperature compensation scheme (TCS), which allows it to be flexibly used with different types of shunts while maintaining high accuracy. A low-cost room-temperature calibration scheme is proposed to optimize gain flatness over temperature by exploiting the shunt's self-heating at large currents. Over the industrial temperature range and a ±25A current range, it achieves state-of-the-art gain error (±0.25%) with both low-cost PCB and stable metal-alloy shunts.Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository 'You share, we take care!' - Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.Electronic InstrumentationMicroelectronic
An Article About Albertus C. Van Raalte, Author Unknown, Except for Parts Taken from an Article by Anna C. Post
No full textAn article about Albertus C. Van Raalte, author unknown, except for parts taken from an article by Anna C. Post. The author knew first generation persons in the Holland settlement and therefore, the article has some value.https://digitalcommons.hope.edu/vrp_1890s/1012/thumbnail.jp
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