662 research outputs found
Supplemental Material - Integrated analysis and clinical correlation analysis of hub genes, immune infiltration, and potential therapeutic agents related to lupus nephritis
No full textSupplemental Material for Integrated analysis and clinical correlation analysis of hub genes, immune infiltration, and potential therapeutic agents related to lupus nephritis by Xiaobing Lin, Xiaofeng Liang, Zhishen Peng, Zien Lin, Weiyi Lin and Shanshan Wei in Lupus</p
Supplemental Material - Exploration of the molecular mechanisms, shared gene signatures, and MicroRNAs between systemic lupus erythematosus and diffuse large B cell lymphoma by bioinformatics analysis
No full textSupplemental Material for Exploration of the molecular mechanisms, shared gene signatures, and MicroRNAs between systemic lupus erythematosus and diffuse large B cell lymphoma by bioinformatics analysis by Zhishen Peng, Xiaofeng Liang, Xiaobing Lin, Weiyi Lin, Zien Lin and Shanshan Wei in Lupus</p
An analysis of the impact of soft skills on Malaysian technical institutions
No full textMany people recognize the importance of technical skills as knowledge and proficiencies required in the accomplishment of professional jobs. However, the importance and applicability of soft skills are mostly ignored despite the fact that, it is a process how individual carry himself in an organization or professional environment for the progress of that individual and the organization he found himself. The paper explored into some journals from the previous the literatures, some soft skills were identified such as communication, lifelong learning, entrepreneurship, leadership, and teamwork, problem solving and critical among TVET institutions in Malaysia. Document analysis was conducted as a methodology for this study. The impacts of these soft skills on TVET related institutions like polytechnics, training centers and universities in Malaysia. It was indicated that, the result of the impact of soft skills on these institutions was generally moderate. The paper concluded that, technical skills alone could not bring about the organizational development there must be a compliment of soft skills for any organizational sustainability. Supplementary of soft and technical skills conceptual model was formulated. The paper was concluded by saying that, the competitive nature of the present situation, soft skills are essential because they have affected all aspect of human development. Some recommendations were suggested, teachers, lecturers and instructor must teach students soft skills for complete individual proficiencies and organizational sustainability
Inexpensive fusion methods for enhancing feature detection
No full textRecent successful approaches to high-level feature detection in image and video data have treated the problem as a pattern classification task. These typically leverage the techniques learned from statistical machine learning, coupled with ensemble architectures that create multiple feature detection models. Once created, co-occurrence between learned features can be captured to further boost performance. At multiple stages throughout these frameworks, various pieces of evidence can be fused together in order to boost performance. These approaches whilst very successful are computationally expensive, and depending on the task, require the use of significant computational resources. In this paper we propose two fusion methods that aim to combine the output of an initial basic statistical machine learning approach with a lower-quality information source, in order to gain diversity in the classified results whilst requiring only modest computing resources. Our approaches, validated experimentally on TRECVid data, are designed to be complementary to existing frameworks and can be regarded as possible replacements for the more computationally expensive combination strategies used elsewhere
Chemical Fertilizer and Migration in China
No full textThis paper examines a possible connection between China’s massive rural to urban migration and high chemical fertilizer use rates during the late 1980s and 1990s. Using panel data on villages in rural China (1987-2002), we find that labor out-migration and fertilizer use per hectare are positively correlated. Using 2SLS, employing the opening of a Special Economic Zone in a nearby city as an instrument, we find that village fertilizer use is linked to contemporaneous short-term out-migration of farm workers. We also examine the long-term environmental consequences of chemical fertilizer use during this period. Using OLS, we find that fertilizer use intensity is correlated with future fertilizer use rates and diminished effectiveness of fertilizer, demonstrating persistency in use patterns, and suggesting that in areas with high use of fertilizer, the land is becoming less responsive. We also demonstrate that fertilizer use within a river basin is correlated with organic forms of water pollution, suggesting that industrialization has induced pollution in China both directly and through its impact on rural labor supply.
Numerical simulation and experimenal realization of a thermosyphon based hybrid solar thermoelectric power generator
No full textThermosyphons are highly efficient systems for converting sunlight into heat and transferring heat to provide hot water. Thermoelectric (TE) power generators are proposed recently as a topping cycle incorporated in series with thermosyphons. In this work, we propose a new design, which places TE power generators thermally in parallel with thermosyphon-based solar water-heating systems. The solar heat is radiated on the collector (evaporator) zone and transferred through the copper pipe into two parallel channels: a phase-change liquid that acts as the heat transfer medium for the water heating set-up and the thermoelectric module used to generate electricity. We performed both numerical simulation and experimental realization of the proposed setup. Experimental validation of the model from a home-made prototype and parallel system optimization are completed. This study opens up a promising possibility to efficiently convert solar energy to useful thermal and electrical energy.M.S.Includes bibliographical referencesby Xiaobing Zhan
sj-pdf-1-tct-10.1177_15330338231152350 - Supplemental material for A Randomized Phase III Study of Anlotinib Versus Bevacizumab in Combination With CAPEOX as First-Line Therapy for <i>RAS/BRAF</i> Wild-Type Metastatic Colorectal Cancer: A Clinical Trial Protocol
No full textSupplemental material, sj-pdf-1-tct-10.1177_15330338231152350 for A Randomized Phase III Study of Anlotinib Versus Bevacizumab in Combination With CAPEOX as First-Line Therapy for RAS/BRAF Wild-Type Metastatic Colorectal Cancer: A Clinical Trial Protocol by Jinjie He, Yue Liu, Chengcheng Liu, Hanguang Hu, Lifeng Sun, Dong Xu, Jun Li, Junye Wang, Xiaobing Chen, Rongbo Lin, Yi Jiang, Yanqiao Zhang, Weisheng Zhang, Ying Cheng, Xiaohong Wu, Mingzhi Fang, Enxiao Li, Ye Xu, Ye Chen, Jiayi Li, Yanyan Cui, Zhanyu Pan, Songnan Zhang, Ying Yuan and Kefeng Ding in Technology in Cancer Research & Treatment</p
Voices from the Vietnam War: Stories from American, Asian, and Russian Veterans
No full textThe Vietnam War’s influence on politics, foreign policy, and subsequent military campaigns is the center of much debate and analysis. But the impact on veterans across the globe, as well as the war’s effects on individual lives and communities, is a largely neglected issue. As a consequence of cultural and legal barriers, the oral histories of the Vietnam War currently available in English are predictably one-sided, providing limited insight into the inner workings of the Communist nations that participated in the war. Furthermore, many of these accounts focus on combat experiences rather than the backgrounds, belief systems, and social experiences of interviewees, resulting in an incomplete historiography of the war.
Chinese native Xiaobing Li corrects this oversight in Voices from the Vietnam War: Stories from American, Asian, and Russian Veterans. Li spent seven years gathering hundreds of personal accounts from survivors of the war, accounts that span continents, nationalities, and political affiliations. The twenty-two intimate stories in the book feature the experiences of American, Chinese, Russian, Korean, and North and South Vietnamese veterans, representing the views of both anti-Communist and Communist participants, including Chinese officers of the PLA, a Russian missile-training instructor, and a KGB spy. These narratives humanize and contextualize the war’s events while shedding light on aspects of the war previously unknown to Western scholars. Providing fresh perspectives on a long-discussed topic, Voices from the Vietnam War offers a thorough and unique understanding of America’s longest war.
Xiaobing Li, professor and chair of the Department of History and Geography and director of the Western Pacific Institute at the University of Central Oklahoma, is the author of China at War, Civil Liberties in China, A History of the Modern Chinese Army, and coauthor of Voices from the Korean War and Mao’s General Remember Korea. He served in the People’s Liberation Army in China.
Li successfully finds a fresh and intriguing niche for his collection of twenty-two individual Vietnam War stories. This should make a first-rate supplementary text. --Robert J. McMahon, author of The Limits of Empire: The United States and Southeast Asia since World War II
This volume of interviews with Vietnam War veterans adds new and surprising dimensions to our understanding of the scope of the war.... Some of this book is heartrending; some of it is as gripping as a thriller; and all of it will add to our understanding of the war. --Booklist
It is the first oral history of the war—and there has been a large shelf full of them in the genre—to include the first-person voices of Chinese and Russian veterans among those from this country and Vietnam. Another criterion of a good oral history is that it unveils the human side of war. That is done well in this book, as the veterans from all nationalities talk about their wartime jobs as well as their personal lives before, during and after their service in Vietnam. --HistoryNet
Li’s book offers, for the first time in English, the direct testimony of Russian and Chinese veterans of the Vietnam War, including a former KGB spy. --VVA Veteran
It is fascinating to hear about the war from such different viewpoints, and the author does an exceptional job in balancing his presentation and allowing the facts to speak for themselves. --WTBF Radio
A valuable oral history. --Journal of America\u27s Mility Past
An essential book for anyone writing non-revisionist history of our most propagandized war. --Cybertronian Reviews
Voices from the Vietnam War is an excellent addition to the historiography and an important work that helps internationalize and personalize the war in Vietnam. -- H-Net Reviews -- Martin Clemis -- H-Net Reviews
[. . .] Overall, Li’s interviews add new dimensions to our understanding of the impact and scope of the war, and his book is a valuable contribution to the Vietnam War historiography. [. . .] Li’s book is a good read and a suitable assignment for courses on the Vietnam War. -- Journal of Cold War Studieshttps://uknowledge.uky.edu/upk_military_history/1038/thumbnail.jp
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