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    Supplemental Material, sj-pdf-1-bsa-10.26599_BSA.2021.9050008 - Neuroprotective effects of adipose‐derived stem cells on ferrous sulfate‐induced neurotoxicity

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    Supplemental Material, sj-pdf-1-bsa-10.26599_BSA.2021.9050008 for Neuroprotective effects of adipose‐derived stem cells on ferrous sulfate‐induced neurotoxicity by Qian Wu, Chao Pan, Yang Hu, Gaigai Li, Shiling Chen, Jie Jing, Jingfei Yang and Zhouping Tang in Brain Science Advances</p

    Special issue: Process safety in times of a pandemic

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    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.Safety and Security Scienc

    Distributed human computation framework for linked data co-reference resolution

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    Distributed Human Computation (DHC) is a technique used to solve computational problems by incorporating the collaborative effort of a large number of humans. It is also a solution to AI-complete problems such as natural language processing. The Semantic Web with its root in AI is envisioned to be a decentralised world-wide information space for sharing machine-readable data with minimal integration costs. There are many research problems in the Semantic Web that are considered as AI-complete problems. An example is co-reference resolution, which involves determining whether different URIs refer to the same entity. This is considered to be a significant hurdle to overcome in the realisation of large-scale Semantic Web applications. In this paper, we propose a framework for building a DHC system on top of the Linked Data Cloud to solve various computational problems. To demonstrate the concept, we are focusing on handling the co-reference resolution in the Semantic Web when integrating distributed datasets. The traditional way to solve this problem is to design machine-learning algorithms. However, they are often computationally expensive, error-prone and do not scale. We designed a DHC system named iamResearcher, which solves the scientific publication author identity co-reference problem when integrating distributed bibliographic datasets. In our system, we aggregated 6 million bibliographic data from various publication repositories. Users can sign up to the system to audit and align their own publications, thus solving the co-reference problem in a distributed manner. The aggregated results are published to the Linked Data Cloud

    Intersystem soft handover for converged DVB-H and UMTS networks

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    Digital video broadcasting for handhelds (DVB-H) is the standard for broadcasting Internet Protocol (IP) data services to mobile portable devices. To provide interactive services for DVB-H, the Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) can be used as a terrestrial interaction channel for the unidirectional DVB-H network. The converged DVB-H and UMTS network can be used to address the congestion problems due to the limited multimedia channel accesses of the UMTS network. In the converged network, intersystem soft handover between DVB-H and UMTS is needed for an optimum radio resource allocation, which reduces network operation cost while providing the required quality of service. This paper deals with the intersystem soft handover between DVB-H and UMTS in such a converged network. The converged network structure is presented. A novel soft handover scheme is proposed and evaluated. After considering the network operation cost, the performance tradeoff between the network quality of service and the network operation cost for the intersystem soft handover in the converged network is modeled using a stochastic tree and analyzed using a numerical simulation. The results show that the proposed algorithm is feasible and has the potential to be used for implementation in the real environment

    Beyond interfaces: A usability study of Chinese journal databases

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    A presentation at the Council on East Asian Libraries (CEAL) annual meeting in Boston, MA on March 21, 2007

    Rose Galaida and the Central China Relief Records, 1946: Discovery, Investigation, and Implications

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    The materials in the Central China Relief Records (CCRR) collection provide a window to the experiences of Rose Galaida in Hubei. The collection consists of about 100 documents totaling over 300 pages (excluding duplicate copies) and 5 photographs.Peer reviewedPublished in the Journal of East Asian Libraries and available from the journal at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/jeal/vol2011/iss153/

    Breaking New Ground in East Asia Library History

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    Review of Peter X. Zhou. Collecting Asia: East Asian Libraries in North America (2010).Published in H-Net Reviews in the Humanities and Social Sciences and available at: http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=32231March 201

    One step preparation of pure tau-MnAl phase with high magnetization using strip casting method

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    Ferromagnetic phase of Mn-Al exhibits great potential in the rare-earth free permanent magnetic materials due to its high magnetocrystalline anisotropy, high magnetization, high Curie temperature and low cost. In this work, the strip casting technique was applied to prepare MnAl magnetic phase. X-ray diffraction and energy dispersive X-ray analyses indicate that the as-prepared Mn54Al46 strip sample consists of pure tau-MnAl magnetic phase. It is found that the composition of Mn54Al46 is suitable to prepare tau-MnAl phase during the strip casting process. The Mn54Al46 strip sample synthesized through the strip casting exhibits a fairly high magnetization of 114 emu/g under a field of 5 T, while the coercivity of iHc = 2.8 kOe, magnetization of M-5T = 63.9 emu/g at room temperature can be obtained for Mn54Al46 powder sample. This preparation method can produce a large amount of tau-phase MnAl alloy and promote mass industrialized production. (C) 2017 Author(s)

    Leaf wax n-alkane distributions in Chinese loess since the Last Glacial Maximum and implications for paleoclimate

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    Leaf wax n-alkanes have been recently introduced into loess deposits for paleovegetation and paleoclimate reconstruction. However, the paleoclimate significance of some n-alkane parameters such as chain-length ratios (L/H, C-27/C-31, C-29/C-31, and (C-27 + C-29)/(C-31 + C-33)) remains to be clarified. In order to evaluate the validity of those proxies in loess deposits, leaf wax n-alkanes were analyzed from a northwest-southeast transect on the Chinese Loess Plateau since the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM). The n-alkanes show a bimodal distribution between C-14 and C-33 with Carbon number maxima (C-max) at C14 or C-16, and at C-31 or C-33, indicative of both terrestrial plant and microbial origin. L/H variations are in good agreement with climate changes both temporally and spatially, i.e. the higher L/H ratio the warmer and wetter climate and vice versa. Therefore, the L/H ratio in Chinese loess can serve as an efficient proxy for paleoclimate. By comparing long-chain n-alkane ratios with pollen records, we suggest that the generally used woody plant proxies (C-27 and C-29) and grass proxies (C-31 and C-33) are not applicable to Chinese loess. As the Chinese Loess Plateau was dominated by herbs in both the LGM and the Holocene, the long-chain n-alkane ratios may mainly reflect changes in the species composition of local vegetation. For a better understanding of leaf wax n-alkanes in Chinese loess, further studies are required to investigate the n-alkane distributions in both the major plant species and their associated surface soils on the Chinese Loess Plateau. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd and INQUA. All rights reserved

    Turbulent skin-friction drag reduction by travelling waves induced by spanwise Lorentz force

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    The streamwise and spanwise travelling waves induced by spanwise Lorentz force are studied for skin-friction drag reduction in a turbulent channel. The streamwise travelling wave by spanwise Lorentz force on drag reduction is compared to the with the spanwise wall motion. The drag reduction map shows a drag reduction region and a drag increase region, depending on a time scale T=λ/(Ucω/κ)\mathscr{T}=\lambda/(\mathscr{U}_c-\omega/\kappa). For spanwise travelling wave, a large drag reduction appears at large oscillation frequencies and small spanwise wave numbers, while all stationary wave cases give a drag increase. When the wave travels at an oblique angle to the streamwise mean flow, the optimal drag reduction appears in backward travelling wave case. Generally, the backward streamwise travelling wave is found to be most efficient in drag reduction among all oblique travelling waves. Spanwise oscillation, forward streamwise travelling, spanwise travelling and backward streamwise travelling wave cases share a similar drag reduction mechanism: first, the spanwise motion directly breaks the near wall quasi-streamwise vortices structure array \cite{Jeong_etal1997}, which results in the shortening of streamwise streaks; second, the spanwise velocity layer maintains the asymmetry of the positive and negative quasi-streamwise vortices, which leads to a sustained drag reduction
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