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Analytic Prioritization of Indoor Routes for Search and Rescue Operations in Hazardous Environments
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Blackwell Publishing Inc.
, 2017 , Article)
Applications to prioritize indoor routes for emergency situations in a complex built facility have been restricted to building simulations and network approaches. These types of applications often failed to account for the ...
Novel regulators of PD-L1 expression in cancer: CMTM6 and CMTM4-a new avenue to enhance the therapeutic benefits of immune checkpoint inhibitors.
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AME Publishing Company
, 2017 , Article)
CMTM6 and CMTM4-a new avenue to enhance the therapeutic benefits of immune checkpoint inhibitors
Enhanced performance of nano-sized SiC reinforced Al metal matrix nanocomposites synthesized through microwave sintering and hot extrusion techniques
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Elsevier B.V.
, 2017 , Article)
In the present study, nano-sized SiC (0, 0.3, 0.5, 1.0 and 1.5 vol%) reinforced aluminum (Al) metal matrix composites were fabricated by microwave sintering and hot extrusion techniques. The structural (XRD, SEM), mechanical ...
The Hsp72 and Hsp90a mRNA responses to hot downhill running are reduced following a prior bout of hot downhill running, and occur concurrently within leukocytes and the vastus lateralis
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Frontiers Media S.A.
, 2017 , Article)
The leukocyte heat shock response (HSR) is used to determine individual's thermotolerance. The HSR and thermotolerance are enhanced following interventions such as preconditioning and/or acclimation/acclimatization. However, ...
Palmprint identification using an ensemble of sparse representations
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
, 2017 , Article)
Among various palmprint identification methods proposed in the literature, sparse representation for classification (SRC) is very attractive offering high accuracy. Although SRC has good discriminative ability, its performance ...
Resource provisioning for cloud-assisted body area network in a smart home environment
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
, 2017 , Article)
In recent years, cloud-assisted body area network (CABAN) technologies have made their entrance in the Smart healthcare field, such as Smart home environment, and play a significant role for healthcare data storage, ...
Making the case for a digital lawyering framework in legal education
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Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press)
, 2017 , Article)
In 2015, in a practice report on lawyering in a digital age published in the International Journal of
Clinical Legal Education, the author and colleague Michael Sales made a modest proposal that
could make law graduates ...
Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park: an assessment of the 2012 London Games Legacies
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Springer
, 2017 , Article)
The London 2012 Olympics were the first Games with a legacy plan already in execution well before the beginning of the event. This study aims at evaluating the legacies of this Olympic edition, with particular regard to ...
Harmonization of National Legislation Through Model Laws: From the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law to the League of Arab States and the Gulf Cooperation Council
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United Nations Commission on International Trade Law
, 2017 , Article)
In its productive efforts to remove barriers in international trade and reconcile
differences in legal systems, the United Nations Commission on International
Trade Law [UNCITRAL] adopts model laws that provide guidance ...
Is It Time We Changed How We Measure Length of Stay for Hip and Knee Arthroplasty?
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Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins
, 2017 , Article)
Patient length of stay (LOS) for lower limb arthroplasty is a frequently quoted outcome measure. However, the use of mean values in days is prone to being skewed by outliers. Between January 2013 and December 2015, patient ...