Current lithography techniques, which employ photon, electron, or ion beams to induce chemical or physical reactions for micro/nano-fabrication, have remained challenging in patterning chemically synthesized colloidal particles, which are emerging as building blocks for functional devices. Herein, we develop a new technique - bubble-pen lithography (BPL) - to pattern colloidal particles on subs...

PURPOSE Intraductal papilloma (IDP) is a benign breast disease with malignant potential, for which complete surgical excision is usually recommended. The aim of the present study was to investigate predictive factors for upgrading patients with a benign papillary lesion (BPL). METHODS This study was an observational study using a prospectively collected cohort. In total, 13,049 patients who u...

BACKGROUND Domestic and European Union wide directives are encouraging more and more utilities to modernize their distribution grids. Spain became a pioneer by starting to replace traditional metering systems with modern standardized AMR solutions. In addition to the regulatory directives, Iberdrola grabbed this opportunity to think beyond metering. Iberdrola introduced remote management and co...

Introduction In 2007, the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh introduced the Rajiv Aarogyasri community health insurance scheme (RAS) in order to break the vicious cycle of ill health, poverty, indebtedness and bankruptcy among families who are below the poverty line (BPL). The purpose of the scheme was to improve access to treatment of certain medical and surgical conditions for BPL families throug...

Learning a deep model from small data is yet an opening and challenging problem. We focus on one-shot classification by deep learning approach based on a small quantity of training samples. We proposed a novel deep learning approach named Local Contrast Learning (LCL) based on the key insight about a human cognitive behavior that human recognizes the objects in a specific context by contrasting...

Introduction The Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY) is a financial protection scheme in India. It is aimed at protecting families below poverty line (BPL) against catastrophic health expenses. It also seeks to increase their access to healthcare and expand the choice of providers. We undertook a series of studies in Chhattisgarh to examine: a) the key issues in the design and implementation ...

Product managers in software companies are confronted with a continuous stream of incoming requirements. Due to limited resources they have to make a selection of those that can be implemented. However, few prioritization techniques are suitable for prioritizing larger numbers of requirements. Binary Priority List (BPL) is a binary search based technique for prioritizing requirements. Academics...

The RD-114 virus rapidly induced syncytia in the human transformed cell lines, RSa, RSb and IFr. Treatment of the virus with heat or ultrasonic vibration completely eliminated the syncytium-forming activity. Irradiation with u.v.-light or treatment with beta-propiolactone (BPL) reduced but did not completely destroy the activity. Pre-treatment of the cells for 16 h with 25 to 500 units/ml of hu...

placental lactogen is a polypeptide hormone that is produced by the placenta, also known as chorionic somatomammotropin hormone. it has both growth hormone and prolactin activities on growth, lactation, and luteal steroid production. the objective of this study was to investigate the bovine placental lactogen (bpl) gene polymorphism of holstein cows in razavi khorasan province. blood samples we...

This paper proposes an extension for the Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN), named BPMN*, that based on the elements of the feature model (FM), commonly used to represent variability, intends to represent variability in Business Processes Line (BPL). This notation is evaluated by means of an empirical study whose main objective is to compare it with other notation named variant-rich BPM...