The present study was conducted to determine the pattern of activation of the anterolateral abdominal muscles during the cough reflex. Electromyograms (EMGs) of the rectus abdominis, external oblique, internal oblique, transversus abdominis, and parasternal muscles were recorded along with gastric pressure in anesthetized cats. Cough was produced by mechanical stimulation of the lumen of the in...

One of the main tasks during the early steps of a data warehouse project is the identification of the appropriate transformations and the specification of inter-schema mappings from the source to the target data stores. This is a challenging task, requiring firstly the semantic and secondly the structural reconciliation of the information provided by the available sources. This task is a part o...

Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) recipients have a need to create research data marts from their clinical data warehouses, through research data networks and the use of i2b2 and SHRINE technologies. These data marts may have different data requirements and representations, thus necessitating separate extract, transform and load (ETL) processes for populating each mart. Maintainin...

Three mentalities have emerged in analytics. One view holds that reliable analytics is impossible without high-quality data, and relies on heavy-duty ETL processes and upfront data curation to provide it. The second view takes a more ad-hoc approach, collecting data into a data lake, and placing responsibility for data quality on the analyst querying it. A third, on-demand approach has emerged ...

Nowadays, on the basis of a common standard for metadata representation and interchange mechanism in data warehouse environments, Common Warehouse Metamodel (CWM) – based ETL processes still has to face significant challenges in semantically and systematically integrating heterogeneous sources to data warehouse. In this context, we focus on proposing an ontology-based ETL framework for covering...

We propose a new structure of confocal imaging system based on a direct-view confocal microscope (DVCM) with an electrically tunable lens (ETL). Since it has no mechanical moving parts to scan both the lateral (x-y) and axial (z) directions, the DVCM with an ETL allows for high-speed 3-dimensional (3-D) imaging. Axial response and signal intensity of the DVCM were analyzed theoretically accordi...

BACKGROUND 18% of the world's population lives in India, and many states of India have populations similar to those of large countries. Action to effectively improve population health in India requires availability of reliable and comprehensive state-level estimates of disease burden and risk factors over time. Such comprehensive estimates have not been available so far for all major diseases a...

Data Warehousing and Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDI) are becoming more and more accepted in public administrations, also in environment administrations and geo data authorities. Hence, the importance of professional ETL (extract transform load) processes for data acquisition, integration, cleansing, and storage is also growing. Though there are numerous ETL tools on the market since many yea...

Abstract The shelf-stability issue, originating from the ZnO-induced positive aging effect, poses a significant challenge to industrializing display technology based on solution-processed quantum-dot light-emitting diodes (QLEDs). Currently, none of proposed solutions can simultaneously inhibit exciton quenching caused by ZnO-based electron-transporting layer (ETL) and retain other advantages Z...