Do your kidneys know what time it is? Mounting evidence from human studies and animal models strongly suggests that the answer to this question is yes. The time has come to start reporting the time of day at which renal physiology studies are performed.

In this paper, we propose a novel approach to reconstruct triangle meshes from point sets by taking the silhouette of the target object into consideration. Recently, many approaches have been proposed for complete 3D reconstruction of moving objects. For example, motion capture techniques are used to acquire 3D data of human motion. However, it needs to attach markers onto the joints, which res...

Due to rapid development of technology and strict competition in the context of global and concurrent economy, the requirements of customers such as quality, reliability, sustainability and cost of products are more and more high and tight. Thus, satisfaction of those is an important key of product designers. However, the product designers work mainly on the nominal model of the product within ...

In the last years the use of multiple receive antennas as well as multiple transmit antennas has attracted worldwide attention to extend existing mobile communication systems with respect to their performance. Therefore it is of great importance to know the features of the real propagation channel. To this end, the real propagation channel is investigated by MIMO Channel Sounding, where high-re...

BACKGROUND The current study aims to identify predictors of pathological gambling (PG) severity, taking gender differences into account, in an outpatient sample of pathological gamblers seeking treatment. METHODS The sample for this study consisted of 103 subjects (51 women and 52 men) meeting current DSM-IV-TR criteria for PG. Linear and logistic regression analyses were used to examine diff...

Self-efficacy beliefs in people with chronic pain have been assessed either by reference to confidence in ability to perform specific tasks or to confidence in performing more generalised constructs like coping with pain. Both approaches reflect aspects of the original conceptualisations of self-efficacy and both have proved useful, but it is noteworthy that confidence in performing activities ...

Designing the physical distribution network in a supply chain is an important strategic planning problem with undeniable implications towards tactical and operational planning success. In this paper we consider a distribution network made up of four tiers, involving factories, central warehouses, regional warehouses as well as customer zones. The objective is to select the optimal numbers and l...

The analysis of the most researches related to the supplier selection shows that very little attention is given to transportation although its cost may be significant important to this selection. In this paper, we present a multiobjective approach of selecting suppliers and allocating the order quantity among them, taking into account transportation. The objectives to minimize in the model are ...

The personalization of Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) is an area of active research, as proven by the numerous studies concerned with the design of Contextualized Attention Metadata (CAM) systems to offer customized services to learning. These systems, based on the collect of personal data of users, face with certain privacy rules and constraints they do not tackle. We propose in this paper...