The objective is to develop a system based on Kansei Engineering to allow preference-based design to be applied to practical product planning and design towards general system goals. Then, in order to execute expert evaluation in this study, we interviewed eleven experts by the EGM to determine the semantic structure of attractiveness from the interviews of experts showing the hierarchy of the ...

51V quadrupolar central transition NMR spectra of buffered (pH 7.6-8.0) solutions of bovine apo-transferrin (Tf) and bovine prostatic acid phosphatase (Pp) treated with vanadate show normal features (chemical shifts between -515 and -542 ppm) corresponding to the complexation of VO2+ to the Tf binding site and the Pp active centre, respectively. Addition of H2O2 leads to the temporary formation...

Moment based methods have produced efficient multiscale quantization algorithms for solving singular perturbation/strong coupling problems. One of these, the Eigenvalue Moment Method (EMM), developed by Handy et al (Phys. Rev. Lett.55, 931 (1985); ibid, 60, 253 (1988b)), generates converging lower and upper bounds to a specific discrete state energy, once the signature property of the associate...

† Stefan Elf is also with Ericsson AB, SE-931 87 Skellefteå, Sweden. Views expressed in this paper are his own and not necessarily shared by his employer. Abstract. Transport level protocols typically provide “best-effort” data delivery where no attempts are made to recover lost packets, or “reliable” data delivery where techniques are used to ensure that all data sent out eventually reaches th...

We discuss the possibility of constraining theories of gravity in which the connection is a fundamental variable by searching for observational consequences of the torsion degrees of freedom. In a wide class of models, the only modes of the torsion tensor which interact with matter are either a massive scalar or a massive spin-1 boson. Focusing on the scalar version, we study constraints on the...

A novel gland segmentation and classification scheme applied to an H&E histology image of the prostate tissue is proposed. For gland segmentation, we associate appropriate nuclei objects with each lumen object to create a gland segment. We further extract 22 features to describe the structural information and contextual information for each segment. These features are used to classify a gland s...

Results Of 5766 patients included, 931 (16%) received aRRT, 4762 (83%) did not receive any RRT and 73 (1%) only received aRRT during a later ICU admission. The 90day mortality was 55% for aRRT patients and 22% for those not requiring aRRT (p < 0.001). The median (IQR) age was 61 (49 68) for aRRT 90-day survivors and 65 (55 73) for aRRT non-survivors (p < 0.001). The median SAPS II score was 53 ...

Dear Editor We deeply regret to inform you that our paper was submitted twice to two different Journals, and was already published in another Journal 1 ; therefore, we are requesting to retract our paper that has been published in YMJ. 2 We mistakenly submitted our paper to the other journal. As the corresponding author, I will take full responsibility for this error and respectfully request fo...

Medial collateral ligament (MCL) injuries are a common knee injury, especially in competitive athletes. Identifying genetic loci associated with MCL injury could shed light on its etiology. A genome-wide association screen was performed using data from the Research Program in Genes, Environment and Health (RPGEH) including 1 572 cases of MCL injury and 100 931 controls. 2 SNPs (rs80351309 and r...

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