Spatio-temporal prediction plays a critical role in smart city construction. Jointly modeling multiple spatio-temporal tasks can further promote an intelligent life by integrating their inseparable relationship. However, existing studies fail to address this joint learning problem well, which generally solve individually or fixed task combination. The challenges lie the tangled relation between...

Diabetes decreases skeletal muscle mass and induces atrophy. However, the mechanisms by which hyperglycemia and insulin deficiency modify muscle mass are not well defined. In this study, we evaluated the effects of swimming exercise on muscle mass and intracellular protein degradation in diabetic rats, and proposed that autophagy inhibition induced by swimming exercise serves as a hypercataboli...

The effects of resin molecular weight on the flame-retardant mechanism of silica were studied with two different molecular weights of poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA), 122,000 and 996,000 g/mol, and two silicas, fused silica with a small surface area and silica gel with a large surface area. A total of six different samples were studied, with a mass fraction of 10% silica. The mass loss rate of...

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PURPOSE This study were to assess the relationships among BMI, body weight perception, and efforts to lose weight in a public sample of Korean women who are overweight and obese and to examine the mediating role of body weight perception on the relationship between BMI and weight loss efforts. METHODS This cross-sectional study used data from the 2008 Korea National Health and Nutrition Exami...

in this study, in order to investigate the effect of increasing the manganese content on microstructure and mechanical properties of high manganese austenitic steels, three alloys with successive increases in weight percentages of manganese (7.55, 13.1, and 16.5) and carbon (0.8 and 1.2) were cast in the presence of a constant amount of chromium (1.5 wt.%) and silica (0.6 wt.%). the samples exp...

We present a generalized architectural framework for constructing and using natural language interfaces for interactions with multimedia repositories. The framework can take advantage of user profiles to rank the resulting queries from the natural language expressions. This to avoid or reduce the disambiguation overhead, meaning the elimination of the possible senses that can be assigned to a w...

CLEVERarm (Compact, Low-weight, Ergonomic, Virtual/Augmented Reality Enhanced Rehabilitation arm) is a novel exoskeleton with eight degrees of freedom supporting the motion of shoulder girdle, glenohumeral joint, elbow and wrist. Of the exoskeleton’s eight degrees of freedom, six are active and the two degrees of freedom supporting the motion of wrist are passive. This paper briefly outlines th...

Varieties of robotic grippers are developed with high flexibility and multi-functional approaches. In this paper, the study is an innovative approach of a gripper for handling variable size, shape and weight of unpacked food products i.e. ‘Vacuum Gripper of Robots’ which is working on Bernoulli Principle for generating a high-speed flow between the gripper plate and product surface thereby crea...