Background: This study aims to examine the characteristics of people who talk about suicide on Chinese microblogs (referred to as Weibo suicide communication (WSC)), and the psychological antecedents of such behaviors. Methods: An online survey was conducted on Weibo users. Differences in psychological and social demographic characteristics between those who exhibited WSC and those who did not ...

Considering web service composition (WSC) has increasingly become a significant practice in SOA implementations, WSC-based SOA projects would be particularly worth more attention. However, effort estimation for WSC-based SOA implementations may suffer from challenges because of the numerous and various approaches to WSC. This paper proposes circumstantial-evidence-based effort judgement as a su...

The purpose of this research is to understand the Wine industry Supply Chain (WSC) structure from a social networks approach. This analysis will identify the appropriate measure of performance of the WSC. To achieve that objective, this paper will at first tackle the supply chain modeling on the one hand through a generic approach, and on the other hand we will propose a WSC representation from...

BACKGROUND This study aims to examine the characteristics of people who talk about suicide on Chinese microblogs (referred to as Weibo suicide communication (WSC)), and the psychological antecedents of such behaviors. METHODS An online survey was conducted on Weibo users. Differences in psychological and social demographic characteristics between those who exhibited WSC and those who did not ...

BACKGROUND Obesity has become a worldwide burden to public health in recent decades. Given that obesity is caused by an imbalance between caloric intake and expenditure, and that dietary fat is the most important energy source of all macronutrients (by providing the most calories), a valuable strategy for obesity treatment and prevention is to block fat absorption via the gastrointestinal pathw...

A large number of cell wall proteins are encoded in the Neurospora crassa genome. Strains carrying gene deletions of 65 predicted cell wall proteins were characterized. Deletion mutations in two of these genes (wsc-1 and ham-7) have easily identified morphological and inhibitor-based defects. Their phenotypic characterization indicates that HAM-7 and WSC-1 function during cell-to-cell hyphal fu...

Based on weighted signal covariance (WSC) matrix and maximum likelihood (ML) estimation, a directionof-arrival (DOA) estimation method of multiple moving targets is designed and named as WSC-ML in the presence of impulse noise. In order to overcome the shortcoming of the multidimensional search cost of maximum likelihood estimation, a novel continuous quantum particle swarm optimization (QPSO) ...

In many Web service composition problems, information may be needed from Web services during the composition process. Existing research on Web service composition (WSC) procedures has generally assumed that this information will not change. We describe two ways to take such WSC procedures and systematically modify them to deal with volatile information. The black-box approach requires no knowle...

The objectives of this study were to test the interaction of breed (Nellore or Angus) and diet (whole shelled corn [WSC] or ground corn [GC] with silage) on growth performance, carcass characteristics, and ruminal pH of young bulls. Thirty-six bulls (18 Nellore and 18 Angus) with the range in age of 18 to 22 mo and BW of 381 ± 12 kg were used in a completely randomized design experiment with a ...

An elevated concentration of water soluble carbohydrate (WSC) in grasses may increase the availability of readily degradable energy, increase milk production and improve the efficiency of nitrogen utilisation. Two ryegrasses with elevated WSC, a tetraploid Italian (IRG) and a diploid perennial selected for higher WSC (HSG), were compared against a standard diploid perennial (STG) during spring ...