In the past few years, researchers solved the portal reader antennas placement problem to maximize the read accuracy of an RFID portal with an enumeration approach. While the enumeration approach was able to solve the portal reader antenna placement problem, both of the execution time and the CPU computation power consumption are considerable. Therefore, this study attempts to solve the portal ...

The present study examined whether equivalent discounting of delayed rewards is observed with different experimental procedures. If the underlying decision-making process is the same, then similar patterns of results should be observed regardless of procedure, and similar estimates of the subjective value of future rewards (i.e., indifference points) should be obtained. Two experiments compared...

In recent years, a significant number of metabolites with potent anti-inflammatory properties have been discovered from marine organisms, and several of these compounds are now under clinical trials. In the present study, we isolated 11-epi-sinulariolide acetate (Ya-s11), a cembrane-type compound with anti-inflammatory effects, from the Formosa soft coral Sinularia querciformis. Preliminary scr...

Rheumatoid arthritis pathogenesis comprises dysregulation in both innate and adaptive immunity. There is therefore intense interest in the factors that integrate these immunologic pathways in rheumatoid arthritis. In this paper, we report that IL-33, a novel member of the IL-1 family, can exacerbate anti-glucose-6-phosphate isomerase autoantibody-induced arthritis (AIA). Mice lacking ST2 (ST2(-...

In this paper, an active integrated antenna (AIA) system is proposed for mobile and wireless communication devices. The AIA system consists of a microstrip patch antenna and a low noise amplifier (LNA), which are integrated together with a matching circuit and printed on an FR4 PCB circuit board. The system is designed, analyzed, and optimized by targeting to satisfy the design specifications f...

Porphyrinogenic drug 2‐allyl‐2‐isopropylacetamide (AIA) increases the destruction of liver heme, particularly cytochrome P‐450 [2], whereas porphyrinogenic drug 3,5‐diethoxycarbonyl‐1,4‐ dihydrocollidine (DDC) is a potent depletor of hepatic heme due to its combined property of destroying heme and inhibiting heme synthesis [3]. AIA/DDC treatment results in acute deficiency of heme, marked de‐re...

Several Automatic Image Annotation (AIA) algorithms have been introduced recently, which have been found to outperform previous models. However, each one of them has been evaluated using either di erent descriptors, collections or parts of collections, or "easy" settings. This fact renders their results non-comparable, while we show that collection-speci c properties are responsible for the hig...

Several Automatic Image Annotation (AIA) algorithms have been introduced recently, which have been found to outperform previous models. However, each one of them has been evaluated using either di erent descriptors, collections or parts of collections, or "easy" settings. This fact renders their results non-comparable, while we show that collection-speci c properties are responsible for the hig...

Since early days of computer science, researchers ask themselves where is the line that separates tasks machine can do from those only human beings can really accomplish. Several tasks were pointed as impossible to machines and later conquered by new advances in Artificial Intelligence. Nowadays, it seems we are not far from the day when driving cars will be included among the tasks machines ca...

AIMS Empirical data concerning the long-term psychosocial development of adolescents admitted to inpatient treatment with alcohol intoxication (AIA) are lacking. The aim of this study was to identify the factors that, at the time of admission, predict future substance use, alcohol use disorders (AUD), mental health treatment, delinquency and life satisfaction. METHODS We identified 1603 cases...