Abstract—Measurement-based product testing management systems (MPTMS) are widely used during the life cycle of products to validate the design and test the products. Unfortunately, measurement data from measurement systems are isolated with testing task information in the MPTMSs. Furthermore, the development of MPTMSs often begins from scratch, which leads to low development efficiency and low ...

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disease in humans. The accumulation of amyloid-β (Aβ) plays a critical role in the pathogenesis of AD. Previous studies indicated that Salvianolic acid B (SalB) could ameliorate Aβ-induced memory impairment. However, whether SalB could influence the generation of Aβ is unclear. Here, we show that SalB (25, 50, or 100 µM) reduces the generation of ...

In this study, an integrated solving method is proposed for interval multi-objective planning. The proposed method is based on fuzzy linear programming and an interactive two-step method. It cannot only provide objectively optimal values for multiple objectives at the same time, but also effectively offer a globally optimal interval solution. Meanwhile, the degree of satisfaction related to dif...

Wireless sensors have attracted many researchers' attention because of their playing the very important role of smooth transition from the existing network to the smart grid. WSN (wireless sensor network) for surveillance of overhead transmission line is very promising for the efficiency as well as the economy. Meanwhile, it put some new challenges because of the N1 principle in the power util...

By testing 88 different funds of the Chinese fund market (CFM), we find fractal behavior and long-range correlations in the return series, which are insensitive to the funds kind. Meanwhile, a power-law relationship between the deviation D of prices and the Hurst exponent H has been obtained, which may be useful for predicting the price time series. In addition, with funds being viewed as nodes...

The exponentially weighted moving average (EWMA) control chart became very popular during the last decade. It is characterized by simple handling and good performance. It turns out, however, that the most popular EWMA scheme with fixed-width control limits – the asymptotic control limits are taken and do not change over time – detects early changes rather slowly. For the competing CUSUM chart t...

B7H1 (PDL1) and B7DC (PDL2) are two new members of the B7 family that can interact with PD-1, a putative negative regulator for immune function. Recent studies have provided evidence for inhibitory functions of both members via PD-1. Meanwhile, compelling evidence exists for costimulatory function of both members. Here we demonstrate that expression of B7DC on the tumor cells promotes CD8 T cel...

In TREC 2011, we focus on tackling the new challenges proposed by the pilot Crowdsourcing and Microblog tracks, using our Terrier Information Retrieval Platform. Meanwhile, we continue to build upon our novel xQuAD framework and data-driven ranking approaches within Terrier to achieve effective and efficient ranking for the TREC Web track. In particular, the aim of our Microblog track participa...

In this paper, we introduce the first evaluation of Chinese human-computer dialogue technology. We detail the evaluation scheme, tasks, metrics and how to collect and annotate the data for training, developing and test. The evaluation includes two tasks, namely user intent classification and online testing of task-oriented dialogue. To consider the different sources of the data for training and...

Abstract. With respect to multi-attribute decision making under uncertain linguistic environment, a new interval-valued 2-tuple linguistic representation model is introduced. To deal with the situation where the elements in a set are interdependent, several generalized interval-valued 2-tuple linguistic correlated aggregation operators are defined. It is worth pointing out that some intervalval...