Pseudo-allergic reactions may result from the activation of inflammatory or anaphylactic mechanisms independent of antigen-specific immune responses. Recent statistics show that pseudo-allergic reactions may represent as high as two thirds of all immediate hypersensitivity reactions, implying a great amount of morbidity and numerous health care costs. In this review, we concentrate on agents me...

Pseudo-MTL algebras or weak pseudo-BL algebras are non-commutative fuzzy structures which arise from pseudo-t-norms, namely, pseudo-BL algebras without the pseudo-divisibility condition. The aim of this paper is to investigate the properties of pseudo-BL algebras that also hold for pseudoMTL algebras. We will also study some classes of pseudo-MTL algebras such as good, local and Archimedean pse...

This study investigated the deformation effects of the interface between conventionally produced stainless steel X2crNi 19 11 and HIPed NiTI coating (Hot Isostatic Pressed). Near-equiatomic nickel-titanium alloy (NiTi) has many attractive material properties, such as pseudo-elasticity and shape memory effects, which result into beneficial engineering properties e.g. as cavitation resistant coat...

Dysfunction and accumulation of the microtubule-associated human Tau (hTau) protein into intraneuronal aggregates is observed in many neurodegenerative disorders including Alzheimer's disease (AD). Reversible lysine acetylation has recently emerged as a post-translational modification that may play an important role in the modulation of hTau pathology. Acetylated hTau species have been observed...

Effects reflecting serial within-word processing are frequently found in pseudo- and non-word recognition tasks not only among fluent, but especially among dyslexic readers. However, the time course and locus of these serial within-word processing effects in the cognitive hierarchy (i.e., orthographic, phonological, lexical) have remained elusive. We studied whether a subject's eye movements du...

It is well known that for some tasks, labeled data sets may be hard to gather. Self-training, or pseudo-labeling, tackles the problem of having insufficient training data. In the self-training scheme, the classifier is first trained on a limited, labeled dataset, and after that, it is trained on an additional, unlabeled dataset, using its own predictions as labels, provided those predictions ar...

Structural health monitoring is an important aspect of maintenance for bridge columns in areas of high seismic activity. In this project, recently developed piezoceramic-based transducers, known as smart aggregates (SA), were utilized to perform structural health monitoring of a reinforced concrete (RC) bridge column subjected to pseudo-dynamic loading. The SA-based approach has been previously...

The EF-hand protein with a helix-loop-helix Ca(2+) binding motif constitutes one of the largest protein families and is involved in numerous biological processes. To facilitate the understanding of the role of Ca(2+) in biological systems using genomic information, we report, herein, our improvement on the pattern search method for the identification of EF-hand and EF-like Ca(2+)-binding protei...

Spatial modulation (SM) is a transmission scheme that uses multiple transmit antennas but only one transmit RF chain. At each time instant, only one among the transmit antennas will be active and the others remain silent. The index of the active transmit antenna will also convey information bits in addition to the information bits conveyed through modulation symbols (e.g., QAM). Pseudo-random p...