Please cite this article in press as: A. Daud et al., j.knosys.2010.04.008 This paper addresses the problem of semantics-based temporal expert finding, which means identifying a person with given expertise for different time periods. For example, many real world applications like reviewer matching for papers and finding hot topics in newswire articles need to consider time dynamics. Intuitively...

Seven STMS primers were used to analyse 20 individuals each of 15 populations of North-western Indian Himalayan hull-less barley landraces. A total of 96 alleles were detected of which 40 were common and 56 were rare. Administrative regionwise, highest allelic richness was revealed by populations from Himachal Pradesh (10.71 alleles/locus) followed by Jammu & Kashmir (8.86 alleles/locus) and Ut...

The optimistic nature of Transactional Memory (TM) systems can lead to the concurrent execution of transactions that are later found to conflict. Conflicts degrade scalability, and may lead to aborts that increase wasted work, and degrade performance. A promising approach to reducing conflicts at runtime is dynamically, and transparently, reordering the execution of transactions upon discovery ...

Major depressive disorder (MDD) is marked by disturbances in brain functional connectivity. This connectivity is modulated by rhythmic oscillations of brain electrical activity, which enable coordinated functions across brain regions. Oscillatory activity plays a central role in regulating thinking and memory, mood, cerebral blood flow, and neurotransmitter levels, and restoration of normal osc...

The article ‘The Reproductive Microbiome: An Emerging Driver of Sexual Selection, Conflict, Mating Systems, and Isolation’ was published with a reference omitted. corrected text, citation, details appear below. authors apologise for this oversight. On page, 227, paragraph 2, line 4: ‘Alternatively, some STMs may be beneficial to females [51,121.Lombardo M.P. et al.The sexually transmitted micro...

Special shaped (high, slim and more or less cylindriform), vulnerable, intact stalagmites (STM) in Domica cave have been examined. Some of these STMs are suitable to estimate the upper limit for horizontal peak ground acceleration generated by paleoearthquake. (This research is the continuation of our previous examination of STMs in Baradla cave, north-east Hungary.) The method of our investiga...

Suitably shaped (tall, slim and more or less cylindriform), vulnerable, intact stalagmites (STM) in Domica cave have been examined. Some of these STMs are suitable to estimate the upper limit for horizontal peak ground acceleration generated by paleoearthquake. This research is the continuation of our previous examination of STMs in Baradla cave, north-east Hungary. The density, the Young’s mod...

Reducing the number of aborts is one of the biggest challenges of most transactional systems: existing TMs may abort many transactions that could, in fact, commit without violating correctness. Historically, the commonly used method for reducing the abort rate was maintaining multiple object versions. Multiversion concurrency control is a classical approach for providing concurrent access to th...

425 Background: Existing conventional serum tumor markers (STMs) exhibit moderate performance for the detection of germ cell tumors (GCTs). Circulating miR-371a-3p has excellent in viable (non-teratoma) GCT pre-orchiectomy; however, its ability to detect occult disease is understudied. We refine assay and expand upon our previous experience this setting. Methods: compared raw (Cq) normalized (∆...

OBJECTIVE Chronic hyperglycemia is known to increase tissue glycation and diabetic complications, but controversy exists regarding the independent role of increased postprandial glucose excursions. To address this question, we have studied the effect of postprandial glycemic excursions (PPGEs) on levels of methylglyoxal (MG) and 3-deoxyglucosone (3-DG), two highly reactive precursors of advance...