Purpose: This paper describes the activities of Bielefeld University Library in establishing OAI based repository servers and in using OAI resources for end-user-oriented search services like BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine). Design/methodology/approach: BASE uses the search engine technology Fast Data Search. Findings: BASE is able to integrate external functions of Google Scholar. The ...

Propionibacterium acnes is a Gram-positive bacterium that is prevalent on human skin. It has been associated with skin disorders such as acne vulgaris and progressive macular hypomelanosis (PMH). Here, we report draft genome sequences of two type III P. acnes strains, PMH5 and PMH7, isolated from PMH skin lesions.

OBJECTIVE Parkland Memorial Hospital (PMH) participated in Surfactant, Positive Pressure, and Oxygenation Randomized Trial (SUPPORT), an unblinded controlled trial, in which preterm neonates of 24(0/7) to 27(6/7) weeks' gestational age (GA) were randomized in the delivery room (DR) to endotracheal intubation or nasal continuous positive airway pressure. We hypothesized that DR intubation could ...

BACKGROUND Higher levels of urinary albumin excretion predict future hypertension and chronic kidney disease. Post-menopausal hormone use may influence the renin-angiotensin system and renal endothelial function, impacting albumin excretion. The association between post-menopausal hormone use and albuminuria is not well defined. METHODS We explored the cross-sectional association between dura...

I examine the effect of Old-Age Insurance systems on the labour supply of older men. Male retirement ages are crucial to the solvency of OAI systems. Historical data on participation rates and OAI rules in thirteen developed countries show rapid falls in participation among men aged 60-4 after pensions were extended to them. I estimate participation elasticities of -0.06 with respect to replace...

How to effectively ensure complex digitization processes including post-processing, workflow monitoring, archiving and making the content available is still a current issue from both national and international perspectives. To support the culture heritage institutions with open-source solutions, make their activities more effective and become the central access point to digitized documents stor...

Previous studies have shown that sonication fluid cultures from removed orthopedic devices improved the microbiological diagnosis of orthopedic implant-associated infections; however, few of these investigations have applied sonication to the removed fracture fixation devices to evaluate its utility for the diagnosis of osteosynthesis-associated infection (OAI). We compared sonication fluid to ...

The OAI Object Reuse and Exchange (OAI-ORE) framework recasts the repository-centric notion of digital object to a bounded aggregation of Web resources. In this manner, digital library content is more integrated with the Web architecture, and thereby more accessible to Web applications and clients. This generalized notion of an aggregation that is independent of repository containment conforms ...

Crawling and Indexing Qatari Scholarly ContentSeerQ SeerSuite is a collection management system for digital libraries, developed at Penn State. It includes: 1) A Web crawler for scholarly articles; 2) A machine learning based automated system for metadata (title, abstract, author name/affiliation, citations) extraction; 3) A module for ingesting extracted information into a database and Solr; a...

In this paper we present the complete methodology of expected effective SINR mapping (EESM) and mutual information effective SINR mapping (MIESM) based PHY abstraction for OpenAirInterface (OAI) LTE platform. The methodology consists of calibration of the ESM techniques using OAI link level simulator and then the validation of calibrated scheme on the OAI system level simulator. We present the ...