Background Home-based child care is a widely used form of non-parental early care and education both within the U.S. and abroad. The National Study of Early Care and Education estimates over one million paid home-based child care providers or family child care (FCC) providers and close to three million unpaid home-based caregivers or family, friend, and neighbor (FFN) caregivers care for childr...

NADPH-cytochrome P-450 reductase was highly purified from liver mlcrosomes of phenobarbital-induced rats by column chromatography on DEAE-cellulose, DEAE-Sephadex A-50, and hydroxylapatite in the presence of deoxycholate or Renex 690, a nonionic detergent. The purified enzyme gave a single major band with a molecular weight of 79,000 daltons on SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. FFN and FA...

[email protected] [email protected] Abstract: Consider the events fFn \ Sn 1 k=1 Fk = ;g, n 2 N, where (Fn) 1 n=1 is an i.i.d. sequence of stationary random subsets of a compact group G . A plausible conjecture is that these events will not occur in nitely often with positive probability if PfFi\Fj 6= ; jFjg > 0 a.s. for i 6= j. We present a counterexample to show that this conditio...

While preterm contractions occur almost as often extremely preterm as they do closer to term, birth due to spontaneous preterm labour before 27 weeks of gestation is rare, accounting for 0.05-0.7% of all births in different populations. Although the likelihood that uterine contractions before 27 weeks of gestation represent true preterm labour is low, the risk of adverse outcome in such cases i...

Top-down instance segmentation framework has shown its superiority in object detection compared to the bottom-up framework. While it is efficient addressing over-segmentation, top-down suffers from over-crop problem. However, a complete mask crucial for biological image analysis as delivers important morphological properties such shapes and volumes. In this paper, we propose region proposal rec...

The systolic array is frequently used in accelerators for neural networks, including Transformer models that have recently achieved remarkable progress natural language processing (NLP) and machine translation. Due to the constraints of FPGA EDA (Field Programmable Gate Array Electronic Design Automation) tools limitations design methodology, existing deployment often cannot achieve high freque...

Despite scientific advances, efforts to prevent preterm birth can be disappointing. Obstetric care must focus on strategies to improve the outcome of preterm infants. The major goal is to delay preterm birth long enough to allow the transfer of women about to deliver preterm to a facility with a neonatal intensive care unit and to administer corticosteroids to enhance fetal lung maturation. A p...

Due to redundancy in the spatiotemporal neighborhood and global dependency between video frames, recognition remains a challenge. Some prior works have been mainly driven by 3D convolutional neural networks (CNNs) or 2D CNNs with well-designed module for temporal information. However, convolution-based lack capability capture due limited receptive field. Alternatively, transformer is proposed b...

Small object detection in remote sensing enables the identification and analysis of unapparent but important information, playing a crucial role various ground monitoring tasks. Due to small size, available feature information contained objects is very limited, making them more easily buried by complex background. As one research hotspots sensing, although many breakthroughs have been made, the...