While optogenetics offers great potential for linking brain function and behavior in nonhuman primates, taking full advantage of that potential will require stable access for optical stimulation and concurrent monitoring of neural activity. Here we present a practical, stable interface for stimulation and recording of large-scale cortical circuits. To obtain optogenetic expression across a broa...

Background and Objectives: As chemical methods are commonly used to modify the starch properties, in this study, the influence of chemical modification using POCl3 on the rice starch function was evaluated. Materials and Methods: Rice starch was isolated by alkaline extraction of the proteins and cross-linked rice starches were prepared from reactions between native rice starch (low and high a...

This paper considers a future scenario in which digital reporting of measurement results is ubiquitous and calibration certificates (DCCs) contain information about the components uncertainty result. The task linking international comparisons used as case study to look at benefits digitalization. Comparison provides context correlations are important, so benefit passing record contributions alo...

We propose a novel unsupervised approach for linking records across arbitrarily many files, while simultaneously detecting duplicate records within files. Our key innovation is to represent the pattern of links between records as a bipartite graph, in which records are directly linked to latent true individuals, and only indirectly linked to other records. This flexible new representation of th...

Internet of Things (IoT) is regarded as a remarkable development of the modern information technology. There is abundant digital products data on the IoT, linking with multiple types of objects/entities. Those associated entities carry rich information and usually in the form of query records. Therefore, constructing high quality topic hierarchies that can capture the term distribution of each ...

Proper nouns in metadata are representative features for linking the identical records across data sources in different languages. To improve the recognition of proper nouns in metadata and obtain their transliterations, we propose a method to construct bilingual transliteration word pairs, in which transliterated words in target language are back-transliterated to their original words in sourc...

Epidemiologists are increasingly concerned with the health effects of interventions and of exposure to noninfectious agents, but there may be long periods between exposure and outcome. Collecting information from respondents is a costly and often inefficient way of obtaining the longitudinal data necessary to study these effects. Linking existing data can be an effective and efficient alternati...

The grouping of record-pairs to determine which records belong to the same individual is an important part of the record linkage process. While a merge grouping approach is commonly used, other methods may be more appropriate when linking to a repository of previously linked data. In this paper, we applied a number of grouping strategies to three large scale hospital datasets (comprising around...

Privacy-preserving record linkage (PPRL) aims at integrating sensitive information from multiple disparate databases of different organizations. PPRL approaches are increasingly required in real-world application areas such as healthcare, national security, and business. Previous approaches have mostly focused on linking only two databases as well as the use of a dedicated linkage unit. Scaling...