Background: Identifying “preclinical” Alzheimer’s disease (AD) individuals, defined as cognitively normal individuals with positive amyloid deposition in brain, is critical to the success of clinical trials of disease-modifying therapy (DMT) to prevent AD. Recently, a number of global clinical stu...
Regions of interest (ROIs) were drawn in single z planes, mean intensity values were calculated for each channel (mex-6 (experimental) and puf-5 (control)) and background mean intensity values measured in adjacent soma tissues were subtracted. The background-subtracted mean mex-6 germline ...
The framework con- sists of two main components: a rail extractor for isolating rails from the background and a cascading rail surface flaw. The latter includes a rail detector for recognizing the health status of rail surfaces and a flaw classifier for various flaw types. The framework ...
coli grown in a liquid minimal medium with glucose as the sole carbon source, transferring a fraction of the community to fresh medium daily and measuring the relative abundance of the two strains at each transfer (see Materials and Methods). The two strains had the same genetic background ...
Effects of background constrast and polarity on the legibility of printed materials : Spencer, H., and Reynolds, L. TRC Report No T78-6196; The British Library, London, Report No BLRD-5425, Nov 1977, 37 pp; abstr in R and D Abstracts...
Under the background of the Mobile Internet Age, location service has been developed rapidly. On the basis of modeling the space-time dimension and the study of users' personalized preference combined with the preference of similar user groups, this paper proposes the information selection model of...
Under the background of deepening economic reform, the Chinese stock market began to boom around July 2014 [1]. Tens of millions of new investors entered the market. The great majority of them were retail investors, which tended to exhibit herd behavior. Moreover, many of these novice ...
TRC: Hi Nick and welcome to The Reading Café. Congratulations on the release WHERE THE BONES LIE. We would like to start with some background information. Would you please tell us something about yourself? Nick:I’m a crime and horror writer based in New York City. Like most of my ilk...
1.1. Background We include background on avoid costs and rate design to contextualize our research contribution. 1.2. Avoided costs Avoided costs are generally defined as a LSE's marginal cost of service, and are often used as a proxy for system value of a DER in the applicable service terr...
Background In 2017, reflecting on the sense of ‘homecoming’ I felt in a return to rural life, I wrote: I was ever a child of nature, integrally connected with the rhythm of the seasons and with a strong link between external and internal realities. ...