A5067514872- Noise Effects and Management
- Usability and User Interface Design
- Underwater Acoustics Research
- Marine animal studies overview
- Vehicle Noise and Vibration Control
- Cystic Fibrosis Research Advances
- Astronomical Observations and Instrumentation
- Advanced Vision and Imaging
- Aerodynamics and Acoustics in Jet Flows
- Astronomy and Astrophysical Research
- Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria
- Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques
- Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
- Occupational Health and Safety Research
- Time Series Analysis and Forecasting
- Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis
- Asthma and respiratory diseases
- Semantic Web and Ontologies
- Anatomy and Medical Technology
- Combustion and flame dynamics
- Advanced Image and Video Retrieval Techniques
- Tree-ring climate responses
- Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena
- RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
- Adaptive optics and wavefront sensing
Gallup Indian Medical Center
2025
Indian Health Service
2025
U.S. Air Force Institute of Technology
2024
University of New Hampshire
2017-2024
University of Hertfordshire
2019-2023
Naval Air Systems Command
2016-2023
Queen's University
1996-2021
German Center for Lung Research
2021
Heidelberg University
2021
University Hospital Heidelberg
2021
Studies of adrenal function were performed on 54 asthmatic patients who taking long term high doses inhaled beclomethasone dipropionate ranging from 500 to 2000 micrograms/day for between six and 60 months. Of the 43 up 1500 micrograms/day, 39 (91%) had normal basal plasma cortisol concentrations short tetracosactrin responses 24 hour urinary free excretion was within range in eight nine tested. Some evidence suppression found with below four out 11 five Only one a response range: mean rise...
The use of doctor-computer interaction devices in the operation room (OR) requires new modalities that support medical imaging manipulation while allowing doctors' hands to remain sterile, supporting their focus attention, and providing fast response times. This paper presents "Gestix," a vision-based hand gesture capture recognition system interprets real-time user's gestures for navigation images an electronic record (EMR) database. Navigation other are translated commands based on...
Journal Article Introducing the Internet to over-60s: Developing an email system for older novice computer users Get access Anna Dickinson, Dickinson * a Applied Computing, University of Dundee, UK Corresponding author. Tel: +44 1382 384787; fax: 345509. E-mail address:adickinson@computing.dundee.ac.uk (A. Dickinson). Search other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Alan F. Newell, Newell Michael J. Smith, Smith b Business Consulting, Fujitsu Services, Manchester, Robin...
We show that a Denoising Diffusion Probabalistic Model (DDPM), class of score-based generative model, can be used to produce realistic mock images mimic observations galaxies. Our method is tested with Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) grz imaging galaxies from the Photometry and Rotation curve OBservations Extragalactic Surveys (PROBES) sample selected Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Subjectively, generated are highly when compared samples real dataset. quantify similarity by borrowing...
HLA may influence the natural history of some diseases. frequencies have been compared in 164 healthy control subjects, 50 patients with sarcoid lung fibrosis, and 37 sarcoidosis that resolved spontaneously. B8 was increased significantly group to both subjects (p less than 0.001) fibrotic 0.01). The results support findings other investigators, are consistent hypothesis inherited host factors, perhaps related immune response, clinical expression sarcoidosis.
Evaluation of possible effects underwater sound on aquatic life requires quantification the field. A marine source and propagation modelling workshop took place in June 2022, whose objectives were to facilitate evaluation models identify relevant metrics for environmental impact assessment. The scope included model verification (model-model comparison) validation (model-measurement multiple sources, including airguns, a low-frequency multi-beam echo sounder, surface vessel. Several scenarios...
ADVERTISEMENT RETURN TO ISSUEPREVArticleNEXTRole of phenylalanine-82 in yeast iso-1-cytochrome c and remote conformational changes induced by a serine residue at this positionGordon V. Louie, Gary J. Pielak, Michael Smith, D. BrayerCite this: Biochemistry 1988, 27, 20, 7870–7876Publication Date (Print):October 4, 1988Publication History Published online1 May 2002Published inissue 4 October 1988https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/bi00420a043https://doi.org/10.1021/bi00420a043research-articleACS...
Musculoskeletal symptoms are frequent in cystic fibrosis (CF). Here the clinical features of 29 patients with CF who had significant arthropathy described. Twelve episodic arthritis (EA) characterised by repeated short attacks severe, incapacitating polyarthritis, which seven was associated fever and erythema nodosum. Ten hypertrophic pulmonary osteoarthropathy (HPOA). The onset group HPOA usually later (mean age 20 years v 16 for EA) significantly worse lung function than CF, either without...
ADVERTISEMENT RETURN TO ISSUEPREVArticleNEXTCopper micronutrient requirement for algaeStanley E. Manahan and Michael J. SmithCite this: Environ. Sci. Technol. 1973, 7, 9, 829–833Publication Date (Print):September 1, 1973Publication History Published online1 May 2002Published inissue 1 September 1973https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/es60081a013https://doi.org/10.1021/es60081a013research-articleACS PublicationsRequest reuse permissionsArticle Views522Altmetric-Citations45LEARN ABOUT THESE...
Many insects are well adapted to long-distance migration despite the larger energetic costs of flight for small body sizes. To optimize wing design next-generation flying micro-robots, we analyse butterfly shapes and orientations at full scale using numerical simulations in a low-speed wind tunnel 2, 3.5 5 m s −1 . The results indicate that which maximize span lead highest glide performance, with lift drag ratios up 6.28, while spreading fore-wings forward can increase maximum produced thus...
ABSTRACT We present AstroVaDEr (Astronomical Variational Deep Embedder), a variational autoencoder designed to perform unsupervised clustering and synthetic image generation using astronomical imaging catalogues. The model is convolutional neural network that learns embed images into low-dimensional latent space, simultaneously optimizes Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) on the embedded vectors cluster training data. By utilizing inference, we are able use learned GMM as statistical prior space...
 We introduce EarthPT -- an Earth Observation (EO) pretrained transformer. is a 700 million parameter decoding transformer foundation model trained in autoregressive self-supervised manner and developed specifically with EO use-cases mind. We demonstrate that effective forecaster can accurately predict future pixel-level surface reflectances across the 400-2300 nm range well into future. For example, forecasts of evolution Normalised Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) have typical...
Background: The American Indian population in the United States experiences marked cardiovascular health disparities. patients, particularly those receiving care rurally through Health Service (IHS), face unique challenges to accessing appropriate care. However, there are no studies current era characterizing these from patient perspective. Therefore, aim of this study was characterize barriers, facilitators, and perceptions cardiac among Diné (Navajo) patients with heart failure (HF) IHS,...
Inoculation of soil with bacteria (a Gram-negative rod [PD2] and a 4-membered consortium [DC1]) accelerated mineralisation phenanthrene pyrene (but not naphthalene) added individually to pristine sand organic soil. The half-life naphthalene was 3.5 days in both soils whether inoculated or non-inoculated. However, the decreased from 86 non-inoculated 80 3.6 3.1 when PD2, 6.6 8.7 DC1. Phenanthrene ceased after 23 DC1-inoculated 71.3±3.6% (sand) 63.3±2.8% (organic). This compared 96.8±3.8%...
Levels of ciprofloxacin in serum and sputum were studied for eight patients with cystic fibrosis who infected Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Patients a steady state on dosage 500 mg every 8 h. Peak levels ranged from 1.27 to 5.6 mg/liter (mean, 3.16 +/- 1.27), absorption was rapid, the time peak concentration ranging 0.5 3.0 h 1.5 0.9). The antibiotic penetrated well, achieving areas under curve approximately 46% those obtained serum.
Abstract We explore the potential of enhancing LLM performance in astronomy-focused question-answering through targeted, continual pre-training. By employing a compact 7B-parameter LLaMA-2 model and focusing exclusively on curated set astronomy corpora—comprising abstracts, introductions, conclusions—we achieve notable improvements specialized topic comprehension. While general LLMs like GPT-4 excel broader scenarios due to superior reasoning capabilities, our findings suggest that...