681 research outputs found

    Semantic Information Based Web Service Discovery

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    Web service discovery is an important part of Web service applications. With the increase of the Web services, there come the problems that we must face to. The technology of traditional Web service discovery is based on the matching foundation of key words by combining WSDL and UDDI standardization. However, it is short of the description of semantic information, which means a low level of intelligence. Thus, it leads to low exactness and completeness. In the light of this issue, the paper draws the concept of semantic information into the research of Web service discovery. Through WordNet, it expands service description, raises semantic information, and makes semantic match possible. The paper puts forward a model based on semantic for Web service discovery, analyzes the function structure and the relationship between component parts of the model, moreover, it describes the work flow of the model. At the same time, the paper enlarges UDDI information and gives a matching algorithm on the similarity calculation through semantic analysis when finding the matched service

    Research on the Supply Chain Partnership Relations with Association Rule Analysis

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    Due to that many fuzzy and uncertain association relations represented by some phenomenon in the process of enterprises cooperation in supply chain, data mining method was try out in this paper. At first, concept and deducing procedure was introduced, and then 300 samples from a survey was pretreatment, in succession cooperation relations of enterprises in supply chain was studied combined with association analysis method. Some acceptable conclusions were obtained, which can explain the relations between modality and measures of cooperation of enterprises reasonably

    An Ab Initio Description of the Mott Metal-Insulator Transition of M2_{2} Vanadium Dioxide

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    Using an \textit{ab initio} approach based on the GW approximation which includes strong local \textbf{k}-space correlations, the Metal-Insulator Transition of M2_2 vanadium dioxide is broken down into its component parts and investigated. Similarly to the M1_{1} structure, the Peierls pairing of the M2_{2} structure results in bonding-antibonding splitting which stabilizes states in which the majority of the charge density resides on the Peierls chain. This is insufficient to drop all of the bonding states into the lower Hubbard band however. An antiferroelectric distortion on the neighboring vanadium chain is required to reduce the repulsion felt by the Peierls bonding states by increasing the distances between the vanadium and apical oxygen atoms, lowering the potential overlap thus reducing the charge density accumulation and thereby the electronic repulsion. The antibonding states are simultaneously pushed into the upper Hubbard band. The data indicate that sufficiently modified GW calculations are able to describe the interplay of the atomic and electronic structures occurring in Mott metal-insulator transitions.Comment: 10 Pages, 7 Figure

    Root resorptions associated with canine retraction treatment

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    INTRODUCTION: The hypothesis of this study was that multiple factors are dominant in causing external apical root resorption (EARR). The objective of this investigation was to better understand the clinical factors that may lead to EARR. METHODS: Maxillary cone-beam computed tomography scans of 18 subjects who were treated with bilateral canine retractions during orthodontics were used to calculate EARR. The subjects were treated using well-calibrated segmental T-loops for delivering a 124-cN retraction force and the moment-to-force ratio suitable for moving the canine under either translation or controlled tipping. The subjects' age, sex, treatment duration, and genotype were collected. RESULTS: Six subjects of the 18 showed definite EARR, meaning that load was not the only causing factor. All 5 subjects with the genotype identified had GG genotype of IL-1β rs11143634, indicating that people with this genotype may be at high risk. Longer treatment duration, female sex, and older age may also contribute to EARR, although the findings were not statistically significant. CONCLUSIONS: EARR appears to be related to multiple factors. The orthodontic load and the genotype should be the focuses for future studies

    A novel homozygous mutation in LSS gene possibly causes hypotrichosis simplex in two siblings of a Tibetan family from the western Sichuan province of China

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    Aim: Hypotrichosis simplex (MIM 146520) is a rare form of monogenic hereditary alopecia. Several genes have been identified as being associated with the disease, including LPAR6, LIPH, and DSG4. LSS encoding lanosterol synthase (LSS) has been shown to cause hypotrichosis simplex, but the related mechanisms have not been elucidated to date. This study aims to find mutations in LSS from a Chinese family, among which a 21-year-old male patient and his 9-year-old sister were affected by hypotrichosis simplex.Methods: Dermoscopy and histological analysis were used to examine patients’ scalps, while exome sequencing was used to find the mutations in LSS.Results: The hair loss was only detected on the scalp of the proband and his sister, while other ectodermal structures were normal with no systemic abnormalities. Further, the exome sequencing identified a new homozygous mutation NM_002340.6 (LSS_v001):c.812T>C (p.(Ile271Thr)) in the LSS gene of the proband, which was also found in his sister. In addition, a heterozygous mutation of LSS was found in their asymptomatic parents. Finally, the possible protein structure of the mutational LSS was predicted.Conclusion: The hypotrichosis simplex reported here could be an autosomal recessive disease in this family. The mutation on LSS might reduce the enzyme activity of LSS, thus leading to the disease

    Class-Specific Attention (CSA) for Time-Series Classification

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    Most neural network-based classifiers extract features using several hidden layers and make predictions at the output layer by utilizing these extracted features. We observe that not all features are equally pronounced in all classes; we call such features class-specific features. Existing models do not fully utilize the class-specific differences in features as they feed all extracted features from the hidden layers equally to the output layers. Recent attention mechanisms allow giving different emphasis (or attention) to different features, but these attention models are themselves class-agnostic. In this paper, we propose a novel class-specific attention (CSA) module to capture significant class-specific features and improve the overall classification performance of time series. The CSA module is designed in a way such that it can be adopted in existing neural network (NN) based models to conduct time series classification. In the experiments, this module is plugged into five start-of-the-art neural network models for time series classification to test its effectiveness by using 40 different real datasets. Extensive experiments show that an NN model embedded with the CSA module can improve the base model in most cases and the accuracy improvement can be up to 42%. Our statistical analysis show that the performance of an NN model embedding the CSA module is better than the base NN model on 67% of MTS and 80% of UTS test cases and is significantly better on 11% of MTS and 13% of UTS test cases.Comment: 12 page

    Transmembrane routes of cationic liposome-mediated gene delivery using human throat epidermis cancer cells

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    For studying the mechanism of cationic liposome-mediated transmembrane routes for gene delivery, various inhibitors of endocytosis were used to treat human throat epidermis cancer cells, Hep-2, before transfection with Lipofectamine 2000/pGFP-N2 or Lipofectamine 2000/pGL3. To eliminate the effect of inhibitor toxicity on transfection, the RLU/survival rate was used to represent the transfection efficiency. Chlorpromazine and wortmannin, clathrin inhibitors, decreased transfection efficiency by 44 % (100 μM) and 31 % (100 nM), respectively. At the same time, genistein, a caveolin inhibitor, decreased it by 30 % (200 μM). Thus combined transmembrane routes through the clathrin and caveolae-mediated pathways were major mechanisms of cell uptake for the cationic liposome-mediated gene delivery. After entering the cells, microtubules played an important role on gene delivery as vinblastine, a microtubulin inhibitor, could reduce transfection efficiency by 41 % (200 nM)
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