Journal articles: 'Applications of the CPI'

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Arnette, W. S., A. D. Kshemkalyani, W. B. Riley, J. P. Sanders, P. J. Schwaller, J. C. Terrien, and J. Q. Walker. "CPI-C: An API for distributed applications." IBM Systems Journal 34, no. 3 (1995): 501–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1147/sj.343.0501.

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Kim, Hyeonwoo, Suwon Hwang, Taeseung Hwang, Jung Bin In, and Junyeob Yeo. "Digitally Patterned Mesoporous Carbon Nanostructures of Colorless Polyimide for Transparent and Flexible Micro-Supercapacitor." Energies 14, no. 9 (April 29, 2021): 2547. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/en14092547.

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Here, we demonstrate the fabrication of a flexible and transparent micro-supercapacitor (MSC), using colorless polyimide (CPI) via a direct laser writing carbonization (DLWC) process. The focused laser beam directly carbonizes the CPI substrate and generates a porous carbon structure on the surface of the CPI substrate. Fluorine, which is one of the chemical compositions of CPI, can enhance the specific area and the conductivity of the carbon electrode by creating micropores in carbon structures during carbonization. Thus, the fabricated carbonized CPI-based MSC shows enhanced specific capacitance (1.20 mF at 10 mV s−1) and better transmittance (44.9%) compared to the conventional PI-based MSC. Additionally, the fabricated carbonized CPI-based MSC shows excellent cyclic performance with minimal reduction (<~10%) in 3000 cycles and high capacitance retention under mechanical bending test conditions. Due to its high flexibility, transparency, and capacitance, we expect that carbonized CPI-based MSC can be further applied to various flexible and transparent applications.

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Gough, Harrison G. "Theory, Development, and Interpretation of the CPI Socialization Scale." Psychological Reports 75, no. 1 (August 1994): 651–700. http://dx.doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1994.75.1.651.

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The socialization (So) scale of the California Psychological Inventory is based partly on a role-taking or perspective-taking theory of social deviance and partly on the pragmatics of differentiating between more socialized and less socialized individuals. The theory, history, and current applications of the scale are reviewed, relationships to other scales and measures are examined, and the validity of the scale in arraying 69 male and 40 female samples along a putative continuum of socialization is evaluated. Finally, from these findings and from analyses of observers' adjectival and Q-sort descriptions significantly related to the scale, an interpretive psychology of the measure is propounded.

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Ganguly, Keya, Sayan Deb Dutta, Min-Soo Jeong, Dinesh K. Patel, Seong-Jun Cho, and Ki-Taek Lim. "Naturally-derived protein extract from Gryllus bimaculatus improves antioxidant properties and promotes osteogenic differentiation of hBMSCs." PLOS ONE 16, no. 6 (June 2, 2021): e0249291. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0249291.

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Naturally-derived proteins or peptides are promising biopolymers for tissue engineering applications owing to their health-promoting activity. Herein, we extracted proteins (~90%) from two-spotted cricket (Gryllus bimaculatus) and evaluated their osteoinductive potential in human bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells (hBMSCs) under in vitro conditions. The extracted protein isolate was analyzed for the amino acid composition and the mass distribution of the constituent peptide fraction. Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy was used to determine the presence of biologically significant functional groups. The cricket protein isolate (CPI) exhibited characteristic protein peaks in the FTIR spectrum. Notably, an enhanced cell viability was observed in the presence of the extracted proteins, showing their biocompatibility. The CPI also exhibited antioxidant properties in a concentration-dependent manner. More significant mineralization was observed in the CPI-treated cells than in the control, suggesting their osteoinductive potential. The upregulation of the osteogenic marker genes (Runx2, ALP, OCN, and BSP) in CPI treated media compared with the control supports their osteoinductive nature. Therefore, cricket-derived protein isolates could be used as functional protein isolate for tissue engineering applications, especially for bone regeneration.

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Zhang, Wei, and Yiqiang Ding. "Exploiting Standard Deviation of CPI to Evaluate Architectural Time-Predictability." Journal of Computing Science and Engineering 8, no. 1 (March 30, 2014): 34–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.5626/jcse.2014.8.1.34.

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Haider, Husnain, Mohammed AlHetari, Abdul Razzaq Ghumman, Ibrahim Saleh Al-Salamah, Hussein Thabit, and Md Shafiquzzaman. "Continuous Performance Improvement Framework for Sustainable Wastewater Treatment Facilities in Arid Regions: Case of Wadi Rumah in Qassim, Saudi Arabia." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18, no. 13 (June 26, 2021): 6857. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18136857.

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In arid regions such as Saudi Arabia, wastewater treatment (WWT) facilities (meeting promulgated standards) need to adapt their continuous performance improvement (CPI) for long-term sustainability. To achieve this, the facilities need to improve their performance to comply with more strict objectives for broader reuse applications of treated effluent. The present research proposes a CPI framework based on performance benchmarking process for the stepwise improvement of WWT facilities. A grey rational analysis water quality index (GWQI) based on exceedance probability was developed. For weights’ estimation of 11 physical, chemical, and biological water quality parameters, the entropy method effectively accommodated the changes in relative importance of the parameters with including additional future reuse applications. For existing effluent reuse scenarios of restricted and unrestricted irrigation, the GWQI values were found consistent with the modified version of the Canadian WQI (GWQI). The indices’ values (ranged between 0 and 100) greater than 80 showed the efficient operation of four WWT plants in the Qassim Region of Saudi Arabia. Two hypothetical CPI scenarios with future reuse applications (fish, livestock drinking, and recreation) showed an overall decline in the average (of four plants) values of the GWQI (97 to 78) and CWQI (85 to 60). CWQI predicted stricter results for the facilities with parameters’ concentrations exceeding the targets with larger margins and was found applicable for the CPI of WWT facilities in arid regions. For existing scenarios, the assessment results suggest the facilities to control and monitor the chlorination practice. For future targets, tertiary treatment needs to be enhanced for desired nutrients and total dissolved solids removal. The proposed CPI framework provides a platform to initiate the performance benchmarking process for WWT facilities at local or regional levels in Saudi Arabia and elsewhere.

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Giovannetti, Rita, Marco Zannotti, Leila Alibabaei, and Stefano Ferraro. "Equilibrium and Kinetic Aspects in the Sensitization of Monolayer Transparent TiO2Thin Films with Porphyrin Dyes for DSSC Applications." International Journal of Photoenergy 2014 (2014): 1–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/834269.

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Free base, Cu(II) and Zn(II) complexes of the 2,7,12,17-tetrapropionic acid of 3,8,13,18-tetramethyl-21H,23H porphyrin (CPI) in solution and bounded to transparent monolayer TiO2nanoparticle films were studied to determine their adsorption on TiO2surface, to measure the adsorption kinetics and isotherms, and to use the results obtained to optimize the preparation of DSSC photovoltaic cells. Adsorption studies were carried out on monolayer transparent TiO2films of a known thickness. Langmuir and Frendlich adsorption constants of CPI-dyes on TiO2monolayer surface have been calculated as a function of the equilibrium concentrations in the solutions. The amount of these adsorbed dyes showed the accordance with Langmuir isotherm. Kinetic data on the adsorption of dyes showed significantly better fits to pseudo-first-order model and the evaluated rate constants linearly increased with the grow of initial dye concentrations. The stoichiometry of the adsorption of CPI-dyes into TiO2and the influence of presence of coadsorbent (chenodeoxycholic acid) have been established. The DSSC obtained in the similar conditions showed that the best efficiency can be obtained in the absence of coadsorbent with short and established immersion times.

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Hergenrothert, P. M., and S. J. Havens. "Preliminary adhesive and composite properties of LARC™-CPI 2, a new semicrystalline polyimide." High Performance Polymers 5, no. 3 (June 1993): 177–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0954-0083/5/3/001.

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In continuation of an effort to develop processable high-performance structural resins for use in aerospace applications, a new polyimide. LARCTM-CPI 2, has been developed. This semicrystalline polyimide was prepared by the reaction of 4.4'-oxydiphthalic anhydride with 1,4-bis(4-aminophenoxy-4'-benzoyl)benzene. In high-molecular-weight form this material has a glass transition temperature of 223 C and a crystalline melt temperature of approximately 350 'C. Controlled-molecular-weight end-capped versions of LARCTM-CPI 2 were used to fabricate adhesive panels and composites that exhibited good mechanical properties at temperatures as high as 200 C.

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Greenlees, John S., and Robert McClelland. "Does Quality Adjustment Matter for Technologically Stable Products? An Application to the CPI for Food." American Economic Review 101, no. 3 (May 1, 2011): 200–205. http://dx.doi.org/10.1257/aer.101.3.200.

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Most indexes in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) use a form of the “matched-model” approach. It is frequently assumed that this approach accurately reflects inflation for items that have no major trend in quality. In this paper we investigate that hypothesis using CPI data for retail food items. We find that CPI analysts may be correct on average when they decide that new and replacement items are similar in quality. We also find, however, that when sample items are replaced by items of significantly different quality the CPI imputation procedures may underestimate price change and overstate quality change.

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Teng, Jen-Hao, Chia-Wei Chao, Bin-Han Liu, Wei-Hao Huang, and Jih-Ching Chiu. "Communication Performance Assessment for Advanced Metering Infrastructure." Energies 12, no. 1 (December 28, 2018): 88. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/en12010088.

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Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI), the foundation of smart grids, can be used to provide numerous intelligent power applications and services based on the data acquired from AMI. Effective and efficient communication performance between widely-spread smart meters and Data Concentrator Units (DCUs) is one of the most important issues for the successful deployment and operation of AMI and needs to be further investigated. This paper proposes an effective Communication Performance Index (CPI) to assess and supervise the communication performance of each smart meter. Some communication quality measurements that can be easily acquired from a smart meter such as reading success rate and response time are used to design the proposed CPI. Fuzzy logic is adopted to combine these measurements to calculate the proposed CPI. The CPIs for communication paths, DCUs and whole AMI can then be derived from meter CPIs. Simulation and experimental results for small-scale AMIs demonstrate the validity of the proposed CPI. Through the calculated CPIs, the communication performance and stability for AMI can be effectively assessed and supervised.

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Cao, Yuan, and Qing Cao. "Optimization of Post-Based Merit Salary Based on CPI and University Characteristic Data." Scientific Programming 2021 (June 19, 2021): 1–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2021/2287596.

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In order to improve the rationality and efficiency of post-based merit salary setting for teaching and research staff in colleges and universities, this paper analyses and discusses the influencing factors and determining principles of post-based merit salary for teaching and research staff in colleges and universities based on the consumer price index (CPI) and the characteristics of colleges and universities. A dynamic and optimal post-based merit salary generation model and its determination method are put forward. The model comprehensively takes changes in price levels into account and the key factors such as the teacher’s professional technical level, length of service, and performance appraisal results and can dynamically and intelligently calculate the post-based merit salary of teachers. The test results of the examples prove that the post-based merit salary calculated by the model is objective and reasonable, and it is easy to dynamically adjust according to the changes in social environment and the characteristics of colleges and universities. It can provide a scientific method and useful reference for determining post-based merit salary in colleges and universities.

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Subakti, Hanas, Herman Tolle, and Muhammad Aswin. "Engfi Gate: An Indoor Guidance System using Marker-based Cyber-Physical Augmented-Reality." International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE) 8, no. 1 (February 1, 2018): 34. http://dx.doi.org/10.11591/ijece.v8i1.pp34-42.

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A guidance system is needed when freshmen explore their new building environment. With the advancements of mobile technologies, a guidance system using mobile computing devices such as mobile phones or tablets could aid freshmen in locating the desired destination with ease. The proposed system consists of three main subsystems: the marker-based cyber-physical interaction (CPI) system, the indoor positioning (IP) system, and the augmented-reality (AR) system. With the help of visible markers and invisible markers, the CPI system allows the users to do interactions between the physical and cyber environments; the IP system produces accurate user position information; the AR system provides the users with good user experiences. An Android application, named Engfi Gate, is developed to realize the system design in the test environment. This paper also shows the comparisons of the proposed system with other related systems. Furthermore, the design architecture of Engfi Gate system can be used in other location-based applications.

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Lang, Irene, Guneet Virk, Dale C. Zheng, Jason Young, Michael J. Nguyen, Rojin Amiri, Michelle Fong, et al. "The Evolution of Duplicated Genes of the Cpi-17/Phi-1 (ppp1r14) Family of Protein Phosphatase 1 Inhibitors in Teleosts." International Journal of Molecular Sciences 21, no. 16 (August 9, 2020): 5709. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms21165709.

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The Cpi-17 (ppp1r14) gene family is an evolutionarily conserved, vertebrate specific group of protein phosphatase 1 (PP1) inhibitors. When phosphorylated, Cpi-17 is a potent inhibitor of myosin phosphatase (MP), a holoenzyme complex of the regulatory subunit Mypt1 and the catalytic subunit PP1. Myosin phosphatase dephosphorylates the regulatory myosin light chain (Mlc2) and promotes actomyosin relaxation, which in turn, regulates numerous cellular processes including smooth muscle contraction, cytokinesis, cell motility, and tumor cell invasion. We analyzed zebrafish homologs of the Cpi-17 family, to better understand the mechanisms of myosin phosphatase regulation. We found single homologs of both Kepi (ppp1r14c) and Gbpi (ppp1r14d) in silico, but we detected no expression of these genes during early embryonic development. Cpi-17 (ppp1r14a) and Phi-1 (ppp1r14b) each had two duplicate paralogs, (ppp1r14aa and ppp1r14ab) and (ppp1r14ba and ppp1r14bb), which were each expressed during early development. The spatial expression pattern of these genes has diverged, with ppp1r14aa and ppp1r14bb expressed primarily in smooth muscle and skeletal muscle, respectively, while ppp1r14ab and ppp1r14ba are primarily expressed in neural tissue. We observed that, in in vitro and heterologous cellular systems, the Cpi-17 paralogs both acted as potent myosin phosphatase inhibitors, and were indistinguishable from one another. In contrast, the two Phi-1 paralogs displayed weak myosin phosphatase inhibitory activity in vitro, and did not alter myosin phosphorylation in cells. Through deletion and chimeric analysis, we identified that the difference in specificity for myosin phosphatase between Cpi-17 and Phi-1 was encoded by the highly conserved PHIN (phosphatase holoenzyme inhibitory) domain, and not the more divergent N- and C- termini. We also showed that either Cpi-17 paralog can rescue the knockdown phenotype, but neither Phi-1 paralog could do so. Thus, we provide new evidence about the biochemical and developmental distinctions of the zebrafish Cpi-17 protein family.

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Hsing, Yu, and Bruno S. Sergi. "THE DOLLAR/EURO EXCHANGE RATE AND A COMPARISON OF MAJOR MODELS." Journal of Business Economics and Management 10, no. 3 (September 30, 2009): 199–205. http://dx.doi.org/10.3846/1611-1699.2009.10.199-205.

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This article analyzes the behaviour of the USD/EUR exchange rate based on four major models. Using the mean absolute percent error (MAPE) as a criterion, the extended Mundell‐Fleming model performs best, followed by the PPP model using the relative PPI, the monetary model, the PPP model using the relative CPI, and the UIP model. The widely used log‐log form in the PPP model based on the relative PPI or CPI can be rejected at the 5% level. The insignificant coefficients or unexpected signs of some variables in the monetary and other models may pose some challenges in applications.

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Umnova, Larisa, Grigorijs Orlikovs, and Julija Voicehovska. "Chronic Pancreatitis: Problems of Classification." Acta Chirurgica Latviensis 11, no. 1 (January 1, 2011): 126–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/v10163-012-0024-6.

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Chronic Pancreatitis: Problems of Classification The article encompasses a review of those classifications of chronic pancreatitis (CP) that are of value for clinical practice. None of them gives a reliable description of the severity of clinical presentation and severity of CP course. Clinical pancreatic index (CPI), introduced by the authors, is a clinical classification aimed at solving this problem. CPI gives a quantitative degree of clinical symptom intensity and the severity of clinical course of CP. The application of CPI is useful both when completing clinical researches and in clinical practice. CPI is designed to help choose the best CP treatment option and its intensity.

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Chen, Lifan, Xiaoqin Tan, Dingyan Wang, Feisheng Zhong, Xiaohong Liu, Tianbiao Yang, Xiaomin Luo, Kaixian Chen, Hualiang Jiang, and Mingyue Zheng. "TransformerCPI: improving compound–protein interaction prediction by sequence-based deep learning with self-attention mechanism and label reversal experiments." Bioinformatics 36, no. 16 (May 19, 2020): 4406–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btaa524.

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Abstract Motivation Identifying compound–protein interaction (CPI) is a crucial task in drug discovery and chemogenomics studies, and proteins without three-dimensional structure account for a large part of potential biological targets, which requires developing methods using only protein sequence information to predict CPI. However, sequence-based CPI models may face some specific pitfalls, including using inappropriate datasets, hidden ligand bias and splitting datasets inappropriately, resulting in overestimation of their prediction performance. Results To address these issues, we here constructed new datasets specific for CPI prediction, proposed a novel transformer neural network named TransformerCPI, and introduced a more rigorous label reversal experiment to test whether a model learns true interaction features. TransformerCPI achieved much improved performance on the new experiments, and it can be deconvolved to highlight important interacting regions of protein sequences and compound atoms, which may contribute chemical biology studies with useful guidance for further ligand structural optimization. Availability and implementation https://github.com/lifanchen-simm/transformerCPI.

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LV, Yaodi, Kaijun WU, and Yuqing ZHANG. "Application of The Chinese PTSD Inventory (CPI) to College Students." Advances in Psychological Science 23, no. 8 (2015): 1324. http://dx.doi.org/10.3724/sp.j.1042.2015.01324.

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魏, 立力. "Fuzzy Regression Combination Model and Its Application in CPI Forecasting." Operations Research and Fuzziology 08, no. 01 (2018): 30–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.12677/orf.2018.81004.

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Kotla, Rahul Wilson, and Srinivasa Rao Yarlagadda. "Grid Tied Solar Photovoltaic Power Plants with Constant Power Injection Maximum Power Point Tracking Algorithm." Journal Européen des Systèmes Automatisés 53, no. 4 (September 30, 2020): 567–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.18280/jesa.530416.

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Day to day there is an increase in installations of new Solar Photovoltaic Power plants (SPVPP’s) which directly reflects the grid. As the SPVPP’s output power is fluctuating in nature, which is directly injected to the utility grid faces the challenges like overloading. Therefore, to overcome the overloading situations of grid, its infrastructure should be replaced by higher ratings which will increase the system cost. Due to this there is a need to limit the grid injected power from SPVPP’s to overcome the overloading situations. In this article a Constant power injection (CPI) algorithm is used to control the feed in power to grid as per grid regulations. Based on the instantaneous SPVPP’s output power and power limiting value this strategy will controls the output power by switching between the incremental conductance maximum power point tracking (InC-MPPT) algorithm and CPI algorithm. The proposed InC-CPI algorithm is applied to the single phase two-stage (SPTS) systems with the working region is on the left side of maximum power point (MPP) for maintaining the system to be in stable conditions. In this article the InC-CPI and the perturb and observe (P&O)-CPI algorithms were compared, and results were analyzed. The proposed control algorithm is designed using Matlab/Simulink and the results taken for both clear and cloudy days with wide varying climatic conditions.

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Sharma, A. "Collaborative product innovation: integrating elements of CPI via PLM framework." Computer-Aided Design 37, no. 13 (November 2005): 1425–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cad.2005.02.012.

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Meng, Fanli, Yongxia Li, Zhenkai Liu, Xuan Wang, Yuqian Feng, Wei Zhang, and Xingyao Zhang. "Potential Molecular Mimicry Proteins Responsive to α-pinene in Bursaphelenchus xylophilus." International Journal of Molecular Sciences 21, no. 3 (February 1, 2020): 982. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms21030982.

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Bursaphelenchus xylophilus is a nematode species that has damaged pine trees worldwide, but its pathogenesis has not been fully characterized. α-pinene helps protect host species during the early B. xylophilus infection and colonization stages. In this study, we identified potential molecular mimicry proteins based on a comparative transcriptomic analysis of B. xylophilus. The expression levels of three genes encoding secreted B. xylophilus proteins were influenced by α-pinene. We cloned one gene encoding a thaumatin-like protein, Bx-tlp-2 (accession number MK000287), and another gene encoding a cysteine proteinase inhibitor, Bx-cpi (accession number MK000288). Additionally, α-pinene appeared to induce Bx-tlp-1 expression, but had the opposite effect on Bx-cpi expression. An analysis of the expression of the potential molecular mimicry proteins in B. xylophilus infecting pine trees revealed that the α-pinene content was consistent with the expression levels of Bx-tlp-1 (Bx-cpi) and Pm-tlp (Pm-cpi) over time. Thus, these genes likely have important roles contributing to the infection of pine species by B. xylophilus. The results of this study may be relevant for future investigations of the functions of Bx-tlp-1, Bx-tlp-2 and Bx-cpi, which may provide a point to explore the relationship between B. xylophilus and host pines.

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Zhao, Yan-Yong, Jin-Guan Lin, and Hong-Xia Wang. "Robust bootstrap estimates in heteroscedastic semi-varying coefficient models and applications in analyzing Australia CPI data." Communications in Statistics - Simulation and Computation 46, no. 4 (December 18, 2016): 2638–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03610918.2015.1054940.

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Aoyama, Kazuo, Kazumi Saito, and Tetsuo Ikeda. "CPI-model-based analysis of sparse k-means clustering algorithms." International Journal of Data Science and Analytics 12, no. 3 (June 15, 2021): 229–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s41060-021-00270-4.

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Liu, Yiwu, Ao Tang, Jinghua Tan, Xianqing Zhao, Chengliang Chen, Ding Wu, Yuhui Li, Pan He, and Hailiang Zhang. "High-Barrier Polyimide Containing Carbazole Moiety: Synthesis, Gas Barrier Properties, and Molecular Simulations." Polymers 12, no. 9 (September 8, 2020): 2048. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/polym12092048.

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A high-barrier polyimide (2,7-CPI) was synthesized through the polymerization of pyromellitic dianhydride (PMDA) and a novel diamine (2,7-CDA) containing carbazole moiety. The synthesized diamine and polyimide were fully characterized by elemental analyses, FTIR and NMR. The 2,7-CPI displays very attractive barrier performances, with oxygen transmission rate (OTR) and water vapor transmission rate (WVTR) low to 0.14 cm3·m−2·day−1 and 0.05 g·m−2·day−1, respectively. Meanwhile, 2,7-CPI also exhibits exceptional thermal stability with a glass transition temperature (Tg) of 467 °C, 5% weight-loss temperature (Td5%) of 550 °C under N2 and coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE) of 3.4 ppm/K. The barrier performances of 2,7-CPI are compared with those of a structural analogue (2,7-CPPI) and a typical polyimide (Kapton). Their barrier performances with respect to microstructure were investigated by molecular simulations, wide angle X-ray diffraction (WAXD), and positron annihilation lifetime spectroscopy (PALS). The results show that 2,7-CPI possesses better coplanar structure and more number of intermolecular hydrogen bonds among the three PIs, which result in tight chain packing and thereby high crystallinity, low free volume, and decreased chains mobility. That is, the high crystallinity and low free volume of 2,7-CPI reduce the diffusion and solubility of gases. Meanwhile, the poor chains mobility further decreases the gases diffusion. The reduced diffusion and solubility of gases consequently promote the improvement of barrier properties for 2,7-CPI. The polyimide has a wide application prospect in the field of flexible electronic packaging industries.

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SUZUKI, OSAMU. "Recent Advances in Underfill Materials." International Symposium on Microelectronics 2019, S2 (October 1, 2019): S1—S15. http://dx.doi.org/10.4071/2380-4505-2019.1.invitedaihardware000014.

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Abstract Invited Session on FUTURE SEMICONDUCTOR PACKAGES FOR AI HARDWARE. Outline: Applications for Advanced Packaging; Global AI Computing Hardware Total Available Market (TAM); Die partitions; Defect Density; FC-BGA Families Trends; Technical Challenges of CUF; Underfills for Advanced Packaging; Severe KOZ on MCM; Bleed Out; Formulation Technique; Concerns during penetration; Chip package interaction (CPI) Challenges; and summary.

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Ogletree, Billy T., Patrick Bartholomew, and Johanna R. Price. "Large-Group Application of Communication Partner Instruction With Stakeholders of Adults With Severe Intellectual Disabilities." Communication Disorders Quarterly 41, no. 3 (February 27, 2019): 188–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1525740119830652.

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This brief report describes a large-group application of the Communication Partner Instruction (CPI) training model as a means of improving the interactive skills of stakeholders who communicate with individuals with severe intellectual disabilities presenting complex communication and physical profiles. Findings support CPI for large stakeholder groups as study participants reported general satisfaction with both the training sequence and their use of skills learned 1 year post training.

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Šimanský, Vladimír, and Nora Polláková. "The effects of soil management practices on soil organic matter changes within a productive vineyard in the Nitra viticulture area (Slovakia)." Agriculture (Polnohospodárstvo) 62, no. 1 (April 1, 2016): 1–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/agri-2016-0001.

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Abstract Since understanding soil organic matter (SOM) content and quality is very important, in the present study we evaluated parameters of SOM including: carbon lability (LC), lability index (LI), carbon pool index (CPI) and carbon management index (CMI) in the soil as well as in the water-stable aggregates (WSA) under different soil management practices in a commercial vineyard (established on Rendzic Leptosol in the Nitra viticulture area, Slovakia). Soil samples were taken in spring during the years 2008–2015 from the following treatments: G (grass, control), T (tillage and intensive cultivation), T+FYM (tillage + farmyard manure), G+NPK3 (grass + 3rd intensity of fertilisation for vineyards), and G+NPK1 (grass + 1st intensity of fertilisation for vineyards). The highest LI values in soil were found for the G+NPK3 and T+FYM fertilised treatments and the lowest for the unfertilised intensively tilled treatments. The CPI in the soil increased as follows: T < G+NPK3 < T+FYM < G+NPK1. The highest accumulation of carbon as well as decomposable organic matter occurred in G+NPK1 compared to other fertilised treatments, while intensive tillage caused a decrease. On average, the values of LI in WSA increased in the sequence G+NPK1 < T+FYM < G+NPK3 < T. Our results showed that the greatest SOM vulnerability to degradation was observed in the WSA under T treatment, and the greatest values of CPI in WSA were detected as a result of fertiliser application in 3rd intensity for vineyards and farmyard manure application.

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Kadeřábek, Petr. "A Simple Model of Interaction Between CPI and PPI: Application to Monthly Data of EU Countries." Politická ekonomie 55, no. 2 (April 1, 2007): 226–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.18267/j.polek.598.

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Deng, G. B., E. Guilmineau, J. Piquet, P. Queutey, and M. Visonneau. "Computation of unsteady laminar viscous flow past an aerofoil using the CPI method." International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids 19, no. 9 (November 15, 1994): 765–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/fld.1650190903.

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Rangkuti, Abdul Haris. "Teknik Pengambilan Keputusan Multi Kriteria Menggunakan Metode BAYES, MPE, CPI dan AHP." ComTech: Computer, Mathematics and Engineering Applications 2, no. 1 (June 1, 2011): 229. http://dx.doi.org/10.21512/comtech.v2i1.2738.

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Decision making at every company is something very important and vital. Decision making can be influenced by several aspects, so it can affect the promptness and accuracy of the process, especially when solving any complex, dynamic and less structured problems. Therefore, the combination of multiple criteria concept and an application program of decision-support system is an effective way to generate alternative decisions. The methods used for multiple criteria are: Bayes method, MPE, CPI and the AHP. This article discusses the use of each method, adapted to each problem. The four methods happen to be very effective with the help of the application program of decision support system. Expectantly these methods are able to assist company managements in decision-making.

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Lavoie, Jean-Michel, Michael Nissen, Priya Baichoo, Lucia Nappi, Daniel Joseph Khalaf, Christian K. Kollmannsberger, Kim N. Chi, Andrew Weng, and Bernhard J. Eigl. "Comprehensive immune profiling of patients (pts) with metastatic urothelial cancer (mUC) or renal cell cancer (mRCC) receiving immune checkpoint inhibitors (CPIs)." Journal of Clinical Oncology 38, no. 6_suppl (February 20, 2020): 532. http://dx.doi.org/10.1200/jco.2020.38.6_suppl.532.

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532 Background: CPIs have had a major impact on pts with mUC and mRCC. Only a small subset of pts benefit from CPI, and predictive biomarkers are needed. The role of circulating immune cells is poorly understood, but early changes after CPI exposure may predict response. We aimed to study the changes in circulating immune cell populations of pts receiving CPIs. Methods: Whole blood was collected prior to, and 3 wks after initiation of CPI in CPI-naïve pts with mUC or mRCC. PBMCs were isolated and profiled using mass cytometry (CyTOF) to provide a comprehensive overview of immune cell populations, expression of immune checkpoints, proliferation, and viability. Expression of chemokine receptors and cytokines was measured by flow cytometry. Treatment-emergent changes were correlated with response. Effects of treatment were determined by Wilcoxon signed-rank test; interactions of treatment and other variables like cluster size were determined by repeated measures two-way ANOVA. Any effects described had a significance of p<0.05. Results: Ten pts enrolled in this pilot study (mRCC = 4, mUC = 6) received anti-PDL1 (n=5), anti-PDL1/anti-CTLA4 (n=3), and anti-PDL1/chemotherapy (n=2). Best response was: 1 CR, 3 PR, 2 SD, 4 PD. Treatment induced an increase in dendritic cells (DC) and a decrease in PD1+ CD4+ and CD8+ T-cells. Elevated Ki-67, CTLA-4, LAMP-1, granzyme B and perforin expression in PD1+ cells post CPI suggested re-invigoration of exhausted T-cells. PD1+ T-cells had increased expression of the chemokine receptors CCR4 and CCR5, and decreased expression of CCR7 and CXCR4, irrespective of treatment. Response was associated with fewer CCR4+ CD4+ T cells and fewer PD1+ CD8+ T cells. Conclusions: Deep profiling by CyTOF provides a means of immune monitoring, with potential applications in clinical trials involving CPIs. Immune responses to CPIs are heterogeneous, with pt subgroups segregated by shifts in both T cell and DCs, and patterns of chemokine receptors and cytokines. Therapy reinvigorates exhausted T cells, and may cause these cells to infiltrate tumors or tumor-draining lymph nodes via chemokine receptors.

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Li, Yongzhen, Zhanling Wang, Chen Pang, and Xuesong Wang. "A Low Cross-Polarization Configuration Method for Phased Array Radar Antenna." Electronics 9, no. 3 (February 27, 2020): 396. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/electronics9030396.

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The cross-polarization isolation (CPI) is a key parameter to assess the dual-polarization antenna because the cross-polarization closely affects the antenna application. A polarization state configuration (PSC) approach is proposed to configure the polarization state of the polarimetric phased array radar antenna. Unlike the traditional fixed polarization states such as the linear polarization (LP) and the circular polarization (CP), the PSC method modulates the polarization state of the radiated wave continuously. In addition, the optimal excitation magnitude and phase of the dual-polarization element is calculated, thereby maximizing the CPI. Most of the configured polarization state is the elliptical polarization (EP), and a lower cross-polarization level and higher CPI could be obtained. This method could expand the acceptable angle range when compared with the LP and CP waves. Numerical simulations and comparisons are conducted to manifest the validity of the proposed method.

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Molleker, Sergej, Frank Helleis, Thomas Klimach, Oliver Appel, Hans-Christian Clemen, Antonis Dragoneas, Christian Gurk, et al. "Application of an O-ring pinch device as a constant-pressure inlet (CPI) for airborne sampling." Atmospheric Measurement Techniques 13, no. 7 (July 8, 2020): 3651–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-3651-2020.

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Abstract. We present a novel and compact design of a constant-pressure inlet (CPI) developed for use in airborne aerosol mass spectrometry. In particular, the inlet system is optimized for aerodynamic lenses commonly used in aerosol mass spectrometers, in which efficient focusing of aerosol particles into a vacuum chamber requires a precisely controlled lens pressure, typically of a few hectopascals. The CPI device can also be used in condensation particle counters (CPCs), cloud condensation nucleus counters (CCNCs), and gas-phase sampling instruments across a wide range of altitudes and inlet pressures. The constant pressure is achieved by changing the inner diameter of a properly scaled O-ring that acts as a critical orifice. The CPI control keeps air pressure and thereby mass flow rate (≈0.1 L min−1) upstream of an aerodynamic lens constant, deviating at most by only ±2 % from a preset value. In our setup, a pressure sensor downstream of the O-ring maintains control of the pinch mechanism via a feedback loop and setpoint conditions are reached within seconds. The device was implemented in a few instruments, which were successfully operated on different research aircraft covering a wide range of ambient pressures, from sea level up to about 55 hPa. Details of operation and the quality of aerosol particle transmission were evaluated by laboratory experiments and in-flight data with a single-particle mass spectrometer.

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Luo, Fang Qiong, and Sheng Zhong Huang. "The Application of the Combinatorial and Optimal Networks on the Prediction of the Consumer Price Index." Advanced Materials Research 488-489 (March 2012): 886–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.488-489.886.

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Consumer price index (CPI) was a main scientific ground for manager to put forward price policy, wage policy, and national economy development strategy. A lot of study and prediction were carried out for CPI by many scientists, and corresponding achievement was obtained. However, the simple network was applied to the past perdition methods, and the prediction results was not good. The prediction method based on the combinatorial and optimal networks of BP network, Elman network, RBF network and GRNN network was established and applied to the prediction of consumer price index. The simulation results showed that the effect of the combinatorial and optimal method was better than that of single method.

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Lianto, Prayudi, Hong Yu Li, R. Balamurugan, Junqi Wei, Norhanani Binte Jaafar, Leong Ching Eva Wai, and Arvind Sundarrajan. "CPI Parametric Investigation of UBM-Al Interface for Cu Pillar Flip-Chip Application." IEEE Transactions on Components, Packaging and Manufacturing Technology 6, no. 7 (July 2016): 1120–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/tcpmt.2016.2571059.

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Yamada, Tomoyuki, Masahiro Fukui, Kenji Terada, Masaaki Harazono, Teruya Fujisaki, Charles Reynolds, Jean Audet, et al. "Organic Chip Scale Package (CSP) Development for Flip Chip Applications." International Symposium on Microelectronics 2013, no. 1 (January 1, 2013): 000538–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.4071/isom-2013-wa44.

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This paper describes a Chip Scale Package (CSP) development project and evaluation of the corresponding organic laminate material. Chip scale packaging can combine the strengths of various packaging technologies, such as the large size and performance advantages of a bare die assembly and the reliability of encapsulated devices. Optimizing the laminate carrier material for low CTE reduces the dimensional mis-match between chip and laminate during Bond and Assembly (BA) and mitigates Chip-Package Interactions (CPI) related fails. Utilizing a low CTE material significantly reduces the strain in the solder joints during the reflow process. Modeling laminate CSP groundrules with the organic material parameters provides stress and strain predictions and highlights parameter ranges for successful BA process capability. Predicted global and chip-site warp data from thermo-mechanical modeling are compared to the measured warpage data. In addition, other mechanical risk factors for a CSP during BA and reliability stress conditions are evaluated. Electrical and mechanical tests carried out on the low CTE laminate material and subsequently on the related CSP are described. Recommendations for future CSP development and testing are presented.

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Gilbert, MA, DG Edwards, KA Shaw, and RK Jones. "Effect of phosphorus on three perennial Stylosanthes species in tropical Australia. II. Phosphorus and nitrogen within the plant and implications for grazing animals." Australian Journal of Agricultural Research 40, no. 6 (1989): 1205. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/ar9891205.

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This paper describes the effect of phosphorus application on concentrations and distribution of phosphorus (P) and nitrogen (N) in three Stylosanthm specics (S. scabra cv. Scca, S. guiunensis cv. Schofield and S. viscosa CPI 34904) grown in the field on a soil of low acid-extractable (0.005 M H2SO4) P status (4 mg/kg). Over a two-year period (May 1978 to September 1979), regular measurements were made of P and N in whole plant shoots, leaves, stems, inflorescence, seed and litter.Phosphorus application increased P concentrations in all three legumes, but did not affect its pattern of seasonal change throughout the year. The P (and N) concentrations in most plant parts decreased through the wet season to reach minima in the late dry season. However, with seed there was little seasonal variation. In the second year, Seca was more efficient at taking up P and utilizing it for growth under low soil P conditions than Schofield. CPI 34904 was less efficient than Seca at taking up P, but also used P efficiently for growth. The efficient utilization of P in the leaves and stems of Seca and CPI 34904 meant that P levels were often below the level (0.12%) considered adequate for growth of grazing cattle. Dry season P concentrations in all legumes were inadequate. When P was applied, P concentrations in leaf and green stem of all species were higher than 0.12% during the wet season, but green stem of Seca and CPI 34904 fell below this level during the dry season.Applied P slightly increased N concentrations in leaves, green stems and whole plants of all species. Nitrogen concentrations were adequate (> 1.1% N) for maintenance of cattle weight at most times. Only in the late dry season did green stem of Seca contain insufficient N.Phosphorus application had little effect on the distribution of P and N within the plants. All species held a large percentage (20-50%) of these nutrients in green stems, but CPI 34904 was exceptional in directing up to 60% of the P and N to inflorescence and seed at the expense of leaf and stem.

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Pasolini, Gianni, Anna Guerra, Francesco Guidi, Nicolò Decarli, and Davide Dardari. "Crowd-Based Cognitive Perception of the Physical World: Towards the Internet of Senses." Sensors 20, no. 9 (April 25, 2020): 2437. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s20092437.

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This paper introduces a possible architecture and discusses the research directions for the realization of the Cognitive Perceptual Internet (CPI), which is enabled by the convergence of wired and wireless communications, traditional sensor networks, mobile crowd-sensing, and machine learning techniques. The CPI concept stems from the fact that mobile devices, such as smartphones and wearables, are becoming an outstanding mean for zero-effort world-sensing and digitalization thanks to their pervasive diffusion and the increasing number of embedded sensors. Data collected by such devices provide unprecedented insights into the physical world that can be inferred through cognitive processes, thus originating a digital sixth sense. In this paper, we describe how the Internet can behave like a sensing brain, thus evolving into the Internet of Senses, with network-based cognitive perception and action capabilities built upon mobile crowd-sensing mechanisms. The new concept of hyper-map is envisioned as an efficient geo-referenced repository of knowledge about the physical world. Such knowledge is acquired and augmented through heterogeneous sensors, multi-user cooperation and distributed learning mechanisms. Furthermore, we indicate the possibility to accommodate proactive sensors, in addition to common reactive sensors such as cameras, antennas, thermometers and inertial measurement units, by exploiting massive antenna arrays at millimeter-waves to enhance mobile terminals perception capabilities as well as the range of new applications. Finally, we distillate some insights about the challenges arising in the realization of the CPI, corroborated by preliminary results, and we depict a futuristic scenario where the proposed Internet of Senses becomes true.

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Robert, Severine, Yves Decrem, Géraldine Rath, Chantal Dessy, Olivier Feron, François Mullier, Bernard Chatelain, Philippe Devel, Jean-Michel Dogné, and Edmond Godfroid. "The Tick Protein Ir-Cpi Efficiently Delays Contact Pathway Induced Thrombin Generation and Displays In Vivo Antithrombotic Activity." Blood 116, no. 21 (November 19, 2010): 3336. http://dx.doi.org/10.1182/blood.v116.21.3336.3336.

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Abstract Abstract 3336 Introduction: The search for new anticoagulants is a major challenge in medicine. Contact factors have never been considered as interesting targets for the development of new anticoagulant agents since they are not required for in vivo coagulation (i.e. deficiencies affecting these factors do not cause excessive bleeding). The discovery that FXI and FXII deficiency protects against thrombosis without causing spontaneous bleeding in mice makes FXII a unique and ideal target for drug design. We demonstrated in vitro that Ir-CPI, a 67 amino acids recombinant Kunitz-type protein from Ixodes ricinus, specifically interacted with activated human contact phase factors (FXIIa, FXIa, and kallikrein). Aims: The goal of this study was to investigate the potential anticoagulant and antithrombotic efficacy of Ir-CPI. Methods: The effects of Ir-CPI were investigated on the thrombin activity during the coagulation process in human plasma using the CAT method. Three different inducers were employed to specifically trigger the coagulation pathways and to generate thrombin. A standard concentration of 5 pM TF with 4 μM PL and 16.7 mM CaCl2 was used to activate the TF pathway whereas a lower TF concentration of 1 pM with 4 μM PL and 16.7 mM CaCl2 was selected for stimulating the TF pathway in combination with the contact phase pathway through a thrombin-mediated positive feedback. The contact phase pathway was also triggered alone by ellagic acid, PL and 16.7 mM CaCl2 (25-fold diluted APTT reagent Actin FS). The effect of Ir-CPI on venous thrombus formation was assessed using a rat thrombosis model induced by complete venous stasis in the posterior vena cava and FeCl3 topical application on the outer vessel wall. Results: When stimulating plasma coagulation trough the contact pathway, Ir-CPI caused a concentration-dependent prolongation of the lag time and the Tmax and a concentration-dependent decrease in the Cmax compared to the control curve (i.e. without inhibitor). When the coagulation cascade was triggered by the TF pathway (5 or 1 pM TF), only a slight concentration-dependent decrease of the Cmax and a concentration-dependent prolongation of the lag time and the Tmax were observed. For comparison purpose, the effects of the specific competitive FXIIa inhibitor corn trypsin inhibitor (CTI) were also investigated using the three same inducers than for Ir-CPI. For the contact pathway, a concentration-dependent decrease of the Cmax and a concentration-dependent prolongation of the lag time and the Tmax were found. When stimulating the TF pathway (5 or 1 pM TF), no modification of the thrombin generation curves was observed with the tested concentrations of CTI. When comparing the results of the two inhibitors acting trough the delay of the contact pathway, we found that Ir-CPI was about 30-fold more potent than CTI. We further evaluated the antithrombotic effect of Ir-CPI on a rat venous thrombosis model induced by endothelial damage and vessel ligation, close to the physiological venous thrombus formation in humans. We showed that Ir-CPI reduced thrombosis in a dose-dependent manner with an ED50 close to 65 μg/kg. A maximum effect starting from 0.5 mg/kg was observed with a mean reduction in the clot weight/body weight of 75 ± 7%. This antithrombotic effect of Ir-CPI was exclusively mediated through the inhibition of thrombin generation since it did not interference with collagen-induced platelet aggregation. This is the first time that an inhibitor of the coagulation contact phase was shown to protect against the formation of venous thrombi. The antithrombotic effect of Ir-CPI was also confirmed using other venous and arterial thrombosis models. We also showed that the effective antithrombotic dose of Ir-CPI in these tests did not promote bleeding or impair blood coagulation parameters. Conclusions: The present study demonstrated that Ir-CPI, a recombinant protein from the tick Ixodes ricinus targeting the contact factors (FXII, FXI and kallikrein), displayed an anticoagulant activity mainly through the delay of the contact pathway induced thrombin generation. This drug also exhibited an antithrombotic activity in our venous and arterial thrombosis model. This drug may thus provide an interesting and innovative therapeutic tool for the prevention and the treatment of thromboembolic diseases with a minimal risk of therapy-associated bleeding. Disclosures: No relevant conflicts of interest to declare.

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Roper, Matthew D., and Ronald A. Olsson. "Application-specific thread schedulers for distributed applications." Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience 24, no. 3 (September 21, 2011): 260–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/cpe.1821.

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Kim, Jeong-Geun, Shin-Dug Kim, and Su-Kyung Yoon. "Q-Selector-Based Prefetching Method for DRAM/NVM Hybrid Main Memory System." Electronics 9, no. 12 (December 16, 2020): 2158. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/electronics9122158.

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This research is to design a Q-selector-based prefetching method for a dynamic random-access memory (DRAM)/ Phase-change memory (PCM)hybrid main memory system for memory-intensive big data applications generating irregular memory accessing streams. Specifically, the proposed method fully exploits the advantages of two-level hybrid memory systems, constructed as DRAM devices and non-volatile memory (NVM) devices. The Q-selector-based prefetching method is based on the Q-learning method, one of the reinforcement learning algorithms, which determines a near-optimal prefetcher for an application’s current running phase. For this, our model analyzes real-time performance status to set the criteria for the Q-learning method. We evaluate the Q-selector-based prefetching method with workloads from data mining and data-intensive benchmark applications, PARSEC-3.0 and graphBIG. Our evaluation results show that the system achieves approximately 31% performance improvement and increases the hit ratio of the DRAM-cache layer by 46% on average compared to a PCM-only main memory system. In addition, it achieves better performance results compared to the state-of-the-art prefetcher, access map pattern matching (AMPM) prefetcher, by 14.3% reduction of execution time and 12.89% of better CPI enhancement.

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Shakil, Mohammad Hassan, Is’haq Muhammad Mustapha, Mashiyat Tasnia, and Buerhan Saiti. "Is gold a hedge or a safe haven? An application of ARDL approach." Journal of Economics, Finance and Administrative Science 23, no. 44 (June 11, 2018): 60–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jefas-03-2017-0052.

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PurposeThe argument whether gold is a hedge or haven is a debatable issue. Mainly, hedge is a class of asset that is negatively correlated with another asset or portfolio on average. On the other hand, a safe haven is an asset or portfolio which is negatively correlated with another asset or portfolio at the time of market turmoil. Therefore, the purpose of this research is to take Saudi Arabia as an example to examine the relationship of gold price in Saudi Arabia with key determinants such as the stock market index, oil prices, exchange rate, interest rate and consumer price index (CPI) by application of the autoregressive distributed lag model (ARDL).Design/methodology/approachThe ARDL analysis was employed by using six variables based on the application of monthly time series data that were collected from 2011 to 2015.FindingsFrom the present analysis, it has been discovered that gold is useful as a portfolio hedge and as a hedge against inflation because it is not affected by the CPI. External factors, for example, financial crisis, may be harmful to the CPI, thus adding a certain percentage of gold in the investment portfolio may assist in decreasing the level of risk at the time of financial turmoil.Originality/valueBecause gold seems to be a useful portfolio hedge, as well as an inflation hedge, government policies to curb the import of gold may be futile. The present research suggests that policies that directly address the causes of inflation and provide alternative investment opportunities for retail investors may better serve the objective of decreasing gold imports.

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Sun, Cong, Zhihao Yang, Leilei Su, Lei Wang, Yin Zhang, Hongfei Lin, and Jian Wang. "Chemical–protein interaction extraction via Gaussian probability distribution and external biomedical knowledge." Bioinformatics 36, no. 15 (May 12, 2020): 4323–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btaa491.

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Abstract Motivation The biomedical literature contains a wealth of chemical–protein interactions (CPIs). Automatically extracting CPIs described in biomedical literature is essential for drug discovery, precision medicine, as well as basic biomedical research. Most existing methods focus only on the sentence sequence to identify these CPIs. However, the local structure of sentences and external biomedical knowledge also contain valuable information. Effective use of such information may improve the performance of CPI extraction. Results In this article, we propose a novel neural network-based approach to improve CPI extraction. Specifically, the approach first employs BERT to generate high-quality contextual representations of the title sequence, instance sequence and knowledge sequence. Then, the Gaussian probability distribution is introduced to capture the local structure of the instance. Meanwhile, the attention mechanism is applied to fuse the title information and biomedical knowledge, respectively. Finally, the related representations are concatenated and fed into the softmax function to extract CPIs. We evaluate our proposed model on the CHEMPROT corpus. Our proposed model is superior in performance as compared with other state-of-the-art models. The experimental results show that the Gaussian probability distribution and external knowledge are complementary to each other. Integrating them can effectively improve the CPI extraction performance. Furthermore, the Gaussian probability distribution can effectively improve the extraction performance of sentences with overlapping relations in biomedical relation extraction tasks. Availability and implementation Data and code are available at https://github.com/CongSun-dlut/CPI_extraction. Supplementary information Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.

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Roper, Matthew D., and Ronald A. Olsson. "Application-specific thread schedulers for internet server applications." Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience 24, no. 3 (October 12, 2011): 281–304. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/cpe.1822.

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Huang, X., J. Xue, X. Wang, and P. A. Meyers. "Environmental controls on leaf wax δD ratios in surface peats across the monsoonal region of China." Biogeosciences Discussions 12, no. 17 (September 14, 2015): 15157–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/bgd-12-15157-2015.

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Abstract. Leaf wax molecular and isotopic ratios are generally considered robust isotopic paleohydrologic proxies. Here we evaluate the proxy value of the molecular distributions and hydrogen isotopic compositions of long chain n-alkanes (δDalk) in surface peats collected from peatlands across a range of annual air temperatures from 1 to 15 °C and a range of annual mean precipitation from 720 to 2070 mm in the monsoonal region of China. The alkane ratios (ACL and CPI) and δDalk values show relatively large variations in multiple samples from a single site, highlighting the complexity of these ratios at a small spatial scale. In the montane Zoigê peatland, the apparent fractionation between precipitation and δDalk is more positive than in the other six sites, which is possibly an effect of the higher conductivity of the water in this high elevation site (3500 m a.s.l.). At a larger spatial scale, the site-averaged CPI ratios and the δDalk values of n-C29 and n-C31 alkanes show significant correlation with the air temperature and precipitation. These results support the application of the CPI ratio and the δDalk ratios of n-C29 and n-C31 alkanes as sensitive paleohydrologic proxies on millennial and larger timescales.

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Gilbert, MA, DG Edwards, RK Jones, and KA Shaw. "Effect of phosphorus supply on three perennial Stylosanthes species in tropical Australia. I. Vegetative and reproductive growth." Australian Journal of Agricultural Research 40, no. 6 (1989): 1193. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/ar9891193.

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Three perennial Stylosanthes species (S. scabra cv. Seca, S.guianenis cv. Schofield and S. viscosu CPI 34904) were grown on a soil of low acid-extractable (0.005 M H2SO4) P status (4 mg/kg) and supplied with either 0 (P0) or 50 kg P/ha (P50) to test their ability to grow under phosphorus-deficient conditions. Plants were grown in the field for two years (1978 and 1979), during which time dry matter yields of standing plant shoots, leaves, stems, inflorescence, podded seed and litter were recorded regularly.Perennial stylo, but especially Seca, grew well and produced high seed yields under conditions of low soil phosphorus. Based on their growth rates during the second wet season, tolerance to low phosphorus conditions decreased as follows: Seca> Schofield >CPI 34904. Two factors favouring Seca were its ability to allocate much of its dry matter to stem and its high yield of fine roots. Positive effects of phosphorus application occurred with leaf, stem, inflorescence, seed and litter yields, but were generally similar for the three species. There were large differences in dry matter distribution between species and little effect of applied phosphorus. Features were the high percentage of stem in Seca, and of inflorescence and seed in CPI 34904.

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Akinsiku, Oluwayimika E., Opeyemi S. Soremekun, Fisayo A. Olotu, and Mahmoud E. S. Soliman. "Exploring the Role of Asp1116 in Selective Drug Targeting of CREBcAMP- Responsive Element-binding Protein Implicated in Prostate Cancer." Combinatorial Chemistry & High Throughput Screening 23, no. 3 (May 19, 2020): 178–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.2174/1386207323666200219122057.

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Background: The selective targeting of CREB-cAMP-responsive element-binding protein (CBP) has recently evolved as a vital therapeutic approach for curtailing its aberrant upregulation associated with the development of prostate cancer. Inhibition of CBP has been discovered to be an important therapeutic option in androgen receptor signalling pathway mediated prostate cancer. Y08197, a novel selective inhibitor of CBP, has shown promising therapeutic outcome in prostate carcinogenesis over non-selective analogues such as CPI-637. Methods/Results: Herein, we used molecular dynamics simulation to gain insights into the mechanistic and selective targeting of Y08197 at the bromodomain active site. Molecular Mechanics/ Poisson-Boltzmann Surface Area (MM/PBSA) analysis revealed a similar inhibitory effect between Y08197 and CPI-637. Furthermore, in exploring the selective affinity of Y08197 towards CBP in combination with Bromodomain and PHD finger-containing protein 1(BRPF1), our findings highlighted Asp1116 as the ‘culprit’ residue responsible for this selective targeting. Upon binding, Asp1116 assumed a conformation that altered the architecture of the bromodomain active site, thereby orienting the helices around the active site in a more compacted position. In addition to some specific structural perturbations mediated by Asp1116 on the dynamics of CBP, our study revealed that the strong hydrogen bond interaction (N-H...O) elicited in CBP-Y08197 sequestered Y08197 tightly into the CBP bromodomain active site. Conclusion: Conclusively, the inhibition and selective pattern of Y08197 can be replicated in future structure-based CBP inhibitors and other bromodomain implicated in carcinogenesis.

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Kutukova, Kristina, Zhongquan Liao, Stephan Werner, Peter Guttmann, Yvonne Standke, Jürgen Gluch, Gerd Schneider, and Ehrenfried Zschech. "In-situ X-ray Microscopy of Crack-Propagation to Study Fracture Mechanics of On-Chip Interconnect Structures." MRS Advances 3, no. 39 (2018): 2305–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1557/adv.2018.410.

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ABSTRACTChip-package interaction (CPI) and the related thermomechanical stress in microchips increase the risk of failure in on-chip interconnect stacks, caused by delamination along Cu/dielectrics interfaces (adhesive failure) and fracture in dielectrics (cohesive failure). High-resolution transmission X-ray microscopy (TXM) is a unique technique to image crack propagation in on-chip interconnect stacks. The visualization of crack evolution in Cu/low-k Backend-of-Line (BEoL) structures is demonstrated using an experimental setup which combines high-resolution X-ray imaging with mechanical loading. The application of an indenter manipulator at the TXM beamline of the synchrotron radiation source BESSY II provides an unprecedented level of details on the fracture behavior of microchips. This in-situ experiment allows to identify the weakest layers and interfaces and to evaluate the robustness of the BEoL stack against CPI.

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Japikse, D. "A New Diffuser Mapping Technique—Part 1: Studies in Component Performance." Journal of Fluids Engineering 108, no. 2 (June 1, 1986): 148–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/1.3242554.

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A rigorous derivation of the K = Cpi − Cp diffuser recovery and loss equation is presented and the critical assumptions to yield this simplified relationship are critiqued. Qualified confirmation of the equation is achieved using precise laboratory data. A new diffuser loss-map is presented which facilitates engineering diffuser design work, even when a recovery map is unavailable. Numerous application examples for turbomachinery analysis are given including the application to a turbomachinery cascade with strong turning.

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Naghdi, Yazdan, and Soheila Kaghazian. "The Effects Of Asymmetric Transmission Of Exchange Rate On Inflation In Iran: Application Of Threshold Models." Studies in Business and Economics 10, no. 2 (August 1, 2015): 99–113. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/sbe-2015-0023.

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Abstract Given the recent fluctuation in the exchange rate and the presence of several factors such as the various economy-political sanctions (mainly embargos on oil and banking), extreme volatility in different economic fields, and consequently the devaluation of national and public procurement -A landmark that is emanating from exchange rate fluctuation - two points should be noted: First, it is essential to review the effect of exchange rate fluctuation on macro economic variables such as inflation and to provide appropriate policies. Second, the existence of this condition provides the chance to study the relation between exchange rate and inflation in a non-linear and asymmetric method. Hence, the present study seeks to use TAR model and, on the basis of monthly time series data over the period March 2002 to March 2014, to analyze the cross-asymmetric and non-linear exchange rate on consumer price index (CPI) in Iran. The results also show the presence of an asymmetric long-term relationship between these variables (exchange rate and CPI). Also, in the Iranian economy, the effect of negative shocks of exchange rate on inflation is more sustainable than the one from positive shocks.

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