Association between body size and blood pressure in children from different ethnic origins [PDF]
Cardiovascular Diabetology, 2012 Objective To assess associations between body size and blood pressure in children (5-6 years) from different ethnic origins. Method Five ethnic groups of the ABCD cohort were examined: Dutch (n=1 923), Turkish (n=99), Moroccan (n=187), Black-African (n ...
LA de Hoog Marieke +4 more
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Reflect: reporting guidelines for preclinical, translational and clinical fluorescence molecular imaging studies [PDF]
npj ImagingFluorescence molecular imaging (FMI) is becoming a powerful tool to improve surgical precision and diagnostics. Although significant advances have been made in imaging technology and contrast agents, debate continues regarding suitable standards for FMI.
Bas Keizers +23 more
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Inter-annual variation in lake ice composition in the European Arctic: observations based on high-resolution thermistor strings [PDF]
Earth System Science Data, 2021 Climate change and global warming strongly impact the cryosphere. The rise of air temperature and change of precipitation patterns lead to dramatic responses of snow and ice heat and mass balance. Sustainable field observations on lake air–snow–ice–water
B. Cheng +11 more
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Multiscale light-sheet organoid imaging framework
Nature Communications, 2022 Live imaging of organoid growth remains a challenge: it requires long-term imaging of several samples simultaneously and dedicated analysis pipelines. Here the authors report an experimental and image processing framework to turn long-term light-sheet ...
Gustavo de Medeiros +8 more
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Use of Webcams in Support of Operational Snow Monitoring
Geosciences, 2023 Ultrasonic sensors are one of the most common automatic monitoring methods in operational snow depth monitoring with reliable results. On the other hand, there is significant uncertainty when measuring small snow depths (
Cemal Melih Tanis +5 more
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Co-simulation as a Fundamental Technology for Twin Ships [PDF]
Modeling, Identification and Control, 2020 The concept of digital twins, characterized by the high fidelity with which they mimic their physical counterpart, provide potential benefits for the next generation of advanced ships.
Lars Ivar Hatledal +4 more
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Estimation of degree of sea ice ridging based on dual-polarized C-band SAR data [PDF]
The Cryosphere, 2018 For ship navigation in the Baltic Sea ice, parameters such as ice edge, ice concentration, ice thickness and degree of ridging are usually reported daily in manually prepared ice charts.
A. Gegiuc +5 more
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Molecular Systems Biology, 2020 Gene expression oscillators can structure biological events temporally and spatially. Different biological functions benefit from distinct oscillator properties.
Milou WM Meeuse +7 more
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An Application of SMC to continuous validation of heterogeneous systems [PDF]
EAI Endorsed Transactions on Industrial Networks and Intelligent Systems, 2017 This paper considers the rigorous design of Systems of Systems (SoS), i.e. systems composed of a set ofheterogeneous components whose number evolves with time.
Alexandre Arnold +7 more
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Magnetic Proximity Effect and Interlayer Exchange Coupling of Ferromagnetic/Topological Insulator/Ferromagnetic Trilayer [PDF]
, 2014 Magnetic proximity effect between topological insulator (TI) and ferromagnetic insulator (FMI) is considered to have great potential in spintronics. However, a complete determination of interfacial magnetic structure has been highly challenging.
Cui, Wenping +7 more
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