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Showing 1 to 20 of 53 for “"OSM"”.
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OSM-CAT: A software application to generate contribution summaries from OpenStreetMap XML
OpenStreetMap (OSM) is currently the most extensive and widely-used example of Volunteered Geographical Information (VGI) available on the Internet. The aim of the OSM project is to provide a free and openly accessible spatial database. The data is provided by volunteers, who collect and contribute …
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Looking through the crowded mask: investigating the effect of distractor number and position in object substitution masking
Object substitution masking (OSM) is a phenomenon wherein a surrounding mask (typically four dots) that onsets with a target but lingers after its offset significantly reduces target perceptibility. OSM was originally postulated to occur only when spatial attention was spread (Di Lollo et al., …
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Factors affecting target perceptibility in object substitution masking
Object substitution masking (OSM) refers to the observation that reporting of a briefly presented target item is considerably reduced when a mask remains visible after the target offset. The size of OSM has been said to be critically dependent on the speed with which attention is deployed towards …
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Evaluating the Role of the Ocular Surface Microbiome in Dry Eye Disease Mediated Neural Dysregulation
… homeostasis is the ocular surface microbiome (OSM). In DED, the OSM has been postulated to be dysregulated, exhibiting a loss of diversity and increase in bacterial abundance. Along with evidence of roles for microbiota in regulating pain and neural activity, this has led to an emerging role …
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Effects of Oncostatin-M Receptor overexpression on cervical squamous cell carcinoma cells and their extracellular vesicles
… novel therapies. The oncostatin-M receptor (OSMR) frequently undergoes copy-number gain and overexpression in squamous cell carcinomas (SCC) at multiple sites, consistently associated with an adverse overall survival independent of tumour stage. OSM-OSMR signalling activates STAT3 and …
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Assessing the accuracy of openstreetmap data in south africa for the purpose of integrating it with authoritative data
… database. The data from OpenStreetMap (OSM), which is one the most successful VGI initiatives, was compared to a reference data set provided by the CD: NGI. Corresponding features between the two data sets were compared in order to assess the various quality aspects. The investigation …
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Assessing the Functional Accuracy and Quality of Volunteered Geographic Information: A Comparison of Open Street Map and Navteq Road Datasets
… levels when compared to the accuracy levels of OSM data. Further, no clearly discernible patterns in the spatial distribution of accuracy values for OSM data were found. The overall conclusion is that the expected accuracy of OSM data is comparable to that of commercially available solutions, …
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Contributions to Big Geospatial Data Rendering and Visualisations
… datasets can be extracted from the LiDAR using OSM boundary data as a perimeter. The boundaries of OSM represent buildings or assets. Data can then be extracted such as the heights of buildings. This data can then be used to update the OSM database. Using a novel adjacency matrix extraction …
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Do RNA-dependent polymerases share common ancestry? A bioinformatic approach
… attempt to locate an ordered-series-of-motifs (OSM) among two groups of RNA-dependent polymerases, the large (L) protein from viruses in the order Mononegavirales and the reverse transcriptase (RT) protein from retroviruses and retroid agents. An OSM was not detected among the L and RT proteins, …
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Regulation of Protein Turnover during Hyper-osmotic Stress in Skeletal Muscle
… of this study was to examine the effect of hyper-osmotic stress on protein turnover in skeletal muscle tissue using an established in-vitro model. Rat EDL muscles were incubated in either hyper-osmotic (400 ± 10 Osm) or isoosmotic (290 ± 10 Osm) custom-modified media (Gibco). …
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Protein Turnover in Rat Skeletal Muscle During In Vitro Hypo-Osmotic Stress
Hypo-osmolality influences tissue metabolism, but research on protein turnover in skeletal muscle is limited. The purpose of this investigation was to examine the effects of hypo-osmotic stress on protein turnover in rat skeletal muscle. We hypothesized increased protein synthesis and reduced …
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Personalized route generation for Mountain Biking cycling based on the user’s profile
… the collaborative mapping tool OpenStreetMap(OSM), which was also used to select Points Of Interest (POI) relevant to the activity. An Integer Linear Programming model was developed to select sets of segments considering user preferences for terrain difficulty, elevation in the trail and total …
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Ambiguous statistics - how a statistical encoding in the periphery affects perception
… phenomena known as Object Substitution Masking (OSM), where the identity of an object is impaired when a sparse, non-overlapping, and temporally trailing mask surrounds that object. We find that different types of grouping of object and mask produce different levels of impairment. This …
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The effect of premenstrual edema on percent body fat measurements utilizing bioelectrical impedance
… body water (TBW) measurements. However, urine osmolality (Osm) and basal body temperature (BBT) were significantly affected across days of the menstrual cycle (p < .01). A dramatic decline in Osm was noted at midcycle followed by a rise which peaked at day -3 premenses. After day -3 premenses, …
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Characterisation of Detached Plasmas on the MAST Tokamak
… To assist in this study, an interpretive code, OSM, has been upgraded with additional numerical schemes to ascertain the dominant mechanisms governing parallel scrape-off layer transport including flux expansion, dynamic viscosity and cross-field drift motion in attached conditions. It has been …
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Role of Storage Material in NOX Storage and Reduction (NSR) and Three-Way Catalysts (TWC) During Cycling Operation
… The invention of novel oxygen storage materials (OSM), such as spinels, requires more advanced understanding of their promotion impacts. NOx reduction under net lean and near-stoichiometric conditions was carried out on CeO2, Pt/Al2O3, Pt/CeO2/Al2O3 and Pt/BaO/Al2O3 washcoated monoliths to compare …
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Oncostatin M Receptor Overexpression Promotes Tumour Progression in Squamous Cell Carcinoma, via Hypoxia Signalling and Multiple Effects on the Tumour Microenvironment
… 5p. In this region, copy number gain of the OSMR gene was found to correlate significantly with adverse outcome independent of the tumour stage (p=0.046). Furthermore, this copy number gain correlated with Oncostatin M receptor (OSMR) overexpression and sensitised these cells to Oncostatin M …
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Are gadolinium contrast media really less nephrotoxic than iodine agents in radiographic examinations? A comparison in relation to their ability to attenuate x-rays in a pig model
… Test solutions: 1) 0.5M gadopentetate (1.96 Osm/kg H2O), 0.5M gadodiamide (0.78 Osm/kg), 0.5M iohexol (190 mg I/mL; 0.42 Osm/kg), 0.18M iohexol (70 mg I/mL; with an x-ray attenuation equal to that of 0.5M Gd-CM at 80 kVp) and saline; 2) 0.5M gadopentetate, 0.5M gadodiamide, 0.5M iohexol and …
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Enriquecendo bases de dados geoespaciais oficiais: uma abordagem híbrida para integração de topônimos colaborativos validados com inteligência artificial
… mapeamento colaborativo, como o OpenStreetMap (OSM), oferecem um fluxo contínuo e dinâmico de topônimos baseados no conhecimento local de voluntários. Contudo, a integração confiável desses dados em produtos oficiais carece de métodos sistemáticos para avaliar qualidade e validade semântica, …
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Particulate : an education and research workshop for off-site manufacturing
… of a multidisciplinary off-site manufacturing(OSM) education and research facility, focused on the development and use of Computer Aided Drafting (CAD) and Computer Aided Manufacturing (CAM) techniques, to design, manufacture and assemble buildings. Post-industrial revolution, construction, …
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