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University of North Carolina at Charlotte
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About: University of North Carolina at Charlotte is a education organization based out in Charlotte, North Carolina, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Poison control. The organization has 8772 authors who have published 22239 publications receiving 562529 citations. The organization is also known as: UNC Charlotte & UNCC.
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TL;DR: This is the first study providing direct evidence for the metabolic basis of nonculturability and the viable but nonculturable state and an oxyR mutant which lacks catalase activity is generated.
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TL;DR: Experimental results show that the TAST model can effectively capture the unique characteristics of the travel data and the cocktail approach is, thus, much more effective than traditional recommendation techniques for travel package recommendation.
Abstract: Recent years have witnessed an increased interest in recommender systems. Despite significant progress in this field, there still remain numerous avenues to explore. Indeed, this paper provides a study of exploiting online travel information for personalized travel package recommendation. A critical challenge along this line is to address the unique characteristics of travel data, which distinguish travel packages from traditional items for recommendation. To that end, in this paper, we first analyze the characteristics of the existing travel packages and develop a tourist-area-season topic (TAST) model. This TAST model can represent travel packages and tourists by different topic distributions, where the topic extraction is conditioned on both the tourists and the intrinsic features (i.e., locations, travel seasons) of the landscapes. Then, based on this topic model representation, we propose a cocktail approach to generate the lists for personalized travel package recommendation. Furthermore, we extend the TAST model to the tourist-relation-area-season topic (TRAST) model for capturing the latent relationships among the tourists in each travel group. Finally, we evaluate the TAST model, the TRAST model, and the cocktail recommendation approach on the real-world travel package data. Experimental results show that the TAST model can effectively capture the unique characteristics of the travel data and the cocktail approach is, thus, much more effective than traditional recommendation techniques for travel package recommendation. Also, by considering tourist relationships, the TRAST model can be used as an effective assessment for travel group formation.
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TL;DR: A wide variety of instruments that are used for measuring surface topography using optical techniques are presented, ranging from systems that are over a century old to recently-developed instrumentation that has broad new capability.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the performance of the equity REIT sector over the 1981-1999 time period and found that firm-level investment was largely financed by equity and long-term debt, with little reliance on retained earnings.
Abstract: We examine financing, investment and investment performance in the equity REIT sector over the 1981–1999 time period. Analysis reveals significant differences between the old-REIT (1981–1992) and new-REIT (1993–1999) eras. The sector experienced rapid growth in the new-REIT era, primarily from firm-level investment as opposed to new entry. Firm-level investment was largely financed by equity and long-term debt, with little reliance on retained earnings. Financing policy stabilized in the new-REIT era, and capital structures became more complex. We find that REITs provided returns over and above their cost of capital, where most of the value-added investment occurred in the new-REIT era by newer firms. Finally, we present novel evidence on IPO activity and new firm investment–investment performance relations that is consistent with Tobin's q theory of investment.
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TL;DR: Cellobiose-polymyxin B-colistin agar demonstrated a significant advantage over other media designed for the isolation or differentiation of vibrios: of both the 136 strains representing 19 Vibrio species and the marine isolates of the genera Pseudomonas, Flavobacterium, and Photobacteria, only V. cholerae and V. vulnificus were able to grow.
Abstract: Thiosulfate-citrate-bile salts-sucrose agar has been routinely used for the isolation of pathogenic vibrios, although its selectivity for Vibrio cholerae and Vibrio vulnificus is inadequate. Therefore, a new plating medium, cellobiose-polymyxin B-colistin agar, was developed for the isolation of these two species. Cellobiose-polymyxin B-colistin agar demonstrated a significant advantage over other media designed for the isolation or differentiation of vibrios: of both the 136 strains representing 19 Vibrio species and the marine isolates of the genera Pseudomonas, Flavobacterium, and Photobacterium, only V. vulnificus and V. cholerae were able to grow. Furthermore, the fermentation of cellobiose by V. vulnificus allowed for the easy differentiation of these two species. This medium offers significant potential as a selective and differential medium for these two pathogenic vibrios.
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Chao Zhang | 127 | 3119 | 84711 |
E. Magnus Ohman | 124 | 622 | 68976 |
Staffan Kjelleberg | 114 | 425 | 44414 |
Kenneth L. Davis | 113 | 622 | 61120 |
David Wilson | 102 | 757 | 49388 |
Michael Bauer | 100 | 1052 | 56841 |
David A. B. Miller | 96 | 702 | 38717 |
Ashutosh Chilkoti | 95 | 414 | 32241 |
Chi-Wang Shu | 93 | 529 | 56205 |
Gang Li | 93 | 486 | 68181 |
Tiefu Zhao | 90 | 593 | 36856 |
Juan Carlos García-Pagán | 90 | 348 | 25573 |
Denise C. Park | 88 | 267 | 33158 |
Santosh Kumar | 80 | 1196 | 29391 |
Chen Chen | 76 | 853 | 24974 |