gebhart/patrepeval huggingface dataset:
Comparison of threshold setting rules for the probability of acquisition in a DS spread spectrum receiver (2002)

This paper describes the meaning of different threshold setting rules in the code acquisition process of a DS spread spectrum receiver. The consideration is made in an AWGN channel. The performance measure is the probability of the acquisition, P/sub acq/, in a given observation interval. A matched filter acquisition is used with or without a verification mode using an active integration. The equation of the P/sub acq/ is derived for both of the cases. In the comparisons, fixed thresholds, thresholds based on constant false alarm (CFAR) criteria and optimal thresholds in the sense to give the maximum P/sub acq/, are used. The results of the method using the selection of the maximum value at the output of the matched filter is also compared to the threshold cases. The comparison are made using coherent acquisition and only a brief consideration for noncoherent case is given. The results indicate that it is reasonable to use the method of selecting the maximum value at the output of the matched filter instead of using some threshold setting criteria. If the signal-to-noise ratio is large, the CFAR-criteria with a properly selected P/sub fa/ gives also a good performance.
Rare variant contribution to human disease in 281,104 UK Biobank exomes (2021)

Genome-wide association studies have uncovered thousands of common variants associated with human disease, but the contribution of rare variants to common disease remains relatively unexplored. The UK Biobank contains detailed phenotypic data linked to medical records for approximately 500,000 participants, offering an unprecedented opportunity to evaluate the effect of rare variation on a broad collection of traits<sup>1,2</sup>. Here we study the relationships between rare protein-coding variants and 17,361 binary and 1,419 quantitative phenotypes using exome sequencing data from 269,171 UK Biobank participants of European ancestry. Gene-based collapsing analyses revealed 1,703 statistically significant gene-phenotype associations for binary traits, with a median odds ratio of 12.4. Furthermore, 83% of these associations were undetectable via single-variant association tests, emphasizing the power of gene-based collapsing analysis in the setting of high allelic heterogeneity. Gene-phenotype associations were also significantly enriched for loss-of-function-mediated traits and approved drug targets. Finally, we performed ancestry-specific and pan-ancestry collapsing analyses using exome sequencing data from 11,933 UK Biobank participants of African, East Asian or South Asian ancestry. Our results highlight a significant contribution of rare variants to common disease. Summary statistics are publicly available through an interactive portal ( http://azphewas.com/ ).
Florida obsessive–compulsive inventory: Development, reliability, and validity (2007)

Abstract David A.S. Kaufman, M.S. was accidentally omitted from the order of authorship for the manuscript that appeared in Volume 63, Issue 9, pages 851–859. Mr. Kaufman was the second author of this paper.
AN ANALYTICAL MODEL OF RISKY YIELD CURVES (1987)

Abstract This paper proposes a multiperiod certainty equivalent model of present valuation that takes a dynamic approach to valuation, as opposed to a recursive approach employed traditionally in financial economics. Assuming a flat basic, or riskless, yield curve and risk‐averse investors, the model is used to examine the potential effects of default risk on the shape of the yield curve. The shape of the yield curve is shown to be directly related to the level and time pattern of default probabilities.
Light-shield border impact on the printability of extreme-ultraviolet mask (2011)

When a thinner absorber mask is applied to extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography for chip production, it becomes essential to a introduce light-shield border in order to suppress the leakage of EUV light from the adjacent exposure shots. In this paper, we evaluate the leakage of both EUV and out-of-band from light-shield border and clarify the dependence of lithographic performance on light-shield border structure using a small field exposure tool with/without spectral purify filter (SPF). Then we evaluate the lithographic performance of a thin absorber EUV mask with light-shield border of the etched multilayer type and demonstrate the merit of its structure using a full-field scanner operating under the currently employed condition of EUV source in which SPF is not installed.
The role of Notch and gamma-secretase inhibition in an ovarian cancer model. (2013)

GS inhibition does not directly affect cellular proliferation in ovarian carcinoma, but Notch pathway blockade may result in angiogenic alterations that may be therapeutically important.
Role of photoinitiators on self developing photopolymerizable system for holographic grating recording (Conference Presentation) (2019)

Photopolymerization can be used in self-developing photopolymerizable resin to recording holographic gratings. The photochemical study outlines the possible existence of photocyclic initiating systems where the dye is regenerated. To study the impact of photoinitaiting system on the hologram grating formation, diffraction curves are compared to those of monomer to polymer conversion. This work outlines the importance of the photochemistry on final holographic material properties.
Role of pleural fluid cholesterol in differentiating transudative from exudative pleural effusion. (2003)

Pleural fluid cholesterol estimation is an effective and cost-efficient method of differentiating exudative from transudative pleural effusion. The lipid profile does not help in diagnosing tubercular effusion.
Successful vitrification of bovine blastocysts, derived by in vitro maturation and fertilization (1993)

Bovine blastocysts were produced through maturation, fertilization, and development in vitro. For vitrification, solutions designated EFS, GFS, and PFS were prepared; these were 40% ethylene glycol, 40% glycerol, and 40% propylene glycol, respectively, diluted in modified phosphate-buffered saline (PBS) containing 30% Ficoll + 0.5 M sucrose. The embryos were exposed to the solutions in one step at room temperature, kept in the solutions for various times, vitrified in liquid nitrogen, and warmed rapidly. When the embryos were vitrified in EFS solution after 1 or 2 min exposure, the postwarming survival rate, assessed by the reexpansion of the blastocoel, was 74-77%. However, when the exposure time was extended to 3 min or longer, this rate dropped to 7-0%. This reduction was attributed to the toxicity of ethylene glycol. Of the embryos vitrified in GFS solution, 53% survived when they were cooled after 1 min exposure; as the duration of the exposure increased, the survival rate increased, reaching a peak (72%) at 4 min. The rate then decreased gradually with exposure time. In PFS solution, embryos surviving after vitrification were recovered only with 1 min exposure (33%), reflecting the high toxicity of propylene glycol. After vitrification in EFS or GFS solution, two embryos were nonsurgically transferred into each of 14 recipient animals. Of the 14 recipients, ten (71%) became pregnant; two resulted in early stillbirths, four recipients delivered twins (four alive and four stillborn), and two delivered single live calves, demonstrating the effectiveness of this simple vitrification method for the cryopreservation of in-vitro-produced bovine blastocysts.
Uptake and degradation in vivo and in vitro of laminin and nidogen by rat liver cells (1989)

Laminin antigens are known to be present in the blood of normal individuals. In the present study we have investigated the fate of laminin-related molecules in the circulation. After intravenous injection in rats, the native laminin-nidogen complex, as well as the separated proteins, were rapidly eliminated from the blood (half-lives 2-10 min) by the liver. The large laminin fragments E1 and E8 (Mr 400,000 and 280,000 respectively), which contain the major cell-adhesion-promoting activities of laminin, were also cleared from the blood mainly by the liver, but the rate of uptake was an order of magnitude lower for these fragments than for laminin. This indicates that the uptake of laminin did not occur via cell-adhesion receptors. The endothelial cells of liver were the most important cell type in the uptake of laminin-nidogen complex, nidogen, laminin and fragment E1, whereas the parenchymal cells were responsible for more than 50% of the uptake of E8 in the liver. Studies in vitro with cultured liver endothelial cells and parenchymal cells demonstrated that the ligands were endocytosed and degraded independently of plasma factors. The results reveal that the level of laminin antigens in blood is a very complex parameter. It is not only dependent on the turnover of basement membranes, but also on the degree of degradation of the material released into the blood and on the functional state of the liver, particularly the liver endothelial cells.
A case‐control study: The association of serum paraoxonase 1 activity and concentration with the development of type 2 diabetes mellitus (2017)

Lower PON1 activity and concentration were associated with an increased risk of developing T2D when adjusted for many of the common risk markers for T2D previously identified. Thus, PON1 may have merit as a biomarker for the development of T2D.
Studies of quantitative analysis of protein expression in Saccharomyces cerevisiae (1999)

In the present study amino acid analysis is applied to quantitation of Saccharomyces cerevisiae proteome expression. The quantitation levels obtained are compared to data using densitometric analysis of silver or amido black staining and to the theoretical expression level (codon bias) of the identified proteins determined from their amino acid analysis (AAA). The results show that relative volume ratio (%vol) using Melanie II is a better parameter for spot quantitation than relative optical density ratio (%OD), and amino black staining provides good linearity within the range 1—100 pmol protein. However, AAA shows that theoretical expression levels are not well correlated with actual protein expression level, although there is better correlation when isoforms of the expressed protein are identified and included. It is concluded that amino acid analysis provides accurate protein quantitation and has a continuing role in proteome studies in terms of the rapid and inexpensive quantitation of proteins displayed on proteome maps. We do however recognize that in the context of future clinical applications and large-scale proteome discovery projects, quantitation and post-translational modification need to be analyzed by “proteomatic” (i.e., proteome automatic bioinformatic analysis directly from the gel) techniques.
TUMOR SEEDING IN UROLOGICAL LAPAROSCOPY: AN INTERNATIONAL SURVEY (2004)

The incidence of tumor seeding after laparoscopic oncological surgery is rare and does not appear greater than what has been historically reported for open surgery. Tumor seeding seems to be most commonly related to the removal of high grade tumors and deviation from oncological surgical principles.
Escaping limit cycles: Global convergence for constrained nonconvex-nonconcave minimax problems (2023)

This paper introduces a new extragradient-type algorithm for a class of nonconvex-nonconcave minimax problems. It is well-known that finding a local solution for general minimax problems is computationally intractable. This observation has recently motivated the study of structures sufficient for convergence of first order methods in the more general setting of variational inequalities when the so-called weak Minty variational inequality (MVI) holds. This problem class captures non-trivial structures as we demonstrate with examples, for which a large family of existing algorithms provably converge to limit cycles. Our results require a less restrictive parameter range in the weak MVI compared to what is previously known, thus extending the applicability of our scheme. The proposed algorithm is applicable to constrained and regularized problems, and involves an adaptive stepsize allowing for potentially larger stepsizes. Our scheme also converges globally even in settings where the underlying operator exhibits limit cycles.
Fast indexing method for image retrieval using tree-structured lattices (2008)

In this paper, we present a new method for indexing a large amounts of feature vectors in high dimensional space. We introduce a partitioning method based on lattice vector quantization that divides the feature vectors progressively into smaller partitions using a finer scaling factor. The resulting hierarchical structure is then represented as a tree-structured lattices and the efficiency of the similarity queries is significantly improved by utilizing firstly the hierarchy and secondly the good algebraic and geometry properties of the lattice. Moreover, the dimensionality reduction that we perform on the feature vectors translating from one upper level to a lower level of the tree reduces the complexity of measuring similarity between feature vectors and enhances the performance on nearest neighbor queries especially for high dimensions. We include the performance test results that verify the advantage of the proposed indexing structure and show that the tree-structured lattices outperforms one of the best standard indexing structure: the SR-tree.
Tensile Behavior of Glass/Ceramic Composite Materials at Elevated Temperatures (1987)

This paper describes the tensile behavior of high-temperature composite materials containing continuous Nicalon ceramic fiber reinforcement and glass and glass/ceramic matrices. The longitudinal properties of these materials can approach theoretical expectations for brittle matrix composites, failing at a strength and ultimate strain level consistent with those of the fibers. The brittle, high-modulus matrices result in a nonlinear stress-strain curve due to the onset of stable matrix cracking at 10 to 30 percent of the fiber strain to failure, and at strains below this range in off-axis plies. Current fibers and matrices can provide attractive properties well above 1000°C, but composites experience embrittlement in oxidizing atmospheres at 800 to 1000°C due to oxidation of a carbon interface reaction layer. The oxidation effect greatly increases the interface bond strength, causing composite embrittlement.
Recipe Retrieval with Visual Query of Ingredients (2020)

Recipe retrieval is a representative and useful application of cross-modal information retrieval. Recent studies have proposed frameworks for retrieving images of cuisines given textual ingredient lists and instructions. However, the textual form of ingredients easily causes information loss or inaccurate description, especially for novices of cookery who are often the main users of recipe retrieval systems. In this paper, we revisit the task of recipe retrieval by taking images of ingredients as input queries, and retrieving cuisine images by incorporating visual information of ingredients through a deep convolutional neural network. We build an image-to-image recipe retrieval system to validate the effect of ingredient image queries. We further combine the proposed solution with a state-of-the-art cross-modal recipe retrieval model to improve the overall performance of the recipe retrieval task.
Demonstration and characterization of motilin-binding sites in the rabbit cerebellum (1997)

This is the first report on central motilin receptors. Autoradiography on cerebellar slices revealed specific motilin-binding sites in the molecular layer of the cortex. Scatchard analysis of cold saturation studies showed the existence of a high-(pKd,hi = 9.07 +/- 0.09, where pKd is the negative logarithm of the dissociation constant) and a low-affinity binding site (pKd,lo = 6.56 +/- 0.09). Similar affinities were found with rabbit motilin and with the porcine (po) antagonist [Phe3, Leu13]po-motilin. Feline and canine motilin had a markedly lower affinity for the low-affinity site (pKd,lo = 5.29 and 4.58, respectively); chicken motilin had a lower affinity for both sites (pKd,hi = 8.36, pKd,lo = 3.97). Erythromycin A and its derivative N-trimethyl erythromycin A cnol ether also bound to cerebellar motilin receptors (pKd,hi = 7.29 and 8.91, respectively). Structure-activity studies with motilin fragments and the potency ranking of agonists suggest that a novel subtype receptor of motilin may exist in the brain. Guanosine 5'-O-(3-thiotriphosphate) (0.1 mM) reduced the number and the affinity for the high-affinity binding sites, which is evidence for G protein-coupled receptors. Our findings open new perspectives for the study of the physiological role of motilin.
On-line tracking of time varying harmonics using an integrated extended complex Kalman filter and Fourier linear combiner (2002)

The paper presents an integral approach for the estimation of harmonic components of a power system based on the use of Fourier linear combiner (FLC) and extended complex Kalman filter (ECKF). The ECKF estimates the accurate frequency of the signal to update the nominal frequency of the input vector to the FLC. The FLC tracks the the Fourier coefficients of the signal data corrupted with noise very accurately. Once signal is modeled properly, the time varying harmonics of a power system can be estimated accurately using this new approach. Several numerical tests have been conducted to highlight the effectiveness of the technique even in the presence of frequency jump, amplitude variations, noise etc.
Study on optimal allocation of irrigation water sources to restore groundwater in Jinghui Irrigation District (2011)

In view of the continuous and severe groundwater level falling, Jinghui Irrigation District of Shaanxi Province are faced with serious over-extraction of groundwater, that has threatened local eco-environment safety, as well as, agricultural water supply safety. Artificial recharge of groundwater is imperative. In this paper, feasibility of groundwater aritificial recharge is studied firstly. The results indicate that based on the rich and generous loess stratum and over-extracting of groundwater, irrigation district possesses about 6.46 10 <sup xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">8</sup> m <sup xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">3</sup> storage capacity for accommodating groundwater according to capacity drainage calculation, and moreover irrigation district also possess very favourable conditions in recharge water source, recharge pattern and re-development of groundwater to restore groundwater. And then on the basis of above analysis, optimal allocation of irrigation water sources is discussed, the proper proportion of surface water and groundwater are determined at different target year. At last the paper points out that only standing protected utilization of groundwater can restrain groundwater resource shrink and groundwater eco-environment deterioration possibly.
Privacy-enhanced capabilities for VANETs using direct anonymous attestation (2017)

In this paper, we propose a novel secure and privacy-preserving solution for V2X systems leveraging widely accepted trusted computing technologies. Our approach systematically addresses all key aspects, i.e., security, privacy and accountability (revocation). By reflecting on state-of-the-art pseudonym architectures, we identify their limitations focusing on pseudonym reusage policies and revocation mechanisms. We propose the use of Direct Anonymous Attestation (DAA) algorithms to enhance existing V2X security architectures. The novelty of our proposed solution is its decentralized approach in shifting trust from the infrastructure to vehicles. Applying DAA in V2X enables enhanced privacy protection than is possible in current architectures through user-controlled linkability. The paper presents the incorporation of DAA algorithms within V2X together with rigorous security and privacy arguments.
Hardware Performance of PALSAR-3 Onboard ALOS-4 (2018)

The paper describes hardware performances of PALSAR-3 onboard ALOS-4, which is a follow-on mission of ALOS-2. To implement land deformation and subsidence monitoring with SAR interferometry and to improve performance of disaster monitoring (more frequent, wider coverage), ALOS-4 observe wider swath while keeping as higher spatial resolution as that of ALOS-2. PALSAR-3, which is successor of PALSAR-2 onbaard ALOS-2, is now designed as an active phased array antenna with onboard digital beam forming processor in order to improve swath width of 3 m resolution Stripmap mode to 200 km.
Gas-Phase Ozone Reaction Kinetics of C5–C8Unsaturated Alcohols of Biogenic Interest (2022)

Unsaturated alcohols are volatile organic compounds (VOCs) that characterize the emissions of plants. Changes in climate together with related increases of biotic and abiotic stresses are expected to increase these emissions in the future. Ozonolysis is one of the oxidation pathways that control the fate of unsaturated alcohols in the atmosphere. The rate coefficients of the gas-phase O<sub>3</sub> reaction with seven C<sub>5</sub>-C<sub>8</sub> unsaturated alcohols were determined at 296 K using both absolute and relative kinetic methods. The following rate coefficients (cm<sup>3</sup> molecule<sup>-1</sup> s<sup>-1</sup>) were obtained using the absolute method: (1.1 ± 0.2) × 10<sup>-16</sup> for <i>cis</i>-2-penten-1-ol, (1.2 ± 0.2) × 10<sup>-16</sup> for <i>trans</i>-2-hexen-1-ol, (6.4 ± 1.0) × 10<sup>-17</sup> for <i>trans</i>-3-hexen-1-ol, (5.8 ± 0.9) × 10<sup>-17</sup> for <i>cis</i>-3-hexen-1-ol, (2.0 ± 0.3) × 10<sup>-17</sup> for 1-octen-3-ol, and (8.4 ± 1.3) × 10<sup>-17</sup> for <i>trans</i>-2-octen-1-ol. The following rate coefficients (cm<sup>3</sup> molecule<sup>-1</sup> s<sup>-1</sup>) were obtained using the relative method: (1.27 ± 0.11) × 10<sup>-16</sup> for <i>trans</i>-2-hexen-1-ol, (5.01 ± 0.30) × 10<sup>-17</sup> for <i>trans</i>-3-hexen-1-ol, (4.13 ± 0.34) × 10<sup>-17</sup> for <i>cis</i>-3-hexen-1-ol, and (1.40 ± 0.12) × 10<sup>-16</sup> for <i>trans</i>-4-hexen-1-ol. Alkenols display high reactivities with ozone with lifetimes in the hour range. Rate coefficients show a strong and complex dependence on the structure of the alkenol, particularly the relative position of the OH group toward the C═C double bond. The results are discussed and compared to both the available literature data and four structure-activity relationship (SAR) methods.