gebhart/patrepeval huggingface dataset:
A study to compare chest X-ray reports on overseas nursing recruits. (2010)

This study was carried out to assess if there was a difference in the Chest X- ray (CXR) report on recruited nurses carried out overseas and later repeated in Ireland. This study was carried out in two Irish teaching hospitals. The subjects of this study comprised all overseas nurses recruited in each of the two hospitals within the defined period. The total number of subjects recruited from the 2 two centres was 84. Only nurses that had a repeat CXR were included in this study. 6/84 (7%) of the CXR that were initially reported as normal were subsequently reported as abnormal and were later diagnosed as Latent TB. 2/84(2%) of the CXR that were reported as abnormal were subsequently reported as normal. The data collected in this study has demonstrated that there was a significant difference in the CXR report from overseas and the CXR report in Ireland.
Purification and Properties of a New Virus from Black Currant, Its Affinities with Nepoviruses, and Its Close Association with Black Currant Reversion Disease (1997)

ABSTRACT Black currant reversion is a virus-like disease whose causal agent has not been identified. In rooted cuttings of a black currant plant affected with the severe form of the disease, pronounced chlorotic line patterns and ringspots developed in newly emerging leaves. From such symptom-bearing leaves, a virus was mechanically transmitted with difficulty to Chenopodium quinoa and, from this host, to other herbaceous test plants. The virus was purified and partially characterized, and the purified viri-ons were used for antiserum production. Virus particles were isometric, approximately 27 nm in diameter, and sedimented as two nucleoprotein components. They contained a protein species with a molecular mass of 55 kDa, which was readily degraded into a 54-kDa protein and two major RNA components of about 6,700 and 7,700 nucleotides (nt), each with a poly(A) tail. Most of these properties are shared by nepoviruses, but the virus was serologically unrelated to 14 nepoviruses or putative nepovi-ruses tested. However, the deduced sequence of 1,260 nt at the 3' end of one of the viral RNA species was distinct from any known viral sequence, except that it contained short regions of homology to the 3' terminal sequences of RNAs of seven other nepoviruses and two comovi-ruses. To detect this virus in Ribes plants, primers were designed from the known sequence to amplify a 210-nt region of the cDNA of the virus RNA using an immunocapture reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (IC-RT-PCR) protocol. Using this assay for the virus, we associated its presence with two recognized forms of black currant reversion disease occurring in Finland, Scotland, or New Zealand. We also detected the virus in vector gall mites from reverted plants and in black currant plants on which such vector mites had fed. However, the virus was not detected by IC-RT-PCR in known healthy Ribes plants; in Ribes plants free from reversion, but affected by three other distinct virus-like diseases of Ribes; or in plants infected with arabis mosaic, strawberry latent ringspot, or raspberry ringspot nepoviruses. These data suggest that this virus may be the causal agent of reversion disease, and it is tentatively called black currant reversion associated virus.
The Enhancement Effect of Gold Nanoparticles in Drug Delivery and as Biomarkers of Drug‐Resistant Cancer Cells (2007)

The enhancement effect of 3-mercaptopropionic acid capped gold nanoparticles (NPs) in drug delivery and as biomarkers of drug-resistant cancer cells has been demonstrated through fluorescence microscopy and electrochemical studies. The results of cell viability experiments and confocal fluorescence microscopy studies illustrate that these functionalized Au NPs could play an important role in efficient drug delivery and biomarking of drug-resistant leukemia K562/ADM cells. This could be explored as a novel strategy to inhibit multidrug resistance in targeted tumor cells and as a sensitive method for the early diagnosis of certain cancers. Our observations also indicate that the interaction between the functionalized Au NPs and biologically active molecules on the surface of leukemia cells may contribute the observed enhancement in cellular drug uptake.
Stream fusion using reactive programming, LINQ and magic updates (2013)

The paradigm of reactive programming has attained more and more interest in recent time. In this paper, we show why reactive programming is a well-suited paradigm for sensor fusion algorithms. As a new contribution, we show how the efficiency of stream-oriented reactive programs can be enhanced by applying the magic update method that originally stems from the field of update propagation in deductive databases.
S3-Leitlinie Pankreatitis – Leitlinienreport der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Gastroenterologie, Verdauungs- und Stoffwechselkrankheiten (DGVS) – September 2021 – AWMF Registernummer 021-003 (2022)

Beat Gloor * Level may be graded down on the basis of study quality, imprecision, indirectness (study PICO does not match questions PICO), because of inconsistency between studies, or because the absolute effect size is very small; Level may be graded up if there is a large or very large effect size.
Spin-resolved femtosecond magnetoexciton interactions in GaAs quantum wells (1992)

We use femtosecond nonlinear spectroscopy and high magnetic fields to study quantum-well excitonic states of well-defined angular momentum character. Our results show that the femtosecond nonlinear optical response is governed by exciton-exciton interactions that depend on the angular momentum character of the initially excited distribution. Remarkably, optically active excitons at high magnetic field undergo spin relaxation to an optically inactive state.
LUMINATION ON THERMIONIC EMIS ABRICATED SILICON CARBIDE STRUC (2011)

Microfabricated thermionic emitters part of thermionic energy converters, w applications in future concentrated solar plants. Here we report a new stress-rel p-doped and n-doped silicon carbide measurements of their thermionic emi functions at temperatures of up to 2900K of optical irradiation on both types of SiC also report the first observation of the p thermionic emission (PETE) in microfabricated emitter.
On the stability and convergence of a class of consensus systems with a nonlinear input (2015)

We consider a class of consensus systems driven by a nonlinear input. Such systems arise in a class of IoT applications. Our objective in this paper is to determine conditions under which a certain partially distributed system converges to a Lur'e-like scalar system, and to provide a rigorous proof of its stability. Conditions are derived for the non-uniform convergence and stability of such a system and an example is given of a speed advisory system where such a system arises in real engineering practice.
Pro Value of state of the art Bridge Bearings and Expansion Joint Solutions (2018)

&lt;p&gt;The MEGA cities in South East Asia are more and more faced with the limited capacity of their infrastructure. Above all massive investment is spent on the public transport system, which expands at an enormous speed.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Caused by limited space and economic reasons, more and more roads and railway lines are built elevated. Approx. the same huge funds are necessary to improve existing structures to the needs of the next centuries.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The choice of bearings and expansion joints may jeopardize the economy during operation. The right choice on behalf of sustainability results in a pro-value for the road or railroad operator in the name of reliability, durability and maintenance costs of the device and the entire project.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Especially for railroad projects, the focus on the interaction between the bridge bearings and the track is essential not only for the device, but for the entire track reliability.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;To get the pro-value for the structure, the European standard, EN1337 and EN1090, classify performance in dependence to the structure. This classification is decisive for the sustainability of structures, regardless if for new projects or rehabilitations.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The presentation would highlight the innovations of modern bridge bearings and expansion joints on reliability and cost-effectiveness during operation. Latest technology guarantees a low carbon footprint.&lt;/p&gt;
Intumescent Nanocoating Extinguishes Flame on Fabric Using Aqueous Polyelectrolyte Complex Deposited in Single Step (2014)

Abstract In an effort to produce a more effective and environmentally friendly flame‐retardant (FR) treatment for cotton fabric, a two‐ingredient aqueous polyelectrolyte complex was used to create a one‐step deposition system. This easy‐to‐apply nanocoating, made with nitrogen‐rich and phosphorous‐rich polyelectrolytes, maintains the fabric's weave structure by spontaneously coating individual fibers. Coating pick‐up is reproducible and is a function of both soak time and pot life of the polyelectrolyte complex. From microscale calorimetry data, cotton fabric soaked for only 1min in this “OnePot” flame‐retarding complex exhibits a 52.7% reduction in total heat release, with only 2.3 wt% coating added.
Synthesis of ultra‐thin films of aromatic polymers at air/water interface (1990)

Abstract Ultra‐thin films of and precursor polymers for polybenzimidazole (PBI), polybenzoxazole (PBO), or polybenzothiazole (PBT) were formed at air/water interface by spreading monomers and then polymerizing on the water surface. These thin films could be deposited onto appropriate substrates by using the LB method of horizontal lifting. Moreover, the heat‐treatment of the built‐up films of the precursor polymers of PBI, PBO, and PBT formed the ultra‐thin films of high temperature polymers. The resulting ultra‐thin films had uniform and controllable thickness, but remained fairly stable when subjected to temperature up to 300°C. They also had good solvent resistance.
Fabrication of plant-based vitamin D3-fortified nanoemulsions: influence of carrier oil type on vitamin bioaccessibility (2019)

The influence of carrier oil type (corn, fish, or flaxseed oil) on the production, stability, and simulated gastrointestinal behavior of vitamin-fortified nanoemulsions was studied.
Subwavelength photonic crystal waveguide with trapezoidal shaped dielectric pillars in optical systems (2023)

A method for reducing loss in a subwavelength photonic crystal waveguide bend is disclosed. The method comprising: forming the subwavelength photonic crystal waveguide bend with a series of trapezoidal shaped dielectric pillars centered about a bend radius; wherein each of the trapezoidal shaped dielectric pillars comprise a top width, a bottom width, and a trapezoid height; wherein the length of the bottom width is greater than the length of the top width; and wherein the bottom width is closer to the center of the bend radius of the subwavelength photonic crystal waveguide bend than the top width. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
Cytokines in chronic rheumatic diseases: is everything lack of homeostatic balance? (2009)

Biological systems have powerful inbuilt mechanisms of control intended to maintain homeostasis. Cytokines are no exception to this rule, and imbalance in cytokine activities may lead to inflammation with subsequent tissue and organ damage, altered function, and death. Balance is achieved through multiple, not mutually exclusive, mechanisms including the simultaneous production of agonist and antagonistic cytokines, expression of soluble receptors or membrane-bound nonsignaling receptors, priming and/or reprogramming of signaling, and uncoupling of ligand/receptor pairing from signal transduction. Insight into cytokine balance is leading to novel therapeutic approaches particularly in autoimmune conditions, which are intimately linked to a dysregulated cytokine production.
Alternative electrochemical energy storage: potassium-based dual-graphite batteries (2017)

In this contribution, we report for the first time a novel potassium ion-based dual-graphite battery concept (K-DGB), applying graphite as the electrode material for both the anode and cathode, in combination with an ionic liquid electrolyte.
Oncology End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium Training Program: Improving Palliative Care in Cancer (2007)

EOL care information remains critical to the science of oncology nursing, and ELNEC-Oncology provides an effective strategy for disseminating the information.
P‐2: High Mobility Zinc Oxynitride TFT for AMOLED (2014)

Abstract Both etch stopped and back channel etched structure TFTs with zinc oxynitride(ZnON) as active layer were developed, and the saturation mobility achieved 33 cm 2 /Vs. The ZnON TFTs show superior positive gate bias stress under dark and light illumination. Furthermore, a 5 inch WOLED panel driven by ZnON TFT was demonstrated.
Modeling the Calibration/Cooling Stage of Complex Thermoplastic Profiles (2012)

Thermoplastics have very low thermal diffusivity, which is advantageous for some applications but create difficulties for their processing. In fact, in continuous processes, such as extrusion, it can limit the production rate, which is dependent on the installed cooling capability of the extrusion line, originates the development of considerable thermal gradients during the cooling stage and, consequently, the development of stresses that can be frozen in the product (generally referred as residual thermal stresses) that will affect negatively its mechanical performance in use. Therefore, the conditions in which the cooling stage takes place not only determine the production rate, but also the final properties of extruded products. Due to the large number of parameters influencing the cooling stage, its optimization requires the use of proper modelling codes. The work here presented is intended to improve the scope of application of an existing 3D non-isothermal multi-domain numerical code based on the finite volume method (FVM), through the implementation of unstructured meshes enabling, therefore, to predict the evolution of the thermal field during the cooling stage of the extrusion of complex profiles.
Casting copper to tungsten for high power arc lamp cathodes (1973)

A method for making 400-kW arc lamp cathodes is described. The cathodes are made by casting a 1.75-in. diameter copper body onto a thoriated tungsten insert. The addition of 0.5-percent nickel to the copper prevents voids from forming at the copper-tungsten interface. Cathodes made by this process have withstood more than 110 hours of operation in a 400-kW arc lamp.
Photoelectrochemical study of Zn cytochrome-c immobilised on a nanoporous metal oxide electrode (2002)

Transient optical spectroscopies and photocurrent action spectra are used to demonstrate photoinduced charge separation between zinc-substituted cytochrome c and a nanocrystalline TiO2 electrode.
Candidate Materials for the Sulfur Electrode Container/Current Collector Ceramic Oxides (1984)

In the search for materials for the container/current collector of the sulfur electrode in the sodium-sulfur cell, several chrominum oxide based candidates for possible use as coatings have been tested. Samples of chromium oxide doped with Li/sub 2/O, MgO, NiO and Ta/sub 2/O/sub 5/ have been produced and characterized. The only n-type oxide - Ta/sub 2/O/sub 5/ - was rejected, a priori, owing to its high initial resistivity. Corrosion tests were carried out at 350/sup 0/C in small laboratory cells using the bulk oxide samples as test electrodes. The latter were exposed to the extremes of electrochemical conditions to which the container/current-collector might be locally exposed in a practical Na/S cell for periods of time up to about6 months. Surface attack was found to be negligible. However, an increase of bulk resistivity of the samples and of overpotential was observed in all cases. The increase of resistivity is attributed to the loss of carriers in the p-type semiconductor oxides, caused by equilibration of the latter with the negligible partial pressure of oxygen in the reducing atmosphere of the sulfurpolysulfide melt at 350/sup 0/C. The increase of overpotential is interpreted in terms of the loss of the electroactive surface area duemore » to, among other reasons, the accumulation of sulfur or solid lower sulfides at the interface and/or changes of its adsorptive properties.« less
Tilalla tapahtuva maan laadun mittaaminen (2006)

Kaikelle peltoviljelylle on tärkeää, että huolehditaan maan hyvästä rakenteesta, kasvien luontaisestaravinteiden saannista, maan vesitaloudesta ja vältetään ympäröivien ekosysteemien kuormittamista. Maanhyvä kunto pitää sisällään useita eri tekijöitä. Kemialliset tekijät kuvaavat maan ravinnetilaa, eloperäistäainesta ja happamuutta. Fysikaaliset tekijät ovat keskeisiä maan rakenteelle, vesitaloudelle jaeroosioriskille. Biologiset tekijät taas vaikuttavat luontaiseen ravinteidensaantiin vapauttamalla ravinteitaeloperäisestä aineksesta tai symbioosissa viljelykasvin kanssa sekä ovat mukana maan rakenteenmuodostuksessa ja ylläpitämisessä synnyttämällä humusta, sitomalla pintamaan muruja ja luomalla ns.biohuokosia. Kun näihin liitetään kestävän maatalouden ajatus, voidaan puhua maan laadusta.Monipuolista mittaristoa maan laadun arvioimiseksi ja kehityksen seuraamiseksi tiloilla ei meilläole toistaiseksi ollut tarjolla. Kansainvälisesti jo useita maan laadun mittaristoja on olemassa ja meilläkintarve peltomaan biologisten ja fysikaalisten ominaisuuksien arvioimiseen viljavuustutkimuksentäydentäjänä on ilmeinen. Mittaristokokonaisuuden kehitystyössä voidaan hyödyntää ulkomaisiaesimerkkejä, mutta käyttöönotto vaatii soveltamista ja testaamista paikallisissa olosuhteissa.Hankkeen päätavoitteena oli kehittää neuvoja- ja viljelijäkäyttöön soveltuva mittarikokoelmamaan laadun monipuolista arviointia varten. Mittaristo sisältää testejä maan biologisista, kemiallisista jafysikaalisista ominaisuuksista. Hankkeen kuluessa ProAgria Maaseutukeskusten neuvojat eri puolellaSuomea ovat testanneet mittarikokoelmaa. Käyttökokemusten perusteella testikokonaisuutta, ohjeistusta javälineistöä on muokattu. Tulosten tulkintaa ja toimenpide-ehdotuksia varten tarvitaan taustatietoja tilanlohkojen luontaisista ominaisuuksista ja viljelytoimenpiteistä. Tiedot on mahdollista kootavaltakunnallisesti ProAgrian Lohkotietopankin avulla, jolloin viljelijöiden on mahdollista vertailla omantilansa tuloksia. Lohkotietopankkiin kertyviä tuloksia voidaan myös jatkossa käyttää hyväksisuositusarvojen tarkentamisessa. Tavoitteena on, että oman tilan peltojen kunnon seuraaminen ja arvojenvertailu motivoisi viljelijöitä muutoksiin. Maan laadun mittaamista voidaan soveltaa myösveisensuojelutyössä maaperästä aiheutuvien riskien arvioimiseksi ja paikantamiseksi, sekäviljelymuutosten vaikutusten seurantaan.Hanke loppuu vuoden 2005 lopussa, jonka jälkeen valmistuu mittarikokoelman käyttöä vartenlaadittu CD-rom –muotoinen tukimateriaali, mikä tullaan julkaisemaan myös uudistuvan Agronetinsivustoilla.
The strategic CIO: Work anywhere, win anywhere (2011)

They are coming - the invasion of mobile devices has begun. The four little letters that are keeping many a CIO awake at night are BYOC, or bring your own computing, AKA bring your own device. And 2012 will be the biggest year yet for this new kind of mobility - where consumerism converges with corporatisation. An explosion of the next generation of smartphones and tablet computers into the workplace is set to have a significant impact on businesses.
Arterial spin labeling brain MRI study to evaluate the impact of deafness on cerebral perfusion in 79 children before cochlear implantation (2020)

Age at implantation is considered to be a major factor, influencing outcomes after pediatric cochlear implantation. In the absence of acoustic input, it has been proposed that cross-modal reorganization can be detrimental for adaptation to the new electrical input provided by a cochlear implant. Here, through a retrospective study, we aimed to investigate differences in cerebral blood flow (CBF) at rest prior to implantation in children with congenital deafness compared to normally hearing children. In addition, we looked at the putative link between pre-operative rest-CBF and the oral intelligibility scores at 12 months post-implantation. Finally, we observed the evolution of perfusion with age, within brain areas showing abnormal rest-CBF associated to deafness, in deaf children and in normally hearing children. In children older than 5 years old, results showed a significant bilateral hypoperfusion in temporal regions in deaf children, particularly in Heschl's gyrus, and a significant hyperperfusion of occipital regions. Furthermore, in children older than 5 years old, whole brain voxel-by-voxel correlation analysis between pre-operative rest-CBF and oral intelligibility scores at 12 months post-implantation, showed significant negative correlation localized in the occipital regions: children who performed worse in the speech perception test one year after implantation were those presenting higher preoperative CBF values in these occipital regions. Finally, when comparing mean relative perfusion (extracted from the temporal regions found abnormal on whole-brain voxel-based analysis) across ages in patients and controls, we observed that the temporal perfusion evolution was significantly different in deaf children than in normally hearing children. Indeed, while temporal perfusion increased with age in normally hearing children, it remained stable in deaf children. We showed a critical period around 4 years old, where in the context of auditory deprivation, there is a lack of synaptic activity in auditory regions. These results support the benefits of early cochlear implantation to maximize the effectiveness of auditory rehabilitation and to avoid cross-modal reorganization.
Considerations on Customer Access to the ISDN (1982)

A concept for a digital customer access to an integrated services digital network (ISDN) is proposed. It is based on a passive bus which conveys information by means of two circuit switched B channels and a <tex xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">D</tex> channel to support associated signaling (outslot channel) dynamically multiplexed with slow speed packetized data and telemetry. The customer access can support multiple terminal arrangements with simultaneously active users. Information to be conveyed by the <tex xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">D</tex> channel is transferred in the form of messages, each associated with a logical link which has to coexist with other logical links on the common physical <tex xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">D</tex> channel. Access to that channel is regulated by level 1 arbitration with collision avoidance. It is possible to connect one X.25 DTE with minimum adaptation to the customer installation.
MobileSense - Sensing Modes of Transportation in Studies of the Built Environment (2008)

We discuss a study we conducted using the Mobile Sensing Platform and GPS information to record the activities and locations of 53 subjects, each of whom collected data for one week. Using this data we are developing methods for combining activity inference from sensors to infer the mode of transportation, label significant locations, and extract trips. Although our data collection was conducted using a non-consumer sensor platform, we discuss how our methods can translate onto existing mobile platforms such as the iPhone and Nokia N95, and how these platforms will enable us to study larger populations to draw more concrete conclusions about the relationship between the urban environment and people’s activities.