gebhart/patrepeval huggingface dataset:
Digital Systems Testing and Testable Design (1994)

This updated printing of the leading text and reference in digital systems testing and testable design provides comprehensive, state-of-the-art coverage of the field. Included are extensive discussions of test generation, fault modeling for classic and new technologies, simulation, fault simulation, design for testability, built-in self-test, and diagnosis. Complete with numerous problems, this book is a must-have for test engineers, ASIC and system designers, and CAD developers, and advanced engineering students will find this book an invaluable tool to keep current with recent changes in the field
An interactive music system based on the technology of the reacTable (2010)

The purpose of this dissertation is to investigate and document a research project undertaken in the designing, constructing and performing of an interactive music system. The project involved building a multi-user electro-acoustic music instrument with a tangible user interface, based on the technology of the reacTable. The main concept of the instrument was to integrate the ideas of 1) interpreting gestural movement into music, 2) multi-touch/multi-user technology, and 3) the exploration of timbre in computer music. The dissertation discusses the definition, basics and essentials of interactive music systems and examines the past history and key features of the three main concepts, previously mentioned. The original instrument is observed in detail, including the design and construction of the table-shaped physical build, along with an in-depth look into the computer software (ReacTIVision, Max MSP and Reason) employed. The fundamentals and workings of the instrument- sensing/processing/response, control and feedback, and mapping- are described at length, examining how tangible objects are used to generate and control parameters of music, while its instrumental limitations are also mentioned. How the three main concepts relate to, and are expressed within, the instrument is also discussed. An original piece of music, with an accompanying video, entitled Piece for homemade reacTable, composed and performed on the instrument has been created in support of this dissertation. It acts as a basic demonstration of how the interactive music system works, showcasing all the main concepts and how they are put in practice to create and perform new electronic music.
Stability of Molybdenum Disilicide in Combustion Gak Environments (1994)

The stability of MoSi 2 in combustion gas at 1370° and 1600°C was evaluated using SOLGASMIX‐PV thermodynamic modeling, periodic weight measurements, and characterization via XRD, SEM, EDS, and image analysis. Passive oxidation occurred at both temperatures. During an initial stage of exposure, specimen surfaces oxidized to form MoO 3(g) and amorphous SiO 2 via reduction of CO 2 and H 2 O. After a short time (&lt;6.5 min at 1370°C, &lt;1 min at 1600°C), the oxidation mechanism switched; Mo 5 Si 3 and amorphous SiO 2 formed as oxidation products. The first mechanism esulted in the formation of 46.1 vol% at 1370°C and 42.6 vol% at 1600°C of the amorphous silica surface coating. The attainment of a near‐terminal weight gain implied silica formation was limited by H 2 O and CO 2 diffusion through the silica coating.
Keep It Simple: Bidding for Servers in Today's Cloud Platforms (2017)

Public clouds now offer computing services with a variety of pricing schemes. Spot servers, which offer large cost savings, are an increasingly popular platform on which applications are being deployed. Spot servers are dynamically priced and require users to submit a bid. In this article, the authors show the effect of bidding on application cost and availability when running on spot servers. Based on their analysis, they present simple and effective bidding strategies for users and provide motivation for new research directions in cloud resource management and fault tolerance.
Serum tenascin-C discriminates patients with active SLE from inactive patients and healthy controls and predicts the need to escalate immunosuppressive therapy: a cohort study (2015)

TNC is not disease-specific, but it seems to indicate the activity of SLE and may predict the need to escalate immunosuppressive therapy. TNC levels may thus serve as a useful activity-specific and predictive biomarker in SLE.
Dysbiosis of the Intestinal Microbiota in IBS (2012)

The human gastrointestinal (GI) microbiota is a rich and dynamic community inhabited by approximately 1014 bacteria, most of which have not yet been cultivated in the laboratory (Zoetendal et al, 2006). The GI microbiota has been suggested as one of the etiological factors in irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), with a putative role in the development and maintenance of IBS symptoms (for a review, see Bolino & Bercik, 2010). The worldwide prevalence of IBS is 10-20% among adults and adolescents, depending on the diagnostic criteria applied (Longstreth et al, 2006). Abdominal pain or discomfort, irregular bowel movements and constipation or diarrhoea are common symptoms of IBS. Symptoms outside the GI tract, such as fatigue, anxiety and depression, are also often encountered. At its worst, IBS can cause significant effects on patients’ well-being, but it is not known to predispose to any severe illnesses. Patients can be grouped into three subtypes according to bowel habits: diarrhoea-predominant (IBS-D), constipation-predominant (IBS-C) or mixed-subtype (IBSM). However, the symptom subtype of each patient may vary over time (Longstreth et al, 2006). Compared to non-IBS controls, subjects with IBS have been associated with a greater temporal instability of the GI microbiota and quantitative changes have been detected within several distinct bacterial groups or species-like phylotypes, which are defined based solely on sequence data (see Table 1 for references). In analyses covering the overall microbial community, IBS subjects have shown a tendency to cluster apart from the healthy control subjects (Ponnusamy et al, 2011; Rajilic-Stojanovic, 2007). Moreover, the IBS symptom-subgroups IBS have been proposed to differ from each other according to the GI microbiota of subjects within these groups (Lyra et al, 2009; Malinen et al, 2005; RajilicStojanovic, 2007). The most distinctive symptom sub-type is IBS-D, which could also be a result of the impact of the diarrhoea on the microbial environment in the gut. In addition, comparatively low quantities of bifidobacteria, which are generally considered beneficial to health, have been detected in several IBS studies (Balsari et al, 1982; Enck et al, 2009; Kerckhoffs et al, 2009; Krogius-Kurikka et al, 2009; Si et al, 2004). This finding, though still preliminary, encourages development of probiotic and prebiotic therapies for IBS. On the other hand, elevated numbers of Proteobacteria and Firmicutes, including Ruminococcus – like phylotypes, Lactobacillus sp. and Veillonella sp., have been reported. Quantitative and qualitative microbial alterations in the GI tract of IBS subjects may have a functional role in the syndrome aetiology or merely reflect the status of the gut, but still have diagnostic or prognostic value in clinical practise and research (Kassinen, 2009;
Expression status and prognostic significance of mammalian target of rapamycin pathway members in urothelial carcinoma of urinary bladder after cystectomy (2010)

We found an overall down-regulation of mTOR pathway in bladder urothelial carcinoma. phosS6 independently predicted DSS, and c-myc independently predicted progression.
Detecting Active Sites in Protein 3D Structures (2020)

Active sites in proteins are three dimensional structures appear on the surface of proteins. Drug designers often look for certain active sites that can be used to inhibit some specific pathway. Detecting active sites of proteins has been a very popular research area. Previous research efforts in this area often use the one dimensional sequence of the protein. Many approaches have been developed to identify a potential active site representing as a segment in the protein sequence. However, an active site can function only in its 3D structure when folded appropriately. In other words, a potential active site detected in the sequence still needs to be verified in the 3D structure. In this paper, we introduce an approach that takes the three dimensional structure of a protein and discovers potential active sites from the 3D structure directly.
Little Penguin and the Lollipop (2018)

Kenneth the seagull is in a foul mood one day, and his reason for frustration quickly becomes obvious: his friend the little penguin has eaten his Razzle-Dazzle Seaweed Lollipop! Little penguin tries everything he can think of to apologize and make it up to his friend, even enlisting the help of the reader to making goofy faces in an attempt to cheer up Kenneth. But nothing seems to be working! Then, by a stroke of luck, little penguin manages to find another Razzle-Dazzle Seaweed Lollipop. Kenneth is overjoyed and quickly gobbles it up, only to find out little penguin may have taken this lollipop from another unsuspecting owner.
Fluorescence probe for mercury(ii) based on the aqueous synthesis of CdTe quantum dots stabilized with 2-mercaptoethanesulfonate (2017)

A new capping ligand, 2-mercaptoethanesulfonate (MES), for CdTe quantum dots passivation provide high selectivity and sensitivity in Hg(<sc>ii</sc>) determination.
Predicting parameters in deep learning (2014)

The recent success of large and deep neural network models has motivated the training of even larger and deeper networks with millions of parameters. Training these models usually requires parallel training methods where communicating large number of parameters becomes one of the main bottlenecks. We show that many deep learning models are over-parameterized and their learned features can be predicted given only a small fraction of their parameters. We then propose a method which exploits this fact during the training to reduce the number of parameters that need to be learned. Our method is orthogonal to the choice of network architecture and can be applied in a wide variety of neural network architectures and application areas. We evaluate this technique using various experiments in image and speech recognition and show that we can only learn a fraction of the parameters (up to 10% in some cases) and predict the rest without a significant loss in the predictive accuracy of the model.
Opportunities and challenges to utilization of quantitative imaging: Report of the AAPM practical big data workshop (2018)

Recommendations based on the meetings are summarized.
Lattice-Based Public Key Searchable Encryption from Experimental Perspectives (2018)

Public key Encryption with Keyword Search (PEKS) aims in mitigating the impacts of data privacy versus utilization dilemma by allowing any user in the system to send encrypted files to the server to be searched by a receiver. The receiver can retrieve the encrypted files containing specific keywords by providing the corresponding trapdoors of these keywords to the server. Despite their merits, the existing PEKS schemes introduce a high end-to-end delay that may hinder their adoption in practice. Moreover, they do not scale well for large security parameters and provide no post-quantum security promises. In this paper, we propose two novel lattice-based PEKS schemes that offer a high computational efficiency along with better security assurances than that of the existing alternatives. Specifically, our NTRU-PEKS scheme achieves 18 times lower end-to-end delay than the most efficient pairing-based alternatives. Our LWE-PEKS offers provable security in the standard model with a reduction to the worst-case lattice problems. We fully implemented our NTRU-PEKS scheme and benchmarked its performance as deployed on Amazon Web Services cloud infrastructures.
Sulfohydrolase Activity and Carrageenan Biosynthesis in Chondrus crispus (Rhodophyceae) (1978)

An enzyme catalyzing the conversion of mu- to kappa-carrageenan has been demonstrated in both haploid and diploid plants of Chondrus crispus. It acts at the polymer level producing 3,6-anhydro-d-galactose with the stoichiometric release of sulfate. Two-thirds of the recoverable enzyme was associated with the 15,000g pellet most of which could be solubilized by passage through a Ribi Cell Fractionator. The enzyme precipitated between 2.65 and 4.24 m (NH(4))(2)SO(4) and was partly purified on DEAE-cellulose columns. This sulfohydrolase has a pH optimum near 6.5 and is inhibited by molybdate, phosphate, sulfate, tungstate, cysteine, ATP, GTP, UDP, and by lambda-carrageenan. No activator was found. The enzyme showed a similar affinity for several preparations of mu-carrageenan and for the kappa-carrageenase-resistant fraction from kappa-carrageenan thus confirming that the latter is a biosynthetically unfinished molecule.A comparable extract from Gigartina stellata gave a higher specific activity for the sulfohydrolase, but was otherwise quite similar to the Chondrus enzyme.
Quantized current jumps in silicon photoconductors at room temperature (1999)

We report on the observation of quantized jumps due to single-carrier trapping and detrapping at defect states in silicon photoconductors of 103 μm3 in volume. A specifically designed electrical test structure in a low-doped (2×1014 cm−3) silicon crystal was fabricated. It consists in four substrate resistances connected in a Wheatstone bridge. After the exposure to light, the bridge offset voltage recovers its equilibrium value with steps of 5–10 μV, corresponding to the emission or capture of a single carrier. Such structures also display random telegraph signals in the dark, with steps of similar amplitude. This behavior is observed with structures processed on Czochralski-grown substrates and not with those processed on float-zone substrates. Simple calculations based on quantized free carrier concentration variations corroborate the above measurements.
Notes - Synthesis of Isotopically Labeled Medicinals. I. 2-Thiouracil-S35 (1958)

ADVERTISEMENT RETURN TO ISSUEPREVArticleNEXTNotes - Synthesis of Isotopically Labeled Medicinals. I. 2-Thiouracil-S35J. Ziegler, A. Shabica, and M. SonenbergCite this: J. Org. Chem. 1958, 23, 10, 1546–1547Publication Date (Print):October 1, 1958Publication History Published online4 June 2003Published inissue 1 October 1958https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jo01104a600https://doi.org/10.1021/jo01104a600research-articleACS PublicationsRequest reuse permissionsArticle Views76Altmetric-Citations4LEARN ABOUT THESE METRICSArticle Views are the COUNTER-compliant sum of full text article downloads since November 2008 (both PDF and HTML) across all institutions and individuals. These metrics are regularly updated to reflect usage leading up to the last few days.Citations are the number of other articles citing this article, calculated by Crossref and updated daily. Find more information about Crossref citation counts.The Altmetric Attention Score is a quantitative measure of the attention that a research article has received online. Clicking on the donut icon will load a page at altmetric.com with additional details about the score and the social media presence for the given article. Find more information on the Altmetric Attention Score and how the score is calculated. Share Add toView InAdd Full Text with ReferenceAdd Description ExportRISCitationCitation and abstractCitation and referencesMore Options Share onFacebookTwitterWechatLinked InRedditEmail Other access optionsGet e-Alertsclose Get e-Alerts
Regularities of Boiling-Up of Emulsified Liquids (2005)

The dependence of the number of evaporation centers on the degree of superheating of emulsion technological fluids has been investigated.
Physicochemical and Functional Properties of Vegetable and Cereal Proteins as Potential Sources of Novel Food Ingredients (2015)

Proteins from vegetable and cereal sources are an excellent alternative to substitute animal-based counterparts because of their reduced cost, abundant supply and good nutritional value. The objective of this investigation is to study a set of vegetable and cereal proteins in terms of physicochemical and functional properties. Twenty protein sources were studied: five soya bean flour samples, one pea flour and fourteen newly developed blends of soya bean and maize germ (five concentrates and nine hydrolysates). The physicochemical characterization included pH (5.63 to 7.57), electrical conductivity (1.32 to 4.32 mS/cm), protein content (20.78 to 94.24% on dry mass basis), free amino nitrogen (0.54 to 2.87 mg/g) and urease activity (0.08 to 2.20). The functional properties showed interesting differences among proteins: water absorption index ranged from 0.41 to 18.52, the highest being of soya and maize concentrates. Nitrogen and water solubility ranged from 10.14 to 74.89% and from 20.42 to 95.65%, respectively. Fat absorption and emulsification activity indices ranged from 2.59 to 4.72 and from 3936.6 to 52 399.2 m<sup>2</sup>/g respectively, the highest being of pea flour. Foam activity (66.7 to 475.0%) of the soya and maize hydrolysates was the best. Correlation analyses showed that hydrolysis affected solubility-related parameters whereas fat-associated indices were inversely correlated with water-linked parameters. Foam properties were better of proteins treated with low heat, which also had high urease activity. Physicochemical and functional characterization of the soya and maize protein concentrates and hydrolysates allowed the identification of differences regarding other vegetable and cereal protein sources such as pea or soya bean.
What is signal processing? [President's Message (2009)

I am returning to this perennial question that, in some sense, I already touched on in my March 2008 president's message. I am sure we are all often confronted with explaining signal processing to others, including non-experts or the public in general. We may choose to explain it by what we and our colleagues do, as exemplified by the diversity and richness of the work of our Society's technical committees and the topical coverage of our numerous solely-sponsored or co-sponsored conferences, workshops, and publications. Alternatively, we might turn to the cyber age oracle (Wikipedia) for an intuitive description (I suggest you read it).
Fe-S cofactors in the SARS-CoV-2 RNA-dependent RNA polymerase are potential antiviral targets (2021)

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the causal agent of COVID-19, uses an RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (RdRp) for the replication of its genome and the transcription of its genes. We found that the catalytic subunit of the RdRp, nsp12, ligates two iron-sulfur metal cofactors in sites that were modeled as zinc centers in the available cryo-electron microscopy structures of the RdRp complex. These metal binding sites are essential for replication and for interaction with the viral helicase. Oxidation of the clusters by the stable nitroxide TEMPOL caused their disassembly, potently inhibited the RdRp, and blocked SARS-CoV-2 replication in cell culture. These iron-sulfur clusters thus serve as cofactors for the SARS-CoV-2 RdRp and are targets for therapy of COVID-19.
Revisiting Point Cloud Simplification: A Learnable Feature Preserving Approach (2021)

The recent advances in 3D sensing technology have made possible the capture of point clouds in significantly high resolution. However, increased detail usually comes at the expense of high storage, as well as computational costs in terms of processing and visualization operations. Mesh and Point Cloud simplification methods aim to reduce the complexity of 3D models while retaining visual quality and relevant salient features. Traditional simplification techniques usually rely on solving a time-consuming optimization problem, hence they are impractical for large-scale datasets. In an attempt to alleviate this computational burden, we propose a fast point cloud simplification method by learning to sample salient points. The proposed method relies on a graph neural network architecture trained to select an arbitrary, user-defined, number of points from the input space and to re-arrange their positions so as to minimize the visual perception error. The approach is extensively evaluated on various datasets using several perceptual metrics. Importantly, our method is able to generalize to out-of-distribution shapes, hence demonstrating zero-shot capabilities.
Performance Bounds for Expander-Based Compressed Sensing in Poisson Noise (2011)

This paper provides performance bounds for compressed sensing in the presence of Poisson noise using expander graphs. The Poisson noise model is appropriate for a variety of applications, including low-light imaging and digital streaming, where the signal-independent and/or bounded noise models used in the compressed sensing literature are no longer applicable. In this paper, we develop a novel sensing paradigm based on expander graphs and propose a maximum a posteriori (MAP) algorithm for recovering sparse or compressible signals from Poisson observations. The geometry of the expander graphs and the positivity of the corresponding sensing matrices play a crucial role in establishing the bounds on the signal reconstruction error of the proposed algorithm. We support our results with experimental demonstrations of reconstructing average packet arrival rates and instantaneous packet counts at a router in a communication network, where the arrivals of packets in each flow follow a Poisson process.
Shotgun Ecotoxicoproteomics ofDaphnia pulex: Biochemical Effects of the Anticancer Drug Tamoxifen (2014)

Among pollutants released into the environment by human activities, residues of pharmaceuticals are an increasing matter of concern because of their potential impact on ecosystems. The aim of this study was to analyze differences of protein expression resulting from acute (2 days) and middle-term (7 days) exposure of aquatic microcrustacean Daphnia pulex to the anticancer drug tamoxifen. Using a liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry shotgun approach, about 4000 proteins could be identified, providing the largest proteomics data set of D. pulex published up to now. Considering both time points and tested concentrations, 189 proteins showed a significant fold change. The identity of regulated proteins suggested a decrease in translation, an increase in protein degradation and changes in carbohydrate and lipid metabolism as the major effects of the drug. Besides these impacted processes, which reflect a general stress response of the organism, some other regulated proteins play a role in Daphnia reproduction. These latter results are in accordance with our previous observations of the impact of tamoxifen on D. pulex reproduction and illustrate the potential of ecotoxicoproteomics to unravel links between xenobiotic effects at the biochemical and organismal levels. Data are available via ProteomeXchange with identifier PXD001257.
Consultant assistant (2009)

In this paper we present Consultant Assistant (CA), a tool to assist business consultants in collaborative requirements gathering and business process documentation. CA is a web tool that uses a model-based approach to capture the requirements. CA allows users to select relevant components of industry-specific process hierarchies, reuse documents from past engagements, collaboratively author requirements, and publish these requirements in a document based format. These documents can further be published to an asset repository for future reuse.