gebhart/patrepeval huggingface dataset:
Alcohol and Cognition - Consideration of Age of Initiation, Usage Patterns and Gender: A Brief Review (2012)

Heavy alcohol use has numerous negative impacts on cognition. In many cases, it appears that excess drinking influences working memory, problem solving, attention, patterns of regional brain activation, and even gray and white matter volume. Due to these effects, most significant conclusions related to cognitive decline are limited to the assumption that "more is worse." However, heavy alcohol use is a very complex psychosocial behavior and is subject to a problematic number of variables. As a result, it is very difficult to extend generalizations about drinking-related consequences to the overall population since many environmental and biological differences come into play for every individual. Three of these variables shown to have significant impact on cognitive sensitivity to alcohol are age of first alcohol use (age of drinking initiation), specific pattern of alcohol consumption and gender. Potential insight can be gained into how individual drinking scenarios differ in risk for cognitive decline by assessing how each of these important factors influences cognition independently. Although some overlap exists between categories, each still appears to contribute unique influence on likelihood and presentation of cognition-related effects. Based on existing and current research, age and gender tend to augment baseline sensitivity to alcohol, with patterns of alcohol intake also influencing how changes appear. Given these categorical differences, it is important to consider personal alcohol drinking history rather than just aggregate alcohol intake as risk factors in the cognitive impacts of drinking. The objective of this brief review is to examine the role of these factors on the effect of alcohol on cognition.
Fundamentals for Better Use of Stainless Steels -Development History, Characteristics and Resistance to Corrosion- (2011)

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Experimental Studies of Floc Formation in the High Shear Field (1983)

The objectives of this study were to evaluate the influence of the rapid-mix operation on the removal of suspended solid in waste water. Experiments were conducted under turbulent flow conditions in a stirred-tank-type reactor.The results of the study may be summarized as follows;1) In the high shear field, the, consistency of suspended solids (s. s.) in supernatant water decreased rapidly with increase of stirring time and reached the minimum point. This result indicates that floc formation is quite possibleeven under high shear field. After passing over minimum point, the consistency of s. s. in supernatant water increased with increase of stirring time because of the disruption of flocs under turbulent condition.2) The consistency of s. s. in supernatant water is a functionof the length of the rapid-mix period. The rate of apparent floc disruption, Cafd can be expressed as; Cafd ∝ Eeffb. The term, Eeff is the effective energy dissipation function and b is the power number of the function.3) For anionic polymer dosage less than 0.4mg/g-kaolin, the rate of apparent floc disruption decreased with the amount of polymer added.4) The rate of apparent floc disruption of 1wt.% suspension was much lower than of 4wt.% suspension.
Magneto-optical properties of cerium substituted yttrium iron garnet films with reduced thermal budget for monolithic photonic integrated circuits (2012)

Thin films of polycrystalline cerium substituted yttrium iron garnet (CeYIG) were grown on an yttrium iron garnet (YIG) seed layer on Si and Si-on-insulator substrates by pulsed laser deposition, and their optical and magneto-optical properties in the near-IR region were measured. A YIG seed layer of ~30 nm thick processed by rapid thermal anneal at 800°C provided a virtual substrate to promote crystallization of the CeYIG. The effect of the thermal budget of the YIG/CeYIG growth process on the film structure, magnetic and magnetooptical properties was determined.
Regeneration of Perchlorate (ClO4-)-Loaded Anion Exchange Resins by a Novel Tetrachloroferrate (FeCl4-) Displacement Technique (2001)

Selective ion exchange is one of the preferred treatment technologies for removing low levels of perchlorate (ClO4-) from contaminated water because of its high efficiency and minimal impact on water quality through the addition or removal of chemicals and nutrients. However, the exceptionally high affinity of ClO4- for type I anion-exchange resins makes regeneration with conventional NaCl brine extremely difficult and costly for practical applications. The present study entails the development of a novel regeneration methodology applicable to highly selective anion-exchange resins. Tetrachloroferrate (FeCl4-) anions, formed in a solution of ferric chloride and hydrochloric acid (e.g., 1 M FeCl3 and 4 M HCl), were found to effectively displace Cl04- anions that were sorbed on the resin. A mass-balance analysis indicated that a nearly 100% recovery of ion-exchange sites was achieved by washing with as little as approximately 5 bed volumes of the regenerant solution in a column flow-through experiment There was no significant deterioration of the resin's performance with respect to ClO4- removal after repeated loading and regeneration cycles. Thus, the new methodology may offer a cost-effective means to regenerate ClO4- -loaded resins with improved regeneration efficiency, recovery, and waste minimization in comparison with conventional brine regeneration techniques.
Catalog of Templates (2014)

Two actors are identified in template-oriented authoring: the template author and the application author. Classifying hypermedia templates, aiming to support application authors in searching for suitable templates, in inferring on their semantic and in knowing how to fill them to generate applications is the focus of this paper. In doing so, it can be said that the proposed catalog somehow mediates the communication between template and application authors, favoring reuse and reducing the cognitive load; thereby facilitating application authoring. As an example of use, an indexing and storage apparatus, associated with a template authoring tool, and a search plug-in coupled with an application authoring tool are presented.
Rheology and Firing Properties of Phosphor Pastes for CRT Displays (2004)

A new method of manufacturing phosphor screens for flat CRT displays is developed by a combination of screen printing and thermal transfer processes. The main issues for high resolution displays are the printability and firing properties of phosphor pastes, and packing density of particles deposited on panels. The most important components which are closely connected with these requirements are the polymeric binders. The polymeric binders which lead to weak flocculation of phosphor particles provide the good rheological properties for reproduction of precise micropatterns. Because of weak adsorption affinity for the particle surfaces, the pastes prepared with such binders are thoroughly fired without ashes on heating at the temperature where the complete decomposition of binder polymers takes place. The glass panels are incorporated with electron gun and the CRT panels are built as model displays. The brightness of newly developed displays will be acceptable for practice applications.
Sexual Oncology: Sexual Health Issues in Women with Cancer (2006)

Sexual problems are widespread among female cancer patients and survivors. Dysfunction may result from various oncologic therapies such as surgery, radiation therapy, chemotherapy, hormonal manipulation, and cytostatic medication. Additionally, psychologic distress that the patient or her partner experiences during diagnosis and treatment of malignancy can impair a healthy female sexual response cycle. A sexual rehabilitation program in an oncology setting is necessary to provide comprehensive care to the cancer patient and her partner. A multidisciplinary treatment approach to sexual dysfunction includes psychological and psychiatric intervention, medical intervention, cognitive behavioral therapy, and recommended lifestyle adjustments. A holistic approach to assessing and treating sexual concerns should be individually tailored to the female patient in light of her disease stage and prognosis, age, marital status, fertility concerns, and social and professional environment.
Hydra: An Ubiquitous Application for Service Rerouting (2012)

Computing devices are increasingly being incorporated into the physical environment that surrounds us, with smaller, cheaper, more reliable and lower power consumption appliances being manufactured. Presently, there is a profusion of mobile devices with multiple resources such as cameras, screens, keyboards, speakers, recorders and many others. These resources are commonly replicated in the environment, making the task of allocating them in a seamless and shared way a challenge to the users. In this scenario, this work presents the modeling and implementation of Hydra, an application that recognizes the available resources and dynamically reroutes them, according to the users necessities. It runs on the uOS middleware, developed focusing on service adaptability in smart spaces. Thus, Hydra application integrates resources in the environment in order to provide the most adequate services to users.
Spatial Resolution in the Atom Probe Field Ion Microscope (1997)

Abstract The atom probe field ion microscope can resolve and identify individual atoms. This ability is demonstrated in a pair of field ion micrographs of an Ni3Al specimen, Fig. 1, in which the individual atoms on the close packed (111) plane are clearly resolved. Comparison of these two micrographs reveals that an individual atom was field evaporated between the micrographs. Due to the hemispherical nature of the specimen, the ability to resolve this two dimensional atomic arrangement is only possible on low index plane facets. The spatial resolution in field ion images is determined by a number of factors including specimen temperature, material, microstructural features, specimen geometry, and crystallographic location. The spatial resolution of the data obtained in atom probe and 3 dimensional atom probe compositional analyses can be evaluated with the use of field evaporation or field desorption images. The field evaporation images are formed from the surface atoms with the use of a single atom sensitive detector whereas the field ion image is formed from the projection of a continuous supply of ionized image gas atoms.
Is There an Answer? ‐ Coordinated by Frank Vella (2003)

Is There An Answer? is intended to serve as a forum in which readers to IUBMB Life may pose questions of
Anticoagulant vs. antiplatelet therapy in patients with cryptogenic stroke and patent foramen ovale: an individual participant data meta-analysis (2015)

We did not find a statistically significant difference comparing OAC with APT; our results justify randomized trials comparing different antithrombotic approaches in these patients.
Spectra of cells in flow cytometry using a vidicon detector. (1979)

A TV type vidicon detector was interfaced to a flow cytometer (FCM) to obtain spectra of fluorophores in cells during flow. The normal operations of the FCM are undisturbed. A spectrograph spreads 320 nm of the fluorophore fluorescence emission across the 500 channels of the detector. Spectra of fluorescamine (a surface labeling agent) and of propidium iodide (a nuclear stain) were obtained from Balb 3T3 cells, and the chlorophyll and phycobilin peaks were resolved from flowing blue-green algae in the FCM. Under typical flow conditions, operation of the vidicon in the continuous mode gives for these fluorophores a S/N of several hundred to one in approximately 3 sec. The vidicon was also gated to obtain spectra of single cells and of cells in selected portions of the cell cycle. For example, the spectrum of fluorescamine was obtained from cells in the G1 phase of the growth cycle by using as a gate trigger the FCM discriminator output derived from the propidium iodide signal.
Applications of Hydrogen Peroxide and Derivatives (1999)

Simple, but beautifully versatile. Perhaps not a description many would choose for hydrogen peroxide, but an accurate one none the less, and this unique book explains the reasons behind the description. Beginning with an historical overview, and guidelines for the safe handling of peroxygens, Applications of Hydrogen Peroxide and Derivatives goes on to cover key activation mechanisms, organic functional group oxidations and the use of hydrogen peroxide with heterogeneous catalysts. The clean-up of environmental pollutants; chemical purification; and extraction of metals from their ores are also discussed in detail, using actual examples from industry. The versatility of this reagent may well prove to be a key to integrated pollution control in the future. This book should therefore be read by academics and industrialists at all levels, to encourage wider applications of the use of hydrogen peroxide in laboratories.
Spiral wave classification using normalized compression distance: Towards atrial tissue spatiotemporal electrophysiological behavior characterization (2015)

Analysis of electrical activation patterns such as re-entries during atrial fibrillation (Afib) is crucial in understanding arrhythmic mechanisms and assessment of diagnostic measures. Spiral waves are a phenomena that provide intuitive basis for re-entries occurring in cardiac tissue. Distinct spiral wave behaviors such as stable spiral waves, meandering spiral waves, and spiral wave break-up may have distinct electrogram manifestations on a mapping catheter. Hence, it is desirable to have an automated classification of spiral wave behavior based on catheter recordings for a qualitative characterization of spatiotemporal electrophysiological activity on atrial tissue. In this study, we propose a method for classification of spatiotemporal characteristics of simulated atrial activation patterns in terms of distinct spiral wave behaviors during Afib using two different techniques: normalized compressed distance (NCD) and normalized FFT (NFFTD). We use a phenomenological model for cardiac electrical propagation to produce various simulated spiral wave behaviors on a 2D grid and labeled them as stable, meandering, or breakup. By mimicking commonly used catheter types, a star shaped and a circular shaped both of which do the local readings from atrial wall, monopolar and bipolar intracardiac electrograms are simulated. Virtual catheters are positioned at different locations on the grid. The classification performance for different catheter locations, types and for monopolar or bipolar readings were also compared. We observed that the performance for each case differed slightly. However, we found that NCD performance is superior to NFFTD. Through the simulation study, we showed the theoretical validation of the proposed method. Our findings suggest that a qualitative wavefront activation pattern can be assessed during Afib without the need for highly invasive mapping techniques such as multisite simultaneous electrogram recordings.
COGNIZER: A Framework for Functional Annotation of Metagenomic Datasets (2015)

A Linux implementation of COGNIZER is freely available for download from the following links: http://metagenomics.atc.tcs.com/cognizer, https://metagenomics.atc.tcs.com/function/cognizer.
Thorium-plutonium chemical separation process (1983)

A new chloride anion exchange process is described, which separates thorium from plutonium yet eliminates corrosive HCl fumes and consequent gas scrubbing equipment. Process flow sheet and experimental testing results are presented. Plutonium product yields of over 90% with <0.025 wt % thorium were obtained with single-pass processing of plutonium feed solutions contaminated by up to 46 wt % thorium.
Fungal Endophytes for Grass Based Bioremediation: An Endophytic Consortium Isolated from Agrostis stolonifera Stimulates the Growth of Festuca arundinacea in Lead Contaminated Soil (2020)

Bioremediation is an ecologically-friendly approach for the restoration of heavy metal-contaminated sites and can exploit environmental microorganisms such as bacteria and fungi. These microorganisms are capable of removing and/or deactivating pollutants from contaminated substrates through biological and chemical reactions. Moreover, they interact with the natural flora, protecting and stimulating plant growth in these harsh conditions. In this study, we isolated a group of endophytic fungi from <i>Agrostis stolonifera</i> grasses growing on toxic waste from an abandoned lead mine (up to 47,990 Pb mg/kg) and identified them using DNA sequencing (nrITS barcoding). The endophytes were then tested as a consortium of eight strains in a growth chamber experiment in association with the grass <i>Festuca arundinacea</i> at increasing concentrations of lead in the soil to investigate how they influenced several growth parameters. As a general trend, plants treated with endophytes performed better compared to the controls at each concentration of heavy metal, with significant improvements in growth recorded at the highest concentration of lead (800 galena mg/kg). Indeed, this set of plants germinated and tillered significantly earlier compared to the control, with greater production of foliar fresh and dry biomass. Compared with the control, endophyte treated plants germinated more than 1-day earlier and produced 35.91% more plant tillers at 35 days-after-sowing. Our results demonstrate the potential of these fungal endophytes used in a consortium for establishing grassy plant species on lead contaminated soils, which may result in practical applications for heavy metal bioremediation.
γ-Butyrolactone-Dependent Expression of theStreptomycesAntibiotic Regulatory Protein GenesrrYPlays a Central Role in the Regulatory Cascade Leading to Lankacidin and Lankamycin Production inStreptomyces rochei (2007)

ABSTRACT Our previous studies revealed that the srrX and srrA genes carried on the large linear plasmid pSLA2-L constitute a γ-butyrolactone-receptor system in Streptomyces rochei . Extensive transcriptional analysis has now showed that the Streptomyces antibiotic regulatory protein gene srrY , which is also carried on pSLA2-L, is a target of the receptor/repressor SrrA and plays a central role in lankacidin and lankamycin production. The srrY gene was expressed in a growth-dependent manner, slightly preceding antibiotic production. The expression of srrY was undetectable in the srrX mutant but was restored in the srrX srrA double mutant. In addition, SrrA was bound specifically to the promoter region of srrY , and this binding was prevented by the addition of the S. rochei γ-butyrolactone fraction, while the W119A mutant receptor SrrA was kept bound even in the presence of S. rochei γ-butyrolactone. Furthermore, the introduction of an intact srrY gene under the control of a foreign promoter into the srrX or srrA ( W119A ) mutant restored antibiotic production. All of these results confirmed the signaling pathway from srrX through srrA to srrY , leading to lankacidin and lankamycin production.
Inorganic and Organic Ferroelectric Thin Films for Memory Applications (2008)

Electrical properties of inorganic and organic ferroelectric thin films are discussed from viewpoints of ferroelectric random access memory (FeRAM) applications. It has been found in BiFeO3 films formed by chemical solution deposition that the leakage current at high electric field decreases significantly by substituting Mn atoms for Fe atoms. In these films, well saturated hysteresis loops in P-E (polarization vs. electric field) characteristics have been observed. It has also been found that co-substitution of La and Ni atoms to BiFeO3 films is effective to decrease the leakage current. Next, properties of organic ferroelectric thin films suitable for fabricating ferroelectric-gate FETs (field effect transistors) are discussed. It has been found in capacitors with a 60nm-thick P(VDF+TrFE) (polyvinyliden fluoride-trifluoroethylene) film that the remanent polarization is as large as 11.9 μC/cm2 and the coercive voltage is as low as 2 V.
Merging heterogeneous clinical data to enable knowledge discovery (2018)

The vision of precision medicine relies on the integration of large-scale clinical, molecular and environmental datasets. Data integration may be thought of along two axes: data fusion across institutions, and data fusion across modalities. Cross-institutional data sharing that maintains semantic integrity hinges on the adoption of data standards and a push toward ontology-driven integration. The goal should be the creation of query-able data repositories spanning primary and tertiary care providers, disease registries, research organizations etc. to produce rich longitudinal datasets. Cross-modality sharing involves the integration of multiple data streams, from structured EHR data (diagnosis codes, laboratory tests) to genomics, imaging, monitors and patient-generated data including wearable devices. This integration presents unique technical, semantic, and ethical challenges; however recent work suggests that multi-modal clinical data can significantly improve the performance of phenotyping and prediction algorithms, powering knowledge discovery at the patient- and population-level.
Pseudourea-mediated dehydration of tertiary and benzylic alcohols (1999)

Tertiary and benzylic alcohols readily form pseudoureas, which eliminate in good yield either at room temperature or upon gentle warming. In contrast, the dehydration of primary and secondary alcohols via this procedure requires elevated temperatures and gave low yields.
O que aprendem os professores uns com os outros? O trabalho colaborativo como forma de promover o desenvolvimento do conhecimento estatístico para o ensino (2013)

Com frequência, o conhecimento dos professores do 1.º ciclo apresenta\nsignificativas lacunas em Estatística. Deste modo, é importante promover o\ndesenvolvimento do seu conhecimento nesta área. O trabalho colaborativo é uma\npossível forma de o conseguir, uma vez que a dinâmica e as relações que se geram\npodem levar a ultrapassar as dificuldades comuns. Esta investigação é parte de um\nestudo mais amplo que segue uma metodologia qualitativa e interpretativa,\nenvolvendo três estudos de caso com professoras de 3.º e 4.º anos (alunos 8-9\nanos). A recolha dos dados inclui observação participante das sessões do grupo\ncolaborativo com compilação dos documentos escritos produzidos pelas\nprofessoras. Nestas sessões tem sido valorizada a resolução de tarefas de\nEstatística, sendo o trabalho fundamentado numa constante discussão e reflexão\nconjuntas. Numa das sessões foi realizada uma tarefa de cunho investigativo, tendo\nas professoras formulado um problema, planificado a recolha de dados, recolhido,\norganizado e analisado dados. Essa tarefa deu origem a uma reflexão sobre aspetos\nde cada uma das representações que as professoras decidiram realizar para\norganizar os dados recolhidos. Esta comunicação apresenta as aprendizagens mais\nsalientes das professoras sobre a Estatística e o seu ensino decorrentes deste\ntrabalho.
PREPARATION OF TETRAMETHYLPIPERDINE-1-OXOAMMONlUM SALTS AND THEIR USE AS OXIDANTS IN ORGANIC CHEMISTRY. A REVIEW (2004)

(2004). PREPARATION OF TETRAMETHYLPIPERDINE-1-OXOAMMONlUM SALTS AND THEIR USE AS OXIDANTS IN ORGANIC CHEMISTRY. A REVIEW. Organic Preparations and Procedures International: Vol. 36, No. 1, pp. 1-31.