gebhart/patrepeval huggingface dataset:
Understanding of the contact of nanostructured thermoelectric n-type Bi[subscript 2]Te[subscript 2.7]Se[subscript 0.3] legs for power generation applications (2013)

Traditional processes of making contacts (metallization layer) onto bulk crystalline Bi2Te3-based materials do not work for nanostructured thermoelectric materials either because of weak bonding strength or an unstable contact interface at temperatures higher than 200 °C. Hot pressing of nickel contact onto nanostructured thermoelectric legs in a one-step process leads to strong bonding. However, such a process results in large contact resistance in n-type Ni/Bi[subscript 2]Te[subscript 2.7]Se[subscript 0.3]/Ni legs, although not in p-type Ni/Bi[subscript 0.4]Sb[subscript 1.6]Te[subscript 3]/Ni legs. A systematic study was carried out to investigate the detailed reaction and diffusion at the interface of the nickel layer and n-type Bi[subscript 2]Te[subscript 3]-based thermoelectric material layer. We found that a p-type region formed within the n-type Bi[subscript 2]Te[subscript 2.7]Se[subscript 0.3] during hot pressing due to Te deficiency and Ni doping, leading to a large contact resistance.
The Effects of External Jugular Compression Applied during Head Impact Exposure on Longitudinal Changes in Brain Neuroanatomical and Neurophysiological Biomarkers: A Preliminary Investigation (2020)

Utilize a prospective in vivo clinical trial to evaluate the potential for mild neck compression applied during head impact exposure to reduce anatomical and physiological biomarkers of brain injury.
Substitution-Free Hemodiafiltration (2012)

Hemodiafiltration (HDF) has been reported to deliver better dialysis outcomes in patients with end-stage renal disease. Technical advances now allow online-based HDF to be used on a clinical basis. However, HDF is being performed at a limited rate because of the requirement of exogenous fluid infusion, which causes safety and cost issues. Therefore, various modifications on HDF strategies have been devised to achieve the HDF without exogenous fluid infusion, which can be achieved by spontaneous fluid reinfusion. In this article, substitution-free HDF strategies are reviewed in detail, with specific attention to technical aspects of the methodology, in vivo and in vitro efficacies, and applicability to clinical use.
Specific replacement of functional groups of uridine-33 in yeast phenylalanine transfer ribonucleic acid (1985)

Functional groups of the highly conserved uridine at position 33 in the anticodon loop of yeast tRNAPhe were altered by a synthetic protocol that replaces U-33 with any desired nucleotide and leaves all other nucleotides of the tRNA intact. The U-33-substituted tRNAs were prepared in an eight-step protocol that begins with partial cleavage of tRNAPhe at U-33 by ribonuclease A. By use of the combined half-molecules as substrate, U-33 was removed from the 5' half-molecule in three steps and then replaced by using RNA ligase to add the desired nucleoside 3',5'-bisphosphate. Each position 33 substituted 5' half-molecule was isolated and annealed to the original 3' half-molecule from the ribonuclease A digestion. The two halves were then rejoined in three steps to give a full-size tRNAPhe variant. This protocol should be applicable to other RNA molecules where a nucleotide substitution is desired at the 5' side of an available unique cleavage site. Seven substituted tRNAPheS containing uridine, pseudouridine, 3-methyluridine, 2'-O-methyluridine, cytidine, deoxycytidine, and purine riboside at position 33 were assayed for aminoacylation with yeast phenylalanyl-tRNA synthetase. Each of the seven tRNAs aminoacylated normally. Thus, unlike the adjacent guanine residue at position 34, U-33 is not involved in the interaction between yeast tRNAPhe and yeast phenylalanyl-tRNA synthetase.
Metric pattern spaces (1999)

On a collection of subsets of a space, fundamentally different metrics may be defined. In pattern matching, it is often required that a metric is invariant for a given transformation group. In addition, a pattern metric should be robust for defects in patterns caused by discretisation and unreliable feature detection. We formalise these properties by presenting axioms. Finding invariant metrics without requiring such axioms is a trivial problem. Using our axioms, we analyse various pattern metrics, including the Hausdorff distance and the symmetric difference. Finally, we present the reection metric. This metric is defined on finite unions of (n-1)-dimensional hyper-surfaces in R n . The reflection metric is affine invariant and satisfies our axioms.
QUERYD: a video dataset with high-quality text and audio narrations (2021)

We introduce QuerYD, a new large-scale dataset for retrieval and event localisation in video. A unique feature of our dataset is the availability of two audio tracks for each video: the original audio, and a high-quality spoken description of the visual content. The dataset is based on YouDescribe [1], a volunteer project that assists visually-impaired people by attaching voiced narrations to existing YouTube videos. This ever-growing collection of videos contains highly detailed, temporally aligned audio and text annotations. The content descriptions are more relevant than dialogue, and more detailed than previous description attempts, which can be observed to contain many superficial or uninformative descriptions. To demonstrate the utility of the QuerYD dataset, we show that it can be used to train and benchmark strong models for retrieval and event localisation. Data, code and models are made publicly available, and we hope that QuerYD inspires further research on video understanding with written and spoken natural language.
Symbian OS Platform Security Model (2010)

The Symbias OS became fully open sourced in February 2010, which opens even more possibilities for applications developers to understand and analyze its security solution. We present a short introduction to the software features of Symbian platform security: three trust tiers, capability model, data caging, and the Symbian signed process. We also try to compare the security solution with the classical design principles in this area, as well as briefly discuss general design challenges and potential weakness.
Treatment of stormwater to bathing water quality by dissolved air flotation, filtration and ultraviolet disinfection (1998)

For the first time, a process for the treatment of urban stormwater has been designed in order to obtain treated water suitable for bathing activities. The degree of pollution removal is taken as far as the microbiological disinfection of the final effluent. This process, which combines air flotation, filtration and ultraviolet (UV) disinfection, has been tested at the pilot plant level in the eastern suburbs of Paris, France. The removal efficiency obtained on total suspended solids (TSS) and chemical oxygen demand (COD) through the flotation stage is close to 90% or better. The flotation facility has proved to be perfectly adapted to urban stormwater treatment with a maximal efficiency in the first minute of operation and with a TSS residual concentration consistently about 45 mg/L regardless of the variations in polluting loads entering the process. This is essential when taking into consideration the extreme variability of this load during rainfall. Sand filtration with a continuous washing system prevents operational interruptions during rainfall events. The UV disinfection process allows the microbiological contamination of the effluent to be reduced to a level in compliance with the regulations that define the quality of bathing water.
Evaluation of magneto Rayleigh-Taylor mode growth using comparisons of 2D calculations with radiographic data (2002)

Experiments being conducted at the Los Alamos National Laboratory Pegasus facility are examining stability issues for driving an aluminum liner with a pulsed magnetic field. The Pegasus facility provides a current of 5 to 8 Megamperes to compress a cylindrical liner. Liners of various size and thickness are used, depending on the specific experimental objectives. In several of these experiments, the outer surface clearly develops perturbations in the mass distribution. These perturbations are strongest when the aluminum is suspected to have melted and in some cases partially vaporized. A series of specific experiments was designed to examine the growth rate of these instabilities. These experiments involved machining a sine wave onto the outer surface of the liner to seed a given wavelength. Two-dimensional MHD calculations, using the measured current profile, were performed to model the behavior of the liner under magnetic field compression. These predictions were made with a 2D Eulerian code complete with a Steinberg-Guinan strength model. The results of these calculations are discussed in this paper. The density contours at specific times are compared with the processed radiography.
Theoretical Study of Equilibrium Bipolar Charge Distribution on Nonuniform Primary Straight Chain Aggregate Aerosols (1982)

A general theory describing the equilibrium bipolar charge distribution for straight chain aggregate aerosols consisting of primary spheres of different diameters was derived from a theory previously developed for linear chain aggregate of uniform spheres. The present theory is based on the assumptions that (1) the individual primary particles of a straight chain aggregate are charged independently, (2) the probability that a particular primary particle has acquired q elementary charges is governed by the Gaussian distribution predicted by Boltzmann's law, based on particle size; and (3) the resultant charge of a straight chain aggregate is the algebraic sum of the charges carried by the constituent primary spheres. The present theory can be stated as follows: The equilibrium bipolar charge distribution of straight chain aggregate aerosols with nonuniform primary spheres can be expressed by Boltzmann's law with an equivalent diameter such that deL = Σ n i=1 di . The limitations imposed by the assumptions are also discussed.
Decoupling of global brain activity and cerebrospinal fluid flow in Parkinson’s cognitive decline (2021)

Abstract Background Deposition and spreading of misfolded proteins (α-synuclein and tau) have been linked to Parkinson’s cognitive dysfunction. The glymphatic system may play an important role in the clearance of these toxic proteins via cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) flow through perivascular and interstitial spaces. Recent studies discovered that sleep-dependent global brain activity is coupled to CSF flow that may reflect glymphatic function. Objective To determine if the decoupling of brain activity-CSF flow is linked to Parkinson’s cognitive dysfunction. Methods Functional and structural MRI data, clinical motor (Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale), and cognitive (Montreal Cognitive Assessment, MoCA) scores were collected from 60 Parkinson’s and 58 control subjects. Parkinson’s patients were subgrouped into those with (MoCA &lt; 26; N = 29) and without (MoCA ≥ 26; N = 31) mild cognitive impairment (MCI). The coupling strength between the resting-state global blood-oxygen-level-dependent signal (gBOLD) and associated CSF flow was quantified, compared among groups, and associated with clinical and structural measurements. Results gBOLD-CSF coupling decreased significantly ( p &lt; 0.006) in Parkinson’s patients showing MCI, compared to those without MCI and controls. Reduced gBOLD-CSF coupling was associated with decreased MoCA scores that was present in Parkinson’s patients ( p = 0.005) but not in controls ( p = 0.65). Weaker gBOLD-CSF coupling in Parkinson’s patients also was associated with a thinner right entorhinal cortex (Spearman’s correlation = − 0.36; p = 0.012), an early structural change often seen in Alzheimer’s. Conclusions The decoupling between global brain activity and associated CSF flow is related to Parkinson’s cognitive impairment.
Spatio-Temporal Scene Graphs for Video Dialog. (2020)

The Audio-Visual Scene-aware Dialog (AVSD) task requires an agent to indulge in a natural conversation with a human about a given video. Specifically, apart from the video frames, the agent receives the audio, brief captions, and a dialog history, and the task is to produce the correct answer to a question about the video. Due to the diversity in the type of inputs, this task poses a very challenging multimodal reasoning problem. Current approaches to AVSD either use global video-level features or those from a few sampled frames, and thus lack the ability to explicitly capture relevant visual regions or their interactions for answer generation. To this end, we propose a novel spatio-temporal scene graph representation (STSGR) modeling fine-grained information flows within videos. Specifically, on an input video sequence, STSGR (i) creates a two-stream visual and semantic scene graph on every frame, (ii) conducts intra-graph reasoning using node and edge convolutions generating visual memories, and (iii) applies inter-graph aggregation to capture their temporal evolutions. These visual memories are then combined with other modalities and the question embeddings using a novel semantics-controlled multi-head shuffled transformer, which then produces the answer recursively. Our entire pipeline is trained end-to-end. We present experiments on the AVSD dataset and demonstrate state-of-the-art results. A human evaluation on the quality of our generated answers shows 12% relative improvement against prior methods.
Material Processing with a High Frequency Millimeter-Wave Source (2003)

A millimeter-wave beam based on a 15-kW, continuous-wave, 83-GHz gyrotron with superconducting magnets system is being investigated for use in material processing. The millimeter-wave beam can be focused to a few millimeters and manipulated quasi-optically and has been used in the following experiments: joining of ceramics (both similar and dissimilar materials), brazing of poled piezoelectric ceramics without significant heating and depoling, and coating of metals and polymers. Joining has been done directly and with reactive brazes. In coating, the beam's short wavelength and absorption depth permit effective ceramic-coating deposition on lower temperature materials, e.g., polymers and metals, without significant substrate heating, and localized deposition of coatings as well. Finally, the millimeter-wave source has been used in the efficient production of nanophase metal and ceramic powders, via a greatly accelerated modified polyol process producing smaller powders of greater uniformity. The results and implications of the various experiments will be discussed with some theoretical calculations and modeling.
A hybrid parallel algorithm for digital image filtering applications (2002)

The need for processing speed in digital imaging and multidimensional signal processing seems to grow ever faster as more and more power hungry applications find their way into scientific and engineering applications. In this paper we evaluate the performance of a high-speed parallel system aiming at real time applications. The parallel system utilises a 2-D hybrid decomposition algorithm that eliminates the problem of overlapping segments in the block convolution and the boundary conditions when paralleling a 2-D filter algorithm. Finally the implementation on parallel SHARC DSPs is investigated and some examples are given.
Wind-wave propagation over flooded, vegetated land / by Frederick E. Camfield. (1977)

This report describes a method for estimating wind-wave growth and decay over flooded areas where there is a major friction effect because of dense vegetation. The report was initiated in response to a request from the U.S.
A high frequency ultrasound array element using thermoelastic expansion in PDMS (2002)

The thermoelastic effect was used to produce high frequency, broadband ultrasound in water. A pulsed diode laser, followed by an erbium doped fiber amplifier, was focused onto a light absorbing film deposited on a glass substrate. Conversion efficiency was improved by 18 dB using a polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) film instead of a more commonly used metallic one. Radiation pattern measurements show that considerable energy is radiated at +/-45 degrees for frequencies beyond 75 MHz. These results show that the thermoelastic effect can be used to produce phased arrays for high frequency ultrasound imaging.
Synthesis and properties of some metal chelates of 2-pyrrole aldimines (1967)

ADVERTISEMENT RETURN TO ISSUEPREVArticleNEXTSynthesis and properties of some metal chelates of 2-pyrrole aldiminesKwan-Nan Yeh and Robert Henry BarkerCite this: Inorg. Chem. 1967, 6, 4, 830–833Publication Date (Print):April 1, 1967Publication History Published online1 May 2002Published inissue 1 April 1967https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ic50050a037https://doi.org/10.1021/ic50050a037research-articleACS PublicationsRequest reuse permissionsArticle Views175Altmetric-Citations31LEARN 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
Supplementary Figure 5 from Integrin α<sub>4</sub>β<sub>1</sub> Promotes Monocyte Trafficking and Angiogenesis in Tumors (2023)

Supplementary Figure 5 from Integrin α&lt;sub&gt;4&lt;/sub&gt;β&lt;sub&gt;1&lt;/sub&gt; Promotes Monocyte Trafficking and Angiogenesis in Tumors
Repetitive Synthesen zum Aufbau makrocyclischer Oligophenylene (1997)

Die Suzuki‐Kreuzkupplung erwies sich einmal mehr als Methode der Wahl beim Aufbau komplexer Kohlenwasserstoffe. Aus präformierten Oligophenylen‐Modulen konnten die Makrocyclen 1 hergestellt werden. In Kristallen von 1a liegt nach einer Röntgenstrukturanalyse in jedem Makrocyclus ein Chloroformmolekül vor, das in seiner Position über eine C‐H‐π‐Wechselwirkung fixiert ist. magnified image
Ornithine Decarboxylase Expression Leads to Translocation and Activation of Protein Kinase CK2 in Vivo (1997)

Ornithine decarboxylase (ODC) is the key initial enzyme in the biosynthesis of polyamines. Since polyamines have been shown to enhance protein kinase CK2 activity in vitro, ODC was overexpressed to examine the role of polyamines in CK2 regulation in vivo. Infection of Balb/MK cells with an ODC retrovirus to elevate ODC and polyamine levels increased overall protein phosphorylation as well as CK2 protein levels and enzyme activity in mimosine- or nocodazole- arrested cells. Immunofluorescence microscopy and enzyme analyses of subcellular fractions from ODC-overexpressing cells demonstrated translocation of CK2 from the cytoplasm to the nucleus with no apparent loss of cytoplasmic CK2 activity, suggesting polyamine activation of the remaining cytoplasmic enzyme. Similarly, K6/ODC transgenic mice exhibited higher ODC and CK2 enzyme activities than their normal littermates. ODC-immunostained cells in the transgenic skin also stained intensely for CK2 protein. Primary cultures of K6/ODC keratinocytes also exhibited increased ODC and CK2 enzyme activities compared with those from normal littermates. However, the addition of difluoromethylornithine, a specific ODC inhibitor, to the transgenic keratinocytes reduced both intracellular polyamine levels and CK2 enzyme activity. These results suggest that polyamines regulate the CK2 enzyme by affecting its cellular distribution as well as its enzyme activity and levels.
The Synovium in Rheumatoid Arthritis (2011)

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic autoimmune disease targeting multiple joints. The synovium is the primary site of the inflammatory process, which if untreated leads to irreversible damage to the adjacent cartilage and bone. It is now well established that autoantibodies that are characteristic of RA, including rheumatoid factor (RF) and anti-citrulluninated protein antibodies (ACPA), are present before clinical disease onset. Studies in both humans and animal models are beginning to provide new insights into how this asymptomatic autoimmunity evolves into an inflammatory process that is localized in the synovium.Once RA synovitis established, a number of amplification mechanisms serve to sustain the process leading to the persistence of the disease. These mechanisms include engagement of the resident mesenchymal cells and the establishment of ectopic lymphoid structures in the synovium, although the relationship between these lymphoid structures and the presence of RA autoantibodies remains unclear.An enhanced understanding of the mechanisms that initiate and sustain RA synovitis offers unprecedented opportunities for therapeutics, and ultimately prevention strategies.
Solid electrolytes and materials science research (1995)

Solid electrolytes are becoming materials of importance in the development of high temperature fuel cells, high energy density batteries, and many chemical sensors. The use of ionic conducting solids for the high temperature Gibbs energy determination of oxides started in the 1950s and paved the way for other applications. Here a brief outline of the use of solid electrolytes for the Gibbs enthalpy determination is given.
Oral tyrosine kinase 2 inhibitor PF-06826647 demonstrates efficacy and an acceptable safety profile in participants with moderate-to-severe plaque psoriasis in a phase 2b, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study (2022)

PF-06826647 200 and 400 mg once daily showed significant efficacy versus placebo at week 16 and was well tolerated over 40 weeks.
Advanced Automated Web Application Vulnerability Analysis (2014)

Web applications are an integral part of our lives and culture. We useweb applications to manage our bank accounts, interact with friends,and file our taxes. A single vulnerability in one of these webapplications could allow a malicious hacker to steal your money, toimpersonate you on Facebook, or to access sensitive information, suchas tax returns. It is vital that we develop new approaches to discoverand fix these vulnerabilities before the cybercriminals exploit them.In this dissertation, I will present my research on securing the webagainst current threats and future threats. First, I will discuss mywork on improving black-box vulnerability scanners, which are toolsthat can automatically discover vulnerabilities in web applications.Then, I will describe a new type of web application vulnerability:Execution After Redirect, or EAR, and an approach to automaticallydetect EARs in web applications. Finally, I will present deDacota, afirst step in the direction of making web applications secure byconstruction.