gebhart/patrepeval huggingface dataset:
Nucleation of CVD Diamond on Various Substrate Materials (1996)

Diamod nucleation by mw assisted CVD was examined various conditions namely, (1) diamond nucleation on variour substrate materials, such as Si, cubic BN, pyrolytic BN and AlN, (2) AST(Activated species transport) method which promote nucleation of diamond on single crystal and polycrystalline alumina substrate was developed. (3) Effect of bias enhancement of nucleation on single crystalline Si was examined, and finally (4) DST (Double step treatment) method was developed to enhance diamond nucleation on Ni. In this method, we separated carbon diffusing process into Ni, carbon precipitating process from the inside of Ni and diamond precipitation process.
Lack of efficacy of levetiracetam in oromandibular and cranial dystonia (2016)

Levetiracetam does not appear to be efficacious in patients with oromandibular or cranial dystonia.
Reductive deposition of palladium on porous silicon from aqueous solutions of palladium dichloride: an x-ray absorption fine structure study (1993)

ADVERTISEMENT RETURN TO ISSUEPREVArticleNEXTReductive deposition of palladium on porous silicon from aqueous solutions of palladium dichloride: an x-ray absorption fine structure studyI. Coulthard, D. T. Jiang, J. W. Lorimer, T. K. Sham, and X. H. FengCite this: Langmuir 1993, 9, 12, 3441–3445Publication Date (Print):December 1, 1993Publication History Published online1 May 2002Published inissue 1 December 1993https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/la00036a018https://doi.org/10.1021/la00036a018research-articleACS PublicationsRequest reuse permissionsArticle Views315Altmetric-Citations40LEARN 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
Development and characterization of a fusion protein between thermally responsive elastin‐like polypeptide and interleukin‐1 receptor antagonist: Sustained release of a local antiinflammatory therapeutic (2007)

The ELP-IL-1Ra fusion protein proved to retain the characteristic ELP inverse phase-transitioning behavior as well as the bioactivity of the IL-1Ra domain. This technology represents a novel drug carrier designed to prolong the presence of bioactive peptides following intraarticular delivery.
Magnetic resonance imaging of left ventricular lateral wall pseudoaneurysm (2005)

A 77-year-old man with no significant past cardiac history presented with dyspnea. Electrocardiography revealed an old lateral wall myocardial infarction (MI). Echocardiogram was technically difficult. Resting nuclear perfusion imaging showed a non-
A new family of urea-based low molecular-weight organogelators for environmental remediation: the influence of structure (2018)

Gelation processes grant access to a wealth of soft materials with tailorable properties, in applications as diverse as environmental remediation, biomedicine and electronics. Several classes of self-assembling gelators have been studied and employ non-covalent bonds to direct assembly, but recently attention has come to focus on how the overall shape of the gelator molecule impacts its gelation. Here we study a new sub-family of low molecular weight organogelators and explore how steric rearrangement influences their gelation. The gels produced are characterised with X-ray diffraction and small-angle neutron scattering (SANS) to probe their ex situ and in situ gelation mechanisms. The best examples were then tested for environmental remediation applications, gelling petrol and oils in the presence of water and salts.
Using Mechanisms Built in a Design Class to Test Methods for Decision Under Uncertainty (2006)

&lt;div class="htmlview paragraph"&gt;&lt;i&gt;An approach for testing methods for decision-making under uncertainty using existing or easily obtainable databases has been proposed by the authors and their coworkers. The study presented in this paper follows the above approach to test methods for decision under uncertainty experimentally on a decision problem involving two decision makers, an inventor and a financier who want to develop and market a new device. Real-life data for simulating the outcomes of the project was collected using 133 slider-crank mechanisms that undergraduate students constructed. The mechanisms were constructed and measured to simulate the entire risky venture of developing and marketing a new product. The data obtained was used to simulate thousands of decisions of the inventor and the financier on a computer, using different methods for decision under uncertainty; standard probability, Imprecise probability and Bayesian probability. These methods were then judged on the basis of the expected utilities that they produced when used by the two decision makers and also on the sensitivities of these utilities to changes in the amount of available information or the risk attitudes of the decision makers. In general, the Imprecise probability method was found insensitive to changes in the problem parameters. The Bayesian probability method, although sensitive to prior models of uncertainty, produced the highest utilities in general and it was also found insensitive to the information level of a decision maker, when a good prior was chosen.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
[Ileo-cecal tuberculosis. A difficult diagnosis]. (1983)

An ileocaecal tuberculosis suspected in an Algerian girl was confirmed only by operative findings and by the presence of caseum at histological examination. Mycobacterium tuberculosis could not be cultured from the lesions. Diagnostic problems between tuberculous enteritis and Crohn's disease are discussed.
Blunted Cardiac Response to Sleep Apnea a Marker of Depression After Acute Myocardial Infarction (2018)

While depression is often overlooked in patients after acute myocardial infarction (AMI), it is an important risk of death among these patients. We examined if heart rate variability (HRV) particularly those related to sleep apnea can be a maker of depression after AMI. According to the prognosis of depression, 707 post-AMI patients were divided into 349 never, 138 remitting, 25 newly onset, and 195 persistent depression. Regardless of future prognosis, currently depressed patients had higher heart rate, lower HRV, and blunted cyclic variation of heart rate to sleep apnea during the night.
Social class, sense of control, and social explanation. (2009)

Lower social class is associated with diminished resources and perceived subordinate rank. On the basis of this analysis, the authors predicted that social class would be closely associated with a reduced sense of personal control and that this association would explain why lower class individuals favor contextual over dispositional explanations of social events. Across 4 studies, lower social class individuals, as measured by subjective socioeconomic status (SES), endorsed contextual explanations of economic trends, broad social outcomes, and emotion. Across studies, the sense of control mediated the relation between subjective SES and contextual explanations, and this association was independent of objective SES, ethnicity, political ideology, and self-serving biases. Finally, experimentally inducing a higher sense of control attenuated the tendency for lower subjective SES individuals to make more contextual explanations (Study 4). Implications for future research on social class as well as theoretical distinctions between objective SES and subjective SES are discussed.
Random Copolymer Films with Molecular‐Scale Compositional Heterogeneities that Interfere with Protein Adsorption (2009)

Abstract Smooth surfaces with compositional heterogeneities at a molecular‐length scale are presented with the goal of disrupting surface–protein interactions. These surfaces are synthesized by utilizing photoinitiated chemical vapor deposition (piCVD) to deposit thin films of random copolymers consisting of highly hydrophilic and highly hydrophobic comonomers. Swellability, wettability, and surface roughness could be systematically controlled by tuning the copolymer composition. The surface composition was dynamic, and the surface reconstructed based on the hydration state of the film. Proteins adsorbed to the copolymer films less readily than to either of the respective homopolymers, indicating a synergistic effect resulting from the random copolymer presenting molecular‐scale compositional heterogeneity. These results provide direct evidence that protein adsorption can be disrupted by such surfaces and a simple analytical model suggests that the heterogeneities occur over areas encompassing 4–5 repeat units of the polymer. The synthetic method used to create these films can be used to coat arbitrary geometries, enabling practical utility in a number of applications.
Neuropeptide Changes in a case of Chronic Paroxysmal Hemicrania—Evidence for Trigemino-Parasympathetic Activation (1996)

Chronic paroxysmal hemicrania (CPH) is a rare headache syndrome of short-lasting attacks of pain, characterized clinically by trigemino-parasympathetic activation. The features of the headache are severe attacks of pain that generally last no more than minutes in association with autonomic activation, such as lacrimation or rhinorrhea. We report a patient fulfilling International Headache Society guidelines for the diagnosis of CPH in whom levels of calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) and vasoactive intestinal polypeptide (VIP) were elevated in the cranial circulation during attacks. Moreover, successful treatment of the problem with indomethacin leads to normalization of the levels of both CGRP and VIP. Given that similar neuropeptide changes are seen in cluster headache the data suggest a shared underlying pathophysiology between CPH and cluster headache.
Querying Incomplete Graphs with Data. (2014)

Graph databases underlie several modern applications such as social networks and the Semantic Web. In those scenarios, integrating and exchanging data is very common, which leads to proliferation of incomplete graph data. However, the well developed models of incompleteness of data do not apply to graph data. This is mainly due to the fact that standard graph query languages concentrate on graph topology; this requires functionalities beyond the abilities of standard relational systems. Besides, many graph languages ignore the actual data stored. However, recently languages combining data and topology aspects of querying have been proposed for graph databases. An example is a query Find pairs of people in a social network connected by professional links restricted to people of the same age). Formalisms developed to handle such queries include regular expressions with memory (REM), regular expressions with equalities (REE) [5], their extensions [1], as well as variants of XPath [4]. Handling incompleteness by languages dealing with pure graph topology has been studied in [2]. In this short note, we present preliminary results on dealing with incompleteness at the levels of both data and topology, using some of the recently proposed query languages.
Tumour location and prognostic characteristics as determinants of survival of women with invasive breast cancer: South Australian hospital-based cancer registries, 1987–1998 (2002)

Survivals from breast cancer varied by location of lesion (P<0.001), with 10-year survivals of 61% applying for central (n=772), 73% for medial (n=350), and 72% for lateral (n=966) lesions. Univariate analyses of determinants of central locations indicated that the following were predictive: a more advanced TNM stage (P<0.001); a larger tumour diameter (P=0.002); a higher grade (P=0.032); a negative oestrogen receptor status (P=0.004); a negative progesterone receptor status (P=0.004); and histological type (P=0.011), with more of the lobular lesions being located centrally. Cox proportional hazards regression indicated that the relative risk (95% confidence limits) of case fatality for central, as opposed to other, lesions reduced from 1.46 (1.20, 1.78) to 1.16 (0.95, 1.41) when stage was added to the model, with no other factor having an additional conditioning effect. It is concluded that central lesions have worse outcomes, mostly due to their more advanced stages. Means of finding these tumours earlier should be investigated.
Introducing "Neuromorphic Computing and Engineering" (2021)

The standard nature of computing is currently being challenged by a range of problems that start to hinder technological progress. One of the strategies being proposed to address some of these problems is to develop novel brain-inspired processing methods and technologies, and apply them to a wide range of application scenarios. This is an extremely challenging endeavor that requires researchers in multiple disciplines to combine their efforts and co-design at the same time the processing methods, the supporting computing architectures, and their underlying technologies. The journal ``Neuromorphic Computing and Engineering'' (NCE) has been launched to support this new community in this effort and provide a forum and repository for presenting and discussing its latest advances. Through close collaboration with our colleagues on the editorial team, the scope and characteristics of NCE have been designed to ensure it serves a growing transdisciplinary and dynamic community across academia and industry.
Selective inhibition of c-Myb DNA-binding by RNA polymers. (2004)

Preferential inhibition of c-Myb DNA binding by poly(G) RNA suggests that c-Myb is able to interact with RNA in a sequence-selective manner. While R2 and R3, but not R1, are necessary for DNA-binding, R1 seems to have a distinct role in enhancing the RNA-sensitivity of c-Myb.
Enculturation, perceived stress, and physical activity: implications for metabolic risk among the Yup'ik – The Center for Alaska Native Health Research Study (2013)

Findings underscore the importance of gaining a culturally specific understanding of physical activity patterns in indigenous groups in order to inform effective health promotion strategies.
A comparative study of mechanical properties of 3D woven single-layer and 2D woven multi-layer E-glass composites (2008)

Composites fabricated by VARTM technology with the use of relatively thick, single layer 3D woven preforms are gaining fast growing interest. It is now well understood and appreciated that this class of advanced composites provides efficient delamination suppression, damage tolerance, and is superior over 2-D fabric laminates in impact, ballistic and blast performance. However, one primarily important question has not been convincingly answered yet: how do the in-plane elastic and strength characteristics compare for 3-D woven composites and their laminated 2D fabric counterparts. This paper presents an experimental study, based on a scientifically sound approach to the comparison of properties of 3D woven and 2D woven composites under in-plane tensile loading. Results obtained from mechanical testing are supplemented by acoustic emission data providing damage initiation thresholds for both composites. The obtained results demonstrate that the studied 3D woven composite has significantly higher in-plane failure strains, stresses and damage initiation thresholds than its 2D woven laminated counterpart.
Anti-quorum Sensing and Anti-biofilm Activity of Zinc Oxide Nanospikes (2020)

This study evaluates the impact of two separate incubation periods (4 and 6 weeks) on the morphology of sol-gel-fabricated ZnO nanospikes (ZNs), that is, ZN1 and ZN2, respectively. We further analyzed the inhibitory effects of ZN1 and ZN2 on quorum sensing (QS) and biofilm formation in <i>Pseudomonas aeruginosa</i> (PAO1) and <i>Chromobacterium violaceum</i> (strains 12472 and CVO26). The size of the synthesized ZNs was in the range of 40-130 nm, and finer nanoparticles were synthesized after an incubation period of 6 weeks. Treatment with ZNs decreased the production of violacein in the pathogen without affecting the bacterial growth, which indicated that ZNs inhibited the QS signaling regulated by <i>N</i>-acyl homoserine lactone. ZN2 had a higher inhibitory action on the virulence factor productivity than ZN1. Furthermore, ZN2-treated cells displayed a substantial decrease in azocasein-degrading protease activity (80%), elastase activity (83%), and pyocyanin production (85%) relative to untreated <i>P. aeruginosa</i> PAO1 cells. Treatment with ZN2 decreased swarming motility and exopolysaccharide production by 89 and 85%, respectively. ZN2 was effective against both the <i>las</i> & <i>pqs</i> systems of <i>P. aeruginosa</i> and exhibited broad-spectrum activity. Additionally, ZN2 was more efficient in inhibiting the biofilm formation at the attachment stage than ZN1. These findings revealed that in <i>P. aeruginosa</i>, ZN2 demonstrated inhibitory effects on QS as well as on the development of biofilms. Thus, ZN2 can be potentially used to treat drug-resistant <i>P. aeruginosa</i> infections.
Berry Polyphenols Inhibit α-Amylase in Vitro: Identifying Active Components in Rowanberry and Raspberry (2011)

Polyphenol-rich extracts from a range of berries inhibited α-amylase in vitro, but the most effective were from raspberry and rowanberry (IC50 values of 21.0 and 4.5 μg/mL, respectively). The inhibitory components were examined by different approaches. Extracts from yellow and red raspberries were equally able to inhibit α-amylase. Because the yellow raspberry extracts effectively lacked anthocyanins, this suggested that they were not crucial for amylase inhibition. Notably, however, higher levels of other phenolic components in yellow raspberries (particularly, ellagitannins) did not increase amylase inhibition. Amylase inhibition in rowanberry was recovered in a fraction enriched in proanthocyanidins (PACs). Inhibition was ameliorated by bovine serum albumin, suggesting that PACs acted by binding to amylase. Co-incubation of rowanberry PACs with acarbose reduced the concentration of acarbose required for effective amylase inhibition. Such synergistic interactions could have implications for the current clinical use of acarbose for postprandial glycaemic control in type-2 diabetics.
Process and Characteristics of Modified Schottky Barrier (MSB) p-Channel FinFETs (2005)

A novel modified Schottky barrier p-channel FinFET (MSB FinFET) has been successfully demonstrated previously. In this paper, the detailed process conditions, especially the formation of MSB junctions, has been presented. Device characteristics as well as the geometry effect are also discussed extensively. In the MSB FinFETs fabricated by the two-step silicidation and implant-to-silicide techniques (ITS), an ultrashort and defect-free source/drain extension (SDE) could be formed at a temperature as low as 600/spl deg/C, resulting in excellent electrical characteristics. The ultrashort SDE could effectively thin out the SB width between source/channel during on-state or broaden and elevate it between drain/channel during off-state. A leakage mechanism of MSB FinFETs similar to the conventional ones was identified by the activation energy analysis. Strong fin width dependence of the electrical characteristics was also found in the proposed devices. When the fin width becomes larger than the silicide grain size, the multigrain structure results in a rough front edge of the MSB junction, which in turn degrades the short-channel device performance. This result indicates that the MSB device is suitable for use as FinFET. The low thermal budget of the MSB FinFET relaxes the thermal stability issue for metal gate/high-/spl kappa/ dielectric integration. It is considered that the proposed MSB FinFET is a very promising nanodevice.
Collection Development for the New Veterinary Medical College Library (1974)

The Iowa State University Veterinary Medical Library was the recipient this past year of an $83,000 grant awarded to aid in providing library materials for the new veterinary medical college complex now under construction approximately two miles from the central campus.
Fourier Transformed Matrix Method of Finding Propagation Characteristics of Complex Anisotropic Layered Media (2005)

A structure having arbitrarily located conductor lines immersed in complex anisotropic layered media presents one with a very general guided wave problem. This problem is solved here by a rigorous formulation technique characterizing each layer by a 6 x 6 constitutive tensor and finding the appropriate Fourier transformed Green's function matrix G. From G a method of moments solution for the propagation characteristics follows including propagation constant eigenvalues and field eigenvectors at all spatial locations.
Modulation of peristalsis by cannabinoid CB1 ligands in the isolated guinea‐pig ileum (2000)

The effect of cannabinoid drugs on peristalsis in the guinea-pig ileum was studied. Peristalsis was induced by delivering fluid into the oral end of an isolated intestinal segment. Longitudinal muscle reflex contraction, threshold pressure and threshold volume to trigger peristalsis, compliance of the intestinal wall during the preparatory phase (a reflection of the resistance of the wall to distension) and maximal ejection pressure during the emptying phase of peristalsis were measured. The cannabinoid agonists WIN 55,212-2 (0.3 - 300 nM) and CP55,940 (0.3 - 300 nM) significantly decreased longitudinal muscle reflex contraction, compliance and maximal ejection pressure, while increased threshold pressure and volume to elicit peristalsis. These effects were not modified by the opioid antagonist naloxone (1 microM) and by the alpha-adrenoceptor antagonist phentolamine (1 microM). The inhibitory effect of both WIN 55,212-2 and CP55,940 on intestinal peristalsis was antagonized by the cannabinoid CB(1) receptor antagonist SR141716A (0.1 microM), but not by the cannabinoid CB(2) receptor antagonist SR144528 (0.1 microM). In absence of other drugs, the CB(1) receptor antagonists SR141716A (0.01 - 1 microM) and AM281 (0.01 - 1 microM) slightly (approximatively 20%) but significantly increased maximal ejection pressure during the empty phase of peristalsis without modifying longitudinal muscle reflex contraction, threshold pressure, threshold volume to trigger peristalsis and compliance. It is concluded that activation of CB(1) receptors reduces peristalsis efficiency in the isolated guinea-pig, and that the emptying phase of peristalsis could be tonically inhibited by the endogenous cannabinoid system.