gebhart/patrepeval huggingface dataset:
A large-area flexible wireless power transmission sheet using printed plastic MEMS switches and organic field-effect transistors (2006)

We have successfully manufactured a large-area power transmission sheet by using printing technologies. The position of electronic objects on this sheet can be contactlessly sensed by electromagnetic coupling using an organic transistor active matrix. Power is selectively fed to the objects by an electromagnetic field using a plastic MEMS-switching matrix
FAST WATERMARK DETECTION SCHEME FROM CAMERA-CAPTURED IMAGES ON MOBILE PHONES (2006)

Digital watermarking technology would be very useful as part of a related service introduction system (RSIS); which links physical objects in the real world, such as printed photographs, to those in the cyber world. In this paper, we focus on a camera-equipped mobile phone as an RSIS terminal, and propose a fast watermark detection scheme for the captured images. The proposed scheme consists of two processes; to correct geometric distortion of the captured image, and to detect watermark information from the corrected image. For our scheme, we also propose a fast quadrangle detection algorithm and a robust watermarking algorithm. Moreover, we introduce a quantitative evaluation method for determining the reliability of watermark detection, which is essential for RSIS services. Finally, we show that the proposed scheme enables users to detect embedded information far less than one second, even when implemented as a Java application on a mobile phone with limited resources, and our experiments confirm the efficiency of our scheme.
Symmetry and Similarity (Invited Talk) (2019)

Deciding if two graphs are isomorphic, or equivalently, computing the symmetries of a graph, is a fundamental algorithmic problem. It has many interesting applications, and it is one of the few natural problems in the class NP whose complexity status is still unresolved. Three years ago, Babai (STOC 2016) gave a quasi-polynomial time isomorphism algorithm. Despite of this breakthrough, the question for a polynomial algorithm remains wide open. Related to the isomorphism problem is the problem of determining the similarity between graphs. Variations of this problems are known as robust graph isomorphism or graph matching (the latter in the machine learning and computer vision literature). This problem is significantly harder than the isomorphism problem, both from a complexity theoretical and from a practical point of view, but for many applications it is the more relevant problem. My talk will be a survey of recent progress on the isomorphism and on the similarity problem. I will focus on generic algorithmic strategies (as opposed to algorithms tailored towards specific graph classes) that have proved to be useful and interesting in various context, both theoretical and practical.
Conflict Resolving Algorithms to Resolve Conflict in Multi-user Context-Aware Environments (2009)

Conflict Resolution in context-aware computing is getting more significant attention from researchers as ubiquitous computing environments take into account multiple users. For multi-user ubiquitous computing environments, conflicts among users' contexts need to be detected and resolved. For this, application developers or end-users specify conflicts situations, and the underlying ubiquitous computing middleware detects and resolve conflicts between applications when one of the conflict situations arises. In this paper, we propose Conflict manager which employs an array of Conflict Resolving Algorithms to resolve conflicts in Context-aware applications. Conflicts arise when multiple users try to access an application. In order to resolve conflicts among users, the Conflict resolver sums up preferences of users which collide with each other and recommends specific contents depending on different criteria's such as role of the user or the priority assigned with the user. This paper proposes various algorithms where in each algorithm tries to resolve the conflicts among the users considering issues such as starvation. To show the usefulness of the proposed conflict resolution method, we apply the proposed conflict resolution method to Context aware TV, a smart testbed. The conflict manager is built using an array of algorithms which work on the principles of preemption, non preemption, and uses methodologies like Role, Priority, Time slice based approaches. Thereby making the system to provide comprehensible and well suited solutions to cater the versatile needs of the family. The algorithms utilize various factors like priority, credits, age, and time in the above mentioned approaches.
Front Matter: Volume 6723 (2007)

This PDF file contains the front matter associated with SPIE Proceedings Volume 6723, including the Title Page, Copyright information, Table of Contents, Introduction, and the Conference Committee listing.
Humidity influence in application of &#x00B5;GC-Systems for ethylene gas with preconcentrator devices and SnO<inf>2</inf> based detectors (2011)

A new ethylene detector based on a SnO <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">2</sub> gas sensor combined with a humidity/temperature sensor was applied in a novel μGC system for ethylene measurement with air as carrier gas. The used μGC column shows HETP values between 0.8 mm and 2 mm for carrier gas flow velocities between 2 cm/s and 40 cm/s. The humidity/temperature sensor in the detector allows the recognition of humidity induced peaks and fluctuations of the baseline in the chromatogram after preconcentrator desorption process. This is an important aspect when a preconcentrator is used as sample device together with metal oxide gas sensors during ethylene concentration measurement.
Assessing the ecological impacts of invasive species based on their functional responses and abundances (2017)

Abstract Invasive species management requires allocation of limited resources towards the proactive mitigation of those species that could elicit the highest ecological impacts. However, we lack predictive capacity with respect to the identities and degree of ecological impacts of invasive species. Here, we combine the relative per capita effects and relative field abundances of invader as compared to native species into a new metric, “Relative Impact Potential” (RIP), and test whether this metric can reliably predict high impact invaders. This metric tests the impact of invaders relative to the baseline impacts of natives on the broader ecological community. We first derived the functional responses (i.e. per capita effects) of two ecologically damaging invasive fish species in Europe, the Ponto-Caspian round goby ( Neogobius melanostomus ) and Asian topmouth gudgeon ( Pseudorasbora parva ), and their native trophic analogues, the bullhead ( Cottus gobio ; also C. bairdi ) and bitterling ( Rhodeus amarus ), towards several prey species. This establishes the existence and relative strengths of the predator–prey relationships. Then, we derived ecologically comparable field abundance estimates of the invader and native fish from surveys and literature. This establishes the multipliers for the above per capita effects. Despite both predators having known severe detrimental field impacts, their functional responses alone were of modest predictive power in this regard; however, incorporation of their abundances relative to natives into the RIP metric gave high predictive power. We present invader/native RIP biplots that provide an intuitive visualisation of comparisons among the invasive and native species, reflecting the known broad ecological impacts of the invaders. Thus, we provide a mechanistic understanding of invasive species impacts and a predictive tool for use by practitioners, for example, in risk assessments.
Supplementary Tables 1-3, Figure Legends from A Randomized Phase II Trial of Sipuleucel-T with Concurrent versus Sequential Abiraterone Acetate plus Prednisone in Metastatic Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer (2023)

&lt;p&gt;Supplementary Tables 1-3, Figure Legends. ST1. Median cumulative product parameters, all randomized patients; ST2. Summary of maximal percent decrease from baseline in serum PSA; ST3: Most common AEs occurring within 1 day of infusion in &gt;5% of patients.&lt;/p&gt;
[Intertrochanteric osteotomies. A critical study of the clinical radiologic evaluation]. (1978)

The authors describe the technique that they have used in approximately 500 intertrochanteric osteotomies of the femur. The technique was satisfactory in the production of bony union but in ten per cent of cases there were errors of correction of 5 degrees or more. An analysis of errors related to the radiological technique used showed that a number of conditions (flexion, abduction) modify the angles of inclination and anteversion. A number of instances of degenerative arthritis had been incorrectly attributed to increased coxa valga. An analysis is made of the difficulties encountered when correction is required in two planes, especially when there is fixed flexion or significant anteversion. Some suggestions are made concerning improvements in technique.
Ammonium NHC-tagged olefin metathesis catalysts – influence of counter-ions on catalytic activity (2018)

Ruthenium-based catalysts bearing quaternary ammonium groups in their N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC) fragments and different counter-ions were synthesised and tested in various olefin metathesis transformations.
A phase II trial of docetaxel and cisplatin combination in patients with locally advanced undifferentiated carcinoma of nasopharygeal type (UCNT) (2004)

5599 Background: The standard treatment of locally advanced UCNT is chemotherapy followed by locoregional radiotherapy. The purpose of this study is to assess the antitumor activity and toxicity of a new neoadjuvant chemotherapy regimen combining docetaxel (D) and cisplatin (C). Patients and Methods: Previously untreated patients (pts) with histologically diagnosed locally advanced UCNT (Stages IVA and IVB TNM/UICC 1997) received D 75 mg/m2 and C 75 mg/m2 both on day 1, cycles were repeated every 21 days. Every pts received three cycles in a neoadjuvant setting before radiotherapy (4 to 6 weeks after the third cycle of DC). Pts were evaluated by clinical examination, nasofibroscopy with biopsy and CT scan of nasopharynx. Results: Toxicity, tumor response and survival over one year were assessable in all pts. There are 75 pts (54 male, 21 female) with a median age of 41 years (range 18 - 69) and a WHO performance status of 0 - 1 in 71 pts, 2 in 4 pts. 19 pts had stage IVA and 56 pts had stage IVB. After 225 cycles, grade 3 & 4 toxicity (WHO) were: neutropenia (12 %), febrile neutropenia (2%), anemia (1%), nausea and vomiting (23%), diarrhea (8%), mucositis (1%), reversible alopecia (70%). Two pts had onycolysis. Response rates for the 75 pts were: complete pathologic response 37 % (28 pts), partial response 52% (39 pts), stable disease 8% (6 pts) and progression 3% (2 pts) . The overall response rate (ORR) was 89%. 72 pts had complete response after radiotherapy and one patient had stable disease. 18 patients had recurence: 16 locoregional, 1 hepatic metastasis and 1 cerebral metastasis. Disease free survival and overall survival at 1 year were respectively 76 % and 85 % and the median survival was 19 months. The complete response after chemotherapy appear as an important factor predicting recurrence. Conclusion: DC is an effective regimen with an acceptable safety profile in locally advanced UCNT. No significant financial relationships to disclose.
Removal of Hexavalent Chromium from Wastewater Using a New Composite Chitosan Biosorbent (2003)

A new composite chitosan biosorbent was prepared by coating chitosan, a glucosamine biopolymer, onto ceramic alumina. The composite bioadsorbent was characterized by high-temperature pyrolysis, porosimetry, scanning electron microscopy, and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy. Batch isothermal equilibrium and continuous column adsorption experiments were conducted at 25 degrees C to evaluate the biosorbent for the removal of hexavalent chromium from synthetic as well as field samples obtained from chrome plating facilities. The effect of pH, sulfate, and chloride ion on adsorption was also investigated. The biosorbent loaded with Cr(VI) was regenerated using 0.1 M sodium hydroxide solution. A comparison of the results of the present investigation with those reported in the literature showed that chitosan coated on alumina exhibits greater adsorption capacity for chromium(VI). Further, experimental equilibrium data were fitted to Langmuir and Freundlich adsorption isotherms, and values of the parameters of the isotherms are reported. The ultimate capacity obtained from the Langmuir model is 153.85 mg/g chitosan.
Development of Multimegawatt Gyrotrons for Fusion Plasma Heating and Current Drive (2005)

High-frequency gyrotrons with high output power are mainly used for microwave heating and current drive in plasmas for thermonuclear fusion. The development of high-power gyrotrons in continuous wave (CW) operation has been in progress for several years in a joint collaboration between different European research centers and an industrial partner. The status of the development of the 140-GHz continuously operating gyrotrons with an output power of 1 MW for the stellarator Wendelstein 7-X will be described. An output power of 890 kW has been achieved with a pulse length of 3 min. limited by the available high-voltage power supply at an electron beam current of 40 A. At a reduced beam current of 27 A , an output power of 540 kW was measured with a pulse length of 939 s. For the next fusion plasma device international thermonuclear experimental reactor, gyrotrons with a higher output power of about 2 MW are desirable. In short-pulse experiments, the feasibility of fabrication of coaxial cavity gyrotrons with an output power up to 2 MW, CW, has been demonstrated, and the information necessary for a technical design has been obtained. An output power of 2.2 MW has been reached in stable operation (without mode competition). At the nominal output power of 1.5 MW an efficiency of 48% could be obtained with single-stage depressed collector. The development of frequency tunable gyrotrons operating in the range from 105 to 140 GHz for stabilization of current driven plasma instabilities in fusion plasma devices (neoclassical tearing modes) is another task in the development of gyrotrons at the Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe.
Blocking Inhibitors in Cathodic Leveling: I. Theoretical Analysis (1996)

A model for predicting leveling during electrodeposition in the presence of an inhibiting additive is presented. Based on a diffusion‐adsorption mechanism, the model assumes that the additive is consumed at the cathode by electroreduction. Using the approximation of a flat, stagnant diffusion layer, leveling during metal electrodeposition into triangular and semicircular grooves is simulated. The variation of the leveling agent concentration along the groove profile is determined by solving a concentration field problem with a boundary element method, and the advancement of the groove profile is simulated with a flexible moving‐boundary algorithm. Leveling performance depends on three dimensionless groups characterizing leveling‐agent reduction, metal‐ion reduction, and the geometrical ratio of the diffusion layer thickness to the groove depth.
Merge mode based fast inter prediction for HEVC (2015)

The latest High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC/H.265) obtains 50% bit rate reduction than H.264/AVC standard with comparable quality, but at the cost of high computational complexity. Inter prediction accounts for large complexity and merge mode is one of the most important new features introduced in HEVC. To address this issue, this paper utilizes the merge mode to accelerate inter prediction by three fast mode decision methods. 1) A merge candidate decision is proposed to select the best merge mode by Sum of Absolute Transformed Difference (SATD) cost to reduce the merge time. 2) An early merge termination is presented still based on SATD cost with more than 90% accuracy. 3) Based on efficient merge mode, symmetric motion partition (SMP) modes can be disabled for non-8 × 8 code units (CUs). Experimental results demonstrate that our work can achieve 53.1%-54.2% time reduction on average with 1.57%-2.30% BD-rate increment. Besides, our method achieves an improvement of 18%-30% time reduction with 0.89%-2.85% BD-rate increment when combined with other existing approaches.
IMMU-15. A UNIQUE SELF-STIMULATIVE PROPERTY OF CD70 CAR ADVANCES T CELL FUNCTION AND ANTI-TUMOR RESPONSE IN GLIOBLASTOMA (2019)

Abstract BACKGROUND Glioblastoma (GBM) is a refractory brain tumor that desperately needs new therapeutic interventions. Our group identified CD70 as a novel target of CAR-T therapy for this malignancy. We demonstrate that CD70 is overexpressed by low-/high-grade gliomas and associated with poor survival for patients; CD70 promotes CD8 specific cell death and tumor-associated macrophage infiltration in gliomas. The CD70 CAR (using CD27, a natural costimulatory receptor of T cells as an antigen-binding region) T cells can efficiently eradicate CD70 positive tumors in syngeneic and xenograft mouse models. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the properties of CD70 CAR-transduced T cells in GBM treatment. METHODS CD70 CAR or IL13Rα2 CAR was linked with fluorescent reporter gene EGFP, and cloned into a retroviral vector (pMSGV8). In vitro T cell culture and flow cytometry were used to evaluate the self-enrichment property and susceptibility to TCR stimulation of the CAR T cells. KI67, Bcl-2, CD70 gene expression was tested by qPCR to measure the proliferation/apoptosis properties of the CAR T cells. Cytokine profile was analyzed by ELISA. The anti-tumor response was evaluated using Xenograft mouse models. RESULTS Compared with IL13Rα2 CAR T cells, the frequency of CD70 CAR T cells was significantly increased 3 weeks post transduction, and approximately 100 to 150-fold CD70 CAR T cell expansion without additional stimuli was achieved in vitro. The expanded CD70 CAR T cells were mostly (up to 85%) CD8+ T cells three weeks post CAR transduction. Enhanced proliferative capacity and production of IL-2, IFN-γ, and TNF-α of the CD70 CAR-transduced T cells upon anti-CD3/CD28 stimulation were also revealed. Results from animal models show that the CD70 CAR T cells present superior in vivo persistence and antitumor efficacy. CONCLUSION We show the auto-stimulative property, as well as superior T cell function and antitumor efficacy of CD70 CAR T cells in GBM models.
Document zone content classification for technical document images using Artificial Neural Networks and Support Vector Machines (2009)

Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) are a classic pattern classifier and widely applicable to various problems and are relatively easy to use. Three of the most popular ANNs are Multilayer Perceptron (MLP) with Backpropagation learning algorithm, Self Organizing Map (SOM) and Recurrent Neural Network (RNN). Support Vector Machines (SVM) have gained great interest in the last few years in pattern recognition. Thus, this research compares the recognition performance of text and non-text images (text, table, figure and graph) from technical document images based on the pixel intensity of various zones between BPNN, SOM, RNN and SVM. Symmetrical and non-symmetrical zoning algorithms were compared as input. 400 different datasets have been tested and the experiments indicate that SVM classification is superior to the other three classifiers. The experiments also indicate that the combination of symmetrical and non-symmetrical zoning design is better than non-symmetrical or symmetrical zoning only.
Transcriptome Analysis of the Vernalization Response in Barley (Hordeum vulgare) Seedlings (2011)

Temperate cereals, such as wheat (Triticum spp.) and barley (Hordeum vulgare), respond to prolonged cold by becoming more tolerant of freezing (cold acclimation) and by becoming competent to flower (vernalization). These responses occur concomitantly during winter, but vernalization continues to influence development during spring. Previous studies identified VERNALIZATION1 (VRN1) as a master regulator of the vernalization response in cereals. The extent to which other genes contribute to this process is unclear. In this study the Barley1 Affymetrix chip was used to assay gene expression in barley seedlings during short or prolonged cold treatment. Gene expression was also assayed in the leaves of plants after prolonged cold treatment, in order to identify genes that show lasting responses to prolonged cold, which might contribute to vernalization-induced flowering. Many genes showed altered expression in response to short or prolonged cold treatment, but these responses differed markedly. A limited number of genes showed lasting responses to prolonged cold treatment. These include genes known to be regulated by vernalization, such as VRN1 and ODDSOC2, and also contigs encoding a calcium binding protein, 23-KD jasmonate induced proteins, an RNase S-like protein, a PR17d secretory protein and a serine acetyltransferase. Some contigs that were up-regulated by short term cold also showed lasting changes in expression after prolonged cold treatment. These include COLD REGULATED 14B (COR14B) and the barley homologue of WHEAT COLD SPECIFIC 19 (WSC19), which were expressed at elevated levels after prolonged cold. Conversely, two C-REPEAT BINDING FACTOR (CBF) genes showed reduced expression after prolonged cold. Overall, these data show that a limited number of barley genes exhibit lasting changes in expression after prolonged cold treatment, highlighting the central role of VRN1 in the vernalization response in cereals.
The Effect of Polydispersivity on the Thermal Conductivity of Particulate Thermal Interface Materials (2009)

A critical need in developing thermal interface materials (TIMs) is an understanding of the effect of particle/matrix conductivities, volume loading of the particles, the size distribution, and the random arrangement of the particles in the matrix on the homogenized thermal conductivity. Commonly, TIM systems contain random spatial distributions of particles of a polydisperse (usually bimodal) nature. A detailed analysis of the microstructural characteristics that influence the effective thermal conductivity of TIMs is the goal of this paper. Random microstructural arrangements consisting of lognormal size-distributions of alumina particles in silicone matrix were generated using a drop-fall-shake algorithm. The generated microstructures were statistically characterized using the matrix-exclusion probability function. The filler particle volume loading was varied over a range of 40%-55%. For a given filler volume loading, the effect of polydispersivity in the microstructures was captured by varying the standard deviation(s) of the filler particle size distribution function. For each particle arrangement, the effective thermal conductivity of the microstructures was evaluated through numerical simulations using a network model previously developed by the authors. Counter to expectation, increased polydispersivity was observed to increase the effective conductivity up to a volume loading of 50%. However, at a volume loading of 55%, beyond a limiting standard deviation of 0.9, the effective thermal conductivity decreased with increased standard deviation suggesting that the observed effects are a tradeoff between resistance to transport through the particles versus transport through the interparticle matrix gap in a percolation chain.
Supplementary Movie 1 (SM1) from Changes in Aged Fibroblast Lipid Metabolism Induce Age-Dependent Melanoma Cell Resistance to Targeted Therapy via the Fatty Acid Transporter FATP2 (2023)

&lt;p&gt;Young BODIPY-C12 fibroblasts with GFP-Tagged melanoma cells showing lipid uptake&lt;/p&gt;