gebhart/patrepeval huggingface dataset:
Cyclodextrin effects on theex-situ bioremediation of a chronically polychlorobiphenyl-contaminated soil (1998)

The possibility of enhancing the intrinsic ex-situ bioremediation of a chronically polychlorinated biphenyl-contaminated soil by using cyclodextrins was studied in this work. The soil, contaminated with a large array of polychlorinated biphenyls and deriving from a dump site where it has been stored for about 10 years, was found to contain indigenous cultivable aerobic bacteria capable of utilising biphenyl and chlorobenzoic acids. The soil was amended with inorganic nutrients and biphenyl, saturated with water, and treated in aerobic batch slurry- and fixed-phase reactors. Hydroxypropyl-beta-cyclodextrin and gamma-cyclodextrin, added to both reactor systems at the concentration of 10 g/L at the 39th and 100th days of treatment, were found to generally enhance the depletion rate and extent of the soil polychlorobiphenyls. Despite some abiotic losses could have affected the depletion data, experimental evidence, such as the production of metabolites tentatively characterized as chlorobenzoic acids and chloride ion accumulation in the reactors, indicated that cyclodextrins significantly enhanced the biological degradation of the soil polychlorobiphenyls. This result has been ascribed to the capability of cyclodextrins of enhancing the availability of polychlorobiphenyls in the hydrophilic soil environment populated by immobilised and suspended indigenous soil microorganisms. Both cyclodextrins were metabolised by the indigenous soil microorganisms at the concentration at which they were used. Therefore, cyclodextrins, both for their capability of enhancing the biodegradation of soil polychlorobiphenyls and for their biodegradability, can have the potential of being successfully used in the bioremediation of chronically polychlorinated biphenyl-contaminated soils. Copyright 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Simultaneous MgO coating and Mg doping of Na[Ni0.5Mn0.5]O2 cathode: facile and customizable approach to high-voltage sodium-ion batteries (2018)

Simultaneous surface MgO coating to bulk Mg doping of Na[Ni<sub>0.5</sub>Mn<sub>0.5</sub>]O<sub>2</sub> cathode produces great synergy in sodium-ion battery performances.
Viscoelastic Properties of Plasticized Gelatin Films (1964)

ADVERTISEMENT RETURN TO ISSUEPREVArticleNEXTViscoelastic Properties of Plasticized Gelatin FilmsJ. B. Yannas and A. V. TobolskyCite this: J. Phys. Chem. 1964, 68, 12, 3880–3882Publication Date (Print):December 1, 1964Publication History Published online1 May 2002Published inissue 1 December 1964https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/j100794a505https://doi.org/10.1021/j100794a505research-articleACS PublicationsRequest reuse permissionsArticle Views117Altmetric-Citations20LEARN 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 options Get e-Alerts
Emergence of coherent patterns of vortex stretching during reconnection: A scattering paradigm (1991)

We have observed coherent patterns of the magnitude of the normalized vortex stretching vector \ensuremath{\Vert}\ensuremath{\omega}\ensuremath{\cdot}\ensuremath{\nabla}u\ensuremath{\Vert}/\ensuremath{\Vert}\ensuremath{\omega}\ensuremath{\Vert} during the ``bursting'' reconnection phase of the evolution of identical initially orthogonally offset vortex tubes. We propose that the intensification and reconnection of initially tubelike vortex regions be viewed as a scattering process and that the topology of vortex lines during this phase of the process contributes to limiting vortex stretching (intensification). Furthermore, we advocate the use of these patterns (some rendered in color) as signatures of turbulent intermittency in exploring massive data sets.
Control of myocardial oxygen consumption in transgenic mice overexpressing vascular eNOS (2004)

Our objective was to investigate the potential role of selective endothelial nitric oxide (NO) synthase (eNOS) overexpression in coronary blood vessels in the control of myocardial oxygen consumption (MVO2). Transgenic (Tg) eNOS-overexpressing mice (eNOS Tg) (n=22) and wild-type (WT) mice (n=24) were studied. Western blot analysis indicated greater than sixfold increase of eNOS in cardiac tissue. Echocardiography in awake mice indicated no difference in cardiac function between WT and eNOS Tg; however, systolic pressure in eNOS Tg mice decreased significantly (126 +/- 2.3 to 109 +/- 2.3 mmHg; P <0.05), whereas heart rate (HR) was not different. Total peripheral resistance (TPR) was also decreased (9.8 +/- 0.8 to 7.6 +/- 0.4 4 mmHg.ml(-1).min; P <0.05) in eNOS Tg. Furthermore, female eNOS Tg mice showed even lower TPR (7.2 +/- 0.4 mmHg.ml(-1).min) compared with male eNOS mice (8.6 +/- 0.5, mmHg.ml.min(-1); P <0.05). Left ventricular slices were isolated from WT and eNOS Tg mice. With the use of a Clark-type oxygen electrode in an airtight bath, MVO2 was determined as the percent decrease during increasing doses (10(-10) to 10(-4) mol/l) of bradykinin (BK), carbachol (CCh), forskolin (10(-12) to 10(-6) mol/l), or S-nitroso-N-acetyl penicillamine (SNAP; 10(-7) to 10(-4) mol/l). Baseline MVO2 was not different between WT (181 +/- 13 nmol.g(-1).min(-1)) and eNOS Tg (188 +/- 14 nmol.g(-1).min(-1)). BK decreased MVO2 (10(-4) mol/l) in WT by 17% +/- 1.1 and 33% +/- 2.7 in eNOS Tg (P < 0.05). CCh also decreased MVO2, 10(-4) mol/l, in WT by 20% +/- 1.7 and 31% +/- 2.0 in eNOS Tg (P <0.05). Forskolin (10(-6) mol/l) or SNAP (10(-4) mol/l) also decreased MVO2 in WT by 24% +/- 2.8 and 36% +/- 1.8 versus eNOS 31% +/- 1.8 and 37% +/- 3.5, respectively. N-nitro-L-arginine methyl ester (10(-3) mol/l) inhibited the MVO2 reduction to BK, CCh, and forskolin by a similar degree (P <0.05), but not to SNAP. Thus selective overexpression of eNOS in cardiac blood vessels in mice enhances the control of MVO2 by eNOS-derived NO.
1422 On Isotropic Elastic Materials with Poisson's Ratio of -1 (2005)

After showing that v=-1 means a material of the kinematical internal constraint of "inshearability," we obtained the constitutive relations with the associated constraint conditions for such materials. To highlight characteristics of such materials, we took up the following two problems as examples: a pressurized hollow sphere and a cantilever subjected to a lateral load at its tip. For the both problems, we tried to obtain the solutions both by the limiting process v→-1 in the known ones and by using the derived constitutive relations. We found that the solutions derived by the two approaches for the former problem is identical. For the latter problem, however, the shear stresses acting on the crosssection diverge to infinity as v→-1, and no consistent solutions can be constructed by use of the new constitutive relations accompanied by the constraint conditions, at least by starting with the same assumptions as those by Timoshenko and Goodier.
Detection of laser marks in retinal images (2013)

Eye diseases such as diabetic retinopathy are sometimes treated with recourse to laser based cauterization. The marks left by the action of the laser on the surface of the retina can cause misbehaviors of automated retinal diagnostic systems. It is therefore highly desirable to be able to detect the presence of laser marks left behind by such treatments and use that information in the first steps of automatic retinal diagnostics to prevent further unnecessary processing. In this paper we present an attempt to detect the presence of laser marks using an automated detection algorithm and present some preliminary results on its performance.
A differential amplifier circuit for reducing noise in axial light loss measurements (1983)

Simplified electronics have been developed for reducing laser excitation source light intensity fluctuations in flow cytometric axial light loss (extinction) measurements. By continuously monitoring the laser output with a photodiode detector and combining it with the axial light loss signal from a second detector using a high-speed differential amplifier, background interference is reduced 10 to 40 dB. Oscilloscope waveforms and frequency distribution histograms recorded from uniform-size polystyrene latex spheres and human mononuclear blood cells are used to illustrate the noise reduction capabilities.
Grain Quality and Properties of Starch and Amylopectin of Intermediate- and Low-Amylose Indica Rices (2011)

Selected intermediate- and low-apparent amylose content (AC) Philippine rices differing in alkali spreading value (index of starch gelatinization temperature, GT) and cooked rice hardness were characterized for differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) measurement of gelatinization of granular starch, content of long-chain amylopectin and true amylose by high-performance size exclusion chromatography of debranched starch and amylopectin, and amylopectin chain ratio (ACR) of Σ degree of polymerization (DP) 6–10/Σ DP 6–24 of debranched starch by capillary electrophoresis. The Waxy gene alleles were mainly 17G and 20G for intermediate-AC samples and 17T and 20T for low-AC samples, regardless of GT. Long-chain amylopectin content was as predicted from apparent amylose content, and ACR was as predicted from GT by DSC and alkali spreading value. AC of milled rice was higher than that of debranched starch by size exclusion chromatography. Differences in long-chain amylopectin content cannot explain differences in cooked hardness among both AC types, and ACR alone cannot explain differences among intermediate AC type. The lower AC of starch of intermediate-AC rice with intermediate GT compared with those of intermediate-AC rice with low GT probably contributed to its softer cooked rice. Increase in cooked hardness from staling was higher for high- and intermediate-GT samples, particularly in low-AC types.
Ligands to the integrin receptor αvβ3 (2000)

AbstractThe vitronectin receptor vβ3 is a member of the integrin superfamily of membrane bound glycoprotein receptors that is responsible for cell-cell and cell-matrix interactions and shares the same β subunit as the fibrinogen receptor IIbβ3 (also known as GPIIb/IIIa). Both these integrins recognise extracellular proteins that express the peptide sequence arginine-glycine-aspartic acid (RGD). Non-peptide RGD mimetics that bind with high affinity and selectivity to IIbβ3 were previously prepared as anti-thrombotic agents. More recently, medicinal chemistry groups have modified these non-peptide fibrinogen receptor antagonist lead structures to impart potency and integrin selectivity for vβ3. Numerous patent applications and issued patents have appeared throughout the last decade claiming structurally novel vβ3 antagonists as agents for the prevention and/or treatment of osteoporosis, cancer, diabetic retinopathy and rheumatoid arthritis. This review encompasses those issued patents and published patent applications that disclose ligands to vβ3.Keywordsαvβ3angiogenesisintegrinosteoporosisvitronectin
Anemia of Chronic Disease in Patients With Cardiovascular Disease (2021)

<b>Objective:</b> Anemia is often found in patients with coronary artery disease (CAD) or acute coronary syndrome (ACS) and related to disease severity. Our study investigated the relationship between anemia, iron homeostasis and inflammation in CAD and examined their influence on the outcome of patients. <b>Patients and Methods:</b> Markers of immune activation (neopterin, interleukin [IL]-12, IL-6, high sensitive C-reactive protein (hsCRP), fibrinogen, serum amyloid A [SAA]) and iron metabolism (ferritin, transferrin saturation, hemoglobin) were determined in 2,082 patients (68.7 % men, median age 63 years) from the Ludwigshafen Risk and cardiovascular Health (LURIC) cohort. Patients were followed-up for a median of 9.81 years. <b>Results:</b> 960 patients (46.1 %) presented with chronic CAD, 645 patients (31.0 %) had an ACS, and 477 patients (22.9 %) presented with no CAD in coronary angiography (CAG). Anemia (<i>n</i> = 357, 17.1 %) was associated with disease severity (reflected by more progressed stenosis in CAG, CCS, and NYHA classes, and a lower LV-EF), a higher cardio-cerebrovascular event rate and higher levels of inflammatory markers. Interestingly, anemia was only predictive for an adverse outcome in patients with elevated inflammatory markers. Accordingly, anemia of chronic disease (ACD) was associated with a higher cardio-cerebrovascular event-rate in the subsequent 2 years as compared to patients with other types of anemia or without anemia (14.3 vs. 6.1 vs. 4.0%, <i>p</i> < 0.001). <b>Conclusions:</b> This study confirms that anemia and immune activation are strongly related to cardiovascular disease progression and an adverse outcome. Our data suggest that the association of anemia with disease severity and outcome might mainly be due to underlying inflammation.
FAST: A Novel, Executive Function-Based Approach to Cognitive Enhancement (2019)

The present study introduces a novel cognitive intervention aimed at improving fluid intelligence (G<i>f</i>), based on a framework we refer to as FAST: Flexible, Adaptive, Synergistic Training. FAST leverages a combination of novel game-based executive function (EF) training-designed specifically to enhance the likelihood of transfer-and transcranial electrical stimulation (tES), with aims to synergistically activate and strengthen mechanisms of cognitive control critical to G<i>f</i>. To test our intervention, we collected three G<i>f</i> measures from 113 participants [the advanced short Bochumer Matrizen-Test (BOMAT), Raven's Advanced Progressive Matrices (APM), and matrices similar to Raven's generated by Sandia labs], prior to and following one of three interventions: (1) the FAST + tRNS intervention, a combination of 30 min of daily training with our novel training game, Robot Factory, and 20 min of concurrent transcranial random noise stimulation applied to bilateral dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC); (2) an adaptively difficult Active Control intervention comprised of visuospatial tasks that specifically do not target G<i>f</i>; or (3) a no-contact control condition. Analyses of changes in a G<i>f</i> factor from pre- to post-test found numerical increases for the FAST + tRNS group compared to the two control conditions, with a 0.3 SD increase relative to Active Control (<i>p</i> = 0.07), and a 0.19 SD increase relative to a No-contact control condition (<i>p</i> = 0.26). This increase was found to be largely driven by significant differences in pre- and post-test G<i>f</i> as measured on the BOMAT test. Progression through the FAST training game (Robot Factory) was significantly correlated with changes in G<i>f</i>. This is in contrast with progress in the Active Control condition, as well as with changes in individual EFs during FAST training, which did not significantly correlate with changes in G<i>f</i>. Taken together, this research represents a useful step forward in providing new insights into, and new methods for studying, the nature of G<i>f</i> and its malleability. Though our results await replication and extension, they provide preliminary evidence that the crucial characteristic of G<i>f</i> may, in fact, be the ability to combine EFs rapidly and adaptively according to changing demand, and that G<i>f</i> may be susceptible to targeted training.
Real-time observation of Snell’s law for spin waves in thin ferromagnetic films (2014)

We report the real-time observation of spin-wave propagation across a step inserted between two ferromagnetic films with different thicknesses. Because the dispersion relation of the spin wave depends on the thickness of the film, the step works as a junction to affect the spin wave propagation. When the spin wave transmits through the junction, the wavenumber undergoes modulation as per Snell's law, which states that the refraction index is proportional to the wavenumber. From the viewpoint of magnonics, the present achievement opens up new possibilities of controlling the wavenumber of spin waves.
Developmental regulation of hypomethylation of delta-crystallin genes in chicken embryo lens cells. (1989)

Sequences in the two delta-crystallin genes become hypomethylated when they are expressed in the chick lens. This system is particularly advantageous for studying temporal changes in hypomethylation, since lens tissue can be isolated at all developmental stages. In previous work we have shown that most HpaII sites become hypomethylated within the delta 1-crystallin gene long after delta-crystallin gene activation. One site is hypomethylated when crystallin mRNA begins to be synthesized at high levels at 50 h; we show here that this site maps to the 3' end (intron 15) of the delta 1-crystallin gene. In addition, we have examined the methylation status of HpaII and HhaI sites found near the 5' end of the delta 1-crystallin gene. Two HhaI sites adjacent to a viral core enhancer sequence in intron 2 are also first hypomethylated at 50 h. These findings point to regions of the delta 1 gene that should be investigated further for functional significance in regulating delta-crystallin transcription.
Construção de um difratômetro θ-θ (1992)

Resumo Introdu~io capftulo I Espalharnento EI4stico de Ralos x I.1 Policristais 1.1.1Estrutura 1.1.2Conteudo Informacional do Difratograma 1.2SoIU900S 1.2.1Estrutura 1.2.2Conteudo Informacional do Difratograma Caprtulo II Optlca dos DlfratOrnetros de Ralos X 11.1Geometrias mais utilizadas em difratometria 11.2Monocromadores Capftulo III o DlfratOrnetro Proposto 111.1 Descri9Ao Mecanica 111.2 Descri9Ao 6ptica 111.3 Alinhamento Caprtulo IV 58 o Aclonarnento do DlfratOmetro IV.1 Movimentay8o do DifratOmetro, Controle e Processamento dos Sinais IV.2 Programas de Comunica98o Caprtulo V Testes de caracterlza~o Reallzados com 0 DlfratOrnetro V.1 Caracteriza980 V.2 Observa90es V.3 Difratogramas Capftulo VI Dlscussio e Conclusio VI.1 Discuss80 VI.2 Conclus80
Pharmacokinetics of the novel antipsychotic agent risperidone and the prolactin response in healthy subjects (1993)

The pharmacokinetics of a novel antipsychotic agent, risperidone, and the prolactin response were studied in 12 dextromethorphan-phenotyped healthy men after administration of 1 mg risperidone intravenously, intramuscularly, and orally. The formation of the equipotent major metabolite, 9-hydroxyrisperidone, exhibited CYP2D6-related polymorphism. The plasma area under the concentration-time curve from time zero to infinity ratio of 9-hydroxyrisperidone to risperidone averaged 3 (intravenous and intramuscular) and 6 (oral administration) in the extensive metabolizers and 0.2 in the poor metabolizers. Risperidone half-life was about 3 hours in extensive metabolizers and 22 hours in poor metabolizers. Risperidone absolute oral bioavailability was 66%. The pharmacokinetics of the active moiety (risperidone plus 9-hydroxyrisperidone) varied little among subjects (mean terminal half-life, 20 +/- 2 1/2 hours; absolute oral and intramuscular bioavailability, 100%). The prolactin response correlated best with the plasma active moiety, which showed little hysteresis. It is concluded that risperidone metabolic polymorphism on increased plasma prolactin is minimal and that the active moiety is clinically relevant.
Nanosols and Textiles (2008)

The book provides a short introduction to the sol-gel process, principles in modification of the sols and technical details of the application on textiles, covering in particular the chemical content of the topic. New properties of textiles gained from nanosols are summarized and explained in a broad range, focusing on the mechanical and thermal stability, repellent properties, optical properties, antistatic coatings and bioactive coatings. An active discussion is held on the bioactive modifications, because this wide and interesting field offers a high potential for many new applications, e.g. in medicine. Besides basic research, this book will also provide examples on the transition of academic research to customer products
RIch-context Unit Selection (RUS) approach to high quality TTS (2010)

This paper presents a Rich-context Unit Selection (RUS) approach to high quality speech synthesis. Based upon our previous work on rich context modeling, we use the corresponding parametric HMMs to represent waveform units and form a “sausage-like” lattice. A prune-and-search procedure is proposed, in which Kullback-Leibler divergence is adopted to select potential candidate units, and normalized cross-correlation is used as the final objective measure to search for the optimal unit path. The maximum cross-correlation criterion provides the optimal concatenation between successive units, in terms of spectral similarity, phase continuity and best connecting timing instants. Subjectively, both preference and MOS tests were conducted to compare RUS with our current Weight-table based Unit Selection (WUS) synthesis. Experimental results show that the voice quality of synthesized speech is significantly improved by RUS over the conventional WUS.
A portable real-time emulator for testing multi-radio MANETs (2006)

In building a real-life mobile ad-hoc network (MANET), network emulation has been appraised as an efficient approach for testing the real implementations of routing algorithms and protocol stacks. Most existing MANET emulators can hardly support both real-time scene construction for proof-of-concept test and real-time traffic recording for performance evaluation simultaneously. They also lack the ability to emulate the multi-radio environment. This paper presents a flexible TCP/IP-based real-time MANET emulator that can be portably deployed to facilitate the development of real multi-radio MANET routing protocols. It friendly provides visual interaction of topology control and rich configuration of emulation conditions to enable a real-time and comprehensive examination of protocol implementations.