gebhart/patrepeval huggingface dataset:
A randomized controlled trial of CBT-I and PAP for obstructive sleep apnea and comorbid insomnia: main outcomes from the MATRICS study (2020)

The findings from this study indicate that combining CBT-I with PAP is superior to PAP alone on insomnia outcomes but does not significantly improve adherence to PAP.
Prediction-Based Link-Layer Dynamic Fragmentation and Aggregation for Wireless Mesh Networks (2008)

Packet retransmissions due to packet losses reduce transmission performance in wireless networks obviously. Multi-hop wireless networks suffer from packet losses more than one-hop wireless networks. High bit-error rate of wireless channel and frequent channel collision due to shared channel are the most important ingredients of packet loss in multi-hop wireless networks. When bit error rate is between 10 <sup xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">-3</sup> ~10 <sup xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">-4</sup> , fragment size control is efficient to enhance transmission performance. After analyzing the packet loss reason in wireless mesh networks, a prediction-based link-layer dynamic frame fragmentation and aggregation scheme called PDFA is proposed for 802.11-based wireless mesh networks. The size of sending fragment is optimized based on the prediction of channel BER. Simulation experiments validate that PDFA enhances transmission performance in wireless mesh networks efficiently.
Monoclonal antibodies to the circumsporozoite protein repeats of a Plasmodium vivax-like human malaria parasite and Plasmodium simiovale (1994)

We have recently described a Plasmodium vivax-like human malaria parasite. The circumsporozoite protein of this parasite is identical to that of a simian malaria parasite, P. simiovale, but different from two known types of P. vivax. Here, we describe the production of two monoclonal antibodies, Pam 172 and Pam 135, specific for the circumsporozoite protein repeat sequence APGANQEGGAA of the P. vivax-like malaria parasite. These two monoclonal antibodies recognized air-dried sporozoites of P. simiovale but not other human, simian, or rodent malaria parasites tested.
Geology and Geothermal Energy Development at Coso KGRA: ABSTRACT (1982)

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Detection of ACTH-producing bronchial carcinoid tumors: MR imaging vs CT. (1991)

Adrenocorticotrophic hormone (ACTH)-producing bronchial carcinoid tumors tend to occur in the middle third of the lung adjacent to pulmonary vessels. Because they cause signs and symptoms when quite small (by virtue of their ACTH production), they may not be detected by CT. MR imaging was performed in 10 consecutive patients with surgically proved ACTH-producing bronchial carcinoid tumors in order to test the ability of MR to clarify equivocal or indeterminate findings on CT examinations. All bronchial carcinoid tumors had high signal intensity on T2-weighted and short-inversion-time inversion-recovery images, facilitating their distinction from pulmonary vasculature. In eight patients, the CT and MR images were equivalent in the detection of bronchial carcinoid tumors. In two patients, MR showed tumors in the middle third of the lung that were equivocal on CT. MR imaging may distinguish small bronchial carcinoid tumors from adjacent pulmonary vessels in the central third of the lung at a time when the CT study is nondiagnostic or equivocal.
A computer vision based candidate for functional balance test (2015)

Balance in humans is a motor skill based on complex multimodal sensing, processing and control. Ability to maintain balance in activities of daily living (ADL) is compromised due to aging, diseases, injuries and environmental factors. Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimate of the costs of falls among older adults was $34 billion in 2013 and is expected to reach $54.9 billion in 2020. In this paper, we present a brief review of balance impairments followed by subjective and objective tools currently used in clinical settings for human balance assessment. We propose a novel computer vision (CV) based approach as a candidate for functional balance test. The test will take less than a minute to administer and expected to be objective, repeatable and highly discriminative in quantifying ability to maintain posture and balance. We present an informal study with preliminary data from 10 healthy volunteers, and compare performance with a balance assessment system called BTrackS Balance Assessment Board. Our results show high degree of correlation with BTrackS. The proposed system promises to be a good candidate for objective functional balance tests and warrants further investigations to assess validity in clinical settings, including acute care, long term care and assisted living care facilities. Our long term goals include non-intrusive approaches to assess balance competence during ADL in independent living environments.
Motivational Interviewing and Medication Review in Coronary Heart Disease (MIMeRiC): Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial Investigating Effects on Clinical Outcomes, Adherence, and Quality of Life (2018)

ClinicalTrials.gov NCT02102503; https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT02102503 (Archived by WebCite at http://www.webcitation.org/6x7iUDohy).
Trellis-and-tree search algorithms for equalization and multiuser detection. (1999)

This thesis deals with the detection of digital signals in the presence of inter-symbol interference (ISI) and/or multiple-access interference. We develop a new fractional maximum likelihood sequence estimation (MLSE) receiver which is suitable for wireless communication systems with excess signal bandwidth and fast time-varying channels. We investigate the effect of the receive filter and the branch metric on decision feedback sequence estimation (DFSE) and M-algorithm receivers, which are reduced-complexity alternatives to MLSE. The analysis leads to the classification of these receivers on the basis of the presence of untreated interference components, referred to as bias, which dominate the error-rate performance of the receiver. Bias arises in a DFSE or M-algorithm receiver due to a mismatch between the receive filter and the branch metric. We show that an unbiased receiver comprises a front-end filter matched to the overall channel or the transmit filter response followed by the appropriate noise-whitening or zero-forcing filter and a reduced trellis or tree search algorithm. Receivers with just a matched filter followed by a reduced trellis or tree search algorithm belong to the class of biased receivers. We compare various trellis-based receivers on the basis of the distance of a given error sequence, which characterizes the probability of the associated error event. We show that whitening filter DFSE receivers maximize the error distance among unbiased DFSE receivers and truncated-memory MLSE receivers with pre-filtering. For matched filter DFSE receivers, we describe bias compensation methods employing hard as well as soft tentative decisions, which significantly enhance performance in most cases without adding much complexity. Union bounds on the error probability of the various receivers are derived and evaluated using a modified generating function approach. We derive an optimum forward-recursive soft-output algorithm which operates on the standard matched filter statistics and has complexity that grows exponentially with the channel memory only. We also derive a reduced-state soft-output algorithm which provides good symbol reliability estimates with reduced complexity. The performance of the various algorithms is compared for equalization of ISI and multiuser detection for direct-sequence code-division multiple-access systems via simulation and analytical examples.
STUDY OF PHOTOSYNTHETIC MATERIALS BY CIRCULAR DICHROISM. (1972)

Circular dichroism (CD), a measure of the asymmetry of a system, is used to probe materials from the photosynthetic apparatus.The research can be divided into three parts.(1) To provide a sound understanding for interpreting the CD spectra of complex photosynthetic membranes a theoretical study was first undertaken to calculate the CD properties of in vitro chlorophyll and related molecules.Agreement between calculated and observed rotational strengths for solution monomers of chlorophyll, bacteriochlorophyll, and related molecules has been improved over that obtained in a previous study {Houssier, C. and Sauer, K. (1970), J. Am.Chern.Soc.92, 779) by an order of magnitude through the use of a model which distributes the v-v* transitions over the porphyrin ring.Using the Kirkwood-Tinoco coupled oscillator approach, the electronic transitions are described using point monopoles located at the porphyrin macrocycle nuclei.
Comparison of LSO, LGSO and MLS scintillators (2005)

The luminescence and nuclear spectroscopic properties of recent LSO, LGSO and MLS scintillators were investigated and compared to those of older LSO and LGSO crystals. UV-excited luminescent spectra outline important similarities between these scintillators. The two distinct luminescence mechanisms previously identified in LSO appear to be present in all crystals. The relative light yield and energy resolution were assessed using an avalanche photodiode (APD) readout. The energy resolution of all scintillators is found to be affected by an important systematic contribution that seriously limits the crystal resolution, irrespective of the light yield.
High Repetition Rate Bismuth Borate Optical Parametric Oscillator Pumped by a Cavity-dumped Nd:YLF Laser (2009)

We present a bismuth borate optical parametric oscillator pumped by cavity-dumped Nd:YLF laser delivering low jitter 9.5ns millijoule pulses at 1kHz tunable from 720 to 900nm that is ideally suited for photoacoustic medical imaging.
Adrogolide HCl (ABT‐431; DAS‐431), a Prodrug of the Dopamine D1Receptor Agonist, A‐86929: Preclinical Pharmacology and Clinical Data (2001)

Adrogolide (ABT-431; DAS-431) is a chemically stable prodrug that is converted rapidly (<1 min) in plasma to A-86929, a full agonist at dopamine D1 receptors. In in vitro functional assays, A-86929 is over 400 times more selective for dopamine D1 than D2 receptors. In rats with a unilateral loss of striatal dopamine, A-86929 produces contralateral rotations that are inhibited by dopamine D1 but not by dopamine D2 receptor antagonists. Adrogolide improves behavioral disability and locomotor activity scores in MPTP-lesioned marmosets, a model of Parkinson's disease (PD), and shows no tolerance upon repeated dosing for 28 days. In PD patients, intravenous (i.v.) adrogolide has antiparkinson efficacy equivalent to that of L-DOPA with a tendency towards a reduced liability to induce dyskinesia. The adverse events associated with its use were of mild-to-moderate severity and included injection site reaction, asthenia, headache, nausea, vomiting, postural hypotension, vasodilitation, and dizziness. Adrogolide can also attenuate the ability of cocaine to induce cocaine-seeking behavior and does not itself induce cocaine-seeking behavior in a rodent model of cocaine craving and relapse. In human cocaine abusers, i.v. adrogolide reduces cocaine craving and other cocaine-induced subjective effects. The results of animal abuse liability studies indicate that adrogolide is unlikely to have abuse potential in man. Adrogolide has also been reported to reverse haloperidol-induced cognitive deficits in monkeys, suggesting that it may be an effective treatment for the cognitive dysfunction associated with aging and disease. Adrogolide undergoes a high hepatic "first-pass" metabolism in man after oral dosing and, as a result, has a low oral bioavailability (approximately 4%). This limitation may potentially be circumvented by oral inhalation formulations for intrapulmonary delivery that greatly increase the bioavailability of adrogolide. As the first full dopamine D1 receptor agonist to show efficacy in PD patients and to reduce the craving and subjective effects of cocaine in cocaine abusers, adrogolide represents an important tool in understanding the pharmacotherapeutic potential of dopamine D1 receptor agonists.
INTRODUCTION TO ALGEBRAIC AND ABELIAN FUNCTIONS (1984)

By (Graduate Texts in Mathematics, 89) S. Lang: pp. 169. DM.82.-; US$32.80. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1982 (2nd edition).)
Incidence, outcomes and characteristics of rearrest after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (2014)

Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) results in nearly 350,000 deaths in the United States annually. Survival after OHCA is dismal, with regional estimates suggesting an overall case fatality rate of between 92% and 96%. High mortality following OHCA persists despite advances in resuscitation methodology that result in the successful resuscitation of a substantial fraction of patients (~40%). It is known that some patients experience another OHCA after resuscitation. This secondary OHCA, called rearrest, has not been extensively characterized, but it is known that rearrest correlates with poor OHCA survival prognosis after OHCA. Further understanding of rearrest may enable its prevention and development of optimal treatment strategies, potentially increasing survival after OHCA. Utilizing data from the OHCA surveillance program of the Resuscitation Outcomes Consortium, this dissertation addresses the need for further characterization of rearrest, focusing on patient, treatment, and electrocardiographic characteristics. The results of this study indicate several characteristics that distinguish cases with and without rearrest. Of these, median income and electrocardiographic characteristics derived from the QT-interval were the most robustly associated with rearrest case status. Time-to-rearrest was correlated with rearrest event number, presenting OHCA electrocardiogram rhythm, and when measured over the first 5-minutes following resuscitation in patients with rearrest, standard deviation of heart rate. While the characterization of rearrest cases was comprehensively reported with the available data in this study, limited inference could be drawn regarding the prediction and prevention of rearrest due to a lack of patient history data and a large amount of missing electrocardiographic data. Still, this study lays down a clear path to future research, indicating promising directions for further filling in the knowledge gaps necessary to increase survival after OHCA. The public health significance of this work is rooted in the identification and characterization of an important determinant of a major source of mortality in the developed world, OHCA. The findings of this study provide a novel basis for further investigations aiming to save some of the hundreds of thousands of lives that are claimed by OHCA each year, potentially through public health interventions executed through emergency medical services.
Leveraging hardware message passing for efficient thread synchronization (2014)

As the level of parallelism in manycore processors keeps increasing, providing efficient mechanisms for thread synchronization in concurrent programs is becoming a major concern. On cache-coherent shared-memory processors, synchronization efficiency is ultimately limited by the performance of the underlying cache coherence protocol. This paper studies how hardware support for message passing can improve synchronization performance. Considering the ubiquitous problem of mutual exclusion, we adapt two state-of-the-art solutions used on shared-memory processors, namely the server approach and the combining approach, to leverage the potential of hardware message passing. We propose HybComb, a novel combining algorithm that uses both message passing and shared memory features of emerging hybrid processors. We also introduce MP-Server, a straightforward adaptation of the server approach to hardware message passing. Evaluation on Tilera's TILE-Gx processor shows that MP-Server can execute contended critical sections with unprecedented throughput, as stalls related to cache coherence are removed from the critical path. HybComb can achieve comparable performance, while avoiding the need to dedicate server cores. Consequently, our queue and stack implementations, based on MP-Server and HybComb, largely outperform their most efficient pure-shared-memory counterparts.
A design oriented study for 3R Orthogonal Manipulators With Geometric Simplifications (2007)

This paper proposes a method to calculate the largest Regular Dextrous Workspace (RDW) of some types of three-revolute orthogonal manipulators that have at least one of their DH parameters equal to zero. Then a new performance index based on the RDW is introduced, the isocontours of this index are plotted in the parameter space of the interesting types of manipulators and finally an inspection of the domains of the parameter spaces is conducted in order to identify the better manipulator architectures. The RDW is a part of the workspace whose shape is regular (cube, cylinder) and the performances (conditioning index) are bounded inside. The groups of 3R orthogonal manipulators studied have interesting kinematic properties such as, a well-connected workspace that is fully reachable with four inverse kinematic solutions and that does not contain any void. This study is of high interest for the design of alternative manipulator geometries.
Sample-Optimal Average-Case Sparse Fourier Transform in Two Dimensions (2013)

We present the first sample-optimal sublinear time algorithms for the sparse Discrete Fourier Transform over a two-dimensional sqrt{n} x sqrt{n} grid. Our algorithms are analyzed for /average case/ signals. For signals whose spectrum is exactly sparse, our algorithms use O(k) samples and run in O(k log k) time, where k is the expected sparsity of the signal. For signals whose spectrum is approximately sparse, our algorithm uses O(k log n) samples and runs in O(k log^2 n) time; the latter algorithm works for k=Theta(sqrt{n}). The number of samples used by our algorithms matches the known lower bounds for the respective signal models. By a known reduction, our algorithms give similar results for the one-dimensional sparse Discrete Fourier Transform when n is a power of a small composite number (e.g., n = 6^t).
Solubility of solid aromatic isomers in carbon dioxide (1985)

ADVERTISEMENT RETURN TO ISSUEPREVArticleNEXTSolubility of solid aromatic isomers in carbon dioxideVal J. Krukonis and Ronald T. KurnikCite this: J. Chem. Eng. Data 1985, 30, 3, 247–249Publication Date (Print):July 1, 1985Publication History Published online1 May 2002Published inissue 1 July 1985https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/je00041a002https://doi.org/10.1021/je00041a002research-articleACS PublicationsRequest reuse permissionsArticle Views192Altmetric-Citations47LEARN 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
Luminescence of Europium(III) and Terbium(III) Complexes Incorporated in Poly(Vinyl Pyrrolidone) Matrix (2001)

Lanthanide complexes of europium and terbium ions with hydrogen phthalate [Eu(Hphth)3 and Tb(Hphth)3, respectively, Hphth = hydrogen phthalate] were incorporated into poly(vinyl pyrrolidone) (PVP) matrix. Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) results showed that the lanthanide complexes, with a mean diameter about 8.0 nm, were dispersed homogeneously in the PVP matrix. The excitation of the Ln(Hphth)3-PVP system by UV light resulted in a ligand-to-metal energy transfer and the emission spectra of the complexes displayed characteristic luminescence of the central ions. PVP significantly affected the strength of the hypersensitive transitions (5D0 → 7F2 for Eu3+, and 5D4 → 7F5 for Tb3+) of the complexes. For the mixed complexes containing both Eu3+ and Tb3+ as central ions, the luminescent intensity was strongly dependent upon the ratio of the lanthanide ions. Trace amount of Eu3+ quenched the luminescence of the Tb3+, whereas the presence of Tb3+ enhanced the luminescence of the Eu3+, thus demonstrating an important feature of energy transfer from terbium to europium in the mixed complexes.
Study of the Polymer Length Dependence of the Single Chain Transition Temperature in Syndiotactic Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) Oligomers in Water (2012)

Aqueous solutions of poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) (PNIPAM) exhibit a temperature responsive change in conformation. When the temperature is increased, the polymer transitions from an extended coil conformation to a collapsed structure. We performed molecular dynamics simulations of aqueous solutions of single chain, syndiotactic PNIPAM oligomers over a wide range of temperatures and varying degrees of polymerization to elucidate the effect of oligomer length on the single chain transition temperature, T1. We have reproduced recent measurements of the transition temperature increasing with decreasing oligomer chain length. Examination of the chain structure reveals that conformations above T1 bend to bring hydrophobic segments together to shield them from the water. The constraints of the dihedral dynamics require elevated temperatures for shorter chains to bend sharply enough in order to undergo the transition. This result is confirmed by calculations of the solvent accessible surface area, which shows an increase in shielding of the hydrophobic groups with increasing oligomer length above T1.