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The design process for a CSCW research lab-the Hohenheim CATeam Room example (2002)

The design of an environment that supports computer aided meetings of teams requires a multidisciplinary cooperation between specialists in the field of CSCW and in conference room and furniture design in order to master all requirements of such an environment. With this in mind, the paper describes the design process and the experiences gained while designing the Hohenheim CATeam Room. This room offers a computer supported meeting environment. In an iterative process of defining the CATeam Room requirements and developing design alternatives, a round room and conference table design were found to be most useful for the given requirements.< <ETX xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">&gt;</ETX>
Corrosión study of the passive film of amorphous Fe-Gr-Ni-(Si, P, B) alloys (1996)

[EN] Amorphous Fe62CrioNÍ8X2o (X = P, B, Si) alloys in O.OIM HCl solution have been investigated by&#13;\nmeans of standard electrochemical measurements in order to evalúate their corrosión resistance. The&#13;\nstudy reveáis that the best corrosión behaviour is given by the Si containing amorphous alloy. X-ray&#13;\nphotoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and Auger electrón spectroscopy (AJES) have been employed to&#13;\nstudy the composition of the passive layers, formed on the surface of the different amorphous alloys.&#13;\nThe results on Fe52CrioNÍ8SÍ2o show that a protective passive film, mainly consisting of oxidized&#13;\nchromium, greatly enhances its corrosión resistance.
The recovery of highly purified biopharmaceuticals from perfusion cell culture bioreactors. (1989)

The impact of continuous perfusion cell culture technology on production of one and two chain human rtPA, as well as monoclonal IgG and IgM, will be reviewed. Perfusion as compared to batch systems improve the quality of the product in the conditioned media in terms of biological activity and structural integrity. This significantly increases downstream recovery and daily production output of final purified material. These findings are a consequence of the ability of perfusion technology to 1) maintain cells intact at high cell density; 2) effectively reduce serum content to approximate serum free conditions; and 3) minimize residency time of labile product within the 37 degrees C environment of the bioreactor.
In search of a noncontact underwater acoustic source (2003)

The history of studies of the photoacoustic effect in liquids and its applications to the development of a “virtual” source of underwater acoustic signals is briefly reviewed. The problem of the efficiency of the photoacoustic conversion is considered. The modes of laser generation of sound, i.e., the thermooptical, nonlinear surface, and nonlinear bulk modes of operation, are discussed taking into account the real features of the marine environment, the most important of them being the surface waves. A review of the publications concerned with the problem of a moving photoacoustic source is presented. Advances in the photoacoustic underwater remote sensing technology are described.
PIGLeT: Language Grounding Through Neuro-Symbolic Interaction in a 3D World (2021)

Rowan Zellers, Ari Holtzman, Matthew Peters, Roozbeh Mottaghi, Aniruddha Kembhavi, Ali Farhadi, Yejin Choi. Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 1: Long Papers). 2021.
Apprentissage de modèles visuels pour la détection de personnes et la prédiction d’actions (2018)

In this thesis, we address person detection and action prediction in visual data. We develop models that learn representations for visual data and the structure in the output space while making use of contextual cues and temporal consistency. We also propose a predictive model to anticipate person’s attention in given static scenes.In the first part of the thesis, we explores the strong association between scene categories and actions. Based on that understanding, we formulate a new task of predicting human actions in static scenes. To train and evaluate the proposed model, we collect a new dataset of scene-action associations, named SUN Action dataset. The success of this task enables potential applications such as affordance geo-localization.The second part of the thesis is focused on person and generic object detection in videos. First, we construct contextual models to enhance person detection in individual frames. We train and evaluate our method on our new HollywoodHeads dataset with annotated human heads in movies. Our models consistently improve detection performance over baseline detectors. Second, we introduce a novel convolutional neural network architecture operating on short clips of frames to leverage temporal consistency and to learn spatio-temporal representations. By empirical experiments, we demonstrate the benefit of our spatio-temporal representations for object detection in videos. Last, we learn video representations that incorporate multiscale information on coarse time scales and design practical frameworks that achieve accuracy, efficiency and predictive power. Compared to per-frame features, our video representations show best detection improvement on frames degraded by fast motions.
Convergent 18 F Radiosynthesis (2012)

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Regulation of gene expression by the BLM helicase correlates with the presence of G-quadruplex DNA motifs (2014)

Bloom syndrome is a rare autosomal recessive disorder characterized by genetic instability and cancer predisposition, and caused by mutations in the gene encoding the Bloom syndrome, RecQ helicase-like (BLM) protein. To determine whether altered gene expression might be responsible for pathological features of Bloom syndrome, we analyzed mRNA and microRNA (miRNA) expression in fibroblasts from individuals with Bloom syndrome and in BLM-depleted control fibroblasts. We identified mRNA and miRNA expression differences in Bloom syndrome patient and BLM-depleted cells. Differentially expressed mRNAs are connected with cell proliferation, survival, and molecular mechanisms of cancer, and differentially expressed miRNAs target genes involved in cancer and in immune function. These and additional altered functions or pathways may contribute to the proportional dwarfism, elevated cancer risk, immune dysfunction, and other features observed in Bloom syndrome individuals. BLM binds to G-quadruplex (G4) DNA, and G4 motifs were enriched at transcription start sites (TSS) and especially within first introns (false discovery rate ≤ 0.001) of differentially expressed mRNAs in Bloom syndrome compared with normal cells, suggesting that G-quadruplex structures formed at these motifs are physiologic targets for BLM. These results identify a network of mRNAs and miRNAs that may drive the pathogenesis of Bloom syndrome.
PSMA targeted SPECT imaging biomarker to detect local and metastatic prostate cancer (PCa): Phase I studies with 99mTc-MIP-1404 (2013)

Leaf-cutting ants rear clonal fungi for food and transmit the fungi from mother to daughter colonies so that symbiont mixing and conflict, which result from competition between genetically different clones, are avoided. Here we show that despite millions of years of predominantly vertical transmission, the domesticated fungi actively reject mycelial fragments from neighboring colonies, and that the strength of these reactions are in proportion to the overall genetic difference between these symbionts. Fungal incompatibility compounds remain intact during ant digestion, so that fecal droplets, which are used for manuring newly grown fungus, elicit similar hostile reactions when applied to symbionts from other colonies. Symbiont control over new mycelial growth by manurial imprinting prevents the rearing of multiple crops in fungus gardens belonging to the same colony.
ChemInform Abstract: Rapid and Complete Hydrodechlorination of 2,4‐Dichlorophenoxyacetic Acid Catalyzed by Pd/TiO2 with H2 in Deionized Water. (2001)

Abstract ChemInform is a weekly Abstracting Service, delivering concise information at a glance that was extracted from about 100 leading journals. To access a ChemInform Abstract of an article which was published elsewhere, please select a “Full Text” option. The original article is trackable via the “References” option.
Power Consumption Saving of Chiller Water System for Semiconductor Factory in Taiwan (2011)

Recently, the semiconductor manufacturing industry has exhibited not only fast growth, but intense power consumption. Consequently, reducing power consumption is critical for running reliability. A view of literature reveals that the power consumption of facility system is 56.6 % in the fabs. Among all facility systems, chiller plants are the largest energy users, consuming 27.2 % of the total power consumption. Therefore, saving power consumption for chiller plants involves a considerable economic benefit. In addition, cooling the water temperature further improves the efficiency of chillers. Hence, this report analyzes the optimal temperature between the chiller and cooling tower. Currently, controlling the chiller and cooling tower are separate processes, though, in fact, they should not be. This is because the water cooling temperature affects the efficiency of the chiller. Each reduced degree of the chiller condenser temperature reduces the electrical power by approximately 2 % in the cooling tower, in contrast to the chiller. Therefore, the optimal water cooling water temperature must be analyzed. The analysis method in this report is linear regression. First, determine the equations of power consumption for the chiller and cooling tower with variables representing the water cooling temperature, water supply temperature of the chiller, and outdoor loading and wet-bulb temperatures. Second, add the coefficient of the same variable to obtain the total power consumption equation for the chiller and cooling tower. The result shows the relationships of power consumption with water cooling temperature under identical conditions of the water cooling temperature, water supply temperature of chiller, and outdoor loading and wet-bulb temperatures. Finally, use the differential method to determine the optimal water cooling temperature.
High‐resolution isotopic monitoring of cave air CO 2 (2017)

IRIS allows identification and tracking of processes at various timescales ranging from transient visitor impact on the cave atmosphere to seasonal trends in cave ventilation. However, the need for an uninterrupted power supply (110/220 V AC) and the relatively large dimensions of the equipment (698 × 1092 × 704 mm, 80 kg) limit the number of caves where deployment of the instrument is feasible. Copyright © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Social impairment in schizophrenia revealed by Autism-Spectrum Quotient correlated with gray matter reduction (2011)

One of the difficulties facing schizophrenia patients is a failure to construct appropriate relationships with others in social situations. This impairment of social cognition is also found in autism-spectrum disorder (ASD). Considering such commonality between the two disorders, in this study we adopted the Autism-Spectrum Quotient (AQ) score to assess autistic traits, and explored the association between such traits and gray matter (GM) alterations of the brain in schizophrenia. Twenty schizophrenia patients and 25 healthy controls underwent structural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and AQ was assessed, comprising five subscales measuring different facets of autistic traits. Voxel-based morphometry (VBM) was applied to investigate the correlation between these AQ scores and regional GM alterations. Schizophrenia patients showed significantly higher scores in total AQ, and in four of the five subscales, compared to healthy controls. The total AQ score in schizophrenia showed significant negative correlation with GM volume reduction in the cortical area surrounding the left superior temporal sulcus (STS), which is considered to be important in social perception. Our findings suggest a possible neuroanatomical basis of autistic tendencies in schizophrenia.
Sociophonetic aspects of creaky voice (1989)

In a wide-reaching study of creaky voice in British English (Henton and Bladon, 1988) it was indicated that use of creaky voice varied significantly according to sex and accent of speakers, as well as with utterance position. Specifically, males used between three and ten times as much creaky voice as did females. Accentual differences were also found: Speakers of Modified Northern were more polarized in the overall amounts of creak used than were RP speakers. Individual speakers varied considerably in their use of creak, with a number of males being persistent creakers. In addition, creaky voice was shown to be an “end-of-utterance” phenomenon, used by females and males in a demarcative function. Further research using data from American English and from French indicates that creaky voice may be employed as a sociophonetic marker across cultures. Indeed, its role as a marker of male speech may be enhanced in certain cultures where gender-role expectations are more pronounced. The demarcative intonational function is observed again cross linguistically. This phenomenon, coupled with Hyman's (1988) recent results for West African languages, may make intonational creaky voice a candidate for a phonetic universal.
A Parallel Algorithm for Connected Component Labelling of Gray-scale Images on Homogeneous Multicore Architectures (2010)

Connected component labelling is an essential step in image processing. We provide a parallel version of Suzuki's sequential connected component algorithm in order to speed up the labelling process. Also, we modify the algorithm to enable labelling gray-scale images. Due to the data dependencies in the algorithm we used a method similar to pipeline to exploit parallelism. The parallel algorithm method achieved a speedup of 2.5 for image size of 256 × 256 pixels using 4 processing threads.
Ultralong Spin Lifetime in Light Alkali Atom Doped Graphene (2020)

Today's great challenges of energy and informational technologies are addressed with a singular compound, Li- and Na-doped few-layer graphene. All that is impossible for graphite (homogeneous and high-level Na doping) and unstable for single-layer graphene works very well for this structure. The transformation of the Raman G line to a Fano line shape and the emergence of strong, metallic-like electron spin resonance (ESR) modes attest the high level of graphene doping in liquid ammonia for both kinds of alkali atoms. The spin-relaxation time in our materials, deduced from the ESR line width, is 6-8 ns, which is comparable to the longest values found in spin-transport experiments on ultrahigh-mobility graphene flakes. This could qualify our material as a promising candidate in spintronics devices. On the other hand, the successful sodium doping, this being a highly abundant metal, could be an encouraging alternative to lithium batteries.
High‐Efficiency White Organic Light‐Emitting Diodes Based on a Blue Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescent Emitter Combined with Green and Red Fluorescent Emitters (2015)

A new device architecture for highly efficient white organic light-emitting diodes is proposed, using a molecule exhibiting blue thermally activated delayed fluorescence as a common source of singlet excitons for molecules emitting red and green light based on conventional fluorescence. The device, with an optimum combination of materials, shows a maximum external quantum efficiency of over 12% without using phosphorescent emitters.
Effect of Load Level on the Performance of a Dual Fuel Compression Ignition Engine Operating on Syngas Fuels With Varying H2/CO Content (2011)

Syngas, an environmentally friendly alternative gaseous fuel for internal combustion engine operation, mainly consists of carbon monoxide (CO) and hydrogen (H2). It can substitute fossil diesel oil in a compression ignition diesel engine through dual fuel operation route. In the present investigation, experiments were conducted in a constant speed single cylinder direct injection diesel engine fuelled with syngas-diesel in a dual fuel operation mode. The main contribution of this study is to introduce the new synthetic gaseous fuel (syngas) including the possible use of CO gas, an alternative diesel engine fuel. In this work, four different H2 and CO compositions of syngas were chosen for dual fuel study under different engine loading levels. Keeping the same power output at the corresponding tested loads, the engine performance of dual fuel operations were compared to that of diesel mode for the entire load range. The maximum diesel replacement in the engine was found to be 72.3% for 100% H2 fuel. This amount replacement rate was reduced for the low energetic lower H2 content fuels. The brake thermal efficiency was always found highest (about 21%) in the case of diesel mode operation. However, the 100% H2 syngas showed a comparative performance level with diesel mode at the expense of higher NOx emissions. At 80% engine load, the brake thermal efficiency was found to be 15.7% for 100% CO syngas. This value increased to 16.1%, 18.3% and 19.8% when the 100% CO syngas composition was replaced by H2 contents of 50%, 75% and 100%, respectively. At part loads (i.e., at 20% and 40%), dual fuel mode resulted a poor performance including higher emission levels. In contrast, at higher loads, syngas fuels showed a good competitive performance to diesel mode. At all the tested loads, the NOx emission was observed highest for 100% H2 syngas as compared to other fuel conditions, and a maximum of 240 ppm was found at 100% load. However, when the CO fractions of 25%, 50% and 100%, were substituted to hydrogen fuel, the emission levels got reduced to 175 ppm, 127 ppm, and 114 ppm, respectively. Further, higher CO and HC emission levels were recorded for 25%, 50%, and 100% CO fraction syngas fuels due to their CO content. Ignition delay was found to increase for the dual fuel operation as compared to diesel mode, and also it seemed to be still longer for higher H2 content syngas fuels. The peak pressure and maximum rate of pressure rise were found to decrease for all the cases of dual fuel operation, except for 100% H2 syngas (beyond 60% load). The reduction in peak pressure resulted a rise in the exhaust gas temperature at all loads under dual fuel operation. The present investigation provides some useful experimental data which can be applied to the possible existing engine parameters modifications to produce a competitive syngas dual fuel performance at all the loading operations.
HyScale: Hybrid and Network Scaling of Dockerized Microservices in Cloud Data Centres (2019)

When designing modern software, care must be taken to allow for applications to scale based on the demands of its users while still accommodating flexibility in development. Recently, microservices architectures have garnered the attention of many organizations-providing higher levels of scalability, availability, and fault isolation. Many organizations choose to host their microservices architectures in cloud data centres to offset costs. Incidentally, data centres become over-encumbered during peak usage hours and underutilized during off-peak hours. Traditional microservice scaling methods perform either horizontal or vertical scaling exclusively. When used in combination, however, these methods offer complementary benefits and compensate for each other's deficiencies. To leverage the high availability of horizontal scaling and the fine-grained resource control of vertical scaling, we developed two novel hybrid autoscaling algorithms and a dedicated network scaling algorithm and benchmarked them against Google's popular Kubernetes horizontal autoscaling algorithm. Results indicated up to 1.49x speedups in response times for our hybrid algorithms, and 1.69x speedups for our network algorithm under high-burst network loads.
Predictors of residual viremia in patients on long-term suppressive antiretroviral therapy (2020)

HIV-1-infected individuals with plasma RNA <50 copies/mL on antiretroviral therapy (ART) may have residual, low-level viremia detectable by PCR assays which can detect a single copy of viral RNA (single-copy assay, SCA). The clinical predictors of residual viremia in patients on long-term suppressive ART are incompletely understood.
Tech Report: Fly-by-Logic: Control of Multi-Drone Fleets with Temporal Logic Objectives (2018)

The problem of safe planning and control for multi- drone systems across a variety of missions is of critical importance, as the scope of tasks assigned to such systems increases. In this paper, we present an approach to solve this problem for multi-quadrotor missions. Given a mission expressed in Signal Temporal Logic (STL), our controller maximizes robustness to generate trajectories for the quadrotors that satisfy the STL specification in continuous-time. We also show that the constraints on our optimization guarantees that these trajectories can be tracked nearly perfectly by lower level off-the-shelf position and attitude controllers. Our approach avoids the oversimplifying abstractions found in many planning methods, while retaining the expressiveness of missions encoded in STL allowing us to handle complex spatial, temporal and reactive requirements. Through experiments, both in simulation and on actual quadrotors, we show the performance, scalability and real-time applicability of our method.
Tumor cell-intrinsic programmed death protein 1 expression and induction in human cancer cell lines (2018)

Abstract The programmed death protein 1 (PD-1) and ligand (PD-L1) axis inhibits T cell activation and reduces anti-tumor immunity. Most studies of the PD-1/PD-L1 axis test extrinsic, immune-dependent effects. However, tumor cell-intrinsic PD-L1 regulates immune-independent tumor mTOR signals, autophagy, and tumor initiating cell generation. Melanoma cell-intrinsic PD-1 regulates melanoma growth and mTOR. We tested PD-1 expression and induction in multiple human tumor cell lines. We detected PD-1 in human cell lines in vitro from ES2 ovarian cancer, VMM122 melanoma, and RT4 bladder cancer by flow cytometry, Western blot and RT-PCR. All lines were negative for the other PD-L1 receptor, CD80, by flow cytometry. Incubating lines with IFNα or IFNγ for 48 hours further augmented PD-1 expression as detected by flow, Western blot and RT-PCR. αPD-1 antibody (50 μg/ml) reduced proliferation of RT4 bladder cancer cells in vitro, demonstrating a direct PD-1 signal effect in these cells, and αPD-L1 similarly reduced in vitro proliferation. Interestingly, anti-PD-1 effects on reducing proliferation were similar: 41.5% reduction; p&amp;lt;0.0001. We used CRISPR/Cas9 to generate PD-L1KO RT4 cells. αPD-L1 did not reduce in vitro proliferation as expected, but unexpectedly, αPD-1 also had no anti-proliferative effect on PD-L1KO RT4 cells, suggesting a PD-L1/PD-1 interaction. In murine B16 melanoma, we generated PD-L1KO and PD-1KO cells using CRISPR/Cas9. Cell-intrinsic PD-L1 and PD-1 downregulate chemokine production. Among chemokines analyzed, PD-L1 suppressed CCL2 and CCL5, PD-1 suppressed CCL4 and CCL7, and both suppressed CCL3 and CXCL2. Understanding intrinsic PD-1 and PD-L1 effects on tumor cells can be exploited to improve cancer immunotherapy