gebhart/patrepeval huggingface dataset:
A Comparison Of Three Different Dry DepositionVelocities In STEM-II Applied Around As PontesPower Plant (2000)

STEM-II model (Carmichael et al, 1984) has been applied around As Pontes Power Plant to estimate dry deposition velocities of different gas and particulate pollutants (SO], NO], SO/), covering a 7-days period. This environment is characterised by complex terrain and sea influence, with changing weather covering different dispersion conditions and precipitation rates. In order to estimate these dry deposition velocities, three different methods were applied in the STEM-II model: (a) the original dry deposition velocities included in this model (version of 1997), as prescribed values, independently of the atmospheric conditions and land use; (b) dry deposition parameterisations proposed by Voldner et al. (1986); and, (b) Big-Leaf method, proposed by Wesely (1989), included in the RADM model, with a specific solution for dry deposition of particulate sulphate proposed by Walcek (1985). Results show that the original STEM-II velocities provide higher deposition fluxes of sulphur and nitrogen at short distance than the Big-Leaf model, but they could underestimate them at long distance. Air Pollution VIII, C.A. Brebbia, H. Power & J.W.S Longhurst (Editors) © 2000 WIT Press, www.witpress.com, ISBN 1-85312-822-8
Enhancing plasticity in central networks improves motor and sensory recovery after nerve damage (2019)

Nerve damage can cause chronic, debilitating problems including loss of motor control and paresthesia, and generates maladaptive neuroplasticity as central networks attempt to compensate for the loss of peripheral connectivity. However, it remains unclear if this is a critical feature responsible for the expression of symptoms. Here, we use brief bursts of closed-loop vagus nerve stimulation (CL-VNS) delivered during rehabilitation to reverse the aberrant central plasticity resulting from forelimb nerve transection. CL-VNS therapy drives extensive synaptic reorganization in central networks paralleled by improved sensorimotor recovery without any observable changes in the nerve or muscle. Depleting cortical acetylcholine blocks the plasticity-enhancing effects of CL-VNS and consequently eliminates recovery, indicating a critical role for brain circuits in recovery. These findings demonstrate that manipulations to enhance central plasticity can improve sensorimotor recovery and define CL-VNS as a readily translatable therapy to restore function after nerve damage.
Thoracolumbar Spine Fractures (1993)

Part 1 Basic sciences: organogenesis and development of the thoracic, lumbar and sacral spine anatomy of the thoracolumbar and sacral spine with special consideration for implant insertion physiology and pathophysiology of the neural elements biomechanics of the normal thoracolumbar spine and their applications to fractures epidemiology of traumatic spinal column and cord injuries descriptive epidemiology of traumatic spinal cord injury in New York State. Part 2 Imaging and diagnostic modalities: imaging of thoracic and lumbar vertebral fractures electrophysiology intra-operative ultrasonography in spinal trauma classification of thoracolumbar spine fractures neurologic injuries - syndromes, diagnosis and prognosis intensive care of the spinal cord injured patient early management of spinal cord injury orthopaedic principles of surgical management specific injuries and management conservative management of burst fractures low lumbar (L3-L4-L5) burst fractures considerations in management of facet joint injuries sacral fracture - diagnosis and management. Part 3 Techniques and spinal instrumentation: anterior techniques of decompression and fixation anterior decompression and instrumentation in the management of thoracolumbar injuries, with special reference to burst fractures posterior instrumentation in the management of thoracolumbar injuries. Part 4 Specific problems related to age and aetiology: thoracic and lumbar spine injuries in children spinal deformities secondary to traumatic lesions involving the spine and spinal cord in children thoracolumbar fractures in osteoporosis surgical management of primary and secondary bone tumours of the thoracolumbar spine fractures of the spine in ankylosing spondylitis. Part 5 Management of complications and rehabilitation: systemic complications of spinal cord injuries post-traumatic syringomyelia - a general review post-traumatic syringomyelia - surgical management and case reports late deformities rehabilitation principles in the management of thoracolumbar spine fractures.
Review on Pervaporation: Theory, Membrane Performance, and Application to Intensification of Esterification Reaction (2015)

The esterification reaction is reversible and has low yield. In order to increase the yield of reaction, it is required to simultaneously remove the product of reaction. For this membranes are the viable approach. Pervaporation membranes have success in removal of components in dilute forms. Membrane performance is represented in terms of flux, sorption coefficient, separation factor, and permeance. These factors are related to the thickness of membrane, temperature, and feed concentration. Higher flux is observed at lower membrane thickness and higher feed concentration of water and lower selectivity is observed at higher temperatures due to increased free volume, lower viscosity, and higher feed side pressure. Different factors affect the pervaporation aided esterification reactor setup such as effect of initial molar ratios of the reactants, effect of catalyst concentration, effect of membrane area, and effect of temperature. Large membrane size could provide higher surface for the transfer of acid, though the challenges of membrane rupture do surround the studies. In the present review work, we tried to collaborate the works in totality of the pervaporation design starting from the membrane behavior to the process behavior. Different prospective fields are also explored which need investigation.
Measurement of hepatic functional mass by means of 13C-methacetin and 13C-phenylalanine breath tests in chronic liver disease: Comparison with Child-Pugh score and serum bile acid levels (2005)

Methacetin breath test represents a safe and accurate diagnostic tool in the evaluation of hepatic functional mass in chronic liver disease patients.
Flight of the FALCON (ATM) (1993)

The fabric-based ATM oriented local connectivity (FALCON), an ATM-based customer premises network (CPN), is described. FALCON supports access using traditional local area networks (LANs) such as Ethernet and token rings and supports a LAN emulation mode for its native ATM interface. This service allows a set of terminals, workstations, and servers to connect to the switch-based network and to interact as if they were attached to a traditional LAN. FALCON's backbone structure is based exclusively on ATM technology, all following CCITT or industry standards wherever they apply. The FALCON control structure is outlined.< <ETX xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">&gt;</ETX>
Salpingectomy via Laparoseopy: A New Surgical Approach (1991)

This study presents 100 consecutive cases of total salpingectomy performed via laparoscopy for indications of ruptured or recurrent ectopic pregnancy, hydrosalpinges, torsion of the fallopian tube, hematosalpinges, or extensive adhesions. A multiple abdominal puncture approach was used, and salpingectomy was accomplished by electrosurgical coagulation and laser transection of the isthmus, mesosalpinx, and tubo-ovarian ligaments using the CO2 laser. The fallopian tubes were removed from the pelvic cavity through one of the suprapubic punctures. The mean duration of the procedure was 22 minutes, and the mean duration of hospitalization after surgery 7.4 hours. No major intraoperative or postoperative complications were encountered. Laparoscopic salpingectomy appears to be a safe and relatively simple procedure associated with the advantages of outpatient surgery.
Continuous-bed columns containing sol-gel bonded octadecylsilica for capillary liquid chromatography (2000)

Continuous-bed columns of 200 μm inner diameter containing sol–gel bonded small-pore (5 μm, 90 Å) and large-pore (5 μm, 1400 Å) octadecylsilica particles were prepared for capillary liquid chromatography using a sol–gel process. These columns were found to be mechanically strong and permeable. The back pressures per centimeter column bed for columns packed with the same particle size were nearly the same, regardless of the pore size. The large-pore and small-pore continuous-bed columns generated efficiencies of 1.16×105 and 0.57×105 plates per meter, respectively. Since conventional liquid chromatography packing materials were utilized to form the continuous-bed columns, selectivities similar to conventional liquid chromatography were obtained. The small-pore continuous-bed columns exhibited stronger retention than the large-pore continuous-bed columns because the small-pore particles possessed higher surface area and carbon load than the large-pore particles. The sol–gel bonded continuous-bed columns were inert to aromatic amines primarily due to the incorporation of a deactivation precursor in the sol–gel matrix. ©2000 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. J Micro Sep 12: 6–12, 2000
Computer-Aided Alignment of a Grazing Incidence Ring Resonator For a Visible Wavelength Free Electron Laser (1990)

Computer aided alignment schemes have recently received much attention in the literature. 1,2,3 At Rocketdyne, a computer-aided alignment system was developed to aid the alignment of Boeing's visible Free-Electron Laser (FEL). 4
Dental Data Mining: Potential Pitfalls and Practical Issues (2003)

Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD) have become popular buzzwords. But what exactly is data mining? What are its strengths and limitations? Classic regression, artificial neural network (ANN), and classification and regression tree (CART) models are common KDD tools. Some recent reports (e.g., Kattan et al., 1998) show that ANN and CART models can perform better than classic regression models: CART models excel at covariate interactions, while ANN models excel at nonlinear covariates. Model prediction performance is examined with the use of validation procedures and evaluating concordance, sensitivity, specificity, and likelihood ratio. To aid interpretation, various plots of predicted probabilities are utilized, such as lift charts, receiver operating characteristic curves, and cumulative captured-response plots. A dental caries study is used as an illustrative example. This paper compares the performance of logistic regression with KDD methods of CART and ANN in analyzing data from the Rochester caries study. With careful analysis, such as validation with sufficient sample size and the use of proper competitors, problems of naïve KDD analyses (Schwarzer et al., 2000) can be carefully avoided.
Focal plane wavefront sensing and control strategies for high-contrast imaging on the MagAO-X instrument (2018)

The Magellan extreme adaptive optics (MagAO-X) instrument is a new extreme adaptive optics (ExAO) system designed for operation in the visible to near-IR which will deliver high contrast-imaging capabilities. The main AO system will be driven by a pyramid wavefront sensor (PyWFS); however, to mitigate the impact of quasi-static and non-common path (NCP) aberrations, focal plane wavefront sensing (FPWFS) in the form of low-order wavefront sensing (LOWFS) and spatial linear dark field control (LDFC) will be employed behind a vector apodizing phase plate (vAPP) coronagraph using rejected starlight at an intermediate focal plane. These techniques will allow for continuous high-contrast imaging performance at the raw contrast level delivered by the vAPP coronagraph ( 6 x 10<sup>-5</sup>). We present simulation results for LOWFS and spatial LDFC with a vAPP coronagraph, as well as laboratory results for both algorithms implemented with a vAPP coronagraph at the University of Arizona Extreme Wavefront Control Lab.
Correction: Corrigendum: A novel transcription factor-like gene SbSDR1 acts as a molecular switch and confers salt and osmotic endurance to transgenic tobacco (2016)

An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via a link at the top of the paper.
Supplementary Data File 2 from GR and ER Coactivation Alters the Expression of Differentiation Genes and Associates with Improved ER<sup>+</sup> Breast Cancer Outcome (2023)

&lt;p&gt;Analyzed gene expression data for GR- and ER-bound genes&lt;/p&gt;
Acceleration of AES encryption on CUDA GPU (2012)

GPU exhibits the capability for applications with a high level of parallelism despite its low cost. The support of integer and logical instructions by the latest generation of GPUs enables us to implement cipher algorithms more easily. However, decisions such as parallel processing granularity and memory allocation impose a heavy burden on programmers. Therefore, this paper presents results of several experiments that were conducted to elucidate the relation between memory allocation styles of variables of AES and granularity as the parallelism exploited from AES encoding processes using CUDA with an NVIDIA GeForce GTX285 (Nvidia Corp.). Results of these experiments showed that the 16 bytes/thread granularity had the highest performance. It achieved approximately 35 Gbps throughput. It also exhibited differences of memory allocation and granularity effects around 2%–30% for performance in standard implementation. It shows that the decision of granularity and memory allocation is the most important factor for effective processing in AES encryption on GPU. Moreover, implementation with overlapping between processing and data transfer yielded 22.5 Gbps throughput including the data transfer time.
Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy for homeland defense (2004)

Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) is a spectroscopic technique that enables trace detection of analytes of relevance using fieldable equipment. SERS uses the enhanced Raman signals observed when an analyte adsorbs to a roughened metal substrate, generally gold, silver, or copper. Coupled to a microscope, single molecule detection has been demonstrated. With a fieldable instrument, enhancements of 108 compared to unenhanced Raman spectroscopy are expected, allowing trace detection in the field. Proper development of the metal substrate will optimize the sensitivity and selectivity towards the analytes of interest. In this presentation, we will discuss applications under development at EIC Laboratories that are of importance to Homeland Defense. We will review the capabilities of SERS to detect buried explosives, explosives associated with nuclear weaponry and chemicals involved in the nuclear enrichment process. We will discuss the detection of chemical and biological warfare agents in the water supply in research performed under the Joint Service Agent Water Monitor. We will demonstrate the current detection limits, the reproducibility of the signal, and results collected using actual chemical warfare agents, and show how the results can be extended to vapor detection. We will also discuss the current state-of-the art for fieldable instrumentation. The emphasis on portability and speed will be stressed; SERS acquisitions are restricted to 30 s or less.
Nonlocal van der Waals density functional made simple and efficient (2013)

We present a simple revision of the VV10 nonlocal density functional by Vydrov and Van Voorhis [J. Chem. Phys. 133, 244103 (2010)] for dispersion interactions. Unlike the original functional our modification allows nonlocal correlation energy and its derivatives to be efficiently evaluated in a plane wave framework along the lines pioneered by Rom\'an-P\'erez and Soler [Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 096102 (2009)]. Our revised functional maintains the outstanding precision of the original VV10 in noncovalently bound complexes and performs well in representative covalent, ionic, and metallic solids.
Multi‐crystalline Si solar cells with very fast deposited (180 nm/min) passivating hot‐wire CVD silicon nitride as antireflection coating (2007)

Abstract Hot‐wire chemical vapor deposition (HWCVD) is a promising technique for very fast deposition of high quality thin films. We developed processing conditions for device‐ quality silicon nitride (a‐SiN x :H) anti‐reflection coating (ARC) at high deposition rates of 3 nm/s. The HWCVD SiN x layers were deposited on multicrystalline silicon (mc‐Si) solar cells provided by IMEC and ECN Solar Energy. Reference cells were provided with optimized parallel plate PECVD SiN x and microwave PECVD SiN x respectively. The application of HWCVD SiN x on IMEC mc‐Si solar cells led to effective passivation, evidenced by a V oc of 606 mV and consistent IQE curves. For further optimization, series were made with HW SiN x (with different x) on mc‐Si solar cells from ECN Solar Energy. The best cell efficiencies were obtained for samples with a N/Si ratio of 1·2 and a high mass density of &gt;2·9 g/cm 3 . The best solar cells reached an efficiency of 15·7%, which is similar to the best reference cell, made from neighboring wafers, with microwave PECVD SiN x . The IQE measurements and high V oc values for these cells with HW SiN x demonstrate good bulk passivation. PC1D simulations confirm the excellent bulk‐ and surface‐passivation for HW SiN x coatings. Interesting is the significantly higher blue response for the cells with HWCVD SiN x when compared to the PECVD SiN x reference cells. This difference in blue response is caused by lower light absorption of the HWCVD layers (compared to microwave CVD; ECN) and better surface passivation (compared to parallel plate PECVD; IMEC). The application of HW SiN x as a passivating antireflection layer on mc‐Si solar cells leads to efficiencies comparable to those with optimized PECVD SiN x coatings, although HWCVD is performed at a much higher deposition rate. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley &amp; Sons, Ltd.
Star cluster dynamics in a laboratory: electrons in an ultracold plasma (2005)

Electrons in a spherical ultracold quasineutral plasma at temperature in the Kelvin range can be created by laser excitation of an ultra-cold laser cooled atomic cloud. The dynamical behavior of the electrons is similar to the one described by conventional models of stars clusters dynamics. The single mass component, the spherical symmetry and no stars evolution are here accurate assumptions. The analog of binary stars formations in the cluster case is three-body recombination in Rydberg atoms in the plasma case with the same Heggie's law: soft binaries get softer and hard binaries get harder. We demonstrate that the evolution of such an ultracold plasma is dominated by Fokker-Planck kinetics equations formally identical to the ones controlling the evolution of a stars cluster. The Virial theorem leads to a link between the plasma temperature and the ions and electrons numbers. The Fokker-Planck equation is approximate using gaseous and fluid models. We found that the electrons are in a Kramers-Michie-King's type quasi-equilibrium distribution as stars in clusters. Knowing the electron distribution and using forced fast electron extraction we are able to determine the plasma temperature knowing the trapping potential depth.
AFECS. multi-agent framework for experiment control systems (2008)

AFECS provides a group of specialized agents for agent management and coordination. These manager agents are responsible for creating and deploying agents on a platform, educating them (based on knowledge provided by the user), distributing them over the network, and recovering them in case of unsatisfactory behaviour. The efforts of these specialized agents ensure control system reliability and robustness.
Estimation of the surface gloss of dental nano composites as a function of color measuring geometry. (2012)

A strong correlation was found between deltaE*(SCE-SCI) and Ra results indicating the surface gloss of the tested composite resin materials after different curing and surface polishing methods. A three-factor interaction was found between curing conditions, surface polishing methods and resin composites (P<0.05) in deltaE*SCE-SCI and Ra results. Additionally, significant differences were found between composites and between polishing methods (P<0.05). Furthermore, there were significant differences between curing conditions in Ra results (P<0.05).
Incremental Learning Algorithm For Sound Event Detection (2020)

This paper presents a new learning strategy for the Sound Event Detection (SED) system to tackle the issues of i) knowledge migration from a pre-trained model to a new target model and ii) learning new sound events without forgetting the previously learned ones without re-training from scratch. In order to migrate the previously learned knowledge from the source model to the target one, a neural adapter is employed on the top of the source model. The source model and the target model are merged via this neural adapter layer. The neural adapter layer facilitates the target model to learn new sound events with minimal training data and maintaining the performance of the previously learned sound events similar to the source model. Our extensive analysis on the DCASE16 and US-SED dataset reveals the effectiveness of the proposed method in transferring knowledge between source and target models without introducing any performance degradation on the previously learned sound events while obtaining a competitive detection performance on the newly learned sound events.
[A case of tuberculosis of the breast--review of the literature published during the last 10 years in Japan]. (1995)

A 58-year-old woman, not having any history of pulmonary tuberculosis, was admitted to our hospital to examine a tender lump in her right breast. A breast echogram disclosed a well-defined hypoechoic mass lesion, indicating a pyogenic breast abscess. The patient underwent incision, drainage and resection of the tumor under local anesthesia. Histological findings of the resected tumor revealed epitheloid cell granulomas with caseous necrosis in mammary glands, suggesting tuberculosis of the breast. After operation, treatment with isoniazid, rifampisin and ethambutol hydrochloride was begun. After one year, she had complete healing without any indication of recurrence. During the last 10 years, 12 cases of tuberculosis of the breast have been reported. Their ages ranged from 28 to 84 years with an average of 42.8 years. Only one cases had a past history of tuberculosis and in the other cases tuberculosis of the breast was considered to be a primary disease. Axillary lymph-nodes involvement and formation of pyogenic breast abscess occurred in each 7 cases. Acid-fast bacilli were demonstrated in 25% of the reported cases. The histological findings of resected specimens and punch biopsy revealed epitheloid cell granulomas with caseous necrosis in 11 of 12 cases. Seven of 11 cases were treated with combination of surgery and antituberculous chemotherapy.