gebhart/patrepeval huggingface dataset:
Energy Efficient Iris Recognition With Graphics Processing Units (2016)

For the past 40 years, Moore's law has predicted the rapid growth of the computer industry. In the past few years, however, this growth has slowed for central processing units (CPUs). Instead, there has been a shift to multicore computing, specifically with the general purpose graphic processing units (GPUs). Conventional CPUs have between two and eight cores, but the GPUs can have hundreds, even thousands of cores. By parallelizing code, the computing power of these cores can be utilized to greatly accelerate the performance of certain algorithms. The GPUs, however, have been known to consume more power than the conventional processing units. While previous research has focused on the impact that the GPUs have on performance, there are much fewer studies on the impact of GPUs on energy consumption and efficiency. Some researchers have hypothesized that if the performance of an algorithm was sufficiently increased on a GPU, then the accelerated time would actually cause the GPU to consume less energy. For the first time to our knowledge, we study the energy efficiency of a GPU with an application to iris recognition. Using GPU-based code written in the C++ compatible compute unified device architecture language, energy consumption tests are performed on basic image processing techniques, including image inversion, thresholding, dilation, erosion, and memory/computationally intensive calculations, such as the template matching. We demonstrate that the portions of these algorithms implemented on the GPU reduce energy consumption by as much as 272 times.
Traffic Investigation and Control (1980)

This comprehensive nationally applicable book which was produced in an attempt to develop a single reference which covered subjects relative to traffic control and investigation, also explores some of the variables which have an impact on highway safety. The specific areas covered include the following: traffic supervision and the task of identifying overall problem areas and directing resources strategically to effectively remedy the situation; traffic records systems which involve the collection of historical data of traffic problems for assessment of overall cause and effect; psychology of enforcement tatics as these relate to the psychological factors and interactions that determine whether a traffic stop is a positive, neutral, or negative learning experience; traffic directing which emphasizes the practical aspect of uniform signals and gestures and flare patterns; traffic laws and their legitimate purpose of establishing standards of procedure to be followed by drivers in the operation of vehicles so as to promote the safe and orderly flow of traffic; traffic accident investigation and its importance in collecting and assimilating relevant information for complete analysis of traffic accident causes; special accident investigation problems which focus on critical issues in terms of method and evidence required for the establishment of traffic violations; and techniques of determining speed from skid marks.
ChemInform Abstract: Chirality Transfer in Au‐Catalyzed Cyclization Reactions of Monoallylic Diols: Selective Access to Specific Enantiomers Based on Olefin Geometry. (2011)

Abstract Treatment of either geometrical isomer of a chiral alcohol substrate under conditions A) affords the enantiomeric heterocyclic ring products with a high level of chirality transfer at the new asymmetric center.
Interleukin-2 and autologous lymphokine-activated killer cells in the treatment of malignant glioma (1986)

Nine patients with malignant glioma were treated with the lymphokine interleukin-2 (IL-2) or with lymphokine-activated killer (LAK) cells, and one patient received combination therapy with both LAK cells and IL-2. The LAK cells were generated by culturing recombinant IL-2 with peripheral blood lymphocytes obtained from brain-tumor patients. Escalating doses of LAK cells (10(8) to 10(10] or IL-2 (10(4) to 10(6) U) were administered intraoperatively by direct injection into the brain tissue surrounding the cavity left by debulking the tumor. There were no signs of systemic or neural toxicity following treatment. The selective killing of the tumor by LAK cells used for these treatments was demonstrated by a chromium release microcytotoxicity assay which showed in vitro the ability of the LAK cells to lyse glioma cells but not normal cells.
The Chemistry of Clay-Organic Reactions (2024)

The second edition of The Chemistry of Clay-Organic Reactions&nbsp;book provides a comprehensive and&nbsp;fully updated&nbsp;summary of the literature on the interactions of clay minerals with organic molecules, including reaction mechanisms and bonding modes together with their practical and industrial applications. The reader will gain an insight into the formation and properties of complexes between clay minerals and a variety of organic compounds and the use of such complexes as sorbents and carriers of organic pollutants, pesticides, dyes, and pharmaceuticals. KEY FEATURES An&nbsp;authoritative resource providing a detailed synthesis of published data on clay-organic complexes and reactions. Authored by a globally recognized expert in the field. Describes developments in the interactions of organic compounds with fibrous and short-range order clay minerals. This book is&nbsp;written&nbsp;for environmental and industrial chemists, organic geochemists, and soil scientists, and it will appeal to academics, researchers, industry professionals, and graduate students.
Novel dielectric elastomer sensors for the measurement of elevated pressure loads (2021)

A novel design for dielectric elastomer pressure sensors based on a capacitive measurement principle is introduced. Compared with easily compressible and highly sensitive dielectric elastomer sensors containing internal voids, the new sensors are compact and suitable for an elevated pressure range up to about 2 MPa. In these sensors, a dielectric elastomer film with several dielectric and electrode layers is covered on both surfaces by plates, which exhibit a pattern of openings. When the sensor film is compressed, the elastomer material can expand into these openings, which reduces the film thickness and increases the capacitance. The dielectric elastomer film consists of a soft silicone with carbon black particles in the electrode layers. With this design, the sensitivity of the pressure sensors in terms of the capacitance increase is enhanced in comparison with reference sensors without openings in the plates and the disturbing hysteresis of the capacitance vs. pressure curves is reduced. With FEM Multiphysics simulations, the capacitance enhancement upon pressure increase and the sensor deformation were calculated and compared with experimental data. In a systematic study, different parameters of the sensor design were varied, in order to evaluate their influence on the sensor performance. The results of this study are presented in the paper.
Structural principles of protein kinase regulation (2017)

Protein kinases, through their ability to alternate between catalytically active and inactive states, act as the molecular switches that regulate virtually every cellular process. Detailed studies of a subset of all protein kinases have uncovered diverse mechanisms of action and regulation despite a high degree of structural conservation within their catalytic domains. In the Sicheri lab, research efforts are focused on the structural and functional characterization of novel protein kinase regulatory mechanisms and mechanisms of dysregulation that give rise to disease. Recent advances in our progress will be presented.
Real-time simulation of multi-agent system for decentralized voltage regulation in distribution network (2011)

This paper presents a real-time simulation of multi-agent systems for decentralized secondary voltage control method in distribution network. The real-time simulation is performed by using an original platform called “Distributed Energy”. It combines two tools: The first one is a real-time digital simulator for electric power simulation. The second one is a java agent development framework used to program distributed systems and peer-to-peer applications. A decentralized secondary voltage control method is presented. The Multi-agent approach is used to share the voltage regulation effort and perform the coordination of distributed generators with flexibility and reliability in distribution network. Some real-time simulation results are presented.
A Balancing Act: MDA5 in Antiviral Immunity and Autoinflammation (2018)

Induction of interferons during viral infection is mediated by cellular proteins that recognise viral nucleic acids. MDA5 is one such sensor of virus presence and is activated by RNA. MDA5 is required for immunity against several classes of viruses, including picornaviruses. Recent work showed that mutations in the IFIH1 gene, encoding MDA5, lead to interferon-driven autoinflammatory diseases. Together with observations made in cancer cells, this suggests that MDA5 detects cellular RNAs in addition to viral RNAs. It is therefore important to understand the properties of the RNAs which activate MDA5. New data indicate that RNA length and secondary structure are features sensed by MDA5. We review these developments and discuss how MDA5 strikes a balance between antiviral immunity and autoinflammation.
Light field image compression using Versatile Video Coding (2019)

Light field cameras (or plenoptic cameras) made it possible to not only capture information about the light intensity in a scene, but also the light direction traveling in space. The resulting light field images added two extra spatial dimensions to conventional 2D images by capturing a scene from different angles. Light field technology is expected to deliver the needed six-degrees-of-freedom in virtual reality, and it is a cornerstone technology in holography. Due to the vast amount of data a light field needs to capture for representing high-resolution images, the need of new coding solutions has been considered. While coding standards aiming at plenoptic images are something to be expected in the near future, video coding standards are one of the most efficient solutions to compress light fields. There are countless scanning topologies for restructuring a light field image into a 2D video, and similarly, numerous prediction structures to be used for inter-prediction. In this paper, we provide a comparison of light field image coding performance using the three latest generations of video compression standards. Moreover, we assess a set of coding structures aiming for optimal compression rates as well as random access capabilities. Results show the necessary trade-off between bandwidth and potential random access between light field views at decoding level. Bitrate savings up to 25% were achieved at certain cases where the proposed prediction structure is used over a common scheme used in the literature. The findings of this overview provide a useful benchmark for future development of light field image coding solutions using video coding standards.
SiamMOT: Siamese Multi-Object Tracking (2021)

In this paper, we focus on improving online multi-object tracking (MOT). In particular, we introduce a region-based Siamese Multi-Object Tracking network, which we name SiamMOT. SiamMOT includes a motion model that estimates the instance’s movement between two frames such that detected instances are associated. To explore how the motion modelling affects its tracking capability, we present two variants of Siamese tracker, one that implicitly models motion and one that models it explicitly. We carry out extensive quantitative experiments on three different MOT datasets: MOT17, TAO-person and Caltech Roadside Pedestrians, showing the importance of motion modelling for MOT and the ability of SiamMOT to substantially outperform the state-of-the-art. Finally, SiamMOT also outperforms the winners of ACM MM’20 HiEve Grand Challenge on HiEve dataset. Moreover, SiamMOT is efficient, and it runs at 17 FPS for 720P videos on a single modern GPU.
Patients' Perceptions of Subcutaneous Insulin in the OPTIMIZE Study: A Multicenter Follow-Up Study (2008)

In this survey, the majority of patients reported that they wished there was another way to take SC insulin regardless of whether they were currently using SC insulin or not. Improving patients' perceptions and acceptance of insulin could encourage earlier insulin use and assist in achieving and maintaining long-term appropriate glycemic control.
Traffic Flow Prediction Based on Deep Neural Networks (2019)

Traffic forecasting plays an important role in intelligent transportation system. Accurate forecasting enables appropriate travel suggestions for commuters, and can further benefit transportation management. Recent research has led to significant progress in spatial-temporal feature extraction with the help of deep learning methods, such as graph convolutional neural network (GCN) and long short-term memory (LSTM) network. However, simply applying these methods to the specific situation of road network is not enough, hence in this paper, we propose an optimized spatial-temporal traffic flow prediction model. With line-graph transformation introduced into the construction of road traffic topology, the application of GCN has a more efficient and effective ability to learn spatial features in the road network compared to conventional convolutional neural network (CNN) operations; and the utilization of LSTM with weather and periodic features introduced as additional information makes the model more powerful in temporal feature extraction. Experimental results on real-world large-scale dataset verify the proposed models ability to capture spatial and temporal properties, showing the advantages of our model beyond several baseline models.
Conversion of henequen pulp to microbial biomass by submerged fermentation (1982)

Mexico has cellulosic by-products that could be developed as renewable food sources for animal consumption. Sugarcane bagasse and henequen pulp are the most important of these materials because they are abundant, cheap, renewable, and nontoxic, in addition to being underutilized. A significant research and development effort has centered on the production of single-cell protein from sugarcane begasse. Nevertheless, there are no large-scale processes that utilize this substrate as a source of carbon, probably because of the extensive physical or chemical pretreatment that is needed. Henequen pulp is a by-product which is obtained in large amounts in southeastern Mexico in the process of removing fibers from the leaves of agave (sisal). A group has been working on a fermentative process that will increase the protein content of the henequen pulp by microbial conversion. The primary aim is to carry out the conversion without chemical pretreatment of the substrate and without a separation step for cells and residual substrate. A gram-negative cellulolytic bacteria has been isolated which grows well on microcrystalline cellulose, pectin, and xylane and it is able to convert an appreciable fraction of henequen pulp to microbial biomass. In this article, some results on the effect of substrate and nitrogenmore » source concentration, on the protein enrichment of the henequen pulp, as well as the content of essential amino acids of fermented henequen pulp are presented. 4 figures.« less
The Use of the Long-Acting Somatostatin Analog Octreotide in the Treatment of Gut Neuroendocrine Tumors* (1991)

Journal Article The Use of the Long-Acting Somatostatin Analog Octreotide in the Treatment of Gut Neuroendocrine Tumors Get access D. WYNICK, D. WYNICK 1Department of Medicine, Royal Postgraduate Medical School, Hammersmith Hospital London W12 ONN, United Kingdom Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar S. R. BLOOM S. R. BLOOM 1Department of Medicine, Royal Postgraduate Medical School, Hammersmith Hospital London W12 ONN, United Kingdom Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, Volume 73, Issue 1, 1 July 1991, Pages 1–3, https://doi.org/10.1210/jcem-73-1-1 Published: 01 July 1991 Article history Received: 01 October 1990 Published: 01 July 1991
Visible-Light-Sensitized Photo-Oxidative Cross-Linking of Polysiloxanes Using Singlet Oxygen (2020)

Photo-cross-linking of polymeric materials generally requires an inert atmosphere because of oxygen-based inhibition and quenching of the reactive species. Here, we demonstrate the photo-oxidative cross-linking of amine-functionalized poly(dimethylsiloxane) using atmospheric oxygen as the chemical oxidant. Visible light irradiation of a metalloporphyrin or an organic sensitizer generates reactive singlet oxygen that oxidatively couples amines into imine cross-links. This facile benchtop cross-linking reaction proceeds at room temperature and results in solvent-free elastic materials after 1 h. Solid state 13C nuclear magnetic resonance and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy show that the reaction produces only imine functionalities with no side products observed. The mechanical properties of these polymers were tested using tensile experiments and were found to depend on the initial loading of the sensitizer, with a maximum elongation strain of 157% and a Young’s modulus of 2.15 MPa for the highest tested amount. Photolithography is demonstrated with this cross-linking system using visible light irradiation.
Relationship between absorption edge and local structure around bismuth ions in bismuth-containing ternary phosphate and borate glasses (2013)

Relationship between the absorption edge energy and glass structure around bismuth ions has been studied in ternary bismuth phosphate and borate glasses by using Raman spectroscopy. Absorption edge energy shifted toward lower energy with increasing theoretical basicity in both phosphate and borate glasses. Raman peaks related to bismuth ions were observed at 150, 270, 390, 570 and 640 cm−1 in borate glasses, and at 160, 240, 320, 380, 480, 550 and 590 cm−1 in phosphate glasses. All peaks related to bismuth ions, except for the peak at around 150 cm−1 in the borate glass (160 cm−1 in the phosphate glass), shifted toward higher wavenumber with increasing theoretical basicity of glass, which suggests a decrease in Bi–O bond length, that is, an increase in bond strength by increasing electron donation. Absorption edge energy had a negative linear relationship with those peaks positions, which was consistent with the increase of electron donation. In contrast, the peaks at both 150 cm−1 in the borate glasses and 160 cm−1 in phosphate glasses shifted toward lower wavenumber with basicity, and the position had a positive linear relationship with the absorption edge energy. The band assigned to a translational mode might indicate the existence of peculiar structure such as a cluster of bismuth oxygen polyhedra, which could be isolated from the glass network resulting in a different correlation to basicity.
Incorporating Terminology Constraints in Automatic Post-Editing (2020)

Users of machine translation (MT) may want to ensure the use of specific lexical terminologies.While there exist techniques for incorporating terminology constraints during inference for MT, current APE approaches cannot ensure that they will appear in the final translation.In this paper, we present both autoregressive and non-autoregressive models for lexically constrained APE, demonstrating that our approach enables preservation of 95% of the terminologies and also improves translation quality on English-German benchmarks.Even when applied to lexically constrained MT output, our approach is able to improve preservation of the terminologies.However, we show that our models do not learn to copy constraints systematically and suggest a simple data augmentation technique that leads to improved performance and robustness.
Ehlers-Danlos syndrome type IV with gastric adenocarcinoma. (2008)

After gastrectomy, the patient became drowsy and unconscious from profuse recurrent cerebral hemorrhage and expired.
Prism coupling selectivity in anisotropic uniaxial waveguide (1981)

General coupling equations are derived describing field amplitude transfer from a prism to an anisotropic, uniaxial waveguide, having its optical axis in the plane of incidence. The influence of optical axis orientation on coupling efficiency and selectivity is discussed for a Gaussian incident beam.
Retractable End Plates for Aircraft Lifting Surfaces (1985)

End plates and winglets improve aerodynamic characteristics of aircraft wings and other fixed lifting surfaces. Retractable end plates automatically actuated by same shaft that deflects lifting surface and require little or no extra power and absolutely no control input from cockpit. Besides being modular in construction, easily fitted to any existing aircraft design with only minor modifications.
Direct design of optimal controllers for delay systems (2002)

This paper presents and applies a formula for the controller of a delay system which is optimally robust to gap metric uncertainty. To achieve disturbance attenuation and robust setpoint following for a plant with two lightly damped poles and a non-trivial time delay. The performance is shown to be superior to that of a Smith predictor.< <ETX xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">&gt;</ETX>
Eight Weeks of Exercise Training Improves Fitness Measures in Methamphetamine-Dependent Individuals in Residential Treatment (2011)

BACKGROUND: Worldwide, more than 25 million adults are estimated to be using methamphetamine (MA) and other amphetamine-type stimulants for non-medical purposes accounting for more drug abuse than heroin and cocaine combined. Although some behavioral approaches have proven beneficial, effective treatments for MA dependence still remain elusive. PURPOSE: To assess the impact of a progressive, 8-week endurance and resistance exercise training program on fitness measures in a sample of individuals in residential treatment for MA dependence. METHODS: Thirteen residential MA-dependent individuals were randomized to 3 d/week of exercise training (ET, n=7) or equal attention without training (EA, n=6) over 8 weeks. Aerobic performance (VO2max) was assessed at baseline with a symptom-limited incremental treadmill exercise test. Body composition was assessed by skinfolds. Muscle strength was measured by 1-repetition maximum (1-RM) for leg press (LP) and chest press (CP) exercises and muscle endurance was determined by repetitions to failure for LP and CP using 85% of baseline 1-RM values. ET subjects received individualized programs for endurance and resistance exercise training whereas EA subjects received one-on-one health education sessions. RESULTS: Baseline subject characteristics were matched between groups: age 32 (6) y; body weight 84 (18) kg; height 1.74 (0.08) m, mean (SD). ET subjects significantly improved VO2max by 0.62 (0.22) L/min (26%), LP strength by 23.7 (6.2) kg (38%), CP strength by 22.1 (5.1) kg (51%). LP and CP endurance improved by 8 repetitions (76%) and 5 repetitions (56%), respectively. Body weight (-2.0±1.9 kg, 2%), % relative body fat (-3.6±0.9%, -23%) and fat weight (-3.4±1.9 kg, 26%) all improved significantly with ET. None of these measures changed in EA and differences in changes for each one of these variables between groups were highly significant (P<0.001). CONCLUSIONS: Individuals recovering from methamphetamine dependency in a residential facility showed impressive improvements in aerobic exercise performance, muscle strength and endurance, and body composition with a supervised training program. These findings provide the basis for investigating whether this type of exercise intervention facilitates rehabilitation from drug dependency and reduces recidivism.