gebhart/patrepeval huggingface dataset:
Modern Applications for an Ancient Bean: Soybeans and the Prevention and Treatment of Chronic Disease (1995)

Soybeans have played an integral part in Asian culture, both as a food and as a medicine, for many centuries. In the West, soybeans are best known for their protein content but increasingly, soyfoods are being recognized as having potential roles in the prevention and treatment of chronic diseases, most notably cancer and heart disease. There are also potential roles for soyfoods with respect to osteoporosis and kidney disease. Although more research is needed, the existing database on the health effects of soyfood intake is quite extensive and clearly warrants greater recognition by the research and clinical communities. Given the ease with which soyfoods can be incorporated into the diet, be it via the traditional soyfoods such as tofu and soymilk, or the more modern soy protein products, such as soy isolates, concentrates and flours, soyfoods may be able to have a significant beneficial impact on public health.
Adolescent adjustment to amputation (1982)

We investigated the psychological effects of amputation on adolescent patients by interviewing 27 persons who had a limb amputation because of cancer during their adolescence and compared them to data obtained from eight patients with amputations due to trauma at similar ages. In cancer patients, mobility-related activities and social matters including relations with peers and the opposite sex and self-consciousness were of paramount concern. All cancer patients considered themselves functionally independent and 67% had little or no concern for the future. While malignancy and amputation had a significant impact on the patients' lives, the vast majority had a positive view of life and 85% were found to have what we assessed as adequate overall adjustment. Individual variables examined included marital and child-bearing patterns, educational attainments, vocational attainments, perceived parental and peer support, adaptation to prosthesis, and variables relating to general outlook on life and psychological adjustment. Our results suggest that the patients who have had amputations due to malignancy differ from traumatic amputees in their adjustment to amputation, with cancer patients showing, in many instances, evidence of better adaptation to disability. This may in part be due to different backgrounds and social orientation of traumatic amputees. We found the majority of cancer amputees to adjust well to their circumstances and to report leading full and productive lives.
Calibration of an embedded camera for driver-assistant systems (2005)

One of the main technical goals in the automotive industry is to increase vehicle safety. The European project SPARC (secure propulsion using advanced redundant control) is developing the next generation of trucks towards this aim. The SPARC consortium intends to do so by providing the truck with active security systems. Specifically, by equipping the truck with different sensors, it can be made aware of its environment, such as other vehicles, pedestrians, etc. By combining all sensor data and processing it with internal proprioceptive information, the truck can advice, warn the driver or even override him in case of non-response. Camera systems are particularly advantageous for sensing purposes, because they are passive sensors and they provide very rich information. Moreover, they can easily be software-reconfigured to extract new or additional information from the image. Typical information that SPARC aims to extract is the position of the vehicle within the lane, the presence and distance of other vehicles or obstacles and the identification of roadsigns. In this paper, a lane-detection algorithm are presented and discussed. Some of the resulting information needs to be given in world coordinates, as opposed to image coordinates. To carry out the necessary conversion, a previous calibration is needed. The challenge is to determine a procedure to calibrate a camera mounted on a truck to precisely determine the position of obstacles situated in a 100 meter range. The two-step calibration procedure presented here has been designed to simplify the calibration of the mounted cameras in the truck production line.
A Long-Term Study of Istradefylline Safety and Efficacy in Patients With Parkinson Disease (2015)

This study showed that istradefylline treatment was well tolerated and produced a sustained reduction in off time in levodopa-treated PD patients over a 52-week period.
Growing food: growing ideas: siteworks 2012 future food feast (2012)

The prototype for Siteworks was the creative development residency called Ten Trenches in 2009. Led by the Cohen brothers, creative producer and artist, Michael and scientist, Tim, this project saw auger holes drilled, and ten slot trenches dug, in order to examine the flood behaviour of the river from up to 8,000 years ago. The purpose was to reach the Pleistocene period when the sea was about a metre higher than present—a level which is predicted to reoccur within the next 100 years. The project culminated in the night-time performance, Site by Night animating the trenches, illuminating the flood plain and generating a sense of the extraordinary regenerative potential of our planet.
Vehicle Reidentification and Travel Measurements on Congested Freeways (1999)

This paper presents a vehicle reidentification algorithm for consecutive detector stations on a freeway, whereby a vehicle measurement made at a downstream detector station is matched with the vehicle's corresponding measurement at an upstream station. The method is illustrated using measured vehicle lengths from paired loop detector speed traps. Where speed traps are quite common, often placed at half mile spacings or less on urban freeways. In conventional operation, these detectors only monitor traffic conditions over the loops, leaving most of the freeway unmonitored. By taking the difference in known arrival times for a matched vehicle, it is possible to measure true link travel time and thus, quantify conditions between detector stations. This approach is significant because no one has attempted to use the existing detector infrastructure to match vehicle measurements between detector stations. The results of this work suggest that it is possible to extract a sufficient number of vehicle matches for traffic surveillance applications, while accepting few, if any, false positives. Thus, with the new algorithm, it will be possible to evaluate applications of travel time data without deploying new detector hardware. Keywords: traffic surveillance, loop detectors, travel time measurement, vehicle reidentification
Thyrotropin Receptor Epitopes and Their Relation to Histocompatibility Leukocyte Antigen-DR Molecules in Graves’ Disease (2006)

Three different methods for identifying immunogenic peptides did not provide a uniform picture of important TSHR epitopes. However, peptide 132-150 (GIFNTGLKMFPDLTKVYST) was identified by three methods as an important epitope in GD; the possible importance of peptides 145-163, 158-176, 207-222, 248-263, 272-291, and 343-362 was also identified.
A Gain-Based Lower Bound Algorithm for Real and Mixed &#x003BC; Problems (2006)

In this paper we present a new lower bound algorithm for real and mixed μ problems. The basic idea of this algorithm is to use a related worst-case gain problem to compute the real blocks and, if the block structure is mixed, the standard power iteration to compute the complex blocks. Initial numerical tests indicate that the algorithm is fast and provides good bounds for both real and mixed μ problems of small to moderate size
A Convex Optimization-Based Object-Level Rate Control Algorithm for MPEG-4 Video Object Coding (2006)

This paper presents a convex optimization based object-level rate control algorithm for MPEG-4 video object coding. By modifying the existing rate-distortion models, an improved empirical rate-distortion model with more flexibility is proposed to explain the experimental observations. The convexity and monotonicity of the proposed model are exploited to formulate the object-level bit allocation problem as a convex programming problem. Thus the bit allocation among the VOPs in a frame can be solved using efficient convex programming methods such as the interior-point methods, if the optimal solution exists. The object-level ROI functionality is also supported in the proposed framework by incorporating different object importance weights into the proposed bit allocation scheme. The model parameters are determined using previously encoded VOPs by means of linear regression. Simulation results show that the proposed algorithm achieves a considerably better picture quality in terms of PSNR than the MPEG-4 VM18 algorithm for the tested sequences. This suggests that it is a good alternative to those conventional approaches. The enabled object-level ROI functionality is also verified by experimental results
Continuous human uterine NK cell differentiation in response to endometrial regeneration and pregnancy (2021)

Immune cell differentiation is critical for adequate tissue-specific immune responses to occur. Here, we studied differentiation of human uterine natural killer cells (uNK cells). These cells reside in a tissue undergoing constant regeneration and represent the major leukocyte population at the maternal-fetal interface. However, their physiological response during the menstrual cycle and in pregnancy remains elusive. By surface proteome and transcriptome analysis as well as using humanized mice, we identify a differentiation pathway of uNK cells in vitro and in vivo with sequential acquisition of killer cell immunoglobulin-like receptors and CD39. uNK cell differentiation occurred continuously in response to the endometrial regeneration and was driven by interleukin-15. Differentiated uNK cells displayed reduced proliferative capacity and immunomodulatory function including enhanced angiogenic capacity. By studying human uterus transplantation and monozygotic twins, we found that the uNK cell niche could be replenished from circulation and that it was under genetic control. Together, our study uncovers a continuous differentiation pathway of human NK cells in the uterus that is coupled to profound functional changes in response to local tissue regeneration and pregnancy.
A Study on Implanted and Annealed Antimony Profiles in Amorphous and Single Crystalline Silicon Using 10~50 keV Energy Bombardment (2015)

For the formation of <TEX>$N^+$</TEX> doping, the antimony ions are mainly used for the fabrication of a BJT (bipolar junction transistor), CMOS (complementary metal oxide semiconductor), FET (field effect transistor) and BiCMOS (bipolar and complementary metal oxide semiconductor) process integration. Antimony is a heavy element and has relatively a low diffusion coefficient in silicon. Therefore, antimony is preferred as a candidate of ultra shallow junction for n type doping instead of arsenic implantation. Three-dimensional (3D) profiles of antimony are also compared one another from different tilt angles and incident energies under same dimensional conditions. The diffusion effect of antimony showed ORD (oxygen retarded diffusion) after thermal oxidation process. The interfacial effect of a <TEX>$SiO_2/Si$</TEX> is influenced antimony diffusion and showed segregation effects during the oxidation process. The surface sputtering effect of antimony must be considered due to its heavy mass in the case of low energy and high dose conditions. The range of antimony implanted in amorphous and crystalline silicon are compared each other and its data and profiles also showed and explained after thermal annealing under inert <TEX>$N_2$</TEX> gas and dry oxidation.
Comparison of Integrins in Human Skin, Pig Skin, and Perfused Skin: An In Vitro Skin Toxicology Model (1997)

Integrins α2β1, α3β1, and α6β4 are expressed in the epidermis, and play an important role in wound healing and/or epidermal–dermal interaction. These integrins may provide a new perspective into the understanding of wound healing and vesication. The isolated perfused porcine skin flap (IPPSF) has been shown to be an in vitro model for chemical-induced vesication. In order to determine whether the IPPSF could be utilized to study skin diseases mediated by integrins, the expression of integrins α2β1, α3β1, and α6β4 was studied in human skin, pig skin, and the IPPSF using immunohistochemical staining. Immunostaining of both α2β1 and α3β1 was primarily located at the periphery of the basal keratinocytes in human skin. Similarly, α2β1 was expressed in the stratum basale layer of the epidermis in both pig skin and the IPPSF after 8 h of perfusion. These antibodies defined the periphery of the pig basal keratinocytes more diffusely than that of human cells. However, the α3 antibody outlined the keratinocytes in all epidermal layers of the IPPSF and in the pig skin. In human skin, pig skin, and the IPPSF, α6β4 stained exclusively at the basal pole of the basal keratinocytes, and showed a continuous linear labeling along the epidermal–dermal junction. The IPPSF showed stronger immunoreactivity with the antibody against β4. Furthermore, the distribution of α6β4 in 5.0 mg/ml of bis-(2-chloroethyl) sulfide (sulfur mustard, HD)-induced blisters was examined in the IPPSF. The α6β4 staining was exclusively located on the epidermal side (roof) of the blister. In addition, α6β4 staining was not linear but disrupted and patchy. These findings suggest that any destruction of α6β4 may weaken the epidermal–dermal junction, thereby leading to HD-induced vesication. This study demonstrates that the IPPSF expresses similar integrins to those of human skin, and the distribution of α6β4 in the IPPSF blisters caused by HD is comparable to that of some human basement membrane blistering diseases. Therefore, the pig and the IPPSF prove to be ideal models to study the role of integrins in wound healing and blistering diseases occurring at the epidermal–dermal junction. © 1997 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Loudness of Speech and Speech-Like Signals (2013)

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Understanding the tabletting behaviour of ficus deltoidea herb. (2008)

Right-sided endocarditis occurred in a 40-year-old woman with ventricular septal defect. This association is uncommon in adults. Because of the changing and variable clinical patterns of this disease, it is difficult to make a prompt diagnosis. In this case diagnosis was delayed for almost a year. The occurrence of pneumonia due to Streptococcus viridans was the most important extracardiac manifestation.
Evaluation of Cooling Solutions for Outdoor Electronics (2007)

The thermal management of an outdoor electronic enclosure can be quite challenging due to the additional thermal load from the sun and the requirement of having an air-sealed enclosure. It is essential to consider the effect of solar heating loads in the design process; otherwise, it can shorten the life expectancy of the electronic product or lead to catastrophic failure. The main objective of this work is to analyze and compare the effectiveness of different cooling techniques used for outdoor electronics. Various cooling techniques were compared like special coats and paints on the outer surface, radiation shield, double-walled enclosure, fans for internal air circulation and air-to-air heat exchangers. A highly simplified, typical outdoor system was selected for this study measuring approximately 300times300times400 mm (WxLxH). Solar radiation was incident on 3 sides of the enclosure. There were 8 equally spaced PCBs inside the enclosure dissipating 12.5 W each uniformly (100 watts total). A computational fluid dynamics (CFD) model of the system was built and analyzed. This was followed by building a mock-up of the system and conducting experiments to validate the CFD model. It was found that some of the simplest cooling techniques like white oil paint on the outer surface can significantly reduce the impact of solar loads. Adding internal circulation fans can also be very effective. Using air-to-air heat exchangers was found to be the most effective solution although it is more complex and costly.
Determining the optimal initial dose for Japanese patients with nocturnal polyuria using an initial dose of desmopressin 50 μg (2023)

Our study suggests that an initial dose of 50 μg is more effective than a uniformly minimum dose based on factors such as age and physique. Furthermore, a high continuation rate can be achieved by appropriately reducing the dose, if adverse events occur.
3D-LSI technology for image sensor (2009)

Recently, the development of three-dimensional large-scale integration (3D-LSI) technologies has accelerated and has advanced from the research level or the limited production level to the investigation level, which might lead to mass production. By separating 3D-LSI technology into elementary technologies such as (1) through silicon via (TSV) formation, (2) bump formation, (3) wafer thinning, (4) chip/wafer alignment, and (5) chip/wafer stacking and reconstructing the entire process and structure, many methods to realize 3D-LSI devices can be developed. However, by considering a specific application, the supply chain of base wafers, and the purpose of 3D integration, a few suitable combinations can be identified. In this paper, we focus on the application of 3D-LSI technologies to image sensors. We describe the process and structure of the chip size package (CSP), developed on the basis of current and advanced 3D-LSI technologies, to be used in CMOS image sensors. Using the current LSI technologies, CSPs for 1.3 M, 2 M, and 5 M pixel CMOS image sensors were successfully fabricated without any performance degradation. 3D-LSI devices can be potentially employed in high-performance focal–plane-array image sensors. We propose a high-speed image sensor with an optical fill factor of 100% to be developed using next-generation 3D-LSI technology and fabricated using micro(μ)-bumps and micro(μ)-TSVs.
Detection of recombinant MCR_1416 (Msp22) expressed and purified from <i>M. catarrhalis</i>. (2015)

&lt;p&gt;Equal volumes of eluates obtained from IMAC columns from extracts of &lt;i&gt;M. catarrhalis&lt;/i&gt; complemented with His-tagged MCR_1416 (eluate A) or wild type strain (not complemented, negative control) were separated by SDS-PAGE and immunoblotted using immune serum against recombinant Msp22 (left panel) and antibody against the His-tag (right panel).&lt;/p&gt;
Revision of the paraphyletic genus Koerneria Meyl, 1960 and resurrection of two other genera of Diplogastridae (Nematoda) (2014)

Recent inferences of phylogeny from molecular characters, as well as a reexamination of morphological and biological characters, reject the monophyly of the nematode genus Koerneria Meyl, 1960 (Diplogastridae). Here, Koerneria sensu lato is revised. The genus, which previously consisted of 40 species, is separated into three genera. Almost all of the transferred species are moved to the resurrected genus Allodiplogaster Paramonov & Sobolev in Skrjabin et al. (1954). Koerneria and Allodiplogaster are distinguished from each other by a weakly vs. clearly striated body surface, an undivided vs. divided stomatal cheilostom, and arrangement of the terminal ventral triplet of male genital papillae, namely in that v5 and v6 are paired and separated from v7 vs. v5-v7 being close to each other. Allodiplogaster is further divided into two groups of species, herein called the henrichae and striata groups, based on both morphological and life-history traits. The henrichae group is characterized by papilliform labial sensilla and male genital papillae, a conical tail in both males and females, and an association with terrestrial habitats and insects, whereas the striata group is characterized by setiform labial sensilla and male genital papillae, an elongated conical tail in both sexes, and an association with aquatic habitats. A second genus, Anchidiplogaster Paramonov, 1952, is resurrected to include a single species that is characterized by its miniscule stoma and teeth, unreflexed testis, and a distinct lack of male genital papillae or stomatal apodemes. Lastly, one further species that was previously included in Koerneria sensu lato is transferred to the genus Pristionchus Kreis, 1932. The revision of Koerneria sensu lato is necessitated by the great variability in its subordinate taxa, which occupy a variety of habitats, in addition to the increased attention to Diplogastridae as a model system for comparative mechanistic biology.
LONG CORNER KICKS IN THE ENGLISH PREMIER LEAGUE: DELIVERIES INTO THE GOAL AREA AND CRITICAL AREA (2015)

The purpose of this study was to investigate long corner kicks within the English Premier League that entered either the goal area (6-yard box) or the critical area (6-12 yards from the goal-line in the width of the goal area) with the defining outcome occurring after the first contact. A total of 328 corner kicks from 65 English Premier League games were analysed. There were nine goals scored from the first contact (2.7%) where the ball was delivered into either the goal area or the critical area. There was a significant association between the area the ball was delivered to and the number of attempts at goal (p&lt;.03), and the area the ball was delivered to and the number of defending outcomes (p&lt;.01). The results suggest that the area where a long corner kick is delivered to will influence how many attempts at goal can be achieved by the attacking team and how many defensive outcomes can be conducted by the defensive team. There was no significant association between the type of delivery and the number of attempts at goal from the critical area (p&gt;.05). It appears as though the area of delivery is more important than the type of delivery for achieving attempts at goal from long corner kicks; however, out of the nine goals observed within this study, seven came from an inswinging delivery. From an attacking perspective, coaches should reflect on what determines a successful corner kick.
Clinical Correlates of Very High Brain Natriuretic Peptide Levels in Hospitalized Patients (2008)

While low brain natriuretic peptide (BNP) values have been shown to improve diagnostic accuracy by excluding congestive heart failure in acute dyspnea, the meaning of excessively elevated BNP is not clear. This is a retrospective analysis of clinical, echocardiographic, and laboratory data in patients with BNP values >2500 ng/L. Sixty-seven patients (36 men) with a median age of 79 years were included. The median BNP level was 3118 ng/L (2506-5000 ng/L). Forty-six percent of the patients had no dyspnea or New York Heart Association class II dyspnea. Most patients had impaired renal function. BNP value did not correlate with ejection fraction (r=0.2; P=.15) and weakly correlated with left ventricular end-diastolic diameter index (r=0.26; P=.02). Very high BNP values only poorly correlated with dyspnea and traditional echocardiographic markers of congestive heart failure. The clinical usefulness of very high BNP values is questionable and needs evaluation in a prospective trial.
Serum and pleural fluid levels of alpha-L-fucosidase and sialic acid have no diagnostic value in malignant pleural effusions. (1997)

The association of biological markers with cancer has been recognized for many decades. To determine whether alpha-L-fucosidase (ALF) and sialic acid (SA) are sensitive markers in malignant pleural effusions, they were investigated in serum and pleural fluid of 64 consecutive pleurisy patients, and in serum of 23 healthy subjects as a control group. The serum ALF (sALF) and serum SA (sSA) values of malignant and nonmalignant groups were higher than that of the control group, but the differences were statistically significant only for sSA determinations (p < 0.05). Values of sALF, sSA, pleural ALF (pALF), and pleural SA (pSA) were higher in the malignant group than the nonmalignant group, but no significant difference was found between the two groups. In conclusion, neither alpha-L-fucosidase nor sialic acid will be useful in the detection of malignant pleural effusions.